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, OREGON APPLES.
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-fHAT, HOOD IUVER valley
I "raises the best apples In the
' 1 world" la an old story, known
. now almost all over the globe.
That quite as good or a little better
apple lure raised up In the Rogue
' River Talley Is asserted, and we
won't deny It, couldn't nor wouldn't
That apples fully equal and possi
bly 'a little superior to these are
raised In Yamhill, Polk and other
counties of the good old Willamette
alley, , as Is claimed, we would not
venture ,to dispute. , Prom nearly
. every county In eastern, Oregon come
credible reports of apples that can
not possibly be beaten by those of
' Hood or Rogue River valleys, or any
' other place on earth, and we believe
abundance of reliable evidence can
routine, standpat party organ, says and through much of the year they
Folk's speech ' Is a specimen of I are a home delight
"harking back to the beliefs of Jef-I Now is the time to plant rose
ferson and Jackson," and "Is not In bushes. Portland expects ' every
harmony, with the political and gov-1 body that has room for them to
ern mental needs of today." Yes, it plant some, so that they will bloom
Is Indeed a "harking back" to the next summer, and more fully there-
very foundation corner stone of true after. Everybody help to make this
Democracy, the baste principle above indeed the Rose City of the world
stated, and the statement of which
by Jefferson has never been Im
proved upon. Is there anything
wrong about "equal rights to all and
special privileges to nonet" The
Post-Intelllgencer concedes In its ;
atntemont nnnrad that th Tlftniihlf-
can nartv has carried the govern- """" ""u "" ws.""i ,u iuB
nW .... fn. and 'a.,. Ita I VI .WfllCfl fOTtianu IB SO Viler
abandonment of that principle; that P Bt'e!;' M.r ox now. a good
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PORTLAND'S POSITION.
ORTLAND IS glad to welcome
John A. Fox, because he worth
ily fills the very Important po
sition of special director of the
deal about Portland already, what it
has done and what it wants done
and he 'is In entire sympathy, with
being so, It is quite time, with all
the tariff-fed trusts in operation, to
"hark httrY" n thl ertnd. tpn
eternal right, and righteous old th effo ambition, of this city
doctrine. " J jroicicut; to uyca rum auu
We readily ''admit that this doc- ,mprovff Ana Fort ana re-
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nnlttfoal and rnnrnmantil nawa nfl
today"-hat Is, the needs of the M(1 harboni .ppr0priatton b!u to
trusts, monopolies, combines and I b mad up in conareas, wa all went
plundering corporations that for 40 down to Wainington and fought ilk
years have been running the govern- ?or m part of pf r0:
, prlation. Nowadays w ara going about
luoiy. lutroaBiuKi, uum ncysiu ,t n m mor ratonai tftwtly war.
threw some sand Into the wheels; Is Thar la money enough for all Improve-
not In harmony with the eedsor ments if it in allotted regularly and in
schemes of many Republicanaders uffllfnt mo,u"t t0Kpu' "pwv.-
that : might e mentioned; but the method usually recommended by gov-
od doctrine 1 now, as ever, strictly emment enslneers. Wa must have 150,
In harmony with the needs and wel- OOO.OOO annually for carrying- on the
waterway improvements 01 mis country
1n the proper manner, and when con
fare of the masses of common peo-i
pie, and more of them than ever Ureas la convinced that the people are
before are discovering this fact.
BETTER THAN LABOR UNEM
PLOYED.
behind the movement the desired results
will follow.
Portland has done . Ita share to
help along this movement, and will
continue to do its. share, having full
faith that a new era In the matter
of opening waterways Is at hand.
And Portland will do this none the
York Is of the Atlantic." It will, if
Portland fully Improves all her op-
portunities.
OVERNOR Chamberlain has ad'
I , vised the state railroad com-
4. 1 mlsfllon to reauaat Drerrtn rail.
