10 THE aiOKTHVU- OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, 3, 1910. fOBTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postoffice aa Fecond-C'lass Matter. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (BY MATT.). rvatly. Sunday Included, one year. .... .$8.00 r.aly, Sunday included, six months. . . 4.25 2.25 I 'ally, tiunday Included, Iaily, tiunday included, 3ally, without Sunday, latly, without Sunday, X'ally, without Sunday, 3ally, without Sunday, three month. . one month . . . one year. ...... six months. . . . three months., one month . . . , .75 6.00 S.25 X75 .60 1.60 2.60 8.50 wefcltly, one year ........... Funday, one year............ Eunday and weekly, on year, (By Carrier). Tally, Sunday-Included, one year. .. . 9.00 Xally, Sunday included, one month. . ... .75 How to Rrmit Send Postofflce money order, express order or personal check on voor local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full, including county and state. Post air Kates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 16 to 2H paKes. 2 cents; aO to 40 pages, 3 cents; 40 to &t pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck with Kpaclal Agency Kew York, rooms 48 DO Tribune bulldinc. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Tribune building. POBTLASD, TUESDAY, MAT 8, 1910. AXOTHER TTtEAE MEASURE. Latest of "uplift" schemes from the Oregon City law factory Is one to make taxpayers defray expenses of electing delegates to National conven tions and of sending them to those gatherings; also of nominating Presi dential Electors. A bill for this end ihaa been Initiated from TJTRen's Popu list headquarters, for enactment by electors of the state next November. This measure would cause primaries in Presidential election years to be held lrt April, instead of September five months earlier than usual and would therefore drag out political tur moil by that additional length. Under the present law assemblies or conven tions choose, delegates to National conventions and nominate candidates for Presidential Electors, inasmuch as the primary law covers neither case. The proposed law provides that candidates for President and Vic- President of the United States may advertise themselves, free of charge, in the official pamphlet to bs sent out toy the Oregon Secretary of State. All of which will be very fine for (habitual convention delegates and for long-winded candidates like Mr. .Bryan, but how about taxpayers who will foot the bills? Further, rertiat guarantee Is there that the delegates who will attend National conventions f.t taxpayers" ex pense will be seated by the conven tions, or that the conventions will rec ognize the LP Ren method of selecting the delegates? Conduct of National conventions cannot be controlled by siny law in the Stat of Oregon. Even if taxpayers of Oregon defray the ex penses of selecting delegates by the iirect primary plan, and of sending them to National conventions, the delegates may !become only useless or naments when they get there. : The UTten-Bourne faction, which is fathering this proposed law, has per sonal grievance against the existing method of naming National delegates. It will be remembered that none of that faction could gain admission Into the last Republican. National con vention. The measure does not aim to correct old-time, local convention abuses because there have been none in selection of delegates to National conventions or of candidates for Presidential electors, therefore, fa miliar arguments In support of the primary law do not have bearing on these affairs. This measure is Intended to make complete an anti-convention hobby in this state. The .. --st of it Is that it would upset the whole structure of the state election laws in Presidential years, because the system now requires primaries in September, instead of in April. It would confuse state and county officials as to dates for nomina tions, petitions, etc., and every fourth year would hold the state in an agi tation of politics from early Spring until November. The people want retrenchment, as they demonstrated two years ago when they voted to change elections from June to November and primaries from April to September. The people. therefore, have spoken on this ques- tion in emphatic manner. Why, then. revive a question on which they have already-spoken ? IJNH XF I J -VST RESISTANCE. Lostlne. Or, one of the oldest and most prosperous towns in the rich Grand Rondo Valley, will be moved away from the present location where it has flourished since civilization first planted Its banner In the Wallowa country. The move Is another case of Jlahomct going to the mountain, be cause the mountain would not go to Mahomet, the O. li. & N. Company in this particular case representing the mountain. The cost of moving a town for a distance- of one and a half miles will be heavy; but, after studying the situation for a year, the Lostlne peo ple apparently believe the change to be of vital necessity. The incident calls attention to the remarkable changes that have taken place in railroad-building methods in the past few years. Immense sums of money were wasted frw the early days of railroading In the West by bunding lines with a reckless disregard for grades and curves. In a great many cases what a pealed to the original builders as the "line of least resistance-' to their Im mediate efCorts became a lasting ob stacle to economical operation. The extent to which this policy of haste and alleged economy in construction was-carried Is shown in the statement that in the