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Norfolk, Vs. Jamestown Exposition Nws Stand; Potts A Roeder; Schneider & Kaiser. rina Beach, Va. VV. A. Coagrovs. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 10O7. JUDGE WALLACE'S RETIREMENT. The retirement of Judge William J. Wallace from the Federal bench after twenty-five years of service was cele brated the other night by a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, In New York. At the head of the feast sat Mr. Alton B. Parker, the most devoted serv ant of the plutocracy that ever ran for President of the United States, and the worst defeated. Among the distin guished guests was Federal Judge La coinbe, who by a stroke of his pen an nulled the state legislation which-fixed the price of gas in New York at 80 cents a thousand and continued the mo nopoly price of a dollar. The speech of Judge Wallace in bid ding farewell to the bench must have been particularly edifying to such men as these. Very likely the sparkle of champagne, the glitter of gilt and sil ver, the odor of esthetic cookery and the presence of the aristocracy of the metropolis enticed him to speak with a freedom that he would not have permit ted himself on the bench and to display cpenly those sentiments of hostility to popular government and friendliness to a plutocratic-oligarchy which he has hitherto concealed under studied phrases of Judicial impartiality. On the bench, if he did injustice, he would do It with a parade of legal technicalities and a smooth pretense of high motives. At this banquet he spoke out his genu ine sentiments with brutal frankness. Of course Judge Wallace could not forego a slap at the President. What friend of the Interests can make a speech nowadays without some thrust at the man who has done more than any other "to establish Justice and in sure domestic tranquillity" In this coun try? Without Mr. Roosevelt the courts would be occupied today as they were a, few years ago In confirming the privi leges of the trusts and binding the hands of the people. Naturally those judges who owe their appointments to the millionaires hold a grudge against him. Judge Wallace's grudge is patent. "The Republican party under its pres ent leadership," he said, "has entered Into a mad race to secure the votes of the discontented, the prejudiced, the un thinking and the fanatical believers In socialistic theories." When Judge Wal lace said this, unless he Is a man of the densest Ignorance, he must have known that he was uttering a false hood. What socialistic theory does the Republican party advocate today? To what prejudice does It appeal? If ever a man appealed openly and frankly to fact and reason, Mr. Roosevelt does. If ever a man aimed at absolute fairness, he does. It Is not the President who appeals to Ignorance, prejudice and un fairness. It is not he who misrepre sents motives and perverts facts, but men like Judge Wallace, who hate the Idea of popular rule and believe In spe cial privilege for favored, classes. Judge Wallace said among other things that "people of moderate means And their modest income vanishing," and he Implied that the cause of this was the President's efforts to curb the predatory corporations. If his logic on the bench was no better than this, his retirement comes none too soon. The rice In the oost of living does press hard on people with fixed incomes, and the cause of the hardship is those special privileges which Judge Wallace says It will be the duty of the courts "as sanc tuaries of justice to defend." Had hs said sanctuaries of Injustice he would have hit nearer the mark. The neces saries of life are controlled by monop olies, and there Is nothing In the world to prevent them from fixing any price they please. The only reason why they do not put prices up to the starvation point Is their fear of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Through his efforts to break up monopoly and bring the thieving corporations under control the President Is doing more to help peo ple of modest Incomes than all the courts in the country. The fact is that every court decision like that In New York In favor of the Infamous gas trust tends to' destroy the middle class, and such a man as Judge Wallace must know it. Is that why they make them? The most Interesting part of his speech referred to the popular election of Federal Judges. Naturally he Is op posed to this. Perhaps there are good reasons for opposing it, but if there are he did not state them. He said that the movement fof" popular election of Judges has been "provoked largely by the cour age of the Federal Judges In restrain ing lawless acts of trade-unions and preventing the enforcement" of uncon stitutional state legislation against mi norities. It