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In such a situation Mr. Bryan is an Ideal candidate. He has a power of making appeal to imaginations that never can be fulfilled; he is senti mental and erratic, and never thinks closely enough on anything to give trouble or fatigue to the minds of his hearers. He is a rapid and pleasing speaker, and impresses all who hear him with a sure belief that he is an amiable, benevolent and honest man. His qualities as an orator make him a campaigner of .the first order. As an apostle of discontent he goes far enough to secure the support of the general mass who are dissatisfied with existing conditions but don't know how to change them, yet not far enough to alarm very much the business and conservative classes, who are not likely now to be so strenuous in their opposition to him as heretofore. Against Taft he will be a more formidable candidate than he was against McKinley; for the ground on which the tremendous ar gument against him in 1896, and again in 1900, was made, is now wanting. The argument for Taft will be of more general character, pre senting no central principle on which to fix attention. Taft will be opposed by all who for any reason, or for no reason, by next November will be shouting "Give us a changeir The platform is of little import ance. The history of parties, and the attitude of parties in relation' to cur rent affairs, as conceived in the gen eral mind, is the actual platform, no matter what the convention may say or declare. It must be said that the outcome of the contention over the injunction or court procedure plank is disproportionate to the trouble taken in pressing it upon the conven tion. The declaration is a reasonable one indeed; but it does not go far enough to meet the wishes of those whom it is designed to satisfy, for it falls far below the Gompers demand. It will not bring organized labor to the support of Mr. Taft; for the larger portion of it was sure to be against him, in -any . event. Mr. Bryan Is and always has been its spe cial attraction. Of the platform it must be said, however, that it is a comprehensive document, . smoothly and gracefully written; it is long three columns agate; and it touches nearly all mat ters of current political interest. But platforms, in ordinary 'times, like these, are little read. People move with the. current of events, and "will make up their minds by November what Taft stands for on one side and Bryan on the other. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger are blaming the "beef trust" for their in ability to operate a slaughter-house inside the Portland city limits. A New York dispatch states that the management is "confident that ulti mately the interests of the company will be fully protected by the citizens and courts' both of Portland and the entire State of Oregon." In this the "AS. oeople will not be the victims of misplaced "confidence," for Port land will extend legitimate protection to any industry located here. The city, however, has got far enough past the swaddling clothes era to al low any new slaughter-house within the city limits. If the "beef trust" had the influence It is credited with, it would have located its own abat toirs inside the limits. There are a few rights and privileges which the city has somehow managed to retain, and a tight grip will be kept on them in the future. DEVELOPMENT OF -"THE STATEMENT." It is said that the "Statement Re publicans" in the ' Legislature will unite with the Pemocrats of that body to organize it and to control and direct its policy and action. This, indeed, Is the logical outcome of the position which the Chamberlain Re publicans have assumed. It marks another step towards the disintegra tion of the Republican party of the state. Many of the so-called State ment Republicans will go over to the Democratic party for good and all. Some, perhaps, will retrace their steps. But this freakish measure has completely divided the Republican party of Oregon. Every one foresaw it who could foresee anything.' It puts In doubt the electoral vote of the state; since those who call themselves Statement Republicans, being bound by their own voluntary action to the election of a Democrat to the Senate, have no logical ground on which to stand for support of a Republican for President; and great and steadily in creasing numbers who insisted on sending to the Legislature members who are to vote for Chamberlain will be inclined, as the Presidential elec tion draws near, to vote for Bryan. Not to do so is to be illogical; and no illogical political situation can long exist. Men. in the long run, will be forced into direct and straightfor ward ways. No satisfactory political action can be had on a policy which causes or enables one section or faction of a party to "cross-lift" with the opposite party. In the first place It corrupts the primary election, of which there has been' already more than ample proof, and it invites registration un der false pretenses, as a means of carrying out the