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Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel Newe Stand: Amoa Ntv, Co.; United Nawa Aaency. 14 V Eddy atreet; B. E. Amoa. man acr three waKona; Worlda N. S. 2n2& A. Sutter street. Oakland. CaL W. K. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley: Oakland Newa Stand; B. . Amoa manager flvl wagons: Welllnghaxo. . G. (.oldilrld. N. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cnl. Call-Cbronlcle Agency; Eu reka Newa Co, rORTUXD, MONDAY, APRIL tO. 190, 1.0WKR RATES. NOT LOM.EB HA 11. The Astoria newspapers and the As toria Chamber of Commerce are, witK commendable zeal, endeavoring to se ture some of the export wheat busi ness for that port. The Lewlston Udaho) Tribune prints a communica tion from the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, asking the co-operation of the Lewlston Commercial Club In se curing the freight rate from Lewlston to Astoria that now prevails from Lewiston to Seattle. As the Seattle rate and all other Puget Sound termi nal rates are based on the Portland rate, the present plan of campaign la merely the reappearance of the old Astoria contention for the same rates as are granted Portland. In other words, the pioneer city of the state de sires to have the railroads, free of charge, haul wheat 100 miles farther than is necessary to reach the deep set carriers which convey it to for eign markets. If the channel from Astoria to the sea were in as good shape as the chan nel from Astoria to Portland, so that It would be possible to get In and out without detention ships too large to go above Astoria, there might be some excuse for asking the railroad com pany to Increase the haul on wheat 100 miles without remuneration. But, under present conditions, with Port land an easy port to reach by any craft that can enter the river, there is no possibility that any railroad -will ever move the wheat over the 100 miles between Portland and Astoria at cost as low as it can be moved by ship or steamer. The new North Bank road has opened up a considerable area of new wheat country lying within 200-mile limit of Portland. This city is the natural shipping port for that new country, as well as for all of the wheat territory In the Columbia Basin. The reason that Portland Is the natural shipping port for that territory la that It Is here that the railroad first en counters the carrier which is to trans port the wheat to the world's markets. If these carriers could ascend the river to the Cascades or The Dalles, the wheat would be transferred to ship at those ports. There has been some complaint in the Pacific Northwest that the increasing wheat production and attendant heavier tonnage for the railroads would justify a lower rate than that now In effect. That rate re ductions will be made In the near fu ture Is highly probable, and quite nat urally the cost of hauling wheat to tidewater by way of Portland will be the base on which any new rate which may be quoted. will be established. But it is hardly reasonable to sup pose that the railroads will quietly grant a reduction in freight rates if they are asked to haul wheat 100 miles farther than is 'necessary without a possibility of their receiving anything for the Increased distance covered. It is to the interest of Lewlston and the intervening country, as well as that lying beyond, to have their wheat reach market by the shortest and most economical route. The wheatgrower, anywhere along the line of the North Bank Railroad, might submit evidence tending to show that the rate on wheat for the 200-mile haul to Port land is excessive and should be re duced. If before attempting to estab lish this, however, he should Insist on the railroad company increasing the cost of getting his wheat to market bf 33 1-3 per cent, as it would do if the road were compelled to haul It over ' the 100 miles between Portland and Astoria, there would be Infinitely less possibility of his securing the reduc tion asked. Portland and all other cities In the Columbia Basin will join with Lewis ton In any move for lower rates, but it would seem to be a very short sighted policy for any of the people of any of the Interested localities to de mand that the railroads Increase) the cost of getting the wheat from the farm to the ship by forcing the rail roads to haul It 100 miles farther than is necessary. BI'CiAfftOO OR RF.AIJTY? "The Oregonlan." remarks the Ten- dleton East Oregonlan, "has held up the Chamberlain bugaboo before the voters in hop.-"s of whipping them into line." The Oregonlan hasn't tried to whip Republicans Into line, because it hasn't cared whether they get In line or stay In line. Besides. It would have done no good. Tet The Oregonlan will watch with Interest the great transformation of the Chamberlain bugaboo Into the Chamberlain reality. Are the East Oregonlan and all the other "non-partisan' newspapers that have been whooping It up for State ment No. 1 as sound Republican doc trine, which It is treason for a Repub lican to forswear, going to support Mr. Cake or Governor Chamberlain for Senator? Of course they will do their utmost for the Democrat. They have never wanted Mr. Cake or any other Republican to go to the Senate. They will do everything now that they can do against him, for they have con trived to bring about a situation where he has committed