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Fu.-h la the twist of affair In the abort period of two years, alnce the over- avhetmlng Republican victory mai ac- ompanicd Tafl's election aa rresi- snt. To meet the chanced front, Repub licans, even radicals, are. hastening to "explain" and smooth over much of the Insurgent doctrine about Inter ests" and railroads and business, that a!rm.I substantial elements of the annntry. hitherto Republican. Colo- Bel Roosevelt doe not utter the raai ral notions that characterised hla tDeechra two months ago. Instead be Is engaged In explaining that he la "no bugaboo" and that his new national ism means no cancerous departure from tried and true principle. Tet It Is clear that radicalism In the RrDubltcaa party haa alienated con siderable of the party" conservative strength. Foraker. In Ohio, find him self unable to swallow the new nation alism, and but a brief time ago Fair banks came forth In Indiana with de nunciation of the political Innovation. Democrats are doing their best to gain the confidence of Republican faction that hitherto have fought Democratic extreme and now are alarmed by Re publican Insurgency. Doe thla fore tell a ahirtlng- of partle? The quee- lon Is an Important one. Tet It la dlr- flcu'.t to aee how conservative ele ments In the Republican party can rub elbow permanently with the Bryan faction of the Democratic party. Perhaps, however, the Bryan faction ould so over to the insurgent. The situation Is a perplexing one both for citizen at large and for poll- trlana. During- several year past redictlons have been frequently made hat the division between political par lea Is chancln;. in the preeent cam-al-n In EUtstern States event are now prorreswln that may lead to such -esrult. Dissatisfaction with Re pub- Iran administration Is taking; many .oters from the Republican camp to he Democratic, and along; with them .re going- others who are dlssatlffled tth the new party control. Thl nakea a queer mixture of discontents. The general division between par ies la that between conservative and -ad teals. Hitherto the Republican arty haa been the conservative, while he Democratic party, most or the tme. has boasted of its extreme reme- :ie for the Nation' treatment. Each barty Is now poolng a the "safe and a no" servant of the people thla In Eastern State, where the conserva- ive sentiment or business and prop- rty wields Its most- powerful Influ nce. Tnrt m -ran owx rr. Among; the mtvrvels In proposed giala.tlon ground out by the Oregon lty Law Factory Is on deserving; particular notice by the taxpayer of he state. It I the official raxette '111. or act creating- a board of three people'a Inspectors of government. fTTila board of "people- Inspector of L-overnment" L to be authorized to pen. so much of 1100.000 annually i the publication of a majraxlne de oted to dUcusslona on experiments i government and reports of Instltu- ton aa the board does not 4eem nec ssary for Its own compensation. The Oregoniaa haa gone carefully hrough the measure expecting to nd designated therein the amount f salary that shall be drawn by each f the three patriot who will try to ranaform our present republican irm of government Into something -icre satisfactory, and la forced to onclude that the framers of the bill ntend that the Inspectors ahall fix heir own compensation. They are peclncAlly prohibited from appealing - the Legislative Assembly for any pproprtatlon and the bill plainly in icates that the Inspectors are to be aid for their labors. Bills for "expense and salaries" of he board are to be audited by the -ecretary of State and paid from the raneral fund. It Is provided that the tal amount thus paid, together with ha cost of publishing the gazette very two months and distributing It ree of cost to the voters shall not ex eed the -sum of $1 for each registered oter In Oregon. At present there are approximately 20.000 registered voters in Oregon, "hercfore the Inspectors of govem tent would have authority to expend 120.000 annually In publliihlng the vzette. Rut t IS. 000 of thin may go -r clerical hire, so $10. 000 will be available for salaries and printer' Ills. If thla biil and the -woman suf- -age amendment should both can--, te sum available to the Inspectors f government would automatically ouble. The Oregrmlan Is not prepared to -ust any three state officers with -,0 task of distributing, without heck. 1:15.000 or even S105.000 laaong themselves) and the Mate rtnter. even though they may have een recommended for office by the ederatlon of Labor, the State Grange nd the associated commercial organ atlons of the state. This brings to ilnd another vicious feature of the 111. The measure places It within i power of the executive committee f the State Federation of Labor and ,a state Orange to dictate the mt--rity of the first appointee a peo le' Inspector of government. If the bill la approved, why should ot th tw executive committee con--r and recommend to the Governor ie same sot of three nameoT la such event the Governor would have no course to pursue other than to name two of the three men. and the third would be some man recommended by the combined