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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 1908.
A STATELY PLEASURE DOME.
Mr. Harriman is building a house,
to cost $4,000,000. near Newburg, N.
Y. Four millions will build a very
large and fine house; and then it will
cost some money to keep the house
up and live in it. But Mr. Harriman
Is one of those whose money costs
them nothing. It is simply taken
away by a deft and cunning legerity
from other people, some of whom got
it in the same way. But in the long
run it is all taken from the workers
and producers of the country, through
command over them of the means by
which they live, exercised vigorously
and ruthlessly by, men like Mr. Har
riman. In comparison with the hundreds
of millions involved in the yearly op
erations of which Mr. Harriman is the
principal agent or chief factor, a four-million-dollar
house is but a petty af
fair. That sum of money might be
raked out of any transaction in the
stocks, bonds or reorganization of a
bit of railroad anywhere between the
Atlantic and the Pacific, and saddled
ns a perpetual burden on the products
of the district, by control of that dis
trict's rates of transportation. Or it
might be made good many times over
by an advance of the rates charged
on lumber going East from the Pa
cific Northwest, and using that partic
ular link of road as one of the con
nections. The figures produced as exhibits of
the operations of any one of these
great systems are so stupendous as to
lose all meaning.. Annual reports to
the stockholders of the so-called Har
riman roads show that enormous
profit remains after all payments on
account of maintenance, interest, div
idends and all charges. Very large
sections of the system have been re
built, at an aggregate cost of tens of
millions, yet the earnings have paid
everything, leaving each year a heavy
and increasing surplus. An excessive
capitalization, based on cost of con
struction and added cost of better
ments from the beginning, becomes
the basis of payment of fabulous sums
for interest. The Union Pacific, with
its auxiliary companies, is capitalized
at $496,123,710; the Southern Pacific
and the roads grouped around it at
J592.156.000. Of the first of- these
companies the gross earnings for the
latest fiscal year were $87,474,766; of
the second, $124,864,440. The Union
Pacific's surplus for the year, after
paying operating expenses and taxes,
all betterments, and interest or fixed
charges, was $36,176,920; of which
$23,530,036 were paid in dividends,
leaving a surplus for the year, over
and above, all these payments, of
$12,648,884, for the management to
play the game- with in Wall street;
while the Southern Pacific's surplus,
after payment of all charges for
maintenance, operating expenses and
taxes, was $42,285,533. The. large out
lays for betterments and additions on
the Southern Pacific during the year
took up a great deal of money; but
uftor all these charges were paid,, to
gether with Interest and all other
rosts, there remained a surplus out of
earnings of $19,192,647 for the year
1906. That of 1907 is not yet avail
able, though much larger. Each of
these systems therefore is capitalized
at about $500,000,000; they have been
'constructed wholly out of the traffic
of the country, which is forced to pay
more than $200,000,000 a year, out of
which a profit remains that staggers
imagination. It is useless to try to
t oncelve what such figures mean. In
uch array, "the ciphers lose their in
teger." Figures of the Northern Pacific and
ilreat Northern combination are simi
larly startling, and if the Burlington
k- included as an auxiliary system,
even greater. The profits are enor
mous; they stupefy the mind; they
are scarcely more conceivable than
trie figures used by asrronomers to
represent stellar distances." Yet a
lumber rate, that has been carried for
many years, is raised, in the face of
such profits as these! Is the country
too fast in pushing- inquiry into the
methods of this business, with a view
to securing some approach to equity
Detween the people and the railroads?
Rather, hasn't it been much too slow?
THE UAKGIS BREED.
If America possessed a great mas
ter of tragic writing, he might find in
the murder of James Hargis by. his
son a theme for his muse. It would
be difficult to cite an instance where
poetic justice has been more com
pletely wrought. Seldom does any
thing happen in human affairs which
looks so much like the interposition
of a Nemesis to wreak vengeance
upon the shedder of blood as the
slaughter of this man of many mur
ders by his own offspring. A Sopho
cles would see- in the event the work
of that sure and pitiless justice which
never forgets, never overlooks a sin,
and never ceases the pursuit of the
sinner until he has been hounded
down to woe and death. Our hasty
modern life often forgets that such
justice rules in th,e world, but now
and then an event like the murder of
the elder Hargis comes to revive our
belief in the compensating furies.
Emerson was right when he said that
every . debt must sooner or later be
paid. The tale of misery which Har
gis had counted out for others pres
ently returned home,- and so It always
will be.
