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Laborers disputes a country without strikes and employers have tbeir there us elsewhere but oue cunnot quit work, or the other lockout work men, pending a settlement of the dis it Is also a country putes In courts for without paupers or poorhouses injured workmen ate cared for by tbeir employers. Tim aged workman Is pensioned by the government as a soldier of industry worn out in the ranks. The government owns not only the postal system hut the express service, tbe telegraph lines and the railroads. Recently it has purchased a coal mine to supply its locomotives with fuel, and it intends to compete with private mines In the sale of coal to the public far enough to keep the price of coal down to a reasonable figure. There is not a pauper in New Zealand. At Kenyon, .Minnesota, the farmers As long as the city council spends know how to co-operatively sell their people’s money in making per e manent improvements, train. who nobody understands the value of permanent FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1903. tion and the bridge been done, are 000, has paid 125 per cent dividends was on its hat years legitimate and and the taxpay- dividends price, aa long as the city la getting cies and activities spring perennial a battle to be fought between A sewer system that will meet the needs of 7,000 people is not wanted in Pendleton, no matter what tbe cost If preparation is not made I for at least ten years' growth in building the system, it is money wast- ed. While the work is on, and the city torn up for that purpose, no pains nor* expense should be spared Funston. 1 '• had affected I If the city ordinance in Pendieron, Imposing a tax of 12 on each legal some other Western communities, the air in the vicinity would have been j voter, not exempted, is not valid and blue with protest», long before thia.; cannot be collected, what Is the use The Garden City is taking tbe mat of passing ordinances and making ter coolly and philosophically, and ■. laws? in order that the income may be ap The successful test of Heppner coal on the O. R. & N. between Albina and The Dalles, this week, adds an other industry to the long list of the Good fuel is resources of the state. badly needed in Oregon, at prices that most remote corner of the state, and this successful test of the Morrow Pendleton is squeezing down on im county product, opens a door to the provements to the last cent, in the In Eastern terest of economy It is not fair to the outside taxpayers who are forced tng the teachers attending the county to pay this road tax. it is not fair to the city which depends upon this Institute, free of all charge, have set source an example of Western revenue. and the law should be enforced, not alone in the case of The people of Weeton. in enterta-n- hospitality, for part of which will last as long as Weston stands With the --strict paying tbe | the Chinamen, but on street Its every white teachers full salaries, while attending | ma nln the city not legally exempted. the institute, and the city of Weston ' If the law cannot be enforced, it is entertaining them free, they should time the city was finding it out. so bold certainly a some other means of collecting road or street tax from the voters of the City may be adopted aeeaion. beneficial From the reports of the work being done, and the large attendance, it ia evident that they are improving the u a special sesskm of the legislá turn is called, the members should go there determined to remedy tbe new Umatilla county has increased time. the pay of her teachers during the past year more than any other county to them to become still more protic- tax law, and not retrace their steps backward to the old one Tbe change lent in the new law making taxes due in in the state, and this ia an invitation the fall of the year. Instead of the Tbe statement made by th* offic ials ot Umatilla county that tbe apec- spring, is a good feature, and should have the hearty support of the legis isl session is not necessary to the smooth operation of the county gov lature ernment here. Is a tribute to the bus iness-like methods and economical man all have money In the fall of the stockman, The farmer and the business man and the working year The season la lust drawing to administration enjoyed by tbe people a close, harvest is over, rat stock are of Umatilla county through their ; being turned off, the summer's labor officials. There would be no embar : is at an end. an.l every claas oc clti- rassment in this county |* u no *‘‘v> I *«ns ia in better condition to pay were made for thin year at all Al | taxes than in the spring of the year. tbe current expenses could be car i Another ma*ter that should tie de ried on with six per cent warrants, I termined upon is to make tbe seiuiion which would pass at their face value just as short as possible. Tbe ex The Interest-bearing debt of tbe coun- ' pense will be great enough at best, ty has been reduced two-thirds in I and if tbe old bills, defeated or vetoed three years, and one more year will. at tbe last session are hauled in for « —— •—»«• ^.