commercial organiza tions. If the bill were a worthy measure In other respects the one fault found In this permittedictatlon of appointment should be enough to encompass its defeat. An inspector of government, aa contemplated by the bill, ahould com bine the qualities of expert account ant, accomplished editor and compe tent dotectlve. Perhaps such a man on the ground of acarcity ahould be entitled to; fix hla own term of com pensation. In accepting a Job. but even o. The Oregonlan la convinced that three such men could not do the taxpayers of the state 1 100.000 worth of good annually. It I a bill that richly deserve defeat. ROTMATINa THE DEMOCRACY. Once he wa the Democratic, can didate for Governor: then the antl os.embly candidate; now he placards the how-wlndow and the billboard and the fence post with the an nouncement that be la "Oswald Wet, Statement One candidate f.T Gov ernor of Oregon." Finally It may be supposed he will progress to the point where he -will make a bold bid for general support on his real merit as th candidate of the Bourne A Cham berlain partnership. Why not? He i not the antl aesembly candidate, nor the Statement One candidate, for no such primary has nominated him. The attempted r.nrv.nrar inn kr the Democratic nominee of these popular policies or principle Is an impudent annum pwui. that enough of the public me.y be buncoed at the right time into the opinion that an Issue Is present In the present campaign that was fully de termined at the primary. One place there 1 where Wes can not carry on his masquerade In the hairr Hi.oniUo nf a candidacy he ha no right even to pretend he repre sents. That is on the official ballot. There he will appear as the Demo cratic nominee for Governor. He can not evade there his proper clesslflca tinn Ha la the Democratic nominee for Governor. No other party haa nominated him. He was a canaiaai KAfAM th rwmnrmtlf orlmarv alone. Why this virtual repudiation of the party that gave him a great nonorr . How doe the Democratic party like It? A JV8T MID DUE GROl'ND. The chief Issue In the water amend ment question la whether water con (umers are to be charged high month ly rental In order to provide sub urban lot speculators and tract pro moters with free mains. Do consum er desire high-priced or cheap water? Boll down all the flubdub and pother about the proposed charter amend ment and that's what It comes to. It will cost big sums of money to lay these mains. Abutting lot owner will get the benefit In added value of their land. Should they or water con sumer pay for the pipes? It 1 nei ther a large nor a diiTlcult question. Water consumers do not owe lot speculator thla gift of free mains. Neither do lot owner owt consumer gift of free water service. On the one aide certain land owner are clamoring for free mains, and have Initiated a charter amendment for what they seek. On the other hand, an element of water consum er Is clamoring for free water, which they plan to secure presently through a charter amendment of their own. Between the two la a sensible and Just middle ground. It Is right and fair that consumers should pay for water service and that lot owners hould pay for new mains. WKMT AND THE MILEAGE. Candidal West undertake to ex plain that little transaction about the unearned mileage he appropriated from the Federal Government by the atatement that he sought thus to re imburse the state for moneys paid out on a fruit lee trip to Washington by himself a Railroad Commissioner. Thl explanation, even In It most fa vorable aspect leave many things to be desired. The sequence of events covering this troublesome episode In the otherwise (presumably) blameless record of the Bourne-Chamberlain candidate I briefly aa follows: Went as Railroad Commissioner wanted to go to Washington City. He savs It was on the state's business. On his from Salem through Fort- land he van served with a subpena to appear as a witnees In the Blnger Her mann trial. Arriving at Washington, he was within a day or two summoned by telegraph to return for appearance at the trtul. He returned. He was a wttnees. He charged up to the state tISl for his expenses on this trip. Then he collected from the Govern ment mileage from Washington Clty to Portland and return. Observe that a part of this mileage was for the re turn trip to Washington, which he never made. West was immediately reproached by the Government officers with attempt to "graft" the Govern ment. Then he turned the money into the state treasury. Evidently the night' sleep West had before he per formed this virtuous act had done him good. The case of Mr. West in this brave enterprise presents several interesting considerations. If It was proper for the Government to reimburse the state for money the state had ad vanced, without satisfactory return, why should the Government be re quired to pay $365.20 (less $50 which West withheld for himself) when the state's Investment In Weal's Journey was only $253? If It wn Important for West to go to Washington on the state's busi ness, and not on his private business, and If the Journey was abandoned be cause of the Government' interfer ence, why has it not since that time been