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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1911
Oregon City Courie
First Independent Paper in Oregon,
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
Published every Friday from the
Oonrier Building, Eighth and Main
Streets, by the
Oregon City Courier Pub. Co
Incorporated
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for transmission through the mails as second
class matter. , , . .
M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
RAISING THE DIVOR.CE
QUALIFICATIONS .
And while we are hoping and wait
ing for a redaction on tariff duties,
District Attorney iJenuison ((ives
ont that the rates are to be raieed on
divorces in this state that the fence
is to be built bo liiah that hereafter
'; it can't be taken on a standing broad
sjntnp He says men and women rush
into the oourts and got decrees on
' slender threads of excuse and he pro
; poses to tighten np the regulations.
Here's the squeeze :
', If a husband oalls his wife bad
v names, she most ' show the court
; and deputy dittrict attorney they
'I are bad names.
Now that is putting a halter on the
divorce evil that will hold some and
it may rain Oregon's leading indus
try.
," What do you think of that for
break on the get-free-qnick system of
' our state?
' It will ruin the business
' Think of the proposition of having
to PROVE . something in a divorce
: court really makirig good on a
; charge.
If a wife calls a husband a "sissy
he can't report it to the district at
' torney and take his divorce back with
him. No sir-e. He's got to get riiiht
down to cases and explain how this
' awfol appellation has ruined his piece
of mind and his home or he don t get
a quit claim paper. And if the bus-
, band calls his side partner a tool,
..she's really got to, prove it and con
vince the court that it is. a "horrid"
., name and just grounds on which to
untie the marriage knot.
Certainly things are changing in
'.Oregon.
WHEN THE EXPRESS COMPANIES
LOSE, BUY THEM.
The committee on xstofnVes ao
post roads have been considering the
Lewis paroels post pill, whioh pro'
Tides for condemning and purchasing
the express companies and adding
mem to tne postal system, ana estab
lishing a complete system for the
quick transport of packages and the
eatable produots of the farm and
truck garden, eto.
some months ago a law was passed
lor a postal bank system, . but there
was no provision that the government
buy np the banks in places where the
law was pat Into practioe.
Paroels posts have got to oome, and
none realize it better than the express
oompanies wuo nayn so long been able
to stand them off. And if they mast
oome, then let the government bny
oat the express companies that is
what the companies say to congress,
men through the Lewis bill.
If the express companies can't com
pete witn the government in carrying
parcols, that's their business Onr
government has cradled this syndloate
too long to act f urtner .as their aid
sooioty. The Lewis bill is imply an
other express company graft, and it
ought never to oome out of ooniniit
tee MAKING THE R.OAD EASY FOR.
SENATOR. BOURNE.
IF A JOKE, IT IS CERTAINLY A
A CAPITOL ONE.
The Courier has had conisderable
to say against Govrenor West putting
prisoners on the honor roll and then
putting a bounty on their heads.
No governor has a right to open the
prison doors and then kill the men
who mo, and many of the newspapers
have been making it warm for Mr.
West because of his offer of a reward
dead or alive for escaped convicts.
If this "honor roll" idea is the sola
tion to the convict problem, why
don't we abolish the state prison and
the big expenses connected with it,
and make a state wide business of
forcing our convicts to be good or
kill them off.
W en a man is convicted in oar
courts here, why don't we cat oat all
this Salem expense by paroling him
on the spot, letting him go ou bin own
promise not to ran off, and giving
every man in the country the right to
kill him if he does escape and paying
him handsomely for the murder?
The Oregonian says of the matter:
Here is a case where the gover
nor has plaoed a large premium
on outright homicide. The con
vict Griffith is worth nothing to
the state alive so the Governor
says but any such oonvict is
worth f 200 doad so the Governor
also says Probably that $50-
aiive $2UU-Heaa proclamation was
another gubernatorial, jose. It
will be a tine joke on urifllth if he
runs across the path of some ser
ions-minded individual oat to earn
200 of the state's easy money.
