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TITK MORXINO OTCEGOXTAX, FRIDAY. ATOIL 10. IPOS. IS F. LENDAPiS AND CO FORGED TO WALL London Grain Brokerage Firm Is Compelled to Suspend Active Operations. HEAVY SLUMP IN WHEAT l.arjrc Quantity of irin Bonslif on pwnlnion, Arrives nt I nfaror- uMp Time and Rottom Fall Out ff Market, rthtf tiiifs rerrlvM ycstordflv In Port Tirourcf d t ri failure of th (train bTOfcTaR firm of F. Ixrdflr? Co.. of Ivondon. Tho clir of the firm n-as du dirrotTr to th recent Munp in trie prin iriarkf-ts of IjOn tlon and Liverpool. wMh was a re fill! of th Fporulativo cuiffos which arr!vd Tn a hunch on tho other Mde. F. Indar? vfc Co. wero rated one of the larcost firm enpad In the rokorao busine? in Tendon. Until a fw months ajfo they were represented Jarrlv on this Coast bv Tenh-osch ... of Liverpool. The latter firm re t(rd ear'y this year and enpaced in husirejs on a separate basis. Several years aco lendarn A Co were repre sented in Portland hv V. S SIbson. who has sinre ret tred from the arrain rxportlnc business. The affairs of the firm Hi-re afierward handled by G. W. MrNear, of Shti Francisco. The failure of F. Lendara A Oft. will have ;ome effect on the prain business of the entire Northwest as repards old-crop shipments. New-crop bnsi rteitii will not b (Treat ly affected. Thrre are a number of craft on the dlsrrtpKtd list in the harbor which will tn.doiibted'y be forced to accept short ha uls with lumber or remain idle until new -crop praln bepins to move. MOTOR - BOAT RVtU LATIONS. lrpartmenl of Navigation Issues Orders Kecardlrifr Ligbf s. local Inspectors Kdwards and Fuller are in receipt of the new repulations adopted by the department in repard t- )e1its and sipnals to be carried by motor boats. The ml in jar includes motor roat: carrying- pnssenarera for hfre and a'so pleasure boats of ar.y torn cp. The regulations follow : MOT R POATS OF IS G WORP TON P OR t.FPS ANO OVFR Irt (5RO? TONS. CAR nyivo rASPKKrtVRS for hirfj. 1 1Mr Ke)fu'.:ioTi sMr tifrhts (not Ie! tVan fTfl- ;n.h meajeuremnn. .creened with powrs entrr.ilrs not les? than S feet f.r Rrrt nf Ii)tM. Oentml Tarjre of white Hrhts. forward 7ipM wMrh shal? br "vrrvrfvl so us to ho-w an tinNrofcr'n VsM thrnuph 20 p-i-nts of te eem-T-s. TynKy. from TcM nhlM to 2 point nhuft of Warr on rithor erde of th vmw, nrj the after light ( as to nhow all aroun-t the hori '. which a f : er Hrht shall not be Irjfs than wven feet hipher than the forward white rur.pe iipht. ?tO prf-fry ere One life prerrer for every p-r-tn on board, and to be of (tame rfgrula tt"n a required on a eam Tessel. hiptle To be operatevl by ome meehani--! menn and jtivf a ir.va dist-ct bJast of nt le than fcjr fecorsi" diiratsoii. F-e K-l! S.M If! than elpht inches In mrter. MtT(R BOATS OF 10 OROSS Tl"N5 OTl LFS.s, ("1askI. CARRYING PASSEX (U'HS FOR H1RR. Saire refriiUtior as IS t.-na rroa or less. M(TtR R'ATii OF lf HROS TXV OR FS-n OFKX. CARRTINU PASSENGERS FVR HIRE l.'.eh:? imf reaulatlon as 15 tons (tro? pi t. l.tfe p-efiervem Sanne rejtu'ation aa 1ft tons troa or les. w hi!t!e (Same regulation as ' 15 tons jtross or , Fop bell Not Imw than 9x inche In diam eter. P.'ata carry tr.c iasn-er for hire shaJl be la charpe ef a liefnued operator, rUKASl'RE BOATS. To be equipped the tame as boat a oarry ir.jr pa.rr-pfr f.-r htre. except that they may ffisperu1 with the life preserve r and the lleioet'd cperator. Scamens' Institnte Conwrl. An excellent concert was given at the Pea men Institute, Front and Flanders streets. Wcilnesriay nip ht by the Ontral Methodist turch of fleers under the p-onlal chairmanship of F5ndri M. (.""eder berph. Norw-c:an consul. Nearly all the numbers on the prop ram me were instru mental and both the orchestra and quin tet showed considerable ability. Miss Althoa Hembree presided at the piano a"d the sonps rendered by Mias Leona S!iea were srent-y appreciated. The s s : l or a a Iso were will rep resen t ed in El Kay per of the Norw egian barque Urania Hud Iuis BArrat of the French ship MoMers. H. J t-anfioe. editor of the ScandTnav!n. pave a very pleaaring: ad dress, and amone the larpre audience were the Acting (rerman Conul. Faul Cremer; Captain J. M. VorAoe of th Norwegian s;emhJp V.la, and Captain X. H. Jerwseji vt the Ncrnofian barque Crania. l'lineral of a Sailor. Funeral services over the remains of Joseph Guellirtette. of th French ship Mareoha.1 tarout were held at St. Mary's lAiho1 Church. Fifteenth and lavis streets, at P o'clock Wednesday morninp. The captain and crew of the ship, as well as the cap;ain and crew of the ship Moliere, were present at the services. French Const:! TAbbe and C"hapla;n A. R PrrrayA. of the Seaman s Institute, were also present. Cliapla n Bemays and the two captA:ns attended the services at .Mount Oalvary Cemetery. There was a lArte patherinp at the