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... ILditdria! f age of IE3 Joiiracil FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 1901 A - t PORTLAND, OREGON. 3 ' THE OREGON DAI L,Y AN 4. . JACKSON Publlehed every evening (except Sunday) and every Sunday morning at The Journal Building-, Fifth and TamhM .. . streets. Portland, Oregon. ,.'",..;' "V OFFICIAL. WILL' PRIVATE OR PUBLIC INTERESTS '.''J'1. CONTROL?. - THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT owns alxty-nlne-seventieths jrtjfie atock of the Panama. Railway : company.wnlng tlila amount" of stock It haa thre director out of a board of II. Thla railroad com an ionr 'u it waa under private control, absolutely - dictated transcontinental railroad ratea. It la , the road Which crosses the' Isthmus of Panama and over It alone Ma JreiBht be transported from tha Atlantle to the Pa ' 'ctf io ocean. ItT7areob7.ca' fixed aufflc4cntly--hlglv.lt. la . matter of no concern bow low tha ocean rata from New York to the I road's Atlantic terminus, figure In affecting the, schedule . of transcontinental rates. So long, as this was a private' corporation thara "waa . nothing that could be done -about v,t w. ..Mtui in Ik. ling 11 1 IVMVimilf w - : . - continental roads-. But when tha government bought the ftna4atrip1lncludtna- control of tha railroad,, tha matter became one of public rather 'than private concern and of publio rather than private regulation. . n ' What then will b doner about It? Will, the owners of 'nna.aovantlcth nf the Stock. Who .!. preponderance In tha directorate, calmly fl the ' rates to ault their private purposes and continue to enjoy a mnnnmlT 'which they no longer own. or will the govern ment, which la now tha real owner, . rates for tha benefit of the whole publio that Is so deeply Interested? '.'' ' ' ' " " ' There should be "no two answers to this. Tha public baa already paid neavuy tor we privilege of owning tha canal atrip; If it la not entitled to the benefita that naturally accrue from the purchase then W was a criminal misuse of tha publio funds to have bought the canal right of way and Its appurtenancea. The quea "Tjion la ona of peculiar and Immediate Interest to air the people of tha Paclfio coast; It ,1a of a 'good deal of direct Interest fo many people on tha Atlantic seaboard. ' In volved In It la a -principle which is plainly evident on Its V face and we do not believe the administration can afford on the ona hand to shirk It or, on the other, to permit a public 'property to be used for private aggrandisement' ... BETTER THE SAW THAN FIRE.. '. A GAIN tha forest fires. In spite of laws, and warn- ; Ings, and official supervision and watchfulness, they will break out especially after auch a long -period of dry" weather, and there Is no Way, nor aver will be any way, to -prevent them, except to put a barb wire fence all about them and then station guarda every few rods along that; or else cut tha forests down. ' Some one. or several persons out of the thousands who for one purpose or another go Into tha forests will be careless, and there are persons malicious enough to set fires purposely. And . even without malice or careless ness, sparks from an honest, careful ' settler's brush fir . or chimney may at such a time Ignite a great forest fir. Something In the- way of prevention haa doubtless been accomplished;' tha laws and proclamations and warnings and newspaper pleadihga have surely not been entirely . vain; yet ' neither .these, nor anything practicable that can be devised, will prevent very destructive forest fires after a several -weeks apell of warm and rainless weather. ; In view of this fact, the sooner most of tha coast . range, forests are converted Into, lumbar the better. ' They are not needed to preserve sources of water supply; and the ground, once Cleared, Is nearly all good soil, adapted to agriculture-.'1.; It would be a good thing .for tha state if : these forests of .big timber were cut down rabidly, as fast as tha lumber could be profitably marketed, and "the langiuaHy-aowvartedbxlJionu "means Into farms and orchards. l ' v ; The state, tha people at large, have no authority to . hasten this result, but tha big timber owners must them selves see that they are annually running big, liskgfrom Inevitable, unpreventable forest fires, and so will prob ably be mora and more 'disposed, year 'by year, to follow soma such coursa of procedure? j : j" WAR REPORTS. I HE REPORTS of tha British Africa were characterised by brutal frankness. -They, made no attempt to excuaa or palliate, but 'gave tha facta as they aaw them In all their rawness. , It la true they , always "regretted to report," but this '! regret never biased their reports or aerved to. obscure apy of the facts, no matter how unpalatable they might be. - In the course of time "regrets, to . report" became rather monotonous