There is. some quality in the wild
race of Kentucky mountaineers which
more peaceable communities do not
easily understand. Perhaps their
lawlessness Is largely the result of
their Isolation. Dwellings in that in
accessible region are far apart, roads
are few and difficult, railroads have
not yet penetrated the country. The
inhabitants hear little from the outer
world. They have nothing to Interest
them except their quarrels with their
neighbors, nothing to occupy their
minds except the memory of wrong
and the thirst for revenge. In all re
mote communities slight differences
between neighbors tend to degenerate
Into bloody feuds. In Breathitt
County,. Kentucky, partly because the
inhabitants are of a race more than
ordinarily bold, proud and reckless,
such feuds rage with singular ferocity.
One may surmise that the facility of
escape into the mountains, where pur
suit is impossible, adds to the tempta
tion to commit crimes of violence.
But when all this has been said the
problem is still unsolved. Breathitt
County is not the only isolated, moun
tainous region in the country whose
men are bold and reckless. But it is
the only one where murderous feuds
are carried on from one generation to
another in savage ferocity. In other
places men quarrel and forget it. In
Breathitt County they never forget or
forgive. Perhaps there is in the
veins of these extraordinarily brutal
people some trace of Sicilian or Cor
sican blood. In those islands the ven
detta flourishes and revenge is passed
on from father to son, or even from
father to daughter, much as It is in
this strange corner of Kentucky.
Perhaps there is in the soil or climate
of Breathitt County some -quality
which makes the people lawless and
cruel.
The elder Hargis, who fell by his
son's hand, was a monster of cruelty.
He slew .men, or causad them to be
slain, with cowardly brutality. In his
bloody career there is not a trace of
honor, romance, or even courage. He
effected his ends with savage malig
nity and secured his safety by the vil
est falsehoods. A murderer, a liar, a
coward, he met a fate Worthy of his
infamous life. All we have to.ask for
more is a speedy death for his son
and the utter extinction of a breed
which seems scarcely huma.n
FORESTRY ABROAD.
There is a belief pretty widely held
In the United States that our system
of National forests and the scientific
cultivation of timber resources is
something new in the world. To help
dispel this illusion- the Oepartment of
Agriculture has published an interest
ing circular which shows briefly and
instructively what other countries are
doing in the same direction. The
most obvious lesson to be learned
from the little pamphlet ' is that
every country In -the world, except
China which pretends to be civilized
has . a system of national forests, -and
that most of them are managed very
much like our own, though In many
cases the management is far older
and more highly developed.
The truth of the matter .is that
countries like France, Germany and
even Russia have been driven to take
up the subject of scientific forestry by
the same causes which are driving us.
The approach of a timber famine on
the one hand, the destructive effect of
deforestation upon tillable land and
water courses on the other, have com
bined to frighten them. France, for
example, has some fifteen hundred
mountain streams which up to about
a century ago were perfectly manage
able, flowing all the year in nearly
equable volume, and contributing to
the fertility of the fields through
which they ran. Then, the hills where
they rose were stripped of timber.
Forthwith' the gentle brooks became
raging torrents In Winter and dry
beds in Summer. Instead of water
ing the farmers' fields they overspread
them with gravel and other rubbish
from the uplands. In this way 800,
000 acres of farm lands were ruined
before the government Interfered to
check the greed of the spoilers. In
I860 the state took up the problem
of reforesting the denuded hills. Since
then 500,000 acres of the "skinned",
land have been planted to trees and
the owners of the slopes are so well
convinced of the general benefit that
they are presenting land to the gov
ernment to be reforested:
Italy has suffered' perhaps more
than any other country of modern
Europe from reckless and wasteful
destruction of forests. The vine and
olive began to be cultivated In Italy
soon after the wars between Marlus
and Sulla, and from that time on for
hundreds of years the whole penin
sula was like a garden. Now, how
ever, the country has reverted to
worse than Its primitive aspect from
the effect of unwise deforestation.
One-third of all its land has become
unproductive. The rivers have be
come Winter torrents " with . little
water at the season when it is most
needed. The fertile plain of the Po,
where agriculture flourished long
after It had degenerated elsewhere in
(Italy, is now subject to disastrous in-
unuauons from its great river because
the forests, on its upper reaches have
bee'n destroyed. Levees have been
built to retain the Po In flood time,
but the lack of forests along the
banks causes such, deposits of silt ia
the bed that the stream continually
overtops the levees and they have to
be raised higher and higher every
year. In many places the bed of the
river is now above the surrounding
fields.
Italy has introduced a system of na
tional forests and general protection
of timber, but politics stands in the
way of the' public good there very
much as it does here, and the laws
are enforced only with great diffi
culty. Strange to say, scientific for
estry is more advanced in Russia than
in any other European countries ex
cept Germany- and Switzerland. From
all these the United States has many
lessons to learn because their policy
represents the fruit of hundreds of
years of experience and study. The
idle talk so often heard that America
does not need to go to Europe for
help in solving her problems sounds
very boorish. The wise man learns
from anybody who can teach him, and
in forestry, as In many other matters,
Europe can teach us a great deal if
we are not too stiffnecked to receive
Instruction.