the fortunes of his candidacy to a so-called popular elec tion that is not an election; and, if he shall be defeated and he will be if they can bring about that result they will call upon him to see that State ment No. 1 Republicans in the Legisla ture redeem their pledge by the elec tion the real election of Mr. Cham berlain. That Is what every Democrat and every Democratic newspaper In Oregon have been working for with might and main: and from this time on they will redouble their energies to that end. , A Democratic Senator sent to Wash ington by a Republican Legislature will certainly cause the country to sit up and take notice. AN ARBITRARY BTLE. The Chehalis Board of Education has decided that in future no married woman shall be employed as teacher In the schools' of that city. The rea son, as set forth in a resolution," is that teachers' positions! should be given to self-supporting women, and not to women who have husbands to support them. This is logical in its way; but when, as very frequently happens, it discriminates against teachers of mature years, broad cul ture and long experience in favor of young women of superficial education, little training and small aptitude, it is a detriment to the purpose for which public schools are maintained. There is an opinion quite prevalent. and supported by sound reasons, to the effect that the schools were insti tuted and are maintained for the ben efit of the rising generation. In this view the best teachers should be se cured without regard to their financial necessities or as to whether they are wives or spinsters. Of course a young wife and the mother of small children would be out of place in the schoolroom, her first care and duty being In her home. Such women seldom if ever apply for teachers' positions, being more than occupied in their domestic affairs. But a married woman who Is childless, or whose children have passed their early childhood, should not be discriminated against as a teacher simply because she is a wife. Other things being equal, such a woman Is more than likely to prove more effective in the schoolroom than is the woman to whom the deepest experiences of life have not yet come. Hence to discrim inate arbitrarily against married women as teachers Is likely to work an Injustice both to the applicant and the schools. AS ABOTDAiVCE OF MOSEY. As all signs are said to fall In dry weather, it is equally true that all the ories meet their limitations in periods of unusual disturbance In the financial and political world. One of the most popular theories advanced In explana tion of the recent financial cataclysm and somewhat tardy recovery there from was that a scarcity of gold and tangible collateral had been created by the enormous destruction of values In the Boer War, the Japanese- Russo conflict, and the California and South American earthquakes. The theory was not without corroborating evi dence, especially in this country, for from the Atlantic to the Pacific there was a frenzied quest for money that was apparently not available on any terms. By reason of this sudden dis appearance of the coin of the realm, stocks, bonds and all other forms of gilt-edge collateral became, to all in tents and purposes, as worthless as the paper on which these promises of re demption at face value were printed. It was, of course, shown that much of this .money had been frightened Into hiding, but this explanation nat urally could not refute the fact that there had been an enormous destruc tion of real, tangible property value in the wars and earthquakes mentioned. That the disappearance of capital, however, was only in minor degree due to the cause thus ascribed Is ef fectually proven by the enormous amount of money of which the public obtains a flash view now and then. It will be remembered that a few days prior to the crash in Wall street, last Fall, a 140,000,000 bond issue In New York attracted bids of 3205,000,000; and yet, with all of that apparently Idle money at hand, it became neces sary for this country in the following three months to import $100,000,000 in gold from Europe. In February a similar-sized bond Issue brought forth bids to the amount of 3300,000,000, and still business refused to show signs of re turning confidence and money was far from "easy." When we were import ing gold in record-breaking quantities much uneasiness was felt lest such enormous withdrawals might precipi tate a serious stringency in Europe. If any further evidence were needed to prove that there was still an enormous amount of money in the world availa ble for investment, it was shown last week In London, where the tender of an issue of $13,750,000 London County Council' bonds paying 3 per cent brought forth offers of $500,000,000. Such elaborate displays of idle money offer Indisputable evidence that there Is, throughout the world, a vast amount of capital seeking investment, but. it also proves thatthe holders are seeking forms of Investment which are more attractive by reason of their safety than for the dividends paid. These enormous accumulations ' of funds cannot, however, be withheld forever, and as soon as the pastime of Indiscriminate "bullyragging" of all kinds of corporations, good, bad and Indifferent, cesses, it will again begin flowing out Into the channels of trade and there will be a speedy return of good times. WHY OCR