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' A NAVAX BASE IX THE PACIFIC.
It is fortunate for the United States
.that we have in the Hawaiian Islands
;n advantageous position for a naval
outpost In the Pacific' Are we to re
gain the Philippines? We may not
'retain them permanently; yet if we are
!to retain them, the Hawaiian Islands
'will afford always an intermediate sta-
tion. If we shall, sometime, (when
!we can) quit the Philippines, still the
'Hawaiian naval station will De aavan-
-rareous. for supervision and protee
1'lon of our Pacific Ocean and Oriental
;ommerce. The position oi
tor use as a naval and commercial out-
?ost in the great Pacific Ocean, is
! anique; for all our Pacific commerce
; nay be sheltered by It. Not only so.
ku. what is still more important, irum
! ur Hawaiian naval station any enemy
; jiay.be intercepted in an attack di-
rected against the r-acinc i-oasi oi mo
' : fTnited States.
President Taft. it is reported. Is of
.'.he opinion that Pearl Harbor snouia
J it Improved, enlarged, deepened and
fortified, and made our great naval
Ibase In the Pacific. "vVord comes from
.'Washington that he will recommend It
to Congress, and urge prosecution of
I the plan, under the direction of naval
nd military engineers. Pearl Har
: bor Is better situated, and affords bet
fter facilities, for a naval station than
any other place In the Hawaiian Is-
lands. It is near Honolulu; it can be
li.iproved and defended more easily
"than any other port-.. Already a dry
idock is now under construction there
by the United States. Enlargement
!and fortification of the port will make
it a most suitable station .(aptlssima
inavibus); at once a naval base, a place
'of refuge and defense; a place of sup
ply; a place for sally, in emergency of
.war. almost in the heart of the Pacific
! Ocean; from which, as a point of sur
vey and operation, our country may
, be In position to protect the Panama
'Canal, the Philippine Islands, our Pa
cific Coast States of America, and our
.general Interests in the commerce of
the Pacific.
t With creation of the naval station at
Pearl Harbor", prudence will require
-gradual increase of our naval force
in the Pacific. Danger of war to the
United States will not appear hence
forth on the Atlantic, but on .the Pa
cific. Nations that border on the At
lantic have been sated with war; new
vistas open-to those which border' on
the Pacific. There is new stir among
all the Oriental races, with whom we
can have no assurance of permanent
peace. Within the last forty years
science naval, military, electric has
put into the hands of the races once
supposed inferior, weapons that have
equalized former unequal conditions
as the invention and use of gunpowder
Mopped all the Front de Boeufs and
Brian Bois Gilberts, in their coats of
nail, on horseback. As the most
powerful soldier in the ranks of the
British Guards at Waterloo was slain
by a French drummer boy, so now. In
greater degree, later science has put
Into the hands of races, once scouted
as inferior, means and instru
ments of war that equalize weaker
men with stronger, on a great scale;
and 'on the side where fatalism is the
inspiration of valor and numbers may
overpower, victory not unlikely will
prevail or defense may be dearly
purchased. Defense at sea against such dangers
Is and always will be the main defense.
; Hence, the United States needs this
naval outpost, in the Pacific. It is In-
dispensable as Gibraltar is to the
British Empire. Dependence on human
kindness and the brotherhood of man
I sever yet protected a nation, nor ever
'will unless, indeed, it is a small" na-
tion protected by " the '- rivalry "of
.' greater, yet likely to be overrun, by
oi.e and another, as Holland, Belgium
and Italy heretofore have been. Our
Pacific States should stand as a Unit,
; not only- for fortification of their own
recasts and ports, but for establishment
land maintenance of a great naval
; base in' the Hawaiian Islands. Namby-
paniby philosophy or philanthropy
"never yet was good for defense unless
backed and supported' by something
an enemy could not laugh at.
HARD TIMES AND TEMPERANCE.
Cause and effect become somewhat
Jindetermlnate when one makes a close
study of the liquor problem- We find,
for example, that liquor-drinking to
excess causes poverty, and on the other
hand, poverty seems to promote the
cause of temperance. This latter is
not an Idle statement or a theory.. It
is the natural deduction from official
figures on the whisky consumption of
this country. The fiscal year ending
June SO, 1908.' was a hard one on all
classes of people. There was but lit
tle employment for labor, and capital
had not emerged from, the .hiding
places Into which it had been fright
ened by the panic of 1907. There were
four "fat" months In the fiscal year
before the panic broke, in October,
1907. but the eight lean ones which
followed curtailed the expenditure for
whisky to such an extent that but
119,703.594 gallons ' were withdrawn
from bond during the entire twelve
months. . ."
The cause" 'of - temperance, as re
flected in new laws, elimination of sa
loons and great Increase in the "dry"
territory', enjoyed a veritable boom in
the past year; but strange as It may
teem this boom In the temperance
movement was accompanied by a
heavy increase in the amount of
whisky .consumed, the withdrawals of
134.901.40S gallons for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1909, being the largest
on record. The average for the ten
years preceding was 112,332,110. This
would seem to indicate beyond ques-
tion that the consumption of liquor
decreased when times were bad and
there was no money with which to in
dulge In the liquor habit, and increased
again as soorl as the financial situa
tion Improved.
