THE OREGON DAILY , JOURNAL, PORTLAND, T, SATURDAY t EVENING, JANUARY 28, . 1911.
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THE SESSION'S RESPONSIBILITY
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iHE LEGISLATURE should not
give up hope of framing a good
roads system because of oppo
sition that has developed In the
body and elsewhere. In nearly, all
cases, the opponents, confess that
. they are favorable to good roads,
and that their objections are' due to
various features of the proposed sys
tem. It Is a case where diplomacy,
, compromise, mutual concession and
toleration can. be employed with
great profjt to alL Nobody in the
'' state wants bad roads.
It would be a calamity for. the leg
islature to adjourn without giving
the state an-effective system. If the
legislators rise to the crisis, assemble
, all the conflicting interests, and con
vince opponents that there is no in
tention to overtax the public for
road making, half the battle for a
solution of the problem will have
. been won. .
llnch of the opposition springs
from a misunderstanding of the
- - plans and purposes of the good roads
association. There is a fear that
proposed road building is to be under
system of frenzied finance. There
is an idea that bonds are to be issued
without reserve, and that the pro
posed bills compel every county to
- spend huge sums regardless of the
desires of taxpayers.
These and other surmises are
without foundation. The proposed
measures compel nothing. They sim
ply open the way for each county to
do as it chooses. No county need
built a foot or a furlong of road
unless it so elects. If its taxpayers
and. citizens decide among them
selves to build, the state will tax
, the cities to help foot the bill, and
... . Portland, will have to. pay its third
of the state appropriation for each
county, even though that county be
in the remotest corner, of the state.
' If any county does not want to take
advantage of the plan and build, it
need not do so, and Portland taxpny
- ers can keep their money. No fairer
proposition was ever made to the
rural counties, and no fairer terms
ever can be made.
" The plan further provides that the
roads shall be main traveled thor
oughfares leading to the principal
market places. This means local
roads for the benefit of local people.
It Is no plan or part of a plan for a
Pacific Highway. It is a plan for
the Immediate benefit of each coun
ty, and the fairest that can be de
vised. What plan more profitable
to residents of Benton or Malheur
county was ever offered than that
Portland people shall contribute
practically one third of a $10,000
state tax to be spent on roads In
either of those counties?
On such a basis, the legislature, if
it addresses Itself seriously to the
subject should be able to harmonize
, warring interests and give us an ad
equate and satisfactory system.
'For 50 years we have worked un
der old hit-and-miss plans. For 50
years we have dragged wagons huh
deep In dust In summer and hub deep
In mud In winter. For 50 years we
have patched and repaired, over
hauled and temporarily worked over
our roads, and the fruit Is the same
old costly haul to market, the same
old wear and tear of Implements, and
the same old dreary highways.
What we have in roads Is little
better than our grandfathers trav
eled 40 or 60 years ago. Is It not
time for a change? Does anybody
in the state want bad roads? Does
' the legislature realize what a power
" " for good, through diplomacy, com
promise and constructive work, it
, can be In bringing good to the state?
Can the opponents of the proposed
legislation not sift the true from
the false and come to a realization
' that this lr. not a Portland move
ment, but a greater Oregon move
ment? Can we not all remember
' , that In Multnomah county the other
day, because of highly Improved
' roads, 10,600 pounds of freight was
hauled 56 miles In the dead of win
ter at a cost of 1.3 cents per ton
tnlle, or about one twenty-fifth of
"the usual cost over the average Ore
gon roads?
During 1910 Maine fishermen
, taught 19.936,542 lobsters, nearly
,2,000,000 more than in the preced
ing year, and 8,000,000 more than in
1905. The fishermen received a lit
tle over 10 cents apiece for these
"lobsters, atotal sum of $2,145,204.
' Uut then the lobnter begins to rise
. in value. ,The wholesaler doubles
" and the retatlcr trebles the price, so
inai oy t.ne time the succulent crus-
n- reaeeehq-'ultiuiat(r"conT
sumer, at least if he consumes it in
certain, places,.. his Jnbster may cost
much as $1.50. But this to.
creased cost of living is nothing for
most of us to worry much about; a
lobster Is not 'one , of the absolute
necessaries of life. 1
THE. CASE OF FRED WARREN
T'
HE JOURNAL ;wlll publish to
morrow the account written by
Frederick Upham Adams of the
case of Fred Warren, editor and
publisher of the "Appeal to Reason.'
printed at Glrard, Kansas. Unless
pardoned by President Taf t, Mr. War
ren will go to Jail at the federal pris
on at Fort ScOtt on the coming Jan
uary 31, for six months, also having
haen flnoA ilKflA tnr tha nffonaa
against the federal postal law for
.Moll ho h.a hn AarfnmA a-ntH
Th nhHnitT trnrfV ivpn tn ihiJ
case renders needless any detailed
statement here of the facts. The ac
count written by Mr. Adams Is so
dramatically interesting that who
ever begins to read will surely finish
It regardless of its length.