plan. In the next place, It encourages men who "can't get on the ticket" of their own party, by their merit, to form combinations with the opposite party, and obtain election to coveted positions by com binations injurious to the public wel fare. The "Statement" combination between Democrats and Republicans will now lead to an organization of their forces Which will embrace all the important subjects before the Legislature a grand log-roll enter tainment. The "allies" will be bound together throughout. All chance of future co-operation between the two factions of the Re publican party will soon be at an end is practically at an end already. Men can't "mix It up" in this way, and retain any confidence in each other, or fealty to a common cause. Republicans will not send back to the Legislature, or elect to any other of fice, the men who have pledged them selves to vote for Chamberlain, or any who have prominently supported this combination; though of course Democrats may. "The Statement" is to be the line of division between the two parties.. Probably it will make Oregon a firm Democratic tate till such time as the people in sufficient numbers get sick of the policy. But let it be so. Better a Democratic state than these mongrel politics. But in fact it was not the Holy Statement that carried these people into the combination that now forces them to elect a Democrat to the Sen ate, and has started them on the road to Bryan. In most cases the Holy Statement was taken as an expedient for getting nominations not otherwise obtainable; and the nominations were secured by the votes of the Demo cratic contingent, registered falsely under the system as Republicans. The election the same. This Juggle and farce in politics cannot be repeated indefinitely. There are too many who detest such busi ness. It will end, . one way or an other. The first result will probably be to make the .state wholly Demo cratic. But no more can that party be maintained on such basis than the Republican. Some years, however, may be required to work the chimera to its logical conclusion, and satisfy everybody with it. Meantime its logic goes . irresistibly towards carry ing the electoral vote of the state to Bryan. YELLOW PERfL AGAIN. Distance is said to lend enchant ment to the view, and there are in dications that it also lends other as pects. The London Spectator, "to whom no land is distant, to whom no sea is barred," has been indulging in a train of speculation on what it terms the "ujnrest of Asia" and in the vision which it conjures up for its readers, appear some strange theories or views regarding the situation in the Far East. With something akin to fear, this Spectator intimates that a political amalgamation of all of the yellow races may be in process of forming. The Spectator's Oriental fever of unrest. Is expected to result in Japan, China and other Oriental countries pooling their issues and as one great nation uniting to dominate the world. All of which would . be important if it could be brought about. Unfortunately for the general cre dence which might be given the Lon don story, a close-range view of the Chinese-Japanese races precludes any Immediate possibility ot. such a revo lutionary change. Japan and China are today about as far removed from any such possibility of amalgamation as they have ever been. Av Hong kong "cable in yesterday's Oregonian stated that the boycott which was in stituted in revenge for the forced re lease of the steamer Tatsu Maru was still maintained in spite of the al leged efforts of the Chinese officials to have it removed.. Despite the sim ilarity in the strains of blood in the Japanese and Chinese, there has been for many years a smoldering hatred etween the two nations. When this hatred broke into a flame about a dozen years ago, Japan electrified the world by the ease, with which it gave decrepit old China a drubbing. The wound had not healed when, at the close, of the Japan-Russia war, Japan assumed an over-aggressive policy which practically crowded China out of its possessions in Manchuria, and the flames were, again fanned when the Tatsu Maru Incident came so near to bringing on a crisis. China, proud, haughty and dream ing of a civilization which was old when the rest of the world was young, has no love, respect or good feeling for the Japanese. The latter, flushed with the wine of victory and imbued with the idea that the flag of the Mikado will yet wave over all the land from Nagasaki to the Bos phorus, and perhaps still further, give that ancient civilization of China but scant consideration and some con tempt. A twentieth-century fighter is, in the Japanese opinion, vastly su perior to a tenth-century philosopher. With their lives, ideals and aims run ning in such widely divergent chan nels, it will be a very difficult matter for any kind of amalgamation to draw together the peaceful Chinese and the war-hunting Japanese. The entire civilized world in which the Caucasians dwell would rejoice to see an awakening In the Orient. But this awakening