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I ..1.1 ll.-U. LiJl THE JOURNAL C. B. JACKSON.. .PnblUhw l'ulibr4T"Mrp -Bln; Irtrept Sm.dT Rnadar arnln' t TH Jimroa. Bull nr. PlftH 4 Xamblll trett. Portland, Or. KotwMl t M iifflk '-at Portta-A Or., fur truiMflilMloB through th mail M eecoaa rln Blatter, i ' '''". TELEPHONES .- :faln T1TI ' , All gVpartaient mrbtil br tha nuBirxT. ; 1H tii operator what iprtnwt faa want rOBEION ADVERTISING KKPRB8BNTATIV1, "wijtmin A Kmtaor Ob, BtomwIc BulMtn. H fifth amir. Naw.Yorhf 1H8 I'eopla'i ua sanding. Cblcjr. . , rJiiharrlptlon Terra br toatt to anr addrwa . rn u vaiiM state or Mrxloo. it Dm Mar........lS.4 I On noatk... t -BO On rw..... .12.50 I On month . .25 i ' i DAILY AKD SPNDAT. .On raar.,......T.oO Oa month t -M "ve ,MEch Is ths proper guardian , . f ,hla own health, whether ... bodily or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by ( suffering each other to live as .- seems rood to themselves than by compelling each to live as aeema good to the rent." ' ,. John Stuart Mill. TOOLS OP DEATH A LARMED last night by the fcrjr of an Infant, a Portland burglar lied . the house m .which he was operating, leav- , lng behind his loot and a .38 calibre i revolver. -. , .' I As he moved about the house, he ; must hare bad the pistol in his j hand. It Is the burglar's way. ; The revolver is bis, tool. He holds it . ready for every emergency.. He ai rways takes the drop. ; , Portland Chinese applied last ' week to a local hardware store : for the purchase of 200 revolvers., It was a spectacle for men to contem- plate. Living in 'the heart of civ ilization, moving in the precincts of a v densely, populated city, they ' sought in one purchase for 300 tools o,f death; They proposed to become walking arsenals, ready at any slg nal to kill; slaughter and slay. jV ? It is a strange civilization. The barbarians of Tamerlane knew no better than to kill. One barbarian chief piled up a hundred thousand human heads before the gates of a city he had conquered. That was the order then. ., Men In those days were little more than beasts. But we are supposed to be civil ized now. There has ' been change. We boast of our ascension to the ' heights " of : gentle ' living ' under "? a human code. Yet, with, few excep ', tlons, the states and the cities of this country r make it easy for the crooks to arm themselves and plan- der society. . It is as If we were In . a perpetual silly season, i : J . ' Portland has a new ordinance for disarming; the burglars'; - thugs 'and ; assaastna.i'llt' i a means' by which r Portland : policemen can deprive ' many erooks . of their tools. They know most of the suspects. If , they, do their duty, they can make Portland an inhospitable field for those who' seek a living with a , cocked revolver. -If they do not do their duty, po licemen should be found who will. THE WAY OPEN l HEY say all legislative candi dates will subscribe to State- ment One. . v-' 'v' ' That will . be fortunate. It ; wIU open the way for more good en to get into the legislature. I " If the Statement One Issue is real ty settled,Ka better legislature should ;be possible.' While the fight was on, Statement One was a handy vehicle by which various unfits got to tSalem. ' They were elected more on Jthe issue than on the man. The brand carried several persons into jthe legislative body who were in competent. ; Theygot there because 'there were times in the past when it was difficult to get, men to wear the Statement One colors. i If, as claimed, the issue is settled, Hhere will hereafter be opportunity or discrimination. ,The mental and . . "moral stature of the man will cut - inoTe figure, and his Statement One '. -professions cut less. Some of the .email bore statesmen who have been hiding into office on the issue will 'hereafter have to rely more on their merits. Having rid ourselves of the boss system of electing legislators, hav ing, according to common report, finally settled the Statement One Issue and thereby rid ithe legisla ' ture of senatorial selections, we are now, for the first time in state his tory, on ground in which merit, and -i merit alone, can be made the acid , test In choosing senators and repre sentatives. ', How reassuring, after 54 years of state life, to once see at Salem a " body of legislators selected strictly on merit and moved solely by pat . rlotiBtn! ; ' i i: BEINDEER BEEP ";""')'''.'' ..v - ONE of the anomalies of organ ization in the United States government service is that the .- reindeer herds of the nation in Alaska are administered by the bu reau of education.' V This, of course, is due to the fact that Xt Sheldon Jackson, then an : agent of the Bureau of Education, by most persevering effort, had the - forerunner of the present herds im ported from Lapland. V ; -? -The Washington correspondent of ' the Indiana . Farmer writes that 'pa lter of an interview with, William T. Ixjip,iagent In charge of the' reln- fleor crv(ce of the government who lias just returned to Washington, to feive account of a 14,000 hile tour of lospectloo through Alaska.?, rj f ' - Kctnder, Mr. Lopp says,, can be much more cheaply; raised" for, the market than cattle, as they thrive on barren wastes where no other ani mal san live. - Alfred II. Brooks, chief of the Alaskan division of the United States , geological survey, states that there are 120,000 square