Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 18, 1908, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE MOItXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, ypYEMEER 18, 1903. PORTLAND. OREGOJt. . Entered t Portland. Oregon. FostoBics as cond-Jlaas Matter. subscription Bales InTartaply la Advance. (Br mil) T!lT. Sunday included, on year. ' I'l.y. Punday Included, anonins.... Ijaily. Sunday Included, three mun.ns.. l.i;v. fiumiay Included, one monin.... Ijai:;-. without Sunday, one y'a"-. Ijaily. without Sunday, aix months..... " Ij;t. without Sunday, tnree month.. - I'aily. without Sunday, on monin .u Weekly, one year... ..-.------ $q Eunday. on year.... Sunday and Weekly, on 7ar Br Carrier.) Tally. Funday Included, on year...... !; -. Sunday Included, on monin How t Bemit Bend poatoBlce m'Z .roVr pr. order or your local bank. Stamp coin or rrency ire at the aender'. risk. Give poitoUlc ad dress in full, Including county and Postage Bate 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: IB In oTaesTa centa; 80 to 44 pases, cent. 8 -,oPM paie 4 cents. Foreign poata. double rate. . latent Bulw 0e Tb a C. Beck wlth Special AKency-New Ji"' 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms SlO-jlJ Tribune bulldinc. . mRTUNn. wET-r.rAT. oy. m, ido. COSiCEBNTNT SLAVF.BT. In Mr. L. F. Floss' letter, which to printed today, the statements of fact are erroneous and the logic is im becile. Still, it is interesting because of its point of view. Written from the standpoint of the farmer, it seems to voice in a vague and mistaken way a sense of injustice which is almost universal among men of that calling. That there are grounds for this lee -lng no candid person can deny, but it Is also indisputable that whatever In justice the farmer suffers through un equal laws is mainly his own fault. Hitherto, throughout all time and in all parts of the world, his -peculiarity has been the stock in trade of the humbugging politician. The first and easiest trick which the Politician learns is to fool the farmers. They do not combine in their own interest, nor have they confidence e"Sh in each other to trust an agent of their own class, nor Inclination to analyze the conditions which oppress them and seek a rational remedy. Mr. Kloss' letter Illustrates all these state ments and confirms them. In a general way Mr. Floss takes the position that the farmer is a slave because he is compelled by la o pray his orchard, produce clean milk, take precautions about setting fires, and so on. In his opinion the city man is much to be envied on account of his freedom from any restrictions of this kind. Here Is where Mr. Floss errs as to his facts. For every police regulation which hampers the liberty of the farmer the city resident has to submit to a dozen. Think of the ordinances concerning sewerage, wa ter use of the streets, keeping weeds from vacant lots, the maltreatment of horses, noisy dogs and pianos, for ex ample. Numerous others will occur to everybody who lives In town. If the farmer is a slave because the law interferes in some particulars with his freedom of action, then the city dweller is ten times a slave. The truth of the matter is that no man who lives as a member of the social body can do just as he pleases. Each has to give up some of his natural liberty for the good of all; otherwise the state would dissolve Into its syrvage units. Take the subject of compelling the farmers to spray their fruit trees, over Which Mr. Floss makes so much ado, for instance,' He thinks this regula tion interferes unwarrantably with his liberty. Let us see. Suppose John plants an orchard and takes good care of it. Suppose also that his near neighbor James has some old trees which are nurseries of bugs, worms and fungi, which cross the line fence and destroy John's crop, as they cer tainly will do. Does not James, by his misfeasance, interfere with John's liberty to produce high-grade fruit? Has not John as good a right to raise tine apples as James has to raise bugs? And since the law must suppress the liberty of the one In order to protect the liberty of the other, which is It best to suppress and which to protect? Take again the case of impure milk, which also raises a wail from Mr. Floss. ' The dairyman, in his opinion, is a slave because he must keep his barn clean and not let manure fall into his milk pails. Perhaps he is. In the natural state of man he would have the right to make his product 60 per cent milk and 50 per cent typhoid fever germs if he so desired. But the man who buys the milk also has natural rights. One of them is the right not to be poisoned, and if Mr. Floss sells nasty, infected milk, pretending that it is wholesome, then he grossly Infringes upon the buyer's right to ilfe and the pursuit of hap piness. Here again the law is com pelled to protect the liberty of one man by infringing the liberty of the other, and the sole question 1s who Vest deserves protection. Which Is the more valuable upon the whole, Mr. Floss' right to sell filthy milk or the purchaser's right to health and com fort ? The beauty of it all Is that farmers like Mr. Floss, who rebel against wholesome regulations, directly violate their own financial interest, since the better their product is the more money it brings them. It Is not to the city dweller or to the law that they are slaves, but to their own ignorance and invincible stupidity. THE BOl'NDABT DECISION. The Supreme Court of the United States has at last settled the old con troversy regarding the boundary line between Oregon and Washington, and this state is given possession of Sand Island and other tldelands adjacent. That the contention of Oregon has been sustained by the Supreme Court will not prove surprising to any who were familiar with the main points In volved in