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ICeoch Seeks De Oro's Scalp.
Jerome Keogh, the famous Buffalo
pool expert, is hot on the trail of Albert
De Oro.
Keogh has been awarded, by default,
the championship trophy, and he seeks
MONEY GREW ON BUSHES.
JEBOME KEOGH OF BTJJTAXO.
a match with De Oro so that he caa
put a stop to the latter's claim of un
fair treatment De Oro, who Is a Co
bnn, wants the mntch plnerl In Ha
vr.na while Keogh says St. Louis is a
better place.
De Oro claims the trophy as his own
and says he will sue Keogh for it.
College Basket Ball Rales.
The president of the Intercollegiate
Basket Ball association has appointed
a committee which is to meet at the
University of Pennsylvania May 26
and 27 to revise the rules of the game,
In conjunction with the rules commit
tee meeting there will be a general
convention of representatives from all
of the colleges in the country possess
ing basket ball teams for the purposs
of organization.
This meeting will also be held at the
University of Pennsylvania and will
occur at the same time as the intercol
legiate championship track and field
games. Among the changes In the
rules which will be agitated are the
following:
Lengthening of the game by calling
for twenty-five minute halves instead
of the preset two twenty-minute perl
ods.
Change In the size of the playing
courts, raising the minimum size from
2,400 square feet to 3,000.
Elimination of the rules which give
the referee power of awarding a point
when a player is fouled while shooting
for poal.
Changes in the method of scoring
from foul, which will be brought about
lu one of two ways viz, either length
ening the foul throwers' restraining
mark from fifteen to twenty feet or
else altering the ratio of the value of
the field and foul goals, making field
goals couit three points and foul goals
us one.
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
Railway etloa Gaag- la Nebraska
Coatea t'aoa a Maaralar Plaa
br Roaaala.
The fairy tale of money growing
on bushes was lately realized along
the right of way of the Burlingtoa
railroad between Hyannis and Alii
ance, says a Lincoln (Neb.) report.
A gang of section men were at
work, when one of them noticed
something that looked like a bill wav
ing irom toe tan plea top or a sun
flower growing by the roadside. He
investigated. It was a treasury note
for $10.
He walked a few steps farther and
there, nodding from a branch of a bit
of dog fennel, was another bill of sim
ilar denomination.
He called to his companions, and
the entire gang threw down their
tools and started on a money hunt.
For three hours they searched up and
down the right of way and far afield.
At almost every yard their trou
ble was rewarded by finding either
a fire cr a ten-dollar bill. Some bills
were tangled in the tops of weeds,
others half hidden in bushes along
the fence, and still others in the
stubble of the field.
The entire day's clean-up of tho
eight was $2,135. When the find was
reported, word came from headquar
ters that a money pouch containing
$3,500 had been lost from an express
shipment the dy before.
The supposition is that the bag fell
out of the open car door and was
ground to pieces under the wheels,
and the contents were scattered to
the winds. This hypothosis is sup
ported by the later discovery of por
tions of the damaged pouch.
RELIGION OF THE BLANKET.
The Navajo Sqtiw Prays as She
Weaves tae Tkreads of Her
Beaatlful Production.
Iloaaehold Hints.
To polish silver, brass, etc., make a
polishing soap as follows: Dissolve
eight ounces of good hard soap In four
ounces of boiling water. When cooling
al l one nnd a half ounces of turpen
tine and later on stir in throe ounces
of strong ammonia water. Keep well
covered.
When washing black yarns or cali
cos make the bluing water almost
black with bluing, as it renews any or
the dye that may have come out In the
washing.
When washing a white dress that baa
become yellow put a few drops of tur
pentine Into the water and then lay in
the sun and dry.
To make wash silk look like new put
a teaspoonful of wood alcohol to every
pint of water when rinsing and iron
when damp.
It is a religion to make a Navajo
blanket. Through the kinky, bristling
twine of the warp are woven the hopes
and aspirations of an immortal soul.
In the warm color are .expressed the
ardors of passionate hearts, the sand
storms they have faced, the cloud
bursts under which itfieir backs have
bent, the smiling sunshine that has
dried their wool, all the adverse and
good fortunes that have befallen, are
wroughtinto the intricate designs. The
squaw prays as she pushes the wool
cart, end she prays as she twirls the
distaff in her hands or roll it on her
thigh; she prays1 as she arranges the
healds; she pray ashe lustily pounds
down the woofstrands with her scrub
oak batten, says the Southern Work
man. A blanket is all a prayer, a humar
document, a biography bright with th
joy tint of canary yellow, dark with
the olive green of pain. One iw drawn
to it because one's heart is moved by
its ineffable, intangible humanness.