should be for the adoption of modern ideas and institu tions, in which case there would be no cause for alarm. Any alliance which might ' be formed . between Japan and China, in the end, would find one or the other of the two pow ers dominating, and as neither race is desirous of taking the subordinate part, 'the plan would be impractica ble. The yellow peril for many years has been a popular topic with which political writers in both Europe and America have been deeply interested, but as there can be no real yellow peril until the yellow races unite and remove their knives from each oth ers' throats, the possibility of serious trouble for the whites is remote. AN OPPORTUNITY. LOST. It is unfortunate Indeed that the present opportunity was not seized to reduce the representation of some ten or a dozen of. the states of the South to its proper proportion in Republi can National Conventions. It was de feated on a close vote, only because the supposed, exigencies of the effort for Taft would not allow it. The states of the North which must fur nish the Republican electoral vote were almost a unit for the proposi tiofi; but the Southern delegations, aided by Ohio and by scattering- votes from other states that were for Taft, made a bare majority against it. It was one more of the complications of politics that forestall all logical con sequence. It was not merely that the support ers of Taft feared the loss of South ern delegations in the convention. Taft might have suffered heavy loss there, and still obtained the nomina tion. But they feared the loss of ne gro votes in the Northern States. ,So that abomination remains enormous strength in 'every Repub lican convention from states which make no effort whatever to cast a Republican vote. Once more now all these patriots will go to sleep and wait for the Northern States to elect the candidates; when they will turn up for the usufruct of the victory to the South. One of .these days the victory will go to those who actually represent the South. It was an ideal time to settle this principle of proper representation in National Republican Conventions. The plan proposed was entirely fair. It. was National, too, for the .National Government rests on the people, not on the states; and the Republican party is the party of National author ity and consolidated government, as opposed to the theory of Jefferson, represented later by Jefferson Davis, and still the heritage of he Demo cratic parfy. HEAT AND POWER SCI-PLY. In the number for Juhe 11 the New Tork Independent raises this perti nent question: "What Is the world to do for fuel when the coal supply is used up?" It will not do to say that we can use iAod',. because .the supply of wood is going faster than the coal. Both will be exhausted vir tually within another century, and then we muse discover some sub stitute. .Mr. Cannon takes the mat ter easily. He says he is sure that the inventive genius of the human race will solve the problem. Perhaps it will and perhaps it won't. There are some problems, like the perpetual motion and the square of the circle, which cannot be solved. The fuel problem of the future may possibly belong in thei same category. , Mr. J. J. Hill, at the late conven tion of Governors in Washington, suggested that the fuel of the future might be alcohol. But he did not forget, and neither must we, that al cohol is produced from vegetation a.nd that vegetation depends upon the soil. Fast as our wood and coal are disappearing, the soil is going faster still. Denuded of forest growth, it washes into the ocean by the cubic mile, leaving nothing but a sterile subsoil incapable of supporting vege tation. Hence the disappearance of the wood supply causes a progressive disappearance of the soil from which a substTtute for it might come. Undoubtedly both heat and power can be obtained from waterfalls in quantity far beyond anything we have hitherto seen. Still, streams are local after all, and regions re mote from them can be served only at great expense. The time is rap idly approaching when every water power, even the smallest, will be utilized, but one may doubt whether that will solve the problem of heat and power. Something else must be devised. Perhaps some genius will invent a method of storing up the heat of the sun, wnlch now runs to waste all the year round in desert lands and upon Summer days every where. Dean Swift suggests some thing of the sort in one of his caustic satires. The members of a certain learned academy had discovered the art of bottling up sunshine in cucum bers to release for the solace of dreary Winter weather. It is a sci entific fact that cucumbers actually do bottle up sunshine, and if we could find out how to release the solar energy that goes into them as it is needed, without waste, there would, be no need to worry about heat and power. The difficulty is to find out how. , The new theory of electricity tells of wonderful stores of energy in the electrons, those minute bodies, or spirits, which permeate everything and produce