The liquor business may not cause
so much trouble In "dry" districts as
It does where the laws are less strin
gent, but the consumption is probably
greater. The man who is obliged to
buy it by the gallon undoubtedly con
sumes more than he would hf he
bought,. It by the drink at .the corner
grocery or saloon. That the economic,
more than the moral point involved,
i. runrnihla for decreasing con
sumption of liquor, finds further cor
roboration In the situation In Great
Britain where there has been a de
crease of BO per cent in the amount
nt iinnor consumed as compared witn
that consumed prior to the hard times
and the increased tax on beverages.
Mr. Lloyd-George offered as an excuse
for the loss of revenues through the
decreased consumption the suggestion
that the increased tax had prom6ted
the cause of temperance. As the con
sumers who drink most or the liquor
that Is sold in Great Britain have suf
fered more bv hard times than tne
poorer class of liquor drinkers in this
country, the cause Is undoubtedly tne
same there as here simply lacK o
money with which to satisfy thei
cravings for liquor.
' MADAMS STEIXKEHS TOUR.
It will be entertaining and possibly
Instructive to hear Madame Steinhell
lecture on the French courts, if she
decides to visit these shores for that
purpose. She will speak as one who
knows, as one who non ignara mall
can tell all about It to others. If she
cherishes some spite against the tri
bunal which tried her and the Judge
who questioned her, it Is no wonder,
for the ordeal she went through was, a
hard one, but she ought not to forget
after all that she was acquitted.
though appearances were against her.
She cannot deny that the French
courts, with all their severity, protect
the innocent fully as well as ours
whle they punish the guilty with a
great deal more certainty.
One Infers that Madame Steinheil's
missionary purpose Is twofold. On
the one hand, she will seek to make us
better satisfied than we are with our
criminal courts. On the other, by a
tour in France, she' will undertake to
stimulate discontent with the French
system. Both objects are regrettable.
Americans already admire their crim
inal courts quite as much as circum
stances warsant, and France has noth
ing to gain by Initiating our slip-shod
hysterical -and ineffectual methods of
dealing with crime. If Madame Stein
hell would consent to visit us purely
as a curiosity, she would be more wel
come than she will be as a mission
ary. Most Americans will gladly be
stow of their substance to help re
plete her " purse In return for the
sight of her piquant face, but not
nearly so many will care for her ex
hortations. If she must talk, why
doe she not prepare a lecture on the
North Pole or some other subject of
practical interest? Our foreign visi
tors are prone to forget that we are
above all things a practical people.
GRACE AND CANNON.
The international importance of the
reported execution of the adventurers
Grace and Cannon by Zelaya in Nic
aragua depends entirely on the way
our Government decides to look at it.
President Taft seems disposed tq hold
that the, insurrectionists are waging
lawful war upon the tyrant who poses
as president of the Bepubllc. In that
case Zelaya acted rather rashly when
he caused the two Americans to be
shot. They appear to have been reg
ularly enrolled in the insurgent army
and were entitled to the rights of pris
oners of war. But if the NIcaraguan
rebels cannot be regarded as belliger
ents, very likely the two men had no
rights -which Zelaya was bound to re
spect. They took their lives in their
hands when they Joined the rebels and
the fate' which, befell them was a con
tingency which . they ought to have
counted upon. Governments do not
usually exert themselves very actively
to protect subjects who choose to risk
their lives as Grace and Cannon did.
Still, It sometimes happens that the
execution of an adventurer Is used as
a pretext for intervention -when a pre
text Is desired.
In this instance it rather looks as
If a pretext were desired by our Gov
ernment. Mr. Taft may possibly strain
a point and make an ostensible zeal
for protecting American citizens cover
a real desire to put an end to the In
terminable discords which . distract
Nicaragua. The little Republic hard
ly knows what peace means, and its
Internal troubles have always attracted
bold spirits from the United States to
stake their lives on one side or the
other in" Its clvU wars in the hope of
winning power and fortune. .
'Probably William Walker was the
most picturesque of . these adventur
ers. .-His brilliant success, - though It
was only -transitory, has been- an" un
failing allurement to others to imitate
him. Walker began his military ex
peditions southward In 1853, when he
was 29 .years old, by: an 'attack on
Mexiop. That" Republic had not felt
the Ircm heel of Diaz in those'days and
was as turbulent and impotent as Nic
aragua Is now. Walker landed his
force at La Paz In liower California.
Fortune favored him for a little while.
He captured some villages, proclaimed
himself President of Mexico, quite in
the orthodox Latin-American style,
and set out Inland In what he thought
would be a triumphal progress. Per
haps It would have been If his ammu
nition and provisions had lasted, but
they gave out and he had "to flee to
the United -States. He was tried at
San Francisco for breach of the neu
trality laws, but, in the face of all the
evidence, was acquitted. ' The neutral
ity laws were as -hard to violate: In
1853, apparently, as the bribery laws
are now.
