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3IAILV METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND, Dec 31. S P. M. Maximum
temperature, 42; minimum temperature, 20;
fceleht of river at 11 A. II., 2.0; change In the
3ast -4 hours, 0.3; total precipitation today,
07; total precipitation from September 1, 1KU
twet season), to date, 11.11; average, 20.32; de
3JcIency. A.21; number hours of sunshine Sun
day, 0:13; possible number, 8:48.
"WEATHER SYNOPSIS.
Since the barometer has risen over "Washlng
lon and Oregon, and the tendency of the winds
are from the north, it is evident that the storm,
Mhlch has been on the coast for the past week,
lias moved outside of the range of the reports.
Indications point to fair weather, with possibly
cooler temperature. Light snow fell in many
sections of the three nates, and it is snowing
ut Spokane tonight.
"WEATIIER FORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the 24 hotirs
fending at midnight January 1:
Tor "Western "Washington and "Western Oregon
-Falr weather and slightly cooler, with fresh
Siortherly wind1!.
Per Eastern "Washington, Eastern Oregon and
3daho Occasional light snow, followed by fair
vi-eather, and stationary temperature, with light
Variable winds.
For Portland Fair weather and slightly cool
er, with light northerly winds.
B. S. PAGUE, Local Forecast Official.
1'ORTL.UD, TUESDAY, .JA 1, 1S03.
THIS NUMBER OP '-THE ORE
GON! AX.
In the preparation of this number of
JThe Oregonian the primary object has
"been to set forth the present condition
of Oregon, the status of its business,
Industries and improvements, some ac
count of its principal towns, and more
particularly the leading features of the
modern industrial development of the
state. From this point of view the sub
ject has never hitherto been treated
in a New Year's number of The Ore
Ionian. Attention is concentrated less
"upon Portland than in previous issues
of this kind, while the other towns,
the country at large, and the interests
"upon which general growth and devel
opment depend, receive larger consider
ation. It is unnecessary here to make an
index of the contents of this number.
There has been an effort to give a fair
exhibit of existing conditions and to
point out the course of future develop
ment. There has been careful avoid
ance of everything like extravagant
description or exaggeration of facts.
The reader, turning over the ample
pages of this issue, will find the various
subjects plainly treated and amply il
lustrated. The modern method of
treatment requires pictorial illustration
with the printed text, and in this par
ticular the present number of The Ore-
jonian has never been equaled bv anv
publication here.
This issue of The Orecronian. sent
tbroad, will give an idea what Oregon
p.. what stage of development it has
leached, what Its resources are. and
Fa hat may be expected of its future.
Threads of history run throuch the
principal articles, weaving the wary
find woof of past and present together.
LMuch attention has been given to out-
principal towns, as Astoria. Salem and
Eugene; to the development of the
Kreat power plant at Oregon City and
to its promise of results in manufactur
ing industry; to general description
and illustration of other towns, not for
getting Vancouver, in Washington. For
the first time the Bull Run water works
sire amply described and illustrated,
uud the new era awaiting Astoria
through railway connection is fore
shadowed in an ample article on that
town. The lumber, fruit, mining,
agricultural and educational interests
f the state, and to an extent of the
INorthwest generally, are dealt with
in various descriptive articles.
It is a number useful for preservation,
and useful for transmission abroad. It
tlxes in a form for the future many im
portant features in the life and condi
tions of our state today, and therefore,
if preserved, will have a value beyond
that of the present time.
THE CAMERA AS A DETECTIVE.
Recent developments in the science or
tirt of photography seem likely to oper
ate to the discomfiture and discovery
of criminals. "While it is prudent to re
ceive with many grains of allowance
stories regarding the discovery, upon
The retina of the eye of a murdered
person, of the likeness of the man who
presumably committed the murder,
there is evidence in other lines of the
value of the camera as a detective
agent. The latest example of stories
of the class indicated comes from
Jamestown, N. Y. According to the
recital a microscopic examination of the
eyes of a woman who had been mur
dered disclosed the burly form of a man
clad in a long overcoat. The face did
tiot appear, the assumption being that
the victim did not see more than th
lorm of her deadly assailant. The
microscope enlarged the object viewed
400 times: and if the face had been
caught by the retina of the eye. the
murderer would have stood revealed.
This is not the only way in which
the camera has been pressed into de
tective service. It is a side issue mere
ly, which may or may not be supported
by future experiment. The agents of
the league for the enforcement of law
in Brooklyn have pressed into this
subtle service a number of hand cam
eras, with which "snap shots" can
readily be taken of criminals and crim
inal acts. The disclosures made by
these agents have been in some in
stances startling, and in many most
embarrassing. Pictures made into lan
tern slides and thrown upon screens
liave shown uniformed policemen stand
ing idly around the doors of saloons,
while children with beer cans were
entering side doors or coming out with
foaming pitchers. In many cases the
number on the policeman's star was
caught by these silent, but tell-tale
witnesses.
It may readily be seen that witnesses
of this type may be made exceedingly
valuable adjuaets of the law. The
YurlestJ novice in photography, may
catch a snap shot which will discredit
the studied testimony of the most wily
witness, while skill in handling the
camera will produce results proportion
ately valuable.
Whether the camera may be able to
reproduce from the retina of the eye
of murdered persons the last impres
sion that fright or horror stamped
thereon, can only be determined by
careful experiment, but enough has
been developed in other lines to prove
that it may be made a strong ally of
the law in securing the apprehension of
criminals and the punishment of crime.
