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THE ECHO REGISTER, ECHO, OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1o 6 LABS5 LABS I .... 16 Inch and 4 Foot .... TRY THEM -' y TOM-A-LOH LUMBER Echo, Oregon $ Office Phone, Main 22 A. Longwell, Manager Home PhoneBlack 442 PAGE FOUR NY, 1 . r , "I ,,. r V 1 's - " -r e I 1 1 X 1 : MAI N' 3d. i:. II. liltllU N, I fi'SC ' V I'l !! iy ty, Oregon. KntTil lis t -c.iiel-elM 1 ni-i't'-r Mtin-h lfi, the i'ol'i((i. ut 1 .- :;..m, u u -r ii- t ..f ! of m-h. ii 3, 1 " TIME TALE j O. R. 4. N. Railway, Echo, Oregon, l'AHSKNCKU TP UN'S. New lime talilo i 'VicI he Sept. 1 iit l':'il n. 111. West Hound. No. it Portland Kxpris s a. in. No. ft Ori son Jfr, Wash. Mm. a. m. No. II Pacific Kvprcs s !:! a. in. No. " I'orttatifl SH-rial 1:15 p. in. EiiHt Hound. No. 10 Sail Lake Express, s .1.10 a. m. No. 12 Atlantic Kxpres. . 4:tw p. in. No. H Cliiratfo SHvlal J:-'." p. in. No. ii Oregon Wash. I.hn. 1:(HI a. in. FREinilT TRAINS. West Bound. No. Z Wav freight 11:55 a. in. No. 55 Tort land fast freight. . 1:15 p. in. East Bound. No. 24 Way freight 5:.1rt a. m No. M Haste ni fast freight p. in No. 5, 7, H, n, do not stop lie re. Par tie desiring Interline tickets or reservation of berths can secure same by advising us a few days prior to day of depasture. P. C. HUNTER. Art. STATED IN BRIEF TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF BTATK IIAPPKNINGS. WILL MARKET ODD LENGTHS Lumbermen IteHure 87,00 Carloads of Lumber Will Ite Saved Annu ally lu This State. Tacoma. The movement begun months ago among mills of the Northwest to ship odd-length stock, crystallized at the monthly meeting of the Pacific Coast Lumber Manu facturers' AsHorlatlon, held here, when It was shown that about ISO sawmills affiliated with the axtocla tlon and the Oregon and Washington anil southwestern Washington asso ciations had signed an agreement to market their odd-length output. Well-informed mill men declare the use of odd lengths will save cargoes of good lumber from the cut of the mills of this state annu ally, whlrh Is now going up In smoke In refuse burners. Estimates made by millmen today place the amount of good lumber, burned each year beeaiiso of Its odd lengths, at 57,000 eui'lodds. At the meeting It was decided to creet a monument to tht tin tnory of the late Congressman Francis W. Cushman, and a committee ronHlxt Ing of tlcorge Long. MaJ. Everett 0. Crlggs and J. H. Itloedel was ap pointed io take the matter up. Pres ident GrlggM, of the assoelatlon, de clared In a speeeli that Cushman was one of the best friends the lumber lueu of the Northweitt ever had. North Const . f n. Spokane. After poking at Spo kane from all sides to find an Inlet and outlet for a year, the North Const, the mtviliiin Mr. Strnhorn's r.iilnutd, 1)4 at lust been success ful. That the mysterious road will enter Spokane on a nearly perfect irrade to Howard street and Front avenue, the pasneiiger depot sire, and continue Its course northeast ever the Spokane international line out of 8;okan. Is Indicated by sur veys quietly carried on by Chief En gineer Pitman and his corps. LOCAL OPTION FIGHT Commercial Club and Civic Iegu Knler Content. Colfax - -The bitterest political fight In the history of Colfax Is In progress in connection with the local option election next month, snd the Colfax Com menial Club has entered the controversy In opposition to the Whitman County Civic WA1INB whMt I:' ' "i:-.! I tV iik'V - to rail lh" iT"" !:1! elocMnn In tin- v;irl-j otss !1ti!'s In tip- c.iiri'v Nov HO. At 'i -'t--!;tI ini-'.'tli.s of lh-! Cum-; nircl.il CUi'.t, for th ' irjoa of dis-j cii ' : '.. i. !''". ".! :.: r-!n '!r.4 to ' C..!f..v. .1 r. !:,! ti v.-..; it.;.-. .;:! ex-; pfs'Mnc the i-' ti'im: nt (if t li t o-:i)-' tr.f rr'::l lr.t ret :: of '!to town a? be ing ; ;! to the ( aMinir of r.n e ! -c-tion lit ll:::e. ! 1 I) i i, r, lluit In far Arri.li lit. K"? i ! V!n-n on of tho liiif vifitiliulc cars of lli S.-iiltlo Ki(-i:lrlc f otiiii-Hiv's V:iilltiKforl line, carry IliU Klxty-dL'lU pa.wi nijcrs, Jiimppil til., trac'; at V.: -t Forieth Ktrcf ntnl Font ('-''nth nvcntio northeast, Friday niornlnK, and rra;h"d hondlont; through lhre frain- booths across tin- street frntn th' entrnncp, one man. Frank Hull, of Tacoma, was killed, and fifty-five others injured, several very seriously. City lluys Public l lilify Work. I North Yakima. At a conference between the City Council and the Northwest Light A Water Company, ! the latter offered to sell the entire ' plunt here to the city for $310,000, a reduction of $21,000 from the or iginal offer. This meets the approval ' of the Mayor and Council, and plans will be made to go ahead with the ' formal transfer. Work Start on