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io THE' 3IOK'IC OltlitiOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1907. PORTLAND... ORKtiON. During the month of September, 1907, the average paid circulation of The Oregonlan waft: Punriays 40,60 Week lyi 82. two Sworn statement of circulation of The Oregonian for every day during the month of September. 1007: Sept. Sept. Kept. Bept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 1 ,41.000 2 33.247 8 32.730 33,110 5 33.180 6 33.215 7 33,365 8 41.000 8 32,R3 10 33,210 11 32.770 12 32,720 13 32,805 14 32.755 15 40,700 Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 1,020,401. 1A. . 17. . 18. . 1. . 20. . . 32.43 .83 ,00.1 .?2,030 .32,300 J .32.5V3 21 32.415 22 40,500 2.1 32,276 24 33,345 23 .82,285 20 32,410 27 32,620 28 32.R05 29 40,200 30 82,510 Total circulation. County of Multnomah, State of Oregon as. This la to certify that the actual net cir culation of The Oregonlan for the month of September was as above set forth. A. K. SIXXTUM. Circulation Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of October. 1007. TV. E. HARTMUS. Notary Public for Oregon. GOLD M VRK PAPERS. jH ip There are ' listed in the I m fil American Newspaper Direc VzJ tory 23.481 publications and ' of all the dally newspapers so listed there are but 08 distinguished by the trold Marks. The Oregonlan Is one of the 86. Gold Mark newspapers are held In high esteem by advertisers, who regard them as of exceptional value as advertising mediums. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. , 1907. THE MURDER OF BROWN. Of a piece with the assassination of ex-Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho, is the assassination of ex-Sheriff Brown, of Baker, Or. The latter deed is an exact repetition, in method and in de tail, of the former; and the identical nature of the two horrible crimes, to gether with the relations of the two victims to the mining troubles in Idaho, point with certainty to the con clusion that the crimes are of a com mon origin. This type of murder be longs to the class that Orchard so mi nutely described In hU testimony at the Haywood trial. In the case of Brown the motive and the method were exactly the same as In the case of Steunenberg. In his dying state ment Brown declared that he had known for weeks that murderers were upon his track, and that the result did not surprise him. To" his activity in the Steunenberg case, and to his pur suit and arrest of Steve Adams for complicity in that and other murders, he assigned, with his last breath, the inspiration of the vengeance that had pursued him to his own death. Brown had done his duty in the 'pur suit of Steve Adams, as he had never faltered in making the gamblers and saloon-keepers of Baker County obey the law. He made enemies at home by his rigorous course against all law breakers, but it is not credible that either the gamblers, who found their occupation gone, through him, or the saloon-keepers, who were obliged by him to yield to the im perative demands of a decent public sentiment in the conduct of their business, would resort to needless murder through motives of revenge or for purposes of intimida tion. Brown had months ago retired from the Sheriff's office, and he was not in their way. Besides, the gam bler is never, or is hardly ever, a mur derer. He is merely a type of petty thief and sneaking parasite who is too lazy to live by honest labor .and too cowardly to adopt the bolder methods of the burglar or highwayman. The saloon-keeper as a rule takes his re venge on an obnoxious public officer at the polls. The only statutes he has any Inclination or desire to break are the ordinances seeking to' control or regulate his business. A conspiracy to assassinate ex-Sheriff Brown by the. Baker saloon-keepers, who have now resumed their business without Inter ference of a "Ud," and by the Baker gamblers who have again taken up their occupation, is therefore not even to be suspected or suggested. Nothing can be surer than that deeds of this horrible nature are the work of hired assassins, organized for the purpose, under direction of some central junta or inner circle, deter mined on vengeance against those who have been active in the pursuit and prosecution of a special class of crim inals; with further Intent of Intimidat ing other officials or citizens who might have the temerity to follow them in the same line of duty to order and law. The murder of Brown was planned as the murder of Steunenberg was planned, and, as every one must believe, by the same parties and for the same ends. Such crimes are not perpetrated without connection one with another. They constitute a class, and have a common origin. The pub lic judgment Instinctively turns In a particular direction, as to the only source from which they could ema nate. The murder of Brown, adding confirmation to Orchard's horrible story, proves that there Is more than even Orchard has told. DIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY. In these columns a few days ago regret - as expressed that the Univer sity of Oregon must lose for the time the use of the new female dormitory because the appropriation for furnish ing the building has been held up by the referendum. At the same time It must be noted that the university au thorities are not entirely blameless. The appropriation 'or that dormitory was made by the Legislature of 1905, and In the follownlg language: For the payment of the expenses of con structing or purchase and furnishing a girls' dormitory or clubhouse 'for the t'nl-v.