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Wheatley; Oak Jand News Stand; Hale News Co. fioldfield. Tier Louie Pollln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency. 'Norfolk, Va. Potts Boeder; American News Co. Pine Beach. Va W. A. Cosgrov. PORTLAND, MONDAY, JULY , 1007. THE HAYWOOD VERDICT. The Boise jury returned a verdict of "not guilty" for Haywood, obviously because it was not satisfied as to the legal proof. Probability of guilt, or moral certainty of complicity in crime, may have weight with the public; yet they are not enough to hang a man on. Therefore the Jury at Boise hesitated to accept the grave responsibility of Imposing the extreme penalty of law on a defendant in a case where the direct testimony came from one person only a confessed murderer and the corrob orative evidence was wholly circum stantial. Yet some members of the Jury were convinced Tjeyond all doubt, and for hours insisted on a verdict of murder, only to. give way In the end through sheer exhaustion perhaps to the scruples of other jurors who re quired an absolute and more perfect demonstration of , (Haywood's direct participation in the death of Steunen berg. Yet there stands Orchard's terrible story, complete, definite, circumstan tial, Inescapable, convincing In its painful and horrible particularity and uncontroverted throughout except by the testimony of persons who had a vital personal interest In establishing Its falsity or inaccuracy. It Is true that there was some apparently disin terested testimony that the so-called attempt to kill Bradley at San Fran cisco with dynamite was in reality a gas explosion, but even this was mere conjecture and theory. But even here Orchard's narrative was not success fully attacked by the defense by any sort of positive or credible counter proof. What becomes, yien, of Or chard's confession? Is he, too, to go free, on the theory that if he lied about , Haywood he may have lied about him self? But, aside from the truth or falsity of Orchard's story, the defense at Boise has utterly failed to give a satisfactory account of Haywood's known relations with the assassin. The disappearance of Simpkins, the confession of' Steve Adams, the failure to put Pettibone or Adams on the stand, the employment of Miller, the attorney, for $1500 to de " fend Orchard immediately after the murder, the correspondence with Mrs. Orchard, the dispatch by Pettibone of money to "H. Green" at San Fran cisco, the $100 draft to Simpkins, the sending of $75 to Adams, and other sus picious and damaging circumstances, all tended to show the kind of busi ness the "inner circle" of the "Western Federation was in. These things have never been explained away on any theory perfectly compatible with Hay wood's innocence. The Boise verdict, then, is "not proven." But Steunenberg was killed, slain at midnight at the portals of his home in circumstances that leave no question that his murder was the result of premeditated revenge. Orchard killed him. He did not quarrel with him before or rob him afterwards. Or chard did not even know Steunenberg, except by sight. Why did Orchard kill him? He said, and still says, he was employed by the. "inner circle" of the Western Federation of Miners to com mit this cowardly crime. The farmers' trust will endeavor to put the price of wheat up to $1.25 per bushel. This is the minimum figure agreed on at a meeting of the American Society of Equity, held at Indianapolis Saturday. A few months ago, when wheat was selling around 75 cents per bushel, the minimum price for the 1907 crop was placed at $1 per bushel, the official organ of the trust explaining 'that it was not the desire of the society to place the figure any higher, for fear that it might not be fair to the con sumer. If the foreign wheat situation continues to gain In strength as It has been gaining for the past month, the trust may have an opportunity to add another 25 cents to the price. As to the consumer,! it does not seem to make difference 'with him whether it is a farmers' trust or a manufacturers' trust that Is doing business with a com modity that he is forced to purchase. In the Pacific Northwest $1.25 per bushel for wheat would prove of Ines timable benefit. Elsewhere It might not be so regarded. - FEDERAL AND STATE POWERS. The Governor of North Carolina has won a partial victory in his conflict with the Federal Courts. The rail roads have agreed to obey the state law, fixing maximum passenger rates at cents per mile, until the consti tutionality of the act shall be deter mined by the Supreme Court of the United States. The railroads had said that the passenger schedules of a rail road doing an interstate business were none of the state's business, and ap pealed to the Federal Courts for an in junction. Judge Pritchard, a district Judge, promptly granted the injunction, at (he same time in effect declaring the law unconstitutional and undertak ing to stay its operation. The North. Carolina Governor protested, rightly, that the Federal Judge had far