THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1909.
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rORTLAXD. TUESDAY. ACGCST 17, 1909.
(TWXO TTTE LAWS DELAT.
It Is all very well for the New York
Judges to recommend reforms In the
rules of court procedure as a remedy
f"r the law's delay In civil cases. This
n good as far as It goes, but It will
rot by any means go to the end of
the road. A more fundamental medi
cine is required for the complete, cure
of the disease of procrastination, waste
and Inefficiency which, as everybody
admits, causes Justice to pine. To
change rules Is merely to doctor symp
toms. It may alleviate, but it cannot
cure, and however great the changes
may be the disease will prsently .re
sume its ravages and the patient will
s.Kin find himself worse than he was
before. Be the rules of procedure
what they may, lawyers can always
pervert them and bring delay and
evasion out of them.
For Instance, the ?ew York judges
would put an end to the "demurrer,"
a tool used for sheer evasion, or delay,
or trickery, ten times where It Is used
once for the ends of justice. The
modern lawsuit needs It not at all In
civil cases or In criminal ones either.
What business has the prisoner finding
fault with the commas and semi
colons In the Indictment? He Is not
brought into court to criticise the
grammar employed In accusing him.
Yet those are the very things he sets
out to do and the chances are heavy
that lawyers and judges will become
so deeply interested In the punctuation
and diction of the indictment that
they forget all about the crime. The
prisoner's business Is to clear his skirts
of crime. A court trial Is not meant
to be a recitation In rhetoric, though
often it Is that and nothing more. The
indictment Is a thing of minor conse
quence. If it specifies wrong-doing
with tolerable deflniteness It Is suffl
tient. The prisoner being once in
court should be kept there, no matter
if he has not been Indicted at all, until
the question of his innocence has been
laid at rest. This would be better .for
him and for society, too. The New
York judges, however, go no farther
than to declare against demurrers In
civil suits. Here, of course, there Is
nothing whatever to say for the tricky
subterfuge.
But If demurrers were forbidden
lawyers would speedily find something
worse to serve the same end. It was
a fine thing to sweep the seven devils
out of the room In the Bible. Hap
piness must have reigned supreme
there as long as they were gone, but
Imagine Its state when they returned
with seven others. It Is nonsense to
exorcise the devil from the court rules
so long as he still holds sway in the
hearts of the lawyers. Wise people
tell us that the way to stop drinking
Is for each individual to swear off or
never begin Instead of enacting pro
hibitory laws. The ray to get honest
politics Is first to get honest and In
telligent voters. Why not apply the
came doctrine to the courts? Is It
not true that the simplest and best
way to get fair trials In civil suits
Is first to get an upright generation
of lawyers? Not that all lawyers are
dishonest, far from It. Their uncon
querable predilection for indirection Is
not so much their fault as their mis
fortune. They only display with a
little more virulence than the rest of
us a quality which is everywhere no
ticeable in American life. This Is a
proclivity for letting the means out
weigh the end, magnifying the institu
tion and overlooking its purpose, in
short, giving an absurd value to forms
of all sorts and forgetting the sub
stance which ought to underlie them.
So long as the form Is intact we are
Idiotically happy. The purpose of it
all may go hang for what we carei
This, of course, is the perfectly nat
ural consequence of a system of edu
cation which is wholly occupied with
forms and ceremonies and completely
oblivious of realities. It Is absurd to
trIn up a lawyer to believe that voca
bles and punctuation marks are the
only Important things in the universe
and then expect him to think mere
justice 13 of any account. The mind
as well as the hand is stained by what
it works In and the stain of the mind
is the worse f the two, because it is
indelible. The real reform of our
courts must begin in our schools and
colleges.
TOl'CHIXG THE FI.V AMI OTHER
MATTERS.
At the rooms of the Commercial
Club this week a series of quiet meet
ing will be held which are of more
importance to the welfare of the state
and the whole country than many
gatherings which make a great deal
more noise. They begin with the ses
sions of the American Association of
Farmers' Institute Workers. The As
sociation of Agricultural Colleges and
Kxperiment Stations will follow, and
the week will close with meetings of
the Pacific Slope Economic Entomolo
gists on Friday and Saturday. The
topics which these men of science will
consider can hardly be called excit
ing, but they are fall of interest. The
speeches and discussions will deal with
question which concern the profit of
the fruit-grower, the comfort of the
housewife, the health of the family.
If more were known about these mat
ters, human life would be correspond
ingly longer and happier.
One of the topics they will discuss
Is "the control of the common house
fly," that tender insect which excited
the commiseration of My Uncle Toby
and which many .believe to be as inno
cent as a persistent bore can be. But
science has discovered that the house
fly is worse than a bore. The proba
bilities are that if we knew the whole
1 truth about its ravages, we should
1 find that it had slain more human be
i Ings than all the snakes, lions and
mosquitoes on earth. Compared with
the fly, which can neither sting nor
bite, King Alcohol Is an Innocent. Peo
ple who really want to know more
about this monster which Infests our
dwellings and poisons our food are
Invited to turn to a little editorial in
Demorest'8 Magazine for September.
