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I EIGHT PACES. TAGE FOCR. DAILY EAST OUEGOMAX, PEXDLETON. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 43, 1906. AN lNDKl-KSriBST NKWSI'Al'ER. Published mi ry arternnon (except Sunday) t Fenriietim. Oregon, by the EAST (HIKdOMAX 1TUL1SI1INU CO. MBst'llllTION 11ATE8. Dally, one year, by mall I3.no tally, U months, by mall lolly, ihrw months, by mail 1 -." l'ally, on montu, by mall ." Weekly, on y-r, by mall 1 Weekly, alx mm.a, by mall T.'i Weekly, four oiontha, by mall oil ftrmt vvpkiy, on yar. by mall 1..MI Keml-Weekly, alx monlba by mall 73 BMnt-Wrrkiy, (our monlba, by wall... .60 Member SrrlppaMtitae Nea Aamxiatloo. Chicago Hurran, 009 Security building. Washington. 1 c, Bureau, Bi'l Four teenth atreet, N. . atapkoa Mala 1. Entered at Pendleton roatofflce aa aecond claaa mat tea. NOTICE TO AKVEUTlSKltS. Copy for advertising matter to appear In the East Oregonlan must It In by 4 :4.i p. m. of tne preceding day : ropy for Monday's fiaper must be In by 4 p. m. the pressi ng Saturday. The hurry of the times affects us so. In this swift, rushing hour, we crowd, we press And thrust each other back ward; aa we go We do not pause to lay suf ficient stress Upon that good, strong, true word. EARNESTNESS. In our Impetuous haste, could we but know Its full, deep meaning. Its vast Import: oh. Then, might we grasp the se cret of success. In that receding age, when men were great. The cone and sinew of their purpose lay In that one word. God loves an - earnest soul - . Too earnest to be eager. Soon or late It leaves the spent horde breath less by the way. And stands serene, triumph ant, at the goal. Selected. 1 SENTIMENT FOR CHAMBERLAIN. v One of the finest sentiments on public affairs that has ever been ut tered in the Oregon campaign, was spoken to the East Oregonlan last evening by a life-long republican, an ex-member of the legislature and a candidate for re-election. This man, who laid aside partisan Issues for the Instant and spoke the true honest convictions of his mind, said: "It seems folly for the state of Oregon to defeat George E. Chamber lain for the office of governor, Just because of an Imaginary political line. He is just now In position to serve the people and accomplish his fearless purposes in the Interest of the state. '' "He is adapted to this work.. He Is cut out for a governor. He has the caliber to make him fair and Just to all parties and his administration has saved the people thousands of dollars by his fearlessness and ability. To cut him off for no other reason than that there is an Imaginary political difference of opinion between him and the great mass of the people, seems an unfortunate thing to do. If a pub lic servant is useful and has been tried, why change for an untried and inexperienced man? "The state departments and state offices are Just now in S position to achieve good results for Oregon. Four years is but a short time in which to start reforms In state gov ernment and to change governors Just at a time when the tried and experi enced man is in position to do things to benefit the stale seems poor busi ness, aide from being ioor senti ment. "In four years more Governor Chamberlain will have made more progress In reforming Oregon's state affairs than has ever been made since the state was organized. For my part I cannot see the need of chang ing off a tried man for one who will have to spend four years In organiz ing his forces and In getting to the place to do good which Governor Chamberlain now occupies." SOI L OF THE CORPORATION. The Steel trust Is now making great cnnltal of the "Ki neroslty" and "soul" waves which have recently been dls - piayea oy n m o... Officials of the trust have Just re- turned from the Hay l.ity and while there agreed with the contractors of that city that the trust would credit any firm wishing to rebuild, which could show E per cent of credit stand ing with the financial world. The trust Is sure of Its ground. This is a common business concession. The tariff on steel, which amounts to about ill) per ton will more than compensate for any small loss, besides making millions of profit for the trust in the rebuilding of San Francisco,. In return for any burst of generosi ty which may escape from the steel trust. Sun Francisco will pay well In good coin. The wings of the angel may have temporarily sprouted on the trust, but It will be well to watch the fingers which still direct the pencils of the trust. They hnve strong human tendencies yet. The trust cun afford to play angel temporarily, for $10 per ton In profits from the robber tariff. t'O-OI'KRATIOX HAS WON. Co-operation among Umatilla coun ty woolgrowers, has won a decided vic tory again In the wool sales In this city. Every other Industry Is organized against the'producer, why should not Union among the producers pay? The prices paid for wool sold In the pool yesterday and today In this city, are the best arguments that can be offered