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PORTLAND, ORElGON.- SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1C04... ;:,i;,-Jj-5,;- -;,---.v i-V,; , ai-V -V ... -''i -: V' 'C"TTT.-" v.' .:""'';. ; uJmf. ..' ;.:: jr..;' '.. ?:. v, '.''.. v..V-i '." t ' " i., ''I.-- 'TH'EIkQRE v AN'lNDKPENDRNTNBW SPAJPB R - . 'hit ' ";"-; SmallSCHangc: Situation summarized Cl JACKSOrt, 4 PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING: CO. JNO. P. CARROLL Published every ovwflns; (except Sunday) and every Sunday morning at Th Journal Building, Fifth, and TambilJ . - . , ,r, ,.4,,,; , i streets, Portland, Oregon. : . . - -xi-- , .... OFFICIAL. PAPER OF TflB CITY OP PORTLANO CImd up! ti-'y. Spring aura; now go ahead. ,; r No mora frown or grumbling. 4'' , V. ' THE EXPOSITION APPROPRIATION. l FTKE MINIMUM BUM which w ara to receive from " , nirtrnmont for our exnosition has been (7::'nmd by''the house.but we have faint hopea that It U hot the. maximum wblch'wlll be fixed by the con MmniittMifl ' While It may be laid It la not wise I - to look a gift horse in the mouth and while we may give I , due allowance, t the dlsadYhtaea .urrounding the case, " wa aee no reason for a display of undue enthusiasm, ore , gon, backed by the whole Pacific coast and the country 1m - mediately back of itiwent before1 congress with as sound a aa as could have been presented. There Is a feeling that we did not receive as full consideration as we de- served or the magnitude of the event which this great sec i tlon will celebrate Justifies, But we now know precisely ' what wa have to face and we must go seriously to work on that basis..;, : V ' " . ... V ' "I '. . The amounts contributed by the city and .tat would of ' themselves have Insured an exposition which in magnitude would have exceeded any exposition ever held west of the , Rockies. We have In addition the. unusual advantage of ' being! able to select from the exhibits which Bt Louis has so lavishly drawn from all sections of the wide world. If cafe and discrimination are used In the matter of e ; lection. If Instead of attempting to secure mere magnitude 1 of display rather than the cream of the exhibits, the re '. suits will be infinitely more satisfactory to every visitor - than the larger exhibits at St. Louis where the profusion : will be. simply bewildering to those who are unable to de , vote weeks of time to sightseeing. In addition there will i be the various state exhibits now In place at St Louis. T ; The federal government's part of the exhibit will be the ; : most remarkable it has ever yet gathered together for ex ' position purposes The first cost of Its collection and as semblage la already defrayed by the money appropriated : ' for St Louis, so that the amount appropriated by the gov ernment for its own exhibit here will therefore go much further than It did at the Louisiana Purchaser exposition, where - the first - cost - was borne. . - The - gold , dollar - sou venlr coinage should net Its, face value to the exposition or about 250,00O.- - ..:.- From this time forward there' will a extraordinary ac tlvity in getting, things, under way and It Is already safe ' to promise visitors who expectlo coma here that they will see something- that will be worth going miles to see, MUNICIPAL f OWNERSHIP. Til O PERSON, who without' prejudice has' noted, us 1 from r tima to - time detailed - la newspapers - and ' magasines, occurrences under the policy of mu nicipal ownership, of what la rather vaguely called public utilities claims or supposes that It has been at once and at all points a complete and convincing success. rTet no , subh' person Is blind to the fact that In various European ' cities It Is sq far a success that, it has passed the dubiously experimental stage, and has' come to stay. And it Is stay ' Ing, and the movement to its favor is expanding, -because the rule Is that It has been beneficial to the great majority of people , This Is the case in England and Scotland not ' to speak here of national ownerships of railroads In other countries and Twlsa and progressiva as we i, think our ; selves to be, some things to our advantage can he learned . in otner countries. . we imported our ballot law from Australia; we may adopt an arbitration law originating In ntw zeaiana; ana mignt oe wen tor our law-makers. and teachers of all kinds, to study closely Ihto the sub jrt of municipal ownership, as it Is exemplified la Liver pool, Mancheeter and Glasgow, for example. ',. ManyEuropean cities have gone much farther in adopt . lng the policy of municipal ownership than any American . city has done, except a few corporation towns, like Pull- j man and Zibn City. 'it Is trequeiitly said by the spokes man of the Thlpgs that Are, and the opponents of any , change in the direction of a broader democracy la the mat ter of money-making, that conditions are different here, .