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WILLSÜSPENOWORK LEECHING ALKALI appointed building for the purpose In the state. y The |HH>ple on the south side of ■ the river near the mouth of Birch ’ creek, are building a tootbridge■ across the river at that point « I 1-ast Sunday a convention, (polit ical or otherwise) was held uear this point by politicians from Pendleton. Among the crowd were two ex-city marshals, an ex-justlce of the peace, a prominent tobacco and cigar deal er, aud others. There was a feast of beefsteak and sardines and a flow ot b— but why continue? RE R ADER’6 ADER’8 ADER'8 ADER’8 ADER'b EMINDEH EMINDER EMINDER EMINDER EMINOER Christmas Is Coming TRANSFER OF SHEEP AND SHEEP RANCHES. Remember Rader’s Rockers and Rugs Snow From Six Inches to a Foot Deep at Head of Birch Creak— , Frleghtsrs Tied Up by Snow and Bad roada—Will Build a New Real- dance. _____ Ridge, Nov. 11.—A. A. Cole at Vin son. has tne sheep and sheep raucuea of the Stanton Bros and Jas Wald-1 ron The lanu is situated on Alkali I and Butter Creek. M. L Fix of Nye made a trip to Camas Prairie Friday after some horses. Robt. Waidren of Pilot Rock, went to the head of Birch Creek Bunday after the Hemphill sheep. He reports the snow at six inchrs down low down and a foot on the summit of the mountain. Jobu Browne, the hide dealer of Pendleton, made a trip out on Alkali Moriday. He reports snow out there. We have had terrible heavy winds, with plenty of snow and rain since last Thursday. There is a party of freighters tied □p at Ridge, bound tor John Day from Pendleton on account of anew and bad roods. Marion Smith of Pilot Rock la pre paring to erect a new residence. John Endicott’s telephone -line Is down across the road In several places on Bear Creek, and they are langerous for traveling WHEN YOU ARE R eal Res i LE tor useful, pretty present« R l EMEMBER, R u SH R ader Big Sheep Man In Town. George McDonald, of Adams, Is n the city today for a snort visit. Mr. McDonald Is one of the principal sheep men of the county, and la In the city attending to buelnee, in connection with his ranch. that he is selling for ti jo R odded arms and is a daisy. BESPAIH 4 CLARK Ask to Show jou that 13.50 OAK cobbler COAL It has And don't away until you see him in R egard to his HALL TREES and MIRRORS REGULAR beauties at wholesale prices, They re 514-514 MAI» STREET in oriental Phone Main 1741 ^^LGS we have some beauties we are giving away and you R un no risk oi drawing and missing, but just R e MEMBER we GIVE them to you Tne only R EQU1REMENT is that you buy a smali bill to R e ACH ten or fifteen dollars and juu will RECEIVE a nice framed picture or « R ea L large oriental rug FARLEY-REED. T. Warren, of »veston, was the guest of friends In the city. 8 A. Pennick, of Adams, was a Pendleton visitor yesterday. Htfjfh Glynn, of Atnena, was In the city today on a short business visit. C. D. Ward, of Arlington, spent the day in the city yesterday visiting friends. Mrs. J. Stanton, of Athena, wu the guest of friend« in ne city yester- day and today E. W. McComas left this morning for Portland, where he goes in t«-e interest of his warehouse company. J. J. Balleray returned last nlgnt from a few days’ visit in Baker City, where he went on legal busi ness. Fred Lockley, circulation manager of the East Oregonian, is now in Heppner in the interest of his ue- pertinent. Mr. i.na Mrs. J. C. Koontz, of Echo, returned to their home th.a morning after a short visit with friends here. D. G. McKenzie and Alex McKen zie. two of the well known citizens of Adams, were In the city today for a short time on business. Com«- R o CKER R l ’SH Coek Wagon, Granary and Psreonal Effects Burned Friday. the Friday afternoon a lire at ranch of Marion Jack, about one and a half miles north of Saxe Station, burned the cook wagon of I the men at work on the ranch, an , with it a »mall two-room house con-1 talcing about 300 sacks of barley, the i kMs in al! amounting to a little over i 8700 There were several men working , on the place and they ate dinner as 1 usual in the cook wagon, and having fln shed, left a small Are in the stove to boil some meat when they went into the fields to work- Shortly after fire waa discovered, and before they could reach the place both of the buildings were In flames and they could not get near them. The men loet all of their possessions which were in the bouse at the time, wits the exception of their working clothes. It is thought that there was no insurance