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TTTE 3IORXIXG 'OREGOXIA3T. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 19.11. rOKTtAXO. OKECVX. ''I M Partl.ad. OrM. PoatofBc) u . M . - - . jiaiiar. .r!tiaa kiln-Invariably la Mmtt BY MAIL ITt. lunilii ta-lt1erf- so. faaa "'It. 4lf l.-;jdd. m saoath.... 11 " lJr Include 1. tbna month.. J Mllr. auniley Inciu.J. on mnto 71 without Hitjit. iu yar !:.. l:tii Stiauy. . month..... ill i-. aout BuJa. Ihrre month... 1-T1 lliv. without Stiidii. ea. moctn..... '. oe f Mr l it aj. ene rur .3 IBT CARRIER) etr. San1r taclue4. eo yrar liodif Included, ea tti an (.... I Kaanit Sena Poetofaca -r. tsprvti erder or pvMUl chMk ea ur local tank. Stan-pa. cols ar eorreecy "a al th seader'e r'.a. Ota poitofrtre l:r.ae la full. ladudlsc county ana etaie. ft Kataa la to II Baaee. 1 coat: IS eea. x cente; so to 40 pacee. eaat-. o ;ia, seats, raria sviee t-ble rata. ItuelMea QfWfn Verraa Con. Now York, flntnivkk WuIUlok. Con tra. Stater tu!U1io. hRTL.4D. TlU'U.iY. JAM AH V 1. 111. TWO rVBUC RERVICK BILLS. Public utilities everywhere In Ore m are going to b regulated. No oubt about It. Th railroads are be--.g regulated through a state railroad ommUalon, and now It Is desired and tanned that street railroads shall be abject to th same discipline. Here -1 Portland there Is a definite, even 1 overwhelming- sentiment for a pub c utilities commission, especially In S matter of requiring- the Portland Rallaay. Light Power Company ho maintain satisfactory service. Several bills to this end are before Uie Legislature. One Is by Senator llilarkey. w hich Imposes the duty and vtowj the power of control. d:s :!pline and regulation of street rall- t.i T rnmhinUi thrnrirhntif t tn trn r m h. State Railroad Commission. A n- cchfr has been framed by Senator Kt ltaher. and Introduced In the House tr Kouts. It opens the way for a sep arate and independent public utilities commission for Portland. The Oregonian has no hesitation In expressing aa emphatic preference for the Malarkey measure. The Etate Railroad Commission Is willing- to un. drrtake the work, and Is qualified by experience and character to do it. It has the public confluence. Undoubt edly It will do Its duty and through it local conditions will be Improved. The Kellahcr bill adds another to the present Innumerable commissions In Oregon. It means more expense for the taxpayer, and it means more jobs for the politicians. It ran at Its best do nothing the State Railroad Commission cannot and will not do; thrown Into the whirlpool of our local affairs, and subject to the rmbltlon and machinations of our perspiring and aspiring . local statesmen, it is likely to serve all the public less than It serves some of the public. A tangible reocRrArrs move. President Taft has attained greater presttg as a "progressive" through his Canadian reciprocity plan than any politician has gained by promis cuous use of the term. That the bill which the President seems deter mined shall be enacted, will meet with strong objections is a certainty. More of these objections, however, will come from politicians than from the peo- and wage earners will not fail to de tect In President Taft's bill a sincere effort to remedy an economic condi tion which burdens the poor and fa vors the rich. Never, since the pro tective tariff began to pile up colossal fortunes for the trusts, has the cause of the over-protected American con sumer had a champion clothed with the power that President Taft can bring to bear. The use of th!s great power, if It is reinforced by the pro gressive element In both parties, may lead to a success that will make Presi dent Taft invincible as a candidate to succeed himself. Fortunately for the President, the demand for reform of the kind pro vided for In this Canadian reciprocal agreement Is so apparent that the po litical possibilities presented by the crisis will be dimmed by comparison with the tangible benefits possible for the great mass of Americans. For years there has been a crying demand - for tariff reform and as an opening . wedge or a point of beginning, no ' fairer field than Canada could have been selected. Natural resources and labor conditions are practically th same in Canada and the United States. This fact has been so familiar to the American people that the trusts never have been able to make a satisfac tory explanation why American goods were sold so much cheaper across the line than In this country'. In lieu of such explanation, they have clouded the issue by the promotion of unrea sonable theories regarding the possi ble effect on the farmers of reciproc ity or tariff changes. Th most frequently encountered fallacy of th ultra-protectionist Is that old bogle, the duty on grain. The . trusts and the standpatters of both parties have misled the farmers on this point so long that some difficulty may be met In convincing them that the price of grain is not affected by the Canadian duty. That the Presi dent Is thoroughly familiar with the conditions that control prices Is quite apparent In his statement that "ex cluding the element of transportation, the price of staple food products, especially of cereals. Is much the same the world over, and th recent In crease In price has been th result of a world-wide cause." The Impossibility of Canada, even with the free admission of her grain to th United States, causing any ma terial change In prices Is quite ap parent arhtn her relative Importance - In th world's grain trad Is consid ered. On this point statistics for the 110 crop are Interesting. Th pro duction of wheat, corn, barley and oats In th United States reached a