-rMtv of OreKou. to be expended by and under the direction of the board of regents of the I'nlverslty. K-ooO. It was plainly the Intention of the Legislature that the .i000 should cover not only the cost of the buil' lnff, but the furnishing as well. In stead of carrying out the expressed will of the Legislature, the board of regents spent all the money upon the building and then enme back to the Legislature for an additional appro priation for furniture. Of course the building is useless without furniture; but an appropriation had been made for t:.at purpose. The money was In part misapplied. By the course it pur sued the board of regents not onlj left the school with a useless building, but created a prejudice against the institution and its management. The Oregonlan has ppposed the ref- I erendum movement and has -criticised those who have had it in charge. At the same time it must not be forgot ten that rr.uch of the strength of the movement arises from just such in stances of misuse of money as this under consideration. Quite likely the appropriation was insufficient to build a dormitory and furnish it according to the ideas of the board of regents, but that does not Justify violation of law. Perhaps the Legislature acted unwisely in appropriat'-g only $5000 for the dormitory and its furnishing, but it had the right and it was its duty to specify the purposes for which the money should be spent. If the board of regents took the money, it should have complied with the con ditions. The promoters of the refer endum must bear part of the respon sibility for the inconvenience to which the university has been subjected, but the board of regents must not lose sight of the part it has played In bringing on the difficulty. BHrFTfSG FINANCIAL CENTER. The New Tork Journal of Com merce, located at 32 Broadway, placid ly announces that "the West and South are now engaged in their an nual demonstration of their financial independence of the Northeastern sec tion of the country, and, although this process affords complete satisfaction to local Interests, the fact that it has to be repeated every year excuses the skepticism that expects the financial center of gravity in this country to re main for a long time in the vicinity of Wall and Broad and Ne r and Pine streets." The Journal of Commerce has a well-earned reputation for the accuracy of l'-3 market reports and Its general news on financial and com mercial topics, but it seems to err slightly in Its de "uctions when it states that "the financial system has expanded wonderfully,' but its center of gravity has not changed much." 1 The sentiment thus voiced Is the sentiment of Wall street, and that famous thoroughfare has for a long time been in the condition of the In dian who plaintively asserted that It was the wigwam, and not himself, that was "lost." While Oe great and growing West and South have been booming along on prosperity's high way, the alleged financial "center of gravity" has been staggering like a drunken sailor under the burden of a provincial panic which confined most of its havoc to Manhattan Island. While denying that there has been a shifting of financial prestige, the Jour nal of Commerce admits that "the de mand for money is so active in the Bast that Investment concerns In this part of the country are sending agents west to seek its idle funds instead of waiting, as in previous years, for those funds to come east." The natural in ference a Western man would draw from such transactions would be that the "financial independence" of the West was so complete that instead of borrowing money from the alleged "financial center of gravity," we were actually loaning to Wall street and its environs. Something more than ten years ago, when the entire country was experi encing muclx the same kind of a panic as recently disturbed the center of gravity on Manhattan Island, it would have been useless for New Tork to send agents Into the West for the purpose of borrowing money. They sent agents, of course, but they re turned to the East sometimes with an interest payment, and not infrequently with a foreclosure document which had been reluctantly forced on them. When a vast region. Uko the West can reverse these conditions and change from a borrower to a lender and the erstwhile lender becomes our creditor, it seems hardly proper to set up the claim that there has been no shifting In the "financial center of gravity." If, as asserted by the Journal of Commerce, there had been no such change, the recent cataclysm which shook out more than $1,000,000,000 in the values of Wall street's stock in trade would also have paralyzed the rest of the -country.- However, it ap parently consoles the New Yorkers to think that the rest of the country is still dependent on them for financial existence, and we may be selfish to begrudge them this pleasure. OUR SELF-INFLICTED HANDICAP. American bidders will be permitted to charge 60 per cent more than for eign prices for coal for Admiral Evans' Pacific fleet. If they should attempt to hold the Government up for any thing in excess of this liberal bonul, the contracts will be ; " iced with for eign bidders. In the matter of trans portation of this coal the Government was less successful in securing Amer ican tonnage than It was in securing American coal, and fu'ly 75 per cent of the supply needed by-the fleet will be sent to the Pacific Coast In foreign bottoms. Foreign tonnage with a ca-' pacity of more than 125,000 tons has already been secured for this i arpose at rates much lower than were de manded by the owners of American vessels. The 50 per cent Increase in price which will be riven American coal mine owners will amount to at least $2 per ton. or a matter of $250, 000 on that which will be carried In the foreign tonnage already under charter. Fortunately, some of this large sum which will be diverted to those who by "divine right" control most of the coal output of the country wilt be recovered in the shape of cheap wheat freights which the presence of such a large fleet of steamships on the Pacific Coast will render possible. Portland export ers have already chartered for the out ward voyage with wheat ten of these foreign coal steamers that axe coming around from the Atlantic, and before the