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Korean postal rfmhle rata. raetera Baahwaa HTW The S. C. Fck wUtt t-pet-lal Anry New York, rootna Ki Tribune bul dine Chlraco. room 611- S12 Tribune bulMtnc. PORTLA.VD. WEDNESDAY. Al'O. S. !!. I THE TACOMA CONVENTION. The Republican State Convention of Washing-ton will meet at Tacoma to day for the purpose of nominating five Justices for the Supreme Court who will be candidates for election in November. Through the primary law in Washington all candidates . for office except Supreme Judges are named by the new method of pro miscuous plurality selection. No other candidates for office are to be chosen at Tacoma. Tet the convention purposes to un dcrtake a task far more interesting and troublesome than the Judgeship nominations. The convention Intends. If It can. to crack the Polndexter nut. Its plan Is to read that annoying and persistent "Insurgent" out of the Re publican party. How so desirable an end may be accomplished is not clear. Inasmuch as under the new dispensa tion the Republican orthodoxy of any person is to be determined by what he says and not at all by 'what he does. The primary law in Washing-ton. like the primary law of Oregon, permits any person whatsoever to offer him self as a candidate for the suffrages of Republicans: it accepts besides the mere parole of any person as to his proper qualifications when he essays to vote at a Republican primary. The law in Washington, as in Oregon, therefore stands as a public invitation to Democrats. Populists, Socialists and all others to invade the Republi can primary and to vote for its can didates. The Democrats and lnsur g-ent Republicans of Washington will of courre Join hands in September in the common endeavor to make Poln dexter the Republican nominee for fnited States Senatorahip. The Dem ocrats find that Polndexter Is good enough Democrat for them, and the "Insurgents" are moved by a deep de sire to rule or wreck the Republican party. The Senatorial situation in Wash ington presents peculiar perplexities, Polndexter Is from Spokane and Is thi only candidate from the eastern section of the state. Eastern Wash ington already has a Senator in Wes W L. Jones, of North Yakima, so that by the ordinary rule of rotation Western Washington is entitled to and should get a Senator to take the place or Mr. Piles of Seattle. The general temper of the state would have been favorable to this demand of the west ern half of the state: but here now come four distinct candidates from fkattle and one from Tacoma for the Senatorshlp, each putting himself for ward as the particular representative of Western Washington. The Issue then, lies practically between Polndex ter on the one side and five quar reling and irreconcilable contestants on the other. Clearly Polndexter la at m. marked advantage in having no Im mediate rival In his own field, and in 2lng confronted by a divided opposi tion in. the other field. The reason able demand for a Western Washing ton Senator, indeed, militates some No hat as-alnst Polndexter. But In view of the impossibility of Western Wash ington' uniting on a single candidate. Dt Is probable that geographical con siderations will not have the weight rthey otherwise would have. Polndex ter has behind him besides a positive and militant force that spreads throughout the entire state. It would reem to be certain that he thus has a ad In the primary that the opposi tion will not be able to overcome un less there shall be a union of forces it hat now seems to be out of the ques tion. . The embarrassments confronting Khe Republicans of Washington are not going to be solved easily. They "grow primarily out of the utter de moralisation of party through the operation of the unregulated primary, tmaklng difficult and even Impossible any concerted effort for party organ isation. If there were united Re publican party In Washington, or rather If there were an efficient sys tem of party control, it would doubt less be possible to make an appeal to the central committee or other offi cial body to take such action as would lead to elimination of one or more of the King County candidates. Un doubtedly Seattle is greatly embar rassed by the struggles between Its ambitious sons, but there is no way to help it under the system of self named candidates. The situation is In nowise relieved by prevalence of the blissful belief in Seattle that the Sen atorial contest is going to be deter mined there, and not by the state at large. In other words, Seattle has never been quite able to dispossess Itself of the idea that its voice is the controlling factor in Washington af fairs. Tet, unless Seattle finds some way of getting together behind a sin gle candidate it will speedily discover that it has lost the Senatorial nomi nation. Of course, if Polndexter shall be nominated by the primary, he yet will be far from election by the Legisla ture. There is no Statement No. 1 in Washington, but there is provided In the primary law a pledge which can didates for the Legislature may take and which In turn requires them to vote in the legislature for the party choice for Senator. In view of Polndexter's possible, even probable, success, there is no wild rush in Washington yet by candidates to sign this pledge. Herein is the way. and apparently the only way, for Republicans in Washington to defeat the Insurgents and evade the Immi nent Polndexter. If Polndexter rep resented the majority of the