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VAST IRRIGATION SCHEMES. badly burned and 15 are still impris Jimhiro Kim hi. tlu- Jupam-H«- ag«-nt oned in th«- mine, which is said to bo t<* the Lewis an«l Clark Fair, will ar on fire. rive lu Portland on April 4. The t'«dorado strikers have declin I’laiiH for a railroad between Nome ed to amend their demands as a re and Uoun<-il City, Alaska art- now I m - sult ot a 12-hour conference held Ing considered by Portland capital Monday night by President Mayer lata. and other offl< ials of th« Western Sonic of th«- old meniliel'H of the Federation of Miners. The board of aldermen of N«-w York Carmen'« Union of Tacoma are de Tuesday adopted a resolution favor sorting th«' rank» and returning Io ing a niiiuiclpal light plant The high work. handed methods and exorbitant A company lias I m -«- ii organized with I charges for Inferloi service of the pri $3.ooo cuptial for th«- pur|M>s<* of vate corporations has lieconi«- un founding a business college at Med- bearable. ford Canada ratliei than South Africa, Beginning April 15. tin- Southern is absorbing England's surplus pop Pacific will put train agents on its ulation Th«* reports of th«- soldiers trains to collect fares and take up coming back from the Transvaal have tlcketa. been unfavorable. It Is estimated Th«- petitions f«,r a leferendiim vote that 16,000 British emigrants have I on the Portage railway and corpora- settled in Canada this winter. | tion tax law ar«* not being generally i signed The heirs of J L. Duff, who was lais, including th« mayor and chief Frank Kan«- and Elden Trogan. of police. aged 12 and 14, were arrested in killed by the explosion of a cylinder and "Fvople in this section have no idea All the mi, oi th, Washington line Portland Tuesday for shoplifting in head in the Willamette Iron bare of the magnitude of the irrigation steel Works, last September, Lipman A Wolf's store. in Portland hat« been newly painted work the United States government and bear the words, "To the 1905 fair Wild gt-i-i«- arc reported to lx- plen- med for $6.600 damages. has entered on." said George II Max grounds.'' Th«- tlful on the lx»w«-r Columbia Hunt- The International Telephone Sys well last evening at the Arlington Governor Chamberlain delivered an era say they are remarkably fat for tem of Washington D C . has applied Mr. Maxwell is executive chairman of for a 25-year franchise In the city of address before th«- board of correc this season of the year. the National Irrigation Association, Spokane and agrees to put In 5000 tion» and charities at Portland T umi - and an expert in matters relating to A serious riot at Graly. Cal., be COMMENCING THURSDAY, APRIL day afternoon. that subject. tween rival logging camps, ha« result- ■phones th«- first 18 months. 2nd AND CONTINUING UNTIL "In Arizona." he continued, “the Pl«-a»ant Armstrong, the Baker ed In the arrest of 20 men by .Mendo- Samuel Baer, of Lareae, Wash , government has a big force of survey county murderer, has made a public ciao county authoriti«M< committed suicide Monday by shoot THURSDAY NIGHT, APRIL <hh ors at work in the Grand Canon of statement in which he says he is not Labor 'unions throughout Oregon ing himself with a 32-calfbre rifle the Colorado, preparatory to the con afraid to die Suffering from the amputation of an We will put on sale our CELE ar«« electing delegates to th»- meeting arm. struetton of reservoirs and digging drove him temporarily Insane James Weaver, aged Mi, a piom-er BRATED FABIAN DRESS SKIRTS of th«* Stat«- Federation, which is to of main canals. The Colorado river of Douglas county, died W«-dn«-s<lay I m - held in I.a Grande on May 3. and ourBONTREE UNDERSKIRTS The Jackson County DairyBea’a will be th«- Nile o| Ani<-ri<-n From at Myrtle Creek, lie had Iteen total- Association bel«l a meeting at Med No line of skirts in the city will that stream will be taken waler The third trial of Aikin. the Wash ly blind for 12 years enough to irrigate a region that will compare with these goods. We ington county man. wbo is accused of ford last week, for the purpose as of a support a bigger population than Cal- Contractors object to paying the aiding in th«- murder of a Chinaman discussing the use of ensilage will make prices during this sale lfornia now has. Luckily, too. t he new carpenter wag«- scale of $3.60 In on Decern tier 3, 1900, wa* Ix-gun at dairy row f«xjd. that all good shoppers will appre Colorado is fullest of water in the Portland and a strike is strongly Hillsboro Wednesday Th«- iiostoffice at Izmr Idaho, was ciate Come and look them over summer time, when the crops need urged by the unions. Binger Hermann has secured robb«-d Sunday night ot $400 in cash. moisture and learn prices The Pullman (Wash > Tribune is Rev Spergensen a Bo«-r minister, enough delegates to th«- first district "It will be a work of years to carry pacific NORTHWEST NEWS. We have a beautiful line of the 1» now in the Willam«*tie valley solic congressional convention to secure owned managed and «“dited by Mrs. the undertaking to completion, but it The Seattle grand jury lias return iting alms lor the widows and or the nomination, according to the man Minnie Sargent, who is also an «ex well known Zion Laces. Ask will be the greatest benefit ever con Baker City Elks will build a large ed 18 indictments against city offic- phans of Boer soldiers pert job printer. see them agers of the «-ampaign ferred on the Western |»eople Once hall this season. they get the water on th.