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EIGHT PAGES. DAILY EAST OXIEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 16, .1910. PAGE THREE EAST AHD WEST ROAD TO CROSS THE STATE niLLS WILIj BUILD LINE THROUGH CENTRAL OREGON Long Hoped for Railroad to Build From Boise to Bend Colonization Company Takes Over Wagon Road Grant Much Advertising Will Be Done' .'- The long hoped for and much talk ed of railroad east and west across central Oregon seems to be an assured fact, according to an announcement contained In the Sunday Issue of the Portland Orcgonlan. It Is to be known an the Boise & Western, will be built by the Hills and will probably connect at Bend with the Hill road being built up the Deschutes, The following is the announcement contained In the Portland paper: With the arrival In Portland yes terday of John E. Burchard of St. Paul, definite Information became public as to the building of the Boise - & Western railroad, as the east and west branch of the Hill system In tap ping central Oregon. Entering the state at Ontario, the Boise & Western will build In a north westerly direction through Malheur Canyon to a point directly east of Malheur lake. From that point two surveys have been made for a con tinuation, of the line. One of the projected lines passes to the north of Malheur lake and the other between Malheur lake and Har ney lake. ' The objective point of the road will be attained through the use of either line. Hill's Visit Will Decide. Bend will In all probability be the Junction point for the new line with the Oregon Trunk Line, the railway . owned by the Hills, and which Is rap Idly creeping toward the heart of Oregon by way of the Deschutes riv er. - Whichever route may be finally se lected will depend upon the visit now being made to that section of the state by the party of which Louis W. Hill la a member. It Is believed that the northern route, following the sur vey and grade of the Willamette val ley & Cascade mountain wagon road, will be the first constructed. It will open a larger territory which Is soon to be populated, and which will be hipping to the markets of the world before the Hill lines reach the south boundary of the state. The southern survey will be retain ed for the Hill road to California, which will be built In the near future. Realty Deal World's Largest. Following close on the announce ment as to its railway routes, came that concerning the final closing of the largest real estate transaction, from an acreage viewpoint, ever con summated In the hutory of the Unl ted States and the organization of tho Oregon & Western Colonization com pany, with a capitalization of $13, 000,000. - Transfers of the 800,000-acre grant from the owners of tho Willamette Valley. & Cascade Mountain Road company to the new purchasers, the Oregon & Western Colonization com pany, were yesterday completed In New York city, and John E. Burch ard, vice president of the new com pany. Is here to start development and settlement of the vast acreage. Heretofore withhold from settlement and use by the French owners, It Is proposed to dispose of the lands rap Idly in any quantity above 40 acres. Curtis L. Mosher, of St. Paul, will ce In charge of the publicity feature of the work. Much of Land May Be Irrigated. The lands which are now to be op ened were secured under a grant from congress, the consideration being the construction of a wagon road along the foot of the western slope of the Cascade mountains. It begins about 12 miles from Albany and ends at On tario. In the more than 400 miles of the princely gift are (60,000 acres of agricultural and fruit lands, much of which Is subject to Irrigation. and for which water Is available, and 140,000 acres of timbered hills. Estimates of the timber place the total at 4,600, 000,000 feet. Thirty thousand acres of the timber land In the Willamette valley will be -subject to fruit raising as soon as the Umber Is removed. "We secured the grant lands for the purpose of opening them up to pur chase," said John E, Burchard yester day. "Within SO days a stream of set tlers will begin to go upon the lands, entering at Ontario, the most avail able point at this moment. We have already shipped two carloads of au tomobiles to Ontario for use In taking customer! upon the lands. "Our plans contemplate 'the settle ment of the territory through colon ization, and the most practical meth ods to accomplish that end will be adopted. It Is possible that we will enter Into contracts with sub-agents for the colonization of specific tracts. I am