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Trust that man In nothing
who has not a conscience In
everything. Laurence Sterne.
THE SHERIFF AND THE LAW.
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HERIFF STEVENS has so far
made no adequate explanation
of hli clearly unlawful and un
just acta of remitting portions
of the taxes of certain taxpayers, as
fixed by the assessment roll. Per
haps the sufficient reason why no ex
planation has been forthcoming la
that none Is to be discovered or In-
Tented. There have beep many of
these .Illegal partial remissions of
taxes, amounting In the aggregate to
food deal of money, and It Is clear
ly unjust to other taxpayers, espe
cially the poorer ones, who have paid
the full amount due from them ac
cording to the rolls. Next year
their taxes will be higher on this ac
count.
That these remissions, on mere
unsworn statements, are entirely II
legal and inexcusable there Is no
donbt whatever. By no latitude of
construction does the law authorize
such act on the part of the sheriff.
Jar. Stevens has simply taken It
Upon himself, without any authority
of law, to remit a portion of the
taxes of scores of citizens. The re
duction In the assessment was In
some cases many thousands of dol
lars.
The Journal does not desire to
persecute Sheriff Stevens in the
feast, nor to do him any injustice.
It has merely stated record facts
which the public ought to know and
has a right to know. Years ago
uch things and far worse were con
cealed, were never brought to light,
and the city and county were then
at the mercy of a dishonest political
ring, but that time has passed.
Every official Is accountable to the
public for all his official acts. If
he disobeys the law the people
should know it. And If he furnishes
no explanation the people must make
their own explanations.
Sheriff Stevens !s a very intelli
gent man. Why has he thus dis
obeyed the law?
reptiles that strike In the dark. To
them, the lowest type of human de
pravity Is the creature who takes no
chances, but from a safe ambush ex
plodes his horrible death-machine on
an unsuspecting victim. Because
sacrificed for a motive and at such
hands, ex-Sheriff Brown's death will
be infinitely more effective In the
cause of good citizenship, decency
and a pure state than he ever wbb
In the beat days of his vigorous and
useful life.
EUGENE AND RAILROADS.
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OME WEEKS ago the people of
Kugene subscribed quite a
large sum of stock to a pro
posed railroad from that city
Into the extensive timber belt west
ward, the design being to extend It
ultimately to Sluslaw harbor. The
promoter, a Mr. Cleaver, did not act
to suit the people of Eugene, and ho J
claims that they exacted unreason
able conditions of him, so they tore
up the subscription list and aban
doned the project. This they did
he more readily because they be
came Interested in what seemed to
hem a more Immediately profltabl
project, the electric railroad that Is
to be built between that city and
Portland. Already the Eugene end
of this road is completed, and It
was opened to traffic within the Urn
Its of that city last week.
The Eugene people were perhaps
wise In this, unless they could aid
both projects at once sufficiently to
Insure their success, though they
will doubtless find it wise to take
up the other enterprise again later
if a favorable opportunity offers. It
Is especially Important for Eugene
to get this railroad connection with
Portland and Intermediate valley
points, for it will help them a great
deal, most of anything in the way
or. transportation development ex
cept an open Willamette river; but
the projected Sluslaw road is also a
matter of great Importance to that
city, and ought not to be given up.
Eugene Is splendidly situated. If It
Improves every possible opportunity,
to become a large interior city.
should be a large attendance from
Portland, especially on the ninth
and we hope that many business
men of this city will arrange to go
Don't forget that an open Columbia
river to Lewlston and British Co
lumbla within three years Is worth
literally millions to Portland, and
such affairs as this will help to
bring it about.
A MOOTED QUESTION.
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HERE WILL be a consequential
sequel to the atrocious murder
of ex-Sheriff Brown of Baker
City. Those responsible for it
have sown the wind; they will reap
the whirlwind. If never discovered,
punishment will be their portion Just
the same. In life, ex-Sheriff Brown
lashed lawbreakers; in his death he
"Will scourge them with a whip of
Are. The manner of his death win
' ) he neither forgotten nor forgiven.
It will have exactly the nnrmeitA of.
feet that the assassins planned. The
"detonation of their bomb will be
heard to the utmost confines of
Oregon. It will awalten echoes that
will never be silenced. With them
will be mingled, not only the death
cry of Harvey Brown, nut the mes
sage of the cause in which he was
stricken.
A message Is bigger than the life
of any man, even as decent a man
as ex-Sheriff Brown. That is what
bodes ill, not only to his assassins
and their kind in case of discovery,
hut to the cause, whatever it may
have been, for which they struck.