undertaken, so that matters of interest to the state may be properly arranged and disposed of? If. on the other hand. West' mis sion for the state at Washington was successfully discharged, why ahould the tate be reimbursed by the Gov ernment for money thu properly ex pended and on which it thu got a proper return? By what process of calculation did West reconcile his acute conscience to the withholding of $50 of the Govern ment money? If West was entitled to any of the Government money personally, why was he not entitled to all qf it? If West wa peremptorily called from Washington to Portland, .and forced to abandon the state' business there, why did he return via, San Francisco? If the West .version la to be ac cepted, why ahould the Government Trr. imnvTvn m?rr.AYTAV "PT?TT4V. nfTOT?T!TI 28. 1910. be the "fall guy" for a smart-boy trick played on it by an officer of the state? It is all a highly troublesome busi ness. The West explanation won't wash. At its best it shows that the Government "ha been victimized in order to make personal capital for an aspiring officer of th state. At it worst It was a petty effort at graft utterly unworthy of a candidate for Governor of any party In any state. HOME ODIOC9 COMPARISONS. The celerity with which the English court has dispose1! of the Crippen case gives new occasion for disagree able comparisons between the course of Justice there and here. Crippen was brought to trial for the murder of his wife on October 18. Four day afterward he wa convicted by the Jury and sentenced to hang. There ha been no certificate of probable cause Usued to stay the execution of the sentence. No appeal will be taken to a higher court. There will be no new trial and no reprieve. The busi ness is settled once and for ail. and Crippen cannot entertain the slightest hope of delay. The girl Ethel Leneve, who was suspected of complicity with Crippen In the murder of his wife, was arraigned with . him and brought to trial on October- 2S. Three hour later, without hysterics, forensic dis play or vaudevlllo performances, she was - acquitted. It is instructive to contrast this speedy operation of the criminal law In England with some celebrated trials In the United States. The Luetgert case, in Chicago, illus trates our way of managing these matters, though It wa far less dis graceful than many other. In June. 1S97. Luetgert was In dicted. More than four month later he wa brought to trial and the first act In the pleasant little drama ended" with a disagreement by the Jury. Three montra later the econd trial began. This time Luetgert was con victed and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Up to the present time no effort haa been made by hi lawyers to reopen the proceedings, so far aa the public has been informed, but If they choose to do so there is nothing in the world to hinder them. A long a either party has money to spend, no trial or lawsuit can ever be said to have been dellnltely ended in the United States. Apparently some way can always be found to upset all that has been done and commence anew. The O'Shea case 1 more scandalous than Luetgers and displays much more of the habits of Justice In thla country. O'Shea was convicted of the murder of his wife in 1902. Since that time he haa enjoyed the agree able excitement of four successive trials, to say nothing of a second mar riage. While the awful hand of Jus tice has hung threateningly over his bead, O'Shea has become the father ol a child by his second wife and will no doubt have time to become the fathei of several more before his fate is Anally decided, granting that it ever will be decided. So one might go on citing case after case by the dozen which unite to prove the dllatoriness, inefficiency and help lessness of the American criminal courts. The necessity of trying a murderer seem almost to paralyze the courts. They fall Into a great flurry over what is to be done and how to do It. Months, sometimes years, are wasted over the question how to begin the trial, and when It Is finally completed It, is usually discovered that some ceremony or Incantation was performed Incorrectly, so that every thing has to be repeated. When we remember how many years the courts have been In the business of trying criminals. It really seems as If they ought to know bow to do It by this time without so much fuss and In effectual ceremony; but the facts In dicate that they do not. With every nw trial we see the same confusion and hysteria, the same incapacity to take hold of the business and finish It. the same helpless floundering over methods. SOme of our worst troubles concern the Jury. We seem never to be able to get tales-men of the proper sort. Weeks are spent by the prosecution and defense challenging, questioning. Investigating In the vain hope of as sembling aa Ideal Jury; that is. a Jury which never has read anything or thought upon any subject of current importance, or taken any interest in the man on trial. Sometimes one side or the other sends detectives to pry Into the secret lives of the Jurymen In order to discover their prejudices. If they display enough intelligence to form prejudices. All this Is managed very differently In