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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1904. Entered at Ibe Postoffic at Portland, Or., as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By mall (postage prepaid In. advance) ally, with Sunday, per month $ -S3 Sally, with Sunday excepted, per year-- 7.50 Bally, with Sunday, per year... 9-00 Sunday, per year 2-00 The Weekly, per year. - 1-30 The Weekly. 3 months 50 Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday ex- cepted 1-C Sally, per week, delivered. Sunday in- eluded -V. 20c POSTAGE KATES. United States, Canada and Mexico " 10 to 14-page paper ... ..........lc 16 to 30-pase paper 2c 32 to 44-page paper - -3o Foreign rates, double. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. (The S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency) "ew York; rooms 43-00, Tribune building. Chicago: Booms 510-512 Tribune 'building. The Oregonian does not buy poems or stories from individuals and cannot under take to return any manuscript sent to It without solicitation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. KEPT ON SALE. 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S3 Stevenson: Hotel St Francis News Stand. Washington. D. C. Ebbltt House News Stand. PORTLAND, TL'SDAY, NOV. 15, 1904. PATHETIC AND DEPLORABLE. The strange mood of our Southern States, as to politics, was reflected strongly through the Southern press on the morning of November 8 the day of election. It was phenomenal; and though it is possible to understand it, there is no sympathy with it in the Northern States not even among Democrats, who have thought to have their party profit by it. The extraordi nary spectacle is presented of a great people subordinating all that pertains to the real interests of the country to race prejudice and antipathy to the negro not indeed through fear that the negro may be a political disturber, for he has been disfranchised, but because "Rooseveltlsm," as we are told, has a bad effect on the negro, has encouraged him to independent action, caused him to think better of himself and to for get his proper place, made him impu dent, and is a menace.to the Southern idea that the negro Is fit only to be a chattel, and never can be safely held or treated other than as a subordinate and Inferior being, in whom it is an intolerable offense that he should wish or try to assume .or hold any other. W)8ltIon. And "the. negro" the : com-' pliujit runs "has been made ten'times; as mean and more daring by" "the knowledge which In his ignorance he,i exaggerates into a sort of protection that he has a friend in the White; (House." The words are from the Au-. gusta (Ga.) Chronicle; which adds the statement that "every Southern white woman particularly in the rural dis tricts dreads Roosevelt's re-election, . all through fear of ignorant and vicious ' negroes, who are made worse by the. acts of a madman In the White House." This appeal, repeate'd in substance by nearly all the newspapers of the South, Is pathetic, it is deplorable; pa thetic and deplorable because it dis covers a state of mind firmly centered; on a fixed idea that the people of the great Northern and Western States' cannot sympathize with, artd ought not' to sympathize with. The Idea is the surviving correlative of that upon, which slavery was proclaimed and de fended In the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, as the natural and nec essary foundation of the new nation and its government. Vicious negroes must, of course, be repressed and pun ished; and The Oregonian never has found it in its heart to censure with severity even the cruelty that las at tended the lawless punishment for "the one unspeakable crime." Yet some i ay must be adopted other than that of repressing the Intellectual and moral growth of the entire negro race. In. or der to hold the ignorant and vicious down; for herein Is no remedy at all. We have quoted from a Georgia newspaper of the present "flay; we shall now quote from a Georgia statesman of the past generation. In March, 1860, in a speech at Savannah, Alexander H. Stephens attempted a philosophical ex position jof this Idea that the negro must be held under subjection, treated only as a subordinate being,' held down and not permitted even by merit to rise "African slavery," said the Vice President of the Confederacy, "as It exists among us, is the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the prsgnt revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Con stitution were that the enslavement of the African was In violation of the laws of nature: that It was wrong In princi ple, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was that somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. These ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested on the assumption of the equality of the races. Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite 'Ideas; Its foundations are laid, and its corner stone rests upon; the great truth that the negro Is not equal to the white man; that slavery to the superior race is his natural and normal condition." Though slavery has been abolished. It is matter of National regret that our fellow-citizens of the South have not yet passed beyond the state of mind towards the negro on which slavery was defended. What is meant by equality. In any sense of the word ex cept equal treatment of all under the laws, is not In." issue. There-never will be social equality, never ought to be. If it be a wrong that there is a man in the White House who believes in giving even the negro "a square deal," the North and West do not know it and never will learn 1L "With the South, In the political difficulties it has had with the negro, the North and West fully sympathize; and they admit their fault in forcing the suffrage, under recon struction. But disfranchisement of the negroes, in the states where they were numerous -enough to be a political peril, practically unloads this burden; and the country never will admit the South ern contention that it Is wrong for the negro to make Improvement and better his condition. A POST-MORTEM ARTIST. Mr. Thomas "Watson, 'known to fame through many adventures, political and literary, Populist candidate for the Presidency in this year of 1904, A. D. may be called with truth and justice aJ post-mortem artist. It is the physician usually who makes the diagnosis, not the coroner or undertaker; but Mr. Watson, sitting upon the Democratic cadaver, acts in the capacity of all three of them. . That funeral oratiph-which he deliv ered over the remalhs.Vpubllshed In .full in The Oregonian on Monday, is really "the limit" in modern mortuary litera ture. The Democratic party professed Pop ulist principles 'or purposes, and the Populists fell In and supported Bryan giving up their own organization. Then the Plutocrats of the Democratic party bolted, and defeated Bryan-i-twice. Next thing the "Plutes" took the leadership of the party away from the "Pops," and nominated Parker. Then the Pops, quit And the umbilical cord that united Plutes and Pops is jiow severed forever. Watson tells it all. He is a man of as much force as Bryan, and of more orig inality. In the funeral oration line he should rank with Pericles, with Bos suet, and with all artists. NO FEAR OF SALMON LAW. It is said that no jury in Clackamas County will convict a fisherman . for breaking the salmon law; that there fore the Fish Warden is powerless to stop fishing on that stream in closed season or to keep poachers two miles away from hatcheries. It is alleged that since public sentiment will not tol erate prosecution of offenders, there is no rfeason to blame the Fish Warden. But why such a state of public opin ion? Citizens of Clackamas County understand full well that hatcheries must have the protection of law else artificial propagation will accomplish little or nothing. The reason lies in the answer to the question "Why should Clackamas River fishermen be prose cuted when Columbia River fishermen break the law as they please?" Some seven weeks ago, when the law ordained that salmon must not be caught on the Clackamas, a fisherman of that stream, H. W. Trembath, who, by the way, Is a Constable at Oregon City, declared in a letter to this paper that fishermen did not pretend to ob serve the law of closed season; that they would catch salmon whenever they desired, and "the public will pat them on the back." Said Mr. Trem bath: Clackamas and Willamette River fisher men, with a few.oxceptiens, believe in pro tection to the salmon Industry by a reason ably close season and the payment of llcenne fees to aid artificial propagation to maintain the future supply. ... But since the pres ent master fish warden has deemed It ad visable to violate his oath of office, and per mit probably 2500 or 3000 fishermen to fish unmolested, and several large canneries and cold storage plants to operate openly and notoriously withlrithe limits of his own town during the August close season on the Co lumbia River, at their own pleasure, without the least effort on his part to cause a single Jlne to be lmppspd. .upon them, there is an entire change .of opinion and reeling among the fishermen and. the general public in this vicinity. Fishermen here are going to commence .fishing next Spring just as soon as there are any fish in the river, and continue so long as it pays, close season or no close season. They will do this on the theory that they cannot catch enough' fish during the open season. And under the present management the pub lic will pat them on the back at least pub lic opinion will .be such, that they, will have mo need to fear the verdict of juries. Imag ine the master fish warden before the Juries attempting to prosecute a fisherman.' poor as most of them are, for any violation of the fishing laws, In the face of his past record as an official, specially provided by the Leg islature to enforce such laws, with a salary of $2500 per year. Now, It seems to me that the thing to be done is to retain tho close seasons, for, gen erally speaking, the run of salmon has been increasing under the present law, and let us have officials who will conduct themselves In such a manner as to be entitled to the re spect of the public and our courts. Convic tions may then bo had, otherwise they can not. Then let us Insist on a strict and im partial enforcement of the fishing laws. Perhaps the Fish Commissioner of Washington, by failing to arrest of fenders on his side of the river, check mates the good purposes of the Fish Warden of Oregon, but truth is, the Oregon officer docs not try vigorous measures on his own side. If he has arrested fishermen in the past, his ac tivity has been so rare and spasmodic that they feel no awe of his authority. If he has arrested and prosecuted one canneryman or cold-storage proprietor for violation of the salmon law, there is no record of such achievement. YOUNG MEN AND CRIME. Willie the person of even ordinary sensibilities is shocked into a senti ment of profound pity at the passing of a sentence of twenty-five years In the state's prison upoa a lad of 17 years, the truth of the estimate of Judge Cleland in passing this sentence upon Charles W. Walton is plain. "A long sentence to the penitentiary means the boy's life," said Walton's attorney In urging a plea for