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The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

Two accidents to automobiles driven
by Topekans occurred in one day re-
Gently. The only wonder Is that there
are not a dozen such accidents every
Hnxy
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Il q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great nswB or
ganlEadon for the exclusive aftoenooa
Solicitation In Topeka
The news y received IN The State Jour-
pose.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

II that Camorrist trial continues for
a year, as 1t was predicted it would
Just before It began, the judges and
court attendants will likely be victims
of nervous, prostration.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

action stand by their own and newer
colors and seek nominations as tnde-
pendents or as representatives Of the
new party of which they seem to con-
slider themselves a nucleus?
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

For a motive for Craige Lippincott's
personally conducted bump-off, it is not
necessary to look further than some OF
the fiction he has had to publish dur
ing the past few months.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

As the Washington Star says: It will
mot be long before the reports of good
nshing will add to the hardships OF the
extra session.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

81 don't think it is necessary to tell
you with what interest have read the
articles. recently published in Golfers,
touching on and pertaining to the tri-
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

AS we understand it, Judge Schoch
held that McNulty was still McNutty.
ooh, helpi Why do we cut-ups dare to
shake the moth balls out of anything
like that?
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

Indications are that the weather
which is usual to April will not come
along until the first of May.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

The fair and blushing bridesmaids
wore very handsome breeches, the gift
of the bridegroom.-Los Angeles Times.
BUT, as we have asked before, What
is Life without a few typo errors?
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

The Fly is not yet on the job, but
it is time to tune up your swatter.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08
THE RAIN MAKERS.

A vanished American infant IN
dustry, that of the rain maker. is re-
called to memory by the request in the
House OF Commons the other day that
the admiralty undertake no heavygun
practice near the coast during the
coming summer, lest the resultant
rains should spoil the crops. The first
lord of the admiralty promptly denied
all connection between gun fire and
rain, and so did the British Weather
Bureau, but the secretary of the Brit
ish Meteorological Society declared
that it depends on the state of the
atmosphere
That was the secret of such success
as our rain makers unQueStionably
had. The wise ones studied the bar
ometer and the weather reports, and
offered their services only in neighbor-
hoods where rain might shortly be ex-
pected. Perhaps they fastened the
precipitation; perhaps they merely
profited by their cleverness. However,
that may be, the business was a pre-
carious one at best, and, therefore, was
soon abandoned. The last public ap-
pearance of the rain makers that we
remember was in a farce or musical
comedy. The rest is silence and obii-
vion. The West turned to irrigation
instead.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08
THE MOSLEM WOMAN.

MussuIman women, according to a
scoffing Moslem writer in the Paris
Figaro, take no interest in the occi-
dental movement, for woman suffrage
and woman's rights, because more
than 3 centuries ago Mohamet placed
the two sexes on an equal footing.
Girls and boys receive the same ed
ucation. The girl elects her own hus-
band, handles her property as she likes
and can even take a case into court
without asking her husbands consent.
True, the husband may secure a di-
vorce at will, but such separations
without just cause are condemned by
public opinion. True, also, there is
the institution of polygamy, but Ma
homet allowed a man only four wives,
and t'you will hardly f1nd one Ottoman
in a thousand who is polygamist." :"
Possibly because the law requires the
Moslem husband to treat all four wives
exactly alike, distributing his jewels,
his chocolates, his smiles and his kind
words with absolute impartiality. Play
ing favorites is strictly forbidden. True,
also, Mussulman women wear wells.
But their occidental sisters also hide
reality-behind rouge and powder.
Neither slave nor martyr is the Mos
lem woman.-Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

K. c. preacher, who languishes be-
hind the Stats while his three wives
hold a convention just outside, should be
punished severely. He should be made
to live with the entire bunch at one
and the same time.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08
A SATURDAY SERMON.

The way of a fool is right in his own
eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel
Is wise. Proverbs XII Is
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

paragraph. that one of the wives is
from Kansas but 1t goes without say
ing. No collection of wives would be
complete without at least one Kansas
specimen.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

Hon. Diaz probably feels like the col
ored gent who took both sections of a
Sedlitz powder separately, and follow
ed same with copious chaser.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

"Oh, Dab the Kaw," he shouted. ut
may be perceived that he had a colo
in the head.1
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-08

Book beer iss now ripe, yet. eve read
that in the advertising section of ST.
Louis paper, allretty, and have no per-
sonal knowledge of the truth of the
statemeut.)
H C P
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
AUGUST Q IN HISTORY.