Introductions to 'a series of military reverses, but whenever these reports were made public J everyone who read them knew them for truth as tha truth then appeared. ... .' , In the present war, Japan seems 'studiously careful to send forth nothing that it does not believe to be true. Anything emanating from that source la accepted with much .confidence, and subsequent fuller information has wxat ivooaxj OFTXonsTa Pxoron ' Thar WUl ot Try to Tore the Z.aw Against Futile Opinion. Dr. O. L. Tufts in La Grande Observer. "' If the sentiment In Baker City war , rants It ws will mske It a county vote. If It does not then we will only apply for election la precincts where It Is wanted. It Is not the policy of the local option., movement to force It sgalnat 'publio sentiment. If sentiment Is not ripe for it . In a given precinct, county or dlstntct, then we. will ork on the people a while longer and educate them up to the point before we begin voting. To make It plain, it we find, after con ' aultlng the leading business men snd , property owners snd cltlsens of Baker " City that they prefer ths liquor traffic in this city, why ws will hot attempt to fores It apon tbem. We know that It la best to permit the people of given pre cincts to govern themselves in the mat . ter. 'In other words, if we should find : that tha taxpayers and good cltlsens of Baker City prefer the Jlquor trafno in its present form for the time being, we woild not go to the country people who 'generally oppose it and secure the re quired 10 per cent of tfie voters to stun a petition for an election and force local option ' upon Baker' City In this manner. If local option Is forced upon Baker-'Otty It. will be done by the eon emt snd ssslstance of tha people of Baker CMy themselves. If we And that the best people of - Baker City favor local option and that the people of ths ountr also favor it. then we will make the elect lort cover the county In November and attempt to stop the sale In this territory. You cannot override ' public senti ment. Ws realise thla If publlfl senti ment Is wrong you have to submit to It Yeu have ta wait uatil, it gets right. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' ' 'PUBLISHED fey JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. PAPER OP THG CITY, OP usually borne-out criticism. Thm for It will cut no -the fighting have It ; It waa run, as interest of the trana- baPPBn tO haVO a atep In and fix the uch a question as Increase In value, past two or three money Borne of these -officers from South of auch a change. For Instance, if the responsible, citizens of Baker City think that the present form of liquor trafno is beat, then it would be useless to ring In outsiders and force local option upon them. Thty would simply evade the law by "blind- tigers" and all manner of devices. ' But if the people themselvss are against it and put it down, then we would be aafe In an election, for it would result in good snd the laws would be enforced against it. The officers sre governed by public sentiment. Tou cannot force them to oppose publio sentiment. They are elected by the publio and know what the publio expects of them. ' They do nothing- more. Ths minute they find that, those who elected them are opposed to a thing and they have aaw against that particular thing tha officers will quickly enforce the law. 'W are going about this matter sys tematically. Not until given territory is ripe will we attempt to force local option upon it. We are out to eventu ally win and when we move wa expect to move in the right direction. if we carry local option at a given point we expect to do so by ths vote of the taxpayers- snd -best cltlsens snd .then we expect the enforcement of the : law by these same rotors and cltlsens. 1 Somettlng A boat Women. From Cincinnati - Commercial-Tribune. A girl is terribly sfrald of rats every piece except In her hair. e The woman who will not -wait 18 minutes for the change from a ft bill after making a $4. purchase is a new woman. . If Is herd for a girl to understand that the one who is least talked about is the. best liked. - A gentlewoman is always a gentle woman, tven when no One is there ex cept pspa and mamma. JOURNAL vJNO. P. CARROLL PORTLAND what was originally given forth , under authority. It la very different In the matter of the Rus sian war news. The generals who make up these re ports, if Indeed they do make them up. are experts In concealing facts. Their literary workmanship lsabove mak nlainlv evident the fact thtt there- have been terrific encounters. The Japanese losses are always enormous, while tha losses of tha Russians are small, if not actually Insignificant.' An Impression . has gone forth that the Jape are doing superb work with their artillery. , To counteract that Impression military reports are .made by tha Russians to show that In the great movement now being made