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, -A Page 'of v lis Journal': MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1904. i PORTLAND. OREGON. Editorial ! THE GREOQN DAI L,Y . AN I . S. JACKSOI Published .very evening (excepe Sunday, .nd.ery "A" OFFICIAL. PAPER OF TUB CITV OP NO IMPEDIMENT TO JAPANESE CON SIGNMENTS. WITH the Vladivostok squadron scattered and Russl practically driven from the sea. the auction of what constitutes contraband of war suddenly loses a good deal of the absorbing Jt.ter.at -which recently attache to It In the public mind.. It was matter of a food dl of concern to Portland shippers while the Rusalan squadron waa at large, to prey upon commerce, mingly. unhampered by the Japanese cruisers. Now U may wait for Battlement In the usual courser of events. But the cauae of tha Inaction i now. explained. The Japanese knew that If they waited long " enough the Port Arthur squadron would be forced out pi the harbor as the land troop tightened the-cordon about fhat fated town. On the- theory that. bird In the hand waa worth two In the bush they doggedly ( kept up1 their vigil, whfch was finally rewarded by a great' victory.- Then attention waa turned to tha Vladl . voetolc squadron, Which waa practically annihilated, leaving the ocean free to neutral commerce as If was before the war opened. , . - ' Such being tha ca, on vf tha Immediate effects of tha news ahould be that the Portland Aatatlo com ' pany. now'that It find Itself In a position to aafely do business, should Immediately ralee lta embargo against consignments to Japanese ports and begin at one to do business atJh old stand and In tha old way. It la -seldom that question rnorer fortunately settle Itself than thia ha done. The risk of doing business, here tofore, pronounced prohibitive, having now vanished" with th Vladivostok fleet. w shall ipacliOJicar that JPort- land foreign trad may at once resum lta regular course. PROPOSED FOREST 'RESERVES ABAN ' . DONED. , THE RESTORATION of larg amount of publio lands In r northeastern Oregon that had been withdrawn for . forest reserve purposes, which action, It Is reported, ha been decided upon by the . forestry , bureau, 1 good new for the people of that tiart nf nron. Now if the government will take similar action with regard to tb ' reserve in southwestern Oregon, the also be rendered happy all but the timber-land speculators, and perhap a few other. It Is conceded on all hand that the government's for est reserve policy 1 a good one. If pursued with moder. atlort, care, good Judgment, and not railroad corporation 'and landgrabber. But that the policy ha not been thus pursued la to anyone familiar with the section mentioned, and with soma other" where great reserve have been created, or the creation of which I threatened. The policy has apparently been" pursued recklessly and fg noranUy, and It 1 difficult to believe that It has not also been pursued corruptly, and with thar" people at large, " and to Injur such land In particular, at the behest and for the benefit of a few great coporaflons, and of ayndicates of lieu land sharks. Nor la. It easy to suppoa that the department having the business In charge has - Just ascertained these- facta. If so," It must plead guilty to remarkaBIeIgnoraxice and 'gross rnccTOpetenceV"evehex ' ceedlng those faults in Binger Hermann, a a defense to his action In unlawfully acquiring thou Bands of acres of land. But In a responsible public official such Ignorance 1 morally equivalent to a great 1 crime agalnat the people. .- , However, let us say no mora at phase'' of the subject, and congratulate ourselves upon either a change of heart, or an enlightenment of .the ; - head In the forestry bureau of the Interior department at "Washington. - Thia decision will be of much value to the state,' a would a sjmllar on to other, proposed re- . serve, or portions of them. By . the way, it Is stated that this action waa taken at the urgent 'representation . and forceful plea of, ' Governor Chamberlain. It .will be.' remembered that during the campaign two year ago last spring the Portland morning paper predicted various terrible and damaging and humiliating consequences to the people of Oregon If Mr. Chamberlain should .at various 'time since then, notably palgn last spring, It ha walllngly deplored hla election a something very Injurious or regrettable; but he' seems to have been doing om earnest and. In thi case at least, effective work, for which he la entitled to full , credit ' AN INSUFFICIENT EXPLANATION. ' rTHE GENERAL MANAGER of I . Grande railroad, on which. In . rlble accident, resulting In of persona, occurred last week, say I In no way responsible for the wreck, and make this explanation: "It waa one! of those unavoidable accident which la