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DAILY KAST ORFGONIAX, PENDLETON, OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH !8, 1807.
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Entered at Pendleton Poatofflca aa second
class matter.
There's never an always cloud
less sky,
There's never a vale so fair.
But over It sometimes shadows
He
In a chill and songless air.
But never a cloud overhung the
day,
And flung Its shadows down,
But on its heaven-side gleamed
some ray,
Forming a sunshine crown.
Mlnot J. Savage.
nil kinds are portrayed with startling
reality.
To older people these reproductions
of the Imaginary crimes are only
amusing, but to the receptive minds
of growing children, they are posi
tively dangerous. Many a boy owes
his evil career to some such sugges
tion and the public should discourage
nil such exhibitions. ,
The power of suggestion over the
human mind Is now recognized to be
one of the potent agencies of the men
tal world and society owes It to child
ren that evil or degrading suggestions
be discouraged.
It Is just as easy to reproduce the
beautiful and Inspiring as to repro
duce the morbid and objectionable and
it lowers the art of the inventor and
manufacturer to use such a beneficial
Invention for an evil purpose.
A LIBRARY AS AN INVESTMENT.
LET rs HAVE NO STRIKE.
The proposition to call a strike of
100,000 train and englnemen on west
ern railroads Is now trembling In the
balance of arbitration in Chicago. The
employes have voted to stand by their
demand for a 12 per cent raise and
a shorter day and the companies have
practically refused to grant the de
mand. The grand officers of the brother
hoods affected have authority to call
the strike, but they hesitate, when
they consider the disastrous results
which must follow.
The country cannot afford to have
a railroad strike tnow. The business
of every community has been crippled
by the car shortage and congestion
of traffic during the past year, and
now to add the evil results of a general
strike would be to almost paralyze
every industry in the country.
And yet the employes are Justified
from almost every point of view. In
making demands for Increased pay.
A large proportion of the enormous
appropriations of the recent 'legisla
ture in Oregon was made necessary
by Increased pay for state employes
who showed by unanswerable figures
and facts that their living expenses
were increasing so It was Impossible
to live on the old scale of wages.
The same reasons justify the de
mands of the railroad men. Living
expenses are advancing at an aston
ishing rate. Almost every Item used
In the home Is higher today than It
was a year ago, and Is considerably
higher than three years ago.
People not familiar jvlth the details
of railroad life often think that rail
road men make plenty of money and
that If they do not save money, It Is
their own fault
The facts are that every railroad
man having a family, maintains two
distinct expense accounts. He keeps
the family at home, and as the em
ploye In the train and engine service
Is away from home two-thirds of the
time when working, he must pay his
own expenses while away on his run.
This doubles his expense, and although
his wages may seem large, yet the pe
culiar demands upon his Income make
his net saving small compared to other
trades.
Let living expenses Increase but
lightly and hid narrow margin Is
greatly reduced. ' ' :
When the country understands the
condition under which the railroad
boys work It will look with more
charity upon his demand for an in
crease In pay, and while the result of
a strike at this time would be ex
tremely disastrous, yet there would
perhaps be more justification for such
action now than on many past occa
sions on which strikes have been call
ed. However, It Is believed by all con
servative railroad men that the wage
question will be settled amicably.
Both sides realize the seriousness of
the situation and appreciate the dis
astrous possibilities of a strike order.
To many people who do nat give
the matter a second thought, the state
ment made by Mayor Fee last night,
that a public library Is a good Invest
ment, from a financial point of view,
will seem far-fetched and perhaps not
strictly within the financial view ot
public utilities.
But Mayor Fee believes that good
citizenship Is profitable to a communi
ty and therefore anything which starts
young men on the right road to good
and useful lives and which fits them
for active and clean citizenship, Is a
good Investment for a community.
A well ponducted, well selected 11
biary will attract the young men and
hold them. It will place them In the
society of the best people In the com
munity will give them a proper view
of life and will widen and strengthen
them and will therefore lay founda
tions for good citizenship.
