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rORTLAND. THURSDAY, NOV. IS, 1906.
MR. WOOD, MR. M'GIN'X AND THE
GRAND JURY.
It is not the Intention of The Orego
nian at this time to enter upon any
discussion of the effort made to obtain
indictment of its proprietors by Mr. W.
M. Ladd. Such diecuasion or comment
must wait till its proper season. But
there was an Incident three days ago
that may now with propriety have at
tention. We allude to the appearance
of Mr. Wood in the grund jury room,
nominally as a public prosecutor, but
in reality as a private prosecutor for
Mr. Ladd, and the entrance of Mr. Mc
Ginn to protest against his presence
there.
Mr. Wood was and is the paid attor
ney of Mr. Ladd. Securing appoint
ment as a Deputy District Attorney, he
entered the room to examine witnesses
and to direct the course tf the proceed-
i3to procure the indictments
and his principal (Mr. Ladd) de
But he did not inform the grand
Hat he waa Mr. Ladd's paid and
ontial attorney; he did not tell
lembers that, though he was nom-
,' appearing for the state, he was
y appearing for Mr. Ladd. We
ose the District Attorney did not
or had overlooked for the mo-
t, Mr. woods position as Mr.
M's attorney. Mr. Wood, profesoed-
ir the state, but in reality for Mr.'
proceeded with the inquiry. It
4 a scandalous travesty of the law,
andvan Imposition on the grand Jury.
Mr. McGinn, who is attorney for The
Oreonlan, learning by chance what
wast going on, left the courtroom where
he taas trying a case, descended to the
Eraiid jury room, rapped on the door,
n,3 when it was opened, entered. He
JTotetited against the presence and ac-
ytion. of Mr. Ladd's attorney as out
rageous and unprecedented; and then
for the first time the members of the
Frand jury knew that it was Mr.
Ladd's own paid attorney who was as
suming to conduct the inquiry. There
was an animated scene, but 'no vio
lence. Mr. McGinn's action In entering
the grand jury room was simply to
make the protest which the case de
manded; for the divinity of the law
jiever, should hedge a wrong. Mr. Wood
soon recognized the untenablenees of
hie position, by withdrawing from the
grand jury room, to which he did not
return.
A little later the grand jury ascended
in a body to Judge Sears' courtroom
and asked the judge if a Deputy Dis
trict Attorney could be in the grand
jury room at the same time with the
District Attorney himself. The judge
answered that he might be; but the
fige could hardly have known, or
must have overlooked the fact, that Mr,
Wood, who had been acting as Deputy
District Attorney for the state, before
the grand Jury, was acting also, in his
endeavor to secure indictments1, ae a
private prosecutor for Mr. Ladd.
The action of Mr. McGinn was proper
ana necessary, for interruption of an
unwarrantable proceeding. The Dis
trict Attorney next day requested Mr.
Wood not to enter the grand Jury room
again, and he did' not.
POOR BOM.
The decree of divorce granted by the
French court leaves Count Boni de
Castellane in a deplorable plight. All
the fruits of his campaign to capture
an American heiress are snatched from
him by one fell blow and he is cast
out upon the cold world utterly unpro
vlded for. The heartless Judge even re
fuw.d to allow- him alimony. The poor
creature is forbidden longer to live
upon the bounty of the wife whom he
has abused and betrayed. This is
tragic Indeed. Those who believe that
a wife must "love, honor and obey
.my wretch who succeeds in trapping
into a marriage, no matter how he
'ucts himself, ought to get up a
Ration fund for the bereaved Boni
indiscretions with the letters of
cabet were something shocking,
to the reports. Madame A.,
v. of B., the Countess C. and
there of the highest rank
tome respectability were
f his multitudinous fa-
. Count led, not a dou-
Sjdruple one. His do-
i lbuted among some'
jin various quarters
s she will probably
erself, has made a
m this disgusting
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caricature of a man. The wonder Is
that American girls continue' to marry
such creatures. What they are 19 no
secret. Their purpose In seeking Amer
ican "alliances" is openly proclaimed.
Their conduct after effecting the cap
ture of a silly girl with the indispensa
ble millions is Invariably the same. The
scorn of these degenerate aristocrats
for the Puritan ideas and base descent
of 'their American wives is notorious.'
They make not the least effort to con
ceal it.
The lesson of Anna Gould's matrimo
nial experience might be expected to
deter her countrywomen' from similar
adventures, but it will not. They will
continue to marry degenerate, money
seeking Dukes and'Counts exactly as if
Anna had not singed her wings in the
flame. The glamor of a "noble" name
is too seductive for them; they cannot
resist it. There is nothing to do but
let them have the experience and learn
their lesson, and when it is all over
bring their bedraggled plumage back
home for refuge.