already In receipt of a number Better than ever. of applications from persons who de sire to assume such responsibilities, and am going to consult with them about it. World Is Invited to Oregon. "The thing I want to make plain to the people of Oregon Is tha this land is now within the reach of tho people. We are going to send that news all over the world and the people are coming to Oregon. "We will Join with Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern, In his .publicity plans, the operation of special trams and cars laden with Oregon products being a feature of advertising which has never failed to bring markedly good results. "And while I am speaking of the railroad situation I must decline to say anything which could be more prop erly said by the Hills. They are building their own. railroads, but it Is not likely that we would have ex pended such a large sum of money In purchasing the grant and have ar ranged for the tremendous expendi tures which will be Imposed upon us by the plan In view unless the Oregon & Western Colonization company had pretty good assurances that the ne cessary railroads would be built, fhsy are a primary requisite to the success of our endeavor. "Offices for handling the business of the Oregon & Western Colonization company will be opened In Portland, St. Paul, Kansas City, Chicago, Can ada and such other points as may ap pear advantageous. "It Is Impossible to announce the prices at which the lands wfill be of fered, "but It may be stated that they will range from $15 to 1200 an acre. Each tract will be separately exam ined and appraised by our experts. The contracts upon which the lands may be purchased will be varied to suit each applicant. Terms of pay ment will ie made so that any person who is honestly wanting a home and Is willing to go upon the lad for the purpose will .be given all the time he may need Jto pay out. We want , the lands settled up and will be content to 'receive our money during a long period of years. Capital Aplenty Assured. "The Oregon - & Western Coloniza tion company will stand behind the construction of irrigation works where hat plan. of farming must be adopted. We will Investigate what the irriga tion companies now operating in that section of the state are doing, and where they ca make a success their plans will be encouraged. But where our capital may be needed to place the water on the lands It will be ready." RAILROAD SOON WILL REACH OLD GUATAMALA Direct communication by rail from San Francisco and Los Angeles to the city of Guatemala. Is to be an accom plished fact In a very few months, says the Examiner. Once rail con nection Is made with the Guatemalan capital and the United States, an Im portant link In the much-talked-of Pan American railroad will be realiz ed, and a great Impetus given to that extension, through the Central Am erlcan states to the isthums of Pana ma. General Manager A. D. Shepard of the Pacific Improvement company hr.a returned from New York, where he consulted with the company's presl dent, General Thomas H. Hubbard, and got authority from him to make arrangements for the extension of the Guatemala Central railroad system which is owned by the company, north to the Mexican border, where it will form a connection with the Pan-Am erican. The gap is only about twenty-Six miles long and it will not take long to build the required piece of road. The fllllng-in of this gap will com plete a continuous rail line from Guat emala clear through Mexico and to all points In the United States. Trans fers of freight and passengers will have to be made, however, at the Mexican border, because the road in Guatemala Is a narrow gauge line. . The Pan-American road runs south to the border of southern Mexico on the Tehauntepec road. The Pan-American was built by D. P. Doak of this city, and II. Louis and J. M. Neeland of Los Angeles. They recently sold It to David Thompson for 110,000, 000. Until recently Thomson was the American ambassador to Mexico. It Is believed he purchased the line for the Mexican government. The route from San Francisco and Los Angeles by rail Into Guatemala will be by way of the Southern Paelf lf to El Paso until the Southern Pa cific completes its Guaymas and Gua- dalajo road, which will connect at the latter place with the Mexican Central for the City of Mexico. In this connection it can be said that once the Pacific Improvement Company of this city, which is owned by the Crockers, Stanford estate, Gen eral T. H. Hubbard and Edwin F. Searles, completes the rail connection with the city of