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THE ' SUNDAY OREGGNIAK PORTLAD, MAY 13, 1900.
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UNSAFE ALASKA SHIPS
STEPS BEIXG TAKEK TO PROTECT
THE UNDERWRITERS.
A Bre OverleadeA Witi Livestock:
at Seattle Har Be PxeveHted
Frsa Leaving the Psrt.
TACOMA, Wafib., May 12. So many
thoroughly unseaworthy hulks have been
pressed into the Nome service that the
marine underwriters liave been" appealed
to to prevent some of the so-called ships
from proceeding to sea. The latest case "a
that of the barge Skookum, loaded down
to the guards with a cargo of merchan
dise and livestock. The latter, several
hundred head, will suffer untold torture
In the cramped quarters assigned them,
which they must endure for weeks before
they can possibly be landed at Nome, and
It is a question if any of the dumb brutC3
will survive the voyage. Captain Pope.
Llpyd's representative of the Northern
district, has this to say:
"Those craft which come immediately
under the supervision of the Inspectors
of hulls and boilers, I am not prepared
to criticise, because these gentlemen un
derstand their business and know what
they are about, but there are numerous
vessels that do not come under their su
pervision, and on these the overloading
takes place. I think the underwriters are
as much to blame as the owners and
charterers of these craft; greed In both
cases is at the bottom of the trouble.
The shipping laws are also at fault; we
have no equivalent body to the British
Board of Trade. If we had, such a flagrant
case as the barge Skookum would be very
quickly settled. I consider this case one of
the worst I have ever seen, as regardi
overloading and general insecurity. Many
human lives are at stake; besides, there
are a number of dumb animals on board.
For the human gold-hunter we may have
less pity than for the dumb brutes which
are led against their will to an almost
certain death. I trust that the body of
men who are to pass on the seaworthi
ness of this excuse for a seagoing craft
will have the good sense to condemn
her, and If they do, they should be hon
ored for having done the publio a service."
Question as to Bsrge Slceelram.
SEATTLE, May 12. There is a possibil
ity that the big barge Skookum, now in
this harbor loaded with 7000 tons of cargo
for Nome, will not be towed north. Own
ers of freight yesterday complained that
she was overloaded and a marine survey
was made.
NAVIGATION OF THE YUKON.
Now Open From Lebargre to Davrsea
Cheap Hates to Nome.
VICTORIA. B. C, May 12. The steamer
Amur arrived this afternoon from Skag
way. She brings news that the Yukon
River opened up at Iawson on the morn
ing of the 8th, and steamers are now
running regularly from Iebarge through.
Preparations are being made by several
of the small owners outside of the com
bination to carry passengers from Bennett
to Nome at $75, and the Skagway Alaskan
announces that the Klondike Corporation
(Limited), the Flora, Nora and Bora, will
adopt -the low rate and give battle to the
opposition pool.
The Democrats of Skagway have issued
a call for a nominating f rimary. May 2L
preparatory for the Juneau convention
one week later.
The AUIe A. Alger, one of eight schoon
ers returning to port this morning, brings
news that Mate Glllad, two white ..men
and two Indians of the schooner Sadie
Turpel were lost from, that vessel on the
19th of April, and 10 days later had not
been heard from. There is a possibility
that they have been picked up by some
other vessel of the fleet, but It is more
probable that all have been drowned, as
very heavy weather prevailed at the" time.
The flagship "Warsplte returned this
afternoon from South American ports.
Alaska Rates In Jeopardy-
VANCOUVER. B. a. May 12. It is re
ported that American steamers running
from Puget Sound to Alaska will inaugu.
rate a rate war against Vancouver com
panies. If the latter persist in the recent
rate-cutting business. A meeting of the
Alaska Steamship Agents Association
was held here on Friday night, when
Americans volunteered to stop calling at
Vancouver If Canadians would maintain
rates. No satisfactory conclusion was ar
rived at.
THREATEXED BODILY IXJOTtY.
Brass Band Carnival at Hillaboro
Washington County JV'otes.
HILLSBORO, Or.. May 12. Charles De
laney, of Sherwood, was last evening
placed In the County Jail, In default of
$1330 bonds, to appear before the next
term of Circuit Court, to answer to the
charge of having threatened to do bodily
Injury to one Gardner, a Sherwood saloon
keeper. Delaney Is also charged with
threatening to commit arson.
