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PORTLAND. THURSDAY, MAY 7. 1008.
UNION PACIFIC BOND ISSUE.
That the confidence of the Union
Pacific stockholders In Mr. Harrlman
remains unshaken is quite clearly set
forth In their willingness to authorize
a $100,000,000 bond issue, one-half of
which Is to be used only for construc
tion and acquisition of new lines. The
result of the meeting at Salt Lake
Tuesday will probably have a direct
bearing on railroad development In
this state, where some very important
extensions have been temporarily held
up, pending passing of the wave of
financial hysteria that swept over the
country last Fall. The authorization
o,f a bond issue does not necessarily
insure a successful flotation of securi
ties, and until this is accomplished the
moves on the Harriman chessboard
will be made cautiously.
The success of the recent Pennsyl
vania issue is said to have influenced
Mr. Harriman in the belief that the
investing public had become sufficient
ly confident in the future to place its
money at work again. Of course Union
Pacific bonds issued for the purpose
of building extensions in new terri
tory will be less attractive than those
of the Pennsylvania, a road in whose
territory the traffic, present and pros
pective, can be figured out almost to
a ton. But Mr. Harriman has always
made money for his stock and bond
holders when he confined his opera
tions to building new roads or improv
ing the physical condition of old roads
so that they could be worked to the
maximum degree of efficiency. For
that reason there is little doubt that
the bond Issue authorized at Salt Lake
will be subscribed, and over-subscribed,
on favorable terms.
Taking the public into his confidence
has never been a predominating trait
In Mr. Harriman's character, and there
will hardly be an , announcement of
the details for expenditure of the pro
ceeds of this bond sale until the money
is available. It Is reasonably certain,
however, that there will be heavy ex
penditures In Oregon, Washington
and Idaho. Perhaps the nearest done
of any of his projects in this territory
is the Tillamook line, which flas
leached a point where it could be
rushed to completion in a very short
time. The Coos Bay line Is also far
enough along to insure completion
very soon after resumption of work.
The Snake-River cut-off, from- Hunt
ington to Lewlston, will undoubtedly
be rushed simultaneously with con
struction of the line to Puget Sound,
for Mr. Harriman has already an
nounced his intention to participate
largely in the lumber traffic out of the
Puget Sound region, and It is expen
sive work "bucking" heavy lumber
trains over the grades of the Blue
Mountains. Development of large coal
mines along the line of the Union Pa
cific extension to Puget Sound will
tend to hasten the work on that line
in order that a fuel supply for the O.
R. & N. can be reached.
As construction work, or even pre
liminary work, on the Central Oregon
line has never reached proportions of
any consequence. It is early to make
any predictions as to what this big
bond Issue may mean for that long
neglected territory. With the Oregon
Electric, backed by apparently unlim
ited capital, already headed in that di
rection, it seems reasonably certain,
however, that, if Mr. Harriman ever
Intends getting Into that rich trade
field in Central Oregon, he will need
to make haste, or he will find opposi
tion lines in possession when .he finally
does move. Through his acquisition
of the Erie and the Illinois Central
Mr. Harriman can distribute Pacific
Coast lumber over his own roads
Lhxoufcb. a greater area of teriltorjJLbi The miserable tale Simula shows
than is reached by any other railroad
system.
It thus becomes necessary for him
to develop to the utmost his Far West
ern territory in order that it may turn
out traffic for his vast transcontinental
system. If the anti-railroad fever has
run its course, and if there Is no trou
ble encountered in marketing the
bonds authorized at Salt Lake, we can
reasonably expect early resumption of
railroad activity 1n the Pacific North
west. When 'the railroads are pros
perous, all other lines of business share
in the prdsperity.
A MERE MATTER OF BUSINESS. -The
single-tax evangelists are not
much troubled by practical considera
tions. It has never occurred to- what
they call their minds that the Intro
duction of their beautiful Illusion
would throw the administration of the
finances of the state into confusion.
If it had occurred to them they would
have thrust the thought aside as of no
consequence. But to ordinary men
who have to pay taxes and who have
something at stake in society, it is
rather unpleasant to think that a con
stitutional amendment is pending
which will make chaos of our finances
if It carries.
Next Fall the various county Board3
of Equalization will meet to adjust
the assessments which were made as
of last March. If the single-tax
amendment is adopted in June it will
exempt from taxation a large fraction
of the property which has been as
sessed. Unless the Boards of Equaliza
tion increase the rates on the property
not exempt there will be a heavy defi
cit. If they do increase the rate, all
the present injustice of which the sln-gle-taxers
complain so loudly will be
Intensified.'
