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Nobody doubts that Mr. Bryan will be the Democratic candidate. A large section of his party will interpret th: money panic as a complete vindication of his course in past years; since his postulate was that money was scarce, and that free coinage of silver would greatly Increase or even double the volume affording also an addition. il base for paper currency. It will t.e aid, moreover, that the gold standard has failed, and that any new project that will afford "more money" Is io be preferred to adherence to a system that has landed the country in conclu sions so gevere as those resulting from the present "money famine." It will be time enough to consider the fallacies contained In these as sumptions when the occasion for it hall have arrrVed. For the present the purpose merely Is to Intimate that the debate on money is likely to he one of the leading features of the po litical contest of 1908, and may prob ably overshadow everything else. THE LIMBER RATE AtiAIN. Mr. George M. Cornwall, editor of The Lumberman. Portland, has pub lished In Tha Railway Ago. Chicago, an extended statement In support of the proposed amendment to the Inter state Commerce Act, the purpose of which is to forbid the railroads to ad vance a rate till after appeal and hearing on the part of protesting ship pers. An Increased rate on lumber from Portland and other points was put into effect by the railroads No vember 1. The result already is dis astrous to the lumber Interest. Mr. Cornwall writes: We are brought face to face with the problem of whether we shall confer on the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to Investigate the reasonableness of a rate before It takes effect or await passively the destruction of business which has taken years to create, while traffic managers. In the language of a minor Coast official, "ex periment" with the new tariff, pending the slow, tedious process of securing a review. The whole system is so preposterous In its absurdity and so manifestly unjust In ts op eration it has Its parallel only In the shoot ing of a prisoner and then trying him by court-martial. . . . It ia reasonable to assume, and has been held by the courts, that a rate which has been in effect for a long term of years may be safely regarded M a fairly remunerative rate, and should tay In effect until Its validity has been test ed. If objection l.e made, without Inflicting any serious injustice on the carrier. This Is a sound view of the case, clearly stated. Sudden advance in a rate that had existed for years, and upon which great Industries have' been built up is unjust from any point of view; especially so when It is observed that the railroads may have their rem edy, through appeal to the COmmts gion In support of the proposed rate; which may go Into effect If It can be shown to be reasonable. Why this burden of proof should be thrown upon the railroad Is thus set forth) Tha shipper cannot have access to the private records of a railroad In proving hla ease. Besides, the system of keeping th accounts and the oaay diversion by tne often devious methods of bookkeeping of creat ing charges which In themselves are not Legitimate expenses of operation, such as the purchase and illegal manipulation of stock In. ether coruoiaUans, etc . furnish the most cogent rasnns to the public mind why the burden of proof should rest on the rail roads Instead of on the shipper In proving the reasonableness of a rat. The presumption that the old rate was profitable to the railroads resis on the fact that It had been continued during many years, and the profits of the roads, by their own reports, have been very great. Congress can scarcely fail to heed the petition for amend ment of the law, so as to require a hearing upon any petition for change of a rate before the change can be made. The action taken by the rail roads annihilates our business here, and thus gives other sections ad vantages they have not hitherto en joyed. It may be supposed that It was not the Intention of the railroad managers to destroy Western business. They only assumed that there was great prosperity among lumbermen here, and they thought they could get more out of it for the railroads. YET GREATER DEPTHS OF INFAMY'. A weary and disgusted public, hav ing several months ago been brought face to face with a life of shame through the revolting details of tht Thaw trial believed, and was entitled to believe, that it had sounded the depths of infamy as presented by mar ital perfidy, desperate revenge and so cial lawlessness. But the Bradley Brown trial, now In progress, has re vealed new deeps In this mine of shame and sin, from which, with In creased and dally Increasing disgust decently disposed people shrink. There Is In this case a revelation of wrong, humiliation and exasperation to which a virtuous wife and affec tionate mother was subjected through a shameless conspiracy against her So cial ' and marital rights which was lacking In the Thaw trial; the birth of children deliberately planned, who had no rights In law or In morals to the father's name; the equally delib erate murder of others yet unborn by the inhuman father with the consent and connivance of the weak and sinful mother, the utter brutality with which a man of more than ordinary Intelli