roads to make a rate so low les confidently and cheerily because
be adduced to sustain every one, of that alabwood can be shipped fromj ood authority as Mr. Fox, who
these claims. Thousands of bushels southern Oregon as a means of avert- " luw ,'r,,u,l '."r i
of fine apples In the John Day valley lng a fuel shortage In eastern Ore- congreM' "ay"- " PParB 10 me
ntfin h tief horaiiBcr-It dnMtit rnn An a-. ,i- it aA I iueviiaoi6 luai jroniBna is io Decome
nav-ta fcenl them outBaker 4soun- mm nndit.inna. i hv h e gateway or tne facinc, as New
ty raises many. The Grand Konde incident. The fuel shortage Is
valley, -can rahse great quantities of chiefly due to the lack of labor to
the best of apples. So do different dig coal and cut wood. Farmers are
parts of Umatilla county. And the unable to cultivate all their fleldsi
very best ever, according to local because enough labor Is not obtain- In a murder trlal at Pendleton the
opinion, are raised over In Lake and able to do the work. The best estl- "ienaant, an 01a man, was ac-
Klamath eonntlea. ' mate Is that In 1906 production fell quuiea Pruy, as u appears, Because
rona and Donerlaa -countv MDers fwn fifth- ahnrt f nHHthi testimony showed that the
are boasting of apples superior to mum. due to lack of heln. The car
any others raised along the CoquUle builders ol 'the country are two veara few weekB ag0- ln ame town.
river, th Umpqua, Myrtle creek and behind with orders, because sufficient anoiner man waa PrmPy acquiuea
other streams. A man in the Ne- labor Is not available. Jamea J
halem valley will Uke a ;tack seat Hllf naa madethe astonishing, and
for nobody and w have seen Coin to- probably 'true,, statement that
bi county apples hard to beat And 260,000,000 will have to be spent on
we don't have to travel far from equipment before the railroads can
Portland Itself to find apples that promptly move the traffic of the
seem practically "Just as good," It country on the present basis of pro
as much care is taken in raising duction, which Is two fifths short of
them". '' . the possible. When there Is not la-
The moral of all of which Is thatlbor enough now to harvest crops,
Oregon Is naturally a , great apple j dig coal, cut wood, gather fruit,
state, and apples are a staple crop build railroad Jtracka and do the
for which there is always a de- other pressing labor of the time,
mand at good prices an actively where Is the help to come from to
eager demand, if the moat- popular apply this enormous sum ln the
varieties are raised with due care construction of new railroad equlp-
and properly ' marketed. Speaking ment t
Letters Vrom ite People
The Parcels Post Law.
Medford, Or., Sept . To tha Editor
of Tha Jouroai FleAae permit me a few
lines about Mr. Merrick's article In your
dally of the 19th Inst. , in relation to
parcela post Such a bill a he refers
to that would permit the ' transporta
tion across tha continent for IB cents
packages welching aa much as 100
pounds would of course work a great
Injustice and greatly disturb present
commerce. J don't believe any sane
congress will aver make any such pro
vision. But I do think the postal serv
Ice needs revision, and by a proper re
vision of tha postal servloe we can do
great deal toward the regulation of
transportation In our nation, partlou
larly the express companies.
At present the charges for transpor
tation by post are as absurd and tin'
reasonable for more so than our trans
portation service in the hands of private
corporations, ciecond-claes matter u
carried across our continent and de
livered two to twelve miles Into the
country for 1 cent per pound. Tba rail
way lines are being; paid as much as 15
seriously, we do not say that the
A fact of vital Interest ln this
Hood River apples are no better than connection Is that of the thousands
can be raised in some or all these of European immigrants that now
other localities, but we think thelpour Into this 'country, only 3 to '4
great demand for Hood River apples per cent find their way to farms, the
Is due In large part to the care taken balance going' mostly to cities,
In raising and packing them and to Forty years ago the order was re-
the fame they have Justly attained. versedLand all but 4 to 5 per cent
People of a hundred other locall- of these immigrants ultimately found
ties couia ao Bomewnere near u not their way Into rural employment
quite as well if they would take as This disappearance of the source
much pains and do as much, legltl-1 from which the ranks of labor was
mate praiseworthy advertising. once so largely recruited is unques-
Make not only Hood River bot all tlonably a factor ln the fuel short
Oregon known all over the world as ages, in the car shortages, ln the
the best apple country in It -the various other shortages to which la-
.best not only for the,; excellence I bor Is incidental, and also to a con
of the apples bot for the pockets of siderable extent in the higher cost
the growers. It can be done. It of living. It is not a healthy con-
wlirtake work, effort, study, appll- dltlon and may result later ln a
cation, care and time. But" It Is shifting of forces and In conditions
worth all these. of reactionary and regrettable char
acter. There are eminent men who
FOLK ON THE TARIFF. insist that the situation is grave, but
nftap nil n crlnla that, la t.hn rnnaA-
uv jsiniMUK. jrujutv oj Missouri , . . . ,K. it ,
recently made an able, thought-1 tQ onfl from labor unem.