PAST AXD FUTURE.
In accordance with a popular fiction,
once a year Time stops for a moment
to get his bearings and make a fresh
start. When the planet draws near a
certain arbitrary point in its ceaseless
journey around the sun, the civilized
world pauses to reflect. At this one
point are gathered up. as It were, all
the diverging rays of the receding past,
while the future stretches away In dim
perspective. Reflection and promise of
achievement unite. The death of the
old year and the new face at the door
are always linked in the essay and the
poem. Experience and ambition come
together, the one to impart and the
other to learn.
In this new country it is the re
flection we need mere to cultivate than
the ambition. The latter we have in
abundance, but we turn from -the
soberer counsel of contemplation. We
reach hopefully and boastfully out for
the future, while the past, like an old
and faithful friend, stands unheeded at
our side. Nobody has ever disproved
the" worn criticism on us as a people
that we live too hurriedly. We are
Impatient of those who would bid us
see the light which history sheds upon
the questions of the hour. Above all
we are unwilling to profit by that light.
If we have any leaning toward reflec
tion, we seek more to evolve new solu
tions for old problems, than to possess
ourselves of those that have been
worked out and proved over and over
again by the ages lying asleep in their
graves.
Efforts have been freely made to pro
vide short cuts to learning and char
acter. Some have thought to make
knowledge so pleasant and easy of ac
cess by lectures, 'fiction, and what not,
that the inestimable value of the
struggle of acquisition would be elimi
nated. Some have thought that eco
nomic laws, slowly and painfully dis
covered and proved by successive gen
erations as eager and arrogant as our
own, can be superseded or ignored by
a more pretentious age. Men have
built up great organizations of tyranny,
fraud and corruption, thinking they
might endure; that honor and rectitude
were dead among the people and that
vice and ignorance might perchance
come into a perpetual inheritance. All
have come to grief; and even now we
are learning to' our cost and embar
rassment that if we will not heed the
lessons of the past, they will force
themselves upon us to our undoing.
The question is, whether we are strong
enough to bear the treatment and re
cover from the remedy.
Yet though there is a past with its
lessons, there 5s a future with its prom
ise. Ambition died in many nations
of history, but it is the informing spirit
of the young republic today; and of
this coming year, and of the coming
years, we may expect great things for
American achievement. Not forgetting
altogether those things that are behind,
but remembering to profit by the ship
wrecks with which the shore of time
is strewn, the busy life of this lusty
young nation should take courage and
look forward to great things; great
things in government the superstruc
ture of enduring institutions upon the
ground-work of civil and religious lib
erty; great things in art, when we shall
have begun to ornament our permanent
homes as we are now triumphing in
the art of building their walls and
floors; great things in literature, when
the seed planted by such lives as those
of Washington, Franklin, Marshall and
Lincoln shall have coma to the full
flower of its beauty; great things in
the acquisition and the bestowal of
wealth, when our merchant princes
shall have laid the world under tribute
to their commercial genius, and shall
have learned that not for themselves
alone are riches good, but in their
highest usefulness for the culture of
heart and mind.
There is no occasion to give credit
to exaggerated reports about damages
to the Bull Run reservoirs. Two reser
voirs of the four need repairs. Reser
voir No. 2, on the East Side, can be
put in order easily, at small cost For
reservoir No. 3, on the West Side the
high reservoir in the City Park a wait
ing policy probably will be adopted, to
ascertain just what it does need, or
what may be thought best to do. Mean
time Bull Run water will be supplied to
the city through reservoirs Nos. 1 and
4, which are in good order. A dispo
sition to exaggerate the damages to the
other reservoirs may be expected, but
they will also be put in working order
without unnecessary loss of time. It is
expected, however, that there will be
plenty of wise people who will know
much moro about the works than those
who have been and still are giving the
subject the most careful and cluse
special study.
Gladstone has just passed his Soth
birthday, amid cordial congratulations
on his excellent health, restored eye
sight and the reasonable prospect of a
further multiplication of his years and
blessings. Bismarck, at nearly SO, finds
his political star emerging from an
eclipse of four years, while Leo XIII.,
but a few months younger than Glad
stone, is still the ecclesiastical law
giver of millions. Length of years
comes to men of this sturdy type, but
not age, in the usual sense of senility
and decrepitude. If gracious nature
concludes her kind offices for them by
ordering a sudden and painless close
of life when their allotted time runs out,
she will set the seal of mercy upon her
beoiiiteous giving in their behalf.
If anything could be more indecent
than the original behavior of Breckin
ridge, it is his shameless attempt to
turn his infamous notoriety to profit
In the lecture field. Miss Pollard begins
to shine by contrast with the man who
posed as her victim. She is willing
to let the nastiness they stirrod up
together sink into obscurity. It is be
who persists in throwing it in the face
of the public There is apparently no
way to repress o- punish a creature
so lost to shame.
Formerly the natal regulations for
bade war vessels to employ pilots, the
theory being that an officer of the navy
ought to be able to navigate his-ship
anywhere. Since change of this rule.
Inquiry into a number of accidents to
warships when in charge of pilots
seems to show a disposition on part
of officers to rely too much upon thess
irresponsible functionaries for naviga
tion of their ships. Perhaps the old
rule was a good one, after alL
THE I3IMIGRATIOX RESTRICTION
MOYEMEXT.