-Free from 'the not very dangerous
tolls of California Justice, Walker
made a fresh start in 1855. This time
he chose Nicaragua for the field of
his adventures and his brief career
there', reads like a tale from the Ara
bian Nights. Curral, the President, was
distinguished more for discretion than
.valor. Walker frightened him out of
-his senses by .capturing the town of
Granada and was forthwith made commander-in-chief
of the Republic by
the trembling chief magistrate. Then
in true buccaneer style Walker arrested
his benefactor and shot him.' Soon
after he elected himself President of
the country. His administration lasted
somewhat longer than Nicaraguan
fashion permits.- He retained power
for some eighteen months, but the in
evitable revolution finally occurred and
he was driven out. When Walker
reached the United States' he was ar
rested again, but the authorities did
not take his misdeeds seriously. He
was soon at liberty once more and
lived not only to invade Nicaragua
a second time, but also to make, two
e.-peditlons against; Honduras, but For
tune never renewed her smiles. All
his undertakings failed, and the gov
ernment of Honduras at last court
martialed him and ended his career
with a bullet.
Probably our Government had as
much sound reason for taking Hon
duras to task In Walker's case as it
has for resenting the execution of
Grace and Cannon by Zelaya, but cir
cumstances make a great difference
In such affairs. The time has been
when the authorities at Washington
have seen a whole shipload of filibus
ters executed without losing their
t i. -.11 ns P.ntMl
equanimity. ua a wc v--America'
was very attractive to these
srentrv between 1850 and 1860. The
rjom nf the Antilles was then carry
Ing on one of Its many revolts from
cinnln anA a rl vent nrous voune Ameri
cans flocked thither for excitement
and fortune. The Spaniards shot them
down ruthlessly, but Washington made
no protest. Indeed, there was none
to make under International law. The
filibusters broke our own law as well
as Spain's. Aaron Burr narrowly es
caped conviction for violating the neu
trality laws in plotting against Mexico
thoiirfi he was also accused of treason
which is a more serious crime. His
great scheme Included the conquest
f XTexim. but he vlanned also to sever
the Mississippi country, from the Union
and erect a huge Empire. He might
have succeeded if his followers had
been faithful. All that saved him from
conviction of treason was John Mar
shall's deadly enmity to Jefferson. Jef
farann eno-erlv desired to hansr Burr
andthat was a sufficient reaspn why
Marshall, wno presiaea at. tne trim in
Richmond, looked to it that ne was ac
quitted.
OUR PRESTIGE A3 A PORT.
Nearly one-fourth of all the wheat
exported from the United States dur
ing October, 1909, was shipped from
Portland. The shipments for the
mnnih m-era more than 800.000 bushels
In excess of those of any other port
except New York, which was in nrsr.
place with 2,938.984 bushels, compared
with 2,115.439 bushels from Pqrtland.
The prestige of this city as one of
the great wheat ports of the world
Is further hbwn in the Government
figures for the ten months ending
with October, which give this city sec
.ond place. New York being first. Phila
delphia third, Duluth fourth, Chicago
fifth and Puget Sound sixth.
These are figures compiled by the
various customs districts, and are ac
cordingly official. They find readers
thrniie-hout the entire civilized world
wherever commerce is handled, and are
most effective advertising, which has
been' largely made possible by tne ex
cellent work of the Port of Portland
in nrovidinsr shiDDlng with a safe
ecnomlcal port -of entry and discharge.
LATEST 'ATTACK ON BALL1XOER.
In the quiet repose of their literary
dens in New York, Washington and
other Eastern cities, the "yellow fel-
.lers" .who grind out copy for the
muck-raking magazines and weekly
capers are developing great solicitude
for the natural resources of the Far
West. Not wishing to be handicapped
in - their flights of fancy, but scant
consideration is given the facts bear
ing on. -conservation. Secretary Bal
linger as the head of the land department-seems
to be the target at which
most of these attacks are aimed. Ad
vance notices state that he is to -suf
fer a typical assault In the December
Issue of Hampton's Magazine. The
object of this particular attack is the
permission granted the Hill and Har
riman roads to build Into Central Ore
gon on a. water-level grade through
the Deschutes canyon.
This Hampton's Magazine muck-
raker makes the unqualified state
ment that Secretary Garfield refused
to grant the right-of-way through the
canyon until the surveys were maae
placing, the tracks above the level of
necessary dams and reservoirs. As a
matter of fact, it was Secretary Gar
field who approved the railroad, survey
through 74 miles of the canyon nearly
two years before Secretary Balllnger
took the office.
This glaring misstatement is not the
worst feature of the article. The point
on which OregOD is placed at a dis
advantage here, as well, as In nearly
all of these attacks. Is in the assump
tion that our people are not familiar
with what is needed in our own coun
try. The Deschutes railroad is tne
onlv. means by which any develop
ment would be possible in Central
Oregon. Without a railroad, the wa
ter power would be useless to any one
and Its conservation would be of no
advantage.
