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'. ;l - I I 1 '5 f PACTS FOUH Th tECON mTTAK;Ci!it Crf-n, THrtr l!sralr tetchier IX 1923 "No Favor Stray Vt; Wo Fear Shall Awe." From First StatesKwA, March tS. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINO CX). Cbisles a. Sraact'E, Sheldon F. Sacxstt, PvllUktrt CHAXtsa A- SfSABCB i Edtor-Jlgtr SHtLPOW F. SAOOETf MtMgi$ E&U If ember of the Associated Press . Tho Asnedeied Press is exclusively entitled total use for publication of all news dispatches credited te iter not otherwise credited to this paper. T - Entered at tU PoeUffie ef Salem, OregeeL meSecend-Claaa liatttr.' Published every morning except Monday. Business office SIS S. Commercial Strait. Pacific Coast Advertisinf ReprssenUtivns: ' Arthur W. Slypes, Inc Portland, Secwrit y Eldf. San Francisco, Sharon Bide; Los Angeles, W. Pue. Bide Eastern Advertising Bepresentatires: Ford-Parsons-Steeher, Inc. New York, 271 Madison Ave.j Chicago, 360; N. Michigan Ave. Convictions Reversed on Appeal LOVERS of detective fiction usually pursue the tale breath lessly through to the end ; and when the culprit is exposed they lay the book aside under the shock of some surprise or satisfaction that the ends of justice are about to be served. They do not stop to question, after the author declares one of his characters guilty, whether the conviction is authentic or fictitious. The plausible solution of the author's own mystery is accepted without debate and the author's "than art the man" makes such an one guilty in the readers "' eyes. Many lawyers have written detective stories. It is only now that lawyers reading detective fiction call in crit icism the f ictive methods of the authors. John Barker Waite, professor of law at Ann Arbor, and Miles W. Kimball have written in the August "Book man a critique of the current detective fiction. They have been examining the evidence against such characters as Ada in "The Green Murder Case," and Vandelius whom J. S. Fletcher has arrested in his "The Strange Case of HAiry MarchmomV' and John Tracy in "The Room with the Tas sels' by Carolyn Wells. As court of appeal Messrs. Waite and Kimball either find that the evidence is insufficient or that it is inadmissible in a court because of the way it was procured. As they put it: The chief reason justice is so much better served in fiction than in reality is that the my thical detective enjoys enormous advantage over actual in- rootiminro Tho stnrv-hnnlr hem can -wet his man bv all manner of devices prohibited in real life from breaking and entering to conniving with United States postal officials to rob the mails." 4 Police officers in real life enjoy no such privileges as Philo Vance and Sherlock Holmes in weaving fabrics of evi dence which never endure the fire of cross-examination in a court. Nor are they privileged, in general practice at least, to violate constitutional rights in order to obtain evi dence. So these detectives of fiction who make the regular sleuths to appear so helpless are in truth operators with ar tificial privileges as well as just creatures of f ictive imagi nation. When society is confronted with a real crime that is baffling, the wish for some story-book dectective is real. The lesson which the "Bookman" article brings home is that even if there were such characters in real life, their method of working would not bring conviction in a court. Portland Milk is "Raw" WE notice some newspaper stir in Portland about the lack of inspection of the milk supply of that eity dur ing the summer, and about alleged political influence in the office charged with milk inspection. All of which may or may not be true. Many cities nowadays have come to require pasteuri zation of milk before it may be sold to the public The public in b'ring pasteurized milk may have rather a false sense of j seer . The word in common understanding implies ster ilize. milk, the killing of all bacteria in the milk. Such is not the case at all. The pasteurizing process raises the tem perature to 140 degrees, which it is thought will kill a great many of the bacteria. But often the count after pasteuriza tion discloses more bacteria per c. c. than in raw milk. There is no substitute for sanitary conditions in the dairies. Under proper conditions of milking, bottling and distribution, raw milk is just-as safe as pasteurized milk; and many prefer its flavor. Where milk comes from many dairies and is mixed, then it is well to pasteurize. Where the source is known and the proper inspection and grading insisted on, one can safely depend on raw milk. The benefit of the agitation in Portland will be in seeing that real standards of limited bacteria count are adhered to, . and in educating the public to know that pasteurization is not always a guarantee of pure, wholesome milk. Vigilance for cleanliness Is the price of pure milk for the cities, i i . .... . - A Reasonable Franchise mHE bus company has nretty well nulled the teeth in the X franchise ..which it has submitted to the council for con aideration. The term has been cut in two, from ten years to five. No banal emergency clause is tacked on to block a possible referendum. Conditional on the