on Manchuria the Rus sians have almost Invariably silenced the. Japanese artil lery. But the clevefest'Teature tf all Is the. way in which It la plainly" Indicated that those who bore the brunt of Invariably maintained their positions while at tha same time they have sullenly withdrawn because of. the . pressure of overwhelming odds. .." . If the campaign -was. ona of iKerary experts, wa fear the Japs, clever as they are, would ,bave very little show against ' the able and Industrious Russians. Un. fortunately it Is' a contest between the military experts In which tha Japs, under almost Inconceivable-.difficulties arid, with a .celerity, requiring almost superhuman ex ertion, are steadily pushing back tha Russians, whose time la largely occupied In dodging their way out from under tha enveloping flanks of ths resistless , Japs. While all must admire literary expertness -and render the tribute of their admiration to a fine Job of word carpentry, still tha present contest Is on sterner lines, literature being an Incident merely In the campaign, and tha world must continue to give its profoundest attention to what . la being actually accomplished In tjie field, rather than to tha story which Is subsequently- con cocted of It for tha benefit of a waiting world, which is not altogether so gullible as It Is believed to be, , SEEKING HOMES IN PORTLAND. ONE OF tha significant signs of Portland's pre eminence in this region and at tha same time an evidence of Its aolid growth, la tha steady and in creasing drift Into this city of wealthy or well-to-do men from all over tha Pacific northwest, for the purpose of making their homes here, and most of them having also tha purpose to make Investments here.. The word "drift"- Is not to be taken in lta most literal sense;" that is,' these men do not come here' aimlessly or' without due and careful consideration." They come here becauar It is incomparablly the best place in tha Paclfio north west omepf6rZlheljufposesahd3hey7donhot"wIsh to leave this region; they could not live comfortably elsewhere. Their purposes,' as indicated, are to secure pleaaant city homes, where they can partly or altogether retire from the active and often arduous lives they have led; where they can In a measure rest during ths re mainder of their Uvea, and at the same time have all the advantages a large city affords; and where, 'too and wltlt some thla Is the -controlling Inducement they can safely Invest their savings -and surplus profits In city real estate that la aura to become 'worth no less than they pay for It, and In all probability will gradually thus adding to their fortunes without toll and anxiety on their part. .V- . ' -- it would surprise most readers to learn how many such man have coma Into this city to reside during the yeara. There are scores of . them. They nave coma from eastern Oregon, eastern Wash ington, Idaho, Montana,' the Willamette valley, and from other atatee. Borne of them have been stockmen, others miners, others lumbermen, others farmers, and others merchants or otherwise bus lness men In smaller towns. It would also surprise many if they knew how much Inland Empire stockmen and fanners bava made,, and laid by. Some of them have sold out and bring all or nearly all their money; others still retain their lands and stock, or other Interior property, but have varying aurplua .amounts with which -to buy a home, and for other Investment. Tha moral of this atory la plain: Portland la the best home city In thla portion of the United States, at least, and these shrewd, successful men know it And these men will aid. In some email degree. In Portland's develop ment, and assuredly add a little to lta rapidly Increasing volume of wealth. ' . . ' ..." Salmon men are deeply Interested In tha Increasingly lata data of tha annual aalmon run. That, data la now dangerously close to tha August 15 limit. Bet by law for tha cessation of fishing. It baa been met on the Wash ington, side by a tacit understanding, that the provisions of tha law ba Ignored, but thla la neither the wisest nor the best way of doing It. If tha salmon run starts too lata for the fishermen' to get full advantage of. it under the: present arrangement for a closed season, then that arrangement ahould ba Changed. Thla should not bs done by an "Understanding," but through a regulation of law. On auch a presentation of facta 'there would doubtless be? no trouble In convincing tha legislature of tha wisdom . rwnro: OK un. I can aee a ploture painted. I can smell the drying hay Where the busy mowers rattle through the lasy summer's day; I can see the hungry plowboy wading through the billowed oorn With expectant ear1 to windward llsfn- -ing for the dinner horn: While unconscious of necessity, the fu- . ture, or of fate. ,...!. I make wondrous childish Journeys ss t swing upon the gate. Strange how back among'the mari7 