CONSEQUENCES NOT FORESEEN".
In itself, or theoretically, the pri
mary law is unobjectionable. But it
is a disappointment because of the
spirit of the people towards it and the
results of the action of that spirit;
because of the self-seeking of candi
dates fostered by It, and because- of
the disposition It engenders among
men and factions, to seek revenge and
"get even" for personal failures. Such
results could not have been foreseen.
The primary law presupposes a spirit
of unselfishness and fairness - which
does not exist. Under this law every
man who can be moved by the" bait
of office nominates himself. Then
when, he fails to get "the preferment.
he and his supporters bolt, and sacri
fice the whole cause to gratification of
their pique and spleen.
But why, one asks, does The Ore-
gonian, that recommended this -law
for adoption, now criticise It? The
criticism has -not been directed against
the law, but against the spirit of the
people, and especially against the
spirit of the multitude of Republi
cans whose course, actuated by the
law, or certainly a consequence of. it,
has rendered earnest and disinterested
effort to accomplish anything through
the . Republican party futile. Again,
the men fittest for public place and
service will seldom nominate them
selves and enter into scrap and com
petition for the offices to be gained by
the endeavor. It requires too much
sacrifice' of self-respect.
William J. Bryan sets an example
that does him' much credit. He re
fuses even to say that he is a candi
date for the Presidency. It is for the
convention of his party, he says, to
name the candidate. It will call him
if It wants him; if not. It will call
somebody else. He will have nothing
to do with election of delegates, and
will not attempt in any way to force
himself on his party. It is a mighty
good example for all men of all par
ties. When a man rushes into; the
arena, sets up a whoop, cries "Here I
am, boys, nominate me!" It Is nau
seous indeed. Then your disgust is
complete when, after his failure, and
in revenge for It, he kicks the whole
business over, joins the opposite party
and defeats the fair desire and expec
tation you have entertained to get re
sults 'you have looked for through
party action. There are those who
don't like it, thank you; those whom
it nauseates, thank you. Please " ex
cuse. WHO CAUSED THE PANIC?
With a persistency unequaled and
an effrontery sublime. New York con
tinues to insist that it was the wig
wam, and not the Indian, that was
lost during the recent financial cata
clysm which left the devotees of the
Wall-street ticker staggering like
drunken sailors, and equally helpless.
The New York Journal of Commerce
rushes to the defense of Secretary
Cortelyou, who has been criticised for
the liberality with which he issued
Panama bonds and certificates of In
debtedness to Wall-street interests
which were alone responsible for the
crisis, and should have been, forced to
accept the consequences of their
wrongdoing. The New York paper
complacently remarks that "it was
forcibly demonstrated by the crisis
that New York is the one great center
of finance and of banking operations
In the United States. It was there
that the whole strain and stress, of the
stringency was concentrated, but if it
had not been able to resist it, the re
sulting disaster would have spread
over the whole country."
The crisis produced another demon
stration even more forcible and
clearly understood than the one men
tioned, when the storm revealed the
fact that New York was the "one
great center" of stock gambling, high
finance and every other known species
of- semi-legalized robbery, commercial
thuggery and thievery. Portland and
San Francisco, and all other cities
west, north and south, were not re
sponsible for that wild orgy of specu
lation and overcapitalization which
caused the "stress and strain" that
made New York scream for help and
savagely clutch millions of dollars
which belonged to the cities that
called in vain for a portion- of their
New York reserves. "It is shown,"
says the Jpurnal of Commerce, "that
during the panic over $296,000,000 of
cash was absorbed out of sight, and
over $218,000,000 of it had been sup
plied by the New York banks. To
meet this drain more than $100,000,-
000 of gold was Imported and the re-,
serves of the banks were drawn upon
until their surplus was replaced by a
deficiency of $54,000,000 and nearly
$100,000,000 of loan certificates were
issued by the clearing-house for the
settlement of balances In place of
cash."
The natural inference to be drawn
from such a statement is that the
$100,000,000 in gold was philanthrop
ically imported by New York for. the
purpose of helping the rest of the
country out of a hole. ' As a matter of
fact, it was not all imported by New
York. Portland alone Imported $3,
000,000 direct, and nearly every other
city of Importance in the South and
West was obliged to carry the matter
up over the heads of the discredited
New Yorkers and make direct impor
tations of gold. If New York expects
any thanks or credit for bringing gold
to this country to pay for wheat which
Oregon, Washington and other states
sold the foreigners, she will be disap
pointed. It ' would be Interesting to
know how much, if any, of that $218,
000,000 which was "supplied by the
New York banks' was New York
money, and hop; jaucb. of it belonged
to the. banks In the West and South,
which were made to suffer for New
York's sins. The only distinction New
York can lay legitimate claim to In
connection with the recent trouble Is
the doubtful- honor of precipitating .a
costly panic in a time df unparalleled
prosperity.
