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AERIAL NAVIGATION.
Is the flying machine to be the next
triumph of human Invention? There
are those who think It la practically
eolved now.
In France and Germany the dirigi
ble airship Is recognized already as a
necessary adjunct of military enginery
or equipment. That is to say, it has
been brought Into practical use. True,
It does not yet meet all the expecta
tions formed of It; yet it has been so
successfully " maneuvered as to give
very great hopes of complete ultimate
success.
The War Department of the United
States Is taking up the subject for
new experiments. The Signal Corps
of the Army has given out specifica
tions and advertised for bids for an
air machine, of a type designed to
carry two persons, having a weight
of 350 pounds and sufficient fuel for a
flight of 125 miles. It is to be. a ma
chine having no gas bag, and sup
ported entirely by the dynamic reac
tion of the atmosphere, with standard
of speed of forty miles an hour In still
air. The experiments are to be made
from Fort Myer, on the Virginia side
of the Potomac, opposite Washington.
A trial flight of at least one hour
will be required, during which time
the machine must remain continuously
In the air, without landing. It must
return to the starting point and land
without any damage that would pre
vent It from starting immediately on
another flight. That such results are
expected shows what progress has
been made in aeronautics. Till re
cently no one could have seriously be
lieved these things could be done.
It Is apparent that if such machine
could be successful it would be -invaluable
in war. That it will be meas
urably successful is not doubted. The
machine is to be an adaptation of re
sults attained in Europe, with certain
additions supplied by American ex
perimenters and Inventors.
"ASIA FOR THE ASIATICS."
English newspapers are taking no
tice of the disposition of Japan, as
made manifest in a recent speech by
Count Okuma, before the Kobe Cham
ber of Commerce. He said:
Oppressed by Europeans, the SOfl. 000.000
people of India are looking for Japanese
protection. Why should the Japanese not
stretch out their hands toward thot country
now that its people are looking to the Jap
anese? Any place where the Japanese flag
files may be regarded as Japan. The Jap
anese dominion extends to the Pacific, the
Chinese waters, the Indian Ocean.
This would indeed seem to be
enough to make English statesmen
take notice. Of Okuma the London
Chronicle says;
He Is one of the most famous, as he is
the most eloquent of living Japanese states
men. He was long the popular leader of the
progressive party. When such a man speaks
of the oppression of the people of India by
the allies of his own country his words bear
a sinister omen.
Clearly so. It is asserted, more
over, that India is being stirred by
the firebrand cry of "Asia for the
Asiatics!" We add this comment
from the New York World:
Meredith Townsend, editor and essayist,
lived in India for a 12-year period, which
included the time of the Sepoy rising. In
papers published before the outbreak of the
war over Manchuria Mr. Townsend pro
claimed his Inability to believe that the
present effort of Europe to dominate Asia,
the fourth within the historic period, wiU be
permanently successful. "After nearly a
century of clement government," he writes,
"there are not 10.000 natives' In India who,
unpaid and uncoerced, would die in defense
of British sovereignty."
The "Indian Empire" is made up of a
"small film of white men." and it was when
this film was made still thinner by the
shrinkage of the garrison in 1857 that the
Sepoys sprang Into revolt. The mutineers
then rope and fought for two furious years
"because they mere Asiatics, tilled with the
dull, unconquerable, unmltlgable distaste of
Asiatics for white men, and thought they
saw a chance to get rid of them."
"The British people," Mr. Townsend
wrote, significantly, "have no longer either
the energy or the unscrupulousness to main
tain government by slaughter, and the sup
pression of a general revolt in India would
involve slaughter on an Asiatic scale."
A SELF-APPOINTED EXPERT.
It is perhaps unfortunate for the
American taxpayers and flagbearers
that they did not discover Mr. Henry
Reuterdahl before they invested
$145,000,000 in battleships, which the
new celebrity now condemns as
worthless and unsafe. This latest ad
dition to the ranks of the muckrakers
styles himself "Associate of the United
States Naval Institute," whatever that
may mean, and "American -Editor of
Fighting Ships," whatever that may
be. While our great Navy was
growing up under the supervision and
actual direction of men who were not
"editors," but commanders of "fight
ing ships," all the way from Fort
Sumter to Manila, our ..eople, it
seems, have been kept In the dark
regarding the true condition of our
Navy.
. More than one of the grizzled vet
erans, before and after tey were
placed on the retired list, had been
consulted and advised with regarding
the actual, not the theoretical, effect
of a shell striking a ship at a given
point. They had gone through the
"shot and shell and fire of hell" un
der conditions which made a lasting
Impression on their minds, and any
shortcomings or defects which might
have existed in the ships hardly es
caped their attention. But the men
whose garnered experience of years is
responsible for our naval construction
must have been wrong. The advan
tages in construction which appealed
to them "when the balls whistled free
o'er the bright blue sea" must have
been worthless at least they seem so
in comparison with those which Mr.
