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POKTUND, MOXDAY. OCTOBER 15. 19-
HENET'S FIGHT IS SAN FRAXCI&CO.
Ioubt is expressed by many in San
Francisco whether Heney will be elect
ed Amid the welter of affairs in that
citv it U difficult to keep the public
mind fixed on the one fact that neither
the law nor the good name of the city
has vet been vindicated by the punish
ment of the chief offenders against its
civic honor.
Obstacles insurmountable have been
thrown in the way of the prosecution.
The offenders are so many and so
powerful that they have been able thus
far to obstruct and render nugatory
the most strenuous efforts to bring
them to justice. Centers of influence
of every description have striven to
protect the malefactors. Enormous
turns of money have been expended to
foil the prosecution, and politics, par
ties and partisanship have invoked and
employed to the utmost for the same
end and object.
Furthermore, the proceeding has
been so hindered, and so much time
has elapsed, that great numbers of
the people express themselves as ut
terly weary of it all. This feeling Is
fostered in all possible ways by the ac
cused. Not only a multitude of poli
ticians, but leading officials of the
labor unions were deep in the cor
ruption, and the effort to prosecute has
received additional checks from the
efforts of partisan factions to obtain
from the situation advantages over
each other. A very general expression
in San Francisco is the exclamation:
"We're tired of it all."
Besides their influence in business,
which is very great, the accused have
unlimited command of money and they
are using it without stint. It Is now
the very crisis of their struggle; and if
they can defeat Heney they believe
they will be molested no further.
Heney is not discouraged; but the man
who ought to have a walk-over realizes
that he has an uphill fight. There is
a strange combination against him of
many of the solid business interests of
the city and of the vast purchasable
element in the lower strata of social
life and politics: Most of the news
papers of the city either oppose Heney
or affect indifference to the contest he
is making. Many citizens pr .'ess to
be offended by the treatment which the
guilty supervisors have received; but
there was no tway to get at the facta
without promise of Immunity to them.
NEW RAILROAD KING.
The body of the late K. H. Harriman
."lies a-moldering in the grave," but his
policy of linking up railroads and thus
reaching for absolute domination of
the transportation business of the
United States. Hie the soul of old John
Brown, "goes marching on." Harri
man not only blazed the way, but he
cleared the trail into a plain, broad
highway over which the successors of
the mighty power he laid down could
travel with greater ease toward the
goal that was just beyond his grasp
when he was called hence. The con
servative element of our population.
who had for some time viewed vitn
misgivings the steady additions to the
far-flung railroad empire which Mr.
Harriman was making, were almost in
clined to view his death as providen
tial, the assumption being that, as the
world had produced but one industrial
giant of this type, there would hardly
be an immediate successor.
Significant changes now taking place
In the ownership of American railroads
make It almost a certainty that the
process of linking and welding together
line after line of road will continue,
possibly on a more colossal scale than
ever. The heavy decline in Harriman
securities since the death of that past
master in me art oi consouuauun nuu
domination would indicate that the
system which bears his name might In
time lose the enormous prestige which
he gave it. But in industry and
.finance, as in war and politics, it is a
case of "the King is dead, long live the
King." It may be too early yet to de
termine who will continue that highly
spectacular and profitable work best
.known as "Harrlmanizing" the rail
roads of the country, but as a possible
successor to the Harriman throne the
.figure of Edwin Hawley looms large
on the railroad horizon.
Since Mr. Harriman's death Mr.
Hawley has secured control of the Mis
souri, Kansas & Texas Railway. Mr.
Hawley is also said to control practi
cally the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louis
ville. These roads, with his Chesa
peake & Ohio, Chicago & Alton, and
Toledo, St. Louis & Western, and large
.-interests In smaller connecting lines,
give Mr. Hawley transportation domi
nation over a big territory between the
Atlantic seaboard and Chicago and St.
through the Southwest into Mexico
over his Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
line. The Gould roads, which were
not thoroughly welded into the Harri
man chain before the death of the
master, are said to be working toward
the protection of the Hill properties,
with the Western Pacific possibly
forming a final link by which the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy will reach
California.
The mar-ting of the control of these
vast transportation lines into the
hands of a few men, or groups
of men, undoubtedly tends to
greater efficiency of service and
greater economy of operation, but it is
also fraught with possibilities for trou
ble. Harriman could see nothing ob
jectionable In his desire to control all
of the railroads of the United States,
and at the progress he was making an
other ten years might have brought
about the end he sought. But this
domination of the entire system of in
ternal communication by one man rep
resenting numberless millions, of capi
tal should be subject to stringent reg
ulation by the Government.
Human nature is much the same
among all people, and too much power
in the hands of the railway kings
mrght interfere with the rights and
Interests of the public. Mr. Hawley
has made an excellent start on a pol
icy which, unhampered, might lead
him to heights greater than those
reached by Mr. Harriman. The limit
to which this consolidation of inter
ests may proceed with safety is a
problem of Increasing gravity.
A PROHIBITION ARGUMENT.