OUR INLAND EMPIRE GUESTS.
The citizens of Portland will today
have opportunity of entertaining a
representative body of men from a re
gion that has been a powerful factor
In the commercial growth of Portland.
From back in the old days when the
water-level route was the only means
of entering and leaving the Inland
Empire, the loyalty of Eastern Wash
ington and the Idaho panhandle- to
Portland has never been questioned.
The pioneer steamboats qn the Upper
Columbia ami Snake Rivers brought
down gold from the Idaho mines, and
stock, wool and hides from other por
tions of the Inland Empire, and later
began moving a wheat crop which in
creased in. volume so rapidly that the
railroad followed as a matter Of
course.
The construction of two lines of
railroad across " the lofty Cascade
mountains failed to divert from Port
land very much of the business that
our friends in the Inland Empire had
become accustomed to sending here,
and year by year this city has wit
nessed a satisfactory growth in the In
land Empire trade. To the intense
loyalty of Eastern Washington and
Oregon and the Idaho panhandle to
Portland more than any other factor
is due the construction of the North
Bank Railroad. For nearly two dec
ades the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern sought to divert the
trade of the Inland Empire to Puget
Sound, and while at times their ef
forts seemed to be rewarded by a suc
cess not warranted by the natural lo
cation of the ports, taking one year
with another, Portland has been able
to give such a good account of herself
that our Inland Empire friends have
never deserted us.
" Early completion of the North
Bank ' Railroad will do more to ce
ment this commercial friendship and
loyalty than anything else that has
ever happened in the Pacific North
west, i This new road, which doubles
and trebles the transportation facili
ties by which the products of the In
land Empire can reach tidewater, has
materially strengthened the tie which
binds Portland and the Inland Em
pire, and, with its completion so near
at hand, we can today welcome our
guests from east of the mountains as
friends who have all at once moved
many miles nearer to us and who are
to Join us with an increasing interest
in the upbuilding of the great Colum
bia Basin.
Weekly Argentine shipments, re
ported yesterday, showed the enor
mous total of 5,760,000 bushels and
the market advanced nearly 2 cents
per bushel in Chicago and closed sub
stantially .higher in Liverpool. One
week ago, with shipments slightly less
than those reported yesterday, the
market declined more than 2 cents
per bushel, the weakness being cred
ited" solely to the heavy shipments
from our competitor in the Southern
Hemisphere. The course of the mar
ket yesterday and one week earlier
affords a good example of the Incon
sistency of the speculators, who have
much to do with making the world's
wheat prices. There is more senti
ment In business, or at least in certain
lines of business, than people give
credit for. One week ago the market
seemed frightened at the huge pro
portions of the Argentine shipments.
Yesterday it showed that it had be
come accustomed to their size. .
Prominent representatives of the
textile mills of New England are ac
tive in the support of National legis
lation for the preservation of the
forests of the White Mountains and
the Southern Appalachians. At a con
vention of these representatives, re
cently held in Boston, It was said that
the Saco, Anderscoggln, Merrirr.ac
and Connecticut rivers, all. rising in
the White Mountains, turn more
Spindles than any other streams of
equal volume in the world. The de
struction of the forests would quickly
limit and in time practically destroy
this valuable water power, to the in
calculable injury of the textile in
dustry, upon the activity and volume
of which tens of thousands of labor
ers depend for the support of them
selves and families. This phase of
the situation, properly presented, can
hardly fall to provide the relief
sought by appeal to Congress in the
interest of the forestry bill now
pending.
The Senate passed the Seattle Ex
position . bill, appropriating $700,000
with very little .opposition, even the
notorious Tillman and (the late)
Chauncey Depew speaking In favor of
it. The success of the measure In the
Senate Is a notable triumph for Sena
tor Piles. The miserable failure of
the Jamestown Exposition so short a
time before it was necessary to ask
assistance for the Seattle enterprise
was a very serious handicap which
for a brief period seemed insurmount
able. Portland and Oregon will re
joice with Seattle and Washington in
the success that has followed the ef
forts of the Washington delegation,
for the entire Pacific Northwest will
profit by the exhibition of the great
resources of a country .whose possibili
ties are as yet but faintly understood
and appreciated. The House has not
yet passed the bill, but there is hope
that it will.