liable, to occur on any road when a flood of that kind which waahed out our bridge occurs." Ha further stated that the bridge "waa subjected to the regular. Inspection oonrnT mo mam raxx atzmo. Ooloael Baeoa Says jVraffc Klder Chief Waa Hot Bven Within Sight. . From the New Tork American. Col. Alexander B. Bacon, former Re publican member of assembly from Kings, West Point graduate, lawyer and military writer, attacks President Rooae- j velt under the title: "Do the American1 People Love a Woolly Horse V In a I special Issue of the Army and Navy Critic. ' The colonel, who until recently haa uniformly eupported Republican candi dates for office, declare the battle of San Juan to have been "gold brick," th purpose being to show that Roose velt "worked"' that battle for more glory than Kacon beUevea Ji la entitled to. Referring to the battle of Ban Juan on July 1, ,1181. Colonel Baoon says: Having examined, under oath.about one hundred participants In the Ban Juan engagement and having In my poa seaelon the stenographer's transcript of their testimony. I am -prepared to Bay that Colonel Roosevelt was not In a posi tion to see the Spaniards on July 1, 'J(ll." - This Is In direct contradiction of Col unel Rrtosevelt's clalnt, made in his book. The Rough Riders" (pages 13ft-lSt). that be killed a (Spaniard at a distance of 10 fert by shooting him In the back as ha waa running away. This recording of the killing. Colonel ruron esns. Is unique In military biography. All the other soldlere. from the days of Caeaar down, have been glad ".7 , i - . INDEPENDENT mew a r r PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. of the company's. bridge, superintendents and was as safe aa any bridge on the Denver at Rio Grande, or any other roadi" and that "no bridge could have withstood the torrent that destroyed thia. one. The underbenta of the bridge were knocked out by the washed-out county bridge, thereby leaving no supports." Then people ahould streams on bridges, and especially on the Denver A Rio Grande, whose bridgea are all aa likely to be swept away at. any time aa thia one Waa, except uch travel 1 Im peratively neceasary; their wills, say their prayers, bid sorrowful adieu to their families leaving them at home and get their I'ves, Well Insured, before; starting. , . . '. Why did not the rent before recklessly plunging Into It T Should not a train full of paaaengera have been halted at such a dangerous place? If It be Impossible to build bridges that will withstand torrents, should not the railroad company Invariably ascertain whether the bridge la there, and supported, whenever torrent I raging, If hot on every approach to a bridge of this - character 7 And can no bridge be. constructed by a great railway company that , will withstand the assault of a- waahed out county bridge; and If so, Is not this company, know ing that th Irresistible county bridge Was above, have used extraordinary precaution at thia place and time T These are aome general manager of will not be fully statement.. The fact Is that of passengers In accidents" are on ... WHY THEY WANT THE, PORTAGE ROAD. SUPPOSE we say that th distance from Lewlston to Rlparta 1 SO miles, and the distance- from Rlparta to Portland 1 284 miles, making- In all. 184. with a water level and no mountain grade.' And suppose we Junction on the Northern Pacific Is 138 miles, and from Immense proposed people there will railroad' people and ing Portland are northern competitor. ' Tet the rate in one direction are precisely th same as th rates' In the other. . In the- interest of Interior of the state a fact apparent year. Let It be els be don in the fell ' Intent to rob actual settler on the other hand, road," five-eighths which he set up other speedily. And, furthermore, present about this anybody's business railroads. . (' -v actions ha ' state troop. be elected; and during the cam' the- Denver & Rio Colorado, the ter the death Of scores that thar company to forget that they killed a fellow man. but Colonel Roosevelt aays Colonel Ba con, Is glad to remember, and for fear the- act will be forgotten, erabalma It In cold type, The charge of the Rough Rldera up Kettle hill. Colonel Baoon maintains, waa a piece of mock heroics, as there never had been a Spanish soldier on Kettle hill during the battle. Colonel Bacon makes an extract from the report of Inspector-General Reade, U. B. A., In endeavoring to prove that Colonel Roosevelt was willing to throw up the campaign and accept any terms that the Spaniards might make while the American forces were lying before Santiago. The Reade report says that Colonel Rooaevelt made this statement to the Inspector-general: : . "Twent-flve per cent of my Rough Riders can't earry a pall of water from th creek -to- the trenches: No, man can decry