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THE HORNING OKEGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1901.- HORSES: ARE LOOKING UP IMPItOVESIENT IN TOE BUSINESS IN EASTERN OREGON. (Extensive Operation of Thieves When Animals "Were So Cheap Owners Neglected Them. PRINEVILLE, Or., Jnly 10.-There is notable Improvement in the range, horse business throughout Eastern Oregon. For several years horses -were o such email Importance that little attention was given them. There was no sale at any figure that would pay for gettting them to market For the past three years many of the horsemen have not taken the trouble to round up and count their horses. This year things are different They have gathered their horses and taken care of them, for the market is already In good condition and is getting better. The wars of two continents have cleaned out the usual sources of supply and sent the nations to the Oregon ranges for their army stock. When the horseowners came to take ac count of their 6tock last Spring they found a peculiar condition of affairs. Their horses were of about the same age and condition as when left on the range three or four years ago. The colts were all there, but the geldings of four and Ave years were gone. This experience was common and it was plain that somebody had been giving attention to the horse business If the owners of the bands had not. "Rustlers' had picked out the select, salable animals and left the scrubby stock, the aged and the immature. In some cases even those animals had been run off the range and shipped to the Portland abattoir by enterprising thieves. It was well enough known that horse thieves were at work on the ranges, but little attention was paid to them when ie horses were at such low ebb In the trket. But this year it was found that jperatlons of the thieves had been Ji more extensive than had previously supposed. jrses are looked after nOw. "Rust- r have not yet ceased their .operations, the vigilance of the horsemen makes Paling a comparatively hazardous oc cupation. Over the divide in .the Upper John Day country the horsemen have perfected an organization and hired three watchmen at $75 a month each to ride the ranges and keep a lookout for thieves. Owners are not as well organized on this side, but they are keeping close track of their horses and of unidentified stran gers who may happen along. While it is more difficult now to steal horses, the price of good animals has increased so much that the rewards of successful theft are proportionately greater and the horse stealing industry is hard to stamp out. The best animals are In greatest danger of theft, there being little demand for the poor stock, among horsethleves or others. New methods are coming into the horse business. Not only is it necessary to ex ercise greater care to preserve good horses from thieves, but the -gradually thinning range compels more economical methods. And then it is found that it pays to devote some attention to breeding better horses. The market demands a free-moving horse of 1200 to 1400 pounds. The Clydesdales and Percherons are too heavy, though a cross upon native stock usually produces results more or less sat isfactory. The cayuse pony Is ,qf little account now. In order to grade up a band of horses, stock farms must be maintained with facilities for taking care of brood animals. The old style of let ting the horses run wild on the; range and leaving the matter of breeding to chance, or mischance, does not yield sat isfactory results under the conditions now prevailing. Better horses are want ed, and they will be supplied by the wide awake horsemen, and the scrubs will be too unprofitable to keep. , While sound cayuse ponies nowl sell for as low as $10, grade geldings of Jhe right size and age bring as high as $250 per pair. Any ordinary good horse1 will sell for $G0 to $100. And the market Is" Improv ing every week. TWO MOST FAMOUS OREGONIANS. Governor Geer Asked to Nnnie Them for Statues at St. Louis Fair. SALEM, July 19. Governor Gjjeer today received a letter from people in St. Louis, asking him to name the two Oregonlans who rendered the country and he world the most distinguished services. ThH question was asked In the Interest of statues to be placed in the Hall of Fame as a feature of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, if such hall be arranged. It, is proposed to have two statues from each state embraced, in the Louisiana territory. A The names to be considered are to be historical nersonacrPR no Inncrer "ivlnrr Governor Geer has not answered. He conl slders Dr. John McLoughlin as the one entitled to first place, but is undecided as to the second. The question has been raised whether Oregon was part of the Louisiana purchase. COULD STAND IT NO LONGER. Woman Who Had Led a Life of Shame Shot and Killed Herself. WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 10. Ren dered desperate by the wretched life she ' had led for the past six years, Ruby "Ver non, of the demi-monde class, at 6 o'clock tonight shot herself through the left breast, and died "two hours later, while on the operating table at St. Mary's Hos-H plral. The woman left the following note beside the bed on which those who ran to see the cause of the shot found her: "I am tired of living. Do not blame any one but me for this shooting. I have dyed my hair twice and feel I cannot stand it I am nearly crazy." TILLAMOOK STREAMS LEASED. Claude W. Thayer Granted a 55 Year Privilege by County. TILLAMOOK, Or., July 9. Sixteen of the rivers and creeks of Tillamook f!nnnfv have been leased for a term of 55 years by the County Court to Claude Thayer, of Tillamook. Mr Thayer agrees within five years to build dams upon these rivers and creeks for the floating and transportation