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Be-k-wl'h Piwial Aitency New York, rooms 4S 50 Tribune bul'.dlns. Chlcano. rooms 610-31J Tribune building. PORTLAND, THlRSItAt, SEPT. 18. 1909. TJTB EAST" AXD "THE WEST" WHERE 13 THE LINE? With some point and force Presi dent Taft criticises Governor John ton, of Minnesota, who, with others, thas been 'denouncing the East and calling: upon the West to organize In a sectional way against the East, be cause the East Is deriving more bene fit from the governmental policy than the West and at the expense of the West." Governor Johnson's statement con tains some degree of truth, as many Westerners think enough to give It a kind of force as political or partisan appeal. But the East looks at the subject from It own point of view, holding th-it the West and South are r largely benefited by their association . "with the East, where the revenues of - the Government are expended more " freely In proportion to population than In the smaller but wealthier Eastern Bection. The, West, too, derives Im mense advantages from the free access It has to Eastern markets. But the benefit Is a Joint one, and Inseparable; for the East also profits by large mar kets in the West for Its giods. The West, moreover, wants Eastern capital, and Eastern capital desires profitable Investment. There Is. in fact, close balance of mutual relations. Small points may be selected on which their interests may appear at variance; but these are so far overbalanced by a general sense of community of interest that no thought of sectional division would receive a moment's toleration. Again, how Is the West to be distin guished or divided from the East? Where does the East end, and where ; does the West begin? ; ' .Standing at Boston, New York and Baltimore, one thinks of Indiana, Illi nois, Iowa, as "the West"; and, even Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are often Included in that geographic ex pression. Yet the geographical middle of the country Is far west of Omaha. The West again, turning Its thought towards the rising sun, conceives the West as overlapping the East very far and many of our people think of Kansas City and Minneapolis as Eastern cities. Political and party division becomes as indefinite as the geographical conception. There are men of all the various shades of party deslgnallon, all the way from one ocean to the other and back again. The South Is "solid" only on the race ques tion. We are hearing continually from the Ea-jt voices complaining that the West gets more from the East than the East obtains from the West. Postal and military service, rivers and harbors are among the Items In this category, and the larger relative power of the newer Western states in the Senate. Few of these complaints on either side have Just foundation; none of them. In view of the general advantage derived from union and association, is based on Judgment. The utterance of Pres ident Taft on this subject is more Ju dicious than that of Governor John eon. The latter, evidently, was en i deavoring to work up a stirring partl kan appeal. COOK AXD KANE. The world will read with avidity the Installments of Dr. Cook's narrative as they appear. Most of what he has to tell has been told before, and yet the fact thathis polar expedition has been successful, while all previous ones were, failures, so far as their 'main object Went, lends new and vivid interest to the trite details. Dr. Cook's remark that his expedition was outfitted with less parade than some others empha Hzes an important singularity. Not only did he sail almost secretly on his quest of the Pole, but no explorer before him had set out so nearly alone. Even Dr. Kane, who was among the most self-reliant of travelers, had a crew of eventeen men. Including officers. Critics who are disposed to find fault with Dr. Cook will not fail to pounce upon the absence of exact Information In the first Installment of his narrative. !Co latitudes are specified and the date of sailing from Gloucester is the only one set down. This is In striking con trast with Kane's method. In his diary nothing Is left vague which he could make certain. The latitude of Rensselaer' Bayf where he spent two Winters, on his second and last voy age, is set down to a minute. We know on what day of October the de sponding crew bade farewell to the sun and when it again returned. 6f course this comparison is unfair to Dr. Cook because In the Herald narrative we have not his diary, If he kept one, but merely a hasty transcript of Its con tents." It may be remarked, however, that his .seeming disinclination to deal In precise particulars has given his enemies a handle which they, have made the most of. Te a surprising degree Dr. Cook Alls space with trivial accounts of Eskimo love affairs and incidents of barbaric traffic. There Is nothing new about uch things as these. They have all been recounted. In substance,- many times before. Naturally he Is saving the proof that he really went to the Pole for a dramatic climax to his story, but it would haVe been better for his fame, perhaps, if he had sketched an outline of .it to begin with. One of the most Interesting differ ences between Cook's experiences and those of the earlier Arctic" travelers is the uniform good health he enjoyed. During the two Winters which Dr. Kane spent In the Far North he him self suffered from sclirvy and a num ber of his crew perished with the same disease. It was a pest more to be dreaded than cold and darkness. In 1853, when Dr. Kane sailed from Bos ton, pallors were almost as defenseless against scurvy as they were in the days of the first circumnavigators