Cathedral. Le- cease.i left a wife and ten children in France. Master Vined Kiftero Iollans. Captain Ln;cl. niastf r of the British sh'p 'eltichurn. was fined Sl5 in the M unicipal Court yesterday for assault and battery. The compla!ntg witness was the boatswain of the vessel, who ac cused the master of str kinp him while the captain was unjer the influence of liquor. F vide nee showed that it was the !ai':or who was drunk, and not the cap tain. The latter, however, struck the man from the forecast'e. because of the man's impudence. i;raln Situation Is I'nolianged. There was absolutely no char.se in the pramhandlcrs' situation and ail confer ences between exporters and workers are hem- kept quiet. The men. are still wtwkinp. on the i-cent basis and have shown no desire to quit. As far as can be learned, the exporters have made no direct proposition for another year, and so the matter is some distance from a set tlement. Kothxliild Bros. Are Sued. Suit has been brought against Roth tKhild Brothers, of Tacoma, in Justice P.eid'8 CVmrt. for the sum of M?T. Aea-ed to be due for bares supplied y Theo dore Knudson "o. The suit was hroupht by the latter, who conduct a shipbuilding and lining- business in Port land. The complaint alleges that he transported materal on ba.rres for the defendant and that the money for this work has never been paid by the steve doring firm. To Change Custom District Nme. Correspondence bet weeft the Poard of Trade nd reron members of the Con pressional delegation is stUl beine chanped relative to havtna: the name of the customs district changed from Wil lamette to Portland. Representative FlHs in the House and Senator Bourne In the Senate have notified the Board that the neces-sary lecislation will be looked after in the respective bodieA Mr. Muller. sec retary of the Foard, said yesterday that he would see Senator Fulton before he returned to Washington and endeavor to enlist his co-operation in havinaj the port sr'ven its proper title. The other commer cial bodies of the city are (tiring the mat ter their moral support, but as the Board of Trade has taken up the question with the Wahinjttou authorities, no formal ac tion has been taken by the others. Marine Notes. The Marechal Pavout will leave down the river this morning:. The steamship St. Helens is taking wheat at the Oceanic dock. The Norwegian steamship Fi!a is load ing lumber at the Portland mills. The steamer Palles City, which has been undergoing repairs" at St. John, is agAin In commission. The steamship Nome City shifted to linnton yesterday, where, she will take on a deck load of lumber. The old American sh'p Berlin, loaded STEAMER lyTFLUOENCl, fe te Antra. Name From Data. Rom City.. ..Pan FraneJsee. .In port Alliance Ceo Pay .In pert JchanPcnlaenSan Francisco. Aprtl 10 R. D Inn-tan. Pan Francisco. .Ar'il 10 F S T.cop... San Franclsc. April IS Breakwater. .Ceo Piv April It Senator San Francisco.. April 14 Geo W. ElderSan Pedro April 14 Arabfn Hcngk.rg April 9 Roanoke Lo Ana-Mea... April 21 Nlcomedla. .. Honrkong Aprtl ST Aleta Honpkcng MT 5 Nwmantia. . . .Honekon June 10 SneH. Elmore. Tillamook Indeft. ScbedoJed to DetmH Kam. Per. Data. Pose Ctty....San Pranctoco . Aprii 10 Alltanca. Coot Bay Ai rii 11 JohanPonlsenSan Francisco. April 18 R. P. Inman Sn Francisco. .April IS F S Leop. . sn Francisco. April IS Breakwater. Co Bar April IS Ceo W ElderSan Pedro Arril lfl Senator San Francisco. .April IS Peaneko L-es Anpelea... April II AraMa Hertrkon April Si Nlcomedia... Horpkorg Jin? 1 Aies;a.. . Honpkonr .... Juno 1 oamarrtia. . . .PTrKnrf. .... Jime SueH.Elmoro, Tillamook Indeft, F.ntered Thnrsday. Roanoke, Am. steamship (Pun ham), with general cargo, from San Pedro and way ports. Cleared Thnrsday. Roanoke. Am. steamship (Pun ham, with grneral cargo, for San Pedro and way ports. with cAnnery supplies, sailed at noon yesterday for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The steamship Roanoke sailed for San Pedro and way ports yesterday with a large list of passengers and a quantitv of freight. The Steamship Alliance arrived tip at noon yesterday with passengers and freight from Coos Bay ports. She will leave Saturday night. The lighthouse tender Armeria arrived rp yesterday and is taking coal at the Pacific Coast bunkers. She will remain in the Harbor several days. Arrivals and Departures. PORTLAND. April P Arrived Steam ship Alliance, from Coos Pay port: Mfsam shlp. Armeria. from PnR-et Sound and As toria. Sailed, Steamship Santa Rita, for Port Harford; steamship Roanoke, for San Pedro and way; ship Berlin, for Bristol Bay. Astoria. April S Condition of the bar at P. M.. smooth; wind, northwest. 