The hardest biow ever struck the
south was when John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Lincoln. It brought
more wpe to the south than any
other single event in the cruel four
years' war. Jefferson Davis la
mented it as the greatest misfortune
that befell his stricken people. The
principle In that tragedy is the prin
ciple In the Brown assassination.
Time will probably tell, and may tell
quickly, from what ranks Brown's
assassins came. If it never tells,
there will be always the definite
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NEWS ITEM from Pendleton
states that. through the efforts
of the Commercial club of
that city 6,600acres of wheat
land near that town will be cut up
Into five and ten-acre tracts and ir
rigated and devoted to the raising
of all varieties of fruit, thereby in
creasing its value 6 0-fold to the
business interests of Pendleton. Not
only will stuff of far greater value
be raised, but instead of being in
habited by a very few families, it
will be made to support a population
of perhaps 2,000 people. The
project Is not fully assured of suc
cess yet, but it is believed it can be
carried out.
This is exactly In line with sug
gestions repeatedly made by The
Journal. It seems an entirely feasi
ble project for the boosters of any
town to carry out, and is a sure way
of Increasing the population, pro
ducts, consumption and trade of the
city and vicinity. Of course it takes
considerable capital, and the land
must be obtainable. But with good
management there 1b no chance of
loss, and In most cases a large tract
of nearby land can be obtained.
The development leagues and lo
cal organizations of every town are
calling for more people, urging Im
migrants to come to their vicinity,
but what a large proportion of im
migrants want Is small farms, near
a transportation line. Offer these,
at reasonable prices, and the immi
grants will come fast enough. We
hope the Pendleton project will
succeed and that it will be an ex
ample that will be followed by other
towns.
HE SUIT of a handsome woman
of Portland for damages for
the unauthorized use of her
picture for advertising pur
poses Is not the flrnt of Its kind.
Some years ago a pretty Rochester,
New York, woman brought a sim
ilar action on account of the use of
ber picture in a more offensive way
n cigar boxes, we believe and
by a majority of one. Judge Parker,
later candidate for president, ren
dering the opinion, the court of ap
peals of New York held that a per
son's picture was not Inviolable per
sonal property, and that the action
could not be maintained. This de
cision was much criticised, the writer
hereof Joining in a modest way in
the criticism, and it was quite gen
erally believed that other courts
would take a different view of the
matter. This happened, quite re
cently. In New Jersey, where the
court rendered an exactly contrary
decision. So It seems to be as yet
a mooted question, and the decision
of an Oregon court upon it will be
Interesting.
Letters From ike People
Spiritualists Declare Principle.
Portland, Bent. 30. To the Editor of
Th Journal Please take nolle thiit
m the annual convention of the Btato
Spiritualists of Oregon th follOWlnK
principle were Indorsed:
"1. That to the soul, or real man
there I no death whatever; that What
I commonly called death Is but tran
DOES NOT AGREE WITH BIERCE AS
TO "AMERICA'S GREATEST POET'
normal condition In
la constant progres
altlon.
'2. That the
the spirit world
slnn.
3. That thnHc whn naaa nvir In In.
lam-y ana cnunnoort. or In early life
, up io mannooa and
ntully. spiritually arid
tributes of Individuality under learned
una eir'cient snlill teachrra.
"4. Ttuit we recognize the fact of
epirit communion nnd manifestation in
various methods and forms, through
wnu Hre uesiKnauvi as mediums
possessed of certain spiritual gifts.
which were oulte K-enersllv and defl.
nllely referred to and described hv th
ApoHtic I'huI in his letter to the church
iuiioiik which are the gifts of clairvoy
ance, ur discerning of spirits; clalraudl-
rice. or trie neatlng or snlrlt voices
nu tne aivlnir of messages from e
carnuto beings; the gift of Inspiration
and of speaking, writing or otherwise
manifesting under control; also to
thoHe ho endowed with the gift of
prophecy, whereby the controlling
"i'"M :nity iook torwarn to event In
the future life of Individuals In the
carui ure; also the power by which an
arisen menu may materlallte in par
Hal or full form.
"6. That we believe in and strlnllv
adhere to the efficiency and power of
spirit nennng through persona en
dowed with psychic power, whom w
'irsixnme as psycnn-magnetlc or spirit
AmDroae Slerce, one of the most
noted literary critics of the day, re
cently pronounced George Sterling
"A Wine of Wizardry" a geat poem an
it author America' greatest living
poet The poem, with Blerce'a com
ment, was published In the Septembe
lasue or the Cosmopolitan, and both
poem and comment attracted wide at
tentlon and provoked much discussion
It Is an unusual thino tnr -
womanhood Itierce to praise anyone or anything, for
oe is snown as most mercuea and uu
Nparing in his criticism and his nam
ih synonymous witn tne moit savage
!U I I V.
