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8 THE 3IORXIXO OREGOXlAX, AVEDXESDAT, FEBRUARY 2, i 1910. PORTLAND, OREGON". Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postoffice frecond-Claas Mattar. Subscription Bate Invariably In Advance. (BT MAIL.) tMlly. Sunday Included, one year. . . . . ..8.00 Zally, Punday Included, six monthi.... 4.25 Ially. Sunday Included, three month.. 2.23 Pally. Sunday Included, one month..... .75 Dally, without 8unday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, nix monthi 8.23 Daily, without Sunday, three months... 1.73 Dally, without Sunday, one month..... .V Weeklx, one year....- 1.30 bunday. one year 2.30 feunday and weekly, one year......... 8. SO CBy Carrier.) Bally. Funday Included, one year...... 9.00 ally. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit bend Postofriee monoy order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Btamps. coin or currency p-re at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress In full. Including county and state. Postage Kate lO to 14 pages, 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, g cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage' double rate. eastern Ruslnees Office. The S. C Beck wlth Special ABncy New York, rooms 4K B0 Tribune bunding. Chicago, rooms 510-612 Tribune building. WRTUXD, WBOXESBAY, TER S. 1910. THE FARMERS AND THEllt PAY. It is edifying to note the attitude of farmer folk on the high coat of liv ing:. They are getting excellent prices, and rejoice in the fact. Indignant they are, moreover, towards those who would try to reduce the prices they get, by boycott. Federal Intervention, or otherwise. Men who have cattle on the ranges, and men In the corn country -who are feeding hogs for market and making good money, say the prices are very satisfactory t.i them. The women folk of the farm, who are looking after the poultry and eggs, out of which they get money for new hats and gowns, are quite satis fled too; and the milkmen and butter makers say that at last they are ob taining something for their labor and pains In taking care of their stocl:, getting up before daybreak to milk and to feed, and hustling off to maki their deliveries before dawn, on we:, gnowy or icy mornings.' It seems to be more agreeable to gather In the towns and oomplaln of the high cost of subsistence than to accept the life and labor of the farm, and share this prosperity of the farmer folk, now getting unusual prices for most of their products. James J. Hill Is right, when he says that the "high prices of foodstuffs are dite chiefly to the growing- demand for consumption, with which produc tion does not keep pace." Cold stor age and other methods of preservation ought not to increase prices, but rather to reduce them. The surplus, or part of It, is taken up seasonably and kept for times when otherwise s there would be scarcity; for the prod Jucts dealt with are of perishable ; kinds, and the natural effect of the $ processes of preservation should be j to meet a demand w'hen no seasonable I supply is available. What harm in t preservation of foodstuffs which, otherwise would perish? If people vdon't like the prices of cold storage stuffs, iheir remedy is to do without such stuffs, as they did very gener- 'ally, before cold storage and the can ning industry began. There are two sides to high prices, all along the line. The extravagance of consumers is favorable to producers, ani the disinclination to country work shortens steadily the old excess of the supply- over the demand. The rentiers now are having their day; and their day will be a still better one, unless the disposition of people about thejtowns to work in the country shall Improve. i j EDISON'S STORAGE BATTERY. If the accounts of Mr. Edison's re cent experiment at Orange, N. J., ara correct, he has finally solved the dif ficult problem of runnirig streetcars cheaply and rapidly with storage bat teries. The car used in the experi ment was- between seven and eight feet wide and twenty-six feet long, while it weighed only half as much ns an 'ordinary trollej--car. The power was obtained through two motors vf a little more than seven-horsepower each, worked by a storage battery. A speed of 20 miles an hour was maintained and it is claimed that the ! battery needs recharging only at In tervals of 150 miles. Stated other wise, the new storage battery will run a car continuously for seven and one half hours before its energy is ex hausted. Mr. Edison has been working at the V problem of a cheap and efficient stor age battery for some twenty years. Borne time ago he announced that he had discovered what he was seeking, , but It turned out that he had spoken ; prematurely. Difficulties still re ' Tnalned to be overcome, but he perse vered in his researches and the chances are that his success Is now ' complete. Theoretically the storage 'battery Is a very simple affair. Us , purpose is to reverse the chemical pro ' cesses which generate an electrical current In an ordinary galvanic cell. This is accomplished by passing a cur ' rent through a series of properly pre pared cells. The products of electroly , fj are collected at the poles and will, -in their turn, maintain a difference of " potential and cause a current to flow. All this is clear enough to anybody . who knows how a galvanic cell ap pears, but the practical difficulties in n the way of working out the theory have been very great. ' The. first storage battery was de vised In 1S01. It had silver or plal . Inum electrodes immersed in a solu tion of common salt. Experimentally It was Interesting to scientific men, but the current