recent rebuilding of the 0 .R. & N. out of Portland one short, sharp curve In the original line could be accounted for in no other manner than a desire on the part of the builders to avoid a mammoth stump. Had the O. R. & N. line up the Grand Ronde Valley been constructed during the era when it was customary to go around stumps instead of removing them, and to make wldo detours to avoid grades, the road would have climbed the hill at Lostlne Instead of continuing along the river bank where It now runs. But the day of the hill climbing, curve-crippled railroad was over before the Hartinran engineers set their grade stakes In the Lostlne country, and the nearest approach they could make to Lostlne on any thing like an ecrmomlcal grade was more than a mile from the town limits. The economic principle Involved in taking the town to the railroad in stead of the railroad to the town is ; now quite generally, applied' by rail roads throughout the country. It was 1 this principle that caused the Harri- man lines to supplant the crooked mountain-climbing Columbia South ern, with a water level grade up the Deschutes Canyon. It has caused the Hill lines practically to abandon the heavy grades of their Potlatch Canyon line in Idaho and It Is also responsible for construction of the North Bank road down the Columbia. Except in the older settled portion of the state, where there may be a few towns in a similar predicament to that of Los tine, no more town-moving will be necessary, for all railroad-building of the present day and age is carried on with a view to economy of operation and maintenance, the original cost being much less of a factor than formerly. LET THE PEOPLE CHOOSE. Noisy critics of Republican assem bly in Oregon declare the assembly will nullify and supplant the primar ies and break the primary law. Such talk is an affront to the intelligence of the electorate. All nominees of the assembly must pass scrutiny of party voters in the primaries and be approved by them. else they will not go on the ticket for the election. It Is quite likely that all nominees Till not be accepted by elec tors in the primaries and that voters will name candidates of their own choice for some of the offices, just as electors of Portland, at the city pri maries last year, rejected several of the nominees of the city assembly. Most of the nominees of the city as sembly were accepted, however, be cause their merit was plainly visible to the voters. Subsequent events in city administration have Justified the assembly selections, and acceptance of them by the people in primaries and election. Primaries, following assembly, af ford best possible protection to the public service against ' boss named candidates and machine-engineered politics. Loud talk and "pregnant" warnings of foes of assembly come down from a time when conventions were not subject to this corrective In fluence that is, before the primary law was enacted, and, moreover, be fore severe public sentiment, like that of the present day, put assembly on Its good behavior. Politicians who declare the people will not have sense enough in the prl. maries to pick out men whom they want In office from among the candi dates suggested by assembly and by other bodies of citizens and toy peti tion of individuals are endeavoring to hoodwink the electorate. "Voters will determine in the primaries and the election whether they want Jones or Smith In office from the personal and political qualifications of Jones and Smith, and they will not be so stupid as blindly to swallow any "dose" that assembly might wish to "force down their throats." The people will have their primaries in which to exercise their- fullest prerogative. THE CENSUS, Useful and important as the Na tional census undoubtedly is, the num ber of agreeable fictions connected with it impart to the decennial cere mony more or less of the character of a magic incantation iwhlch is in tended rather to amuse than to be taken seriously. If a whole town not far from the thriving and zealous community of LaGrande can be totally forgotten in what we are pleased to call the enumeration, naturally the same thing may happen elsewhere. It may happen over and over again. And If entire towns may be overlooked, what of Individuals? The fact that the same person is occasionally used to swell the population of two or more cities it is discreet to suppress, of course, but who believes that the census really includes anything like the whole number of Inhabitants in Portland or any other considerable town? It Is likely enough that the enumer ators are zealous and careful. At least some of them are, but It is humanly Impossible for them to catch and question everybody!. Pel sons who undertake to answer the questions for others are forgetful. It slips the mind of the informant that there is a hired man living on the premises. The aged grandmother who seldom leaves her chamber is left out of mind. As a rule almost everybody seeks to help the census taker get at the truth. There are comparatively few who heap ignominy upon him and fewer still who treat him with silent contempt. The latter individuals be long almost exclusively to what Is called "the better classes." THE ALBAXY APPLE MEEHNO, The prospect of an extraordinary apple crop this Fall emphasizes the Importance of co-operative effort among the orchardists to secure proper packing and marketing. With a bad pack the fruit will bring only a fraction of what It Is really worth. Unless marketedi with skill and discre tlon, the best pack in the world will not obtain the