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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1906)
TEN PAGES. DAILY EAST OREGON! AX, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1WI8. PAGE TBREB. PBSTQ C T MILLIONS DF.I'KiT SHOWN FOR tnon is m,Mn,nns. Trnn)Mirtiitl(n of Mull In Hallway Service Cot $41,111,210.13 for llic Past Your Deficit Reduced 27 Pt Cent Since 190.1 Total NiimlxT of Poslofflros, 60,500. The six largest Items ot expense In the poHtofflce department for 1906. as shown by the report of Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou, are as follows: Transportation of malls on railroads $41,141,210.13 Compensation to post masters 23,544,585.09 Compensation to clerks In postofflces 22.717,013.78 City delivery 22,057.178.70 Rural delivery 24,738,980.79 Railway mall service, salaries 14.023,133.70 It cost (989,804 to manufacture the stamped envelopes used In the United States during the past year and $410,824 to manufacture the needed postage stamps. The transportation of mall on star routes, cost $7,292,660, and postofflce Inspectors cost $347,447. The receipts of the department for the. past year were $1(7,932,782.95 and the expenditures were $178,449, 778.89, leaving a deficit of $10,516, 995.95. The deficit for the preceding year was $14,594,187.12, or 27 per cent greater than In-1906. Of the estimates for 1907 the post master general says: The estimate for the service at large aggregate $206.(62.190, an in crease of about $15,000,000 over last year's appropriation, the principal In crease being In the compensation ot postmaster and postofflce clerks, let ter carriers, both city and rural, In the railway mall service, and In the transportation of mall by railroad routes and pneumatic tubea. To provide tor the compensation of postmasters, assistant postmasters, and clerk In -postofflce an Increase of $4,651,200 '1 asked, the present appropriations covering these Items being Inadequate to meet the growing demands of the service. An Increase of $1,156,700 will be needed for the compensation of city letter carrier, and an Increase of $1,476,000 for rural carrier. Pay "Railroads More. The estimate for the transporta tlon of mall by railroad routes call for an Increase of $4,660,000, a a result of the readjustment of compen satlon to railroads based upon weight taken during the weighing season In the fourth contract section. For the payment of salaries In the railway mall service, an Increase of $987,360 Is asked. The pneumatic tube service requires $350,000 addi tional. The present appropriation authorised considerable extension, which together with present obliga tions, aggregates an annual rate of $1,250,000, the appropriation re quested. The estimates show several de creases: For separating mails at third and fourth-Class offices. $25,000; railway transportation, special facili ties. $167,728.75; postage stamps. $41,000; postal cards. $36,000; and official and registry envelopes, $20, 000. Railway Mall Service. The report gives the following brief statistics of the railway mall serv ice: At the close of the year the railway mall service comprised 13,698 officers and employes, an Increase In the year of 1124. The record of -the service shows a large frowth. During the year there were 18 clerks and one mall weigher killed, 77 seriously Injured, and 414 slightly Injured. The number of clerks In jured this year was less than last year, and the number of accidents to mall cars has been decreasing since 1903. Not ho Many Offlcm. There are now (5,(00 postofflces In the United States, a decrease of 47(0 since 1898, when the number of of fices reached 70.880. The decrease is cavsed by the extension of rural . rostes and the abandonment of small offices. druggists, :0c and $1.00, Trial bottli free. DYNAMITING DAM IS CRIMINAL.. 'cTiK'tratoM Must Slitiul Trial, Says Supremo Court of Wnmiliurton. lioss K. Tiffany, mayor of Sunny-1 side, and J. A. Driscoll, will have to stand trial In the Kittitas county1 courts for having blown up the dam of Lombard & Horsley at the outlet! of Cle Elum lake, says the Yakima Republic. Tho supreme court says there Is a criminal statute against sueh an act. The court reverses the i decision of JuilKe Ring In dismissing ; the case at the time It was called In Hllenxburg for trial. JuUe Rlgg held ; that there was no statute covering the case. j Mr. Tiffany was the chief engineer , of the Washington Irrigation company I at the time the act was committed. I He was employed by that company, j It Is alleged, to blow up the dam j built by Horsloy and Henry H. Lorn-1 bard at Lake Cle Elum for the pur- I pose of creating a surplus water sup-! ply for their canal, which they were i building at the time to water lands in the Parker Bottom district, their works being the extension of the Fowler ditch, then being construct ed under the name of the Union Gap Irrigation company. With Mr. Tif fany at the time It Is alleged was J. A. Driscoll, as assistant. These two men early one morning in August, 1905, went to Lake Cle Elum and by the use of dynamite, it Is alleged, blew up the dam and let the