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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1902)
0 Feu always get GOOD GOODS ' Alexander's. ''Me Economy Is not so much in paying the smallest price, but in pay- iag the smallest price and getting the best merchandise. ""It is altogether too easy to buy things that are merely -'-fl, . . , . . i 1 iv4iow pnceo, ana men regret u. xou run no tisk in irau- g here, for QUALITY considered, we are the cheapest sferc in town. Read on: Itiit iiinni nnnmrnn inLwuuLbtiuwtna j Continued from page R. ...looQ Was ot the nice sou outing nannei in cuccks ;cs, fast colors, per yard. joo yards plaid dress goods, double told-, camel's iair."Jaish. So good for school dresses. Priced )er-'yard.fat only ioo yards extra heavy Melton suiting, hcavy.strong Diind durable, in colors of Oxford grey, brown and fJX USlive,. favorite for those unlined rainy day skirts, ,3 tally jwth 75c yard, specially priced at Ping pong belts. 20c Vewlom New York iGreen belts with cut steel buckles. jgftjpe girdle belts. ander Dept. Store RELIABLE CLOTHIERS. J Don't Look Out Fof Paint, JSt;tfc In For Paint. 1 Sir 1 , JS" JThkt is, look in our store and then come in and see the "largest and best stock of paints, oils, brushes and . i5pplies Get our prices. If you have painting or ? TPer banging to do come and let us figure with you. There is no brighter, fresher or more magnificent stock paper shown in Eastern Oregon than our new BHppiy. Eastern Oregon In particular of tho coyote, for ho la tho chief offender. It has cost other states largo sums of money and Oregon Is paying the same price. Montana has paid out under Its present bounty law near $360,000 or more than than twice what Oregon has. Wyoming has paid out $116,000 undor Its present law. Idaho madu a beginning at Its last legislative session, but I have failed to learn how much money It has ex- ponded under tho law. Coat The scalp bounty law Is regarded as essentially an Eastern Oregon measure for the reason that in Its Immediate benefits It applies chiefly to this section of tho state. Wo own raised by tho state of Oregon. Whllo over In tho state of Washington thero waa levied and collected for tho samo purpose not Including fundB for a scalp bounty, for they havo no such law over there, tho sum of $1,970,3GC or more than, two and a quarter times as much as the state of Oregon. "1 make this digression from tho subject In hand, for two purposes. "First, to speak a word Just ono word in behalf of Oregon llglsla ture. Second to illustrate that Or egon Is neither being bankrupted nor Is It being materially Injured financi ally by the present bounty law. "Hy virtue of our present law tho stato pays two-thirds of tho expenses Incurred, whllo tho counties In which tho scalps arc taken pay tho other one-third. This principle was taken from a scalp bounty law that has been in rorce in Minnesota for many years. It was adopted for two reasons. First as a means of guarding the Rtato from the scalps from adjoining states having no bounty. "It being supposed that tho county clerks under the direction of tho the bulk of the coyotes. I lay par ticular stress upon this varmint for comity conrtB, Mnvng immediate su pervision. provided each county was sISiIARP For the SHARP New Ideas. Court Street. Thpe,to buy 1 CMMtfMt state E. D. Boyd, in eet will sell to those e homes, and to m- ( voters, upon terms to suit, tbe Howing properties: i lot and dwelling, $600. . 2 Jots and dwellings, each, $7So- ' 2 lots and dwellings and sta ble, $850. 3 lots, ttep. 6 IsiBjeiSh $250. Allsjtuaed in Pendleton. " i8'dcreaJof farm land near i Pendleton, 2500. Smalllipayments down, bal , ranea'ja installments. Pendleton's destiny is a much , larger population. foss is .the time to bay. Come To Us For your lumber and building material of all descriptions and you will save money and get first-class stock. We can sup ply you with Doors, Windows, Screen doors and windows, building paper, lime, cement, brick and sand. We make a specialty of wood gutters for barns and dwellings. Oregon Lumber Yard Alta St., opp Court House Tik Columbia Lodging House '"WWOY FURNISHED : .8A-,IN CONNECTION IN CENTER OF BLOCK i BUT. ALTA & WEBB BT8 1 rVX;SCHEMPP,Prop. hm Hauling We.k(j trucking and hauling of ill'description at reason able .prices. 