The bands of "Washington County met
In this city this evening and rendered a
public programme. Hillsboro, Forest
Grove, Farmlngton, Sherwood. Bethany
and "Verboort were represented, and over
50 musicians assisted la the concert.
Charles E. York, president of the Oregon
State Band Association, was present.
After the exercises were concluded the
musicians were tendered a banquet in
"Wehifunc 'Hall. It' Is intended to have all
the county banSS join the state organiza
tion, which, through the efforts of Presi
dent "W. H. "Wehrung, president of the
State Boards of Agriculture, will be the
musical attraction at the state fair at
Salem this Fall.
Georgia Bash has filed suit for divorce
against Frank Bash, for cruel and Inhu
man treatment. She also names a co
respondent In the person of one Maud
Albright.
The Anna C. Hatch Inquest case at For
est Grove has "been passed upon by the
County Court. The coroner's transcript
called for a total of $274, but the expenses
were audited at $155. It Is Intended that
this expense shall be borne by the estate
of the dead woman.
The Sheriff last year collected taxes on
927 bicycles. So far this year there have
been but 241 receipts Issued. It is esti
mated that there are qver 1000 wheels In
the county.
Sheriff Bradford reports a collection of
about $37,000 on the 1S99 assessment roll.
Hon. S C. Spencer, of Portland, ad
dressed an audience In the Courthouse
last evening, under the auspices of the
Republican committee. As there were
several other attractions In the city, the
attendance was not overly large.
Rev. Evan P. Hughes, the Congrega.
tlonal minister who was yesterday ren
dered unconscious by a fall from a bi
cycle. Is much improved.
The County Court has authorized the
Bicycle Commission to make the follow
ing expenditures: Scholls path, $23: Cres
cent. $13; Hillsboro. $3S; Verboort, $21; Ti
gardvllle. $12.
EARLY STRAWBERRY SHIPMENTS.
Hood River Nearly Three "Weeks
Earlier Than Last Seasoa.
Hood River Glacier.
S. C. Zelgler. of "White Salmon, brought
In the first strawberries for shipment
of the crop of 1900. He brought over six
boxes of his own and two for his neigh
bors, last Tuesday May 4, and -they were
bought by the Davidson Fruit Company
for 50 cents a pourd box. Mr. Zelgler has
snipped first strawberries for five years
ever since he has been on his place- at
White Salmon. The first year the neigh
bors saia his having first berries was an
accident, but the "accident" happens right
along every -year. The six boxes of Mr.
Ziegler .were, very fine.
N. C. Evans shipped half a crate of
strawberries from his place oa Hood
River on Sunday, May 6, IS days ahead of
his first shipment last year. This is not
the .first shipment from Hood River but
this is the first half crate shipped. Hood
River this time is even with "White Salmon.
1n early, berries.
E. E. Savage has been experimenting
with different varieties of strawberries.
He reports the Bismarck, which does well
in the East, as being of Inferior quality
here, ill-shaped and inclined to fall down.
The Magoon, on clay land, is very pro
ductive, large, of good quality and last
season stood shipment as well as the
Clark seedling, and sold well in the
Eastern markets. This season he has set
some "Windsor Chief plants, the variety
that does best in Sarcoxle, Mo., and Ar
kansas points. This berry must be pollen
Ized by some other, the Captain Jack be
ing used for this purpose, one row In
five being the customary method of set
ting. G. D. Woodworth is also trying
the "Windsor Chief. Mr. Savage Is also
setting a few "Jersey Market" plants, a
variety that Is popular in New Tork City
markets.
WATER FAMINE AT OREGON CITY.
Reservoir Sapply Exhausted Before
PHmplHg Station Is Repaired.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 12. Oregon
City is experiencing a water famine.