total of S.07J.I0S.00O bushels. In Canada, th total output of these grains was 4ts.147.009 bushels. The surplus yield of both countries must be marketed In Europe. The price In Canada and In the UnKed States Is always the Liverpool price less the coat of transportation. The American farmer. Instead of being placed at a disadvantage by the proposed reciprocity agreement, would recelv Just as much for his grain as he now receive, and with reciprocity reducing th enormous profits of the trusts he would be enabled to pur er, a) a great many commodities at - the prices with which his Canadian competitors ar now favored. Presi dent Taft hag struck a popular chord tn Canadian reciprocity, and if th machinations of th politicians tem porarily dlaarrang his plana, a direct appeal to the people two years hence will not be unanswered. TflK CTIITAUlOrS MB. ITKROX. It Is pertinent to Inquire what the Miis!-lDDl no-e which Is searching for the rhivalrlc A. Heron will do wlth him when It finds him. The r.-irfiil roa.lrr will note that we did r.nt 'Vjtih" him. Mr. Heron Is a hard m.tn to catch. After shooting down a train hand in a parlor car f.,'l nr m-nmon air! children ha terror Upd a Misslss-ippl town for several hours nn.l th.-n deliberately maile his way to some plce of security wht re he r.ow gloats In serenity over his Hamburg Is the town where this typical border hero perlormea nis ex plotts. He went from one store t another, armed with his trusty revol ver and ordered the merchants U ai:t r shoo. They meekly obeyed If any free and Independent citizen of llimhurir ventured to snow mm atf nn th rtrert Sir. Heron perem np- tnrl'v ordered him to withdraw, an forthwith he withdrew. It was all ..m mil rhivalrlc. The hero onnriiixt in th nnj-lor car beautifully exemplifies that species of chivalry which goes with the burning ot ne groes, mob law and big phrases, rtoina- a MlsalssltiDl gentleman Mr Heron very likely talks a great deal about hi respect ror women ana n admiration for the sex. but When he got mad at the train hand he did not aomniA in firA his revolver point blank among a crowd of helpless vnman anri children. Oftentimes the chivalry which talks little is prefer able to the kind that taiKS mucn mo etraa ntatnla rerklesslv. We should like to add a tribute of admiration for the courajre of the men of llnmburr. There is sometnin aiiMimw in the wav they one and all denied themselves the satisfaction, of .hnnfinr rinwn the triumphant Heron as he paraded their streets firing his revolver. Of course their courngo was purely of the moral variety, but that Is the best kind. It takes some self restraint to permit a lone ruffian to take possession jf a town and control it for half a dev. Such self-restraint t. a li.r.irv which oucht to be exer cised somewhat rarely for the sake of ii-muti.in hut it la noble an tn same. We wonder If the Hamburg breves would be as restrained If they had a poor, helpless negro at the end of a rope with a nice brignt tire ouru Ing at a convenient stake? THK STATE AND EDCCATTON. The Eugene Register professes to believe that Th Oregonian onerea own version of certain remarks made at the State University recently by Senator Selling, president of the State Senate. The Senator was reported as being uncertain in hi own mind aa to the duty of the state to give every young man and young woman a "higher education." These observa tions, being entirely sensible and in accord with the feeling ana juasmmi n.n.r naihl neonle. were ap proved by The Oregonian. The Ore gonian. knowing senator scuma well, was quite prepared to assume t..t h h-J been correctly quoted. It had no doubt about It then, and has none now. The Kugene paper, when It reviews recent history, will doubtless) be will ing to modify Its further statement that The Oregonian Is opposed to Hki.k., aAticiition" and "would not say anything In surport of It-" The Oregonian Is not opposed 10 education: it Is merely Impatient of the stuff and guff that masquerades as higher education, and wearied of the pretense and assumption by such papers as the Register that the State University Is the center and circumference of higher education In Oregon. The Oregonian has made It quite clear heretofore, as the people of Eugene have reason to remember, that It wants a reasonable, even a generous, appropriation for th State University; It approved the $115,000 annual appropriation on the representation by friends of the uni versity that it would bo ample for all needs for many years. Now we find a demand for over half a million dollars above the $250,000 fixed bien nial appropriation. It cannot b granted. It should not be. If the Register desires to continue the discussion of higher education with The Oregonian on Its merits, and Inquire how Imperative an obligation the state has to educate free doctors, lawyers, preachers and other profes sional men as against Its other duty If It has one to educate more hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Oregonl.m rlll cheerfully comply. But what good wUl It do the Stat Uni versity T ELIZABETH frTVABT PHELPS WARD. The announcement of the death of Ellxabeth Stuart Phelps Ward which occurred at her home in Newton Cen ter. Mass, January JS. haa awakened a feeling akin to personal bereave ment In thousands of hearts. Her name Is Inseparably connected with "Gate"s Ajar." a speculative treatise. Inspired by the tendereat fancy, in th form of a story which set forth sim ply and consolingly the problematical experiences of a soul after death. This book was published before Miss Phelps was 10 years old and though the subject was not a novel on her presentment of