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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAX, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1907. BMCHPIMM rates. INVARIABLY lit ADVANCE (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Dally. Sunday Included, tlx months 4.25 Dally. Sunday Included, three monthJ. . .!S Dally. Sunday Included, one month ... Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .. . 3.45 Dally, without Sunday, three months. . 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 Sunday, one yaar S.50 Weekly, one year i Issued Thursday) ..." 1.80 Sunday and Weekly, on year S.56 BY CARRIER. Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 HOW TO REMIT 8end po-tofflcei money order, express order or personal check on your local bank Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give poatofnee ad dress lu full. Including county and state POSTAtlE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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The present National bank system was al product of the financial difficulties that attended the great Civil War; yet though it was attacked from the first, and has been attacked and denounced till now.Jt has stood, because the large N'ationaimebt has afforded a basis for it, and it atcame so firmly rooted In the affairs of the country through the Civil War and Its consequences, that there has been no way to overthrow It or break it down. Yet the masses of the Democratic party have always been against It. Every orator has ex claimed, "Why allow banks to issue money? Why not have all our money ijireet from the Government, without ihe Intervention of banks?" And they who have asked the question would hear no answer. Now, however, there appears to be a change of temper, at least of tone, and they who have discharged fiercest Invective against governmental bank ing projects are getting to the front as advocates of various schemes for put ting the Government directly into the banking business. Some demand pos tal banks; others want a central bank, with as many branches as the business of the country requires; others favor an asset currency, to be issued through existing National banks. Mr. Bryan would have- the Government guarantee all -the deposits. We may suppose, therefore, the Democratic party will now at last formally dismiss its ancient fears of centralization of dangerous financial powers and co-operate with others to an extent In en largement of the National barfk sys tem. Whatever is done will have to be built on the present system, un doubtedly; for no new plan or system can be framed de novo, or independ ently of the present one." Opinion and discussion point towards an act to authorize the issue of fur ther credit currency through the Na tional banks, based on their assets or securities, under supervision of the United States, with regulations for their limitation, taxation and redemp tion In money on demand. It Is a problem that requires most careful consideration, with vigilant supervision by expert authority: for there is al ways extreme danger that the delicate balance of the credit system will be lost, through overissue of notes, depre ciation of securities, or failure of re demption. The Oregonian will confess that it doesn't like the credit currency plan, or any scheme for Issue of circulat ing notes through the hanks on any security less than that of National bonds. There Is money in tho coun try, but it is hoarded, and it is the banks that are in a fix, through their obligations to depositors. Authoriza tion of bank credit currency would be useful as a means of helping them out, and depositors, too, as well as for set ting business in more active motion; but hazard will attend it. even under enforcement of closest possible restric tions. There was no celebration at the time of the driving of the last spike In the trolley line connecting Portland and Salem. But there should be something doing when the first oar runs between the two cities. It is only a few months fago thar three or four Bnes between the netropolls and the capital were projected on paper. The people had little confidence that any of them would be built. Experience In this state does not warrant much, confi dence in railroad-building-- But the Oregon Electric line was constructed without much demonstration or dlB play s6 quietly, in fact, that people hardly realize that the trackhas been completed. The road has been built in first-class style, and as soon as the ballasting can be completed cars will bo running1. Portland business men might arrange an excursion to Salem in celebration of the event. WITH HER OWN WINGS. It will no doubt prove refreshing and surprising to the East to learn that Seattle is asking no special as sistance from the Government in her exposition undertaking. Philadelphia, Chicago. St. Louis, and. last but faT from being least In Its demands, Jamestown, were all favored with heavy appropriations by the Govern ment, and without exception, each of these hlg shows was unabge to make a financial success in spite of the aid given them. Perhaps- it is the consti tutional and chronic dependence on some one or some thing that made it necessary for the Government to Sump in vast sums of money to enable tho Eastern expositions to prove successes, but the West, being naturally inde pendent, is supposed to finance