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THE MOKIG OKEGONIAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1907. mvxtt SIB8CRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall.) flaiiy, Sunday Included, one year $.00 Dally, (Sunday Included, tlx month!.... i.tli Dally, Sunday Included, three month!.. 2.25 Dally, Sunday Included, one month "5 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, alx months.. '.. 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month..... .60 Sunday, one year 2.A0 Weekly, one year (lmued Thursday)... 150 Sunday and Weekly, one year 8-50 BY CARRIER. Daily, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month 75 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's rink. Give postofflce ad dress In full, Including county and state. POSTAOK RATES. Kntered at Portland, Oregon, Postotnca as Second-Class Matter. 10 io 14 Paxes 1 cent 11 to 2 Pastes. 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Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager five wagonn. Goldtleld, Nov. Louie Follln; C. B. Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. THURSDAY. NOV. 14, 1R07. WHAT KIND OF APPEAL? It is luselesa to offer counsel to a people who are on a run or stampede, like a herd of buffaloes. Your herd of buffaloes will run till its instinctive motive has been exhausted. And a false alarm will start a herd of buffa loes on a stampede, just as effectively as a real alarm. The Oregonian has been urged to say to men and women who have money in the banks, most of whom are working people, on salary or wages, that if they persist in their run on the banks the-' will make it impossible for employers to get money to pay them; and business will shut down, employ ment will cease, and the goose will be killed that lays the golden eggs. Un questionably. But why take the trouble to say these things? Keep your breath to cool your porridge, or to talk to your herd of buffaloes. The hegira ran till it spent Itself. So did the crusades, and the awak ened energy of the French Revolution. The frenzy of revival meetings does the same. It -is the law of every hu man movement, from whatever cause. In any stir or movement in the animal world, great or small and man on one side of his nature belongs to the animal world the instinct predomi nates, and there's no stopping it till It Is tired out. In our early days on the Pacific Coast we frequently heard glowing reports of gold discovery. They were vague, Indefinite and un verified, but every man would pack his traps and start. The crowd would push on hundreds of miles; the reports would fade out, and one gold-seeker after another would halt or turn back; till finally the head of the column, be coming smaller and smaller, stopping nowhere, yet would dissolve and dis appear. A financial panic and run on the banks is very much the same thing. Attempt to check it by counsel of ten has the effect of acceleration of the "run," because it may awaken new suspicion and add to the general fear. Some not a few have said "Why should The Oregonian try to stop us from getting our money? It must want to protect the banks; and its advice shows that our money is In danger." Wise counsel therefore may only Increase and aggravate the diffi culties of a situation. Not till unreason has run its course can it ever 'be successfully met with reason. The money of the depositors in the Merchants National Bank was in no peril, except that which a large body of the depositors themselves cre ated by their run on the bank. Their own fear alone was' the agent that produced the catastrophe which they dreaded would catch them. But man Is at least as wise as other animals. Good advice 1b cheap; it is wasted on any one in a panic of fright that he is about to lose his money. Yet we havo here the strange phenomenon of widespread general confidence that the country is all right and will get through this little trouble without seri ous injury, but at the same time much distrust and alarm by the Individual that bomethlng is going to happen to him. He knows the country is safe, its industries thriving. Its marketable products enormous and ltsgbanks sol vent. Yet he thinks the way to safety lies in withdrawing his particular moiety of gold from general circula tion and putting It In a tin can and burying it in a deep hole in his back yard. By Word he encourages his neighbor to leave his money In the bank and go as usual about his daily duties; by his example he contributes to general financial paralysis and the universal cessation of Industry; Withal we have been, and are, raov ine along in a period of unexampled mm prosperity. In our own particular sec tion of the United States there seemed until recently to be no cloud upon the Industrial horizon. Commodities to sell we have in large quantities and extraordinary variety. Wheat, our chief product, has yielded a vast crop and the market is better than it has been for years. Fruits are plentiful and prices high. Our lumber output Is great and the market satisfactory. Everything on which the people of the Pacific -Northwest have depended for an income seems to have been pro duced or manufactured- this year in unusual volume. So we have the things to sell that the world must buy. They are being bought and will be bought. There must be a great in flow of gold from their sale. There is no doubt about it. Everybody knows there is no doubt about it; yet