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TIIE MORXITfG OREGONIAN; FRIDAY, MAX 20, 1910. POBTLAND. OREGON. Entered a.t Portland. Oregon. PoBtofflc a Jlecond-Clasa Matter. Subacrlptloa Kat.ee Invarlablr In Adnnea (BY MAIL). ra!lT. Sunday included, one year. . . . . . IS-OO Pally, Sunday Included, alx months. . . . 25 Dally, Sunday Included, three month. - 2.25 Dally, Sunday Included, one month..... -15 Dally, without Sunday, one year -00 Dally, without Sunday, alx month.... 25 Dally, without 8unday, threa month.. 1.75 Dally without Sunday, one month .JO weekly, one year 1-60 Sunday, on year 3-60 Sunday and weekly, on year......... (By Carrier). IJMly, Sunday Included, on year 00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month H How to Kemlt Send Poetotf toe money order, express order or personal check on vour local bank. Stamp, coin or currency JJr at the sender risk. Glv pototice d drM In full. Including; county and state. rostac Kate 10 to 14 page. 1 cent; IS ? 28 page. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. S cents; K to 80 pase. 4 cent. Foreign poatag double rate. Kaatera Bnalnes Office The 8. C Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 ?? Tribune building. Chicago, room 610 612 Tribune building. PORTLAND, FRIDAY. MAI 0, 1910. TATT LOOKTN'Q TO DEUOCBAT8. President Taft and his euppo .era in legislation have turned from In surgents to Democrats for support for the Administration railroad bill. This la -ral and logical action. There can be no effectlv- harmony between sensible conservatives and. radical ex tremists of the insurgent stripe. There Is common interest, however, between the anti-radical Interests of Demo cratic and Republican parties; in fact, there la a ritural bond of uni. v : tween them. Old issues that illvided citizenship into Republican and Democratic par ties have diminished in potency to such extent that evidently they control r either party any longer. The conflict now, as represented in Congress, is not -- much between the old parties as between extremists who fight for noisy innovation and uncom promising radicalism and "safe and sane" opponents of these efforts. Be tween insurgent Republicans, like Beverldge, La Follette, Cummins and Bristow, and radical Democrats of the Bryan fallowing, there is community of interest and purpose that is mak ing Itself plainer day by day. And1 between regular or conservative Re publicans and tl safe and sane element of the Democratic party there Is also coincidence of political principles. Is there to be a new dividing line between parties in this country? The probability of it appears strong. It is certain that there will be two main parties opposing each other. Our Government would be impossible without them. Partisanship is Bure to control the politics of this Nation. But parties are not everlasting; new formations develop from time to time; pieces, of one party coalesce with those of another and new combina tions are evolved. Perhaps politics is now on the verge of such changes. It is certain that in the Democratic party are many men who agree with the Taft railroad policy more nearly than insurgents can ever be persuaded to do. Such men as these have been the steadying force of, the Nation. They have saved the country from Bryan and his 1 iles by Joining with Republicans. Now the President is making an effort to bring them into camp in support of his railroad meas ures. By making concessions to steady-going Democrats he may be able to effect enactment of his rail road policies. He will certainly find such Democrats more reliable to deal with and more in accord with him than insurgents. In the Democratic party of the South are strong forces opposed to extreme "uplifters" and "progressive" agitators; likewise of the States of New York, Massachusetts. Indiana fend Ohio. These same forces are scattered more or less over the whole country. Their counterpart exists in the Republican party. - President Roosevelt made use of 1 n 1 0 -I n T i T ... u -" jjduwra.ia in passing his measures over opposition of minority PcnilVlH..nn . A - - uv. iuouijscma. xie succeeded in doing this because Democrats want ed his measures as much as dirt -Re publicans. Roosevelt, though called a radical by some his enemies, was Just the reverse; he was not a bli-nri standpatter, opposed to every kind of cnange, Dut he was a foe of hear baiting politicians and demagogic r.6'iBi. xie unaerstood that - . " .i"". vk tue nation "J reai Duiwark against damage and ruin. President Taft should be able to bring Democratic suporters into bis camp. Ana wnile there will be wail ing and gnashing of teeth in th -r. treme end of the Democratlo ing, atlll the sober sentiment of the democratic pr will approve. ONLY POSTPOXEn. Evidently the comet has a will of It- nnrwt TTTl 11 twii uiiumers as Bunxed that it ivaa hooAiv duk-iaj. tne law or gravitation they did not . know what or whom they were deal ing with. Undoubtedly the celestial visitant looked down upon their vain calculations, smiled a wan smile and whispered to its cosmic companions, "We shall see what we shall see. Per- napa my laie is not told by those equa tions. Perham mv tall win v, . tale of its own to tell before all is said and done." u t was. wnere the tail ought , to have been on the fateful night of May 18 behold it was not, and where f . l a j. . . ii. uubih uui to nave been it was, and . now the bluahlnar utrnnnm... calling upon the mountains to cover their shame. Indeed, it begins to look . as if some people were right about the iuL, aiter an, and some others de- . cxieulv In 1 hft nwinv T-i : Thought professor of our acquaintance wuu nuim mat me comet is neither gas nor stone, but a wandering spirit uj un uora xo aistrlbute his Judgments through the universe may not be so far from the truth as has ueeil supposed. Perhaps, instead of meekly obey! the law of srravitatinn tv, ing is the throne of nn v. o Uriel, perhaps, or Azrael, who directs Its course whither he wills. In that case iei not. x.