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SCHEME SEEMS ASSV1
:E1.
Settlors A iv signing Nwesary Affi
iliivits to .liiMlfy llio Government in
tSoliig Ahoiul Willi Plan Walla
Walla timl I'miiklin Counties Both
Help the Project Land Will Cost
865 Per Acre When Irrigated.
"Prospects of securing f.ivornble
action on ihe construction of the Pa
louse river irrigation project are
brighter than at any time since the
consulting engineers made their last
report," said C. Eugene Bortle, sec
retary of the northwest section of the
National Irrigation association to the
Spokesman-Review.
"Three kinds of affidavits are being
signed and sworn to before a notary
public throughout the various Irrigat
ed districts of the state and among
the people who have holdings under
the proposed Palouse project. The
latter testifies to the fact that the
man who owns lands under this pro
ject is willing to pay (65 an acre for
the Irrigation of his lands by the gov
ernment, providing It Is necessary to
pay this amount, or even J100 per
acre if this sum will be no.uired.
"Another affidavit is bring signed
by a man who owns lan is now irri
gated, showing the revenues that they
are producing each year, amount of
labor employed, number of acres li
fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.
"In glancing over some of the sign
ed affidavits that are now coming In
it Is interesting to note that some of
the lands under Irrigation ir. this state
are producing revenues to their own
ers amounting to as high as (550 an
acre, and very few lands are produc
ing less than $50 an acre.
"When these affidavits are all in
they will be sent to the secretary of
the interior to show relative land
values in the countries contiguous to
the Palouse project: and with the
many favorable conditions that exist
In the country embraced in the Pa
louse project will show that the lands
will stand as security for an expendl
ture by the government of even $100
an acre.
Walla Walla Club Helps.
"The Commercial club of Walla
Walla has .aken the matter up In co
operation with the National Irriga
tion association and with the men that
are represented on the irritation com
mlttee of that organization, we feel
that we are on the right track to-1
ward securing favorable action in the
construction of this project.
"Last week the Walla Walla Com
mercial club called a meeting in the
parlors of the Hotel Dacres and adopt
ed resolutions Instructing the Irriga
tion committee to assist In the work
of securing data showing land values
in this Btate and to aid In enlisting
members to the association to meet
the expense of carrying on this work.
"There is perhaps no one man In
the state that is any more interested
In seeing this project through than
Senator Ankeny, who is th? chairman
of the Irrigation committee of the
Walla Walla Commercial club.
Franklin County Agists.
"The Franklin county chamber of
commerce has recognized and is work
ing with the association in endeavor
ing to secure prompt and favorable
action by the reclamation service and
secretary of the Interior in the con
struction of the Palouse irrigation
project.
"Although the Okanogan project is
still under investigation, tnc National
Irrigation association has retained its
interests in its power, and we are do
ing all in our power to liavi the gov
ernment take favorable action in its
final report, as we believe that what
ever the price may be for the con
structlon of the Okanogan project the
government can well afford to carry
that through to completion at the
same time with the Palouse project.
AUSTRALIAN DIVORCES.
Average is Large, Hut Still Iiwer
Than the United States.
American Consul Goding of New
castle, New South Wales, sends the
following report to the department
of commerce and labor on the sub
ject of Australian divorces:
Divorces In the Australian states
are more numerous than In most of
the countries of the world, though the
average Is far below that reached In
the United States. The number Is
particularly large In Victoria and
New South Wales, where the facilities
f ir procuring divorce are greater
than they are in the other states.
Since the passing of the Shiels act
of 1890, which made desertion for
throe years a ground for divorce in
Victoria, divorces have averaged over
100 per annum, the greatest number
being 131 In 1902, and the lowest, 85,
GOLDEN
GATE
COFFEE
Always the same.
Not up then down.
Not good today
bad tomorrow.
J. A. Folder O Co.
Aroma- rt jtfTi t!
' rajj bulk.
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in 1895. The total for the period
1891-1903 was 1250. and the average
per 10,000 marriages for the period
1896-1902 was 125.4. I
In countries where divorce laws arc
In force this record Is only surpassed
by those of uermany, 165; France.
180; Roumanla, 204; Switzerland.