on the barley or the bouses. BREVITIES. usually made Xmas Eve. jR EQUEST them set aside for you FIRE AT 8AXE STATION. Nearly Four Thousand-Acre Stock Farm Changes Hands. A deed has been filed by which Michael McCracken and wife have sold to Manuel Pedro for 816.M7.6u their ranch of 3906 acres stock land southwest of Pilot Rock. Pedro has bought all of the stock, sheep, horses and cattle on the ranch, and will conduct it in the future in connec tion with the other large ranch m the same section, which be purchased not long ago. SCHOOL BOOK'S AND SCHOOL BUPPLIKH too, and bear in mind the RlGHT in now, make your selections and PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRIMINALS. ‘ ■" ——... ■ County Court Bought a Photograph Outfit for Sheriff’s Office. A couple of weeks ago the county court liought th«- a erttfs office a new camera for convenience In tak ing the pictures of some of the men who come into the county jail. Many -rlminals have escaped the law in the past owing to the fact that there ha*. been no way of identifying them once they are out of the jail. In future, when a man comes into the jail who ba» been convicted of a crime, or who has a bad reputa tion. and whom the officers of the I law wish to remember, the sheriff win have a picture taken of him. and the plate will be preserved for future' use Men who are convicted and sent to the penitentiary to serve a term for any offence will be photo graphed and their pictures kept, as they generally come in good play in the future Saturday afternoon Major Lee Morehouse took pictures of several of -.hose who are now in the jail, and this practice will now be followed In the future. BIG RANCH BOLD. pretty and useiui. R ECOLLEC r we are always on the t Contracting Parties Are From Adame, Where They Wilt Reelde. John A. Reed and Kias Mary Far ley. of Adams, were married In the parlors of the Golden Rule hotel Thursday afternoon by County Judge G. A. Hartman. The young people are well known in Adams, and were accompanied to this city by a party of friends and relatives who wished to attend the ceremony. Miss Farley is the adopt- ed daughter of Maurice A. Baker, of Adams, having lived as h‘>s daughter since she was 2 years of age. Mr. and M re. Reed left last night for Portland and other valley points for a short wedding trip, after which they will return and make their home at Adams. YOU WILL to select Xmas presents EAD\ I Our stock of Furniture and Carpets never was so complete as now. Two car loads just received and more on the road. iescke s M. A. RADER eats eet MAIN AND WEBB STREETS Have it done by a Scientific Plumber and you will not be bothered with bad breaks. Let us figure on your work. COURT STREET MHIIIIIUHIIIIIII............. .. Grand Thanksgiving Sale CLOAKS, JACKETS, FURS, SKIRTS, DRESS GOODS. WAIST1NGS And a thousand other items throughout our Big Store. We must have room right away for our- large stock of Holiday Goods now on the road and the prices we have placed on the above items will make business hum. Never in the history of Pendleton have such bargains been given as we will give during this sale. Many articles at one-half actual cost. 118.50 Jacket or Cloak, Thanksgiving sale $15.65 • fi fifi fifi $11.90 $15.00 ♦ fi fifi •fi fifi f IO.8O $13*50 fifi fifi I fi •fi $6.95 $8.oo Big discount on Children’s Coats 40 Ready-made Skirts, $3.50 values b * m Fries fifi •fi •fi $3.18 $400 27 fifi •fi •365 •fi 18 $4.50 • fi •fi •fi IO $3.80 “ $4*75 •fi •fi •fi 7a $5 00 $3*5 All sizes and color* it pieces Fancy Dress Goods, worth from 35c to $1.00 a yard, reduced to from 19c to 68c per yard Heavy Skirting in all colors, worth $1 aS. Thanksgiving price, 80c. Heavy Skirting in all colors “ 75c •• * 57c. Ladies’, Children’s and Misses’ Shoes will go at unheard-of prices. All rips sewed free. Again, don’t miss this sale, it means dollars in your pocket. 