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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
ROOSEVELT BEATS TAFT
IN MISSOURI CONVENTION

Poplar Bluff, Mo, March 10
Beating the Taft delegates at every
turn, the Roosevelt faction gained
complete control of the 14th district
republican convention which met to
name delegates to the state conven-
tion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
PACKERS ATTORNEY BEGINS
ARGUMENT BEFORE COURT

Chicago, March 19.-George Buck
ingham, attorney for the Swifts to-
day opened the argument for ]. Og-
den Armous and nine other beer
packers, on trial for criminal con-
spiracy. Buckingham analyzed the
evidence offered by the government
at great length. He win be followed
by Attorney Borders for the defense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
wanncnstcin wants Rehearing

Seattle, Wash. March 19.-Chas.
w. wappenstein, former police chief
OF Seattle, whose conviction for brib-
cry and sentence OF 3 to 10 years was
affirmed by the supreme court, said
today that he will petition for a re-
hearing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
Milton Man Takes local Bride.

Franklin Mckenzie of Milton and
Lois NJ King of this city today be-
cured marriage license and at 1880
this morning were married by Rev.
Nathan Evans of the Methodist par
sonage.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
BRYAN MAY NAME. HIS
PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE TONIGHT

Lincoln, Neb.. March 19.-Reports
are current today that w. j. Bryan
Will name his choice for president at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19

The man who steals watch ought
TO wind up in Jail.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19
". NJ C. A. Be
COMES MORE THAN POSSIBLE

(Contiued from page ~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-19

A Y. NJ. c. A. building is partially
self-supporting. he explained, through
the revenues derived from member
ship fees and dormitory rentals.
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when and the post Office to which II
was mailed, and this affidavit must
be accompanied by the postmaster s
receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
the name of the post office 10 which
you desire future notices to be sent
TO you.
4. KIRCHER, Register.
Date of first publication, Oct.
"a, 1912.
Date Of second publication, Oct.
81, 1912.
Date of third publication. Nov.
7, 1912.
Date of fourth publication. Nov.
Ii, 1912.
r. r. LEIPER,
Attorney for Contestant.
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Continued next week
Notice OF Contest

