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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1904. PAGE FOUR. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Published every afternoon (except Sunday) at rendleton. Oregon, by the EAST OREGONIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. s.vres. .5.00 . 2.00 . 1.25 bodies will have quarters. It Is a subject worthy of the consideration of this city. There arc more than 100 young men and business men eli gible to the Pendleton association, who should be inside. SUllSCnilTlON Dally, one year by mall ... Dallr. six mouths by mall . . . rw.ll. thM. mnnfhc hr nillll . Dally! one mouth by mall o for t hr establishment of an agrlcul iMiiy. er momu oj mtntr . Whoever goes to the legislature from Umatilla county (nml it now looks most favorable for the East Oregonlan's ticket) one of the first blild that should be presented is one give her uninterrupted WMklr nn VMr br mall Weefclv. six months by mall 3 Weeklv. tour months by mall .50 Seml-Weckly. one year bj mall .. . -.00 Semi-Weekly, six months by mall .. 1.UO Seml-Weeklv. three months by mall .. .50 Member Scrlpja MclUo tlon. News Assocla- The Bast Oregonlan Is on dale at 15. U. Rich's News Stands at Hotel fortland and Hotel IWUdj, l'ortland, Oregon. San Francisco Durran. -4fs Fourth St Chlcaso llureau. 00!i Security UulMlns. Washington. 1). C llnreau, SUl Hth St., N. VT. Telephone. Main 11. Entered at Teudleton postofflce as second cla matter. Each life should be a light- house lamp, at night Forever reaching out to those nt sea Forewarning them of hidden reefs that be, Unseen, unknown to their un- certain sight! And when the lamp glows dimly be It said, Not that it shone for Self upon the shore But let Its glory be forever- more, That for Mankind the radiance was shed! Bert Huffman. tttral district, comprising the coun ties of Umatilla and Morrow, with n fixed annual appropriation. Just as the Baker, Union and Grant county dis trict receives. The meeting should alternate between Pendleton and Heppnor, and a local association should be formed as the basis for the legislative net. Umatilla county, that produces more wool, wheat and fruit than any other one county in the state, should have one of the best agricultural fairs in the stnte. This matter should not be allowed to rest, until the gates are opened for a first class agricultural fair In this city. Pendleton Is out of the street carnival period. Umatilla county .Is entitled to something more than the "merry- go-round and a "hoochie koochie' dance. cleared to passage. At the terminal station the eager passenger bound for the deathbed, slipped over to the engine where the engineer was oiling, ready for the start. No one saw the whispered conference as the grimy driver with torch In hand bont over to listou to 10 words from his old friend, with whom he had worked for years before his discharge. "George," said the passenger, 'my father is dying over at home. If, I can get off at mltepost . I can run across the field, and possibly reach home before he dies." The old engineer nodded his head and went on oiling. EeZEMft SETS THE SKiH OH FIRE. No disease causes so much bodily discomfort, or itches, burns nnd stings like Eczema. It begins often with n slight redness of the skin, followed by pustules or blis ters from which a gummy, sticky fluid oozes, which dries and scates off or forms bad looking sores and scabs. It appears on different parts of the body, but oftcnest upon the back, anus, Hands, legs DenP sirs:-I fool It my duty to write and 1st and face, and is a veritable you know what S. 8. 3. hao done for me. I have tnrtnptit it times estiecinllv uffered with Clironlo Eczema for over fifteen torment as limes, esiw.iu yearg( and havo spent u great doal of money try. Tlw puisp nf Vnenm is a different tlnds of blood raodlolne, havo 1 1 lit cause ol l.czema a. troated bjr tno bp,t aoctova In tho city, but o ton nriil r n 11 1 1 1 1 a tl of tllC nnt out relief. SIv lair was In n torribln condl blood. The tcrrifvinir itch- when I otartcd tho use at S. ,S .8 .Havo taken u pi-h ; t i sevorai ootues aim ItluulxISl - HUB .. ' ' f n j , - , - . sevnrni UUEIien win uun wuu.u uub u WPOI OH where to shut off steam nnd slacken' ing and burning are produced myleir or any other part of my body. I feeliika speed meant 20 minutes delay in get-1 by the overflow through the ""yJ, st., st. Lou,b& NEKY. ting the train under speed again. ; glands and pores of the skin . . . The train was already two hours late, of the fiery poisons with which the blood-current is overloaded. While ex- dm president s car was auuciieu, uie j - a. m lcrnal lJ,,"'"w"i, ;" ....- .."..