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8 TJIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1909. FORTLAN'D. OREGON. TTntered at Portland. Oregon. Fostofllce as i vnd-las Matter. SubM-riptioat Bates InrarUbly Adyanco. (By Mail.) T.-uIy. Sunday Included, one year $S.O0 'lei.y. Sunday included, six raonthi 4.115 I'-i'ly. Sunday Included, thre month... 2-5 ' i:u:y. Mjnday Included, one month .75 t 1 illy. without Sunday, ore year 80 luily, without Sunday, six months 3". : '!:". without Sundav. three tnnnlhl. ... 1.75 "T.ly. without Sunday, one month...... .60 I U'eekly. one year 1.50 r-unnay, one year - under control of the people, and Con gress is not likely to push the power of taxation, which the new amend ment will confer, to the unlimited de gree which the terms of the amend ment itself would clearly authorize. An Income tax. distributed as fairly as may be. Is a Just tax. Yet undoubt edly it will be resisted strongly, in a considerable number of the states. Ar guments against it, on various lines, are already beginning to appear. While acknowledging the force and pro priety of these arguments, from their special points of view, nevertheless. The Oregonian must express the belief that the State of Oregon ought to Sunday and weekly, one year aso j ratify the proposed sixteenth amend toy l hi : ici .; r)-!(!y, Sunday Included, one year... Sunday Included, one month 8 00 .75 Silly How to Reoiitt Send postofrlce money rd"r. express order or personal check on I lour local bank cramps, coin or currency at tne sencers risk, lilve potomce .ia- iress in full, lorladlng county and atate. Pnetare Rates 10 to 14 paces. 1 rent: 19 pages. 2 cents; SO to 40 paires. S cents: to tlo na?es. 4 centa Forrlzn DOataaa double rates. Kastern Buftlneaa Office The S. C. Beck- I w1rh Special Asmry New York, roorr.s 4S- " :r:iiune h-itldlr.x. Chicago, rooma aiv-Ai2 r-:t'jne build:ns. 1-OKTLAM). SATVRDAV, JULY 31. 1909. MEANING OF THE SIXTEENTH AMEND MENT. Sixteenth amendment of the Consti tution of the United States is proposed. Intentionally, amendment of the Con stitution was so guarded and obstruct ed as to make it a matter of great dif ficulty. The first twelve amendments were all adopted within a few years after the ratification of the original charter. Of these twelve, eleven were d vised expressly for the purpose of limiting the powers of Congress and I o: the National Government, and of "protecting the rights" of the citizen land of the states against "the assump tions or encroachments of Federal power." The twelfth amendment more wifically defined the manner of elec- t:nn of President and Vice-President, and established the rule for counting I th" electoral votes. Apparent need of this twelfth I amendment was demonstrated by the s'rucgle of the Presidential contest o trie year l.iou, when Jefferson was I elected by the vote, of the House of Representative." each state having lone vote. The National sentiment now b:tsd on numbers, then was weak, and ea. h state still insisted on as much power In the election of President and Vice-President In the ultimate as any other. Equality of the states was eirarded as an attribute of their sov Iereipnty; and the pretension led to the C'vil War. Jefferson owed his election t the active Influence of Hamilton I who distrusted Burr even more than he dUIJked Jefferson. Yet Jefferson iMer had the magnanimity to ac knowledge his obligation to Hamilton, and pursued Hamilton with malignity even after he was dead. But Hamil tm's triumph came with the fall of Richmond and the surrender at Ap pomattox. From the year 1S04 to the year 1S65 there was no amendment of the Con stitution. The whole interval was a period of compromise on moot ques tions of state and National sovereignty 1 it required the Immense shock of the Civil War to bring further change. Then slavery was abolished. Mean while, the shock had produced the dis ruption of Virginia, and the State-of Vest Virginia was the consequence. The people of the western part of Vir ginia were a poor, non-slaveholding population; and their loyalty to the Union Induced Congress to authorize them to form an Independent state. It is only the shock of war that can pro duce such a consequence; and they who talk about rearranging the boun daries of the Pacific States, and mak ing one new state of Southern Oregon and Northern California, another out of portions of Kastern Oregon, East em and Northern Idaho, and a third out of other fanciful subdivisions of several existing states, have little con ception of the difficulties of the prob lem they so lightly propose. Bound aries of states already established never will be dislocated or rearranged except through the agency of war. Only the ploughshare of war can mark I new boundaries. Now a sixteenth amendment is pro posed. It Is not radical or extreme; it raises no question for which the public mind is not prepared: and we think the amendment will be ratified. Yet in a considerable number of the states there may be a struggle over It. This amendment embodies the proposition that Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on in comes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the sev eral states and without regard to any insus or enumeration. It will give ( undress power of unlimited taxation. Iti former times the proposition would have been received w-ith every mani- fiMation of alarm, especially by the Jerfersonlans. It is a longer step to wards extinction of the states than er yet has been taken. It is a long step towards drawing all the higher p iwers of taxation into control of the neral Government. It will give