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FALLACY OF SOCIALISM.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
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wants o f others best, prospers and
at 212 First Street, Portland, Oregon. Phones: Main 5637; A-2686.
The farmers o f Harney county have puts other laborers under his di
commenced sowing spring grain.
rection. This leads to the eon
TH E TIM E S if* not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents
A great run o f smelt is now going stant selection o f the best mana
appearing in its columns.
Events Occurring Throughout up the Sandy river, the first big run gers and to social efficiency. In
for about eight years.
Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter.
socialism there could be no sucl\
the State During the Past
The Pacific State bank has been in natural selection o f men most
corporated at Astoria. It has a capital capable o f directing labor. Vote
Week.
A FEARLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE
o f $25,000 and w ill do business at Sea getting, not efficiency, would put
’{fevH
side.
a man on top in this the para
SUBSCRIPTION RATES— $2.50 per year, in advance.
Contractor* Sued For Death.
Portland's
population
on
March
1,
dise
o
f
demagogues.
Under
such
A D V E R T IS IN G RATES made known upon application.
Albany.—J. C. Anderson, adminis according to Polk’s new city directory,
management
and
judging by
trator of the estate of W. A. Anderson, was 257,490, an increase of 28 per cent
present governmental inefficiency,
deceased, has filed a complaint In the over the federal census taken two
Saturday, April 13, 1912.
the promised three hours labor a
circuit court of Linn county, asking years ago.
day would have to be extended
for
$10,000
damages
against
H.
M.
THE HICKS CASE.
James Underwood and J. D. Rhodes more nearly to 13 hours, to pro
IIE verdict of “ not gu ilty,” rendered by twelve men accepted by Byllesby & Co. and O’N eil Bros, and of Baker have sold the Underwood duce enough to live on.
The
the State as men who were fu lly competent to try the case, is Calahan company. It is alleged that placer mine in the Cornucopia district promise that each man shall he»
the defendants, while excavating on to Walla Walla capitalists. Tire price
hoped to be a blessing to the whole city of Portland as well as the
ceive the full social product of
Hicks fam ily and friends. It is a verdict that has been hoped for by the North Santiam, set off a blast in was $60,000.
his toil is worthless when they
close proximity to an old trail with
Supplementary articles of incorpora
every fair-minded and liberty-loving man and woman in the country,
out giving any warning to passersby, tion filed with the secretary of state have no pratcical means o f ascer
except, possibly, those who were intimate friends of Wortman and a
and that the deceased was injured by by the Valley & Siletz road, provide taining the relative value o f the
few union fanatics.
the blast to such an extent that he for the construction of a railroad from archtitect as compared with tho
TH E T IM E S sincerely hopes that this will mark a new era in the
section boss. Only under a com
lied soon afterwards.
Independence to Newport.
history of union picketing and put a stop to the brutal and unfair
petitive system where each man
Two hundred letters to the various
methods employed by such strikers as Wortman and his gang.
gravitates to his proper place can
Let Contract for Irrigation Plant.
Granges of the state wers sent out by
Candidate fo r Nomination for
The annoyance caused Hicks and his workmen was unbearable
Deschutes.— The contract for the Superintendent Alderman, urging the such values be found out.
and something had to be done. Hicks was not the only one who was
This socialism strikes me as a
construction of a solid concrete dam Grange to co-operate for the promotion
Representative in Congress
sorry he killed Wortman, but he had to do it in order to save his across the Deschutes river and the
disease rather than a crime. Its
own life. W e are all sorry to see a human life taken, but when it is first two miles of the north canal has and betterment of the Oregon schools. advocates condemn the public
Judge Gantenbein, judge of
The W illam ette valley loganberry
done in self-defense we would all still more bitterly object to the
school system, the churches, the the Circiut Court o f Multnomah
been let by the Central Oregon Irri
punishing o f an innocent man. That Ilicka was innocent was the gation company to L. F. Oedertz, a crop for 1912 has been entirely sold, capitalists, the Government, and
county, is one o f the most pro
and
an
order
from
Chicago
to
the
unanimous opinion o f twelve good men which consumed several days prominent engineer of Portland. Mr.