season is over will charter many more. Most of them were chartered at rates nearly Jl per ton under the rate now demanded and their presence on the en route list has had the effect of keeping down rates on all other grain tonnage chartered. In effect every cargo of coal brought to the Coast In a foreign steamer means a saving of from $6000 to $7000 In out ward freights for the wheatgrowers of Oregon and Washington. . But the effect on ocean freights out of Pacific Coast ports would be just the same If these steamers brought In coal at a savi..g of $2 pr ton to the Government. If it is right and proper for the Government to give contracts to the foreigners when the rates asked are 60 per cent lower than those asked by Americans, It Is also right that the contracts' should be given them when the rates are only 10 per cent or 5 per cent lower than the American price. There is no elasticity in the law, and when it is broken we should have all of the benefit made possible by the break. When the first of these . foreign ships were chartered to bring coal round from the Atlantic the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a number of other ad vocates of prohibitive protection for American vessels scored the Govern ment for Its action. Now that the vessils are coming here and are offering to carry wheat to foreign markets at from 3 to 5 cents per bushel less than the rates which would have prevailed had the foreign vessels not been chartered, we have a practical illustration as to who profits by the ultra-protection afforded by a ship subsicry. One of these steamers will carry the product of a hundred farms, and we accord ingly find the. opposing forces on the question to be one shipowner and one hundred farmers on a single transaction, with the ratio increasing rapidly, for many individual shipown ers have from ten to twenty vessels. Some day when our great and good Government adopts bu iness principles in the conduct of its business it will be possible for our people to buy coal and ships both at as low a rate as they axe secured by on - trade compet itors. When this is possible we shall again see the American flag on every sea and the day of the trusts will be ended. ASTOUNDING AUDACITY. Another wicked thrust has just been aimed at the dlntless sphericity of the Dlngley tariff. This time it is the Pennsylvania editors who are guilty of sacrilegious defamation of those sacred schedules, and to make the matter as bad as It could possibly be, they are Republican editors, most of them. Clamor against the blessings of Dlng leyism from Democratic editors is, of course, expected, such people being to tally depraved at birth and usually growing worse as they grow older, but that Republicans, and Pennsylvania Republicans too, should stain their souls with such perfidious crime Is un thinkable. Did not the Dlngley tariff lay down the coal measures in the Pennsylvania Mountains? Did it not store the perennial fountains o kero sene? And now these audacious edi tors Jift their voices in furious clamor against it. Their conduct is like abus ing one's own .mother, or at least one's mother-in-law. What reasons do these heretic edi tors advance to justify their clamor? Shockingly sordid ones. There Is no note of high, patriotic, unselfish altru ism in- their assault upon the tariff, as there always is in those exalted de fenses of It which the Steel Trust, the Beef Trust and the Lumber Trust so movingly offer. With these editors base considerations of business are all important. It Is the duty on wood pulp paper which particularly galls them. They want It removed for the grossly unpatriotic reason that if it remains at the present figure most of them will have to go out of business. The newspaper publisher is caught as in a vice between rising cost of ma terial and rising wages. The unctuous Beef Trust can and does put up prices to the consumer to offset Increasing cost of production. This the newspa per cannot well do. Once offered on the street for 1 or 2 cents, it must al ways be offered for the same sum, or less. The result has been a steady de- pcline in the earning power of all the newspapers In the country. For two or three of the great New York dailies the dceline has been something like 40 per cent. Robbery in the white paper indus try, as In almost every other, has been stimulated by the tariff. Of course it is possible -for a syndicate to commit highway robbery upon the consumer without tariff assistance, but if the tariff does help him he makes a much more beautiful job of it. This is the case with 'the paper trust. The sup ply of material for wood paper is fall ing off in the United States. The tariff keeps out foreign stock, and, to complete the pitiable and . squalid j farce, we have so hectored Canada with our idiotic Dingleylsm that she has begun to retaliate by effixing ex port duties to forest products shipped across the boundary. All these' fac tors concurring place the users of white paper absolutely at the mercy of the monopolists who control the sup ply. Their plight is not an atom worse than that of the users of beef, coal, kerosene, steel, farm machinery and almost everything else, but they are especially blessed in that they can make their woes effectively vocal. Hepce they are a great deal more likely to get them remedied than are the inconspicuous units whose howls may be heard in heaven but are In audible to our earthly rulers. For the great penny dailies things have come to the pass where the more subscribers they have the more des perate their pllfht. . The price of the publication does not pay for the white paper It contains, to say nothing of the expense of printing and market ing. Nor is that the worst of it. Ad vertising Is supposed to be the panacea which cures all economic troubles In the newspaper world. What if the paper does sell below the cost of pro duction? The advertising foots the bills and swings