Guatemala, the ques tion of making Its main line to that city standard gauge will become pressing. Open State Canals. Albany, N. Y., May 16. Pursuant to the order of the state superintend ent of publio works, the state canals were opened today. The waterways opened Include the Erie, Champlain and Cayuga and Seneca canals, and the Oswego canal, excepting that por tion; between the Three River point, and Lock 11 at Fulton. Which is to be closed pursuant to the provisions of a law passed by this legislature.' Storekeepers in Session. St. Louis, May 16. Railway offi cials representing nearly 200,000 miles of road in all parts of the country are In attendance today at the seventh annual national convetion of the Rall- Lroad Storekeepers' association. Mer chants and manufacturers of St. Louis have raised a fund for entertaining the visitors during their stay of three days. Roosevelt In London. London, May 16. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, -who has been by turn an Italian, an Austrian, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, a Dane, a Scandlhoovlan and a German arrived in London to day and Immediately assumed the role of an Englishman. TRWAD OF SHEEP FROM ECHO R. M. TURNER BILLS OCT 20 CARLOADS Shipment Indicated Extent of Resour ces About Echo Many People Ac company Ball Team to HerniiHtoii Oilier Notes, (Special Correspondence.) Echo, Ore, May 16. Silence often denotes wisdom or strength. This is the case of the town of Echo, It is not necessary to call aloud and make the disturbance that some towns find needful to attract attention. We al ready have three well developed lands with the accompanying results, thou sands of acres of wheat and alfalfa which bring their products either to the mills here or ship them through the warehouses. There are cattle and sheep on a thousand hills, which nat urally are brought to Echo -for mar ket. The latest shipment was only a trainload of sheep, which was bill ed out of here yesterday morning for Chicago, via,-Lincoln, Neb., by R. M. Turner, with the privilege of grazing In Idaho during the summer. About one hundred Echoltes went to Hermlston yesterday to witness the baseball game between the Hermlston and Echo nines. Miss Beulah Barker, an - Echo girl, has Just completed a successfully taught nine months school at Stan- fleld. She has returned home for th? summer. Mrs. Katie McLaughlin's friends will be glad to learn that she Is home from the hospital In Pendleton, hav ing come down on the motor Saturday evening. Forrest L. Baker of the East Ora- gonian force, returned to Pendleton last evening after a short visit here with mends. Miss Ina Watenburger returned home Saturday evening from lone where she taught the third and fourth grades In the public school the past two years. Miss Watenburger has accepted a position In the public school here for the coming school year. She will have charge of tho third and fourth grades. Mrs. T. G. Smith left yesterday for Eugene to attend the Rebekah assem bly which convenes there tomorrow. Mrs. Smith with Mrs. C. R. Bonney who left last Wednesday, will repre sent Henrietta Rebekah lodge No. 36 ofthls place. Miss Ada Matthews returned last evening to school atPendleton after a short visit here. Uncle Amos Hammer returned last evening from an extended visit to But ter creek and Hermlston." Mr. Ellas A. Holmes and wife ar rived here last night from San Fran cisco .on a visit to his brother, N. i. Holmes, and his mother, Mrs. Amanda Holmes. Mr. Holmes Is chief clerk In the appraiser's office In the U. S. Cuctom house at San Francisco. 1910 makes his 29th year in the service. T. D. Matthews returned home last evening from Pendleton. O. P. Morton, attorney for the rov ernment reclamation service, with headquarters in Portland, In In town today. Mesdames Smith and Moore srent today in Pendleton. R. E. Ward and wife made a busi ness trip to Pendleton today. DIVORCE GIVEN RELATIVE OF FAMOrS PinLANTHROPIST . Reno, Xev. Because, as she alleg es, her husband, Frederick O. Hewitt, called her vile names, told her he didn't want her any more, tore up their marriage certificate and threw it Into her face, threw a burning lamp at her, falsely accused- her of being untrue to him and shook her until her hairpins came out and rattled to the floor, Louise A. Hewitt, grand niece of ex-Mayor Hewitt of New York and granddaughter of Peter Cooper, famous philanthropist, sued for legal separation. She appeared today in court and In a voice nearly breaking with emotion, told the story of her troubles. Mrs. Hewitt