Right in the midst 'of the holiday
season the immigration restriction
league Is sending out a broadside of
literature, bristling with statistics,
glowingly rhetorical, eloquent of its
own high purposes and the desirability
of co-operation, including membership
fees, on the part of all to whom its
presents and greeting come. There rsre
some good names on the roster. John
Fiske is president. 2nd amonir the viee-
presidents are Senator Edmunds, Henry
Parkman and X. S. Shalcr. The league
points out that in the year ending June
20, 1S94, under the present law, 14 per
cent of the immicrants could not read.
and 19 per cent could not write their
own language; that only 23S9 out of
2SS.020 were debarred from entrance;
that the proportion of immigration
from undesirable countries Increases;
that even in the panic year of 1S93-91
there was. an average of 789 immigrants
per day; that as regards the distribu
tion of our foreign-born population, 44
per cent live in the 124 principal cities
of the United States; that as bearing on
their assimilation, of the total foreign
born males over 21 years of age, 32.S
per cent are not naturalized, and that
C2.6 per cent of the aliens do not sneak
English; that a foreign-born population
or the united States, which is 14.77 per
cent of the total, furnishes one-third
of all the insane, and nearly one-half
of all the paupers. The league believes
that the rapid increase of late years
in the immigration of the illiterate,
criminal, pauper and undesirable
classes demands action.
Nobody has been saying or printing
much about the immigration question
of late, but it is interesting to see that
for this evil, as for all others, some
tireless iconoclast is at work, regardless
of trade ups and downs or holiday sea
sons. It is well in a way that this agita
tion still goes on, for nothing is ever
settled, as has often been said, till it
is settled right. Yet it Is also true
that these things have a way of adjust
ing themselves to existing and chang
ing needs. The league says, for ex
ample, that the restriction of immi
gration is of moral, rather than eco
nomic importance. The fact is, how
ever, that labor troubles seem the only
thing which arouses the interest of the
people generally. In a time of high
wages and plenty of work, the immi
gration restriction people would not
have much frantic rushing for mem
bership. This adjustment is not a
mere surface indication. We have seen
that when times are hard here foreign
labor hurries back across the water.
So it is with the moral aspect of the
question. When the exponents of so
cialist and anarchist sentiments foreign
to our soil become too blatant and ac
tive, they encounter the law, get them
selves in the way of gatling guns or In
the noose of some executioner's rope,
and there's an end of them and a les
son to their genus. Yet the league is
an aid to good government. It helps
along as all such movements do, not
as a moving force, but as an incident
of progress.
The last effort of the most monu
mental legislative failure In the history
of the country, the 53d congress, will
now be resumed, to last until March 4.
During the two months remaining little
will be accomplished, though a vast
amount of talk will be indulged. Dem
ocrats will have scores to settle with
each other, and the opportunity to
square up will be pressed to the utmost,
bimetalists; moderate protectionists
Silver men will taunt and twit the
will fall upon and rend free-traders,
and the opponents of the income tax
will gird at the income-taxers. In
short, a genuine democratic ghost dance
is billed for the remainder of the ses
sion, varied at times by a Punch-and-Judy
performance that would be amus
ing were not the aggregation so ex
pensive. The only consolation the coun
try can extract from the situation is
found in the fact that the "overwhelm
ing majority" that went to Washington
two years ago intent on mischief will
be too busy calling each other names
and pointing out each other's delin
quencies to pass any more dangerous
bills.
The office of "superintendent of ed
ucation," an expensive state office, is
one which, as a correspondent today
well says, might very properly be abol
ished. It is an office not necessary; the
public schools of the state could be car
ried on just as well without it, and a
very large savimr could be effected.
This office in one way or another costs
the state not less than $20,000 a year,
and the schools would be just as well
without it. These times no office not
absolutely necessary should be permit
ted to exist.
The story by mail from Tokio, that
Japan will demand cession of Formosa
and the peninsula on which Port Ar
thur is situated, is not official, but it
is very plausible. No pledge of war in
demnity will be good for anything un
less territory hall be occupied to guar
antee payment. The Japanese have the
peninsula now, and are not likely to
give it up. It is known that they have
coveted Formosa for a long time.
If it is true that Li Hung Chang has
been divested of all power in China,
the Mantchu dynasty is inviting ruin
by depriving itself of its strongest
and wisest statesman. Li Hung Chang
has failed because no one could make
an army or navy or an honest civil
service out of such wretched material
as the Chinese nation. But it will be
infinitely worse in any other hands than
his.
All the police officials of New York
are making haste to resign before May
or Strong comes into office, though he
has no power to remove them. The
complete destruction of the system will
remove a few good with a great many
bad men.
Today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
will issue a special souvenir edition, as
a supplement to its regular news issue.
This extra issue will consist of forty
pages, and the charge for it will be 10
cents.
The ruin of the Florida orange crop
will be a national calamity, if it shall
result In disseminating acid dyspepsia
through the agency of the California
yellow bag of sawdust and vinegar.
Pennoyerism will not prevail in the
election of a senator in Oregon. Yet
there are those who suppose that even
if it should prevail the ratio of silver
to gold throughout the world would
remain unchanged. It will be safe to
depend on the world's ratio against the
Fulton-Bourne ratio.
BASE JIOXEV SOT WANTED.
Oregon "Will Uphold la Principle anil
Practice, the Rent Standard of.
Money.
Prineville Review.