«m»aVaa SI <y MMUIYTU <U IUI reconsideration. It wi.l draw out the pays to select business men for conn-1 ^8,Jof) t0 ,uch a thgl u woul(J ( ty officials. (.jjegpp,. for the people to borrow ______ Athena owns a rock crusher, and jthe mone’f 10 ru“ government for has built a main street which woulu j *Bot»|*r your than to assemble the leg. be an honor to a city of 10,000 inhab- for a general fight over old itants. it is a pleasure to wais or ! m‘‘a,"’re« a< this time drive over it. No matter how much - rain comes in the fall or spring, thia , ----------- rbe s,lat’cred condition of the East street is so built up and graded that ie,n “»i^op markets and the impo»»l- all tbe water runs into the gutter at I biU,’r oi ‘»•Posing of the surplus now ,0 h** foun<» (,n ,h<‘ Western ranges, the curb, and is not found standing in pools in the middle of tbe streeL Bt * fa,r Proflt- brings forcibly to Athena is just a country village. She . m1^ the sta‘*ments made last spring of the i ' to Eastern Oregon »beepmen by C. J. Pendleton in; Millis. livestock agent for the O. R. any year, yet she takes such a pride ' & N. At that time Mr. Millis urged that sheep should be shipped while in tbe appearance and value of her | streets that she has outstripped her tbe market and the demand were good. He drew a graphic picture of big sister, and Is several yean in ad vance of her in tbe matter of street the overstocked range, and the con- transact one-tenth does not business transacted in sequent glut in the market this fall, but was unheeded, Now, with the price of mutton going down, and the market dull, it is imperative that this building. After the irrigation convention then meeting the livestock in Portland will engross the attention of the state. The National Livestock January, and Eastern Oregon stock- meu will attend in surplus be shipped to make it possi ble for a reasonable number to be Association meets In that city during the month of large numbers. * kept over. holding such Money will be lost numbers by through the past summer it stands to reason that the market should be flooded ite given, and every inducement offer One million bead have gone out of ed for a good crowd The vita! top three Idaho counties this fall, and a ics ot cheaper transportation, free like movement was seen all through dom from the trusts, better facilities the West, early In the season. To.a Reduced rates on the railroads will <>f marketing livestock and the for mation and promotion of the inde pendent Packing Cmpany will be dis cussed by the ablest stockmen in tut nation This meeting must be well attended from Oregon Every stock- man is Interested in the questions to be discussed and Portland nas a treat in store for the visitors and delegates The Echo desert land, which, in its native stale, sells a great amount of available funds for prices ranging from »2 to $5 per tied up. idle and unused in this man acre, increases in value 800 per cent The ner. Able bodied men are escaping by the application of water the law. and the street committee of gravel soil of the Milton and Free will make it possible for manufactur ing industries to be operated in tue true manufacturing era of Oregon I The citizens of Pendleton are i exempted from all county road tax evidently feels secure. The baggage car Itelonging to the •'Floradora" opera company, was de stroyed by fire In a wreck near Teha ma. Oregon, Monday Monev Back water districts sells at 30 to 5»» per cent more per acre than the beat wheat land on the Pacific Coast li these examples of the Importance of irrigation In the West are not suffic to the meaning of the word irrigation other appeals are useless. all ient to awaken tbe people Tuesday night a wake was being -eached Chicago held in New York City over the sup posed corpse of John Siebert, suppos ed to be