water out 'into the Yakima river. At the time water was short In the Yakima river and It was with diffi culty that the Washington Irrigation company got enough water to halt fill the Sunnyslde canal. The com' pany claimed at the time It had noth ing to do with the act, but subse quently developments showed that It had. E. F. Benson, It Is claimed by the Washington Irrigation company, had a hand In the affair. The Washing ton Irrigation company claimed that the act was committed ostensibly by the Benson people, owner of the Prosser Fall Land Irrigation com pany and that Mr. Tiffany and Mr. Driscoll were seat to the Benson company a an accommodation to de the work. The two mea were arrested and gave bond for their appearance in court. When Uiey were called tor trial Judge Rlgg dismissed the case against them on the greuad that there was no statute covering their action. An appeal was taken by the prosecu tion to the sapreme court. ion Adorned With 900 Elk Teeth. A Nez Perce Indian woman, who la now held at Lewlston, Idaho, for the murder of Henry Carsaw, a fel low tribesman, ha a "fetching gown" which should make any weman in the United States green with envy, Inasmuch as It I said to be worth $1,444. LAicy's garment consists of about WJ elk teeth. They are arranged In rows, according to the artistic Incli nation of tho Nex Perc The gar ment Is an old one, having been given the woman by one of her pa rents. According to her story some of the elk te-h were gathered after hunts bv her grandparents. Inasmuch as elk teeth today an; worth from $5 to $50 apiece, accord ing to their size, markings and how they match other teeth, the ornamen tations cf Lucy's garment have a real and intrinsic value far above that usually worn by the average Indian maiden or woman. rw Railroad to Wyoming; Mine. V enne. Wyo.. Dec. 14. In a duy ir i vo the Saratoga & Encamp ment Railway company will com mence the construction of a line from Wallcott, through Saratoga and Wyo ming to the Grand Encampment ' mining district of this state. The I Pi.n.l la V. , I , 1, .. I, .1 i. . . Tl I vanla-Wyumlng Copper company, ard will be used by them to place their ore on the market. The road will also receive the benefit of laige ore ship ments from the Portland Copper Min ing company's mines, which are lo cated near the town of Encampment A Western Wonder, There's a Hill at Bowie, Texas, that's twice a big a last year. This wonder Is W. L. Hill, who from a weight ot 90 pounds has grown to ever 180. He snys: "I suffered with a terrible cough, and doctor gave me up to die of Consumption. I was reduced to 90 pounds, when I began taking Dr. King' New Discovery for Consump tion, Coughs and Colds. Now, after taking 13 bottles, I have more than doubled In weight and am completely cured." Only sure Cough and Cold cure. Guaranteed by Tallman & Co.. Surprising Variety FOR The Holiday ...Demands... Watch Us The Pendleton Drug Co. The Mark ot Quality" Phone Main 20 United States Ftult Exports. Wushlngton, Dec. 14. The great falling off In exports of fruit from the United States this season Is al mOBt entirely due to Germany, the people of which country have been buying as sparsely as possible from this country, In all things, for the past year or more, due to the failure of this government to make recipro cal tariff arrangements with Ger many. For the fiscal year ended June, 1906, total fruit c-xports were valued at $14,857,272. while In the corresponding period tho previous year, they amounted to $20,348,299. Indiana's Rivord Applo Crop. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14. Joseph Stubbs, state statistician, In his re port on the apple crop states that it Is more than double that of the pre vious year, the amount coming up to 4,780,000 bushels. Tho number of apple trees under cultivation Inst year was 4,223,078, but this year the num ber must have materially decreased. Jersey Mosquitoes to Go. Jersey City, Dec. 14. Dr. Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, after digging 300 mile of ditches and draining JO square miles of swamp land In Staen, announces that the mosquito win be a thing of the past In Staen Island and Jersey City. Dr. Alvah la now turning nls attention to Long Island, from where he hopes to exterminate the pests. Mormon Found Teniplo In Brooklyn. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 14. George Albert Smith, one of the 12 apostles of the Mormon church, and Brlgham Roberta, Mormon elder, barred from congress seven year ago, are at pres ent In consultation with the elders of the church here. It wu announced today that work on the construction of (r.at Mormon church here would be Immediately proceeded with. THE USEFUL XMAS GIFT WILL BE APPRECIATED. Nothing in the store but what is of the most useful kind, and no extra price stuck on because it is holidays si new 'MT r ."inn 19 uigniy uairt.