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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1902)
You alwayB get GOOD GOODS at Alexander's. indup Clearance Sale This will be the final sale to dispose of the last of our Shirt W3itsi vvcisu uuuus, jciiiuiuiuciius anu uuier Summer Goods 5C yd Torchon Laces worth ISC Vd rn Mosquito iNct nitfe, jmic, urcen, xrqH t)C White or'Red. JrU 38c For Sh?rt Waists Worth up to $1.98 25 per Ceilt Off on an Wash Goods . HOME COUNTY NEWS ATHENA NEWS. lexander Dept. Store RELI ABLECLOTH I ERS . HE SEASON'S 'ABLE SUPPLIES Fresh, clean, prime goods are always furnished by us. The warm weather brings with it suitable eat ables. Water Melons, large, ripe and sweet. Cante loupes fit for the most particular. N THE FRUIT LINE .We can send you Plums, Peaches, Apples, Pears, Oranges, Lemons, Apricots, Bananas and Cherries. rEGETABLES Cucumbers, Carrots, Cabbage, Green Corn, Sweet Potatoes, Squashes and other green eatables. bis if low i Bote l R. MARTIN, Proprietor T lephone Red 34 1 S BUY YOUR LUMBER AT THE igoo Lumber Yard Alta 8t , opp. Court House. IBS AS LOW AS THE LOWEST fAII Kinds of Building: Material Including Doors Windows Screen Doors and Windows Building Paper Lime Cement Brick and Sand I Don't Forget Our Wood Clutters for uarns and Dwelllags Having purchased the TOPER RESTAURANT V 600 Ma; C t A 4- T 1 s Via . JtLUt;tf X VYUU1U UC leased to have you call and take meal at my place and feel con sent that after one trial you will 0aie often. k Best Meal tHcCity "i xmiyzu Cents. J. H. WILLIAMS. tUr L nnTT NI?W. CHICAOO TXPB ffiE' TakIe, V-boart!, flrstctaM SEWING MACHINES AT BARGAINS . . . During the month of August we will offer special low pric es on WHITE Sewing Machines The White is recognized as the best machine made. Come now and save money. JOS. BASLER'S Bargain House WE ARE THE PEOPLE and the only people in the uaddlen business that carry a complete stock of Harness, Saddles, Bridies, Hpura, Swea Pads, Pack Saddles and Bugs, Tents, Wagon Coveau and Canvas. J08EPH ELL, Leading Harness and Saddlsrt What the People of That Busy Town Are Doing Taken From the Press. Mrs. John Stanton is visiting in Pendleton. G. W. Bradley was in Pendleton Monday. Born, August 12, to Mr. and Mrs. Knight, a son. Joo Connelly, a popular sheep man of Pendleton, was in town yesterday. The Christian people have begun working in earnest at their building site. The erection of the chapel will be pushed as vapidly as possible. Mrs. J. P. Zerba. who has been ill for some time, is not improving as fast as could bo desired. Ono side is partially paralyzed and the patient cannot move about without assist ance. H. B. Nelson was over from Wes ton yesterday. Sunday, ho was in Portland and witnessed a game of professional ball,, which ho said was no better than games put up by the Yellow Kids. C. W. Hollis. who still has business interests in this county, is up from California for a few weeks. Mr. Hol lis and family now reside in Oakland, where Mr. Hollis is engaged in the grocery business. Mr. Bert Cartano and Miss Anna Harden, two popular young people of Athena, were married Sunday even ing at the homo of the bride's parents in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Cartano will reside in Athena, where they have a host of friends who wish them all the happiness and success this life can give. Mrs. Hall, of Joseph, Wallowa county, spent Wednesday and Thurs day at the homo of H. H. Hill in tills city. Mrs. Hall has recently been a patient in the .Walla Walla hospital. She was accompanied as far as Elgin by Miss Edna Rider, who will visit her brother there. Mrs. N. A. Miller and son, Hoi, leave Sunday night for the seaside, whore they will spend a couplo of weeks. From there they will go to Iowa, where they will visit relatives and friends. Mr. Miller will accom pany them to Portland, where he will select his fall stock of furniture. FROM UKIAH. What Is Being Done in the Interior Town and .Vho Is Doing It. Professor W. It, Ellis, of Pendleton, was In the city this week. M. P. Kelley, proprietor of tho Gol den Rule hotel at Pendleton, was a business visitor in tho city this week. Tho infant child of Mr. and Mrs. A, J. Bolin, which has been very sick for several days, is improving. H. H. Arbogast, bf Hitter, recently sold his Texas basin ranch to Gus Schubert, of Pendleton. Consldera ton, ?S00. H. IT. Edwards, of tho Golden Rulo hotel In Pendleton, has taken a homestead near tho head of Meadow Creel;, in Grant county. Rev. Cook will