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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1905)
THE -MORNING OHEGONIAN, FRIDAY, JITSE -9, 1SOT. Bntered at the Postofflce at Portland Or.. B.S second-class -matter. scBScmrnox rates. INVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Daily and Sunday, per year .....$8.00 Daily and Sunday, six months. ........ 5.00 Daily end Sunday, three months..!.... 2-55 Dally and Sunday, per month .65 Daily -without Sunday, per year. ........ ".50 Dally without Sunday, six months..... 3.80 Dally without Sunday, three months... 1.85 Dally -without Sunday, per month...... .85 Sunday, per year............ 2.00 Sunday, six months 1.00 Sunday, three months .00 BY CARRIER. Daily -without Sunday, per week........ .13 Dally, per week, Sunday included .20 THE "WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per" year U0 Weekly, six months ... .73 Weekly, three months -50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofnee money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS .OFFICE. The 6. C. Bcckwlth Special Agency New York; rooms 43-50 Tribune building. Chi--cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postofflce Kewe Co., 178 Dearborn street. Dallas, Tex-Globe News Depot, 200 Main street. San Antonio, Tex. Louis Book and Cigar Co., C21 East Houston street. Denver Julius Black, Hamilton & Xend rlck, 003-012 Seventeenth street; Harry D. Ott, 1563 Broadway. Colorado Springs Colo. Howard H. Belt Des Moines, liu Moses Jacobs, 303 Fifth ttreet. Doluth, la- G. Blackburn. 215 West Su perior street. . Goldfleld, Not. C Hal one. Kansas City, Mo. Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and walnut. Los Angeles Harry Drapkln; B. E. Amos, EH West Seventh street. Minneapolis M. J. Ravanaugh. 50 South Third; L. Regclsburger, 217 First avenue South. , ' Cleveland, O. James Pushaw, 307 Superior street. New York City I, Jones & Co., Astor House. Oakland. Cat W. H. Johnston. Four teenth, and Franklin streets. Ogden F. R. Godard and Meyers & Har top. D. L. Boyle. ' Omaha Barkalow Bros.. 1012 Farnam; Mageath Stationery Co., 1308 Farnam; Mc Laughlin Bros.. 240 South 14th; McLaughlin tt Holtz. 1513 Farnam. Sacramento, CaL Sacramento News Co., 429 K street Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second street South; Frank Hutchison. Yellowstone Bark, Wyo Canyon Hotel. Lake Hotel. Yellowstone Park Assn. Long Beach B. E. Amos. San Francisco J. JC Cooper & Co., 748 Market street; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter; L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Marifet; Frank Scott, SO Ellis; N. Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; Foster & Orear. Ferry News Stand. St. Louis, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company, 806 OUve street. Washington, D. C. P. D. Morrison, 2132 Pennsylvania avenue. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JUNE 0, 1D03. WHAT IS COMING. No question but the whole subject of "public, utility franchises" Is to have an overhauling throughout our coun tryIn Oregon as "in all other of our states, and perhaps In Oregon at an earlier day and more thoroughly than In some or In most of the rest. In the first place the legislature and our municipalities are to stop giving these franchises away. The best of them doubtless have been given away already; but as our towns and cities grow there will be more opportunities. These in all cases should be reserved to the use or benefit of the people, whose property they are. In the days when the town is email and wants lights, water and car lines, the eagerness to get them has caused franchises to be granted for long periods too long without payment Surely, with so many qbject-lessons before the country, this practice will not go further. The next, step t must be taxation of these franchises that have become so very valuable. It is probable this method will precede attempts by the public to recover possession of the grants. Taxation of the franchises at a rate proportional to their actual value will meet some part of the abuse of which the public complains. The ques tion of public ownership is one of an other kind. But tho discussion is clearly leading up to It; and the greed of those who capitalize the franchises at millions, and give the character of private property to these public utili ties, of which they have possessed themselves without cost, is hastening it on. The Issue thus raised is to be poten tial, perhaps supreme, in our politics and legislation, lor years to come. Holders of these franchises will fill our halls of legislation with their lobby ists, and it will require particular at tention and care on the part of the peo ple to select men for the Legislature not open to the "influence" sure to at tempt them. Methods similar to those employed by our able and leading fellow-citizens in Portland, in these di rections, as set forth by the recent grand jury, will be repeated at all stages of the proceeding; and the sa cred bogy of "vested rights" will be dragged forth for terror or worship, again and again. A storm, the Legis lature of Oregon will meet, next ses sion. i RUSSIA'S HARD PROBLEMS. It seems to be doubted whether Rus Bla will venture again to "stand her soldiers up" in battle against those of Japan. In other words, whether Rus sia will risk another general engage ment. Hitherto the Russian soldier has obeyed orders. Never was a more stubborn, stolid and obedient machine. But the Japanese war is not approved in Russia, and from accounts that come from Manchuria, through many chan nels, it is believed that the army Is dissatisfied and half mutinous; and the question