recol lections of the past Memory will grope and wander till it brings to us st last Some poor, foolish, food remembrance, seeming hardly worth the while- Tet somehow made wondrous potent, . like a tender passing smile. Fleeting, gone, and eoon forgotten yet remembered by and by With a swelling In the bosom snd a dim - tolng af the eye. ,. - . , Now my temples fast are graying and . my eyes have sober grown' With the years of varied happiness and sorrow I have known; ' till, I sometimes hear ths echo, when the evening lights sre low And without my darkened casement ghostly breecee eerie blow. Of the friendly, rusty rattle of the latchet ae when late la the heir, May summer-time we swung 1 upon the gate. Lowell Otis Reese in Leslie's Weekly. Oaa Jolt Bnongiv From the Providence Journal."' rt may be observed that the Repub licans at least sre not making any' very loud demand for Judge Parker to speak again. I Small Change ' Ooode ia good enough. , . - After talk comes work. It's a good time to' put up blackber ries. .. '", Not ell Is grace that la aatd before meat , these days, Fairbanks Waa sensible enough make his speech short. - to - Oregon Is the healthiest stats in the union or very nearly 'so. . The boy who 'wants to be president should learn to swim and ride. . . ' - There are some signs that tha po litical silly season bss arrived. If Bryan ware to run. would Teddy have become so suddenly tamer Judge " Parker ; knowsfrwhether - he should resign or not, and when. - ' 'At Inrf tha Datnnnratla nartv haa gotten rid of Jtnsky Jonssovltch. What a happy time it will be when there wiU b speechless Campaigns. , Tom Taggart would like td get back as boss . of a pis counter again (po litical). , . By the way. don't forget good wagon roads. They are nearly as Important as anything. If Port Arthur were one of Prof. Langlay's airships, now, how aasy It wpuld fall. Bryan may take baths.' too, even if he haa no big river running in front of his houee. .. .-, Some people, in viewing the lancecape at Esopus, persist in seeing a 'Hill . in the background., i If Roosevelt is re-elected - will he chsngs the national bird from the eagle to Jthe storkX- BtM. Candidate Davis can easily And a woman, of any desired age or looks, who will oonsent. . ' When will tha politicians allow that poor man Root a chance to attend to his professional business? President Roosevelt points with pride, snd Judge Psrker will view with alarm the same old story. heard to make any derogatory remarks aooui mr. -i nomas iiivi, rtruiai U1V in c urunnu . j uat j , via., It la eaeler to keep alive herethan in almost any city in the union. Perhaps the Russian naval command- era considered that merchantmen were the only kind of ships they could sink or capture. Chicago Journal: It Is a safs bet that after Pave Hill shook hands with Tam many Leader Murphy each of them counted his lingers.' , Steady and lively rustling from now on is necessary to make the Lewis and Clark fair a success.' And Mr. Ooode will keep people rustling. Esonua Is to have a new hotel and railroad -depot which shows what a town . gains by having one of Its cltl sens nominated for president . ' i ' " That long story Intended to be sensa tional, in , the morning paper, about a row between Governor Chamberlain and State Senator M. A.- Miller of Linn county, waa, as well-informed readers snpposed at the time, a fake, pure and simple. ' . .. The only ' criticism of the St Louis fair is that It Is so big thst it becomes bewildering. Visitors say It would re quire two months " to take It all In thoroughly. A smaller fair, like ours will be next year, can be better seen, studied and appreciated. Anv newsnaner that ventures to criti cise or call attention' to the unparalleled extravagance of the present administra tion, or the sudden suppression of sll Investigations of wholesale frauds In the departments. Is. according to the Oregonlan a "cheap skate," and is "talk ing rubbish through Its hst" This slang Is all the answer it haa Cattle raisers are being, injured, con sumers are being injured, millions of people are being injured, to the extent in the eggregate of millions of dol lars, on account of the meat handlers' strike, and yet nothing can be done to put an end to It This is one In stance in which civilisation makes a poor ahowing. - arraoTm oabtoov. From the Pendleton East Oregonlan. Pictures are more potent than words. Ths cartoon has almost supplanted tha editorial .on the great metropolitan dallies, where art la accessible and within reach of the newspaper. Ten thousand editorial essays havs been written on ths benefits of ths portage road, and the dramatic features of the situation In eastern Oregon, in which an empire lies locked behind the closed gates of th Columbia river, but not one of these thrilling essays or edi torials has ever portrayed an lota of tha meaning contained in