company's render ing first-class .service the franchise is exclusive. We believe that this franchise properly safeguards the interests of the city and insures competent, dependable, re sponsible bus service, to the public, which is the most import ant thing, i If a companw makes fas large an investment as this company has in modern and comfortable buses, giv ing as complete service as it does, then it Is entitled to an ex clusive franchise for at least the limited period it requests. The price on flaxseed has gone to over $3.00 a bushel. American production this year is estimated at 14,000,000 bu shels, compared with requirements of 45,000,000. Here is a real opportunity for -Willamette Valley farmers who do not care to grow fibre flax. They can grow flax for the seed and find a ready market in Portland. Many are growing flax, but the acreage could be greatly, and we believe very profit ably increased. Scientific farming- has done away with the , bugaboo about flax wearing out the land. . - The federal farm board Is starting an investigation as io wny me American wneai price is so nmcn unaer ue va YtariiATi mun this Aftann. That fine. If thfinr cer. that lnvfi gation made before the next crop comes on. Even if they find out tne wny, tnar Knowledge aoesn t eummate tne discrep ancy. - , 'The lumber market is sick again. It Is about the only lnralld In the whole-northwest honseholtWs fall. Here we are, shipping - the one great crop nature has given this state, to all parts of the world nearly; and doing lo at a loss to the concerns engaged In the business. Perhaps If we had the right kind of taxing system we - wouldn't force timber on the market. The lumber business surely ' Qualifies tinder the limited group entitled to tariff consideration ' which, the president referred to In his message to congress. x ' I How dry and dusty everything ts when the rains are delayed so long In the fall! Smoke and cloud and 4ust and heat make the days stuffy and sultry.- roUt long for the "big change," for the chill. i damp morning calling lor the Mt of fire In the firepiaee. - , a Hoqulam wctu declares a cache of Uquor In her woodshed was a plant.' Many a man would join the wctu If he thought he would be lmilarly affUeted. - . f Billr Sunday. ir Is now Involved in his second divorce suit. L That must rive Dad and "Ma! a real heartbreak, for theirs seems to have been one of those successful, laVfasUeaed ssarrlages. Another Overcrowded Condition " ' " ' ' 'a tm twwiM u r. I Editors Say: BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. J. HENDRICKS- Colonel Thompson continues: H In November of the same year (1872) occurred the first out break of the Modoc Indians and a score of settlers and a few soldiers had been kiUed. Governor Grover had ordered out two companies of volunteers under General John K. Ross, a veteran of the Rogue river war, to assist the regular army in Queuing the Insurrection. The outbreak, only for the butchery of the citizens along the Lost river and Tule lake, was not regarded as at all serious, as a few weeks would suffice to crush or destroy the savages. But' as weeks rolled on and still no surrender, nor even a fight, the governor became un easy ... It was o'clock in the morning when Mr. Gilfry, private secretary to the governor, came to my office with a message that Governor Grover Miller (John T. Miller), and when would I start? I replied that I would ge by the 11 o'clock train It General Mil ler was ready to start. As was told in this column sev eral days ago, Colonel Thompson left Salem Thursday noon and was in the lava beds Saturday night; going by train to Roseburg the first day, by stage to Jacksonville that night, and thence by relays of three good saddle horses. The Modoc Indian was a bad ac tor. From the day the white man first set foot upon his soil he had been a merciless foe with whom there could be no peace. The trav elers through his country were forced to battle for. their lives. Trains of immigrants, men, wom en and children, worn and weary with the hardships and trials of the plains, were trapped and but chered. The number of these vic tims mounted into the hundreds and constituted one of the saddest chapters in the annals of Ameri can pioneers. -CoL Thompson says of the Modoes: "They did not pos sess the steady courage of the Nes Perces, nor the wild dash of the Sioux, but. in cunning and savage ferocity they were -not exceUed even by the Apaches. In war they relied. mainly on cunning and treachery, and the character of their country was eminently suit ed for the display-of 'these tae tlcs. Our first knowledge of the Modocs was when they stole uponi the camp of Fremont in 1845 . . . Fremont suffered the loss of some et his men. Including two Dela ware Indians." (It was here that Fremont wai overtaken by a cour ier and turned back to assist in the conquest of California.) m m "k In 1850, an immigrant train was trapped, and of the more than 80 men, women and children but one escaped to tell the awful tale of slaughter. In 1851, an attempt of the same kind was made,-at the same place, but a company under John F. Miller (afterwards of Sa lem) went to their relief from Jacksonville, having