is whether the Russian gov ernment, knowing this, will risk an other general battle. This Is supposed to be one of the factors that incline Russia towards peace. Japan cannot reach the vitals of Russia, and can Inflict on her, there fore, no mortal wound. Russia has but to retire into her immense dis tances and leave the Pacific to Japan, and 'the war will be over. Should Rus sia take this course, Japan could collect no money indemnity for the war;. and it would seem in any event that Rus sia's hold on the Pacific is hopelessly broken. From this point of view Rus sia may be in no haste to make peace; but her problem of risking another great battle she must meet pretty soon, either by taking the risk, by making peace or by beating a retreat "The great moral juestion" in this community, or in other community, does not relate to the selling or drinking of a glass of beer or rest in belief or rejection of some creed of the dry nurses ot theology. It relates to such matters as the absorption, through cunning, chicane and corrup tion, by individuals who "work" Legis latares and Common Councils, of mil lions and millions that belong to the people. This sort of work universally is done by persons wearing the cloak of morality. They steal the lrvery of the court of heaven to serve the devil In the devil of their own avarice and greed. Here is the moral question be fore the people of Oregon. Beer will still be sold and pretzels eaten; but this infamy will be pursued, till Its mask of hypocrisy is torn off and the people come Into their own again. PACIFIC MAIL. PROFITS. The Pacific Mall Steamship Company, under whose baneful influence the only direct route Portland enjoys to the Orient has fallen, has just Issued a pre liminary statement of Its operations for the year ending April 30. It is a most favorable report, showing as it does an Increase in receipts over the previous year of $2,174,017. Much -of this In creased business is due to the war in the Far East, but no small part of it is from the natural growth of trade with the Orient. The annual report of the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Com pany, an offshoot of the Pacific Mall, which is maintained on the route from Portland for the apparent purpose of keeping a good line off the run, has not been made public "When it does ap pear It will show no such Increase in earnings as was shown by the Pacific Mail. Portland exporters", in spite of the transportation handicap which they have cuff ered, have continued to in crease their business with the Far East, but it has not been taken care of by the Harrlman system, and Portland, where the traffic originates, receives but little credit for it, except when some patriotic shipper refuses to send his freight to Puget Sound and instead brings a steamer In on his own account Mr. Harriman's Pacific Mall Steam ship Company for the five months end ing May SL dispatched from San Fran cisco for China and Japan, twenty-four steamships, carrying approximately 200,000 tons of freight. During the same period Mr. Harriman's Portland & Asi atic line dispatched from Portland seven steamships, carrying approxi mately 40,000 tons of freight San Fran cisco exporters, having an abundance of freight space provided for them by the Harrlman line, were obliged to charter but one outside steamer, car rying about 5000 tons of freight. Port land exporters chartered six or prac tically the same amount of tonnage that was provided for them by the Har rlman line. The overflow which they were unable to handle on the seven Harrlman steamers and on the six which they chartered themselves was obliged to seek an outlet by way of Pu get Sound. There was a sufficient amount of this "diverted" business to enable the Hill lines from' Puget Sound to get out Ave more steamers for the five months men tioned than were cleared from San Francisco. Aside from this overflow, the records show that the division of the business between Harrlman at San Francisco and Hill on Puget Sound was almost even. The injustice shown. Port land in this matter lies In failure of Mr. Harrlman to brlnginto this port an amount of overland freight even ap proximately in keeping with the freight which originates in this city and adja cent territory. This prevents a fre quency of service which is of the ut most importance in the Oriental trade. Six of the twenty-four steamers sailing from San Francisco would have been sufficient to handle all of the business which they secured from California, but the Harrlman rail lines brought In so much overland freight that the San Francisco exporters were given an Ori ental liner every six days, compared with one per month given the Portland exporters. This grievance is not a new one. The discrimination has been practiced against Portland for so many years that it is in some quarters regarded'as regular and proper. But It will not ex ist forever. If Mr. Harrlman Is de termined to "queer" the Portland Ori ental line in favor of the San Fran cisco line, it may be necessary for this port to join hands with the Puget Sound lines, or. better still, abandon all hope of any improvement in the Harrlman service and depend on tramp steamers, which even now are about all that we get from Mr. Harrlman. and which can be chartered about as chean- .ly by our exporters as they can by the California and New York railroad man. IS PEACE IN SIGHT? If the question of speedy peace or continued war were to be decided on grounds of common-sense reasoning from established facts, then peace would surely be close at hand, subject, of course, to the. condition that Japan continued to show her willingness by standing- somewhat near the