WHAT A GRAFT-RIDDEN OLD
COUNTRY IS OURS.
CAPITAL MIGHTY EASILY
SCARED.
The initiative and referendum
are retarding the physical growth
and development of yoar state and
at the same time discouraging ex-J
tensive investments by tne mon
eved interests of the country.
This is what u. A. Trowbridge, a
Chicago bond buyer, told Portland
last week.
This man comes from a state so
politically rotten it stinks; from a
Btate where money rules and where
United States senators are elected by
the trusts
if popular government Discourages
Chicago capital from investing here,
we'll try to get along without it.
One after another they are coming
.Id for their turns of investisation,
Alaska, the sugar trust, Standard Oil,
the tobacco oomblne, Lorimer,. the
meat packers, the lumber trusts, eto. ,
and now oomes the express oompanies
in Indiana.
Some of the alarmists tell us that
unless we let up ou these monied in
terests the country will go to the
bow-wows, but the Insurgent senti
ment apparently doesn't see it this
wav.
If a country must be looted to be
prosperous, the most of us don't want
prosperity. We are going to stop
trust stealing and ortioial graft in this
country, and these investigations and
exposures are but the beginning of the
nousecieaning
Every day the people are demand'
ing aud getting more power. This
power is going to stop the packing of
tne united States senate with trust
representatives; it is going to damp
tho Sherman anti-trust law on the
sorap pile and hang np an effective
law in its place ; and is going to call
nome the pnblio omoials who misrep
resents and cut his head off; it Ib go
ing to regulate any concern that
handles necessities aud absolutely fix
Its selling price, and it is going to
break down that Chinese protection
wall and let a little competition into
this country.
They say Wall street threatens a
panio if the people persist in" crowd
ing the interests too olose to honesty.
If the interests have this dangerous
power (and there 1b no doubt bat
they have) the sooner they apply it
the better. The poeple would sooner
flight a panio than the trusts.
PLAYING THE NATIONAL CAME
OF BLUFF. .
Did you ever sit in a poker game
and make a bluff bet ' on a pair of
Jacks and hare the other fellow raise
you back oc a pair of tens?
I never did either, but I have
"hearn tell" about it Neither man
dared "call" or "show down," ao
they kept raising each other until one
went broke.
This is the game the several coun
tries are playing, and they will keep
it up until some of them go broke or
tna taxpayers revolt.
Eaob is raising the other's navy
bluff. Germany builds a new fighter,
England builds two and then Hohson
asks for a few million for our navy.
Germany raises the bluff, England
oomes back again, and Hobson talks
some more SJarey talk about Japan.
And so we so, until none of ns dare
stop for fear of showing the white
leather. . . ,
And what does a great navy amount
to as long as the other oountrr has
one just as big?
The oripple is far safer than the
pugilist. Any one of the little Cen
tral American republics, whose navv
strength is a oat boat is far safer than
any of "the powers," for helplessness
is more lormidab e than a Meet of
Dreadnaaghts. The jealousies of
those wh ) oan debt make safetv for
those who have no guns.
. AWFUL ACCIDENT.:
Estacada Boy Kills Little Sister
with Shotgun.
The three-year-old daughter of
Clark Donuey, living near Estacada,
wasaooidentally shot and killed by
her brother, George Denney, nine
years old, Monday. The ohildren
were plaving in a bedroom wherein
hung a shotgun. George climbed up
to take the gun from its resting plaoe
and in removing it from a nail the
trigger caught and the gun was dis
charged into the Btomach of the little
child who was standing in the center
of the bed some eight or ten feet from
her brother. So close was she to the
discharged gun, that the fall force of
the shot outererd the child's body.
Neighbors rushed to the scene of the
MIDSUMMER SURPRISE TO
SUSPECTINC PUBLIC.