gone out to guard the immigrants known to be on the way. Some of the immi grants were killed and wounded before help arrived, and the Mo doc murderers were chased into the lava beds and thus escaped their pursuers. Another whole train was destroyed, without n trace. " - In 1852 foUowed the famous so called "Ben Wright massacre." In the fall of that year Ben Wright raised a company of St men and went out to guard the Incoming immigrants through the -land of the Modocs. The Indiana sent messenger for a, parley. Their chief pretended friendship, but when Ben Wright had gone to meet him, supposedly unarmed. for the parley, and the wily sav age supposed the white men were In his power, he was on the point of ordering an attack, when Ben Wright whipped two pistols from under his blanket that-took the I an overcoat. Ant, abet him dead, and Wright's men open ed fire and wiped out the treach erous Modoe band. About 90 In dians were killed. It broke the Dower of the Modocs. bat a howl went np from the goody-goodies of the country about the "massacre" of the poor Indians, who would have rfnnA t fc a muM stnnt themselves had they not been out witted, surprised and outfought. fc On October 14. 18S4. tha Mo docs entered into a treaty and went onto the Klamath reserra tion of 768,000 acres of land, more wan tzv acres lor eacn man, woman and child, and they were Promised navmenta of tsso.oao from the government, for widen consideration they gave over the rest ef their lands. The main tribe of the Medoea, at a tribe, kept faith. But s renegade band under Captain Jack left the reser vation and went back to their eld haunts. Captain Jack was wanted for mnrdar. and a filt ered nround him renegades from otner tnnes. ah were outlaws. Bo gus Charley, one of the band, was an Umpqua Indian, raised by a white man. There were Indians from the Columbia in Jack's band. He was assisted in securing his ascendency over his band of out laws by his sister. "Queen Mar, " so-called, who had lived many years witn a white man near Treks. "In the minion of C.nt1n I. D. Applegate." says Col. Thomp son, -joary was the Drains of the murderous crew who gathered In the hole in tha will' undmv har brother. U In the first days of January, 1873, the band under Captain Jack murdered a lot of settlers in that section, and the regular sol diers made no headway against their outrages. The civilian sol diers under Capt. O. C. Applegate, Captains L D. Applegate and Kel ley, CoL Thompson and others fought the Modocs, and lost 42 men, besides a long list of wound ed; but Col. Thompson believes that, with a small additional loss, the Modoc band could have at a eertain point on the 17th, been kiUed or captured, and their stronghold taken, in 20 minutes, had the volunteers been allowed to make the trial whWi thmr wm anxious to do. V But, says Thompson, the forces of the sob-sisters "succeeded In hypnotizing the grim soldier In the White Hons (President Grant), 'and the result was 'the 'peace commission Sentimental ists shed barrels of tears over the wrongs at the Indians. According ly in Februsry, 1872, a commis sion was appointed consisting of A. B. Meachem, Jesse Applegate and S. Case Towards the last of February the commission. arrived at the lava beds. In vain Gover nor G rover protested against any compromise with the murderers of Oregon citizens. Captain Jack at first refused to have anything to do with the commissioners. Attr some weeks of delay he agreed to a conierence, nut the terms were such as to leave no doubt of In tended treachery, and Aonlerate and Case resigned in discusL They saw that the Indians only sought an onnorrnnitv to nnrder General Canby and such other of ficers as they could get Into their power. Accordingly Rev. E. Thom as, then nresidlna elder of the Pat- aluma, CaL, district of the Meth- oaist enuren, ana I s. Dyar, In dian arent atitha Klamath nuter. vatlon, were appointed to fill the vacancies. - t y bf H . . - ' A teat was pitched midway be tween the linen and thither Com missioners Meachem, Thomas and Dyar, and General Canby repaired, accompanied by Frank Riddle and his Modoe wife as interpreters. y b - ' -.' The rest off this story. Includ ing the massacre, will hare to go oven uu tomorrow (The Bits man would like to say to the Sips for Supper man ' that he, too, sympathises with Hlckey HaaST dean of Salem bartenders, and agrees that he deserves a his toric memorial, which matter shall have some sort of appropri ate attention at a later date.) trUEJf TUB WORM TTOX8 tiki norldvatcnltltf.tri a modicum of proof of the theory tsll ly tome scientists thai in fects may tltrnntely enase mta off the face or the enrtn. FioWdi hat suffered incalculable damage, rnaatsr lata many millions, through tha dtttractir activities et t Mediterraaeaa trait fry, Crops have been dsitroyed, credit strained, and banks have fatted be easts of the fruit fly's Inroads. drawers ia tat wtaakhee dist rict, according t R. Edward Tremble, prominent hortieultur ntlsft of thn district, will suffer a low of li.eoo.teo this season from worm damage aad tha re daction of grades resulting from stings. Fickle nature allied ttselt ea the aide of tha insects. Condi tions were essentially