THE MORNING OREGONIA3ST, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1907.
BOTH STATES TO
PROTECT SALMON
Oregon and Washington Leg
islative Committees Come
to an Agreement.
AGAINST SUNDAY FISHING
Bill Will Be Introduced at Salem and
at Olympia lor Close ot Twenty
four Hours Each Week.
Shortens Open Season.
By agreement between the lawmak
ers of Oregon and Washington, reached
at a concurrent committee conference
held in this city yesterday, bills will
he Introduced within a few days in the
Oreson and Washington Legislatures
recommending that no salmon fishing
lie allowed on the Columbia River be
tween 6 o'clock P. M. Saturday to 6
I. M. Sunday, during the Summer open
season, which it is planned will extend
from April 20 to August 20. The bills
will shorten the present open season
five days in April and five days in Au
gust. The proposed bills will make the
closed season from March 15 to April
20 and from August 20 to September
10. The present law makes the closed
seasons from March 15 to April 15 and
from August 25 to September 10.
Abolition of fishwheels and. other
gear for ten miles below Celilo Kalis,
as recommended by Master Fish War
den Van Dusen. of Oregon, is not rec
ommended by tiie two joint committees.
The lengthening of the closed season
and abolishing Summer Sunday Ashing
are the principal features of the meas
ure agreed upon by the members of
the concurrent committee from the Or
egon and Washington Legislatures, ap
pointed to frame a bill to be passed
jointly by the lawmakers of the two
states for the protection of Columbia
Kiver salmon. The committee finished
its work yesterday evening, after a
spirited session ttiat lasted three hours
Saturday night and from 10 A. M. until
6:30 P. M. yesterday.
The committee will also ask the Leg
islatures of the two states that each
appoint a committee for the purpose
of investigating the Columbia River
fisheries and to learn what can be done
to benefit the fishing industry. This
committee will also Investigate the
Pendoreille and Payette Lakes, Salmon
River and connecting lakes, all in
Idaho. These investigators will be ex
pected to report at the next sessions
of the Legislatures. It is recommended
that each delegation consist of three
Senators, two of whom shall be hold
overs, and two Representatives.
Kishway at Celilo Falls.
One of the principal objects of this
committee will be the attempt to de
vise a plan to make a ftshway around
Celilo Kalis, so that the salmon can
easily get into the upper Columbia.
Another measure that was favored at
yesterday's meeting was for the ex
termination of seals and sealions at
the mouth of the Columbia River.
There were ideas aired in plenty and
a series of lengthy discussions in the
committee meeting. But when the mo
tions were put, there were only two
votes recorded against the proposed
Spring closing season and one against
the Kail close. Jf there were any who
'voted against the Sunday close this
fact was not made known by the com
mitteemen after the. struggle was over.
It was expected that the new meas
ure would provide for patrol-boats to
see that the provisions of the bill were
carried cut, but no action of this sort
was taken. The bill will provide for
penalties for the violation of the law,
and it is expected tnat the Fish War
dens will see that it is obeyed.
The committee held its meetings in
the Hotel Portland. All day yesterday
the lobby was crowded with cannery
men and fishermen from both the up
per and lower river, who came to add
fuel to the flames of the ancient feud
existing between the two sections.
Many of these visitors were called upon
to give their opinions on what changes
should be made to tha existing fishery
laws. The members of the joint com
mittee were:
Those Who Participated.
From Oregon Representative P. W.
Knowles, of "Wasco County, chairman;
Representative R. S. Karrell, of Mult-
of Clatsop; Senator W. T. Schofleld, of
Clatsop, and Senator J. 30. Hedges, of
Clackamas, who was unable to be pres
ent. Krom Washington Senator A. L.
AVatson, of Cowlitz County, chairman;
Senator H. S. McGowan, of Pacific and
Wahkiakum: Representative J. G. Meg
ler, ot Wahkiakum; Representative J.
It I. Stevenson, of Skamania, and Rep
resentative K. A. Blnckmore. of Clark.
Among the well-known fishermen in
the city yesterday, many of whom ap
peared before the committee, were
! lsh Commissioner John L. Riseland,
Deputy Fish Commissioner L. C. Bur
ton and Superintendent of Hatcheries
J. M. Crawford, all of Washington;
Master J? lsh warden H. G. 'Van Dusen
Heputy Fish Warden H. A. Webster
and Superintendent of Ontario Hatch
cry Krank Brown, of Oregon; Senator
Wiiealdon and Representative Hen
drick, of Wasco County; F. A. Seufert,
J. R. Burke, Frank M. Warren, - Sr.,
. K. M. Warren, Jr., George M. George,
John and Charles McGowan, George W,
Sanborn, Fred Barker, Samuel Elmore,
Alexander Grant, F. P. Kendall, W. T.