stated that she married Frederick Hewitt at Hempstead, Long Insland, on May 7, 1903, after a three-months' courtship, and when she was 17. years of age. Judge Orr granted the decree. Mrs. Emma T. Benneti of Pitts burg Is living here with her three children. She was married to Albert T. Bennett of Rochester fourteen years ago. Accompanying her to Reno was Loralne L. Lewis, Jr., a promi nent lawyer of Buffalo, In whose fam ily Mrs. Bennett's sister was employ ed as nurse. She came to fight suit for divorce filed by her husband last September. , In his complaint, Bennett, who was formerly from Pittsburg and Is now connected with a typewriter concern of Salt Lake City, alleged that she tortured him. accused him of adult ery, threw a knife at him and threat ened to detsroy the furniture. Mrs. George R. Sheldon of Middle port, N. Y., has taken up her resi dence here to file suit against her hus band, to whom she was married eight years ago. It Is understood that this action of the wife Is the result of mu tual understanding with the husband. Shake off the grip of your old enemy, nasal catarrh, by using Ely's Cream Balm. Then will all the swell ing and soreness be driven out of the tender, inflamed membranes. The fits of sneexlng will cease and the dis charge, as offensive to others as to yourself, will be stopped when the causes that produce It are removed. Cleanliness, comfort and renewed health by the use of Cream Balm. Sold by all druggists for SO cents, or mail ed by Ely Bros., S6 Warren street. New York. For Sale Cheap. Household goods at your own price. 212 South Main street. A beautiful woman and a beautiful thought are synonymous. tions, Walls, Fences and Curbing. It looks better See my many beautiful designs in concrete blocks Deiore you build your home. I will furnish your estimates for any class of work on application. , ' D.H.MHY Contractor and Builder Cor. Railroad amd Wfllow'Sts. Pendleton. Ore ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT Chicago, May 16. Chicago will celebrate this week the fiftieth anni versary of the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. The Lin coln Pageant association will re-enact the stirring scenes of the memorable convention that on May 16-18, 1860, in session In the "wigwam" In this city placed the name of "Honest Abe" at the head of the republican nation al ticket. Many of the delegates of the 1860 convention are here today as the guests' of Chicago. The "wigwam" has been accurately- reproduced In the Coliseum by James P. Root, who su pervised the erection of the original structure. On the night of the nomination pic tures of the various presidential pos sibilities before the convention will be displayed In fireworks above the Coliseum, and when the convention has decided on Lincoln as Its candi date fireworks shooting skyward will form the words, "Lincoln nominated." Mr. Root will seat the various dele gates as they were on the day of the nomination in I860, as near as he can remember. Peparatlons have been made for a demonstration similar to that which took place during the memorable convention, and it is expected that many who took part fifty years ago will come forward as patriotically as they did when Chicago was but 100, 000 population. A Man Wants to Die only when a lazy liver and sluggish bowels cause frightful despondency. But Dr. King's New Life Pills evpel poisons from the system; bring hope and courage; cure all liver, ' stomach and Kidney troubles; Impart health and vigor to the weak, nervous and ailing. 25c at Tallman A Co. Americanists Meet. Buenos Ayres, May 16. The Inter national Congress of Americanists con vened its biennial session here today, with scholars and savants from all over the world In attendance. An other session will be held this year in Mexico, when that republic cele brates the centennial of its independ ence in September. 'The meeting of the Americanists is the first of sev eral international scientific and other congresses to be held in Buenos Ayres during the centennial celebration and exposition. The latter will open next week. A Smile. Is a pretty hard thing to accomplish when you're blue, bilious and out of sorts. There is a sure cure for all kinds of stomach and liver complaints constipation and dyspepsia. Bal lard's Herblne is n.lld, yet absolutely effective In all cases. Price 60 cents per bottle. A. C. Koeppen Bros. Farm Show at Prague. Praeue. Bohemia. Mav 14. An in ternational exposition which Includes all Inventions and new adaptations in the way of agricultural machinery and Implements was opened In Pra gue today. There are especially note worthy displays . In the departments devoted to sugar growing, bee and silk worm culture, and dairy equip ment. - To Choose a Provincial. Syracuse, N. Y., May 16. Rev. Dominik Reuter, of Rome, Italy, Is in Syracuse today to preside, at an Important meeting of the Franciscan Order of Minor Conventuals.' at which a successor of the late Very Rev. Louis M. Miller, provincial of the or der In the United States, will be cho sen. Father Reuter is the superior general of the Catholic order. Rev. Leo Greultch of Louisville, Ky., is act ing provincial, pending the election. State ef Ohio, City of Toledo, Loess Coun ty, as. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Che ney ft Co., doing bnslaess In the City ef Toledo, County and State aforesaid, sad that said firm will pay the snm of ONI HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every rase of Catarrh that cannot be cared by the as of Hall's Oi terra Cars. KANE J. CHUNKY. Sworn to before me cad subscribed la my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. IMA. A. W. OLBABON. SmI) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken Internally and acts directly oa the blood and mneoos surfaces of the system. Bead for testimo nial! tree. r. J. CHENEY CO, Toledo, a Sold by all Drngsmta, Toe. Take Hall's Family Pills for eoastlpa ttoa. . For Sale Cheap. Household goods at your own price, 212 South Main street. When You BUDLD, BuiDdl fto STAY! Re-enforced concrete and concrete blocks are cheaper in the end;' are prettier, more substantial and ' far more comfortable in either cold or warm weather. Concrete stands unsurpassed for ' Basements, Founda SUFFRAGISTS WILL TOUR WASHINGTON LN AUTOS Spokane, Wash. Washington Po litical Equality league of which Mrs. May Arkwrlght Hutton of Spokane, is president, has plans under way for a tour of the state of Washington In automobiles in the Interest of the suffrage movement. The campaign will be under the direction of Mrs. Hutton, who has Just returned from Washington, D. C, where she attend ed the national woman's sufffrage convention, and Minnie Reynolds, who assisted the women of Colorado In their successful fight for the ballot. Mrs. Hutton believes that the men of the state of Washington are broad minded enough to grand the request for the ballot to their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, adding: "An other reason is that 25 per cent of the vote Is Scandinavian and In their home land the women vote, so they will not have to be won to our way of think ing." Mrs. Hutton said there is suf flclent money pledged to carry out all the plans for the campaign, which will be continued until the state elec tion the coming fall. WILL BE IN TAIL : OF COMET 12 HOURS Los Angeles, Cat Professor George E. Hale, director of the Carnegie So lar Observatory, has given out several facts regarding Halley's comet "The comet," he says, "was nearest the sun April 20. At that time It waa 54,000,000 miles from the sun. Since IT IF (ID IP About 1 5,000 Acres of Sherman County, Oregon. now under Crop Leases in varying sized parcels re newable or subject to can cellation at buyers option. Price about $40.(0)0 Per Acre (Crop rental 1 909 reserved) Terms Part Cash Part on Time Apply to Eastern Oregon Land Company Care of Balfour, Guthrie & Co. Board of Trade Building Portland, Oregon and lasts longer than stone that time it has been moving away from the sun and toward the earth. It will be nearest the earth May IS, when It will be 14,300,000 miles dist ant. On that date the comet will pan between the earth and the sun at about 6 o'clock in the evening, Los Angeles time. It will require about 50 minutes for the nucleus of, the comet to make Its transit. "During the time the comet passe between the earth and sun, the, earth also will be passing through tha great tall of the comet. At present the tail Is between 20,000,000 and 25,000,00 miles long, and at a distance of 15, 000,000 miles from the head of the comet at the point the earth will pass) through it, the diameter of the tail la about 5,000,000 miles. Of course, a the comet moves away from the ran the tall becomes smaller, but from present calculation it wfTI. take tha earth about 12 hours to pass through it. Thus it will have passed com pletely through the tail by, 11 o'clock the same night." The comet will not be visible on that date and will not be visible again un til about May 20. There probably will be many shooting stars. 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