for a woolgrower's asso ciation and for a co-operative effort on part of the association In selling wool for Its members. The wool of the Cunningham Sheep & Land company sold yesterday for 21 cents, an advance of four cents over the price of the same wool last season, when It was sold at private sale. This one instance alone, is an unanswerable argument In favor of maintaining the wool pool and auction sales. The clip of the J. E. Smith Live stock company sold yesterday at 2114 cents, an advance of 2 M cents over last year, another unanswerable ar gument for the wool pool. A pool of the wool clip does not mean that wool will be held for un reasonable prices. It does not mean coercion nor unfairness, but It means that growers demand the fair and equitable prices for their product which the wool markets of the world Justify, and which every honest buyer and every honest commission firm Is willing to concede. 1 The wool pool, aside from bringing better prices for the entire product of the county, also simplifies the sales. It brings the buyer and the seller to gether. It breeds a good feeling and a better understanding and brings every grower into touch with his fel lows. , ' Aside from the pecuniary benefits, there is a fraternal benefit from the wool pool which Justifies its existence and which should serve to strengthen and perpetuate It In every wool-producing Btate. EFFECTIVE REFORMATION. The Cumberland. Presbyterians in the general assembly at Decatur, III., this week set a pace In reformation which other churches will do well to follow If they mean business in civic and social reformation. The old southerners In their general assembly adopted a resolution to the effect that no Cumberland Presbyter ian should vote for a man who be lieves in saloons. This is getting at the root of the I matter. This is the kernel and germ of reformation. Voting right every time, voting your principles regardless of party affiliation, and regardless of partisan considerations will win for mankind every chcribhed Ideal, In time. If moral people lend their aid to Immoral men, immoral men will rule the land. There are enough believers In decency in the United States to put every dive out of business within a year, If every believer In decency would honestly and fearlessly vote his conviction, regardless of business and partisan considerations. The Cumberland brethren have spoken plainly. All credit be to their fearlessness. The Idaho democratic state central committee, In session at Boise, unan imously passed the following resolu tion: "The people of Idaho will no ' longer tolerate interference by any ; secret, oath-bound organization In the 1 Political "ffalr. of the state. They I demand the right to select their own 'officers, and to make their own laws, free from tne covert dictation of the . Mormon hierarchy." Something on Your Line Is apt to be found time and again If we have provided the line, hook, sink er, rod and all else necessary for spring and summer',flhlnK- We have appliances for every sport you can think, of as good as any made better than most, WJ itever your fancy in sports, let us supply the necessities to its enjoyment, Frazier's Book Store Father Coffin, Evangelist of Railroad Men The Memphis, (Tenn.) News-Sclml-tar is conducting a department called "The Throttle," while the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers is meeting in that city this week. In this department appears an in terview upon the life and work of "Father" Coffin, the evangelist of the railroad men of the United States, who Is well known to railroad men In Pendleton and all over the north west. The article from "The Throt tle" Is as follows: Enthroned In an easy chair In the Gayoso lobby, "Father" Lorenzo 8. Coffin received the sincere and hearty homage of eveiy delegate and visitor who entered, not one , passing the "Grand Old Man" without pausing to sheke his hand and express delight at seeing him so hale and hearty. For the railroad men's debt of gratitude to "Father" Coffin can never be Bat tled In full, and they know It. - .Although not a railroad man by profession, "Father" Coffin has done more for their welfare than probably ony other, man now living, and to him are the men Indebted for the pas snge of laws compelling the use of au tomatic couplers and of air brakes on freight trains. But above all this, he Is the founder and Indefatigable worker for the Railroad Men's Home and that Is his hobby. Next to the home comes the R. R. T. A., or Rail road Total Abstinence, and Father Coffin would as soon think of appear ing without his shirt as without one of the significant little buttons. From his conversation with a re porter for The Throttle, It would seem thnt the venerable veteran knows much more about these two In stitutions than he does about Lorenzo S. Coffin, for on these he will talk by the hour, but on the subject of Father Coffin he Is reticent. "As a member of the Iowa railway commission," he opened, "I was