which it yielded was too feeble and transitory to- be use ful. The same may be said of the "gas storage battery." which Sir Wil liam Grove constructed, in 1842. The Invention had no commercial import ance until Gaston Plante thought of -using lead electrodes in dilute sul phuric acid. This was in 1860, an 1 ; since then progress in perfecting th ' storage battery has been continuous, though, in spite of everything, it has " remained too cumbersome and ex pensive for common use. The curious reader will notice that the storage battery has both electrodes of the kam metal. The ordinary, or pri mary cell, uses zinc at one pole, say, &nd copper at the other. This Is the 'essential structural difference between them. ' In charging a Plante storage cell one of the electrodes becomes coatad .with a tenuous deposit of lead per oxide. The other receives a coat of metallic lead in an extraordinarily spongy condition. What originates the electromotive force between them s something of a mystery, but the os- 'motlc theory, as It Is called, is gaining ground. According to this, the ions t Uiajroxid. and -the aoonsy lead strive to go into solution with the sul phuric acid. The energy which they set free in accomplishing this gener ates the current. It Is not yet made public Just how Edison has improved the storage battery He may have found some method of increasing either its ca pacity or its efficiency. With a greater capacity it would produce more cur rent, while occupying less space, which would be highly desirable. Wirii greater efficiency it would return a larger proportion of the work con sumed in charging it. This would also help to "widen its commercial utility. There is a possibility, too, that Edison has replaced Plante's lead electrodes with some more efficient metal. When the storage battery is per fected, so that it is compact and cheap, its industrial employment will be very extensive. Wherever power is re quired at a distance from a generat ing plant it will be available. This Includes not only electric cars, but also manufacturing of many sorts and farm work. An economical and not too bulky source of power would be a wonderful boon to farmers. In cities and villages the storage battery would abate the nuisance of trolley poles and wires;- Evidently, therefore, if Mr. Edison's invention comes up to the ac counts, it is an Industrial appliance of the highest importance. IT TEI.LS ITS OWN TAT.E. The plurality primary, with direc tion of assembly, convention or party organization, is highly favorable to the minority party; therefore the poli ticians and newspapers of the minor ity party in Oregon exclaim furiously against assembly or convention, or any attempt of the majority party To consult on party organization or to recommend nominations. The go-as-you-please plurality pri mary means a multitude of candidates for official positions, split of t the ma jority party into numerous groups, and nomination by meager plurality of candidates who can't unite their party vote for the election. This is precisely what the minority opposition desires. Then the Democratic mana gers will unite their party vote, in co operation with one faction or another of recalcitrant and dissatisfied Repub licans, and a plunge for "reform" will be made. It is because this plan holds out a promise of more Democratic Gover nors and Senators and other similar achievements that so furious oppi sltion is made to the effort to harmon ize, organize and unite the Republican party by means of council, assembly, conference or convention. It is simple, it is transparent, it tells Its own tale. KEW HIGH SCHOOL. SEEDED. Taxpayers of Portland school dis trict will vote today on the question of building a new high school on the West Side, to take the place of the antique structure at Fourteenth, be tween Alder and Morrison streets. This 13 a needed addition to the city's high school facilities. Expenditures therefor of $350,000 The Oregonian recommends as an important require ment of a fast-growing population on the West Side. The East Side will always hold tho majority of the city's high school stu dents. So fast has the high school population of that side of the river grown that two high schools have had to be built there within a short time of each other. Soon there will have to be a third high school 6n the East Side. But on the West Side is also a large population and always will be, espe cially in the northern and the south ern districts. This population will be increasingly denser than on the East Side. The matter to be borne lit mini is that large part of the city's per manent residence area is on the West Side and needs adequate school facil ities. The present high school . for the West Side, built more - than twenty five years ago, is Ill-suited to its pur pose. Its heating and plumbing are poor, its ventilation is faulty and its many long stairways have made worry for mothers of daughters for almost a generation. The present high school on the West Side stands on land that, has grown highly valuable. The increased value of this land will more than compensate for abandonment of the old building and will almost pay for the new structure. Either sold or leased, the land will bring in a hand some profit to the district to com pensate amply for the cost of a new school. . Thus Justified as a financial invest ment, the new school will also be Jus tified by public requirements. West Side and East Side are growing ta gether and each needs to be provided, for equally well In the way of schools. A new high school on the West Side will not be an extravagance, and tax payers will be looking well to their