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Arnoa, xxiaaaarer Sea aAorif; WePlncham. K. O OoltlAoM, N-r. louta Follfa. Eoreka. CbI. Call Chronicle Ag-ency ; T.m reVa Newa Co. roRTtAxn, FBtnAT. Arnx 17. km. TOTATT PRIMARIES. Republk-Aa nd IVmocratlc prlmr at to b held throughout Orgon lodAy. There re to ho nominated one Senator and two Representative In Congress, a Supreme Court Jtidfre and a Kood and Palry Commissioner, members of the State Legislature a.nd various Judicial, district and county officers. The election closes a cam paign conducted for the most part with decorum, decency and dignity by the various candidates, although the tontest for Serrator has been produc tive of some excitement and no little bitterness. Mr. Fulton himself and his re-election has been an issue. So indeed has been Statement No. 1. Mr. Fulton's ultimate success does not depend upon the question whether we shall have a Statemont No. 1 Legis lature, though undoubtedly It does de pend on whether he shall win today and again In June. We should say thst either Mr. Fulton or Mr. Cake tvill be elected by the next Legislature, if eitfier shall be the Republican nom inee and shall again carry the day at the polls on June 1 against Governor Chamberlain. Whether Statement No. 1 rises or fall, lives or dies, will then make no difference. Yet we are told that the predomi nating issue in this campaign Is Statement No. 1. There is nothing else, say the advocates of the State ment, that is worth considering. They are endeavoring to establish non-partisanship in the election of a United States Senator as a fixed practice of Oregon politics; they are trying to bring about such a situation that a Roptiblican Legislature, if elected, shall be required to elect a Iemo t rstlc candidate for Senator If the Democrat shall have the nominal in dorsement of the people at the polls. The main Impulse of this effort is, of course, from the Democracy, aided for the most part by those Republicans, or sn-called Republicans, who In the past have contributed to the contin ued political success of Governor ChambeTlain and other Democrats. S.atement No. 1 is essentially a device of tVniccrftls' to put a Democrat In h:gh oftVe. despite overwhelming Re publican odds and despite the Consti tution of the United States, which dl tects how and where and by whom a United States Senator shall be elected. The Oregonian is Indifferant to the result today, for it sees In the cam paign for Statement No. 1 a persistent pursuit of those purposes and endeav ors which have wrecked the Republi can party in the past and against which Its protest has been unavailing. Republicans, so-called, are determined that there shall be no Republican party In Oregon. Therefore they Join the Democrats in making a vehement outcry for Statement No. 1. Very well. Let us have Statement No. 1. Let ns h."ve a Statement No. 1 Legis lature next year. let us have a Re publican candidate nominated today, and let us lead him to be slaughtered In Jane by a Democratic candidate, Governor Chamberlain. Then let ns put Statement No. 1 to the test, and let us see what those Republicans In the Legislature wtio may have signed Statement No. 1 will do, and how they will Justify themselves before their constituents either In Toting for a Democrat for United States Senator or in repudiating the explicit terms and conditions of their pledge If they shall refuse to trote for him. The returns from the stamp sales of the Portland postoffice for the first eleven days of April were 1147. Si in excess of the corresponding period of last year, and. of course, much greater thaat that of a similar period for may previous er. Mr. Mlnto sees ontv two reasons for this increase, namely, an Increased population and the fact that merchants are sending out their catalogues earlier this year than usual. Another potent reason might be men tioned. The souvenir postal card fad Is at its height and Easter Is Just at hand. It la no exaggeration to sy that tens of thousands of Easter postals have been given to the mails in this city since the first day of April. Other thousands will doubtless be added to the number today and to morrow. The fad offers expression for pretty sentiment, and furnishes an easy and graceful method whereby a slight obligation of duty may be dis charged or a pleasant expression of remembrance Indulged. Inexpensive, graceful and pleasing, it adds to the sum of human happiness and to the postal reoelpts of the Government without appreciably increasing the burdens of the mail carriers. Hence, It may be hoped that the seniTTng of souvenir postal cards at Christmas as well as Easter time will grow from a fad Into a custom and abide with us. uws ftsav twk rsoriA. Oregon needs a number of laws to correct long-standing abuses in the way of special rrlvllege. But it Is to get no such laws under the initiative and referendum, at least not now. In stead, the "people's" law-making method is burdened with trifling mat ters or crank notions. Must the peo ple look, then, to the Legislature for their rights? While the water wealth of the state Is gobbled up by perpetual franchise speculators: while timber land owners evade their just share of taxes; while