Among those who do not agree with
the judgment passed by Blerca unon
mi-iiirig una ins poem is Allen Kelly,
one of the editorial writer on the Loa
-ngcies Times. Kelly and Ulerce are
Mdtline friend and for a number of
Ji'irs tney were associated In newsna
' wors. iveuy is Known a a keen,
irllllant. Incisive writer, who ha a
habit of forming his own opinion and
expressing tnem In vigorous English
in u recent lasue of the Time, writing
unocr ine nom ae piurne or ine L.1111-
'', lie take issue with Hlerce, as fol
lows:
I have profound respect for the onln.
ion of Ambrose Blerce concerning all
Mugs literary, and unbounded admira
tion for his abilities and achievements
in lettera. He 1 a master craftsman
Bui Hlerce ha a aubtlc wlt-and a mis
chievous humor, fcnd sometime when
he xeems most serious he Jest sardon
ically. Perhaps he played an elaborate
pratiK wnen ne lauded as tne greatest
Down the river the opinion Is
unanimous that the up-river wheels
are bad things. Up the river the
river-mouth gear is considered alto
gether evil. Are not both mistaken?
Let both operate freely, and It won't
be long till we will get entirely rid
of the troublesome salmon ques-
lon. Consider what a bother It It
o a great many people ana now
much dispute it causes. But even
under present conditions the sal
mon won't trouble us to hurt a few
years hence. There will be enough,
however, it is hoped, for another
four years or so, to furnish an ex-
use for paying a large salary to a
political pet.
magnetic healers; either by tha use nf I P" ,n America, the author of a dellrl-
the mediums hands to direct and Aim. I ou thing entitled "A Wine of Wizard-
tribute the spirit healing: forces or bv I r)'- printed In the latest number of
the psychic force alone Indenonriant Henrsl 11 yellow magazine.
physical contact. We recognize th I Th' M,et Oeorgc Sterling, and the
practice of this sift as lmnnrtnf in I poem purports to describe the thine
carrying forward the sosnel or reii.lnn I ne saw alter ariiiKing a cud or wine.
of spiritualism as it was In the days of I H w''" a potent drink that produced
jenu ana ine apostles in establishing ,ur" "n 01 aeiirium tremens,
and the work nf tne primitive Christian ' ol"'' knew a man who had 'em for
church. The practice of all of which r'r- "ntl wandered three day In the
spiritual gifts we consider sacred and deacrt. chasing green-haired ballet srlrla
binding upon spiritualist teachers and I 'n pink tights and combing snakes out
mediums the world over I of his whisker, but he never saw any-
rhat we further believe In and I thing to compare with the circus nro-
teach the brotherhood of all mankind cession that passed before Mr. Sterling
and the practical exercise of true and I He would give his shirt for three fln
unselflsh love of man to man In nll I gers of the Jag-Juice mentioned bv Mr.
associations and affairs of life and the Sterling and recommended so highly by
strict observance of the golden rule a Mr. Hlerce.
taught by Jesus and Confucius as a These are some of the thing seen
perfect manifestation of divine spirit by th greatest poet In America and
in man." HARRY YANCKWICH. decrlbed In the wonderful no.
8ec. State Bntrltunllst Association. Wattled monster (chuckawallaa, per-
haps,) cowled magicians sifting satanlo
gules; Icebergs painted like barber poK'i
(Desert Johnnie had no such luck as
to see Iceberg;) a locoed damsel wear
ing a bracelet that would scar a lizard;
a flock of flying dragon, poet writ
ing In vipers' blood ode to the devil,
a dragon In a "gyre," which must bo
something creepy; gnome with scarlet
eye, lichen whispering scandal about
a dead woman, a bleeding sun,
hydras, scarlet-bellied snakes, Sa
tan fondling a aklnned man, Sa
tan's wive dressed in red hot chains
and dancing In bell, a sick enchantress
cursing the stars while stirring a kettle
of harlots' blood, a blue eyed vampire,
the moon in an advanced stage of lep
rosy. Hlerce say that 1 arrest poetry; Ellv
Wheeler wucoz says It is clotted nun
sense, or word to that effect. Desert
Johnnie would have said it was the
fiercest Jag that ever came down the
pike, and If h had been beset by such
visions. I believe w should have found
him dead Instead of baking In tha sun
beside a cactus and babbling with black
ened tongue of Niagaras of mint Julep.
