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s THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1908. ICBSfRimOJ KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, on year..... Ialjy, Sunday Included, six month. .. Daily. Sunday Included, three month. Xally, Sunday Included, one month. .SO0 . 4. IS . 2-21 . .TS boo T J "itnoui cunuay. onw J i fK Dally, without Sunday, six roontha.. ... - uai:y. without Kunnav. tnree monm. . Dally, without Sunday, ona month.... Cunday. cut year t" Weekly, en yeax (laaued Thursday)-. Cunday and weekly, eno yaax 60 i. 50 1.30 a. so BT CARRIER. Dally. Sunday included, ona year...... .oo Dally. Sunday Included, ona month.... - HOW TO REMIT Send po.tofflea money Tder. expresa order or personal checa your local bank. Stamps, coin or ""ency ere at the aendefa risk. Olve poatofflce dress In full, including; county and state. POSTAGE EATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poatofflc aa Eecond-Claaa Matter. . 10 to 14 Pag... 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Foreter ft Orear: Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; 1.. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel Newa Stand; Amoa Newa Co.; United Newa 'Agency. 14Vi Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager three wagona; Worlda N. S.. 625 A. gutter street.. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin atreeta; N. Wheatley; Oakland New. -Stand: B. E. Amoa manager five tarons: Wcllincham. E. G. Oolritteld, Nev. L.oule Forlln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agenoy; Eu reka Newa Co. PORTLAND, THCRSDAir, MARCH 12, 1008. A 1'HRAe.E WITHOUT MEANING. Under our political systern, all offi cials, for positions of importance, are elected by party. The people do not elect the President; party electa him. Senators and Representatives in Con gress are elected by party. So are all the Important officials of the states; and most of the minor officials, too. Party elects. The man elected is a party man. He is expected to support the policies of his party, and nearly al ways does so. If he doesn't, his polit ical career is short. . , Oregon's Representatives, to be elected to Congress next June, will be party men, elected by party. The Sen ator to be elected next Winter will not be the choice of the people, but of one or the , other of the parties. Tet we hear no end of talk about "the peo ple's choice" as if that were possi ble. There can be no "people's choice" under our system; for the people di vide into parties, and one party or the other elects. Through the Legislature the Senator is elected, but whoever he may be, he will be a party man. He will be a Re publican or a Democrat, the choice of his party, not "the people's choice." Members of the Legislature are elected as party men, with a view to election of a party man to the Senate. Other wise there would be no need of any distinction of party against candidates or that body. We shall get a Republican Senator or a Democratic Senator; Republican Representatives or Democratic Repre sentatives. But they will not be "the people's choice," but the choice of the party that may elect them; and after they are elected they will represent their party. In all political matters, not the people as a whole. "The people's choice" is a phrase without meaning. WASHINGTON POLITICS. Washington politics, always spectac' ular and strenuous, this year promises to be more exciting than ever. Three representatives in Congress and a Gov ornor are to be elected, and members of the Legislature will be chosen, pri marily for the purpose of electing a United States Senator and Incidentally to attend to' other needed legislation Meanwhile fierce' city elections have stirred the political blaze to white heat in Seattle. Taeoma. and in nearly every other city throughout the state. The "line-up" for the battle of next No vember is already being made. The return of ex-Governor McBride to the political arena has Injected into the Gubernatorial contest an element that will cause some unrest among politi cians all the way from Spokane to the sea. That so keen an observer and clever a politician as McBride should at this time discern in the situation a possible opportunity for regaining the Governor's chair Is a striking eommen tary on the change of sentiment in Washington voters. McBride was not the original Rail road Commission man. but he made that issue so prominent and gathered .such strength behind him that the railroad Interests were turned against him and he was defeated at the noml nating convention. But his campaign of education on railroad commission lines had been so" effective that it is extremely doubtful whether It would have been possible at that time to elect any man not committed to some kind of a railroad commission policy. When McBride was making his campaign for his measure he Invariably mentioned the old Oregon Railroad Commission law as a "poor, weak, nerveless thing. Now that Judge Hanford in the joint-rate decision has removed the spinal column from the Washington Railroad Commission law, the most pronounced advocates of a stringent measure for regulating rates will doubtless rally to the support of their old leader. East of the mountains this