trusts and combinations squeexe the public and smother competitive trade, while short-weight food packages are sold for full measure, and while other real evils, that could be mentioned, thrive, the Initiative and referendum Is used to withhold funds from the State University and the militia, to bother the state with recall, propor tional representation, single tax, a salmon squabble a.nd a dispute be tween the Sheriff and the County Cotirt of Multnomah over feeding of prisoners tn the county bastile and rock quarry. In such wise, it the initiative? and referendum employed to propagate petty ideas and avenge rivalries, while the real needs of the state are ignored. It may not be the fault so much of the system as of the persons who re sort to It. But ways should be devised for suppressing the ebullient cranks who have found this new vent. Either public sentiment should hold them down or the Initiative and referendum should be put beyond their reach. It Is yet to be proved that the state can etaln by initiative and referen dum legislation any of the needed laws which the Legislature has refused or failed to enact. The only important enactments thus far secured bv it are the local option and direct primary laws. 1 et it may be seriously doubted that Oregon would be without such law, if it had no, Initiative and ref erendum. Local option and direct pri maries have spread aJl over the United States. They have been enacted by many Legislatures. And they would undoubtedly be enacted by the. Oregon Legislature. The point of these remarks is that not one law, for which there Is gen era! demand or need except the bill for enlargement of the powers of the Fort of Portland has been proposed, and that the state Is bothered with matters that should not be forced upon It. The foes of initiative and referendum are its professed friends, who make too promiscuous use of tt. Must the people obtain good Taws from their hitherto recreant Legisla ture 7 AS A firARAYTES OF PT5ACK, The United States may never need the four new battleships which the President so earnestly recommends in nis special message to Congress. It, 10 instil; prouaoie uint a naval pro gramme, calling- for one or two ships year, or possibly only one every two years, might be sufficient to keep up appearances on a peaceful footing. But, if this country should get Into trouble within the next three or four years. It would feel the need of those battleships more than anything else. It Is freely admitted by army and navv authorities in all of the great countries of the earth that the great battles of the future are to be fought on the sea, and the cost of the battleships asked for. heavy as it seems, woukl be a mere bagatelle compared with the sum which this country would be obliged tj expend to secure peace without the aid of a sufficient naval strength. The Immense wealth of this countrv. and our ability to live within out- own means and on the products of otrr own country would, of course, enable the United States to make a better show- ng with a small navy than could be made by the less-favored countries of Europe. They, at least, could not starve as Into submission, and we could exercise no small power In de priving other countries of the necessi ties of life for which they have so long depended on the United States. But the United States is now a . world power, and as such it will no longer drag along with a navy that is not in keeping with our Importance in other directlons. It is well known that Germany will annually lay keels for four battleships of the Dreadnought type until 1911, and, despite the objections raised and the reports sent out that England was about to abandon in despair her famous "two power" standard of naval defense. Mr. Asquith has publiclv an nounced that England will meet the defl of other countries, and build a sufficient number of new battleships to bring the total number in commis sion up to that of any other two pow ers on earth. The cost of all of this new naval equipment abroad will, of course, be enormous, and none of the Old World countries Is In any better condition financially for standing the strain than is this country. The argu ment frequently heard that we have got along nicely In the past without any such expensive navy as we are now obliged to support means nothing In the light of changed conditions. We today have a pension roll of $150,000, 090, and If this country were to be come involved in a war of conse quence It Is not at all improbable that we should find ourselves burdened with another immense pension roll. Unsetthsd industrial conditions have decreased the revenues of the Govern ment at this time, and we are rapidly running up a deficit: but, were this deficit ten times greater than it is. It would be expensive economy for us to fall to keep our Navy up to an ef fective working standard. We might begin to economise for this extra out lay for battleships by buying Panama supplies where they are cheapest and Incidentally cease paying SO per cent more for Government freight under the American flag, it would also be a good plan, while shipping property is unusually cheap, to permit our peo ple to buy up a merchant marine, and place It under