This state of things will cause great
hardship to many people. If it were
temporary, perhaps everybody would
submit uncomplainingly In the hope of
better things when the new system is
adjusted. The trouble is that the
hardship and confusion will not be
temporary. They will be permanent.
Were agricultural stock and Improve
ments alone exempt, the problem of
assessment would be clear and simple;
but the proposed amendment exempts
so many things of such varied classifi
cation that the task of distinguishing
between what must and what need not
pay taxes will be almost insuperable.
The courts will be swamped with liti
gation. Nobody will feel certain
whether his property is exempt or not.
Taxes will become delinquent on every
side. Property which ought to be as
sessed will escape for a time and then
be levied upon. Titles will be Insecure
and general financial confusion will
reign.
Of course our doctrinaire friends
will calmly waive all these considera
tions aside. Like Mr. Sklmpole, they
are untroubled by mere questions of
business; but do the voters of the
state, the property-owners, feel the
same serene indifference to practical
results?
IS .MARTIN GUILTY f
When a murder has been committed
the public always remains dissatisfied
until somebody has been charged with
the crime. As soon as guilt has been
apparently brought home to an Indi
vidual, the excitement Is usually al
layed without much regard to the va
lidity of the accusing evidence. Peo
ple in general are only too ready to
assume that indications of guilt, how
ever slight, are guilt. Nor are they
to be blamed for this propensity, since
the weighing of evidential circum
stances, Is one of the most difficult
things in the world. It requires all
the trained astuteness of courts and
juries. Even when the delicate ma
chinery of the law has been brought to
bear upon a given set of facts and
they have been sifted and examined
from every possible point of view, it
sometimes happens that the truth still
eludes the court and a reasonable
doubt of guilt remains which forbids
the Jury to convict. It may not be un
interesting to inquire whether In Mar
tin's case, black as the evidence as
against him appears, there Is, never
theless) such a reasonable doubt.
There is nothing In his character
and previous history which makes his
guilt either probable or improbable.
Men of good family and deep erudi
tion have been convicted of atrocious
murders, of theft, of arson, in fact of
every Imaginable crime. Reputed
character, whether good or bad, has
almost no evidential value by itself.
The famous case of Dr. Webster in
Massachusetts, who killed a man and
hung the body In a vault, whence he
took It bit by bit to be consumed in a
furnace, illustrates the worthlessnesa
of education as evidence of innocence,
for he was a highly trained physician.
Not so remote from our own day is
the Instance of the professor in ' a
Pennsylvania college who set fire to
the buildings to revenge his real or
fancied wrongs, or that of Oscar
Wilde, a man of great poetic genius
and International fame, who was con
victed of unnatural crime. No relia
ble deductions as to guilt or innocence
can be drawn from a man's education,
ordinary habits or standing in society,
though all these circumstances have
weight In combination with others
which seem to connect an - accused
person directly with a crime. It
stands to reason that a man of loose
habits ought, perhaps, to be convicted
on less evidence thna one of estab
lished self-control.
Nor should we assume too hastily
that addiction to drugs is in itself evi
dence of guilt. The great essayist, De
Quincy, was an opium eater, though
otherwise above reproach. Coleridge,
In some respects the finest lyrical gen
ius among the English poets, was a'
slave to morphine. It destroyed his
energy but did not make him a crim
inal. Everybody who is familiar with
real life can recall cases of lawyers,
judges, writers, men of business, who
are habitual users of morphine, co
caine or some other deleterious drug.
They manage to live for years under
the burden of their vice, with gradual
ly failing powers to be sure, and in
creasing loss of social respect, but
without crime. It would be difficult
to prove that either morphine or co
caine sets up a predisposition to vio
lent crime in a man. Strong drink
often does so, but not the former drugs
to anything like the same degree. The
truth about them seems to be that
they weaken the will and deliver a
man over to evil passions without ac
tually exciting them. The murderous
impulse must come from some other
source.
We conclude, therefore, that Mar
tin's history of good birth, thorough
education and bad habits creates no
presumption either for him or against
that he is a person of weak will who
might in a dire emergency lose his
head and commit a deed which in his.
normal moments he would abhor. The
only substantial evidence which con
nects him with the murder of Wolff is
the blood-smeared shirt which was
found by a policeman back of a lodging-house
on Flanders street. This
garment Is known to be one of four
which a Mr. Sichel sold to the peddler
Max Drey, but it is not known which
one of the four It was. Drey sold
three of the shirts to 'Martin, but one
of them he kept. The history of this
shirt is not known. It may possibly
be the - garment stained with gore
which Patrolman Goltz discovered.
What did Drey do with this fourth
shirt? Who bought It? Has it passed
out of his possession? Can Martin
account for all of the three which he
purchased? These are Interesting In
quiries and they may be important.
