TRYING TO KILL THE OREGON SYSTEM IN OREGON
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BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
More than 30 small forest tires were
caused by lightning during the recent
storms in Linn county and the eastern
part of Lane county.
The national holiday of the black
smiths' association was observed at
Albany by about 50 of the Oregon
branch of the association from Salem
and Portland.
It Is planned to make the Hood Riv
er Horticultural Chautauqua a per
manent affair, with all those in atten
dance this year as charter members of
the organisation.
Preparations are being made for the
Clackamas County Fair at Canby com
mencing Wednesday, September 25,
and continuing until Saturday. Sep
tember 28. inclusive.
The W illamette valley in miniature
la a big feature that will be shown at
the Oregon state fair at Salem. A
eyclorama la now being built that will
Show six counties and doseaa of cities.
The aecoad crop of alfalfa on the
irrigated lands adjacent to Stanfield
la now all harvested. It proved to he
heavier than the first cutting this year
averaging three and a half tons to the
acre on many fields.
Thomas McCusker has practically
aampleted his petition aa a candidate
for congress and It will ba filed with
the secretary of state within a few
days; It wlU contain about *00 aamea.
the number required being (32.
Beekeepers of eastern Oregon have
lie d a complaint with the state rail
road commission that freight rates on
honey are too high and that as a re
sult there is no chance for eastern
Oregon beekeepers to attem pt to com
pete with the California product.
Lane county la doing much perman
ent road work this year.
Several
miles of first class macadam road la
being built, old roads on prominent
routes are being rebuilt and many of
the lesser traveled roads are being re
paired with gravel and crushed rock.
The annual fair of the second East
ern Oregon District Agricultural So
ciety, embracing W asco and Hood
River counties, will be held In The
Dalies, October 1, 2, 3, and 4, and pro
m ises to surpass anything of the kind
ever attempted in this section of the
state.
Owing to the surprising develop
ment of the livestock Industry since
the Portland Union Stockyards com
pany established Its plant at Kenton
a little more than 18 months ago, the
directors have ordered the capacity ef
the pens doubled at a cost of more
than (100,000, and the work has al
ready been commenced.
Ascertaining that the Central Ore
gon Irrigation company has complied
with its part of the contract with the
state for the reclamation of land In
eastern Oregon, the desert land board
has ordered paid over to It (80,000 in
notes given by settlers and held by
the state as a guarantee of the com
pany to fulfill Its agreem ent
The counties in western Oregon
which are producing the bulk of the
clover seed crop, according to Agron
omist George P. Hyslop, of the Oregon
agricultural college, are Washington.
Yamhill, Marlon, Polk. U o , Clacka
mas and Benton.
Counties haring
the best drained soils are preferable
for raising clover seed, he says.
Dr. J. F. Calbreath of Portland, who
has been elected superintendent of the
erstern Oregon asylum for insane nt
Pendleton, made vacant by the resig
nation of Dr. M. K. Hall of La Grande,
has informed State Treasurer Kay
that he thought he would accept the
I 'sltlon. He said he would not say
oc.lnitely until he had time to arrange
h a affairs.
The first shipment of Chinese pheas
ants which are to be released by State
Game Warden William L. Finley and
deputies will be sent to Pendleton, La
Grande and points in Wallowa county.
Fix dozen will be in the first shipment.
1 hese birds were raised at the state
gam e farm at Corvallis, and their re
lease In eastern Oregon is largely an
experiment.
Although the documents are dated
August 8, officers and men of the Sec
ond battalion, Third infantry, Oreeen
National Guard, arc Just begint
receive official notifications th
1 sttalion ha« been disbanded, at
they are honorably discharged
the guard, as a result of the a
mutiny of the battalion during I
cent W ashington maneuvers.
attem pt is on to stab the initiative anti referen
A NOTHER
dum. It will appear on the November ballot, warns the
alert Portland Journal, and is what is known as the majority l
amendment Its requirement is that no initiative measure can
pass unless supported by a majority of all who vote at an
election.
Its effect is to record as voting against the measure every
person who votes no as well as every person who does not vote
at all. It registers as voting against the measure, whether bill
or constitutional amendment, every voter who does not care
enough about the bill to express his choice. It arrays against
the proposition all the forces of unconcern, apathy, non-patriot
ism and discontent It would set up a process that would make
it extremely difficult to pass an initiative measure at all.
The proposal should be beaten. Its passage would be a
knife-plunge into the vitals of direct legislation. It is the most
serious attack yet made on the Oregon system.
