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PAGE FOUS. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22,- 1904. Cfie moMltig Hstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 t; PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. ,. ; ' By mail, per year ...... .....;....... $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per month $0 SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOIUAX. THE By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 GOOD THING FOR THE BOSSES. ' We were told during the June campaign that the direct primary law was calculated to take- the man agement of the two political parties out of the hands f the "bosses" and place it in the hands of the rank and file of the parties. It is to be presumed that the "bosses" are the men to whom those most interested in the parties look for advice. It would indeed be interesting to know just how the law will accomplish this object, and difficult to understand that it will not have the effect of more thoroughly eliminating the voter from voice in the affairs of the party to which he belongs. It is only reasonable to suppose that each of the parties will maintain headquarters and rely upon their central committees to look after the various matters which need attention. Now, who will select party candidates! The di rect primary law provides that candidates shall cause their names to be placed on the primary ballots by filing petitions with the county clerk, but isn't it reasonable to suppose that there will be some un derstanding beforehand on the part of the men most active politically t : It frequently happens, in Mult nomah as well as in outside counties, that difficulty! is experienced in securing candidates. For the lucra tive offices there are plenty of aspirants, but for the minor offices candidates are usually scarce. Who will see to it that these minor offices are filled ! .Sure ly somebody must attend to this most important matter, and quite as surely some committee of par tisans will arrange for circulation of the petitions I the various aspirants for nomination. ; ' This work is indispensable and must necessarily be done by the central committees of the two par ties.;' The central committees are made up usually tf one delegate from each precinct in the county, r, where there are large cities in the counties, of ne delegate from each outside precinct and three from each city precinct In Clatsop county the com mittees are composed of about 25 men, of whom nine the city committeemen attend all the meetings and arrange for primaries and elections. It is plain to be seen that the affairs of the parties are to be taken out of the hands of the conventions and placed solely in the hands of the committees. This will minimize the number of managers to about one-twelfth of the number heretofore selecting can didates. The present system of nominating by peti tion offers no advantage over the old method, for the reason that independent candidates could former ly nominate themselves by petition. The old law had due regard for the rights of those diasatisfied with convention nominations, for it provided that the nominations of conventions should be filed up to within 15 days of the election. It was plainly the intent to allow dissatisfied members of a party to name opposition candidates. Heretofore candidates have been selected by con ventions made up of 100 to 125 delegates. Now candidates will be selected by county, or city com mittees, made up perhaps of not more than 10 work ing members. As an instance of what "reform" will do to lift the burden of the "bosses" from the shoulders of the poor, downtrodden voter,, Oregon's direct primary law is certainly a wonderful measure. planting. In 10 years the trees return 10 boxes or more each and continue for many years to produce similar results. Irrigation insures annual crops where dependence on rainfall and natural climatic conditions makes the crop an uncertainty. Under a good system of irrigation the orchardist has the elements of growth and development in trees and fruits in his hand. He can direct the formation of the tree and the fruits as the market demands. By cultivation ami fertilization, which every fruit grower must under stand, he can produce that which will take precedence in every fruit market of the country. Orchard planting insures permanency in income, with but little expense for maintaining the original acreage. Selected trees are easily grown and last for years. Some of the bearing cherry trees of Puget sound have been giving annual crops for the past quarter of a century. The outlay for machinery and marketing boxes is never great. Pruning and spraying the trees require care and prompt atten tion, but do not represent a large cash expenditure to the acre. There is not a great deal of manual labor in the orchard. A good orchard is certainly a desirable thing for an old man to possess. Thou sands of acres remain open for planting if the people will only accept the opportunities. PROBABLY WERE MURDERED. MONEY IN FRUIT. GROWING. Orchardists of the, Wenatchee valley,' in Cehlan county, are shipping 10 carloads of fruits to mar ket every day, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer The shipments consist chiefly of apples and peaches and are made in -large iQts to the cities of Mon tana, 'Minnesota and the Dakotas. Some choice ap ples are sent as far as Winnipeg, where they com mand good prices., Xtoe grower has an orchard of 23 acres in bearing" apple trees from which he es timates his picking for the year at 10,000 boxes. These will net at least 50 cents per box, or over $200 an acre, after deducting expenses. " , ' ' Fruit growing offers one of the best opportunities for success in the horticultural field. The Wenat chee valley is especially favored. because of a com bination of soil, climate and water for irrigation purposes. Many of the marketable fruits can be harvested from orchards four years after planting, some of the red apple orchards give an average of five boxes to the tree the fourth year from trans- THE AVERAGE LIFE. When we read where Montaigne, writing some thing more than three centuries ago, says that at 40 a man may well felicitate himself on length of days and may justly retire to compose his mind for death, we are tempted to moralize upon the exceeding brev ity of life in those' days of strenuosity and ignorance of medicine, says the Saturday Evening post. But what is the average life in our boasted civilization ! Why, less than 40 years 1 They used to have war and plague. We have ma chinery, recklessly handled, and sundry and divers self-indulgences in matters of eating and drinking and drugs that create false hopes and fresh dis eases in place of those they throttle. And the av erage life of man remains below 40. It is a curious reflection, isn't it, that at 45 one has lived far beyond the average! And 45 is still the heyday of youth, or ought to be the age at which a man feels that he can trust himself to go freely about without some older or wiser person watching him. But Montaigne 's wisdom for three centuries ago doesn't apply today. Today's 40-year-old has no right to felicitate himself. On the contrary, he who is passing away before 40 knows that he has been cheated out of more than half his life the better half. New Theory Formed in Case of Womon - Found on Railroad. Bucyrua. 0 Sept. SI. The citlaena of New Winchester ar Investlgatlng the death of Mlsaea Mary and LUile Knher, who were found dead on the Ohio Central railroad tracks yesterday, They nre auppoaed to have committed uk'Ule. Investigation shows that thore are no wounds on the body of Mary and no injuries on the body of the other woman except that the ! are cut off. It la believed they were murdered. Great excitement prevail BASEBALL SCORES. Paoifio Coatt. At Seattle Portland, ; Seattle, 6. At Tacomu San Francisco, 3; Ta- coma, 5. At San Franclaco Loa Angelee, 1; Oakland, 4. 4; u Paoifio National. At Boise Spokane, J; Holae, Inning a. At Salt Lake Butte, 1; Salt Lake, J American. At St. Loula Cleveland, ; St. Lou- la, 1. At Waahlngton New Tork, 2; Washington, 4. At Chicago Detroit, i; Chicago, 4. At Boston Flrat game: PhlladeU phla, 1; Boston, S. Second game: Philadelphia, 3; Boston, 4. National. At Brooklyn First game: Plttaburg. 5; Brooklyn. 1. Second game: Pitta burg, 2; Brooklyn, 1. At Philadelphia Flrat game: Chi cago, 4; Philadelphia, ?. Second game: Chicago, 0; Philadelphia, 3. At Boston St Loula, 1; Boaton. 9. At New Tork Flrat game: ' Cincin nati, t; New Tork, 4. Second gome: Cincinnati, 2; New Tork, 0. Fairbanks' Latter Made Pubtio. Indlanapolla, Sept. 21. The letter of United Statea Senator Fairbanks ac cepting the republican nomination for the vice presidency waa made public today. Will Fight MoGovern. New Tork. Sept, 21. Eddie Hanlon, the pugilist who waa recently defeated by Battling Nelson, baa been matched for a six-round bout with Terry Mo Govern at Philadelphia, October 10. More than 200 vagrants who were brought over in a single band upon one trans-Atlantic steamship are to be sent back by the Ellis island authorities. Here is a lesson which should convince the ocean companies that they can not now play, fast and loose with our immigration laws, as they have been too ready to do at times in the past, says the New York Tribune. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of strictly enforcing the statutes which prohibit the bringing into the country of the scum and refuse of other lands. The laws are wise and sound as they stand. .Every steamship line must be forced to respect and obey them. The sending back to the old world of this gang of vagrants will in volve considerable expense to the steamship line which carried them to Ellis island. But it may per haps inspire greater caution among the managers of other vessels, as it ought to do. Gorman in Rote of Adviser. I. New Tork, Sept. 21. Gorman today took up the duties 'of adviser of the national democratic committee. Henry Weinhard was one of the coast's most pro gressive citizens. Perhaps somewhat late in life he awakened to his duty, but nevertheless his public spirit manifested itself. He covered Portland with magnificent business blocks, and in late years did more than any other three capitalists to build up the Oregon metropolis. Cities must depend upon the public spirit of their wealthy men for substantial growth. Those citizens who amass great fortunes and keep their money tied up in the banks do not ful fill their mission. The men who invest their for tunes in modern buildings are those to whom the community owes debts of gratitude. Henry Wein hard was one of those men. 'He loved his adopted city and spent his money to assist in its upbuilding. Portland could ill afford to lose him, and for more reasons than one his death is to be deplored. 11 U1C When We will get our first doRe of the "benefits direct primary law sooner than we expected, voters find that the new law prevents them from voting, they may regret having supported the bill. A Texas coroner, who was called on to sit in judg ment over the body of a negro who had been lynched, held that the rope was guilty of ending the negro's life, not the men who had used it. The total vote of Maine in 1855 was 110,477. 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