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FORTXAJTO. WEDOEEXDAT, JTTJTE 29. 1910.
TAFT "MAKING GOOD."
The President displayed rare tact
Bnd force in securing enactment of his
legislative "programme" by Congress.
His position was a very trying one,
owing to dissensions among Republi
can members of Congress. But his
Bkillful handling of discordant factions
finally brought them into line -with
Quickness and completeness that have
surprised the country.
The results have vindicated Presi
dent Taft's preference for persuasive
tactics rather than big-stick methods.
By their fruits the country is now
Judging the -worth of his "soft an
swer" practices. The President wins
ell his proposals for legislation; also
the Balllnger-Plnchot wrangle.
These achievements meet universal
approval of the Nation. The only Jar
comes from dissatisfaction with the
Bew protective tariff law. But as pro
tective tariff is fallacy, and as its
avowed purpose is to take from one
Interest or locality to bestow upon
another, no protective tariff bill ever
will satisfy. So long as the country
ehall be deluded with desire for this
kind of tariff, there will be trouble.
The only sound tariff Is that for rev
enue only. Within these limits the
President is largely correct in his as
sertion that the Payne act Is the best
protective tariff measure the country
has ever had.
The corporation tax provisions of
that law, perhaps, have incited the
most telling criticism. But for that
tax the country would probably have
been more willing to accept the Presi
dent's testimonial. It Is a tax not
uniformly levied on tire instrumentali
ties of business, therefore unjust.
But In other matters, the Adminis
tration measures, as enacted by Con
gress, obviously please the public. The
new railroad legislation makes long
Strides toward fulfillment of popular
desires and party promises. The tct
creating postal savings banks satisfies
widespread demand of multitudes of
citizens of small savings and. not least
Important, will work sobcrinu effect
on popular view of credit, sound cur
rency and governmental responsible
Ity. The conservation withdrawal
measure satisfies Eastern sentiment,
which controls the policy of the Gov
ernment, although it does not m-oet
needs of the West. But the corollary
law, authorizing Indebtedness of
$20,000,000 for completion of irriga
tion projects, in part remedies this
deficiency. Likewise the law author
izing agricultural surface entry of
coal lands-
There are numerov ; other acts of
merit, including separate statehood
for Arizona and New Mexico, and
provision for great battleships.
A vast deal of slang-whanging and
uplift demagogy has been rever
berating through the atmosphere of
politics and of magazine statesman
ship against Taft during the months
past. Most of this was directed at
Taft's inaptitude, his slowness, his
lack of executive temperament," as
contrasted with his acknowledged
Judicial capacity. Super-wise critics
have flattered themselves with their
Imagined discovery that the country
made a mistake in spoiling an able
Judge to make a second or third-rate
President. Now these self-important
critics find themselves hard put to
adjust themselves to the outcome.
Muckrakers are abashed, insurgents
are discomfited and Demo-rats find
their campaign thunder despoiled of
the lightning.
President Taft has done s. good job.
all things considered. He has sur
prised the country, but proved him
self equal to the country's Judgment
of him two years ago. He has accom
plished results perhaps better even
than Roosevelt could have done. His
methods are less flamboyant than
Roosevelt's, but the people now real
ize them Just as good or better. He
has done much to stem the tide that
has been ebbing against the Republi
can party the year past.
BUSY, PERHAPS TOO BUSY.
"Everybody Is too busy In Southern
Oregon to think of what the rest of
the world is doing," la a statement
accredited to a prominent citizen of
that section, now In this city. This
Indicates a wholesome condition of af
fairs in an industrial sense, ijid in the
sense designated as the road to
wealth by ninding one's own busi
ness. It is certainly an excellent thing
to have plenty to do and to do 't faith
fully and Intelligently. Other things
as climate, soil and transportation fa
cilities being favorable, therem lies the
road to wealth in ny agricultural or
horticultural region.
But this is not all. The statement
above quoted was doubtless induced
toy a sense of supreme satisfaction at
the advancing prosperity of the South
ern Oregon district. Or perhaps this
happy citizen was not fully quoted. It
is reasonably certain that he did not
intend to be taken literally, since no
doubt he is well aware of the fact that
his intelligent neighbors neighbors
every one of them find time to read
- The Oregonian and to discuss the sali
ent features of the news that it carries
to them from the four quarters of the
globe every day. We are ready to be
lieve, anxious to believe and do be
lieve that "things are humming down
that way," but we cannot believe that
the hustling folk of that sunny and
fertile section of the state are so com
, uletely absorbed in the world that is
bounded by their horizon as to take
no thought of outside events.
Some of ua can recall the days
wherein the settlers of Oregon did not
know, and had no means of knowing,
what the rest of the world was doing.
The conditions of those times con
duced to neighborlin-ess and to the
hospitality inspired by Isolation and
rude plenty, tout not to growth.
