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Oregon City courier, frday, January 20, 1911 Oregon City Courier Published Every Friday by Oregon City Courier Publishing Co. WILLIAM A. BHEWMAN. President. GRACE J. SHEWMAN, Associate Editor. Entered In Oregon City PoBtofflce m Second-Class Mall. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Six months Palu In advance, per year II Bt CAPITAL PUNISHMENT No doubt the pood people of Oregon are aotuated by the purest motives in favoring a repeal of the capital pun ishment law." It may have sometimes happened that men have been con victed of murder on circumstantial evidence and executed, who have sub sequently been found to.be innocent, but the instances Bre very rare. Miohigan and Minnesota at one time repealed their capital punishment laws but they were soon re-enacted. A former Miunesotan makes the fol lowing brief statomeut of how the law operated in Minnesota: "About thirty-live years ago the good people of Minnesota, feeling that the cupital punishment law was a relic of a past age, enacted a law requiring life ser vice in the penitentiary for parsons oonvicted of murder in the first de gree. The same year this law was placed on the statute books the notor ious band of highwaymen, train rob bers and murderers, the Jamts and Younger brothers, made a raid on the quiet little town of Northfield, shot down in oold blood the cashier of a bank, wounded several others in the bank, and in their endeavors to escape shot down indiscriminately men, women and ohildren on the streets of the village. Two or three of the gung were shot before they had an oppor tunity to escape, but the principals to the desperate encounter, the James and Younger brothers, wore pursued more than two hundred miles across the state and three of the Younger brothers captuied, one of them having been wounded and the other two brothers would not leave him bohiud. The James brothers escaped to Mis souri and were never arrested, al though frequent requisitions had beon made by the governor of Minnesota for them. The Younger brothers were brought back to the county seat of the county in which their oriraos had been committed, where they con fessed to murder in the first' degree and were sentenced to the peniten tiary for life. There was a strong sentiment in the state in favor of lynohing them, but the ollioerg of the Jaw had acted with such celerity that the criminals were in the penitentiary before the sentiment orystalized. After being confined in the peniten tiary about fifteou yours petitions be gan to circulate favoring a parole of these desperadoes. All tiie state offi cers of Missouri and many members of the legislature appended their names to these petitions, but the sen timent of the state was so pronounced against their release that no action was then taken. Year after year the matter of paroling them was brought before the pardoning board and finally, atfor twenty-live years iucar oeratinn, they were paroled, not boing permitted to leave the state. One of them died a few years before the re maining brothers were grunted a pa role. One of these outlaws full i des perately in love with one of the ladies who had been aotivu in securing his release, but his atrootions not being returned, committed suioide. The oldest and worst of the gang, Colo Younger, is now iu Missouri and at last aooonnts was connected with 'i oiicua, violating the terms of his pa role. At the session of the legislature following the oomuiiHBion of their primes the capital puulslimut law was re-enacted, aud aoonrumg to the pros ent law murder in the first degree 1b punishable by death, but if there are any extenuating oiroumstauoeB the jury can rouommuud the prisoner to the olemeuey of the court." A STATE PRINTIN0 OPI'lCE Unless the state treasury at Salem liOBifeses a superabundance of t ho vol low metal it would be well for the legislature to pay no attention to the reoommemlation of Gov. West for the establishment of a state printery. The Governor hail to make the recom mendation to satisfy the demand of organized labor. Organized labor al ways wants something aud woe betide the politioiun who fails to rocoguize these claims. The typographical unions of the oouutry are, as a rule, very oommeudahle organisations. They most always have iu thoir order what is known as the "fclquaro Mini's Association." All printers are square, but the mombcrs of tlio Square Men's Association are a little pqtinror than the regular organization They are aways looking for suups. If there are eight jobs to give out and tiierc