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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1908. l USCKIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Hail.) Hal!v. Sunday Included, one year $8 00 Dally. feunday Included, six month".... Dally. Sunday Included, three montha.. Dally, Sunday Included, ona month.. .7 Dally, without Bunday. ona year juu Daily, without Sunday, six montha..... . Dally without Sunday, threa month.. 1.70 Dally, without Sunday, ona month..... Sunday, ona year...'. Weekly, on year (Issued Thuraday)... J o" Eunday and weekly, caa year B-oU BY CARRIER. Dally. runiliT included, one year...... t.00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month HOW TO REMIT Bend poetotflc money order, eipress order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency ar at the eendei- risk. Glva poatotrice ao dreai In full. Includlnc county and atata, fOSTAUK BATKS. Entered at Portland. Oreaon. Foatoltlce a Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Paitea 1 c J 9 to 28 Panes 2 cen" 80 to 44 Pages 8 cant 46 to 0 Page cent Foreinn postage, double rate. IMPORTANT The postal law ara Newspapers on which postage 1 not ruuy Prepaid are not forwarded to destination. r EASTERN BLfelNEISS OFflGB. The 6, C. Bckwlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, room S10-512 Trlbun bulldlnK. KEPT OX SALE. I hlcago. Auditorium Annex: PostoBlce News Co., 178 Dearborn treet; Bmplra News Stand. Kt. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Colorado Springs. Colo. Bell. H. H. Ienver. Hamilton and Kendrick. P-vcnteenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1-1 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. S. Rice, George Carson. Kansas City, Mo. P.ieksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut: Yoma New Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. 60 South Third. Imlnnntl. O. Yoma New Co. 4 levrliioil, O. James Pushaw. 307 su- .rlnr (.trpct. Washington. D. C. Ebbltt House. Penn svlvania avenue; -Columbia News Co. I'ltlsburg, Pa. 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Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos New Co.; United News Agency. 14V4 Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man Ker three wagons; Worlds N. 3.. 2625 A. Slitter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth ad Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand: B. E. Amo. manager five wagons: Wellinnham. E. a. (iolcllleld, Nev. Louie Follln. Eureka. Cnl. Call-Chroniclo Afency; Eu reka New Co. PORTLAND, SATURDAY. FEB, S9, 1908. CRISES IN PARTIES, There will still be political parties; by what names called may not matter much. The present Is one of the recurring-periods of transition or change. The Democratic party has been dying since 1860. Indeed since 1850 it has not been a constructive party. Be sides, the anti-national philosophy on which its founders based It, the as sertion through it of the powers of the states over the powers of the National Government, of which the Civil War was the logical and necessary outcome, completely discredited it. Jefferson's political principles have been com pletely overthrown and superseded. Jefferson refused to accept the idea that the United States was a Nation. He held that it was a loose assembly of states, each with sovereign powers; and that such government as the Con stitution had made was simply a crea ture of the states, and subordinate to their will. This Idea yoked Itself with slavery, and with determination to extend and perpetuate it. Then se cession and the Civil War. All this is gone; and the party of Jefferson has gone with it. The name, which it took in Jackson's time, alone remains; and even the name Is no longer a thing to conjure with. The Democratic party of today, even through Bryan, is trying to make the dry bones live by grafting Hamiltonlan Ideas upon Jef fersonian roots, is In hopeless decline. To try to restore it, on a sound basis by any modernprocess, is as abortive as the attempt to perpetuate a cross between different species in' the animal or vegetable world. The Republican party is and has been a National party; but during the last ten years a plutocracy has grown up in our country, claiming" special privilege. It has allied itself largely, though not wholly, with the Republi can party drawn to that party through the necessity of maintenance of the public credit and sound basis and standard of . money, which, through the Democratic party, was ve hemently attacked and greatly endan gered. But the accession of these forces to the Republican party brought to that party new dangers. "The interests" began to look to that party for support andprotection. Just as the great interests associated with the industrial institutions founded on slavery .had looked for their conser vation and promotion to the Demo cratic party . aforetime. . President Roosevelt perceived that not only the welfare of the country but the life of the Republican party depended on the divorce of the party from the pluto cratic Interests that had become so arrogant as to desire all the political and business life of the country to be subservient to them. Hence the effort of the President to set up a barrier to the operations and purposes of those whom he properly characterized as "the malefactors of great wealth," and to deliver the Republican party, re sponsible through him for the govern ment of the country, from their domi nation. This la the struggle between the Administration and Its enemies to- day. There was no such voice, no