Reuterdahl has hammered out on his
typewriter. To read Mr. Reuterdahl's
elaborate exposure of the weaknesses
of the American Navy one would gain
the impression that our best fighting
ships were but little better than Dan
McLean's fake revenue cutter with
canvas funnels and wooden guns.
So flimsy and worthless and unsea
worthy does this great white fleet be
come under the "hammering" of this
"American Editor of Fighting Ships"
that one Is prone to wonder why such
a wise man intrusted his valuable life
to the care of such fragile craft. De
spite this great "exposure" of the al
leged weaknesses of our ships, there
Is not much likelihood of anyjiostlle
foe using the Reuterdahl story as a
text-book for the education of their
own fighters who might be seeking
the weak points in our armor. The
ships might nft sink as quickly as the
"Associate of the United States Naval
Institute" says they will. For sheer
carelessness with the truth, Mr. Reu
terdahl is eligible to the Upton Sin
clair and Jack London class.
NEWSPAPERS AND THE PANIC.
In discussing the financial flurry, a
Chicago magazine of politics remarks
that "the newspapers did some noble
lying,1 all with the best of motives of
course that of restoring confidence."
Results do not indicate that the news
papers did so much lying, after all.
It Is true that the newspapers took
the brightest view of a dismal situa
tion and perhaps they were more
hopeful in public utterance than their
editors were In private consultation.
Their declaration, oft repeated in
varying form, was that Industrial and
financial conditions presented no occa
sion for alarm and that the banks in
general were sound. The newspapers
did everything in their power to qulel
the people, dispel the fears of deposi
tors and restore confidence. Subse
quent events show that this course
was entirely in acordance with facts
and warranted by conditions as they
really existed. Beyond doubt, if the
newspapers had thrown open their
columns to the publication of every
discouraging bit of news or had even
left matters to drift as unreliable
street rumors might direct, . there
would have been serious consequences.
By suppressing the cries of fear and
Counseling calm and considerate ac
tion, the newspapers of the country
prevented a disastrous financial panfb
Just as public speakers sometimes
prevent calamities when fear seizes
an audience in a crowded hall. So
far as they told anything, the news
papers told the truth. If they did not
tell the whole truth it was because no
good was to bo accomplished by tell
ing it. If the newspapers should tell
all the truth they learn every day
about the affairs and acts of the peo
ple, there would be a great many
panics, not only in business, but in
home circles. There are few people
in this world who want all the truth
told about them and their affairs.
The assertion that "when the pub
lic begins to lose confidence in the
statements about the banks it will
soon begin to lose confidence in the
banks themselves" Is Inapplicable to
the statements that have been pub
lished by the newspapers concerning
the financial situation. While it is
undoubtedly true that the newspapers
were deceived aa to some few banks,
as they are likely to be deceived oc
casionally as to a multitude of things,
yet their statements were substantial
ly true and .the public has not been
deceived. The newspapers have not
been lying and there is no occasion
for the public to lose confidence In
them. On the contrary, events have
demonstrated that the newspapers
are worthy of confidence, for their
counsel in a critical situation has been
found to be wise.
The menace of the grip grip of the
kind that swept over the country in
1889 is enough to make the stoutest
heart quail. Of all the aggravating
enervating, depressing abominations
that ever afflicted humanity, the dis
order that goes under this name may
well be reckoned the worst. It has
not even the grace to reach a fatal
termination quickly, but plays upon
the bare nerves of the victim for
weeks and even months before allow
ing him to escape its clutch by dying.
Of course not everybody who suffers
from grip dies, but most of its vic
tims whine protestlngly against the
continuance of life that the insinuat
ing, persistent pest has made a burden
too grievous to be borne. We are told
that there are now between 300 and
400 cases of the debilitating malady
in this city. To these comes the ukase
of experience saying: Go to bed,
cover up warmly, admit plenty of
fresh air in .the room, cultivate the
grace of patience, eschew drugs, drink
plenty ef cold water and mutton
broth, hope for the best, and find con-
solation in the thought ihat a needless
doctor's bill has been saved even if an
undertaker's bill impends.
WHO PAID FOR TTt
Certain plutocratic magnates are
terribly afraid of landing in jail unless
they can in some way break down the
President's hold upon public confi
dence. Their Schemes devised to this
end are multifarious, running the full
gamut from a panic to a common par
tisan falsehood. Their latest invention
is a huge newspaper advertisement
headed, "Theodore Roosevelt, De
stroyer," which is inserted wherever
money will place it.
The plutocratic advertisement ac
cuses the President of every crime un
der heaven; but, of course, his worst
offense is that he has tried to put an
end to the robbery of the public by
the syndicates. They can forgive him
everything else, but not this. To their
system of theft on a great scale they
give the pleasant name of "business,"
and then shriek wildly that Mr.