terms she indicated at the commence ment of the war. As it is. ivhat Is re ported as to the state of mind of the Czar one day is contradicted the next His attitude on the war or peace ques tion probably runs parallel with his frame of mind on Internal Russian af fairs. "When the Czar says "repres sion," that signifies "the war goes on." "When the Czar takes a weight off the safety valve and lets so much of the imprisoned steam escape, and as an Immediate consequence hears a shout for peace, then he is Impressed with the Idea that peace abroad will give him a freer hand at home to deal with all the issues which will at once come up. Today the little map has come out of his hole, which means fair weather. But the wind and temperature may change tomorrow, nnd out will come the little old woman, which means s, storm. Republics may be changeable, the people, the demos, may not know its own mind, but the Russian Czar can give points to any republic whose records for the last thousand years are written In the books. No wonder the "White House says the condition is "delicate." No wonder the embassies in St Petersburg, and'Ber Hn. and Paris, join in the chorus. Deli catethat exactly fits the case. Any one but the Czar can see that the Iocs of his fleet was as good as the addition of 150,000 men and indefinite supplies to Oyama'a army. Every one else knows that Vladivostok, blockaded by sea and bes'ieged by land, will be Port Arthur over again. The world admits that the function of Russia as an aggressive power on the Pacific "Is over. Each month adds to the price she will have sooner or later to pay to Japan for the commercial outlet from Eastern Siberia to the Pacific. The certainty tfiat an indemnity will Je demanded as one of the terms of peace seems to be the great, stumbling-block. Why? Be-' cause' it Is against the national honor, they say. The price of refusal Is to be continuance of the war. Better, says the Russian bureaucrat pay out the money of the indemnity In poshing the war. Then human lives, human suffer ing, distress .of nations, desolation of provinces, .set back of at least two peo ples In the path of peace and, progresa-i-ls all this to weigh nothing in the scales? A hundred men Imprisoned In a colliery, fifty shattered In a railroad disaster, a thousand drowned at sea, or burned in a theater, and the civilized world holds its breath in horror, and newspapers cannot Issue editions fat enough to meet the demand for news of the sufferers. The world has read of Liao Tang, and Port Arthur, Mukden and the horrors of the Japan Sea, till the general heart Is hardened by repe tition of death and .destruction as each week of war adds to the tale. Is the war to continue until the "honor" of Russia is appeased? Have-not her sol diers, poor fellows, gone bravely enough to meet death with unshaken courage? Have they not been tried, and stood the test, on the awful road of retreat after an army's defeat? Have not her sailors fought the guns till ships sank under, them, and decks were shambles and hulls coffins for the dead? "What more can the Czar demand? Nothing but such extreme requirements by Japan as neither President nor Kaiser can sanction, can lighten the load on the Czar's shoulders for one day's needless perseverance In the road of war. Let us trust that moderation, even in the hour of victory, may reign in the councils of Toklo. History will judge her statesmen and Iter Emperor even more by the calmness and de cision which recognizes the hour and the means'for stopping this bloody war than fpr the foresight which planned for It the skill that organized It and the courage of the nation. Its army and navy, which has so far met every emer gency, and. In due timo. come out vic torious. NEWSPAPERS AND THE PAIR. If any one has heretofore Imagined that Portland and Oregon are in a neglected and remote section ot the continent he has but to read the news paper extracts on this page of The Ore gonlan, so that he may feel better. The Pacific Northwest is In the eye of the American people as "it has never been before. The Lewis and Clark Exposi tion, has done it It Is known every where, and it has made Oregon, "Wash ington and Idaho, their history, re sources, industries and people equally familiar to the whole Nation. It is to be understood that these are mere excerpt.- from editorial articles, for in many Instances and by many im portant journals long and appreciative discussion of the Fair and the occasion has appeared. On the day following the -opening of the Fair, every newspaper In the United States gave the event adequate news mention. Many news papers devoted reat space to It with pictures. All seemed to regard It as news of first value. It would be impos sible to ascertain the volume of- matter printed on that one day under a Port land date line, but It aggregated thou sands of columns. Portland has good reason to be well satisfied with the no tice and attention its Exposition has received from the newspapers of the United States. AS TO "USELESS KNOWLEDGE." As the college commencement period approaches the public Is given to reflec tions upon modern educational methods as containing much that may come un der the head of "useless knowledge" L e.. knowledge which Is not based upon the ways and means for making money or for "getting along In the world." Education that has what may be called a basis in trade is. in this day of sharp competition In commercial and profes sional life, accounted "essential." while the knowledge that Is gained through familiarity with Greek or Roman his tory', and the thought, the literature and the life of the past has by general consent come to be classed