the controversy. The orig inal boundary line between the two states was fixed at a time when the main ship's channel 1n the river found its way seaward north of Sand Island. Having fixed that channel as the boundary, it has never seemed reason able that it could be shifted as the channel shifted. Had this contention been sustained, it would be Impossi ble to establish a fixed boundary in a great many of the waterways of the country. It is not a difficult matter to shift the channel of even as great a river as the Columbia, and, if the boundary which is necessarily fixed by these channels is ffiade so flexible that It moves with every change In the chan. nel, it would be Impossible ever to se cure any stability in the metes and bounds of the property lying adjacent to this flexible boundary. This de cision of the Supreme Court will not be rendered any more pleasing for the Washington people when they remem ber that it was their own acts in driv ing fishtraps in wholesale numbers Into the old channel that caused Baker's. Bay to fill up with sediment and close the formerly well-defined channel which marked the boundary line. The "ship channel," "navigable channel" or "main channel" of water ways has from the earliest days been used in part as a dividing line be tween nations, states and counties wherever such channels were avail able. Had the Washington contention been upheld in the Sand Island contro versy a precedent would have been established that would have unsettled titles to lands wherever watercourses serve as boundaries. The Canadians would never think of reopening the San Juan dispute, which grew out of a "channel" boundary, and yet the ships' channel" now. most frequently used in passing San Juan island. Is the Haro channel, its prestige having increased since the two governments decided that Rosario Straus and not Haro straits was the "main ships' channel." THESE FACTIONAL BIFFKRENCES. Referring to a letter written by Mr John Gill, in which reference is made to members of the Legislature who, having been elected to vote for Senator Dolph. refused to vote for him, and to The Oregonlan's censure of their refusal, it la only necessary to say that fidelity to party makes every difference in such a matter. Though, of course. It will be argued" that if a man has no political principles, it can. make no difference. Men now are told that a "pledge," that at most was only conditional, and moreover was part of a trick game, with fraud behind it, requires them to vote in highest mat ters against the political principles they profess. But the men who refused to vote for Dolph still voted for a Republican, and though they did not keep their word as to Dolph, they did not betray their party on its main principles. It has long been evident that the Republican party of Oregon Is in such condition that nothing can be accom plished through it. A good while ago The Oregonian said this, and declared it would be thereafter independent. In all local and state matters, because nothing could be accomplished through a party so lacking in spirit. And yet The Oregonian knows that under our political system nothing can be ac complished except through party. However, it Is useless to endeavor to maintain a political party, or to ac complish anything through party (except defeat) on th principles and methods now prevalent. The Orego nian declines the effort. In the conduct and course of the Republican party in Oregon there has been nothing rational for years. No man of Judgment will try to do any thing "With it or through it. Distracted by every sort of folly, it is incapable of concerts or rational effort. Kach of Its factions, to triumph over another, is willing to throw everything away. Let it be so then since there is no help for it. "SELLF-OOVERN'SraNT IN CUBA. The "Liberal" party has triumphed in Cuba. Liberalism in Cuba means the right to seize the property of others, under forms more or less of law; less rather than more. Of course, property will resist. Then there will be anarchy, and the Army and Navy of the United States will be sent to Cuba again. AH this is absolutely certain. But when the military and naval forces of the United States go back, to Cuba once more, they will stay there. And they will surely go back. They -will go back, because the "Liberal" party In Cuba consists of revolutionists, of the population that opposes order and government, and has no regard for the rights of per sons, of property or of business. But property must have protection, busi ness must be done, peace must be maintained; and it can not be long, therefore, till the authority of the United States will be invoked In Cuba again. Then - the authority of the United States will stay there. It has cost the United States more than ten millions of dollars to restore order in Cuba. The money never will be repaid. But the next "revolution" in Cuba look out for it. During the next one hundred years say longer the country will be only a military and naval outpost, and satrapy or appan age of the United States. But within some conceivable period the country may learn come of the first principles of self-government, and Cuba then may become an important state of the American Union. We are compelled to look out for and to take care of Cuba, to prevent some other nation from getting It. Cuba, therefore, will always be a de pendency of the United States. It is so today, and the forces of concentra tion in modern life will tend steadily and irresistibly to the unification of the interests of Cuba with our own. Cuba cannot ba Independent of the United States. COMPROMISE VERDICTS. The Oregonian has received from a member of the bar a letter, not de signed for publication, which raises an interesting question concerning the verdicts of the Juries in the Martin and