gence, and seemingly of sensibility, played upon the heart strings of i woman who was, body and soul his slave; and finally the pistol shot that rang out in her last desperate answer to his curses and tauntings after hu had transferred his fanoy to another woman and sought to cast off this plaything of years and disown her children. Glancing over the details of this latest and most wretched marital, so cial and domestic tragedy as staged before the court, one cannot escape the conviction that the alleged sins of Stanford White, hideous as they were, were not more heinous than were those of Arthur Brown, and that the sufferings of Evelyn Thaw, bitter as they were, lacked the essence of bit terness that was distilled by cold, cal culating selfishness and treachery Into the sufferings of Annie Bradley. The offense of Brown was inftniteiv greater than that of his victim since he was the head and front of the of fending, and, though he paid the pen alty with his life, his punishment wis far less bitter than hers. In her case the primal cause of her offense was Inherent weakness, the unguarded door to which was entered througn her affections; in his it was deliberate, purposeful animal sensuality, which, masquerading In the garb of affection, enabled him to obtain complete mas tery over his victim. A daughter might be excused for shedding a few tears over Arthur Brown's tragical end, but neither regrets nor tears be cause of It are due from anyone else. He was a social monster who lingered far too long upon the stage of life, playing a leading role in- an infamous game. His exit was overdue, even though violence was compelled to open the door of life and eject him therefrom without pity. RECORD GOLD IMPORTS. Gold engagements from Europe have attained the record proportions of J75.O0O.0OO although, at the begin ning of the movement, It was pre dicted that the Importation of more than $40,000,000 would be followed by great distress In London. It Is a ques tion if the removal of so much of the yellow metal from foreign trade chan nels has not caused disarrangement of trade conditions that may yet bo fraught with serious results. It Is a certainty that any widespread disturb ance In England at this time would only serve to make matters worse in this country. This gold Is being im ported for the alleged purpose of pay ing for exports from the United States. Admitting this to be the primary rea son for import of the base of all values, the transaction still remains an abnormal one, and any abnormal method of transacting business Is likely to be fraught with danger for those most vitally Interested. To begin with, there is an enormous expense attached to importation of gold. The American banker who en gages in the gold importing business must, through his foreign correspond ent, pay a heavy premium to secure the gold, and a very heavy transpor tation charge is Involved. All this ?x pense makes the European gold, now arriving in this country, cost the im porter considerable more than the fixed value of the gold here. Some of It may have come here In payment for exports, but we have financed many large crops In the past without the necessity of transferring the actu.U gold. It is estimated that 200,000 tourists visited Europe during the past year. The average expenditure of this army of American travelers, including their traveling and living expenses, and what they purchased abroad, would undoubtedly approximate $1000 each, so that from this source alone, there would be a balance of about $200,000,000 against us. The drafts which this army of tour ists has floated around the European money centers have been coming back to us in payment for our exports, thus obviating the necessity of sending gold over hare unless we made it an ob ject of offering a premium for it. But, while we welcome this yellow stream now flowing into the country from abroad, there is every reason to believe that we shall find it "In the way," -is soon as we settle down to business again. There is in round numbeis about $1,000,000,000 in gold In this country, and. compared with what this $75,000,000 has cost us, it might not inappropriately be termed cheap gold. ; Just as soon as the owners of thi.s cheap gold become tired of hoarding It. there will be a back-flow into the channels of trade, and on account of the heavy Increase in bond-securad currency which was Induced by the strained conditions through which we are now passing, there will be m ire money than Is needed. The supply will have increas id through the extraordinary efforts of I the Government to lessen the strain, j and the reaction In business which al- I ways accompanies or follows these up heavals, will lessen the demand for j money. As the premium which Is now i paid for gold in order to draw it out vanishes before this slackening de mand for money, we can no longor find use for the additional $76,000,00'), which cost us heavily to secure. To get It out of the way it will be shipped back to Europe, but unfortunately for us, the Europeans never permit their finances to got into such a snarl as to require such abnormal premiums tor gold as we have been paying. Com mercial equilibrium will be restored In due season, and it will again be un necessary to drag high-priced goM Into the country by the ton. Instead, we shall return to the