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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1903)
DAILY EAST OREOONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1003. Published every Prlilay at Pendleton, Oregon, by the EAST OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. I'uone, Main S U IISCIUl'TION ltATHS, Imllj-, one year Lit malt $3.00 Dally, six months by mall 2.B0 Dally, three months by mall l.-" Dally, one month by mall no Dally, per month by carrier (13 Weekly, one year by mall l."0 Weekly, six months by mall 70 Weekly, four months by mall CO Heml-Weekly, one year by mall .... 2.00 Heml-Weekly, six months by mall .. 1,00 Semi-Weekly, three months by mall . . .no The V.ast Oregonlan Is on salo at I!. It. Itlch's News Stands at Hotel rortlnml and Hotel 1'erklns, Portland, Oregon. Member Scrlpps Meliae Neus Associa tion. San I'ranclsco llurc.iu, 403 fourth St. Chicago llnreau, 00!) Security HutMlng. Washington, D. C. Ilurcau, r01 1 1th St., N. W. KntereU at 1'eudleton postofflec as second- class matter. land, tlio Umatilla nnil Morrow county Irrigation nssoclntlon idinuld furnish this ilnta, nnil hurry up by every menus, tho reclamation of this mag nificent territory. Tho delay In lo cating and deciding upon the means of Irrigating this land seems to ho unwarranted. The advantages of the tract are undeniable. The fuet that one winter soaking will make ' good crops upon this sandy soli, removes the possible objection that the water supply may be Insufficient for the area. Truly, the riches of the Wo at lie in the arid lauds and tho wasted mountain streams, but unless the gov ernment gets a different move on, or surrenders the task of Irrigating the West to tho people Interested In the West, the piesent generation will not see the dawning of tho promised Irri gation Age. BAD DAY FOR DODGERS. Build well thy spirit house. With many rooms; give space To joy and truth and hope and gentle sympathy But leave no place for fear. To anger bar the door and o'er tho window Of thy Inmost soul, when hate Is nigh, Unfold the curtain of n loving thought. Hulhl In the Inmost valleys of thy heart A temple to the God of I.ove. With stones hewn from tue hills of Harmony. Use in thy work the scented wood That grows, in Freedom's land. and placo within Its halls The Shrine of Peace. Harry T. Fee. TRUE RICHES OF THE WEST. The state laud board, on Wednes day made a ruling which will swell the taxes of Oregon several thousand dollars. It went after a certain class of tax "dodgers" with a rough hand, for which the people are duly thank ful. At tho present time, on the records of tho state land ofllco. are between 100 and 500 purchasers of state land, who still owe small amounts on their nni'mnnlo titnl , lnni na Hila iimniiiit , , , ' & St. Joseph engine enme pufllng is due mid the deed still In the name ,,HWI1 , trnck( mm,1(; tho ,,, go. of the state, the purchaser cannot be i tilers who had been left at Hnnnloal, compelled to pay taxes upon tho I and as It approached a cannon on for Northern Missouri was n post tlon between tho forks of tho Salt river. Hero Colouel Tom Harris camped with 600 rebels, who wore spoiling for a fight. Oonornl Lyon ordered Colonel Smith to break up Harris' enmp. Smith stnrted, but his movements were Impeded by protract ed soaking rains. As his soldiers were going through a narrow defile In the Sw ultey hills tney wore nrou on from ambush. Fifty guerrillas then scampered away. Smith wns con vlnccd by this move that an attempt was being made to trap mm, and lie decided to hack out. Soon n cloud of smoke that roso from the direction of .Monroo told him something was doing there. The "Johnnies" woro burning the ? 