Truly Shakespeare gressive candidates in the raco
Salem fruit union f o r -100,000 pounds patriotism.
to select.
Gedertz w ill complete the work in
had the socialists in mind when
The example o f this ease should be fa ir warning to unions to record time, as he has bound himself of dried loganberries cannot be filled. he said, “ A ll things look yellow for Congress. He would make an
The Southern Pacific is preparing
restrain their pieketers from violence and take an orderly and not to complete both within 120 days.
Some of able representative if elected and
a tariff that will give points on the to the jaundiced eye.”
the disorderly course in trying to persuade workmen to go on strike
Tillamook line the same rate on lum them seem to be men who have is better qualified to represent the
or join their union.
ber shipments to the east as are in bidden farewell to every grain of people o f Oregon than some of
PETITIONS ARE IN
effect from Portland and other coast sense they ever had. No religious his opponents.
THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.
fanatic, Christian or Moham
Completed List of Candidates Sees ports.
Judge Gantenbein is not only
G R E A T deal has been said and written about our present in
174 in Race.
The federal forest department has medan, was ever more dogmatic
They are so positive» an able attorney and counselor-
dustrial system. Whether won call it government or whatever
Salem.— With 174 completed peti decided to spend $10,000 for forest talin they.
term you choose, it is the contention of T H E TIM E S that we. the citi tion» in, the clerical force in the office fire protection in western Oregon this that
they
have a cure-all by at-law, lmt is one o f the most
zens of the United States o f America, enjoy the best, safest and most of the secretary of state has complet year. This is double the amount which imperfect humanity can fair-minded judges
Multnomah
satisfactory system o f government we or any other nation or band of ed the task of checking up and ar spent in the state by the national for achieve practically perfect re county has ever had. Labor as
sults, if they will only believe.
people have ever enjoyed since the history o f the universe began. ranging the list of candidates to be est service last year.
Under our present system the rich and poor alike have an opportun certified to the various clerks in the
The Remington lodging house in
Through all the talk o f the well as capital has always re
ity to eventually achieve whatever they desire. The workingman of state. In all 124 republicans filed or Klamath Falls burned and two Greek socialists there runs a strain of ceived a square deal at his hands.
today may become the capitalist o f tomorrow. By the term “ work iginal petitions and five of the number laborers were burned to death. An forceful tyranny. “ No man shall There is but little doubt that
ingman” we mean the man that works, honestly and intelligently and failed to file completed petitions. Of other Greek was seriously burned, be allowed to make profit from Judge Gantenbein w ill be our
is ever on the alert to the interests o f his employer. To this man in the 58 democrats who filed original and as he may have inhaled fire, it is another man’s labor.”
That is, next representative in Congress.
dependence is hound to come. O f course, the man who continually petitions all but two filed completed feared he too may die.
the right o f free contract shall be
Oregon Democrats have initiated a abolished.
watches the clock for quitting time and who spends all his money for petitions.
“ A ll men w ill be
The republicans who did not qualify concerted movement all over the state equal.”
“ booze” on pay-day, will never achieve much in life. W e admit that
That is, equality, which
there are a few industrious men out o f employment today, lmt in nine by filing final petitions are Edward N. for writing the name o f United States des not exist in nature, is to be
Camp of Douglas county, Thomas B. Senator Chamberlain on their primary forced on people by some high
eases out o f ten it is the fault o f the man rather than the system.
Hooker of Polk county, C. M. Rynerson election ballots as the party's candi handed proceeding.