Divers newspapers throughout the state
of Oregon are at the present time analyz
ing the qualifications of different aspir
ants who desire to succeed Mr. Dolph in
the United States senate. As usual there
are a number of very good men who feel
the call. The only reason given by the
friends of these divers would-be senators
for preference, being the fact that Mr.
Dolph has had the courase to take em
phatic ground in favor of what is regard
ed as the "best money" the world over;
and has taken, too," extreme ground
against the "cheap meney" fallacies of
the age In all their various forms. Be
that as it may, a return to first princi
ples, as in the expenditure of public
money, will surely, enable our incoming
legislature to see their way clearly In
this matter. If each legislator should ask
himself, "To whatpolltical principles above
all others do X owe my election?" What
could his only answer be? Could he say
truly that in the contest in which he came
off the victorious exponent it was de
cided to coin all the silver in the world
at a ratio of 16 to 1, whether it was
worth it or not?
The bold assertion freely indulged in by
those who hold opposite views from Mr.
Dolph on matters of currency, that "if
left to a popular vote Dolph would not
be the choice of the voters of this state."
is but an assertion and nothing more. In
times of adversity Mr. Dolph has been
tried and found to possess that firmness
of purpose and decision of character that
has made him many warm friends among
thinking republicans. It was he who
threw himself into the breach when all
was disorder and confusion In the repub
can camp in the year 1892, and against
no less counsel than President Harrison,
who advised partial retreat from its pro
tective policy, and shouted in tones clear
and distinct: "Stand by your guns, if
protection is right stand by it and live; if
wrong, go down with it." A few such
brave souls were all that kept life in the
republican organization for a time. As
before stated, thinking republicans have
noticed this and others of Mr. Dolph's
efforts in behalf of this state and this
nation, and were his election to hinge
upon a popular vote his banner would be
borne on willing shoulders in many
places not thought of by these assumers.
J. N. Dolph is a strong man, strong even
to boldness, tried in many an emergency
and found to be worthy the trust imposed
in him. Our incoming legislature will
see to it that he succeeds himself,, and in
doing so, will make no mistake.
Salem Statesman.
The free silver men in Oregon are mak
ing the noise now. This Is all they ever
will make, and this is their expiring yell.
The average Intelligent people of Oregon
do not want our circulating medium de
based for the benefit of a few silver mine
owners. Possibly some people think they
could then pay their debts with money
worth about 50 cents on the dollar. But
these debts are now all payable in gold,
and they would still have to be paid
in it, or else $2 in silver would have to be
paid for each dollar of gold debt. Con
gress can make no ex-post facto law. The
common people of Oregon would not re
ceive any benefit whatever from the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 1C to 1.
They have no silver bullion to market.
They know they would suffer in common
with all other citizens of the United
States excepting those directly interested
in silver mining; by the debasement of
our money. These free silver howlers do
not speak for the" people of Oregon, by
any manner of means. Upon a popular
vote the issue of free silver would be
snowed under in Oregon by an overwhelm
ing majority. Thejpeople of Oregon want
the largest possible circulation of both
gold and silver, but they want every dollar
to be worth 100 cents, and they want a
financial system respected by every other
nation on earth. They do not want this
country to take ..its place by the. side of
China and Mexico.-
The Pacific Banker and Investor of
Portland will say in its January number,
which will be out tomorrow:
It is reassuring to find that our repre
sentative from Oregon, Mr. Dolph, is so
strongly in favor of a sound and equita
ble money policy. The financial question
is one of the most sensitive and important
that is connected with the political econ
omy of our government, and it must,
therefore, be treated with the greatest
delicacy and the utmost financial skill.
A single mistake would be felt through
out the length and breadth of the coun
try, and would tend to cause an impair
ment of confidence in its integrity that
would prove ruinous to the nation.
As a representative of the party in
favor of a sound financial policy, the Pa
cific Banker and Investor urges upon the
members of the legislature the necessity
of harmony and unity in their choice of
a senator. The United States senator
from Oregon should not merely be accept
able to the majority of its members; he
should stand s.o pre-eminently in favor of
wise legislation that he will be virtually
the unanimous choice of the entire house.
With the re-election of Mr. Joseph Dolph,
a man of unquestioned ability and integ
rity, the people of Oregon may rest se
cure in their wishes for judicious legis
lation. A NEEDLESS OFFICE.
Thut of Suiierintenileut ot Educa
tion" U Should Be Aliolishcd.
PORTLAND, Dec. 31. (.To the Editor.)
The necessity for the utmost vigilance
on the part of everyone to economize at
this time is conqeded by all, but it is
doubtful it our legislature which meets
in a few days at Salem will fully under
stand where many things may be done to
bring about a saving of the money raised
by taxation for the expenses of the state.
There are many leaks in our state finan
ces which can be stopped. I will, how
ever, call attention to one that has be
come from year to year- one of the worst,
and that is the office of state superintend
ent of education. This office, not created
by the constitution, but by legislative en
actment, has from year to year, by per
sistent work on the part of the official
who has from time to time held the office,
become one of the most expensive of the
superfluous offices created by successive
legislatures (not excepting the railroad
commission). The salary of the office, in
one way and another, has been increased
until it far exceeds the legitimate salary
of the governor or secretary of state:
but this is not where the waste comes in.