There the whole truth Is told about
the housefly with something more
than scientific frankness. The reader
learns how the engaging Insect first
makes a tour of the privy vault and
then alights on your piece of custard
pie, where he proceeds to curry him
self off and shed what clings to him.
Physicians are turning to the belief
that epidemics of typhoid fever are
more frequently Initiated from the
filth distributed by flies than from
any other source. Think of devour
ing food- over which these abominable
creatures have crawled for hours, as
most people do sometimes in igno
rance, sometimes with full knowledge.
What is a fly. poor little thing? The
Pacific Entomologists will fell you
what It is and what it seasons your
food with.
VRENISM GONE TO SEED.
Crazy statesmanship In Oregon and
its chief author, W. S. ITRen, have
reached their natural culmination in a
new plan- for turning remnants of the
state constitution topsy-turvy and for
supplanting fixed principles of repub
lican governmet with "prdgressive"
absurdities. The new scheme of ITRen
goes the limit so far that men who
have followed him thus far are forced
now to turn their backs on him. It is
the inevitable consequence of giving a
fool statesman, who has but calf
knowledge of politics and history,
more rope on the brink of folly. One
of Nature's compensations is that
noxious germs, even though tempor
arily successful, carry their own de
struction. The worst foe of LTRenlsm
Is evidently Its own folly.
This fresh offspring of Willamette
Falls statesmanship is abhorred even
by enthusiasts who have stood as god
fathers for the system that would
mortgage every property In Oregon for
a state-owned railroad; thatclogged
the understanding of Portland voters
last election with nearly forty "peo
ple's measures," many of them of con
flicting purpose and made so big a
mess of the water question that the
city government does not know who
should pay for water mains; that has
given minority factions opportunity to
thwart the majority will and cheat the
majority out of election of officers
it should have In government: that has
filled most of the offices with "cheap
critters" and reduced permanent prin
ciples of government, as embodied in
the state constitution, to a nullity.
Now comes this fresh batch of fool
ideas to shift the distribution of leg
islative and executive powers, in con
flict with the most approved and
standard ideas of republican govern
ment. Such a radical scheme the
people of Oregon will never adopt;
now they will behold ITRenism in its
true forin and worth and meaning.
Men who have followed and sup
ported the "new idea" thus far in Ore
gon and been its warm champions
perceive this and call the further plan
crazy. Their fear Is not so much for
the new scheme as for what has been
engrafted already on the people of
Oregon. They apprehend that expos
ure of the real purpose of ITRenism
will turn the popular tide the other
way.
The new scheme Is ITRenism at last
gone to seed. The ripened fruit shows
the absurdity of the "progress" that
has been engrafted on the State of
Oregon,
PEOPLE TO BUILD RAILROADS
In the battle of the Titans in Des
chutes', 'ft third possible rival looms
up, to match Mr. Hill and Mr. Harrl
man taxpayers of Oregon, whom cer
tain heavy patriots are endeavoring to
plunge into the railroad business, by
wiping out an opposing clause of the
state constitution, inherited from the
wisdom and bitter experience of gen
erations past. '
These patriots put their pet project
through the Legislature last Winter
and now will place it before the peo
ple. It Is a scheme to plaster a mort
gage on every farm and home in Ore
gon, in order to raise money to build
a railroad, and then to support a lot
of officials and political hangers-on
and pay big debt interest.
It is for the people of this state to
decide whether they want this opening
for public debt,, extravagance and offi
cial Incompetency. Is it not safer to
keep up the old constitutional bars
against state railroad building that
have protected taxpayers these many
years? Is it not better to. let the big
men who make railroading a business
and know how to run railroads build
the lines Oregon needs?
A lot of little politicians have been
trying to monopolize the political wis
dom of Oregon and to ignore lessons
of experience and true constitutional
principles. Once again the absurdity
of their leadership is proving itself. It
is not necessary for the people of Ore
gon to go Into the railroad business.
It never was.
THE TURKEY AXD THE OWL.
In that reputed division of the spoils
between the Indian and the white man
who had been hunting together, the
white man is said to have proposed to
his dusky companion that "I will take
the turkey and you take the owl. or,
if you would rather have it that way,
you take the owl and I'll take the
turkey." A study of some of the net
results of tariff revision reveals the
great American consumer in the role
of the Indian. He may be a little
slow in understanding just how he
happened to draw the kind tf prize
that was awarded him but he is cer
tain that he got "the owl," while
the trusts secured "the turkey."
Practically every - article of food
eaten by the American people was
affected by the new schedule, and
the two most notable changes that
were made In favor of the consumer
were a. reduction of one cent on cab
bages and of five cents per bushel on
peas.
There was a reduction or one cent
per pound on bacon and ham and one-
half cent per pound on Deer, veal.
mutton, lamb and pork. Salt was
lowered one cent per pound. As an
offset to this liberality, broomcorn was
transferred from the free list and now
pays a duty of $3 per ton. There was
also a- heavy increase in the duty on
buckwheat and on sweetened biscuits.
