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PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1909.
IT POINTS THE WAY.
The Oregonian thinks It certain that
no other man whom the Republicans
could have nominated -would have re-t-olved
as many votes for the office of
Mayor aa Mr. Simon. Knowledge of
Ihis experience in municipal affairs
partly counteracted the effects of Re
publican feuds, which would have been
tfelt to an equal extent against any
other candidate. There are still un
satisfied ambitions among aspiring pol
iticians, and a good many persons,
moreover, who haven't yet done with
he thought and purpose of "getting
?ven" with former opponents in
their party. It Is undoubted, more
over, that Simon received a consider
able Democratic vote, which hardly
rwould have been cast for any other
Republican candidate; yet Munly re
ceived most of the active Democratic
vote. The chief inspiration of the
candidacy of Albee was a desire to
justify the action of a class of Repub
licans who made use of "Statement
One" last year as a factional weapon
find means of alliance for their own
ipurposes with the Democratic party,
and a further desire on their part to
strengthen thetr position for future
contests. But they have probably
alienated their Democratic allies of
last year, who felt that at this time
they had a right to the support of
those whom last year they elected on
"Statement One." It will not be easy
for these people to get together again,
and 'Statement One" Republicans will
toe scarce In future Legislatures.
The campaign horror manufactured
et the thought that election of Simon
would be a "menace" to the city, and
would "let loose a flood of evils upon
It," will disappear with last nlghfs
stage thunder, which, indeed, it much
resembled. It will be Simon's natural
desire to render the city the very best
service he can. Moreover, he Is a
practical man and a quiet one, not an
oddity, nor a play-actor. The business
of the city Is a very practical business
and it needs practical treatment, which
the Idiosyncrasies of the present Mayor
iiave often denied it.
It would have been useless to try to
tret together the votes that were cast
for Munly and Albee, by concentration
on one of them; for the purposes of
the two groups were wholly at var
iance. It could not suit the supporters
of Munly to pull this Republican fac
tion's chestnuts out of the fire again.
They did it last year, for Chamberlain
was the reward; but to give them the
turkey now would have been extremely
absurd. On the other hand, the Albee
Nottingham Republican group "won't
play the game," except for their own
advantage. What they want is control
of the Republican party, or para
mountcy In it: and to secure this is the
use they have for the Democratic
party. They wouldn't have voted for
Munly at all, for that would have been
at variance with their main objects;
and supporters of Munly couldn't have
been induced to vote for Albee.
The results of this election In Port
land will tend to simplify political
conditions in Oregon. Most likely it
will cause the adoption by Republicans
of the state of a method or "sugges
tion" by "assembly" for nomination of
candidates, not for supersedure of
the primary law, but for guidance of
action under it. The method will not
supersede, nor even interfere with
nominations by petition. If considerable
numbers shall still desire to pursue
that course, nor will it cut out Inde
pendent candidates. It simply will
provide a way whereby there can b
conference and counsel, for presenta
tion of candidates. The countv com
mittees can send the delegates. 'This Is
the method suggested by Governor
Hughes, of New York. It was not
adopted in that state, because the state
now has a primary law for election of
delegates to conventions, and neither
political party wished to change this
method. But in Oregon the situation
Is wholly different; and on the volun
tary system the method will apply well
here. Its tendency will be to reduce
the multitude of candidates, to enforce
better selection, to put a check on self
nomination of candidates, and to ob
tain through suggestion or recom
mendation candidates more likely to
command the confidence and votes of
their respective parties. The method
pursued hitherto under our primary
brings out many candidates for each
important position, or induces men to
nominate themselves; then some one of
them gets a few more votes than any
one of his many competitors, yet has
received only a small Traction of his
own party vote in the primary, and is
not deemed entitled to the party vote
In the election. It is a most unrepre
sentative method except as it repre
sents faction, nominates weak men
and stands for party disintegration'
statement One," which is no part of
the primary law. but a superfluity that
has no authority, can be dropped out
entirely, and by Republicans generally
doubtless will be.
Representatives of the jobbing in
terests of the entire Pacific Coast are
at Washington today endeavoring to
secure a modification of the recent or
der in the Spokane rate case. The
matter is one of the most important
ever brought before the Commission.
Unless that body la -willing t return to
its original position, where due recog
nition was made of water competition
the Jobbing trade of the entire region
west of the Rocky Mountains, that of
. Spokane included, will be turned over
jto the mall-order houses and jobbers
, of the Middle West. It is a matter
( In which Spokane should be standing
firm with Portland and Puget Sound
Instead f aulklns fcjr herself ami la
menting the stroke of the boomerang
which was thrown by her own hand.
Atlantic Coast Jobbers should also
rally to the assistance of the far west
ern dealers, for the discriminatory or
der of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will, if enforced, deprive them
of a large trade which they now enjoy
with this Coast.
A STORY LIKE MANY MORE.