(.a, best engine on the division was fs-O ftf"3 and powders are soothing and cooling, they do not hitched to the train, and the veteran j v"" citer into tne blood itself or touch the real cause of engineer who was anxious to keep up , kJJ tZjJ the disease, but S. S. S. does, and purifies, enriches, his good record had orders In his XJ and strengthens the thin acid blood and cleanses the iwcket to make all reasonable speed, i jrenera svstem. when the skin clears off and Eczema and all its terrifying as he had a clear track, and It was s,.mptora's disappear. Hook on the Skin and its diseases free. No charge asalnstjiU rules to stop between sta- fortuedical aavict., THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, CAi Fifty, CO, 70 miles on hour, the chat- ,ttt 1 terlng engine sped across the valley Mf I IH 1 1 r l I-H It l"H" I I H I 1 I I 1 1"! I 1 1 1 1 1 I'U H-t I-t The East Orcgonlan believes in the wheat pool. Just as heartily as it be lieves in the wool pool. The wool pool has brought the members of the organization from 1 to 2 cents more than the same quality of wool sold ' at private sale. Not only does It di- j rectly benefit the producer by bring- I ing higher prices, but it organizes and regulates the wool market, and fixes the sales in the great wool cen ters, as one of the events of the sea son. It gives a permanency and fix Ify to the wool market of Eastern Oregon which no haphazard private Don't worry, you'll soon know who ; saios could ever glve The same is elected. How many campaign cards have you In your pocket this evening? be true of the wheat pool. If the flmirtra nf TmnHlti pnnntr wilt nr. ... , , , , bark of the locomotive stopped and I""""1 'b"i uaautia- ,ne traln gowed ,lown. made the first 20 miles in half her schedule time. "George will make up -15 minutes of that two hours." said the chief despatcher as the operator at the first station re ported No. by. Then the speed slackened ns the toilsome mountain was reached. It was dark and a storm was driving. The laboring engine was straining and tugging at her load as the sharp curves clutched at the wheels and held down the speed. The restless passenger walked the aisles and occasionally peered out Into the darkness to see where they were at on the mountain. He knew every rock and tree along the track. As the train neared the mllcpost he whispered to the conductor; "Char lie, my father Is dying at home Just across the field. I am going to get off here." The conductor nodded his head and quietly went to the door, unnoticed by the passengers. Presently the You need not confess to the priest, Campaign lies don't count, anyway. Aren't you glad you're not a can didate? No matter how slowly the returns come in. you can sleep. The candidate can't. Irrigon Is to be a "dry" town, when you are speaking to a local optlonist nut the promoter of Irrigon Is ex tremely "wet," personally. Frank Holbrook has "irrigated enough In the last three days to prove his claim to the title of champion irrigatlonist of Eastern Oregon. If the past records of some of the candidates made public during t,he campaign, should prove to be true, the Jail is yawning to receive them The telephone wires from the out side precincts will sizzle tonight. However, central will be calm," It is hoped. Election day comes once in two years. There will not be enough straight tickets voted In Umatilla county to exonerate the candidates and mem hers of the central committees from the charge of disloyalty. Candidates in Umatilla county have builded at least one monument to themselves during this campaign. A church has been built north of Freewater, principally from the charity of the fellows who couldn't refuse. It Is hoped that no editor In Uma tllla county has any eulogies left over from bis supply of campaign matter. The flow of eloquence has been very regular and extremely warm. It will be awful to come down again to pro sale truthful news. The meeting of the Commercial Association tomorrow night is one of great significance to the city of Pen' dleton. The proposition to install an entirely new telephone system here will be presented and the association ia especially urged to give a full ox' presslon on the subject The Pacific States Telephone Company has come to recognize the need of an improved and more modern system In this city, and hns an expert on the ground to get In touch with public sentiment. If tho city wishes the better service tho company will spend at least $15,- 000 in making a change to a system that will accommodate a city of IS,' 000 people. Every member of the as sociation Is especially urged to be present. Lowlston, Idaho, has a commercial association with a membership of about 300, with $1 per month dues, and a small initiation feo. Lowlston has less population than Pendleton, less Immediate resources and is more isolated from the world, because of her location off the through lines of railroad, yet aho is leading Pendleton In a commercial way. She is now preparing to build a magnificent pub lie building, in which tho commercial association, city council, womon or ganizations nnd all other public tfnn u'f?H n'hnnt enlna rlntaa anil ' fuse to sell outside of these dates. the banks of Umatilla county will see that every member of the associ atlon is carried until the sale, the exporters will look forward to this salesday as the pivotal event In the harvest season, it will bring better prices to the farmers because of the rivalry among the buyers on the ground. Owing