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PORTLAND, ORECIOX, RaonST"? ' p,or"'"n1. Oregon. Postofflco as becond-L lass Matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Adruoe. (Br Mali ) ....... .. .,,..ui ouii.niy. inrn months.. y,."thout ''""'ay. one month V eckly, one year Bunday, oim year ............ Eunday and weekly, one "year! '. '. '. '. (By Carrier.) ".'!'' J?"n1y Included, one vear 0 00 Lally. Sunday Included, one month 76 orJVr . Knlt Send postofTlce money vo?,r i 5"?s" ,orar "f personal check on ir f?1 ,,an Slmi. coin or currency S,.",'11: fender's risk, (live postofllre ad- t. fu.l'- deluding county and state. t ' 10 to H pages, l cent; 18 4rt ,pi!,M' 2 oen,: 3" to 44 panes. 3 cents; Souh?. rat.a,e,, C"tS- Forei'a POtage wlfh"rm """J"" Office. The S. C. Berk Rn JlV clai M'ncy New York, rooms 48. TrluUKu.V.,ia'nS- t-hlcago. rooms 610-512 iriDune building. PORTLAND. T1ESKAV, Jm 13, 1909. SIMON' NEWCOMB. Early last Sunday morning Simon Newcomb who, for more than half a century, has been one of the foremost astronomers of the world, departed this life at the goodly ape of 74 year, lie was horn In Novta Scotia, In 1835, hut his family belonged te old New England stock. His father was one of those eccentric men who amuse the neighborhoods where they live by putting excellent theories Into practice. Most of us admire the theories, but shun applying them. Be in convinced that a man ought to marry at the age of 25 years, the elder Newcomb, when he reached that time of life, set out in search of a wif?. In his mind was a distinct catalogue of the qualities his partner for life must possess. She must be Intelligent, be cause a stupid woman cannot properly bring up her children. She must be of a temperament opposite to his own, because thus In the offspring all de sirable qualities would be united. Above everything, she must be economical- With this idea in his Imagi nation, the young man traveled on foot through the country, seeking diligent ly, hut finding no one upon whom he could conscientiously bestow his heart. One lovely damsel charmed his eye, for example, but when, upon closer inspection, he caught her giving the scrapings of her bread pan to the horse, he naturally looked elsewhere. Finally, after many wanderings, he discovered the image of his dreams, singing hymns and playing the inelo Ueon In a village church. One glance at her countenance sealed his fate. He wooed and won her, and in the Sum mer nights of their courtship, he di verted her girlish fancy by pointing out the boundaries of the constella tions and telling her the names of the stars. No wonder their son became a great astronomer. A more brilliant Instance of direct heredity was- never known. Fair Science smiled not on Simon's humble birth. His parents were not rich. Books were scarce During the two years his family lived nt New London, Connecticut, Simon devoured an old work on astronomy with an avidity which only those Chil dren know who have been starved for mental food. Later he got hold of a copy of Fowler's Phrenology, that grave humbug which has profoundly Influenced thousands of young men at the critical periods of their lives. Simon learned from Its fascinating pages that Jt Is beneath the dignity of manhood to permit the blood to rush to the organs of "combatlvencss" and "destructlveness" and, by diligent practice, became complete master of his temper. He sys In his Remin iscences that he passed through life without making a single personal enemy. This means that he made none after his fifteenth year. At that date one night, when his soul was uplifted In devotion at a prayer meeting, an ungodly youth in the next pew pinched his neck. Simon promptly drew his jacknlfe and stabbed the offender, who became his sworn foe and promised him a thrashing at the first conven ient moment after they had left the house of prayer. To protect himself, the nascent astronomer went about for a long time armed with a pitchfork. Such were the storms of a youth which developed Into a manhood se rene and placid. Newcomb felt his mathematical powers early In life. When he was 22 years old, without any particular instruction, he was able to make the calculations for the Nauti cal Almanac, of which a copy had fallen into his hands. The office of the Nautical Almanac was at that time, 1858, in Cambridge, under the wing of Harvard University. It was supposed that Washington could not furnish the talent necessary to compute its .tables. Newcomb obtained a position on the force of the Almanac office and found the employment so leisurely that It left him time to attend the Lawrence Scientific school, where Charles W. Eliot was his tutor in mathematics. The bright and shining scientific light in Harvard at that time was Professor Pelrce, but his instructions to students were given mainly by the method of absent treatments. Newcomb was not drawn deeply enough into the Harvard current to .become a typical college man. His observations upon Its cur-' rtculum and professors have, there fore, the accuracy of close acquaint ance and at the same time the aloof ness of an outsider. His judgment of the educational machine may be summed up in a single sentence quoted from his "Reminiscences": " "If my Impressions of It are correct, our edu cational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard." If this is true It is fortunate that Simon New comb did not go through the mill. Newcomb's scientific work was done at Washington and Baltimore. In the former city he was for a long time professor in the Naval Observatory and afterwards director of the Nautical Almanac. In Baltimore he succeeded the celebrated Sylvester as professor of mathematics and. astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. Newcomb's