interests when voting to support it. RECORD-BREAKING START. Building permits, bank clearings, real estate - transfers, Postoffice . re ceipts and every other feature of the commercial and industrial situation for the first month of the year make a highly satisfactory exhibit as com pared with the same month last year. Development of the many and varied resources of the state and the re mainder of the Pacific Northwest has been so widespread and general in its nature that it is no longer possible to credit any particular industry or in fluence with special importance !n bringing about the present prosperity. Wheat and salmon, at one time, were the two big factors in the trade of Portland and Oregon, and the pros perity of the commonwealth was, to a considerable extent, dependent on the size of the salmon run and the wheat yield of the Willamette Valley. These great staples had much in fluence in laying the foundation for the present greatness of Portland, but they have long since ceased to figure so extensively In the general trade sit uation. Agencies which created the business reflected in bank clearings averaging nearly Jl, 500, 000 for every business day of the month, are of more recent date than our original wealth producers. They include the stock and dairying industry, fruit growing and diversified farming, and perhaps paramount is the great lum ber industry. The tremendous part this Industry is playing in the pros perity of the city and state is reflected only in small degree by the actual statistics on lumber nipments and the output of the .mills. An over whelming proportion of the money which that industry Is now placing in circulation comes from Eastern capi talists who are buying heavily while Iher yet remains an opportunity r.o secure holdings in the greatest body of standing timber that can be found anywhere in the world. This money percolates through hun dreds of trade channels and sets in motion new industries and provides employment for a steadily increasing number of newcomers. The year 1909 opened with much more satisfactory conditions than prevailed in January, 1908, and the present year has shown a corresponding improvement over 1909. At no time in the history of the city and state has the outlook pre sented a rosier hue. It will require something far out of the ordinary to prevent a continuation of January's record-breaking business. AN ILL-ADVISED CHANGE. An effort is being made in the East to have the meteorological charts of the Weather Bureau abandoned and the hydrographic charts substituted. This Is a change which could not be accomplished without positive Injur to the maritime interests.. With all due respect for the excellent work of the hydrographic service and other branches of the Government work, it is doubtful if there is any other de partment that has equaled the excel lent record of the Weather Bureau. The meteorological charts prepared by the Weather Bureau were all compiled from elaborate data collected by the bureau as a part of its regular work in forecasting the weather and locat ing the causes for meteorological dis turbances. Being at all times in the closest touch with the conditions that have a direct bearing on navigation, the Weather Bureau, with its able staff of professors and forecasters, is much more competent to compile and ar range the data collected, in tangible form to be beneficial to navigators, than would be possible for any other department not in daily and hourly touch with the changing conditions. The country suffered a distinct lo.s when the crop-reporting branch of the Weather Bureau was transferred lo another department, as the advantage of a constant study of the elements Which directly affect crop conditions was lost when the bureau was relieved of the work of crop reporting. A similar disadvantage would be encoun tered if this Eastern movement for abandonment of the meteorological charts of the Weather Bureau and substitution of the hydrographic charts was successful. The Weather Bureau collects all of the informa tion that is of value on these charts, and its compilations of these data should be given preference over all others. THE COUNTRY I'OSTOI I ICE THAT WAS. The day Is past wherein men desire the position of postmaster at the country crossroads or in the deserted village. Women took up the job for a time when men passed it by, but even they have come to refuse its empty honors and the meager pin-money that the service affords. Hence star vation pay for public services has been relegated to the pale teacher of the country school in the lonely lowland or the isolated mountain district, and to the sad-faced preacher who breaks the bread of life, metaphorically speaking, to "grown-ups," in the dim little schoolhouses on Sunday that re sound with the piping treble of child ish voices on weekdays. The rural free delivery has done it, eay the ora cles of progress; prosperity, beckoning to larger fields of endeavor, has done it, call out the lieralds of a new era in exultant tones. . It is probable that a combination of these causes has led to the abolish ment of the country postoffice. Wher ever the rural post route is estab lished the work of the postoffice is fin ished, while in out-of-the-way places where the settlers forget to go to the postoffice, or" going even occasionally return empty-handed, the office of the postmaster is at once unremuneratlve, almost useless and thankless. The sit uation, as developed by the Inability of Representative McCredie, of Wash ington, to find men or women willing to accept commissions in many post offices of his district is somewhat pe culiar when taken in