One is strangely moved to both laugh
ter and tears by its exquisitely variant
colors, each expressing an emotion by
its warmth of blended fibers, each
throbbing to a note of triumph or of
woe.
IJnlqae Manner of KntertaJnlns
Adopted by a Blew York Woman
Real Country Scene.
Washing Woolen Dreanee.
Flannel, cashmere or almost any all
wool dress goods that are to be made
over may be washed without shrinking
or fading if handled properly.
Take the garment apart and brush It
until the dust and lint are removed.
Use soft water and heat it until It Is a
little warmer than new milk. Dissolve
enough fine soap In it to make a strong
suds and wash the cashmere or flannel
In It, Just as you would wash anything
else. Rinse In water heated to the
same temperature. McCall's Magazine.
Within an egg which towered to the
ceiling of Sherry's ballroom. New York,
and reached nearly to the outer walls.
Mrs. Arthur P. Proal the rther after
noon entertained 35 of her women
friends at luncheon. Outside the shell
was a farm where live ch irl.ens, ducks
and peeee made a roundelay. whre
rabbits hopped, and the or'q-inr.l spring
lamb bleat'd as though in pastures
green. Pijrs and !a?iibs nnd guinea
pigs roamed at wV. r. b"nt the fore
ground, and occnior.l!y a creature
went up e inclivi" nnii viewed the
company hich had assembled within
the niot'sti ( ns shell.
Mr. Proa! had intended the function
as a farewf I! to city life, for many of
thos" w V were her yursts shortly will
go to ht ir country homes.
Everywhere in the great ballroom
was the country. The walls of gilt had
disappeared and the one or two mir
rors which remained unobsenred
served as vistas. Around the outer
walls of the apartment were scenes
representing fields and pastures. The
guests saw a farrrhand, clad in blue
overalls and a jumper, hurry across
the scene, followed by a flock of geese.
TAKE OUT ALL APPENDICES.
Mlaaonrl Doctor Jtdraneea Theory
That Operation Should Be Per
formed on liable.
Alt. Whitney Highest.
San Francisco, Sept. 16 A report
fraught with deep interest to the people
of the Pacific Coast has just been for
warded to Washington by Professor
Alexander McAdie, who is at the head
of the Weather Bureau Service in this
section of the country. The report
states that, according to measurements
made daring the summer of this year,
Mount Whitney, situated in California,
is the highest peak in the United States.
It reaches 14,502 feet above the level of
the sea. Mount Rainier, situated in
Washington, ranks second, its height
being 14,394 feet. The figures for
Mount Shasta are not definitely fixed,
but are known to be between 14,200 and
14,380.
This report will settle the question,
which has occupied the attention of
scientists on the Pacific Coast for sev
eral years. Professor McAdie states
that his figures may be considered as
final, lor the variation will not be more
than a few feet in either case.
Mount Rainier was measured in July
and at that time the announcement was
made that it overtopped Whitney.
Calculations have shown this to have
been incorrect. The figures for Rainier
were tound to correspond closelv to
those obtained by Professor Edgar Mc
Clure, the well-known scientist, who
lost his life on the great peak after he
had completed the measurements.
Professor McAdie states that the
wo k of McClure was the most accurate
until the official survey was made this
bu nmer for the government.
The report of Dr. McAdie contains
much of great interest to the Northwest,
but he feels that it would not be proper
to give it out for publication until it has
reached the authorities at Washington.
t may be stated, however, that as the
result of extensive researches Professor
McAdie l as corrected a number of er
rors which have been commonly made
by the writers of the history and geog
raphy of Washington and Oregon.
Matters of nomenclature have also
been cleared up. The designation
"Tacoma" far "Rainier" is dismissed
as false. Dr. McAlie has tound a copy
of the bck written by explorer Van
couver, soon after his visit to the North
Pacific in 1792. Vancouver rtfers to
Mount Rainier, which lr tave i's name
in honor yA an tdmiialof the British
navy who was a Mend of his.
brought to see that religion and relig
ious beliefs had no part in the war.
"Already China has become aroused
to the fact that she has much to learn,
and she is seeking this knowledge from
Japan rather than from European
countries. Hundreds of the young
men of Japan are taking positions as in
structors in the Chinese institutions of
learning, and hundreds of the young
men of China are coming to the colleges
of Japan for instruction. It is vitally
necessary that the young men should
be taught the truths of the Christian
religion if it is to be spread in China.'
Dr, Ibuka said that the reports which
had been published that Admiral Togo
had embraced the Christian religion
were untrue, and that the Admiral had
never professed Christianity.
new countries, and there is no way to
settle it, except to let it take its course.