the American flag, so that we may be prepared with collier and transports of our own. PEBMANBVT rACIFtc TU.ET XF.EPFTK Not In ten yearS hsve even the most hysterical of the American "Jingoes" predicted or expected war with any countries of consequence on the At lantic, and the possibilities for trouble in that part of the world are daily be coming more remote. For that reason it la the duty of all patriotic Ameri can citizens, regardless of their place of residence, to insist on the retention on the Pacific Coast of a large propor tion of the big fleet now in Pacific waters. it Is generally admitted by both European and American author ities who have studied the political situation In all of Its phases that the scene of the world's next great battle will be the Facific Ocean. This con flict may be between the United States and some Asiatic power, or it may be that changing conditions will bring on a war between some of the greedy Eu ropean nations which will put forward some of the Far Eastern countries as principals In the trouble. But. regardless of the personnel of the contestants In this coming strife, it will be of the greatest Importance for the United States to have a large fleet in the Pacific when the trouble begins. Sending a lleet of vessels from the Atlantic to the Pacific tn time of peace with friendly nations all along the route to aid and cheer Is an en tirely different undertaking from that which would confront this Government If a war should suddenly spring up at a time when the most of our fleet was 14.0K miles away on the Atlantic sta tion. It has cost a large sum of money to bring that fleet out to the Pacific, and there Is no other part of the American possessions that is more In need of its presence than the un guarded Pacific, with our Far Eastern and Northern possessions, Portland has been shamefully dis criminated against by the California Secretary of the Navy, and the Califor nia Senator Perkins, but, regardless of the work of these narrow-minded Indi viduals In refusing to send any por tion of the battleship fleet to Port land, every commercial and social or ganisation in the city would Join with the Caltfornians in a request that the greater portion of the fleet be retained on this coast, where the ships are needed, instead of sending them back to the Atlantic, where their presence Is useful only for social purposes and Junkets. AMFRICAy EXPORTER'S AIHAyT.AfiE, That ancient and somewhat honV. neyed statement that "trade follows mo nag was never much else than a smooth-running figure of speech. It has been so often demonstrated that the "flag" of anv rtArtlotiloe m.,tii-.. country makes no distinction as to the nationality of the trade It Is called on to handle. It is this abso lute independence of nu mh feature of his country's Jusiness, that has made the British shipowner the most successrui or his calling. If the American business man has any in clination to do business in any country on earth, he will find that transporta tion facilities are the least of his troubles- There is always awaiting him, at very low charter rates, a "flag" If he can supply tljp trade. Illustrative of this practice of for eign steamship owners handling freight for Americans, not only at lower rates than the Americans them selves could handle it, but also at lower rates than were exacted from their trade competitors, an investiga tion in London a few days ago by the Royal Commission on Shipping Rings is very interesting. H. A. Sanderson, general manager of the White Star Line, was under examination, and was forced to admit that American goods were carried to Australia by way of Liverpool at rates SO per cent lower than the rates on English goods sent from Liverpool for Australia on the same boat. He also testified that it was necessary to make these rates for the Americans, in order to meet the competition of direct steamers sailing from New York for Australia. In the course of the examination. Mr. Sanderson was asked by a member of the Commission if it was not "prac tically a breach of agreement with your British customers, to carry American goods by way of Liverpool cheaper than you carry British goods from Liverpool to Australia?" The steamship man asserted that the Brit ish shippers realized that, if the Amer ican business was not handled by the White Star Line, it would be taken by its competitors, and, while complaints were made that the low rates given the Americans were hurting business for the British, there was no way for avoiding the situation. As this was all 'official testimony delivered under oath, it has a distinct value as a per fect refutation of the argument that our foreign trade Is suffering in the slightest degree through lack of an American merchant marine, although no one questions the value of more American ships. What is proven by this testimony is the fact that the ocean freight carriers of the world are bidding against each other for the privilege of carrying American trade to foreign countries. The British Royal Commission has on numerous occasions proved that American shippers had a similar ad vantage over the British shipper, in goods going to South America, South Africa and China. Even here on the