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l-OIi.TLAl, IXKSBAV, JCXE 21, 1910.
Slit. IiiiYAX AS A SAGE.
It is superficial to set down Mr,
Bryan's apostrophe to Governor Har
mon, of Ohio, as inspired merely by
envy. The latter gentleman comes
ever more conspicuously to the front
as the National exponent of Demo
cratic ideas, one of which, in Mr. Bry
an's opinion, is the popular election
of Federal Senators. .When the call
for the state Democratic convention in
Ohio was issued it contained various
matters of more or less importance,
but upon the question of the popular
election of Senators it was silent. Mr.
Bryan, noticing the hiatus In the con
vention call, and grieving over what
seemed to him the loss of an oppor
tunity, proceeded to address himself to
Mr. Harmon through the Commoner.
His words were partly In the nature
of a rebuke, partly a sort of trumpet
call to action. "If you enjoy any in
fluence at all with the state commit
tee, why did you not exert it to have
the nomination of a Senator Included
in the business of the state conven
tion? Perhaps you did use it for all it
was worth and failed. If so, then you
need not give up hope. There is still
another chance. You can. go before
;- the convention itself, as Governor
' Marshall, of Indiana, did, and there.
In the presence of the assembled co
horts of the Buckeye Democracy,
make the fight of your life for the
great Idea,"
Such was the purport of the editor
ial apostrophe which has excited so
much comment and been so diversely
interpreted. Shallow critics, as we
have said, declare that it was inspired
by mere envy. Mr. Bryan sees the
growing prestige of Governor Harmon
rtvith deep disquiet and seeks the first
opportunity to discredit him with the
people. He knows that the popular
election of Senators is a taking cry and
by making it appear that Mr. Harmon
Is opposed to it. or even neglectful of
It, naturally his brightness will be
somewhat dimmed. This rendering of
the matter is obvious and facile, too
obvious and too facile. The least
troublesome way to interpret every
man's conduct is to ascribe it to the
lowest possible motive. It saves
thought and now and then it hits the
mark. But usually it misses badly.
Mr. Bryan has laid himself open to the
accusation of envy by his behavior to
a number of prominent Democrats,
among them the late Governor John
son, of Minnesota. The latter was a
man of unimpeachable motives and
great ability, who might have been
President of the United States some
time had he not died too soon, but
Mr. Bryan discerned certain corpora
tion leanings in him which excited his
misgivings. Upon the whole, the dis
tinguished Nebraskan concluded that
it would be better for the country
should he run for President himself
Instead of imposing that arduous hon
or upon Governor Johnson. It is not
unnatural, perhaps, to assume that he
Is under a similar motive now when
he reproaches Mr. Harmon with cool
ness toward popular election of Sen
ators, but we do not think the as
sumption is warranted.
It is absurd to think of Mr. Bryan
ever running for President again. To
believe that he dreams of doing so is
to set him down for a fool. It is
much more rational to assume that his
personal aspirations for the highest
office are now over. He has had his
day in court, has been worsted three
times on the stricken field, and in all
likelihood he accepts the reiterated
verdict of the people as at last final.
Moreover, he has reached a time of
life when he feels it a luxury to in
dulge his natural proclivity for spec
lative ideas and advanced causes. Mr.
Bryan has always been more of a
speculative philosopher than a states
man, more of a sentimental evangelist
than a politician. He loves the music
of words without paying too much at-
leiiuon ta ineir meaning. lie Is a
born gospeller. He sides with the
Prohibitionists. When he spoke out
In that disastrous New Tork speech
for Government-ownership of rail
roads he uttered his deepest faith, and
the country was right in taking hi
subsequent ; recantation with many
grains or salt.
The truth of the matter is that Mr.
Bryan has now settled down into the
serene privileges of a sage. He feels
like the grandfather of the Democratic
party. Past the ebullitions of youth
ful ambition, full of years and honors
having traveled in many lands and
become versed in the wiles of many
men, tie takes upon himself the par
donable prerogative of general critic,
adviser and admomsher.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend
We may permit ourselves to believe
that Mr. Bryan scourges only because
he loves. Perhaps he has the insight
to perceive, what is so clear to every
body outside the Democratic party
that it will never receive the confi
dence of the people until it stands for
something which the people want. The
mere name Democrat has lost its
power to charm. The country is at
a loss to understand that anything will
be gained by substituting a Democratic
phantom for a phantom of some other
party. What it wants is realities, and
it wants them so badly that it is quite
likely to wreck any party which con
tlnues to deal only with vanities. With
the wisdom which years and accumu
lated misfortunes have brought, Mr
Bryan seeks to toll his forlorn and
wind-fattened party down to some is
sue of real significance. The ribald
jeers which greet his efforts seem to
demonstrate how little hope there is of
his success. It is hard to build where
there is no foundation.
The latest survey of the Columbia
River bar shows a channel 8000 feet
wide. This "would indicate that the
jetty has failed to narrow up the chan
nel as It Is necessary it should be
narrowed in order to secure grreat
depth of water at the river entrance.