La Rose cases. These malefac tors were both indicted for murder in the first degree. Our correspondent makes the point that they were either guilty as charged, or they were not guilty, and that thi Juries in con victing them of lessor crimes effected an illegal compromise with the facts and the law. In other words, the juries had no rightful choice between convicting Martin and La Rose of murder in the first degree on the one hand and acquitting them on the other. This view of the matter is beauti fully scholastic. The logic of It is unimpeachable, and if we lived in a world of pure mathematics It would be convincing. The trouble with such reasoning is that we live not in a world of pure mathematics, but in one of dubiety and compromise. Most of our acts fall far short of what strict logic would demand, and they are all the wiser for it. The best logicians in the world are the theologians, and the next best are the lawyers, and it has never been safe to. trust either of these classes with much power over human conduct. The only Justification there is for the Jury system Is the expectation that twelve men of sound common sense will look at facts and the law with that broad, tolerant, compromising vision which It Is madness to expect from lawyers. The jury Is Invaluable because It is not logical. It is indis pensable to the administration of Jus tice because tt walks roughshod over petty difficulties and Infinitesimal dis tinctions which appal the lawyers, and reaches verdicts which common sense approves in cases where the lawyers' nice ratiocination would lead to a fail ure of Justice. Doubtless It would have been well to hang La Rose. He seems to be a creature of little worth whose crime was pretty well established. Still, in the minds of three of the jury men, it was not established, and they stuck invincibly to their opinion. What were the other nine to do? Had they been lawyers trained in the inflexible subtleties of scholastic logic they would have said. "All or nothing. If La Rose is not guilty in the first degree he is not guilty at all. and we will let him go." But being men of plain common sense they took the more utilitarian view of the matter and said, "Very well. Since we capnot agree, let us not force an utter failure of justice, but strike a compromise. We will split the difference between us and convict him in the second degree." Thus the mathematics of the case was outraged, but substantial justice was attained. It is vastly better for La Rose to spend the rest of his life in prison than for him to stalk forth a free man, as he almost certainly would have done had there been no verdict and a second trial. We all know what comes of second trials and reversals. Logic is satisfied, but justice weeps over them. The fact that the com mon sense of Juries is inaccessible to the scbolastio logic of the- lawyers Is one of the saving merits In our ad ministration of Justice. THE BOSS Bl'HCO CAMK. An Oregon Republican who does not want to see George B. Chamberlain elected United States Senator by the Legislature says for himself and his fellow Insurgents: We are convinced that a stat -which gave Tnft & pluralitv of nearly 25,000 does not want a Democratic TJnlted States Senator. Well, you can't have your primary and reject Its mandate without incurring a charge of bad faith. Republicans like this Oregon bolter ousht to take their medicine and afterward try to repeal the Senatorial primary law. New York Sun. It was bad faith from the beginning; a juggle and a bunco game. The pri mary was no primary: there was not a scintilla nor touch of honesty In it. Chamberlain's name didn't appear on the primary ballot His supporters registered as Republicans and voted for one of the Republican candidates for the Senate, intending to vote against him and for Chamberlain in the election, which they did. Like wise, they offered no candidates of their own for the Legislature, but voted for and nominated so-called Re publican candidates, pledged to "the game"; and then, in the general elec tion, voted for and elected them. Knowledge of all this proceeding dis gusted large numbers of Republicans, who refused to support the candidates thus foisted on them by Democratic votes; and to emphasize their anger they voted for Chamberlain, too. No body ever saw a bunco game In poli tics that could equal it. The conditions are all ready for repetition vof it in future electoral contests. Next time again Democrats will register as Republicans. They will vote for the nomination of the Republican for the Senate whom they suppose easiest to beat. Very prob ably it will be Bourne. Then Gearin, or whoever may be the Democratic candidate, will get the - Democratic vote, and so-called Republicans in the Legislature will be called on to elect him; as now they are called on to elect Chamberlain. Continuance cf this game, indefi nitely, can be prevented only by re jection of Chamberlain now. Tet The Oregonian does not suppose he will be rejected. Let the game, therefore, go on. All. that The Oregonian ex pects to do Is to let all the people of Oregon, and others whom it may con cern, know that it is not so childish foolish as not to see through the game. Tet certainly, if others can do with out a Republican party in Oregon, this newspaper, which asks nothing from any party and has no use for any party, can. Get ready for another Democratic Mayor of Portland next year, and for another Democratic Governor of Ore gon a year later. Next thing after that, the Senatorial bunco game again. For It is not likely to be possible to arrest or change the proceeding yet for awhile. ITF.AI.TIIY PAX'SE IS STOCKS. The extent and raprdity with which stock prices have advanced since the election have been surprising even to the most optimistic who, with excel lent reason, were