England. There al most anybody makes a satisfactory Juryman. Common sense and knowl edge of current events do not bar a man from serving. It makes no dif ference if he has read the newspaper reports of the crime. All that Is re quired of him Is an oath that he will try the case without bias and bring In a verdict according to the facts and the law. Certainly a decently intelli gent citizen Is much more likely to keep such an oath than a wretched Ignoramus chosen for his brutal stu pidity is. In consequence of the ex cellent class of men who sit on Juries In England, disagreements are rare there, appeals are seldom hoard of and very few verdicts are reversed by higher tribunals. It is said that the secret of the great efficiency of English Justice Ilea In the power of the Judges. They are not mere umpires set over the trial to see that It Is conducted according to rule, but they take an active part, bring dilatory lawyers to time, ask questions of the witnesses and cut off foolish obstruction. In this country the stat utes often reduce the Judge to a mere figurehead. He preside gravely over the trial, but he takes no effec tive part In It. We are not convinced, however, that It would mend matters much if our Judges Jiad greater au thority. It certainly would not unless they were brought to repentance of their fondness for Idle technicalities and logomachical subtleties. The quib bling attorney finds aid and comfort In the higher tribunals almost Invari ably. By supporting his scholastic vanities they encourage him to ply his destructive trade and It comes about that between the quibbling lawyer and the hairsplitting Judge pretty nearly every effective restraint upon crime disappears. It seema Impossible to get an ordi nance before the City Council foe a satisfactory garbage-collection fran chise. Each time the attempt is made discovery of alleged "Jokers" is made. Tet it would seem that the best method and cheapest of collecting garbage would be by private enter- f prise under strict" regulation by the city. Stated in another way, it is 1 more desirable for government to stay out of activities that can be performed by private individuals. That is the way to -escape "jobbery." 'extrava gance, lazy officialdom and high taxes. But a large element of the city's pop ulation wish the municipality to enter the garbage-gathering business at public expense. That will add another set of wasteful officials to the public payrolL It is well enough to look at this business closely beforehand, so aa to know what it means to taxpay ers. Addressing 1100 members of the Women's National Foreign Mission ary Society at Denver .Wednesday, a Rochester woman stood on the table and threw slurs at the woman who stays at home. She said the woman who finds no time for dutle outside her family is no better than a "kept woman," and reached the climax of hysteria when . she doubted if there was a woman present who made her husband's shirts. She was correct in her surmise, for the husband of any woman who could afford to gallivant over the country has the money to pay for a better shirt than his wife could make. But her slap at the noblest woman on earth the woman who prefers to devote her time to the wel fare and comfort of husband and chil dren and let the heathen rage in his foreign clime should have been chal lenged and would have been, no doubt. If her hearers had not all been of the same piece. She may have had ref- erence to the Idle rich, but her term was general In its application. As the remarks were made at a banquet, and that, too. In Denver, there may be extenuating circumstances. Several men foe of the Broadway bridge ara damaging the city, im pairing its credit and exasperating the public all' this within technical li cense of the law. In early days, when Justice had to be meted out in a hurry, characters that annoyed the commu nity were sternly dealt with by strong men who took the public welfare into thair own hands, sometimes called an emergency committee. How long and In how many ways will this commu nity suffer itself to be bedeviled and harassed by the Frank Klernan? No doubt the suppression of Mr. Foraker Infringes the freedom of speech, but when a man Is called on to help elect a ticket it is disconcert ing, to say the least, if he injures it every time he opens his mouth. That sweet harmony which la so desirable Just now In both parties has no more irreconcilable foe than Mr. Foraker. Like cruel Juno, he cherishes his wrongs and values the gratification of his spite above party success. Now tho city is to try again to re gain control and use of the "public levee" at foot of Jefferson street. This property was part of the city's dowry when the municipality entered upon its career, and wa "given away" by fho. stat Legislature to the predeces sor of the Southern Pacific. It be longs to the city; It was graDoea r-hs nnhn hv stealth, and ought to be returned. If there Is any way to get it back, city authorities ought to pursue that way. Dr. Thomas Shaw says Oregon ba con Is the finest in the world. That Is what Dr. Wlthycombe has been say ing for years, and. In addition, has been talking in season and out for ex-, tension