Roosevelt Is destroying business when
he eliminates their chance to steal.
"Is it the Square Deal," screams the
plutocratic advertisement in type a
foot high, "when he tears down indus
tries that took years of patient effort
to build up?"
That depends upon what the indus
tries are. If the President should
break up a nest of counterfeiters, no
body would thlnH the deal was not
square, even though it had taken
many years for the counterfeiters to
perfect their combinations. Some
people thought it was not a square
deal when Mr. Roosevelt broke up the
system of plundering the public lands
in the West to swell the fortunes of a
few millionaires; but the people were
inclined to believe that a millionaire
has no more right to steal from the
Government than has a poor man,
and they decided that this deal was
reasonably square upon the whole.
When the President began to inter
fere with the ancient privilege of
Standard Oil to harry and raid, its
competitors, ruining everybody that
opposed it, debauching public officials
and swindling the people, naturally
Mr. Rockefeller and his satellites,
sycophants and hangers-on set up a
frightful yell that they were not get
ting a square deal. No deal whatever
would suit them except the continued
privilege to commit wholesale rob
bery. So one might go on and enu
merate the different cases which the
plutocrats cite to prove that Mr.
Roosevelt has not given them a square
deal. We think that they are right,
at least in part. Their deal has not
been square thus far, and it will not
be until a goodly band of them is
lodged in jail.
The plutocratic advertisement above
referred to must have cost a tidy bit
of money. Some say the expense
could not have been less than $200,-;J
000. Who paid for it? Was the cost
assessed pro rata upon those whose
swag is threatened by the President's
enforcement of the law?
BREAKING RECORDS AT PANAMA.
The excavations from the line of
the Panama Canal last month aggre
gated 1,838,486 cubic yards, which
was remarkably close to the October
record of 1,868,729 cubic yards. This
record-breaking progress is a high,
tribute to the executive ability of
Colonel Goethals, who is in charge of
the great work, and offers assurance
of the completion of the canal at a
much earlier date than was expected.
The results now vindicate the policy of
the earlier chiefs of canal construction,
who at the beginning decided that the
first Important work necessary in or
der -to facilitate construction was to
clean up the Isthmus, and make It a
safe place for residence for the thou
sands who would be needed to carry
on the work.
The measure of success attained by
the sanitary experts is shown in a re
port which accompanies the one giv
ing particulars of the November work.
This report states that the Isthmus
has been free from yellow fever for
more than eighteen months, and there
has been a steady and continued im
provement in the health conditions.
The death rate for the first eleven
months of 1907 was 50 per cent less
than for the corresponding period in
1906, and the sick rate showed nearly
as great an Improvement in condi
tions. Since Colonel Goethals took
charge of the work the progress has
been so rapid that the available ap
propriation has been exhausted in
excess of the monthly pro rata allow
ance, and the Secretary of War has
been asked to approve the mainte
nance of the present organization and
programme, which will make it neces
sary for Congress to appropriate
$8,000,000 to cover the deficiency.
This increased appropriation, as
explained by Colonel Goethals, will
not increase the cost of the canal,
but will enable the work to be com
pleted at an earlier date than previ
ously expected. It is shown by de
tailed statements of the work that the
results obtained have been in propor
tion to the increased "expenditure, and
at a lower unit cost than was possi
ble with a smaller force. To reduce
the force and disarrange the organiza
tion which is doing such splendid
work, in order to keep expenditures
within the present appropriations,
would be very poor economy. It re
quired ten years for De Lesseps to
build the Suez Canal and nearly as
long a time to complete the famous
Manchester ship canal, but at the rate
of excavation shown at Panama In
November and October the Suez Canal
could have been completed in less
than four years and the Manchester
Canal' In twenty-five months.
Modern machinery has, of course,
contributed to this highly satisfactory
result, but it also requires executive
ability of a high degree to get the
best results out of an army of 20,000
men who are working with this ma
chinery. The Government has seldom
succeeded in completing any work as
expeditiously and economically as It
could have been done by private con
tractors, but in this, the most stupen
dous task it has undertaken, it seems
certain that the results will be in the
highest degree satisfactory.
The one member of the imperial
family of Russia with whom the civil
ized world is in sympathy is the Czar
ina. Of gentle nature, highly sensi
tive and, like all of the daughters of
Princess Alice of England, unusually
Intelligent, the Empress Alexandria
lives in hourly dread of the assassina
tion of her husband and children. Her
only son. Grand Duke Alexis, a child
of four years. Is in especial danger,
though every member of the family is
guarded with zealous care day and
night. Under the stress of these con
ditions the Czarina's health has failed
and she its unable to leave her bed.
