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Foreign postacs aouble rate. f-"'' Business Office The 8. C BecV with Special Aitency New York, rooms 4 ?oTbn 'ulldlna-. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Tribune bulldlnr. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1910. 1 SOCIALISTS AND WOMAN" SUFFRAGE. ' Woman suffrage In Oregon Is as sured the entire Socialist vote In the. election next November, now that the suffrage amendment is known to -tend the vote privilege to all adult women, instead of to taxpaylng women only. This promise comes from the secretary of the Socialist party of Oregon. The party vote of Socialists In this state has been about 8000, but leaders of their faith aver that their followers make up a much larger number. Socialists want ballots for all adult women because that is part of their scheme- to enlarge their voting power for raids on property and business through taxation and through absorp tion of industrial functions by the Government. Woman suffrage would add more votes to the Socialistic cause, relatively, than to any other. .Leaders of the Socialist party know t this better than most other members t of the body politic. Hence their .'p : position to suffrage for taxpaying women and their support of suffrage ,' for all female citizens. I Socialists mean to use the vote power of taxation to take from own , ers of property and business and be- stow the proceeds on the "great i mass" of persons who possess little ; or nothing but the glorious right of suffrage and oratory. Every holder i. of property, large and small, is an object of their attack. Most such holders belong to the "small" class, '; those who own a home or a few acres of land or a little business, because to . this class belong the great mass of ' taxpayers. They are men and women of Industry, thrift and saving, who ; toil with hand and brain, while those who would despoil them through So cialistic taxation refuse work as bond- age and prate from soapboxes on , wage slavery ana political thraldom. ; While these agitators know that wom- an suffrage would add to the voters . who oppose their scheme, they see that it would add more to the voters . who support It. Property Is now too , much at the mercy of Socialistic agi tators, as taxpayers well know. Suf frage for women. Socialists inform us, would make things easier for the no . property class of "enslaved" citizens. Here Is an issue between advocates :of woman suffrage. Socialistic and ; non-Socialistic. Will the woman suf frage foes of the soapbox party re : pudiate Its pretensions yet gladly ac cept Its votes? Will the "enslaved" 'party denounce the capitalistic plans "of those foes and yet give them bal lot support? Probably and perhaps. 1 Politics makes queer companions. t ST4En Bill DSV An ...... ....... -. . 4 ..HV.l 4- 4 I. 4 4-44 1 . Those were striking figures pre sented at the Commercial Club meet ing by Mr. McMurray, of the Harri man system, showing in detail the ex penditures being made in Oregon by the Harriman lines. All of the proj ects mentioned are actually under way, and most of them, and possibly all of them, will be completed within a year. The total cost reaches the Immense sum of $ 26, 255,000. The widespread HictrlhutlAn thl. , ... . V. the state, where a large proportion of it will go for labor and Supplies se cured locally. Is in ltselfsufficient to bring great prosperity; but when it is noted that the Hill interests, in prac tically the same field, are also spend ing perhaps an equal number of mil lions. It is very easy to understand . why this state Is now enjoying the greatest prosperity it has ever known. , While the Harriman system, as shown by the figures presented by Mr. McMurray, is building new lines and ', branches in all of the best traffic ' producing regions in the Northwest, .ithe Hill system is equally enterprising. ' The completion of the $50,000,000 North Bank line has been followed n.v me LTcgun irunK, wnicn win add several hundred miles of railroad in a region that is now without rail fa cilities. The Tillamook and Nehalem "country, in which the Harriman forces . have the start with a steam road well 'along towards completion, will be reached by the Hill system with an "electric line; and In the Willamette Valley the elaborate system of the Oregon Electric is being improved and '. extended. These new projects, to gether with numerous logging rail roads and extensions of suburban lines, .will easily bring the total cost of the -work now nearing completion and projected well up in excess of $50,000. ;000. It is not. however, from this enormous expenditure for "first cost" lot the lines that the city and state will reap the greatest benefits. " That figure, immense as it seems, is small in comparison with that which would be needed to represent the di rect tangible growth and development of the state to follow completion of these lines. All of the railroad building that has taken place in the state in the past twenty years pre ceding the commencement of the pres ent activity has failed to open up as .large a territory as will come into direct touch with Portland as soon as the many great projects now under 'construction are completed. Railroad development in Oregon was long de ferred, but it is coming with a rush, and it Is bringing with it the most prosperous times we have ever known. Numerous bankers associations . throughout the country have passed resolutions denouncing the craze for automobiles, and asking