From this view point a library Is an
excellent Investment. It pays to have !
peaceable, sober, Intelligent and use- I
ful men In a community, and If the
community does not offer something.!
In place of the nameless and number- !
less temptations which are found on '
every hand, young men will be at- !
traded to these evils and become weak
members of society, either listless and
heedless or positively bad citizens.
What Is a paltry mill added to the
general tax, compared to the far
reaching good results of an excellent
public library to which the boys and
young men may be attracted and
which will offer the stranger at least
one Inviting and safe retreat while in
the city? I
One of the Important Duties of Physicians
and the Well-informed of the World
is to lenrn as to the relntivo standing and reliability of the leading manufactur
ers of medicinal agents, as the most eminent physicians are the most careful as to
the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it is well
known to physicians and the Well-informed generally that the California Fig Syrup
Co., by reason of its correct methods and perfect equipment and the ethical character of
its product has attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which
is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and, therefore, that the name of the
Company has become a guarantee of tho excellence of its remedy.
TRUTH AND QUALITY
appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent suc
cess and creditable standing, therefore we wish to call tho attention of all who would
enjoy good health, with its blessings, to the fact that it involves the question of right
living with all the term implies. With proper knowledge of what is best each hour
of recreation, of enjoyment, of contemplation and of effort may be made to contribute
to that end and tho use of medicines dispensed with generally to great advantage, but
as in many instances a simple, wholesome remedy may be invaluable if taken at the
proper time, the California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is alike important to present
truthfully the subject and to supply the one perfect laxative remedy which has won
the approval of physicians and the world-wide acceptance of the Well-informed because
of the excellence of the combination, known to all, and the original method of manufac
ture, which is known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only.
This valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of
Syrup of Fisrs and has attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excellent of
family laxatives, and as its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well
known to physicians and the Well-informed of the world to be the best of natural
laxatives, we have adopted the more elaborate name of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
Senr.a as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtlessly it will always be
called for by the shorter na!::o of- Syrup of Figs and to get its beneficial effects always
note, when purchasing, the full mure of the Company California Fig Syrup Co.
plainly printed on the front of every package, whether you simply call for Syrup of
Figs or by the full name Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna is the one laxative remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. and the same heretofore known by the name Syrup of Figs which has given sat
isfaction to millions. The genuine is for sale by all leading druggists throughout the
United States in original packages of one size only, tho regular price of which is fifty
cents per bottle.
Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company, filed with the
Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, 1). C, that the remedy is not adulterated
or niisbranded within the meaning of tho Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, 1906.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
San Francisco, Cal.
U. S. A.
London, England.
Louisville, Ky.
New York, N. Y.
Political Note and Comment
ART AS AN KVIIi.
One of the most wonderful and en
tertaining inventions which has grac
ed the achievement of this age Is the
moving picture machine, the repro
duction of activity and motion.
But In many Instances this Inven
tion Is being used, perhaps uncon
sciously, as an evil suggestion to chil
dren of receptive minds.
Instead of confining the reproduc
tions made by these machines to beau
tiful, humorous and inspiring sub
jects, the art Is abused by the repro
duction of Imaginary morbid scenes In
which robberies, murders, crimes of
The open ranges of the west have
been used and enjoyed by western
stockmen so long that the Idea of pay
ing a grazing fee seems like an Im-
1 Augustus W. Owens, who recently
' died at Norfolk, Va., was the author
of the "Jim Crow" bill which passed
the North Carolina legislature some
years ago.
Former Senator Pettigrew of South
Dakota, is said to have vastly lnoreaB
ed his wealth during the past year
or two In stock speculation In New
! York.
I Secretary of War Taft Is planning
i to take a trip wes-. about thu middle
nnsiHrtn tn mnn. mi i ,
" " ""-'"en , r.f .lune to fill several upeaklng en-
Colorado arc leading a hopeless fight gagements In Kansas and Nebraska.
to nave the grazing fee removed, but
It is not probable that they will suc
ceed. The government must make tho
forestry department self-supporting
and grass Is one of the assets of the
department. It would be just as rea
sonable to permit the sawmill firms
to take government timber without
pay, as to permit free grazing in the
reserves.
will niso deliver commei'cem.int
losses in Iowa and Minnesota.