A London cable announces that the
trans-Atlantic steamship lines have
adjusted their differences and the
minimum steerage fare will be ad
vanced from low-water mark at
$18.75 to about $31. "it is somewhat
significant that these trans-Atlantic
rate wars usually begin after travel
gets slack In the Fall, and are always
adjusted In time to catch the Spring
rush at full figures.
The Copenhagen Freeholders' Bank,
with a capital of $5,000,000, has tem
porarily suspended. Cables conveying
the news have not specified whether
or not the failure was directly trace
able to Morse and Helnze, but, from
the comment of the foreign press on
American affairs, we must be guilty
somewhere for the trouble.
It will be news to most readers to
learn that there are enough Republi
cans in Florida to hold a convention.
Taft Is to be congratulated on one
point nobody has suggested him for
Vice-President,
REPORTS SHOW MUCH WEALTH
Conference of Seventh Day Advent-
ists Hears Reports.
COLLEGE PLACE, Wash.. Feb. 7.
(Special.) The North Pacific Union Con
ference of Seventh Day Adventists being
held at this place has settled down to
regular dally business. The business ses
sions are devoted to hearing reports
from the local conference presidents and
departmental secretaries, such as medi
cal, educational, publishing and religious
liberty. This denomination has made
rapid progress in its work since its first
proclamation. The one small building in
Portland, Me., now used as a carpenter
shop, has been Increased to thousands of
buildings used for many purposes; for
printing in 51 languages, for educating
missionaries in over 61 languages, and for
preaching In more than. a score. For the
preaching alone there has been given over
$12,000,000. There are 52 educatipnal in
stitutions consisting of 12 colleges, 23
academies and 20 Intermediate schools, all
having a combined worth of $918,4S9.93 with
a total enrollment of S697 stufents and
S58 teachers in charge. The latest statis
tical report Bhows in addition, 417 church
schools, 46 teachers, and as enrollment
of 7315.
There are 22 publishing houses, having
an approximate value of $650,000 with 400
persons connected therewith. In all there
are 96 regular publications Issued, in
19 languages. Literature in other forms
is published In 51 languages. This denomi
nation has 64 sanitariums, having a total
value of $1,764,608.55. There are over 250
physicians employed in these institutions
and otherwise. In addition to sanitariums,
there are about 40 treatment rooms and
the aggregate assets of these institutions
are $3,333,158.43. The total assets of the
denominational organization or institu
tions would easily reach over $6,000,000. In
cludes in this would be over 1100 church
buildings, located in all the leading coun
tries of the world.
The conference will continue until Feb
ruary 9.
POULTRY SHOW IS CONCLUDED
Over 500 Birds Entered and Many
Prizes Awarded at Raymond.
RAYMOND, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Thp third annual poultry show of the
Pacific County Poultry Association closed
in this city last night, lasting four days.
Over 600 birds from all parts of the coun
ty were exhibited. The show was the
most successful yet held In this section of
the state. Elmer Dixon, of Oregon City,
was the Judge.
Following are the prize-winners:
Barred Plymouth Rocks I. A. Johnson,
C. A. Stringer, Dr. R. E. Schenk. Mrs.
Jennie Little.
Silver Laced Wyandotte Louis Lund. F.
M. Heath. C. A. Heath, Theodore Carlson,
Mrs. Jennie Little.
3ark Brahmas Louis Lund.
White Leghorn Theodore Carlson, Mrs.
Jennie Little.
Buff Leghorn I. A. Johnson.
Black Minorca I. A. Johnson.
White Minorca. E. W. Parsell.
Buff Orpingtons John Davidson.
Anconas C. A. Stringer.
Bronze Turkey John Stringer.
Rouen Ducks C. A. Stringer.
Toulouse Geese B. Parsell, Mrm. J. F.
Fletcher.
Silver cud prizes Best display Barred
Plymouth Rocks, C. A. Stringer; best dis
play White Plymouth Rocks, Mrs. Little;
best display white Wyandottes, Mrs. Little;
best display White Leghorns, Theodore
Carlson: best display Black Minoreaa, 1. A.
Johnson.
Raymond Herald cup Mr. Lund, for best
display Sliver Laced Wyandottes.
POWER FOR MOUNTAIN TRAINS
Contract Let by -Great Northern for
Big Electric Plant.
WENATCHEE, Wash.. Feb. 7.
(Special.) HJerrick & Gcrrick. contrac
tors, will move to Leavenworth, Wash.,
there to begin on a big contract with
the Great Northern for putting up an
electric plant. They will start the
work about March 1 and will employ
about 50 men. This plant will be
used to furnish power to run trains
over the mountains from Leavenworth
to Skykomlsh, and will be one of the
largest in the state. .
