The Oregon daily journal., October 19, 1905, Image 4

PORTLAND. OREGON.
THE -OREGON DA I L y
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: Pablished every evening ( except Sunday) and every Sunday v morning at"
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PORTLAND AND THE UPPER COUNTRY.
THE TRIP OF ABOUT fourscore prominent busi
i ness men of Portland to Lewiston to represent
, . , ;."hi city Vn- "Portland Day" at the Lewiston-
- a-M.LA i-: IJ v.:-- rnlt. both to
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.'this city and to the region of which Lewiston is the
commercial center; snd incidentally to the intermediate
country alpng the railroad line.
I All that region will, indeed must, forfsome large purr
post's, particularism the marketing of its products, come
- to Portland.; Directly or . indirectly the people. of all
y that great region will consume merchandise purchased
'here.- They will do this because this is the natural point
t which to sell anf to buy, and tfiey can do better here
than elsewhere. '"'. ' " " '".'"
-V Portland merchants and other business men must con
vin'ce the people of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington
and northern Idaho that they can do better here than
elsewhere, and must do so in, deeds rather than in words.
; What-we have stated as to the commercial relations
of the region mentioned with; Portland will be true in
a far greater . degree in the near future than it has
been in the past, for with the completion of the Joint
'railroad from Riparia to Lewiston and of the Northerti
(Pacific line 'down the north bank of the Columbia rivef
I k far greater volume of that region's wheat and other
products will come to Portland to be transferred to ships.
') There are still some flings at Portland in the interior
press, some-criticisms and occasionally abuse of this
rity as considering her own interests only at the sacrifice
of those of the upper country, but . there , is not as much
. pecasion for these. strictures as there may have been for';
raerly or as the critics represent Portland has done
and is doing much to aid the development of that great
interior country and give it an open rives to the sea.
and prosper unless the tributary country does the same
with at least equal pace. Portland is the natural mart
for at K that region, and the city can ecome "a great
commercial emporium only, by ., the development and
. prosperity of the country. - y. .-j,'-j .-. -,-
But clean aside from business, clean aside from any
thing but the common interest men have who are in
tereated in building up the great empire of the north
: west, Portland's representatives are
quainted, to inspect a wonderfully
i. gressive region and to show to its
. to those of Lewiston and vicinity,
them and in the fair now being held
TL.i ai :it i-- i : 1 1 j
- ' ion incjr wui uc. very tuiuiauy anu
there is no doubt, and they will return enthusiastic ad
' mirers .and. friends of that region
people.
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v Another banker,, one Clarke .of Pittsburg, monkeyed
. with other people's money to the extent of hundreds of
y thousands, -of. dollars, loaning it. to
, ticians, and-ended his resultant troubles in this world
by committing suicide. Another lesson "writ large.'
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4 WIND AND. WAVE AID PACIFIC
V f"pH. PROSPECTIVE GROWTH of commerce be
f I tween Pacific coast ports and the rapidly opening
: markets of the orient is the
.' prepared by O. P. Austin, chief of
tistics, which was regarded as of so much importance
- . by the Japanese government that it has been translated
into the Japanese language and circulated in that country
- as well as this as a public document
'- Mr. Austin summarizes ihe results of observations and
-. experiments by British and American naval officers as
i to Pacific winds and currents, which in his opinion
make it inevitable that the trade with eastern Asia will
,; be carried on almost exclusively by
. t the United States. Nature, he says, ' has given to-the
.. United States marked advantages regarding the move
ment of vessels between her western shores and the
eastern coast of Asia, where the trade of the-orient
. . must always center.
i The equatorial current,. Mf. -Austin points out, begins
'Its westward movement at the very point where an
i Isthmian canal would enter the Pacific, and moves
. steadily westward to the vicinity
i then turning northward along the coast of China and
, Japan it is deflected to the east, and flows across the
Pacific to the north Pacific American coast; then turns
V south and moves along our coast to its starting point,
. thus completing a circuit. The air
. exact ) location js somewhat affected
h seasons, follow practically the same
v reliable: ,r
I The fate of speed at, which this great ocean current
' Ceaselessly flows in its monster ellipse is about one mile
"an hour, though the movement of
course, much more rapid. ... :,
"These" facts," Mr. Austin says, ."justify me. In the
assertion that this steady; permanent flow of air and
water, a flow which will never cease
revolves toward the east and the great bodies of land
and water, retain their present- relative "positions must
? always give to the North American continent a marked
-.5 advantage in the commerce of the Pacific " - .