more conveniently-handled commercial bills of exr change, and the banks will have such overflowing reserves that people will wonder why they ever thought that that an Insufficiency of gold caused the trouble. FX' EL FAMINE ENDED. The abnormal nature of the eco nomic conditions with which we have been surrounded for the past year or more. Is reflected in the fuel situation. With the greatest forests found any where on earth stretching down al most Into the city limits, we have for more than a year been continually un the verge of a fuel famine. Under stress of short stocks and inability to secure men to enter the woods and in crease the supply, the price has stead ily mounted until as high as $7 per cord has been demanded for fir wood, with oak selling even higher and slab wood hovering around $4 per load. But this economic disability has ac last forced the appearance of its own remedj-. The abnormal prices of wood and the first breath oi adversity in lines of general labor have combined to start In motion a movement that is certain to result In lower prices. From every city or town within a radius of more than fifty miles of. Portland, and from every old wood landing along the lower river, men aro going into the woods to cut cordwo.'J which in the near future will appear on the Portland market at much lower prices than have been in evidence for the past two or three years. The. change will be welcomed, for the work will supply employment for a large number of men, and, at the same time, help others by supplying them with cheap fuel. And yet there Is not much likelihood of fuel ever again declining to the prices which prevailed when wood was the only fuel for steameo-', and was delivered on the bank as low as $1.50 per cord. It Is doubtful If good fir wood will ever again sell for less than $3 per cord, as lumber a'nd pile stumpage command prices that will not admit of good cprdwood bein placed on the market at the old-time figure. As fuel for steamboats, It Is doubtful If wood will ever again be used on the Columbia, except possibly in a small way. The advantage of oil Is not con fined to the cost of the new fuel, bu; It rests largely on the saving of time and labor and the increased cargo space available on the boats. The ex tent to which It has come into use Is shown In the Importations at Portland which In the four months ending No vember 1, 1907. have reached a grand total of 977,000 barrels. Portland la growing so fast, and the demands of her industries are increasing so rap idly, that there will be an increasing amount of fuel of all kinds required, but wood will never again decline In price to the old schedules which pre vailed before oil came into use. AX OBSTRUCTION EXPLAINED. In most lines of business where a debtor is slow in meeting his obliga tions or holds out for the last day i'J grace, the creditor, if an emergency arises requiring the money thus due, can usually, with the offer of an t tractlve discount, secure the payment on short notice. By a similar policy the man who has wheat to sell can by making the price low enough attract buyers who will pay the cash, th3 amount of the concession demanded in both cases being based on the urgency of the seller's needs. This practice of heavy discounts to effect speedy re alizations has been suggested as a means of relieving the congestion in the wheat trade which has for the time being tied up such an enormous amount of money in the Pacific North west. Under the old regime of long distance chartering and big profits or big losses In the export trade, this might have been possible; for in a good season there was sufficient "lee way" to admit of liberal discounts, while in a poor season most of the exporters were swept off their feet and those who cleared up the wreckage made the collections and settled the bills In the most expeditious manner possible. The stress of competition has since brought the wheat exporting business down to a system where the gambling element involved in long dlstan-.-e chartering has been eliminated, and. In most cases, the wheat is bought, ship chartered and the cargo sold the same day. This enables the exporter handling cargoes running from 100, 000 to 200,000 bushels to work on a very small margin of profit, provided no unusual obstacles appear. The record-breaking crop and high prices this year caused an earlier movement of wheat, and In larger volume, than ever before. October exports of wheat and flour from Portland and Puget Sound exceeded 4.300.000 bushels, an additional 1,000.000 bushels have been cleared this month, and the flet now In port loading, at Portland has a cu pacity of 3,000,000 bushels, and that In port on Puget Sound 2,000,000 bushels. Practically all of this 10, 000.000 bushels of wheat has been paid for, together with several millions more yet to be floated. But the exporters have hot been re ceiving cash for this wheat that his been floated). The many millions which they now need for the purpose of buy ing more wheat are tied up in the banks in the shape of sixty-day drafts on Europe, and Europe declines o honor these drafts until they are fully due, unless there is a discount offered which would not only wipe out all of the exporters' profit, but would show a heavy loss. Early In October, wh'n the heavy wheat movement began, the ruling quotation