8 mllea. Weather cloudy. Sailed at 7:40 A. M., steamer Wellesiey. for Pan Francisco Ar rived at midnight and left up at 1 P. M.. steamer Alliance, from Coos Bay. Arrived down at 5 A. M. and sailed at 1 P. M , steamer Breakwater, for Coos Bay. Arrived down at t0 A. M. Pritiah ship Verbena. bailed at 4 P. M..' Mfamer Ibecras, for San Francisco. Stalled at 7:S0 A. M . steam er Irene, for San Francisco. Qu eenst own. A.pri 1 Arrived . A rri 1 S, French bark Marechal Turrene. from Fort land. San Francisco. April 9. Arrived, schooner Alex. T Brown. Mukiteo. Sailed, barkentine Fuilerton. Honolulu : steamer Mitpah. Bris tol Pay; schooner w h. Pimond, cod-fishing cruiser ; schooner John G. North. Gamble ; schooner Charlea R. Wilson. Grav Harbor; s-hooner Charles E. Falk. Grays Harbor; earner Santa Barbara. Qra-s Harbor: steamer tsarina, rooa Baiy ; steamer Ray mond. WHIapa Harbor; steamer S"ea, Gray Harbor: steamer M. F. Fiant, Coos Bay ; ahip Columbia. Bristol Pay. Tide, at Astoria Friday. High. Ivow. 04 A M 6 7 ft. i 2:40 A- M 40 ft. S:4 P. M ft. 2:6S P. M 15 ft. SUES FOR WAJER RIGHTS ( wlifornia Company Charges In fringement on SilTe$ River. The California I-lve Stock Company, through its vice-president. Leroy Virkel. and its secretary. C G. Merrltt, yesterday brought suit in the Federal Court against 34 corporations and persons, to force them to abide by the terms of a former court decree regarding the use of the waters of the Silves River in Harney County. Seven of the people named as the defendant either live In Oregon or are incorporated under the laws of this state and ?7 of them live in California. The Oregon peo ple named are va . O. Haoiey. F. u Mace, H. C. Levens. C. A. Sweek, P. Q. Smith, J. Sturtevant and the William Hanley Company. It is alleged that the defendant have added to a dam on the East Fork of the river, built ditches in defiance of a court decree, made Iecember 10. 1P01. The court is requested to subpena the defend ants to arpear in court. Admitted to Federal Cotirt. Bartlett Co!e. brother of James Cole, who was Assistant United Stales At torney, under W. C Bristol, was yester day admitted to practice in the Federal Court. Cole was admitted by Judge Wolverton on motion of Attorney C. J Schnabel. Indian Woman Sues Kail road. Minnie Joshua, a Umatilla Indian, yes terday filed suit in the Federal Court asamst the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The woman wants $15,350 for Injuries received October 1?, 1907. on the Walla Gal'.a branch. Weston Has Clean-Up Ferer. WESTON. Or.. April 9. Special.) A mass meeting initiated by the Woman's Club, hut representing all the church and social organizations in the town, was held yesterday at the Opera House. Its object is a general eleaning-up campaign, in which the Council has voted to co-operate. Mrs. A. Z. Crayne was elected pre siding officer and Mrs. Ioule Beathe sec retary. Stirring addresses were made and committees appointed to take charge of various details of civic improvement. SEEKS FRANCHISES FOR MORE LINES Street Railway Company Will Ask Council for Permits to Lay Tracks. PLANS MANY EXTENSIONS Order Tlaced for $50,000 Worth of Trolley Wire in the Kast Xew Kledrio Substations to Re Built on the Peninsula. Requests for franchises to build street car lines on many streets in the outlying districts so as to serve the growing suburban territory lth new lines will be made within the next few day by Presi dent Jossclyn of the Portland Railway, I-ight St Power Company. The Council will be asked to permit the laying of tracks throughout a larg-e district on the Ea-vt Side where the growth of population has outdistanced the car lines. . Orders have .lust been placed by Mr. jAsselyn's company with Eastern manu facturers for tW.O0T worth of copper wire. most of which is Intended for the string ing of trolleys for the new lines. A por tion of this order will be used in strength ening existing trolley lines and extending electric light wires to take care of the rapid growth of- the city. The money that will be spent by the company upon the granting of the desired franchises by the Council will, it U said. segregate a large sum. On Just what streets permission will be asked to lay tracks will not be disclosed until the peti tion of the company is laid before the Council, but tn a general way. requests will cover the newer districts throughout the East Side. 