those undertakings without any assistance from the Government. Quite naturally, the Western States. being a part of the United States, might expect some assistance from the Government, but the failure to receive it did not prove a serious matter in the case of the Lewis and Clark Expo sition, nor will it In the case of the Alaska-Yukon Exposition, which Is to be "pulled off" in Seattle in l'JOa. The Government made quite an inter esting exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and will undoubtedly do the same at Seattle, but the misman aged expositions in the East prevent ed Portland securing any direct as sistance . from Washington, and the same cause, now greatly intensified by the Jamestown failure, will prevent Seattle receiving the support to which the big show will be entitled. But Seattle is distinctly Western, and is proceeding with the preliminary work with calm Indifference as to 'what course the Government may take In the matter. All she asks Is that the Government send along an exhibit In keeping with the Importance of the ex position, and Seattle and the rest of the country interested in the project will finance the undertaking, and there will be no million dollar shortage when the doors close. It does not follow that this policy, which shovels out money for misman aged expositions in the East and ex hibits parsimony regarding those held In the West, is popular or even ap proved out on the shores of the Pacific. However, Seattle and Washington and the entire Pacific Northwest was orig inally Oregon territory, and In disposi tion have never got very far away from that delightful state of independ ence reflected in the Oregon state motto: "She flies with her own wings." MRS. TODD'S LVrMVNITY. It can hardly be said that the Todd murder case has yet lieen worked out in a satisfactory wa-y. The connection of Mrs. Todd with the crime appears to have been such that there should be some further action cither to clear or convict her. The alleged confession of Steele implicates Mrs. Todd to a de gree such that no promise of immu-" nity ought to bind the officials. Moft over. the fact that she seems to have betrayed them to Steele during the progress of the Investigation of his deed certainly frees them from all. ob ligation to her. If Steele's confession is true, Mrs. Todd was the principal in the murder of her husband. She herself admits that she was privy to the murder and knew of the deed for some hours be fore she made it public; while long af ter that she concealed her knowledge that Steele was the murderer. Now comes Steele's confession with the statement that Mrs. Todd chloro formed her husband and that whil' he was unconscious she helped Steele carry his body to the woodshed and there herself struck the fatal blows. Add to these alleged facts the further statement of Steele that she more than once tried to poison Todd and a case is presented against her which no promise of immunity ought to quash. No official ought jLo be permitted, to Imperil the welfare of the community by making good such a rash and ill advised agreement. For Mrs. Todd's own sake the alle gations should be thoroughly Investi gated. If she had chloroform in her possession on the night of the murder there must be some trace of the bottle, unless she has been permitted to' con ceal It. Certainly she could not pur chase chloroform and other lethal drugs without some evidence of the fact remaining. If Todd was under the Influence of laudanum when he was killed, as Steele alleges, an Inves tigation would reveal the fact. The drug is still in his body. Mrs. Todd has now left the neigh borhood of Hoqulam, It Is reported, evidently under a promise of immu nity. The welfare of the community requires that she should be , brought back and subjected to a thorough in quiry which will establish her guilt or confirm her Innocence. INDIANS AND LAND. The Qulniault Indians, who In the past two years have received ehch his ullotment of eighty acres of land on the Qulniault reservation on Grays Harbor, have, it is said, learned the ways of thrift and are In the main comfortably well to do. They Irk, however, at Government restraint, and will endeavor, through a delega tion that will proceed to Washington for that purpose, to have reduced the term of twenty-five years that an In dian is required to, hold his allot ment before disposing of It. A reduction of this period, would, without doubt, be detrimental to the financial Interests of the Indians. Their pride .In the ownership of property Is based too largely upon their ability to sell it and get money out of It for wasteful and immoral purposes. In this they are not greatly unlikje many of their white brethren of the "hand-to-mouth" order, and It was to pro tect them from the Inevitable conse quence of turning their allotments! Into cash that the law against which they rebel was enacted. These people will be children in the ways of progressive thrift and simple finance for at least a quarter(of a cen- tury after they have come Into their allotment of land. They will not be more eager to sell their holdings than unscrupulous white men will be to buy them. It is well to protect them from the consequences of this unreasoning eagerness on their part and the erafty eagerness of would-bc buyers until they have brought their lands to a condition that promises them support and such home