of the globe. Very soon after the Arctic night descended Kane's men fell vic- , ! U n Atana "Vrt AfTPCtllftl reltl- Ar t- it ti m iinnn-n and their only hope was to drag out a miserable ex istence until they couia ooiam ircz-u meat in the Spring. Recent polar ex peditions have not suffered much ,ui. ,nrrihiA vmirirp A nlentlful II 'Mil 1 11 in iwiiuii. ' r supply of onions and other anti-scor butics helps ward It orr. wmie cneer ful entertainment and regular exercise are almost as Important. The art of keeping well during the Arctic night has been studied with such patient diligence that It would now be a scan dal for a commander to lose as many men from scurvy as Kane did. He -was not blamed for It, though. When he finally returned to the United States he was mightily acclaimed In spite of his calamities, or perhaps be cause of them. To spend a couple. of Winters in the clrcumpolar Ice and come back alive was something to be proud of sixty years ago. In fact. It would be difficult to find any trace of the "unmerited abuse" which Dr. Cook says has usually been heaped upon "the returning polar traveler." Most of them have been smothered under flattery. Their books have enjoyed a huge sale and fame has followed their footsteps. The universal eagerness for Dr. Cook's narrative Is a little keener than his predecessors found waiting for theirs when they got back home, because he has succeeded where they all failed, but It is essentially the same feeling. The world has always been particularly kind to polar explorers. REPRESENTATIVE NOMINATIONS. The motive that inspires the chief Democratic organ of Oregon, In its opposition to councils, assemblies or conventions, to direct party nomina tions, on the representative plan. Is the proof by considerable experience that the way to elect Democratic Senators and Governors and Mayors and other important officials In Oregon is to op pose representative assemblies and stnd for the nomination of Republi can plurality candidates, in a scramble that will divide the dominant (Repub lican) party using the Democratic vote t that end, for best advantage. It Is found by experience that this Is the' way to divide, defeat and de stroy the leading party in a state. In Oregon it has been found to work per fectly, to this end. But in Mississippi (Senator Chamberlain's state), they operate the primary on a different plan. Every candidate for office is forced to take a pledge to support In the election the candidate of his party, whoever he may be; and the primary Itself Is wholly a one-sided and parti san affair- only one party participat ing in it. But In Oregon one party I. Invited and encouraged to participate In the .nomination of the candidates of another. Thus men are nominated for the chief offices who can't be elected. Men who have' voted for the nomina tion in the primary of the candidates of one of the pnr ips, vote in the final election for the candidates of the other. The result of this performance is called "the will of the people," and "opposltlm to boss rule." But the Democrats themselves, in Oregon, don't attend the primary to nominate their own candidates. They go to the primary to nominate Repub lican candidates not those of their own party. A group of Democratlo managers and bosses then meet in caucus or assembly, bring out candi dates and nominate them by petition, and depend on the dissatisfaction of Republicans with candidates nominat ed for them by Democrats, to win the election. It is the most beautiful bunco game ever played In politics. But it wiM be played in Oregon no longer. The recent efiort. In the municipal contest In Portland, and Its signal suc cess, pointed the way. The primary will be guided by the representative action of representative men, meeting together for the purpose of suggesting the names of candidates for the leading office: The primary then will de cide between these and all others, and men will be nominated who represent the principles and purposes of their party, not hybrids or "damned neuters." who, 'in their middle way of steering, are neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring." THE INHABITANTS OF MARS. The reported discovery of vapor of water In the atmosphere -of Mars re vives speculation about the existence of life on our planetary neighbor. Where there Is water and a tempera ture neither excessively hot nor cold, beings not unlike ourselves may pos Blbly live. Whether the possibility has ever become real or not is another matter. When scientists have proved that life may perhaps flourish on Mars,, they are still a long way from proving that it actually does flourish. The supposition that some of the planets besides the earth are inhab ited by intelligent beings is attractive to certain scientists, while to others It Is repulsive. Alfred Russell Wallace found solace In the thought that there was nothing like man in all the rest of the universe. To him there was a singularity in the temperature of the earth. In Its atmosphere and the' dis tribution of land and water, which made man the crowning exception In the scheme of- things. No doubt this view flatters one's vanity. It is soothing to believe that we are the best and highest piece of work the Creator has ever done. It also helps out the v theologians in many a tough predicament. The "plan of salvation," as they have con structed it, would totter frightfully If It were discovered that Mars has a population of intelligent and sinful souls. Think of the inconvenience of two Gardens of Eden, two Adams, two ribs extracted from two slumbering Adams for the creation of two Eves, and all the rest of it. For the stabil ity of thee