THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTOHIA, OREGON.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1907. '
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"A WORD TO THE WISE."
The Morning Astorian trie to be, and
is, very largely, to ita own city ana
oounty, all that the Oregonian is to
Portland and Multnomah county. It en
deavors to, and does, as largely and
truly as it may, reflect and represent,
the concensus of -public reason and spirit
hare upon all the leading topics of the
day as they are expressed by the people.
All this the Oregonian denies, simply
because the Astorians and Clatsopians
do not think, speak and act as it would
have them upon certain matters in which
it is deeply interested.
"We are not mincing matters with the
bregonian, nor any other paper, nor with
any man, nor set of men. If we agree
with them and the weight of agreement
is on the public tongue, we say so
gladly and frankly and promptly; but if
ire realize that the Oregonian is wrong
v and inquiry hereabout confirms the de
duction, we simply go ahead and fight,
that is all there is to it.
That the Oregonian does not like our
style of fighting does not make the
slightest difference to us. There are peo
' , pie in good old Oregon who do like the
' fighting methods of the Oregonan, and
many a bitter protest has been sent up
to that great paper, through its half
century of existance but it has made no
difference to the Oregonian, either. It
goes right on with its crusades and wins
many of them upon the sheer plane of
vttrolic and amazing force as a
"crusher."
The Oregonian wastes its breath when
it tells the people here that it, or its
city, is friendly to Astoria, lears of
thwarting, denial, abuse, circumven
tion, discrimination, directed toward this
place and made tellingly successful by
reason of the Oregonian's power, is an
old story at this end of the river, and
Astorians are not deceived by any sort
of explanation it offer.
There are not more than half a dozen
citizens of this city and county who
openly commend the Port of Columbia
law and only one that ever gave an
, intelligent idea of his conclusions and
why he held them. The rest of the peo
ple, headed by the county court and
every attorney at the Clatsop bar, were
unified, instantly and unanimously,
against the unjust thing.
As to the graft element of the notor
ious measure, we reiterate that there
was such a report and that it dealt with
certain men, in certain sums, and was
common talk at Salem and in this city,
and no bones were made about it what
ever; and we are the more convinced of
the actual truth of the rumor since the
Oregonian, of yesterday, was at such
pains to do the dignified stunt in dero
gation of our allusion to it. The gaff
evidently struck and sunk and hurt. We
would rather say pleasant, kindly things
of the Oregonian, because there is so
much of that sort of thing that might
. be said of it, in a hundred ways; but
we are sticking to our text just so long
as it tries to cram that Port of Colum
bia law down the Clatsop throat aad
"will pledge ourselves never to exceed, by
single expression, the public estimate
of the bill here. To date we have but
faintly urged the popular dislike of the
measure.
"A word to the wise" ought to be suf
ficient. Perhaps it will be!
"TAKE TO THE WATER."
The essence of Mr. Fox's talk, heTe,
recently, was, that to escape the fast
increasing burdens of railroad transpor
tation, the people must make more and
better use of the waterways of the na
tion; every section that possesses an
available water route must qualify it
for service and then use it, at its lower
rate of cost, until the railway situation
shall have cleared itself of the snarls
and ambiguities and Infirmities, incident
to its long lease of unlicensed power,
wherewith it has wrought its own defeat
in the eves of the people and the law.
Astoria is particularly fortunate in
being situated on a water level grade
from everywhere in the universe; river
and tea contribute to make her the ideal
depot for the exports and Imports of the
Northwest 1 no other city is as easily
reached, nor a cheaply, by waters as is
this place; and even Portland can utilize
her us her best end greatest agency in
the handling of the great commerce he
controls, if she will but see the exped
iency of such a scheme.
The fct that the metropolis is up a
couple of rivers, with U sorts of Im
pediment t the mouth of lesser stream,
with a growing dread among the marin
ers in command of the heavier bottoms
that so frequently mire down there, is
going to count heavily in favor of send
ing, ami receiving, foreign cargoes at the
mouth of the Columbia, where there is
room to float the biggest fleets, of the
greatest tonnage. All that it needed is
a patent demonstration of the ease and
despatch with which ships can be
handled here (with the open sea la plain
sight of every dock .in the harbor) to
cUivh the problem once for all, and our
word may be taken for it, the demon
stration is not very far away, either.
A soon as it is made, and the harbor
nf Astoria is shown to be hist what the
good God intended tt to be, tne aggrea-
iv 'Port lander will be nere wren mt
business and the fulsome plea that "he
knew it must come some day." etc., etc.,
etc- The whole country is going to
"take to the water' until the railway
men re-iwrcel their kingdom and re
adjust their levies; and by that time, we
will have learned the exact and indis
pensable value of the water-haul and
water-grade.
THE FIRST DIFFERENCE.
As an oratorical effect, Taft's spech
is not remarkable. There is little rhe
toric in it. There is not one impassion
ed phrase in it. There is nothing that
dazzles or surprises. It is a calm, can
did and judicial treatment f the sub
jects of rate legislation, trusts and tar
iff revision, witM references to a fedearl
inheritance tnx and a federal income
tax, and with the earnest champion
ship of President Roosevelt and a con
trast of his poliev with Mr. Bryan's.
On railway rate legislation Mr. Taft
endorses the present laws and favors
several amendments that have been cal
led fdr bv the Interstate Commerce
Commission, one of which would give
permission to railroads to form trail!
agreements subject to the approval 01
the Commission. He is opposed to gov
ernment ownership and he does not be
lieve that in order to secure federal reg
ulation of railroads "the constitutional
limits unon federal action should be
blurred out or an undoubted federal
power should be expanded by doubtful
construction into field which un
doubtedly belongs to the state." This
is taen by somepapers to indicate that
Mr. Taft does not take stock in the sug
gestion made by ,Mr. Farrar of Louis
ana and countenanced by President
Roosevelt that the post roads clauce of
of the federal government gives the
federal government fuller powers over
the railways than the interstate com
merce clause confers. This is the first
differnce detected between Taft's views
and Roosevelt's. Current Literature for
October.
WEDS HIS MOTHER-INLAW.
Rich Boston Wool Merchant Falls in
Love With Dead Wife's Parent.
DEXTER, Colo., Sept. 30. Thrown in
constant companionship with his mother-in-law
after the death of his wife,
James Parsons, a millionaire wool mer
chant of Boston, fell in love with her
and married her here today.
Parson's wife died two years ayo.
He had always had a strong affection
for his mother-in-law, Mrs. Agusta J.
King, and after his wife's death Bhe
continued to reside with him.
The merchant finally discovered that
he was infatuated with his dead wife's
mother and proposed to her. He was
accepted and the wedding soon followed.
WILL FIGHT LOCAL OPTION.
Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers, Alarmed,
Seek to Raise i,5o,ooo Fund.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 30. The Pennsyl
vania State Fedeartion of Liquor Deal
ers will meet in Harrisburg on Thurs
day and Friday to disscust plans to
raise $1,500,000 to fight local option in
the state.
lAlarmed by the recent local oqtion
elections in Ohio when East Liverpool
and Welsville were voted dry, the Penn
sylvania dealers are going to work.
They are not over their scare caused
when ia the last legislature only font
votes were needed to put a local option
bill on the house calendar.
Charlee 8. Black, president of the
Western Pennsylvania Liquor Associa
tion, is at the head of the movement to
arouse interest in this state.
ATTACK WIFE OF SHERIFF.
LAPORTE, Ind., Sept. 30.-After
knocking down the wife of Sheriff
Smutzer with an iron rod they had
wrenched from the bed when she had
stepped into the cell corrider to give a
drink of water to a sick prisoner tonight
Arthus Cummins and John Edwarda,
awaiting grand jury, action on grand
larceny charges, escaped from the La
porte county jail. ,
Mrs. Smutzer, though badly hurt,
crawled to the outer door and locked it,
preventing the escape of eleven other
prisoners.
HAS HAPPY ENDING.
Objections of F. A. Spencer of Tacoms
Ar Fruitiest.
OLYMPIA. Sent 8fl.-While'the uure
Uniting father stormed, tbs bride plead
ed and the groom reiterated his iuten
tion of never giving up, the marital
trouble of John Pet t lore w and his pret
ty 10-year- old bride came to an end
today, as all good romance should,
with a bridal tour and happy ever
after prospect.
Whether the bride's picture is to be
turned to the wall in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mr. A. E. Spencer
of the Judson house, 047 D street.
Taenia, depend upon how long her
father's snger continue. The old gentle
man was not in an enviable frame of
mind when he followed the bridal par
ty out of Olympia on a latter train.
but alter investigating the circum
stances of hi daughter's marriage to
lVtticrew iu this city Monday, and find
ing thev had been legally united save
for the question of the girl's age, he
consented to make no further objection
and the inUtmrpted wedding journey
was continued, still without the parental
blessing, but a happy one, just the same
Petticrew, who is n industrious
young carpenter, may return here with
hi bride to uiakthis futurt home.
In an interview today, while ncgotia
tions were iu progress, he announced
his firm intention of never giving up
his bride. He declared that his name
is Petticrew and that he is a relative
of United States Senator Petticrew of
South Dakota, in spite of the difference
in the spelling of their names.
GHOULISH FUN.
Students Fasten Hated Victim in a
Coffin.
CHICAGO. Sent. 30. A special to the
Tribune from Dubuque, la., Says:
To lie for ten hours in a coffin, to see
through the glass covering over his face
the gUmmer of candles, was the fate of
Roy Lerraine, a student of the Dubuque
high school, who was the victim of a
school fraternity initiation.
The voung man was to be submitted
to the most trying ordeal. Gagged and
bound, he was taken under cover of
night to a farm in the vicinity of the
city. Here he was escorted to a cellar
long in disuse and led down the stair
way, Candles were lighted and placed
about in niches iu the wall and young
Lerraine, blindfolded, was induced to
lie down in what to him seemed a box.
and the cover was fastened. The cover
uur soon was removed from his eyes
and he awoke to the realization that he
was in a coffin. There was sufficient
air to keep him from smothering and
he remained there all through the night.
Early in the morning he was released
by some of his friends.
OWES GOVERNMENT.
Charle G. Hoyt Declared by Court to
Have Misapplied $196.
SPOKANE, Sept. 30.-Charles G. Hoyt
a nephew of ex-President Grover Cleve
land, who has been the principal defend
ant in a su't in the Federal court
brought by the government to recover
from .him and the United States Fidel
ity Company, his surety, approximately
$3,000 alleged to have been misapplied
by him as dispursing member of an In
dian Commission, was decided by Judge
Deitrich today to be indebted for only
$106.50. Hoyt was one of the commis
sion appointed in 1000 to treat with the
Crow, Flathead and Yakima Indians for
the transfer of their lands. It it al
leged that of the $18,000 he received
from the government he disburscd'right-
fully all but $2,720.
HAWAIIAN FORESTS.
An addition has been made to the for
est reserves in the island of Maui by
providing that the government land
within the limit of these reservations
at present leased to private, parties thai!
automatically, at the expiration of the
present leases, become part of the for
est reserves. The extent of the addi
tions i about 23,000 acres.
In Hawaii even private lands in forest
are sometimes administered by the Ter
ritorial Board of Agriculture and For
estry. Some of the lessees of public
land within the Koohu Reterve, one of
those just mentioned, turned over to
the Board for administration both their
leased lands and their private lands in
the same reserve, together amounting
to 7,000 acres.
TERRORIST LYNCHED,
ZHITOMIR, Province of Volhynia,
Russia, Sept. 30. Three revolutionists
todftv attacked and wounded the chief
of rural constabulary in hit villa, in
Raitka, near here, and also wounded tdx
Deasants who wounded the would-be a-
sassins. The peasant finally caught the
revolutionists, who were lynched by tne
enraged pursuers.
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LOUISVILLE, KY.
DIVIDE PERSIA IMPARTIALLY.
Russia and England Create Three Com
mercial Spheres by Treaty.
LONDON', Spt. 30. The official text
of the Anglo-Ku-iun treaty has been
issued. The prineiital clauses provide
for the division of Pentia into three
tipheres of commercial influence.
.Tlie northern sphere is allotted to Rus
ia, the middle sphere will be neutral,
and the southern is allotted to Creat
Britain. The letter's preponderance in
Afghanistan is recogniied.
BRIDGE INQUIRY is ON.
Rolay Commission Will Come to New
York to Examine Cooper.
OTTAWA, Sept. 30. The members of
the, royal commiion are on their way
from Quebec to Ottawa. They will ex
amine witnesses here and then go to
New York to tiuettion Theodore Cooper,
the cnj-iinvr who examined the plans
of the ill-fated Quebec bridge.
From there they go to Phoeiiixville
to examine witnesses relative to the
collapse of the bridge.
FEWER SHEEP OR NONE AT ALL?
The ltutte City, Mont., Miner quotes
a stockman who says there are 1,000,000
fewer sheep in that state today than
tlidre wetle twelve months ago, tliis
diiTcnence having been brought about by
the forest reserve policy of the present
administration.
But if the range pastures are all
eaten up how is It possible to keep as
many sheep as before t The adminis
tration has not eaten up the grass; it
is only protecting for future use, such
grass at is left, in. order that the sheep
population will nt have to be reduced
still more.
Gov. J. C. Cutler, of Utah, at the re
cent luncheon entertaining the Goddard
newspaper correspondents' excursion,
spoke wisely on this point 1 "It may
sometimes appear that in seeking the
greatest good of the greatest number
an injustice it done to some who are
interested. This would appear in the
case of letting aside certain forest re
serves, to the detriment of lumber,
stock and sheep interests. Also in the
withdrawal of certain mineral lands
from entry under the present system,
until the real value of these lands may
be at least approximately determined.
But it is easily seen that the disad
vantage" is only temporary. Because the
first of these will result in the great
of the water supply and the growth of
new timber and additional vegetation,
the value of which wil more than bal
ance any temporary inconvenience, And
as for the second case, the Government
and the State should be entitled to a
fair price for the lands they have to
dispose of.
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H. C. Rutland, printer, living on As
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bothered me off and on for many years.
I had pain in the small of my back, sharp
twinge when stooping or lifting and
the achlug bothered me a great deal at
night. I was tired, languid and very
nervous, but in uing lean's Kidney
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nor the hadi'hes I ued to suffer from.
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