, , "Its vessels from the eastern coast, entering the Pacific
at the-, isthmus, will move westward, aided by air and
' water currents, past our Hawaiian islands, Wake island
'. ', and Guam to the Philippines; thence northward to those
i two great trade centers, Shanghai and Yokohama, "and
, 4":ihence, still following these currents, will move to the
, .east, along that shortest route known as the 'great circle'
in the north Pacific, touch at our western ports fortrans
shipment of freights for the east, and
ing the ocean current down our Pacific coast, will reach
the entrance to the isthmian canal, having been aided by
favoring currents of air and water in the entire circular
tour of 18,000 miles. ::. , ; .;, . .
"The feasibility of this plan is found in the fact that"
while the actual sailing distance from the western end
tif the proposed isthmian canal to Manila via Hawaii and
Cuam is 9,500 miles, the return trip from Manila via
.'Fhanghai, Yokohama and .San Francisco to the canal is
but 10,000 miles, with the advantage of favorable wind and
; current in practically every mile of the entire distance."
" i Upon this theory it would seem that the commerce
. originating on our Atlantic coast and passing through
the isthmian canal would be comparatively small, for
..transcontinental railroads would bring the- exports to
: Pacific coast ports, and would have to do so irt co-inneti-
tion with the canal. But (he. canal, will be long in build
ing, and by that time the prestige of Pacific coast ports
J'wilfbe fully established and acknowledged. Even the Prescott? ' That
winds and the waves work or them. how's the family?
Truth WeU Stated.
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FYom the Condon Olobe.
A gentleman who rcntly visited the
Twl ami Clark fair waa repeated! j
kfrd by prMna who were seeking such
Information 'about Ollllam county that
(he- exhibit did aot furnish, "What U
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ASSAWAY
nephew of
reason was
whose father and
left home many
supposed he was
finallv discovered
but they rather
fund of common
Davis family are
he will become
his father'a and
Here is a young
Just what his
do not know, but
infer that he had.
never earned or by
and that in gainful
He was right,
noble example.
going to get ac-
productive and pro
people, and especially
Portlands interest in
there.;
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nospiuuiy rcccivcu
HERE IS
and all its . toiling
Pennsylvania poll
COAST PORTS.
subject of an article
the bureau of sta
which has hidden
apparent than ever
In Philadelphia
peoples eyes. .
the Pacific ports of
good fruit. ' '-
of the Philippines;
possibly be done
the Quaker City
currents, while their
Mutual Insurance
by the' change of
a year, how. much
knew all about the
lines snd are equally
-the air current is, of
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VEN AS
.-.,'.,
papers are
Lewis and
Journal says that
so long as the earth
remarks: "Large
themselves of this
many of them have
nothing has ever
.population of the
the way from the
then, still follow
hundreds of such
to Tacoma is beyond question."
We shall read
to time not only
the greatest need of your county V and
his Invariable reply waa "Mora people
and bettor roada." and by way of
planatlon he, would add: "More people
mean smaller farms and better culti
vation, bigger crop and greater profit.
Better roads mean more people, smaller
J OU-RN A.L
no. r. oakhoxx
Tba Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill
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YpUNG G ASS AWAY DAVIS, 10.1
DAVIS, only about 21 years old, a
the multimillionaire who lor that
put upon the Democratic ticket last
year as a candidate for vice-president, a young man
other relatives are aiso very weauny,
months .ago, and for a while it was
the victim of foul play, but he was
in another than his home state work
ing as a laborer under an assumed name.- Learning that
his whereabouts, and identity had been djsxov.?red, and
desiring to pursue his own line of action free from the
importunity of relatives, he left his job and went else
where to seek another, probably under another alias, and
is again lost to his family. ; - ,
This young man is eccentric, certainly; that is, he has
done what few young men in his position have done or
would do: but his actions not only do not show insanity,
indicate the possession of an unusual
sense and courage. His branch of the
great money makers, and very likely
a millionaire himself, independently of
uncle's millions.
man who was provided with every
luxury, who could command means to gratify every
desire if money would do so, and yet he breaks loose,
dons the garb and voluntarily lives the life of a working
man, and sets out, as a small farmer's or mechanic's son
would have done, to carve out his own career and rise
in the world by his own efforts.
prompting motive may have been .we
it is pleasant to surmise and fair to
learned to despise the idle rich , who
their own. efforts gained their wealth,
and faithful Jabortnd in independence,
and not in idleness and luxury, is true happiness to
be found. .
and he' .has set other rich youths a
Actual, useful work is the best panacea
on earth for moral,, social and mental and often even for
bodily ills. There is no other remedy "just as good." It
paints rose-hues on the sallow cheek of despondency,
dulls the sting of grief, and is a tonic that, conduces to
the development of . the truest manhood. , v - .