to the necessity of keeping the crop moving, 'after har vest once begins, instead of storing it all, sales could be fixed for twice each week, during the harvest season to give buyers a chance to supply im mediate needs, and to relieve ware houses of an over-storage. LABOR'S FREEMASONRY. Among the members of every trade and calling is a sort of unorgnazied. beautiful system of freemasonry, which has its ties of fraternity and fellow feeling, although no code of rules or ritualistic regulations may prevail. If a carpenter can help a carpenter. he will take a secret pleasure In do ing so. If a blacksmith can direct a needy fellow to a good position, he will spend time and money in doing so, although they may have no organization. Even sheepherders and farm hands recognize this fraternity of labor nnd feet a jealous regard for the- welfare of their cult. Perhaps anions no other class of men In the labor world Is the mystic, undefined freemasonry as strong as among railroad men. No matter what the trade or calling in the wide sphere of railroad labor, there is a hearty, responsive, self-sac rificing fraternity which willingly risks the best positions, cheerfully surrenders the coin, or dares to make any hopeless plea for official leniency to help a fellow. This is not confined to the different organizations exclusively, but perme ates every branch and calling. Tho engineer will help the unfortunate brakeman as readily as the brake- man's own lodge and the conductor is the staunch friend of the needy fireman, and so on, interminably through all the kindred departments of railroad service. A thrilling Instance of this unfalter ing brotherhood among railroad men has come to light in a little Incident on a Western road. A locomotive engineer who had been discharged from the service over an unfortunate accident, and who was engaged in other work, was summoned to the bedside of his dy ing father. The train pased within a few hundred yards of his father's home, but the station where it stop ped was 10 miles distant, and to get oft there and get a team to reach the home in the winter night, in the face of a driving snowstorm, meant two hours' delay In reaching the dying father. Tho train on which he was going home was the Chicago-Portland Spe cial, thq pride of the system, and sho was then two hours late. Connecting trains at Pocatollo, Ogdon, Orangor, Omaha, Chicago all waited on this train from the Pacific coast. Tho pas senger truffle of the continent depend ed on tho promptness with which each engineer made his run. This train was given tho proferonco every where, and on this night It had the special car of tho president of the road attached, and every nervo or tho system was under tension In trying to get It over tho roau on time, ana in doing this tho best engines wcro be ing savod for her and tho line was Consternation was on the faces of the president and his party, as they realized tnat something was wrong with the engine. "This means three hours late Into Pocatello," gruffly said the president, looking at his watch, "This service will be Investigated." No one saw an eager form bound out into the darkness across the snowy field toward the glimmering lamp In a farm house window. Not a signal passed. Not a word was spok en, except the "good night" of the conductor, as he held down his lan tern to light the silent passenger to the ground in the snowstorm. The engine began panting again. tne "special' was slowly gotten un der way once more on the slippery rail, and the president breathed a sigh of relief as he heard the engine mending her pace. The passenger reached home, was greeted and recognized by his aged father, who died an hour after the son s arrival. If there was a mild untruth in the report of the engineer in civlnc a cause of the delay on the mountain. at me enu oi nis run, tiod never niarKea it down against him. The president "Investigated" the cause. and was compelled to lay it to the en gine. Had he found out the truth, he would have said nothing, for he him self, wns a railroad man who had come up from the ranks. BERT HUFFMAN. Two hold-up men nibbed a Chicago shoe store one block from police headquarters, of 5u0. Ten days have elapsed and there Is not the slightest clue to the perpetrators. Correct Clothes for Men LOTHES don't make the man," writes the Chica go pork packer to his son at Harvard, "but they make all of cm . him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty con siderabte area of the human animal." If this label MAKERS 4fc NEWyoRK is on your clothes you're in a posi tion to make your business profit able and ycur society pleasant, Cam! to fin cuitom-nudt In all but pflct. The mixta' gturtntte, and our, with tvtry grmtnL We arc Exclusive Distributor in IhU city. The Peoples Warehouse The Leading Clothiers PKNDLETON, OREGON Walters' Flouring Mills. Capacity, 150 barrels a day. Flour exchanged for wheat. Flour, Mill Feod, Chopped Feed, itc nlwnTc innn, MERRILL TYPEWRITER CO.. So. 7 Pa, I Bl SslaM,Ga.LDENSU0RE TYPEWRITER SuaUs RntJno ... 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