It was Interesting In the peculiar appeal that It made to the thousands who had suffered be reavement through the Civil War. The success of "Gate's Ajar." like that of Harriet Beechor Stowe's great book. "Uncle Tom's Cabin." was phe nomenal. In England alon 100,000 copies were sold aa fast as they fell from the pre as. Translations appeared almost simultaneously In five Con tinental languages. Thus at on step Mis Phelps bad reached fame. The succeeding books. "Beyond th Gates" and "Th Gate Between." were equally Interesting, portraying as they did the celeatiai worm auumn ated earth, wherein ther was no loss of familiar faces and things. The con ception took a certain hold of the reader, whether bereaved or specula tive, that in a sense endeared the au thor. In her shorter stories. "The Madonna of the Tubs," and "Jack the Fisherman." Miss Phelps showed a conception of the trials, triumphs and failures of the lowly fisher folk on the Massachusetts cosst that was true to life as ah found It there. A con temporary d 01 ner: 1 ner is more of misery than Joy In the world that she knew the best and she was too sincere an artist to paint other than what she knew. Hence she pre sents a series of shipwrecks, figura tive and literal, for which only her ability compels our patience." To this It msy b addd that human sympathy was her leading character tatio. Sh painted th misery with which ah came In contact that she might offer to the world a practical suggestion looking toward Its amelio ration. Her Industry was unflagging. She produced a book a year from her twentieth year and dying at sixty seven may be said to have fallen asleep from weariness. She was a daughter of Professor Austin Phelps, of the Andover Theological Seminary, and the interest which the "Gate's Ajar" Inspired grew largely from the fact that It depicted a revolt from the cast-iron traditions In which the author was surrounded In early life. STEEL TKV!T EXTORTION. The successful manner In which the steel trust buncoes the American con sumer out of many millions per year Is shown In the export figures for 1910. It will be remembered that at the frequent banquets held by the steel trust In the year it was always the unanimous opinion of the steel kings that the dwindling domestic demand for steel could not be encouraged to the extent of a single ton by a cut in prices. As a result of this opinion, steel rails, which cost approximately 115 per ton to produce, were held steady throughout the year at $28, and many of the mills of the trust were run on half time for a considerable portion of th year. But while the output of the mills for 110 was far below capacity, the domestic demand was so small that there was available for export the largest surplus ever shipped out of the country in a single year. Th total Talue of these iron and steel manufactures exported In the year was more than $200,000,000, or practically one-fourth the value of all manufactured exports of the country In the twelve months. Nothing in the rast history or the present policy of the steel trust would lead any one to believe that this enormous volume of business was handled at a loss. There was, of course, a good profit, and as all of the foreign steel manufacturers enjoyed a good year, the world-wide demand must have been greater than ever. This immense amount exported was, of course, sold at prices as low as or lower than those made by the foreign manufacturers. In other words, in creased exportation in the face of de creased production could mean noth ing else than that the trust reduced prices abroad but declined to stimulate the domestic demand by making even a slight reduction In this country. The year's business shows quite clearly that th protective tariff is Indispensable to the trusts as a means of strengthen ing a monopoly, but Is of no advantage whatever to the consumer In America. IS FLETCHXBISM SILLY? We dare say that Dr. Alonzo E. Tay lor did not Intend his anathemas against Fletcherlsm to be taken quite Kroi-aMv Ha La a medical professor at the University of. Pennsylvania and Ilk most orthodox pnysicions aeiesis faiia non rood ones. Very likely, too, he made allowances for the Impene trability of the New York cranium and therefore put his case more strongly than he would have done in Portland or Indianapolis. Here you can drive in with a tack hammer a nnint which often reaulres a sledge in New York. Dr. Taylor probably felt the exigencies or tne occasion 10 can for violent language. At any rate such was the kind he used. 'The greater part of Fletcherism." he shouted. "la downright silliness. lie added that It was a philosophy of perpetual chewing and Insisted that the average person chews his rooa as mi.h a-, thr ia anv need for. The Tnriinnannlia Star temperately replies that nobody can concede this who 4ias watched a crowd of Americana bolting their food. The only rational way to test a theory is to watch Its effects In prac- viatcherism stands this test fairly welL Almost everybody who has adopted the habit of thorough mastication finds his health bettered by it. He is more cheerful. He sleeps sounder. His Internal organs move more regularly. A regime wnicn brings about these results is not silly. v rfnnnt it ia nosalble to carry the chewing mania too far, but there Is not much danger that many persona will fall into that error, t-oise ana H.iik.miinn at meals are excellent habits to culUvate and Dr. Fletcher e serves gratitude for helping us to ward that end. ' nr. Tavlora remarks on sugar ar also open to some strictures. He says In substance, "Eat all the sugar you want. It la a cheap food and easily digested." This