NEW LEADERSHIP INDISPENSABLE.
It is easy to find, in the post-election
Jeremiad of ex-Boss Odell, of. New
York, the reason why the contest for
the election of Hughes was so difficult,
and why the remainder of the Republi
can ticket was defeated. The old Re
publican ring, dethroned by the de
mand for reform and new leadership.
backed by President Roosevelt, did not
support the Republican ticket, but se
cretly strove to beat it. Hughes alone
was elected, and he was elected by
Democratic votes. Odell and Black,
Piatt and Depew, with all the discarded
bosses and sub-bosses of their machine,
plied the knife in all parts of the state,
and especially in the districts outside
the metropolis.
Odell, in his spiteful outgivings, con
fesses as much. The new leadership,
he declares, is inefficient and incompe
tent; it has not the confidence of the
people; the old gang, at the head of the
party, would have swept everything.
But the retired statesmen, Piatt, De
pew, himself and the. rest, were not
consulted; their friends were ignored;
they were not asked to help and there
fore didn't help; it was time to teach
the usurpers a lesson.
Again, the interference of Roosevelt
was a blunder. The people resented it.
That is, the old bosses whom Roosevelt
had helped to dethrone resented it.
They and their f&llowere stayed at
home or voted the Democratic ticket.
But had the old gang remained in
control, had It nominated the ticket
and appealed to the people, there would
have been overwhelming Democratic
success. Even Hearst would have been
elected. New, Republican leadership,
in the spirit of Reesevelt, is vital to the
success of the Republican party, in
New York and everywhere. But what
the discarded bosses want is "mutual"
toleration and forbearance." That is,
the old ringmasters want the leadership
again. They never will get It. Or,
should they get it, the Republican
party, under their direction, would be
buried out of sight. The old leader
ship, especially in the old states, had
already continued too long. That is
part of the reason why there is more
Republican vitality in' the 6tates toward
the West. j
SOME .RECKLESS NAVIGATION.
The story of the wreck of the Galena,
like that ot the Peter Iredale, discloses
either marked ignorance of or contempt
for the dangers which are ever present
when sailing vessels approach too close
to land. A marine court composed of
shipmasters and the British Consul at
Astoria .has exonerated the master of
the Peter Iredale from any blame in
connection with the loss of his vessel,
and a similar court will probably do
likewise for the master of the Galena.
But in contemplation of these seeming
ly needless disasters- one is prone to
notice a striking inconsistency on the
part of some of the shipmasters who
circulate stories regarding the alleged
danger in approaching the Columbia
River.
If this is such a dangerous locality,
how does it happen that the masters of
these two stranded ships failed to keep
the leadline going and thus make sure
of their position? The master of the
Peter Iredale sighted Tillamook light at
2 o'clock in the morning, and . four
hours later his ship was a helpless
wreck just south of the entrance to
the Columbia River. Only a slight
knowledge of geography and naviga
tion was necessary to warn him that
when Tillamook light was sighted it
was time to use a little caution, but, as
results show, he kept moving in shore
until he picked up the land with the
keel of his ship.
The Piaster of the Galena also sight
ed land several times in the forty-eight
hours before he Anally drove his ship
ashore. He also exhibited considerable
indifference about any danger in get
ting too close in. According to the
mate s story, the captain was snug in
his berth until a few hinutes before the
ship struck, although it would seem
that his place on approaching a dan
gerous coast in thick weather was on
deck giving his undivided attention to
the navigation of his ship.
In this case, as in that of the Peter
Iredale, there is no evidence that the
leadline was used before" the vessel
struck. These little delinquencies on
the part of the shipmasters might be
overlooked werept not for the fact that
among some of the underwriters there
is a tendency to lay undue stress on
ww wu.ifei.ii3 u, me ujutiiuia. xt-iver en-f-trance.
These dangers might be less
ened if some of the men who compjain
of them would keep their leadlines go
ing or head offshore when they desired
to take a morning nap.
THE LAW OF LAWLESSNESS.
Recent events in Portland, and fre
quent tragedies of a similar kind here
and elsewhere, give particular interest
to a carefully written article in the last
number of the Green Bag, by Thomas
J. Kernan, of Baton Rouge, La. His
subject is the "Jurisprudence of Law
lessness," which he says we have in
this country Just as certainly as we
have a jurisprudence of law. The jur
isprudence of lawlessness has its foun
dation in the public opinion of the com
munities !n which it prevails and has
all the certainty and sanction that con
stitutions or statutes could give it. He
formulates the law of lawlessness in
ten sections, eight of which relate to
criminal and two to civil law.