Itrewnter Lines. Orovllle. Work on the long-proposed Orovllle-Brewster branch of the Great Northern has actually commenced at this place. A rep resentative of A. Guthrie ft Co., the contractors, visited the city and let I the contract for lumber to be used ' in construction of camps. A large force of engineers baa arrived and rented offices and living quarters. FIVE MILLIONS SEE PARADE Warship of All Nations Give Salute in Honor to Hudson and Fulton. Now York, Sept. 27. Reproduc tions of Henry Hudson's boat, the Hulf Moon, and Robert Fulton's Clermont,' were the central figures In the Hudson-Fulton celebration which begun 8ept. 25 and lasta un til October 9. The two little ships once so weighty with achievements, before a marveling world, passed the war ships assembled to do them honor, with a thousand merchant ships and pleasure craft trailing behind In a parade four miles long. Probably five millions witnessed the great naval parade. Ten Men Perish As Trains Crash. Chicago. Sept. 28. Ten men were killed and Hi probably fatally In jured when a train southbound for Cincinnati on the Pennsylvania road crashed Into the caboose of a Chi cago, Milwaukee ft St. Paul cattle train, sixteen men were in the cab oose of the slock train when the pas senger train crashed Into It. The engine plowed through the caboose, tearing it to bits and setting Are to the debris. Friend Put I'p Money. Washington, Sept. 27. To set at rest allegations which- have appeared regarding the source of the fundi used by thi Roosevelt hunting ex pedition In Africa. Secretary Wal cost cf the Smithsonian Institution authorized the statement ti jt not a cent come from the funds cf the In stitution or from the I'nlted States Government. It Is derlarel Hat the personal friends of Mr Roosevelt, whose names are not dU l.wed. h ive pro vided the scientific party with suf ficient funds to carry on the expcUi ticn. PEARY B....J COOK'S THINGS Refuse to Allow Whitney to Hring Record Hack on HiMmevclt. New York, Sept. J7. Commander Robert K Peary refused absolutely to allow any of the records or In struments of Dr. Cook to be brought aboard the steamer Ruofvelt and as thus Instrumental In causing these records to remain In a cache at Etah. Greenland, according to Harry Whitney, tbe Nrw Haven sportsman. In a dispatch received here by Dr. Cook. nn i i i h i ?- hi 1 s. U i (JPJT Til M0SJ AXTrxr;-::::v Tf.ovi-:.: t:: i v .ii'SK. J:'paii Is S:i.'rl to I'vlw .'r:; !;.".! M'n lli foiiCi-.i-iniM ViliWl M-y lit' Krarded an a it l.'.tiua. Washington, Sept. 25. The Gov ernment is preparing to ta'io the most important action looking to the security of the open door lu China. The action will take the form of a protest based on tho An-tung-Mukden Railroad controversy between Japan and China, which re cently excited the diplomatic world. Japan has obtained control of ex tensive mining concessions in South Manchuria, not for a limited, but for an indetermedlate period. This Is to be regarded as a distinct menace to the open door, according to the exposition of that policy as given by the late Secretary Hay. The State Department, It Is un derstood, has awaited full details of the agreement between Japan and China relative to the Antung-Muk-den Railroad and with allied affairs of negotiation before taking any stand in the matter. During the last few weeks, our representative in the Far Eaat have obtained piecemeal information as to this agreement, and exposition of the whole thing Is expected within a few days. In formation at band bas warranted preliminary arrangements for pro test. NICELY TRIMMED. th Way K.tn. Got Square With the Railroad Officials. Jnmea R. Keene was nb-cly trimmed once. He told the story himself: "I used to live out In the country and mde to and from New York every day on a little Jerkwater road. One day, when I forgot my ticket, the con ductor, whom I knew well enough to call by bis first name, refused to ac cept my money when I tried to pay my fare. He dropped me off the train Into six Inches of the thickest, stick iest mud In the fvorld. By the time I got to a ronil where I could hall a wagon I was mud to my knees. "I was ronrlng. raving, frantic mad. When I got to New York my first call wns on the officials of the road. I wanted that conductor fired. I had to Interview every cussed little jn'tty ef fielnl of the road liefore I got to the president. Every one of them Insulted me In the most Judicial way. When I got to the president I wns a howi tnz. ripping nintil.tc. He listened to mo for a moment and told his secre tary to 'throw that ruffian downstairs.' "And the secretary would have done It. too, If 1 hadn't leat him to the door. As soon as I could g-et to my broker I told him to buy the control ling Interest lu that rmd. It took me a week to get It. and I had to climb high for some of the stock. Then I threw out every official that had scorned me. I was Just beginning to get back Into my nsunl placid state of mind when one day I saw a famil iar face at the track. It was the con ductor who had thrown me off. He waved to me blandly. 