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"' ij 'Tt - rn-iir- Mi J m MrBiiWB) aSiM ii ir n "T EIGHT PAGES. D.1LY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 10. Ill Keep Your Money Oregon Every Loyal Oregonian is in favor of that. Try it with your lite insurance. The Ore gon Life Insurance Company, Fifth Floor Macleay Building, 286 Washington Street, Portland, Oregon. L. SAMUEL, Mgr. Keep Your Money in Oregon FULTON MAKES HIT OREGON'S SENATOR IN A SPIRITED DEBATE. Wa-lilugtoti Post Reviews the. Sena tor's Fight for an Amendment to the Freight Rate Hill and Says lie Made, a lHx-klodly Favorable Ira lirewsion Senator Fornkcc Sustains Dillon's Position. USE WINTER FLOODS. The Washington Post gives the fol lowing entertaining account of Sen- Eerinient8 In Hudson Ray District Bear Fruits. Reports from the lower Walla Walla river and Touchet country are to the effect that all Irrigation ditches are either undergoing repairs or do ing full duty on winter Irrigation, says the Wulla Walla Union. The success attained by the Hudson Bay farmers In flooding their lands in the winter has caused many of their neighbors who are short of water for Irrigation purposes in the summer to turn to the idea Inaugur ated by the alfalfa raisers across the Walla Walla river. There is a shortagi! of water in the Touchet. Mill creek and the Walla Walla during the summer irrigating season, and much land has been neg- GROCERS DEMANDS AUK PLANNING FOR STATE LEGISLATION IN NEW YORK Want a Iv Affecting the Relation or Creditor and Dr-bUtr for Grocery Hills ANo Free Trade In Tens and IXirfees, a Ihtre Food Imw, and tlie Dereat of the Parcels Post Law Every Portion of tho Community Is Represented 111 (I Primarily State Gathering. ator Fulton's first appearance in a ' leeted for- years because of an appar spirited contest on the floor of the ent lack of water. This same land Is senate- i now being sown to alfalfa and will Rate legislation held the boards In the senate yesterday. -was brought forward unexpectedly, j It Is believed that the use of the and from a source that had not been ; o waters of the several streams of guarded. As soon as the topic was Walla Walla county during the winter sprung, the senate sat bolt upright i months is Just in Its infancy, and each I produce three crops per year after i the land has been flooded during the The question , Wnter. and took notice. Every senator in the chamber turned in his seat and gave attention to each speaker in turn with an Intensity of interest much like that manifested by Jurors at a murder trial. The debate was provoked by Mr. T"ulton of Oregon, who made his first appearance, so to speak, before the senate, and who, by the way, created an excellent Impression. He offered an amendment to the Dolllver bill, giving the courts power to modify orders of the Interstate commerce commission when such or ders are confiscatory. Mr. Fulton pro All Livestock Doing Finely From the OiMMilng of Winter. Alba. Jan. 22. There Is now 20 ceeded to explain his proposition, and lnches of enow a little sklft coming year will see more and more Irriga tion of land during the seasons of the year when water is plentiful. It has been proven to the satisfac tion of everyone concerned that if the heavier soils are thoroughly saturated and soaked with water during the winter they will retain sufficient mois ture to mature almost any kind of a crop during the summer. HAPPENINGS AT ALHA. llmost in a twinkling Messrs. Fora Iter, Bailey. Spooner and Nelson were at it hammer and tongs. It seemed at one time that the whole question was to be opened up and seriously debated. Mr. Fulton's speech was interrupted so frequently and at such considerable length that "he was compelled to occupy the floor for more than two hours. He brought on one of the finest skirmish fights of which the senate has yet been the scene on the question of railroad reform. Entailing Great Expense. Mr. Fulton said that hjs provision Is intended to prevent the enforce ment of unjust decrees, and argued that as the Dolllver bill stands In case such an order should be issued, it would be impossible for the commis sion to change It until afler great de lay, with consequent great expense. In response to a suggestion by Mr. Clay he contended that the amend ment does not confer legislative func tions upon the courts. He said that only congress had power to fix rates, but that it could enact laws delegat ing the authority. He said in response to a question from Mr. McCumber that he did not -consider the determination of what was a reasonable rateIn a given case a matter for legislation, but rather for Judicial determination. Mr. Foraker also took the view that such action was necessarily a Judicial function, and said that courts fixing such rates should have authority to enjoin greater rates than those fixed by them. Mr. Spooner defined the, present status to be In accordance with decis ions of the supreme court, that the courts had the right to determine what rate wrs reasonable in desig nated cases, but that the fixing of rates for the future was .necessarily not a Judicial function. Mr. Fulton and Mr. Bailey engaged 1n a colloquy about the question of rates, the former contending for the right of the courts to determine what was a reasonable