And what
An antagonistic and defiant attitude combined with intemperate of Multnomah county, ail candidates date for vice-president.
just complaint have they to make
On May 1 postal savings banks will against the churches? They aro
speech got Floyd Ramp, a would-be socialist, into trouble in Cor- for delegates to the national conven
viilis a few days ago when he attempted to analzyze the philosophy tion; Emmett Calahnn of Baker coun open at the following fourth-class free to attend or to stay away.
o f socialism. Instead of confining his remarks to socialism, Rami ty, candidate for judge of the circuit postoffices: Eagle Point, Fossil, Glen They must wish to abolish this
denounced everything and everybody, which resulted in a shower of court for the eighth district and G. N. dale, Haines, lone, Laidlaw, Mosier, free and fa ir arrangement, use
rotten eggs, several o f which.reached the desired destination, mucr Davis of Multnomah county, candidate North Powder, Port Orford, Richland, some compulsion in religious mat
Riddle, Stanfield, Sutherlin, Yoncalla. ters.
to the displeasure o f Ramp. The most provocable remarks were for district attorney.
The two democrats who failed to
Governor West has announced that
In Ancient Egypt the govern
centered on the members of the National Guard and the Boy Scouts
qualify are Alfred D. Crldge o f Mult he w ill not interfere with the sentence
ment fed and worked everybody.
o f America, whereupon Ramp was taken into custody by the officers
nomah county and Emil T. Kaddant of of life imprisonment imposed upon
Under this system the Pyramids
and ushered into a cell surrounded by steel bars. This being the
Lincoln county, both candidates for Emmett and Earl Shields, Ben Hinton
were built. The bulk o f the peo
first offence by Ramp, he was turned loose the next day on the
delegates to the national convention. and Albert Green, who were convict
ple must have believed in slav-
promise that he would be good, being assured by the officers that
ed of the murder of Ollie Snyder in
erj\ I f we moderns also believe
the next disturbance would land him on the rockpile.
New W ill Is Filed.
Grant county, near Monument.
in slavery we w ill get it, probably
Pendleton.— A seventh will was filed
The senate committee on commerce
in larger doses than we antici
When City Clerk H arry Kress at Iloquiam, Washington, became
for probate here in the estate of James has decided to incorporate into the
a traitor to the city, in that he participated in the activity o f the W. Young by Fred Young, a brother of rivers and harbors bill an appropria pate. But if we experience a
“ red flag arista,’ * lie was duly discharged from his position. The Mrs. Mabel Young Warner, who has tion of $100,000 to begip the construc change o f heart, accept freedom
people o f Iloquiain decided that they would not tolerate a city clerk figured prominently in Umatilla coun tion of the Nehalem bay jetties, a unreservedly, freedom in trade as
well as in speech and in religion
who was untrue to the flag o f the people who elected him.
ty courts through her contests for project to cost over $600,000, accord
the open market everywhere;
possession of her uncle's estate. Fred ing to reports of army engineers.
Mexico, when it tires o f its present revolution, is to have the Young is one of the beneficiaries
Governor West has received a copy then labor working to the best
Flynn-Johnson prizefight fo r amusement. This match will likely be named in the seventh will.
of a bill introduced in the United advantage will produce the best
Candidate fo r Republican
a novelty nfter a succession o f revolts, fo r it is not altogether im
States senate by Senator Chamberlain, possible results, and the laborer
Nomination fo r
probable that someone may get hurt.
provisions of which will enable the receive better treatment because
Project Work is Delayed.
more
in
demand.
The
law
o
f
ad
Klamath Falls.— Work of construct state to create a Btate forest through
JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT
ing the second unit of the Klamath the exchange of scattering school sec justment can come into more ac
COURT.
PERILOUS POSING.
RILED THE ART STUDENT. project, which when completed is to tions in federal forests for a compact tive operation, and evil, which is
Dept.
No. 4.
lack
o
f
adjustment,
be
gradually
Getting " H u m a n I n t e r e s t ” In the Cam
furnish water to Poe valley and a body of forest reserve land.
H e Re se nte d at F i r s t t h e C o m m e n t s of
er a M a n ’s Pi ctures.
Is a native of the State o f Oregon
stretch of territory In the Klamath val
Issuance of patents to Siletz home lessened.
H is U n k n o w n Critic.