strength of McBride's may be divided with Hon. S. Q. Cosgrove, as well as with Governor Mead, who, with ell the prestige of possession cf the office and a clean administration, will make the contest a hard-fought battle. -The Gubernatorial fight will quite natural- y at times become entangled with the Senatorial fight. Even the Congres sional contests, which are always the tamest affairs in Washington politics, will have important bearing on both he Senatorship and the Governorship. For Senator, Ankeny, the present in cumbent, and Representative Jones are the chief candidates. Both men in ' their respective positions have worked to good advantage for the Columbia River and that portion of Washington in which this city is specially inter ested. With Ankeny in the Senate and Jones in, -the House, the Colum bia River and its interests have been well looked after. TRUSTING THE PEOPLE. Why not trust the people?" some body asks. "The Oregonian does not trust the people." .But The Oregonian does trust the people. The question arises. Who are the people? It is the sane judgment of the peo ple that must be trusted. To arrive at that sane judgment is often a mat ter of infinite difficulty. The Oregonian confesses that it is rather tired of the cheap fling that It doesn't trust the people, but has con tempt for their intelligence. It does trust the people, and has the highest confidence m their Intelligence. . The groat majority in the long run will act intelligently and do right; but they are so beset and bedeviled by charlatans of one kind and another that many find the way a difficult one, and much contention ensues. The Oregonian has no contempt for the Intelligence of the whole people; but many times it has contempt for the intelligence of part of them. It had contempt for the intelligence of such as supposed they could extend and perpetuate slavery and divide the American Union and for all who sympathized with the idea or purpose. It had and has contempt for those who supposed, and .insisted that Treasury notes, w-hich are but promises to pay money, are money. It had and has contempt for such as Insisted on the free coinage of silver and professed to believe that an ordinance of the United States, declaring that silver and gold at 16 to 1 were of equal value would make them of equal value and cause them to circulate under free coinage on equal terms. It had and has contempt for all who suppose they can set aside the constitutional method of electing Senators and Representa tives in the Congress of the United States. And for the ten thousand other follies associated with these various fundamental errors. But The Oregonian trusts the people. It trusts them to turn down all funda mental errors and follies such, for example, as the Democratic party of the United States has stood for these fifty years and more. Often it is out of patience with the Republican party for its. stupidity and for its lack of nerve and purpose; and for many rea sons it is out of patience with it now. and for the present wishes to disclaim responsibility, even as an adviser, for it. v '. The people are to be trusted,- of course, and must be trusted. But prophets, falsely so-called, are not to be. trusted. This newspaper never has seen reason to -trust the prophets or measures of the party of Jefferson, Calhoun. Jefferson Davis and William Jennings Bryan. That party has had one genuine prophet these fifty years Grover Cleveland and it repudiated him. THE UNDESIRABLE ALIEN. Foreign labor departing from the United States during the first two months of 1908 reached a total of 109.151, while the entries for the same period were but 32,260. The depart ure of this swarm of aliens is not an unmixed blessing, for, while they have perhaps improved labor conditions for the several millions who remain, they have taken back with them sums of money which in the aggregate will reach vast proportions and which is lost forever to this country. Some of them may come back with revival of good times and others will take the places of those who do not return; but the money they have taken with them is gone from American circulation. This tendency of the cheap, labor from Europe to remain here only Jong enough to accumulate a small fortune which is to be lugged back to the na tive country has become so general of late that the drain is quite perceptible. and it has provoked considerable dis. cusslon as to the value to the United States of this class of labor. Along with this type of labor which comes trooping in on the first wave of pros. perlty come the Mafia, the Black Hand, the Herr Mosts and Emma Goldman, and a lot more of Old World riffraff and scum. It is the presence of these undesirables and the impossibility of ever molding into citi. renship shape the type that. In order to increase the size of the hoard, live like beggars while here, that has caused a concerted move to be made to reconstruct our immigration laws with a view to barring out much of this cheap grade of immigration. An immigration convention held at Tampa, Fla., last month adopted reso Unions demanding enactment of laws that would "effectually stem the tide of undesirable Immigration," Rt the same time acknowledging the import ance of bringing