would be pleasant to hear some judge make a speech without bragging of his courage. How much courage does it take to Issue an Injunc tion 'against a band of poor strikers with the army of the United States to enforce It? An Injunction against the equally lawless corporations would show much more fortitude of spirit; but for such a manifestation of Judicial courage we have still to wait. The an nulment of civilized state legislation has protected a certain minority, as Judge Wallace says. It Is that minor ity which wishes to grow rich upon the labor of little children; which desires to shirk Its Christian duty to working men and poison the public with putrid meat and adulterated food. When the record of the Federal Judges In protect ing this criminal minority is fully writ ten out. It will make interesting read ing, but It will not be,much of a com fort to them on their deathbeds. Judge Wallace thinks it would be bet ter to abolish the Federal Courts than to let the people elect the Judges. He does not seem to know' that elective judges have fully as high a reputation for wisdom and Impartiality as those who are appointed for life. His remark that elective Judges would not be "Fed eral Judges In any true sense" is merely silly. The President Is elected, so are Representatives and Senators. Are they not genuine Federal officers? Are the Federal Judges the only truly National public servants we have? A tinge of modesty in the current estimate which some of the Federal Judges place uj?on themselves would be becoming and would bring them nearer to the truth about their importance. certain srvrpLE facts. Again the Astorlan newspaper. We suppose It will say that, since The Ore gonlan notices it, therefore It must be a thorn In the flesh, both of The Ore gonlan . and of Portland. Let it have that comfort; for It seems to have little other. We are going to quote a little from that paper, Just for the sake of a remark In reply. Not for smart reply, either. But Just for statement of fact. The Oregonian had shown that a dozen up-river ports, not speaking of Port land, had an important amount of ship ping. So this Astorlan response: In going to the trouble to get up this schedule, the big paper has dona us the favor to sound the very keynote of our "deathless contention," the miserable fact that Astoria, the second largest city In Ore gon; the one real, logical and usable port on the whole Oregon coast, must be Ignored and derided In the Interest of Portland, whose hold on the commerce of the Colum bia Valley Is so weak and so uncertain that she Is desperately fighting with such foul weapons as the "Port of Columbia" law to retain It; that this splendid harbor, among the finest on the earth, must have but two small craft loading at Its wharves where a thousand, of any tonnage, might be served, because the wealth and Influence of the me. tropolls lures them by and beyond this haven 112 miles up a couple of rivers so shallow that only the lesser bottoms of the deep can be utilised, the greater carriers going to the Sound In deference to the better channels and facilities; that this last outrage la per mitted by the men of Portland, rather than exert their Immense Influence to keep that huge commerce In the Oregon port of As. torla, to the alleged discomfiture of the me tropolis; that the one deadly tear that has possessed Portland all these years, the com mercial ascendency or Astoria should blind her to the merits of this port and urge her to baffle and cripple us at all times In all ways, lest we take on the natural and rational uplift Inherent In our one magnifi cent quality; that knowing our great and righteous claim over all other places. Inland, or on the seaboard, she uses her might to worst and defeat us always. In the mari time eye of the world, when she has proven ber own Inadequacy to maintain the place she assumed. The Oregonian will not attempt to Imitate the hysterics of this exclama tion. It will simply say that Portland and all other up-river towns have the right to do business and to do all tl(e business they can; and further and here is the most conclusive of all facts that the chief obstructions to the com merce of the Columbia River are below Astoria. Portland's main effort is and always has been to secure improvement of the bar or channel, where the river debouches into the sea. All vessels that can enter the river can come and do come up to river points above Astoria, and It Is the purpose of up-river points, Including Portland, chief of up-river points, to make and to maintain a deep channel, not only to Astoria, but beyond Astoria to the sea. Of course Astoria will have all the business that may be Justly her own that is, all the business to which her position, enterprise