connection with the office-seeking mania and spoils rewarding policy to which the estab lishment of hundreds of postoffices was due. Citizens of these out-of-the-way lo calities no longer want the empiy honor of presiding over a post office that extsts in name only and pays next to nothing for its name. They have learned by ex perience that cheap politics is the cheapest of all things in which a man with self-respect and a good right arm can engage. They have learned, more over, that there are vast resources ,t agriculture, of dairying, of stockrais ing, awaiting development, for the proceeds of which the market clamors at prices which the wages of an abounding prosperity enable consum ers to pay. Having learned these -things, the cheap political office Is no longer at tractive to them. ' Busy men cannot afford to waste their time waiting for the arrival of the lank country mail pouch. Their fields and orchards and pastures teem with the promise of plenty. Developing these, they beckon free postal delivery and lo! it is witn them, bearing the - newspaper, the poultry and agricultural journal, il lustrated seed catalogues and maga zines which disclose the wonders of the advertising world. ' It has thus come about that the regret that is felt for the passing of the counjry post office is similar to that which followed the passing of the town beadle. It is that of association and tradition mere ly, and not of actual loss. The list of names and unpaid claims of Oregon postmasters, dating back to the sixth and seventh decades of the past century, is largely a mortuary list. Some of these unpaid balances represent trifling sums one as low aa $12; others represent sums the with holding of which must have pressed heavily upon those oldtime post masters. That of John M. Bacon, of Oregon City, for example, long since deceased, aggregated, between the years 1868 and 1872 $912; that of his predecessor, W. S. Partlow, $470. T.i the list of postmasters to whom the Government has long been a delin quent debtor are those of Eugene, Forest Grove, Lafayette, Corvallis, McMinnville, Astoria (a total of over $1300 being due to C. L. Parker, who was postmaster of the last-named city from 1864 to 1874, inclusive), and indeed every town, including East Portland, that . made any pretensioi to Importance during those far-away, uncertain years. These claims have been passed upon as valid, but the period of their adjustment is remote. They stand a somewhat formidable list, not only in Oregon, but In some twenty other states, in refutation of common and vainglorious boast that "Uncle Sam is a good paymaster." Something more than 180 miners perished in the explosion and fire at Cherry, 111., in November. To - tho widows of seventy-four of these, babes have been born since that date, thus replacing nearly half the lives lost in that disaster. Stunned and helpless, the mothers of these babes, in poor homes, many of which are doubtless already crowded with children, do not look upon the new arrivals as blessings, but as burdens added to those already too hard to bear. In evidence of this is the statement that the doctors are having hard work to prevent the sending away of the3e posthumous heirs to poverty and wretchedness, whose only chance of parental support during their help less years went out In the November disaster that made them fatherless before they saw the light. Even the natural one might say the animal Instinct of motherhood has been stamped out in these suffering women and the added child Is but an added burden which they would fain re linquish. The search would be long. Indeed, which would disclose more utter hopelessness than that shown in the case of mothers, to whom tho wail of the new-born infant brings terror and not Joy. Pity, not censure, is their due. Representative Foelker, of New Tork, is a brave man, or he has a constituency which does not belong to the Farmers' Union. Mr. Foelkr has attempted to cause a reduction in the cost of living by placing bee', mutton, pork, and other meats, on the free list. This country is still In the list of meat-exporting countries. So long as there is a surplus for ex port to Europe, it would seem that there would not be much chance for relief, even with the duty remove!. Still, the experiment might be tried, as every man connected with the meat industry, from the farmer who raises the animal to the butcher who sella at retail, has disclaimed all responsl. bllity for the increased prices. Ad mission of free meat might curtail the supply of the foreigners to a greater extent than the boycott ha reduced the demand in this country. With the, foreigner, high prices cause a slack ening demand much sooner than would be the case in this country, where the purchasing power is so much greater. . It is becoming more and more clearly manifest that if the lion has a place in animate nature that place is In the jungle, remote from the haunts of men. Within a week a boy has been seriously wounded by a caged Hon in this city and five performing Hons on a stage before a San Fran cisco audience varied the programme prepared for them by turning upon and beginning to tear a scenic painter. The fact that a Hon is never tamed, in the sense that he may, with per fect confidence, be considered docile, has had many illustrations; these are among the latest. Tet morbid curi osity continues to look on while mer cenary , recklessness runs , risks . with these ferocious beasts that may at any time, without a moment's warning, end in the frightful laceration or cer tain death of the overbold trainer or incautious spectator. Perhaps we may yet have an oppor tunity for