The technical - crime that carried
this punishment lay in printing on
several thousand envelopes mailed
by the "Appeal to Reason," from its
head office at Girard, Kansas, an of
fer of a reward of $1000 to any one
who should kidnap and return to the
state officials of Kentucky, Ex-Governor
Taylor, then under indictment
for the Goebel murder, and for whose
apprehension a reward of $100,000
had been freely advertised by the
state of Kentucky.
Fred Warren was tried in the fed
eral court, not for advertising the
reward In his paper, but for using
the malls for its distribution; for
this was the only semblance of of
fense against the law of which he
could be found guilty.
In the editorial explaining the
offer of reward Mr. Warren stated
that the "Appeal to Reason" had
"absolutely no Interest in the Tay-
lor-Goebel feud of Kentucky." The
paper desired to " test the question
whether kidnaping would be "sus
tained by the supreme court of the
United States where the victim is a
Republican politician and a personal
friend of the president of the United
States. .
So far it seems that that issue is
very far frpm decision by the su
preme court, but that the doors of
the federal jail stand open for the
bold experimenter.
The appeal is made by Mr. Adams
on his behalf to the public conscience
of the peopleat large. The people
will consider; it that ia sure.
ASTOUNDING "ARGUMENTS"
T
HE OREGON Hardware alid Im
plement Dealers' association
was addressed Wednesday in
opposition to the parcels post
by Mr. &. R. Miles of Mason City,
Iowa. Mr. Miles Is not only violent
ly opposed to the proposed parcels
post, but one gathers from his re
marks that he is also Opposed to
rural mail delivery; he groans about
Its cost, and mentions no good that
he sees in It. Perhaps if most other
Iowa people are of his opinion, that
partly explains why Iowa Is the only
state in the union that actually de
creased In population between 1900
and 1910.
Mr. Miles said that foreign coun
tries, that have the parcels post and
would not do without it, "do not
have our splendid express service."
Probably they do not, at least as
to the "splendid" rates charged. No !
other country would endure such ex
tortionate rates.
"Finally," Mr. Miles sdys, "there
Is absolutely no demand for parcels
post In this country." This state
ment should negative whatever in
fluence his other remarks may have
had. One so Ignorant or careless of
the truth as this cannot be a wise
adviser. Vice President Sherman,
Congressman Dalzell, and a few oth
ers said two or three years ago that
there was no demand for tariff re
vision. Mr. Miles seems to be of
their sort, one who either can't or
won't see plain facta.
As astonishingly, Mr." Miles says
that "the seeming demand for par
cels post cornea from the railroad
companies, the mail order combine,
and newspapers depending on mail
order advertising." This Is ludl-
crous audacity. Tha same people '
who own the railroads own the ex -
press companies. The two classes
of corporations are most closely as
sociated, and divide the enormous
profits. The mail order 1 houses
stand to lose rather than gain by
the parcels post. The reference to
newspapers Is as ridiculous as the
rest.
Country merchants would do well
to look carefully into the other side
of this subject before opposing the
parcels post. When fully informed
concerning It, they will readily per
ceive that such tirades as this of
the Iowa man are unworthy of their
attention.
STRINGS ON THE JUDICIARY
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HAT SPECTACLE Is it the
people of . Portland have in
this controversy between the
mayor and the municipal
Judge? The mayor asserts that
when appointed Judge Tazwell prom
ised to resign the office February 1.
As a sequel to the promise, Major
Kennedy has resigned his position in
one of the departments to accept the
municipal Judgeship by appointment
from the mayor when Tazwell re
signs. J udge Tazwell how , declares
that he made no pledge, and that he
is not going to resign.
The municipal judgeship is a court
of justice. It ii not a personal per
quisite of the mayor's office. The
public is heavily concerned In the
I!i;a?XMWgOyerJnit(4
manner and means or. jus, selection.
Human; rights are constantly in
the balance at the bar of the munic
ipal court. It is the Judicial tribun-
al from which the dignity- arid au
thority of the city Is reflected. Men
go there to answer for their conduct,
to be the objects on, which justice ia
administered and to be prosecuted
and defended tor their acts. What
extraordinary spectacle : is it when1
the head of. this court. is charged
with breaking his promise to re
sign, and when he In turn accuses
the mayor of misrepresenting he
racts?
When Mayor Simon was filling
this vacancy on the municipal bench,
he should not have exacted a pledge
of Judge Tazwell to resign. When
Judge Tazwell sought and accepted
Re appointment, he should not have
Iven promise to TCSlgn. , The
mayor should not have regarded this4
position as a personal perquisite to
be handed over to "his friend and
ally on February 1, or at any other
time. It was all a close approach
to government by intrigue, vastly
compromising to all concerned and
to the municipal bench.