our peo ple are looking one another in the face and wondering if here and now is not the end of all things. They should know better. They do know better. The storm has been sharp and vio lent, and it will soon be over. The skies are clearing. Everybody sees it, or can see it if he will look up. NATIONAL CONTROL NECESSARY. Everywhere we see the "malefactors of great wealth" trying to play Na tional authority against state author ity, on occasion, or state authority against National authority, when that promises exemption from control. The object is to escape control of any sort. Yet National control will be in the main the more efficient; for it is not so easy to get "Influence" over Na tional as over state authority. The necessities of a modern com mercial and Industrial age are fast overcoming the fears of those who, from the beginning of our history, have bounded alarms against the ex tinguishment of local sovereignty and against extension of National power. In many ways the states are as unwill ing and unable to act, to meet the growing demands of general inter course and National life; and the cen tral government must act. This is be coming understood, more and more. Nation-making, in opposition to the demands of local authority and the claims of local sovereignty, was always a slow buslness, and indeed since the fall of the Roman Empire never has made much progress till recent times. The progress is greater now, since the means of intercourse have been so much Increased. Italy and Germany never could be nations till now; nor could consolidation of the United States be effected till quickness of communication was established. There was a wretched dread of the loss of local sovereignty, at the for mation of the Constitution. And out of the claims of local sovereignty rose the great Civil War. Some feeble echoes of these local claims remain with us. Nothing In human affairs can be ex plained without reference to the past. At the formation of the Constitution we had thirteen, distinct sovereignties. Such they were 'from their original charters. The American colonists had always lived under a system of written, rigid constitutions, namely, the char ters by which the various colonies had been founded. They felt, therefore, that if there was to be a common gov ernment, with National powers, they must define in a written document the relations between this central power and the individual states, so as to pre serve in all possible ways the authority and powers of the latter. Jefferson would not allow that the new Consti tution had created a nation, and his party tenaciously held that ground and has scarcely been dislodged from it by the event of the Civil War. But more powerful even than war is the steady pressure of forces of peace, through Industry and commerce. These the states can but poorly reg ulate, and the National Government must. But those who dread National regulation oppose ,it with the old claims of state sovereignty; behind which, however, the people will not long permit them to find protection against the great and eneral abuses that arise in the course of the vast ex change, of commerce in a country so great as ours. OREGON'S NEW HOMESTEADERS. The annual report of the Commis sioner of the General Land Office pre sents some very interesting figures concerning the settlement, of public lands, In which Oregon makes an ex ceptionally good showing. For the year ending June 30, 1907, "home steaders" in the United States took up 120,000 farms aggregating 17,853,636 acres. Oregon, despite the temporary handicap of land frauds, and the lack of transportation in portions of the State where the best unoccupied Gov ernment land remains, was well to the front with 1,998,720 acres taken under the homestead act. Washington, on account of the more generous policy of the railroads, has In the past led this state in the settlement of her pub lic lands, but last year the total acre age homesteaded in Washington was but 1,271,043 acres. In Oregon there still remain open to entry 17,730,000 -acres, compared with 4.989,937 acres in Washington. In both states there is, of course, a con siderable acreage that Is not available for cultivation, but in Oregon there Btill remain several million acres of good land which will some day add Immensely to the agricultural output of the state. Most of that remaining open for entry Is in localities now handicapped by lack of transportation facilities, but with the farmer, the or chardlst and the dairyman steadily pushing farther back from the old set tled localities, it will be but a short time until the settlers now going into remote districts will reap the reward of their foresight. There has been a very heavy immigration to the Pacific Northwest during the past two years, while prosperity was running riot, and it was perhaps through this prosper ity that we last year attracted enough new settlers to take up approximately 2,000,000 acres of land. Others who were in a better financial condition un doubtedly bought as much more after it had been reclaimed from its natural state. The life of a homesteader is not al ways a pleasant one. In converting a wilderness Into a productive farm there is necessaily much hard work, and the homesteader and his family are not Infrequently obliged to deprive themselves of many . little luxuries which come very close to being ne cessities. But the homesteader, whether we find him in the