me or my regiment but-we must accede to the next proposition from the enemy." "This amailng demand. Says Colonel Baron, ."shows that Colonel Roosevelt was ready to let the Spaniards off easily because he was' tired and wanted to go home. : " ' : "The Seventy-first regiment which did not escape the unsparing criticism of Colonel Roosevelt after the war, had at the same time that Colonel Rooaevelt made his- I-want-to-go-home plea, more than 10 per cent of lta men in the hos pital,, yet Its colonel did not sak to be taken home nor suggest easy terms for the enemy. Colonel Roosevelt waa the JOURNAL d. n. . JNO. P. CARROU. PORTLAND not travel on rallroada that cross and then traveler should make railroad officials know about the tor -'question .which will be put to the the Denver A Rio Grande, and they and satisfactorily answered by his railroads are too reckless of th lives thia country. Most of the "unavoidable the contrary avoidable accident. ' i w say that the distance from Lewlston to Marshall Marshall Junction to Tacoma is 87, both with very heavy grade, a total of 514 miles. - These two sets of facts placed side by side demonstrate beyond th pos sibility of doubt that all the natural advantage In reach with th O. R. ft N. a against its Under such circumstance aa these i the1 people of - the argue that if the natural Impedimenta for the eight and a half miles below Celllo were removed, traffic would naturally flow by the water level route. When It Is said that a portage road there can accom plish nothing and that th only hop of relief would com from a ship canal, they say that the canal take so long to build the ' expected relief could not com for built, of course, but let something meantime. ; While a portage railroad seems an -Insignificant factor In th enterprise and while Is claimed for It that It wilV, accomplish none of the things 'expected of It, they say they are willing to take that chance.' ' If It will do nothing, then there la no good reason why anybody ahould be opposed to It. On theyrecalL that when. the little portage of a mil In length, waa -built around th cascades two results followed,-on immediately and the First, freight rates were at once re duced and, second, th appropriation for th locks cam with such regularity that the work waa soon finished. th result of It all was that instead of being hurt by It, traffic waa In creased all along thar line, thus demonstrating that the work really ' helped everybody interested, including the1 . WEST POINT CADETS FOR THE FAIR. .-'''.' A VERT ATTRACTIVE! -FEATURE to most sxpo been th encampment of federal and But the most attractive of all mill tary features at any of the recent expositions ha been the encampment of the Wee t Point cadet. They have proven of extraordinary Interest to every , visitor. If they have been secured by - other expositions it 1 only reasonable to suppose that they can be secured for. the Portland fair. If they can be', nothing should be left undone to secure as early aa possible ' the necessary official permission so that they may be assigned to come here next summer. Bo far aa th cadets themselves are concerned, no better trip could possibly be made. Relatively few of them have crossed the continent. Most of them have been brought up under eastern traditions and therefor have little first hand knowledge of. the great country lying west of the Alleghenles and th Rockies. A trip across th continent would give them their first adequate Idea of th great country for whose defense they are being trained.' It would prove to them not only a matter of education but a lesson in patriotism such a they could not otherwise secure. ' They would return with a. better ap preciation of , the --great country which stretches .from ocean to ocean and which with the reawakening In the orient will speedily and -enormously grow In Importance. only officially recorded quitter at San tiago;" The capture of Agulnaldo by General Fuoston comes In for much of Colonel Bacon's invective. He quotes from many books on military law In an effort to prove tha,t General' Funston violated the lawa of war In dressing his men In ths enemy's uniform. After expending thou sands of words on this phase of the case. Colonel. Baoon denies that, the capture was bona fide and Insists that Funston's expedition was prearranged by Agulnaldo. Colonel Bacon cltea one of his. clients who had been In the gov ernment employ in the Philippine aa Baying that native who had . accom panied Funston had told him that Agul naldo had arranged for the expedition. rossxB-Y rooarnraojr.' From the Weston Leader. There are those In- Weston who voted against the. local option law and who oppose It from principle, not for profit, who may vote for Prohibition this fall. Local conditions here may Justify this change of base. Those who condemn tha council for Its commendable efforts In the direction of decency and morality, are making Prohibition voters, .V Bare Chanee. ' ' From the Chicago Tribune, i '1 see old Hunks is taking. an Inter est In politics this year.