'Just bought a little place out this way.' he said. 'You know, that stock you Ix-ught le lotijted to ns. The X.. M and Z. was a close eorporatliin, and we got you mad en purpose. We stung yon good." " S.Minj Spurgeon Right. i Mr Spurgeon. the great English preacher. nisl to tell till story upon M'uself Willi tr'.ee: :t mie occasion he f ii' d Ulm.-elf iu a railway carriage , with a rntVr ..t:r Us king spluster. wMt!i whom ue eu:ered Into convcrsa ten. She !ld not npiieur to recognise I him. and a the traiu passed Kelvedon be . Intod out tbe village, remarking. I "A very great man was born there Mr. Spurgeon. the preacher." j The spinster looked bard at bitu for I some moment snd then replied with j awful solemnity, 'if St. Paul had leen passing bis birthplace he would have ' said. 'A very great sinner was born i there Mr. Spurgeon." i I A Sur. Index. I "Ho you know anythlag about the ! people who have moved l: next door!" , asked the visitor. j "No. It was dark when the furniture ' wagons hroc.ght their goods, and they ' bave not bung ont a washing yet" TALENTED MUSICIAN. Mrs. (!. V. S;iwytr and Missi ! I'.hinclio Sawyer arrived froinj Fai tfo on our fourth Faro- J 5:;tniM-Spccial. : .Miss Sawyor is an accomplish- led and talented vocalist and j i pianist, bein a graduate of tlie i New Entrland Conservatory of i Mu.ve in Huston. Miss Sawyer has bought her piano here and already she and ; Mrs. J. L. Parker, also a talent ed pianist, have given an im proptu concei t. The people of Stantield en joyed the the prelude to a series of inusicales to be given this winter by these young people and others who are musically inclined. LISTING IRRIGATED LANDS. All irrigated lands in Umatilla county are to be listed and the data will be added to that con cerning the subject which is now in the hands of State En gineer John Lewis of Salem. R. D. Cooper, a deputy in Lewis' office, has been at the head of a party of three men, who have been working in this section. They were in Hermis ton the first of the week looking over that section with a view of taking up the work there. This work is being done solely for the purpose of securing data for the state engineer and state board of water commissioners. His Second Thought. Goose Egg cove Is on the New Jer sey side of Delaware bay. Tbe farm ers from miles around take tbelr fam ilies to the core In tbe summer for a picnic. Last summer among tbe crowd was one Camden county man who bad drank too much Salem county apple jack. He made himself obnoxious by going to tbe men as they were with tbelr women folk and shaking bis fist under tbelr noses, saying: "I can lick yon. Come ont and fight," No one would fignt, because be was evidently drank. Convinced that be bad scared them all, he walked up and down tbe beach, saying, "I can lick any one on the beach." He repeated this to every one he met. Finally an Inoffensive little family man atandlng with a group Jumped Into blm and beat him Into submission. When he was finally allowed to get up the Camden man struggled to bis feet and. looking around at the crowd which bad gathered, said defiantly: "Me and this little feller can lick any man on tbe beach." Oregon Snoi(r JLIHB Union Pacific TO Salt Lake Denver Kansas City Chicago St Louis New York LOW RATES Tickets to and from all porta of 1 United StaWe, Canada and Europe. For particulars call on or add WM. McMUIUtAY. CensroJ Puwiftr AgassV PortUasi Orevea SEVENTH ANNUAL WALLA WALLA COUNTY FAIR AND RACE MEETING OCTOBER 4th to 8th, INCLUSIVE. Southeastern Washington's Greatest Fair $20,000.00 IN PURSES AND PREMIUMS. 1X D3y L$UCkin KurcliniUiislil ofVa-.liliurlim, Oregon anil Cnnfpr hiiht pimzf; ii s.i.u..i wom) prize. VVIUUI Sum csrh: I lllltli I'KI.K. tlicaMi. SIX DAY RELAY RACE FOR PURSE OF $1,000.00. ARNOLD CA1LNI VAL COM PAN Y; Daily Utilloon Race; Manj' Clean Attractions. Fine Fruit and Live Stock Exhibits. Write For Premium Lists THOMAS H. BRENTS, R. H. JOHNSNN, President Secretary. FOR 4 Elooms Each Enquire of ECHO LUMBER CO. II. E. STEVENS, Manager Hens' FINE NEGLIGEE Mahc' FANCY DRESS SHIRTS, WHITE .1 Eft riens and fancy striped . 4)1 .9U A few JUMPER SUITS at Cost Big Reduction LawSe Ladies White Underwear A Choice Line of Ginghams j MRS. E DORN & DORN, Duuua Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Toil I AnMaa, tmUmmt, " -1nirj rotofa Block, Xefte. IMgo. y f RENT IMS SHIRTS . . j gQ RIPPER