1710-French and Spaniards were
defeated at Saragossa and the allies
entered the city.
1S04-COnsiderable excitement pre-
vailed in Florida over an insurrection
of Americans. who attempted to sur
prise and capture the garrison at Ba-
ton Rouge
1S0S-Romana, with 10000 Span
ish troops deserted the French army
and went to Spain in British trans
ports.
1S11-Battle of BaZa the French de-
featirg the Spaniards. under Blake.
1S15-The exlled Napoleon sailed
for st. Helena.
1S39-Pera, a suburb of Constan-
tinople. nearly destroyed by fire,
1S41-The gunboat Erie, bound
from Buffalo to Chicago, burned and
over 100 lives lost.
1S44-Act abolishlug Imprisonment
for debt in England, became effective
this day.
1S55-Santa Anna left the city Of
Mexico with 1900 men, under pretense
of putting down the revolution at
Vera Cruz but signed an abdlcation
at Poroto and sailed to Havana. on
his departure a mob destroyed q
large number of houses.
1S64-Residents of Buffalo. n. Y,
were excited over a report of an in
tended confederate raid from Cam
ada with the object Of burning the
city.
1S70-Franco-Prusslan war. French
army Of the Mosello concentrated be.
fore Metz
The OIlivior cabinet resigned. Com
te de Palikao forming a new minis
try
1904-Japanese renew attack on
Shahku mountain and carry it by
storm at 4 a. m. Russians left hun
dreds Of dead in their abandoned po-
sitlon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
WHO Is CORRECTo

In communication from Mr.. James
Johns, published on this page today,
some very startling things are said
regarding the Thorn Hollow springs.
Is Mr., Johns correct in what he says
about the supply of water at Thorn
Hollow? If he is then people have
been previously misinformed by mem
bers of the water board and by their
engineer. They declare that the sup
ply at Thorn Hollow is several times
greater than the present supply of
the city. 1t will be interesting to
learn who is right in the matter
There are ways of ascertaining ex-
actly how much water the springs
produce. Meanwhile it might be well
for the water commission to call Mr..
Johns as a witness in its suit to con-
denim the springs. Under his view
of the matter the property cannot b.
very valuable and the city should D.
able to acquire the springs for 4
song
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09

Inoss;),,,. araholf n,iia A. az.
7 on, satisf,aa al I,o ..,s
| f,o,r tbr,,,uh , hov 81. ,rot,a -
| I'm othar ,,ords IL, rot ho,io,,o -,
tho water now, fIowins from, an 49,,
snrings M rborp tIoi,ov. ;ro,,,.i,,o
Souov creal, IL da,ivared II, = ,,,,S,l
on nina uou,d ra,ob panaIat -
vo,,Ia nor wet woodap rina Co., +ta.
distance 7 ,,n ooncoi,,a ne ~ .',,
son for tho citv 70 copaa,,n 49,,
pronertv II thc,, .ot ,yotar 80 w.,
Hollow tbev win beva 70 tolo q -f,,,,,
the river If they take II fron, the
river. why 90 to So mucb evnersao
WI. nc. 49, S,..,t-.. ~ o,I,- - ~.
half the distance? or whv nor in
CREASE onr nresent svster, "a ,oo+
the demands We arc told II would
save expense of mower which Is
$4,000. 90 annually. What win no tho
interest on the bondsq S2oO ooO 90
at ner cent looks like $40 o0O oO
per annum for interest besides the
upkeep of such system.
Now | voted for the bonds ana am
heartily in favor of pure water ana
claim il is cheap at any price but 7
am not in favor of spending 5000
10000 and find that we have no bet
ter water than we have now. When
we spend such a large sum l want
to see something its equivalent as an
asset. l do not believe there is a
man in Pendleton who if he owned
the whole city would think of spend
ing such sum for what he will get
in return. when it is plain the same
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
a GRAND STOWE