miles of tundra in Alaska, which will support millions of reindeer. . The first shipment, consisting of 125 carcasses averaging 160 pounds each, was recently received In Seat tle, and consumed at leading hotels and restaurants. Once eaten rein deer meat will need no further rec ommendation. Mr. Lopp says that the reindeer are increasing so rapidly in Alaska, that, if they are reasonably protect ed, there will be in 25 years not less than two million head avail able for food. It is only ten or twelve years since reindeer were introduced into Alaska. TAXING POVERTY r N Portland last week, five and three fourths acres of ground at East Forty-ninth and East Stark streets sold to a local syndicate for $48,000. It was assessed at 112,000. The Burke' homestead, compris ing four lots, fronting west on Sev enth street and extending from Sal mon to Main, sold for $200,000. It was assessed at $60,150. When land was wanted for a pub lic library, the price paid for a block was $342,000. It was assessed at $162,800. In the transaction, the commission of the middle man who made the sale was $18, 0(v. In its last analysis, the huge fee for the sale had to come out of the public. If any public official were to receive such compensation, it would mount to the proportions of a scandal. It would be Jeered at and howled about. Perhaps the of ficial would be recalled. But the public had the $18,000 to pay in the process of providing a public library for the common use. And to get the sum, a tax was levied, among others, on the house hold goods of an old woman of 62, who works in a cracker factory. She puts crackers into a box. They ex act taxes of her for the privilege of sleeping in her own bed and using her own kitchen utensils. How utterly splendid we , are in our system of taxation! A SPLENDID .MOVEMENT N' O better movement has been launched in Portland than that for establishing social centers where there can - be wholesome recreation under clean auspices for young working men and women. It ought to : gather force until it becomes one of the;; notable features i, of , Portland life. : :' The commercial dance is the pub ic expression of the human desire for a social relation." A hundred thousand , ' people attend public dances in New York every week. Here is proof In the concrete of the ineffaceable Insistence on social in tercourse. : . There is a deadly peril In isola tion. Life is dull in a home which is but a nine foot room, a bed, a chair and a monthly rent bill. The work ing girl who occupies such a home and knows tew people other than the laundress, the landlord, and the others who come to collect bills leads a lonely life. One of the most crushing influ ences is the monotony of isolated living. It is a cruel experience to fall over the existence of any young man or woman. It is In such a lack of wholesome social intercourse that the unwholesome is accepted, and steps taken toward wrong. Those uplift organizations that recently took up the social center movement should not weary at their task. There Is no way for them to over perform in the activity. It is a humanistic enterprise filled with possibilities for practical service. No higher proof of the need of such a movement can be presented than in the many published letters on the subject that have appeared in The Journal. Young women and young men in this citr are striving to be wholesome. Let them have en couragement Practical solution of the problem will redound forever to the good name of this city. It will be another barrier in the way of the recruiting sergeants of the red light district. STARVING CHINESE T HE executive committee of the Central China Famine Relief committee at Shanghai appeals to three hundred American cit ies Portland being one of them to raise money to help to keep alive until the Chinese harvest is ripe in May two and a half millions of Chi nese, already starving. A district of 30,000 square miles, through which the Hwal river used tu flow, has 1iad scanty crops for five years past. Last year scarcity passed into famine, work animals were eaten, and the population, of five millions now are facing starva tion. Business has come to a stand still, schools have been . closed, the weak have become beggars, the strong robbers. The revolution has swept over the country and most of the better class of Chinese, are rtilned. Society Is utterly disorgan ized and many, both In town and country, are selling their wives and daughters into slavery for money to keep life In the family. ' ' The misgovernment of the Man chu, the stealing;and graft of the officials, have diverted into tbelr own pockets the ,; taxes that should have, kept the embankments of ' the Hwal river - Intact. . The primary .'THEQREG cause of the famine " was the IburstvUy ; nursing his boom, pending ; bis log: of the great river and its lesser J own decision as' to whether or not streams from its ancient channel, ; he will be able to break himself of desolating the country and cuttlngjan old habit, ; '- ' ''..?' ;r-V,: tor iiaen a new course rar to ine north, of its historic bed Such Manchu action addedriuel to v, the revolutionary fire.V and' was one of the main causes of the outbreak in this district. : vA.Wv 'f r . , The revolutionary leaders ? look eagerly to America for the rescue of their starving people who are' be yond the help of such charity as the better off Chinese aa