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3 It- i I 1 3 ii S l-i HI- ? 5J y" t:. HATS! HATS!! The Spring Styles Now Ready HATS, HATS, HATS, BAER Sf DALEY One Price Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters, Pcndktm. 1 MONDAY. TtlARCH 3, 1902. GENERAL NEWS. AN EASTERN OREGON- lAN'S VIEW OF IT. The gold in the United States treas ury now amounts to $516 000.000, the largest amount in the history of the nation and the largest amount In any national treasury in the world. The nostoflice department has de cided upon a new stamp -for register letter service to the foreign countries. It is to be used upon the 13 cent de nominations, something entirely new to the department. The Pennsylvania railroad will place all of its telegraph wires under ground so that storms will not inter fere with them and thus cut off com ntuuication by wire, which is often done as the wires are now done. Mrs. Arabella D. Huntington, widow of Collis P. Huntington, has paid $31, 800 in cash as customs duty. Officials who frequently have to haggle with women over the tribute to Uncle Sam, declared that she was a paragon of travelers. Geo. W. Thurston, colored, a Pull man car porter will receive the great er part of the estate of Mrs. Eliza Jane Evans, white, valued at from $75,000 to $100,000. Thurston was kind to her on one occasion and she remembered him in her will. Lewis T. Downes, a pioneer In church music, has just retired after sixty-two years continuous service as organist in Rhode Island and Connec ticut churches. He enjoys the dis tinction of having spanked and box ed the ears of J. Pierpont Morgan when Morgan was a boy playing about the galleries in Christ church, Hartford, where Mr. Downes was or ganist in 1849. In one of the most remarkable oper ations known to surgery, the brain of Rev. William Clark, pastor of the .Broadway German M. E. church, of Baltimore, has been actually lifted from its bed and the roots of certain nerves that had caused the clergy man intense neuralgia, were extract ed. The patient stood the operation well, and few doubts of his recovery are entertained. The operation was performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS The health board in Portland will adopt more stringent regulations re garding smallpox. The health officer fears it will spread in Portland if it is not done. In Astoria a jury gave Mrs. Ella M. Scott, administrator of the estate of William Scott, deceased, damages in the sum of $4000. Mr. Scott was kill ed In a wreck on the road. The Chamber of Commerce of Ba ker City, indorsed the proposition of omitting a local celebration of Fourth of July and of holding a street fair and stock and agricultural exhibition instead. ' Lieutenant Guy Carleton, of the Tenth field battery, has arrived in Da-, ker City, accompanied by Corporal Ed-1 win L. Witham, also of the Tenth, and lias established a temporary recruit-' Lag office , The Badger mine, near Susanville, ; Grant county, has passed under con trol of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan1 Mining Company, made up of Spokane I men who are operating in the Susan ville sectlou. President Roosevelt has sent the names of J. L. Mohundro and Y. C. Blalock to the senate as nominations for register and receiver, respective ly, of the United States land office at Walla Walla. These nominations, were made on recommendations of' Senator Foster. At the city election in La Grande, ' hold March 10, a strong effort will bo made to olect a ticket which will close ' down gambling and prevent the "wide ' opon" system which has been in vogue ' puiuu Hum, mm which, it is claimed hy the reformers, resulted in the death or an Intoxicated man atTthe hands of tthe Police last Slinilnv tili'lit ' O-V. j 'M." Writes in a Most Interesting Way of His Trip From Spokane to Seattle, of the Country, the Towns and Cities and the Sights. Tutuilla, March 2. This letter Is somewhat belated, so much so, that the editor has murmured something about people "who went to hell say ing 'there's time enough yet.'" An attempt to do a week's sightseeing in three days and nights at Seattle did not leave much time for letter writ ing. And the inclination to do any writing since has been steadily re sisted. Westward from Spokane the Great Northern railway wends its way through a very