A woman who moved to Phi
ladelphia found she could not be con-
tented with a colOred nanny
who had been her servant for many
years. She sent for nanny, and the
servant arrived in due season. 1t so
happened that the Georgia woman
had to leave town the very day that
she had just time to explain to NAM
my the modern conviences with which
her apartment was furnished with.
The gas stove was the convenience
which interested the colored woman
most. After the mistress of the
household had lighted the oven, the
boiler, and the other burners and
felt certain the old servant under
stood its operations. the mistress
hurried to her train.
She was tbsent two weeks and one
of her first questions to nanny was
how she had worried along.
DE fines ever was the reply.
"And dat air gas stove-oh my! Why,
do you know, Miss Flo'ence, dat fire
amt gon out yit."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09

Louis law school four years later az
ter which he attended the University
of Berlin for year. He was admit
ted to the bar in 1878. Mr.. Nagel
was a member of the Missouri legis-
lature from 1881 to 1888; president
of the st. Louis city council from
1898 to 1897, and has been mem
ber of the ST. Louis law school fac
ulty since 1856, Besides he is mem
Der Of the board of directors of st
Louis Museum of Fine Arts. In
1908 he was made national commit
teeman from Missouri Mr. Nagel
has taken an active part in politics
for the last 20 years by participating
in conventions and speaking during
campaigns and has from time to
time delivered addresses before bar
associations and similar organizations
upon various topics of public interest.
He took the oath or office as Sec
retary of commerce and labor March
C, 1909. Secretary Nagel has been
married twice and there has been five
children. one by his first marriage.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09

lifelong friend, read the burial SER
vice, and Captain Jack slipped the
shrouded body overheard with never
a ripple to show where she sank.
Gamo was more than a favorite
playmate with the boys and girls in
Corlear's Hook park; she had repu-
tation as life saver that would have
covered her shaggy body with Carne-
sic medals if she had been human.
Only ten days age she rescued Lit
tie Bobby Murname, who fell off the
dock when there was no one else
around. Bobby was heavy 12-year-
old and the tide was pulling strong.
But Gamo never hesitated. With a
short, sharp yelp the danger signal
she always gave, Gamo plunged in.
She reached Bobby. caught his long.
curly hair in her teeth, towed him
ashore before any one else knew his
danger Then she went back to noze
on the strngpiece beside Captain
Jacks shanty. 1t was the twentieth
human life she had saved.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
NEW SCHEME FOR SHELTERS.
Empire State Man Has Brilliant
Idea.

Tarrytown, n. Y.-George p. Fox
of Elmsford an assessor for the town
of Greensburg, is man of original
ideas. Elmsford, like Jersey, has its
quota of mosquitoes and sleep in the
Fox home has been almost impossible
Fox took his family to Rye beach
and while there bought the children
some toy balloons. The balloons gave
him an idea and when he arrived
home he poured a quantity of citron-
ella in one of them, blew it UP and
placed it on pillow. Then he dark
ened the room 1t wasn't long before
the mosquitoes discovered the balloon
and thinking it was Fox. started bor-
ing.
few minutes later Fox heard the
balloon explode with q bang. He
waited to give his scheme time to
work and then went into the room.
The mosquitoes We're all dead. with
their feet in the air. In telling of
the success of the idea today Fox
said,
Those mosquitoes that weren't
killed by the explosion went so fast
to get away from the odor that they
simply died from exhaustion No
mosquitoes bothered us after that"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
THE THORN HOLLOW SPRINGS
To the Editor:

. tIlt LulbOl
For the purpose of looking over the
proposed site for the source Of the
city water supply which the city is
seeking to acquire title by condem-
nation proceedings, I visited the To-
cality in company with several other
gentlemen today. If this woman
owns land upon which there is spring
water enough to supply the city OF
Pendleton, then she has a very valu-
able property and she should be paid
for it, If deprived Of its use. But
to our surprise we found very little
water. There are two springs or
places where the water comes to the
surface and flows away but both
would not supply water for the court
house. We then followed the course
Of the outlet OF these so-called springs
TO the point where it crosses under
the O.-W. r. e n. railway to the
Umatilla river, In order to see how
much the stream had been increased
by other springs, in the distance Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09

The last suggestion of the Journal
is particularly good. Lafferty is an
improper man for Oregon to have in
congress. The people of this state
do not sanction insults to little girls.
Lafferty should resign or he should
be ousted under the recall. He was
elected under the Oregon system. 1t
is now dp to the people of this dist
rict to show that under the Oregon
system the people may quickly get
rid of public servant when he proves
himself unworthy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
HAFFERTY SHOULD GO.