party, he would be entitled to Its support: but he does not. He has with him only a fraction of the party. The majority do not want him. Moreover, It doesn't know what It does want. It cannot beat him In a primary by adop tion of resolutions in a state convention. A STRETCH OF MAGNANIMITY. The statue of General Robert E. Lee, In heroic pose and Confederate uniform, having been allowed a place in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building. Confederate sympa thizers are likely to push through the door thus opened and install In the place that should be sacred to pa triots a statue of Jefferson Davis, and later on. as the Southern states de sire, memorials to other leaders of a rebellion that cost the Nation hun dreds of thousands of loyal men and many millions In treasure. It may be submitted that this Is car rying magnanimity too far. The ric tors in any strife can afford to be magnanimous, but when this quality is unduly strained It engenders bold ness and even Insolence- In its re cipients. When this point Is reached a halt In the exercise of even so praiseworthy a sentiment as magna nimity should be promptly called. It Is enough that the rebel leaders have been forgiven, in a passive way, their stupendous attempt to wreck the republic. It is too much to ask that they be signally honored in halls dedicated to patriotism. The soothing influence of time has healed. In the North, the deep and smarting wound Inflicted by the rebellion. Otherwise the people would not stand for a mo ment for the strained effort that is being made to honor men who bore arms against the Nation in the Civil War. But is it unreasonable to ex pect ' the same soothing influ ence to heal the wounds of the South? If any one supposes that this has been done let him go to Mississippi or Georgia and pro pose to erect In one of the capitals a statue to Abraham Lincoln, Gen eral Grant or General Sherman. Even so admirable a virtue as magnanimity may become lop-sided. In permitting and. as In the case of General Lee, encouraging this, the effect upon the recipients does not tend to soften the asperities that were engendered oy strife, but quite the contrary. MISGCTDED PITY. The case of Dr. Crlppen, the Lon don dentist, who murdered his wife, and Mlsa Leneve. who fled with Crip pen across the Atlantic after the mur der. Is attracting international atten tion. Located by wireless telegraphy and arrested when the vessel upon which they had taken flight was pre paring; to dock, the mur derer and his charmer, were over whelmed with the gravity of the situ ation which confronted them; the craven hearted man made no resist ance and did not attempt to deny his Identity, but haggard in appearance and completely broken in spirit sub mitted quietly to arrest while the young woman, who was masquerading in boy's apparel, collapsed utterly and had to be given into the care of phy sicians and nurses. The scene at their arrest Is described as "most pathetic." The amatory uxo riclde, strangely enough, excites some thing of pity .In his helpless, desperate strait, while the young stenographer, who was at least accessory to the murder aftr the fact, is being dealt with as a -poor thing." instead of an accomplice to a criminal act, and is being excused on all hands as the doctor's dune." "Dnpe!" Is It- possible that any girl possessed of ordinary common sense can be "duped" into becoming an ac complice to the murder of a man's wife, so that she may be taken into the place made vacant by his abhor rent crime? A crime of this kind is not the result of sudden erotic frenzy. It is carefully and deliberately planned and In this case was executed with fiendish atrocity, ir there are any fountains of pity standing around the Canadian prison in which these criminals have been lodged, the over flow might wlth great propriety and Justice be used to consecrate the memory of the foully murdered wife. Her murderer and his confederate do not deserve pity. The penalty that relentlessly fol lows crime in the British system of Jurisprudence will no doubt be visited upon them. In the meantime the Dia of the pair for pity is disgusting and any response thereto la Ill-advised. The feet of these transgressors have been set In thorny places. The path Is of their own deliberate choosing. It is misguided pity that dogs their foot-steps, seeking to brush the thorns out of the path they have chosen. nlSASTTRS AND DISASTERS. Marine disasters happen wherever ships float. The pott that is entirely free from them is the port wnere there are no ships. There are, of course, varying degrees of danger, ac cording to the physical conditions of the respective ports. We note, for example, that when a passenger liner like the Valencia goes aground in a fog while trying to enter Puget Sound, there is an enormous loss of life and property. It cannot escape attention that when a. big passenger liner like the Beaver goes aground in a fog while entering the Columbia, there is no loss of life or property. The Van couver Island shore which guards the entrance to Puget sound is known the world over as the marine graveyard of the Pacific: scores of vessels and hun dreds of lives have been lost in wrecks of vessels endeavoring to reach Puget Sound. The marine disaster topic Is brought to mind by extended editorial mention in the Seattle Times, of a number of minor marine casualties on the Columbia and Willamette. The Times reprints a summary of fourteen marine accidents