In "such carefully se lected agricultural foreign immigrants as will enter upon our farms and build up our waste places chiefly as settlers and homebutlders." The Farmers Ed ucational and Co-operative Union of America, representing 2,000,000 farm ers. at Its National convention at Mem phis urged upon Congress "enactment of laws substantially excluding the present enormous alien influx by means of an increased head tax. a money requirement, the illiteracy test and other measures." Publicity to this movement against alien labor is being given by the Immigration Restriction League, of Boston, and a number of smaller societies throughout the coun try. Of course some difficulty will be ex perienced In attempting to carry out every plan for restricting this alien la bor, but, now that the other side of the picture Is disclosing the disadvan tages as well as the advantages of cheap labor, there may be more strin gent regulations against admission of every Old World Undesirable who can raise the price of a steerage ticket to America. The United States can still offer inducements for good, clean, healthy, -hardworking foreigners. We can use millions of them if they will save their money while work is plenti ful and wages good and use It In pur chasing a lj.ttle farm or a home. But be have had a sufficiency of the class that have no use for the country be yond the 'opportunities it offers for them to make a "stake" to carry back to the Old World, where they can re tire in idleness to spend it. As for the Mafia, Black Hand and anarchists, we should not only prevent their landing in this country, but some means should be found for deporting those already here. : THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, leader of the Independence party, which has shown In several elections that it has command of a good many votes in New York, Massachusetts and else where now makes it known through his New York American that neither his party nor himself will support Mr. Bryan. Further, that they will not support Governor Johnson, the Minne sota man, nor Theodore Roosevelt, one other man of pretty wide fame. It may be supposed that Mr. Hearst, since he created the Independence party, has abundant authority to say what it will and will not do. Now, therefore, having declared some things it will not do, Mr. Haarst's American states one thing It will do, to wit: The Independence party ia going to nomi nate Its own candidate, and la going to vote for him with a strength and a heartiness or numbers that Is likely to be a revelation to the older and sadder political organizations. If it does not elect this candidate of its own In this particular election. It Is going to lay the solid foundation for doing so in the next. Yet notwithstanding this stout and cheerful declaration, the Independence party may not prove to be. very' for midable. Yet you may depend Mr. Bryan will be sufficiently disquieted by the announcement to wish this party would keep out of the field. Presi dent Roosevelt and Governor Johnson, however, will not heave any sighs over It. But Mr. Hearst's newspapers now sneer at Mr. Bryan as "the peerless one." This indeed . is serious. For how can true reconcilement grow in the soil of contempt? Both the old parties are sneered at in this declara tion as "the moribund and divided ag gregations which have heretofore di vided the offices and responsibilities of the Government." THE NAVAL INVESTIGATION. If the vessels of the American Navy are defective in construction, there is nothing to be gained by concealment of the truth. It Is better to let- the facts come out in time of peace than to wait until war exposes them in spite of all efforts at suppression. It is one of the unpleasant results of ac tual battle to make rude disclosures of many delinquencies which can be glossed over in time of peace. The shortcomings in our Navy which are so much discussed just now may be purely imaginary, and again they may not. The experts seem to tell different tales about them, varying all the way from enthusiasm to despairful criti cism. What to believe the pub lic may not expect to know until the Senate committee finishes its investigation, and perhaps, not then. Meanwhile it is just as well to maintain an attitude of suspicious receptiveness, for it is a common fail ing of both military and naval boards to gratify their pigheaded prejudices at all costs. Most of them would rather see a whole armada sink at the first shot than to admit that they have made a mistake or been guilty of neg ligence. As to the investigating committee, its anxiety to know the truth appears to be kept under a firm rein. It has a way of snapping up the witnesses just when they are on the verge of saying something interesting that does not augur well. The controversy over the state of the Navy is one of those where it is much better to forget the common-law rules of evidence and let the witnesses tell what they know in their own way. When all is said by everybody who wishes to talk, then the committee can sift it and make a fair guess at the truth. Admirals and commanders and people of that ilk have their little private vanities and self-admirations, which are apt to b wounded by an order to hold their tongues, such