Con gress power to levy unlimited taxes on incomes: and the power to tax the in come from property and business gives unlimited power over the citizen. It subordinates the states, in completest way. to the National Government. It gives the National Government full power and mastery oVr all the prop erty and Industry and business of the country- Yet the proposition need not be Sewed with alarm. Congress will be impelled to exercise the power with discretion and forbearance. The amendment will compel revision of certain decisions of the Supreme Court, wherein it has- been held that the United States couldn't tax any of the means employed by the states to carry their powers into execution. Now a tax on the income from state lien. Is or municipal bonds is a tax on the power of the state to raise money. These bonds are sold at a very low rate of Interest, on condition of their ex emption from taxation. But, If trfe United States can tax the income, such tax is nothing less than a tax on the bonds, and on the power to Issue them. The bonds will always be sold with a view to this burden; and the power of the states to raise money on their oh n credit, and of municipalities. hich are representatives of the states that create them, will be curtailed. In cine from state and municipal se curities will be subject to tax by the United States, and the securities there fore must bear higher Interest or sell at lower prices. Salaries of judicial officers of the states, which several 1-iUgments by the Supreme Court have declared are not taxable, by Congress, will be subjected to the same exaction. It U just as well that all these con sequences should be foreseen and per fectly understood. Nevertheless, Congress Itself will be ment. It will greatly increase tne power of the National Government, undoubtedly, and it certainly will tend to limitation of the functions of the states. It will be, indeed, another step towards the "consolidation" that was proposed by the makers of the Constitution which. however, has been arrested ever since by the Con stitution Itself. The one breach of the system was made by the Civil War, whose doctrine of ultimates is yet be yond estimate, or even conjecture. Power Is yet to be concentrated in the central government, to an extent that the makers of the Constitution never could have dreamed. The whole tendency Is that way, and most people apparently want it so. The General Government is expected to do things, more and more; and even the tramp is becoming an Imperialist and wishes to carry his cause to Wash Ington. as the Coxey Army did. In ef fect, it is a profound and irresistible tendency towards consolidation that is. towards an imperial democracy that brushes away limitations. But such a democracy an Imperial de mocracy may be completest of tyran nies. Such was that of Caesar; such was that of Napoleon. ber to handle the perfectly equipped property which he had remodeled into such excellent condition Mr. Harri man has displayed a genius for or ganization. In keeping with his won derful work of reconstructing th properties. Three years ago the death of Mr. Harriman would have thrown the financial and railroad world into convulsions, but so gradually has he shifted his greatest burdens to the shoulders of his subordinates, and so perfectly does the neatly adjusted Har riman machine move in its well-oiled grooves, that even the master mind re sponsible for Its condition is no longer of vital necessity to its success. WHY NOT DO LIKEWISE? The little company 'of Chicago seamstresses who have purchased 160 acres of fruit land by pooling their earnings have done something which only lack of intelligence prevents many others from doing. Every industrious person can save something, even if It be but a few dollars, every year, and if others of similar tastes and habits would unite with him they might make investments which would be ex ceedingly profitable. Of course. In or der to do it they would have to form an organization, select some competent person to manage the project, and sub mit to a few common-sense rules. Many people cannot do anything of the sort. Some are too suspicious of their fellow-men to permit them to act in concert with others. Some fall to practice co-operation out of sheer stu pidity. They know that other people profit by it but they cannot do it them selves. The Chicago seamstresses have not formed a socialist colony. There is nothing whatever striking or unusual about their enterprise except Its stupendous Intelligence. Their plan of leaving their work in the city and living on the land they have purchased in Idaho is the only thing about their scheme which gives one pause. The chances are that they know nothing about the unavoidable hard ships of making a livelihood from land. They do not understand rural devices. nor are they accustomed to muscular toll. Still, it must be admitted that when women go into an undertaking of this sort they are quite as likely to go through with it as men are. They have a sense of detail and a keen vis- Ion of the adaptability of means to ends which helps amazingly. Experi ence has shown that women can act in concert fully as well as men. They seem to lay aside their petty Jealou sies easily enough when business af fairs are under consideration, and their Judgment is not lacking in prac tical shrewdness as a rule. In manag ing farms women are about as success ful as men, though of course not near ly so many have tried It. Frultraislng Is an Industry not lily adapted to femi nine tastes, and it does not demand ex cessive muscular exertion. One may without much risk predict success for these