I'AGE FOIR.
DAILY EAST OREGOMAX, PENDLETON, OREGON, TIimSDAY, Jl'XE 21, 1006.
EIGHT PAGES.
AN 1N1K1'KNI!:. NKWSl'ArKK.
Published every afternoon (except Sim
ilar 1. M IVnillotoii, Oregon, by the
EAST HKKliONlAX lTllLlSIUNG CO.
Sl'R.-iCKIl'TlOX RATKS.
Pally, one year, hy man
I'aiiV. six months, hy mall
Imily, throe ruonllis. by mall
!ai!y. one ruonth. by mat)
Wet-kly, one year, by mail
WecMv. six mon.-a. by mall
Weekly, four raontlts. by mall
Semi W eekly, on year, hy mall....
Semi Weekly. lx months by mall...
Semi Weekly, four nionthi. by mall.
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Memlier S. rlppa Mrliae News Association.
Chirac" Bureau. Secnrltj btilldlrift.
Wnsblnpton. l C, lturoau. 501 Four
teenth street, N. V.
rlectoo Mala I.
Entered at Pendleton P. stoffU-e as aecond
class matter.
NOTICE TO APVKhTISKRS.
Copy for drertlalng matter to appear In
the East Oregonlan mint be In by 4 :4S p.
to of tE preceding day ; copy for Monday
paper mint be In by 4 :45 P- m. the preced
ing Saturday.
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You never can tell what
thoughts will do
In bringing you hate or love.
For thoughts are things, and
their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier dove.
They follow the law of the uni-
tho mull hti-lnewi the jroveiniiiont pay
In addition Ihi' rental for oar and fur-lil-dus
the clerks ln linmlle tin
mail. Vnr 101.1 Mtiil oars the jrovcrnnicnt
ls S.V.MMi.OII annually, an nvor
asi r S3 127. The cam cost only SlIOOO
to llllllll.
11 ip exro companies carry parcel-)
lit a ino-Hninl rati- for lew than onc
quarter of iln nil In tail ran clmrj;c.
YiM the t'pro companies out of this
pay for tliHr office, clerks, delivery
wacti-j, mid Ms iHyIiIimhI on Inflated
capital.
Representative Hansen's figures
prove conclusively that the postofftce
department cannot profitably carry
parcels at express rates, but the same
figures are even more conclusive proof
that the government pays the railroad '
for carrying mall 10 times as much
as is paid by private persons and firms
for express mntter In the next car.
Early Struggles of Tele
phone Inventor
PROSECITIXG AT THE TOP.
Of the three men who were presi
dents of New York's big Insurance
companies a year ago, one Is dead, an
other Is a hopeless Invalid, and the
third, who has resigned. Is In feeble
health, traveling abroad under engage
ment with the district attorney's office
to return if he Is wanted, says the
New York Mall.
Three high officials of the Mutual
Reserve were Indicted In March,
Each thing must create Its charged with larceny and forgery.
kind
And they speed o'er track to
bring you back
Whatever went out from your
mind.
Ell.i Wheeler Wilcox.
KEEP MONEY AT HOME.
Two men, vice presidents of the Mu
tual Life under the old regime, were
Indicted yesterday, charged, one with
forgery and perjury, the other with
forgery and misdemeanor.
This showing ought to convince
every one open to conviction that there
Is no official disposition to let insur
ance men In conspicuous position es
cape the inquisition of Justice. It Is
likely to convince every ons except a
few newspaper critics of the district
Salesmen from Seattle and other
points travel through the farming dis
tricts of eastern Oregon contlrually.
taking orders for groceries and gener- attorney, who tried to lead him up a
al merchandise, which can be purchas-j blind trail In prosecutions that the
ed in Pendleton as cheaply i In ?e- appellate Justices say they would have
attie. j halted, and who raised a clamor he-
Hundreds of pounds of this outside cause they said he punished only
stuff i shipped into every Oregon j "small offenders," and then were pa!
county duriut? the year. It certainly , pably vexed whn he promised Immu
looks thouch Oregon farmers and nity to some of the small Insurance
sto'-knjen who are imposed upon by ; fry, in order to get their testimony
these peddlers would "take a tumble." j against those "higher up."
and tnde at home with responsible, j In proceeding against men of' the
reliable merchants who have large : rank of those Indicted yesterday the
amnun's of capital Invested in the grand Jury has gone as high as It can
county and who help keep up schools. j go. while keeping within the Insurance
churches, and public institutions, who . field. Above them there Is no "high-
pay taxes in the county and city, j cr up." except it be those Wall street
and who are here In the county con-j magnates who in their private capac
tinually to .back up their goods and j ity are believed to have exerted a ma
ngo iimuence on uie operations oi in-;
companies, but who had no official
responsibility for their management.