of logs, timber and lumber. Mr. Thayer is given the right to collect toll at the rate of 15 cents per thousand on all logs, timber and lumber trans ported. He agrees to secure the rightjof way from landowners. f NORTHWEST DEAD. Pioneer Physlclnn of San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. July 10. Dr. H. $V. Harkness, a pioneer physician, and a well-known authority on fungi, died to day, aged SO years. Fined for Assaulting Man. HILLSBORO, Or.. July 10. Justice Everitt and a jury of six yesterday heard an assault case brought from MIddlet6n, and as a result Lester Ashpole Frank Fisher, Ernest Baker and Claude Tyson were each fined $10 for assaulting one Braxton Brown May 12. M. Sandstone, the principal in the case, recently pleaded guilty and was fined $50. The trouble grew out of a dispute over a young la&y whom Brown, subsequent to the assault, married. A Justice's jury at Sherwood recently gave youns Brown a verdict f $250 against his assailant, damages for tne injuries received. Slany Cherries and Good Markets ALBANY, July 10. The yield of cherries here this year Is Immense, and the de mand for them as great- All that can be gathered are being shipped, most of them to canneries through the "Valley. One firm is filling a big order fofc a su perior' grade of Royal Annes for a San Francisco 'firm, to be prepared for cherry cobblers, and already several tons have been shipped. Three and one-half centJs per pound is paid the producer, Half-Breed Indian Indicted. MEDFORD. Or.. July 10. The grand jury of Siskiyou County, Cal., has found an indictment against W. M. Pippin for assault with a dangerous weapon. Pippin, a half-breed Indian, shot Frank Ramus at Hamburg Bar, Siskiyou County, last April. Sheriff Freshour has followed the man around since and located and cap. tured him at Bybee ranch yesterday. He was taken to Siskiyou County by the Sheriff today. State Lawyers Elect Officers Today. SPOKANE. July 10. The State Bar As sociation gave the entire day to the read ing of the papers by Joseph Shippen, of Seattle; T. O. Abbott, of Tacoma, and C. G. Krelder, of Olympla. Tomorrow morn ing the new officers will be elected, and In the afternoon the bench and bar will picnic at Natatorlum Park, where the poor children of the city also will have an outing at the same time. Sent to Ja.ll for Ansanltlnje Woman, OREGON CITY, Or., July 10. Solomon Clark, a long-time inhabitant of the In dian quarter on the bluff, was sentenced to the county jail this afternoon from the Justice Court for assault on the wife of Joseph Andrews. Andrews is now serv ing a sentence m the city jail for drunk enness, and Clark took advantage of his absence to inflict a chastisement on his wife. Oregon Hay for Manila,. FORE"ST GROVE. July 10. E. W. Haines and M. H. Shipley, of this place, received a Government contract today to furnish 1000 tons of No. 1 timothy hay for Manila at $18 a ton. Irast year these men filled Government contracts for 4000 tons of hay, 3S00 tons for Manila and 200 tons for Alaska. Self-Towing Machine Being: Put In. ASTORIA. July 10. The ocean tug Georgo R. "Vosburg is laid up here having a self-towing machine of the American Windlass Company pattern placed In her. This tug is used in taking barges of lum ber from Nehalem to San Francisco. Rural Delivery Oat of Eugene. WASHINGTON, July 10. A rural free delivery route will be established at Eu gene, Or., September 2. The route will be 21 miles long, and serve a population of 750. B. F. Ford has been appointed carrier. Admitted to Practice. WASHINGTON, July 10. Hugh McMil lan, of Davenport, Wash., and William A. Corbln. of St. Anthony, Idaho, were to ilay admitted to practice as agents before the Interior Department. To Represent Hlllsboro. HLLLSBORO, July 10. Mayor Bailey has appointed John M. Wall a delegate to represent Hlllsboro and Washington County at the Trans-Mississippi Con gress, which convenes at Cripple Creek, Colo., July 1C. New Teacher at Indian School. WASHINGTON, July 10. Chalfant L. Swain, of Cadwallader, O., has been ap pointed teacher at the Chehalis Indian School, Wash., at $600 per annum, vice Betts, transferred. Astoria Slot Machine Licenses. ASTORIA, July 10. Up to the present time 4G slot-machine licenses have been Issued for the quarter ending September 30. The license is $7 50 per quarter. ' EASTERN MULTNOMAH. "Wooden Slail Boxes Prohibited Cut worms Coming. GRESHAM, July 10. Postmistress Mc Coll has received a circular from the Postofflce Department which conveys the information that wooden mall boxes will hereafter be prohibited on all rural mall routes In the United States. The boxes now In use here were made by a firm in Wisconsin and approved by the depart ment, but it seems that they, too, come under the '"ban, for the circular states that boxes of this pattern will be recognized on all routes now established so long as they are safe and waterproof, but on any routes established hereafter the depart ment will require that the patrons erect certain boxes lately approved. The Wis consin firm has trouble with the depart ment, because of Its trying to collect pay for unused boxes after agreeing to wait until they were sold. This action decided the department to order the return to the factory of all boxes now at rural delivery offices, still ("unused, and also caused the selection of certain makes which will only be allowed, ThIs action excludes wooden boxes which 'until now were allowed to be put up if weatherproof. Mrs. McColl was also In formed that an average of live rural routes, were being established every day, of which Oregon is getting her proportion. Business at this office has increased about 50 per cent since the routes were estab lished here and the system is gaining in favor steadily, there now being 