Discussing Congressman Lafferty
and the unenviable notoriety he is
now receiving the Journal says:
'In his official explanation, Mr..
Lafferty says, the father of the young
lady called, and after expressing sur
prise at seeing such a youthful rep
resentative, stated that he had sup
posed that 1 was some elderly indi-
Vidual, and had imagined that the
letter was written in bad faith. He
left my office apparently in the best
Of humor, and I have not seen him
from that day to this
The father says: When I called
and confronted him with his letter,
Lafferty told me with much wiring
ing of his hands and pleas for con-
sideration that he did not write the
letter, but that it had been written
by one of the young men in his Of
flee. He said he would write me a
letter of apology if stayed in his Of
flee while he wrote
'Lafferty thereupon wrote the let
ter Of apology in which he said:
The letter which was sent from my
office 10 your daughter was not writ
ten with my knowledge or consent,
but prepared by others in my office
THE letter to the girl was in Laf-
ferty's own handwriting, and in his
official explanation, after formerly
trying TO attribute it to others, he ad-
mits that he wrote it
after these incidents, the father
wrote Lafferty. saying: 4 do not
care TO have you visit me at any time
or any place, etc. In his explana-
tion, Lafferty says this letter was
part Of a conspiracy by his enemies
in Portland and was written on
Mount Mood paper, sold by ]. K.
gill, Portland It was in fact writ
ten on Mount Holly paper and by the
father, who has given a copy Of it
&c the public.
In his official explanation Laf-
ferty says z. D. Baldwin wanted the
price Of his return to Oregon for sup
pressing the story, a charge that
Baldwin denies, and which Lafferty
himself now admits to be untrue. F.
II. Barrow through whom Lafferty
first charged that the money propo-
sition was made. says the story is un-
true
'These and other falsehoods Laf-
ferty has told in the matter disclose
how unfit he is for the position he
holds. His attentions 10 the girl were
had enough. The lies are worse. They
humiliate oregon at Washington and
before the country He ought to re-
sign
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
MORE HOUSES NEEDED.


Though the influx of people for the
fan and winter has not yet started
there are practically no vacant houses
lin Pendleton at this time. There are
"a few houses to be had it is true. but
most of them are shacks and unfit
for living purposes.
The time is at hand when more
houses are needed here for residence
purposes. New houses erected in de-
sirable portions of the city and built
along modern lines may be rented
with ease. At least this is a reason
able assumption in view of the pres
ent situation.
The call seems to be particularly
for medium priced houses and for
apartments. Regarding the latter it
has been a source of surprise to many
people that a few up-to-date apart
ment houses have not been construct
ed in Pendletpn ere this. For years
there has been demand for flats or
apartments. There are many peo-
pie who desire rooms close in and
provided with the conveniences that
90 with the apartment houses of a
city, The people who desire such
rooms are willing TO pay the price and
they make desirable tenants.
Parties having money to invest in
houses to rent will do we'll to look
over the situation in Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
An UNFINISHED JOB.

At the present time our cluster light
system is in a peculiar shape. Some
blocks are lighted while others are
not One side of a block will be well
illuminated while across the street
there may not be a glimmer of light.
1t is patched up arrangement and
is a source of wonder and of inquiry
on the part of visitors. They ask
when the thing is to be finished.
Yet the present situation is a nat
ural outcome of the policy of allow
ing the electric trust and the tele-
phone trust to keep their poles on the
business streets. Pendleton will never
have a decent cluster light system
until the poles are taken away. 1t
is silly for the electric company to
sell cluster light poles until they
first remove the unsightly wooden
poles.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
WISE WORKMEN.

An industrial commission appoint
ed by congress was conducting GER
tain Investigations with reference to
the operation of mills and factories
in various parts of the country, and
the members became especially in
terested in the working of one mill
in a southwestern state.
The investigators were in one room
when the whistle blew for noon. The
operatives put up their tools and van
ished as if by magic.
DO all the workmen drop their
tools the instant the whistle blows !"
asked one of the commission.
mo, not ALL answered the man
who was acting as guide. "The more
orderly have their tools all put away
before that time" me."-Lippincott's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
$1,000 Cat Catches Snake.