exceed ed his proper powers. In declaring that by the mere process of an Injunction from a mfnor Federal Court, on an ex parte hearing, the whole legislative, executive and judicial machinery of a state could be upset. If a Federal Dis trict Judge could In this manner, by a mere interlocutory decree, suspend the operation of one law, why not all other state laws? The position of the Fed eral Judge was, of course, untenable, and he had to retreat. Yet Judge Prltchard did only what the lesser Fed eral Courts have been doing, or trying to do, everywhere. Governor Glenn says that his vic tory is a triumph for "state rights." That depends on what Is meant by state rights. That the states have rights Is undeniable, and one of their rights is to enact and enforce their own laws, through their own judicial and administrative officers, until they shall be determined by their own Supreme Court or by the United States Supreme Court, to be unconstitutional. Yet the right of the Federal Supreme Court to set. aside any state law on the ground of unconstitutionality, of course, re mains. The only question really deter mined in North Carolina is as to the method by which the rate law shall get Into the United States Supreme Court, and that is on appeal from the State courts. Though Judge Pritchard has not openly abandoned his conten tion, he has" virtually acknowledged th& correctness and validity of the state's position. The victory for "state rights" won by North Carolina, then,, is that the state is a unit In the great Federal organiza tion and that; It Is not everywhere and In all circumstances subordinate to the Federal authority, operating through minor Federal Judges. If it were, the state would have no function, and its organization might as well be aban doned. The state can have no function. of i course, that conflicts with or sub verts the Federal power; but the Fed eral power must be asserted and exer cised in a constitutional and orderly manner. WAY8 OF LAWYERS. The proposal to prosecute attorneys who advise their corporation clients to violate the laws of the state or nation Is based upon sound reason. If a law yer may thus aid and abet a crime, why may not also a doctor, merchant or banker, witnout becoming responsi ble for the act? Of course the lawyer professes to be acting upon his best Judgment. But the most favorable view that can be taken df his course is that he advises his client to come just as near violating the law as possible without stepping over the line. Were J the lawyer as honest In his intensions as he would have people believe, he would advise his clients to keep as far as posslblefrom the line of dffense. There Is plenty of opportunity In this world for honest effort, and no need for any man to conduct a business which la of questionable legality. Of course the man who becomes part of a trust or ganisation has a better opportunity to acotire a fortune than has the man who runs his own business in his own way. But there is room, and always should be, for the independent operator, In whatever line of business. ' The cap tain of Industry, who chooses to amass wealth by violating the anti-trust laws, should be punished as certainly and as severely as he who acquires wealth by violating' the laws against extortion, counterfeiting or plain theft. And a lawyer who advises violation of the anti-trust law is deserving of no more consideration than one who advises vio lation of the law against larceny. THE FIRST VEGETARIAN. Meat-eaters treat with scorn the idea Of vegetarianism and call it a fad that will wear Itself out if given time. They overlook , the fact that it is ages old, and has come down the centuris with sporadic outbreaks of popularity that have spurred Its steadfast devotees to renewed effort to disseminate its benefi cial effects, turning thir backs on the sneers of scoffers. Vegetarianism did not, as many think, originate In Battle Creek. Nebuchadnezzar was probably the first; his efforts in astronomic ag rostology are matter of record. Yet credit for running the primeval health food boarding-house must be given to that grand old commander, Noah. His commissary of subsistence failed to keep a list of the eatables and drink ables that formed his supplies for the forty-day voyage, so what he took on board is simply proved toy the nega tive posltlvity of what he did not take. He fulfilled orders to ship a pair of every living thing, and when they gave up their berth checks on going ashore at the dock on Mount Ararat none was missing.' So there you are. There were no steers taken to be slaughtered on board; the progenitors of the tribes of Swift, Armour and Cudahy had not yet evolved the science of getting profit of everything from for'ard to aft by cur ing it; Australia had not been discov ered to supply the foreign demand with frozen mutton. To be sure, there may have been fish on the menu, for Ham's career in later days shows he knew what "bait" was tout that is a matter of conjecture. There may also have been eggs to eat, but