and energy may entitle her. But If anybody at Astoria holds the notion that deep water vessels are not to ascend the river further than Astoria, he simply entertains an absurdity. Such, how ever, is the foolish position of the As torlan newspaper; and here Is the1 basis of all Its shrieks and objurgations. FLOUR TRADE BREAKS RECORD. Oriental flour shipments from Port land during the month Just closed broke all existing records, reaching a total of 244.000 barrels, the manufac ture of which required more than 1,000, 000 bushels of wheat. With one month of the fiscal year remaining, the flour shipments from Oregon and Washing ton ports have already this season reached the grand total of more than 4,000,000 barrels. The most interesting feature of these remarkable shipments lies In the fact that for the first time on record the amount of flour shipped from Oregon and Washington ports exceeds the amount of wheat, the fig ures for the season to date showing slightly less than. 14,000.000 bushels of wheat and a little more than 18,000,000 bushels going out as flour. The advantages of this method of marketing the crop are manifest. There Is, of course, a profit In the operation of milling or it would be abandoned. This profit Is distributed among a large number of employes In the different branches of the business. Another very pronounced benefit arising from the manufacture of the flour Instead of hipping wheat to be ground in some other countrjrlles In the heavy demand for the bran and shorts. A good supply of this mlllfeed at moderate prices, made possible by the excellent market for flour, has been of great assistance In building up the dairying industry In this state. During the season now drawing to a close a large amount of wheat has been shipped to the Orient for use in the re cently constructed mills In that coun try. This movement has caused mis givings In some quarters lest the mill ing business should eventually be transferred to the new field across the Pacific As yet there does not seem to be much occasion for alarm, and It Is highly probable that by the time the Orientals succeed in working up a de mand for the by-products on which the American miller depends for his profits the increasing use of flour will be suffi ciently great to offer a market for all that can be sent across the Pacific The Oriental importer is paying a high rate of freight on a portion of the wheat that Is sold In this country as a low-grade product, and this mlllfeed will always be worth enough more in this country than It Is worth in the Orient to give our millers an advan tage in that trade. A trade that can quadruple in proportions in about a decade, as the Oriental flour trade out of North Pacific ports has done, cannot easily be annihilated ,no matter what weapons may be used against it. CRAY'S HARBOR'S PRESTIGE. The Gray's Harbor Post, of Aberdeen, Wash., presents some interesting fig ures from the Oregon Tirr.bermp.n show ing that in the month of April the mills of Aberdeen shipped more lumber than was shipped from Portland. The state ment was printed by the Post for the purpose of refuting a statement recent ly made that Portland was the great est lumber port In the world. The Post thinks that Aberdeen is entitled to the honor, and on the showing made for the month of April she was undoubt edly the greatest shipping port for that month. The basis for The Oregonlan's statement was the dally capacity of the mills within the city limits of Portland. These Portland sawmills, not Includ ing' two large mills at Llnnton and St. Johns, which are suburbs of Portland, cut In-a ten-hour run. slightfy more than 1,500,000 feet. The cut of the Aberdeen, mills for ten hours is generally given at 1,100,000 feet, and by taking the combined cut of Aberdeen, Hoqulam and Cosmopolts for ten hours, the total would run very close to 1,900,000 feet a larger amount than is cut anywhere else on earth by three towns so close together. When the size of the ports Is considered, the Immensity of this business is simply phenomenal, and Aberdeen and her neighbors can well be proud of the pres tige they have won In the commercial world. Most of the Portland mills and probably the Aberdeen mills have been running night and day for months, and the output Is accordingly nearly twice as large as that given In the above figures. N In any event, there is no lumber port on Puget Sound that anywhere nearly ap proaches Aberdeen In the size of its lumber output, and the three ports men tioned on Gray's Harbor can cut more lumber per day than any five ports on Puget Sound. Within the past year Gray's Harbor has been dispatching large steamer cargoes, and when she gets thoroughly Into the export trade with big cargoes, her present