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CIRCCIT COt'RT OITICUKS :
Thomas A. McEruu: District Judg?
G. I HEDGES... District Attorney
COUNTY OFFICERS :
R. S. nATTAX, Judge ...St. Helens
V. A. Harris, Clerk St. Helen
Martin- Whitk, Sheriff Si. Helens
CAsriCR Lihkl, Commissioner Mist
H. WksT, Contm'r .Scappoose
Emvis Ross, Treasurer- St. Helens
A. T. Laws, Assessor...- St. Helens
I. H. Cori(I.ANl, School Supt....Hon!ton
. Frank B. Prkscott. Surv Rainier
H. R. CUFF. Coroner St. Helens
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NOYHMBKR 2?.
YELLOW DOG PARTISANS
There is a certain variety of partisan
who takes a peculiar pride in nnnounc
j ing on b!1 possible occasion that he bus
. been Democrat, or a Republican, all his
. .life. He is never guilty of scratching
. and would vote "for a yellow dog if one
happened to be on the party ticket." It
' is the label to which he is attached and
not the principles the party is supposed
to represent. Everyone who leaves the
part to which tie sticks thro-reii nil its
. tergiversations is accused of actirg from
. improper motives, thoogh he admires
the man who leaves the opposite party
- and follows his leadership. The latter
.is influenced by patriotic motives while
the former is denounced as a turncoat.
There are, of course, time servers and
opportunists who charge their politics
to suit their envrionments. Moving frO'.n
one State to another, or from one local-
, . ity to another, they make each change as
!- they deem best for their own personal
interests. Such men are turncoats, and
are not entitled to respect. But it is
doubtful whether they re more biame-
worthy than those who continue to act
' " with a party which has abanloned
its fundamental principles and fused
.. with its old time opponents in the hope
of victory. We have in mind an Oregon
t banker who contributed money to the
Demacratic slate campaign during the
. McKin ley-Bryan canvass, and yet who
earnestly hoped for the defeat of the
" Bryan presidential electors. It was
daring that campaign that thousands of
Republicans in Oregon flocked to the
fusioniets and had it not been for oppo
sition of the goli standard Democrat
. doubtless Bryan would have carried the
. State. The editor of this paper was one
of the number who left the Democratic
. rauks when that party surrendered to
populism. In a political life of over
thirty years we have made this one
change; but, should a similar criei
arise, we would not hesitate to abandon
party for principle, and we have no re
r ,spect whatever tor the mental calibre of
one who would refuse to do so.
Grover Cleveland's views of political
- econoro? were as far apart as the poles
from those of Bryan and his followers,
and the Democrats who followed Cleve-
' land's leadership throagh three cam
paigna made an absolute surrender of
piinciple when they joined the Drvan
forces, advocated free silver at an arbi
' trary ratio and denounced .the Pre-ideu
of the Lnited Ptate3 for employing
troops to suppress disorders which an
t anarchist governor of Illinois winked at
and condoned.
The Republican party of lo-dav, with
suchleaders as Roosevelt, Hughe", La
follett und Taft, is much nearer to the
Democracy of Grover Cleveland than
tRNERS
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lllli I'ktiSIDHNI 'S LliVTLR.
Ml Should
i An Lamest
Appeal That
Hoed.
men may organize financial institvttions
and conduct them for years upon a rot
ten and d'.hocesl bad', until a money
panic fotce-s their exposure, and then
Day for Thanksgiving.
In his annual Thanksgiving- nroelama.
e-.;pe punianiueni tor tneir crimes and ( lK Governor Chamberlain madea very
the Democracy of to-dav, under the
.leadership of Bryan and Hearst,
me Kepuuiican party lias proved d
aoapiai.iuty, aua lias demonstrated that
it is not living in the past, but is willing
to learn by experience. Mr. Ilryail :
cuses the Republicans of Jiitviitg- stolen
., the Democratic thuudc-r, and hi accu
aation is no doubt true; but it is to bi
Loped they will neither tttyl nor adopt
hit theories of finance. Just ut present
the followers of Bryan are jubilant.