1 S-."s ' norses will be well cared Jjaken to the Old Dutch Feed Yard, corner Llta and Lillith streets. grain and all kinds of Dught and sold. lior sale at all times. COMRtElV Prop., No Hays & Connerley. Laatz Bros. FOR Wood, Coal and Building Material Delivered Promptly. We are in the transfering and trucking business and are pre pared to move light or heavy articles. OFFICE MAIN ST., Near Depot. Telephone main 51. g? PLUMBING First olass work. All klnd of Plumbing Supplies. Tinning Everything lu the line of repairing aud new work done promptly arid nat m iefactorlly. B. F. BECK, 732 Cottonwood St, (V) when he is removed nil others of his kind will disappear Incidentally. The bonntj- was put upon our stat ute books as an Eastern OroRon measure, and if It is maintained there it will bo by the special effort and re qnest of the people of Eastern Ore Kon. So tar as its continuance is con cerned, it can and will be continued if this section of the state Is a unit in favor of It. If. after a four vears trial, wc are divided in opinion among ourselves as to Its benefits, it will be discontinued. It is a case of unit ed wc stand, divided we fall. If after a summing up of the four years' expense, we, or any material portion of us, conclude that It Is costing the state too much money in proportion to tho benefits derived, the law can and will be repealed without any se rious objection. "Speaking for myself, it is my de sire to go upon record as one who be-: licves tho law should be continued one who believos, that, taking the money out of the pockets ot certain of our citizens, and putting it into the pockets of certain other of our citi zens, and In the transaction destroy ing the coyote and saving a loss of five times the amount of the money involved in tho transaction is a good investment. I want to go on record as In favor of continuing the law for the reason that it is a direct benefit to tho home-bullder the man from whom so much is expected in tho way of exploiting the great undeveloped resources of Eastern Oregon. I want to go on record in favor of a contin uance of the law, since its feasibility has been established, and since the great majority of the expense has been paid. For these, and a number of other reasons equally as valid, I do not want to be misunderstood. I am for the continuance of the law. "When a $2 bounty was first advo cated, those opposed to the measure. using the experience of California for example, argued among other objec tlons, that such a law would bank' nipt the state. "The law has been in existence for nearly four years and Oregon has never in all Its history enjoyed the financial standing it does at this mo ment. While we have paid out dur ing that period one hundred and sev enty or eighty thousand dollars of state money for the maintenance of the bounty law, there is not a half dozen tax-payers in this audience who can tell where the money came from and how it was raised. I men tlon this fact, not for tho purpose of exploiting the Ignorance of the Ore gon woolgrowers in such matters, but to illustrate how difficult it is to bankrupt a great state, and to illus trate tlie smallness of the amount, when compared with other state ex penditures. Let us take the ono item of the amount of money appropriated during the past four years to our state col leges for a comparison. The state has paid out during that period on account of its state schools the sum of $400,339, a sum almoBt equal to three times the amount paid under tho bounty law. "Nor do I want to be considered as criticizing the expenditure of this amount of money for state colleges on the ground of extravagance. The state of Oregou pays out but little over half as much money for the sup port of its stato colleges as either the states of Washington, Montana or California. "Iu this connection I will digress from the subject In hand to speak a word in Justification of the average Oicgou legislature. Wo frequently hear an expiesslon from unthinking people, of the Immense amount of money (squandered hy our stato legis lature. It does cost money to run a great stato, "And in tho general -40-day mix-up which constitutes the term of a legis lature, it is a difficult matter to dis cover every single leak of the public funds, big or little. Hy comparison only are wo enabled to diseover whether or not In tho grand total we are overstepping the hounds of propriety. "I want to sight you to the fact, that, notwithstanding we have a bounty on predatory animals, and fur ther, while thero is uo such an out lay in the state of Washington, the entire amount of money raised by tho stato of Oregon by the last annual tax levy amounted to $895,000. This was tho total sum required