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OFFICIAL PAPER OF TUB CITY OF PORTLAND
MISTAKES' IN POPULATION ESTIMATES.
ljf5TTHB CENStTS BUREAU'S estimate of the population
''" ' the United Btatea, 80,000.000 in round numue,
- v I ! Undoubtedly pretty close to the actual figures
; Thii bureau in that case haa before It a general propo-
- v ; iition to which it general method of calculation will ap
: It ascertains iu percentage of growth In the years
j j intervening since the lait federal census and by a simple
; f Calculation , baaed upon' former ascertained percentages
'.. . reaches its results. This rule applied to the country win
'i undoubtedly, very closely approximate the actual popula
V '- lion, but when tt is applied specifically to any section of
t v the country It may be totally wrong.
i '. During a certain aeries of years and for certain speclflo
f.rffjyfiasoiwi the flow of population may be decidedly toward
' i'-'V' certain sections. Previous to the last federal census the
? "i'.'x flow may have been decidedly toward other sections of the
i . - country, rather than to this. It may since have changed.
, -X Therefore the rule that would have applied at one time
' VU not apply at another, when the surrounding conditions
. . ' Are different, and the result given may fall far short of that
! . Which actually prevails.
I V i The trend of population was not markedly In this dlrec-
lion during the last decade. In fact It may be said to
: i. have set in after the Spanish-American war. Since 1900
, , ; t rapidly Increased each year until now it taxes the ca
' i. toaclty of the railroads to take care of It. New settlers
A pave flowed Into all sections of Oregon and Washington
- and the number of new homeseekers who have come' to
Portland has beyond comparison exceeded any previous
jfear of Its whole history- This is self-evident to every
visitor, while" at the same time It Is a matter of surprise
;v and gratification to every resident. As an illustration, the
believe; the supreme court decision td be wrong, as a point
of law." ttius setting his Interested personal opinion above
that of the'hlghest court of the country. This Is a spec
tacle' indeed, and should open some people's eyes to the
nature of these anarchists, who declare, themselves abovO
all law. - . '
The interstate commerce commission has hitherto been
powerless to grapple with railroad trusts because- It could
not force them to give testimony or produce papers, but
the supreme court says that In a trial in which the legality
of their operations Is Involved they must do this, and this
is what hurts. What, cannot they violate the- law with Im
punity, and be protected in concealing the evidence against
them? Why, If not, what better are they before the. law
than poor Individual violators of the law, who conceal evi
dence, who will not answer questions; and to them this Is
astonishing. Inexplicable. They cannot get used to thei
idea. They supposed the earth and the riches thereof
were created for them ; that people were born for them to
rob; and that the government. Including courts, was Instl
tuted to eerve their interests and do their wllL And In
deed they have had some reason so to believe.
But the time Is coming when trust anarchy is going to be
seised, throttled, crushed. This decision is a strong
weapon for the accomplishment of this righteous purpose.
If the coal road presidents will not obey the law and the
supreme court, they must be convicted and sent to Jail,
Mke Burton.
Small Changri talked pack-to tourists Oregon SideUghte
Wot's WsttsT
From the Baker City Herald.
John 8. Plnney. the Oregon rcnre-
sentatlvt of the American Type Foundry
' Some Democrats to the convention: A I company, is In the city, and ia consid-
Word with you. . I oraMy disturbed because his company
. 1 . I" wying to send him to some eastern
Begin to get ready to prepare to think I city narmanentiv. but ha .h.. . .
about gardening. . Imam in Oregon. '
rv, -t7ZZZ M,. ... Lfv"!h.?i,' " Wavr growth
.I . L . . . - : r ' ' ' I " tow,- ne saio. -i am never at
of the earth out of the dumps.
Why Js no Smith, Brown or Jones
ever mentioned as a candidate for pres
ident T
home on Sundays. Myself and wife and
names start out early on a Portland
street tar and get Just as tar Into the
country as we can. We take a lunch
along with us and spend the whole day
there In the antlttMa ne th. .tvitm
. . . , MM M-MMit I l.it 1 as. 4V,B" T '
K mnmm aoiautino xwioni will mi i ana 1 innnra .hAu M n -i.. .
as that the spring sunshine Is full of I trees and read and watch the ehlldrea
microbes. I prowl about and sine. There ia such" a
ireeaom about tne lorests of Oregon s
one cannot nad elsewhere. And the air
is balmy and pure. I don't know what
inose youngsters would do should we
havs to go to a crowded eastern eltv.
Bven the military and naval experts, and It would go Just about as hard with
out of the abundance of their Theoretl- f wire ana &
cal wisdom, have but little to say these ' And Z think Just as much of the
days. I nroaa plains of eastern Oregon and
I wasnington as i ao or tne "deep-tangled
Dlaeraeed Senator Burton says ethers wua-wooas- or my own home." contin
did the seme. But they were too sleek uea tne veteran newspaper man. "I
Perhaps Judge Parker has reflected
on the consequences to men who nave
talked too much.