barren looking country endless stretches of sagebrush, with rock cropping out through it, greets the eye of the traveler the long dis tances between stations of any kind, or even side tracks are silent wit nesses that the revenues of the great merger wil lnot be materially increas ed here. Occasionally a cabin with a wagon loaded with water barrels standing beside it, breaks the monot onous stretch of sage brush, proving that a co-worker of Kipling's pioneer is here, trying "To wring his food from a desert nudei his foothold from the sand, For he must blaze a nation's way with hatchet and with brand, Till on his last won wilderness an em pire's bulwark stands." While It is rather hard to imagine this wilderness bearing much of the strain of an empire's bulwarks, still Jim Hill is here rustling business for his road, and in view of this fact, and bearing in mind the almost miracu lous changes wrought in similar des erts by irrigation projects, he would be a reckless prophet who would venture to say that this particular wil derness has no future. After crossing the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers, the road runs through a different and much more prosperous looking coun try with well improved farms and some thriving villages. Leavenworth, the last of these east of the mountains Is a mining town. Here the prospec tor bids good-bye to the railway and goes into the mountain in search of their hidden wealth. The Wenatchee river, whose course has been follow ed all afternoon and which, where first encountered, cost the Great Northern quite a sum to bridge, Is here a little mountain stream, which can easily be crossed dry shod on boulders, and which must furnish good fishing in summer. The timber has been reached, an extra engine attached to the train and a little -farther on the road runs through a tunnel two and a half jniles long, and emerging on the west side the crawl down the mountain side to ward Puget Sound is begun. A glance from the window shows vast stretches of timber, on one "side reaching far below us, seemingly an interminable distance to the bottom of the canyon: the road on that side being above the treetops, and on the other side stretch ing away an equally interminable dis tance above us toward the mountain tops, forces the conclusion that bore is wealth for generations yet unborn After crossing the mountains the short wintry afternoon soon closes in to night, -and not much Idea can be gathered of the country passed through, except from the conversation of the travelors entering the train at the various stations, and as this seom ed to run mostly to the prospects of a bettor price for lumber and shingles,, the main resource of the country. The snow which was falling In the mountains had changed Into a steady downpour of rain somewhere betweon there and Seattlo, and it Is still rain nig next morning, but that does not hinder a visitor whose time is some what limited, from making an attompt to see the town. Several street car linos run out to Lake Washington, a yeryXnice sheot of wntor lying some .where back of the town, kwltoso fresh i water Seattle Is very willing that Uncle Sam should connect by a canal with the salt water of Pngot Sound, nt nn expenditure of five or six mil lions, a project which the old gentle man does not seem to enter Into with the gnsto the town thinks would be be coming on his part. The distance between the town and the lake Is being rapidly built up. Surveyors are at work opening up new streets, lots being cleared and leveled, new buildings going up nnd the spirit of progress nnd improve ment seems to bo abroad generally, Seattle furnishes a good market nnd steady demand for a largo number of the heavy draught horses raised In the Inland Empire, and It is a fine place to kill off good horses quick, straight up hill from the water front dray teams, loaded with every pound they can haul and straining every muscle. There arc lots of fine look Ing teams here; any other kind would be of no possible uso. All the ele ments or strenuous horse life seem to lie dealt out to the Seattle animal in liberal quantities. To the landsman, who passes his life in the Inland country, perhaps the most Interesting place is the water front, every species of craft, from the United States transport loading sup plies for the