to be directly liable for a portion of the ex pense from the scalps within Its own borders, would havo this additional Incentive to guard against any such undertaking to come In from adjoin Ing counties or stntcs. "Second it provided a means of gradually removing tho burden of ex pense from the state at largo and placing it upon the communities where predldntory animals continued to be found. "It being the Intention of tho fram ers of the law to amend It tho fol lowing session so that the stato would only pay half tho amount, and later on to amend the law so that the state would only pay one-third and the counties two-thirds, and so on. "And I would suggest as a suitable subject for discussion at this meet ing, whether or not the time has come for cither of those amendments. Scalps From Bordering States. "The second objection Is also a real obstacle In the way of the ready accomplishment of the purposo of the scalp pounty law. In fact, the chief difficulty encountered by thoso who had in charge the framing of tho measure both four and two years ago, was to devise some means to guard the border counties of tho stato. "Different plans were suggested none of which bid so fair of success as the one incorporated in 'the pres ent law, wherein tho proper amount of evidence sufficient to prove the identity of the scalps was left en tirely with the county clerk. "After a close study of the work Ings of our scalp laws, as well having had to do with the construe tion and enactment of both, it Is my judgment that this is the most sen ous objection to the present law and the most difficult obstacle to over come in order that the state of Ore- gon may practically freo herself ffom the loss sustained from predatory an I mals. "For, if we are compelled to pay for the destruction of coyotes from adjoining states in order that we may have tho privilege of paying for our own If we can devlso no means of protecting ourselves from the Influx of scalps from bordering states hav ing no bounty, the law will and should surely fall. "The real and correct solution of this feature of tho casp, 1b, for tho surrounding states to Join in the cru sade against these destructive pests Montana and Wyoming have laws similar to ours. Idaho began tho work at Its last legislative term, glv- ing a dollar and a half bounty on coyote scalps, the money to pay for the same to be raised by a special levy of ono cent per head on all sheep owned in tho state. "I have been unable to learn how tho law Is working In that stato, but I surmise it Is giving about tho same degree of satisfaction that a similar law gave In Oregon about four years ago, and from which their law is copied. Our law worked very well until It came to paying for the scalps, and the means suggested to raise tho revenue came squarely in conflict witli the principle of our state con stltutlon which provides that all tax- fition shall bo Just and equal and that all classes of property shall be exempt from special taxation, "At tho last session of the Califor nia legislature a measure similar to our present law was enacted, but was vetoed by the governor, on tho chlm erical ground that It would bankrupt tho stato. if such a measure has ever been tried In a Washington leg islature I have not been ablo to dis cover It. "Upon this feature of the question I deem it proper to again raise an in quiry as to the Intents and purposes of this and similar organizations In adjoining states. What aro wo heie for? Aro wo hero solely for tho pur pose or being entertained by the open-handed hospitality of the good people of Pendleton hero to nass a given number of regulation resolu tions and go back homo hugging our selves because wo aro part and par cel of tho great and only Orcgan j wooigrowers- Association? Or aro: we hero for business? Here to de vlso ways and means to overromo some of tho real obstacles of our call ing? If we aro hero for work hero to accomplish something, there Is not a single question to come before this meeting of such momentous Import ance as to devlso somo means to In- The greatest difference between man and man is his Personal Appearance You see man and judge him hy his When he has bought of The Big Boston Store, he com mands your respectful admiration and you wonder, perhaps, how he can afford to dress so well. You see one of our $15 SUITS OR OVERCOATS and swear they are tailor made, and so they are, and by the best design ers, cutters, sewers, moulders and pressors of America. Our increasing clientele warrants our