on Sixty-day "grain drafts" was $4.81 , a figure usually regarded as a reasonable and safe basis on which to buy wheat. Yester day the quotation was $4.73, a decline of 8 V4 cents on every pound sterling. This means that every pound sterling due the Portland exporter Is worth 8 cents less than it was before th'3 present trouble began, and, even .it this discount. It Is Impossible ta suil J . much exchange. The last cargo to ' clear from this port was valued At I 40.000 pounds, so that, on yesterday's quotation, it would cost $3400 more to get the money to Portland to pav for the cargo than It would in normal circumstances. foreigners are demanding as a conces sion for the immediate payment of their debts, would undoubtedly be still heavier If an attempt were ma,de tJ collect at' this time for all the busi ness done. Quite naturally Portland exporters object to making a sacrifice which Involves such a heavy loss, and they are proceeding under easy sail, until their exchange, falling due, will force the foreigners to a reasonable settlement. Meanwhile the farmers who are forced to sell wheat will be obliged to accept prices materially lower than would prevail In normal financial conditions. Mr. F. Augustus Hartje, the Pitts burg millionaire, should Join hand-i with Howard Gould, for two morj contemptible slanderers of womankind have not been developed In this coun try in recent years. Mrs. Hartje has just defeated the latest attempt of her husband to blacken her name and di vorce her, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirming the decision of the lower court which was against Hartje. Nothing that has ever been charged against either Mrs. Gould or Mrs. Hartje approaches In malignant mean ness arid dirty debauchery the conduct of the two men who took the oath to "love, cherish, and protect" them and who are now seeking to blacken then In the eyes of the public. It Is a pl'.y that tlere Is so much public launde ' lng of this kind of dirty linen. "Lo, the poor-Indian," untamed and ignor ant, with his squaws for beasts of bur den, treated them like queens com pared with what Mcs. Hartje and Mrs. Gould are getting from these modern Indians whose names they bear. Figures submitted by the crop re porting board of the , Department of Agriculture for November, show that Illinois maintains for 1 907 the lead that it has long held In the column of corn-producing states of the Union with a total of 342,756.000 bushels tj its credit. Missouri follows with 221, 526,000 bushels; Iowa is third with 201.092,000 bushels. These figures de scribe fields so vast as to be practic ally Incomprehensible to the ordinary mind. It suffices that they represent an abundance between and "including producer, manufacturer and con sumer; between the labor, which Is capital, and capital that Is a comple ment of labor that scouts all Idea of "hard times" In the great corn-producing belt with its grand aggregate of 2,533,732,000 bushels of corn In fields and granaries, and In transit to the stock-feeding stations of the great Middle West. ' The Astorian thinks "Mr. Roosevelt would be greater as a Senator than he ever was as President." He might be so in theory, but not in achieve ment or reality. He would have little power or even consideration, as a Sen ator. His great fighting qualities as an executive would not serve him In the Senate chamber. The gray wolves of the Senate would give him the treatment which every freshman re ceives ' who enters that body, with added Interest in payment of the man who has presumed to exercise, as th;-y declare, an autocratic and dictatorial power for years, through the executive office, even over the Senate. In that body he would be slighted or snubbed all the time, as everyone is whom the Senate dislikes and wishes to "taks down." Mr. Roosevelt would not be permitted to be great In the Senate. Official figures prepared by the De partment of Commerce and Labor show exports of wheat from Portland for the ten months ending October 31 to be 5.380.050 bushels, compared with 3,513,430 bushels from all of the Pugot Sound ports. For the same period, the exports of flour from Portland In creased more than J00 per cent, as compared with those for the same pe riod in 1906, while Puget Sound's flour exports Increased but 18 per cent as compared with the corresponding ten months last year. And yet the Tacoma News Insists that Portland can never be a seaport. Old Neptune seems to have been dis turbed by the rough manner In which the big Cunarders have torn through his domain, and just to show that he was still doing business at the old stand, he arose In his might this week and slammed the Mauretanla around so savagely that it is impossible for her to come within several hours of beating the record of her sister ship, the Uusltania. For advertising pur poses it is probably satisfactory to the Cunard line to have these record breaking performances a little farthj. apart than they have been coming. The daughter of Mr. Theodore Shonts Is said to have completed ne gotiations for a French duke without the necessity of buying him outright. This is a step forward, and the day may yet come when a plain ordinary American will stand as high in the matrimonial market as the holders of ancient, moth-eaten and mildewed titles from over the s?a. "Mr. Steel has