UN-
AN ANCIENT FORM, USELESS
. AND UNNEEDED
"When you get right down to cases
and reason it out., of what use in this
state, any state or the United States
is an upper house of leitrsaltnre?
If two is good, why not three, and,
and if three is good, why is not one
better?
Given to the people the power of
the initiative, referendum, recall and
direct election of reDreesntatives.pot
what nse is a second law-amkina
hones? If representatives will not
The U. S senate sprang a complete
surprise on an unsuspecting publio
Monday, when it passed its own law
regarding corrupt election practices pass desiraole laws, they can be com
the most drastio legislation that could polled to, and if they pass laws not
db irameu. wanted, they may be annulled by the
mi. A 1. . i . i i .,.,1 -
j. no law pruriaea mat no canaiaate people.
for the house or senate shall expend With such power iu the hands of
more than ten cents for each voter in the people I can't see that a state
his district during a campaign; that senate is of any more actual use than
no senator shall exoeed an exoendi- wonld be a feather fan in stunning
accident but the
few minut
child lived oulv
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Street politicians are giving it out
that already there are four candidates
for United States senator against Sen
ator Bourne, T, ii. Wilcox, Dan
Malarkey, lien Selling and Stephen A.
Lowell, and the game is yonng yet.
As the Courier stated some time
ago, the result of opposition to Mr.
Bourne would be a field of starters,
opposition split up, ami oar senator
an easy winner
Some time ago Senator llourne gave
it out that he would leave the matter
of his return entirely no to the peo
ple; that he would not make a can
vais or campaign or nse any money.
And the field of candidates are go
ing to make it easy for him to win in
a walk. . '
Under the heading "Oregonian's
Dream" tho Washington Star gets rid
of this:
Senator Jonatlinu liourno, Jr.,
desires direct election ot senators,
diroct primaries, popularly in
structed delegates to national con
ventions, the initiatve, referendum
and reoail, aud that will be about
all for the present.
And the saplieads back east don't
know that Oregon already has all
these aud is hunting for more.
PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM
OUR LEGISLATURE.
When Governor Wilson visited Port
land be was at once put wise to tho
condition of Oregon politics, and that
government was under Mr.
U'Hen's hat' In an eastern paper,
printing an interview with Mr. Wil
son, we clip the following :
Under whose hat is the legisla
ture at Salem to be found? You
know where von can find Mr.
U'Ren, and if yon don't libs his
' proposals you do not have to
adopt them at the polls. The best
evidence that the people ot Ore
gon do not trust their legislature
is found iuthe faot that they pay
the members bat $3 a day, and
limit them to a 40 day session
every two years, so they can do as
little damage as possible.
tare oi more than iu,ooo, nor con
gressman more than 5,000; that pub'
iioity must ne made ot the exDendi
tares 15 days before election by publi
cation ; all promises of politioal jobs
to be made pnblio : illegal to Dromise
jobs to seoure election, and several
more minor provisions.
J. his bill was passed by a vote of 60
a cyclone.
If a state senate is needed in Oregon
wny r
Charles W. Wappecstein paid a big
prioe for the thousand dollars bribe
he reoeived while chief of police
Seattle. He must serve not less than
to 7, and the house will hardlv dare three nor more than ten years at hard
i i i i . m u , . - I 1.. K- : . i . -
uiuck iii ii li comes 10 a vote. i" '"J jwuiGHnuaiy.
This law Ib bat another feather A lew years ago an offioigl could
wliloh shows which wav tlm wind I take Buoli a bribe and ire t awar with
blows, a bill given to the uneasy vot- (t- 11 was a part of his salary, a part
ers to help quiet them.
of the game,
tint the publio won't stand for this
order of things any longer, and no
matter how olever an official mav be.
he is pretty sore to get caught with
me gooas on
Three too ten years at hard work in
the pen is a hard dose for this ex-offi
cial to take. It is harder on his wife
and children, but it will be a lb
warning to other would-be grafters to
out it out, lor tiie people won 't stan
tor it longer.
