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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pletely overthrown and superseded.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.