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8 TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910. (j &rc$oman PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poslofflce Ofund-ClaM Mattnr. Bnbscrlptlon Bates Invariably In Advsnre. (BY MAIL.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Xally. Sunday included, six months e.JS Dally. Sunday Included, three month. . 2.25 Daily. Sunday Included, one month .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, -without Sunday, mix montha 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, three montha... 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month..... .60 Weekly, on year 1.50 Sunday, one year.... 2..V uadar and weekly, one year......... 3.50 (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to lie nil I Stnd Postoffica money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency fire at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full, including; county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: 16 to '21 paces. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pases. 3 cents; 40 to 60 paces. 4 cents. Foreign postagra double rate. Eastern Business Office. The S. c. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 50 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND, 8ATCRDAY. FEB. 5, 1910. A NECESSARY FUNCTION. The voters of a party, without con vention, cannot be expected to agree on candidates -whom the party at large rill support In the. election. It is especially so as to the principal' of fices. As a consequence of the scat tered vote, one candidate will get a plurality which represents but a small fragment of his party. -Then the men ivho compose the body of the party, tr great numbers of them, will refuse to vote for him'.' It is not because the voters of a party "haven't sense enough" to nominate, but because, under the system, they cannot con centrate. Not one-tenth of the voters f Oregon will know anything, in per son, about the man who will be nom inated by either party for next Gov ernor of Oregon. All that most can do' Is to vote for their party's choice. This they will do if the choice Is un derstood to be a representative one and they are not Inflamed against the candidate by some prejudice that can not 'be reasoned with. To start and fan such prejudice will, of course, always be the most eager purpose of a minority opposition. All know It is Impracticable to call the entire body of the members pf a party in the state into one mass meet ing or council; but the plan by which . the most general expression of the TOters can be had Is through repre sentatives from all the counties,- and this appeals to all. as the fairest and most effective way. . Jt will be the policy of the 'oppo sition to Insist on the method that svill bring forth plurality nominations for the Republican party and after they are nominated to denounce them as not representative and as wholly unworthy of support. I''rom the fact that It Is impossible f 3r the electors in general to know the candidates arises the need of conven tions of the representative men of a party. These representatives should be chosen by the widest suffrages of the members of the party. In every county. The candidates recommend ed will then go to the primary for nomination. If not acceptable, they will fall in the primary", and others "IH be nominated. It is a simple method, perfectly reasonable, entirely in accord with the spirit and method and purpose of the primary law. In adopting it. the Re publicans of the tatewlll do exactly what the Democrats did. when they assembled at Portland and put forth a full ticket, led by Chamberlain for Governor and Gearin for the Senate; and later when Chamberlain was put forward for the Senate in the same way. Their course was perfectly legiti mate; it was accepted by their party and Republicans didn't complain about It. Attending the Republican con vention there is likely to be a great number of voluntary members. The more the better- the conference then will partake of the nature of a mass meeting as well as an assembly of delegates. The one object will be tc agree on candidates upon whom concentration may be had for tho purposes of nomination. The situa tion will require unusual care and de liberation. All know that men must be selected who may be expected t: unite their party, for only such can be elected. Deliberation among mem bers of a party from various portions of the state Is a condition necessary to the presentation of acceptable can didates. The electors of a party can not be expected to vote for the un known candidate who may chance to obtain a plurality consisting of a frac tional and often of a local vote. There should be deliberation about candi dates who are to be named for the whole state: but without conference, that is through meetings, assemblies cr conventions, there can be no gen eral knowledge on the subject. All the men of a great party cannot meet and confer together; the representative system must have some place and function: there must be some basis of agreement, or there can be no co operation In or through party. Party name can mean nothing unless a party can organise for consultation on the course to be pursued, and to talk over the names deemed tit or ffttest for presentaton in their party's name. It Is the one and only way to obtain candidates whom the electors wi'.l deem worthy of support. A plurality nomination by a small group, after a contest, can have no assurance of the support necessary to election.' In the absence of conference, or of sug gestion or guidance through represen tative convention, the primary law will always mean disintegration of party especially the party of the ma jority. OSE MORE NEW DISEASE. The one thing