dense for ests of Clatsop, Tillamook or other coast counties, or whether he is wait ing to prove up on an Eastern Oregon wheat or stock farm, is a decidedly useful member of society. If his funds are too low to admit of his spending all of his time In clearing up the place. he relieves the shortage in help in' the Columbia and coast fisheries or the logging camps. East of- the moun tains there is always a demand for his services in the harvest field, or In tend ing flocks and herds of some other settler who has got well past the homestead stage. Throughout the Pacific Northwest are hundreds of brave women who are holding down the homestead claim while the head of the house is away earning money with which to tide over the Winter, or for the purpose of se curing needed stock or equipment for working the place. These hardwork ing men and women display a bravery and strength of character in keeping with those of the earlier homestead ers whose lives were constantly threat ened by the Indians. They are a class immune from "hard times,-" for they are wresting their sustenance direct from Nature, and, while the reward which follows hard work and well-directed effort may seem slow in com ing, it will reach them as certain as the day follows the night. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. Is there- any reason why Port land and Multnomah County should spend more money, this year for municipal expenses than' last year? Of course there Is a reason. Those who live upon the public funds and contribute to them little or nothing naturally wish to make them as lavish as possible. If they have their way in the matter Portland will follow the undesirable example of some other American cities and make her ex penses, grow faster than the assessed valuation, thus continually heaping up debt and increasing the burden of tax ation. The municipal expenses of New York City exceed today the en tire cost of running the Government of the United States in 1859, but it would seem as if her example were one to avoid rather than imitate. The assesssed valuation of Portland has been increased bo much in the past year that a levy of 13 mills for city and county will now produce more revenue than the levy of 16 mills did a year ago.. To exceed. 13 mills will simply produce a large sum of money for which the city has no legit imate need. It will encourage ex travagance of all sorts. It will ' put a premium on waste and graft. Ex perience has shown the surprising truth that the real needs of the city are, less likely to be cared for with a lavish revenue than with a modest one. Superfluity induces prodigality and when waste is once begun it sel dom stops within the limit of safety. The levy of 16 mills last year was made upon an increased assesssed val uation and it was supposed by every body that it would produce an abun dance of revenue for all public ex penses; as a matter of fact, it pro duced more than enough, but misman agement somewhere has left us un able to pay the salaries of the teach ers in the public schools at the precise time when they need money most. Such are always the fruits of prodigality. The more superfluous revenue the city and county raise the more It will need to raise. With some uncertainty in the finan cial outlook, this is surely not a time to indulge in prodigal taxation and lavish schemes for disbursing other people's money. Let the levy be a modest - one, not exceeding 13 mills, and let the proceeds be spent with a careful hand, aiming at the welfare of those who contribute the . money rather than of those who spend it. Every taxpayer in the city should ex ert himself to make those who have charge of the tax levy understand that no money must be wasted in munici pal extravagance during the coming year. A levy of 13 mills will pro duce all the revenue that is required legitimately for all public purposes; therefore no larger rate should be tol erated. DEMAND FOR WATERWAY IMPROVE MENT. The platform of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, which is to meet in Washington next month, de mands an annual river and harbor bill of not less than $50,000,000. In vtew of the National, awakening to the im portance of the work, there should be but little opposition to securing this amount. This organization has wisely declined to take up the cause of any special project of river and harbor im provement, but calls for a liberal pol icy of improvement toward all meri torious waterways. It will indorse all improvements that have been passed on by the Board of Engineers and by them recommended to Congress. On this platform the National Rivers and Harbors Congress stands pledged to both of the great improvement proj ects on the Columbia River. The or ganization is one of the strongest in the United States, and, at the meeting last year in Washington, was attended by 1200 delegates, representing all branches of our foreign and domestic commerce. With such universal and widespread interest in this great subject it will undoubtedly be much easier in the future to secure needed appropriations than was possible in the past. Good waterways and good harbors reduce freight charges. This is a statement that has been verified in a striking manner In our own port. General Mackenzie, In his report recommend ing an appropriation for the Columbia River improvement, says that "there has been no time during the year that a vessel could not safely load at Port