The above article was written being admitted to the bar in 1884
A. W. Dimock in Outing toil« o f his
An art student was copying one o f ley in the vicinity of Stukel Mountain, steaders under the Hawley bill may
engagement as a professional «llsturber Abott S Thayer’s paintings at the Met will not be commenced immediately, be delayed Indefinitely, the land of by Dick Sowerby fo r the Sunday and having practiced here for
o f snakes, lynx, alligator*, tarpon, etc., ropolitan Museum o f Art in N ew York as expected, according to the officials fice claiming to have evidence that Oregonian.
twenty-seven years.
Published every Saturday by T H E T IM E S G’O M P A N Y , Incorporated
V 7 i T
T
C. U. Gantenbein
A
W . Y . M asters
for his camera man and of a partial
drowning necessary to supply the “ hu
man Interest” T o quote him;
*‘ \Yhen a colled rattlesnake needed
stirring up I shook a short stiek In his
face. I f we caught a hlg ’gator or
crocodile on a bank 1 was the one to
keep between It and its home. In river
or hay, and discourage with n club its
advance. When our captive lynx was
k*t out o f his cage to pose it was my
business to keep him busy with llsli or
otherwise lest lie eat the camera man.
I was expected to hypnotize any him.
from a tern to a turkey buzzard, while
the camera man got In his work.
••Even tarpon fishing was made ad
venturous, ami half n dozen times a
day I heard the shout:
•• T n ii't you pull your canoe nenrer
the fish? I must have human inter
est.'
“ Then I dragged on the line till the
canoe w as over a fish that was Bigger
than I, which often stint ten feet over
my head, sometimes crashing Into the
canoe, when instead o f being prompt
ly rescued I was likely to hear the
rail;
•' 'Swim farther out. where the light
Is tH'ttor'' **
Lettera of Marque.
Lettera o f marque and reprisai, ns
they were calloil, wero ilrst Instasi in
thè tinte o f Edward I to givo leave to
retalíalo beyond thè marches or limita
o f a country for wrongs mtfTorod at
thè liniids o f a power untuinally at
pom e. In tille first tnstnnce they were
uluied at Portugal.
About 100 yenrs
Inter t wo Untino lowns In Moeklouburg,
wlslting to relieve tholr prime, who
was belengtiered iu Stockholm. Issuod
lettera o f marque thievos' lettera, as
thè sufferer» en 1 lisi thein- to all thè
ranéala o f thè llaltlc outhortilng thern
to vietimi thè besleged city. Thiw dono,
they ttirned themselvea loto a eonfed
erney o f sea robbera known ns Ylctiml-
tng lirotbers, or St. Vitalias' Brothers,
nud rendermi thè Scnndiuavlau sea»
uusafe /or hnlf a oentury.
one day when a plainly dressed man
who looked as if he might bo a me
chanic approached and, postlug himself
at. the young man's elbow, watched
him ns he labored over his subject
“ You’ve got the angle o f the mouth
wrong, and the left eye is too oblique,’*
remarked the man decidedly.
Tlie student blinked angrily, and the
hand that wielded the brush trembled
slightly, but he took no notice o f the
un(ll)|,(
crtttelsm.
.-rllere ls too InlIrh y(q,ow ln y0Ur
fleM| tlnt » (.on„ nm^ , h„ man.
of the reclamation service here.
options have been given on some Si-
ietz lands and will start an investiga
tion to ascertain if any o f these op
HOLD-UP SHOOTS THREE
tions are on lands affected by the
Lone Man Kills Two, Injures One, of Hawley bill.
Advising State Treasurer Kay that
Automobile Party,
Portland.— Shot by an unidentified the war department is now ready to
man who opened fire with a pump purchase the locks and canal o f the
aliotgun when an automobile carrying Portland Railway, Light A Power
Mai* 5637
them was not stopped on his com company at Oregon City, for $375,000,
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<*,
mand. George Hastings, University of the assistant secretary has called
Oregon medical student, and Donald upon the state to deposit $200,000 of ♦
McCloud Stewart, son of Charles Stew the $300,000 appropriated to purchase ^
Still no reply front the student, who
art, a"wealthy grain buyer, were killed them jointly.
ostentatiously slapped on more yellow
Barley can be made to do for Ore
and Irving Lupton, wounded in the
in the high light on the nose.