punishment of a reformatory nature, in a reform insti tution, upon the court "The purpose In administering this punishment is not alone for the lad's reformation; it is also for the. protection of the public,' was the answer, followed by a sentence of Imprisonment fox twenty-five years Severe as this penalty is, meaning practically, as was stated, "the boy's life," It was. justified by the bold and murderous nature of his crime. A man of mature years could not have devised a more daring crime nor have been more desperately equipped for carrying it out. Its first purpose was robbery contingent upon this, if necessary to the success of the first intent, was mur der. It is a. good thing for the perpe trator's own sake that he was arrested thus early in his criminal course, since personal liberty in such a case is but continued outlawry, with its attendant dangers and-certain goal; it cannot be doubted that it is a -good thing for the public when ,the criminal career of any desperado is cut short by Imprison m'ent. It may be well In this connection however, to speak again of the neces sity, or, to say the least, the desirabll ity, of having suitable provision made for the segregation of the youthful con victs in the Penitentiary from the older and more hardened criminals who are under a sentence of imprisonment for various crimes and for varying terms of years. It is true that this boy, Charles W. Walton, has shown, by such marks of the confirmed criminal as boldness, quickness in execution, se cretlveness, recklessness and persist ent, unblushing mendacity, that be Is past master In criminal tactics. We may well believe that there are few boys of his age few. Indeed, who are three or five years older than he who are thus expert in ways of lawlessness. But it is not improbable that even he may be sunk lower in the deeps of per sonal and criminal degradation by the association early in his prison life with criminals to whom each year and each additional crime have taken something that is human and humane and left in the place thereof something repulsive to the instincts of common decency and humanity. Society, for Its protection, requires that young men 'who enter "upon a criminal career be arrested In this course as soon .as possible, and dealt with according to the stern edicts of the law. It Is useless to palter with this proposition and unwise to seek through pity to nullify its provisions. But the thing that may be done and should be done, In the rational and just interests of all concerned, is to give young convicts a chance while under going wholesome prison discipline to Improve and -build up their moral fiber. To this end they should be kept separ ate and apart from crime-hardened men, whose lives, even under the strictest surveillance of the prison, au- tnorltles, are but the distilled essence of degradation. It will cost the taxpayers something to make such provision as will render a proper segregation of criminals In the Penitentiary possible, but the ultimate cost that will inevitably follow the sys tem which permits the contagion of crime to spread from hardened to still impressible natures will be so much greater as to be practically incalcula ble. COLUMBIA RIVER APPROPRIATIONS. The Puget Sound panders, with one or two exceptions, are as anxious as ever to renounce all of Washington's claims to the Columbia RIver.'and charge up against Oregon all money to be appro priated for improving that wonderful stream. "Washington Is not to receive much for water Improvements, while Oregon fares well," Is the way the Ta coma News puts the matter. This kind of misrepresentation undoubtedly re flects the sentiment of a great many Puget Sound people, whose ignorance of the geography of their own state leads them to believe that the Columbia River is exclusively an Oregon water way. They are aided In this belief to a certain extent by the fact that, since river Improvements first began on the stream which divides- the two states, Oregon has been compelled to carry the burdfen of those improvements. Not only have the Oregonians had to put up a hard fight against Eastern Ignorance and opposition tp appropria tions for the Columbia, but all too fre quently they have had to fight against the opposition of selfish Puget Sound Interests, which from the beginning have hindered more than they have helped in securing appropriations for the river. The News complains tha,t only $148,000 Is asked for improvements strictly In Washington, while .$1,847,000 is asked for the Columbia River and Its tributaries. And yet the $148,000 which Is asked for Washington water ways, exclusive pf the Columbia, Is a much greater sum than Is asked for streams within the State of Oregon. As a matter of fact, the only Item In the estimate which can be charged up against Oregon alone is a very small portion of the $450,000 asked for the "Columbia and Lower Willamette be low Portland." As the river between Portland and the Columbia is in excellent condition and In need of comparatively slight at tention for the ensuing year, it is prob able that $10,000 would cover all of the appropriation that will be drawn on for that portion of the river. Assum ing, however, that the entire sum asked may be distributed on a mileage basis from Portland to the sea, the greatest possible amount that could be charged up against Oregon exclusively would be $50,000. The estimates prepared by the department seem to have been with a view to securing p. sufficient amount of money to make some important progress in the opening of the Columbia River. The items which our Puget Sound friends have charged up against Oregon, in addition to that for the Co lumbia and Willamette below Portland, include the following: Mouth of the Columbia. 