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Newspaper Page Text8 THE 3IORXING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1903. gCBSCRXFTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By ldsJL) Dally, Sunday included, on year $8 00 Islly, Sunday Included, six mootbi. ... 4-S Isl!y. Sunday Included, three months.. 3.-3 fjslly. Sunday Included, on inontn.. -J Daily, without Sunday, on year J- gaily, without Sunday, six months 3. Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1-75 Dally, without Sunday, on month..... fj Sunday, on year J-j Weekly, on year lasud Thursday)... 1 JO Sunday and weekly, cao year aov BY CARRIER. DaTIV. flnnilev In.lnilMt nne Tear. DallV. Riinii,. InplndHl on month-.. " HOW Tn BirMfr mttnfllc money rder. express rder or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Olv postoBtc ao- rsas in xuu. including county sot HlriTAr.K RAI& Entered u Portland. Orszon. PostofUcs as Second-Clsss Matter. . . l tA ii ti 1 oent IS to 2 Pases!!"" cn" Mn t aa r. .... 3 cent to 60 Paaes COUtS r.. rfAhl rates. MfOKTAKT The postal laws are) strict. Newspapers on which postaae Is not fully Prepaid ar not forwarded to desttnauon- E ASTERN Ml-blNXM OFt'lCE. The 8. C. aVrckwitn hpeclal Aaesey New York, rooms 48-60 Trlbun building. Cnl eaco, rooms S10-512 Tribune building, w i. t-r nv ft A I.E. Chicago. Audltorlnm Annex; ' Portofflc Kens Co.. 17 Daarbarn street; Emplr Kews Stand. ' ... f. Paul, Minn-N. St. Marie, Commercial -station. r.t. J- - I rni Tt11 H. W Dnm. Hamilton and' Kendrlck. Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 121 irtenth street; a- r. Hansen. - George Carson. Kansas City, Mi. Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Minneapolis M. J. Cavasaugh. SO South Third. (Cincinnati. O Toma News Co. Cleveland. O. James Puihaw. SO 7 Bu- Verlor htreet. Washington. D. C Ebbltt House. Penn sylvania avenue; Columbia .Newa Co. Pittsburg. Pa Fort Pitt News Co. Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Penn News Co.; Kemble. A. P-. Lancaster avenue. New York Cily Hotallng s newstands. 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Wheatley; Falrxnount Hotel News Stsnd; Amos News Co.: United News Agency, 1414 Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager thre wagons; Worlds N. S.. -625 A. butter street. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stsnd: B. E. Amoa manager five visions: Welllngham. E. O. t.oldlleld. Nev. Louie Follln. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. TUESDAY, MARCH 17. 1B08. THE NEW ERA IN POLITICS. It Is rank partisanship for any man or group of men to try to organize the Republican party for the coming elec tion, and we trust such effort if made by anybody will be met by rhe hos tility It deserves. It Is thoroughly dis creditable to attempt party organiza tion, especially so, if the attempt is made In the name of the Republican party. As foretold by The Oregonlan long? time ago, every attempt to. or ganize, in any quarter, will be justly characterized and denounced as the work of a ring; and any organization will be a machin. It is time we were delivered from these sinister assaults on the rights of the people. A lot of fellows are declaring their Intention to be candidates for office, and are push ing their various organizations for the purpose of getting their friends out to the primaries: and then, if they get the nominations they seek, they will be all astir and alert, for weeks, to make their election sure. It is an im position on the rights of the people, who want no leaders -and need no party organization. The Oregonlan, let it be understood, is firmly resolved not to join any conspiracy of this kind, but will help to rebuke it by giving such encouragement as it can to the non-partisan organization and effort of the Democratic party. After a while there will be a confer ence of non-partisans in a clubroom somewhere, for proper denunciation of the ring and the machine, and a plan will como forth for a ticket that all fervent haters of machine politics and ring rulo will approve; together with a ticket made up of men and for men and by men who sincerely detest ring and machine methods'. Reform Re publicans will join with non-partisan Democrats in this endeavor; and the disinterestedness of It will be attested hy the fact that the men who have a real voice in the affair will be but a dozen or twenty, at most, and too few. therefore, to be subject to the Justly odious appellation of being a ring or machine. Count on The Ore gonian as a pleader, with the voice of a trumpet, for this anti-machine or ganization. You never more will find this newspaper with any of these Re publican gangs, or gangs who stand for organization and success of the Republican party. That would be ring politics, which must be detested b'y every independent citizen and true patriot. This journal has learned Its lesson during past years, and is for party no more. The Chamberlain method wins Its admiration. If now our friends in Oregon could just per suade Mr. Bryan to change his tactics and run as a non-partisan candidate for the Presidency! Who will "put it up to him"? Since Oregon leads alt reforms, nothing so fit as that this suggestion should be flashed from Ore gon. We trust this will obtain the at tention of Senator Milt Miller, of Linn, who, we believe, is Justly entitled to his fame as Mr. Bryan's