They conduced also to. a certain
narrowness of view that farmer folk,
by reason of their isolation, and the
small round, of their dally lives, were
slow to outgrow. In the strictly rural
districts of New England this narrow
ness has become a cherished heritage. (
The early settlers of Oregon only es
caped this condition, when they did
escape it, by timely touch with the
commercial world. A demand was
created for the products of their fer
tile, easily worked soil, their abound
ing timber and mineral resources and
for the surplus flocks and herds of
their great ranges. Thereupon they
began to sit up and take notice. There
upon their interest in the rest of the
world the world that In Isolation had
grown dim to their mental vision
was reawakened and they began to
grow.
SAFETY IK BATTLESHIPS.
The sum of $12,000,000, spent for
roads or harbors or other improve
ments, Instead of for one great bat
tleship; would never keep an enemy
away from our shores nor strengthen
the arm of the American people to
resist aggrandizement of foreign des
pots upon their Interests at home or
abroad.
That sum spent within two or three
states might enable certain m.mbers
of Congress to' be re-elected, but those
successful members of Congress would
not go forth successfully to ward off
the invading enemy in place of the
battleship.'
Expenditure of $12,000,000 might
buy a great many luxuries more en
joyable than a -battleship, tout no lux
ury Is superior to defense and security
against foreign encroachment and at
tack. It is also worth many million
dollars - to command respect in the
world's affairs and freedom from In
suit.
A strong people will find means to
develop its resources in any event, nor
is the strongest people one that enjoys
a large sum total of ease and conven
ience. One of the great products of
national ease is political buncombe,
and of that this nation already has
surfeit.
This country needs a sturdy arm to
deal with Its world neighbors. The
mainstay of its strength is a formid
able navy.
EHBTOBICAL KTBBISH.
There seems to be a race nowadays
between notoriety-seeking statesmen
to outdo each other as preachers of
platitudes. The bright effulgence of
the American Colonel is their guiding
star and they think it great achieve
ment to ape him in declaiming politi
cal commonplaces or novelties.
Just before Congress adjourned the
statesmen unloaded their burdens of
verbiage in grandiloquent style to be
spread over the country at Govern
ment (the people's) expense. This
Junk oratory was phonographed in
the faithful Congressional Record and
is now carried broadcast over the land
by Uncle Sam's mail frank. In the
midst of rhetorical rubbish. Repre
sentative Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn,
Democrat, raised protest as follows:
Mr. Sceaker. it has -been the custom at
this time, in the session Just immediately
preceding; an election, to load up the Con
gressional Record with the greatest lot of
political Junk It Is possible to collect. No
body ever reads it, nobody ever uses it; it
only gratifies gome one's vanity and . in-
f Ject.
This junk oratory covers a multi
tude of subjects, whether they be rele
vant to legislative topics or not. Of
this sort was the "speech" of Senator
Bourne. It interrupted interstate com
merce legislation, to parade false
views of Oregon's "system" and to
deny the most venerable of the doc
trines of republican form of govern
ment that of delegated, representa
tive government, the great achieve
ment of the constitutional convention
of 1787, as produced by the ideas of
Hamilton and Jefferson.
A parliament of 150,000 voters in
Oregon is absurdity, and only hair
brained statesmanship would assert
supremacy of such system over that of
representative, delegated, deliberative
government. Such system carried out
would, set back the clock of progress
by many centuries.
The American Colonel, though he
may be taken as a model for nov
elty, never uttered political verbiage
a3 precedent or text for this folly.
livestock rsmrsTKY.
Portland's prestige as the greatest
wheat port on the Pacific Coast is still
unshaken and will doubtless continue
unshaken for many years. Establish
ment in this city of the largest stock
yards on the Pacific Coast has had the
effect, however, of lessening the rela
tive importance of. the grain business
as a factor in the general prosperity of
Portland and the territory served from
this city. Receipts of wheat in Port
land Monday were ten carloads. Re
ceipts of livestock for the same period
were forty carloads, and every carload
was sold at the yards on the day of
arrival. These receipts included 606
cattle, 320 calves, 1078 sheep and' 55 8
hogs. It is not alone in the volume of
livestock business attracted to Port
land within the past year that we are
interested, but also in the points from
which these carloads are shipped.
We find, for example, that the forty
carloads which came in Monday were
sent by shippers residing at Hermis
ton, Arlington, The Dalles, Idaho
Falls, Enterprise, Joseph, Blakes, Ba
ker City, Pilot Rock, Gazelle (Cal.),
Roseburg, Junction Cltye Eugene and
West Scio. Practically all of these
points are located in territory separ
ate and distinct from the wheat dis
tricts, and many of them are com
paratively new in the livestock busi
ness. Throughout the entire Colum
bia basin there is a steadily Increasing
acreage of alfalfa and other stock
feed.. While some of it is taking the
place of wheatgrowing, for which the
land has become too valuable, the
greater part is in the new irrigation
districts, where the first returns are
now coming in on liberal investments
that have been made in irrigation
equipment and water rights.