If you will observe the report of the sec
retary of state, in which that official gives
the items of expenses of the superintendent
of education, you will observe the print
ing of documents alone by the state print
er costs the state many thousands of dol
lars, and of the amount of matter "set
up and printed," a very large portion are
extracts from reports made by superin
tendents who, like our own, copy again
from old reports or from sources that are
sent out by the various superintendents
who have an ambition to see their names
appear in print. I have had some experi
ence with examination of state accounts
and know the expense of supporting the
superintendent of education -in the matter
of salary, clerical assistance, printing,
etc., and this is one that'should attract
the attention of this session of the legis
lature. The cost of this office, in my opinion, far
exceeds its usefulness and it might well
be abolished. It will be argued by the
"educational machine" that we must not
abolish an office until the term of the
present official expires. There is no good
reason why the'office should be continued.
The office is one created ty the act of a
former legislature and there is no reason
why it should be continued beyond the
time it has been demonstrated that it
wis more man it is iounu to oe wortn. i
Should this office be abolished, there would I
not be so much talk through the papers j
and among the neoole about the monoD- !
oly of the various "book trusts" as there
is at present.
Abolish the office of "superintendent of
education" and save the taxpayers a
useless expense of tens of thousands of
dollars per annum, in salary, clerical as
sistance, printing reports, and postage,
the latter item alone costing many dollars.
TAXPAYER.
'Al PARDOX FOR SAUNDERS.'
Executive Clemency for the Slayer
of Charles Campbell.
SALEM, Or.. Dec. 3L Captain William
Wirt Saunders, a life-timer, was pardone-d
from the penitentiary today by Governor
Pennoyer, on condition that he leave
the state and not return. He immediately
took the train for Spokane, where, it Is
said, he will be married and proceed to
Texas, where his mother resides. Saun
ders was convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree at Salem, June 22, 1SS7, for
killing Charles Campbell at Albany in
November, 1SS5, over a girl named Mat
tie Allison. Some of the most influential
men in Oregon signed the petition for
a commutation.
The state board of equalization practi
cally completed its labors today, finishing
the equalization of class 1. town lots and
improvements thereon, and class 11, lands
of all kinds, improvements on deeded
lands, railroads and telegraph lines. There
are six separate divisions in the latter
class. The board adjourned to meet
"Wednesday morning. In the matter of
town lots and improvements thereon, the
following action was taken:
Benton, Coos, Curry, Crook, Gilliam,
Grant, Harney, Josephine, Klamath, Lane,
Lincoln, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Wal
lowa, Wasco and Yamhill were allowed
to stand as returned; 10 per cent was
added in Baker, Lake, Multnomah, Till
amook, Union and Washington; 12 per
cent added in Linn; 15 per cent in Marion,
and 5 per cent in Umatilla. A reduction of'
5 per cent was made in Clatsop and
Douglas; 10 per cent in Clackamas, Co
lumbia, Jackson and Polk.
In lands, improvements, railroad and
telegraph lines, the following action was
taken:
Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Curry,
Crook, Gilliam. Grant. Harney. Jackson.
Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lin
coln, Malheur, Sherman, Tillamook, Uma
tilla, Union, Wallowa.and Wasco were
allowed to stand; a reduction of 20 per
cent was made in Clatsop and Colum
bia; 15 per cent in Coos; 10 per cent in
Morrow and Polk; 5 per cent in Douglas
and Yamhill; a raise of 5 per cent was
made in Linn and Multnomah; 10 per
cent in Washington; 12; per cent in
Marion.
The following proceedings were had in
the supreme court today:
John Kernan, appellant, vs. Joseph
Terry, respondent, appeal from Multno
mah county; judgment reversed and a
new trial ordered. Opinion by Wolver
ton, J.
State of Oregon ex rel., Charles Booth,
appellant, vs. E. L. Bryan, county school
superintendent of Benton county, re
spondent; judgment affirmed. Opinion by
Wolverton, J.
H. D. Fast, respondent, vs. Standard
Life & Accident Insurance Company, ap
pellant, appeal from Multnomah county;
judgment reversed, and a new trial or
dered. Opinion by Moore, J.
Lewis &. Dryden Printing Company, ap
pellant, vs. Sophia Reeves, respondent,
appeal from Marion county; judgment af
firmed. Opinion by Moore, J.
A K. Washburn, respondent, vs. In
terstate Investment Company, appellant,
appeal from Multnomah county; judg
ment reversed. Opinion by Bean, C. J.
J. C. Muhlenberg, respondent, vs. North
west Loan & Trust Company, and J. L.
Hartman, as Its receiver, appellants; pe
tition for a rehearing denied. Opinion by
Bean, C. J.
Motion to dismiss the appeal was al
lowed in the case of M. R. Waddy vs.
S. R. Darrin; appeal from Multnomah
county.
Petitions for rehearing were denied in
the following cases:
H. Grubb vs. G. W. Grubb; George
Wilson, administrator, vs. Mary Jane
Wilson; Willamette iron works, vs. Ore
gon Railway & Navigation Company, and
William Dench, appellant, vs. Seaside
lodge, No. 12. A. O. U. W.
In the case of John Meyer, respondent,
vs. J. R. Meyer, appellant, the motion
to dismiss the appeal was argued and
submitted.
In Hanford Fowle vs. Temperance
House, upon a motion to excuse default
and for leave to file abstract, the re
spondent not appearing, the case was
taken under advisement.
A young man, registering as J. Curtis
Lawson, of Portland, was arrested here
tonight for issuing forged checks and
passing them. He was captured as he
was boarding the overland southbound
train. Eighty-five dollars in money, two
bottles containing medicine, supposed to
be for drugging, were among his effects;
also copies of the signatures of six prom
inent Salem clergymen, which he evi
dently intended to use. Six checks, rang
ing from $6 to $18, have been found since
his arrest, which he passed during the
day, four in saloons, one in a jewelry
store, and one in a dry goods store. All
were signed with the name of W. E.