There is no practicable method by
wbiob the range can be divided, for the
cattle cannot be herded, and they will
always encroach on the range of the
sheepmen. The only way to do is to
let the matter take its own course. The
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Biocsmeu win prooaoiv seme iue lu al
ter in their own fashion as well as it
oan be settled." Pendleton Tribune.
Aloney In Sheep,
"Sheep raising in Eastern Oregon is
as profitable now as it ever has been,
and is one of the most promising in
dustries in that section of the state."
The foregoing is the statement made
by William Hughes, one of the leading
sheepmen of Morrow county. In dis
i
cussing the situation farther be said:
"Sheep produce more than twice as
much now as they did in the early days
in Eastern Oregon. Then the owners
averaged about $1 a head for the wool,
while now the average is $2. This is
due to a better quality of stock. Many
more sheep can be supported on the
same range now than formerly, for the
bunchgrass has generally been replaced
by sheep grass, which is better for sum
mer range, although not so good for
winter range. This year has been oi e
of the beet ever experienced bysheej
men in tbat section.
Regarding the difficulties of the range,
Jean say tbat we have not been bothe -ed
with it for a long time. Tl.e sheep
men and cattlemen are gett'ng along all
right at present. How long this will
1 is, of course I am unable to say.
"Range trouble is experienced in all
Keeps Off the Gallows.
Olvmpia, Wash., Sept. 14. A man
convicted of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to be hanged has been
allowed to lie in jail at Walla Wf.Ha un
disturbed for nearly three years, with
out attempting to appeal his case,, nor
have the authorities made any move to
curry out the sentence. This peculiar
stay cf execution was called to the at
tention of the ittorney-General today.
Ot-car Bradshaw was convicted in
Franklin county in December, 1902, and
was sentenced to be hanged. He gave
notice of appeal in open court and was
thereafter remanded to the Walla
Walla county jail, where he has been
kept ever since at an expense ot $25 per
month to the county of Franklin.
Bradshaw never prosecuted his appeal,
and he has been allowed to remain in
jail undisturbed all these months.
The Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin
county asks what he can d i ab:ut it
and the Attorney-Gt neral advises Lira
to file the record in the Supreme Court
and move a dismissal of the appeal for
Wint of prosecution.
Bradshaw, with a companion, entered
a boxcar at Pasco for the purpose of
robbery. They there murdered another
man, a Swede, who was in the car.
Bradshaw's companion confessed and
was sentenced to 20 years in the peni
tentiary. Bradshaw alleges self de
fense.
The news of both hemispheres m Tbe
Weekly Oregon ian.
Christianity in China.
The Kitchen Linoleum.
If the kitchen floor Is painted or cov
ered with oilcloth It will save much
cleaning. Oilcloth and linoleum should
be washed In the ordinary way with
warm water and soap, then wiped over
again with clean, warm water and
dried Mlth a soft cloth. If water Is
left on the oilcloth It Is inclined to rot
It; therefore It Is Important that It
should be dried thoroughly. Turpen
tine and linseed oil mixed form a good
preparation for restoring the bright
ness to oilcloth which has become dull
"It has been proved that the human
body can do without a vermiform ap-jx-ndix,"
said Dr. Kdward Ar.druss, of
Holden, Mo., in a papor before the Mis
souri Institute of Homeopathy at Pt.
Louis. "Why not perform an opera
tion upon every infant a few days after
birth to remove the appendix? This
would eliminate the possibility of an
attack of npi r'lir-itis during the after
life of the individual."
This susjrr-Mior,. made at the annual
convention, raiaed a vigorous discus
sion. Many of thoe present thought the
proposed operation would prove a success.
New York Sept. 17. What effect the
war in th. Far Eat will have on the
propagation of the Christian region in
Japan wan the wibject of a lee lire at
the Ve.-t Branch Yonng Men's Chris
tian Adoration by Dr. Ibtik, president
of an iiiH'i-uti ii t Iearnmir in Tokio,
and hime!f a Christian.
That th - re tnt outbreak in Tokio and
the attaC upon the churches was the
result of m ie y a local feeling and did
not represent any widespread anti
foreign feeling in the empire, was the
assertion of the lecturer.
"When ttie war with Rusnia first be
gan I a- d m fellow-Christians in Jap
an weiennHFsy f r fear that the struggle
should reai It in a lastin; animosity
toward ti Christian religi n in the em
pire. At lir-t the cty was raised that it
was a st u;.'le. f Buddhism versus
Christianiu . and fh Russians did
many tliiiy to foster this sentiment,
but it was not iorg until this illusion
was dispelled and the people were
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