As the United States exports annually
nearly 800,000 head of cattle, hogs
and sheep, there Is small opportunity
for the consumer to reap any advan
tages from foreign competition in this
line.
If the consumer scored at all in
this tariff revision it was in the mat
ter of free hides. Angered by the
audacity of the people who insisted
that this most necessary raw material
should be placed on the free list, the
promoter? of a high tariff on hides de
manded that there should also be a
reduction in the tariff on boots, shoes
and other leather goods. With free
raw materials and a new tariff on the
manufactured product, it may now be
possible to buy some leather goods in
this country at nearly as low a price
as American manufacturers sell them
In Europe.
The superior workmanship of the
American manufacturers naturally
makes their output desirable at a
higher price than would be paid for
the foreign article, but our manufac
turers sell so many goods in Europe
at very low prices that a heavy re
duction in the tariff would admit of a
profit if they bought abroad and
shipped back to this country. How
ever Just the grievances of the con
sumer of meat and other farm prod
ucts, or the wearer of boots and shoes,
he has cause for congratulation when
he compares his lot with that of the
man who Is obliged to pay more for
steel at the factory In this country than
the consumer 10,000 miles away In a
foreign land pays for the output of the
same factory delivered freight prepaid
to destination. There is still room
for tariff revision.
THIRTY-FOOT CHANNEL.
The United States engineers have
begun work on a survey for a thirty
foot channel between Portland and
the sea. Thirty years ago, when ves
sels of fifteen-foot draft were not in
frequently obliged to lighter a portion
of their cargo over St. Helens bar and
other shoal places in the river, the 30
foot channel would have seemed an
enormous .undertaking. Now there is
considerably more than 30 feet of
water at low tide sweeping over the
spot where St. Helens bar once rested,
and for. the entire distance between
Portland and Astoria a 26-foot channel
will be in use this season. The results
now being shown from work on the
Jetty are so. satisfactory that there is
no longer any doubt that the much
desired thirty-five or forty feet of
water at the river entrance will be
secured within the next year or two.
Owing to the swells that are always
in evidence on the bar, the channel
between Astoria and the sea should be
from five to ten feet greater depth
than that on the river, where still
water enables a vessel to pass up arid
down in safety with but a few Inches
of water under the keel.
That we shall have the thirty-foot
channel in a very short time no one
who has followed the work of the
Port of Portland will doubt. In se
curing it, however, it might be well
to build with a little more perma
nence. What has been accomplished
at St. Helens o'"ers an excellent ex
ample of what may be accomplished
by work of a permanent nature. Had
the usual practice of pumping sand
out of one part of the river and dump
ing it in another been followed at St.
Helens there would still be a formida
ble bar to be dredged out at that point
every year. The building of a good
strong dyke on the Washington side
of the river, however, reduced the
width of the river and confined the
waters of the mighty Columbia in an
area where an increased depth was
soon scoured out, the sediment which
had been accumulating for ages sweep
ing seaward .or lodging In the great
depths which are frequent along the
lower reaches of the river.
There has never been the slightest
doubt about securing any depth of
water that was desired in the river
whenever the increasing depth on the
bar warranted the work, Now that
the success of the' Jetty work is as
sured, no time should be lost in im
pressing upon the Government the
necessity of building a thirty-foot
channel in ..he river. The building of
the North Bank railroad, with numer
ous! feeders planned for various por
tions of the Inland Empire, and the
completion of the line to Central Ore
gon and to Tillamook will more than
double the water traffic out of this
port, 1 and it is necessary that we
should in the future, as in the past,
keep the channel In shape for the
most economical class of carriers that
can be used. The work of the future
must be of a permanent nature.
THE DETENTION HOME.
In Its recent report the grand jury
referred to the Detention Home, es
tablished and maintained at the ex
pense of "Multnomah County for
Juvenile delinquents, as unnecessary
and expensive," and recommended that
It be discontinued. It was cited in sup
port of this recommendation, or pre
liminary thereto, that a large sum
was expended monthly In extending
parental or legal Jurisdiction over
from nine to twelve boys, for a longer
or shorter period of "detention" i. e.
holding and feeding them to keep
them out of mischief for a time. This
Is not the language of the report, but
It is substantially what was meant by
the criticism passed upon the home.
The superintendent of this home
takes issue with this estimate of ex
pense and effectiveness, asserting that
the institution costs the taxpayers of
the county but $319.50 a month, In
stead of $500 as charged by the grand
Jury, and that on an average nineteen
boys are held for from two days to six
weeks each, according to the circum
stances governing his case; that the
scope of the home's endeavor includes
the apprehension of and return to
their homes of runaway boys; and
that the maximum cost per capita for
table expenses of these inmates per
month does not exceed $5.50.