Her physicians prescribe a sojourn of
some months in Italy, but she cannot
take her children out of Russia and
she will not leave them. A prisoner
in the magnificent palace of the Tsars,
sick, living in constant fear, this
woman, who was endowed by Nature
with great capacity for happiness and
usefulness, lives in splerfdor; ill con
tent, an object of sympathy and com
miseration and a sad and striking il
lustration of the fact that human hap
piness cannot be purchased by wealth,
position and grandeur.
The swarms of departing Europeans
that have been taxing the capacity of
the Atlantic liners have not entirely
relieved the strain on the labor mar
ket in the East. The Central Feder
ation Union of New York announces
that there are in that city 25,000
skilled mechanics, 50,000 skilled in
miscellaneous trades and 60,000 un
skilled laborers, all out of employ-'
ment. This condition emphasizes the
'truth of the old axiom that labor is
the first to feel the blow in periods
of depression and the last to reap the
benefits of prosperity. Idle labor, like
idle capital, is subject to the immuta
ble law of supply and demand. When
money .Is plentiful the income of its
possessor 13 reduced by low Interest
rates. When labor is plentiful its re
turns are reduced by lower wages.
Artificial effort may create unnatural
conditions and temporarily stay the
workings of this decree, but in the
end supply and demand wiU solve the
great economic problem.
The 1 magnificent battleship fleet of
the United States Navy, en route for
Pacific waters, has weighed anchor
and is steering for Rio Janeiro, its
next stopping-place. While there are
the ever unknown and unseen perils
of the sea menacing this fleet of six
teen mammoth vessels on its voyage
of 14,000 miles, no one entertains for
more than a brief moment the thought
that the long cruise will be anything
except a wonderful and pronounced
success, which will add a chapter to
the . brilliant annals of the United
States Navy. The confidence of -the
American people in "Fighting Bob"
Evans is unbounded. This will be the
intrepid Rear-Admiral's last cruise,
and that It will be a grand culmina
tion of a brilliant naval career is the
hope and belief of all loyal Americans,
afloat and ashore.
'There is a splendid opportunity at
Tule Lake, Klamath County, for some
enterprising captain of industry to de
velop water power. Recently the
water or me laKe round an outlet
through a hole in the lava rock of
the lake bed, and now the water is
pouring through with such force as to
form a whirlpool on the surface. Na
ture has evidently provided a place
for a turbine waterwheel, and all that
is needed is to install the wheel and
electric machinery. Since lake beds
belong to the Government, perhaps
the Reclamation Service can make
use of the power thus going to waste.
"We want peace with the United
States, and nothing but peace, now
and always," says the Mikado in his
greetings forwarded to the President
by Mr. Taft. This is another evidence
of the admirable "information" sys
tem of the Japanese, which has ap
parently sent home the particulars of
the shipments to the Philippines of
6,240.000 rounds of ammnnif irn oni
7500 new Springfield rifles,- not to
mention a rew thousand tons of other
articles useful In promulgation of a
peace doctrine.
If imitation is the since'rest flattery,
Mrs. Eddy and her friends will be
pleased with the announcement that
St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church
will undertake "Christian Psychology"
as a cure for disorders due to the ac
tion of the mind. The work of ad
ministering "to the bodies as well as
the souls of the American people" has1
proven so successful with the Chris
tian Scientists that competition in the
field was inevitable. -
Over two hundred Spokane saloon
men arrested for violation of the
Sunday law, are endeavoring to
"bluff" the authorities by refusing to
give bonds and asking to be placed in
Jail. The Jail isn't large enough to
hold them. But suitable quarters
ought to be found at Medical Lake,
which Is in happy propinquity to
Spokane. .
Among other things to put on the
clean page tomorrow, let every resi
dent of the Pacific Northwest in
scribe: No more talking about hard
times. Continue to work hard and
spend less than you earn.
With Indictments of bankwrec'kers
due January 6 and trial of land
thieves set for a week later, nexjt
month presents no happy "prospect for
a number of distinguished citizens.
Isn't there much more probability
that Roosevelt's vigorous support of
Taft will tend rather to unite the field
against Taft than to secure for him
the nomination?
Once more it has been demonstrated
that higher assessments never lower
the tax rate, at least not in Multno
mah County.
The news that there Is something
radically wrong with American war
ships ought to make a hit in Spain.
How the World Grows.
Boston Globe. .
In a little more than 100 years, ac
cording to Government figures, the
population of the world has grown
from 840,000.000 to 1,600,000,000, an In
crease of 150 per cent. At the end of
so many hundred centuries, in other
words, there were In the world In 1800
only 640,000,000 of persons, and in 106
years, from 1800 to 1906, to this, num
ber had been adcfed 960,000,000.