logy we hope the supposed inhabitants of Mars may be mere myths. Little as .we may like to be de prived of the proud feeling that we are t'.ie sole objects of the Creator's care In the universe. It is Just as well to remember that the evidence of life on Mars grows more convincing every year. The famous "canals" have been a 'subject of speculation for a long time. They show so much evi dence of plan and purpose that It is hard to believe they are not the work of intelligent beings. Again, Mars has much such an alternation of seasons as we have, .with a mean annual tem perature not excessively different from ours. The discovery that Water may possibly abound on the planet seems to shake the last argument against the possibility that It is inhab ited. Arguments of that kind are not very weighty at best. We do'not know that earthly conditions are the only ones which permit Intelligent beings to ex ist. The chances are that they exist and thrive In environments totally, un THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TOURSDAY, like our own. Some may live In worlds where the heat would destroy us. Others may get along entirely without water. We know tbo little about the Inner nature of life and mind to be safe in dogmatizing about them. CCRFEW FOR JOY RIDERS. If the men and women who go whiz sing about the country in powerful au tomobiles, late at night, were wise and good, their adventures would not be so disastrous. The fact is that few of them are good and none of them wise. They are about the most reck less people in the world and If all stories are true, their morals leave much to 'be! desired. Their extraordi nary fondness for red automobiles seems to connect them symbolically with a quarter of Ihe city where red light is highly esteemed. It is dif ficult to believe that the woman who was "Joy riding" with Rodman when Mrs. Rerl was killed, possessed many shining domestic virtues. Her rides must have caused a good deal more joy In the automobile than they did In her home. The automobile seems to have origi nated a new species of insanity among many persons. They go speeding along the roads In the watches of the night when good people are asleep, except belated travelers, and woe to the way farer whom they fall upon.'- He may as well say his prayers and prepare for his end. There is. only one way to deal with these dangerous lunatics. They should be kept off the road. Speed laws are useless, for they will hot obey them. The sole recourse Is to order them to stay at home and, if they are caught at large, without reasonable explanations, to lock them up. A strict curfew ordi nance for joy .riders Is what we need. They ought not to be allowed on the highways after dark, or midnight at latest. ANOTHER PHASE OF SITTON CASE. The latest and. In all kindness to those most nearly concerned. It may be hoped, the last phase of the Sutton case has been reached. It was ap parent from the first that the mother of the young man, whose life went out In violence many months ago, could gain nothing in the way of comfort to herself or in the vindication of her eon by laying bare the hideous details of his last wild night on earth. With kindly purpose toward his relatives and for the sake of the reputation of the. Naval Academy and its sur roundings, the story of suicide was given out when the fact of Lieutenant Sutton's death became known. Better for the mother's feelings had this first finding In the case been accepted and the story of a night of unseemly rev elry been given over to silence. The Incident and manner of the - young man's death would not now be remem bered by half a hundred persons in the world had It not been forced upon public attention by the late hearing and reiterated verdict of a board of in quiry. It is Impossible to believe that exhumation of the body has brought a ray of comfort to the mother. At this point, however, some good may come out of It. The lack of disci pline In the Marine Corps at Annapolis has been exposed and the picture pre sented may serve a useful purpose. Is it for this It has been asked over and over again, seriously and in humilia tion is it for this that the United States Government maintains at great expense a school In naval training for midshipmen and marines at Annap olis? Are the young men, sent there from honest homes by parents ambi tious for their sons' development in ways of manly endeavor and useful ness, allowed to become drunken brawlers, irresponsible night prowlers, vicious, unmannerly, even murderous? There has been, we are told, a great awakening among those In and about the War Department upon this mat ter, due to the shameful disclosures of the night of October 14, 1907. And with this awakening has come a de termination so to guard the interests of the service at this point that a duplication of the scenes of the night in which young Sutton lost his life will not again be possible at Annapolis. If this is true, the life of James N. Sutton was useful in its passing. Hence the inquiry, with its shameful disclos ures, though not in any material sense a vindication of the young man, may have served a useful purpose. As to the rest, if the mother finds comfort In the thought that the body of her son now lies in consecrated ground, the public that she has taken so close ly and so fully into her confidence may well be glad with her and will venture to hope that, content ' with this, she will rest her sad and sorrowful case. MAKE THE COWS HAPPY. Anent the "clean milk" agitation, which Is just now on, we quote from a writer in "Hygiene and Physical Edu cation" (Dr. PaubW. Goldsky, of Bos ton), as follows: "The writer has In