phenom enal showing will be still further im proved. EFFICIENT LABOR. The President made a good point In his speech at Lansing when he said he had "very little fear of pauper labor." In fact, pauper labor is less efficient than any other kind, and the most ex pensive. The cheapest labor in the world Is that which is -Cest paid and has the shortest hours. The reason Is that It works with so much Intelligence and energy that it produces more and bet ter goods In a short day than poorly paid labor, can In a long day. The pretense, therefore, that Amer ican labor needs a prohibitive tariff to protect It from the pauper labor of Eu rope Ts a very shallow one. And even If our labor needed projection the tariff does not provide It, since there is noth ing to hinder European laborers com ing to America and underbidding our own. Their tendency Is, however, not to underbid, but to demand the highest current wages. Th'real danger to our workmen lies, as the President "says, in the better training of their European competitors and his plan for more industrial train ing In the elementary schools is timely. The truth is that all our primary, and much of our higher education Is defi cient in purpose. It has little or no ref erence to practical life. If our work men fall in the struggle for the world's markets It will be because the common schools deal too much with abstractions and too little with tools. WHEN A CRIME IS NOT A CRIME. Reverently bowing before a precedent wliich It acknowledges to be wrong and pernicious, the Court of Appeals of New York has recently declared that a prosecution for larceny by false pre tenses cannot be sustained where the person parting' with his money or prop erty does so for an illegal purpose. Such a rule was established by court decision and the court Insists that It can be changed only by the Legislature. Un der this decision a thief may provide himself a safe defense by inducing his victim to become a party to a violation of law. Thus If Brown Induces Smith to trust him with money to be used In gambling and then Brown keeps it, no crime has been committed by Brown, though Smith may be prosecuted for attempting to gamble. The New York courts have lost sight of the real nature 6t a crime. In a case of this kind the fact that Smith put up his money for an Illegal purpose made the act of Brown no less a crime. The man who obtains money by false pre tenses Is a thief and an enemy of soci ety, and should be prosecuted and punished for the public good. From the standpoint of a civil action the case Is different. In circumstances such as those supposed, the courts would prop erly hold that Smith could not recover from Brown, for he should suffer the loss of money which he put up for an illegal purpose. (He who comes Into any court should come with clean hands. In a criminal case the party directly in jured Is not the prosecutor. A crime Is an offense not only against an Individ ual, but against the state as wfll. The state should prosecute regardless of the complicity of the Injured person. LABfiE FAMILIES. The President is said to have found his Ideal family In Ohio. The -family consists of a father, mother and eight children. Since the parents are well-to-do farmers, able to bring their chil dren up properly and educate them ac cording to the requirements of a strenu ous age, they and the state are to be congratulated upon the number of their offspring. If, however, as In the case of the woman In Butte, Mont., whom the President several years ago congratu lated upon the fact that she was the mother of eight children, the oldest of whom was 11 years of age, these Ohio parents were thriftless, down-at-the-heel people, living In a shack in a city and depending for support upon the uncertain wages of a drinking father, eked out by the small earnings of the two older Infants as newsboys, the cause for legitimate congratulation would not be discernible to the practi cal man. Eight children are not too many ten or twelve may not be too many in a family, providing the par ents are sound In body, intelligent, en ergetic and reasonably prosperous; whereas one child is one too many to be born to a thriftless pair who have no conception of the responsibilities of par entage. The President Is a wise man. and an observing man, but his wisdom lacks the quality of discretion when he lauds, as he has frequently done, indiscrimi nately, people who bring large families of children into the. world as patriots and worthy of honor and emulation. A large family may be often has been a blessing to the world and an honor to parents; It may be, on the contrary. and very often has been, a detriment. If ) not a curse, to the world. Upon this i point many a lowly, striving, ambitious ' and sadly