energetic women. Certainly everybody will wish them well. DR. ELIOT'S BOOKSHELF. A good deal of the depreciatory com ment which has been made upon Dr. Charles W. Eliot's five feet of good books seems to have been premature. He has written a letter to say that the list is still incomplete. It is said that much of the comment which has appeared on the unfinished list has been silly. What seems to have stirred up the ire of critics most deeply is Dr. Eliot's notion that fifteen minutes a day devoted to the earnest perusal of a section of his shelf will make a man liberally educated. It is surpris ing that anybody should find fault with this. Fifteen minutes a day means seventy-five hours a year, leav ing out Sundays. It Is doubtful whether many college students put In seventy-five hours of solid study be tween Fall and Spring In any year of their course. Still they manage to get educated after a fashion. It is to be kept in mind, too, that fifteen minutes of attentive reading daily is much bet ter for the brain than fifteen hours of shallow and Inattentive skimming. One may venture to believe that if a person should apply himself steadily for a quarter of an hour dally to any moderately good collection of books through a series of five years he would become a person of liberal education. How many facts go to make up the equipment of the ordinary college graduate? Precious few. How much has he read of good literature? Mighty little. What does he know of the ways and means of earning a living? Noth ing at all. The contents of a liberal education being thus rather exiguous, there is no reason in the world why an Industrious person of good intelligence should not compass the whole by read ing a few minutes a day for half dozen years. There is a considerable amount of humbug connected with courses of study. The number of books they in elude Imposes upon us and awes us. As a matter of fact these books are for the most part pretty well watered The entire contents of a series of school books could be printed in one issue of a newspaper iwlth plenty of space to spare. If anybody does not believe he could educate himself by reading attentively fifteen minutes a day, let him try it and see. not sent out of the country. It might be used to raise wises. It would be found vastly more effective for that purpose than the tariff is. It might be used to build good roads, which we need a great deal more than we do titles of nobility. Judge Gerard's proposal is ex tremely moderate. Instead of taking the whole of the dowries, which are wastefully expatriated every year, he would only confiscate 20 per cent. He is probably mistaken In thinking that the tax would stop the exportation of heiresses, for the foolish girls could persuade their still more foolish papas to cover the deficit which the Impost would cause. When a girl has once set her cap for a Duke or a Count, money becomes no object whatever. Still, the tax would check somewhat the ruinous .exportation of capital without return which is now going on, and it might lead to sterner measures In course of time. One thing is cer tain:. Any country which permits a continual unrequited drain on its in dustrial resources will, in the long run, suffer for it. The laws of economics require that nothing should be given for nothing, and these European titles we are buying so lavishly come about as near to nothing as one can possibly get. It is to be hoped that Judge Gerard will persevere in his plan of framing a bill for the New York Legis lature which will embody his proposed tax on the dowries of expatriated heir esses. Not even an income tax would be so just or so wise. j ONE-MAN POWER VANISHING. Union Pacific sold above 201 yester day, and Mr. Harriman still 4000 miles away and not even talking for publication. Four years ago, after Mr. Harriman had completed practi cally the expenditure of about $150. 000,000 in placing his Pacific railroads in a physical condition a condition that has since made them models for all roads the Harriman system came nearer to being a one-man affair than ny other big railroad enterprise in the country. Men who had reached high places in the lines prior to their ab sorption by Mr. Harriman were either deposed or set back in the ranks. It was E. H. Harriman. president, on every transportation line In his con trol, and the individuality of the rail road wizard was stamped on his rail road lines to such an extent that the names under which these lines were Incorporated were seldom used in market lingo and news stories. The work of "Harrimanizing" such a tremendous mileage of roads was so complete that public attention and market quotations followed the health and physical condition of Mr. Harri man much closer than the roads which he controlled. The trend of re- ent events, however, shows quite plainly that Mr. Harriman has fol lowed the work of reconstructing and placing his roads in perfect condition. w(th similar efforts in building a ma chine for their operation and exten sion. Free from the burden of active management and supervision of his roads, Mr. Harriman is taking life easy at a foreign health resort, but in nearly every portion of his far-flung railroad empire, there are unusual develop ments taking place. Well-trained lieutenants on whom Mr. Harriman has conferred vast power are spending millions in push ing a line through Mexico. Better ment work on a large scale Is still In progress on both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and in the Pa cific Northwest the Harriman system and the Hill system are engaged In one of1 the hottest conflicts that have yet engaged their