. A story is told. In the World's
Work, by Mr. Frank Bailey, vice
president of the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company of New Tork, which
will bear reproduction in outline. It
shows the dangers a man may encoun
ter who takes risks in Investment,
against which ail persons ought to be
on their guard. Mr. Bailey's article
bears the title, "How a Homemaker
Became an Anarchist."
Barach Sholnky, the homemaker,
was a toiling Bast Side Jew, who,
after many years of struggle and de
privations, had saved up a hoard of
$1600. He was anxious to buy a home
of hiB own, "where there were light
and air and cleanliness," and after
some negotiation secured a two-family
house at Brownsville, Brooklyn,
valued at $6000.
This place was subject to a first
mortgage of $3500 at 5 per cent, due
September 1, 1907. Sholnky paid $1000
down and gave the builder a second
mortgage of $1500, payable in Install
ments of $50 every four months,-with
interest. He rented the upper floor
to a friend at $22 a month, and with a
nest-egg of $500 began his new life
with high hopes and confidence an
optimist and a good citizen to the core.
"He is now a violent anarchist, without
work or the desire to work; his family
Is dispersed and poverty and misery
are the fruits of twenty-five years of
honest struggle."
How did this anarchy develop? We
are told that two weeks after he moved
Into his house he was surprised with a
notice for $75 in taxes for the entire
year of 1904. The charter of Greater
New York holds the buyer responsible
for taxes when the title passes before
the first Monday in October. Sholnky's
title dated September 30. The year
following he was astonished to find
a charge against him for street pav
ing of which he had known nothing
amounting to $262.30, with interest
from April 1, 1905.
The story tells that he weathered
these difficulties, but only by extreme
effort.
When'the panic began in September,
1907, Sholnky, together with others in
the same row, received demands for
the immediate payment of the first
mortgage. The five owners had hoped,
of course, for extensions. In their
plight they sought the Title Guarantee
and Trust Company for a loan, and it
was there that Mr. Bailey met them.
The real estate appraisers of the com
pany reported that the property had
deteriorated and recommended loans
of $3250 on each of the five houses.
To change the mortgage would have
cost an extra $70. This th0r
able to meet and. as Mr. Bailey learned
ouusequentiy, iney all lost their homes
"through Inability to reduce their
mortgages or to borrow elsewhere the
$3500 necessary to replace the called
mortgages." This beggared Sholnky
and turned him ,Into an active an
archist. Now, was anybody at all to blame
for this except Sholnky himself and
those in the same nllc-hf n-itv,
They had exercised too little care about
me-status or the property they had
bought and the claims and charges
against it. They owed too , much
money on it. These man -
. . - avs, Ull-
ferent from thousands more that trans
pire wnenever a money shortage oc
curs or hard times set in. And what
good does it do a man in such a sit
uation to turn enemy to human so
ciety and become an anarchist?
FORTY-SEVEN YEARS.
The forty-seventh annual com
mencement of Pacific University will
occur from the 9th to the 16th of the
current month. Inclusive. Forty
seven years! A lifetime in the history
of the individual, but, as the life of a
university is reckoned, a brief day in
the catalogue of time. The vicissi
tudes of life have come in full meas
ure to Pacific University during these
years. Death has thinned, now and
again, the ranks of its earnest work
ers, and, obeying the law of change,
others have drifted away from it. Stu
dents have come and students have
gone out into the world of effort or
behind the veil that
tality from immortality. Yet the purl
iuse mm inspired its beginnings has
remained steadfast.
Tabitha Brown, mother of Pacific
University; Sydney H. MarsH, its first
president: Horace T.xm Dj
Anderson and Thomas Condon, mem
bers irom time to time of its facultv
have passed on. "Sacred to memory"
are they, and tle spirit that inspired
their effort still survives.
The incense of forgotten Summers
floats up and out over all these years
lending a subtle f
successive Junes, while through the
iaces Drignt with youth
eager with anticipation and glorified
by purpose and endeavor, shine and
shine.
The programme fnr v.i-
- ' wi ij-sev-
enth commencement is full, closely fol-
" "au6emem tnose of for
mer years, and a cordial invitation is
extended by the faculty to the alumni
and former students to come back to
the old university town and share its
pleasures and hospitalities upon this
occasion.
AT THE ROSE SHOW.
The heart of Portin
Lewis and Clark Fair Grounds yester
day in the roses exhlhirori
spontaneous, universal, affectionate of
fering once more confirmed Portland's
title to the name City of Roses. It so
far suroassed th crhihu.
- ".ia u! i .i. l year
and the year before that comparisons
" "ul i question. Apart from
the many blooms enteral
- i tumpe-
tltion, there were tens of thousands of
"le-' nowers contributed to make
the spacious building a very wilder
ment of beautv. Thv r-m
w-.
every section of the city and from
every suburb, an outburst of civic
pride without a parallel in our his
tory. For nearly all of th
mous and not nn nt tim
-"uiu ue
classed as ordinary. In a less favored
iWta,u nine out or ten roses in the
reneral disDlav vnnM h0v .
- -lOTrj uccu prize
winners. They demonstrated to the
.uumiuue ol visitors what the people
of Portland have
every day are doing in the cultivation
wie wueen or tne noral kingdom.
