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DAILY EAST OREGONIAX, PENDLETON, OREGON. MONDAY, MAY IS, 1007, EIGHT PAGES. ' PAGE FOUR. AN INDEPENDENT NBWSPAPBb! Published Pally, Weekly and Semi-Weakly, at Pendleton. Oregon, by the EART OKBUONIAN PUBLISHING CO. 8UHSCRIPTION BATES. Daily, one year, by mall $5.00 Dally, six montha. by mall 2.60 Dally, three months, by mall 125 Dally, one month, by mall 60 Weekly, one year, by mall 1.60 Weekly, six months, by mall 76 Weekly, four months, by mall 60 Reml-Weekly, one year, by ma.ll 1.60 Html Weekly, six months, by mall 78 Bcmt Weekly, four months, by mall... .60 OhleRO r.nrenu. 000 Secnrlty building. Washington, D. C, Bureau, 601 Four teenlh street, N. W, Member Scrlpps News Association. Telephone Main 1. Entered at Pendleton Poatofflee as second clsss matter. The deserts may drink up the fountain; The foresU give place to the plain; The main may give place to the mountain. The mountains return to the main, But the precepts of Christ are beyond them; The truths by the Naasarene taught. With the stamp of the ages upon them, They endure as though ages were naught! Joaquin Miller. would be carried across the country costs the railroad companies less than $3500. One cargo at this enormous freight rate would pay about BO per cent of the cost of the car. By this method the Standard Oil company has determined to prevent the extensive use of denatured alcohol by farmers. As long as the oil mo nopoly makes railroad rates and dic tates prices, the people will receive but little benefit from the removal of the tariff on denatured alcohol. IIAILEVS HISTORY OF IDAHO. I. FT PEXDI.KTON REJOICE. THE TROUBLE WITH THE MAIL. The reason it costs bo much money to haul and distribute the United States mall, is that political influ ence In congress and cabinet. Is blind to the exorbitant charges made by the railroads for this service. The United Typothetae, a publlsh - era' association, has Just complied sta tistics, showing that the rate charged the government for hauling mall from NewTork city to 49 commercial cen ters of the United States, is 18.10 per 100 pounds. Express matter carried In the same and adjoining cars, under exactly simi lar service, Is hauled by the railroads for 12.43 per 100 pounds. Can the people be blinded longer by political prejudices against govern ment ownership of railroads? The people are forced to pay $8.10 per 100 and the express companies get an "inside rate" of $2.43 per 100. Tf the government could secure a rate as reasonable as that enjoyed by the "Inside" express monopoly, the rate of postage could be cut In two and the enormous deficit In the post office department would be eliminated. The franking privilege enjoyed by hundreds of officials and departments la another straight graft on the people. This privilege costs the postofflce de partment $25,000,000 annually, and Instead of being charged to the de partments enjoying the franks, the cost Is charged to the postofflce depart' menL No other government under the sun has maintained a franking system for over 60 years, according to statistics Just compiled. It Is time that more business and less politics was employed In the man agement of the postofflce department of the United States. BOURNE'S NEW POLICIES. Senator Jonathan Bourne, the first senator . ever elected In the United fixates bv direct vote of the people, Is pursuing an entirely new and novel policy In Washington. He is actually making a study of needed legislation for the northwest. and Is assiduously learning the man ner In which to secure that legist tlon. He gives promise of becoming an actual, bona fide, earnest legislator seeking honestly and conscientiously to secure laws for the benefit of the whole people. He Is very close to the president; lie has made the acquaintance of every cabinet member; he Is In touch with II the heads of departments and Is makjnr a study of legislative methods. If he uses the Information and In flaenc which he Is bringing to his aastsUnc, for the benefit of the peo ple, bis eerrV will be of Inestimable aloe aod the East Oregonlan will be g14 to fwge t opp'jsltlon to his toctSxo. a Mf i rfuafsm rates. I Jrtaw, a Jr City druggist. fcas vvn pltln4 to the interstate VmnvA evamMMi, that the freight rat uUn4 alcohol from Chica go to Bkr City Is tie per gallon, a rate which l prartleally prohibitive. Thi at denatured alcohol In Chicago Is bvt 81 cents per gallon. On It-ton bos car will carry 7S88 gallons of alcohol, which at M cents per gallon, would make the freight charges on one car, $1371. The entire cost of the carload at II cents per gallon would be trot 83111. The bos ear til which the alcohol The launching of the "J. N. Teal," the new steamer built in Portland for the Open River Transportation com pany, is cause for rejoicing In Pendle ton and every other shipping point tributary to the Columbia or Snake river. Slowly the splendid dream of the open river agitators is being realized. Slowly the transportation question In the inland empire Is solving Itself by the gradual processes of development One by one the river fleet is being en larged, one by one the obstacles of the river are being conquered. How slowly the triumphs come, let the grey hairs of Dr. N. Q. Blalock and other pioneer river transportation workers, speak, for they are more elo quent than words. How tedious Is the process of developing a great In dustry like river shipping, let the peo ple of the