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Jm .1, ii Triune bulMinc 512 Tribune bulldlr.c PORTXAND. KATXRPAT. Al te. ' IS BRTA- A pmifX R.VT? The picturesque anil always edify ing editor of the Louisville Courier Journal more than augges'-s in a re cent article upon Mr. Bryan that the distinguished luminary of the Platte la subject to a pettiness of soul un becoming to so great a politician. To Illustrate his Innuendo. Colonel Pat terson brings forward Mr. Bryan's attempt to quiz Governor Harmon not lore ago. He finds the secret of the Bryan unklndltness toward Harmon in the fact that the latter was In Years agone Attorney-General for Mr. Cleveland, of hated memory to the Bryantte. Colonel Watterson then goes on to wonder whether Mr. Bryan would not discover fatal ob jections to Woodrow Wilson. Thomas M. Osborne and Indeed every other Democrat of light and leading If he were to push himself forward as a Presidential possibility. The fact that he might do so seems to the editor of the Courier-Journal to Indicate ' In Mr. Bryan a certain pettiness, an In ability to forgive his ancient foes. The Chicago Inter Ocean. comment Inn upon Colonel Watterson's Bryanlc meditations, opines that he has erred In divining the motives of the great Nebraskan. As the Inter Ocean sees him. Mr. Brvan not only forgives his enemies rith exemplary ease, but he goes far ther. He forgets their weaknesses, which a great statesman will never do. It Is told -of favour, the savior of Itatv. that he did not know what personal animosity was. But it Is also said of him that he never trusted an Instrument which had once proved unreliable. The Inter Ocean thinks Mr. Bryan resembles the famous Ital ian In the former particular, but not In the latter. He Is prone to lean on broken reeds. But It Is not so much men as measures which elude Mr. Bryan's memory. There is no con tinuity In his political life, we are given to understand by the writer in the Inter Ocean. "'Some Issue of the moment always looms larger to him than any real permanent Issue. Just now It Is the liquor traffic. A few weeks ago It was the direct election of Senators," and so on. In other words. Mr. Bryan Is an opportunist of the undesirable sort. There are opportunists who unite flexibility with consistency. They amend their course to suit the breeze of the moment, but they never lose sight of the stars which are guiding them to a distant haven. Mr. Bryan feels the force of the breexe. but he does not see the tsra. With much deference to the Inter Ocean, we believe that it Is as badly In error as Colonel Watterson In weighing Mr. Bryan's statesmanship. While he does not conspicuously cherish petty spite, he certainly has shown Mmself to be a pretty good hater. It la probably true that he never has permitted resentment to hinder his working with anybody, but it cannot be maintained that bis mem ory Is unusually short either for men or Ideas. Mr. Bryan doese Indeed flit from flower to flower In search of paramount Issues, but throughout his career one can easily discern a guid ing and organising principle. The reason why It Is not clear to every body lies in the fact that many people r TtrvAn fttr a Jeffersonlan Pernor rat. In fact, he takes himself tor one. No voice Is louder than his In celebrating the glories of the man who taught that the best government Is the one which governs least, but with Mr. Bryan praise Is one thing and conduct another. He lauds Jef ferson to the skies, but he does not follow him. Mr. Bryan has been "un able to recur to the first principles of Democracy." as the Inter Ocean puts It. simply because he does not believe in them. It do not fallow, however, that there are no first principles in which be does believe, though he may be the last man In the world to find it out. From the beginning of his career to the present time Mr. Bryan has been a consistent advocate of central isation In government. In the period of his buoyant youth he taught that all currency, whether silver or paper, should be Issued directly by the Fed eral Government. He Would have no Intermediaries, be they National banks or what not. Later he horri fied the orthodox members of his party by coming out for Government ownership of the railroads, which Is centralisation of the most glaring spe cie. Once upon a time a cartoon In a Eastern paper which Is still re membered pictured Mr. Bryan as a plucked fowl perched dismally on a bough in the wintry show. All his feathers were gone but one solitary plume In hie tall, which the artist had labeled "Government ownership." Not far away in a well-feathered nest sat Mr. Ro-ieJovelt. warm and cosy, sur rounded with the downy spoils which he had plucked from his rival. "I suppose." remarked Mr. Bryan, as he pensively gased on his one remaining feather, or "policy." "he'll rull this one out. too. pretty soon." The not Very darkly-veiled suggestion was that Mr. Roosevelt has availed himself mora or less of Mr. Bryan's Ideas. However that may have been. It is true enough tiftat there Is not a single one of the Roosevelt centralising pol icies which Mr. Bryan does not ap prove of and which he has not called his own at one time or another. In hts heart he Is a Harailtonian. He believes In multiplying the functions of the Government, and to this peril ous heresy he has seduced millions of his fellow Democrats. There Is no difference at bottom between the Jvmocracy of Mr. Bryan and the Re avabUculem of tie Rooacvcit school. , Their kinship Is Indicated by the ease with which Bryan Democrats In Kansas .and some other states migrate to the camp of the insurgent Republicans. THE CAXXOX ISSIE. Speaker Cannon stands alone. He will