Briefly summed up, these laws assert
the right of ahiob to lynch a. rapist,
the right of a husband to slay any man
who commits adultery with his wife,
the right ot a woman or her near rela
tive to kill her seducer, the right of a
virtuous woman or her near relative to
slay a man who traduces her character,
the right of one man to kill another in
a fair duel or a fair fight, the right to
commit an assault upon the passing of
the lie or other opprobrious epithets,
the presumption of gnilt against one
charged with horsestealing, the pre
sumption in favor of plaintiff in suits
by individuals against corporations, the
presumption in favor of plaintiff, in a
suit by en employe against his em
ployer for damages for personal inju
ries. That lawless laws such as these ex
ist in this country will not be denied,
though some of them have application
only in some sections, and others have
only an ill-defined application through
out the country. The presumption
against a man charged with horse
stealing is of very doubtful applica
tion anywhere. Probably even in pio
neer days on the range there was no
presumption against a man unless he
was found with a stolen horse in his
possession and the prima facie case
thus established is one that is recog
nized by the rules of law rather than
the rules of lawlessness. The presump
tion in favor of the plaintiff in a suit
against a corporation or against an
employer was more generally recog
nized a few years ago than it is today.
Frequent disclosures of fabricated in
juries have made juries a little suspi
cious, and unless the plaintiff clearly
proves his injury and its serious na
ture there is little inclination to ex
tend him sympathy.
Over at Seattle a few months ago,
when the slayer of Creffleld was ac
quitted, we had a clear illustration of
the operation of the lawless law which
gives a near relative the right to
avenge a wrong to a woman. We have
had a few cases of a sifiilar nature in
Oregon. In the last few days a killing
has taken place in Portland which may
give opportunity for a decision upon
the exact 6tatus of this law of law
lessness. A Jury of twelve men will
probably say whether the law exists in
this community. The trial Judge will
declare that no such principle Is known
in the rules of law and it will be for
the jury to say whether such a princi
ple prevails in the law of lawlessness
in this state. Such a principle cannot
exist without the sanction of a jury.
TILE WATERWAY'S ADVANTAGES.
In his speech in Chicago last Satur
day night James J. Hill stated that
there was a crying need for a fifteen
foot waterway between St. Louis and
New Orleans, and that the necessity
for this improvement would increase
with time. This unsolicited acknowl
edgment of the necessity of river Im
provement, coming from a man who is
the foremost representative of inter
ests which might naturally be opposed
to river improvements and the competi
tive rates which they admit of, is of
great value. There is a limit to the
volume of business that can toe han
dled on the railroad tracks which lead
down the Mississippi Valley, tout there
is practically no limit to the amount
that could be handled on a fifteen-foot
waterway, and with such a waterway
open to all comers a monopoly for the
purpose of regulating rates would be
an impossibility..
What is true of the Mississippi River
is equally true of the Columbia, the
necessity for improvement here being'
in degree even more important than
that of the Mississippi, as the character
of the land makes construction of
railroads much more difficult and ex
pensive here than through the Missis
sippi "Valley. No railroad has ever suf
fered by construction of a canal or
improvement of rivers in the terri
tory where it was operated. On the
contrary, these waterways have aided
in the development of the country and
the production of traffic to such an ex
tent that they have proved beneficial
to the roads as well as the people.
Mr. Hill is speaking from experience
when he advocates waterway improve
ment, for every Summer when the
Great Lakes offer a cheap highway
through the Middle West he acknowl
edges the advantage of that method of
transportation by a reduced rate on
through traffic by the lake routes. The
mileage of navigable rivers, canals and
other watercourses in the United States
is so small in comparison with that of
the railroads and the territory that can
toe actually reached by these waterways
without the aid of rail connections is
so insignificant that the logical posi
tion of the railroads is that of allies
Instead of enemies. To this fact is due
the growing friendliness of the rail
roads for river Improvements.
No better illustration of the advan
tages of water routes for commerce can
be cited than the present freight
blockade between this city and Califor
nia ports. With the railroads working
up to the capacity of their equipment
they are unable to handle one-half of
the traffic that could be obtained, and
there are today loading at Portland or
along the Columbia River for Califor
nia ports twenty-eight vessels, while
another fleet of thirty vessels is en
route or chartered to load here. Were
it not for this big fleet of water car
riers, stagnation and ruin would over
whelm trade in some lines, and the
loss of business would be felt in all
branches of trade throughout the state.