The total commerce of the world in
1800 was about one and a half billions
of dollars; in 1900 it was more than
twenty billions of dollars. Other
figures show that in wealth and the
growth of various industrial agencies
the increase has been far swifter than
that of population.
The overpopulation of the world Is
not a present menace to the thinkers
of today, but the thinkers of a period
when there were less than half as many
people in the world as there are now
seriously debated the imminence of the
catastrophe that the overcrowding of
the earth would produce.
Rumored Shooting at Ocosta.
HOQUIAM, .Wash., Dec. 30. Special.)
An Indefinite rumor came from Ocosta
this evening concerning the shooting of
a woman there, but no further communi
cation could be had. The coroner will
Co to Ocosta in the morning to investi
gate. '
PRIEST DEFENDS EMPLOYES
Father Brzoski Denounces Laborers
Who Assail Rich Men.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) Father Brzoski. who organized
a Polish Catholic Church here six
months ago, startled his congregation
in his sermon during the Christmas
eve mass by speaking In favor of the
capitalist. He said that he had no
sympathy with laboring men who lis
ten to the moutnings of labor agitat
ors and non-workers and then condemn
men employing labor.
Father Brzoski called attention to
the fact that men who employed labor
have much more to contend with than
the laborer himself. Many an employ
er lies awake nights trying to figure
out how to keep his men employed and
bow to pay them. "The workingman,"
said Father Brzoski, '"who spends his
surplus wages in the saloon and other
bad places has nothing to complain
of at the rich man. Many a rich man
has been a laboring man, and through
industry, sobriety and frugality has
been enabled to start industries that
employ labor."
Father Brzoski advised laboring men
to read more, to think for themselves,
to stay away from saloons and be
frugal.
ASK TIME ON RANGE TAX
Wallowa Sheepmen Don't Want to
Fay $14,000 Until Next August.
ENTERPRISE, Or., Dee. 80. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Wallowa County
Woolgrowers, in this city, Saturday,
resolutions were adopted requesting the
Government to defer collection of range
dues until after shearing, or about Au
gust 1. The sheepmen of Wallowa' pay
about $14,000 for rent of ranges, and this
would be hard to raise under the present
scarcity of money.
It was recommended that the present
county bounty of $1.50 a head on coyotes
be continued, and Hi cents a head tax
on sheep be levied to pay for It. There
are 146,000 sheep being fed In Wallowa
County this Winter. Twenty-two sheep
men joined the State Association yester
day, and with the i2 yearly dues and $2
assessment on each 1000 sheep, sheared
last June, the sum of $257 was collected
and sent to the state body.
ROBBED IN OWN DOORTARD
Sled ford Business Man Knocked
Down and Pockets Rifled.
MEDFORD, Or., Dec. 30. (Special.)
At a late hour last evening J. Wes
Lawton, a prominent citizen and busi
ness man, , was assaulted, knocked
down and robbed In his own dooryard
by a highwayman. To save time, he
had started home cutting cross-lots,
and when he had turned into the back
yard alley his assailant, using a rough
pine board, struck him repeatedly,
bruising his face' badly. Mr. Lawton
fell to the ground, partially uncon
scious, when the footpad robbed him
of a fine gold watch and $25 In cash.
On recovering, Mr. Lawton dragged
himself to his house and gave the
alarm. Later a tramp was arrested,
but no evidence of the crime was found
upon him.
This city has recently been infested
with brakebeam tourists.
MAJOR TALKS TOO FREELY
Criticism of Armory Board May
- Bring on Court-Martial.
SEATTLE!, Wash., Dec 30. (Special.)
Major Otto A. Case, senior Major and
commandant of the First Battalion, Sec
ond Regiment, National Guard of Wash
ington, faces a court-martial as the re
sult of criticism he made of the manner
in which the State Armory Board has
conducted Its duties with regard to a new
armory for Seattle. Among other things
Major Case says "the members of the
guard are absolutely disgusted .with the
commission." The Major's stricture was
published yesterday, and today Colonel
George B. Lamping, commandant of the
Second Regiment, and a member of the
commission, said that' he has taken steps
to ascertain the authenticity of the in
terview, which. If proven, will result In
an Immediate court-martial. This is the
Major's second offense within a month.
STEALS WIFE'S LOVE; IS SUED
Donnelly, Tacoma Clubman, Defcnd
v ant in $30,000 Suit.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 30. (Special.)
J. C. Donnelly, former proprietor of the
Donnelly Hotel and prominent business
and club man of Tacoma, was today
made defendant In a "sensational $30,000
suit for alienation of affections by J. A.
Gass, a well-known traveling man of
Seattle. Service of the summons was
made on Mr. Donnelly by a deputy
sheriff. Gass alleges that Donnelly won
the love of Mrs. Gass by holding before
her the lure of wealth a butterfly life.
