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PAGE PJCB. AILY EAST OIUSGOJOAX, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, IMS. EIGHT PAGES. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. PeMlsbed every fternoo (cxropt Biedey) at Pendleton- Oregon, by tk EAST OREGON! AN PUBLISHING COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily, one year, by mall Sl.Ot Dally, six months, by mail.... It Daily, three months, by mail.... 1.J6 Daily, one month, by mail SO Weekly, one year, by mall 1-60 Weekly, all, months, by mail TS Weekly, four months, by mall.. .SO Beml-Weekly, one year, by mall, 1.60 Seml-Wekly, six months, by mall .75 Semi-Weekly, four months, mail, .BO Member Scrlpps-McRae News Association. The East Oregonlan Is on sale at B. B. Rich's News Stands at Hotel Portland and Hotel Perkins, Port land, Oregon. San Francisco Bureau, 408 Fourth street Chicago Bureau, 909 Security Bldg. Washington, D. C. Bureau, 501 14th St., N. W. Telephone Main 11. Entered at Pendleton Postofflce as second-class matter. NOTICH TO ADVERTISERS. Copy for adrertUlng matter to appear In the Rut Orejtonlan must be In by 4 :45 p. m. of the preceding day ; copy for Monday's paper mint be In by 4 :45 p. m. the preced ing Saturday. For all men say of the gods, To grief they grant release; They lead us at last the life- pang past To the land of perfect peace, Where the frown of hate comes all too late, And the storm and thunder cease. Let us thank them for that gift That blessing on earth below, As we walk the ways of the bar- ren days, Where the red thorns wound us so! For the gift of rest In the silence blest, Deep under daisies and snow! Atlanta Constitution. TO REDUCE TAXES. The tax commission of Oregon can greatly reduce the tax on farming property, livestock, mercantile and other visible properties by a law com pelling the collection -of persona! property fax by the sheriff at county expense. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal property taxes are now due the state of Oregon, simply because sharks and tricksters refuse to pay such tax, knowing that to levy upon and collect this tax would consume more than the salary of the sheriff, as he must pay all such expenses himself, and cannot afford to do It. There never was such a flimsy law upon the statutes of any state as this, and It should be one of the first du ties of the commission to recommend a law covering this oversight. Another change that should be made, is one by which vacant lots held for speculative purposes escape their share of taxation, fn every city are hundreds of thousands of dollars tied up in vacant lots which escape almost all taxes and yet they are mul tlplylng In value through the enter prise of men who are building and paying taxes all around them. It is a rank injustice and should be reme died in order to reduce taxes on Indus try and activity. minister the affairs of the islands In a satisfactory manner. The governor has Inst the Influence which his predecessor possessed over the natives, and unless Taft succeeds In restoring the old relations the early retirement of Governor Wright must follow the tour of inspection of the secretary. One of the worst results of the gov ernor's course Is the refusal of the na tive property owners to pay the taxes evled by the new rulers of the coun try. Before the Americans came there was no such things as land and inter national revenue taxes. When they were imposed Governor Taft was able to "jolly" the leading natives into pay ing them, although it went much against their grain. Taft's way of get ting disagreeable things done was to get an influential native into his of fice and persuade him that by doing as the Americans wanted him to do he was really serving his own interests best. Wright's way has been entirely dif ferent Wright's way has been to point to the laws made by the legisla tive body and suggest to the balky native that he could read, or could hire some one who could, and that his business was to do what was com manded in the statutes. That way of governing has not been successful. It does no good In the Philippines to advertise lands for sale on account of delinquent taxes. The natives gen erally are too poor to buy even tax ti tles. The falling off In revenues has been so great that had it not been for the sale of bonds, the probability Is there would have been a financial collapse before this time. The thing that grinds most is the rejection of a compromise, because of defective titles with Dominican friars for the disposal of their lands to the Philippine