While no dolibt this detention home
for Juvenile delinquents has been of
value in individual cases to the in
mates, it can scarcely be doubted that
such an Institution represents and en
courages a sort of professional offl
clousness that" takes cognizance of
matters of little Import in family and
community life; spreads trivial misde
meanors upon the public records and
stirs up and recites matters that were
better left uunotlced or unrecorded.
Much of the tendency in this line of
elTort, ending in the Juvenile Court, is
in this direction. The expense of the
detention home to taxpayers aside,
which last year was, according to the
superintendent's official figures,
$4566.80, it Is doubtful whether there
was not fully as much harm as good
done by taking boys Into custody for
trivial offenses, haling them before
the Juvenile Court for a public repri
mand or holding them awaiting the
pleasure of this tribunal, in the deten
tion home.
The Oregonian feels that it Is a mis
take to make much, as is frequently
done, in public of the misconduct of
children. Lodgment in a detention
home; appearance in the Juvenile
Court in charge of an officer; public
reprimand and dismissal with a sug
gestion of being sent to the Reform
School, are not means calculated to
make a good boy out of a bad one.
There are cases where boys have been
known to boast of this special treat
ment as a distinction and to assume
because of It an air of superiority over
boys who have not yet been thus hon
ored. In this view it Is not wise to be
too ready to take cognizance of Ju
venile misdemeanors. Neither is it
the part of wisdom to make a hero of
an unruly boy either In his own esti
mation or that of his associates a
result towards which much of this ef
fort tends.
The usual Winnipeg dispatch an
nouncing that the Canadian grain crop
wjll shortly be sufficient for all of
Great Britain's requirements has
started on its annual rounds. Canada
is a coming country and is certain to
increase greatly its wheat yield, but
nothing in the way pf past perform
ances warrants the belief that It will
very soon be in position to supply all
of Great Britain's needs. Exclusive
of British wheat, the United Kingdom
annually requires more than 200.000,
000 bushels of the cereal, and Can
ada's record yield of 132,000,000 bush
els in 1906, after deductions for home
consumption and seed, would not sup
ply half that a'mount. As far back
as 1902 Canada produced 99,000,000
bushels of wheat, which was 3,000,
000 bushels more than were produced
in 1907, -and but 25,000,000 bushels
les"- than were grown last year. This
year the record may be slightly ex
ceeded, but Canada will still be far
short of ven the Argentine as a wheat
producer.
Advices from Klamath Falls report
great activity on the Harrlman estate
at Pelican Bay. Fine driveways are
being constructed and the resort' is
being placed in readiness for the
coming of the railroad king. In se
lecting Pelican Bay as a Summer
home Mr. Harriman undoubtedly se
cured the finest natural location that
could be found anywhere else in the
world, though in Oregon of course
there are others fully as beautiful.
His apparent satisfaction with . his
Southern Oregon retreat may account
for'hls dilatory tactics in opening up
the remainder of the state. He may
have a desire to keep the country in
its natural undeveloped state In order
that more of his millionaire friends
may share in its wild beauties. For
tunately for Oregon, the practical Mr.
Hill has made a move which will ad
mit not one or two rich men, but
thousands of all classes, into the won
derland of the West,
i
Eleven boys were haled before the
Juvenile Court at Grants Pass the
other day, charged with stealing
watermelons. The parents of the
young culprits, it is said, viewed the
proceedings of the court with the ut
most unconcern. The chances are
that each of the youngsters had heard
his father relate with a great show
of enjoyment over the memory of the
transaction, the story of a night raid
on a melon patch in his boyhood. For
some reason not recognized in ethics,
the watermelon has always been con
sidered the boy's lawful plunder, pro
viding he could sneak away with it
unobserved, from the garden in which
it grew. As long as fathers are self
confessed and shameless depredators
in this line, it can hardly be expected
that these .boys will be greatly im
pressed with melon-stealing as a
crime.
The prosperity of the farmers is re
flected in the recent purchase of a
large number of warehouses which in
the past have been operated by Port
land . exporters. These warehouses
will in the future be operated by the
farmer, a change which will be agree
able to both buyer and seller. The
burden of providing storage houses for
the large crop of the Pacific Northwest
has for many years fallen on the Coast
exporters, and the matter of remuner
ation for the service has always been
a bone of .contention between the
farmers and the buyers. Now that
the farmers are taking over the
houses, the business will be handled
much more satisfactorily for all con
cerned. '
..Sentence of banishment to Omaha
should be passed at once upon the
man who carps at the present weather
as "too cool for August." A maxi
mum of 96 degrees and a total of
seven deaths from heat was the rec
ord in thet city last Sunday, while
some of our people growled because a
little fire in the grate in the morning
was necessary for comfort and a max
imum of 70 degrees was reached in the
afternoon.
Edward Payson Weston, aged 70,
threatens to walk across the continent
again, for he was greatly humiliated
that he recently failed to make the
Journey in 100 days. Next year he
thinks he will be just the right age.
Perhaps; but it would help some if a
way could be found either to lengthen
the 100 days or shorten the continent.
