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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1902)
.mi.n.nwimimmmunnmmiim v,.ijp' GOOD GOODS ' A","n,lcr'!- S Jul Y GQUNTRY D GOODS CORRECT STYLES LOW PRICES the all powerful (acts that attract those to our dry are. i. ,if annAs which oossess worthiness of section j orices in keeninc with their y, cotre rpmember we cive no shelf room to trash. It IS wen . o u- A decided innovation in belt making -must be Una DClts ... t0 bennnreciated: mire to be therage three Eu"styl nowshown. Introduction price, each . . : . 75c The third shipment this season Just opened selling 300S ,.nrd never eoualled. You will not -wonder when -., . . T int. Including the newest shades nnd weaves. viri 75' BUd 25- j lUTnnfo farina Just ln by express. Nineteen new , and Momeaxios . iucludinir six Monte Cailos """iti." 27. 80, 44. and 47 Inch garments In all the popular band black. Prices, now, ti-.ou, fiu.uui.ouauufj.vw. HISTORIC PLACE RICH IN MANY WAYS. Goc lexander Dept. Store f nci iari c n rTHiPi?; V v ino and Paperhanging : Are our specialties and we are prepared to J give first-class work. 8 Our painters are the best l Uur paperhangers are the best Ij Our paints are the best i Our wall papers are the best ij est Work J Guaranteed at money saving prices. Let p us figure with you. $ CCTPT A i?TP for SHARP New Ideas, g JOiiEvr Opera Hoase Block. Opc Yoar Dreams of Musical Content Can now be realized. Invest In .a piano and appreciate the beauties of our instruments, or sympathetic tone, of irreproachable Etyle and finish. If you're not prepared to pay spot cash, we'd like to tell you about our easy payment plan. S. L Wakefield & Co. Wholesale nnd Retail Muile Dealertt MUSIC WAREROOMS, COURT ST. we Money on Stoves By getting the best at lowest prices. We handle only the best makes of stoves. Wilson Air-Tight Coal Stoves, Wilson Air-Tight Wood Stoves, Trilby Air-Tlgnt wooo aioveo, Universal Cook Stoves and Steel Ranges. The Thompson Hardware Co. flEilWU STOVES, $3 to $25. 0Z STOVES AND STEEL RANGES, M to $55. F J.Clarke & Go. Court Street. 0MPSON, PAWNBROKER S1? COURT STREET f Door to Houser's Meat Market dfr Jd .harness, sad J&. clotl"e. rubber, UISi copper, lead Real Estate... E. D. BOYD, 111 Court Street Indian Caravan Beggar That Was Not Absent-Minded Old "Gold Fields Dredging for Precious Metal. By a Start Writer.) Leaving Fox valley 1 crossed the mountain and arrived at Beach creek. A farm house serves as a postofflce, stnge station, telephone station, hotel and is Beach Creek. There are no other buildings there. A half mile or less away is a small saw mill. The next 19 miles over the mountains Is without a house. Indians. Thousands of feet of good timber, over long barren stretches of rock strewn mountainside and hilltop, whore an occasional scrubby moun tain mahogany struggles for an ex istence and on lower where the ra vines are aflame with the brilliant tlntn nf Autumn till von slcht John Day farm. The valley spreads out showing level green fields and rows of orchard trees. As I rounded a curve in the, road a lot of pack horses came in sight. Back of them were some squaws mounted astride on de jected looking little Indian ponies. A loose band of 40 or 50 ponies followed in their wane. An Eloquet Beggar. An old Indian approached me and said: "Who you are? What name yours? Where you come from, whero you going When I had satisfied bis curiosity Vio cnlrl- "Mo Pnlnmbln river Indian. "We come John Day country to get deer for winter. Ulan Big Voice, say: 'We kill deer we go to jail. We very scared ' so come away. Indian like to kill deer. Indian not made to hold plow all day like white man. Indian meant to ride, travel, hunt, fish not live in one place and plow all time. Onenime this land all ours, We hunt deer first, kill white man. Now now. jf mnrn v tint sell lanu: white man take it. White man say you not kill deer any more. You go some other place. No other place some other place, ino more omce w go. Me not kill white man any more, .rnthiF nnw. M hllnd 12 vears. No more hunt. You very good man. Me , 1.11. A like you. Me oia, me poor, me uuuu, me want &u cents, iou iook oeo uu sot if , . , "I hardened my heart ana reiuseu. He put his hand to his face and said: "Too bad, too bad; me old, me. poor, me blind, me only want 50 