Department of the Interior. United
States Land Office, Miles City, Mont,
Oct. 2, 1912.
To Howard l. Booten Of Bloom
field, Montana, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that D. K
Carpenter, who gives Glendive. Mon
tana, as his post office address, did on
Oct ., 1912, file in this office his duly
corroborated application to contest
and secure the cancellation of your
homestead entry, Serial No. 012698,
made June 10, 1911, for SW4 Section
80, Township Is N, Range So E, Mon
tana Principal Meridian, and as
grounds for his contest he alleges that
said Howard L. Booten has never at
any time or at all cultivated the said
land, or in any wise improved the said
land or any thereof, as required by
law, and that he has not resided upon
the SAID land at any time or at all,
and that he has entirely abandoned the
same, and that his failure to improve,
reside upon, or cultivate the said land
is not due to his employment in the
United States Army. Navy or Marine
Corps.
You are, therefore, further mott
fed that the said allegations will be
taken by this office as having been
confessed by you, and your said entry
will be Cancelled hereunder without
your further right to be heard there
in, either before this office or on ap-
peal, if you fail to file in this office
within twenty days after the FOURTH
publication Of this notice, as shown
below, your answer, under oath, speci-
tieaIly meeting and responding to these
allegations of contest, or If you fail
within that time to file in this Office
due proof that you have served copy
of your answer on the said contes-
tant either in person or by registered
mail. If this service is made by the
delivery of copy of your answer to
the contestant in person, proof Of such
service must be either the said con-
testant's written acknowledgement Of
his receipt Of the copy, showing the
late of its receipt. or the affidavit of
the person BY whom the delivery was
made stating when and where the copy
was delivered If made by registered
mail proof Of such service must con-
sisI Of the affidavit of the person BY
whom the copy vas mailed stating
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i, nave Tns. F'ioaa.~ aur n-r !. 49,
alse q chance. I'll 60 In and watch the
market tomorrow"
Il II don't act exactly as say don't
touch II. II II does. 70 In for ali you're
worth. IT stocks start down as I say
1hey viii. sell short. cover at noon and
they buy for rise. Don't listen to
Iools-jnst buy. buy. buy! You can sen
before the market closes and make
$4,000
I'll drop into brokers' Office and
Wa1eh the market open. anyway.
Adams. Thank you"
The next day the more optimistic
Traders on the stock exchange expected
ehange In the market. Stocks had de
ciined for two weeks with appalling
sWiftness and fatality. Every hour had
marked the ruin or men hitherto bul.
Warks Of solidity Experienced men
reasoned and reasoned from experience
Inat there must be a turn somewhere.
Inc bottom surely had been reached
Inc time for rally had come.
stuart slept late. He was up until
O'Clock writing a reply to d peculiarly
Venomous attack ON his integrity which
q morning paper had printed. The
writer had boldly accused him of be-
ing the hired tool Of the group OF inan-
cial cutthroats who were coming mil
lions out OF the ruin OF others In the de
struction Of public faith.
Guiding paragraph was unanswerabIe
except by an epithet.
MY business is the enforcement Of
justice. am the servant of the people.
III Wall street cannot stand the en-
forcement Of law SO much the worse
for the street. It Is no affair of mine"
DR.. Woodman hurried downtown to
the office Of friend on Pine street. an
old fashioned banker and broker whose
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:. ..as SAxs..tr.a. a,ugru nafIueu ."--
memorandum to Voodman with :
grunt
1T don't take long TO get 'em todayl'
The words had scarcely left his lips
when hoarse cry rose from the crowd
hanging over the ticker.
Copper bad leaped upward a whole
point between sales wild cheer
swept the room For ten minutes every
stock on the list responded and began
TO climb
The doctors face was wreathed In
smiles. Men began TO talk and laugh
and feel human for the first moment
IN two weeks
Dugro grasped the Doctors hand
and his deep voice rang above the
roar.
You're a mascoti You've broken
the spell! For Gods sake stay with
ns!''
Suddenly another cry came from the
crowd at the ticker The boy at the
board sprang to the instrument with
a single bound. his eyes blazing with
excitement His cry of "Downi" pierre
ed every ear in the room with horror.
The panic had come.
In ten minutes stocks tumbled five
points, and the doctors last dollar was
swept into space. while the whole mar
ket plunged down. down. down into the
abyss of ruin and despair.
Men no longer tried to conceal their
emotion Some wept. some cursed.
some laughed: but the most pitifui
sight of all was the man who could
do neither. the man with white lips
and the strange. hunted expression In
his eyes who was looking death in the
face for the first time
A full quarter of al hour of the panic
had spent itself before the dazed
crowds In the aroker's offices read the
startling news that caused the big
break The ticker shrieked its message
above the storms din like little
laughing demon
'"The Van Dam Trust Company Has
Closed Its Doors and Asked For the
appointment of Receiverg'
Biyens had not kept his solemn
pledge The great bank had stood the
run for two hours and closed its doors.
And the work OF destruction had just
begun
At 8 o'clock the doctor walked out Of
Dugros office without dollar. He
felt aIm6st happy by contrast with the
fools he left shutfiing over the floors Of
Dugro's Office
His own sense of loss was merely
bbiiaafr Tie 1t +ettatiess he had Just had
Of the mad IuSt for money which had
begun to possess MI classes was yet so
fresh and startling be could form no
adequate conception of his own posi-
ton
1t was not until he entered his own
door and paused at the sound OF Har-
riet's voice thar he began to realize
the enormtty of the tragedy that had
hefallen him.
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Notice Of Sale Of School Bonds