5776.000: Columbia at Three- Mile Rapids (Dalles-Celllo Canal), $500,- 000; canal at Cascades, $100,000; Upper Columbia and Snake, $10,000. While these appropriations, or. the improvements which they will aid in accomplishing, may not directly benefit the money-changers and town-lot deal ers on Puget Sound, the great moss of producers in the Inland Empire will sooner or later reap Tich returns on the, investment. Aside from the insignifi cant amount that will be expended on the twelve-mile stretch of the Willam ette below Portland, every dollar of the amount asked for the Columbia River and Its tributaries will eventually prove a better Investment for the State of Washington than for the State of Oregon. This Is made ppsslble by rea son of the Columbia having a much greater shore line in the State of Wash ington than in Oregon; and also be cause the proposed system of Improve ments when completed will place on even terms with:, the localities which have a downhill haul to market "a vast area In the State of Washington which is now without the advantages of a water-level .route to the sea. The ex tent of this advantage cannot be real ized now, but the time Is coming when the traffic of a large portion of the State of Washington as well as Oregon will follow the course of least resist ance In seeking a market. It Is to hasten that time that the Government Is urged to make liberal appropriations for opening the Colum bia River, and all of the opposition, se cret or open, that can be mustered will not prevent the ultimate accomplish ment of this great .work. On the. con trary, the time is approaching when Washlngtonians friendly to the im provement of the stream will outnum ber those who oppose it, and their In fluence will be sufficient to silence the attacks that are now made on the sub Ject. The sun shines bright and the air which is wafted- cityward from the crest of Mount Hood is always clear when the east.wind blows. And yet.lt Is an ill wind that blows good for but lew, and for the old and feeble it is freighted with death. For these rea sons the mild southerly gale which, yes- terday orought out the raincoats and umbrellas was as welcome as the flow ers In May. Rheumatic-stiffened joints relaxed, the cold In the ' head . became easier, and the cllmafe' which made Oregon famous was again In evidence Yesterday was a typical Oregon Win ter day, and it differed from the Winter day in the East of which the telegraph, told us, even as June differs from De cember. The culture of Beantown or the gold of Gotham may have Port land outclassed, but when It comes to Winter weather the Oregon metropolis has so much the best of it that com parisons are meaningless. The Irrigation Congress, which, as sembles at El Paso today. Is one of the most important organizations now be fore the public. We have all heard of the good conferred on mankind by the benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow twhere only one nasj grown before, but the Irrigatlonist goes still farther and makes numerous blades grow where none have grown before. His work has done more toward reduc ing farming to a science than anything else in connection with the industry. Throughout the West there are millions of acres of land of wonderful richness that require only the application of life giving water to make it immensely productive. In the bands of the Irriga tionists this land soon becomes more valuable than that which is dependent on the whims of Nature for moisture. Irrigation work is yet in its infancy in Oregon, but the results secured have been so satisfactory that there is bound to be great expansion In this most im portant branch of the agricultural In dustry In this state. Oregon has some very active representatives at El Paso today, and It is to be hoped that they will succeed In securing for this city the next meeting of the congress. And now It is the Gromoboi, Russia's crack armored cruiser, that has limped back, to Vladivostok after an encounter with a submerged rock. Providence seems to be on the side of the Rus sians occasionally, for had this big fighting machine steamed safely out of the harbor,, the Japs would undoubtedly- have captured her, and the Czar would have been "shy" a force of men as well as a vessel. As It is, he can still figure the Gromoboi on the naval tonnage list, and her, crew among his forces. The skill of the Russians in Navigating their vessels Is "of a nature calculated to make old Neptune take to his caves. If the gunners could hit Japs with the same degree of accuracy that the warships hit mines, Tocks and other obstructions, this war would be a little less one-sided in results. . Ih his Commoner of November 11 William J. Bryan says: "Mr. Bryan did what he could to prevent the 're organization' of the Democratic party; when he failed in this he did what he could to aid Parker and Davis In order to secure such reforms and there were some vital ones promised by their election. Now that the campaign is over, he will, both through the Com moner and by personal effort, assist those who desire to put the Democratic army once more upon a fighting basis; he will assist In organizing for the campaign of 1908." But this will leave everybody who has any property or business out of it; or rather will put every such person on the other side of the light. If there Is a "Job" deeply burled in Tanner Creek sewer and walled In with solid masonry. It may be hoped that It will be unearthed and ruthlessly dragged forth, without regard to whom it discredits in official life or out of it. The city cannot afford to juggle