This is a situation so well under
stood throughout Oregon that there
is not the slightest objection to giv
ing the railroads right-of-way through
the Deschutes, canyon without forcing
them to build their lines high up along
the sides of the canyon, where -con
struction and operation would alike be
unnnecessarily costly. Admitting, how
ever, that the granting of permission
for the railroads to follow the water-
level grade through the canyon would
be detrimental to development of , the
power sites, tne provisions unaer
which the surveys were approved were
such ' that whenever it becomes nec
essary to improve the power sites the
railroads will be obliged to change
their grades to permit the power site
improvements. This latest attack on
Secretary Ballinger is so full of in
accuracies and misstatements that it
will hardly fall to have a boomerang
effect wherever the actual facts are
known.
According to the old story, when
Satan and Mephlstopheles had that lit
tle controversy over who should be
first on the Job, Satan gave his chief
mate a hunk, .of brimstone and told
him to go away and start a little hell
of his own. Now that there does not
seem to be any room In the Christian
Science Church for Mrs. Stetson, It
would seem that Mother Bddy had
kindly but firmly told her to go away
and start a little church of her own.
One head to the church, like one cap
tain on a ship, seems to be about 'all
that can. be used to advantage. Mrs.
Stetson still announces that she is a
firm believer in the teachings of Chris
tian Science, but it will require a
strong faith- to, enable her to believe
that she has not been "fired" irom
the church.
Let us hope that the army of bunco
steerers and miscellaneous criminals
who fled In terror when Police Judge
Bennett made his celebrated speech,
will not, on' their -return- to the city,
make a demand for railroad fare and
other expenses Incurred In the hasty
get away. These men, of course, had
no means of knowing that Judge Ben
nett could not prove what he thought
he knew to be facts, and their hurried
flight from the city was all due tq a
mistake. The -incident should serve
as a warning against "hollering" be
fore being hurt. At the same rime,
these criminals who have found Port
land such good working ground,
should keep in mind that old saying
about the pitcher which makes too
many trips to the welt
A monument is to bevPlaced at the
spot where Washington, crossed the
Delaware, when he moved to the at
tack on Trenton. It's "well enough;
hut lust time a certain friend of ours
crossed the Delaware, as he says only
a few months ago, he saw the print
of the hoofs of Washington s horse
he rallnDed ut "the eastern bank.
tm mra.ln.st the Hessians. Now The
Oregonlan is riot vouching for thiB
story. It merely gives the story as it
o-nt it. But those hoof prints cer
tainly are more Interesting than any
monument. Nor is the , story about
them more wonderful than that about
the origin of that black streak down i p, 29 6s lnches, w1th a Cor
the slope of Mount Hood, seen every, n-,,,,!,,,, reading at all stations in the
Summer from Portland. " In the first
party that ascended Mount Hood was
a pioneer American, trapper, or mis
cinnnrv fwe don't remember which.
and It doesn't matter), who had nine
pounds of bacon among the provisions
he was -carrying in his coat-tan pocnei.
vis reet llrl' frnm under him. and
down he went, .Pom the top to the
bottom of the mountain, leaving that
hia-lc xtreAk behind him: and th
story S true, because the streak can
still be seen any fine clear day, iro
Portland. . '"
"We have made- some progress since
riifrerenreit nf oniniori on religious mat
ters were settled by burning at the
stake and similar methods, but that
old ureument started by Martin Luther
still appeals wth great force to some
of our religious enthusiasts, vie lis
ten, of Astoria, came on earth a few
rentnries too late to be burned at the
stake fof his religious views, but the
courage of his convictions regardin
the sincerity of Martin Luther lande
him in St. Vincent's Hospital with
three broken ribs, a broken jaw, a pro
ken knuckle, a bruised head, two black
even and sundrv bruises elsewhere on
his body. Half a dozen Irish sailors
are held responsible for handling thi
nec-RtivA end of the argument so ef
fectlvely, and, while one can hardly
fail to admire Ole's cluck as a modern
martyr, his judgment regarding odds
iinn tint seem to be much better than
that of some of his predecessors many
generations ago.
Sneaklntr for Senator Chamberlain
Chairman Seek and the whole body
of Democratic bosses and partisans
their . Portland orsran.- declares . the
primary, with statement one, highly
satisfactory: and it win oe just tne
thing for the future, if the Republi
cans don't'spoil it by their convention
or assembly. . But if means should be
taken to unite the Republican party.
on candidates that would win gen
eral support, It would be awul, in
deed!
"The dollar buys less." This is a
common remark. But you Just start
out to aret a few dollars, and see if it
rnsta less effort' to fet them. Yet the
relation to labor Is far better for labor
than it was fifty years ago. The trou-
hl is all Tiersons want and will have
fnr common and daily use things that
were luxuries scarce obtainable fifty
years ago. Therefore ' tne aouar ouys
less." .
Amonsr inouiries about names is
that about the origin of the name of
Pnmt T?lver In Kastern Oreeon. It
was so-called by Peter Skene Ogden, of
the Hudson's Bay company, wno was
trapping on the stream about the year
1832. In the .mountains about its
sources there were very large areas of
burnt timber. From this circumstance
he called It Burnt River.