It is difficult to exaggerate the Im
portance of the movement, on which
this country has embarked, to hold
high officials criminally responsible
for concealing In their accounts, under
entries alleged to be blind and false,
transactions believed to be dubious,
and for making reports to the state
believed to contain untruthful state
ments. The Indictments strike at the
whole fabric of evasion and conceal
ment behind which the "system" operated.
their prices.
The peddler comes and carries awav
youe money and you can whlstje If
you are not pleased. You get an In
ferior grade of stuff and send your
money out of the county and the home
merehnt who supports your Institu
tions loses trade from you which
rightfully belongs to blm.
Let us "pass up" the peddlers.
The home merchant Is our neigh
bor. Let us co-operate with him In up
building the country.
THE POSTAL ROBBERY.
The arguments on the parcel post
bill which has been before congress
the past month have brought out some
startling statistics on the cost of car-j
rylng the mall In the United States.
Representative Hangen of Iowa, who
Is opposed to the parcels post bill, has
unwittingly made many friends for
government ownership of railroads In
his fight on the bill. He showed that
the present exorbitant prices paid for
transportation the malls, make It Im
possible for the government to carry
parcels at less than mall rates, while
the present contracts for carrying
mail are in force.
It would bankrupt the government
to pay postal rates n parcels. The
portal graft is so enormous that It Is
now actually preventing the passage
of the parcels post measure, which Is
demanded hv the public and which
would be a beneficial reform In the
postal service.
Rej resent-itive Uangen s-hows that
over one-quarter of the cost of the
posroffire department is paid to the
rni'nads. For the mere transporta
tion the railroads charge $1.25 a ton
per mile.
TliU I over 100 times the average
freight rhnnro. nltliniigli In their
COMIXG EVEXTS.
June 20-24 Northwest Sportsmen's
tournament. Walla Walla.
July 12-15 Fifteenth annual con
vention International Baptist Young
People's I'nlon, Omaha.
July 17-19 Elks' grand lodge, Den
ver. September 3-8 National Irrigation
congress, Boise City.
September 18 Northwest Laundry
men's association. Pendleton.
Dates of Wool Sales.
The following wool sale dates for
Oregon have been fixed by the Oregon
Woolgrowers' association:
Shanlko June 6, 6, 19 and 20, and
July 10 and 11.
Baker City June 25, 2; July 12
and 1$.
Elgin July 18.
CHINESE BANKING LAWS.
"It Is 900 vears since the fnllura of
a bank In China," said a hank exam
iner. "Over 900 years ago. In the region
of Hi Hung, a bank failed. HI Hung
had the failure Investigated, and to
his Indignation found It had been dun
to reckless and shady conduct on the
part of the directors and the oresl-dent.
"HI Hung nt once Issued an edict
that the next time a bank failed, the
heads of Its president and dlrectois
were to be cut off. This edict, which
In view of the widespread use of
the telephone throughout the world,
the following entertaining account of
the early struggles of Dr. Alexander
Graham Hell, Inventor of the tele
phone, will be Interesting. The article
is from the "Scrap Hook", and la as
follows:
Alexander Graham Bell, whose dis
coveries contributed largely to the
commercial success of the telephone,
had been known only as a teacher of
deaf mutes previous to the time he
took out his telephone patents. He
had been a teacher In Scotland, his na
tive country, and when he emigrated
to America it was with the intention
of continuing to tench here. The sys
tem he used was of his own, and from
the first he got good results from the
most difficult cases.
Important as his work was, he
could earn nothing more than a
scanty living. Soon even this Income
wan threatened, for he began to devote
more and moro time to the study of
sound transmission, and In order to
make living at all by teaching It was
necessary to devote his entire time to
It.
At the Centennial exposition In Phil
adelphia, he showed a crude model of
a telephone, but It attracted only pass
ing notice from capitalists, though
eminent scientists predicted a future
for It. The results were not what Bell
looked for, but he took up the work
egaln. made some Improvements and
took out patents covering the princi
pal features of the telephone as It Is
today.