the balance , to the right side.' This may have been the case once, but it is so no longer. A paper which prints a very large edi tion may find that the white paper re quired to produce an advertisement costs more than is paid for the space When both subscriptions and adver tising cease to yield returns, there is nothing for a newspaper to do but retire from business. No wonder the Pennsylvania editors have rudely cast aside all the semi-religious reverence which is due to the unspeakably ex cellent tariff and demanded that a breach, be made in Its ineffable walls. Do they know the esoteric meaning of their demand? Are they aware that the- slightest dint in the -pherical ro tundity of Dingleylsm entails the col lapse of the whole divine creation? Very likely they know all about it, but they prefer to see the tariff collapse rather than their owj business, and many minions of American voters share their sentiment. -We must make one exception to the statement that a newspaper which does not pay expenses must go out. of business. It may happen that a millionaire, or a group of millionaires, are willing to publish a paper at a loss in order to befog the public mind. By swindling on a colossal scale in other directions they can recou themselves for the losing publication. This phe nomenon has already been witnessed in the L'nlted States, an'1 there is full reason to expect that it will become more and more common. The tariff, in fact, acts directly not only to cor rupt the morals and destroy the initi ative of the Nation, but also to ruin the independent press. It throws the sources of information nder the con trol of designing plutocrats. It poi sons the wells of public opinion. For , these reasons we congratulate the Pennsylvania Republican editors upon their stand, though we must confess to being amazed at their aut1 city. It seems improbable that in the matter of the roar and uproar raised by the Waymire woman and by those about her, there Is or was any polit ical plot against Mayor Lane. Neither the woman nor the men about her have any standing or influence in poli tics, or are worth minding that way. The motive is of another kind that of makers of sensations and seekers of notoriety, with possible advantage or profit, of one sort or another, in view. Mayor Lane came in contact with a woman of a peculiar kind one of those strictly proper and virtuous women1 wh - seek opportunity to bla zon their propriety and turn-it to com modity. He doubtless now would ad mit that he has allowed himself to talk too familiarly with her and about her. Also, that in many of his state ments he has taken the public, to an unnecessary extent, Into his confi dence. In a dalliance that may seem harmless there are many snares for men In public station. The first installment of Hicks' pre diction of a stormy October came a" day in advance of date. A great gale broke Monday over Cape ' Cod Bay, where, off the Barnstable shore, the fleet of United States battleships was at anchor, tossing the great vessels about like corks and literally whipping the sea with them for twenty hours. In this battle with the elements one man was killed, one washed overboard and drowned and many were bruised by being beaten about over the ships. As a forerunner of what may be en countered in the stormy waters where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet and epechange boisterous greetings, this gale may be of value both to officers and men. Technical training is neces sary, but to make it fully effective it must be supplemented by experience. The great Dreadnaught herself lacks the proof of her power that can only be furnished by combat. A young woman died at Tacoma last Sunday from diphtheria after the vain attempt to control the disease by denying its existence. After It be came evident that the germs of this disease could not be rendered Innoc uous by reading the law to them as expounded In Mrs. Eddy's book, a doc tor was called and anti-toxin admin istered, but too late to prove effica cious. The young woman's mother died two months ago from the same disease, and presumably .from the same treatment. The husband and father explained to the health offi cers that he was not a Christian Sci entist, but some of the members of his family were, the presumption be ing that he did not Interfere with them. This case and its sequel indi cate that there are times when' a man should be the ' head of his family In practice as well as In name. The Chicago wheat market, after a decline of about 5 cents per bushel from the high point reached, took a slight turn, upward yesterday. The price Is still hovering around the dol lar mark, and so long as it does not drop back too far from that figure there will not be very much dissatis faction over prices. Advices from the Argentine report prospects good for a record-breaking crop. With a con tinuation of good weather it is esti mated that the Argentine will have a surplus of 160,000,000 bushels, or over 60,000,000 bushels more than last year. This, if it is secured, will partly fill up the vacancy caused by a shortage of something like 100,000,000 bushels in the Anjerican crop. If, however, there should be serious damage in the Argentine, dol lar wheat may seem very cheap before the turn of the year. When the present style of streetcar with a large . vestibule at either end was adopted in Portland it was gener ally agreed that It furnished the. max imum of comfort. However, its full est beauties were not realized until this week, whei interested voters coming to their places of business after read ing the morning paper had full facil ity for discussing the developments of a case Involving the first citizen with out the embarrassing presence of the fair sex. And let Hi one think It hasn't been discussed. A total of 8,000,000 pounds or 225 carloads of dried prunes is the record of the Marion County prune Indus try this season. The question of pick ers of this enormous crop was met by the employment of Japanese a class of laborers who have It to their credit that they work every "ay and all day during the short picking season. The question now pending is that of se curing cars to nr-ve the dried fruit. Plans for the Union Pacific exten sion to Puget Sound have been com pleted and bids will be called for within thirty days. While unable to determine the exact status of the plans for the Union Pacific extension to Central Oregon, we feel safe In stat ing that the bids for construction will not be opened in advance of those for the construction of the Puget Sound line. With stamp sales in the Portland postoffice 28.8 per cent larger than for the same month last year, building permits showing a gain of more than 100 per cent, bank cle.