as the one hea of the pair could not have laid mor than an egg a day, that was only enough for the old man's breakfast If Mrs. Noah, exercisirfg that feminine trait that goes with the sex to this day, did not hldeMt to use in the batter for hot cakes So the question of what the family ate is simplified'; the food came from the fields, the granaries and the store house. It was "health food" primeval. from first hands, and had gone thsough no elaborate process of manufacture; neither had its lifegivlng properties toeen extolled in slx-incb double-column ads to run top of page and next to pure reading matter, or omit. Noah knew the goods and he got 'em wholesale; and the 'boys and girls ate 'em and no doubt hollered for, more. Noah knew what he was doing and what was good, and thrived at it. So, too, do his fol lowers to this day. EXPERT TESTIMONY. ' If the subject were less sorrowful, a large amount of the expert testimony being offered regarding the Columbia disaster would toe ludicrous. As in the case of allother similar disasters, there is a number of people who are now in a position to tell all of the details, how it happened and how it might have been avoided. One of, these experts, who asserts that "I know whereof I speak," and is "willing to take oath," etc., but whose name was not on the Columbia passenger list, places the blame on the inspectors for not enforc ing the law, and cites a case where the Columbia saved an hour on a trip, and where, according to this veracious ex pert, the "interests" patted him on the back and said "Good man; you did finely. You have saved time and coal." Saving time and coal on the same voy age (the Columbia did not use aoal for fuel) is an impossibility. To save time it Is necessary to "drive" the vessel, and this requires additional fuel. To save fuel the vessel must lose time. The stories of those best qualified to give testimony shows that both steam ers were at a safe distance from shore, so tha on that score the liability of collision in the circumstances would not have been lessened had they been fifty miles out Instead of fifteen. One of the survivors complains because the whistle was 'not blown after the col lision, apparently forgetting that there was already noise nough to make it extremely difficult for the officers to make themselves heard. This survivor is also captious" because the members of the crew, who were routing out pas sengers, did not get to his room until after he had left it. Captain Doran is blamed because among his heroic offi cers there was one black sheep, al though this particular officer, who dis graced his calling, had been on the Co lumbia but a short time, hardly long enough for poor Doran to discover his streak of "yellow." Another navigation expert, in a com munication, makes the broad statement that "nine out of every ten officers are practically ignorant of the rules of the road at sea." This expert modestly states that he has been to sea and some of his superior officers, in every ship he was in, were utterly incompetent. The difficulty for any one not in the wreck forming an opinion of value can be readily understood toy the testimony of those who were actual witnesses of the disaster. These people, above all others, should be in a position to de-. scribe conditions and happenings, but among them there Is a wide difference of opinion regarding the most import ant details of the wreck. Some of these survivors say that the fog was so thick that the San Pedro was not sighted until an instant before the collision. Others assert that the San Pedro's lights were plainly visible for from six. to twelve minutes before the collision. If the latter stories are true, the fog or mist was so light as to warrant the vessel proceeding at full speed, as she was undoubtedly doing. The two officers whose testimony would be of : the greatest value in fixing the responsibility were Captain Doran and First Officer Whitney, who went down with their ship; touL even with out their testimony,, a rigid examina tion of the officers and. crew of the San Pedro and those who did not perish on the Columbia should enable the author ities to fix the blame wh,ere it properly belongs. Meanwhile, expert testimony from men. who were not present and reason only from theory should, touch rather lightly on unconfirmed reports 'of bad seamanship, poor Judgment and other frailties on the part of men who perished and whose past records do not in the slightest degree corroborate these charges. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PORTLAND. The usual complaint of light business for the Oriental steamers plying out of Portland is again heard. That it comes at this time will be particularly fortu nate for Mr. Schwerin, personal di rector of the Califorlna end and mis director of the Portland end of Mr. Harriman's steamship interests. It is fortunate, for the reason that Mr. iHar riman is expected on the Pacific Coast in a, short time, and will undoubtedly get here at a convenient date for ob serving how little business his Oriental line handles from Portland and how much the line handles from San Fran cisco. Viewed from the Schwerin-Stuibbs-Kruttschnltt-Calif ornla stand point, it thus becomes quite plain that. Instead of Portland having an insuffi cient Service to the Far East, we actu ally have more steamers than can be supplied with cargo. This at least will be the view which Mr. Schwerin will take of the matter, and of course Mr. Stubbs, in charge of all traffic, will agree with him and continue to' route all overland freight for the Orient to San Francisco for trans-shipment at that point instead of Portland. This also enables Mr. Kruttschnitt to supply California shippers with cars while the Oregon shippers have none. The injustice of this policy, so rigidly enforced by the California transporta tion trinity, would be less noticeable if San Francisco and California could supply even from one-half to one fourth as much Oriental cargo as is supplied . by Portland and Oregon. Flour occupies more freight space on the transpacific liners than is taken by any other commodity. For years it has been the mainstay ol all trans-Paciflo lines. To admit of frequent service, however, it is necessary that overland freight for the trans-Pacific liners be supplied in sufficient quantity to fill up the ships that otherwise would be obliged to wait until an entire cargo of flour should be secured. But the Cali fornia transportation trinity has never given Portland more than a small frac tion of the overland freight sent across the continent. Oriental flour shipments out of Port land for the firs: six months of the current year reached a total of 800,149 barrels. Out of San Francisco for the same period the total was 110,750 bar rels. Some of the San Francisco liners carried no flour, as they were given full cargoes of overland freight, with the exception of a small amount of mer chandise and fruit from San Francisco. Of those which did carry flour, the av erage amount per ship was ' 553 tons. From Portland the average amount of flour per ship, since January 1, has been 5010 tons. As the vessels have a ca pacity of from 6000 to 8000 tons, and in addition to the flour carry a large amount of lumber from Portland, it can easily be understood what an insignifi cant Amount of overland freight is be ing given to the Portland line. With Portland supplying ten times as much business for Oriental steamers as Is supplied by San Francisco, Mr. Schwerin has utterly failed to give us a service in keeping with the demands of the port, and nearly one-half of the shipments that have gone forward in the past three months have been on steamers chartered by private firms or sent here by Puget Sound steamship men. Just how long this unfair and trade-hampering policy is to continue is uncertain, but, if Mr. Harriman ever comes out of the hypnotic spell which the three California Svengalis Schwer in, Stubbs and Kruttschnitt have cast over him, a new deal is almost a certainty. What becomes now of all the clatter and clamor and uproar from certain quarters that the "capitalistic class" had "kidnaped" Haywood et al. in Colo rado and was going to railroad them to the gallows in Idaho? Did or did not Haywood have a fair trial? If he did, then the apologists and defenders of the Western Federation wickedly d famed the Idaho courts; but it is too much to hope that they will acknowl edge, it. If they were right and Hay wood did not have a fair trial, so much the luckier for .Haywood. Probably we shall hear now that Idaho did not dare hang Haywood. That is perhaps true, since the proof was apparently imper fect. Idaho, nor any other state, would dare hang no one unless his guilt were legally proved. It wouldn't try. Whatever the merits or demerits of the -threatened advance in lumber freight rates may be, the unquestioned need of a4d for the lumbermen is appar ent. There has, of course, been some Increase in the price of lumber, but it has utterly failed to keep pace with the increase in the number of automo biles, steam yachts and other usufruct from the sawmill. The consumer who Is forced to purchase a few boards for the chicken-house or sidewalk can get a very fair idea of how easy it must be for the lumbermen to raise a $100,000 purse for fighting the proposed freight rate. The Sunday-closing movement is spreading, and Seaside must now be quiet and orderly on Sunday. News of the adjustment of the lid at that prom inent Summer resort will be received with pleasure by hundreds of people who make their Summer homes in the Immediate vicinity. NThe saloons at Seaside are no better nor no worse than others, but, with hundreds of children passing their doors, the objectionable features were more prominent than in a large city, where children do not have such . places constantly before them. Brother Bryan Is going to smoke the' pipe of peace with Boss Sullivan, of Illinois. If he really wants the nomi nation, he is up against the proposition of burning a lot of tobacco in the com pany of several other