432, and the United States, 612, di
vorces for every 10,000 marriages.
Mr. Coghlan, the government sta
tistician, has divided the time since
1890 in two periods, and the average
number of divorces in Victoria has
Increased from-119.6 in the first
period, 1891-1895, to 125.4 In the sec
ond. 1896-1902. In 1903 there were
119 divorces and "605 marriages, glv
ing an average per 10,000 marriages
of 156.5 for the 12 months, but a com
parison founded on one yearly period
is not altogether fair. It may, on the
whole, be concluded that divorces in
Victoria remain at a fairly constant
level, which thoueh high, shows no
sign of any extraordinary increase be
yond the proportional one to be ex
pected with the increase of popula
tion. In New South Wales the figures
are much higher than they are in
Victoria. An act similar to the Vic
torian measure came into force in
New South Wales in 1892, and the
number of divorce decrees at once
showed an increase an almost
alarmine Increase. In the quinquen
nial period 1891-1896 the number oi
divorces granted in New South Wales
was no fewer than 1087 against in
for the period immediately preceding
it. This total gives an average if
272.3 divorces per 10,000 marriages.
which is much more than double the
average in Victoria during the same
years, and is exceeded only Dy in nv
for Switzerland and tne umiuj
States. In the period isu-i?"i y
number of divorces granted in New
South Wales was 1675, an average of
268.4 per 10,000 marriages, tne intra
greatest among all countries
divorces are in force.
In the other states of the common
wealth the averages are comparative
ly lnw helne 41 for West Australia
and Tasmania, 30 for Queensland, and
29 for South Australia. New Zea
land, on the other hand, had 316.6
divorces per 10,000 marriages dur
ing the six years from 1896 to 1902.
The figures for other countries per
10,000 marriages, are as follows:
Canada, 4; United Kingdom, 11; Nor
way, 16; Austria, 43: Greece, 50;
Belgium. 81; Sweden, 87; Cape Col
ony, 98, and the Netherlands, 103.
F. W. Goding, consul, Newcastle, New
South Wales.
REJECTED ROCKEFELLER.
Woman Who Turned Down Oil Mag,
nate Now in Poor House.
An isolated world Is the county hos
pital; It has its nobility and its ca
naille, says the Los Angeles Dispatch.
The unique personage as well ai
the most select in the diversified com
munltv is Miss Mary Barbeaux. To
dav she received and scorned the
third summons to go east to claim
$650,000 recently left her by the will
of her uncle.
Flftv years ago Miss Barbeaux,
then Just out of Vassar college, did
something Just as remarkable as her
refusal of tne inheritance. While the
re,l woman herself will not discuss
the interesting bit or history, u is
more than gossip that Miss Barbeaux
rejected the suit of John D. Rocke
feller, now the richest man in the
world.
When it Is known that the woman
who now passes the hours of sunlight
In a rocker on the glass covered o ircn
of the women's ward of the county
hospital was an intimate friend of
President Garfield, the tnougni inai
she rejected an opportunity to be
come mistress of the greatest fortune
that was ever accumulated, pernaps,
will not seem startling.
Miss Barbeaux has arrived at mat
nee when she admits that memory
rneanllnn the date of her Dirtn is
superfluity. Forgetting gallantry for
a moment, her age Is hazarded at 70.
itur hair is snow white, her race
alive with intellectuality. She has the
air of an aristocrat; the brow of a
poetess. She is a graduate of Vassar j
college and was instructor in the
higher branches of learning In some
of the best colleges of New York
state for years. z
All this Is aside. Miss Barbeaux's
chief claim to distinction Is the fact
that she prefers poverty, poverty al
most to humiliation, to the great
wealth which would be thrust upon
her.
Miss Barbeaux's philosophy Is
summed up in one of her sentences.
"I believe,' she said today, as she
tucked the letter away hi her wrapper,
"I believe that every person In the
world deserves his condition. I am in
the county hospital a subject of
charity: I deserve to be. I was an
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Pendleton High School Track
inmate of the county poorhouse; I
deserved to be.