give. ) The members of the relief committee comprise such well known men as Wu Ting Fang, who is the Chinese vice chairman, and Consul General Amos P. Wilder of Shanghai, and Bishop P. R. Graves, among the Eu ropean members. , "'..V The Portland Chamber of Com merce has been direotly appealed to to collect and handle all sums which our citizens shall find' it In their hearts to give. The committee says that $3 will keep a family alive for a month. A NEW PERIL A NEW peril threatens Big Bus iness. Klrby Smith, president of the Manufacturers associa tion,' points it out He says: "The colleges are full of educators whose heads are laden with all sorts of isms and fallacious theories, which they are constantly instilling into the minds of young men. We are working to counteract this condition by disseminating lit erature which will operate as an an tidote for such teachings. It is a tedious and expensive . undertaking, but It roust be done if future gener ations are to be made clear thinking, broad men." Nobody had before looked upon college professors as such a pest. None had supposed them to be a generation of vipers. But President Kirby Smith sub mits the proof, and there it Is. The college professor is an insidious cuss, Instilling deadly isms into the minds of precious youth and filling the land with pestilential fallacies. Meanwhile, literature is to be sent broadcast In the effort to coun-, teract him. If that fails to work, it - Is probably President Kirby Smith's idea that he should be tatfght Banity with fixed bayonets in the same way that the mill own era are educating nine-dollar-a-week workmen on the tariff at Lawrence. CHARLES DICKENS E hope to do some solid good, and be as cheery and pleasant as we can." This was the motto that Charles Dickens prefixed to the first number of bis own paper, "House hold Words," and might have intro duced every book.he wrote.' Born on the 7th of February, a hundred years ago, he died on June , 1870, aged 58. His literary life began In 1833 when he was Just of age. From that time until death called him he was the most indus trious of writers, and one of the most beloved of men. The "solid good" he wrought had mainly to do with the reformation of abuses of his time. That which was to him so vital and compelling would not now cause his many books to be taken from the shelves. But he was the embodiment of the early Victorian age. He drew picture after picture of the England of the time that will never die. Students in future years will find there their storehouse and inspiration. For he ever drew from life. ..' His scenes were the setting for his characters, and what a gallery he left . us. In every book he wrote more than one man. woman or child lives today, so that the men tion of the name in quotation needs no further reference. All of them are carried in the memories of thou sands on thousands of readers as vividly as when they first Baw the light. His tomb In Westminster Abbey bears but the simple name for his books serve for his undying epi taph. CONNOLLY'S CHARGES r HE story of litigation over he sutnvan Diock in Seattle, print ed on this page, reads like ro mance. A New York man has written 118 melodramas In 18 years. He has produced nothing with more dramatic appointments than is Mr. Connolly's rehearsal of details which he describes as from real life. The Connolly article appears in Everybody's Magazine, and is one of a series, prepared during two years' work. The articles deal with Judges, courts and the bar, and, frith the In itial article as a guide, they promise to throw highly sensational side lights on one of the great institu tions of American life. Mr. Connolly's rehearsal on this page recalls that it is Judicially ad Judged to be the law In Oregon that a Judge may offer to accept a bribe, but that It Is no offense unless the briber actually accedes to the Judge's terms and pays over the considera tion. : ' 'J' ' ' . It also recalls that Judge Tazwell said, "Max Cohen 'is an honest man." An Illinois hen is laying a double yolked egg every day. , If, with this hen for a starter,. 'Burbank could evolve a fowl that', would make It two eggs a day, poultrymen would soon become captains of Big Busi ness, " ' t ' ... . ,' . ' George Shepherd has not so far officially launched his usual candi dacy. His many friends are careful-- FEBRUARY.-;-. 7, . The stamp sales at the Portland postoffice '-. yesterday ; ; aggregated ! $6800. ; The entire receipts of the office from November, 1849, to .(.June; i860, were f 8Z.88, The pistol had its Innings yester day, and in a fight with deputies at Silver Lake, a gunman ' was killed. Next. . ' !..- . ' Letters From trie People (Communication aent to Th Journal for pub lication In tbla departmeat hould not xcd Sim wwd In lungth and muat b accompanied by Ui em and addrea of the aendar.i ,. , , .y. y. ...,; , V ' : Gardening as a Study. " Portland, Or., Feb. 6.