The Oregon Mist (St. Helens) says
that the amount of money expended
for liquors In Columbia County is two
hundred thousand dollars a year, and
for roads and bridges eighty thousand
dollars. The figures may be nearly
corrett; and eo may the Mist's observa
tions about the usefulness of roads and
bridges, and the uselessness and evils
of alcoholic drink. But the inferen
tial conclusion that the money spent
for liquors would, if not so spent, be
put into roads and bridges in the
county is not warranted at all.
Doubtless most of the liquors Bold
in Columbia County are consumed by
men who work about the logging
camps and sawmills; since these are
the chief Industries of the county. Few
of these men are taxpayers; few of
them have any permanent residence.
The county wouldn't get the two hun
drel thousand dollars they squanUer in
drink; nor would it be easy to persuade
the men to pay to the taxgatherer, for
roads and bridges, the money they pay
Into the liquor shops.
Perhaps Columbia County may vote
prohibition. The electors within her
borders will decide. It would be bet
ter, doubtless, if they would . build
roads and bridges with the money they
pay for liquor; but they won't do it.
Nor would the county, by enactment
of prohibition, stop the consumption of
liquors within its borders. It would,
however, lose the liquor tax a consid
erable sum, paid in an indirect way by
men who seldom pay any tax other
than that charged upon the sale and
consumption of liquors and tobacco.
WANTED. A DIPLOMAT.
The position of Minister to China is
one of the most important foreign
posts at the disposal of the Adminis
tration. To this is due the great dif
ficulty experienced by the President
in securing a representative possessing
in fair degree the necessary qualifica
tions. In the old days, when foreign
consulates or ambassadors were
regarded as merely convenient pigeon
holes into which politicians were
thrust, either as a reward for political
services or to get them out cf the way,
there would be no such delay and
difficulty as are now in evidence in
selecting a successor to Mr. Crane. It
ha3 always been an easy matter to find
J5000 men for $10,000 jobs, and so on
down the line a system that was us
ually followed until a few years ago.
What 'was really needed was $10,000
men for positions which paid a salary
of half that amount.
The kind of American Minister
whom this country should send to
China and for whom President Taft
is undoubtedly seeking, can command
a much higher salary in this country
than he can secure from the Govern
ment for a foreign post, and for this
reason the field of eligible candidates
is shortened to the few who have only
Incidental regard for the financial
emoluments and are willing to take the
position through patriotic motives or
for the honor attached. The man who
can properly represent the interests of
the United States in the awakening
Orient must be not only a diplomat of
high degree, . but he must also be a
high-class business man, well posted
on international law. China, whether
her integrity be maintained or whether
she becomes the football of fate and is
kicked to pieces by the jealous powers
who are watching her with hajwk-like
gaze, is a great commercial prize in
which the United States has the same
right of exploitation as the rest of the
world.
The avidity with which Germany,
France, England, Japan and Russia
have grabbed portions of the territory
whenever the opportunity offered, or
could be made, has revealed to us the
necessity of being well represented on
the ground, and it would be extreme
folly to send over a Minister who
would fall short of measuring up to
the high standard set by the powers
with whom our commercial and po
litical Interests might come In conflict.
From a business standpoint, and by
reason of his wealth, Mr. Crane was
well fitted for the post. The reckless
manner in which he publicly discussed
matters that should have been kept
secret, however, revealed his utter lack
of diplomacy and clearly Indicated
possibilities of serious trouble lit the
event of a crisis In Chinese affairs
while he was holding the position.
WHERE REFORM IS DESIRABLE.
The movement looking to the check
of extravagance and absurdity in the
dress of saleswomen In department
stores in Chicago is in the line of com
mon sense, good taste and good mor
als. The rules prescribed in the in
terest of this reform are in some in
stances more drastic than is necessary
to secure the end sought, but in the
main their tendency is in the right
direction. That Is to say, they seek to
provide wholesome restraint In the line
of extravagance in dress an error
which has led to the ruin of myriads
of thoughtless young girls that will
enable these workers to live within
their means, dress as becomes the vo
cation of a modest working girl, main
tain their self-respect, and compel the
respect of the public.
. Who has not felt a pang of regret,
or been conscious of a feeling of dis
gust, at the exaggerated styles rep
resenting the latest fad In hairdress
ing assumed by working women in
their capacity of serving the public as
wage-earners? The towering, bobbing
screen of hair drawn over huge cush
ions, from beneath which the eyes of
the wearer peep like those of a rat
under a haymow, confronts the Intend
ing purchaser as she seats herself at
the stocking counter, for example, and
the clerk comes forward to take her
order. Turning to the shelf for the
desired article, a "Psyche knot" pro
truding a foot or more in the rcr of
her head, propped up by a shelf of
shell, is displayed, the entire effect of
which Is at first startling, then ludl
crous, then, taking all the circum
stances into consideration, pitiful or
disgusting according to the viewpoint
of the observer.
