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Dimension lumber of all de
scriptions, Saab, Door. Blinds,
Moulding. Building and Tar Pa-
BRING YOUR BILL TO ITS
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Commercial Co.
Opposite W. A C. R. Depot.
The Colombia
Lodging House
Well ventilated, neat and eom-
fortabkt rooms, good beds. Bar
In connection, where the beat
good are served.
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tween Alta and Webb traeta.
P. X. SCHEHPP
PROPRIETOR.
H. M. SLOAN
BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing, general repair
ing, wagon making and repair
ing. The way I have bollt np
my buslneaa la by doing noth
ing but good work. Price rea
sonable. Cor. Cottonwood Aha Ota.
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ERN METHOD, MO.
We are thoroughly equipped
with ail modern metVoda and
appliances, and guarantee onr
work to be of the highest stand
ard, and our prices the lowest
consistent with flrst-clas work.
White Bros.
aav Dentists.
Ass elation Block.
' Telephone Main 1R1.
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Positively the Best Beer
Any quantity yoa desire.
Delivered to your home
Always call for OLYMPIA.
A. NOLTE
Telephone Main 881.
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BUT WITH
Rock Spring Coal
Recognized aa the beat
and most economical fueL
W are prepared to con
tract with yon for your
1 , winter's supply. We de
liver coal or wood to any
part of the city.
Laatz Bros.
MAIN STREET.
NEAR DEPOT
Building
The East Oregonlan Is Eastern Ore
gon'e representative paper. It leads
and the people appreciate It and show
at by their liberal patronage.. It Is
the advertkang mediant of this aectioa.
1 HQFER S PRIZE ART1GLE ON OREGON I
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Following are extracts from the
prise article on Oregon, written by E.
Hofer, of the Capital Journal of Sa
lem. The article was entered In the con
test started by the Commercial Club
of Portland, several months ago. ' It
was printed In a Clayton county,
Iowa, paper, and won the first prize
of ISO offered by the Portland Com
mercial Club. The article. In part. Is
as follows:
The population of Oregon Is com
prised of the choicest Immigration
from the Eastern states, mostly Amer
icans. In the past decade we have re
ceived a number of communities of
foreigners; this county has several
towns that are mostly German; an
other large settlement of Scandinavi
ans and a scattering of other nation
alities. These elements all blend to
gether to make a highly prosperous
community. I could take columns of
your paper to tell you about our won
derful scenery, our forests and moun
tain ranges. Large portions of the
state are being brought under culti
vation by Irrigation enterprises. Our
state has grand and noble rivers.
finding their way from the .mountains
to the sea. These rivers are stocked
with many varieties of salmon, form
ing a large part of the world's supply
of this royal fish. .
Our 500 miles of coast line is In
dented with many good harbors, beau
tirul bays and delightful beaches, and
summer resorts. While in the East
ern states It Is principally the mil
lionaires who can afford to spend
their summers at the ocean, in Oregon
any family of moderate means can
enjoy this luxury on the beautiful
beaches. Tour readers have all
heard of our great timber wealth and
undeveloped mineral resources. We
are about second or third as a gold-
producing state, and our mountains
are rich in attractions for the pros
pector, and onr country is overrun
with timber land locators. Western
Oregon has Just as fine a dairy region
as any part of your state, with this
difference, we have no freexing in
winter; and require no ice In sum
mer. In addition to general farm
ing, cattle and swine raising, we have
In Oregon many big money crops that
produce annually more wealth per
capita from the soil than probably
any state in the Union.
There is not a finer farming region
lying out of doors. The beautiful blue
Willamette river, rising In the moun
tains, flows north into the Columbia,
10 miles above Portland. The valley
Is from 10 to 60 miles wide, level and
very fertile, lying between the Coast
range and the Cascade mountains. We
enjoy a mild marine climate, this re
gion falling under the Influence of
the Pacific ocean. Our streams are
full of salmon from the sea. and trout
from the mountains Our orchards
are famous for their apples, pears,
prunes and English walnuts. The fin
est varieties of plums reach from two
to five times the size they do with
you. although I must admit that for i
high flavor and fine quality for pre
serves, give me the wild plums of
Iowa. All small fruits, from the
strawberry to the blackberry, grow !
in such profusion that selling becomes :
a problem. But canneries are being !
rapidly established, and our good i
things in this line are going to the
ends of the world.
We grow all the grain crops that
flourish In Iowa on a large scale, ex
cepting corn. But corn is becoming
rapidly acclimated. Just as it was In
Northern Iowa and Minnesota. Twenty-acre
fields are not uncommon of
early white and yellow dent Corn
is the great ensilage crop, being fed
ont of the silos II months in the
year, owing tq the absence of freezing
STOCK INTEREST IMPROVED. I
Nebraska and Colorado Take Deciit-
Ivc Measures to Cure Scab.
'Measures which the state veterln-
ary boards of Nebraska and Colorado 1
have taken to rid sheep of the scab (
in the last 10 years have proved most j
efficacious, and now sheep from those .
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HER IDEA.
Mrs .Wise I called in another doctor 10 see my husband.