The parents of Mrs. Gass are also
charged with assisting in the alienation
of their daughter's affections. Mrs. Gass
is now plaintiff in a dlvorec suit In the
Kings County courts, and Gass claims she
is to marry Donnelly if the decree is se
cured. RAISES
RAILROAD
VALUES
Realty Expert Places O. R. & N.'s
Spokane Holdings at $2,610,368.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 30. (Special.)
Walker L. Bean, realty expert, who was
on the stand today in the hearing before
the Railroad Commissioners to fix a val
uation on railroad property in the state,
placed the valuation of O. R. & N. land
holdings In Spokane at $2,610,368, nine
times greater than that fixed by the
Commission.
Testimony showed that the railroad
owns 140 acres, including right of way,
terminals and unimproved lands. The
valuation fixed by the Railroad Commis
sioners was $394,876. Both agreed as to
right of way valuation. The increase is
on unimproved property and terminals.
WTLKESON MINES ARE CLOSED
Striking Miners Said to Have Driven
Off Crew of Italians. '
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. SO. (Special.)
No attempt has as yet been made by the
Wllkeson Coal & Coke Company to open
Its mines at Wllkeson closed by a strike,
according to Manager J. H. Scott. A re
port from Wllkeson was repelved that 64
Italians were sent there by the company
Saturday and the reception given them
by the strikers was so hot that the Ital
ian strike-breakers fled to the foothills.
Mr. Scott stated that his company did
not send any Italians, guarded by Plnk
erton detectives, to the mines, as report
ed, and has no intention of doing so. He
said that all they have attempted to do
was to retimber the mine, which work is
requiring about six men.
Warrants for Theater Men.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec 30. (Special.)
Warrants were Issued today in Justice
courts against the managers and three
actors of the Savoy and Star Theaters
for keeping open Sunday. Complaints
were sworn to by the Deputy Prosecut
ing Attorney, but up to tonight the war
rants had not been served. The cases
will be bitterly fought.
FINE LOGGERS FOR CONTEMPT J
Tangled Case of Water Rights In
Yamhill County.
M'MINNVILLE, Or.; Dec. 30. (Special.)
Contempt proceedings decided In the
State Circuit Courtfor this county to
day added one more chapter to the dam
age suit of Trullinger & Son Vs. the Carl
ton Milling Company. At the Fall term
of Circuit Court suit was brought by the
plaintiffs to enjoin defendants from float
ing logs on the North Yamhill River,
and also enjoining the use of splash dams
by defendants. In his decision at that
time Judge Galloway held the river to be
a navigable stream and declined to grant
a permanent injunction which would for
bid the. free navigation of same. From
this decision the plaintiffs appealed to the
Supreme Court. Pending appeal the de
fendants have put some 6,000,000 feet of
logs Into the river above the Trullinger
dam, which has been raised so as to pre
vent the passage of the logs. As a result,
contempt proceedings were instituted by
defendants, to which plaintiffs filed a de
murrer, claiming the court had no juris
diction over the case pending appeal. Af
ter hearing arguments the court over
ruled the demurrer, and Trullinger &
Son declining further to plead, they were
fined $50 each for contempt. They have
appealed from Judge Galloway's decision.
This Is a very important litigation, as
the final decision will apply to many
streams In every part of the state which
are now being used for the flotation of
logs. The attorneys are S. B. Huston and
McCain & Vinton for the plaintiffs, and
C. EL S. Wood, R. L. Conner and W. S.
Asher for the defendants.
EASfER OUT TO BEAT FRENCH
Fremont County Man Aspires to
Congressional Honor.
BOISE, Idaho, Dee. 80. (Special.) The
visit of a party of Fremont County men
to this city yesterday and today, of whom
Colonel Thomas R. Hamer, of St. An
thony, was one, Is taken to have some
connection with the candidacy of Colonel
Hamer for Congress to succeed Burton L.
French. No formal announcement has
been made, but it Is believed there has
been some setting up of stakes. Members
of the party in addition to the Colonel
were: Representatives James E. Fogg, of
Fremont County, and James Redman, of
Bear Lake; Senator J. W. Hart and ex
Senator C. C. Moore, of Fremont County,
and James H, Wallls, editor of the Rex
burg Standard. One of the party ex
pressed himself in this manner on the
subject:
"Congressman French has now had four
terms In the National House of Repre
sentatives, and we believe that this Is
time enough In which to demonstrate his
ability."
This man said further Fremont was
friendly to Senator Heyburn; it would
also be disposed to favor Chairman
Brady If he should seek an office not con
flicting with the other Representatives.
Fallon, of Kootenai County, has recent
ly been on a tour of the southeast looking
after his chances for the Congressional
nomination. of him the person quoted
herein said: "He has lots of friends
there, too. He would likely be our second
choice. If we are required to make a sec
ond choice."