members to use extreme caution in discounting paper issued to pay for the cars. While it is unquestionably true that there are thousands of people in the country who have bought automobiles In preference to paying debts Incurred in the purchase of other things of much greater value than automobiles. It will be a. very difficult matter for the bankers or anyone else to protect such fools from their own folly. Prior to the appearance of the automobile these people found some other means of living ahead of their income, and the time will never come when they will cease that dangerous experiment sometimes termed "satisfying a cham pagne appetite with a beer income." The 'only difference between the auto mobile and other forms of extravagance which the improvidents follow is that the machine lands them in financial confusion a little more rapidly than any other method. PARTY COXFERESCE RESTORED. After an interval of six years, party conference has been restored in Ore gon as a means and a practice of po lltlcan action. The six years have been a period of party chaos and political helter-skelter. The disarray finally went so far that Republicans were driven to consider- the state of affairs In assemblies of county and state. The assemblies have been held with whole some results. Mose of the candidates they recommend will certainly be elected. Some may be defeated, yet their defeat will not detract from the popular favor which has made the assembly movement strong and which will cause it to be the rule hereafter. Assembly or convention is the American practice In all affairs po litical, religious, fraternal, industrial, commercial and other. Farmers of Oregon have held assembly of their granges, workingmen of their unions, lawyers of their bar associations, and all have discussed political matters in such meetings. Political assemblies in this state have recommended candidates for nomination in party primaries next September. They have usurped no nominating privilege that voters will exercise in the nominating primaries. They have broken no law. Political conference has returned in Oregon and will remain as a means of party organization and expression. ELECTRIC SURGERY. The way in which surgeons expecfa to make strong electric currents re place the knife in operations upon hu man subjects does not resemble what ore would naturally have imagined. Knowing as we do that a wire heated by electricity can be used to sever thick pieces of metal, it was facile to believe that a similar process misrht be applied to remove limbs from the body; but it has turned out otherwise. Perhaps the extremely high tempera ture would so disorganize the flesh bordering upon the surgical wound that recovery would be delayed or even impossible. While a burn made by an object at the temperature of a llva coal heals readily enough, the case i3 very different when the tem perature is that of a platinum wire carrying a powerful electric current. The latter destroys the tissues so ut terly that healing is slow and diffi cult. The same is true of lesions caused by the X-rays. It is said that they cannot be healed, but will spread slowly in spite of everything and ulti mately bring the sufferer to his death. The new method of applying elec tricity In surgery is first to render the limb insensible by a powerful cur rent and then cook It by the same agent. It will then slough away. Tesla found long ago that very strong currents might be passed through the body under some conditions without inflicting pain or injury of any sort. The French scientists have gone farther and learned that by using cur rents sufficiently powerful they can produce any temperature they wish In any part of the human frame while at the same time the nerves are ren dered insensible to what is going on. Thus the part which It Is desired to cook and eliminate is completely un der their control. The novelty of this method may commend It to some patients. Others will be likely to wait until it has been tried pretty extensively before Ihey submit to it. Clearly it offers a better method of reaching dee; seated cancers and ailments of that sort than has hitherto been devised if it turns out to be entirely prac tical. The French professor, d'Arson val, of Paris, says it will be in com mon use within twenty years, and there Is no reason to suspect that he is mistaken. nITAROI BUBBLE PUNCTURED. The Iditarod mining bubble is pretty effectually punctured by General Maus, commanding officer of the De partment of the Columbia, who has Just returned from an inspection trip in Alaska. Poverty, destitution and despair are facing thousands of un fortunate miners who have been lured to the new goldfields by the highly colored advertising of the transporta tion companies. So serious is the sit uation that General Maus declares that Government aid will probably have to be Invoked to bring many of the penniless men out before the Win ter season is over. With the poverty stricken thousands who have rushed into the country already facing star vation and death at a season of the year when climatic conditions are most favorable, it is easy to under stand what misery and suffering will ensue before they can all work their way back to civilization next Fall. The announcement of General Maus that in the future he will have an investigation made of all the reports that come out of Alaska with news of phenomenal strikes such as caused the stampede to the Iditarod. will be duly appreciated by thousands of vic tims, not only