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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
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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?