Three hours after he filed his ap
plication, Ellsha Gray filed a caveat
for his telephone.
On February 1, 1877. Bell went to
Salem, Mass., and gave his first public
exhibition and lecture. It aroused
some curiosity, but drew no financial
backing. On May 10 he lectured be
fore the Boston academy, and there,
apparently, the results were little
more encouraging than they had been
at Salem.
Thought Telephones a Toy.
The general opinion expressed was
that the telephone was a remarkable
clever toy. but that it was nothing
more. Investors took this view of It,
and Bell, who had been reduced to
poverty by the expenses of his ex
periments, went from one financier
to another offering stock In the com
pany lie had formed. Financiers did
not care to have anything to do with
a machine designed to accomplish the
impossible feat of making audible the
voice of a person many miles away.
1)('m w MKxod n Big l'ortiine.
The reception he met did not In
the least shake Hell's faith in his
work, but he was sorely In need of
money. He resolved on a desperate
move, and he went to Chauncey M.
Depow and offered him a one-sixth
interest in the company If he would
loan $10,000 to put the company on
Its feet. Depew took a week to con
sider the rpoposltlon. At the end of
the week he wrote back that the inci
dent might be considered closed. The
telephone was a clever Idea but It was
utterly lacking In commercial possi
bilities, and $10,000 was far too big
a sum to risk in marketing an Instru
ment that at best could never be more
than a source of amusement.
Thus D.cw let slip an opportunity
to acquire fot 10,000 an Interest that
today ci:ld not be bought for len
than $25,000,000.
Bell was being hard pushed, and
he determined to make a last offer.
Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was
then one of the leading figures In the
United States senate, and his Influence
throughout the country, was very
great. Bell went to him and offered
him. for nothing, one-half Interest In
the Invention If he. would endeavor to
have It Introduced to the public.
Cameron would not even consider
the proposition and gave orders that
Bell and his fool talking machine be
thrjwn out" if he again attempted to
get an Interview.
World's First Telephone Line.
While Bell was ineffectually strug
gling In this direction, a few men In
Boston, who had been Interested by
the exhibition before the Boston acad
emy, determined to give the telephone
a thorough test. A line three miles
long was built from Boston to Rora-
erville. ard this, the first practlcnl tel
ephone line In the world, proved so
unequivocally the utility of the tele
phone that there could no longer be
any question of Its success.
The pioneer line, three miles long.
cost a few hundred dollars. In lest,
han SO years the number of miles of
wire has Increased to nearly 4. 000. 000
and 20.000 persons nre regularly em
ployed by the telephone companies. In
the T'nlted States alone there are each
year 8. 200. 000. 000 telephone calls, nnd
the American (Bell) Telephone com
pany Is capitalized at $158,661,000.
Vi -. ai Mm'oi tiaon roi'nlrxifl Vi n tr n rlo
freight biisino. tne miiroans pr.ni.ie f. hlnR.,, bflnU)n)? nBl,utnB the safest
motions, ciiw anil nil employes. In n tne world."
Fireworks
Flags and Fire Crackers
and all kind, of
' A -
4th of July Goods
Largest Mock
Lowest Prices
Send us your orders.
FRAZIER'SBOOK STORE
"Spruce Up" Your Home
FURNITURE
You have only one homo and you should take great pride In It.
When you furnish It, buy only the best furniture and you will never
regret It. i
A few home helpers:
Alxmlnster, Brussels nnd wool art squares nnd rugs, new patterns,
Just received
$2.00 to $25.00
Folding beds and new sanitary, vermin-proof, davenports and cots,
fine for summer ,
$6.00 to $40.00
The famous jewel ranges, all sixes and prices; also the winner and
St. Clair stoves and ranges....; ,
$30.00 to $50.00
Lewis Hunter
The House Furnisher Near St. George Hotel 1
ALASKAN COAL.
I
DOWNEY'S
Stage to Lehman Springs
U. S. Mail Carrier
"Beginning July 2nd, Dan Downey
will run two rigs to LEHMAN
SPRINGS, Monday, Wednesday
' and Friday of each week, for the
entire summer.
Downey changes teams on the
road and will take you through in
eight hours.
Dan Downey, Driver
Office at Tallman's Drug Store
Hotel St. George
GEORGE PAItVEAtT, Proprietor.