rate and the latter Inclining to the opinion that courts could only determine that certain cases were unreasonable. Mr. Fulton contended that the determination of the one point included the other, but Mr. Bailey quoted decisions to show that where courts had found rates to be confiscatory they had failed to at tempt to fix a rate. Mr. Foraker expressed the oplnl in that Mr. Fulton was entirely correct in his position. every night, making It Ideal weather for feeding stock, as the new snow makes a clean place to feed, which makes the feeding lots In good con. dltlon for stock, which are doing bet ter than usual on account of the win. tor being so uniform. There have been no breaks to speak of for the past six weeks. The basket dance at the Dixie ranch Friday night was the most brilliant affair of the season, under the man agement of Ray Harpool. The crowd commenced coming about 7 o'clock in sleighs of all models, from the dash Ing cutter to the four-horse bobsled. As many as 15 came In one sleigh The dance took place in the bunk- house, which was trimmed for the occasion." At 12 o'clock Mr. Harpool appeared on the floor and announced supper now ready up at the house, a few rods away, and nil then marched to the residence, where the spacious hall had been converted Into a din ing room. The ladles appointed an Investigating committee at the close of the supper to Inquire if there were any deserving poor In the neighbor hood, that they might dispose of ti fragments left. After a careful in vestigation it was discovered that the only needy were a few old bachelors, who were each one presented with a basket well laden with delicacies. W. Scott, who has been busy work ing on his boating pond, had to sus pend business for the present on ac count of the snow which is 28 inches deep at thnt place. The pond when completed will comprise about 10 acres, and will be from 3 12 to 20 feet deep. The dam is 20 feet high. Niagara Falls, N. T Jan. 23. More than 2000 members and delegates of the National Association of Retail Groovers of the United States were In attendance this morning, when President Klrby, of the Niagara Falls Retail Grocers' association, called the ninth annual convention of the nation al organization to order in the audi torium of the Natural Food company. The delegates were welcomed by Mr. Klrby and the mayor of Niagara Falls and appropriate responses were made by several delegates from other states. Then President J. A. Green, of the national association, delivered his an nual address and the other officers of the organization submitted their an nual reports. As outlined In his address by Pres ident Green many highly important matters will come up for considera tion before the convention and the latter promises to be one of the most nterestlng and Important ever held In the country. Among the various needs of the retail grocers In this country are the following: An amendment to the bankruptcy laws, sc that debts for necessaries shall be treated as pre ferred claims, or better, that no dis charge be granted from such debts. The adoption of the Dixon bill, com pelllng civil service employes to pay their accounts for necessaries; the doptlon of a reasonable pure food law, which will properly guard the Interests of the grocers; some equl table settlement of the premium ques tion; the defeat of the parcels post bill, which would seriously Injure the interests of the retail grocers; to de. feat the plan of laying an import duty on tea and coffee and other mat. ters of equal Importance. For some time the proposition has been agitated to secure the passage of a law which would require grocers and their clerks to pass certain ex aminations and obtain a license before they are permitted to engage in the retail grocery business, but there Is considerable opposition to that plan am? it Is not considered probable that a majority of the delegates will pavor any action In favor of a license law. Among the delegates attending the convention are many of the most prominent retail grocers in the coun try. Every part of the country is well represented and the delegates are taking the greatest Interest in the alms and purposes of the national or ganization, which wns established mainly for the mutual protection of the retull gracers' trade. The conven tion wilt last three days and the dele gates will be royal'y entertained dur ing their stay in this city by the members of the Niagara Falls Retail Grocers' association. The headquar ters of the national convention are at the Imperial hotel, where a number of receptions, smokers, banquets and other soclnl functions will be given in honor of the visiting delegates. GENERAL NEWS. Bush fires In western New South Wales, are raging along a 70-mile front and doing Incalculable damage. Several Uvea have been lost. John Singer Wallace, who has been a chaplain In the navy since his ap polntment 'by President Lincoln in 1863, Is dead at Alameda, Cat., aged 74 years. The large freight steamer Reea Lee, struck a snag near Tlptonville, Tenn., on the Mississippi, and sank. No lives were Jost, but nearly ull of a valuable cargo was. January 21 tho ocean at Cpney Island was so warm thnt many were bathing In the surf. Twenty-four hours later tjie mercury recorded 2 degrees below r.ero. A Japanese agent