overworked mother of too j many children could give even so wise a man as President Roosevelt some points that be might, with credit to himself and profit to the world, work Into his next speech on the home and the family. The Dominion government has by wise and patient dealing with the Doukhobors within its Jurisdiction come to a peaceful and permanent settlement with these strange, stubborn and super stitious people. The Doukhobors are Russians of an uncompromising relig ious sect, whose actions in 1899 made them conspicuous as fanatics before the world. The abandonment of their homes and cattle by these people and their march men, women and children half naked and pinched with hunger and cold, to Winnipeg In 'search of the Messiah, in the year named, excited wide attention and caused the govern ment much perplexity. They were finally induced to return to their homes and granted certain community privi leges. The final arrangement permits those who live In communities to hold about fifteen acres near the villages to each Individual, while those who aban don community life can have 160 acres apiece. The government prefers the latter arrangement, since only by segre gation will these people grow In intelli gence andlndivldual prosperity; but it has wisely decided to allow them to follow their own methods of life as long as these conform to decency, morality and good order. IV, will require 250,000 acres of land to meet the terms of this settlement. These people are Industri ous and wjll take care of themselves If left to their own methods. The Indian war veterans, a grizzled battalion that has come down to us from the heroic days wherein the homes of the frontier were under the menace of savagery, will gather themselves to gether in this city In annual reunion on June 18. Many names have been dropped from the rollcall since the June meeting a year ago. But those who remain are yet half a thousand strong-v a still cheerful contingent of a once stalwart host and those who come to the annual meeting will be met with welcome and good cheer by the chil dren, grandchidlren and great-grandchildren who have grown up In the homes that In their early manhood the Indian war veterans founded, protected and made of possible permanency. This annual reunion Is an event to which all look forward wth pleasant anticipation, enjoy with zest and re member with pleasure. It is, moreover, an occasion of public Interest, since it brings the past In touch with the pres ent in a way that is at once realistic and romantic. General Baron Kurokl stands for the evolution of Japan from the utter ex clusiveness of half a century ago to an expansion that is world wide. The Japan of history and tradition faded Into the Japan "of the present as the diminutive warrior, his breast blazing with the emblems of his country's vic tory over a great European power, stood with bared head at the monument of Lincoln in a Chicago park. Memorial day, and placed upon the statue a wreath in honor of the life of the great emancipator. Japan has yet much to learn of the Western world, but she is sending her aptest pupils to the great school of progress, the watchword of which Is liberty, and in time, near or far, the traditions by which she was bound and la still bound will yield to the conditions of a wider era. Of course Mayor Lane and Governor Chamberlain hold that all virtue Is In the Democratic party, and that all re form must come through It. You never did find them, nor ever will find them, admitting that a Republican for any Important office is better, ,or could be better, than a Democrat, or supporting any Republican for that reason. When has Chamberlain or Lane supported any Republican for Governor of Oregon or Mayor of Portland, or District Attor ney, or Sheriff of Multnomah County? It is useless to ask where you will find them when any National issue is pre sented. You know that each of them will support the Democratic partisan craze, whatever It may be. The steamer Francis H. Leggett is loading lumber at Yaqulna Bay. Her appearance on that neglected waterway is remindful of the old days when a considerable amount of money was spent on that harbor In an effort to make it safe for the entrance of large vessels. The big carrier met with bad luck, but there does not seem to be any good reason why the bay should not maintain a service with vessels of the Leggett type, or even smaller ones, such as serve other coast ports. It is to be hoped that the experiment of the Leggett will be the means of reopening to general trade a long-neglected har bor that affords an outlet to a large and rich region. Work resumed on the road from Drain; new line of steamships to Port land; electric railroad to Roseburg al moBt a certainty