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VH b ..?;, I' '
rftKt li!tku,, '
1 in fililr
European plan. Everything first
class. All modorn conveniences. Steam
heat throughout. Rooms en suite wit
bath. Large, new sample rooms Th
Hotel St George Is pronounced on
of the- most up-to-date hotels of t.
Northwest. . Telept-.jne and fire ularm
connections to office, and hot anj
cold running wat r In all rooms.
ROOMS: $1.00 and $1.50
Block and a Half From Depot.
See the big electric sign.
The Hotel
Pendleton
HOLLOXS & BROWN. Proprietors.
X
X Over the Northern Pacific-Burlington Railways, East
New Through Service
Alaska coal will piny an Important
feature In the development of that
Immenxe territory In years to come.
Already It may be safely said that
frrm St. Michaels at til mouth of the
Yukon river to Jiennett City, nearly
2(iii(i n-IUs distant, the entlie sire'eh
of Inie-venlni? country could he sup
plied with Alaxka coal.
Another hltf Htrlke of Importance Is
heralded from the Atlln district. The
Atlln Tooira Coal Syndicate have un
covered Immense seams of coal on
the Tooga river nnd further develop
ment worlt will he continued through
out the summer months.
Resides this new field tttrce other
properties nre supplying the Iocnl
markets. They are the Tantalus, Wil
liams and Selmer mines.
Itedrnck In the Cook Inlet district
Is a coal formntlon nnd miners have
panned the yellow dust from the car
boniferous shales.
To
Omaha.
Kansas
City,
St. Louis.
St. Joseph
and
Lincoln.
In addition to the present through Northern Pacific-Burlington
transcontinental passenger service, a second train has been aJdcJ,
thus providing two dally trains between Oregon, Washington and
Idaho and the-Mlssourl river cities and St. Louis. All trains carry
through Pullman standard and tourist slo.. cars, cl.air cars and
dining cars.
For full Information call upon or write to
WALTER ADAMS
Agent W. & C. R. Ry.
Pendleton Oregon.
S. B. CALDERHEAD
G. P. A., W. & C. R. Ry.
Y alia Walla. Wn.
A. D. CHARLTON
A. G, P. A., N. P. Ry.
Portland, Oregon.
The Hotel Pendleton has been re
fitted and refurnished throughout
Telephone and fire alarm connec
tions with all rooms, liaths en suite
and single rooms.
Ilciidiiiirtcrw for Traveling Men.
Coiiiiuotlluim Sample Rooms.
FREE 'HL'S.
Rates. $2, $2.50 and $3
Speclnl Rntc hv the week or month.
Excellent I'uMne.
Prompt dliflng room service.
liar mill Millard IIimiiii In Connection.
Only Three Illock from Depots.
Your Credit is Good
We Put Furniture in Reach
of All
F,. L. Melvln, a Northern Pacific
switchman, was caught between the
bumpers at Ellensburg and squeezed
until death resulted a few hours later.
He leaves a wife and two small child
Just. received a nice new line of weathered oak furniture for th
dining room and parlor.
Po away with the old, worn-out pieces that have done their duty,
while you can yet realize something for them, and bo the owner of
a piece of furniture that you will always be proud of.
Call anil see our lino and Investigate our easy payment plan.
Graham Furniture Co. j
Postoffice Block
Put Wings to Your Work
An electric motor will do mor- and
bettor work than any other power
that you can use. The economy 01
Its "-e Is r. demonsfa od fact. If you
want good, quick work ot a minimum
of cost yeu want an electrlo motor.
We will be pleased to give you or
prices and to furnish completa esti
mate to suit your needs.
Northwestern Gas and
Electric Co.
POIlMm COURT KST GARDEN OT
ALTA HOUSE
The Working Man and
Farmers Hotel
Dining room and Free
Employment bureau
in connection
$1.00 PER DAY
Cor. Alta and Mill Sts.
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND, OREGON.
American plan. $3 per day and up
ward. Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travelers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
"ntabllshment in the hotel.
H. O. BOWERS. Manager
: PretLy
i: Paper Poorly
i: Hung
Tou nre particular about hav
ing nl e wall j aper.
But are you particular about
It being well hung?
The best wall paper, if poor
ly put on the wall, will never
satisfy you.
Come here and select a pat
tern and let us hang It fo you
you will then knew you have
th best results obtainable.
Pendleton Point Store :!
Ed. Murph" Prop.
I2ICour.
JACK BROWN
Dealer in
HIDES, WOOL AND JUNK
j ii west Webb St.