There has never been a question
about the value of the grain Industry
as the foundation for the great wealth
and prosperity that, have attracted set
tlers to this country, but it is from the
remarkable growth of the livestock in
dustry, from diversified farming and
from our great lumber wealth that
this city will in the future draw the
greater part of its sustenance. Estab
lishment of the great packing plant
and stockyards at this city has already
been the means of attracting rtock
shipments from points as far East as
Montana and even Dakota. With the
remarkable growth of the cities as
well as the country, together with an
J increasing trade in Alaska and the
Orient, stockmen will always be as
sured of a good market.
Ten years ago the wheat harvest
was the great event of the year in
financial and commercial circles. Ten
years hence it will be only one of the
incidentals. The output then will
probably Ifce greater than it is now, but
livestock, lumber and diversified farm
ing will have all passed it in the race
and ' every resident of the Pacific
Northwest will toe a gainer by the eco
nomic change.
ALFAIA.
It is not a day too soon for every
farmer in Western Oregon to begin to
plan for sowing a field of alfalfa next
Fall or Spring. In the cultivation of
this most valuable forage plant the
preparation of the soil is next in Im
portance to the vigor and purity of
the seed selected. Success depends
upon the utmost care in tooth partic
ulars, tout once obtained it is worth
all it costs many times over. An acre
of alfalfa will produce three times as
much protein as an acre of clover.
nine times as much as an acre of
timothy and twelve times as much as
an acre of brome grass. These figures
are given toy the famous F. D. Co
burn, of Kansas, in Country Life for
July. Mr. Coburn seldom makes an
error in his statements. Think of
buying protein for dairy cows from
the feed stores at fancy prices when
It can toe produced at home on almost
any soil for a few cents a ton.
It Is true that soil deficient In lime
is not the best for alfalfa, but still
there is hardly a farm in Oregon, so
poor in lime that the plant will not
nourish on it. It is a common sight
now to see alfalfa growing wild here
and there, sometimes toy neglected
roadsides, and yet the complaint is
still heard from farmers that the cli
mate and soil of Oregon ere not
adapted to it. Fifteen years ago the
same thing was said about red clover,
which is now raised everywhere In the
state.
Mr. Ootourn emphasizes the import
ance of selecting good seed. - Most of
the failures on record have come
from planting seed which had not
vigor enough to germinate, ' or which
was full of Impurities. - The seed
should toe purchased from a reliable'
dealer and before sowing it should be
tested. It is said that the faculty of
the Agricultural College (will make the
test for anybody who wishes free of
charge.
TRADE BALANCE ntPBOIXVa
A summary of the foreign trade for
the month of May shows that we have
Teached the turn of the tide, and the
balance of trade, which has been set
ting strong against the United States
for the past three months, is again
running in our favor. The excess of
exports over imports for May was $11.-
215,820, compared with an excess of
imports over exports amounting to
more than $800,000 in April. The de
crease in the value of imports was
quite heavy since the high-water mark
of $163,000,000 was reached in March,
for last month's figures show but
$119,929,000. This is the smallest
total since August. To the size, of
these figures is due the fact that the
"balance of trade" is again showing on
the right side of the ledger. In' other
words, the exports were not large
enough to toe proud of, but the imports
were so small that they permitted us
to again exhibit an excess of exports.
This favorable trade balance will
probably remain in evidence for the
remainder of the season, for new-crop
agricultural products are now coming
on the markets, and there will be an
increased movement of the remainder
of the old crop, which as a rule gets
out of the way as soon as the new
crops are assured. But while the May
imports have suffered a heavy decline
as compared with those for some of
the preceding months, they have been
sufficient to bring the total for the
first eleven months of the fiscal year
up to the highest point on record. The
total of $1,438,169,502 shows an in
crease of $250,914,000 over the same
period last year. Exports of $1,617,
000,000 for the eleven months show a
gain of $71,567,000 over the same
month last year. The excess of Im
ports over exports, best known as the
"balance of trade," for the eleven
months amounts to $179,346,000, com
pared with $358,336,000 for the same
period last year.
An important feature of the sum
mary of the foreign trade was the gold
movement. Gold exports declined from
$36,283,000 in April to $3,143,000 in
May. This is an encouraging sign,
showing as it does that some of our
obligations incurred abroad are being
met toy the sale of securities or by
increasing exports. Unless the Sum
mer tourists become excessively ex
travagant, there will hardly be much
necessity for gold shipments of any
consequence until another season-
PROSPERITY NOT IMPERILLED.
Mr. Jacob Schiff, the financial gen
ius who stood behind the late E. H.
Harriman in all of the great transac
tions with which the deceased rail
road king startled the world, is less
pessimistic than many of the Eastern
railroad men -who have been voicing
their woes over the seemingly never
ending attacks on the railroads. Mr.
Schiff not only does not believe that
the situation is as toad as reported, tout
he thinks -that whatever temporary
check business may receive between
crop seasons will speedily vanish. Mr.
O'Brien, of the Harriman system, has
been out in the Central Oregon coun
try, recently discovered by the Hill in
terests. He returns with a very op
timistic view of the prospects and ex
presses the belief that there will be no
interruption in the plans for opening
up their portion of the new field.