which happened on the Columbia and Willamette rivers within forty-eight hours last week. The Times deplores "the strenuous ef forts that have been exerted, and mil lions of money that have been spent" in Improving the channel from Port land to the sea. and sagely remarks. One cannot float a ship without water: and If one succeeds in floating the ship, there is hazard in sailing it through a narrow and tortuous channel." The wisdom and accuracy of these remarks are unquestioned. One cannot always float a ship even when there is water. -There's the Andelana, for Instance, which found so much water in which to float on Puget Sound that when she went to the bottom, it was impossible to raise her. Twenty-three lives were lost on the Andelana. One hundred and rtiirty six were lost on the Valencia. Thirty feet channel, or not. con cludes the Times, "Portland will al ways face such difficulties and con sequences, as narrated above. There is a vast difference in snubbin a flat bottomed steamer into the Willamette, and sailing a ship like the Minnesota or the Panama Maru. into Puget Sound." There is a difference. There is also a difference between the shel tered sand spit on which the Beaver was driven in a thick fog and the rock bound coast on which the Va, lencla- beat out her life. But "conv parisons are odorous." It must be a source of lasting wonder to the Times, why such big fleets of vessels should be doing business at Portland when the perils of navigation are so fearful as the Times seems to view them. DEMOCRATS ADMIT THE FACTS. The chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee has publicly appealed to Democrats to keep out of Republican primaries. "Aid and support from Democrats, he says, "should not in g-ood con science be asked or expected by any wing or faction in the Republican party." The strength of the La Fol lette wing of the party has come In large part from the votes of Demo crats in Republican primaries. fn Tacoma Monday night the Dem ocrats had a "get-together" banquet. The fact that Democrats in large numbers had notoriously taken part in Republican primaries was the main subject of discussion and appar ently the real reason behind the "get- tog-ether" movement. Said one frank orator: "I have heard men who are in this hall say they were going to call for Polndexter ballots in the pri maries and I have heard others say they would vote for Ashton. If you are going to vote for a Republican In the primaries, for God's sake, vote for one of your own neighbors. It is a condition not a theory that confronts the Republican party. Dem ocrats ODenlv invade the primary. The' publicly discuss whether It is advisable to vote for one Republican candidate or another. In Oregon the fact that many thousand Democrats at any election falsely declare them selves to be Republicans and by fraud and perjury endeavor to influence the result to their own political advan tage Is notorious. Is it any wonder that Republicans are endeavoring through assembly to save something from the wreck? A BILLION" IX DIVIDENDS, Detailed statements of the steel trust's business for the quarter end lng June SO make even a more im posing showing than was noted In the telegraphic summary received last week. The quarterly dividend of $40, 170,000 was, with two exceptions, the largest in the history, of the trust. It brought the total amount paid by the trust in dividends since its organiza tion, eight years ago, up to more than $1,015,000,000, thus making the term "bllllon-dollar trust" mean more than it has ever before meant. . The forty million-dollar dividend, however, did .not .represent all of the enormous profits which the steel trust has wrung from the consumers, for dur ing the quarter there was added to the surplus fund $6. 410. 093. This brings the surplus up to $164,297,151, or a total in dividends and surplus of nearly $1,200,000,000 in the eight years of the trust's existence. The amount of unfilled orders on the books of the company at the close of business June 30, was 4,257,794 tons, the smallest since the .quarter ending March 31, 1909, but well above the average for the two years preced lng that date. That the public Is be coming suspicious of the permanency of a policy which will admit the pil ing up of such colossal profits is ap parent by the action of the stock mar ket following the announcement of the dividend. Despite the size of this dividend and the fact that the un filled tonnage orders were not dan gerously small, prices fell away to the lowest point of the year, and have remained weak since. This greatest of all trusts has from its inception been noted for the large amount of water that was poured in to swell its capitalization into big figures. In or der to earn dividends on this Inflated value, unwarranted prices have been charged American consumers. The surplus, as well as the Immense fortunes of the steel kings who con trol the organization, is so large that it would be almost impossible for any ordinary cbmpetitor to undertake to fight the trust and reduce prices to reasonable rates. The time is ap proaching, however, when new laws will prevent the extortion that Is deemed necessary In order to enable the payment of great dividends, on watered stock. AN ANXVAI FIRE CALAMITY. Fire is at once the settler's greatest friend and his most implacable foe. Without it the subjugation of forest lands to agriculture would be impos sible, yet during this process, a period covering