such ef fort, no such Influence, to warn and protect the Democratic party against its alliance with the destructive Ideas and abhorrent purposes that have as sociated themselves with it during this long period. The consequence has been that this party has been making Its long Journey through the dark val ley of humiliation and defeat Wheth er, under Theodore Roosevelt's direc tion and warning, the Republican party will escape similar fate, the course of events this year will deter mine. Ever since the split of the Demo cratic party In 1860, over Douglas and Breckinridge, It has been practically impotent. Such force as It has had has been merely that of opposition. Its whole 'theory of our poltical sys tem was forced to surrender at Appo mattox. The Jefferson theory of our system died there. The party has been able to propose nothing of a con structive nature since. Perhaps it never can. But the Republican party cannot rest on its name or laurels. It must not allow plutocracy to rule in its name. On this basis there is a fight in the Republican party now similar to that which split and divided the Demo cratic party when it allowed the slave holders and the Interests associated, with them to rule it. The only hope for further success of the party Is in the policy and in the course into which Roosevelt would direct it. Imitation of that policy and that course, at tempted under the leadership of Bryan, Is the only hope of the Demo cratic party. Hence Bryan's warm commendation of Roosevelt, on every occasion. But what will the Republi can party do? Will it follow the way pointed out by Roosevelt, or accept the counsel of the reactionaries? Its fate depends on the answer. REMINISCENCES OF DEBTORS. Mr. U'Ren says he signed a Joint note and paid his part of It. The other makers of the note have not paid, and Mr. ITRen thinks he" has paid all that should be demanded from him; Inasmuch as he signed merely "for accommodation" of the others. This defense is worth insertion in the next treatise on the law of bills of ex change and promissory notes. The money was lent on the names of all the parties, and Mr. ITRen's name was necessary to obtalnment of It. It seems, however, to have been written on the note by him to fool Mrs. Mc Grath, the lender since he appears never to have expected or Intended to pay It. Some years ago a man of wealth in Portland, who, however, was not well versed In the laws of business, was sued on a Joint note for a large sum. He replied that he hadn't received the money, but only had signed "for ac commodation" of a friend. "But," said the plaintiff's attorney, "didn't you know, Mr. W., that if your friend didn't pay you would have to pay, and that It was on your name' that he got the mopey?" "What!" exclaimed the defendant, "that would be a hell of a way!" But he paid, all the same. So would Mr. U'Ren, if his responsibility for his signature had been equal to the ease and facility with which he can write it. UPSET IN KENTUCKY. In Kentucky the extraordinary re sult of the election of a Republican Senator is announced though the Democrats have a majority of six on joint ballot. It Is the outcome of long protest against the ring arid machine operated under the direction of Gover nor Beckham, against whose methods there has been most vigorous protest by the Louisville Courier-Journal and many Democrats of the state. Beck ham held on, against all protest and remonstrance, refusing to yield. Many of those voting for him were unwilling supporters, but stayed by him for party regularity. It is clear that he never realized the earnestness and determination of the revolt against himself and his machine. Watter son's support of the revolt gave it standing and power. William O'Connell Bradley, the new Senator, is a native of Kentucky, 61 years of age, is a lawyer of Louisville, has several times received the vote of his party for United States Senator, and in 1888 received in convention 106 votes for Vice-President. In 1895 he was elected Governor of Kentucky the first Republican Governor of the state. He has been a leading force in building up the Republican party in Kentucky, and well deserves the honor that has come, no. doubt as a surprise, to him. Democratic opponents of Governor Beckham offered to accept any one of a dozen other men for Senator, but Beckham refused. It was as in for mer times In Oregon, when Mitchell would have it, or no other Republican should. This result will Increase the uncertainty as to Kentucky's future action in politics. Yet in the long run It may be helpful to the Democratic party, which has long been boss-ridden there. The election of Wilson, Repub lican, to the office of Governor last November was an Incident and conse quence of Democratic dissatisfaction. Watterson has been predicting these disasters, a long time. He may now repeat his impressive warning "Turn, sinners, turn!" Sir. harrtman's mklon patch. In these days of retrenchment, high interest rates, closed sawmills and other unpleasant commercial features, it will afford Orcgonians great pleas ure to read that Mr. Harrlman has just cut another of those nice, juicy "melons" that have grown and ma tured so beautifully under the Harrl man methods of cultivation. O. R. & N. preferred stock is the vehicle on which this melon in the shape of an extra dividend is rolled into the Harrl man treasury. The total' amount to be disbursed from the enormous earn ings of the Oregon road is 18,250,000. On the occasion of Mr. Harrirrian's lat est visit to Oregon he expressed re grets at his inability