-i that success in Europe is no example for us; but their logic generally limps at the important points. Some dlf' ferences do exist; however, kuch, for Instance, as higher wages paid la this country; yet after considering all these - - differences thert is little doubt that under municipal t ownership, eliminating all graft; and boodle and political chicanery, ttM gaa bills, telephone charges, water rates, street-car fares, and other expenses of like nature, could 4 - be cut down One third. If not one half. In most American cities, under public ownership, ? :- One great Item Of cost to the people In the private own-, . . ershlp of these public necessities is the water In the stock. A trust or syndicate of eastern capltallsu -naturally wants - " to make large dividends out of kn investment in a western city, say, and to do, so they capitalise for twice the prop .' v erty's real value, 'managhw. however, to keep the assess. 1 r ment about air muchelowihe real Value as the capitailsa-l he has made. tion is 'above it Thus hundreds .of thousands of people are contributing nickels s-nd dimes every day to a few rich men, that the people should keep in their own pockets or spend la other ways for their own profit XiS'JJX There Is just now no very wide or strong movement In h(a mnntn tnbanl mnnllnal ' narniirakin of thHD laree public utilities and necessities, but, therf Is arHwcrtaslng undercurrent of public sentiment in Its favor, as occasion may justify or opportunity offer. . Nobody In Portland would advocate private ownership , of our waterworks why could not the municipality with equal success and satisfaction own and operate even greater systems of pub lic servicer We shall not have It very soon; there is as yet no large and loud demand for it; but we shall prob ably have It some day, perhaps when Portland is a city of j next Bunday or some ether Bunder. nail a million people. Ana uie aaopiioa 01 uui pvucj wm " Fronv the Chicago Kewa ' While Indications of an Imminent battle in northern Korea , continue to multiply, the mystery regarding Japaa'i plans for an Invasion elsewhere on the mainland remains unbroken, unlesa the reports from Shanghai published today be accepted as accurate. . It haa ' be come almost an axiom, however, that news from Shanahai Is no news. Those Oct the moss off the roofs and backs, rsports are to the effect that a powerful i army or Japanese nas. landed at Taku- Hearst's money . doesn't talk, it west of Antung. and Is turning causes talk. , . ...;. f-.r- ln" uns oui or ineir posiuon on i in i hi aj marcnina lovira nm nui- Senator ,Browneii wouldn't refuse. Nobody loves Parker for the enemies road, whichaf fords the Russians vvutui uuiveiMvu aaaa iivis SJsasssse. , ' St. Sf it manifestly be greatly to their advantage, on the one con dition already mentioned the divorce of this business from dirty politics. . i . 7 7 It Is feared by mahy that this divorce cannot be ac complished. Shall we not rather hope and believe that municipal ownership would so awaken voters to a realisa tion of their responsibilities that the grafting politician would surely be f rosen out, not only of these concerns but in a greater degree out of purely political positioner Why cannot we find men equal to those composing our water board for equally; Important and even more onerous public business positions r suredly this would be Important if, were true. . u,.-'.,.? Russia has r reclaimed martial law at Niu Chwang. Japan haa announced to the waiting correspondents at Toklo that they will be permitted to take ship to join the Japanese main army : this week. It has been understood that such permission would be granted only after the plans of the military campaign' had Easter hat. will look, Just a. well rA fXSLS'StS assume that Japan believes Itself In roroe witn the enemy, nut whether this -'Whether Instructions should be lm pllcitly followed depends. ; V , It Is high time the peach- crop, and other crops, were, failing. ',;' 'y-yo Politics in soma communities wllf wax warm, Whatever the weather. . ' ) ,: THE BASEBALL SITUATION. E WISH to congratulate Mayor Williams on his veto of the ordinance levying a license upon baseball games. There will doubtless come a time when some such license should be collected from the TIT vv mAU i!V J..?tJ Z. tUah U to b lto to Korea or Is to ana if be returns aont speak to or no-Ma,,if . u...k... .t tice him. ; ... - , . BtUl hiddea If for the time being ' '' ' .' ."' " . , I Japan is to confine Itself to making a . v.v, tm uio .r .n. u7 in steady advance up the Korean peninsula 1 " fviuMiu, ,u una correspondents wm be lifcely to find .u.vBUUu M , . I tnemseives landed . at cnemuipo or ;:.;. v..;t Mi. iin ' . , i j chlnnampo, where large detachments of nuMw ctm wDip .nl japs, sns can the mikado's troops have been debarking panscuie ine ww ana massacre a xew ror several weeka The advance of the of them occasionally.' ; '- Japanese toward Wlju has now brought .v .. u,.... , - '.' i,, V iv .;4 them to Bengcheng, miles beyond Whether reports of Kaiser Wflhelm's Chengju, where the fight of last Mon- ui neaitn are true or not, ne wm deny day took place. v , . , . ,-; y them aa long as possible. . . - . ,.. .','.; - " ' The Russian action . regarding :Nlu It looks like a pretty close race be- Chwang plainly Indicates an appro- tween Hermann and Harrla . ITnin- henslon that Japan means td send out structed deleates will declde la second Invading force with that har-1 ' 'A ,:..'..