Notice is hereby given. that the
trustees of school district No. II.
Dawson county. Montana. will on
Saturday. the 18th day of Novem-
Der. 1912. at the hour of 2 o'clock
p. m, of said day at Midland Coal
& Lumber Company office in the
said district. sell bonds in tn sum
Of two thousand dollars (S2. 100000
payable in five years and redeema-
bic in four years. bearing not to Elk,
ceed six per cent interest and cover
ing the property within the said
district.
The said trustees reserve the right
to reject any and all bids and to
Sell the bonds at private sale if they
deem such action for the interest of
said district.
Dated at Marsh, Montana. this
18th day Of October. 1912.
d. Nj. COGHILL.
Clerk Of School District No. II,
Dawson county. Montana. 4t35
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"If you've got dollar. nail it up"
name had always stood for honesty and
fair dealing and conservative business.
1t was half an hour before the stock
exchange opened. but the dingy little
Office was packed with an excited
crowd OF customers
The doctor followed old Dugro, the
head Of the firm. into his private Office
and asked bis advice He got it-sharp
short and TO the point
GO home, doctor, and stay there
This market is no place for an anna
teur. It's all can do to keep the wolf
from my door IN these days"
But I've received some important
information"
Keep 1t dark" old Dugro scowled
Don't tell IT to your worst enemy. If
you've got dollar. nail 1t up and sleep
on the box"
But I've some Information ! think
I'm going to act on and | want TO open
small account with you"
IAN right I've warned you" was
the grim answer Il wish you good
| luck"
The doctor drew his check for $4,000
and smilingly took his place among the
crowd before the board
The ticker would tell the story In the
frst hour II stocks should sell OF
three points before noon. he would
know. He determined to put this TO
the test first He would not sell the
market short. He would be content
with the big jump the market would
make upward when II started
As the noon hour drew near the doc
tors heart was beating like sledge
hammer Bivens' program bad been
carried out to the letter Stocks had de-
clined for the FIRST hour a point. and In
the second hour suddenly smashed
down two more points amid the widest
excitement on the exchange.
The moment to buy bad come The
doctor was sure of il Stocks had
touched bottom The big bear pool
would turn bull In a moment and the
whole market would rise by leaps and
bounds
He called old Dugro
"Buy for me now An1aigamated Cop
uer. the market leader, for all I'm
WORTH
The broker glared Al him.
BUY! Buy III this market7 Man.
are you madf"
Il said buyF' was the firm answer
whats the limit I"
NOT share without stop loss or
der under To- !"
well. with the stop?"
.I'n buy you 400 Saares on four
point stop"
"And when 1t goes mp Eve points 4
] the doctor asked eagerly
ETH double your purchase ana faase
your stop, and every lve points up III
keep On untll roo are uiiiionaifei
The old broker smiled coniemptp-
ousIy, but it vas al lost on the doctor.
do II quick
The order was scarcely given before
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Notice Of Contest