done nothing wrong. I don't bellevo he Is guilty of bad Judgment," remarks Local Manager Clemons of the American Surety Com pany, on commenting on the Sta'e Treasurer's action in depositing $39.0, 000 of the state's funds with his friend, Mr. Ross' bank. We hope h. used better judgment in selecting his bonding company. Mr. Hearst, of New York, was held for the grand jury on a charge of criminal libel. When Mr. Hearst went East to start his yellow Journal, he announced his Intention "to raise hell and sell papers." His present predica ment ought to help some. For the 6eneflt of his friends at Sllverton who are not familiar wirh Arabic as well as other Oregonlans, won't Homer Davenport please make public the pronunciation of that fa mous horse "Mascud"? As a simple way out of a dilemma, let Mayor Lane authorize Commis sioner Greene to wear Grltr.macher'i uniform and star until further orders. They who considered Foraker as eliminated from Ohio politics have ample time to reverse their "opinions before the next convention. It seems that some of Secretary Taft's Ohio fences are in need of slleht repair, CORBIX DENIES THE REPORT Says Spokane International Will Not I Be Extended to Coast Just Yet. SPOKANE. Wash.. Nov. 21. (Spe- cial.) There Is no truth" to the report sent t ut from Winnipeg that the Spo ! kane International will build at once I to Seattle." said D. C. Corbln. presi ; dent of the road, who has Just returned from, an Eastern trip. "There are no grounds for such a re port," he continued. "Whether the road will be continued to the Coast In the next two or three years 1 am not prepared to say, and I have nolhlmr whatever to say of a ' nlnn rn rpneh thr Cn.191 rtv means of another lint at present constructed or under construction. It Is the present intention, though, to run the Soo-Spo-kano trains through to Portland, com mencing In the Spring. At Spokane, connection will be made with the O. R. & N.. which road will be used be tween that point ana Portland. The Canadian Pacific is not backing the North Coast toad financially. I am not one of the officials of that road, but I am satisfied that there is no financial connection between the two." KILLED BY FALL FROM HORSE Morrow County Kanch Hand Meets Deatli While Intoxicated. HEPPNER, Or., Nov. 21. (Special.) Word was received here today thnt Ed Dalker, a ranch hand working for William Brlrcer, was thrown from a horse In the streets' of Hardman and killed. Dalker had gone Into town the night before, and. It Ie said, had become intoxicated, and after a night's de bauch, mounted his liorse and started back to the Brlmer ranch. For seme reason he and his horse disagreed, and he was thrown, striking on his heed and breaking his neck. Death was in stantaneous. Nothing ie known of the man in Heppner. CHINAMEN ALL LOOK ALIKE Hoquiani Juries Unable to Decide Who Smoke in Hoquiam. HOQLTAM. Wash., Nov. 21. (Special. ) Two opium cases were tried today, one being acquitted and the other the Jury failed to reach a verdict. Title Is rive trials with but one conviction. Prosecuting Attorney Boher has becone satisfied that the sentiment in this el'y is not in favor of conviction of the Ce lestials and will probably dismiss all the cases next Saturday. Forty-seven Chinese were arrested and only 13 pipes. The police are not able to tell the Chinese apart, so the Jury will not convict. GIVES EAGLESON A HEARING Secretary GarMeld Will Permit Surveyor-General to Answer Charges. BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 21. (Special. Surveyor-General Eagleson has received dis patches from Senators Borah and Hev burn stating Secretary Garfield will give him a hearing on the charges filed against him. He states ha does not know what their nature is, but It is understood they arraign him for insubordination. In th-t meantime, numerous applicants are ap pearing for the position. Among these are C. C. Stevenson and George Baldwin, of this city. Dies From Runaway Injuries. OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 21. (Spe cial.) Margaret Maddox. the 13-year-oid girl who was fatally injured in a runaway accident In this city August 21 last, died late lat night of her in juries. She experienced a great deal of suffering since the accident. - The little girl was riding on a lumber wagon with her father and while com ing down the Seventh-street hill the horses holted and both Maddox and his daughter were dragged under the load of lumber, sustaining Injuries that caused the death of Maddox the same night. No hope was ever entertained for the recovery of the girl. Second Cut In Wages. OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 21. (Spe cial.) The Willamette Pulp & Paper Company and the Crown-Columbia Pulp oV Paper Company have made an additional cut in the wages of some of their employes, and all of the 10-hour men who work during the day have been cut from $2 to $1.76. About 100 men are affected in both mills. The men who work on shifts have not been cut since the commencement of the money stringency, when all of the laborers' wages were reduced from $2.2 to $2 per day. Heney Urges the Pardon. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Nov. 21. (Special. ) Governor Mead today pardoned Phil Hp McGulre, of San Francisco, who Is under sentence at Seattle for ten years on 'conviction of sodomy. The Prose cuting Attorney and Sheriff express doubts of his gu'lt. A petition from San Francisco wa presented urging pardon, signed by 250 merehan's. Judges, Naval officers and other. Dis trict Attorney langdon signed the peti tion, and Francis J. Heney sent a per sonal letter to the Governor. Shot In Mining Dispute. MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 21. (Special.) In a dlepute over the owner ship of a mining claim. Jim Clark shot Ed Breyer, at Dixie, this morning. The trouble was of long standing. Breyur built fences around the claim, Clark tak ing them down. This morning Breyer came on the claim. Clark ordered him oft. and then shot him. The wound is not considered serious. Clark shot a man near here two years ago, but was afterward cleared. Idaho Auditors Adjourn. BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 21. (Special.) The convention of state Auditors came to r, cloj-o tonight with a banquet tendered the visitors by State Examiner Goashier. The day's sessions were devoted to read ing and discussion of papers. I Rose D. Miller. Deputy Auditor of Fremont Coun ty, read one on "Tax Sales and Tax-Sale Certificates." The plan set forth was adopted. Auditor Sinclair, of Owyhee, read one on "Quarterly and Annual Re ports." Plan Brewery for Hoquiam. HOQUIAM, Wash., Nov. 21. (Special.) Ernest Bloch aod William D. Kirton and others interested In California have mad) final arrangeemnts for the erection of a brewery In this city. The site has been chosen and obtained and the promoters of this company will leave for Cali fornia tomorrow to make preparation for the drawing plans, etc., for the new plaut. They expect to erect a plant to cost about $109,00. "Comebacks" Cause Tuberculosis. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Nov. 21. (Special.) Suffering from some form of tuberculosis, M hogs have been con demned and killed by the direction of State Inspector W. H. Adams. The ani mals condemned belonged to a Chinaman and were fed on offal from a restaurant. The matter Is being carefully investigated by Mr. Adams and by Deputy State Vet erinary Kramer, who arrived here this afternoon for the purpose. 1 COURT WORK IS DELAYED ! Judge McBrlde Forced to Let Cases Go Over for January Term. OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 21. (Special.) The first day after the end of the bank holidays will be a busy one for Hon. T. A. McBrlde. Judge of the Fifth Judicial District. He will probably have advance knowledge of the end of the holidays and will convene court In Oregon City and adjourn at once. He will then go to Hills boro and do the same thing and from Portland will take a special engine to St. Helens and Astoria. The regular Fall term in Clackamas County is set for the first Monday in November, but it will no doubt be adjourned until January. There are now ight men in the County Jail who are held for trial on criminal charges, seven of them for the murder of Bliingwan Singh, the Hindu, at Boring, on Halloween night. Four saloon men of Ca,nby are under Indictment for selling liquor to minors and are out on bonds. The Spring term here comes in April and it is likely that Clackamas County will have a string of Circuit Court cases early next year. There are now more than 100 cases pending on the docket that will go over until January. STARVING. YET REFUSE FOOD Hindus Preparing to Make Exodus From Seattle to Sunny South. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 21. (Special.) Actually starving, not so much because of the fact they cannot get food, as be cause their religion will not permit them to cat anything prepared by a person not of their caste, some 200 Hindus, who have been wandering about the outskirts of Seattle, are arranging to make a pilgrim age to California. Such of them as have the money will make the trip on steamship or by rail and those who have net are going to walk. Since the labor troubles In Bellingliam. Vancouver. B. C, and other towns around the Sound, the Hindus have been assem bling in this city. They have been unable to Ret work and while beggars, they will accept only the material for cooking, shunning, although at the point of famish ing, any cooked food. Neither will they eat beef. Since the rains have begun the lot of the outcasts has been deplorable. Tuey have been huddled under makeshift shel ters, wet and cold, and many of them are sick. Their only desire at present Is to get to the warmer climate of California. VISITS ALL LODGES IN STATE Pro-ldent of Rebekalis Active in the Work of the Order. M'MINNVILLE. Or., Nov. 21 -(Special.) Mrs. Emma Galloway, president of the State Rebekah Assembly, returned to her home in this city today from an official visit to some of the most remote lodges In her jurisdiction. Mrs. Galloway was away two months, and a good portion of the time was spent in traveling and visiting lodges in Lake and Klamath counties. Sh" is the first grand officer to visit the lodges In that remote sec tion of the state, a fact which the fra ternity In that district appreciated. Dur ing her trip she traveled hundreds of miles by stage over the plains and moun tains of Oregop's so-called "dessert." In the ten southeastern counties that Mrs. Galloway visited, she instructed of ficially 40 out of the 152 Rebekah lodges In Oregon, and she announces her