LAD'S . WILD RIDE ON FLOOD
Rescued Before Frail Raft Is Car
ried Over Falls.
OREGON CITY, Dec 30b (Special.)
Narrowly escaping "a terrible death by
being washed over Willamette Falls, the
two sons of William Anthony, a New
Era farmer, were rescued late yester
day afternoon by Herman Rakel, Elbon
Long and Charles Spencer. The boys,
who are aged 7 and 9 years respectively,
were playing on a raft of ties near their
home, and told their companions to cut
the rope that held, the raft. The lads
supposed that the raft would drift a few
feet into shore, but instead It was In
stantly swept into the middle of the
rushing stream by the treacherous cur
rent and a cry for help went up.
Four boats started in pursuit, but lost
In the mad race for life, and Grant
Criteser, who lives a few miles down the
river from New Era, was informed of
the impending catastrophe by telephone
and he gave the alarm. Rakcl, Long
and Spencer, who are employed on the
logs by the Willamette Pulp & Paper
Company, secured a launch and inter
cepted the swirling raft.
A few hundred yards further down
stream rescue would have been impos
sible, and the raft with its human freight
would have gone over the falls to a ter
rible and certain death.
FALLING AT OREGON CITY
Water Recedes Sufficiently to Per
mit Operation of Mills.
OREGON CITY,' Or.. Dec. 30. (Special.)
The Willamette Is falling fast above and
below the Falls, one of the machines of
the Crown-Columbia Pulp & Paper Com
pany was placed in operation this after
noon. This mill will probably resume In
every department tomorrow, and In the
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company two
machines will be started tomorrow at
Mill C and by Wednesday the entire plant
wiil be In operation. A portion of the
headworks at Mill A of the Willamette
Pulp & paper Company was damaged by
the high water. The woolen mill will re
sumo operations Thursday morning and it
Is likely that the locks will be opened to
navigation Wednesday morning. The
lower river has fallen about five feet In
the last 24 hours and the water above
the falls is going down rapidly.
FOREST GIANTS LAID LOW
Terrific Hurricane on Vancouver Is
land One Life Lost.
VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 30. The steamer
Amur, which arrived this morning from
Cape Scott and way ports of the west
coast of Vancouver, after an arduous
trip, brought news that thousands ot
giant trees were blown down, several
houses wrecked and at least one life lost
In a terrible hurricane which blew over
the north end of Vancouver Island De
cember 23. At San Jose Bay. Jens Han
send, a settler who recently arrived from
Placer County, California, was killed by
a falling tree in front of his house, and
several settlers had very narrow escapes.
The houses were completely crushed, but
their occupants were at Cape Scott, await
ing the stormbound coasting Steamer.
Brakeman Loses an Arm.
ROSEBURO, Or., Dec 30. (Special.) A
serious accident occurred in the railroad
yards here last midnight In which A. L.
Cole, a passenger brakeman, was badly
mangled and one arm cut off. Mr. Cole's
run is from Portland to Roseburg. On
arrival of No. 16 he was taking the num
bers of the cars, when in some manner
he stepped in front of a moving engine.
Ixcal doctors were called and he was
given every possible attention. He was
taken to Portland on No. 16, which was
held some time for him.
Saloonman Takes Appeal. .
ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 30. (Special.) J.
W. Burley, of Chinook, was convicted by a
Jury In the Justice Court there today, on
a charge of keeping his saloon open on
Sunday. He was fined $30, but has ap
pealed the case to th eSuperipr Court.
The evidence did not show that the sa
loon doors were unlocked .or thatt any
liquor' was sold, but that the defendant
and his bartender had beer with their
lunch in their sleeptng-room adjoining
the saloon.
Observations of Mr. Finnegan
. By J. H. M. . . .
Well, how does politics look?
Oh, something like Tacoma: Sthrong
in th" thrawt an' weak in th' head.
I see Mr. Simon will not run for
Senator!
He don't have to. He's got a bike.
Who will succeed Mr. Bristol?
Oh, somebody else who's aching to
get it!
What do you, think of the Ananias
Club?
Same as old, "they He under a mis
take!" Don't you think we are all quietly
reforming? '
Yes, like a man tearing around th'
corner and bawling to stop a streetcar!
This is the season of golden oppor
tunities! You bet. Opportunity is trying to
kick a hole through th' prosecutors
door!
Were you ever In the Holy Land?
I'm there now, five stories nearer
heaven!
Now is the time to swear off! And
tomorrow to swear on!
What do you understand by race sui
cide? To follow th' rayformers In all
things.
Do you think there is an abuse of
drink?
I guess you'd think so If you knew
what some lv it is made of.
How are things locally?
Th' municipal cow Is threatened with
th' staggers. What we need next is a
teat cup inspector.
McAllister says there is no Demo
cratic party.
Mac is too aisely discouraged.
