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PLAGUE DP IE RATS
Harvest Supplies
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Hare YOU ercr been in CHICAGO?
H so, yon fcaow fix extremely coorenient Vyti"fl of L Silk
Street Sfiriorw
H pa t a strangs in tbe dty, faowrwer, it is of mat importance
t&at ywi kin aboot lbs mafsiikent and comparatively new terminal,
saed iointry by Rock hliad-Frisco Lines.
h k nearest the heart of the city closely adioming the burinea
acctioa within easy walking distance of Sou Street shopping center
and all the principal hotels the only depot on the elevated loop.
The Rock hiand right-of-way into Chicago is elevated for more
than eight miles out through the suburbs. Prompt arrival at Chicago
terminal a thus assured. Englewood Union Station, seven miles out,
affords ready access to southern suburbs all through tnins stop there.
Cenert Afent.
Rock blind-Frisco Lines,
140 Third St., PORTLAND. ORE.
New Through Servic
Over the Northern
To
Omaha,
Kansas
City,
In addition to the present through Northern Pacific-Burlington
transcontinental passenger service, a second train has been added,
thus providing two daily trains between Oregon, Washington and
Idaho and the Missouri river cities and St Louis. All trains carry
through Pullman standard and tourist sleeping cars, cl.alr cars and
fining cars. y
For full information call upon or write to
WALTER ADAMS
Agent W. & C. R. Ry.
Pendleton Oregon.
A. D. CHARLTON
A. G. P. A.. N. P. Ry.
Portland, Oregon.
PROPER FISH LADDER NEEDED.!
Grant County Xenix F.nforreiiMiit of
the law.
Frequent complaint Is heard about
obstructions In the North Fork that i
prevent fish from getting up to the
headwaters of the stream, remarks
the Granite Gem. These complaints
have been made a number of times
direct to the fish wardens, but to the
present time they have been of no
avail, and the obstruction, which has
been the principal cause of complaint,
viz., the dam at the head of the .Steu
ben placers" ditch, continues to pre
vent the fish ascending to the head
waters of the North Fork and trib
utary streams. The law of Oregon is
very plain on this point and clearly
says that where a dam Is put across
a stream a fish ladder or some ade
quate means must be provided for fish
to get over the dam. In the Instance
mentioned above there Is plenty of
water going over the dam and as It
Is not high, the expense and trouble
of providing ample means for the
passage of fish would be very little.
So it cannot be said that it would be
a hardship for the company to com
ply with the law In this particular.
Lies evil still, our whole life fill?
Does woe betide?
Tour thought abide on suicide?
You need a pill!
Now for prose and facts DeWltt's
Little Early Risers are the most pleas
ant and reliable pills known tiday.
They never gripe. Sold by Tallman &
Co.
Sample Real Estate
One of the best residences on the
north side of the river. House Is
strictly modern, location the best.
Very attractive property. For par
ticulars see the undersigned firm.
.-ro m house, two lots, north side;
close in. $1500. Half cash, balance
$13.75 per month.
House and lot near the west bluff;
price $2100. Terms, $500 cosh; bal
ance secured by mortgage.
Two and a half story 10-room
house with basement, and 18 lots (IK
acres) on north side of river near
new tchool house. House built less
than a year ago. Well built and mod
ern. It is cheap at $2000. Half cash,
balance secured by mortgage.
5-room house ana three lots In
west Pendleton, near school, $1000.
Vacant lots, $200 up.
We have vacant lots belonging to
non-residents, who desire an offer. It
will pay you to look up some of these
lots. You can find good lota at a
speculation.
Com and set us,
E. T. WADE & SON
Pacific-Burlington Railways, East
St. Louis,
St. Joseph
and
Lincoln.
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S. B. CALDERHEAD
G. P.
W.l C. R. Ry.
. alia Walla. Wn.
GENERAL NEWS.
General Kodama. who was Field
Marhnl Oyama's chief of staff during
the rtusian-Japanc se war. is dead at
Toklo.
Two miners were killed and seve.i
fatally burned by an explosion In the
Rock Hill coal mines. Kentucky. The
accident was caused by a spark from
a miner's pipe falling into a can of
powder.