to build the much-needed road into Central Ore gon, giving as a reason the great scarcity of money and increased rates of interest. The system of financial legerdemain for which Mr. Harrlman enjoys a fame peculiarly his own, of course enables Mr. Harrlman to enjoy a chronfc state of financial embarrassment whenever the subject of building railroads or re ducing rates in Oregon is suggested; but when dividends .are needed, "presto change!" the money is forth coming with an alacrity almost equal ing that which characterized the move ments of the collateral when Aladdin rubbed the lamp. The extra dividend declared on O. R. & N. preferred stock was, of course, all earned in the Pacific Northwest. Some of it repre sented freight money paid to the road by the thousands of settlers who have been for years waiting in the wilds of Central Oregon for a railroad to en able them to develop the country. The freight which they now ship over the Harrlman line before it reaches the railroad is subject to the enormous expense of a 60- to 200-mile wagon haul. ,. This, of course, makes impossible any profit in mining, lumbering or farming In that vast empire of unde veloped riches. The amount of this one dividend, and it is only one of many which have been wrung from the Oregon producers, is sufficient to build and equip a railroad throughout the entire length and breadth of Cen tral Oregon. Perhaps Oregon has no right to ask that some of this money, which she has contributed in such gen erous quantities as dividends for use in Wall street, shall be used in develop ment of the state which produced It. This may be the Harrlman interpreta tion of the matter, but Oregon still retains the. right to legislate on freight and passenger rates, and, unless there Is a radical change in the Harrlman policy in this state, the size of the ex tra dividends will be materially small er in the near future than they have been in the past. ' The savings which might be effected on freight rates by our people would in a short time prove ample to build railroads wherever they are needed in the state. DISMISSED "FOR CATJSE." Mrs. B. H. Fisher, for some years as Miss Laura Geertson, teacher In the Stephens School in this city, and under contract, as she claims, to teach throughout the current school year, has been summarily dismissed for cause, the cause being that she, in vio lation of her contract with the School Board, had become a married woman. The time of her offending was Decem ber, 1906, and she, probably for pe cuniary reasons, concealed her trans gression for an entire year and was ear ried on the teachers' list as Miss Laura S. Geertson. ' Knowledge of her tur pitude having come to the Board of Directors, she was notified that her services were no longer required. With obliquity of moral vision that would do credit to a criminal lawyer Mrs. Fisher asserts that she has not violated her contract "this year." She admits that she was married last year in violation of contract; that she kept the fact of her marriage concealed and, under her maiden name, applied for reappointment, was reappointed and taught the first term of the cur rent year. Knowledge of the decep tion, she was practicing having come to the Board, she was discharged, as she asserts, unjustly, because she rhad not been married within the life of her present contract. Concerning the Justice, from a per sonal standpoint, or the advisability, from the wider view of educational In terests, of the rule and general, though not universal, practice of the School Board of discriminating against mar ried women as teachers, there is a wide diversity of opinion. In point of fact, some of the very best teachers in this city some of the very best in this state, or in any state are mar ried women. To discriminate arbi trarily against teachers of this class is to deprive our schools of some of the very best teaching talent that is avail able. Our city schools have more than once been deprived of the services of competent teachers upon this ground, women of experience, education and natural fitness for their work having given place to relatively inexperienced and incompetent girls. This is a manifest absurdity, a manifest injus tice to the children, for whose benefit it Is supposed the public schools are maintained, and an injustice to the teacher whose life has been given to her work. This is, however, entirely apart from the case at present under considera tion. Here we have a woman who practiced deception upon the Board for a year in order to retain her posi tion as teacher; who applied for re election under a name that was no longer her own; was re-elected, and who now openly resents her dismissal or. the ground that when her renewal of contract (a condition of which was that she would not marry during its continuance) was signed she was al ready, though unknown to the em ploying power, married. We hear a great deal from time to time of the deception practiced by pupils of the public schools and even by the students of colleges in order to secure promotion to higher grades without the necessary study that will enable them to pass their examina tions honorably. "Cheating" this is called, and it is properly and severely frowned upon by boards of education and by teachers. Dismissal and dis grace are the penalties exacted when a pupil Is caught in this dishonorable act, and the boldest of the offenders slinks away shamefully and without protest when caught. Not one, so far as our knowledge extends, has ever protested that he should be retained and promoted