first scientific work which won renown was a. laborious computation to show where the orbits of asteroids must have been thousands of years ago. His purpose was to bring to test the old theory that those small heavenly bodies were fragments of a large planet which had exploded in the dim past. If that was true, their orbits must have passed through a common point originally. Newcomb traced the orbits back through the heavens for many centuries and found no common point. Hence the mythical planet never had exploded and another nl !y. Sunday Included, on. Trr ta no t " !y' S'""!'iy Included, six months 4 23 i " ,,n'V'- 'n'-luded. three month.... l , ' m t,"" Hi.nday orip year on) ; l,ltiimil SuniUy, j,i months 8 25 charming theory was laid to rest Per. haps his most important work was done upon the motion of the . moon, which has always been more or less of a puzzle to astronomers. The dif ficulties of computation are enormous. Almost infinite patience is required to obtain valuable results. But Newcomb had the patience and he had also that species of genijis which consists in taking pains. His work on the moon is now standard all over the world. Outside of pure scientific research Newcomb also took an active hand in many practical affairs. For example, he was constantly consulted by the founder of the Lick Observatory in regard to plans for the buildings' and equipment. His scientific reputation was world-wide. Learned societies from Boston to Poland elected him to membership and most of the great universities gave him their degrees. His character was simple, childlike and genuine. His ability was of the highest rank and his scientific work of fundamental importance. GETTING INTO THE UMEUGHT. Down at Bandon, whichjs in Coos County, is a newspaper editor who has wearied of his deserved obscurity, and he is, therefore, seeking notice from The Oregonian. To bring about that great end he assumes the role of eulogist for Secretary of Agriculture AVilson and, commenting on certain criticisms of Farmer Wilson by The Oregonian, declares he "knows more about agriculture than any man in the United States, and knows more in a minute' than a thousand editors of The Oregonian ever heard or read about." The most exacting critic of The Oregonian will admit that Mr. Wilson is thus placed on a rather high plane. It would seem, then, that we ought to have a Department of Agriculture that under such com petent direction will come measurably near fulfilling all requirements; and it would seem also that such a prodigy could not be ignorant of the labors and operations of his subordinates, nor of the thoroughness and quality of their service. How, then, will Mr. Wilson explain, or any one ex plain for him, the criminal uses to which the Wilson cotton re ports were put by a clique of speculators in and out of the depart ment? Or the grossly inaccurate and untruthful character of his wheat sta tistics through which, last March, an other coterie of Wall street gamblers sought to make a great fortune, but didn't? Why has there been no ex planation of the extraordinary blunder of that March report? Thea. Oregonian has not sought to discredit the general work or worth of the Agricultural Department. It has, however, repeatedly criticised its crop-reporting service, which is be neath contempt. It holds Secretary Wilson responsible for reprehensible carelessness or Ignorance or gullibility In this important work. The public should understand how grossly it has been and Is being deceived by the so called "crop experts" of the depart ment. Whether they are venal, igno rant or merely lazy, or all. The Ore gonian does not know, but these re ports are in any case unreliable, unbe lievable and false. TILE WAY IT WORKS. Ever since his great work on "The History of the Warfare Between Sci ence and Theology" was published Dr. Andrew White's motives and accuracy have been persistently attacked by bigots of one variety and another. All sorts of charges have been made against him without a vestige of proof. The slights and slurs which Father O'Hara inserts in the letter printed in today's paper are mild compared with some we have read which had been invented for the same purpose. Any person who ventures to tell the cold truth about the conduct of theologians toward men of science must expect this sort of reward from the ecclesi astics. The first step is to persecute the scientist. Often they have put him to death. The next is to claim the credit of his discoveries for theology. The third is to declare that the churches have always taught them. These progressive advance's are beautifully shown in the attitude of the theologians toward Vesalius. It is true enough that the pagan Popes who lived in the time of the Renaissance were friendly to science as they were to art- But what happened to Italian science very soon after the Council of Trent had done its work and the anti-reformation began? It would be interesting to see Father O'Hara's in genuity applied to prove that the theo logians were then friendly to science, but we have not the least doubt that he is equal to the task. In his pres ent letter it is a comfort to notice that he quotes from an author who is willing to do justice to Vesalius. MONEY FOB CROP MOVING. It is but lfttle more than 18 months since this country received a financial shock which beggared thousands.. The commercial catyclasm was termed a "rich man's panic," not because It was the rich men alone who suffered, but because It was the hysterical over speculation of the rich that precipi tated the trouble. The period of liquid ation which followed the breaking of the storm was of brief duration, but it was drastic in the extreme, and will not soon be forgotten by the