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PINKERTON FLAYS THE
RAILROAD COMPANIES
taio Lnl ARont Oswald West Is
todel with lotton frpm peoplo who
Oasvo ptircluuxwl land from tho Btata
Bn former yoars. Tho following letter
tTre an Kastorn Oregon fanner in a
tieSr wimple of tho correspendence:
Iotter Prom Citizen.
Bnkcovon, Dee. 31, 1001.
Mr. Oswnld West, SUito Land Agent,
Skltiia, Oregon.
Dear Bin Your of ihe 13th Inst.
ojso Iily to hand today with contents
mated In regard to you bolng able to
ttwrnUh Jmso for tho purposo of reto
Verting myrojocted list No. 327, at
lfe raU of $a per acre, which .la a
dollar moro per aero than what I pur
aod It for. At tho time I mado
iny application of purchaao the prleo
8rgaJMl for was H per acre, which
iUtinr moro (hnn this lapd is worth.
ino land is not the object. I
wc uuy u ror tlio land which Is nearly
roelu. An tny liomestood hero is
ass and waterless. I bought It for a
"Voter right.
I don't understand this way of doing
ftsstftoww, this stato of Oregon selling
HA tho rate of $i per ncro, then
niHwrwards cfemaiidlng $5 per acre
lit 1 Just this way about It, If I am not
"werthy of tho purohaso bargain and
U Institution called tho state of Ore-
wW Agree, to rofund the money I
fU ort tho wuno condition and tho
mswwm, uiey can keep tho land. If
ifeey fcnvo old mo land based upon
irortkUvw rotten script, I think It U
tHnr duty to mako It good.
t don't siw that there Is any Juatlco
On eoinpelllnff mo to buy now script
& thoy have lmen swindled on tho
awrchww bargain If I can't get a
rcqtuu-n deal on this cnuo I gueM I will
Oiavo to leave It to tho court to decide.
Yuurv very truly,
JVUIW W. COIWAZ.
.TUkwivmj, Wasco, county, Oregon.
Mft West In replying to tho letter
aaya:
Letter Trom BUto.
Salem, Ore., January 0, 1005.
lr. Julius Cornnr., Ilakoovoii, Ore.
Dear Hln I am in receipt of yours
nf tho 31t ultimo, and while I feel sor
orjr for you and admit that you have n
gpod cause to complain, them Is no
'tiling In (ho world that I ciui do for
you other than that proposed. Tlio
Ute received but $i!.50 per noro for
tka Vond the other 1.B0, you say you
&vo paid, has (jonu to the private In
dividuals who furnished you the base.
Vkre aro hundreds of people In tho
wuan fix m you are and have no ro
coerso but Mint of receiving lmek tho
wtonoy thoy have paid tho stnle.
Ail nooit as the list bv whisk thu
tract selected Is runeelled, you might!
buy it from tho Government as an Iso
lated tract, that is If It Is Isolated.
This con bo dono by having it ftdvcr
tlaed by tho Dalles Land Offlco for 30
days and then sold to tho highest
bidder. There will probnbly bo no othor
bidders and you will bn able to get It
for 11.25 per acre.
If tho tract In rraoloctod for you by
thla office, It will cost you $5.00 per
acre, as provided by law, and 'you will
rocolvo credit for wh'oiovor sums you
havo already paid to tho state.
If I con bo of any servico to you at
any time please advise mo nnd I will
bo plcaaed to aid you.
Yours very truly,
8TATE LAND AOE.VT.
Curse of Misfit Shoos.
Tho .national curso of the United
did States Is no longer tho drink problem.
It 'a a problem of walking and shoes.
Teachers attending the National as
sociation convention at tho Auditorium
annex mado tho dlscovory that 00 por
cont of tho women and mnny of tho
men do not know how to navigate tho
streets properly. 'Gliding," thoy say,
"is not walking, and tho 'kangaroo'
high step is a jar to tho nervous sys
tem." First, William Schuyler of 8t. Louis
startled tho assemblage by announcing
that by close observation bo had dls-
novcrod that a vast per cent of tho wo
men teachers of tho country did not
know how to walk correctly.
IThnxr ilnmlu .11. 1. .I.. I 41.
"wj ni..i .iiuu UIUUJ4 m tuu pair
lest manner possible, paying no ntten
tion to tho rules of physical culture, of
which they aro s'uppoml to havo at
least somo knowledge," said Mr.
Bohuyler.
As this statement was not disputed,
even by the women teachers present, it
was allowed to stand.
Then President William 11. Maxwell,
who is superintendent of tho public
sohool system of Now York, contributed
the Inst link in tho chain of nvidonce
by denouncing the manner of walking
of ordinary mortals as well as tenchors.
"It is a national evil n gigantic
evil," said Mr. Maxwell. "And It Is
brought about largely by the fact that
peoplo wear iiiInIH shoes. " CliionRO
American,
Tho eloctrle tramway from Lima to
niiorrillos, tho first electric traction
road to bo operated in Peru, is eight
miles long nnd reaches to Marrauco, a
popular neighboring seasido resor.