Moreover, what did Martin do with the
rest of his clothing? It is in evidence
that he must have discarded not only
hjs shirt, but everything he had on. If
he discarded anything. Why did he
throw the shirt, and nothing else, be
hind the lodging-house? Where did
he hide i his coat and trousers? If
there was blood on his shirt there was
blood on his coat also. Where is the
coat? Where did he get the fresh suit
that he had on when he reached home
at about midnight? Was It taken
from Wolff's shop? Were his dis
carded garments hidden somewhere In
the shop? Why did he not hide the
shirt with them?
The chances are that Martin left all
his clothes together when he took
them off. One can Imagine no reason
why he should carry the incriminating
shirt a long way when there was a
safe hiding-place for everything else
near at hand. Furthermore, there is
certainly a possibility that the dlscov-'
ered shirt never belonged to him. If
It was thrown behind the lodging
house by somebody else, then Martin
did not commit the murder. His story
of the wound on his head and the
marks on his face Is lamentably lame,
but that does not prove that he Is
guilty. His reticence may arise from
some other cause than the murder of
Wolff. Perhaps he has told the. truth,
unlikely as It seems. Men have been
wounded by axes in their own hands.
People have been scratched by cats.
No physician knows positively how the
marks on Martin's face were made.
Dr. Zelgler says they may have been
made by finger nails, or "by falling
against something." .This is no evi
dence upon which to hang a man who
denies his guilt. Even if they were
made by finger nalls;-there Is nothing
thus far to show that Wolfs nails
made them.
Such reflections as these naturally
arise in one's mind when thinking over
the facts and confronting the difficul
ties of this remarkable case. We do
not wish to be understood as believing
In Martin's innocence, but it must be
admitted that his guilt is not yet es
tablished. Yet it must be added that
until he shall have made a satisfactory
explanation of his whereabouts on the
day and at the time of the crime, there
must be a presumption that the police
have in him the murderer of Wolff.
ON EVEN TERMS.
The Increased use of oil for fuel
and the inability of the mines tribu
tary to Puget Sound to supply coal in
competition with the British Columbia
mines have to a certain extent equal
ized the fuel handicap with , which
Portland formerly had to contend. We
can now get oil from California at a
slightly lower rate than it costs de
livered on Puget Sound, and lumber
and flour steamships bound from Port
land to the Far East can secure coal
at the British Columbia mines fully as
conveniently and at as low a cost as
the fleet bound from Puget. Sound.
In the marine notes from Tacoma,
printed in yesterday's Oregonian, men
tion was made of the departure from
Tacoma of the steamship Livlngstonla
for Nanalmo, B. C, to coal before
starting on her Journey to Europe, and
of the steamship Nederland for Co
mox, where she was to coal for a trip
to South America.
Practically all of the foreign-bound
steamships from Portland go across
the Pacific, and on such voyages a call
at Comox or Nanalmo is no more out
of their regular route than it would
be for the Puget Sound vessels which
this season have been obliged to call
at the British Columbia ports for fuel.
Another exceedingly Important factor
in the Portland fuel problem is the
recent opening of coal mines along
the line of the Harriman road to Pu
get Sound. The distance from these
mines to a coaling point on the Co
lumbia River is much less than the
distance from Roslyn, chief source of
supply for Puget Sound ports, to Ta
coma and Seattle. While the extent
of the deposits In the newly opened
district has not yet been accurately
determined, they are reported to be
ample for all immediate demands that
may be made on them. If this be
true, the greatest possible benefit to
result from the building of the new
line to Puget Sound will be in its value
for transporting coal to 'tidewater at
Portland and other Columbia River
ports.
TILE DESPISED "SKCOJfD PLACE."
Governor Johnson wants first place
on the Presidential ticket or none. No
Vice-Presidency for him. The second
place has long been considered the
grave of all Presidential or even lesser
political aspirations. It ' insures a
highly respectable position for four
years, it is true, but unless death in
tervenes and gives sudden promotion,
it puts a man in a lady-like attitude
before the country and returns him to
private life as a sort of mild, outdated
politician.
There., are conspicuous exceptions,
however. Not to go back farther than
to the time of General Arthur, it gave
the United States a capable President
for the unexpired term of President
Garfield, and an administration con
spicuous for its dignity and freedom
from political scandals and official
peculations. The reluctance with
which Theodore Roosevelt accepted
the second place on the McKlnley
ticket, amounting almost to actual re
volt, is well remembered; but through
the same avenue that landed General
Arthur in the Presidential chair it led
Mr. Roosevelt to the goal. While de
ploring deeply and with abhorrence
the events that made the Vice-Presidency
a stepping-stone to the Presi
dency In these instances, the country
in each case accounted Itself fortunate
in that political exigency had com
pelled two safe and honorable men
to take the despised "second place"
on the National ticket, when veiled
calamity shadowed the man who held
the first place.