JUDGE AND' ATTORNEY.
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kWO THINGS are to be said with reference- to the
severe and perhaps malicious attack of an attorney
unnn Judare Frazer. The first Is that the doctrine
humber of, building permits between I8M and 100 never LSMrted i Borne quarters that a Judge once elected to the
wrwieu ., m i m mt vhtiuuj jw.wiu crcuit court bench should necessarily be kept there by
271 in 1894.. In 1800 It WaS 8S7, in 1101 44?, In 10J 1,260
and-in 10I tt was 1,611. The highest cost Involved in
these buildings previous to 1900 was $848,880 In 1899,
$677,100 In 1895 and 1540,415 in 18. Note the succeed
ing years which Illustrate the point we. are making: In
re-election for life Is not sound or politic. It may serve as
a loose rule, but there may be many exceptions to It A
man may have benavea wen, aone rainy weii, on tne
bench, and yet some other man may be far better material
for that, position Yet good service on the bench should.
JJ00 ths building permits footed up, a total of !3.C85, In cwtHtnly count for much In favor of an tnoumbent's re-
i.e8,it. in ma u mwv j,os,iio. xne nomination and re-election.
! present year promises to exceed all previous totals. New
'-.'' homes are going up as if by magic on every side, houses
" are being ranted from the moment the foundations are
'r laid and hundreds of small families are crowded in flats
and rooming houses anxiously waiting the time when they
can move Into houses which they will exclusively occupy.
' TAecdrdlrig to' the laBt'censui Pbrtlana had 4 population
?'isVt'M,4Zi. Tlioro are good reasons to believe that these
.figure;. vers antlrely too." low," but". the' reasons,. while well
.' known locally, need not be expatiated upon here. Since
. that time, according lo the censuabur'eau estimate, we have
. increased in population 8,229; during the same time up to
the beginning of the present year there have been built
'. : 8,70 new homes and ths school census showr a larger
sumber of children of school age than some of the cities
that are credlte4,wlth 150.000 population. WhUe It is In
.?. sense; gratifying to no that Portland sUU heads the
list-of northwestern cities it lseas to perceive that the1
vC:v;0nww.-w;,popiiiation -aoeo .us a grave injustice, as It
i doubtless dqes our rival cities on the sound, and we should
xi; : "a"muh preferred that the- pOpulaUon which they ac
tually have bad been 'credited to them. In that event they
" ivould nave showed greater proportionate growth but
r i Portland's proportion would have been still greater, In
which case our satisfaction would be more srofonnd for th
Reason that it would "be based upon certain grounds Instead
or speculation. .
J v . ANARCHISTS IN DISTRESS,
N3W THE ANTHRACITE BARONS, being required
by a recent decision of the United States suprems
.court to produce their contracts with the coal rail.
'T roa58' wh,cn 11 alleged, form an illegal trust, in court
. -. If required, say that the court Is wrong, and they ln
: timate that they will not obey the letter and spirit of the
flecislon. Trust Insolence could no further go. If there is
. any anarchy in this country, this is a conspicuous example
or It: and Bear, Wilcox, and the rest of the conspiring,
) krj,wdefyln' "ca barons'' are the- anarchists. Others have
J?: overturned by appeals the decisions of other lower courts,
ft llV1" tney had a r,ght t0 ao' but these defiant, dangerous law
& and oppressors are the first ones to declare' that
uPrem cou of the United States was not only
!;y'eTong, but should and would be resisted. Others have
"rrrt thought the court was wrong, and may have said so, but
, they obeyed it. in form at least. Even such great men as
jjit M Hill and Mr. Harrlman deferred to the decision of a
J;;;aJorlty of the court, and immediately fell upon each other
-:; the tot of the results of that decision.
..o wen luai-iauruuu presiaents brazenly says: "I
.The second remark to be made, a more specific one, Is
that such an attack as that made by Lawyer Dunlway
upon Judge Frazer, while not to . be ignored, is to be re
garded with suspicion as to its motives. This Is especially
true when the man making the attack is of the tempera
ment of Mr. Dunlway, who Is not the best man In the pro
fession by1 many to Judge of "Judicial temperament' and
its proper exercise, or the most suitable man to criticise
any indication of-hlas in the court.
It was a celebrated New York Judge, Martin Orover, who
said many years ago that a lawyer defeated in a case had
two remedies or means of "redress; one was to take an ap
peal, the other to go down to the tavern and swear at the
court. Sometimes a lawyer does both or Instead of go
ing down to the tavern "rushes Into print."