years of time, it Is a menace throughout the Summer months to his home, his crop, his outbuildings and more or less to his livestock. In prairie settlements the menace of fire is con stant and its reality not less disas trous than in the timber, while it bears no part in the subjugation of the land. In both situations it is re plete with horror and brings disaster on swift and searching wings.' The present season thus far has been conspicuous in the number and extent of timber fires. Notwithstand ing the fact that rangers patrol the forest area, and are generally active and vigilant, the spark or brand from the settler's clearing has started fires that have wrought enormous havoc. Fed by dry mosses and resinous wood and fanned by winds that have done their full share in scorching crops In various sections, the flames have de fled control, and smoke-blackened fire-singed settlers leaving their all behind them have been glad to make good their escape with their lives from the flaming timber. All, indeed, have not been fortunate enough to do. this, and to the other losses has been added the loss of life. The lesson of these fires is an old one. It is based on the carelessness or daring of the settler in igniting his slashings, or in the criminal thought lessness of the wandering camper or cruiser In falling to extinguish the last spark of his campflre before mov ing on. It is written in many lurid lives, which tell of loss and suffering; of heroism .and determination; of nelghborliness and despair; of maim ing and of death. It is but a new chapter added to an old story of hor ror and struggle against unequal odds and of cruel vanqulshment. Had past warnings been heeded, past exper ience been remembered and common prudence prevailed, this latest chapter would not have been written. But. alasl for human limitations, the his tory of preventable disaster repeats itself year after year -with cruel fi delity to detail, and the wasteful for est fire becomes the terror of this season as it was of last. In the recent death of John G. Car lisle another of the notable figures of the decades between 1870 and 1900 has passed from the scene. Born in Kentucky In 1835 and educated in the common schools he made his own career unaided. In 1858 he was called to the Kentucky bar, and In 1866 entered politics as state senator. Character and ability brought him preferment. He was chosen Lieuten ant Governor of his state and served from 1871 to 1875. But in 1877 he went as Representative to Washing ton and by the strict party vote of the Democrats, was seated in the Speaker's chair. He presided there from 1883 till 1889. He returned to Congress as U. S. Senator from Ken tucky in 1890. President Cleveland selected him as his Secretary of the Treasury In 1893. Mr. Carlisle was not only In opinion a Gold Democrat, but a convinced and unflinching op ponent of the free silver heresy which carried so many off their political feet at that time. His speeches bear re reading today as strong and logical expositions of gold-standard truth. Representatives of fifty railroad systems west of Chicago are in ses sion to consider plans for a demand for higher wages. About 26,000 en aineers are reDresented in the con ference; which is in charge of Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers. The merits of the demand for higher wage in all lines of labor seem to be universal ana the reason given is nearly always the higher cost of living. Between the great army of labor employes and the employers are several million people who are paying the bills. It Is from this greater army or con Burners that the money must come for paying the wages of the employes and the profits of the employers Whatever the merits of the new de mand to be made by the engineers, it Is quite apparent by the recent re ports on railroad earnings, showing wide discrepancies between gross ana net earnings that- increased expenses of the roads must be met by lncreasea charges for service. There will be an end somewhere and a readjustment will follow. "That la a almoin falsehood." said the Colonel as he noted that Colonel Harvey, of the North American Re view had made a statement regarding oooaAvoit whiofe had arriarently not been Intended for publication. To which Colonel Harvey retorts: "That which I wrote, of course is true." In this modest exchange of compliments He great possibilities for a clash of resounding words. When the colonels get together, 'twill be a con tr worth Keeinz. Colonel Harvey never uses the big stick and the short and ugly word, but with the rapier and the soft language mat sinks in he is an adept. Now clear the decks, and let the battle proceed. To tii nnlnlnti nf David Starr Jor dan, president of Stanford University, the surest way to improve the human race is to enact more strict marriage statutes and unify divorce laws. The ot.iroBt wnv to advance civilization. quoting from a lecture which he de livered in a Southern city wniie on his way to' Berlin, is "to prevent the unfit fm marrvinflr." If the chil dren of the "unfit" were never born out of marriage this would indeed De a sovereign method for improvement of e,o huma.n race. All thinirs con sidered the proposed remedy, to be effective, involves a question or con dition which up to the present time legislators have refused to Indorse. "fotnriKta who use the busy down town streets for an all day garage are guilty of a nuisance that must ulti mo, iho ohnteri ' This from