are ten applicants they are perfectly willing to remain idle provided the eight luoky ones will make a "divy. " Thoy are notoriously incompetent or extraordinarily lazy. If there is a stato printing house iustiillud these men will have all the jobs. They know how to make a job hold out They are pastiiiaNtors in the art of proorastinatiou. The state could count on always Having work on baud. They keep tab ou one another A Record For No system offers the same advantages and con veniences for a concise, future record of business as the check account. Each check is a complete record in itself of the particular transaction. Your checks, filled by date and number furnish you a most convenient record for future reference. Every man has occasion to refer to transactions of the past. Employ the check account each day for a true record for future use. The Bank of Oregon City OREGON CITY,. OREGON aud no man is permitted to excel his fellow workman either in quantity or quality. Five good every day all around printers could accomplish as much as ten of this class. If a state printing house is to be established it would be necessary to keep the em ployes at work all the year. As a matter of fact there is not much work for the state to do except whon the legislature is iu session. There are a few reports of state officers to print, but it wold be bard work for even the square men to make the work hold ont until the bi-annual meeting of the legislature. It would cost the state at least $23,000 for a moderate plant, and the head printer could alwavs he relied on to demand $5,000 or $10,000 more at eaoh session of the legislature. There is a s;ate printing offloe at Albany, N. Y.. and one at Sacramen to, Oal., aud if unbiased reports could be had from the states it woul d be found that they are luxuries that only a few states can alford. The government pi luting office at Wash- inaton u tne most expensive oraucu of the buolic service Tl-ey have maimiflcent building aud it is fitted up with all kinds of modern ma nhiiierv. The Uauare Man's Associa tion fJll all the positions. No one else need aoDlv. This establishment has been the subject of a number of con cressioual investigations. At one o the investigations the fact brought out that the public printer purchased thirty-five expensive type anttinir machines for whioh the gov. eminent had no nso. The publlo printer was charged with being rafter and he was pormitted to re Minn. Auotlier winter wus appointed and in a short time he was suspected ot Durchasinc supplies not needed by the government. Congressman Taw ney, of the house ways ana mean nommittue. savs that if the govern ment would let out its printing to the lowest bidder there would be a sav mn of millions of dollars to the na tion. If that is the oa?e in Washing ton the same would ua true ok smaller scale in Oregon. WAGES OP CONVICTS The law regulating the employment of oonvict labor in some form will probably be passed by the presont Hessioa of the Oregon legislature, Laws regulating the labor of inmates of our penal institutions have been discussed aud acted ou iu most of the states. Oonvict labor in most ot the prisons is so distributed that it does i:ot come in competition with free labor. The late session of the Minne sota legislature passed a law permit. ting the prison authorities to set apart a portion of the wages of the conviot for the support of those dependent upon linn. As this phase ot the sub joct will probably receive consider able attention at the present session the follwing oxtraot from the report of the Minnesota state board of oon trol will bo read with interest: "For the year ending last July, th Stillwater inmates earned $22,013 and the reformatory inmates $10,74(1. About 00 per cent of tho men at Still water are able to earn something, the amount varying witli the employment aud the capacity of the men. Those employed iu the farm machinery fao tory earn the largest wages, aud those uiakiug twiue the loast. Extra amounts are earned by the twine. workers for extra rapid work. "At the reformatory the inmates are divided into two olasses, with three divisions each, the pay ranging irom 6 to 15 cents a day, the amount increasing with the spirit of the in mate toward work and his attitude toward the institution and its rules. All of the credits may be wiped out by misconduct. " The board savs the plan in both institutions has had excellent disci linary value aud has proved its worth, "The money is disbursed only on order of the inmate himself, who tiles a written requost with the war den. At