the phenomena of elec tricity and magnetism. Man has dis covered the art of releasing some of their enormous stored-up force, but only an infinitesimal fraction sof it; and in the process he loses by waste vastly more than he utilizes. Per haps it is the ' electrons that must save the world from desolation in a future not very far away. A recent editorial in the ( Indianapolis News drew a clear distinction between po litical and economic questions. Per haps if the writer had thought a little farther he would have perceived that his distinction was illusory. There never was a political question which was not fundamentally one of eco nomics, and the same is true In de gree of every question in ethics and art. The whole structure of civiliza tion is founded upon heat and power, and when they fail, if they ever do, all the rest will go with them. The British Admiralty ' having eclipsed the Dreadnaught class of battleships by building the St. Vin cent, according to the London Tele graph, will begin in September the construction at Portsmouth of a new leviathan of the navy with still heav ier armament and greater displace ment. The St. Vincent will be launched In October, of next year. She is of 19,250 tons and will cost, 1,900,000. The newer battleship' will be of 21,000 tons, and will cost f 2, 250,000. Two novel and Important features will be developed in her con struction, viz: Guns of the new 13.5 lnch type 12-inch guns being the largest now in use .by the British fleet and gas engines, by which no smoke will be generated. The new ship will therefore have no funnels. The development of engines of this type is considered one of the greatest, .as it is the latest, achievement of the Admiralty engineers. Does "Jonathan" measure up for anything, either as a Senator or poli tician? If so, for what, and for how much?' His career both as a Senator and as an actor on the field of Na tional politics, is before the country. It is notorious, to a degree, but not otherwise celebrated. Yet he has distinction Jonathan has, as the butt of the satirists of the country and of the comic papers. Observe that he Is the first fruit of Oregon's pri mary law and of its vermiform ap pendix (Statement No. 1); and a Democratic Senator from a state that boasts thirty thousand Republican majority, is the second. But, since Jonathan is now relieved of his nightmare of "second elective term," his achievements as a Senator will be awaited with greatest interest. They will throw a doubt, we may suppose, on all) the past glory of the Senate, and make future renown therein im possible. "This has largely been a labor of love with the County Commissioners. We have profited nothing by it, but we have worked the system out to where it forms a practical benefit to the public," says Judge Webster. In discussing the working of prisoners on the roads. The taxpayers will feel duly gratified that the men whom they employ on a regular sal ary to look after their interest "have profited nothing" in the performance of their duty. They will also expect Sheriff Stevens to continue this "la bor of love," for-'there can be no log ical reason why there should be any interruption in the. work of road building. The taxpaye'rs are footing the bills and will insist on the prison ers earning their meals in road work. Farmer Wilson, of the National Department of Agriculture, is said to be the only man in administrative circles, who is not worrying about politics. Asked recently concerning the candidacy of Senator Dolliver, of his state, for the Vice-Presidency, the politically care-free secretary replied: "Really, I had not heard of It. I have been busy during the last few weeks looking after the crop pros pects and haven't been following the political situation particularly." Brightening up, he added: "We are going to have some nne big crops this Fall; wheat, cotton and corn are all promising, showing that our cam paign for better seed is having its effect." The Tacoma- Commercial Club an nounces a "membership day," when plans will be made and the work started "to secure a membership of 600 for that organization." The News urges the citizens to take off their coats and get busy -carrying for ward the plans for the growth and prosperity of the city. The object is a praiseworthy one, and while Port land, according to the News, is not much of a city in comparison with Tacoma, the 1300 members of the Portland Commercial Club will all hope to see the City of Destiny roll up a membership list of S00 active boosters. Popular demonstrations in National conventions may prophesy disaster. When Roscoe Conkling, in the height of his glory, at Chicago in 1880 set the body on fire with the quotation when asked- what state he halls from Our sole reply shall be. He cornea from Appomattox And Its famous apple tree , it availed the idol of the "306" little; and Ingersoll at Cincinnati four years before, with his thrilling lines of the "plumed knight marching down the halls of Congress, throwing his lance square into the brazen