drowned, when in walked Siebert. The corpne ha* not been Identified There have been many fights and several small riota in Manhattan, Kan . between students and the bum element of tbe town. There are be twe*n 1.2u0 and 1.300 student* at the Agricultural College It is an absolute fact that the in railroad traffic is outrun Positively Cured By Oil and Sweet Spirits of Bden Money-back Goods A C KOBPPBN * BROS.. Sole Agents for Pendleton Established Three Years NEW YORK CAPITAL $50,000 NEW ORLEANS $50.00 CHICAGO WON Before the Public Ever) Day SARATOGA WASHINGTON $201 7 EVER\ WEEK A WINNER IN OCTOBER Average Profit Exrncd Weekly on 65000 in Oct 650 44 Total Profits Earned on J50 n Oct 6201.75 YOUR MONEY WORKS WHILE YOU SLEEP REFEBNCE8 AXT BANK OB banker in new tore new O rleans C hicago S a BLAT úm A Ok VaAHINv.ivX O«r / mod « cop ot track rkarp, ar< ,0 .It break ot dap. ‘ clodttap tkt k^rtrr m ,lrrp rkry tpot tkc ««■■«,. tkat Sr tap poa tleudp rncoart Oar otelkod pate ion oa plaapct of tkc Amene«, torf W< op Dote tor >>•« 2-'. prr cat of rrerklp earnéaor •alt« oktatart rtallp Sevea« arrotar at How >50.00 netted ff.201.75 in lets«» than a month etatemeet. stewing th- rvanlt ot a »10 ntay oa meh terse given is 0« - burmweir, Vr» 4v Oclotier Meelinfpv—M<trrw» Purk lirici Hriglitogi Net Ira. FIRST WEEK °n . Cotilla*. 9 to 3, «un Kroell / Afff » -• 4*« a 10 3 lfc 12 19 10 3** 3 , ■ U ; I ¡ | ! »122 •43 S-Dl 73 W ci F-* ic_'L< <e ________________ We are opticians We fit g'as.-es We tit gla-sen that are practical. We fi; gla,-.*ts that give satiafact on. We lit glas-e* by the lai- eat and ino-t •eientific methods« UFed bv good op ticians. We tit glae-es without a-king you a thousand questi »ns to puzz'e you We tit glas-ee for small prices. Trv us and be convinced Nine of tbe 14 convicts wbo escap ed last July from the Foiaom, Cai., ning the capacity of tae car factories prison, are still at large Another out break ha.* just been prevented by the and locomotive works to such an ex quit k wit of a guard and energetic tent that almost every Western mil meatures by the warden road ls handicapped by a lack of cars An unknown man with no apparent and power. The acuon of the Port- motive, rode up to tbe Ames hom* land Chamber of Commerce tn urging stead near Stroud. Ok. and shot and kill« d Mrs Ames and tbe hired mau l the Southern Pacific to increase its Henry Jackson and mortally wounded I carrying facilities will fall upon deaf Mias Ames The assassin escaped ears If the railroads could get cars, Rev Dr R L Paddock, rector ol i under any reasonable conditions they the Church of the Holy Angela. New would do so without any persuasion York City, declares that a high oitlc lai recently refused a bribe of $300,- from cities or individual* 000 to permit gambling to go on unin terruptiKily in that city until Janu Tatumauy was not »o dead a* >ts ary 1. opponents thought it before Tues Philip Partenbeuuc-r a Philadelphia day’s election The tiger, like the grocer, who died lately had uo con- tbe tweeter Who Never Murepre-euu cat seems to have Innumerable lives fldence in the judgment of his two sons To one be t-equeathed $1 per Scbiuitz i h«- musicianmayor ot San week, to the other $2 per week, to be coib-cted in groceries and other mor Francisco, is re-elected and will lead ciuuid lie the municipal orchestra for another Tbe first number of the Mirror, the to prevent Puvuinouia and Constipa year !,<>ndon paper owned, run and edited tion Is to cure your cold when it first exclusively by women, scored a great appears Acker's English Remedy ’beat" <m all other ixindon paper* by will atop the cough In a night, and TOM JOHNSON IN COLUMBU8 publishing the news that the national drive the cold out of your system Every man who tocay rides on the defense* are to be completely reor Always a quick and sure cure for Columbus street cars is indebted in ganised Asthma. Bronchitis, and all throat great measure to Tom L. Johnson for Owing to a precinct lioundary line and lung troubles, if it does not the seven tickets he receives for a tangle in New York City, Joseph satisfy you we will refund your quarter It was Mayor Johnson's Thomas had no place to vote. He money. F W Schmidt & Co help In that memorable fight which insisted ou his right*, and a full com resulted In the people securing the plement of supplie* and officers was concessions which tne street railway appropriated for his benefit His one company at first refused to grant. vote coat tbe city $3<*V. 1 can heartily recommend Acker's it is small wonder, therefore, that Monday last a cloudburst In British Tablets for Dyspepsia and Stomach when Tom L. Johnson went about Columbia, near North Bend, scoured Troubles I bare been suffering for the city Friday making campaign out part of a mountain railroad grade eight months and tried many remr- speeches, he found that the people all and threw an engine 125 feet down dies without auy relief, until I got felt a personal acquaintance with him hill. The “ train men all escaped and Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets, which 1 whether or not they have ever seen or but little dantag«» was done to the used only a short time and am now heard him before. And nowhere did remainder of tbe train. perfectly well. Thanking you for he receive more gladsome greetings An elevated railroad car in New the s|>eedy recovery, I am great fully than he did from the workingmen in hia several audiences. They know York, with 5b passengers in it, col yours. Francis I. Cannon^ Vancouver, - - by — _ . Schmidt For sale F. W how to appreciate better than anyone lided with another car and was de Wash. — it was so nicely balanced that & Co else, perhaps, what it means to get railed Send to W. H Hooker & Co.. Buf- seven tickets for a quarter and uni when relieved of its load of ¡»assen versal transfers, an., tbeir gratitude gers it imm«7diately toppled and fell falo. N Y . for a free trial package (Nothing Like Them.) Is not marked by partisan prejudice. to the street below, 50 feet. crease of Are guaranteed to cure anv case of Rhe-ti Mon*y <*<* ¡i I*" fe» 4 ( hœppe« 4 Brow., Agfa. f«r Frodletoo Ijtare order* at ■ IXCORPOhATEI» UXDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW 1ORK » Th< Giuut s Pass women's clubs | will take a hand in the coming mu-j nlclpal election in that city, by mak-| The fourth Santa Fe wreck In one week between Albuquerque and Den ver (Kiints and the Kansas state line took piace Monday morning when an engine left the track and killed the fireman t»ken of *«(, TKVTttcaTa Peoee Main 1/71. MAXIM & GAY CO N F Rhodes, of Eugene, found a petrified snake in a wheat field near that city. Tuesday The snake is about 25 feet In length and is a mon ster The Eugene Commercial Asso- ia tion blames tbe Harriman system for using tbe Eugene descriptive fiamph lets sent to Chicago, to be distribut ed by the Harriman people, for pri- vale use Private advertisements after it were inserted in the took HAULING OF AIL KINDS pi’«”*! Sweet Oil and Sweet Spiriis of Ed” Rheumatism fail tl. .« Ich , Sp,r’!î °C ^<15n a c a01. A. C. Koeppen& Bros AgU. forPendl'n. The socialists ot Salt l_ake City, claim that their vote in the tnunici- pal election will be increased this year by over 100 per cent. Thomas Stevens, aged 20, Jumped off a moving street car in Portland. Monday, and escaped from the city rock pile gang, on the streets State Bank of Sheldon. Iowa ¡ Tta BraiflfiU Rigulatif Co., Atiaata, 61 The Catholics cleared »I8.U00 on a 10-days’ fair, held in Seattle, for the purpose of raising funds for the new $250,000 church building. at least a Motilases Mike Powell, aged 50. of Portland, was found hanging to the west end of the steel bridge, Tuesday, having committed suicide. organized in vain without having to spend more than he contracted, although he may have studied the details closely, The people of Walla Walla do not I to make the system extensive and seem to be agitated over the recoin f complete enough to serve •ti.OOO peo. mendation for the abandonment or j pie. the fort, by General this recommendation Francois Moy, a E’rench sailor, wan instantly killed at the Portland docks Monday, by falling from the wharf to some logs below. from collecting from the taxpayers of Pendleton for road purposes, there is nished it, masses and the classes. NEWS The Baker City high school foot ball team won the game from Union on Saturday, by a score of 53 to 0. The infant child ot Mr. and Mrs George Baird, of Newberg, was scald I od to death by falling into a wash- tub, Wednesday. tions and Irrigation societies ate not sary to the completion of the work. No man ever built a house and fur the GENERAL ’ pt *Cvcry”woman covets • gg Mamed Women CUarlbs Robertson, a Southern Pa cific tltemun. waa killed in a wreck near Ashland. Monday morning this tax. and the county is prevented ways more or less unforseen ex penses. which are absolutely neces wherever there ia a wrong to right, or