iui, common-sense speecn at
who had killed a gambler and
"roller." From these- incidents It
may be eurmlBed that killing this
sort of men Is excusable up there un
der the unwritten law. However
that may be, nobody seems to be
criticising the verdicts. A tinhorn
gambler, thief and a range rustler
have few friends when dead.
cents per pound for 'their Dart in thla
service. Some part of the service has
to pay an exorbitant price In order to
make up this oirierence. While second
class mall is carried ao far for 1 cent
per pound, fourth olaaa pays IS cents
per pound, or 16 times as much as seo-ond-claaa
matter.
We cannot send a package by poat of
fourth-clasa matter to the nearest of
fice, nor to the country by rural route
carrier without paying for this service
is times as mucn aa me secona-ciass
matter pays for the moat extensive
service or the longest haul in the na
tion. , , ;
We have postal arrangements with
some foreign nations and in these rela
ttons we find lourth-claas matter being
transported across our country and
across thla foreign nation for 1) centa
per pound, only throe quarters the pay
required to get tne snoneai servici
home.
Our fourth-class service is limited to
four-pounds in weight. For our foreign
neighbors we will receive cr send
mucn as 11 pounds Here we nnd we
can send four pounds to Europe for 44
cents. To send the same weight to
nearest ornce cents at horns.
Notwithstanding: the fact that second-
class matter is carried acrosa our con
tinent and as much as 12 miles into the
country for 1 cent per pound our postal
rules do not permit of transportation of
this second-class matter at all for less
than 1 cent per pound: that la. the
shortest haul must pay just as much as
the long haul, and the result is the ex
press companies are getting the short
haul at nrnfitahla , t i 1 r, V U a YTn.l
Sam's postal service xets the lona haul
or unprofitable business.
Many more Instances of absurdities
in our postal service can be cited, but
tne aoove seems to me enouch to con
vince the average- mind w,u revision
of our postal laws is very necessary.
I have found the expres companies
cutting a little under postal rates on
Iong-Tiaul service, u enough to get the
business in some instances. Where the
Foetal service is a competitor up to
our pounds upon fourth-class matter
fend should - your package weigh more
man rour pounds thev are in some In
ON THg SIDE
Small Ck
angc
. People seldom love too well and wise
ly at the same time. . v(
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t' Das , TUT saeav Tamai ' f - . . ' . i
Th." University of Chicago's1 coach wlll,'avs none . but vtgstarians on t'hb!fuiVoho1cUiPh n4
ins team mis year.
The elephant eats leaves and grass, the hippo does the same,
And both the beasts are mighty chaps, though very meek and tame.
The elephant can take a tree and amain it like twig; r
The hippo can engulf a boat -and rlverit one swig;
But do not think a diet composed of leave and hay - A
Will make you like these monsters thuy are simply built that way.
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Presldent Roosevelt needs on of
Billy Muldoon's services. ..
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There should be a big continuous
movement for better, street
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f he whale who looms so large and long upon tha vasty deep
L'ats dinky little fishes he jburprlaea wljien asleep, ,
And the whale can part the water as a ewallow parta the air, ;
4nd with a doxen boats in tow through foaming billows tear;
But don't chase little fishes to emulate tire whale. - j 1
It's not his grab that makes him fast, bat his whopping flukes and tall.
The goat who roams the suburbs' will never peak and pina
So long aa papers, wire and cans remain for him to dine,
And when he backs and comes again, his skullpiece leteled low.
No locomotive ever ran could hit so tough a blow; ;
But don't eat wire and cans and things to help you buck the line
The goat, he butts so mightily because of his design.
CAUSTIC COMMENT ON
THE BURNS METHOD
for
Texas is having large and vigor
ous tussles with various monopolis
tic corporations, and whether she
wins or not she will worry them
good deal. They represent, of
course, that the state Is doing Itself
far more Injury than it Is doing
them, but even It Texas Is suffering
some inconvenience and damage, she
is a big state and won't be hurt
much. We would not be surprised
If the Lone Star state was pointing
the way to freedom for other states.
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Nashville; .Tennessee, largely
devoted3 to the subject of a protec
tive tariff. He said nothing new on
this subject, to be sure, for It has
been pretty well exhausted hereto?
fore, yet It Is a matter of such prac
tical, everyday Importance, and
ployed.
NOW PLANT ROSES.
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The order of the Washington
state railroad commission for a Joint
wheat rate over the Harrlman and
Hill lines from eastern Washington
points to Puget sound shows that
the title of the commission should be
changed to the Puget sound railroad
commission. The object of its order
is Intended solely to benefit Seattle
and Tacoma, at . Portland's expense.
Harahan, says Fish, is too small
game for him; Harrlman Is the man
he is after. But Harrlman may say
that the Fish is too. small for him
to bother about. It may be neces
sary to classify these high financiers
like prize fighters.
NE VERY essential thing to
the complete success of an
annual rose fiesta, and to es
tablishing : Portland's p re
touches somehow so nearly all sorts eminence as the Rose "City, Is the
of people, and the present tariff Is planting of more rose bushes of the
bo manifestly unjust and undemo- b6st varieties. It is true that Port
i cratifi, .that "'the tariff question" land Is already really a "Rose City,"
must continue to be a leading public but to gain a great and wide-spread
question until It Is settled some- reputation as such it must be far
where near right; and that will in- more so. It is true that the number
volve radical changes, and a substl-lof roses on display last summer was
A good many, of Portland's streets
were not paved, in the past, even
with the material that it Is said
Hades is paved with good intentions.
Something wrong with the Wash
ington special correspondents; they
haven't outlined President Roose
velt's next week's speeches yet.
tution of a tariff, for revenue and
not merely for protection., Governor
Folk went over familiar ground, but
made the injustice and iniquity of
tho present protective tariff ao clear
-and his argument for the Democratic
, doctrine of "equal rights.' for all and
, special privileges ,to none" so con
vincing that his speech may well
servo as a campaign document In the
treat political battle of next year
Tha Seattle post-Intelligencer, a
countless and astonishing, yet there
ought to be twice as many In a year
or two, and a great Increase, la ex
cess; of the Increase In population,
yearly. -
This can be easily accomplished.
Thousands of residents-have as yet
no roses, or but very few. 'Every
body With yen a llttle plot of ground
should have many; those with much
ground a 'multitude. The 'cost'" Is
mallthe care required but IltUe;
New Rolling Stock.
From the Iron and Trade Review.
Poor's railroad statistics for 1906
Bhow a total of 1,979,667 TreiKht car
owned by the railroads reporting, an
Increase of 222.562 cars for the year.
This Is by far the largest gain for any
year, and with the exception of 190S,
wmcn snowea a gam or izu.ZQl cara,
is more than double the gain shown in
any previous year.
In tone of freight moved one -mile,
there waa a gain in 1906, over 1905 .of
J 6.7 per cent. This '-was the largest
gain, in point of tonnage. In the history
of American railroading, and-the 'largest
in point of percentage for eight years.
There was a mild shortage of oara in
1806, but tho shortage did not Compare
lit any sense with that which developed
ln 1902 and seriously crippled -jmany
branches of Industry. . Thus far thla
year, the car building shops have teen
turning out cars at fcaat as rapidly as
they did In 1906. and the Prospect i
that the end of this yoar will find the
railroads to have made about as large a
fon2 l" BUAbu car they did 1b ;
stances charging more per pound
seven to ten pounds than for the lighter
package weighing two to four pounds.
To illustrate this more fully 1 will
state mat i nave round rural washing'
ton ana Oregon payinf for their ex
press service from Chicago on two-
found packages SO cents, three pounds
5 cents, four pounds 60 cents. Just
cutting under - uncle Bam 1 cent per
pound in each of these cases.
. It goes without argument that It- la
the competition of the postal service
that makes this cut rate. But how
about rates, where Uncle Bam !s not
there,' or ttpoh packages weighing more
innn lour pou nasi , n
Should your package weigh 7 to 10
pounds, the charges will be 11.50. . Thla
would amount to more than SO cents
?er pound, should your package weigh a
raction over seven pounds, or 140 per
rem or wnai tne cnarges per pound are
ror two, inree or rour-pouna packages.
Mind you, the express companies only
advance their charges IS cents per
pouna ior transcontinental service up to
four pounds, and they will carry seven
pounds the same distance for SI; but
nnouia your pacxage weign th. on goes
ou u ior tne quarter pound, evi
dently because Uncle Bam Isn't there.
In my opinion we are in this kind of a
muddle because we have relerated in
many instances our statesmen to the
shades of private life and delegated our
legislation xo politicians. politicians
have always been two-faoed; they play
to the galleries for votes of the gulli
ble, and behind closed doors arrange to
aerve the corporations, and as a result
we have a country manipulated - In the
Interest of corporations.
Our postal service should be com
pletely overhauled. A new postal serv
ice should be established upon tha sons
or distance system. This can be very
easily done and much good accom
plished. Make our postal service a
complete competitor of our express
companies. This would, in my opinion,
be one of the arandest strokes of na
tional legislation possible, far-reaching
in its scope and of universal benefit to
all classes, irrespective of who it is or
wnere tney live. it would give the
western mercnant tne use of the postal
service ln the distribution of his wares
on the short haul at a price tho east
ern house would not get, and this is
nothing but fair.
- Last, but not least, we should make
our postal service what it should be
establish the sone or distance system.
We would have a complete regulator of
express cnarges an over our4 land,
which of Itself would ba a srafd ac
complishment. We would not hive tn
appeal to that august body, the United
States railway commission, to "deter
mine whether all rates involving a serv
ice partly in two or mors states was
just. We would not have to appeal to
our state railway commission, give no
tice to the corporations and fight a case
through court, as now, to .determine
whether or not our express companies
are chare-lnav too much for our short.
haul service. We would have a serv
ice at hand doing this work for what
it Is worth all over our land. Our nraa.
ent law for the regulation of rates is
too cumbersome and expensive. The
humble people cannot afford the ex
pense of applying It.
This law made this way at the sug
gestion of corporations, a remedy t'nat
would not be used by the humble. Bv
nil means give us the completest postal
service the world has ever known nnrt it
will be worth many millions of dollars
to the suffering public.
tr. w. UAijvjsa.
Protest mm Central Oregon,
Silver Lake, OrBepf 28. To the
Editor of The Journal Central Oregon
is in sackcloth and ashes. Harrlman
the great has come. Investigated and
gone again;' has Indulged ln a few
agreeable platitudes and has decided
that while the country is all right and
should have roads, he will be unable to
do any building at present because the
people lack confidence In his high finan
cial methods and do not care to put.
their money Into his schemes; neither
do they care to build the roads them
selves and allow him to acquire an in-i
terest ln them, as he is reported to
have suarested at Prineville. Th mi
nine man a investigation or central Ore
gon in person was in fact about as
xnorougn ana sincere as nis past prom
ises of railroad-building Into this coun
try. He enjoyed himself at ' Pelican
Bay lodge which, by the way. he is re-
From the Ban Francisco Argonaut
The most " striking incident of the
week ln connection with the graft prose
cution was an angry outburst, on Fri
day last, by ex-Supervisor Boxton while
testifying ln the Glass retrial, to ths
effect that ths prosecution had not
protected" him as it had promised, and
fnrthar that ha had been advised by
Detective William J. Burns to make
oath to a falsehood. In a statement pre
viously made under oath Boxton had
said that he received nothing in con
nection with tha skating rink ordinance.
On the stand last Friday he waa closely
qeustloned by Delmaa aa to this decla
ration, and a situation was developed
in which Mr. Heney. flushed with em
barrassment, was compelled to ask Box
ton the direct Question. "I did receive
the money," eald Boxton; then he
snapped out. "I waa told to deny it and
even to make an affidavit to that ef
fect." "Who told you thatT" asked Mr.
Heney.
"Detective Burns! He advised me to
deny It, and even said I should make
an affidavit of denial. He also told
ma Spreckela had provided the S60d
bribe money and had kept the numbers
of ths papers the bills. I told Mr.
Heney what Burns advised me to do.
He told me to tell It all. I suppose
K.wf U hf" BOt h?n ugstsd that
Baseball ourves are Indecent. . . .
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. H. H. Rogers and John W. Oates
should meet and weep together, , ,
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Can it be possible that good crops
grow ln Oklahomaand it Democratic T
But what some of our statesmen seem
to need is a mental and moral Muldoon,
WIU;.,Pop,twnt t0 Pd money to
hear Tillman bellow Is one of the mya-
There is no doubt, Mr. Bryan, that
another candidate might be a little mors
Interesting. .
.Still It may be cheaper to buy fuel
than to move to rhs South Sea Islands
for ths winter.
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What a beautiful specimen of har
mony the Republican clubs of Portland
ar likely to display)
Nobody ,critieie Mark Twain for
hobnobbing with Standard Oil magnates
or doing anything else.
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Maybe Carrie Nation likes to spend
part of her time ln Jail; if so, she
knows how to get there.
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Now let ths world see how milrVlw
and easily Portland can raiae $100,000
tor mors fore the Rose Fiesta,
Annie Besant says John D. Is to be
reborn an angel: that is, ws suppose, If
he gives her a few millions first
Whether ths name la changed or not
keep It before all visitors that Bull Run
water Is the best city water la the
country.
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-But probably the north pole has
plenty more wind in store to send out
whenever Wellman's airship tries It
again.
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Nobody knows why Ths Hague con-
Burns was trying to protect Roy from
tha nawanaoera."
. Ths Incident taken by itself, Is not '''jce aidn't adjourn Blx wks ago
i,.. Tt h.a hw. I J?"1?" Ths la exceptionally
""- - ""- -- " pieuaant summer reaoru
ever, created widespread Interest, be- a a
cause It has exhibited Mr. Burns not A large part of the Taft boom seems
only in the attitude of coaching a wit- to have trailed after him acroas the
neas, out or so arranging tne auiiemeni i rvmi;. oui nwyoe it wtu ioiiow mm
made by the witness under oath as to around and so come back.
eoniorm to ma own iuohb vi tn
prlety of evidence. It is not a pleasant
exposure. It adds an element or aouot
in the case of the testimony of wit
nesses subject to influence through.tbeir
oMia-ationa to tha craft prosecution Un-
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der contracts or immunity granted in
consideration of their giving testimony
as reauired by the prosecution. If the;
chief evidence producer of the prose-
Considering Standard Oil's profits
during many years. It seems rather
small business to kick about that little
trivial fine of $30,000,000.
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A Chicago college professor says
there are no humorists in this country.
We have sometimes tried to think that
the Chicago professors were humorous.
cutlon Is a man capable of coaching a but have to acknowledge that they are
witness, aa indicated oj to outwu in-1 only amy.
cldent then there is no reason why the
testimony of anybody under Mr. Burns
iniiuenoe should not be anything that
Mr. Burns may wish. He holds In his furnish a valuable suggestion; why not
hand the power to send to Han wuentin substitute a great number or ox teams
nearly a score of men who are being for freight train? Wouldn't they be
used from day to day as witnesses, speedier, if not cheaper? '
Perhaps Exra Meeker's Journey across
the continent with an ox team might
Under ths circumstances, how much
credit Is to be attached to the testimony
of these witnesses, especially since it
is developed in one definite ease that
Mr. Burns is not above suggesting to
witnesses what he wants to 14 and what
he want left unteiar r-
Prineville, Madras and-over ths hills
to Jjetroit ana nis waning imu.
r.ntnii ontinn. Indendl He has not
even touched ths skirts of central Ore-
2't what m.tr it. aa he aavs he
knows that locality better than- most of
. u nnrfionii murftnuniiT vvmcn lioi-
haps is not making any very extravagant
claim, since tne aociioti muhm " ,
ally appeared as ln a fog when viewed
through the spectaeles of the average
Portlander. . . , . ...
nn thin he admits is the doubling
Of th population Since) .Ilia ;uryy i
nave oegun worn, ana li; miumwu""
is conservative and reliable, for each
survey party has made exhaustive re
ports or ail vital couamuii vi ! v .
mate, settlement and crops, agricultural
areas, etc, and as many as five .parties
h, tun nun tha AnHr-work within
tho nt twn veara. So the element of
aouot IS not present to siiwi in "
value or tno lomiory. .. .
But why should he build more lines
when he Is unable toaandle Properly
the tonnage offered his present lines?
All know that his surveys have a value
iff securing rtht of way. over vacant
overnment lands. Tne suDsequent set
ir nn thaaa landa may know nothing
aa to which of the surveys have been
adopted and filed in the, land office,
and cannot safely make, improvements
In advance of the actual building of the
road, lest thev Increase the damage re
sulting therefrom. Delay means noth
ing of safety since the limit or sucn
grants can be indefinitely extended
through plausible legislative Jugglery
of which the average settler can know
nothing. '.'.''