everything is coming Coos Bay's way. If General Kurokl wants the Japanese youth to learn the real thing in base ball, let him send a bunch of boys to play against the West Side High School team. Undoubtedly a large majority of the 16.000,000 American electors, irrespective of party, approve the spirit of Roose velt's Memorial day address. Big pocket money for the fiesta and the Fourth of July can be earned the next two weeks picking berries at Hood River. Neither faction in the Industrial and anti-graft fight at San Francisco can complain of an Inefficient press agent. WHERE COLUMBIA COUNTS' STANDS Ressoss Why New Fllotaare Measure . Will Benefit Commerce. St. Helen's Mist. Mr. Sylvester Farrell, of Portland, member of the defunct pilot commis sion, has brought suit against the newly appointed Port of Columbia Commissioners, of which W. D. Plue, of Rainier, is a member, to enioln them from . issuing bonds or attempt ing in any way to carry out the pro visions of the act under which that body was organized. Mr. Farrell is a taxpayer in both Multnomah and Columbia counties and claims to be' acting in the interests of his fellow taxpayers, but It is more probable that his interest as a member of the Board of Pilot Commissioners is the controlling factor. The shipping in terests of the Columbia River have long suffered from this ancient graft, and shipowners have been compelled to pay blackmail to Its organizers. The City of Portland, In which Mr. Farrell, resides, has been discriminated against by shipowners on account of the state of affairs which has existed at the mouth of the river, and Multnomah's representatives, at the request of Port land's business men. secured the pass age of the bill creating the Port of Portland. Columbia Countals repre sentative voted and worked for It, and, as he represents a substantial property Interest here. It may be fairly Inferred that .he did so because he believed the new law would be beneficial to Colum bia County. Lumber is our greatest Industry, and will continue so for many years to come, and it Is to our direct Interest -to have all bars to commerce removed as speedily as pos sible. In wages alone, ships loading In Co lumbia County will pay out not less than $60,000 per year; probably a great deal more, and they furnish a direct market for a considerable portion of our farm produce. Were It not for the ships the saw mills of Columbia county would .go out of business, as the railroads can not supply cars for any considerable portion of their output. Portland Is vitally Interested In any measure that will, even in a small de gree, better existing conditions, and it would seem to be a fair Inference that Its business men are the best judges as to the new laws. Columbia County has the same inter est. We live on Portland and Portland lives on us. Every ship that loads at Its docks, every factory established there, and every new resident It se cures. Is a factor In the prosperity of Columbia County, therefore we should favor any measure Portland's shrewd business men believe to be for the best interests of the metropolis. We trust the Port of Columbia bill will be' sustained; but its defeat only means postponement. The state of af fairs at the mouth of the river has be come so notorious that a' remedy must be found. SAN FRANCISCO'S CRUDE! WAYS Mr. Calhoun la Naturally greatly An noyed at Belnjr Indicted. New York World. It strikes' Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways 'of San Fran cisco, as an unspeakable outrage that the head of a beneficent traction com pany such as his should be indicted for bribing public officials. President Cal houn has lived long in New York, he has a home and office in New York, many of his business partners are New Yorkers, and his standards of conduct are. those of the enlightened East. It Is inconceivable to him that any grand jury, except under the sway of corrupt influences, should charge him or his subordinates with being corrupt. No matter if the San Francisco Supervisors do confess to taking bribes and each names the price of his pur chase. What difference does It make if "Abe" Ruef, the criminal boss of San Francisco, confesses to Having man aged the deal? In a statement "to the American people" President Calhoun declares that there Is no evidence that could justify the indictments against him and his associates. Cheered and sustained by the appreciation of his own virtue and the advantages of per sonal freedom, he Is confident they will all be vindicated. Not being a Californian, President Calhoun's grievance is the greater. He Is not used to such barbarous prac tices. The entire criminal charges to him seem unpardonably provincial and deplorably Western. Who ever heard, for instance, of the