lacking to assimilate the automobile thoroughly to civili sation has happened. It has gener ated a disease. The new ailment may be called automobilitis. or it may not. That will be settled later. The dis ease Itself is more important than :ts name as yet. though the case may alter In that respect- It is said to set up "in Inflammation of the nose and throat, like that in hay fever, but this could t tolerated. Fains and aches are not necessarily evil. At times they re remedial. The really distressing thing about the new disease is :ts power to ruin women's complexions. According to one account it changes the finest rose and lily cheek to a wan sea green. It seems as if every human occu pation must have Its accompanying disease. Painters, blacksmiths an-.l co.wboys all have, their peculiar ail ments. Even, housemaids suffer from a complaint in the knee caused by ex rcsalve kneeling to scrub the floor. Bicycles became propagators of tuber culosis. Horseback-riding carried too far produces a bow-legged population. The only completely innocuous practice which has ever been discov ered thus far seems to be the habit of devouring benzoate of sodium. Ac cording to some great chemists. In cluding Professor Remsen, this sub stance is not only whplesome and re freshing In Itself, but it transforms garbage into the most delicious viands. WORK WI LI. DO IT. The correspondent of The Orego nian who says that the Introduction of a million Chinese into the Pacific States would be the most effective of all methods of reducing the cost of foodstuffs, reveals a great truth even though there be those who don't like truth in that form. The one way to make food cheaper in these Pacific States is to clear up the land. Irrigate the land, cultivate the land, grow wheat and fruits and pigs and poultry and potatoes. But the great American citizen never-will do it. If a working man, he prefers the railroad or logging camp to the- isolation of farm life and to the wages that farmers, even with high prices for their products, caa pay. If a speculator, of any de scription, he prefers to live in the town. In genteel way, and yell about the high cost of the foodstuffs he eats, and the neat and fashionable gar ments that his fastidious taste re quires. His wife, even more so. Meantime, the Chinaman, who could and would produce cheap stuff. Is ex cluded from the country. Tl'e are a wonderful people. We expeet results without exertion, and low prices for what we want, by some miracle like that of the loaves and fishes. But Mr. William Hanley, of Harney County, knows. All Oregon knows Bill, and Bill knows all Oregon. He is a producer a producer of the kind that produces. He has been rearing livestock on a great scale for many years, and Isn't dissatisfied with the price of beef. But he is a .practical philosopher, of the Franklin school, and he knows what Is the matter with prices. The consumers, he says, over balance the producers. This also is worth a place among the maxims of Poor Richard's Almanac, towit: "There are too. many , men who walk around the cities in good clothes and eat meat, and too few who are out in the coun try producing meat." But Bill has been out there twenty-five years, liv ing like a prince, and has made money. He says people now are pouring in, to settle up the country and live by farming; and he is mighty glad 'of it. A railroad is going through Central Oregon now very soon; and there will be more than one. The men who get right to the front, get there first and stay with' it, of course, will do the business. But most of these probably will come from the East. Descendants from the primal stock of Old Oregon are many of them too much set in the old ways. They are inclined mere ly to look on, while others launch their barks, push off, pursue the triumph and partake the gale. There are uncultivated lands in Ore gon of sufficient area and fertility to feed five times the population of the whole Pacific States. But it has been so easy to get enough to live on in Oregon that the habit of enterprising Industry has been too little stimulate 1; yet the change of conditions is now be ginning to make necessary new effort In new lines. Our fathers who did eat manna In the wilderness are dead, but the bread that cometh now, anj is to come hereafter, their descendants will find It necessary to work for. Heretofore we have been unwilling either to work on the land or to allow Chinese to do it. Things were tjo easy in that paradiso of pioneer life. But man never did accomplish or could accomplish anything, except through loss of Paradise. The new work may appropriately be called Paradise Regained. There will be less poetry In It, but more humility, strength and soberness. BUSINESS MEN AND ART. It would be Idle to think of disput ing Professor Munsterberg's statement that American culture is controlled by the women. Everybody who knows anything about the subject is of tho same opinion. Probably not an Indi vidual at the Boost Club dinner, in New York, where he made his re mark, caw any reason for disputing It. Shunning with his auditors any such hopeless undertaking, we are more inclinedto ask why Professor Munsterberg's stricture is true. We suppose it is a stricture. He clear'y meant it to be one, for he added that "it was unfortunate. Indeed," to see culture abandoned by business men and turned over to the women pre sumably as a trivial affair, not worth masculine attention. The Harvard professor suggested that our business men were too tire;.! at the end of their day's work to relish anything better than insipid vaude ville, but there are other reasons for the neglect he deplores. There are a g- jd many men In this country who do not care a fig for literature, art or music, even when they are not tired. Some of