cents." I felt my resolution weakening and my heart melting, so I clapped my horse with the line and drove on before I gave up my hard-earned coin. Historic John Day. ii, rim. tnwn )r a historic old ninrn it is htillt beside a vast field 'of! irregularly shaped rock piles. A great many depressions are to be found among the rock piles. Stagnant utnnric In tlip rienresslons. It is strange that typhoid is not more prevalent man it is wnu u wuuu stagnant green-scummed water about the town. There acres and acres of rock piles are the tailings of the placer mines. They were all hoisted from bed rock and wheeled with wheelbarrows and stacked ln the early uu s wnen jouu rv.. -r.,ne o vlnVi nlnrpr PflffiTt. uaj n ia -- i" " When one remembers that when all this work was done, labor was worth from $ C to $10 a day, one can begin to comprehend the immense cost of handling such vast quantities of earth and rocks. Canyon Creek, from below John Day town to above Canyon City, was all worked in the early placer days. There is lots of wealth here yet. A man digging post holes on one of the high benches near Canyon City re cently panned some of the dirt and found a good showing of colors. Fruit Country. The John Day valley raises consld- OF SUPERBLY MERITORIOUS CONSTRUCTION AND OF THE FINEST AND BEVT AMERICAN AUTER1ALS 2 Childs and Misses two Piece Garments lll90 2s " aiimdl &s 5 These formerly sold at p 40c9 5d)c and T5c Soc Misses' Union Suits 29c P 60c Chilpren's U ion Suits 29c Misses All Wool (D) Union Suits - ' 3 Ladies' all wool Melby Union Suits, .Kenular $i.oo, Sale Price Ladies' fleece lined Union Suit Ojl (frn Regular 85 cents, Sale Price 3 Piece Garments a 40c Ladies' Vest and Drawers Recced 23c 3 Ml 85c Ladies' Heavy Fleeced Oflffro 3 Vest and Drawers . . . T Special 59c A few dozen of knit vests (made by the n union Co ) io doll sizes, 2 any little girl that wants a vest for her doll, lease nsk for one iLumiuiamuiuuuuuiuaiaiiiiiiuiuiiiiiuiiiiuiuuiiiiiuituiittiitiiiiiii iuumuiuaiiUK 1FREE OTTO MIESCKE...: Will sell you lpts and residences for a small payment down, and balance in installments, of will sell in any other way. Pendleton is admitted to be the principal city of Eastern Oregon. Its future is assured. You should invest in real estate here. It is safe and sure Invest now. Do not wait until property is higher. PROPERTY Of All Kinds For Sale Formerly of Portia ad, Or. Wishes to announce tiiat he bus taken possession of PERRY HOUSER'S MEAT MARKET on Court Street Where be Is ready to nerve the people of Pendleton with the Choicest of Meats, Baussages, Lard, BacoD, etc; Your Patronage la Kindly Solicited Satisfaction Guaranteed erable fruit which is sold at Burns and other nearby towns. John Day is on the boom, or rather, it is forging ahead in a healthy'growin. a iianu sortie new store building is going up and other less pretentious oumiings are being built. Some 01 mo om pioneers of the Placer camp days are still here. Pomeroy Dredgei. One of the most interesting enter prises of John Day is the Dredger Company's operations. I spent some time on the dredger. J. A. Pomeroy, the pilot, explained the workings of the dredger to me. "It was brought here from Grasshopper Creek, near nannnel- Mnnt. " Raid Mr. POmerOV. "It went' to Baker City by rail. From Baker City it was tirougnt uy waguu. It was a difficult undertaking. The boiler weighed 18,000 pounds and re quired 10 horses to pull it. That 10 foot wheel weighs three and one-half tons. This dredge is called the link and bucket elevator dredge. Thoso hnpkptn that are biting away at the bank scoop out seven square feet of earth each, or a quarter of a cubic yard, -mere are &i uutnem. We can handle 11.000 pounds of dirt a minute. "We have 130 feet of sluico boxes. We use the Hungarian riffle. I think we lose some' of the tine gold so wo intend to put in some cocoanut fibre mattinir and nut in an under current. We numn a 400-inch stream. Just lira nrn nnlv Tllimnin? &iX Or seven thousand gallons a minute. We are well equipped having our own oloti-lr. llht HVHtem. Wo work 24 hour3 a day. We have three shifts of eigth hours each, we clean up mriin. Hrawlm' Tlio cold Is good sluice box gold, being from quite coarse to meaium. wo, imu huhbcio as large as 75 cents in value. Our operation expenses are about $100 a day. We employ iz