One almost forgets, while confronted
by this truly wonderful structure built
on top and at the back of the head
upon a superstructure of refuse of
various kinds, to notice the diaphanous
T1TE MOBXIXG OREGOXIAN. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1909.
waist through which a suggestion of
elaborate underwear is shown; the col
lar constructed seemingly for a sup
port for the ears, the sleeves skin tight,
that reach the middle of the hand, and
the ring or rings set with precious
stones, or their Imitation, on the hands
that place the asked-for hosiery upon
the counter.
Such costuming as this, with its
glaring unsuitability, has cheapened
the vocation of the shopgirl, though a
very worthy and useful vocation in it
self. And not the vocation of the
shopgirl alone has suffered from this
cause. That of the stenographer, the
telephone worker, the sewing woman,
the milliner, the marker in the laun
dry, the cash-taker in the butcher's or
grocer's stall every vocation in which
through the conditions imposed by our
present economic and Industrial sys
tem women have become wage-earners
has suffered as well.
Reform in this particular is not only
desirable it is necessary, if women
are to become factors of recognized
capability and desirability in the busi
ness and industrial world, since noth
ing else offers such an affront to com
mon sense. Is so suggestive of unvoiced
possibilities In morals, and so handi
caps a woman worker for efficient
eoeiHoo n- does the srlaring unsuitabil
ity and palpable extravagance which
she displa. ; in dress.
EVADING jrcSTICE.
What reason had the Great Northern
Railroad to protect its late Spokane at
torney, M. J. Gordon, from the proper
consequences of his embezzlement or
many thousand dollars from that gen
erous corporation? The Spokane grand
Jury has been wrestling witn me prop-
lem for many weeks and has aDout
given up in despair, though It has in
dicted Gordon: but it practically ad
mits that it has no real proofs. The
efforts of the grand Jury to get at the
facts and bring Gordon to justice mane
a long and very interesting story, set
forth in detail in a report submitted
at Spokane last week. Subpenas were
issued for various officials of the Great
Northern from James J. Hill down;
but every one whose testimony by any
chance might have proved valuable or
pertinent managed to evade service.
Officials who lived out of the state re
mained away from Spokane; officials
who lived at Spokane iert tne coun
try. Onlv Gordon had the nerve to re
main. It can only be surmised that
the truth if told, would have been baa
for the Great Northern. Why? Be-
ranso no douht Gordon had been en
gaged in many discreditable transac
tions on behalf of the railroad cora
nanv. and the company could not af
ford to have them transpire.
One such affair involved a memDer
of the State Supreme Court, Judge
Root. Through Gordon, the Great
Northern general solicitor, W. R. Begg,
had got Judge' Root to render a favor
able oDinion in the so-called Harris
case. The grand jury finds:
Tfc- Tiir. nAnt wan (maimed to write
the opinion of the court on the rehearing.
. q h- Mt, a ti nnfnlnn on the rehear
ing which wai never filed, and mailed a
copy of the earoe to Gordon; that this
opinion did not meet with Gordon", ap-
nrnval and ha drafted an onlnlon birn-
elf. which he mailed to W. R. Bess, gen
eral solicitor ror the company at bi. jraui,
requesting Begg to wire if the opinion
vu antt,rnrtnrv! that Seer O. K'd Gordon'.
opinion by telegraph, and that thereafter
thl. opinion drafted by uoraon w
by Judge Root a. the opinion of the court.
That the opinion filed wa. Identical with
the opinion prepared by Gordon, except that
two or three additional citation, were
aAAaA That th other ludges of the Su
preme Court had no knowledge of Gordon'.
AnnrtHntial discussions of the case with
Judge Root and had no knowledge that the
opinion tiled by Judge Koot naa Deen orau-
ed by Gordon; that the opinion prepares
by Gordon and O. K'd. by Begg laid down
- -..ia -in. reaneot to the liability of com
mon carrier, different from the rule an
nounced by the court in Its nr.t opinion
n li . T-I a rrin rn RA. and that thl. latter rul
ing wa. much mora favorable to the carrier.
There was a conspiracy between
o n i rinrdnn nnd Root to buy. or
.l.i f an v - -
procured a very important decision toy
the Supreme -Court. Justice was ae
bauched at its fountain-head; a Su
preme Judge was corrupted to serve
the purposes, then and thereafter., of a
litigant who had occasion to appear
frenuentlv before the court. This, in
the opinion of The Oregonian, is very
nearly the most scandalous episode m
the entire history of Washington. The
parties to the transaction ought to De
punished if possible. The Spokane au
thorities should never rest until they
hav found some way to get into their
jurisdiction General Solicitor Begg, the
main instrument in the criminal enon
to make the Supreme Court of Wash
ington a mere appanage of his em
ployer. THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE.
a c.KotantliLl increase in attendance
at state agricultural colleges through-
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out the country is reported. iu
the New .York State Agricultural
School is fully BO per cent in advance
of last year. In that 6tate the Increase
came alike from city and country.