' They think they see in the money panic
a sure precursor of iiryanlc victor', ju
as mey inougnt in iw that liurd times
. would deprive the pe-iple of their sensrs
. and they would vote for any (jnaek rein
, eay that might be proposed. Tuev
; ,-werj disappjiuted then mid they have
never forgiven those who lefustd to aid
them by following the pop;ilistic mob.
- At it was then, so it will be in l!)u.
Radicalism will control the Democratic
. party, and Insure the success of the lie
publican candidate not becaue the
people eutlrely upprove ilm course of
that party, but because they have no
faith in the ability of its opponents.
THANKSGIVING-, WITH
RESERVATIONS
. f Governor Cliariiherlaln'aTbaiikygiving
prclamation is very short mid he ar
peais tO be at loss to specify the bless-
iujis for wh:ch wo sliuuld be tlmnkfiil.
In fact the people of the United Flutes,
, a-i a whole, are begiuninir to understand
: that they me not as highly favored
as a i.ulion they have been in ihe
. habit of ussuiiiing. There nro a a&
ninny things for winch the people of thus
I'Ottntry are anything but thankful.
1 hey do not rejoice in the fact that a
,Tvw men of enormous wealth are able to
control Iho truntportutinn facilities of
the country and si tux the proilticers ns
to havt Ihem absolutely at their mercy.
Thajr U not rejoice at Jlie fact that
the misery tiny have brought upon
thousands.
They do not rejoice because the grip
ot the trusts has been strengthened in
stead of weakened during the past year,
in spite of the efforts of the President;
n r because one man has sj outstripped
all others in the auiussing of wealth
that he seems to hold the fate of the
catiou in the hollow of his hand.
They can not be expected to feel very
exuberant over a prosperity so shallow
that it tumbles like a houst ol cards
whenever Wall street joes ou a spree.
The people read and they understand
that we have had goood crops and sold
them at good prices, and they naturally
oi elude that should mean prospeiityj
for all. But, seemingly in an inssant,
m jrey disappears, and now, in the holi
day season, the ceople are more inclined
t reflection than to indiscriminate re
joicing. The people know there is some
thing wrong and unnatural about such
a state of affair, and they are anxious to
discover a remedy. The political quacks
are in the held with their nostrums that
will only aggravate the disease, but the
demand is for a permanent cure a sys
tem of finance that will put it out of
the power of a fw men to corner the
c rculating medinm or even to amass
fortunes so colossal as to make them
ab-olute masters of their fellowmen.
Sa the holiday rejoicings this year
will be shadowed by doubt a; to whether
we are citizens'of a free country or only
subjects of a:i oligarchy with the forms
but not the substance of freedom.
A Year of Blood
The year l' Ti will long be rememliered
in the home of F. N". Tacket, of Alliance
ivy., as a year oi moou , wlucn liowed so
copiously from Mr, Tacket's lungs that
death seemed very near. He writes:
severe .mectiing at me lungs and a
frightful coujh had brought me at deaths
door, when I began taking Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption,
with the astonishing result that after
taking four Lotties I was completely re
stored and as time has proven permanent
ly cured." Guaranteed for sore lungs,
coughs and colds. For sale at lloniton,
U'arren, Scappoose and Deer Island.
I'rice 60c and jfl.OO. Trial bottle free.
DISHONESTY THE CAUSE
pointed though indirect reference to the
financial trouble. The proclamation is
as tollows:
The President has set apart Thursday,
the 28th day of November, A. D. 1007,
us a day of thanksgivinir and oravcr.
Therefore, I. George E.Cnambcrlain. as
Uoveruor of the State of Oregon, do
procaim said day at a holiday in this
State.
Let it be properly observed. Thank
iod for the manifold blessings we enjoy,
and pray him that we may have
more cou6dence lu our neighbors
so that the good things we have may
continue to abide with ns.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
subscribed my name and caused the
great seal of the State of Oregon to be
affixed at the Capitol in tlie City of
Salem, this 14th day of November, A
D. PJ07.
(Signed) GEO. E. CHAMBERLAIN,
Governor.