- What haa got Into himr -He says this will probably be the only opportunity In a lifetime to vote without helping . to boost some Ohio man." ,. ' ; Small Change j Tolstoi sent no congratulations. ' Parker' has already had to begin to deny reports. , . The Russian naval 'commanders are improving can run faster. Th old over-confidence scar will be duly worked y the campaign fat-friers, a usual The Industry of slaughtering railway passenger la never tied up by a atrlke or otherwise. , Are Mr. Bryan's feelings about Judge Parker's speech of 'acceptance too deep for utterance? The meeting of the mining congress will b snother big event for Portland, and for tha fair. , . It must tak' an enthuataatle . evan gelist to keep up revival meetings at this time of year. , The farmer can sell his wheat at a good, profitable price, whether it la contraband or not., The caar feela so good over that boy that he may change hi opinion on th contraband subject Antl-gambllng'. reform ha not pro gressed far enough yet to stop all .bet ting on horse races, v . v ' Tet all the red-headed men may not vote for Parker. Rooaevelt'a hair la not of an Ethiopian h.u , , Secretary Morton may have to Invite Abdul Harald over to ride on an Amer ican Sunday excursion train. Some of those stockyards strikers strike In entirely the wrong way: that Is when they assault other men. When you hear talk about men ever 10 being no good any longer, point to Candidate Davis and hla pocketbook. Still, some-mothers' would rather her wandeekig boy ahould be elsewhere than In a model consecrated saloon. Why, eertainly, Portland la a good mining town at least there are lot of gold and silver and brass, too In It. If that Infant Alexis knew what a Ufa he was born to. If he lives to grow up, he might take an overdose of pare goric. ' .--... The Inhabitants of Port. Arthur are also among the Innocent .-bystander who cannot take themselves off out of danger. - Great Britain aays It will retire from Tibet, but this Is supposed to be said in a Muscovite sense will retire If anven out ... The old .men and the young women and girls seem to be trying to furnish the newspapers with sensational stories these day Doubtless the esartna la a happier woman than aha haa been In many years, but there are plenty of happier wmen than she -v , , ' President Roosevelt will make no campaign speeches. But this may not be proof that he think he ha already talked too much. ' Tt 1 'Impossible to render a eomplete opinion on Bishop Potter's model saloon aa long aa there ia no description of the f H. lunch f urnlahtul- " Abdul Hamld must take Into consid eration that thia la a campaign year over here, and the administration la running for re-eleotion. tTh advent of young Alexis waa un doubtedly a great event. In Russia, but the event may not change future his tory as much as the osar Imagine. The betting In Wall street Is 10 to T in Roosevelt's 'favor, v But It la very early In the campaign yet, and ' many subscriptions are still to be obtained. He ta only Mr. Parker now, though with roost persons a man once a judge ia always "Judge." Indeed, some people persist In judg-lng lawyers of all sorts. down to those of the seventeenth de gree. Noting the report of so many miss ing people from Portland lately, . the Corral Us Tlmea aaks: "Why not get small boy to look under the .houses T" But none of these missing people were Joshua or apostles. , , . Near Casadero are seven prune or chards, five being 'owned by democrats or populists, while two are th property of republicans. These two will this year yield a bountiful crop, while the other five will yield very little, thus furnish ing another convincing proof of repub lican prosperity and democratic disas ter. jafajts HiUL-ASa srroozss. From th Kansas City Sta. The war in the far eaat moves on, and every day adda to the amasement of the . world that suc cess should almost continuously attend the banner of the Japanese. There baa not been a single decisive victory on the Russian aide. Every point gained by the crar's aommandera ha - been comparatively inconsequential and of no permanent value. On the other nana, the Japanese move forward agalnat the enemy, taking one strong position sfter another, and more and more confining and hedging about the forces of Kuro patkln, cutting oft lines of communica tion and restricting the avenues of escape. The moat sanguine Japaneae sympathiser would scarcely have out lined a war program so favorable to the cause of hi preference. The Jap anese losses have