A Los Angeles woman pinned a
$35,000 necklace in a bag somewhere
around her person and when she
wanted It she couldn't find it. You
can bet that if a Portland woman had
a $35,000 necklace she would keep It
where it would be seen and found.
There are nearly 2000 persons in the
classified civil, service aged 70 and
over, and indications point to an effort
soon to provide pensions for them.
Their present Jobs seem to be pretty
good pensions already for most of
them. .
The Indian reservation drawings are
over and the two hundred odd thou
sand applicants who got nothing
ought to breathe easier. They are
free now to come to Oregon and buy
a farm worth while.
As rapidly as possible, we are told,
the able-bodied tribesmen of the Nez
Perce Indians will be thrown upon
their own resources. Seems as if we
have heard something like, that be
fore. '
Oregon can better appreciate the
long waiting period when it recalls
the fact that Henry Vlllard proposed
to build a branch road up the Des
chutes twenty-nine years ago.
In the rivalry for publicity of Mal
heur County towns. Vale is one ahead
of Ontario, in the marriage of a white
schoolma'am to a Jap. It is time for
the Ontario oil well to spout.
Taft now weighs only 304 pounds.
Which shows how utterly unreliable
are the reports that he is fat.
Has the state really got to the
Leave-lt-to-U'Ren stage of Its existence?
OVERESTIMATING THE APPLE CROP
President Newell, of the Horticultural
Board, Telia Some Facta.
GASTON, Or., Aug. 16. (To the
Editor.) I see in your market col
umns that the International Apple
Shippers' Association has perpetrated
its annual Joke In sending out an ad
vance estimate of the season's apple
crop in America. It is a difficult mat
ter to get an accurate forecast of
any growing crop. The growers usu
ally estimate as much too low as the
buyers estimate too high. With a crop
which varies so much in yield from
year to year as the apple crop, and the
price of which varies so much as a re
sult, it is an Important matter to have
a fairly accurate estimate of the prob
able amount. The estimate of the
association mentioned cannot be ac
cepted as in any sense a fair forecast
of the coming crop. If the annual fore
casts of this association from year to
year, showing, as they almost invar
iably have In each year, a very large
increase over the crop of the previous
year, had been reliable, the crop of last
year would have been several times as
large as the average crops of six or
eight years 'ago, whereas in fact last
year's crop of apples for the United
States and Canada as a whole was the
smallest one In the past decade.
One of the prominent fruit-trade
Journals a year .or two ago stated In
substance that the public estimates of
the coming fruit crop made by the
association could not be accepted ser
iously and were evidently intended to
affect public sentiment, and that it was
well understood that a secret report,
which gave the real forecast, was
Issued to the members of the association.
It is a well-known fact that in one
year, in which the public estimate made
by the committee of the association
pointed out that owing to the prospec
tive great crop buyers could not afford
to pay at Eastern marketing points
over $1 per barrel, the publication of
the estimate was followed by an Im
mediate rush of the members of the
association, or their representatives,
into orchard districts and the advance
purchase of the bulk of the crop at
prices running from $1.50 to $2.25 per
barrel.
One would naturally suppose from a
casual reading of the association's esti
mate that there is an enormous crop
this year. In a unmber of the states
this season's crop is estimated at from
200 to 500 per cent of last year's crop.
An average of the estimates for the
several states and Canada puts this
year's crop at 130 per cent of last year's
crop. I have recently visited most of
the leading apple-growing states and
from all that I scOuld see and learn
I believe that the apple crop of the
United States and Canada will this
year be at least 10 per cent less than
last year, or 40 points below the esti
mate of the association. The associa
tion's estimate for Oregon may be
taken as a key to the variation of the
association's estimate from the correct
amount for the whole country. The
association's estimate for Oregon is 100
per cent of last year's crop. Everyone
who is familiar with the fruit condi
tion in Oregon this year knows how
much of an over-estimate this is.
W. K. NEWELL,
President State Board of Horticulture.
TARIFF NO HURT TO ENGLAND.
But That Country Does Not Expect
Benefits From New Roles.
London Times.
On the whole, no country is less
affected by the new American duties
than the United Kingdom. - Our manu
facturers have already "supped full of
horrors" in the shape of the heavy
rates of the Dingley act, and the
Payne-Aldrlch measure brings with .if
no fresh terrors for them, except, to a
small extent, as regards a few descrip
tions of fine-quality articles. Certain
kinds of cotton goods, for e instance,
which Manchester has hitherto suc
ceeded in exporting to the United
States in spite of the tariff, have now
been "smelt out" by the protectionist
witch doctors, and will probably be ex
cluded by the new classifications
adopted.
Silk manufacturers, high-speed steel
(an article of growing importance) and
some chemical products will also meet
with increased obstacles. But it is
satisfactory to note from the reports of
our correspondents at various great
centers of trade within this country
that little or no disappointment, and no
discouragement whatever, is felt by our
industrialists.