Mount Holly N. Thereafter Mrs.
John W. Hillyard, of Rancocas, will
have a very uncomfortable feeling
every time her $4,000 Angora cat goes
out for fresh air and gets beyond her
sight.
Mrs Hillyard was sitting in her
home Wednesday when she heard the
mewing of the cat at the door There
awaiting admittance was the $4,000
bunch of fur with a four-foot live
snake very securely held in its mouth
Mrs. Hillyard managed to dispatch
the snake without injuring the cat.
Kitty will have a guardian if it
continues this dangerous practice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
sUsPENDs PRIEST WHO WED.
Bishop Acts Summarily on Violator of
Church Laws.

Scranton Pa.-Bishop Francis
Hodur, head of the Independent Pol
ish National Church of America. is
sued an order suspending the Rev,
Joseph Zilonko of Baltimore, one Of
the priests of the church. for marry
ing contrary to its laws. Simultan-
eously he issued a call for a special
session of the synod to meet here in
October Father Zilonko formerly
was stationed at Salisbury, Md, where
in 1907 he married
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
TODAY.s BIRTHDAY SKETCH

The Hon. Charles Nagel of st Lou
IS, Mo, secretary, of commerce and
labor in the cabinet of President Taft,
Is sixty-two years old today, since
he was born August 8. 1S49, in Colo
rado county. Texas. He left his home
at the age of fourteen as result of
the civil war accompanying his faith
er to Old Mexico and from there by
way of New York, to st. Louis.
He graduated from the St. Louis
high school in 1868, and from the St
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
MIST HAVE LOOKED BAD.

what a strangely interesting face
your friend, the poet, has" gurgled
the maiden OF 40. 1T seems to pos
sess all the elements of happiness and
sorrow, each struggling for suprem-
acy-"
Eyes, he looks to me like man
who was married and didn't know il"
growled the cynical bachelor.-Phila-
delphia Record.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
~<s s~~~~~~e~~~
THE CALLING.

D The wind is in the pine-trees =
, and the blue flames lick =
the logs, =
3 And the freight casts its .
B glamour on the wall: Q
, And your dog lies on the hearth 9
, rug chasing squirrels =
, through his dreams, .
, But you hear the Red Gods .
calling through it all. =
B And its roam, roam, when you =
, hear the Red Gods call =
ing =
Where the summer seas are .
, breaking on the sands; .
, Where the gold weaves through .
the sunsets and the pur- .
pie mists are falling, =
, With your roaming, rowing kin .
from all the lands. =
, There's the soft hand of a wo- =
man that you love .
God knows how well: .
There's the prattle of a child =
WITHIN the hall;
, There's a song of woven magic =
that makes sunlight of .
the dark, Q
But you hear the Red Gods =
calling through it all .
: And its roam, roam, when +
You hear the Red Gods .
calling, =
Where the campfire spins &
It's smoke in curling .
strands, .
And the desert lies before you =
cool and silent in the =
moonlight q
With the wanderlust accurs- .
ed of all the lands. .
By r. L. Mckee in Sunset. .
q . . Q . Q . Q . . Q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09
CANINE HERO Is DEAD.
Little Spaniel Had Saved Twenty
Lives

. New York.-There is mourning in
Poverty Hollow among thousand
kids that go swimming in East river,
off Corlear's Hook. For Gamo, the
plucky little water spaniel that used
to "go in" with them and was always
on hand to pull them out in case of
accident or cramps, is dead. Captain
Jack Coakley's volunteer life saving
station, which had been Gamo's home
for the six years of her life, was
crowded with the boys that came to
pay their last respects.
Although she was only a dog, Gamo
has rescued almost as many people
from a watsry grave as Captain
Coakley himself in the last four years.
And this afternoon had a regular fu
neral, with proper ceremonials and a
the East river. Joe Gallagher, her
burial at sea- meaning far out in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-09

1t is almost a certainty that PEN
dleton people will have an oppor-
tunity to vote on the commission form
Of government this fall Meanwhile
local people should be investigating
the matter with a view to noting the
merits of that plan as compared with
the present councilmanic system.