attention. Naturally, Mr. Harriman is kept inrormed regard ing these vast undertakings, but he no longer aspires to the position as "the whole of the show." That his trust Is well placed is apparent from the show ing made by the different branches of his system. Never in all of its previ ous history has the Union Pacific showed such astonishing net earnings per ton, per mile as it has since A. L. Mohler was placed ih cnarge. and the same is true of the Southern Pacific under the management of Mr. Calvin and the O. R. 4 N. under the manage ment of J. P. O'Brien. In the selection of men of this call- A THRIFTY TAX. Judge James W. Gerard, of the New York Supreme Court, appears to be a person of remarkably good sense. One may gather from some opinions which he has been divulging to the reporters that if he had as much power as he has understanding, some things would not be managed as thriftlessly as they are, not by a long shot. Take the courts, for example. Judge Gerard savs the reason why they waste so much time and accomplish so much less than they ought. Is that they "are mad with technicalities." "Mad" in the mouth of the revered Jurist means crazy. This is a good dose for the persons who frantically shriek that we must blindly adore everything the courts do and say, no matter how ah surd it may be. When the Judges themselves perceive that something is wrong, it is high time for the lawyers to cease inculcating fetish worship and take to mending their ways. If they do not. the chances are heavy that somebody will assume the task of do ing it for them. Judge Gerard makes the same unflattering comparison be tween Justice in our courts and in the British which has been seen in many different places of late. He men tions a divorce case which the English Judges finished from beginning to end in two hours, while here it would have taken six months, and then probably have been reversed on appeal and tried all over again. But interesting as Judge Gerard is on criminal practice, he is incompara bly more so on the question of export ing heiresses. In his opinion, we Americans "make ourselves the laugh ing stock of Europe" by selling our girls with their big dots for titles of nobility. Such a thing is unheard of. he says, among French, German or English girls. To put a stop to the hideous traffic, he would impose a tax on the purchase money paid for the title. Of course, the bearer of the title cuts no figure. Usually he is lit tle more than a withered simulacrum. Such reality as he possesses is summed up in the tale of his diseases. Judge Gerard speaks of this Impost as a "transfer tax," and he would fix it at some 20 per cent on the dowry of the girl who is sold. In cases where the price of the title runs up to four or five millions, the revenue yielded by such a tax would be well worth considering. It would mount upward at the rate of one million on every five. This would be some compensation for losing our girls, but, after all, it would be but a slender return for the wealth they j deduct from the nation s resources. The annual drain of money which is carried to Europe oy travelers we can stand with some fortitude, since we receive a certain amount of sound education in return. It is said that our wandering scholars of all grades, from the schoolma'am to the society belle, do not spend much less than $500,000,000 a year. No country can pay a tributa of such magnitude to foreigners without feeling the effect of it in one way or another. It acts on Industry precisely like the absentee landlordism of Ireland and Italy, but, as we say. the education it buys gives a fair return. What return, however, do we get for the capital which our mercenary heiresses transport to for eign lands? Some may pooh, pooh this question and reply that it does not amount to enough to worry over. The fact is that it amounts to a good deal. Twenty or thirty millions every year -would be a low estimate of it and this drain kept up perpetually cannot fail to produce notable effects. What it does is to compel an Increas ing number of our laborers every year to exert their strength to support Eu ropean nobles in idleness. The money exported as Interest and dividends on the dowries of our expatriated heir esses is just as much lost to us as if it were thrown into the fire. It brings absolutely no return. It is a free gft I which we force our laborers to make to the aristocrats who have honored us by taking over our girls. If it were Construction work on the Falls City, Dallas & Western Railroad has reached a point where the whistle of the locomotive can be heard in Salem and in a few days regular trains will be operated between tne Polk County manufacturing city and the state cap ital. What the new line means to Sa lem and to the Willamette Valley can be understood when it is stated that the line referred to last year carried 60,000 passengers between Dallas and Falls City and handled about 60,000 000 feet of logs. The completion of this line will also admit the trains of the Independence, Dallas & Airlie road to Salem. There are great pos sibilities for development in this won derfully rich portion of the Willam ette Valley, and the completion of these short roads which will act as feeders to both steam and electric roads in and out of Portland and Sa lem cannot fill to prove highly bene ficial, not alone to the cities directly in touch with the new lines, but to other parts of the Willamette Valley which will necessarily share in any benefits enjoyed by the capital city or surrounding territory. "He took baseball matters too seri ously, I think," said President Powers, of the Eastern