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SATURDAY. JAN. 18. 1908.
SOMETHING ABOUT . INUNDATIONS.
"That The Oregonian has said there
is no Republican party in Oregon,"
says the Gervais Star, "does not make
it so. The Oregonian has not been a
consistent Republican paper simply
because it has steadfastly refused to
support the very foundation of Re
publicanism, namely, protection."
The question whether the Republi
can party of Oregon has committed
hara-kiri and the question whether
The Oregonian has been a consistent
Republican Journal, are questions
apart from the inquiry whether the
doctrine of protection is the founda
tion of the Republican party. To
Home extent the first two questions
are matters 6f opinion; the last one Is
mainly a question of fact.
Where are we to look for "the very
foundation of the Republican party"?
One would say, in its early platforms,
lis first National platform was adopt
ed at Philadelphia in June,' 1856. Not
a word in it related to protection or
to tariff. A low tariff existed then.
That the country was satisfied with
it is proven by the fact that neither
party had a word in its platform of
that year on the subject. Likewise,
in 1S60 the platform of neither of
the parties contained the word "pro
toction." The Republican platform
did. however, declare that "while pro
viding revenue for support of the
Government by duties on imports
sound policy requires such an adjust
ment of these imports as to encour
age the development of the industrial
interest of the whole country." But
I his is a very different thing from the
imposition of duties merely for "pro
tection"; that is, high rates, for ex
elusion of foreign goods, so that mo
nopollsts may hold up prices at home.
There is no one who does not concede
that'. In making a tariff list, the im
ports should be so adjusted as to fa
or, not to injure, home production
l-'ut the idea that the tariffs should
be so juggled with, in the name of
"protection," as to create such mon
Biers as the steel and sugar and cop
per monopolies not to mention a
dozen or forty more certainly was
not "the foundation of the Republican
party."
It was through the Civil War that
the so-called principle of protection
became rooted as it is in our fiscal
and Industrial system. More revenue
became .necessary; the tariff was ad
vaneed all along the line; prices of all
kinds, with the inflation of the cur
rency, went skyward, and the people
were too busy with tho war and after
wards with reconstruction, to notice
how "the interests" were at work
with the fiscal laws. During these
years they succeeded in intrenching
themselves so strongly that ever since
it has been impossible to dislodge
them. Yet they will "be dislodged,
some time. A beginning was made
for it by the election of Cleveland, in
1S92: but the money and industrial
panic produced by the silver craze,
which led to the expulsion of 1700,
000,000 of gold from the country and
the substitution of silver paper for it,
followed by the fatuous error and
folly of the Democratic Congress In
allowing its "tariff reform" measure
to be dictated by the protected mo
nopolists of both parties (denounced
by President Cleveland as "perfidy
and dishonor") all this restored the
protected graft to a stronger position
than ever. But it will be only for a
little further time. Abuses of pro
tection will yet be cut out: but it may
be doubted whether it ever win b
dona till the policy of robbery has led
the Republican party to another
smashing defeat. Even then the rob
ber system will still be strong and
mighty, and will renew its efforts
through the Democratic party. Prob
ably the only chance to kill the sys
tem, or even to cut o(t lis worst
abuses, will be to send men to Con
press who will deal with this subject
vn a high and disinterested principle,
without regard to party connections or
party names.
At present protection is as strongly
Intrenched In power as another great
plutocratic interest slavery was
fifty years ago. Slavery then dictated
all politics, as protection latterly has
done. Even the effort for silver was
a phase of protective policy. . Govern
ment by the people is no more secure
from control by the power of wealth
than . government by oligarchy or
arjstocracy is, but has better hope
and chance of getting clear of
It. But It may prove as great
an error for the Republican party to
hold to protection for its foundation
as It proved to the. Democratic party
to make slavery its .corner-stone. Pro
tection makes privilege, and results
In oppression. '
BETTER SHIPPING FACILITIES.
Increasing demands of commerce in
every large port In the world require
continued effort on the part of the
people who have . Interests therein.
The more. rapid the growth and the
larger the port, the greater the needs
and expense in connection therewith.
In some ports the requirements may
be better facilities for transferring
freight from rail to ship; in others,
deeper and wider channels. In some
places good natural seaports cannot
be used to the best advantage until
vast sums are expended in improving
the waterways leading to them. A
notable example of the continued ef
fort that is necessary to maintain a
port's prestige is shown in New Tork,
the greatest port on the American
continent, destined to become the
greatest on earth.
The immensity of the traffic that
enters New York is reflected in the
port statistics for 1907, which show
that in 1907 there entered 1176 trans-
Atlantic passenger steamers, carrying
1,2S7,617 passengers. The comple
tion of the new Ambrose channel, on
which the Government as well, as the
port of New York has spent millions,
was celebrated late in the year by ar
rival of the giant Cunarders Lusitanla
and Mauretania. But while the Gov
ernment was taking care of one feat
ure of harbor improvement, commerce
was growing so fast that it brought
with It demands in other directions.