It is a matter for common felicita
tion that Ideal climatic conditions anj
f the Rose Show Were svnchrnnnno
Since the last Sunday in May the
weatner has been comfortably warm
with just enough clouds to protect
opening blooms from direct rays of the
sun. No other result In the circum
stances was possible. We have the
soil, the climate, the plants and the
cultivator's skill, but Portland cannot
always in advance fix an exact date
upon which roses shall reach perfect
bloom. This year the coincidence was
happy.
A word of criticism: In that great
mass of roses, there were too few ex
hibits. The number of roses shown in
neighborhood or suburban groups,
banked up high, that merited distinct
recognition In separate jars was almost
countless. Those of our citizens who
have taken to rose culture in recent
years seem to betray a timidity w;hlch
their splendid roses do not warrant.
At the next rose show let there be
shown five or ten times as many indi
vidual roses, even at the expense of the
tout ensemble'.
Most heartily is the Rose Society to
be commended for the very striking
disposition of the wealth of bloom con
tributed from Portland's gardens. It
is not easy to conceive a more beautiful
arrangement or one more-effective In
form and color.
JUNE CROP REPORT.
Another of the justly celebrated, but
not always reliable crop reports, is
sued by the Department of Agriculture,
appeared yesterday. With harvesting
already in progress in the Southwest,
It is possible for the country store
keepers and postmasters, on whom
Secretary Wilson relies for his infor
mation, to become a little more accu
rate in their reports.' For that reason,
the Winter- portion of yesterday's re
port will be accepted more seriously
than would have been the case a
month ago. The best posted men in
the wheat trade in the United States
agree with Mr. Patten that Secretary
Wilson's March report was a colossal
joke, with the farmers and Wall-street
"shorts" as the victims. In many re
spects the monthly reports that have
appeared since are hardly entitled to
serious consideration when taken inde
pendent of their predecessors of a year
ago.
When regarded, however, from a
comparative standpoint with the re
ports of a year ago, there is some value
and interest attached to these reports
For example, we find in the report
made yesterday that the condition of
Spring wheat June 1 was 95.2 per cent
with an acreage of 18,391,000, com
pared with a condition of 95 per cent
on June 1, 1908. On its June per
centage and acreage figures a year ago
the Government indicated a Spring
wheat yield of 300,000,000 bushels and
secured an actual harvest not exceed
ing 225,000,000 bushels, and by some
competent authorities placel as low as
200,000,000 bushels. Deterioration in
the Winter wheat crop is shown by the
report, which has dropped from S3 per
cent in May to 80.7 per cent, compared
with 86 per cent in June, 1908. As the
Government never commits itself to
quantitative estimates so early in the
season, there is always some difference
in the results secured by various stat
isticians who reduce the acreage and
condition percentages to possible yield
in bushels.
These estimates on the Winter wheat
crop vary from 325,000,000 to 365 000 -000
bushels, the latter being the maxi
mum figure that seems possible under
the most liberal interpretation of the
Government figures. By placing full
est confidence in the reliability of the
Government condition and percentage
figures, it would thus be possible to fig
ure out a maximum Spring and Winter
crop of 685,000,000 bushels and a
minimum of 525,000,000 bushels,
fatriking an average between the high
and low estimates, and assuming fa
vorable conditions until Spring wheat
harvest is ended, we might reasonably
expect a crop of approximately 600 -000,000
bushels, compared with 665'
000,000 bushels last year, 634.000,000
bushels in 1907, 735.000,000 in 1906
and a, ten-year average of 641,000.000
bushels.
These are the Government's final
out-turn figures for the years men
tioned. Last year the figures were
much too high, the amount credited to
Oregon, Washington and Idaho being
fully 15,000,000 bushels in excess of
the actual yield in the three states.
Viewed in almost any light, the situa
tion presents but small comfort for the
consumers, who must pay for this
world-wide shortage.
THE JUNE RISE.
The June rise, somewhat belated,
but promising to reach only moderate
proportions, is with us again. Clear as a
mountain spring and placid as a mill
pond, the Willamette is steadily back
ing out over its banks and crowding
its waters into the cellars and base
ments along the waterfront. It is com
lng so gradually, and with nothing
which at all resembles a "flood" in the
generally accepted sense of the word
that it is almost welcomed for the
beauty of the picture it makes as it
widens and hides from view the un
sightly flats and rliimr,incr j , .
e)-6iuuiiua mat
are occasionally found along the banks.
iuiigmiiow proDably knew nothing
of the June rise in the Columbia when
he was following the long, sad search
of Evangeline for Gabriel, the son of
Basil the blacksmith, but he made a
remarkably true picture of the source
and course of the annual flood when
he wrote of that
Land where the mountains
Lift through perpetual snows their lotty
and luminous summits.
Down from their Jagged, deep ravines, where
the trorfi-n HVcm a a
Opens a passage, 'rude to the wheels of the
emicranis wagons,
Westward the Oregon flows, and the Walle
way and Owyhee.