Simultaneously with the optimistic
expressions of the Harriman people
appears the notice that the Hill system
has let the contract for a twenty-four-mile
extension of the United Railways,
which is already well started for the
Tillamook country. The opinions of
these men, especially when backed up
ay actual performances, offer pretty
sound evidence that neither crop
scares nor the direful predictions of
Eastern pessimists will have any effect
in checking railroad operations' in the
Pacific Northwest. It will be remem
bered that it was during the 1907 panic
that the new North Bank road was be
ing rushed to completion, and it was
the new business and new territory
brought to this city by that road dur
ing the time it was building and after
its completion that started Portland
on an era of greater prosperity than
the city had ever known. If a panic
of the size of the 1907 affair was pow
erless to hamper a $50,000,000 enter
prise like the North Bank road, it
would be still less harmful with the
smaller projects now under construc
tion in the state, all of which will be
traffic producers from the beginning.
Business throughout the United
States is toeing handled on such a tre
mendous scale that enormous amounts
of money are needed all the time. The
damage to the grain crops has un
doubtedly been rather serious,
amounting perhaps to hundreds of
millions, and can hardly fall to have
some effect on the general trade situ
ation in territory most affected. Out
here in the Northwest, however, we
have toig orops of nearly all kinds, and
with money already provided for
financing the great industrial under
takings, very little effect will be felt
from the. misfortune that is now
causing some uneasiness in the grain
belt of the Middle West and North
west. Even there, however, if we
judge the present season toy the past,
in the language of Mr. Schiff. "the
soup is never eaten as not as ft is
cooked."
The Seattle Times, in an elaborate
review of building statistics for a num
ber of American cities, offers the con
soling remark that "even If Seattle did
lose -16 per cent, her -building im
provements in May aggregated $ 1,
327,750, and for the five months end
ing May 81 her 'building improvements
reached the splendid sum of $6,821,
635 a figure which Portland, with all
of her -boasting and all her wildcat
speculation in land second only to
that which the people of Vancouver,
B. C. have -indulged during the past
year did not reach." Knowing the
desire of the Times to be fair, accu
rate and temperate in all of its state
ments. The Oregonian will merely call
its attention to the fact that Portland
is not indulging in boasting or wildcat
speculation, and that the building per
mits issued in this cjjy for the five
months endng May 31 were valued at
$6,922,117, which, of course, "did not
reach" those of Seattle, because the
latter were tout $6,821,585 (Times fig
ures). The local Democratic organ, which
professes to fear the results of the
state Republican assembly next month.
objects to the remark that all "genu
ine" Republicans will be represented
in that gathering. Truth is, nobody
is a genuine Republican nor a genuine
Democrat, who denies, the constitu
tional right of citizens to assemble, ac
cording to party or any other interest.
Persons who deny this right are non
descripts; they recognize neither the
laws nor the traditions nor the cus
toms of their country. The Republi
can assembly will consist of 1248 dele
gates, sent by party members in each
of the 84 counties. No assembly could
toe more representative. Pretenders of
political righteousness who forbid this
gathering are citizens of a kind hither
to unclassed in this free country.
Mr. Brownell, of Clackamas, after
participating in legislative "disgrace'
many years and being repudiated
therefor by the voters of his county,
now turns informer and reformer. The
informer part of him may toe correct.
perhaps is, although all the partici
pants he mentions with himself are
either dead or forgotten. The reformer
part is that In which the people of
Clackamas are now most concerned.
It ought to toe safer, however, to trust
a man who does not need to reform
himself in order to win popular ap
proval.
"I believe the localities affected
should have the say as to what -they
need," said Jacob Schiff, the Wall
street financier, in discussing the con
servation problem. This, of course, is
what the West has been contending
for, and it is refreshing to hear an
Eastern man take a fair-minded, com
mon-sense view of the question. Such
sentiments, however, will put Mr.
Schiff in very bad light with the Pin-
chotized faddists of the East.
"The Seattle ' hotelkeepers. In their
fight against a combine of the produce
dealers, are threatening to order all
of their supplies from Portland. In
asmuch as Seattle has for years been
obliged to draw' on Portland and the
Willamette Valley for large quantities
of butter, eggs and poultry, the threat
ened revolt would not change the base
of supplies very much, although it
might cut out the exorbitant profits
of the Seattle middlemen.
Senator Bourne says Oregon has the
"best government on earth. It Is cer
tainly a fine government, in his opin
ion, that would have him in its high
est office. But two years hereafter,
when Oregon shall have elected an
other Senator, his opinion will be
wholly different. Statement One and
plurality primaries will then reveal to
him their real worth and value.
The fare to Vancouver has been re
duced to 15 cents, including the charge
on the ferry. This slight reduction
will probably be followed by a further
cut as soon as the Hill system gets
the United Railways into good work
ing order, with a ' suburban service
across their bridges. The day of the
ferry is about over in these rapid-tran
sit times.
The Railroad Commission has sued
the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Com
pany for $10,000 damages 'because the
railroad company failed to comply
with an order of the Commission and
touild a depot at Lyons. That amount
of money would build a string of de
pots of the Corvallis & Eastern stand
ard all the way from Yaquina to De
troit.