A special committee of the New York
Chamber of Commerce has just re
ported it necessary that the entrance
to East River from Long Island Sound
be deepened and widened; that long
piers suitable for modern require
ments be constructed on North River,
north of Twenty-third street; that
more open piers for transient freight
be provided, and that South Brooklyn
terminal facilities be improved.
All this is planned for the Immedi
ate future: That it meets the ap
proval of the business community Is
clearly .indicated by comment in the
New York . Journal of Commerce:
'There can be no question as to the
soundness of the committee's judg
ment that the municipal policy in re
gard to the management of the water
front of Manhattan Island should be
guided by a desire for the safeguard
ing and extension of the foreign and
domestic trade of this city." But New
York Is protecting the interests of its
port, not alone from the seaward
side, but from the interior as well,
and Is expending $100,000,000 in en
larging the Erie Canal for the pur
pose of holding the trade, which be
gan slipping ' away when rival ports
entered the export trade on an in
creasing scale. The commercial su
premacy of New York will never be
wrested away because the investment
to be protected has reached such a
fabulous sum that it would be sheer
folly to place it In jeopardy by a pol
icy of inaction.
There Is much similarity In the situr
atlon of the Port of Portland and that
of New York, and the relative im
portance of the two ports considered,
this city is in much the safer position.
Our people have spent millions in
deepening the channel to the sea.
They have met every emergency as It
has arisen, and thus far have kept
good pace with the increasing de
mands of commerce. Nature made a
highway to our Interior trade fields,
and, like water running to the spout
of a funnel, the traffic of the vast Co
lumbia Basin gravitates to Portland.
With two great transcontinenal lines
following this course of least resistance
to tidewater at Portland, . this port
has no ccincern about where the traffic
is coming from.
There is property with an assessed
valuation of more than 200.000,000
that may be affected by failure to
maintain a proper depth of water and
efficient pilotage and . towage service
between this city and the sea. The
stream of traffic, which will be
doubled by the completion of the
North Bank road, must be passed on
to the world's markets without the
slightest obstruction jn ' the way of
port charges, poor channels or bad
.pilotage and towage service. The
situation is clearly defined, and our
duty, is plain. There has been no
flinching in the past and there will be
none now. Portland will protect its
interests as other ports protect theirs.
A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
In the heart of Emil Mittag, of Ev
erett, Wash., has been wrought a work
of grace marvelous and mighty. Hav
ing drawn a pension from the United
States Government for almost two
years, he now of his own accord writes
to a pension agent to renounce it.
Who will dare after thi3 to repeat the
wicked formula that miracles no
lorrger happen? If the renunciation
of - a pension is : not ; a miracle, we
should be glad to know what it is. '
These are times when moral re
forms spread in waves. There is
some danger, therefore, that Mr. Mit
tag's example may be widely imitated
with disastrous fesults to the public.
One of the worst menaces to the
Treasury is an unwieldy, surplus. If
all those who are drawing pensions
without need or desert should follow
Mr. Mittag's example and renounce
them, think of the surfeit of money
'that would accumulate at Washing
ton! Let Wall street do Its worst, it
could not begin to gamble It away.
We should certainly have another
panic, for .panics come from toe
much money just as easily as from too
little.
It follows tha,t his example, praise
worthy as it Is, cannot be imitated
without danger. Calamities flow from
excessive goodness as well as from
excessive evil. Should the renuncia
tion mania spread, as we fear It may,
not only would the Treasury be flood
ed with unclaimed pension money, but
even Congressmen might catch It.
We should then behold the uncanny
spectacle of Senators Piatt and Depew
giving up their salaries because they
are not earned.. Indeed, what Sena
torial salary ia earned in these thrift
less years? There the whole venera-
ble body. sits like a bump on a bass
wood log doing nothing while the peo
ple toil and moil to raise the money to
pay its salaries. We do not really
expect them to oaten the fever of re
nunciation, but after all they' might.
Then there would be more trouble in
the Treasury. If the fever spread far
enough, a time might come when the
Government would have to lower the
tariff to get rid of its overwhelming
surplus. Such are .the evils which
sometimes flow from the bst? of in
tentions. Better, far would it have
been had Mr. Mlttag hidden his light
under a bushel and kept from his left
hand what his right has done.
THE TERRIBLE NORTH COAST.
; The finding of wreckage from the
overdue ship Hartfield Is not conclu
sive evidence that the vessel is lost,
but It clearly indicates thaS the ship
is far from being a good insurance
risk. If the vessel is lost it will be the
fifth large craft wrecked while en
deavoring to enter Puget Sound within
the past four years. More than 205
lives were lost In the wrecks of the
Valencia, Lamorna, King David and
Pass of Melfort. During the same
period there have been two "vessels,
the Galena and the "Peter Rickmers,
wrecked while bound- for the Colum
bia River, but there was no loss of life
In either case.