as non essential. If education acquired by study of the classics Is considered "useless knowl edge," Jt Is certain that less time Is now given to its acquisition than it claimed in former years. In the college course of a century ago boys were taught Latin and Greek, not because they would thereby be made more competent as bankers or merchants, but because some familiarity with the events in the world's history set forth In song and story and oration in these languages awakened, even in dull minds, an in terest in things outside of business. As computed by the New York Inde pendent study of this character opened up sources of enjoyment. cultivated the sympathies and unconsciously created a feeling that the mind has a right to njoy. no less than a duty to produce. Building on a classical foundation, the old college course opened to youth some of the treasure-houses of history, world literature and philosophy. The college graduate was able throughout life to- turn from time to time to Interests broader and finer than those of his money-earning vocation. Judged by practical standards, they were useless, but they afforded him refreshment in spiration and enduring satisfaction. This estimate is in consonance with the terse and comprehensive statement that man cannot live by bread alone. If we have come to begrudge the time spent In acquiring knowledge that opens up these springs of higher enjoy ment It Is a matter of regret rather than of rejoicing. It means that we arc getting, highly trained men, but nar row men. Proceeding in its present ment of this. theme, the journal above quoted says: Every xlay the educated man In the old fashioned KDre of the word is appalled, as he meets and talks with the yeunger fellows and discovert how amazingly little they know. They do not read, they have not read. They explain that they have no time to read, that they never have bad tisae. Their life Is made up of hurry and grind. They seize Im pressions from the headlines of- newspapers and from the gossip of the railway smoking car and the club. Out of these ruperflcial and often worthiest Impressions they con struct their opinions of polities, world ten dencies, science and reMgtaa. philosophy and art. They cannot back up tbelr opinions by citations of fact, and they know nothing of the deep pleasure that cemes through serioos application, genuinely hard mental work upon other tbari practical matters. This 'estimate s not a harsh one. except as facts plainly stated may have a harsh sound. And It may be added that it is of sufficient Import ance as bearing -upon the real life of the Nation to be seriously considered by the learned men to whom the task of revising and strengthening the course of instruction In our colleges br from time to time delegated. The State Board of Health 'of- Ver mont has notified the authorities of Bur lington. Vergenaes, St Johnsbufy, Enostmrg Falls and Swanton that they will be prosecuted unless they Improve their water supply before June 1, 1S0S. Both In Vermont and New Hampshire tho purity of the water supply Is of vital, importance on account of the magnitude of the Summer Immigration the chief source of revenue for many of their more picturesque villages and towns. Land in these states, especially Ih the one first named, was wont In times past to produce three crops of stones a year to those who, by patient toil, succeeded' in wringing a scanty subsistence from it To the rock crop in recent years has been added the crop of Summer visitors, and a farseeincr health board seeks protection and en couragement for this In & pure water supply for the mountain towns. Brlefly the tourist crop will be ruined by de pletion unless this only safeguard from fevers and malaria Is established. The Dalles and "Wasco County de scended on the Exposition .yesterday. Just to show the quality of their people. me variety ana excellence of their prod ucts, the satisfactory character of their Industries, and Incidentally to see the sights. Some one said lately that The Dalles was an old-timer, which was true, and that same some one Inti mated that the city had not kept up with the procession, which was not true. If. anybody thought it was, all he needed to correct any such notion was to go up the Columbia and look at The Dalles; if he would not do that, then he should have come to Portland and have seen the people of The Dalles. They arc thrifty, prosperous, enterpris ing, proud of their town and Its his tory, and determined that It shall keep Its place near the head of things, which it is certainly doing. "Wasco,, too, is a great county.- It has suffered much from having its area cut off for the formation of new counties, but It remains, just the same, one of the important sections of Eastern Ore gon. It has a lot of people, within Its borders more than ever but it has yet room for many more. The newcomer hunting" a desirable place for a location makes a-mlstake if he overlooks "Wasco County. Mr. Clarence Young, the Montana man who abandoned the honest and highly respectable calling of a wood chopper to become a tralnrobber was not kept long In suspense as to the ul timate reward awaiting him. He held up the North Coast Limited May 27, and June 7 was sentenced to serve fifty years In the Penitentiary, where the emoluments are much smaller than those of a woodchopper. Woodchoppers are paid Jl per cord, and It is a poor man with an ax that cannot pile up at least one cord per day. If Mr. Young. In the retirement of his cell. Indulges In mathematical calculations. It will dawn upon him that fifty years at woodchopplng would yield much better returns than he will recleve for his brief sortie as a