Senator Bourne's Democratic news
paper in Portland says he received
$25,000 for "delivering" legislative
votes for United States Senator in
1903. Yet that organ upholds him as
a paragon of political "purity." Here
is a fair sample of Its characteristic
mendacity or stupidity, or both.
An exceptionally large number of
prominent Portland men are this week
starting to California on business.
Letters and telegrams addressed to
Reno, Nev., will probably reach them
safely next Sunday or Monday.
The attorney of Meyers, who killed
the policeman at Salem, whose case is
on appeal, calls it "Justifiable homi
cide." So do anarchists and the like.
A Coos County man has run off with
his wife's sister. It is an extraordi
nary man who wants more than one
of the same family.
Governor Dickerson declares he
won't stop the figh.t. Perhaps he will
leave that Job to Jeffries. And there's
one more guess.
Of course the Governor will not stop
the fight, which means meat and drink
mostly drink to that part of Ne
vada.
Young Roosevelt wants a little time
of his own and is entitled to it.
MUST INSIST ON HER RIGHTS.
Oitson Should Demand Lands Belong-.
ins; to the State.
EUGENE. Or.. June 27. (To the Ed
itor.) An editorial in The Oregonian
of June 26. entitled "The Fool of the
Family," so nearly touches a subject
that has been uppermost in my mind
for the past two months that I am
moved to say a word to the Oregon
public as to the monstrous injustice
that Is being done the state" by the Fed
eral authorities. An ' empire of land in
Oregon has been set aside as forest re
serve, the profits from which go to the
National Government, whereas, being
part of the soil of Oregon, the profits
should go to Oregon itself, with espe
cial advantage to her educational in
stitutions, as is the case in TexaB,
whose schools are the best endowed of
any in the Union.
I am a Wisconsin man, here merely
to see and study the country, and so
have no, local interests to obscure my
vision. In Wisconsin vast tracts of
public lands were turned over to the
state by the Federal -Government and
devoted to school purposes, under what
was known as the "swamp-lands acts,"
with splendid results.
Oregon is entitled to the benefits of
her natural resources, and it is not
thinkable that the United States Gov
ernment can come in and absorb large
sections of the state and cut down the
state's opportunities by so much.
A recent Journey through the reserve
around Mount Pitt has intensified the
conviction that the timber all through
mat country is vastly more in need of
being harvested than It is of belncr nre-
served. Great trees, that have ceased
growing and are ripe for the ax, are
today rotting and falling, until there
are millions and millions of feet of big
uuwn, ana so rotten and slushy
that one's foot will sink two or thr
feet into a log If an attempt be .made
t waiK upon It.
The State of Ores-en Is entitle
farm this great asset for it own ad
vantage. What Oregon needs Is peo
ple, not wilderness. And it needs
schools for the DeoDle. hi a- hni,
"5' mouern educational equipment.
iuo lorest reserve is a Dolitioal f
sue, not an economic, mieatinn 0-.1
Oregon, as a state, acting as a unit.
-.uu.u p, j iiucr ana recover what be
longs to it. L. B. RING.
THE FIRST BOY IJr ENGLAND.'
i-nnce Edward of Wales a Pnblla
r avorltA KUm r- k 1 1 .1 1 ,
London Correspondence Nw Tnrv
rrloc toward of Wales, who has
oeen -tne nrst boy In England" for 16
years, has gone to 1o!n his. .ir. ot
Dartmouth And tir v. i,. .a
Edward of Wales. At the funeral cere-
juuny 01 nis crfmrlfiithai. i t.-
ward, he was a prominent figure, not
only because he is heir to the throne,
but because he is highly popular.
A typical Anglo-Saxon lad is Prince
Edward, now ih ,
wall and soon to be formally made the
, waies. tie is fair-haired,
blue-eyed and sturdy of limb; the pic-
strengtn and good tem
per.
From bab-i-hort Ka ,
His doiners nnH nnvincra 1. . 1
chronicled, and half the mothers of
England put their sons Into white sail
or suit like those chosen. by the Prin
cess of Wales for her son. Yet. ad
miration does not seem to
him at all. He is still a frank, simple
uy wnn a Dright smile, a
v.ca.u(. manner ana an Infectious
laugh.
Not only Is Prince Eddie a public fa
vorite, hilt V a i a o V. I 1. 1 -
" ... tlio uwil lLm-
11 V. His thro small h,nl,... 1
sister look forward to his holidays as
utudBiuiia. iiis ratner and
mother. King George and Queen Mary,
althouerh thpv rc m,i,A ,.w
their children as a rule, often relax
mauipiine ior tneir eldest son and are
as proud of him as any middle-class
tuia ui nieir ursi-Dorn.
AW-FUL THREAT OP AS AMERICAN.
If Roosevelt In Elected Again, Zlmmei
man Will Turn Brltlaner.