Nd judicial appointment should be
made with a string to It No Judic
ial appointment should be accepted
with a string to it. The whole theory
of our governmental system is that
the Judiciary shall be untrammeled
and that It be exalted above the pos
sibility of such humiliating contro
versies as that now raging around
Judge Taawell's position. The Inci
dent ought to be the last of Its kind
in Portland or elsewhere. Appoint
ments to the- judiciary should be in
the open daylight at the city, hall,
and not' by stealth with secret un
derstandings and silent agreements
as to tenure of office. to
PERSONAL INJURI DAMAGES
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HERE ARE lately increasing
and significant signs and evi
dences of gratifying progress
toward Industrial peace and
amity, particularly toward such a
system of adjustment of claims for
damages for Injuries to workmen as
will be equitable, and satisfactory to
both employers and employes. Most
employers have abandoned the
ground they formerly 'occupied,
wherein they seldom if ever con
ceded that they were under any ob
ligation to an injured employe, and
are now willing to consent that they
bear such an obligation. The com
mon, almost the invariable de
fenses, a few years ago, of the fel
low 'servant theory and contributory
negligence, are -not often sufficient
any more In the eyes of court and
Jury to prevent an Injured man, or
the family of a man who has been
killed, from recovering damages. ,
There has been a vast amount of
this kind of litigation. It occu
pies a large portion of the time oft
the courts. It is, expensive and ha
rassing to employers, and in many
cases the employe, if he wins his
case, gets but a moiety or less of
the judgment. Hence some mutual
ly satisfactory basis of adjustment
of such claims, without going to law,
Is one of the most Importantly 'desir
able .results imaginable. .
A prominent Portland man who
visited Germany last year was sur
prised to learn that there was not a
personal injury damage action pend
ing In that country. In other Eu
ropean countries such cases have be
come rare, in Germany tne govern
ment Interested itself in bringing
about an agreement between employ
era and emnloves In this regard
Tbe government there Is careful of
the welfare of its worklngmen, and
Its children, as ours has not been,
perhaps cannot be. But it aided in
bringing about this agreement. In
case of an Injury each party should
bear part of the burden the accident
imposed. One plan is for the em
ployesto pay one per cent of their
Income, the employers two per cent,
for this purpose. Some advocate
payment of a portion of the fund by
the state.
But whatever , the details of the j
solution, the noticeably pleasing
thing Is the manifest disposition of
leading men on both sides to come
to some solution of the problem, and
to be fair to each other, it will cer
tainly "he a great gain to society If
these numberless damage actions can
mostly he avoided in future, and ad-
justment of workingmen's Injuries
made Jn accordance with a settled
and mutually satisfactory scheme.
THE NEW
JERSEY
BHD?
SENATOR-
A'
LL RECOGNIZE that Governor
Woodrow Wilson, rather than
Senator Martlne, has won this
fight Two principles have
been sustained, the first that selec
tion by the direct primary carries
with it the necessary votes when the
election follows, the second, that no
big Interests, however well en
trenched by organization and by cus
tom, can prevail against It. Cer
tainly there is needed also powerful
and courageous advocacy before the
people. All this has aided Senator
Martlne In full measure, since Wood
row Wilson was the advocate. So
another product of the Oregon sys
tem will enter the senate of the
United States in due time. The Btars
in their courses are fighting for It.
Mr. James J. Hill's epigram, that
the high cost of Jiving should be
rather stated as the "cost of high
living," makes a text for many a
sermon. By way of one Illustration
of the subject one may note that
over $200,000,000 was paid last year
in the United States for silk, and
'yet many wives wenjt without their
suit dresses in this same year.
The Iron Trade Review says: "In
ihesa-daya . of ,. lnfilslant-and proper
demand for. square dealing,- William
Ellis Corey has been giving the
square deal to ' all with whom he
has come in contact"- Possibly, "to
all with whom he. has come in con
tact." He does not come in aontact!
with the masses, who'havo to pay.
And to his everlasting; shame be lt
said that he did not give a "square
deal" a few years ago to a good,
faithful woman, his wife and help
meet, whom he treated, worse than
any decent man . would treat a
friendly dog.
A 'Dramatic Climax.
Oregon City, Or., Jan. 25, 191L To
the Editor of The Journal In your ac
count of the Burna anniversary In this
city last evening, appearing In today's
Journal, a curious error, has crept in.