"What have I ever done to earn
$650,000? Nothing. If it were mine
by right of conquest, I would glo:-v In
It perhaps.. But the good Lord has
turned my footsteps into a path that
does not lead to $650,000. Indeed,
there have been few pennies in my
way for the past several years.
"It has always disputed me when
I have read of indigents coming into
large fortunes. Why, I have always
said that I would have the woman
hood to resist any such temptation
were it offered me. To take money
that doesn't belong to you by the light
of achievement the sweat of your
brow Is too much like stealing."
The only word which she will send
the lawyers will be that she absolute
ly refuses to take a cent of the
money and relinquishes all claim to
it.
Concerning John D. Rockefeller.
vii Rnrheaux's comments were
brief.
"Yes, I knew him quite well when
he was a young man," she said. I
never liked the man though I real
ized that he would succeed."
"Why didn't you like him. Barbie?"
asked the pretty nurse. She always
calls her gentle patient "Barbie."
Miss Barbeaux made a wry face.
"Really." she said, "he was so stingy
and and I could never believe any
thing he said."
COMING EVENTS.
June 2-3 Eleventh annual
plo-
neers" reunion, Weston.
June 7 Pendleton and Heppner
T)av at Lewis and Clark fair.
.Tune 21-2 4 National Good Roads
association. Portland.
June 22. 23 and 24 Tournament
Northwest Sportsmen's association,
Portland.
June 22-28 National Woman's
Suffrage Association, Portland.
July 6 Dedication Sacajawea mon
nme. i l.'i sni Clark fair, Port-
Ujr.c '
July 11-14 American Meaicai
soclatlon, Portland.
Comparisons to Think About.
There was a time when tallow can
dies cost 10 cents each and gave less
than one-twentieth of the lllumina
tlon for a dollar that gas gives.
There was a time, and very recent
ly, when gas, per unit of illumination
(candle power), cost the punnc aou
ble what it docs now.
There was a time (still more re
cently) when there was no elcetrl
light- turning night Into day.
There was a time when we were
satisfied to travel four miles an hour
in an omnibus or horse car without
lleht or heat or transfers and pay six
to ten cents for what we now get for
five rents, with llKht and heat, and
with speed doubled.
There was a time when we thought
it was a ereat thing to be able to tele
nhone to a friend for 15 cents, and
vet we are not satisfied. American
Grocer.
Tiger Flesh Popular.
Evidently tiger flesh Is a popular ar
tir-ie of diet' with the Chinamen of
the Straits. A young but well grown
tister was shot hy a Malay and wa
hrnnirht In to Teluk Anson for the
usual government reward of $25. Th
skin, which was beautifully smooth
and soft, was soon disposed of and
the meat was sold In town at 40 cent:
a catty. Penang Echo.
Build Your Fences to Last
EXTRA GOOD CEDAR POSTS, WHICH ARE FREE FROM
DEFECTS AND WILL STAND THE WEATHER.
COAL TAR, THAT PRESERVES THE POSTS, $8.50 A BAR
REL. LET US FIGURE WITH YOU ON BUILDING MATERIAL.
OREGON LUMBER YARD
ALTA STREET.
(eeeaae
THE ALTA HOUSE
S. C. BTTTNER, Proprietor.
Enlarged and refitted. Thirty clean, well-kept rooms with
good beds.
Oammodlona dining room, where meal are served to family
style, AD white help.
ITR8T-CLAS8 ACCOMMODATIONS AT REASONABLE PRICES.
FEED TARD IN CONNECTION.
STOP AT TUB
ALTA HOUSE, Cor. Alta and Mill Streets
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Team, "05.
NEWS OF MILTON
CAI.IKORMAN RETURNS
FOR A VISIT l'O Mll.TOX,
Twenty-two MiltonitCH Cnnip to Pen
dlcton Recent Arrival From limit
Mrs. Tnlbert Is Delegate to State
Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias
and Odd Fellows Engage in Sprint
ing Match Young Ladies Have
Homesteads ill Franklin County.
Milton, May 31. Alonzo lia-tlett.j
a former Miltonlte, is here liom Call-,
fornla for a visit. It has been 12
years since Mr. Bartlett left here, and '
he has noticed many changes, and Is
satisfied that Milton is 'he place for
him to live.