This fact is held to indicate a desire
on the part of city youth to expand
their efforts in Industrial lines and an
appreciation on the part of country
youth of the need of scientific knowl
edge as applied to farming operations.
It further indicates a turn in the tide
of migration from country to city, so
long deplored, and ultimately the res
toration of many old worked-out or
abandoned farms in the older sections
of the country.
The cry. '"back to the soil," wlU
mnt resnonse as long as the re
turns of agriculture described by Whit-
tier as "Not competence ana yet not
want," prevail. These were the con
ditions that caused farmers' boys to
leave the farm for the city. Only a
decided change for the better will
tempt them to return to the soil. Such
a change is promised by the instruction
furnished through agricultural colle
ges under the head of scientific farm
ing, the details of which are many,
but' simple and readily mastered. Such
knowledge is the basis of a prosperity
which means serenity- In times of fi
nancial stress, living untroubled upon
the fat of the land in trmes of indus
trial depression and laying up a mod
est competency in times when demand
is active and supply comes forward
full-handed to meet it.
The farmer who knows his land as
t'ao horseman "knows his horse, the
fisherman his boat and the mechanic
his tools. Is the farmer of the future.
With his land unincumbered and with
an Intelligent working knowledr) of
its possibilities; with a comfortable
house, a wife who Is a helpmeet and
children being brought up in ways of
Industry and thrift; with the daily
mail deposited at his gate, the trolley
cars pushing out In his direction; the
telephone in his house and well-bred
stock in his pastures, he is in a po
sition to enjoy life, even, through, pan
ics and periods of Industrial depres
sion. The life is not an Ideal one. Much
of the labor attendant upon it is hard,
much of it -i disagreeable, but if
science and labor go hand in hand
the returns of agriculture are sure, and
those who pursue it will enjoy the
fruits of their labors as they go along,
have a home in their old age to which
the children will return on festal days
with genuine pleasure and from which
no appeal for "help" in a financial
sense will ever be made. The farmer
of the past worked hard, but seldom
"got ahead"; his wife was a hopeless
drudge and his children were restless,
discontented and soon went their way.
The farmer of the future must work
also, but his head will direct his hands.
Four steamships and one sailing ves
sel, with an aggregate carrying capa
city of more than 25,000 tons, arrived
In port yesterday to load wheat, flour
and general cargo at Portland. Four
other steamers and one sailing vessel,
carrying nearly 5,000,000 feet of lum
ber and 6000 tons of grain and gen
eral cargo, sailed yesterday. The outward-bound
fleet carried freight to the
Orient, Europe and California. The
inhound vessels brought freight from
Europe, New York, Australia and the
Orient. Aside from one overdue liner
Included in the fleet, there was noth
ing unusual in the day's movements
at the river entrance, as not infre
quently a much greater tonnage moves
In and out during the twenty-four
hours. People of Portland, however,
as well as some of our critics in other
ports who offer objections to Port
land's keeping open a channel to the
sea, will note by the occasional men
tion of these facts that we are doing
business with tire world and that it is
increasing In volume. Before we be
gan this work of channel-building,
2000-ton vessels were monsters. Now
only passing comment is made of the
7000-ton carrier.
By a decision rendered in a local
court Saturday it is made obligatory on
the part of a timber-land locator actu
ally to locate his client on timber land.
Failing to do this, he must return the
location fee to the man who paid It.
This seems to be a fair ruling in the
matter, but, if It is rigidly enforced, a
number of sleek-appearing operators
who have amassed wealth at the ex
pense of the credulous timber-land
seekers will be obliged to seek other
employment. The fake timber locators
In the Pacific Northwest have claimed
more victims than the lock trick or the
shell game.
July 31, 1858, a steamboat wa3
launched below the falls at Oregon
City. It was called the Carrie Ladd,
for the wife of William S. Ladd. The
incident affords a reminiscence of con
ditions that existed then, when the
movement of business in the Oregon
country was Just making a beginning.
Probably some of our old river men,
yet remaining, could tell how long the
boat ran on our rivers and when it
was broken up. Jacob Kamm doubt
less would remember, and so would
George Pease.
A writer in The Outlook, on the Se
attle Exposition, says: "It is nowhere
truer than in Washington that the
increase of wealth In The Last North
west' has come more from a looting of
Nature than from the productive work
of men." Nor is it anywhere truer
than in Oregon. It was much the
same, too, in the older states ; and ob
serve further how the looting of Na
ture is still going on in the states
where coal and minerals most abound.
.With the passing of Summer infant
mortality decreases. Officials say It
is due to the improvement they have
caused in the quality of the milk. Very
doubtful. But why didn't they attend
to it sooner? Any assertion that there
is now better milk is a confession of
their own former indifference and
neglect and responsibility for more or
less of the avoidable infant mortality.
Senator Tillman declines to lunch
with the President unless some one
else pays the bill. There are all kinds
of Senators. Some Senators would be
willing to match coins or shake the
dice with the President, for example,
to see who should pay. Tillman
hasn't learned in his long service how
to be a true Senatorial "sport."