-To the Editor of The Journal Why we should train our children In garden lng appears to many a , rather queer question, "which when closely, studied aoon lose its dueernesa and aeta the thinking person wondering why It has not been put la practice long ago. "Better late than never," la a proverb that holds good now and ought to ba applied at once. Our' moat progressive eastern cities have ahown the usefulneaa of thla movement and are earnestly at work .demonstrating to the world what can be done by proper efforts In this lino of study. ' , Our slater state, California, has taken up the -work with enthusiasm, and the pupils are responding actively to the subject undertaken. Good results are certain, as failure la almost impossible, when teachers and their classes take delight In a subject which la of extreme simplicity In Its elementary form. It appears to many to be a study -mors fit to rural districts than the city, which, however, la not the ease; as I would like to prove here. In the city, life is farthest from Its natural sur roundings, the nature of things vegetal and animal, leaat understood, health with its priceless value least enjoyed by the growing generations, who grow up with perverted notions of nature and who have the least opportunities to en joy the beneficial effects of country lire. ; Does this need to be when so much vacant property Is idle right in theolty ween children have lots of free time would not this be a fine chance to pro. vide training grounds for children where nature study could be taken up by class es? It is a known fact to me, that many property owners would be glad to see their vacant lots cultivated, who would not make any charges for this privilege. Many families have yarda In which nothing is raised. They have the time lr they had enthusiasm and a lit tle knowledge of simple gardening to raise at least half the vegetables bought of the grocer, and, not infrequently, never paid for.- ' Would it not annul tn mi.li r.mlll.. to raise a supply of fine fresh veffey M.V1SB in mcir yam or superior quality to the stuff bought at the store? This for the grown up generation, but to speak of our children, what help this would be for their development, moral and physical, If they would spend some of their free time doing garden work and caring for vegetables - and flowers as their fancy might Mlctate, Instead of roaming the streets and doing mischief. The easily aroused enthus iasm of childhood might this way be led to accomplish good and desirable results, with everlasting beneficial ef fect for the futur,of manhood.; The opportunity Is her and it evolves upon our leaders In education to secure this vast benefit for our children and pop ulation as a whole. No more good can be done for our growing generations with less effort and expense than by Introducing a plain course of gardefing in all our schools. ; Do It as soon as necessary arrange ments can be made. The city as a whole will- be benefited as well as the cbuntry at large; our cost of living will be easier to bear, and our standard of living be higher, with many unsight ly lots changing into fruitful places of vegetables or attractive flowers. Do you think the effort Is worth the whilst If so, have the courage to lend your assistance toward this undertaking and let our educators take - the best step forward toward this roost needed branch of study and encourage your children to take an interest In this line, which they will joyfully do. Results will not have to be waited for long and then everybody will be wondering why it was not done long before. ! To the owners of vacant lota I would say If you like to see flowers or vege tables grow lnsteaed of weeds, let ths school board know of your desires In this matter. It will help to get this started right and show the good will from our taxpayers. Encourage chll dren to make a garden at home, ba It ever so smaU; It won't be long to see good results for all. J. O. BACHER. -.; To the SmaU Business Man. Portland. Or., Jani 30. To the Editor of The - JournalI want to say a word to .the merchants and small business men of Portland. Do you realize, Mr. ; Small Business man. that you are passing up one of the greatest opportunities for a successful business that can at this time be pre sented to youT Do you realize that your chance of suooess or failure de pends on the buying capacity of your customer? Do you recognize th fact that when your customer is short on means you are shor on sales,: and that whm he la flush with means, your sales are good and you are prosperous? Do you realize that you can only rise In your business on a ratio with the eco nomio condition of your customer? -Do you realise, Mr. small business man, that your customers are worklngmen and poorly paid worklngmen at that? And do you realize that a, raise In the wages of the workingman means a pro portional increase in ths volume of your business? ... --- . ;-- , - Now. Mr. Small Business man. It is to your Interest to assist these same worklngmen to procure better wages, even If it forces you to pay a higher rate for your help as the number of your ' customers are proportionately, so much greater than your , help that the extra pay would toe a small matter. Remember, the merchant hires a very small percentage - of the workers, and he furnishes them all with ths necessi ties .of life. , ''.;,.:-.;." ,';v v 'i' , , , . The mills, factories, . transportation companies, eta, employ the men, and you feed and clothe them, and. la ; the same ratio, as they ; are paid do they trade with you. In cities of the coun try where the small business men sup port the unions, they are prosperous and hapy, and in cities where they are hos tile or. Indifferent, they are " on - the ragged edge of bankruptoy, and are ek ing out only, a meager and miserable existence.:' :'. : "Example": Back in 1902-S, In Victor and Cripple Creek, Colo., the small mer chants supported the unions, - and were well paid by the workers, in, that the workers, through ths unions, command ed good s wages, ; and traded i With th merchants accordingly, in consideration of which the merchants were doing a thriving business and were prosperous. But in 1902-1 they ; turned against the unions, Joined hands with the capitalists (the servants of big business), drove out the union men and Introduced scabs In ' SMALL CnAXGK f&: Evidently Mexloo needs a Diss, Junior, Evidently, the president is worried iwui me: own amio. ...... ... Right taxation would largely correct excessive , land, valuations. v j, y . i '". - V j j ';:,',:. Is 'there going to be any town-Jot farmlna- or cardeninar thla var? . 