men ami uum a good deal of wood. I can not state the amount or the clean-up, but it is quite satisfactory. "The dredger cost $30,000 at the factory. The transportation charges were very heavy. This is opened and operated by a company of which Wal ter Ilurrel, of Portland, is president. nilinro Inlf.rPBtnfl urn J. H. Pomeroy. of Portland; the J. It. Gilbert estate, of Dillon, Mont.; X , U. yrawioru, oi Union; W. G. Brown, of Cascade Locks; Martin Winch, of Portland, and others." A great timber, live feet by two feet shod with an Iron point Is lifted the boat is forced up to the bank, the great iron-pointed Dx2 timber is let down. The machinery is started up and tho buckets begin biting out the huge chunks of earth from the bank as ferociously as a schoolboy hlting pumpkin pie. By a system of sprocket wheels and linked chains, tho buckets are kept in motion. They come up with their burden of rocks and gravel. As they start downward they dump their load into tho hopper. From here it passes i.i. o "crriooiv" 1 ft tfot Innc and four and a half feet ln diameter. This is I In constant motion. A score of Jets of ( water are forced upon tho mass of! earth. The earth and gravel falls through openings Jn the "grizzly," 1 I l iV, allo linvAH The tiler rocks are gradually worked to thei end of the "grizzly," where worked clean. They are shot by two chuteB into tho water on each side of the THIS IS OLD DR. KESSLER One of the World's Greatest Specialists, Who Has Kept Hundreds From an Early Grave or the Insane Asylnm. Now, look here, young man, don't be ho cirelt-"-. I) n't nut oll'iiuy longer; havo your case attended to toduy, for your looks tell mi you Ynu may onclud to get married some day, una In live Imppv you niu-i a mini rui'Ki-d and strong physically and mentally. So many divorce i'iiwf we ru-iirof, if n In veUlgalion was made, would dlbclo'C the fact that plil'Hl mid iutvouk weak ness of the husband caiires the wife o lliially haU iiiin. Woiiiwi love it manly mau.JustaHmuchas men love IwHiitlfillly developed, heitllliy, red.flirckHi women. lJlotohes nd plmplfH show Hnmetlilnu wronu. A! kindH of ditteiu are cured by tills old doctor. It Is not neceiwitry to g" lo fee litm; In a few dl eases where surgery is required or miicein, old ulcer and bili-li, it In Ix.-tter U) see him, but all weukiiess and private coiKlltloiiH can l.e lite.l at home. He bus a perfect system for home treatment j lie itluiiyx niiHivem your liltent In a plain envelope and keeps every !hh u profound fieorct. Pay no attention to the little books you llnd on utrettH, but trust yourself lo mi old ii i t who bun ln curing cases like yours for over a (piarter "f a century In thin city. Alwayn In close 10 2-cent stamps when writing for coiiMiiltatlon. and n-ih! niutll bottle of your urine If possible. Addietw, J. HENRI KESSLER, M. D. Manager of tho St. Louis Mod leal and Surglonl Dispensary Olllce, Hoars. 9 A. H. to 9 P. M. Corner 2nd and Yamhill Sis., Porlland.Orc. boat. Tho work of tho dredgo is . , . n A ....l.nl.l.. I, t.,lll Very SailBIUUlUI ouu uuuuui; lb .. bo tho forerunner of others for thoro is an numuiiBu uuiu it, uw wuiiwu ni FIUSD I,OOKU3Y, JIl. His Life In Peril. "I just seemed to havo gone all to pieces," writes Alfred uoe, or wel fare, Toxas, "billoiiBneas and a Jamo back h ad made llfo a burden. I couldn't eat or sleep and felt almost too worn, out to work when I began to use Electric Ulttors, but they worked wonders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have gained In strength and enjoy hard work." They glvo vigorous health and new urn tr. oronV atrklv run-down dcodIo. Try them. Only 60c at Tallman & Co.'i drug store. U. D. C. Convention, Newpoit. Ark., Oct. 'i'i Delegatus from ninny parts of tin: slate wew present tills morning at tho opcnlns of tlio Hoventh annual convention of tho Arkansas IMvIhIoii of tho United Daughters of tho Confederacy, 'l'ba hohhIoji was called to order by Mrs. It, M. iJilnl, and the morning's pro gram liicluded an address of welcome by Mrs. C. ii. Wilirmns, a rrwponsa for the visitors by Mrs. Clementine BoIcb, of Kayt'tlevllle, and tho annual address of the statu president, Mri. I), i:. Ilonton. Koutlno buslucsH con nected with tho affairs of tho society occupied the remainder of the day and this evening thoro is to lo elabor ate social function.