-ijimi-u uj iict. $8.25 11. '25 $10.25 10.25 $21.25 l'p to the highest priced are reduced likewise. A nice Skirt will be very useful to lier. J7.00 Skirts. Xmas sale price $4-.25 $10.00 Skirts, Xmas sale price $fi.25 $15.00 Skirts, Xmas sale price $10,25 J17.S0 and $20.00 Skirt $1 4.25 Iresent her with a Kid Glove order for Xmas. A nice Fur would delight licr. $.! fl'i l uis, Xmas palu price $.',.0o Furs. Xmas sale price $8.00 Kn:n, Xmas Sale price SlO.'M Furs, Xmas sale price The entile line reduced likewise $1.1)0 $:i.50 $5.00 $;.50 A lovely Silk I'lKlersklrt for lier. $8 00 Hlik Skills, Xmas sale $4.75 $10 00 Silk Skirts, Xmas ale .j $fj,)( JC.50 Silk Skirts, Xmas sale $S .().") The entire line at Xmas sale prices. reiiiitiful WaM unhl bo nice for lier. $5 Ou -Waists, Xmas s;ilc .S3.00 $7.6' Waists, Xmus sale Ji J.S5 $l.oo Waists, Xmas sale $f.85 Many beautiful designs at Xmas sale prices Store Open Evenings Until After Mstomais . 1 1 2. at) Coals ami Suits. Xmas sale $17.09 :nats and Suits, Xmas sale . , J2H.00 Coats and SulU, Xmas sale . $..('.ij0 Coats and Suit. Xmas sale . , IJTi.OO Coats ind rfults. Xmas sale Long Kid Gloves In Alack and white, only $2.S5 Long Kid Gloves In color $; and $3.50 Itegular length Kid Gloves $1 0, $1 .50, $2 Stare Open Evenings Until After A $25.00 Tailor Suit free. Guess the number of words used in my ads, from December 3 to December 24. GRHNK'S Pendleton Cloak & Suit House During Christmas week every visitor gets a sprig of real holly, with red berries on. FREE. To Gather Alaskan Flora. Mrs. J. Craig of Dawson, Y. T., has taken upon herself the unusual task of collecting and mounting the com plete flora of Alaska. Mrs. Craig, who 1 the wife of a Dawson pho tographer, and herself an artist, has secured already more than 100 dis tinct flower specimens which are found growing wild In Alaska and the adjoining Klondike. These she has mounted between glass, by a se cret process which she herself devised, which enables the flowers to be pre served without loss of their original wonderful coloring. She Intends to continue her labors up to the time of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, and to exhibit the collection at Seat tle In 1909. Working l'p Immigration. Secretary O. C. Johnson, of the Ba ker City Development league has Just received from State Secret try Rich ardson at Portland, a list of some 200 name of people in the middle west and east who have become Interested In Oregon with a view to Investing here through the advertising matter sent out by the league. These lists of names will be used by the secretaries of the different local leagues and additional Informa tion sent t the Inquiring bomeseek err. The prospect Is for a tremen dous Influx ot Investing and thrifty people into Oregon In 1907. Baker Oty Democrat. Long; Tennessee Fight. For 20 year W. L. Rawls, of Bella Tenn., fought nasal catarrh. He writes: 'The swelling and soreness In aide my nose was fearful, till I began applying F-ucklen'a Arnica Salve to the sore surface: this caused the soreness and swelling to disappear, never to re turn." Best salve in existence; 25c at Tallman A. Co.', druggist. COAL AT BAKER CITY. Two Cara Arrived. Yesterday and the Famine la Broken. The coal famine Is broken in Baker City, says the Herald. Coal arrived yesterday according to the promise of General Manager O'Brien of the O. R. & N. and the two cars were given. one each to the Smith coal yard and the Baker City teed mill. At the same time there arrived two other cars of coal, one for each of the con cerns and Baker City from hence forth, according to the assurances of the railroad people, will have coal. Scores ot applications for portions of the two cars were made to the coal yards this morning and the shipments were divided among the many need Ing homes as fairly as possible. The banks and business houses also re celved a share ot the diamonds, so badly needed. 12 Carload of the Famous Grande Ronde Apples Must Go at Once. Livermore & Bickers REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, . CONVEYANCE AND LAND BUSINESS. Prompt attention to the rental of property. Room 19, Judd Building. $1.00, $1.10 and $1.20 Per Box. Another Car Coming and I Must Have the Room Lyinni ai's Market 310 East Court PHONE MAIN 79 Table Delicacies for the Holidays i ltu,U in ynl.i ,H .114 . , 'Mt, aii) l0"V,fl t,,,,,-,',! .li o ! $ Jf tj ' I f, J J It SurDrlses them tn h.f vnn K not got a Winona wagon. Those outer bearine blocks nrvni ih. o-l springing and makes it the easiest 1 mining wagon on eartn. The steal clad hub are defiance to the weather. J ney never crack or have loose spokes. Our hacks and buggies are made by the Winona Manufacturing Co., right In the hardwood belt. All air dried timber used In construction. Call and see us. We are headquarters for the Fair banks, Morse Gasoline Engine and Pumps. Estimates given on Irrigation and Electric plants. Call and get prices from NeagleBros. THE BLACKSMITHS. 1 Nothing like a turkey well Roasted To do that you have got to have ! the right kind of Roasters We have the kind you need a elf baster. A baster that don't burn your roast V. Stroble Cheapest place In Pendleton to Buy Furniture, II Court St. Phone Black I1T1 Choice Roasts and Steaks Dried, Smoked and Cured MEATS PURE LARD Carney, Ramsdell Co. Alt the news all the time in the Bast Oregonian.