government. The com promise was submitted to the Philip pine government for Its approval. The approval was to come as a mere matter of form, Taft thought In stead of approval, however, came a decided rejection. This reason for go ing to the islands arose after the trip was planned, but It made it Imperative that Taft continue his journey, even If John Hay was dead. READY FOR HARVEST. Some of the big "boss" gamblers who have been out of town for couple of months are back again ready for harvest to begin. The way the grand Jury dealt with the gambling question was simply a farce and the tinhorns know that the only power In Umatilla county which they have to fear la the people. They could afford to remain out of the city for a few weeks during the dull season, but to show their faith in the officials they are returning just in time to open in up in full blast to catch the worklngmen's money during the busy season. Games have been running continu ously in the old resorts, perhaps up stairs, but they have been running and every observant man knowa it, despite the alleged closing order from the city council. Some few children may be fooled by this kind of tactics, but very few mature, thinking men are being fooled by it The return of the gamblers just at the beginning of harvest Is the best evidence that they have nothing to fear from officials, and the gamblers know it or they would not return. BAD CONDITION IN ISLANDS. The imminence of an absolute breakdown In the civil government of the Philippines la what is taking Sec retary Taft to the Insular possessions. according to dispatches from Washing' ton. Governor Wright has not been able to get along with the natives In t. war that would enable him to ad The Unseen Universe About Us UMATILLA MAY BE PROUD. The educational exhibit from the various schools of Umatilla county make undone of the best exhibits of this klnctW-om any county In the state, excepting Those counties having large state Institutions. The public school exhllbt is espe cially fine and ranks well toward the head of the list of county exhibits. It is tastefully and artistically arranged and may be seen to good advantage, and every citizen of the county who visits the fair should Inspect this ex hlblt closely. In addition to the public school ex hlblt are exhibits from Pendleton academy, Weston Normal, Columbia college, St Joseph's academy and Pendleton Buslnes college, which, taken In conjunction with the public school exhibit place Umatilla county far in advance of other Eastern Ore gon counties and gives her a place close behind the boasted school coun ties of the Willamette valley, which have been built up largely through state expense and legislative favorit ism. The work of the different Bchools in the county is segregated and par' ents may find the individual work of their children by inspecting the work of the schools which their children attended. The work is classified in an able manner, is exhibited properly and with the addition of Indian pho tographs and drawings of Umatilla county scenes, comprises one of the most attractive school exhibits to be seen at the exposition. The collection of photographs and ko.,h,i1 manual training work of Weston Normal attract the attention of every person visiting the educa tional exhibit and will be a greater argument for the continuation of the normal than any other that could be placed before the people of Oregon According to the year book of the agricultural department for 1904 the grain crop of Washington, Oregon and Idaho waa 81,000,000 bushels last year. Washington produced 45,868, 000 bushels, which Is 10,000,000 bush els more than the joint yield of Ore gon and Idaho. The wheat included in the above figures was 88,140,008 bushels. This excellent showing may be increased this year. W alla Walla Horse Is Fast Kdirar Boy. the handsome stallion recently brought to Walla Walla by Walter L. Cadman, paced a trial worn out third heat yesterday In 8:11 flat, says the Walla Walla Statesman. He was accompanied by a runner ridden by Jockey White. Edgar Boy was driven by Robert Prior. The mile by quarters was as follows: First quar ter. 84 seconds; half, 1:07; tnree Quarters. 