land to a draft of twenty-four feet." General Mackenzie would not have overstated the depth of the channel had he made the draft twenty-five or even twenty-six feet; but, taking his own figures. It is easy to understand what this increased depth of the chan nel means to the producers of the Co lumbia Basin. Prior to commencement of this modern system of river Improvement it was only by working the ""tides that vessels of more than fifteen, feet draft could reach Portland at ordinary low water. As a result, the shipment of our products was confined to vessels of small tonnage, as nearly all of the larger class of vessels were delayed at the bar or were obliged to lighter on the river. This handicap was repre sented in accurate, tangible figures which could not be misunderstood, for shipowners demanded and received 10 'shillings per tori more for sending their vessels to Portland than was ex acted from the San Francisco shippers. Ten shillings per ton represent ed the farm producers' loss through our Imperfect waterways, and the im provements, already made have been sufficient to eliminate that differential on all modern freighters. But ships have increased in" size as the waterways have Been deepened, and Portland Is now working for a channel that will permit the largest vessels In the Pacific trade to enter the river at all times. That this chan nel can be secured Is certain, provided there is no delay in securing funds needed to carry on the work. It is not alone a Portland project, nor an Oregon project, but one that concerns every producer In the Columbia Basin. Freights will decline as harbor im provements are perfected, and, with the opening of the Columbia River to unobstructed navigation to the head quarters of the stream and its big trib utaries, there Is certain to follow a decline in freight rates fully as im portant, proportionately, as the elim ination of the 10-shIlling differential which followed the deepening of the channel on the LoWer Columbia. The rapid development of fruitgrow ing in Oregon, as indicated by the large number of. orchards recently planted or that will be' planted this Winter, means that many fruit can neries will be established in this state in the next few years. In erecting fruit-packing houses one of the pur poses kept clearly in mind should be cleanliness. With each succeeding year enforcement of pure-food laws will make this a legal necessity, as it is always a moral obligation. Plenty of pure, running water and a perfect drainage or sewerage system for the disposal of waste materials are essential.- Then if buildings are properly constructed there need be no difficulty in keeping everything clean. Dark, musty canneries with a thick coating of filth on the floors have had their day in Oregon and elsewhere. Mod ern methods of construction make it easy to maintain cleanliness. For Oregon fruit canneries to suffer such an exposure as that which befel cer tain meat-packing houses in Chicago would be a serious misfortune. The American Federation of Labor has declared war to the knife against the Manufacturers' Association, and will raise a fund for that purpose. While it is not especially noticeable during the wonderful prosperity through which this country Is passing, a third party in this fight between the Federation of Labor and the Man ufacturers' Association is looming large on the industrial horizon. This coming factor in the fight is the vast horde of alien labor that has been streaming into the country in record breaking volume for the past five years. So long as prosperity continues and there is plenty of work for all who seek it, the demands of union labor can be enforced, but whenever the suppTy of labor exceeds the de mand, there comes a change. If this change is due, the Federation would show wisdom by keeping its fighting fund for other purposes. The divorce of the Illinois Central from the Union Pacific would be a seripus loss for both roads. The for mer road traverses the best traffic producing section of the South, and since it passed into the control of Har riman, has supplied the Union Pacific with an immense amount of overland freight destined for the Far East. The Union Pacific has reciprocated by making the Illinois Central the distrib uting feeder for a large amount of tea, matting and other products from the Orient, as well as for a considerable amount of Oregon fruit, lumber and shingles. It is not exactly a Hiawa tha case of "useless each without the other," but it is a case where the roads operating together will prove vastly more profitable than if they are sep arated. The foreign wheat market scored a substantial gain yesterday and the Chi cago market followed the lead, with from 2 to 3 cents per bushel added to the price before the day's trading end ed. The Europeans are thoroughly informed on the unsatisfactory finan cial situation in this country, and were it not for the extraordinary strong po sition of the cereal they would take advantage of the situation by ham mering the price of wheat. That they continue to bid up on prices in the face of a distressed financial situation In the United States is a strong indica tion that the top of the market has not yet .been reached. The New York Independent says there is a big quarrel raging between Ozark Mountains and Hood River Missouri against Oregon over the rel ative merits ' of apples. There is where you are off. No quarrel over It at all. The