Dr. Schultze is credited with giving- "an
interesting talk, using as his subject
the poem by Will Carleton entitled 'Joy
Bridge.' a somewhat startllna- . narodv
on the true caption,- "The Death Bridge
of the Tay." , .. ; . ;- . ,
Under that heading , will Carleton
records In imperishable verse the most
overwhelming calamity, to be found In
the annals of railroad travel. The
bridge across the Firth of Tay. an in
let of the North aoa, at that nofnt two
miles wide, la one of the longest iron
structures In the world. . On the nla-ht
of December 29, 1879. an exourslon train
from Edinborough loaded, with merry
passengers expecting to reach Dundee
wunin rive minutes, commenced the
passage, of the bridge. It was a wild
night outside. A terrible gale from the
North ea swept up the bay. No" one
knows what happened, but half way
across 250 feet of the bridge collapsed,
and dropped ' the entire train Into 40
feet of water. Not a soul escaped. The
doctor .quoted ia full the most pathetic
portions of the poem and as there
seemed to be no particular relevancy to
the occasion, advised his audience that
the application would appear present
ly. After repeating the lines, -Down,"
down through the dark the . train
plunges," and how "The news like the
ahock of an earthquake has thrilled
through the town of Dundee." he quot
ed in full the follQwing paragraph;
"Out, out creep two brave, sturdy fel
lows, o'er danger-strewn buttress
and piers;
They can climb 'gainst that blast for
they carry the blood of old Scotch
mountaineers,
But they leave it along as they clamber;
they mark all their hand-path
with red;
Till they come where the torrent leaps
bridgeless a grave dancing over
Its dead.
A moment they gase down In horror;
then creep from the death-laden
tide.
With the news: There's nae help for
our loved ones, save God's mercy
. for them who have died."
At this point the speaker paWd and
moii ciecimiea nis audience . by an
nouncingr "One of these men Is among
us tonight."
Turning suddenly and pointing to the
chairman. Major Charles 8. Noble, ho
exclaimed, "There is the man."
It was a dramatlo climax, thrilled
the audience, and recalling the memory
of that fearful night so vividly and
so unexpectedly, almost overcame the
chairman. Dr. Schulse had accidentally
learned a few hours before that Major
Noble's father was engineer in charge
pf the bridge at that time, that he him
self was assistant and that they were
the two men who crept out on their hands
and knees at the peril of their lives, to
ascertain. If possible, the extent or the
disaster. ,
The chairman had called upon the
doctor as a native-born son of "Auld
Reekie" (Edinborough) to make a few
remarks, without the faintest suspicion
of what the subject might be.
SUBSCRIBER.
F. M. Olds on Bridge Controversy.
Portland, Or., Jan. 27. To the Editor
of The Journal I saw In The Journal
yesterday an article by Dr. Llftlefield
at Newberg, replying to a letter front
Will Purdy relating to the Buttevllle
bridge. Now, I know Dr. Llttlefleld
was right There Is not travel enough
at Buttevllle to Justify the counties of
Yamhill, Clackamas and Marldn' In
building a bridge there. Mr. Purdy
says Buttevllle Is on a direct line from
catem to Portland, but this Is not so.
The "old Graham ferry crossed 'the Wil
lamette rivr two mill's below the pro-
pubcq sue or tne bridge, and "Pap"
Vaughn, as he usually was called, had
to give up the ferry because It did not
pay him.
Now to go up the river from Gra
ham's on the west side and cross at
Buttevllle, you would have to go-over
three or four large canyons. Clacka
mas and yamhlll taxpayers do not want
to be taxed to keep up a bridge to
benefit Mr. Purdy and one doien others.
Now If the state of Oregon wants a
ouiie roaa rrom Portland to Salem It
should follow the old Taylor ferry road
i rum troriianu.
DSSS tliroiirh Ttarnrri
ville, Middleton and Chohalem gap to
Letter From tne Pcopla
..u-" "tf winamett rlverproved worthy of her. Roger left the
Wivxa Laid) (J un 10
Salem ud the Mat
side. After that a branch mnM
built from Newberg to McMinnvllle and
proceed up the west side. Then one
bridge would do Newberg and the state
road and the farmers of Yamhill would
conio to Portland, as they used to do
40 years ngo. F. M. OLDS.
Fighting Forest Fires.
Sclo, Or.. Jan. 18. To the Editor
of The Journal! nave seen various
Items in different newspapers In re
gard to fire laws, and being Interested
in cloarlng land that is adjacent to
valuable timber I believe that my
experience, and observations during the
past 30 years give me the moral right
to make a few suggestions.
First Abolish the giving of permits
to set fires.
Second Make It flneable if any per
son sets fire in Ihe daytime.
Third Require all slashings, log
heaps and brush heaps to be burned
after 6 o'clock In the evening and then
only on quiet nights. .
Fourth Hold the person who sets the
fire responsible for damages.
