T3 roan-axr. oaxvoocc trH rert:a4. Oreeiea. l-aeaianVal r.c:w siaitec. -tMu1tiw Kaiae tsvarlasly All as as CBT atAXU) rei. hufir taeioa!. ra. . .... J ..f. suier laeisoe.1. six .J.!'" J"?, I ..f. Sosder iseisseo. """" ji !:;. tvinar Ineljde4. ese moot-"- .-IT La. . .t-.out Sueder. see yass.. TXi Ltu.f. without Suarfar. mts. .- f-;J . ' , . -.- -. T i'- .h ..a an.lA, tnre ie..r wliAout SuaCai. ssa saws : (us.!. - -"' rea. f"- r-ax rlZ v,.air. eoe vaaa......ee V- K.7 year - - m ar. d V.el dsit. miif iniitism. o year..., -2j Hae te Kamll m"' Mn. eonti asder er sale ml Tur IK, tut Stamps, seta s ,urr" ire si in eesdefe nea. Ores ejdraea la fj:i. ue.aJiA sosaiy aaa stale. rW !' 1 ! I . fa it saea a easts; ta 40 saee. "' la pas -a. 4 casta, racers sastase anb rata. . - Isaleis IIiiHi Oflc-eTaTT 4k Cens Ba .New Vers. Drauaia eella, - ease. :er bultdlae- aJrae"a OlUre , I serial. roan-ajrD. ttuixat. hot. . in. ixxcour infreauiixi. Colonel Watterson's remarks at the travel. Ing cf the Lincoln statue In Frankfort add a food -aa-l of heal but not much I!ht to the obecure contro Trr o-r the pu-ntae of our rreau eat ITeetdetit. No doubt Jt doea arouee a aanae of wronc In the eoul of a brare aad Juat manhood.' "aa the Colonel aajra It ourht, to know that -o much aa a ahadotr reata upon the memory of the UtUe cabin In which Uncoln waa born." B:!ll the ehadow la there, thouch at the worat It le not rery dark, and eloquence will not re move 1L Wbaterer untoward clrcumatancea may bare brought eotrow to Nancy Hank In her elrihood daya. the coun try underetande that ahe waa choeen by Prortdance o e the mother of a on wane Intellect waa only leas r'endld than hU moral nature, and what more need be aalJT We mut not tuppoM that the Allwlae makea any mlaialcea. Perhape It would hare ben aa well If Colonel Watteraon had suffered the story of Nancy Hacks' early sorrow to hare rone unremem berej oa this occasion. We cannot conceive of any itood that he did by calling It up een to tell how anfTT It made him to think of It- Historians will adjudxe the probabilities of the affiUr from whatever evidence they can collect and everybody else will be r J to forest all about It aa soon aa they can. Lincoln's greatness la Dot dependent on anything his parents were or did. It la a unique phenomenon to be ac counted for only on the theory that the power which moves the world is con tinually working wonders. If there la such a thing aa creative evolution. Lincoln was one of Ita noblest products. Ilia humanity waa so broad that, as Mr. Taft remarked In his dedication speech. he could lore his entire coun try with undiminished ardor even when nearly one-half eras seeking to destroy Ita Integrity." Certainly the memory of Lincoln' declared purposes and the belief In what he would have done for North and South but for his untimely death haa been the most ac tive factor In healing the Nation's sl I' ll) flirted wounds. Lincoln waa eminently a fair-minded man. Mr. Taft does) not make too much of this trait when he says that Lincoln "considered the arrumenta of his opponents with all the fairness of John 6tuart Mill," but one may hesi tate a tittle to concur la the conclu sion which the Preatdent draws from thta circumstance. Me believes it not too much "to say that Lincoln had the most Judicial temperament of any man In history" It may be doubted whether Lincoln, with all his fairness to opponents, considered their argu ments aa a Judge would that ts, Judi cially. If he had done that, his pur pose would have depended on what bla aatagontste said, and he would have modined his course according to their view, lie certainly pondered the arguments of his opponents wtth the utmost candor, but It waa only for the sake of nndlng the best answer to them, not with the sllxhtest Intsnt of allowing them to modify his own views aa they would a Judge'a Can we conceive that anything Douglas said In ths famous debate had the eUghtest effect on Lincoln's opin ions T It Is the highest praise for a man of Judicial temperament, or a Judge, to say that his mind oscillates between the views of opposing counsel, yielding readily to every feather of rea son and only oomlng to rest after long uncertainty. Put this would not be praise for a etateaman who roust form his purposes speedily and pursue them Inflexibly If he would succeed. Mr. Taft would probably hare come nearer the mark If he had said that Lincoln had a Judicious mini Instead cf a Judicial temperament. The J'l.U rlous mind adapts means to ends with out much thought of abstract Ideals, while one who seek to be Judicial Is atlaSed with nothing less than theoret ical legality. To Illustrate our point we may remind the reader that Judge Taney acted Judicially when he de cided, that the negro haa no human rights under our Constitution. A train of theoretical reasoning bad convinced htm that this conclusion waa logically aouad. and he thereupon lwued Ms mandate without paying any heed to consequences. Contrast this conduct artth Lincoln's cautions management of the emancipation proclamation, which waa In th highest degree Judicious. He eras no more firmly convinced when he Issued the proclamation that the ne groes ought to be free than he was on the day he took his Inauguration oath, but a Judlctous attention to' conse quences made him delay signing It un til It could be made to react powerfully on th fortunes of war. All great statesmsn have been Judicious In Im portant emergencies, but we fail to re call any who have been merely Judi cial It would be difficult to believe that Cavour or