Copeland, a Unitarian minister.
NO PROFIT IX A SAWMILL.
Referee In a Complicated Suit Finds
Agninst E. E. Squires.
The report of G. W. Allen, referee in
the suit of Edward E. Squires vs. Ed
mund McLaughlin, was filed yesterday.
In January, 1893, Squires disposed of the
mill of the Portland Lumbering Company,
in McMillan's addition, to Edmund Mc
Laughlin, on an agreement that Mc
Laughlin should put $5000 into the "busi
ness. Squires was to be- employed by Mc
Laughlin as agent to manage the busi
ness, and was to receive $100 per month
and a share of the profits, and was not
to run the mill into debt in excess of
$10,000. to include the aforesaid $3000. This
agreement was for three years, and
within this time, under certain condi
tions. Squires was to have an option on
the repurchase of the mill on paying Mc
Laughlin his $5000 and other expenditures
he might have made. McLaughlin was
guaranteed that his share of the profits
would not be less than $100 a month. If
Squires did not fully llve'up to his agree
ment, he was to be permitted to discharge
him. .
In May, 1893, McLaughlin asserts that
the occasion to remove Squires arrived.
The business had been mismanaged by
him, and McLaughlin says that, instead
of receiving $100 monthly, as profit, he
received from January 29 until May but
$100 in total. Squires, on being made to
vacate, alleged that McLaughlin had
broken the contract, and sued in the state
circuit court to recover the business or
its value, placed at $12,145 40. In his
answer, McLaughlin denied violating the
bargain between them, and claimed loss
on his part of $7500. The referee was ap
pointed to ascertain if the business pros
pered under Squires' management and re
alized a profit, as alleged by him. In his
report, the referee finds that there was
no profit, but instead a loss of $233 09,
during this time.
The Snorr Melts Easily.
After the snow storm Sunday, the air
yesterday was balmy and pleasant, and
little trace of the snow was left, except
on the hilltops. In the business streets,
the snow had entirely disappeared, and in
the residence districts but patches only
were discernible here and there. The
storm area, which has been central off
the coast of California, has moved north
ward off the coast of Washington. The
temperature yesterday ranged from 34
to 40 degrees above. The recent cold snap
cut down many of the tender vines and
like plants, but In many, gardens
rose3 are still to be found, and of the
various florists flowers of many varieties
are still to be had at the nominal price.
LICENSES FOR THE YEAR.
The City's Receipts Daring: 1SQ4 Were
About ? 130,O0O.
In maing up the estimate of the city's
income ofr ISai, the amount to be derived
from licenses was put down at $150,000. As
will be seen by the following figures for
the last quarter the estimate was very
nearly correct, although the hard times
caused a falling oft In the number of li
quor licenses issued:
293 saloons , $2S,699S3
13 wholesale liquors 600 00
1 malt liquor , 50 00
17 liquors in restaurant 416 65
Total liquors $29,766 60
GENERAL LICENSES.
7 auotioneers $239 95
3 bill posters 75 00
2 bowling alleys 10 00
13 billiards' 33163
6 coal oil (storage) WOO
1 coupe 200
SS drays 114 00
13S express (single) S94O0
75 express (double) 36170
5 employment agencies 10S35
3 express companies 75 00
21 grading team3 S155
35 hacks 17500
6 hackdrivers 6 00
2 housemovers 26 70
12 hawkers, 1st class .'. 550 00
IS hawkers, 2d class 336 65
55 insurance agents 560 00
5 laundries (steam).... 90 00
60 laundries (washhouses) 447 50
6 miscellaneous (exhibitions) 100 00
15 oil wagons 14330
3 omnibuses 15 CO
I peddler (1 horse) 6 00
25 peddlers (foot) 132 50
II powder (storage) 55 00
1 pawn broker 75 00
48 plumbers 120 00
14 runners 12995
1 swimming bath 15 CO
64 scavengers ISO 00
66 second-hand dealers 315 05
1 shooting gallery 25 00
7 street-car lines 62S73
SI trucks 376 SO
5 theaters 175 00
15 wharfingers 30165
32 woodsaws (steam) 470 00
Total general licenses $7,113 05
Grand total $36.SS4 65
1 license receipt outstanding $250 00
Total receipts. 4th quarter $36,SS715
Number licenses issued during the
yetr 5,04ij
Total receipts during year $149,293 75
Inspired to Murder.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. Eugene L.
Swingle, of Dillon, O., has been filling the
patent office and the office of his attor
neys here with letters about some crank
invention which he wanted patented. A
few days ago he visited his attorneys and
the patent office in person, and became
convinced that he was being defrauded of
his rights, and decided he must kill some
one. He left a note for a Mr. Johnson, of
the patent office, declaring his intentions,
and was soon found and arrested. A re
volver and two boxes of cartridges were
found on his person. Swingle says he went
into a church yesterday morning, and
while there the inspiration came to him to
kill some one of the same name as the
building. Considering the f&ct that his
attorneys' firm name is Church & Church,
it is very possible he would have killed
one or both of them had he not been ar
rested. The Boycott Agrulnst Rreckinridffc.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 31. W. C. P.