Sympathetically the railroad business
would be affected long after the rush
iwas over, for any check in the devel
opment of the country is felt in all of
its industries. Water transportation is
one of the greatest advantages of any
city or locality, and Portland and the
territory tributary has been exception
ally favored by nature in this respect.
CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS.
One serious fault in our system of
criminal laws is that which prohibits
the carrying of concealed weapons. In
its effect this law permits a criminal
to carry a revolver while a law-abiding
citizen does not. The man who needs
protection has none, and the man who
is bent upon crime may carry his
weapons. The right to bear arms is
guaranteed by the Constitution, yet the
law makes carrying a concealed
weapon a crime, and to go around car
rying a weapon exposed would be evi
dence sufficient to send any man to the
insane asylum. The law against carry
ing concealed weapons never prevented
any criminal from carrying a revolver
with which to commit murder if his
efforts at robbery should be resisted.
The penalty for carrying a concealed
weapon is a fine of $10 to $200. or im
prisonment for five to 100 days in the
County Jail, yet vagrants are fre
quently arrested, their revolvers taken
from them while they are in Jail for a
few days for vagrancy, and wheir- re
leased the weapons are returned to
them.
There is no law which authorizes the
confiscation of a revolver, and if any
are ever kept by the officers the act is
performed in a private and not an offf
cial capacity. When men are arrested
on suspicion of some other crime, the
charge of carrying concealed weapons
Is sometimes filed in the absence of suf
ficient evidence to warrant . any more
serious charge. In such cases the pen
alty imposed is usually close to the
minimum fine or term of imprisonment.
The sentencing officer takes the view
that, since no serious crime has been
committed, a severe penalty would be
unjust.
A different view should be taken of
the crime of carrying- concealed
weapons. There should be a 'presump
tion that a man who carries a concealed
weapon does so for an evil purpose, and
he should be dealt with accordingly,
unless his position in the community
or the evidence he may produce shows
that he had need to carry the arm for
self-protection. The ever-shifting va
grant, the hobo, the saloon hum. who
carries a revolver is a menace to the
peace of the community and the lives
of its citizens. Such a man should be
dealt with severely and given a sen
tence that will be effective in discour
aging the future commission of the of
fense. The law should be amended so
that every weapon found upon a penson
shall be confiscated and so that a pros
ecution shall toe had in every instance
of violation of the law. It might be
well to provide that a man may carry
a revolver after securing permission
from the Sheriff, upon sufficient show
ing of reason therefor, but subject to
some such provision the law against
carrying concealed weapons should be
enforced with such heavy penalties as
will diminish the frequency of the of
fense.
The world's ' record for "non-stop
6moke" at the recent brewers' exhibi
tion at Islington, England, was won
by a smoke-seasoned old gardener, who
kept his toriar-root pipe alight one
hour and fifty-three minutes. He
pulled lustily at the pipe, in the hope
of completing a two hours' record, and
upon recovering from the stupor into
which he fell refused to be consoled
because he did not hold out seven
minutes longer. " If a man's ambition
runs in this Jine of achievement, he
should perhaps be lauded for setting
his mark high. But what a sorry spec
tacle he makes of himself in such a
contest against physical endurance!
One might almost toe sorry for that
malodorous- thing, the old briar-wood
pipe, in being made a party to an ef
fort at once so silly, so useless and so
strenuous.
The copper trust has granted the
Montana miners an advance of 25 tents
per day, explaining that it is made
"on account of the satisfactory condi
tion of the metal markets." If this
system should prevail for any gTeat
length of time, the "Crime of Amalga
gated" would soon cease to possess ter
rors any greater than those of the
"Crime of Seventy-Three." Perhaps
this latest coup of the copper trust is
to forestall Tommy Lawson's an
nouncement of the "Remedy" which
he has been advertising for several
months.
v Of course everybody is glad that
Hood River apples are $3 per box, and
Rogue River pears $6 per box, or there
abouts, for everybody doesn't have to
buy 'em. Most of us can shut our eyes
and eat the 75-cent kind, worms and
all, when we can get them. But it's
different with eggs. Who can be happy
with eggs at 40 and 45 cents per dozen?
Not the producer, . for eggs are scarce,
and not the consumer, for money is
scarce. We'd like to hear from the
hen.