"Did you hear what I said?” ques right arm. on the White House road gon what corn has done of Iowa as
near the foot of the Elkrock hill grade a stock fattener is the belief of Harvey
tioned tlie man.
“ Yes, 1 did," responded the student between Oswego and lilverdale. Oth Lounsbury, general freight agent of
wrnthfully. turning and glaring nt his er members of the auto party, namely, the Southern Pacific, who has just
modest looking critic. "W hat do you Bruee Stewart, member of the Mann completed the distribution of 150acres
know about It. anyway?”
Stewart Printing eompuny, who of barley seed among farmers on the
“ I ought to know something about owned the car and was driving, and main and branch lines of the South
it,” was the smiling response. " It was
II. L. Tabb, clerk In the freight de ern Pacific between Portland and A l
l who painted the picture.” —New York
partment of the Northern Pacific, were bany.
Press.
uninjured.
Loggers from various districts of ORRIN E. STANLEY
M. Am. 8oe. O. E.
The top of Hasting'» head was | the Pacific Northwest, meeting inform-
Boots and Spurs.
blown off by the second charge of I ally at Portland, laid plans for a per-
ENGINEERING AD VISER.
D RAFTIN G
A contemisirury manuscript account buckshot. He died four minutes later. ! manent organization to include the as-
AND B L U E P R IN T IN G .
o f tin* diet o f Itatishon, held in 1030 by Stewart, who was struck by the third sociations in the Columbia River dis
Telephone Marshall 1554.
tlie Emperor Ferdinand II. on the oc charge, died at St. Vincent's hospital. trict, the Puget Sound district and the
casion o f tlie landing o f Gustavus
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Grays Harbor district. Uniform meth
Adolphus of Sweden In Germany, men
Two Events Combined.
ods o f scaling and grading logs, co- j - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
tions as a remarkable fact that tlie
Roseburg.—At a special meeting of operation in various other phases of I
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Hungarian cavalry who rode through
the street* to the ceremonial wore the trustees of the Roseburg contmer- business activity, and closer social re- C. J. WILSON
their spurs on their boot solos, it is
club. It was decided to hold the lations is the purpose of the organiza
difficult to credit that these spurs were fourth annual Strawberry and Rose tion.
COMMERCIAL A R T IS T AND
fixed on tlie Hut of the boot, for thus ¡ Carnival in conjunction with its an-
Declaring that under present condi
CARTOONIST.
shod the horsemen could neither walk kual meeting of the State Grange, tions it will be but a short time until
nor stand, especially when tlie large which convene» in Roseburg on May the federal government will own all 148 Market Street,
Portland, Oregon.
size o f the spur* worn at the period is !«, 17 and 18.
the land guitable for water power sites
considered.
1’ roLably the w riter In I
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and the state will own the wa.er, State
tended to Indicate that Instead o f be
Rat. Darnaginfl Timber.
Engineer John H. Lew is calls atten
ing fastened to the heel ln the usual
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fashion they were made to project , * 0« » W G ro v e .-T h e theory that It tion to the need for the people of In C TC A S C Y O U F B u s i n e s s
from the fore part o f the military boot, ls woo<1 ra,R Bn<* not 1 ’orcuplne. or ihe state to give serious thought to
by placing your advertisement in
which Is a portion o f the sole. The ' <,ulr" la
damaging timber iff this matter, to the end that proper
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same manuscript adds that the nun- lhi* »cotton 0f the county was ad- legislation may be enacted to enable
giirlan horses had their manes, tall* |' »need by W. C. Gonner. who brought the federal and state governments to
W rite for our advertising rates.
and feet pniuted red.
i In a »ample of the work of wood rat* eo-operate ln developing these great
done on his place near here.
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Construction .Superintendence, Reports and
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