shiftihg the " Yellow Peril" over to our neighbors. ' A member oi the Provincial Parliament, at Vic toria, is to offer a resolution prohibit ing the holding of land, in Canada by Japanese or Chinese. Both of these races are quite prominent factors in the industrial life of British Columbia and the feeling against them is stead ily increasing. If .the agtatlon of the whites is continued we may expect a more serious crisis than was threat ened in California" two years ago. It seems that some of our orators and publicists hold the opinion that owners of property in Portland, whose lives have been spent here and whose efforts have contributed to. the. mak ing of Portland, are not . entitled in Justice and should not be entitled In law to the increase of values -of the property they have acquired, but that these values should' be' confiscated for the benefit of loafers in search of their "rights." This appears ' to " be offered as one way to "reduce the cost of living." The significance of a name is not always borne out in what happens to the owner. Henry G. Gott, formerly cashier of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, got away with a large sum of money, from the bank. His rrienas got together and asked Presi dent Taft to pardon him, but the President apparently thought that Gott got what was coming to him, and declined to rescue him. The wife of Eugene Field, Jr., has sued her temperamental husband for divorce because he persists in reading In bed at night. The offense is, of course, a serious one, but it might be worse. The son of a distinguished father might read in bed in the day time, and spend his evenings on the street corners, demanding a division of all the wealth. Taft, it is said, rarely writes his speeches, even on important subjects. Roosevelt always did. The latter much disliked to attempt an offhand speech, and his most forceful blasts against the trusts, rich malefactors and undesirable citizens were always written. Portland has seen the comet! In the words of John G. Saxe, it appears with Ten hundred million miles of head. Ten billion leagues of tail. Nothing like giving the imagination full play while we have a chance. A bill has been Introduced in Con gress to place meats, and animals pro ducing meats, on the free list, if that bill is pressed, we shall hear what the livestock producers have to say about it. A Louisville Councilman choked to death in a saloon on a piece of free- lunch meat. Served him right for trying to get even with the beef trust. Earth, they say, will get a swish of the comet's tail May 19. That may do some good in fly time. Still, none of earth's troubles as far away as the comet would be visible, either. KSIHGE.MS CANNOT BALK TAFT T Their Obstructive Attitude Bound to Arouse Indlarnatlon. Boston Globe. The continued employment of obstruc tive methods in Congress by any group of representatives will not excite public sympathy. On the contrary, such obstruc tion is apt to arouse indignation. It Is immaterial to the public If the rulings of Speaker Cannon displease a few members who belong to his political party. These disgruntled ones may con tinue to be known as insurgents, but they cannot gain anything politically by their actions. Nor can they interfere for any great length of time with the plans of President Taft. The President is sure of the support of the country in his endeavor to secure the passage of legislation that is demanded by all the states. This country must go forward and not backward. There must be prosperity Instead of industrial de pression. Amendments to laws on such import ant subjects as the currency, , tariff, in tersate commerce, trusts, railroads, for estry, etc, must be made as soon as pos sible. Members of Congress, no matter what their political affiliations may be. cannot afford to ignore the wishes of all their constituents concerning these sub jects. If one body of Congressmen will not support the President, then at the elec tions next Fall the voters will give him a new set of men pledged to aid him. and citlsena will not care what the poli tics of the new representatives may be. There is now a widespread sentiment in iavor or a do-something Congress, and those who are guilty of preventing the passage of legislation Intended to build up American Industries of all kinds can not expect to remain in public life. WHY JfOT CALL, IT UTOPIA t "or In Tfaat Glorious Drew State E-very Desire Will Be Satisfied. New York Times. The Gold Hill News of Jackson Coun ty, in Oregon, blends its lute with the music of the Medford Mail-Tribune, the strongest string upon whose edi torial harp is Siskiyou: If Siskiyou proposed ever. becomes Siskiyou in fact, the Crater Lake road will be built, tor one thing. Medford will get that coveted Federal building, and perhaps the state capltol. Present political minnows will be come political whales, and the call of public duty will surge strong in many breasts now perforce unvlslted by that noble emotion. . Hera, at last. reasons not vouch safed by the Jealous Portland Ore gonian. for the new that threatens to project itself into the constellation of states. For tbe sake of the Crater Lake Road, the hopeful future capital, and the noble emotions of Medford's political patriots, fragments of Oregon and California have been broken off and are whirling by an irresistable at traction into the orbit of statehood. We recognize the belligerency of the Blsklyouans. It may be that their peer less orchards, their rich mines, their tremendous water powers, their fruit ful valleys, their ore-laden hills and talll timber will provide a safe refuge for secession, and that