principal sufferers. Wall street stock gamblers, who for more than a year had been using cheap call money In their specu lations, brought on the panic by forc ing stocks up far above their intrinsic value as interest-earning collateral. There was plenty of money In the country for all legitimate purposes and there was also enough for a fairly heavy volume of stock speculation. Unfortunately, or fortunately, some of the principal players In the Wall street game were caught with marked cards, and the outcry that resulted greatly alarmed capital- Not only was there a sudden end to the supply of cheap call money for speculative pur poses, but there was also a sudden dis appearance of funds for any purpose. The country was badly frightened, and in the stampede that set in, good, bad and Indifferent enterprises were trampled to dust with strict impar tiality. There are now In evidence In the East signs of an existing condition of financial affairs In some respects not unlike those which preceded the 1907 panic. Fortunately the hard-earned lesson of two years ago will not be so soon forgotten. The disquieting feature of the situa tion has been the enormous loan ex pansion, which last month exceeded by J133.000.000 the total for June, 1908, and was nearly $238,000,000 greater than for the same mont,h in 1907, when the panic was in process of form ing. These figures were shown by the Clearing-House banks of Njew York, and similar conditions w-erjf reported by the various loan and Jrust com- THE MORNING panles operating independent of the Clearing-House banks. Fortunately for New York, as well as the rest of the country, the near approach of crop-moving time seems to have been the signal for an application of the brakes, and the bank statement printed in Sunday's Oregonian. for the first time in many months, showed a heavy decrease in the loan item. There was also a gain of nearly $7,000,000 in the surplus reserve. This contraction of loans, the mak ing of which has been encouraged by low rates for call money, may have a tendency to check stock speculation, and by so doing bring prices down from the dizzy heights to which they have been forced by manipulation. Some inconvenience may result for the men who are sailing too close to the wind with other people's money, but even if all of the necessary contrac tion cannot be made before crop-mov, ing demands become heavy, the trouble will all fall on the shoulders of the men who are responsible for it. The country has already begun get ting money together for crop-moving purposes in the West and South, and it will not be caught, as It was two years ago, with all of the money in the New York banks. A country will never be prosperous so long as its banks are stuffed with idle money, but there is an even greater danger when the sur plus money is used in stock manipula tion as it is being used at the present time. Further loan contraction In New York and an increased demand for money for crop-moving purposes. In the West and South, will be a heal thy sign. AVOIDABLE DISASTER. Grays Harbor is comparatively new In the business of handling vessels of such heavy tonnage as the Norwegian steamship Eir, which met with a "se vere mishap on the bar'1 Sunday; bfit there is nothing in the disaster, or the causes for it, that reflects at all seri ously on the port. Quite naturally, had this accident happened at the Co lumbia entrance, there . would have been the usual tirade of misrepresenta tion on the part of some, not all, of the Puget Sound papers; but too much Grays Harbor trade .drifts north to Tacoma and Seattle to make It a safe proceeding for the newspapers to make as much out of the matter as they would if it were a Columbia River af fair. The Eir lost a portion of her deck load and was badly damaged be cause she was out of the channel. There is not a port in the known world where a similar accident would not happen If a vessel should get out of the channel. The unfortunate fea ture of these disasters in new ports lies in the willingness of shipowners to place the blame on the alleged dis abilities of the port, without taking the trouble thoroughly to investigate. Portland was obliged to -combat injus tice of this nature for many years be fore the quick and safe dispatch of the largest lumber and flour cargoes ever floated afforded such conclusive evidence of the merits of the port that the point of safety is no longer raised by shipowners, but now in insurance and freight rates the Columbia River is on even terms with any other port in the North Pacific. In. the present condition of the ocean freight market, if the insurance people were not too captious, some shipowners would hardly regard the loss of a few ships as an irreparable disaster, and the Grays Harbor acci dent will hardly cause the trouble which might arise if. freights were high and shipping property in good demand. A PHASE OF OCR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH One of the phases of the Industrial growth of Oregon In recent years is the revival of interest in and experi ment with the resources of the older sections of the state. In years long past, when a few tons of produce of any kind would glut our home mar ket, in its line, and there was absolutely no wider market to which appeal could be made for any perishable product, a limited surface of some of our richest lands was merely scratched and the returns that followed literally swamped the farmers In their own abundance. The home market was the only market and teaming over roads of the most primitive construc tion was the only way to reach it. Ap ples, peaches, pears and plums from the first orchards planted In Oregon that succeeded the Hudson's Bay and missionary era. In which seed lings from parent