MHOOl. Ft' XD M RMALU Among those persons who have read with interest the testimony of E. P. McC'omack In the Benson-Hyde case at Washington Is T. W. Davenport, formerly State Land Agent, and father of Homer Davenport. Those who are familiar with the record of the Benson-Hyde land transactions, as exposed a number of times through the col umns of the press, will remember that Davenport had opposed the sale of the state lands which the Benson-Hyde syndicate purchased. For a long time his opposition was effective, but finally he happened In the office of the clerk of the State Land Board one day and saw a big pile of gold on the clerk's desk. Upon remarking that some big transactions must be on, he was told that the forest reserve' lands were be ing sold, and, in the language of the street, he went "up in the air." That pile of gold had been paid in by Mc Cornack for Benson and Hyde. The applications for the purchase of the land were fraudulent, and everybody who cared to know anything at all about them knew they were. Reference to the transaction is made at this time not for the purpose of giving information. The facts have been published so many times that they are familiar. But it Is worth while to recall the Incidents of the deal now related In court at Washing ton for the purpose of giving due credit to a man who was faithful to his trust. Moreover, It was not tha duty of T. W. Davenport to guard against such transactions. In protest ing against the sale of the lands men tioned he was doing more than his offi cial duty in an effort to protect the school funds of the State of Oregon. He did not close his eyes, as he might easily have done, and remark "This is not my affair." As a public-spirited citizen he sought to do his duty to the state, and the fact that his.efTorts were not successful because he was power less detracts not the least from the credit due him. Had the management of the school land affairs of this state been given at all times Into the hands of such men as T. W. Davenport and Oswald West, we should not now have a common school fund ridiculously small as compared with the school fund of the State of Washington. W HKKK riTY- LS MISI-IvVCKD. Philanthropists of the more vision ary type have lately pestered them selves, and to a greater or less extent the public, in attempting to reason out the causes of the periodically re curring ' periods of distress entailing non-employment of large numbers of men. A resolution. lately passed by an organization called the Ethical-Social League of New York is typical of the anxiety suffered by persons who feel that they have a call to right the wrongs of humanity. It is based upon the assumption that there are more than two hundred thousand persons out of employment in New York at this time, including some thirty thou sand homeless men, "presumably be longing to the vagrant class." Upon this basis a touching appeal Is made in which the widespread distress of body and mind and the frequent demoral ization of character incident to the homeless and otherwise needy condi tion depicted is pathetically set forth. Naturally the document would not be complete without the presentment of plans whereby this widespread dis tress might be -relieved and the char acters of "vagrants" protected from demoralization. Equally, of course, state, county and city officials are ex horted to undertake immediately a system of public works upon which the army of vagrants and other unem ployed men may be given employment at good wages. The establishment of state farms for vagrants is strongly urged, and the Governor and the State Legislature are Ailed upon to institute inquiry Into the causes that have led to the enforced idleness of this large army. The authorities called upon will probably. If they consider It necessary to reply to these tender-hearted, im practical "leaguers," answer that pub lic works are undertaken when they are needed, providing there Is money to pay for them and not according to the fluctuations of the labor mar ket; that state farms furnishing soft jobs and shelter for vagrants would in all probability be crowded in Winter, when outdoor work ceases, and desert ed In the Spring and Summer, when the wander-lust lures to the fields, and that "homeless men" are, as a class, homeless from choice, and not from necessity. Vagrancy Is a condition inherent in the nature of the vagrant; the wander lust is his ruling passion; aversion to work is his leading characteristic. He himself would be the first to scout the idea of employment that would mean the curtailment of his desire to roam. No state farm, with its routine of plowing and planting, hoeing and harvesting, for him. As for a "home," he does not want one, except as a temporary shelter in stress of weather. A homeless man Is not necessarily a vagrant, but he is a man who, broadly speaking, is ruled by selfishness; a man who has not cared to exert him self in the direction of maintaining a home and family. There are excep tions to this rule, to be sure, but It ap plies to homeless men as a class, and puts them without the pale of intelli gent, well-placed sympathy. It Is within the capacity of any man of sound body, ordinary intelligence and desire for a home to found and maintain one. There is no obstacle to this that cannot be overcome, except the man's own disinclination to settle down, live