a cartoon On the first page of The Oregon Sunday Journal of yesterday. The picture rep resents a atrong stone wall, high and forbidding, with an Iron hinged gate, locked and barred and surmounted with frowning pillars. Over the gste is written "Inland Empire," and from be hind It atreame the golden sunbeams of prosperity snd progress, representing the spirit that seeks to rush out to ths world, through the barred gate. Be hind that closed gate le crowding the trafTlo and commerce of an empire, seek ing egress to the world, but it Is se curely locked. Ia front of the gste stands Oregon, represented as a beau tiful y woman, holding In her hand a monster key marked "Portage Road," and which fits the frowning lock on thst gate. Hesitatingly, timidly, beseech ingly, she Is looking at the aunbeama pouring over the wall, and atands with tha key almost entering the lock, ask ing herself, apparently, whether she shall open' ths empire and give freedom to the worlds of commerce behind the stone wall. It Is a picture worthy of a place In every home and over every door In the . Inland Empire. It .Is a sermon, by Oregg, ths cartoonist that eould not be preached in words. . . - m i ' Open to SaspUdoa. ' From the-Washington Pont Steamship companies propose to issue sn order prohibiting gamblers from rid ing on thslr veseels. The enforcement of such an order would change the va cation plana of a lot of Waa street op-orators. August l Ws set out early and by means of our oars made M I-l miles, though the liver wss crowded with sand bars. On both sides he prairies sxtend along the river, the skxiks being covered with great quantities ol grapes, of which three different species are now ripe, one large 'and resembling the purple grape. We had some rain this morning, attended by a high wind; but, .generally speaking, have remarked that the thunder storms are less frequent than In the Atlantic states at this season. Snakes, too, are less frequent, though we ' killed one today of the shape and slse of ths rattlesnake. but of a lighter color. ve fixed our camp on the. north side. In tha evening. Captain Clark. In pur suing some game in an eastern direction, -found himself at a distance of m yards from tha camp, at a point of tha river THE TIBETAN Ellsa R. Scldmore.la Chicago Tribune. it one cannot go to Tibet he can ar rive at an idea of what a Tibetan temple servloe is like by attending one of the daily services at the lama temple Jn Pekln. The Buddhist religion cams from India through Tibet, and the Pekln priesthood look to Lhasaa aa tha holy city and source of all sacred learning. and to the dalal lama as the head and visible representative of the religion on earth. . - , Little hint seems to have reached, here from Lhassa concerning the Uttla war the dalal lama Is waging against the British expedition advancing from the Indian frontier. A new ambau or Chi nese resident at tha eourt of the .dalal lama waa sent out from Pekln last June, loaded with good advice to the Tibetans that they should wslcome and aid tha Britlshommlaaioners In every way. . o 7 That worthy Chinese official was dis patched overland from Pekln and by dint of his mastery of. ths policy of delay he managed to reach only Chengtu, the capital kf Ssechuen pro vince, in October. He moved on leaden feet praying that the ambau then in residence in Lhassa would have settled all the unpleaaantriea with the Tibetans and the British before bis arrival. A year ago Captain Parr, once of the Chicago customs service, and then with the. British army In South Africa, and now again under Sir Robert Hart's di rectory, waa dispatched to Tibet by way of India as Joint commissioner with the Chinese ambau. Captain 'Parr Joined Colonel Younghuaband's party and shared the trying winter advance on Into Tibet with no negotiations in sight or ever coming to meet Mm. - " Captain Parr, as a representative of the Chinese government is. with his colleague, the ambau In Lhassa. charged to bring the Tibetans to their senses and make them sea the advantage of opening trade with India. What little (-Influence "the Chinese government hss With ths Tibetans Is being exercised in favor of their coming to terms with the British, but with - the - crass ob stinacy and wrongheadedness of a fa natloal, unsophisticated, and suspicious people, the Tibetans seem bent on achieving their own destruction by first refusing to negotiate and then attack ing the British expeditions. ' The Chinese who are at all In touch with or Interested in Tibetan . affaire quite shake their heads st the madness of the Tibetans in opposing the British expedition. They foretell consternation In Lhassa when the news arrives there of Russian defeats at the hands of the Japans rivaling. those inflicted upon the Chinese ten years ago by the same people, and gloomily agree that it is now too late. ; Captain Parr, tha Chinese - commis sioner with the British expedition.