deter mination to visit every lodge and If pos sible, meet evi ry one of the 10.200 mem bers of the order before the next meet ing of the state assembly. During the present Winter she will go to Tillamook and the Coast district, and early In the Spring . w ill visit Eastern Oregon, and the velley lodges later. TAKES RECORD WHEAT CARGO Steamship Aparlna Will Leave Ta- coma With 8000 Tons. TACOMA. Wash., Nov. 21. (Special.) When the steamship Aparima is louded. she will have on board the largest single cargo of wheat ever taken out of this port. Balfour, Outhrle & Co. are au thority for the statement that the Ap arima will clear with 8000 tons of wheat In her hol.ls. The cargo will have a value of one third of a million dollars. Another large cargo of wheat to be shipped out of this port by the Balfour Guthrie Company goes on the steamer Ormlsfon. This vessel will carry 7X tons of wheat to the United Kingdom. JUDGES GET NO INCREASE Advance In Salary Not Legal While They Are Holding Office. BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 21. (Special.) Un der a decision rendered by the Supreme Court today, the District Judges will not get the benefit of the raise made In the salaries of their offices during the terms of those in office when the law was enacted. The law provides these salaries should be increased from $3000 to $4000, but there was a question whether the constitutional provision prohibiting rais ing of salaries during the terms of of ficials did not apply. To settle thts point, the Judges united in an action to compel the State Auditor to pay them at the higher rate. Erb'.i Death Believed Accidental. ASHLAND, Or.. Nov. 21. (Special.) Although the inquest by the Coroner on the death of William W. Erb. a well known farmer, who was found shot to death at a mountain ranch 25 miles east of Ashland yesterday afternoon, cannot be held until tomorrow, when the re mains are expected to reach here, it is generally believed that deoth was due to accidental discharge of the gun, which was found beside the body. Tite bullet was not through the head, as at first re ported, but entered In the front part of the body at the third rib and ranged upward, lodging near the shoulder. Gooding Appoints Delegates. BOISE. Idaho. Nov. 21. (Special.) Governor Gooding has named the follow ing as delegates to the National river and harbor copgress to meet In Washing ton. December 4: Ed Barton. Welser; Wallace Scott. Grangevllle: Fred R. Reed. Milner; George C. Parkinson, Preston: E. H. Dewey, Nampa: J. H. Brady. Poca tello; J. F. Allahie. Boise; Bartlett Sin clair, Rathdrum: John P. Vollmer, Lewis ton; Allen Melller. Boise; A. L, Alford. Lewlston; H. G. Red wine, Lewiston. No Violation of I.nw. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Nov. 21. (Special.) State Labor Commissioner C. F Hubbard has concluded his investiga tion into the shipment here of a large number of men by the Pioneer Employ ment Agency, of Seattle, ostensibly to work for Con-tractor Gibson, who did not need them and states that the agency re paid the men the amount of their railroad fares and fees and that this is now set tled. Ticket Named at Kel.-o. KEIJSO, Wash., Nov. 21. (Special.) At a meeting of citizens this evening, M. J. Lord, who has been a Councilman for tlie past four years, received the nomination for Mayor. S. S. Strain. R. Crofoot and J. EL Eldred were named for Council men. By unanimous vote, F. L. Stewart wap renominated for th office of Treas urer. The municipal election will take ula.ee an Perambev 2- DEFORM FROM 1V1THIV ; The Effort to t heck Liquor Traffic Abase. The Catholic Sentinel (Portland). The Liberal, published in Portland, ; and describing Itself as "a wholly ln j dependent magazine and trade Journal devoted to the hop. brewing, hotel, res ! tauraut. liquor and cigar industries of ; Oregon." draws a lesson from 'the re ; cent death of a Cnnby boy who "got so j drunk that he choked to death in a ! neighbor's burn." The Liberal notes : that this sad occurrence Is being used . as "a club with which to beat the sa I loon out of existence, not only In : Canby. but also In Oregon City, where 1 an election Is to be held in December." i In drawing a moral from these un I toward circumstances, the Liberal ap . peals to the enlightened self-interest j of liquor dealers in general. It says: The handwrltins on the wall Is plain enough. The disreputable satoon must s;o If. In Its departure. It takes with It the le gitimate retail liquor merchants, who will be to hlamc' Why don't the brewers and wholesaler and the retailors, collectively or Individually, or both, rise up and Insist that this saU.on man who aold to the boy In Canby, and that any saloon who sells to minors anywhere, be punished to the full extent of the law and forbidden forever after to encase In the sale of liquor a trade which he has proved himself unfit for. This recognition of the high and re sponsible calling of the saloonkeeper urges the Liberal to make a further appeal to the trade: Gentlemen of the trade, you cannot afford for your own protection to allow disrepu table men to sell liquor. It u a trade which requires more Judgment and more character than the retailer of dry soods or groceries. A man who willfully and flagrantly violates common decency, as this Canby saloonkeeper did. may square