of the Industry. Not being a corn state. In the sense of a principal crop, the native hog food Is better adapted to produce the bacon hog than the animal that runs to lard, and It Is along this line that the endeavor must be made. An antl-prohlbltton preacher will sue a "dry" brother for defamation of character. Thus Oregon Is in the thick of hateful strife and ecclesiasti cal bitterness even before prohibition Is started. What, then, are we to ex pect after prohibition shall arrive? Really, however, regulation or at tempted suppression of liquor traffic makes an economic issue, instead of a religious or an ecclesiastical one. Victoria's adoption of the single tax wa supposed to exempt it from earthly ills, but the guardian spirit of Henry George seems powerless against fire. When all our ideal reforms have been adopted there will still be fire and flood, tempest and earthquakes, to pester us. Perhaps the Lord never Intended this world to be a very com fortable place, after all. The difference between any town in the smiling Willamette Valley and Nome Is this: Nome Is a place where you go to dig for gold, and if you get it. hurrv home as fast as the good Lord will let you. Any town In this smiling Willamette Valley, preferably Portland, is home where your heart is and you never leave It. . The big tramp steamer had to be taken through the bridges Just as people were hurrying homeward Wednesday evening, and to the many who were held .up It looked some what as though somebody was "get ting eveta.'.' Around the excavation for a big building on North Fourth street the same idle men meet day after day for the purposes of criticism and, Social ism, and often outnumber the actual workers engaged in the digging. The local Chinese Inventor of a basket fender that will "catchee catchee" anything on the right of way Is wrathy because he was turned down. He ought to invent something to "catchee" a Councilman first. It is Idle to fine rich chauffeurs or chauffeurs with rich employers they have plenty of money with which to pay fines for speeding. Jail persistent offenders, and they'll never do it again. . Defective equipment was the cause of the Tualatin Hill disaster. Just a It is with a worthless fender on a trol ley car, life Is held to be cheaper than a device that costs a few dollars. It is well for Walter Wellman and for his future newspaper contributions that Walter made his long flight for fame toward Europe Instead of toward the North Pole. The Colonel is on the down grade. He wa 63 yesterday. More Heney cases are Joining the Autumn leaves. That wa a "proper blyze" at Vic ARB THE PEOPLE TO BE FOOLEDt Can "Koa-Partlsaaf Banco Game Again Be Worked f PORTLAND, Oct. 27. (To the Edl- tor.)-r-It Is worthy of note that Dr. Harry' Lane has Joined the army of mal contents who are Just now making a vicious assault upon Oregon's primary law and along wlth Mr. Oswald West. Senator Chamberlain and. his colleague. Mr. Bourne, Is leaving nothing undone to encompass the virtual annulment of that feature of the "Oregon plan" which confers upon the people the right to select their own candidates for public positions. In this effort to discredit and scuttle the direct primary law the Democratic paper In Portland Is a very Industrious ally. In his speech at Oregon City Tuesday night the "non-partisan" ex-Mayor 01 Portland advised the people to "vote against every one of the assembly can didates" and he was especially loud and vehement In his opposition to Mr. Bowerman, the Republican direct pri mary candidate for Governor, because he had been previously Indorsed by an assembly, precisely according to the method proposed by Mr. Chamberlain four years ago. But In his assault upon the direct primary law Dr. Lane evidently forgets that it will be Impossible for the peo ple to "vote against every assembly candidate." or any assembly candidate. There ll Mr. Wlngate, for Instance.-who was an assembly candidate for Secre tary of State. He cannot be voted against because he was eliminated by the voters at the primary election. And there Is Mr. Hart, who was the assem bly candidate for Attorney-General; the -voters can't vote against him at the general election because he was not selected as a direct primary candidate. And the same can bo said of Mr. Clark, who was the assembly candidate for State Printer. And there were others who fared the same way. These "non-partisan" scuttlers of ths direct primary law should remember that all the candidates proposed by the Republican assembly were either killed at the primary election or transferred on that occasion from their positions as assembly candidates to regular pri mary candidates, and were so trans ferred by "the sovereign voice of a free people." to use the hlfalutln' expression of the "non-partisan" ex-Mayor, who, by the way. while declaring that "this Is not a fight of party but of right," Is warmly backed by the Democratic state central committee, and will not vote for a single Republican candidate any where In his lofty demand for a total disregard of party lines In the interest of "the right." It Is well that these little games should be understood by the common people who have a