At the present stage of developments In this matter, the
public cannot avoid believing and siding with ths lawyers
who testify not only to Judge Fraxer's 'general good con
duct on the bench, but' to his proper action In this par
ticular, matter.
to be caught, pr too influential to be
prosecuted. t
Is it worth while for an accidental
governor to fight so long and strenu
ously as Governor McBrlde has done for
a nomination T
And Burton will have to gtve up even
that 18.800 that he received from the
Rlalto company, it he has It yet Verily,
In his case crooked "practice" did not
pay. v
If some of the trust organs keep up
their lick they will have Hearst spend
ing 81,000,000 a day in each of about 80
states. They must think he is richer
than Rockefeller. v
The great American congress prac
tically acknowledgee -that It either can
not or will not make enforoable laws to
protect the publlo domain from whole
sale landgrabbers.
Why is it that, according to published
reports, -a person arrested' is always
dragged" to Jail and "thrown" Into a
cell? Is there no other way of moving nnuntrv aa
a culprit In the desired direction T
eame very nearly getting licked as
earns down on the train from Boise yesi
terday, standing up for this seotlon of
country.
"There was a party of tourists aboard.
They were wealthy tourists and in
telligent people at that Had it not
been that they were supposed to know
better I would not have butted In. But
they began to run down this country.
They were simply Insulting in their
denunciations. ,
'"Look at that sage brush,' said one.
1 would not give 75 cents for a thou
sand acres of this country. No, I Would
not have It as a free gift'
" 'And this is Oregon, the great unde
veloped Oregon,' said another. 'No won
der 1t Is undeveloped. There is nothing
to develop except sagebrush and rocks
and Jack-rabblta'
" These Oregonlans are great liars,'
said another. They are always whoop
ing up this country and Inducing people
to come here to . starve. -Who would
have the country as a precious gift T
"T think I shall write' It up as it
ought to be written up,' said another, as
he ooincided with the others.
'Yes. we will tell the story of this
It ought to be told when
ter than a gold mine. .You 'can exhaust
a gold mine, but you can't exhaust .that
soil. it is an unanowa aeptn ana rion
'Hi
Larks' in eastern Oregon nroclalm the
to the bottom. :. Olve It water and it will I arrival of Sorlna. - . , -v . -,
pnwuw muunuAuil mm iuiii mm vviu-
ing generations may need it " And the
water is ready to turn-upon it '
"Do you know that that ground which
you have been looking upon and having
fun ignorantly at its expense, or at
your own .ignorance, is worth more to
the acre to the country than hundreds
of acres in your own worn out eastf
Do you know- that the sagebrush and
sand' you have been laughing at, ana
which you would not pay six-bits tor
a square mile of, could not be bought
now for 800 an acre? Ana that it is
not for sale at that? And that -should
you wish to buy it you would have to
pay spot cash for ItT And you would
have to do more. You would have to
r Te prairie city district ass lit
children, of school age. .-.. -,j
'Two store buildings and a doten cot
tages are being- built m Seaside. .
Ths Vltlsens league of Baker 6ttv
will erect a fine new water fountain, .
Lots of Beenl in Southern Weeon '
got ;flshing with satisfactory , results. ?.
A Joseph gambler, named Afiex,' Ms
been arrested for having one wife too
fence it and agree to pay for the water UubWrllrs tnat m tak-mon
rights in advance. " ".'?.;V.t .? "fney to run
"These are the conditions la Oregon. I" ""--'-, 5 I ; W-' -
That ugly looking surface is a diamond F v.- V
in the rough. You ignprant fellows J'" Ulu bo? ?
come out from the east thlnklnc you l.lrvm "'"Taw wmaow ana wss.
know it all. and ride right over wealth tantiy med.
ana opportunities ana aavantages ana
go back poking tun at this country,
while those who stop to investigats
learn the truth and profit by it It tt
not the men who ride In palace cars
through this country that learn the
truth as a general thing, either. It is
often the poor -devil who comes In a
tourist oar with a few dollars and a
large family that settles down and
partakes of the gifts of the greatest
country in the world." v .
"But you have no fruit here." said
one of the men, with ah air of triumph.
" 'just wait' a minute, I replied. A
porter came along about that time, and
The Ashland poatofflce : receipts in
creased 19 per cent in the past year,
and will now be a second class office, -
A crew of shout SO railroad surveyors
are busy In the Coos bay region, which
aroused sew rumors about railroad
building, y: ' ' , ;y; . : - "
The fsrmsrs telephone line from Hal
sey has now reached Shedd and is con
nected with the line to Brownsville
and Plalnview. .