the In dianapolis Star. Same here, only more so, on account of our narrow streets, the unfinished condition of many of them and the piles of build ing and wrecking material that litter so many of our busy thoroughfares. Bicycle racks adjacent to tne euro , at out time declared a nuisance In this city. The all day garage main tained at the curb stone is worse. Its turn must come, the sooner the bet ter. to ininf-A nponle to eat more crackers is one beneficent object of the new trust. Consumption is said to be but four cents per capita, while In Canada it amounts to :.. JJut ko --.r.olca are ereat lovers of pea annn and other delectable composi tions that' require these "fillers." The American must be taught, ana ir tne trust shall succeed its profits will be eservedly great. oanatn, TOourna rift abandoned the attractions of the Deer Island (Md.) golf links ana at great personal in convenience returned to Washington ii, .ftof the Portland drawbridge matter. Such heroic self-abnegation should be rewarded. This is the sec ond or third time this summer, mat h o-oif links have lost the Senator for an entire day or two through his devotion to his puDiic auties. Portland police made 1611 arrests t Tiv Tf ovprv amatenr and pro fessional chauffeur who violated the speed ordinance had Been naDoea ior oarh offense, the number Of arrests would have been doubled. Bids for the new Postoffice site dis close the fact that several pieces of Portland business property, not within the shopping district, are held at more than $1000 a front foot. Let us hope that the county court. having started up the bridge-draw hill, will not immediately start down again. The primary election does not come until September. Let us "thank whatever gods there be" for the cool breezes that come out of the Northwest and keep the temperature down during this driest period of a dry season. OalTlne o ifarlrpr a bfficillt. And raising the price so as to pay divi dends on more water, doesn't make the food more wholesome or at tractive. Voters who do not register will fail to receive some interesting literature, containing sketches of candidates. The bout between Uncle Sam and Multnomah may end in a draw. Jefferson Davis in Statuary Hall will be a haunting specter. WOMAX SUES FOR BACK PAX Man's Companion for IS Years Wants $9000 for Services. After living with Georse Whitaker. sec retary and treasurer of the Portland Sash & Door Company, for 16 years as nis wife. Mrs. Adeline Milby brought suit against him for $9000 In the local Circuit Court yesterday saying sne never mar ried him. She went to work for him August 20, 18S8. as his housekeeper at J50 a month, she declares, and he im mediately asked her to live with him as his wife. To this she consentea. sne says, with the promise on his part that he would make the contract legal. But time went by and he failed to secure tne marriage license, although Mrs. Milby says she frequently importuned him to do so. Trusting that he would some day take out a marriage license, the woman says she allowed the weeks to lapse into months, and the months into years, un til July 8, 1908. when she says Whitaker informed her she must leave him ami their three children. This she did Aug ust 10. 1904, and Whitaker Is said to have secured a nominal divorce from her. say- lng In his complaint and his testimony mat ne marriea ner in ei. xieieim. In her complaint, filed yesterday, Mrs. Milby. who was then Miss Adeline Thompson, but who has since married demands $9000 In past due wages, which she says Whitaker has failed to pay her. Her attorneys. Geesltn & Campbell, pro duce an agreement which they say Whit aker offered Mrs. Milby for signature when he asked her to leave him. This agreement bears Whitaker"s sup posed signature. It was drawn up in July 1. 1904, and provides that for the consideration of one piano, Whltaker's wife agrees to leave him, and in case be sues for a divorce, $20 a month alimony for herself and $10 a month for her daughter Alice are to be allowed. This daughter is 12 years old. Another daug ter is 21 years old and in a Catholic In stitution where she is being maintained by her father, while the son was 19 years old last Monday. MURDER WITNESSES DISAPPEAR District Attorney Has Trouble - in Trial of Hans Goodager. The District Attorney is anticipating considerable difficulty In retrying the Hans Goodager murder case, as some of the important witnesses cannot be found. Subpenaes for George Logger and William Benson, eye witnesses, were placed in the hands of Sheriff Stevens yesterday for service, but no addresses could be given by Deputy District At torney Page, so It is expected that considerable detective work will be necessary to locate them. Goodager was tried before a Jury in Judge Clee- land's department for the murder of Tony Moer in a saloon brawl, and was convicted of manslaughter, but the case was reversed by the Suprem Court. $20,000 Asked for Cut. Hans Hansen, a laborer for the Co lumbia River Door Company, was bad ly cut with a rotary saw on the right arm July 22, 1909, and brought suit in the Circuit Court yesterday to se cure $20,000 damages. He is 34 years old. and was earning- $2 a day. Until July 8. he says, he had been working outside the mill, but was given work as a trimmer's helper. Being inex perienced he failed to notice that the trimmer saw "Jumped." The saw shaved the flesh from his right arm to the bone from elbow to wrist. He alleges that had the counterweight