Pirates are active throughout the
Canton delta. A Russian tea mer
chant was compelled to pay $46,009
rapson for his release, and an Amer
ican named Latto was forced to pay
$2000 for his liberty.
The will of Alfred Belt left sev
eral million dollars for the further
ance of Cecil Rhodes' scheme for
keeping a certain number of English
students "n American universities, and
vice versa. The plan Is so financed
that It may be regarded as perpetual.
The National Livestock Exchange
has appointed as a committee W. H.
Camnton. of Chicago; T. U. McPher
son, of Omaha, and A. L. Keephler,
of St. Louis, to call upon Secretary
Vllson and protest against the de
partment rule forcing post mortem In
spection, and demanding as a substi
tute c.nly an ante mortem inspection.
Guy Anderson, one of the victims of
the recent shooting at Shoshone, Wyo.,
will probably recover. There are
eight suspicious persons In jail who
will be shipped out of the city. It Is
believed that Warner Moody was kill
ed by an enemy who followed him
from South Dnkott. and not by gam
M"rs. There Is no need, the dispatch
s.ivs, to call out the militia, as order
his been restored.
NORTHWEST NEWS.
D Seely and T. J. Scroggins, of La
Grande, have bought William Hunli-r's
choke dairy farm In Wallowa coun
ty, paying therefor $6400.
A clamor has begun for the appoint
ment or a woman as matron at the
Multnomah county Jail. It would be
a humanizing and reformatory meas
ure, and will probably be carried out
The Haines fchools have been ad
vanced In efficiency by adding two
glades of a high school course to ths
curriculum. This action was taken In
response to a petition by patrons of
the schools.
R. D. Musser. a big lumber manu
facturer of Minneapolis, has bought
S000 acres of timber land In Lane
county, paying therefor $200,000. It
was bought of Charles Canfield, Wells
Gilbert and 8. D. Allen. It lies along
the McKenzie river.
The sage rat plague appears to be
ill no wise abating, but rather to in
crease ns the summer wears on. Bays
the Prinevllle Journal. The Ilaldwin
Sheep & I.and company of Hay
Creek, has been a heavy sufferer from
this pest, which Increased and de
stroyed crops of grain and alfalfa lit
spile of all the company's systematic
efforts to get rid of it.
The Hay Creek company has been
recently contracting for hay and grain
crops of other sections, notably Trout
creek and Crooked river valleys, for
winter feeding, as its own crops have
been materially reduced by the sage
rat pest during the past few months.
That the company's officers haxe
left nothing undone Is apparent from
the following letter, written by L. K.
Knderud. secretary of the company.
In answer to an Inquiry regarding the
pest and the Injury Inflicted by it.
Mr. Knderud faces the situation
bravely, but it Is plain that he Is dis
heartened. The sage rat seems to
multiply and flourish In spite of all
that can be done by human agency
to dispose of him.
Fields Arc DrHimynl.
"We have several fields of grain
completely destroyed by these ruts,
and they have also done considerable
damage In our alfalfa fields." says
Mr. Knderud. "It would be difficult
to slates just what the damage would
be in dollars and cents, but It is a
serious matter to us. We have pois
oned thousands of these little destroy
ers, hut it seems that while we have
been able to clean them out with poi
son In a certain field, it has taken but
a few days for a new lot to occupy th
same ground.
It seems that they come In from
the hills faster than we can kill them
off wltn poison, and all our efforts to
destroy them have been practically in
effective. "Then again, we have noticed that
as soon as the Bruin and alfalfa had
On McuHiatil Creek A
Judge William H. Harris, a pioneer
attorney of Tacoma. visited the Red
Cross hospital at that place and
watched Dr. Sargentich perform a
trifling surgical operation, which
sickened him. Vomitli.g followed,
which resulted In the bursting of the
esophapus. causing death the next
day. Judge Harris was about 55 yejirs
of age. His daughter christened the
cruiser Tacoma several yearse ago.
FRAUDS BY TIMBER CRIISERS.
SconudrclL-li Locator Juggle With
DestTlthi!.
A John Day correspondent of the
Baker City Democrat tells how It is
Oftentimes done, as follows;
I read In your weekly of July 13,
an article on "Timber Turned Down
In Eastern Oregon," most of which Is
quite correct, but only cnose loca
tions of timber lands are rejected by
the government which are In conflict
with the forest reserve.