our direst barbarians never have known what work means. There are two directly contrary im pulses inherited from pioneer times J which are both inimical to lntellect- um mu raineuc enjoyment. Tne first and more important is the persistent feeling that it is wicked not to be doing something that pays. This feel ing was ground Into the souls of tho pioneers almost everywhere in the United States by stern necessity. They had to work hard and work all the time or perish. When a day of relax-"-atlon came, as it sometimes must, they had no rational means of enjoyment and such resources as they had their miserable creeds banned as wicked. Their preachers drew no distinction between the most wholesome and the most depraved recreations. All were alike devilish. Thus pleasure was not only condemned as idleness, but it was Inseparably associated In their minds with vice. They taught the same hateful falsehood to their chil dren and it persists to this day. It is impossible for many business me;i to get rid of the feeling that they are doing something wicked when thej go to the opera or look at a nud statue. If art Is no better than vice, then vice Is Just as good as art. Since vice makes no intellectual demands, while art makes many, and It is all the same morally, the choice of the former is natural enough. The other inimical pioneer inheri tance Is the vegetative tendency. This was strong In localities like Oregon where extremely, easy conditions of life permitted soul and body to go to sleep. Human beings who have sunK into pervasive lethargy cannot be ex pected to exert themselves sufficiently to enjoy culture. A man who will live like a savage rather than work, will prefer vaudeville to Shakespeare. If he care enough about either to maki a choice. Taken as a class, American business men are idealists. The common say ing that they are gross and greedv dollar-hunters is a slander circulated by people who cannot see beneath the surface. No men in the world are so dominated toy theories, watchwords. Inherited ideals and fixed forms of thought as Americans. As Idealists. American men aspire high. They are ashamed not to know the best, do the best and like the best when they know what it is. ' Unhappily, as a rule they don't know. From boyhood to old age there Is little or nothing in the education and environment of the American business man to teach him that art is not foolish and literature contemptible. The only bit of beauty he ever sees in the schoolroom is the teacher. In the city where he lives the chances are that everything around him is Intentionally ugly. The wonder is that his taste is not worse than it Is. TIIE SPOKANE ERROR. ' The Spokane Spokesman-Review Is urging the City Council to refuse fran chises to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad and the Nortn Coast. Railroad unless there is incor porated in the franchises a provision granting Spokane terminal rates. The Spokesman-Review, In commenting on the attitude of some of the members of the Council, says: Spokane's need la terminal rates, and until it has them it must stand at a dis advantage In competition with the Coast cities. It would be today the largest city in the Pacific Northwest- if It had enjoyed terminal rates for the past ten or fifteen years. Why not ? It has greater natural resources. Is 400 miles nearer the Eastern markets and centers of population, haa more railroads and a better distributing sys tem than any of the Coast cities, and stands without a .rival in the Inland Empire, while Seattle. Portland and Tacoma must divide the business and industry of a region that is relatively smaller than that surrounding Spokane. The Spokesman-P.eview is unques tionably right In saying that Spokane would be today the largest city on the Pacific Coast "if It had enjoyed ter minal' rates." But as terminal rates are only possible where the railroads meet the competition of ships, the cheapest carriers on earth, It Is an Impossibility for Spokane in her pres ent location to enjoy such rates. The Spokesman-Review Is not In Ignor ance of the weakness of Its theory re garding these rates, for it has repeat edly acknowledged the existence of this water competition, which is the base and always will be the controlling factor in making, terminal rates. The knowledge of the Spokesman-Review on this point is so plain that it takes advantage of these low rates by water and ships its Ink to Portland by steamer, thence by rail to Spokane, at a lower rate of freight than can be met by the railroads at Spokane car rying freight from the East to that city. The Review's Interviews show that at least one Councilman in Spokane thoroughly understands the situation, for he is quoted as saying that he "does not believe It Is possible for rail roads to grant terminal rates to Sp t kane." If any of the transcontinental railroads were to grant Spokane ter minal rates. It would be Impossible far them to handle any business for poin 3 west of Spokane, as water competi tion, even with high local rates back from the coast, already enables the coast Jobbers to send freight far inland at much lower rates than can be made by any all-rail route. NO TRADE WAR WITH GERMANY. Trade with Germany, amounting to the very important figure of about $400,000,000 annually, will not be dis turbed for the present by any attempt to force Germany to rereat from the stand she has taken on meat inspec tion. The United States had so little to gain and so much to lose by insist ing on a relaxation of the German in spection methods, that it Is strange that the question was permitted to as sume the proportions it had reached when the rumblings of a tariff war were heard. Had the United States been singled out and forced to accept regulations from which other coun