-,; ;-!;, , ';,?,;:'; , J bor or some place near, for its destlna- ' Some people - will be awesome! v- I'm-1 tlon.. The theory Is reasonable, and if pressed with Parker on learning thatToS had eweceeded la his task of he is not merely a judge, but a Jurist I bottling up or destroying the Port . ,. , I AnDur zieei it irnni om aocapiea as ai- The time le rapidly approaching when olrt certainty. Unless Japan has a professional baseball exhibitions, but that time has not KSuTttsfSal ffihTffffi. Invalon' yet come and It will not come until the' club Is a good tne pouticians to the peo- north of Kornar th mouth of th. monevmaker. Portland gets a good deal of direct and indirect benefit from baseball In addition to the pleasure Turn en river, any flanking expedition Borne Democrats dislike Parker all the jrl'01. " out should land on After aa hour and a half of hot firing, with considerable- lose on both sides, the approach of ' Japanese . re-enforoe-ments caused the Ruaalans to retire to Kasan and beyond. -The fact that the Japanese refused - to - give ground . and that more troops came up showed that I Oregon Sidelights 1 1 .' ' -. " i ..;.--.' f.1' '',.". Spring will do a lot of good road. work, soon, but men's good work Is needed, too. .; ,.";.'''., -. - ; .; ' John Plerpont Moraan Is serving a they were the vanguard of an advancing Ave days' sentence In the Pendleton jail army and not merely a scouting party, for drunkenneaa. . country for several . weeks ' doubtless Amateur baseball clubs or leagues are have destroyed the bridges and other- being organised i in different parts Of v' wise hampered the advance of the Japa-1 oraron. Th h( . a mripn ram I ne,aa The roada muat be deep In mud nAVer becomes unpopular or stale, v , at this seaaon and the work of drag- . ; . :. , . , ' gtng cannon over them must be severe Beet, sugar raisers near La JOranda ; Indeed.-; Still, It may be accepted as a wiu contract for a lot of Japanese labor. - fact that a large army U getting Into vhlttl m9a tnough not being available.' ; position near the Talu. - Though a con- . , , " , : The Balent Bunday saloon-cloalng or dlnance has been decided , ne good le-1 gaily. , Thus the law agrees with .the ' '. fact ''s.',i-r..:ii:; ki .-. ',',-'',:. ; I The : bualest 'men In :'; .eastern '' ; Oregon ,f $ now are the sheepmen, harvesting their -. crop of future wool produoers and mut- ton chops, i- . :.,,j ';V;5 ..''r stderable force of Russians confronts it in the . vicinity, of Antung the main body Of the Ruaalans Is along the rail way from Mukden to Halcheag. General Kuronatkln has nut in a busy week In and about Llaoyang, and muat now be fairly weir acquainted witn tne conni- tiOa of his forces and the main prob lems confronting him. ' While the weather in Manchuria is still too severe to admit of comfortable compaignlng, the' conditions are past which must have caused great hardship la the troops when the, war broke out troops along the Taiu need experience little more difficulty than they would encounter, for Instance, In the northern part of the United States. Mukden and Llaoyang are almost exactly In the lati tude of Chicago. Niu Chwang, Plng yeng - and Wllu approximate 1 the same parallel. By a vote of about two to on Eugene . i decided to accept a . Carnegie, library. But It will be more or less of an ele- ' pbant to take care of. .; x -r. , . The prospect for crops In the Ourkee , ', district Bakar county,- Is better than for many years. The same report comes . ; from many localities in eastern Oregon. I ' ' Fruitgrowers in the beautiful and fer tile Walla Walla valley. In which Milton 'While the climate la on of and Freewater are situated, have been extremes, due to the Influence of cold northerly .winds In winter and warm eouthwest' roonaoons In summer,- the temperatures at this season begin to ap proach those of similar latitude on this continent The last week In March busy this week doing the important work of spraying their trees. The Wallowa County Democrat' calls for the organisation of a county com-' mercial club, to secure an electric road or the first week in April sees the ice I to Elgin, good county roads, a daily mall break up In the Liao river, and Niu Chwang, which has a mean temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit In January, feels the Influence of spring. The period of frost In the district where hostilities, are Imminent is at an end. However, the present Is the time of rains and bottomless roada ' - ;- :-; Russia's pUa is to, play a waiting gam It will soon have greatly lm atu, ii pays ior m pui taomj aycui. iu ai wjr nut i modern school JDemocrat ,. There are several such landing places. On the east of the peninsula there is MteMaaM eBrVaaaaja kaa Tea a tnaaaiaa eiMMi C'fce.f' 1 a.k-e Iah... . ... - ' I verw w v, kiiviv w e vsV iU , , . . . , ... . i vnuiui ou vi - anas a-iau miiuvu aa . aeva. chine pollUcs, which, wUl tempt about a I It u awr the ; Elllot Islands. . where demoralising and in so far as It stimulates a love for out door, sports it is distinctly worthy of encouragement. . . """ ""I m""" Parasraph.r. to quote the wi navv Is reoorted to have- eateb- llahed a paval base, but it la strongly fortified. On the western side of the termination of the club to secure and maintain last place J phrase. S-t-n rebukina