1 Lee Teutsch’s Big Store COR. MAIN AND ALTA II HBfiBfiOfifififififiMfiOBfi M Bfifii ' || |»||| 11| lt»fi< Ififilfifillllfifi Ofifim OBOOBOOfifil Ufi t fi H OOOOOOOQOOOOO K» exists through ou the other side of the mountains, down by the sea. aud ' lu the Willamette valley they have' not got the alkali there, but the ‘ streams there are downward, not up- , rnil'Al. AN V» * E. .»I 1JF- IV ¿V, A TUO- ward. These regions of country | have seen these violent volcanic ac NO MORE GOVERNMENT tions take place has never been a SURVEYS THIS WINTtn. wet country. It is probably more moist now than it has been at any time since those violent explosions J. T. Whistler Will Be in Pendleton took place. But a Short Time—Mr. Lewis in So all of this alkali in the soil lib Charge. erated by the fire has not been PROF. LECKENBY’8 PAPER washed away. It is soluble, that is J. T. Whistler returned to the city ON PURIFYING SOILS. the great point. Some of the lands last night from Harney county, they plant foods in would figure up several thousands of dollars per where he has been for a couple ot Experiment« at Union Have Been acre if they had to supply them with weeks closing up the year's work In Highly Successful — Underground commercial fertilisers. the government survey, it now has Now 1 want to draw your attention become so cold In the mountains aud Piping the Surest Method of Leech to another feature that you will all the days so short, that ing Out the Native Alkali. the work recognise. In much of this semi- could not be followed further will The tollowing address on •’Leech- arid land underlaid with this haru pan the hardpan is not alike, in any profit, and for this reason It was Alkali soils” was delivered by Prof. some places it is actually vitrifieo decided that it would be best to close A. B. l.eckenby, superintendment of and in other places you can break it It for the winter. the Oregon exper ment station at up- The work has not been finished, I have lost the thread of my and no estimates have been submit Union, before the irrigation conven- | thought. These old farmers have ted. nor will they be for some time in this cltjr. not got a monopoly of language like yet; but about the first of the month As there i6 a great deal of Alkali the lawyers, and it is easy for them Mr. Whistler will leave for Washing soil in Eastern Oregon, the paper is to get rattled. ton, where he will be eugaged a Is Left on the Surface. of especial interest to irrigators in winter in preparing hi« report, or as These alkalies, this potash, that much of it as is ready for the gov tuls part of the state. we have here when we pour watet ernment board. Prof. Ijeckenby said; Mr. Lewis, who has charge ot the Mr. Chairman and Friends: 1 »nto it enters into a solution with wont detain you but a few moments the water just as if it were in a dish water-guaging department, will re I would like the privilege of <n It cannot run away because the hot main in the city all winter, and will grossing for a few words. Nine ;om is sealed up. The evaporation carry on that work during the win years ago. standing on the banks ol takes place and it is brought to th« ter months. He will have charge ol by capillary attraction the office aud will make his heau the Columbia and looking at that surface stream rolling down, I made a proph When our water runs down to the sea quarters In thia city while Mr. ecy that in the near future the Co «nd our great irrigator, the sun, Whistler Is away. In speaking of the convention. Mr. lumbia would flow in a different di shines upon it, it forces out all the rection, and I would not be one bit salt and water, up into the clouds Whistler said that from the distance surprised if the citiiens of Mars xnd bears it away and it falls down from which he stood, it seemed to looking through their telescopes n showers. There is no alkali, no have been a great success. All of the should, in the not far distant future salt there. In this case, the salt it work had been earnest, and as the observe canals on our planet the eft on the surface, and because the result of study and deliberation, Lad same as we observe canals on theii most sensitive part of a plant is tn« been done for the good of the cause n>wn, and when the alkali is on tne The conduct of the convention ha. planet. I predict that the irrigation move surface that is the very worst plact been clean, and no uemands had bee.: meat will go on until all the land that t can be. Now if we can find any made aad no action taken that suffers for want of water will be ~n«ans of stopping the evaporation ihould not have been. No one se* supplied. We are living now in a if we can get that not to come to th* tlon had attempted to work to the quite different age. We can accom iurface. and «an cover it so that th* disadvantage of another, and the cot plish so much more. We call the jvaporation takes place through th« mention was as a whole a sueeesi- eaves of the plant, tne alkau *il. The papers had all been of great it- forces of nature to assist us. jot bother us. erest, and had shown a thorough We do not do it by drudgery and We had some