be re-elected to Congress, doubt less, but the hue and cry against him and his Iron-clad House organization have destroyed any possible chance he might have for re-election as Speaker. Representative Longworth. son-in-law of Ropsevelt and a stal wart, has declared against Cannon. Even the President, who loves Vace, and never seeks or makes war with out a strong Impulse, has made It clear that Cannon as Speaker must go. It is idle, therefore, for the insur gents, or for those who have for their own purposes attached themselves to the insurgent movement, to attempt to make Cannonlsm an Issue in the Congressional campaign. The Speak er is beaten and everybody knows it. Even he knows it. but he dies fight ing to the last. t.KANt.fcS AND THE INITIATIVE. Evening Star Grange and M'oodlawn Grange are much to be commended for setting aside time for discussion of what are termed the most impor tant measures covered by the initia tive to be voted on at the coming elec tion. But In the Intimation that, ow ing to the large number, only a few can be considered, danger surely lurks. Can the "great ignorance" that is said to exist, and surely does exist, "among all classes concerning these measures" be dispelled by such partial Instruction? And how about the ref erendum? Why this partiality? A 'very cursory reading shows that every one of the "measures" to be voted on requires study, whether they bear the title initiative or referendum. Out of that maze of twenty-five initia tives and seven referendum, to pick out which to support and which to denounce is surely a tough Job. It Is made worse when one finds various measures contradictory of others. Then there are the topics, ranging from woman suffrage and state and county taxation to shutting off Ashing in Rogue River except with hook and line from the creation of five or' six new counties to knocking out local option, and creating a board -to edit and publish a state magazine, among half a dozen Incongruous duties. But the peaches come last on the list. There is one omnium gatherum of an Initiative which would take a whole Grange meeting to itself, and then some be left over to the next. Is it sarcastic or straight when it proposes to extend the field of initiative, refer endum and recall? It looks as if the whole earth and the waters under the earth were under review already. Again, when the teeth of the Legis lature have been pulled and its claws cut close, annual sessions and higher salaries for the members are proposed. Then, lest elections on old lines be too simple, the new fad of "propor tional representation" Is to be Intro duced. It would not be a bad notion to have a Grange meeting set apart for that. too. and let all the neighbors in. This very free use of the great Ideas of the Initiative and referendum reminds one of the elephant In the circus. Have you not seen him pick up with his great trunk a pin on the floor or a dropped cent? Yes. he can do that very thing, but you would hardly lead him about the country to pick up spilled pins and cents. Great strength should be kept for great needs. So the best suggestion that can be offered the Granges is that they begin by asking what are the legiti mate and reasonable uses of these popular powers each and all of them. Determine that and see how many In the long list before them meet that test. If any there are, vote them in. If none have the courage to vote them all out. One thing sure is that who ever votes for a change In Oregon's constitution and laws, or votes In some far-reaching new "measure" without understanding its meaning and force Is a very poor friend to the initiative and referendum. Just one suggestion more. The Granges are setting a good example. Why should not every commercial club, development club, farmers' asso ciation, or like bodies In our state fol low their lead? The timej Is very short. CANADA'S IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. That the "back flow" of the immi gration movement which has been running In Canada's favor for the past two years promises larger volume than the Canadians will enjoy is quite evident. A Winnipeg dispatch In The Oregonlan yesterday said that a dep utation from the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and Grain Exchange called on Consul-General Jones and requested him to bring to the atten tion of President Taft what they term "the organized campaign Inaugurated in the L'nlted States to induce Cana dian settlers to return to the United States." It la not yet apparent In the United States that there is an organ ized movement to induce ex-Americans to come back to their native land. Most of the Americans who have gone across the line were oretty fa miliar with conditions here as well as In CanaSa. before they went. Until we modify our Plnchotized conserva tion laws, we have no Inducements to offer them that were not In evidence when they departed. The attempt of Canada, however, to check this back-flow reveals a somewhat paradoxical situation. While Canada Is endeavoring to attract American settlers and hold those who have already crossed the line, she Is making equally strenuous objections to the admission of other settlers en tering from the Atlantic seaboard. This Immigration Is largely made up of impecunious people who have made a failure of life In the United King dom and Continental Europe, and have been assisted by the Salvation Army and other charitable organiza tions, and -at times by the Govern ment, to reach this new land of prom- lse. Canada is not entnusiaatic over this rlasa of population, and is con templating increasing the amount of money that an Immigrant Is required to possess In the hope of checking the flow of undesirables.' In this respect Canada's experience is not very much different from that of the United States. Thus far we have not received very many of the "assisted" immigrants from the Old World, but among the millions who have poured into the At lantic ports In the past ten years there have been a large number who have become more of a burden than a ben efit to the country. This class of im migration hangs around the cities, and. except in small numbers, does not take up farm work or similar TITT3 MORNIXG OREGOXIAN. SATURDAY, lines of effort. These Southern Euro pean immigrants do not readily assim ilate with our people. The thrifty among them save their money and send or take it back to the land from which they came. The shiftless add to the already overwhelming cost of crime in the country, and both classes are thus more burdensome than beneficial. That Canada will eventually suffer more than the United States from this class of Immigration is a certainty, for while our maximum immigration of all kinds is only about. 1 per cent of the population, that of -Canada In recent years has reached t per cent. In the clrcamstances It is not surpris ing that Canada Is very anxious to re tain her American settlers. She will need them all to keep order and main tain respectability among others of her new settlers. lNSfBGEXTS AND THE TARIFF. Chief issue of "insurgents" is pro tective tariff. It for long time has been so in this country' and may for long time continue to be so. When Democrats enacted protective tariff in Cleveland's Administration, insur gents wrecked the party. The party's President led the van of the revolt. Under - the Dingley tariff bill of Republicans, Insurgents grumbled long and loud, until "revision" was necessary. But Payne's revision bill satisfies no better than did its pre decessor. Insurgents are on the war path again. Just so long as either party adheres to the disguised humbug and robbery of protective tariff there will be In surgency and revolt. The American people will never be content so long as Import duties take from one group to bestow upon another. Insurgents of Indiana. Iowa, Kan sas and Minnesota don't offer real hope to the groaning masses; they don't offer revenue tariff: they cling to the old protective tariff fetich of tariff spoils for favored few and taxes for unfavored many. Until they quit "protection" they cannot be reformed. They are of the same kind as Aldrich. The Insurgents attack the high-wool duty that helps Oregon citizens to a share of the spoils. Tet If they shall succeed In cutting out Oregon's wool duty, this state will then have more Insurgents than ever. Protective tariff bars Insurgents from rational -and abiding principle of political action. Until they shall abandon It, their messianic hopes will fall. The right kind of insurgency demands tariff for revenue only. EKPERANTO. The election of a Portland man to high office In the Esperanto Associa tion of North America indicates that this city may number more students of the new language among its inhab itants than is commonly supposed. The idea of an auxiliary language, as It Is called, appeals strongly to a great many people. In the centuries preceding the ISth Latin enjoyed the position of a uni versal auxiliary tongue. All scientific men and scholars could speak and write It, while for the uses of every day they employed their native speech. English. French or Italian, as It might happen to be. The Esper antists cherish a similar ambition for their artlflclcal language. They do not ask anyone to abandon the tongue ha learned In childhood, but they hope that everybody will finally adopt Es peranto In communications with those of foreign speech. The artificial language has made more progress than might have seemed possible at first. It has stu dents in every civilized country and a literature which Is at least not con temptible. But whether it will ever be used as an auxiliary language throughout the world Is doubtful. We do not attach much Importance to the objection that Esperanto has rot "evolved." Many improvements which have apparently not evolved have been adopted everywhere and will never be abandoned. The real complaint against Esperanto is its lack of simplicity. Its grammar Is more complex than that of English. In the matter of declension It harks back to decaying usage, and its ap paratus for expressing relations of time, place. Inference and so on Is too difficult for ordinary people to understand. English, on the other hand. Is almost free from declension and expresses all. relations as simply as possible. In the long run, there is much reason to believe, English 'will be the universal language of com merce, business and scholarship. Some say that Its progress to that goal would be a great deal more rapid if It enjoyed a scientific system of spelling. WITHOCT PORTENT OR PROMTSK.. The President, on his recent visit to Maine, commented upon the fact that, by holding Its Congressional election in September, that state Im posed upon itself the burden of a dou ble election once in four years, since every state must vote for President of the United States In November. Maine and Vermont, now that Oregon is out of the four year's double elec tion line, are the only Northern states that vote for members of Con gress In any other month than No vember. As to the few Southern states that hold elections In other months, they simply do not count, since they are in no sense political weather gauges. Formerly state elections were held in the several states all along the cal endar, seemingly as It happened, from early Spring until late Autumn. The unnecessary waste of time and forces, vital and material. Incident to holding two elections every fourth year where one would suffice, was noted and de plored, until finally public opinion was aroused to the point of 'action, and. in all but the two states noted the political sign-board indicated by a state election In the months pre ceding a Presidential election, was discarded. Oregon was long the state that pointed the initial finger to the Presi dential result In November. Its fore cast was the same for many years a forecast that was usually verified when the time came. What little sat isfaction accrued from being first in line was. however, more than out weighed by the work, expense and annoyance of holding two elections where one was enough, and after much political skirmishing the change was made; the state election will be held this year and hereafter in November. Long habit constrains us still to think of June as the battle month In state politics. We congratulate ourselves, nevertheless, upon a change that gives us but one general election in Presidential years. While alleged reform measures barnacle our politi cal system, greatly increasing the pre liminary election expenses, the cut ting out of one election every four years will contribute something to the balance of accounts and give us poli cal quietude In June. The pivotal states that were In past political contests worked to the limit by campaign managers for "moral effect," were Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The first of these changed its state election date from October to November in 1872; Indiana wheeled into line in 1880, and Ohio in 1884. Since the latter date the October elections, of which so much was made In the National campaign, have been things of the past. Maine and Ver mont will be the first to elect mem bers to the Sixty-second Congress. The election takes place In Vermont on the 7th and in Maine bn the 12th of September. Great things are doing and greater things brewing in Na tional politics, but with the Presiden tial election still two years off and President Taft meeting smilingly but with decision and dignity every emer gency that is presented to him as Chief Executive, the result of the elections In these states will hardly be big, either with portent or promise. It has been nearly a decade since the last shipment of Willamette Val ley wheat was sent foreign, but the possibilities of the Valley as a grain growing region are as great as ever. Most of the Valley farmers are reap ing greater profits from dairying and fruitgrowing than they are getting out of grain, but the Valley will this year produce more wheat than Is needed for home consumption, and will have a large surplus of other grains. A yield of ninety-nine bushels per acre on a ten-acre field of oats near Hills boro, with Winter wheat running from 30 to 35 bushels per acre, is pretty good evidence that there are still good gralngrowing properties In the soil, although It is much more valu able for other purposes. Even the Walla Walla country, the successor of the Willamette Valley in the export wheat trade. Is rapidly drifting into fruit and vegetable growing and dairying. The returns are so much greater than those which are possible from grain that even sixty-bushel wheat yields would not tempt the farmers to return to the cereal production. The Panama Canal is making good progress according to the latest issue of the v"anal Record. For a distance of miles, the eastern end of the canal is now navigable for vessels of fifteen feet draft, and on the western end "five miles of the big ditch are open to vessels of all kinds. There still remains a vast amount of work before either of these approaches will be completed, but the rapidity with which work is progressing gives assur ance that the big task will be per formed in time for the 1915 celebra tions that are being arranged In honor of the event. There has been an enor mous loss through paying excessive freight rates to American vessels en gaged In transporting material to the canal: but. as these "donations" to the shipowner were all open and above board, there have been no such scan dals in connection with the work as grew out of the French attempt to build the canal, and it will be com pleted on time. Justice occasionally discards her leaden boots and trips swiftly forward even in Oregon. The accelerated movement on the part of the blind goddess is usually most noticeable along the frontier, where there are avengers lurking in the bushes and liable to leave Justice behind In the race, unless she Is alert. Attention to the occasional speed spurts of Justice Is called by the refusal of the Supreme Court to Interfere in the case of Mur derer Harrell, who shot and killed the Newell brothers near Lakevlew, June 9. Arrest, conviction and sentence were prompt, and the murderer was sentenced to hang September 9. There being no further obstacles in the way of carrying out the sentence, Mr. Har rell will probably pay the penalty which he earned exactly three months after the commission of the crime. The French aviator. Monsieur Le Bianc. has solved an important prob lem 'n aviation. The great question in flying has ' been how to keep from wreck 1n a storm. Mr. Le Blanc's an swer is simple and conclusive. He files ahead of It. Falstaff solved the problem of reconciling glory with safety in battle by running. M. Le Blanc thus merely adapts a solution. He does not Invent It, but he may have discovered the secret of suc cessful aviation All the same. What's to be gained by transmuting copper into Iron? This new professor can't turn his discovery Into money. Now, if he could only change copper or iron or both into gold, he could sell the Invention to Morgan for a lot of money, while the great New York banker could capitalize it for ten times the purchase price. The Senatorial committee Investi gating the "third degree" In San Fran cisco can learn more and all about it by simply killing a plain-clothes man from the front office. Chicago's woman superintendent wants to Install kitchens In her schools. That ought to make going to school as popular as going to a picnic. If public drinking cups are danger ous, why Is It many men do not die from passing around the same old whisky bottle and gurgling? Shallenberger. beaten in the Ne braska primaries for the Democratic renomination, has the Populist deck up his sleeve. That is a mighty aggregation that will assault the Oregon City atmos phere this afternoon. Now Portugal Is making faces at the Pope, but Portugal is not big enough for a grimace. Danville shows a gain of 70 per cent in the decade. Its biggest citizen grew more than that. As coughing autos disturb Mr. Rockefeller, he must produce a noise less fluid. Texas Republicans have gone through the usual farce of nominating a ticket. The union-made coffin Is the last resort of the man who wears the but ton. The price of tobacco is raised. But you don't have to pay It. AUGUST 20, 1910. NR. SCOTT'S I.IKE SERVICE. Estimates br Two Rellstowi Journals of OregOB. j. H. Murphy. In the Catholic SentinM. In a truly catholic spirit, the Sentinel has asked me to add my humble tribute to a man who dedicated his great gifts of learning and brilliancy to the wel fare of his country and a sincere fel lowship with the misfortunes of hu manity. Scarcely one year ago, Harvey W. Scott mentioned my name in his news paper as an "old friend." I regard it as a blessed privilege to have known this man and to have been counted among his humble friends. A newspaper records events: It rarely creates them. What arouses a keen Interest in one man may excite dis pleasure and vexation in another man. So with the editor in commenting on an event. For twenty years have I Btudied the coinage of Mr. Scott's con victions, and to my mind these twenty years is a chapter of consistent, fear less and faultless logic, which lauda tion cannot adorn nor detraction de face, for your truly consistent man is the man of Mr. Scott's rare character, whose strength of integrity and fidel ity to truth are superior to opinions expressed in the past, if under other conditions, right and Justice demand a revision of policies, but never an abase ment of principles. Mr. Scott Jiad drunk at the head of the fountain of fundamentals, and In assimilating the best thought of the day. his instincts in the retrospect of cause and effect, of experience, growth and an ascending progression of our social evolution, was unequalled and unerring. Herein his mind was free from all prepossessions; he was able to perceive with a vision clear and true the wonderful develop ment our civilization is undergoing, its Inherent possibilities for weal or woe, and he sought to bring out into the full est and clearest light that any decisive triumph for the cause of humanity lay in the avoidance of the errors of the Dast and in the employment of those principles of human government that had survived the obliterations ana ae cay of the centuries and had been at tested by the wisdom of the ages. In this respect he was the safest guide that I have ever met in the flesh. He was the bodily presentation of his be loved Edmund Burke. The future can estimate at their true worth the services of this simple, un affected and great man to his coun trymen and to mankind. I write of him merely as a student who has been elevated by his character and instruct ed oy his wisdom. In this capacity he appeals to me as the Sage of Oregon, bigger than party and twenty-five years In advance of Its political per spective. . . . Here In Oregon, the tariff question was Mr. Scott, and Mr. Scott was the tariff question: here in Oregon Mr. Scott was the silver ques tion, and the sliver question was Mr. Scott; here in Oregon' Mr. Scott was the bulwark of decent, well ordered and representative government. In life Mr. Scott was the ablest exponent of his state's wisdom and patriotism; in death he Is the supreme figure of its best aspirations. If there was any bit terness or disappointment that touched the tranquil soul of thi? smiling chief tain of the philosophic world, I never discerned it In the written or spoken word. His life, taken all In all. was "a grand and noble creed." There are those living today who will bear me out In what I say, that Harvey W. Scott has been, on more than one occasion, the best and truest friend that the Roman Catholic Church had in this state, outside of its own communion. Mr. Chesterton and other enlightened writers have paid no more liberal tributes to the Catholic Church than has Harvey W. Scott. I looked into his private room the other night In The Oregonlan building about the hour of 11 o'clock. The lights were turned down low, throwing a mournful somber over that vacant chair; a melancholy stillness overbur dened the room; the amu3ed smile that used to salute my entrance I will see no more, the kindly and fatherly greeting I will never hear' again; the faithful sentinel of the people's rights has gone forever, the very walls seemed to be clothed In sadness and I was over whelmed with the belief that the guid ing star of this great newspaper who freely gave the conspicuous abilities of his long, useful and sincere life, to his country, his state and his fellowman, that this reverent and persistent seeker of truth, had found truth among the Immortals, and that future historians will linger o'er his name and future generations perpetuate his fame. Oregon's Moat Influential Citlaen- Paclflc Christian Advocate. In the death of Harvey Whitefleld Scott, Oregon has lost Its most noted and Influential citizen. Indeed, we think It might be said with equal emphasis that he was the most noted and Influen tial person in the entire Pacific North west region. . He came across the plains when a boy but 14 years of age: at a time when the heroic elements In the life would be most profoundly Impressed. The ruggedness of his character, the vigor of his mind, the emphasis of his decisions were in delibly fixed by. the company In which he moved during these early days. To the end of his life the qualities of the pioneer were predominant. . Mr. Scott was a man of very wide learning, and very extensive attainments. He began his editorial work when a very young man. but his preparation- for that work for many years antedated his en trance upon it- He was actively inter ested in everything that pertained to the welfare of this Government and espe cially of the Northwest part of it. Mr. Scott was an ardent Republican and ultra partisan. He was an earnest believer in strong government and had but little pa tience with anything which hinted of so cialism or populism. He performed some very valuable serv ices for Methodism. When the Portland University was organized, Mr. Scott was selected as the president of the boaVd of trustees. He entered upon his duties with Immense enthusiasm and but for the unhappy mismanagement of that insti tution before he took hold of it, he would doubtless have contributed ail his pro digious Influence toward its success. But the failure of the university discouraged Mr. Scott for several years from com mitting himself to a similar enterprise, though he always believed in the small but thoroughly equipped college. His article on Jason Lee, read June 10, 1906, at the re-interment of Jason Lee's bones at Salem, was a thorough vindica tion of the claim of Lee's friends that he was the father of American Oregon, and it was one of the most valuable lit erary contributions In the vindication of the claims and character of the early Methodist pioneers of this country that we have ever read. Mr. Scott believed In immortality. While he had his own views of the possibility of the soul's conscious rela tion to God, and these views were not always In harmony with those enter tained by us. he was nevertheless an earnest believer in God. One of the best qualities of his charac ter came to the surface one day when the writer said to him: "But your In fluence must be felt as long as The Ore gonlan exists, for you have made that great Journal and it must retain some thing of your character on through the years." when he said. "Give me no more credit for the creation of The Oregoniaa than belongs to me. The greater part of the task should be credited to Mr. Plttock. He has been the greatest in fluence behind that paper. It is his brain and vigorous planning that has made that papr possible. I have done, very large ly, the editorial work, but he has planned and sacrificed and contributed of his means till his is the lion's share of the redit for that great paper." LAWYER SUES FOR DIVORCE Soldier Deserts Wife at Approach, of Stork and She Seeks Decree. Lawyers, although they are in court every few days, and often hear of the location and nature of the matrimonial shoals, do not always steer clear of them. M. O. Wilkins was one of these who appeared before Judge Cleland In the Circuit Court yesterday morning and asked for a decree of separation from Anna Wilkins. The attorney said he married her August 26, 1907, and that they lived happily until February. 1909. when he found that she was drinking intoxicat ing liquor, and remonstrated with her. "Then we had some trouble because she stayed out nights," he said, "and when her father, who is 80 years old, asked her to come and stay with him, she left me. I did everything 1 could to reconcile matters, and get her to return to me. but she has steadfastly refused. It was a year ago last July that she left." Z. T. Clark, a neeighbor; and S. Frazier were two other witnesses who testified of Mrs. Wilkins' desertion. The decree was allowed. Willard R. Wysong was a soldier boy. But when he heard of the approach of Dame Stork he deserted both his home and the Army, if the statements of Mrs. Nina M. Wysong are to be believed. She was one of the six applicants for divorce who appeared before Circuit Judge Cle land yesterday to tell their troubles. She said she was married to Wysong in Van couver, Wash.. February 14, 1907. The following December, said Mrs. Wysong, he heard that the stork was coming. For 15 months, she testified, she did not hear from him. Then, in May, 1909. she had a letter saying he would return the fol lowing month. But 6he saw nothing of him. While Mrs. Wysong was testifying her young son . clambered about the court room, taking a look here and a peep there. Before his mother could seat her self in the witness chair he was there. The ludee granted the divorce. L Mrs. Neva E. Reed said that Ross Reed failed to provide more than io a monin for the suDnort of their child and her self, although he was earning from J75 to $90 a month. He spent all tne money for alcoholic drink and women, she said. At last he left, and so short was she of funds that she was obliged to move the household goods to the home of her father on a wheelbarrow. Her father, Mr. Wal ganot, has been caring for her since, she said. She is living in Sellwood. She was married to Boss May 2, 1902. This divorce was also granted. The court decided Mrs. B. A. Stratton was entitled to a divorce from T. E. Stratton, to whom she was married at Oregon City, October 26. 1909. Wltn tears in her eyes she told how she was taken 111 and when at the hospital was deserted by her husband, who took the larger part of J1000 she had saved, leaving her only $3 In her purse. She exhausted every mnun to find him. she said, sending reg istered letters to cities where she thought he might be, and at last appealing to Chief of Police Cox and Matron Cameron. The 11000 which her husband took, said Mrs. Stratton, had been . saved by her while she was keeping roomers. She has now gone back to that business, in an endeavor to pay the bills which her hus band neglected to settle. Mrs. Marcia Rasmussen, her daughter, told of her mother's attempts at suicide and of the efforts she put forth to dis suade her from her purpose. Anna Lewcovltz told the Judge she was supporting herself by working as a stenographer in her brother-in-law's real estate office. She said that Henry Lew covltz deserted her in 1901. She formerly lived in New York City and in Philadel phia, being married in the latter place in 1899. A decree was granted to her. FIREMAN DRIVER GIVEN BLAME Street Railway Holds Motorman. Not Responsible for Accident. That Jay W. Stevens, of the Portland Fire Department, was recklessly driv ing his horse on the dead run east on Pine street. August 19, 1908, failing to sound a gong, is the allegation of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Com inv in its answer to the city's suit against it for damages on account of a collision at Second and Pine. Stevens' horse and buggy struck the rear end of the car. The accident happened between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The streetcar company alleges that had Stevens complied with the city ordinance by keeping on the right side oi me street the collision would not have hap pened. It is asserted that the motorman tnnned at Oak street while northbound to allow the fire apparatus to pass, and at Pine, after he had started up, unex pectedly came upon Stevens. He did not see the buggy in time, it is saiu, iu pie vent crossing the street with the car, so threw on the power in an effort to pass ahead of the buggy and avoid the accident. WIXDSOR CITED FOR CONTEMPT Alleged Failure to Obey Court Order Brings Further Charges. J. N. Windsor must appear in the Circuit Court at 2 P. M. next Wednes day and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. An order citing him to appear was served on him last night. It was made at the instance of Henry Hagelsteln, who has filed an affidavit saying Windsor has Ignored the court. He says an order was issued that Windsor pay to the clerk, of the court $4000 belonging to the Campbell Auto matic Gas Burner Company, which he held, and that when he failed to do so the matter was again taken up, with the resulting suggestion by the court that Windsor .and Hagelstein meet at the bank at an appointed time, Wind sor to turn over the funds. Hagel stein declares Windsor has failed to do it. but Instead Is checking out the funds, and has thus depleted them. . Court Notes. Lloyd E. Swail was found a delin quent child and placed on probation by Juvenile Judge Gantenbeln yester day because the lad, although only 14 years old, was working for the West ern Union Telegraph Company. The company, it appears, has an agreement with the Child Labor commission not to employ children under 16 years of age. But it was alleged that E. N. Swail. the boy's father, misrepresent ed the lad's age In securing him a po sition. Judge Gantenbeln took no ac tion, therefore, regarding the company. Bound over to the grand jury by Acting Municipal Judge Gebhart on a charge of threatening to kill Paul Frank. John Robb filed in the Circuit Court yesterday a petition for. a writ of review. He was bound over August 11, and held in Jail under tlOOO bonds or 8500 cash bail. He contends that there is no such crime under the Ore gon law as "threatening to kill," and declares Judge Gebhart exceeded his authority when he held Robb to an swer to it. Judge Cleland will hear the matter at 3 P. M., September 7. . ' Oregon Electric Seeks Pass. EUGENE, Aug. 19. (Special.) The Oregon Electric surveying crew com pleted the preliminary survey of Fifth street this morning and from there ran a line out High to Fifteenth, follow ing the streets upon which the Lane County Asset Company has franchises. When in the southern part of the city the surveyors ran several preliminary lines into the country to the south, sup posedly with the idea ef getting a good pass for the extension of the line to ward Southern Oregon. BRIDGE CASE IS ARGUED Judge Cleland Takes Decision Under Advisement. Presiding Circuit Judge Cleland took under advisement yesterday afternoon the suit to prevent construction work on the new O. R. & N. railroad bridge -over the Willamette. Deputy City At- Tiimlinann hPCn nrcuing tllO case in the morning, and Attorney John A. Jeffrey, representing ji. j. i,oium and Dan Kellaher.' the plaintiffs, took up the case in the afternoon. Deputy City Attorney Latourette finishing for the city. Jeffrey is seeking a writ of man-. damus compelling City Attorney Grant and Municipal Judge Bennett to issue warrants and complaints against the bridge foreman and others for obstruct ing Oregron and Adams streets. It is Jeffrey's contention that tha only question Involved Is whether- or not Oregon and Adams streets are le gally streets. They have been vacated by the City Council, but a referendum petition has been filed for submitting the question to the voters at the com ing election. He contends that the va cation of a street is a legislative act, and that the question having been sub mitted to the people the vacation or dinance passed by the. City Council is not effective. Having entered a demurrer to the al ternative writ of mandamus made re turnable yesterday, the Deputy City Attorney contended that the writ Is defective because it does not allege the plaintiffs to be either taxpayers or citizens, and because the duty of the officers to cause arrests is a discre-. tionary duty which cannot be con trolled by the courts. They also con tended that while the state constitution pfovides that the referendum may be used against municipal legislation the vacation of these streets is not muni cipal legislation. It was also contended that as the petition for the writ does not make the Clerk of the Municipal Court a party defendant, and as it Is his duty, not that of the Municipal Judge, to issue the warrants, therefore the peti tion is defective. Further than this, it was alleged that a private citizen cannot ask for the abatement of a so called public nuisance of this character. No mandamus is necessary, concluded, the Deputy City Attorneys, as the char ter provides that in case the City At torney or Municipal Judge fail to do their duty they may be removed from office by the City Council. LOW RATES ARE ANNOUNCED Northern Pacific to Make Cut for Portland Fair. Excursion rates equivalent to one and one-third first class rates for the round trip have been announced by the x-.v...n woMfi,. to the Pacific Na tional Fair and Livestock Show, in Portland, from stations In Oregon. Washington, Lewlston Junction and west thereof, and Seattle and south thereof, main line and branches in rinHinr ntations on the Washington and Columbia River branch. Tickets will be sold from such points on September 5, good for return to and Including September 12. On Septem ber 5 and 7, the road will make the same rates from South Bend, Cen tralis Goble and intermediate stations up to Portland. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad participates in the reduced rates. The Northern Pacific has also an nounced excursion rates equivalent to one and one-third times the regular one way fare to Centralia and Chehalis on account of the Southwest Washing ton Fair, which will be held midway between the two towns, September 19 to 24. The rates will apply from Portland north to Tacoma on main line and branches and on the main line be tween Tacoma and Seattle. ine sell ing dates are September 19. 21 and 23. Reduced rates to several meetings that will be held In. California in Sep tember and October have been pub lished by the Northern Pacific. Camas Prairie. Canadian Pacific, Spokane. Portland & Seattle and Southern Pa cific railways. Tickets to be sold on the certificate plan on the following dates and to the destinations named: August 21 to September 5 inclusive, San Francisco, on account of the San gerfest of Pacific Sangerbund. August 26 to September 8 inclusive. San Francisco, on account of the American Veterinary Medical Associa tion. " September 3 to 7 inclusive, San Fran cisco, on account of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos. September 21 to 22, Los Angeles, on account of the American Mining Con gress. September 23 to October 5 inclusive Los Angeles, on account of the Amerl. can Bankers' Association. September 23 to October 3, inclusive Fresno, on account of the Danish Brotherhood of America. YOUNG PIGEONS WILL RACE Series of Contests for Fast Birds W Be Held Soon. The Oregon Homing Club will start its series of young bird races tomorrow night, beginning with the 60-mile sta tion, and if the weather permits, will compete every following Sunday until the series is completed. The races to be flown are from Castle Rock, 50 miles; Chehalis. 75 miles; Yelm, 100 miles; Seattle, 150 miles: Mount Ver non, 200 miles, and a 300-mile station in Canada, that the National associa tion will designate a week or two prior to that race. The club will also hold four races from the state fair at Salem on Sep tember 13. 14, 15, 16, for which the management of the fair have donated two handsome silver trophies. One of the most discouraging features of the sport is that so many birds are shot by the hunters as they fly over the country on their way borne. The membership of the club has shown a consistent gain since she old bird races in the Spring, and Is now on a better footing than at any time since it was organized. Ralph Warren, one of the most successful flyers in Buffalo, who has now made Portland his home, with Henry Bergar and D. B. Townsend. are three of the new members who are gathering together some of the finest strains of homers that can be procured, all of them im porting some direct from England. E. H. Bauer is still improving his famous Belgian Honsese strain, while C. C. Steinel values his celebrated Going birds very highly. E. Lllias is flying i th nffanrina- from his Imported Hero and Hersey stock, while H. E. Brown is entering the competition with birds of straight American breeding. MANNING IS STILL UNCERTAIN Choice of Democratic Organization for Governor Reserves Decision. Just whether the race for the Demo, cratic nomination for Governor is going to be a three-cornered affa'r remain! unsettled. It Is clear that Jefferson Myers' is not going to get out and that Oswald West will stay in. But as te t- . v. TnM Uannfn hnl n the Democratic organization, will try the game,, no announcement is yet avail- able. Mr. Manning wants a clear field and has been holding off In the hope of get ting into the race alone. Now the prob lem he must solve is whether he can enter a three-cornered fight and win. A decision will be reached by him ! fore a great while, it Is saW-