thrown much with railroad men, and they won my admiration. No man endures more hardships, nor accepts them with greater fortitude, and my mind was made up that the dangers of their calling should be lessened. So 1 pushed a bill for automatic coup lers and for air brakes on freight trains, which wag finally signed by President Harrison In 1S94. Through the use of automatic couplers, thous ands of lives have been saved, while the air brake is a similar blessing. "The R. R. T. A. originated In 1892. at Atlanta, where I persuaded a number of men at the convention to adopt the little button, and now it is known throughout the country. Start ing with half a dozen, I have since personally distributed over 150.000, while the men themselves have also made an army of converts." To repeat Father Coffin's descrip tion of the Railway Men's Home, and describe his ambitions for ,lts future, Is Impossible one must hear him do It. The home Is located at Highland Park, 18 miles north of Chicago, and there, as Father Coffin quotes, "The wicked cease from troubling and the weary are nt rest." The home has been running for 18 years, and Father Coffin is now working for a perma nent endowment fund that will insure Its perpetuity. In an address to the engineers Thursday. Father Cofffln nsked their aid through the medium of small con tributions, his Idea being that each engineer and each member of the Or der of Railroad Conductors should pledge himself to pay 50 cents a year toward the fund, while trarnmen nnd firemen are to chip In 25 cents apiece every 12 months. "By this method," he explains, "the endowment fund will be qufckly rais ed and no one will feel the burden." And the old man's face lightened up at the prospect. With his grizzled beard and Im maculate Panama hat, Father Coffin has long been an Indispensable feat ure at the conventions, but never has he been made more welcome than at the present meeting. THE STATE BETWEEN FRIENDS. An Indiana state official, now un der conviction for embezzlement, wbb 'the victim of circumstances," accord ing to the view of some 21,000 friend ly citizens who signed a petition to the governor praying that he be paroled. And It clearly appears from Gover nor Hanley's statement denying the prayer that this Is true The gover nor points out thut the official, Im mediately upon coming into office, took 820,000 of state money to pay his personal debts being an honorable debtor and having no other resources. A little later he had the misfortune to lose 810,000 at cards the stute treasury naturally standing the shot. Again, he Invested the public's money In oil wells and gold mines that turn ed out badly, and friends to whom he lent sums that were In his official keeping neglected to pay him. In short, circumstances seem to have formed a perfect conspiracy to vic timize the unhappy official, who ac tually lost almost every dollar that he stole. The 21,000 citizens who signed the petition In the official's behalf are probably no different from their neighbors, except In that they, or many of them, know the man person ally, and so are able to Bee him as the "good fellow In hard luck," whereas others see simply the thief of public funds. Probably not one of them would condone pocket-pleklng or burglary, but the state Is such an Im personal, Intangible thing; its money doesn't cost It anything. It is hard to visualize a crime against It when there is a good fellow on the other side. What Is the constitution be tween friends? Saturday Evening Post. Assistant Chief Latham and Cap tin C. C. Graham, with other Seattle firemen, are accused of looting at the time of the fire which destroyed the Arlington dock. May 7. Part of the stolen property has been found se creted at the city engine house at Fourth and Battery. ACmTTEnOFHEALTil fnWln PWillln Absolutely Pure HAS IJ0 SUBSTITUTE A Cream of Tartar Powder free from alum or phos phatlc acid COMING EVENTS. May 22-24 Umatilla Baptist asso ciation, Athena. May 25-26 Caledonian picnic at Athena. May 24-27 The Dalles and Colum bia river Epworth League conven tion. Walla Walla. May 31, June 2 Umatilla Pioneers' reunion, Weston. June 14 Oregon Pioneer Associa tion meeting, Portland. June 20-24 Northwest Sportsmen's tournament. Walla Walla. July 17-19 Elks' grand lodge, Den ver. September 8-8 National Irrigation congress. Boise City. September 18 Northwest Laundry men's association, Pendleton. Dates of Wool Sales. The following wool sale dates for Oregon have been fixed by the Oregon Woolgrowers' association: Shaniko June 6, 6, 19 and 20, and July 10 and 11. Baker City June 15, 26; July and 18. Elgin July 18. 