s-n. In the league is not calculated to arouse enthusiasm among the local followers of the- game or send them out with bat tle axes to wage war in its Interest . The club baa now lost 1J games and won. only: two; its percentage Is .143 against .714 for Los Angeles. -This record Is not very stim ulating to public, pride, .i Th followers of the game are' willing to go to great Lengths to further, the Interests of the club. Recently when it was made known to them that I has "dene- oama William Allen Whit gained his first peninsula there la not oply Niu Chwang wiae notoriety oy nis editorial, "wnafs but the harbor or Kaicnow. jcven the matter with Kanaaar' Now . the j Bhanhikwan, though far down the coast answerMnlght be made; Electing Burr 1 might serve for a landing 'place. The ton to the senate. ' -. .-'- special advantage to be derived from . . I an atUck on the western -side of the Readers of country sxchsnges will eer-J PhuiilY 1" that the troops would be talnly be glad when Homer Davenport immediate-proximity .to'th Rueslan ha.'MAii. . . i... ... railway and would be able to threaten th club would be vastly strengthened by seourtag Castro nouncement of his coming, published for th ccmmunlcatlona between Port Ar- ... " .v.. r i weeaa naat. nrM niaut tr nn.ii.in. I wwou uun " " iuj,uww m h.7 wukriymwu wr una naua.cr ij i ... ' 7r - " n If Jaian la to make effective warfare would b able to meet his price without taking desperate -.,-,---- -.--'-. - r 0n its enemy. - -: - . Chances. They had hoped great things from this'and so tim w u iw. I The great advantage which the Sax' fa have not .seen them realised. . It 1. Blgh timo ther was 1 oracing up aii aiong uie line. - vvnat roruana wantea -"T. " Russians must hold themseivee in readi- thls year was a pennant winner. 11 Is one 'of th most ii:. ... . fr'ATT'. neas to defend any one of a number of .v......... " ww.,. ........ !"L "r. " p"'' w vulnerable points. Wherever the mi- uUiwu uyyuimii u ureuiusT xb proiraciea stay or x wintry kado's central a mean to strike. - It X and. the patronaga which. It extends should merit the very I weatner. . - - . iaboVa alI wtlar that their: choice of best club that It Is possible; to secure, ,.,So. far aa the. show- !" JL ' x ' locations be a surprise. The debarka- in damoMtMta it wVthi vsrv or.. .Sit la T"6 WaahlngtOB corespondent of the tion of troops on hostile territory ris . - - ' -- inicago Trioun aays there is no pros-1 always a hasardous undertaking at nest. thls,,reason that, we urge upon Manager Ely to brace peot whatever of Judge Swayne's lm- To be of any effect It must be done UD so that lovers of the game will not be forced to wear peachment The resolution therefor rapidly and in force. With any con nron n thtii iImm whan th. ta.m ira mak.a ita hnma am from Democrat and Bwayne Is i siderable number of troops on shore to . - I- - . I W -""-w T MV Ul V vv tv s-a : -1 5 ,. - s . . . Republican. - long as he Is not a Mormon. MILITARY EXPERTS OUT OF LUCK. S Oeronimo, the once celebrated Arlsona Indian chief. Is atill alive and quite rriBKy, at the age of 91 years, but all ECRETART OF WAR TAFT is not very hopeful f his five wives are now dead, the last the:mlltary attache, getting to th front YSt'SSS yrnu iw aubbiiui or m Ha.jpaneBe troops, vn me took them to Oklahoma, they all died. St Petersburg side, as wen aa the Manchuiian, they are held at bay, while at Toklo they are simply idling away their time at the clubs without any apparent prospects of seeing the actual, fighting. Neither Russia nor' Japan is the least inclined to take any chances with anybody. Both seem to realise that the more closely they veil their move SABOEBT TOX JaATOXXBT. The riant at Ontario WIU Be Maeh to Help Teed. the World..: The largest fish hatchery In the world is located at Ontario, Oregon. it ments in secrecy and the less they are hampered by obli- is "now turning out the first batch of gations outside of those which they must assume', the bet"- r-a-t1.1!! ttot in u,r 1??r, JrU1 mm " mm.. . .. ' reappear In 'the lower Columbia river ter- they are oftThi is particularly true of Japan, and be caught, i The Baker aty Demo whose whole success is so largely Involved in concealing crataaya: . : .-. 7 th preliminary movements, leading, up to the great opera- j tat? f ?rtgBlowna n(1 rt tlons .f which the- world momentarily expects to receive It l. K fiewa '. It. is quite apparent too, that Russia was In such on the Snake river and Is now turning a condition of unprepa redness that it had no desire to have ou: J". . tc".or young salmon. .. ..i I About 25,000,000 youna Royal Chi. mese snoneonungs maue pia eveu iq oniciai repona ook salmon, or alxt-n tima. a. ..nv Altogether it looks as though the people of this country as are anually caught In the Columbia would be obliged to content themselves with long distance fr, m turned loose at Ontario view, of military experts, few of whom have ever been . I -i - VMg waui yuvj WS14 over the ground and npne of whom are In a position to go down the Snake and Columbia rivers offer resistance at - th eruelal -moment whea the Invaders are in small boats, a landing under modern conditions of military equipment becomes practically impossible, even though