Mr. Bryan gets almost as much con
solation out of the last election as the
Prohibitionists. Oklahoma went Dem
ocratic, which pleases filr. Bryan, and
a Prohibition State Senator was elected
over in Seattle as a result of fusion
between the Prohibitionists and a thou
sand Democrats, which naturally de
lights the Prohibitionists. All the Re
publicans got out of the election was
everything else.
Hens will roost in almost any old
place and pick their feed in the stubble
fields, but they won't lay many eggs
with that kind of care. Shelter from
the storms, a proper variety of food
and plenty of light, air and exercise are
necessary to secure eggs at the 40-cents-a-dozen
season of the year.
Whether poultry pays does not depend
altogether upon the poultry.
Why should any one complain of No
vember weather in November? Let us
be mindful of our blessings, don rain
coats, raise umbrellas and sally forth
Into air as mild as that of May, duly
thankful that our battle is, with rain
Instead of snow, and the south wind
instead of the evil wind that comes
from the east.
Ambrose Bierce, it seems, wrote the
lines beginning "The bullet that pierced
Goebel's chest." He says so. If this is
the "drunken editorial writer who was
discharged by Mr. Hearst" he was im
mediately re-employed by the benevo
lent Star corporation, which is Mr.
Hearst's alias for legal purposes.
Mr. Moody has held another "confer
ence" over the prosecution of the
Standard Oil trust. Rogers and Arch
bold must quake with terror at the re
ports of these conferences. They are
indeed most fearsome events. It is sur
prising that Standard Oil survives
them as it does.
If the number of Supreme Judges
should toe increased and the appointing
power too vested in the Governor, Judge
Hailey might continue on the bench,
notwithstanding his failure to succeed
in the recent election, when Judge
Eakin polled the larger vote.
By, sending warships to Tangier
France does not purpose to "intimi
date" Morocco. Her only object is to
scare the Paynim Sultan out of his
swarthy hide. To diplomatists words
are very important matters.
Mr. Hearst, as might have been ex
pected, complains in large capitals and
double leads that the dear people don't
know what Is good for them. Evident
ly they know what might be bad for
them. ,
Secretary Bonaparte wants a "legal
ized boss" in every state, who shall
name all candidates for office. We
have the system now in Oregon. It is
called the direct primary law. .
Boss Odell Is Justly Indignant at the
way his successors are wrecking the
Republican party. Party wrecking Is
his exclusive job.
The vigilant secret service has dis
covered a new Buffalo $10 counterfeit
note. Buffalo? That appears to bp the
proper word.
The President arrived safely at Pan
ama, without putting up any sensa
tional talk about being in the enemy's
country.
There is another rumor ' that Presi
dent Castro is dead; but it is hard to
get Castro to believe It, ,
VENGEANCE ON HEARST. .
Ia California as) Well aa la New
York.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
Something of the intensely bitter op
position which Hearst and his progres
sive methods have aroused in California
is shown in the followingfrom the San
Francisco Star:
A pleasant thought to every Califor
nia democrat is ' that their brethren in
New York avenged with their ballots the
treachery of Hearst in California- The
L$t4Tidity of fighting the clean anil good
democratic ticket nominated in this state
while he was running as the democratic
candidate In New York ought to have
been apparent even to the obtuse intel
lect that hoped to delude the people toy
posing as a reformer while embracing
and aiding the Tammany grafters.
But Hearst has fooled his dupes so
often and so easily that he believed them
capable of any feats of foolish credulity.
An enormous number of them are, but a
greater number of American citizens are
not. And these got together In New York
and taught Hearst that his flatterers and
partisans are as enthusiastic liars as his
own newspapers.
We think he will heed the lesson. It
has cost him a mint of money and humi
liation enough to bring the blush even to
his cheek of triple brass. Such a flaying
as Root administered at Utlca ought to
be sufficient to. make even the Hearst
head hang in shame. In the long history
Of American politics no public man was
ever administered a castigation so ter
rific, and certainly no public man ever so
well deserved it.
But William Randolph Hearst is down
and out. His bolt is shot. All his lies,
his treachery, his combinations with cor
ruption", his hypocrisy all, all have failed
him. His malice, his defamation, his
slander and his spite have come home,
like curses, to roost. Shamed, defeated
and despised, he stands, clothed with the
scorn of good men, a mark for the jeers
of all who hate him and his evil ways.
He has had his day. At the bar of public
opinion he has made his plea, and the
judgment of that Court of Last Resort
is that he is a fakir, a mountebank, and
in the words of Secretary Root, "an in
sincere, self-seeking, dangerous dema
gogue." May the fate that has been his be
that of all of his kind as long as the,
republic endures.