The Independent (New York) says
that whether Cook reached the Pole
it doesn't know; but if he is an honest
man he makes a fearful mistake in not
taking the world Into his confidence in
stead of telling It to wait months for
what ought to be done in a day.
The trouble at Eugene seems not
to be over the fact that a professor
appears to he teaching doctrinal relig
ion to his classes, but that he happens
not to be teaching a certain brand of
doctrinal religion. Heresy, say the
preachers. Heresy to what?
We are told that criminal vaga
bonds who are sent to the rockpile are
"hapless men," prope objects of pity,
"held as slaves," contrary to law and
justice. The opinion is merely an echo
of that of the vicious vags themselves.
The latest expert opinion,' from some
one over in Bellingham who has been
all over Alaska, is that Cook did not
climb Mount McKinley, because "it
can't be done." That is a mighty good
reason, If true.
If yon have business with the Mult
nomah County Judge and you find the
door locked and the Judge gone away
on his private business, don't worry.
The Judge's salary goes on, just the
same.
Portlanders who wish to see the fine
apples that' they can't buy in this city
and that make Oregon's fame abroad
can view them at the Hood River and
the Albany fairs this week.
What preposterous folly to assert
that It is unlawful and wrong for men
to consult together and agree on candi
dates whom they may support for
office! .
When ministers or others pry Into
heresy they start inquiries and stud
ies that are bound to shake up some
pet creeds and dogmas.
' A Pole in South Bend., Wash., was
fined $100 for attempting suicide. But
he can go to Jail and make it more ex
pensive for taxpayers than to bury
him. ,
-Imprisonment
of bankwreckers will
protect depositors far better than any
kind of bank guarantee.
Even If Dr. Cook should turn out
faker, ha would still be a world-beater.
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LIFB IN THES OREGON COUNTRY
Taking; Honey From the Bee.
Bingen Observer.
Leman Bobbins and F. T. Carter re
cently cut down a bee tree near Husum
securing one hundred and Ility pounos
of fine honey. This is not a very rare
occurrence In this section.
One Oregon Town.
Weston Leader.
Without throwing any bouquets at it
self, Weston goes quietly ahead, ships
its produce and gets the money, its
principal shipments being wheat, hay,
brick and potatoes. Monday's shipments
aggregated fourteen cars, six of hay,
six of wheat and two of brick.
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Chance for Every 3Ian.
Madras Pioneer.
Central Oregon is today the largest
and most promising of Uncle Sam's do
mains not already pre-empted by the
homesteader, and the man who wishes
to acquire a farm, a home, and an in
dependence would better turn his atten
tion to this jewel in the rough.
Got to Escape Now to Get Away.
Baker City Herald.
Doesn't it seem that convicts escape
from the Oregon Penitentiary with un
due frequency? So long as Chamberlain
was Governor there was little desire to
escape, for all convicts felt sure of a
pardon, but row it is up V the warden
and his organization to keep a closed
bouse.
Untold Chapter In the Jodge'i Life.
Corvallls Gazette-Tlmea.
Judge McFadden will have 20,000 pounds
of dried prunes this year. The Judge
raised a phenomenal wheat and oats
crop on his Junction City farm and now
shows up with a tremendous lot of
prunes. And he got his start In life by
helping an Oregonian escape from a Cal
ifornia Jail! When Judge McFadden's
memoirs are public the public is
going to have some interesting reading.-
Mr. BrUt's Only Hope.
Newburg Graphic.
N. E. Britt' desires to clear up some
land, and as he has been unable to em
ploy white labor to do it he went to
Portland last week to interview a firm
that furnishes Chinese laborers, but he
was unable to secure any help there. Ho
says he don't know of anything else to
do than to await a change in the admin
istration at Washington. Such a turn in
affairs has been known to bring out
plenty of help for such Jobs.
No Wildcat Banking Wanted.
Eugene Register.
After a lapse- of time it is apparent
that the directors of the defunct Oregon
Trust & Savings bank of Portland, are
to be brought to trial. For Oregan's
good an example should be made of that
sort of banking, so that in the future it
will stand as a warning to those who
would attempt to foist a similar wild
cat scheme upon an unsuspecting public.
Oregon's credit and business reputation
Is normally good, and It should be kept
that way.
Ye Editor Becomes Indignant.
Dallas Itemizer.
Last week a man came into this office
and wanted us to jack a brother editor
up because he had said something about
the aforesaid man which he did not
like. That kind of business makes us
hot this continual trying to get an edi
tor to pull your chestnuts out of the fire
or say something about someone else
that you are afraid to say yourself. We
are not doing that kind of business. We
have troubles enough of our own, with
out assuming other people's there are
worries enough In a print shop to drive
a man to drink. If you do not like
what the other fellow says go to him
about it. Do not come to us. If you do
not like what we say, go to him, too.
Willamette and Other Meridians.
PORTLAND, Oct. 23. (To the Editor.)
When was the Willamette meridian es
tablished, and by what rule was It lo
cated where it is? Where is the exact
corner of the meridian and base line?