Stillwater there are 4H6 single men, 04 married, with no ohil dren, 115 married, with ohildren, and 2li widowers with ohildren. The uumbor of families needing asHistanoe from the fund, which the prisoners are accumulating, is not too large to ho oared for. "The earnings paid the prisoners are iu excoss of the amount which their labor brings the state. The report of Warden Wolfer of Still water shows that since 1001 the insti tution has made more money than it has spent, the per capita expenses for the pust year having beon $201 and the income X!8, leaving a per capita balance of earnings of $1.17 a year. 000D K0ADS AGAIN Probably no Btate in the Union is more in neod ot Improved putilio highways than the state of Oregon. 1 he railways are spending immense sums of money in penetrating differ ent sections of the state. These roads are iu most, instances oonstiuated iu advauen of settlement in the hope that it will be the menus of opening up new territory to the prospective fanners, Of what use will be thtse roads and theso settlers if thore is iio way of traveling during six mouths of tne year? Of courso it is not practi cable to hard surl'aco all the roads in tlio state, hut it is practicable to hard surface all tlio main thoroughfares, and if the farmers of On gou desire to meet the conditions existing in other states, if they desire to carry 8,1)00 louuds to market where they are now mly able to transport 1,000, they will do all iu thoir power to euoourage The Future their members of the legislature to seoure the passage of suitable meas ures to that end. Five good measures are coming before the roads i res They ent session of the legislature, provide for the creation of a state highway commission or three bers, the chairman to be state mem high way commissioner; a Din tor tlio use ot convicts in state and county pris ons; a state aid bill, which compels tne state to pay one tlnrrt and th county two-thirds of the cost in coun ties where roadways are improved and the bonding act, which will ren der operative the reoeutly impioved good roads amendement. These measures were all approved Dy tne good roads convention reoently in session in Portland. Oregon has been hampered for years because of the lack of ways for vehiole transpor tation. Farmers of France and Oer many can carry from three to ten times as much on their wbeous as the farmers in this state. The time now ripe for favorable aotion. All agree that it is one of the must iiu portaut questions now before the leR lslature. It the farmers encourage their representatives there will be no doubt about the outcome. THE REST ARE ALIVE. The Courier during the campaign of last vear advised voters to cast their ballots for certain men for the 1 'eisla ture. and to not vote for certain others, giving reasons for so advising, It now calls the attention of its read ers to the actions of Joint Representa tive (Jhatteu, OJaokamas-Multnomuh who was on-) of the staunoh support ers of the rank assembly filibuster. Eaton, for the position of speaker of the House. Elected ou a statement one platform and promising at the very first opportunity to fulfill his honorable pledge, he turned turtle, aud voted for ,the opposition. Uhat. ten runs a little engraving plant in Portland, aud JSatou is hooked up with a bookbindery in hugeno, whith er much of the binding of books and pamphlets irom the State House ut Salem goes, Well, it isu't hard to see why Uhatteq threw down his coustit uenta and flung aside all honor, but it is a wonder he didn't exercise horse sense and pick a soft spot to land, for he's now numbered among the dead oues at Salem. If the Orumpacker resolution passes Congress iu its present shape the northern states will gain thirty-two representatives iu the next congress and the southern states, including Oklahoma, sine. Should the states vote in 1913 as they did in 1008 it would mean an addition of thirty-two votes to the Republican candidate The Republicans can lose JNew York, lud;aua and two or three otner norm em states aud still elect their oandi. data, as it is Quite likely that Mis souri and perhaps Tennessee will swing into the Republican column. The outlook for a sweeping Demo cratio victory in 1913 is not as pro uounoed as it wag two mouths ago. The Democrats also have insurgents in their ranks and they are in the ma jority. The peerles one is still in the saddle, and he has served notice on the conservatives that he must be considered when policios and candi dates are to be discussed. Then is a possibility that, the insurgent Repub lioans may indnoe Senator