prices it ought. Very often the fruit grower who has taken great pains to cultivate and spray his trees loses the reward to which he ts entitled because on the one hand he is not an expert packer and on the other because he does not fully under. stand the business of marketing. To remedy these unfortunate circum stances thorough co-operation among the frultmen Is essential. In this way alone can the Individual growers mas ter the difficult arts of packing and marketing. Acting by himself, the orchardist cannot properly Judge the grade of his output, and he is at the mercy of unscrupulous buyers. More over, few apple growers produce enough to enable them to take ad vantage of market conditions. All must combine or there is a regrettable loss to each. For reasons like these the meeting which has been called at Albany on May 6 by the executive committee of the Willamette Valley Apple Growers Association is of the first Importance. Its purpose is to formulate plans for complete co-operative effort among the frultmen of the Willamette region and to perfect those plans In time for the marketing of the crop now on the trees. If the purpose Is carried out successfully, it will mean thousands of dollars in good hard cash, to the farmers of Oregon. If It falls, it will mean that those same dollars will slip smoothly into the pockets of middle men and others who have not earned them. The partial failure of Che East ern crop means that Oregon apples will occupy a conspicuous place in every market next Fall and Winter. They will be talked about, purchased and used to an extent hitherto un paralleled. If the packing is of high grade and the supply sent forward with skill and good judgment, the future of our fruit Industry is safe for many years to come. But this re- quires intelligent co-operation. Opportunity is knocking at the doors of the Oregon apple men this season as she has never knocked be fore. It lies with the orchardists to accept her favors or reject them. The first step toward making the most of the opportunity is to attend the Al bany meeting and help on the plans for organized effort. ARE WE AXGliO-SAXONS? Persons who stfl cling to the ro mantic Action -that the United States Is Inhabited by what they choose to call the "Anglo-Saxon Race" may find some- instructive reading in an article In McClure's Magazine for May. It p-urports to discuss the skulls of our European immigrants, but incidentally It tells something about their noses and mentions ot'er facts of curious interest. For example. It informs us that one person in four of the popula tion of Greater New York is a Jew. Taking into account the numbers of the Italians, Irishmen, Germans and other nationalities who also share the confined quarters of Manhattan Island It becomes fairly evident that the title Anglo-Saxon does not strictly apply to the population of that region at any rate. It applies almost as unfitly everywhere else in the United States except In the solid South and in part of the tier of states along the west bank of the Mississippi. Even in the South the white race forms but a frac tion of the population, and, when one reaches Missouri, passing northward along the Mississippi, he begins to meet the swarming Germans and Scandinavians. At first glance, In fact, it seems dif ficult to account for the origin of the Action that this Is an Anglo-Saxon country, or that England is in any peculiar sense our mother country. A little reflection, however, carries us back to the beginning of things and makes the reason clear. The New England States, French and Irish though they may now be, were orig inally settled by immigrants from England, and so was Virginia. "With that we come pretty near to the end of pure Anglo-Saxondom even in the original thirteen colonies, but New England and Virginia gave the coun try an intellectual tone and a man ner of speech which still persist- New York was Dutch. Pennsylvania was German. The piedmont region along the Alleghanies all through the South was taken up by the Scotch- Irish, who also- penetrated Into the Valley of the Ohio and possessed Ken tucky with its neighboring territory. When we look at the facts of the case, a luxury which even fervent patriotism sometimes permits, we see how little truth there Is in the belief that most of us are Anglo-Saxons, but very likely we shall keep on doing it Just the same as if it were exact. JTEW eOVXTY TROUBLES IN OREGON Six county-partition measures are initiated" for enactment of voters of Oregon next November, and more are coming. This is bringing home with a vengeance the "blessings" of direct legislation. In Lane , and Douglas Counties, boundaries of the proposed new divis lonsr Nesmith. Umpqua and Williams Counties overlap each other. Now here Is a sorry plight, surely. Should all three measures be enacted, what then? A bright light has dawned upon the District Attorney, George M Brown, and he leads benighted citl zens toward it with the following re mark, as quoted in a Roseburg pa per: "In case the measures carry, the Legislature will be called upon to ar range the boundaries satisfactorily to the citizens of the counties interested.' That is, the Legislature will be called upon to -undo and make over the work of the voters. ' But a short while ago such a remark would have been considered, by apostles of direct legislation, high treason to the rule of the people. But the people seem to -be driven back to the . assembly method of lawmaking. Two years ago, conflicting fishery bills for the Columbia River were en acted by the people and the