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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!