an upright life and conserve his resources. That these resources are small need not deter titm, since a small home may and often does repre sent the best that is In the word, In thrift, comfort and happiness. An Enoch Arden, cast away on an Island, "the loneliest In a lonely sea," may Justly excite sympathy as a "homeless man"; an invalid, bedridden pr disabled from His youth up, may claim the consideration of pity, in that he is homeless, except for the housing of sweet charity; a man who has had the misfortune to lose by death or some of the more bitter vicissitudes of life his entire family may come to a homeless age without reproach of selfishness; but for the rank and file of an army thirty thousand strong in troduced as "homeless men" and under this title presented to the considera tion of the public as worthy of free bed, board and shelter, the sympathy of practical, purposeful, self-helpful men ran hardly be enlisted. Thirty thousand homeless men mean an equal number of women struggling along the highways and by ways of Industrial life as wage-earners; it means a multitude of Infants taken care of In baby homes and foundling asylums. It means a condi tion that is to be censured, not pitied, and that pampering upon state farms and In soup kitchens and charity bar lacks will encourage and perpetuate. Study of the aggregate vote at the primaries last week confirms the tes timony of observant citizens as to the rapid growth of East Side suburbs as well as that portion of the trans-Willamette district lying' within the city boundaries. Here are the totals for Senator: West Side 6575, East Side 9560. country 1774. Not less than 95 per cent' of the "country" vote is reached by car lines, and may be classed as suburban. It seems that the population of the West Side Is only a little more than thrice the suburban population. But election day was ex ceptionally stormy; access to polling booths was much easier on the West Side and there were fewer stay-at-homes. Besides, one vote in the sub urbs stands for a considerably larger percentage of population. A census at this time would probably reveal a ratio of five residents on the West Side to two in the suburbs. If the filling up of the entire East Side continues for two years at the present pace, the next Federal census may show a rela tive population of two to one in favor of the East Side. And even at that the West Side will be growing steadily. Alex McLean, the tame, unromantlc son of the sea, whom Jack London made famous In his novel "The Sea Wolf," has abandoned the raging main and will spend the Summer freighting nitro-glycerin and black powder on the swift Skeena River from Port Ru pert to the Grand Trunk Railroad con struction camps Alex and his broth er Dan were. In years gone by, the best copy-producers Pacific Coast reporters ever encountered, but, despite their faculty for appearing as the central figures in so many thrilling tales of the sea, there are probably a hundred un known sailors and skippers along the Pacific Coast who have "pasts" fully as exhilarating and exciting as those of the McLeans. But the fact re mains that none of them could accept a position freighting powder for a pro saic construction camp with any as surance that It would be Bent all over the country as a piece of Important news. Wreckage coming ashore on the west coast of Vancouver Island indi cates that the "terrible north coast" has claimed another victim. The Iden tity of the missing ship is still a mys tery, but It Is thought to be a foreign vessel, as neither jof the American ves sels mentioned in the Victoria dis patch as being possible victims had teakwood bitts, or mahogany doors. It has been nearly three months since the British ship Hartfleld disappeared near the same locality In which wreckage Is now coming ashore from another victim of that dangerous coast. If the underwriters were forced to pay for the lives that are lost by the awful wrecks resulting' from dis asters which overwhelm so many ves sels of the Puget Sound fleet, the ad vantages of the Columbia River as a safe entrance for ships would appeal to them more powerfully. With the Gould family troubles de veloplng into a three-ring circus, it would seem that the spot-light would be too busy to do much for Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner, who, it is reported, is about to purchase another ticket in the matrimonial lottery by marrying a man named Leo Tecktonius. This much can be said in favor of the widow of the great traction magnate, that she has confined her marrying escapades to the scapegraces she has picked up on American soil. The av erage American rounder and scalawag is so far ahead of most of the Euro pean nobility purchased for Americans that, from one point of view, they resemble fairly good husbands. We cannot be too lenient in criticising Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner until she marries a titled foreigner. Despite the poor market and the heavy stocks on hand, the attempt to curtail the 190S output of hops In Oregon promises to be a failure. Advices- from the various hop districts of the Willamette Valley are that not to exceed 3000 acres of hops have been plowed under, and there Is a sufficient acreage remaining under cultivation, under favorable circumstances, to pro duce a crop fully as large as that of last 'year. The