President Roosevelt's determined,
almost defiant, attitude before the Re
publican National Convention when
urged to "accept the nomination for
Vice-President, was a striking incident
in the political history of the time.
The events that followed proved the
value of his acceptance and gave as
surance of safety to the Nation in a
time of trouble..
While no man could be asked or
expected to accept the nomination for
Vice-President because of this possi
bility, it is well for nominating con
ventions to remember that the uncer
tainty of human life created the "sec
ond place," and that, in view of this,
the nominee for Vice-President should
be as carefully chosen as the nominee
for President.5 Party and civic pride
should forbid giving the second place
to any man whose advancement to the
first place'would be a National calam
ity. The first of the series of blunders
with which the Republican party fol
lowed up Its splendid achievement
under President Lincoln was commit
ted when the second place on the Pres
idential ticket In 1864 was given to
Andrew Johnson. Disgust, shame and
disgrace followed this blunder, the
memory of which rankles yet.
- Horse race gambling has at ' last
been effectually closed in the State of
Washington, the poolrooms at George
town, a suburb of Seattle, bowing to
the inevitable and closing their doors
Tuesday. The City of Georgetown lies
Just outside the city limits of Seattle,
and since open gambling was closed
In the city limits this little suburb has
become a very hotbed of iniquity. A
number of suicides have been directly
traceable to the operations of the
Georgetown poolrooms, and, -aside
from these, misery in wholesale quan
tities has naturally resulted from the
indiscriminate plunder of the poor
fools who supply the money that keeps
the great game moving. The closing
of the poolrooms will compel a large
number of harpies either to move on
or else go to work.
The American Economist, some
times known as the American Humor
ist, gravely announces that the Ameri
can steelmakers can no longer com
pete with the foreigners, who have
been making heavy reductions in the
price of steel. Yet the American steel
makers are still declaring the regular
heavy dividend on stock so badly wat
ered that it ought to founder. As the
Carnegies will fight to the death
against any reduction in the tariff
which might force the squeezing out
of the water In the stock, they will
probably meet this European competi
tion by reducing the wages of the op
eratives, who the American "Humor
ist" would have us believe are the
chief beneficiaries of the present tariff
system.
The Oregon Electric has been grant
ed a franchise into Hillsboro, one of
the conditions being the filing of a
bond for $5000 to insure that the line
will be in operation in the city within
six months. If the past performances
of the road are a criterion, there will
be no forfeit of the bond, for the Ore
gon Electric is one of those rare cor
porations which seem in a hurry to get
its rails down and its equipment mov
ing so that it can take care of the
business.
Governor Chamberlain will not at
tend the meeting of the Governors at
Washington. He is very busy explain
ing to the people why a man who re
ceived about ten times as many votes
as he (Chamberlain) received at the
primary election Is not really the peo
ple's choice. The task is not a small
one, but the versatility and adaptabil
ity of the Governor are something phe
nomenal.
The drug habit not only eliminates
some of the unfit, but carries down to
destruction men of character and In
telligence. It may be assumed that
because E. H. Martin could not control
his desire for drugs he was in the class
of the unfit; but Nathan Wolff's un
timely death cannot be attributed to
unfitness.
If the weather man who gave us a
frost that nipped the prunes In-lowland
orchards had exercised good
Judgment, he would have had the frost
nip about 75 per cent of the hops on
the Pacific Coast. That would have
been money, in the pockets of the hop
growers. Followers of various other occupa
tions having entered protest against
the "dry" movement upon the ground
that It will hurt their business, divorce
lawyers and undertakers may now be
expected to add their voices to the
general acclaim.
Now we have two Taft headquarters
in Portland, organized mainly to de
feat Bourne as a delegate to the Chi
cago convention. Geer and Shepherd
can give valuable testimony that it is
a mistake to put up two candidates
to beat one.
Senator Bourne wants the delega
tion toi go to Chicago without instruc
tions. Treason! Treason! They
might betray the people. Tie 'em up
with Statement No. 1.
Yet we rather expect to see Mr. Her
rin irreverently called "boss" show
up at that California state convention
with a bunch of delegates under each
arm.
Andrew Carnegie thinks our mone
tary system the Worst in the world.
It is. Yet Andrew never blamed It
much until. he got that $400,000,000.
Doubtless he knows.