Breckinridge is booked to lecture in Mem
phis this week, and social and club cir
cles are aroused to an extraordinary de
gree. Yesterday the two local chapters
of the Daughters of the Revolution pro
mulgated the following: In the name
of the late Mrs. Isaiah Breckin
ridge, charter member of our so
ciety and a greatly wronged woman, ve
appeal to you to discountenance In any
degree or form any courtesy or attention
extended to W. C. P. Breckinridge, her
husband, thereby upholding the dignity,
honor and purity of our society and Amer
ican womanhood.
Notwithstanding this, a leading society
lady yesterday issued 50 invitations to a
reception to be extended Mrs. Breckin
ridge, who accompanies her husband.
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National Municipal Lengue.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31. Secretary
Woodruff, of the National Municipal
League, announces that the Citizens'
League of Los Angeles, the Good Govern
ment Club of San Francisco, the Citizens'
Association of Chicago; the Ballot Reform
League of Louisiana, the Civic Federa
tion of Chicago, the Good Government
Association No. 1, of Jersey City, and Bal
timore UnionforthePubllcGood.havebeen
admitted to theNtalonal Municipal League.
George Burnham, of Philadelphia, has
been elected treasurer of the National
Municipal League.
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A Relic of Revolutionarj- Days.
HOOSIC FALLS, N. Y., Dec. 31. Ben
jamin "Vantyle, colored, for 59 years a
resident of Hoosic Falls, and the oldest
resident of this section of the country, will
celebrate his 114th anniversary New Year's
day. The old man has been sold as a
slave in the North three times, and at the
age of 13 had the honor of shaking the
hand of General George Washington at
Albany. He has spent all of his life in
Rensselaer and Washington counties.
Desperate Situation in Lima.
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 31. The government
is unable to suppress the rioting here,
which is of daily occurrence. People are
starving and desperate. Some shops on
the outskirts of town have been looted.
Some of the soldiers threaten to go over
to General "eirola, the rebel leader, un:
less they get something to eat soon.
All Rminlnjr for Shelter.
BILBOA, Spain, Dec. 31. A heavy gale
has prevailed over the southern part of
Spain for two days, interrupting tele
graphic communication. On the coast
heavy seas nave been running, and num
bera of vessels have been seeking shelter
in port.
Movement of American Cruisers.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The cruiser
Concord is voyaging down the Yang Tse
Klang river toward Shanghai. She re
ported at Chin Kiang today. The Machlas
arrived at Port Said today on her way
to China.
He Owed a. Million MnrUs.
BERLJN, Dec. 31. Director Seckel, of
the Commercial Exchange, committed sui
cide today by shooting himself. He had
contracted debts on the bourse amounting
to over 3,000,000 marks.
Hawaiian Consal in Italy.
ROME, Dec. 31. Mr. J. C. Hooker, consul-general
from Hawaii to Italy, died to
day, aged 50 years. Hooker was an Ameri
can, and was well known in the American
colony.
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Mast Be Confined for Life.
PARIS, Dec. 3L The council of revision
has confirmed the sentence of confinement
in a fortress for life which was imposed
upon Captain Dreyfus by a court-martial.
An Ex-Auditor Dead.
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 31. Thomas
Benton Coulter, sixth auditor of the
treasury during ex-President Harrison's
administration, is dead at Unionport, O.
The Xovclist's DauRliter.
HOOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 31. Miss
Susan Fentmore Cooper, daughter of
James Fenimore Ccoper, died today of
apoplexy in her S2d year.
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Brazil's ex-President Very III.
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 31. Pelxoto Is re
ported to be very sick. Some say his ill
ness was brought on by an accident, but
others believe he has been poisoned.
Cash In the Treasury.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 The cash
balance In the treasury at the close of
business today was $153,022,892; gold re
serve, $S9,570;i45,
ynWS OF THE XORTHTjVEST.
OregoB.
Mrs. Susie Talmage, the only helr-aN
law. has begun a contest of the will of J.
C Richardson, in Lane county.
One of the proposed amendments td
Baker City's charter is that the mayor
shall hold office two years. Instead of one.
Today the Engene Register begins tho
-ew tear oy puousning a morning dauy.
-uay it prosper with 365 issues every year.
F. D. Linton, of Eugene, has gone to
Salt Lake city, Utah, to bring back A C.
Brown, wanted for larceny by bailee and
for whom requisition papers have been
issued.
Mr. Hull, of Grant's Pass, was drowned
at the head of Louse creek last Thursday.
The young man had gone up to the res
ervoir, and in some unknown way fell in
and was drowned.
Christmas eve was the coldest night of
the year at Lakevlew. 6 deg. below zero,
so that the cold must have been fearful
at Silver Lake, north of Lakeview, where
so many lost their lives.
E. Gilliam, stock inspector of Umatilla
county, has inspected 24S.00O sheep during
the fall of 1S94, and found them in ex
cellent condition. He thinks the sheep of
Umatilla county freer from disease than
they have been for 10 years. ,
The little daughter of E. E. Goff. at Al
bany, nearly choked to death last Satur-
aay. She put a marble in her mouth and
it stuck in her throat. After much excite
ment and hurried efforts, the marble was
removed, and the little girl is all right
again.
A little son of John Sims, at Klamath
Falls, was kicked in the forehead by a
vicious horse last week. Had It not been
a glancing blow. It would doubtless have
proved fatal. The little fellow was badly
hurt as It was, but is recovering and will
soon be on his feet again as well as ever.