American Society of Equity has apparently failed to take the hopgrowers under its protection, as it has the Kentucky tobacco-growers, for as yet there have been no r.eports of barn-burning or nlght-rldlng in the hop districts of Oregon. By a recent revision of the Army camp the American trooper will be al lowed a ration of buttermilk and other delicacies with his bacon and hard tack. This adds 2 cents a day to the cost of feeding him. No one can complain at this added cost, especially when it is likely to reduce the number of desertions and keep the men out of hospitals and in good fighting trim. There's a row on hand in San Fran cisco because certain women of social prominence didn't get on the fleet's reception committee. Such things oc cur when mere men get jealous, but usually they are kept out of the news papers. For the next five weeks Governor Chamberlain will prove conclusively to all his supporters that the United States Senatorship is not a political office. The last time the records show Mr. Ross In Salem he was lobbying with the people's Legislature against the banking bill. Of course the successful candidates were the best looking. Anybody could have picked them out. That's what the people did. In neighborly spirit and in all kind ness we say to President Castro: Look out for the Big Slipper. The rain Is doing more good to the crops than harm to the Spring suits. Just to think, those bonnets cannot be worn for seven Sundays more. ro9ERYB TnC PTI11C BERFTtGB Yaw auE waaHita Me-flaa Here te trlaeeieai Water Fewer, Bt". EUOENE, Or, April 18. (To tha Edi tor.) The Orcgonian editorial last Thursday on "The University and the Schools" and th later one on "Lawn for the People." most pertinently sug gest that It la high time that tha thought of the people of Oregon was directed to matters of vital and higher Interest to them. Every moment of delay in the prep aration of an adequate policy for the conservation of wealth of the people In the water power In the State and the related Interests, means Irreparable loss. The Oregon people have a match less heritage In these resources which will be squandered as certainly as were those they possessed In their school lands, unless they unite under loyal and wise leadership in a movement to secure their Interests. Many things conspire to make this the psychological moment for the Ini tiation of a campaign to save this wealth for the people of a greater and happier Oregon. President Roosevelt s vetoes of the franchise gifts and his conference called to meet at Washing ton, D. C, May 14 and 16, to discuss the conservation of National resources, will tend to raise this whole subject to an uppermost place In the public con sciouanesa. Co-operation with the Na tional Government there must be. from the start. And In the surveys and fu ture administration this co-operation will be continued. Then. too. the time between now and the meeting of the Legislature la none too long for the maturing of measures necessary for realizing the people's Interests and for getting them so thoroughly understood that the enactment of them will be resolutely demanded. Why not move forward through the arrangement of a representative meet ing at Portland about May 20. at which the reports of the Oregon delegates to the Washington. 1. C, conference may be received? Let this be the Initiating step In the campaign to save to the people that which should for all time be theirs. From that time on until the meeting of the Legislature, the work of taking careful cognizance of the ele ments of the problem as we have it here In Oregon, and of gleaning the best results of experience the world over, in solving like problems, would need to be prosecuted. Probably Just one observation on this movement is pertinent. What it pro poses calls for the utilization of the best scientific service. There can be no large success in it without the counsel and skill of those who are experts. The State University is, as It always has been, at the command of the people for the winning for them of largest gains. When a matter is so Vital and so ur gent for the future welfare of the peo ple of Oregon, the university feels con strained to take the Initiative, particu larly as the task of counsel and sug gestion in the matter falls so plainly within Its natural sphere. F. G. YOUNG. Antidote for a Tired Mind. Philadelphia Record. "The best antidote for a tired and weary mind that I know of is work." said a well-known downtown lawyer. "Sounds somewhat paradoxical, I know, but I will explain. When I have worked over a problem until my brain Is numb I find the best way to clear my head Is to plunge into a totally different problem. Now my hobby is photography, an there are a great many puzzling things about photography which I plunge into. The re sult Is after an hour or so of this sort of relaxation I go back to my original proposition, much refreshed In mind and I usually manage to solve it, too. That Is why I majntaln a dark-room at my of fice and keep all sorts of chemicals on hand. I used to try to clear my head by sleep, but it didn't work, not with me, at any rate. No, If I attempt to sleep directly after puzzling over a case I will lie and think of my problem In stead of sleeping. For this reason I have formed the theory that changing the entire thoughts of the mind just before retiring