Fltt would have made a good Judge. Bismarck on the bench could hardly have Inspired reverence. Judicious as he was In all his meas ures, he waa a determined partisan and could not have held the balance even between litigants. Lincoln was an excellent advocate. He always took si Jos in the courtroom, and In the White House he did the same. The fact that he was fair to the South did not hinder him from apply ing the most Judicious measures to de feat Its armies. . Had he been Judicial In his conduct, he would hare acted as an umpire between the contending seo tlons and tried his beet to see that neither won acy Illegal advantage over the other. To tell the truth about It, Purhanan was a great deal more Judi cial than Lincoln In handling the con troversy between North and South, Lincoln represented th aggrraxlre free-soil sentiment of th North, and I there nt not a moment la his career UCU BUf 41UUULf IM a" www have changed hla convictions the breadth of a hair. A. few salient and significant facta are beginning to emerge from tha amok and dust of laet Tuesday lec tion contest. The East will be one great battle ground for the election In lfll; and It tendency la decidedly toward a re turn to the Republican party. Th Middle West Is In a chaotic and oonfused political situation with defi nite Indication of a working under standing between th Insurgent and the Democrats. Th b res-king down of party line aaa given , ""'gT Impetus to socialism. Th movecneot la th Demccxatlo party against Woodrow Wilson In th East Is organised, militant and powerful. Th Harmon force are greatly stim ulated by th Wilson setback, and th Harmon boom haa had a decided lmpetuav Th Republican party haa reoorered Its breath from the heavy body blow of 11. Th period cf extreme radicalism has passed and there I a tendency on the part of th people toward moder ation and conservatism. Th Democrat are s'JU confident of a victory next year; but reallx now that they have been counting their chickens a year too soon. The drift of general sentiment I again toward th Republican party, or at least It la away from the Demo cratic party. The Presidential contest of 19X1 will be harder and better fought, and be tween forces more nearly equal than anyone might have thought a week ago. ' IHTAIDI CTAKK'S OTTTX MOTTO. Champ Clark has been Indulging in his fatal Infelicity of speech down In Texas by urging the Immediate dis memberment of the vast Lone Star State In order to give the Demo crat la party sight new Senator and thus to control th upper branch of Congress. Mr. Clark's malapropos suggestion has not tended to Increase his popularity there. Texaa glories In lis size. In Its homogeneity and In It ambition to number five million patri otic souls; and when that happy goal Is reached It will Immediately set It mark at ten million. The Dallas (,-ewa, unable to restrain it lmpatleno with th fast fading light of the De mocracy, has this to say: One ran hardly rapraaa tha temptation to paculata on what eiollmTils m-ou.4 proceea out of our Stata I7artniant If tha random otervat:one whlob air. riark la la tha naMt of making vara glvaa the dlsnltr aaa lm rorianc that atiactk to tha worua ( a raaiUaat. Aa an caponant of the faua Jaa Mr. Car- la wa;lnlb pre-amlnant, aad If his somlnatlon for tha PraaMancf could be conceived, tie Kepubitcane eoud proNablr 4l-ovar that they ha-1 only to s:va wide circulation to hla spaachao to aaenre tha aactloa of taelr nominee. Any charge of being guilty of a faux pas will do no harm to Mr. Clark In Missouri, where they do not under stand th French that la current In Texas: but they do know that Champ Clark opens his mouth and talks a lot, and therefore must be a statesman. For example, Bpeaker Clark la re ported to have repeated to a Missouri audience his alarming view en Cana dian annexation, and to have said that "nlns out of ten Americana are for an nexation." and he would like to run for President on such a platform. It makes a difference often In a garrulous statesman's standing and reputation when a cation feels obliged to' listen to what he says. Tet there are some people who think; Champ Clark ought to be President. TBAETE0 TTlal MraaRT. It ought to be a valuable dally ex ercise for school children to prepare summaries of the news as It appears In ths papers. The experiment la being tried In Washington City, and will probably be repeated In other cities. Properly conducted. It should produce two desirable consequences. The 11 ret and obvious on is that the boys and girls will form th habit of attending to what la going on In th world at the age when their mind are plastlo and their Interest capable of discipline. The second reason Is more Important perhaps. Heading the news under tho guidance of their teachers, the chil dren will learn to discriminate between the Important and the trivial. They will form the habit of passing lightly orer th ephemeral and laying up sketches of weighty occurrences as a lasting possession of the memory. Th ordinary memory resembles an old New England garret more than an or derly storeroom. It contains a UtUe of everything without arrangHment and the trivial Is retained Just aa securely aa the momentous. Comparatively few people know how to remember. The common Idea Is that a good memory Is on whloh re tain everything. This Is a mistake. A good memory Is really one that know how to drop what 1 useless. Persons who are said to possess tremendous power of memory seldom retain mere fact better than others, but they are able to classify and forget what la of no value