Cincinnati Knnn! rrr
1t Roosevelt is elected President I
H.m going over to England and become
ciuicn ana stay mere," said Eugene
Zimmerman, railroad magnate and fa
ther of the Duchess of Manchester, at
the ' Slnton Hotel today. "If he is
elected again the country will have
taken the first step toward a dictator
ship, and when that happens I will pre-
j-ci a. uuunirjr mat is a liberal const!
tutlonal monarchy. Roosevelt today 1
our big National mention "
During the lifetime of the late King
Edward it was reported that the King
un noverai occasions invited the
American father-in-law of the Duke of
xuancnesier to oecome an Englishman
It was also said that Edward had of
fered tO make him a Yinrnna U. rr 1
merman spent several months each year
at me castles or the Duke.
"I am a cooi A m frlz-an t.
went on, "and I hope the electio'n of
nooseveit win not come to pass. Things
are bad enough now. In fact, times
uro wurso man tney were. There it
too much legislation in Washington
"I am for drtvmrtr- T-Tamnn
next President, and I believe if he runs
jib win ue eiectea."
Compliments to the Senators.
Irrigon Irrigation.
The news columns of the "yaller'
papers are now filled with columns of
guff about what great things Senator
Bourne, and Chamberlain have accom
plished for Oregon during the present
session of Congress. But the writers
are having a hard time to find mater
ial to work upon, for In truth Bourne
nas none notning worth mentioning,
and Chamberlain has not even had the
opportunity to do anythiner. Thn lat
ter may in course of time make a good
working Senator, but the former is
entirely out of his element when he
poses as a statesman.
A Free-Cltlsen Assembly.
Tillamook Headlight.
Things are working awfully one
sided in - Oregon. Just fancy. Th
nolitical wlre-rjullern n ra t .--v-i n
make the voters believe that it will
De a terriDie thing if the Republican
nartv is allowed to hold a. meotino- o nri
.run its own affairs to uit itself. Talk
aDout tne uzar of Russia being a die
tator ana a aespot, why there are
nlentv of dictators in nrp,nn -xra nr.
propose to be led by the snout in that
way i giuer xiepuDllcans ao.
Mr. Brownell's "Purity."
Trrlgon Irrigator.
The Clackamas County Republicans
have turned down Brownell and TJ'Ren
the two "statesmen" who are so bit
terly opposed to "boss" rule, and so
insistent; upon "clean mehods" In poli
tics. Any man who knows Brownell,
or knows of him, knows that he has
been one of the trickiest of all the Ore
gon politicians. When such men stand
for "purity", or pretend to, it is a good
plan to lock tne nencoops at night.
The Democratic Trick.
. Tillamook Headlight.
Our advice to Republicans in this
county is: Don't be humbugged or In
fluenced by those who are shouting
against the Republicans holding an as
sembly. The whole scheme is being
worked up ty Democratic newspapers
to divide and defeat the Republican
party.
Not Twenty Yeears Ago.
Kansas City Star.
However, 20 years ago no one would
have dared, single-handed, to notify John
L. Sullivan to keep away from anybody's
training Quarters.
WIFE
TAKES
THE
STAND
Mrs. Smoke Married When Only 13
Years Old.
John H. Smoke, of Arleta, formerly
employed by the O. R, & N. Co., accused
of dynamiting the home where his wife
was living, is on trial In Judge Butlers
department of the Circuit Court. Judge
Butler . Is assisting- in clearing up the
docket. Just before adjournment last
nlgh,t. Deputy District Atorney Collier
made a motion to strike out Smoke's
plea of former acquittal on the ground of
insufficiency.
The Judge took the matter under ad
visement, and will decide it this morn
ing.
Smoke was - tried and acquitted last
week of having dynamited the home of
Mrs. Agnes 1U Piper. He Is now on trial
for dynamiting Mrs. Margaret Smoke.
his wife. As the same explosion is re
ferred to In both cases. Smoke's attor
neys maintain that he cannot be placed
m jeopardy a second time, it being the
same offense in both cases.
It is probable, however, that Judge
Butler will allow the case to go to the
jury, instructing the talesmen that if
they believe the former verdict of ac
quittal to be correct, they must find In
accordance with it. but that if they do
not, they may find Smoke guilty.
lne state completed the Introduction of
its testimony yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
smoke herself was one of the witnesses.
She said she married Smoke when 13
years old, and that she is now 26. She
has six children, she said. She and her
husband quarrelled, she went to dances
at Lents, and Smoke told her. she tes
tified, that If she dldn t cease going he
would burn the dancehall. She said he
also threatened to shoot her.
Asked regarding her relations with
young Mr. Piper she said she was never
m nis company except -.when Mrs. Piper
Was present.
On the night of the exnloslon both she
and Mrs. Piper went visiting. Mrs.
bmoKe thought someone was following
her on her return home. She looked
out the door to see if Mrs. Piper was
coming and noticed a' shadow, which
moved into the darkness. She took it
to be that of a man. She retired at 11:10.
The next she knew was when Mrs.
Piper screamed "fire." and she Jumned
out of bed finding the house full of
smoke. Three attempts to lisrht the lamn
failed, she said, and neighbors brought
lanterns.