The death roll from the scores of
wrecks which have been thrown un on
the west coast of Vancouver Island
has always been appalling when com
pared with the loss of life through
shipwreck at any other part of the
Pacific Coast. It Is for this reason
that the entrance to the Straits of
Fuca is dreaded by all shipmasters
who have experienced thick weather
in that vicinity. The much greater
degree of safety assured vessels ap
proaching the Columbia River Is easily
understood by a glance at the map of
the Pacific Coast.
Vancouver Island, with Its bleak
and forbidding coast, stretches far out
beyond the entrance to the straits,
and the northerly current sweeping up
against It catches any unlucky craft
which gets too close and falls to se
cure a tug. Approaching the Colum
bia in thick .weather, the danger of
going ashore is much less, and a ves
sel caught by the northerly current
which sweeps along the coast can beat
off shore much easier than she can get
away from the Vancouver Island
coast.
If the Hartfield has laid her bones
where so many already vest, it will
again emphasize the necessity for sta
tioning a lifesaving tug near the en
trance" of the straits If the Puget
Sound tug service is any better than
that on the Columbia bar, its superi
ority has not been demonstrated this
year.
A JOT TO THE SOCIALISTS.
Dr. Day, the amusing chancellor of
Syracuse University, has written a
book whose purpose is to justify the
ways of Standard Oil with men and
show up Mr. Roosevelt in hideous
blackness. The book is entitled "The
Raid, on Prosperity." It might better
have been called "The Raid on Thiev
ery," for It tells some truth and
great deal of falsehood about the
President's efforts to stop the preda
tory career of "the border ruffians of
finance; but to Dr. Day, prosperity and
thievery mean much the same thing.
To him the privilege of Standard Oil
and the other syndicates to plunder is
a sacred Institution of the country
which it is wickeder to interfere with
than it is to violate the moral law.
The plain fact is, the moral law does
not exist for Dr. Day when he gets
pen in his hand. He loses all sense
of moral values and becomes oblivious
of the difference between right and
wrong.
There has been - much discussion
lateJy of the reasons why great inves
tigators of scientific truth do not arise
in our universities. How can we ex
pect it when at the heads of some
universities are men like Dr. Day who
write books for the purpose of obscur
ing the truth? The influence of such
a man upon the youth who come un
der his charge must be something de
plorable.
Part of the unconscious humor of
his book lies in its perverted use of
language. Words do not mean to' Dr.
Day the same thing as to ordinary
speakers. Thus,' to him "business'
means rebates, rapine and plunder.
"Justice" is the uninterrupted privi
lege of the syndicates to rob and steal.
"An honest judge" is one who decides
every case In favor of Mr. Rockefeller
and a "partisan court" is one which
imposes a fine upon the good doctor's
beloved fetich. One, of the funniest
things in .the book is the way the au
thor quotes the good old maxims of
morality on the side of the thieves
and robbers of the poor. There is an
example of this on page 221. "There
can be no exact Justice," writes Dr.
Day, "until all men, without regard
to estate, condition or race, stand alike
on terms of exact equality before the
courts." The reader would never guess
his object in enunciating this beauti
ful sentiment. It is to justify rich
employers in throwing all the risk of
accidents from machinery upon help
less workingmen. Verily the devil can
quote Scripture.
Of course the book is written to at
tack Mr. Roosevelt. This purpose
shines' upon every page with starry
splendor. Dr. Day's principal objec
tion to the President is that his poll
cies are helpful to socialism. To the
student who really knows something
about socialists and their cause noth
ing could be more absurd. If Mr,
Roosevelt is helping the socialists,
why do they hate him so. Readers
of the Appeal to Reason, the strong
est socialist paper In the country,
know that its animus against the
President is as venomous as Dr. Dav's
and its language almost as calumnious.
It is a curious and suggestive fact
that the socialists and the syndicates
are agreed in vilifying Mr. Roosevelt.
Why? The reason Is clear enough
Both socialists and syndicates are en
gaged in an assault upon private
property. The socialists wish to turn
it over to the public. The syndicates
wish to grab it all themselves. Mr.
Roosevelt stands like a rock tn the
way of born.
Concerning Mr. Rockefeller and the
trusts, the socialists use much the
same language as Dr. Day because
they know very well that the work of
Standard Oil and the Steel Trust is
hastening the triumph of their cause.
No Informed socialist thinks of abus-
ing -the trusts. " He loves them quite
as. araentiy as ur. uay mmseir noes.
No socialist wishes the syndicates and
corporations to be rigorously con
trolled, because he. knows that the
more arrogant they are in the exercise
of their power the sooner the day of
their total destruction will come. By
attacking the abuses of 'capitalism, or
the private control of industry, Mr.
Roosevelt does the only thing that
can possibly save it from abolishment.