been heavy In some instances, but In every such Instance the gains, from the war standpoint have been substantial. ,. . . anntsmxD . raorsAm itutju From Publio Opinion. One hundred thousand la not an ex- feslve estimate of the number of men now Idle in various parte of the coun try as a consequence of strikes. The strike In the packing industry Involves somewhere near half thia number, the number of striking cotton mill oper atives Increases the total to Ti.000, and a dosen or more labor ' disputes hav thrown at least 11,000 employe out of work-in other Industries, The M beef strike, eentertng at Chicago, vary quickly reached che disorderly, stage, there being almost dally outbreaka of violence. Intimidation . and rioting which th police do not eeeme able to suppress. Nor Is the outlook Improved by such sctlons .on the part of the au thoritlee aa the unjustifiable arree of strike leaders while rioters usually es cape before the police arrive. August H In the morning some men were sent to examine the cause 'of a large smoke from the northwest which seemed to Indicate that aome Indiana were near; but they found that a small party, who had" lately passed that way had left some tress burning, and that the wind from that quarter blew th smoke directly toward u Our camp lite about three miles northeast from the old Maha village, and Is In latitude 41 degrees, IS minutes, 41 seconds. The accounts' we have had of th effeor FRENCH Llbk GAMBLING RESORT From th Chicago Keoord-HersJd. French Lick Springs,' Ind. Now that Thomas Taggart president of th French Lick Springs hotel company, has become a national character politically, national attention la being directed to the minia ture Monte Carlo that Is being oondnotod here on the grounds and under the pro tection of the hotel company. The caslnoa here and In West Baden are the two widest open" -gambling house la the state. They are also the most elaborately equipped and elegantly appointed places in the middle west In point of magnificence the resort here leads. Owing to the absolute Immunity from molestation by the authorities, the promoter and managers of the French Lick casino have been enabled with safe ty to Invest a large sura In sumptuous appointment Few gambling adjunots of many European spa are more hand somely or expensively furnished than the gambling, house here. The present French Lick hotel Is of recent construction. It was built by the company bearing, that' name, this com pany being reorganised Just before the hotel waa built . It own an Immense tract of land her, together with ell th other building and Improvements on this land. The owner of the majority of the bonds of the French Lick com pany Is the Monon railroad, which has th only line of railway running to the springs. When the present company was organ ised Mr. Taggart was chosen president and Is th general manager of the prop erty. Hla selection wa prompted by hla wide personal popularity in Indiana ana the middle west Although he may be classed aa a profeaslonal politician be developed business traits of a high order. The majority owners or tns rrencn xacs company believed that the name of Tag gart at the head of the enterprise would attract patronage and at th same time insure a good business management for the enterprise. .They are said to have had their calculations entirely supported by subsequent developments. It 1 ex pected that this reeortvwlll now become the established Democratic rendeseoua of the state, and. to degree, of the country, alnoe the appointment of Mr. Taggart to the national chairmanship. Mr. Taggart spends most of ,is time when not occupied with politic here. ' When the ' company was organised something more than two years ago, the question of allowing gambling on the property was discussed. At West Baden, a mile away, open gambling on a large scale- had been tarried on for years; end It waa decided by the French Lick man agement that similar policy should be pursued on Its reservation. There was practically but onsr'oondltldn laid down and that was that tne game anouia n run "on the square." The building used ss a gambling house waa formerly a bottling house, but a new bottling house waa built In th rear of the hotel and the old one converted to th. nmm rt tha nmiuliri. It la a larae frame building, about 100 feet from the hotel. The lower story Is devoted to bow Una:, billiards and slot machine, Th gambling house proper occupies the second story of the casino. It is under the direction of A. H. Brown, the lessee of the building. Brown Is gambler .who cam from Michigan and who haa a monopoly of all the gambling rights In French Lick. A wide plaasa extends serosa the entire front ef the building on both floor Juet Inside this on the second floor Is a reception and Jounglng-room, also