closest friend In Oregon. Induce Mr. Bryan to run as a non-partisan, and we'll all .sup port him. The United States has no particular use for Chinese coolies. The economic advantage of cheap labor is more than offset by the detrimental effect that results from a large population of aliens who have no Interest In our welfare or our Institutions beyond the Interest which enables them to amass a fortune with greater ease than is possible In their own country. But there Is a class of Chinese who are en titled to admission and to .good treat ment, and, unfortunately for the con tinuation of pleasant relations between this country and both China and Ja pan, this class is not always accorded the courtesies that the United States would demand for its representatives In Chins. The humiliating experience of Liang 11a um, Mexican Charge d'Affaires, while passing through the United States, is a disgrace to tiis country, and. If our Immigration srv ice is not equipped with men compe tent to tell an educated Chinese Am bassador from an Ignorant coolie, it is certainly time for radical reform. , ' THE CANT OF HYPOCRISY. The House has passed the bill' to re quire restoration of the motto "In God We Trust," on gold and silver coins. It is mere cant. President Roosevelt gave excellent and sufficient reasons for -its removal. But the Pharisees are always numerous more numerous now than In the early ages. The sect Is Immortal. It multiplies as the spirit of religion declines. This legend first appeared, as a fad, upon the copper two-cent issue of 1864. It was put upon the coin as a sneer at its trifling value as a coin. But it caught the eye of the Pharisee; and then, without authority of law, was placed on silver, gold and nickel coins. In lieu of the old legend, "E Pluribus Unum." As actual religion dies you may de pend on appearance of this kind of thing. A Pharisaical bureau for pro motion of ' mechanical religion and morality Is maintained steadily at Washington, for intimidation of Con gress. President Roosevelt gave the true reasons why the motto of levity and hypocrisy should be removed from the coins. But Congress will restore It; and every member will, In. private, de spise himself for doing it. The time is coming in this country, as It came in the ancient world, when, as Cicero tells us, two priests, practicing their mummeries, couldn't look each other in the face without laughing. But what was the fate of vital religion, un der such conditions? It "needed such a man as the Nazarene to revive It. AN INFAMOUS COCRT. ' An awful wrong has been done in San Francisco. Good men, it seems, have been accused of corruption and extortion, have been haled before the courts and the charges proven. But the courts declare them not guilty. It is admitted that Mayor Schmitz took bribes and that Abe Ruef was his go between. The two, through extortion, got many bags of money. They bought the Supervisors of the city, who sold the franchises and put the money received for the sale into their pockets. It has been proved. No body denies it. But the Supreme Court of California declares it was all right. Now, our news reports say, there is a general tendency to accept the de cision of the Supreme Court, because of the futility of protest. But what are the people going to do with that Supreme Court? Nothing at present; but If there is any sufficient sense of honor and honesty left In California, every member of it will be treated as a pariah and be consigned to eternal Infamy. In the days of the, vigilance committee every one of them would have swung from an Improvised gal lows. Modern society has a better way. No one of those judges ought ever to re ceive the least notice from any honest man, but should be ostracized com pletely, In all social and business life. And every man, coming into the pres ence of any one of them, should turn his back, and keep his hand on such valuables as he may. have In his pocket. The people are entitled to their revenge on judges like these. THE RETREAT OF CHINA. Cable advices now Indicate that the Tatsu Maru affair, which for a time threatened to embroil Japan and China, Is a closed Incident. It would seem from the story of the settlement of the difficulty that China had reced ed from the stand originally taken and made reparation . for seizure of the Japanese vessel. At a long-range view, and with the stories of the af fair from Japanese sources" differing materially from those from China, it Is difficult to determine the degree of provocation for Japan's demands or for the attendant humiliation- of China in being obliged to meet them. But after each of these Oriental powers has said Its little say and put up the customary "bluff," It would be ex tremely difficult for the matter to drift into actual war without the con sent of some greater powers that are "behind the throne" of both China and Japan. As was pointed out when this dimin utive war cloud first appeared on the political horizon of the Far East, China was warranted in assuming her some what haughty air of independence In asserting her right to stop filibustering; by almost any means she saw fit to employ. The China that Japan would be obliged to right today is vastly dif ferent from the China that, stagger ing under the weight of centuries of superstition and ignorance, fell an easy victim to the Japanese a dozen years ago. It was the knowledge