because all who cheat are not detected and punished. It is upon this latter plea that Mrs. Fisher seeks to justify the deception by which she was able to hold her position for more than a year. The pupil teacher who has taken her place, and who she says Is incompetent, will Indeed prove a poor substitute if she does not bring to her work a moral sense more acute and discriminating than that to which the deposed teacher confesses, and which she seeks to excuse on the ground that she knows other teachers who are deceiv ing the Board. The example of a person who lives a social He is not a wholesome one in the community. Still less is it whole some when it touches that most sus ceptible part of the community the children in the schools. If Mrs. Fisher should take her case before the courts on breach of contract she might win on a technicality, but, as in an other case recently tried in this city, the plaintiff would stand convicted be fore the bar of public opinion for con duct unbecoming an honorable public station and for a flagrant breach of private morals. That she is a mar ried woman is a matter of minor im portance; that she was dismissed will probably not work great hardship, since, no doubt, her husband is' able to support her if It comes to that. But that she deliberately deceived the em ploying power of the district in order to retain the position of a teacher in the public schools marks her as unfit for an instructor and guide of youth. Hence, the conclusion must be that she was dismissed for cause greater than that which discriminates against married women as teachers, though her dismissal hinged upon this mani festly absurd rule of the School Board. Hongkong papers recently criticised some news reports printed in The Ore gonian td the effect that the flour mill operated by the Hongkong Milling Company was running at a loss and would be unable to compete success fully with the Pacific Coast mills. This statement is denied in a cable from the manager of the company, who as serts that the net profits for the first year in which the mill has been in operation were 16 per cent. It is not stated what part of this large profit was due to cheap wheat, which might have been bought before the- heavy advance, but if the mill can continue to show any such profits in the future It will become a very prominent fac tor in shifting the milling business from this sidj of the Faacific to the opposite shore. The business of one extraordinary season, however, cannot be taken as a criterion for the future. For that reason our millers will await further developments before changing their mills into warehouses or skating rinks. The usefulness and utility of the submarine boat seems to " have been fairly well demonstrated, and, for the protection of certain exposed ports in the United States, they would prove invaluable in time of war. The efforts of the men who are selling them, how ever, have been so much more per sistent than occasion warrants that it Is not surprising that charges of scan da have been made. A strong effort was made to include in the bill a sub marine for the Columbia River, which, guarded as it is by three forts, with a splendid firing range north, south and west, is impregnable against foes from sea. Representative Lilley, who is doing the "watchdog-of-the-Treas-ury" stunt, in connection with the sub marine fleet, seems to be imbued with the same spirit that animated the farmer who had signed a blank con tract with a lightning rod peddler and secured more protection than he needed. As the farmer tells it: Heaven, gay I, do you s'poee I want a mile of wire To protect each separate haycock from heaven' conaumln' fire? We hardly need a separate subma rine, for every port in the United States. The Oregonian stands for nomina tion by the respective parties of candi dates for the United States Senate and for popular vote thereon. It com mended the election of Mulkey and Bourne by the Legislature, because their party had declared for them; and it was the duty of a Republican Legis lature to ratify and'eonfirm and make effective the, declared will of the Re publican party of the state. But The Oregonian never approved or com mended Statement No. 1, or the claim that Republicans in the Legislature should be bound "to vote for a Demo crat for Senator, or that Democrats in the Legislature should be bound to vote for a Republican for Senator. From first to last, since this discussion came up, The Oregonian has held this ground. It' is not the proper intent of the primary law to make a man vote against his party, and few will do it, in the Legislature or anywhere else. What with the fact, as tersely stated by many of the teachers, that a ma jority of the girls of the High Schools of the country are "boy-struck," and the statement of a member of the fac ulty of the University of Washington that the young men of that Institution are "girl crazy," it looks as if co-education is not likely to be inimical to matrimony. What a lot of time and trouble the wise heads waste and take over these matters! The truth is that young people, in school and out, are governed by the subtle laws of attrac tion and repulsion pretty much as their parents and teachers were a gen eration or two ago. Boys and girls needed restraint then as now, but, as far as memory serves and community chronicles relate, there was never any thing gained By any contrivance so very absurd As scolding the boy, and caging hi bird. Chicago gets; excellent results out of Its new arrangement with the street railways. .From the