Legisla ture had to repeal them both. Is this to happen again as to other enact ments of the electorate? If so, when and where will the corrective hand of the Legislature stop? Truth is, the Legislative Assembly Is the rock of the people's salvation Just as It has been hitherto. When the Legislature displeases the people, they should avail themselves of their inherent right w sending better men to carry out their will, instead of turning away from the assembly legis lative method altogether. Assembly Is just as essential to the government of a commonwealth as to the government of a political party. People of Oregon are passing through the experiences of their ancestors, in sistent on learning for themselves. And they are making themselves a lot of unnecessary trouble. All the voters of Oregon are called upon to legis late for Nesmith, Umpqua and Will iams Counties, without possessing lo cal knowledge of the questions in volved. And in order to extricate things from the resultant tangle they will -probably have to. take refuge In the lawmaking assembly. AX OLD-KJSW DISCOVERT. The necessity for good roads that exists throughout the Willamette Val ley Is not a new or an unheralded condition. That our ill-graded, un even thoroughfares, muddy to an al most Impassable degree in Winter and dusty to an unknown depth In Summer, have greatly retarded rural development throughout Western Oregon Is a fact that has long been accepted. But it remained for auto mobile enthusiasts to come and de mand road construction that would enable their machines to speed at reasonable rate and with a minimum degree of safety and expense. An effort was made in this direction by bicyclists during the middle part of the evanescent bicycle era, but resulted in nothing more than bicycle paths paralleling the main roads In some districts, and these fell early Into neglect or were ruthlessly de stroyed by vehicles which were turned out upon them to avoid the deep ruts or mud holes of the roadway. Farmers had submitted to the Inconvenience and expense of hauling- over bad roads, all throughout the years, with nothing more promising in the way of betterment than the annual patch ing now with corduroy, now with fir boughs and now with a sort of scrap ing and ditching process that got no where. But when the man with the $1500 to the $5000 automobile came along the demand for good roads took more definite shape, and already there are a few stretches of fine road in the state. But these are as yet ail-too few. In the main, the county roads up and own the "Willamette Valley, and out through Southern and Southeastern Oregon, are about as bad as they can be and still be open to travel. This was the great discovery, or one of the greatest at least, and old though new that was made by Portland .busi ness men on their recent tour through these sections. Automobiles were In many places useless for side trips on this excursion, and we may almost believe that the old days of the Cali fornia stage route, prior to railway construction, were paralleled in the adventures of these excursionists In their effort to get about and see what there was to be seen on the route. At all events, they came back flrmly convinced that the first great step to ward the development of the "finest region on earth," the land of waiting opportunity and boundless resources. must be taken in the interest of good roads. This being true, the earlier a good road construction plan is de vised and entered upon the sooner will come the great awakening of progress In Western, Southern and Southeastern Oregon. CHA3TPOEO DAT. "Champoeg Day" does not arouse the enthusiasm even, among the old settlers of the Willamette Valley to which, by reason of Its Important place in the state's beginnings, it is entitled. Ten years ago this dav was rescued from the dim aisles of our past, and through the revival of memory was given deserved prominence in local history. Earnest effort on the part of a few men, sustained and en couraged by a number of women, .re sulted in procuring a movement to mark suitably the spot where the first form of civic government by Amer icans in the great Oregon country was instituted. This monument was duly engraved with the names of the half-nundred men of the wilderness, men who had reached the place of the meeting on horseback, on foot and by canoes on the appointed day. A simple block of gray granite, plain as were the lives of the men whose names it holds, was .placed as nearly as could be determined and as the crumbling bank of the river at that place would permit, upon the spot where a chorus of "Ayes" went up on that May day in 1843 in answer to the question, "Shall a provisional gov ernment toe established In Oregon by Americans?" Each year since the monument was placed. 