Gov. West may be sluoere in his
prison polioy and honestly believe
that he will be able to reform hard
ened criminals by kindness, but it is
a matter of doubt in the minds of the
laity. Kindness has been tried before
on tne criminal class ana proven a
failure as a corrective asenoy in fall
ninety-nine per oent of the cases. In
ordinary oases a criminal is such from
choice; it is a predominating trait,
nnd be couidn t be anything else un
less lie was born anew aud then the
chances are hn, would be . ten times
worse. Crime is sometimes commit
ted by aooident or mistake ; sometimes
involuntary In such cases the gov.
eruor's polioy might prove a saving
grace, but to make an indiscriminate
application of it is the height of folly,
sneriuan nn. ,
THIS SENATOR COST MORE
THAN HE IS WORTH.
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
says it cost him $107,000 to be elected
United States senator, bnt that it
was all legitimately expended and he
aoesn t Know why the matter should
be investigated.
'the senate is full of men that it
cost hunrdeds of thousands of rinllr
to seat there, and that Is why it has Many people look at Sunday base
done little else but block the measures PBl1 ia many different ways, but
the people want, and what the trusts up to wise old New York state to
do not want. slip out of a show down aud pass
When It is neoessarv to snend one base ball Sunday local option bill-
hundred thousand dollars to lann alK'v1D8 each town the right to pass on
senator, that man isn't landed bv the tne matter. And when you come to
people, bnt br the boodle. This o.r think of it over, this isn't such a bad
sum could not have boen ligitimately idea giving eaoh locality the right of
Tins old Wisconsin millionaire has day shall be observed
long had a bad odor around him.
Perhaps the investieatina committee
may nud out where it oomes from.
Thoy
now.
call Reno the groat divide
Congress is gottlng pretty sick of
the grill and adjournment lis in sight
They have reciprocity down for Satur
day of this week aud it will do doubt
pass without amendments. The wool
Hchodulos are dated for next week
Wednesday and it will no doubt be
defeated, as will also be the farmers'
tree list bill set down for Aagust 1.
t he reapportionment bill will be pass
ed and Arizoua statehood looks like
taking a wait for next session, because
the people wonld recall their judges.
EDISON IS GETTING SPEEDY.
Edison says that within five vearn
airships will be carrying passengers
across the ocean in 18 hoars, 200 miles
an hour, and that the perfeoted
neiiocoptai win ce enciroling the
gioua in a weei.
Now I have a lot of faith in the
judgement and foresight of Thomas
A., but if lie really cot off the shove
me uanoy irioune comments on
the proposition of submitting the mat
ter to the voters of Oregon City
whether or not treating shall be abol
ished in this city, and closes with
this observation :
It's ao assured faot that three
fourths of the drunkenness in this
oounty oomes from the treating
habit
Delegate Wiokersham of Alaska
oharges that Attorney General Wick
I, am afraid he has been drinking or srsham let the Alaska syndicates slip
timing tne pipe. The American on UI ueiraaaing tne government out
people will stand for almost anv old I0' 1 50.000 through the statute of Hai
fa! ry tale that is dated far enough
ahead to oatoh them in the nnmnf.nrv.
but this going around the world Iu an
aeroplane in a weak is two speedy.
oiuw up, loin,
itations. Every week some new stink
oomes up from this looted country,
and we hope oongress will get after
some of these unclean sinks and dis
infect them.
Tliey are digging np Alaska now,
and it is apparent that the investiga
tion will go to the bottom. And if
it does, here's betting that corruption
will be found thicker than the coal
veins aud that it will trail back to
congross.