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Miles City, Mont.
Oct. 2. 1912.
To Roy Booten of Glendive, Monta-
ma, Contestee;
You are hereby notified that D. K.
Carpenter. vino gives Giieudive, Mon
tana, as his post-office address, did on
Oct. 2, 1912, file in this Office his du-
ly corroborated application to contest
and secure the cancellation of your
homestead entry, Serial No. 090l5,
made May 16, 1910 for SCI Section
30, Township Is N, Range So E, Mon
tana Principal Meridian, and as
grounds for his contest he alleges that
said Roy Booten has never at any
time or at all cultivated the said land.
or In any wise improved the said land
or any thereof, as required by law,
and that he has not resided upon the
said land at any time or at all, and
that he has entirely abandoned the
same. and that his failure to improve,
reside upon, or cultivate the said land
is not due to his employment in the
United States Army, Navy or Marine
Corps.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
by this office as having been confessed
by you, and your said entry will be
cancelled Hereunder without your
further right to be heard therein,
either before this Office or on appeal,
If you fail to file in this Office within
twenty days after the FOURTH pub
LEGATION of this notice, as shown be-
low, your answer, under oath, specifi-
cally meeting and responding to these
allegations of contest, or if you fail
within that time to file in this Office
due proof that you have served copy
of your answer on the said contestant
either in person or BY registered mail.
If this service is made by the delivery
of copy of your answer to the con-
testant in person, proof of such ser
vice must be either the said eontes-
tant's written acknowledgement of
his receipt OF the copy, showing the
date of its receipt, or the affidavit of
the person by whom the delivery was
made stating when and where the
copy was delivered; If made by reg
istered mail, proof of such service
must consist of the affidavit OF the
person by whom the copy was mailed
stating when and the postofFice to
which it was mailed, and this aft
davit must be accompanied by the
postmaster's receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
the name of the postoffice to which
you desire future notices TO be sent
to you. A. KIRCHER, Register.
Date of first publication, Oct. "a,
1912.
Date Of second publication, Oct. 81.
1912.
Date Of third publication Nov. Z,
1912.
Date OF fourth publication. Nov. Il.
1912.
F. P. LEIPER.
Attorney for Contestant.
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NEVER TIRES
OF the Food That Restored Her to
Health.

Something was making me i'll and
I didn't know the cause" writes a
Colo. young LADY, For two years
was thin and sickly, suffering from in
digestion and infiammatory rheuma-
tism.
II had tried different kinds of diet,
and many of the remedies recommend
ed, but got no better.
Finally, Mother suggested that I
try Grape-Nuts, and began at once,
eating it with little cream or milk.
A change for the better began at once.
To-day ! am well and am gaining
weight and strength all the time. I've
gained 10 lbs. in the last five weeks
and do not suffer any more from in
digestion. and the rheumatism is all
gone.
Il know it is to Grape-Nuts alone
that owe my restored health. | still
eat the food twice day and never
tire of It." Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.
The favour OF Grape-Nuts is peculiar
to itself. 1t is neutral. not too sweet
and has an agreeable, healthful quality
that never grows tiresome.
One of the sources of rheumatism is
from overlooking the system with
acid material, the result of imperfect
digestion and assimilation
AS soon as improper food is aban-
doned and Grape-Nuts is taken rsgu.
larly. digestion is made strong, the
organs do their work of building up
good red bleed cells and of carrying
away the excess of disease-making
material from the system
The result is certain and steady
return to normal health and mental
activity. There's reason" Read
the little book, THE Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter: A new
one appears from time to time. They
ere genuine. true, and full of human
inherent. ADV.
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all ready to be lighted. They ready that
when Pantaloon looks out of his window before
making up his face for the day he sees that
the candles have burst into famefowers in the
night.
Then Columbine takes out pipe. and she puts
some magic soap into nectar and stirs it round
with the bowl of the pipe until frothy suds ap-
pear. And then she blows bubbles that float up
and out of the window until they reach the
Christmas tree, when they turn into great gilt
tering glass balls, all sorts of colors, and show
pictures of the world all coored and shining
The children in the World look up and think
they see Harlequin and Columbine floating down
as gently as feathers, but they don't say so be-
cause their elders would only tell them 1t was
the clouds. But 1t is Harlequin and Coiumbine
and Pantaloon end Clown follow soon after.
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but hole in it in the morning.
And when it is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country, city, town and village
like consprators Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand. open. OPEN!
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas. Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew. and the
unfcrgiving father his repentant son. Mothers
forget to be jealous of your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtiness. Let's be old-fashioned Let's be-
lieve in ghosts I'll tell you ghoststores. stories
of yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates the stairs
And Clown says as he taps on the doors with
his red-hot poker:
open. open, you old grousers! And let the
Spirit OF Fun come into this house. Romp bit
and lose your twopenny dignity. for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh" =. ~
Pantaloon. taking his turn, taps with his walk
ing-stick. and says:
Open, open. and let in the food of memories
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son. and there is a flower called Columbine and
1T is so called because it is like four doves with
outspread wings, and the French dove is colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even If the burden Of history is borne on the
back of a flower And the god-like glow and gilt
ter of Mercurys limbs still shows in the glisten-
ing sequins on Harlequin's clothes, parti-colored
as they have always been. to show how he COW
cred his nakedness with rags
All this. beautifed by the essence of Time, like
things put away in cedar chest comes back
when Harlequin blows his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown viii take out another
kind of pipe, long churchwarden Of white clay.
and fill 1t with tobacco and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters memories come
OF all the great people of the Harlequinades they
play down in the world all inspired by them, and
they see the figure of Tarlaton who was the first
clown. and invented the very clothes they now
wear. hand In hand with Grimald that great
clown. And they seem to all the great Italian
Harlequins, and the dainty French Columbines
and the old dandies of ifteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears.
Do you know that elderly gentlemen In the
World smell that magic tobacco, or something
like 1t. and they forget their paunches. or their
bald heads, and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was it
Cinderella, or Beauty and the Beast? Or was
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stirring up old memories in dull people, so that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
Numbering when they were nephews themselves,
and had peculiar hunger at Christmas
Coumbine is awfully practical Her sentiment
extends from the joy of watching the making Of
baby-clothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap in the spare rooms. 1t is she who
sees that children get the right presents, and
when they don't it is not her fault, but the fault
Of some stupid person In shop.
1t is she who suggests the secret delight of
keeping presents hidden at the bottom of the
wardrobe; and it is she who suggests the secret
delight Of peering at children when they are
asleep.
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Harlequin.