It is out of the "Wflliomov rtn
" LiiC
Owyhee, the Snake, the Clearwater and
scores 01 otner streams that the melt
ing snow is rolling down to the mighty
"Oregon" which Rvpfinc n-n . 1
! v.. iuc t;a
at a greatly accelerated pace which is
Still tOO SlOW tO Drevent cnmo a
along Its banks. There are so many
uoHuitions governing the June rise of
the Columbia that ncnirata -,n.i
- tcuiVLJUIUj
as to the height of the flood or the date
ul ' cumax are Hard to furnish. This
great river is now carrying seaward
the meltinsr snow frnm ..... 1 v.
dred thousand square miles of terri
tory, reaching as far east as the Rocky
Mountains and the Ritter- t nto 1
far north into British Columbia.
The Immensity of the main artery of
this great drainage system can be un
derstood when it is
steamboats are in operation the year
round nearly a thousand miles inland
from the point where it pours its flood
into the ocean. There is one feature
of the June rise, however, which from
this time forward will have increasing
Influence on the stage of water. The
scores and even hundreds of irriga
tion projects that are now coming into
use in the aggregate divert and absorb
immense quantities of water which in
former years swept uselessly on to the
sea. The great storage reservoirs
which the Government as well as pri
vate capitalists are building will also
take up a steadily increasing amount
of this surplus water thai now rolls to
waste and in some districts spreads
havoc in its wake. Perhaps we should
njoy this June rise, for we may not
have another very soon.
THE UGHT VOTE.
What does the light vote in Port
land mean? Does it mean that one
half the voters of Portland care noth
ing about its afrairs? That they did
not want(Simon for Mayor? Or that
they did not want either Albee or
Munly? Or that they were merely in
different as to the course of events
and were satisfied with any outcome?
It seems to The Oregonian that the
stay-at-home voters manifested by
their action in this very definite man
ner their dissatisfaction with the so
called "new Oregon idea" in popular
government and their disgust with its
leaders and sponsors. It can mean
nothing else. There is never the
slightest trouble about stirring up the
public and getting the voters to the
polls if there is anything they are
really interested in. It was every
where taken for granted that Simon
would be elected. It was everywhere
accepted as the general will that he
should be elected. There was no com
mon or general wish that he should be
beaten, and he was not beaten. The
Oregonlan fully believes that if there
had been a full vote, there would have
been no change in relative results.
What, then, does the election mean,
with its light vote? Does it mean
that the people will no longer respond
to the call of their self-appointed and
self-anointed leaders to come to the
polls and perpetuate the "new idea" in
our affairs and themselves in office?
Or are they tired of the "new idea"?
Simon has more votes than all other
candidates for Mayor. The Oregonian
had scarcely expected this, yet it pre
dicted for a certainty that Simon
would receive more votes than Munly
and Albee combined. But it proves
that he has a clear majority over all.
The vote for Simon is 8966. For ail
others, 8792. Simon's majority over
all, 174. About 51 per cent of the
registered vote was polled. A full vote
would have increased Simon's lead
greatly.
The Solicitor-General of the United
States has submitted to the President
an opinion as to what the term
"whisky" means in law. He holds to
the opinion that no amount of ingredi
ents which can be added "can make
whisky out of what otherwise is not
whisky." The opinion is perhaps of
less interest in Portland than it would
have been had the famous Gothenburg
amendment carried.
Portland has barred from streetcars
the stench of tobacco smoke. The
Chicago Municipal Court has declared
that a theater may shut out garlic
breath. Another triumph for decency
would be banishment from public
places of the sour breath, of Saturday
night, before saloons close.
"Mr. Simon was elected," we ar
told by the friends of Mr. Munly,
"though the majority of the people did
not want him." That is the reason
no doubt they stayed at home on elec
tion day. Or was it because they
thought that staying at home was the
best way to elect Munly?
One float was conspicuously missing
from the electric parade last night. It
should have borne a statuesque sem
blance of Mr. Josselyn rampant with
one hand held up triumphantly bearing
Mr. Kellaher's scalp, and one foot on
the neck of that eminent statesman
prostrate. '
That there may be no mistake about
it, it should be said that the over
whelming defeat of the excise and
Gothenburg ordinances does not indi
cate a desire on the part of the peo
ple to turn control of the saloons over
to the saloons.
The milking machine Is said to be
supplanting the milkmaid. Rather It
is supplanting the dirty-fingered hired
man. The milkmaid disappeared long
ago. Now for an automatic machine
to whitewash the barn and cart off
the manure.
Railroad connection between the
coast counties of Oregon and the rest
of the world has been so long talked
about that the statement that it is in
sight sounds like a quotation from
ancient history.
Simon could have been beaten, they
say, If "there had been harmony and
concert of action, and the voters had
turned out." Certainly. All that
Munly and Albee lacked was votes
it T m McC r to .Senator B e:
"One of the great weaknesses of the
direct primary, is that it enables men
of small caliber to get on the ticket
where they are easily defeated."