forehead" could not withstand the machinations of the "allies" of that day. If Senator Fulton is to be rewarded with a seat in the Cabinet, all Oregon will hope it will he the Navy port folio, in which event he may order the famous old Oregon, now rebuild ing at Bremerton, to cross the bug bear bar and sail up to Portland for next year's Rose Carnival. All Ore gon would hail the day. Mr. William Taft's" pole gets the persimmon. We trust we are violat ing neither the confidence of friends nor the' truth of history, when we re mark that he owes his achievement to the assistance of T. Roosevelt. . Saloonkeepers forced out of busi ness in dry counties can turn their premises into moving-picture thea ters and continue to gather the money. Senator Bourne can now start for Europe, relieved of the heavy stress of second elective term. The National convention, unlike Roosevelt's enemies and some of his professed friends, took Roosevelt at his word. ' - ' " TO WORK THE RECALL. Bat the Senator Would Stand On Hla "Constitutional Rights." The Dalles Optimist. Since the "reformers" have given us the recall law. why not work It as a trial against that great "reformer," Jonathan? It is almost a self-evident fact that nine-tenths of the voters of the state do not want him In his present position, or In any position of trust or responsi bility, and here Is a "perfectly legitimate way to dodge the Constitution" and rele gate him back to private life. According to the new section of our constitution, which will be effective now in a very short time.- It will take less than 25,000 names to call a new election for the purpose of turning Jonathan out and putting a good man in his place Since he got. Busy and defeated Fulton, the best Senator Oregon ever had, let us unseat Jonathan and seat Fulton in his place for the balance of his term, and by the end of that period perhaps the sanity of our Republican voters will have re turned and we can re-elect Fulton and keep him in the Senate, where he be longs, and where he would soon become one of the great leaders. . The editor of the Optimist has gone into this subject with a few Republican friends, and has been authorized to make this proposition to the voters of the state. We will print and furnish all of the pe titions needed, and will undertake to de liver to the propfer committee, properly signed petitions with 2500 names for Jon athan's recall, or over a tenth of the number needed. If the Republicans of the state are wise. If they are interested In giving Fulton "a square deal." If they think that Ore gon ought to be represented in the Senate Instead of being misrepresented, then let them acquiesce in this arrangement and write the editor of this paper, and if we can get anything like proper support we will give Jonathan a taste of his own medicine. Beautifully Less, by Degrees. Toronto iftall. The ship, upon clearing the harbor, ran into a half-pitching, half-rolling sea, that became particularly noticeable about the time the 25 passengers at the cap tain's table sat down to dinner. "I hope that all 25 of you will have a pleasant trip," the captain told them as the soup appeared, "and that this little assemblage of 24 will reach port much benefited by the voyage. I look upon these 22 smiling faces much as a father does upon his family, for I am responsi ble for the. safety of this group of 17. I hope that all 13 of you will join me later in drinking to a merry trip. I believe that we seven fellow passengers are most congenial and I applaud the Judg ment which chose from the passenger list these three persons for my table. You and I, my dear sir, are Here, stew ard! Bring me the fish and clear away these dishes." .Arter a "Child" Actress. New York' World. A laughable scene was enacted on the stage of the principal theater in Hanover on the evening of the first production there of Wedekind'e "The Awakening of Spring." The play had a run of more than 200 nights in Ber lin, and the house at .Hanover was sold out because there had been much discussion as to whether the censors would allow the production. While the scene in the first act between Frau Bergman and her daughter was on. a police officer1 strode upon the stage and demanded in a declamatory man ner to see the rieense allowing "the child there" to act. The man of the law was not a little surprised to learn that "the child" was an adult and an actress of high standing, whose ad mirable makeup was an additional proof of her artistic talent. Watch on Paris Cab Horses. New York World. The worn-out and attenuated cab horse, whioh has so often been the butt of the comic writer, will soon be an unknown quantity in the streets of Paris'. A so ciety known as the Assistance aux Ani maux has just formed a "horse com mittee." which, working with the propri etors and drivers' societies, seeks to pro vide Paris with cabs drawn only by horses in a perfect state of fitness, and driven by men who have given every proof of their competence and intelli gence. A staff of inspectors will be cm plnyed to