three hundred acre« knowledge of the subjects and were hard work and when we go to work very instructive. there are no restr-ctions but what >f ground in California and we want Mr. Whlst>er will remain here fot ed to plant an orchard. The grouni. we can accomplish. A great man. Carlyle, said; "You never do but two was so largely alkali, that we coulc a time, during which he will finest things in earnest, never but two uot start alfalfa. We marked th* his year's work In this section, after things: one is fighting and the othei ¿round out into 50-foot squares, which he will leave for Washington «nd took a bar and punched a hole City for the remainder of the win is making money.** ter. I believe a change has taken place Juwn through the hardpan, which was not far from the surface. We in the world and we are going to de NEWS OF MILTON. other things in earnest, and we are hen broke up the nardpan with dyna going to make this land suitable to mite. We then planted out our wal live ui>on until uninvited poverty is -iut trees in the holes and went tc Claimholders in Washington Highly unnecessary. It is a fact that great work irrigating that land. After twe Pleased—Several Severe Cases of poverty is the accompaniment ol years the alkali came back worse Illness— Moving House Broke was before. Why'. either willful waste or careless than it ever Down in the Street—One Runaway (With us farmers the question why, ways. Causes Twe More—End of a We ought to walk the earth in constantly confronts us.) We duf Thumb Cut Off. gladness when we think that in the duwn as well as we could and then future, if we do our duty, that pov bored down and came to another Athena. Nov. xd.—Joun Craten of erty may become unnecessary. Un xaidpan. We went to work and this city, who spent the summer at oroke up that hardpan and got rid o; til recently the great powers of the Pullman. Wash., at the home of his world united in one effort, war. de our alkali. It was merely a question daughter. Mrs Alph Coppic ot that of getting it to go down with the struction Let the recording angel place, returned home Monday He irrigation. say that the United States has gone thinks that is a fine country and in It has been questioned how strong to work to accomplish good, not tc ar. alkaline water can be used for irri a few years those who have recently destroy, but to create. gation experiments. You often taken homesteads will have some Now to my subject; I will do tue come acres# something you call al beautiful homes. best I can to make it clear and to E L. Barnett is down with an at kali,- that Is a white ash. volcanic. give some ideas and also to get as Get some paper, you can get enough tack of the rheumatism. He has near the truth as 1 can. I want been a sufferer from that disease for every one here to feel perfectly free to last two or three years for ten A-vcra! years. and if I propound anything that is cents. You don't want to take hok Athena friends received the news unreasonable, just stop me right of it with your hands, it is bette: ot the critical condition of Lester, to bandie it with a pair of forceps. there and 1 will thank you for it. the oldest son of Mr and Mrs. Cnaa Put this in the water Irrigation and Alkali. We found that peas, one of t^e Beale. He has been an invalid for The question of irrigation always plants most sensitive to the alkali. several years. Mrs. William Kilgore, while tend has the accompaniment of alkali with • ill stand to be Irrigated with watet it. and all of my observations, which • here the pinklet paper remains ing to her household dnoea. had the have been consideraole, I never yet pink for five minutes at a tempera misfortune to cut the end of her have seen an irrigated country where ture of so degrees. It ra not t.ue thumb off Kitty Sharp has returned to teach it was semi-arid but what it was ac that this water cannot be used foi companied by a very large amount ol irrigation purposes in most cay. north of town after a week's vis t at alkali. If the stream was downward taken. Potatoes and cabbage, and Athena with her parents. While Uncle Tom Watts was mov instead of upward, a large portion of a great many plants will grow in tne the salt and alkali that we find would strongest kind of alkali that you can ing his house across the street it not be on the surface, .it would be find, for instance, celery, onions and took a slide and left Mr Watts in down below, if the precipitation was «’•aragus. These plants will grow somewhat an annoying position, for