East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, April 01, 1907, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR. DAILY EAST ORFGONIAX, PENDLKTOW, OREGON. MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1807. EIGHT PAGES. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Illy, Weekly ud RtmlWaellf, t Pendleton. Oregon, by tb EAST OKBUON1AN PUBLISHING CO. SUBSCRIPTION HATES. Pally, one year, by mall 15.00 Dally, mi months, by mall 2.60 Dally, tores month, by mall 1.2S Dally, one month, by mall 50 Weekly, one year, by mall 1.60 Weekly, six montbt, by mall 75 Weekly, four month, by mall 50 Semi-Weekly, one year, by mall 1.50 Semi-Weekly. li months, by mll 75 Semi-Weekly, four month, by mall... .50 Chicago Bureau, 809 Security building. Washington, D. C, Bureau, 501 four teenth street, N. W. Member Scrlppa New Aaaoctatlon. Telephone Main 1. Entered at Pendleton Poatofflc a second rlM matter. There Is no wrong by any one committed, But will recoil; Its sure return with double 111 repeated, No skill can foil; As on the earth the mists It yields to heaven Descend In rain, So on his head who'er has evil given ' It falls again. It never falls, although the exe- cutlon May tarry long. Selected. RECOVER THE FEES. It Is estimated that almost $1,000, 000 In fees have been collected and kept by Oregon state officials, since the state was organized. It Is now a serious question as to whether, under the constitution, any state official had a right to appropriate these fees and the effort of the people of Marlon county through Attorney McMahon, to collect the sum of 1100,000 fees from ex-Secretary of State Dunbar, will be watched with exceeding interest. If the case against Dunbar "sticks," then the people may open up the en tire question and recover from every Btate official who ever took a cent of the state's money In fees for his serv ices. The trouble In Oregon has been that the state constitution has been looked upon as a dead letter and violations of It and disregard for it have been so common that good men have gone estray In this general anarchy of of ficialdom. Immense fees have been collected by practically all past state officials, and If the courts decide that Dunbar had no right to the $100,000 of the people's money which he Is claimed to have tnken In this way during his term of office, then where will the matter end? Every ex-offlclal may be brought In tc court and forced to give an ac counting of the state funds handled by him and fees collected and the result, while extremely unpleasant for some, would certainly create a good, whole some respect for the state constitution among future officials. The people of. Oregon have the ex ample of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania before them. Millions In fees were recovered from ex-offlc-ials of Pennsylvania, In some cases many years after the officials had re tired from office. Heney may be needed to conduct such a series of suits in the state of Oregon. If the constitution needs fixing, let us fix It, but do not let us trample It under foot and abuse It. As long as It stands let officials as well as private citizens, obey It. SWELLLIXG DIVIDENDS. The Western Union Telegraph com pany announces that !t will aflvanee ItF rates about 2D per cent in a few week?, thus adding to Its already enormous dividends on watered stock ar.d increasing the burdens on the bus iness world and the public In general. Has anybody heard of messengers or operators receiving an Increase In sal ary? Has there been any costly Im provements made in the service in the past four or five years? Is there any apparent reason for taking this In creased tribute from the public? The corporations are determined to punish the public for the government control ngltatlon. That Is the only excuse for Increasing telegraph rates at this time. The wages paid operators, messen gers', managers and laborers by the Western Union have not been advanc ed and there Is absolutely no reason for Increasing the cost of Rending mes sages. In fact there are many reasons why the cost of the telegraph service should be reduced. If the water was squeezed out of the inflated stocks, and dividends were declared only on the real value of this great monopoly, instead of upon three times Its actual capitalization, the tel egraph tolls would be cut In two. The property of the telegraph com panies consists largely In franchises. The actual cash valuation of the prop erty is Insignificant compared to the franchises and monopoly which It en joys. Its proportion of taxes Is also but a pittance compared to Its enor mous Income. It Is time for the public to take over these grasping monopolies for the public good. THE WOMEN AND THE G. A. R. The Oregon Equal Suffrage associ ation has enlisted the services of the O. A. R. for the equal suffrage cam paign of 190S and already members