watch at the gates ot the cab yards every morning and demand the immediate return to the stables of any animal whlch seems In an unfit state. "Next Great Reform." The Dalles Optimist. The East Oregonian, published by a Democratic - Non - Partisan - Socialist, registered as a Republican, Bays "the next great reform, after Nation-wide prohibition, will be the removal of the taxation from church property. Why, certainly. Give us that "re form" by all means. And the school houses and other school property should be taxed. And why exempt the graveyards and tombstones? Sure, they should be taxed. And our parks should bear their share of the bur den. And the hospitals, they must not be exempt under this "reform" wave. As Samantha says, "when you're git tln', git all you kin." So while the "reform" spell is on the Oregon voters, let us go the whole hog. Advocates of Realism. Jewish Chronicle. A good story is going the round of theatrical circles In London, which has the advantage of being perfectly true. One of the features of Beerbohm Tree's production of "The Merchant of Venice" has been his introduction of real Jews to form the crowd in the Ghetto. When Mr. Tree first met his Jewish crowd he informed them that the Christians in the play would affect to spit upon them. "Understand," said Mr. Tree, "it will not be real, but only pretense." He then informed them aB to the proposed remuneration. One old man looked wist fully at Mr. Tree and said at last: "I say, sir, couldn't you make it a little more and let them spit?" , Dancer to These Publicans. Brooklyn Eagle. At a meeting of the Stepney Council of Public Works, London, It was re cently announced that there were only 349 people In that borough who were qualified ae special Jurors out of a population of 310,000, and of the 349 "no fewer than 154 are publicans." There Is one place where the publicans are sitting tight while soberly await ing the arrival of the prohibition wave. We Get the Brat. Pendleton Tribune. Those cynics who sneer at Jonathan Bourne should remember that on a di rect appeal to the people he won out as against such men as Stephen A. Lowell, E. L. Smith, H. M. Cake and E. B. Watson, and that H. M. Cake beat C. W. Fulton. And we always get the very best material going under a direct appeal to the people. . Fate of Third-Term Idea. Los Angeles Times. Immediately upon the nomination of Taft. it is expected that everybody, except Senator Bourne of Oregon, will give up the Roosevelt third-term idea. Hsekmas Buys Ksdjui Theater. Kansas City Dispatch. A hnekman in PnnrnrHlA Vmn ha. made enousrh monev in a, few month a to buy a theater. GRANARIES OF WORLD ARE EMPTY. Outlook for Bumper Harvest From Tilled Earth Cornea Real -Wealth. North American. There is one thing that Wall street and the trusts cannot control. That is the bounty of God. Of all the signs of re turning prosperity, the bulletin of the crop-reporting board of the Department of Agriculture is the happiest portent. Spring wheat shows a prospect better than the average for ten years past. The yield f Winter wheat bids fair to be larger than any crop since that of 1901. Bad early prospects for corn have changed, so that now the Outlook is for a bumper harvest. And the ratio of in crease holds good with oats, rye and barley. It will be a fat year. The special providence that seems to watch over this nation, pouring otit upon us new stores of nature's wealth each season, is kinder this year than ever. There have been times, as in 1S94, when the coming of great crops meant distress to the farmer; when the storehouses of the whole world were glutted with a sur plus from the preceding year, and large harvests in all nations forced prices down to or below the cost of production. There have been other years when scant crops brought big prices, so that consumers everywhere suffered. This year the granaries of the world are empty. The outlook for European harvests are not flattering. There will be a world demand that will keep prices at a profitable level for the 10.000.000 farmers of America. Yet the yield will be so bountiful that the consumer will not be penalized by exorbitant prices or a dearth of supply. The gold that will glow over our ripened fields will be worth all and more of that we prayed for during last Fall's panic. Ore digged from the mine leaves only a barren emptyness. All forms of trade make no real increase. Kven man ufacture means only a change In form and development of a value already ex isting. From the tilled earth comes the real new wealth, each year's bounty bearing promise of a new gift in the year after. Once more' the lesson is borne in upon us that our greatness comes out of -the ground. DOWN-RIVER SALMON PLAINT. Skamokawa Writer Saya Fishermen Are Ruining Industry. Skamokawa Eagle. The decision tit Chief Justice Bean, of Oregon, in the purse-seine case seems to have been a forerunner of the Incompre hensible and vicious fish legislation just enacted by the people of that state. It has been hard enough to enact laws that would