with Jobs of this magnitude, or to whitewash a jobber, in order to screen one of the departments of the public service from blame, or for any other reason. Let us have the facts. It Is not to be supposed that so active a man as John F. Cordray will drop all at once out of the Portland theatrical world. Mr. Cordray has been In the public eye so long, and has filled so large a place, that announcement of his future plans will be awaited with In terest. The Boston Cheap Shoe Man was elected Governor of Massachusetts, and the Oregon Gum Shoe Man was elected Governor of Oregon. At times there Is freakish and wayward voting, with these results. But they who depend on It will get a setback,' in the time to come. They say President Roosevelt is "an absolutist." Well, when you get "abso lutlsm" by an overwhelming popular majority, what are you going to do about it? Will there not some time be an end of bosh about "militarism" and "absolutism"? The Russian government offers to pay for evidence ssutaining Its view of the Dogger Bank affair. If it pays enough for It, there are certain accom modating witnesses who can furnish what the Russians want. Why is work pushed night and day In the great naval gun factory at Washington? The answer Is easy. Roosevelt Is getting an armament ready to enforce the decrees of his peace tribunal at The Hague. "When Missouri goes Republican, then will I become a Christian," once said Colonel ""Robert G. IngersoH. The churches at last have occasion to mourn, over the Colonel's untimely death. Heretofore the -evil passion of pollt leal fights outside the Prohibition party has come from the devil's black- bev erage. How about the evil passion that now threatens to split the Prohibition party? Tom Watson makes a. very able diag nosis of the post-mortem condition of the Democratic party. Like a solemn undertaker he can. shed tears at a fu neral, too. We have not heard so much since election about David B. Hill's retire ment from politics as we did: before. Some things may now be' taken for granted. Friends of Judge Moreland find It dif ficult to analyze the complacency with which Senator Mitchell and Senator Fulton disagreed. The Democratic party "returned to safely and sanity," "but was weaker than when it was unsafe- ana insane. Indeed the true accent .does' He on-the second syllable of Xsopus. PENSION COMMISSIONER RESIGNS. Eugene F. Ware VHI Quit Govern ment Service January 1. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Commissioner of Pensions Ware today tendered his res ignation to President Roosevelt, and it was accepted, to take effect January L Mr. Ware has been in office since May 10, 1S02. Tonight Commissioner Ware refused to discuss his action in any way except to state that the newspapers of tho country had been "resigning" him for the. past two years. For a .year at least it had been definitely known that Mr. Ware would resign from his office soon after the fall elections and return to his home In Kan sas to resume his law practice. It Is believed here that Commissioner Ware's action was not duo to any sug gestion that the severance of his relations with the Pension Office would be agree able to the President. On the contrary', it has .been no secret that Commissioner Ware soon after assuming his duties found the duties of his office distasteful to him and that this distaste steadily increased. There is no intimation tonight who his successor will be. ROOSEVELT WILL LEARN WHY His Instructions to Employ. Sewing Women "Are Violated. WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. It appears from developments today that President Roosevelt's directions regarding the em ployment of sewing women at the Schuyl kill Arsenal, In Philadelphia, have not been carried Into effect- Michael Fran cis Doyle, of Philadelphia, representing the sewing women, called on the Presi dent today and informed him that his or ders had not been heeded: that only a part of the work had been restored to the women. He pointed out that the making of trousers, which amounts to about $300,000 a year, had been withheld from the women in direct contravention o"f the President's order. After hearing Mr. Doyle's statement, the President sent a note to the War Department asking for a report on the matter, and calling at tention to the fact that he had directed that the work be given to the women. He indicated his intention of ascertaining who had violated his Instructions, and why they had been violated. NAVY RECEIVES MEN RAPIDLY Captain Thomas Will Make Boys Sea men In Eight Months. NEWPORT. R. I., Nov. 14. Captain Charles M. Thomas, in charge of the Government training station here, has in troduced a new system for training boys for the Navy in eight months. The plan Is expected to overcome much of tho difficulty experienced by the Navy in getting full crews for vessels. Captain Thomas proposes to give the boys eight months of thorough instruction In sea manship and gunnery at the station and also to send them on short cruises. At the end of eight months they are to be rated as ordinary seamen. Hitherto boys have been obliged to spend about six months in the station and another six months aboard a vessel before they could be rated as ordinary seamen. BOMBARD JAPANESE POSITION Russians Send in Shells All Day, but Without Result. MUKDEN, Nov. 1?, via Tientsin. An unbroken cannonade of siege guns, throwing 50 or 60 shells hourly against the Japanese position in the region of Shakhe station, began early this morn ing and ended only at nightfall, when more than half a thousand big con tact shells had been thrown into the Japanese army's strongest position In the plain, for the purpose of demoral