If Seattle has any uneasiness about
Portland's attitude toward the A-Y-P
Exposition, it may be dismissed as
quite unfounded. Portland will be
there, all right.
Mr. Munly is satisfied, Mr. Albee is
satisfied, and Mr. Simon is satisfied
So they say. That makes it unani
mous, for everybody else is satisfied.
We have not yet heard Brother
Brougher's explanation of the catas
trophe. Is the brother still dumb as
well as blind.
It's Brother Wagnon's turn now to
get -up a new charter. The public is
fairly yearning to vote on a Wagnon
charter.
Outdoor Sleeping.
Sacramento Bee.
Sleeping out of doors in Summer is a
custom fast growing In favor in this
country. It is especially well suited to
California, where absence of rain and
the relative dryness of the air make
tents superfluous. No amount of ventila
tion can make the air of a sleeping
chamber as pure as that of the open,
with nothing to obstruct the escape of
impurities exhaled with the wk t-
when a complete calm seems to prevail
" ")s a movement of the at
mosphere, so that an entire change of
Buuuuiiuing air occurs every second.
Doctors in California now generally rec
ommend sleeping in the open air. and
many patients experience much benefit
from it.
AX OLD.FASHIOXEO GARDEN,
Grow Vegetables at Rear End of a 50
Foot I-otj Lessen. Expense of Living.
PORTLAND, June 8. To the Editor.)
The causes which have made and are
making- the present high cost of living
were clearly set forth in The Oregonian' s
recent editorial in the statement that as
long as people flock to the cities, taking
up pursuits foreign to agriculture, just so
long and in direct proportion will the
prices of all food products continue to
advance.
It seems to the writer, however, that
there is a partial remedy for this one
which seems to embrace much of real
good. There are in this city, as in nearly
all cit3es in this country today, hundreds,
yes, thousands of homes where the care
of the house yard is centered upon a
well-shorn lawn, flower beds, roses and
ornamental shrubs, usually in charge of
a gardener who Is hired by the day or
month to attend to the necessary work.
The cut grass is carted away, fertilizer
is purchased from time fo time to renew
the exhausted soil, while the owner at
the close of each season balances his ex
pense account with the consciousness
that he is keeping up a yard that com
pares well with his neighbors, and en
deavors to satisfy himself with the es
thetic returns as an offset to other more
practical considerations.
Without belittling all that is good in
flowers and the pleasure which they give,
the writer suggests that on nearly every
60-foot lot there is room for a vegetable
garden, and this without invading the
front yard.
Ofttimes the use of a nearby vacant
lot, grown up with weeds or unkempt,
uncut grass .can be had for the asking.
Boundary lines can be set out with cur
rant, raspberry and blackberry bushes,
the care of which is but nominal and the
returns certain. But little skill Is re
quired to place or care for a half dozen
vegetables, beginning with lettuce, rad
ishes, peas, beans. Summer squash and
cucumbers. Of these two latter, three
hills will furnish enough for a family of
six people. Of the others, succession
crops can be grown all through the sea
son and a total space 20 by 50 feet will
supply a family of six with delicious
vegetables at a season when they are
most needed, most grateful and most dif
ficult to purchase, fresh and tender. The
health of the family, dismissing any
thought of economy, pleads for the
homely kitchen garden.
Every man or boy is the better for a
little garden work through the Summer
months. As an avocation, it is delight
ful in this section. The care of a garden,
by growing boys, stimulates a love of
home, arouses a healthy instinct and
makes for good habits, more so by far
than the appearance of any conventional
lawn, which difrers but slightly from
scores of others on the same street. The
lad who abominates the monotonous
treadmill task of pushing a lawn mower,
has his interest constantly stimulated in
a growing garden.
With passing generations, boys have
not changed in their instincts. They are
naturally as good today as they ever
were, but the cheap diversions of present
day city life lure them more, strongly
from the home, probably than ever be
fore. It is an old-fashioned remedy and,
like most such. Its chief merit is its sim
plicity and real efficacy. Our climate is
ideal. We have practically none of the
garden pests of Eastern states. Our
season- is long, and health for the gar
dener and rich returns for his labor are
guaranteed.
The writer knows of a man whose two
growing boys, not much given to books,
not inclined to evil, but none the less
without immediate purpose, gave him
concern. He finally secured the use of a
nearby lot, had it plowed, and worked
with them through the first Summer, at
odd moments. The garden was a success
each season and the boys took a new
outlook on life. Their later and success
ful career in higher walks was no doubt
largely influenced by their garden experi
ence. These are not the views of a theorist.
For the past 15 years the writer has
gained health, pleasure and prdflt from
his garden, a few stands of bees and Just
a small number of amiable, stay-at-home
Plymouth Rock hens all this inside the
city and withal enjoys amicable rela
tions with his neighbors.
WILLIAM F. WOODWARD.
DOJfT PROTECT PREDATORY BIRDS
False Sentiment Should Not Include
Destructive Hinged Creatures.
HOLLY, Or., June 7. (To the Editor.)
In your issue of June 3 is an article on
the destruction of birds, by Leone Cass
Baer, with which I am heartily In accord.