president or assist ant president, or general counsel or assistant counsel, to say nothing of all of them In a lump, of the Metropolitan Traction Company being indicted on 14 counts? District-Attorney Lang-don is no better than an Anarchist. He has lent "himself to a scandalous 'political conspiracy against the street-railway company. What San Francisco needs iu this crisis is a Jerome. M'KEE ANSWERS COL. PARKER Rules Oregon City School Will Not Permit Pupils to Aid Peary. OREGON CITY. Or., May 31. Special.) City Superintendent of Schools Walton C. McKee is anything but pleased over the statements made by Colonel Frank J. Parker In the Portland press relative to the treatment of the proposition to have each pupil pay one cent toward the Peary Arctio exploration fund. "Colonel Parker is extremely unjust," said Professor McKee today, and has gone out of his way to critlcire me for prohibiting the children of the Oregon City schools from contributing their mite to the "fund. When this proposition was first brought to my attention, I submit ted It to the Board of Directors and was informed that the rules and practice of the school district were against receiv ing contributions of any kind. I had nothing to do with making the order, only with the enforcement of it. "The Colonel calls the patriotism of my self and the Oregon City pupils Into ques tion, but only displays his ignorance of the facts. If he had been in the city yesterday and had seen the hundreds of school children In the Iecoration day parade, he would have no occasion to say they are not patriotic. As for myself, I want to say simply that I am a veteran of the Spanish-American war. "Peary is a naval officer of the United States, and while I would be glad If he discovered the North pole, I believe the Government of the United States should defray the expense of the expedition, as It is certainly amply able to do. "In The Oregonian of yesterday morn ing is a dispatch from Salem stating that Eastern states are not disposed to take up the project, and of 16 replies received by State Superintendent of Public In struction J. H. Ackerman, not one shows any intention to enter into the movement. In many schools there is -an unwritten law against taking collections in the pub lic schools, and in Oregon City the printed regulations prohibit it." To Take Up Work in Portland. ' ASTORIA, May 31. (Special.) A. B. Dal gity has tendered his resignation as a deputy in the County Clerk's office and will leave tomorrow for Portland to as sume the position of state grand secretary far the Foresters of America, 5ITST ABANDON MAST POSTS Despito Many Protest, War Depart ment Will Pursue Policy. WASHINGTON. May 31. Upon his re turn to Washington, Secretary Taft will find awaiting him a number of telegrams and letters from various points in the West, protesting against the reduction of military garrisons In that part of the country. Particularly strong remon strances have come from Minnesota and Montana, where the Senators and Rep resentatives have all Joined forces to prevent the withdrawal of the artillery from Fort SnellinK, Minnesota, and the abandonment of Forts Assinniboine and Keogh, Montana. It is stated at the War Department that these appeals cannot be heeded, as the movements ordered are deemed in dispensable to the successful working out of the plans of the War Department for the gradual abandonment of small, useless posts and the erection of brigade posts which will afford the troops neces sary drill and discipline in the larger military formation. Another reason for the change is the necessity of meeting the new conditions created by the divi sion of coast and field artillery and the formation of the latter into regimental organizations. i Neutral Zone on Mexican Line. WAS'UNGTON, May 31.' The Presi dent's proclamation Issued yesterday, withdrawing 60 feet of public land on the American side of the American-Mexican International boundary line, was Issued in accordance with the recommendation of the International Boundary Commis sion. The withdrawal begins at the Western Texas line and extends to the Pacific Ocean. It ts intended to prevent smuggling by making It impossible to build houses over the line which will permit of smuggling. The order does not, of course, cover land that is owned by private persons. . MENINGITIS KILLING HORSES Salem Veterinarian Makes Report After Examination at Sumpter. SALEM. Or., May 3L (Special.) Cere brospinal meningitis Is the disease which has recently caused the death of. a large number of horses at Sumpter. This Is the declaration made by Dr. C. J. Korl nek, of this city,, who was sent to Sump ter by Governor chamberlain in response to an appeal from thei Mayor of Sump ter. Dr. Korlnek returned from Sumpter