spected many milk farms, in which owners, in their endeavor to accede to sanitary regulations, have, in the clean and whitewashed stables and orderly yards, neglected the fact that even cows may be depressed by the mo notony of their surroundings and so become susceptible to Infection." We pause, aghast! ' Does this indi cate that to the long list of health, and food and dairy officials there Is likely to be added one whose province it will be to give cows a diversity pf scenery that will prevent them from falling into a state of melancholy, In duced by the monotony even the clean, white monotony of sanitary sur roundings? Are we then to believe that, after all, the trouble and ex pense undertaken to Induce our dairy men to "clean up," the cows in their whitewashed stalls and clean, well watered, grassy yards will fall into decline because of the monotony in duced by cleanliness, as has been the case owing to monotony of filthy sur roundings? Must the gentle bovine mind be trained if the dairy herd is to enjoy immunity from tuberculosis? If things keep moving in this di rection, it will soon be up to Mrs. Eddy to write a supplement to "Science and Health" suited to the mental caliber of the cow. After which it. will be in cumbent upon the Governor to ap point, and the taxpayers to pay, duly licensed "readers" to make plain to cows the fact that they must rise above material considerations, ignore their surroundings and chew the cud of contentment in the interest of those who drink their milk and find the world a dreary waste. If deprived of butter fat.. Let us not do anything by halves. We are in this campaign to win. If mo notony invites disease in the cow, let us see to It that she has variety. A few bright prints the framing need not be expensive as long as it Is ar tistic hung upon the walls of her stall might serve a good purpose. Milkers, expert ' upon the Jewsharp, directed to play a lively tune in the cow barn fifteen minutes or so before milking time, would doubtless help to break the monotony so deleterious to the health of the dairy herd. For Dr. Goldsby's suggestion many thanks. Let us drop vulgar and commonplace de tails of barnyard filth and unventilated stalls and dirty milkers and clogged separators and sour cans and proceed along higher lines In the endeavor to securer clean and abundant milk sup ply, and great will be our reward. PINCHOT AS TROCBJLE-MAKER. President Taft knows Roosevelt's policies pretty well. He doesn't need Plnchot running after him, shouting what those policies are and what they are not. This role of the Chief For ester has visibly embarrassed the peace-loving President. Evidently, Roosevelt omitted something when he failed to take the Forester with him to Africa. One of the chief reasons for Roosevelt's trip to the far-away land was to get out of Taft's way and let the new President have an open course. Although men may think they agree on policies, they often differ on meth ods of carrying the policies out. Such is the case in the Ballinger-Pinchot dispute. Ballinger, acting under in structions of his chief, keeps strictly within the law In executing the Roose velt policies. Plnchot wants to do things which are not expressly author ized by statute, to carry out his pet ideas of this and that In short to stretch the authority of the Executive to meet his own ideas of conservation and of needs of future generations. The country had a good deal of this method in the preceding Administra tion. Benefits were accomplished in the way of awakening public con science to fraud and waste in matters of the public domain. At the same time injustice was done to many per sons who were entitled to entry and acquisition of land in the 'way that the law allows. Oregon has con-: siderable number of such persons. If there Is only one authorized ver sion of the Roosevelt policies, who is better fitted to pospess it than Taft? But, as a matter of fact, the version must change to meet new conditions. The stretch of executive authority-beyond the law, the withholding of pub lic land from use and settlement, even if justifiable at one time, could not be continued indefinitely. Mr. Plnchot may now be crowded out. But it is not credible that his going will help the purposes of land fraud or water monopoly. Ballinger's Western knowledge may be relied upon to protect the public domain from spoliation. The Oregon Agricultural College i. e., the State of Oregon through the regents of the Agricultural College has imported from Germany a high class, high-salaried teacher of music. Just what bearing ' his services will have upon the science of agriculture, in the interest of which the college at Corvallis is maintained, is not stated. Might' it not be well (softly be it spoken) to allow parents to put on some of the frills in the name of edu cation which the state is now taxed to supply? However, there may be some reason we have not yet heard of to teach the boys to sing to the steers while they-follow the plow. The most serious loss incident to the burning of the Portland Flouring Mills' plant in this city will be the sus pension of its activities for a period of some months while it is being re built. Present business men keep their properties well covered by insurance. Hence, as in thi. case, the loss by fire falls where it is least felt, except as before said, where it is accentuated by mon- of suspended industry. In this view, the destruction of these mills Is a severe disaster. They will be rebuilt at once, which means as soon as a work of that magnitude can be per formed. A movement is on foot to erect a monument to E. H. Harrlman. The proposition is to ask