comforts as they can enjoy. By that time many of them will not care to sell out, or, if they do, the younger members of their families will oppose the transfer of lands that will cut them out of an Inheritance. If these Indians, or those of any other tribes, are to become permanent ly self-supporting, training their chil dren In ways of thrift and Inculcating in them a love of home, their. desire to sell their allotments of land must be curbed. A quarter of a century is not too long in which to turn a nomadic, restless people into self-dependent set tlers and homebullders. MORE ABOUT THE PARCELS POST. The Oregonian prints today another letter from Mr. Thomas Lynch In which he elaborates once more his queer notion that the pa-feels post would ruin the country merchant. He Is utterly wrong. The parcels post has not injured the country merchant in those countries where it has been long established, and It would not In jure him here. The New York Inde pendent asserts that it has been of great benefit to him in Germany and England, and there is not the slightest reason to think that results would be different In this country. Moreover, Mr. Meyer has doubly safeguarded the interests of the country merchants In his proposed b'U by giving thorn a spe cial reduced rate along the rural de livery lines. And still, according to Mr. Lynch, (hey are not satisfied. "Their minds are made up," he says. They will listen neither to fact nor reason. "They are opposed to the passage of such a bill as the parcels post bill."' Such being their mental state. . we beg to refer them to an article In the last In dependent, where it is stated point blnnk that the American people need a parcels post and are determined to have It In this respect we are behind every other civilized country In the world, and it Is high time that our Government began to heed the desire of the people in the matter Instead of listening wholly to the special Inter ests. Granting that the country mer chants are unitedly opposed to the parcels post, still, if the entire Amer ican people think the other way, It will be rather the worse for the coun try merchant, will it not? Jf he can compete with the mail-order houses he need have no fear that he will lose his trade to them. If he cannot com pete, it is because the mall-order houses sell better goods for less money. Are the people to be forever com pelled to buy poor goods at high prices for the sake of the country mer chant, or for the sake of anybody else? Is it not pretty nearly time that we begin to consider the welfare of the great public In some of these matters? - What Mr. Lynch has to say in favor of the express monopoly Is simply ab surd. He evidently knows nothing about It. The express trust brings no money Into Oregon. On the contrary it removes vast sums every year, sums many times in excess of a fair com pensation for the service rendered. Thus it costs $15 to express $40 worth of live plants from Pittsburg to Port land, while It costs $4 to express a box of apples from Portland to Pittsburg. In the face of such chara-es It talrc a srood deal of lennranrp or a enH ! deal of "gall" to defend Mr. Piatt's trust before the American people. If the next Congress does its duty, it will curtail the privileges of this execrable monopoly with an unsparing hand and it will bow to the almost unanimous wish of the people and establish a par cels post. If the welfare of the entire Nation conflicts with that of the coun try merchant, one must grieve over his hard lot, but the chances are that he will go the way of other men and things for which advancing civilization had no use. We do not believe, how ever, that there Is any such conflict. SHORT LINE TO ORIENT. The trans-Pacific trade is still the magnet that is attracting the attention of transcontinental railroad builders, and European and Eastern financial circles arte Just at present discussing two new schemes for shortening the route between Europe, Atlantic Cojast ports and the Far East. When James J. Hill started his transcontinental line across the northern part of this coun try there were a great many predic tions that he would encounter climatlo conditions which would make his road unprofitable. Mr. Hill, in turn, has re cently spoke most disparagingly of the country traversed by the Grand Trunk Pacific, which Is much farther north than either the Hill line or the Cana dian Pacific. But the experience of all lines which have been built since the Union Pa cific inaugurated transcontinental com munication has demonstrated the wis dom of the men who were responsible for their existence. With such a rec ord for success, it hardly seems safe lightly to regard the latest project, which Involves the building of a direct line from Port Simpson, on the Pa cific, to Fort Churchill, on Hudson's Bay. This line, which has been incor porated under the name Port Simpson & Eastern Railway, will shorten the route from Liverpool to Yokohama 2678 miles, as compared with the present route by way of New York and San Francisco. The distance from Port Simpson to Fort Churchill is but 1450 miles, and there is a saving, when compared with the ports lying farther south, of several hundred miles, in the distance between this most northerly Paclflc port and Yokohama. The surveys for the new line run 300 miles north of those for the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the