' Portland is far in the lead among. Pacific coast ports
in the exportation of wheat, but when the projected
railroads are built it will leave the others much farther
behind, and become the greatest wheat exporting, port
in the United States. -- -
WILL NEW YORK FOLLOW PHILADELPHIA)
ONE THING about the political situa-
tion which every one appreciates irrespective of
what his personal views may be in regard to
William Randolph Hearst, and that is that he represents
in the campaign for mayor of New York all that good
citizenship stands for. The - forces of Tamminy are
powerfully intrenched, but they have learned little, or
nothing by bitter experience. They were held, in outer
darkness as a climax. to the regime of Croker, If they
did not learn morality onei would think they, might have
learned wisdom from bitter experience, but it was not so."
They, have shown during the term of May6r McClellan
(hat they are still, as ever, the willing tools, of the
powerfully placed syndicates, ready to obey their behests
and to sell out the public for a mess of pottage. Tam
many has been tried and found wanting. -The pretense
it from clear view is now more clearly
before.
the scales have dropped from the
They are engaged in a life and death
struggle with the forces of the machine which so long
has ruled and ruined them. That was almost the very
last stronghold of corruption to be shaken up. Hope of
relief had practically died out when it came at an un
expected moment and threatens to bear the best of
Who knows but that history may repeat itself in New
York.? The reform spirit, is in the very air- and. before
it the highest and haughtiest are beginning to bow.
Tammany may feel that it is impregnably intrenched,
but in its palmiest days it 'never had such a deathlike
grip upon New York like the political machine had in
Philadelphia: Now that grip is shattered. The almost
inconceivable thing that was done in Philadelphia may
in New York and. Tammany have in
store for it a surprise such as shattered the intellect of
machine. - ' ' ?
""-If President McCurdy,who' knows nothing about the
company's affairs; was worth $150,000
would a man have, been worth' who
business? . A million a year, surely.
BENEFITS WIDELY. EXTENDED.
v
FAR BACK EAST as Minnesota news
counting on benefits as a result of the
Clark exposition. . The Minneapolis
the drawing power of the exposition
has been 4t surprise to people" there- and to the railroads
in particular, and that the low rates and the desire to
see the extreme northwest sent tens of thousands to
the coast where only thousands were expected. After
commenting further on the liberality of the railroads
and the desirable class of passengers carried, the Journal
numbers of young people have availed
opportunity to see the far west and
been so attracted by it that probably
happened better calculated , to draw
best kind westward and locate it alt
Mississippi river to the Pacific' coast
There may be something in this view, and certainly we
of the Pacific northwest will begrudge Minnesota and
the Dakotas none of the benefits resulting from the
fair, but we think that those who visited 'and inspected
this Jarthea northwest will generally prefer it, chiefly.
perhaps, on account of the difference ijn climate, to
those 'states.' ' .
The Tacoma t Ledger, to come nearer home, after
alluding to 'the many opportunities in and around that
city, says: ' "That the exposition ha turned the eyes of
men, and particularly of young men,
testimony of the. same kind from time
in all parts of Oregon1, but in all parts
of the Pacific northwest' The eyes of the country have
been turned to this .region as they have never -been
before, and as they could have been in no other way.
Shake, Pendleton! Howdy,. Athena and Miltont
yo'u, Waitsburg? Dayton, old fboy,'
.Glad, to see you all. ' ..
farms, enhanced values of real estate,
leia expense la marketing produce, bet
ter profits for the farmer, rural mull de
livery, better schools, better social ad
vantages, better everything that makes
life worth living." Does It oceur to the
average cltlxen that these words were
pretty well putt , ti v
. SMALL CHANGE
Now. Caatre. verbal bluffa wont blow
up those French warahlpa.
First slap of the hard winter east of
the mountains. .
David R. Francis Is going on a trip
around the world to pay "return calls,"
out no may aaip u ia;oroiiea. , ,
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A great many ' Foreet Orove - people
would not get up in the middle of a
stormy night to chase the men who
robbed the saloon tn that town.
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' Another Indictment against ' Senator
Burton baa been knocked out' He's
lucky that he was not aa Oregon states
man. ',
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When the president pare that tfO.OOO
duty on Alice's presents he will wish She
had married a rich man before she went
abroad. ,
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Mayor Dunne cannot bring about mu
nicipal ownership of street railways and
the Chicago council cannot pass a f ran
chlse ordinance over his veto, so It la a
stindorr and notntng in the matter Is
doing' . :
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Drive out the maoques. I , - '
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For a man getting tUO.000 - a' year
salary. Mr. McCurdy la a wonderfully
ignorant man regarding the affairs of
the company of which he Is president .