stocks in Canada and the Middle West flourished, liter ally covered the ground under the trees in the Autumns of those years and were left there to rot. Some of the best of this fruit If the superlative can be used to describe Oregon fruit of the time In which, unvexed by pests of any kind, all the fruit that grew was perfect was stored in the rudely improvised cellars; some of it was dried by old-fashioned processes; considerable quantities were consumed in season upon the table and? by an apple-eating generation of children; but the great bulk of the wealth of these early orchards literally "went to waste." Later some attempt was made to dispose - of the surplus by turning hogs and other stock in the orchards, the experiment not infre quently costing the farmer a cow or calf from his herd from choking upon an apple that proved to be an exact fit in the animal's throat and would neither up nor down. But the fruit decayed by the ton, the farmers grew careless of their unprofitable orchards, the trees became gnarly and mossy, the pests came In and the rest fol lowed. These were the conditions that pre vailed when railroads opened Oregon to the markets of a wider world. Of course, there were practically no mar ketable apples. In fact, the Idea of the commercial orchard had not yet been conceived. But there' were enough old orchards, In a state of dilapidation and decay, to form the basis of many a wail over the "shift lessness of Oregon farmers," and to prove a veritable menace to the re newal of the fruit industry or rather to its establishment upon a commer cial basis. Very naturally, this renewal was slow. Discouragement and failure had done their work. The small or chard could not be made to pay be cause the , local market was still quickly supplied. In the meantime, however, fruit growing, and especially apple-growing, assumed a commercial standing and began to be established upon a scientific basis. The newer lo calities at first responded to the call for sound, clean fruit that isould bear shipment to wider markets; later the older sections began to. awaken from the lethargy of disappointment and take a new start on the horti cultural road. The splendid work or M. O. Lownsdale, in Yamhill County, Is in conspicuous evidence of .progress, OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, along this line, while farmers in Lane and Linn and Polk and Marion Coun ties have attested the fact of their awakening to the possibilities of fruit growing in the fine exhibits that they have made in recent years of their or chard products. : The latest awakening Is in a corner of Umatilla County where old orchards planted half a century ago and for many years neglected, have been brought back to a state of usefulness, while large areas of old-new land have been set to apple trees that are flour ishing and full of promise of abund ance from five to seven years hence. "There is no place on earth," say the formerly discouraged, but now confi dent husbandmen of the long-settled, but in this r4gard newly-discovered Milton-Kreewater valley in Umatilla County, "so especially adapted to the culture of certain varieties of apples notably those of high color, as 13 this region." These oid orchards, long disregarded practically abandoned have furnished through the renewed cure that has been given them a basis t-r this confidence; considerable areas have been planted to young treea; large accessions to the population are noted, ami in common with other dis tricts in various localities of the sate, long settled, hut unknown beyou-l their immediate skyline, the district designated is forging ahead and com ing into notice carrying the evidence of its awakening to waiting markets. This is a phase of . our industrial growth that is moot gratifying. Justi fying as It does the estimate of the early explorers of the Oregon Country that here. Indeed, was a land of bound less promise awaiting development. . There will be no need of calling a plebiscite In Oregon on the income tax. Just pass the proposed amend ment up to the Legislature, which will ratify it by unanimous vote. The amendment could, indee, be submitted to a convention in each state, if Con gress should propc.se 'that method; but we think It is to He sent to each state to be acted vipon by its Legislature. In Congress Fhere would be no doubt that it would receive. If submitted to the electors, nearly a unanimous vote; but that would not be a constitutional method of ratification. No opposition to the amendment will appear in the Legislature of Oregon. Nor would there be any considerable opposition in Oregon to an amendment taking the election of Senators from the Leg islature and giving it to the body of the electors of the state. It is doubt ful, however, whether such amend ment would be accepted by three fourths of the states. Not a few of the older states probably would reject It. Bids were opened In .Seattle yester day for construction of the Lolo Pass cut-off for the Northern Pacific. Twohy Brothers, the railroad contractors, are rushing men and teams into the Des chutes country for work on the Cen tral Oregon road. A thousand men are working on the Harriman road to Tillamook, and the United Railway has a big force on its line, which Is headed in the same direction. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is connecting with the O. R. & N. at Plummer, Idaho, to secure entrance into Port land. The Oregon Short Line is run ning a survey from the Blackfoot country down Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, -and the Northern Pacific and Harriman lines are making prepara tions for double-tracking the line be tween Portland and Puget Sound. Aiv tlvity in railroad building in the Pa cific Northwest has been somewhat delayed, but seems to be making a good start. Best of all, Portland seems to be the objective point for all of these lines' which are seeking water level grades. July wheat climbed back across the $1.20 per bushel, mark yesterday. "Time will tell who is right," remarked Secretary Wilson when Mr. Patten questioned his figures on the amount of wheat available in the country last March. Time seems to have "told," for the American visible yesterday was down to 8,427,000 bushels, the lowest on record for a corresponding week except during the Lelter deal In 1898. As Secretary Wilson could find only about 15,000,000 bushels in farmers' hands July 1, and the daily consump tion Is more than 1,250.000 bushels, it is easy to understand the remarkable strength In the market. Secretary Wil son's most gracious and reasonable act In connection with his terrible blunder has been the acknowledgment by his July 1 'figures that his state ment of March 1 was utterly worthless and misleading. With this evidence of repentance, we may hope for some thing better in future. China seems to be making progress In the same line of civilization that England was following 400 or 500 years ago. One of the Viceroys, in obedience to orders from headquarters, has recently detached the head from the shoulders of a youthful pretender to the throne, and, in order to discour age repetition of the pretender's of fense, a few thousand of the young man's followers were also killed. Jefferson, In a message to Congress In 1802 wrote: "If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pre tence of taking care of them, they must become happy." But since we can't accomplish the first part of this statement we are not likely to realize the last part of It. There will not be much, doubt about the ratification of the income tax amendment. The citizens . who have incomes' that will be subject to the tax are few, very few, in number, compared with the whole body of the voters. John Madson, the man caught at San Jose who married ten women and had fourteen more in contemplation, will serve a seven-year sentence. Times have changed since Jacob served four teen years for two. People are fainting from heat at Chicago and rains continue in Missouri and Kansas. This is Just for a re minder that here we are neither faint ing from heat or any other cause, nor famishing for rain. The spirit of progress is rampant in Malheur County. The town of Bro gan, three months old, has made appli cation for a National bank, and so has Westfall, erstwhile known as Bully Creek. Polygamist Johnson denies that he is the infamous Polygamist Madson, and declares that he is married to only three women. Of course no one ought to blame him for marrying Just three. JTJI.Y 13, 1909. CAR HITS GRAVEL, TURNS OVER Several Lives anil Four Machines Xarrowly Escape Disaster. SEATTLE. Wash.. July 12. (Special.) As the result of striking an unfin ished road freshly strewn with loose gravel, several lives and four automo biles narrowly escaped disaster three and a half miles out of Kent tonight. Two Winton cars, the property of Al bert Hansen, Jeweler, and P. J. McHugh, contractor; a Packard racing car, driv en by Ai Wilkey, and a Mitchell tour ing car were involved in the mlxufi. ' A four-cylinder Winton, driven by McHugh, accompanied by his wife and children, struck the soft gravel and turned a complete somersault, scatter ing its occupants In all directions. The unfortunates suffered no serious in juries. At the time of the accident a Packard racing machine attempted to pass the upset machine, and landed the machine ten feet off the road. The driver of the Mitchell steered past the Hansen machine successfully, but became confused when he spied the' car In tow. With a sudden lurch the Mitchell skidded off the road and down the bank of the Duwamish River. Striking a rise in the rolling bank, driver and car narrowly missed cer tain death and destruction. The ma chine caught in the soft mud and held fast. More frightened than hurt, five passengers alighted from the car and ascended the bank. THINNING OUT STATE GUARD Spokane Companies May Disband Because of Poor Attendance.. SPOKANE, Wash., July 12. (Spe cial.) Handicapped by an adverse re port at the last inspection, Spokane companies H and I, of the Washington National Guard, are facing being mus tered out of service. A special Inspec tion has been set for Thursday,, August 5, when an Investigation will be made by Captain John Klnzie, retired. The inspection will . be heavy marching order, and the men will be given a sec ond chance to make good. Poor attendance of members is one cause for criticism by the state officers. Company I, under Captain J. Benjamin Hays, is stated to have a membership of 49. Captain Benson Wright is in command of Company H. Adjutant-General George B. Lamping has received instructions from the War Department at Washington gradually to muster out all infantry companies in the state west of the mountains and to enlist in their stead coast artillery reserve corps. COURT MUST PROTECT .FOOLS Judges Reverse Decision In Nonsuit Against tanil Company. OLYMPIA, Wash.. July 12. (Spe cial.) The Supreme Court, in a de cision rendered today, announced that its jurisdiction includes the protection of fools from the consequences of their own folly, at least the court says. In de ciding the case of James T. Wooddy and wife against the Benton Water Com pany: "No rogue should enjoy his Ill gotten plunder for the simple reason that his victim is by chance a fool." Wooddy traded a Whitman County farm -to the Benton company for 60 acres of land. He brought this suit for damages, claiming he had been de frauded, as the deed gave him less than 53 acres, and half of that was too high to be Irrigated from the canal. The defense was that he had personally in spected the land before he closed the deal, and that the old rule of let the purchaser beware applied. The lower court granted a nonsuit. The Supreme court, after announcing the ruling above quoted, reverses this decision and orders, a new trial. 