Chutter,- Nelse Futrup, Louis Hon, Ed
ward Rosenborg, Ole J. Settem and H,
M. Lorntsen, the last three represent
ing the Fishermen's Union.
BUILDING PLANS ACTIVE
Many Xew Structures Under Way on
East Side.
Architects are preparing plans for
many East Side buildings. Richard
Martin is working on plans for the
three-story brick for the Buckman sis
ters, to be erected on the southwest
corner of Lnion avenue and East Burn
side street. Work is to start on this
building March 1, the weather permit
ting. The Masonic building committee
for the East Side lodges is meeting
frequently to consider plans for the
Masonic building to be erected on East
Eighth and East Burnslde streets.
iNOthing definite has yet been decided
on except that the building will be
erected in time for the lodges to oc
cupy-at the expiration of their lease
of quarters in the Burkhard block,
G. L. Camp has just completed the
plans for the big ice manufacturing
plant for the Crystal lee & Storage
Company, to cover the half block on
East Salmon, between East Sixth and
Seventh streets. Part of the present
plant will be retained, but practically
all the machinery will be. new and mod
ern. The capacity of the plant will be
more than doubled. This plant will be
just east of the East Side Opera-House
and there is some talk of securing
steam for heating the theater from the
ice plant. There has been some exca
vating done for W. L. Morgan's brick
building on Grand avenue and East
Stark street, but the weather has not
been favorable. The Western 'Electric
Company will probably use plans of its
San Francisco house for Its building in
the warehouse district. It is under
stood that the company will build as
soon as possible.
The East Side Is very much interest
ed In the announcement that the Har
riman interests will build a freight and
passenger depot on the East Side this
year. W. L. Boise, who recently had
a conference with General Manager
O'Brien, has not hesitated to quote Mr.
O'Brien as saying" the depot will be
built this year. Another enterprise is
being talked up quietly, and that Is a
general market, to be located at some
prominent point on Grand avenue. It
is thought that such a market place
could be made to pay well. Plans have
been prepared for several important
buildings scattered over the East Side,
on which work will be started this
Spring.
CHANGES MEET1NGT0NIGHT
PEOPLE'S FORUM AYILL HOLD
SESSIONS THURSDAY.
County Judge AVebster Speaks on
The Convict-Built Road" Pro
tests Against Prison Labor.
At the regular meeting of the Peo
ple's Forum, -held last night in the
Selling-Hirsch building, it was decided
to hold the weekly meetings hereafter
on Thursday, night. Many of the mem
bers objected to Sunday night on the
ground that it interfered with church
golng. The plan of holding the meet
ings Thursdays will be abandoned if
it does not increase attendance.
County Judge Lionel R. Webster de
livered the address of the evening. His
topic was "The Convict-Built Road."
Judge Webster has always been in
favor of this system of employing the
city, county and state prisoners, and
last night he advanced a number of
good reasons why the plan should be
adopted.
'At present the penitentiary convicts
are being hired out to a corporation,"
he said, "and employed in making
stoves. For each man's labor the state
is being paid 35 cents a day. By this
system the convicts are put Into di
rect competition with organized labor,
doing the same work as the union man.
The work of two of these convicts is
equal to the work of one free man, and
in this way the state is selling the
labor of a man at 70 cents a day.
'By putting these criminals to work
on the streets and roads we are not
injuring free labor. We are creating a
new kind of labor. We place these con
victs in a place where the work with
out them would not be done.
"In a few years, by working these
men in this way, you would have many
miles of good roads at a comparatively
small expense. Many people give as
an objection that the convicts are a
vicious and desperate class of men, but
I do not think that they would harm
anybody if worked on the roads. It
has been said that the only difference
between a great many men in prisons
and a great many more outside is that
the men inside have been proved
guilty."
OREGON'S FAMOUS FRUIT
OKiSGO-N has won more medals in
the past ten years for her fine
fruits than any other state in the
Union, and the fame of several varie
ties of Pacific Coast fruits has spread
to the remotest corners of the earth.