each employe in the country to contribute 26 cents for that purpose. The movement is ill ad vised. Harrlman's monument is In his endeavor and the success that attended it. Sueli additional memorial as his family desire, they are abundantly able to erect, and would no doubt prefer to do so. Officlousness In a matter of this kind Is offensive. "If the primary law was enacted for the purpose of abolishing conventions" why didn't it abolish them and forbid, under suitable penalties, the holding of conventions? Why, further, did it set out in a long preamble that po litical parties are necessary, if it meant to cut oft the organizations and meth ods by which' alone parties can be maintained? Mr". James J. Hill Is perturbed by fear that the. United States will soon have to import wheat. That contin gency doesn't worry us 'of the Pacific Northwest. When the time comes we can -exchange red apples for foreign wheat, and at a big profit. Now we have It, on good and un doubted authority, that watering troughs spread disease among horses. Let an Inspector be sent out. hot-foot, to interpose his salary between this menace' of glanders and the unsuspect ing horse. Director Campbell, of Lick observa tory, has reported that there is a watery vapor on Mars, and it is up to the manager of some other big tele scope to challenge the statement and demand proofs. Effort of some enthusiastic residents of California's citrus belt to split the state need not be taken seriously. Congress, which doesn'.t take kindly to such divisions, is the arbiter in these matters. . What! . Are they going to gridiron Oregon with railroads? The electric line through the fruitful Molalla Val ley to Sllverton is further proof of an invasion we are powerless to check. For several days at least, the name of Peary's ship will serve to keep fresh the memory of an ex-President now away from home. Medford will have a new bank. The town probably needs it to hold the big profits from this year's fruit crop. Not only the track record, but the weather record, was broken at Salem this week. There is no doubt, however, about some things Mrs. Maddux was doing. . Taft has started West. Well, good luck to you, old man. SEPTEMBER 16, 1909. SPOKEX WORDS WITH NO MEANING Lsy Editorial on Sounds We Hear but Do Not Inderstand. PORTLAND, Sept. 15. (To the Edi tor.) There Is no doiibt some merit in your solution of the small attendance which the American people frequently grant to operatic companies which "perform" in foreign languages, ren dering famous and beautiful composi tions In German, French and Italian, for, as you remark, the average man has a very natural desire to under stand the accompanying words and to get at least a smattering of what It is all about. This is in a measure true, since a satisfactory appreciation of the effort presented requires that an aud ience should have some Inkling as to whether the anguish portrayed by the singer is the result of unrequited love, the death of a near relative, or. may hap, the excessive demonstration of joy over a . wedding, prospective or otherwise. But all this Is left to mere conjec ture when the words employed are Greek to those who are wondering why it was not all avoided If it has caused so much difficulty and mis understanding. It leaves the aston ished auditor in the air in his specu lation as to whether the singer Is con trolled by fear, Joy, distress or rage. And it also creates an atmosphere of uncertainty among those of, the assem blage who are Americans and are com pelled to watch their neighbors of for eign extraction to get the cue before they can conjure the proper emotion for the occasion. But while this is true, did you ever consider that we are in practically the same box when we attend church when we -do and attempt to follow the choir In the rendition of the words accompanying the songs? As a rule not one word in a dozen can be dis tinguished, and as to "following:" the sentiment, which it is assumed they are conveying, it Is a fruitless pur suit. This 1s not to say that the sing ing of our church choirs is not highly appreciated, for with due deference to the efforts of our distinguished and able pastors, the singing is one of the very best features of the average church service, but It leaves much to be guessed at excepting, of course, the splendid harmonies, the rich cres cendos and diminuendos, the high C's and pretty hats, which, happily, do not quite succeed In eclipsing the beautiful faces of the female singers. But as the song itself, and what it means. It would as well be Bung In Italian since the congregation must needs rely altogether upon the good intention of the trusted singers to execute that which is proper for church-goers to hear. The truth Is that we' accept many things In this life on faith after all. The excited actor who rushes out on the stage in a - frenzy and emits a string of disconnected or unconnected language at the rate of 700 words a minute, places a listening and amazed audience in a helpless condition, and the situation is not a whit relieved by the assurance that he -is raving in English, for a .fit thrown in French would probably be mort appropriate, and certainly equally as intelligible. The first character who appeared on the stage "during "Palomy Jane" here last week furnishes a suitable ex ample. The play had proceeded al most half way through the first act before the performers got settled down to earth and Into the use of conver sation which could be understood. . This tendency toward the use of gibberish with the assumption that it fully gratifies the desire of an expect ant public, is one of the apparently settled features