1 - ,: ,. iy: .: t . .. j i .... ,,;V; 'fX'-fii The; president.-1:' does 1 progress ; some, he recommends a. government 'trunk railroad 4n Alaska.:': '1 W-.' .' i( ...... ....vt. ...:,'-;;v):':'';:;:'!v Oeorgs W. -Perkins says r some true things. He soya dissolution (of ; the trusts) ; Is delusion. ; ; , ' 4 .,).' ' Apparently none of ths lawysrs know what embeszlement . is. . Then how should other, men knowt -. . n -i ; The T. M. C. A. Is a very good thing to belong to, young man either for instruction , or recreation, . t , . , v ; , i:v'..;, :,'',m ' U lMlt',;A'K :.' The less Vice President Sherman has to say in favor of Mr. Taft, ths better it will be for the president. - v,' ,. . r r,:-." . . y .: "! . ,'; ft;'-' -V '-I-!- -BUI" Hanlev is, also for woman suf frage. Looks like the Suffraalata were capturing most of the big guns. That naw invention tiv whlnh nut. Vat foretell a frost might be a good thing ur ui ui cunuia&ies to . invest in. i ' --' "! i The Colonel may expect to be strong in five states, since he has declared in favor of woman auffnaara. But t) Democratic candidate-may - be a more enthusiastic suffragist than the Colonel. .!.: , ..:. : ' ' i ' A man was sentenced to So years' im prisonment for entering a New Tork millionaire's house with burglarious in tent. If it had been a workingman's cottage, he would probably have "got" 30 days. v , , The mas who keeps howling all the time that there's . nothing . good or right; that all men not poor are scoun drels and thieves, and deserve to be shot on sight; the fellow who rails at all order and law, and harangues for paltry pelf, who only , works with his tongue and jaw -he's a ' thorough no good himself. Many things are wrong, as it ever has been, and for a long time will be; but surely, -If slowly, they're being reformed, as all but the blind can see. Ne'er before in all the mil lions of years was ttight - gaining ground so fast; and Justice and Truth shall gain more and more, and sit in high places at last. . SEVEN GREAT Kepler. Kepler was "the first of the great as tronomershaving lived during the sams psriod as Galileo-who ever ventured to predict the occurrence of that re markable) phenomenon, tha transit of a planet in front of the- sun's disc - He published In 1(21 a notice of the cur ious things celestial in which he an nounced that ' both of tho planets. Mer cury and Venus, were to make a transit across the sun on specified days In the Winter of 1631. . i Kepler was bom on December 17, 1671, at Well In the Duchy of Wurtemberg, when Galileo . was only seven years of age. His parents were poor and the bodily infirmities of young John Kepler were the Immediate cause of his atten tion being directed to the pursuit of knowledge. At 1? he entered the Uni versity of Tubingen,' where he divided his attention between astronomy and divinity. While Galileo formed most of the de ductions through his eye and by use of the telescope, Kepler, although he had access to the invention of. Galileo, did not accomplish his wonderful achieve ments from any telescopic observations but rather they were deduced from Ty cho. the Danish astronomer's measure ments of the positions of the planets, obtained with his great Instruments, which were unprovided with telescopic assistance. To realise the" tremendous advance which science received from Kepler's great work, it' is to be understood that all the astronomers who labored before him in the difficult subject of ths celes tial motions, took it for granted that the planets must revolve tn circles. When Kepler had before him that won derful series of observations of the plan et Mars, which had been accumulated by the extraordinary skill or Tyoho, he proved, after much labor, that the move ments of the planets refused to be rep resented in a circular form. . Nor would It do to suppose that Mars revolved ' In one' circle, the center of which revolved in another cirole. On no such supposi tion could the movements of the plan ets be mads to tally with those which Tycho had actually observed. This vied their stead, with the results that the scabs got a muoh less scale of wages, and could only trad In. accordance therewith. Therefore, trade fell off, prosperity diminished and merchants went to the wall, and Cripple Creek to the devil. Did big business men come to ths rescus of their smaller brothers? With depart ment stores, yes. The 'aim of the union is to better the condition and increass the pay of its members, and In so doing It betters the condition and increases the pay of the merchant. Think this over, Mr. Merchant. H. tV BUTLER. , . Opposed