The business of the Pendleton' pott-
told him to bring me an Oreson aoDle l9mc.m. , !" increasing rapidly. This Item
from the dininr nr Ha nam in mm I COUld bO repeated With retard tO mOSt
minutes with one of the big Hood River I Oregon towns.
or Grande Ronde valley' apples. I didn't! .. . . - ' . . - -
ears which, and you ought to have seenl naiana rurnisn anout half the tusl
thoae feUows' eyes. The first tried to ! of the Pendleton police court,
dodge the Issue by saying that it was indlestinr that their civilisation is. not
an eastern apple. But I Immediately!" uTeat sucoess.
sent for the steward and proved that it
was an Oregon apple..
'Then I rubbed It Into them. I told
The First National Bank of Pendleton
has compromised claims sgalnst It on
them how they ate Oregon products "count or ths Wsde failure, paying
The London Lancet, an old. staid.
medical Journal, has been seriously dis
cussing the question: Is love a dis
ease? If it Is, It U as old as humanity,
and as ineradicable as life on . earth.
But It Is to be considered that there
are many kinds of love.
Some day,
The correspondents and experts say,
There'll be something dreadful dolnr
on the banks of the Yalu, far away;
But that dread day.
When war-gods there will play.
Like the banks of the Yalu, may
Be far away.
we return home,' chimed in all, in a sort
of chorus.
" 'Is this your first trip to this coun
try?1 I asked.
"Yee,' was the reply.
"T thought so,' I remarked.
"Then they Jumped me. I let them
vent their spleeri and then I got riled
WP- ... .
"Do you see xnat levei piain opi
there covered with sagebrush I In
aulred. We were in the vicinity of Ar
cadia, in Malheur county.
"Well, every foot or that son is oet-
back east before they heard of Oregon;
how they had become utt sordid that thav
did not think there was a country Out-
lda rtt thalr llttla ahall en A hna
would broaden their minds to really 4n-J ne": and its machinery makes-merry
some in fuIL and 60 per cent of others.
The 'Lyons mill, Coqullle City, haa
started up after a long period of Idle-
vestlgate this great country.
"But after all do you know those
fellows thought I was a sort of half
breed Indian, and took what X said with
a grain of salt? ' - - -
"No, the people of the east do not
know anything about us. It will take
them years to learn the truth. Then
It will be too late for many of them
to profit by it If I do go east to live
i win rnaxe it a point to emishten a
music to
Bulletin.
many eager ears, says the
TTmatllla county horses afflicted with
mange are to be 'dipped on May 1st.
They will have a curative bath at public
expense. Some mangy people need a
similar treatment '
Lake County Examiner: "A nreat deal
of comment Is being Indulged In through
few of them at least But I would not Ith6 eountry press throughout Southern
give out own great Pacific country for reon ana Northern California regard-
ail or the rest of the world, ao far aa 1 oriant xuiure or ia ana
am individually concerned." , oounues. in Oregon, ana Moaoe
nounn srxxsxxs tax.ii
The paper trust charges 88-80 per
100 pounds for paper in New York, and
sells It in England, after paying freight
across the Atlantic, for 82.08, which In
clines even some Republican publishers
to think that the paper trust is not one
of the. good ones. But It is Just about
like the jeetv . , ,r.
MRS. BOTKIN AGAIN CONVICTED.
F
OR THE SECOND TIME Mrs. Cordelia. Botkln has
been convicted In Ban Francisco of murder In the
first degree, and sentenced by the Jury to Imprison
ment for life. Not only the people Interested in her prose
cution,' but the public generally, hope that this time the
supremo court will keep Us technicality-Itching hands off,
and allow Justice' to be dope; for everybody who read the
facts fully, as published, agrees with the Jury that the
woman Is guilty. The evidence, while of course entirely
circumstantial, was conclusive and convincing, and as in
the Durrant case-, the only attempts at defense, beyond
bare1 denial, were shown to be palpable lies. The former
verdict and Judgment of conviction was set aside upon the
ground of a slight mlslnstruction of the trial court, but
one that could not have prejudiced the defendant By this
act the court Inflicted a cost of many thousands of dollars
upon the state, and put many people t great trouble and
expense.
It was an awful crime, at that time rather unique,
though ,it has been committed or attempted since on sev
eral occasions, and richly merits the full penalty of the
law. Owing to an infatuation for a married man, this
wretched woman, by sending anonymously a box of pois
oned candy to his wife; 3,000 miles away, not only mur
dered her, but another woman, and nearly murdered sev
eral children. Prison for life is too good for such a mon
ster, male or female.
Jones and Johnson Speak About Two
rromineat Cae dilates.
St Louis Correspondence of Chicago
Record-Herald.