151 boxes on the two routes. i ' Funeral of J. H. Wilkes. vT. H. Wilkes, a popular young-man, aged 22, "died at his home near Rockwood early Monday morning and was burled yester day from his late home. The funeral was conducted by the Maccabees and Artisans, of which orders he was a member, supple mented by religious services by Rev. How ard Osborne. Interment took place at the Powell Cemtery on the Sandy Road. Many beautiful flowers and floral pieces were Jeft upon his grave. The funeral was the largest ever seen In this section, there being about 100 teams in the pro cession from the house to the cemetery. Cutworms Coming. The dreaded cutworm of last year is again making its appearance and "gives In dications that its long sleep is over. On at least two of the Columbia Slough farms they have made their appearance in large numbers and are beginning to do some damage. Nearly all the clover fields have been cut, but the worms are likely to make a second crop unfit for hay. Pota toes show av few signs of being affected, but lp will require several weeks for the worms to make themselves noticeable. Farmers are very apprehensive that the pest will be worse this year than It was last. Sawmills Quiet. Since the sawmills shut down the tie haulers have been quiet and the plank roads leading to- Troutdale have a very lonely appearance. Many of the team, sters have gone to Eastern Oregon to en gage in harvesting, while the young men have scattered to the fisheries and else where. Each mill has retained a few hands to fell timber and make roads for operations next Fall. More Bike Paths. Supervisor Cleveland -will begin work next week on a bike path along the Pow ell's Valley Toad to this place. (It will run on the south side only and connect with the Section Line road at Kronlnberg's, "about six miles west of Gresham. After that path 'is finished one will be built along the Sandy road as far as Troutdale, connecting with the city on East Davis street. Several bands of horses were lately brought into this neighborhood and sold for good prices, bringing from $35 to $150 apiece. Many of the animals were very fine ones and well broken. Powell's Valley schoolhouse Js being re paired and repainted, at a cost of several hundred dollars. Haying is in full blast andhelp Is scarce. Any sort of a good man can gut $2 a day. The clover crop Is very heavy, but timothy Is not 'so good. KILBOURNE HEADS IT (Continued from First Page.) existence and abuses of trusts have been brought about by the policy of protection of favored industries. We demand the abolition of the so-called protective sys tem and the substitution in its place of the traditional Democratic policy of a tariff for revenue so levied as not to burden one industry for the benefit of another. "We demand the enactment and the vigorous enforcement of measures which shall prevent all monopolies and combi nations in restraint of trade and com mercethe matter of first Importance be ing to prevent the use of the Govern ment as an instrumentality for the cre ation and Increase of the wealth of the few, while preserving Intact the right of private property and the fullest meas ure of individual liberty of contract, and assuring to every man the Just reward of superior industry. We demand the suppression of all trusts and a return to Industrial freedom. As a means to that end ajl trust products should be placed on the free list, and the Government should exercise a more rigid supervision of transportation lines and abolish, in fact, all unjust discrimination in rates. "We demand that our merchant marine bo restored to Its former greatness and made the -ally of the people against mo nopoly by the repeal of antiquated and restricted navigation laws, with no sub sidies for favored shipowners. "The powers granted the Federal Gov ernment were not meant to be used to conquer or hold in subjection the people of other countries. The Democratic party has never favored, and now opposes, any extension of the National boundaries not meant to carry speedily to all inhabitants full equal rights with ourselves. If these are unfitted by location, race or charac ter, to ba formed Into self-governing ter ritory and then Incorporated Into the Union of States, In accordance with the historic policy of the Republic, they should be permitted to work out their own destiny. "Only territorial expansion demanded by the National welfare and the National safety should be at any time favored the objection which should have prevent ed certain of our recent occupations being that they imperii the National safety with out promotion of the National welfare; that they devolve upon us enormous re sponsibilities we have no call to assume; that they are certain to be an unremun eratlve drain upon our resources; that they tend to embroil us with European powers; that they weaken our claim to supremacy on the American Continent; at the same time that they lessen our ability to make the claim good and that they furnish a dangerous opportunity and temptation for the disregard of the self evident truth of unlversay application that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' "The obvious sympathy of the National Administration with the British Govern ment in Its efforts to destroy the South African Republics and the policy which has made the ports of the United States a basis of supply for the British Army, with out which the war could not be success fully carried on, are condemned by the Democracy of Ohio. "We pledge the maintenance of the Mon roe doctrine as heretofore interpreted and asserted by the National Government. "We favor the maintenance of a Navy commensurate with the international im portance of the United States and its pri macy in the Western hemisphere and adequate to the protection of