Inclined to the view that much of the beneficial Influence of the result had been discounted in the general belief that Taft's election was a certainty. Thus far there have been no indications that prices of legit imate, stable securities have been forced too high or too fast; but ft may prove the part of wisdom if the "slow ing up" process, which has been no ticeable this week, continues for awhile. Crops are abundant, prices are high, there is an Increasing de mand for labor, and for the manu factured products which are created by labor. On every hand there is plenty of evidence that we are stead ily climbing back to the industrial eminence from which we were hurled by the panic a year ago. But It must not be forgotten that panics are precipitated by whirlwind speculation and abnormal Inflation of stocks, and that, once started, these movements are liable to be carried by their own momentum clear over the danger line between legitimate invest ment and illegitimate speculation. There are a thousand industries, large and small, that are now gradually re suming operations after a protracted period of idleness, and In the aggre gate a large amount of money Is need ed to keep them going. At present there seems to be an ample supply of money for all legitimate demands, but this supply will be curtailed if Wall street is again permitted to get ex cited and play ducks anfi drakes with the unnumbered millions that were at its command when the climax of our prosperity spree was reached a year ago. It is a healthy sign that there are pauses in this upward movement in stocks, for they display a tendency on the part of the leaders in finance to hold speculation down to reasonable limits and thus prevent a possible scare which would send the savings back into the stockings and teapots from which they have only recently been coming Into the light. Fortunes are made quite rapidly in stock speculation in Wall street, and they are also lost with a fair degree of speed. They are accumulated less rapidly in some other lines of en deavor, but they are also more stable and secure. It would be deplorable. Indeed, if this country should again be plunged into such a wild orgy of stock speculation and wildcat exploitation that our legitimate manufacturers and tradesmen would be hampered by want of funds as they were a year ago. However,' the brakes have been put on the Wall-street wagon, and with the recollection of the panic of a year ago still painful. It will be either halted or kept moving at a moderate pace while other industries are moving up to a higher plane of prosperity. Three-year-old Pu Ti is now the ruler of China. In taking up the scepter laid down by Tsi An, the di minutive Pu Tl has accumulated a burden which may yet weigh heavily on his youthful shoulders. So far as a policy of progress is concerned, Pu YI, even at -this early age, can proba bly give as satisfactory an administra tion as that of the old lady who pre ceded him. but his youth is not with out its disadvantages. Ancient China is rapidly coming out of the shell In which .t has lived in retirement for a good many centuries, and, as is the case in sudden changes in any uncivil ized or semi-civilized country, the re form party in instituting the changes usually makes indiscriminate use of the meat ax. Pu Yi, full grown and in possession of a clear head and a strong arm, could probably make satisfac tory terms with the reformers, but poor little Yi, the baby, may be needed as a sacrifice, and, if the reform wolves press too close, he will probably be thrown out of the sleigh in order that the other occupants may escape from the pack which had been camping pretty close to the trail of old Tsi An herself. The new dredge Clatsop, built at Newport News for the Columbia River, is expected to start on her long Jour ney around the Horn next month. The Clatsop Is, of course, no better craft than can be built either at Portland, San Francisco or Puget Sound, and probably not as good; but the Pacific Coast bidders were all turned down because their bids might have been somewhat higher for delivery of a Co lumbia River dredge at 'the Columbia River than the Eastern builders' fig ures were for delivery at Newport News. It will cost the Government many thousands of Collars to get the craft to the place where she is expect ed to work, and there Is also the pos sibility of a wreck before she com pletes the long voyage. As the Gov ernment carries no Insurance on any of its vessels, the loss of one of these Eastern-built craft intended for Pacific Coast work might cause the adoption of a more sensible policy than is now shown in the placing of contracts. Pa Elkins sayB that Maggie is not engaged to marry the Duke of the Abruzzi, and ire also states that he re grets exceedingly "the annoyance that must have come to the Duke and his family by reason of the almost daily discussion of the matter In the press." Of course Pa Elkins may publicly ex press his disapproval of the enterprise qf the press In giving publicity regard ing the negotiations for the sale of the young lady, but "way down deep" in his mind It is not Improbable that he Is pleased that the deal has been de clared off. If too much newspaper publicity and criticism have resulted in his retaining the girl and the good, fat Installment of the coin of the realm which was to go with her, he Is under obligation to the press for saving both. There Is nothing very comforting for the Democratic party in the latest an nouncement of Mr. Bryan, who is credited with the statement that "If the party so demands and conditions arise to warrant it, I will be a candi date for the Presidency four years hence." So long as Mr. Bryan feels that way about the matter there will be very little opportunity for any other Democrat to get into a