- has been seeking Information concerning European explorers from all the Tibetans whom he meets. As certain "a. Yotnra womajts toaxa Ska Orttlolaea Judge rarkafa VoaiUom tat Caustic better. Rochester (N. T.) Spatial to Chicago , Tribune. - Judge. Parker'a recent statement that he did not propose to be. photographed by camera men, as a matter of personal right has called forth a protest from Miss Abigail Robertson of this city, the young woman who last year sued a big milling company for damages for publishing- her likeness on one of their advertisements, and whose prayer for relief was denied by the court of ap peals, of which Judge Parker was snd Is still chief justice. Mlse Robertson haa sent a letter taj judge farxer. Among oinor mings, Miss Robertson says: "My Dear 8lr: I read In the press dispatches yesterday afternoon that Mrs. Parker was obliged to leave home to avoid the annoyance of ubiquitous photographers, notwithstanding ths warning given by you and reported in the sams dlspatchee last Saturday morning, in which It was announced that that would be the last day of pro miscuous photographing of yourself and family, and wherein you are quoted ss saying: -1 reserve the right to put my hands lq my pockets and sssume com fortable attitudes without being sver lastingly .afraid that I shall be snapped by some fellow with-a earners,' "I taks thla opportunity to -remind you that you Have no such right a that which you assert. T have high authority for my state ment being nothing leas than a de cision of the eourt of appeals of. this state, wherein you wrote the prevailing opinion. The action waa one la which I was ths plaintiff. "Tou may recollect that the facta in that case were undleputed, arid that It was admitted that ths defendants, with out - my knowledge or . consent and knowing that they had no right or au thority eo to do. had secured my photo graph and, having caused It to be en larged and lithographed in life else, had circulated about 26.000 copies thereof as an advertisement of the commodi ties in which one of the defendants dealt; that, the likenesses were posted conspicuously In stores, warehouses, sa loons and other publio places, and had been recognised by my friends and ethers; that my good nam had been sttscked, and as a consequence I de sired an Injunction against the defend ants restraining the further uss thereof. 'Tou referred to my csuse of action as a 'so-called' right of privacy and ad mitted that such publicity 'which some find agreeable' Is to plaintiff distaste ful, and that I suffered mental distress, when others would have appreciated the compliment to their beauty,' and Jn an opinion sixteen pages long you. ar rived at the conclusion that I bad no whence we had come 11 milea. When the water la high, this peninsula Is over flowed; and. Judging from ys customary and notorious chances In ths river, ai few veara . will be sufficient to force the main current of the river ' across and leave the bend dry. The whole lowland between It he narallel ranges of bills seems formed of mud and oose of the river, at some former period mixed wlfh sand and clay. The sand of the neigh vortog banks accumulates with the aid of that brouaht down the stream and forms sand bars projecting Into the river. Theae drive the channel to the opposite bank, the loose texture of which it under mines, and at length deserts Its ancient bed for a new and shorter passage. It la thus that the banks of ths Missouri are constantly falling in and the river is changing lta bed, ' EXPEDITION tales of their adventures In Tibet aaw fit to -question the genuineness of the Japanese Buddhist priest's account of hla travels. Captain Parr has conducted a thorough Investigation In re, Kawa- guchl. Savage Landor. Bonvalon, and all the rest of them, from ths moment of crossing ths boundary up to the laat advloes from him at Pharl, ' la the Chumbl valley, at the end of March. .' The Tibetan expedition la aomethlng to attract aU. travelers who seek ad venture and excitement and there are- regretful war correspondents lined up at Toklo who bitterly repent their not electing to follow ' the Younghusband expedition. Instead Of the Russo-Jsp-anese war. "7 Since Lord Kitchener controls the Tibetan expedition it is not believed that he will permit many noncombatants to follow th troop, and those already with them, who Will be fortunate enough to enter Lhaasa will have a monopoly of those stirring and picturesque events to describe, y When Lhassa is gained, however, and the laat door In Asia is thrown -wide open. It will "be some time before It be comes a beaten tourlat route, as the difficulties of climate and transport will ba enormous. ' . Mr. Francis Nichols, the American traveler, whose "Through - Hidden Bhensl" is one of the most interesting books of far eastern travel, atarted for Tibet from