- Even if Portland's detectives cannot
eatrh -rimin.ls without standing in
with their stool-pigeon proteges, that
argues not for the stool pigeons nor
the present detectives, out tor tne ne-fejej-ftv
of cnraclne new sleuths who
can' round up lawbreakers by their
own industry.
ii th nrea. nf "nrohibition territo
ry" in the United States widens, more
.1 . rt OTijinev la r-nller-tert hv the
United States from . the taxes on
liquors. There Is a mystery here, uoes
ni-nhlhltinn nrohihit? No: It is but a
farce, whose side product is hypocrisy.
The itnrv nf that tidal wave at LIS-
hnn. nne hundred feet high, was a
story which such newspapers as don't
print bogus news dlon t get. un mis
Winrt nf "news" -it's always easy for
the genuine newspaper to "get left."
More cows are needed, but those
persons' are not consistent advocates of
more cows wno iaiseiy cnarge inai oe
tween 25 and 50 per cent of the cows
In dairy use are tubercular and liable
to be condemned.
At Grants Pass the business men of
the town have held an "assembly" and
named a candidate for Mayor. This
effort to "forestall the primary" is one
of the many unhappy signs of these
unhappy times.'
Dan Shannon, evangelist, closed his
meetings at Baker City Monday night
by taking a collection of 31500. ' He
Is said tq have made a thousand con
verts. AV 31.50 per. head salvation is
almost "free." , -
The Oregon Dairymen's Association
will meet in Portland three weeks
hence. We suppose the State Board
of Health will be an ex-officlo mem
ber. If Pinchot is Roosevelt's vlceregent
here in America he has not yet shown
his credentials. Before going to Af
rica, Roosevelt put Taft in charge.
' No doubt large part of Pinchot's
valor comes from the thought that
President Taft Is afraid of him. A
bold spirit could deal with Pinchot.
It may be the Danish scientists have
dne more for Dr. Cook than Ameri
can scientists would have done. Dr.
Cook is a shrewd man."
No glory in college debate any more;
It Is all In college football. Naturally,
students "care little for debate.
WTVD MODERATES OX-: COAST
Drops to Ten Miles an Hour at
XortH" Head. Light Station.
Wire service, partially destroyed by
the storm of Thursday, was restored yes
terday forenoon, and weather reports
were received by the local bureau. At
North Head the wind had moderated to
ten miles an hour and had shifted Into
the west. The steamship Catania got to
sea at 11 o'clock in the morning and the
Santa Clara, from San Francisco, crossed
in"- a half hour later. - The steamship
Breakwater, Captain Macgenn. crossed
out Thursday evening In the teeth of a
southeast gale. During Thursday the
wind at North Head . attained a velocity
of 88 miles an hour.
Last evening the storm' center was
drifting toward the northeast and was
heaviest near the, Canadian line, north
of Montana. Tbe influence was felt all
along the PacITic Slope and rain was gen
eral over Oregon, Washington- and Ida
ho. '
The rainfall was heaviest in the vicin
ity of Portland, and at this point the
precipitation amounted to, .04 of an inch
for the 24 hours ending at 5' o'clock last
evening. Since September' l, the excess
of rainfall for the section has amounted
to 1.55 inches. -
Light south to west winds and contin
ued rains are in order for today. The offi
cial forecast gives the Barometer reading
responding reading at all stations in the
Paciflo Northwest, xne gam oi ium
day has passed to the eastward.
To date few reports of damage by the
gale of Thursday have been received.
For a time it was feared ihat the light
ship off the mouth of the, Columbia had
gone adrift but as no report was received
from North Head the vessel probably
rode out the storm In first-class shape.
At Fort Stevens the work was sus
pended for several .hours on account oi
the storm. Smokestacks were carried
away and two water tanks demolished.
The seas broke over the Jetty so that it
was impossible to proceed beyond the
land. Engineers have been unable to
ascertain whether any of the-false work
has been carried away or not.' The swell
continued heavy yesterday and' no one
ventured far enough out to make an exr
animation.
Reports received last evening from Ab
erdeen. Wash., announce' the '.most se
vere storm in the history of Grays Har-
bor. Damage to the extent of thousands
of dollars has been reported. At Hoqulam
a blacksmith shop was blown down and
John C. Lane, the proprietor,- was badly
i the -nllnrKH of the structure.
1 Lumber pijes. signs, doors and portions
4 . i -ii.il ..-- himam into the bay.'..
OI DUIIUlHSj " - " -" - . ,
DAMAGE ON HARBOR IS HEAVY
Shipping Demoralized, Buildings
Damaged and Wires Prostrated.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. '19. Grays
Harbor district was isolated for 24 hours
up to noon today, during which the most
severe storm in the history of this dis
trict did damage estimated at several
thousand dollars. Signs were blown down,
windows in business buildings and resi
dences in . Aberdeen and Hoquiam were
shattered, lumber piles were scattered,
,some of the lumber being blown into the
bay.
John C. Lane, a blacksmith at Hoquiam,
was badly injured yesterday in the col
lapse ofchls blacksmith shop. The Wood
Lumber Company's framework and the
Elks' new building In Hoquiam were
damaged. The ferry across the Hoquiam
was torn from its moorings and all ship
ping tied up.
