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Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-05-19

Mike (reading)-Steamer sinks
In midocean.
Pat-Any casualties?
Mike-It don't say; nobody was
lift alive to tell whether there was OF
not!
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-05-19

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
IN \ SMALL CITY.

Minot, 5. D., with a population o.
61SS, has adopted the commission
plan of government and it works well
there. Taxes are now 20 per cent
lower than they have been for five
years; the different departments Of
the city are obtaining better results
ana at lower cost than was true un-
der the old system and according to
the mayor some of the departments
win run the coming year without any
appropriations.
Minot's experience indicates that
the commission form of government
works we'll in small cities as well as
in large places. When the commits
sion plan is adopted in small cities it
is merely necessary to make the SAL
aries smaller in accordance with the
population of the place. This is the
plan of those who are backing the
local move for the adoption of COM
mission government for Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY SKETCH

Wesley L. Jones, United States
Senator from the state of Washington.
was born October 1868. and is
therefore forty-eight years old today.
He was educated for the law and was
a successful practicing attorney of
North Yakima, when he was elected
to the fifty-siXth congress as repre-
sentative at large. He served for
five consecutive sessions and in 1909
was elected to the United States sem
ate. Mr.. Jones is -ciassed among the
leaders of the progressive republi-
can in the upper house of congress.
He is married and has two children.
He IS chairman of the senate COM
mittee on fisheries and a member OF
the ella ms, conservation of national
resources, military affairs, privileges
and elections. public lands and other
important senate committees.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
IN OUR FOOTSTEPS.

If it be true that Imitation is the
siI cerest flattery' then the Portland
Oregonian does much honor to this
paper. In the sunday Oregonian an
announcement was made yesterday
that henceforth the Oregonian will
produce the comic supplement fea-
tCres that appear each week in the
Saturday East Oregonian and which
service has been used by the East ore
gonian for the past six years. slim
Jim" Sambo, Mr.. Boss, the rooster,
and dainty little Anna Belle will all
be produced for the benefit of the
Portland papers readers. Those fun
ny and clever people all have many
warm friends among the children who
read the East Oregonian and its comic
supplement and no doubt they will be
glad that their favorites are appreci-
ated in the large cities also.
The Oregonian is evidently upon
the right track.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

fraudulent name to be counted in
making up the final lists on the ref
erendum petition. 1t is assumed that
both parties want to get at the exact
truth, and to have the referendum
stand or fan on the question of what
may be the exact number of properly
authenticated signatures.
To find out the facts and to abide
by the facts is an essential step. For
this purpose a full investigation by
court is necessary. and to make it ac-
curate, both sides to the controversy
should be represented by able counsel
Two very large issues appear in the
case One is the question of whether
or not the university appropriation IS
being defeated by frauds. The other
is the large issue of whether or not a
judicial precedent is to be set that
will mutilate the initiative and refer
endum. 1t is imperative that both
questions be tried strictly on their
merits and that in the outcome there
shall not only be protection for the
university, but protection of the rights
of the people under the initiative ana
referendum.
Testimony before the court shows
that forgery fraud and even false af>
ndavits were resorted to by some OF
those who circulated the petitions. The
conditions are like those in the Ellis
paving petitions in which persons en-
ployed as circulators copied names
from directories or employed other
fraudulent means for getting sigma
lures.
1t is the price we have to pay for
permitting petitions to be circulated
for hire. So long as there is a money
reward for securing signatures there
will be men who will perpetrate frauds
on the initiative and referendum.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
CHARLES SUMNER ON JUDGES