1900, there has been a rally around it of those most deeply In terested for memory's sake and all who have cared to listen have heard anew the tale that history tells of the rally of that far away day and year. A total of 102 men were present on the Initial Champoeg day, sixty-seven years ago. The names of all of those who voted for the organization of some form of civil government in the Oregon country have been chiseled upon the granite block that is a silent sentinel of the spot. The. memory of that day, aa far as its living witnesses go, will soon be blotted out. But the work then and there begun lives and will live in a happy, free and pros perous commonwealth over wl.ich floats the American flag. After nearly a month of delibera tion the United States Government has at last awarded the contract for the delivery of 2,500,000 feet of lum ber at Manila to Balfour, Guthrie & Co., of this city. The bid of the Port land Arm, judged by all standards in ordinary business transactions, was so much lower than any other submit ted that it Is surprising there should have been any quibbling or delay. All Government business, however, is so hopelessly swathed in red tape that not only was the Portland bid held up much longer than iwas necessary, but for a time it seemed that it would be thrown out altogether. Now that it has been demonstrated that a Port land man or firm submitting the low est bid can actually secure Govern ment business, it may be possible to handle as much of this business pro portionately as is now handled for private Arms that at all times and in all circumstances award bids to the lowest bidder. First day's deliveries of salmon would seem to indicate a heavy run in the Columbia River. As a basis for estimating the total catch, yesterday's receipts would hardly prove of much value. With salmon jumping in the river and the big catches made at Oregon City clearly indicating the presence of large numbers of fish, there was pretty strong incentive for a little law-breaking on the part of the fishermen, and yesterday's re ceipts undoubtedly represented, in some cases, a good many "drifts" made before the open season was legally in evidence. An encouraging sign is noted, however, in the fact that yes terday's receipts were much heavier than those in some previous opening days, when It was well-known most of the catch was taken Illegally. A. Harvard professor says kissing is not harmful. On the contrary, it is necessary to preserve the bacterial balance. He neglected to state that light Is destructive to these bacteria. which are best propagated in twi light, as mankind has found during the ages, but did not know it. Brewery workmen in Western Washington yesterday postponed strike on the death of a Seattle brewer. They might have as much considera tion for a thirsty public Big storm at Emporia yesterday and it is up to William Allen White again to tell us "what" s the matter with Kansas." Portland continues to toe the grain- shipping port of the Pacific, having nearly doubled all Puget Sound ports during April. May 18 will be the proper date for a cleaning-up day, when the comet' tall will brush the dust from our skyscrapers. Now the hodcarriers want a raise, and they have an "aisy" job, with the man above doing all the work, so 'tis said. Clergymen generally seem deter mined to have a sane Fourth Emeryville. at It is more profitable to scare an umpire before the game than at its close. The fight of tie theater trusts will not result In cut rates of admission. WILLAMETTE "IT" CELEBRATES May Day Exercises Carried Out Without Hitch.. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Salem, Or., May 2. (Special.) May- Day ex ercises at Willamette attracted a large attendance and were thoroughly en Joyed. First on the programme was the May Day breakfast from 6:30 to 9 o'clock, served by the Y. W. C A. of the University. From 9 to 12 o'clock the students, assisted by President Ho man. Dr. Patterson and other members the faculty, thoroughly cleaned ud the campus. At noon a fellowship lunch wan served on the lawn, and at 2 P. M. the young women of the institution per formed a flower drill, the letters "W. being formed by the flowers ttrews by the girls. .Next came the crowning of the King. Clark Belknap, and the Queen, Pearl Bradley. This was a beautiful and lm- ressive ceremony. ' The winding of the May pole com pleted the exercises on the campus. after which the students and a large crowd of town people, on hand to see the fun, adjourned to the millrace back f the athletic field to see the tug of war between the sophomores and fresh men. After a desperate struggle the freshmen won the contest, pulling the sophomores into the race. The fresh man team was composed of Rader, Hollingworth, Hamilton, Blanchard, Newmeyer, McNeis, Winslow and Hob- on. The sophomores were Oakes, Aa- erson, Hatz, Barton, Booth, Gardner, Flagel and Schramm. The tug of war between the faculty and seniors was called off because ome members of the faculty were ab sent. The master of ceremonies an nounced the contest would go to the seniors by default, but gave the faculty 24 hours In which to make good. The track meet was not held as scheduled on account of the poor condi tion of the track, but will be held next Monday. Tomorrow evening the Choral Society of 100 voices, assisted by the Ladies' Club of 24 voices, will give an enter tainment in the opera house, and on Wednesday evening the Willamette Glee Club will give a concert, also in the opera house. HILL TO PROTECT FORESTS Great Northern and Northern Pa cific Agreement With U. S. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 2. An agreement has been reached between the Forestry Service and officials of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern for better protec tion against fires in forest reserves crossed by these railroads. Under the agreement the railroads have agreed to clear a strip 100 feet wide along their track and keep it clear of inflammables. They also agree to equip their engines with spark arrest ers. Where fires originate within 200 feet of the track the railroad is to bear the expense of extinguishing, if caused from the eiunne. It is also arranged that employes of the railroads and of the Forestry Service shall co-operate in fighting all fires in the reserves along these lines. LIQUOR IS SOLD; 1 ARRESTED Law and Order League Acts on Al leged Illegal Sales. NAMPA, Idaho, May 2. (Special.) As a result of the work of the Law and Order League, which has organizations in nearly every town in the state, three residents of this city and four o Cald well, Idaho, were today placed under arrest on a charge of illegal sale of intoxicants. Antone Hinkey, a former saloonkeeper of this' city; Roy Walt man, a drayman, and Walter Sterk are the Is am pa men arrested. They were arraigned today and their hearing set for Wednesday, May 4. The Caldwell men in trouble are Dick Nash, a blacksmith; A. M- Powell, a veterinarian; Jim Keller' and Perry Groves, proprietors of an eating house. The evidence against all of the men was procured by representatives of the Law and Order League. M' SHERRY IS GIVEN OXE YEAR Flannery Will Appear for Arraign ment Today. SAN RAFAEL, Cal., May 2. Frank MoSherry, one of the Sausalito pool room men charged with grand larceny, was sentenced to one year's Imprison ment in San Quentin by Judge Lennon this afternoon after he had) entered a plea of guilty Just as his trial was about to begin before a jury. He will be taken to the penitentiary tomor row. The arraignment of Police Commis sioner Harry Flannery, of San Fran cisco, indicted for grand larceny in con nection with the same transactions, in which McSherry was involved, was set for tomorrow morning. STONE IS KEPT AS MANAGER Associated Press Directors Hold Meeting: in New York, NEW YORK, May 2. At ai meeting of the board of directors of the Asso ciated Press today at the offices of the association in this city there were present Vice-Presidents Johnston and MacLannan and Directors Ochs, Noyes, Kidder, Scott. Nelson, McLean, Barr, Knapp, Clark, McClatchy, Rapier and Weiss. By unanimous vote of all the mem bers present, Melville E. Stone was re appointed general manager and Charles S. Dlehl assistant general manager. Fair Heirs Lose $11,000 Suit. SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. Judgment against the heirs of ex-United States Senator Fair for $11,100 was rendered today by Superior Judge Van Nostrand for the seoond time. Captain John Sey mour sued to recover salary alleged to be due for his services as manager of the estate, for which he was engaged for tbree years at 500 a month, but was discharged before the expiration of that time. Express Rate Hearing on Today. SALEM, Or.. May 2. (Special.) An adjourned hearing in the matter of the investigation of the Wells-Fargo Ex press Company's rates, instituted on motion of the commission, will be held tomorrow at 11 o'clock before the Rail road Commission. The company will submit its testimony and it is probable that some evidence also will be intro duced by the commission. Express Receipts Increase. OLYMPIA, Wash.. May 2. (Special.) Gross receipts of J604.086.80 for the fiscal year ending March 31. 1910, is shown in the reports of the Northern Express to the Washington Railroad Commission. The state's tax of 5 per cent totalled $30,204.34. For the preceding year the gross receipts were $559,241.20. Medford's Paving: Nearly Done. MEDFORD, Or., May 2. (Special.) This week will see the finish of the Warren Construction Company's con tract for paving in this city. As soon as the work is done, the entire plant will be moved to Grants Pass, where the company has another extensive paving contract. UNDERGROUND ROAD, THEORY Chinese Thought to Make One Birth Certificate Serve Many. That Chinese registration certificates are being illegally used in the opera tion of the underground system of transportation by which Orientals are being brought from the North to Port land was pointed out yesterday by Judge Charles- E. Wolverton, of the United States Court. In ordering the release of Wong Oek Hong, the court directed especial atten tion to the evidence in the case showing that the certificate of birth possessed by Wong at the time of his arrest at Vancouver ferry had served to pass other Chinese through the hands of immigration officers at Blaine and Point Roberts, -wash, and appeared of record at those headquarters. It is probable that another criminal charge will be made against Wong based on the loan of his certificate, and a crusade against repetitions of that offense will be started by officers of the Immigration Department stationed along the Sound and west uoast. Officers are working on the theory that a regularly established system for passing the Chinese through various cities has been organized. It is believed to contain a membership among the well-known merchants of the Chinese quarters of various cities. A feature of the plan has been developed by re cent investigations whereby the arrest ed Chinaman is immediately furnished with a bond and during the time which usually elapses between the arrest and hearing before the Commissioner the quick-witted Celestial easily becomes posted on names of streets in the American city where he la told to claim birth. When arrested in March. Wong Ock Hong could speak no English and knew nothing of the Chinese quarter of San Francisco where he said he lived for ten years. Two days later Wong recited the English alphabet on the wit ness stand, counted 40 and could relate the history of the San Francisco fire. In the trial of the case It was proven by Wong's witnesses that he must have been in San Francisco at the' time his certificate of birth was being used to pass two of his countrymen through the ports at Blaine and Point Roberts. One of the men measured 5 feet 7 inches in height, while Wong stands 5 feet 4 