' We lost the opening game by seven
to one; yet It doesn't necessarily fol
low that San Francisco's ball team is
seven times as good as Portland's. -
Another trusty convict has walked
away from the Penitentiary. Appar
ently he was about as worthy of trust
as some bank officials.
Among others who will not be pres
ent at that White House conference of
Governors will be our own George.
He's busy. .
Doesn't the Portland baseball team
know that, if it expects to win in this
state, it should sign Statement No. 1?
Tillamook Head will do just 'as well
as Mount Hood to see the fleet from.
Besides, it is nearer.
LOSE CHANCE OF LOCAL OPTION
Astoria Signers Withdraw Names
From Petitions.
ASTORIA, Or May ' 6.T-(Special.)
There will be no local option contest at
the coming June election In Astoria, with
the exception of three precincts, which
are now "dry." Petitions had been filed
for precincts two and three, which are
now "wet." but when they were 'taken
up by the court this afternoon, six of the
signers in each precinct presented writ
ten requests asking that , their names be
withdrawn. These requests were allowed
by the court and as there were not suf
ficient names remaining on the petitions,
the petitions were denied.
The petition for local option at Seaside
was also denied as It was five names
short of the required number. The pe
titions for Astoria precincts one, six and
seven, and for Olney, were allowed and
an election ordered held. These three As
toria precincts were voted "dry" two
years ago and an attempt Is now to be
made to open them up.
GOES TO BED UNDER . ENGINE
Yacolt Woodcutter Loses Life as Re
suit of Drunken Mistake.
VANCOUVER, -Wash., May 6. (Special.)
Thomas Trent, a woodcutter at Yacolt,
was run over by one of the locomotives of
the Northern Pacific at Yacolt at an early
hour this morning and both of his legs
were severed. He died while being brought
to Vancouver. Trent had been at Yacolt
during the evening last night and had,,
been drinking freely. In an effort to find
some place to sleep he located himself
under the tender of a locomotive standing
on the track.
The night watchman, whose duty It was
to coal the engine, go;, aboard to move it
alongside the coal car, and In doing eo
caueTht Trent's feet, which extended over
the rail. His cries brought assistance and
he was carried to the depot, where he
was taken care of, but the shock proved
too great and he survived only a few
hours. He was a native of Clark County
and was about 36 years old.
DIES ON TRIP TO THE COAST
William B. Allen, or South Bend,
Ind., Dead at Astoria.
ASTORIA, Or., May 6. (Special.)
William B. Allen, of South Bend, Ind.,
who has been visiting his brother, Hon.
B. F. Allen, in this city, for about two
weeks, dropped dead from valvular dis
ease of the heart as he was sitting at the
supper table this evening. Although he
had been suffering from heart trouble
for years, he had been in unusual good
health since coming to the Coast and had
planned to go on a fishing trip tomor
row. He was a native of New York, 77
years old and left one son, residing in
Chicago, his wife and two daughters
having died within a year. Mr. Allen had
retired from' active business life, but for
many years he was in charge of the paint
ing department of the Oliver Chilled Plow
Works. The remains will probably be
shipped to South Bend for interment.
PROTEST AGAINST INCREASE
Commission Will Ask Reason for
Raising Tariff SO Per Cent.
SALEM, Or., May 6. (Special.) Man
ager John H. Wright, of the Astoria
Chamber of Commerce, has protested to
the Oregon Railroad Commission because
the A. & C. R. R. and the O. R. & N.
Co. boats have increased the freight
rate on grain, hay and potatoes from
Hi to 10 cents per hundred pounds be
tween Portland and Astoria. This in
crease of over 30 per cent becomes ef
fective May 1. The rate mentioned is
for carload shipments. The Commission
will ask the reason for the raise and
will hold a hearing whenever a formal
complaint has been filed.
Shippers at Lyons, Linn County, have
filed formal complaint with the Commis
sion, asking that the Corvallis & Bast
ern be required to maintain a freight and
passenger depot at that place.
GOODE FAMILY MUST BEHAVE
Preachers Will Not Prosecute If
They Are Not Molested.
SALEM, Or., May 6. (Special.) The as
sault and battery case against Miss Lulu
Goode, who horsewhipped the presiding
elder of the Free Methodist Church, was
dismissed today upon the agreement that
the members of the Goode family will
cause the church authorities no further
trouble. Upon the same condition the
perjury charge and four assault and bat
tery charges against her brother, Jasper
Goode, were continued. Jasper Goode is
held under $500 bonds and his case will
be continued during good behavior. The
Injured preachers did not wish to pro
secute if the Goodes would agree to cause
no further trouble.
FERRET CRIME IN PENDLETON
Captain Bruin to Open Branch De
tective Agency.
PENDLETON, Or., May 6. (Special.)