By belauding those abuses and trying
to perpetuate them, men like Dr. Day
are hurrying on the industrial revolu
tion for which "the socialists pray. Of
course he speaks ,wild words against
anarchy, socialism," and all that
sort of- thing, but the genuine effect
of his book must be to help what" it
purports to condemn. Every socialist
n the country will read Dr. Day's
book with unmingled joy.
Spelling reform meets no favor with
John Kendrick Bangs. He says - he
will stick to the old style because of
what It cost him in larrupings, lick
ings and whacks, and the consequent
tears, while he was learning to spell.
While Bangs is the first prominent au
thor who has offered this reason for
clinging to the old orthography, quite
probably many are moved uncon
sciously by similar considerations.
Very frequently we measure the value
of a thing by what it has cost, and not
by the real service it renders. Possi
bly many Republicans take the same
view of tariff reform that Bangs does
of spelling reform. In the process of
learning all about tariffs the people,
have been larruped and whacked by
overprotected trusts, and if they would
stop to count up the amount they
have paid into the coffers of million
aire manufacturers they would find
that their knowledge of tariffs has
cost them something. . If they deter
mine to oppose tariff reform they can
at least give as good a reason as
Bangs does for opposing spelling re
form.
Paris Temps is complaining because
Japan borrowed $11,000,000 from
France atid then placed orders for
guns and other war material to the
extent of nearly $40,000,000 with Ger
many and Great Britain. This, of
course. Is unfortunate for France, but
as a plain business transaptlon Japan
probably bought Its guns and other
goods from the countries named for
exactly the same reason that "it se
cured the loan from France because
there were the best terms. The
United States Is the only nation on
the. face of the earth which pays more
for commodities than they are worth
in order to show friendship for the
sellers, who In our case are the trusts.
The discount rate of the Bank of
England fell away again Thursday and
is now down to the not unreasonable
rate, of 5 per cent, with some transac
tions In the open market as low as
4V4 per cent. This steady decline .in
the bank rate Is the. most satisfactory
assurance we have of the resumption,
of normal conditions throughout the
world. The little "old lady of- Thread
needle street'". is in closer touch with
the world's financial pulse than any
other Institution on earth, and, now
that she has .hauled down" the storm
signals and is resuming her customary
placidity, business will proceed under
fair-weather conditions.
Farmers on Agency Plains, in Crook
County, raised a million bushels of
wheat last season and have marketed
part of it, paying 24 cents a bushel to
haul It to Shaniko, forty-five miles,
and 11 cents to have it taken by train
to Portland. Yet, so It Is reported,
they made a profit on the crop. . Wfth
suitable transportation facilities they
would produpe four times that quan
tity. Mr. Hill has observed the op
portunity and is going after the busi
ness. . Mr. Harrlman Is probably
watching for another Alton oppor
tunity. .
In view of the fact that Oregon im
ports millions of eggs every year, It
should not have been an out of the
way idea for the Horticultural Soci
ety, at Its recent session, to have de
voted an hour or so to the discussion
of poultry-raising as an adjunct of
fr-uitraising. Orchards make splendid
running, places for poultry. Scarcely
any other two branches of farming
will go so well together as frultgrow
mg and poultry-raising. '
The Corvallis & Eastern, a Harrl
man road, has refused to pay Its taxes
for 1907, presumably because of some
technicality or "because the tax was
believed to be excessive. Litigation
will result. Very likely Linn County
will have an opportunity to make
good use of the information the Rail
road Commission has gathered recent
ly concerning the actual cost of the
road.
Meat-packing plants, more milk
condensers and more fruit canneries
will afford a market for the products
of a larger area of tilled land and a
more intensive system of farming.
Newcomers from the East need not
fear that Oregon markers are already
well supplied. The market will grow
faster than the supply of raw prod
ucts. . ,
Mr. "William D. Haywood, one of
Harry Orchard's associates In the dark
days of the Colorado mining troubles.
is considering the advisability of run
ning for President on the Socialist
ticket. He is .now. conferring with
Eugene V. Debs and the advice he re
celves from that quarter will hardly
enhance his prospects.
Isn't It a just a little strange that
Governor Chamberlain has not tried
to patch up .the differences between
Oregon's two Republican Senators at
Washington? He must be deeply
grieved to see so great a controversy
going on" in the Oregon delegation.
Burglars operating in Portland
should be a little careful. Accidents
'will happen, and first thing they know
one of the housebreakers will meet a
stray bullet from some policeman's
revolver. "
A professional swimming teacher In
Chicago boasts that he has beaten all
stunts by remaining under water three
minutes. Jonah overlooked a point
when 'he neglected to furnish the
sporting editors with an authentic rec
ord.
Lost, strayed or stolen A package
labeled "Senatorial Courtesy" X liberal
reward for return. J. B. Foraker,
"Washington. D. .