country trav ersed Is said to be much warmer than that lying farther south, the explana tion of this singular climatic condition being the presence of the Japan cur rent, which sweeps across the north ern ocean, tempering the winds which blow down from the Ice fields. On ac count of this warm wind and compara tively mild climate, the country has shown special adaptability to the growing of wheat, and it is estimated by the promoters of the line that .the building of the road win open up 500, 000 square miles of good wheat land. The average temperature Is 30 degrees warmer than at Winnipeg, several hundred miles farther south, and the Rocky Mountains are from 3000 to 4000 feet less in height than at the points where they are crossed by other roadjk Connection at Fort Churchill and Prt Simpson will be made with fast stearrrers, and it is believed that nearly a week can be saved on the journey from Europe to the F"ar East. The second proposed new short line to the Far East Is that of the Grand Trunk Railroad, which is reported to have effected arrangements with the Cunard line to establish a fast through service from the north of Ireland by steamer to Canada and Halifax, thence to the Pacific Coast, where the Cu nard management will place in serv ice a fast steamship line to the Far East. Judging the future by the past, and with a knowledge of -what has been taking place in the Far North, there Is nothing unreasonable in the new projects and the next decade will without doubt see them In active operation. The short courses' in agriculture, horticulture, dairying, etc.. at the Ag ricultural College this Winter should be well attended by men engaged In active farm operations However suc cessful a man may be on the farm, he can learn something useful and well worth what it costs at these short courses. Many a successful dairyman as men count success, does not under stand making a milk test. Many a fruitgrower who makes his orchard pay does not understand budding or grafting. There are many ways In which the best of farmers could In crease their profits if they knew all there is to be known about the science and art In which they are engaged. The Agricultural College does not pro fess to teach all there Is to be known about agriculture, but it will offer In struction that every practical farmer will findj useful. The steamship Senator, a modern built craft well equipped for the pas senger service, is due in Portland this morning and will remain on the Port land and San Francisco route indefi nitely. She will be followed in De cember by the Rose City, which is also something better than we have been accustomed to having. The placing qf these modern steamers on the route would Indicate that Mr. Schwerln had at last discovered that there was busi ness in Portland that was actually worth looking after. There is business for more than two good steamers on this route, but with the aid of the freighters that are now rv.nning here we may worry along until Mr. Harri man builds the new steamers he has been promising us for so long. The wheat market Is still showing the effect of the unsatisfactory finan cial situation. Prices declined heavily in Chicago again yesterday, and the Liverpool market, after a very weak opening, closed a bare fraction higher. The May option in Chicago closed weak at 99" cents, the first day if several weeks that the closing figure has been lower than $1 per bushel. That this weakness Is due exclusively to the abnormal condition of the money market finds ample evidence in all of the crop news that is received, for re ports from all parts of the world are fully as bullish as they have been at any time this season, and the statis tical position of the cereal has seldom been stronger. Portland voted a large sum for parks. Landscape Architect John C. Olmsted is here by Invitation. Let the two-score civic improvement clubs get together, discuss the proposition, cod ify their views and then present them to The Oregonian. Of course such ac tion won't bar Brother McKenna from proposing something better twenty years hence, but he won't be able to offer a plea that the people had no voice In the matter originally. There are reports from all partSj of the state that hobos are numerous and that robberies and burglaries are fre quent. While it is not a crime to be a pauper. It should be considered an of fense to be idle and "broke" at the same time in these days, when there is plenty of work to be done at reason ably good wages. Police officers can find a way to run out the hobos if they wish. Has it yet occurred to the hopgrow er, who Is complaining of low prices for his product, that the progress of prohibition Is having an effect on his industry? Moreover, what right have "dry" communities to expect sale for their hops, or even to grow them for sale? Brethren, let us all be as rea sonable and as logical as we can. 1 Lest we forget. Those persons, that man and that woman, who 'entered into a conspiracy against Mayor Lane and the peace and dignity of the city, ought not to. be allowed to escape un der this long-continued holiday sys tem. There Is some fear that unless the courts can be opened soon this out rage will be forgotten. "Exeunt Roosevelt apd Bryan," Is the utterance of Harper's Weekly, trust organ. The panic, jt Is sure, has put both these out of the way, and "a sane, even quiet, man will be