City Railway Company the city will receive this year $675,000. The company will pay a 9 per cent dividend, aggregating $1,215,000 and set aside a surplus of $701,558. The City Railway Company operates less than one-half Chicago's traction lines. It Is expected that the Consolidated Company will pay Chi cago as the city's share of Its profits over $1,000,000 more. There will be Increase of payment, through periods of years. Portland will do the like of this Borne time. Denatured alcohol, found useful in Germany as an llluminant and a fuel, can be made from, the refuse of a farm. The Agricultural Department has begun work on a distillery at Washington where the art of making this alcohol will be taught. One stu dent will be received from each state and territory. To The Sunday Ore gonian tomorrow John Elfreth Wat kins contributes an article on the sub ject which Is of economic interest to all farmers of the Pacific Northwest. Miss Daisy Hard, Superintendent of Schools for Stevens County, Washing ton, is evidently a woman in the right place. She revoked the permit to teach that one James Murphy had se cured, because he smoked and chewed tobacco in the schoolroom and else where in the presence of his pupils, rightly conceiving his example to be pernicious and his habits in the cir cumstances disgusting and disgraceful. Good for Miss Daisy! Long may she be continued in office. A man who had used whisky and tobacco since boyhood died at Walla Walla Thursday, aged 102. The inci dent opens up wonderful possibilities for the opposing clans on the great topic as to the effect on the human system of the luxuries named. If they are really injurious, the prohibition ists will probably contend that had the centenarian refrained jfrom their use he would have lived long enough to es tablish a close second for the record held by Methusaleh. Dr. Jordan is out of tune with the California chorus. Let him recant by declaring that public drunkenness at Stanford is not a punishable offense. Then all will be harmony once more. Really, Mrs. McGrath is unreason able In asking for that $1100. Hasn't Mr. U'Ren given her the inestimable benefits of the initiative and referen dum and Statement No. 1? It may have been funny for the freshles and sophs at Eugene to throw cabbages at older students presenting a standard comedy, but it was unfor givably rude. . Selection of an orator for opening day by the Seattle exposition manage ment wll serve to correct a false im pression that Chanucey Depew is dead. All things considered, even J. Ham Lewis would be an Improvement over Senator Depew as opening day orator in Seattle. "I'd go to hell," said Mr. U'Ren, "for the people of Oregon." Including Mrs. McGrath Z . U'REN EXPLAINS $1100 STORY j Loan Was Partnership Note and He Paid More Than His Share. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) In reply to the accusation by State Sen ator T. B. McKay, of Marlon County, that he had beat Mrs. Mary McGrath out of $1100, W. S. U'Ren, who Is a can diate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, this afternoon made the following statement: "The judgment was not against me. but against the, firm of Seth Lewelllng & Co., who had orchards and operated nurseries at Milwaukie and Canby. In this concern was Seth Lewelllng. Alfred Lewelllng, Mr. Hansee and myself. Han see was a capitalist of Sellwood and was the only one of us who did not go broke in the panic of 1893, but I have not ob served that any steps were taken by Mrs. McGrath to recover the money from his estate. The firm of Seth Lewel ling & Co. failed for $14,000 and before the failure my three partners were worth probably $tS0.00. We borrowed money from Mrs. McGrath. through the Latour ettes, of this city, who were her agents, and I never saw Mary McGrath. When I paid $300 I paid a good deal more than my share. Two years ago Judge Foley, attorney for Mrs. McGrath, wrote to me. suggesting that as I was a probable can didate for office, I had better pay the amount, and he kept at me, telling me last year that the woman was poor and hard up. and it was then I paid $300, which was at least my one-fourth in terest. This money I paid purely out of sympathy for Mrs. McGrath, and I said at that time If I was ever able to raise the money, I would pay the whole claim." Mr. U'Ren said that Mr. Kay is op posed to everything that the people stand for. and the published statement was calculated by Kay only to Injure U'Ren politically. TAKE BULLET FROM HER SPINE Seattle Girl May Recover From Dif ficult Surgical Operation. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 28. (Special.) After living a week with a 32-callber bul let in her spinal canal, and successfully withstanding an operation for Its removal, this morning. Miss Lena May Brown, the 19-year-old Tacoma girl who shot herself last Saturday afternoon with suicidal in tent is considered to have a very fair chance for recovery. The bullet was removed by Dr. George M. Horton, assisted by his staff, at Provi dence HospitaJ, this morning. It' had par tially severed the spinal cord, setting up a paralysis of the lower part of the body, and was removed from its lodgment at the eighth vertebra. The bullet was lo cated with the aid of an X-ray. The girl shot herself through the left breast, an Inch above her heart, while la boring under a despondent Bpell, at her apartments, 417 Fifth avenue, last Satur day afternoon. Her companion, Henry Kramer, was arrested on a vagrancy charge, but was released yesterday on $250 bail. PERKINS TO ADJUST SHORTAGE Insurance