may be all rlg-h ab stractly but practically It is all wrong, at least for many people. There are thousands who can not digest sugar with any comfort. It is cheap and it Is nutritious. It is also extremely pal ..ki Rut If It invariably "sours on the stomach." shall we keep on eating It merely to accommodate nr. ia lor? That would not be exactly what yon would call wise. Many persons have cured themselves 01 stomacn . v.i- ,imr.i nv lettlna- suirar alon. D . .7 " - The Idiosyncrasies of the Individual often mock at the most logical theory. The truth seems to be that grape sugar Is much easier to digest than the product of the cane mill. Physi cians say that cane sugar must first be transformed into the other kind v. - iiinativa lulcea before it can be handled properly. This Is a dif ficult task for very many stomaens. Sensible peopl do not pay a great Aoai of attention to doctors' wrangles over food and eating. They find out what Is best for them oy patient ob servation and then act accordingly. A U-SSOM mOX HOLLAND With potatoes $1.75 per sack, butter 90 cents per roll, eggs from 40 cents to 60 cents per dosen. and every other article produced on the farm com manding similar figures, there Is per haps some excuse for the belief occa sionally expressed that the time is ap proaching when this country win be forced to becom a large importer of agricultural, products. And yet this theory receives some ruae jolts wnen we find Oregon farmers producing more than 600 bushels of potatoes per acre, Oregon rows breaking world's records for milk and butter produc tion and Oregon hens paying more than $2 per year net profit. For the purpose of showing how far this country really Is from the limit of production of agricultural staples. some figures recently submitted in a report by American Consul Mahln at Amsterdam ar Interesting. Holland with an area of about 12,000 square miles, which Is about the size of an Eastern Oregon county, has more than 1.000,000 milch cows. With milk retailing at four cents per quart. Consul Mahln reports that It Is a "uni versal beverage, the consumption be Ins- greater than In any other country." Despite this liberal us of milk, the Holland dairies turn out annually 143, 000,000 pounds of butter and 176, 000,000 pounds of cheese. With a population of 6.600.000, it might be supposed that there would be little if any surplus of farm products for export, but the consul Informs us that the export trade In farm products is so great that the Government enforces unusually stringent pure food laws In order that the demand for Holland products will not be damaged In for eign markets. Dairy products form the principal item of exports, but there are also shipped abroad immense quantities of vegetables and livestock. When we consider the area and output of Hol land In comparison with those of Oregon, one may realize that we know very little about Intensive farming and that there are great possibilities ahead of us. Long before It becomes necessary for this country to figure as an im porter of agricultural products we shall becln Intensive farming here. When the Oregonlans apply Holland methods to their dairies and small farms, we shall no longer be Import ing butter and eggs from the East or paying 10 cents per quart for pale blue milk. If we are to understand that the action of the State Senate in defeat ing the $100,000 appropriation bill for the Astoria Centennial means defeat of any legislation on that subject. It is unfortunate. There ought to be a worthy celebration at Astoria, for the event Is of great historic Interest. The occasion calls for recognition and sup port by the state and for a suitable ap propriation by the Legislature. The Legislature should therefore give con siderate attention to the appeal of As toria and Its friends. Let us not have it said that so momentous an event in the history of the United States as the founding of Astoria passed without official notice and celebration by the state. The din made by explosives used In celebrating a day t event sacred to one people or another is not enjoyable. It does not appear reasonable, how ever, that the noise made In celebrat ing Chinese New Year Is any more distracting than that made upon our National holiday and certainly It is not nearly so widespread. Why not allow the Chinese the privileges ac corded to other foreigners and as sumed as a right by Americans and thus make good the popular conten tion that a Nation does not need to be a recognized fighting power in or der to protect Its citizens or subjects In other lands against unjust discrim ination T According to figures furnished by monument dealers of the three states. Oregon, Washington and Idaho, a yearly business aggregating $1,400,000 Is transacted in furnishing memorial marble and granite In memory of the dead. This record attests a loyalty to the memory of those "who were for a time but now are not" that is a tender attribute of human nature, which within reasonable limits is highly commendable. It Is only when it is indulged without regard to the necessities of the living, which Is un fortunately sometimes done, that the desire to perpetuate the memory of the dead in monuments is open to cen sure. The Rev. Mr. Proctor's remarks on prison reform in The Oregonian yes terday show that he has been think ing to cood Durrose on a weighty sub ject. Our present attitude toward criminals Is the same as tnat or tne medieval world toward lunatics. Lun atics housed the devil In their bodies and were tortured for It. The crim inal admits the devil to control his mind and we make him suffer for it. To the scientist of today lunacy