today, having spent five days investigat ing the epidemic that caused such alarm in the Baker County mining district. He says there fs no doubt as to the identity of the disease, but It is not of so malig nant a character as the meningitis with which human beings have been afflicted recently. About half the horses attacked by the disease have died. Thus far it seems to be confined to Sumpter Valley. The horses afflicted lose control of their muscles for a time, fail down, and In the worst cases suffer par alysis and finally die. The cause of the disease is unoertaln, but Dr. Korlnek be lieves it to be due either to the water or oats. Range horses have not been af flicted. Care of the general health of the horse and the administration of drugs that tend to relax the muscles are the only remedies suggested. Indian Agent Closing Up Work. ABERDEEN, Waeh., May 31. (Spe cial.) F. R. Archer, the allotting agent of the Quiniault Indian reservation lands, says that he will close up his work In about two months, as the In dian Department Is anxious to render a final report by the time Congress meets. At this time will be determined the policy of the Government as to the disposal of the unallotted lands of the reservation. Executive Board Astoria Regatta. ASTORIA, May 3L (Speclal.)-The com mittee of nine appointed at) Wednesday evening's regatta meeting met this morn ing and selected W. E. Schlmpff, O. I. Pe terson and John H. Whyte as the execu tive board to manage the carnival next August. This board will call a meeting of the business men within the next few days to arrange for securing subscriptions to the fund. Find Boy's Body in River. ASTORIA, May SI. (Special.) The body of Arthur Pispanen, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Pispanen, was found floating in the river today a short distance from the family home in the east end of the city. The boy had been missing since May 23. When last seen he was at play about the yard and told some other chil dren he was going fishing with an old piece of net he had under his arm. It is supposed that he fell off the netracks. Centralia School Teachers. CENTRALIA, Wash., May 31. (Spe cial.) The school board has selected the following teachers In addition to those chosen last week. Bertha Radike, of Chehalis; Blanche Volin, of Pocatello, Idaho; Edna Britton, of Aberdeen, CAPITALIZING THE GRIP OofiWiutN. FRANCHISE. ( AUtIDsl0RTr TOlrt J 1i2o,erOO,oooW IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN TOMORROW TAKING "LITTLE BROTH ER" TO SCHOOL Full-page illustration in colors of a familiar scene. WHEN Bia AMERICANS GO A-FISHINO Kingly sport that is ineradica ble among men of affairs. JUDGE GEORGE GRAY, EM INENT DEMOCRAT 'Will residence in Delaware bar him from the Presidency t MODERN TRAGEDY AT THE COLONIAL Another of Dr. Furnivall's fas cinating detective stories. FIFTY YEARS WITH THE SAME TWO WIVES - Golden wedding of a Mormon trio still living happily. GROVER CLEVELAND AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY Full-page picture of the ex-President and his family. STRANGE ROMANCE OF EL LEN TERRY A bride at 17 ; now a grandmoth er, and once more a bride. THE GREAT WHITE CITY OF AFRICA Frank G. Carpenter writes of Cosmopolitan Tunis. BROWNIE CLOWN IN BRO WNIET OWN Palmer Cox's original conceit paints some caricatures. - THE ROOSEVELT BEARS RE TURN HOME Last of Eaton's clever jingles and Culver's pictures. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY Wash.; Grace Sillix. of Bellingham. Twenty-four teachers have now been se lected and there are still several vacan cies to fill. Fall to Drag Solano Off Sands. ABERDEEN, Wash., May 3L (Special.) The steamer Acme, which has made two attempts to pull the schooner 8o lano off the beach, has given up the ex periment and is at Hoqulam, loading for San Francisco. The ' Acme pulled the Solano about two feet out of the sand, but she is broadside to the ocean and deeply sunk. She is in good condition, but so far up on the beach that It may never be possible to pull the stranded vessel into deep water. The schooner Manila came off the ma rine railway today and was towed to the Blade mill to load a cargo for Santa Rosalia, Mexico. Trolley League Tie Unbroken. COLFAX, Wash., May 31. (Special.) The Colfax Trolley Leaguers defeated the Rosalia Leaguers here yesterday, score 9 to 2. Moscow defeated Palouse today; score 1 to I Standing of teams, Colfax Moacow, tie; Palouse-Rosalla, tie. Lar-lnks. PORTLAND, May 31. (To the Editor.) Would you please give the pronunciation of the word larynx, as I have heard It pro nounced a great many ways. Thanking yoi in advance. Tours truly, ' M. J. Lar-lnlca The a Is short as In lariat. Accent la on f rst syllable. From the New York Pru. U