Fifth Compel the lumber companies
to help the settlers burn their slashings
at such times as the said settler may
doom it safe, but always on quiet nights.
I desire to add further, that givfng
the average fire warden the authority
to issue permit is dangecous. A per
mit in effect is a Wcense to burn a
neighbor's property. ' Many men care
nothing about the consequences if they
can secure, a permit. ,
I can alone burnv at night, almost any
slashing on my own. place "safely. So
can any neighbor that has lived on a
ranch ,any length of time. On quiet
nights there Is a perceptible movement
of air down every main valley, also
down each lateral valley. If one makes
a study of the air currents in his own
Immediate vicinity he is the only per
son who can set fire with safety on"
his own premises.
It Is not sate to burn in ths daytime, j
due to' the changes that are llablatd
take place, but at night the movement
of air Is in one direction.
Thers need not be any friction be-1
tween the settlers and the lumber com
panies if said companies will send one
-wore meir m lnrtp-amringia"for !
part of the night The companies'!
wardens ought not to have any author-'
Ity off their own land, if the settler
has to be subject to control let a war-
ucn ce appointed ID a"
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHAJfGE
Dr. Owens-Adair still has a mission
How would It do to have an all-woman
legislature? , I '
.
Surely, If possible, Klernanlsm should
do injunciea.
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Half the session gone, and nothing
mucn uuiie yet.
T. R. Is saying things again, and is
uun going to say mucn more.
' . . o .' : .
. But the hardware men are not harder
headed or harder-hearted than others.
It UB'uallv does a husband wha la an
Insurgent at heart no good to protest
against ins nouse ru,ies.
The Guggenhelms have not given up
Alaska yet. Its coal and copper are
puwcriu lures to mem.
a . . - -i.
wireless and wireless operators at
sea gain new triumphs over disaster and
ueaia nearly every weeK.
v - a '' a ' ;
But an. aviator, unless ha faiia intn
r.ne water, never drops out of sight,
as Some bank cashiers do.
Something good comes out of Nevada
--besides gold at last. Its legislature
una Duuawaa me cigarette.
' -
Congress and legislatures never do
anything much until it Is so late- in the
session that they cannot do It well.
Dr. Cook is lecturing again, and has
again concluded that he got to the Pole.
His "gall" must have "come back,"
. "
The decision of the United States
court of customs that a hen1 Is not a
bird will seem to many a fowl ruling.
A prediction: Portland will get not
only Its Broadway bridge. buV sorrfe
day observe, no time specified an ad
equate garbage crematory.
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High school girls of today seem to
be showing that tfiey will be fit voters
later. Pendleton girls are the latest to
abjure rats, puffs, paint and other pate
nonsense..
.
How fortunate it Is that everybody
Isn't most Interested in the same things.
w ninn, iuuiii iJKuyiu. ior exam dim.
iiuiuing on eartn is so important as
basketball,
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An aviator at Paris carried five pas
sengers! for a space of 13 minutes, beat
ing all former passenger records. But
even this number of air passengers may
be Increased soon.
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A building or otheV improvement to
be paid for by the state usually costs a
large percentage more than if built by
a private Individual or corporation. It
seems impossible ever to change this
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The Oregon National Guard requires
1600 "housewives," to be furnished by
the government but not women house
wives; ir lacking In these, trie militia
men will attend to supplying that want
themselves.
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Some San Francisco grocers have been
arrested for selling cold storage eggs
several month or years old as "fresh
ranch eggs." Is it possible that any
grocery man ever does this? -Possibly
In wicked San Francisco. Never In Port
land, surely.
a a
Roslyn . man took a can of powder
home and smoked a cigarette over It;
result, five dead or dying young child
ren, and a badly if not fatally Injured
wife. It Is difficult to feel unadulter
ated pity for such an egregious- fool.
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Portraits of former Acting Governors
Benson and Bowerman will be ordered
to hang with the preceding governors In
the eapltol at Salem. But Isn't Senator
Selling entitled to this hontfr also? Pe
was acting governor for a few hours.
SEVEN HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
The Tichborne Case.
One of the most Interesting of the
many mysteries of history Is the
Tichborne case, for the reason that it
is well within the memory of many
people living, for It is hardly 35 years
since it was the chief theme of con
versation everywhere. In spite of all
the efforts that were put forth, the
mystery remains still uncleared.
In the early '50s of the past cen
tury there was sn English baronet by
the name of Sir Edward Tichborne. He
had an estate worth about $100,000 a
year. He had-no son, and consequently
his nephew, James Tichborne, was his
heir. The latter had two sons, Roger
and Alfred. The former was wild Jand
entered the British, army in 1819. He
was in love with his great-uncle's
daughter Kate. Sir Edward was op
posed to the match and gave Roger two
years to reform, and held out .hopes
that ho might marry his daughter If he
army and sailed to South America.