It Is all right to show the tourist
Main street and Court street in Pen
dleton, but until more paving Is done
let us charitably turn aside from the
mud holes on Webb and Alta streets.
The paving machinery should be
started early this spring and kept at
work until late next fall.
From now on much will be heard
nbout favorite sons. In this respect
t:ie republican oem much better oif
than the democrats. Missouri ha
decided to present Mr. Warner, Us
first republican senator In a genera
tn. Senator Crane Is mentioned as
tm favorite son of Massachusetts and
.Senator Knox Is proposed for a simi
lar honor In Pennsylvania, When
te time Is ripe It is not Improbable
that New York will come forward
with Governor Huphes as an avail
able presidential candidate.
Though the actual work of -electing
delegates to the next democratic
national convention will not begin
for almost a voar, the friends of Wll
Il7m J. Bryan are already organizing
I all over the country to promote his
There Is no other one Individual llomatlon as the candidate for
In the religious world who directs as ' l'r,',l''ent- Tn most "lve agent In
t. . i this connection appears to be the
much charitable work as General Wll- ! Commercial Travellers' Anti-Trust
Ham Booth or the Salvation Army, lengue, which Is distinctively a Bry
who comes to Seattle next Saturday l,n organization.
on a tour of the world.
There will bo more than 1000 dele
gates In the next democratic national
convention, If all th9 territories. In
cluding Alaska and Po'to Rlco. are
Qulnlan Sullivan stole a railroad bi
cycle at Starbuck and undertook to
leave the neighborhood on It. A train allowed Increased representation, and
met him on the Alto bridge, near Day- probably 870 will be necessarv to
ton. The bicycle was demolished and nominate. ' '
hulllvan narrowly escaped with his
life. The trainmen captured Sullivan
and he Is In Jail at Dayton.
Governor Deneen of Illinois, has
Bone to Chicago to help along the
candldacv of Povtmnatof Rhmu ,t,n
ur. leiruu, county neaun orncer or is running for mayor on the republl
Yakima, reports two cases of smallpox can ticket. The election takes place
at Outlook. At Toppenlsh the doctor , next Tuesday,
looked around some and Inspected a i
number of places. He said the scare Persians In the district of Sebzewar,
was over at the latter place, and the have revolted against Russian doml-
dlsease under perfect control.
I nation and are making much trouble.
Commercial National Bank
Condensed Report of Condition Rendered Comptroller
of Currency, March 22, 1907.
Resources.
tJ. S. Bonds ) 52,465.81
Stock securities 13,863.80
Loans and discounts 167.9S7.60
Furniture and fixtures... 7,403.48
Cash reserve 65,980.82
Total resources $297,871.41
Correct attest:
Liabilities.
Capital stock $ 60,000.00
Undivided profits less ex
penses and taxes paid.. 4,141.56
Circulation 60,000.00
Deposits 193,629.88
Total 8297,671.41
MARCH 28 IX HISTORY.
died.
ar-
1520 Raphael, tho painter,
Botn 1488.
16.18 Governor William Kleft
rived at New Amsterdam.
1760 Margaret Wofflngton, the
celebrated actress died. Born 1718.
1S02 The planet Pallas discovered
by Dr. Olbers.
1814 V. S. frigate Essex surrender
ed to British ships Phoebe and Cherub
in harbor of Valparaiso Chill.
1818 General Wade Hampton, of
the confederate states army, born.
Died April 11, 1902.
1833 Seminole treaty concluded.
1S46 American army under Gen
eral Taylor, invaded Mexico.
1854 Great Britain declared war
against Russia.
1863 Confederate steamer Iris
taken by U. S. steamer Stellln off
Charleston, S. C.
1868 Earl of Cardigan, leader of
the LlKht Brigade at Halaklava, died.
Born 1797.
1871 Paris commune proclaimed.
1891 Canadian Pacific railway
completed from ocean to ocean.