the .Tangtse . valley last fall, but all accounts received from him so far are not cheerful, and show great difficulties to have been encountered in Fusing on from- the Chinese frontier. Officials were unwilling to let htm go, sought every means of delaying and blocking him, ana made his trip a strong contrast to hts promenade across Ehensl distributing famine relief funds.. Everything went so well and so easily In Bhensl, tha most hidden snd closed of Chinese provinces, that Mr. Nichols argued from It nothing of tha delays snd anneyanoes that have-boa e him In Ssechuen on his way toward Tibet Comte de Leedaln, a secretary of the French legation in Pekln, is starting this week down overlsnd to the Tibetan frontier, and hopes to find the way' to Lhassa "opened to foreigners at last and to be able to traverse Tibet across to Turkestan and Central Asia, reach ing Europe finally by the Russian trans caaplan railway. The promoters and floaters, conces sion seekers, snd boomers of every kind who have afflicted -China and the Philippines for these many years are giving thought now and then to ths reputed mineral wealth of Tibet , and when the poor country Is thrown open there will probably be a rush of such soldiers of mining fortunes. The bar ren uplands of Tibet sre said to be bare ledges of gold-bearing rock, with nug gets and dust In every stream bed. The more real gold mines, however,, are the lama temples and the palace of the dalal lama, where solid treasures have accumulated for eenturlea. , " rights that could be protected by your tribunal. ; . - , ."To be perfectly fair to you. I ought to say that you expressly excepted from the effect of your decision any publica tion undsr similar circumstances which was In its nature libelous. It necessar ily follows, therefore, when you now say that you reserve the Vlghf not to ba photographed with your hands In your pockets or in other comfortable attitudea, either that you sre asserting a right for yourself and your family which you are unwilling to accord to litigants before your court or else that there la aomethlng In the attitude sug gested of such a nature that a repro duction of It with photographic exact ness would be necessarily libelous. It' Is not apparent bow your likeness In the attitude suggested could be libel ous, at leaat, not as long as you kept your hands in your own pockets.- "I know of no reason why you or your family have any rights of the na ture suggested which do not equally be long to me. - Indeed, as between us, 1 submit thst I waa much more entitled to protection than you. I was a poor girt, making my living by my dally efforts, and never had oourted publicity In any manner. I had never appeared before the public In any capacity nor solicited any' favor at lta hands. You, on the other hand, are a candidate for the highest office In. the gift of the people of the -United States, and that' fact makes you a legitimate center of public Interest. . ... jr-r.-- "Tour candidacy is something more then merely voluntary, and. It may fairly be said that you have Invited the ourlostty which we have both found to be somewhat annoying. "To thle extent at least it would seem to me that the right which you denied me, but which you now assert for yourself, was stronger in my case than yours." , Old Times Beoalled. . 'From New Orleans Times-Democrat Tha American, sightseeing in the FIJI Islands, came upon a young savage en gaged In tattooing the picture of a fish on hts father's back. Mis eyes filled with teara. "What moves you aof Inquired hie companion. . . "It remlnda ma of the time when my old man would let ma draw on him alsoP'rwss his reply. r - , - . ' Jlest Tou Forges. ' ', - From the Buffalo Expreas.- i'"" Be beach engagements -are frangible things. Counterfeit bonds that bring genulns rings . A pledge lightly spoken. Conveniently broken. Leaving no heartaches, no scars, and no - Bttnga, 1 ' r "- v - . ' , Oregon Sidelights Brlok clay baa been found near Bend. ' ' , Ths new Long Crook Sunday School' lis ' prospering. , V Orchard landamear La Grande Ball for 1400 an aore. , . Eating green apples caused tha dealV of an Athena boy. . . Oregon summer resorts are also mak ing bay while the sun shines. . - Probably 110.000 sheep are ranging In." the mountains aurroundnlg, Prairie City. A telephone line will be built from Pine to Homestead, Baker oouaty, 1 mllea. ' -v Astoria has ' had its first holdup for several years, according to the Budget."". Thla is strange. If true. . ? "Peer hunting parties are meeting with ' suocess on the headwaters of Billy creek. . Men named Billy are moat lucky . , ' Astoria 'has passed an ordinance' In tended to keep out itinerant merchants.' The borne merchants are good enough, , " -. The abandoned little baby, found, nearly dead, in Eugene last week, haa been adopted, and will have a good home. The quality of whoa in .. Umatilla county, while good, is 'not as good as It waa. last year, when it was par excel lenoe. . . .,' 1 -Henry Koepke, a Umatilla county far mer, will build a 1 10,000 country resi dence, probably the beet ona In ghat eounty. .