of our civilization. The conductor pokes his head into the rear door of his car and shouts to the passengers that the next crossing wil. be "Scat-Zip!!" street, and such persons as want to get off at that point have no more Idea whether they have arrived there than if the said conductor .were an Indian totem poler And the interesting, as well as instructive, phase of the con ductor's stunt, as a study in human nature, is that he appears to harbor the conviction that he has performed a dutv Imposed upon him by his su periors, and that the question whether, the passengers had received any Information was a side-issue, un worthy of consideration. In this connection I recall that not long since Millard Lownsdale pub lished a vigorous protest against changing Lownsdale street to Fif teenth, this having been done recently for the reason, that the streetcar con- ductors found it difficult to pronounce the word "Lownsdale. Millard s in dignation Is certainly well founded, since In the language of the average conductor the name of a street, like the earth at a certain historic stage, Is void and without form, So it dosen't really matter so much after all whether we sing In French, Italian or German, or whether we un derstand it or not, since a large per centage of the things done in this life leaves us with a gucs coming, any way. T. T. GEER. Byron's "Maid of Athens." London Globe. It Is Just 100 years ago that Lord Byron arrived in Greece, where he wrote that beautiful poem, "The Bride of Abydos.' and that exquisite song, "The Maid of Athens," which, says a Paris contemporary, every Englishman of culture knows by heart. Documents enable us to establish the true Identity of the heroine of this last poem. She was one of the three daugh ters of Mr. Black, English Vice-Consul at Athens, at whose house Byron for some time lived. After the departure of the poet Theresa Black married an archaeologist, ,M. Plttakis, whose widow she became sevefal years later. Her beauty, her charm, her elegance con quered every heart. Including Byron's. In 1873 the heroine of the poet was an old woman of upright figure and still showing signs of her former beauty. With age had come poverty. The Times, moved by her distress, opened at this epoch a subscription in her favor. She died in 1875. Mike, Uie Goat, Strips Pear Trees. ' New York World. W. L. McCook, who has a farm near North Caldwell. N. J., has been missing some of his choicest fruit, and he blamed small boys for the depredations. To day, however, the thief was discovered In the shape of Mike, a goat, belonging to Glllingham Torrens. Mike was seen to enter the McCook place. He glanced abut to see if there were any witnesses. Discovering .none, Mike charged head down at a pear tree. The impact of the goat's head against the tree shook the trunk with such good effect that a. dozen or more of the ripest pears rattled down. Mike was calmly eating the fruit when the owner of the orchard descended upon him. McCook estimates that the goat has carried off about three bushels of his apples and pears. Woman Dies, Weighing 000 Pounds. Stahdlsh, Mich., Dispatch to Chicago Tribune. Mrs. John F. Hum, wife of the presi dent of the village of Grayling, has just died here. She was the largest woman In Northern Michigan, and the largest in the state, as far as is known. She weighed 600 pounds. The coffin and rough- box weighed 490 pounds. It was 3 feet 6 inches wide, '2 feet 6 inches deep, and 6 feet 9 inches long. It required ten pallbearers, all big men. also the removal of the fence in front of the house, to get the coffin 6n the funeral car. Mrs. Hum Is survived by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Cora M. Felling, of Grayling, and Mrs. Bessie Wetz, of Day ton. O;. and two sons, Harry and Clyde, both of Grayling. Her children all are of average size. HUGHES MEMORIAL PliAXXED Committee to Prepare Resolutions. . Capitalist's Will Filed. Acommittee of five to prepare resolu tions in memory of the late Ellis G. Hughes was appointed by Presiding Cir cuit Judge Bronaugh yesterday morning, as follows: Frederick V. Holman. Judge George H. Williams, Richard Willi ims. Judge H. H. Northup, and Sanderson Reed. They will report to the court at 9:30 A. M. tomorrow. Mr. Hughes' will, made in Iowa City, Iowa, 17 years ago, was filed for pro bate yesterday. A queer circumstance In connection with one of its provisions Is 'that Preston W. Gillette, who is named as an executor, died, January 21. 1905, at the age of 80 years', and Hughes acted as attorney for Mary M. Glllettte. the widow, when the estate was probated. So far as known, Mr. Hughes made no will after Gillette's death. The papers of the Gillette estate, as well as the Hughes' will., are all neatly written by hand, Hughes having been a fine penman. The will bears date of April 20. 