of her new strength that gave China con fidence In her stand against the' de mands of Japan, and, had the issue been one In which these two countries alone were concerned, the possibility of such concessions as China has made would have been remote indeed. But maintenance of peace In the Far East has become a matter of interna tional concern. There are but few great powers on earth that are not in terested in continuation of present peaceful conditions in China and Japan. A war between the two countries at this time would necessitate the addi tion of enormous burdens to those under which debt-ridden Japan is al ready staggering, and It would also re tard the growth and development of China in a corresponding degree. . It might go even farther In the destruc tion of. the two powers most interested by leaving them In the position of the storied Kilkenny cats, for beyond doubt anything like a prolonged con flict, which of necessity would have to be . financed by other countries. would cause , a general break-up of territorial lines and jurisdiction. Ger many, England and the United States have for the past generation regarded the Integrity of China as the greatest principle involx-ed in the political or commercial policy of the Far East. and on any question in which the pos sible dismemberment of the Flowery Kingdom was Involved, these three great powers may be expected to stand together. France, which has been but mildly committed to this policy, has already financed Japan nearly, to the limit of safety, and Russia, since her recent drubbing for an attempted vio lation of the open-door policy, 1 in no mood to aid Japan openly in harassing China. . On the surface the cocky Japanese have apparently gained a slight advan tage over China In adjustment of the Tatsu Maru difficulty, but the under lying causes for this adjustment will not be found In the Orient, but far away in lands where dwell worrd pow ers which, if it became necessary to do so, could take the belligerent, yellow nations and knock their heads to gether until both would cry for quar ter and promise to be good forever more. Perhaps the worst feature of this adjustment which has just been made in Japan's favor will b an In creased swelling of the Japanese head. That affliction, however, will be at tended to whenever Japan makes her self particularly obnoxious to a first class power. 1 .. GOVERNOR JOHNSON'S FALSE FRIENDS. To a man of tender heart and sym pathetic soul the anti-Bryan Demo cratic papers present a piteous specta cle. Agreeing only In their hatred of the eloquent and persevering Nebras kan, each of them is at. loggerheads with all the rest about the choice of a substitute for him. Harper's Weekly makes an elegant pretense of booming the pale and spectral Dr. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University, as Democratic candidate for President, but this frigid suggestion seems to be received without much warmth. Dr. Wilson dines on Greek roots and his daily recreation la to repeat the bino mial theorem backward. Think of such a diaphanous shadow running for President. . - . - , One paper wants Judge Gray. An other suggests that Mr. Ryan's vener able assistant, Grover Cleveland, re enter the turbulent field of Presiden tial politics. Still another longs to see Pat McCarren enter the race, and as sures us that he could carry the solid South. Very likely he could. Will some one please mention a Democrat who -could not? All these are vain imaginations. But Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, possesses a little more substantiality. In addition to the solid South he could perhaps carry Minne sota, although that is doubtful. It is one thing to carry a state when run ning for Governor and a very different thing to carry it in a Presidential con test. One rather inclines to fancy that, much as the Scandinavians of Minnesota admire Mr. Johnson,- they would think long and hard ere they gave him their votes in preference to Mr. Taft or any other Republican of Roosevelt proclivities. Those 'papers which hold out to Mr. Johnson the hope that he could carry Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and all the border states are tempting him to indulge in that prideful spirit which goeth before a fall. The Gov ernor of Minnesota Is a man of whom nothing is known but good. The trou ble with him Is that to the great ma jority of the American people he Is less than a name. They have never heard of him. Except in a magazine article or two, and in a few anti-Bryan newspapers, Mr. Johnson has scarcely enjoyed National mention. Although an admirable man and one who is sure to grow, he Is aa yet but a local char acter. To the mass of the voters of his party he is a stranger and it is now too late 'for them to make his ac quaintance before the next election. Mr. Bryan Is the habitual candidate of the Democratic party, and the only one who has any chance of nominal tion. It is- therefore little short of cruel and willful deception to urge Mr. Johnson by glowing promises to enter the field against him. The effort could only end in loss of his time, money and lung power, with an after-crop of hard feeling for the men who induced him by false allurements to take a hand in a nopeless game. " A VANISHED LiXDMARK. The old home of Dr. P. Prettyman, at the foot of Mount Tabor, contem poraneous in architecture with the old