Is a disease. How long will It be until a similar truth is given proper weight In treating criminals? Doubtless Frank Strand's exploit will stir up a hullabaloo of protest against the picture shows. He was Inspired by what he saw at one to shoot his own mother. What could be more awful? We think it would be more awful to let a single un fortunate incident excite undiscrlm inatlng hostility against a cheap and wholesome popular amusement. It Is impossible to guard against .the waywardness of abnormal youths. The Interest of the many must not be sac rificed because some are fools or maniacs. m If the honorable profession of the law will not yield support to a man and his family without haggling for a cheap office It Is plain that the man and the vocation are at variance. Why endeavor to reconcile such dif ferences) when there is land to clear against the coming potato and cab bage planting time? Muscle Is an as set that counts when other expedients fail. ' A mob Is as cowardly as it is loath some. There Is nothing In the world so hateful as the mob spirit and noth ing more abjectly timorous. One po liceman cheeked a thousand howling demons In New York the other day vrho were going to "kill the Japanese." When a mob overcomes the officers of the law it Is usually because they wont to be overcome. A supposed pauper died In the Che halls County, Wash., poor house a few days ago at the age of 80 years. In preparing his body for burial deposit checks to the value of $5200 and $80 In cosh were found In his clothing. Death certainly made hard terms with this niggard In holding the only key that could undo his wealth. Those two Polk County women. mother and daughter, who gave birth to sons at the same hour in the same house, deserve more than passing mention, and they will get it in years to come when nephew and uncle wrangle on the question or seniority. All things considered, It Is still Polk against the world. The hardest-worked men In the most dangerous branch of the postal service, the railway clerks, have at last perfected an organization. An appreciative public stands ready to help. ' New York has another murder mys tery, the victim, as usual, being a young woman. No woman, being clr oumspect, need lose her life in a New York or any other hotel. Tha cost of living may be higher at Corvallis, but the quality of men turned out Justifies the added ex pens. - - WIDE RAXGE OP OREGON PRODUCTS Anything Grow In Temperate Zone Will Do Better Here. PORTLAND, Jan. 26. (To the Edi tor.) Homeseekers should investigate the splendid opportunities which Ore gon offers. The Impression has gone abroad that this is a fruitgrowing state and that general farming Is not profitable. This is a mistake. All kinds of deciduous fruits do well. Oregon ap ples are leaders In the world's mar kets. Better pears, peaches, prunes. apricots, cherries and berries are not grown anywhere. These are exploited products. Portland Is the second largest wheat exporting city in the United States. Condon, In Gilliam County. Oregon, was two years ago, the largest primary shipping point In the country. The Willamette Valley has produced as high as 100 bushels of wheat to the acre. and throughout the grain belt of the state the yield will run from 25 to 40 bushols. Barley and oats give equal ly good returns. Owing to the cool nights, corn does not mature bo well as In the warmer localities of the Mid dle West, but it ripens sufficiently for feed. Dairying is one of the important in dustries, and at the same time one of the most neglected callings. . Oregon presents as favorable conditions for dairying as can be found anywhere in the world. Western Oregon haa a cli mate which permits feeding on the range at ail seasons. The animals do not require housing, and when the for age in the field is limited the Kale and other root crops provide abundant milk-producing- food. As a separate in dustry or as an adjunct to the farm. the dairy herd will pay a big prom. A large percentage of the butter used In Oregon is exported from the Eastern state). Poultry raising Is profitable. The favorable climatic conditions, lmmun ity from disease and high prices which prevail at all times render the raising of chickens and turkeys profitable. The market is never supplied with the home product. California and the states of the Middle West are relied upon for poultry and eggs. The livestock Industry Is also sadly neglected. Better prices are paid at the stockyards In Portland than at Omaha or Chicago. The supply is total ly Inadequate. The Pacific Northwest annually Imports $18,000,000 worth of meat products, and Oregon la a large contributor to the sum paid out. The conditions for raising cattle, horses and sheep are ideal In many sections. Al falfa used for fattening purposes so nearly meets every requirement that little grain Is needed to put animals in tine condition for the block. As a horseralsing section, the Oregon prod uct rivals the animal "bred In ole Kalntuck." Coach and draft animals command the best market prices. Pure bred dairy cattle are moneymakers. The finer breeds of sheep here are sold to growers In America and Europe. Vegetable gardening is a moneymak lng proposition. The soil and climate are adapted to every variety, the yield is almost Incredibly large and thequal lty is unsurpassed. The large and smaller cities are the market places and good prices are always received. Farming on a large scale Is possible. Intensive farming is a success. It does not matter what manner of soil culti vation the homeseeker has engaged in elsewhere, he will find it possible to engage In a similar occupation in ore gon. He. can