1892, and provides that if the estate shall be worth $120,000 or more after all debts are paid. Louisa K. Hughes. mO"ier of the deceased is to re ceive. $20,000. If not- she is to receive one per cent of the estate's value an nually while she lives. The balance of the estate is to go to the widow, Mrs. Maria Louisa Hughes and the daughter, Louisa J. Hughes, share and share alike. The widow and daughter are named as executrixes in addition to the mention of Mr. Gillette, to act without giving bonds, and are empowered to sell real estate without court orders. - ; MULTXOMAH SEASON OPENS Several, Divisions of Club Show In creased Membership. The opening of the season of the Mult nomah Amateur Athletic Club saw the largest enrollment and the keenest in terest that have been known in the his tory of the club. The Increase in interest was shown par ticularly among the ladies. Up to yester day afternoon 15 of them who were former members had accepted the offer of the board of directors to return to membership by simply paying three months' dues in advance. About 60 men have also returned under the same ar rangement. The business men's class, which was to have opened next week, was started yes terday owing to -demands of members. The ,work of the business men in the gymnasium will be one of the features .this year. - Practice has started with the soccer team and next week it Is expected a large number of candidates will turn out for football practice. Training for handball will also be under way next week and bowling will be started about October 1. The enrollment in the various gym classes will be completed id about a week. DEMURRER DELAYS" . TRIAL Suit for $1500 Damnfres for Land Sale Temporarily Delayed. The suit of W. C. Duniway against W. M. and Robert -J. C. Conklin, .vhlch was to have been tried before Circuit Judge Gatens yesterday morning,' was unexpectedly stopped by a demurrer in troduced by Attorney Bert E. Haney for the defendants. The entire morning was occupied by the argument. Duniway demands $1500 damages from the defendants. He alleges that they had an option on certain property and agreed to sell It to him for $2500. He paid $50 to bind the bargain, he alleges, and was to receive a deed if the abstract showed the title to be good. The property was sold to W. F. Fliedner for $2750. Duni way says it is worth $4000, and demands the difference. FATHER OPPOSES STEPFATHER Parent of Children Wants City Au ditor to Manage Their Estate. A petition asking for the appointment of City Auditor Barbur as the guardian of Helen and Closson Snider, and the removal of C. O. Foster, their stepfather, was filed In the County Court yesterday morning by George Snider, their father. Snider says the children's mother died September 6. and that ill-feeling has ex lsited between the foster parent and him self for a long time. The children's es tate is worth $2000, consisting of an In surance policy in the Royal Circle, Wo men of Woodcraft. Foster was appoint ed September 30. HE ASKS $20,000 FOR FOOT John Warmuth Flies Suit Against Railway for Accident. John Warmuth filed suit in the Circuit Court late yesterday afternoon against the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, demanding $20,000 damages on account of an accident on the Waverly Woodstock line January 22. Warmuth alleges that he started to board a Woodstock car at the Vivian street switch when it suddenly started, throwing his foot under the wheel so that amputation was necessary. NORTHRUP IS ADMINISTRATOR Judge Names Him as Manager I Scheller Estate, ft. C. Northrup yesterday morning was appointed administrator of Charles Schel ler's estate by County Judge Webster, a petition to this effect having been filed by Dr. Chester C. Moore. Scheller is said to have lost his wife and children in the Galveston Hood. Scheller Is eved to have a sister, but it is not known where she lives. The estate Is worth about $1500. Scheller died at a local hospital, September 7. VERDICT ALLOWS HER $9 96 Woman Seeks $40,000 Value for Railway Accident. A verdict returned by a jury in Judge Cleland's department of the Circuit Court at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon pro vides that the Portland Railway Company pay Mrs. Margaret Sklllman $996 on ac count of an accident which happened at Third and Alder streets In September, 19-07. - The woman started to alight from a car when it suddenly started, throwing her to the ground and dragging her some distance. She sued for $40,000. Hammond Mill Enlarged. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 15. (Special.) The extensive improvements to the Ham mond Lumber Company's mill are rapidly nearlng completion and about the first of the coming month the plant will be shut down to connect up the machinery. The new mill will be ready for operation about November 1, and then the plant will cut an average of 250,000 feet of lum ber" per day. Moran, Shipbuilder, Dies. SEATTLE, Sept. 15. William Moron, the shipbuilder, a member of the firm which built the battleship Nebraska,, died yesterday. He was the fourth of the eight Moran brothers to die within four years. PORTLAND'S GAIX IS LARGE Tourist Travel Seeks This City as Its Objective Point. Figures compiled by the Transconti nental Passenger Association show that in the last five months Portland was the final Western objective point of approxi mately one-third of all the tourists who visited the Pacific Coast In that period. These figures are shown by the valida tion statistics covering the period from April 9 to August 31, inclusive. During that period 112,450 round-trip tourist tickets were validated in Portland, Seat tle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. These figures apply only to one class of ticket. They are of the limited, round trip excursion class, and do not include thousands of other tickets containing longer stop-over privileges. The validating of the tourist tickets is done at the point at which the holder turns homeward. In the list of validat ing points, Portland stands next to and almost equal with San Francisco and leads Seattle and Los Angeles togotlipr. Railroad men say these figures indicate that Portland as a place to visit ranked high with the tourist travelers. In the 1909 validating figures. 