Wires are prostrated in every direction,
and during the early part of last night
Aberdeen and Hoquiam were without
lights for a brief time.
Newspaper offices are badly affected.
The World, in Aberdeen, operated Its lino
type by bicycles, and the Washingtonian,
in Hoquiam, was unable t to issue this
morning. -' ' '
The storm began-Wednesday afternoon,
following a period of cold weather, grew
In violence during the night, and reached
Its height yesterday morning. It raged
for- four hours, the wind at times attain
ing a velocity, of 80 miles an hour, .and
never dropping below 60. So strong was
the wind tnat ropes were brought into
play at the plant of the Western Cooper-
etre fnm nftn V itn keen fin the TOOfS.
The storm abated yesterday afternoon,
and repairs are being made today." (
More than 450 telephones In Aberdeen
are out of commission, and the Hoquiam
service demoralized. Telegraph wires
were raised at noon today.
O. R. & X TRACKS WATCHED
Mudslides Are Feared ' Because of
Heavy Rains Along Columbia.
unnn UTVFR rr Viir 19 -"Snerlnl.l
The Columbia at this point has risen a
root since morning, ana me fiooa iver
and creeks in the valley are at flood
stage.
Unless there Is a cessation ia the heavy
downpour of the past two days, it is feared
that considerable damage will be done
Watchmen are patrolling the- track be
tween v lento ana cascaae jocks, in an
ticipation of a mudslide.'
A . . ... ! .-.. n l, ....1,, t.. .... f-tmrnwimAH
AlilAII UIUB LV Hid V1U11UMJ WIT V C llltldl I
observer, the rainfall in the past 24 hours
is une.oi Lilts jjeuviesk un njcuru uere.
SAXTTAM IS RISIXG RAPIDLY
Heavy Rains and Warm Winds Melt
- Snow In Linn County.
ALBANY, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
Fed by the rains of the past two days
and the melting M fresh snow which fell
In last week's storm, the South Santiam
River ia rising rapidly all along its course
through Linn County. It has risen, four
feet in the last 24 hours, and at the pres
ent rate will reach flood stage tomor
row. No damage is reported yet. '
The Willamette has not yet begun to
rise rapidly here, but with the Santiam
and other mountain streams approaching
flood stage, high water in the Willamette
may be expected In a day or two.
COWLITZ RISES EIGHT FEET
River at Castle Rock Is Filled With
Logs and Shingle Bolts. v
KELSO, Wash., Nov. 19. (Special.)
As a result of the chlnook winds on the
snow at the headwaters of the Cowlitz,
the river rose again today 8 feet, bring
ing the river higher than two weeks
ago. Reports irom. aaimon ureeK ana
Tuttle River show the streams are 4
feet above the former mark, which means
that tie river . here will rise consider
ably tonight.
At Castle Rock tne river was iiuea
with shingle bolts and logs during the
afternoon, many of which came out or
Salmon Creek. No damage Is reported
as yet.
WIRES DOWN FOR 8 6 HOURS
Nooksack Dangerously Near High-
water Mark in Whatcom County.
TjF.T.T.TVawAM -Wash-. Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) Bellingham has been practically
cut off from the outside for 36 hours.
owing to telephone and teiegrapn wires
going down in the gala of yesterday. A
few wireless" messages were received
last night.
The Nooksack River is running aan
gerously near the high water mark, and
some lowlands and meadow roads are al
ready under water. County brldees are
in danger. , . , . ,
JfAXY ARE ISJURED I MUa
Damage in Seattle Will Amount to
'.; ; Thousands of Dollars.
SEATTLE, Nov. 10. (Special.) When
the sum ).otal of. the losses inflicted upon
Seattle property by the gale which seized
the Pacific "Northwest in its grip yes-,
terday and continued today, thopgh
somewhat abated, is computed, damage
running Into the thousands will be recorded.-
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However, no toll was levied on human
life, although , many persons received
minor injuries and scores experienced
narrow escapes.
R. A. Campbell, a guard at the Alaska-YukOn-Pacific
Exposition grounds, nar
rowly escaped death from a falling tree
yesterday. While walking through the
grove near the rustic bridge which leads
to the landing on Lake Washington he
was warned "by the cracking of a big
fir near at hand. Glancing up he saw
the giant tree tottering toward him and
he leaped from the spot Just before the
tree fell. .
STORM OX SOUXD FREAKISH
Wind Blows From, Every Direction
i
of Compass, Skippers Say.
-. VANCOUVER, B. C Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) This city- weu5 well cut off from
the outside world "last night by the storm
which ewept Seattle' and vicinity, and. to
day neither telegraph nor telephone com
munication, could be- obtained further than
Belllngham or Victoria except by way of
Winnipeg.
Local skippers reported that the action
of wind on Puget. Sound and in the Gulf
of Georgia last night was most Unusual,
In that it seemed to blow from every di
rection of the compass, changing from
one, to the other rapidly.
None of the local fleet was damaged.
PACIFIC COASTERS WIX GAME
Wafer Polo Contest Goes Against
Northwestern Boys.