baseball league, in dis cussing the tragic end of Harry C. Pul- liam, who died recently a suicide in New York. To regard baseball In any of its phases as a "serious" matter may seem a trifle strange to most people, but the thousands and even millions of Americans who take such keen enjoy ment in the National game owe much to the unfortunate young man who took so serious a view of the sport that it cost him his life. In elevating the game from the beer-garden-rowdy level to Its present plane, Mr. Pulllam is entitled to and is freely given more credit than can be claimed by any other American. A clean sportsman and an honorable, upright young man, Harry C. Pulllam will long be remem bered as the man who eliminated rowdyism from American baseball. It Is the opinion of The Oregonian that the site at Park and Everett streets would not be a proper one for a city jail, since It opens on the line of park blocks that would better be kept free from a penal institution. Many people like to visit the parks, and children should have a chance to play therein without seeing a Jail and the scenes about it. The Oregonlan's Idea of a jail is a place in some dark back alley, w-here there will be no fine prospect for prisoners, and where decent people, especially women and children can't see them. The Jail al ways should be a good place to stay out of. CRIMES IX THE! NEWS OF" THE DAY Remarkable Summary Saowfnsr How Small Space Seasatloas Have. Arthur L Street In Chicago Tribune. Railroads receive more attention from the newspapers than murders and suicides? Impossible! Educational and scientific matters receive more attention than divorce and' scandal? Impossible! Beyond be lief! ' Yet these are facts, absolute, unde niable. For more than 16 years the author of this article has made it his business to index and analyze the contents of the leading newspapers in all the prin cipal cities of the United States. And his itemized record offers incontestable proof of the above statements. It shows beyond any possible cavil that the amount of serious and Important mat ter printed in the daily press of this country far outweighs the sensational and the superficial. It demonstrates that the newspapers are even more alive to things that make for real prog- j ress than they are to crimes or any of the baser evils of society. And It thor oughly substantiates the claims of those who understand the newspaper best that it is the most comprehensive, valu able and effective factor in modern hu man advancement. The author's record for the year 1908, which has Just been compiled, will suf fice. Nineteen hundred and eight was characterized by numerous high crimes, by much offensive social scandal, and by innumerable incidents affording any amount of temptation to the editor and reporters who might be inclined to make their papers "yellow." There was the inheritance of the of fensive Thaw case from 1906 and 1907. There was the Hains murder, with all its suggestion of the revival of the "unwritten law" code, which figured so dramatically in the Thaw trial. There was the Castellane-Sagan controversy, with its gross exhibit of the unhappy possibilities of international matrimony, and the Hart McKee affair, which, though it also took place in Paris, was an example of the no less evil possi bilities of a purely American marriage. There was the Ferdinand Pinney Earle affinity matter, which probably most people read with Infinite disgust. A comparative table tells the story: Topic. No. Items. Topic. No. Items Thaw case l.':9j Foreign news ....2280 Sagan-Ca:elane . 84!Congre 1440 Dvnarolte bombs- .. 67i'Ralroado 679 Black Hand 6; Roosevelt 550 New York police ITaft 450 assault 14! Banks 3S8 Hart McKee S! Democratic pirty. 86 Earle affinity .... 8; Educational 325 Halns murder SiGermany 31" Helnrlch a aasa- I Republican party.. 805 iln&tlon Ill T Boo- Remy and I Total 6778 Steinhell 151 Course of time will develop whether it Is a contest in Deschutes Canyou between Harriman and Hill, or an at tempt of railroad contractors to take speculative risks for themselves. If the Hill people are behind the Porter brothers, there will be force enough to compel an accommodation, and the great chiefs of the two systems will adjust the contention. If Hill is not behind the opposition to Harriman, there will be no lone struggle. But we shall get a railroad into Middle Oregon. A Chicago girl is said to be broken hearted because she was wooed and won by a bogus foreign nobleman. In stead of the real article. Unless this would-be Baron was a great deal worse than most of the inmates of our penitentiaries, it is not exactly clear where the Chicago, girl would have got any worse off by marrying him than Anna Gould and the rest of the American girls who have captured the real thing in the nobility line. Naturally, Mrs. Evelyn Thaw is much shocked to find that Harry Thaw was on sufficiently amicable relations with certain chorus girls to beat them with a silver-handled whip. She is going to sue for divorce, poor thing. Let Harry get a change of venue to Oregon. Here the Supreme Court has certain original ideas on whips in the hands of women-beaters that ought to help out any good man who desires to chastise his wife. Madrid says the Insurrection at Bar celona is suppressed. A dispatch from Barcelona says that it Is not sup pressed. The press censor should at least be a consistent liar. Total 443 Add to the above table all the mur ders and all the suicides, other than those Implied in the tables themselves and the account in favor of the "decent" and important news is still vastly in the ascendency. For Instance, the followingg summary: Suicides, chronicled Burglary 14 one to three Arson 11 times 317iE x t o r t 1 o n and Murders, chronicled J blackmail ...... 