Pacific Coast, the decided advantage of having the world in competition for the work of carrying gur products to market is made clear by the present rates on flour and wheat to the Orient Rates as low as 11.75 per ton for the 4000-mile voyage to China are quoted. As this is 75 cents per ton less than the lowest rate charged by the Amer ican steamers between here and San Francisco, a distance of 650 miles, American trade is not suffering be cause the flag with which it is travel ing is not the Stars and Stripes. It was sufficient for Mr. Cyms H. Walker to explain why he advised a Baker County young man to choose Whitman College in the State of Washington over any institution in Oregon that he had a particular liking for Whitman. In such matters senti ment figures largely and merits respect, but when be adds that the climate of the Willamette Valley Is a menace to the health of youth reared In Eastern Oregon he talks arrant nonsense. Every personal experience stamps this opinion as absolutely false. His Illus tration based on the fearful mortal ity among Indian children Is puerile. Through whose fault did these Ignor ant savages meet death? Mr. Walker says naively: "The children did hot reallye the necessity of taking better care of themselves." In the name of humanity, why didn't the Superintend ent of the school teach them common rules of health? Mr. Walker Indicts the management for manslaughter. A normal white young man. ready "for college, no matter where he" was brought up, will thrive physically in Western Oregon ff he live rationally. No one' knows this better than Mr. Walker, the oldest native-born Ore gonian. and he should be ashamed so to distort an unfortunate circumstance as to make It a reason for avoiding our balmy Winter climate. It is an evil bird that fouls Its own nest. Colonel James Hamilton Lewis as candidate for Governor of Illinois will undoubtedly establish a code of ethics which wi: remain as a standard for some year- after he Is defeated for the office he seeks. There will be none of the "rough house" or even. "Bath house John" style of politics for the Chesterfleldian Jim Ham. The turbu lent ward meeting with which the vot ers of Chicago, which is most of the State of Illinois, are familiar, will be replaced during the Lewis campaign by nice pink teas, which In hue and brilliancy will match the Colonels whiskers. The effulgent glow of the Lewis whiskers may never diffuse warmth in the Governor's office at Springfield, but the Lewis oratory will heighten the temperature of the State of Illinois so long as it is on tap. When two men attempt to ride the same horse one must ride behind. This is the homely fact with which Abraham Lincoln consoled himself when, after a vigorotis and laborious campaign for Congress, he was de feated by Stephen A. Douglas. Its logic Is commended to the. multitude of candidates for office who in at tempting to ride the political hobby horse two. three, four or Ave to gether will find to their chagrin when the shades of evening fall that there was room for but one rider on so frisky and slippery a mount The Tacoma man who handcuffed his wife to keep her loyal has never read the Arabian Nights, we guess. If he knew the story of the Jew who locked his wife In a casket and locked the casket tn a cell and sunk the cell In the ocean and was betrayed after all, he would realise how vain such precautions are. The one way to keep a wife Is to keep her love, and that requires more manhood than some men possess. The spirit of the Rose Festival Is contagious. In fact It hMa ei- come epidemic. Scarcely a day passes "" n fome town or village does not fall Into line with promise of a float, a parade or something that will add to the parrAnt in thi riiv t t. tlvai week. The refrain of this spirit like, that accredited to the primitive church bell Is "Room for all, room for all." The leaders In Conirr h.v. jh Itely decided to km the President's most Important recommendations, those which the Dubltc conrl mn gently demands. Poetic Justice now rrtUres tne people to kill the political future of these recalcitrant leaders. There Is but one wav tn force Cnno-,.. to act for the public Interest, and that is to make It afraid of the political consequences of Inaction. The Manitoba "rrAiim. .. said to believe in killing 'everybody who does not ncree with thm ... anarchists. They are a religious sect "iih.ii nits revivea ior modern use cer tain practices, now out of fashion, that were once applied throughout Christ endom. Who knows how soon these principles may again become uni versally accepted? The gillnet fishermen are reporting poor catches for the first day's work of the season. The water bailiff of the Fish Warden's office was more successful, and succeeded in bagging severat guinetters who had mistaken the date and began fishing before the closed season expired. The Republican ceoola will desig nate their choice in torlav'a nrim.,u. for United States Senator and will rerer it to the June election. -to see whether the Democrat-Socialist-Prohibition people want the Rerhii,. choice elected by the Legislature. In view of tho ef-,. . t.. 1. - ..... - - . . . . . . . . Ul B f Patrolman Henson against a trio of