F. W. Benson, Secretary of State.
THANKSGIVING DINNER
In Kentucky.
Willis J. Abbott, onveponding from
iVashing'o i, IX C., to The Commoner,
writes as iollo s under the da:e of No
i ember JI:
I have ta k d Keenly with a man
ivho is rtc i.-nized in Washington as the
lirst linancier of the city outside the
treasury department. The windows of
ids office lo'ik out on Ihe etatslv colon-
ade of that gray granite building in
Which iir; kept the millions of the
(Jnitv l ta:e government and under
he roof of which are housed ihe (secrets
of the relations of the United (states
treasury with ihe great bai.ks of New
York. While. I wes talking with him
two foriiii-r treasury officials, who are
now high m hanking circlet in New
York, ciima i'i to discuss the situation.
Toe spot was the ccn:er of national
li iance so far m Washington is cm-
ri eu. j in; i.aiiKer io w hom I s
talking frankly admitted that much of
the trouble in New York, indeed most
Indianapolis News
The light deccuds the softest
In Kentucky;
The Summer days come oftest
In Kentucky;
There friendship is the strongest,
There love light glows the longest.
Yet wrong is always wrongest
In Kentucky.
Life's burdens bear the lightest
In Kentucky;
The home fire burns the brightest
In Kentucky;
While the players are the keenest
And cards come out the meanest,
The pocket empties cleanest
In Kentucky. '
The orators are grandest
In Kentucky ;
Officials are the blandest
In Kentucky;
The boys are all the fliest
Great danger ever nighest,
And taxes are the highest
In Kentucky.
The blue gras waves the bluest
In Kentucky;
Yet the blue bloods are the fewest
la Kentucky;
The moonshine is the clearest
By no means it's the dearest
And yet it acts the queerest
In Kentucky.
The dove notes are the saddest
In Kentucky;
The frolics are the maddest
. Tii Kentucky;
Hip pockets are the thickest
Ai.d pistol hands are quickest
The cylinder turns slickest
In Keutuckv.
DUAL JAPAN
Hculton Ladies' Aid to Feed
Everyone That' Hungry
and Hat the Price.
The ladies' Aid Society, ol Houltoo
will serve dinner at Perry & Graham'!
hnll, Thanksgiving Day, November 2li
from 12 a. m. to 3. p. m., the public
cordially invited. The following will be
served ;
Colonial Soup Crisp Crackers
Roast Turkey with Stuffing
Wild Duck and Gravy
Celery, Cranberry and Apple Sauce
Riced Potatoes, boiled onions, creamed
carrots, salads, fruit and cabbage.
pi
Mince, Pumpkin and Apple
CAKK
Fruit Cake Doughnuts
Fruit Coffee
Adults 50ct. Children under 12, 2jcts.
OBITUARY.
Charles Mayger, a pioneer ol lK-tU and
the founder of the town bearing that
name, who died at the St. Vincent hos
pital November 10, was bom In France,
December 25, 182t. In hit early career
he was a sailor. In 1849 he went to
I'uget Sound. One year later he locat
ed on the Columbia river near what !
now Oak Point, In Cowlitz county Wash
ington. At this place he engaged in the
lugging business for twenty years, his
camp being about the largest business
concern In the Tactile Northwest. In
1870 he came to Portland, where he re
sided for five years. Later he took up a
homestead near the place of bis last res
idence, where he lived for 32 years. Mr.
Mayger was a public-spirited, farsight-
ed, shrewd and industrious business
man.
lie lormed and managed the Maygei
Wool A: Legging company. This com
pany subdued .1000 acres of dense forest
and opened the way for many settlers.
Here and there on the hills and in the
valleys may he seen comfortable dwell
ings and beautiful dairy farms which
lisvs taken the place of once heavily
timbered lands.
He held various Republican ofllces.