The contractors will lay 1600 feet of
steel pipe, nine and a half feet in
diameter, running across the Wenatchee
River attaching to a large steel tank,
which will stand about 196 feet high
and will hold about 1,000,000 gallons
of water. This water will run through
the large turbines that will be used
to make the power.
GOLD TEETH THIEF IS FOUND
Arrested Trying to Dispose of Bridge
to Jeweler.
PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Two men believed to be the ones
who held up C. E. Hcdger, manager
of the Columbia Theater in Spokane,
the night of January 23, and failing
to get any money from him, knocked
him down and pried a gold bridge
from his teeth, have been ' arrested
here. The sale of the bridge to a
local jeweler led 'to the arrest of one,
and a man seen in his company was
arrested as an accomplice. The gold
bridge, which Is a peculiar one, tallies
exactly with the description of the
one forcibly removed from the theater
man's mouth, and Sheriff Tuvi. v.i.
T . . .bjiui tiiinna
there is no question concerning the
The officers also believe the men are
the ones who held im tha
Umatilla and Echo, Christmas week.
HOW TO GRAFT GIIERBY TRBEa
Salem People Greatly Interested In
Demonstration.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.) Even
the enthusiasm and interest of the Lowns
dale apple meeting were surpassed here
today when Connty Fruit Inspector E. C.
Armstrong gave a practical demonstra
tion in grafting cherry trees. Salem has
adopted the title "The Cherry City," and
thousands of cherry trees have been
planted in this . vicinity in the last two
or three; years. Many of the growers are
inexperienced and are anxious to listen to
lectures by such men as' Lownsdale and
Armstrong, who are recognized author
ities in their particular .lines.-
.
Just a Little Too Anxious.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.) Over
looking the fact that Presidential electors
are not to be elected at the coming June
election. J. D. Lee, of Portland, today pre
sented to the Secretary of State notice
of his candidacy for that office. The
notice was not filed, but was returned to
Mr. Lee. Section 2 of the direct primary
law expressly limits the application of
the law to offices that are to be filled at
the June election.
Washington, for Taft.
. SPOKANE.' Wash., Feb. 7. "The Repub
lican State Central Committee of Wash
ington will undoubtedly unanimously In
dorse William H. Taft for the presidency
at Its first meeting," stated David T.
Ham, a prominent member of the com
mittee, who has been in communication
with other members. A Taft club will
be organized here next Tuesday evening.
Money for Wireless Station.
.ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Sufficient money has been subscribed
here and in Hoquiam to maintain a wire
less telegraph .station between here and
Westport in order to report the condition
of the bar.
1 SIX MONTHS IX JAIL AND FIXE
Sentence Meted Out to Canby Sa-
loonman by Judge McBrlde. v
OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Judge McBrida today imposed a sentence
of six months in jail and a fine of $300 on
James Jesse, who was Tuesday night
convicted of the crime of selling liquor at
Canby. Jesse has 30 days in which to file
a motion for a new trial, and was admit
ted to bail in the sum of $400. He was a
barkeeper of H. K. Tackleson, whose
trial en the same charge resulted in a
disagreement of the jury and Tackleson's
being held to the April term of the Cir
cuit Court. Jesse, TacklesonH Peter Hol
berg and Ben Bermosher were all indict
ed on the same charge, and the two latter
men pleaded guilty, paying a fine of $175
each.
ACCUSED OF BREAKING WORD
Student Charges Professor In Signed
Article in College Paper.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 7. (Special.)
Charges that Professor W. T. Darby,
a member of the State University fac
ulty, has broken his word to a student
was made in a signed article in the
Pacific Wave, the University paper is
sued today, by Harold Birkett, recently
selected editor of the college paper,
who was forced to resign because of
unsatisfactory class work. Birkett de
clares that the professor, who Is a new
man, promised to give him his credits
if he passed the examination, which he
did, only to have the credits refused.
LIXDSEY TO GIVE AN ADDRESS
Session of Inland Empire Teachers'
Association at Pullman.
SALETMr Or., Feb. 7. (Special.) An
nouncement was made today that the
annual session of the Inland Empire
Teachers' Association will be held at
Pullman, Wash., April 8, 9 and 10. The
membership of this association includes
teachers of Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana. Superintendent Ackerman
is president of the association. Among
the noted speakers will be Judge Lindsey,
who made such a success of Juvenile
Court work In Denver, and Professor J.
E. Russell, dean of Columbia University.
Transfer to Trusteeship.
OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 7. (Special.)