How far north and south does the Wil
lamette meridian extend? What are the
names of the adjoining meridians, and
how many meridian districts are there
In the United States?
The Willamette meridian was estab
lished bv order of the Surveyor-General
in 13G1. The first contract for survey was
let to James F Freeman on May 28. The
line was established on 122 degrees, 44
minutes and 20 seconds, longitude west
from Greenwich. The Jine extends through
Oregon and Washington. The base line
has been established on longitude 45:31
north. The corner can readily be located
on the map by these directions.
In the United States there are 31 merid
ians. Humboldt meridian has been estab
lished in California, 128:08 west; Mount
Diablo. 121:54:48 west; San Bernardino,
116:56:15 west, and Boise meridian, 116:
24:15 west.
Bachelors Beaten and Taxed.
London Telegraph.
The Sobranje of Bulgaria has passed
a law imposing a tax of about 3 a
year on all unmarried men who are 30
years old and older. At Tirnovo, the
ancient capital. It has been a custom
for many years to humiliate unmar
ried men. On the first Monday in
Lent all marriageable men who had not
selected life partners in the carnival
season were beaten on sight with in
flated pigs' bladders. The bachelors
always dreaded the day, while the girls
looked forward to it with pleasure.
Since the tax act has been passed the
bachelors of Tirnovo have entered a
formal protest against the continuance
of the practice. They say they will
gladly pay the tax, but want the chas
tisement declared unlawful.
Solicitude!
Washington Evening Star.
"Charley, dear." said young Mrs. Tor
kins, "you must stop worrying about
household details."
"What's, the trouble hot?' ,
"You were talking In your sleep again
last night. Every once in a while you
would use some expletive ana Bay, unn
me soma more chips.' You really must
get youd mind off the wood pile."
Thought He Should Remind Her.
Dondon Tit-Bits.
On a recent Sunday the clergyman of
a parish church in Kent was reading
the notices for the week, and concluded
by saying: "There will be christening
next Sunday at 10:30." He then slowly
walked to the pulpit. Suddenly, turn
ing toward the congregation, he re
marked in severe tones: "Remember,
Mrs. Tomlinson, I said 10:30."
Canada's Five Grand Old Ken.
Boston Transcript.
Lord Stratnccna Is 89, Sir Charles Tirp
per 88. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, 86, and
Sir R. W. Scott and Sir Sanford Flaming
84 and 83 respectively. Can any other
country show so many Catos among its
active statesmen?
True It Ia True Indeed.
Grants Pass Observer.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., announced In
Portland a few days ago, that at the
close of his present Senatorial term, he
would again be a candidate for the of
fice. That, of course, was expected. It
is easy to be a candidate for office in
Oregon.
jersey Cwa With a Butter Record.
Kansas City Star.
Only 1? Jersey cows in the world's
history have produced more than 700
pounds of butter in one year. Five of
these were bred and developed by th
Missouri College of Agriculture,
SIDI3 COULD READ AT TWO.
Scientific Forcing Procesa Has Re
markable Results.
. Boston Special to New York Times.
Some details of the achievements of
William James Sldls,' the 11-year-old prod
igy who has just entered Harvard with
the highest honors are published here to
day, and go to show that the youth who
Is gravely declared to be the most learned
undergraduate that has ever entered the
Cambridge Institution, is a wonderfully
successful result of a scientific forcing
experiment, and as such furnishes one o
the most interesting mental phenomena
in history. His precocity is the fruit of a
parental theory of mind growth put into
practice from the very beginning of his
life.
Young Sidis is the son of Dr. Boris
Sidls, a Boston psychologist, who years
before the boy's birth had developed very
advanced ideas on the subject of child
training. On the basis that as soon as
a child begins to grow its brain begins to
grow also, and that the brain is less and
lese sensitive to training as age increases.
Dr. Sidis haJplanned and developed an
elaborate sytstem of training. This sys
tem he applied to his son.
The child's training was begun with a
set of alphabetical blocks when he was
a little over a year old. When his young
son, sitting on the nursery floor, said
"ba, ba," Dr. Sidis took two of these
blocks, denoting A and B, respectively,
held them before his eyes, and showed
him first, the "B" block and then the
"A" block.
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Later Dr. Sidis reversed this order and
showed him the other sound that was rep
resented by these two letters. In a little
while, on being shown, first, the "A"
block and then the "B" block, the child
would say "Ab." Thuw, not yet 2 years
old, he learned to talk, read and spell
all at one?.
Before he was PA years old precocious
William James would sit on the floor in
the midst of his blocks and spell out va
rious words. This was his way of playing.
This child was next taught to count.
Then, because he wanted the child to
know something about the idea of time.
Dr. Sldls gave him some calendars, ex
plaining to him the meaning of them.
For weeks he played with these.
One day he startled his parents by
announcing that he was able to tell on
what day of the week any given date
would fall. It was first thought that in
his play with the calendars he had mem
orized some of the dates. Upon investi
gation, however, it waa found that he
had worked out all by himself a method
of counting enabling him mentally to cal
culate any date demanded of him.