in ■ shapely, pretty figure, and Conrad Platzoeder many of them deplore the lo»s of their girlish forms ■ » after marriage. The bearing •> Ail kinds oi Fresh of children is often destructive Meats always oo to the mother’s shapeliness. ■ > ♦ < > hand Fine Bacon, All of this can be avoided, Hams and Sausage however, by the use of Mother’s Friend before baby covet, as this < > great liniment always prepares the I <dy for the »train upon it, and o i > preserves the symmetry of her form. Mother’s Friend overcomes ail the < > < danger of child-birth, and carries the eajK-ctant mother safely through ■ > > Prives as Io* as the lowest this critical period without pain. It is v.- man’s greatest blessing. 4 »♦»es»»es»*♦*♦♦♦♦♦»• Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from the use of this wonderful remedy. Sold by all PROMPT, RELIABLE^ HERVff'F. druggists at $ i .oo per A. J. BEAN bottle. Our little book, telling all about thia liniment, will be •ent free. plied to the betterment of the streets. If the city cannot, or does not collect in a con tract ot that magnitude, there are al Hin poll- cash dPJg The citizens of Hl. Helena voted down a tive-lulll road tax Wednesday. Thomas Cleary, a one-time taiuous middleweight pugilist, was accident ing a < ampaign for their choice for four ceuts a bushel higher than it ally smothered by the fumes from a mayor. charcoal stove al Newberg, N Y otherwise would have been This is 1 he- Canadian government will con-i The government of Peru gives of x matter of »16.000 saved io the ele- ficial and ready sanction to the plan sic.-i a bill at the next session of valor patrons alone in oue year and tor a permanent international peace parliament for the building of a rati Ì to the Y uko i this has been nearly duplicated every commission with arbitration powers. road from Victoria m-nmg district The widow of Vice-President Thom yeat of tue company's Ute The jury in the cam against Harold as A Hendricks died of paralysis in Haynie, for highway robbery, at Se- The elections held on Tuesday gave Indianapolis Monday laat. aged EO. attie, returned a verdict of guilty. She was married to Mr Hendricks in the democrats an overwhelming vic 1846. Wednesday, after being out one hour and JO minutes tory in Greater New York, which Father P J Lynch tor many ears gives them hopes of carrying the vicar-general ot Florida, has perfect The opening of the new theater a: was to have taken stale next year Senator Gorman ed arrangements to coionise 50o tain Eugene which won a victory in Maryland, which Illes of |x»r Irish people on Fl-«ri-la place on November 9. with tbe pre- lands. sensaliou of "The Christian." has will give an added Impetus to his Charles H Leonard, who is accused be--n positioned presidential boom in republican of ' getting $10,076 on forged checks Right Rev. John B. Brondel. bishop Rhode Island. Garvin, the democratic ■I Orange. N J., has been capture! ot Helena and head of the Catholic candidate for governor was elected M Vancouver, B C.. •nd reture-M church in Montana, died sndden.'y. Tuesday morning, of apoplexy, at his by 5.000 majority, and Beckham, the to Orange I A copy ot the first edition of Shel home in Helena democratic governor of Kentucky, is ley's poems, with poems also by his The autopsy over tbe body of Mrs. j re-elected by a strong majority. The sister and the autograph signatures of Annie Wilson, of San Francisco who! republican victory in Ohio makes both, sold a few days ago in Ixmdon was supposed to have been murdered Mark Hanna the strongest republican for $3.000 Tuesday morning, discloaes the fact; Tl* reconstruction of 'be Central that she died of heart disease candidate for president, on account of the loyal support given his candidate Pacific railway between Ogden and Angus McPhail, of Everett. Wash Ren<> includes coring four new tun for governor Myron T Herrick Even neis. 1,900. 