the lives and property of American citizens the world over. "We pledge the faithful observance and wider application of civil service princi ples, especially as regards our diplomatic and consular representatives. "We demand a constitutional amend ment requiring the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. Hereafter until this is passed, whenever a Senator is to he elected, it shall be the duty of the state committee to give notice In its call that the nomina tion of a Senator will be made at the State Convention. "The right of labor to combine for the assertion of Its rights and for the pro tection of its interests is unquestionable. The burdens of the unjust and discrim inating laws for which the Republican party Is responsible fall chiefly on those who till the soil, or labor at other forms of production. The Democratic party pledges Its efforts to relieve them of the burdens which class legislation has laid on them. "That the Republican party has always upheld class interests and is justly charge able with hostility in both belief and practice to the above principles Is com mon knowledge. It cannot be trusted to deal with evils of its own creation. The "arrogant assumption by that party of all credit for everything and the threats of those who speak for It and Its favored in terests, already too powerful to create artificial conditions of stringency and dis tress, unless the policies they advocate are supported at the polls, deserve the condemnation' of a people who are just and propose to remain free. "Inspired by the examples of the long line of Its statesmen who have applied these principles from the days of Thomas Jefferson to the present time, the Demo cratic party pledges itself anew to their support and earnestly appeals to all patri otic men without regard to party names or past differences, to unite with it on terms of perfect equality in the struggle to rescue our Government from the grasp of selfishness and corruption and restore it to its former fairness, purity and sim plicity. "The great danger which now threatens our free Institutions is the widespread corruption which menaces the destruc tion of public virtue. Vast sums of money are corruptly employed In popu lar elections; official defalcations are so frequent as scarcely to excite attention, and political bosses rule and rob the peo ple, all of which is a direct result of Republican policies and legislation. Wo demand that all official misconduct and corruption be vigorously punished, that public virtue be upheld, and the want of it denounced." . Mr. Godkin's Retirement. Chicago Record-Herald. Laurence Godkin, who is retiring from the country in broken health to take up his permanent residence In England, achieved a real and a remarkable dis tinction in American Journalism. The weak point In his work was a kind of perennial discontent with contempora neous affairs, an irritating monotony of satirical criticism upon the National char acter and the National alms. But this habit of pessimism was not incompatible with a very high purpose. The writer identified his personal views with the Na tional needs so thoroughly that no one could doubt his sincerity, and he labored most earnestly for the best political re forms of his time. His more ingenuous censors were ac customed to twit him with- his foreign ori gin, to treat him as an Irish renegade who had sold himself to Britain, but his Americanism was good enough and stanch enough to please such men as George William Curtis and James Russell Low ell. Among the latter's letters will be found strong commendatory references to Godkin's work In The Nation and In the New York Evening Post, and this should serve for a patent of patriotism, though Lowell himself was attacked as an Anglo phile later. It is after turning from opinion to the severe test of fact, however, that we dis cover the finest tribute to the editor's career. He stood always for decency, and was the lifelong foe of Tammany and ev ery species of corruptlonist. When it came to any question of honesty in poll tics, it was as certain that he would be found on the right side as that some of his most pretentious critics would be found on tho wrong one. He was a pio neer In the long fight for the merit system of appointment to public office, which may be taken to indicate generally how his political sympathies ran. But without his dominant Intellectual qualities his moral qualities might have counted for little, and It was certainly the former which made him a marked man In his profession. The press of the country never had a more brilliant, forceful and well-equipped writer. He was a genuine Independent, not a neutral; he put Into his writing an Immense amount of nerve and vigor, as well as of information, and what he said and the manner in which he said It was explained by the fact of his intense convictions. By virtue of this earnestness, combined with his exceptional ability, he wielded at one period a greater influence upon certain intellectual classes In the country than any oMiis contempor aries. The respect of all newspaper workers will follow him to the scene of his retire ment In England, where It is to be hoped he may speedily recover his health and en Joy a well-earned rest. t ' THE NEW RATIO. Next 'House of Representatives Will Be Allotted on It. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Probably the people of the country do not yet) fully realize that the House of Representatives which they will elect next year will be allotted on a new ratio, and will be much larger than any House ever chosen before. In the House of Repre sentatives which was elected last Novem ber, and which will meet next December, there are 357 members. In the House which will be elected in 1902 there Will be 386 members. The ratio for .representa tion In the House established just after the taking of the census or 1890, was one member for every 173,901 Inhabitants. The ratio established under the-census of 1900, which will go Into operation in the elec tion in November, 1902, is 194,182. The next House will be 29 members larger than the present one. Of course, theElectoral College will be enlarged to the same ex tent. The electoral vote in the canvass of 1900 was 447. The vote in the election of 1904 will be 476 through the recent ad dition to the membership in the House, and there is a chance that it may be still further enlarged, because the admission of Oklahoma and perhaps, one or two of the other territories to statehood between now and the next Presidential campaign is decidedly probable. No state lost any members through the recent readjustment of representation in the House and in the Electoral College. On the other hand, many states gained. Arkansas, California, Colorado,' Connecti cut, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina. North Dakota, Washington, West Virvinla and Wisconsin will each have to choose one member more next year than they chose last year. Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will' each gain two members. Illinois, New York and Texa3 will each gain three members. This rep resents a larger ratio of growth for Texas than It does for either of the other states which make a gain of three members. New York's increase In population In the decade was 21.1 per cent, or a small frac tion In excess of the growth of the coun try in the aggregate. Illinois' Increase in the 10 years was 26 per cent. Texas' growth between 1890 and 1900 was 36.3 per cent. No other state except some of the smaller ones made such a great propor tionate Increase in population in the past 10 years as Texas. It is now the sixth among the states In rank. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois Ohio and Missouri, In this order, being the only states, which are ahead of Texas In number of Inhab itants. Not so much of a relative change in strength between the sections has oc curred, however, as would have been pre dicted before the census was taken. There has beep, a gain of nine members, for ex ample, by the states of the North Atlantic -seaboard by the new apportionment. Tho ex-slave states make in increase of 10 members. The Middle West and West also make a gain of 10 members. The West's gain In strength In Congress keeps on from decade to decade, but it will not be so great In the present 10 years as was expected. The apportionment which has Just been made will last until the Con gress which will be chosen in 1912, and the gain which the West will have In these 10 years over the East will be compara tively slight. A decrease in the rate of growth has occurred in the West In the past decade. The East expanded more rapidly than was expected. It will take at least 239 members to make a majority In the Electoral College which will choose Mr. McKlnley's successor and probably It will take more than that, through the admission of new states in the interval. With the growth in the number of states and with the Increase in the membership of many of the older ones, the relative Im portance of single states will decline, and no single state, however large, wijl ordi narily be able to claim for Itself any es pecial influence in determining tho result of any canvass. 0 NOT FOR THE PHILIPPINES. New Regiments Will Not Go There at Once, at Least. WASHINGTON, July 6. People gener ally are laboring under the false Im pression that the new regiments recently organized under the new Army act are going at once to the Philippine Islands to relieve troops on duty there. On the contrary, the Department intends. If pos sible, to send no more troops to the Philippines for the present, but rather to reduce the insular force, and bring back to the United States some of the regiments now in the islands. Those to be first returned are those which have seen the longest tropical service. In the future, however, when troops are re lieved in the tropics, their places will be filled by regiments that have recently been organized, or by other regiments which have not seen service across the Pacific. The Department intends to maintain a force of about 40,ooo troops in the Philippines for some time to come, to insure a continuation of peaceful con ditions. The cost of maintaining these troops Is somewhat higher than the cost of maintaining a like number In the States, and as soon as expedient this force will be reduced, although at thl3 time there Is little hope that any ma terial reduction can be made for some time to come. In any event, aside from troops already ordered to the Islands, to replace others now under, orders to re turn, no exchange of consequence will be made for some little time. Negroes "Want a Sheriff Removed. TOPEKA, Kan., July 10. A delegation from the Colored Ministerial Union of Kansas Is here endeavoring to persuade Governor Stanley to remove Sheriff Ever hardt, of Leavenworth County, from of fice. They claim the Sheriff was guilty of malfeasance In not attempting to rescue or protect Fred Alexander, the young negro who was burned at the stake by a Leavenworth mob January 15 last. The Governor and Attorney-General are care fully considering the evidence presented, and It is expected by some that the of ficer will be removed. Oregon Penitentiary Report. SALEM, July 9. The report of Super intendent Lee, of the Oregon State Pen itentiary, for the quarter ending June 30, shows a dally average enrollment of 294 convicts. The payroll for the quarter amounted to $4490 63, and the expenditures for subsistence $4789 65, or a total ' of $928028. Fasig?, the Horseman, Dying. CLEVELAND. July 10. A private