While the details of the survey have
not been announced, it would seem
that the building of a. north jetty was
a necessity, in order that the waters of
the river could be confined in a nar
rower channel. The construction of
the additional jetty might be avoided,
however, if the dredge Chinook is put
to work in time to accomplish some
thing before the "Winter gales set in.
There has always been an element of
uncertainty in the possible result with
only one jetty to confine the mighty
flood of water that sweeps out of the
Columbia. When a dredge scoops out
a channel and carries the sand to sea
and dumps it, the improvement is cer
tain and lasting.'
JOHN 11. M'GRAIV.
The sturdy fight being made against
wasting disease by John H. McGraw,
on his 6lck-bed at Seattle, does not
surprise any who know the quality of
the man. All his life he has fear
lessly faced odds, and usually he has
been a victor. Mr. McGraw has long
been an important figure in Washing
ton affairs, and his influence today
is not less than any other's in Wash
ington which is remarkable, indeed,
In. a state where there are so many
sudden vicissitudes of fortune and cir
cumstance. McGraw was a police of
ficer and then Sheriff during the tur
bulent daya of the anti-Chinese riots
in Seattle: and he kept public order
though the effort was severe. He was
Governor during the Populistic days
and he preserved the public credit. As
a Republican politician he was for the
gold standard in 1896, when few were
willing to stand with him, though it
must be said to the everlasting credit
of McGraw and his followers that the
Republican state convention, facing
inevitable defeat, had the courage to
be among the first in the United
States to declare directly against free
silver. He has not since held public
office, nor has he striven for it.
Being a bold man, and outspoken
always, Mr. McGraw was as frequently
with the minority as with the majority.
But it made no difference. He went
steadily on his way, for conpromise
was never in his vocabulary. At the
end his name is known as a synonym
of courage, integrity, truth and can
dor. What finer heritage could any
one leave?
UPPER WILLAMETTE IMPROVEMENT.
The Willamette River, properly im
proved and with a channel maintained
the year round, would offer transpor
tation facilities to a large area of ter
ritory not now reached by a railroad.
On the lower reaches It already pre
sents an excellent highway over which
considerable low grade freight is
moved at rates much less than are
quoted by the railroads. Unfortunate
ly, it is on the upper river where rail
facilities are missing that the chan
nel, has been neglected. It Is undoubt
edly true, as stated by a correspon
dent, that "with the exception of a
few dams that are totally inadequate
for the purpose intended, there Is not
one dollar's worth of permanent im
provement In the aid of navigation
discernible on the river; notwith
standing all the money that has been
frittered away."
While the Willamette offers no such
volume of water as is available for
improvement on the upper reaches of
the Columbia, there is still a sufficient
flow, even in the dry Summer months,
to provide a good channel for light-
draft boats. If the water properly
confined. The work of making a per
manent channel would be much less
expensive than that of building, a
channel on the lower part of the river.
where the volume of water Is much
greater and the silt deposits large.
This improvemen. work, however.
when it is undertaken, should be of
a permanent nature. For many years
it was the custom, when improving
both the lower Willamette and the
Columbia rivers, to deposit the sand
removed from the channel so close
to the cut made that in less than a
year it washed back in again. Work
of this kind will not answer for the
upper Willamette, for, while the traf
fic will make handsome returns for
a permanent improvement, It will not
prove so remunerative if It is made
to bear the expense of an annual re
moval of the same obstruction's from
the channel.
The Oregonian is in favor of river
improvements wherever there is any
advantage, to be gained at all in keep
ing with tha cost. The upper Willam
ette offers a good field for such work.
and some of the money being wasted
in endeavoring to maintain a river
steamboat service on routes already
served by railroads at lower rates than
can be profitably met by steamers
would find a much better field for in
vestment along the upper Willamette,
where there are no railroads, and
where transportation is sadly needed.
The railroads entering Portland have
opened up a vast territory that is
tributary to this city, but Portland will
never become so great that It can af-
ford to neglect to aid any portion of
the rich region that pays tribuXe . to
tne city.
THE DEWTSClELANiys TRIP.
It is startling to read 'that all the
seats in the Deutschland for its con
templated 800-mile trip have been
taken. Cheapness was not the prime
inducement, certainly, since the price
ranges from $2 5 to $5 0 that is, up to
6 hi cents a mile, which is expensive
traveling. The Deutschland is a com
mercial, airship, the first in the world
Its voyage is to be made from Fried-
richshafen to Dusseldorf by way of Co
logne and two or, three other Import
ant German towns, but whether it will
settle down to take on passengers or
let them off at the different places
not stated. It Is just as well to -stir
up a little excitement in ourselves over
this event if we possibly can, for by
doing so we shall anticipate the future
A thousand years from now, when fly
ing has become the only recognized
method of travel, people will look back
to the flight of the Deutschland as we
do to the trip -of the first steamboat
But there will be a difference. Steam
has made a great revolution in travel
but the one that the flying machin
will make when it is perfected will be
immeasurably greater.