Portland's baseball colony continues to
enjoy the sport of water polo, for yes
terday afternoon the Pacific Coast
Leaguers, arrayed against the Northwest
ern.players, won a hard-fought aquatic
game by the score of 3 to 1. It was the
second game the ball-tossers have played
in the Portland swimming tank, and the
boys seem to enjoy the sport immensely
The teams lined up as follows:
Pacific Coast Jack Graney, Roger Cor
nell, Charley Armbruster, "Speck" Hark
ness. M. Walsh and Jack Kirk. North
western Pearl Casey, Fred Adams, Ote
Johnson, Tom Sane, Joe Stutt and Eddie
Davey.'
Father Reveals Son as Slayer.
. PUEBLO, Colo., Nov. 19. An effort is
to be made to obtain the pardon of
Charles Barr, now in the prison at
Canyon City, for holding up a streetcar
here, so that he can be taken to Nevada
and tried for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff William Larkin, of Humboldt. The
identification of C. C. Collins as Barr
was made yesterday by San Francisco
officers through letters written by Barr's
father under an assumed name.
Seattle Man Found Dead.
TACOMA, Nov.. 19. The man found
dead on a Northern Pacific flat car at
Puyallup last night has been identified
as James Ross, a longshoreman of Seat
tie. His companion eays they started to
beat their way from Tacorita to' Seattle
and "Ross went to join some young fel
lows on another part of the train. That's
the last he saw of- him. ; It Is the theory
of the police he was shot , by hobos In an
effort to rob him.
Dallas to Get Union Depot.
SALEM, Or.. Nov. 19. (Special.) State
Railroad . Commissioner West has Just re
turned from Dallas, Pork County, where
he has ben looking over the depot faclll
ties of the several roads entering that
city. As a result of his trip, the Commis
sion has taken up with the roads the proj
ect of the construction of a union depot
at Dallas" for the use and benefit of all
the roads entering the town.
Eruption Causes Panic.
MADRID. Nov. 19. Advices received
from Teneriff e state that the activity' of
the volcano that appeared In the moun
tains of LasFlores continued for only
five minutes,, but that villagers on the
island .were panic-stricken.
Other mountains are giving evidence of
volcanic activity.
Coos Bay Injunction Argued.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 19. (Special.)
Judge CoTte, of the Circuit Court, today
heard in chambers arguments in the pe
tition to have dissolved the injunction
against the Commissioners of the Port of
Coos Bay restraining them fr.om levying
taxes or Issuing bonds. It will probably
bo several days before the Judge gives
his decision.
-Father Joyce Assigned.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) Father Joyce, formerly chaplain at
Fort Walla Walla, has -been- detailed to
the Fourth Field Artillery in Vancouver,
Barracks ana nas oraers io remain nere
after that organization leaves for Fort
Russell, Wyo., early in December.
Father Joyce is now at Vancouver Bar
racks. -
Telegraph Officials to Keep Places.
NEW, YORK, Nov. . 19. Authoritative
announcement 'was made today by of
ficials of the American Telephone & Tele
graph Company that there would be no
change in the official personnel of the
Western Union i Telegraph Company by
reason of the transfer of the oontrol of
that company to the American Telephone
& Telegraph Company. .
Gas Franchise Accepted.
, CHEHALIS, Wash., Nov. fb. (Spe
cial.) W. W. Seymour, of Tacoma, has
filed his acceptance of the gas franchise
that was recently granted him by the
Council. A deposit of $1000 has been
filed as an evidence of good faith. Mr.
Seymour and his associate. Mr. Brewer,
have a franchise at Centralia.
McCredle Has Big Lead.
MONTESANO. Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe
cial.) An offiotftl canvass of the votes
cast at the special Congressional election
shows that Judge McCredie's majority In
Chehalis County was 611. The votes stood
as follows: McCredle, 951; Lister, 340;
Herman, 116; Hailan., 55: Rockwell, 32;
Carlson, 17. Total vote, 1511.
j. New Company Incorporated.
SALEM, Or... Nov. 19. (Special.) Arti
cles of incorporation were filed in
the office .of tlje Secretary of State
today for the' McGrath & Neuhausen
Company, of Portland, with a capital
stock of $100,000. The incorporators are
T. S. 'McGrath, T. B. Neuhausen and
James Cole.
Eliot's Successor Ia Chosen.
PHILADELPHIA. Nv. 19. Provost
Charles C. Harrison, of the University
of -Pennsylvania, accepted today the
chairmanship of trustees of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Ad-ancement of
Teaching. He succeeds Dr. Charles W.
'Sllot, ex-president of Harvard. .; . '- .
Assemblies to Be Held
efesnary tor Guidnnre to Party
Action and Suggestion of Candi
dates for domination.
Notice the Matter.
Gerv-ais Weekly Star.
Republican assemblies ' over" the- state
will- be held 'the coming Spring to select
and place in nomination candidates for
county offices. Also to elect delegates
to a state assembly to suggest candidates
for the various.state offices. This is per
fectly proper and timely? as the state pri
mary law recognizes parties and party
fealty, and permits such nominations by
mass meetings.