LaFollette to run as an independent Republican in which oase the situation would be still farther complicated, as he would probably draw enough votes from the Republican candidate to cause him to lose several states. With a conserva tive Republican candidate and a radi oal Demooratio candidate the situa tion wonld be about the same as in 1908. The Chinese exclusion act, which was framed in the interest of the la boring people is not working out as satisfactorily as the originator of the measure anticipated. Chinese iron cau be placed at Pacifio ooast points at $3 per ton' loss than asked at Pitts burg, and anthracite coal, an excel lent quality, can be transported aoross the Pauitio at rates far less than de manded by the Amoriean miner, Forty years ago the iron and coal min ob of China were prutically idle The produots of what few were in op (ration could not be disposed or as thore was no means of transporting the surplus to market A new ordor of things has now dawned upon the empire. Chinese laborers, denied ad mission to the United States, are now euteriug into competition with the American laborer at one-tweutioth the price paid in this country. Railways are rapidly penetrating every section of the Chinese empire, and before many years have elapsed it is quite probable that the Chinese laborer will prove to bo more of a menace to the labor interests of this country at home than ho would have beon had he been permitted to land ou our shores. Friends of tne postal savings bank law do not like the idea of having that maosure tested iu remote sections of the states where postal bauks iiave recently been opeuud. They are of the opinion that bankers have had too much to say in selecting locations where there was not much urobabilitv of the law reoelviug a fair trial. Tne postal savings bank act li one of the most important measures ever passed by congress and it will not do for fed eral oltluers to undertake to thwart the will of the people by placing oo- stacl s in the wav of properly testing the operation of the law. I'll post- olUce olltmals still maintain that they have commenced ou a small scale iu order to familiarize themselves with the wo king of the new act aud that they will soon establish postal sav- ugs bauks iu every city whore there is a moneyorder olllce. The income tax amendment to the federal constitution will be acted on by a large number of state legisla tures this mouth. About three fourths of the legislatures meet iu 1911, and it is prohnblo that the amendment wUl be acted on by them before they adjourn. Nine states mre already ratified the Rinendmoirs. They are: Alabama, South Carolina, Uliuois, Maryland, Kentucky, Hits- ssippi, Oklahoma, Ueorgia aud Teifti. Five btates have voted on the amendment aud failed to ratify. They are New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia aud Loutxaua. As it requires a ratification by three fourths of the states twelve sta'ee cau reject it. Iu a receut statement Sen ator Morris Brown of Nebraska thinks that lour of the live Btates that reject ed the amendment will eventually ratify it j Clackamas couuty fared well in the appointment of committees. One of the most important senate committees : is that of revision of the laws and this ooiumittea is headed by Senator ; Walter Diuiiok of Oregou City. Sou ator Diuiiok ia also ou the committees ou fUhiug industries, labor industries aud municipal corporations. Senator Brooke is chairman of the judiciary oommittee. Representative Jones is chairman of the oommittee on print lug, and is also on the election and pharmacies committees. " Representa. tive carter is on asessmenta aud taia uuu. representative aiagoue is on the fisheries oommittee and alooholio traffic. Chatten, Multnomah and Clackamas joint, ways and means committee. Ma arkev. flanLnnms Multnomah -Columbia, chairman judi uiary. btatistics show that during 1910 more man 30.000,000 industrial work ers in the United States waged the Dattie or business. Of that number uiuo man ov.uuu met with death or injury. More than 8j,000 iof them were kill-d in mine explosions, wrecks and unavoidable accidents. i he appalmg statement is made that every year there are as nianv men killed or wonded in industrial life as were Killed or wounded during any one year of the civil war. We kill more men every year in our industries tnau were Killed in the war between Japan and Russia. The fiie par capita loss annually in uie uuitea niates is aooot 3 00, com pared witn 83 cents in six of the moBt important countries of EuroDe. Our carelessness aud their