tele gram received In this city tonight states that W. B. Fasig. the well-known horse man, is dying of dropsy and heart trouble at his Summer home in Putnam County. New York. RICHES BY CHEMISTRY FORTUNES MADE FROM STUFF FORMERLY THROWN AWAY. Waste Products of Many Factories Utilised What Skill Has Done and Is Doing. One doesn't talk much about waste products nowadays, says the Chicago In ter Ocean. So little is wasted that it doesn't deserve mention. The Chicago Joke that the packing-houses utilize every thing about the pigs but their squeals, and are planning to make the squeals Into whistles, has more point that most jokes. Probably the great slaughter - housea furnish the most familiar illustration of what was formerly considered waste, and even the smaller abattoirs, while they haven't attained tho scientific perfection of the Chicago packing-houses, are re formed characters. It was only a few years ago that the abattoir was usually built upon the bank of a stream, and all refuse was washed Into the stream. In course of time neigh bors were Inconsiderate enough to pro test against the practice. Sanitary bees Invaded Innumerable bonnets, and a howl of protest went up against the abattoirs. It was necessary to dispose of the refuse In some fashion. Chemists were called In. Methods for drying the refuse and ex tracting all the grease were developed. The grease went into the manufacture of soap. The residue was converted Into fer tilizer. After jelly had been made from the hoofs, the hoofs and horns were used for buttons, knife handles, etc. The health of the neighborhood and the income of the slaughter men went up. The development of the tremendous ani line color industry is altogether due to chemical experiment with waste product. In the dry distillation of coal or wood for gas, the gas passes through a suc cession of washers, which take out its impurities. These impurities, Including ammonia, carbolic acid, acetic acid and various nitrogen compounds were for merly waste, but are now separated and used. In fact, nearly all of the acetic acid in the market is secured from' .the dry distillation of wood. Five percent of the coal used in gas manufacture is coal tar, and by experi ment chemists found that this coal tar, always regarded as waste residue, con tained substances useful In the making of' dyes. Fully 10 per cent of the weight of the coal tar Is available for this pur pose, and upon the basis of this discovery tho enormous coal tar color industry has grown. New Economies in Mining. In connection with all of our mining development, chemistry has played an important part Ores can be mined with profit today that would have been prac tically worthless a few years ago. In the old mining days only high-grade ore was profitable, and only a certain percent age of the gold contained in the ore was freed. The tailings thrown aside held a con siderable quantity of gold, but could not bo worked by the ordinary process, so were piled mountain high and disre garded until chemists discovered that the gold was soluble in potassium cyanide, and that by washing In a very weak so lution of potassium cyanide the tailing gold could be profitably separated from the refuse. The same process has led to the working of low-grade ores, run ning $4 or $5 to the ton, which could not be profitably worked by tho ordinary mining processes. The silver contained in lead has also been freed and utilized. It was found by chemists that when the melted lead was mixed with zinc the sliver formed an alloy with the zinc, and floated to the surface. When the mass vas taken from the lead and heated in a retort, the zinc, being volatile, was freed, and left a deposit so rich in silver that It was easily purified. The application of chemistry to min ing processes are legion, but It Is In other branches of Industry that practical chem istry is now making its strides. Tho Standard Oil Company Is a hardy expo nent of the merits of Industrial chemis try, and has expert chemists constantly employed. As for that matter, so have all the great gas plants, coke p'iits, sugar refineries, starch factories, etc. The original waste of the oil business was enormous; now It Is next to noth ing. Of course, the primary aim 13 the production of kerosine, but crude oil contains, on the one side, oils lighter than kerosene, such as gasoline, naptha, and. on the other side, products much heavier than kerosene, such as paraffin. At one time all of these byproducts were waste; now every one of them is utilized. By first distillation, the lighter oils are freed and collected. Then tho kerosene Is distilled, leaving a product that is worked over into .hard paraffin and soft paraffin or vascellne. A heavy oil is left after the collecting of the paraffin is used for lubricating and fuel oil, much of It being made into car and axle grease. After all these processes a solid mass of carbon is left In the retorts, and this Is used to a considerable extent in mak ing carbon sticks for electric lights. Uses for "Waste Milk. The dairy business is one of the indus tries with which the chemist Is busying himself, and the results so far have been most satisfactory, although a much broader field for the use of casein Is prophesied. The large creameries, hav ing turned out their cream and butter, were confronted by great quantities of skim milk for which there was appar ently no use. Skim milk was a drug on the market, and In many cases was drained off into neighboring streams. The chemist stepped in and changed all that. The milk Is curdled with alkali, and a dried product produced which is solu ble in water. This casein has been used for paper sizing, calciminlng, etc., and successful experiments have been made with It In the manufacture of artificial foods. Moistened with