It is a matter for public felicitation
that enough power Is. exerted by. the
Federal courts to pry open Mr. Har
rlman's Jaws.
Let us thank our lucky stars Count
Bonl lives in France. We have Thaw
and that la enough.
QUIT SEARCH . FOR HARTFIELiT)
Wreckage Gives No Indication That
Ship lias Gone to Pieces.
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 17. (Special.)
Revenue cutters sent out to search
for the ship Hartfield, have abandoned
kage ashore. '
It as usele&s. The wrec
near Estevan Point carries no spars
or rigging and no bodies, and may be
only the result of rough seas sweep
ing the Hartfleld's decks.
The ship, -at least, has been blown
far off her course, as the material
found indicates that though over three?
weeks overdue, the vessel has fteen
Tn The vanity of "th we'st "coast of j
Vancouver Island.
The cutters have put into Victoria
and will separate, the Perry proceed
In to Port Angeles, on the American
side of the straits opposite Victoria,
t .r..r,v' l,r.r;
Seattle,
VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 17. Further in
vestigation of the reports from Estevan
point to wreckage washed ashore, and
while there is occasion for anxiety for the
ship Hartfield, due from Valparaiso, there
is nothing certain that the disaster has
occurred.
B. Howard, who assisted in Installing
the wireless telegraph station at Estevan,
says the wreckage came ashore two
weeks ago, and, although the shore was
patrolled for miles, nothing further was
found.
PARRISH FOR STATE SENATOR
Harney County Anxious to Give Him
the Nomination.
BURNS. Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) Hon.
Charles W. Parrlsh Is a candidate for the
Republican nomination for State Senator
from this district, comprising Grant,
Harney and Malheur counties. Mr. Par
rlsh is recognize Z cr "e of the ablest
lawyers of Eastern Oregon, .laving prac
tised at Burns and throughout the in
terior for several years. Grant County
has the district Judge; Malheur has the
District Attorney and Representative, so
the general feeling' is that Harney .will
be allowed to name the Senator this year,
and while Mr. Parrlsh has large landed
Interests and his legal home in Grant
County, he has been so long identified
with the life and business of Harney
County that this is regarded as his real
home. M
Mr. ' Parrlsh soent his early life at
Salem, lived later at Portland, where he
was elected County Clerk in 186b. arter
ward moving- to Canyon City. He is a
son' of the respected old Methodist mis
sionary. Rev. J. L. Parrish and a brother
of Sam B. Parrlsh, who was Portland s
Chief of Police for riany years.
RECEIVER FOK BLAINE BANK
Affairs In Hopeless Tangle; "With No
Assets In Slglit.
BELUNGHAM, Wash.. Jan. 17. George
Montfort was today appointed temporary
receiver for the Kxchange State Bank of
Blaine, which closed its doors January
15. The affairs of this bank are alleged
to be In a hopeless tangle, and the Insti
tution Is practically without assets.- It
will be several days before the liabilities
are known.
O. C. Mathies, cashier, has disappeared
and a warrant was issued this .afternoon
for his" arrest. He Is charged with forg
ing school bonds and hypothecating
them with his own bank. It is also al
leged that he looted the bank of every
security held by It and hypothecated
them with outside banks. No notes dis
counted by' the bank can be found in the
vaults, neither can the proceeds .received
for themA fathies disappeared the day
before the bank suspended and is be
lieved to be in Canada. He was cashier
of a bank In Blaine which failed two
years ago. J. C. Sonter, president of the
defunct bank. Is Mathies' father-in-law.
VADZO ASHORE OFF CAPE LAZO
Steamer Salvor Goes to Assistance
of Stranded Vessel.
VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 17. The steamer
Vadzo, of the Boscowitz Steamship Com
pany, which left Vancouver last night
with cargo and settlers for Graham
Island, in the northernmost of the Queen
Charlotte group, is ashore on the rocks
at Cape Lazo, near Comox. Captain
Johnston sent a boat's crew from the Co
mox and telegraphed asking that the sal
vage steamer Salvor be sent. The Salvor
leaves Esquimau tonight to assist the
Vadzo, which has water in the after-hold,
but Is not in imminent danger. It is ex
pected she will be floated with the aid of
the Salvor. The Vadzo is a steel screw
steamer of 914 tons, built at Gotheburg
for the Christiania-Vadzo run, and was
bought 'at Liverpool six months ago by the
Victoria Company and registered here.
Clackamas Dar Indorses Schuebel.
OREGON CITY, Or., Jan.. 17. (Special.
The Clackamas County Bar Association
today wired Senators Fulton and Bourne
and Congressmen Hawley and Ellis an
expression of their entire confidence In
the integrity and ability of Christian
Schuebel, of this city, to nil the .office
of United States District Attorney for
Oregon. it is expected that Senator
Bourne will naturally show the message
to President Roosevelt, who sent the nomi
nation -of Mr. Schuebel to the Senate
upon the recommendation of Mr. Bourne.