Chairman Jonea and several of his
confreres on the subcommittee of the
Democratic national committee are In 8t
Louis tonight on the same mission that
brought Harrity and his aids to Chicago
According to tba several eastern Ore-I in 1898, to make arrangements for the
gon newspaper supporters of William- j gathering that will nominate the prest-
son and Moody, respectively each will
have abour three-fourths of the dele
gates from that part of the state. Per
haps a compromise might be effected
by electing them both, and asking con
gress to give them a seat turn about
dentlal ticket History seems likely to
repeat itself to the extent that Jones et
! al wul surrender the party management
to a new coterie about the second week
of July.
There was no enthusiasm among such
Up In a sheep camp on the sagebrush I men as Jones of Arkansas and National
county in California."
WAsxnr 0TOB ooxnrrY nvzr.
-Hitter correspondence of Long Creek
Ranger; It Is looklna verv blue at
The Tight of ths Kortloultnrists Against I present The people are nearly all out
ths rruit rests. I or reea, with Trom six Inches to two
From Washington County News. of "no. snowing. We
Fruitgrowing has long been one of the ' nop" th Providence will cotrie to
principal Industries of the country sur- our a,d. before we all suffer loss,
rounding Forest Grove, and it is capable , -"7 '
of almost unlimited expansion In the Newer - The telephone lines from
future. Some of the very first apple " office are about alt completed and
orchards In the state were planted in wUh P'on of about 80 all have
Washington county and did their full "ce'ved their phones. 'Subscribers can
share In making Oregon famous as the nBW connected wlti about 10 tamers
"land of the big red apples." For many round Bclov Acharge f 10 cents Is
years the production of fruit was not m(,o eu those who nave no pfaonea
plains of southeastern Oregon a Chinese
cook preached an eloquent Easter ser
mon. Several workers among sheep had
sat down to an Easter dinner prepared
by the chink. Who was called upon to
say something in the form of an appro
priate blessing, and he responded: "Boys,
be as kind and helpful with all your
kind as God is with you."
Committeeman Johnson of Kansas over
the eneraetlo eastern movement that
gives sn incentive to the candidacy of
Judge Parker or New xora iot me
nresldentlal nomination. Jones, as of
yore, is equivocal and noneommunlcatlve.
Johnson right now is a Hearst partisan.
Both Jones and Johnson, and others as
well, owe an allegiance to a lost cause,
the cause of Bryan. This naturally In
clines them to look with positive regret
though possibly with some degree of
resignation, unon a prospective reaa-
The La Grande Chronicle complains
of private grafting schemes worked In
the name of the Lewis and Clark fair.
but not authorised or sanctioned by the I juatment of the Internal policy of the
management among which are "the en- I Democratic party. It' ia worthy of note,
velope and stationery printing graft" hn waver, that in the talk about the f u-
by which business is diverted from lo- tare there is evidenced no disposition to
cal offices, and advertising at a "bunko bring about another party split if ele-
prioe" in a certain publication; and the mentr succeeded in exercising an influ-
opinion is expressed that the country ca unon the deliberations of the com-
aiBincua uu lauuin mi iieiyinf ia pay i jn, convention.
that 9500,000 appropriation.
BASOXB OAME OTXBWOBXZD.
Xeld
SfroiaiaeBt Walla WaUa Oltisens
Vp by Bunko Artists.
From the Walla Walla Statesman.
Law-abiding people generally will
agree that the "badger" game lg being
overworked In this town. Within two
weeks two prominent and wealthy cltl
sens have been forced to gia up large
sums of money ' by unprincipled men
and women acting In collusion- to place
their victims in a compromising situation
and then threatening exposure If hush
money were not fprthcoming. The
Charges - made against the victims
should be taken bv the mihli with h.
allowances for the motives of the oper
ators ui ma iruiae, woo, or course, make
the alleged conduct of their helpless
., wura aa iniainoua ana neinous as
possible 1 -order to destroy all sym
pathy for them
Men who have been guilty of robbery
and blackmail by this badger game
have openly flaunted their gold in the
" face of the public and have -looked upon
themselves as heroes anil by some of
similar instincts have been upheld as
clever artists in their line.
In New York a few yeurs ago one
Moore and his wife were sentenced to
even years each Irv Sing King for ex-
tortlng 610,000 from a wealthy victim
' caught In a fashionable hotel. The
Woman was afterwards pardoned
i through the Influence of her father, who
( t was an ex-governor of ; Oregon.
The game was worked In Seattle a few
years ago with a like result Thus It
'will he seen that In other communities
, the "badger." game .is looked vupori as
A dangerous crime and is adequately
punished. -If the game is allowed to
run unmolested it is far worse than
- open gambling and it is no wonder It is
regarded by some men as more profit
able than any tin horn fame. There, is
no telling how soon some innocent man
'. may be caught in. this way. ..it is true
that virtuous men are -vjery scarce in
tbie world, but there Is a possibility
that a few might be found in this city
'to save tt from the fate of Sodom'- and
Comorroh.
to Saroff in order to pray to St Ser
aphim, canonised by the czar as ev mir
acle worker. Has little Japan already
brought Russia to her knees in sup
plication for miracles?