When William James (or "Jimmy")
was 3 years old he could use a type
writer, and at 4 he was an expert oper
ator. He was also much Interested in
fairy stories, learned them by heart, and
was soon studying elocution and learning
how to recite them to the best, advantage
By the time he was 5 years old he was
not only able to read, write and speak
English and to use a typewriter, but he
was an expert accountant, had begun to
study French and Latin, and had wriiten
a text-book on anatomy and another on
English grammar, presumably for his
own use.
Entering a grammar school when 6
years old, he moved up several grades in
six months, and entered Brookline High
School at 8 years. In six weeks there he
had completed the mathematical eourse
and begun writing a book on astronomy.
Then he plunged into the study of Ger
man. French, Latin and Russian.
On leaving school he began the study
of mathematics in real earnest. Integral
and infinitesimal calculus became his hob
bies. and in addition he invented a sys
tem of logarithms based on the number
12, instead of 10. This was inspected by
several well-known mathematicians and
pronounced perfect in every detail.
Much has already been made of the
story of the three years spent in endea
voring to secure admission to Harvard,
Sidis' age being an obstacle which the
university authorities could not see their
way clear to override till this year.
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
Here Is a Vigorous Champion of Its
Integrity.
Junction City Times.
The word has gone out that any paper
that advocates the .election of Mr.
Bourne, or the principles of the pri
mary law, or Statement No. 1, the Ini
tiative and referendum, will be accused
of having been purchased by Mr. Bourne.
This is the rankest rot. This word has
been passed out with an intimidatlve
attachment and may silence some weak
kneed newspaper, but not very many of
them.
We will support what men and mea
sures we please. We fought all the
Isms mentioned above when the news
papers of the state were dumb as oys
ters, for fear that they might not be
In accord with the people."
We are still in the ring, not to fight
the laws of our state, but to enforce
them. The primary law and all Its il
legitimate relations were foisted upon
the people because of the cowardly and
unmanly stand of the Republican party.
Now let them take their medicine.
We favored a county convention when
the party of this county last assembled
because we were outvoted. We are go
ing to stand by that convention.
It is our belief, however, that the
primary election should again be held,
as the best way to bring about the re
peal of an obnoxious law Is to enforce
It, and for that reason we say, lay on
McDuff.
We will publish matter for Mr. Bourne
or any other candidate at our regular
commercial rates and don't give a whoop
who objects to it. This paper is owned
by Its editor and no faction has any
strings on It.
Chicago Women to Censor Play.
North American.
Chicago is to have a theatrical cen
sorship more effective and powerful
than that wielded by Anthony Comstock
in New York. Hereafter, if the efforts
of the Evanston Drama Club are
crowned with success, any play which
fails to meet the moral standard set
by Cook County club women will be
summarily tabooed by persons who give
principal support to the city's best
playhouses.
The Evanston organization purposes
forming a dramatic league, composed
of the members of every woman's club
in Cook County. It Is believed that the
membership of the body will be so
large and representative that managers
will not dare to overlook official pro
tests which will be entered against
any production that the league decides
is unfit.
For Encrland, In Fear- of War.
John Ersldne in The Century.
They tell us England's up in arms.
She hears the jealous foe.
Laughing at the vague alarms.
That draT her proud name low.
She's quaking sore with fright, they say.
Her day of strength's gone by;
O English blood that warms my heart
Tell them back, they lie.
For every British man at home.
Abroad are twenty-seven;
But who shall count the English hearts
Under God's wide heaven?
O, eyes that have not seen, behold
What host around her stand;
The chariots and the horsemen wait
To guard our native land.
O, lonely looks the little isle
But not to those who see;
There's half a world would fight for her
Who taught taemi to be free.
TAKKANI SELLS WOMEN'S SOULS.
Accused of Swinging Elections With
Repeaters and White Slaves.
Following is an extract from the srtlcl.
In McClure'. Magazine for November on tne
whlte .lave trade that has made a great
commotion In New York, and Is used a. the
basis of attack on Tammany in the present
New York municipal campaign. The article
is by George Klbhe Turner, and i. entitled
"The Daughter, of the Poor."
About 25 years ago the third great
flush of immigration, consisting of
Austrlans, 1- -sslans and Hungarians,
began to come Into New York. Among
these immigrants were a' large number
of criminals, who soon found that they
could develop an extremely profitable
business In the sale of women In rew
York. The Police Department and the
police courts, before which all the
criminal cases of the city were first
brought, were absolutely In the hands
of Tammany Hall, which, in its turn.
was controlled by slum politicians. A
great body of minor workers among
this class of politicians obtained their
living In tenement-house saloons or
gambling-houses, and their control of
the DOllce and police courts auowea
them to disregard all provisions of the
law against their business. The new
exploiter of the tenement-house popu
lation saw that this plan was good, and
organized a local Tammany Hall asso
ciation to apply it to the business of
procuring and selling girls.