-ji wicked celebrate their escape too soon. The comet has gone ia.B. no, uu ii ta.ii come oack again. Tha sween of tha 'nil h j ' - - .uiaoDU Ull this time, barely missed us, but next time, it may strl'ze us lull in the face and then what will become of those , wno nave oeen jeering ana aoubti Mn itaiiht th rjMtl rati mnn .i.k.. .. IA j. ing ' comet has not destroyed the world just yet is tne fact that our sins are not ripe. The flood dil not come until mere was no one left fit to es cape but ?oah and his family. it would be rash to say that there is only a single righteous man in the world today, v There mist be fully half a dozen besides Mr. Roosevelt. Very likely the blow c '.the comet will not fall until Theodore stands alone In his immaculate glory, as Noah did before the flood. Then look out. THE rrauo. DOCKS qtjkstiox. It seems to be supposed, by some that if the city do not Interpose, by the .creation of municipal docks, the railroads will absorb all the dock room. But , there Is a good deal of dock or wharf room up and down the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, mostly Btill In private hands, and the railroads are not making any manifest effort to monopolize It. Besides, why should it be supposed that the railroads wish to get all the wharf room, and close it against ocean commerce? Is 1 likely that they wish to stop shipments in and out of Portland, as it is said they will, if they can monopolize the wharfage? That is, can it be their purpose to obstruct the products and commerce of the country between Portland and the sea, and so cut off their own business? Why .can't men talk ra tionally on such a subject? The red opposition to public or municipal docks stands on a general principle. It ttnds on the same prin ciple as opposition to municipal street railways, municipal, .telephones and municipal gas and other light and power works. That is, every city should leave to private en terprise the active industries, on which development depends. The abuse, the corruption, the wasteful ness, of public vrorks, carried on un der a political and Industrial system like ours, are immense and Incurable. Measures of this kind, undertaken by municipalities, simply constitute one advance after another to a Socialistic system, wherein government is to be all in all finally absorbing and con stituting the state itself, and leaving nothing to- private initiative, energy and competit e effort. This is the system for which Socialists are strug gling; namely, to absorb in the state all industry, ,11 production and all means of distribution. A NEW NOJf-PARTISAX PARTY. Lawyers have undertaken to create a non-partisan party' of lawyers to choose tor the rest of the body politic the members of the Judiciary. They plan to hold an assembly and to guide the destiny of their "ticket" through a central committee chosen from their own ranks. Their non-partisanship, then, is not so broad as to ex tend beyond their own interest. They care not for other men as compatriots. Rather exclusive with their non-partisanship, aren't they? So that non-partisanship proves it self a hoax, also, in the case of the lawyers. Republicans will not be so narrow In their patriotism, when they come to make up their ticket for the Judi ciary. All classes of people will be represented in their assembly, no mat ter of what trade or profession or pre vious condition lawyers along with them; also grangers and labor union men. Therefore, the "people" will have a hand in naming the Republican ticket of Judges a privilege denied them in the rnake-up of the ticket to be framed by the lawyers. However, there Is no doubt about what the personnel of the lawyers' ticket will be. Certain Democrats will be put on it, rho could not get a boost any other way. It looks like a very clever frame-up, but really it is an easily detected ruse to name two Democrats for the "Supreme Bench Will R. King and W. T. Slater Demo crats, whose friends the lawyers think to checkmate any unfriendly spirit of the people. Non-partisanship has been a fine game in Oregon these several years. It is starting off again this political season. The people, however, have a lurking suspicion of lawyers and their works. . YVE BEGIN TO COMMENCE. The approach of the college com mencement season always takes the world a little by surprise. Nobody can quite believe that the better part of Spring has come and gone and that the Summer heats are at hand until tl i sound of '"le valedictorian Is heard In the air and the sweet girl graduate begins to shed her roseate beams from the rehearsal platform. Willamette University seems appointed to open the charming display of beauty and brilliancy this year, but Newberg, For est Grove, Whitman d all the rest will follow in swift succession. What will the orators talk about? The usual things, for every possible sentence that a college address could contain has been uttered thousands of times,' and