Agents Return to The Dalles From San Domingo. THE DALLES, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Edward J. Perkins, against whom the coast manager of the Milwaukee In surance Company took out a warrant some weeKs ago, charging him with mis appropriation of that company's funds, returned to The Dalles Wednesday, and surrendered himself to Sheriff Chrisman. Mr. Perkins claims that on his return from a trip to San Domingo, en route to- Portland, where his father resides, he first heard that charges had been pre ferred against him. He immediately re turned to The Dalles and is now per fecting his bond pending the return from Salt Lake of the Insurance officers when, he claims, the alleged shortage of funds will be satisfactorily adjusted. RAISE MONEY FOR CANNERY Woodburn Has $1100 in Sight and Will Begin Work at Once. WOODBURN, Or., Feb. 28 (Special.) Tomorrow the Woodburn Cannery Company will perfect organization and select a site for a cannery In this city. Recently E. E. Buster of Portland and assistants canvassed Woodburn and vicinity and in two weeks' time se cured subscriptions aggregating $1100. Of this amount Mr. Buster will- take $9200 and build a cannery with modern equipment in time to handle this sea son's product of fruit and vegetables. This is but one instance of the wonder ful progress being marie by Woodburn. The cannery will be located In East Woodburn and will be given a siding by the Southern Pacific. EUGENE GETS $40,000 DEPOT Manager O'Brien Says Work Will Begin on Structure Next Week. EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 28. (Special.) General Manager O'Brien, General Passenger Agent-McMurray and G. W. Bosche, chief engineer, were In the city today looking after the erection of the new Southern Pacific depot, for which materials are already arriving, and on which Mr. O'Brien said work will begin during the coming week. The work will be pushed rapidly to completion. The depot will cost $10. 000 more than first planned, or some $40,000. It will be erected east of the head of Willamette street. . REPORT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS Four Institutions Show Receipts of $75,093.98. SALEM, Feb. 28. (Special.) The semi-annual reports of Oregon State Normal Scheols show the following facts:. Average attendance: Monmouth. 117; Ashland, 124; Drain. 72; Weston. 158. Receipts from tuition. Monmouth. 9152S; Ashland. $783,U1; Drain. $432; Weston, $1074. Donations from private individual: Mon mouth. J800O; Drain. 12950. Total exnendltures for Ave month: Mon mouth. $4851.61); Ashland. $13,434.68; Drain. S1B14.20; Weston. $14,009.05. Total receipts for all Institution, includ ing appropriations, donation's, tuition and other fee: $75,093.96. Total expenditures for all Institutions. $34,286.62. FILCHES GOLD FROM DENTIST Harry Nichols Is Arrested at The Dalles With Stolen Goods. THE DALLES, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Harry Nichols, an itinerant, was ar rested here today charged with robbing the dental offices of Esson & Sturdevant at the noon hour ' yesterday, obtaining therefrom a large amount of gold filling. Several thefts from doctors' offices, per petrated at noon, have occurred here within the past fortnight, in some In stance small Instruments, gold filling, postage stamps and other articles of value being taken. When searched in Jail, a bottle of gold filling was found in Nlchol' pocket. ' Knappton Mills Will Reopen. ASTORIA. Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Or ders have been received ' directing that the Columbia Mills, at Knappton. which have been closed since the beginning of the recent financial flurry, resume op erations on next Monday morning. PARENTS' CRUELTY SHOCKING Aid Society Will Care for 13-Year- Old Elsie Newman. ORTIGON CITY, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Elsie Newman, IS years old, has been taken from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Newman, and placed In the care of W. T. Gardner, superintendent of the Boys and Girls' Aid Society, of Portland. The girl was forced to saw wood and bring It to the house from the beach, and when che was given a task that was beyond her strength, she ran away from home to avoid a beating. Newman and his wife, who is the step-mother of his four children, treated the young ones in an abominable manner, making a crip pled boy work in the woolen mills and I depriving him of food until. In despera tion, he stole provisions from the family J larder, receiving a severe whipping with a "cat-of-eight-talls" which the father kept to use on the children. Two years ago, when the youngest of the chil dren was only 6 years of ase, all four of them were sent to scrape moss oft the roof, during a cold north west blast, and were tied around the waists with a rope attached to the chim ney to keep them from falling off the steep roof. Newman works for the Ore gon City Mill & Lumber Co., receiving $3 per day, but every stick of wood that has been used in his house this Winter has been sawed and brought up by the little ones, who had to work so late mornings that they were compelled to run all the way to school to avoid being tardy. The three younger children will be looked after by the Juvenile Court authorities and the crippled boy was taken from the woolen mills and will be sent to school. EX-CONVICT IN LAWS GRIP Jack Carroll Arrested on Charge of Robbing Mall Pouches. WOODBURN, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) Jack Carroll, better known as "sailor Jack," was arrested here today