bandits, traditional sneers against the Portland police force should be sus pended for at least a week. -It wouldn't do us much good to deny that we are in the China class, if a strong naval power should assert that against us and had enough shipS to prove it. Mr. Heney probably understands the deep meaning attached to that old adage regarding the pitcher which makes too frequent trips to the well. Mr. Heney says he will not make any further fight on Mr. Fulton. A lot of folks who have been expecting "ex posures" will be disappointed. Banker Ross may have practical use for his secret code, sending dispatches to his Portland friends about the prog ress of his trial in Salem. Wouldn't it scare anybody to be held up for money in a dead lan guage? No wonder Sig. Siehel nhonerl for the police. The conflicting affidavits injected into Oregon politics indicate that Mr. Heney and Mr. Fulton are not the only "liars." The weather kickers should remem ber that Oregon's seed planting would be helped by a little rala Just now. After the primaries, some of the candidates will not be' so satisfied with their pictures. More than half the candidates will not regard it as Good Friday. Don't worry. What if your candi date shouldn't be nominated? ALRAXT TO ROOST IX EARXT-ST Commercial Ulnb to Hire Kxperl enced Man for Campaign. ALPANT. Or.. April IS. (Speclal. The Albany Commercial Club will soon secure the services et an experienced man to have charge of the boosting campaign In this city. At a meeting of the board of directors of the club last evening a committee consisting of n. O. Woodworth. F. J. Miller. F. M. French. W. R Stevens and A. J. Hodges was named to secure a secretary. The committee will probably go to Port land and consult with Tom Richardson. An active publicity campaign will ee conducted by the new club, and while It will progress on a more sane and conservative line than has character ised some other boosting campaigns. It will be none the less active. The club has entered Into a Mg advertising contract with Sunset, the Southern Facific magaslne. CONVICTED IV HARXEY COUXTY Clrcnit Court Grinds Out tirist of Sentences for Wrong-Doers. BURNS. Or.. April 18. Special.) Charles Ball, a saloonkeeper of Harney City, was fined ISO for allowing minors In his plRce and his license was revoked by the County Oourt, O. A. Hall, charged with unlawfully slaughtering a calf belonging to the Pa clrto livestock Company, was acquitted by a jury. William Follard. who pleaded guilty to the larceny of some horaes, was sentenced to serve six years In the Penitentiary. It was the second time he had appeared before Judge Davis In the position of a criminal. Peter Miller, cottvtcted of horse steal ing and pleading guilty to .tt!e stealing, was sentenced to serve six years, two years on the former and four years on the latter charge, but was promised by the Judge that should he behave himself in prison and evince a disposition for re form. Intercession In hia behalf would be made with the executive. The several oasea against George ft. Miller, father of Peter, have been contin ued to the October term of court, and this completes the criminal proceedings of the April term of Circuit Court, Just closed. Sheriff Richardson started Tuesday morning to deliver Pollard and young Miller at the Penitentiary. BROWXF.Mj FOU STATEMENT 1 Sajs H Has Always Been in Favor of It io First Sxech. ORFXJON C1TT, Or.. April 18. (Special ) The first public appearance on the poli tical platform of George C. BrownrJI In nearly two years was made tonight in Shlvely's Opera-Honse. where a large audience greeted him and also many of the candidates for Republican nomination for county offices, who followed Mr. Brownell. Several hundred people went to the meeting out of curiosity, believing that Brownell would let fly some sensa tional political history, but they were doomed to dlsoppolntment, as he devote'd nearly all of his tme to a resume of the former method of electing United States Senators, telling of Incidents tn trta legis lature at Salem. Ha made a plea for Statement No. 1, saying that he had always been in favor of it. Gum-shoe campaigning has been In pro gress here for the last few days among the candidates for the Legislature. Seven men are aspiring to the Republican nomi nation, and four of them will b unsuc cessful. All have subscribed to State ment No. 1. m-hlch Is exceptionally strong In Clackamas County. Other Interesting fights are for Commissioner and Assessor, there being four candidates for each of these offices. WIXS SUIT AFTER FIVE YEARS Contest or Land Claim Is Lost In General Land Office?. ABERDEEN. Wash.. April 16. (Spe cial. Attorney Agnew has received word from the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the contested land case of Gus Kendall has been de cided in Kendall's favor after a hard fight of more than five years. Mr. Kendall purchased the Improve ments and relinquishment of a former settler In February, 1900, and In 190S began to make the place his home. He had built a cabin and cleared much land when the claim was contested by Thomas J. Long. Later, when Long found he could not make his contest hold as a homestead, he relinquished his claim and his wife