Harry Brown. tne Oreironiau'n
Washington correspondent, gays the
Hole purpose ot the Alaska stir Is to
discredit President Taft and make his
reuominatiou impossible. In view of
tho faot that persidential nominations
will not bo made for a vear or more,
Another paragraph in the Judce
Ooke reoail fight was added Monday
when J. O. Drake of Roseburg was
arrested on a oharge of criminal libel.
as the result of his having written
and sent to the Oregonian a oommuni
nation making oharges against various
Here's the spot where the Btaid old
Oregonian broke out in an editorial
(luring the hot days of last week:
Adam and Eve had it ou the rest
of ns during heated spells, but
that's about all they had on.
this oharge will hardly' hold good. If ron?i. county oraoials reBardlng the
the soandal charsns am nntrnn nrt ui tun niovianeu-inanan
sirnnlv a came to min thn nrl,im,f murder case.
auu put tne administration in a hole
thflv wnnlrl hnrrilv linva huiii attaA
off at this Btnufi nf r.h cram ti, ine country is lull of political ru
is ample time to go to the bottom of mor8 tne8e a8VB aud on9 of tne lateBt
the affair long before the national '0Ilnd P00'10, sentiment is that
convention. If it is a deal to heln James A- rfleld, former secretary of
The automobiles, railroads and riv
ers are killing them pretty fast these
days. ,
the Democrats it will show up in the
wash. If the charges are true thev
should defeat every publio official
who had a part in them.
die interior, will be a progressive
ranoioate ior president, and that La-
Follette will step one in his favor
when the right t me comes.
The modern
man or woman
recognizes tho necessity of a bank account.'
It gives an acquaintance at the bank which
is necessary to accommodation in time of need.
A stranger at the bank cannot - expect to
get a loan on a few minutes acquaintance.
Tho man or woman who earns some, spends
less and has a pass book on this bank is out of the
worrying class.
BEGIN TODAY to deposit regularly with
The Bank of Oregon City
The 0 1 d e s t Bank in the County
Ambssador Reid refers !to Roosevelt
as "a man with a great career behind
mm." Keid may be one of the men
who sneers too toon. If politioal oon
ditiouB teep the present pace louir. it
win need a great man to jump in and
save this country from hitting the
sohuteB entirely, aud if that emergency
arises Roosevelt will oome back and
there will be another great career
ahead of lum.
The troBts of this country are fisht
ing Canadian reciprocity to the last
ditch, and yet Canadians tell us the
passage of the law will deliver Can
ada to this country's trusts.
Richard A. Ballinser onlv charced
Aberdeen $15 for his Fourth of July
acioress in aeuounoinn ureaon reform
laws, but the committee sot soaked
f 14 76 at that price.
It is announced in a dispatoh from
Ottawa, Out., that Angela Napoli
tauo, the woman under sentenoe of
death at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will
not be hangeJ for the murder of her
husband, August 9. The death sen
tence lias boon revoked and life Im
prisonment will no doubt be substi
tuted, aud those working for her
claim that a parole will follow within
a reasonable time.
A pretty good arsmument for the
single tax idea is the fact that John
Rockefeller pays taxes on but 11.000
o' personal property in Cleveland.
U , L . 1 ,
i wwinwi uniitty HUH 60811 It
lie has quit defeudiusr Lorimer.
says he has been deceived.
ight
He
A visitor called on Senator La-
i'ollntte the other day aud .stated be
came to shake hands with the next
president, and the senator told him
not to forget to go to Trenton, N. J.
This from a Republican senator, aud
an Insurgent oandidate for president
will be made the most of as a signifi
cant Joke,
Right in your busiest season when
you liave tha least time to spare you
aie most likel? to take , diarrhoea and
lose several days' time, unless vou
have Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedv at hand and
take a does on the first aonearanu of
the disease. For sale bv all Bond
dealers.
The die was cast. The politicians
had gained the dav. A eeneral for
waid movement of the army had been
ordered. The press, the pulpit and
public orators and private pews all
urged immediate action. The expres
sion was ireqneuuy made that "we
oan lick 'em with one hand tied,
President Lincoln was snrrounded
by advisers whose careers had been
shaped by keeping their ears open for
every sound that indicated the trend
of publio opinion. There was no mis
tatting tne sound this time and the
oabinet was a unit in believing that
the demand of the pnblio was irresis
tible and must be heeded if the ad
ministration hoped to remain whole.