Not being a poet, I do not presume
to deny that the rhymed ravings of a
dope fiend are poetry of the deepest
dye. I'he discoverer of the greatest
and yellowest poet frankly declare
that no one knows what nnetrv It. but
affirms that there are enlightened few 'ne use or hi prevaricating thus pal-
wno Know wnai is poetry, ana tnai 111"
A 1 urflnr 1 v nntlnntf trlftln In tha ftim.a I
or wizard wine through the noddle or "n are saia to honor Pocahonta
nenrae Sterling are nreclnns stuff he- greatly because she waa th fir.t
cause Sterling wrote without purpose to interfere successfully with
and his worn is devoid or motive, rcr- ",0"
hap that explain why Coleridge' lda ... .
bf a ' holy and enchanted place, haunted . , , m? calve say it I nobody
by a woman walling for her demon I , . nr own wnen or whom she
lover" Is pronounced by poets a !'J ,"7 marry. 1 hat's o; not een
Pi lar nf Hercules of humane I imiiht." "": J""uea s.
and raved over by Kipling us
the moat stupendous thought ever
thunk by mortal man. It doesn't mesn
nythlng In the world, but It sounds
great.
it appear that you can distinguish
real poet by hi epithets; that "In
them 1 the supreme ordeal to which
hA mliat rilmA rA frnm uhlnh th,r, la
no appol;' that the epithet of the """ "ne th president opinion
n la luift srp inn innr w in nnvai nnn i "
" Small Ckange
Secretary of peace would be a better
title.
It boat all how many fools become
college professor.
Dr. Cos is still for Roosevelt; he and
Senator Bourne make two.
That Canton speech was evldontly
rather hard work for Roovic
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There Un't a Jap In Toklo. however
mall, but believe he I a bigger man
than Taft.
Koraker COntlmioa tn ho ImnnUmA In
Ohio and la lunnnuit m h ton mml
for utterance.
After all. come to think it
baaeball pennant I not uulte the most
important thing to get.
One thing Peary and Wellman needn't
worry about; the pole will be there Just
the same any year hereafter.
If the Driee at mlllr Lrar. .nn, i,n
It win be appropriate for dairy cows
to wear diamond on their horn.
People of the Pacific northwest car
almost as little about Irl Hick' torm
predictions a they do about Wail atreet
panics.
Old Orafter Depew- aays he approve
Roosevelt and his policies wfint la
A Portlan.l woman hn h..
150,000 damagea say she doesn t want
any money from the defendant. it i.
supnoaed the amount mentioned was In
serted to appear Impressive.
A Sacramento man v a
undred chicken to answer bus-le calls
felicitous significance." Now I have
standard of Judgmrnt. and I know
greater poet tnan ueorae Sterling- or
any other of Hearst' bunch. He Uvea
in Arizona and punches cows, and he
as an assortment of epithet whose
ovel and reiloltoua lgnlflcance would
curl Kipling' hair and make Keats alt
p in his grav.
had nn number In
Portland. Oct. I. 1907 To the Editor could determine
of The Journal There Is some sort of Now what does all
sight, so far a I
this mean? It
a society for the prevention of CPUeIty means simply that any one who will de
,, ,, . "uo" face his number Intends to exceed the
No man in this community has
borne a higher reputation for truth
fulness than has Dr. Harry Lane.
He has been known as a man of the
most unswerving veracity, and even
his enemies have recognized this
trait In his character. Such a repu
tatlon is not to be overthrown by
anything but the strongest proof
Such proof is not afforded by the
testimony of such a despicable
scoundrel as the man Madding, nor
by that of his associates. Undoubt
edly Mayor Lane has faults and un
doubtedly he has made mistakes, but
we do not believe him to be a liar.
peed limit. In other words, they In
tend to violate the law, and the medi
cine thev need Is about 90 day at
Kelly' Hitte.
Why don t those In authority take
notice of these violations of lawT Or
are the laws made to be violated and
the people created to be killed by auto
mobiles? A CLOSE OBSERVER.
to animals In existence In Portland.
We hear of It once In a while when a
turkey Is to be dropped from a balloon
or a dog has suffered the Ignominious
punishment of having a tin receptacle
attached to his caudal appendage. What
I would like to know is whv this so
ciety does not get busy with the matter
of relieving horses from the overhead
eheckllne flendlshness?
A galled collar sore, a Spanish bit. or
an overload up the Steel bridge Is kind
ness compared to the torture of the
overhead eheckllne.
It Is operated under the Idea that a
horae can be made to look stylish and
to arch his neck, but It only tortures
the animal, tears his mouth, causes It
to stumble frequently and Interferes
with Its speed. Applied to a 110 plug globe theory. But there are two hollow
ii iiuiKes ii iook HKe a woorlen horaa
The Hollow Globe Theory,
Portland, Sept. 30 To the Editor of
The Journal Fantastic theories are put
forward by very honest and capable
men, and one coming to light again
through your columns Is the hollow
In the foods
By Wex Jones.