will knock out Insomnia." Music at Seattle) Exposition. Exposition Circular. Frederick Neil Innes, the well-known bandmaster of New York, has been ap pointed Dlrector-ln-Chief of Music at the Alaska-Ypkon-Paciflc Exposition to be held at Seattle, Wash., June to Novem ber, 1909. The musical programme prom ises to be of unusual Interest Inasmuch as Mr. Innes has announced his inten tion of giving an unusual prominence to the works of native American composers. Some of the best orchestras and bands in the country will be beard In pro grammes made up exclusively of Ameri can works. A McDowell Memorial Fes tival is already planned, and a large monetary prize is to be offered for the best original orchestral work having for Its basic subject some historical Incident bearing on the acquisition of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacflc territory. "Bowing" Makes Violin Tone. ' Pathfinder. While a man In Philadelphia has been trying to invent a varnish that will make a new. cheap violin sound like a stradlvarlus, a well-known vio linist and maker of the instruments has been working along a different line to secure the same effect. He says that age has nothing to do directly with the tone of a violin; that the amount of "bowing" it receives Is what makes the tone superior. He makes use of an electrical machine which sends vibrations through the Instru ment, and he claims that In 30 days as much "bowing" can be given the vio lin by this means as it would get in 59 years in the ordinary way. They'll Know the Reaesa Why. Portland Advocate. The 600 or 700 colored voters in Port land and Multnomah County are sick and tired of being ignored entirely by the local Republican officeholders, and the machinery that controls that ele ment In the way of appointments or recognition of some kind. For instance, they might give us a deputyship, or a clerkship; or, If nothing more, a Jani tor's Job. In fact, any old thing, for we must have something, either in the city, county or state, in the way of appointments, or know the reason why. Cheer Up I the Worst In Yet to Come. The Dalles Optimist. When the reformers give us the single tax, the law of recall, make Statement No. 1 obligatory upon -all legislative candidates, and hit us up with a few more reforms of that na ture. Oregon will be in a hellov a fix, and she will begin to grow down hill at a rapid clip. We used to think all of the cranks were in Kansas, but they are not all there now. Gout the Foe of Consumption. Paris Dispatch to the London Post. Sir Dyce Duckworth, In his address to the faculty of medicine, said that many persons were constitutionally predisposed to rheumatism and gout, but' an im portant characteristic in such cases was the antagonism of the tissues to the bacilli of tuberculosis. The more rheu matic or gouty a person was the less pro nounced was the tendency to consump tion. Making a Corner Study. Pathfinder. "My son," said his father solemnly, "when you see a boy always loafing about the street corners, what place in life do you suppose he is fitting himself for?" To be a policeman." DOMnO MILLION AlllaS" CAUGHT New Tax ie Catkera 1st tka Nena Rewldewta of New York. . New York World. More than rlrh and socially prominent New Yorkers, with homes In this city but "legal residences" In Tux edo. Newport. Lenox. Bar Harbor. Lake wnnd and elsewhere, moat of whom have hitherto escaped personal taxation hre. were found when th tax books for 1! pie cpened to be caught In the new tat not spread by the 8a xe non-resident law. The roster of thee wealthy non-retl-dcut, last year but an unimportant quan tify then the law first went into effect, tnls jear is swollen to Imposing I'm n si n and is the feature of the near tax rolls. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt's admis sion ?o the Million Dollar Club is d ie to the fact of her having recently come into her share of Iter fathers millions. The list of the non-resident New York era reads like a social and business direc tory of thee city. Names of aco -s of persons conspicuous In society anj In finance, whom the average New Yorkor would never dream had their legal homes elsewhere, are Included In the list. The New York address of each Is given. Many are shown to live on Fifth avenue or In the fashionable streets adjacent. The Saxe law was designed to catch this great army of -wealthy New Yorkeis who have homes here but claim residence elsewhere. It provides that the personal property of these persons held In this city can be taxed. Only six names In all appear on th personal roll of non-residents as being assessed for over $1,000,000. Andrew Car negie, who up to last year headed th list at $5,000,000. this year divides th honor with Mrs. Russell Sage, who is as sessed at the same figure. The Million Dollar Club this year is made up as follows: Mrs. Russell Sage. $5.n00.0nf. Andrew Carnegie. $5,00ti.0u0. John D. Rockefeller, $.500,009. Alice O. Vanderbilt, $1,000,000. Gladvs Vanderbilt. H.ooo.ooo. William K. Vanderbilt. $l.oro,000. The real estate assessments surprised the city officials by the big Increase re corded. The total increase for all the boroughs Is I472.OO0.OJ0. This Is 7 per cent Increase over last year, and It will add $47,500,000 to the borrowing capacity of the city, provided the assessments stand. The grand total of the real estate as sessments for the entire city is $.176, 0W.652. '.ast year the total was $V704. 