Steam has reticulated the world with
railroads. The flying machine may
some time render them all useless, so
that they will be taken up and cast
into plowshares. That will be a happy
day for the ghost of John Ruskin
There was nothing in the world that
great art critic and reformer hated eo
badly as railroads. Page after page o
his books Is filled with eloquent tirades
against them. In speech, if not In
party fealty, Ruskin was a Populist of
the most middle-of-the-road stamp,
and perhaps we can now foresee a time
when his curses on the railroads will
be fulfilled by their destruction.
It is, of course, visions- y in the
highest degree to talk of carrying ele
phants and stationary engines through
the air on a ship like the Deutschland,
but on the other hand a great many
visions have come true first and last.
Washington Irving says of Columbus
that he was a visionary, but one of the
singular sort who dream in facts. The
chances are that those who prophesy
most hopefully of the airship's future
come nearest the truth.
NECESSARY "CClDIOWnES."
The latest bulletin of the Depart
ment of Labor offers abundant evi
dence of the high cost of living. So
do the grocers arid butchers' slips that
are gone over by anxious housewives
each month in the hope that a mis
take will be discovered in the footings
that will lessen the totals. The chief
or most noticeable feature of this bul
letin is that it sets forth undisputed,
indisputable facts in such a solemn
way. The report, based upon the in
vestigation . of the price of 257 com
modities, shows that the average of
wholesale prices for these was 7:5 per
cent higher than in March, 1909; 33.8
per cent higher than the average for
the decade of 1890-1900, and 50 per
cent higher than the average of 1897.
The increased number of commod
ities that have risen to the point at
which they are scheduled as neces
sities may account for some of the
increased cost of living during the
period covered. We have come to be
lieve that we cannot do without many
things that even so short a time ago
as 1890 were unknown in the homes
of the masses of our people. It is all
right for the masses for everybody
that can compass them by legitimate
endeavor to have and enjoy the com
modities that are turned out toy the
mills of Industry and development.
But it costs money, all the same, to
have and enjoy these things. They
must either be paid for or we must do
without them.
THE SAME DEMOCRATIC GAME.
All over Oregon Democrats are reg
istering as Republicans in order that
they may participate again in primary
nomination of Republican candidates.
In 1906 they "played the game" in this
fashion; two years later they repeated
the performance with increased fer
vor; now they are at It anew, with
even greater enthusiasm. They per
jure themselves in this business, make
themselves liars and please statesmen
like U'Ren, Bourne and Brownell. But
their game is not admired by citizens
who like fair play, square dealing and
straightforward politics.
In Multnomah County only 700 citi
zens have registered as Democrats, and
4200 have registered as Republicans.
Thus there are six times as many so
called Republicans as Democrats. Yet
In the Presidential election in 1908
the truest possible test Of party divi
sion Taft received less than twice as
many votes as Bryan. In the election
of Representative in Congress that
year a fair test of party division
Ellis received twice and a half as many
"votes as the Democratic candidate.
In the state as a whole the 1908 reg
istration showed 86,396 men enrolled
as Republicans and 32,262 enrolled as
Democrats. The Republican vote for
President was 62,530 and the Demo
cratic 38,049. The Taft vote, there
fore, was nearly 24,000 votes less than
the Republican registration, and the
Bryan vote was more than 6000 votes
larger than the Democratic registra
tion. It was to toe expected, of course,
that the Republican vote would fall
short of the registration; it always
does. So, too, the Democratic vote
would toe expected to fall short of reg
istration.
But, lo and behold, the Democratic
vote exceeded the registration by 20
per cent, while the Republican vote
fell short of registration by nearly 30
per cent. Thousands of voters, there
fore, who falsely swore that they were
Republicans Joined their own party in
the vote for President. They voted
Democratic for Chramberlain in
the election for United States Senator
that year after they had participated
in Republican primaries and ' nomi
nated Cake against the will of the Re
publican party. Two years before
they engaged in Republican primaries
the same way and then in the election
voted for their own Democratic candi
date, Gearin. By strenuous endeavor
of Republican men of influence, the
Republican vote was held in line and
Bourne won the popular election by
3100 votes. This rally of party voters
could not succeed again, however. If
it were attempted it would be de
nounced as an act of party tyranny.
This perjured participation of Dem
ocrats in Republican nominations is a
serious evil and a disruptive force in
politics. Another cause of disruption
is nomination by plurality -vote. " A
small minority faction often nominates
candidates of the dominant party. The
majority elements of opposition then
refuse to accept these candidates and"
turn to nominees of the rival party.
This outcome has been so common in
Oregon that everybody has come to re
alize it. The Republican party, being
the dominant one, has been the suf
ferer and the Democratic party has
been the gainer. And when Demo
cratic votes invaded factional rivalries
of Republican primaries, the result has
been confusion worse confounded.
Democratic invasion of Republican
primaries and plurality nominations
have rendered the Republican party of
Oregon impotent. Though outnum
bering Democrats nearly three to one,
according to the registration, they
have been unable to elect members of
their own party to high office. Their
own candidate for United States Sena
tor, Chamberlain, received only 6327
votes in the Democratic primaries so
busily were they engaged in Repub
lican primaries. Chamberlain's name
was not even printed on their primary
ballot. But the game was well under
stood; there was no rival candidate
and his name was 'Written in" on the
ballot successfully. Meanwhile thou
sands of Democratic brethren voted in
Republican primaries for Cake, and
when votes were all counted Cake
was found to have won the Republi
can nomination by 2 500 votes. In the
succeeding election these thousands of
Democrats turned their votes to
Chamberlain, as did also thousands of
Republicans who refused to accept
Cake as the nominee of their party.