Mrs. Dull Think It was for the best?
Mis. Wiae It don't make much difference. He has a paid-up policy.
temperature. This Is an Ideal dairy
ing country, as our butter makers re
quire neither Ice In summer nor arti
ficial heat In winter.
But besides dairying and fanning
uch as you have, this region can
boast of a number of big-money crops,
all risen to the magnitude of special
industries. We ship from this state
from four to six million dollars' worth
of hops. The hopgrower produces
for cents a pound a finished pro
duct which he sells In advance at 22
to 25 cents a pound. The Bur bank
potato Is a staple, thousands, of car
loads going from Texas to British Co
lumbia and throughout the Inter
mountaln region. Prunes are grown
on a large scale, one firm at Salera
handling 120 carloads a season.' Our
apple shipments are Increasing each
year, few of the choicest carloads
stopping this side of New York; many
going to England. Wool and mohair
are staple products. Mining and the
lumber Industry are in their Infancy.
Our county Is at present engaged In
building a wagon road Into a group
of mines whose output of copper,
lead and sliver will be simply Incal
culable. The forest of Western Oregon has
barely had a little brush trimmed off
Its edges. Other big-money crops are
strawberries, small fruits, cherries,
and last, but not least, wool and mo
hair. The Angara goat thrives to
perfection, and large bands of these
hardy animals are run on rough
land, used to clear up brush farms,
and when well handled they pay
about 200 per cent profit
Now, I am going to quit boasting
about Oregon and give you a few ex
amples of actual products that I am
personally familiar with. A five-acre
field of strawberries, one and one
half miles east of Salem, this year,
1904, produced 800 crates, that sold
at 11.25 a crate, netting the grower
85 cents. One hundred crates went
unpicked because he could not hire
pickers. Hi
A dairy farm of 18S acres, of less
than 90 acres cleared, milking 88
cowa, has brought the owner 14000
in cash for a number of years. His
cows paid over 2200 a month for
cream. He sold 338 hogs in 1902.
I must tell you a Loganberry story.
Seven acres for the first year's crop
turned off 1523 crates, that sold for
SI. 05 f. o. b. Another man. from
one and one-third acres, sold 96
crates, and the past summer had been
very dry, cutting down the yield
about one-third. I could give you
facts about alfalfa and common red
clover, showing profit of over 850 an
acre, but I would not start all your
people out this way In a bunch.
I must tell you a grape story. We
grow all the Btandard varieties, like
Concord and Niagara, and in addition
the finest French wine grapes, which
produce from 600 to 800 gallons of
wine per acre, that sells from 40 to
60 cents per gallon, but I will not tax
your patience with my further illus
tration of the wonderful fertility of
our soil or the products of our ell
mate.
But we have a substantial country,
and we do not live on climate and
tourists. Our climate is about the
same as that of West England. The
evergreen and Indigenous forests min
gle on our hills, and In our valleys
the laurel, mistletoe and rhododen
drons, as they - do In Virginia. The
English and black walnut thrive
equally. We have fine public schools
And good hunting and fishing. We
have good roads and good roadsters.
We have railroads and steamboat lines
and rapidly extending systems of trol
ley cars. The steamboats run sum
mer and winter on our rivers, and our
sawmills load vessels that go to
South Africa and South America.
district are accepted in other states
almost without being questioned, and
such a thing as quarantining any of
them is never though of." said Henry
J. Springer of Omaha, recently.
"The state of Colorado started in
about 10 years ago to establish a rigid
quarantine, and the state veterinari
an's department soon became popular
on account of the strict measures it
adopted against sheep from Infected
districts In New Mexico and Texas.
"Herd after herd of sheep were held
at the state line, and the veterinarian
refused to allow them to proceed
through the state until they had been
disinfected, or 'dipped,' as the pro
cess la called. The governors all stood
by the state veterinarian's depart
ment, and the results were so satis
factory that other states followed Us
example. Wyoming fell Into line and
then Nebraska, and the result has
been to almost eliminate sheep scab
from the herds In the western states.
"The members of the legislature of
Nebraska for a time opposed the
strict measures adopted by the state
veterinarian's department, but they
did not obtain the support they
wanted, and the result was that the
state department has been upheld.
The wars between the sheepmen
and the cattle men in the West are
almost a thing of the past although
the feeling between them still exists.
They have limited the ranges to their
own kind of livestock so closely that
conflicts are seldom heard ot It
used to be that sheepmen would not
hesitate to kill cattle that were tres
pastng on their ranges, and the cat
tle men did the same thing with sheep
and not a few lives have been lost
on account of the ill feeling prevail
ing between the two classes of men.
A BACH FESTIVAL
QUAINT CUSTOM OF A
PENNSYLVANIA CITY.
Moravian Church of Bethlehem Con
ducts a Series of Sacred Concerts
Each Tear Festival is In Honor of
Bach, the German Musician For
Two Centuries Bethlehem Has Been
the Mecca of Music Lovers and the
Moravians Will Perpetuate the
Beautiful Custom.