Got three blankets, four larg knives,
two revolver, two rifle, one hotgun.
on pocket mirror, one camera with 800
plates, one pocket compass, 2,000 car
tridges, one bpx dontneeda biscuits and
one round trip ticket to Paesmeaquldof-
tobaeco lakes.
in thl tory before guaranteeing that
t lsn t a apeclmen of nature faking.
Little Jack Horner ui in - -
Katlnar aome tariff nit '
He cut In hi thumb and took out a
plum.
And Bald. "The tariff must b revised
hb iricnuB.
Detroit News.
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One of the nrealiiantini
opinions that the Chicago Tribune re
ceived from Oregon was:
cannon h airly good.
Fairbanks Too thin.
Hughes Don't know much ahm. tk.
gent. "w
Knox Same a Hughe.
Taft Too fat"
Oregon Sidelights
There Is, or was, a story of a cab
driver who, driving a hideously bony
horse, was hailed by an old acquaint
ance with, "Hey, gettln' in a new
borse?" "Naw, watcher givin' us?"
snorted the driver. "O, I see you
had a framework up," replied the
joker. The application of this un
aesthet'ic yarn may perhaps be found
within the next few months In ob
serving the activities of certain old
political ringsters, especially those
who are trying to break down the
primary law.
ana applied to a good and valuable
animal it Boon makes a plug out of It.
I have no doubt that some of the arls
tocrats of this city contribute to the
society ror tne prevention of cruelty
to animals, and consider their money
well spent when some teamster Is ar
restee; ror working his horse with
sore shoulder. These same goody-
complacently anve horses with
tneir heads checked up In a most tor
turous and unnatural manner. Perhaps
that Is why none of the arrests made
are among the overhead checkers. A
horse only cries out when In deadly
rear ana agony, and Its sufferings are
therefore not so easily noticeable as
when cruelty Is inflicted on a dog, or
a. man.
If anyone thinks a horse does not suf
rer when compelled to hold Its head
above the level of its back hour after
nour ne snouid prop hi own chin back
with a sharp stick so that he could
not see his toes as he walked. I would
like tc have the Dower to nrnctlna the
overneaa cnecK system 10 minutes on
some of the men and women who per
mit, ii on meir norses
FRED C. DENTON.
THE DALLES, OCTOBER 9.
EXT WEEK, October 8 to 12,
inclusive, the second district
fair will be held at The Dalles.
The district comprises the
counties of Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler and Crook, all of which will
contribute a large attendance, be
sides many from Klickitat county
across the Columbia, Multnomah
county and other Columbia river
counties. On Wednesday, the ninth,
the Open River association will meet
at The Dalles, and the session will
be one of much importance to all
persons interested in an open rlver.
The executive oommittee will re-
Secretary Taft is talking peace,
not war, over in Japan, and the peo
ple of both nations, all but some
naval officers and a few hotheads,
applaud. Mr. Taft correctly says
that for the United States and Japan
to go to war would be proof of na
tional Insanity.
Under the caption, "How the
Hatchet Will Be Burled," the Sioux
City (Iowa) Journal (stalwart Re
publican), prints a cartoon of a G.
O. P. elephant, with the whole blade
of the batchet sunk in its head. But
this does not necessarily apply to
Oregon.
port, a new committee and officers
knowledge; that they are of those will be elected, ways and means to I
Though he will officially approve
the constitution of Oklahoma, his
personal opinion of It Is said to be
"unfit for publication." But some
statesmen think the same about the
constitution of the United States.
Hurrah for Teddy!
Rainier, Or.. Oct. J. To the Editor bf
The Journal In reading your paper I
saw In an article In regard to the presi
dent and his administration that vou
spoke of the capitalists putting up $30,
000 to carry New York for Roosevelt.
Well. now. Mr. Editor, I don't know
It may be that they did, but I do bet
you a ten-dollar hat that they won't
put up $30,000 to nominate h'lm this
i nor. ui eieci mm, eitner. vvny, we
haven't had a man In the White House
since the days of Abraham Lincoln that
has been the president of the people
that Mr. Roosevelt has.
You talk about his third term Mr
Roosevelt lias'heen elected president but
once, and he may have my vote for the
second term. I am a working man. I
never held a public position, and am not
qualified to fill the position if I had it,
but, gentlemen, I know a man when I
Bee his actions.
I never try to influence a man's vote,
hut if the business men and the working
men don't get Into line and nominate
and elect Mr. Roosevelt for another term
they ought every one to go hungry for
the next four years. That is straight
goods, all won and a yard wide.
I am 48 years old. and have never seen
such prosperity In sll lines of business
as we have had In the last three years.