has secured 17,- 000,000 English capital for investment in Japanese manufactures. The plants will be built and operated In Japan, where labor is cheaper than In Eng land. J. A. McFarland, a prominent bus iness man of Dale, Ark., has been ar rested charged with robbing the bank at Dale, of which institution he Is vice president. Four thousand dollars was taken. At Cadiz, the county seat of Trigg county, Kentucky, Ernest Baker, a negro, was taken from Jail and hang ed by a mob. He was nccused of at tempting an assault on a young white woman. ' Wnlter Cnrczlatya, a Chicago f loonkeoper, was shot and killed by robbers In his saloon at 588 Noble street, the night of January 21. Six customers were made to stand In line while the robbers rifled the cash reg ister. The proprietor seized one of the masked men and was shot three times by the other. The assailants escaped. VORTUWKST N'EWS. Joe Toung. who shot Rasper Van Dran, began on January 22 to set time at Salem. His sentence Is for six years. Jack Woods, a hard drinker and a pioneer of Portland, was found dead In a tight room, with the gas turned on. Suicide is suspected. William Helmlck, aged 18 years. accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting ducks, near Independ ence, Oregon. He was found with a heavy charge of shot In his right side. The postal receipts at Klamath Falls were 11038.11 during 1906, or 31 per cent greater than for 1904 The receipts In the Klamath county clerk's office were Just 100 per cent greater during 1905 than 1904. Between Coqullle and Marshfleld, mall pack horse fell 40 feet over a cliff and Into the river, which It swam and the next day was found quietly grazing on the other side. Nearly all the mnll was lost In the rfver. As a result of suffering brought on by hard drinking, Benjamin F. Hay den, one of the proprietors of the Fashion livery stable at Portland committed suicide January 21 by swallowing carbolic acid. Mr. Hay- den was 87 years of age and It Is not known that he left any living relatives. He left all his property, a $4000 Inter est In the Fashion stables, to Claud McMasters, a young man to whom he was much attached. HILL LEAVES W1IITSLYN. MISS DHOFNAII'S READING. Irving's nucha Wafers cure Scalding Urine, Backache, Rheu matism, Nervousness, Loss of Flesh, Bedlment In the Urine, Renal Calculi, TMahetes and all Kidney troubles, In cluding Bright's Disease. They are purely a vegetable compound and act directly on the weakened tissues and olood vessels of the kidney and urin ary organs. Sold at 50c a box by Tallman & Co., 623 Main St., Pendle ton. Ore. Touching Scene In the "Merchant of Venice." Miss Marie Drofnah's reading of the so-called "Mercy Speech" In the court scene of "The Merchant of Venice," which will be given at the Frazer theater on Tuesday, February 13, by Charles B. Hanford and company, will be listened to with great Interest. There Is no finer or more beautiful passage in all English literature and Miss Drofnah has won an enviable renutatlon as a reader. There are perhaps no better readers of Shake spearean verse on the American stag than Mr. Hnnford and Miss Drofnah, and their presentation of the play should be a delight to all lovers of the classic drama. Roslyn Coal $6.50 deliv- I ered, $6.00at the shed Iloelyn Coal, ntcr thorough exhaustive tests, has been se- lotted by tlie V. 8. government for the use of Its war vessels, as It stood tlie highest test. PROMPT DELIVERY. , ROSLYN WOOD & COAL CO. Office at W. C. R. Depot. J PHONE MAIN 28, Early Lambing Successful. Frank McOirr, the Fox rancher and stockralser, reports that he commenc ed January 8th to lamb his band of about 50 ewes, having received 20 lambs from 18 ewea up to Tuesday morning, they all being yearlings ex cept two of the ewes, which brought twins. He lambed with good success in February, 1904, and with poor suc cess In May, 1906. He Is now trior oughly convinced that February is tho best time to lamb because of leisure time from other work In which to care for the young lambs. Long Creek Ranger. For cougha and colds no remedy Is equal to Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. It Is different from all others better, because It expels all cold from the system by acting as a cathartic on the bowels. Affords Im mediate relief In croup, cougs, colds, whooping cough, -tc. Children love Ills NEZ PERCE TAX AFFAIRS. Spring Styles We have just received a complete line of samples in Ladies, Suits, Jackets and Skirts No Two Alike We can save you 25 per cent on your Spring Jacket, Suit or Skirt. Call and we will tell you how we can do it ALEXANDER'S! Pendleton's Reliable Store FRANK B. CLOPTON & CO. Real Estate, Insurance, Loans and Investment Brokers' DIUECTOR8. FRANK B. CLOPTON, President; T. C. TAYLOR, Vice-President; F. W. VINCENT Second Vlce-PreMm; MARK MOORIIOUSE. Sco re v-Treasurer; F. W. MATLOCK. IT WILL BE DONE RICHT All plumbing and tin, sheet Iron or copper work entrusted to ma will be done right and guaranteed, I have removed my ahop to Court street, aecond door east of Golden Rule Hotel, where I am better prepared than ever to do the highest class work. Plumbing done by experienced and proficient men, as I have In my employ one of the best plumbers In the business, and water, steam and other pipe fitting la solicited. A