by Marshal Riddle and placed In the city jail. United States Deputy Marshal Nicholson arrived on tonight's, train from Portland, armed with a warrant charging Carroll with the robbery of mall pouches from the Southern Pacific baggageroom In December. Marshal Nicholson took his prisoner to Portland on the next train. Postoftlce Inspector Clements and Detective Stokes were in the city today. For the past three weeks an old man has frequented the alleged gambling rooms conducted by Carroll. It Is said he gained the evidence that led to Carroll's arrest. Carroll has lived In Woodburn for the past six years. He generally had money, and was known to do little manual labor. He is the man who turned state's evidence against "Bunco" Kelly, tried for kill ing a blacksmuu in Portland. Carroll came here tha night after he was set free. LIVELY INDIAN CHURCH ROW Defense in Libel Suit Brings Spicy Counter-Charges. SPOKANH. Wash.. Feb. 28. (Special.) Fuel was added to a factional church fire which has raged In a Nez Perces (Idaho) Indian church when Mark Arthur, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Spalding, Idaho, was today given a preliminary ex amination there on a charge of criminal libel, Silas Whitman, a fellow church worker, being the complaining witness. Arthur Is charged with circulating a statement that Whitman was one time arrested In Lewiston for disorderly con duct. Justice Court records were intro duced to refute this charge, but the de fense contends that Whitman was re moved from his church office, alleging It was shown he had living a wife at North Yakima with an only child, and that he was said to have deserted her to marry one of his own tribe. Elders and lay members of the Indian church attended the trial, which has at tracted much attention all over the reser vation. Whitman Is a well-known Chris tian Endeavor evangelist. The case was not concluded tills evening, although all evidence was submitted. OPEN SHOP IN PACKING PLANT Carstens Company Has Plenty of Applicants for Strikers' Jobs. TACOMA. Wash.. Feb. 28. (Special.) Many applications have been re ceived by the Carstens Packing Com pany for the places of the teamsters, butchers, common laborers and others, who did not return to work at the plant yesterday morning, and by an other week the packinghouse will be running as if no trouble had occurred, according to President Thomas Car stens. Only a few of the applicants are old employes. The Carstens Packing Company, ac cording to Its president, will never again recognize a union. For six years union men have been employed at the plant. W. S. Sutphln, president of the Butchers' Union, did not strike and la working at the plant as usual today. When asked regarding the strike he said: "I have a family to support and can't afford to-quit work. If the boys had a good cause to quit, I would have gone out probably with them." SUE CITY FOR LIGHT BILL Koseburg Company Objects to Coun cil Paying Only for What It Gets. ROSEBURG, Or., Feb. 28. (Special.) To collect the sum alleged to be due for service rendered, S. A. Kendall, one of the owners of the water and light sys tem of Roseburg. threatens to enter suit if payment Is not made immediately, on the city's monthly lighting bill. The bill amounts to $217, but as many of the lights have been out from time to time, the Council has been deducting on an average of $50 per month from the com pany's bill. Mr. Kendall maintains that in order for the city to refuse payment the entire service would have to be sus pended and that if payment is not forth coming at the meeting of the Council Monday night, he will Immediately enter suit. It is probable the matter will be fought through the courts, as many of the Councllmen differ radically from Mr. Kendall. BAKER CITY DEBATERS WIN Defeat Union Orators Will Now Contest With The Dalles Trio. BAKER CITY. Or., Feb. 28.-(SpecinI.) The debating team from the Baker City High School tonight defeated the team from Union on the question: "Resolved, That the Government Should Own and Operate the Railroads of the United States." Baker City supported the nega tive and was represented by W. M. Herm sen, Frank MeColloch and Roy Barton. The Union debaters were Misses Gertrude Stoker, Ruth Sclbird and Madeline Hill. The audience was entertained by sev eral selections by the teachers' octette and, the High School male quartette. Baker City will now contest with The Dalles for the championship of the East ern Oregon district. Evening Daily for Hoquium. HOQUIAM. Wash.. Feb. 28. (Spe cial.) An evening daily Is soon to be started here by the Poison Interests. BOOP6 & LBERT EL FARM AN, L. L. D., and formerly United States Consul-Gnn-eral at Cairo, has written a book to be published next week In which he assails British rule In Egypt and Intimates that Lord Cromer, recently the great ad ministrator of Egyptian affairs, is not entitled to the credit, given him. "Egypt and Its Betrayal" Is the title chosen, and the book Is certain to meet with a chorus of adverse criticism. Much of Mr. Farnum's book relates to his personal experiences as an Ameri can official, first as Consul-General In the years 1876-81 and afterward until the year 18&4 as Judge of mixed tribunals in Egypt. He takes the common ground that the Egyptian people have been "spoiled" for the benefit of Europeans, and that the real maker of railroads In that country was not Lord Cromer but the much-slandered Ismael Pasha. "There were In Egypt," writes Mr. Farman, "on the accession of Ismael Pasha to its gov ernment, over 200 miles of