Let me say here that I hold judges
and especially the supreme court of
the country in much respect; but l
am too familiar with the history of
judicial proceedings to regard them
with any super3-itious reverence.
Judges are but men, and in all age
have shown full share of frailty
Alas, Alas! the worst crimes of his
tory have been perpetrated under
their sanction. The blood of mar
tyrs and of patriots, crying from the
ground, summons them to judgment.
It was a judiciai tribunal which
condemned Socatos to drink the fatal
hemlock, and which pushed the Sa-
vior barefoot over the payements Of
jerusalem, bending beneath his
cross. 1t was a judicial tribunal
which, against the testimony ana en-
treaties Of her father, surrendered
the fair Virginia as a slave; which
arrested the teach ngs Of the great
apostle to the Gentiles. and sent him
in bonds from Judea to Rome; which,
in the name of the old religion, ad-
jured the saints and fathers of the
Christian church to death in all its
most dreadful forms.
II was a judicial tribunal which. in
France, during the long reign Of her
monarchs, lent itself to be the instru-
ment Of every tyranny, as, during the
brief reign Of terror, it did not hesi-
tate 10 stand forth the Implying ac-
cessor Of the unpittyng guillotine.
Aye, sir, it was a judicial tribunal in
England, surrounded by al the form
Of law, which sanctioned every des-
Eotic caprice Of Henry the Eigh h
from the unjust divorce Of his queen
70 the behcading Of Sir Thomas
Moore; which lighted the fires Of per
secution at oxford and Smithfield.
over the c.nders Of Latimer. Ridley
and John Rogers: which, in defiance
Of justice and humanity. sent SNYDER
and Rus ell to the block which per-
slstently refused to obey, and which,
afterward, with Jeffreys on the
bench, crimsoned the pages Of English
history with massacre and murder.
even with the blood Of innocent wo-
men. Aye, sir and it was a judicial
tribunal in our country. surrounded
by all the forms Of law which hung
witches at Salem, which affirmed the
constitutionality OF the Stamp Act.
while it admonishcd Jurors and the
people to obey; and which now. in
our day, has lent its sanction to the
unutterable atrOcity of the fugitive
slave law.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
AT ASHLAND.

The little city OF Ashland in south
ern Oregon has just installed a mu-
nicipal electric plant and the follow
ing story which appeared under an
Ashland date line shows how it is
working:
The municipal street lighting sys-
ten. which was put in operation this
week has more than come up to the
standard promised for it. For the
first time in many years the streets
OF Ashland are properly and credit
ably Illuminated. The street lighting
contract with the Siskiyou company
which has just expired, called for 20
candle-power lights The ones now
IN operation are of 100 and zoe candle
power and give a light almost equi-
valent to daylight North and East
Main streets. Fourth street and Oak
street, are equipped with three light
electroliers, carrying total OF 220
candlepower each; the Boulevard is
lined with single light electroliers car
rying 200 candlepower each. It re-
quired 35 horsepower to run the street
lights and the peak load on Saturday
nights for the entire city was rs
horsepower. 1t has been claimed by
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

Of municipal ownership
that the city plant would be insuffi-
cient for the demands Of the system,
hut the normal capacity OF the plant
is now 40o. horsepower.
About half the citizens have con-
nected up with the city plant and
others are daily switching from the
old company. SO unanimous is the
approval OF the new plant that the
Siskiyou company has made overtures
10 the city for a purchase OF the mu-
nicipal plant 1t is doubtful, how
ever if the city will consent"
Perhaps Ashland points the way
through which Pendleton may secure
an improved street lighting service as
well as a cheaper and more satisfac-
tory private electric service. Assured
ly our street lighting system is in need
o. a tonic Of some sort. our street
lights remind one Of the early SOS.
There are many dark blocks in the
residence districts; often the arc lights
are not turned on until after the early
evening travel is over with while in
the business section the big poles and
overhead wires spoil the effect of the
cluster lights now in use.
If present service is continued by
the electric trust it is inevitable that
before long there will be such de-
mand for a municipal electric plant
that one viii be established. Then
the private company will lose its bus,
mess and will make "overtures for the
purchase OF the city's plant"
Now is the time for the Pacific
Light & Power company to get busy
and provide such service as will make
a municipal plant unnecessary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