'Plans are being drawn," said Presi dent Josselyn. "for a new electric sub station that will be erected on Northern Hill and will serve St. John, the Colum bia and Willamette-river bridge, now being erected by the Spokane. Portland & Seattle Railway, the Swift and other packing establishments on the Peninsula and the surrounding district. This sub station, including the machinery and feed wires, will cost about 6. W0. "Flans are well along for the new ear barns and clubhouses to be built at Sell wood and work will start shortly on the new double track passenger line north from the Inman-Poulsen mill and east of the freight yards at the east end of the Madison-street bridge. This line will be completed In time for the heavy Sum mer travel on the O. W. P. lines and will remove this traflk from the freight yards of the company, through which it no passes. " BASH BOARD SIGNS UNSIGHTLY President Josselyn Tell Why They Were Removed From Cars. The removal of dashboard signs from the city streetcars ha-s caused numerous protests from cltlsens who think the chance ill advised. How ever, President Benage S. Josselyn, of the Portland Railway, Lipht & Power Company, explains that the new order Is in line with progress in street rail way management. He plves the roi lowingr reasons for removing- the dash board sigrns and leaving: the Illuminat ed sipns on Portland streetcars: The dashboard signs greatly marred the appearance of our new equipment and wore very much criticised by peo ple from other cities. We could not leave them off the new cars without taking: off all others, as some cars with these signs on and others without them would tend to confusion. "These signs are not used on cars n any other city. They are a relic of a bygone aee and Portland is no longer a country village but a metro politan city. W'e are assisting in every way possible to get out of our swad dling clothes. "The old style signs were placed on streetcars when they had no other Identification, but after putting on Illuminated signs on top of the car, the large lettered signs were no long er necessary. The ittumlnated signs can be seen day or night, while the dashboard signs can be seen only in the day or while the car is under a street lamp. "It is characteristic of any com munity to resent any change in the old and established methods, whether there Is merit In the change or not, and while, there has been some slight complaint on account of this change, it is gradually disappearing and in an other month these complaints will probably be forgotten and our equip ment complimented for Us neat and tasty appearance, not only by visiting strangers, but by citizens as well." OREGON'S STATE LAND Mr. Geer Ienies That Any Governor Ever Sold an Acre of It. .PORTLASD. April g. (To th Editor.) A man named Buc-kley is of the opinion that ha cannot support me for Congress and considers the fact of ufftc!ent public inter est to carry It to the column of The Or-g-onlan. Of eours I do not expert my nomination to b unanimous, hence, the losa of a man here and there is to be expected, "however much I may deplore Mr. Buckley defecttn and deflection. But since his plaint la In cluded in tha general conclusion that the school fund of Oregon Is not as large as that of Washington, as he says, by a difference of fully $4N.0rt0 0O0, and that I am per sonally responrtblo for lt; it seems that I should offer him some consolation, tf It can b done. My friend would not be thus grieved if fc did not mart off oa ths wron foot. Speaking of me he says: -He made tha claim that he sold th lands according to law." Mr. Buckley's grievanc going back into the distant past. But he belongs, evi dently, to that class of our fellow cltirenf who still think that s'nr there are two candidates for United Ststes Senator who ar-ff Republicans and that the Pemocrati will have but one. of course the Dmncr! will win. with but one candidate against two Republican." The substance of Mr. Buckley's grievance Is contained In the statement that "1 assert that the State Land Board should not hive done this or that." "a ruling of the State Land Board is law. etc.." "the Foard should have sold to the highest bidder." etc.. etc. Mr. Buckley wouTjJ have more peace of mind, perhaps. If he only understood that I never asserted that I sold an acre of state land to anybody or at anr price. No Governor ever did. No Governor ever tried t3. There has never been a law on the statute books of Oregon authorizing the Governor to sell an a re of land to either the highest or the lowest or to any other bidder This is all the work of the State Land Board, of which the Governor is a minority member, being but one-third of it. and since no act of the Lnd Board while I was Governor waa consummated without the approval of the State Treasurer and the Secretary of State, the majority members, and sinre they were both re-elected at the end of my term the Inference would be that the acts of the board were Indorsed by the people, wouldn't it? Mr. Buckley, at this late day, puts his trouble In these words: "Mr. Ger bad an example before him tn the State of Washington. That state sella no. lands fr less than $10 per acre, except State Capitol lands, and alt lands must be Alcohol Ask your doctor if a family medicine, like Ayer's Sarsaparilla, is not easily better without alcohol than with it. AyersSarsapdrilla NON-ALCOHOLIC A A A A A Strong Tonic -Body Builder -Blood Purifier - -Great Alterative Doctor's Medicine - Ayer's Sarsaparilla We have no secrets