preach In Ukiah next Sunday morning and evening. This will be his last appointment bo fore going East. W. L. Harpolo and family took their departure Monday for Amity, Yamhille county. They will return about October 1. GREAT IS WESTON A PLACE FOR A PLEAS ANT OUTING. One May Go There and See and Enjoy Everything That an Ordinary Mor tal Should Desire A Beauty Spot. Weston, Aug. 1C. The largest half of the people of Weston bavo run away from the heat and dust of the valley, and have taken refuge in the cool mountain retreats, which are ac cessible to the town. This is an advantage that makes this point a favored locality indeed, and a short description may be of in terest to the many readers of the East Oregonian. Without taking into account the many quiet and beautiful spots in the near vicinity, that make almost un rivaled camping places for the hosts .of people in need of rest, that a few weeks spent in open air living, tin tramelled by the cares and duties of business and social life always bring, we have within three hours' drive of Weston two of the most de lightful spots in all of the Blue moun tain region. Twelve miles east of here and every fot of it over a fine mountain road at the head of Pine Creek, lies the first of these, Cold Springs. Here among the spruce and tama rack, towering overhead, and forming a sun proof canopy, is a small tent city that grows larger every year, as more and more people are drawn thither by the stories, that enthusias tic campers tell of the care-free life spent in this delightful place. Here societies' demands are for gotten; high .collars, uncomfortable hats, narrow shoes, and clothes that are in danger of being spoiled, are very much out of place. Overalls and i wrappers are all the style, and the newest thing in hats is a battered old felt that will answer equally as well for a cushion as it does for a head piece. i A five-mile tramp over the hills I regon's 1 I Blue Ribbop 1 Statepairf I Salem 1 mm Cm) 55 - f 1 i () September 15th to 20th 1902 (!.V ;rc invited to att nd rj.;. greatest milus. H,-.'- i.li.n and li stouk t lil'i on the Phi ific iuod racint! Camp ' u n 1 hrm r 4?.oi ti i i D. WISDOM, Seo' ruj'uuuu, urn. g with dog and gun, breathing tho air that some happy writer has comparod to rare wine, for the men, and a few hours spent gathering the huckleber ries, that grow by the bushel all about the place, for tho women, brings the keenest or appetites; the forerunner of health and strength to tired nerves, and sluggish muscles, and tho great spring that sends out a flood of sparkling, cold water, that once tasted becomes a standard by which all other drinks are measured. The long evenings spent out under the stars in the glow of a royal camp fire, singing tho old songs, and tell ing tho new stories, and making tho mountains echo with the hearty laugh that does not corao from the throat, but has Its birth deop down in the chest, making the blood to leap through tho veins, and helping to add pounds of avordupols to the ribs of its happy owner; all makes up a chapter in lifo not soon to bo forgot ten. However, as all are not attracted by this kind of life, some requiring something tamer and nioro quiet for their best enjoyment, this ciuss can turn their footsteps in another direc tion. Another 12-mlle drive from Weston much of the distance through a thick ly wooded canyon, brings ono to the Bingham Hot Springs. Here Dr. Bingham has built a comfortable log hotel, and a Binall sanitarium to ac commodate those, -who, for either dis inclination or 111 health do not care for the hardier lifo of tho camp. The spot Is a delightful one; tho whole hillside is full of springs, hot BUlphur water rises in ono place; clear, cold sweet water in another, hero as at Cold Springs, tho mountains are cov ered with a heavy growth of timber, and numerous trails lead to many points of interest that aro worth one's whllo to visit. Bathing rooms are at tached to the sanltarlu mso that the guests can take full advantage of the benefits to e derived from using the water in that way. And last, but not least, for those who for one reason or another can not go to tho mountains during the hbt season, in the city of Weston Is tho Moorehouso spring, whoso waters are piped ' to a largo cement basin standing in tho center of tho prin cipal square of the town, making a drinking fountain of hugo propor tions, and where nundreds of people every day sample tho finest water, outside of tho mountain springs, in Eastern Oregon. Truly