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND.
Cities Enjoy Leaa Home Rale Than
Cities of America.
Frederic C. Howe in Scribner's.
The struggle for self-government in
England has been harder than our own.
The London County Council has had to
make its way against the obstruction of
privilege at every turn. For years it has
sought permission from Parliament to link
up its tramway systems through the use
of the Thames bridges and embankment.
But the House of Lords always inter
posed a veto. Distrustful of democracy,
the House of Lords is even more fearful
of its own privileges and its outlook from
the terraces of the Houses of Parlia
ment. The same reactionary interests prevent
ed the municipalization of the water sup
ply up to 1905. Prior to that time it was
in the hands of eight private water com
panies. Despite the fact that portions of
the city were inadequately supplied. Par
liament, jealous of its own interests, pre
vented every effort 'at municipalization.
And when the system was finally taken
over, Parliament declined to trust the
County Council, but created in its stead
a Water Board of 66 members, nominated
by various local authorities and only in
directly responsible to the people. And
when the Water Board came to buy the
companies they were not permitted to
acquire them at their physical value, but
were forced to pay an immense award
covering the capitalized value- of the
earnings of the plants. While the eight
companies were estimated to be worth
in the neighborhood of $120,000,000, Parlia
ment Imposed upon the community a
method of valuation which involved a
payment of $205,791,000, which sum was
still $40,000,000 less than the companies
claimed.
The English cities enjoy less home rule
than do the cities of America. They have
to go to Parliament for every little thing.
And Parliament is very cautious in the
things it permits the cities to do. This
is particularly true of London. For the
things the County Council wants to do
hurt the big Interests in control of Parlia
ment. Almost all of the 121 square miles
upon which the city is built is owned
by the Dukes, of Westminster, of Bed
ford, of Portland and a few other Parlia
mentary landlords. They will not sell
their lands, but let them out on lease.
And the tenant has to make the repairs,
maintain the property and pay all the
taxes, too. -
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EXTRA CARS DURING BUSY HOURS
Only Way to Relieve the Congested
Conditions la Portland.
PORTLAND, Nov. 14. (To the Ed
itor.) No one objects to paying a
nickel for a streetcar ride, but he has
the right to demand that the company
carry him home with reasonable des
patch and in comparative . comfort.
There is only one remedy for the pres
ent grievance: Double up the service
for just one hour, between 5:15 and
6:15 P. M. That is to say, run two
cars where now pne is run. If that
plan is inconvenient, attach a trailer
to each regular car during the hour
mentioned.
The fact is, Portland is growing
faster than its public utilities. Take,
for instatice, the old telephone, com
pany, which, five years ago, erected a
headquarters building thought to be
big enough for the next generation,
Already the offices have had to be
moved out to make room for apparatus
In every direction the outskirts are
crying for Bull Run water, gas and
electric lights. Work of construction
for these utilities is never going to
cease; those in ch,arge must prepare
tor expansion.
just now tne promem is not more
track but more cars. These can be
provided; also men to operate them. It
may be assumed that the streetcar
company has ample power to move
them. If not, let the electric branch
of the consolidation get busy, and
manufacture enough "juice."
JOHN LIVINGSTON.
Kentucky Man Sleeps For 12 Years.
Columbia (Ky.) Despatch.
A remarkable case has just come to
light in Russell County, and the truth
of the case is vouched for by prominent
citizens, wno say rierscnall Grider. aired
63 years, of near Rowens. fell asleep 12
years ago, ana an eiiorts to awaken hirr
have proved unavailing to this day. Dur
ing that time he has been fed on liquid
nourishment twice a day. The man's
puis and physical condition are said to
be normal, and his muscles are more
supple than those of a man who has had
exercise.
Modern "Last of the Mohicans."
Exchange.
Miss Frances Freelove Jackson, the
only real Indian in Worcester, Mass., and
the "last of the Mohicans," is 101 years
old. She has been a member of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church In Colchester,
Conn., for 89 years. Her father was
Anson Jackson, a pure-blooded Spanish
Indian. Her mother lived to be 101 years
old.
f Hysteria In the East.
' Chicago Chronicle.
The people of New York, though they
have not elected Hearst, have voted for
him in such numbers as to give convin
cing evidence that they are dangerously
affected by substantially the same malady
from which the Western people have al
most recovered.
OBJECTS TO USE OP WATER METER
Change System to Equally Benefit
Owners and Poor Renters.
PORTLAND, Nov 14. (To the Editor.)