I We publish the formulas of alt our medicines. . C. AVER CO.. Manufacturing Chemis?, Lowell. Mass. sold to the higrhest bidder We have In this state a school fund of about $.VO0O OOO or f (.iM"rt,ovv while about all thw lands are sold. What Washington has to show in the value of her public laada goes cloe on to $:o.ooo.ooo, i.vivto acres of land in the , Nehalem brought to the school fund a little over $H.HV acres back of Ska- mokawa brought to the erhool fund of the State of Washington i.O00. bought by bankers of this city." Hut my friend makes the mistake of sup postng that I was the State Ijes-lslature as well as the other two members of the t,and Board, a conclusion wblch Is so manifestly wrong that I am compelled to enter a posi tive demurer. The object of the legislature of this state has been from the very beaMnnins; to get rid of Its lands at any fle-ure they must be converted into money and turned into the school fund at a time when there was little demand for land and the price had to be low to find a sale at all. A few years ago, tndeed. the Legislature actually lowered the price of some ofejhe state lands from fl.2ft an acre to $t the sales were not go itre fast enough. It was a mistake, to be sure, to.t the lands must go. The price could not be Fiieeesaully raised when the Govomment price wis so low for its lander and the hichest bidder alternative was abso lutely useless for that reason until lands be came scarcer. Purina: the latter part of my term, this system was adopted by the state board with some degree of success but I didn't do it alowe. Orepon should have held on to its la.nds, to be wire, as Washington aid, and I called the attention of the le(rhlsture to the sit uation in several mfwut but by that time the lands were practically gone at a very lew flcure. t After wanderlnr through, a lot of figures. Mr. Buckley says: "I do not assert that this was done during Gear's term of office, but It show what could have been done." Sure, It was not done during my term of office, but it shows what somebody else has done, so let ne charge Geer with it he's running for Oonre: Serlousiv, bowever, that difference between the scnI fund of Washtneton. aso.Ono.ono. and that of Orepon. $V0O0OO0. since t am re sponsible for tt. worries me. It has been the accumulation of the operations of the school laws and ewv-essive land boards for vears, but It now rests on my individu s shoulders, and the welp-ht of $4,1.ono,0OO t not easi-y thrown off. A smaller sum. say ha'f of it. I could easily pay. and would giartlr do so. through a sincere desire to re lieve Mr. Buckley, but the paymrnt of $4, OOO.OOO at this time wcuM eeriously cripple my bank account. Whv it Is nearly twice the amount of the Rockefeller fine, and the fait that It Is r,r)Pl up to me in Its entirety, all other citizens of Oreron. legislators and State Ind Boards for a half century tast being forgiven and forgotten, constitutes a mir den that a man of less hardness of heart than Mr. Buckley would have sought to dis tribute among othpre. But remember that ho Governor of Ore gon ever SOW an acre 01 smie mnu li' V the price of It T T. GEER. CITY . LOTS AND HENS Mr. Guilford Writes Another Chap ter on Vneamed Increment. WESTPORT. Wash.. April 8 (To the Editor.) Referring to the editorial tn The Oreconlan of March 9 on the single tax For what other property besides land could man buv in a growing community like Portland, go away for a period of 10 years, let the property lie idle and uncared for. and return and sell for four times as much as it cost, taxes included? This question presup poses that the town doubles, and that land speculation Is rife. Please answer this quea- lwlll show some of the things which are rot affected by the growtn of tne commu nltv. In the manner peculiar to the land. Take, for Instance, a calf and an unused lot. The lot grows In value as the community grows dav and nignt. ana wunnm food. The calf grows In value day and night, if he is fed and cared for day and night I fall to see any "unearned Incre ment" In case of the majority of calves. t have a house and three lots in Flrland. also some fine hens. In the last two years mv lots have doubled In price. Two years ago eggs sold at 2 cents per dosen. This year at 20 cents. It is evident that the lots have received the benefit of the "unearned Increment " Mv hottse and furniture are in the same boat as the hens. Therefore my lots alone belong in part to the community. The same share of the three -vacant lots actroas- the road bolongs to the community. Therefore, since our privileges are the same, our benefits from the community are tha same, our debts to the community the same, and our taxes should be the same. Iet us see what conditions must be im posed upon hens, that they may receive the benefit of "the unearned. Increment," Iet the number