The purrHiso of tho road is to afford
cheap nnd rapid transit Iwtween Hum
nud the much frequented bathing re
sorts of Miration, Unrranoo, lluon
Castor, rhortlllort, etc.
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prlvato U tho HtHkbildjp ArtlMery,
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tkr time uaJer nro. Oae, at
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Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. Sensa
tional charges against the railway com
panies of the United States are made
In a book entitled "His Personal Kec
ord," which Is to be issued this month.
Its author is William J. Pinkcrton,
foreman of a switching crew here, and
a contributor for years to railway
journals.
Eighteen years' continuous service
In railroad work' havo furnished him
tho basis of tho book. It is said that
sinco Plnkcrton's plans became pub
lic ho has been offered by a high rail
way official great inducements not to
publish tho work. He declined.
Tho work is particularly timely in
view of tho unprecodentedly largo
number of fatal wrecks this year.
Tho ago limit and unreasonable
standard of physical examination, the
writor claims, aro directly responsible
for tho appalling increase in railroad
disasters. Ho says:
"Thirty-eight years is tho average
standard ago limit of most of the great
railway corporations of tho United
States. Ono who has lost his position
through resignation or discharge in
mnny of tho departments on all the
big systems is barred from further em
ployment at tho vocation at which he
has spent tho morning of his life, if his
age is abovo tho limit.
"Public safety domands caution, and
caution is synonymous with youth,
clear eyes and cloar brains, say tho rail
way capitalists. And tho public feels
a little rlpplo of gratitude, an electric
thrill of safety up its back, and snug
gles confidently against tho cushions.
"But wait u minute.
"It shall bo tho province of this
book to tell where the ago limit is un
just, wherein it work hardships and suf
fering, drives men to criminal prac
tice, destitution nnd suicide, and sac
rifices the public beeauso inexperience
is rheaper In tho labor market than ex
perience cheaper for tho capitalist
who buys.
"It Is not generally known that all
the great railways havo systems of
osplonago nnd bureaus of information,
interchangeable and unlimited In
scope, through which every net of the
omployo's life Is traced, tabulated, and
in time arrayed against him; thut an
appllennt for a position in tho traffic
servlco of a railroad must fill out a
personul record blank covering his on
tire life, nnd must, in many cases, file
a tintype photograph of himself a tin
type because it cannot be retouched,
and beeauso It will show all facial
blemishes and mnrks which surgery at
some future time might remove.
-, .(.,., .u. WM.f.Y IllUllb UU
a railway is subjected to a moro rigid
examination thau a recruit in tho Uni
ted States army, fllvo the railway's
mcdlsnl examiner in some eases a
stripling from the bench of a machine
medical college a good anlmnl, sound
of wiud and limb and flesh from the
bundles of the plow nnd he will not
thump the applicant for n hollow sound.
Hut tho veteran railway man, with tho
tip of n finger missing sinco he made
n coupling ono night Inst winter, is
thrown upon tho rubbish heap undone
bjj his experience.
"The writer objects uot to n reason
able examination for oolor blindness
and hearing, but enters emphatie pro
test against the universal praetico of
these greedy powers far disposing of
wio vcieran ueioro no snail ixxemo a
subject for participation in the various
M-Alled 'relief funds.'
"Millions of dollars aro collected la
hospital and pension fund OMMuents
by the railway companies of the United
State. Nat one-tenth of this meney Is
ever expended, aad It is not charged
that th railway companies de net ful
fill their obligations, llwt by ridding
thmlvM ef eld employe and raking
on in their plaees men wh are less lla-
we t present etolma for aHtne,
they have the Millie for w the
prwktlH uf their lnwUe.
"Thqy are jealous in the otMtlun
of thee fwuds, t wMefc they 4e net
Mutributa nhc eestt, and twrWwt that
the wen wlw maintain Umm m ro.
moved tfre i;i at mlsfortsMM shall
make them tyt the WssxtU t
whtek ttty are MttUled. TU rasa,
and thU aUae, U the- oaplAMitai of
the aire Utalt ami phystswl Maadard
f rnllrea4.
"The tMUtng of a mUUwmI mmb i
a matter ef yw, Oa wW h&4 tn
ter4 erte itMlt tWrMgUy
Ma at 3. JW the nxt 1 yer he
U wrth mk t his tMpfeyer than h
xs duriag the 19 year ef apprentic
shtp, llwt he must jya. The 'weeding
at prweM U tarried n taMantly
sad quietly. Men we dikarge4 every
day b the w4t tUmsy pretexts.'
Further on IHakertea wysi
"IVpxrtweRt U pHted alH de-
word goes out that operating expenses
must be reduced. Retrenchment is made
sometimes by actual reduction in the
daily wages of employes; sometimes by
increasing the amount of piecework or
increasing the tonnage; somotimes mil
nff is added to monthly men while re-
.Ineinir the number employed, besides
replacing brakemen on passenger trains
by negro porters who will perform in
a way the brakeman's worK as wen as
all sorts of menial tasks at less than
half their pay. What does 'high
finance' care about human life so long
as dividends increase!"