been heavier the saw would not have Jumped. Devlin Suit at Last Concluded. The long-drawn-out law suit of Thomas C. Devlin against W. H. Moore and others over the Pacific & Eastern Railroad stock, in which Devlin as re ceiver of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank has been seeking to recover for the alleged swindles of the bankers, was concluded yesterday and submit ted to Circuit Judge Gatens. The ar guments were to have been completed Saturday, but the mass of material to be gone over necessitated more time. Attorneys Joseph Long-. Sam White and A. L. Clark were the last to argue, the first two being for the defendants and the latter for Devlin. Railway Brings Suit. In an endeavor to secure property at Water and Montgomery streets that it may begin work at once in laying tracks and extending its terminal grounds, the Oregon Electric Railway has filed suit in the Circuit Court against Arthur W. Wills, J. C. Wil liams and Frank W. Chambers, who hold a lease to the first floor of the Oregon warehouse. This lease runs for 16 months at $135 a month, but the railway company and the lease holders have been unable to agree upon what it Is worth. North Pacific Trust Company Sued. The North Pacific Trust Company is being sued for $5231.94 by E. G. Drinker, who filed his complaint in the Circuit Court yesterday. He demands $2000 for salary alleged to be due Eu gene Pearson for his services as presi dent of the corporation at $250 a month. Money advanced by Pearson from time to time is also sued for, and $180.85 alleged to be due the Mac-ite Fire Proofing Company. Company Says It Was Turned Out. Alleging that Isaac Brunn illegally ousted the firm from property at First and Alder streets and at 142 First street, the Enterprise Brewing Company brought suit in the Circuit Court yesterday asking $2750 damages. The company declares it had a lease on the property for ten years from January 1, 1906, at $150 a month, but that it was turned out January 1, 1909. P. A. Marquam, Jr., Snes for Lots. P. A. Marquam, Jr., brought suit yes terday against Virgil J. Grace de manding possession of lots 27 and 28, block 25, Willamette Addition to East Portland, or .$50 damages. CLASS RATES INVESTIGATED Hearing Is Continuation of Issue Began Years Ago. Southern Pacific class freight rates be tween Portland and other Oregon points were investigated yesterday in two brief sessions by the Oregon Railroad Commis sion. The hearing will be continued to day. A public hearing was held at Salem a year ago and shippers' evidence was heard. The hearing was adjourned to enable the railroad to offer rebuttal tes timony and testimony as to the cost of maintenance and construction of the Southern Pacific lines. Shippers are represented at the hearing by Isador Lang and T. D. Van Heekeran; the railroad representatives are W. D. Fenton, counsel; F. W. Robinson, general freight agent, and Harvey Lounsbury, traveling freight agent. Doing His Beat. Catholic Standard and Times. "Tommy Tuff!" cried the teacher, se verely, "why did you chalk your name on this new desk?" "I had ter," replied Tommy. -"I ain't got no penknife ter carve it wld." CANDIDATES WILL NOT RETIRE j Anti-Assembly Gubernatorial ,Candi dates Refuse to Withdraw. Efforts of the anti-assembly Repub licans to concentrate on some one man for Governor seem to have ended in dismal failure. The three candidates already In the field not only will not withdraw, but are preparing for ardu ous campaigns of vote-getting. . Colonel E. Hofer, who was reputed a few days ago to be willing to sac rifice his own ambitions on the altar of the clan's good, took a decided stand yesterday when he laid in a re serve supply of gasoline preparatory to an automobile electioneering tour of the whole state. Any promptings he may have felt in the past to quit the game have departed completely. He makes it plain that he now is much in interest. Grant B. Dlmick, of Oregon City, has already completed one round of the state in the interest of his ambition to be Governor. Rather than with drawing, he is reputed to be prepar ing for a second tour. Albert Abra ham, of Roseburg, Is also preparing to loop the state loop. Oddly enough, with these three men in the field many of the anti-assembly Republicans are looking for still another man. They do not believe any one of the three has the ghost of a chance of winning. For some time past this element has been try ing to draw Willis S. Duniway Into the race. But from the first Mr. Dun iway has side-stepped the temptation. At this time he is preparing to take up a campaign to succeed himself as State Printer. So the situation Just now isn't look ing as bright as it m'ght to the anti assembly Repuoilcans. The assembly elements has only one man in the field and every assemblyite is behind that man. Acting Governor Bowerman. And there does not at this time seem to be much .chance for a change of condi tions. Regardless of what their chances may be of gaining the nomination, the three anti-assembly candidates arjs going af ter the votes in earnest. Colonel Hofer. for Instance, has a carefully planned campaign which w"l occupy his time until lust before the primary election, He departs on this mission by auto mobile bright and early this mornine. so he announced yesterday. He will go tnrougn southern and Western Oregon and will then work through to Eastern and Central Oregon, and he announces it as his plan to meet all the voters possible.' At