of hens that werw tn Oregon two years ago be the standard number of hens no increase to be allowed. Place a prohttRlTe tariff on eggs brought Into this state. As the community grows, the price of hens and egg will advance. Some wis men. noting the advance in hen-prica with the growth of the state. Invest some money in hena. These men are retired land specu lators, ao there la no more advantage in using hena than In using land. The hens are obliging and lay no eggs. The other hens in the meantime would be working over time. A good-sised tax Is imposed upon egrs, but the tax on hens Is light, espe cially on unused bens. The speculators saw that this law was passed before they bousrht hena. so they couJd afford to hold tha bid dies Idle. Given such conditions, and the tax. being added to the price of the eggs, the price of all 3 1 H J Hi! suffer, t . r? s3a. No woman who uses ''MotliefS Friend" r.eed fear the suffering and danger incident to birth; for it robs the ordeal of its horror and insures safety to life of mother and child, and leaves her in a condition more favorable to speedy Tecovery. The child ia also healthy, strong and good natured. Our book g m j "Motherhood," is worth illHHli woman, and will be sent free inplaAn envelope by addressing application to Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta, fio. Without Alcohol Without Alcohol Without Alcohol Without Alcohol Without Alcohol Without Alcohol bens and oggs will keep step with the price of land and living. The price of both land and hens would be far above their natural price. The difference represents the "un earned increment." In regard to that "cattle case." where Im mense wealth stored In the beef of (he prairies Is made available by th Introduc tion of railroads, thta case nas some of tn qualities of the "unearned Increment . Let me analyse the situation: The WeMern peo ple were rich tn meat products, hut poor In some other respects. The Eastern people were rich In some other respects, but poor In meat product. A barrier to trad was re moved by the railroads Since those cattle, before the Incentive to raise them econom ically and rapidly was created by the rail road, were practically wild and pertained as much to the land as coal or timber, or water power labor bad so small a share In their production as to be negligible they received the "unearned increment" when the railroad came through. After the original crop of wild cattle had been exhausted, and care and labor became necessary to produce more In order to fill the demand, the "unearned Increment' be came a thing of the past, as far as the cattle were concerned Were the cat lie war in the West caused by the contentions over the cattle, or over the land? Rvery body is anxious to g-et something- for noth ing; therefora the strenuous endeavor In get control of the cattle lands, to which the "unearned Increment" is permanently at tached "Every permanent improvement of the soil, every railway gnd mad. every bat tering of the -g-eneral condition of society, every eMmuhis supplied to consumption, raises ground) rent." P. P GUIUFORP. Mr. Guilford's problem of the city lots and tha hens remind us of a question we have long desired to ask the single tax evan gelists. If it Is, right for society to take possession of the unearned increment when it accrues, ought not society to reimburse the man when through the general progress of the world his property is lessened In value? Joseph has a city lot which increases $100 In value, pnelety grabs the Increment because It has created It. But Henry has a farm in Connecticut which In the last ,y years has decreased In value. roee society make up the loss to Henry because It has caused the loss? The settlement and development of the West have caused a fall In value of agri cultural land throughout the entire Attantio rectlon. If society has the right to take ever'what it creates, it certainly ought to make good what it destroys, it Is a poo? rule that will not work both ways. Mr. Guilford condescends to admit that our hend of Weatern cattle did actually acquire un earned, increment when the railroad wis built. This Is all we ask. He may n.w show that there are 10.000.000 hens and roosters which never have acquired 'un earned Increment, but It will avail Vilm nothing. Our contention Is that other things healdes land acquire unearned Increment, not that everything does In all clrv-um-rtanccs. Land does not always acquire In crement of value. Very often it acquires decrement, as everybody knows whro has ever lived through a boom and seen tJie bot tom fall out. This sad fact our argumenta tive fanatics see fit to forget, but tcey can hardly push It out of sight. Nor cjin they deny that if society has the right to grab the profit on land, it ought also to make good the loss. SEES HIS VICTIM'S SCALP Wilkins I'nmovpil at