all that the brightest graduate can do now is to dish up the old repast in some novel and charming style. Still, there is no dan ger that audiences will not be inter ested. Even as old wine tastes best and old . friends wear best and old coats fit best, so do old orations Bound best on Commencement day, that is, old ones with Just a fresh dressing of seasonable rhetoric and a little origi nality in the gestures. Rhetoric and gestures are about all that the discreet trainer of commencement speakers hopes to vary from the ancient and familiar standard, but 'with these he has a free hand, and it must be ad mitted that his ingenuity Is wonderful. But no college orator should despair because he cannot compose a speech which has not 'been made thousands of times before. There are some things which will bear endless repetition, at suitable times, of course, and the stock substance of the commencement oration is one of them.' The unfading hope of youth, the . unconquerable faith and the resolute ambition of the adventurous soul as it crosses the threshold into a world it knows not, these will never lose their . charm. Touth with all its potential power is a pathetic thing. It is pathetic be cause of iti very courage, since if it knew more it would be far less brave. The undaunted h ;pe of boys and girls Is the most precious treasure in the world, but it is as fragile as it is price less. It is only the experienced war rior who is ever rationally afraid to go into battle. The new soldier trem bles, but he could hot tell you why. The old fighter does not always trem ble, but he knows very -ve that he would if he did not keep -resolute con trol over himself, and he is abundant ly able to tell why. "I never was afraid In my- life," said a green hard to the Duke of "Wellington. "Then you never tried to snuff a candle with your fingers," retorted the grim old commander. The. great Marshal Tu renne always had a fit of the ague Just -before going into- battle. "Oh you may shake and shiver," he used to say to his legs on those occulons, "but Into the fight you shall go Jurt the same." "Be 'bold" was written over the first three doors in the Arabian tale and the youth pursuing his adventures confidently - opened each one and stalked through to victory, but over the fourth was written "Be not too bold." Has any graduating class ever taken this wisest of counsels for Its motto? THE DRAWBRIDGE NUISANCE. The. position f the War Depart ment on the bridge-closing matter holds out small hope for the 200,000 people of Portland, most of whom are dally subjected to exasperating delays while some dinky little towboat is tugging a raft through an open draw. "Whenever shipping Interests and citi zens of Portland get together and agree upon some plan for closing draws in Willamette R er bridges during rush hours, the Secretary of V'ar will modify the bridge regula tions to conform to that agreement," said a representative of the War De partment with whom Representative Kills conferred on the subjeet. It would have been equally com fortlng to the people of Portland had the War Department announced Its willingness to permit the draws to re main closed ct all hours of the day and night when there were no tow boats to pass through them, for that, in effect, is what the promise amounts to. In other words, the War Depart ment has no intention of changing the present custom regarding the move ment of vessels in Portland harbor. Ii Informs the owners azvd masters of the vessels that they are at liberty to accommodate the Portland people who use the bridges if they see fit to do so. This information also contains the assurance that the Government will do nothing that will in any way inter fere with the movements of --esels during rush hours, or any other hours. As a sample of blind, unreasoning def erence to departmental red-tape meth ods, this impfied refusal of the Gov ernment to aid in releasing Portland from the grasp of a nuisance is inter esting. No one knows how far back this custom of incommoding the many for the convenience of the few originated, but the conditions which first gave the water craft precedence over everything that moved on land have all changed in the past fifty or one hundred years. At this time it is dif ficult to And any reason for continu ing the ancient practice of opening drawbridges at all hours of the day. regardless of the inconvenience they cause. OUR VNDETEIOPED EMPIRE. ? Central Oregon is in every sense of the term a land ,of such magnificent distances that it is difficult for one who has never mads the long trip through the countr; to grasp its enor mous possibilities for development. In area and wealth of undeveloped resources there is no other locality in the United States approaching' it in magnitude. What its development means for Portland and the entire Pa cific Northwest cannot -well be over estimated.' Until the coming of Mr. Hill, the empire-builder, that isolated land seemed so remote end so far be yond the reach of Portland that its wealth lacked the power to impress the people as it is now impressing them. Letters written for The Oregonian by Mr. Callvert, who accompanied the Hill party though this new wonder land, disclose in a striking manner the remarkable possibilities of the coun try, now that transportation facilities are at last near at hand. There is nothing elaborate or bombastic in these letters; they are -made eloquent by the plain facts which tey set