2.600. J 9« h and l.Thu feet has been den ed a new trial tn the case against him lor killing »'red An- the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt long respectively. demon at Everett, last July, and will cannot overshadow this last triumph "Happy Dav« Holjrook.' for many hang sometime in November, not yet of Mr Hanna years one of the most popular come decided upon I dian* tn the United State*, died Sun The case of Harold Haynie for high, A study of the comparative values day at Worcester. Mass . of consump tion. an<l in poverty way robbery in Seattle, is now being of irrigated and non-irrigated lands, Haynie is known as the "spot Nearly all the bank failures of lile beard in Umatilla county, published In yes because of the 1 past three mouths have been ot na- ted horse" robber, terday's East Oregonian will con tionai banks An exception »a* the pinto |>ony h* drove to bls buggy ' vince anyone that irrigation conven failure Wednesday of the Sheldon while on his midnight raids. minded man can complain man never suffers defeat, and price of grains and seeds evitable growth of the city, no fair- uot. $2.420, NORTHWtST NEWS of this elevator has made th« average additonal work and additional conve nlencee, with which to meet the in Such a i elected, he is not defeated, paid, bank at end of year »8.525 47 It Is the belief of the manager a very conservative man. that the presence system costa more than the contract i original Investment In •lx The report at hand auows i that nearly »00.000 bushels of grain and seeds were handled during the year. era can only agree with the counc.. n making these expenditures If th« sewer xmatructlon of a tlrst-clasa in advance Although Tom Johnson all needed betterments work that It now owns an elevator property worth $14.- Tbe city park, the additional fire protec But there are some trusts which from the very nature ot the business they pursue are necessarily monopolies These should be taken over and oper ated by the government only, and in the interest of all. 9uch are lighting, water and street transportation, walch an Increas ing number of municipalities own and operate as trustees of the public. Of the same nature are railroads, wnlch were orig inally built, owned and operated by tbe State of North Carolina and many other states The consolidation of railroads till the entire system throughout the Union ta practically controll ed by half a dozen mac, demon strates that the government can operate them and tnat it cannot safely trust such vast power to a few hands.—Walter Clark, su preme justice of North Carolina company with a cash capital of 13,600. improvements to a growing city, it going to kick about a deficit Their co-operative was organized about seven years ago even cursing. You see, we have not reached the heights jpt. Cotauoxd--»hU usophy ’y And most of us never will get that far ulong But tbe lesson of it "We will enjoy that now ' What of saviug the books Let us warm our hands In the blaze anti get sowe thing out of It now it we worry and fret our loss is the greater To cry over the loss to borrow disappoint ment from the morrow—why that is to multiply the loss by two; that Is to pile upon today's sorrow the aor- row of yesterday and of tomorrow. Today! There Is no other day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow never comes. else may he done? There is no hope Why spoil today bewailing yesterday, or fearing tomorrow? Why regret what cannot be helped or dread what cannot be foreseen* We can retrieve yesterday today, We can make the destiny of tomor- row today, and today only, There is only one day—today. Yes, that’s Emersonian, but— Men are always to be blest—tomor row. They are going to be content ed and rested—“some day." Is it not so? Whereas the only way to be con tented and comfortable and happy is to be contented and comfortable and happy today. And if your library is burning, and you cannot possibly save it, enjoy the flames now Difficult? Yes New* No. A greater than Emerson said long ago: "Take no thought of (Do not worry ■let about) the tomorrow." Also: tbe dead bury the dead " Live today—Seattle Stai HUNZIKER THESURE WAY Suffered Eight Months .Mr. Johnson’s Columbus meetings were In every- way manifest of his popularity with the people—wnu the plain people, if you please, the people who are becoming more and more aroused to the imperative necessity of throwing off and breaking the yoke of privilege. His frankness and earnestness convince his hearers that be is a man of his word, and that if elected governor of Ohio he will prac tice what he preaches In his campaign tour. The people of Columbus owe it first as a duty to themselves and second as a debt of gratitude, to Join the masses throughout the state In roil ing up an immense vote for Tom L. Johnson in November; and may it be such s vote as will land him in the governor’s office by an overwhelming majority.