plant with the assurance that he will reap, for crop failures are practically unknown. There are locali ties where dry farming is tne metnoa pursued and other sections where irri gation Is resorted to. Wrong Ideas prevail concerning Ore gon. The prevailing Impression that there Is constant rainfall here Is er roneous. The precipitation in the Wil lamette Valley Is 40 inches. Marietta, O., haa more rain than Portland. So has Charleston, S. C: St Louis, Mo and Albany, N. Y. average as much. Washington, D. C, has 4i Inches. Dur ing the Summer there is no rain from July until October, and irrigation proj ects are considered In the Willamette Valley. Farther inland the precipita tion Is less. Central Oregon does not. in most parts, have to exceed 10 Inches. This does away with the rain bugaboo. Anything that will grow anywhere else in the temperate zone will do bet ter In Oregon. No one need have an orchard unless he so desires. There are prosperous farmers by the hundred in the state who haven't a fruit tree on their lund. Some have family orchards. Commercial orchards pay, and pay big money. So does wheatgrowing. Ditto as to stock, poultry and every outdoor Industry or occupation. Oregon has a diversity of callings equal to any section, surpassed by no state In the Union, and has homes for millions. The present population Is less than 700.000. Seven million can be tak en care of and every one can raise Just what he desires. We cannot get away from the excellence of our fruit products. We are, however, just as good along every other line of hus bandry. Land prices are not high, ex cept in certain sections. Equally pro ductive land can be had for a good deal lees money. It Is not necessary to pay a fancy price. JOHN SCOTT MILLS. Interesting- Event la High Life. Life. A new star was reported December 80 to the Harvard Observatory by the Astronomer Royal of England. Dis covery verified In Cambridge. Star and folks doing well. Now of seventh mag nitude and growing. It has had its pic ture taken and is awaiting its name and the offer of an engagement by Os car Hammerstein. Service Pension Bill. v PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 27. (To the Edi tor.) I would like to know if a veteran of the Civil War can send his application now for pension under the service pen sion act. Has the law passed the Senate? The service pension act has passed the House, but not the Senate and therefore is not in force. Slippery. Louisville Courier-Journal. New York has ten billion dollars' worth of taxable property, much of which greatly resembles the eel In some respects. THE CALL OF KELLAIlEIU Bit up. y unprogrclve states. And glvn your ear a atir. For o'er tha land the voice vibrates Of oracular Kollaiier. Ttlririlna va vote, a ud ye alt. That th "Oregon achame" la It. "Oh. Lefflslators. let ua unite Our voices loud, to declare The Oregon syatam out of light. Entirely beyond compare With any other that man may Invent The E plus ultra ot lovernraent. "Straight was the path and hard tha way Thar once to tha Senate ran. But broad hath it grown in thi latter day, H oca use ot the Oregon plan, (yor twailmonlal. please to see Either George E. or Johnathan B.) "Hard w the Legislator Job in th day that have passed away. But the new plan cornea hi olflc to rob Ot all but tha salary: Hi taak becometh but recreation Tha people wreatla with legislation. "Benold, we have tried the Oregon eoheme For full lx year or more. And found It th best of all. 'twould seem. Though ye search th wide world o'er; E'on belter than those. It appear to me. That ar sanctioned by age of hltorr." So wake, ye unprogreaive state. And give thine ear a tlr. For over the land the voice vibrate Of oraoular Kellahar: The Oregon echema 1 it. parole (For testimonial, sea J. B.j" Dean Colllna HAPPENINGS IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS IXQUIRT COMMITTE NAMED Thorough Probe Promised Fonts Is Censured for Personal Attack. STATE CAPITOL, SALEM. Or, Jan. 30. (Special.) Thorough investigation of the affairs and the management of the Insane Asylum is promised by the special committee from tne Mouse ap pointed today by Speaker Rusk. Its members are Jones, of Clackamas; Derby, of Hood raver; Clemens, of Multnomah: Buckley, of Gilliam, and Beals, of Tillamook. At a meeting to be held tomorrow morning the com mittee will formulate a programme for taking up the work immediately. By the terms of a resolution adopted by the House this morning. Superin tendent Steiner, of the institution, will not be invited to appear before the Legislature in defense and explanation of his administration until after the special committee has made Its report, which must be filed within 10 days before final adjournment, February 17. The committee appointed by Speaker Rusk is a continuing committee, under the provisions of the resolution, and Is also directed to make an' Investiga tion of all of the state Institutions, in cluding the State University, Oregon Agricultural College and the offices of Secretary of State and State Treasurer. Its final report is to be made to the Legislative Assembly convening in 1913. Appointment by the Governor of two additional Justices of the Supreme Court, Is proposed in a bill Introduced In the House today by Miller, of Columbia-After what proved a short but the most sensational scrap of the session In the House this afternoon, Amme's bill making telephone and telegraph com panies responsible for the non-delivery of messages and mistakes In their transmission and. declaring all press associations common carriers, was In definitely postponed by a vote of 35 to 21 and three absent. In