A branch office of the Bruin Detective
Company, of which Captain Patrick Bruin
Is the head, Is to be opened in this city,
and J. M. Manes, who Is to be local man
ager. Is now here. From the Pendleton
office the company will conduct a general
detective business for Eastern Oregon.
Captain Bruin, who was formerly captain
of detectives on the Portland police force.
Is a brother-in-law of Judge Fltz Gerald
here, and Mrs. Bruin is now In the city on
a visit with her relatives and also upon
business connected with the establish
ment of the company's office here.
TOO OLD TO CELEBRATE DAY
Grand Army Men at Centralia Want
to Drop the Burden.
CENTRALIA, Wah., May 6. (Special.)
The members of the local post of the
Grand Army of the Republic have de
cided that they are too old to participate
actively in a Memorial day celebration.
A committee appeared before the City
Council last night and requested that the
burden of suitably observing the day be
taken from their shoulders. It Is probable
that the Memorial day programme will
be placed in charge of the city schools
and the local lodge of Eagles.
Judge Robinson Breaks Leg.
PROSSBR, Wash., May 6. (Special.)
Judge Robinson, of Olympia, Wash., who
has been at Prosser this week attend
ing to his orchard, near here, met with
a very painful accident today. When
about to cross the railroad track his
horse became frightened at an incoming
train and ran away, throwing Judge
Robinson from the rig and breaking his
right leg just above the ankle, causing
a very bad fracture. He was taken to
the Angus Sanitarium. Dr. Redpath, of
Olympia, was sent for and will be here
in the morning to assist Dr. Angus to
reduce the fracture.
Washington Auditor's Report.
OLYMPIA. Wash., May 6. (Special.)
The April report of State Auditor Clau
sen issued today shows general fund re
ceipts of $587,394.19. disbursements of $180.
671.67' and cash on hand in the general
fund May 1 of $369,594.65. Receipts from
all funds aggregated 9fm.746.64 and dis
bursements were $293,175.71.
MEMORIAL OF FIRST SCHOOL
Polk County Children to Erect 3Ion
ument on the Site..
INDEPENDENCE, Or., May B. (Spe
cial.) A memorable gathering will take
place at Rickreall on May 16 when the
children of the schools of Polk County
gather there for a picnic In honor of the
first school ever organized in this country.
On that day a monument will be erected
over the site of the old schoolhouse by
the school children. Unveiling will he
made by one of the survivors of the 16
pupils of that school. State Superintend
ent of Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman
and George H. HImes, president of the
Oregon Historical Society, are expected
to be present to deliver addresses. Arthur
L. Veesey,. a lawyer of Portland, a grand
son of the first teacher, who was J. E.
Lyle, Is also expected to be present to
take part In the exercises.
Following are the names of the 16 pu
pils of the school, which was organized
In 1S63: Josephine Ford, now Mrs. Boyle,
of near Rickreall: Caroline Ford, 'de
ceased; Farah Ford, deceased; Miller
Ford, deceased: Pauline GofT, deceased;
Caroline GofT, deceased; Marlon Goft, de
ceased: Milton Tharp, deceased; Theo
dore Tharp, deceased; Amanda Tharp,
deceased; Enos Wood, deceased: William
Davis, deceased: Gertrude Applegate, de
ceased; T. V. B. Embree. of Dallas;
Mary Z. Embree, now Mrs. T. J. Hay
ter, of Dallas, and Marcus A. Embree, of
Dallas. ,
HARMONY IN HARNEY COUNTY
Republicans United and Fulton Men
Will Vote for Cake.
BURNS, Or., May 6. (Special.) The
Harney County Republican Central Com
mittee met Saturday afternoon and
planned for a vigorous campaign, by
which it Is expected to give a good ma
jority to the entire ticket this year. This
county has a Republican majority, but
through dissensions in the ranks there
was not a single Republican elected on
the county ticket two years ago. This
year there is unity and harmony among
all the elements. Harney County gave a
majority of 223 for Senator Fulton In the
primaries and every Fulton man is an
ardent supporter now of Mr. Cake, so
that gentleman will get a big vote.
The Central Committee elected the fol
lowing delegates to the state convention:
Frank Davey, William Miller and W. D.
Hanley.
HITCH OCCURS IX THE PLAN
Reorganization of State Capital Bank
Is Delayed.
BOISE, Idaho, May 6. (Special.) There
Is dissension in the ranks of promoters
of the reorganization of the State Capital
Bank. Today, on order of the court, a
written statement of the plan for re
opening was submitted to the court and
taken Under advisement, but the promot
ers asked for further time to report In
full. They are unable to decide upon the
names of officers and directors. Six
meetings within the last two days have
been held. It is also stated that many
depositors who were expected to sign an
agreement to withdraw deposits piecemeal
at stated intervals have refused to make
terms. '
WHITE HAIRS DO NOT DETER
Aged Union County Horse Thief Geta
Three Years Appeals.