as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "There is compensation In everything." C. W. H. gaged In trapping over slnco ho was largo enough to spring a trap. Be foro ho was 21 years old ho lind caught thousands of coyotes aud hun dreds of marten and wildcats, and had caught a few mountain Hons. Ho had been engaged hi tho business from love and from profit, and mnny times he had gone alono Into tho can yons of tho mountains bordering tho desert in early fall and had not boon soon until tho following spring, when ho appeared with a largo number of valuable hides and furs as a result of his winter's work. These ho sold in San Prancisco and New York at good prices and managed to mako a good living In this way. His reputation grew until tho sheep men employed him on an annual sal ary to trap for coyotes. Ho was on gaged In this when tho bounty law went Into effect, and then began working for himself. When tho bw first wont Into effect and tho rush was mado to the desert, by amateurs It made tho experienced trapper smile to hoar thorn talk about what they could do. Gamblers and hangers-on generally about tho In terior towns Joined In tho rush. And there woro a number of professional men who went, just to take a profita ble outing. Still, they woro all toll ing what, they could do. Some of tho parties consisting of four and live mon returned after a month's outing with three to fivo "scalps," which had cost, them several hundred dollars in tho wny of supplies, consisting of am munition, guns, provisions, ramping outfits, etc.. urt counting tho time they had put J.i and tho hardships they had undergone. Haminorsloy lieaned up fHOO tho first month, and ho reaped a harvest as long as tho coyotes were plentiful. In an Interview tho trapper gave out. somo very valuable Information to his discouraged competitors, for ho know they would never seriously In terforo with his trade, in halting a trap It was customary with tho inex perienced to place the halt, on a plato located centrally In tho "Jaws" or tho trap when opened, so that when tho coyoto should begin to gnaw at the bait ho would set tho trap off and get cnught by tho nose. Hut tho amateurs found that thoy did not catch any coyotes. Tho only ones thoy procured woro thoso pol- oned. Under tho trappers' rulos, ho did not bait any traps. Iio had done this in early fapimg and fo i ii tl.;it he did not succeed. Ho would bait hir trapf, thus concealed all but tl bait under tho looso earth or under tho grass or trash, and upon IiIb re turn no wouiu mid that thoro was neither bait nor coyoto. But ho found that tho ground had beon carofully examined by tho suspicious coyoto first, ns ho found that ho had walked around tho halt for a long time until ho had mado himself thoroughly ac quainted with tho situation and had surmised tho clangor. Then ho had cautiously begun digging from tho distant point, removing tho soli for soveral inches In depth as ho enmo, and when ho reached tho trap he would, after uncovering It, cautiously remove the morsel loft thoro for him from tho under sldo, doing It so caro fully aH novor to throw tho trap. Tho trappor was engagod In tho business because ho prided In It and expected a livelihood from it. Ho had had no such trouble In catching other animals and ho did not seo why ho should not catch tho coyoto In traps. Ho kopt trying with llko re sults until ho finally formed a plan to outwit Mr. Coyoto. Ho drove a stak cln tho ground and tied tho bait to this, covering it ns ho had tho trap with trash and grass. Thon ho con- cealod soveral traps In a circuit of a fow feot from tho bait nnd covered these over lightly. When tho coyoto came ho began his usual "prome nade" around tho bait, but ho did not mako many trips boforo ho Htoppod Into one of tho concealed traps and it had him fast by tho leg. He then adopted this rulo In coyoto trapping and has slnco mado tho greatest success of any person In that section of country. Whllo tho state pays him 'i for oach scalp ho soils tho hides for a good piico be sides, and by this means reaps a rich harvest from tho Industry. Dally Oregon Journal. A SUCCESSFUL TRAPPER. How a Lake County Man Outwitted the Coyote. Lake County, Oregon, claims tho best trapper in tho ?aclfl-j Northwest. Prior to the passage of tho coyote bounty law he had made a Huccess of , trapping and after tho passage ofj tho law ho reaped a harvest. When tho law first passed thq rush ir tho "desert" in the interior of the stato was something similar to 'tho, KionaiKO, anu were were auout as