In regard to Mr. Cunningham's objec
tion to property-owners paying the as
sessments on their property, he lwiows
well that all improvements on property
improve its value. If it was not for
mprovements, what would our country
be? It is none of his business whether
the owners put the cost of (mprovements
into rent or other uses, so long as he
doesn't charge anything beyond a reason
able rent. He certainly has the improve
ments. As an observer on a long tour
from here to the Atlantic ocean. I kept
my eyes open for Just' such things. I
claim to know something of what i am
talking about, as those observations cost
money and time, but I got most of the
facts in regard to this matter.
If a uerson Davs his rent as per con
tract, he can make his plans accordingly.
and not have to run to City Hall and pay
50 cents or send his wife to have the
water turned on. That is the duty of the
landlord or agent for the property. He is
a renter and according to the way it is
done in a great many of our successful
cities east of here. Now. Mr. Cunning
ham knows, if he wants to, that this
method of assessment is not popular nor
will it be, so long as the present me
thod is in force. If he was not pre
judiced some way, he would not write in
the style complained of. Still, cleanli
ness ts next to godliness. Now he wants
the meter. What has God to do with
such a small and cheap disposition of a
free flow of Adam's ale when three times
more water Is going to waste' than is
thrown into the pipes?
Now, we have a great many people
turning their faces toward the West and
especially this city. We do not want
such small business as this, that owners
and agents should announce that an ex
orbitant water tax is imposed. I be
lieve that all cities in good standing
should see that the present generation
should not pay for the next generation's
improvements. It looks to me that Mr.
Cunningham might explain why he ad
vocates the use of metersi The writer
of this note is a holder of property close
by the main pipe line, not far from Mount
.Tabor, and also thinks it would be a
great benefit to have Bull Run water,
both as a benefit and an improvement.
Our water system must be changed to
meet the views of property owners and
poor renters. Nobody wants free water
or free coal but renters do not want to
pay that kind of property tax. Let the
tax follow the property, as all other
taxes do. I think it a pity that Mr. Cun
ningham pays $2.25 a month for well
water, while his neighbors pay $1.50 for
the same service.
SAML. MACARTNEY.
STAND FOR THE WEDDWG RING
Portland Woman Grows Eloquent In
Defense of Band of Gold.
PORTLAND. Nov. 14. (To the Ed
itor.) It would keep the average wom
an busy -nowadays if she made an
effort to follow every fashion note she
sees in print.
Doubtless the latest dictate is that
quoted in the Sunday Oregonian, which
announces, on the questionable author
ity of a "fashionable manicurist," that
wedding rings are going out of fash
ion! Quite likely they are along
with babies, and brains, and plain,
everyday human kindness among a
portion of the ultra-fashionable world
at large. This eminent authority for
got to mention that, with some, the
marriage ceremony also is away be
hind the times, and is at best a form
of mummery to be gone through with
before the next divorce can be ob
tained. Such a view is nauseating to persons
of honorable sentiments, and it may be
said to the credit of Portland's finest
citizens, that both ceremony and cus
tom are considered as sacred now as
they were in the days when our God
fearing grandmothers followed their
sturdy husbands across the plains, or
rocked the cradle in the rough-hewn
forest home.
Most of our matrons whether it be
the dark-skinned foreigner, who wears
her ring on the wrong finger of the
wrong hand, the season's most charm
ing bride, or the city's best-dressed
mother of mature years would as soon
lose either of her hands as her wed
ding ring. What most of us have to
fear is, not that this ancient and hon
orable custom is "going out," but that
we may be unable to make some dear
fellow feel that we ought to be in fash
ion. Not with a "fragile-looking cir
cle" to be "preserved as an interesting
souvenir." but with a good, substantial
band that will wear till the hands at
last are folded across the heart that
loved him!
A little less fashion and a lot more
sense would do us all good.
M. AGNES KELLY.
rocket Telephone For the Police.
New York Tribune.
A pocket telephone for police purposes
is to be seen in daily practical working
in Vienna. In the Austrian capital the
system is universal, and every police offi
cer on duty is provided with the neces
sary appliances. In every street of im
portance in the city special call boxes
have been placed, and every officer on
duty having occasion to communicate
with his station has only to pull out
his pocket apparatus, adjust It to the
wire in the box and communication at
once is established. As a method of sum
morning aid in all but petty cases the sys
tem seems to have many advantages over
the whistle.
NOW WATCH
LITANY TO THE OREGON MEN.
She Shouldn't Be Worked as a Sort of
Perpetual Motion Machine.