filed a timber claim on the land the same day, de spite the protests of Kendall. It fact it was charged that the land office officials would not permit Kendall and his attorney to appear in the matter but accepted the filing of Mrs. Long. From this action Attorney Agnew suc cessfully appealed. The claim Is worth $25,000. . EUGENE PEOPLE RAISE S3 6,0 00 Commercial Club Sells 120 Lots in County Fair Addition. EUGENE, Or., April 16. (Special.) At the Commercial Club this evening 136.009 was raised from the sale of lots In the County Fair addition. The lots were drawn by 120 citizens for J30J each, the total of which raises the $S6,000, and each one holds a one hun dred and twentieth Interest in the rest of the 67 acres belonging to the fair tract. DEAD OF THE NORTHWEST Mrs. Edla GTeenman, Pioneer. MARSH FIE LI, Or., April 1- (Spe cial.) Mrs. Edla Green man, aged 74 years, and a pioneer of Coos County, was found dead in bed this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. TJ. Douglas, wife of a leading attorney. Old age is the cause of her demise. Mrs. Frances E, Hendricks. CHEHALIS, Wash., April 16. (Spe cial.) Frances E. Hendricks, a pioneer resident of Mossyrock. died after a lin gering illness, in this city, Tuesday night. Today the remains were taken to Mossy rock for Interment. Mrs. Hendricks' name was Davis before marriage, and her peo ple were among pioneer settlers in the Cowlitz Valley, coming here In 1849, tak ing up a donation land claim near Knab, and later locating on Klickitat Prairie. Mrs. H. H. Swofford, wife of County Clerk Swofford. is a daughter, and there are in addition several other grown chil dren, all of whom live in Lewis County. County High School Campaign. OREGON CITY, Or., April 16. (Special.) The campaign for the proposed County High School will be ouened in this county Saturday, when School Superintendent Gray, Professor L. A. Read, of Park Place, and Attorney C. Schuebel, of this city, will speak in favor of the movement at a local Institute of county teachers at Macksburg in the afternoon. Going to Canby, they will be joined by Clarence Eaton and will hold a meeting there in the evening. The County High School proposition was defeated by a small vote two years ago. but no campaigning was done for the movement, and the friends of better educational facilities in Clacka mas County have great hopes for suc cess this year. FOR ASSAULT Goode Family Church Troubles to Get Further Airings. SALEM. Or.. April 16, (Special.) Lulu Ooorle and her associates, who horse whipped the presiding elder of the Free Methodist Church here about ten days ago. were today acquitted of the charge of disturbing a religious meeting. The evidence showed that the meeting had adjourned before the disturbance took place. Tonight a warrant waa sworn out for the arrest of Jasper Goode upon the charge of assault and battery alleged to have been committed upon Rev. D. W. Cook. Rev. W. N. Coffee and Rev. j. f! Lewis, on April 4, the date of the horse whipping. Another warrant was sworn out for the arrest of Lulu Goods on the charge of assault and battery committed upon Mrs. Roper, wife of the pastor of the church. A third warrant was Issued for the arrest of Jasper Goode upon the charga of perjury alleged to have been committed when he testified In court to day that he did not strike Rev. J. F. Lewis while the latter was occupying the pulpit of the Free Methodist Church last October. As the Free Methodist Church has given me police much trouble tor several months there will be a strenuous effort to convict the persons who may be respon sible for the trouble. TRYING TO KEEP Ur TRICE Washington Loggers Strive to Save Market Front Going to Ploces. SNATTLE, Wash., April 16. .(Spe cial.) Loggers are putting up a hard fight to keep up prices, and Respite the fact that some outside the loggers' Association are selling for practically what they can get, have a good pros pect of success. The price Is now $S.R(I for merchantable. IS for No. 1 and 111 for flooring. A year ago merchantable logs brought $4.50 more than at pres sent and No. 1 $7 more than thev do now, while $1S was paid for flooring. It la claimed that big orders can now be filled only through the association and with this prestige It Is probable that the combine can maintain the tight to keep the market from going to pieces. Mills that handle cedar logs do not anticipate a serious effect from the logs which will he brought across the line from British Columbia. It is stated that Only 20.000.000 feet will be Imported and of this 6.000.000 is con tracted tor by one firm. The logs are not of high quality and towing charges bring the price up to nearly the level of Washington cedar of the same char acter. M. L. JONES ROASTS T. B. JOXES Final Rally of Primary Campaign Makes Fun for Salem, SALEM. Or.. April 16. (Speolal.1 A final political rally of the primary cam paign was held in the Opera-Housa this evening. It was known as a "non-partl. San" meeting, and was presided over by Conrad Krehs, who was the chief mover in calling it. The principal feature was an address by M. L. Jones, candidate for County Judge, who administered a severe roasting to T. B. Jones, who has been leading a