It Is a well known fact hereabout
that a number of tlmoer locations
have been made In this county on
barren hillsides, when the ' lands
shown to the locators by irresponsible
and fraudulent cruisers was excellent
timber land; In fact trails are worn
around good timber tracts by cruisers
and their locators and the latter made
to believe that they were getting the
correct numbers for these tracts,
when In fact they were given num
bers for tracts miles away from this
and for lands that have not timber
enough on them to build a respectable-
log cabin.
And how will a locator feel after
paying $500 or more for a timber
claim and making affidavit that he
has been on the land and knows it to
be the Identical tract he has made ap
plication for finds out In the course
of time that the tract he receives
patent for Is miles away from this
and utterly worthless a a timber
claim?
A great many claims of this sort
are taken In the Middle Fork and
Long Creek country, and It might be
of Interest to the locators, before it Is
too late, to have their locations looked
up by some reliable surveyor and re
ported on as to the stand of timber,
before they make final proof and
pay out their money for what might
prove an utterly worthless tract of
land.
There Is also a recent ruling of the
land department, requiring that tim
ber land cntrymen shall know the
condition of land as ascertained from
personal observation and examination
near the date of proof; and Inasmuch
as there Is an uncertain time limit. It
would be well to be prepared to pre
sent positive evidence as to the con
dition of the land at a time not more
than two weeks prior to date of tak
ing testimony.
CHAS. O. CASPAR Y.
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar
Is the original laxative cough syrup
and combines the qualities necessary
to relieve the cough and purge the
system of cold. Contains no opiates.
Tallman St Co.
attained growth to afford them plen
ty of food, they would not take the
poison that we put out. and our ex
perience with this is that the only
time effective poisoning can be done
is early In the spring before they can
find any green vegetation to live upon.
Would Inoculiito (hp Hat.
"We have looked Into the matter of
iniKUlathiT them with a disease that
would sfrcad among them and kill
I them off. and are Informed by offi
cials of the agricultural department
at Washington that that ran be read
ily done, but there Is a drawback to
it. and this drawback Is. that the
same disease which will destroy the
rats Is contagious nnd may be taken
by stock grazing on the same ground,
which makes it very dangerous to ex
periment with. Were it not for this,
we should certainly try this process,
as we know of no other remedy that
will be effective."
The Hay Creek company is not the
only loser of crops from the sage rat
plague. All through the northern
end of the county there are millions
of rats 'cleaning up any vegetntlon
that can lie found. They are especial
ly numerous In the Haystack country
and the Agency Plains, where organ
ized effort has been made to destroy
them, without appreciable success.
The grangers have expended hun
dreds of dollars for poison which the
little rodent seems to fatten upon,
and the wheat crop will be somewhat
shortened thereby. As will be seen
from Mr. Knderud's letter, the agri
cultural department has been advis
ing the suffering districts by all means
within Its power what to do In the
matter, but without personal Investi
gation by a qualified ofifcer of the
department, the advice Is compara
tively worthless.
The plague, now a purely local one,
may in a year or two spread to alarm
ing proportions and devastate the
whole central Oregon 'ectlon.
Xlco Place to He.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Hotel St. George.
.Mose Meyer. Portland; Fred Bea-
Hies. Portland; H. H. Wlnslow. Oak
land: Geo. W. Swan. Spokane: O. C
Turner. Weston; F. A. itussel. Colfax
A. G. George. Los Angeles; J. W. Har
ney, Spokane; F. A. Korner. Spokane;
Kloe K. Colewell. Portland: J. W,
I'rown. Portland; Albert G. Pear,
Marshfleld; D. D. Hunter, Payette;
J. I). Matheson, La Grande.
Hotel Pendleton.
J. S. Gurney. Portland; F. C. Kel-
sey, Portland; W. Maher. Portland; G.
. Lynch, Portland; Meyhr, Port
lami; r. s. Rogers, Portland: O. H.
.Smith, Salt Lake; R. Wlssler, La
Grande; J. B. Gurde, Starbuck; S.
Andrews, Echo: C. W. Ma. Men. city;
J. A. George, Portland; J. Sullivan,
Portland: W. A. Slusher and wife; L
R. Prlgh nnd wife. Columbus: W. H.
Hare and wife, Spokane; F. H. Dean.