izing the work of fortification, con centrating at that point for the past four weeks. Today's" bombardment was the most serious attempt yet made by the Rus sian's large guns and It was made on account of the apparent determination of the Japanese to make Shakhe station an impregnable defense of the rail way behind. Both sides have so dus themselves into the ground, night and day, that artillery fire, as at Port Ar thur is practically ineffective and the ammunition is nearly wholly wasted. Both sides, recognizing this, are re sorting to the competition of big guns and regular field artillery Is only oc casionally engaged. The abuse of the Chinese imperial customs transit passes for merchandise and baggage into Manchuria via Sln- mlntin. thereby making recent traffic an abuse of contraband regulations and neutrality, has caused the Pekln au thorities to refuse further passes. This has cut off large supplies of foreign food and other products and has raised prices. A reign of mercantile lawless ness exists but is controlled by the care of the Russian authorities In their transactions to keep prices and internal conditions normal. The distress of the natives has so in creased as to render the previous in convenience and loss of profits, caused by the extinction of foreign trade and the total annulling of communication between the North and South of Man churia, insignificant. The native officers here, and also Vice roy Yuanshaikal at Tientsin, are working In harmony to relieve distress and are also working with the foreign aid societies rand feeding 20,000 refugees dally at Muk den. Owincr to obstacles in the way of filing and proving claims for 'damages by the Russian forces, most deserving refugees have not received compensation as pro vided in General Kuropatkin's proclama tion. Even the wealthiest farmers and gentry are eating inadequate charity gruel from the public kitchens. The largest shops chief sales consist of a few foreign commodities sold to the soldiers, such as tinned milk, tobacco and candles. Conservative Chinese pre vented lawlessness or anything, resembling popular feeling and conditions are entire Iy unlike what they were In Chill province during foreign occupation at the. time of the Boxer troubles. The epithet foreign devil," is hardly ever heard In the streets, notwithstanding the present-war ring of two superior powers in a neutral country. WILL REPRESENT BRITAIN. Vlce-Admiral Beaumont Will Be on North Sea Commission. LONDON, Nov. 14. A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says that Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont has been appointed British representative on . the North Sea Com mission to inquire' Into the firing on Brit lsh trawlers by the Husslan Baltic squad ron. "Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron, the dispatch adds, "had a good voyage from Tangier to Dakar, where it Is now coallnp from German colliers. Tho other portion of, the fleet Is still repairing at Suda Bay. and elaborate precautions nave been taken for the safety of a further -section of the squadron that Is about to sail from the Baltic" Will Double Track Siberian Road. ST. PETERSBURG." Nov. 14. The of ficial announcement that the Emperor has approved the plan ror doable tracking the Siberian Railroad, and that $5,000,000 has oeen assigned ror the beginning of the project. Is received with the heartiest approval by the press of this city. The theory is expressed that the work will be begun Immediately and pushed to a rapid conclusion as one of the -surest means oi enamg me war. Russia Will Pay for Evidence. BERLIN, Nov. 14. The Russian -Consul at Bremen has offered in behalf ot'.his government a substantial reward xor jevi denco bearing on the Dogger" Bank, af fair. SAY PEAB0DY IS BLUFFING. Colorado Democrats Are Confident He Will Not Contest Election. DENVER, Nov. 14. The official canves of the votes cast last Tuesday Is in progress, but has been completed In few counties. Revision of the unofficial re turns leaves Alva Adams' majority over James H. Peabody for Governor not less than 10,000 as previously announced. ve consider Governor Peabody's threat to contest the election a mere" bluff." said Democratic Chairman Milton Smith today, "but we are watching every thing. "I estimate that Adams' plurality will be 11,000. Our returns show that he carried Denver by 5100. and the rest of the state by as much more. The official count Inv the counties where It has been com-. plcted, gives Adams a gain. If this gain continues a3 the official count in the rest of the counties takes place, Adams will nave a plurality of 11.000." Chairman D. B. Fairley. of the Repub lican State Central Committee, said to- Uay: "When our returns are all In I estimate that Governor Peabody will be but a trifle over 500 behind. He has. been show ing wonderful strength in the past few days and has cut down the majority against him greatly. We aro satisfied that he was the victim of a conspiracy and intend contesting every ground. We have positive evidence that the fraud throughout the state will run as high as 15.000. We intend having all the fraudu lent votes thrown out and this will show Peabody has been elected by a large ma jority." Both parties are collecting evidence of election frauds. It Is proposed by the Democrats ,to summon special grand juries In Denver and Pueblo to investi gate. CONTEMPT CASES POSTPONED. Colorado Supreme Court Has New Point to Pass On in Election Matter. DENVER, Nov. 14. The Supreme Court today postponed the hearing In all the contempt cases growing out of alleged mistreatment of special Supreme Court watchers on "election day, pending decision on a