to Single Tax. Myrtle Point, Or., Feb. ' J.To ths Editor of The Journal- The advocates of single tax dp not .like to bs accused of advocating confiscation . and .legal robbery, But how can they avoid It? If they could succeed la having ' tho whole burden of taxation laid upon the land It would Inevitably cause a .de preciation in the Value of land, and thereby cause a serious loss to every landowner, small 4and large.,- In fact, It would hurt the smalt landowner the most, becausf bs Is , ths least able to bear it. - ' - What does it matter to thoss agi tators that a man who has worked hard all hi Ufa and saved enough to be the owner of a little ' farm from which he could get a; living In his old age -when no longer able to work, is robbed of his hard earned property and means of living and has the choice of starving or going o the.poorhouse?;. What difference would there be be tween this and highway robbery except that the one would be lawful and the other unlawful? -. Put .ths. effecVould be the same. .- ' . ' This accusation of . advocating . con fiscation and. legal robbery is one that they cannot escape or refute : Of course they will contend that It is princUally aimed at the large : landowners and speculators, . but the fact Is that -it would hit ths small landowner the hard est because he is ths least able to bear It. , - ::;: And there are other and better ways to curb ths speculations in land on a large scale, one of which would b to have a. graduated tax.:;: ,:,.....: it, ;.. N. P. PETERSON, v. Prediction Came True. ' - ; Sea View, Wash.; Feb. J.To the Edi tor of The Journal You are a prophet, not without honor, I hope, even In your own country, for -1 noticed a few days ago that you printed that shortly Theor dore Roosevelt would declare for woman suffrage, or rather i you said It was about time, you thought, for that to be expected. And lo and behold, In your Friday's Issue 'tis done, and - ! R. so announces. It's -a short, night. Indeed, when Theodore is not up early enough to catch stray worms. -'i . - N. 11. BLOOMFTELD. ;';''. . :'V:,v...'-'-..V"..,-A : -.:': -.:';: .. '. v.V. '' ''V V".;''7; '" I'M -r 191 2.'i '':;'tP OREGON SIDELIGHTS V) '':''.':.. -i ;..v.!..' ' lVf.,..v'A,;'i:fe-.i. ' Four drives In Harney county 'recently resulted in the slaughter ,01 , tne granu. total or pots jacKraovfi .- ' Eugene1 s dog ordinance provides for iga at 5 and 13, and for the license tags summary execution or raDia aor i vicious dogs that are permitted to run at large.-,,-,-- , y Miss Catherine 'Prehm, founder and editor of the Klamath County Democrat, published at Merrill, has sold thejaper to B. 'A. ; Koppea pf Cleveland, Ohio, a newspaper man or laieniana irw o . . . '..:....' ,'f'.i;. I--., ,;, ,-..,,-, Canyon City Eagle: - .The Eagle fcam out on trounii non ony, uw " refused to go back Into its hole, and will stand for nothing but sunshine and song for the next tU years. The Eagle claims , to know as much as a, ground ' Central Point Herald: ' The big pine tree, which for many years has stood at Fifth and Pine streets, was felled thla woek and sawed- into etovewood. Many felt genuine regret when they saw the old .landmark fall, but: ip had to go .from the path of -progress,, .-j- i Tha Kurna Vawa trint a daily tfttn fierature report for January, of which t says: "Only, once did the mercury id to or below ero.'wnicn is a reraarn- aole record for an altitude of 4000 feet. Every day but three brought tempera tura away above the freesing point," Euo-ene Ouard: A' carload of 'glass rlobes and other fixtures for the city's Ha-ntinar avatem naa arrivea.. ai iouh as the posts are ready the ornamental lla-l-ta on the business streets will he installed and the tungsten lights In the residence districts will be ; put in as fast as the poies are set. . .: Brownsvillo Tlmos: The warm weath er of the past week has caused a .carpet of daisies to spring up on the . lawns about town where these beautiful flowr ers have been planted Other Indica tions of an early sprlngVjtae to be found in the rose bushes and numerous other shrubs and tree, where the buds are be ginning to swell. i v ,-'.- . . :, J-'y. Myrtle Creek Mail: A hawk swooped ana caugnt wro near tne eiscno noma, but lost his prise almost ' as suddenly he had nelznd it. A blar vouns Thomas cat naw the hawk and got busy im mediately. He sprang into ,ine game, frightened tho hawk almost out of his wits, picked up the bird, whlch had been dropped, and with a growl of sat isfaction, carried it under the house and ste -iw ASTRONOMERS to the asonishlng discovery of the true form of the planet's orbltt .For the first time In tha history of astronomy the principle was laid down that a planet moved In an elliptical path. Kepler also succeeded in pointing out the law according to which tha, velocity of- a planet at different points of its rath could be ' accurately specified. Through his marvelous mathematical skill he was able to calculate with a remarkable degree Of accuracy consider ing ths time in which he lived, the dls tance of a planet from the sun and the Urns tn which the revolution of that' planet was accomplished. In addition to Kepler's discoveries al ready mentioned, with which his name will forever be associated, his claim on the gratitude of astronomers chiefly de pends on- tho publication of his famous Rudolphine tables. For more than a cen tury