Could these facts have been fore
seen some 60 years ago by Henderson
Luelling, an humble Iowa farmer and
nurseryman, there would have been
great rejoicing in his simple heart, for
it was Luelling who, in the days be
fore the great transcontinental steel
rails were laid across the trackless
waste, loaded two old-fashioned, creak
ing wagons with grafted seedlings of
peach, apple, pear, quince and cherry
trees, and drove his oxen forth from
civlliaztion, facing the danger of In
dian massacre and other frontier per
ils, that he might start the fruit indus
try in the new West. For many weary
and watchful months Luelling and his
little party traveled across the plains,
and the story of their adventures will
oe handed down in nlstory with those
of other brave pioneers.
The Luelling train and the two
wagonloads of ' young fruit finally ar
rived in Oregon, and the trees were
planted by Luelling himself, with great
care, in an abandoned clearing a half
mile north of what is now the town of
Milwaukie, about five miles from Port
land. The story of how the great
fruit-growing industry, of the Pacific
Coast developed from Luelling's little
orchard, of how cuttings were secured
by other Oregon pioneers, and of how
they were sent later to California and
the Puget Sound country, there to be
gin the splendid industries for which
the whole Pacific Coast is famed, is a
story that la recorded in the annals of
horticulture and told with pride by
every old Oregon pioneer who has lived
to see Oregon surpass every other
state in the Union in her fruit exhibits
all over the country.
It was early in 1845 that Henderson
Luelling first thought of starting the
fruit-growing industry' on the Pacific
Coast. The idea was .first suggested
to him by reading a report of the
Lewis- and Clark expedition. Luell
ing's father before him, and his ances
tors for many generations back, had
been nurserymen in Wales, and when
Henderson Luelling. was a small boy,
he came with his parents to America,
his father continuing in the nursery
business - In North Carolina. As a
young man Henderson Luelling moved
to Illinois, then to Indiana, and later
to Iowa, whero he conducted a. nursery
business In connection with his farm.
For two years before Luelling started
West with his young trees, he was
working out his plan, grafting young
seedling trees into cnoice old stock,
and rooting the grorted cuttings, so
that each tree carried across the plains
should be young, strong and hardy, and
of pure strain. He built two wagon
boxes, providing a layer of properly
fertilized earth, from 18 inches to four
feet in depth, in the bottom of the
boxes in which to plant the trees, and
constructing a framuwork around the
tops of the boxes to protect the trees
from the hungry' oxen.
One of these wagi-ns was driven by
Luelling himself, and his 16-year-old
son, Alfred, was entrusted with the
other, the trees being very carefully
guarded and tended throughout the
journey. Through Luelling's skill as a
nurseryman, although the party ar
rived out of season at their destina
tion, the young trees were transplanted
and rooted in Oregon soil without se
rious setback, and soon a thriving
orchard marked the little clearing
PUN IKES SHAPE
Legislature Will Be Asked to
Aid Playgrounds Project.
PROVIDE FOR COUNTY TAX
Levy of Quarter of a Mill Per An
num Proposed Business Men
"Will Visit Salem to Ask Fa
vorable Consideration.
If the plana of the citizens' committee,
appointed several days ago to inquire into
the matter of providing public play
grounds, meet with the approval of the
state's lawmakers who are in session at
Salem, the children of Portland will soon
be happy. This committee, composed of
Lloyd J. Wentworth. George W. Hoyt,
George W. Simons, president of the Mult
nomah Amateur Athletic Club, and
George McMillan, met yesterday morning
and conferred with Judge W. M. Cake, H.
C. Campbell, C. F. Swlgert and several
others over plans for the establishment
of public play grounds. . . .
When the committee was first appoint
ed it was suggested that the money with
which to maintain playgrounds be solicit
ed from public-spirited citizens, but when
the committee got to work on the matter
it was found that such a plan, while no
doubt it would succeed, would require no
end of labor and could not be accom
plished within any reasonable time.
Members of the committee paid personal
visits to as many of the leading citizens
as they could In the time allowed, and
found a hearty response to the movement
and promises of substantial aid.
Takes a Wider Scope.
The more people the committee mem
bers called upon the more they be
came aware of the vast amount of work
such a movement would require, so the
committee and those who attended the
meeting yesterday, after a long discus
sion, decided that, to facilitate matters
and to give the question of public play
grounds a wider scope, the Legislature
be appealed to.