I hear the Jap spies are going some?
Sure! I nabbed one of thlm in the
Custom-House and yanlced him up be
fore Dave Dunne. "What's that draw
ing In y'r hand?" says Dave to th Jap.
"It's th' topography iv statement num
ber wan," says th' Jap to Dave. "Take
it away an' th' divil take it wid ye,"
says Dave to th' Jap.
I had a narrow escape Christmas
morning. I had a purty good grip on
th' spirit of the day an' was conttra
platln" th' dialogues of Frank Hin
nessy an' slowfy wonting me way Into
the beatitudes, whin th' young lady
next door received a new kimono. Im
mejltly th' signal was given to close
in an' th' squadron cum out at full
speed from th' kitchen and pantry, th"
cellar and roof, an' I thought it was
Bob Evans booming tnto Trinidad.
Afther deploying around th' flagship
f'r 15 minutes th' kimono was declared
"puffectly lnffly." Thin came the tug
lv war. For 45 minutes th' kimono, th'
young lady an' th' plany drlm't they
dwllt in marble halls, whin the beat!-"
tudes began to look smoky. Up wint
my windy an' up wlnt hers. "Merry
Chrlstmas," says she to me. "The r.tu
Galatians, 23," says I to her. "The
same to you an' manny iv thim," says
she to ine.
What did you do then?
Aw, what cud ye do with a woman
an" her new kimono?
DEAD OF THE NORTHWEST
Louis D. Campbell, Lawyer and Ex
Mayor of Tacoma.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 30. (Special )
Louts D. Campbell, one of the best-known
attorneys In the city, ex-Mayor of Ta
coma, and a member of the firm of
Campbell & Powell, died suddenly last
night at Santa Cruz, Cal. A brief tele
gram announcing Mr. Campbell's death,
and stating that the body will be brought
here for burial, was received by his part,
ner this morning. No particulars of his
death have been received, but it is be
lieved to have been the result of heart
trouble. Some time ago Mr. Campbell
suffered an attack of angina pectoris, but
lately had been feeling much better. Ha
was 65 years old and leaves a widow
and one child.
Mr. Campbell left here two weeks ago
to spend the Christmas holidays with
Mrs. Campbell and their 11-year-old
daughter In Southern California.
Robert Ewing Douglas.
DAYTON. Or., Dec 30. (Special.) Rob
ert Bwing Douglas, a native of Kentucky,
died here today. He was born- January 4,
1832, In Georgetown. Early In life he en
gaged In steamboatlng on the Mississippi,
and later went to the goldfields of Cali
fornia. Afterward he prospected and
mined in Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
and was for a time In the government
and express service in the West. He had
no relatives on the Coast, but is supposed
to have a brother living in Georgetown,
Ky. During his many years' residence
here, Douglas T.-on the respect and esteem
of all with whom he came In contact.
Miss ramella Baker.
M'MINNVILLE. Or., Dec. 30. (Special.)
Miss Pamclia Baker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Baker, of Chehalem, died
at the 'home of her parents today of
pneumonia. Miss Baker was 2C years old
and had been a teacher in the public
schools of this county for the past five
years. She was a granddaughter of the
late J. L. Ferguson, pioneer of 1852, and
niece of Judge and Mrs. William Gallo
way, of this city.
Mrs. May Hull.
ASTORIA, Or., Doc. 30. (Special.) Mrs.
May Hull, wife of C. H. Hull, died at the
family home, on the Lewis and Clark,
yesterday, of blood poisoning, after an
illness of two weeks. The deceased was
a native of Oregon, 25 years of age, and
left a husband and three children.
GIRL DRUGGED; IS DELIRIOUS
Man Who Took Her Home From a
Dance Placed Under Bond.
ENTERPRISE. Or., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) J. H. Tlbbetts, who accompanied
Vora Zumwalt home from a dance
Thursday morning, was today placed
under $500 bonds to appear before the
Circuit Court January 10. Miss Zum
walt, who was found In a drugged con
dition that morning, has been ill ever
since, most of the time delirious, and
unable to tell her story.
Tlbbetts Is a young man of hitherto
unblemished reputation. He worked
six years for Hon. J. II. Dobbins, who
today went on Tlbbetts' bond.
Board Raises Teachers' Pay.
OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 30. (Spe
cial.) The teachers of the city schools
will receive a substantial increase in
salaries next year. This was assured to
night at the annual meeting of the lo
cal district, at which a special tax of
3hi mills was levied. The levy Is 1 mill
In excess of the recommendations of the
board of directors, and the excess will
be added to the salaries of the teachers,
making the amount expended next year
about $10,000, In comparison with $S000 for
the year Just closed. The annual report '.
of the directors shows the schools to be
In a flourishing condition, and the finan
cial report shows that the floating in
debtedness ifi $300 less than last year.