The Portland General Electric Company
has transferred the trusteeship held by
the United States Mortgage & Trust
Company, under a deed of trust to secure
an issue of $10,000,000 of first mortgage 5
per cent bonds, to the Bankers' Trust
Company, of New York. Three instru
ments were filed In the office of County
Recorder Ramsby the resignation or the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany as trustee, the appointment of the
Bankers' Trust Company, and the accept
ance of that company. The papers will
also be filed In Multnomah and Marlon
Counties, Oregon, and in Clark County,
Washington,
Vancouver Barracks Notes.-
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.,
Feb. 7. (Special.) It is unofficially re
ported at Department headquarters that
Colonel Daniel H. Brush, of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, now at Manila, is to be
promoted Brigadier-General February 16
and assigned to command the Depart
ment of the Columbia, with headquarters
at Vancouver Barracks. The department
has been in command of Colonel T. H.
Woodbury, Third Infantry, since the de
parture of General. Greely.
Colonel J. B. Kerr, Twenfth Cavalry, is
to be promoted Brigadier-General Maxell
30. and will succeed Major-General A. W.
Greely upon his retirement at that date.
Vancouver Levy 35 Mills.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. T.
(Special.) The assessment rolls for
Clark County for the year 1007
have been turned over to the County
Auditor by County Assessor Allen.
The total assessed value .of all prop-,
erty In the county is $7,065,965, and
for the city of Vancouver, $2,068,795.
The average levy for the county for
all purposes will be SO mills and for
the city of Vancouver 35 mills. The
state tax levied by the state board of
equalization upon the above valuation
will be $51,615.31.
Water for Washongal.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 7
(Special.) The petition of C. I
Prltchard for a franchise to lay mains
and supply the town of Washougal
with water was granted1 by the board
of County Commissioners today. It Is
understood that work will commence
immediately and will be pushed to an
earlv completion. The town of Washou
gal is to be quite an important ship
ping point on the North Bank- road,
and a movement is now on foot to in
corporate this place.
LORD, HOW IT HURTS!
The Shriek of "The Interest About
the President's Message.
New York Bun. Feb. 2.
The business of New York and of the United
States is not all done In Wall street. The.
financial institutions, the custodians of ac
cumulated wealth and the traders in Invest
ments, the great railroad and Industrial cor
porations are not the only Interests that have
reason for the most serious concern at this
time. The merchants and manufacturers of
the country, the smaller firms and partner
ships, the Individuals engaged in the old
fashioned way in one or another of those
myriad forms of productive or commercial
activity which in the aggregate constitute the
major and most potent part of what Is known
as American business" what are they thlnk
. . . . . .v.- ,)....,..., cnt t hw read yester-
iriR L . J Ul " .... . ..
day with amazement and profound appre
hension? It WOUia DO inieresi.il.
In former times of peril their Initiative for
i onA fnr nntrlotlc' CUrDOSe has
been Intelligent, prompt and effective. What
precautions are they taxing or cuummi'imnis
.u. .itimiinn? Is It really 12
in niw v" " -
years It teems but yesterday since these
merchants and business men. In all quarters
.i ian havlnc been aroused by the
menace of Bryanlsm. were organising without
regard to previous partisanship for the de
fence of the Interests of honest business
against the assaults of the mott dangerous
demagogue our politics had then produced?
Had "then" produced! That is interest
ing, indeed. But even more interesting is
the attempt to identify the business in
terests of the country with the interests
of the large-handed robbers, against
whom - the. President's philippic was
directed. Our lumber men and wheat
growers of the West and Northwest, and
all our people who are contending for
something like fair treatment against
those "who fatten on blood money" (this
is one of the President's phrases most
violently censured) will have something to
say, too.
Catholic Population of Oregon.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2. Advance sheets of
the official Catholic directory, published
by the M. H. Wiltzius Co., Milwaukee,
Wis., give the following statistics regard
ing the Oregon City archdiocese: Popu
lation (Catholic), about 42.000; archbishop.
1; clergy, S3: churches, 86; colleges and
academies, 15; parishes with schools, 26:
children attending, 400: orphan asylums,
3; orphans, 225: charitable institutions, 11.
Baker City diocese: Population (Catho
lic), about 5550; bishop, 1: clergy, IS;
churches. 37; parishes with schools 6;
children attending, 7SS; charitable insti
tutions, 5.
?THH0USCfl0LD5
BY LILIAN TINGLEX
THE shop windows are blossoming al
ready with incredible red hearts
and wonderful lace paper and ribbon;
expressions of sentiment; kindergarten'
scissors are doing mysterious things with
pink and rrAl paper and cardboard: and
the hardware stores are finding it dif
ficult to supply the demand fr heart
shaped sandwich and cookie cutters all
In honor of the good, half-mythtcal Saint
who has stepped into the place of the
pagan Cupid, Pan and Juno.