-.rlngs breaking all existing records and a shipping business more than double that of last September, It would seem that the pre dicted business depression was still some distance in the future. It's mighty well the woman isn't of Japan. If she were. Mayor Lane would Instantly become a figure of In ternational importance, and Portland for 'the time would be a chief news center of the world. Foraker is not likely to imitate the exampie of two New York Senators who took vengeance on a President by resigning. Gain of nearly 29 per cent in stamp sales last month fairly measures the increase of Portland's business in one year. Sweden also wants a chance at the cup. A three-cornered International yacht race presents the charm of nov elty. . Let Taft square things with the Mikado and maybe we won't feel like sending the Navy to the Pacific Coast. Increased registration at every Ore gon college is another evidence of widespread prosperity in the state. HIGH PRICES " OF" NECESSITIES. Living Eipesnes Contrasted Here and la Fast era Cities. PORTLAND. Oct. 1. (To the Editor.) As The Oregonlan Tias turned the light on so many wrongs, will it lend assistance toward solving a wide rearhlng problem? Wl.y are prices in Portland so exorbitantly higtt. and are there any legal measures we can take to correct this growing evil? The best Iowa butter has been sell ing for 30 cents a pound In Spokane, here we have had to pay 40 cents a pound for the same thing, or if bought on the Blast Side. 45 cents. Nebraska eggs bought at nine cents a dozen. could not be touched in this city for less than 30 cents. Milk is carried 500 miles into New York City, iced and dis tributed over that great city by milk men, who are paid far higher wages than any milkman in Oregon receives, yet the milk sells for less ,lhan you can buy a quart In Portland. , , While it is Interesting to read of fancy prices paid for fruit by millionaires, it Jolts one. of the plain people to be asked to pay twenty-five cents for a basket of Concord grapes. ' while a dime Is a high price for them In any Eastern city. I write East occasionally and while there are many pleasant things to say facts are facts, and they are ugly and cruel when you have to go without butter here just the same as the poorest native of Italy; and when In a famous fruit country, yqu can no more touch an apple than If It were made of gold. I never ate so little fruit as this year, simply be cause prices are prohibitive. No one objects to a fair profit on an Investment, but grocery, dairy and dry goods profits. In this country are not far behind Standard Oil; while the wood barons and the laundrymen ought to be able to start East next year, and live in millionaires' row. These high prices are aggravated by the fact that absolutely no reduction is granted for the purchase of large quantities, thus compelling a hand-to-mouth existence. It is easy to cry "knocker," but the merchants are simply killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. It is working untold hardship to hosts of hard-working, thoughtful people, and if The Ore gonlan will show us a way to get af te.r this srrasDinK horde, there'll be something doing. Yes, lots of people are coming to Portland, out noi a tithe of what will come when private letters declare that here the poor man receives a square deal and gets his money's worth on either side of the river. A long-suffering public wants to known where to strike. J. D. CORBY. WHO ORDERED THE COCKTAILSf If Not Fairbanks Nor Loeb. It Couldn't Have Been Beverldge. Chicago Inter Ocean. While the efforts that are being put forth by the esteemed New York Sun to solves the question, "Who ordered the cocktails?" are praiseworthy in the extreme, and entitled to encouragement from all right-thinking people, yet we cannot give approval to Its latest sug gestion that they were ordered by Al bert Jeremiah Beverldge; It has been alleged that "Vice-President Fairbanks ordered the cocktails entirely on his own Initiative and re sponsibility, his purpose being to meet all the requirements of a thoughtful and hospitable host on this occasion. It has been charged that Secretary Loeb, speaking In behalf of the Chief Executive, intimated to the host on this occasion that cocktails would do as openers. Now, to come down to Amen Jeremiah Beverldge, there could be no doubt anywhere at the present time as to who ordered the cocktails of he had ordered them. Long before he would have ordered them the newspapers of Indiana would have contained Items to the effect that ho was preparing a speech In which he would .order them. Copies of the speech ordering the cocktails .would have been sent in ad vance to all the leading newspapers of the country. - As to the act of ordering the cock tails, that would be delayed until the peroration, when the 40 cocktail drinkers at the luncheon would be on the point of collapse from drought. It would be. Indeed, at the moment when all eyes were turned to him im ploringly and expectantly, when strong men who knew not the taste of but termilk were gasping what seemed to be their last gasp, that Albert Jeremiah