caution ia signed as the prime reason. SUMMARY OP HEWS OF THE WEEK. ifonr wealthy Chinfse mnrrhinia have been arrested in Los Anseles fnr smuggling. Portland SDent over four mi I linn dollars on street improvements during me jear liuu. , 'Ihe first amile tree in t.hn Panifln Northwest, planted 85 years ago, has oeen aiscovered at V anoouver. Wash The claims of Oapt. Peary have been apuroved by a house committee and ne nas Deeu re ommended for promo, tion, Mr. Charles F. Murnhv la not, hftv. ing oioar sailing for his choice of Sheehau for senator from New York. A dark horse will probably be named. A California firm offers tn tmnanni-t lumber from Portland to Atlantic coast points lor 40 cents per hundred pounds, about half the railway rate. The bubonio Dlaeue has hrnknn nnf. atlHarbiu. Manchuria, and the natives are dying at the rate of 150 daily, the uuuiuer vi victims to oate being 1,500. A test Vote in the senate inrlinnfaa tne passage of the constitutional amendment providing for the election ot senators by direot vote of the peo pie. The Japanese naval nfllrwr wim prit. icizea resident Taft for desiring tn a . O rorniy (he Panama canal a tn ha disciplined by the Japanese govern meet. An enott is being made to have the conservation policies of Theodore noosevelt declared niiconRtitntinnnl by the supreme court of the TTnitrt States. President Taft sends a sneoial mes- sagw to congress urging an appropria tion for fort tying the Panama oanal lie says it is a Dart of the PanfHn ooast defense. The cold storaae trust in Chinaim ia about to collapse and millions of pounds of butter, cheese and eggs will ub turown ou me market. Big de pression in price is expected. Another of the Gould familv is tn marry a title. This time it is the n year old daughter of George J. Gould, woo wm snnriiy marry Baron Deoies, un English peer 27 years her senior. A Berlin paper thinks it not nnin right but the duty of the United States to fortifv the Panai na panal The world has too much at tab tn permit some warlike nation to de stroy it. Senator Nelson's bill Drovlrtincr fnr the leasing of the coal mines of Alas ka has been favorablv mmqidnrart h the publio lands committee and if passed by congress will assure cheap coal for the entire Pacifio coast. A hill for the reeulation of tnllB nn the Panama oanal will be introduced in the national house of renresnnta tives in a few days. Rates will not be more than $1.50 or less than 60 oents per net ton registered tonnage. The grest'battloshiD Arkansas. th bost equipped fighting machine in the world, was launohed in Phi adelnhla ou naiurnay last, it lias a displace mont or a7,S43 tons, length 664 feet, urnatiwi leei, speed knots per hour, and will ooBt when completed tun iiiiiuuu aonars. -according to a statntorv lw in New Hampshire the will of Marv linker Eddv is void. This law Tirn . libit a bequest to a church of mnre inn so.uoo a tear, and tha will urn. l es for a bequest to the Scientist ciuirch at boston of 3, 000,000. l-ie uemooratslheld a love feast at Baltimore on Tuesday niaht and the matter of tariff revision was fully dii- cubkooi duc notnina decisive was rtnnn. The most important feature of the gathering was the mention of Champ lart as the Bryan candidate for president in 1U13. ihe deposed sultan of Turkev has 4,300,000 on deposit in a German linn, ana the Turkish government is rying to recover it. The German oourta decided iu favor of the Turkish government, but a number of individ uals nave attached the funds and the money is still in litigation. A Great Northern west-bound train us stalled for fonr days near Field ing, Mout , v ith the thermometer at 58 degrees below zero and the wind blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour. hen the passengers were res cued it was found that no damage had been done beyond the inoonvenienoe nf the passengers being delayed. The slate of Oregon is paying ont thousands of dollars anually to ex port,) trained in all phases of fruit growing farming and housekeeping in order that the people of the state may beuetit,by this information. Are you getting your share? It not, attend the Farmers' Week Course at the Ag ricultural College, February 1H to 1? iuclustve. No fee. Special railroad rates Notice of Stockholders' Meeting Notice is hereby given (hat there will be a special meeting of the stock holders of the Home Oil & Gas Com pauy hfld at the office of said com pany iu the office of the First Nation al Bank of Oregou Cilv Oregon, on Saturday, January 28th, 1911, at noon, for the pnriiose of authorizing au mere ise of the capital stock of said ooinpauv to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars. By order of the Directors of sai. Company. C D. LATOURKTTK, secretary. ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT OREGON Chronicle of Important Events of Interest to Our Readers. , State May Get Lands. Portland. Oregon, instead of the United States may become the bene ficiary of the suit brought by the United States to forfeit 114,000 acres of land valued at H.000,000, granted to the state and later passed on through several hands to the Southern Oregon Company, these lands lying between Coos Bay and Roseburg.and granted In aid of the military wagon road. The state may regain title to the lands through a discovery made by Representative Jamts Cole. After a careful examination of the law and the bill of complaint recently filed in the United States circuit court by B. D. Townsend, special assistant to the attorney-general, Mr. Cole, who was formerly a United States deputy dis trict attorney, has become convinced that the state can Intervene in the case and establish its title to the big timber land prize. Holds Jury Has No Jurisdiction. Salem. Alleging that the grand Jury had no Jurisdiction when it sat at the state penitentiary a week and proceeded to take testimony from among the Inmates of that institution relative to the stabbing there two weeks ago of Guard Jerry Simpson, Attorney William P. Lord, Jr., has filed plea In abatement to the In dictment of Thomas O'Rourke, the ac cused convict. Attorney Lord's plea In abatement Is also a departure from the customary procedure, It being the first time that such a plea was ever filed In a criminal action in this Btate. WAR ON COYOTES Naw Case! of Hydrophobia In Wal lowa County. Wallowa, New cases of hydropho bia are being reported almost dally and citizens of this county are awak ening to the necessity of prompt ac tion. State Veterinarian Lytle will take personal charge of the 12 hunters who are In the employ of the forest ser vice and also of a number of volun teer hunters. Approved methods of hunting, trap ping and poisoning will be used to exterminate the coyotes and the sur plus of worthless dogs and cats. Af ter a conference with the county com missioners, it was decided to police the entire county and enforce the quarantine rigidly. It Is probable that an increased bounty will be placed on coyotes. The bounty Is now $3 and the pelts are worth an average of $2.50 for they are in prime condition. With the added bounty It Is proposed to give, the value of a coyote to the hunter will be approximately $7.50. Bank Loss May Be Repaid. Elgin. Petitions are being circu lated to ask the legislature to pass a bill authorizing the county court of Union County to make a levy sum clent to repay County Treasurer Frawley and Sheriff Childers the county money which they lost in the failure of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of La Grande. Meyers Trial Postponed. Salem. As a result of a conference held by the attorneys for George Meyers and District Attorney John H McNary, the second trial of Meyers for murder In the second degree has been postponed by Judge Percy Kelly from Monday, January 16, to Monday, February t. This was done In order to procure witnesses that are import ant both to the state and to the de fense. Douglas Builds Good Roads. Roseburg. Approximately 1175,000 will be spent on good roads in Doug las County this year. A general levy of 4 V4 mills for that purpose has been made toy the county court, providing for a fund of $142,400. The court re fused to grant the urgent request of a number of the heaviest taxpayers of Roseburg for a levy of 5 mills to de fray one-balf the cost of building a new armory in this city. Farmers Save Millions. La Grande. More than $800,000 with unknown profits probably bring ing the figure to am even million dol lars, have been saved by farmers of Union, Wallowa and Baker oountles In two years, through co-operation and organization under the Farmers' Co operative Union. This was assarted at a meeting of the executive beard of the Oregon State Farmers' Unloa. Solves a Deep Mystery I want to thank yon from the bot tom of my heart." wrote C. B. Rader, of Lewisborg, W. Va., "for the won derful doable benefit 1 got from &ieo trio Bitten, in caring me of both a sever case of stomach trouble and of rhenamtism, from which I had been an almost helpless sufferer for ten years. It suited my case as though 'made just for me." For dyspepsia. indigestion. Juandioe and to rid the iTstem of kidney poisons that cause rheumatism, Eleotrio bitters Has 'no equal. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only 60 cents 11 BIG DEPARTMENT STORE Annual January Clearance Sale to reduce stock for Inventory. We will make the last ten days the best in bargains at the BIG STORE. Prices take a tumble in ready made suits and quick buyers are the reapers. i Tremendous values in dress goods rem nants, large enough for skirts or suits at remnant price. Ladies', Mens and boys all wool Sweat er Coats at Clearance Sale price. White goods, Table Linens Towels, Toweling, Bed Linens and Bedding at specially reduced prices. Values in Shoes are bigger and better. We have the largest stock of shoes ever carried in The City; and at this time offer many Special Bargains. Do not fail to attend Our Clear ance Sale and SAVE MONEY. COR. MAIN NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM OTHER CITIEr IN OREGON Wallowa County tax levy Is the low est in the h!s:ory of the county. The levy is only iu, ml Is. The Oregon Retaii Merchants' Asso ciation will hold Its filth annual con ventlon at Salom, January 25, 26 and 27. President Taft has sent to the sen ate the renomination of Philip S. Mal colm as cullector of customs at Port land. The grand Jury will call J. W. Bailey, state dairy and food commis sioner, to answer charges of graft and incompetency, made against him by three deputies who have resigned. Representative Hawley, of Oregon, introduced a bill granting a pension of (16 a month to all veterans who served SO days or longer In any In dian war In the United States prior to 1880. Diamonds and other Jewels valued at (500 were stolen In broad daylight from the Fred J. Holmes residence, one of the most fashionable homes of La Grande. Under direction ol the Newberg Commercial Club a determined effort is being made to secure an appropria tion from Yamhill and Marion coun ties to bridge the Willamette River at this point. The annual Farmers' Week at the Oregon Agricultural College will be held this year from February 13 to 17 inclusive, and the college authorities are planning for the largest gather ng of agriculturists In the history of the state. The Oregon tax commission goe3 on record as being heartily In favor of the proposed Income tax amendment to the federation constitution to be considered by the icg.slature next week and its adoption Is strongly urgedV fhut 121 fits. ISSS Williams Bros, transfer Co. Safes, Pianos and Turniturt Moving a Specialty frtlgbt ani Paretli Dtlieend H. . Cross CROSS & HAMMOND Attorneys at Law Probate Practice Abstracts TrWe have now movtc into our fternunent quarters in the inew Beaver Building next to the Ardresen Buildino- aemmmmmmmaammamamBBBammmmami Adams AND 7th, Governor West sent a special mesa-age to the legislature Monday asking that Oregon go on record favorlr.g San Francisco as the place for hold ing the world's fair commemorating the opening of the Panama anal. In his message to the legislature, Acting Governor Bowerman recom mended that the Oregon Conservation Commission be abolished and that the money appropriated for the commis sion be devoted to "some useful pur pose." Senator Bourne has Introduced a' bill authorizing the construction of a lightship near Orford Reef, off Cape Blanco, Oregon, to cost not more than $150,000. Bourne delivered an ad dress Sunday at Jersey City on the Oregon system of laws reestablishing rule of the people. Two convicts, Albert Ferris and Al bert Murray, who were among the five that escaped from the guards while employed at the state Institute for the feebleminded a year ago last October were tried In the circuit court for Marlon County before Judge Kelly and found guilty. Because of the recent cold snap and the consequent covering up of their food supply, It is feared that all the Hungarian and China pheasants with which the Rogue River valley was recently stocked by the state will perish, Governor Oswald West will be ten- dered a banquet Boon by the members of the class of applicants that were admitted to practice law In Oregon with him by examination before the supreme court of this state In June, 1910. The Sluslaw national forest has been closed to homesteaders who seek to take up land under the forest home, stead act. The secretary of agricul ture has sent word to Acting Super visor Fltton of the reserve, that he has issued an order forbidding the listing of further applications for pre sentation. Offlet In Tavoriu Cigar Store Oppesltt matenle Building Prhts Rtisonablt and Satisfaction Guaranteed Wm. Hammond Real Estate Loans ns ir nee aja at all druggists'.