inland empire say. They have borne the brunt of the fight But the deliverance of the Inland empire Is at hand. crease In the number of upper river boats; the proposed construction of electric lines connecting the wheat belt with the Columbia river, the building of rival lines to tide water all speak of the final victory of the people. Pendleton should hurry up the con struction of the electric line from Sim mons Landing on the Columbia via Holdman and the government irriga tion project to this city. That means Immediate results to the wheatgrowers of Umatilla county. It means the sav- ng of thousands of dollars on the very first harvest shipped out. The results of such transportation are not proble matlcal. We know that river trans portation is cheaper, else why all the mmense traffic on the waterways ot the world? Let us haul out the 1908 wheat crop over an electric line to Simmons Land ing. The Columbia river is beckoning to us. Nature has placed this waterway in hailing distance of the richest wheat belt on the continent Why Is it not In use? Why Is It Idle? The real Oregon beauties have not yet found their way Into the metropol itan newspapers. They are found at Oregon firesides, rearing their fami lies, directing their household, helping the needy, cheering the despondent. doing countless deeds of charity un noticed and In every way filling the mother's exalted station In life. ' What will loulitK-ss stand for years as the most complete history of Ida ho, and the foundation for all future historians that pretend to go 'into the statistical details of territorial government In Idaho, says the Boise Statesman, has het-n practically com pleted by John Halley, recently ap pointed custodian of the Idaho His torical society. Mr. Halley, who came here In 1863, was one of the typical frontiersmen binve, alert, seeing everything there was to ste' and of a keen, scrutinizing mind. He came to Ida ho a yi-ar or two nfter the first rush for Kold almost two years, iu fact, afterthe gold hunters had benun to pour Into north Idaho but his resi dence covers most or the Bolso basin and southern Idaho history under the first white regime. And what he did not actually see, he was close enough to hear and remember. More than that, he has been a reader of everything that fell into his hands, an enthusiast on everything that per tained to Idaho, nnd has spent years searching old official records, old newspapers, old reports of whatever kind that told of the early days here' This unremitting toll has bornu fruit In the volume which It Is expected will soon be Issued under his name, as his real monument In Idaho. Mr. Halley Is not a novelist His wo"k lc' plain and unadorned as a government report It Is a simple narrative of things as they actually were at the time of which he wrote. A first glance at the style might mis lead the casual reader Into believing that it was merely reminiscent, which it Ih not. Mr. Halley has written of the times '.n which he lived, but he has fortified the story by years of research among the best authorities available, until the events, some ot The gradual In- j tnem prosaic enough in their state ment, are sealed witn inr mark of h'storlc truth. It Is a dim and far off time ot which he tells, especially the first beginning of Idaho. But one can read the book and feel that the times are correctly mirrored, lacking nothing but the glamor cf the gold hunters' romance that the nov-list ct'Uld not help but put Into anything he might wrote of the same period. The work is to consist of about (SO chapters, covering the entire hletnty of the territory, up to the date of admission as a state. Sonw of the chapters are very short; others, like the Indlon wars that, left a trail of blood across the territory, are writ ten in very full detail. It gives es pecial attention to the legislative and governmental history, and is believed to contain th9 name of ;very officer who held office undur the territorial government, in any capacity. Mr. Halley has not yet mudc ar rangements fcr publishing the book, but thi manuscript Is practically completed. Mrs. Cartee, his daugh ter, has served as his amanuensis and critic In the work, and it has been well done. The book should find a very large popular demand all over the state, as well as through the west fur Its fairness and accuracy, as well as fur the reason that it is so differ ent from the paid "write up" histories that have been almost the only his torical literature of the state, and they are historical for a price with out a painful regard for the truth. Absolutely Pure. The Careful Housewife uses no other. Hotel St. George GEORGE DARVEAU, Proprietor. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., Ntw VORK. clear, but In the high office build ings and in some high distrlcta of the low service- oftentimes the oir nea-ly filled the pipes. He says there is one hydrant at South Thirty seventh and Yakima avenue where It takes between a quarter and a half minute for the air to blow out before the wnter begins to come. COMING EVENTS. May 1S-17 Montana Interscholaa tic meet, Missoula. May IT. Mass Meeting County Sunday School Workers, M. E. church, Pendleton. May 4 Oregon state trans. Hood River. May 24 Umatilla County Caledon ian picnic at Athena. June 4-7 Washington state (range. T.ynden. WATER WHITE WITH AIR. The thick, milky-looking water drawn from many office building faucets is all right its Just full of . . . . ,,.,, u wind, says the Tacoma News. The frost has killed Just enough The ' fruit in eastern Oregon to guarantee ghjpct of many complaints and wa- an excessively high price for the re mainder of the crop. Between the sugar trust and the frost, Oregon cel lars will be filled next winter at a handsome cost MAT 13 IN HISTORY. 