less than the evaporation the salts in the very strongest kind of alkali. he didn't much like to live in the street. that they pump out of the ground at Irrigate With ChAnpagne. Roscoe Dickinson of Ukiah has Warsaw and Syracuse, would be on I have dropped another though- been visiting at u*e nome of his the surface. somewhere. Oh. ves; there was a father There is one thing that I have al little meeting of irrigators not very While John King was coming ways found in semi-arid regions, and iong ago who use debampagne. * that is that uny are underlain with think they called it—they all sur from Weston his team became fright ened and ran away, and soon was what we call hardpan. vived. I don’t know whether the Of late years there has been a very plant would stand it or not, how out of Mr. King's control. He was thrown out. The runaway team large amount of attention paid tc ever. scared two other teams and caused what they call nature's secrets. As At the little one-horse experiment them to run away. never before in the history of the station at Union, they call it one- A daughter was born to Mr. and world people have gone to nature horse there, we bad a lot of alka*. Mrs. Arthur Schott, Saturday Nov. and tried to find out things. ground that we couia get no seed tc 7th. There are things in nature that grow on. We dug down until we are very difficult for us to find out. came to this volcanic ash. It is NEWS OF ATHENA. but the important things for us tc very porous. Within one year after find out are those things that we the time we dug those ditches and Ball at Opera Hous« Next Tuesday can see and understand. If all of allowed the water to get out. we Night—C. D. Walter and Fam.iy the people were to devote all of their could grow anything on there just spare time to the study of nature, all Have Moved to Washington—Visi is well as we could on any othei of the time they waste in worry, al’ place tors From Washington and Other of the time they waste in foolish It is on drained ground, the depth« Localities — Merchants Ordering ness, they would get more enjoymen’ st the drains depending on the rlkali Holiday Goods. out of it than they would in attend ihown. If you have a porous suo ing a circus every day of their hfe Milton, Nov. 13.—Mrs. Elsie KU jo U, the drains can be far apart. By They would and thia world an inter allowing the water to run away, you gore who has been here visiting her eating place to live in. ■an get rid of sufficient alkali to get grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Hopeon. This question of how the alkali ;i<od land. In some cases whore the hss returned to her home in Weston. comes, of how that hardpan comes F. E. Wilcox went to Walla Walla (all is less than one foot in a hundred why the alkali bothers us. the answer you will have difficulty in keeping Wednesday to order a line of holi day goods is all to be found in that open book the drains open. We hit on a happy of nature, and every one of you can Donald McRae. who formerly thought—there Is always a way of verify the things I am going to tell doing things easy—and dug a little lived here, was in town Tuesday. you, and, perhaps. I will also find Jesse Huffman, who was a student well so that we could have it covered out many things that I don't know. over with a board, and we let the of Columbia College last year, ar Hardpan and Alkali. water go in there. That well was rived here Monday from his home at Ignatius Donnelly, in his books on d<-eper than the drain, and the sedi Leland, Idaho, and has resumed h-s studies in Columbia. "Fire and Grave!,** he accounts for tn ent was dropped down those wells, Clark Cunningham, formerly of hardpan from the fact that he said and then we cleaned the wells out Milton. but later of Dayton, Wash., comets struck the earth once on a We made a success. is here visiting at the home of Mr. time and they baked it the same as As to Different Kinds. and Mrs. George Edwards. we bake a tile or a brick in a kiln There are different kinds of alkali. Mrs. Helen Merrifield has returned and at that time that was the most You will find that black alkali, so- from Walla Walla, where she has reasonable theory. While I could called, is nothing but carbonate of been visiting her brother, Mr. J. L. not hardly accept it, I could not re soda, and is the worst form of all. Flam ject. Quite recently we had a lesson Now, by the addition of quite a small Miss Prudy Tweedy has accept*)J from nature on rather a large scale. amount of