EvRricnce of Murder of Woman. OAKLAND. Oil.. April 9. ?Che gliastly displajr of the scalp and thi; hair of a woman who has been dead nearly a year was presented In Superior Jndce Melvln'e courtroom ths mornlnp In the trial of Mark A. Wilkins. clianpcd i,-ith the mur der of Mrs. Vernle Carmin, the runaway wife of K L. farmln, of Kansas City. The defendant watched thf exhibit with out outward sifms of feeling. DEMOCRATS H0U3 MEETING j County Committee Ijsyks Quorum, so No Art Ion Is Taken. A meeting of the Democratic county committee was held last night with the object of discussing .'plans for placing a ticket in the field for the June election. No action could be taken, however, as there was not a rjuorum of members present. Several ;peeches were made favoring the placing of a straight ticket In nomination, but these could not ac complish anything more than to indi cate the views of f.he speakers, and with out vote of a q i or um could not be re garded as binding, the committee to any action, according to the chairman. George H. Thomas. After the meeting adjourned, Mr. Thomas said-: "Believing in majority rule, and know ing that some 7Lemocrats in the county want a straight Democratic ticket, and knowing no other way of ascertaining And many other painful and serious af1mTite frum whirri mnst motlneDJ can be avoided by the use of rTiBmil i rimi. i. nis great, renieuy is a God-send to women, carrying them through their most critical ordeal with, safety and no pain. My Methods Always CUR MEN 1 would rather rlve up my pmctlco than In dulRe In either irttes.vjrnrk or make-believe cures. I haye deyoted twenty yenrs to earnest and conscientious endeavor to the nnravelmetit of some of the most verplcTln- problems tlist ever confronted the profession, and believe that 1 imvf niiHuien in. limit or medical possi bilities It my patttcuMr branch of practice. 1 do not treat prmntnma I treat to one the disease behind the symptoms. If the case pre sents even the slightest feature upon which t haofe doubt, or tf I 'recoenlse Incurable complica tions I positively tefuse treat ment. 1 have brought to HcM the true nature of men's diseases and the causes oil the svmp toms they prenentt In addition. 1 nave, nv tne so'irnttfto blcnd- Inir of drtiK. produced remedies that meet every condition that It seems possible, to cure. Fven the slightest relief, tinder mv treatment. Is penulne Improvement a rrt of the permanent cure that Is to follow. There Is no catle to hesitate. Consultation costs nothing:, and 1 Will not offer my services unlcj-s 1 can cure you. MV MR-riKMIS tRK I.IM'1. ll ItlHRCT. That there Is some functional derangement, the direct result of In flammation, enlllt pement or excessive sensitiveness of the Pitt tT ATM UI.ANP. brouRht on bv early dissipation or resuitinpr from improperly trented romrni'l pel disorder. This condition CANNOT PUSSIIM.Y be re moved by inter nnl medicines, and any tonic system of treatment that stimulates the activity of the function can but result In aRsravnftuT the real allmeMt. This Is n scientific truth t have ascertained after a careful and scientific studv, and upon which my own ordinal system of troMtmont Is based. T employ neither tooT'S. stimulants tior electric belts. I trea.t bv I.OOAI, IMI1FIT MKTIIol'S exclusively, and my suc cess In cnrlivr even those cases that others have fsl'n(j to temporarily relieve with their tonics Is tt'Nl'l.l'slVE FllKNCK that mv method Is the only possible means of a C'J.MFl.KTK. KAIilCAI, ANlt l'KH MANKNT Ct'TlE. MY Gt'AHAVTF.R 1 WORTH !OMFrrillJ. I rto no care what your experience hss bepe wlfh ctner treatments, what susrati lees yen have ami ivhat premises w ere imfulflt!f! in the i.shL as nsceeef ul, unsclcnt If l- treatment Burt mirellnf'lc ci'm-priij. nr In no wbt a reflection lip.-n HONBST, THI'STWORTMT MI'SINRSS MKTHOI'K llvr.l tin to In Oils city by me for TV F.NT T-ft V F. YEARS' 1 ha. an etah lished reputation, and my Guarantee means that mr pstlent nre lNtttPPfT Mll.Y IN'Sl'R Rll of success in their esse. There is Ml the trrrcnc In the w.rld bety.-een a auarantee of this Vlnd and the premise of tltit.v mushroom conn res n hl.'h are centltutsUv falllns In huslc-s. VARH'lH'El.E. PPHHH tTORRl'O BA. LOST VIHOR, KltllVNlf UFA K NFSS, tVNTRACTBl) I lSOR IKltS. STIt ICTI'RB, SIKilKIC Hl.tHIlt POISON AM Pll.KS. f also treat and cure preiui.tlv and thonniEhtv ttN?