No actual plan was adopted at the
meeting of the committee, beyond decid
ing to have a large delegation of prom
inent Portland business men go to Salem
tomorrow to discuss the question with
the members of the Legislature. Judge
Cake will leave this morning for Salem
and arrange for the meeting between the
lawmakers and the Portland delegation.
Already a number of business men in
terested in the future of the growing
youngsters in the city have signified their
willingness to go to Salem. Others who
were not reached by the committee be
cause of the storm putting so many tele
phones out of commission are invited to
join the delegation.
One of the plans discussed by the com
mittee, while it was not settled upon,
was to have a bill introduced in the
Legislature providing for a small tax levy
for the purpose of buying and maintain
ing the playgrounds. It was suggested
that a tax of one-quarter of a mill be
levied in Multnomah County, the money
to be collected by the Sheriff as the
regular taxes , are collected and then
turned over to the County Clerk to be
used in purchasing playgrounds and
equipments.
The committee feels confident that the
general run of taxpayers would not ob
ject to this addd taxation, when they
PIOXKEB PACIFIC COAST
which some discouraged pioneer had
abandoned previous to Luelling's ar
rival. Of this thriving young orchard, al
though more than half a certify has
passed, some trees still remain and
continue to bear fruit. Most of them,
however, have been chopped down, and
the only material souvenirs of the or
iginal orchard are the cherry-wood pic
ture frames owned by several pioneers,
and the inlaid gavels of a few Oregon
societies and organizations.
But one splendid old tree, one of the
first to be set out by Luelling after
the long journey across the plains in
1847, is still firmly rooted, blooms
beautifully every spring, and last year,
the fifty-ninth anniversary of its ar
rival in Oregon, bore its record crop of
cherries, yielding upward of 50 bushels
of luscious ' "black-hearts." But this
know that the money is to go to a public
enterprise of such importance. If such a
bill is passed, it will also provided for a
board of commissioners, after the man
ner of the Park .Commission or the Port
of Portland Commission. The Mayor, the
Judge of the Juvenile Court, the presi
dent or superintendent of the T. M. C. A...
the president of' the Multnomah Club and
the County School Superintendent are
suggested as members of such a commis
sion. r
Those who will go to Salem on Tuesday
morning are Mayor Lane. Judge W. M.
Cake, C. F. Swigert. H. C. Campbell.
Lloyd J. Wentworth, George Hoyt, Judge
Frazer, Adolphe Wolfe, Dr. J. R. Wilson,
president of the Portland Academy; John
F. Carroll, Secretary Stone, ofethe Y. M.
C. A.; George Simons, president of the
Multnomah Club; Colonel David Dunne.
Superintendent of Schools Rigler, C. S.
Jackson, Captain E. W. Spencer, Chester
Murphy, Whitney L. Boise, Professor H.
H. Herdman, Arnold Rothwell. Ben Sell
ing. W. E. Wheelwright. A. B. McAlpin.
J. N". Teal, Dr. C. W. Cornelius and
George McMillan.
ADVOCATES ALASKA LINE
H. Bratnober Says Time Is Ripe for
Steamship Prospects.
H. Bratnober, of Bratnober & Wurt
weller, of San Francisco, one of the
largest mining firms on the Pacific
Coast, was in Portland yesterday en
route to Seattle, where he will take
a steamer for Alaska. Mr. Bratnober
has extensive interests in the Tanana
country. He believes that the Copper
River country is the coming section
of Alaska and this Summer will at
tempt to operate a line of boats on the
Copper River. He is one of thousands
of Alaskans who believe that a steam
ship line ought to be established be
tween Portland, and Alaska.
"For months I have read of the
movement to establish a line of steam
ers between Portland and Alaska, and
I earnestly hope that something will
be" done," said Mr. Bratnober at the
Hotel Portland last night. "The Alas
kans are sick and tired of trading with
Seattle and would be willing to trade
anywhere except with the Sound cities
if they but had the opportunity.
"If a steamship line were established
the hole Portland would make in Se
attle's trade would be surprising. The
Alaskans would flock here to trade,
and it is a wonder to me that a steam
ship line was not started long ago.
Since the fire San Francisco has lost
a great deal of that trade, and if Port
land ever intends to enter that rich
field which is lying wide open, now Is
the time to get busy."