*ao lands, Union was form- which are of great fertility, abundant ed A at Fruitgrowers' Medford Monday crops can be harvested for centuries Smallpox has broken out In As- and failure of harvests is impossible The section 1 speak of will produce toria in a malignant form An annual regatta will be held at the finest tropical fruits and choicest vegetables, and can put them on the Astoria some time In June. market fully a month earlier than Rear Admiral Schley left Portland they are now gathered in any part of Tuesday evening for Seattle. the United State».“—Washington THE BUILDERS OF OREGON. Smith, the negro murderer, of Part Post. land. has b«»en denied a new hettrlng. When H. W. Corbett came to Port- William B. Moreing. o( The Italic, ROUND MAN IN A SQUARE HOLE. land in 1851. Morrison street was a committed suicide Tuesday I m taking arsenic. deer trail through a splendid forest. 4 Under the present «-ompetition far FRIDAY APRIL 3. 1903 A great scarcitv i satkvs now There was not a "clearing" within opportunities to labor- which would not exist but for the monoitoly of nat prevails in all the North Pa< if coast Ex-Senator W. A. Harris, of Kan- the present limits of the city, large ural resources—boys enter into lines towns. enough to accommodate the Oregon sas, is slated as one of the demo of work, as Th«1 Star has said before, Eighteen striking miuent at Res for which they have no natural taste wick. Cal.. are now «n j«V charged eratic members of the Panama canal ian building. Barring a few dozen suagghng or adaptation, which accounts for th«- with rioting. «■ommission. houses nestled among the firs on the large itercentage of bunglers in all oc Th«- curfew i ordinarne is lw»ing strictly enforced I by the city marshal The sale of the Dillon alfalfa tami. bank of the Willamette, Multnomah cupations. Thus a born machinist is made a of la Grande near Echo, for $50 per acre, will not county was a wilderness dry goods clerk, a natural merchant E. J. Parker. a pioneer of Union have a tendency to check the land From Omaha to the city of Port is drilled into a sorry blacksmith, and < ounty died at Island City Wednes- hunger exhibited in that district. land at that time, there was but oue the lad with all th« matt-rials in bis «lay. aged tie years. respectable settlement in that 600 comiMtsition for a first-« lass cowboy Silas Williams, of l.owrr Bui nt From present indications. Roose leagues of desert—that was The and cattle raiser Is made to sell rib bons ami laces: the natural builder, River, Baker county. dropp«-«! dead velt's stay in Portland will be de Dalles. architect or civil engine« r is traineil Tuesday, while plowing voted to a general hair-pulling and One by one the pioneers drifted in to be a watchmaker, a weaver or a Robert McCulloch, an ltdian »ar tur-flying contest in smoothing over to the borders of the state. Some of tailor: the bome-loving. quiet boy. veterau of 1850, die«l the local factional fights. them by ox team, some by wav of the who should have been a farmer, is Sunday night .aged 70. sent to sea. while his r«-stless and ad The Itoseburg lodge of Elks bas Umatilla county’s share of tne five Isthmus, some from the California venturous st-oolniate. who should have purchased a lot an«i will build an ele- gold fields, all hardy men. of the old gone to sea. is tied down to a farm gant new hall this spring per cent of proceeds from sales of And similarly in every occupation, Astoria fishermen are agitating a public lands in Oregon for this year Titanic type that has builded empires "the roum! man is in the square hole." 10 per cent raise in the price of -al is $720.51. The amount received by and manned free institutions, from —San Francisco Star mon for the season of 19<>3 the sta’e, from the United States time immemorial. Slowly the great overland trails GENERAL NEWS treasurer is $23.000. were opened The pressing hordes There will be no referendum vote of frontiersmen and homeseekers Six streetcar strikers at Water- on the fair appropriation bill. The poured into Oregon, an«I spread out bury. Conn are tinder arrest charged inclination shown by some of the val within her