PENDLETON, Or., May 6. (Special.)
Three years In the Penitentiary was the
sentence pronounced upon R. W. Deal
by Judge Bean, in the Circuit Court this
morning. Deal Is the white haired pioneer
of Union County who was recently tried
and found guilty of horse stealing.
His attorney gave notice of appeal to
the Supreme Court, motion for a new trial
having been denied, and a writ of prob
able cause was allowed. This will pre
vent the old man's being thrown in jail
pending the hearing of the appeal.
TAFT IS CERTAIN OF IDAHO
Washington County Convention In
structs Delegates for Him.
POCATELLO, Idaho. May 6. (Special.)
The Washington County Republican
Convention in Idaho today instructed for
Taft, Brady and Lansdon. This brings
the total Instructed strength of Mr.
Brady to 113 with 17 counties yet to hear
from. Washington County's resolutions
were plain and strong for Taft for Presi
dent, Brady for Governor, and Lansdon
for Secretary of State. Taft's instructed
strength Is now 196 out of a possible 303
votes at the Wallace convention, assur
ing him an Instructed delegation from
Idaho.
Stage Service Doubled.
ELGIN, Or.', May 6. (Special.) For the
past two weeks the rush of land seekers
and others Into Wallowa County has been
so great that the Joseph & Elgin Stage
Company has doubled its stage service,
and now two stages leave here daily for
Wallowa County and way points, and two
stages arrive from there. Monday a
family of five arrived from New Jersey
en route for Joseph, to settle In that dis
trict. The managers of the line say the
travel this year has started in earlier
than in previous years, and the Indica
tions are that it will keep up for three
or four months.
Benton County Delegates.
CORVALLIS. Or., May 6. (Special.)
At a recent meeting of the county central
committee of Benton County the follow
ing delegates were elected to the state
and Congressional conventions: State
Senator A. J. Johnson, George Denman,
J. R. Smith, Virgil Carter, Ed Williams.
Congressional, C. V. Johnson, Thomas
Cooper, George Lilly, R. H. Gellately, J.
F. Allen. For state' committeeman,
George Denman; for Congressional com
mitteeman, C. V. Johnson; for chairman
of the county central committee, George
Lilly.
( Cottage Grove Delegates.
COTTAGE GROVE. Or., May 6. (Spe
cial.) The East and West Cottage Grove
primary meetings were held and the fol
lowing delegates elected to the Lane
County convention, to meet In Eugene,
May 9: West Cottage Grove, F. H. Snod
grass, committeeman. Delegates, F. H.
Snodgrass, W. C. Conner, George Comer,
T. Wheeler, H. O. Thompson. East Cot
tage Grove. F. D. Wheeler, committeeman-.
Delegates, F. D. Wheeler, James
Hemenway, C. H. Van Den burg, James
Ostrander, A. L. Briggs, Ben Lurch, J.
I. Jones, Herbert Eakin, Thomas Pearce.
Seven Speeches in Two Days.
PENDLE'lON, Or., May 6: (Special.)
Seven speeches In two days Is the pro
gramme mapped out for Governor Cham
berlain's campaign in Umatilla County.
He will start in at Adams at 10 o'clock
Friday morning and will travel by auto
northward, speaking at every town on the
way. He will then double back, spending
most of Saturday in Pendleton, speaking
here In the afternoon and winding up at
Echo In the evening.
Wants Own Light Plant.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. May 6. (Special.)
An ordinance providing for the acquisi
tion of a municipal electric plant to cost
$45,000 was passed its first reading in the
City Council last night. The ordinance
provides for the calling of a special bond
election June 2.
SILHOUETTES
BY ARTHUR A. GREENE.
Common sense is a most uncommon
commodity.
To feel envy Is to hug an adder to your
breast.
A Xnrsery Rhyme.
There was a crooked man,
Who went a crooked mile
Can you fancy anybody so benighted?
And he said: "Now, If I can
Keep this grafting up awhile
I won't mind It very much if I'm In
dicted." .
What's the use of being good natured
when you can just as easily be cross as
a bear and gain a reputation for wisdom?
The most beautiful picture Is the one
we never see; the most beautiful song is
the one we never hear, and the greatest
love Is that which we never feel.
Expert baseball pitchers are not the
only ones who throw strikes. Walking
delegates sometimes do.
A Word for Socialism.