-.''-v - It has been suggested that the cause, of the recent cloudbursts in Grant and Crook counties waa their vote laat' June against local option. ' A cave with five large chambers and unknown quantities of clear lc haa been newly discovered In the northern ' edge of aka county. Kelleher City correspondence of Rosa burg Reviewt Mr. W. A. Roberts had a alight attack of mlasmatlo fever during the week, but has recovered. The big logdrlve, containing many millions f feet for the Oregon City pulp mills, ' passed Albany Tuesday, fairly filling tha surface of the river. Shooting frogs is a new sport In east ern Oregon. One man the other day se cured S4alre of legs, enough for a meal for 10 persons. Will we next have a law, protecting frogs f . .,,, 'i . A Pendleton man has In use a chair made in Lthn county Tor his father. James' Blakeley, Just 66 years ago, and ' It will be serviceable for 150 yeara yet Look out for Brother Hlmes. , - At the dedication 'Of the new Metho dist church at Springfield. Sunday, the collection amounted- to over 1400, com pletely clearing the church from In- . debtednesa. That is the way to star. , '' A good wagon road across the Cas cade, froprthe Bantlam to the foothills lit" Crook county would be a good thing for Marion county ln particular, and other pants of ths state in a less de gree. ' i ;. A Clatsop county man received during the month of June Ills from the sals of butter fat from til cows, and the mllki fed to hog was worth $10, besides what -the' family used. ' The right kind of dairying paya. Astoria Budget; Tha two youngtst fishermen on ths Columbia . river are Henry Poukkula and Anselm Guslapon, who ars each 14 yeara of age and using' a regular fish boat are working' for tha Packers' association and havs already over 1100 to their credit They take the same chances as ths - other fishermen ! and give' promise by another aeaaon of developing into experts. "Bootlegging" la practiced on a large seals In some of the Blue mountain re sorts, but nothing Is don about it be cause there is no deputy United States marshal in i that port of the Btats to make complaints or arreeta. Pendleton people think they are entitled to a dep uty marshal, aa' of yore. ; There has been an epidemic of divorce cases In Umatilla county, lately, and some people who would not otherwise have thought of auch a thing are hunt ing up grounds for a divorce merely be- ' cause they think it is fashionable, and they want to get their names in. the pa-apers, the same as ' some Of their neighbors have done. ' ' All the varieties of fruit around Ash land have ripened from a week to 10 days earlier than ususl, and the crops all came In more nearly together, mak ing their stay In market .shorter than In former years. The Early Alexander peaches havs come and gone; all other varstles promise a . banner yield, the trees being heavily loaded'wlth fruit A great number of boxes of blackberries are now being shipped The Dalles Tlmee-Mountalneor: Chief Ranger Anderson came in yesterday from a tour of the Cascade forest re serve. Mr. Anderson said Je and the other, rangers had been kept busy ths pant two weeks fighting fire, but had been successful thus far In keeping the flames within bounds. Firs starts from apparently unknown causes in the moun tains and spreads with great rapidity, everything being- perfectly dry. Had It not been for the presenos of ths rangers In the mountains, Mr. Anderson Is of ths opinion thst several large forest fires would . have occurred. t , j AX AOBZBABLB BBFABTVBB." ' ; From the Heppner Ossette. The grasshoppers have - taken their flight Last Tuesday all became possessed of the same notion and they -sought a high plsne in the upper air and druted In a southwesterly direc tion, which. If continued, will take them ' Into California. Now we don't wish California any harm, but they are a guest which we are glad to dispense with here, and If tnay should happen to settle In a typical California poultry dis trict that a sort of a farmer will be strictly In tha swim. Thsrs are plenty. Billions of them passed. - In the lower altitudes their flight was erratic, but away up. It eould be seen they all took the same direction without the varia tion f a point. ...is may be explained by the lower ones being Just In the ret of rising, and aa they gain tha elevation ' desired they will beoome a part of the vast army of insects that bava elected' to leave thla part of the country. Whether they-have a choice of direction or not we do not know. It la more prob able they, are borne by tha wind, in which case it la possible for them to be, carried out to aoa and reach a watery . r Vy- .1 :