3IAYOR OFFERS TO SELL GAS Salem Executive Startle9 Gas Plant Blanager AVitli Proposition. , SALEM. Or., July 12. (Special.) Mayor Rodgers caused a mild sensation at the Council meeting tonight, when he offered to take over the gas plant of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and pay the company 50 cents per 1000 feet on all the gas manufacture" and take his profits out of the rate of $1.60. per 1000 which the Council pro poses to establish. For more than a year the Council has been considering a reduction in the price of gas from $2 to $1.50 and tonight Man ager R. K. Page, of the company, in a talk to the Council said that gas could not be manufactured and distributed in Salem at $1.50 without loss to the com pany. Mayor Rodgers then proposed to take the plant over, sell gas at $1.50 and pay the company 50 cents per 1000 feet royalty on all the gas -sold. RAILROAD GRADING RUSHED Union Pacific Busy Building Line Into Grays Harbor Country. ELMA, Wash., July 12. (Special.) Rapid progress Is being made with construction of the Grays Harbor branch of the Union Pacific, more than a thousand men -eing employed. The heaviest work along the line is Just west of Elma, where the Chehalis River crowds high rocky bluffs. In places several hundred feet high and perpendicular. A road bed skirting the river has been blasted and the grade nearly established. Within the next three or four months the road will be practically completed and ready yr operation. The eastern end of the road is not difficult to build, passing through a comparatively level country. OREGON MAN WILL PRESIDE President Campbell to Attend Edu cational Congress in Seattle. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. July 12. (Special.) President P. L. Camp bell will preside at the meeting of the American Educational Congress, Thurs day. July 15, to be held at Seattle, in con nection with the A. Y. P. Exposition. Prominent educators from all parts of the United States will- be in attendance. A number of noted speakers who have been at the meeting of the National Education, al Association at Denver will address the meeting. President Campbell will leave tomorrow night for Seattle. NEW ROUND IN WILL CONTEST Attorneys In Warner Case to Hear Testimony at Walla Walla. PENDLETON. Or., July 12. (Spe cial.) This week will see the end of another round of the fight for the pos session of the James W. Young estate. There was no session of the court to day, but the attorneys and court re porter will go to Walla Walla tomor row to take testimony. The rebuttal testimony for Mrs. War ner will be closed Wednesday and the contesting heirs will close with their surbuttal Thursday. After that will come the arguments of the attorneys and the decision of the court, which may not be rendered for several weeks. Almost Certainly Short Life Predicted Springfield (Mass.) Republican. It is certainly true that no such policy na thu ra.al n ... n . I.... r n w..-t ' - 1 . ... . ti . l u a (i 1 1 u 1 1 . l oil uunigtT.a corporation incomes, exclusive of individ ual I ... i . 1, 1 : , , , .... ...... ... uan rve-i ( 't i i i:uiiMut;rt;u uy , the American people, and we have been under the impression that no such policy had ever before been seriously proposed until the Taft Administration lately pre sented it to Congress. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, however, in his long and some what discursive but nevertheless very ef fective, speech on the subject last week called attention to the fact that the war revenue measure reported to the Senate by the finance committee in 1S9S con tained a provision for the taxation of the gross receipts of all corporations in the United States at the rate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. Essentially the only difference between that and the present proposal is that the one would tax the gross earnings and the other the net Income of all cor porations working for profit. The matter no sooner came up for con sideration than it fell under severe assault, chiefly on account of the gross inequali ties and injustices of such a tax. Mr. Al lison, of Iowa, led off in the attack, and Mr. Cummins thus states what followed: Every Republican member of the finance committee followed him In denunciation of the proposed law. I wish the powerful Senator from Rhode Island would launch the J"10 thunderbolts against this proposed law that he did against that one. I wish the iwnior Senator from Massachusetts. Instead or offering a dummy amendment for the purpose of preventing anv further amend ment to the proposition of the committee, would exercise his great Intellect in analyz ing the Iniquitous proposition as ho did them." I wish the Senators from Maine would speak now as they spoke then. There is not a single Republican member of the feenate her now. as I remember, but who was opposed to the proposition in 1898 to lay a tax upon the gross receipts of all the corporations of the country: and yet the only difference between that proposition and this is that we substitute now net Income for gross receipts. The scheme at that time had only to be considered a moment to be dropped, and in its place was substituted an excise tax on the gross receipts of certain businesses such as sugar refining, applicable alike to all engaged therein, whether corporations partnerships or individuals. It Is upon a Supreme Court decision sustaining the validity of that excise