tralnrobber. The way of the transgressor Is hard, and it is also quite expensive Great movement, of interest to Port land and to the old Oregon Country. Is now In progress. It looks to the con struction of a railway along Snake River, to Lewlston.and to the Clear water country: to new railway con struction In Middle Oregon; to new electric lines out. of Portland: to a rail way, at last from Portland to Tilla mook; to activities In alt directions. In every direction the new movement is manifest. You can go nowhere In Ore gon, or Washington, or in Idaho, but you see it Newcomers ai;e making their appearance In every county and town and neighborhood; new bulldlnss and new undertakings are observed on every hand. Government red tape got Into a snarl wnen an attempt was made to send the schooner J. W. Cllscto sea with an In sufficient cargo to render her- sea worthy. The theoretical executives, of the Government proceed so often on rules akin, to that which asserts that "a pint's a pound the world around" that it must be with a rude Jar that they learn mat tnree sad sea aofx. slttlnir as a board of Inquiry, have decided that -a vessel, safe with a ull cargo, may "be uosaie wun nair a cargo. The City Council had some difficulty In getting together to pass the ordinance giving the people an opportunity to vote on the question of saloons at the Fair gates. But It had no trouble In devising a way to help out one. of Its members by passing Councilman aim merman's meat inspection , ordinance. It all depends on what Is wanted and who wants It whether the City Council takes an active Interest In affairs. Now It Is said the Assessor of Mult nomah County intends to increase the valuations of the property of. the county three-fold. Very welL But let him put into the assessments these great public franchises, at the proper valuations ReaL estate has borne the whole burden long enough. Bring in this highly valuable property Included in public franchises. It is said the taxable valuation of Portland and of Multnom.i County Is. to be increased by the Assessor three fold. "Why. certainly. But let the pub lic franchises be Included. Let the plu toe rats get ready to pay three times their usual amount of taxes next year. The rest of us, who have little or noth ing, needn't worry. Mayor Dunne has notified the Chi cago reformers that vice cannot be stopped In that city. Dear, dear. And Jiayor uuaoe is & xwmocrat, too, elect ed as a Democrat and running a Dem ocratic administration. "Who ever be fore heard of vice flourishing in any .city under a Democratic reform admin Istratlon? Naturally, inasmuch as the Russian warships have done heretofore what ever they pleased at neutral ports, as long as the neutral ports were French, the Russian Admiralty Is surprised and grieved that "Mr." Roosevelt enforces the 24,-hour rule at Manila. "Why not save time by referring the Equitable row, the Russian war, the Chicago strike and the Norway-Sweden splitting the blanket to the President? Tom Lawson says he Is, $1,000,000 poorer than he was a year vago. But Lawson should cheer up". So are some othlrs of his dis esteemed enemies. A Jury of six, Idaho women were surely competent to judge of the merits of a fist fight between two of their own sex. " - - - 0REG0N0Z0NL . Admiral Nebogxtoff, true to his name. never got off. The recent sea flghl recalls to mind Eugene F. Ware's metrical "acctount of a battle between two divisions of the Rus sian language, in which all the vowels were knocked out by the consonants. Ex-Editor "Whltelaw Held, our new Ambassador to tho Court of St James. gets a salary of S17.5CO & year and pays S30.0CO a year house rent "We newspaper, men are the only ones who can perform miracles like that A Kansas newspaper has discovered that the ant Prohibition law passed In the "United States was enacted by the legislative body of the Cherokee Indians, in 1S19, the law taking effect as a New Year's gift In 1S20. Is this what made the Cherokee one ot the Five Civilized Tribes? It is much to be desired that Phila delphia permit the Liberty Bell to come to the Lewis andCtark Exposition, so that we folk away out West may ascer tain whether the old bell is really what it la cracked up to be. The voluntary human sandwich has ap peared in Portland. He Is' a pioneer farmer of Klickitat County, Washington, who wants to sell hi farm, and he- wears a large sign reading "Land for Sale." Real estate agents are hereby notified that space Is for sale on this walking advertisement at reasonable rates. Top ot collar is preferred apace. Ezra Meeker, nloneer. ha arrived In Portland driving an ox team hitched to an old-time prairie schooner, his Inten tion belnar to retrace the old wagon trail back to Iowa, along which he came West ward as a ypung man. back In '. Every thing about Mr. Meeker's outfit smacks of tho oloneor ncriod. even to the tar bucket hanging underneath the rear axle. But It the oxen themselves are- the Identi cal on s which he drove across the plains 63 years ago. he Is not likely to get out of Portland with them. Some ot the boarding-houses will demand that they be slaughtered and sawed into "roast beef." It Is understood' that "Talks In a Li brary With Laurence Hutton" Is to be followed by "Whisper in a Boudoir With Edward Bok." . The Rabbltvllle correspondent of the Irrigon Irrigator is mistaken In his state ment that The Oregonlan Is using the poetry machine Invented by Hardy Hard Iron, the town blacksmith, formerly operated by a Rabbltvllle mule. The ma chine used here was Invented In Missouri, patent No. 4-11-HI. as duly recorded In the archives at Washington, D. C. and wa3 first used as a road scraper, being