1:40; last quarter, 81 sec' onds. The track from the head of the tr.trh down to the first turn was very rough and cut up. The mile un der the circumstances was pronounced by the leading horsemen present as extremely fast for so early in the sea son. I do not speak of that which Is known as the spiritual world, but of purely material things. Without con juring any ghosts, we are continually surrounded by the "evidence of things ot seen, and the progress of science Is gradually revealing their existence, sometimes in the most startling man- er. We are accustomed to regard sight and hearing In their normal state as perfect senses, but their Imperfection, or rather the narrowness of their range, becomes every day more evi dent If we could really see and hear everything which the vibrations that cause light and sound would reveal to eyes and ears so constituted as to translate to the brain the Impressions of waves of any length whatever, this earth and this universe would be come far too wonderful for compre hension by existing . human intelli gence. The sunlight decleves us by Its bril liancy. We fondly think that It shows us everything, but In Its very midst we are like blind animals In a cavern, not aware of objects that stand all about and Impend over us. It may be mercy that our sight and hearing have ranges so narrow. If we could see with the X-rays a world of skele tons would surround us In place of the world of beautiful surfaces, of which lone we are commonly aware. We may Imagine that some among the strange creatures about us habitually behold these nightmares of which science affords a few glimpses, some of which make us shudder. What is true of the fuce of the earth is equally true of the broad universe beyond. We do not know what we are living amidst, or what companions our sun and his planets have. Many of these things lie Just beyond the ordi nary reach of our senses. Such a phenomenon Is the marvelous solar corona which astronomers are has tening to watch during its few min utes of visibility in Labrador, Spain and Africa next August. Other material existences are more deeply concealed, and some of those are being rendered partially evident. At the Potsdam observatory photo graphs have recently been taken of the Orion nebula, using a kind of light that the eye does not see at all, the so- called ultra-violet radiation. These photographs show that great glowing loud In a most amazing aspect, stretching across vast areas that to the eye and the telescope are - mere vacancies, and revealing contorted masses of nebulosity that defy descrip tion and explanation. On every side these strange Invisible things are mak ing their presence known. They are probably more numerous and of vaster volume than the apparent and preceptible contents of space. There is a new kind of glass Just coming Into use for optical Instru ments, "ultra-violet glass," which promises to utilize more completely than has heretofore been possible those radiations of light that lie Just beyond the grasp of the eye at the short-wave end of the spectrum. As tronomers are all agog to know what this glass will unveil In the heavens. As he thus pushes aside the curtain of the unknown and unrevealed uni verse man may some time shrink from going further, not because such knowl edge Is impious, but because It Is over whelming. Omniscience must be a fearful burden, not to be borne ex cept by an Intelligence that Is at the same time omnipotent. Garrett P. Servlss in San Francisco Examiner. THE "PROGRESSIVE DINNER.' One of the most unique and novel dinners ever given was enjoyed In San Francisco by a party of congenial friends on Saturday night. The func tion was called a "progressive dinner,' and consisted of single courses at nine different restaurants. The progressive feature was accom plished by means of the palace trol ley car "San Francisco," which car ried the diners from their first course at the Union League club, at Post and Stockton streets, to Montgomery and Pine streets, where the party enjoy' ed its oyster course. Returning with souvenir shells to the car they were whisked to an Italian restaurant on Davis street for soup and fish, and then by a circuitous route to a Mason street tavern, where the roast was served. The salad course was next served at an oyster grotto on O'Farrell street, after which a roundabout trip landed the company at the Merchants' club on Sansome street for the game course, which consisted of the game of "BOO," played at seven tables, and for which prizes were awarded. A grotto on City Hill avenue served cheese, crackers and coffee half an hour later, and this was followed by liquors at Twenty-fourth avenue and Fulton street The car then circled the park and went by the new scenic route to the Cliff house, where toasts and good cheer prevailed until mid night; then the party returned home, The Argonaut HUNTING WITH EAGLES. The hunting of foxes with eagles takes place among the Klrghese, In the southwest