railroad. During the next 12 years, Ismael added about $00 miles and all this ten years prior to the advent of Cromer's administra tion." Even Cromer's greatest work, the As suan Dam. meets with the author's wrath. This reference Is made: "The great dam that Is causing the destruction of all the grand and marvelous monuments of an tiquity above the First Cataract, and has added $SOO,000 for SO years to the burdens of the poor Egyptians, has proved a great disappointment to Its sanguine promoters. Now it Is proposed to Increase tts height 23 feet, at what further cost to Egypt we are not Informed." Dr. Conan Doyle has written for younger readers an introduction to lit erature, "Through the Magic Door," in which he talks of his own literary tastes and experiences, and how they collectively influenced his work as a writer. In the new State of Oklahoma the Gov ernor is a printer-editor, one 8tate Sen ator is an old-time printer, there are three printers and 23 printer-editors in the Legislature, and the Commissioner of Labor la a printer. Charles Hanson Towns, editor of the Smart Set Magazine, of New York, Is to be married this Spring to Miss Amy Rlcard, one of the best-known of the younger actresses. James Walter Smith, an American, has Just been appointed chief editor of Cas sell's publishing house. For many years tMr. Smith has been editor of the Ameri can edition of the Strand Magazine. It was on his suggestion that the publishers of that magazine some years ago estab lished "The King." an Illustrated weekly, at the time of the Boer War. For a time. "The King" was an Immense success but on being sold to other owners, it dropped out of the race. Mr. Smith was born In East Boston In 1868, and graduated at Harvard in 1S94. He adopted news paper work as his profession, and being unable to find a satisfactory opening In this country he went to England In 1894, and did free lance work until in ISM he was made editor of the American edition of the Strand. Two new books on George Meredith are: "George Meredith. Novelist. Poet, Re former," by M. Sturge Henderson, and "The Novels of George Meredith: A Study," by Elmer James Bailey. "Twenty years," says Francis G. Pea body, late professor of Christian morals In Harvard University, "ts a long time to be the minister of one congregation, and when that congregation, instead of being a fixed quantity, is a passing procession of young men. marching swiftly through their college years, then a pace of leader ship becomes necessary which is likely to slacken as one's own youth drops behind him Into the past." Thus does the author Introduce brief talks on practical religion published under the title. "Mornings In the College Chapel," the second series of Its kind. One of the most persistent readers In history was one Gustave PlRnche, who died in 157. Planche neither lived to eat nor ate to live, but lived to read. It Is related that one day a friend stopped him on the street and asked: "Where do you lodge nowT" "I don't lodge," replied Planche, "I perch." , "Why! where do you perch?" exclaimed the friend. "Champs Elyuees, third tree to the right," came the explicit reply. At another time Planche had been in vited to dine with Madame Dorval, the celebrated actress. Ho arrived before the other company did and quite took the actress by surprise with his uncouth ap pearance. "Mercy on us, Planche!" she cried. "What a eight you are. Go take a bath, I beg you. Here ts a ticket." Planche compiled and returned an hour later about as clean as when he first ar rived. " "You have not iaken a bath," cried the actress, "have you?" "Indeed I have." replied Planche. "Why, Just look at your hands!" "O, madams, that t because I held a book while I was in the water." John Fleming Wilson, the well-known Portland novelist, has about recovered from the effects of the recent accident at his Newport, Or., home, when his feet were scalded by a kettleful of hot water falling over them. Bo far, It Is con ceded that his best work Is his lately completed "The Last Stand of the Argon auts." He and Mrs. Wilson are think ing of taking up their residence In the Silets timber country for a year or two, where Mr. Wilson plans to continue his literary work. "In Korea with Marquis Ito." by Pro fessor George Trumbull Ladd, is . an nounced. It is one of the most important books on Korea and the present plans of Japan in that country that have ap peared. The authoritative life of Henry Irving will be published next Autumn. The biography Is being written by Austin Brerfton, to whom Irving gave much valuable material. Sir Henry's sons. H. B. Irving and Laurence Irving, who are the executors under their father's will, have given their cordial consent to Mr. Brereton's undertaking and have supplied all the records and other docu ments relating to their father which they possess. Elizabeth Robin's "Come and Find Me," which has been running serially In the Century, is now ready In book form. Miss Robins is at her Winter home In Florida, though much of her time is spent In England. "Come and Find Me" will have 11 full-page Illustrations by Ernest L. Blumenschien. It has been several years now since Richard Harding Davis has found time from his work as a dramatist to writ one of his characteristic short novels. A three-part serial, by him will begin in Scribner's for April. The title, "Vera, the Medium," Is in Itself attractive, and readers may look forward to one of the best stories Mr. Davta hum written for a long time. The part Vera plays in a plot of absorbing interest will pique curiosity.