mountain valleys and alhi- with assault with intent to kill The rough riders ot Wyoming will ley counties to “get even" on Port vial river basins, like floods filling an give an exhibition at Cheyenne dur- land has been swept away by a few inland sea. ing the president's visit there. weeks of sober reflection . Already the foundations of state lieutenant Neal Campbell, of the I were laid, That little group of pio 21st Infantry, has been dismissed The Chilean government is looking neers who first marked out the boun from the service for disobedience for timber in Oregon. Wherever bat The threatened carmen's strike in daries of a metropolis, were on the tleships. merchantmen. railroad San Francisco has been averted and ground. both parties have a greet I to arbitrate. tracks, or stately business structures Among that number was Henry W. The gold democrats of Missouri are built. Oregon fir is in demand. Il Corbett, wbo is laid to rest today in have declared themselves in favor of has introduced the state to every civ the empire he helped to found ha>. a a third nomination of Grover Cleve ilized country on earth. land. century ago Seventeen large restaurants in I*en- The memory of political and per As a grim reminder of the ingrati ver were closed Monday because of a sonal differences is brushed aside and strike of the Cooks' and Waiters' tude of politics and the bitterness of lactional warfare, several republi Oregon knows only that he is a pio Union. Captain John Russell an ex-confed can papers of the state have run the neer—one whose personality is indel erate and a democrat has been •li account of the death of H. W. Cor ibly 'narked upon the business and pointed collector of custom» ât bett. beside the glowing account of social institutions of the state. Natchez. Miss. the McGovern-Corbett prize fight, Noah Raby, of New Jersey, is 131 The moral conditions prevailing in giving four times as much space to Seattle are enough to make smaller years old and has lived in the ¡>oor- house of Middlessex county for the the fight as to the obituary. cities begin to tighten the rein upon past 5» years The Carmen's Union of San Fran At the time of the appointment of corruption and vice. The mayor and be receiver at The chief of police are included in eight cisco has accepted the offer ot the Anna M Lang een indictments returned by the United Railroads and will arbitrate Dalles land office, there were but two grand jury Seattle has boasted long k their difficulties. such offices in the United States oc The new wage agreement between and loud of being an “open town.“ cupied by women. Martha M. Brown, the bituminous coal miners and oper thinking to invite "capital by this ators went into effect in nearly 2»i of Gunnison. Colo., and Mrs. Minnie boast She is now reaping the wbirl- states Wednesday- Williams, of Lander. Wyo. Mrs Wil wind. Her white chapel" district is An international union of ex press- liams has since been succeeded by a said to be the worst of any city in men and messengets has been form- at man. leaving Miss Brown and Miss the world. Her morals are a standing ed in Chicago by the representatives 1-ang alone on the list of women re advertisement of the municipal gov of unions in 6" cities. ceivers. The president has selected Wayne ernment which is run on the “graft MacVeigh. of Pennsylvania, to repre Judge Adams, who made such a plan." Other cities may profit by sent the United States at The Hague bold bluff at the Wabash trainmen Seattle’s misfortunes. in the Venezuelan affair. has repented. The hot volleys of pub An agreement has been made be The Portland Taxpayers' l>-ague. tween Russia and China for the keep lic indignation which his action called torth. have been sufficient to melt the body of men which began the ing of the funds of the latter at the Russian bank of Pekin even a harsher man than Adams. agitation for the new city- charter in William Railey. of New York, has 1899. has made its annual report. One When he thinks the American citizen been laughing for five days and can will submit to such decisions, with of its greatest achievements is the not stop. The physicians have not out a murmur, he misjudges the spirit adoption of the 25-year franchise sys been able to diagnose his case. Van Ogden Vogt of Beloit Wis. of liberty that has made the Ameri- tem. as against the perpetual fran i-an workingman the equal of the "hise granted under the old charter. I as been chosen general secretary of It is a step in the right direction. It the United Society of Christian En American judge. will perhaps end in recognition of deavor to succeed J Willis Baer It« !.