portion of Siberia, where the foxes' coats are ruddy and perfect The eagles are powerful birds, of such weight that a small wooden sup port Is carried by the eagle bearer, well grown bird of more than usually fierce temperament will occasionally kill a wolf. Directly any game Is seen the birds make their flight and swoop down with great precision. "One of these birds has, of my knowledge," writes our correspondent, "killed 17 foxes In the last six weeks. I can vouch for this killing of foxes by eagles, for I personally took seV' eral photographs and saw the whole sport from beginning to end. "Years ago I wrote a letter to the Field, telling how foxes swarm up small pine trees in Florida when 'kill' appears Imminent I have fre quently seen them do so, but I was politely told what an Ananias I must be." London Sphere. Praise is blame where it is not de sem4. TGie Seaside Mouse Clatsop Beach. Ore. Is now open for guests. This fine old Resort, situated on the banks of the Necanlcum river, only a few rods from the ocean, offers to Its patrons the Only Ideal Spot on the Coast for fresh and salt water Bathing, Fishing, Boating and Hunting. Free 'Bus to all trains. - Address all com munications to The Seaside Mouse 1 SEASIDE, OREGON. EL ECTRIC IF WEIR. IS THE CHEAPEST, HOST CONVENIENT, MOST SATISFAC TORY POWER KNOWN FOR ALL PURPOSES. IT IS READY FOR TO START THE WHEELS ROLLING AS SOON AS YOU THROW THE SWITCH, AND CAN BE SHUT OFF IN A MO MENTS NOTICE. NO FIRES TO BUILD, NO WATER TO CONSUME, NO ASHES TO EMPTY OUT WE DO ALL THA TFOR YOU, AND SAVE YOU MONEY BESIDES. Prepare tor Hot Weather FAN MOTORS WILL BE RUN AT THE FOLLOWING FLAT RATE 11-INCH FANS tl.50 PER MONTH 14-INCH FANS $3.00 PER MONTH SEE US ABOUT RATES FOR POWER. Northwestern Gas Electric Company i CAREFUL SERVICE Is characteristic of our ex aminations. Our tests are un erring and your Eyes are al ways safe In our care. LET US SHOW YOU HOW WB CAN MAKE YOU LOOK, We can relieve that squint, take away those frowns, and in many rases overcome headaches and relieve much nerve strain, which If left uncorrected will cans Irreparable harm. From the wee child to the) gray haired aire we offer this careful service. We can't af ford to make mistakes and Each Pair Fitted Sella Others. Wmslow Bros, f i JEWELERS-OPTICIANS. 817 Main Street Near Postofflce ! P. W. VINCENT, MANAGER. i t II I 1 t A.C.RUBY&CO. Breeders, Im- Sorters and dealers in Perc heron, English Shire Stallions and J Mammoth Jacks We still ha e on hand some of oar beat Horses and Jacks that we have held back for the Stud, and as breeding season la now on, we Invite ail fanners and breeders to inspect our stock. We can surely show yon the best In the country right at noma. . i; A. C. RUBY & CO. Oregon Feed Yards, Pendleton, Ore. 1 r Si,, M.. MIHMMIIMMMIMMIMMMMMIIIHMmiHHMH llwV Mi-'., 1 St. Anthony's Hospital Private rooms, elegantly fur nished. Finely equlpp-d operat ing room. Also Maternity De partment. Every convenience neceasarr for the care of the sick. Telephone Main MM. PENDLETON. OREGON. Weber Has Them Racine Buggies and Hacks and there are none better or more serviceable. Bain and Cooper Wagons built for this climate. Hodge and Keystone Harvesting Machinery. (Not made by the trust) All kinds of extras. Belting, oil, axle grease and laee leather. Harvesting supplies of all kinds. Fred Weber 320.333 Court St., Corner Thompson. TEETH EXTRACTED BY THE MOD ERN METHOD, 60C W. are thoroughly equipped with all modern met!. ode and appliances, and guarantee oar work to be of the highest stand ard, and our prices the lowest consistent with flrat-elaa work, T. H. White DENTIST ASSOCIATION BLOCK Telephone Main 1M1. W. T. PARKER Dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries and Notions Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and Farm Produce. I have just purchased the D. B. Richardson store at Helix, Oregon, and I am going to thoroughly remodel it and greatly Increase the stock. I solicit your patronage, and if good goods and fair treatment can hold your trade, then I know you will trade with me. Bring in your farm pro duce. Highest market price paid. HELIX ...... OREGON CHICKENS NEED B.TTETT, BONE GRIT AND MANY OTHER THINGS WHICH C.F.Colcsworthy CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH, 117-lSt BAST ALTA STREET. LAND SCRIP FOR SALE. Unrestricted forest reserve scrip for sale at lowest market prices. My scrip secures title to tlm'-ered, farm ing, (rasing or desert land, la any quantity, without residence or Im provement Address H. M. Hamilton, The Portland. Portland, Oregon,