tries were exempt, there would have been somt cause for complaint, but Germany has, to all appearances, been fair and Impartial In enforcement of her rules regarding importation of stock. ' These regulations are ostensibly for the purpose of safeguarding the health of the German consumer, but they are Incidentally intended to make importa tion of meat so difficult that the Ger man agrarians will have a better market for their own products. If this country could produce enough cat tle to supply the home demand with out forcing prices to their present un reasonable heights, there would be more of an excuse for our lawmakers to stand pat and keep open the Ger man markets. So long, however, as we are unable to produce a sufficient supply of meat to satisfy the home demand, it would be the height of folly to precipitate a trade war In an effort to force Ger many -to withdraw quarantine regula tions which have for years been en forced against, not only the United States, but other countries as well. All American consumers of meat will hope to see the regulations maintained, to a degree that will still further curtail exports of meat needed at home. Eventually we might be obliged to buy It at as low a price as It commands abroad. SOWING THE WIND. Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco, Is sowing the wind with a generous hand, and San Francisco will reap the whirlwind. The character and class of men with whom Mayor McCarthy Is filling the offices, from which he is ousting good men, make It compara tively easy to see the finish of this remarkable transformation. To quote from a news dispatch: "Saloonmeu, members of the Royal Arch, a liquor- dealers' organisation, and heads of various union bodies of San Francisco, make up, for the most part, the newly appointed commissioners, so that it is easy to see who is going to rule the roost for the next two years." In this list of new appointees appear the names of a number of men who wera prominent parts of that infamous Ruef-Schmltz machine. The McCarthy administration Is, ac cordingly, impregnated with much of the taint that arose from ; the Ruef Schmltz regime, and to all intents and purposes there 1s little or no prospect for any Improvement over that admin istration, . which was famous for Its infamy. But Mayor McCarthy, appar ently drunk with power, is inv-itins trouble. Poor old San Francisco, not yet too strong on her feet after her fearful experience wfth earthquake, fire and the Schmltz administration, must and will fight against the fate tc which the McCarthy policy is driving her.- The attempt of Mayor McCarthy and his friends to make the Bay City the social outcast of the Nation will meet with no greater favor from thousands of the ill-advised men who assisted in his election than it will with those who opposed him. Capital, still needed In San Fran cisco, wijl shun the McCarthy-governed city as people would shun a pes tilence and in the crisis that Is rapid ly approaching, the Calhoun faction, the Spreckels faction and all other factions that have caused dissensions In the past, may unite under a banner of decency, and line up against the common enemy now seeking to de bauch the beautiful city. In this fight, respectable union labor ought to take a position against the indecent fol lowers of the black flag of Abe Ruef and McCarthy. The very methods which made many of the older-states the great states they are entry of lands, and develop ment of resources newspapers and politicians of those states now de nounce as "robbery."- when the new states of the mountain and Pacific Coast regions desire to use them for upbuilding. for settlement, for in crease of wealth and of opportunities for industry and progress. Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri have become great through the system which their theorizing ranters now call "robber-." in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. Without access to the lands and to the resources permitted and en couraged by law, Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois would be, to this day. little advanced from the state of primitive nature. All their resources having now been appropriated and turned to use, these people now insist on stopping, the development and use of ours, on the plea that the policy which has made them great and pow erful Is "robbery," If we pursue it. The Kentucky, a venerable wooden steamship which was en route for Puget Sound to enter the Alaska serv ice, was reported in a sinking con dition yesterday, ten davs out from New York. Providing no lives- are lost by the disaster, this will be a very appropriate ending. The Pacific Coast has for years been the dumping ground for all kinds of ancient hulks that had outlived their usefulness on the At lantic routes and the timely end of the Kentucky has possibly forestalled n worse disaster after she had entered the Pacific Coast service. For the traveling public who use the water routes along the coast, it is welcome news that two new, first-class steam ers, the Beaver and the Bear, are com ing direct to the Pacific Coast before they shall be worn out by service -n the "East. If a number of the anelen: craft still in use were replaced" by new steamers of this type, traveling by Pa cific Ocean routes would be less haz ardous than it is at the present time. Argentine wheat shipments for tho week ending yesterday were 2.638,000 bushels, compared with 6,112,000 bushels for the same -week last year. Even Australia, which is nearing the high tide In shipments, cleared but 1,880,000 bushels, compared with 1. 