posi tion Where he can dislodge the man from Nebraska. If Mr. Bryan should make the mistake of running again for the office he has so long sought, he will confirm a suspicion oft heard that he is a candidate simply for the money it brings him n the way of in creased advertising of his ability as a lecturer and long-range speaker. The highly sensitive nature of the Chicago wheat market was shown yes terday when a report of further dam age to the Argentine crop was followed by a sharp advance of 2 cents per bushel from the low point reached during the day. Liverpool, which Is always quick to follow weakness in the American markets, closed lower, be fore the Argentine news was received, but will probably reflect the advance today. The possibilities for cheap bread are not encouraging for the for eigners, and, if prices continue to hug $1 per bushel and higher in this coun try, the loaf will either be reduced or the price will be advanced. An Astoria newspaper quotes Henry O'Malley, superintendent of United States salmon hatcheries In the Co lumbia waters, as having advocated government control of Columbia River fisheries, at a meeting In Portland November 7. In justice to Mr. O'Mal ley It should be said that he did not advise Federal control nor urge It. The subject was not discussed at that meeting and was only incidentally mentioned by others. Among the recent fashion notes from Paris we read that muffs are to be extremely large and flat this year, "as large and flat as laprobes." Why not?- One fashion fad Is good as an other. Get the new muff, even if you have to sell everything else to get It. In order to save Statement One it is admitted now that the compulsory In itiative statute is void or of no effect Neither Is Statement One, nor ever was. The whole scheme is farcical. Some of the Cabinet-makers think Heney will be made Attorney General. Should this come to pass there will be Increased hunting for cover under the statute of limitations. Root now Is to succeed Piatt in the Senate; Roosevelt later Is to succeed Depew. Little risk In taking these statements as guesses. Watch for their verification. A San Antonio paper quotes Bryan as saying that he "will be a candi date four years hence. If his party wants him." Down In Texas they think that's news. The O. R. & N. people freely say that that big dividend was made so that Joe Teal and associates might cease to worry about the surplus. That Albany editor who has taken his first vacation in twenty-eight years Is running a huge risk.- His under study might improve the paper. Advice to do your Christmas shop ping early is just a trifle superfluous to the man who has not yet negotiated for his Thanksgiving turkey. Mayor Lane is trying to stop rail road traffic on Fourth street by ar resting General Manager O'Brien. Why not arrest the locomotive? MAKES CHARGE OF CRUELTY Elizabeth Johnson Wants Divorce From Sea Captain Husband. Charles H. Johnson, foreman of a large Portland dock, and formerly a sea captain, is being sued by his wife, Elizabeth Johnson, for a il-rce. The complaint, which has been filed In the Circuit Court, accuses him of cruelty, beginning two weeks after the wed ding, which took place at Astoria. July 11, 19D8. The wife aske that her maiden name. Elizabeth Matheson, be restored, and that she be given $30 a month alimony, as she says her hus band earns (4 and $5 a day. Mrs. Johnson says that after coming home for dinner In the evening her husband would leave the house and re main away until midnight. When she asked him where he was going, he in formed her that it was none of her business. Then she attempted to open up a conversation upon current topics, and was met with the question, "What are you telling me that for? I don't care anything about It." She says she Is affectionate, while he is not. She often asked him to take her to the theater or to places of amusement in the evening, or to go calling with her. but says he only went four times. When a load of wood was purchased last month he refused to split it, she savs. As It was in pieces too large to burn she was obliged to wield the ax. She wnt on a visit to Seaside in August, and upon returning was In formed by her husband that he had been to see one of his former sweet hearts, and that he had taken another woman out for a car ride. The un happy wife says she has been lily pro vided for, and that her husband insert ed an ad in a morning paper to the effect that he would not be responsi ble for her debts. That she was pinched on the arm, bumped against a door, slapped in the face, choked and knocked down stairs axe the charges made against D. E. Hindman by Mary S. . Hindman. She says her husband is a bartender, earn ing $12 a week; that they formerly conducted a number of lodging-houses In Portland, and that he owns stock in a box factory at St John worth $250. Mrs. Hindman says her spine was injured in November, 1906, when she was thrown downstairs, and that her jaw was hurt last Spring when she was slapped and bumped. In May she was thrown to the floor, she says, while her angry husband bent over her threatening to cut her heart out. The next month she was pinched. In Sep tember she was thrown on her back across a trunk and choked, and early this month was knocked down by a blow in the face. She says she has be come nervous, and her life is made burdensome. She asks $20 a month alimony. She married Hindman at Prlneville, July 18, 1886. The fact that he married Miss Cora Jane Jolly did not appear to affect Herschell N. Sawyer's temper, for his wife has brought a divorce suit In the Circuit Court, in which she says that he was sullen and Ill-tempered during the honeymoon. She says that when she goes out he fixes the time to the minute when she must return, and if she Is not back on the second, sub