10.000 worth of federal stores and munitions Colonel Smith had left thero without a guard. m The federal force hurried buck to Monroe, whore It. was followed by Harris and his force and confederate sympathizers, who hurried to the scene of the promised fight from every direction, lly noon Wednesday, July 9, 18G1, 1000 rebels were about Monroe, nil eager to help "poke the game out of the hole." They had a nine-pound cannon anil n six-pound cannon, and Thursday tiioy began the bombardment, "Never," says the .Missouri writer, "had there been such a jubilee In that section. Ladies and children drove up in their carriages. Hustle lovers held parasols over tlielr sweet hearts, wlillo they watched a sure enough battle. Hut nt about -1:80 o'clock in the afternoon, when Col onel Smith was considering tho ad vlsnblllty of a surronder, a Hannibal 3 The Grand Trunk Gold Mine Simipter, Oregon, Gold Mining District. I located upon the GREAT MOTHER LODE system of veins and has for neigh bors on that vein such well known mines as the NORTH POLE valued at $10,000,000. T he COLUMBIA valued at $5,ooo,ooo. GOLCONDA valued at $3, 000,000. THE MONMOTH G. M. CO'S BELLE RAKER mine valued at $5 00, 000. THE BALD MOUNTAIN valued at $5oo,ooo. THE IBEX valued at $400, ooo, and many others. The Grand Trunk Gold Mining and Milling Go. Owns Its Property CondlstliiR of ido Acres of Rich Gold Bearing; Veins It lias no indebtedness of any character. It has a conservative mining and business management. It is offering 50,000 shares of stock at 15c pet share. It will become a dividend payer in a short time. It will pay you to write us for full particulars and to make careful investigation of its merits. It has the indorsement of mining men, business men and bankers of Eastern Oregon. Write us today and let us post you. land, although he may be farming or renting the same, at a great profit, i The result of this practice Is. .that ! the state has been shielding, ituid vertently, a very successful species I of tax "dodging," for years, and as-1 sessors have been powerless to levy I upon the land In the name of the ' rightful owner, who was In 110 hurry I to secure title. In view of the alarming Increase 1 board opened wide Its mouth and I spoke ominously to the picnickers, That ended the fun. In an Instnnt the prairie was a chaos of Hying horses and flying men. Soldiers I threw away their guns and took ref uge in tho carriages with tho ladles." That night word reached Washing ton of the light and next day 2000 ' men, Including such soldiers an I Colonel John M. Palmer and Coloncf 1 Ulysses S. Orant, were on tho way to I the scene of hostilities. I 'huh ngiit occurred 11 nays oeioro H. S. McCallttm & Company, Minors, Brokorsand Financial Agents, BAKER CITY, OREGON. Or R. S. BRYSON, Local Agont, Peiidleton, Oregon. Our Weekly Mining Letters on Sumpter, Oregon, Gold Mining District Free on Application. FOR in We have the w. Knnl Ts . me, e. w- 80me mee homes ik btJ sold. f!hn; - --VV It I . . . Alfalfa Luvu. acre to 160 . . uneat "acts from l 4 "ooin 10 over T.,,1., naruware Stow 1 n n if mwm hUUIl HI Pendleton Real Estate 1 C-room dwclline. atohk ,.,. m mm a lots ll.Oftn C-room dwelling and two to 11-room hoarding house centrally located J2.600. t,.r,trt,ti ,i,niii. ,.. . ,.,.v, A lltimlinp n, . $125 to $150 each. 1 i... .... ... i iui uii urn, nve blocks street, ?5fl0. Other loU on eacii. Much other very desirable ty for sale. All sold on eaij Conio and buy, To find Just what you 11m right price, see G. D. BOYD. Ill Court tTTTYYTTTTTYYYTTYYYVYVYTYTTTTTTTTTTYYYYTYYYVTYTTTTTT of this practice, the board has decided ' Hull Uun. It seems, therefore, Mis- Elbert Hubbard, lecturer and editor to end It and yesterday issued an or- m,rl J'f '' in putting In a claim , ,, ... ... ,, . ' .,,. ,.,, ,, , that the first real battle of tho war of the Philistine magazine, draws a er that all purchasers ot state land ( was foU(,,t on licr soil. Kansas City true picture of the real values of the who owe $50. or less, on their con-1 Journal "West In the July number of the j tract, must pay up and take a deed to llomemakor, a monthly publication the land. of Washington, D. C, devoted tri tho interests of irrigation. Speaking of the possibilities of agri culture of Montana, Mr. Hubbard makes observations which apply with equal force to the entire western em pire. "You will not find the true wealth of this state in her mines," says the writer. "These are wonderful, but far more so Is the agricultural possi bility. There Is where Montana and the West will become great. The wealth of the mines is immense, but is it permanent? The returns are Kreat. but tho land once worked over, becomes useless. ine tanner Is the one who will build up the state to tho empire It offers. There