Twenty-two from Milton went
down to Pendleton Sunday on the ex-
ursion to the ball game.
Charles Rundell has arrived from
owa and will remain here. He is a
nephew of Dr. C. W. Thomas.
Mrs. William Talbert will leave to
night for Portland, where she will at-
end the Rebekah grand lodge and
also the exposition.
Dorsey Hill, county clerk of Walla
Walla county, was here Sunday vlslt-
ng his uncle, I. W. Berry.
Yesterday afternoon a haseball
game was played on Miller's grounds,
by the Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias. The errors of the game were
very noticeable and afforded a great
deal of nmusement for the spectators. !
The score was 32 to 34 In favor of the'
Knights of Pythias.
The Misses Elsa Rosenwelg and ,
Nettle Cannon, of Athena, are guests
of Miss Jennie Dykes. The young
ladies are on their way to their home-
sieaua 111 rranRiin county, wnere tney
win ttptMiu ine summer.
A helpmate to prosperity in busi
ness is Kast Oregonlan advertising.
HOLD TO YOUR MONEY,
Until you have seen us and had us
figure on your bill of lumber.
We carry building material of every
description and have the boat quality
of lumber on the market.
Agents for WOOD ITI1ER PLAS
TER. Company
W. .1. KEWELL, Mannger.
Phone Main 92.
444t
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.
44444
Zf IX THE
S3
One way to foolishly waste time Is
to spend today planning to do tomor
row what should have been done yes
terday. The Head f a Department of the
U. S. GOVERNMENT
SAYS ORRINE CURES
Whiskey Habit
60VERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WMhtDprtoo.D.O., ApnllA. 1901
rh rtrrinAfjA.. Tnn Wuhinston. D.O.
Gntlniii : My attention wu recently e&tled to
one of thtemployM of this offlc who bio. thromrb
hftbkU of Intoxicating drink, bcomio innfflclsni
m to bo on th verire of dumlBnal. Ton will b in
iritd to know tbt In aix wMki not only th
appetite, but practically all of tha ordinary tlgna
nf duutnatlon. dmftoiMind. and I am aMurad br
thoa IntflreatM that to "Orrina" baton gn thaeradit
for thli eicolleot remit. It ia a plauura to ma to
acknowlfxJir the Taiua of a rernady which brlnga
t uuttv 41.
ffuilr.
Take Orrlne quietly at home I
To earn vtthont patleat'a knowlodrs, buy Orrlot,
Ho I ; lor vuiuni&ry uuuocoi, our uttmm iw,
Pic, 11.00 n Box.
Car etfectod or none? rofuxSod.
Bnok on " DrwikoDnMM " (Malodlrreo on roquwu
OrrlDOiiiatloutoemleaionrocotpioiBi.w 07
The Orrine Co., Inc., Washington, D. C.
k Sold and rocommosuotl bj
Brock & McComas Co., Pendleton, Or.
No
Frenzied
Finance
In the real estate we have for sale.
Real estate is the only safe founda
tion for a sound financial operation
There is something to build on.
t.i. mnn,n h it ir.
property and It will increase In value
We have desirable property In all
parts of the city, as well as rancha
farms and small tracts.
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W. E. Davidson &Co.
Ill Co t Street.
POPULAR PLACE" TO
EAT IS THE
The French
i Restaurant
Everything served first-clans.
Rest regular meals In Pendle
ton for 25 cents.
SHORT ORDERS
A SPECIALTY.
Bonner N. B.
24702
Standard and registered; record. 2:17.
Owned by Gus LaFontalne.
Be In Pendleton every Saturday and
Sunday. Wednesday, Echo. Mon-
days and Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Friday at Adams. Lee Price will have
clinrge, as Inst year.
SCHEDULE Of
PEN DLETON-UKIAH
Stage Line
Dully trips between Pendleton an
Cklah, except Sunday. Stage leaves Pea
dleton at 7 a. m., arrives at Cklah at
p. m. Return atage leaves Uklah at
' , . n.n.lalMi K n m
Pendleton to Uklah, fS; roond trip, &
l enfJieiOU IU Usllsiu, fo, cvwuu Mips
Pendleton to Alba, sjtos rMM tn so.