DUNSMUIR, Cal.. Nov. 14. (To the
Editor.) I procured the Sunday Oregon
ian at this place, en route to Portland
and am much interested in two different
articles on the subject of the poultry in
dustry in Oregon. I wish some one would
write an article on this subject and head
it: "Fault lies with the Oregon Farmer,"
instead of "Fault Lies with the Oregon
Hen."
If I knew enough about the subject, I
would tackle the Job myself, but I do
know that Oregon poultry raisers are
not getting the results that are gained in
other portions of the country. I have
given quite a little study to the subject
and during the last two weeks I have
visited, several large poultry ranches In
California and taking them as a whole I
believe that the Oregon farmer is be
hind the times.
Our dairying interests cannot be sur
passed any where in the world. But how
successful would the dairyman be, who
now and again forgot to milk his herd
or who forgot to feed and water them?
How much money would he make if he
did not provide the right kind of feed
at the right time, the right kind of
shelter and the right kind of sanitary
conditions? Our darying interests have
been the outgrowth of much time and
money spent In getting the right kind of
stock and knowing how to get results.
Let us apply the same rule to our Oregon
chickens, and not blame the poor hena
for something which isn't their fault.
In the East and in California the raisers
have learned how to work their hens at
high pressure the year round. They keep
chickens to get the eggs, and a hen that
can't be made to lay. goes into the pot.
Food, shelter, cleanliness and general
sanitary conditions are quite as neces
sary to the poultry man as to the dairy
man, and too many of our Oregon farm
ers look upon a hen as a sort of perpetual
motion machine that ought to work
whether or no.
Who can blame the hen for striking,
when she isn't given a nice, warm, clean
place in which to sleep? Who can blame
her when she is fed a lot of dirty, musty,
spoiled grain, instead of something which
is sound, clean and sweet? Who can
blame the Biddy who is shut up week in
and week out. when she ought to be
given free range and allowed some good
wholesome exercise?
The wonder of it is that many of our
Oregon hens don't strike the year round!
It is my idea, that were a walking dele
gate to visit Oregon hendom, complaints
would be filed against our farmers and
poultry raisers, which. If allowed, would
go a long way to break the strike.
WALTER A. GOSS.
THE FIRST JUVENILE COURT.
Opened In New York City nnd Then
Other Places Followed Solt.
NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (To the Ed-,
jtor.) In an extremely interesting;
summary of the career of Judge Lind
sey, of the Denver Juvenile Court,
printed in a recent issue of The Ore
gonian, reference is made, under the
sub-title, "Origin of the Juvenile
Court," to what many will consider the
"discovery" of the Juvenile Court by
Judge Lindsey. I am sure that such a
misstatement of fact cannot be more
distasteful to anybody than to Judge
Lindsey, being, as he is, familiar with
the methods of procedure in respect to
the treatment of children charged with
crime in New York for a period of 25
years.
The Juvenile Court idea is the nat
ural consequence of a series of amend
ments to the penal code of this state,
instituted by this society, whose efforts
were the first to bring about the sep
aration of children from adults charged
with crime. The early separation of
these classes in the Police Courts
in this city led to the adoption
of similar legislation in other cities,
with the result that special statute
were enacted in different states provid
ing for the establishment of separate
trltil courts. The Cities of Chicago and
Boston eiirh had their separate courts
for children long before the Children's
Court was inaugurated in Denver,
which was, by the way, one of the last
cities to come into line.
The society's only desire in forward
ing this communication is to set aright
the numerous misleading statements
to the effect that the Juvenile Court
never existed until that in Denver was
opened. E FELLOWS PERKINS,
Secretary and Superintendent of the
New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children.
When Are Blnekbcrrles ?
The London Chronicle.
In a field oft a Surrey lane approached
a perfect specimen of the peasant, slouch
hatted and smocked. He was leading by
the hand a boy of about 10, obviously a
town-bred youngster. They paused for a
moment. "What's those, gran'pa?" asked
the boy, pointing to a cluster of berries
in the hedge. "Them be blackberries, my
boy." '"Blackberries! Why. they're red!"
"Red! Of course they be red! Don't
you know, boy, that blackberries be al
ways red when they're green?"
Profits of Havana Car Conductors
New York Times.
Havana street car conductors ought to
get rich fast. It costs five cents United
States and seven cents Cuban to ride, and
you pay in either kind of money, as you
like. But in the exchanges United States
money is worth only $1.12 Cuban, so the
enterprising conductor who runs his own
exchange nets a profit of twenty-eight
cents on the dollar.
THE DIRT FLY!
Prom the New Tork Globs.
JL