drawn by a span of Missouri mules. It has one merit, viz., that It neverturna out poetry witli game feet, except when It goes in competition with a linotype machine a meeting that Is sometimes fatal to the metre. . Kansas Is noted for Its remarkable newspaper fakes. Now comes a story of a boy having been drowned In the Arkansas River. The. correspondent falls to ex plain how the boy managed to dig his way down as far as the water. There used to be a story current In Kansas of a man who desired to commit suicide. He preferred death by drowning. Provid ing himself with a spade and a windlass, he began excavations In the bed of the Arkansas River. After digging three days the sand caved In and caught his legs, and. thus Imprisoned, the poor fellow died of thirst. Three more lives have been lost In the Hargl feud In Kentucky. We were given to understand that feud had been settled. Once upon a time the present writer was sent down Into Kentucky to report the particulars of the final settle ment of the famous Whltc-Garrard-Howard-Phllpot feud In Clay County. He arrived at the home of the leaders on one side of the cx-feud about dusk and was met at the front gate by alx men, .brist ling with hand artillery, who surrounded him. "'I understood that this feud was settled." "said the visitor. "It Is settled." replied the spokesman for the feudists, "but we heard tell today that a blanketyr blank-blank who skedaddled from these parts six months ago had come back to day, and we don't p'pose to take no chances." Edification for Editors. Following is the unofficial programme of exercises for next Sunday in honor of the delegates to tho National Editorial As sociation Convention, at 101 ranch. Okla homa: 7 A. M. Guests awakened by fusillade of cowboys under the window, shooting up the ranch. , 7:15-AblutIons In Cow Creek, hard by. 7:30 Breakfast, consisting of 101 rounds of Jerked buffalo meat fricasseed coyote and scrambled rattlesnake buttons. 8:00 Rehearsal of the Oklahoma war whoop. 5:30 All off for the grandstand, where Greaser Antonio, the celebrated Spanish toreador, will assassinate seven superan nuated bulls' amidst the plaudits of the admiring editors. 9:00 Ten minutes to recover breath. 9:10 Scalping of Oklahoma Kid. the curly-headed cowboy, by Geronlmo, the Apache warrior and ward ot U,ncle Sam, loaned for the purpose on the guarantee that he refrain from scalping the editors unless some of them want to find out how it feels themselves, in which event he Is to accommodate them. 10:00 War dance by seven regiments of Rough Riders, who claim to have fought with Roosevelt 11:30 More ablutions in Cow Creek. 12:00 Dinner on toreadored bull, pre ceded by a blessing from - a religious editor, ending with a .benediction by a Sunday editor. 1 P. M. All aboard for Portland. to visit the -Lewis and Clark Exposition, after which the editors will' return to their several 'homes and spread enlighten ment humanltarianlsm and culture. ROBERTUS LOVE. .A Purist's Criticism. New York Sun. The Vice-President's great oration at Portland. Or., suffered some damage in course of telegraphic transmission. The wires represented him as saying: The tragic events which, are transpiring In the Orient are deeply deplored by every lover of peace and humanity the world over. Of course, what Mr. Fairbanks said was that tragic events were perspiring In the Orient So cautious a candidate for the Presidency would never be guilty of the outrage on be English languago attrib uted to him in the telegraphed version. Paternal Pride. Greenwood Corr Oregon City- Enterprise. Mr. Clarke is very. proud of his son Va-nxayt for he has such, cute little ears. EASTERN PAPERS ON OUR. PAIR Geaeral E Miter il Cata-neae'atlosi aad Appreciation ot the Splendid Enterprise Fall Recsraltle-s of Its Great Valne sud Varied Beaaty.- It Is a Northwest Fair. Hartford (Conn.) Times. -The Lewis and Clark Exposition is. too long a name. Call it the Portland Fair. ItAVks Ready to Open. Kansas City Stan A feature which will distinguish for all time the Lewis and, Clark Centen nial Exposition from other cvents of Its kind Is that it was ready to open when It was opened. Blooms Till October 1 5. New York Tribune. Portland. Or i nalTprl th T?n5 fMtv because roses bloom there In the open air all the year. The Exposition rose. however, which opened Its petals yes terday, 'will bloom only until Octo ber 15. Deserving or Congratulations. Montana Daily Recorder. The people of Portland are deserving the- congratulations ot tho entire Nation, especially should a good word be said for the energy and steadfastness of purpose with which the enterprise was undertaken and set on its Summer's Journey. Port land's men and women and Portland's money made ,the Fair possible; there should be no lack of encouragement to make it a success in every respect. Attendance Is Sure to Bo Good. Providence (R. I.) Journal. There was an impresslvo opening of the Lewis, and" Clark Exposition at Portland yesterday, and although this, latest Fair Is somewhat distant from the center of population in the United States, It will doubtless be well at tended. It commemorates an import ant phase in the National development as the Vice-President pointed out in his speech. Civilization owes much to Its hardy pioneers, and In the ranks of these the men who won Oregon for their country have an honorud place. -Great Show In a Great Place. Goodwin's (Salt Lake) Weekly. The Lewis and Clark Exposition has been formally opened at Portland. It Is a great show In a reat place. The WII lamott Is a grand river, the Willamette Valley Is a marvelous valley, and then the "Oregon rolls" near by and Hood and St