Thursday & shaft attached to the power- j
wheel of the pump broke, and was taken
to Portland for repairs. It was then be
lieved that the reserve supply of water
In the reservoir at Ely, -which holds 1,600,
000 gallons, would last until the repairs
were completed. Last night there was a
depth of four feet of water in the reser
voir. This morning the faucets failed to
vlrfd wn.tr. nnd nimn Yrunlnjitlrn th
Jf. GZAY'S bay. T&rr-
reservoir was found to be empty. People "uudio, as its snort slopes ana extensive
were compelled to carry water from wells "deland area would seem to prove. In
before breakfast could be prepared, and tock- though beyond the head of naviga
thls condition of affairs will continue at, lon' "? mainstream, a very small creek,
least until tomorrow night The wheel1 ows dowJ dPea J"?15 dlJde
and shaft were returned from Portland t between the Columbia and Wlllapa Bay.
this afternoon, but It is quite an under-. Mn?tl?crJma11 stre?In8. fl0Tr ,dowJnto
taking to replace them In the proper po- ttdal ary. and the watershed, a
sltion verY narrow one, is well irrigated.
Reclamation of the tldelands by diking
, . - , and clearing up the slopes of Its brush
D. P. J. Davis and Mrs. "William Van- woul(1 make ft flne j sp0t ot tmS
laar were arraigned before Justice "Web-! rcglon far more valuable than it was
ster today and the hearing was postponed wben covered, with the giant forests of
until Monday. Davis was returned to the tj,e Columbia. Quite a number of modern
County Jail, but Mrs. Vanlaar was released houses, with green meadows, are already
on her own recognizance. Last night Van-. found there, and there are six school dls-
laar came here and left his 8-year-old trlcts, with substantial school buildings. In
daughter with her mother overnight. This the basin of Deep River, though some of
morning he Tepeatedly urged his wife to their patrons live over the divide on the
return home with him, promising to for-. Nasel River. Still no hint of the existence
get and forgave every wrong, but she'
stubbornly refused to accept his offer.
Later "Vanlaar offered to pay the woman's
fare if she would return to the home of
Tier parents, near Sherwood, "Washington
County, but she still remained obstinate.
Vanlaar returned, home this evening, ac
companied by his little daughter. Davis
has agreed to pay the woman's board here.
Residents of the "Vanlaar neighborhood
state that the wronged husband is Indus
trious and is fairly prosperous.
BlgT Gnns to Be Fired.
Port Towneend Leader.
In a few days the people of Port Town
send will be given a chance to hear the
report of the two big guns at Fort Flag
ler. The occasion for the testing of these
guns Is on account of the report epread
broadcast that they had received serious
injury from the effects of fire. It will
be remembered that while they were on
the beach the crlbblngj oa which they
rested caught fire from aSburning drift
and the guns were slightly jfecorched. At
the time an examination was made, and It
was stated that they had received no In
Jury beyond the melting of the coating of
tar, and the guns were mounted. Since
that time various reportfl have reached
the department relative to these guns,
and these reports have been of such a
conflicting nature that the department has
decided that a test be made to ascertain
the real facte. They are 12-inch guns, and
each will require a charge of 600 pounds
of powder, and the projectile will weigh
1000 pounds. Three shots will be fired out
of each gun, and it is not known in what
direction the big projectiles will be hurled,
but it is presumed they will be fired
toward "Whidby Island. These guns will
throw a projectile a distance of between
12 and 14 miles, and It would not be safe
to fire them down the Straits, on account
of incoming vessels, while the shore lino
of "Whidby Island would, stop their
course.
The Coroner In Rebuttal.
FOREST GROVE, Or., May 12. To the
Editor.) May I suggest to those who have
!!rES?iir5rK!i?
the testimony of all the witnesses who
appearea Deiore ine jury was tiuten down
by a shorthand reporter, has been put in
typewritten form and as a public record
on file in the County Clerk's office, is now
accessible to any one who cares to ex
amine it? The physicians' reports of their
autopsy and all other papers relating to
the case are in the same file, fording
opportunity to judge whether the Jury's
findings were Justified by the Information
before them.
Under our present system, the District
Attorney takes the place of grand Jury,
and as the deputy for" this county m
present with the Coroner's jury, he will
h.TSWJffiJS
warrant him in filing an indictment charg
. .., . .. ..--. -. ..-
ing murder, as your Oregon City letter
writer of yesterday seems to believe.
C L. LARGE.
Held to Circuit Court.