But suppose another competitor de
sires to enter the field., Mr. Harrlman
has all the preliminary work well In
nana ana can nevote mpac-or ni tim
A street lecturer says the north polo
is a hole In the ground, the entrance to
an inhabited interior. May it not be
that If a pole hunter should verify this
theory ne wouia nave mane a Digger
discovery than-ho expected, towtt: the
hot place?
denea of the feeline? among ths people.
who are beginning to show as well ss
feel a certain contempt for one who
seems to think they can be duped and
cajoled7 without stint and yet not re-
nt It In anma manner. And it la. to
be regretted that, ths financial plans of North Powder,
a year ago, unaer wmcn. as reportea,
funds were raised for heavy construc
tion ln Oregon, should have been for
gotten and ths present plea of tight
money substituted. Certain it is Har
rlman methods need Investigation and
Improvement in tha interest of the
whole people. Let legislative represen
tatives oe neia to a closer accountaou
Oregon Sidelignts
Many immigrant wagons pass through
a a
A peach raised near Milton measured
114x12 inches.
School enrollment at The Dalles was
40 more on the first day than a year
ago.
A bobcat waa killed near Nvasa that
ity ana waive party lines ana prejudices ths Sun says had destroyed rour dosen
in the interest of a business admlnls- chickens, one goose and nine hogs.
irauon vi puuuu an airs, ana an enuin
ding
s of
of the era of araft '"Toe editoriali
The Journal along this line deserve
man tney wm
L. THOMPSON.
r
probably receive.
Ths Burns Tlntes-Herald tells of a
farmer from Calamity who brought over
seven varieties of grain for- display, at
ths county fair next month. Isn't tt
about time to get tho name of his set
tlement changed?
a
Burns Times-Herald: The many grain
fields throughout this section present a
very busy scenes these days with the
ported as having purchased for a sum
mer resort and, -having finished his
fishing In that locality, he engaged a
mule team ahd"departed on his inspec
tion tour of eentrar Oregon by taking a
northwesterly course toward Odell take
where a day's hunting waa allowed his
sons while ho visited the survey camps
of Chief Bngineer Rankin.
- -Upon the arrival of Manager 0'Brln
with the au too ho was off again north
ward, skirting the bases of the Cascades
and almost.-, all the timo within the
boundary of ths Cascade forest reserve
uaUl Bend waa reached; . thence to.
to harassing and impeding the efforts
of his antagonist, regardless of the wel
fare of t.ie public as ' was witnessed
early this vear within- the limits of
Portland ana along ine norm snore oi
the Columbia, where this antagonism
resulted in largely increased expense of
construction, for which not Mr. Hill
nor Mr. Harrlman nor their stocknold
ers became the ultimate losers, but the
dear public Itself which pays the bills.
Thus surveys 'by Mr. Harrlman rather
serve to show how hopeless is the
plight of central Oregon, and how help
less It Is in his power.
Stripped of his power; and apart from
his transportation "business. Mr. Harrl
man seems an ordinary enough mortal,
and no animosity Will be shown him
when amoner the people, except he in
vites It; but his methods and policies
nr rtt nubllo concern and must
shaped more ln the public Interest and
lr ne cannot aajust nimeeir wuungiy to
the new order of things he should be
brought to bar as is any ordlnarv of
fender against the welfare of ths com
munity.
One of the results . of this delay in
building is becoming apparent ln the
numbers of homesteaders who are com
muting and leaving for the outside.
Where the demand for labor, coupled
wtth the uncertainty as to the opening
of this country, Is too strong to be re
slated. It is no exaggeration, however,
to sav that, Should actual railroad con
struction begin, settlement wonia roi
low over an area of 10 miles wide along
the line, and crops sufficient to tax the
capacity of the new roadbed and equip
ment would be available within a yeaf
The evidence of this latter , fact fs to
ne seen, on Bummer ian". wnere ihhi
year thev had a surplus of about 15,000
bushfis of grain. This year the same
locality hag about 2S.000 bushels. Vari
ous localities newly settled have made
preparations for trebling their areas
should construction basin at once, but
snouid it Decome a settiea conviction
that the construction forces will require
aa little nf the country aa It la aald the
Harrlman party needed at Rosland on,
their recent trip, slight preparation will
be made. - . . .
The atorv as heard hr Is that. Mr.
O'Brien, anticipating tha needs -Of to
party; ordered smiper to h neady at S
p. m. Supper and party were promptly
on time, but Instead of partaking there-
or. aa doubtless most of the party pre
ferred, Mr. Harrlman decided otherwise,
and. purchasing a. few cents 'worth of
dried prunes and a -. small nucknge of
oda cracker at the store, they- at out
for Bend, where, . Itls prwomed, ' the
Inner man waa mora full w satisfied.
'But, 'then, such stories may not be true
in tne main, ana the. wide and prompt
circulation given them la. but onstsvt-
Indorse The Journal's Course.
Independence, Or., Sept. H. To ths
Editor of Ths Journal The splendid!
editorials in rne journal ror tne past threshing machines at work in every
It n Art IS m An tfo k maisit1 am a ak, direction. From reports it seems the
locks and an open Willamette river Is rUU Is unusually heavy in most places.
doing much to mould public sentiment A Umatilla man who advertised for
and the people of western Oregon are several hundred dollars' worth of checks
now beginning to realise the fact that which, had been 1 oat found them where
their only relief from excessive freight they had been misplaced at his home.
rates and car shortage, must come pla. ??7,?r' lne umatiiia oarper, wno
through water transportation. Tou.l lo L Ln u,rse ft," h.nd ,?imonv
Brother Hofer. and a few other oaoers returned by a friend who found it where
are making a great fight for the farm- Mr. Baylor had Inadvertently left it.
era and producers, and the people are . . -
expecting that our delegation will secure Weston correspondence of East Ore-
an appropriation from congress - this gonlan: This is proving to be by far
winter at. least equal to that given by the best school year ln the Weston nor-
the state, which will insure the building mal e history. Already 160 pupils have
of new locks or the ourchaslnar bv the been enrolled and bv Christmaa. after
government of the old ones, and thus the fall season is over; it Is expected
make the Willamette free and open to that, there will bo at least 200. pupils at
the public forever. B. F. JONES. J the school. Every available room in
the town has already been occupied and
Surpasses Anything on Coast. Sf.rShferoe " are bcl"s mad8 for mora
Mt Angel. Sent 16. To. the Editor of ' , "
Ths Journal Shake hands. Tour most t JBond Bulletin: When the Harrlman
beautiful annual number surnnsaea any- Doy" wr V Bend, they stepped into the
oaauuiui annual numDer surpasses any- new..ttand and the younger lad in-
thing that has been contemplated la this quired for souvenir postal cards Mr.
line on tho Paclfio coast It's really Grant handed out an assortment of
grand, and I congratulate you and your postals and remarked that they were 10
able staff. If Roosevelt sees this issue cents each. - "But" replied young Har-
he will be "de ligh te d." rlman, "I've only got a nlckel.'r The
EPITOR ST. JOSEPH'S BLATT. I older brother then came tothe rescue
with the- remaric that he naa a quarter
which he forthwith dug up and between
them they were able to purchase three
This Date In History.'
178-2 First issue of tha Rhode Island I nnatala
n ... - , I -
1743 Governor Clinton dissolved the
New York legislature. -
4779 Savannah, Georgia, besieged by
the French fleet and a part ,of the
southern army.
1804 The remodollng of the Whits
uouse at wasnmgton was started.
1818 General William Henry Harri
son invaded Canada from Detroit. .
1814 James Monroe of Virginia be
came acting secretary of war.
1829 A mill Tor cleaning rlcs was
invented by Ravenel of South Carolina.
1847 Lester Wsllack made his first
appearance on tne stage at New York.
1854 Over 800 Uvea Inat hv collision
of a British steamer and a French bark
near Cape Baca. . , ,.
1874 Typhoon at Hongkong resulted
in io at over ,vuo lives. v
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The Pedestrian, " ? -J ,
From the Washington Star.'
He looked about with air distraught
And cried In tones of woe;
I'm wondering which way I ought ' -: '
In quest of peace to go.
The streets, are filled with motor cars"
Which pass me madly bv:
There will be airships 'mid the stars
If I should learn to fly. i
E'en in the ocean depths profound
Strana-e craft I'll dodge in vain. -
And should I burrow 'neath, the ground
I'll meet a subway train.
Unto state of nervous stress - " , ;
My life is surely linked.
My only chance for' happiness
Is to become extinct"
V - Timely.-' V ,
From the- Philadelphia Bulletin.
Father Tims makes his mark, and It's
eftsn ia the nature of a bald spot
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