elected President a year hence." Then Indeed the great trust thieves may have peace. As all the business before the Dem ocratic National Committee can be dis posed of in fifteen minutes, there will be ample time for members to Indulge In such sports as Tom Taeeari'a French Lick Hotel provides, limit or no limit. From Tom Taggart's liquor shop and gambling joint at French Lick, Ind., we get almost dally bulletins of the Intentions and prospects of his party. Chairman Taggart thinks he has basis for his enthusiasm. ' If some Victfir Hugo had been a passenger on the Mauretania, the world of literature might have been enriched hjy a story' of a loose anchor to mtach that Incomparable yarn of the loose cannon. Since the Westinghouse Company went into a receiver's hands. $2,000, 000 worth of orders has poured Into it from concerns west of Chicago. In emergencies, depend on the West. Purchase of the Board of Trade building by private capital so simplifies a complicated situation thjtt it Is a matter for general felicitation. At this late day, a trio of Brooklyn bankers are sadly learning an old and almost forgotten commandment "Thou shalt not steal." "Turkeys are cheap," reads a head line yesterday. A very careful man would have written Turkeys not so high this season." HARD TO REACH ALASKA FORTS Winter Trips Require Many Weeks by Dog-Sleds. . VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Upon request of the War Department, Major Sage, adjutant-general. Department of the Co lumbia, has complied a report on the relative positions of the different forts In Alaska. The report Includes the distances between the forts, the time necessary to make the trip In differ ent seasons of the year and the cost of travel. The distance from Seattle. Wash., .to Nome is 2741 miles. This distance is covered. In Summer, entirely by steam er, and the passenger rates are from $35 to $100. In Winter the steamers from Seattle stop at Valdez. The rest of the trip to Nome us made by dog team via Fairbanks, Gibbon and Kal tfa.g. It requires from M to tt'l days to make this trip and the cost for a passenger Is from $500 to $1000. The first boat leaves Nome for Seattle about June 15. and the last about October 15. St. Michaels is llo miles down the coast from Nome. It requires 10 hours to make this trip in Summer, by water, and the cost is $20. In Winter the trip is made by dog-team at a cost of $100. Nome is the northern terminus of the Alaskan military telegraph system and is connected with St. Michaels partly by 4and lines and partly by wireless telegraphy. Fort Egbert, the furthermost frontier Army post, is 1475 miles from St. Michaels. During Summer months, from June to October, there Is com munication with St. Michaels by boat. In Winter the trip is made by dog sled. In tbe northern and more lnacces ible part of Alaska there are four Gov ernment forts Fort Davis, at Nome; Fort St. Michaels.' Fort Gibbon and Fort Egbert. These are all on the Yukon River and have communication by boat with Seattle. In Winter the only com munication with these forts is by dog sled from Valdez to Skagway. Fort Liscum, near Valdez. is 1673 miles from Seattle and 417 miles from Fort Glbboh. The passenger fare from Seattle to Valdez is from $25 to $5D. and thence to Fort Gibbon. In Winter. $30,0. Fort William S. Seward, near S,kag way, is 1136 miles from Seattle and 475 miles from Fort Egbert. TELLS AX INCOHERENT STORY Indian Held tor Wife-Murder Was Drunk When He Killed Her. DALLAS. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Enoch Spores, charged with wife murder, lies In the Polk County Jail, where he was placed Thursday by Sheriff J. M- Grant. Spores' story of the alleged crime lei in coherent. Spores, in company with his allegedvle tlm.'left town Wednesday night with two quart bottles of bitters. The liquor was all drunk while going two miles. The couple were last seen aoout 6 o'clock ly ing in a fence corner drunk. Thursday morning Spores called at the farmhouse of Cyrus Blair, saying his wife was ill. The squaw was found half a mHe from the scene of the crime. Her face had been bruised by fist blows and her head had been crushed by a fence rail. Spores says the woman did not die at once. ' ' Spores was employed by Blair, and lived In a shack on his property. He was car rying his wife to the home when she died in his arms. The woman was the divorced wife of Frank Bond, Indian. CHILD MJCETS DEATH IN PLAY Falls Into Tub of Hot Water in a Game With His Father. TBOUTDALE. Or., Nov. 22. "You can't catch me, papa." cried the happy treble of little Arthur Larson, with whom his father was playing after tho day's work. Just then the babe, breaking away In excited glee, fell Into a tub of scalding water. This was 8 o'clock last night; he died at 5 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Fred Larson, mother of little Arthur, was preparing her husband's bath. She had poured the hot water Into the tub and had turned away for cold. Nearby Larson and the baby were having their evening's romp. Arthur would have been 2 years old in January. He was an only child. CHILDREN KEEP HTM MOVING Force Seattle Man to Change Homes Seven Times in Three Months. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Special.) E. Engel, an employe of the City Health office, has been compelled to move seven times within three months because he has a family of three children and Seattle apartment-house proprietors do not want children In their houses. Two of his children are ill from constant changes, and Engel refused the last time to get out until an attorney called in by the owner of his apartment-house com pelled him to go. The oldest of Engel's children is but little more than 3 years. Local apartment-house owners have shown for months a marked antipathy toward children, but Engel's constant ne cessity for moving holds the record. Vancouver Barracks Notes. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash.. Nov. 22. (Special.) In compliance with the recent orders of the War Department, flve new companjes of Coast Artillery will be organized and provided with Don commissioned officer by transferral from the organized companies of every alter nate sergeant, corporal, cook and me chanic. Orders have been issued that all sol Iders and equipment leaving the United 4States fer foreign service must be care fully inspected and examined for the presence of Infectious or contagious dis ease germ. Mrs. Floed Buried at Roseburg. ROSEBURG. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Mrs. Floed. who died in Boise City, and whose remains were brought to this place for interment, was buried In the Catholic Cemetery of this place this morning. Her daughter. Mrs. Frank P. Hogan and hus band, her son. Creed Floed. her nephew, Father Arthur Lane, of Albany, and her brother. Simon R. Lane, were In attend ance at the funeral. Mrs. Floed was an old-time resident of Roseburg. having lived at this place during her entire mar ried life. Filing on Valuable Water Rights. EUGENE. Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) S. W. Curtis, believed to represent the Southern Pacific Company, today filed water rights on Salt Creek and Diamond Creek, tribu taries of the Upper Willamette. Each filing calls for 16,000 miner's Inches under six-Inch pressure. Both power sites have been recently measured by Southern Pacific surveyors. Curtis has made a large number of such filings In Iane and Linn Counties within the nast two years. Regiment Has Publication. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Special.) The first edition of the new regimental paper of the Four teenth Infantry was published today. This Is a weekly publication and bears the name Fourteenth Infantry Standard, and Is edited and published by Henry L Nelson, of Company G. It Is the Inten tion of the editor, to continue the publi cation of the paper after the arrived of the regiment in the Philippines. FIGHT CHARTER AMENDMENTS Oregon City Papers Anxious City tVtllft .11" Ml. II UC ,1, J ,,,,. I.. OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) The tight for the enactment of the proposed excise ordinance has had to step aside and share honors with the fight against the charter amendments that have been proposed by the self-appointed charter commission. Both local newspapers are vigorously assailing the proposed amendments to the charter, as some patronage will be taken away from them, the amendments permitting the posting of ordinances on bulletin boards and not compelling their publication. Oregon City Is three years behind In the payment of its bHls.'and has a float ing Indebtedness of about $60,000. The general tax levy dees little more than pay the interest on the outstanding war rants. It is planned to. take up these warrants with an Issue of bonds. The local newspapers demand that the pub lic be Informed what has been done with the money that has been spent, and that the city officials show how the munic ipality has gone so deeply into debt. In stead of trying to cover up the indebt edness with 'a bond issue. 1J . I. 1. .... T .1 Da I .. K 1 I . I . . 1 LEST THEY CUT HIS HEAD OFF Clackamas Farmer Has Three of His Neighbors Placed Under-Arrest. OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Anton Anderson. Edward Ander son and Nels Nelson are held to answer to a charge of assault and battery pre ferred by Edward Clevenger, who says the three men attacked him because he would not allow them to cross his place, as thej; were In the habit of leaving the gates open and letting his stock Out. He locked the gates, and when the defend ants tore them down Clevenger felled some trees across the road. Clevengeti says they not only threatened to chop away the obstructions, but also said they would chop off his head If hp persisted In barring them from entrance through the gates. Springfield "Drys" Nominate. SPRING FILED. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) The Prohibitionists today named the following ticket for municipal election, Monday. December 2: Mayor, G. O. Bas sett; Councilman, one year. Henry Coglll; Councllmen. two years. J. J. Browning and G. W. Perkins; Recorder, George MeCauley; Treasurer. M. M. Peery. The ticket Is headed "Our Prin ciples: A good, clean municipal govern ment, lower taxes, law and order en forcement and a square deal for every man." Sends to Astoria for Cash. ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 22. (Special. ) Evidently Hhe money stringency In Portland is developing some real "financiers" among the women of that city.' As an instance, today's mail brought to one of the local banks sev eral hundred dollars In Portland clearing-house certificates from a Port land lady, with the request that cash for them be forwarded to her by ex press. Naturally, the request was not granted. Tartar's Pilot Blamed. VICTORIA. B. C Nov. 22. In the marine Inquiry concerning the collision between the steamers Charmer and Tar tar, charges were made today against Captain Jones, pilot of the Tartar, that he disregarded the. starboard signals blown by the Charmer and endeavored to force her to come Inside by going to port, thus causing a collision between the vessels. Soldier Scares Footpad. VANCOUVER. Wash., Nov. 2. (Spe cial.) Edwaru Wlnterberger. an em ploye of the Vancouver Soda Works, was held up on the garrison grounds about 9 o'clock last night. Just then a guard came in sight and the footpad fled. Neither Wlnterberger nor the guard is able to give a deflnitedescrlp tion of the would-be-robber. Crowd Coming to See Game. EUGENE. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) A one-fare rate has been granted by the Southern Pacific Company- for the Thanksgiving football game In Portland. The tickets will be good from Wednes day to Sunday. Thanksgiving day will be Eugene's booster day and several hundred people will take advantage of the special rates. Install Ten-Stnmp Mill. GOLD HILL. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special, i A ten-stamp mill, fully equipped and shipped from Denver, Is being unloaded at the depot to be erected at the Tin Pan mine on Galls Creek. Development work on this property and other mines in this viclnrty is being steadily pursued despite the stringency in money matters. NORTHWEST BREVITIES. Pendleton. Or. Pendleton High School Is anxious for a a-ame here Thanksgiving day with Hill Mllltury Academy. The Dalles. Or. H. M Poole, renorted missing In Portland. Is here at his home, i having returned last Sunday. He says he : never was lost. Boise. Idaho The third annual meeting of the League o; Southern Idaho Commer cial Clubs, at Boise, decided to raise $10,000 to advertise the resources of Southern Idaho. The Dallea, Or. Gambling has bobbed up In The Dalles. Complaint was nled yester day against T. Miller, charging him with J gambling with Owen Matthews nnd K. II. : Sargeant Aberdeen, Wash. An ordinance providing for a paid Are department has been Intro duced in the Council. The local Are depart ment Is probably the best equipped and best managed of any volunteer organization in the state. Montesano. Wash. The Government nsh j hatchery on the Chehalls River has over ' 5.000.000 salmon eggs, the largest number handled at any one time by this hatchery. ' The eggs will be used to stock the Chehalie. , satsop ana wynooche Rivers. Washington The 36th convention 'of the Young Men's christian Association of North America opened today. Speakers on the pro gramme. Include Mr. Bryce. the British Ambassador; Governor Glenn. of North Carolina, and Wlllian Jennings Pryan Buffalo, N. Y. One man is dead, another Is dying and a third Is In a serious condl- j tlon and a score of persons had narrow es capes as trie result of a nre in sawtene a Hotel. In Exchange street, early today. Nearly 80 persons, sleeping In three hotels nearby. ' rushed into tho street half clothed during the progress of the fire. Astoria. Or. Iarael Nelson, a resident of the west end of the city, was examined by the County Board this' naprnlng and com mitted to the State In turn's Asylum. The man Is a native of Sweden, 40 years of age and this will be the' fourth time he has been sent to the asylum. Nelson has a wife" and several small children. ".Liu-' (jrove, ur. A ireaaisn wniri or , .-.utCTuuer wind pmyea navur at Saginaw, the Booth-Kelly lumber mill station, two miles north of thts city yesterday. Great atacks of lumber were overturned in the yards and the new flume, 20 feet above ground, connecting the mills with the yard and planers at Saginaw, was torn In many places. Grants Pass. Or. The following tickets have been placed In the field: Councilman. First Ward. T. P. Earner; Second, J. T. Tuffs and W. W. Walker: Third, Lincoln Savage and Thomas Burkhaiter; Fourth. D. J. Stovall and Frank Fetsch The candi dates for Mayor are the Incumbent, Dr. J. C. fmlth. and L. B. Hall, president of the First National Bank Oregon City. Or. Jerome Stewart Is un der arrest, charged with assauU and bat tery on Charles Murphy, and has been held to appear In the Recorder's Cdurt whtn the holidays are past. Stewart, with his father, operates a saloon on Third and Mali; streets, and this Is the third time he has been arrested on a similar charge since he opened business less than one year ago. He says Murphy ordered drinks and de clined to ray for them. POTPOURRI ' BY NANCY I.F.E They say money Is tight, yet It 1st apparently having a sobering Influence. In the early '90s. when Horatio Sey mour was managing editor of the Chicago Herald. an ex-newspaper man, showing evidence of poverty, came to the city editor and applied tor a position. Being told there were no positions vacant, the "tramp" became eloquent with the genial warmth of the busy office and the kind-hearted editor re luctantly succumbed, saying he would give him a chance on writing head lines. That night a young man mur dered his father by hitting him on the head with an ax. The tramp journalist "headed up" the story, and in course of time the proofs reached Mr. Sey- Imour. who in turn rushed down to the .,. -i ; riinm -j n H ln kl. - J " 7"" '"'i in inn pj i uu uiniiliei. 