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s t ' . - - s .r,m-M t 10O4. PArr. DAILY EAST ORE GONIAX, PEyPLETOW, OREGON, TI'ESO A i . o,j j PAGE FOUIi FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1904. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. PablUbtd erery afternoon (except Sunday) t IVndleton, Oregon, by the EAST OUEtiOMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. will he u shameful defeat. If we put down our hands at the last moment und allow the opposition to triumph. BUK8CIEI1TION RATES. Dully, one year, by mall $5.00 imuy, in nimung, ir mnn ..tu telly, three montUa, by until 1.25 tally, one month, by mall 00: Ikelly. per nmutli, by carrier 05 I Weekly, one year, by mall. . l..V , Weekly, six nmntlw. by mall 75 Weekly, four months, by malt. ...... .50 , Semi Weekly, one year, by mall 2.no Hem 1-Weekly, tlx months, by mall... 1.00 Semi-Weekly, three months, by mall.. .50 Member Hcrlpns Mcltae News Association, i i The Fust Orexonlan is on sale at II. R. i Rich's News Htamla at Hotel Portland and Hotel Perkins. Portland. Oregon. Han Pranrliro liurwu,. 4ns Fourth Ht. Ctaieaifo l.ureflu, iMi Security Hulldlnjc. Wnxhiugton, 1. C, Htireau, A01 14th St., N. W. Telephone Main 11. Rntered at Peudleton poatoff.ee as second class matter. rUNlQN . Oj LA BE U Come hither. Pigmy Man, And learn thy nothingness! Thy vaunted span Takes not one hand-breadth of these peaks; These calm rebuking flowers outlive thee tige On age; thy puny wars, thy tiny strifes Are but one Idle rainlum leaf that fell. In last night's sweeping storm. Thou thlnkest earth Doth bate Its breath to watch thee battle: But in these vast re treats Thy loudest din Is but the breathing of the pines! Peace, peace O Man, for when thy curtain falls And when the vastest thing thy hand hath made Shall be the litter of a child's play hour These peaks shall rear their verdured heads to God. Maurice Smiley, in Collier's. STATISTICS WANTED. Thut the government Is more than willing to study the problem of Irri gation In all the different phases, and to make every possible Investiga tion that will lead to the reclamation of the arid lands of the West. Is shown In the statement of John T. Whistler, government engineer In charge of the work In Oregon, that he Invites statistics from actual Irri gators on winter irrigation. lie de sires to learn from those who have reclaimed land and who are now pro ducing crops through winter Irriga- i Hon. the actual results of such Irrl j gallon. He Ik anxious to convey. such information to the head of the recla mation department, that Its fund of knowledge on the subject of Irrigation may be enriched by the experiences of the pioneers of winter Irrigation. To this end. every Irrigator In t'ma tllla county Is invited to gather the actual facts on the subject. In a com prehensive form to be collected by the Columbia River Basin Irrigation asso ciation, later. In the form of a report to Mr. Whistler. Give the name of the farmer, loca- THK OLDEKT THING ON EAItTH. "The statement recently made that there are yews in England which are the oldest living things on this earth." Thomas C. Ireland says. "Is incorrect." says the St. Louis Globe Democrat. "These yews are old, very, very old; there is no doubt about that; some of them were stalwart trees even before Caesar landed on these shores. There Is one now standing In the churchyard at Fortlngal. In Perthshire, which Decandole nearly a century ago proved to the satisfaction of botanists to be over 25 centuries old. and another at Hedsor. in Bu clas. which Is 3,240 years old. "How Decandole arrived at an ap parently correct estimate of the enor mous ag of these living trees Is a simple thing and the principle Is doubtless well known today to all. I The yew. like most other trees, adds j one line, about the tenth of an Inch. to Its circumference each year. He j proved that after an investigation ex ! tending over several years, and we i know now. a hundred years later that Uis deductions were correct. The old i yew at Hedsor has a trunk twenty I seven feet In diameter, proving Its I great age, and It is In a flourishing, j healthy condition now, like its ! brother In Fortlngal. "Their years are few. though, com pared with the tree's I had in mind when I made my first assertion that the statement printed about them In a sclentic Journal was incorrect. In nni rhunter of his wrltlnir Humboldt tlon of his land, whether bottom or j referj to a K,KIintic boab tree !n Ce. upland, how many acres producing ru Africa as the oldest organic mon- I under winter flooding. how much ument in the world. The tree has a .,. , iiJi . ,ha irwi .i,.!.)