The following attorneys, comprising three
fourths of the membership of the Bar
Association, signed the telegram:
Oordon E. Hayes, president; C. D. Latour
ette. secretary; D. C. Latourette, Grant B.
XMmick. County Judge- John W. Loder, V.
R. Hyde. J. 15. Campbell, Walter A. Dimlck,
O. D Eby. M. D. Latourette, -W. S. U'Ren,
Thomas P. Ryan, Franklin T. Griffith, J.
F. Clark. (
Prefers to Serve Out Fine.
EUGENE, Or., Jan. 17 (Special.)
C. C. Case, brought here from Cottage
Grove for violating the local option
law, and who pleaded guilty to the
four Charges, was this afternoon fined
$400 and given 60 days in the county
Jail by Justice Bryson. Case says that
he will serv. his time out in jail at
S2 per day rather than pay hfs fine.
Constable Plank went to' Cottage
Grove this afternoon to bring to Eu
gene Harry Parker, accused of violat
ing the local option law.
Willamette's Girl Debaters.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) In a
local tryout tonight the following were
chosen as a girls' debating team to repre
sent Willamette University in a debate
with McMinnville College: Nora Emmel,
Sol ma Norberg, Altha Dimmick. The
judges were W. N. Gatens, John H'. Mc
Nary and B. T. Marlott.
Cases In Supreme Court.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 17. (Special:) The
following cases have been set for trial in
tbe Supreme Court:
January 25 Multnomah County vs. De
Kum; Ireland vs. Ward; JanuaTy 29 Wag
ner vs. Ooldschurdt; Watts vs. Spencer;
January 30 Crawford vs. Crawford; Winter
va. Union Fishermen's Packing Company.
Oregon People" In Chicago. -
CHICAGO. Jan,. 17. fSpeclal.) Ore
gon people registered at Chicago hotels
today as follows:
From Portland John Dick, at the
Grace: F. C, Norris, A. M. Crawford,
E. L Bartholomew, at the Great Northern.
i -i.t riviv i l i -t i im nv vn irn
Sensational Charges Made In Suit
-Against Idaho Millionaires.
BOISE, .Idaho, Jan. 17, (Special.) A
sensational suit has been filed in tho
United States Circuit Court bv the Fed-
eral Government against Harry L. Day,
Edward H. Moffit. president of the Coeur
d'Alene Hardware Company, at Wallace;
Charles J. Morse, of Chicago, prosldrnt
of the Youngstown Steel Company, and
cancellation of patent for the- Leonard
mining claim in the placer district.
- charged There
was an adverse suit Involving title to the
ground. In that case It was decided that
neither party had perfected title to the
claim. " It is alleped that afterward the de
fendants in this case filed a petition with
i the land office' at Coeur d'Alene to pro-
their application for patent to
the Leonard claim, in- which false state
ments and representations were made,
both that they had established a claim
and that there was no adverse claim, anil
that the certificates were made for the
purpose -of deceiving and misleading the
officers of the. United 8tates. The com
plaint states that the land office officials,
relying ;pon these representations,
granted a fina4 certificate of entry, and
that the United' States Commissioner,
afterward learning of the suit which had
decided that no claim had been estab
lished, required explanation, and that the
defendants in this case caused the clerk
of the District Court at Wallace to cer
tify that the case mentioned had been
dismissed and that no appeal had been
taken, and that. said action is not now
pending, which certificate was false,
fraudulent and untrue, and was known to
be so by the defendants, and was made
for the purpose of deceiving and de
frauding the Government, and that the
deception resulted In the Issuance of a
patent. The claim Is said to be a valuable
one upon which the defendants have ex
pended considerable money. In obtain
ing their patent, they testified that they
had expended $70,000 at that time In im
provements and development work.
"DEAD." BUT VERY MUCH ALIVE
Preache, Whose Death Is An
nounced, Would Know About It.
SEATTLE!, Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.)
Rev. Joseph. Keenan, a retired minister of
the Christian Church, had the novel ex
perience of having his death announced
before the congregation of the Green
Lake Christian Church a few weeks ago.
Rev. B. H. Llngenfelter. the pastor, in
vited the congregation to pray for the
"bereaved" family, and offered a most
eloquent eulogy on the "departed" pillar
of the church.
One week ago, however, the "dead"
minister. In spite of his 84 years, went to
the Green Lake pastor's residence and
with some asperity demanded an expla
nation. He wanted to know why Llngen
felter took advantage of his absence in
the East to make to his congregation
statements that had no foundation In
fact.
"I really thought he was dead," said
Llngenfelter, - "and as he had been promi
nently Identified with the church for
many years on. the Sound and elsewhere,
1 thought it only proper that -we should
remember him with expressions of con
dolence and with prayer, About six of
my congregation offered audible prayer
for the 'unfortunate' family, and we had
a most touching time. The women wept."