Beverldge, placing his left hand in the breast of his frock coat, raising his eyes toward the ceiling, and extending his right hand toward the head waiter, would say: ' "Sir, I am about to commit to you a great and a sacred trust.' I am about to repose in you a great and a sacred confidence. I am about to ask you to rush the cocktails, and-to request that you put no lemon In mine." The esteemed Sun, It will be seen. Is manifestly wrong. Albert Jeremiah Beverldge could not even order a cock tail without doing it In a .statesman like manner. - The Joys of an All-Day Cigar. New York Herald. Cigars a foot and a half long, which are made for one day's smoking, were placed on view in the American Mu-. seum of Natural History. With them is a holder wliich looks like a tuning fork and is large enough to be used for pitching hay. Far up the Rio Nigra, a tributary of the Amazon, two explorers. Henry Schmidt and Louis Weiss, made a col lection of articles for the museum. The Indians there made cigars eighteen inches long and as big around as a child's arm. One of these cigars , is too much for any ease-loving man to clasp, so the Indians put the fragrant roll be tween the tines of a fork two and a half feet long, stick the sharp end of the handle into the ground at a con venient distance from their hammocks, and take a puff from time to time as they sway lazily backward and for ward. There are many other picturesque articles in the collection, which was made during a three months' journey from the coast. The material Is of the highest value, and nothing like it has been seen, except a few articles in a German museum. Call Jim Ham Lewis for Governor. Chicago Special to St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "James Hamilton Lewis for Governor. Personal liberty and etiquette for the platform." This was the programme outlined by some of the local leaders of Democracy today. With this combination they hope to carry the state in November, 1908. -Democrats are calculating that Gover nor Deneen will be the Republican Nom inee. The Democratic papers believe the contest will be Deneen vs. Lewis, and Lewis, they are confident will win. "It will' be fervor and effusion of elo quence against chill and concision of speech." said a local Democrat. "Lofty dignity will be pitted against the deli cate condescension of one who never stoops to conquer, and Colonel Lewis will stoop and Democracy will conquer. Colonel Lewis will be a great candidate. "His exquisite manner will bring out the silk stockings vote of the cities; bis good-fellowship and wit will win for him among the workers." Spsrrons' Experiment In Church Life. Springfield (Mass.)" Union. Sparrows pecking at the mortar in the First Congregational Church, of West field. Mass.. have so damaged the build ing that extensive repairs are jiecessary for safety. WEALTH OF ENGLISH DUKES. Selected Aristocrats Who Have Shown Marked Ability as Tax Dodgers. London Telegraph. The estate of the sixth Duke of Rich mond and Gordon, who died September 27, 1903. aged 85 years. was valued for pro bata at 353.573 gross, with net personality of the value of 300.192. But. as appeared in proceedings which have lately been re ported, he had previously given bonds for 702.000 to his son, the present Duke, and to his grandson. Lord Settrington. now Earl of March, -and other bonds to the amount of SS.314. all of which it has been held, were not liable to be charged with the estate duty. Algernon George, sixth Duke of North umberland, who died January 2, 1899. aged 88 years, left an estate valued for probate at 50.960. but he had transferred during his lifetime to his son the bulk of his property, which was of great value, and thus escaped the charge of the death du ties. In these cases, however, the estate would probably have eventually come by entail to the persons to whom It had been transferred. The fifth Duke of Portland, who died in December. 1879, leaving a personal estate under 1.500.000 in value, had bequeathed by his will his estate to his brother. Lord Henry Bentinck. upon whom the settled estate would devolve, but by a codicil made in August. 1S79. after the resettle ment of the estate in concurrence with his cousin, the present Duke, the testator gave his own residuary estate to the per son who should succeed him In the Duke dom of Portland. He was never mar ried, and at his death the Middlesex Portland estate passed to bis sisters and the survivor of them, under the will of his father. Other ducal fortunes of recent years have been those of: Eighth Duke of Argyle t 992.1S8 Ninth Duke of Bedford 212.292 Tenth Duke of Bedford 821.3M Eighth Puke of Beaufort 8.687 TTn, th rnke of Cleveland 1.440.SM Seventh Duke of Devonshire Ifi6.45i Ninth Duke of Leeds .11.8:10 Eighth Duke of Manchester....... 25.190 Eighth Duke of Marlborough 3r2."3 Seventh Duke or itoxourgne 126.314 D9..V.11) 0.753 310.242 S24.8SO 1O4.310 Seventh Duke of Rutland. Tenth Duke of St. Albans. Thirteenth Duke of Somerset... Third Duke of Sutherland Third Duke of Wellington. First Duke of Westminster 974. SHI Fifth Duke of Lelnster 123.124 These amounts do not, of course, include settled real estate, nor in most cases the value of any part of the testator's real estate. The late Duke of Westminster thought that the settled real estate which passed at his death would be assessed for the death duties at more tnan ttz.uuv.uuw. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP PROBLEM. Result of Investigation by National Civic Federation's Commission. Roland Phillips in Harper's Weekly. The more important conclusions of the investigating committee of the Civic Federation, which will be pub lished shortly In the complete report of the commission, may be briefly summarized as follows: First Public utilities, whether In public or private hands, are best con ducted under a system of legalized and regulated monopoly. Second Public utilities in which the sanitary motive largely enters should be operated by the public. Third The success of municipal operation depends ' upon the existence of a high capacity for municipal gov ernment. Fourth Franchise grants to private corporations should be terminable after a fixed period, and meanwhile should be subject to purchase at a fair value. Fifth Municipalities should have the power: to enter the' field of munic ipal ownership, upon popular vote, and under reasonable regulations. Sixth Private companies operating public utilities should be subject to public regulation and examination un der a system of uniform records accounts nd of full publicity. and "Toots," Tiniest Dog; In the World. New York World. "Toots" is the tiniest black-and-tan pdog that you ever saw. She weighs just twenty-three ounces, on the strength of which "Toots" lays claim to champion ship honors as the smallest full-grown dog in the world. "Toots" is nearly a year old. and as she hasn't gained a fraction of an ounce of weight for three months, she is satis fied that she has got. her growth. What Is more to the point with a real lady dog, her figure is as good as that of any six-pound black-and-tan in the business. E. H. Royston, of 11 Carmine street, who owns "Toots," says that her father weighs only four pounds and her mother but three. She is a fine watch-dog, he says, or would be if you didn't have to put your ear close to her to hear her bark. Her health has been good from birth. There are dogs called Chihuahuas that are smaller than black-and-tans, but Mr. Royston says he has yet to hear of one of them that Is tinier than "Toots." Meaning of Stock Speculation. Kansas City Star. A magazine estimates the cost of the New York Stock Exchange to the pub lic, in commissions and interest alone, to be about 160,000,000 per year. This cost is only the price paid for the privilege of gambling, while the game itself is so favorable to those who op erate it that the members of the ex change hold their scats at about $100, 000eaeh. And this is only one of the great gambling exchanges, .although the largest of them all. The movement against gambling in this country will always be comparatively trifling un til it aims to eliminate stock specula tion as well as racetrack betting, poker and other practices tl.at are, by comparison, utterly insignificant. Fox Terrier Saves Ills Owner's Life. Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Despatch. A little fox terrier saved the lives of Dr. C. W. Spayd and his family, of this city, when a fire broke out in their home. The blaze started in the drug store of Frank & Barber, over which Dr. Spayd resides. Most of the heavy volume of smoke ascended Into the second floor. j The fox terrier, ' apparently realiz ing the danger, ran lnto his master's room, and, falling to waken Dr. Spayd by barking, climbed upon his bed and scratched at his face and neck until his master awakened. Dr. Spayd w;as already somewhat affected by the Bmoke. but managed to get his family and the dog out of the house. Receives Letter Mnlled In 1S75. Milwaukee Sentinel.. Ole C. Haugen,-a well-known con tractor of Stanley, has just received a letter mailed to him at Lavirk, Nor way, November 18, 1875, addressed to him at Minatltlin. Mexico, whither as a boy of 18 years he had gone. The letter was written by a boyhood sweet heart. He was not at Minatltlin when, the letter came. Mr. Haugen found his way to South America and later returned to Norway. A quarter of a century ago he came to this couhtry . and has since then reared a family. During all these years the letter had lain in the archives of the Mexican postoffice. Last month it was returned to Norway and was subsequently sent to Stanley. Dope' "Ghost" Bothers Xelsrhbors. Rochester (N. Y.) Despatch. Residents in Suffern, N. Y., say they have been annoyed by the ghost of a dog which was owned by Dr. Gilbert Johnson and which died three weeks ago. Rolls Off Roof and Kills Dog;. Boston Globe. Thomas Davenport, painting the roof of his house, at Hanover, N. J., fell off, rolled on his dog and killed the animal. Hairpulling Editors o CCA8IONALLY "the peace of tha Oregon newspaper family Is Jarred by hairpulling. The strenuous word is used figuratively, Just as if we should say that an 'editor goes on the warpath and scalps a rival. We would not mean, of course, that one editor pulls out the hair of another or lifts his scalp: only that be calls his - contemporary "loath some," or "scum. or "editorial bilge water," or "brainless ass." or "brain storm fool." each epithet being Intended to raise the hair or ruffle the feathers or lift the skin (pardon the mixed meta phors) of the offending person. There Is no guardian of the peace in the newspaper family. Yet the assaults rarely do more harm than waste the ink, paper and brains of the man behind the editorial gun. Shall we say the people of the country are not enter tained? In the vaudeville show we have seen Hans and Jacob or Mike and Pat fall Into furious passion of anger, smite each other, call bad names and almost tear each other to pieces. Whereat the audience was greatly pleased. But was the play genuine? It seemed so. Hans and Jacob thus drew people to see them. Were they editors they would make sub scribers. Up in Gilliam County a fued between the Times and the Globe has broken out In a violent assault by the editor of the Times. He calls his rival a "flopper" and his subordinates a "kindergarten pair of editors." Says he: Tha "editorials" In last week's issue of the "Flopper" are genuine, written by Its kindergarten pair of editors. The master hand did not psn these, we give him credit for better stuff. Boys, let me give you a piece of advice: Don't be running- your silly little noodles against a brick wall. When the time comes next June we will go out and get the votes, and then you will feel smaller than ever. Your last effusions are not bad ' considering