the Rogue River Valley and Its contiguous area will in due season blossom under a new and more sovereign name. BLAMES ALL OX WOMAN'S - SKIRTS If She Wore Trousers, Then No Car Step Trouble. PORTLAND, Feb. 1. (To the Editor.) Why are the women complaining of the high steps on the Portland streetcars? What's the matter with the steps, or, rather, what's the matter with the women? Now, If there was anything seriously the matter with those car steps don't you suppose some man would have no ticed it and raised a howl? He always does. Man was born howling. It comes natural to him. I have a lurking sus picion that the trouble is not in the height of the steps, but in the style of women's dress. When a man boards a street car he does not have to lift skirts or burst corset strings, and he doesn't care who sees the color of his stockings. If the women will discard their skirts and corsets, and dress like men, they can step as high as the men and Just as easily. Does this need any proof? I am an advocate of dress reform for women. Can any one give one good reason why women should wear skirts Instead of trousers? Who will say that they look better in skirts than in trous ers? They don't. I can give 20 reasons why skirts are inconvenient, unsightly unsanitary, unhealthy and dangerous. Watch a woman get on or aft a car, and see what trouble she has with her skirts. Watch her try to run and see how quickly she will trip on her skirts and fall. Mark: the trouble she has with her handkerchief and her pocketbook be cause she has no pockets. Does a man ever have such trouble? Only lately I saw a woman get a bad fall as she alighted from a streetcar by catching the toe of her shoe in her skirts. It is not immodest for women to wear trousers. It is common-sense. T. J. PIERCES. HEIGHT OF TROLLEY CAR STEPS Service In Portland Entirely Satisfac tory, Saya One Woman. PORTLAND, Feb. L (To the Editor.) Noticing of late the numerous "kicks" that have appeared in The Oregonian against the Portland streetcar system, I wish to say that I have been a daily patron of the streetcar service in this city and suburbs for the last 14 years. Not only do I consider the service good in Portland, but a great deal better than in some cities of greater pretensions. When I. first knew Portland (being a woman I will not state the number of years ago) the only transportation the city afforded was horse cars, half-hour service at that time, and strange as It may seem at the present writing, com plaints against the service were un known. Now the up-to-date patron is clamoring for heated cars, two-minute service, and last but not least comes the demand of the women for lowering of the car steps. As far as I am concerned, not being either young nor old, I am perfectly satisfied with the present style of car steps. MRS. J. M. FOSTER. Icnabod. New Tork Mall. The Republican party of this state is without the Inspiration of real leadership or the aggressiveness of fixed purpose. It is wandering in the bypaths of petty poli tics, its integrity challenged, its useful ness almost gone. It now has no Roose velt popularity on which to draw for pub lic confidence, no Hughes high purpose behind which to .hide its own low estate. It is before the people on its own rec ord and what a record it is! Bernhardt' Seventh Farewell Tour. New York Morning Telegraph. Sarah Bernhardt will come here next November for a seventh and final tour of the United States. She will be under the management of William F. Connor, who piloted her to success a few years ago, and will be heard In most of the pieces of her rep ertory, including, it is believed and hoped, Miguel Zamacois' "Les Bouf fons." given here in translation with Miss Maude Adams in the star part. Business and Politics. Chicago News. Guggenheims are after the West Vir ginia coalfields. Is a West Virginia Sena torship thrown in 7 DAMAGES SOUGHT FOR ARREST Isa E. B. Crosby Sues V. H. Max well, Who Obtained Warrant. Isa E. B. Crosby demands that W. H. Maxwell pay her $15,000 because of her arrest in Seattle last November. She alleges, in a complaint filed against Max well In the Circuit Qourt yesterday, that she was obliged to keep her 8-year-old child with her in the Seattle City Jail two days, until, on November 22, Con stable Lou Wagner telegraphed instruc tions to the Seattle Chief of Police to release her. The information against her, charging larceny by bailee, was filed in Justice Olson's court October 4 last, but the Brand jury afterward did not indict her. Mrs. Crosby explains that on May 15. 1908, she gave Maxwell her promissory note for $60, with a mortgage upon her rurnlUure. This note was payable in three months, but afterward was trans ferred for payment to a man named Pewtherer. She says that Maxwell re leased her from the obligation, and that on August 10. 