Rev. Mr. Keenan has been one of the
most prominent members of the Christian
Church on the Sound. How the report
of his death started is not known.
BANK KEPT ON CASH BASIS
Ccntralla National Made Splendid
Record Daring Recent Crisis.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Jan. 17. (Spe
cial.) The stockholders of the United
States National Bank of this city held
their annual meeting bn Tuesday. The
active officers of the bank were con
gratulated on having conducted the af
fairs of the bank on a strictly cash
basis during the recent financial flur
ry, notwithstanding the fact that the
bank was called upon to protect In
cash the pay rolls of the largest In
land lumber manufacturing concerns
In Southwestern Washington, aggre
gating J75.000 to ?80.0d0 for the
months of November and December.
The fallowing gentlemen were named
as directors for the ensuing year:
Charles Gilchrist, C. S. Gilchplst,
George K. Blrge and George Dysart
of this city, and Hon. J. A. Veness, of
Winlock. The directors later elected
the following officers: President
Charles Gilchrist; first vice-president.
C. S. Gilchrist; second vice-president,
George E. Blrge; cashier, J. ' W.
Daubney; assistant cashier, Ross w.
Daubney.
GAME - BIRDS SET AT LIBERTY
Clark- County Imports a Hundred
Pairs Hungarian Partridges.
VANCOUVER, Wasn., Jan. 17. (Spe
cial.) Ono hundred pairs of Hun
garian partridges arrived In Vancouv
er this morning to be used in stocking
the county. Through the efforts of
Deputy Game Warden Frank Dupuis,
the County Commissioners were in
duced to appropriate $500 to be used in
importing the birds. After consider
able Investigation, the commissioners
decided to experiment on Hungarian
partridges, and an order was sent to
Pennsylvania for the birds. Arrange
ments have been made with farmers
throughout the county to allow the
birds the run of their farns and all
have promised to use every care in
protecting the birds until they have
multiplied sufficiently beyond danger
of extermination.
EXPECT TO FIXD XOT GUILTY
Defendant in Gertie Griffin Case Is
Cool on the Stand.
SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 17. A special
to the Spokesman-Review, from Ritz
ville. Wash., says:
The testimony In the Gertie' Griffin
murder trial came to a close at noon to
day, and Attorney Southard, for ' the
state, and Attorney Davis, for the de
fense, addressed the- Jury, after which an
adjournment was taken until 0 o'clock
Saturdav. when Attorney ,,i,,m TV,-
the defense, and John Merritt for the
state, will speak. The cross-examination
xw- - j t . .
of the defendant consumed' only about 45
minutes and was marked by coolness on
the part of the witness and by lack of
variation from the examination in chief.
The prevailing opinion is that the Jury
will return a verdict of not guilty In a
short time after they take the case.
PROMPTLY
FOUND
GUILTY
Two Pendleton Men Must Serve
Time for Highway Robbery.
PENDLETON. Or., Jan. 17.-(Spedal.)-""Gullty
as charged" was the verdict
brought In this evening; by the Jury In the
case of the State against Arthur Paine
and Harry Kelley. These ' two, with
Mark Shakelford, were "accused of rob
bing a drunk on the street in broad day
light and are believed, by the rlollee to
be the three men responsible for numer
ous recent holdups. Shakelford will be
tried tomorrow. Kllcy ard Paine tried
to throw the crime onto Shakelford alone.
The Jury was out Just long enough to
take one Danoi.
VERSE
BY IIAURY MUP.PHT.
Tbe tstrrets of Nifiht.
Howr tono and quiet Is the scene
Where so much lit has recent been!.
tT!ly and stark the town Ilea spread;
Tl! as a thin; when- soul has fled.
Clone ia the trading, trafficking throng
That coursed so lute these veins along;
Gone the measureless flood that rolled
Through these walled-ways on quest of gold;
The noise of hoof, wher 1. voire, the fall
e world Is wraut In a .made snell-
An hour hus wrought this mlracls!
Beforo rne on the desert mart
The shapeless shadows stare and start.
The erholns; ground givos batk each paca
T tresd alone a haunted place!
Vneaslly the rustling trees.
Like sleepers, mutter mysteries.
In broken tones, sadly and low
Whose meaning mortals may not know.
Ah mystery; all's mystery.
Ilin solitary, wander we ,
Mysteries within a night , i
Of mysteries where mocked Is Bight.
A Song of Age. "I.
In twilight oft sitting'
The shades of past yean
To my memory come flitting
As ghosts from their biers.
From out of the shadow
1 seem to behtd
A list HI Dorado
Where love was the fold.
The flowers now fadeA
teem blooming anew;
The skies thnt are shaded
Again cheer the view.
The HiLem-o is broken
And fled the heart's p&ln;
Mute voices have spoken
Fond accents again.
I seethropg around me
The friends who are flown;
T;ie bright eyes have found me
That once for me enons.