the guns of a fleet offer protection to the movement Since the futile attempt made by the Japanese March t to block the harbor of Port Arthur by sinking vessels In the mouth of It there has come no impor tant news of Admiral Togo's movement a. The developments of the week, so far aa the public 4s aware, relate chiefly to. the slow and Steady advance, of the Japanese forces toward the Talu. ; On March j It General . Mlahtchenko, with alx companies of Cossacks, attacked a force of Japanese cavairy occupyma Chongju, ' A brisk engagement followed. service, a woolen mill, five thousand new' settlers, and a score of other val- . uable. improvements, &:, V'V,' Z-X. r This Item from the. La Grande )b- f " server furnishes a good, hint to large farmers: ; J. L, Cavineee Is preparing to -put In a hydraulic- ram on his farm to pump water Into a large tank with . " which to furnish a small power auf- nrovad onnortuhltlea for the maneuver-1 a . . . . l i all naa af.n.h.ivla I"""" ruH wwb wwt crwn acy- ..-. ... ..v.p-w mm 1 " " i ,immi a. ram Ih.l MnnfM luiaa, open to steamer traffic and the opera tion of trains on the Trans-Siberian road will be attended with much . leas difficulty. ,j i , - - , eaaeaeaaaaaiBSaji -. . .j . No fact brought out by the news as to the latest development, of the war 1s more noteworthy than the - disclosure Astoria - Budget: . During the r past - week or 10 days there has been eons Id-- arable illegal flshlng'and it has . been ' ; known to every one Who takes an ac-, C tlve Interest In th fishing business, and . . In one Inatanoe several fishermen have : that although Russia's Port Arthur fleet Jo'ned together and are running a email ia J.fi- inf.rini, i. h. f ita cold storage plant One fisherman enemy. Japan's command of the sea Is boldly drifted with bis net close to the - .... . . . . . . . . .. ... . . . I agli. .... .ft.. Am .rl 4 .K , . - . . . sun uncertain, it is wevuaDie r: inai i """" ..- fhls fact should continue to give the v . . i -. mm.. ......... I 4panaa a"- "Jiaiwiy. .in uovuncr i . s r-w ' : merit made last week that Togo- had lely to - bring better prices, compara- been placed in posseaslon f - 41a- tlveiyj t than . moat a ether rsnn z pro t. mantled steamers, with authority , to ducts of western Oregon, for a number sink them all if necessarf to block the of years to come. The present atyle of - entrance of Port Arthur, ahows that the dividing up the work of butter making ; government at Toklo la keenly alive to ana leaving to tne rarmer omy tne mux thla danger. ! i .c. x. 1 lng and th separating of : the .cream ji Even if the Baltic fleet is not to be I gives him a better profit on what labor senf-to the far east It thus continues he-doer put Into the buslnesa . The out- ' to have a moral effect. In this conneo- look for good business and good profits : tion It may be worthy of mention that for the present year 1 very gooqV. i "r-' abaurd as the proposition to send a fleet ' i t -,t , . ,r; ,,' . ,?,' f 'i from the' Baltic, by th Arctic ocean ap- "Medford Southern Oregontan; jBuper-, pears to be, it Is not wholly lmpractt- Intendent Berrlam of the United Btatea cabla Efforts to, use' the route along government hatchery' at. Elk creek la " the northern coast , of Asia hay been at present ."Operating on' 'Rogue, river, 1 made several times, and in the decade jst below Ray's dam. He Is taklna : between 18T7 and 1887 various steamers eggs' from ateelheada. ss the fish do equipped for commercial purpose sue- wt ascend the stream, as "usual The 7 eeeded In making - profitable voyages dam has been furnished with a fish : from Europe to Siberia In thla way. The ladrf.r. hut it doa not aaam . tt, work rouU 4s now valueless foe commercial I right The report, that a- hatchery -. wlU purpoaes and IS Still extremely haaard- Ka rwirtnanfmtlv malntalnad thara la- - ous, but in anemergency it may yet without foundaUon. , 1 : be found available. Whether the Baltic I .. ' i. . " ;-.: fleet were to come by that route, orl ' 3nr , V.mhii u,i. :' -tk-T' in via the Atlantic , and Sues, however. lookwt fot spring, seems to hava put In the chance of its appearing on the scene ... Jt Tha ... Ihtna. i, of hostilities some time during the sum mer or fall is one which cannot be left entirely out of account j Field Marshal Yamagata in his cabled Interview pub- warm and bright ' the. little birds are ; singing and the "grass do green some, and 'tis well, because work of all .kinds , are at .least one month .later than In. i-ta , .. ,...!.. i- r.. former years. There is scarcely no. churla can get large quantities of sup- spring grain sown yet ; Hop yards to ...U Im. - t. - J a. I- . Mm. M plies by way of th Arctic ocean and "SVhin t win aa. a 4 ui m. -I a. ia,i. La. aa l numerous otner tMnfft. tr do will make thus being by no means limited to Ihe h Py lively around the 4ld town carrylng capacity of the Trans-Siberian railway, realize the exact conditions- which surround the move- ments. ' . aro kosb sox svsTLDra." i' From the Seattle Post Intelligencer. T. V. $ ul sratlfylng to observe that the , new city administration proposes to ' onake a cleart sweep of the private wine ,i" roome attd closed boxes In the city aa J Joons 1 'The disreputable