Not only that, hut lie has done more to
check the capitalists that put up the
$30,000 to elect him than anv other pres
ident that has ever been In the White
House.
He has done more than anyone else to
check the thieving and stealing of the
public domain; he has not spared the
rich any more than the poor in this dis
honesty In fact, he hag been a presi
dent of the people and for the people.
Now If we as Americans haven't sense
enough to appreciate such treatment we
don't deserve a president, and we ought
to starve to death right in front of a
bakerv. Hurrah for Teddv, once, twice
and all the time. J. B. DANIEL.
globe theories. One that we live on the
outside of a hollow globe, and the other
that we live on the Inside of one. When
the two theorle.are pitted against each
other the bystanders ar Intensely
amused. I'nttl one school of thought
absorb and convince the other, com
mon mortals can complacently "hoe
'tater" on either the Inside or the out
side of this earth, as the case may be.
with a certainty that whoever owns it
owns the men on It or in It. If w
would devote our mental energies to de
stroylng the holding of land out of use,
for speculation, we could very well af
ford to live on either th inside or out
side of the globe.
As It Is, the American people are rap
Idly becoming a tenant nation. In an
other generation we will not be able to
live Inside or outside of the globe with
out the permission of some landlord, or
syndicate of them, operating upon the
principle Of all "the traffic will bear."
r KEU C. DENTON.
has several new reil-
Lakevlew's schools onunH .hi,
pupil. " r
North Bend la to h
manufacturing plant.
Nearly 29 per cent gain in stamp
sales at the Portland postofflce in
September over the same month last
year Is evidence of large growth that
cannot be confuted.
-who are) git-en to law breaking, and
that Brown was slain because he op
posed! them and their purposes. That
Will be the message heralded by the
.explosion, and " kept alive by its
; echoes. 'It will, with enormous ef
fectiveness, create an enlarged sen
timent for" cleansing the state of
the vicious and putting the public
liouse in order. . ' J ,."
' Americans-admire a fair fight in
jta open field., . Toe loathe skulking i
extend the portage railway fom the
Big Eddy to The Dalles will be con
Kidered, and resolutions setting
forth the need of pulling the Ce
lilo canal on a continuing contract
basis will be discussed.
On account of this meeting, as
well as on account of the neighbor
ing fair that will be well worth at
tending, to say nothing of the pleas
ant trip up the river and the bracing
atmosphere of The Dalles, there i
Chairman "Westgate is to get his
reward at. last, He has been a faith
ful partisan, and it is said was once
a surveyor.
If He Could Do It Again.
From Judge.
"Dr. Thudlelgli preached his wife's
first husband's funeral sermon, didn't
he?"
"Yes. And I'll bet if he could do It
again he'd emphasize the opinion he
expressed about the poor man having
gone to a more delightful place than
ihia worUi In '
Automobile Numbers.
Portland. Sept. 30. To the Editor of
The Journal I have often noticed that
some autos have bright, clean and easily
legible numbers, while others have
theirs mud-spattered, more or less de
faced, and In some cases Illegible at
any distance. I have long had a suspi
cion as to the cause of this and yes
terday made it my business to Investi
gate, and I learned the facts as they
exist, in some rmses the tags eeem to
be simply but completely plastered with
mud to obliterate the fjsrures: one. No. I
io, seemed to nave been treated with a
solution of Iron rust, and also irregu
larly scratched in various direction
with a hard pointed instrument, making
the figures indistinct except at very
Biiuri range wnen wie macnine is Still
absolutely illegible when In motion.
Other tags had been treated with a
hammer or with strokes of some heavy,
hard object that broke and pulled off
enough of one or more figures to render
It impossible to read them when the
machine Is In motion. I saw one prob
ably a figure 2 with the bottom line
the only part of it left on the tajr. An.
other tag had a figure 1 which was over
nair nammerea on, so a person couldn't
be sure when the machine Is dashing
by whether that figure was a 7 or a i
Another mochln a larg red one
Patron lie Home Industries.
Condon, Sept. 30. To the Editor of
The Journal Some week ago a Home
Comfort Range peddler started out to
canvass our county for the sale of his
wares. On the same day I started a
postal card to the head of every family
In the county rending as follows:
"GIVE YOUR NEIGHBOR A CHANCE.
"Range peddlers are abroad in the
country. Their ranges are no better
than ours, and their prices are higher.
Why not buy at home? We can pound
ours with a post maul, hit It over a
wagon wheel, or throw It out of the
wagon as they do They are here todav
and gone tomorrow. We are here to
serve you and make our word good 365
days In the year. If you don't want to
buy of me, give my neighbor dealer a
chance."