Bethlehem, Pa., Dec 28. This
quaint little city which owes its fame
chiefly to the fact that for nearly
two centuries it has been the center
of activities of the Moravian church
in America, Is Just now the Mecca o!
musicians and music lovers from
many parts of the country.
The occasion is the Bach festival.
for which preparations have been go
ing forward ever since last year when
a similar festival was given and
proved a great success. The series of
concerts opened this afternoon and
will continue until Saturday.
The present festival is only a part
of a cycle of unusual proportions. The
cycle is to be divided into three parts,
a Christmas, a Lenten, and an Easter
festival. It was decided to separate
the nine days of the cycle In this man
ner in order that the music might be
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Is Our Closing Out Sale of
Chinaware, Glassware and Crockery
AND PENDLETON PEOPLE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUT GOODS AT
WAT DOWN PRICES. WE HAVE DETERMINED TO DISPOSE OF EVERY ARTICLE IN THE .STOCK,
SO COME AND CARRY AWAY YOUR PORTION AT COST PRICES, AND SOME AT LESS THAN AC
TUAL COST.
DON'T HESITATE. COME IN AND SEE THE GOODS AND LEARN THE PRICES. THIS IS A
GREAT CHANCE TO SAVE MONEY.
A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE CUT IN PRICES:
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DEOORATED HIGH-CLASS PORCELAIN
8 dozen 5-Inch plates, per set ' 4UC 50c and 6c
to dozen 7-Inch plates, per se BC( aoc and
7f dosen 8-Inch plates, per set B0Ci 75c and ll.4
45 doaro creamers and Jugs 10c to 500
53 dozen meat platters, all slzos, from ' 10c up
FINEST LINE OF GOODS FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS AT YOUR OWN PRICE. THE GOODS
MUST BE SOLD. "
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The New Agricultural
The Oregon Agricultural College at I
' Corvallls, is enjoying one of the best
years In Its history. The attendance (
is expected to reach 600 before the.!
i end of this year. The college Is well .
. ih. host results in all
equipped to give the best results in all
branches of education, both literary
and mechanical. All the college
branches of education, both literary
and mechanical. All the college
branches are taught by able lnstrue-
tors, and In addition the Industrial j tory, about 210 per year. The winter '
branches, including farming, stock term begins January 2, and a ltrn -breeding.
irrigation. mechanical . additional attendance la expected si
trades, and all the sciences pertaining
to thorough farming are taught by
practical experts In these , various
branches of science.
presented, as nearly as possible, at
the proper church seasons for which
the works were originally composed.
The concerts opened this afternoon
with the "Christmas Oratorio." which
was presented In Its entirety. The
festival Is under the general direction
of J. Fred Wolle, a pupil of Rhein
berger, and who has been organist of
the Moravian church here since 1885.
COI.. GODFREY'S SERMON.
Well Known Soldier Administers
Stinging Rebuke to Kansas Mayor.
Since taking station at Fort Riley,
Kansus, Colonel E. 8. Godfrey. Ninth
cavalry has revoked the order of his
predecessors which sent a provost
guard to Junction City on pay day,
and kept It there a couple of days or
so to keep the soldiers In order, says
a Ft. Riley dispatch. The city author
ities asked Colonel Godfrey to restore
the provost guard because "the police
force is not large enough to preserve
order."
In refusing their request Colonel
Godfrey rapped them on the knuckles
in this sharp manner:
"If the people of the city tolerate
Institutions in violation of law, that
brings on the disorders complained
of. and if their chosen officers will
not punish the disorderly persons In
Success
A Beautiful Calendar With Each
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College Dormitory.
The college has graduated over SM
students hi Its existence as a stats to
stltutlon. One of its graduates, in
chief attorney for the Southern IW
fic railway, draws 240,000 per y-,
the highest salarv drawn i .- . '
profession on the Pacific coast
Tuition la free for students frost
Oregon; board costs about 22(0 Mr
week, and incidentals, IncludUw
books and breakages In th i.i
mm muc. uoBKfl are open at aQ
times Any desired Information cu
be secured from J. B. Horner. rrw
I trar, Corvallls, Ore.
their midst they must expect to sat.
far some of the ills of weak govern.
ment.
"If the brothels and saloons that
cause these disorders are tolerated,
for revenues, then the revenues shoals
b expended for such additional po
lice protection as will insure order
and quiet
"Kansas is a prohibition state, sol
the selling of liquors must therefore
be In violation of the law. Violations
of laws begets violations of laws. The
way to repress disorders Is to punish
the violators of laws, and I shall da
ull I can to help yon to bring any en
listed men who are disorderly to trial .
and punishment."
Colonel Godfrey promised that If
names nnd offenses of any men of hb
command who may be disorderly, to
gether with names and residences of
witnesses are furnished him he will
see they are court-martialed, and. If
found guilty, properly punished.
Colonel Godfrey has so much the
best of the argument that the mayer
promised to do all that he asked and
the clamor for a proovst guard ceana
to show up, though the saloons and
such kept right on In their usual way.
An unknown man was found froien
to death on the Union Pacific depot
at Cheyenne, Tuesday morning.
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