these tables were regarded as a standard astronomical work. - In these days ws are accustomed to find , the movements of the heavenly bodies set forth with all desirable exactitude in the almanacs and similar publications, but Kepler was the first to impart the proper impulse In this direction. Kepler married ,an heiress when he was 2( years of age, and while his do mestic affairs were ' not particularly happy tbey were' of short duration for she died In 1611.' Two years later un deterred by want of success In his first venture, be sought a second partner, and determined to make no mistake this time, he went ' about his choice 'In ' a methodical way and calculated mathe matlcally, so to speak, the merits of the 11 spinsters he asserts desired to share his joys and sorrows.. The result of his deliberation waa that he awarded him self to an orphan girl, destitute even of a portion. "- The expense ef carrying on his work and being able to secure little relief front the government, worry at last broke down Kepler's health completely. Be had never been strong from Infan cy and he finally succumbed -to a fever In November, I30, at the age of BO. Tomorrow-S!r Isaao Newton. ' , .Tanglefoot By Miles ' ' Overholt TRIBULATIONS The life of any scribbler Is not Just what It aeems, - " For typographic errors Do haun him In his dreams. ' ' Birmingham Age Herald. : j. ' .'.;,' -' 'f .': " . -' ". ', v - And when he finds an error , And. sends . up a correction; : They simply make another And fill hint with dejection. ; '; : '".,; .:';.:- '',. Milwaukee Sentinel. And when he grabs the proof sheet , And makes -his meaning plain, This is the way" It's printed: o AetouyqrizkjJJ xxsxjJKx 66T . " And then he goes insane. , .- -Cincinnati Enquirer. And when In circulation""1 i His work at last appears. . "He cribbed It," say the critics, " "From the efforts of his, peers." : , a New York Evening Telegram. If there's any Illustration His story to supply; . , It may be printed upside down , Fat knows ths reason why. -Florida Times Union. And if perchance ho errors show To add unto his gloom, His name has probably been pled 1 Into a nom de plumef ,,. Fit ICS (Oontrlbuted to Tb Journil by Walt Haaoa, th famoui Kanaas pott. Hla pruM-poam ar resnlar teatur of tbla column la 7b Dally Journal.) ; - . . v -. ;'i.i ' Trie years roll on, so swilt, so swift! Old ags on ua advances, and e into Its shadows drift with mourftful backward glances, It seems but yesterday that we who falter now and totter, were playing on the sunlit lea, or by the woodland water. The days went by on heavy wing, slow therf were life's long stages;- for childhood, seemed an end less thing of cycles and of ages. Thus time to childhood still, appears a crip pled thing on crutches.,' but, .childhood past, the busy years throw on ths high speed clutches. , Our' minds intent , on plait or scheme, on triumph br disaster, we do not mark the years that steam by taster and still faster. And then some day the truth, comes home the truth that makes man shiver; the scattered hairs upon his dome; the pink pains in his liver, the creaking of his shoulder blades, and many another token, all tell him, whtle. his valor fades, that ha Is old and broken! ; It Is a thing demand ing 'tears that In our fierce endeavor we do. not -prise - the speedy years , until they're gone forever. ' Copyright,, 1011. br . ,:;.;- Oeorg atattbcw Adam. A' Climax in Litigation C. P, Connolly in Every bo Jy" -V I -- . . . VArilMVIjy 111.. iJVCi jr wvvij- B. - . . . ala-n rrnrk that vi:rM-l(hft. . HI. ft a were frozen and were oar tly amputated. Sullivan opened a little store In Seattle. After the . Seattle fire he built on his' Inr what. 4m tinv Lrnrkitn m th Hiilllvan ' block. , That block became the center of i the - business ' district. ' -When Sullivan ' died his estate was - valued at over ' : 11,000,000, f '.. 'nv.t-.i . k ' ' : X:.:J-: . RlllllvAn VnnMUfTltt 4ttilivil that J'r not a human being, living was kin to him. " When he died. he was engaged to V be married to a Marie Carrau, a French .' teacher. When he was suddenly strick en, he .Had. not .time to make a written ' witnesses. t o nava ' exnrnssftri - tne w an that Made Carrau should corns Into his ' Terence O'Brien was appointed admin- , Istrator of Sullivan's 'estata ; O'Brien claims' that shortly after his appoint- meat he was approached by Samuel H. Piles, afterward a senator of the United ' Uvea of soms kind could be found; that!;- lr ' wn a as ifi vera aarn Taa nnn rnsr snma morey could madd out of it If v n'Rrir wniilrl uanA in VPrlar. At land John B. Wright, a man of unsavory reputation. On' Wright's return to Beat- tie he claimed to have discovered a niece and a nephew of -John Sullivan In tho ' - tiAMnn, tt Uamiati ,. r.l1..rt.M '.nrl lTM ward Corcoran. He brought from Ire- land a contract by which Hannah Cal- laghan and Edward Corooran each con- ,' veyed half of their Interest In the es tate to Samuel, H... Piles. --,'....