What becomes of all the valentines
that are made every year? Do most of
them vanish in smoke in these practical
days, or are there trunks, now new which
in years to come will yield, up quaint
treasures to prying great-grandchildren
as did the old hair trunks that
some of us have known and loved. As
consolation for a wet Saturday, I know
of nothing that beats an old hair trunk
in an attic; and there is no written ro
mance equal to those that can be woven,
round Its faint-scented faded treasures.
One old hair trunk I know of contains
some typical valentines of a time when .
the commercial kind both the sugary
sentimental and the vulgar "comic" val
entinewere quite unknown, and the true '
lover was obliged to do his own writing'
and decoration, aided perhaps by useful 1
publications, such as "The Young Man's
Valentine Writer," and "The Cabinet of:
Love, or Cupid's Repository of Choice
Valentines."
One. written on a yellowing sheet of:
fine note-paper, is embellished with a
carefully drawn scroll with "A Token
of Love" In copperplate script. Below is ;
a dried sprig of sweet-briar grouped with
a flat pressed "edelweiss" blossom, a
neat true lovers' knot of white satin ;
ribbon, and the following ingenious and
fervent declaration:
2 TJ. O 2 TJ ' x
1 vow to ba true;
2 C U Y I
To the world's and would fly. .
Another bears a clever pen drawing
with a touch of water color to express
the roses on the fair cheeks of a sweet
creature with wide spreading skirts, be
low which a delicately pointed sandal
peeps. At her feet kneels an elegantly
attired gentleman with the most am
brosial of whiskers and carefully parted
hair. He clasps her snowy hand and
gazes ardently at her drooping ringlets
and modestly downcast eyes. . "How
sweet is love. How sweet is love that
meets return," runs the neatly printed
vers below. Then the page half turns
to Show a second drawing the lady,
armed with a fire shovel, and the am-,
brosia whiskered one with the tongs,
face each other savagely, and the verso
concludes: "Oh, bitter sweet; but what
when anary passions burn." Tradition
states that the recipient was Just be
trothed and that this was the work
of a mischievous brother.
There is a cut lace paper affair, too,
with all kinds of complicated zig-zags,
eight dangling hearts and a heart-shaped
hole in the middle, around which delicate
pointed letters declare:
Here are eight hearts
All In ruU view.
The ninth was lost
When I first saw yen.
This last particvlarly appealed to one
wet Saturday visitor of tender years.
"It takes such a long time to grow up,"
she said. "Don't you s'pose when I'm
twelve, if I'm awful good, I could get
them to let me do up my hair and have
long dresses and real hand-made val
entines ?'
a
The following scientific valentine was
written by a desperate young biologist,
whose sad plight deserves soma sym
pathy. We higher vertebrates do have a
hard time of it in some respects:
Once I watched an Infuaorlan
On a mlcroscoplo slide.
I.ead a life of ease and quiet
While he looked 'round for a brlda.
As I watched him very closely.
Two Amoebae, sweet and trim,
Into focus slowly crawling
Stretched out loving arms to htm.
Just at this most thrllllnc moment,
ome ona oalled me by my name.
Infusoria were forgotten.
Do you think I waa to blaznet
Not For to me ware delrvwed
Two most tempting Valentin ea.
I sat lost In admiration.
Looking at their quaint designs.
But a problem now cam upmoafe
Which to leave and which to talc.
For I was not born a Mormon;
Should I ba one for their aakaT
' Midst my trouble and my doubting;
To my microscope I turned;
I would put aside the question
Though my heart within ma burned.
What had happened meantime? Surely
Where I saw a group of three,
(Ah! the lucky Inlusorlan ! '
Four I now could plainly sea!
He had spilt himself In two parte;
Rach part was a whole oompleLa;
TCach could swim away eo happy
Wed to an Amoeba neat.
TTow I envy Infusorial
Would that I miaht imitate!
But the struggle for existence
Gives to ma a harder fate.
-IN THE
Sunday Oregonian
Tomorrow
ROOSEVELT'S FUTURE
What Shall Ee Done With the
President After He Leaves
the White Honse?
A remarkable symposium of
opinion by such prominent men as
Grover Cleveland,
Emperor William,
Thomas W. Lawson,
Keir Ilardie,
Andrew Carnegie,
Emperor Franz Joseph,
' John Sharp Williams, and many
others.
BATTLE OF THE GRAND
RONDE
Desperate fight in which volun
teers under the Into Colonel F. B.
Shaw ended tbe Yakima Indian
War of 18ofi. Every new resident
of the Pacific Northwest should
familiarize himself with this event.
THE PORTLAND BEAVERETTE
Leone Carr Eaer has just in
vented an umbrella, and in her hu
morous style outlines its use, illus
trating it with her own pictures.
TO MY VALENTINE
Full - page picture in colors
easily the best piece of work ever
turned out by The Oregonian's art
department. i
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