of that worthy organization of veterans are now circulating petitions asking for the submission of the equal suf frage question to a popular vote In 1908. This Is really a triumph for the women and will have an excellent ef fect In stimulating the equal suffrage movement. While the old soldiers are largely favorable to the ballot for women, yet there has never been an organized movement by them in Oregon to assist their wives and daughters in securing It and this concerted and united ac tion means something more than talk, for the old veterans have a way of do ing things which counts. Then women of Oregon are not to be discouraged. Their very patience and forbearance, In the face of re peated rebuffs from the legislature, should change the sentiment of every loyal and thoughtful husband in the state, who has opposed equal suffrage for his wife In the past. THE BEST YEAR YET. The year 1907 promises to be the best year ever experienced In the his tory of Pendleton. Trade has been good all through the winter and now is far better than the usual spring trade. Many firms have actually doubled their sales over March 1906, and there has been a general Increase all along the line. There promises to be a larger move ment of farmers to Pendleton next fall than ever. The East Oregonlan has talked with many Umatilla coun ty farmers who are contemplating coming here for the benefit of the ex cellent schools. They have lived for many years In the farming districts and now have sufficient means to en able then to live In the city and so will come In this year to buy or build homes In Pendleton. The schools are Increasing In effi ciency and facilities, the city Is on a firmer basis than ever and the opening of the irrigated districts tributary to the county seat Is bringing In a class of permanent settlers who will live upon and cultivate their land. The perpetual motion of Umatilla county industry is silently at work. The wheat crop of last, year Is scarce ly marketed before the seeders are at work on this year's crop. And by the time the last year's crop of wool leaves the warehouses the new crop Is ready to shear. In this way the stream of Income pouring Into Uma tilla county banks, stores and other institutions Is kept up to an even measure the year around. The sup port of Umatilla county business Insti tutions does not fluctuate as Is the case In a mining district, but is steady, firm and unfailing throughout the en tire year, and year after year, contin ually. Porter Garnett In April Pacific Monthly says. In a review of the liter ary work of Jack London, that this popular young westerner shows abso lute symptoms of literary degeneracy in some of his recent short stories. Anyone who has followed London and who has read closely all of his re cent magazine stories, will agree with Garnett. MOTHERHOOD The first requisite of a good mother is good health, and the ex perience of maternity should not be approached without careful physical preparation, as a woman who is in food physical condition transmits to er children the blessings of a good constitution. Preparation for healthy mater nity is accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made from native roots and herbs, more successfully than by any other medicine because it gives tone and strength to the entire feminine organism, curing displacements, ul ceration and inflammation, and the result is less suffering and more biiau 11411 cam Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standby of American mothers In preparing for childbirth NotewhatMrs James(.'heHter.of427 W. 35th St., New York says In this letter: Dear Mrs. I'inkham:-"I wish every expectant mother knew about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A neighbor who had learned of its great value at this trying period of a woman's life urged me to try It and I did so, and I cannot say enough in regard to the good It did me I recovered quickly and am in the best of health now." Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is certainly a successful remedy for the peculiar weaknesses and ailments of women. It has cured almost every form of Female Complaints, Drapglnp Sensa tions, Weak Hack, Falling and Displacements. Inflammation, l'lct-rv tions and Organic Diseases of Women and is invaluable in preparing for Childbirth and during the Change of Life. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are Invited to write Mrs. Pinkhara, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free. RECLAMATION GREATER TILAN PANAMA CANAL. Constantly In the lime light of public attention, the Panama canul has received more gratuitous adver tising In newspapers and magazines than any other modern enterprise. Column ufttr column has been do voted to the vnstness of the work to be performed, the great engineering obstacles to be overcome, the enor mous expenditure of money required to complete tip; ditch, and Its finan cial and commercial Importance when completed. In the brief pe riod since the work was begun tho count) y has been scraped as If with a fine tooth comb for most capable engineers to conduct the construction and changes in management have been made with startling r.nd amaz ing rapidity. Meantime, without tho ostentation of spectacular newspaper headlines, the redemption of a vast region In the west under the magic touch of Irrigation is well under way to a mar velous consummation. Involving a cost of about $1.&00, 000.000. Beven times the estimated cost of the Pana ma canal. Net only this, but In the necessary excavation work the total when the 28 projects now approved are com pleted will be many times more than the 13:1.000,000 cubic yards required for tho Panama canal. Up to the present time the excava tion work of the reclamation service amounts to 33.000.000 cubic yards. And in variety and difficulty the" en gineering prnhllem8 encountered in reclamation work are by no means second to those upon whom so many reputations have been wrecked at the Isthmus. And In commercial, financial and Industrial Importance the reclama tion of the arid west far overshadows the prophecies of even the most en thusiastic of the canal advocates. Taking the value of Irrigated land at $4 7, according to the last census, al though it frequently reaches $1000 an acre, when the work of redemp tion Is completed the taxable prop erty of the country will be increased $2.3r0,000,000, and new homes for 100, 000 families on farms and ad jacent villages and towns will be provided. The 26 approved projects will add to the crop-producing area of the country a Olftilct equal in size to Connecticut. New Hampshire, Massa chusetts and Florida. This alone will increase the yearly value of crops by J10.000.u9C and add $232,000,1)00 to the taxable value of the country. A summaiy of the work done by ihu reclamation service up to tho present time makes the digging of the Panama canal project appear a small task In comparison. The Irri gation engineers have excavated 1267 miles of canal, some of the canals being large, enough to carry whole rivers like the North , Platte and Truckee. A total of 43 tunnels nine and a half miles long have been excavated, 214 biidges built, 764 structures, in cluding three great dams, erected. 2k, miles uf road constructed in In accessible regions. 1373 miles of tel ephone strung, 10.4 73 square ntile3 of lopogiaphlcil surveys made, tran sit lint extended over H.&77 miles, level lines run 24.2JS miles, nearly sufficient to go around the earth; miles of diamond drilling, and 1010 buildings erected. The service Is operating 23 miles i't railway, with 9 locomotives anil 1'23 cais. It has 1154 horses and mules at work, and uses 30 station ary engines, 27 steam pumps, ami has in operation 3 electric light plants. Its office and field forces in clude 10,n0'i men, and the monthly expenditures of the service now nv-cn-ge a million dollars a month. J'ltrlit new towns have sprung irto existence as the result of the work of the reclamation service, and 100 miles of branch railroads have been constructed Into these districts. Ten thousand people have already built homo In this nnetlme desert, and every line of Industry In the west has felt the Impetus of Increased de man 1. Greut as will be the acknowledged r-dvantuges flowing from the con struction of the Pnnama canal, It will he many long years before that enterprise can show even a fraction of the profit that hns already result- MRS. JAMES CHESTER children healthy at birth. For more Absolutely Pure. ROYAL BAKwa POWDER CO., NtW YOtJC cd from the work of reclamation in tha west. NEVERTHELESS. "Mr. Roosevelt has destroyed the credit of the railroads." New York Sun. Let us he fair to Mr. Roosevelt. Admitting that he has outraged Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Rogers by at tacking the Standard Oil; admitting that with the same Quixotic xeal with which as police commissioner he en forced the Sunday laws in New York, he has enforced the Sherman anti trust law against corporations; ad mitting that with amazing Ignorance of the requirements of business In those higher spheres into which ordi nary Intelligence cannot penetrate, he has Insisted upon applying the principle of publicity; admitting that without regard to the great funda mental law of the survival of the strongest, he has persistently advo cated fair rates, fair competition, fair capitalization, and fair play nevertheless it Is certainly remark able how well the railroad corpora tions have done during the Roose velt administration, how much mon ey they have made, how many divi dends they have declared, and how tieh their principal owners are. It Is amazing that in spite of "Mr. Roosevelt's rudimentary Ideas of business his persistent attacks