He was for two successive terms com
missioner of Cowlitat County, was lor
many years postmaster at Mayger, Or
egon, and started a large general mer
chandise store, which was well patron
ized. November 17, 1853, he was united
in marriage with Minerva Kellum, Or
this union twelve childreu were born,
six of whom survive, via!: Margaret
Jane, wife of Ale M'Ayeal ; Charles W.,
George G., Jessie ., wife of J. M: iin
nls; Minnie E., wife of Fred Haas, and
Nellie, wife of Thomas Uogun. Kels n
inn. -
"The White House, Washington, D.
C, Nov. 17, UW7.-My Dear Mr, Cm
telyou: I have considered your pro
posal. 1 approve the issue of the llfty
millions of Panama bonds which will be
immediately available as the basis for
additional currency. I also approve the
issue of 100.000,000, or so much as you
may find necessary, of $00 3 jwr cent
intereat'lienrltw Government notes, the
proceeds of the sale of which can lie at
once deposited by you whore the great
est need exists, and especially in the
West and South, where the crops have
to be moved. I have assurance that
the leaders of Congress are considering
a currency bill which will mevt In per
manent fashion the needs of the situa
tion, and which I believe will bo passed
at an early date after Congress con
venes two weeks hence.
"What is the most neodcAlljuat
Uiat our cilixens should realise how
fundamentally sound business condi
tions in this country are and how ab
surd it Is to permit themselves te get
into a panic and create stringency by
hoarding their savings instead of trust
ing perfectly sound banks. There Is no
particle of risk involved in letting busi
ness take its natural course and the
people can help themselves and the
country most by putting into active cir
culation the money they are hoarding.
"The banks and trust companies are
solvent There is more currency in the
country today than there was month
ago, when the supply was ample.
Since then $.',(Ka),0iX) in gold haa been
imported and the Government has de
posited already $00,000,000. Thtse are
facta; and I appeal to the public to co
operate with us in restoring normal
business conditions. The Government
will see that the people do not suffer if
only the people themselves will act in a
normal way. Crops are good and busi
ness conditions are sound, and we should
put the money we have into circulation
at once to meet the needs of our abound
ing prosperity.
"There is no analogy at all with the
way things were in 1S!3, In November
30, of that year, there was In the Tress
ury but $1131,000,000 in gold. On No
vember II. of this year, there was In
the Treasury $WM.000.0iX) gold. Ten
years ago the circulation per capita
was $23.23. It is now $:!3.32. The
steps that you now take, the ability of
the Government to back them up, and
the fact that not a particle of risk is
involved therein, givo the fullest
guarantee of the sound condition of our
people and the sound condition of our
Treasury, All that our people have to
do now is go ahead with their normal
business in a normal . fashion, and the
whole difficulty disappears; and this
end will be achieved, if each man will
act as he normally does act, and aa the
real conditions of the country's busi
ness fully warrants his now acting.
Sincerely yours,
"THEODORE KOOSEVKLT."
rgj MlAsWfteO
TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREQON
A. I APfMSTNONO, LL ., PftlNeiPAL
Kducsles for success In a short time and at wuall exper,, ind send, ewch tUk
dent to a position as soon as competent. Quality Is our motto, and repuutloB t.
thorough work bring us over 100 cslls per month for office help, Individ u
traction insures rapid progress. We teach the hxMe la(, the cant Jud,,
voucher and other modern method of bookkeeping. Chattier Is our sliwtul?
easy, rapid, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forms ami petmumthlp ft.
write today. Rclereiices: any merchant, any bank, any newspaper In loUa
C. T. WKHCOTr
K. K. QUICK.
M. I'M-'.NUiTT
Tnu Columbia County
ABSTRACT AND TRUST CO.
Titles Kxaminkd Abstracts Mad
No.N-Ri-suiKNT Taxks Paid q
Kkal Ivstatk Loans, etc
I St. Johns!!
St. Johns!!?
A QILT EDGED INVESTMENT!