character of , ! ; the business Involved in such adjuncts v I xtto ine saiopne is .notorious. More tnan ' f three years ago. in response to a public fi sentiment : arouaed by revelations on c, ..'thf suhject the city council passed an i ' ' ,. i ordinance absolutely forbidding closed . . . boxes in the saloons. Foe; a few months i 1 ' the ordinance was observed, but there- - J ' after it became a dead letter, and old , " conditions were restored, or rather ! t Hworae conditions than had previoualy ( , enisted. h t i 1 i In every ease the purpose of the closed ' : . box. In a saloon Is Immoral. They are ' the recruiting offices of dene of vice at , the best; at the worst, they are the I , lowest dens of vice In the city. They ' re a convenience to but two olaaaee of J . T people: ' Men endeavoring to lead women ii-,' astray and those women of the town - who: practice pocket-picking as a side f, f - v avocation to their other trade. Neither - , class 1 entitled to, the high eonsldera ; . tiori at the hands of the aathorlties j. which Jhas been accorded, in the . past 4 JlncldenUlly, of course, the boxes are a souree -of -revenue to the saloons, but t h, ' rne neeeaalty of the saloons having this aaaitionai revenue is not apparent. The ': proprietors. If they cannot make a llv .. lng from their business with this side line eliminated, have open (o them the " ' equally lawful and more reputable bual ' peas of highway robbery or burglary. 1 . Having announced the Intention' of do lng away with saloon boxes it Is to be v hoped and is confidently expected , that the police department will carry the , policy int Immediate effect- -;, ' ." I ; '.MOW tm OOT.TXSBX. " From the Prinevtlle Journal '" ' Here's the latest and freshest elec . ; tlon etory.to come out It happened not 1 far from Prinevllle and the hero ' Is pretty well known In town. - On the day . f .the . prlanariee he -took his jlaee aa cLalnsaa .and after calling the msUnf to-, order and stating Vhat nominations for delegates to the county convention were In order, he immediately,, post haste and without losing any time nomi nated himself. , "All those who are In favor of me as delegate , to the Democratic county con vention, signify hy the usual - voting Biarn. 'avk'." ' . " v". 1 There were no "ay'ea" "but be It Said, there were several Winks. The self- nominated delegate rose to his feet swelled out his cheat and in a very aua tere voice announced: .-s "There being no votes cast I declare myself duly elected as a delegate to the Democratic county' convention. Meeting's adjourned." '.'; ;WaT; CWXXJ CXZB9, From the Philadelphia Public ' Ledger. They were discussing political- broils after a congressional chat and Senator Charles Fairbanks said that the per sonal element In them reminded him of a church sociable, he Once attended. : "mKt I sat comfortably enjoying the aeene the little boy opposite iset up a shriek.- "What's the matter, ' child?", I. es quired. '"Boo hoot. Boo hoot! he yelled. "Who's worrying your I -Inquired. 'You! jja whimpered. ,.-"Tea'v feKS-v -v;; - '' ,.,, , "Howr "Ter sittln' ' on ' mi plate of lee cream.' TO lCAJCS A&OOaCOXi TTinmrjnCAJIXJa. The imperial Russian v minister of finance: has Just offered a ' prise of 60,000 rubles (IIS,7S0) to the person or persons who will Invent some , way of making alcohol undrinkabla. i Pamphlets giving the exact ' requirements govern ing the .competition have been printed In the- French language -and ; sent ta the Russian consulatee in foreign countries.-Russian- consulates in the United States are. located la the following cities i;. Mo-J bile, Ban Francisco. Fensacola, Sevan- nan. - Chloago.v-Baltlmore,- Boston, - Kaw York City. Portland, (Or.), Philadelphia and Gaiveatoa, , '- - ' n KAWUBBB FBSBXSBITT. and out into th Pacific ocean, where t hey - will grow to -maturity. Four or nve years hence, many , of them , will return weighing on an average of SO pounds each and worth to the fishermen S eents a pound. If only one out of every 70 returns the hatchery will more than keep up the supply of salmon. ,iast Saturday evening the state flsfl From the New Tork World. Senator Gorman paid his respects .to del fncfanrar P 4? SmiS day in trenchant phraeea. "If a law of Chamberlain, SecretaVy of State Dun- lt th4 l! .?Ct Traurer Moor Vent to .. " - a.-v unnna io maxe an inspection of this of men knock at the door of congress important . InstltuUoru ; They were ac- " v imuniy, vu om i comp&niea by Master. ' Fish warden H. Is not ecessary to ask congress. An O. VanDusen and one or. two othera ocuiiYt orutr wm ao u. jrom ,- Tney round the hatchery plant In ex AAA AAA . A.CAAAAAA . . - 1 ... -. . . - vvv.vvv w ,w,v,vv per t annuiq veiient woraing conditions, and were added to th expenditures of the govern- each gratified to learn that the first ment I. do not criticise the amount but season's operations had proven the congress is overrun." . wisdom of the selection of that site for Nor do any of the rest of us "criticise a hatchery. the amount not because the amount Is I The eggs taken at Ontario are from Insignificant in itself, but because it la the best specimens of. Roval Chinook so- completely - over-shadowed r bjr? the aalmoni -thua Increaalng