9an Francisco leads for the live months with a total of 43,329; Portland reports a total of 38,491; Seattle is third with 23,303, and Los- Angeles is fourth with 7327. Comparison with the figures of 1903 in dicates clearly the increase in tourist travel of this year. The total number of tourist excursion tickets validated in Portland last year was 6105, or less than one-third as many as this year. The total for the four cities named was 22,945, or about one-fifth of this year's record. In 1905, the year of the Lewis and Clark Fair, the validating offices in the tour cities named, during a like period, validated 75.2S6 tickets. Portland, that year, led all other Coast cities with the total number of tickets validated at 47,113. The following is the complete record for the three years mentioned: Tickets Validated April 9 to August 31. 1905 190K. 139. Lo Arurek-s.. 8.230 7.3i'7 San Franolsco.lS.913 11.29r, 4S.3L'S Portland 47,113 6.10S Sv4!l Seattle 1.031 1.624 23..HH Total 75.2S8 22.945 112,450 Av. per day. 670 91 185.84 1,01'9.:5 REPORT NOT YET CONFIRMED Local Railroad Men, However, Cred it Lovctt's Election. No confirmation of the election of Judge Robert S. Lovett as chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads has been received by the general offices of the Harrlman lines in Portland, but the press dispatches announcing the election in New York are taken as correct. No change in the manasement or pol icy of the Southern Pacific or O. R. & N. in Oregon is expected and accord ing to J. P. O'Brien, vice-president and general manager, it may not even be deemed necessary to elect a successor to fill the vacancy at the head of the O. R. & N., caused by the death of Mr. Harrl man. The chairman of the executive board is the controlling power. Officials here express gratification over the selec tion of Judge Lovett as the successor to Mr. Harrlman. ! SEE NO DANGER TO DRY CAUSE Liquor Foes Say State Vote Will Not Affect Districts Now Dry. PORTLAND, Sept. 16. (To the Edi tor.) The next general election in Ore gon will not be held until one year from next November, but even at this early date the political caldron is beginning to boil; possible candidates and issues for that election are frequently refeired to in the current columns of The Ore gonlnn.. However, the proposition of a vote on a constitutional amendment pro viding for state-wide prohibition in Ore gon, seems to take precedence over nil other Issues and to occupy the largest place la the minds of the people at the present time. This manifestation of public Interest, and the frequent discussion of this i:reat issue in the columns of The Ore?onIan are- very gratifying to those who are actively engaged in the work of this great reform. It will inform the public intelligence and stimulate publlo interest and iction. Since our cause is righteous, we believe we have nothing to lose, and much to gain from these frequent discussions In the publio press, and we hope that the discussions will continue. But when from time to time false statements are made we would like to have the privilege of correcting same. In your issue -of today it was stated that prohibitionists practically admit that they are risking looal option and all the dry territory they have pained in tho one throw to be made next Fall. I do not know who made this admission, but I am sure that it is a mistake, and may do the cause of state-wide prohibition great harm if not corrected. If our effort to write a prohibitory amendment Into the constitution of Ore gon next year should fail, it will not change in the slightest degree the status of our present effective local option law. As an instrument for securing town or county prohibition It will be just ns ef fective then as it Is now. and those towns and counties in Oregon, which have voted dry under our local option law, and which have been, and are now reap ing the rich moral and financial beneuts of prohibition, ' will have no desire to return to the open saloon, even if our effort to make prohibition constitutional in Oregon does fall. Iowa, Arkansas and Texas all mirte a strong effort to secure constitutional prohibition this year and failed, but such failure has not resulted In any reversal of sentiment or conditions In the dry territory of these states. The extensive campaign of agitation and discussion against the liquor traffic which will be carried on in every county and precinct In the State of Oregon t.ext year even If it does fail of Its immediate object, will not fail to strengthen the conviction of those already won to the cause of prohibition, and to win ,nany . who have not as yet stood or voted Mr ""The thing about which the leaders of the Anti-Saloon League in Oregon are the most concerned at the present time is not the strength of the enemies of prohibition, but the injudicious state ments and actions of its professed friends. E. F. ZIMMERMAN. Field Worker Oregon Anti-Saloon League. Accredited List Increased. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. OrSept. 15. (Special.) High schools and colleges recently placed on the accredited list of the University of Oregon are: The College Preparatory School, of Ashland, Or., W. T. Van Scoy, President; The Columbia Junior ;.. Ao At.rr.-v r.f Milton. Or., W. H. Martin, President, and the Drain High School. Drain, or., A. J. jui i.i."., superintendent. Graduates of these schools will be admitted to tho Uni versity without examination. Fruit and Wine for Taft. LEWISTON", Idaho. Sept. 15. (Special.) President William Howard Taft and partv upon their arrival in Spokane on September 27 will be presented with a,, large shipment of choice Iewistnn fruits and wines. This was the decision of the governing board of the Commercial Club and the orders will be placed this week with local orchardlsts for their best fruit products on that data