The members of the cabinet and the
president knew perfectly well that
conditions were not favorable for an
advance of the army. At this time
there were about 60,000 men in and
about Washington. They were inex
perlenoed and poorly disciplined, and
to make such a force effective it
would require months, and only one
month remained of the term of ser
vice of many of the voluntnersr. It
was chiefly because the time of ser
vioe of many of the voluut ers ex
pired so soon that the advance was or
dered. Geu. McDowell proposed to
move against Menassas with a force
of 30,000 men, and ho believed that
the rebels wonld aocept battle at that
plaoe. Gen. MoDowell wanted to
prevent a junction of the foroea of
Beauregard and Johnston, and witli
that end in view requested Gen Soott
to reinforce Gen. Patterson witn a
sufficient . number of men to ke
Johnston in the vicinity of Harper's
rerry. ine advance was ordered for
the 9th of July and the publio seemed
confident that the result of the ad
vance would be a great and decisive
step toward ending the rebellion.
un Jniy i Uen. McDowell, whose
headquarters were at Arlington,
marched, under orders from Soott. to
attack Beauregard at Manassas. As
soon as Gen. Johnston heard of the
advance made by MoDowell he set
out to form a juuetion with Beaure
gard. The opposing armies had abont
an equal number of men at the start,
bat the confederates were reinforoed
by a portion ot Johnston's oommand.
Gen Pattreson would have followed
Johnston up had he not been under
strict orders fioin Gen. Scott not to
move until directed by him.
At tne beginning of the batt e the
federals were more than a match for
their adversary and sreat was the re
joicing at tne JNortn on the first re.
port of Union victory, but toward
night Johnston's men appeared on
the scene and went into action with
a great rush. This threw McDowell's
army into a panio and it wbb not
stopped cntil the whole army were in
nasty retrear. it Beauregard Had fol
lowed np his victory he mieht have
easily captured Washington, but the
tact was that the confederates did not
realize what had happened to the
Union forces and they missed an on
portunity that was never offerd again.
ine reuerai loss in killed, wounded
and missing was 2953, while the oon
lederate loss was 1997. .
fl In regard to the many statements in IFe
Courier recently in reference to Home Mer
chants, we were correct in our assertions that
the people would trade at home when given
rel able merchandise at proper prices, which
was evidenced by numerous sales made at our
store in response to our advertisement appear
ing in The Courier last week. We have always
been successful with our special sales as our
patrons have always found goods to be as re
presented. True, we cannot hiake the extra
vagant assertions regarding original values
and special selling prices that some stores in
Portland make, but an examination shows that
quality considered, the prices are lower here,
as a rule, than in Portland, and far seeing, con
servative buyers know this to be a fact, and
are the very ones who are patronizing home
industry.
B We cannot help but admit that much
money is spent in Portland which might bet
ter be left here pn Oregon City, but taking
everything into consideration quite a goodly
proportion of the usually needed apparel and
general commodotie- are .secured from our
' home merchants.
( There appears a more noticable interest in
home merchants each year here; which is un
doubtedly somewhat due to the fact that many
are constantly endeavoring to carry a much
more modern stock of goods, and always seek
ing the very best buys.
Respectfully,
JOHN ADAMS
The Peoples Store, Masonic Temple
THINGS DOING, AND NOT DOING
IN WASHINGTON.
The new secretary of the interior.
Mr. Fisher, has rejected all of the
Cunningham -claims to the Alaskan
coal lands. These claims were the
bone of ooutention in the great oon,
troversy between Richard A. Ballin
ger, the erstwhile secretary of the la-
tenor, and Gifford Pinohot. the chief
forester. Mr Pinohot olaimed that
the secretary of the interior, Richard
tiallmger, had violated the law in
giving his approval to the Cunning
ham claims, which covered the most
valuable ocal lands in Alaska, worth
several hundred millions of dollars.