<• ipened tip and «L-veloped by American capital and enterpri-e, Ten thousand machinists laid down Among the provisions of the Irish ’.he fact that the people are the only- tbeir tools April 1 at Greenwich. land act presented by the Balfoui true owners of any franchise for a Conn., the builders and contractors government, is one sweeping away all oublic utility. having refused to arbitrate their dlff erences. arrears of rent, except for one year WnV for Umatilla county, the banner wheat The strike at Colorado City which preceding the passage of the act. Alcohol. ! I. U3TRATU) has been in progress since February »nd livestock county of the Inland a state of This provision will produce C irculars Cfium, 14. has lieen called off. the mills hav unearthly calm in Ireland. Think of Empire, should have a county agri- ing promised to reinstate all the Tobacco i i.r«oi.rso->r»T m Ireland without a single scrap be ultural association and a fairground. strikers Poli « land . O bi There is room on the county poor friends ot Usings* ’t -I'Koe tween the bailiffs and the President Cabrera, of Guatemala, riwn J9f arm for a fairground No better site and President Escalon, of Salvador, a tenant about to be evicted, The monotony of such a quiet life will de 2Ould be found in the county and met Sunday on th«- high sea and ar he Progressive Club and the progres- ranged satisfactorily the differences populate the Emerald Isle. tive citizens, outside the club should between those two republics. With Nels >n Bennett as president, have secured a large tract of coal land in the Nicola Valley, British The cooks' and waiters' strike in Reports have reached Tacoma that 'ose no time in organizing for this Denver is becoming serious Seventy- of suffering from Indigestion if you Columbia, in all. 2500 acres, or four full sections, with five large seams of coal known to underlay the land, and 20 per cent of Eastern Oregon cattle purpose. four restaurants a e now closed and eat what you want, or of starving containing over 100,000,000 tons of th«- highest grade of Bituminous Coal that has been found in the _ _________ Northwest. _ the grocers', butchers' and bakers' yourself to avoid such distress? will perish before grass grows suf The Baker City Herald says the clerks talk of a sympathetic strike. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets taken after It makes the finest and best coke in the world, and for''earn and domestic purposes there is no better coal pro ficient to support them. The facts lortagc road was imposed upon the eating will digest your foo«l -perfectly Sunday a Catholic priest in New- duced in the country. The <• >al is situate<l in Southern Brit\h Columbia, about 160 miles east of Vancouver, are largely overdrawn, as the stock legislature to "satisfy a few members York attacked the distribution in the and free you from all the disagreeable British Columbia and from New Whatcom and Bellingham Bay pointe. The Canadian Pacific Railroad and the men of the Eastern Oregon counties yf the farming communities.” When Philippine Islands of the Bible which symptoms of Indigestion and Dyspep unanimously declare. Conservative ".he names on thos«' referendum pe he declared was a quickly thrown- sia. Eat what you like at any time, Great Northern Railroad are now f»oth ready t »construct and extend their lines into the Nicola coal field and will estimates place the loss at five per titions now being circulated by a few together translation of the holy book. and take an Acker Tablet afterward. be there this year. Thia beautiful Nicola Valley will then be turned into a beehive of gigantic industries Th«- Positively guaranteed. Your money President Firth, of the Seattle Elec will always be refunded if you cent with grass now growing satis 'cat paws" of the railroad corpora- Western CGal and Iron Company are now ottering the first block of its treasury stock at the low rate of tric Company, has declined to arbi are not satisfied. Write to us for a factorily and stock in fair spring con ions. are counted, the misguided Ba tral«? with the streetcar strikers in dition. It is an old saying that one ker county people will find that the that city, and the strike seems fur- free sample. W H. Hooker & Co., must go away from home to get the yeople of Oregon understand the mo ther from settlement than ever !»