every mail box along the rural delivery routes he travels the Colonel will deposit a quantity of laudatory literature. Not only will he declaim for Statement No. 1, but he will go into a lot of side issues such as prohibition and good roads. As to prohibition, he is opposed to it at least to state-wide prohibition. District Attorney Cameron's boom ap parently has fallen so flat that he will not even circulate his petition. For the past three years Mr. Cameron has been perfecting- designs on the Reoubllcan nomination for Governor. He was a representative candidate until recently, but so little came of It that, so It Is learned from his close friends, he has given up the Idea of running. Talk continues to be heard of Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton. Judge Lowell some time ago made a plea for concentration of anti-assembly Repub licans In the Governorship fight, but he is not understood by his friends and as sociates as having personal aspirations. Efforts to get Ben Selling, a Portland merchant, into the contest, have come to nothing so far. Mr. Selling has ex pressed himself as averse to running in a crowded neid, and Inasmuch there does pot seem to be any way to reauce tne number ot runners now out, Mr. Selling may not yield to ef forts to get him in. . While the assembly Republ'cans gen erally have been confident from the first of giving to Mr. Bowerman the Republican nomination, the scramble in the antl camp is taken as making vie tory doubly certain for the head of the assemoiy ticket. SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN HOME Bridge-Draw Issue Brought to. Mind by Demonstration. Oregon's next Governor will be neither an assembly nor an anti-assembly Republican. Rather, he will be of Democratic extraction. The die Is cast. Senator Chamberlain ventured the forecast yesterday upon his return, somewhat unexpectedly, from Washing ton, D. C. I am not thoroughly in touch with local political matters," said he, when the subject was brought up, "but from what I do know I feel safe in predicting that a Democrat will be selected. This will be made doubly certain if the assembly wins at the pri maries, he added. - Continuing, he paid his respects to the assembly. "That is only another name for convention," he declared. "The assembly is the old - wolf in sheep's clothing. No one 1b deceived as to that. It cannot be denied that the direct prl- many law presents certain inade quaclea, but the assembly certainly does not afford a remedy. As to the closing of the draw spans during the rush periods, the Senator will likely be a more ardent promoter of the movement when he returns to Washington. Late yesterday afternoon, when returning from his home in East Portland in a hurry, he was held up nearly 15 minutes on the steel bridge. The delay made him late for several engagements. Senator Chamberlain will remain in Portland until Fall. His appearance on the streets yesterday made it clear that he has not been forgotten, ' for he at tracted as much attention as a cham pion prizefighter might expect. His family remained in Washington. Bourne Candidate Comes Out. Dr. T. L. Perkins, a dentist with of fices in the Medical building, added his name yesterday to the list of those who will oppose the assembly legis lative ticket. He has legislative aspir ations which have taken an anti-assembly turn, and It is understood his aspirations met the approval of Sena tor Bourne's lieutenants, who have promised him every assistance. Railroad Official Coming. A. T. Dice, general manager of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, will be in Portland August 19 in his pri vate car Schuylkill, traveling north from San Francisco. Mr. Dice is mak ing the regulation inspection trip of the West that seems to have become popular during the hot Season with prominent Eastern railroad men and financiers. In his car are several guests to a large house party. They will spend several days in Portland. Extra Cars to Care for Business. . Extra cars will be added to all east- bound O. R. & N. trains from today and continuing for several days to take care of the additional trarilc caused by today being one of the spe cial sales dates for round trip Eastern tickets. There .will be but one fur ther special sale date, September 8. Polndexter Needn't Horry. . New York World, If Colonel Roosevelt has no more in fluence with the Washington Legisla ture than he recently had with the New York Legislature, Hon. Miles Poln dexter need be in no hurry In picking out bis seat in the Senate Chamber. - LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE -A good sized squad of newspaper men, citizens and merry villagers flanked the . entrance to the Taft Summer home at Beverly and kept their eyes on the road back of the secret service guard for the approach of the carriage con- . ! tainlng Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Lodge. The wait was more than two hours long and conversation flourished at times. One knot fell to discussing Roosevelt. ' "Xhe secret of his success,'1 said a villager, "Is that he -Is a good man:" "That makes me think of the death of Casey." replied another. "When Casey lay in his coftin a neighbor I lUUftea long at ma lacu auu lueril Bam ; to the widow. 'He was a good .man. Mrs. Casey.' : " 'He was that,' she replied. 