'ii-- manded to know who had written the caption to the murder story. The new man Imagined himself turned out into the cold world again, and. with quaking knees and sinking heart, he acknowledged authorship. "Well, what I want to say is that any than who can write a head like that can. have a position here as long as he needs it." said Seymour. The caption was "A Chip Off the Old Block." On Etlvel Barrymore's latest tslp West she discussed French authors with the dramatic critic, laying par ticular stress on Victor Hugo, whom she admired extravagantly. "I wonder why they never have dramatized 'Les Miserables?' " asked the critic "I suppose they couldn't get any manager who could pronounce It." flashed back the reminiscent wit of her famous father. The next round of the Harrlman-Fish 'fight is still more than a fortnight away, but it Incidentally crept into a discussion between two newspaper men a few days ago. "Harrlman Isn't much of a fighter, anyway," said the Fish partisan, "and he will get done up yet If he doesn't drop that Illinois! Central." "Your disparaging remarks on Ho ward Henry," retorted the man who was carrying the other end of the discussion, "reminds me of what the German said of the fighting ability of the Irish. " 'I don't see- why some peebles tlnk tem Irish is such great fighters.' said the man from the Rhine, 'for me anil my brudder Gus and anoder man licked one of 'em last night.' " It now remains to he seen whether or not Mr. Fish has a brother Gus and another man available for tne Decem ber cqntest. s e Two negroes In Virginia were lounging before a high billboard glaring with all the glory of Barnum's circus posters. "Jeff, de circus dat am comln" Is de bes'on earth for 1'se seen It." "Look yeah, nigger, I know dere am a heap more bettah Shows. Dere's Mlstah Ringling. Mistah Sells. Mlstah Fohpaughs' and udders too numerous for me to recollerk and reconclllate to you." "Shucks. Jeff whats de mattah wiv you? Can't you read dat sign on de bill, 'Barnums' circus de bes' show on eart, Sept. 1." "Dats Jes It, you fool nigger, you can't read dat sign. Dem letters say: 'Barnum's circus de bes' show on earth, 'cept one." e A penurious and shabbily dressed little woman who was en route o California on the Southern Pacific train looked longingly out of the window as the pas sengers got off at Ashland to purchase fruit. Diving Into a hidden pocket in her skirt she drew forth a most dilapi dated pocket-book, and then called to a small boy In the crowd. "Are you a good little boy?" she asked In a high pitched voice. "Yes man." "Do you always tell the truth?" "Yes mam." "Do you love your parents and always do what they tell you?" "Yes mam." "Have you never told a He." "No mam." "Do you go to Sunday school?" "Yes mam." i "Then I suppose your Sunday school teachers have taught you trfat 'Honesty Is the best policy.' " "Yes mam." "Well here's a nickel. Go buy me an apple and remember that God is looking at you." An eye witness testifies to the authen ticity of the following brilliant conver sation which took place on the Astoria and Columbia River Railway, between two men who were returning from a few days' sojourn at the beach. Getting on the train at Gearhart. one of the men greeted a friend who was re turning from Seaside .the worse for having Imbibed too freely. "Well how do you like Seaside? asked the man from Gearhart. "Don't shink. much of Sheslde." "Well, didn't you go in bathing? "No. Would have gone In, but big fat woman hie was using ocean." a William Stranburg, the newspaper man, has a penchant for kittens and h!s sub urban home boasts pf not less than seven new felines. Appropriate and elaborate names were bestowed upon all with the exception of a tiny coal black kitten. "What shall we call the small black?" asked Mrs. S. " Demi-tasse," suggested the wlelder of the pen. An East Side resident tells of the fol lowing conversation heard at a break fast table between a mother and a small child: The mother In question was reprimanding her daughter for speaking unkindly of her father. "You never hear me speak in such a disrespectful manner of your father," she contended. "Well, mamma, but you ehoosed him. I didn't." ... "It's perfectly, wonderful how success ful my -husband has been since he mar ried me," gushed the get-rich-qulck so cial leader. "Why when he married me he was as hard up as he could be." "Yes. he must have been." replied the peevish maiden lady. Name the Corporation. Brooklyn Eagle. Chuckling over the result in New Jersey, Harper's Weekly Interprets It as a flat repudiation of Theodore Roosevelt and ali his works. It adds: "The Democratic managers had practically no money tc spend; the Republicans were well supplkd, as usual, by the corporations." Not to be Impertinently curious. It Is obviously in order to ask the Weekly why the corpora tions should have subscribed as usual. Having had their little lesson they ar correspondingly shy: Such contribution are always a response to an acute sens of favors to corrie. If there Is a corpora tion on the continent disposed to bellev that It has anything to gain as well ai something to lose by swelling a Republi can campaign fund, will the Weekly kind ly publish Its name? Radiatorial. Philadelphia Bulletin, CUckety-clangl Clickety-clang: 81am Bang Crash! 'Tls thua they go by night and day; We've tried a doaen type. But Isn't It a soulful laj- The radiator pipes I