Haker City; J. A. Slater. Welser; J. J.
Jones. Salt Lake; C. M. Wolf, Seattle:
' J. U Green. Peggy; H. Her; J. Pat
terson.
William Hunter is buying up large
; numbers' of Wallowa horses nnd drlv-
Ing them through to the Walla Walla
mpiket.
inn Ann H spa
I UllQU I lie niUIIOJo Hid
Weakened by Over-Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
It used to be considered that only
urinary aud bladder troubles were to be
traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood
that is their work.
Therefore, when your kidneysare weak
or out of order, yon can understand how
quickly your entire body is affected and
bow every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
If you are sick or " feel badly," begin
taking the great kidney re'iiedy, l)r.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are well they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis
take bv first doctnrim vour kidnevs.
The mild nnd the extraordinary effect of
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, ami is sold
on its merits by all
and one-dollar size iwiH BftrliS
bottles. You may
nave a sample bottle nomsofSwsmp.Boot.
by mail free, also a pamphlet telling you
bow to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention' this paper
when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing
bamton, N. V. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
1906
We are headquarters for harvest supplies. Wo make It a
specialty to carry a complete assortment of everything used In '
the harvest field. Get our prices on
Blankets Comforts Shoes
Shirts Gloves Overalls
Jumpers
TOP WILL FIXD ALL FIRST-CLASS MERCHANDISE. ,
AT REASONABLE PRICES. EVERY ARTICLE FULLY
GUARANTEED.
ALEXANDER'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
AGENTS FOR THE WALK-OVER SHOES
TWO CARLOADS OF
FURNITURE
Just Received and More Coming.
Although my competitors have boycotted me and are doing
everything in their power to down me nnd keep me from buying
more furniture. I have Just received two carloads of new fur
niture right from the wholesale house, and at prices such as they
have never been able to obtain, nnd not like my competitors. I
will give my patrons the benefit of this great reduction.
If you are thinking of altering or sprucing up the home, nnd
do not feel like paying several prices for the new furniture, then
It will surely pay you to come and examine the new line I am at
present unpacking. And remember, when trading here.
"YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD."
Graham Furniture Co.
Postoffice Block.
A SPOTLESS
negligee shirt and Immaculate linen
will make any man look well dressed
for the
FOURTH OF JULY
Celebration, be It picnic or party.
Send your linen o us and you may rest
assured It will be Laundered properly.
Charges low. Delivery prompt
Pendleton Power Laundry
FISIIMAN A PETERS.
Itione Main 179.
ELECTRICAL
SUPPLIES
BY ELECTRICITY
can have ...any things done. Hov
easy to talk with any member of yo
family on any floor in the house, or
trap the midnight maraujer with thf
touch of a button. Come In nnrf
spect our line of
ELECTRICAL OO DS.
There's a lc. of hnn.lv thine. n
have that will cost you but little, etc.
J. L. VAUGHAN
ELEOi'RIClAN.
132 WEST COURT STREET.
'Phone Main 138.
Downey's Stage to :
Lehman Springs 5
Two stages; leave Pendleton
Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day. One way In eight hours.
OFFICE AT TALLMAN'8
DRUG STORE.
000.0 JU&
mmWi
Hits the Mark
in Lumbsr
By trading with th inml... n...
,i nninning, ana
handles a large and complete line of
eryming neened, you can always
save time and money nnd let what
you want.
We can furnish you anything deslr
ed and in any quantity, ln lumber,
lath, shingles.
brick, lime and round or rniunre tanks.
Pendleton Planing
runs
H. FORSTER, Proprietor.
Put in Your Winters'
Wood Supply Now.
I SAVES YOU MONEY.
Prepare for winter while the
wenthcr is with you.
When the cold, wet season
arrives, have your shed full of
goou, dry wood.
I have 1000 cords of red fir
and sawed slab wood, In carload
lots only.
$4.50 cord.
W. C. MINNIS
Leave orders at Hennlng'a Cigar
Store. 'Phone Main 8.
a
KEEP
the chicken house clean
with
LEE'S LICE KILLER
I Colesworthy
sells it
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