960,000 bushels for the correspond ing week a year ago. As these two countries are expected to be the prin cipal source of supply for the import- ng countries of the Old World, pend ing the coming of the new crop in the United States and Russia, there may be some cause for uneasiness in the old world markets. If there is not an early increase In these weekly ship ments. Shipments from the United States, which are about 30,000,000 bushels less than a year ago, show no signs of improvement, and, if the wheat is still In the country, it Is In the hands of strong holders, who do not care to relinquish it, even at pres ent high prices. Three cargoes of Oregon lumber have cleared foreign from Portland this month. One of the fleet goes to North China, another to Sotith Africa and he third to Australia. But little more than a decade ago Portland was known throughout the maritime world as a shipper of wheat, flour and sal mon, but so rapid has been develop ment of the lumber business that to day this great staple is easily at the head of the list of commodities that are making the port famous in lanes beyond the seas. Any doubts that may have existed as to the necessity of maintaining a deep-water channel to the sea will be dismissed in con templating the enormous lumber steamships that load at Portland docks in ever-increasing numbers. There is an opinion that the flood in the Seine is a judgment sent upon the City of Paris for its sins; and especial ly as a warning to France,- for her exclusion of ecclesiastical influence from the schools. Such opinion ap pears in various places; but it is not supposed that it receives credit from any considerable body of people!, either In the Old World or In the New. The Hlllsboro Independent r!ght!y declares-that the headlight o-f a loco motive, looming up over a billowy landscape beats any and all of the doubtful comets advertised this year. That's what they think out In Middle Oregon, too. So BInger promised George Brown ell a railroad corporation job under C. P. Huntington, or some other"dis tlngulshed recognition." And yet some persons wonder where Georgo learned the. "stringing" business. Taxpayers by all means should go to the Courthouse when they pay up, otherwise they will miss the pleasure of seeing the expensive new Court house now building for the comfort of county officials. "Pants" are suggested for women as a means of helping them cope with high streetcar steps. That would probably scare -car officials into lower ing the steps. The most terrible war that Halley's comet has been able to bring this time is that in Nicaragua. Which proves that the power of superstition is wan ing. Wireless telegraphy in the case of the Kentucky reminds one of the ray of hope shtning on the rock of ages. Better improve the streets with pavements than, with new names. STATES PRESS OX TIM ELI TOPICS Hardly! Newberg Graphic. Hofer of the Capital Journal con tinues to assert that he is a Repub lican, but it is notv likely that the party will concede that one who must be tagged to indicate which side of the fence he is on will make satisfactory timber for the nomination for Governor on the party ticket. Ah, Theresa the Rub! The Dalles Optimist. The Oregonian has been unkind enough to show that the Democrats actually fteld a convention In the Spring of 1906 and nominated, or "suggested," candidates for about all of the offices to be filled and the rank and file fol lowed these "suggestions" by voting almost as a unit for the men named. Does The Oregonian not know that such a procedure was legal and con sistent? The Democrats have every right to do as they please in such mat ters. But the Republicans? Ah, there's the rub! We have no such rights, never can have according to the doc trine of the opposition. Innratttude. Albany (Or.) -Herald. The Corvallls Republican tells an un pleanant truth when it says there Is practically no such thing as gratitude on the part of the public for any moral service rendered by a newspaper. Tho same is true of a favor done an Indi vidual by a newspaper. To the aver age citizen the newspaper Is impersonal as a railroad corporation, and the atti tude of the public is often to use it but to beat it if it can. Every editor has had good citizens urge him to attack this or that evil, and probably within a week after the battle was fought and won, the . same man, for some purely personal reason, would stop his paper and advertisement. Republican! Are Getting- Tosjether. The Gervais Star. The large attendance at the McKIn ley banquet held In Portland recently showed strongly the trend of Repub licans to stand on the assembly propo sition. The large number of out-of-town people especially emphasized the great interest In the movement. Hun dreds more would gladly have attended If they had only known of the meeting. It was intended at first only to have a quiet meeting of the club but it turned out to be a gthering of much greater proportions than its promoters anticipated. There is a wonderful change favorable to the Republican plan of assemblies and It will grow still more in the future. That Republicans should protect their party Is now assured. Intolerable Borden of Taxes. The Astorian. There Is bitter, and presumably justi fiable, complaint abroad In this city and county just now on this vital sub ject (the tax rate), of the fact that nothing is done in the way of public Increment for the big sums paid Into the public treasuries here; no showing made for the constant and irreduciable expenditures; and while some are de vising ways and means to exact and spend more public money, others are busy projecting protective measures even to the invoking of the law's In terference with the same. The situa tion Is fast becoming intolerable, and there need be no surprise at the sud den raising of the standard of revolt against the unbearable strain to which the taxpayer has been and Is subjected. Benefit of State Water Power Control. The