real desire to see the direct primary law vindicated. Mr. Bowerman was nominated by a large plurality after a two months" active campaign against him because he had been suggested by an assembly, accord ing to the proposal of Senator Cham berlain to "suggest capable and trust worthy candidates to be nominated at the primaries," the voters themselves, of course, being the Judges at the pri maries, and the "sovereign people" de cided that as to him the assembly in dorsement was no bar whatever didn't they? And if the people decided according to the provisions of the primary law that Mr. Bowerman was their prefer ence for the nomination for Governor, why all this nonsensical hullabaloo and hysterical claptrap on the part of the Chamberlain-Bourne-West Democratic machine about "voting against all as sembly candidates?" There lan't any assembly candidate running tn tal catrnpaifim. There can be no candidates In Oregon except di rect primary candidates, selected by the people, and If the people don't know enough to acleet their own preferencea, irhat la the primary law forf This assault on Mr. Bowerman, which advises Republicans to vote against their own candidate, who was selected by exact compliance with every require ment of that law, is a most vicious at tack upon the proposition that the peo ple should rule and. If successful, will go far' toward destroying its future usefulness In Oregon. Is any considerable number pf Re publicans to be fooled again by falling for the third or fourth or fifth time into this shell game of "non-partisanship" by scuttling the direct primary law through refusing to accept its ver dict as rendered last month? T. T. GEER. This Official's Task Like Solomon's. London Cor. New York Herald. According to the British Medical, Journal, a public vaccinator is con fronted with a curious-problem. The . . . . - v.nA u-hn had attained the age of four months, and whose name appeared, on the public vaccinators list, wrote to that official a letter In which he explained mat no wno unlike many Englishmen, a conscten ., .v..m, tn vaccination. But his IIUUB . wife, so he explained, was an Italian, and desired to bring up the child in -, rniinnr.H in her native country, where the child would be vac cinated at the scnooi us "" early Infancy. ...... 1 vl.h,i mA to RR V to VOU. jiy wiic " . .... v - - conculded the communication, that the child Is half Italian, ana tr me ms Ush government enforces vaccination it must undertake to confine the effects of vaccination to the English portion of the Infant, sne claims um pulia tion of the Italian Consul for the Italian half of the boy." Cootller Pining and Bigger Tips. New York Morning Telegraph. "The cost of living in New York has Increased 100 per cent within eight years -"said K. W. White of the bank ing firm of White & Co., at 25 Pine street. "A few years ago my brother Archie and I lived at the Loraine on Fifth avenue, and dined almost every evening at Sherry's. We could get an excelent dinner then for $3 of $3, and the waiter never expected more than a 25-cent tip. Could you dine In any flrst-cless place In New York as rea sonably as that nowadays? I should say not Just offer a waiter 25 cents for a tip when you pay your dinner check and see what a stony stare you'll getr . Election Donation la Refused. New York Evening Post. One of the requests for campaign contributions from Ogden L. Mills, treasurer of the Republican county committee, went so far astray that It fell Into- the mail box of "Jimmy" Hagan, Tammany district leader. Ha san sent a check for 1 cent. "It cost you 2 cents to mall me that letter." he wrote, "and It cost me now 2 cents to mail you this check; hence I am the greater loser by 1 Mills returned the check, with a let ter saying that he would be glad or dinarily to get the smallest gifts, but did not care to take them from that particular source. HUSBAXD FIGHTS WIFE'S SUIT Julia ii. Flory ' Makes Second At tempt to Free Herself. ' The second attempt of Julia R. Flory to secure a divorce from John W. Flory, a teamster. Is now being made, the case being on trial before Circuit Judge Kava naugh. The first effort of Mrs. Flory to free herself of the galling bonds was made before Circuit Judge Cleland, who denied the divorce eaying she had in sufficient evidence. Flory Is contesting the second suit, saying that his wife charged him unjustly with arson, and had him arrested twice without "cause and charged with threatening her life. A year ago last July, he says, he was In his own yard picking raspberries, and was ordered off the premises. He was arrested the next month, he says, for a threat alleged to have been made by him while "he was picking the berries. Flory says his wife was petulant, and further, that she Insisted upon attending lodge meetings, leaving him to eat cold suppers or go to restaurants. The Florys formerly had a grocery at 33 East Twenty-sixth street. According to Mrs. Flory, her husband has a sullen temper, cursed and beat her in the Fall of 1907, and told her when picking, raspberries he would "get her." He deserted her January 10, 1909, she says, and has failed to support her. She married him in Illinois, February IS, 18S2, and they have three children. Hazel Irene Larrabee took her marital troubles Into the Circuit Court yester day by filing puit for a divorce from Jack Streeter -LarTabee. She says he has been wilfully absent from her since February IS, 1908. and that during that time he has failed to support her. She married him. she says. July 20. 