whole world knows the Hood Rivers beat Ozarks, as also do the Willamette "Valleys, Rogue Rivers and other Oregon brands. Isn't It about time for Oregonlans to stop their subscriptions to the Independ ent? But, then, we are willing to be shown. Send along a few boxes of Ozafts and we will try them. Otis Brown, who has been recap tured at Vancouver, says he doesn't like the Oregon Penitentiary. The ac commodations, he says, are unequal to those of other prisons in which he has "done time," and the wardens not so sympathetic "Did It ever occur to Mr. Brown that he is at liberty to keep out of penitentiaries or will be, after he has done his present term? Prosecuting officers very frequently save themselves unpleasant work by saying "there is no way to reach the offender." They forget that where there is a will there is a way. Some men pulled money out of the Merchants National Bank who had note In the bank nearly due. Of course they will respond In turn, and quickly, when called on. Tennessee Democrats demand a Southern man for Presidential nomi nee' next year. To simplify the situa tion, let Vardaman, Bailey and Till man be eliminated. Won't it be best for all hands if Harriman volunteer to tell all the Gov ernment is entitled to know concern ing his allied corporations, and then tell it in full? Let us hope In King Edward's case that It Is nothing worse than a No vember cold. Even In Oregon's fa vored climate we are not free from this announce. We anxiously await word from that great prophet, Tom Lawson, so that, being sure he is wrong, we may go ahead the other way. The Utes will not give the country a tithe of the trouble that Wall-street savages made. , Speaking -of good collateral, what's the matter with Willamette Valley apples? ELOPEMENT IS FRUSTRATED Youthful Pair Prevented by Detec tive From Getting Married. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 13. (Spe cial.) A romantic elopement, in which Afa Jofcnson, aged 18, sought to marry Ethel Buseh, 16 . years old, was stopped by Detective Hawley, of the Portland Juvenile Court, today. Johnson and the Brusch girl, both of Portland, decided a few weeks ago that they would like to marry. This resolution met with strenu ous objection from the girl's parents, be cause of their daughter's age. Parental objection was nothing to the pair, and to day they left Portland, in company with the lad's mother, Mrs. L. B. Peters, and a man named Ed Foley, and came by car to Vancouver. Here they went to the office of the County Clerk, and secured a marriage license. Mrs. Peters and Foley appearing as witnesses. But before they could go before a Justice of the Peace to have the knot tied. Officer Hawley ap peared and had the proposed marriage stopped. The young pair, accompanied by Mrs. Peters and Foley, returned to Portland, disconsolate. The names of none of the parties ap pear in either the city directory or phone books, and It is not known whether they reside in Portland. 1 Detective Hawley, when questioned last night concerning the episode, refused to say anything, stating that under the recent order made by Chief .of Police Gritzmacher, whereby In formation must not be given to the news papers, he did not dare tell anything about' the case. SENATOR FOR PORTLAND RUN Pacific Coast Vessel Will Operate for the Harriman Line. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13. Negotia tions were concluded yesterday by the Pacific Mall Company for the charter of the steamer Senator from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. The Sena tor will now be placed, on the Portland run in place of the ill-fated Columbia. It is Intended, it is said, that the Sen ator will be kept in the Portland serv ice until next Spring at least, and if possible until the two new steamers which are to' be built for the Harriman Interests on the Pacific Coast are ready for service. The steamship Senator will leave San Francisco, November 20, in place of the City of Panama. The charter for the craffc is good for six -months and in case sufficient freight offerings are made she will continue in commission for that length of time. The City of Panama will be kept in operation between the two cities as long as the freight business will warrant. The Rose City will be placed In commission y the middle of next month and a fleet of four steamers will then be in operation. HORSETIIIEF BREAKS JAIL i Albany, Lockup Unable to Hold Man More Than Half-Hour. ALBANY, Or.. .Nov. 13. (Special.) Within half an hour after lie had been arrested here for stealing a livery team at Corvallis, a stranger giving his name as Leroy Brlnnlng had broken a door in the City Jail and was at liberty. He secured a sadtlle horse yesterday morn ing at. Philomath and left it at the livery barn of Vidito Brothers, in Corvallis, where he secured a team and buggy. He drove to this city in the afternoon and tried to sell the outfit at two different livery barns and to other persons. His actions aroused suspicion, and Officer Catlin placed him under arrest at 9 o'clock last night. Brlnnlng was about 20 years old and says that his home Is In Atlanta, 111. Officers believe his actions indicate he is probably wanted elsewhere. DEVICE FOR FILLING CARS Elevator Carries Grain From Ware house and Distributes It Evenly. DAYTON. Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) W. H. Richardson," known in the Inland Empire as an inventor of the tank sys tem of storing grain, as received from the threshing machine, has recently Invented a new labor-saving machine to be used In loading grain into cars in the bulk. An elevator, working on the principle of an elevator in a threshing machine, carries the grain from the warehouse into the car, and has a hopper at the end in which to dump the grain, the hop per being below the floor so that no lift ing of the sacks In emptying, is neces sary. An elevator or carrier inside the car Is swung to the celling at the height the car Is to be filled and receives the grain from the first carrier and dis tributes It at a uniform depth all over the car, filling one end at a time. REFUSES TO SETTLE STRIKE Wilkeson Coal Company Turns Down Arbitration Proposal. TACOMA, Wash.. Nov. 13. (Special.) State Labor Commissioner Hubbard called upon Henry Hewitt, Jr., president of The Wilkeson Coal Company, yesterday to see if he would be willing to arbitrate with the striking coal miners at Wilkeson.' Mr. Hewitt refused. "I told the Commissioner that we could not consider his proposition at all," said Mr. Hewitt, "for the miners wanted to Instruct everybody, from the superin tendent down to the pit boss, and that would not do." THEATERS TO CLOSE SUNDAYS Tacoma Managers Will Not Fight State Law. TACOMA Wash.. Nov. 13. (Special.) The theaters will give up the fight and acquiesce in the Supreme Court decision on Sunday closing. Manager Herald of the Tacoma Theater says: "The Tacoma will be open Sunday night. 'The College Widow' is already booked for that night and we cannot cancel the engagement unless forced to do so. We shall not,- however, fight the law." Improvement of Upper Columbia. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) The Board of County Commis sioners of Stevens County has Instructed the County Engineer to prepare a map of the Columbia River from Kettle Falls to Wenatchee, showing the land Included In the watershed of the Columbia River and the streams, roads and towns In the territory mapped. On completion of the map a written statement will be prepared by Cialr Hunt, of Colville, giving a close estimate of the area of agricultural and grazing land and the timber and mineral resources. The map and statement will be used by Senator Ankeny before the Rivers and Harbors Congress and the con gressional committees in his efforts to secure the improvement of the upper river. Cavalry In "Whitman Anniversary. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) United States Senator. Ankeny was today advised that the acting Sec retary of War has directed the General of the Department of the' Columbia to permit all available troops at Fort Walla Walla to participate in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Whitman massacre to be held In this city on No vember 29. There are now stationed at Fort Walla Walla four troops ot the Fourteenth Cavalry. EXTENSION OF TIME GRANTED Tillamook Allows E. E. Lytle Till Nov. 1, 1909, to Finish Road. T1BLAMOOK, Or., Nov. 13 (Special.) At a meeting of the citizen's committee, having In hand the matter of the right of way for the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company, held last night, at which En gineer George L. Davis was presenf, rep resenting President E. E. Lytle. It was requested that the time to have the road completed and in operation be extended from December 31, 1908, to November 1, 1909. Mr. Lytle had bound himself in the sum of $20.0u0 to have the road completed by the first named date, but owing to the money stringency, work was stopped two weeks ago. The Union Trust Company, of California, had bonded the road, agree ing to,- ake 5200 flrst-mortgane 5-pereent gold bonds for $1000 each making $5,200,000. About $1,000,008 has already been expended in construction work and t securing ma terial. When the financial flurry came two weeks ago the Union Trust Company notified Mr. Lytle that . It could not advance him any more money, which put a stop to all construction work. The right of way committee went over the whole situation with Engineer Davis, and desiring to co-operate with the com pany in every possible manner, decided to extend the time. There is no disposition at present to compel Mr. Lytle to forfeit the $20,000 bond. NATIONAL GUARD ACTIA1TY Uniforms for North Yakima Com pany Are Almost Ready.' NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special. Adjutant-General Otis Hamil ton, accompanied b General Drain, for merly Adjutant-General, was In the city today and paid a visit to Major W. L. Lemon, of the local company of the Na tional Guard. General Hamilton says that the new arms and uniforms for the guard will be distributed next month, and that before Christmas the new equip ment of the soldiers will be Inspected, ar rangements made for the Immediate com pletion of the armories at Seattle and Tacoma and four new companies and a hospital corps added to the militia force of the state. General Hamilton says that there are not likely to be any important changes made in the regulations of the .militia in this state, the authorities at the capital believing that In this respect Washing ton state Is ahead of all others in the Union. OREGON SHORT LINE IS SUED Charged With Keeping Stock in Cars Beyond Limit. BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 13. (Special.) In the United States District Court. N. M. Rulch as United States Attorney, has brought action against the Oregon Short Line for violation of the 28-hour limit law, which prohibits keeping livestock in cars longer than that period without unload ing to feed and water The complaint alleges that on Septem ber 3, 1907, the Union Pacific received at Kearney, Neb., 660 head of hogs for ship ment to Troutdale, Or. The hogs were delivered to the Short Line several days later and were not unloaded until they reached Montpeiier on September 13. The complaint asks that a penalty of $500 be imposed on the Short Line together with the costs of the case. A'ancouver Barracks Notes. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. 13. (Spe cial.) General Greely and his senior aide. Captain Shields, left Vancouver last night for Boise, Idaho, to make his regular annual Inspection of Boise Barracks. Lieutenant Warfield, Junior aide on the staff of General Greely, went to Fort Leavenworth yesterday, where he will take Vie examination for" promotion to a captaincy. . Second Lieutenant Bracly, of the 14th Infantry, has been promoted and as signed to duty with the 13th Infantry at Fort Leavenworth. Six first Lieutenants of the Department of the Columbia Coast Artillery have been ordered to report to Major Thomas Ridge way, president of the examining board, to take the examination to determine their fitness for promotion to the rank of Captain. First Lieutenant Daniel W. Parnell, of the National Guard, has been authorized to attend and pursue a course of study at the garrison school for officers. Major Frederick P. Day is designated a special disbursing agent for the pay de partment, to act during the absence of Major George B. Pickett, paymaster. Virtue Mine to Reopen. BAKER CITY, Or.. Nov. 13. (Special.) Announcement has been made by J. K. Romlg that the Virtue mine is to reopen and ten stamps will be dropping on the ore by December 1. The Virtue mine lies a few miles east of Baker City in the district which bears Its name, and haj been one of the most famous producers in the West. The gold in the district is found only in pockets, but when one of these pockets Is discovered the fortune of the operator is made. The Virtue mine Is now owned by East ern capitalists, and has been idle for sev eral years. It will he operated by elec tric power from Eagle Creek, and nearly all of the machinery is now in place. Enough ore is now blocked out to keep the mine running for six months, and it will be but a short time until the yel low dust will be brought to Baker City. Wallula Deputy Shot. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 13. Deputy Sheriff Allan Byrnes, of Wallula, was brought here with a bullet wound in his head, received from the accidental discharge of his revolver. Little hope Is entertained for his recovery. The in jured man is one of the most popular and successful officers in Walla Walla County. He has a wife and three chil dren. Forv several years he has been the sole representative of the law at Wallula, and through his stern and unre lenting methods, in handling the hobos that make that point a stopping place, he is known and feared by all classes of criminals. Eugene. Company Leads State. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 13. (Special.) Com pany A, of the Oregon National Guard, at Eugene, has Just been notified by Adjutant-General Finzer through Captain Ray mond Babb, that the Eugene company re ceived first place of all the Oregon com panies for military efficiency in the an nual state competition, conducted by Inspector-General James Jackson. The Eu gene company scored 184 points out of a possible 200. Company K of Portland re ceived second place with a score of 183. Eugene Day In Portland. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 13. (Special.) The Eugene Commercial Club, the Merchants' Protective Association and many Eugene citizens will take advantage of the Oregon-Multnomah Thanksgiving football game to Join in an excursion to Portland. The day will be known as "Eugene Boos ter Day" and hundreds of people will take the trip. The details of the excursion will be In charge of G. D. Linn, Robert McMurphy, William P. Older, G. W. Grif fin and Alton Hampton. Suspected of Brutal Murder. VANCOUVER. B. C. Nov. 13. Roger Verrone, a negro, was arrested this aft ernoon on suspicion that he committed the brutal murder of Clementine Nahu. at North Vancouver, last Saturday, after noon. Several other suspects who were arrested have been released. POTPOURRI BY NANCY LEE. AYOUNO WOMAN going to catch a suburban train, remembered that she had forgotten to purchase some music. Rushing hurriedly into a music store she asked breathlessly of the young man, "Have you Kissed Me In the Moonlight?" Whereupon the clerk blushtngly re plied: "Why. er, no. It must have been the other clerk." All readers of advertisements are fa miliar with the modest statements of numerous firms who announce the merit of their goods in some such manner as this: "Best goods at lowest prices." "The House of Quality." "Our prices are the lowest." Far be it from me to cisparage the truthfulness of these assertions. But the legend which appeared in the window of the Oregon Savings & Trust Company recently Is mournfully acknowledged for genuineness by other depositors. It read In this manner: "We lead, others follow." An Autumn Song (An Answer). Though the furze on the moor May be looking kind ot poor And the pelicans are hiking for the south; It Is no use feeling