forth. It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the people of Portland are in ignor ance of the existence of such a place as Stein Mountain. It occupies a comparatively small area 'in -the air most illimitable empire which is Just coming, into our possession, . but Mr. Callvert notes tiiat "on the slope of the mountain 250,000 sheep and 25, 000 head of cattle are grazed each year." In the district soutli and west of Burns lie over 1,000,000 acres of tilla ble land which will produce twent. five bushels of wheat to the acre, and another 1,000,000 acres of good graz ing land. In the Silver Lake and Harney Valleys directly tributary to Burns Is another 500,000 acres of till able land, most of which can te irri gated. Dozens of other localities of equal and greater richness are men tioned by Mr. Callvert, whose letters simply confirm the reports that have been brought back by nearly every one who haB ever made the long trip into what is still to a great extent an undiscovered country. SEPARATE SCHOOLS. The co-educational idea seems to have about run its course. Given time, opportunity and patient en deavor, it has In many places not ably in the high schools of the larger cities of the East worked Itself out. The stock argument of the co-educational contention was: "God set the sexes together in families; to separate them In schools is but an. attempt of vain man to improve upon the work of the Creator." This applied well to Children in primary schools, but not to those who had reached the age of sex consciousness. Overlooking the primal fact that those who were set together in fami lies were of the same blood and were therefore not subject to the emotions that arise between young people of opposite sex when thrown together, in relations or. organisations outside of family, the idea prevailed and for a time carried, al' before it, except in some of the oldest citadels of learning, which compromised upon the basis of annexes and auxiliary colleges for women which were maintained apart from the main body. The result is before the world and it shows that the experimenc has not been eminently successful, nor indeed in conjunctlca with the public high schools, moderately so. The testi mony of high school principals and teachers generally Is that girls not only "often prove a distraction to the boys In classes," as stated by principal Halt, of the South Central High School of Spokane, where segregation of the boys and girls is imminent," but vice versa. The girl who reads with ab stracted air and heightened color the vealy note slipped in her hand at pasing by "a moonstruck, silly lad" Is quite as impossible from. the esti mate of the earnest teacher of history or mathematics as is the "distracted boy." "I believe," said Mr. Halt, "that both boys and girls will do more satis factory work if they are not placed In the same classr oms." This is an expression of opinion that will carry conviction in Its simple statement to those who have studied the question as presented by the massing together, for purposes of study and recitation, of large classes of boys and girls at what is known as tl.e "impressionable age." ' Every high school teacher has take- note of that age' from Its pro nounced symptoms -some with toler ance, others with impatience, and all with a greater or le degree of anxiety. Another featv-e of the situation, and this Is raid without disparage ment to women as teachers, is that It is to the practical benefit of boys verging upon manhood to be in touch with men as teachers. If' the te. cher is a strong, manly man, wi' . an's outlook upon -.orld in a practical sense, he Is manifestly better ''Uted b. nature to instruct and lead bos at this age than Is the strong, woman ly teacher. The whole, matter wr.s summed up by' r, wrathful lad of 15 in' this city a few years ago, who, smarting under what seemed to him the unjust censure of his teacher for a boyish prank, said, fighting back the tears as a boy should: "Tho trouble with Miss Blank is that she newr -vas a bor." This argument might not have been satisfactory to the teacher, but it had weight with the father and possibly with the School Boar - to w'lich body it was duly presented, as the offending lad was not, as threatened, suspended from school. A Vancouver litigant baa refused to pay a Judgment of J 54 on the ground that it is invalid because Judge Mc Credle did not wear a gown, as pre scribed "v law, when he heard the suit. In the interest of the law and in order that its majesty may be properly upheld, there are some peo ple who Would like -to, see this obsti nate citizen of . the. Evergreen State win. -His victory would serve a double purpose. It would show to an inter esting extent the absurd technicalities through which clients and lawyers not infrequently escape paying their Just dues. It would also remind the peo ple of the idiocy of the law which compelled Judges in the Circuit Courts to appear on the bench in gowns whl"b provoked mirth and ri baldry for the populace, instead of adding dignity to the, unfortunate wearers. It is fortunate for Judge McCredie that he was elected to Con gress, for, had he tried many cases without wearing the masquerade cos tume, he might have had litigation in Clark County in a hopeless snarl. Railroad stocks made a slight ad vance yesterday, chiefly on account of good buying for London account. The principal cause of the weakness that has existed In the stock market for many months hag been refusal of the