the wealth is cumula tive and lasting. It adds to the rich ness of itself by successive cultivation and use. It increases In wealth as the fertilizing processes of the ages go on. The mining Industry, like thf, lumber Industry, Is destructive or na tural resources In a large degree. It strips the land and leaves It unoccu pled. "Hero you have land, water and people, the threo great essentials of a civilization. The storage and use of waste rivers Is tho solution of the industrial questions of tho age. you are at tho open gatoway of the golden age ot irrigation." This solution of the agricultural and Industrial questions applies with particularly vital force to Umatilla county. The land, the people and the water are here Water In sufficient quantities and land of sufficient richness to make one of the grandest and most prolific districts in tho West, await the coining of th true irrigatlonlst. in this county, and Uast ern Oregon. Tho process of government irriga tion seems to ho tedious and belated. Tho storage and distribution of water, in a way to make productive Jand of tho desert, is not such a deeply ab stract and technical task as many would bo led to believe, by tho mys terious actions and slow calcula tions or government agents ir tho government wants pioots or tho adaptability or the soli of Uma tilla county to tho science of Ir rigation, thero lies tho Hotter creek belt, ono solid field of airalfa meadow upon which ono good soaking will make two and three good crops each ear. If the government wants estlmntos of water supply, possibilities of stor age and other Information regarding the feasibility of tho Ucho tract of This will bring Into sight, as taxn ble real e3tate in Oregon, at least ! 60,000 acres of land, of an average value of $10. Some of this land is , worth $10 per acre, as It is highly cultivated and Improved and other tracts are desert, worth but little more than first cost of $1.25 an acre The land board's action meets with hearty approval of the people, as there has been altogether too much tax dodging and property hiding In Oregou. High lovles are duo largely , to the complete escape of many kinds of profit-yielding property from any share In the burden of taxes. Corporations with alleged millions of dollars in capital stock have snap- ped their lingers In assessor's rates for years, in this state; large land , holders have hidden behind this law. I and tho poor man whoso small hold-1 lugs wore all in plain view and the business man whose wealth consisted In property that could not be covered by any statutory shield, have paid the major portion of the expense of government. It Is a bad day for the "dodger" Ho is being left unprotected by tho law of favoritism ami must meet tho responsibilities or citizenship as It ! Mrs. .Martha Hlanchard, who disap peared from Oregon City, two weeks, ago, play has not been Is suspected. located yet Foul $50.00 Given Away To tho llrst ono handing us tho nearest correct solution ot tho two following rebuses, wo will glvo $25.00 worth of fumlturo or other goods of your choico from our Immense stock; $15.00 worth to tho second, and $10.00 worth to tho third. I Tho question is, how many different ways can tho word I "I'urulture," and how many 1 tho word "Kader" bo spelled ; In the following squares by spelling to tho right, or down , ward, or any combination of ' down nnd right, or right and ' down, but always using con 1 tlguous letters but .110 two times, using exactly the same numerical letters, yet j all spell tho words "llader" 1 and "Furniture" correctly. I For Illustration, tho word , "Hader" may be spelled by i using letters numbered 1 2, 11, 12, 21 1 I 2 I 3 I 4 I 5 I C I 7 I 8 I 9 R A I D j E I R I A I D I E R 10 1 Jl , 12 I HI j 11 j ID j 10 1 17 1 IS ADERADERA 10 I 20 I 21 I 22 I 2H I 21 25 2li 27 de;raderad 2i , 20 , :io , :;: , ;)2 i ;::) :ii :in :m E R A D E j R j A j D E 37 , IIS , 2U 10 j U j 12 lit 11 15 R I A j D j E R A D j E R 10 , 17 ! it, 10 50 51 j 62 03 54 A D j E J R A D E RA 55 , 50 , 57 5S 50 00 01 02 03 D E R A j D E R A D 01 , 05 00 , 07 OS 00 70 71 j 72 ER ADERA0E 73 j 71 70 70 77 7b 70 SO SI R A D E j R j A j D j E R T rani i iMMiirr IV 1 1 1 Mill 1 1 m m huiiiuii .... Tl' fll r MILS MM noon, but The man on the stage who does the j trick of escaping from firmly tied ropes, submits to the bonds with a smile. He knows he can get out of the ropes thct are being knotted. Put the tame man in the woods and let Indian captors bind I him to a tree for torture and he would I struggle to the last against the bonds. Wh hen the stomach is diseased there are bonds being woven every hour about me organs uepenuent on tue stomach heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc. The folly of mankind ia to passively submit to the fastening of these bonds with uo effort to escape until the pain they cause arouses fear. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dlscoverv I was designed that all men should do, i cures diseases of the stomach end other when the right to enjoy the owner- organs ot ingestion and nutrition. It ship of property was flrst vouchsafed , Zt to man- i eases, as is often the case, have their " origin in the diseased stomach. FIRST BATTLE OF WAR. "For a long time I wii uffetlng and na I hardly able to get about." writes Jir. Andrew J. Tin- hlqtiirlpd toll Ihtt th hot I J'nalnitf. of Thomaa, Tucker Co , W Va., llox fi. ifh . i , , : "W. bothered with kidoey trouble am' tie or the war of secession was fought; my whole system w out of orders had u. nt Hull Ilmi, A Missouri writer un- "VPetite. A . riend of mine told me to try In dortakes to prove that tho histories j SgJZ 'fa mislead. He contends that the first twttiea of -Golden Medical Discovery' tu fighting was done In Missouri, near ! nie,1J?,e'Me"iut 'e,leu' od fetl lu" ' Monroo city. V, , , Clalborno TarltRnn unvomnr r mi0 i Dr p,ce'a Pleasant Pellets cleauso cl8ed y from PrlU. solved to take this state out of tho ' union, whether Its peonlo wanted to trrt nt nnt Thf nvtint nintinnn l,tu peace and plans, as tho writer ret' err-) G O I N G eu to points out, was tho Hannibal & St. Joseph railway, which was owned ' by Hoston capital and operated i mainly by Germans. Jackson deter, mined to tear up the "Ynnkeo rail-' road " 1 DANNER IS NOT John W. llrooltB, Its president, ap pealed to President Lincoln for mili tary protection, nnd Lincoln ordered 1 uoioiiei K. K. Smith to cross tho : slssippl river with the Sixteenth nois Infantry and to do guard duty along tho road. Tho strategic point AWAY He will be here nil summer so come in any time and have your picture taken. Stamp Photos only 25 cents a dozen. A larfje variety of harvest views, also a biff line of Indian photos. Cab inet photos only $3.50 a dozon. Tim old rellnlilit I'liotouniplmr Next door to the huH OreKoultm omce R'BC&OHEMIAN "KING OF ALL BOTTLED BEER5'.' SOLD EVERYWHERE. or 13. 22. 23. 21. 33. etc. Tho solution to be handed in scaled, giving only the number of combinations that can bo mado ot cucli word, with no iinmo attached, in order that tho commltteu uwardliig the prizes will not know who -Is Hi tho contest. Hut If requested, each wlnnor must ho able to write, numer ically, each of tho various ways tho number of times hoy claim. In order to Iden tify nil solutions wo simply number each cnvolopo con taining un nnswor nnd keep I i memorandum of each. No mo will be allowed more i than ono answer. Prizes awarded July 2G, 1803. Thero is no stlro thing that tho first solutions will ho correct. So if you decide you want to Icliango your solution aftor handing it In you can do so y placing your second lu tno iiimoricnl order wo recolvo I ho latter. No ono connected ' hvlth tho establishment will I is tue time to supply any anv cnannes. r iiswci Me,.., ,M.(h mafhifl,! It a Smith.Premier? prop postal. Qui., nppniu for Pacific 247 Stark St. PortW Collogo lias purchased Smith Premiers for IM school I I 2 3 -1 G 0 7 SS 0 10 FURNIT U R E F II in II! 11 lb , i; , n is 10 j ) "RNITUREF U 21 22 L3 U L'5 20 21 US j 21) 30 NITUREFUR 31 32 33 31 36 30 37 38 30 40" Nl'lTlUREFUR)N 11 -12 13 44 15 10 j -17 IS -I9'"50 'lTU"EFUjRNjl 51 G2 G3 51 55 00 f.7 CS CO 00 TUREFURN I j T 01 02 03 01 j 05 00 j Ii7 , OS Oil 70 U R E F U R N I T U 71 72 73 74 75 j 70 I 77 J 78 70 j SO REFURNITU R 81 82 83 84 85 Sli" 87 88 j SO () E1frUNlTUR E 01 02 03 01 05 I 00 117 , 1)8 j llll'j FI"RNTURE io allowed to contest. M. A. 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