There he wandered, restless and un
happy, from place to place; Meanwhile
Sir Edward dled-and James Tichborne
inherited the baronetcy. .
Roger, as James' elder son, was now
direct heir to the estates ard tlWea. He
decided to return home. He started from
Rio Janeiro for England by way of New
York, but tha ship was no doubt
wrecked and no survivor could be
traced. The Tlchbornes mourned Roger
as dead, all but the mother. Meantime
James Tichborne died and Alfred suc
ceeded to trie title. His mother still be
lieved Roger was living and began to
advertise for him. In response to her
efforts an Australian detective agenoy
In 1866 produced a man known as
Thomas Castro as the missing heic He
claimed to have been picked up with
eight others from the shlpvccked ves
sel and landed in Australia, where he
was living under an assumed name.
Castro went td England, where he
who Is a long time resident of the com
munity and has some fire sense.
I do not believe that settlers mali
ciously set fires during the past sum
mer. There may have oeen one or more"
such incidents, but not so numerous as
charged. . - , .
I have never known of a fire getting
away from a rancher in ' the forks of
the Santiam. ; .
I wish to say ln conclusion that I
have always received courteous treaU
ment from the wardens and have no
"kick coming" against them personally..
J. R. GEDDES.
Exemption of Homesteads. '
Portland.: Jan.' 21. To ths Edli
tor of The Journal "Will you, kindly
answer through the columns of your
paper, the following: Can a . working
man's home, consisting of a cheap house
and lot bought on Installments, be at
tached for any kind of debtf "
- i r. .." ' SUBSCRIBER.
..I the great majority of Cases, whero
a house and lot are bought on the in
stallment plan, title does not pass until
full payment Is made, and when, title
has . not " passed there is no absolute
ownership. Tho man docs "mot own the
horoewTuaOasuojLJsj
is not owned.
An act passed m 1905 provides:' "The
homestead of any family shall be ex
empt from Judicial sale for the satis
faction of any Judgment hereafter ob-
.ad must b tha
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
During 1910' Jackson
$103,777 on roads.
county spent
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Nearly every town In Oregon of much
sice wants an armory. .
" a
Many farmers consider Jackrabblte a
greater pest than coyotes.
a
Electrio railway for-Ths Dalles and
vicinity U considered sura, V
a
O yes, 4' few other
besides
Johnsons live, in Corval
: , -. a a .. .;,....
An Athletlo association has been or
ganized at Athena. Triple A.
Cool weather with a little frost IS
Just right for the fruit trees.
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' Which Oregon county ' will do the
most good road, building this year? .
v'.a a .-. . , w
Rogue River valley fruit raisers are
buying frost protecting smudge pots.
' " 'i -: -. .. a . i . i-
A. Pendleton butcher purchased 90
hogs, costing $3000, in Union oounty.
' ' th-,: r-,--,:.. r .'.-.
Farmer drove his team of roadsters
to Pendleton, six miles, in 17 minutes.
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Every farmer should be a good roads
man, truly remarks the Albany Demo
crat. . - a , .
. a a .-: , .
Salem must wake uo on water, save
the Capital Journal. And all the people
say Amen. :. . .- m,, -
Contiguous farms amounting to 1600
acres on Fernrldge, Lane county, will
do suDuiviaea ana eoia in small tracts.
Of the few cities in Oregon with
over 5000 Inhabitants, two are In Jack
son county, Ashland and Medford, only
n to nes apari.- .-, '
A Washington county man named
Smith, who Is tha father of 11 young
children has become insane, wonder
'twasn't the woman, -
Practically everr business man of
The Dalles has so much faith in the
country that he owns a piece of land
wuicn ne is improving. '
Mrs. Bertha Shannon, llvlnar near
Central Point, going into her yard saw
an animal In the' brush, and shot and
killed It, a big buck, it a distance of
l yards.
Tract of 680 acres above Buxton.
Washington county, has been sold and
will be cut up into small parcels and
sold for orchard lands. Buxton raises
fine apples, prunes and pears and somo
day will be the center of a great fruit
raising district. ,
w .WW
During ,1910 a farmer near Dallas
sold S835.91 worth of cream from nine
cows, four of which were 2-year-old
heifers. During the year he paid out
$242. for mill feed, leaving him a net
return of $593.91 for his labor, besides
the value of fertilizing elements which
were returned to the soil
a .
Negotiations are afloat in Astoria,
says the Aatorian. and now approaching
conclusion covering a solid farming ter
ritory up in tne ciatskanie region, oz
8000 acres, and a very handsome sum
of consideration, practically the great
est known hereabout for many a day.
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The First National bank building to
be erected In The Dalles will be by
far the" finest structure in Oregon east
of Portland, and -equal to any west
of the mountains; says the Optimist,
It will be, a strictly class A building,,
five stories high, 146 feet, modern In
every respect. It will cost well on to
$100,000
Man and woman were driving Into
Eugene before daylight; in passing
through a driveway guarded with red
lights horse became frightened, reared
and -backed and fell Into a gas main
ditch; its plunging broke tha main and
it was asphyxiated. A man came along
and lighted a match to see , what? was
the-matter when the whole vicinity
burst into flame, providing roast horse.
spent considerable time In gathering all
the Information ha could about Roger's
early life. Being now fully prepared, he
went to Paris, where he met Lady Tich
borne, who thought she recognized in
him her long lost son. Then followed a
period of preparation the details of
which still puzzle many legal minds.
Ma.ny people who knew Roger in early
life claimed they recognized in Castro
the missing man. In 1871 he brought
formal suit for his rights,. Lady Tich
borne having died in 18.68. The estate
fought the case fiercely. The claimant
went so far as to bring forward sailors
who swore they had taken him from
the wrecked vessel. He proved he had
a wound on the head and a brown mark
on the side, both of which Roger had
had. In spite of this he lost his suit,
was arrested and placed on trial for
perjury.
This trial proved to be the longest
In English legal history, lasting 188
days. Th claimant being poor. Wealthy
and poor men all over England sub
scribed thousands of dollars toward his
defense. At last the verdict was pro
nounced. The claimant was legally
proven to be Arthur Orton, he was found
guilty and was sentenced to 14 years'
imprisonment.
He was set free after 10 years, came
to America and later wont back to Eng
land, and In 1895 published a "confes
sion" acknowledging his claims to be
fraudulent His two trials cost about
$1,000,000. The claimant Orton, or
Castro, or Ttchborne died on April 1,
1898. In spite of his confession, his
coffin plate bore the nam "Sir Roger
Tichborne," and under that name his
death was entered In the official regis
trar's office. Tho mystery has never
been and probably never will be cleared
up, although as recent as 1907 there died
in Brooklyn a man who claimed that he
was tho missing heir. -
Next week Seven Noble Women.
actual abode of and owned by such
family or Borne' member thereof."
, The Lure of Lures.
From the L Angeles Times.
In-the next chief city of California
it being always understood that Los
Angeles is the first city- of the jrtate
In importance there is a shrewd and
naturally ingenlou. man engaged In the
business of conducting sightseeing trips
by means of carry-all autos. He Is
coining money, and this is the way he
does" it. " - ' ...
While the auto is waiting for a load
of passengers alongside the curb of tho
street an exceedingly pretty girl la
hired to sit on th front seat as though
she were a sightseer impatiently wait
ing for the trip to begin. v '.'
A man comes along with no intention
whatever of participating in the ride,
He probably has aeen the town, any
way. But the pretty girl with her
smile of glory catches his eye. ; He In
stantly discovers that he has nothing
else to do, and he boards the caravan,
first eagerly tfapafating himself from
the price. The girl holds on to the end
seat ana smiles and 'smiles.
flans of a lamb's tall ail '.'.., .
lamns tan an the aeats are
Pe"Vwave. the passengers 1
Tilled... T,
from her
bon voyage, and takes her, place in the
next auto. . ...
Can you beat it? You certainly can
not. The ure of all lures Is a pretty
flrlT.;.;;,;,
Stupendous Task of
Assessing J. P; Morgan
. Albert I. Nock, writing in the Feb
ruary American Magazine urges' th
abolishment of the - personal property
tax, law. ; The United" States, is tha
only remaining great nation where such
taxation still obtains. ; Mr. Nock among
other absurdities df these archaic laws,
points out that the literal application
of them is . Impossible. - The matter
of assessment alone Ir an insurmount
able difficulty; either the person who '
is taxed Bends in a report of what
he thinks he , is worth or the ' public
assessor guesses ; at It: ; The former
method is unfair because people ar
not honest, and the latter Is impractical.-
Mr.? Nock demonstrates the im
possibility of ascertaining the . truo
wealth of a rich . man by describing
in detail what would be required to
learn the .exact value of the personal
property of a man like J. Pierpont Mor
gan. He nays:
""Suppose, for Instance, that the New j
York office wanted to make a Just nd
valorem personalty assessment on Mr.
J. Pierpont Morgan and that Mr. Mor
gan . desired above all things that it
should be done. Mr. ; Morgan would '
meet tha assessors and start the- ball '
rolling with a candid declaration that
as far as his tangible personalty was
concerned, with the best will. In the
world, he could help them very little.