favorable for the development of the second breed, and winds daring the spraying season were a handicap In the battle with the worms. The damage is estimated to be the greatest la a anarter of a cen tury. Mr. Trumble estimates that In the last twenty-two years he nan waged Incessant warfare en ap ple worms, growers aava lost mora than 51.lt,0tt ia worm damage t taeir era. Thorough prsytng and careful timing are repaired to win tha battle la any ttrta tattoa, end many of the growers, through neglect or mis adventtrw nave been forced to re treat tfefort the attacking army or parasites. Fortunately, however, the net gala ta tha constant straggle with insects hat Tea ta the side of man. The batUe wtta the boll weevil, the earn borer, the trait fly nnd other destructive pests, coating mlitions yearly, can be woa It the taotte "eternal vigil ance It the trice of liberty," Is applied without relaxation. Bel linghasa Herald. XfR G1VK IT UP Portland Is forming a new super-organization. So many organ isations are functioning there that they hart to form an organisa tion of organisations. That wffl bo fine, more printing for the printers, more office furniture, more office space, more secretar ies, morn committees, more tele, graph bills, long distance calls. If they can Just make the organiza tion big enough, it will manufac ture prosperity itself. Salem Statesman. Tea. But what we are carious about it -how long before Port land's super-organization will be sending organisers of super-organisations for other towns at so much per super-organizer to get suckers to Join at umpty-nmp dol lars per Jiner and so much a month thereafter as dues to be used to- keep the super-Organiser inter national secretary In eteao. graphers aad perfume? And con sidering that all the other organ isers have organized the button wearers of the country so effect ively that there are no luncheon days left, which fact made It nec essary tor the organisation of breakfast dabs tor the other suck ers, may It not be necessary to Change the name of the super, organisers to supper-organisers T CorralUs Gaaette-Times. Congress has just spent a third et a million on a system of refrig eration which will, keep the sen. ate and house chambers eool dar ing the summer periods. If the nee of the system is confined to tho heads of members and not to -their feet it may bo forth all It has cost. Yakima Republic For sale signs, tor rent eigne, legal blanks, etc, tor sale at th Statesman. If you want to save many dollars -Ik' V. start your tm. Old Oregon's Yesterday Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read September 12. ltOd The state fair opened today with fairest prospects In many years. Mora than 2000 persons ware on the- grounds at C o'clock laat nlorltt- wtfn natnt tITE OA above tha first day last year. Miss Nellie Clark, Who Is leav ing tor the mission field at Nan king, China, was honored at the first Christian church, of which she Is a member, last evening. Among- the speakers for the i sion wem Prof. J. T. Matthews, who has been her professor at Willamette university, gad Rev. Davis Errett ef tho church. Marlon county has made steady advance in the movement - for good roads, and now comes the purchase of the quarry on the Ewald tract by the.county, and ridiculously cheap trucking prom, ised by the Citizens' Light and Traction company, which will haul at tho rata of 20 cent a cu bic yard as compared to a prev iously low rate of 40 cents. Read the Classified Ads. - SUNSET CIRCLE H69-70 San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Southwest, Sait Antonio, New Orleans, then -by baat to New York nr continue torn the old South by rail to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York or saidwest destinations. GOLDEN STATE CIRCLE $1083 SanF- irele trip Jhast before September San Diego, BoQTwaad, thrn the pJetoreoqne Soathwest to Kaneae City, St. Lonia, Cfaieago and all other ntfd weat points. OVERLAND CIRCLE 4B62-15 San Fnttdnco, LakeTabne, nornae Crent Salt Lake by raa.OBdrn. Salt Lake aty. gag m afi aililTlieeal fmrq y-msMvrcfwnthraYefiow- T4.T XNo trip you can plan will give you as much for your money. Southern Pacific's Grcle Trips are more than a trip back East you tour as much of the United Scares as you wish, at summer excursion lares. Only a tew days left to buy this gicatxac summer trip, but you have Dlentr of time to complete your journey. Your ticket is good until October 31. On these Circle Trios nan Ease one way, serum another. Yo "r ts us rniw uX swing CSK through QCfofnil to your ocari- Vliit grt cititt lit Edit UoitfMd and the Boeky llnnntain A- W 3J AfwLwL nation and return via northern United States or Catudian Line. Reverse this order if you wish. - Note the examples aad map. Your trip East easily becomes a CIRCLE Trip. Let us pbn ic for yon now. Just phone the Southern Pacific agent. 0isitiIflieEiiQ'I?a(ii CITr TICKET OFFICE, ltd If. liberty SL Phone 80 PASSENGER STATION, 12t& and Oak 41 CelebiraiLe Qpeinim ! fntataw . Of Portland Gm i: Coke Beautiful New Display Covwipm$?s Rooms 1 36 So. High (near State) Phone 375 By using these coupons Good for- $5.00 . 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