Kelsonian (Cowlitz County). The Pacific Coast, the home of the great water powers, is with Secretary Balllnger's ideas of conservation. The people here believe in developing the fiatural resources of this section and do not care to have the Government supervise them on the scale that has beer, advocated by Pinchot. Ballinger's scheme is to give the man a chance who will go into the wilderness and discover the precious metals and not weigh them down with a lot of red tape from the - Government. State control, after the Balllnger plan, would give every man, be he ever so humble, an opportunity .to develop a water power to work his mine and also enough tim ber to aid him in Its development with out burdening him with an excessive Gcvernment tax or Government super vision until such time as it is known that the mine or power was a success. Every man who opens the country to new development should be given the greatest assistance that Is possible to give him by the Government. Cost of LI vlna: to Remain High. Catholic Sentinel, Portland. The high cost of living which causes such grave concern East and West is a matter that we shall have to get used to. We have affected to despise the effete nations of Europe, but when we get hold of the fact that it is the high cost of living that has made them effete we are likely to be a little more sympathetic towam them. We our selves are rapidly nearing a time when he high cost of living will become a chronic complaint with us. Of course, it will be a long time before the masses of our people are forced to live as cheaply as the European masses. That standards of living in America and Europe should tend to equaliza tion is to be expected. The cost of changing one's residence from Europe to this country has fallen so low that a few months of the higher wages to be obtained here will make It up. News of American conditions is widely dif fused among European workingmen. and they are led to take advantage of the higher wages offered here. Here tofore we have had no difficulty In absorbing into our rapidly expanding Industrial life all who offered them selves. "Our marvelous and inexhausti ble resources," which our orators love to talk about, have lived up to their name. Of late, however, opportunities for the man without capital have grown fewer, with the result that a constantly increasing proportion of the population is congregating In the cities. As rela tively fewer persons ara engaged in agricultural pursuits, we are coming nearer to the time when our own people will consume all the foodstuffs raised In this country. High cost of living, consequently, will be the regular thing hereafter. t Epigrammatic Truth. New York Journal of Commerce. "The cost of high living," says James J. Hill, "is playir.g the deuce with this coun try, not the high cost of living." " There is as much truth as epigram in the state ment. . . The Two Requisites. Judge. A bargain Is something you get for less than you are accustomed to pay and more than your friends usually give. Congressional Alliance Threatened. Washington Post. That alliance between the .House Demo crats and Insurgents seems threatened with a fatal attack of cholera infantum. Dare-Devil San Francisco. Atlanta Constitution. San Francisco wants Roosevelt to come home that way. And she has already had one big earthquake. A Few Years Hence. Harper's Bazar. . Knicker You look tired. Booker Tea, I was up all night fly Ins the baby. - Ul IT DRING, FEARED DEATH. Swope Mors Medicine, Yet Doubted Carattve Power. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 4. Court action abruptly closed a day of warm legal warfare in the Swope case when Judge Herman Brumbach of the Circuit Court yesterday enjoined attorneys rep resenting Dr. B. C. Hyde and the per sons against whom he has pending a damage suit for $600,000 from taking further depositions In the suits until the court has determined the legal status of the claims of each side. Attorneys for both sides claim the right of priority In taking depositions. The court probably will dispose of the question Saturday and Monday the con flict that waged so fiercely yesterday will be begun anew. New facts regarding the life and habits of the late Colonel Thomas H. Swope were brought out when tho deposition of S. W. Spangler. an, office partner, was taken by Frank P. Walsh, representing Dr. Hyde. Mr. Spangler told of the visits of an unidentified woman to the office and how she brought broth for Colonel Swope to eat. Mr. Swope re fused to eat the broth. Mr. Spangler said. .The witness also testified that Colonel Swope took medicine containing strych nine. "A short time before his death. Colonel 8wope told me he did not believe ho had long to live," testified Mr. Spangler. "It was soon after he had quit drinking. Ha said that he did not expect to live more than. 90 days. I .pressed him for a rea son for his. belief. . He said that an uncle of his drank for many years and when he quit his death followed soon. "He did not have much confidence in the average physician, nor did he have much confidence in the curative powers of medicine, although he took much. When he took . a certain medicine that contained elixir of Iron, quinine and and strychnine, he usually took a tea spoonful three times a day." John G. Paxton, executor for the Swope estate, was giving his deposition when the order stopping the examinations came. James E. Vince. ex-secretary of the Police Board, was preparing to give his deposition to the Swope attorneys when the order was issued. The decision of the court came as a result of the application of Attorney John M. Cleary, representing Dr. Hyde, for an injunction restraining the firm of Reed, At wood, Yates, Mastin & Harvey from taking depositions. COO ARB FOR