motion of attorneys for the men ar rested on warrants Issued by the Su preme Court. The motion alleges that the affidavits on which the men were ar rested did not set forth sufficient evidence to show that the respondents were In contempt of court; that the Issuance of the writs of attachment and the arrest of the respondents were in violation of their rights under the constitution of the State of Colorado, and the Constitution of the United States, and that the Su preme Court was without jurisdiction In the matter from the beginning. Twelve-additional arrests were made to day on warrants based on practically the same? alleged facts as the other 15 cases pending. The persons arrested were re leased on bonds. On application of counsel for the Re publican City Committee, the Supreme Court today ordered a discontinuance of the canvass of the returns from Denver County until It can be decided as to the proper method of procedure. The Republicans claim that the total3 as they appear In the footing should be counted, while the Elections Commission maintains that they are legally bound to consider the tally sheets. The former make the point that it would be an easy matter to add to the tally sheets, whereas the totals as certified by the Judges are not so readily changed by those who seek to commit fraud. HIGGINS IS WORN OUT, Governor-Elect of New York Is Ad vised to Take Rest and Recreation. BUFFALO. Nov. 14. Governor-elect Frank W. Higgins has arrived in Buffalo. He has been indisposed since the election. Today he consulted Dr. Roswell Park, who had treated him several years ago. Dr. Park said: "He is worn out by the strain of the recent campaign and is In need of rest and recuperation. Mr. Higgins called upon me profe: sionally. and that Is all there is to It. His condition Is not one to excite alarm or even to require treatment." Cortelyou to Take a Rest. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-George B. Cortelyou, chairman of the Republican National Committee, arrived In Washing ton today and went to his home on Wash ington Heights. He will rest for a few days and then return to New York, where he will close some buslneea -Interests be fore acting on the matter of the appoint ment of a chairman of the Nicaragua committee. After that is disposed of he will take a vacation. Social Democrats Celebrate Vote. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Social Demo crats to the number of several thou sand have celebrated in the East Side Hall over the large vote cast for their candidate In last Tuesday's election. Tt was announced that an active campaign will begin at once for the purpose of stimulating further Interest in the election of 1908. Election Contest in Kentucky. CYNTHIANIA. Ky.. Nov. 11 J. B. Bennett, tho Republican candidate for Congress from tho Ninth Kentucky DIs trlct. today filed a petition before Judge Pryor asking for an order against the County Board of Election Commission ers of this city, compelling tHem to count 54 votes for Bennett which the election officers in lair precincts of this county failed to mark on the stub of the ballot book. Monday next was set for the hearing. Indorsed to Succeed Fairbanks. RVANSVILJJE. Ind.. Nov. 14. Members of tho Legislature recently elected from the-, -First District met here today and unanimously Indorsed Mr. James A Hem- en way, chairman of the appropriations (-nmmittPd in the national nouse oi teo- rpsp.ntatu-es. for the Senate, to succeed "Vice-President-elect Fairbanks. He Spoke Truth. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. That was a significant remark made by an educated Japanese to an American "As long as we were only great artists you called us barbarians'," he said, "but now tnat "we nave snown now we can kill, you call us civilized men." It Is not altogether credltahie tnat this is true. Japan has produced really great writers, artists, philosophers and scholars, but tho outside world knew little of them and made little attempt to know more, When they developed killing propensities and capabilities almost unheard of they came Into prominence at a bound. Mars remains ahead of all the other heathen deities, even among Christian people. The Fact Is Clear.. Hartford Times (Dem.). In a large majority of the election dis tricts of New York City Alton B. Parker received fewer votes for President yester day than were cast for William J. Bryan In 1900. This defection was not a "free silver' defection, and It was not due. we must assume, to any personal effort or Influence- on the part of Mr. Bryan. It cannot be Ignored that there Is a consid erable number of voters In all parts of the country whoso Inclination to favor radical and socialistic doctrines deters them from" supporting a truly democratic and conservative candidate for the Pres idency. "We Venture to Hop." "Baltimore News. We venture to hope that the South, on Its part, will recover from the, prolonged mtghusiare untier wnicn it , una lauureu ever since the. Booker - Washington lUBCtKOR. NOTE AND' COMMENT. , Science and Sport. Trying to give an idea of tho size of a mole cule. Dr. W, Marshall Watts says that, if a drop of -water were enlarged to the dimensions of the earth. Its molecules would look like a- heap of 9.556.000,000.000.000.000.000.000 tennis balls. If all scientific facts can only be re duced to sporting terms this way. the general understanding of the wonders of nature will bo tremendously increased. Boston Transcript. a rougn caicmauon snows mux u. o.juiuh of milk were enlarged to the dimensions f Guild's Lake, its agitated germs. would look like -4,310.000.001 Oregon and Multno mah football teams on a Thanksgiving day. If the