distinguished leaders. We can name two one lies at Princeton, N. J.; the other runs a newspaper in Louisville. . Besides, ha has to reckon with Colonel George Har vey. The thriving little town of Stella, Wash., was destroyed by fire Satur day, one dock and an unoccupied store room alone escaping. A calamity of this nature is, of course, more serious in a small town than In a large one, and the enterprising people of the log raft metropolis will have the sympathy of a large number of Portlanders with whom they have long had pleasant business relations; The Democratic candidate for Railroad Commissioner of Indian Territory has Just been separated from $10,000 by the old gold brick swindle. He is said to be one of the most prominent bankers In the territory. Apparently the "readin" and 'rltln' " qualification Is not required In banking and political cir cles in Indian Territory. Federal Judge Pritchard was greatly worried that enforcement of law in, North Carolina might cost the rail roads $2,500,000 daily In penalties. It might. If the railroads violated the law. Apparently the Judge didn't think that a good way to save money would be for the railroads to obey the law. - It could not be otherwise. Two weeks' silence In Ohio was " ominous. The storm has broken. Foraker landed on Taft and then poked the President in the ribs. Bulletins of the next round are awaited with National interest. The first death in the breakers at Long Beach is another warning that lifelines are needed. Each recurring sea son this common precaution is neglect ed because everybody's b.uslness is no body's. Golden West is not the most appro priate name for an exclusive colored folks' hotel established here. Still, over in Seattle a public hall rented only by negroes is called the White Lily. While Mr. Sweeney, of Spokane, de clines ta entpr the race for the Sena torshlp, it is "clear that he has positive opinions as to who should not win that honor. An Idaho Jury has acquitted Hay wood, despite Mr. Darrow and his in cendiary and Infamous speech. But it was a narrow escape. In the state rifle contest, Company K, of Portland, has kept up the high standard set by that organization ever since it was formed. The San Francisco white woman who eloped, with,. a Chinaman named Wun Wing will find she cannot fly very far with that handicap. Mrs. 'Haywobd and Haywood's mother were .naturally greatly affected toy the result of the trial. So, no doubt, was Mrs. Steunenberg. Winning four out of six games may be taken as a belated yet genuine re solve on the part of the Beavers to win the pennant. Perhaps Orchard lied, too, when he said he killed Steunenberg. But who did murder Steunenberg. And why? Among other signs of a hard Winter, the Indian scout at Albany overlooked the Increased cost of slabwood. Perhaps it will be Just as well to defer the next automobile race until after a rain.. has laid the dust. THE RAILROADS OR THE PEOPLT f Who Should Pay Losses When Rates Are Not KqnltablaJ Chicago Tribune. "Suppose, through such railroad laws as Missouri passed, the railroads actually lose money in carrying: passengers" and freight will the state make the loss good to them?" This was the question recently put by Justice Brewer to Governor Folk. The Justice may have thought it unan swerable, but Governor Folk replies Yan kee fashion by asking another question. It is, "Suppose the Federal Court, after many years of litigation, finds the rates reasonable and the laws validwill the railroads make the loss good to the peo ple of Missouri?" If a railroad were to collect the higher passenger rate while the validity of the lower rate was being litigated there would be no practical remedy for the pas senger if the lower rate were upheld. He might sue the road, but that would cost him more than he could recover. Gov ernor Folk's sympathies appear to be with the passenger. If the railroad were to let people travel at a lower rate pending the action of the courts, and the road were to win the suit, it would have been deprived of some money to which It was Justly entitled. It would be unable to recover anything from the passengers. The loss would fall upon the stockholders. Apparently Jus tice Brewer has a higher opinion of their rights than he has of the rights of pas sengers. The people should be given the prefer ence, but all controversies of this kind should be settled' speedily so that there may be the least possible loss to anybody. Qovernor Folk speaks of "many years of litigation" over railroad rate cases. He describes accurately what has happened In the past, but should not be permitted to happen again. Litigation would -not have dragged so ' if the roads had not been permitted to collect the higher rates while it was pending. If that practice were stopped the roads would expedite court proceedings, instead of delaying them. ONE VIEW OF HAYWOOD TRIAL. Impartial Journalistic Observer Dis cusses the Testimony. C. P. Connolly in Collier's Weekly. The story of Harry Orchard was not materially weakened. On