DAILY EAST OREGONIAX, PENDLETON, OREGON. MONDAY, MAY IS, 1007,
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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.
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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.
Folger's Golden Gate
prcf.'it"!77 r r, ...
Trrr-TB? oaKing r owner
(jOJiWltjl Is composed of the following
ingredients and none other.
Pure Cream Tartar and
Pure Bi-carbonate Soda
J. A. F0LOER & CO
San Francisco .
WALTER'S NEW
"HARD WHEAT" FLOUR
Try It
New brand now on the market
Made by his new modern process.
It brats all for perfect bread baking.
Walters' Flour
PENDLETON, OREGON
Mills
Just Received
A CARLOAD OF
Ranges
and
Stove Plate
Call and Pick Yours Out
NORTHWr STERN
GAS ELECTRIC CO
MATLOCK BUILDING
T 5H
The Hotel Pendleton has been re
fitted and refurnished throughout.
Telephone and fire alarm connec
tions with all rooms. Baths en suits
and single rooms.
Headquarters for Traveling Men
Commodious Sample Rooms.
Free 'Bus.
Ratee $2, $2.50 and $3.
Special rates by the week or moath.
Excellent Cuisine.
Prompt dining room service,
Bar and Itllllnrd Rno mln Connect! o
Onljr Three Blocks from Depots.
Golden Rule Hotel
E. L. M'BROOM, PROPRIETOR.
Pill '
A first-class family hotel and stock
men's headqunrters.
Under new management. Telephone
and fire alarm connections with all
rooms.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN
Special rates by the week or month.
Evcellent dining room service.
Rooms 50c, 75c and $1.00
Free 'bus to and from all trains.
The Hotel Bowman
' Under New Management
W. S. POWELL, Prop.
y ?
Europaan plan. Rooms en-suit . or
stasia, with r without bath. Hot
and cold water throughout Steam
' heat.
Rati : , 50o,$ 1.00 and $1.50
per day.
Special 'attention ttstwn oommersjai
Men.
Boat sampla, rooms In town. Opposite
O. R. ft N. depot.
PENDLETON, OREGON. ' ,