Helens and Ranlef and Adams an the Three Sisters around all the other signal heights ot that fair land are look ing down approvingly. But there is a greater glory to this Exposition than can be found in all the merged splendors ot river, valley and mountain. Much praise Is due to the men who Inspired and consummated the great purchase. Should Attract Eastern Visitors. Hartford (Conn.) Times. Today occurred the opening of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition at Portland, Or. This is one of the most Interesting Expositions ever held In this country and should attract many Eastern visitors to the" Pacific Coast during the Summer an Autumn. The management ot the Exposition is In very capable hnds and mrfhy of its features are novel and impressive. New York has erected a fine state building on the Exposition grounds and Massa chusetts has done the same, being the only New England state to participate in the Exposition to that extent The Massachusetts building will be "the natural headquarters for New England visitors who may be able to see this most Interesting Exposition of the greater Interests and industries of the Pacific Coast Show Is Well Advertised. The Exposition In the far Northwest which opens today may not in. some re spects rank with those which have pre ceded It. but we can safely say that it is far" beyond what could normally be ex- 'pectcd of the latitude .and general wealth of the section. It cannot compare in volume, for Instance, with that of St. Loula, but candor compels us to say that our friends in the Northwest have been advertising themselves and thIr show much better than the people on the banks of the Mississippi. There is no good achievement that the Inquirer does not wish the West to enjoy. There Is neither prosperity In purse and material nor de velopment In mind and spirit culture and refinement which we do not wisn to be theirs. We can ohly hope that the present show will have the undoubted ad vantage of securing to those few people In the Oregon Country, who were born there, the blessings that arise in the East and constantly follow the setting sum Oregon's Mighty Advance, Baltimore Sun. There is scarcely a district of dark est Africa that is as little Known to the people of Christendom today as was the Oregon country 100 years ago. And yet the centennial of the arrival of Lewis and Clark In the wilds of the Northwest is celebrated in a wealthy city of more" than 100,000 people, situ ated in the midst of a fertile, beauti ful and highly cultivated country, gridironed; with railroads and dotted with towns and villages. The design of the Lewis and Clark Exposition is to illustrate to the world the marvel ous progress of the Pacific Coast and to produce such an Exposition there "has been' an expenditure of 55,000,000 and a vast amount of well-directed en ergy. This creat Fair was opened yes terdaS at a signal from Washington sent by the President of the United States and transmitted In an instant When Lewis and Clark reached the month of the Columbia River, It re quired the best part of a year, or more than six months, to send a message- from there to Washington. Now person can travel In comfort from Washington to Oregon Inside of a week and can send a message In a few mln utes. Attractions to 3Iee"t Varied Tastes. Chicago Chronicle. Mankind has an Infinite f6ndness 'for spectacles. The imperial Roman who de clared that the populace would be con tent with any government that supplied bread and circuses was a shrewd observer of human nature, and human nature is just about the same today as it was 2000 years ago In Rome. That Is why the Portland Exposition is drawing great crowds, though the gates of the St. Louis show are scarcely closed and the memory of the Columbian Exposition Is yet fresh. People are always ready for a big show. provided that they hav the money to pay for seeing It At Portland, accord ing to all accounts, there are attractions to meet the most varied tastes. In mere 8io the Lewis and Clark Exposition does not. of course, pretend to compete with some of its predecessors; but in variety. taste and attractiveness it does not avoid comparison with the larger shows. It should be borne in mind, too, that the Oregon Exposition Is only small by com parisonnot in reality. An enterprise upon which x5.000.COO has been expended is by no means a sideshow. Fifty years ago it would have been deemed a prodigy of magnificence and lavish expenditure. A very excellent Jtnd Impressive spectacle Is this Portland Exposition one which does credit tovits promoters and which will attract thousands Of visitors ' from regions far distant from the Pacific Coast . Serves a Beneficent Purpose. Troy (N. T.) Times. The Lewis and Clark Exposition. Im portant as a memorial of remarkable American achievement may also serve a. most beneficent purpose by helping to promote international amity. Have Done Themselves Proud. Butte Miner. The Fair was started on what In horwd to be a most successful lournev. All who have visited the grounds, and exploited inc. exmons. unite in the declaration that the Exposition Is well worth seeing, from an points ot view. Portland, and the State of Oregon, have done themselves proud in the aDDOlntments of the eteat show, and exhibitors have taken a rtrrv- found Interest In making the enterprise an unqualified success. Most Profitable Advertisement. Butte Evening Kews. The Western States will find that the. Portland Fair will be to them the most profitable advertisement they have ever had. While not as pretentious as either the Chicago or St Louis expositions, it means infinitely more to the people west of the Mississippi. Hundre'ds