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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. -
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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.
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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
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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."
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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." "
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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