Standard Mill 'building at Milwaukie, that succumbed to the weight of years and the stress of flood a few Winters ago; the S. W. Moss and Dr. Barclay residences in Oregon City; the old homes of Captain J. C. Ainsworth, Captain A'.' F. Hedges and Thomas Holmes on the hill east of Oregon City; the Carter house, in Southwest Portland, and other well-remembered structures of pioneer name and fame, is soon to disappear before the march of progress, as most, if not all, of the buildings named have done before It. A quaint, rambling structure, it has long stood, in Its practically abandoned age, a monument to the sturdy strength and determined purpose of its builder and to the part that he played in the subjugation of the wilderness. Hospitality and helpfulness were the watchwords of the pioneers, and their primitive dwellings were built in ac cordance with the purpose that these words represent. The old Prettyman house was long the headquarters for the, preachers who came and went in pursuit of their calling In the early days. Denizens of the straggling vil lage In the woods on the bank of the Willamette that has since become a populous, progressive city, hunting game in the heavy timber and dense thickets of the East Side, halted there for shelter from a sudden rain storm or to appease the sharp demands of hunger induced by a tramp of hours through the woods. Neighborhood and family reunions were held there, for the house was central, roomy and ad mirably fitted to the purpose of pio neer gatherings. A weird theory that has been quaintly, almost convincingly, ex pressed by. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, is that an old house Is as a phonograph In which the voices of past occupants and chance guests are recorded, waiting the touch of a de vice or emotion subtle enough or strong enough to awaken them. A slight stretch of the Imagination sup plementing this theory would hear be tween the sounds of the hammer, blow on blow by which the old house was razed to the ground, myriads of long silent voices, resonant with the record of past struggles and simple triumphs voices - unrecognized only because their listeners were not of those to whom the ton'es were familiar in the lpng ago. If it pleases any one to indulge this weird fancy, let it be with the hope that. If the ghost of the old house. like a sentient thing, still hovers around the spxt that knows the ancient land mark no more, it is as a serene ele ment content with the triumphs of a useful life, forgetful of its disappoint ments and happily unmindful of the neglect that has for years been its por tion. Captain F. H. West, for more than forty years a resident of the East Side, became early afflicted with the infirm ities of age, due to a strenuous life in his early years on sea and land, and f had long been regarded as an invalid, j Hence the announcement of his death j tauaeu no surprise a Bcuiidiittu in bearing and address, and a- man use ful In his day and generation. Captain West commanded the honor and re spect of the community in which he had been a factor for more than two score years. His death closes a life of more than ordinary incident and vicis situde. A member of St. David's Church during almost the entire period of its existence. Captain West will be universally missed and mourned by the members of that body. The record of his life la that of an upright and successful man.. The headquarters of the new reve nue district has been located at Port land, notwithstanding most energetic efforts to confer the honor on Seattle. This district will Include Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, and in selecting Portland for the headquar ters the Government has acknowl edged the commercial supremacy of this port. This city, through Its posi tion as the financial headquarters of the Pacific Northwest, la in a better position than any other North Pacific port to handle the business of the Gov ernment. For that reason this port will also undoubtedly be chosen tor the location of the new Subtreasury. Portland may have been somewhat slow In the past, but she seems about to come into her own. The nomenclature of the wild and woolly West has always been the source of great amusement to the ef fete East.. This trait of the Easterner is partly explained by the great dif ference In many of the geographical names in the East when compared with those of the West. For example, we find in yesterday's news columns a dispatch from "Woods Hole," Mass., in which it is stated that the crew of the steamer Sylvia, which mistook the "Sow and Pigs" ledge for the "Hen and Chickens," had ben saved by the "Cutty Hunk" lifesaving crew. These names are not regarded as uncommon by Eastern people, who show signs of hysterics in attempting to pronounce Skamokawa, Stillaguamlsh or Mukil teo. The House of Representatives de sires to restore the ornamental "In God We Trust" to the coinage. This would imply that for some reason-the House believes it has cause to trust the Almighty. What can the reason be? To the casual observer It appears as if our National Representatives had extraordinarily good grounds to call upon the' caves to hide them and the mountains to . cover them from his presence. Can their zeal for the motto be a trick to divert his attention from other matters which they would rather he did not ooserve too closely? Like this season's Eastern