tax that President Taft and his advisers chiefly rely for the legal acceptability of this proposed tax on the net income of corporations alone, ex clusive of partnerships and Individuals en gaged in similar lines of business. But the two taxes are radically different as may readily be seen- and if the one is constitutional. It by no means follows that the other is. This question of constitutionality Is still to come into consideration. It has already been subjected to searching examination by Senator Borah, of Idaho, whose speech Is not yet available, and his conclusion agrees with that of Senator Cummins that the tax as a constitutional proposition is not worth the paper it is written on. It Is essentially a tax upon a mere right to do business, which has been created by the states, and it is a well-settled princi ple in Federal jurisprudence that the Fed eral Government can no more tax or in terfere with the valid instrumentalities of state government than the states can tax or interfere with the valid Instrumentali ties of the Federal Government. But more of this at another time. LUMBER CUT IS DECREASING Secretary of Manufactures' Associa tion Makes Report. SEATTLE, Wash., July 12 The an nual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association was begun today In the Hoo-Hoo house, the ses sions being executive. New Orleans is expected to get the next convention, being the only candidate, and the pres ent officers, headed by R. A- Long, of Kansas City, will probably be re elected. The report of Secretary George K. Smith showed a highly unsatisfactory outlook for the lumbermen. He, said: "Figures for lumber produced in 1908, as compared with 1907, show a decrease of 17 per cent, and undoubt edly a similar percentage of decrease or a larger one will be shown for 1909. The supply has exceeded the demand during the past 18 months, and neither the volume of business nor the price has been satisfactory." R. S. Kellogg, of the Government for est service, read a paper In which he said that the consumption of the for ests was becoming a serious danger, and told the delegates that the time has come for a practical application of forest conservation, because the lum bermen have for years destroyed, but not produced. One hundred lumbermen have char tered a Northern Pacific train to take them to Tacoma to attend the funeral of Congressman Cushman. The lum bermen wish to show their apprecia tion of Mr. Cushman's efforts to con tinue the duty on lumber. CRIES FOR HELP, DROPS DEAD Spokane Pioneer Dies Suddenly or Heart Failure. SPOKANE. Wash., July 12. With a choking cry for help, Jacob Onstine, father of Attorney Burton J. Onstine, fell over backward in his son's office at noon today, and expired of heart failure. His son is on the Coast and was im mediately notified. Jacob Onstine was apparently In good health when he en tered Roch & Onstine's office In the Ziegler block. While in conversation with some friends he suddenly threw up his hands with the cry for "help," and fell" to the floor. He was a pioneer of Spokane. He resided here for over 20 years. Funeral arrangements will be made when word is received from his son at Seattle. Mr. Onstine was nearly 70 years of age: Pharmacists to Meet. Delegates to .the annual convention of the Oregon State Pharmaceutical Association, which meets today in Sea side. Or, will leave this morning for that place in a special car attached to the regular train of the Astoria & Co lumbia River Railroad. Sessions will be held daily, beginning this afternoon and concluding Friday. At the opening session -M. E. Everett, of North Bend, Or., president of the association, will deliver his annual address, and reports will be rendered by the various offi cers covering the work of the organi zationurlng the past year. Arrange ments'have been made for a series of entertainments to be held at intervals during the stay at Seaside. These will consist of athletic events, races, a tug-of-war and other contests. Eugene Leonard's Body Found. WASCO, Or., July 12. (Special.) The body of Eugene Leonard, who was drowned In the Deschutes River July 3, was found -today 12 miles below where he was drowned. The body will be taken to-Dayton, Wash., for burial. Grain Companies Consolidate. a - - COLFAX, Wash.. July 12. (Spe cial.) The Whitman County grain firms of Dullng & Bishop and A. P. Johnson & Co. have been consolidated With the Northern Grain & Warehouse Co., of Portland Unconstitutional for the Corporation Tax. Meanwhile the inequities of the pro posed tax are so glaring that, whether constitutional or not, it is not likely to endure a great while if it ever succeeds in iretfino- rr . . . . , . , . - uuu i iit-i i. .ur. iumiiiins view of the matter on this point is thus stated: It Is quite well to sav that the la,w will te repeal,., within two" years; I think it will it Jf,?eV''a hKt"re two years. I think xt J repealed just as soon as the .uemwra of Conirrcss have an opportunity S ' ,'h,j'; n""r"-s- and are then called again Into official duty. Senator ('hn.. - . . .umnwuia, nas also expressed an opinion about how long the " it it is ever enacted: , Senytor from Rhode Island is a prophet He said that this provision would J"!?"' Vle ntxt b tne arous- "Irh frl 1 f Indignation that will reach rrom one oeenn to tli.. other Who- dre,eHS,bh"h,ln1 a," ,hls m'ht nave perhaps unon coJatV,m:,klnK " s,t-" ,lke an attack upon corporations, it would be an inviting and a picturesque propositln to tfie Amert P?e cmj Wh? theVmerlcaTe"- Pie come to learn that this li sininlv n shifting of a tax in most case. upoS tht consumer, when they come to learn that millions of do lars ran be Invested in a cor poration which win not pav ono dollar of tax when they come to learn