foreigners to buy. While this Is a great country ard w are producing new wealth at an enormous rate, there is still plenty of opportunity to use foreign money in large quantities. If our foreign, friends regain the con fidence in American ' securities which was so sadly shaken in the muckrak ing era three years ago, they will again send ovr r. large sums which will not be unwelcome. Foreign ' money is one of the few commodities which" we permit to come into the country without forcing, it to pay 'or the priv ilege. Some day we may discover that there is an advantage in permitting to enter without paying an excessive duty other commodities which we need. The world's greatest astronomers all missed calculations regarding the movements of a comet. Whether the celestial vagrant collided with some thing while en route and was thus Jarred out of its regular course, or whether there was a "mistake in the flggers," Is not yet made plain. Be fore being too severe in our criticism of the men who make a specialty of keeping close tabs on comets, we should consider all of the facts. It has been seventy-five years since this particular comet was last here, and since that appearance " has traveled a matter of 556,000,000,000 miles. This is so much faster than a Southern Pacific train t' at it would not be surprising if the makers of the comet's time-card had not allowed sufficient leeway for col lisions or unforeseen "slowdowns" as it hurtled through the trackless uni verse. As every fatality has its lesson, the death of the two little children in Boise, who smothered In a self-locking chest while hiding from playmates, will have a tendency to smash all locks of that kind in many house holds. In the excitement of play small children cannot use discretion, and prevention of catastrophe is the part of older wisdom. The death of Dr. Jacob S. Gtltner, which occurred at his home in this city Wednesday night, closed at the age of 86 years a useful life, full forty three years of which had been lived in this city. Charitable, philanthropic, earnest, sympathetic, Dr. Glltner lived his life in -honor and went his way sincerely mourned by those who knew him best. The Pendletou Tribune has been changed to the Live Wire by its new owner. 'The Tribune had seen multi tudinous vicissitudes for lack of volt age since the days when Colonel 7. B. Eddy made it a "live wire, a quarter century ago. Autopsy on ' a Butte man who dropped dead revealed a vermiform appendix nine and one-half inches long. - Death saved him much money at -current rates. The Pullman company is dodging the issue in saying it merely rents its cars to tha railroad. Most travelers supposed it turned them over to the porters. There is objection to Jobs in sewer pipe, to Jobs in pavements and to Jobs in docks' It Is to the credit of the Mayor that he stands against all of them. The poirt, of course, lies mostly in how it is said, for that Is" a big. dam contract Just let by the local power company for Improving its Cazadero plant. Seattle is figuring on a water supply for a city of 3,000,000. There is noth ing small about Seattle except results. Astronomers are all wrong. We will put In several days passing the tale of the comet. HUSBAND RESISTS AltOWAXCE Wife Better Able Than He to Era i ploy Lawyer, He Says. A plaintiff who can send an attorney from New Tork to Oregon and keep him here four months is not in great need of $75 suit money, says T. O. Hague, in an affidavit supporting his motion to modify an order of the Circuit Court. Hague Is suing bis wife, Anna Hague, on the. ground of deserton. He alleges that she left him 17 years ago, and that he has seen her only once since. The suit was filed recently, and upon appli cation of the wife, J7B suit money was allowed her. Hague says in his affi davit that when. 17 years ago, she or dered him out of the house which he had bought and given her. he turned over to her all the property he had except his wearing apparel. Since then he has not prospered, is in debt, and is largely dependent upon thex kindness of his friends. He asserts that his wife, beside having property In her own right, has access not only to her own relatives but to his as well. He says that when the present suit was first begun, she em ployed an attorney in New York, who came out to Oregon and remained here four months waiting for the case to be called, and he estimates . that the de fendant could not have secured this service for less than to00. That Frank Cunningham, her husband, compelled her to sit In an unwarmed room during the inclement weather of last January, Is one of the grounds for divorce alleged by Clara Cunningham, in a complaint filed in the Circuit Court yesterday. He also, she says, struck her with his fist, applied abusive epithets to her and wrongfully accused her of in fidelity. They were married at Astoria in December, 1905. The plaintiff asks to have restored her maiden name, Clara Bhumake. WOMAN SHAMS, SAYS COMPANY Defense in Damage Suit Attacks Plaintirf's Good Faith. Mrs. Anna Dean, who is suing the Port land Railway, Light & Power Company for 60,000 for damages alleged to have been sustained in a streetcar collision and who has suffered two attacks of hysteria In the courtroom on each day of the trial, old not appear in court yes terday, but sat in the Judge's chambers and heard through the open door the evidence and the arguments of attorneys. Expert medical testimony was heard throughout the day, tending to show