The J. Pierpont Morgan and Simon
Guggenheim crowd had an option on
tnese claims and if the Bal neer de
oislon had stood the Morcan-Gatrcen
heim crowd would have controlled all
the valuable coal lands in Alaska,
Under the recent decision of Mr.
Fisher, secretary of the interior, these
coal lands now belong to the national
government onee more. However the
interior department has been criti
oized very severely for its dilly dally
method of dealing with the Alaskan
situation. The Alaskans claim that
they have to buy coal from other
countries when' there are billions of
tons right at home but which they
cannot use because the sovernment
has not made any provision wherebf
the mines can be lawfully worked b
anyone.
The Portland Journal wants a law
passed restricting signatures to refer
endum and recall petitions to register
ed voters. There should be soon a
law, and without it these reforms will
soon be foot balls. The man who does
not vote has no right on a petition to
submit a proposition to voters.
The greatest enemy of childhood is
the tape worm. It destroys health
and undermines the constitution.
The greatest enemy of intestinal
worms is WHITE'S CREAM VER
MIFUGE. It removes the worms and
beips the child back to strength,
vigor and cheerfulness. Prioe 2o per
bottle. Sold by Jones Drug Co.
rue MOMinnvine Keoorter savs
the oover to Collier's Weekly, whioh
contained an airship with wines made
or the Stars and stripes, was designed
or r rea uooper, son or Mr. and Mrs.
J. C Cooper, of that city.
D Parker has quite an extensive
ginseng farm near Salem. He lias
been growing the roots for the past
three years, and is now the largest
rower iu Willamette Valley. Most
of his stock is sold to Chinese for med
ical purposes. Salem Statesman.
The crawfish catch from the Wil
lamette river adjacent to Newberg. is
ported good and the fish extra fine.
It is said this variety in commercial
quantities can be had only in' the Wil
lamette river and tributaries. Tnose
who eat them claim they are in a
class by themselves Newberg Enter
prise.
According to a bulletin just issued
by State Forester Elliott, and which
the produot of Professor Georee W.
Peavy, professor of forestry depart
ment of the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, the state of Oregon contains one
fifth of the standing timber of the
United States. The pamphlet estim
ates that this timber is of the value of
15,000,000,000, and that one-third of
he stnmpage is contained in the 'nat
ional forest reserves It is estimated
that 120,000,000 is expended annually
in the state by the lumber industry
and;that tiuiber.of the value of $33,
000,000 was destroyed by fire last year
Washington. The Senate agreed
upon vot.ng dates for the measures
now pending before It. The leaders
reached a decision, which presages
adjournment soon after August 7.
The agreement followed a series of
conferences between Senators Pen
rose, La Follette, Martin, Smoot, Bai
ley, Stone, Borah, Brlstow and other
senators and was formally offered In
the Senate by Senator Penrose as
leader of the Republicans.
The dates set for votes on import
ant tills pending in the Senate are:
July 22, Canadian reciprocity; July
27, wool revision bill; August 1, free
list bill; August 3, congressional re
apportionment bill; August 7, Arizona
and New Mexico statehood bill.
House leaders agree there will be
no opposition to the adjournment
plans of the Senate. The House
committee on ways and means Is
working on a revision of the cotton
tariff, which will be taken up in the
House next week.
Serious Charges Against Wlckersham
Impeachment of United States
Attorney-General Wlckersham on
charges' of hav'ng deliberately de
frauded t' government out of $50,
000 in Alaska was predicted here
when the Democrats generally took
up charges against the attorney-general
which were preferred by Dele
gate James Wlckersham of Alaska.