of the Iditarod, but of other mining camps in Alaska. Not a year has passed since the Klondike ex citement without bringing with it news of some big strike ' that has caused thousands of men to make a rush for the new fields. About nine out of ten of these rumors could rest on no firmer foundation than that which was responsible for the Iditarod fake. There is still plenty of gold in Alaska. It is not improbable that there are yet to be discovered mines and districts fully equal in richness to any that have thus far been developed. It is equally true that there will al ways be found plenty of men who are ciiger to take the "gambler's chance" and rush to the scene of any new find reported. These possibilities of strikes and the willingness of men to take a long chance do not, however, justify the studied attempts at exploitation made by steamship transportation companies every time a new find is unearthed in some remote district which cannot be reached except at enormous cost for transportation and other expenses. The suggestion of General Maus that the Government should keep a record of all who go into that northern land of mystery is an excellent one. Most of the men who take a chance on the privations and suffering that are so THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JTTLT 23, 1910. frequently encountered in these rushes are of a "breed of the oaken heart," but with them are hundreds without the willpower and the vitality to re sist the exposure and hardship that they, encounter in such ill-advised stampedes as that which has spent its force at Iditarod. These men van ish from the earth, and the list who "sleep where their it-lends cannot find them tdday." and whose fate is in directly chargeable to the steamship transportation companies, is a long one. . SUPREME COURT CANDIDATES. The lawyers' state assembly of 125 self-appointed and self-anointed "non-partisans" named Will R. King and W. T. Slater, Democrats, for Su preme judges. The Republican state assembly of 1200 representatives dele gated from every part of Oregon named Wallace McCamant and George H. Burnett, Republicans. The Demo cratic candidates belong to a party that is deploring assembly, yet they are named by assembly. Their as sembly of 125 self-called members professed to set itself up against the larger one of 1200 county-chosen dele gates. So much for the humbug of the Democratic politicians who con demn assembly yet seek through so called non-partisan assembly to elect two of their brethren to the "Supreme Court. King and Slater ought not to need such subterfuge to secure election. They are Democrats and have par ticipated in Democratic politics for many years. It should be honorable for a Democrat to seek election to the Supreme Court on his Democratic citizenship. It ought not to be neces sary, through non-partisan hugger mugger, to conceal such citizenship from voters. The candidates of the Republican assembly Burnett and McCamant are able and foremost men. Judge Burnett has made an enviable record as Judge of the Third Judicial District. Mr. McCamant is recognized univer sally as a . most worthy citizen and able member of the bar. The two other candidates of the Republican assembly for Supreme Judges Moore and McBride have proved themselves capable jurists and merit the best appreciation of voters. The Supreme Court selections of the Republican state assembly are most excellent. The lawyers' assembly was engineered by Democratic politicians and lectured by Mr. Folk, Democrat, of Missouri, for the purpose of dis guising Democratic candidates with so-called non-partisan veneer, in the interest of Democratic politicians and of self-seeking lawyers. Aside from party considerations, the conference of 1200 citizens was certainly fitter to recommend candidates for the peo ple's judgeships than was the assembly of 125 designing lawyers. BURNED-OUT SETTLERS. The July rainfall in sections of the Pacific Northwest in which forest fires have been raging with daily in creasing scope and fury was suffi cient to check many of these fires and to extinguish many. Its value In saturating the moss and dry twigs which ignited like tinder and carried the fire along from one timber area to another is incalculable. Present calamity and distress are always the "worst ever." Hence, though the for est fires of this season have been de clared the worst for many years, it is probable that they have not been greatly in excess, in the devastation they have caused, of those of ordi nary years. But they have been bad enough, as fleeing settlers with black ened and blistered hands and faces have testified, both in their appear ance and in the tales of loss and suffering that they have told. These settlers, many of whom have lost their all homes, barns, crops and stock are commended by their bitter mis fortune to the sympathy and material aid of those more fortunate. Judging by the aid extended in such cases in former years of fire blight, they will get it. Planting season past, the har vest season fruitless, the best that these burned-out settlers can do is to return to their homesites and pro ceed with as little delay as possible to prepare shelter and secure stores for the Winter, now not distant. Help to help themselves in these essentials of a "new start" on their desolated lands is the help which will count in the long run. TECHNICAL TRAINING IN AGRICULTURK Richard J. Crosby, of Washington, D. C, a specialist in agricultural edu cation recently declared, before the National Educational Association, that the boy who wants to learn to dig a ditch, harness a horse, use a. plow or milk a cow will seek in vain to ac quire knowledge in these things in the colleges of agriculture now in vogue throughout the. country. That there is some truth in this statement every man who has essayed to do these things solely from printed directions or class instruction will ad mit. The theory is all right, but it must toe rounded out by application before it is of use. Benjamin Frank lin, philosopher and sage, declared: He who by the plow would thrive Himself must either hold or drive. The truth of this declaration has been borne out by the experience of every man who has attempted to farm vicariously, or theoretically. The same may, however, be said of any trade, vocation or profession. The civil engineer, carrying away the honors of the technical school, must have experience under engineers of experience before he can construct a great viaduct. In the first rjlace he ! could not get a contract for the con struction of an Important piece of work solely upon the testimony of his competency as conveyed by his college diploma. Or if by chance or through favor he were given such a contract he would be helpless to carry it out without the guidance of a prac tical engineer. This statement does not decry the importance of the theor ies in which he has been drilled, t merely goes to show that practice is necessary to make theory, in any given line of skilled labor available and dependable. In agriculture this is certainly true. Yet it Is true also that a knowledge of soils, fertilizers, the rotation of crops, times, methods and seasons for planting and harvesting, etc., etc., will stand the young farmer in good stead and make him in a few years a much better farmer than is he who knows nothing of agriculture except what he has gained through the slow experi ments of years. Against the further charge of the specialist here quoted, that second ary schools and colleges teaching agriculture, teEsch theory only, is the fact that agricultural and horticultur al experiment grounds and dairy sta tions are parts of the equipment of very many state agricultural colleges and schools. It would certainly be a reproach to any such school to grad uate from its dairy section a man or woman who did not know by actual experience how to judge and handle cows, including the operation of milk ing by hand or machine or both; or to graduate from the horticultural sec tion a student who did not know by practical experiment how to plant, prune, spray and otherwise care for orchard trees according to approved methods; or to turn a straight furrow in the field, know how many bushels of wheat to sow to the acre and by actual observation know when grain was ready for harvest. Having been taught these things In college classes and upon experiment grounds, that youth must be stupid in deed, or but little interested in the vocation of farming, who is not better qualified for the work of the farm, from having given one or more years to the intelligent study of the prin ciples underlying the subject. That the agricultural college has become a sort of fad Is probable. In deed, the fact, as stated by Mr. Crosby, that there are 300 more schools and colleges teaching agriculture than there were a year and a half ago, in dicates this. But it does not, there fore, follow that the students of well equipped agricultural colleges are practically helpless in the details of this vocation when they come to apply them. Much time Is wasted and many failures are scored by the man who masters the details of any busi ness solely by personal experiment. It can be done if patience and per severance hold out and intelligence is ever on the alert to make note of and profit by failures. But in this day and age of the world this is not neces sary. It is, on the contrary, a great and foolish waste of time and energyi July wheat in Liverpool closed yes terday at $1.10 per bushel. In Chi cago the same option closed at $1.08 per bushel. This is the first time in many weeks that the Chicago market has been lower than the Liverpool market. As the minimum freight rate is 8 cents per bushel, it will be noticed that the American market is still several cents above the parity with Liverpool. The fact that prices are drawing closer together would seem to indicate that the continued reports of poor crops in this country and Canada are at last affecting the foreign markets. Unless, however, the American crop Is so small that there will not be a bushel available for ex port, Liverpool and the Chicago prices must eventually get much closer to gether than at the present time. Until this country ceases to be an exporter of wheat, It will be impossible to keep the price above the Liverpool parity for more than a few months. The Interior Department has ap pointed a competency commission to determine the extent to which the Umatilla Indians in this state are capable of bearing the burdens of citizenship. If 'the ability to make a good horse trade is entitled to any consideration, most of the Umatlllas are certain to receive at least one high rating in the examination. The "competency commission" is some thing new in Indian affairs, and ought to be productive of much good. The policy of treating all Indians alike has hardly served to bring out the best that there is in some enterprising members who can be found in all tribes. Perhaps, by placing a little more responsibility on some of 'the better type of Indians, they may rise to the occasion and still further quali fy for real citizenship. Much allowance can be made for a mother whose natural grief at the death of her son is attended by re sentment at the manner of his taking off. Charitably disposed persons will, therefore, bear with Mrs. Sutton in the recent freak with which she is accredited the determination to run for Congress in this state as a means whereby she may redress her woes and "protect the boys of the Army and Navy." Folly of this type fails to provoke a smile. , The decision of Judge Morrow ap parently upsetting the homestead law seems to be, in effect, that a judg ment will hold against the owner, and he can restrain the sale on execu tion; but the judgment, being a mat ter of record, will hold, and can be enforced when the homestead loses its character by sale or otherwise. The essence of it is that a man cannot dodge a debt. Mr. Eastham is not satisfied with the nomination of Mr. Clarke for Joint Senator with Multnomah, Clack amas and Columbia, and overrules the whole Multnomah County delegation and the state assembly and arranges to come out himself as candidate. Mr. Eastham's action will result, of course, In the election of the Statement No 1 candidate. Evidently that is what he wants. Mr. West, Democratic candidate for Governor, who favors the stock Dem ocratlc principles of Initiative and ref erendum, recall, and so on, would lend novelty to his campaign if he de clared for non-participation of Demo crats in a Republican primary. "Jimmy" Daly, the veteran motor- man of the local trolley service, has his old job again, and President Josse lyn has shown he can lay aside af fairs of magnitude to do justice to one of the least. Mrs. Sutton, or any woman for that matter, can be a candidate for a seat in Congress, but before she can qual ify there are a few trifles to be ar ranged, not the least of which is the matter of sex. Germany is again expelling Mormon missionaries Parties contemplating proselyting should consult the Em peror, who has a limited partnership in matters divine. The career of the $150,000 diamond just found In South Africa will be watched with interest and envy by all the affinities of the world. An Eastern bankers' association has alon nffinial oocnizanoe of the Aiitn- mobile-buylng hysteria. Next may be the grocers ana outcners. Makers of ice cream cones say borax is necessary to make them hold their shape. Here is a fashion hint that Mr. Bok should not overlook. The making of Republican slogans is an easy task in the coming cam paign, for Bowerman rhymes with "our man. MIGHT!' HUNTER IS CHITTCI5KD Mrs. Flake Doubts Htiraanltarlanlam of Rooaevelts African Trip. ' PORTLAND. July 22. (To the Edi tor.) A rather brusque and plain- spo Ken correspondent writes mat ex President Roosevelt is Just now return ing from an exhibition that is a dis grace to civilization." . l it"-' " v i , c- v on ... x . 1 1 . t;, inn . some' sort of public protest be made in mis connection; mis protest to De signed by thousands of names, and to Dear i&ntjioie witness to ine I act mat thousands of American men and women do not regard Colonel Roosevelt as the beat evamnlA nf mnr.tAnfstlv. A m art- can manhood, enlightenment and pro gressiveness. A distinguished man has recently said: "I doubt whether there is any active anti-cruellst in this coun try who would be unwilling to sign Th m n c . a vi.. .4a1 U 1... manltarlan movement in modern times me diow it nas received at the hands the world over who most appreciate le oetter qualities of our ex-Chief Ex ?utive cannot sympathize with or ad- lrt hlR Affon i . prnval by a magazine of respectability. xno Humanitarian movement is srrow- iST. and TT1 RTllffn 4a K.pnm1.ff AV, lightened in respect to its duty toward ne uumo creation. - .Not so long ago, OWe VP r. a distincrillRhfri AmArlonn clared: "The srovernment of man over s God-given domination is a failure. It is witnout intelligence. It is with- t iUStlce. T t I Wlthnht mAAv T administered in the interests of the gov- ernea. Ana yet. With a few shining ex ceptions the pulpit falls to cry aloud fails to lift up its voice like a trumpet to teach man his duty to the helpless ouujocta oi nis rule. Thousands of American boys desire to emulate Colonel Roosevelt. How is t possible to measure the mischievous ffeCtS Of the lunc-la nt.rnrl.. .mnn reckless and often naturallv cruel youth? Small bravery is required in the killing of wild animals, and no atom of nobility. In the matter of destruction of ani mal life, it may be that tne attitude of the bUtrhAr if nnhlAr than v.a ....... -i of the hunter. One may at least say in defense of the butcher that he Is indif ferent. The hunter owns to a thrill of rapture as nls bullet pierces the heart of the bird, or his knife tears the throat or ine ingatened doe. Kew sound, in telligent or enlightened people can deny that the humanitarian mnvmnt i. good. The humanitarian Idea emboli. eS the e-rOWth et mn-alt.. . .1 tendency towards tranquillity, har mony, co-operation, abstinence from harm to any creature, courtesy, kind- i.coo, justice, mercy to the helpless in short, humanity in its best expression. ii. ine Humanitarian Idea is progress ve and risrht. then r'ninnoi act is un progressive and the reverse of right. The ouestlnn uric... should a man of great celebrity feel it upun mmseir to restrain any public exhibition of a natural instinct, when such exhibition implies danger as a menace to ethics accepted and taught by manv enlly-htpn h anj4 tv... - ..u n u. LI. - sons? We all lennw tha .t.t... . i . . , " " 4ii ine calen dar of crime of the destruction of life. How far are we sure that we have a moral right to destroy animal life since man no longer denies the fact that all life emnnotAe . v. . - ' ..1 two au.iiiei ine principle, and that all living things be long to a universal - kinship? We all know that dangerous animals must be destroyed when they menace the safety of men. but In thio . j - uwaL.uv.Lxuu mere should be an economy of cruelty. To liuuoiuur me aestruction of life as pleas- uiauie aport is naraiy in harmony with progressive thought of any sort. As Krederlr. ITnn-iann u ., j . . ,.m. - "-' Hiiiieiii ine death and pain Inflicted should accord v4ni me necessities of civilization, and to the ultimate guard of the animal world as a whole, of "an oniy tne guardian. Above all else. thosA vhn infli... . death upon the animal world should search their own sahI 4ai.h.ii j . - -U.111.V.I1J, nuu uu sure that there lurk therein no trace of enjoyment In the infliction; no brutal in sensibility of our action; no wanton curi osity, no diabolical passion of vanity or ambition." It is nroner to nilr i t Thm4nH x veil was moved by any of these im pulses and emotlonn In hl H ..... i. i course through the African jungles. .Mi iN IN I ill MADDERN FISKE, First Vice-President The International nuraane Association. Ed Howe's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. How hot a black silk dress looks In Summer. There is a rich rumble to a clrnii wagon that even an automobile lacks. wnen a man begins to say he feels as young as he ever did. that is an other sign he is getting old. Although a soft answer mav turn away wrath, the general disposition is to use a club for the same purpose. .ever remarK now many neoDle there are who want you to neglect your own affairs In order to give them "encour agement"? Hospitality is a great institution, but always remember that the delegate to a convention isn't half as welcome as the money he spends. Every really good newspaper in this country is distinguished by a brief edi torial page. There is nothing quite so tiresome as an editorial, except a lec ture. Take Your Choice. Life. Last week the stock market was weak: Because Taft was expected to do something to the railroads. Because Roosevelt was reported to be preparing another article for the Outlook. Because it was raided by the bears. Because certain financial interests withheld their support. Because stocks were too high. Because of the report that a certain magnate was far from well. Because of a revolution in South America. Because a certain newspaper made a misprint in its financial column. Because the weather was hot. . Definitions From the School Room. Westminster Gazette. Here are some definitions from the schoolroom: "A Jacobite is a man descended from Jacob." "Snoring is our breath meeting the air which is coming in our mouth." "Sneezing is a kind of 'coffing in the throat." Another boy writes: "When you are cold the inside of your body rumbles and then it makes a noise which is called sneezing." "A telephone is a kind of long wire with a spout at each end." How Caesar Could Have Saved Money, Chicago Tribune. Caesar had sent the message, "Veni, vidl, vici." "I could send seven more words with out .any additional expense," he said, "but I can't think of seven words be ginning with v' and ending with "1" that will quite fill the bill. Later he reflected that he could have used a picture post card and saved at least 44 cents. Eliminated the Amblsrnlty. Philadelphia Telegram. To avoid all possibility of error. It may be remarked in passing that Lord Curzon referred to the man and not the town when he said he found Colonel Roosevelt's equal only in Lincoln. CLERK COREY MUCH PUZZLED Long Affirmative Arguments May Shut Out Negative Replies. SALEM. Or.. July 2i (Special.) Chief Clerk Corey, of the Secretary of State's office is in a quandary as to certain affirmative arguments which are now prepared to go to the printer. The State Federation of Labor has submitted a single argument to cover three measures and the People's Power League a single argument to cover four measures. These arguments are extensive and cover many typewritten pages. The question arises. If a faction desires to file a negative argument against any one of these particular measures where will the negative argument be located in the pamphlet? It is certain that the one filing would object strenuously to having his negative argument several pages removed from the affirmative argu ment, which would almost necessaiitly be the case if there were a protest made against an Individual measure covered by the long arguments mentioned. The clerk tomorrow morning will ask for am opinion from the Attorney-General as to the validity of arguments filed in bunches. If the Attorney-General's opinion should be to the effect that such filing ia illegal, then a second query comes up as to the possibility of dividing the affirmative arguments. Time for filing such arguments ia long since past and it is a disputable point as to whether separating the various sections and segre gating them would be creating new argu ments, which cannot be filed now. and thus crowding them from the pamphlet entirely. - Until next Monday afternoon is given to file negative arguments. . OPENING OF ROGUE OPPOSED Argument Filed Against Bill Allow ing Salmon Fishing. SALEM. Or.. July 12. (Special.) That strong fight will be put up by both sides on the question of prohibiting fish ing in the Rogue River is indicated by a negative argument filed today with the Secretary of State against the proposed statute to stop fishing, which is also aimed at the old fishing right of the R D. Hume estate on that river. Signers of the negative argument are E. A. Bailey, John R. Miller and Her bert Hume. They contend that the Rogue River is not excelled in the state as a place for salmon fishing, with the ex ception of the Columbia; that private capital in erecting canneries and clear ing the river at the mouth of the stream had expended $250,000 and they contend that commercial fishing at the mouth does not interfere with sport on the up per river. They maintain that two pri vate hatcheries owned by the estate of R. D. Hume and a Government hatchery on Elk Creek supply many times the number of fish taken out. ELLEXSBCRO IS GIVEN PARK Henry Kleinberg Donates Strip and Railroad Will Add to It. ELLENSBURG, Wash., July 22. (Spe cial.) Henry Kleinberg today purchased a triangular strip of land 120 by 200 feet, adjoining the Northern Pacific depot, for $3500. and has offered It to the city as a public park, on the condition that the Council will guarantee that it be main tained. Northern Pacific officials who were in the city today said that they would add 100 feet to the tract. The park Is the first to be established in the city. Mayor Craig will accept the offer. DEER SITS FOR PHOTOGRAPH Fisherman McKenzie Gets Snapshot of Animal Drinking. EUGENE, Or.. July 22. (Special.) Following closely the receipt of a 15 pound Dolly Varden trout from Blue River comes a snapshot picture of a 13-point deer, from the same locality. J. H. Lathrop came down from the McKenzie last night, and is exhibiting the picture to his friends here. He was out early Monday morn'ng with his camera and fishpole, when the deer came to the stream to drink, close enough to be photographed. Stage drivers say that they frequently see deer along the well-traveled roads'. SCOVELL ASCENDS THREE FEET Then Salem Aviator and His Ma chine Crash to Earth. aALEM. Or., July 22. (Special.) Dr. H. H. Scovell attempted a second flight to night in a biplane constructed by B. P. Taylor and himself. The flight was made at the State Fair grounds track and Scovell succeeded in getting three feet from the ground and skimmed along for several yards;' when the plane crashed Into the grandstand and several parts of the machine were broken. Scovell was unhurt. Supreme Court Sets Cases. SALEM. Or.. July 22. (Special.) Cases have been set for hearing by the Supreme Court today as follows: Tues day. July 26. Isaacson vs. Stevens, Mult nomah County, writ of habeas corpus; Wednesday, August 3. Starkey vs. Lunz. Douglas County; State vs. Erick son. Crook County; Thursday, August 4. Livesley vs. Krebs, rehearing, Marion County; Shreve vs. Webster, Multno mah County; Friday, August 5, Leav ens vs. stark, Douglas County; Darling vs. Miles, Multnomah County. Big Railway Contract Begins. WEISER, Idaho, July 22. Special.) Representatives of Maney Brothers & Co., one of the largest railroad con tracting firms in the West, passed through Weiser this week en route to Evergreen, in the northern part of the county, with a grading outfit consisting of 11 cars of stock and tools and about 50 workmen. This firm has the con tract for grading the extension of the Pacific & Idaho Northern from Ever green to Meadow, a distance of 16 miles, and will employ about 300 teams and 400 men on the work. Road to Top of Butte Completed. EUGENE. Or., July 22. (Special.) A fine road to the top of Skinner's Butte, north of this city, has been com pleted. The road circles the butts in such a way that the rise is gradual, making a fine trip for automobiles or carriages. From the top of the butte a commanding view of a long stretch of the Willamette Valley, north and south, can be had. Guardsmen Get Equipment. EUGENE, July 22. (Special.) Com panies A and E, Fourth Regiment, O. N. G., last night distributed among their members tools for throwing up in trenchments. In addition to the tools each member was presented with the regulation tan shoes made especially for long marches. The new additions are occasioned by the coming encamp ment at American Lake. Liquor Seller Convicted. EUGENE, Or., July 22. (Special.) One conviction was quickly secured yesterday in the case against Clarence, Beaupre, charged with the Illegal sale of intoxi cating liquor. The Jury deliberated only five minutes. Sentence has not been passed. The trials of the remaining six offenders will follow in regular order in the Circuit Court, A. D. Charlton Reports Good . Out look in Washington and Idaho. CROPS WILL BE LARGE Declaring that the Western Wash ington and Idaho country will have a record breaking fruit crop, . and that arrangements had already been made for special eastern and western, ex press trains to move the same, A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific Rail way, returned yesterday from a ten day trip through the Palouse and sur rounding country. It was Mr. Charlton's opinion that the Spring grain would be far below the normal owing to the unusual cli matic conditions. "'There is a grand prospect for the Fall crop." he said. The fruit crop in the Yakima and El lensburg country was unusually large. Here also, have the fruit growers re served special trains to throw their product promptly into the markets. "I don't think I ever saw such an im mense fruit crop," commented Mr. Charlton. "The only trouble will be moving it." Mr. Charlton traveled in' private car. which was run special from Seat tle. It went to Pasco and along the Snake River to Lewiston; thence along the Clearwater line to the Palouse country and on to Spokane. From Spokane, the "return was made to Portland over the North Bank. The Genesee- and Farmlngton valleys were visited. In the party were G. T. Slade. th'rd vice-president, and H. C. Nutt. fourth vice-president of the Northern Pacific The trip was taken as a means of estimating the cars that would be re quired to move the crops. GIANT BOTTLES WILL BE USED Northern Pacific Will Utilize Them to Advertise Oregon Products. Bottles over six feet in helghth will be used in the Northern Pacific display car of Oregon resources, according to A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent. To prevent any charges that the products are "faked." it has been de cided that everything shall be shown on the stem. In displaying apples it will be necessary to adopt enormous bottles to show the fruit on the branch. Grains and all agri cultural products are being gathered and put under the preservatives by the Cham ber of Commerce experts. The car will go out in October and will travel all over the Eastern States. Officials to Open New Depot. A large number of Harriman officials left Portland last night In the private car of General Manager O'Brien to at tend the opening of the new O. R. & N. depot at Baker City. The depot is built of stone and will be one of the most im posing on the lines. The private car was attached to the express mall train, that usually carries no .passengers, leaving Portland at 6:30. Among those who went wens: J. P. O'Brien, general manager: P. W. Robinson, assistant general freight agent; William McMurray, general pas senger agent, and others. COOPER HAS WON STUDENTS Seattle School Superintendent De livers Lectures at University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. July 22. (Special.) Frank Cooper, super intendent of the Seattle schools, com pleted his course of lectures on 'Prob lems of City System" before the Sum mer school assembly this morning. His course has been, perhaps, the best at tended of the year and Mr. Cooper has made many friends among the attend ing students. - Mr. Cooper is known as one of the best educators in the West, and is said to be the idol of his teachers in the Se attle schools. He receives the same salary as the president of the University of Washington, the highest paid any edu cator in the State of Washington. . His five lectures here were as follows: "The True Motive of School Administra tion," "Supervision and Its Conditioning Factors.' "Organization and Its Agency." "The Determination and Improvement of . Teaching Efficiency," "Modification of System and Measurement of Effects." Superintendent Frank Rigler, of the Portland schools, is scheduled for next week .with a course of five lectures on "Problems of Industrial Education.'.' - DAYTON COUNCILMEN FIXED Two ex-Mayors Also Caught Using Water After Hours. DAYTON, Wash.. July 22. (Special.) Three of Dayton's councllmen and 37 other prominent property-owners of Dayton were fined $2 each today for violating the city ordinance penalizing the use of city water for sprinkling after 8 P. M. following detective work by Water Superntendent Johnston and three special deputy inspectors. Those refusing to pay the fine will have their water supply cut off today. Two ex Mayors of Dayton are Included in the list. Members of the council were among the first to be fined. People were found using water until midnight. A second violation means a double fine. Bickleton, Wash., Has Bad Fire. BICKLETON, Wash.. July 22. Fire this forenoon . destroyed a large part of the business section of this place, and was only placed under control after strenuous work on the part of the citi zens who gathered to fight the flames. The fire started at the side of an ice house, in the rear of Brockman & Halschbarger's grocery store, and quickly spread to the business section. The stores destroyed, with the amount of losses, are: Brockman & Halschbarger, grocers. $5000; Dr. Brockman. druggist, $8000; Will G. Faulkner, hardware and imple ments, $12,000. William Llppe Dies of Paralysis. OREGON CITY, Or., July 22. (Spe cial.) William Llppe. of this city, died of paralysis this morning at the home of Mrs. Ida West at Mountain View. He was a blacksmith at Mountain View.' His age was 46 years, and he is sur vived by two daughters and two sons in Pennsylvania, his wife having died some time ago. He was born in Penn sylvania. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence of Mrs. West, and the interment will be in the Mountain View Cemetery. Two Policemen Resign. ASTORIA. Or., July 22.' (Special.) -At a special meeting of the Astoria Board of Police Commissioners today, the resignations of J. B. Wilson and Charles Dubeau as patrolmen were pre sented and accepted, the latter to take place on August 1. W. S. Horrell was appointed as a patrolman, and H. W. Rlnn. who has been desk sergeant for a number of years, was promoted to the position of captain. Moscow Pioneer Dies. MOSCOW, Idaho. July 22.-HSpecial.) -William W. King, an early pioneer of this section, 75 years old, the father o a large grown family, died Monday. Mr. King came here in 1S76 from Illi nois and squatted on a claim Just north west of where Moscow was afterwards started and lived and died on this same place- ,