!. ! trunk Jlt feet In diameter, and Adam- . , son. bv a series of careful measure the flooding period, when and how men(g eml)118trated conclusively long is the flooding period, churacter i tna, , had lived for not less than the with Iff wide spreaiiing "''"'- men and women of age after age. HUE LIGHT AXD PAIX. In u report to the state department. Consul Llefeld. of Frledburg. Ger many, tells of some Interesting re searches carried on by Pr.lfs. Hadard and Emery, of Geneva. They have discovered that the nervous system Is Influenced by colored light, and upon further experimentation found that blue light has a soothing effect. A patient had been .laced In a dark room, exposed to a blue light of 16 candle power for three minutes, after which time a tooth has been extract ed, not only without puln but with the absence of the effects which usually follow the use or etner or n' Electrical Kevlew. BUILD THE POKTAOE. of the land before reclaimed, what are the products, value per acre, cost per acre of raising crops, average yield of alfalfa for a period of five or ten years under winter irrigation and the, average price of alfalfa for same period. The government is anxious to get reliable statistics of this kind. If the farmers will co-operate with the ir rigation associations, in the collecting the right kind of statistics, it may influence the government to give the subject of winter irrigation consider ation, in passing finally upon the feas ibility of the Echo project. Beautifully prophetic were the words of Dr. N. O. Blulock, before the meeting of the irrigation commit tee In this city last night, as he pic tured the future of the Inland Em pire, with the completed portage road, the electric lines binding in bonds of steel the Isolated communi ties of the interior and the fartherest reach of the splendid streams of the west traversed by the Bteamboats laden with the products of a new and vigorous civilization. The accomplishment of these Ideals Is so easily within reach of the pro ducers of this vast empire that the delay seems to he a culpable act on the part of those interested. So little interest is generally displayed in this vital subject that it disheartens, at times, the self-sacrificing heroes thnt are at work on the plans of relief. Does It seem possible that a paltry sum of 340,000 should stand between the people and the accomplishment of the purpose of the Open River commission, in completing the port age road? Does it seem that farm ers who raise from 10,000 to 100,000 ushels of wheat annually would hes itate to contribute to this project. when the reduced freight rate on one crop in this county will build two portage roads?" There is nothing now in the way of raising the subscriptions for the port age funds. Eeach community is sup posed to collect and handle Its fund as tt sees fit, the sum raised to be turned over to the Open River com mission after the road Is completed. No advance payment Is asked or ex pected. Pendleton can do as Lewis ton Is doing, as Walla Walla is doing, as Spokane Is doing collect the sub scription, deposit It In home banks until the road Is completed, and then pay It to those who have done the work. When the amount Is In sight, work will begin on the portage. When the word of Pendleton, Walla Walla, Spo kane, Lewlston, Clarkston, The Dalles and other Inland Empire towns Is pledged that the amount of the sub scription will be forthcoming, dirt will begin to fly on the portage road. Walla Walla baa collected over 12000, Spokane has pledged her $6000. Lew kston and Clarkston have pledged 16500, and now it remains for Pen dleton to do her duty. - The shadow of the repeal of the portage road bill bangs over the peo ple of the Inland Empire, li, when the next legislature meets, noth ing baa been done toward Its con struction. Its enemies, the railroads, will urge Its repeal and the fund will a reverted to the treasury, and the terrier between the people and the see, will remain untouched. This thought should nerve the peo ple to immediate action. Knee the people have made so many advance steps In the matter, In the face of the combined lnHuenoes against them, H The East Oregonlan believes that the city of Pendleton, through the business men. the commercial associ ation and the county of Umatilla, should each pay the expenses of one delegate to the El Paso Irrigation Congress. Where business men give their time away from pressing busi ness to these public duties the com munity interested directly In the sub ject should provide for the expenses. Irrigation is one of the vital subjects that concerns Umatilla county. The government engineers will be there to feel the pulse of the different states, and If Umatilla county is not represented, they will naturally decide that there is little Interest In the mat ter here. The city and county owes it to the people to see that delegates representing public sentiment in this county are sent there to prove that Umatlllu county, Oregon, Is one of the leading irrigated districts in the West So far, there is no certainty about any one going from this county. Home of those who are now In the East may be there, but the city and county should see that accredited delegates are sent with Instructions to urge government Irrigation, both in private conferences with government engin eers, and in open congress. 