times, and said that ought to have an
operation. | would not listen to that,
and when a friend Of my husband told
him about Lydia L. Pinkham's Nege-
table Compound and what it had done
for his wife, / was willing TO take it.
Now 1 look the picture Of health and
feel like it, too. can do my own house,
work, hoe my garden, and milk a cow.
l can entertaip company and enjoy
them. l can visit when | choose, and
walk as far as any ordinary woman,
any day in the month. | wish | could
talk toevery sufferingwomanandgirl."
Mrs. DENIA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of ali forms of
female complaints is Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
1t is more widely and successfully
used than any other remedy. 1t has
cured thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
fammatiOn, liberation, fibroid tumors,
irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing down feeling, Indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means had failed. WhYdon't you try it2
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

ruler of Prussia assumed.
1S31-President Capo d'Istr'as Of
Greece assassinated by one of his own
coun n.rymen
1S49-Race riot in Philadelphia,
Pa, between whites called killers"
and some negroes. 1t continued in
to the next day before being put
down.
1S54-Santa Anna issued a decree,
calling for the peoples vote on the
powers OF the president of the Mex
lean republic.
1S55-A treaty was ratified between
Japan and Great Britain by Admiral
James Stirling.
1S6i-Sheridan's cavalry and the
entire force of confederate cavalry
met in the Valley of the Shenandoah,
the latter were routed and much ar
stillery captured.
1S74-Building al Aspatia Spain.
used by the Carlists TO manufacture
ammunition blown up with great loss
of life.
lSS4-University of Kief. Russia
closed and l6S students arrested
charged with being nihilists.
1904-kussian army began for.
ward movements, captured Bentsia-
pu.ze from japanese; attacked en-,
emy's position near Yentai coal mines
Kuropatkin issued general order.
praising his troops for their courage
and eXhorting them to win in com.
/ ing battle
! l909-Hudson-F Futon celebration
/ closed at Trop n. Y.
191O-Exodus of monks and nun
| from Portugal began.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
ON THE MAP.

Gee but this old town feels fine
Though it amt on the main line.
It's on the may for fair right now.
Every one to us must bow.
Tn man who made the may forgot
To show us even by a dot.
Gee, but it's great, this Hmelght.
The county seat is out Of sight.
An aviator, sailing high.
dropped on us from out the sky.
We got him here, and folks do saw
Ihey don't expect he'll get away.
but you can't tell about those chaps.
soaring around in letather caps
80 mestay forever where they fall
And others do not fall at all.
Ihey like as not go sailing by.
Cutting capers in the sky.
rms one that landed down on us
He's greater than the county fair.
Ihis fellow from the upper air.
Tn things sure, were on the man.
All the world knows where were a
Certain raised an awful fuss.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

the new church they rave Just built"
There has been some talk about
it. l believe" answered the reverend
gentleman "but / don't think that
| shall go there
Don't you think that the Lord Is
calling you to this new field of en-
deavor?"
"No, / dent believe he is. If he
were. he would certainly put it into
their hearts to offer me much big
ger salar l perceive no divine call
and | shall continue in my present
field"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
OCTOBER o IN HISTORY

1646-The whole order OF English
bishops abolished by order Of par
lament.
l145-Ath surrendered TO the
French after a disastrous lombard
ment.
l759-The architect, Smeaton. fin
ished the Eddystone lighthouse.
l7CO-Berln, in Prussia. taken and
sacked by the Russians and Austri-
ans.
l8O3-Deluge in the island Of Ma
deira.
1S0i-Both England and Russia
declined to acknowledge the new title
Of Emperor Of Germany" which the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
THE UNIVERSITY CASE.

1t is not probable that those repre-
senting the University of oregon in
the referendum cases desire by legal
process to deny any honest citizen the
full expression Of his wishes under
the referendum. says the Journal. 1t
is not probable that those represent
ing the state desire any forged or
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
\ LOW CALL.

81 understand" began friend en-
tering into conversation with cler-
gyman of our acquaintance. II under
stand that the people of Jimvile are
ANXIOUS to have you take charge OF
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE.