Pendltoa to Ridge. 2 ; roond trip, J60.
Pendleton to Wye, ii.out rooaa mp, u.ov.
Pendleton to Pilot Boas, ill rotua tnp,
at no.
Office at Brock a
MeCoama' Drag Htere
Walters' Flouring Mills
Capacity, 1(0 barrels a day.
Floor exchanged for wheat
Flour, Mill Feed, Chopped
etc,, always an hand.
Feed,
OREGON
Sl.OIrLlNa!
UNION PACIHC
jam
TWO TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY
Through Pullman standard and
Tourist Sleepers dally to Omaha and
Chicago; tourist sleeper dally to Kan
sas City; through Pullman tourist
sleeping cars (personally conducted)
weekly to Chicago; reclining chair
cars (seats free) to the East dally.
TIME SCHEDULE FROM PENDLE
TON. ' EASTBOUND.
No 2, Chicago Special, arrive t.tO
p. m.; depart, 6:40 p. m.
No. (, Mall ft Express, arrive! 4:15
a. m.; depart, 6 a. m.
WESTBOUND.
No. 1, Portland Special, arrive 8:6
a. m.; depart, 8:50 a. m.
No. 5, Mall & Express, arrive, 11
p. m.; depart 11 p. m.
SPOKANE DIVISION.
No. 7, Pendleton passenger, arrive.
6:85 p. m.
No. 8, Spokane passenger, depart.
9:10 a. m.
WALLA WALLA BRANCH.
No. 41, Mixed train, arrive, 1:4
p. m.
No. 42, Mixed train, depart, t.tv-
p. m.
No. 7 connects with no. i.
No. 42 connects with No. 2.
OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE.
FROM PORTLAND.
All sailing dates subject to change.
For San Francisco ever yflve days.
SNAKE RIVER.
Rlparla to Lewlston Leave Rlparla
dail, except Saturday, 4:05 a. m.
Leave Lewlston dally, except Fri
day, 7:00 a. m.
E. C. SMITH, Agent, Pendleton.
Washington &
Columbia River
Railroad
TAKE THIS ROUTE FOR
Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, Kanaa
Clty, St. Joseph, Omaha and
ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTH.
Portland and PolnU
on the Sound.
TIME CARD.
Arrive Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day at 8 p. m.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
1 p. m. Leave at 7 p. m. dally.
Leave Walla Walla 9 p. m. for east
Arrive Walla Walla 11:86 a. m. from
west.
For Information regarding, rates an
accommodations, call on or address
W. ADAhb, Agent.
Pendleton, Oregoa.
8..B. CALDKRHEAD. O. P. A.,
Walla Walla, Waablngtoo.
RUNS PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS
ELEGANT DINING CARS
TOntlST SLEEPING CARS
ST. PAUL
MINNEAPOLIS
DULUTH
FAROO
TO ( GRAND FORKS
CROOKSTON
WINNIPEG
HELENA and
BUTTE
THROUGH TICKETS TO
CHICAGO
WASHINGTON
PHILADELPHIA
NEW YORK
BOSTON
And all points East and Bouth.
Through tickets to Japan and China, via
Tacoma and Northern 1'aclflc Bteamahla
Co. and American line.
TIME SCHEDULE.
Tralni leaTe Pendleton dallr excent
day, at 7 :00 p. m.
For farther Information, time earda.
maps and tickets, call on or wrlta W.
Adama, Pendleton, Oregon, or
A. I. IHAKLTOK,
Third and Morrison Bts., Portland, Or.
YOU WILL BE
SATISFIED
WITH TOUR JOURNEY
I If your tickets read over th Da
Iver and Rio Grande railroad, the
"'Scenle Line of the World,"
BECAUSE
Ther r so many aoenlo ftttraetloM
tw I aUU IIUIUM vt iiiraisit wivug kmmw umm
between Otden and Denver that tk
, . ,.-,..
1 "
If yon ar going Bast, writs for la-
form atlon and get a pretty book that
will tsll yon all about It
W. C M 'BRIDE, Genera Accstf,
1M
Portland,
Oregon
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