common flea .were enlarged to the dimensions of Mount. Hood its Jump3 Would resemble those of an auto racing for the Vanderbilt cup. Scientists assert that If the bullfrog were enlarged to the dimensions of the earth and of Mars combined, 10,000,000 of " them would produce a noise equal to that of an Eugene rooter. Were a minnow enlarged to the dimen sions of a whale, an elephant and a hp potamus combined. Dr. Watts says that It would resemble a trout he lost on his last fishing trip. If the earth were magnified 96 times It would appear of the same size as a golf. ball coming In your direction when the cry of "fore!" makes you look round. Hospitality. The Russian commander had just com? pleted a series of pitfalls filled with sharp ened s.takes. He summoned an orderly. "Give my compliments to the Japanese General," he said, "and tell him we shall be glad to have his men drop In at any time." . The cigarette Is being burnt up. The Russian pot looks like boiling over. Boreas loves the East and Zephyr the West. ' Rojestvensky may appropriately see red in the Red Sea. A ' woman has reported to the police that she has lost a go-cart. In view of the circumstances, wouldn't It be. more correct to say gone cart? What a lucky girl Miss Nesbit is. She gets $250,000 to give up Harry Thaw. Most girls would have been satisfied to take the money even If young Thaw went with it. Prince Fushirna complains thfit he mere ly happened to be around our way and just dropped in for a friendly call. Noth ing political or anything like that, at all. Of course not. Brazilians object so strongly to com pulsory vaccination that they have en gaged in rioting at Rio Janeiro. Even In Brazil the populace claims the right to die of smallpox if it so desires. What has become of Professor Langley, "pale, but calm." and his flying machine? The Arrow does not provide nearly so much fun for the public. Knabenshue is merely dramatic, Langley was farcical. Already the persons opposed to encour aging children to believe in such fictions a3 the Santa Claus myth are at work. Never mind; Santa Claus has lived through some cold Winters, and he will be around as usual next Christmas. Tit-Bits tells the story of a Chinaman who was asked to write something in an album, and responded with this attempt at "'How doth the little' busy bee": How doth tho little sting-By ' Employ each sixty minutes all the day? Go pickee up sting-fiy Juice From flowers. Juat got busted! We wonder what the common dog, who Is taken out Into the back yard at in tervals to be roughly scrubbed with smelly soap and doused with a hose, thinks of the descriptions in the New York papers of silver baths for dogs seen recently at the Waldorf-Astoria. Each of the canine Four Hundred had a solid silver bath bearing his name, and no other dog was allowed to use it. This should replace the trust question with the dogs, and should an election be held In dogdom there would undoubtedly be a large Social ist vote. One of the captions under the Illustrated London News' pictures of King Edward at Woolwich was "King Leaving Swim ming Bath." This was startling enough. Were we to see majesty In a wet bathing suit, bereft of sword and plume, a pic ture for Carlyle? But no. The King had merely Inspected the swimming "bath, and the picture showed him with some of the magnificence that doth clothe a King, to-wlti his uniform, as Colonel-In-Chief of the Royal Engineers. Alton B. Parker", democratic Democrat, allowed himself to be photographed as he left the water, but for campaign purposes the plcturs was not used. Instead he was shown In the imposing garb of "a Judge. Clothes still make the King, if not the Candidates WEX. J. This Is Deplorable. Louisville Courier-Journal (Mr. "Watterson on the Election.) Already we have the "Splendid Gov ernment," dreaded by Washington and Franklin and Jefferson and Jackson, with an able and aggressive, and, withal, a mildly ambitious, popular hero, at the head of it. "From Theodore Roosevelt we ask no quarter and expect none. He Is Infinitely a worse enemy of the white men arid women of the South than any of the radi cal leaders of the past, because not only that he entertains certain crude experi mental Ideas about the negro, the testing of which will prove equally hurtful both to the blacks and whites, but also be cause, perverted by the sense of being renegade to the Southern blood that courses in his veins, there burns within him the blind Intolerance of the bigot, keeping alive and warming the hatred of the man in the wrong. Infinite harm he has done already- More of the same sort we expect. It Is, however, a long lane- that has no turning, and, used to evil In fluences and Inured to Ill-treatment, the people of the South will more than ever turn io mc uevciujjuicuv ui me ma terial resources, throwing themselves back the while with simple, childlike con fidence, upon the wisdom of that God of whom It hath been said that "whom he loveth be chasteneth." This Is Deplorable, Too. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Nov. "8. In any event, the South is secure. She fought the last battle for Constitutional liberty in arms-. She Is, in majestic solid arity, fighting It peacefully . at the polls: She will rejoice If the election of Judge Parker carries hope to all true patriots, lovers of the Constitution and the real Union- If. by any chance Mr. Roosevelt shall carry the day, then she can proudly appeal to all coming time for her vindi cation, and declare that the murder of the Federal Republic cannot be laid al Her door, but at the portal of 'those w.hc masquerade in- the garments of those who assumed, in war and peace, to be 1U de fenders. - "