1906. She asks the court to allow her to resume her maiden name. Hazel I. Schreiber. Emily El Hewett filed a divorce suit In the Circuit Court yesterday against Alfred W. Hewett. alleging that in July, 1907. he deserted her. leaving her to care for five children. She rays ehe married him In Clark County, Washing ton, June 27, 1SS8. Ida Hoffman charges In the divorce complaint filed In the Circuit Court yes terday that Frank Hoffman drew a pen knife last May. and told her he intended to cut her in pieces. She says she thinks he would have done it If neighbors had not arrived in time to prevent it. She tells also how he came home from work and after calling her mean nameft struck her with his fist and then choked her so her neck swelled. He also threw her gold watch and chain into a ravine near their house, she says. She married him In Portland August 13, 1909. and wishes to take -her former name, Haehlen. ATTACK WITH KNIFE IS CHARGE Morris B. Jeter's Case 19 Set for Trial January 11. Morris B. Jeter was arralgend be fore Presiding Circuit Judge Cleland yesterday on' a charge of having as saulted Howard Dutcher with a knife September 15. He pleaded not guilty, and his case was set for trial Jan uary 11. John Kanikowsky married Anna Gudat In Germany and took another wife in the person of Lena Straus without the formality of a divorce from the first, according to the allegations of an Indictment, which is on file in the Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Cleland yesterday afternoon, and will be tried January 3. It was on November 18, 1885, accord ing to the indictment, that Kanikowsky married in Germany, and on February 21. 1908, that he married his second wife. R. Kennedy was arraigned and al lowed until next Monday to plead to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. It Is alleged that on August 19 he secured $1000 from H. B. Riffle by selling him a third interest in the Producers' Commission Company, alleged to be owned, not by Kennedy, but by the Portland Brokerage Com pany. Mining Company Sues. M. H. Houoer is defendant in a suit for $30,000. b-ought against him In the Circuit Court yesterday by the Nay-Aug Idaho Mines Company. It is alleged he v 1 r-nm nunrirA V Holcomb and W. W. Chambreau in March last. 30,000 shares of stock at 1 a snare, anu that he -was to pay for the shares of stock in three instalments of $10,000 each, payable June 1. September. 10 and October 3. He has paid only $10, 000, it to alleged. Holcomb and Cham breau are alleged to have turned over to the mines company their interest in the matter. $800 Asked In Suit. , To obtain his commission on a $16, 000 real estate deal, C. Hughes filed suit in the Circuit Court yesterday against Charles A. Myers, demanding $800. He sold 'the property for Guy L. Wallace and T. J. Leonard, says Hughes, understanding that the pur chaser was to pay the commission. Check Forger Confesses. S. W. Howard pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Kavanaugh yesterday to having forged - a check for $2. and passed it on E. BarnickeL The check was drawn on the Bank of California, signed "C. Mann." made payable to Howard, and indorsed by him. It was passed August 2. Cohen Estate Appraised. B. Lee Paget. J. Frledentlial and Walter .T. Gill yesterday filed in the Countv Court their appraisement of the estate" of the late Benjamin I. Cohen. Its net value Is $71,800. ELECTRIC ROAD IS BETTERED Report of Portland-Salem Line Show's Healthy Condition. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 27. (Special.) For extension and betterments during the year ended June 30. 1910, the Oregon Elec tric expended $476,022.65, according to a report which has just been filed with the State Railroad Commission. For equip ment the road expended $76,645.44.' The total cost Is now set down as $4,873,382.62 and of equipment es $S2.629.15. It is shown that $SS0 was provided for dividends. This Indicates that no divi dends were declared. The net operating revenue was $200,747.31 and the total op erating revenue $474,367.40, with a net in come of $167,326.39. Operating expenses are estimated at $274,120.09. The Independence & Monmouth s report phows a net corporate income of $338,174 and the Kenton Traction Co. has had a net operating revenue of $3810.32. - Hearings were set by the Railroad Commission today in the following cases: At Parkdale. 11 A. M-. October 29 Upper Hood Kiver Valley Progressive Association vs. Mt. Hood Railway Co. At Salem. 