as Senator Hale issued to Commander Kay. Once on their dignity, men of this stamp are likely to hold their tongues more strictly than the committee desires. An abler man than Senator Hale would conduct the investigation with less pomp and probably with better re sults. From the reports' of the pro ceedings one cannot avoid the suspi cion that Mr. Hale is much occupied with the contemplation of his own greatness and forgets that the commit tee was appointed to find what condi tion our ships are in rather than to provide him with a- platform to pose upon. Still his amiable preoccupation wifh. his private perfections cannot keep some interesting things from coming to light.. For example. It must be evident to everybody that the naval administration is honeycombed with suspicion, jealousy and cross purposes. Each officer seems to crave an oppor tunity to tell terrible tales about his colleagues." It crops out that most of them' think all the rest are incompe tent and perhaps none of them are wrong. It seems that the speed tests for the vessels are deceptive, the ar mor plate may not reach far enough above the water line, and the appa ratus for conveying powder from the magazine to the guns is unsafe. The vessels are tested for speed without either armament, crew or stores on board. To a layman this looks absurd. Nobody cares how fast the vessels can go when they are stripped bare. The important question is what speed they can make with the load they must carry in action. In this particular an indolent theory has probably been permitted to triumph over common sense. Of course also if the armor belt Is placed "around a fic titious water line." as one witness al leged, its value is fictitious. It is more comfortable for the construction offi cers to locate armor belts by theoret ical rules while sitting in their swivel chairs than to go out upon the water and actually look at the ship, but it can hardly be so well for the Navy. If the armor belt sinks under water when the vessel is laden, then it af fords no protection. When a ball pen etrates at the water line the ship must go down even in the calmest sea. On a rough sea a hole a long way above the water line might prove fatal. Some of this distressful wrangling in the Navy Department may be at tributed to the fact that the rules of naval architecture are in continual flux ' from change " to change. " Ever since the Monitor was invented by Captain Ericsson the construction of warships has been experimental for the most part. There has new yet been a naval battle between two fair ly mafched modern fleets and it Is only a slight exaggeration to say that the merits and defects of armored vessels are all guesswork. How they will be have in strenuous action is problem atic. Our fleet disposed of the Span ish vessels as easily 9s if they had been wooden. Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet could hardly have made less resistance to the Japanese if it had carried no armor. Just how much the efficlency of warships has been increased by en casing them -in iron remains to be de termined. Perhaps the race between heavy artillery and armor-plate pre tection will end like that between the breastplate of the feudal baron and the peasant's bullet. Is it quite cer tain that the ship of the future will not go into battle, as the soldier does, without any armor at all? Mr. Stubbs informs the lumbermen that they are not losing any money by their inability to ship into certain markets from 'which the advanced lumber rates bar them. He bases his statement on the belief that the trees are growing fast enough to recoup their owners for the time lost in wait ing. The same kind of advice might have been equally appropriate had it been handed out to Vancouver, Gray or any of the other men who were first on the ground. What our lumbermen and timber-owners desire is the oppor tunity to spend a little of this money now tied up in growing trees. Thty are even unreasonable enough to wish to leave some cash instead of trees to their heirs. . " Castro should choose a more oppor tune moment for making one of his periodical demonstrations. What show does his tuppenny republic stand for a' first-page story with China, the oldest, and Japan, the "sassie"st," country in the known world working up a first class sensation? Then there is Em peror William and Lord Tweedmouth, not to mention the Balkan dispute and the trouble in Morocco. If the period ical revolutions of Castro's peppery country ever amounted to anything more than a flash in the pan, they would be more seriously regarded; but so long as there are real wars in pros pect, the world has but little time for the imitation article which thrives so luxuriantly on Central American soil. The new shipbuilding plant of the Willamette Iron Works in this city has scored handsomely in securing the work of building the largest and most expensive boat contracted for in the Pacific Northwest for , more than a year. The contract for this fine steam er, which is to run on a Puget Sound route, " was secured" by the Portland firm in the face of close competition by builders in San Francisco and Se attle. Many years ago, before metal boats came into such general use as now, this city was quite an important ship and boatbuilding center, and the activity displayed at' the numerous yards this Spring Indicates that we are about to win back some of the lost prestige. . Fifty million tons of potatoes were produced in Germany in 1907, of which a large percentage Was convert ed Into alcohol. As a beverage it is sold very cheap. . The consumption of this liquor is about one gallon per annum for the population of the em pire. Among statesmen and econo mists in Germany there are many who advocate monopolization of the pro duction by 'the imperial government, both for purposes of revenue and for restriction of the abuses of sale and consumption. The new plan of balconies around school buildings at each story merits consideration. They would have nu merous stairways leading to the ground and thus in case of fire the children would seek escape through window exits to the balconies instead of rushing to inner doors and pas sages. Upon its face the new plan is a good one. Accidents might happen, but once outside the building he pu pils would at least be measurably safe from the fire. The Penrose bill attacking the free dom of the press has met the fate it deserved. It was reported adversely from committee and indefinitely post poned. , Never a very pressing danger, it indicated what certain politicians would like to do rather, than what any of them dared. Of course the Penrose attack will be revived from time to time in the years to come, but for the present It is defeated. Poor Evelyn Nesbit Thaw cannot be happy without seeing her name In the papers. How it gets there is not im portant. Her glory as a martyred vic tim of Stanford' White has burned out and now she appears with a new hold in the divorce sourt. What Evelyn really needs to satiate her appetite" for fame is an application of her mother's rubber shoe to the spot we all remem ber from childhood. ' Why doesn't the Supreme Court of California restore the status quo That decree should have directed that Schmitz be reinstated as Mayor and Ruef be re-established as boss. "Jus tice after as before." Governor Chamberlain wilt be 'in Eugene on the night of March 17 to present the colors to the Fourth Regi ment. In spite of the day. the "col ors" will not be a sunburst on a field of green. By authority of the most important precinct court of Oregon, It has been declared legal for a principal to paddle a naughty schoolboy. Solomon's wise law has not yet been abrogated. As indisputable testimony that per petual motion is not a dream, take the Mayoralty contest between McClellan and Hearst and the Ruef trial. Circumstances considered, the Thaws will render the country a service if the new litigation be carried on before a referee. In the interest of shortening the law's delays, California ought to es tablish a special cdurt for hearing affi davits. No small number of Oregon timber land operators will regret now . that they were not tried In California. CRIME IS RIFE IX ROSEBURG Robbery of Cigar Store and Unsuc cessful .Attempted Hold-up. ROSEBURG, Or.. March 11. (Special.) The "Smokehouse." a cigar store owned by George Culver, was this morning robbed of KiT.50, the thief picking up the coin, which was lying loose. A suspect has been arrested, but no evidence found as yet to connect him with the crime. A hold-up was also reported to the po lice. Andrew Heldrich, a fafmer of Ederi bower, reporting that he was held up and only by putting up a hard fight was he able to escape. He had 60t in his pocket from the sale of some hogs. His face was considerably battered and cut. PUZZLED HOW TO GET MOSEY Myrtle Creek School Clerk Forgot to Send in the Levy. ROSEBURG. Or.. March 11. Special.) The Myrtle Creek-.school district is in somewhat of a quandary to know now to raise money. The clerk of the scJiool district at that place neglected to make the proper levy last Fall. Finding out his mistake, he Immediately sent to the County Clerk the levy, but it was too late, the taxrolls being closed, also the ex tended time. Just what arrangements will be made in the matter is uncertain, as there seems to be no way for the Myrtle Creek district to raise money ex cept by bonding thij district or by popular subscription. Charities Conference Delegates. OLTMP1A, Wash., March 1L (Special.) Governor Meade has- appointed the fol lowing delegates to represent the state at the National Conference of Chari ties and Corrections, which will be held in Richmond, Va., from May 6 to 13: Dr. J. M. Semple, superintendent of the Eastern Washington Hospital for the Insane at Medical Lake: Dr. A. P. Cal houn, superintendent . of the . Western Washington Hospital for the Insane at Fort Steilacoom; Dr. W. M. Kellogg, pres ident of the State Medical Association; Superintendent F. S. 'Thompson, of the State Training School at Chehalls; Su perintendent L. J. Irwin, of the Reform atory at Monroe; Dr, C. H. Suttnor, or Walla Walla: Rev. M. A. Covington and Rev. J. L. Covington, president and sec retary of the Washington Children's Home Society; Dr. C. A. Smith, Seattle; Dr. EL EL Hegg, secretary of the State Board of Health. Seattle; United States Senator S. H. Piles. Seattle; Dr. J. R. Yocom and Judge W. H. Snell. Taeoma: Dr. George T. Doolittle, Spokane, and Right Rev. F. W. Keator, Bishop of Olympia. Skylarks to Be Released. TACOMA, Wash.. March 11. (Special.) The Department of Agriculture has re scinded its order relative to the libera tion of the English skylarks which Dr. McCutcheon imported to release In and about Taeoma. This morning he received permission from Secretary James Wilson to liberate the songsters. Tomorrow Dr. McCutcheon will release the skylarks. which are now at the Fannie Paddock Hospital. Some of the birds will be taken. to McNeil's Island, others to Point Defiance and the remainder will be turned loose at Browns Point. State Grange Delegates. OREGON CITY, Or., March. 11. (Spe cial.) The Patrons of Husbandry held a county convention and elected delegates and alternates to the state convention as follows: Delegates James and Mary Shibley, Springwater; A. J. and Ella Thompson. Oswego; L. L. and R. Irwin, Barlow: T. F. and Inez M. Ryan, Oregon City; W. W. and Anna .Everhart, Molalla. Alternates Edwin and Sarah Bates, Currlnsville; C. T. and Mrs.- Dick erson. Oswego; 'J. and Sarah Andrews, Barlow; R. S. and Mrs. F. O. Coe, Canby; J. W. Thomas, Molalla. Protect Oregon City Scliools. OREGON CITY, Or.. March 11. (Special.) The Board of Directors of the city schools has taken additional precautions to safeguard pupils in case of fire, and have ordered a larger gong for the Barclay building and new steps constructed on the exterior of the Eastham building. In all the city school buildings the doors will be hung with butt hinges, so that they will swing both ways. . Cattle Bring Good Prices. . CARLTON, Or.. March 11. (Special.) A largely attended auction sale of blooded stock was held at the Dralglea farm, near this place, today. About 50 head of shorthorn registered "cattle were disposed of at prices ranging from H50 to $386 per head. Many of them were blue-ribbon animals that were exhibited at the Lewis & Clark and St. Louis Expositions. Whirled to His Death. MARSH FIEIjD, Or.. March 11. (Spe cial.) George Goodrich, an employe in the Coquille lumber mill, was caught in the shafting and whirled to his death today. AH his 'clothing was torn off be fore the machinery could be stopped. The dead man was well known here, and his death caused a great shock. He leaves a wife and ten children. NORTHWEST BREVITIES. Albany. Or. A convention of the Socialist party of Linn County has been called fir April 11 in this city, for trie purpose of con sidering the af'isabllity of nominating a Socialist ticket for the coming . county , elec tion. CerUralia, "Wash. The city schools of Chehalla are closed, and all public meetings have been postponed on account of an epi demic of diphtheria. This is the second time within two months that such precautions have been taken- Pendleton. Or. .Holding that Lee Teutech purchased an order of good when he knew he was hopelessly Insolvent, 'the Fabian Man ufacturing Corrrnany. of . Chicago, has brought ault against the trustee of the bankrupt eatate to recover 1660. Spokane. Wash. Attorney George K. Gil luly, who was recently sentenced to the peni tentiary for forgery, has lost hie wife In the bargain. Judge Sullivan ha granted Mrs. Gilluly a divorce on the grounds' that .ber huabanct'la an habitual -drunkard. Fendleton. Or. This city will be without a telephone service from 10 o'clock Wednes day UTrtil 7- o'clock- next morning. One of the telephone operators was recently strick en with diphtheria and another with scarlet fever so the office wae closed for fumiga tion. Aberdeen, Wash. Three candidates on the Republican ticket who met defeat In the primaries Tuesday will take advantage of a clause in the primary law and seek to be placed on the ballot in the general election. The Attorney-General will be asked for an opinion on the question. Eugene. Or. Governor George E. Chamber lain, who waa elected a member of the Eugene Commercial Club, will be here on March 17 to take pert in the preeentaUon of the colors to the military organizations of Eugene. "He will be entertained by t!u? citizens through the Eugene Commercial Club. Seattle. Wash. Mrs. C. E. Cawthorne, 70 yean old. was the winner last night of the gold medal in an oratorical contest held In the Cherry-street Presbyterian Church by the W. C. T. V. Six women took part in the contest. Mrs. Cawthorne was 20 years the senior of any of ber competitors. Salem. The Elks minstrels, given by the Palem lodge of 'Elks under the direction of Miller and Draper, professional minstrels, last night and the night before, proved a suc ceed beyond expectations. The Grand Opera House was packed both nights. There, was a grand chorus of over W) voices and all the solo work was performed by local talent. ' University of Oregon, Eugene. Or. Or. F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the German de partment of the University, lectured on Goethe's "Fauet." Dr. Schmidt atated that the eoond part of the play Is not understood by the majority of the people. The lecture was illustrated by pictures that ha-e been made from time to time by GerroaA artists to portray the various scenes and characters In "Faust." . LINN SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET Second Annual Convention, Is Held at Albany. ALBANY. Or.. March 11. tSpeclal.) The second, annual convention of the school officers of Linn County was held in Albany today. Sessions were held both forenoon and afternoon in the vv. C. T. U. Hall and there was a large attend ance of school directors and school clerks from all parts of the county. The con vention dealt exclusively with ma-tters germane to the schools, with a view to ward securing uniformity of methods and an improvement in school work. The programme of the day was carrid out as follows: "Compulsory Attendance Law," Cyrus H. Walker, truant officer of Linn County: "The Teacher." State Senator M. A. Miller, di rector In 'the Lebanon public rehools; "Ex change of School Books." F. D. Cornett. of Santiara: "The School Board In School Gov ernment," J. W. Mitchell, of Bodavllle. and C. O. Preenai. of Orleana; - "School Li braries." Miss Cornelia Marvin, of Salem, secretary of State Library Commission; "Higher Education in the Rural School," President P. L. Campbell, of the Uni versity of Oregon, of. Eugene; address, by J. II. Ackerman. State Superintendent of Public Instruction. FINDS PANTS OX BACK PORCH Thief Had Removed (80 From the '. Pockits, However. BAKER CITY, Or., March 11. (Special.) When Colonel W. F. Butcher arose this morning he found that his trousers, which he had laid on a chair by the side of his bed, had been removed and a search dis closed them on the back porch with $80 mlssithg from them. A thief probably entered the house sore time during the night, and. after get ting a pair of trousers from the Colonel's room and a pair from his son s room, went to the front hall to search them. He was evidently frightened and dropped them and ran to the back door, upsetting a rooking chair as he did so. He took nothing but the money and left the trou sera on the porch. SENIORS IN CAPS AND GOWNS Graduating Class at University in' Annual Swing-out. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene, March 11. (Special.) Senior caps and gowns were in evidence on the campus today, as the class of 190$ made Its first appearance of the year In full regalia. The- pre-graduates, especially the men. were subject to some jollying on the part of the under-classmen, who were greatly amused at the manner in which the mas culine seniors endeavored to hold their skirts Up out of the mud. The seniors marched- in a body to assembly, led by the president, James Cunning, and the vice-president, Cora Cameron, where they listened to Dr. Schmidt's lecture on Goethe's "Faust." DEAJ OF . THE NORTHWEST Mr. E. D. Kelly, Pioneer. OREGON CITY, Or., March 11. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Lucy Wattrous Kelly, wife of E. D. Kelly.' died at the home of her son-in-law,- Chief of Police Charles B. Burns, at 6:15 o'clock tonight. She had been in feeble health for some time, and an attack of grip hastened her death. She was born April 7, 1831. in Livingstone County, New York, and was married to Mr. Kelly in 1S52 at Grand Blanc, Mich. They crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853 and in 1S56 returned by way of the Isth mus, aaain coming West to California across the plains in 1859, and from there to Oregon, where they have since resided. Mrs. Kelly ia survived by. a husband and three children Charles W. Kelly and Mrs. "Maggie Burns, of Oregon City, and John W. Kelly, of Portland. Seven grandchil dren and two great-grandchildren also survive her. Mrs. Eliza Kernes. OREGON CITY, Or., March 11. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Eliza Kernes died this morn ing after an illness of three months. She was born in Harding County. Ohio, in 183S. and came to Oregon in 1870, residing in the Willamette Valley until her death. She is survived by six children James and George Kernes and Mrs. Sarah Woodward, of Oregon City: Thomas Kernes, of Kelso, Wash.; Mrs. Ella Fields, of Pullman, Wash., and Mrs. Clara Me becker, of Napa, Cal. She leaves two brothers Warren Moore, of Manchester, Ia., and George Moore, of Marysville, Mo. and three sisters Mrs. Sarah Wick- ham and Mrs. Mary Charles, of Oregor, City, and Mrs. Sophia Hoskins, of Ne bxaska. Thomas J. Shipley. HILLSBORO, Or., March 11. (Special.) Thomas J. Shipley, aged 7 years, arid a temporary resident of Banks, was stricken with apoplexy at the Commercial Hotel, in this city, and died 3 he was seated at the dining-room table today at noon. The dead man is a resident of McCool Junction, Neb., and had been here about two years, visiting his children.. He leaves seven children, his wife having died some years ago. He was a native of Favette County. Pennsylvania. The remains will be sent to Nebraska for in terment. Frank Burch, Land Lawyer. CENTRA LIA. Wash., March 11. (Spe cial.) Frank Burch, probably one of the most noted land lawyers in Western Washington, died at his home In this city today at, 11:39, after an illness of only two days. The cause of death Is given as congestion of the brain. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from the residence. Mr. Burch has been a resi dent of this city for the past nine years and during that time has made a spe cialty of land cases, in which he has been very successful. He leaves a wife in this city and two brothers and four sisters in South Dakota. . W. H. McComac, Veteran Editor. UNION. Or.. March 11. W. H. Mc Comas. a pioneer of Union, and a vet eran newspaperman of Eastern 'Oregon, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. 