Philippines, to the little fishing smacks and rowboats, are rep resented here. Dredges are at work deepening channels and clearing the ! harbor of trash: pile-drivers driving piles on which to erect new wharves and warehouse facilities; large scows loaded with wood, coming in from some Island on the sound; steamers arriving from and departing for Ta- coma, Olympia, Everett. Port Town send. Victoria, Vancouver and Alaska Down at Ballard, whore the Great Northern reaches deep water, ware, houses 1000 feet long have been built, wheat from the Inland Empire Is stor ed in one and a ship from Liverpool is being loaded . at the dock. The wheat sacks just from cars are drop ped on what seemed to be a wide leather belt, which runs on pulleys or rollers, propelled by some kind of per petual motion, .and the sack never stops till It disappears somewhere in the "bowels" of the ship, this partlc ular ship was taking about 100,000 sacks. In another warehouse Is stor ed cotton bales, shipped from Little Rock. Ark., and has got this far on its way to Japan. All this gives the landsman a glimpse not soon forgot ten of a new world and a somewhat enchanting one at that. Thousands of tons of baled hay, shipped here in square bales, is torn open, fed into some kind of a com pressor, and reappears in round bales, about four feet long, one foot thick and of about the same degree of so lidity as a Remington rifle bullet, ready for shipment to the Philippines. The last afternoon was spent on a visit to Port Orchard, where Uncle Sam's navy yard is located, and where the battleship Oregon is In dry-dock undergoing repairs, and other Puget Sound points at an expenditure of half a dollar for steamboat fare, an investment which paid satisfactory dividends, and one judging by the pat ronage extended to these Sound steamers which the dwellers on Pu get Sound are not slow at availing themselves of, and as a way of spend ing a pleasant holiday, it certainly beats a dusty railway train. Return ing. Seattle was reached after dark and not the least interesting glimpse of the city was from the deck of the steamer, row after row of city lights climbing the .hill upward into the night. On the water, steamers, float ing palaces of light, making their wav to the wharves, or getting ready for departure, all combined to make a picture not soon forgotten. M. HOTEL ARRIVALS. The Pendleton. L. Maclny .Portland. Charles E. Comstock. city. J. T. Wallace. Mrs. E. P. Uaker. Oscar I. Rlchenbach. San Francisco. George E. Blngs, Ccntralla. W. D. Joiner, San Francisco. L. M. Schott. Louisville. Dan Shnlts, Spokane. J. F. Melcher, Starbuck. W. R. Glendoning, Portland. W. S. Ford, Spokane. A. R .Galbralth, Jnncsvlllo, Wis. G. S. Hoathfiold. Spokane. R. M. Hart, St. Louis. F. F. H tiniest ou, St. Louis. O. B. Prnel, Portlnnd. H. W. B. Smith. Baker City. W. N. Dill.Uocatur. W. W. Adams, San Francisco. F. Cohen. San Francisco. Charles I. Dashlll. Portland. F. J. Ginger, Spokane. J. H. Kloockner, Spokane. John Fleming, city. M. Chnmherlaln. Montana. R. S. Robinson, Tncoma. William Maher, Portland. C. M .Smith. Portland. The Golden Rule. J. L. Ragland, Boise. A. Needham, Nampa. J. E. Cherry, Adams. J. F. Nolin, city. Willliam Glasson and wife. Walla Walla. Bert Cole, Spokane. William J. Moore, Spokane. G. D .Galley, Spokane. C. D. Rinker, Spokane. Mrs. Tausslck, Walla Walla. L. W. Roberts, Walla Walla. William Huston, city. -Z. Houser, Portland. T. J. Tweedy. M. Pedro. Miss Jessie Borth Elgin. Bert Carl, Portland. L. Cunningham, Portland. Dr. H. Henlen, Portland. Dr. D. Lindsay, Portland. G. D. Coleman and wife, Wasco. Sam Lee. Spokane. Thomas J. Smith, Spokane. C. L. Downer, Spokane . W. E. Bond. Athena. G. W. Bradley, Athena. A CYCL0N Special Swift Premium limns and Bacon. . . . Onion Sets, Gar den Seeds Saratoga Chips, etc., etc., etc. . fF business has struck asj winter which shows thei periority of our goods at prices. A whirlwind of prices is nt on to last until out new store! the La Fountaine htrildtng ready for ess. We have fast received a lot of Walla" Walla Batter Cm ers. Martin Family Grocery and Bakerf Main St. Next to Joe Basfer's. I 1 'Ml BEAUTY IN THE KITCHJ One of our artistic, handsom efficient cooking ranges, the p; the housekeeper's heart. Oun are guaranteed to BAKE and '. right. PRICES LOW. Wouj to show them to you. Thompson Hardwarj 631 Main Street, Phone Main JESSE FAILING 5 Would Smash the Club. If memhers of the "Hay Fever Asso ciation" would use Dr. King's New tils' covery for Consumption, the club would go to pieces, for it always cures this malady and asthma, the kind that baffles the doctors it wholly drives from the system. Thousands of once hopeless sufferers from consump tion, pneumonia, bronchitis owe their lives and health to it. It conquers 1 grip, saves little ones from croup and whooping cough and is positively guar anteed for all throat and lung troubles. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottles free at Tallman & Co.'s. ...THE CARPET MAN... We Are Cleaning Oat... Our Winter Carpets to ranko mora for our Nonr Spring Stock it's 11 stveuplng reduction in prices, too. and the wise homekeopor will do well to titled irlvuntnge of thorn. Come now and niiike your selection of Lace Curtains, Vortiers, Kugs, etc. Closing out an elegant line of Rope fortiori), Matting and Wall Paper. Sewing Machines of All Kinds. Knights of Pythias Attention! Damon Lodge No. 4. K. of P.. will work in the third rank this Monday evening, March 3. All knights, es pecially memhers of the team, are re quest cd to be present. J. F .Nowlln, C. U. It. w. Fletcher, K. It. S. When you are Could Not Breathe. Coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchi tis, oiner tnroat and lung troubles are quickly cured by One Minute Cough Cure. One Minute Cough Cure Is not a mere expectorant, which gives only temporary reuet. It softens and llqui Pies the mucus, draws out th in fin m matlon ari'd removes the cause of the disease. Absolutely safe. Acts at once. "One Minute Cough Cure will do all that iB claimed for it," says Justice of the Peace J. O. Hnmi rvne. by, Miss. "My wife could not get her breath and was relieved by the first dose. It has been a benefit to all my luiuuy, l auman & Co. and Brock & .ucuomas. Cattle Men Arriving in Denver. Denver, Colo., March 3. Arriving trains today brought scores nf iivt stock men who came to attend the annual convention of the American Cattlegrowers' association. The con vention will be called to ordot tomor row morning by President F. C. Lusk of California. In point of attend ance the gathering will be the largest or us Kind evor held in this country. For the Complexion. The complexion always suffors from bllllousness or constipntlon. Unless the bowels are kept open the Impuri ties from thu body appear in the rprm of unsightly eruptions. DeWitt's Little Early Risers keep tho liver and bowels in healthy condition and re move the cause of such troubles. C B Hooper, Albany, Qa., says: "I took DeWitt's Little Early Risers for bll Housness. Thnv t.. ...t.-.. , v,u juni. wiuu i needed. I am feeling better now than In years." Nnvnr ipin ,u faafe, tnqrough and gontlo. The -very hest pills. Tallman & Co. and Brock & McComas. DEAD Everyone speaks well of you' When you are very much alive some speak ill. If anyone speaks ill of us its because we are VERY MUCH ALIVE One thing is certain you get better groceries for less money when you buy of F. S.- Younger & Son. Don't believe the knock ers; try them for your selves; order of F. S. YOUNGER & SON, and get your goods delivered promptly. BYERS' BEST FLOU 4 r To make good bread nse By era' JB'at Floor. It took first premium at tiio Chicago World's Fair over all competi tion, and gives oxcellent satisfaction wherever need. Every sack ie guaranteed. We have the beet Steam Rolled Barley, Seed Rye and Beardless Barley. PENDLETON ROLLER MIL W. S. BYERS, Proprietor. Gasoline Engine for Si A five horse power gasoline engine with pipes and fittings, oil and water tanks, everything necessary to set up and operate. El and fittings are all new, being in use only a few weeks. Engine is very economical and guaranteed to be satisfactory. $250 including fittings. Address Bast Oregonian, Pendleton, Oreg uuuaiwin rLviv A Flnet Hotell $3 00 Der Dav and I Inwards. mTk.m in the PcN " - -1- ma mrm umb Mm THE PORTIA PORTLAND, ORKQON. Special Rate to Eastern Oreroa mmU vlaltla bwumJ. m j n a t4 ... . . . w . w zr w. iu .uMitaio mum cvnatreMi travelers. n. C.'BOWEkS For Health, Strength and j Pleasure Drink ' Polydore Moens, Proprietor. J ea4f Ma irfH JLLlj . V " 'I rur T-r- . 1 ' -- MmmuMMMJMMJJBMiMii