These extracts aro from the first
chapter of "His Personal Record," and
give an indication of the general tono
of tho volume. Specific wrecKS aro
cited in substantiation of arguments
tho author makes.
FIGHTING
FRUIT
PESTS
S .miimtmiMt-Q-lVllQtiH'' "' 'IF tH)
.lit Ill'IM.A
ooks by William
t
"It is unjust to those fruit growers
who spray their orchards to permit
others in the same neighborhood to neg
lect this duty and harbor millions of
pests to scatter over tho adjacent coun
try and damago every orchard in reach
of them," said W. L. Buckner of Free
water to an East Oregonian reporter.
"Tho law should bo enforced and
overy man In the country should be
compelled to spray his trees right now,
whilo tho pests can bo reached. Thcro
aro many orcbardists in tho Milton and
Freowater districts who keep clean or
chards nnd grow practically clean fruit
but there are neighbors all around them
who violate tho law, refuso to spray,
and thus lower tho general standard of
the fruit produced in that district.
"It is not costly to spray for the
aphis and scale. I have just sprayed
500 young trees and the cost of tho ma
terial was not more than $15. Tho
work is simple nnd any man can do
it who will exerclso care and common
sense, and the law should bo enforced.
"Wo aro shipping our fruit to Walla
Walla, whero it does not command a
fair price, beeauso it comes from an
Infected district. Buyers como into our
orchards and pick out a few boxes of
tho bt grades, and our wormy, post
ridden fruit is loft on our hands, unfit
for use nnd a disgraco to tho state.
"I hope to see tho law strictly en
forced next spring. Many of our or
chardlsts tako pride in their orchards,
and take especial prldo in growing
clean fruit, but what can wo hope,
where a neighbor next door rofusea to
spray, and allows the pests to accumu
late in millions to bo distributed over
the orchards of noighbors who havo
spent money and time in ridding their
orchards of tho posts.
"I have found a good formulu to bo
as follews: Forty pounds of lime, 20
pounds of sulphur nnd 10 pounds of
salt to 00 gallons of water. This solu
tion is very strong and will be effective;
Right now is n good time to spray. Tho
solution should be so strong as to color
tho truuks and limbs of tho trees, and
a good practise is found to bo that of
wrapping u olsth around the tree just
below tho limbs. The pests, in crawl
lug up the trunk of the tree, will lodge
uauer mis oletU and can bo killed
easily.
"Wo are anxious to have tl l
enforced, and will eo-oporate with the
horticultural eomMlsoUeer at any and
all times."
The Great Northern Railway Cow,
lay of England runurta that thresh
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iw umimi nao bent) etrrnd J..ri-
the last half ysar.
The Tad railway stwtw mUot w
vie WiwsiH PenarU and Cardiff u
wuckiug SAtUfaetodty and a umh
uf mw mm are Wing UUt for it br a
Bristus tin. T
yur Wmd pi. wuk A ttmrf.
tku at star? OurUug ! Wright's
Par. lld.he Our Wll, ttliw $
TaUK nfw form. Try xU
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after It k4 retired. i th r lat uprite4et anilst
tofcUlu Lm kaa livJ Bttl vu Pite4frL wVm it beM. i
(am at Wet IVIal, UtwiK ttl? lkt fk f hlh
aiM t lra dtrMeMs. The
Our Building Material
Quality
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fuunOattun tu rf we .! J2?
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Ways of Wood Folk
WiMetaess Was
Secrets of the Woods
Wood Folk at School
Beasts of the Field
Fowls of the Air
School of the Woods Net $1.50
Following the Deer m $ 1 .25
A Little Brother to the
Bear Nrf $1-50
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GINN & COMPANY, Polishers
Trade Depar fcmenh 29 Beacon St., Boston
HHGWMBBimftofffHiiV919199
Stabbed on Street
St. Louis, Jan. 7. Father Charles
Quinn, of New York, while on his way
to tho station last nigtt to take a train
for Butte, Montana, was attacked by
three footpads, and severely beaten. He
was stabbed three times, and left un
conscious on the street. His condition'
is serious.
Excursion Party Injured.
New York, Jon. 7. Tho derailing of
a trolley car in tho Brownsville section,
Brooklyn, early this morning, resulted
in tho injury of 30 persons. Pour suf.
fered broken skulls, and two are in a
dying condition. The carrlod a par
ty of members of tho Royal Arcanum.
PARK AND WASHINGTON STREETS
PORTLAND, OREGON
Established in 1866. Open all the year. Private ot
class instruction. Thousands of graduates in posi
tions ; opportunities constantly occurring. It pays to
attend our school. Catalogue, specimens, etc., free.
A. P. ARMSTRONG, LL.B., PRINCIPAL
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