to them, A weak memory whose contents are well arranged Is vastly preferable to a strong one In which there Is no discrimination. Men who have a great deal of accu rate work to do are not apt to depend a great deal npon their memories, for the best are misleading and treacher ous. W seldom recollect a quotation exactly as It was written by the au thor. Datea slip a few year out of plac la th mind. Events merge to gether In a confusing way. It Is far better to cultivate the habit of using books of reference than to try to make the memory encyclopedic and Infalli ble. Careful writers look up almost every fact or quotation they use before they dare to let It go Into print. Few children learn In school how to us tho dictionary. Of course, still fewer get th e encyclopedia habit. Th loss & In calculable. ryru tvaig rx irrsrxraa Th efficiency of Government own ership and operation of great Indus trie will be put to the test on the larg est scale. If the recommendations of Colonel Coethals in regard to th Panama Canal should be adopted. He propose that the Government operate not only the canal and Panama Rail road, but docks at each terminus, re pair shops for ships and thslr machin ery and stores for the supply of coal, fuel oil and all manner of ships' sup plies. He proposes that Uncle Sam become a canal man. railroad man, dock-wner, merchant and ship chandler. As was to be expected of an Army officer. Colonel Goethal looks at the oanal largely from th military stand TTTE WORXTXG OHEGOXIA. rKTPAY. TOTreTBEF 10. 19H point. While the canal will be purely a facility of commerce during times of peace, he proposes that Ita manage ment be such that, when war comes or Is threatened, military necessity shall Immediately become the first consideration. To accomplish this re qutree an organization which can be Instantly applied to military uses and which therefor must be trained to that end. The head of the organiza tion must have as absolute power within Isgsl limitations as th com mander of a military post. These two recommendations that the Government go extensively Into business and that th Canal Zone be placed under military rule are likely to natise as much oontentlon In Con gress as will th question of tolls to be charged ships which use the canal. Colonel Goethal adheres to his for mer predictions as to the date when the canal will be completed. This ne cessitates the settlement of all three questions at th coming session of Congress, if shlpownsrs are to hav th eighteen months' notlo which th Colonel think neeossary. The canal will therefore rank with th tariff, the trusts and Alaska aa an Important subject of legislation. FXAB DTTE TO MUt" IJEMT AXDTVO. Th approval by th United State Court of the reorganisation plan of the tobacco trust, with some modifications made at tho request of th Attorney General, will go far to allay th fear that the Government" enforcement of the -trust law was to take the form of a holesale crusade arainst all large Industrial corporation. When the Attorney-General proposed some chsnge his moderation diminished this fear among those who entertained It and the decision will go far to extinguish It. There la at the same time a reaction from the extreme condemnation of the President's policy In regard to th trusts. The Commercial and Finan cial Chronicle eay that ther Is much fore In his reasoning at Pittsburg that, without the check of the anti trust law, we shall have state social ism, and says: No one earlonety eortetifis that larse com binations ehouid acluailr bo allowed to rvalmln trada or to cr ae In monopo llim trad., and tha aiatuta U directed .'nt theee two evils . . . Crltlclam now la dlrcoiad not ao much against tha etatnte Itaaif aa ajalr.t tha way It la ba ins applied. Tha JT-aKlent and Ma At-lorney-Ganaral hava aolad and taikad aa If Ihsy felt It s duty to aryaaa In a anral crucada agalnat larse unl-rtakina pro cad!t s Indlaorlmlnata'.y ifimit one aid sIL tha cood sad Uia bad alike. The language of Mr. Taft and Mr. Wlckersham never Juitllled the belief that they would prosecute all large undertaking Indiscriminately, though It made very clear that all corpora tions which restrain trade would be prosecuted. The mouthpleoe of th financiers appears now to recognize their mistake and admits that only the orporations which violate the law should be prosecuted. The misapprehension thus removed, discussion haa turned to the subject of regulation, and here the Chronicle falls foul of Representative Littleton. It opposes Federal control "'with a Govorninent official always present at the elbow of the Industrial leader." It prefers the present law, under which "the defendant corporation can be sure of getting exact Justice." It would rather let the Sherman law stand. rmiAxnrjtorr or the tax tjobbttst The Hawthorne estate gained ex tended space In the press a few days ago as a result of Its protest against an Increase In the assessed valuation of Its property. We had been expect ing some slngle-taxer of the alias or Pels paid clan to read a sermon from the text therewith furnished, but it seems the opportunity was overlooked. What were Lascomb, Cxldge, Denton, Hlmes, Eggleeton, doing that this good stuff was overlooked? Hore was property which. In the lan guage of Dr. Eggleston. had borne an increase In the community-made value of the land" of $91,000. This Stl.OOO la, again according to Mr. Fels' press agent, the Hawthorne et tate's "tax on the people," and Just thlni; cf ltl The Hawthorne estate ob jected to paying back 2.S per cent of the community's