Willie Smoke. 12-year-old son of tBe
aocused man, said he saw dynamite in
nis lathers cabin before the exnlosion.
But during the time intervening between
the trial last week and yesterday he had
forgotten . whether or not he visited the
cabin after the Piper house was blown
up. He said last week he rummaged
through the cabin on the Sunday follow
ing, looking for kite string, and noticed
uw dox or dynamite gone.
MORRIS DENIED NEW TRIAL
Court Decides Jury-Bribery Probe
Did Not Affect Case.
W. Cooper Morris has been denied a
new trial. Circuit Judge Gantenbeln
decided yesterday that the court's ac
tion in planning with the detectives'
for the capture of Howard A. Guil
ford during the progress of the case
was in no way prejudicial to Morris'
trial. Morris was sentenced to six
years In the penitentiary for embez
zUng $75,000 in notes from the Oregon
Trust & Savings Bank, of which he
was cashier. He is out on $30,000 ball.
The civil action of Receiver Devlin
against the officers of the Oregon Trust
bank, S. W. Stryker and J. F. Reddy.
drags wearily out before Circuit Judge
Gatens. Walter H. Moore, former
president of the bank, was on the wit
ness-stand the entire dav vesterdav.
going over transactions between the
bank and the Golden Eagle Dry Goods'
Company, which wsro testified to at
the criminal trials of himself and Mor
ris.
$25,000 CIAIM IS IN COtTRT
Surety Company Demands Big Sum
From Rankin Estate.
O. M. Rankin and Howard T. Rankin
must" appear In the County Court July
11 and show cause why $25,000 of the
assets of M. B. Rankin's estate should
not be turned over to the American
Surety Company, of New York. R. S.
Howard, receiver of the Title Guaran
tee & Trust Company, filed a petition
in the County Court yesterday to this
eirect.
It appears from the petition that
when tne Title bank failed it held a
$25,000 note which Rankin would be
called upon to pay. This with other of
the bank's assets, was turned over to
State Treasurer Steel on September 2,
1907. Three months later, on Decem
ber 7, the Board of State Land Com
missioners. Including the State Treas
urer. Governor, Attorney-General and
Secretary of State, turned the note over
to the American Surety Company, the
corporation in turn reimbursing the
state. The note bears interest at 6 per
cent.
TEMPORARY ' ORDER IS 3IADE
Land Company Restrained From
Connecting With Sewer.
An injunction against the Alameda
Land Company, restraining it from con
necting its SO-acre tract with the Irving
ton sewer, was issued by Presiding Cir
cuit Judge Morrow yesterday morning.
The injunction is only temporary, how
ever. The judge said he would give the
case a final hearing within two -weeks.
The case was brought into court on the
petition of Ellis G. Hughes for an injunc
tion. The Alameda Land Company, defend
ant, filed a demurrer to the petition, and
arguments were heard by Judge Morrow
Friday. In overruling the demurrer yes
terday the court said that with the facts
before him he is convinced the City
Council has no right to issue permits
to private persons to tear up the streets
for eewers or other purposes. He knew
it had been the practice in Portland, he
said, but was sure It was not legal.
WIFE PREFERS GAYER LIFE
Aaron Goldstein Asks for Divorce on
Grounds of Desertion.
Alleging that his wife, Sarah Gold
stein, has forsaken him for the gay
life of San Francisco and Stockton.
Aaron Goldstein brought a divorce suit
against her In the Circuit Court yes
terday, asking the court to allow him
the custody of their three children.
They were married in Philadelphia.
June 2. 1896. Goldstein says his wife
left him November 10, 1909.
Clara Kemp filed a divorce suit yes
terday against Lee Kemp. She married
him in Portland, June 6, 1909. She
charges him with cruelty.
Court Notes.
Margaret Nelson Rohlfs, formerly
Miss Margaret " Hllery, filed a divorce
suit in the Circuit Court yesterday
against Herman C. Rohlfs, alleging
that he deserted her last June. They
were married at Sacramento, Cal., No
vember 17, 1907.
Motion to set aside the divorce re
cently granted Anthony Moore from
Zoda Moore was filed In the Circuit
Court yesterday. The attorney says
he had until June 21 to answer the
complaint; that Anthony Moore entered
into negotiations with him for a settle
ment of the property rights, and that
while these were going on her attorney
secured a decree wlthiut giving him
time to answer. The hearing of the
motion probably will be set for Friday.
CRICKETERS DINE TONIGHT
Portland Club Will Furnish Musical
Programme.
Arrangements are completed for the
annual dinner and smoker for members
of the Portland Cricket Club tonight in
the clubhouse, near Montavllla. A musi
cal entertainment will follow the dinner.
G. Shipley, vice-captain and expert
cricketer of the club, has charge of the
evening's entertainment. The sailors'
hornpipe dance. Highland fling and other
comic and National dances will be in
cluded in the evening's fun. J. J.
Churchley, the club featherweight, will
dance the Highland fling, accompanied
by Charles Leigh and the bagpipes.