Rev. Lyman Powell Of Northamp-
ton has a bright little son who is very
much frightened in thunderstorms.
one day a heavy showed came up
when the little fellow had wandered
from the house His father, who was
watching for him, saw him come
running hom as the first drops fell
He looked terrified and his lips were
moving.
What were you saying?' asked
his father.
Il was reminding God that | am a
minister's son." the boy replies.-Cos-
mopoltan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

lot lOUlr or nNe uayS
lt a ii me every
month, and so weak
] could hardly walk.
l cramped and had
backache and head
ache, and was so
nervous and weak
that ! dreaded to
see anyone or have
anyone move in the
room. The doctors
gave me medicine to
ease ne at those
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

Dublin News Letter was the first
Irish Journal. Its existence began in
1866
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable COMPOUND.

Sikeston, Mo. For seven years l
suffered everything. | was in bed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-09

"Was Helen's marriage a success ?"
Goodness, yes Why, she Is going
TO marry nobelman on the alimony."
Judge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20
City Spends Five Millions for Music

which it is estimated will be spent in
live months for opera. symphony con-
certs and other forms of musical en-
tertainment will come from music
patrons numbering less than $4,000,
or less than one per cent. of the city's
total population. Probably not more
than one person in 500 ever attends
the opera: although concerts OF yari-
Gus sorts are more widely patronized.
Just why New Workers. will have to
foot such an enormous bill for their
musical entertainment is indicated BY
the salaries pail to the artists. A
really famous operate singer re-
ceivcs as much as $4,000 for a single
performance, while SYMPHONY orches.
ira leaders are paid as much as $780,
900 for season lasting only four
months.
Maly Of these concerts and recitals
fail to earn anything. In one case dur
Ing the last musical season just ten
seats were sold for really meritorl-
ons concert. Eventually, however,
the public foots the bill, but whether
it can really enjoy the $5,0OO.0vG
worth of music which it will absorb
next season remains to be seen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20

N EW ORLEANS.-J. Chung Lee. a
~ rich Chinese shrimp fisher and
owner Of a store in this city, is a
prisoner here charged with holding
white men in bondage in Bayou Bara-
TARA. once the refuge of Laf1tte and
his band. The federal officers who
arrested Lee brought with them nine
white men who will appear as wit
nesses These men assert they were
shanghaied from a boarding house in
this city and taken to Manila, a fish
ing village. and often forced to work
30 hours without rest. Once they
escaped and boarded a steamer but
were discovered and the captain re-
turned them to the shrimp fisheries. as
Is the custom Of all gulf shipmasters
when refugees are discovered.
That such a condition could prevail
for years withou. discovery in q ter
ritory comparatively near to a large
American city will be received with
incredlbility by those who know
nothing Of the topography of that
country. But to those who have
pushed their way only a few miles
into the wilderness. the surprise is
that anything going on there should
ever be known to the rest of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20

AZ EW YORK.-That the music bill Of
" this city for the season will reach
100000. far exceeding any similar
expenditure on record here or abroad,
is new indicated by the preparations
under way for the greatest musical
season ever known.
Ten years ago the sum spent il this
way amounted to hardly more than
$1,000000 What 1t will amount to
IN another decade in view of the ever
increasing demand for music of every
character IS merely matter of con.
lecture
In spite OF this great expenditure
however, music has not yet become a
generally popular form of entertain.
ment. as is indicated by the fact that
the greater part OF the $4,000
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20
Romantic Notions of Cowgirls Gone

II ANSAS CITY, Mo.-When E. l..
IA Poindexter came out west from
the east in 1906 he had all kinds OF
romantic ideas about cowboys. wild
Indians. cowgirls and life on the
plains. Finding life in Oklahoma City
little different from that in the east,
he went out on ranch near Tulsa,
In search Of the little romance left
IN western life. There he wooed and
wed ranchman's daughter. In a
week he knew what it was to be a
real tenderfoot. His wife told him to
wash the dishes. He refused She
reached for her revolver, pointed 1t
Mt him in a threatening manner and
told him to dance. He made such a
terrible mess of dancing she told him
to stop that and take up the dish rag.
That's a pretty dear; now kiss
me-" she said to him after he had
washed. dried and stacked the dishes
away. Then sho put the revolver
away. He hid it. That would end her
wild west methods. he thought Il
Will rule the roost for while now"
he chuckled to himself.
"How about dinner?" the wife in
luired Of him one evening after she
returned from a long ride. MOT
ready? Then you had better hustle
and get 1t ready"
Not much. he told her She would
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20