Situated between the rivers, with tlecp water frontage
$ cm all sides, surrounded nnd crossed by five transcend.
:( neut.il railways, it must become the manufacturing and
Miippmg center 01 t'oruanti.
MONTHLY PAYROLL 50,000!
Invest uow, you will double your money iu two yetrt.
H. HENDBRSON
103 i Philadelphia St.
St, Johns.Oregon
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OLK PORTLAND LLTTLR.
Three republican cewspapers in Ohio
which were favorable to Becretsry Tuft's
nomination for President have aban
doned his candidacy on the ground that
the result of the Cleveland election puis
Sir. J aft out of the race, If the defeat
The f-idney Bulletin, dincusolr.g the I of Mr. Burton for Mayor of Cleveland is
Japanese question in a recent Issue, says f t0 eliminate Mr. Taft from the Preaiden
there are e-peiitlally two Japans the , t'l contest, what should be the effect of
official and the modern Japan, the Japan j eight succtsdve Democr atic disasters in
of th(Japaiieselenders;nndtlieonofIlclal!Nebraska upim the candidacy of Mr.
i am: traditional Japan, the Japan of the i Bryan?
Japanese people Toe one produced the
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You will find Style, Wearing Qualities,
Size, and the Comfort You WanL
Sorosis Fall Shoes
Have All Arrived. Everything, from the
Heavy, Flexible Shoea to the Dainyy
Evening Slipper.
Sorosis Hosiery &I!iTcSS
t:n t every carpor.it ion of great size and
wer wnich hud b(;eil subjected to an
nvcitigati'm of any sjrt hug, proved to
ba full of corruption. From the time
that the iuvestigition into the insurance
onipanies of New York began until
iow that ttn-y are mrexligatiiig Thomas
K. Uyun's merger, there has been an
uninterrupted coursj of revelations of
liahouesty oa the part of tha managers
ofihiMscoip'utioiis. "It is not," said
he "tnat the banks of New York are
weak. As a mutter of fact they never
were stronger. It is not that there U
anything in the country to justify appre
hension of disaster. The croDi are
und prices high. But fe.v men of great
prominence in the United ritates have !
put their personal fortunes far ahead of J
their individual honor, or of their duty!
to those who have entrusted the man-
ttgemeut of the corporations they con
trol. I do not believe that either news
paper clamor or the trust busting activi
ties of the pieaident caused his collapse
It is due more than anything else to the
entirely justifiable exposition of the
limiucial methods of some of the new
prnrtltionpi of Mtrl? flounce,"
Japanese fighting machine, the other
inherited from their ancestors the utter
ly anrhroniidic" industrial and manufac
turing machine. Ami beUecn the pre
cocious leaders aid the reactionary led
there is a remark ble abys. The lead
ers are honest diplomats; the led, "in
their commercial methods remain wed
ded to the tiadition of concealment, de
vice, art and maneuvre."
Ihe Japanese General Staff ha it
own Arisaka field-gun and its owm
Shlliio powder. Yet Japanese agricul
ture is served by ox plows with wooden
coulters, the grain is threshed with the
hand-flail and winnowed by throwing it
up iu tha air. The product of such a
tbjal nationalism can never become the
equal, morally nor intellectually, of a
free ami untrainelled people liko the
people of the Uniled fctates, and the
silly talk we sometimes hear of Japan's
ever becoming our serious rival may be
passed over without consideration, -Labor
Press.
Pms Kor Sale I have twenty six
weeks old pigs for sale at Jl.&O each
N. Sherwood, Bachelor's Flat. Post
office, Warren, Ore
We have been many times supplied
with the nllegiid information that North
America and Asia were to lie connected
with a railway either above or beneath
the wat -rs of Bering sea, perhaps with
bridge snans leaninir from Ummt in i.