The programme will be: 'l Love a
Lassie," song, by J. Turnbull: "A Little
in the Bottle in the Morning, song, by
J. Turnbull: Highland fling, by J. J.
Churchley, accompanied by Piper Charles
Leigh; violin solo, A. Smith; song, H.
Ryder; piano solo, A. Goldsmith; song.
My Wife Has Gone to the Country,"
A. Berridge; sailors' hornpipe, W. P.
Snooks and J. Mallett; coster songs, W.
H. J. Clarke.
The clubhouse is located two blocks
north of the Montavllla carline at East
Sixty-seventh street.
C. X. M ARTHUR TO OFFICIATE
Willamette Makes Arrangements for
Next Football Season.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Salem,
Or., June 28. (Special.) C. N. McArthur,
secretary to Governor Benson, will ref
eree the football games for Willamette
University the coming Fall. Mr. Mc
Arthur is one of the best authorities on
football in the Northwest. He has for
several seasons been selected by an East
ern athletic publication as its special
football correspondent to review the
work of the different college teams in
this section.
Chauncey Bishop, the former Columbia-
University (N. Y.) and former All Amer
ican football end. together with Profes
sor Kirk, of the local high school, will
also officiate.
These officials will give football here
much impetus, as they are as strong a
can be secured anywhere, and In the
past the high prices asked by football
officials from the outside have been a
heavy expense to Willamette. .
ASSEMBLIES ARE FAVORED
Central Committee In Session at Mo
Minnville Makes Arrangements.
M'MINNvTLLE, Or., June 28. (Spe
cial.) A full attendance of the Repub
lican County Central Committee, in ses
sion here today, without a dissenting
voice went on record as favoring the
holding of state and county assemblies,
and the members decided upon Satur
day, July 9, as the time for holding
the precinct assemblies to choose 234
delegates-to the county assembly.
The county assembly will be held one
week later, on July 16, at which time
40 delegates will be elected to the state
assembly, and candidates for the var
ious county offices will be recom
mended, in accor"rnce with action
taken by unanimous vote of the County
Central Committee today, authorizing
and empowering the county assembly
to thus act.
31ULTNOMAH CLUB GETS BUSY
Banquet Will Be Held Tonight at
Commercial Club.
For the purpose of boosting the club
and getting new members a banquet will
be held tonight at the Commercial Club
by the Multnomah Amateur Athletic
Club, at which nearly all of the club
members are expected to be present. A
number of the officers of the institution,
as well as some of the prominent older
member?, will speak.
Each member is privileged to bring a
prospective member as guest of the club.
Tonight's banquet, it is thought. Will bo
instrumental in bringing a number of
new members into the club. The reduced
initiation fee, which has been responsible
for a big influx of members and which
has been on for nearly two months, will
expire on the first of July.
BOOK TELLS LEGENDS OF RIVER
Harriman Railroads Issue Folder
About Columbia.
"The Columbia River" is the title of
a 96-page book issued by the Harriman
railroads. Printed on heavy calendered
paper, with clear, large type and ex
cellent illustrations, the work is a
fine guidebook to the Columbia River.
It tells all the old river legends arid
there Is only one page of advertising
in the whole work. Probably no other
book has collected so many stories
about the Columbia River. It is writ
ten by Benjamin H. Barrows."
"In "Walnut Growing in Oregon," al
so issued by the Harriman people, de
tails are given of all processes con
nected with the growing of the trees,
grafting and instructions for market
ing. MAN BURNED BY METAL SUES
Foundry Employe Demands $5240
of O. R. & N. Co.
The flesh of his left leg roasted by
molten metal, which spattered upon
him and ran down into his shoe, W.
Rogalsky is suing the O. R. & N. Com
pany before a Jury in Judge Cleland's
department of the Circuit Court, the
sessions being held at the City Hall.
The accident occurred February 7, when
he was working in the company's
brake-shoe foundry.
While carrying a ladle of white-hot
metal, Rogalsky passed close to large
flasks where other workmen were pour
ing. He says the flasks leaked, and
that he could not escape being burned.
He wants $5000 damages and $240 for
doctor's bills.
AMERICAN YACHT AGAIN WINS
Emperor William Last In Race Cap
tured by Yankee Skipper.
KIEL. Germany, June 2S. The Amer
ican schooner Westward, owned by
Alexander S. Cochran and sailed by
Captain Charles Barr, continues win
ning laurels. Today she won the
schooner race to Eckernforde, defeat
ing the Germania, Hamburg 'and
Meteor.
The Emperor was aboard the Meteor,
which finished last. Ambassador Hill
and his family followed the race in a
steam launch.
RAILROAD TO OBSERVE FOURTH
Northern Pacific Will GiTe Souvenir
Menus to Passengers.
July Fourth will be- celebrated on all
Northern Pacific trains. Special atten
tion is being given to the printing of a
special menu card to be distributed as a
souvenir to each passenger on that day.
A large muffin will be put at the plate
of pach dining-car patron and in each
muffin will be stuck a two-inch Na
tional flag. The flags are on little metal
standards. Each banner is made of hand
stltched silk.