jects her to abuse and scolding. She asserts that she was viciously struck at church one day when she wished to remain to assist in the music Further than this her husband refused to per mit her parents or relatives to visit her, and threatened to take their baby and go to -Canada. Mrs. Sawyer says she was accused of Infidelity, C. L. Andrews and Ole Larsen being named as co-respondents by her husband. The couple married in Portland October 16, 1907. Sarah C. Harlan has brought a di vorce suit against Thomas Harlan in the Circuit Court, on the ground of de sertion. They were married at Oregon City, June 23, 1903. HOLLOWAY GETS SEW TRXSX Jury Disagrees After Being Out lor 22 Hours. Chester C. Holloway, charged with shooting his divorced wife with a revolver on June 27, is to be tried again. The Jury in Judge Bronough's department of the Circuit Court was discharged at 1:15 P. M. yesterday, after having been out 22 hours and falling to agree. Monday night the Jurymen made an unsuccessful effort to obtain a pack of cards, that they might while away the time, which hung heavily on their hands. When Holloway shot his wife, he had been in Portland only a short time, having come here from Los Angeles. He did not deny that be attempted to take his wife's life, but urged emotional insanity as a defense, asserting that stories of Mrs. Holloway's misconduct had preyed upon hlB mind until he lost his reason, wnen seen at the County Jail he appeared much pleased with the jury's disagreement. The Jury returned to the courtroom for special instructions at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, asking what would become of the man If he was, acquitted. The court gave the instructions, but declined to say what would become of the . prisoner. It appeared that they were willing to ac quit him If they could be certain that he would be sent to the Insane asylum. The Jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. The talesmen were; Or ville W. Cox, F. W. Harmon, A. J. Farmer, W. P. Anthony, J. W. Howatson, A. D. MacDonald. N. P. Tomlinson, J. A. Mnrphy, C. V. DangerOeld. C. E. Holl grleve, L. B. Chipman and C. F. Eddy. HEIRESS PLACED IN HOME Esther Tjewte Claimant to Trinity Estate, Alleges Hl-Treatnient. Although a claimant to a portion of the 4100,000,000 Trinity estate of New York, 14-year-old Esther Lewis was placed in charge of the Boys' and Girls' Aid So ciety yesterday by Judge Gantenbein of the Juvenile Court. Testimony was brought but that since the child's mother died, and her father, W. J. Lewis, mar ried a second time, the girl has been ill treated, and her schooling has been neg lected. Before her marriage to Lewis, the stepmother was Mrs. Rose Smith. Esther Lewis has been living at 625 Clackamas street, Sellwood. The child's mother, through whom the girl lays claim to a portion of the large New York estate, was Miss Emma Arland before her marriage to Lewis. The girl says the reason for her parents' cruelty Is that they desire to obtain the child's portion of the estate for themselves. May Lose Insurance. F. T. (Buchanan is suing the National Live Stock Insurance Company in Judge Cleland's department of the Circuit Court to recover WOO, alleged to be due as in surance on a horse. The insurance com pany contends that Buchanan was in ar rears on his premium, and further that the insurance company is a mutual as sociation, and. that the policy 'was originally issued to William Byers, a member. He transferred it to Buchanan, and the company therefore contends that It Is void. Baking Company Sued for Flour. The Butternut. Bread Company has been made defendant In a suit to re cover $866.45, brought in the Circuit Court by J. H. Klosgerman. He al leges this anrount is due for flour, pur chased this month. McDonnell Estate Settled, The estate of J. T. McDonnell has been settled. Mrs. McDonnell, the widow, having disposed of her interest in favor of the .McAllen-MeDonnell Company Inc. Dan -McAllen has been paid his fee as administrator, amounting to $3900. . Cameron Charged by Woman With Shielding Milkman. Accusing District Attorney Cameron of having shielded William Johnson, his milkman, in a criminal action, Mrs. Pauline Hyde, of East Twenty-eighth and Holgate streets, went to the City Attorney's office, yesterday forenoon, and demanded a warrant of arrest for Johnson, who had Just been released rn the Municipal Court after trial on a charge of threatening to kill Mrs. Hyde. After hearing her story the city officials decided that the case was one calling for vigorous prosecution and issued a city warrant for Johnson's ar rest. Mrs. Hyde said the milkman slapped her in the face and drew a revolver on her because she told him she'd have his cows taken to the estray pound unless he kept them out of her yard. She had him arrested at once, but was sur prised to learn that Johnson was not required to put up bail. On making inquiry she said she was told the man delivers milk to the Cameron domicile and is perbonally acquainted with the State's Attorney, who had called to see Judge Van Zante about the case. When .Mrs. Hyde took the stand in the Municipal Court yesterday and told of a brutal assault on her by the milk man, that individual smilingly followed her on the stand and denied every charge she made. It was absolutely untrue that he had either slapped or threatened her, ha said. And Judge Van Zante said he would not care to convict under the showing that had beon made by the state, Inasmuch as the testimony was so conflicting. "Someone Is perjuring themselves," the court said. "Such being the case, I think the defendant Is entitled to the question of doubt and I will dismiss the case." Mrs. Hyde went Indignantly to City Attorney Kavanaugh. She protested that it was an outrage to let Johnson off and said that he would