There are changes that should be made, but this is not one
of them. When we amend our system of direct legislation the
aim should be to improve, not destroy.
ERADICATION OF CRIMINAL PERVERTS
B
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“T h e «Staff o f L ife”
In order to enjoy life lo the fullest, the bre«»d you eat should be made from the
best of flour. When you eat bread made from the brands ol Hour w a sell, it’s
then that life will cease to be a dream, but will become a life lull of enjoyment
and happiness — a real life worth living.
W e c a r r y in i t o c H t h e f o l l o w i n g b e a t b r a n d s o f
f lo u r a t t h e m o s t r e a s o n a b l e p r ic e s t
P er S ack
D aily Bread .
Pure W h ite
C arnation
F isher’s Blend
L ib erty Bell
$ 1 .5 0
1 .6 5
. 1 .5 0
1 .7 5
1 .3 5
FEED
P e r SacH
$ 1 .5 0
F eed R oll O ats
1 .6 5
R oll B arley, 7 5 s
1 .3 5
S h orts . . .
H e a v y M iddlings 1 .8 0
> kill in the white heat of ungovernable rage, or to take life
through the promptings of acute fe“ r, may very properly
be construed as constituting the crime of murder, since in either
W h e n in G o ld H i l l c o m e in a n d lo o k o v e r o u r s to c k
instance there is deprivation of life at the insane prompting of
the moment. Yet society has little to be apprehensive of in the
o f d r y goods.
W e can save y o u m o n ey o n
contemplation of crimes of this particular character, the incep
a n y t h i n g y o t* m a y n e e d i n t h a t l i n e .
tion of which is due to ineradicable instincts of the mind, as
common to one as to all, though happily suffering the restraint
with which centuries of civilizing influence have veneered our
innate savagery.
It is the constitutional criminal, the moral freak, the actual
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mental degenerates who plan and execute horrors such as the
Eugene case that society has mostly to fear, and of whom the
social body must rid itself as ruthlessly as of cancer. A corre
spondent in the current issue of the Scientific American, sug
gests in the following article a means for the protection of
society which will not find favor with the newer humanitarians, Professional Cards
but is as susceptible of sensible practice as plucking weeds from
the garden:
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“Now th at the oW conception of punishment as social re
»trained thru a cheese cloth, It will keep perfectly lor many, many hour».
venge has died out, in theory at least, the question is no longer
Unlike common ro ffc e , or even tea. Haalth (.olfca ia fully a» good and
Itcalthful made the tiny before, aa It is alien wrvtd bcatily made.
whether one who is a public menace is “insane” or “immoral.”
Standing in tin- |«>t tend» Ui lurrvacc the injurious effect, of common
The point is that he is a diseased element in the social organism,
coffee or tea, but with Hr.Uh Coffee tlw-re 1.« not the alighteat undeair-
and as such should be removed. Scientifically speaking, a man
able ehangr.
is no more to be blamed for crime than for insanity. With the
A. E. KELLOGG
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odds overwhelmingly against the man who oversteps the bounds
GOLD HILL. OKFGON
Ami if one becomes fatigiutl, < t te-.le—, a’ t ny lltncol <lay, a good
of social conduct, as they are, he who does overstep those bounds
Embalmer
and
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cold
dtink of Health Caffe« will pr-.ve ixtxoUngly «at¡«lying Much
reveals a weakness either of judgment or self-control, both of
like ¡1« reatfitl effect nt l»iltiua- Health I afire . ill gem rally »1 anytime
Director
which are allied to other forms of mental weakness. This, aside
of day settle a dixturl. d intiid wb n t htiMial mental or pbyaical acti
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from the fact that the “perversion of the moral sense” is either
vities have kit to rextlexaiu-a» or fatigue.
■-aiketa, etc.
congenital or the result of early influences.
FUNERAL CAR
“The fault of the newer humanitarianism is not that it now Office Phone: Home, It—M; Ilesidctice
holds extreme views as to irresponsibility for criminal acts, but Phone, Home 2—K; Pacific 4(1-Main.
that it does not recognize th at to declare a man to be insane E lement h . smith , m . d ,
does not make him less a social menace nor does it alter the fact
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
that he has become what he is by the action of laws beyond his
Office in Wells Building
control. Neither does it alter the fact that the health of the
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social organism demands that he be removed therefrom , and re
IOHN R. CARKIN
GLENN O. TAYLOR
moved effectually.
CARKIN
&
TAYLOR
.