i :ny disappointed persons returning ew vcb later in proportion to tbe number engaged in tho business as there were Klondikers. The Lake county trappors' namo is J amraorsley. Ho was born and rear In Lake county and had beon on- ii IN THE NTS A 1 Huppatltorlos will not, positively cannot I in ire than relievo you ii (ociulres an Internal remedy to remove tho cause nnd flffrot u per manent euro. Ank your drugidst for Or. P'rrln'a booklet on ( l- Ullllf(, FARMERS ARE HAPPY NEW FREIGHT RATES FOR GRAIN IN EFFECT. Think It Will Save Them $800,000 a Year In the Inland Empire Will Also Raise the Prices a Few Notches. Tho now grain rates from tho In land Empire to tidewater is now in effect. Tho country effected by tho reduction is from Umatilla east on tho OroBon Hallroad &. Navigation Company's lino and tho Northern Pa cific and Groat Northern linos. It is thought that largo snipmonta of grain and othor articles havo beon held for Ruvernl weeks awaiting tho tinio when this into would go Into of foct and now a renewed activity will bo soon along all tho railroads. This rate Is only 10 per cent less than heretofore, but while this docs not seem to bo a groat tiling It la es timated Hint it will moan a saving of $S00.000 to tho farmers of tho Inland Empire for tho present year. Last year a straight reduction of SIR per cent, was made on lumber, garden produce, etc., of from 20 cents per bundled to 115 conts it Is now confidently expected by tlm farmers, too, that tho passing Into olToct of tho now grain rnto will cause a slight advanco In tho local wheat market. Wheat has only beon quoted at IS routs for several days and the now freight rates will mako at least 1 cent difference on tho bush el. Even this little concession from tho railroad company will bo herald ed with great Joy. Athena Press: A petition asking for tho removal of tho postofllco to tho old Press building on tho cornor of Third and Jefferson stroets, was presented for signatures tho past weok by Postmaster Glthons. Tho reason for tho desired chango, na given, was tho dilapidated condition of tho presont building. Whllo tho petition was numerously signed, ob jection to tho olllco leaving Main street was raised by business mon, and Postmaster Glthons Is not pro pared to say what will bo dono In tho matter. A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. Por nlllott and Nervous Dloonlerii, iticli Wind and I'atn in the Stomach, Sick lltml aclic, Glitdlties.i, 1'iilncm unci Swelling afcer meals. Dlziltieaanml Drowtlnrki, CoUlClillla Flushings of Heat, I.ois of Appetite, Short nessof lireath, Costlvcnesi, lilutrhex on the Bkln. Disturbed .Sleep, J'rlclitful Dreums, and ull Nervous mid Tre mblltitr Heiisnllnns, It very aulTcrer Is enrneslly invited to try on nor of these rills, aud thrr will be nclo novlodSod to bo WITHOUT A RIVAL. llKUIAinMllXI,N taken a dlreo tad, will quickly restore Females tocomplrt health. They promptly remove auy obsttuo tlon or Irregularity of the system, for a Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion. Disordered Liver, they net like manic a few dosea will work wonders upon the Vital Organs; filrengtheu lii(t the muscular System, restoring the long lost Complexion, bringing back the keen edge of appetite, ana amusing with tb lloaobiu! of Health tho whole Pliy Ical ciiertcjr of the human flame. Thes are "facts" admitted liy thousaujs, In all classes of society, and one of the best guar antees to the Nervous and Debilitated La that BIKCHAM'S PILLS have the Largest Sale of any Patvnt Medicines In tho World. lltutclimii'a IMIla 1. tho public, fur half a rrntury, wl If" il" must popUlnr family iiirillolnn. No testimonial uro publlsliutl, mm lloiMilinin's J'llls RECOMMEND THEMSELVES. Trepsred I only by Tlioiiiua JIcimiii, flt. llnlnus, ISuilv null UUa Ctuml ht,. Hw Hold ovurywtiuro lu Ioi, 10c uikI SSo. FOR SALE 220 acre Fruit, Grnin nnd Alfalfa Farm, known ns tho Campbell Ranch In Happy Canvon, 12 mifes west of Pendleton. Price Low Easy payments, Also two lots with five-room house and small barn, located on comer ISIaine and Marl: streets. Call on or address Mrs. F. A. Campbell. The East Oregonian Is Eastern Ore gon's representative paper. It leads, and the people appreciate It and show it by their liberal patronage. It Is the advertising medium of this section. Farmers Custom Mill Fred Walters, Proprietor Cupaclty 150 ImrroU a day Flour excluwiged for wheat Flour, Mill Feed, (Juopped Vi, eUs, alwayn on huud. 1. ssafM'sssffraftf'TrassWli TM.r'-MU'VT'. ,i"TT"TT7TT