extending across the butldtnx. The space In tne rear or tne building corresponding with the reoep- t Ion-room In the front part is aivtaeo into seml-prlvat club-rooms for card nmea. Tha entire SDao Deiween mese The entire space between tnese sections -la divided, by a partition mn - nlng the length of it Into two lo.ig rooms, th on on tne ngnr. as me ouuu Ing la entered being devoted to stocks and grain and tb horse, and th one to the left to th Dig "Denaing- game a rhicaa-o firm maintains the broker age office and one-half of one wall Is occuoled bv the Quotations blackboard. Next to this blackboard ia the one used for race betting. When the Western Union Telegraph company some -months ago abolished Its ran betting service the pool-room here was sbandoned until special ssrvloe oould be secured. Arrangements for this service are now being made and th files of "dope" are being kept up-to-date in anticipation of the reopening. In the other - large room are the banking games faro, roulette, the "horse" game and other of similar kind. Th apps ratus, or layouta ar of th most, ex pensive mak The rooms are all finished la mahogany and the furniture 1 of th same material, upholatered In leather. The carpete are of deep velvet and the hangings rich in texture. No detail of eomplete and sumptuous appointment is run It tad from th casino. At the head of the stairs, from' th soTT-xmv ouoM From the Olendal News. A boy who was employed at on of the mines on Mt Reuben, while in the pow der house that contained 1,150 pounds of dynamite, dropped a lighted candle Into an open box of the explosive on Wednesday evening. Horrified at the probable consequences, the-boy . rushed out of the magaslna, shouting "fir in the powder. house," t Engineer Fred Oaedecke ran to' .the socoe, where he found fir, burning In th sawdust packing around an open box of dynamite. He tried to put out the bias with hi bare hands, but wss unsbls to do so; then he ran to th en gine room, got a pll of Water, returned to the powder magaslne and subdued the flame which, by that time were wrapping - themselves about - the dyna mite. When at the engine room he was csutloned not to go back to the. powder house or he would b "blown to pleoea," "If I don't go back ths re and put out that fire- every man on thia mountain will . be blown to pieces within mln nte." waa his reply. H went and by that act of herolam he doubtleaa saved the life or averted th maiming of every man at the mine, end th. destruction of of amallpoB upon that nation are moat distressing: tt is not known In what way it was first communicated to them, though probably b aome war party. They had been a military and powerful people, but when these warrlora law their strength waatlng before a malady which they could not resist their frenzy waa extreme; they burnt their village, and many Of them put to death their wives and children to save them from so cruel an affliction, and that all might go together to some better country. bowling and billiard rooms to the gam bling rooms upstair and at the oaicony entranoe to the 'second floor, are signs prohibiting minors from entering .the place. During the day the games are not well patronises, as a ruie. ana a eoupie of roulette layout are generally suffi cient to accommodate the player, mis day-time play 'might be properly termed family play. - A majority of the players are women and groups 'of husbands; wive and daughters are more frequently een during the daylight hour In the casino than are the men guest of the hotel. v j Aside from the one fact that the place la gambling house, there Is nothing In the manner In which It la conducted that would preclude the presence of women at any time. No Intoxicating liquors are served. on the grounds ol the company, and the frequenters of the casino are seldom talkative In the place, and never bolsteroua Quests-who do not gamble loiter Into the casino to watch, the play, a they would any of th other sights of the resort None except guest of thej hotel are allowed the freedom or the casino and tables, and thia rule. Is so thoroughly established that a "native" seldom makes any attempt to frequent the- plaoe. . - ' . After supper the heavy play of the place begin Then the men with money take their turn at th table and the "real" gambling begins. There are many tales afloat - her concerning the heavy winnings and losses of some of the gueets, for many of ' them are men known at their homes aa plungers, and whose purse can' stand th strain of th tables at th estern and Kuropean spas. All of the gambling except oc casional .poker, bridge and stud games in the club-room Is entirely publio. All doors are wide open and th rattle of the ball In the wheel-and the shuffling of checks can be heard . through open Windows on the hotel