have to get the dinner herself. In
fact. he was very "chesty" In his new
role as boss. She reached fer that re-
volver again. 1t was gone. She went
into the kitchen, took up the butcher
knife. and In five minutes that
"chesty" husband was elbow deep in
bread dough and watching the bacon
fry.
But MIR. Poindexter was an obstinate
tenderfoot. and refused to be con
quered" Two months Of married life
satisfied the wife he wasn't the kind
Of husband she wanted, so she brought
out the new revolver she purchased.
ordered him to pack his trunk and
move right away.
She even followed him to the train
Mr.. Poindexter said in suit for d.
vorce he brought in the circuit court
in Kansas City, pointed the revolver
at him and told him to get. aboard
quick. hang on until it passed out OF
sight at least. and never to return.
He hasn't
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20
Shrimp Fisher Charged with Peonage

world. AS the crow flies, Manila Is
perhaps not more than 40 miles from
New Orleans. But so isolated ia it by
the marshes. the cypress swamps. the
canebreaks. the jungles that it might
as we'll be hundreds Of miles away.
The only egress is tortuous channel
of staglant water.
TO attempt to force ones way
through the swamps would be to in
yite death. There are no paths
through the wilderness. and the man
who strayed a mile through the
marshes from the channel would find
himself lost, in danger OF pitfalls and
perpetually at war with poisonous
snakes, with deadly malaria menac-
ing him at every step.
The peonage system is compare
lively simple. Men from the luggers
find dockmen along the Mississippi
out of work. They offer them jobs.
saying that the cost of transportation
to the fisheries will be deducted from
their wages. Once the men go down
the bayou, there is no escape from
their masters. They are never al
lowed to get out of debt. No boat
men will give them passage through
the bayou.
Manila is one Of the largest OF the
fishing villages, having about 300 res
idents. Half of them are FilipinOs.
supposed to have escaped from Span
ish sailing vessels years ago. Stories
of how the Filipinos are held az
slaves are as old as the village It,
SELF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20
Bull Terrier a Bathing Beach Hero

r HlCAGO.-"Grafter," 35-pound
\ Boston bull terrier owned by Mrs.
William Mattery, whose husband is
prominent as an aviator. is the hero
If his story. The Thirty-ninth street
bathing beach is the scene. The will
ain" is an English bulldog that. aided
md abetted by six men. had for two
weeks. until the appearance of Graft
sr." made life miserable for bathers
1t the beach. especially those who
Drought their dogs with them, by at.
:acking the bathers and engaging the
iogs in fights. Six dogs killed was
lis record.
CRATER" led by Mrs. Mattery. ap-
2eared at the beach the other after
aoon. As had been their custom, the
six with the English bulldog in am
bush behind lumber pile. unleashed
he animal and set him upon the new
arrival as the latter started for a
plunge in the lake.
Crater" had never been In q fight,
out he was game. The older and
heavier dog, as result Of his latest
encounter. was suffering from torn
shoulder He dashed to the waters
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-10-20

edge and "Grafter." hearing his chal.
lenge. turned and met him. "Grafter"
soon was 1.-The under dog" but in a
second was on top and ripping up his
foes old wound and Selling his throat.
Again the big dog got the advantage
and "Grafter" went down.
Finally "Grafter" managed to break
loose and Mrs. Mattery grabbed up her
pet She had attached his strap and
was about to lead him away when
Ole of the men sent the other dog in
again. "Grafter" broke his strap and
within three minutes had ripped the
other animals throat. The big dog
died that night Il hope after this
you will let my dog alone" declared
Mrs Mattery. as she led 'Grafter
away.