The organization which they formed
was known In the Lexow Investigation
as the Essex Market Court gang, but
named itself the Max Hochstlm Asso
ciation. Among various officers of this
organization was Martin Engel. the
Tammany Hall leader of the Eighth
Assembly District in the late '90s; and
with him a group of Tammany Hall,
politicians In control of this district
and the Third Assembly District along
the Bowery, just to the east.
This district, as it was when Martin
Engol was leader, opened the eyes of
the minor politician of the slums to
the tremendous financial field that a
new line of enterprise, the business of
procuring and the traffic in women, of
fered him. The red-light district, op
erated very largely by active members
of the local Tammany organization,
gave to Individual men interested in its
development in many cases $20,000 and
$30,001) a year. Very few of the leading
workers in the tenement saloons or
gambling enterprises had been able at
that time to make half of that from the
population around them.
The supplies of girls for use in the
enterprises of the political procurers
did not at first come entirely from the
families of their constituents. The
earlier immigration contained a great
preponderance of men, ond compara
tively few young girls. The men in the
business made trips Into the industrial
towns of New England and Pennsyl
vania, where they obtained supplies
from the large number of poorly paid
young mill girls, one especially ingeni
ous New Yorker being credited with
gaining their acquaintance in the garb
of a priest.
see
A group of members of the Independ
ent Benevolent Association came into
that city in the early lOOO's, and soon
after the New York red-light district
had been broken up they obtained con
trol of practically the entire business
of Newark. They secured as supplies
the ignorant Immigrant girls taken
from the East Side of New York, and
they brought with them from New
York, or educated in Newark, their own
staff of cadets who not only worked
vigorously as "repeaters" in local elec
tions, but returned to form some of
the most vigorous voters In the lower
Tammany Hall districts of New York.
But in 1907 the attempt of one mem
ber .of the Benevolent Association to
defraud another out of his business by
the aid of local political forces led to a
disruption in the body of men who
were so well established In Newark.
An expose followed this disagreement,
which broke up, for the time at least,
the local business, with its importa
tions of New York women, and tem
porarily stopped the return supply of
illegal voters to New York. The testi
mony of the time showed that these
men had worked Industriously in the
interests of the Tammany leaders In
the downtown tenement districts of
New York, from which the supply of
Newark girls was largely obtained. In
Newark the chief of police killed him
self subsequently to the exposure.
A detailed statement of the spread
of activities of the New York dealer
and Tammany cadet through the United
States since the exodus from New York
after 1901 would serve as a catalogue
of the municipal scandals of the past
half dozen years, and would include
the majority of the large cities of the
country.
It Is, of course, the belief fostered
by the great ignorance and indiffer
ence of the more influential classes as
to the conditions of the alien poor in
a city like New York that tho cadet
died out largely with the red light. On
the contrary, he has largely multiplied
as every close observer of the condi
tions of the East Side knows. The
whole country has been opened up for
the supplies of New York procurers
since the red-light days; the develop
ment of the lonely woman of the street
and tenement has increased the field
for these young cadets greatly; and
not only the lower but now the upper
East Side of New York City is full of
them. The women they live upon, and
her daily necessity of political protec
tion, brings them into public life, and
makes them the most accessible of po
litical workers. They have a hostage
to fortune always on the street.
For a third of a century, at least, the
young slum politician In Tammany has
danced and picnicked his way Into po
litical power. The chief figures in New
York slum politics followed this meth
od. And thus arose the "grand civic
ball" of the Bowery district of which,
perhaps, since its completion, the pres
ent Tammany Hall building In Four
teenth street has been the center. But
the recent political gangs that have
formed the chief strength of the slum
districts of Tammany Hall have had a
much closer connection with dance
halls than any political bodies before
them, because their membership is so
largely composed of cadets. Practical
ly all the big gangs that have figured
in slum politics in recent years started
about cheap dance-halls.
These gangs of political cadets nat
urally gravitate toward Tammany Hall
for their larger affairs, when they are
strong enough, to do so. In this way
Tammany Hall itself, among the many
"touch" dance-halls in the city, has
come to be the leading headquarters
for disreputable dances. It Is this clas3
of dances that plays a most prominent
part in finally procuring the American
bred girl for the cadet. Votes from
disorderly places may easily determine
the result In a close city election, for
false votes by the thousand are cast
from these resorts.
A Marvel, Born Without Hands,
Baltimore News.
Born without hands. Miss Allene Shea,
of Louisville, Ky., has accomplished the
task of becoming the best penman ever
graduated from the high school, the
fastest operator of a typewriter ever to
receive a diploma in the city and finishes
the course wita an average of 9S.37 She
is also an expert bookkeeper, the Tirr-si-dent
of her class and the editor of her
school paper, the Cynosure. Miss Shea
has won three medals for efficiency in
academic studies. She has won prizes in
penmanship and typewriting, in which
her teachers declare her almost perfect
She 1s also a shorthand writer of won
derful accuracy and speed.