—Columbus Press TODAY. When Emerson's library was burn ing In Concord," says Louisa M. Al- cott, "I went to him as be stood with strong movement has filled up ibe the tire-light upon his strong, sweet markets until the price is dowu. the face, and tried to express u>y sym demand weak, sod yet Eastern Ore pathy, but be auswered cheerily, Never mind, Louisa, see what a beau- gon is overcrowded with sheep Ilf 111 blaze they make We will enjoy New Zealand has don« the most that now.’ ” Ah, my dears— daring thing aver attempted by any Suppose that library had been yours . modern government The New Zea or mine Fancy what a fats—tears, landers claim that New Zealand is maybe, or the wringing of hands, or Three ot tne neavy coal companies of Pennsylvania are paying no atten tion to the decision of a mutually chosen arbitration commission which refused to recognize all their conten- I tlona Thelr obduracy will probably he the cause of another strike I James Whitfield, a newspaper man, suicided in Kansas City. His life was insured for $5.otsi with a clause mak ing the company liable for but $500 In case of suicide. His heirs sued for the face of the policy and the United ^.,.,<..1 .> Stat* h courts HUHtain the company, Thzx Qmithnrn DaolA» Y>n <!•..— >. Com- Tho Bouthem Pacific Railway pnny haH bought up a majority of the shares of the Reed Crude Oil and the San Joaquin Oil companies tn California. The deal is supposed to presage the absorption by the South ern Pacific of all the oil Interests of that state Dr. E. C. Angell, ot New York City, aged 81 years, dropped dead just be- fore stepping Into an election booth Tuesday a moment before he »1st ed that he was about to vote the first ballot he bad scratched in 50 years He bad always voted a straight »pub lican ticket A curious combination of soismk and electrical forces prevailed during an earthquake at sea recently off the coast of Japan The sea was ruffled by a vertical motion tor many miles, and all the watches on al) the ships within tbe disturbed area, stopped at the same moment. A CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL TSIBVNE. March 1. 1903 Milin A Gay . who teve I«« e > «« »uce««sfui In s*l*--Uug winner* st the New Orleaaa race*, are in * elan by them •elve». and have no relation In their ayatem ot operation to the ' get rk-b <|ulek'" wbeiae« that hare re- ently gon« to |.lecea dlaaainwmly to lh<w who iwlruaiaed them Maxim a Gay do not guar» o’re their client* profit* aor agalnat luaaMW. but merely play tbe money ot their anb •rvlber* and deduct a fixed percentage from winning* fuc placing the eommteaiou* Thia point I* made clear m all tbeir aanooneemeot* What they guarantee to do 1« to confidenrtaily handle all money forwarded them and place It on th- rare« jnat a* If It were their own Tbev bare tn tbeir employ a* "docker*' the moat expert jv.dgea ot track wort In the country, and tb«ce la not a borae at tbe New Orleana meeting that they have wot a record ot. The Information collected In thl* way la need to tbe benefit of tbetr aubocrlber*. and Itx reliable character ia aiteated by tbe anmeroua wlaners they bare picked in tbe past two weeka. Maxim A Gay are Ibe pioneer* ia tbla liar of la veal ment or apeculatlou. they have been eetablGhed three year«; they c-ondner their bualne*» oo »tralghtforward b.~une*» Uo*. I heir inelhod* bare been thonourhly I* veetigated and are entirely .lltferrnt from tbuoe puraoe-l by tbe 'get-tich-qrih-k" acbemea. ao called, which were but recently cb>»ed by the authorities The traniaction ol Maxim A Gay are legal in every aeuse. and they do ex ■< tly wbat thev advertise to do. that I*, play tbe money ot tbeir aubaeribei* on tbe bor*e* tbev udge will win. and they usually win Prompt and proper accounting ta made of tbe result, but they guarantee no filed profit», though those wbo have continuously patronised them have not been I ««era. ___ 28. __ 1903 ST PAIL DISPATCn. February An Investigation of the letboda L 2 ot - the -- Maxim A Gay Co. «bow« them to be conducting tbeir bualneee <tu straightforward bnalne«« line« They have twn ««tab CONTEST NOTICE Department ot the Inter, r, 1.9 laud Offl e, La Grande Ore.. Oct. t* l«cl A autficient affidavit ol contest having boen nisi In »hisoffice by V arstice E. Ktoman ot Vmati la county, stalo <>t Oreg n, cootestan , sgsl' st Homostosd entr- No 87H. made No VemberSr, l«9i, lor th« MWt4 He- 22. Tp SN.t K. >2, I W M . by Frederick Stevens, con testee. tn which it is alleged that tn* said Fred, rick Rtevensrtlsd Feb 1, ISO' that be left no bstra. direct or in dr • t that administra tor ol bls estate. Jam«» Dors' , as sttcb a-tm n- talr»tor has caused sear, h to b<- made lor bolts and !