9 one to three 'Forgery V times 307'Outlaws .......... 4 Park robberies fiOl Embezzlement. I Total 900 o:her than banks 48' Previously men- Bank embezzle- I tloned 433 ments 45 Swindling 67 Grand total 1843 Robbery and safe blowing 19 This number does not include all the crimes reported in all the newspapers. Neither do the subsequent totals in clude all the other Items in all the newspapers. But they do include all the crimes reported from one city to another by the various press associa tions; and, therefore, may be considered an average for any one newspaper, or for all- the principal ones. Besides, the record shows not only a superiority in numbers for the serious and progressive news topics but it in dicates equal or superior zeal in tn pursuit and discovery of such topics. Every new medical "And " appears to have been as zealously exploited were the discoveries of murdered bodies or the disclosures of dual lives. The newspaper reader needs only to recall to his own mind the activity of the press in the campaign against tubercu losis to impress upon him the truth o this statement, or to realize how one big Intellectual or civic movement after another has been taken up and ratnerea and promoted to a conclusion by the daily newspaper. The following tables will suggest some of the details: EDUCATIONAL, AND SCIENTIFIC ITEMS Unlverpitles 145! Industrial educa- Kchool 711 tlon Fnorf analysis 521 Anthropology 4 Education, general. 34! Astronomy 4 Arctic exploration. 17iSclence. general ... 4 Currency 16 Chemistry 2 Milk analysis 14;x-ray .... Archaeology 13! Antarctic explora- I Total -....897 tlon "1 MEDICINE, SURGERY, ETC Insanity 40 Appendicitis 12 Cholera. 36 Epidemics, general. 11 Consumption and i Rabies IS tuberculosis .... 55!.B!indness 9 Medical, general .. 28iReeuscltatlon t Surgery, general. . . 25 Bubonic plague .. 161 Tctal Leprosy 151 RELIGIOUS. Catholic S7 Mental healing, eta. 10 Clergymen, general 66 Missions 11 Denominational ... io:jeaus Christ General 52Heresy Jews 3st Churches, general. 24 Total 390 Christian Science.. 14 Here even is religion taking preced ence over murder and suicide and going beyond the totals for either of the great political parties; while the educational and scientific news covers every phase of intellectual activity. Besides, th above tables take no cognizance of the individuals who figure in the intellec tual and scientific leadership. They do not Include the extent to which the press reported the speeches of Buch men as President Eliot of Harvard, Hadley of Yale, Schurman of Cornell, and Wheeler of California, or such scholars and diplomats as Bryce and Takahtra and Wu Ting-fang. They do not touch upon the grave topics of economic conditions of legal decisions or of any of those aspects of society which are taught in the schools or re flected upon wherever social welfare or individual morals are considered. Were these features of the news added to the above tables, the count on the side opposite to crime and scandal ould be almost incredibly great by comparison. YOUNG IOWE OUT OX BAIL i Wife, It Is Said, Refused Offer of Money From Parents-. ABERDEEN, Wash., July SO. (Special.) Edward Lowe, Jr., who was arrested last night on the charge of wife deser tion and non-support, was released this morning on ball amounting to $1600, given by Fred Hart, C. M. Weatherwax and Fred Green, all prominent in the social and business life of the city, and con nected by family ties, Lowe, in defense of his action, says that he gave his wife a portion of his earn ings, that he has not been constantly employed and has been without funds other than those 'earned, because his parents have cut off his allowance. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe came here six months ago from Grand Rapids, Mich., where the wealthy parents of the young man live. Mrs. Lowe was formerly Miss Bradley and it Is said has posed as an artist's model. According to her story, Mrs. Lowe and her husband were happy until his parents came to Aberdeen and offered to make settlements, which were not satisfactory to her. She demanded $60,000 and an ad ditional $50,000 to be placed in trust for her unborn child. There Is a presumption that Mrs. Lowe may bring a suit for damages against the parents of Mr. Lowe for alleged alienation of affections. GI.IDDEN TOUR IS ENDED SMELTER FIGHT IS NEAR END Greenshoro-Anderson Squabble May Be Settled Oat of Court. SPOKANE, July 80. Plans are being outlined for the reorganization of the Idaho Smelting & Refining Company. If plans work out, all the warring factions will be Included In the deal, and tne plant at Ponderay, Idaho, will again be In operation. It Is believed here that Greenough brothers, J. Herbert Anderson and the prominent men in the Fidelity National Bank will co-operate in the new organi zation. This would mean a settlement of the sensational Greenough-Anderson fight' in the United States courts and the state courts of Washington and Idaho. CLARK COUNTY MUCH RICHER Assessed Valuation Shows Increase Over Last Tear. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 30. (Spe cial.) The assessed valuation of personal property for 1909 in Clark County is $1 19, 000 more than last year. Only the per sonal property has been assessed this year, as the real estate is assesed but once in two years. . The County Assessor, A. F. Davis, and his deputies have been busy of late ex tending the tax rolls, and these will be completed in time to hand over to the County Commissioners, who meet next Monday as a County Board of Equalization. SMUGGLING GANG BROKEN UP British Columbia Authorities Make Important Arrest. VANCOUVER. B.C.. July 30. (Special.) By the arrest here of an Irishman named Michael Morgan, the customs authorities believe that they have disrupted a gang of peddlers who have systematically smuggled dress goods across the line Into British Columbia and disposing of them by door-to-door sales. The smuggling Is alleged to have been carried on from Blaine, Wash., and the material smuggled is of the shoddy variety. Cars Reach Kansas City After Run to Denver. KANSAS CITY, July 30. The American Automobile Association's sixth annual tour, and its most successful run, was officially completed at 5:T7 o'clock this afternoon, when Chairman Frank B. Howel's car, a Premier, bearing two pilots, three other members of the con test board and Charles J. Glidden, donor of the Glidden trophy, flashed across the finish line into Kansas City. Nine minutes later the first of the con testants, a Pierce, entered the city and the others followed in rapid succession. On today's trip between Salina and Kan sas City this afternoon, the pilot cars gave out. The racers were cheered by great crowds, as they drove through the streets of the city. At the state line where the cars checked in, nearly 500 automobiles were waiting to greet the tourists. New York and Kansas City enthusiasts drove out to points as far out as 20 and 30 miles to meet the sunburned, mud-bespattered tourists. All the cars will be carefully examined by the technical committee of the as sociation. All the points of the trip must be considered before the winner can be announced. It likely will be several days before this work will be completed. The route of today's run lay through a part of Kansas that had experienced heavy rains of late, and the roads were in bad condition. Penalties were al most certain. The Kansas City Automobile Club, the Commercial Club and the other organi zations, have provided an extensive programme of entertainment. Chairman Hower stated that while there were still five perfect score cars competing for the Glidden trophy and five for the Hower, he believed every car on the tour would be given some penalties at the last test. Wherever the examiners find the cars to be out of order the drivers and mechanics will be Instructed to make all repairs ne cessary to put the machines in first class running condition, and penalties will be levied according to the material and labor called for. The sixth annual tour of the Ameri can Automobile Association, which in cludes the contests for the Glidden, Hower and Detroit trophies started at Detroit, July 12. Thirty cars were en tered. This year's run for the Glidden trophy was the first outside of the EaBtern States. It was 2636.8 or 1000 niles longer than any former Glidden run and over roads of true country type all the way. . .263 We shall have free hides now, that Is, hides free of duty. But just wait and see whether there will be any re duction of the prices of shoes and leather goods. , In the event the remote event, of course, that Johnson licks Jeffries, what will the sports do then? Find another "nigger" to lick Johnson? Applicants for the Spanish throne will wait a while. King Alfonso is not going to abdicate Just yet. If Coos Bay Is alive to some things It will induce Porter Bros, to get busy down In that direction. Huckleberries are ripe in the Blue Mountains, and it Is time for a new crop of bear stories Urarea War on Bad Enjrliaa. New York Times. In a paper on "English in the Ele mentary Schools, which was read at the second session of the Catholic Edu cational Association's conference at Boston, the Rev. Father Smith, of New York, urged an attack on "incorrect English." More than 1000 clergymen who are connected with various Cathol ic educational institutions of this coun try attended the session. In his paper Father Smith said: "Next to religion the teaching of English is the most Important branch in our curriculum. There must be a persistent, tactful attack on incorrect English and a gradual Introduction of the rules of grammar without defin ing them." Rulers of America and China. New York Herald. There is nothing funny in the fact that a 3-year-old baby in China should be running things. It's the same in every American household where there is a S-year-old baby. CURSES, FINED, HE GIVES COIN John B. Coleman Makes Second Do nation to Bible School. . EUGENE, Or., July 30.-John B. Cole man, a local capitalist, who was arrested and fined $5 in Police Court at few days ago for swearing at an automobile which came near running into him on the street, has given another brick block, valued at $16,000, to the Eugene Bible University, in addition to a block valued at $25,000, given just a year ago. The gift is In memory of his wife, who during her life was a devout member of the Christian Church. DREAD DISEASE IS SPREADING Leprosy on Increase Among Natives of Cook Islands. VANCOUVER, B.C.. July 30. (Special.) Passengers arriving via the Marama from Sydney, state that leprosy is spreading rapidly in the Cook group of islands, es pecially in Pukapuka, Rakahanga and Maniklkl. The ignorance and careless ness of the people are blamed for the spread of the disease. Lord Plunket, Governor of New Zeal and, has gone on a tour of investigation of the islands. INLAND CTTY VERY BUSY Land Lottery Draws Many Strangers to Spokane. W. R Skey. traveling passenger agent, and H. C Munson, local agent, repre senting the O. R. & N. Company, with headquarters at Spokane, were visitors yesterday at the local offices of