of thou sands of our Eastern friends will visit th Northwest during the Summer. Among them will he many in quest of profitable investment, and Montana, Oregon. Wash ington and Idaho will be their principal field. Sample of Western Hustle. Troy (X. Y.) Times. Portland, Or., begins Its Lewis and Clark Exposition on time and with every thing In complete readiness. This is a sample of Western hustle and executive capacity that reflects tho highest credit on all concerned. Tho Fair Is bis and beautiful and will be a magnificent "adv. for the Pacific Coast already famous for Its enterprise and progresslveness. One of the few lines ot great American ocean steamers plies between that locality and Asia, and the Exposition Is likely to give a great stimulus to the commerce of that quarter. Cannot Fail to Bo Profitable. Philadelphia Press.. The Portland Exposition was opened with the ceremonies customary to such occasions, and from all reports It was more nearly In shauo for the- recentlon of visitors than has been usual with' ex positions on the day of opening. TM Portland Fair, which Is designed to cor& memofate the lewls and Clark explora tions, fittingly supplements the great ex position at St Louis last year, and has tho advantage of some Important and at tractive features that were there dis played. All of the Pacific Coast country Is full of the spirit of self-exploitation, and the Exposition cannot fall to be prof itable In many ways, but can hardly be expected to achieve a financial success. Showing a Marvelous Country. Baltimore (Md.) Herald. In spite of telegraphs, telephones and railroads, this countryMs so large that a great World's Fair held in the inte rior does not take the wind out of the sails of one held on the Coast The -elaborate magnificence of St. Louis last year, drawing sightseers from all over the world, was Just far enough from the Pacific .to give the Lewis and ClarlC Exposition, thrown open to the public yesterday, a territory' from which to draw thousands who have not yut been sated by the numberless attractions Ot a big fair. The great show in MIj souri has not been repeated in all Its glory In Oregon, but a very creditable Exposition has been arranged, and in going to see it people from the East can be sure of a good sight, for on the way they, wll see the greatest of all expositlns their own marvelous country. Of Great Commercial Importance. New Yok Globe. Especially appropriate at this time when all eyef are turned toward the eastern ocean and the trade -possibilities of the Orient, is the assembling in or ganized form of the products of our in dustries in the Northwest, which Is al ready looking eagerly to Asia for mar kets for Its rapidly growing output Amer icans, ever quick to seize opportunities for trade conquests, have not been slow to discern the special advantages they possess in the Pacific To this perception is due in no small measure the deter mination to make the present celebration an occasion of great commercial Im portance, a fact the significance of which our merchants will readily apprehend. The exhibition at Oregon serves not alone to remind us of the pioneers of 1S05, but may also mark the beginning of a new era In the Industrial develops ment of our country the era of the Pa cific Ocean. Piece of Splendid Enterprise. Kansas City Times. ' The opening of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland. Or., is an event of Interest to the country as a whole as well as to the Coast states for Whose benefit it was primarialy ar ranged. The expedition which It com memorates was a piece of splendid en terprise, resulting, as it did, in the first crossing of the continent within the limits of the- United States by white men. The Exposition- is not arranged as ah imitation of the splendid affair at St Louis 'last year. The purpose of the directors has been to express he sen timent history and life of the Pacific Northwest For this reason the Lewis and Clark Centennial will appeal to the. East as well as to the states in the immediate vicinity. Men and women of the Atlantic seaboard and the Mis sissippi Valley will find it worth their while to cross the mountains to Port land this Summer if they would under stand the possibilities of the country's growth. What the Exposition Commemorates. Omaha Daily Bee. The expedition of Lewis and Clark, carried on under the most trying hard ships, was pregnant in great results. It opened up to the knowledge of the world a great region until thattlme unknown and the possible resources of which had not even bean thought ot The region traversed by the indomitable explorers ' was occupied by savage tribes and every mile of the ground covered was full of dangers. The details of the story ot that expedition are of the most interest ing and thrilling character, giving a most illuminative Impression of the courago and fortitude of the men who made their .way, under all sorts of conceivable hard ships, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast It was a great march of discovery, the results of which thave been of Inestimable importance to the Nation in the century that has- since elapsed. The Exposition in commemoration of that ex pedition will be highly Interesting. While not pretending to rival in extent and niagrdficence the other centennial exposi tions of recent years, yet it will have features not less worthy of attention. The City of Portland Is one of the most' attractive on the Pacific Coast and the climate there is peculiarly inviting in the Summer months. Americans who" -are planning a vacation could not do better for their pleasure and health- than to visit the Lewis and Clark Sxyesitloa.