009,662. This did not Include any assess ment for special franchise tax or real estate of corporations, which will swell the amount about $630,000 000 more. WHRRE DEMOCR ATIC VOTE COl JiTS Wheat It Is Ca, aa on Friday, at the Republican Primary. Grants Pass Observer. The primary election for the nomi nating of candidates for the various state and county offices will he held on Friday next, April 17. Nearly all the candidates are Republicans. There are very few Democratic candidates for the higher offices, and these are without opposition in their party. . It follows, therefore, that the primary election now close at hand will be almost en tirely a Republican election. It is the manifest policy of the Democrats to hold back for the benefit of any advan tage that the contest among Republi cans may develop. This is perfectly legitimate. But other methods to obtain advan tage have been adopted by Democrats that are certainly not legitimate,' and that on any view must be deemed dis honorable. This is the registration by Democrats as Republicans In order to affect the nomination of the Republican candidates. This disguised Democratic vote amounts to many thousands throughout the state, and will gravely interfere with the honest selection of nominees by actual Republican voters, who alone are justly entitled to select their candidates for the June election. The disguised Democratic vote will be potent because it will not spilt, but will go solidly for such Republican can didates as the Democratic managers consider will best serve the Democratic interest. While the chief aim of this political trickery is probably in the hope, of se curing the election of a Democratic United States Senator by the Legisla ture, It will unquestionably be also ex ercised' in the affairs of the various counties. In Josephine County there are about 157 straight Democrats who have registered as Republicans, and who will vote solidly on Friday for such Republican candidates as will best serve the Democratic interest. PRESENT STEP PURELY TENTATIVE First, Weigh Coat of Proposed 111 ah Bridge North ef Steel Brldare. PORTLAND. April 18. fTo the Ed itor.) A large number of the residents and taxpayers of this city are united in an effort toward a high bridge across the river at a point below the Steel bridge. Petitions to this end have been prepared and signed. At this moment, $5000 has been voted by the City Coun cil and the ordinance is now in the hands of the Mayor, for the purpose of finding out the. cost of this bridge and a subway, it being proposed that the latter shall be placed at some point south of the Burnside-street bridge. The object of this ordinance is to secure the services of Mr. Modjeska, an able bridge engineer, and to ascertain from him a fairly correct idea of the cost and all other information which may be necessary. If the cost of the bridge seems too great, the people of this city will have an opportunity to turn it down. Interested as we are in the growth of the city, realizing the need of the Wrest Side merchants for better transporta tion facilities, and the greater need of tne resiaents 01 the East Side, we are in favor of this step, if It shall prove feasible and does not involve too heavv a tax. We, ' therefore, would regard these steps which have been taken as purely tentative, without binding the city to a heavy bond issue until it can be deter mined whether the bridge is feasible and within the means of the pople WOODARD. CLARKE & CO. TO PORTLAND. "iiT w,ou,d8t earth's grandest sights And nature at her best Go take a ride 'round Portland Heirhts Clear up to Council Crest. ' w On hills around and far below Portland in beauty lies And crowned with everlaating snow Three mighty mounts arise. St. Helena, Adams, Hood you see Plain to unaided eye Grand and serene the group of three Looks down from azure sky. Like noble sentinels they stand O'er river, mount and plain. Proud of our great Rose city and Her men of nerve and brain. There the great Columbia flows Majeatlc at their feet. And hero to swell Its volume goes Willamette, deep and fleet. And countless ship the world to keep In salmon, lumber, grain. Have aafely plowed the silvery deep To the Pacific main. Our peerleas exports find their tray To many a foreign strand. And correspondents ever pray For mora of tba same brand. Go North and South, and Cast and West, Take plenty time and meana. Don't fall to aea the grandest beat Of world's storied scenes. Pull marry a grand and charming view Will please you on the way. But like the rest, you wilt be true. Glad to return and say: Fair city, great and fertile land. Here would I ever stay; No place aeema half so good or grand Beneath tha t day. T. McK. N. Advertising Talks No. 12 THE DOCTOR WHOSE PATIENTS HANG ON. By Herbert Kaufman Out in China all things are not tojsy turvy. Fhysirians are paid for keeping people well, aud when their patients fall ill their weekly salary checks is stopped. The Chinese judjre a medical man not by I he number of years he lives, but by the length of time his clients survive. An advertisinp medium mn-t be judged in the same way. The fact that it has age to its credit isn't so important as the age of its advertis ing patronage. Whenever a daily continues to display the store talV of the same establishment