Fond forms lean above me
I feel the sweet spell
Of those who will love me
Though In heaven they dwell.
But alas for the yean
Forever departed.
And alas for the tears
Of him broken-hearted 1
Like a traveler lost
In a 'desert I've wandered;
Like a wrecked one I'm tosd
On a sea from land sundered.
The West.
The East may have Its merit; . 1
It may be heaven or near It
Give me the West.
It suits me best;
I love Its frank free spirit.
That traveled gpnt of atory,-
Ulysses, met no glory t
To match thesa plnas
These plains these mine
These mountains high and hoary.
Oh, where live women falrar;
W'here braver men or squarer?
N Why, ev'n the crime
Is on scale subllme
A kind of epic error! ,
Tis clesr the Lord created
From plan more elevated
Than brought to b!rth
The rest of earth
This land ns'er duplicated.
There I Should Dream the Deeper,
When I am dead.
Then be my bed
Where human tread
May never venture.
Tn some lone spot
I'd lie forgot;
My mound marked net
With laud or censura,
The bird's refrain .
The drip of rain
The wind's complain-
. They lull the sleeper.
While ages fly
As moments by
There blandly I
Should dream the deeper.
The Sun.
Grandly 1 sweep
Through the skyey deep
Tbe symbolizatlon of Godl ,j-
From space afar
I guide the star;
A. universe needs my nod.
Neath my vital ray
The unbreathlng- clay
Starts up and haa a soul.
I'm the ultimate reason
Of clime and of season;
Bach atom and wirld I control.
I c'olor the rose;
The Jewel glows
"With my glance imprisoned there.
I am sprung from the fire
Of chaos to sire
The systems of the air.
A STORY OF GENERAL JACKSOJV.
It la Told by Watterson, by Way of
Illustration.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Says the Washington Evening Star:
Mr. Beckham is a machine politician of
many resources, and as such has many
scalps dangling at his belt. He denied Mr.
Watterson a nomination for Governor.
Avast there, yer land lubber, and
haul in yer line! He never "done
nothing' of the sort." Mr. W. was not
at any time a candidate for Governor
of Kentucky, or any other office.
Urged to become so, he gave tentative
consideration to a proposed plan of
party unification. Finding this Im
practicable, quite a year before the
calling of a convention, or primary,
he announced his refusal, glad to be
spared a very great sacrifice.
The Star should give the editor of
the Courier-Journal at least the bene
fit of the doubt expressed by General
Jackson's colored body servant, who
being asked, after Old Hickory's death,
whether he thought his mater had
gone to heaven, promptly replied: "I
ain't Jist so sho' "bout dat, sir."
"Why. wasn't the General a good
man?"
"Yassir, he was a very good man."
"Well, then, if he was such a good
man, why hasn't he gone to heaven?"
"It all depends, sah." the old darky
answered, "on whedder de General
wanted to go to heaven, or whedder
he didn't want to go thar. Ef he did,
he's thar. But ef he didn't, all hell
couldn't 'er make him go."
A FEW SQIIBS.
Toung wife Am I very dear to you.
darling? Young HusbandYes lovey. Just
look It these receipted bills Baltimore
American.
Ella I know that I don t play a very
good game of whist, but 1 onlyplay cards
for amusement. Stella Well, jour game Is
certainly amusing. Judge.
She I see a good many of the girls are
tn thi new a-urno of diaboio. He'
- Yes. girls always like it when they cam get
' something on a string Yonkers fctatesman.
I Bank president What we need is a youns
! man who has lot. f. "-Yes s7he la" t
, -wrt,, wood do? Applicant x es, sir, me lasi
thare was a run on jour nauK, x bioou
In line for over four hours Life.
Flnnertv (who takes a dhrop) I see thet
wan iv thim scientillc gents says an oc
casional spree is biniflcial f'r some mln.
Mrs Finnerty Troth it Is; I never yet saw
a saloonkaper that didn't wear fine clothes
an' a dimlnt ring or two Puck.
"A man who loves has kind forgives his
brother's slips." "A man who loves hil
kind doesn't have occasion to. He puts ashes
on his pavement."-Iialtimore American. ..
Tr dead husband wor a good mon."
declared the sympathetic Mrs. Casey to the
bereaved widow, --lie worl" exclaimed Mrs.
Murphy, dashing the tears' from her eyes.
"No two poiaccmln cud handle him."
Judge..
Mrs. Highmus I suppose at some time in
your life you struggled with the Nlbe
lungenlled? Mrs. Gaswell O yes; I had an
awful siege of that in 'lt:j. I had to take
ail kinds of nasty medicines before I gol It
out of my system. Chicago Tribune.
They pasad before a Madonna of the
golden age of painting. "Hem!" Loaned by
Smith," said he. consulting the catalogue
Smith has a catholic taste." "It would
seem so," said she. "And yet his people
have been Presbyterians for generations."
Puck.