campaign against the election of M. L. Jones. Other speakers were Waiter Wlnslow, candidate for tha Legislature; August Huokesteln. a Dem ocrat, and not a candidate, but a sup porter of Statement No. 1, and State Senator T. B. Kay, who Is not a candi date, but who made a vigorous speech in favor. of election of Senators In accord ance with the Constitution of the United States. The meeting waa the occasion for much fun and some serious discus sion. CATCH OF SALMON VERY LIGHT Not Enough Taken to Establish a Price) at Canenrios. ASTORIA, Or., April 16. (Special.) The catch of fish during the first 24 hours of the season has been very slack. In fact It Is lighter than on any opening day for years. While the rates paid are nominal ly S and 7 cents per pound, not enough flsh were caught to establish a price. Catch Men Who Stole Horse. FOSSIL, Or., April 16. (Special.) Oscar Curry and Charles Jackson were brought to town today, under the escort of two deputy constables, to face the charge of having stolen a sorrel mare from G. W. Knox, of this place, and lead ing her about 12 miles south of town, and there shooting her three times In the head. The shots, however, did not prove fatal. Upon examination before Justice J. D. McFarland each entered a plea of not guilty, and were each placed under $700 bonds to appear ln oourt Monday morning for the preliminary hearing. Asks Telephone Franchise. MONTESANO. Wash., April 16. (Spe cial.) At the City Council meeting, held last night. C. H. Wolf, representing a Tacoma syndicate, petitioned tor a tele phone franchise, with the privilege of running wires on all streets of the city. He offered to conduct the telephone busi ness in a separate office, the company now doing business here being conducted in a drugstore; and he also offered to give daily service from 7 A. M. to 10 P. M., and to give two phones free to the city, and the use of all poles for use In Installing a fire alarm system. Withdraws Because of Sickness. A LB ANT, Or., April 16. (Special.) J. E. Calavan, of Soio, has signed a notice of withdrawal as a candidate for County Clerk In the Democratic pri maries tomorrow. Sickness which will prevent him from making an active campaign Is the announced cause. It was too late for his name to be stricken from the ballots, but as Calavan was the only candidate for the Democratic nomination, members of that party will write in ths name of some other candi date. Monthly $10,000 Paid La Grande. LA GRANDE. Or., April 16. (Special.) The O. R. & N. officials, including J. P. O'Brien, general manager; M. J. Buckeley, general superintendent, and W. D. Campbell, superintendent, passed through La Grande today with the O. R. & N. paycar. With the officials was Paymaster Brown, who personally at tended to distribution of the $40,000, which monthly pours into La Grande. Rain May Keep Down Vote. LA GRANDE, Or., April 16. (Special.) On the eve of the primary election, there Is a heavy rain, and things look dark for a very large vote tomorrow. In La Grande, the vote will reach close to the registration mark, but candidates fear that should the weather clear up to morrow noon, farmers will be too busy to reach the polls as they should. Grants Pass to Send Float. GRANTS PASS. Or., April 16. (Special.) At a meeting of the Grants Pass Com mercial Club It was unanimously decided to get up a float representing this city in the Rose . Festival in Portland. This will be something symbolical of the prog ress and development of the thriving Southern Oregon city. WARRANT "Wf.i 111 uJT5: ONE BV ONE. our earlv and most trusted allusions are being shattered. Vandals and sneerers have already proved to their complete satisfaction that the real author of Shakespeare's plays was Hacon. and thnt Washington's cherry tree and the apple that William Tell shot from his son's head, only exist In the Imagination. Now comes along Owen Wlster In his delightfully gossipy American novel, "Lady Baltimore." When that novel ve. cently appeared, the critics handled II a dainty morsel, and said: "Ah', hero la something entirely new. .Who wmtM have thought of It? Ijidy Baltimore Is a kind of cake of tha olden time, made and sold In Charleston. 8. C. To read this novel l nearly as good to the taste as to eat a hit of the cake It typifies." An Indignant Englishman has luat written to the New York Sun exploding the Ily Baltimore myth. According to him. the cake referred to never belonged to the period of our grandmother. "Charleston's plain. sound. digestible cake was called Ijuly Washington." says this new critic, (hie day. while Mr. Wis. ter was In the ahop where It was sold, a prospective bridegroom entered to order a wedding cake, ami he announced that he was going lo marry a Palllmnr girl. He wished something original In the way of cakes. So. to oblige him. the women placed some more sugar, etc. than usual In the I,adv Washington cake, and renamed It the Lady Baltimore. Mr. Wlster was listening, and look it all In." "Marse Henry" Watterson. of the Ixiulsvllle Courier-Journal, has been waiting for a long time to get hack at the magaslne editors who In their pride are apt to hoaat of their superiority, aa correct chroniclers, to the newspapers. Now his