the contrary, it was at many points strengthened. Ex cept for twb or three witnesses whose testimony was so apparently frank and trustworthy that they may be said 'to have" impeached him, the attempt to shake his testimony on the part of the other 'witnesses reacted against the de fense. Some of these impeaching wit nesses established an intimate relation ship between Orchard and Haywood evi dence of which, before,' was confined mostly to Orchard's own statements. Another feature of the defense was the overreaching of some of the testimony A host of witnesses testified to threats made by Orchard against Steunenberg, the ground for the threats being that when Orchard was forced to leave the Coeur d.'Alenes on account of the destruc tion of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill ho was compelled to sacrifice his one-sixteenth interest in the Hercules mine sit uated in that district; that the mine afterward proved a bonanza, and Or chard laid his poverty at the door of Steunenberg. But Orchard had sold his Interest In the Hercules property, as he testified, two years before the blowing up of the mill, and thought at the time he was driving a good bargain. Notwith standing this, according to the testimony of the defense, there appears to have been on his mind but one burden re venge on Steunenberg. Every corner that he turned In his subsequent career he was found by some witness breathing vengeance. I think, setting aside for the present the testimony of Orchard, it is the opin ion of constant and intelligent observers of the trial that the impression made by the witnesses for the state was uniformly good. This cannot be said of all the wit nesses for the defense. Too many of them broke down pitifully on cross-examination, and most of these were the im portant witnesses for the defense. The manner of others was suspicious. Some were patently lying. There was a striking contrast between the manner of the defense's witnesses who testified to the deportations and outrages In the Cripple Creek region and those whose testimony was relied upon to discredit Orchard's story. It was a contrast that did not 'augur well for- the defense. Those wit nesses who failed by their testimony to discredit Orchard only strengthened bis story the more. It is the old story of the alibi too well established for intelligent credence. At Last The "Fairbanks" Cocktail. St. Louis Dispatch to the New York Herald. Et. Louis has a "Fairbanks cocktail." It has Jist ' been invented here in a well-known ' resort, is served- "frappe and "cool as Fairbanks," with a cherry in it It was suggested by that one lone cocktail the Vice-President is said to have taken at a dinner given to President Roosevelt. Henry Hoffman, who wears a white apron, invented the new' cocktail. He makes it this way: Glass of cracked ice, one-third French vermouth, two-thirds dry gin, two or three dashes of creme de Noyoux, dash of orange bitters, a real cherry, and some more ice Just because It Is a "Fairbanks cocktail." In honor of the Vice-President the cocktail Is to, be served in a tall, thin glass. Mr. Allen, Collector of Strange Oaths. London Standard. The death has occurred In his sixty first year of John Romllly Allen, editor of the Reliquary and the Archaelogia Cambrensls. His tastes were cathollo and his knowledge of subjects remark able for its variety. He wrote books on the construction of dock walls. Christian symbolism and Celtric art. In "Who's Who" he described his re creation as "collecting strange oaths on golf links wherewith to address scorching cyclists in a suitable manner when occasion requires." S Patriotic Triplets, Baby Girla. New York W-rld. Red, White and Blue are three baby girls, triplets, born on the Fourth of July Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Andrews, of 46 Locust street. Flush ing, are going to christen them Mar garet Cherry, Janet Carolyn and Eliza beth Colwell, but everybody calls them Red, White and Blue. Each wears on her arm a bow of ribbon the color of its sobriquet. Red weighed six pounds when she was born. White and Blye were each half a pound lighter. Law, a Girl, and an Embrace. Baltimore News. Judge Hlghley of Oklahoma, City has decided that if the girl Is willing the man may hug her at any tlt-e or place without fracturing community peace. FUXCTIO.V OF COUNTRY PAPER. More and More it la to Cover Its Social Field. Vale Orlano. The country newspaper has been com pelled to change its method. The daily covers the field of news so completely that it hardly pays a weekly .country paper to more than point at the main news Items of the week. Local matters are recevving more and more attention and a country paper to be a success must get in touch with its own people and voice their own sentiments. ' The Portland papers speak from the view point at Portland. We must speak from the view point at Vale. -While those papers are state wide they speak from their knowledge gathered from within and looking out. We speak from the point where the matter