the source, but they smack of the baby act. "In the air." the "balloon" and "on the Jump" may do for the write-up of a baseball or football game and when we come to the "Captain of the Black Hand'" well then ws -laugh. Over near the sea in Tillamook, the autumn storms are heralded by bad weather between Editor Baker of the Headlight, and Editor Watson of the Herald. The feud there has lasted a long time and now the Headlight has word of "Rollle (Watson) being sick and tired of country newspaper work" and "about to vacate the sanctum sancto rum." And Editor Baker then adds, with vinegar flavor: We prny that he will bestow a blessing upon us before he does so, for somehow we are sorry to see htm quit newspaper work before he has cut his eye teeth in the tur moil of running a country newspaper, where so many persons want to run the editor and dictate his policy, and at the same tlma want to be "puffed up" themselves In the papers to beat the band. Would you think that Editor Geer (for merly Governor), the suave gentleman whose political endeavor has been to stroke the right way, would get into a. mixup? That la . what he has done, though forced to it, let us say. by the belligerent editor of the East Oregonlan. Both papers are published in Pendleton. The East Oregonlan is Democratic, and, like all organs 'of that party, is clawing the foes of Statement Xo. 1. And because Editor Geer advocates. Instead of Statement No. 1, the modified pledge, of "Republican voters' choice," the other editor goes at him hammer and tonss. We behold this reply shot from Editor Geer: The editor of the East Oregonian is of the opinion that . he knows a demagogue and faker when he sees him. Certainly h should. His own ideas are usually so akin to those of that class of men that he should have no difficulty In the matter at all. He !s so utterly bereft of any argument in support of his one-ldead notion that If a candidate for the Legislature declares for Statement No. 1 no matter how much he might be the tool of every corporation la the land It is the duty of the people to vote for him anyway, that, when cornered, his only refuge is the very convincing one of re plying that the Tribune editor has been a candidate nearly as often as Governor Cham berlain has! Great guns and holy smoke! How long since has it been that men must bow down to him for -the privilege of living, moving and having their being? And when it becomes necessary to have a "new idea." must a waiting race bow In silence until his Muse moves and gives it birth? Another storm center is Medford, where the whirl has been started by rivalry be tween the Daily Tribune and the Weekly Mail. Some persons might say that the quarrel followed the action of Sheriff Jackson, of Ashland, in putting the lid on the city of Medford. Between those two towns there have been numerous rivalries, political as well as commercial, and it is gall and wormwood in Medford for an Ashland man, armed- with the authority of the county, -to "close up" the other town. The Tribune avers that authority to regulate gambling Is vested in the Med ford city authorities; that "Sheriff Jack son was actuated by spite in his hypo critical moral crusade;" that "closing a town never improved its business," and that "in declaring for home rule and re senting the dictation of the Sheriff the Tribune represents the business inter ests." This attitude of the Tribune stirred the Mall to say: The continued attacks of the Tribune upon Sheriff Jackson, which have degenerated from criticism of the legality of his action In closing saloons on Sunday and abolishing slot machines to personal abuse and vindi cation, shows the "power behind the throne" and belles the Tribune's assertion that It Is not the organ' of any clique and that Its editorial opinions are Its own. Those who are conversant Willi politics In Southern Ore gon have little difficulty In reading between the lines, and In discovering the Vflne, Italian hand" of one of the "doctors'" who repre sent the majority of the stock in the Tribune Company. Such a course may be good. Keen politics, but It is neither journalism nor common sense. This is the way the Tribune editor gets even: Hon. A. S. Hilton, editor of the Medford Mail, like a nigger gumshoeing through the woods at night, is always "seeing things." Every shadow looms portentous by the way side to his1 uneasy conscience and a bgey man lurks In every nook. Strange epee'rrs dance continually In his vision. No wonder his paper advocates a closed town. The gumshoe editor busies himself ' by cir culating lies about the Tribune and its stock holders' under the mistaken Impres sion that a weekly is a competitor of a laily. To one man he claims that euch a stock holder controls the Tribune and to another that another stoekholdf-r does. All this Is needless and wasted effort. Knocking cannot kill the Tribune. It must lice or die upoin Its merits as a newspaper. Far away in Wallowa County another newspaper battle thas been waging over the question of. moving the county seat from Enterprise to the town -of Wal lowa. The change was advocated by the Wallowa Sun. but the Enterprise News Record called Its argument "clear as mud," "spasms" and "child's talk." , But these violent epithets (lid not stir the Wallowa Sun to reply right away, since Its editor seems not to have been on war bent, Finally it explained that it would refuse. "to enter upon any campaign of personal abuse of paper or individual." Maybe this is too tame for the red blood of Wallowa County. There are counties In Oregon that are not content without the vaudeville. What starts the fracas? , It is jealousy or envy? One editor beholds the well trenched position of another and seeks to nudge him out of it. The advertising and the subscription business of the rival do not please him and he seeks to break it down. "While ths may not be the cause in every case, it is most frequently.