On the other hand, there is no ground
for thinking- that the reductions in
rates granted on some articles'wlll help
the British trade; they are too slight,
and are meant to be slight to have such
an effect. As our American-correspondent
says, the bill constitutes a "work
of art In the international gallery of
tariff legislation," where it "deserves
the place of honor." Like Milton's
Satan, it is "by merit raised to that bad
eminence.
The new tariff will, we fear, be very
inconvenient to Canada; but Canada is
by no means without means of defense.
Our American correspondent thinks
that the greatest sufferer among the
foreign countries will be France, whose
peculiar products, particularly wine
and brandy, are hit severely by the
new duties. Both France and Germany
are considered likely to be treated as
liable to ' the new maximum tariff,
which Involves an additional duty of 25
per cent over the general or so-called
minimum tariff, to be levied on imports
from any country which "discrimi
nates" against the United States.
Horae That Was) 45 Tmm Old.
Tit-Bits.
The extraordinary age of 45 years
i c mnnthi was attained by a horse
owned by Colonel Heath, which has
Just died at the Colonel's farm at Apollo
Bay, V lctoria.
Colonel Heath states that there can
w- nn..ihi rfmiht a a in the animal's
age, as he still has the diary containing
the eiitry showing when It was foaled.
It Is in ail proDaoimy uw
record known. The horse was ridden
by the colonel as a charger in its
youth, and several times carried him
. r.n t i-i fihnnerton 160
ii Kin jticiuvun'v . " '
miles in two days. It was sired by a
, ,1 t -1 Alfrad
famous race norse uttmcu ...e,
its mother being an Australian Arab
bred mare.
Relation of Pie Supper to Sermon.
Baltimore News.
On the notice board of a church near
Manchester, England, the other day the
following announcements appeared to
gether: "A potato pie supper will be
held on 'Saturday evening. Subject for
Sunday evening: 'A Night of Agony." "
JUST A FEW SMILES.
"Did your new chauffeur turn out all
right?" "No; thafa why he'a In the hos
pital." Puck.
- "Do you attend that college professor's
lectures?" "No." answered the student. "I
find the 'things he says In printed Interviews
much more interesting." Washington Star.
Frugal North Briton (In his firat expe
rience of a taxi) H're, mon. stop I I hae
a weak heart. I canna stand that hang't
wee machine o' youra marktn' up thae
tuppence." Punch.
"How Is It that Julia la so Jealous and
quarrelsome? She used to have such a
sweet disposition?" "I know, but the past
year she has been singing In a church
choir." Baltimore American.
"Did you tell that photographer you
didn't want your picture taken?" "Yes."
answered the eminent but uncomely person
age "Did he take joffense?" "No. He said
he didn't blame me." Washington Star.
"Yes, ' I have a cousin in Barcelona."
"Aren't you worried?" "I'm awfully wor
ried they're having such dreadful times
there killing people. And I'm as mad at
Arthur as I can be." "Why?" "Because he
hasn't sent me any picture postcards about
It."- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
J HORSE - OWNERS PERTURBED
May Have to Pay Duty to Bring
Animals Across Border.
SEATTLE, Aug. 16. American owners
of race horses now in Canada are much
perturbed over the paragraph of the
Payne tariff bill which places on- the
free list "articles the growth, produce or
manufacture of the United States, not
including animals, when returned after
having been exported."
It is expected that only ' a few of the
horses that were at the recent Victoria
meet will return immediately, as many
of them will go to the new racing park
being opened near "Vancouver. One horse,
owned by a Washington man named Han
cock, arrived here Saturday from Vic
toria and was held up by the customs
officials pending a decision from the
Treasury Department at Washington as
to whether the new act Is retroactive In
effect. It is quite clear that the act re
fers to horses which may be sent out sub
sequent to the passing of the act, but
not so clear as to whether it will affect
the horseowners who sent their strings
out prior to August 6.
TRAIN SERVICE IS VERY POOR
Feople of Antelope Complain to
State Commission.
bALEM, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) A
number of residents of Antelope, Or.,
have complained to the State Railroad
Commission that the train due at that
station at 6:30 P. M. has been late a
greater part of the time since May. It
is charged that the Columbia Southern
is trying to handle all its local freight
business with its passenger trains; that
the engines in use are old and partially
disabled; that the trainmen are over
worked, and that the company has no
regard for the convenience of the trav
eling public or the expedition of mail
delivery.
The Commission also has received a
complaint from a large delegation of
passengers regarding the delayed train
on the Shaniko branch of the O. R. &
N. The Commission had this matter up
with the O. R. & N. officials at a con
ference held Saturday in Portland.
KALAMA YOUTH IS SUICIDE
Sheriff Finds Him on River Brink
With Throat Cut.
KALAMA, Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.)
The body of Earl Patterson, with his
throat cut, was found near the Northern
Pacific track three miles north of Kalama
this morning. Patterson was 26 years
old and Is believed to have taken his
own life.
He had crawled 300 feet from the
track to the Columbia River, and had a
bar of laundry soap in his hands when
found by Sheriff Carnine. He died about
one hour after he was found. He had a
gold watch and $1.65 in money.