have been convicted had a serious effort been made by the District Attorney's office to bring out the facts. "I demand a warrant for his arrest," she said. "I do not Intend to let that man escape simply because he's some body's milkman." A warrant charging Johnson with assault and battery was Immediately Issued and placed In the hands of the police for service. Whether the city will convict the man after the state failed under such circumstances Is aa matter that will be watched with In terest. SAYS CONTRACT WAS BROKEN Broughton & Wigginu Demand $1358 of J. J. Brugger. JudK-e Bronough. In the Circuit Court, Is listening to the suit of the Broughton & Wiggins Co., against J. J. Brugger. The plaintiff corporation alleges that $1358.05 Is due, $168.05 on a loan, ana sizuv tor a, broken contract. Brugger, It Is as serted, was to furnish the corporation with last season's output of cedar poles. It Is asserted that these were sold to other parties. Brugger, on the other hand, says he made no such contract with the plain tiff, and denies that he owes the cor poration anything. He says that in the Winter of 1905-06 he put 15.495 feet of poles into the flume of the Oregon Lumber Company for the plaintiff, but was never paid. He says $77.47 is still owing. LIFE SENTENCE FOB LA ROSE Court Grants Stay of Execution to Gaspipe Thug. Jack La Rose stood before Judge Morrow In the Circuit Court yesterday morning and received with a grin the words which place him behind prison bars for the remainder of his life. At torneys J. H. Upton and L. W. Hum phreys asked for 30 days In which to file a motion for a new trial. Judge Morrow thought that two days would be long enough, but finally decided to allow five days. He said that it wrould be his policy, as far as possible, to cut off all delays in closing criminal cases. La Rose was granted a stay of ex ecution, which means that he will re main in the County Jail until Judge Morrow grants the motion, or the Su preme Court ipasses on the case. COOLTE LABORERS BRING SUIT Demand -$970 From George W. Mc Coy as Unpaid Wages. Vtr Singh and 31 other coolie laborers have brought suit In the Circuit Court to recover from George W. McCoy $970.68 alleged to be due In wages. The men were employed by McCoy, it is as serted, in clearing and grubbing land near Hood River during July and August. A suit was instituted against McCoy at Hood Klver last Summer by other parties, charging him with stopping up an Irrigation ditch during the clearing process, and thus cutting off the water. Takes Dog to Home. Willie Boyer, the little son of Fred and Sadie Boyer, who were arrested and sen tenced in the Police Court yesterday to spend Ave days In jail for fighting on the street, has been taken In charge by the county. He will be kept at the Deten tion Home temporarily. The boy is very fond of his dog, and was allowed to take the pet with him. Xonsupport Defendant Free. Frank H. Dighton, arrested Monday on a non-support warrant, was released yesterday on $300 bail. Means New School for Chehalis. CHEHALIS, Wash., Nov. 17. (Spe cial.) The City Council last night adopted the report of the special com mittee named to confer with the School Board with reference to the sale to the city for a city hall of the High School building and the block of land on which it stands. The committee recom mended that the city buyN the school property. The Council now asks the School Board to submit the question to the voters of the school district, ask ing them to vote an authorization for the board to sell the property to the city for $20,030. If the voters of the school district agree to the proposition It would also carry with It a plan to vote an additional bond issue of $30, 000, and with the $50,000 thus secured the School Board would buy a site for a new High School building, also one for a grade-school building, and erect two new school buildings to meet the growing demands of the city. Aberdeen Bookkeeper Missing. ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 17. (Special.) J. A. Hendricks, bookkeeper for the American Contracting Company, disap peared from this city November 8, and no trace of him has been found since. Hendricks is about 30 years old and comes of a well-to-do family In Pennsylvania. Dies, at Soldiers' Home. ROSEBURQ. Or., Nov. 17. (Special.) Joseph Smith, an inmate of the Sol diers' Home, died yesterday, aged 76. He was admitted to the Home from Mult nomah County In 1904. He served dur ing the Civil War in Company C, First Battalion. California Mountaineers. t City "Slavedrlvcrs" Trample on Kvery KlKbt Under the ConIIution! LATOURKLL FALLS. Or.. Nov. 14. (To the Editor.) I have been reading with very high esteem and pleasure the remarkably true and sensible let ter of Mr. Milt Kichardson. of Mc Minnvtlle. Or., about the autocratic ac tions of the Yamhill County fruit in spector, Mr. Lownsdale. which ap peared in your weekly paper of Sep tember 17. This letter was a picnic for any liberty and justice-loving cit izen, and it was extremely refreshing to hear "that. 950 Yamhill County farmers made a kick against a new form of a slavedriver and that they implored or petitioned their masters to remove him." It seems that at least some of the farmers begin to wake up from their stupors and begin to tako notice of the fact "that they are slow ly but surely made regular slaves by the ever-increasing number of laws enacted and ordered by their dear brothers In the cities, which tell them what they have to do. and that the new slavedrivers, called inspectors, wardens, etc., are already after them." Equal rights and privileges guaran teed by the Constitution 'seem not to exist any more for farmers. The farmer has not the least right what ever (and does not want to have such a right) to interfere In any way with the