the number-of presidential usurpation of : power. What1sn mat make the best canned product this country cannot endure Is the an- The reputation of Columbia -river sal- proprlatlon of thirty millions, or ten mon, already the best In the world, will mmions, or one minion, or one douar, or lurxner sirengxnenea oy tnis arti' one cent for ahv nurnoae in daflanca fioial progagatlon of the beat variety. of the constitution and the laws. The site at Ontario has the advantage By the 4th of March of next ' year ?r vr rwnng water supply -and there will ba abundant work tar a itt.l distance from the ocean. The fish that dlclaUy minded president to do In Te-Vlc,na" th stream the farthett .are the ones that come into the river earliest ana nave nesn QZ tne best flavor. storing the shifted and battered land marks .of the constitution. SAB ftXFBBXXxTOX 01" lOk PSTTTSB. 0 OXAXOB BEIT FOB SZOiWAXXB. ' From tha Waahinatnn" Tat I Chicago Correspondence New Tork Oloba Mr ppttua aat Hiarnnaniata in ha "There is no large city In the country senate cloakroom yesterday for a Sea- wner' sioewaiks aremonoponaed like son. Being a great stickier for the tl?y re ,n Chicago. Take South Water proprieties In : that dignified bod he " "fusiration. mere is barely dared not enter the chamber, This an bame about from the een- stor's glancing Into the mirror. Soon after he reached the caoltol a small page, looking at him, snickered. Then another page " did ' likewise. Which aroused the Sedate Alabaman's aua- plclonanJjfi-Si;;.. fi-vt :?wv vr'- As he viewed his own ponderous figure in the cloakroom mirror Senator Pettus Uttered wofos not in the dictionary. He had left his cravat at home. ' The page who snickered at him was despatched to the senator's, residence for that neces sary artfcle of apparel. While the boy was on-the errand Mr.. Pettus sat In-the democratloi' cloakroom as a target for the jokes Of his colleagues. room for people to pasa along than busy morougnrare in "single file." it is lm poelble for a woman to get through without running the risk of tearing her ciotnes on the barrels and boxes that are piled up In front of the storea -This street is the Washington market of New Tork. only on a larger scale. Theae aide walks are being ? used. unlawfully, and the city officials now propose to force the merchants to either take their goods off the sidewalks or pay rental for the aarae. The rat e to be charged will be $1 a square foot per year. Houses with bay windows will also be forced to pay for sidewalk room. ' The additional reve nur would bring-In about - $106,000 a year, which would help to hire a lot of new patrolmen. - - . - t " THZgCM THAT WSsTT WBOlra. -r- Worn the- Chicaao Trlbuna - One bright day . last spring Miss Ida May Greencastle of Evanavine, ina.. who was vlaltlna friends , in Chicago, took a walk through Lincoln park, and while there set down on the grass near the conservatory. T'-v - v a dar or two later, after she had re turned home, she missed a valuable breaatpln she, was almost certain she had worn when In the park, She hunted hle-h and low for it but could not find it A few days 'ago Miss Greencastle came again to Chicago on a visit to the same friends. , . , . Tempted by the bright sunshine, she went to Lincoln para to see tne animaia, Moved by Idle curiosity, and without any nope oz nnarog tne wsi premsipin, she hunted up the spot where she had sat down when In the park a year ago. and poked around in the damp grass with the tin of her umnreiia. - Something that glistened in the sun shine caught her eye, ana she stooped down and picked It up. It wa. a fragment Of a broken pop bottle " - v '' A f' -rV'l : ';'aaaaaaai 'i - ;! . ;'' ''' Michael Servetus Langley had been olayina th races for weeks, but Instead of following his own Judgment he had trusted ' to the touts and the sporting columns, with the . result that he had lost the most of bis wad. While looking over the printed list of horses entered for a certain -raee one day an Idea occurred to him. . ' - He cut the list' out-of the paper, folded It several times, and stuck a pin through It --,-'' i ' t Then he unfolded It and observed that the pin had gone through th names of several of thhorsea. , . , "Those are the ones I'll bet on," he said. " He did so. -". : Every one of those hprses lost - " . , t:-?"":Tb Oost of 0reat"Wrai""'7 y;J" . From the Boston Transcript. ' tt cost France over 11,000,000 a day to keep an army of 100,000 men In the field against; the Germans. The Austrian economist Snaffle, eight years ago de clared that ; a , war involving the conti nental i powers of v Europe would cost France ever $5,000,000 a day;: Russia, 8M00.O00; Germany, 15,000,000, and Austria,. $8,000,000, The figure would probably be larger today, and If made to include Great Britain, the - United State and China, the. expenditure, for waste, destruction and death, would ag gregate nearly 140,090,000 every 24 hours, or more than 11,800,000 an hour, ,. iJ ' ' A. ' , ,XtompestioBu i;:-:S 'i'iii:M. - From the Washington Star.1 v There Is compensation in all things. Every time an article of food gets particularly-dear a actentlat can -be. found who will declare-that U was not whole-, this summer, with' to 1100 per