year after years, it's a pretty sure sign that the merchant has made money out of that newspaper, because no publication can continue to be a losing investment, to its customers over a stretch of time without the fact being discov ered. And when a newspaper is not only able to boast of an honor roll of stores that have continued to apjiear in its pages for a stretch of decades, but at the same time demonstrates that it carries more business than its competitors, it has proven its superi ority as plainly as a mountain peak which rises above its fellows. The combination of stability and progress is the strongest virtue that a newspaper can possess. Only the fit survive reputation is a difficult thin to get and a harder thing to hold it takes pierit to earn it and character to maintain it. There is a vast differ ence between fame and notoriety, and just as much difference between a fa mous newspaper and a notorious one. Just as a manufacturer is always eager to install his choicest stocks in a store which has earned the respect of the community, just so a retailer should be anxious to insert his name in a newspaper which has earned the respect of its readers. The manufac turer feels that he will receive a square deal from the store which ha age to its credit. He can expect as much from a newspaper which is a credit to its age ! The newspaper which ontlives the rest does so because it was best fitted to it had to earn the confidence of its readers and keep it. It had to be a better newspaper, than any other, and better newspapers go to the homes of better buyers. Every bit of its circulation has the element of quality and staying power. And it is the respectable, home-loving element of every community not the touts and the gamblers toward which the merchant must look for his business vertebrae he cannot find buyers nn less he uses the newspaper that en ters their homes. And when he does enter their homes he must not con fuse the sheet that comes in the back gate with the newspaper that is de livered at the front door. (Cxpyrtght, 1!ns AMERICANS CARELESS PEOPLE. We Lead the World la Mat of Prevent, able Accidents Canalag Death. Iron Age. In the accidents) of America's railroads, mines, shop, street, etc., we maim and kill about 600.000 persons yearly and need lessly destroy between ordinary fires and other sources fully ROO.OOO.OOO worth of property. The loss of property occasioned by the careless throwing away of matches and cigarettes costs the United States some thing like S50.000.00o annually. Our railroads maim and kill 17 times as many travelers per 1000 as those of the United Kingdom. The mines of the United States kill three times as many as those of Europe. The ordinary American lives to see the record of nearly one-half of the present population of the United States being maimed or killed and about J12.000.000.oivi. or nearly seven times the valuation of the Steel Corporation's properties, lost, chiefly through carelessness. Is it possible for any nation to have such a merciless, wholesale loss of life and property without expecting a retri bution or day of reckoning? Is it not time there was an Awakenlnp; to stop such uncalled for dire losses? The writer of this believes It is and that very much of our destruction of life and property through carelessness can be prevented, and the object of this article is to solicit answers to the following questions, the same to be directed to box 3S4, Sharps ville. Pa.: First, what are the chief reasons for the United States leading the world in casual ties as Is found in the home, hall, shop, mine. tra-el, etc, through carelessness on the part of employers, employees and the leisure class? Second, can there be a notable decrease In our casualties, and. If so, by what means Is such beat accomplished? Legislature la I'nluatly Libeled. Governor Hughes at a New York Bar As sociation Meeting. The legislature came under an unjust libel the other day. I was sitting in the executive chamber, the room being full of people. Suddenly a man slipped into the seat beside me, and before I could say anything he declared he had a complaint to make about Auburn prison. I thought a minute and then asked: "When did you get out?" "Yesterday." "What were you in for?" "Aiding a prisoner to es cape." Aha!" I said, "were you ever In before?" "Tea, I served two years for that, and was out two years, but was in for ten years before that." ' "What was the charge then?" "Burglary." Then he stated his complaint. After be left I summoned the man who generally meets these people before they reach me. and asked him how a convict could (tet in ahead of others who were there by ap pointment. "Oh," he said, "I thought he was an assemblyman." That was an un just libel. Taeoma Hospitality. Tacoma News. By the way, Portland is cordially, heartily and sincerely invited to visit Tacoma next month and see the battle ship fleet.' We had almost forgotten this Invitation in the press of other matters. Really, Portland should make the trip, not only for the purpose of in specting the fleet, but incidentally to see a real harbor. Javanese War Seare la Kaasaa. Emporia Gazette. -There is good authority for the state ment that a Japanese fleet is apt to sail up the Neosho River and bombard Emporia at any time, and the city hasn't even a street-sweeping machine for pur poses of defense.