CHROMIC ULCERS EXTERNAL EVIDENCE OF INTERNAL POISON Whenever a sore or ulcer refuses to heal, it is a sore sign of a diseased condition of the blood. The sore itself is simply an outside evidence oi some internal poison, and the only way to cure it is to remove the deep underlying cause. Sores and Ulcers originate usually from a retention in the system of bodily waste matters and impurities. These should pass 08 th rou eh the natural avenues of waste, but because of a sluggish condition oi the different members they are retained in the system to be taken up by the blood. This vital fluid soon becomes unhealthy or diseased, and the skin gives way in some weak place and a Sore or Ulcer is formed. The con stant drainage of impurities through a sore causes it to fester, grow red and inflamed and eat deeper into the surrounding flesh, and often there is severe pain and some discharge. S. S. S. is the remedy for Sores and Ulcers. S5 PURELY VEGETABLE blood. Then the place begins to heal, new flesh is formed, the inflamma tion subsides, and when S. S. S. has thoroughly cleansed the circulation the place heals permanently. Special book' on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice desired will be sent free to all who write. TH SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA. WALTER'S NEW "HARD WHEAT" FLOUR Try It Walters' Flour Mills PENDLETON, OREGON FOR S-ROOM DWELLING $1800.00 5-ROOM DWELLING $2500 00 8-ROOM DWELLING $3000 00 5-ItOOM DWELLING $1200.00 5-ROOM DWELLING , $.800.00 5-ROOM DWELLING $2500.04 4-ROOM DWELLING $1200.00 8-ROOM DWELLING $3300.00 linnM nuFi.Mvo $2500.00 7-ROOM DWELLING $2000.00 FRANK B. CLOPTON & CO. 1 12 . Court, St.. Pendleton, Ore. 4 . St . . Byers Best flour Ta made from the choicest whent ed when BYERS' BEST FLOUR i wind. Tiran, Shorts, Str-am Rolled Ilarley always on hand. PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS W. 8. BYEKS, Proprietor. The Careful Housewife uses no other. on the railroads his grave excess es his positive mania." New York Sun during Mr. Roosevelt's administra tion railroad mileage has Increased 19,000 miles and Is still growing, the railroads have raised about $2,500, 000,000 new capital, and have even obtained $250,000,000 this year, and their net Income per mile has In creased since 1901 from $1235 to $1660. Wall Street Journal. OOM PAUL. Let him lie burled In the land he loved, The first of Freedom's most Intrepid clan. Earth threw him forth, rough-hewn, from out her depths; Alone he stood, an elemental man! Beneath an alien sky he Bought a home. And there he fondly dreamed and tolled and prayed. Molded the nation, and but for a day Ruled a brave people, firm and un afraid. There shall his lasting monument be reared: There brood his spirit while the world grows old His grave a nation's scattered dust, and he The mighty figure of a tale that's told. W. L. In New York Sun. It is nature s blood purifier, made entirely of vegetable matter, known to be specifics for all blood diseases and disorders. 8. 8. S. goes down to the very bottom of the trouble, and removes the poison and im pure matter, so that the sore is no longer fed with impurities, but is nourished and cleansed with a stream of healthv. rich New brand now on the market Made by his new modern proceas. It beats all for perfect bread baking. SALE t t ma 4 that orrnwa. flood bread la iiir. Hotel St. George GEORGE DARVEAC, Proprietor. European plan. Everything flrst laaa. All modern convenience!. Steam heat throughout Rooms en suite with bath. Large, new sample room. The Hotel St. George Is pronounced one of the moat 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 $1.3 0 Block and a Half From Depot. Bee the big electric linn. The Hotel Pendleton BOLLONS & BROWN, Proprietor. 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 Tins. Ratee $2, $2.50 and $3. Special rates by the week or month. Excellent Cuisine. Prompt dining room service. liar and llllllnrd Roo mln Connection Only Throe Blocks from Depots. Golden Rule Hotel E. L. MWtOOM, PROPRIETOH. A first-class family hotel and stock men's headquarters. Under now management. Telephone and fire alarm connections with all rooms. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN Special rates by the week or month. Evccllent dining room service. Rooms 50c 75c and $1.00 Free 'bus to and from all trains. THE ST. ELMO Lodging House A CLEAN, I'lRST.CLASS, Up. TO-RATE ROOMING HOUSE. EVERY ROOM CLEAN, LIGHT AM) AIRY. Rates 50c and $1.00 SPECIAL RATES IY THE WEEK OR MONTH. J. G. POORE, Prop. KiJTEL POflTLARID OF PORTLAND, OHEOON American I Ian, 3 por day and ,,. ward. H-nd.iiiftrter, for I ,!' commercial travol-ra. Special ..!., made to f.mUi.. Rnrt alSa " men. The niatiHKHtnent mil t,. ,,!" ed at all tlmos to how rooms and give prices. A modern Turkish h.ik -tnhll.hmr.nt In tha hotel "tfc ( H. O. ROWERS. Vanaj,;.