day. complain. wage, from 81.50 We ought not to FXBTA.WCXS ntajroa. From Hood River . Glacier i . Mrs. Rachel Stewart' who sets a table for the over-"'"" flow of - patronage from the hotel, Is a native Oregontan. Her parents. Jlr. Vnited States' - Consul ' Hayner, Rouen, Franca - Tha .KVanrh . rnvamm.nf haa mu1ima1 I mr.A "Mrm WarMn ammmI .Vim nlafvia In Bira.im, aiiu ,apimiisuiu; uraix aa jara.' Dirwii I WBB m B, wiaow much as possible, which it Is hoped the with several mal children -and lived present events in the far east will not on the Waahington side of the Colum- effect An optimistic forecast Is war- bla. - She kept a band o cattle, and ev ranted by the receipts of last month ery summer went With : her children (January), which showed an excess of and cowa to the hUla where the grass $2,398,758. , - was good and ramped 'out all summer From present indications, the govern- and made butter, which found a ready ment can not much longer put off the sale at the stores along the Colum- creauon or .pensions ror tne laooring bla. For II years shs lived In this ciaae sno sBBisipjice to in agea. . in tne Way and raised her children. .... . .M .V. m1tm..m m.mmm sm a. I . - i T folly to hope for decreased military and naval expenditures. Neither can the ex penses of public instruction he lessened. and certainly the, government ia too wise to attempt the laying of new taxes upon some, anyhow t 'i:A SAVX ILXSXmAUTT. , , From the Pendleton East Oregontan. It requires some human sympathy and ' assets which are seemingly already over-1 sentiment as . well as money to run a ' burdened. . lbaak.ta,'th unspeakable leaal tanale 8ound French financiers ! have been ita which, the Wade failure threw tha Twhar. affairs Of i the First Natlqnal Bank of J&m I 7 t.tHH5 f Wade's creditors and rnZt found f themselves- absolutely national ; resources between the state, .,.a . .,.,, . departmental and communal budget ; is tli?.f.lL1 L!1 preached, i a This was the platform of "" '.'. TtaV hZ iie ' aT the French Democrats of 1848, which, as ?!t Zfl then formulated, waa: "Admlnlatratlon "b1,e,ir irf'fi.-'lK , f! of the affairs of the commune, jot the palings, ."hough thevlctims thought department by . the department and of they were dealing with the bank when tha nation bv the state." In annirina- it. dealing with ..Wade, Several . women the third republic, it Is argued, would re- wrh0B money .had 'been entrusted to store to the state its true attribute, and Wade were left penniless, and although render, the republic .stronger and more the bank wal not responsible for their independent - v: ' - lossesr-lt-has restored-every -oent o- There la one fiscal asset vet left to tha their. , funds to :; them.is : Rather than government In certain industries there I see Innocent victims suffer, the manage- ' is a tendency toward eentrallxatlon to-1 ment of the bank will assume their loss. " ward private monopoly, or trusts, Frenob J Rather than throw the entire commun- economists are asserting that when totality into endleas litigation. In which the monODoly becomes Injurious it should I bank was almoat certain to be victor- be bought by the state and managed ious, It has compromised with the heav- ' in the Interest of the public. This ques- lest losers, giving them 80 per cent of ' tlon has gone so far beyond the theory the loss they sustained, rather than see;' that? Mr. Rouvier, the a-minister of them permanently crippled br the un-' finance the most prudent of financiers, fortunate affair. - This action of the " has seriously thought of taking In hand bank, will endear it and its officials to the refining or on. wnicn undoubtedly this community and give It a place in would bring Into , th y state treasury the business circles of ths stata enloved many millions. " i , by but few Institutions. , , ' Woalasjusit From the New Tork World. . ' " ' " Th mystery of Hoboken is, rwhere is Hetty. GreenT".:r;S:i,sv;is."-. "sw -m,: .i , The "richest woman In the world" is no longer a resident of ; that : subu rb. ' where for some time she occupied a flat ' at No.. 81 Thirteenth street A " not Ice ' from, the landlord,-' the Hoboken " Land ' and ' Improvement f Company, 'that on " AprU 1 her rent would be raised . from ' 824 to f 28 a month Is given as the cause of her,, flitting. A single van did th restf&f 4"tffe-'f;.R;i C-v' .Oomparatlv" Civilisation. " -3 :- From Everybody a Uagaalne.' Russia Is fifty times aa big as Japan Uwterrltory,thrioaa'hlgitt population; -and Japan sends three times as many children to the elementary schools. E Klser TWO 7UTTU W0K98. In Chicago Record-Herald. Two little words, each four letters long, And what In the world do they mean? Deadly war 'and delightful song -; ; ,-And all that there is between:- -A; . Two little words of a syllable each,. And what do they mean to man t V All that we teach and all that we preach And all of the thing, we plan, ni t f Two little words that all' of us know, "Two wonderful words alone '4 That may plunge a, man In the. depths . m of woa'-'-.-.'jw'j'v--fff i Or make the whole world hi own; Two little words, and what may they be 7 - They reach from heaven to hell, ..1.. And one ef these words is L-O-V-E, And one Is O-I-R-L. , ; , A.