'It al ways tuk more than two cops to handle him.' " Boston Traveler. e e A Chicago Board of Trade man, who was not in the habit of attending I church, was taking a walk one Sunday morning, and on coming to a cnurcn at the regular hour of -service, he de cided to go In. As he entered the au ditorium, in which the pews were ad justed upon a sloping floor, an usher stepped forward, and wisbing to con sult him as to location before conduct ing him to a sitting, politely inquired: "Would you like to come down pretty well?" Mistaking the inquiry to be' an ap peal for money, the Board of Trade man began to fumble through his pockets, as he drawled: "I'd like to, but I'm not preparedcto come down very heavy, as 15 centa is all I have with me." Harper's Maga zine. e e e Little Willie ETinis, of the Falls of Schuylkill, is a youth with two ruling passions In life, one an Inordinate lik ing for fifhlng and the other a peculiar aversion for school. When Willie was returning from the Schuylkill yesterday, having spent the afternoon in endeavoring to catch a fish, he was accosted by a rather old man. "Did you catch anything today?" the man inquired. "Not yet," Willie answered, "but I will when I reach home." Philadelphia Times. A hypochondriac friend of a Nantas ket man, who was visiting the latter'a place on the coast of Massachusetts,' imagined he was deriving some benefit by reason of the sea water he was drink ing. One day, as the two strolled along the beach, the hypochondriac said to his friend: "Dick, this sea water Is really help ing my dyspepsia. I've already taken two glasses of it this morning. Do you think I might take a third?" "Well," returned the friend, with a gravity equal to that of his friend. "I don't think a third would be missed, Tom." Lipplneott's. e e a Mrs. Simper found herself for the first time without a cook. She had paid very good, wages, and suffered pa tiently from the carelessness and ca price of a succession of unsatisfactory kitchen helpers. After preparing several meals with her own fair hands, and gaining confi dence in the art, she approached her husband with a brilliant proposition. "What do you say, dear," she began, ' "if we do without a cook and I keep the money for my very self? Suppose I cook for one month, what shall I sret?" "Well." said the husband, by the end of one month you will get one of those long crepe veils for widows. Scraps. , IN MEMORY OF HAYM SALOMON Monument to Pollah Jew. patriot . of' American Revolution. ..... Chicago Post, Haym Salomon, financier, who devoted. his laree fortune to the use ot the strug gling colonies during the War of the Revolution, found with Robert Morris that republics are not only ungrateful. but forgetful of their just debts. Salo mon never uttered a complaint, as far as can be learned, because the Government which he had helped into enduring ex istence forgot its obligation to him. When the colonies most needed money. and when there was only the smallest ap parent chance that they would ever be in a position to pay, Haym ssaiomon un- questionlngly and unhesitatingly gave the greater part or nis iortune ior tno cause of liberty. Salomon was a - Jew, born In Prussian Poland about the year 1740. Not lonsr before the American Rev olution he came to this country and at the outbreak of hostilities he became an earnest advocate of independence. He had accumulated money and nearly all of it was devoted to the uses of his adonted country. Prominent American Jews have formed an organization to raise funds for a monument to Salomon to be erected in Washington. They are to do a work that the American people acting through Conerress should have done years ago.- Salomon was one of the most unselfish of patriots. He was born alien to tne soil, but no native made more willing sacrifices to tne American causa. Healthy Political Signs. Boston Advertiser. mi.. , in hnrh nnrtips Iff toward u crrnunri an remote from the demagogue as from the Bourbon poli tician, l ne irena la iwwoiu w..F tJ " " lie safety, public prosperity, public i - t., ...la will not avail to I1UHU1 " - " Bave the machine candidate who can offer, in himseii, no nign qunuuBs io command respect and confidence. Nor .til HlaolnlfOA rve to B&VB the demagogue and the blatant, brainless agitator from aeieat. xm puotio re fuses to grow hysterical over the base pni nolitlcal corruption. just as the public refuses to take its Ideals from any political boss. These are healthy signs of the times, and they promise well for the future, for the prosperity as wen as ior mo f'""" peace, of the whole country. Diaadvantase of Veracity. New York Sun. Washington boasted he couldn't tell le- , . n. i ... will Tnn-vm n own un that you didn't enjoy your vacation," his father replied. Herewith the youthful George shiv ered at the prospect. Will Support Taft. Louisville Courier-Journal. ' l. ... that -Praalnanr. were B' - Taft's ankle is returning to its use fulness. It would inaeea oe ua to have to chronicle the fact that even the ankle of President Taft declined to mpport him. Wheref . Washington Herald. ti-v. iBn nrA thoHA enternrialna . .orrnondant8 who a scant iiowoimH" ' , . .. . six weeks ago were so busy repudiat ing" the Taft Administration tor tne express benefit of the Colonel? ptncbotfs Specialty. Washington Herald, meroro -pinchot talks a lot." ob serves the Los Angeles Express. Well, Mr. Pinchot is opposed to sawing wood, you know. Sociability Threatened. . Washington Evening Star. If the reformers great could fix All troubles for the Nation, What would we do for politics To help our conversation? .