5.150 years. Still, it is not the oldest organic monument in the world, as Humboldt declared, for now Mexicun scientists have proved that a huge cypress tree, standing in Chepultapec. with a trunk US feet and 10 Inches in circumfer ence, is older than 'it older, too. by more than a thousand years for it has been shown that its age Is about 6.000 yeans. To become Impressed with wonder over this, one hus only to dwell on that duration for a little while in thought. "Yet. It Is not bo remarkable when one stops for a moment to remember that, given favorable conditions for its growth and flustenance. the average tree will never die of old age Its death is merely an accident. other younger and more vigorous trees may spring up near It and per' haps rob its roots of their proper nourishment; .insects may kill it. floods or winds may sweep- It away, or Its roots may come in contact with rock and become so gnarled und twisted, because they have not room to expand In their growth, that they literally throttle the avenues of Its sustenance: but these are accidents. If such things do not happen a tree may live on for century after century, still robust, flourishing, sheltering The world Is sort of a Joint dream. We dream separately by night, dui by day together. Ibrnhln II Soffru- ghl. Nasal CATARRH Id all lu etapee. 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On January 1. 1897, in the closing days of the Cleveland administration. the wholesale cost of the breadatuffs consumed by an average American In a year was 311.73. On September 1, 1804, It was 118.47 an Increase of $6.74, or over 67 per cent. Of course the customer himself has had to pay a great deal more. But this Increase in wholesale prices alone amounts to an additional $33.70 to the living ex penses of a family of five on a sin gle necessary Item. Does the aver age wage-earner nave very many rolls of 133.70 each to throw at the birds, or the Milling Trust? Either the "full dinner pall" contains two thin slices of bread now to every three thick ones tt contained in CI eve land's time, or It Is costing the owner more than half as much again to keep i iuii as ii cost men. How many workmen are receiving that much more wages? It will not Increase the respect of the American people for either of them, to listen to the bluster of Law son and Heinse, aa they bluff each other, with million dollar bets on each others corruption. The disclosures of Lawson, In his "Frenzied Finance" articles In Everybody's .Magazine, have been blunted by his seeming desire to gat even, In print, on some one who baa beaten him in finances. Walter D. Ford, of Portland, has sued the proprietors of the Blaster gambling house for 150,000 damages for tha loss of his left eye. which ha claims an employe of the firm knocked out without provocation, Oc tober . lee 11 iWfflWIlii The tree surf department officials flanus the fedaeal deficit for the fiscal ending June 10, l0t, at til,38, , sn. was 74.m tor October. SCANDELOIS OCCURRED THE SHAME OP PE.VDU TON! PAVL STBAWi 4 LEADING crniEX OV THE STATE OF OREGON ARRESTED AT THE D001 ma riiOTHING BT0I COrHT AND JOHNSON) in autre mobbed, tt i.....ll,i BK DioCKeo oy i . .l and m. Iiuuteu, j v.-. .- ( F.rM3RD HIM. . Lady customers at Uie "1 Insulted, hooted and row nmdneaa was destro)d , i,,l strain dared H ti,i. h.t and unders per cent profit clothing that reason men nVT) Eastern Oregon, the ok)" eat their hired bnwoi 1 tore and with J did ooh abase, ""'Vj as was ever heaped a' head, they ewore J from Pendleton, and j pealed to your PoUo,TJ protection that a J00"" be entitled to, If bowline mob, butiLJ Strain's business j crowds who w hideous, be etmpU ' Ins; ring placed rert because be "' j asked protection Men and woo people most Stndn from x' ' butcher, the 100 per who are oat of town centPJi r , Intrrested the snetlwd. toe','Trf What do V PENDLETON OREGON eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.aaa......... ias,,,-!ll''