and no friends and no hope and I will be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till the tears come and your heart takes
life again. You shall give joy to other peoples
children And II you have no friends who have
children are there not thousand thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them and give
them all you can and you will be rewarded al
most more than you can bear for there is link
between those who suffer. Are there not some
you have forgotten or neglected? This lonely
man, that lonely woman whom you have left un-
cared for, perhaps for years. Put on your hat
ana your coat, and put your heart on your sleeve.
SO that all may know your Grand"
TO see her pleading before black sombre houses
where thin light shines under blind; to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where a man woman sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears as she essays
to melt an aching heart is to see something so
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for so pitt
fully
Look at yourselves. Messfeurs ct Mesdames
Importance. and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and BELLS
and wore bibs. and thought everybody In the
world had enough to eat; when you hated to go
70 bed early and crept downstairs in your night
gowns to listen over the bannisters to the voices
In the dining room; when jam for tea was a
Tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throne o. Justice and mercy for you buried your
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it that plen did thing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production THE
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe of
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus. and on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well.
laden with the poignant.
eternal memories Of child
hood, and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
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again to twiddle between his teeth.
If you know the way, and the Cheshire cat will
let you, you walk down the garden path, past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus
Now this is the dwelling place of the Harle
quin set-Harequin, Columbine Clown and Pan
taloon. 1t is cottage in little colony on
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where ths
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the like), and is
inhabitants.
The Clerk of the Weather lives a little higher
up. The Four Queens and Kings live in a square
OF pagoda-like houses, and are waited upon by the
knaves Pierrot and Pierrette live in romantic
seclusion by pool in tumbledown place GOV.
cred with blue roses. And away behind the
fields of stars where the focks of clouds Craze.
there is another village where the Seven Prin-
cesses i've and the Third Son and an Ogre and
Talking Rabbit, and all those peculiar and
beautiful people who are entangled in our minds
with the memories of night nurseries, and the
scent Of our mothers who bent over US in won
derful toilettes, and told to go to Sleep
they'd be late for dinner
When it gets to be about Christmas there is
sort of aroma of excitement on the lower slopes
Of Olympus. and. especially in the house where
Harlequin lives-a delicious sense of something
exciting happening
Columbine opens the lid of the well that looks
down onto the world, and there comes up MUIR
muir of children's voices. and you can hear the
quaintest things being said about the hanging