11 A. M.. November 1 O. R. N passenger rate hearing continued. At" Portland. November 4 H. Larson vs. Northern Pacific, rehearing to modify the ' findings- On November 26 hearing will be given on the case of the Baker Commercial Club vs. the O. R. & N. in the matter of distributive rates and on November 29 will be the hearing of the Medford Traf fic Bureau against the Southern Pacific, distributive rate case. Two cases will be heard at Portland December 2, these belnar the cases ol Dunn and Relmers, both against the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. The Dunn case deals with passenger rates between Island City and Portland and the Reimers case with rates between Canemah. Oregon Citv Park Place. Gladstone and other points in Clackamas County to Portland. IFRCIT JfOT HURT BY FK05T Walla Walla Chilled, but Only Ap pes Are TJnharvested. "VYALLA WALLA. Wash., Oct 27. (Special.) With 'the thermometer down to 27 degrees, the first killing frost of the year occurred at Walla Walla last night and indications are for even coldor weather tonight. This is the coldest October day In 25 years, with two ex ceptions, both many years ago. Vegetables and vines of all kinds wilted and went black before the rays of the sun this morning and still water wa frozen. 'Fruit is not damaged to any great ex tent, apples being the only fruit left on the trees. Cold Grips Pendleton. PENDLETON. Or.. Get! 27. (Special.) With the thermometer registering 17 degrees above zero last night, Pen dleton Is experiencing the coldest Oc tober weather In her history. The ther mometer went down to 24 today and In dications are that It will approach zero tonight- The highest temperature re corded today was 65. Water pipes were frozen last night and It is believed that at least tem porary injury will be sustained by early-sown grain and growing grass. NEW HEIGHT RECORD LIKELX Johnstone Estimates That He As cended 9000 Feet in Airship. MIDDLE ISLAND VILLAGE. N. Y.. Oct. 27. Ralph Johnstone, driven hither this afternoon from Belmont Park, whlla soaring for altitude, landed in a field which Is not mora than six times the area of the spread of his craft's wings. On landing he was particularly con cerned over the safety of his team rival. Hoxsey, and was greatly relieved when told that Hoxsey had landed safely. Johnstone estimated unofficially to night that he had ascended probably 9000 feet, a figure which If sustained would be a new American record- H broke two wheels In landing, but hopes to effect repairs and fly back to the aviation field. Middle Island is not an island but a hamlet midway between the ends of Long Island. CUTTERS SEEK MISSING SHIPS Two Steamers With 74 Men Lost In Tropical Hurricane. NEW ORELAN3, Oct. 27. Revenue cutters from Southern ports have been sent to West Indian waters in search of the 6teamers Crown Prince and Arkadla, lost in the recent Gulf storm. A British cutter from Jamaica also Is searching for the steamers. v The Crown Prince, carrying a crew of 40, was due in New Orleans 11 days ago. from Santoes, Brazil, with a cargo, of coffee valued at $1,600,000. The Arkadia carried a crew of 34 and a few passen gers and was bound from New Orleans to San Juna, P. R. She has not been im ported since October 11. Man Knocks Town, Fined. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 27. (Spe cial.) For using profane language and remarking that the people of Vancouver are ungrateful to the soMef. when a large number here live on tre money the soldiers spend, Act'.r? First Sergeant Frank Marquette, of Battery D, Sec ond Field Artillery, ffia fined $3 and costs, by A. J. Blgham. police judge, to day. Manley M. Manning Dies. OREGON CITY. Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) Manley M. Manning, of Willamette, died last night at his home after a pro longed attack of typhoid pneumonia. He was 34 years old. In addition to his wife and his father, who lives at Oswego, Mr. Manning is survived by three email children, one of whom is suffering from typhoid. Apoplexy Kills Laborer. Four hours afer he was stricken with apoplexy when walking on the street at Fourth and Oak streets. George Ryan, a laborer, 63 years old, died at the Multnomah County Hos pital last nighty Policeman Hlrsch saw him totter and fall and hurried him to the police station. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE S UN DAY OREGONIAN HELEN TAFT TO ENTER SOCIAL WHIRL AT WASHINGTON Charming daughter of President Taft is to forsake her studies at Bryn Mawr in order to assist her mother in her social duties. Illus trated. ROYAL FAMILY OF ITALY CLAIMS SIX AUTHORS Members of the Italian 'royal family have taken their pens in hand and new books are soon to be taken from the presses. An illus trated story of the authors and their works. KINGS HAVE A WEAK NESS FOR DANCERS Since the days of Herod, roy alty has been fascinated by grace ful women. The part that dancers have played in the fate of nations is told in an illustrated story. CARNARVON, ANCIENT WELSH TOWN, IS HONORED The story of the investiture of Prince Edward with the title of Prince of Wales and the historic city in which the ceremony will take place. IS JAPAN BECOMING THE GOVERNOR OF FASHIONS? An illustrated study of what the civilized American woman owes to her Japanese sister in styles. UNDER THE ROSE, A NEW DETECTIVE SERIES Frederick Reddale introduces Inspector Valentine to a new mys tery, "The Missing Ten Thousand Dollar Bill." The story tells how the' inspector solved it. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER