THE 3IOKMM OKISCjOJMAN. MONDAY; MARCH 23, 10O7.
mimn
scuscRirnoji rates.
. Cr INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. "V3
' - - (By Hall.)
. Dully, Sunday included, on year 8 S?
Dally, Sunday Included, ilx month.... "
IUy. Sunday lncltidsd. three nnonth. . II!
rjally. Sunday Included, one monttt -75
. Ually. without Sunday, one year n.Ott
Dally, without Sunday, six montha 3.25
Dally, without Bunday, three month!.. l.T
Dally, without Sunday, one month j
Sunday, one year 50
Weekly, one year lsued Thursday)..-
Gunday and Weekly, one year "-SO
BY CARRIER.
Dally, Sunday Included, one year '
Dally. Sunday Included, on month "
HOW TO RMIT Send postofllee money
rder, express order or personal check on
yeur ocal bank. Stamps, coin or currency
r at th sender's risk. Give poatofftc ad
dress in full. Including county and "at.
I'O STACK RATES,
' "Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postottlc
a Second-Class Matter.
10 to 14 Pages I Bl
1 to 28 Pi.ei ..2 cents
SO to 44 Faces
48 to 60 Pace
.3 cnt
. cent
.Foreign Postage, double rate.
IMPORTANT Th postal law ax trtct
Newspapers on which postage 1 not fuly
-Unpaid are not lorwarded to destination.
EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE.
The B. C. Becltwltn fcpeclal Agency New
York, room 43-30 Tribune building. Ctu
go, room 510-612 Tribune building.
KEPT ON 8 AXE.
Chicago Auditorium Annex. Poetoltlc
New Co.. 178 Dearborn street.
St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial
Station.
. Denver Hamilton & Hendrlck. "06-912
. Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 121
Fifteenth street; I. Welnsteln; H. P. Han
. aen.
Kansas City, Ma Ricksecker Cigar Co.,
Ninth and Walnut.
. Minneapolis m. J. Kavannugh, 50 South
Third; Eagle New Co., corner Tenth ana
Eleventh; Torn New Co.
Cleveland. O. James Fushaw. 307 Su
perior street.
Washington, D. C Ebbltt House, Penn
sylvania avenue.
Philadelphia, Pa- Ryan' Theater Ticket
office; Kemble. A. P., H735 Lancaster ave
nue; Penn -News Co.
New Tork City 1. Jones & Co., Astor
House;; Broadway Theater News Stand.
Bnffalo, If. Y. Walter Freer.
Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnaon. Four
teenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley
OlklBim Stand (lul- NCWI Co.
Oaden D. L. Boyle. W. O. Kind, 114
Twenty-nfth street.
Omaha Barkalow Bros., Union Station;
Mageath Stationery Co.
Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento New Co.
I 4SU K street.
Salt Lake Vton Book A Stationery Co.
Roseneld A Hansen.
Los Angelea B, E. Amos, manager aeven
atreet wagons.. : . '
Has Diego B. E. Amoi.
Eons; Beach, CaL. B. E. Amo.
Pasadena, Cai A. F. Horning.
Fort Worth. Tex Fort Worth 8tar.
eaa Francisco Foster & Orear, Ferry
News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand;
X.. Parent; N. Wheatley..
Koldfleld, Mev. Louie Poll In.
Eureka, Cal.-r-Call-Chronlcle Agency.
Norfolk, Va. Krugg & Gould.
Tin Beach, Va. W. A. Cosgrove.
PORTLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1907.
FRANCHISE ON SECTION EINE ROAD.
Again The Oregonian will say that
the Section Line road should be re
served as public highway, and the
county should give over no part of it
for right of way for a traction rail
road. The highway might be used well
enough for a passenger streetcar line,
as are streets of the City of Portland,
but not for electric trains, running
twenty-five, forty to fifty miles an
hour. Such traffic could not be tol
erated In Portland streets, many of
which are no wider than the 60-foot
Section Line road. If users of the Sec
tion Line road want the convenience of
electric cars on that highway, they
should -understand fully what they are
doing, when they petition the County
Court to grant a franchise for the Mc-
Corkle Electric Road to Mount 'Hood.
They will surely rue the day that they
signed the petition, unless they re
strict the use of the road to that for
passenger streetcars. They will not be
able to thrust railroad trains off the
road after it shall have proved a nui
sance and a monopoly of the highway.
. The demand of the public for speedy
transportation and prompt freight
service will prevent the users of the
road from enforcing proper regula
tions. A railroad, whether steam or elec
tric, should be required to furnish Its
own right of way, and, if It is backed
by substantial capitalists. Instead of by
franchise speculators, it will prefer to
own the land for its tracks. A sixty
foot right of way, seven miles long,
would amount in all hardly to fifty
acres of land. The purchase of that
much land will not break up a project
that is promoted by responsible capi
tal. A railroad to Mount Hood should not
be a streetcar line. Its tracks should
be heavier built and its grades should
b more even than a streetcar line re
quires, if It is to attain the speed that
good service demands along the sixty
mile distance to Mount Hood.
The Mount Tabor Improvement Asso
ciation declared itself opposed to the
franchise, on March 11. in the following
language:
Whereas. An application lias been made
for a franchise for an electric railway on the
Section l.lne road for certain considerations,
and believing that a transportation corpora
tion seeking to construct a railroad should
purchane a right ot way without obstructing
a county road with tracks, therefore be it
Resolved. That it Is the sense of this as
sociation that no franchise should be given
an electric and traction railway on the
county roads, but that ail county roads
should be kept permanently free of all ob
structions of the sort and open to the use
of the public for which all county roads
were built, as the county roads arc but tlO
feet wide, and cannot be occupied by one
or more car tracks without seriously ob
. etructing traffic.
This resolution touches the matter
In the right way. It shows that there
Is a body of citizens on the Section
Line road who can see ahead into the
future, when population on each side
of the road will be dense and their
wagon traffic will need the full 'width
of the highway, yet will not "be able
to get rid of the electric railroad occu
pying part of Its surface, nor to com
pel tho car company to keep the road
near its tracks in proper repair. Such
companies promise to maintain their
part of a road in perfect condition, but
none has yet lived up to that promise.
Multnomah County has spent large
sums of money for improvement of
the road, and will spend much In fu
ture. The road would be torn "up to
lay the tracks, and never would be
kept in as good condition as it the
tracks were off It.
A franchise is likely to be an abused
privilege in any event. It is an at
tribute of the sovereign power of gov
ernment, conferred on Individuals be
cause the Government Is not prepared
to make a certain improvement or
euuip a certain convenience. Franchises
have been trafficked in. In Portland
and elsewhere, for enrichment of their
possessors and for aggrandizement on
the public. The people have sanctioned
their .issuance because they had not
the foresight of the men who secured
them to see the future value of the
privileges. Tfers of the Section Line
road shduld put on their long-distance
spectacles. If It were a physical ne-
cessity for a Tailroad to Mount Hood
"to use the road, or parts of it, because
there were no other land available for
the route, there -would be good reason
to grant the application for franchise.
' "OCTSIDE" REAL ESTATE.
Writing to The Oregonian, a woman
teacher In the public schools, earning
$70 a month, with no one dependent
on her, asks whether it Is advisable to
buy a suburban lot which she can pay
for at the rate of $15 a month; also,
whether it is safe to undertake more
than one lot in the hope that she may
realize a good profit within six months
or a year.
On the matter of speculation. The
Oregonian's views are well known
throughout the Pacific Northwest.
They need not be repeated. If anyone
wishes to take the long chance of buy
ing on a margin, real estate is a great
deal better than Chicago wheat or New
York stocks or undeveloped enterprises.
More than one large fortune had its
start in such opportune speculation. Be
fore entering on that kind of a venture.
each person must decide for himself
whether an inactive real estate market
would spell disaster to- him. Lots that
are paid for will never embarrass him
seriously.
As a truthful guide, apply the same
rule to suburban lots that the capital
ist applies to business property offered
him for investment. Will It, when im
proved, pay a satisfactory return? If
a $750 house on a $300 lot will rent for
$10 a month. It is surely a good invest
ment; Just so with a $1000 house on a
$500 lot, or a $2000 house on ari $800 lot,
at proportionately higher rental. The
net income above taxes and insurance
will seldom be less than 8 per cent,
and in most cases 10 per cent.
No married wage-earner who does not
own his home can do better with his
savings than to buy a suburban lot
and build a dwelling. Where he can
do this in Installments, the whole prop
osition resolves itself into acquiring a
home by the monthly payment of a
sum about 25 per cent more than what
his rent would be for a home of the
same class. In other words, let him
add one-fourth to his necessary expen
ditures for rent, and in nine years his
home will be paid for. Any payment
in excess of the stipulated amount has
tens the day when his property shall be
free from encumbrance.
Looking to the future of Portland,
it is fortunate that no tenement houses.
to be crowded with -breadwinners, ob
trude themselves on one's vision. Those
who work for scant wage betake them
selves to the cottage. Within the city
limits and the suburbs, ramified by
streetcar lines, there is room for a
population of half a miHion. allowing a
lot fifty by one hundred feet to each
family. Pure air and plenty of play
ground conduce to good health and
sound morals. The electric car, in- a
measure, equalizes distance. As Port
land grows, the demand for suburban
homes must increase, and under this
demand their market price naturally
will rise.
"Neighborhood" makes values. No
stranger looking over the big area
known locally as the East Side needs
a pilot to point out the enhanced value
of lots in additions where building re
strictions have been enforced. Every
man who builds an attractive home
adds dollars to the vacant lot beside it.
Sentiment cuts considerable figure in
choosing a home; an advantageous site
is worth whatever the intending pur
chaser is willing to pay for it.
Speaking broadly, whatever influ
ences are at work to build up a city,
build up all sections of it. Portland
is growing faster than ever before, and
on a substantial basis. If the location
and the price of a lot suit you. and you
have the means to pay for It, buy It.
The chances of decline in price are
very much less than the probability of
steady advance.
NO DISASTER AT SALTON, PERHAPS.
. There is evidently a bright, as well
as a dark, side to the'Salton Sink dis
aster. By the breaking of the banks
of a canal the water of the Colorado
River was turned into this' dry bed of
a former sea, with the result that many
farms were destroyed and the Southern
'Pacific was compelled to move Its
tracks to higher ground in order to
keep out of the water. Comparatively
si?aking, however, tho area of tilled
lands submerged was small. Now
comes the Texas Legislature with a
resolution recently adopted declaring i
that the filling of Salton Sink has done
more good than harm and that no
further efforts should be made to keep
the water out of the basin until thor
ough investigation has shown beyond
question to what extent Arizona, New-
Mexico and Texas have profited by the
accidental escape of water. The Tex
ans assert, and have figures to back
up their statement, that the filling of
this dry sea-bed has increased the rain
fall very materially in the three states
named, and that the area thus bene
fited is so much greater than the area
submerged that the greatest good to
the greatest number requires that the
Colorado be left to seek the lowest
level. Statistics for one season show
the increased rainfall throughout the
States of Arizona and New Mexico and
a part of Texas. Possibly this Increase
was due to other causes, but the resi
dents of those stales ate quite certain
that It should be attributed to the fill
ing of Salton Sink. In this they have
the support of scientists, who nave for
many years declared that the creation
of a sea where the dry, hot basin "ex
isted would produce the change now
experienced. What the Texas Legisla
ture wants Is that careful observations
be taken for a year or two, so that the
actual effect of the creation of the in
land sea can be ascertained.
But California is not likely to listen
very patiently to the suggestion from
Texas. The Salton Sink is in Califor
nia. It has been the hottest place in
the state. Because it was hot, it served
as the starting-place for sea breezes.
As everybody knows, hot air rises and
cooler air rushes in to fill the space.
A column of heated air rising from
Salton Sink brought cooler air from
the west and eventually extended its
influence back' to the Coast, where the
cool air from the. ocean, rushing In
land, formed the refreshing breezes
Which attract Summer visitors. Pro
prietors and residents of Summer re
sorts on the Southern California Coast
assert that the filling of the Sink with
water from the Colorado has very no
ticeably affected the sea breezes and
has caused a humidity of the atmos
phere In ail the region between Salton
Sink and trie ocean.
Here is where conflicting interests
are likely to cause difficulty. Califor
nia wants the Sink -to stay as It was,
while Arizona, New Mexico and 'Mex
ico want it to stay as it is. Even
though the inflow of water be prevent
ed in the future, it will require several
years for the water now in the . basin
to evaporate. The task of controlling
the river is probably greater than the
state would wish to undertake, so, if
the three states east of the sink can
prevail upon the railroads and the Gov-
ernment to adopt a let-alone policy, the
sea may be permitted to remain. It
has been suggested that the property
owners directly Injured by the filling
of the sink might be compensated for
their loss, and thus the demand for the
reclamation of the sink be silenced.
While this might satisfy the demands
of those who have rights directly af
fected. It would not be satisfactory to
those who are indirectly interested be
cause of the effect the filling of the
sea has on the ocean breezes. But if
It should prove to be true, as now
believed by many, that creation of a
sea where a dry sink existed before
will permanently increase the rainfall
in the arid region of the three states,
what was at first considered a serious
disaster may prove to be a very for
tunate accident.
WHOHE BUSINESS IS ITT
An Astoria paper, whose editor once
misrepresented the people of his county
in the State Legislature, is much in
censed because The Oregonian a few
days ago published in its news col
umns a report . that steps were being
taken by unknown persons to purchase
some 10,000 acres of tide land above
Tongue Point. According to the re
ports at hand, the plan was to pur
chase this land at a nominal sum and,
use It for railroad terminals, mill sites
and docks, for which .purpose it would
have a value of from $1,000,000 to $10,-
000,000. The facts, so far as they could be
learned, were given, together with the
statement from ex-State Land Agent
Oswald West that he is watching the
proceedings and will oppose any effort
to purchase the lands. The facts were
printed as accurately as they could be
learned, and without any comment
from this paper.
But publication of facts seems to
worry the editor down by the mouth of
the river. He would rather see the
lands sold and the facts published aft
erwards. "If a railroad or mill company
wants to buy the land3 at $2.50 an
acre and spend thousands of dollars
in Improving1 them, what business is it
of The Oregonian?" he writes. "They
have been in their present location for
hundreds cf years, and the only value
they possess would be through reclam
ation, and If any capitalists or railroad
companies or mill syndicates want to
buy them at the price fixed by the
state. The Oregonian does not have to
butt in and try to defeat the sale.
There is ho doubt but all of these lands
above Tongue Point will be sold and
that James J. Hill will be the pur
chaser." Herein the Astoria editor Bhows his
ignorance or his desire to deceive. "The
only value they possess would be
through reclamation," he says. The
Oregonian thinks differently. Those
lands belong to the state, which
means to all. the people of the state".
Every citizen has an interest in them.
If they have any value as railroad ter
minal grounds, it is because thousands
of farmers, millers, manufacturers,
fishermen and other producers are fur
nishing commodities to be shipped. If
they have any value for sawmill sites,
it is because nature clothed the hills
along the Columbia River with forests
of the best timber that ever grew.
Whatever value they have, and for
whatever purpose, belongs to the .people
of the state. The people have a right
to sell them whenever and for what
ever price they please. If location
gives them a value they would not
otherwise possess, the people have a
right to the benefit of that value. If
they are worth $1,000,000 the people
snouid receive that sum, and the mon
ey should be turned into the irreduci
ble school fund, instead of into the cof
fers of some millionaire. The last Leg
islature, after a severe contest, passed
an act prepared by the State Land
Board, withdrawing all tide lands from
sale for a period of ten years. In ten
years from now we shall have an al
together different idea of values of tide
lands than we have today. The new-
act does not go into effect until May
to. and, according to the report,
attempt is being made to purchase the
lands in question before the law takes
effect. Whether the lands should be
sold is a question which the State Land
Board will determine. Whether the
lands should be sold at $2.50 an acre Is
no more the business of The Oregonian
than of every citizen of the state, but
It was the business of this paper to
Inform the people of the reported at
tempt quietly to buy up these lands,
which hav so great a prospective
value.
The Astoria editor proceeds upon the
theory that has long prevailed in some
quarters that deals in public' lands are
the business of nobody except, the spec
ulators who want the lands. That the
ory was exploded In proceedings to
wnicn the Astoria man evidently al
ludes when he says that "The Orego
nian has been instrumental in sending
tew innocent men to jail." There
was a time when everybody's business
was nobody's business, but In these
days we are putting into office a few
men who make everybody's business
their business and protect the interests
of the people.
AND STILL THE WONDER GROWS,
Wireless telegraphy is, at least to the
uninitiated, one of the wonders of elec
trical science and of an age replete
with discoveries and developments that
are the marvels of today, to become
the commonplace things of tomorrow
The whisper upon the wire that could
be heard across the continent; the
whisper under the sea that could be
heard on the farther hore, were won
ders in their day; but development In
tnis line nas ceased. The message
given to the air has succeeded It. Fly
ing on viewless wings, it annihilates
distance and time and has in a short
space of years become an essential ele
ment in the official life of the world.
Scarcely a day passes but some new
feat in overcoming distance is accred
ited to "the wireless." The latest feat
was the transmission of a message not
only across the continent, but hundreds
of miles beyond over the open sea,
The details of this latest exploit in
"wireless" are interesting not only as
recording facts of present development,
but as forecasting the practically
boundless possibilities of the future.
An operator a. Point Loma station
near San Diego, Cal., so the story runs,
got a flash of a message that was be
ing sent from Washington, D. C to
Pensacola, Fla. Me also caught part
of a message from Washington to the
battleship Connecticut, which was at
the time 600 miles out in the Atlantic
Ocean. These messages were clearly
read on the Point Loma instrument,
coming in on their wireless -wings
distance of 2400 miles. Trtily, it would
seem that the secrets of the earth and
air and sea are being revealed to man
through an agency the scope and power
of which pass the boundaries of con
lecture. '
That no government or department of
government or business is dependent
upon any one man is a fact often for
gotten by people who magnify their
own importance in this world's affairs.
There is always someone ready to step
into the vacancy that may occur in any
department of the world's great army
of workers. Ex-President Loubet, of
France, Is one of the latest to discover
his own insignificance in the affairs of
his people and has disclosed his dis
appointment at making the discovery.
Mournfully he complains that he is
neglected and forgotten:
I thought that my experiences, my fa
miliar relations with so many crowned heads
and my knowledge of matters of state would
Induce those who are now at the helm to
come and consult me sometimes. But no
one has come; no one has ever asked my
advice. The dead are soon forgotten so 1
find are the living.
The Wall-Street Journal is trying to
call it the "Roosevelt panic," and says
it will probably be so known in Wall
street history. Very wisely the term
"Wall-street history" is used, for it
will not be so known in any other his
tory. But even if it were, the expres
sion would carry no Inference deroga
tory to President Roosevelt. If it
was necessary for the President to
start a panic in order to relieve the
people from ' the grasp of a band of
railroad robbers, honest mien will not
frown when his name is mentioned in
connection with It. The people, how
ever, have decided that the panic was
a move on the part of the railroad
magnates to cause a slump in values,
which would enable them to buy stocks
at less than they were worth and profit
by the recovery. Wall-street history
will show that this was done. It was
a rich men's panic.
Setting trap-guns with which to pun
ish chicken-thieves is a scheme which
has resulted disastrously to the owners
of the chickens more times than to
the thieves. It 1b not only foolish, but
criminal. Stealing chickens Is a crime,
but it is not" punishable by death nor
by maiming. In the eyes of the law a
person who sets a trap-gun for the pur
pose of inflicting an unlawful injury
is guilty of murder If that injury re
sults In death. The Portland woman
who set ' a trap-gun in her chicken
house a few days ago was as much in
need of a lesson as the persons who had
been robbing her roosts. She learned
the lesson when she received a charge
of rice in her face.
Mr. Harrlman thinks the American
people are "magnificent pioneers." And
why shouldn't he think so? Didn't
they go into a wilderness and build
homes and farms and cities and fac
tories to make business for the rail
roads which he owns? Now he expects
them to go into Eastern Oregon and
develop that region as they have West
ern Oregon and prepare It for him to
plunder. He has yet shown no disposi
tion to go with the people and help In
the development. His advice is, "Go
and prepare a place for me, that where
you are I may be also." Why shouldn't
he think the people of this country
make magnificent pioneers? Only
magnificent" is too mild a word.
It is an almost universal rule among
women to faint at the wrong time,
but the Astoria woman who fainted
when a shot was fired at her and thus
made her assailant believe she was
dead, had better Judgment than most
members of her sex. He is now dead,
and she Is alive to tell the story. But
it is a story that won't sound well.
so, for morality's sake, It is to be hoped
she won't have to tell it.
The Philadelphia Press complains be
cause the Capitol Commission paid
$2400 for a two-chair bootblack stand
for the Senate lavatory, when a first-
class stand could have been bought
for less than $100. Well, what's the dif
ference whether the $2300 was grafted
one way or another? What's the use
of building capitols if no one is to get
a graft out of it?
The president of the Santa Clara,
Cal., Fruit Exchange says that half
the prune crop of that locality has been
ruined by- the rains washing the pol
len off the blossoms. But if half the
fruit is ruined, the other half will be
of so much better size that it will have
a greater net value than the whole'crop.
So, don't worry about it.
Since Kansas enacted an anti-pass
law, nearly all the state officials have
moved to Topeka. But such an effect
would not be seen in Oregon, for the
Legislature In this state provided for
payment of the traveling expenses ot
its state officials. So, Salem has no
chance of profiting in the same way
Topeka has.
The people of Russia must pay $8,-
000.000 a year to maintain the Czar's
palaces, which sum includes all the liv
ing expenses of himself and family,.
To have a Czar is almost as bad as
having a boss in San Francisco.
A Pennsylvania man was sent to
prison for making fifty-five thousand
gallons of wine without using grapes.
That's no worse than making cider
vinegar without apples.
Under a decision of the Supreme
Court of Canada, betting on horse
races must cease. The Canadians can
come over on this side of the line to
enjoy their sport.
A new scheme to encourage the plac
ing of wires underground is to impose
a tax of $1 or more per year for each
pole maintained within city Iimits.'This
idea is of Pennsylvania origin.
There is some evidence that Roose
velt is standing in with the trust cor
porations, for he agrees with their idea
that he should not run for a third term.
Dropping a nickel in the slot-machine
is the first step in gambling. Abolish
the machines and we shall have fewer
boys started on a downward course.
A Wall-street paper says that "Phila-
delphiana responded well to margin
calls." In other words. "Quaker lambs
gave up their wool without a bleat."
There is a show yet for poor old
Lonergan to get on the bakery wagon
at Folsom. He will know many of
his patrons, too.
Henderson, the Oregon City wife
murderer and suicide, simplified mat
ters all around. Inquests are cheaper
than trials.
About everybody has suggested work
for "Roosevelt" when his term expires
except the old lady of "the National."
Bellingham talks of spending a mil
lion for water, and water simply a
chaser!
Yesterday was the real estate man's
day. 7 r "
LIFE IX THE OREGON COUNTRY
Out.CaraarlnK. Geer.
Olympla Recorder.
It takes a "Heneyous" investigation to
unearth a heinous official graft.
Pride of Oregoa,
Echo Register.
Little old Umatilla County produces one
out of. every 100 grains of wheat produced
In the United States.
Ignorance of Conceit.
Garfield Enterprise.
Some people imagine they are temperate
merely because they don't drink whisky
on an empty stomach and have never had
delirium tremens.
Dee-Ilsrhted.
Albany Democrat.
For the eighth time the stork has visit
ed the home of the editor of the Hood
River Glacier, and the editor humbly asks
President Roosevelt if he is satisfied.
St.
Johns Point of Vletr.
St. Johns Review
It must have made the mouths of some
people water when they read the accounts
of Ruef touching the Pacific States and
Home Telephone Companies up for $152,600
for franchises.
No Embryo Normal Wanted.
Wallowa Sun.
Have you signed the remonstrance
against the county high school yet? If
not, do not fall to do so at once. Don't
neglect it- It can do no harm and it
ought to do good.
Umatilla Limerick.
T. T. G. In Pendleton Tribune.
There was an old codger named Spooner
Who wisely concluded that sooner
Than go down before "Bob,"
He'd resign his old job
Which was cute on the part of said
Spooner.
Poor Haul.
Rainier Review.
A large number of "drunk and disorder,
lies" occupied tho City Jail last 'Satur
day night, including one woman. As they
nearly all were impecunious the City
Treasury was not materially benefited
by their contributions.
How It Happened.
Toledo Leader.
The Portland bowling team which parti
cipated In the tournament at Denver re
cently returned without honors and all
shrieeled up. The rtgh altitude and arid
climate did It. When the Denver bowlers
come to Portland they may swell up and
pop open.
Give Rim the Glad Hand.
Gresham Herald.
We hope our folks will not forget when
meeting a stranger on the street, or on
the car, that he may be from the East.
At any rate give him a cordial welcome
to Oregon. Tell him of the good things
to be found here, how we are growing, the
oeautirui climate, the water, and. well
tell him that this is God's own country
and he will do well to stay here. But
above all, don t discourage him.
TREED BY A BIG BUCK DEER
Men Who Saved Him the Victim of
Base Ingratitude.
Central Point Herald.
Will Scott, holding down a claim In the
tall timber a few miles from Butte Falls
had an exciting experience one day last
ween. He was at work In the timber
some distance from his cabin, when his
attention was attracted by the ferocious
Darning or a pack of coyotes in the can
yon below him. The sounds were unlike
the oridnary coyote cry, and Mr. Scott,
becoming- interested, started down the hill
to investigate, and, as he stepped around
bunoh of thick brush, came suddenly
within a few yards of a .magnificent buck
surrounded by the pack. The coyotes had
chased the buck through the deep snow
until he had finally made a stand and
was making a valiant though losing tight
against -the hungry horde. With hoof
and horn he fought them off, but it was
a losing game, and had Mr. Scott not ap
peared on the scene the unequal fight
must have soon been over. So Interested
were the combatants that they did not
notice the presence of a man. but when
the coyotes finally saw him they quickly
beat a hasty retreat. With a snort of
victory the buck turned his head and saw
the man. He paused for the fraction of
minute in surprise; then, with lowered
antlers and blazing eyes, made a rush
for this new intruder, and suddenly Scott
emembered that he had no gun. He did
not feel In a mood for footracing just
then, either, so he shinned up a tree a
a pace that would make tha nimble gray
squirrel green with envy. Nor did he have
any time to lose, for as he swung him
self into the first branches the tip of the
deer's antler tickled the bottom of- his
foot and' caught the hem of his overalls,
ripping them to the " pocket. That was
perhaps the proudest buck deer that ever
trod the earth in Oregon. He had put
to flight a band of wolves and treed a
man- and he concluded to camp there a
hue and enjoy his victory. For an
hour he guarded his captive, stamping
his feet, shaking his head and making
other warlike demonstrations, while Scott
remained in the treetop and wished for
his rifle. Finally the deer tired of the
game and mosfed off into the woods.
stopping once in a while and looking back.
as If to say, "I've a notion to climb that
tree and get you yet."
Was Scott mad? Well, rather. He had
saved the deer's life, and for his kind
ness had been repaid with base ingrati
tude. He is an ardent sportsman 'during
the lawful season, but in his present
state of mind the whole deer family would
better give him a wide berth.
MAGIC LANTEH-f HISTORY. MAKER
Mr. O'Hurs.", Doubts A to Henry VIII
and the Catholic church.
PORTLAND, March 22. (To the Edi
tor.) I had long been familiar with tha
mechanical structure of the stereopticon,
with Its plano-convex and cqnvex pro
jecting lenses. But never, until I recently
read a brief account of its application
to historical research, did it dawn upon
me what tremendous possibilities are
latent in the magic lantern. This simple
optical apparatus seems now destined to
supersede all other "apparatus critlcus"
in historical research, and has already
enabled some lecturers on history who
have mastered its intracicies to dispense
with the study of original documentary
sources.
The ground of my faith in the supreme
usefulness of the magic lantern (indeed,
in its revolutionary character) is the
statement In the report already referred
to that an esteemed lecturer on ecclesias
tical history by the light of the magic
lantern "completely corrected the popular
fallacy that the Church of England be
gan with Henry VIII." Of course, this
correction is a mere truism, if it- is in
tended to affirm that Henry VIII did not
originate the Catholic Church, which was
"the Church In England" for 1000 years
before his time: or again, if possibly
its meaning be that the present "Church
of England by law established"' originaled
not with Henry VIII but with one of his
successors with Edward VI or Elizabeth.
But I take it that the worthy lecturer
meant neither of these, and hereon rests
my confidence' in the future of the magic
lantern. It is bound to revolutionize his
tory in all Its departments. Would that
ail the historians, from Herodotus to the
writers of the "Cambridge Modern His
tory." had been possessed of this wonder
ful Instrument and knew the virtue that
is In it! "But," some- Incredulous critic
will interject, "that would not have al
tered the record of actual historical
facts." Historical , facts, do you say?
What have' historical facts to do with
the matter?
; ' EDWIN V. O'HARA.
ON SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES.
Dlacnaslon of Queatton as It Applies to
Individual Liberty.
PORTLAND, March 20. (To the' Edi
tor.) Many thousands of clean, thought
ful people will thank The Oregonian for
its vigorous discussion of the question
of the right of smokers to indulge in
their habit on streetcars. And now that
the question Is up there seems fitness
In having It fully considered. It involves
the right to smoke, not only In streetcar,
but in all public places, and the way to
settle it satisfactorily to the public Is
In view of the underlying principles.
At the Lewis and Clark Fair, by the
side of the main entrance to the Gov
ernment building, was posted a notice.
or command, absolutely prohibiting smok
ing within. That was really the voice
of the people of the United States. Was
that command Justifiable, and was there
a good and valid reason for it? Was
any smoker wronged because of it?
Was anyone ever inconvenienced by it?
No. There was unhesitating compliance
with the order, and no one found fault
with it.
It was a public building, put up by
public money, and belonged to the public,
and no one had a right fb go in 'there
with a disgusting or Injurious habit, and
the Government, recognizing tms tact.
Issued its edict to protect innocent and
unoffending people. That notice to smok
ers was right.
On ths same principle smoKing snoum
be prohibited in the Fostoffioe. the Court
house and the City Hall. These are all
public places, built with public money,
for the transaction of public business
by the whole public men. women and
children, nonsmokers as well as smok
ersand no one has a right to go in there
and pollute the atmosphere that an must
breathe. The smoker claims the right to
smoke, if he wants to; but has he also
the right to compel everybody else to
smoke, whether they want to or not?
Has not the person who does not smoke
as many and as valid rights as a smoker?
Nay, has not the -nonsmoker a better
right, seeing that he follows nature, while
the Bmoker perverts- it? woo ever neara
of a child being born with a cigar or
pipe in its mouth? The right of way
belongs to the nonsmoker, in a puouo
place.
The Fostomce belong to me wovem
ment, and the Postmaster has the same
right to prohibit smoking that kept it
out of the fair building. He has pro
hibited loafing and spitting on the floor.
But neither of these habits Interferes
with public comfort like smoking. tou
can step over a pool of spittle, or walk
around a loafer, but you cannot escape
the smoker. You must breathe while
you wait for your mail or mark and
weigh a package, and the smoker has
poisoned every atom of air in the whole
building. "I saw a nervous, delicate old
lady, who was compelled to stand in line
some time waiting for mail, made so sick
by a smoker who stood just behind her
in the line that she was compelled to
stagger out of her place and seek the
open air. An occurrence like that ought
not to be possible in a civilized com
munity. The Courthouse is always tilled with a
stale tobacco stench that anyone with an
unperverted sense of smell will notice at
once on entering, but men and women
who know they are injured by entering
such an atmosphere are compelled to go
there to pay taxes and to transact other
nublic business. Courts are held tnere.
too, to determine Important rights of
persons and property. But how can
Judges or Juries, not to say lawyers,
think clearly or rise into the higher or
nobler realms of thought and teenng in
such a place? Under such circumstances
is it a wonder that justice sometimes
stumbles and miscarries?
All . the foregoing applies with equal
force to the City Hall and all other public
places. But I see the City Council has
prohibited smoking during its sessions,
and now as the tobacco smoke clears
away, may we not hope that the moral
atmosphere will also clear up? I believe
it will. Man's better and higher nature
has a fairer "chance where the surround
ings are pure and healthful.
In private places the work of renova
tion will be slower. But smoke ought to
be kept out of streetcars, out of stores
and public offices, and some day it will
be excluded from the hotel lobby.
LEVI W. MYERS.
Kearlns; the Century- Mark.
Chinook (Wash.) Observer.
Last Sunday, the 17th of March, P. J.
McGowan reached his 90th birthday. He
has lead an active business life for more
than 70 years. In the afternoon at
o'clock a party of Astoria business men,
old-time friends of Mr. McGowan, char
tered the steamer Volga and left Astoria
to pay the aged cannery man a friendly
visit and congratulate him on his health
and long life. The party comprised S. S,
Gordon, George W. Sanborn. R. B. Dwy-
er, B. VanDusch. E. W. and W. E. Tal
lant and E. P. Nooman. They were well
received by Mr. McGowan, at the home of
Senator McGowan, his son. On the trip
the party made casual observation of the
railroad operations on the Columbia Val
ley road, which is being built from Meg-
ler's station to North Beach.
Lenten Thought.
Richmond T!mes-rlspateh.
Athwart my never-ending- stream
Of ballads, rondels, songs and sonnets
There darts the nightmare of a dream
Viz.: Bonnets.
Not that I hate them, as such; no.
A man's more glad than I to spy 'em;
The nightmare's Just when you have got
To buy 'em.
And howe'er well you've garbed your wife.
nave nattea, snoo ana eKea peiisnea ner,
She 11 need new neaawear in ner life
At Easter.
A wife if that were all my fate!
I'm struggling in far deeper waters;
I have to boot land hat) some eight
Tall daughters. ,
Which totals nine: and that Is why
I work when 1 should be home sleeping,
Ana wny my nazei aexier eye
Keeps weeping.
And so it happens that each Lent
(Ho. prlnter!set thl double-leaded)
I wish to goodness females went
Bareheaded.
STANDING AT THE
CAVALRY CHARGES THE MOB
Jews In Small Towns Are Ordered to
Leave for Sake of Safety.
BUCHAREST, March 24. As a train,
conveying peasant reservists from the dis
trict of Telorman on the Danube, was
proceeding to Moldavia. It was stopped
at the town of Alexandria by a large
number of reservists belonging there.
They stoned " the train and persuaded
their fellow reserverists to join them in
completely ruining Jewish and Greek
shops.
The mob was charged by cavalry. The
authorities have warned all Jews in the
small towns and villages to leave for the
sake of safety and large . numbers are
continually arriving there.
In view of the serious state of affairs
number of members of the Chamber of
Deputies intend to propose proclaiming a
state of siege in the disturbed districts.
OUTRAGES OX THE . FRONTIER
Bands of Farmers Waylay Fugitives
in Mountain Districts.
VIENNA, March 34. Desnlte the fears
of a series of disturbances in Roumania.
especially at Jassay, today passed with
comparative quiet, so far as the news
received here indicated. It seems that
the energetic precautions taken by the
Government proved effective.
While the news from Jassy is satisfac
tory, reports from Bukowina, on the fron
tier, are less favorable. In the moun
tains of Borujenl various bands of farm
ers wait for fugitives whom they pillage
and maltreat. It is here the Roumanian
gendarmes participated outrages.
In the District of Dorogol excesses are
till going on, while In the Allcsandrla
Province of Wallchia. It is said, many
Jews have been wounded and their build
ings destroyed.
NEW YORK JEWS RAISE FCXD
Thousand Dollars Given to the Suf
fering Roumanians.
NEW YORK, March 24. The Rouma
nian Jews of the lower East Side, held
two mass-meetings tonight to proton
against the "atrocities and outrages'com
mitted on the Jews in Roumania." About
$1000, It was announced, was raised by
contributions at the doors.
A telegram from Jacob H. Schiff, read
at -the meetings, said that the American
Jewish committee, through the State De
partment and direct sources to Rouma
nia, was endeavoring to get correct ac
counts of the situation in Roumania. Mr.
Schiff added that the subject would be
brought up at the next meeting of the
Russian massacre general committee,
which has been called for next Thursday.
M. STOLYPIX TAKES A HAXD
Anti-Semitic Disorders Due to Work
of True Russian Party.
ODESSA, March 24. The Odessa No-
vosti claims to be in possession of in
formation connecting the anti-Semitic ex
cesses in Roumania and the provocative
agitation in Bessarabia with the ma
chinations of the union of True Russian
people, and say that In consequence of
this. Premier Stolypin has telegraphed
the Governor of Bessarabia urging Im
mediate measures to prevent the spread
of disorders in that province.
NEW ROrMAMAS CABINET.
Liberal Ministry Goes in and Jewish
Atrocities Expected to Cease.
BUCHAREST, March 24. The conserv
ative Cabinet has resigned, and a liberal
ministry has been formed under the pres
idency of M. Sturdza, who was Premier
in a former Cabinet. It is hoped the dis
orders in the country soon will be ended.
Persecuted Jews in Flight.
SOFIA, March 24. News received hero
from Sistoff and Nikopoli. Bulgaria, say
that many Jewish refugees and large
Christian landed proprietors have arrived
there in boats, fleeing from the prose
cution of insurgents.
ATTACK EUROPEAN
HOMES
Troops Called Out to Proteet For
eigners From Tangier Mob.
TANGIER, March 24. Later dispatches
received from Morocco City say that the
assassination there of Dr. Mauchamp.
who was connected with the chief of the
French Geodetic Mission, was followed by
a general attack upon the Europeans,
who were besieged in their houses, and
that the British Consular agent was1
forced to Are, killing two persons. Tho
Pasha finally sent troops, who drove off
the mob. The troops are still guarding
the houses, although comparative calm
has been restored.
FRENCH PUBLIC IS AROUSED
Demand Reparation for Assassina
tion Dr. Mauchamp in Tangier.
PARIS, March 24 Public opinion is
greatly exercised over the assassination
at Morocco City of Dr. Mauchamp, who
was connected with the French Geodetic
Mission, which it is regarded should be
the signal for a total change In the
French policy in North Africa. The
Temps urges the abandonment of the
"flabby police." The paper rehearses a
long list of outrages on Frenchmen, rep
aration for which, it says, was never ex
acted, y
Earl of Liverpool.
LONDON, March 24. Cecil George Sa
vllle Fotjambe. Karl of Liverpool, is
dead. He was born In 1846.
HEAD OF THE CLASS
From the Boston Herald.
I