millinery. Spring crime presents startling novel ties. With intelligence worthy of a better cause, one man impersonates an Inspector and robs every letter In a mail car, while a brute, by blinding! the treasurer of a theater with am monia, gets away with the day's re ceipts. If criminologists could turn the ingenuity of such men into an hon est channel, what a service they would render to the robbers and to society. Hope Is again being indulged that leprosy, that creeping, ghastly canker of the flesh that has for ages been the despair of medical science, may be cured. A Swiss machinist is the dis coverer of the alleged cure, and steps are being taken to give the treatment, whatever it is, a trial among the plague-stricken of the Island of Molo kai. Skeptical but not without hope, medical scientists await the result of this latest experiment. A daughter of the late Harvey B. Lord, author of the Illinois Revised Statutes, Is contesting her father's will on the ground that it was improperly drawn. Judging by precedent, the woman will undoubtedly find courts where she can get a decision showing beyond doubt that her father, was in competent to draw any kind of legal document. The "law" is full of mys tery even for those who know some thing about it. ' Hayti is enjoying another revolu tion. These little diversions ot the colored man's Island are usually en couraged by other nations, since the fewer Haytians there are in the world the better. ' But when the game ex tends to the murder of Frenchmen there Is danger that Its happy course may be rudely interrupted. Under the Monroe Doctrine must we punish Haytl or let Europe do it? The regular college bulletin for Pa cific University, just at hand, shows notable and substantial progress in various lines of college effort and training In that institution. A host of friends of the university throughout the Pacific Northwest will welcome these evidences of prosperity with sin cere pleasure. Emma Goldman, the unsexed wind bag, could be eliminated if her name ceased to appear In any American newspaper and nothing published about her movements. If her name failed to appear In print, she would withdraw in disgust to some distant land. She lives on printer's ink. Mr. La Follette has had to undergo great obloquy In his day, but we sup posed time had assuaged the bitter ness of his enemies and insured him from future Indignities. It seems, however, that this is not so. The Pop ulists are about to nominate him for the Presidency. The Independence League is down on Bryan and won't support Johnson. Puzzle: Guess the name of the candi date the league will support. Did any one ever know of a time when the Madison-street bridge was not In danger? Is It really frail or only constitutionally timid? At last accounts Knox, Cannon, Fairbanks and La Follette were look ing for booms that have got lost. Hary Orchard Is now devoting much! time to religious books. He be gan too late. Probably he might not deny today that his real name is William J. O'Bryan. If Orchard wants to die. there should be no objection from any quar ter , ROADS MAY GETX LAND FREE Test Snit to Decide Tideland Priv ileges at Seattle. OLTMPIA, Wash., March 16. (Special.) A test suit will be brought in the King County Superior Court which may re sult In giving to the Union Pacific and Milwaukee railroads Seattle tldelands valued at several million dollars. When the Seattle tldelands were platted by the State provision was made for a south waterway 1000 feet wide. The Hammond Mill Company, owning frontage on this waterway, has. with the permission of the Federal War Department, constructed a wharf extending out 150 feet over the waterway to the pier lines. It is gen erally understood that the Federal au thorities will grant a similar permit to other owners of the land along the waterway. The Union Pacific and Mil waukee railroads own a large amount of frontage on the waterway and insist that if others can encroach with wharves 150 feet on each side of the waterway, the railroad company should have similar privileges. The Attorney-General, after a confer ence with Land Commissioner Ross, has decided to bring suit immediately to oust the Hammond Mill Company from the waterway, and thus test the question. If this case goea against the state it means, of course, that the railroads will get the right to occupy a strtp of water way 150 feet wide in front of their front age and will secure this without ex pense. CUT HO'? CROP O-VE-THIRD Oregon Growers to Decide on Prop osition 9farcn 30. SALEM, Or., March 16. (Special.) Secretary Joseph Baumgartner, of the Oregon branch of the Pacific Coast Hop growers' Union, has received word that the California directors will be in Port land, March 30, for the purpose of con ferring with Oregon and Washington directors relative to plans for reducing the 1808 crop to two-thirds of the crop of 1807. An agreement has been drawn pro viding for a one-third reduction to be come effective when 90 per cent of the growers have signed. Leaders of the movement in California do not approve of the plan of a hop growers' corporation with each grower owning as many shares as he has acres, for such an organization would violate the anti-trust laws. SALEM MAY GET PAPER MILL Proposal Made to Council to Make TJse of City's Water Power. SALEM. Or., March 16. (Bpecial.) That there Is good prospect for the