arguing against the bill's post ponement Fouts made a vicious per sonal attack on Frank L. Perkins, cor respondent for the Portland Telegram, but was forced to abandon his tirade of abuse before he had finished when Thompson, Brooke, McKlnney and Eaton came to the defense of the news paper man, who did not have the priv ilege of replying, and demanded that Fouts confine his remarks to a discus sion of the merits of the motion before the House. Fouts' attack on Perkins was the result of a story written by Perkins in which he associated the name of the Multnomah County. Repre sentative with that of a young woman clerk who was discharged last week. In Insisting on the Indefinite post ponement of the bill, Thompson, after denouncing Fouts' attack on the cor respondent as cowardly and uncalled for, gave a clear exposition of the pur poses of the Associated Press, which Fouts frantically admitted on the floor, was the real object of the bill under consideration, although it presumed to apply principally to telegraph and tele phone companies. Both Thompson and Brooke explained that the Associated Press Is only an association of newspa per publishers, organized and main tained for the collection and distribu tion of news for the mutual benefit of Its members and at a minimum of cost. Various Supreme Court decisions were cited,, showing that the Asosclatlon is not a monopoly and that the bill as proposed was clearly unconstitutional and could ont be enforced if enacted. It is frankly conceded around the Capitol Building that Fouts' attack on Perkins was not Justified and that as a result of his attitude Fouts, who has been the recognized leader of the Insurgents or so-called "progressives" on the floor of the House, has greatly minimized his Influence. He made his fight on the Amme bill today a per sonal matter and the vote as taken clearly Indicates his maximum strength in view of the fact that he per sonally appealed to several mem bers of the House outside of his natural following to stand with him in today's contest. PORT MEMBERS WOULD QUIT Portland Commissioners Appeal to Solons Before Retiring. STATE CAPITOL Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Communication was re celved by the Legislature today from the Fort of .Portland Commission call ing attention to the fact that members of the commission had long been anx ious to retire but had been given legal advice that the Legislature has lost its power to name new members of the commission and as a result doubt the advlsablity of taking such action. The communication suggests that the Legislature make recommendation as to the new members desired for the commission. Upon receipt of these recommendations, members of the com. mission agree to resign one at a time and assist in the election, one at a time, of the members suggested by the Legislature. The communication sets forth that the commission believes In this man ner all doubt as to the legality and validity or tne appointment and elec tlon of the new members will be sweDt aaiae ana tne commission will be work ing on a firm basis. TRADE BY OFFICL1LS BARRED Senator, Salem Bookseller, by Mis take Helps Pass Bill. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. SO. (Special.) Senator Bowerman's bill to prevent frauds against the state by pro hibiting any state, county. municiDaL school district officer or officer of any otner organization connected with such political divisions from entering into a contract with the state or selling sup plies to the state, was passed this morn ing. As a result Senator Hal Patton of Marlon Is one of the most worried men in the Senate. Patton failed to construe exactly the provisions of the bill and voted favorably on it. Patton owns a book store in this city and as the bill provides that any state officer cannot dis pose of goods to a school district he Is considerably ruffled. After he discovered what he had done in casting his affirma tive vote he was anxious for reconsidera tion, but was too late and will be com pelled to carry his complaint to his col leagues In the House. BLOW DEALT MALPRACTICE Senate Passes Bill to Regulate Medi cine and Surgery Licenses. 6TATB CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Senator Locke's bill pro viding for the regulation or tne prac tice of medicine and surgery passed the Senate this afternoon after oppo sition developed on the part of Sinnott Sinnott also voted against the bill. Locke declared that one of the main features of the bill was Its power to guard against such men as William Eisen, who was in the lime-light la Portland recently over an alleged case of malpractice. He said that such practices may be largely eliminated by the power of revocation of license which may be exercised. Locke also called attention to a so called physician at the Oaks at Port land, who, after three months' study with a correspondence school, flaunted his shingle at the close of that Urn as a full-fledged doctor. j NIGHT PHONE KATES CUT Kellaher'a Bill Would Make After Dark Toll Half of Day. Tax. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or.." Jan. 30. (Special.) 0?roviding for telephone rates at night. Senator Kellaher Introduced a bill today which makes specific refer ence to charges. In the bill it Is required that every telephone company operating long-distance lines in the state for the purpose of doing business after 6 o'clock in the afternoon shall furnish service over its lines and connecting lines at a rate not to succeed one-half of their day rate for the same service. It is provided that when such night toll shall end with 2hi cents the company may add 2V& cents as to make the rate end with 5 or a cipher. Violation of tnls act is made a misde meanor. PLOT FOB VETERAXS WIXS House Passes Bill to Provide Grave yard at Portland. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 30. (Special.) Following addresses in its be half by Representatives Eggleston, Foutft Buchanan .and Abrams the bill appro priating 34000 for the purchase of a burial plot in Riverview Cemetery, Portland, for veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection passed the House this morning. Johnson and Steelhammer, of the Marion County delegation and Jones and Huntington spoke against the bill, which they regarded not only extravagant but uncalled for. Seventeen Representatives refused to support the bill on final passage. Those voting nay were: Carter, Chambers, Chapman, Church, Huntington, Johnson, Jones, Miller (Linn), Neuner, Peirce, Powell, Rackleff, Simpson, Smith, Steel hammer, Sutton and Tlgard. SEVEX BILLS PASS SENATE One Proposed Law Puts Measures TTnder State Herniation. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Bills passed by the Sen ate this morning Include the following: S. B. B4. Bowermaa To prevent frauds against tb tate. S. B. 14, Barrett (Umatilla) To provido for traveling expense of County School Superintendent. b. B. 82, Carson Providing time tor min ing corporations to make annual report S. B. 144. Oliver Providing traveling ex penes for Sheriffs of Union and Wallowa counties. 8. B. 10. Locke Providing for examina tion and registration of nurses. S. B. 51. Abraham Providing for con struction of shed to protect car repairers on railroads. S. B. 63, Bowerman Creating office of Assistant Secretary of State. TTJTTLE ROAD LAW FOUGHT Carson Would Repeal Act Compell ing; Assessment of Lands Near. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Senator Carson this morning Introduced a bill for the purpose of re pealing the Tuttle Road law. Ever since Its passage the law has been a bone of contention, the main case arising from It being In connection with the Silverton-Marquam road, when the Benedictine Fathers of Mount Angel etarted litigation which was carried into the Supreme Court. The case was sot tied out of court before final adjudica tion. The law as It stands provides mainly for assessment of abutting property for construction of roads. B UTTK V ILLE BRIDGE DOWNED Senate Indefinitely Postpones Bill Covering Tri-County Project. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Strenuous efforts extending over many months to secure a legisla tive act empowering a levy on Clacka mas, Marlon and Yamhill counties for a bridge at Butteville came to naught to day when the Senate indefinitely post poned the proposed measure. The bill was returned with a majority report against the bill and a minority report providing for a special election of the people of the three counties to vote on the question. The majority report was adopted. State Architect Proposed. STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Ore., Jan. 30. Special) Provision for a state architect Is made In a bill introduced in the House by Representative Cush man, pf Lane. This official Is to be ap pointed by the Governor and shall have charge of all architectural work required by the state. His salary is fixed at $500 per annum. Creation of such an office was suggested by ex acting Governor Bowerman in his mes sage to the Legislature. In the last two years the state Is said to have paid about J12.000 In architect's fees. Chinas Safe for Five Years. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) If a bill Introduced this morn ing by Senator Carson becomes a law it will be illegal to shoot or kill any Chi nese pheasants in the State of Oregon for the next five years. The bill also makes it unlawful to own a dog which Is in the habit of running such pheasants. The bill was Introduced by request, a number of sportsmen wanting speedy propagation of this kind of game bird. Libraries Urged for All Counties. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 30. (Special.) Making the possibility of coun ty libraries state-wide is the object of a hm introduced by Sinnott in the Senate this morning. The bill amends' the pres ent section relating to county libraries so that it allows a special levy of one fifth of a mill on property In all countlea, Instead of in counties 01 ou,uuu or more. Columbus Day Xear Law. . T-n a T3TPiT. Ralpm. fir.. .Tan. .10. ' oxrtxju 1 -' , ' (Special.) All necessary now to create October 12 as Columbus day and a publlo holiday are signatures of President Sell ing, Speaker Rush and Governor West. The House bill to that effect passed the c. ..io.r Tha hill rionn not create a legal holiday, merely a public holiday. Bill Would Clear Divorces. BT.TE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Jan. SO. (Special.) Senator McCulloch has introduced a bill providing tor a cura. tive act to validate all marriages con tracted before the six months' statu tory neriod following divorce. Tne last curative act of this kind was passed in 1901. Standardization Bill Passd. aTiTW.Pl PTTflT.. fialem. Or.. Jan. 30. rair.l CjpTitnr T-tawlev's rertlflpatinn bill providing for standardization of uni versities, collleges and normal schools, no-ttsnntinn of teachers and estab lishment of training schools, passed the Senate this aiternoon, Aoranam ana MerryTnan voting no. " Hunting Licenses Cut. CT1T1? PAPrTnT.. R-ilpm. fir. .Tnn. .1ft . (Special.) Consideration for non-resident hunters is shown by Representative Mar iner in a bill offered today. It reduces the hunting license of non-rRidents of the state from SiO to $5.