money I What an op portunity was neglected for Dr. EgirlB ston to contend that the whole $91,000 should be paid to the community. But the Hawthorne estate objected to pay ing over to the community even $2000 of this "profit In one year from the In creased value given to the land by the Industry of the communltly," and es caped unchldden. It la quite fascinating to figure out that this "tax on the people" amount ing to $91,000 la equivalent to the total wages In one year of more than 120 la boring men at $2 60 per day fascinat ing so long as big sums and corpora tion property are Involved. But, get ting down to the workman who Is pay ing Instalments on a small home, the bookkeeper who Is looking forward to acquirement of complete title to that residence lot so he may start the home for wife and babies, th clerk, the small merchant, the young professional man, the thousand and one persons of small means who are Investing In lota for homeslte or paying up on prop erty they now occupy how does tho calculation affect them T It Is nor the corporation or th Hoh man who will suffer most when the "community takes all th land value It creates." Let every owner of an East Side lot who ha chafed over the In creased assessed value of his lot this year bear In mind that the ultimate object of single tax 1s to take all that Increase. He who finds a hardship In digging tip a tt-mlll tax on tho In crease will then hav a better Idea of th glowing philanthropy of landless single-tax lobbyist of Portland. A RCygll llOX OF THH OIJJ, OLD STORY. Th great play upon human emo tions under th name of religious or evanreltcal services will begin In this city Friday evening In a tabernacle erected for that purpose. Th play will be tremendously staged. A choir of 1040 voices will be one of Its at tractions. People will throng the bulkllng and, carried away by the fer vor of th evangelist's pleadings and the inspiration of old hymns set to new tunes, many doubtless will pro fess "conversion" following conviction of sin. History repeats Itself with some elaborations Incident to progress. In these revival meetings. They have surplanted the. old camp meetings, hold In "God's first temples" the deep green woods In far-away bright Summers during the brief respite en Joyed between the seed time and har vest. In an agricultural era. These old camp meetings are still sacred to memory. The sites of many of them have been cleared, plowed and seeded to grain or set In orchard tree. But some of them are still marked by mossy, decaying logs that were used as supports for rude benches upon which ths faithful sat, and. by toppling pulpits built of rough boards, thatched with, green boughs and light ed by flaring pine knots. The sur roundings were simple, but the fervor of the exhorters was equal to that of the traveling evangeiista that have succeeded them, and the number of converts, relatively speaking, was as large. Old-fashioned hymns sung by lusty but uncultivated voices were In terspersed with shouts of praise and by the voices of men "powerful In prayer," crying In the words of Habak kuk of old. "Oh. Lord. In wrath re member mercy." The scene Is changed only In Its Bet ting. Tho umbrageoua roof of "God's first temples" sat In th forest has given place to the great tabernacle set In the midst of the city; the swaying pine knots that lighted up the grounds by night have given way to quaint de vice through which electiio lights flash from arched roofs and mural niches; tha hymns started by th preacher and carried with ecstatlo emotion tuneless but sincere by the brethren and staters have been sup planted by songs sucg by trained choirs. But the calls to repentance are as Impassioned as of yore and the "old, told story," revised somewhat to fit the estimate of God as a loving Father rather than a revengeful mon arch, 1 told and retold aa before. For th good that this fervent re telling of the old, old story may do, let us be duly thankful; upon the "backsliding" that follow In Its train let th mantle of sweet charity de scend and let the frailty of human nature, aa witnessed In the unreason of human emotions highly wrought upon, plead extenuation for them. There could be no stronger argu ment for good roods than the fact stated by ths Agricultural Department that It coots as much to haul a ton of wheat a mile In the farming country of Eastern Washington as to carry that same ton of wheat 18.000 miles by Bhlp to Liverpool. A mile of mac adamized road, at this rate, would save enough In th cost of hauling In one year to equal the cost of several thousand mile of water transporta tion. When the farmers once have a taste of the economy of good roads they will be the vanguard of the good roads army. A mantle of early November snow has fallen on the long-parched fields of the Inland Empire, giving assuranoe to gralngrowers, whose wheat had been sown In the light and feathery dust, of early germination and a sub stantial yield for the harvest of 1912. Nature, though a UtUe slow about It, can usually be depended upon by farmers In tho great wheatgrowing sections of that vast region to do the right thing by them In the end, though the outlook In exceedingly dry seasons Is sometimes discouraging. If, Harry Orchard's experience as a prisoner and his studies of prison re form should enable him to work out a plan by which punishment, mercy and reform can be mingled In the right proportions In the management of prisoners, he will have done much to atone for his many crimes. His opin ions are greatly at variance with the practice of Governor West, who might do well to take to heart some of the suggestions of the Idaho convict. There ought not to be much disap pointment over Edison's failure to re ceive the Nobel prize In physics. With all his Ingenuity he never has advanced the science of physics a particle on the theoretical side and that, to European savants, appears more Important than the practical. The prize goes to a Ger man professor who has doubtless earned It by some treatise of unimag inable profundity. The "proctor" who ha been ap pointed to try divorce cases In Kansas City may mitigate th scandal but he can hardly be expected to do much more. Divorce Is a disease of civiliza tion, and, like other diseases. It la not likely to be cured by treating symp toms. It Is strange that In the vast bulk of talk about It so little has been sold of Investigating the causes and ex tirpating them. The great work Inaugurated by the educational department of the Toung Men's Christian Association last Winter In conducting free lectures on horticul ture will be renewed this season on the opening of the apple culture course tomorrow night. Large and small owners are benefited by the advice given by practical men at these meet ings. West's confession gives point to the saying that sobriety is essential to suc cess In business, even though that business be crime. Rut the Intending Investors In forged Mexican bonds will not feel poignant grief at the lapse of Wesfs confederate by which they saved their money. According to Lowell Observatory people, there was an early frost on Mars at a date that corresponds to our August 1. Migration to Mars would be many degrees worse than to Middle Canada. The Talclmas are to get patents to lands worth $8,000,000 and the auto mobile business up that way will re ceive great stimulation If there are no governmental strings on the docu ments. BT enlisting the aid of the women In the preparations for the grand lodge of 191B Portland Elks add cumulative proof of their claim to be the Best People on Earth. The gold strike of a thousand dollars a ton at Sumpter will not receive a mite f the public Interest It would get If at the North Pole proper Instead of the North Pole mine. BInce native-born Chinese women are registering to vote In California there Is need of a twentieth-century Bret Harte to Immortalize the deed. Increase In already high cost cf ex istence has extended to the postofflce, and more rent must be paid for boxes. " i . Italy's reply to Turkey's charge of barbarity Is: "I didn't do It: besides, you did much worse things than I did." The next best gamble In sight Is to Insure the lives of the Jurymen In ths McNamara trial to outlast the case. Seven million dollars worth of street Improvements this year is a great rec ord for Portland, LAVE WIXS APPLE HOXOES Bern ton. Is Second lm Contest at Al bany Exhibition, ALBANY, Or, Nov. . (BpedsX) Achieving ita third suooesslv victory, Lane County today won the grand prise for the best county exhibit at the fifth annual Albany Apple Fair. Benton County took second place. The first prise Is a $100 sliver cup and $60 In cash and by virtue of Its three victories Lane County will now retain permanent possession of the oup. As second prise, Benton County receives $60 cash. Linn County was barred from this competition. t,., ia M,h fnr tha best ex hibit of ten or more boxes from any single community in wnn wui - won by Brownsville, with an exhibit prepared by Cate Bros. J M. Speldal. of the Oregon Agricul tural College, was Judge of the ex hibits. Thp following awards were announced: Boat on boxaa slnrl vartatr Horoar J. Moora, of North Albany. Banton Count ftrat: F. L. Waits, ot fcusana. aacond. Bast flva boxaa. not laaa than thrae van atlaa Frank Holmsn, ot Norm Albany. lieat tljraa boxaa of Jonathan sxa Bros, of farownavlla. ff litit three boxaa of Tallow BaUfl' X Walla, of tufn, - Boat box of Haidwlns a O. Bay, el Junction City. Crat: H. O. Rumbausb. o Nortn A:bany, aacond. Baat box of Jonathans Homar J. aloor. of North Albany. Brat; Lawl Tanaay. ot North Albany, a e ootid. . .Beat box of Wasnais-H. O. Bjnnbsngn. of North Albany. . Baat box of Ortleys Frank Holmsn. of K IilSt ox"of Klnrs J. Baebs. ot Eusans. Boat box of Sptlxenbarga Homar J Moor, of North Albany. Brat; U Whoaidon, of Flalnvtaw. aacond. . Beat box of Hhoda Ia'.and Qraanlnga M F. McConnack, of Eujana. Beat box of Canadian. Had J. J. Cala, of Oakvllla. . Beat box of Hoovers Cat Bros, of Brownsville. . Beat box of Wlllowtwl Cat Bros., of Brownsville. Beat box of Vanderpoole H. C Rura bauh. of North Albajiy. first; B. A, Par Hot, of Corvallla. aacond. Beat box of Ma-nmolh Bla:k Twlf Lew li Tamer, of Norta Albany, flrat; H. O. Kumhauth. of Nor'.h Albany, aecond. Heat box of BeUIlovera Lawl Tsnsor, of North Albany. ' Beet boa of WUvissds Cate Bros, of Brownavlile. Beet box of Ortmaa Ooidan Cats Bros, of BrownavlUa, Beat bom of Northern Bpy Cats Bros., of Brownsville. Beat box of Bed Cheek Pippin Frank Rolman. of North Arbany, Orel; Cat Bros, of Brownsville, aerond. Best box of Ben Davis C. I McKenna, of Albany, first; J. liesba, ot Eujono, seo ono. Beat commercial -packed box H. C Bun nell. of Junction City, flrat; I, F. Walte. of JJnrane. second. Crowds thronged the fair today. A big excursion of Harrlsburg people and the class In horticulture of the Oregon Atrrloutlural College attended the fair today. The students Judged the exhibits, their work being com pared with that of their Instructors later. Two strong addresses were features of the day's programmes. Professor H. 6. Jackson, of the Oreeron Agricultural College, talked on "Fungus Diseases of Fruit Trees Their Cause and Cure," and H. C. Atwell. president of the State Horticultural Sooiety, spoke on "Organization." A musical programme was presented this evening. The fair will close tomorrow. HIGHWAY REPORT IS MADE RIght-of-Way, With Provision, Of fered by Washington Board. OLTMPIA, Wash, Nov. B. (Special.) If the Great Northern Railroad will build a ten-foot highway up the Colum bia River from Wenatchee to replace portions of state road No. 10: will re duce grades as much as possible, pro vide board screens and guard rails where necessary to separate road and track, rut In turnouts of an eighth of a mile In length, protect Its tracks and property with sheds In event the state decides to widen Its road at a later date and will agree to have Its rail road in operation within two years. It will be authorized to take over a part of state road No. 10, for Its line Into the Okanogan country, running north from Wenatchee. Today the report of W. J. Roberts, State Highway Commis sioner, recommending the same, was adopted by the State Highway Board. The new road. It Is estimated, will cost $126,000, but In exchange for It ths railroad gets a right of way on which the state has spent about $50, 000 and which controls the outlet on that side of the Columbia River to the Okanogan country. The report does not include the time provision, but Oovernor Hay insists that it be put In so as to protect the settlers and prevent the bottling up of the country by keeping other roads out if the Great Northern refuses to build. The details are to be settled by con ferences between the railroad officials and the Attorney-General. TAIirTT HEARING IS SLATED State Railroad Board Issues Call to Commercial Interests. SALEM, Or, Nov. . (Special.) circular letters are being sent out by the State Railroad Commission to all of the commercial bodies and people Interested, calling their attention to the distance rate tariff hearing, which will be held at tha State Capitol next Wednesday.- The roacis Included are the O.-W. R. & N, the Southern Pa cific end the Corvallis & Eastern. On .the two larger roads only the freight tariffs will be Inquired Into, as passenger tariffs on the O.-W. R. & N. bare been adjusted and on the South ern Paclflo that tariff Is In the process of adjustment. On the Coryallis & Eastern, however, both the freight and passenger tariffs will be made a subject of the bearing. ' I PSKCDO KAIGHT IS JAILED Sir Sergl Cabral Is Held as Run away From Asylum South, Sir Sergis'Alvous Cabral, Knight of Alvoural of Portugal. Is the title clalnmed .by a wanderer arrested yes terday at S1H North Seventh street, as an escaped Inmate from the State Insane Asylum at Napa, Cal. It Is said he escaped while working In the yard. He was traced to this city and the police were told where he lived here. The California asylum authorities say the prisoner has delusions and is dangerous. He will be held for the arrival of an attendant from the asy lum. The fugitive was arrested here September 3 and fined $30 for carrying concealed weapons. At that time It waa not known he was wanted in Cali fornia. RED'S DEATH TO BE PROBED Oregon City Authorities Will Ques tion Stan's Companions. OREGON CITY, Or, Nov. . (Spe cial.) The Oregon City authorities will Investigate the mysterious death of Henry Henning, - the Warm Sprinsrs Indian, whose body was found In the Williamette River near Concord. The young man disappeared September 22, and three men with whom he had been drinking declared that he had been ar rested and would not be seen for a long time. H. E. Cross, upon whose place Hen sing and his family were camping when -the man disappeared, will write to the agent of the reservation today to question the men who were with Banning the night he disappeared. &IORGA3T LOSES LIFE FIGHT Flxs-I)eeree Murder Case at Grants Fass Settled In 45 Minutes, GRANTS PASS, Or, Nov. . (Spe cial.) After to minutes' deliberation, the Jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree In the case of Mike Alorgan, on trial for murdering John fcl. York, here last July and afterward throwing the body In the Rogue River, after weighting It down with log hQl rtm la the last day's trial the most grewsome details came from the sex ton of the cemetery in telling how he disinterred the body for the purpose of securing the rope around the neck. The main witness was Eugene Co burn. Deputy Sheriff, who arretted ths de fendant on July 1$ and brought him back from Glendals. A strong effort was made by tae state's attorney to put In the evidence of Morgan's con fession but notwithstanding, it was shown to the satisfaction of tho court that the confession was not obtained without fear, favor or Intimidation. .Upon this confession the state strongly relied. This part of the testi mony wast "1. Mike Morgan, being first duly sworn, do hereby make the following statement of facts without any prom ise of reward or leniency from anyone whatever, knowing the same will be used against me upon my trial; I was up town and got to drinking and went down to camp and me and the old man had a little row and I hit him a little too hard and I killed him, I guess. I did not know what to do with him. so I put blm In the river, 1 carried him about half way and dragged him the rest. I put the rope around his neck about half way to the river. I got him to the river and went back to the wagon at camp, got the chain and put it on him at the river bank, threw him into the water. 1 was about half drunk when I hit York. I hit him on the head with a stick. I used the stick with both hands. This happened betweeu nine and ten o'clock Thursday night. We were camped Just above the pari;." A tew women were present in the oourtxoom today. STORM SHOWS ABATEMENT Wind at Capo Flattery Dies Down to 19 Miles an Hour. SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 9. The vio lent storm whloh has prevailed for several days off tho North Paolflo Coast abated today and at noon the velocity of the wind at Cape Flattery had gone down to 19 miles an hour. No serious damage to shipping has been reported. The steamer Humboldt reached port from Southeastern Alas ka today with a foot ot snow on her deck and Icicles hanging from her railings, and reported that the storm was severe in Queen Charlotte Sound. The small fishing launch Minnie was picked up last night ten miles from Seattle with one light burning and her dlnghey without oars or rowlocks was found submerged 100 feet away. The boat may have broken away from her anchorage or the two men on board may have been drowned. The passenger steamship M. F. Plant arrived today from San Francisco after a stormy voyage of 99 hours. The Plant was severely handled by the storm, losing part of her rail on the port side. Enormous waves which broke on deck drenched the purser's office and stateroom, damaging books and papers, and broke windows In the steward's and pantry departments. The passengers' quarters did not suffer. Reports received by the Great North ern Railway say the snow Is 20 inches deep at the summit of the Cascade range. The heavy snow was general through the hills, extending down to Index, where a fall of eight Inches was reported. DRTJMMOXD LOSES POIXT Court Rules Joint Defendant Can Be Tried for Hla Life. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 9. (Spe cial.) The theory of tlfe defense in the case against E. W. Drummond. in which his son was convicted of man slaughter after trial on a oharge of murder in the first degree, that the Joint defendant charged with aiding and abetting could be found guilty of no greater degree than the other, was given a shock at Colville, Wash., today when Judge Mitchell Gilliam ruled that the contrary 1b the law, and that the defendant now on trial will have to -fight for his life. Elmer Drummond was convicted In September of manslaughter on a first degree charge and E. W. Drummond, his father, was yesterday placed on trial under the same Information, which alleges that the two, with the assistance of E. N. Hum, a neighbor, caused the death of William E. Flynt, near Callspell Peak, near Chewelah, last June. The sensational feature of Mrs. Flynt's testimony was that regarding the reflpt by her husband of a letter from Ihe Prosecuting Attorney, Stull, last Deoember. Stull under date of December 17, 1910, wrote to the Flynts Baying Drum mond had complained that Flynt had threatened to do him violence, had blocked roads to the Drummond ranch and otherwise been unruly. The pros ecutor warned Flynt that unless the overt acts ceased the County Attorney would take measures to have Flynt severely punished. AUTO HITS ALBAXY RESIDENT James Nanney Injured by Machine Driven by Corvallis Man. ALBANY, Or, Nov. ?. (Special.) James Nanney, a well-known Albany resident, narrowly escaped death when struck by an autosiobile here this evening. He suffered a gash In the head and other injuries, but It is be lieved they will not prove serious. The machine which struck him was driven by Ferd. Cate, of Corvallis, who was accompanied by Will Colvert. Har ry Cooper and Earl Harris, all of Cor vallis. The accident occurred at Second and Ferry streets. The car was turning westward into Second street from Fer ry, when it struck Nanney. E. H. McCune, an Albany merchant, who wit nessed the accident, says the car was running slowly and stopped within ten feet. There is a street light at this corner, but the wind shield of the car was up and Cate did not see Nanney until almost upon him. The car had two small lights In front burning, b.ut It Is said Its searchlights were not on. The oar remained at the scene of the accident and its occupants assisted in every way possible in caring for the injured man. DeOro Retains His Title. CHICAGO. Nov. 9. Alfred DeOro, three cushion billiard champion, re tained his title tonight, winning the third and last block of 50 points in his 160-polnt match with George Wheeler. DeOro ran out In his 81st Inning with a grand total of 150 against Wheeler's 109. ' ' Astoria to Play Hill. The Astoria High School football team will come to Portland today and play the Hill Military Academy on Multnomah Field at 3:15 o'clock. As toria recently defeated a team from Clatskanle by the score of 10 S to 0, but was defeated 11 to 0 by Vancouver, WATER RIGHTS ARE LIMITED Sew Filing System Adopted to Keep Records Down to Date. SALEM. Or, Nov. . (SpeotaL) A new system has been Inaugurated In the State Engineer's office to keep water-right records more nearly down to date. Instead of each claimant, as heretofore, -applying for the entire stream flow, or all the water he thinks he can use, and having an Indefinite time within which to put It to bene ficial use. the new law provides for I me limimuija ol eacu epyiKaiiuii 1 to the amount of water, and time for j beginning and completing work, and I putting the water to use. The new law also provides that construction work shall be commenced within one year and prosecuted diligently to com pletion within not to exceed five years. Inasmuch as proof of these facts must be made to the satisfaction of the Board of Control, it; has been or dered that no proof will be accepted unless filed annually, with final proof when tha water has been fully applied to use, at the expiration of the time limit. Printed forms for these purposes have Just been received from the State Printer, and will be attached to each permit to appropriate water hereaftef Issued, and the applicant will be In structed that failure to fill out and file the proper annual proof may re sult In the cancellation of his permit, after proper notice from the board. It is also Intended that all holders of permits heretofore Issued will be re quired to make the proper proof, so that within a few months any one ex amining the records of the State En gineer's office can ascertain whether permits outstanding are still alive. It was expected that the fees paid In connection with the granting of these permits would discourage specu lative filings. The new system will not hamper development in any way, it la sad. but will strengthen the rights for legitimate developments, and stIU further discourage specula tive filings. ADVERTISING SCHEME IS HIT - Police Committee Refuses to Allow Publication of Annual. Advertising agents who desire to prey upon merchants for advertising In prospective police or Are department year books or histories in the future will have a hard time getting permis sion to Issue the books with the sanc tion of the police department. This was made apparent yesterday when ap plication was made to the police com mittee of the Executive Board by a firm of police book publishers for per mission to publish a history of the lo cal polloe department, deriving money from the publication from advertising. . The committee denied the request and revoked permission which was given several months ago to another concern for the same sort of book, de claring that the practice is very an noying to the merchants. The recent announcement that the Civil Service Board had made possible the reinstatement of officers who have resigned from the service brought a grist of applications for reinstatement from former police officers. The com mittee deferred action until the status of the civil service provision can be investigated. COLLEGE YOUTHS CELEBRATE Hood River Club to Dine Saturday, Day of Football Games. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 9. (Spec ial.) This city, according to state ments of the entertainment committee of the University. Club, will resemble a college town on the eve of a "big game." Saturday evening, when the orchardlsts and city collegians get to gether for their annual banquet. To enliven the occasion, an arrangement has been made to report the scores of the football games of the day. Tha town will ring with college songs and spontaneous yells. A number of Portland university men are expected to be in attendance, and President Campbell, of the Univer sity of Oregon, and President Kerr, of the Oregon Agricultural College, have been invited to respond to toasts. Of ficers will be chosen for the year. Almost every large college of the United States is represented in the club's membership, which now num bers more than 150. . Graduates of Cambridge and Oxford are valley apple-growers. FERRY AND BARGE CRASH Wheel of Vancouver Craft Broken. Workingmen Are Delayed. VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. . (Spe cial.) The ferry City of Vancouver, plying from Vancouver to Hayden Isl and, crashed Into a sand barge at the dock and smashed half of one of the paddle wheels today. Congestion of trafno followed and many persons working in Portland and living in Vancouver were delayed. A force of men repaired the wheel and the ferry resumed its run this afternoon. A smaller craft, the Georgia Burton, was put on the run to carry passengers back and forth. Captain Staytoivln attempting to Jump to the. ferry slip, plunged Into the Columbia, but reached shore safely. Clark Seta Poultry Show. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 9. (Spe cial.) The Clark County Poultry As sociation will hold the second annual exhibition December 21-28, in the old Armory on Fifth street, east of Main street. R. J. Renney has been selected as superintendent of the exhibition, and Judging of entries will be by com parison, rather than scoring. Tho premium list Is being made out by committee of three, of which Samuel J. Miller is chairman. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe In a country town, when a delicacy is sent in for a sick person, enough Is sent for the sick person's family. Being exceedingly human myself, I don't like the men who claim to do all sorts of great things they don't do. A woman was scolding her little boy because he wanted a shotgun. "Why," the mother said, with a great show of virtue. "I never wanted a shotgun in my life." . People are so hopeful; last Sunday morning I saw a boy going hunting, carrying a 22-rifle and two game bags. It makes no difference how little a boy Is, when his mother scolds him she says: "You ought to be ashamed of yourselfl A big boy like you." Every man says occasionally: "I love my children as much as their mother loves them, for all the fuss she makes about it." A young man was being twitted about a broken engagement. "O," he said, "there is plenty of affection left in me yet." - Frequently a high-minded man comes along and wants a whole lot of things done that can't be done. A man buys an automobile and spends half his time thereafter in ad vertising it. Why not let the news papers advertise it?