A K X ATIO-. Xorthera Clackamas People Want to Come Into Multnomah. OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 4. (Spe cial. ) Five hundred residents of North ern Clackamas County, at a mass meet ing at Oak Grove last night, unanimously adopted a resolution favoring the an nexation to Multnomah County of ter ritory north of the Clackamas River. A committee of 20 was appointed to select the proposed boundary lines, commencing at the mouth of the Clack amas River and running east, follow ing the course of the river, to a line to be established, and also to change the county line on the west side of the Willamette River so as to include Oswego. The meeting was attended by people from" Oak Grove. Mllwaukle, Gladstone, Estacada, Boring, Sandy and other Northern Clackamas points, and there were several well-known Portland men In the audience, notably Judge M. G. Munly, who favors annexation. The resolution initiates the Multnomah-Clackamas Annexation Associa tion, and is the first big gun to be fired by men who would split Clacka mas County in twain. Henry Thiessen, president of the Oak Grove Improvement Association, pre sided at tonight's meeting. Munly ar gued for better sanitation, better roads and cheaper fares. B. Lee Paget re hearsed the history of the movement and introduced his resolution. He was followed by County Judge Grant B. Dimick and Gilbert I Hedges, of Oregon City, who declared that the whole meeting was a frame-up, and Judge Dimick presented facts and fig ures that were filed with the secretary of the meeting to show that the north end of Clackamas County has received, in proportion to its assessed valuation, nearly double the amount of road money paid to most of the other sec tions of the county. Mr. Hedges In sisted that the whole matter had only started and that he would be heard from again before the proposition was placed before the voters. Attorney O. D. Eby and Judge Gordon E. Hayes, of Oregon City, who antag onized the division, and Charles F. Clark, of Clackamas, and F. E. Mc Gugin. of Sandy, both favoring annexa tion, were among the speakers. The meeting was attended,- with few exceptions, by people who want to be come a part of Multnomah County, and the resolution of Paget was adopted witnoui opportunity lor discussion. PACE IS SET BY ROSEBURG Myrtle Creek and Riddles Enthusi astic fop Town and County. MYRTLE CREEK, Or.. Feb. 4. Myrtle Creek and vicinity, which in cludes the territory embracing the North and South Myrtle Creeks, two of the lmportnat tributaries to the Ump qua River, received the members of the Roseburg Business Men's Excursion yesterday, and . after taking them for drives over the rich valleys, entertained them at a banquet at the Central Hotel. The Myrtle Creek people have joined hands with the movement of "boosting" Oregon and her resources, and more particularly Douglas County. At a mass meeting In the Town Hall last night addresses were delivered by Darby Richardson, the "booster" from Roseburg. This was followed by short addresses by several of the citizens of Myrtle Creek. An organization was formed and 35 citizens signed as mem bers of a commercial club. The ex cursion proceeded to Roseburg from here. The following officers were elected for the new commercial club at Myrtle Creek: S. S. Johns, president; Robert A. Preston, secretary; C. O. Nelson, treasurer; S. S. Johns, Nobel Andrews, C. I. Leaven good. J. Harris, H. P. Rice, J. 6. Galther, trustees. Riddles and the Cow Creek . country are to participate In the new publicity movement. When the Roseburg "booster" arrived in Riddles from Glen dale, where enthusiastic co-operation had also been secured. Riddles possessed no commercial organization. Now It boasts a well-organized, shouting com mercial clubv one more to be added to the long list of similar associations pushing Oregon to the front. MINE BOSS' BODY RECOVERED Kelley Had Planned How He Would Save Himself in Disaster. DRAKESBORO, Ky.. Feb. 4. After 68 hours' search, the body of the last vic tim In the explosion of the Browder mine, which cost 34 llves on Tuesday, was found last night. This victim was Peter Kelley. mine boss, who had often described to his family how he would save himself in Just such a catastrophe as that of Tues day.' . Many Miners Dead; None Americans. EL PASO,' Tex., Feb. 4. A special from Eagle Pass says: Seventy bodies have been taken from the Paulau mine in Mex ico. This represents the total list of the dead. However, some of the 20 injured who are now in the hospital may die. The gas b all out of the mine and the exploration has been thorough. Not an American was hurt, CAMPIXG GROUND TO BE GIVEN Portland Fair and Livestoc k Exposi tion Plans Well Under Way. An old-fashioned camping ground will be a feature of the annual Portland Fair and Livestock Exposition to he held at the Country Club grounds September 1 tc 10. Farmers coming with their families ar-d stock from a distance will be given space for tents and sheds for their horses in a 10-acre plot of ground in the south east corner of the lnelosure. 1 his suggestion was made in a letter from an up-state farmer and was well taken by the management. I'rank Alley, the well-known Roseburg horseman, visited E. L. Thompson, presi dent of the exposition company, yester day, and announced his intention "of en tering more horses than ever In this year's races, as well as a larger exhibi tion cf troroughbred mares and colts. D. O. Lively, manager of the Union Stockyards, who has been appointed manager of the fair, is expected home to day from a trip through the Eastern and Middle Western States. Mr. Lively has been visiting stock shows to get pointers on how to manage the Portland fair. He Wi'l Immediately commence active ar raiistn ents for the fair and livestock ex hibition. FIRST BODY IS RECOVERED Cherry Mine Gives Vp One of Dead After Tliree Months. ' CHERRY. HI.. Feb. 4. The St. Paul mine today yielded the first of its dead since last November, when the shafts were sealed to extinguish the fire tnat killed nearly 300 miners. The body was that of Maestro Llirio, 5 years of a Re. He was identified by a wage receipt found In his coat. Llirio was unmarried, and his relatives are at Cardiff. 