Jland of the Aleutian group. Whether
sucn a day will ever come It Is not for
ns to say, nut there is evidence to miike
it appear that we are even now entering
on an srea of sea-building railway con
struction. To say nothing of Mr. Ha,
Kier reuiaraanie line extending out
from the tnalnland of Florida springing
irorn Key to key until reaching Key
Went far out into the gulf, there is the
project of the railwav to connect Ceylon
wun India by a line across Adams
bridge nnd the shallow water lying; be
tween Kameswaram and Tallalmannar
at the Northern end of the island. The
South Indian railway Is brlncrlna l
tracks to the extreme point of the (mail
island of lintiietwaram ao tout only a
small, gap of water will intervone be
tweon the terminal of the Indian and
Ceylon railways.
Heating stove for sal, cheap, InnulrjJjJ,
Two hundred and thirty new people
found homes in Oregon every day from
September 1st to October 31st as a re
sult of the colonist one-way tickets.
and through the help of the newapa pers
tne population and wealth of the atato
has been enormously Increased. The
exact number of tickets sold as report
ed by Mr. William McMurray, General
Passenger Agent of the Harrimnn Lines,
for W, was 1,1, 753. For the same
time in 11XJ it was Hxyo, an increase of
4863 or about sixty tier cent. This of
course does not include tickets sold to
Oregon over the Canadian Pacific.
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, or
any other roads whose tickets came
around tiy way of I'uget Sound. The
Oregon Development League has made
the colonist rates the chief feature of
its work. The Portland Commercial
Club circulated -WO,!) leaflets with
this low rato its central feature, and
probably no advertising ever done by
any aiaio in the Union has shown ix'b
ter results. The rates will bo on again
uurmg March and April, 190H.
1 he Oregon Good Koad Association
which convened at the Portland Com
mercial Uub Thursday and Friday was
very uecidmlly the best attended and
mom practical good road meeting eve
mm in mi auto and was considered
uy visitors as eiiual to nriy similar
meeting yet held west of the Hockey
mouiiiums.
A cunvass of the business house,
"noicsaie anu retail, as well M the
lactones, provo that business ha got
moacK to normal condition. Manv
.-I"" n increase over last year
There has not been a failure or a sua-
nenslnn nf m
. ,Ki uunlnuM noune or
laciory in this city. The neot.le of in
state can depend upon the newspapers;
of Portland giving them the facts, and
moy get tnose farta th,,
depend upon any new contrary to the
r. nmwmont being merely rumor.
Ihe words of Mr. Theodora n wn.
cox President of the Portland Flouring
" ""uress Derore i&u business
men at tho Commercial Club Tuesday
night, when ho announced: "The flurrv
i over. Will be in the market buying
wheat and paying gold for It to-morrow,"
met with a more enthusiastic
reception than any remark that ha
been made in this city in many years.
There I going to be no let-up In ad
vertising Oregon. The exporter of the
Mate gathered at Portland t..i....
and there J. a determination to Increase"
rather than diminish the good work.
mo groat apple dlsr.lav. rrlOrlii In at...
show window here. In u,i,iu .i.
cttllence of thoso of Hood Kiver and of"
the Willamette Valine!. . t. . ? 1
drawn thousand. r,f vi.i. ' ..
ftTM" I- more conviimed than
ever that Oregon erows thn
to on earth. All nf -"u "?"
KNIGHT SHOE CO..
THIRD AND WASHINGTON, PORTLAND, ORC. j
.mwiffiffiffwiffiffmwwiirw wmmitritfitntrnf
DOWN BY THE BIG SAWMILL
Receiving New Goods Every Dayl
In the Week. :
YH12 MUCKLE STOKE!
Has a Heputatlon of Long Hliu.ding for Only the 111 In
c Ut. Hclciw,
General Merchandise;
Dart & Muckle.
St Hfleiw, - . . OrcgonJ
V, skis
JOB PRINTING j
1 18 OUR DU8INE88 I i
Wfc nave the best and most
" ally equipiuid Job Print
Z lllce in (k)lmn bin Comity
. Irul we a a prepared to
do all kin ds of Printing
on short notice and at
most reasonable prices
A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE
OREOON RTIIST