There is a star in everyone's heaven
that some one particular hope is fixed
upon. It may be Just above the horizlon,
or it may. be at perihelion. It is the prac
tice of us to ignore the former and to
tyrn ecstatic eyes upon the latter. Which
practice Is grievously erroneous. The
ambitions of the lowly, for even the
lowliest have their small ambitions, are
as difficult of attainment and as Im
portant to the ultimate solution of things
as those of the mighty ones of earth.
A Napoleon on his St, Helena of ruined
expectations suffers no more keenly than
the broken old char-woman whose hopes
are wrecked because her child has gone
the way of the daughters of Babylon.
The world wastes many sighs over the
ruined expectations of its giants whether
they be soldiers, thwarted in their
schemes of conquest, courtesan queens
gone to the block, or poets dead from
broken hearts. The sentimental are still
moved to maudlin tears over the tomb
of Abelard and Helolse; the memory
of Byron is preserved In the brine of
sorrow; while the mention of Lee and
his Lost Cause Is a signal for grief to
surge through the recasts of thousands of
his partisans. Du Barry In the butcher's
cart still remains the central figure in a
tragic picture which excites our emotions
after a century and a quarter, and we
still regret the fate of Mary of the Scots.
All of which Is good, perhaps, and
proper. Melancholy Is a chastening In
fluence. Charity is founded upon It, Sad
memories restrain the aggressively fortu
nate, the carelessly successful, the
thoughtlessly happy. But there are the
common, unpicturesque, elbow-touching
tragedies, the unadorned griefs, which are
ever our familiars, which at most are
chronicled. in the ephemeral history of the
daily newspapers, which In the ma
jority never extend beyond the home
circle and frequently are entombed so
securely in the heart that there are none
besides to mourn.
How little thought we give our neigh
bors who eat the bread of sorrow alone.
We still ask dally Cain's sinful query i
"Am I my brother's keeper?" if not In
word at least in thought and action. The
church still raises memorials to the cruci
fied Christ and its Lenten season lasts
through weeks while Rachael goes un
comforted.
Here, next door. Is a father and mother
whose star is a son or daughter upon
whom they fix the eyes of faith. For this
one they cherish the holiest ambitions and
the purest aspirations. When these be
loved unworthily fall or strike the knife
of ingratitude into this father's or
mother's heart, we say It Is a pity and
dismiss the incident as one of life's In
evitable stings. But fbr those who suffer
the intimate, personal grief there Is little
solace from their fellows. They bow
their heads to the rod and keep on their
desolated way alone.
The sin-scourged and the erring perish
on the church steps. The sick faint at
the hospital doors, the hungry famish
In sight of the storehouse, and we neglect
to lead the thirsty to the drlnking-pool.
With all our agencies for making life
livable, with all our piety and culture
and plenty; with all the many mansions
In the house of a so-called Christian civi
lization, we are a wicked and perverse
generation, with little real good in us.
Socialism may not be the remedy for
mankind's ills. As at present promul
gated It may be a system of blatant fetish
Ism, but it has In It an element of crude
truth and the way to strip It of its danger
is to apply Its sane and helpful qualities
a little more from day to day in our cas
ual intercourse with the other fellow. It
is the careless jostling of the other fel
low and his rights that makes this a
vale of tears and misery and crime. It
Is selfishness and refined brutality that
neglects and tramples upon the other fel
low that raises hell.
We anathematize Cain and his question,
but after 6000 years we are still asking,
"Am I my brother's keeper?" and then
we marvel that the world is bad.
Education and scholarship are frequent
ly confounded. Education brings out
what is already In a man. Scholarship
cannot be made to apply to a man who
has nothlhg but possibilities for edu
cation. Most people who keep a light In the
window for Opportunity are so stupid
as to forget the oil In the lamp.
Manufacturers of women's fancy hosiery
find their best markets in windy locali
ties. It is better to be cursed for your faults
than to be pitied for them.
We are gradually becoming civilized.
The custom of referring to unmarried
women as "old maids" as soon as they
outgrow the "cut-up" age, is becoming
obsolete.
The titles of the members of the Brit
ish aristocracy ar almost as high-sounding
as those of a fraternal Insurance so
ciety. In Durance Vile.
Alas, dear heart, for you I pine,
Please take your pen and drop a line;
Beware my fate and do not sign another's
name.
For thee I pine. I pine for thy relent
ing love.
For thirty days I'm getting mine;
Dear, (pay my fine and let me go;
That's how I pine. I love you so.
"Fulton I.oat In A. Cake Walk."
Omaha Bee.
Senator Fulton was defeated at the
Senatorial primaries In Oregon by a man
named Cake. In other words, Fulton lost
In a Cake walk.