labor and business of the pepple in the cities; but the latter seem to have, or at least claim to have, a perfect and lawful right to meddle and Interfere with any labor and bust, ness on, the farms. At present, for In stance, they force the farmer by law: How he has to tend his orchard and take care of It. How he has to take care of his milk, butter, cows and other animals in gen era L How he has to clean his stables and Where to pile or store their manure. How he has to fight impure air in his stable and keep dust, microbes and files out, so that they do not come in contact with the milk. How he has to clean his cow and how he has to wash and dress himself before he sits down and milks her. How he has to make a natural doe tor and cure all kinds of diseases of his plant and animal life. How he has to kill and destroy all kinds of parasites and animals which are liable to damage his products, and how hf h to nrntpct. nurse and raise ) others, which are doinff the very same thing, In order that the city sports may be able to shoot them when they are getting ready for it How he has to treat or not treat a mean horse or other animal which re fuses to do its duty in spite of all good care. How he has to grade, sort, box, pack and label his fruit and other products before he Is permitted to bring them to market for sale. How he has to take care of fire and when he Is permitted to use it for clearing his land. How he has to fight thistles and other weeds on his place, etc., etc. And if he is not doing all this promptly what these natural-born slaveholders and slavedrivers ordered him to do by law, then they will not only punish him, according to their stipulations, but destroy or confiscate his property besides, without the least process of law, as guaranteed by our National Constitution, just as If he has no property rights at all. If that is not slavery pure and Simple, then I do not Know what slavery is. and I would be glad to hear that regular slaves of the old time were not treated by their masters as the farm ers of Oregon by their slavedrivers! Farmers, wake up! You not only have no more equal rights and privi ledges with your city brothers in the matter of labor In your business, but in the matter of trading and selling too. Your city brother claims tb have a perfect right by to manufacture, pro duce and sell to you any grade of goods, don't matter if that is sixth or seventh grade, and get all out of you for It that he can, but he claims that you have no such right, and for this reason he forces you by law and punishment to produce and offer him for sale only first class goods, first-class fruit, milk, butter, meat, vegetables, etc.. and if you ever would be bold enough to pro duce lower grades and offer him sixth or seventh class of goods for sale he would turn his nose sky high and notify the next Inspector or especially appointed slavedriver he meets and order him to put your goods onto the dump, or If still too good for that, con fiscate them anyway. Farmers, get out of your stupor, open your eyes and notice the fact: "that you have not only lost equal rights and privileges with your city brother in regard to your business matters, labors, products, trade and sale, etc., but in regard to your prop erty rights, too." If any one of them owns more property than he has mo mentarily use for, you have not the least right by law or otherwise to go there and appropriate part of it for your own use because if you do, and he catches you thereby, you will have a pretty tough time. But he has such right by law with your property! He can steal from you- or appropriate as he likes to call It, perfectly lawfully part of your property, for which you have no momentary use. in the shape of water powers, of fish, of game, of use of your streams, of use of your land alongside of it, of water, etc., etc. That he can, besides that, destroy or confiscate part of your property per fectly lawfully and unpunished, by means of an inspector, Is of course, self evident. What? You expect relief from your Judges in your courts? Why, these gentlemen called this kind of gamo onto you perfectly square and fair long ago! What are you going to do about it? Take the law In your own hand? Treat your slavedrivers and their property the same as they do yours? Nightrlders? Whitecaps? Reg ulators? Or a sneaking slnglehanded revenger? What shall It be? L. FERDINAND FLOSS. "The natural-born kicker." Shape of a Stoushton Bottle. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 17. (To the Editor.) An article on the editorial page this morning, credited to the Boston Globe, says the Stoughton bot tle was shaped like a log cabin. It may have been; but when I was a boy in Massachusetts half a century ago, the Stoughton bottle was a little big ger than the present beer bottle, mado of a cream-colored material, and had a rounded bottom on which it could not stand, hence had to be stood up in a corner. Therefore the expression "standing like a Stoughton bottle" meaning shiftless and lazy and leaning against something:, the application of which was obvious and altogether dif ferent from the lotr-cabln idea. W. J. C. Pertinent Inquiry. New York Tribune. The principles for which the party stands, the policies for which our party contends these are not dead. Colonel Bry an's after-election remarks. Meaning free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, abandonment of tho Philippines, Government ownership of railroads and Insurance of bank de posits? Positively the Best Seller. Boston Transcript, t. i i . i. . - nf tho IntA Vnnli nuunuiy Lite na'"t . TrrAKtA- at.niia at the head of the list of those whose books have been "the best sellers. r-eveniy-uve million spelling books and from 10,000,000 to 15.000.000 dictionaries look like record figures. .