-■ Buffalo, N. Y. news. tive back of this movement to keep fore. Saturday a pitched fight took place the ¡»reducers in the grasp of the rail The hanging of Armstrong will not at Black R«x-k. Ariz.. between a com- roads. pany of Arizona rangers ami a bur.cn replace the life he destroyed, yet so The ('row's Nest coal shares gold in 189<» for 10c per share. Today the stock is worth $!2o per share; it ad- of cattle thieve. The rangers were ciety clings to that old decree and Andrew- Carnegie is to contribute repulsed and fell back for reinforce, advanced from 10c to t36 in two years. And it is safe to >av that the Nicola Coal offers today just as good chance finds some barbaric satisfaction it 116,000 toward purifying the English ments. to the investor as did the Crow’s Nest in 189G. We are quite certain that the stock ... is sure to . • advance . to par i$1 believing that ’an eye for an eye' anguage. The street gamins of the per share) this year. I " _ A terrible explosion occurred Tues If jou want to be in it on the ground floor and make 700 percent on your investment in a is justice. The country would be bet treat cities, the newsboys and “yel- day in the coal mine near Sandoval. few months, decide quick as this 15c stock will not ia<t very long The stock will be advanced next month The ter off if Armstrong could be made ow kids” coin words every day III. Six men have been taken out to pay his penalty by working for the vhich may be called impurities in Standard Oil Company has bought 2600 acres, the adjoining coal land, only 2| miles from our Company's prop remainder of his life, free gratis, up Jxford, yet which are worth more erty and in the very same coal basin anti paid on the public highways of the state. than $10.000 a word in certain mo This old idea of killing a man be- ments of mental tension, which cause he killed somebody else, is out ?ome to Americans—moments in of date. There is a pennace in labor which full expression is absolutely This is glorious news to those holding Western Coal and Iron Company’s stock. The Tacoma company in for life which beatB it. from a penal accessary. and an industrial standpoint. tends to place their coal on the market here as soon as shipping facilities have l»een furnished. For further in- President Roosevelt, when starting foimation I cordially invite you to call at my office, where samples of the coal, reports, maps, diagrams, prospect The public school system must be or his train at the Washington city I : ! NOTICE THE ITEMS J ! ! uses, letters from prominent bankers, lawyers and other business men, who have investigated thi< coal uronamti m One of the finest residences in revised in certain lines. The tend Ration, yesterday, saw the police for can l»e seen. Respectfully, H Pendleton — 11 rooms all modern im 5 dos l>est quality League Bats ency to crowd too many studies in cibly detain three young girls who provements; pretty lawn; complete made from second growth ash the lower grades is detrimental to tht were crowding the line to get a $6.500. $2,500 down, balance on time. The l>est I at on the market for Another residence—7 rooms, with schools and scholars. It is absolute {limpse of the president. He immedi- 90e. Other bats from 10c up. ly ridiculous to expect scholars ii iteiy stopped, went over to the eager bath, sewerage, electric lights; pretty lawn, shade trees, within three blocks the fourth to sixth grades, all of then ?hildren and chatted with them for of Main street, $2,500. It «Inzell Ht rung made Boy» Balls at Special Sc Ea<-h. children ranging from ten to thirteen 1 few moments, while the procession Other houses and lots from $fi(M) to years of age. to thoroughly master waited. This is the diplomacy that $2,500. Nice residence lots, $150, >z50 and BICYCI.K BUNDR1M:—Tira T»pe 8c; Tubs ten and twelve studies, as the pres wins. csmvDl 4e; Bike Bella 20c to 7.1« ;G<x>d Bold $500. ent laws provide. Teachers are Tires Ct.4'- »»I ; "Three In One oil" the 2> else For the benefit of Eastern Oregon 1» Me., Kie blamed for the poor results obtained u d Washington and the people of the Much Other Town Property, and by pupils, when in fact a good teach inland Empire generally, it is sincere BICYCLES Crescent and Ranches. er cannot offset the effect of this un- ly hoped the scheme to build a rail Rambler $20 to >35 wise law. The state board of edu road from Walla Walla to Dixie and cation should prune down the studies. eastward into the Blue Mountains, Easy Terms, Where Desired. Parents, teachers and pupils would .vlll be something more than a paper G. D. BOYD, III Court Street railroad. welcome such a move. ST. JOE STORE Great Special Sale for One Week A. KUNKEL ó CO PENDLETON ATHENA John Deere We also carry a Full Line of John Deere Plows, Chilled and Steel Bottoms. The Moline Wagons Have Been Time Tried and Have Never Been bound Wanting in any Particular. The Wilson, Moline and John Deere Buggies and Hacks. There are none better made. Plano Harvesting Machinery, all users speak in highest terms. The Buckeye Drills have proven their true worth. Minneapolis Thresh ing Machinery, Engines, Etc. They hold the highest place from point of merit. Sold Only by——— PENDLETON A. KUNKEL & CO ATHENA NICOLA COAL ^|\eelev (ure BRITISH COLUMBIA COAL FIELD THE Western Coal and Iron Company 50 i Bernice Building, Tacoma, Wash. WHAT ISTHE USE Base Ball Goods TAKE YOUR CHOICE 15 Cents Per Share $2,500,000 CASH FOR THE LAND JOHN HAILEY. JR LOCAL AGENT, Room 16, Judd Building, The Noli Store PENDLETON, OREGON