1893 General Edmund Klrby
Smith, of the confederate states army,
died. Born 1824.
1898 Resolution declaring war with
Spain Introduced In congress.
1901 Canadian troops depurted
from Hnllfax for South Africa.
THE rXOriKT STAIRS.
In' a recent suit In a Cinelnnali
court a lawyer was cross-examining
a German, tli-j point under Inquiry
being the relative position of the
doors, windows, etc.. In a house In
which a cot tain transaction was al
leged to have occurred.
"And now, my good man," the
lawyer said, ' will vou be good enough
to lei! tre court bow the stairs run
in your house?"
The Gorman looked dnzed for a
moment. "!iov do they run?" be
repeated.
"Yes, how do the stairs run?"
"Veil," continued the witness, "vep
1 am oop-stalis dey run down, and
ven I am down stairs dey run nop."
Harper's Weekly.
Officers and directors.
A. C. RUBY. Pres. ' W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier.
T. G. HAILEY, Vlce-Pres. W. S. BADLEY, Asst Cashier.
A. D. SLOAN, ROBT. LAING. '
Ls Stile Street Station Uaed by Rock Iiland-FrUco Lines.
Have YOU ever been in CHICAGO?
If so, you know the extremely convenient location of La SaOe
Stmt Station.
If you arc a stranger in the efty, however, it ia of mat importance
that roil turn about this nugniiicent and comparatively new terminal,
used jointly by Rock ItUod-Frbco Lines,
It b nearest the heart of tho city closely adjoining the buelncsi
section within easy walking distance of State Street i bopping center
and all the principal hotels the only depot on the elevated loop.
The Rock Island right-of-way into Chicago it elevated for more
than eight miles out through the suburbs. Prompt arrival at Chicago
terminal b thu assured. EngUwood Union Station, seven miles out,
affords ready accea to southern suburbs all through trains stop there
General Afent,
Rock liltnd-Frlteo Lines,
140 Third St., PORTLAND, ORE.
Byers' Best Flour
Is made from the choicest wheat that grows. Good bread Is assur
ed when BYERS' BEST FLOUR is used. Bran, Shorts, Steam Rolled
Barley always on hand.
PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS
W. A. BYER8, Proprietor.
Hotel St. George
GEORGE DAHVKAU, Proprietor.
European plan. Everything first-
class. All modern conveniences. Steam
heat throughout. Rooms en suite with
bath. Large, new sample room. Thi
Hotel St. George Is pronounced on
of the most up-to-date hotels of the
Northwest. Telephone and fire alarm
connections to office, and hot and
cold running water in all rocms.
ROOMS: $1.00 and $1.5o
Block nnd a Half Prom Depot.
See the big electric sign.
The Hotel
Pendleton
BOLLONS & BROWN, Proprietors.
The Hotel Pendleton has been re
fitted and refurnished throughout.
Telephone and fire alarm connec
tions with all rooms. Baths en suite
and single rooms.
Headquarters for Traveling Men
Commodious Sample Rooms.
Free 'Bus.
Ratee $2, $2.50 and $3.
Special rates by the week or month.
Excellent Cuisine.
Prompt dining room service.
liar nnd Billiard Itoo niiii Connection
Only Three Blocks from Depots.
THE
ST. ELMO
Lodging House
A CLEAN, FIRST-CLASS, UP-TO-DATE
ROOMING HOUSE.
EVERY ROO.M CLEAN, LIGHT.
AND AIRY.
Rates 50c and $1.00
SPECIAL HATES BY THE
WEEK OR MONTH.
J. G. POORE, Prop.
The French
RESTAURANT
Pendleton's most pop
ular Dining Room.
Best 25 cent meal in
the city.
Thoroughly renovated
and all newfdishes.
Orville Coffman
Proprietor
Columbia Bar
and
Rooming House
MRS. F. X. SCHEMPP,
Proprietress
Fine Wines, Liquors,
and Cigars.
Newly furnished and up-to-date
Rooming House In connection.
828 MAIN STREET.