plassa. Open gambling on a big scale Is eld In the valley In which the celebrated health springs flow. French Lick is in French Lick township. Orange county. The county seat Is Paoll, 10 miles from here. The oounty administration Is Re publican, but like - former oounty ad ministrations, Is complacent on the sub ject of the gambling at the spring it Is traditional In "the valley." About a year ago the proaeoutlng -attorney for thia . Judicial district a young mad named Hudson, started war on the gam bling at French Lick and Weat Baden, but' had hardly begun before. he. waa locked lip la an insane asylum, where he now la. . The preaent county offi cials say that his mind was affected be fore he started hla antl-gambllng cam paign and leave tt to be Inferred that had It. not been be would not have start ed the light - Sheriff E. R. Laahbrooka, from a seat In front of the Paoll livery stable, discussed the subject thus: "They always have gambled down there and the people of Orange county have not objected as long as th natlvea of th county were kept out of the ca sino When I went into office (I am now serving my second term) I had a talk with the hotel people and told them that they must not allow the na tlvea to frequent the gambling houaes and they agreed to this. "I have watched the situation down there and they have kept their word. Tou never see anybody but hotel guests gambling at th springs. - As long they run the thing this way there is no objection on the part of the people of Orange county that I have ever heard of. They- feel that aa long aa everything Is orderly there and the county people are not affected In any way by the gambling, it Is little of their business. They have i ajwava iin, nowmr, uuu m gam- bling be confined to the guests at the hotel Besides tnis, tne proprietors or those hotels down there nave apent about 11,500,000, 1 guess, in the im provement' They have mad th fin est market In the world for the farmers In thia oounty, and naturally th people of Orange county feel friendly on that account Gambling haa always been run there by common consent of the people for the reasons I have given. Prosecut ing Attorney Hudson started to take some action In the matter, but It never came to anything because he waa off mentally at th time and before. When they sent him to the asylum the gov ernor appointed a man In his place, but Hudson's fight waa dropped." Thorns Taggart, who largely directs the policy of the company of whloh he la president is known In his state as a "liberal" man In such matters aa gam bling. During hla three administra tion ss mayor of Indianapolis he kept the gambler under eontrol wlthotft having an open fight with them nor en tering Into any treaty with them. Under hla administration gambling room were operated la Indianapolis, but they were suppressed soon after the preaent city administration took the rein - - thoussnds of dollars worth of property, There are good men for every .emer gency. Oaedecke was" tried and found not wanting. nooa Tm rwiTrjrok From the World's Fair Bulletin. John A. Shields, ths little man who holds a big world's record .by virtue of his speed performanoe upon th type writer, continue to be an attraction at a typewriter-ln th -Palace- of Liberal Art at the world's fair. Mr. Shields, whose home Is In Holton, Kan., won the title ef World's champion typewriter by writing 110H words In 01 second Since eoming to the exposition his friends have continually urged him to try to exceed even thia speed, and In recent trial ha succeeded la writing 141 words, or 1,0(1 letters. In (0 seconds. The test matter which he wrote con tained every character upon the ma ohine, and also contained the letters of the alphabet In regular order. In mak ing the record Mr. Shields, wss blind folded, writing entirely from memory. The trial waa witnessed by a committee of St Louis men connected with the typewriter trade. Oregon Sidelights Southern Oregon apple crops are ex cellent , . , , ' Fi rhanda are very soaro around Lake. . Sllvi Still It can be asserted ' that crops never fall in Oregon. , . A new box and shook factory at North Bend will employ 100 men. - - . The experiment of making brick out ' of Coos bay sand la succeeding, '. X Umatilla oounty man haa sued a neighbor for 1100 for hilling th farm er's dog. , , , "v " ' ' Albany may also have a linen factory, a reminder of the time when It had a flax mill. ; ' " - . Th best manner of peeking apples I a problem being considered In the Hood River valley. -.. ' A ' Ferndale ma killed a bear whoa hide weighed SO pounds. He did not "heft", -the -bear.- ,. '. . i ..- V. Eight residents of Drain are erecting . substantial bouses, and ..several other oontemplat doing so. ' ' Chicago eapltallat .who have - been looking over Harney county are pleased with It and may return. , ... ' .'