With three House committees al
ready investigating the conduct of the
department of justice, the new
charges filed with the judiciary com
mittee are the center of interest. That
committe decided to report favor
ably a resolution demanding the doc
uments in the case of Captain D. H.
Jarvis, at one time agent of the Gug-,
genheims In Alaska, failure to prose
cute whom may cost the attorney-
general his official head.
Dr. Wiley's Removal Sought.
In the attempt that is being made
to oust Dr. Harvey W. Wiley from his
post as government pure food expert,
the Taft administrat'on is confronted
by a situation that may develop as
much bitterness even as the Ballin-
ger-Pinchot controversy.
The charge made against Dr. Wiley
is that he conspired to give illegal
compensation to Dr. H. H. Rusby,
head of the New York Co'.lege of
Pharmacy, Columbia University, as a
government expert.
Congress last year enacted a law
prohibiting the department of agricul
ture from payins any expert a greater
salary than $4000 a year. It was
found that the services of Dr. Rusby
could not be obtained for less than
$20 for laboratory investigations and
for $50 a day for attendance in
court
Notwithstanding this law, Dr. "Wi
ley arranged, it is charged, for the
mployment of Dr. Rusby as an ex
pert at a salary of $1800 a year, to
be paid to him at the rate of $20 a
day for expert service and $50 a day
for service in court.
Attorney-General Wlckersham had
heldi that the law permitted the pay
ment of enly $11 a day or the per
diem of $4000 a. year.
Four Pattern After Oregon.
Contrary to the general impres
sion. Oregon will not be the first
state to hold a Presidential pr'mary
election In 1912. North Dakota will
lead the states having a popular vote
on candidates for President and) Vice-
President. Dates for tne primary
elections in the states that "liave
adopted the Oregon Presidential
preference la.w are: North Dakota,
March 19; Wisconsin, April 2; Ne
braska, April 17;" Oregon, April 19;
New Jersey, May 28
Senate Votes to Bare Elections.
The most drastic campaign public
ity legislation ever passed In either
branch of Congress was adopted by
the Senate practically without a dis
senting vote.
The proposed law has the follow
ing important features:
No candidate for the Senate or
House shll spend in the. election
more than a sum equal to 10 cents
(or eacb voter in his district or state.
No Senatorial candidate shall spend
a total of more than $10,000 in the
primary and general election, and no
candidate for the House shull spend
more than $5000.
Publicity must be given to all pri
mary campaign contributions and ex
penditures, and all general election
expenses must be made pu'bl c before
the election, beginning 15 days be
fore election and making publication
mandatory each day until election.
All promises of political jobs must
be made publio. The bill further .
makes it Illegal to promise political
places in order to secure elect. on sup
port or to influence the election of
any member of a state legislature.
Elk "Goaf Is Abolished.
Atlantic City, N. J. No mere will
the intending Elk be compelled to
ride the goat, climb a greased pole
or do other "stunts" in connection
with his initiation. The last import
ant action of tiie grand lodge of Elks
is to aboMsh absolutely a!U horse play
and hazing in the initiatory rites of
the o-'jor
CURRENT SPORT EVENTS
Havana is to have a golf course.
The Uulled States bus 3.000,000 ath
letes. Already 700 harness meetings have
been set for this year.
Gus Hornfeck, Canadian profession
al, will coach Princeton's hot key team
uexx winter.
George Bonhng, the Irish American
A. C. of New York amateur runner, ,
holds thirty-seven records from three
to ten miles.
The Oregon state board of agricul
ture has opened a futurity purse of
$5,000 for trotting bred fouls of 191
to race In 1013 and 1914.
XSHERWIH-WlLLIAMSl
PARIS GREEN
Ii strictly pure made and kept at
highest standard.
If sure death to bugs kills every
time. t
It the most satisfactory Paris Green
sold today. .
Ii uniform in strength and quality
protects the crops always.
. Cttitat tur tttrt.
HUNTLEY BROS. CO.
Thi Rexall Store