13 THE LUCKY KAXSAN. These days of vofcanoes and earth quakes the Kansan looks at his occa sional floods, and sometimes drouths. and almost forgotten grasshoppers with a commendable toleration. The season may go dry. or It may come wet; there may be a little hollow horn among the cattle, and A few chinch bugs In the wheat; the wind may blow the title of the land over Into the next county, now and" then, or the drouths may shrivel the coupons on the mortgages once In a while, but after all Kansas is a good place to live In. The Kansas farmer can snuggle up to the quarter section without seeing It begin to turn flip-flops, and even though the cyclone may gallop along Weathered Oak Furniture Makes the Home Beautiful Are you figuring on fitting up a new home, or primping up a. little on the old home? If so, you will make a great mistake by buying before you see my new line of leather upholstered, weathe:ed oak furniture. Dining room Tables S5 to $35 Dining room Chairs, $2.50 to $3 Buffets from ,..$19 to t China Closets from $18 to $25 Lewis Successor t Graham nuntcr All Kinds of Lumber for all kinds of purposes, are not found In every yard. Whatever your wants may be In Lumber and Building Mathrials come here and let us give you an es timate. We can save you money, quality considered. Oregon Lumber Yard NEAR COURT HOTJSE. Phono Main 8. Pendleton, Oregon. and remove a few of his goods and chattels, the wind brings him enough of his neighbors' household goods on the lower 80 across the creek to start housekeeping. - And always there Is a chance to slide Into the 'frald hole wrong side out and shake its occu pants down on the under side of It. Kansas Is a mighty safe place for a man to live In. It has Its drawbacks, but the earth doesn't buck when you tickle It In the flanks. Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. SOCIALISM IN MISSOURI. The state of Missouri has made ar rangements to lease and operate coal mines to furnish coal to the state In stitutions. If you are a criminal In Jail or i lunatic In an asylum In Missouri, you will be much surer of your coal sup ply than If you are unlucky enough to be sane and honest enough not to be a guest of the state. New Zealand has gone Into the coal business In a more thorough manner. She has bought the- mines and Is operating them and distributing the coal through her own national retail depots to any of her citizens, whether In or out of Jail, who have the price to buy. Wllshl-e's Magazine. Secretary Tom Richardson, of the Oregon Development league, states that the fire which destroyed the for mer headquarters of the Portland Commercial club, also destroyed all the records up to thnt date of the Development league. , Financially, the league is In good shape, with no out standing debts. Everybody nt Aberdeen, Wash., Is rejoicing over the excellent quality of the brick turned out from the first burning at the new kiln. Aberdeen 1 growing rapidly. It Is claimed the new brick Is the equal of the best that has ever been turned out nt any other point In the northwest. Rockers $3.50 to $13 Library Tables $t3 to $20 Jardiniere Stands $1 to $3 Sofas and Parlor Furniture upholstered to match Hunter Near St, George Hotel. Put Wings to Your Work An electric motor will do mor and ' better work than any other power that you can use. The economy oi Its "-e Is r. domonst.-a cd fact. If you want good, quick work at a minimum of cost you want an electrlo motor. We will bo pleased to give you ou prices and to furr.lsh complete esti mate to suit your needs. Northwestern Gas and Electric Co. CORNER COURT AND GARDEN' 8T SI Anthony's Hospital v 1 E- T-: ' ji &- " : ' ' ' " - Mil r4i Private rooms, elegantly furnished Finely edulp- ped operating room. Also Maternity Department. Every convenience, necessary for the care of the sick. Telephone Main 1651. PENDLETON. OREGON. Wood and Coal to Burn and that will burn ; try a phone order and be con vinced that I handle the good kind only. Dutch Henry Office, Pendleton Ice A Cold Storage Company. Tlione I-ala 178. Also at Henneman's cigar storj, op posite Great Eastern store. 'Phono main 4. . . CHIROPODY Corns removed without pain. Also Manicuring, Sliamoolng, Hair Dressing, Facial MaHMigc. Electrical treatment for Scalp and Face Both Ladles and Gentlemen. OuiHldo ChIIo a Sprcuilty. Miss G. Hudson 'Phono Main 82. Room 33-34 Ilownian HnteL The Alaska Refrigerator Do not experiment with refrigera tors, but get one that has an estab lished reputation' for economy In the use of Ice. They cost no more than the cheap makes on the market, but will savo you money on the Ice bill. Sold only by V. Stroble 210 East Court. DONT LOOK A GIFT IIOr.SE IN THE S'OUTII. We don't pretend to &lve away out elegant stock of p-to-date vehicles. But we do say that we will sell yoa the most Btyllsli and well-made trap, buggy, runabout, phaeton, surrey or buckboard at lower prices, qua' considered, than you can buy at any place In Pendleton, We sell Winona Wagons, Hacks and Buggies. Easy running and made from bone-dry material. Guaran teed to give satisfaction In this cli mate. See us abo t Gasoline Engines. W are agents for the Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engines for Irrigating and mining machinery. Estimates given on Irrigating plants. Call and get our prices, NeagleBros. the n'ncksmllhi 'ST