establish ment of a paper mill in Salem was as serted tonight at a meeting of the City Council, though the names of the persons having the project in mind were not mentioned. The Council had under con sideration a resolution condemning as a public nuisance the old mill race in North Salem, which has not been used for years. In opposing the resolution. Alderman Stockton said that he has definite and reliable information that a plan is on foot to use the water power for a paper mill, but that the details cannot yet be made public. Two other manufacturing enterprises, one of them a woolen mill, are figuring on using the power. RESTORE PRESIDENT'S PICTURE Astoria Socialists Will Also Decorate Hall With American , Flag. ASTORIA, Or.. March 16. (Special.) The Suomi Temperance Society at its meeting on Friday evening passed .a motion directing that President Roose velt's picture 'be restored to its place on the wall in the meeting-room, and that the hall be decorated with American flags. This is the organization that at a former meeting passed a motion instigated by a number of radical Social ists, to remove the President's picture from the hall for the alleged reason that he wag a member of "the liquor party," and was thus opposed to the cause of temperance. SALOONMEX WIS THE FIGHT Salem Council Cats License Fee From $1000 to $700. SALEM, Or., March 9. (Speoial.) The liquor-dealers won a victory in the City Council tonight when an ordinance was passed reducing the liquor license from $1000 to fiOO. The ordinance was passed by a vote of 10 to 2. The license was raised about a month ago from $300 to $1000. An effort to have the union label placed on all city printing was defeated by a decisive vote, those opposing a resolu tion for that purpose saying that the city should not mix up in labor contro versies. ASKS SALVE FOR ACHING HEART Mary. A. Moss Sues Patrick Purcell for $75,000. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 16. Special.) Mrs. Mary A. Moss, who claims that Patrick Francis Purcell married her un der the name of Pierce J. Moss, at Bos ton, October 29, 1895, today dropped her action against Purcell for divorce and filed a complaint asking judgment against him for $75,000 for breach of promise, al leging that hctiad promised to marry her after procuring a divorce from his first wife, but Instead of carrying out his promise, had married Mrs. Martha A. T. Van De Vanter, of Georgetown. Candidates In Old Yamhill. McMINNVILLE. Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) John W. Bones, Representative from this county in the last Legisla ture, has filed his petition for nomina tion to succeed himself. Mr. Bones is a Republican and Ignores Statement No. 1. He is a resident of Sheridan. Mr. Jones, from Newberg, is the other can didate for Representative. A. G. Beals of Tillamook, who was Representative from his own county and Yamhill joint ly, last session, will again be a candi date. Yamhill's Senator holds over, but it Is understood that W. N. Bar rett of Washington County, will on a candidate in the Twenty-fourth Sen atorial District, comprising Washing ton, Yamhill, Tillamook and Lincoln. Ship Officers In Hospital. ASTORIA. Or., March (Special.) Two officers of the German steamship Numantia were taken to the. hospital to day to be treated for Injuries sustained by falls, and both 'will be left behind when the steamship sails for the Orient. While coming out of his room last night. Second Officer Peter Jehs, slipped and fell on the Iron deck. Injuring his spine. This morning Third Engineer Hayden fell down the companion way and sustained a eevere scalp wound back of his left ear. - It is also feared his skull is frac tured, but that cannot be determined as yet. Electric Line Begun. EUGENE, Or., March 16. (Special.) Work and the Eugene-Springfield elec tric line was started Just beyond Fair mount this afternoon and will not cease until the line is completed to Springfield. The cars will ctoss the track as soon as the connection is made and service given to he end of the line. LINCOLN COUNTY WAKES UP J - - i Frnitmen Propose Their Apples Shall Equal the Best. TOLEDO, Or., March 16. (Special.) Ths Lincoln County Fruitgrowers Union held a large and enthusiastic meeting Friday at Elk City. The union was addressed by Hon. C. A. Park, of Salem, member of the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, and Professor A. B. Cordley. of the Ore gon Agricultural College. Both addresses were on practical lines, were appreciated and did good. The professor talked on all the diseases the apple is heir to, naming the remedy for each. The union Is doing good work in uniting fruit growers who are pruning, spraying and preparing to cultivate their orchards, thus striving to raise the standard of Lincoln county's good wormless apples Into the class of the very best. As one man puts it: "With a united and per sistent effort we Intend to shake off the land of nod' and occupy the high place in Oregon, to which, by naure, we are so Justly entitled." WREAK REVENGE OX FARMERS Oriental Haters Destroy 400 Fruit Trees at Yakima. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., March 16. (Special.) Encouraged by whisky dealers In Wapato, with whom the Jap anese and Chinese do not trade, hood lums In that town yeiiterday destroyed a young orchard of 400 trees because Japanese and Chinese have been em ployed there. Threatening notices were also posted on the premises of the Wa pato nursery and In other orchards, threatening the owners In the event of their continuing to employ Oriental labor. The orchardlsts have been com pelled to use the Orientals because the white men will not work steadily, pre ferring to lay off so soon aa they have earned enough to keep them in drink for a few days. Sheriff Edwards will take measures for the prevention of further vandalism and the arrest. If possible, of those who participated In the work Sunday. MARRIED, BUT THEY ELOPE Each Leaves Behind a Waiting -Spouse Police at Work. TACOMA, Wash., March 16. (Special.) While a trusting and unsuspecting wife spent her evenings at home alone, her husband, Leonard J. Gross, better known as "Link" Gross, spent his evenings with Mrs. Kate Saul, six years his senior, for six months, during which time Gross be came so infatuated with Mrs. Saul that an elopement was planned. This is the belief of a deserted husband and wife, and officers are at work on the case. On the evening of January 12. while Mrs. Grose awaited her husband's homecoming, Gross collected $300 on a team of horses he had sold and boarded a train for Seattle, where she was joined by Mrs. Saul, who had secured about $100 of her husband's savings. The elopement was not made public until today. ELK LODGES ENTER PROTESTS Object to Negro Order Taking Name for New Secret Organization. OLYMPIA, Wash.. March 16. (Special.) Negroes of Seattle have Incorporated the Puget Sound lodge. No. 109, Im poved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, and have for warded the articles to the Secretary of State for filing. Protests by mail and wire have been received by the Secre tary of State from the Grand Exalted Ruler and other grand officers and from local members of the B. P. O. E. The Secretary of State has asked the advice ot the Attorney-General whether he can legally refuse to file the papers and the latter Is waiting for a legal statement from the officers of the original Elks. Protest Agaisnt Blasting. EUGENE, Or.. March 16.-(Special.)-The residents of West Eugene, near the end of Skinner's Butte, are preparing to serve an injunction on the Warren Con struction Company, restraining them from blasting for rock. It Is from this quarry that all the stone has come for the paving of Eugene's streets, and It Is considered as good a stone as could possibly be procured. It Is understood that the Council will favor a regulation of the size of the blasts, but will hardly favor closing the quarry until the two miles of paving now contracted for Is completed. t Robber Gets $2.4f for His Fun. SPOKANE. March 16. The train-robber who overpowered the railway mall clerks and ransacked the registered mail on the Great Northern westbound train early Sunday morning between Bonners Ferry. Idaho, and Spokane, se cured only $2.40 for his six hours' work, according to the statement of the Post office Inspectors who have spent 'the past 24 hours checking over the mall. No trace of the robber has been found. Dogs and Bike Riders in One Class. SALEM, Or., March 1&. (Special.) Dogs and bicycle riders were, in a meas ure, put in the same class by the City Council tonight when an ordinance was passed creating the office of poundmas ter. The duty of this officeSw111 be to catch all dogs that run at large without license tags and arrest all bicycle-riders who violate the speed regulations. J. C. Marsh was elected poundmaster. THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK OF IRELAND. There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, ' 'Twas St. Patrick himself, sure that set It; And the sun on his labors with pleas ure did smile. ' And with dew from his eye often wet It. It thrives through the bog. through the brake, through the midland: And he called It the dear little sham rock of Ireland, The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit tle shamrock,. The sweet little, green little shamrock of Ireland. The dear little plant st,lll grows In our land. Fresh and fair as the daughters of Erin. Whose smiles can bewitch, whose eyes can command. In each climate they may appear In; And shines through the bog, through the brakes, through the mlreland, Just like their own dear little sham rock of Ireland, The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit tle shamrock. The sweet little, green little shamrock of Ireland. This dear little plant that springs from our soil. When Its three little leaves are ex tended. Denotes from one stalk we together should toll, And ourselves by ourselves be be friended: And etill through the bog. through the brake, through the mireland, From. one root should branch, like the shamrock of Ireland. The sweet little shamrock, the dear lit tle shamrock. The sweet little, green little shamrock of Ireland. "-- Andrew Cherry. THE DAY WE CELEBRATE ANCIENT ERIN. : See, she smiles upon the touchstone on her distant youth. Looking down her line of leaders and of workers for the truth; When the sun of art and learning yet was in the Orient: When the might of Babylonia under Cyrus' hand was spent: When the Sphinx's introverted eye turned fresh from Egypt's guilt: When the Roman bowed to Athens, when the Parthenon was built: When the Macedonian climax closed the commonwealths of Greece: When the wrath of Roman manhood burst on Tarquln for Lucrece; When the Norman, Teuton. Briton left I hi primal woodland spring; When his rule was might and rapine. and his law a painted king Then was .rln rich In knowledge, then from her Ollan'a store. Conned today by sage and student, grew her, ancient Mor; Then were reared her mighty builders. who made temples to the sun; There they stand, her old round tow ers, showing how the work was done; Thrice a thousand years upon them, staining all our later art Warning ftnprers raised to tell us. we must build with reverent heart. CONSTANCY. (O'Connell's favorite lines.) Remember thee! yes. while there's life in this heart It shall never forg;t, all lorn as thou art More dear in thy sorrow, thy gloom and thy showers. Than the rest of the world in its sunniest hours. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free. First flower of the earth and firsl gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, . with happier brow. But, ohl could I love the more deeply than now? Thomas Moore. KOT A STAR FROM THE FLAG SHALL FADE. (A stirring poem of the Civil War.) Oh. a rare old flag was the flae we bore. 'Twas a bully ould flag, an' nice: It had stripes In plenty, an' stnrs galore, Twas the broth of a purty device. Falx, we carried it South, an' carried it far. An' around it our bivouacs made; And we swore by the shamrock ' that never a star From its azure field "should fade. . Ay. this was the oath, I tall you true. That was sworn in the souls of out Boys in Blue. The fight it grows thick an' our boys they fall. An' the 'shells like a banshee scream; An' the flag It is torn by many a ball. But to yield we r.ever dream. Though pierced by bullets, yet still It bears. All the stars in its tattered field. An' again the brigade, like one man, swears. "-Not a star from the flag we yield!" 'Twas the deep, hot oath, I tell you true. That lay close io the hearts of our Boys in Blue. Sure, the fight it was wan, after many a year. But two-thirds of the boys who bore That flag from their wives and sweet hearts dear. Returned to their homes no more. They died by the bullet disease had power. An' to death they were rudely tossed; But the thought came warm In their dy ing hour: . "Not a star from the flag is lost!" Then they said their prayers and aves through. And like Irishmen died did our Boys In Blue. Charles Graham Halpln. the Lighting race. (At the special request ot President Rooss velt this poem, said to be one of ths psr of the Spanish-American War period, was read at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick's banquet, three years asto In New York Cl'y It has to do with the blowlne up of ths warship Maine In Havana Harbor.) "Read out the names!" and iiurke sat back. And Kelly drooped his head. While Shea they call him Scholar Jack Went down the list of dead. Officers, seamen, gunners, marines. The crews of the jig and yawl. The bearded man and the lad in his teens. Carpenters, coal-passers all. Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe. Said Burke in an offhand way: "We're all in that dead man s list, Ly Crlpe! , Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here's to the Maine, and I'm sorry for Spain." Said Kelly, Burke and Shea. "Wherever there's Kellys, there's trouble," said Burke, "Wherever fighting's the game. Or a spice of danger in grown man's work." Said Kelly, "you'll find my name." "And do we fall short," said Burke, getting mad. "Whon It's touch- and go for llfeT' Said Shea, "It's thirty odd years, bedad. Since I charged to drum and flfe Up Marey's Heights, and my old canteen Stopped a rebel ball on Its way. There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green Kelly and Burke and Shea And the dead didn't brag." "Well, here's to the flag!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. "I wlsht 'twas in Ireland, for there's the place," Said Burke, "that we'd die by right. In the cradle of our soldier race After one good stand-up flsht. My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill, And fighting was not his trade; But his rusty pike s in the cabin still. With Hessian blood on the .blade." "Aye, Aye," said Kelly, "the pikes were great When the word was, 'clear the way!' We were thick on the roll In ninety eight Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here's to the pike and the sword and the like," Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. And Shea, the scholar, with rising Joy, Said. "We were at RamilUes; We left our bones at Fontenoy And up the Pyrenees; Before Dunkirk, on Landen's plain, Cremona. Lille and Ghent. We're all over Austria. France and Spain, Wherever they pitched a tent. We died for England from Waterloo To Egypt and Dargai; And still there's enough for a corps or crew, Kelly and Burke and Shea. "Well, here is to good honest fighting blood!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. "Oh, the fighting races don't die out. If they seldom die in bed. For love is first in their hearts, no doubt." Said Burke: then Kelly said: "When Michael, the Irish Archangel, stands. The angel with the sword. And the battle-dead from a hundred lands Are ranged In one big horde. Our lives, that for Gabriel's trumpet waits. Will stretch three feet that .day. .. From Jehoirhaphat to the Golden Gates Kelly and Burke and Shea." "Well, here's thank God for the race and the sod!" ' flald Kelly and Burke and Shea. J. I. C. Clark.