1908. she moved to Seattle. when Pewtherer failed to pay. she says. Maxwell asked her to make payment, causing her arrest when she refused to do so. She says publication jot the lar ceny charge in newspapers of Oregon and Washington has injured her reputa tion and caused her to suffer great morti fication and mental anguish. MRS. NELLIE GADSBTl WINS Daufrhtcr-ln-Law's Suit Confined to Action, for Divorce. Mrs. Nellie Gadsby, wife of Captain William Gadsby, is no longer a party to the divorce suit of her daughter-in-law, Beatrice L. Gadsby. Circuit Judge Bro naugh allowed a motion, made by At torney Charles J. Schnabel, represent ing Walter M. Gadsby, to strike out that part of the complaint relating to the mother-in-law. In bringing her divorce suit against Walter M. Gadsby, Mrs . Beatrice Gadsby alleged that Mrs. Nellie Gadsby promised her a house and lot as a wed ding present, and that this home was given to her and her husband, although the deed was never made to them. At torney Schnabel contended, and was up held by Judge Bronaugh. that the ac tion against the mother-in-law could not be properly included in a divorce complaint. Attorneys C. M. Idleman and Beach & Simon represent the plain tiff. REFORM SCHOOL IS AVOIDED Bronaugh. Sentences Only One Boy, Who Violates Parole. Only one boy was sent to the Reform School by Judge Bronaugh last month, and he was a ward who had been re leased on parole and who was returned for the second offense. Sixty-five cases were taken into the Juvenile Court in January. Of these 54 were boys and 11 girls. Five were taken in for second and subsequent offenses. . There were 18 larceny cases, four of incorrigibility, five of truancy, six of disorderly conduct, 14 of malicious mis chief, one of Immorality and three of cigarette smoking. In three cases the children had been deserted by their parents, and parental neglect, immor ality or separation was responsible for delinquency in nine cases. Twenty nine children were placed on probation, 18 warned and discharged, four sent to the Frazer Detention Home and seven sent to other institutions. COAL SHOVELER BRINGS SUIT Fractured Rib and Crushed Foot Charged to Falling Chunk. Julius Anderson demands $2734 from Brown & McCabe because he alleges he suffered a fractured rib and a crushed foot when assisting to unload a cargo of coal November 11. After the acci dent he vai taken to St. Vincent's Hos pital, he says, and was unable to work for 60 days. The Injured man says he was shovel ing coal into the afterhold when a great chunk fell on him from above. He declares this could have been pre vented, except for the carelessness of the stevedores .in leaving large pieces of coal on the floored portion of the between-deck after the workmen had lowered the coal into the hold of the vessel. He says he was earning $4.50 a day at the time of the accident. Blanchette Trial March 4. Leon Blanchette, accused of volun tary manslaughter for shooting Caesar Bourgeois on New Year's day, was ar raigned before Presiding Judge Morrow ( in the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon will be tried March 4. Henry E. Mc Ginn and Charles A. Petrain appeared as his attorney. CLEAN CHINATOWN SOIGHT Vancouver, B. C.'s Authorities Unite in Campaign for Sanitation. VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 1. (Special.) Unsanitary conditions which have ac cumulated In the buildings and under the streets of Chinatown the past 15 years are to be cleared away, if any statute can be framed so as to resist efforts of Chinese and the white owners to nullify it. All past efforts of the Building Inspec tor to condemn these buildings and of the health officer to compel a change of sanitary conditions have been met with appeal to the courts in which the Chinese won. Now, however. Mayor Taylor has succeeded in uniting the various civic departments, and a systematic campaign of cleansing the Oriental quarters will be begun. ROAD HEADS FOR GOLDENDALE Toppenish, Slmcoe & Western Will Tap Timber Belt. GOLDENDALE, Wash., Feb. 1. (Spe cial.) People of Goldendale are rejoicing over the coming of another railroad. The Toppenish, Simcoe & Western Railway is now surveyed within seven miles of this place, and the engineers expect to cover this remaining distance within a few days. This road, said to be a branch of the Northern Pacific will branch oft from the Northern Pacific near Toppenish. croes the Yakima Indian Reservation and tap- the big timber belt of Klickitat County. This belt contains 3,000.000 feet of fine yellow pine. Indications are that large mills will be built here for manufacturing this timber, for there Is an abundance of na tural power. STEAMER GOES IN SEARCH Dora Leaves for Far North to Find Delayed- Farallon- SEATTLE, Feb. 1. The steamer Dora left Seward. Alaska, today In search of the Alaska Steamship Company's steamship Farallon, which left Port Graham for Kodiak Island January 8 and has not been heard from sln'.e. A steamer just down from Alaska re ports that the weather In the Kodiak region has been the stormiest in 40 years. The Farallon may have been compelled to tie up for shelter, or may have been blown far out to sea. OPINIONS DIFFER ABOUT RATE Astoria Grain Tariff Decision Will r Lead lo New. Contest. There is an apparent probability that the railroads will not get together on the establishment of a through rate to Astoria from the Eastern Washington and Oregon wheat-producing territory under tne conxutions imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its decision on the Astoria common rate caw. Whether this will result in a reouest . that the Commission make a more specific oraer or tne taking of the ruling into the courts is a matter not yet considered. The- traffic men of the railroads" made parties to the hearing apparently do not construe the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the same way. The Commission Indicated declslve-ly that it looked upon the additional rate of 10 cents a hundred pounds, imposed on through wheat shipments for the haul between Portland and Astoria, as ex cessive and fixed a rate equivalent to 4H cents additional as the proper one: The decision announces that the Com mission has pointed out whore the fault lies and leaves it to the defendant rail road companies to adjust the rate. Ir the event of their failure to do so it will issue a further order. The only rail route between Portland and Astoria is the Astoria &- Columbia River