“On this point the altuism which has done so much for our
T H e A r c h ite c t a n d B u ild e r
LAWYERS
western civilization has degenerated into a harmful sentimental
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ism which places an excessive value upon the mere form of
MEDFORD. OREGON
is here to stay, and is very much alive to the
human life, regardless of the worth of that life to itself or to
needs of this growing city, and will design
society. We take better care of our idiots, lunatics, and crimin CLARK E. SAUNDERS, M. D.
and execute anything in the Building line.
Practice Limited to
als than we do our children. The last are left to chance until
Brick, Stone and Cement. Plain or artistic
Eye, Ear, Noee and Throat
they become idiots, lunatics, or criminals, when they begin to
Eyi* scientifically examined and glamea
receive the attention which comes too late. A rational and truly furnished
when nettled.
humanitarian policy would be to eliminate these elements by a -i- .ett-Corey PnL :it;a, M"dlord, Ore
C em en t an d Ir o n G r ill F en ces
painless death, which would end many miseries, protect society,
A S p e c ia lty
DR. R. C. KELSEY
and purify the social atmosphere. Vast energies would thus be
orrioe in
left free to attack the problem of social regeneration at its root,
G O LD H IL L H O S P IT A L
the children. The social organism can never know its own pos
COB. T H IB D A O BT».
GOLD H IL L , OREGON
sibilities until it has given every child an opportunity to grow up
under the best possible conditions, physical, educational, and DR. ARTEMAS W. DEANE
ethical, and it is time that public solicitude shifted more in this
DENTIST
GAB A p M IN IS T ItR X l»
direction.”
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Lance & Company
The Big Store"
Iced Health Coffee
Jarvis the Druggist
S T E IN H O F F
IC E C R E A M
HI ALTO BUILDING, MEDFORD
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A Town Divided Against Itself—
born in pain and in that pain does die;
A. E. KELLOGG
th en naught that men endeavor ¡»certain
NOTARY PUBLIC
to attain, while fools tear down the tiling
that wise men rear in vain! And warring
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little Bungtowns, which fain would model
GOLD H ILL, OREGON
be, must plant the gory hatchet beneath
the cabbage tree; and, getting down to
ASBAYER AND CHKMIHT.
cases, if they wish the hamlet well, must EARL V. INGLES, If - —General aa-
»ay and aDalvtb-«*! work. Cement
specialize on concord and—raise—less—
and asphalt texim.-.
Beat equip
hell!
ped axxav office and Ic-ting lahor-
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atory tn Oregon.
Ab work guar
Debs on Social f olly
anteed.
Cal vet t-f’a l dork
block.
Ah, ill betide the hicklet» town, to sor
ry doom ordained, where harmony hax
fled the coop and cooing peace look* pain
ed; when- neighbor turns on neighbor
the dour and doubtful eye, and w rangle
rises daily in lifted voice and high. I
wist that never nation in civil war etn-
“ Seeley dinners and monkey parties
, broiled e’er gave more apt renditi >u "I
»poller and of spoiled: or showed the ' foreshadow the do, .in of modern aristoc
■simple Is-autie- attendant upon strife, racy. Tltc latest. exhibition of morbid
1 the p r js-r way to edge and plant the -cl,-conceit anil heartless d -fiance of thr
fratricidal knife; or held in apter fashion social misery of the mass' s has I ns ii given
to govern conduct by, th law of wift liy Mrs. Fish. The ilexcriptioii • of this
. " „ r f . ' t l - n i l a ll O tlllt
For riotous affair arc well calculated Io im
(or an eye
•ant press upon the minds of thoughtful puo-
sip- i pie the fact that there is something
ti ve wrong with a country in which such a
d of display of luxury can be made within a
the stone’s throw from where hundreds of
and thousand» of men, women and children
«e is are struggling lor a mere existense.”
Phone 370-.I, Grant» Paas, Oregon
School Children, Attention
To the Boy» and Girl» "I Jackson County
School»:
Any’of you who »re preparing an ex
hibit for the »late fair nt Salem, Septem
ber 2-7, pleat»’ drop Supt. Well» at Jaek-
»onvllle, a card giving your name In full
and the name of (he article or artlclea
you will enter in the state industrial con-
teat. Thi» will assure yon a gtxsl plat«
at thejfair for your exhibit.
Soda Fountain Drinks
Cold a» ice and pure as »now
H ave a sundae ’fore you go
Turner’s Lunch Room
Gold Mill Livery
Darling & Modges
Proprietors
Rigs for all occasions
Good horses and drivers that know the roads
We make no specialty of any class of trade
A ll G et t h e Best