1534 Hessians defeated Austri an at Iauffen. Ili68 Mary Queen of Scots defeat ed at battle of Langrlde. 1A07 English colonists began to hulld at Jamestown. 1870 Hudson Bay company founded. 1699 Marquis de Pombal, cele brated Portuguese statesman, born. Died 17t. 1783 Society of the Cincinnati or- firlwd. 1800 John Marshall of Virginia became secretary of state. lS2fi John L. Le Conte, natural- lt, born. 1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, com poser of comic opera music, born. Died November ft, 1900. 1861 Baltimore occupied by Fed eral troops. 1864 Battle of Drury's Bluff, Va.. 1871 P. F. F. Auber, composed ot "Fra Liavole," died. Born January 29, 1762. 1899 Fatal collision on the Reading railroad; 15 killed and many Injured. The richest men are those who make the most of what they can get ; ter consumers often aro afraid to use ' It. To satisfy some of these squeam ish ones the- News made an Invest! I ration. The water used in the business section Is probably the purest water In the city. It should be as purs as I the North End Springs water: like . that it comes directly out of the 1 ground Into the city reservoir and there It no chance for contamina tion. The springs are located In the side hill of the Delln street gulch, near Tacoma avenue, and furnish 2,- 000,000 or more gallons of as clear and pure water as can be four.d. "Where then does the murky col or come from?" was the natural question, and the engineer at station A proceeded to show. First he drew a glass of water and set It (in a shelf. It was as white as milk. In less than half a minute It was clear as crystal. "See that," said the engineer. "The air is all out of It now." ".lr? how does air get into It?" "We pump it In. We pump air In to our suction pipes to relieve the shock. The pressure on the suction pipe Is 40 pounds and without the air to act as a sort of cushion they'd soon go to pieces. The air doesn't hurt the water any, and It does rave the machinery. It could be remedied by having air vents In some of the high places, but what's the ue, It does no harm.' The engineer explained that In the lower pipes the water was always asso- June 7-8 Pioneers' reunion, Wea ton. June 10 Oregon Pioneers elation, Portland. July 4-7 B. Y. P. U., national convention, Spokane. July 10-16 International Christian Endeavor convention, Seattle. July 15-20 Q rand Lodge Elks, Philadelphia. CLIMBED MT. ADAMS IN 1866, Referring to statements !n an ar ticle in "Steel Points." credited to the Oregonlan, which said that 8, L.' Brooks was with the first party who climbed Mt Hood, that gentleman rays he never climbed the mountain, but wa with a party consisting ot Henry Coe, Carey Johnson, Edwin Eels, Julia Johnson nnd Knti Aubort wno climbed Mt Adams August 6, 1866.: The Dalles Chronicle. mm at mm 'fj v European plan. Everything first- slaas. All modern conveniences. Steam heat throughout Rooms en suite with bath. Large, new sample room. The Hotel St George Is pronounced one ot 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 .50 Block nnd a Half From Itepot. See the big electric slpn. The Hotel Pendleton BOLLOXB & BROWN, Proprietors. o OLD SORES An old sore or ulcer is only a symptom, an outlet for the impurities and poisons which are in the blood, and as long; as this vital fluid remains in this impure, contaminated state the place will never heal. The application of salves, washes, powders, etc., may cause the spot to scab over, but a fresh outpouring of diseased matter from the blood starts it again, and thus it goes on, gradually growing worse and slowly affecting the entire health of the sufferer. There are many ways in which the blood becomes contaminated and poisoned. A long spell of sickness breeds disease germs in the system, the failure of the eliininative members to remove the refuse and waste matter of the body, the excessive use of mineral medicines in certain diseases, all infect the blood with morbid matter and germs which sooner or later is man ifested by a sore that refuses to heal. Persons with inherited blood taint are very apt to be afflicted with sores and ulcers. The taint may lie dormant during young, vigorous life, but when middle age is reached or passed and the natural energies begin to grow weaker, the tissues in some weak point break down and a chronic sore is formed and kept open by the constant drainage of impure matter from the blood. If the cause is not removed the sore will continue to grow worse by eating deeper into the flesh, festering, discharging, and slowly undermining the constitution. S. S. S. heals old sores by going down to the very bottom of the trouble, driving out the Impurities and building up the entire circulation. When S. S. S. has removed the cause the blood becomes rich and healthy, the sore begins to heal, new flesh is formed, and soon the place is cured. Do not depend on external applications, which do not reach the blood, but begin the use of S. S. S. and remove of the cause, and then the sore must heal. Book on Sores and Ulcers and medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. 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