111. The body was in good condition in spite of its three months entombment. The prospects for recovery of other bodies Is none too promising, as a great deal of pumping and mining must be done. Taxpayers Would Oust Supervisor. OREGON CITY. Or.. Feb. 4. (Spe cial.) Seventy-ight of the residents and taxpayers of Wiihoit Sprhiss have petitioned the County Court for the removal of Road Supervisor A. M. Groshong. who was reappointed last . month, and the court today appointed W. H. Counsell and Charles R. Li e say to go to Wiihoit and make an inspection of tne work done in that road district during the last year and report February 19. when the petition will be given a hearing. J. E. Burnett was today appointed road supervisor of the Eagle Creek district, succeeding S. A. Douglas. J. W. Smith was reappointed at Macks burg and Thomas McCabe was named at Cherryville. D. W. Douglas, the ex-supervisor, and C. W. Harris, were candidates for the place, and the court solved the tangle by appointing a man who was not an aspirant. Catholic Church May Remove. FOREST GROVE, Or.. Feb. 4. (Special.) P'ans are being considered for the removal of the Catholic Church at Gales Spur, or Seghers, to Gaston, as that point is more central to the com municants residing in the Gaston neighborhood. The church at Seghers is In charge of Rev. Jacob It. Buck, rec tor of St. Philip's Church at Forest Grove. Father Buck also has charge of the mission at Cornelius. where the Catholics have Just completed a new church building. Rev. Father Le Miller, at Verboort, has issued a calendar and year book of historical data and Infor mation of value to Catholics. Father Le Miller is pastor of the Verboort Parish, where the settlers, are all of Dutch origin. Dice Decide Election Ties. PITTSBURG, Feb. 4. Some stiff games of poker dice decided several ties in the various ward contests for School Direct orship, and the games were sanctioned by the County Commissioners. Commissioner Campbell supplied the dice which lie used as a paperweight, and in the case of the old Second Ward on the north side, where three men were tied for two nominations, C. W. Jones threw a pair of aces, but they could not beat a straight that James McElroy threw. W. B. Alward also put Jones out of the race with three aces. Four other- contests were settlPd in a similar manner, while several other districts, in which only two men were tied, were, de cided by the flip of a coin. Funs to u Army Hero Resigns. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Feb. 4. First Lieutenant Burton J. Mitchell. Twelfth Infantry, aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier-General Frederick Funston, forwarded his resignation from the Army to President Taft to day. Lieutenant Mitchell distinguished himself as a soldier In the Twentieth Kansas Regiment and participated with General Funston in the capture of Agulnaldo. He plans to engage in busi ness at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Girl Debater to Represent Raymond. RAYMOND. Wash.. Feb. 4. (Special.) The public schools of Raymond had their local tryout on Wednesday evening to se lect the pupil who will reprsnt Ray mond in the Southwestern Washington declamatory contest. The Judges selected Miss Hope Graham as the one best qual ified to represent the Raymond schools in the group contest. The subject of the selection on which she won this decision was "Riley's Bear Story." Oakland Harbor to Re Improved. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. A radical en largement of the Oakland (Cal.) harbor facilities is contemplated In a progressive project recommended to the Housj todav by the War Department, involving a purposed ultimate outlay of $1,100,000" and $26,000 annual maintenance. Of this $600,000 is to be spent in first constructing a 30-foot channel to the drawbridges. The project has been adopted by the House committee on rivers and harbors. Mrs. Helen M. Prosch Dies. TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 4. Mrs. Helen M. Prosch, aged 61. widow of the iate . Frederick Prosch. died here today. She came across the plains to Oregon in 1849 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Elder, of Springfield. 111. In 1S63 they moved to Olympla, where Mr. Elder was appointed Indian agent by his boyhood friend, Abraham Lincoln. Berth With Single Men Costs $370. SEATTLE Feb. 4. The Japanese Meamer Awa Maru on her arrival lv?ro today was fined- $370 for violating the American passenger laws by bringing two married Japanese couples In a eteerase compartment with two unmarried men. A similar penalty was recently imposed on the Japanese steamer Tacoma Maru. Landslide Divides Yaquina. NEWPORT. Or.. Feb. 4. (Special.) A heavy landslide occurred in Yaquina yes terday, cutting off the business section from the residence district. The bluff toppled over, sliding into the hay. No buildings "were damaged. Just the land, road and Newport phone and telegraph wires being effected. Five Hurt in Southern Wreck. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Feb. 4 Five per sons wero hurt, none - seriously, when the second section of the Illinois Cen tral passenger train No. 1 from Mem phis to New Orleans was wrecked early today, four miles south of Sardls. Miss. The engine, tender and baggage cax were turned over and ditched-