When the election votes were counted
Chamberlain led Cake by 1600, and by
this result claimed himself the "peo
ple's choice," entitled to election by
the Legislature under "Statement
One." Amid a false clamor about will
of the people, the Legislature elected
Chamberlain Senator.
This was the play of Democrats and
the farce and upset of Statement One.
Democrats are getting themselves
ready for the play and the farce again.
The only obstacle to their designs is
Republican assembly. Therefore they
have shouted with might and main to
prevent assembly. Republicans can
never hope to win high offices for their
party nor to be the ruling element of
the state's citizenship until they have
stopped thedisruption caused by plu
rality nominations and Democratic
participation In Republican primaries.
Assembly will go far toward applying
the needed remedy. It will recom
mend candidates whom the body of
the party can nominate toy majority
vote.
The Hill roads have made another
draft on the Harriman system for tal
ent for the traffic field. W. E. Coman
takes the place vacated by H. M. Ad
ams, who goes to the Western Pacific.
The promotion of Mr. Coman will be
highly satisfactory to the people of the
Pacific Northwest, for, while compara
tively young in years, he is aveteran
in the work. His long experience and
wide acquaintance in this field will
make him a valuable addition to the
Hill forces, and it will also enable him
to do much -for the country which will
be served by the rapidly expanding
Hill system. Railroad men of the type
of Adams and Coman" can do much
towards promoting friendly business
relations between shippers and the
railroads serving them, and these are
the days when the good , will of the
public is an asset of increasing value.
It Is all nonsense to talk about any
other city having wrested from San
Francisco the commercial supremacy
of the . Pacific Coast. Portland has
been and still is second in Importance,
and these positions will remain un
changed for many years to come.
While it is likely that Portland may
overtake the Bay City in population
within the next fifteen or twenty years,
the people of San Francisco and her
suburbs combined will largely out
number us. He who predicts that the
commerce of Portland will e:cceed that
of San Francisco Bay in this genera
tion is very optimistic. Granted that
Portland will double every ten years
not an unreasonable prediction it
may still be asked, what will San
Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Ala
meda be doing in the same period?
In choosing Mr. Fleischner School
Director, the people of Portland have
shown that they do not approve intro
duction of socialistic notions and
methods of professional labor agita
tors into the public schools. Mr.
Fleischner represents the responsible
property class of citizens, whose
money supports the schools and whose
desires, as to expenditure of that
money, should govern the policy of the
School Board. Mr. Fleischner is a
large property owner himself and has
proved himself a capable director. It
is hoped that this "election will quiet
for a time, at least, a lot of noisy agi
tation that has been set up recently
by professional disturbers.
As the Fourth of Jul is near at
hand and school is out, exodus to the
seaside will soon begin. .What if the
weather is cool enough to stay at
home and enjoy a fire in the grate
mornings and evenings? Summer
would not be Summer without a vaca
tlon, and who ever heard of taking
a vacation at home? So pack up ajl
the old clothes, take the dog along,
leave the cat homeless and hie away
under the impression that the going
away, like attending the eircus, is for
the "children's sake." Never mind
the staleness and flatness and unprof
itableness of it all. Go.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Ore
gon Pioneer Association has completed
plans and specifications for the annual
banquet of the pioneers. The work
required for this feature of the re
union is enormous, but willing minds
and many hands made light of it, while
the hospitality of citizens of-Portland
makes plans and labor effective
Twenty tables, the usual number, will
span the Armory from north to south,
and to these each and every pioneer
will be made welcome. The sight will
be an inspiring one to a hungry man
especially if he is a pioneer.
That motorman in the National Cap
Ital who saved the lives of his passen
gers at the cost of his own by grasping
a live wire was a hero and pays the
price of heroism, for he will die and
leave a wife and a very young child.
The blue uniform and brass buttons
are a badge of honor for many a man
whose only thought is of duty.
The fine of $25 given a man in the
Municipal Court yesterday for beating
a horse was not enough. He should
have been sent to the rockpile and
compelled to read humane literature
during his leisure. The man who will
beat an animal would as likely mal
treat a woman or child and deserves
no consideration.
Social centers in Portland change.
About thirty years ago the Arlington
Club started in a vacated residence a
mansion in its day at Third and Oak
streets. After ten years it moved to
West Park and Alder: today it occu
pies its new home at West Park and
Salmon. And it will not stay there
forever.
Of course, no one supposes that
T. R., Jr., earned the money for his
wedding decorations as a carpet weav
er. He graduated from that business
too soon for that. Like many another
young man who starts out in, life with
a matrimonial flourish, be Is simply
the son of his father.
The Albina woman who took an in
finitesimal dose of strychnine to scare
her husband after a domestic broil the
other night failed in her effort and
the score Is still tied.