that his Is fveJ?,""0".10 KO anA "large a system which we have battled against thesa seven years, there is no danger of , his ot The :J'Rre,,S ,'akinB th seconk 8,ep T, , car. P-nle will attend to that h 1 if r "n b"hal' t" not tell me that the President approves any such detail a. the one found in this amendment. " This is considerate of the President but if he does not approve the plan Which stands as an amendment to the tariff bill who does? Roston Post. If it is to assure the payment by cor porate wealth of its full proportion of the demands of public revenue, it fails at this essential point, because it does not reach the wealthy bondholder while taxing the moderate investor in stock. It lets oft the fat holders of the basic securities, and puts It all on the smaller stockholders. John Shepard. at the meeting of the Bos ton Chamber of Commerce last week, de clared squarely that the effect of such a law would be to cause our commercial corporations, for their own protection, to terminate their corporate existence and reorganize as partnerships. At the same meeting, the resolutions adopted on presentation by John S Lawrence denounced the Taft folly as Inequitable. "A corporation." the rep resentative commercial organization of ttoston declared, "would be put at a dis advantage in competition with unincor porated concerns, and further, the tax must of necessity be borne by many small stockholders, while those who could better afford it and who were In partnership or complete ownership of properties would not be taxed." Even the hide-bound New York Tri bune declares the Taft folly, the cor poration tax, to be "inequitable even In Its modified form, drastic in com pelling statements of financial condi tion from corporations not affected with publio interest, not engaged in inter state commerce and not enjoying a tariff protection furnished by the Fed eral Government." The chorus of condemnation rises from all quarters. If President Taft Is wise he will lift his heavy hand and allow this disreputable monument of folly to be tossed out at some of the later stages of proceeding. FATHER O'lURA OX ANATOMY: Hurries to Defeam of the Theologians In Their Attitude on Dissection. BOSTON, Mass.. July 4. (To the Editor)- Happening Into the Boston Pub lic Library this afternoon. I took un The Oregonian of last Tuesday (the latest issue which has reached here) and was astonished to find an editorial purporting to (read nve a lesson In veracity. The actual writer of the communication on dissection has doubt less directed your - attention to the blunder of Andrew D. White concern ing the condemnation of dissection bv Boniface VIII. What I wish to call your attention to is the Insinuation in your statement that I would not honor the testimony of Andrew D. White be cause "he is not one of my order" whatever that may meln. Andrew D. White s "History of the W'arfare Be tween Science and Theology" is to the student of mediaeval records a huge joke though the consequences of the work with uncritical readers Is seri ous enough; the spread of falsehood Is always a serious thing. White can t construe a page of a Latin document to save his life. He Is like a school boy stumbling through Cicero. "Cum aestu febrique." With the heat of an engineer! Great Is the scholarship of Andrew D. White! His comical blun der concerning the papal condemnation of surgery is enough to fix his place among serious scholars. The fact of course is that the Pope3 have always been the patrons of medi cal and surgical science. Those sci ences languished in Italy when the Popes were absent from Rome and re vived on their return. The latest and most scholarly history of surgery and medicine on the shelves of the Boston Public Library Is a volume containing an address on the "Historical Relation of Medicine and Surgery." by T. Clifford Allbutt, M. A., regius professor of physics in the Uni versity of Cambridge. On page 62 I read: "The return of the Popes to Rome renewed the shriveling body of medicine, and with the help of anatomy, Italian surgery rose again. . . . Ves alius was a young man when he taught at Padua, yet, young or ven erable, where but in Italy would he have won, I will not say renown, but even sufferance?" Poor Andrew D. White! He is a sorry model of veracity. FATHER O'HARA. CAGWIX SUCCEEDS LORTON Kelso Man Made Member of Board of Control at Olynipia. OLYMPIA. Wash., July 12. (Special.) Governor Hay today announced the ap pointment of A. E. Cagwin, of Kelso, as member of the Board of Control for the term ending June 11, 1911, to succeed Eugene Lorton. of Walla Walla, re signed. Mr. Cagwin has been a hold over member of the Tax Commission, his term there having expired June 8 last. County Assessor Thomas R. Parrish, of King County, was today appointed to the vacancy on the Tax Commission for the term ending June 8. 1313. Both those appointments take effect July 13. Unknown Disease Kills Hogs. COLFAX. Wash., July J 2. (Spe cial.) A strange hog disease has killed 200 porkers out of a herd of 230 be longing to Elsworth Bishop. The di sease has attacked only the young hogs aged from two to six months as the disease progresses the head, especially the throat and jaws, becomes swollen and ulcerated. Paralysis of the hind parts follows and death results in a few days. It is believed to be a form of hog cholera. Drunken Men Shoot Up Home. COLFAX. Wash., July 12. John Don egan, aged 25, and II. D. Rusell. aged 46. while intoxicated, Sunday, shot up the home of Frank Dowling, for whom they were harvesting, and kept Mr. and Mrs. Dowling in terror until Sheriff Carter reached their home, 12 miles SOUth Of ColfflY. nnnprnn trt...- .l.tM. to have squandered 2'W estate money in uib last year, naving .5 when arrested.