I cannot learn, after diligent Innutrv.
that! this range peddler has sold even
one range up to date. The publication
of the card may help some other taxpay
Ing range dealer to combat this "un
necessary evil" as It evidently has me.
J. E. HUNT.
Knights Templar Thank the Journal.
Eugene, Or., Sept 30. To the Editor
of The Journal At the annual con
clave of the Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar of Oregon, held In Portland on
the 26th day of this month, there was,
among other matters of business trans
acted, a resolution which read as fol
lows:
"Resolved, That a vote of thanks be
extended to the Oregon Dally Journal
of Portland for the courtesy extended
to the representatives of Oregon at the
triennial conclave or Knights Templar,
held at Saratoga, New York, during the
monin or August, ny supplying them
with copies of The Dally Journal, there
by Informing them of the happenings in
Gold Reach
Arrived at Fete, lakes this morning dence.
In a nifty khaki suit with three car
tridge belt around me; knives loose in
their sheath; gun handy In case of at
tack by any deer. Wouldn't let any
deer bite me and Uv. Native of place
told me no der likely to harm me
within 10 miles of the village. Kept
guns on anyway you never can tell
when there will be trouble In the woods
and had aome photographs taken.
Set out in wmon for huntlna a-rnund
with guide. Wagon has no springs and
n. HnTpIi Sa? hardship. , of county, weighed ovr six punas.
hunting! IlUt Wouldn't civ J. In hafnr I
guide, who Is a marvelous fellow. It
seems that 10 years asro. In the last
Indian war in Maine, he waa surrounded
by Ave soore yelling savage In all their
war paint. He took refuge In a tree
ana tne savage tried to burn it down,
but tbe guide was so fyll of sand that
when he fell in the nre he extinguished
it. neauy a remarkable man
Camped In a most unpleasant hut in
the woods. No comforts. Bacon and
beans for a meal. Most Impossible
loous, nom or tnem. uuide warned us
not to sleep too near the window, as
he said the lynx has a habit of Jumping
inrougn winaowa to near the glass break,
which affords it intense amusement. He
says farmer find glaas one of their
principal source of expense where there
are many lynxes. The brute doe not
injure persons inside unless he happens
to light on them, when hi claws inflict
painful scratches. Mot remarkable anl
mal. Guide volunteered to tav awake
man and team ran urn tm .a... i-
Tlllaraook. ' "
Blue Mountain woodchopper ar tld
$1.78 per cord.
a showcas
A potato ralaed near Waterrlll.
unfy, weighed ovr six pounflp; Ti
, TT??S!fon ""tv squash. wlghM
185 and 184 pounds, respectively.
S. T. Bunch and on, near Blalook.
harveted 66,000 bushel of whaL
,lCia.math .county assessment I IT
B61.77. an increa of nearly $l,500.0o4.
The Weston Mountain potato ylld
W,V b ry Ure- ne Ptch" con-
Ist of 80 acre. .
Help is scare on Coo bay. especially
in North Bend, all the mill thr run
ning hort handed.
Athena people are a sanafb) lot: a
tongues-of.irs renter and hi wlf held
forth there for a week and got nary
convert. '
A. H. Bender, who ha Just been u.
Most remarkable
and guard u (for 15) all night. Thought perseded as postmaater at WvrtZ .-V
i neara nim snorine durins- th ntirht I anA hi. tiUm- n t- j . v" "T rr.."M
hut he aaM h. .r.l V' 7h.. ".S.'-"""r "a
- - ' -'J I Lli iwnuuii sine 1010,
icnti LUC jiuqs un.
plan.
In the woods today. Wonderful to be
In the trackless forest, far from the
naunts or men. Pocket compass hard
to go by, a needle keep swinging
round. When It's steady It's usually
pointing to a tree, ana now can you
walk through a tree? Most remarkable
invention
Oulde pointed out seven deer at dlf
The Amalgamated Rnr mmm.. v..
spent thl ummer 135,000 on It modal
X.000-acre farm near Hot TjiV. t
ploys 100 men and teams.
In the mountainous regions of Dour,
la county there 1 known in k. "
large band and several smaller band
t-i:- V. L "'""" V
ferent time today, but thev rot awV ) JZ?VJl,-?y"' ,wn,0.n vrtaiqtm that
before I could see them. Qulde savs ESS "'' i
possibly 200 animals, of elks, aay th
hat
ex-
ii!" eyes were developed in
days, whan a man' life depended on
seeing the relentless redskin through a
tree, mosi remarKRDie man.