that the plaintiff's present condition was caused by the accident, and ' argument of attorneys began late in the afternoon. Attorney John Manning, who opened for the plaintiff, bitterly attacked the witnesses for the railway company, as serting that they had traced every foot step of his client and then had been compelled 'to make their contention that she was ill before the accident and not as ill now, as she asserts she is. Argument for the defense had Just been begun by Attorney Ralp Wilbur when the time of adjournment arrived. He warmly defended the character of tlie witnesses attacked and will conclude this morning. CITY TO SECURE FEE SIMPLE Judge Gantenbeln Decides Point In Condemnation Suit. That the complaint filed In the con demnation suit of the City of Portland against Maria Flanders for a right of way for the Broadway bridge contemplates the acquirement by the city of the fee simple of the property and not simply an easement for the overhead passage of the bridge, was ruled yesterday by Judge Gantenbeln. Attorneys for the city, in examining witnesses as to the value of the prop erty, attempted to - get estimates of the damage incident to the easement of the property, but after a long debate among the attorneys, the court ruled that the evidence could not be admitted under the present pleadings, which go only to the value of the fee of the property. Most of the day wa occupied by wit nesses for the defense sb to the value of the property to be condemned. They unanimously fixed it at $1000 a front foot. Regarding the estimates as to the damage to the remaining portion of the Flanders property, one witness placed it aa high as 10 per cent of the value of the entire piece. BREACH OF PROMISE DROPPED Miss Marthas Finds W. M. Wilson Ready to Make Her Bride. Confiding in W. M. Wilson's promise to marry her, Anna Marthas waited pa tiently for three months, and then finding that Wilson was not on the eligible list of benedicts, she sued him for $10,000 for breach of promise. The suit was filed some days ago and service had not yet been secured upon the defendant when Miss Marthas notified her attorney that Wilson, all unconscious of the suit against him," had returned to his faith and would go on with the ceremony, Upon this showing, the suit was dismissed yesterday. The complaint filed by Miss Marthas sets forth that she became affianced to Wilson on February 10. About a month ago she learned that he had been di vorced in Oregon within the last six months and could not therefore marry again at that time. OWX NEGLECT BAR TO PLEA Corporation's Irregularity Is De fendant's Fault, Court Holds. That a defendant cannot plead in abatement faults of procedure that arise through his own neglect, was held yesterday by Judge Bronaugh in deciding the fcuit of the American Tool Works against E3. E.' Merges. The de fendant attacked the complaint against him on the ground that the plaintiff corporation was not regularly organ ised, but the court held that any irreg ularities that existed arose through the defendant's act. Merges was the prime mover in the organization of the company and sub scribed for several shares of stock. Details of the lncoporatlon were in trusted to .him which he neglected to perform. Later he .lost interest in the concern and refused to pay his sub scription. Suit was brought to compel him to pay. Will Contest Continues. Another day was consumed in Probate Court yesterday in hearing the testimony in the contest case over the win of W. T. Linn and part of today will be re quired to finish. Linn left his estate of about 4000 to his daughter, Mary Bever, who nursed him through his last illness, and willed $5 each to two sons and a grandson. The latter assert that undue influence was used to secure the bequest. Testimony for their contention was heard yesterday, tending to show that the mind of the testator was falling for a time prior to his death. Damage to Lots Remunerated. For damages to his lota on Belmont street land to the shrubbery and other Improvements, H. H. Delano was allowed $1340 by the Jury hearing the condemna tion suit of the city against him, which was on trial before Judge Cleland yester day. Delano asserted that each of his lots was damaged to the amount of t!500. JUDGES BEHIND WITH WORK 1 Appeal Is Signed Asking Other Cir cuit Judges to Sit. In. a letter prepared by Presiding Cir cuit Judge Morrow and signed by all five Judges of the Vocal bench, urgent ap peal is made for the assignment of addi tional judges from other districts to dis pose of the flood of business now pend ing In the Multnomah district. The let ter sets forth that at the time of' Its preparation there were 13 cases passed on the calendar In which the attorneys were clamoring for action. The building of the nsw Courthouse, with Its attendant noises, and the resig nation of Judge Bronaugh, are assigned as causes for the falling behind. Attention Is called to the suit of Kler nan against the city, the International Automatic Fire Alarm Company against the city and the St. Johns riot cases a matters that will occupy much time and should be disposed" of. The letter states that two Judgs could be profitably em ployed for as much time as" they could spare from their districts between now and July 1. Rooms will be provided them In the neighborhood of the Courthouse. Judge Morrow was informed from Salem yesterday afternoon that the mat ter had been laid before the Supreme Court and that action would be