increased values and attractions. The Botson Store Corner Main and Court Streets. augurato somo plan to protect, In this particular, tho prcsont law wo havo hero in Oregon that Is fast rid ding tho stock interests of this place from tho ravages of tho wild beasts. "Some of us, In our legislative ca pacities, havo labored, threatened, complncd and swallowed all mannor of vile stuff that comes to a legisla tor by virtue of what Is known as log-rolling, In order to bring about the condition of freedom wo now en- Joy from the ravages of these pests, and I think It Is not too much to say, that It Is tho duty of tho stockmon and farmers of Oregon, Eastern Or egon In particular, through this and kindred organizations, to soo to It that this ono dangerous rock Is re moved or In somo way avoided. No blind demand through a for ford to pay for the destruction of Its wild beasts, whon It can bo proven that such destruction need only cost tho stato In tho neighborhood of $50, 000 per annum. "Tho slnto boundary provision of our present law, It must be admit ted, Is not a complcto success. A close study of tho amount of money paid out by tho state lo tho dlfforont counties during tho past two years, rovcalH tho fact that thore Is a mark ed Increase during that period, In scalps takon In a number of tho bor dering counties. Homo means must bo devised to amend the present law so as to bettor protect tho Interests of the stato In this particular until such tlmu as tho bordering states shall enact similar laws, that being, as before R la ted, the only really of. mal resolution urging tho slate toKoctlvo remedy. continue tho bounty In splto of this Rabbits. ugly leak Is sufficient. Through dis cussion, backed by a determined pur poso to act earnestly and intelligent ly on the part of this and llko or ganizations Is tho only way this ob stacle will soon bo overcome, In my Judgment. At this tlmo I will only drop, as a suggestion, that monoy bo provided and a committee bo appoint ed whose duty It shall bo to confer with the livestock asportations of Idaho, Washington anil California, "Not to ascertain what I hey have done, or, rather what thoy havo not dono, along tho lino of a similar of for( to the ono we aro making In Or- gon, but lo urge II upon such organ izations that It Is of Immedluto Im portance that tho work bo tuken up by thoso stales at once. "Ono or two nctlvc men selected from among tho stockmen of this late should he sent and remain pres ent nt tho coming sessions of tho leg Islaturo In each of thoso states, am- ly supplied with data, based upon tho experience with tho law hero In Oregon, sufficient to blast the dogma that any of tho great Pacific states are going to bo bankrupted, or In uuy way finonclally embainiHhed by giv ing a siilllrlent bounty for tho de struction of piedatloiiH onlmals. "Proof sufficient to lopudlato any such a mistaken doctrine Is to bo "Four years ngo, when tho ques tion of the scalp bounty was advocat. ed lu Eastern Oregon, wo were all of ono mind. I had the honor or tho disgrace, as may bo. to Introduce and champion tho scalp measuro In tho house of ropresontntlves nt that ses sion of tho legislature. And I know mini leuoiH rocelved at that tlmo from all over Eastern Oregon, that tho peoplo of this section of the state, regardless or cukh or calling, were a null and up In nrms In favor of a bounty. "A certain friend or mine wrote mo shortly uttor tho bill beeaiiie a law and said: 'With mo It Is not a question of whether or not the law will bo a good thing, but It Is a ques tlon of how tho d 1 you got It uirougli thut legislature.' "At. that tlmo, no one ever dream ed of such a thing as n tear Urn from Eastern Oregon. Wo weio a unit thou lu favor of a stato bounty and wo got It. Two yeais ago wo stood practically the same, ami wo got it again. "Hut what I lourn from occasional bits or Information gathered hero and theio from tho newspapers, wo are about to dovelop a mil grown ciise of doinohtlc Intollelty. Tho rabbit man has put In an appearance and Is !nl. I I.. I I 1.1 fonn.l In M. ,,l, .. ...... I " l" lOIIU lin-ai-lllllg U pilClll- , . . . " "'"ilarjy stinngo . net rim., and strange lo ha n ' J ? n', Ur(fB; A"y S,'it0 W. Ib HIB number of converts , , aff"" " r"r t0,r,'l H0,'lu loralltlOH. I notice as a rule. h iSimil) !!?!'' 1 hcop up all ,,, ,,cl;o, , nijl)ltMi ,lu, moro ,fl). n.r I,''V,mat,,) ,' lIftH 0,,t " limi an- hi proselytes. WuVTJ -nt going ,0 stand heio ,.,,d state of Washington, ran amply af-j Continued on page ux,)