Railroad, which is classed as an Independent line, although Its stock: is owned by the Spokane, Portland & Seat- tie, me stock of which is owned by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Wheat shipped to Astoria would reach Portland either over the Spokane, Port land & Seattle or the O. R. & X. and the remainder of the haul in either in stance would go to the Astoria & Co lumbia River Railroad. O. R. & N. traffic men take the view that the Commission has not held that the rate to Portland is unfair and that therefore it is up to the Astoria & Co lumbia River road to make the whole correction. It is indicated that the Astoria & Columbia River road takes the view that the Commission has or dered a Joint through rate established and that the whole brunt of the reduc tion should not be placed on the road having the short haul. It is not probable that the Astoria & Columbia River road will assume the whole burden of the reduction without at least applying to the Commission for a more specific order, which is prom ised In the decision of the railroads find it impossible to adjust the case among themselves. So far the situation has been dis cused principally by traffic men, and legal counsel has not been consulted. H. M. Adams, of the Astoria road, said yesterday that no decision had been reached as to whether the' company would adopt the rate ordered or carry the case to the courts. The railroads have until March 15 to establish the rate. MADRAS TO HAVE TRAIN SOON Construction Engineer Predicts Com pletion of Line This Summer. That the Deschutes Railroad Company will be running trains into Madras by September 1, Is the prediction made by H. A. Brandon, construction engineer, who is in Portland from his headquar ters at Grass Valley. "We now have 35 miles of grade com pleted and track laid for five miles." said Mr. Brandon yesterday. "Work is In progress on every one of the tunnels along the line. All of the work is cov ered with the exception of the 12 miles along the Warm Springs Indian Agency, and that will be covered within a short time." Tracklaylng near the mouth of the Deschutes River is delayed temporarily, according to Judge Twohy. head of the contracting firm, by bridge building across Simmons Creek, which has cut a wide, deep draw into the Deschutes from the east- . By the time the bridge is completed several now uncompleted links in the grade beyond the Creek crossing will have . been finished and tracklaylng on the first 20 miles will be continued rap idly thereafter. The 35 miles of grade completed is not continuous now for that length. The en tire work is divided into sub-contracts, and practically every sub-contractor has heavy rock work as well as light work to complete. The result is that the grade is completed in sections and tracklaylng must await the finishing ol the heavier work, which requires longer time. . , PRESIDENT FRENCH IS HOST Railroad Chief Gives Luncheon foi J. G. Woodworth of St. Paul. George B. French, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, gave a luncheon at the Arlington Club yesterday noon in honor of J. G. Wood worth, of St. Paul, traffic manager of the Northern Pacific. Twenty were present, and one of the pleasurable features of the event was the presence of Francis B. Clarke, ex president of the road, who retired on account of ill health. Mr. Clarke was congratulated on his recovery from his recent severe illness. In addition to Mr. Woodworth and Mr. Clarke, the guests of Mr. French were H. C. Nutt, of Ta coma. fourth vice-president of the North ern Pacific; M. J. Costello, of Seattle, assistant traffic manager of the Great Northern: Henry Blakely, of Taconia, general freight agent of the Northern Pacific; John F. Stevens, president of the Oregon Trunk Line: H. M. Adams, gen eral passenger agent of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle: B. S. Josselyn, presi dent of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company; Guy W. Talbot, man ager of the Oregon Electric; A. D. Charl ton, assistant general passanger agent of the Northern Pacific; H. A. Jackson, general agent of the Great Northern: F. H. Fogarty, assistant general freight agent of the Northern Pacific; General Maus, Major Noble, Peter Kerr, W. D. Wheelwright, J. C. Ainsworth and T. I Wilcox. SURVEY NOT FOR RAILROADS? Senator Bowerman Suggests Irriga tion Works Are Being Planned. That the engineers whose presence In the John Day canyon was reported sev eral weeks ago are more likely in the employ of the Reclamation Service or a private irrigation enterprise than in the service of any railroad company, is the opinion of Jay Bowerman, of Condon, who is in Portland. "The route described as that followed by the surveying party," said Senator Bowerman yesterday, "is the same as that proposed by the Reclamation Bureau for a project that would reclaim lands in the northern part of Morrow and Gilliam Counties and the lower Uma tilla project. The line now being sur veyed apparently runs into the John Day from the east, tunneling ridges between smaller canyons. The natural route for a railroad would be up the John Day from the mouth. "The lands in the John Day canyon were withdrawn from entry four or five years ago by the Government for a con siderable distance up the stream. The river, although it runs low in the mid summer and midwinter, has a large flow in the Spring. By impounding of the waters, a sufficient quantity could be conserved for irrigating a large acre age. The settlers in the valley are im bued with the idea that a railroad up the river is planned, and, personally, I hav no definite knowledge one way or the other."