St. Johns Ferry Franchise
P. T. Peterson, H. W. Smith and P. J.
Brink, who have just received a fran
chise from the St. Johns Council for 15
years, have incorporated for $10,000. and
have a new ferry boat under construc
tion. The boiler has been completed and
machinery is nearly ready for installing.
The franchise requires the new com
pany to have a boat capable of carrying
six teams at each trip and have it in ope
ration by March 1. 1907. Mr. Peterson
says the company will certainly be ready
by that time. The other conditions of the
franchise are regarding the fares, which
are as follows: Foot passengers, 6
cents; single horse and vehicle, including
two persons, 25 cents; single team and
two persons, 35 cents; double team and
four horses, two persons, 60 cents; auto
mobiles, 25 cents; saddle horses, 10 cents.
The present ferry cannot handle vehicles
and the important traffic across the
river from St. Johns is cut off. The
Council requires lhb per cent of the gross
income to De paid mommy.
Milwaukie Country Club.
Eastern and California races.' Take
Eellwood or Oregon City car, 'starting
from First and Alder streets.
INDUSTRY BORN IN PIONEER'S OXCART
CHERRY TREK, WHICH WAS BROUGHT
gallant old tree's travels did not end
with its arrival in Oregon, for one day,
when the tree was four or five years
old, David J. Chambers, who had set
out to make himself a home four miles
from the present site of Olympla,
Wash., decided to have an orchard on
his own account, mounted his horse,
rode SO miles to the Columbia river,
secured a small boat, rowed tho re
maining 3G miles up the Columbia to
the Luelling place and bought the
cherry tree. Chambers carried it home
again and set it out, and ever since
it has never failed to yield its annual
crop, growing larger and extending its
roots further each year, until now its
girth, three feet above the ground; is
nine feet eight Inches, and the diame
ter of it3 spreading foliage Is 58 feet.
It is apparently as healthy and vigorous
as any of the younger trees in the old
CATviPA
GN NED
League for Public Ownership
Has Been Formed.
TO TAKE OVER RAILROADS
Kev. Hiram Vrooman, President,
'Will Lecture in Different Parts .
of the State Circulars
Being Issued.
The Oregon League for Public Owner
ship of Railways is preparing to launch a
general campaign of education in this
state. Rev. Hiram Vrooman, president, is
making preparations to begin a series of
lectures in different sections of the state.
Last Tuesday he spoke to a large audi
ence at Sherwood, with the result that
one of the largest and most effective
branch leagues thus far was organized.
This is the beginning of the plan to be
followed during the year.
Dr. Vrooman's rooms in the Sargent
Hotel on the Bast Side looks like the of
fice of some correspondence house. The
tables and desks are piled high with let
ters from people throughout the state
making inquiries about the 'league. Sev.
eral thousands of circulars setting forth
the objects of the league are being mailed,
and these circulars contain information as
to the methods of the organization. The
request Is made that each neighborhood
form a branch league of at least 25 mem
bers, and more if possible, to become the
instrument and medium for this cam
paign of education. When these organiza
tions have been generally formed. Dr.
"Vrooman will start out on his lecture
trips.
What the League; Stands For.
President Vrooman, in his letter to the
people of the state, sets forth the plans
and objects of the league as follows:
"To carry forward an educational cam
paign in behalf of the public ownership
of railways. To that end it is to select
and circulate the best books and litera
ture upon the subject, and establish a lec
ture bureau. Furthermore, It is to seek
such legislation in this state as will serve
as steps in the direction of public owner
ship and at the same time destroy the
evils of railroad discrimination and force
the railroads to pay their just proportion
of the state taxes. It is to be non-partisan
and will assist the voters of all
parties to capture their parties in behalf
of this most vital of all political reforms.
Instead of themselves being captured, as
heretofore, by their parties in behalf of
railroad special privileges."
Advisory Council Named.
In order to keep in touch with local con
dltions, the league has designated the fol
lowing advisory council from various por
tions of the state:
Judge J. B. Waldo, Mrs. Clara H. Waldo,
C. P. Strain of Pendleton. Judge Senaca
Smitn, Portland; G. M. Wells, M. D.,
Portland; A. T. Buxton, state master
Patrons of Husbandry; Rev. IS. S. Muck
ley, Portland; Mrs. Lucia Faxton Addi-
ton, Portland; Rev. A. Lawrence Black.
Portland; Captain J. T. Apperson, Park
Place, Clackamas County; A. F. Miller,
master Lents Grange; W. A. Young, offi
cer State Grange; Hon. Jacob Vorhees,
Woodburn; Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, edl
tor Women's Tribune, Portland; Mrs. P.