taken at an early date. RIOTERS TO BE TRIED SOON Speedy Trials Agreed on for Alleged Assailants of Hindus. Action on the Indictments against the St. Johns citizens whe are alleged to have participated in a riot against the Hin dus, will be given the right of way as far as possible in Circuit Court and will be set for trial as soon as pending cases can be cleared up. Attorney John Stevenson was in court yesterday clamoring for a hearing for John B. Groves, one of the alleged riot ers, and the only one who has not been able to furnish bail. Setting the case at this time was opposed by Deputy Dis trict Attorney Page, who informed the court that it was the desire of the prose cution to take up the strongest of the cases first and to have the pending de murrers cleared out of the way first. He was supported in this connection by Judge Morrow. Plumbing Firm Incorporates. Articles of Incorporation for the Inde pendent Plumbing Company, capitalized at $5000, were filed with the County Clerk yesterday by M. W. Akeyson. E. D. Barnette and Cieorga W. Woolette. The Hercules Mining Company was Incorpor ated with a capital' stock of $500,000 by H. J. Kiss, M. Ward and Jay H. Upton. CONDON WILL CELEBRATE Gilliam County Capital Will Get Bulletins of Big Fight. CONDON. Or.. May 19. (Special.) First among the cities of Eastern Oregon to decide to hold a Fourth of July celebra tion Is Condon, which will appropriate ly observe the Nation's birthday with a three days' rousing demonstration. An unusual feature of the celebration will be that of receiving and reading to the assembled crowds bulletins of the Jeffries-Johnson fight on the Fourth. The three days' festivities will be . initiated Saturday, July 2. with a game of base ball between Heppner and Condon, sev eral horse races and a grand ball at night. A musical and moving picture entertainment will be provided for the celebration on Sunday. On Monday another baseball game. probably with Foesll, more horse races and another grand ball in the evening will' constitute the programme. Literary ex ercises, commemorative of the day, will aiso De neia on Monday, the 4tn. Condon will probably be the only city in Gilliam. Wheeler and Morrow Counties to celebrate the day, so that there will be a general participation In the celebra tion by the residents of the three counties. A preliminary canvass for funds has al ready Insured the success of the affair. BLUE FUNNEL LINE WINS Waterhouse & Co. Outbid for Philips . . pines Freight Contract. SEATTLE, Wash., May 19. Dodwell & Co., operating the Blue Funnel line be tween Puget Sound and Liverpool by way of the Orient, will transport all Govern ment Army supplies for tlie Philippines for a year, beginning July 1 next. The Quartermaster's Department In Washing ton has Just awarded the contract to Dodwell & Co., who bid lower than did Frank Waterhouse & Co., of Seattle, who for years have held that trade. The contract la a big one, involving about 60.000 tons of general freight and in the neighborhood of 9,000.000 feet of lumber. The rate at which the contract was awarded was $3 on general cargo, coal and grain and $7 per thousand feet for lumber. By agreement a portion of the business will be given to the Minne sota, the only American vessel in the Orient trade out of Puget Sound. Ttmbermen to Fight Fires. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., May 19. (Special.) A meeting is called for tomorrow when an effort will be made to organize the. timber owners of Kla math and Lake Counties into a district for concerted action to fight forest fires the coming Summer. J. W. Alex ander, who has charge of the timber Interests for the Weyerhaeuser people for this state, arrived today from Port land to aid the organization. The Weyerhaeusers are the largest timber holders in these counties and next to them is the Kelley-Booth company, which owns 87,000 acres on the bor ders of the counties. Auto Throws Stone at Window. OREGON CITT, Or., May 19 (Special.) An automobile traveling rapidly on Main street at 11 o'clock this morning struck a stone about the size of a wal nut, causing the pebble to strike the large plate-glass window of William Gardner's jewelry store. The glass was broken. Mr. Gardner did not get the number of the machine, which sped at a high rate across the bridge and on to Portland. Work Begins on Sawmill. ASTORIA, Or.. May 19. (Special.) The Western Co-operative Company today pit 15 men to work on Young's River, mak ing preparations to commence the con struction of a sawmill for cutting rail road ties and timbers needed in the open ing up of their mill and railway pro jected In that section. The company will use the power of their logging engines in the running of this enterprise. Many Sign Normal Petitions. WESTON, Or., May 19. (Special.) The Initiative campaign of the Eastern Oregon State Normal School is well under way. Hundreds of blank peti tions have been mailed to members of the Alumni Association and other friends of the school throughout Uis state, and the committee expects to se cure at least 12,000 signers. Contract for Armory Let. ALBANY. Or., May 19 (Special.) The contract for the construction of the Ore gon National Guard Armory In this city has been let by- Adjutant-General Flnzer to the firm of Snook & Traver. A quar ter block at Fourth and Lyon streets has been purchased for the armory site. STOCK COMPANY m WORRIES White Salmon Land Involved in Minneapolis Suit. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. May 19 (Special) As a result of a personal in vestigation by their attorney, who was sent to White Salman In March. 13 Min neapolis stockholders, controlling 25.000 shares In the Columbia River Orchard Company, have begun suit in Minneap olis against Mr. and Mrs. Russell It. Dorr and eon, Bryan R. Dorr, prominent busi ness and society people of St. Paul, in which they seek to have 50,000 shares In that corporation, owned by the Dorrs, declared void. They allege that the Dorrs and W. E. Bramhall are self-elected directors of the company, that they have voted them selves large blocks of stock and have se cured large blocks of" stock for which nothing was paid. Dorr and his son organized the com pany In 1907, under the laws of tho State of Arizona. They set themselves up as president-treasurer and vice-presi dent-secretary, respectively, without elec tion. For every share of stock sold by Dorr to them, the Minneapolis stockholders allege that the Dorrs received a share from tha directors, thereby securing 25,000 shares. An expense account is objected to. It reads: "Printing and stationery. $839.98; post ge, $380.90; legal advice. $254.04; travel ing expenses, $1022.07; general expenses. $107.12. The land involved is about 200 acres. seven miles from Whito Salmon. Bryan R. Dorr lives on it and since last Fail has been assisted by J. Green from Hood River. Complaining stockholders accuse Dorr of mismanagement, charging that he put his son In charge of the company's fruit trees though he had not the slightesc experience In caring for such. Through his carelessness, they say, trees were ex posed and killed by. the cold. The complainants are also wrathy over the decision of the directors to make White Salmon headquarters for the con cern, in which they see a move to de prive them of their rights, for they can not travel so far to attend the meetings. Not only are the Dorrs In trouble with stockholders, but J. Gumming and Mr. Thomas, farmers of White Salmon Val ley, are about to start foreclosure pro ceedings against the Dorrs on 80 acred of land on which they have failed to make payments. ALBANY READY FOR LOUIS HILL Big Reception Planned, Committee Named to Receive. ALBANY, Or.. May 19. (Special.) Plans are already being inaugurated here for a big reception for Louis W. Hill when he visits Albany on his return from his present trip to Eastern Oregon. The exact date of hla visit la not yet known, but plans will go forward for a suitable reception in his honor when he does arrive. At its meeting last' night the execu tive board of the Albany Commercial Club authorized the appointment of a committee on general arrangements to have charge of the affair and map on all plans and appoint sub-committees to carry them out. Dr. W. H. Davis, presi dent of the club, appointed this commit tee today as follows: Dr. W. H. Davis (chairman). Mayor J. P. Wallace, p. A. Young. K. H. MoCune. J. S. Van Winkle. E. E. Cualck. P. D. Gilbert. William Bain. Dr. M. H. Elll. w. H. Mar vin H. H. Hewitt, prof. A. I.. Brigga. C. H. Stewart. J. K. Weatherford. A. C Schmltt. George H. Crowell. J. i. Irvln. I). O Woodworth, J. M. Ralston, F. M. French. Dr. J. L,. Hill, J. 1.. Tonillnon. P. R. Kellv, Dr. W. R. Shlnn, F. J. Fletcher. F. P. Nut ting, Walter M. Parker, S. U. Simon, W. U. Mark. O. G. Rawllnge, I K. Hamilton. J. J. Collin, J. C. Irvine. L K. BlaJn. Charles Pfelfter. J. A. Howard, Dr. R B. Wallace, Chris Vandran. J. 11. Ralston. K. C. Churchill. J. C. Hammel. R. 1. Tracy, Dan Hurley, Grant rirtle, II. C Harknieas. Wallace R. gtruhle, William Eagles. I Jil. Curl, F. J. Miller, George Taylor. L. C Marshall, J. N. Chambers and K. D. Snell. Mrs. J. K. Weatherford was appointed chairman of a committee of women to as sist in the reception and was authorized to select the members of her own com mittee. RACE TRACK PUT IN SHAPE Washington County Plans on Hold ing Fair This Fall. FOREST GROVE, Or., May 19 (Spe cial.) Work on the fair grounds recently purchased by the Washington County Livestock and Agricultural Association ' has started In earnest. The race track now being built will be a one-half mil regulation racing stretch. The grounds are at close proximity to the line of tha Oregon Electric. It Is planned to erect stables and sheds for the horses, and If the grounds can be put in readiness, a county fair will be held this Fall. The work of supervising the construction ot the race track and clearing the land is done by John A. Abbott, of this city. West of the city the Hoffman Part Company Is getting its amusement resort in readiness and the grounds will be Ui formally opened next Sunday, when them will be a ball game between the Park team and Gales Creek. A moving picture sltow building has been erected, and a merry-go-round is to be secured. The park Is to be maintained by the money obtained from the concessionaires. It If a pretty place, well shaded. A brook runs through the land. In the Magazine Section of the . Sunday Oregonian BUILDING FLOAVS FOR ROSE FESTIVAxi PARADS3 y Trip around a busy,' big work shop, from the designer through all the stages to the finishing touch; specially well illustrated. RESCUE HOME OF PORT LAND'S SALVATION ARMY Shelter for erring girls in great stress, and where a fresh start in life may be made. JEFFRIES' FIGHTS WITH SHARKEY AND CDRBETT The undefeated champion calls Corbett "the fastest man and greatest boxer I ever saw. 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