the Harriman Fystem. They report great activity at Spokane, occasioned both by the influx' of strangers who are regis tering for the drawing of public lands in the Spokane Indian reservations and in cidentally the extensive arrangements that are being made for the entertain ment of the large number of delegates who are expected to attend the annual meeting of the National Irrigation Con gress which will be held in that city August 9 to 14 inclusive. "Indications are that not less than 300,000 persons will register either at Spokane, Missoula, Kalispell or Coeur d'Alene for the drawing of lands in the three Indian reservations which are to be thrown open to settlement," said Mr. Skey yesterday. "In the three reserva tions there are to be had about 6000 claims so fhat only one out of 60 appli cants can expect to be successful. With but few exceptions, all of the claims are worth striving for, and It Is this fact that accounts for the unusual activity among prospective homeseekers. "The people of Spokane are making extensive arrangements for the enter tainment of the delegates to the Na tional Irrlgafion Congress which will be held in that city next month. The city will be decorated most elaborately and an effort will be made to. have the elec trical display exceed that which was pro vided by the people of Portland during the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Recog nizing the great Importance of this gath ering to the Western states, the people of Spokane are sparing neither efforts nor expense to Insure the irrlgatlonlsts pleasant entertainment during their stay In our city." SALOON BRAWL IS SERIOUS One Man Lies in Hospital and Other Occupies Jail Cell. MONTESANO, Wash., July 30. (Spe cial.) Thomas McCarty and another man. whose name could not be learned, got Into a quarrel in William Waize's saloon at Elma last night. McCarty used a knife and his victim is now in the Blma Hos pital in a critical condition. McCarty la in the county Jail here. Both men were former residents of Marshfield, Or. TYPHOID IN CAMP OF LOGGERS Five Cases Reported Near Elma Within Past Two Weeks. ELMA, Wash., July 30. (Special.) Five cases of typhoid fever among employes of the Grays Harbor Commercial Company's logging camp south of Elma have broken out within the last two weeks. The cause has not as yet been determined, but the water supply of the camp will be investi gated. The men have been taken to tne Elma General Hospital. EARLY FUR-TRADER IS DEAD Gavin Hamilton, Relative of Lord Macau ley, Passes. VICTORIA. July 30. Gavin Hamilton. a pioneer factor of the Hudson Bay Com pany, -who was in charge of New Cale donia district in the early days of Brit ish Columbia, died today. ' He was a rel ative of Lord Macauley, and nephew of Dr. Rae, the explorer. Ii. RUCONICH IS DISCHARGED Prosecution Fails to Make Case Against Saloonkeeper. OREGON CITY, Or., July 30. (Spe cial.) The charge against Lawrence Ruconich, proprietor of the Planet sa loon, charged with- selling liquor to Otis Shelley after the man's family had filed written notice with the saloon keeper to refuse to give intoxicants to Shelley, was dismissed this morning by City Recorder Dimick. after the testi mony for the prosecution was taken. Attorney George C. Brownell ap peared for Ruconich and argued that the notice was given by James Shelley, father of Otis Shelley, and that as the latter was a married man with a family of his own and had a household separ ate and apart from that of his father, the notice could not be construed as having come from Otis Shelley's imme diate family, as Is provided in the ordi nance regulating such matters. Recorder Dimick took the same view of the matter and discharged Ruconich. There seems to be a disposition on the part of Ruconich to deny the charge that liquor was sold in his saloon to Shelley, but the prosecution failed to prove that the notice came from Shel ley's immediate family. POWELL KNOCKS OUT HUDSON Five Rounds Finish Seattle Man. Taylor Knocks Out Silva. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30. Lew Pow- . ell, of San Francisco, knocked out "Chick" Hudson, of Seattle, in the fiftl) round of a scheduled 15-round bout to night before the Pacific Athletic Club. Powell proved Hudson's' master through out the short contest. In the first preliminary Roscoe Taylor, of Seattle, knocked out Tony Silva, of Oakland, in the second round. New York Excursionists Here. Late yesterday afternoon a special ex cursion party of 70 residents of New York reached Portland over the Northern Pa cific from Seattle. The visitors will re main in this city until Tuesday when they will return to the exposition city and proceed thence to Victoria and Van couver, B. C, and from, the latter point will proceed homeward, via the Canadian Paclno, Alleged Forger Captured. COLFAX. Wash., July 30. Tllman Cave, who is alleged to have forged several checks in Whitman County, was captured In Asotin County by Deputy Sheriff Cole and returned to Colfax today. Cave 18 said to have obtained money on numerous checks ranging from $10 to $25. Making Salt Lake Racetrack. SALT LAKE, Utah. July 30. Work has been begun by the Utah Jockey Club upon stables and grandstands for a mile racetrack to be opened west of the Jordan River. The club is arrang ing for a 30-day meeting, to begin as soon as possible after September. Schooner Inca Takes Lumber. ASTORIA, Or., July 30. (Special.) The American schooner Inca cleared at the Custom House today for Sydney, N. S. W., with a cargo of 1.319.6fi9 feet of lum ber and 77,000 feet of pickets, loaded at Knappton. The vessel will probably sail tomorrow morning.