specialty of tin, sheet Iron and copper work. B. F. BCCK THE OLD RELIABLE PLUMBER AND TINSMITH. Court Street, Two Doors East of Golden Rule Hotel. Found at last a place where one can trust their best linen or daintiest lingerie to be laundered. We use only harmless materials to cleanse all articles en trusted to us. A trial order will con vince you that we live up to our ad vertisement. Pendleton Steam Laundry 'Phono Main 179. FISIIMAX PEI.ntS. Props. Popular Athlete WU' Come to Home In Tills County. The Whitman college track team of 1905 met last evening at Billings hall at the call of Captain James Hill, to elect a new captain for the season of 1906, says the Walla Walla Union. This honor fell to the lot of David C. Graham, of the class of 1908, for whom a mnjority of the members of the tenm who were present cast their votes. Hill has decided to leave Whitman to take up farming. He will be asso ciated with his brother In the man agement of a large farm near Pendle ton, and he expects to leave for the scene of his new activity this week. Hill was elected captain of the Whitman track team a little over-a year ago, when Howard Merrltt, the captain at that time, left school to work In Utah, and he was re-elected at the close of the track season last year to captain the maize and blue athletes again for tho coming season. His loss will be keenly felt not only in track, but also In football. He will be remembered as Whitman's star half back for two successive seasons. In track work he holds a very en viable record, being one of the best sprinters whom Whitman has e- had. He is the holder of the local college record for tho quarter-mllo. This he made In the meet with the University of Idaho last year at Walla Walla, when he encircled the track in 61 1-4 seconds. He also won second place in the 220-yard dash at the same meet and was one of the winning relay team Against Pullman last year he won first place in the 220-yard dash, sec ond In the quarter and third In the 100, as well as running on the relay team. Hill is also vice president of the Associated Students. His successor will be chosen for the remainder of his unexpired term, by the students' executive committee. Decreasing Percentage of Delinquent Taxes. County Assessor Daggett reported Inst evening that he had completed the Issuance nf receipts for county, city of Lewlston, school nnd munici pal taxes on the levy for 1906 and had found the amount to be $22?,233.42. He was charged on the rolls with S259.38t.14, so the delinquent roll as it now stands, amounts to 337,146.72. By comparison with the tax rolls of 1904, it is shown that the delinquent tax this year is much smaller than last year, when the amount of the levy is considered. The totyl tax charged ot the county assessor's office by the levy of 1904 was 1158,000 and the de linquent list amounting to about $24, 000, or over one-eighth of the total. This year the total tax was $269,381.- 14, an Increase of about $100,000, while the delinquency Is but $37, 146.72. Lewlston Tribune. Notice. We, the undersigned, having sold our lumber and fuel business, and wishing to close up all accounts as early as possible, ask those knowing themselves to be Indebted to us to call and Bcttlo at tho office of T. O, Montgomery in Pendleton, or at the Helix Bank, and settlo as soon as con venient MONTGOMERY BROS, spcqXauooi Is(J33oj3 mo unoj aajjoa pus i noX joj jqSu s; isag suiimpg 3au sqj jo auo-ou ji sjsej ua, jejinaad b saeij jsnui no ELECTRIC LIGHTING Is as cheap as any other lllumlnant, and far more convenient. sr Let Us Figure With You about wiring your home, office or store. We can get you up a handsome window display. Better talk with us on the subject. J. L. VAUCHAN Pbons Main 139 132 West Court OUR STOCK is of fine, selected Lumber. We can give you any sort you require. LUMBER In large or small quantities, dressed or In the rough. Fine flooring, Fram ing Timbers, Joist, Siding, etc. Give us a trial order and Bee how thorough ly satisfactory it will be filled. Oregon Lumber Yaro Near Court, House Pendleton. Oregon. 'Phone Main 8. ee ee ee BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE Two fine building lots, (200 each. l-room house, two lots; good well; located near school, price 11060.00. Good (-room house, larce barn, two large lots, nice shade and fruit trees, large chicken yard. " rice 12600.00. House; and lot near West End school, $600. House and two lots Maple St., $650.00. House and barn, 7 lota, good orchard, plenty well water, $2,000.00. These three places must be sold within 80 days. Come early and te cure bargain. 3(0 acres Birch creek, 26 aores alfalfa; great bargain, $7,500.00, 1(0 Mre ranch on McKay creek, to excha e for elty property. New 8 -room house, large barn, chlckan house, t lots. Price $3500.00, 1(0 acres one and a half miles south ot Athsna at a bargain. Also vacant lots In all pnrts of the city. If you wish to build we can sell you a lot and furnish you the moaey to build your home. Finest residence and two lots In t ultr. $7,600. V nt lot on Jane street, near Court, $626. 800 aore wheat ranch, (60 aown In wheat, $16,000; 1$ miles from Fen leton, g miles to market. 960 tares; 620 In wheat, II mllea aouth of city. PRONE MAIiI M. 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