>*• ba« IXIIM failed to unit find auy; any; last that »inc* since r*o. Feb. i. I. «11,1 iw*, tbe tract ot Und abo\f deter; I m ? i hat b*rn a.i— abandon .,1 d br ««4.1 abwlutely sat.l^ Unm»>at*az4 Homestead Vs*. En ttytna<rFrederick Steven», and b*« ueiinsey ' — way Isen rulilv.tad or settled up n by« Id Prederlok »tevtn«, or bli betre. and trat there leelprrsent uo o-e claiming ibe land abire described *u>< that no one b** clalm-d tne »«me »luce tbe death of Mid Frrderb-k Steven«, Feb I, IWl. end that no one le Ivins n» tbe lai d al the present time, nor ba< ihed on it «Ini-e the death ot Frederick Stevens, Feb. 1, t'.en; ___________ _________ that Mid allege I alMence __________________ Iroin tbe Mid laid w“aati«t due to ala employment In ths' army, navy —---------- ------------- ua»y or marine matin* corps corp« ot iba t niu-d st-ua ------- a* a prívelo soldier, officer, seuman, or marine during tbe «ar «lib Spain or dnrinit any etbrr «ar 'n which tbe United state* may beeu- •xl- parti«« are hero1 y no'I tied to appear. roH-ond at.d oiler evidence touching Mid al- lexaUone et W o' -loek * tu on Dee- tuber 2. l «i. before Joe II Fark«». uotarv public, al b a office in I'endleto". Oregon, and that final bearlrg will be held al 10 o'clock a. m op De «somber ». helor» the Reglrler and Re- ooiver el tbe V S. Li n I «Olee In la Grand-, Orogou The »aid eente»laut bavlrg In a proper aff davit fil'd Oct 12. Ivos, mi forth facte wb vb • s « that »tt«r due diligence permnal »-rvice nt thl* notice eao no> be wade. It |e hereby O8DKRM'< and DIRECTED that auch noti<o us given by di e and proper pnblleatlou • £ W. DAVJ8, Kestner Few ol Huoiireiln ol Recent J<_>ix a Tb» great«*! rac« mm-tloa ia tbe blatory at the tenth begins at New Orleans within a > will eclipse all o-her tort gatberlng* ot tbe past Tbe Crewwet City Jockey Clab know* tbla tnhli “M*1’»* It prepared for It. te have we. If there arc more bor*«a at the New Orleana racetrack than ever »a-h.«2i .T ?•“£■*“<> ba* have more expert "clocker*" and handicappers than w* ever employed at any otber tuietinx Th«« "•for*- w« too big for u* to handle. We move with the time* “*« cannot make tte game if you want to get aboard our dtacretlooary aerlea. at New Orleena. In which «re nlar Sail. th.,.. proposition*, with the privilege of not playlag niarlne any an» borw» horn»» at •« all .it and 0 1’ hor«« we think Al betting proposition», din u<_Jno*e “ d» I tlona unpropltlous. All out the following blank and forward yonr remittance to n» at New Orlaan» • coaaiter coadi iy of ibr _ __ It your __ ____________________ ___ _ orherwte ____ day tbe meeting. money rearhe» n« In _ time: wewttt b«S? S? will be begun on the first da' -------------------- ------------ ling baa geun Money «hoald be »ent by bank draft.' ixpr^ZTiniTv ET”. — « It resche« us after the meeting Pre» monev ’Sdw* ord-r or ... «»„■-. «V Vncertitled cheek« «re not accepted wmt , or currency |a r«cte tarad letter To Maxim A Gay Co (lucorp), 928 «’anal fit . New Or lessa. La In occorrtcoco icilA tke terau poor ap «. Ike PeaMotoa ton.) Koat Orepoataa. I radon mamón Dollart Fleoae Set for me doiip Dollar» on eocil »«lectio a of poor DUcvrtionorp Serie» ar tko Xetc Orlela» roert Yon apree to trad art ntrp dop. 4« • let fr> poatmarked krfore tkr r<»cea art ma. eke eamM of tte koœa rektek «rill ka plaped for mp accani tkat after noon and to trod me atalrmct and ekrek treekl« for prodtt let« » ori cent of cinnl.p» Port odd» are gnor antead aa pnbU»k«d 4. Ik« New Orteana Iforarnp Newaw port Mp acconnt <• nkfeet to iritkdraa-al in fu» na dr mand. Name -- Slrrcf Torr a or dtp StsVe THE . For . * { 5 For »10 For a »15 FOLLOWING ACCKPTEP _.-7 no Mr(l BUMS |,ortt, ARE THE MISIMt'M --- pi*y .......................»35.........j piar on each t____ «......................... 50 i play Play on earb horse I-- -.................. 75 I - FOR PLAY - - For a S 20 pl«v "e «'«eh For a * 30 play ♦ «U each For ■ *|O0 piar < on" ’«e.-b li»ir»c borse horse »100 330 .. 30o Remit direct to tbe Maxim Ga.v A Company. 938 Causi street. New Or lean.- All aecouuta received (,« th« Maxim ‘ a listed at the Marli Gv - aM - the Marim 4 Gay Company will be played nt t* — track •—*• tn the '* —« « -- - W Uía flu a d-»« «.ill ...mW* * *** • direct t oír» clients Tbe .Maxim . _______ ___ _ Our friends are cautioned against s«u<llng ibe ------- mails without w - - money . through —- - w- — registering «