his account with tha law by paying fines or serving time In Jail, but all his money and all his time cannot square the injury his single act has done to every other man In the business." not to mention the boy who choked to death, or his family. It Is to the credit of decent men In the saloon business that they see the handwriting on the wall, even though It be plain enough. It Is not so much to their credit that they neglected the warning of the handwriting until a mighty wave of prohibition began to sweep over the land promising to en gulf the saloon, reputable as well as disreputable. KANSAS MAN IS PRESIDENT Trans-Mlsslssippi Congress Officers. Meets Next at San Francisco. MUSKOGEE. Okla., Nov. 21. The Trans-Mlsslssippi Congress elected of ficers today as follows: President, J. B. Case, Abilene, Kan.: vice-president. Colonel Ike T. Prior, 8an Antonio, Tex.; second vice-president, N. G. Larlmor. North Dakota; third vice president, W. F. Baker, Council Bluffs, la.; fourth vice-president. C T. Gal bralth. Denver; secretary, Arthur Fran cis. Cripple Creek, Col. The Retail Merchants' Association of the Trans-Mississippi section asks a pro test against the parcels post. Senator W. G. Stone of Missouri spoke upon "Our Insular Possessions," and set forth conditions as he gathered them from six months' personal contact with the Orient. Arthur R. Brlggs. president of the California Board of Trade, ad dressed the congress this afternoon on "The Future Development of Arid and Seml-Arld Regions of the Trans-Mississippi States." The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con gress will meet next year at San Fran cisco. Robert Owen and Thomas P. Gore. United States Senators-elct. met in d bate during the session, and the p.v.v ers of both were put to the teat. The committee on resolutions had rcjet the resolution commending the action of President Roosevelt and Secretary Cortelyou in issuing Government cer tificates of Indebtedness to relieve tile financial stringency and urging -Itizens to invest in the certificates, offered yes terday by David R. Francis, ex-Governor of Missouri, by a vote of 12 to 11, the chairman casting the deciding vote. Because the committee was so everUy divided, the resolution was referred back to the house. A resolution was presented by retail merchants of the Trans-Mississippi country asking thnt the Congress de clare against the parcels post. When the cities were fighting for the h'.-nor of the next annual meeting of the Congress, President Loveland In a voice choked with sobs, told of his sitting with the committee of 50 ap pointed to receive the messages of sympathy which flashed from the cor ners of the earth to the stricken jltv of San Francisco on the days that fol lowed the great horror and, with tears In his eyes, he asked that the honor be given to the metropolis of the West. San. Francisco had won before the cheers that answered President Loveland's speech had died from the hall. DENIES IMPLIED CHARGES Samuel Loney Says He Never Paid for Coal State Did Not Receive. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 21 (Special. ) Samuel Loney, of Walla Walla, contractor for coal at the state penitentiary in 1805. is in Tacoma and today expressed consid erable surprise at the atorie snt out from Olympla yesterday. -r. I oney de clared there Is nothing In the charges. "I never was paid for coal which was not delivered," said he. "and will welcome any square Investigation. We were sup plying the penitentiary with coal, the shipjnents coming in irregularly. The railroad records ought to show whether as much coal as was paid for was delivered. For me to be in that kind of husinoss which is intimated would be foolish as I have too much at stake to risk it that way." Astoria Shipping News. ASTORIA. Or.. Nov. 21. (Special ) When the British ship Miltonburn arrived here a few days ago from Santa Rosalia, orders were awaiting her to go to Ta coma to load. Last evening Captain Crawford received new orders to proceed to Portland and the vessel left up the river this morning. The American ship Henry Vlllard, Which arrived a few days ago from Kaw castle, will discharge 1000 tons of coal here for Sanborn & Co. before proceeding up the river. W. U. Mille. TACOMA, Wash. ,Nov. 21 (Special. ) Following an accident at Ashford a week ago. W. H. Miller, a foreman In the log ging camp of the National Lumber Com pany, died of paralysis of the brain at a Tacoma hospitalN today. Besides his wife and child, he Jeaves his mother, at McMlnnville, Or., five brothers and two sisters. Mrs. John Palmer. SILVERTON. Or.. Nov. 21 (Special.) Mrs. John Palmer, a pioneer of Oregon for more than 50 years, died at the home of her son near lebanon yesterday, and will be brought here for burial. Mrs. Palmer was 84 years old. She was born In Virginia and located in Sllverton 56 years ago this Fall. Favor Greater San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 Without a dUsentlng voice, after a discussion whicn had brought out no contrary opinion, the delegated representing every important interest In the five counties of San Fran cisco. Alameda, San Mateo. Marin and Contra Costa, who met yesterday after noon In the ajeembly-room of the Cham ber of Commerce In this city, placed themselves on record as favoring immedi ately a, craater San Francisco.