It is a shame that the women of our fair
land are aiding and abetting the destruc
tion of our useful birds or in fact any
harmless birds, but either I or the writer
is mistaken in regard to the subject of
the sketch, the blue heron. I have al
ways regarded the heron as destructive
to the young fish as the slate-colored
backed fish duck. There is only one place
that I ever saw him useful, and that was
in the Sacramento Valley, where they
are seen during Winter standing in the
fields watching gopher holes, and when
the gopher showed his head they always
get him. The heron Is protected there by
the ranchers for that purpose, but he
hunts gophers only when the waters are
high and muddy in the streams of the
Sacramento Valley and fishing is not as
good as gopher hunting.
I cannot remember ever shooting one,
but I have seen them wading and catch
ing young fish all over this great country
of ours, from New York to this Coast,
and even here in the Calapooia Valley
they are often seen on the riffles fish
ing for trout. It is my impression that
we can get along without several kinds
of -birds that frequent Oregon. Among
them are the buzzard, crow, raven. Jay,
fish duck and blue heron. The buzzard
can and does carry germs of disease
(from carcases left in the fields) many
miles, and drop them in pastures where
cattle are grazing, and the disease breaks
out, and no one can account for it any
other way. A case of that kind occurred
in my Tieighborhood a year or so ago.
and the veterinarian said that it could
not have got there any other way.
The crow is too well known to "draw
his frailties from their dread abode." The
raven is a scavenger, egg and chicken
stealer; and the jay lives on anything he
can steal birds' eggs, young birds, and in
the Fall the cornfields are full of them,
and nothing but death will keep them
away; they are the same as the crow, or
even more persistent. The fish duck lives
exclusively on young fish, and as far as
I know the blue heron does the same.
Our last Legislature put a license on fish
ermen, men that catch fish for sport or
food, but the fish's natural enemies, like
the birds mentioned and 'the mink and
otter, are let go to catch as many as
iney please.
Sentiment is all right, when it is in the
right direction. I am very sentimental in
regard to our song birds the insect-eaters,
like the sparrows, robins and Jun
coes. They eat with my hens in my
dooryard the year around. I fed a large
band of juncoes all Winter. When the
snow was on the ground, I also Win
tered about two dozen quail. They were
around my cow barn for nearly two
months, and sometimes inside. One went
through a window and took the glass
with it. I am a firm friend to all useful
birds, but the predatory animals and de
structive birds I believe in exterminating
if possible. What a blessing to the small
bird it would be if the pugnacious Eng
lish sparrow was entirely destroyed.
Yours for the protection of the useful
birds and the destruction of those that
are not, J. R. SPRINGER.
Find Suspects at Inquest.
ST. LOUIS. June 8. Five arrests were
made among the spectators at today's
inquest over Fred Mohrle, who was
killed by Thomas Kane in the criminal
courts building yesterday.
CHEHALIS IS TO SPEND MOXEY
New Sewer, More Sidewalks and City
Hall to Be Built.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. June 8. (Special.)
At the meeting of the Chehalls Council
last night a resolution was passed pro
viding for a new sewer and drainage dis
trict, whereby the entire southern and
eastern part of the city will be drained.
The estimated expense Is approximately
$56,000, and it is intended to assess this
cost to about 2000 lots located within the
territory -embraced in the improvement.
The Council let contracts for new side
walks to be built to take care of the
city delivery, which will begin June 15.
The total cost of the walks to be built
will amount to about tll.OOO. The bonds
voted at the city election a week ago,
$15,000, with which to build a City Hall,
were declared carried. Bids were ordered
called for these, and they will be sold
in about two weeks and work on the
structure hurried as rapidly as possible.
FIGHT OX' COURTHOUSE IS DUE
Hoqulam and Aberdeen to Take
Matter to Courts.
HOQUIAM, Wash.. June 8. (Special.)
The recent creation of another Su
perior Court district in Chehalis County
has already given rise to considerable
contention between the sister cities of
Hoqulam and Aberdeen. It has become
known that certain Aberdeen politi
cians are attempting to locate the new
Courthouse in that city, while Ho
quiamites are as Arm in the demand
that it be located midway between the
two cities. The matter will, in all
probability, be threshed out in the
courts before an adjustment of differ
ences is had.
BIDS FOR SGHOOIj ARE OPEXED
Chehalis' New Structure to Cost
Close to $35,000.
CHEHALIS, Wash., June 8. (Special.)
The Chehalis School Board last night re
ceived five bids for the erection of the
new high school building. This will cost,
complete, close to $35,000, with an added
$5000 for equipping it- The successful
bidder on the erection of the building was
the firm of Erickson & Co., of Tacoma,
at $2S.1S1. The nearest comrjetitor was
the Denhof Construction Company of
cnehalis. which bid 29.515. W. G. McPher-
son Company of Portland, got the heat
ing contract for $4750. The plumbing went
to Carl L- Peterson Company of Hoqulam,
for $2135, and the electric wiring to King
& Ralston of Chehalis for $485.