-. -.'"". .,. ., M(.rls Carrau had pushed In th state k.. .I.lm l. .11. nuncupative ' will. Files, Donworth A and that jcourt issued an injunction rs- , straining tha state court from further control of the estate. ; Judge O. H. Han- ford of the federal court entered a de- ; cree against. Aiane uarrau. ana aeciaea that Hannah, Callaghan and - Edward uirokir.n wr ine riguiiui nears. .ma , case was carried to the court of appeals at San Francisco, and thence to tha supreme court of the United States, and Judge Hanford's decision was reversed. . The appellate- courts held that hs had no jurisdiction. . . . t ; Piles, Donworth and Howe went back to ths stats courts. Ths superior court decided they were .too late;: but the stat supreme court said the superior court was wrona.and the eaaa Waa sent back to that court for trial on Its mr- 1 its.' Ths case was now tried before " Judge J. W. Frater, who decided that . Maris Carrau had no Interest in Jeha Sullivan's property, and " barred her . MVffl aw tuuwr 1,-uiuMb .Trl Pamti BAiiB-rit frt annMl fima l this decision. Her chief counsel, J, W. Robinson, a former Judges sent the ; rnninnnt an anneal, narti enmriiaTaa. to hla associate, vv. n sail, to na enm. . pleted and filed In Judge Frater's court in Seattle. Bell swore that he com pleted the transcript and sent the papers to ths court by his clerk, Anthony Ju- n ,4 V, a, .KaAnanM Vb ha1 .Ian them In the clerk's office. Jurlch made . ' affidavit that he had delivered the pa pers. But ths records - of tha court ' failed to show that any transcript had oeen received, ana juage rxaior aeciaeu , that none was filed. ' Piles, Donworth & Hows made a mo tion In the supreme court to dismiss the anreal of Maria Carrau. ' Then the miss ing transcript turned up. It was en closed In an old newspaper and was re- ,. celved through the mall , by ' one of Judge Frater's associates. 1 The tran- ... knaa. V. a. uantlMi . a. m n rf . . a, clerk of the court as of the date when it was supposed to have been filed. inis, tne cier oecuuw, wu wiser. The court decided that the transcript wss too late, and Marie Carrau lost her , appeal and John Sullivan's fortune. The dismissal made the supreme court of ' ths stats of Washington the court or 1... .a.t,-. ..' . When the supreme court dismissed Marls Carrau's appeal, her jchief counsel , . . , . 1 . -Mn.lnH ' hearing. ' In this petition Robinson stat- . ' ed that It waa common property on the streets of Seattle that four of the mem bers of the supreme court, of Washing ton, "for political reasons, were to dis miss this appeal, Involving an estate worth more than a million dollars, one half of which, as shown upon the-reo-; nni. tn thla court for years vast, be- lnrakJ .! wnillrl holflllO- tO tYl DOlltlcal ring which najs conireuea tne potuica of this state for years.", . (Piles had organised a corporation qompueu us c , . , - Ntlnl.. ann tn whlr-h . ha had conveyed his Interest In Joha ;; Sullivan's estate.) The supreme court oited Robinson to show csuse why he should not be dis barred for contempt. If Marie Carrau's claim were not bona . . . . MA 1. .,,,! Lai.. ' rina. ana il inula nciw uu iamui of John : SUinvan, tnen tne x,uuv,uuv ; wvum c"vi"j. . . a.v. - , ... fit of ' the school f und But by this Umo six different groups of heirs had .......iTh. ItrVit hntwinn thsa vuuaiiiau, ; " T - - - Jt .v.. . . . . rtf Waahlnirrnn came on before Judge Arthur K. Griffin. The contest narrowed to thrse: the heirs represented by Piles' firm; an al rriiu i , biiu .t.v Dm,, w -. --c . leged brother or jonn uuiuvan, ana state. .. . . ' . . .' ' lAts one afternoon on the back of . a torn and soiled envelops. Judge Grif fin vrot hla decision, giving the num ber Of ths case and stating merely that halra nf John Sullivan were Hannah Callaghan and isawara v;orco- ..IV . . - ft. the case. Then hs leit town, y xi waa ; eono four weeks. ':'':'': ":':::;!:.: Th aunrems .v court of "Washington!-: v.i. .iiAn tnr a rehearing in the SU- ...i. nniurt W . Prlamora. at- tomey for the state, charged -that ths opinion of the supreme court 'made the ,;. state appear . to admit ths vital facts ,( uDon the denial of which the state's cass Thei cass naa neen . in tn noun , ; ; venrs. In 1911. Edwara vomtafl was . , 1- T.innl: . tivlnv 1 In novertv in ' a saualld lodging house, hnd was haled hfore the registrar In lunacy and: de- ;? clared Insane. Timothy Meaiy, tne , . Irish barrister,, stated that "American , lawyers had secured for themselves the greater part of the Sullivan estate to . . which Corcoran was entitled," and that Sf all vwruurM iovwivv, ' . 4 , tdnnA ITannoh -. . Co 1 a crHa n 1 ,- sasaivarl rrftm vn RlTBll - - ' ' Wam HDUU. WWWV : Twaa0 . aa Arin& thft nrocreai 01 me iiiium- r u ..alt. tA malr O. twill ' tO JLll Alt bAVIAf iwn- e ; , , la MriAM ranAntiuii ior ner inari in m V ', - .j'v- S-' .' , '. ,';''' w'-'-i'-1 lnWB fl,AUfl..(i".llp: (,''i,r"i ''!'(. rS '. ; tiW '' . -" U'rif" , i ? -Da, iiail Knt4 A rnsmhAP A. V' lftW firm . tliat naa repreiseni;e uoumu , waa one of the juagei iuin on jino , supreme court when the case tvas finally decided, but claimed not to nave partici- vr pated in'thtt deUberatlona of the court. . rt V, n . ..m, 1,0 firm ' : . - . ,.. . . . .4 -. ... -ha. .... An.. Ulliv. . : ; .Mka. .f tha aomA r rm mm t nr the investigating oommutee tnat : n- ,- veatlaated" the csse,.'--. ;"--fc't Ha much for the state of Washington and its courts, which I shall show to i fei tvDicai ravner tnan inuiviauu ia in-,: instances , Vlicy. ui .. fiiu,lv li'(-luB :: and- corruption. ' I , shall prove, by the selection of states here ejid ' there throughout the Union, that it is a na- tlonal housecleanlng of ths judiciary we 3 m ,1... - . . . . n ' i . . UVVUaUU kU.k . . ........ , . u V V. . . - , V :!',