"And It .would be true. Mr. Morgan
Is the great financial genius of his time,
perhaps of all time. I believe' he can
tell to a day when the next panlo Is
due and I wish he would. I believe he
can analysa accurately off-hand every
tendency and cause leading up to any
nnanciai pnenomenon that the near
future will disclose; but J would wager
anything In reason that he Cannot guess
within f 200,000 of what his own per
sonal property would bring at a foroed
sale.. -! 1
"Then Mr. Morgan would tie his ,
yacht to the wharf, turn over the keys
of bis several houses, museums, stables,
etc., leave a memorandum of his debts
and Intangible holdings (which would
be assessing himself, of course, but how
else could they be gotten at?) and go
to live at the club. Meanwhile the as
sessors would move in and take pos
session with about the following force:
An art expert, a jewelry expert, an ex-
pert each In carpets; linenwork, antique-
and modern furniture, sculpture
and statuary, books and manuscripts, :
horses and machinery and a financial
expert to wrestle with the memoran
dum of Intangibles. -
"This is not extravagance; please do
not take It so. It Is a perfectly serious
picture of the Implications of the gen
eral property tax as applied to personal
property universally in the United
States. There are not experts enough
in the world to go round the single
borough Of Manhattan: the whole, tax
bill of New York would not begin to be
enough to pay them'lf there were; and
the city would be bankrupt before they
had gotten their work advanced ten
blocks through the Murray Hill dls- .
triet." -
TANGLEFOOT
By M3e Overnolt
SOME WOEFUL THOUGHTS. "
There is no sun; the clouds are black,
The trees are gaunt with barren
boughs; ,,. , , i
"lis then that mem'ry takes' me back
To days when I must milk the cows.
wt-
I like to write a verse like that and,
then laugh in my sleeve; then folks
will grin because I'm sad and emlla "
because I grieve. They'll think the
winter worrls me, and that will be a
Joke, and they will say urto themselves:
"Ain't he a funny bloke?"
It makes no difference how I feel or
how I write or talk, folks think I'm
only Joshing and they laugh whene'er
I squawk. '
Sometimes I need a dime or two to
buy a bowl of soup and when I try to
borrow it the fellows yell snd whoop
and poke each other in the ribs ami
mumble, "What a shame; he says hln'
backbone's, rubbing through, which
makes his stomach lame." And th?ii
they laugh hoarse, hairy laughs with
splinters on the edge, which makes mo
want to maul them with a pointed Iron
wedge. And when I tell them earnestly
that I must have my feed, they simply
have convulsions and tell me what I
need is some good man to write, my
jokes, end other stuff like that; they
say my bump of humor isn't underneath
my hat
And when at times I want to ask a
question that my mean about a dol
lar's worth to me, they say, "Do we
look green? O, no, my son, go chase
yourself; go climb a cactus plant; we'd
like to- tell you everything, but hon
estly, we. can't."
And that's the way It always govs;
I'm serloua and sad, but people think
3
filing aim tnat s just what makes
glad. I've often tried to tell the
bom that I can use more pay, but he,
too, thinks It Is a joke and shoos me
off that way.
And I suppose that later on when I
am called to croak, the coroner will sit
on me, then swear it's all a Jokel.
Cannon and the Corn.
From Humttn Life,
Speaker Cannon Is a great lover of
green corn. He boards at tha Arllngto-1
and one day tank One of his Illinois
farmer constituents to dinner with him.
Cannon made his dinner on green corn,
eating seven ears. The farmer asked
him how much he paid for board at the
Arlington and Cannon replied: "Six
dollars a day." "Well," said the farmer
constituent, "Joe, don't you think it
would be cheaper for you to board at
a livery stabler
Back Biting
OontrlbulJ to Tba Journal by Walt afaann,
tha fmnoua Kanaaa pott. Hia proae-poema ara a
regular feature of tola column In Tha Dally
Journal). -
L backssuVely
fdo ftgree wltn you ,hat BUCh a trlck wlll
Vn,. ,..11 .I A ,1. n. -nr .
never do; but Mr, Wax is out of town,
and you, who roast him up and down
are guilty of th meanness that you' say
he keeps beneath his hat. 1 think it is "
a vicious plan to score and vilify a man
as you ara doing here today and Mr, t
Wax so far away! I think It best' to
try to find the goodness in a neighbor's
mind, to. note the virtues of his heart, -u
and not be tearing him apart, and gloat'
Ing o'er his little sins with fiendish and
exultant grins. I hold It wlso to seek
the best that lies in every human breast,
arid when that habit's gained in time, all . i
human nature seems sublime. To look
for blemishes and, v faults in those whs
on life's high way waltz, to alwavs Rneah
I the carping word is foolish, wicked and
" noes it narrow
llt J Lk ,T.,tl J
overlooks the ores that shine, the gem's
that: might: be all. his own. to eathet
quarts and worthless stone. -
owrrtent, 1910,
Georra .Matthew
A da ma.