....,.'.. '' The Delia Itemlser Is ably urging the building of road into th, big .timber districts of Polk county. - A fin waterworks plant to supply' St Helens and Houlton wtth water is In ours of rapid construction. A fish ladder will be constructed at Kelleher City, so that salmon can asoend to the headwater of Billy creek. - A-Cottg-rrov-man-whllhuhtln -deer, came ppon a family of wildcats, and by quick action shot both th adult' cats. .-. A forest fir that came near being d ' e tractive waa started In Hood River . valley by person burning a yellow Jacket' neat ,-- It Is estimated thst there re S.0 campere along the Tillamook beaohe. . from Nehalem to Oceaa Park, about 700 being at Netarta. . . . The Woodburn school - district Is broke, not having money to pay Inter est due on bonds, but will work out ot It financial difficulty, ot course, - A Gervals saloon man haa been sued for 1700, ' double the amount that a . Woodburn youth claim to hv lost gambling In the saloon, , An Irrigation meeting at Ontario was Attended by over 000 people, and a water works association was formed. They r llv folk up tber. Jackson county people are Indignant over the fish law. whloh they say ope rates to prevent salmon from getting up Rogue river Into that oounty. ... . t . . . Aa Albany man waa nearly choked to death on a email piece of beef, yet It does not necessarily follow that beef up there la tougher than elsewhere. ; -. -Woodburn Is afflicted with a firebug, and the Independent suggests that If he la caught he will be summarily disposed of without T resouTto-thcourts3.l. Arlington Is not enthusiasts over th mw.m1 m!1A front that town tA Condon, but It may not be Injured a much as some lmsglne, or rnaeeay m tne end, t 1L , , A new townsifs was laid out on th John Day river one moonlight -night, lately. As the mercury has been up to 110 In the shade there It Is supposed that the new town will be a hot one In the future. , " Arrangements have been completed for sn automobile line from Crosakeys to Prinevtlle and Bend, and construction of an eight-foot track will begin at once. The line will be la operation within ninety ' days. -. , ' ." , A small 10-year old boy 'who wf caught robbing a residence at Hlllsboro was nearly scared to death by being temporarily ahoved Into an Iron cage ot the oounty . Jail, and he may be good hereafter In consequence. , According to the Drain Nonpareil, th number of graduates from the normal ' school there for the past 11 years have been as follows: 1804, IS; 188S, SB; 1S9, 10; 1807, 11; 1808. 11; 1880. 11; 1000. 4; 1801. ; 1W1. 4; 1101, 1; 1804, 1. Which figures. If correct, suggest that the state Is not getting Its money worth up there.. - axTurn or- min to lit. From th New Tork Olob. . The two rlvsl organisations of paint era, whoee quarrel brought, about th latest- subway strike, have now Joined handa to extend the strike not only to all branches of work in the subway, but to the entire building trade of the city. It will be remembered that one of thee organisations waa under formal agree ment with the subway contractors to do the painting on the structure. . A rival organisation demanded half th ' work. Mr. McDonald refuaed the de mand In the Interest of the organlsa-' tlon holding the contract Then the rival organisation ordered a strike, I and now the organisation Whose Interest Mr. McDonald waa upholding Joins with ts rival against him, and unite with It -In sn effort to arrest isll the building ' operations in th city. . Thia cornea very close to sheer lunacy. Luckily the subway work la so nearly completed that all that remains to be done- can be accomplished without the aid of the striking unions. But could there be greater folly than to throw thouaanda of men out of employment Indefinitely for such a reason as thlsT It seems incredible that the final step In It should be taken .today aa threatened;- i - ' r ' " -'" nori rrrsQATOBT to VAjiaoxra. From the Corvallls Oasett. - Caeper Durst, an old realdent of thia. county, who left -here end went to live in Oklahoma, la now arranging to return with hla family to old Benton. Mr. Durst expeots to leave Oklahoma about the ltth of thia month, and will make a ahort visit to his parents' home In Crabtree, while looking up a location In this oounty. In speaking of his present home, Mr. Durst saya: - - ' r "We carft expreaa our Joy of being able to come back to Oregon sgaln after living here In Oklahoma a year. We did not have rain from the 10th day of October till tha 18th day of April, and heavy wfnds all winter, or rather ssnd- . storms. If a great many of those dis satisfied people In Oregon could live through one such, winter here, they would go back toi Oregon satisfied." . :- :'.:'. ' .':-,,' .J