inches in his sandals. The photo graph attached to the certificate is of a 12-year-old child with protruaing ears. Wong is a grown man, whose ears lie close to his head, but no officer of the Government could positively advise the court that Wong was not the origi nal of the photograph. COMPROMISE MAY BE REACHED In Trouble Between Land and Rail road Companies in Deschutes. Indicating that the trouble between the Eastern Oregon Land Company and the Deschutes Railroad Company as to the occupancy of a portion of the Des chutes canyon may be compromised, at torneys for both corporations appeared in the United States Court yesterday and asked that the hearing set for that date be deferred to Thursday morning. A permanent injunction was aked for by the Eastern Oregon Land Company which. If granted, would either compel an abandonment of the route to Central Oregon or the elevation of the tracks at the point where the road intersects a dam proposed to be constructed by the land company. The dam is designed for power purposes and is backed by a prior filing on the river and adjoin ing land. The Deschutes Railroad Company's lines were located to pass the power site at an elevation above it of 100 feet, but it is complained that they are so located as to destroy the dam, and that the ditches maintained by the land company have become filled up by the earth dumped over the banks of the roadbed. The railroad company was cited to appear yesterday and show cause why a permanent injunction should not be granted. At the time the suit was filed of ficers of the railroad company asserted that they understood that permission had been secured from the Eastern Ore gon Land Company to oross its hold ings. HABEAS CORPUS WRIT REFUSED Man, Convicted of Selling Near Beer, Fails to Get Freedom. Charles Kroschel, convicted of selling near-beer in violation of an ordinance of the City of Albany, was yesterday refused a writ of habeas corpus in the United States Court. Judge Wolverton rendered the opinion and held that the United States Court was without-Jurls- dlction in the controversy until such time as Kroschel should have exhaust ed his right of appeal in the state tribunals. Following the conviction of Kroschel and the confinement of the prisoner to serve a long sentence, his attorneys happened to remember that the Fed eral Court had ordered the release of a prisoner at Eugene on an identical charge. They immediately applied for similar relief. Judge wolverton point ed out that in the Eugene case the question of Jurisdiction was not raised. The court held to Tne rule mat a crty has a right to exercise reasonable po lice power, and that the question as to whether the local option law operated as a repeal of city ordinances on the subject should be passed upon by tne state courts. COWBOY TO FIGHT INDICTMENT Court Appoints Attorney for Man Charged With Taking Cattle. Roy Beck, the Klamath Falls cowboy who is in the County Jail charged by the United States with driving three head of cattle, the property of a squaw named Grace Allen, from the territory of the Klamath Reservation, yesterday announced his intention of fighting the indictment. Beck informed Judge Bean that he was without means to employ an attorney and the court requested Isaac D. Hunt to undertake the defense. The cowboy prisoner asserts that he was employed by the Allen woman to drive her cows to Klamath Falls, where they were sold by her and later butch ered. He declines to admit that he profited by the deal more than in earn ing wages for his work. The cattle were a part of the herd purchased for Indian sustenance, and, while allotted to Mrs. Allen, the regulations prohibited their sale. Students Observe Slay Day. ALBANY, Or., May 2 (Special.) With quaint and beautiful exercises the stu dents of Albany College observed May day this afternoon in the presence of a large crowd on the college campus. Miss Grace Swank presided as Queen of the May and Gil Ogden was master of cere monies. Others who participated in the festivities wore: Maids, Nita Schultz, Kate Stewart, Rhoda Stalnaker and Buena Bicknell; trumpeters, Victor Yates and Charles Anderson; guards, Arthur Hodge, Grover Bl tenet, Kenneth McLen nan and Charles Kennard; pages, Jose phine Ralston, Mary Davis, Elliott Crooks and Kermlt .buranaeoerry. Echo Defeats Stanf ield. -ECHO, Or., May 2. (Special.) In well-attended baseball game in the Irriga tion League of Umatilla county yester day Echo defeated Stanfield, 4 to 3. It was '"" an- errorless game. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Patrick Grogan, an old man, has lived in the vicinity of Roxbury Crossing for years, and during the long years of his stay he has made dally visits to a near by saloon, never taking more than two drinks, always going home to his wife a sober man. He was making one of the regular trips one day last week and was about to open the door to the barroom when an elderly man. who proved to be a minister, stopped him and said: "My dear man, don't you know that every time you go into these hell holes the devil goes with you?" Mr. Grogan looked up at the sweet face of the good man and said: Well, If he goes in with me. he pays for his own drinks." Boston Traveler. T was called in by a close-fisted old merchant the other day," a Boston law yer remarked, smiling. "He wanted me to draw his will, and this I proceeded to do, following his verbal instruc tion. Presently he said: 'To each and every clerk who has been in my employ for ten years I give J10.000." 