Levi Philips had a very exciting and
dangerous experience Saturday last while
crossing Upper Klamath lake on the ice
to Modoc Point in company with his son.
While on their way the ice was so rotten
it constantly broke under their feet at in
tervals during the entire journey. It was
thought that the ice was perfectly secure
after the recent cold wave.
E. J. Garrett was bound over in Justice!
Bayley's court at Lakeview last Saturday,
to await the action of the next grand
jury, In the sum of $350. for killing a heifer
calf in Warner valley, having the MC
brand and belonging to the Warner "Val
ley Stock Company. In default of bonds
he went to jail. He is already under $150
bonds fur burning hay in Warner.
Tho cost to Klamath county of the IasC
trial of ex-Treasurer Howe at Jackson
ville will be between $1500 and $2000. The
county had already expended about that
much in trying cases against Howe in
Klamath courts. Judgment has already
been rendered against Howe's bondsmen,
although the case has been appealed to
the supreme court. The payment of their
share may mean financial ruin to one or
two of the bondsmen.
The Medford Monitor says: "A Santlam
woodchopper recently went to visit an old
chum, who had become rich at Salem.
When he went to retire, he was given a
lamp and told to go up stairs and turn to
the right. He turned to the left and
slept in the bathtub all night, with a
towel under his head for a pillow. He has
since confided to an intimate friend that
he would rather sleep at home on a straw
tick than on one of those new-fangled
beds in the city."
The steamer South Coast had a narrow
escape at Yaqulna bay recently. Since
the storm the tides have been running
strong, and while moored at her dock,
the steamer broke away and drifted down
the bay. Before steam could be raised
the vessel drifted on a spit near the jetty
and there stuck fast. In the meantime.
Captain Driscoll got steam up, and, after
a little trouble, the vessel was liberated
from her dangerous position. All of New
port was out anxiously watching the ves
sel, expecting to see her go to destruc
tion. "WasIiiuKton.
Michael Parry, a FranlUln miner, tried
to carry a keg of beer down a steep hill
at Dayton. Parry slipped and fell, and
the keg of beer struck him on the neck,
dislocating the vertebra and causing his
death.
The majority of schools throughout
Thurston county closed last week. The
financial depression has necessarily short
ened the terms, with a decrease of sala
ries for teachers. Schools will reopen in
March.
Dayton's school district recently voted
down the proposition to issue $17,000 worth
of bonds. The directors tried to economize
by abolishing some of the schools and
shortening the term from eight to six
months, and now the teachers are suing
for the full eight months' salary.
A reunion of the Secrest family was held
at the home of Thomas Secrest, In Oakes
dale, Christmas. Twenty-eight children
and grandchildren took part in the joyous
affair, and the day was passed pleasantly
for all. There hasn't been a death in the
Secrest family or its descendants for over,
38 years.
Mrs. Mabel Burnside, with her 4-year-old
daughter, was taken to the police sta
tion in Seattle recently for the purpose
of inquiring Into the mother's sanity. It
was found that mother and child were
really starving to death, the mother hav
ing pawned all of her valuables for food.
They will be cared for.
Ex-Deputy Collector James Dorsey,
who, it was thought, would be sent to
Olympia to fill the place made vacant by
the removal of Frank Smalley, as customs
inspector, has been assigned to Tacoma.
Captain Richard Roedlger, one of tho
former proprietors of the Tacoma News,
will succeed Mr. Smalley in Olympia.
The board of commissioners of Spokane
county is very much exercised over the
insinuation that the present investigation
of the affairs of county officials Is to be a
whitewashing affair. The members say
the investigation will be thorough, and
that if any Irregularities arc found to ex
ist, the official in whose office they occur
will be bound to make full restitution.
PERSONS WORTH KN'OWIXG ABOLT.
Edison's great-grandfather died at 102,
his grandfather at 103, and one of his aunts;
at 103, while his father is alive at 90.
The largest family in the world is that
of the king of Slam. His majesty has two
official wives, 88 wives of minor order, and
72 children.
The report that Rev. Samuel S. Smith,
author of "America," Is In want In Boston
Is authoritatively denied. He has an in
come sufficient for all hl3 wants.
Miss Rhoda Broughton, the novelist,
whose books have lost something of their
early vogue, is described in an Oxford let
ter as "the snippy lady with the girlish
figure who was drinking tea upstairs."
The Duke of Athol has 23 titles, the
Duke of Argyll and Buccleugh each 16,
the Marquis of Abercorn 13. The Duke of
Richmond has only nine, but three of
them are dukedoms in Great Britain and
one ip France.
The queen of Greece has the distinction
of being the only woman admiral la Eu
rope. She was made admiral of the Rus
sian fleet by the late czar. She was al
ways a lover of the sea, being a daughter
of a grand admiral.
Edward H. Strobel, of New York, the
newly appointed minister to Chili, is at
present minister to Ecuador. He was sec
retary of legation at Madrid during Mr.
Cleveland's first administration, and be
fore going to Ecuador was third assistant
secretary of state, a position which he re
signed in April last.
A shepherd who can tell from seeing a
patient's hair what his disease is, and
whose cures are miraculous, attracts hun
dreds of people daily to the village of
Radbruch, near Harburg. in Germany. To
protect his own health, he refuses to see
more than a fixed number daily, who must
hold tickets which were distributed by the
local constable, till a firm of speculators
bought them all and sold them for high
prices. The police authorities are Investi-
gating the matter.