be agreeable to the fishermen of both the States of Oregon andWashtng ton, and of late years the Legislatures of the two states have surrendered fish leg islation to the fishermen entirely, with the result that the open fishing season has been lengthened and the business is being ruined The salmon has been left to the tender mercies of his frinds. the fishermen, and the Industry is being de stroyed. Sixteen years ago we had better laws for the protection of the salmon than we have today. Sixteen years ago it was possible for a poor man, who was not a fisherman, to get a bite or two of salmon during the fishing season. Sixteen years ago the drifts In front of Cathlamet. Skamokawa and Brookfield were good fishing grounds. Sixteen years ago we had a longer closed season and a Sunday closing period In which the salmon was given an opportunity to swim to Its nat ural spawning beds. Sixteen years ago we had less fishing gear In the river, the seines and gillnets were shorter, the traps were few, and the deadly "diver" net was not in use, and there was less fishing around the mouth of the river. Sixteen years ago the Columbia River jetty was shorter and the mouth of the river a mile wider than It is today, giving the salmon a better opportunity to come in from the sea. Sixteen years ago the Willamette River was not the cesspool that It is today, and the Clackamas River was a favorite breeding place for sal mon. .Today the Willamette River from the oil tanks to its mouth is frequently covered with oil. The millman who dumps- sawdust into the river can be daalt with, but the leakage from the oil tanks goes on. Judge Bean's decision Is not surprising when one contemplates the attitude of the people of Oregon on this question. The Oregon courts are not interested in the salmon, and the probability is that as soon as the Oregon Fish Warden tries to enforce the new laws he will find his hands tied by the courts. The question is naturally asked: What are Washington fishermen going to do about these new laws? To our mind, they are living within their rights if they pay for their license and obey the laws of their own state. The State of Oregon, through its Supreme Court, is our au thority. It has handed down the re markable decision that all 'fish laws of the State of Washington conflicting with those of Oregon are void and of no ef fect, and must be so construed by the Oregon Fish Warden. If this is good reasoning for Oregon, now comes the time when Washington fishermen living within their rights may catch fish with out regard to Oregon's new laws, which certainly "conflict" with those of the State of Washington. Defeats the "Meanest Man." Kansas City Journal. A letter written by a woman decided a contest for the office of president of a men's club In the Bronx a few days ago. There were two candidates for the place; one a clerk In a New York financial institution, whose young wife had been a working girl, the other a wealthy manufacturer, with a reputation among his neighbors for "closeness." The day before the elec tion each member of the little club re ceived a typewritten letter, signed by a woman whom they all knew, which be gan with these words: "If what I write you is not true, It is libel." Then she said that the club should not honor Its "meanest man," and related some amusing incidents to demonstrate that she was not mistaken in her estimate of the man. In closing she wrote: "What do you think of a man who has his barn painted and says to his wife. That's your birthday present'? If you can afford to elect that kind of a man for your president, go ahead!" The alleged "meanest man" was de feated. Riot-Loving Students Awaken. Ann Arbor, Mich., Dlspaftch. The students of the University -of Michigan who recently engaged in a riot, resulting In the arrest of several of them, came in for a severe drub bing in the Michigan Dally, the col lege paper. "Among a large part of the citizens of the state," says the editor, "we have earned a reputation for lawlessness, rowdyism and an en tire disregard for the rights of others. We have dragged the name of 'college man' In the mire and have made our selves the laughing stock of the whole country. In return for this we have gained absolutely nothing. Finan cially we are Just $1000 out of pocket. Besides this, the riot has, morally, cost us an amount never to be reckoned." Girl Win Chemistry Medal. Kansas City Times. A girl of 22, Miss Gertrude Wren, Is the first girl of her sex to win the Perelra medal for excellence in chem istry, one of the most highly prized awards of the Pharmaceutical Society of London. At the age of 18 she be gan the study of her specialty at a girls' high school In Camden Town. Botany Is another study in which Miss Wren has taken a great interest, and some time ago she won a silver medal for superiority in that field. NEW RAILS FOR WEST SIDE Heavy Steel to Be Laid Between Beaverton and Whiteson. Work will be started during the coming week In relaying the West Side division of the Southern Pacific between