water, to a gela tinous consistency, put under a hydraulic press and then washed In acid it forms a hard and Indissoluble substance, of which buttons and similar articles are made. Chemists say that the casein pow der, which is like a fine, tasteless flour, may be substituted for milk in cooking, and has a great future in this respect. Chemistry applied to the sugar industry has been invaluable; and, particularly in connection with the beet sugar manu facture, has recently effected a wonder ful saving. The waste in the making of beet sugar was at first enormous, be cause the molasses was absolute waste. It contains products from the beet roots which give It a very bitter taste, and is also rich in an alkali which spoils its flavor. So. although more than one-half of the weight of the molasses was sugur, It was unavoidable save for fermentation and alcohol. Experiment proved that dry lime, mixed with the molasses, combined with the sugar, forming a product indissoluble In water. Washing the molasses would then separate this product from all the other elements. The lime and sugar product being heated with carbolic acid, the lime combined with the carbon, forming an indissoluble product, and leaving the sugar free to be easily separated. By this process today SO per cent of fht sugar is recovered from the beet molas ses and there .Is practically no molasbcs In the beet sugar factories. In the manufacture of cane sugar, tho molasses Is about as valuable as the amount of sugar contained In It would be, so there Is no use for the process adopt ed In beet sugar making, but there is. ess weight of sugar In the molasses than there was formerly. This fact, and the fact that the molasses is now made in 1 vacuum sans, and cannot be burned or thickened, as it was in the old-fashioned open pans, accounts for the fact that there is no more black molasses, and no more black gingerbread, such as mother used to make Many Prophets in Corn. The glucose manufacturers have called In chemists, and found a new source of profit The corn grain has. In addition to Its starch product, a tiny germ In which lies Its life principle. This germ was formerly crushed with the sugar, separated and thrown aside as waste. Very lately it has been shown that this germ Is rich in oil, which can be utilized The germ is now separated from the starch and crushed. The oil gathered finds a ready market, dnd within tho last five years millions of dollars' worth of this oil has been exported to Europe, where all corn products are In great de mand. After the oil Is taken from the germ the gluten Is used for varnish, and the residue is used for cattle food. The cornstalk also Is ground and used for cattle foood, but first the pith of the stalk is extracted and used for the lining of vessels, the theory being that If a fissure occurs In the framework of tho vessel, the pith lining, becoming wet, will swell, and to some extent close the fis sure. The cotton seed oil Industry has elim inated Its waste almost entirely, although 20 years ago every part of the cotton seed save the oil was waste product. In the cotton seed oil factory now the seed Is collected after coming through the cotton gin. and Is first stripped of its lint, which Is used in the manufacture of certain kinds of paper, felts, etc. Next, the shell of the seed is removed, and either ground for cattle food or used for fuel. In the latter case, the ashes are. collected for potash. The kernel of the seed Is ground and pressed, to extract the oil. and the residue is used for cattle food. The oil In process of refining gives off a waste, which enters Into soap-making and the making of oleomargarine. Glycerin, used In such great quanti ties at present, was for years a waste product. All waste from fatty oils con tains compounds of an acid with glycer in. The acid will combine with an alkali, leaving the glycerin In a watery solu tion, from which it is collected by evap oration and distillation. Immense quan tities of this reclaimed waste product are used In the making of explosives. When steel is melted In a Bessemer converter, the phosphorus, which used to be a nuisance, Is separated from the steel by the Introduction of lime, with which the phosphorus combines readily. This phosphorus is then used a3 a fer tilizer. The slag from Iron furnaces is con verted Into cement The tin Is taken from old tin cans by chemical process, and is used over and over again. Even the acids used for chemical pur poses are not allowed to outlive their usefulness with the accomplishment Of their purpose. The Standard OH' Com pany formerly wasted great quantities of sulphuric acid after It had been used to remove the impurities from, the oil. Tho acid was drained off into the river. Now it is used in a fertilizer particularly adapted to soil where phosphate rock must be dissolved. Sen Gnll Behavior. "Looking over my neighbor's fence one day," says a lover of animals in tho Christian Advocate, "I was surprised to sec on his doorstep a beautiful white sea gull and my neighbor's pet cat sitting quietly together. "Becoming Interested, I Jumped tho fence and asked Jones about his feath ered pet. He told mo that some boys had shot the gull a few days before and broken Its wing, and as they were pass ing his house he noticed the poor, suffer ing thing and bought it. He bandaged the broken wing, and the gull, seeming to understand his kind intentions, became quite tame and nestled lt3 pretty head against his hand. "Jones entertained me by showing how the gull usually took Us meals. Bring ing a plate of oysters and a fork, he called 'Goosey, goosey, goosey P and the bird came running to him. Then he held out an oyster on the fork and the gull seized It quickly with Its yellow bill and ate It as demurely as If oysters had