'This seemed like a considerable sum to me and I ventured a slight protest. as he had a number of daughters and his entire fortune was not large. ' 'Oh. that's all right,' he said, with a little crooked smile. You know people have always said that I was close and hard, and I want them to think well of me when I'm gone.' I was a little touched and said something, but he waved it aside and we continued with the draft. When it was finished and as I was about to leave the office, the old fellow smiled again his little crooked smile. About those ten - thousand - dollar legacies,' he said, 'there isn't a clerk in my place who has been with me over two years but it will look well in the papers!" The Green Bag. Tell me all about it." said the woman who was ill and couldn't attend the wedding. 'Twasn t much, said her husband. There was no best man and the bride groom forgot the ring and had to go back home for it." 'Lucky girl!" she exclaimed, with woman's intuition. "She is marrying a plumber." Buffalo Express. A West Philadelphia teacher was talking about wild animals and birds to a class of little girls," said Herman S. Decker, of Philadelphia, relating the following amusing incident: ' She had told them about the carniv orous animals and beasts of the jungle. and began asking questions about birds of prey. Can any one in the class tell me. she asked. what bird it is that Is so strong that it'ean fly down out of the sky and carry off a small child with ease?' 'There was a moment's pause, and then a little girl in the -rear of the classroom frantically raised her hand. " I know, fairly shouted the bright pupil, under stress of great excitement; it's the stork, 'cause one of "em brought a baby to our house last night. Washington Herald. a- "Hello. Is this the gas company?" "Yes, sir." "Well, sayt Did you read in the pa pers that the tail of Halley's comet Is composed of gas?" Yes, but what has that 'And did you notice that it was meas ured as being 15.000,000 miles long?" Yes, sir, but what " 'Nothing. I just wanted to say that if the astronomers measured it with this meter in my house it would be 40.000,000 miles long." Chicago Even ing Post. mm Turning defeat into victory is the echievement of genius. This example, gleaned from the London Dally Mall, illustrates the adroitness with which it is sometimes done. An eminent lawyer was once cross- examining a very clever woman, mother of the plaintiff in a breach-of -promise action, and was completely worsted in the encounter of wits. At the close, however, he turned to the jury and ex claimed: 'You saw,' gentlemen, that even I was but a child in her hands! What must my client have been?" Youth's Com panion. Has Committed Bible to Memory. Fairmont (Minn.) News. William Frederick. Jr., a traveling salesman for a large flour plant at Du- luth, Minn., has been in this city for several days. Mr. Frederick bears the distinction, so far as he is aware, of being the only person who ever com mitted the Bible to memory. He is a friend of Alexander M. Rush. of this city, who is well acquainted with the Frederick family. The one who committed the Bible to memory, while not being a member of any particular church, has made such a study of the Bible that he can repeat any passage in it from Genesis to Revelation and state where it is found. He was 18 years committing the Bi ble to memory. His object in doing so was not for the purpose of arguing Scripture or of making a display of his wonderful knowledge along that line, but simply for his own benefit and his love for the Holy Word. Southern Forgiveness, Houston (Tex.) Post, It may Interest our New England contemporaries to know that the band played strains from "Yankee Doodle" under our window yesterday .ana we didn't throw anything. Great Lln&ulat. New York Telegraph. Molly Great linguist? Bert Ton bet. He can talk In base ball, college and auto. Nemesis. J. W. Foley in Saturday Evening Post. The man who invented the women's waists that button down behind. And the man who invented the cans -with. keys and the strip that WU1 never wind. Were put to sea in a leaky boat and with never & bite to eat But a couple of dozen of patent cans In which was their only meat. And they sailed and sailed o'er the ocean wide and never they had a taste Of aught to eat, for the cans stayed shut. and a peek-a-boo shirtwaiet Was all they had to bale the brine that came in the leaky boat; And their tongue were thick and their throats were dry, and they barely kept afloat. They came at last to an island fair, and a man stood on the shore. So they flew a signal of distress and their hope rose high once more. And they called to him to fetch a boat, for their craft -was sinking fast. And a couple of hours at best they knew waa all their boat would last. 8o ha called to them a cheery call and lie aid he would make haste. But first he must go -back to his wife and button -up her waist, Which would only take him an hour or so and then he would fetch a boat. And the man who Invented the backstairs waist, he groaned In his swollen throat. Tb hours passed by on leaden wings and they saw another man in the window of a bungalow, and he held a tin meat can la hi bleeding; hands, and they called to him. not onoe but twioe and thrice. And be said: "Just wait till I open this and I'll be there In a trice I" And the man who invented the patent cans be knew what the promise meant. So be leaped in air with a horrid cry and into the sea he went. And the bubbles rose where he sank and sank and a groan choked in the throat Of the man who Invented the backstair waist and be sank with the leaky , boat!