A tramp was captured and held under
suspicion at Woodland, and brought to
Kalama, but was released.
CHANGE IV POWER SYSTEMS
Hammond Company Secures Control
of Astoria Electric Company.
ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 16. The Astoria
Electric Company, which operates the
streetcar lines of this city, light plants
for gas and electricity, as well as fur
nishing power, has made a deal by which
its present power plant will soon be dis
continued and Its power, except gas, will
be generated at the mill of the Hammond
Lumber Company. How far-reaching this
deal is will not be made public, but is
evidently in line with the electric line
system of the company, for which A. B.
Hammond approved the plans.
The transfer of interest involves only
a few hundred thousand dollars, but the
prospective plans indicate further exten
sions. CZARINA OX COOS BAY RUN
Steamer Will Carry Coal Cargoes to
San Francisco.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) The steamer Czarina, owned by
the Southern Pacific interests, which was
taken off the Coos Bay run last Spring,
will be put on again. She will run be
tween San Francisco and this port and
will carry coal and other freight. General
Manager C. J. Miller states that the re
vival in the coal business and general im
provement of the local shipping Interests
is the reason for putting the boat in
service again.
The manager of the Beaver Hill coal
mine, a Southern Pacific property, is
employing more men and it is expected to
market more of the Coos Bay coal than
ever before.
Good Road Delegates Named.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
Governor Benson has appointed the fol
lowing delegates to the second anuual
National Good Roads Convention, to be
held at Cleveland, O., September 21-23,
under the auspices of the American Auto
mobile Association, National Grange,
United States Office of Public Roads and
the American Roadmakers' Association:
A. J. Johnson, Corvallls, Benton County;
J. L. Carter, Hood River, Hood River
County; J. H. Albert, Salem, Marlon
County; John H. Scott, Salem, Marion
County: R. M. Dooley, Jr., Portland.
Multnomah County; W. G. Cole, Pendle
ton, Umatilla County; H. P. Belknap,
Prlneville, Crook County; A- T. Buxton,
Forest Grove, Washington County; H. T.
Botts, Tillamook, Tillamook County; Mor
ris Webber, Roseburg, Douglas County;
John D. Olwell, Medford, Jackson County.
Bank Is Reorganized.
FOREST GROVE, Or., Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) A reorganization of the First Na
tional Bank has been effected and the
stockholders of the new institution are
John Templeton. George E. Mlzner, H.
T. Buxton, Levi Smith, E. W. Haines, G.
G. Paterson, W. H. Hollis, L. J. Corl, H.
J. Goff. all Of this city: T. W. Sain, Scog
glns Valley; W. K. Newell, of Gaston.
For the present the bank will conduct its
business at its present quarters, but will
probably be removed later to. the E. W.
Haines building on Main street, which
will be remodeled. It is understood that
E. W. Haines, ex-State Senator and pres
ident of the State Banking Association,
will be the president of the reorganized
bank. W. H. Hollis, a local lawyer, has
been elected vice-president.
Editors to Watch Lawmakers..
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Aug. 16. A. N.
Pomeroy, of this place, president of the
National Editorial Association, today ap
pointed a committee on legislation con
sisting of G. B. Horner, Denver: F. L.
McKenzie. Tallahassee, Ala.: S. M. Wells,
Crete. Neb.: W. L. Black, Elgin. III., and
James N. Metcalf, Glendlce, Mont.
Boys Bound Over.
OREGON CITT. Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
Carl Long and Johnny Fields, who re
cently assaulted and robbed a Chinaman,
were held in $1000 bonds each today for
trial. Long has already served four
months for a similar crime three years
ago.
Davies Succeeds Prael.
ASTORIA. Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
The City Council this evening elected T.
R. Davies Councilman-at-Large to fill
the vacancy caused b ythe resignation of
H. F. Prael. C. J. CurtiB was elected as
President of the Council.
COAL MIXE TO BE OPENED
Vancouver Men Acquire Property
Eust of Seattle.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) The Cedar River Coal & Logging
Company, articles of Incorporation ol
which have been filed by the incor
porators, H. 8. Mclntyre and Lewis Diet
derich, of this city, will operate coal
lands and do extensive lumbering on . a
section of land 35 miles east of Seattle
on the Milwaukee and Northern Pacific
railroads.
The principal iplace of business of th
company will be Seattle. A spur one and
a half miles long will be built from th
mines to the Northern Pacific track. The
company expects at the end of 90 days
to be able to mine 100 tons of coa'
daily.
The company is capitalized at $300,000
fully paid up.
H. S. Mclntyre has been In the emplo
of the Northern Pacific for 18 years. Fiv
years ago he came to Vancouver as th
Northern Pacific agent, but in March,
1908, when the North Bank road was
opened, he was promoted to the position
of chief train dispatcher for the Spo
kane, Portland and Seattle system. Mr.