A chicken salad served at a church
sociable in Rhode Island Saturday
made the entire crowd sick. That was
a very big chicken for a small state.
Hot weather and no rain are send
ing1 Eastern wheat to the dollar mark.
Wheatgrowers on this Coast are feel
ing sure of a good crop at good prices.
As Republicans, brethren, to be per
fectly candid and honest with one an
other, do you suppose that Roosevelt
would condemn the assembly?
The widow of Postmaster Snyder
has been appointed to succeed him at
Aurora. The Government does the
right thing now and then.
n "was the greatest school election
in the city's history, not excepting the
exciting contest during the A. .P. A.
spasm some years ago.
The election yesterday was no tra-la-loo
affair. It was a Waterloo.
COLD SUPPERS DIVORCE CAUSE
Lodge Meetings Alleged - to Have
Wrecked Home Man Sues.
Alleging that his wife had him arrest
ed and tried on false charges of threat
ening her life, John W. Flory filed, in
the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon
an answer to Mrs. Julia Rachel Flory's
divorce complaint.
Klory says he was married at St.
Jacobs, 111., February 16, 1SS2. He says
the trouble between himself and his
wife started over her attendance upon
lodge meetings. It was in March, 1898.
he says, that she attended the meetings
frequently, leaving him to eat cold sup
pers. Rather than do this he went
to the restaurant, and on one occasion
was accused of spying upon her. He
says he then asked her to drop one of
the lodge meetings, at which she flew
Into a rage, said she intended to se
cure a divorce, and asked him to leave.
He says he went to Spokane, and that
she soon followed, asked his pardon,
and begged him to return to her, which
he did.
But he says life was one round of
bickering, until December, 1908. when
airs. Flory ordered him out of their
store at 33 East Twenty-sixth street.
She accused him of deliberately burn
ing their dwelling, he says, and of
assault, and had him arrested. He re
turned to the place in July, last, he
says, and when discovered eating a few
raspberries in the yard was ordered
off the premises. He wants the di
vorce. A divorce was granted by Circuit
Judge Cleland to Eva Geis yesterday,
separating her from Charles Geis. The
judge upheld an agreement which the
couple made several years ago, wnere
by Mrs. Gels was to receive $6500 and
the family residence as her share of
her husband's property. She alleged
she was not fairly dealt with, owing to
her limited knowledge of -the English
language, and sought $30,000 alimony.
This the Judge denied her. Me award
ed to the father the custody of the two
older children, and the custody of the
three younger ones to the mother,
ordering the father to pay $60 a month
for their support.
Laura B. Greenfield and G. L. Green
field, proprietors of the Greenfield
Shoe Company. are in the divorce court,
the wife filing a complaint against her
husband. She tells of several chokings
she received at his hands, one a year
ago last month, and another last Thurs
day. Their quarrel last weeic lnciua
ed a black eye, which she alleges was
the result of a Jolt from her husband's
fist. She married him April 19, 1908.
She desires to take her maiden name.
Laura Bell Williamson, and to have the
court declare her entitled to a half in
terest in the shoe store, the stock be
ing valued at $9000, and in a lease to a
buildine at Third and Oak streets.
Until the time of the trial she wishes
her husband restrained from selling tile
property.
Addie Shore is another unhappy wife.
She asks a decree of separation from
B. Shore, whom she married in San
Francisco. September 12, 1903. fane
wants her maiden name. Addle enurcn.
KAVANAUGH IS JUDGE XOW
Xeiv Jurist Takes Oath of Office and
Begins Duties.
John P. .Kavanaugh, ex-City Attor
nev. arjrjointed bv Governor Benson as
judge of Department No. 1 of the Mult
nomah County Circuit court in tne
place of Judge Bronaugh, who re
signed,' took the oath of office yester
day. The courtroom was' crowded with
attorneys who had come to see their
fellow barrister take up his new du
ties. Presiding Judge Morrow, seated
on the bench with the other judges of
the Circuit Court, called Mr. Kavanaugh
to the bench and administered the oath
of office after the new jurist's com
mission from the Governor had been
produced. He was then seated at the
left of the other judges, congratulated
by. his colleagues on the bench, and as
soon as a recess was declared, by many
attorneys. Judge Morrow then as
signed him to the trial of the case of
the state against Charles Fox and Ray
Hollaway, two" alleged holdup men.
HAWK TO GET XO DA3IAGES
Request for Carfare When Trip Was
Postponed Is Defined.
Judge Cleland decided yesterday that
Alvin S. Hawk is entitled to no dam
ages from A. L. White because White
failed to take an automobile trip Into
the interior of Oregon as planned.
White had arranged with Hawk, av
cording to the testimony in the case,
to take a trip into the interior of the
state to look at some land. The day
before they were to leave, however.
White, who Is a motorman, found the
streetcar company would not allow him
to leave. He, therefore, telephoned
Hawk and told him of the situation.
Notwithstanding this. Hawk demanded
that White pay his fare as previously
agreed upon.
Court Xotes.
County Judge Cleeton appointed J. H.