SPECIAIi ELECTION ORDERED
Vacancies in Washington House
Must Be Filled.
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 8. (Special.)
Telegrams were sent out from the Gov
ernor's office here today to the auditors
of Douglas and Grant counties announc
ing a special election there June 19 to
fill vacancies in the House of Repre
sentatives. Calls had been prepared for
Whitman and Whatcom counties because
Representatives Reeve and Young have
moved to Seattle to engage in business.
Both these men, however, still claim resi
dence in the counties from which they
were elected, so no vacancies exist and
no election will be held there.
FIVE DESTROYERS ORDERED
All Vessels to Be Built on Atlantic
Seaboard.
WASHINGTON, June 8. The following
companies were today awarded contracts
to build one torpedo boat destroyer each:
Bath Iron Works, $669,500; New York
Shipbuilding Company. 64S,O0O; William
Cramp & Sons, $637,000; Newport News
Shipbuilding Company, $620,000.
The Fore Kiver Shipbuilding Company
also will be awarded a contract for one
at $644,000.
O. A. C. to Give "Mikado."
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis. Or., June 8. (Special.) A new
feature will be added to the programme
for commencement this year by the
presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic
opera, "The Mikado." The play will be
given on the evening of June 14. by the
O. A. C. School of Music, from which the
cast and the choruses have been drawn.
The music will be furnished by the col
lege orchestra.
The play will be beautifully staged,
with Imported Japanese costumes, fur
nished by F. L. Miller, of this city. Every
effort is being made to make this pro
duction the most elaborate musical event
ever presented in the city. Following is
the cast: Nanki-Poo. Jack Porter; Yum
Yum, Miss Cleo Johnson; Katisha. Miss
Lulu Spangler; Peep-Bo, Miss Esther
Johnson; Pitti Sing, Miss Ruth Smith;
Ko Ko. William Y. Farnsworth; Poo Bah,
Ray Palmer Tracy; Pish Tush, Collie
Cathey; Mikado, N. R. Moore.
Professor W. . F. Gaskins Is director,
and W. R. Boone stage manager.
Northwest People In East.
NEW YORK, June 8. The following
Northwest visitors are registered at
the leading hotels today:
From Portland E. L. and J. M. Gra
ham. M. Bibson. at the Continental
Miss D. Newhall. R. Newhall. at the
Manhattan; O. Rittenberg. at the Her
mitage. From Spokane W. G. Winans, at the
Wellington; W. Durkin, at the Prince
George.
From Seattle W. H. and G. C. Gor
ham, at the Imperial; R. Williams, at
the York.
Fire Wardens Appointed.
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 8. (Special.)
Deputy state fire wardens have been ap
pointed to begin work at once patrolling
timber areas and supervising all burn
ings of slashings. Those appointed in
clude the following for the counties
named: Chehalis, S. D. Wissinger, of
Montesano; Clark, D. F. Deid, Vancou
ver; Cowlitz, S. A. Settle, Kelso; Lewis,
Tom Crocker, Wlnlock; Pacific, W. ll
Bunker, Lebanon; Skamania, William
Goepel, Stevenson: Wahkiakum, E. S.
Ackerman, Cathlamet.
Raft Goes Out to Sea.
TILLAMOOK, Or.. June 8. (Special.)
A raft of piling, belonging to the Chapin
Potter Realty Company, went to sea early
this morning, after dragging the anchors
in the bay. There were 720 lineal feet of
piling in the raft, valued at $600 and it
remained intact after it crossed the bar.
G. A. Jones endeavored to hold the raft
with anchors and the gasoline launch
Bayocean, but the current was so strong
he was unable to do so.
Launch Short of Fuel.
ASTORIA, Or.. June 8. (Special.) The
pleasure launch Anvil, en route from San
Francisco for Seattle, put in here early
this morning in distress, being short of
fuel. After taking on a supply of oil.
the launch crossed out this evening for
Seattle.
Ecuador Suffers From Plague.
GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. June 8. In
May, according to official reports, there
were 57 cases of bubonic plague here with
27 deaths. Forty-two cases of yellow
fever were reported in the same period,
of which 18 resulted fatally.
FARMERS ARE THREATENED
Pullman Residents Receive Lotters
Demanding Money.
COLFAX. Vf ash., June 8. Three prom
inent farmers of Pullman, Wash., have
received threatening letters, dated May
22, and threatening "the burning of their
property if they did not place money
under a bridge near their home. The
letters read as follows:
'"Joe Cooper. Pullman. Wash. Put
$500 under Busby bridge by June 1 or
be burned out. (Signed)
"ORCHARD H."
J. J. Staley, Pullman. Wash. Put
$1000 under Busby bridge by June 10
or be burned out. Put it in wooden
box. (Signed) ORCHARD H."
"C. E. Jennings. Pullman, Wash. Put
$500 under Busby bridge by June 15. or
your barn wil be burned. Remember.
(Signed) "ORCHARD H."
The farmers have had no trouble and
are at a loss to know what to do.