Dietderich for 23 years has been In the
logging business on the Yacolt branch of
the Northern Pacific. He is one of the
best-known lumbermen in this section.
WHISKY KIIXS AN AGED MAN
Jack W'halen Found Dead on
Beach Near Stevenson.
STEVENSON, Wash., Aug. 16-Jack
Whalen, a plasterer, aged 72 years, was
found dead on the beach of the Columbia
River near here this morning. He had
been working for Bert Douglas, a street
contractor here .and was paid his wages
Saturday. He immediately began drink
ing and laid in a supply for over Sunday,
this being a closed town Sundays. He
was not seen afterward until he was
found this morning, where it is presumed
he laid down to sleep.
Whalen was an ex-soldler of the Civil
War and had told his companions that
he had recently been granted a back pen
sion of $1300, for which he was waiting.
On hls body the Coroner found a letter
of recommemndation signed "C. LoGan
do, 85 Fifth street."
WILLIAM WINTER QUITS JOB
Most Noted American Dramatic
Critic Leaves New York Tribune.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16. William Winter,
the dean of American dramatic critics,
has severed his connection with the New
York Tribune, which he accepted in 1S65
at the invitation of Horace Greely. His
resignation was announced today in the
following language by Hart Laymon, the
editor:
."Mr. Winter has resigned entirely of
his own accord and much to my regret,
and I have no reason to expect that he
will reconsider his decision. I thought
it right to publish a small part of the
large amount of matter he wrote for the
Sunday Tribune of August 8. Mr. Winter
did not agree with me, and his resig
nation followed."
CXiASSY BALLi ON COOS BAY
Ooquille Takes First Game of Series
for $500 Purse.'
COQUILLE, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
CoquUle won the first game of the series
for the $500 purse at Marshfleld Sunday
by a score of 4 to 0. Under the leader
ship of "Father" Tom Kelly. Coquille won
the Coos County pennant, taking the last
two games from Marshfleld here last Sun
day. Coqullle's battery Sunday, Gardner
and Flanagan, was too much for the
other team.
Gardner secured 95 strikeouts In the
last eight games, and Flanagan leads the
league with a batting average of .405.
Kelly has some stars to recommend to the
Coast and Northwestern Leagues. The
league has been playing since June 10.
JUDGES TO TAKE VACATION
Supreme Court Business Will " Be
Postponed for Few Weeks.
SALEM. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.) Busi
ness in the Supreme Court will be prac
tically suspended after tomorrow for the
next two or three weeks.
Justice McBride leaves for a trip to the
Seattle fair. Justice Slater will go to
Eugene and the mountains for a fishing
vid hunting trip and Clerk J. C. More
land will also go to the Seattle fair for
a week or two. Justices Moore, King
and Eakln will remain in the city until
about the first of the month, but It Is not
expected that opinions will be handed
down nor cases argued unless emergency
matters should develop.
BRIDGE REPORT GIVEN OUT
Board Decides Against Purchase of
Wenatchee Structure.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.)
Governor Hay made public tonight
the report of the State Highway Board,
refusing to approve the purchase of
the Wenatchee bridge.
The board, consisting of Treasurer
Lewis, Auditor Calusen and former
Highway Commissioner Snow, reported
the bridge safe and that it would be of
great value to the state, but refuses to
approve the purchase at the price the
Legislature fixed, because of defeots in
construction and needed repairs.
UNION VOTES A BOND ISSUE
Citizens Give C5 Majority for Muni
cipal Iight System.
LA GRANDE. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.)
-r-In the special election at Union today,
to vote on the proposal of bonding the
city for a municipal light plant, 237 votes
were cast. Of this number 131 votes
were in favor of the proposition and 106
votes were against it, leaving a majority
of 25 votes in favor of bonds.
The election was quiet.
Northwest People in New York.
NEW TORK. Aug. 16. (Special.)
Northwest people at leading hotels are:
Portland S. Hart, at the Flanders: A.
Oberfder, at the Hoffman; M. H. Fields,
at the Broadway Central.
Tacoma Miss E. H. Murlenbruck. at
the Seville.
Spokane H. A. Ford, at the Cadillac;
Mrs. W. E. Conroy, at the Hoffman.
Seattle Mrs. G. G. Marston, at the
Wellington; J. A. Ansel!, at the Breslln.
Fire Destroys Separator.
WESTON, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
A new separator belonging to Sam Ban
ister was destroyed by fire Saturday af
ternoon in George Banister's field near
Athena. A smut explosion was caused
by a hot box, and a sudden burst of
flame and smoke enveloped the ma
chine, also setting fire to the straw
stack. An acre of standing grain was
also destroyed.
Fagan's Conditon Improves.
a qtt.t? t a Cir a iic ifi ( Soecial.) Ar
thur M. Fagan, the Astoria & Columbia
River Railroad ComDanv freight brakes
man, whose right leg was amputated on
Saturday as a result or injuries sustained
in an accident at Clattkanie a short time
ago, shows some improvement and there
Is now a fair chance or his recovery.