WIWTIB i wzscowsxir.
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fV
-',. - Wanted a Tew Miracle. .
.,'. From the-Louisville Courler-JoumaL
7 - She Russians are maklag pilgrimages
-C. C. Packard, who went back to his
old home in Wisconsin last fall, sends
the Ashland Tidings a clipping from the
local paper in his town. Grand napias.
giving a summary of weather condi
tions that have been prevailing there.
An Oregonian, . after reading, can only
be thankful that he lives in a more fa
vored clime. The paper says: "The
thermometer has seen fit to register
below xero 21 days during January and
16 daya in February. Borne of the old
est settlers say that it has been the
coldest winter that they can remember.
It is safe to say, however, that the win
ter of 1903-4 holds the record over the
past 26 or 30 years for continuous Serb
weather. The coldest day of the year
was January It, when the thermometer
registered 38 degrees below sero. A
farmer said today that the coldest
weather in his community was that
which sent the mercury below two ther
mometers, one hanging below the other.
The storjr Is told of cold splitting big
trees in two near Arpln. Iri'the Third
ward, It is said, a cistern was so deeply
frozen that the ice projects below the
bottom. A farmer from Four Mile creek
claimed that it was so cold one day that
a mist formed in the air which he be
lieved was liquid air."
General KUes' Position.
From the Chicago News.
After looking around for' an issue
broad enough for all kinds of Democrats
to stand on General Miles has declared
for the issue of patriotism. He will ad
hers firmly to this, position, no matter
how many persons may take offense at
it and Insist upon declaring themselves
unpatriotic.
i Must Xave JCaowa It
From the Washington Post'
Congress-is wasting time in calling
the attention of Attorney-General Knox
to the high price of beef. He prpbably
had the information from- his steward
some time sgo.
VATXOVAXj CAPITAL Y ABBS'.
From the New York World.
Levi P. Morton, former vice-president
owns the Shoreham hotel. A few days
ago Mr. Morton came to Washington and
took apartments at his own hotel. On
the first night, about 9:30, there came a
hurry call for the manager of the hotel
from Mr. Morton's rooms. The manager
went up.
"What's that noise I hear?" asked Mr.
Morton, testily, from his bedroom. The
manager listened intently.
"Why," he said, "that's the orchestra.'
"Well," said Mr. Morton) "stop It this
instant I It Is keeping me awake. I
won't have ltt Either I am getting too
old to enjoy music, or else it is a bad
orchestra- but stop it!"
.The orchestra was stopped and Mr.
Morton had his sleep. Meanwhile the
guest? who clamored for music were told
that there would be no music that night
. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin says the
best "(beech of Introduction he ever heard
was 'delivered by a German mayor of
a small town . In Wisconsin where
Spooner had engaged to speak. The
mayor said:
"Ladles und shentlemens: I asked haf
been to Introdoose you to the Honorable
Senator Bpooner, who to you viil make
a speech; yes. I haf now done so, und
he vlll now do so,"
WBT KB WAS TSSBB.
From the Argonaut
A London play-goer who bad drunk
deeply at his dinner appeared at the box
office of one of the principal theatres
and put down a sovereign, asking for
the best seat In the house. 'His condi
tion was so evident that the -man in the
box office declined to sell him a ticket.
"What's matter?" demanded the appli
cant, "what's matter with me?"
"Well, if you really ffant to know."
responded ' the ticket-seller, "you're
drunk." , . '
The frankness' of this reply had
rather a sobering influence upon the
play-goer. ' He gathered up his sovereign
with dignity. "Of course I'm drunk,"
he said, cheerfully; as he turned to go;
"I wouldn't come to see this play If I
were sober would II" .
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STRAWS IN THE STREAM
(By H. R. R. Hertsberg.)
Cant Account foe IX
"By Heaven, sun, Ican't account fob
it," said the tall man with a good
natured drawly smile at each corner of
his mouth. "Of oo'se, I don't really
mind, yo' know. But it's queer, jus
the same. From elevatuh boy to beg
gah, ev'ybody In New Yo'k seems to
spot me foh a southe'ner. Yestehday
a po' lookln' fella' stopped me on Broad
way. "'May I speak to you a minuter. said
he.
" 1 reckon,' said I.
"He dealt me a quick glance then,
and began his tale of woe.
" 'L too, am from the south,' he said.