is and speak from the peoples' understanding. The country weeWy should understand thair peoples' conditions and needs and should continually make those conditions known; then the big dailies will get in touch with outside interests and see as we see. The country newspaper should help to educate the city dally regarding the section in which that country weekly operates. . Poor Harriman. Klamath Falls Herald. Wonder If Harriman knows where he is at? The courts are endeavoring to put him In prison for violations of law; then the Interstate Commerce Commission is going to compel him to let loose of some of his property; over at Eugene the mer chants are going to "bust" him by means of a boycott; at Roseburg and Corvallis they are going to build rival rends; at Portland they want to skin him alive for Bins of omission as well as commission; at Salem they want trains to run slower, at the same time . roaring because the time schedule is not maintained, and in the eastern part of the state the people are holding out their arms, entreating him to come and build roads. Verily, the way ef the transgressor is hard. "Plant a Tree." The Dallas Optimist. Set out a tree, or more if you can. Watch it grow. Mark how slowly it seems to gather breadth and height. But in a few years you will find it giving shade and that it has apparently grown while you slept, for you will wake up to the fact almost before you know it ttat it is branching and spreading out, tower ing above you as though it had got be yond you. And then what an air of pro prietorship you will have! "This is my tree! I planted It! It is a creature of mine!" And indeed you may well be proud, for those who give to the world trees, give to her her finest charm 'and one cf her greatest sources of wealth. Love Didn't Laugh at the Lawsmltha. Lebanon Criterion. The Perkins-Eellinger trial at Albany yesterday severely interfered with the marriage cr one of the witnesses for the defense. Miss Mable Feterson, of Crabtree. Wednesday was set for her wedding day and when she was served Monday with a subpoena she tcld the officer that it would be Impossible for her to attend. Her father explained she was to be married. The officer unmindful of youthful love and ardor suggested that in the cold eye of the law her excuse was net a legal one and she would have to appear at the appointed time and place for giving her testimony. , Prosperity. ' Echo Register. All over Oregon the effects of the new blood that is coming In from the Eastern states Is being felt in thousands of ways. The population will soon be double what it was a decade ago.' Within the next two or three years the thousands of alert, industrious, up-to-date home builders who will settle upon the lands opening up on this lower Umatilla coun try will change the very landscape. Un told wealth that the pioneers have been kicking under their feet as worthless dust will be brought to light by them. . Kature Faking- In Polk County. Falls City News. Breeze Gibson, the sage of the Eola hills, is getting a good deal of newspaper notoriety on account of his discovery of some freaks of nature in the maple woods near his home. We have seen Breeze's curios and certainly he has aided nature greatly in making Borne beautiful ornaments out of maple knots, but if a freah of nature is anything to be prized. Breeze is entitled to a blue ribbon. Envy, Sheer Envy. Tacoma News. Samuel G. Blythe has come at last to Seattle in his swing around the circle. " 'Go to it and get the money.' That is the spirit of the place," he writes in the current Saturday Evening Post. Exactly, with amendments. "Get the money get anybody's money get every body's money, and don't trouble yourself about ways and means and methods." That is nearer the "spirit of the place." Perhaps Some of Them Will Chop Wood La Grands Oberver. Not a few who are keeping in close touch with the labor market are of the opinion that there will be ample help to handle the harvest this season. Owing to the fact that quite a number of the large sawmills and logging camps on the Coast have shut down, several hundred men are now looking to the farms for em ployment. What It Costs to Have Fun. Drain Nonpareil. The woods are full of enthusiastic hunters, with $20 dogs and $30 guns, who shoot away $10 worth of ammunition, wear out $5 worth of clothes, and con sume $10 worth of time trying to kill a six-bit venison. "Watch Tacoma Grow. ' Tacoma Forum. Bond your city for $2,000,000 and waleh capital flow to Seattle, Portland and Spokane. JAPAN'S DIPLOMATIC MEASURES t - f?i w m W St.f'-. US tl V I I 21 I SPREAD OF HOMICIDAL MANIA. Noticeable Increase in Murderous Crime In This Country-. "Anglo-American," in the London Mail. In the twelve years that I have known America at all intimately I only recollect one instance in which the criminal law worked with anything ap proaching the English standard of swiftness and precision. That was in the case of the mad who Shot President McKlnley. Public opinion Insisted on .a speedy trial and a speedy execution, and public opinion had its way. Had the victim been a man of less prominence, the odds would have been over 70 to 1 against his assassin ever being- brougly to the chair. The odds I have quoted are not to be taken as a mere figure of speech. They,' are a literal and appalling fact. Since 1885 there have been 131,951 murders and homicides in the United States, and but 2286 executions. In 1885 the num-: ber of murders was -1808; in 1904 it had risen to 8482. In 1885 the number of executions was 108; in 1904 it was 116. ' There was nothing that I am aware of to make 1904 a year of peculiar criminality. Indeed, the figures for 1905' and 1906 tell an, even more sinister tale Americans seem now to be killing one another at the rate of more .than 9000 a year. Looking over the statistica of the last twenty years, one finds, roughly speaking, that while executions have remained virtually stationary, murders and homicides have multiplied five-fold. There are over five times as many murders committed In the United States per million inhabitants as in Australia, more than fourteen times as many as in England and Wales, eight times as' many as In Japan, nearly ten times as many as in Canada, and about twenty-, five times as many as in Germany. Only one European country, Italy, hasi even shown in this respect a worse record; only one country in the world today, Mexico, exceeds the American: average; and the United States has the further distinction of being the only country where the proportion of mur ders to population is positively on the increase. Governor Glenn, of North Carolina. Baltimore News. Governor Glenn, who has Just clashed with Federal Courts oven rate-law pen alties, was born August 11, 1854. raised and developed a Tarheel. He is a na tive of Rockingham County. Ke was educated first in the High School at Leaksvllle, and then went to Davidson, College for three years. For two years he was at the University of Virginia, but emphasizes the fact that it was only because there was at that time no advanced college in his own state. He studied law under Chief Justice Pear son during 1875 and 1876, and was li censed to practice in 1877. At Rocklyn and then in Stokes County he spent seven years at the .bar. In 1881 he was sent to the Legislature, and four years later was made District Solicitor in the Ninth Judicial District. He was a Cleveland elector in 1884 and 1892, and substituted as a Cleveland elector in 1888, the regular elector having: been kept from acting by an accident. In 1883 he was appointed United States District Attorney by President Cleve land and served for five years. Irl 1899 he was a State Senator, and was a member of the Senate committee that framed the North Carolina Constitu tional Amendment In 1904 he was elected Governor. Governor Glenn married Miss Nina Deaderlck, daughter of Judge John F. Deaderlek, of Knoxvllle, Tenn., and they have two children, C. V. Glenn, a banker at High Point, and a daughter, who lives with him. , A Word On Newspapers. Los Angeles Examiner. To the average poor young man who wants to be a cartoonist or an artist of some other kind, this is our ad vice: Work seriously -eight hours a day at something that you know you can do. Be a good clerk or a messen ger boy or mechanic or anything else. Make sketches when you have nothing else to do. The man who has in him the real artistic power enjoys his.work eo much that he can do it in his odd moments without fatigue. The born artist, like the born poet, simply can not help producing that Which Is In him. .A hen doesii't have to go to ait egg school in order to lay an egg. She has the egg in her, and so she lays it in spite of herself betweeri times. Simi larly, the man who has got good pic tures, funny or serious, in him can: make them well enough to test his talent "between times," without an art school. Many of Vm Seeing Europe. New York World. During the six months just ended the ocean liners out of New York have, carried eastward more first-cabin pas- sengers by 2700, more second-cabin by! 9000, than in the corresponding period last year. There were also 31,000 mora than last year's number who sailed foe Europe in the steerage. All this makes a new record In At lantic travel. And the year is one which; the calamity-howlers had mart-ked for etringency and depression. If pros perity has been hard hit, evidently the wound has not made itself felt at the steamship offices. Yet the travelers' Increase may be a sign of more things than that we in the States are "doing" nicely, thank you," for it is true not only that more Americans are gojns ' abroad, but that more Old-World visi tors year by year are coming here. Modern Art Found Unchaste. 1 Baltimore Dispatch. Rev. A. C. Dixon, of Chicago, for merly of Baltimore, in an address in Boston, expressed a wish that 75 ppr cent of the art galleries be burned, and -that 60 per cent of the contents of all of them be consigned to the flames. The modern art gallery, h said, is unchaste. -From the Philadelphia Record.