Tobacco crop largest ever, but the
trust will see that VHavanas" are no
cheaper. . ...... - ,
Democrats' object that ""the "mutual"
Insurance companies were not mutual aa
to campaign contributions.
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Castro can at least stay ' where the
French ships guna can't hit him. . - ; '
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One form of luck is to have been born
a relative of McCurdy, senior. .
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Hair has grown on the end of a man's
tongue to auch an-extent that be has
lost the sense of taste and eoon will be
unable to speak. As to the latter
calamity, most of us know 'men whom
we could not sympathise with very sin
cerely if it should happen to them. ,
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Some' box ordinance may be passed by
the time the land fraud trials are all
ended. . . ... '
Before the Investigation Is through
the country would be Interested In tier
ing Benator Depew explain Just what he
did to earn that 126,000 a year. :
Nobody has yet claimed that the frost
has killed next year's crops. .' .
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We really have some great statesmen
or at least one Representative Hull.
woo saya that If expenditures were not
In excess of revenues there would be no
deficit
McCurdy, senior, criticises the Investi
gating committee for putting witnesses
on oath, saying tliat this makes them
feel as If they were on a rack and tends
to produce incorrect answers. There
seems to be an Inconsistency in these
two- reasons, thoue-h the first of them
would indicate that McCurdy has some
semblance of a conscience left. '
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A court has decided that a man has a
right to put a rat trap in his money
pocket, even if his wife's hand Is caught
In the trap. We expect to hear now of
an unusual demand for rat traps.
Sympathy, and if seeded, help, will be
properly extended to tb afflicted fam
ily of Joe Young, but as for himself be
got no more punishment than he de
served, and may be thankful, that It, was
not severer. v , -. r-
A Newberg man's mare, for which he
had refused 1600, was fatally and- mys
teriously shot, perhaps by some care
less hunter,'
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North Bend blind pig man in Jail.
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A 'Wallowa county man harvested
(,000 pounds of honey from 80 stand.
A' Umatilla reservation squaw to the
Pendleton ticket agent: "Railroad al
ways say wait, wait wait Trains no
come; you say come 10 o'clock he come,
maybe, 2 o'clock.- What's the. matter
no come on timet Me go on horse .get
Arlington before train. Oet up early
and hurry to station to catch train,
think maybe get left and then train no
come till evening. No get dinner be
cause wait for train. Why he no comer
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Much music of saw and hammer In
Hood River. :
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On a piece of ground comprising 150
yards square a Hood River man raised
26 tons of fine onions. ,
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Sclo's , debating society has opened
the season with the subject: "Resolved.
That woman Is superior to man." The
affirmative are alP women and the neg
ative men. The decision will depend on
the"' lex of a majority of the Judges. .
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Douglas county's prune crop amounts
to about 1,000,000 pounds, and the price
is aoout aouDie last year s.
A Monmouth man Is growing Eng
lish walnuts aa well as ginseng, , hav
ing 2,000 'trees.' From one. S-year-oId
tree he gathered this fall two bushels
of walnuts.
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Condon carpenters all busy.
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New two-story brick In Carlton,
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Happy Ridge correspondence Carl
ton Observer: Frank Brooks went to
the fair. - It is-thought by some, that
he will get married while there. At
any rate he took his girl with htm.
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- A Lake county man says the baste
come up to the kitchen door and hold
up he cook for something to eat
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Lakevtew filling up with people. ,
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About 180,000 sheep' have been sold
out of Lake county this year. That
means an Income of over 1300,000, -or
about tilt for every man, woman and
child In Lake county. The Wool clip
last spring brought In a sum nearly as
large.
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About 460 pupils In Newberg publio
school; 600. expected. ,
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doete.are big money makers In west
ern and southern Oregon, and will In
crease rapidly in number. ' , ,
OREGON SIDELIGHTS -
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JOURNEY OF " LEWIS
AND CLARK
, On ihe Columbia river. ' t
October 19. -The next morning the
great chief, with two of. his Inferior
chiefs and a third belonging to a band
on the river below, made ua a visit
at a very early hour. The first of these
was called Telleppltt (or Yelnept), a
handsome, well-proportioned man, about
6 feet inches high and 66 years of age,
with a bold and dignified countenance;
the rest were not distinguished In their
appearance. We smoked . with them,
and after making a speech, gave a
medal, a handkerchief and a string of
wampum to Yellepplt but a string of
wampum only to Inferior chiefs. He re
quested us to. remain till the middle of
the day tn order that all bis nation
might come and see us; but we excused
Ourselves by telling him that on our re
turn .we would spend two or three days
with' him. This conference detained ue
till o'clock, by which time great num
bers of the Indiana bad come tfc visit ua
On leaving them we went on etghtmlles
when we came to an Island on the lert
shore, which continued , six t miles In
length. At its lower extremity le a
small Island on which are' five houses,
at present vacant though the scaffolds
of fish are aa usual abundant A ahort
distance below are two more Islands, one
of them near the middle of the river.
On this were seven houses, but as soon
aa the Indiana, who were drying fish,
saw. us, they fled to their houses, and
not one -of them appeared till we had
passed, when they came out In greater
numbers than ia usual for houses of
that else, which Induced ua to think
that- the inhabitants of the five lodges
had been alarmed at our approach and
taken refuge with them. We were very
dealreua of landing In order to relieve
their apprehension, but aa there was a
bad rapid along the island all our care
was necessary to prevent Injury to the
canoes. At the foot of this rapid Is a
rock on the left shore, which. Is 14
miles from our camp of last night and
reaemDies a nat in snaps. - - :
vFdur miles beyond ' this Island t we
came to a rapid from the appearance et
which It wae Judged prudent to examine
It After landing for .that purpose on
the left side ,we began to enter the
channel, which la close wnder - the oppo-
elte shore. It le a very dangerous rapid,
strewed with, high . rocks and . rocky
Islands and many placea obstructed by
shoals over which the canoes bad to
be hauled, so that we were .more than
two hours in passing through the rapids.
which extend for two miles. " The rapid
had, several small, islands and banks of
mussel shells are spread along the river
In several placea In order to lighten
the boats Captain ' Clark, with two
chiefs, the Interpreter and his wife, had
walked across the low. grounds on the
left to the foot of the rapids. Oh the
way Captain Clark ascended a cliff
about 200 feet above the water;'- from
which he saw that the country on both
sides of the river Immediately from It
was low and Into a level plain extend
ing on all sldea To the west at the
distance of about 150 miles,-Is a very
high mountain covered with snow, which
from Its direction and appearance he
supposed to be Mount St Helens, laid
down by Vancouver as visible from the
mouth of the Columbia. There le an
other mountain (Mount Hood) of a con
ical form, whose top is covered with
snow, in a southwest direction.
As Captain Clark arrived at the lower
end of the rapid before any, except one
of the email canoes, he sat down on a
reck, to wait for them; and seeing a
crane fly across the river, shot lt and
It fell - near him." Several Indians had
been before this passing on ths opposite
side toward the rapids, and some few
who hed been nearly in front of him,
being alarmed either at his appearance
or .the report of the gun. fled to their
houaea Captain Clark was afraid that
these people had not yet heard that
white men were coming; .therefore. In
order to allay their uneasiness before
the whole party should arrive, he got
into the small canoe with three men
(Drewyer and J. and R. Fields),- rode
over toward the housea and while cross
ing shot a duck, which fell Into the
water. Ae he approached no person was
to be seen except -three men, and they
fled as he came near the shore. He landed
before five housea close to each other,
but no one appeared, and the doors,
which ' wore of T.Ht were closed. Hi
went toward one of . them with a pipe
In his hand, and pushing aside the mat
entered the lodge, where ho f."und S2
persons, chiefly men and women, with
a few children, all in ths greatest con
sternation; some hanging down their
heads, others crying and wringing their
hands. He went up to them sll and
shook hands with them In the most
friendly manner; . but their apprehen
sions, which bsd for a moment sub
sided, revived on his taking out a burn
ing glass, as there was no roof to the
house, and lighting his pipe. He then
offered It to some of the men, distrib
uted among the women and children
some small trinkets which he carried
about -him, and gradually restored some
tranquillity among them.-. He then left
thja house, and directing each of the
men to go Into a house, went himself to
the second. Here he found the inhabi
tants more terrified than those he had
first seen; but he succeeded In pacifying
them, and then visited the other houses,
where the men had been equally suc
cessful. After leaving the houses he
went out to sit on a rock, and beckoned
to some Of the men to come and smoke
with him; but none of thetu ventured
to Join him 'till the canoes arrived with
two chiefs, who Immediately explained
our paclflo Intentions toward them. -Soon
afterward -the interpreter's wife landed,
and her presence dlsstpitad U doubts
of our being well disposed, since In this
country no woman ever accompanies a
war party. They therefore all came out
and .seemed perfectly reconciled; "nor
could we Indeed blame them for thelf
terror, which was perfectly natural.
They told the two chiefs that they knew
we were no men. for they had seen ue
fait; from the clouds. In fact, unper
celved by them. Captain Clark had shot
the white .crane, which they had seen
fall Just before he appeared to thtlr
eyes; the duck, which he bad killed alse
fell close by him, and ,as there were e
few' clouds flying over at the. moment
they connected the fall of the birds
with bis sudden appearance, and be
lieved that he had himself dropped from
the clouds; the poise of the rifle, whl.;h
they had .heard before, being considered
merely as Ihe sound to announce, an
extraordinary event. This belief was
strengthened when, on entering the
room, he brought down fire, from heaven
by meana of hl burning glass. We
soon convinced them satisfactorily that
we "were only mortals, and after one
of "our chiefs had explained our history
and objects we all smoked together In
great -harmony. These people do not
speak precisely the same language es
the Indians above, but understand them
In conversation. .In a short time, wd
were Joined by many of the Inhabitants
from below, several of them on horse
back? all were pleased ta see us, and to
exchange their fish and berries for S
few trinkets. . '
We remained here to dine, and then
proceeded. At half a mile the hilly,
country on the right eide of the river
ceased; 'at 11 miles we found a small
rapid, and ' a mile further came to a
small Inland on the .left, , where there
were some willows. , Since we left the
five lodges we have passed 10 more, dis
persed along the river at different parts
of the valley on the right; but aa they
were now epprised of our1 coming, they
showed no signs of alarm. On leaving
the Island, we passed three miles fur
ther along a country which la low ,on
both aldee of the river, 'and camped
under some willow trees on the loft
having made 16 miles today.
Immediately opposite us la an Island
close to the left shore, another In the
middle of the river, on which' are 14
housea of Indians, all engaged In drying
flan. - We - had scarcely landed before
about 100 of them came over la their
boats te visit ua. bringing with them a
present of some wood, which' wae verv
acceptable. "We received them In as kind
st manner as we could, smoked with at
of them, and gave the principal chief
a etring of wampum; but the highest
satisfaction they enjoyed waa the muslo
of two. of -our violins (Cruaatte's and
Qlbson's), wtth which they seemed much
delighted, . They remained all night by
our fires. t
Thla tribe Is a branch of the nation
called Plshqultpaws, and can raise about
360 men. In dreae ' they resemble the
Indians near the forks of the Columbia.
except that their robes are Smaller and
do not reach lower than the waist; In
deed, three-fourths of them have scarce
ly any robes mt all. The drees of the
females Is equally scanty, for they wear
only a . small piece of a robe, which
covers their, shoulders and neck, and
reaches down the back of the waist
where It is attached by a piece of
leather tied tight around the body: their
breaeta, which are thus exposed to view,
are large. Ill-shaped, and Buffered to
hang down very low: their cheekbones
high,' their heads flattened, and theli
persona In general Adorned with scarce-'
ly any ornaments. Both sexee are em
ployed In curing fish, ef which they
have great quantities on their scaffolds
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MUNICIPAL v."
OWNERSHIP ABROAD
United States Consul Llefeld of Frei
burg, Germany, describee that city In a
report as - perhaps the ' most extreme
example of municipal ownership, on .the
continent. -. - ' V
Freiburg. Is a city of about 70,000 In
habitants. , - '.
The' city railroads, the . gas, ".electric
tight, water, -'theatre, slaughter-bouse,
pawnshop, savings bank, schools, ceme
tery, etc., even building lots, forests
and vlnewards, and a dally newspaper,
are all controlled by 'the city.' -
The garbage la disposed of by the ctfx.
The receipts in thla department for 1004
amounted to 112,744. The expenses -for
management were 19,400. There were other
expenses for new purchaaee, repairs,
extra horses and "help, but this depart
ment turned ever to the city treasury
tan. .
The receipts ' for the poor amounted
to 668.008, including charity funds. Tae
disbursements amounted to 657,004, leav
ing a surplus of 6964.
The total receipts from electricity were
$86,461; disbursements, 182.003; surplus,
63.476. s - .
For illuminating eas the total renalnta
were 6302,000 and the disbursements $2S,-
The ' cemetery Is owned by the city.
Funeral processions ' take place only at
the cemetery. Receipts, 633,846,. of which
613,440 waa turned over to the city
treasury in 1904.
The reoelpts from city Invalid insur
ance was mainly derived from the tax
of 611.61 per year for every servant In
a family. This amounted for the year in
Freiburg alone to 614,932. . The tax Is col
lected by Imperial law . In the whole
Oerman empire. In .case of sickness
the help are attended free; In case of
necessity they are treated free at the
hospitals. . ,
Receipts of the municipal pawnshop
were 630,616; expenditures, 630,295; sur
plus, 8221.
Buildings owned by the city are rented
by the military administration. The pay
ment Into the city treasury from - these
buildings amounted to 8t6,8t4. .
The city orchestra playa at operas
and plays four or five times each week
for seven months of the year. From
May to September concerts are given 'at
the city park. At the opera-house the
regular price of admission varies from
9Vi cents to 63 cents, with . a .reduction
for season tickets. At the summer con
certs admission varies' from 7 to 14' cents
(Sunday -afternoon free.) The orchestra
in winter gives six symphonlo concerts.
The surplus amounted to 6286, the ex
penditures having been 623,480 (salary of
first conductor, 81,190; second conductor,
6714; one concert-master, 6500; one harpist,
452; and 40 other musicians, 816,127, etc.).
The pension fund for officials, teachers,
widows and orphans showed receipts ad
expenditures each amounting to 111,662,
but the city contributed 62,288. -.
The aewerage of Frieburg Is conducted
to the "rleaelfelder," a few miles away,
which are under cultivation. Among the
receipts were I12.AM from agricultural
products; milk, 811,829; manure, $l,?3;
sale of cattle, $11,300, etc. Among the
expenditures were: Fodder, $16,084; pur
chase of cattle, $11,518; wages, $6,469. The
value of ' these fields was estimated on
December 11, 1904, at $211432.
' According to- law all larger animals
ean be slaughtered only at the elaughter
house and special feee are collected,
which In 1904 amounted to $23.074.... The
total receipts amounted to $44,798. The
net receipts were: To the city treasury,
$4,211; to the reserve fund, $2,650.
The total receipts of the theatre
amounted to 689,837, of which the treasury
paid $32,608. The theatre Is not made self
supporting, but is considered a necessary
element for eduoatlng the people, - The
city would 'as soon think of. managing
He schools at a profit as to manage a
theatre at a profit .. - . .
- Freiburg collects duties on food ar
ticles. The net amount from the "octroi"
in 1904 wae $71,600., ,
There Is a""'volkskuscher4' or people's
kitchen, the receipts iiif whlctr'durlna;
1904 amounted to $27,816. A large share of
the amount was for little things, via:
Buns, at ,007. cent each; soup, at 1.4 cents
a bowl: coffee, at 1.7 cents per cup; sup
per, at 4.6 and 6.1 -cents; dinner, at 6.6
and 7.1 cents. "" , '
-The water-department'pald to the em
ployes 66,366 and Into the city treasury
$71,316.
The schools of Freiburg are not wholly
free, but the moneye paid by the pupils
are not surflclent to pay expenses.
Ths city savings, ban.; had in the year
1S90 13,802 depositors, wHh deposits
amounting at the close of thst year to
$3,838,022: at the close of 1900 there were
19,781 depositors and deposits amounting
to $4,646,473. On December II. 1904, there
were 23.826 depositors, with deposits
amounting to $4,319,851. .,
They Are tOut of tuck. ;
From the PL Louie Globe-Democrat -In
the battle of life rich men have al
together the worst or It - They ej-e
strangers alike to the Joy of economy
and the blessing of contentment , ... . ,
THE STATE AND THE.
i OREGONIAN
Front the Salem Statesman
There la little need to call the atten
tion of the oeoDle aenerallv te- a posi
tion like that taken by the Oregonian '
oi Portland, -wherein the Oregonian re
fers to the capital of the state as It does
In Its Issue of yesterday mornrng,- and
St .the eame time auxcest that rt is un
becoming a newspaper of any -breadth of
oeam. There le no use reminding read
ers of the Statesman of their own pa
triotism and broadmlndedness, of their
self-negation and really-self-denial ss
fully demonstrated In their actions of
the past year, and especially as shown for
me city or Portland '
Masloa county's delegates In the Ore
gon legislature voted for bountiful ap- '
proprlatlons to be expended In the city
or Portland lor the purpose of making
possible the great world's fair St that
city. The people of Salem and vicinity
voluntarily aided tn the passage of a
bill, taxing themselves that Portland
might have this fair within Its borders.
Once that appropriation waa made, the
people or, Salem consented, wtth a view
toj Insuring the success of that- fair, and
so thee none could say wr had. done .
aught to hlndet Its success, to the omis
sion of the state fair, and many people
In Salem 'aided to fabricate septlment
In favor ' of this omission among the
rarmers who were doO'tut of the wis
dom of such action. -.The- people- of
Salem' following this gave of their time
ana or tnetr money readily end willingly
at all times during the five months of
the fair, that It might be a success and
through that suocess an everlasting
credit to the state of Oregon. . r-.
Taken In a generality the writer be
lieves the people of Portland appreciate
tne aotion or the people from without
that city and are proud of them and
glad that eo good a feeling has been
general among the urban and suburban
population of the state, yet but -one
discordant note spoils the entire music
A few drops of acid sours -the. whole.
The largoet newspaper published in-the
state, the newspaper which in the past
has boasted of Its Influence, baa made -
the closing days et the fair memorable
to. the country by pretending to speak
for the city of Portland, laying aside all
consideration for the country, demand
lng only that everything for which the
stats stands, everything which the state
doee as a. whole should now and forever
more center, there. What there Is in
Oregon belongs properly to Portland,
according to this paper, and no other
town or place is entitled to any con'
slderation. - f ; i . .
The people of Oregon Sre not ept to
he pleased at the recent efforts of the
Portland paper to cry down, the rest of
the . state, or even to cry -down the
second city of Importance In the state.
The editorial of yesterday was wanton tn
Its scurrility. It waa Intended to Injure
the capital; Intended to Injure the Wil
lamette valley. The result will be It wilt
Injure the city of Portland, It should
Injure the editor who wrote the-. article
and injure the paper In which the edi
torial appeared. The chances are, had
the Marlon county delegation and soma
few others living In this vslley,-In any
one of the recent sessions of the Oregon .
legislature, csst their votes for - the
Oregonian s editor for the United States
senate, thle city would have been the
center of Paradise to him and the capl K
tal the "Holy of Holies." . t
Editor Statesman: - The malicious.
contemptible -and scurrilous attack
oi. H. W. fScott- oa tne peo
ple of-Saiems- 1s !entlrery"tiivralled fr
and should be vigorously resented ' and
denounced : by. the Capital City. What
does he hope to accomplish by bis whole
sale abuse of SalemT
Is Scott In his dotage? .This Is cer
tainly a plausible explanation- of all his
venomous drivel. If we cannot . suc
cessfully boycott the paper, we can eas
ily withdraw our patronage from Its
evening shadow, tne Telegram, and sun-
scribe for Its competitor. The Journal,
an equally good paper. I understand
WUUs Dunlway is employed in an -edi
torial capacity on the Oregonian.. - Does
be think that the attitude of that paper
toward the chief city of Marlon county
wilt help him in hte candidacy for tho
office of state printer In this vlclnityT
Oh. yes, we will remember him hand
somely at the orlmarlea I trust also
that the solicitor - for the OregbnIan,J
when be comes around begging for ad
vertisements for the New Tear'a. Ore
gonian, will be likewise remembered by
the business men or Baiem. -
t: , . BUSINESS MA". .
Editor Statesman: In regard to tha .
Oree-onlan'a lnsultlna- editorial on Mon
day morning referring to Salem and her
"rude hotels." I want to say that this
hotel would not- In all probability, be
ao rude If. the Oregonian had "paid ' the
bills of some of the repreeentattvee
they sent her to board. ' Mr. O. D. Mor
ris was sent here by the Oregonian In
May, 1899, and beat the hotel out of
$105 board bilL There wae a special re
porter sent here during the legislature
who did not pay his bllL I have taken
both the Oregonian and the Telegram
for 10 yeare constantly and all that I
have received tn return was being beat
out of considerably oVer $100 by Its
reporters and the insulting editorial In
the Monday morning paper. "- '
J. CONNOR.
v . Senator Pulton. : ; V-.
From the Astoria Astorlan, '
' The summoning of United States Sena
tor Charles W. Fulton as a witness In
the federal circuit court In the Jones
land fraud trial was not the simple
thing It looked to be. The senator
waived the prerogative of his office to
refuse to enter a court In that or any
other capacity snd did his simple duty
as a good cltlsen. - -
But there was art animus behind. the
subpoena that Is as dirty as It wss fruit
less. There ere certain people, alleged
politicians, who have ralrly itched to In
volve the Astoria man in the pending
land fraud 'cases snd to besmirch hlm
bv intimation born or Bis slightest con
nection with the cases or the people at
bar In the eeurt
.When he wrote the-land department
at Washington, asking that Jones' claims
be expedited he believed in Jones. Jones
had been county Judge snd eounty clerk
of Lincoln county and stood well gen
erally, and the senator, aa a servant of
the people, put nis name to letters ana
Indorsements In that relation, as any
other representative would do, who
was In place to perform a signal set-vice.
Ood be thanked there Is one man In
national life, from Oregon, whose mantle
is not and cannot be tarnished. - .
' '. Kaiser's Gift to the President
Washington Correspondence pNew York
Sun. .
Commander Hans Oeorg HebblnghauB.
the naval attache of the Oerman em
bassy here, who has Just returned to
this country from Oermeny, today pre
sented te president Roosevelt four steel
engrevlnge depicting the. life of Fred-'
crick the Qreat,whlch were sent to thej
president by Emperor William. Tbel
president expressed his appreciation of
tne pictures, and asked the attache to
thank the kaiser for them, ; , .
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