'Virginia, and I'm stranded, at that
Nothin' to eat with. Can yOu'
"I could. I gave him two bits, a quar
teh. An' I saw him grin as he thanked
me, an' the conviction came oveh me,
suh. that the fella' had never bin
fu'ther south than Hoboken, maybe, in
The faction at present in control will
feel a large sorrow, but there are no In
dications that its sorrow will lead to a
seoond convention, similar to the one
that, met in Indianapolis in 1898. v
National Committeeman Johnson says:
"Whoever is nominated by the national
convention will command the support
of the party. - In my state the sentiment
is in favor of reaffirming the Kansas
City platform, but you cannot tell what
the sentiment of the party as a whole
may be. At Kansas City the vote on
reaffirming the Chicago platform was
very close,"
Mr. Johnson says he thinks Hearst
has the best show for the presidential
nomination and would be the strongest
candidate before the people. He says he
is opposed to Parker, not only because
he believes David B..H111 would be the
power behind the throne in the event of
Parker's nomination and election, but
because he does not believe in any man
who does not come out .and speak his
mind on the Issues that are likely to be
embodied ia a Democratic platform.
"I haven't been reading ths papers." is
Chairman Jones' observation on the re
cent Impetus given the Parker boom.
"The Democratic party will make a good
race this year with any candidate that
convention In Its. wisdom selects. Mr,
very profitable, and many of the old
orchards were neglected and of course
fell an easy prey to the plague of In
sect pests and' fungus diseases that
descended upon this country some IB or
years ago. As but little was known
at that lime about fighting these pests,
many people gave up fruitgrowing and
the Industry was transferred to other
regions where the pests bad' not ytt
reached and obtained a foothold.
But within a few years there was no
new country left the scourge had visited
every nook and corner, so attention was
turnea to nnamg remedies, and it was
soon learned that all theee troubles
would yield readily to a thorough course
or pruning, cultivating and spraying.
Coqullle City Bulletin: "The wabbly-
legged. Innocent-eyed and money-making
calf ia much la evidence these deys.
Nearly every boat has a friaky young
ster aboard, bound for some of the
numerous dairy ranches-, where they will -soon
be turned Info luxurious pastures
and rapidly dovelok Into noble members
of the . bovine family."
Forest . Grove News: "E. R. Burton
was arrested last night for annoying
a widow of South Park and cited to
appear before City Recorder Walker this
morning. He was found guilty and
owing to his sge and previous ' good
chars cter was given the lightest fine
The planting of new orchards then pel nd put on his good behavior." -
vhiv avuwr, w v iv uno njuri ia- u..a . . .
Ing our proper place among the leading l"J?Ia fl .S0. f
fruitgrowing communities. Washington , v ---
county produced the Oravestein apples L ?lIL .iki . lehe. u Feeding
that were conceded to he he ost 1m- i imJ?" ,b,e owing to the soaked
portant single item In the Oregon exhibit fn,,K,,0n4 of th ' ,T"AV nd. " w""
that . won the "Wilder" medal at the po'',lbl i? 0Ht .n,y 100 hemd of tne
Buffalo exposition. In January. 1904, st cftttjo Should good weather follow, a
the annual meeting of the Northwest ooa mT the remaining TOO head
irmitmnnH1 . uiia i. t. may. ptlll xbrough. otherwise It . la
land, some Washington county apples thouh thst most of them, if not all.
were exhibited that , were universally " "
considered the finest
home country?"
Bar Sweet Tooth. '
They tell of a girl of Duiuth
Who had what she called a
tooth:
So large did it seem
That a gallon of cream
Sufficed hot to fill it, in sooth!
"sweet-
all his bo'n an' natural daya I reckon j Hearst wilf be a Strong candidate, -You
he did me, sho' 'nough, but two bits Understand I am speaking about the
ain't the mint, by fo' degrees of latl- contest for the nomination."
tude. The on'y thing that s botnerln" .gy, wouid Hearst be as a candidate
me is now in tne wori . uo tnai aarn before the people, and would not Parker
hobo knew I nailed xrom uoa s own ita ha aiementa that went asunder
eight years ago?" he was asked.
"It is too early to . talk about the
strength of candidates, A platform has
not been adopted yet The uniting of
elements, so called, is a "different matter.
It depends on whether those who left the
party entirely and voted for McKinley
expect to take things Into their bands,
There are six and a quarter million peo-
! pie who voted for Bryan who have some
thing to eay about tne partys affairs"
None of Mr. Bryan's friends who are
here for the subcommittee meeting will
speak for the attitude to be assumed by
the Nebraskan. although .it. is significant
that both Chairman Jones and national
committeeman Johnson have recently
had conferences with him. - . -. .
Tne Poor Boy's (Thaaos.. .
From the St Louis Republic.
There are lust two things necessary
for advancement ' work and 'ability.
The poor boy who works, who does
what he can for his employer, who takes
an interest in the business,, who isn't
expecting 81 for every cents worth
of time he puts In, who does by ' his
employer as he would want an employer
to do by him, is going to get along In
this world today He will not be one of
.ho failures,'., v.t ,: ;. .?.n-:vvw'
Of all her children, a mother loves the
little cripple best Along similar lines
do not we men-folk secretly prefer our
faults, to our qualities T.
They say that Heaven xls lighted by
the reflection or happy children's smiles.
Many battles have been- won by run
ning when It was the enemy who ran.-'
After a pun let there be a prayer for
rorgiveness. , -f
' Bsoaped Through a 'Technicality.
From the Chicago -Tribune. , .
"Did young Mr. Rltchun refer to the
subject of love and ma rr lager.' asked
her confidential friend. -
"No," said the-Vassar girt - v"If 'he
Bad referred to it I should have to let
him get awar,. He only alluded to it"
among the large
number shown,-and further that no finer
were ever produced In any land.
Grapes are a very important crop near
Forest urove, this being the most lm
portant center of this industry In the
state. All of the hardy native American
varieties,-and many of the mors tender
European ones, are produced -and -find
a ready market at good prices. They are
shipped to all the towns and cities of
western Oregon and r Washington, and
even some or tne concords to California.
where this most excellent variety is not
produced. What is needed now is
ractory to make unfermented arane
Juice; this is a very profitable business of
itself, and It would steady the market at
all times by taking up the surplus at
good prices, thus preventing that bane
of the fruit business, an overstocked
market and a perishable product
Another thing needed is, a local ship
pers- union, that growers may work in
narmony ana save in freight ana com
missions, and also save competing with
eacn otner in tne open market a proceed'
lng that always tends to demoralise sell
ing and to cut prices.
And then berries no place in earth can
excel this for the growing of all kinds
of berries, either for quality or economy
Af nwinntlmi 'But aw I.
been shipped from this point as Vet. but
the business is bound to assume great
proportions In the near future, as the
una near jroruana wmcn nas in tne past
furnished the supply is now beoomtng
too valuable,, and here is the best land
now available to take its place. : The
largest share of the supply for Portland
and the ' othes- cities and towns of the
north coast country should be, and will
ne, produced nere. one of the best open
ings for a manufacturing Industry to be
found Is a cannery in this town. This
wlH put the -small fruit business on
sound basis, by making a safe and steady
home, market and preventing a glut in
the markets during the season of great
est production.
All the conditions are as favorable here
as can. be asked for, and it only remains
for the fruitgrowers to keep on pushing
the business as in the past with energy
and intelligence. ' .
The Way Bollaad Does It
From the London Spare Momenta
There are few able-bodied paupers In
Holland. : A tract of public land contain
ing 6,000 acres is divided Into six model
farms, to one of which the person ap
plying for public relief is sent Here
be is taught agriculture, and is subse
quently permitted to rent a small farm
for himself. "Holland also has a forced
laljor colony, to which vagrants are sent
to do farm and . other work whether
they, like it or not , ' ;.'--,
Advice-to the Lovelorn
r bzatxjcs Miuix
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young
lady 82 years old. While out at "the
park three weeks ago I met a young
man whom I knew only to bow t He
asked me to walk with him, and spent
two hours in so doing, and then took me
as tar as my home,' Ten days later 1
met him again, and bo walked four
blocks out of his way. with me again.
I certainly do love him, and how could
I let him know itt I do fiot know any
friend he knows, and would leap year
help me to let him know that I love
him? L. T. M.
If you have a spark of prida in you
you will not let him know that you have
fallen in love with him so easily and tor
so little reason. He has done nothing,
as far as X can see, to call forth so much
feeling on your part Don't you know
that men seldom value that which eomes
to them too easily f Walt and let him
run after you a bit before, you Jet him ...
see that you care tor him.. Do take my
advice In thla V
0VSXOVS tOSS O OATTZA
From ths Sclo News.
A large number of cattle have been
lost in this vlolnity recently and In ev
ery case there was no sign of any dis
ease whatever. M. W. Miller Is poorer
by over 80 head, of cattle than-he
last 'fall, While W. O. ? McDonald and
O. M. Bilyeu have loot a great many.
It Vhas been. In almost every Instance,
the best stock that has died. Stock that
has been kept in srood condition with
plenty of hay and mill feed get so weak
that they simply lis down and die. while
others that have been turned .out In a
pasture where it Is thought they
couldn't live, have survived the storms
and are now gaining some. It's a queer
condition of things and the only reason
advanced sO far Is that there has baen
an unusual scarcity of grass and that
dry-fed cattle have died simply for the
want of something green.
. .Ooaoluslv Bvldenoe. " , .
From the St Louts Chronicle. u
"Something seems to be smusina- thoaa
fellows over there a great deal."
"Yea rulker has lust been tuini
them a story." "
. "How do you know Pulktr has?" i--
"Because he is laurhina- lou.iar than
any of ths rest of them." , ;
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