ACROSS PLAINS TO ORKOOJT BT HE.VDERSOS MIEXMJfG tN IS47.
Chambers orchard, and seems only to
improve with age.
While to Henderson Luelling belongs
the credit of originating the fruit in
dustry of the Pacific Coast, he was not
the only pioneer to bring fruit trees
across the plains, for William Meek, a
neighbor of Luelling's in Iowa, who
was much interested in Luelling's plan,
also carne westward with a selected
load of young trees, and really arrived
earlier in Oregon than did Luelling.
But Meek's first suggestion was from
Luelling, and a pretty little romance
was probably responsible for Meek's
efforts In the fruit-growing Industry.
When Luelling came West he brought
with him his entire family, among
them a young and pretty daughter, in
whom Meek was much interested. Meek
made his journey separately, however,
and settled on a clearing near Salem,
Have One Doctor
No sense in running" from one doctor to
another.. Select the best one, then stand
by him. Do not delay, but consult him
in time when you are sick. Ask his
opinion of
Ayers Cherry Pectoral
REVISED FORMULA
for coughs and colds. Then use it or
not, just as he says.
The new kind contains no alcohol
We have no secrets to hide! We pub
lish the formulas of all our medicines.
J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass.
M. Dekum, Portland; H. F. Wentz. Port
land; C. B. Spence, Carus; T. W. Daven
port. Silverton; Samuel E. Brooks. The
Dalles; Miss Eva Humason, Portland; C.
J. Qulnn. Mayville; F. M. Gill, Estacada;
George M. Miller, Eugene; Granville G.
Ames, Portland; John Campbell, Sher
wood; W. J. Wimer. Waldo; O. R. Ballou,
Free water; E. S. McComas, Union; R,
Froman, Condon; C. D. Huffman, La
Grande; J. H. Beeman, president Gold
Hill Commercial Club.
Pamphlet of Arguments.
President Vrooman Is preparing a pam
phlet setting forth in condensed form the
arguments for Government ownership of
railways, which will be sent to each 1 ical
member of the league. Some of the points
presented are set forth in the following
extracts from an advance copy of this
publication:
"The railroad question has become the
dominant one 1n American politics, and
nothing short of war can take that ques
tion from politics until the chief evils of
railroad administration are destroyed.
"The railroads form the veritable back,
bone of the great trust Colussus, which
has already established a business empire
within our so-called American democracy.
There are between 460 and 500 trusts rep
resenting an aggregation of about $20,000,
000,000 of capital. The life of these trusts is
absolutely dependent upon the arbitrary
and unjust discriminations practiced by
the railroads.
"Of the $30,000,000,000 represented by all
the trusts the railroads represent over
$13,000,000,000, or nearly two-thirds of the
whole. Hence the railroad interests out
weigh all the other trusts combined. This
makes them the dominant power in the
councils of the trusts and the power with
which the people must first deal in deal
ing with the trusts.
"Already a dozen rairoad magnates pos.
sess such autocratic power that they can
arbitrarily decide the success or failure
of two-thirds of all large business houses
of this country. Governor A. B. Cummins,
of Iowa, declared to a Senate committee:
'The railroads have decreed that Iowa
where he merely "heeled" (temporarily
planted) his trees, believing he had ar
rived too late in the season for perma
nent planting. Later he visited Luell
ing's orchard and found the Luelling
trees all permanently planted and
thriving. Meek frequently visited Lu
elling, that he might learn of the
nurseryman's wisdom, and incidentally
he wooed and won the nurseryman's
daughter, whom he afterward married,
having mastered Luelling's processes
and established a permanent orchard
of his own on his Salem farm, to which
he took his bride.
Ralph Gear, another pioneer, brought
across the plains a bushel of apple
seeds of different varieties, in 1847, and
by grafting his seedlings with Luell
ing's stock, did much toward the early
development of the fruit-growing in
shall not be a manufacturing state." When
asked: 'Why do you say that the rail
roads have decreed that Iowa shall not be
a manufacturing state?' he replied: 'I
reach that'conclusion simply because all
our manufacturers when they attempt to
reach beyond our own state meet rates
that so discriminate against them that
they cannot compete with, the manufac
turers elsewhere." This statement of Gov.
ernor Cummins is entirely true, not only
of Iowa", hut of Oregon. The railways have
decreed that Oregon shall not be a manu
facturing state. Oregon can never be a
manufacturing state commensurate with
her natural resources until we have" pub
lic ownership."
AT THE THEATERS
What Ul Preaa Agent Bmf.
"IP I WERE KING" AT BAKEIt
Edgar Baume Given Royal Welcome
by Big Sunday Crowd.
If ever an actor was srlven a royal wet
come, it was Edgar Baume, who reappeared
as the Baker's leading man yesterday in
McCarthy's greatromantic play '"If I Were
King." The production Is fcood far above
tiie usual run of plays and is xnasnlhcenlly
staged.
Empire Success.
"Nettie the Newsglrl," which gave its
initial performance at the Kmpire yester
day, proved one of the season' greatest
successes,' and waa greeted in true West
ern fashion. It is a melodrama of sterling
worth and appeals to all classes. Wednes
day matinee.
"Tennessees Pardner" at the Lyric.
Commencing this aftffc-noon the Lyric
Stock Company will present a magnificent
revival of that sterling Western drama
"Tennessee's Pardner." one of the best of
all American plays.' The story is one of love.
adventure, sudden danger, manly courage
and womanly virtue as manifested in the
days when the Golden "West was new and
the land was being wrested from savagery.
It is a play that has stood the test of time
and been accorded a very high place on
the roie of fame.
"Out of the Fold" at the Star.
Tonight the Allen Stock Company will
present "Out of the Fold" as Its bill at the
Star Theater for the ensuing week. Thlr Is
a pastoral play which has met with favor
in the East. "Out of the Fold" is a rural
drama In the same class, with "Way Dow n
East."
COMING ATTRACTION'S.
Isabel Irving In Delightful Comedy
at Ileillg Tomorrow Night.
Seats are now selling' at box office the
Helllg Theater. Fourteenth and Washington
streets, for the brilliant actress and come
dienne, Isabel Irving, who comes to the
above theater tomorrow (Tuesday), Wednes
day and Thursday nights, February 5. i
and 7, in Jerome .K. Jerome's three-act com
edy. "S-usan in Search of a Husband," Mips
Irving has been provided by her managers,
Messrs. Llebler & Co., who have sent out
some of the best companies that have ever
visited the Pacific Coa-st, with a real all
star supporting company. Including Miss
Marie Wainwrltfht', Miss Jessie izett, Miss
Kdith Lemmen, Hassard Short, Ernest
Malnwaring, Herbert Standing and A. U.
Andrews.
"She Stoops to Conquer."
The advance scat sale will open next
Wednesday morning. February 6, for Wil
liam H. Crane and Ellis Jeffreys, who. with
their all-star cast, will present Goldsmith's
great comedy, "She gtoops to Conquer," at
the Helllg Theater next Friday and Satur
day nights, February 8 and 9, with a mati-
nee Saturday.
Mclntyre and Heath Coming.
Klaw and Erlanger will present Mclntyre
and Heath, with a company of 75 people,
in the musical -comedy vaudeville show "The
Ham Tree." at the Helllg Theater, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday nights, February
11, 12 and 13, with a matinee Wednesday.
Seat sale .Friday. February 8.
AT THE VAUDEVILLE THEATERS
New Acts at the Grand.
New vaudeville acts are promised today
at the Grand and they will offer an abun
dance of comedy, music and novelty. Roland
Travero, the leading illusionist. Is the head
liner and will contribute mystery and dex
terity to the programme. The remainder of
the acts are first clafls.
Noted Performer at Pantagcs. ,
VanGofre. tha world's greatest equilibrist,
opens as the feature act at Pantages The
ater today. VanGofre is the greatest per
former of his kind in the world, and his
vaudeville career has been one long succes
sion of successes. There are seven supple
mentary features: Gaston & Harvey. Bell
Sc. Dalton. Lola Fawn, Emma Cotrely, Pe
Lasseur & Tonn, Leo White and the bio
graph. St. Johns Reading Room.
A board of directors has been elected
to control the St. Johns Reading Room
and Library. Following are the officers:
President, T. J. Monahan; secretary, E.
E. MoVlcker; treasurer, J. F. Brooks.
The sollcitin? committee reports having
secured one $100 subscription. Others are
promised. A committee has been ap
pointed to prepare a constitution and by
laws, and also to prepare a programme
to be rendered at a mass meeting to be
held next Saturday night, February 9.