They have given Sheriff Carter the let
ters and special efforts are being made
to find the extorters. The letters are
thought to have been written by a
left-handed person.
IS NOW OVERHAULING WESTON
Walsh Gains 600 Miles and Still
Pursues Him.
DENVER, June 8. Battling against
rain storms and muddy roads. Sergeant
John Walsh, the 57-year-old pedestrian,
who proposes to overtake Edward Pay
son Weston In his walk to the Coast, ar
rived In Denver last night. Walsh left
Boston April 8, and already he has gained
600 miles on his H-year-old rival. Walsh
asserts he will overtake Weston before
the latter leaves Salt Lake City.
Walsh left Denver at 10 A. M. for
Cheyenne, following the route taken by
Weston.
AVeston Is 280 Miles Ahead.
RAWLINS, Wyo.. June 8. Edward Pay
son Weston, the pedestrian, left Raw
lins for the West at 5 o'clock this morn
ing. He is exactly 2f miles ahead of Ser
geant Walsh, who left Denver this morn
ing. FARMERS TO STORE OWN GRAIN
Will Erect Own Co-operative Ware
houses in Umatilla County.
PENDLETON, Or., June 8. (Special.)
Believing they have not always been
given a square deal by the grain ware
house companies operating in this county,
a group of farmers this afternoon formed
a corporation 'and will erect and operate
a string of four warehouses. These will
be located at Helix, Vansycle, Stanton
and Ring, all stations on the branch line
of the Northern Pacific.
The corporation was formed with a
capital stock of $20,000. The warehouses
will be co-operative, all the incorporators
being members of the Helix branch of
the Farmers' Educational & Co-operative
Union, of America. According to present
plans, the warehouses will be erected in
time to handle the present season's grain
crop. If these prove successful, other co
operative warehouses will be erected in
the county.
WILIi SEND MILITIA HOME
Sherlfr Needs No Hplp at McCIoud.
Italians Are Leaving.
M'CLOUD. Cal., June 8. Sheriff
Howard notified Adjutant - General
Lauck today that he would not need
the militiamen after Wednesday, and
the soldiers will return to their homes
leaving on a special train at 6 o'clock
in the morning.
Many of the striking Italians have al
ready gone to other camps in search of
work, and others are preparing for
early departure. The American em
ployes have returned to work at the
box factory and logging camp.
DEPUTIES FIGHT STRIKERS
Exchange Over 100 Shots at AVest
Virginia Mines During Day.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 8. After
exchanging more than 100 shots with
striking foreigners at the Boomer mines
today, a posse of deputy sheriffs suc
ceeded in arresting 15 leaders of yester
day's riot. Following the arrests nearly
400 strikers procured arms and took
refuge in the hills. During the afternoon
many shots were exchanged, but no one
was. injured. At darkness the firing
stopped.
GIFT TO MISS BOARDMAN
Taft Presents AA'atch on Behalf of
Philippine Party.
WASHINGTON, June 8 The famous
"Taft Philippine party" showed its ap
preciation of Miss Mabel Boardman by
presenting her tonight with a diamond
studded watch and chain. President Taft
made the presentation. He spoke of the
kindly feeling which every member of
the party had toward Miss Boardman. be
cause of what she had done to make the
trip pleasant for everyone.
ARCHBOLD'S
LIBERAL GIFT
Pays Off Mortgage on Day's Uni
versity at Syracuse.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 8.-At the
meeting of the board of trustees of Syra
cuse University today Chancellor James
R. Day announced that John D. Arch
bold had given $300,000 to cancel the mort
gage on the property and that during the
year he had given an additional $75,000.
Elliott Bay Shipping.
SEATTLE, June 8. Arrived Steamer
A. G. Lindsay from Seward and ports;
steamer Jefferson from Skagway. Sailed
Steamer Northwestern for Port Graham
and ports, with 475 passengers and a full
cargo; Japanese steamer Akl Maru for
the Orient, with light cargo and small
passenger list; steamer Queen for San
Francisco, with 125 passengers; steamer
City of Seattle for Skagway and ports,
with 140 passengers and full cargo;
steamer Falcon for Nome; steamer Mex
ican for Tacoma; steamer Buckman is ex
pected in during the night from San
Francisco.
Let Us Have Peace.
PORTLAND, June &. (To the Editors
Referring to Mr. Swigerfs letter in The
Oregonian of June 6, regarding the fric
tion at Seattle, it seems to me, now
that the city election is happily over,
and the Rose Festival in full swing, that
the Governor ought to take a hand at
Seattle and. appoint a committee to in
vestigate and report, with a view to
obtaining harmony before anything worse
occurs, and have peace at any price for
the benefit of all concerned.
J. K. JONES.
Raymond Man AVins.
SHOSHONE, Idaho.' June 8. First
choice in the land drawing for 50,000 acres
in the Dietrich tract today went to N. H.
Slater, of Raymond, Wash., and the sec
ond to Nellie E. Quinn, of Seattle. More
than 500 persons were present at the
drawing, registrations for which num
bered 2341.