sulphate of lime on that a position in a millinery store at Mt. Pelee broke forth and vomited land, from 100 to 208 pounds to the Walla Walla, and left yesterday for a large amount of mud and threw it acre, placed on that land, it will con her new field of labor. all over the Island, and after the mud vert usually the whole amount of Miss Amanda Johnson, of Leland. was vomited out the air became in a carbonate of soda into salts, and Idaho, is a new student at Columbia condition that it took fire and set fire to ships moes out at sea without they do not Injure growth seriously, College this week. Next Tuesday evening the stock any contact with the volcano, luey unless there is a very large amount. Black alkali is always harder to holders of the new opera ball will tell me that tfce surface of the earth ball. Kirkman's or where the mud was thrown out be wash out. but you can always change give another it Into salt. chestra will furnish the music. came bake and that when you In California I procured a plant Mrs Clarence D. Walter, who has struck it wwld ring. It was a kind of pie crust all over. Now we find from Australia known as the salt been here visiting her mother, Mrs. that what took place at Mt. Pelee har bush that grew on alkali land with Ella George, took her departure this actually taken place here. There is great success. I planted it on this morning for West Branch. Wash., alkali land in California. It would where she will join her husband and not any question of it. After the explosion the air took grow in the strongest kind of white hereafter reside. fire and the mud baked. Then there alkali, but not in the strongest kind M’KAY CREEK ITEMS. was a shower of ashes. What do we of black alkali, *uere is no ques find here? We find that hardpan >s tion but what it would take from the soil 600 pounds of alkali. It has been School Opened This Morning in New covered with a volcanic ash. In District No, 37. some places we do not find the ash. said that you could grow alkali out McKay, Nov. 16.—Charles Kidder but the ashes were very light and with sugar beets, but this does not there were terrible storms and temp seem to me probable. However, it has built a residence near Fred ests in those days and no doubt the requires milder climate for this Cali Hill’s. John Payden has the lumber on ash was blown off, hence we find on fornia plant, than we have here. the ground for a house near the new one place only a trace, in others not REAL ESTATE DEALS. schoolhouse. a trace, and in many places we find A petition is In circulation for a many of them. This hardpan here is Farms and Lots Sold by Rihorn «. county road to diverge from the not sedimentary. There are no fos 8waggart During the Paet Echo road to a point on the river sil remains in it. I have broken it up Daye. neat' the mouth of Birch creek. and put it under a microscope and Rihorn A Swaggart, the real estate Joe Snyder has moved to the place I failed to find the slightest trace of dealers, have sold the following which he bought last summer, on the fossil remains. river near the Hill ranch. It was mud thrown out by the vol pieces of property: , One hundred and sixty acres, 14 The Dilators family have moved cano and baked by the fire that fol lowed the explosion. Now if we take miles southeast of Pendleton, for Al onto the Daniels ranch, lately occu the stone substances of the earth, va Ba I com, to H. L. and A. L. Swag pied by Joseph Snyder. Mr. Allen, a new teacher tn this and our soli is nothing but stone gart. Consideration 12,000. East half of lot F, Utopian Garden, county, opened school In the new flour and organic matter—take lime stone for Instance, we find no alkali five acres, for H. L. Swaggart, to schoolhouse in district No. 37, this there, but when you take limestone Alva Balcom. Consideration, 11,600. morning. West half of lot F, Utopian Gar The new school building erecred and partially burn it, that will liber ate the alkali. Now, what would den, for Carrie Pyle to H. L. Swag on‘the north side of the river by school district No. 87, lately re-'orni- take place if this stone substance gart. Consideration, 12,000. ed, is very creditable to the district, was submitted to a high tempera John Thompson, a cripple of Mar- and the directors in charge, it Is ture? The alkalis would be liber cola. Lane county, committed suicide modern < In every respect and it is ated. doubtful if there 1 aa belter or finer But you will say that this hardpan Friday, in a fit of despondency.