Beaver ton and Whiteson, a distance of 43 miles, with heavy steel rails, replacing the light Iron now in use on that division. The work will require about 60 days. Cars of the new heavy rails are arriving daily and Superintendent Fields, of the South ern Pacific, Is taking the neecssary steps to assemble construction crews and start work. The new rail weighs 75 pounds to the yard and will replace 66 and 62-pound steel now in use. Continuous rail Joints will be used in laying the new rails, mak ing the track very much more rigid and smooth, so that travel over it will be more comfortable for passengers than ever before. The track between Beaverton and Port land will not be relaid with heavier steel; because of the contemplated building of the Wlllsburg cutoff, which will divert heavy freight traffic across he bridge to be built at Oswego and thence into the terminal yards by way of the main Southern Pacific line on the East Side. Only a portion of the passenger travel to and from the West Side territory will then be carried o'r the track north of Beaverton, and the line is now in good condition for this traffic. In addition to relaying the line with heavier rails. Superintendent Fields will complete a number of fills oh the line between Portland and Beaverton, which were not finished last year when the work of filling a number of trestles was started. The task of replacing these bridges with earth embankments will be completed early in the Summer. R. M. Currier Succeeds Latvson. R. M. Currier has been appointed as sistant city ticket agent for the Great Northern and assumed his new duties yesterday. He formerly occupied the same position for the company at Spo kane. He has many friends among the local railroad colony, having also been in the Great Northern service at Seattle be fore going to Spokane. Mr. Currier takes the place made vacant by the resignation of H. W. Lawson. who has been stationed here for the past year, hutwho leaves to go back to Canton. O.. where his home is. He may return to the Coast later in the year. Seattle Waterfront Items. SEATTLE, June IS. The steamship Kumerlc, managed by Frank Waterhouse & Co., will shift to Seattle the latter part of next week to take about WOO tons of flour and general stuff for Japan and North China. The steamship Foreric, un der the same management, will leave the Columbia River June 22 for Seattle to load a partial cargo for the same port. The balance of the cargo Is now being loadod on the Columbia. The steamship Humboldt, reported south of Ketchikan June 17. with 39 passengers and a cargo of fish, is duo tomorrow aft ernoon here. The steamship Thordis. sister ship to the Norwegian steamship Transit, which left for Nome under management of Schu bach & Hamilton, was erroneously re ported yesterday as the Transit returning. The Thordis reached Vancouver today. The steamship Bertha went on Quarter master drydock this morning for over hauling. The steamship Jefferson is due to sail for Skagway and the Southeastern Alaska route tomorrow morning. v Forced to Pass Inspection. PORT fOWXSKND.' Wash.. June 18. (Special.) The British steamer Wllls den, which reached Bellingham yester day from British Columbia ports, was refused entrance by the customs officials for having neglected to come here for quarantine inspection. An effort was made to have some Bellingham physician authorized to inspect the vessel, but this failed. The Willsden arrived here this morning and after 30 minutes consumed In Inspection, returned to Bellingham to begin taking lumber cargo for Australia. - Raymond Shipyard Reopens. RAYMOND, Wash., June 18. (Special.) Mayor Little was today granted an order by Judge Rice, of the Superior Court, to complete the vessel now under way at the -Dickie & ' Son shipyard, of which he was made receiver last week, and to finish all immediate business. About 100 men were re-employed and work at both mill and shipyard begun this afternoon. Mayor Little stated that the concern would be leased soon to an Eastern firm. Proclaim Mulnl Jin fid Sultan. TANGIER. June 1!-Mu!al Hand has been proclaimed Sultan of Tetuan. a sea port 32 miles south ol here. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY -OREGONIAN MEN WHO MAKE A NATION LAUGH Sidelights on American humor ists, most of whom received their training on newspapers and got the Western point of view before they developed. FORTUNES FOR MEN WITH FLYING MACHINES America's chances decidedly the best for winning $52,000 in prizes offered bv the Michelins of Paris. MAKING ARTIFICIAL "PRECIOUS" STONES Methods that are strictly scien tific and others strictly fraudu lent. Carbon from burning sugar the basis of man-made diamonds. DINNER-TIME ON THE FARM Full-page illustration by a mem ber of the Oregon Camera Club which doesn't represent a coun try dining-room. , EXAMINING MEN FOR FOREST RANGERS Applicants must show that they cannot only ride, but pack" a horse and know a lot about surveying, law, timber and cattleraising. 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