blue. There Is mirth enough for you If you'll keep a smiie upon your mouth. For this stage of the year With the Winter drawing near Is the meek and lowly coal-man's time to shine. It is also in these days That the plumber sings his lays And the pretty gridiron hero's feeling fine. Do not overlook the merry And seductive Tom and Jerry, Nor the sniffles, nor neuralgia, nor the grip. For there's lots of fun in Autumn, And no matter where they bought 'em. The bill will go to hubby every trip. Though the furze ion the moor May be looking kind of poor. The furs on the women look just dear. One of the large book-dealers tells an amusing story of a meek little woman who entered the store and Inquired for some sort of a sad novel. "How would you like 'The Last Days of Pompeii?' " asked the clerk. "Oh. I've heard of him. What did he die of?" she lisped. . Laconically the clerk replied. "Some sort of an eruption, I believe, madame." At a banquet Saturday night of the Stanford alumni a practical joke was perpetrated and from its outcome it is Impossible to state who It Is on. TJje re turns had Just been read from the Stanford-Berkeley game when a pigeon was brought in and it was announced that it was one of the carrier variety which an enthusiastic Stanford man had secured from Palo Alto and it was proposed to send it with a message of good cheer and congratulations to the student body of the Alma Mater. Enthusiasm readied a high point, a committee formulated a message. Each and every one kissed the bird good-bye and all repaired to the . street to watch it start on its long flight to the California homo. Amid hushed ex pectancy it was released and rising circled round. Then as if getting its course It flew east and alighted on a cornice of a bulld'rng from which, point it looked wonderingly down at the crowd below. Of course it was a common bird of home production but it was a few moments be fore the crowd caught on, when amid laughter they went back, to the tables. The Jokers of course had counted on the bird flying away Into the night and thus giving the whole performance a genuine appearance. "S-s-s-s-a-a-y, b-b-b-bo-y. 1-11-let me o-o-o-off at the s-s-s-s-e-cond f-f-f-f-f-fl-o-o-o-or,- pup-p-p-pup-please," remarked the man who stuttered to the operator of the elevator in the Wells-Fargo building, yesterday afternoon. By the time he had made his wants and wishes known the . lift had reached the 12th floor, thereby showing the vanity of all human desires. . The deacon met the minister and Invited him to have a drink which he firmly re fused for three good reasons: First He was Just going to address .a temperance meeting. Second It was the anniversary of the death of his wife, Janet, and he sought to keep the day sacred. Third He had Just had one. A small lad who inquired of his father the definition of the word hiccoughs re ceived the following answer: "They are echoes of departed spirits." One of the most prominent members of the younger set has remote Jewish ances tors on the maternal side. Coming from a recent bridge . party with two other girls who are also socially conspicuous they passed a group of children. As it happened one of the girls was gowned In red, another In blue and another in white. Or.e of the youngsters who noted the pa triotic combination of colors called after them: "Red, white and blue, your daddy is a Jew." Whereupon the girl of Jewish anteced ents replied with an air of assumed hauteur: "No, you're mistaken. It's on my mother's side." The Willamette Heights citizen handed the conductor of the car a $5 clearing house certificate. "What's that?" asked the man behind the bell-cord. "That's a clearing-house certificate, the new kind of Portland money," said the W. H. Citizen. "Is it good?" asked the lord of the punch. "Sure it's good. Paper money goes these days." "AH rlfrht, old man." and the con ductor immediately handed the passenger $4.95 worth of transfers. FORMERLY IN REAL ESTATE Men Injured In Nitro Explosion Found to Hail From Tacoma. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) In the confession of Al Addison, the man lying seriously Injured at St. Luke's Hos pital as a result of an explosion that oc curred while - . C. H. Dean and Albert S. Grant were endeavoring to extract nitro glycerin from dynamite, the officials have learned that Addison and Dean were re cently in the real estate business at Tacoma- Grant was killed in the explosion. George Addison, a brother of the Injured man, reached here today from Tacoma. The police assert that Grant was the leader of the trio and was an old-time professional yeggman. Dean, who Is in the "city jail, asserts that they were ex tracting the nitro, not to -low safes, but to kill fish.: School Warrants Issued. ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 13. (Special.) At the meeting of the School Board last night bids were received and accepted for $8100 In interest-bearing warrants, being the last of an issue of $19,000 to raise money for building additions to the school buildings. Practically the entire Issue was taken by private individuals. Fall From Wagon Breaks Neck. TACOMA.. Wash.. Nov. 13. (Special.) Joseph Rhoades fell from a load of hay on the Mitke ranch near here breaking his neck and dying almost instantly. He struck on his head and was stunned by the fall but recovered sufficiently to ex claim: "I've broke my neck." He ex pired without uttering another word. 4