been served to it in this way alf of Its days. "The oddest thing occurred one day when my neighbor gave the gull some small pieces of meat for dinner. He placed the meat on the ground near he gull, but the gull, espying a pan of water near by, took the meat piece by piece and, walking over, dropped It Into the water. Then, true to Its nature. It began fishing for Its dinner." Wine n Good Thing. From the results of his experiments on guinea pigs, a Frenchman, M. Roos, has concluded that wine taken In moderation has beneficial results. His report has Just been handed In to the Paris Academy, and it tells of the good done to four pairs of the animals, which were fed w'lth a wine ration, compared with the results shown by two pairs of guinea pigs who received merely the usual kind of food. In regard to endurance, weight, strength, number of offspring and longevity, the tests were declared to be altogether In favor of the wine-fed animals. All this Is contrary to usual Ideas, and so from all over France protests are com ing in that the test was not true, and does not really represent the Influence of wine on human beings. M. Dumas, how ever, has come to the front with a defense of wine, which, he says, is not to be charged with the misdeeds caused by spirits. He says wine Is a hygienic ali mentary substance, and a tonic of the highest order, which preserves the nutri tive qualities of the blood and restores them when lost Hints for Campers. Don't forget soap to wash the dishes. Don't pack the dishes away In cases. Leave them In the air and sunlight Don't forget the matctfes with which to light the fire. Better have a waterproof matchbox. Don't forget to add salt to the water when you want to boll anything. Don't forget, if you want to fry any. thing, that the pan and fat should be smoking hot before you put In the article. Don't forget fish will not keep unless It is cleaned. You can keep butter by packing It in a can, tying a piece of rope to the handle and letting It down In a spring. If there Is no spring near the camp, bury it in the sand under water. You can uso condensed milk by thinning It with water. If you are unable to pro cure fresh. You can toast your fish and not your face by nothing a stick at one end. Put the handle of your pan in the silt and lash the two together with cord. The Passing of Debs. Chicago Chronicle. It is fortunate for the country that the revolutionists and desperadoes who attack social order and the law which protects the rights of everybody, the poor and the rich alike, have become mighty unpopular and that In their ha rangues they draw smaller audiences than flock to other public assemblies where speakers expound the wise pre cepts of good government, the rights of property and the rights of labor under the laws. It is just to say that Eugene V. Debs had the ability to have be come a useful and valuable leader In the movements which affect both capital and labor; he might have been a peaceful and conservative force If he had fol lowed right attractions. As it Is, he Is of the least importance among all the agitators who now threaten the peace of labor and of the public Walnut Furniture Again. Resurrect your old walnut furniture, and If you want to be in vogue have It carved where there is a plain surface and touch it here and there with dull gold. for the furniture that grandmother usedj and which, was long ago relegated to the attic of the old homestead is coming in again. "Yes,' said a New York furniture deal er, when interviewed on the subject by tho Herald of that city, "walnut Is coming in and mahogany is going out. We are giv ing the new walnut a lighter finish then the old had. touching it with gold and hand-carving It wherever there Is an Inch of plain surface. We call this lighter finished wood Circassian walnut, and I as sure you it is quite fascinating, as its popularity shows. Lots of old walnut frames that have been stored for years are being made over, but as a rule the newer and lighter woods make up batter for the prevailing taste." AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND, E Goldman. 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Jefferson Lizzie Thomas, do Emily Dearden. do G A Weber, Everett T E Rider, Salem o A Price. Salem C Lowery, Scappoosa Ray Starr. Salem tt T Wander. CnDe Hn R F Morris. Salem S G Dulderlck.VanWrt E P Watt, Salem. H T Ronnlng, Starbck R H Cullum, St Paul J R Murphy & wife, Tacoma R Wilson & vr. Astoria A Bozarth, Woodland Thos Rowe, Walla W Miss Fee. Prlnevillo M Herman, Coburg F Pollack. Plttsbure A A Dicks, van Avert. J P Lewis. Van Wert Chas Gordon, city John Allison, city A Plxley. Kalama D McGllvery. Ottawa J S Rees, Hot Lake, Or D R Bowler. Sumpter W F Flnsley. do w Archie. Sumnter W D Stowe. Kelso Mrs W Wondel. Stella A L Morgan. Rainier Miss May Wondel. do Mrs J C Jensen, Stella Hotel Brunswick. Seattle. European; first-class. Rates, 75c and up. One block from depot Restaurant nexf door. Tacoma Hotel, Tncomi, American plan. Rates, $3 and up. Donnelly Hotel. Tacoma. European plan. Rates. 50c and up. Brought to the Asylnni. SALEM, July 10. James M. Moore, aged 58, was brought to the asylum to day from Lakevlew. At Church. "My heart wasn't In the ser mon." she faltered, with a quivering Up. "When I looked around and saw that my hat wasn't in It I I " Here she burst Into tears. Detroit Journal. This for the past fifty years has been recognized as the one sure cure for all Stomach, Liver and Bowel complaints. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters WILL CURE Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constl tion, Flatulency and Malaria, Fever and Ague. Try it. All Druggists an J General Dealers Sell It See that Our Private Die Mamp is over the neck of the bottle IS Mill STOMACH