chance has come. "When a ca tastrophe occurs In the Straits of Magel lan and a picture of the Bering Straits Is served with the coffee and ecus In an American city or In London there Is tli excuse that the label was mlsslns; from the cut. and that the night editor did not have time to look over the ground at the scene of the disaster, hut when a magaslne editor In New York reads the 'copy' In December upon an article thst Is to be published In March thera Is no excuse for his not applying the philosophy of Davy Crockett." complains Mr. Watterson. "And aa long as he does not do so. the periodicals cannot command attention as superiors of the press In point of accuracy of detail and sincerity of purpose." a o a Mrs. Humphry Ward, the famous author of "Robert Klmere." has been getting to much social attention since she landed at these shores, thst the report ers seem to hsve forgotten to mention that her husband was with her. It he cam necessary for Ixindon to gently hint that MS. Ward was also In the party. Mr. Ward Is art critic for the Iiondon Times, and be recently bought what now turns out to be a genuine Rembrandt, worth 15 times what he originally paid for It. Mr. Ward can Indulge In the same complaint a once did L. Clarke Davis, who waa really a clever newspaper man and managing editor of the Philadelphia. Public Ledger when George 'w. Chllds owned It. "I used to be known as the' fuisband of Rebecca Harding Davis, and hardly ever by my own name." complained the victim, "and then my son Richard hap pened to discover that he. too, has a talent for novel writing. So In time I came to be known aa the father of Richard Harding Davis, the author of 'Gallagher and Other Stories." " o a The question. When Is a novel not a novel? Is balng fought out In a London court. When P. R. Crockett's book. "Me and Myn. Limited." wan about to be published last June by T. Fisher TTn wln, a rival, publishing housa, that of James Clarke & Co., was about to issue another Crockett book. "Vtda," under a contract with the author which described It as the only novel of his to appear that season. The Clarkes sent out to the trade a circular stating that "Me and Myn, Limited,' was not a novel, but only a slight collection of stories on stamp collecting. The result of this was that many orders for the book were cut down, hence the suit. It was brought out In the hearing that "Me and Myn" was a complete story, with a hero, a heroine, love, and a marriage. e A hundred years after his death, John Newton is to be honored with a memorial tablet In the old London Church of St. Mary Woolnoth. The writings of John Newton are, of coarse, largely forgotten now. Who remembers even the title of "Omieron" and "Cardiphonia?" On the other hand, to few authors has It been given to live In words so widely known as does Newton In the noble hymn. "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken." a M. Jusserand. the French Ambassador to the United States, has contributed a critical essay, entitled "Ben Jonson's Views on Shakespeare's Art." to the Stratford Town edition of Shakespeare's works, which will be issued shortly. To this set of ten volumes Is attached the unique interest of having been printed in Stratford-on-Avon. and in an old Tudor house next door but one to New Place, Shakespeare's home. Few of the really great figures of nineteenth-century American, literature survive, and of those few none Is better known or more popular than Thomas Wentworth Higginson. At the age of 84 he Is actively Interested in the world's work: his spirit is buoyant and optimistic and he has just finished a little book full of helpful wisdom for young and old. He calls it "Things Worth While." and It will soon be pub lished in New York, in "The Art of Life Series." of whkh Edward Howard Griggs is the editor. a a a Interest in Queen Victoria's recently published letters Is still fresh as the announcement comes that King Edward has authorized the publication of Sir Theodore Martin's "Queen Vic toria as I Knew Her." This volume will be issued next month. , a Five hundred letters sre printed In the recently Issued "Letters of Martin Luther," selected and translated by Margaret A. Currie. A fuller and more careful Index to the volume la called for. See "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft," by M. A. De Wolfe Howe, are two new volumes of exceptional Interest. The long life of George Ban croft (1800-1891) almost covered the nineteenth century. He was a student in Germany In 1820, meeting Goethe, Byron, Lafayette, Humboldt and other famous men. Minister to England in 1846. Secretary of the Navy. Minister to Germany In 1867-1874, daring the Franco-Prussian war, and the Intimate friend and correspondent of Von Moltke, Bismarck, Emperor William and many other of the most famous people of the century. a a a Thomas L. Masson's new book, en titled "The New Plato: Socrates Redivlvus." will be out in a few days. It describes the arrival of Socrates, a garrulous old man, from Athens in New York, and his subsequent stay at the Mills Hotel. There he naturally discusses various modern problems in stead of the old subjects that used to occupy him in the Athens of Plato. 3 uawx. mam. LXCk I t