As a matter of history,, the only polit
ical party in the state that has strictly
heretofore carried out. the letter of the
law in this matter has been Republicans.
All other political parties have nominated
by mass meetings. It Is thus seen, that
this sentiment foe. assemblies is nothing
new, but has been' participated In by all
other political parties save the Reptib-
licans. Other parties hnve ' fnllowea
this plan and will continue to do mo bo
lonir nu it milts their convenience.
There is no reason under the law
why Republicans cannot hold assem
blies or any other style of mass con
vention they may wish. They will
surely do so and place befrTo the peo
ple for ratification the very best men
they can recommend for all offices,
both state and county. The people can
elect or reject at the coming Novem
ber election. Republicans will stand
upon their plntform and win or lone
aa such and no longer brook outside
Influence. It Is not expected that
other than Republicans will partici
pate. There are enough true, tried nnd
loyal Republican voters In the state to
elect, if such a course is pursued, and
competent, well-known electors placed
upon the ticket, to be voted for by
Republicans. v
Let the slogan be: "Republicans
for Republicans"; all else is un-Re-publlcan.
x A Struggle for Life.
Oregon Observer, Grants Tass.
The question of Republican assem
blies or conventions to recommend can
didates for the primary elections next
year is still being debated in the news
papers of the State, although the prop
osition seems to have passed the stage
of debate. It has. In fact, been accepted
by all sincere Republicans, and It
quite certain that such assemblies will
be held when the time comes. The very
existence of the Republican, party In
Oregon depends upon that.
Of .course, there Is loud objection
from Democrats, who cry "machine,"
whiles In fact the Democratic party
never abandoned Its "machine," and
never worked with the primary election
law. 'It Is all right for them absolutely
to choose their candidates, but all
wrong' for Republicans even to recom
mend candidates for the voters to pass
Judgment upon at the primary. Tho
fact Is that, by false registration, the
Democrats have become accustomed to
take an active part In Republican nom
inations, and the fraud has been so
advantageous to them that they appear
to have persuaded themselves that they
have a right to help Republicans choose
candidates, while they do not need any
help to choose their own. A little
coterie of Democrats meet, the candi
dates are chosen and the job Is
done. But it Is all wrong for
Republicans to do anything like that.
Yet aa long aa Republican ara within
the law, the method adopted by that
party foff the nomination of candidates
is really no part of the business of the
Democratic or any other political party.
Each party, according to the primary
law, has its specific party rights, not
to be Interfered with by other parties.
There is where the law fails. The Dem
ocrats systematically interfere with
the rights of the Republicans, and it is
precisely this unlawful interference
that Republicans propose to prevent by
holding meetings, or conventions, .of
reputable members of the party to
choose, without Interference by oppos
ing parties, desirable candidates for the
Republican voters to approve or disap
prove at the primary. It ia entirely a mat
ter of aclf-prolection againai poinu-ui
raaeallty by opaoncnta. The Repub
lican party must either eecure this pro
tection or break up. It proposes to help
itself by means of recommending con
ventions In entire conformity with the
primary law, all constitutional law
and .all natural law. These conventions
will in no way interfere with the pri
mary law, but will do a service for
the Republican voters of Oregon that
they are much In need of,. namely, the
recommending of desirable candidates
for their approval or otherwise.
That's all. Just the exercise of a
common right, that is now, and always
has been, exercised by every political
party in the State (except Republicans
of late years), and that in no way af
fects the right of any voter secured to
him by the primary law or any other
law.
Check This Kolly.
The Dalles Optimist.-
It has ' been the eUstom from the
earliest history of parties in this coun
try for each party to go into a cam
paign upon what we are pleased to
call a platform. But in Oregon the
reformers have found a better way. as
they assume, in which we are supposed
to go into the campaigns without any
avowed principles. Wo are supposed
to-let each man who aspires to an oi
flce to run on any old issue he sees fit,
while the party as a whole is not sup
posed to be at- all Interested. There
mav he treat State or National issues
at stake Oregon does not side for or
against them, our political parties not
helue suDDOsed to nave any creca oi
faith except to get the offices.
But so far as the itepunncan party
of Oregon is concerned, we propose
to change our attitude next year. We
propose to go into the next campaign
with certain fixed idea and certain
fixed principles. We are going to call
a convention to adopt a 'platform-, and
if the Democrats think they can keep
us from doing that they have another
think coming. Some of our brethren
call it an assemblage, but The Optimist
would rather call it by the good old
name a convention. We will get no
more abuse for calling It by its right
name than for calling it hy any of the
advisory cognomens suggested.
As to what else the convention will
do. may be Judged from. the past; with
only the difference' that our nomina
tions will not be final, hut will have
to be passed upon at the primaries
election. And perhaps, this is a wise
consideration, for it will make us the
more careful to select our. very besL
men.
Of course the Democrats will, as
usual, hold no convention. No. they
don't need to: they will make their
nominations in secret and pass the word
down the line, just as they will as to
which of the Republican candidates
they are to vote for at the primaries.
They will, of course, do all in their
power to renominate Bourne, but the
foxy Jonathan will find that his
strength with the Democrats will be
his- undoing next year.
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