-f1.TATU)N FREE MY Mt'NEST AM' t'ANlilM APVU'R COSTS Tor NOTHINll I cheerfully slv yen the vny hf-t eplnlen, p.tilnd by ears tf successful uractlce. Men out ef town. In trouble, write If veu can not call. My offices are open all day from t A. M. to 9 P. M ,, and Sundays from tt to 1 The Dr. TAYLOR Co. (ORNF.R MORRISON A'TI FON 8TRFKTS. Private Fntrnnce, jfcM V Mor rrlsnn Street, rnrtland. Oiy th sontfenpnt of a majority of th county committee. I crtUod them together tonight so that those who wanted a ticket nomi nated might dovlse ways and means for sronrinfjr one. "Sin o there was no quorum. It was evident that the organisation feels that the ret iponsthitity for the lark of a ticket will be allowed to rest with the whole body of regis! ered Democrats of the counter, who Individually have had nmnle opportunity tn announce- a candidacy whetlier solicited or not, for any office to be filled at the June election." Mr. Thomas added that he did not ex pect to call the committee together again before the primaries. Inland Kmplre Historical SoHclj. WASHINGTON STATT5 COTXROW, Fu'llman, April 9. (Fpeclal.) The. annual meeting of the Inland Empire Historical Association occurred at the State Col lege Tuesdav. with H0 or more members present. T. C. Flllott. of Walla Wnlla. T.as elected president for the coming year nnd F. F. Nalder. registrar of the college, was elected secretary and treasurer. Plans were endorsed for forming local historical assoclntfons In several commu nities of the Northwest, throuph which MEN CURED QUICKLY No Money Required to Commence Treatment If Honest and ReponsibU Too Can Pay Fee When Cared. THE MAN WITH DISEASE should learn and the sooner the better that what may seem a trivial disease very often has most serious and far-reaching effects. The man who rries to be his own doctor is always the patient that later comes to the specialist with the chronic, stubborn, doep-seated case which is the hardest kind to cure. We cannot hope that all men will accept onr statement that the quickest, the safest and cheapest cure is had by consulting an expert specialist in Men's Diseases at once, but the in telligent man will readily be convinced of the value of this advice upon investigation. WE CURE QUICKLY, SAT ELY AND THOROUGHLY WEAKNESS OF MEN, VARICOCELE, HYDROCELE, NERVOUS DEBILITY, BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES, SORES, ULCERS. SWOLLEN GLANDS. KIDNEY, BLADDER AND RECTAL DIS. EASES, PROSTATE GLAND DISORDERS AND ALL CON TRACTED SPECIAL DISEASES OF MEN. CONSULTATION AND EXAMINATION FREE. If You Cannot Call, Write for Our Self-Examination Blank and Free Book. MEN: IF IN TROUBLE CONSULT US TODAY. Hours from 9 A. M. to 8 P. and Sundays from 10 to 12. THE OREGON MEDICAL INSTITUTE 291 Morrison St., bet. 4th and 5th, Portland, Oregon. MEN'S DISEASES Cured $5 hen we amount, you not like some, tr" ,. nonsuit i " Vr"idPort" fee advertised. tvp trrat men only. core promptly, nfifrly nnri thnrouchlr iirt at the fuvrrMt cost. 'VHrloiMTli-. Hrrtrorle, ttnl UrnkiirN. Hlfion mill Skin llcnrr. Kirinry nnd Blnildrr Dlxordrra, t lrr. Sr-, I'nlnfn! SwHllnirH, Hurnlne. Itching and Inflnmlnntton. NrrvonnnriM, Loan fif Strenjrth nnd Vitality and All Contracted IMorter nt Men. Ktrlrtnro Out treatment gives in OliltlUrc stant relief from pain, stops all Inflammation, emissions, and permanently frees the urinary canal from all obstruction. We re move everv trace of the disease without resorting to the pain or danger of the old - time operation method. No matter what your ailments are. call or write to us today, stating your ease plalnlv in your own way, and receive the benefit of a modern skillful diagnosis. All letters answered In plain, sealed envelopes. OFFICE HOURS 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ; evenings, 7 to S:30; Sundays, 9 A. M. to 12 noon. ST. LOUIS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CORNER SECOND A?SD YAMHILL l. T 1 IHH. lite l.rnrilns Kpprlnllat, MY FEE IS ONLY $10 In Any Uncomplicated Disorder You Pay When Cured data are to he collected. The State Col lege Library was designated as a, deposi tory for such mntetlnl. until t Is placed In due form fnr publication. iati I'rtlro Shlpilnjf Nrw. SAN IMOPHM. t'al., April 9. Th steamship George V. Klder cleared to night for Fortlnml via ICurekii and Sn Francisco with a large freight nnd passenger list. The st earner Jim Ttntlcr. for Wil ls pa Harbor; the Kednndo, for Coos Flay; National City, for Fort Pragg, and the Yoseinite for the t 'olumhla Hlvcr. cleared today In ballast to re load. The schooner Ludlow. arriving seven days from WIMapa IlHrbor, will dlsrharge 800.010 feet of lumber. MT. HOOD BREWING CO. Has n fine brew of bock beer bottled in pints and quarts, which will be ready for the market on April 1 3. ' Metr.irer iweter. ontletan. 34S Wash. to Stay Cured OUR FEE: .22 to $30.22 advertise our iee to or a specinea can rest assured it will be so, and who advertise a low fee and when them thev chanre von ten times the In Justice to our treatment, which, whore used atvordinK to Instructions, we only ask h thor ough Investigation to make you, if you are a sufferer from this often fntally neglected disease, one of the many who are todfty indorsing our methods and send ing others to us for treatment. DISPENSARY STREETS, POBTLAsD, OftEtiOJf,