Sfty I termlnatal within a
nM Inrfl.. " wr,
A deer wa killed near Dolnh in imh.
monk county around one of whoa an-
Shot at a deer today. Found it to be . 'ViT? . d ,? ,,ro"- which r.
rwi... o vLu Jm - sembled a turtle shell in shaD and w..
r - m . , , wmui
. v a tv . uwncr unwira irum oeninn n. i -i . , . "
tree. Guide said $50 would pay for it. t""l f?o tra.l" I?h.VtIE,l6J-' X' '!
Expensive, this free life In the primeval thlVcuXancl'rVr ev.r'a?
forest
noi at another aeer toaay. it was a
man. He wasn t hit, so I don t see what
ne was An
for his hat, which the bullet had spoiled
a little. Asked me what I thought" I
was snooting at in tne city limits,
"City limits!" said I.
"Sure," said he. "You're in the town
or Passmeaquldoftobacco right now.
"But our guide "
The guide had gone by this.
It seems he had guided us around and
around a field back of the town hall
Most remarkable man. It was his
nrother cow we shot, too value $20
Most remarkable man!
their home state.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted by the Grand Commandery of
Oregon.
Attest: JAS. F ROBINSON,
Grand Recorder.
An Editor's Awful Vice.
From th Jacksonville Post
Writing poetry is an awful vice. Some
men rush to the flowing bowl when they
are seriously troubled, some monkey
with the pasteboards, while others chew
tobacco and spit on the piano. When I
feel blue and despondent, and 47 1-3
tons of gloom are depressing me, I then
feel a burning desire to write poetry. I
have been vaccinated hundreds of times
I have taken treatments by the dozen
and have imbibed barrels or iydla Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, but none of
tnem so rar nas neipea me to shake off
the chains of this terrible habit It will
probably drive me to suicide some of
these days.
Moro Observer: Sherman nnnnfw
gry about! as I offered to pay ,fers a 'iner field than any ws hava svsr
t, which the bullet had spoiled ?n,.wn?E the study of pomology. In
uimio oi wib neuvery oi wagon loaas Of
pest ridden fruit in high land districts,
there is not a blotch upon our trees,
and the unknown varieties of fruit
growing here this year are a revelation.
Sliver Lake Central Drea-nnlan- Man.
of the people from a distance who are
rushing Into this section with tha a.
pectation of getting a timber claim in
the land that 1 to be thrown open on
the 28th will soon bS on their
home, sadder, but wiser, and a llttla
poorer, for there are not good claims for
one tenth of the people who are here to
file on timbered lands.
The Old Georgia Melon.
How dear to my heart are the days of
my childhood
How Memory loves on their beauty to
dwell!
The journey from school, from the field
and the wild wood
T-o the old Georgia mslon that cooled
In the well!
The sweet watermelon
The striped Georgia melon
The old Georrla mslon that cooled In th
well. Atlanta Constitution.
Essay on the Crawfish.
From the Jacksonville Post.
A crawfish ha never been known to
attack a man without cause, but will do
fend its home against intruders at all
times. After crawfish begin to get old
nnd gray haired they are very irritable
ana pessimistic ana cranny and should
he carefully handled. They have been
known-to carry away and devour an en
tire family, including the hired man.
In training a crawfish to haul logs, care
Hhould be exercised to sea that they
are properly shod. Many a crawfish has
had Its feet ruined beyond repair by the
carelessnes of its driver. Crawfish, in
their wild state Inhabit tha fastness of
the mountains, ad are easily captured by
a band of 15 or 20 cowboy who under
stand their business. One of them will
chase the herd of crawfish for 60 or 60
miles, or until hi horse is killed, then
another cowboy, who must be stationed
at the point where he has been Informed
the first man's horse will succumb, will
take un the trail, and so on and so forth.
Within seven days the entire herd of
now weary and footsore crawfish will
follow the cowboy to the ranch and
will walk boldly up and eat out of their
hands. '
The above may be verified by calling
at the hi White House on the corner in
Washington. D. C, snd inquiring for one
T. Roosevelt.
Envy.
From the Washington Star.
"Think of the patient, uncomplaining
Industry of the busv bee," said the man
who makes perfunctory efforts to bs
cheerful.
"The busy bee," replied the business
man, "has no occasion to complain. Ho
Is one of the few manufacturers who are
not being bothered constantly by th
tariff or tbs purs-food laws," -
"An East Side Bank tor East Sid
Peopls."
TO BE A SUCCESS YOU MUST
EXPEND TOUR MONEY AC
CORDING TO YOUR INCOME.
It is not what you make that
counts, but what you save.
THE COMMERCIAL
SAVINGS BANK
aUfOTT AITS WILLIAMS AYE.
Pays 4 per cent interest on Sav
ing Accounts, which' can be
opened with $1.00.
Also solicits checking accounts
from firms and individuals, large
and small.
George Bates President
J. S. Birrel ..Cashlsr