9 A. Pursel, of this city, this morning. Mr. MeComas was editor of the Moun tain Sentinel, the first paper published in Union County. Later, and after the death of Amos K. Jones, he edited the Oregon Scout for three years. For sev eral years he was associated with the Haines Record, and at. the time of his death was connected with the Wasco News. He wa"S born In Iowa in 1856- John W. Ganlt, Pioneer. SPOKANE. Wash., March 11. (Spe-cial.)-John W. Gault, who came to Spo kane, from McMinnvllle, Or., about a year ago. dierl this morning. He was born In Missouri 64 years ago and crossed the plains in 1854. He fought In the Civil War. being Corporal in Company B. First Oregon Volunteers. A brother lives in Cottage Grove and a sister in Oregon City. Funeral services tomorrow. Walter D. Curran. - OREGON CITY, March 11. (Special.) Walter D. Curran died at 10 o'clock yes terday morning of liver complaint, after an illness of four months. He was aged 40 years. 11- months and 11 days, and is survived by three daughters Josephine, aged IS. years; Frances, aged 12 years, and Adeline, aged' 8 years. Curran was born In Ohio and came to Oregon to ISM. ... . ' SILHOUETTES : BT ARTHUR A. GREENE. Former Inspector Bruin appears to be the Reuterdahl of our municipal ship of state. ' The proposition to annex Milwaukie to Portland in order that residents of . that suburb may secure a 5-cent fare on the trolley cars seems to be fair enough. N . Most of us are "rudderless craft, tossed hopelessly about upon the waves, without chart or compass or anchor, and always within hearing of the breakers, until the silent boatman, whose name is Death. -puts out from the shore and comes to Police Court Item. Sing a song of sixpence, . . T Then everybody .buy. Four and twenty bounders Sopping up the rye. ' When the rye got in its work. The bounders couldn't budge; Wasn't that a saucy bunch To bring before the judge? . .. . We admire a man who does things much more than one who possesses them when they are done. That's why , dif ferentiate between James J. Kill and E. H. Harriman. Another distressing eventuality of a prospective war In the Orient would be the recrudescence of Richard Harding Davis. The average woman tenders her friend ship as indifferently as she gives alms.. Time drives a hearse. No one will accuse you of being stn.gt, even though you do keep your troubles to yourself. When a woman ceases to be attractive, you may depend upon her constancy. No matter how small the flat' mav he, there is always room for domestic Jars. He who is overzealous.in protesting his innocence is -already half convicted. - . - 1 Did you ever stop to consider what a wrinkled old heart John D. Rockefeller must have? Great respect is due gray hair particu larly If it be premature. Those who ' hear animosities confess their own defeat. Hard Lack. A happy young chap had a snap Living off his father. But father bust now 1 chappie must Go to work oh, bother! The greatest loss we suffer is the loss of our illusions, and not all the experi ence of all the years that follow can compensate for them. The early coming of fair weather has averted neighborhood gossip. People will have no chance to make remarks about Winter lingering in the ' lap of Spring. One really never realizes .to 'what heights a mere human being may attain until he has heard an actor, talk about himself. - a The Rev. C. E. Cline should remember what the brethren have said about Dr. Day and stop speaking his mind. It's bad churchmanship. Call Vice by the name of Folly and the world smirks good humoredly. Call Vice by his real name, and up go the hands in holy horror, yet always the first is the worse. Hatcheries Operations. OREGON CITY, Or., March II. (Special.) The United States Bureau of Fisheries has arranged for the com mencement of eteelhead work at the Eagle Creek substation. Eggs wilt be taken and eyed, and then transplanted to Clackamas Station for hatching. Superintendent O'Malley has gone to White Salmon on an inspection trip. George H. Talbert, who. has been in charge of operations at White Salmon, has been transferred to the Potomac River, where he will assist in the propagation of shad in the East. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUND AY OREGONIAN MOST INFAMOUS WOMAN CRIMINAL OF THE AGE Mrs. Isabella Martin, the Califor nia dynamiter and poisoner, as re vealed by "Baby John." Epitome of the wholesale murders that she planned out of mere revenge. NATIONAL DECORATION FOR BRAVERY Daring deeds in the saving of life on railroads now recognized with medals and with personal commendation of President Roose velt. THE TRUTH ABOUT OREGON'S BIG CATS B. A Childers writes from 'his experience with treacherous pan thers during a lifetime, including his first glory as a boy. DIVINITY OF THE ARABIAN HORSE Homer Davenport's sister teljs of the perfect animal worshiped by men of the desert. . TAFT, THE IMPOSSIBLE Picturesque incidents in the life of a man who upset every proph ecy made concerning him. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER