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6 THE MUHMM. AfcTUKlAN, AST0K1A, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1909 ..HAVI LAND CHINA.. NKWKST DESIGNS, LATEST DECORATIONS Largest and most beautiful line of Decorated Havi jp land China ever shown in this city. ? A. V, ALLEN ' ' COFFEE Phones 731, 3871. FEDERALOR STATELAWS FINALLY REGULATED IMPORTANT WATER MATTERS TO COME UP BEFORE THE SPOKANE MEETING. SPOKANE, Wash. Feb. 19. "Ei ther co-operative state laws or fed eral Jaw will eventually regulate the water supply, not by the riparian rights nor by the priority right but by the equitable distribution of wat er in the irrigated districts F. W. Blackmail of Lawrence, re gent of the University of Kansas, lays emphasis npon the foregoing in a let ter to R. Insinger, chairman of the board of control of the 17th National Irrigation Congress, of which George E. Bastow of Barstow, Texas, is president He sugests that the con gress, which will meet in Spokane August 9 to 14, as well as future gath erings, should be scientific associati ons for the solution of specific prob lems. "The earlier congresses," he writes, "were largely modes of agitation and propaganda. Past congresses have served a useful purpose iti discussing wide ranges of subjects, but suffi cient progress has been made that the future congresses may be more scien tific and less popular. "Among these specific problems demanding immediate attention I think that an irrigation law should occupy a prominent place. The re lation of riparian rights to priority rights is now and will be one of the most troublesome questions that the people have to settle, "It was unfortunate that the gov ernment at its foundation did not un derstand something about the future Bilious Troubles Bile causes no end of trouble. 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Barrincton HAH Steel Cut aocCAN Branch Unioutowo J i cultivation of arid lands and put the l;-.nd and water together making them one and inseparable, and then to di vide the land into irrigation districts determined by drainage basins and thus insure each acre within a given drainage basin its proportionate amount of water This would have saved millions of dollars worth of property and millions of dollars of expense in legislation. "As it is, I believe we are slowly trending toward this result; and either co-operative state laws or fed era! law will eventually regulate the water supply, not by the riparian rights nor by the priority right but j by the equitable distribution of wat er in the irrigated districts. "Another very important problem is the power of the streams in the arid region. Great companies are reaching everywhere to monopolize this water power and put a perbet ual tax for its use on future genera tions. If there is a natural resource that ought to belong to the people at large it is the water in streams and lakes. "For domestic use, for irrigation, for transportation and for power the states in the west ought to see to it at once that laws are passed to give the state absolute and perpetual con trol and ownership of the water pow er of our streams. For, while we are now looking to water foi irrigation, in another ten years we will be look ing with as much eagerness to water for mechanical power. "I am not a socialist, but I am positive that the future prosperity of communities and estates of this great nation depends upon the use of land, water, forests, mines and other na tional resources and these must be conserved for the general good rath er than squandered through brivate selfishness. "There is another question that it appeared to me was needed for the benefit of the farmer himself; name ly, "how to irrigate.' I believe the wllb lull d!rctnn congress ought to be more, of an a gency for the propaganda of practical instruction concerning the 'tilling of the soil under irrigation; this on tie count of the large number of immi grants and settlers coming from "the east, to sUle in irrigated districts who know nothing about farming in arid regions under irrigation. "If there could be prepared a scr ies of short papers, dealing with dif ferent subjects, such as preparation of the land, amount of water needed, how to be applied, method of culti vation or tillage and other matters, and if, subsequently, these could be printed in small leaflets and spread throughout the irrigated districts they would be a vast deal more ser vice than the annual report." POPULAR .MECHANICS, Never before has the span of a single month included a trio of juch remarkable disasters as were the Italian earthquake, the Chicago crib fire and the wreck of the steamship Republic." In each instance there were features which no other era in the wold's history could possibly have given a precedent, because these features depended on mechani cal development. In treating the three events it is this bhase that the March number of Popular Mechan ics brings out, and one reading the articles and viewing the illustrations obtains vivid mental pictures of war ships speeding on errands of mercy, as H. H. Windsor points out in one his editorials; of reconstruction work began by the United States ere other nations had recovered entire ly from the stupefaction foltowing calamity. In the crib disaster, com ment is of a different character, for the incongruity of an engineering feat involving features that have at tracted worldwide interest and the deplorable lack of protection for the workmen engaged thereon cannot but force itself upon the mind- And when before has an ocean collision thrilled the world and arpiued breathless interest not because lives were lost but because a mysterious voice called "wireless telegraphy" spoke through space in no uncertain tones, and lives were saved? Among the most interesting fea tures o fthe March magazine is H. H. Windsor's suggestion for humane methods in slaughter yards. How the United States government will take the biggest census in its history with less (in proportion) expendi ture of money and labor is ?ell told. How snakes are skinned alive in Su matra to supbly the trade will curdle the blood as well as arouse interest, for the pictures are especially gra phic. A motor iceboat, with a speed of 70 miles an hour is described. How the Wright airship is kept afloat is carefully explained. Gas companies in large cities now maintain a corps of woman experts who are sent out to explain gas ranges and meters, and teach economy to house wives. Splendid illustrations accompany this article. These are but a few of many in the March number, which contains 196 articles and 203 illus trations. Every article is descrip tive rather than technical and written so the average person can under stand and enjoy it. Fiction has never reached the height attained by these true stories of achievement, and there is no easier or surer method of keeping abreast the times than to read Popular Mechanics. Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar, and it soothes in flamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expels the cold from the system. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. Subscribe to The Morning Astorian. delivered by carrier. iyrupffigs DixtrsfSenna acts entlyet prompt ly onthe bowels, cleanses me system ejectually, assists one in overcoming Kaoitual constioation permanently. To get its j beneficial effects buy the genuine. Manufactured" by trie California Fic Syrup Co. SOLD BTIXA0IN0 ORUCGtSTS-SCHBOTrit NEW YORK CITY'S DEAD LINE RE-ESTABLISHED LIQUOR AT BOTTOM OF PER CENT OF CRIME IN NEW YORK CITY. 99 NEW YORK, Feb. 19,-The fa mous deadline, establMied by In spector Byrnes at Fulton Street more than two decades ago, is stead ily moving north. If it keep on traveling at its present rate, the street below which any law breaker may be arrested at sight even if the cause for his presence in tlie forbid den xone be entirely harmless, will shortly mark th northern limit of the city. The latest addition to the city's criminal, geography is the estab lishment of the "hold up tone" in the fashionable Riverside Drive dis trict around one hundredth street. So frequent, have hold ups become of late in this part of the town, which when Byrnes made his famous edict was practically unsettled, that the police force has been doubled in the zone with orders to arrest on sight any suspicious persons- In other words, these characters will not have to show what business they have there, thus shifting the burden of proof from the shoulders of the po lice. It is not unlikely that the same condition may shortly prevail over the whole city as far as the Har lem River. While such a condition of affairs would be hailed with joy by all respectable residents of the city very large proportion of the 244,- 822 persons arrested last year take very different view of the matter and arc preparing to fight the propo sal with all the means in their power. The strength of this opposition is al ready indicated by the statement which has come from a prominent source that 80,000, or one-third of the arrests made last year were illegal. Rills have already been introduced at Albany to curtail police power and the northward march of the deadline promises to meet a surpris ing opposition. While the idea that Broadway will ever become "dry" may be looked upon as an embty dream, since it afoou the last place ip h. world where such a reform would be looked for, it is ri'ot impossible that the sub ject may receive official consideration on the part of the city fathers at some future date. If Father Knicker bocker ever does take up the subject it will be not because of his virtue, however, but because of his poverty. Costing annually tor its running one-third of the whole expense of the national government, New York finds each year a more and more dif ficult task to raise the needed money Various means of retrenchment have been suggested, the most surprising of which has to do with" the liquor situation. An article to appear in Appleton s magazine shows the re lation between these two subjects, its figures indicating that drink is re sponsible in one way or another for .he 1 "-sity im rh- rxitarre v about 90 per cent of the machinery now maintained for the protection of the public. In the Glasgow prison in Scotland out of 15,649 committments during one year, according to the Appleton article, more than 14,000 were due to intemperance, while for the 21.400 prisoners committed to the Halloway jail the proportion was e-n Kin ,er. Similar figures are cited for other cities. What is true of them, it is pointed out here, is equally true of New York, necessitating an expen diture in anticrime machinery of nearly $100,000,000 annually. Even for New York, a saving of $90,0(XV a year is not to be sneered .at, and when Father Knickerbocker really gets to the fast approaching limit of his exbenditiircs it may be that even a dry Broadway will not be consid ered an impossibility after all. Although it has no winter carnival nor a crystal palace built out of ice, New York bids fair to become the greatest city for winter sports in this country. Indeed, nowhere else are so many kinds of sport possible the year around. Tennis tourna ments played indoors are as much a feature of winter as summer. Ice hockey, indoor and outdoor athletic meets, boxing, all sorts of racing ex cept between horses are only a few of the features which attract patrons all the year around in the heart of the city In its nearest suburbs, that is within half an hour of the City Hall, both winter and all the year round outdoor sports are enjoying great popularity. The visitor to the metropolis who stops for a few days can, if he cares to follow so ciety to Long Island, find hunting, riding to hounds, and most of all golf, almost any day In the year. On Long Island it is very much the ex cebtion when its many famous golf courses are not in use, even, in mid winter, Perhaps the best known are the two at Garden City, the home of Walter J, Travis, and the new pub lic course, which Mr. Travis has de scribed as being in a class with the older one, has seen visiting players every day this winter with only one exception. Indeed Garden City is rapidly becoming a winter golfers' mecci, affording as many playing days as the famous southern cour ses, and it is seldom that the visitor in New York who cares for golf does not make the Long Island town his headquarters. Dob sledding, too, is another sport which has sprung into popularity in Westchester county particularly. At the recent bobsled tournament held on the hill at Law rence Park, another nearby suburb, under the auspices of the Hotel Gr.i ntatan, record of fifty-five seconds for a mile was established. Auto mobiling of course remains a princi bal winter pastime. Altogether New York is getting suburbanixed in in winter pastime, so far as its visitors are concerned, and even society Is showing a maked preference for the out-of-town hotel instead of open ing up its city houses for a short season. With the out-of-door life strongly in the ascendancy it is pro bable that next year will witness a real winter carnival, not only of the sports peculiar to the season but of those supposed to be peculiar to summer as well. The trials of a public service com mission, receiverships and public hostility, are nothing in comparison to the latest difficulty of one of the local traction companies which pro mises to give rise to one of the knot tiese legal problems ever brought be fore a local court. As a result ui a recent collision in which the passen gers on both electric car were more or less disarranged, the street car company is now called upon to es tablish the identity of three children, or else to pay a large t'uie for depriv ing them of it, and as a result of citi zenship. The three children in question are triplets, and like the twins in Mark Twain's story, nobody could tell them apart. Even their mother could not distinguish them. it appears except by pinning a dif ferent colored ribbon on eschr It was while taking the triplets to a friend's house that the ribbons were so disarranged in a street car acci dent that as a result not even the mother can 'now tell which is which. As all three had been baptized there is now much confusion as to which name belongs to which child. The more serious legal difficulties, how ever, arise from the fact that one of the children having been named after its grandfather was made . his heir. As the grandparent is now unable to determine which of the three was the beneficiary under his old wilt he has made a new one in which none of tnem are remembered. Al a re sult of this the parents of the child ren have brought suit against the street car company for a sum equa to the inheritance, claiming that it is up to the traction people to reim burse the child for its loss. Alto gether the matter, if it comes to trial, promises to develop into one of the most complicated proceedings in the history of this city. Every Woman Wilt be Interested If you will send your name and ad dress we will mail you FREE a pack age of Mother Gray's Australian Leaf, a certrsli, tle.isant !:"rh cure for Women's ills. It is a reliable rcgu lator and, never-failing, If you have pains in the back, Urinary, Bladder or Kidney trouble, use this pleasant union of aromatic herbs, roots and leaves. All Druggists sell it, 50 cents, or address, The Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. State Will Build Railroads (Continued from page 1) Bill No. 220, relating to fishing, on the Columbia River. McCuc fought hard against this bill, which is the one decided on for both Oregon and Washington in joint conference of egislative committees from Salem and Olympia. He wanted the sections abrogating the initiative fish laws and estopping the use of purse seines eliimnated, but after a heated debate the bill was passd unamended by 35 to 20, with five members absent. Senator Beach's theatrical bill, per mitting children to appear in plays under certain restrictions, passed the louse today, and now goes to the Governor. This bill was drafted at the 11th our, being the last introduced in the Senate at this session, because of the attitude assumed by Mrs. Millie Trumbull, the Commissioner of Child I IN WASHINGTON, D. C, EVERYBODY KNOWS V V 11 'COL. WILLIAM CAMI'. 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