Hoyt, C. F. Adams and John D. Wilcox
yesterday appraisers ol tne unauncey ti.
Winslow estate.
Circuit Judge Gantenbein directed the
jury which has, been trying the suit of
Joseph Ruel against Robert Wakefield to
return a verdict for Wakefield yesterday
afternoon. Ruel demanded $7500 damages
because, while working upon a railroad
bridge, he said he was crushed under a
track when the jacks which held it gave
way.
Patrick Maher and others, indicted for
the alleged promotion of prizefights, will
not be tried before the September term
of the Circuit Court. The Maher case
was set for trial yesterday, but no Judge
was at leisure to take up the case, so
Judger Morrow continued it until next
Fall.
JUDGE REFUSES TO INTERFERE
federal Jurist Rules. State Courts
Decide on Constitutionality.
Although the man was found not
guilty in a justice court and has been
at liberty for more than a year. Judge
C. E. Wolverton yesterday refused to
grant a writ of habeas corpus in the
test case of the Portland peddler's li
cense law against John Martin, of Iowa.
The court was influenced to make the
decision by two reasons: to point out
that when a writ of habeas corpus Is
issued in a prosecution it operates to
stop other proceedings until the writ
has been disposed of, and to impress
the duty of state courts to determine
questions of constitutional rights. The
writ was denied by Judge wolverton
for the latter reason.
Martin was the representative of an
Eastern buggy manufacturing house,
and was engaged in this city in sell
ing vehicles from samples. He was ar
rested as an unlicensed peddler and im
mediately sought liberty from the Fed
eral court, asserting the license ordin
ance to be constitutional. It was held
that the proper manner of procedure
would have been first to exhaust ave
nues of relief in the state courts, and
then to appeal to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
The decision Is taken to mean that
the Federal courts of Oregon will soon
rigidly enforce the rule of not interfer
ing with state prosecutions except in
cases where the most gross violation of
personal liberties of defendants has
been, attempted. The court has given
intimations of this position in tne near
beer cases brought up from cities in the
, Wilamette valley.
OAK GROVE IS COXFIDEXT I
Paget Thinks Vote Will Be Taken on
Annexation.
B. Lee Paget, chairman of the annexa
tion committee of the Oak Grove Im
provement Association, which is working
for the annexation by Multnomah County
of that part of Clackamas County north
of the Clackamas River, has received a
letter from the Secretary of State ac
knowledging the receipt of the petitions
for a vote on this measure. These peti
tions contain nearly 10,000 names, which
are more than enough to insure a vote,
if found regular.
Mr. Paget said yesterday that ho had
no fears about the petitions being in
legal form and that there was no doubt
about getting a vote. More names could
have been secured, he said, had they
been wanted. Mr. Paget thinks that an
nexation will carry, although "there Is a
determined opposition to the measure at
Oregon City, where a large um of
money, about $20,000, has already been
collected to fight annexation with. The
opposition will try to connect the ques
tion with the formation of new counties
in other portions of the state, but the
friends of annexation say there is no
common ground between them. The
friends of annexation will insert an argu
ment in the state book which Will be
issued with, arguments for the initiative
ani referendum measures.
The Boring Improvement Association
has entered on an active campaign for
annexation, and has adopted and issued
the following 11 reasons for annexing part
of Clackamas County to Multnomah
County:
First Clackamas County, with more than
50 townships, is too large and too weak finan
cially to properly care tor its internal devel
opment. Second Multnomah County, with less than
12 townships, has the strength and will at
once, after annexation, to extend Its more
modern methods In the district annexed.
Third Te portion of Clackamas County
north of Clackamas River, which Is proposed
to be annexed to Multnomah County, is sep
arated from Its county seat by two canyons.
two ranees of hills. with almost Impassable
roads, and the Clackamas River.
Fourth Its roads and the road grades In
that part of Clackamas County all lead down
the Clackamas River and down the ridge be
tween the Sandy and Clackamas divides and
connect with the roads which have their ter
minus In Portland.
Fifth Portland has always been and always
will be the market outlet for the district to
be annexed, also its commercial and dis
tributing and trade center.
Sixth It would be a great saving of time
and money to have the property records kept
in Multnomah County and to do the legal
business for the portion to be annexed in
Portland, whera the commercial business la
done.
Seventh Multnomah County has the best
road system and the best road-builders in the
State of Oregon, as is evinced by the roads
ehe has made, an.d will soon make a road to
Mount Hood and the surrounding Summer re
sorts.
Eighth The old boundary lines were made
in pioneer days to suit the conditions of a
thinly-settled community. The conditions have
changed and require a change of boundary
lines to meet new conditions.
Ninth The Clackamas River is nature-
boundary line, and the , boundary line, after
annexation, will still leave Clackamas County
larger than Multnomah.
Tenth The result of annexation will be a
rapid growth In the part tennexed and near it.
south of Clackamas River, and a more equal
distribution of taxation and benefits and a
better division of territory.
Rleventh The time has long been ' ripe for
the correction of the error In the boundary
line, and since the greatest good to the great
est number of people will result therefrom, and
since a large majority in the district to be
annexed want it and have wanted ft for
some time end many others all over Clackamas
County desire it, the change should be made
at once.
OREGON"
U"
CELEBRATES
Commencement Exercises Held
at
Varsity.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
Or., June 20. (Special.) The second day
of the University -of Oregon commence
ment exercises' was- concluded this even
ing with the faculty concert of the school
of music. The president's reception was
held in the afternoon.
In connection with the commencement
programme and under the auspices of the
university, the first two" sessions of the
Oregon Educational Conference were held
during the morning and afternoon. The
conference will meet again tomorrow.
Wednesday and Thursday. The subject
under discussion today was "State School
Problems." The speakers were Guy C.
Stockton, superintendent of Eugene
schools; H. C. Seymore, County Super
intendent of Polk County; W. M. Smithi
County Superintendent of Marion
County: U. G .Smith, Superintendent of
Medford schools: E. T. Moores. Superin
tendent Oregon State Blind School; Mrs.
Charles Sitton, chairman of the Portland
School Board; Mrs. L. W. Southwortu,
Mrs. E. L. Fletcher and Mrs. O. F. Staf
ford, of Eugene, and Mrs. Plttinger, of
Oswego.
President P. L. Campbell presided. Miss
Frances Isom, of the Portland Public
Library, was also scheduled to speak, but
was unable to attend, and her paper was
read before the conference.
At a special meeting of the faculty
this morning the degree of Doctor of
Letters was conferred upon Professor
'Benjamin J. Hawthorne, who Is now
completing his 26th year as head of the
psychology department and intends to
retire next year. The board of regent
will also probably .make him emeritus
professor. Tomorrow morning the board
of regents holds its regular meeting In
the president's office. While no official
report has been made. It is known that
Professor Samuel E. Eliot, who was se
lected to fill Professor Hawthorne's po
sition, has resigned, and a successor will
be chosen at the meeting tomorrow. Pro
fessor Eliot has taken up philanthropic
work connected with Mrs. Russell Sage's
efforts to start an educational compaign
against preventable blindness.
The Failing Qnd Beekman oratorical
contest tomorrow night will be one of the
biggest events of commencement week.
The contestants are Isolene Shaver, Ar
thur M. Geary, Harold J. Rounds. Sara
Frances Oberteuffer and Benjamin H.
Williams. The first four are from Port
land and the last ts from Eugene. The
winner receives a cash prize of $150 pro
vided by Hon. Henry Failing, of Portland.
The second prize is $o. provided by Hon!
C. C. Beekman, of Jacksonville.
$3000 ASKED FOR FEXCIXG WAY
Linnton Property Taken Info Court
on Suit for Damages.
Because the street in front of his prop
erty in Linnton has been fenced up and
planted to vegetables by C. F. Bunker,
one of the men who platted Linnton.
Paul Labbee has brought suit against
him, asking $3000 damages. Harriet Sel
over, Mabel Selover and J. D. Selover,
heirs of William Selover, are named as
co-defendants.
Labbe's complaint is that purchasers
of Linnton property were deceived by
Bunker's and Selover's representations.
They filed the original plat of Linnton
in 1899. he says, and later published a
map of additional streets, offering lots
upon these streets for sale. Labbe
bought two. Part of F street was sold
by Bunker In 1909, it is alleged, to the
Willamette Box & Lumber Co., and last
month E street was fenced. The streets
shown on the published maps of Bunker
were not dedicated, it is alleged, the
purchasers being deceived.
Woman Wins School Directorship.
EUGENE, Or.. June 20. (Special.)
In the annual school election. held to
day, Mrs. C. M. Collier defeated D. R.
SicSiurphy for school director by a vote
of 198 to 127. The proposition to buy
the F. W. Osborn lot. adjoining the
High School, and the provision to issue
bonds for the same carried by a ma
jority of 80 votes.
AN OPEN RIVER ALL. THE YEAR
The Willamette Should Be Improved t
Least to Eugne, Is Urged.
PORTLAND, June 20. (To the Edi
tor.) The farmers of the Willamette
Valley are glad to see that The Ore
gonian has taken up the subject of the
improvement of the Willamette River
and hope that its efforts will be brought
to a successful conclusion.
, I have just returned from a trip
through the Willamette Valley and am
able to speak as to the predicament
the farmers who are dependent entirely
on river transportation find themselves
in, through the inability of steamers to
reach a higher point than Newberg.
Berries are now ripe, new potatoes are
ready for the market and these have to
be hauled distances varying from six to
ten miles to a railroad, and then have
to bear a charge for transportation
ranging from 35 cents to 50 cents per
hundred, according to the idea of the
express company. Other than the cost
and inconvenience of the wagon haul,
the damage sustained to the fruit and
vegetables so hauled Is a most potent
factor in the reducing profits on the
produce to the farmer. Conditions are
at present so abnormal, however, that
it is impossible to ameliorate them in
time to resume navigation on the river
to handle the present fruit crop. There
fore it would be better to save the an
nual appropriation for next year, com
mence early to improve the river and
make the improvements of such perma
nency that these will obviate the neces
sity of going over the same ground the
succeeding year.
As to negligence or incompetency, I
won't say which it is. It is apparent at
all points on the river, and is princi
pally on account of the departmental
and Governmental methods of perform
ing work of this character. If the whole
of the navigable rivers of the country
are improved and kept open to naviga
tion in the same manner as is the Wil
lamette, the amount of public money
wasted must be appalling.
From Cape Horn to Ca?e Newenham.
the Willamette is the second largest
stream on the Pacific, and could be
made the most serviceable. With hun
dreds of thousands of dollars charged
to It for improvements, we are not able
to move a pound of freight on it.
There are thousands of acres of rich
soil on the banks of the Willamette
River, from Oregon City to Eugene,
which can never be served by railroad,
lying idle through lack of water trans
portation. When Portland was a city
of but 20,000 to 30,000 people, the only
produce of the Valley that could find
a market in it, was grain and hay. as
the country immediately contiguous to
the city supplied all other demands.
Consequently those commodities were
all that were raised for shipment. Dur
ing that period several large steamers
were engaged in the navigation of the
river, and by reason of the large ton
nage of the produce shipped, were en
abled to operate profitably.
Since Portland, on account of its nat
ural growth, is now able to consume all
that is raised in the Valley and the
products have become more diversified,
gradually changing to the production
of fruit, vegetables, hogs, poultry, but
ter, etc., the tonnage shipped, although
aggregating a much greater value, has
decreased in weight so that two steam
ers can now more than supply the de
mand. From 10 to 15 years ago. eight
steamers with loads that v. ould sub
merge them to a draft of four feet
of water, were able to navigate the
river for a distance of 150 miles. Now,
two steamers, drawing less than two
feet, are unable to reach a greater dis
tance than 25 miles, notwithstanding
the fact that the United States Govern
ment is expending annually a small for
tune to aid navigation thereon.
If the Willamette River is' so im
proved that it will be continuously open
to navigation to vessels drawing three
feet of water, that portion of the Valley
tributary to it, would be immediately
made to respond to the mands of the
steamers for tonnage by increasing the
producing acreage. This would be &
benefit and a profit to all concerned,
which the people in the city would en-v
Joy as well as those in the country. In
other words, an open river would mean
500 per cent greater production for
every acre of land tributary to it.
It is my opinion this can be aecom
pllshed only by a change in the method
of performing the work. Have it done
under the contract system. Have every
yard of silt taken from the river so
impounded, that It could never return
from whence it was taken. Results will
then be apparent. With the exception
of a few dams that are totally inade
quate for the purposes- intended, ther
is not one dollar's worth of permanent
improvement in the aid of navigation
discernible on the river. All the" money
has been frittered away.
The newspaper Is the only medium bj
which the public can make its wants
known, and is In fact the only instru
ment by which can be secured thai
which is desired. The Oregonian has
always readily responded to every re
quest and invariably taken the initia
tive in voicing the peoples' demands
We feel that we can depend upon It In
this crisis, for crisis it is. A rather in
different crop last year, and lack ol
transportation facilities this year, mean
dire poverty if not almost ruin to num
bers of people living, on the river be
tween Newberg and Salem. We ask The
Oregonian to take tVs up with its ac
customed persistence and vigor and
bring it to a successful conclusion,
meaning the permanent improvement
of the Willamette River.
RICHARD CHILCOTT.
Reflection of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
Fear of the truth makes love of ,
lie.
The worst thing about children is
when they aren't yours.
Nine times out of ten a man can fall
in love with a girl just because It is
a fool thing to do.
There's no possible way to get ex
penses down, except for people who
have more money than they can use.
People find out, by trying it, how
different marriage is from what they
thought it was; but it's too late then.
Recognizing the Inevitable.
Chicago Tribune.
Pyrrhus had just won his costly victory
over the Romans.
"Well." he ejaculated, "I suppose I've
got to say It; posterity will expect it of
me. But it's such a moldly old chestnut!
Here goes: Another such victory and '
But we shall be more considerate than
Pyrrhus was we shall stop the quotation
right there.
Merit of UradoatloD Essays.
Washington Star.
Graduation essays have one great ad
vantage in being uninfluenced by either
muckraking or whitewashing inclinations.
Bryan's Ambition.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It might look to the uninitiated as if
Mr. Bryan wanted to do all the kicking
and be the umpire, too.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Chicago News.
The milk of human kindness often taste
of the can. ,
A loaded motor car is almost as unsafe a
an unloaded gun. ,, . ...
A man never realsces how small a 5 bill
Is until he breaks It- . .
Take your time, but keep your hands on
the time of busy people.
The average man is moderately sane, ex
cept when he Is engaged. .....
It Is difficult to convince a poor man that
money will not buy happiness.
One little drunken man can stir up more
trouble than two big sober men.
Somehow a girl always imagines that hr
piano plavlng sounds good to the neighbors.
A girl doesn't like the Idfa of working for
a living unless she Is married to a shiftless
man. .
When a young widow meets a man who
thinks he has a broken heart, she gets busy
I and mends it.