CORVALLIS. Or.. May 12. Henry Kub
11. captured yesterday by officers near
Salem, while running away with a team
and hack belonging to Mrs. S. A. Cooper,
had a preliminary examination before
Justice Holgate this morning. In the
romnlnlrit tho TnkliiA of tVi -Stolon Tiron.
erty was placed at $225. The defendant I
waived examination, and is now In the
county Jail, in default of $300 bonds.
Kubli is a stranger in this section. He
makes the fourth prisoner now held in
the Benton County Jail two for the Ben
ton, and two for the' Lincoln County
Grand Jury. (
Reonevelt Will Not Retire.
NEW YORK. May 12. Senator Piatt,
upon his arrival in this city from Wash
ington, was asked:
"Do the Washington rumors about Gov
ernor Roosevelt mean that he would be
willing to retire from the Governorship
now in order to become Governor-General
of the Phllipplnesr
"Not at all." replied Senator Piatt.
"Governor Roossvelt Is going to fill out
this term and another one."
SYSTEM OF LOG STREAMS
CENTER AT DEEP RIVER,
WAH-
KIAKUX COUNTY, "WASH.
Coamtrr Valuable for Affrlcaltare
Whea Timber Is Goae Prosper
ous Fiaa Settlement There.
ASTORIA, Or.. May 9. On the north
side of the Columbia, opposite Astoria,
there is much activity in "the logging busi
ness, with three important logging rail
roads in operation. Most of the timber
on Deep River has been logged already,
and the hlljs of that interesting- region
are almost bare of green trees, except far
up the summits. It has been a great
lumber supply station for many years, and
Old Tom Foss, the- logger, has cut many
millions of feet of logs from the adjacent
bills. Deep River affords very fine log
boom sites on its quiet, smooth, wide and
deep bosom, easily accessible to the lum
ber market. Even with its hPls bare of
trees, the logs cut on streams flowing into
Baker's Bay are required to. be towed
around t6 Deep River for safety of de-
livery during all seasons and times, to
sawmill buyers. The name of peep uver
is well chosen. It is DO to 30 fathoms in
depth after getting over the bar at Its
mouth. The river proper is a tidal estuary,
and Is some seven miles long, "with many
windings, through lo and broken ranges
of hills. Some assert that this river la
. purely a tidal estuary without any water-
shed a mere part of tho bed of too Co-
of this human hive Is had from the Col
uumbla at the mouth of the little river.
Most of the travel, X' echool as well as
among the neighbors. Is by row and- sail
boats, and by the triweekly Astoria mall
steamer. Within a mile of the head of
navigation a county bridge has been built
across Deep Rlver. It has a peculiar
automatic draw bridge that requires no
keeper. It operates by gravity. The
draw is divided Into two parts, at the
center, with hinges and rollers. A chain
attachment enables the steamboatman to
raise the parts of the bridge and thus pass
through. The bridge draw is so nicely
balanced as to permit the land traveler
to restore the bridge to its status as a
highway, without any trouble. A number
of those cheap and economical drawbridges
are in operation In the counties of "Wash
ington bordering on tho Columbia. Ore
gon might take a lesson in economy by
studying the same plan. At the bridge
William Anderson has established a sob
stantlal store and warehouse and controls
the entire" trade of that region, carrying
on a very prosperous business. Recently
Benson, the Oak Point logger, has begun
surveying for a loggings road from the
neighborhood of Anderson's store. He
proposes to clean up the timber on the
higher slopes of Deep River, and to get
over by a pass on to Salmon Creek, which
heads away up behind Skamokawa, In the
Coast Range, along with Gray's River,
Into which stream Salmon Creek empties
near the mouth of the former. Olsen Is in
with Benson on the timber deal, and It Is
said they have gotten control of a situa
tion that will keep them supplied with
logs for 25 years.
Fine Asrlcnltraal District.
Deep River empties Into Gray's Bay,
into which, and near together, also
empty three other Important streams, all
of which are great logging waters. The
divides between them aro low, and some
day the basins of these four streams,
reaching from Harrington's Point, above
Crooked Creek, to Rocky Point, below Sis
son's Creek, and constituting really a con
tinuous valley, will be cleared oft to tho
highest summits, and will furnish some
very fine agricultural land, when, if ever.
J fumigh
marKeu slsson's Creek, west
and parallel with Deep River, has only
two settlers on it. Brix Bros., of Astoria.
have a logging outfit and a logging rail
road up that stream. There Is a vast
forest of spruce and fir timber on tho
watershed of that creek, and reachlnc
back some 12 miles to the summit of the
dUide Columbia and Shoal
' -..- ,. win,, u rk-.i.-i. " .
water, or Wlllapa, Bay. One-half of it
is owned .by miscellaneous persons, and
with these Brix Bros, can make their own
terms. The other half of the timber
fV.V rtl.eV -ptrMr t Mi.m4 -- t.
lwwrhaJiwftl)fflka.yDtete.ifhIcii
tatel purchased Urnbr laaJ-oC , e
Northern.Paclflc in Washington and Idah6.
-i-rrpniv--ifmr Tr.nne ncn ttii fir-m - 1
running a local sawmill in Rock Island,
BL, of about 30,000 feet dally capacity.
Twelve years ago the Weyerhausers were
tho lumber kings of the Mississippi Val
ley, and rated by Dunn's at $30,003.00).
Their purchase of the 6.000.000 acres ot
timber land In Washington and Idaho for
S3.O0O.O0O was not only the biggest timber
deal ever made, but It established that
great firm as the lumber kings -of tho Pa.
clfic Northwest.
Brix Bros, get their logs from Slsson
Creek for the general market. On Gray's
River Saldren & Irving have a logging
railroad and are getting out a large sup
ply of logs, mostly for the Columbia mills
at Knapptorf. The Umber supply of this
watershep Is Immense, and almost virgin.
Yet the cultivated farms in the valley of
Gray's River are almost the most lovely
to be found west of the Coast Range., It
Is several miles, however, from the mouth
of tho r'ver up to the region where these
fine farms are found. All the lands on the
lower part of Gray's River are tldelands
and need to be diked before they can be
cultivated. There are two fine fal!s on
this river, near together, and about SO feet
in height. They have a greater volume of
water than the 60-foot falls on Young's
River, south of Astoria.
Crooked Creek is also an important Tog-
ring stream, that empties Into Gray's Bay
jnear .the mouth of Gray's River. Its
watershed is shorter and is adjacent to the
ROHD WHGO N S
RUNHBOUTS
Buggies, $60 and Up
- . ,
Surreys, Traps, 5tanhopes alj kinds of vehicles, with steel
tiFes, rubber tires, pneumatic tires.
Harness, Whips and Robes.
Farm, Spring, Delivery and Express Waflons of the Mitchell
make Impossible to build anything better.
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co.
high slopes north of Harrington's Point. ;
No Important loggings camps, with log
ging railroads, are found on this stream;
but It will not bo long neglected. In the
face of ths great heglra of Eastern lum
bermen to the Lower Columbia.
These four waterways constitute one
system. They all cluster around the site
of the City of Frankfort, which bad a
meteoric career as a boom city some 10
years ago, when Chenault, Mullinlz, Gray,
Bourne and others essayed the rolo of
town-builders. It Is, no doubt, the best
site for a north-side city, and It Is likely
the O. R. & N will make it the mooting
place of Its railroad and river line from
Portland to the North Beach resorts. It
Is the best-sheltered, most-level and most
accessible site on that side from Har
rington's Point to Fort Canby. "With
great development at the mouth of the
Columbia it will become en Important
town, by reason of its fine farming area,
as well as for other advantages.
The Deep River country is mostly set
tled up by Finns a God-fearing, peace
able. Industrious and Intelligent people,
who have been trained in the' ways of self
government. Thoy believe In good schools
and churches, and are, perhaps, the best
citizens among tho Scandinavian race, to
which most Finns belong. Acquaintance
with their ways, their modes of thought
and their rules of action, will dissipate
a prejudice that somehow exists In certain
quarters, .against this interesting people.
Among their school teachers, on Deep
River, is a very brignt daughter of T.
Patterson, the retired rest estate dealer
of Portland. She has a school of some
JnSJ'StnSi? SJSrSr? ifvearsf !
quite dignlfled; albeit only 18 years of
age. The school directors of that district
have a high flagpole 4n the schoolhouse
yard, and the Stars and Stripes always
float at its top.
STARTED FOR VANCOUVER.
Three Companies bf Seventh In
fantry Will Arrive This Week.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, "Wash..
May 12. Captain McCain, acting Assistant
Adjutant-General, has been notified that
the three companies of the Seventh In
fantry which are under orders to take sta
tion at this post; left Fort "Wayne, Mich
igan, yesterday afternoon. The troops will
go by. steamer to a 'point at the head of
Lake Superior and from there take the
Northern Pacific to Portland, probably ar
riving here next Tuesday or "Wednesday.
First Lieutenant Daniel F. Keller, Twenty-fourth
Infantry, has been designated as
census enumerator at Fort Sherman, Ida
ho. Private Toney Young, Company D,
Twenty-fourth Infantry, was tried by n
general court-mvtlol and found guilty of
conduct to the prejudice of 'good order and
military discipline, and was sentenced to
be confined at hard labor for six months
and to forfeit $10 per month for the same
period.
FIRE BUGS IN STJMPTER.
Second Attempt to Barn the Town
Frustrated Watch Set.
STJMPTER, May 12. Fire bugs made en
other attempt to burn Sumpter this morn
ing. The fire was started In a pile of
rubbish In the rear of the Kentucky liquor
store on Granite Street and On the oppo
site side from where the conflagration last
night was. It was discovered in time and
put out before gaining headway. Watch
men were posted In different parts of the
town tonight to guard against the In
cendiaries. FUTURE VOTERS REGI5TERED,-
The Practice in Linn Connty Large
Number on the List.
ALBANY. May 12. Tho County Clerk Is
registering all who will be eligible to vote
at the time of tho elections in June and
November, in each case vnaking a note
of the fact and of the election at which
the voter will be eligible. About 20 of
this character have so far been registered
The registration tonight exceeds the
vote of two years ago by about 500.
Lively Enough for a City.
Hood River Glacier.
A regular chapter of accidents hap
pened In Hood River and vicinity last
week. Among those reported were the
fatal accident to Charles Groat, who was
killed while blasting stumps; William
Thompson's runaway in which he lost an
ear (but It was replaced by the doctor) j
and was nearly scalped; the accident on
the Haynes Hill, in which Charley Wal
lace had an arm and several; ribs broken,
and William Ellis escaped with serious
bruises In a runaway; the accident to
Charley Rathbone,-who was helping to
unload a car of lumber, when a skid board
tipped up and struck him In the face,
breaking his nose and cutting a gash
above the eye, and the runaway accident
at Vlento, In which S. W. Curran suf
fered a broken -leg. In an epidemic of
accidents like that of last week doctors
and undertakers may be happy, but timid
people feel like going home and crawling
under the bed.
Birds Are Poisoned
Pendleton Tribune.
The meadow larks and small gray birds,
once so numerous in the wheat belt of
this county are by degrees being exter
minated, says T. S. Hurlburt, of Echo.
Their destruction Is being brought about
by the promiscuous use of stryhnine
soaked wheat by the farmers t6 rid them
selves of the squirrels. As a result of
the destruction of these small birds, Mr.
Hurlburt has observed that troublesome
Insects and files have correspondingly In
creased, greatly to the annoyance and
discomfort of man and beast, and to the
injury of fruit trees.
FIRST AND TAYLOR STREETS
THE CONTRACTS AWARDED
MOST O
BOOKS
P WASHINGTON'S TEXT
TO BE MADE AT HOME.
Tkwo Atraraed to Eastera Eouei
"Will Be Maamfactarea fey Tteloa
Laborers The Books.
OLYXPIA. May 12. The fight between I
the local and Eastern publishers as to i
whlch should supply the textbooks for j Bona examination and experience. The
"Washington has resulted In a victory for private, detectives employed by him to pl
the former ani the union men. The State 1 ot hlm to aiarenutable resorts had no
Board of Education adjourned this after-
noon, after awarding the contract for the
bulk of the books- to the "Westland Pub
lishing Company, of this state.
The concern has secured enough work
to keep it running full time from now to
the opening of the school year in Sep
tember. The series of readers go to East
ern men, but as they are to be brought
out by union labor, the local people feel
that they have not suffered defeat In this.
The St. John system of penmanship was
adopted.
The Eastern houses have secured the
primary arithmetic, school grammar, lan
guage books and readers, primary history
and the primary writing-books. The "West-
land Publishing Company will furnish the
etboo induct ? T3ES
Wstm. ,',, mtmntr -. r. t, -vtt.
, - hB,Mn, r, ,r,,v
The high-school textbooks are as fol
lows: Herrick's and Damon's rhetoric, Skin
ner's studies in Latin, Carr's physical
geography, "White's algebra, "Wells' geom
etry, Adams' European history, McLaugh
lin's United States history, FIske's physics,
Caller and Daniel's first book in. Latin,
Greenough's second year in Latin, and Al
len and Greenough's Cicero. The textbooks
In "German and French were readopted.
No high school arithmetic has been chosen
yet.
Professor "W. T. Hughes, principal of
the public schools of Falrhaven, compiled
the speller. The St. John system of pen
manship was devised by Professor St.
John, a professor in the State "University,
and his system is tne vertical system
taught by use of a diagram. Horatio
Ailing, chief clerk in the State'Secretary's
department, is the author of a work on
civics, to be used in the eighth-grade
classes.
The history, geography, and grammar
have not been written In the state, but
the plates have been purchased by the
"Westland Company from other states
where these books have been successfully
used, and the mechanical work will be
done in "Washington.
The textbooks now adopted will be the
authorized school books for five years, be
ginning next September. Something like
jH.000,000 of patronage was involved in the
'selection.
HIC ET UBIQUE. "
The Problem of Vice the Same
Every Large City.
In
New York Sun.
An apparently concerted attempt is now
made to stir up another spasm of moral
agitation in New York like that whipped
up by Parkhurst a few years ago. New
York Is again represented by him and im
itative parsons as given over to the flesh
and the devil and filled with loathsome
corruption. People to whose personal ob
servation no sign of this dreadful state
of things Is brought in then- dally walk
and conversation are distressed by tales
told them of awful hidden wickedness,
and they are relied on to spread the wave
of hysterical excitement.
Of course, there Is much of this evil
below the surface of New York life. It
exists in the smallest villages in some
measure, and in New York, with a crowd
ed population equal to the aggregate pop
ulation of several thousand villages, the
sum of It must be iarge. Happily, how
ever, tho activity of urban life sweeps
away with Its current much of the moral
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filth which would be accumulated if ex
istence was as stagnant in New York as
it Is in such villages. Moreover, police
protection and vigilance, almost wholly
absent from rural communities, act as
restraining influences in -a great town,
thousrh to it naturallv tends every form
nt antamrMnvr trr and rasealitV the
world over.
Practically, in New Tork the whole of
that part of the population which is en
gaged in such Industry Is known particu
larly to the police. Parkhurst went about
the town for months together to find out
abodes of vice as to which any police
man on duty In any district visited by
him could have riven hlra all the ln-
formation he obtained by Droloneed per-
knowledge to them which was not con
fessedly shared by the police. Sucn in
formation Is possessed by the police of
every great capital; that they nave it in
New York, In London, in Farts, in iiernn, i
and In all the important cities oi me
world is no secret. They have no need
to go to any nocturnal clerical spy to ob
tain It, and there is not, and never has
been, any pretense that they are under
any such necessity. It Is safe to assume
that every regular practitioner of crime
and every professional purveyor to
vicious tastes and appetites in New York
is known to the police, and also all the
habitual patrons of the criminal and Im
moral. Every gambling place, every pool
room, every "skin game," every disrepu
table resort is recorded In the books or
the personal knowledge of the police.
Why. then, are they suffered to exist?
Why are they not rooted out of the llfo
of all great towns In civilization? Ac
tually, as we see, they exist as features
of every capital, as they always bave
existed, side by side with the progress of
civilization. They are the expression of
tendencies in human nature which are
practically irrepressible. If they are re
pressed In one form they crop out forth
with in another and perhaps more nox
ious form. They are as Inevitable a feat
ure of urban Efe as Is the vastly pre
ponderating moral restraint which makes
possible the preservation: of civilization;
as Inevitable as are schools and churches
and the homes of order and purity. No
law and no enforcement of law could
prevent gambling, for Instance, unless at
the cost of the extermination of the hu
man epeclea. Parsons preach against the
desire for sudden riches as a sin; yet
everybody who Is not rich Is in a hurry
to get rich. Without that universal human
propensity there would be no progress.
Specifically It keeps busy the great gamb
ling center of Wall street.
So, also, there are natural Impulses In
human nature which no civilization, no re
ligion, haa yet been able to conquer by
artificial restraints. The natural man
still remains with Imperious tastes and
appetites, unsubdued by thousands of
years of the taming, process of civiliza
tion, and every government which ha
set out to force them under Its unsparing
control has wasted Its authority. Tho
church Itself cannot enforce conventional
morality ok Its own members: no more
than a physician can compel his patients
to obey the laws of health. Nobody obeys
those laws, even though length of life
Is the reward.
Men In the aggregate, however, are bet
ter than men individually The faults and
defects of New York as a community are
less than those of the average Inhabitant
of It. Such corruption as there Is In the
city government Is small comparatively
to the aggregate of misdoings In private
business representing transactions ol
equal magnitude. Great complaint la
made of our American municipal corpo
rations; but really their etandard of hon
esty Is higher rather than lower thap that
of Tirtvata corooratlons. Run over the
history of our railroad and other great
corporat'ons, call to mind your experience
of business morality, and the further you
go, the broader your sweep, the more con
vinced you will be of the superiority of
public morality.
Nobody who has lived In New York con
tinuously for the last generation can look
back at the past without observing a
steady tendency to improvement In the
town. It Is a far more orderly and de
cent town than it used to be. It is far
better governed. Morally, so far, at least,
as the outward view shows, it is superior
to any other great capital In the world.
The quiet and peaceful citizen encounters
none of those terribly vicious manifesta
tlono of which we hear so much now.
unless like Parkhurst he goes out to hunt
for them. Of course, he can find them
in New York; he can find them In the
most secluded rural community; he can
find them In his own heart, but they are
hidden here as they are hidden there,
and only their aggregation in a great
community makes the search for them
the easier for anybody who has a pro
pensity for tt-
Thls periodical upturning of the moral
filth-of the town, of which we have now
an example. Is largely the consequence
of a pruriency of imagination in thosj
engaged In the enterprise of which they
themselves are not conscious. It Is a
provocative quest even for the purest
souls. so prone Is human nature to evil
of the sort, Vice Is so dangerously at
tractive to the carnal mind that even the
very Investigation and description of it
though with a view to Its extirpation
may be dangerous, so unruly Is'the imag
ination
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SUlde. Actually this provocative vice Is , purposes. Directors J. Frank Watson. Pres.;
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not the great ana aisungusning reature . d Merchants National Bank; H. a
of New Tork life which It appears to be Breedea of H. a Ereeden & Co.; B. C. Eck
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latlon of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 are
dwelling and moving Is the really Import
ant characteristic ot the town.
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Morocco's Future.
Baltimore Sun.
At Madrid it seems to be believed that
France has adopted a policy of absorbing
Morocco, desiring to make he whole of
Northwestern Africa French territory.
Various steps have been taken, I? is said,
to this end. French troops often make
free with the frontier, and there Is talk
of dethroning the present emperor in
favor of a protege of France. Italy and
Spain have expectations of obtaining a
share of Morocco, but their chances ara
slender. The other great powera feel an
Interest In the fate of tho eniplre, be
cause of Its nearness to Europe and ths
prospect of losing a market If the French
tariff were applied In Morocco as it la
m Algeria and Tunl3. No doubt the peo
ple of that badly governed country would
be better off under French administrators
than they are at pre6ent. They could
nardiy be governed worse, unless, per
haps, Russia or Spain took them in hand.
If Morocco is to cease to be independent
the world would probably accept French
mastery with equanimity, provided the
"open door" Is maintained.
Printer Committed Sal eld e.
WHATCOM, Wash., May 12. James L.
Woods, printer. 600 Golden Gate avenue,
San Francisco, committed suicide hera
last night by taking chloral.
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An Easy Way to Keep WelL
It Is easy tp keep well If we would only
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The all-Important thing Is to keep the
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