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CapitalJtJournal
Balsm, Oregon
An Independent Kewiptper Published arsry TenlDg except 8undt7
Telephone 11;
CEOItUB PUTNAM.
Too Many Laws Now
Something in the vicinity of a thousand new laws to save
the people will be proposed by the solons who today begin
their 40 days wandering in the legislative wilderness and at
least three or four hundred new lawn will bo added to
encumber the statute books nearly all of them superfluous.
Massing new laws is the great national past-time and a
legislator thinks he has not served his constituency unless he
has fathered a dozen and logrolled a portion of them onto
the statute books. Americans pass more laws than any
nation on earth, and pay less attention to them after they
are passed. The crop varies at from 8,000 to 15,000 per year,
but for the length of time actually on the job again it is
a ease of Oregon first.
As the new laws either conflict with old laws or carry a
clause repealing laws in conflict therewith, and since we are
perpetually tinkering with the constitution by amendments,
and thereby nullifying old laws, we have attained the envi
able condition of government by courts since courts only can
construe a path through the maze of legislation and create
some semblance of order. If it was not for the courts, we
wouldn't know where we are.
Special interests, trusts, cliques, blocs, secret societies,
reformers and upliftcrs are all on the job, each with a
panacea for real or imaginery evils in the form of a statutory
remedy. And the ordinary legislator, no matter how well
meaning falls a victim to the scientific pressure put upon
him, because of his ignorance
There are those who think
economic reverse, every social injustice, can be remedied by a
law, even if in conflict with natural law, and so the free and
Unlimited coinage of statutes proceeds merrily. And the net
result is to overburden the courts, increase the bureaucracy,
and multiply taxes without in
The best service a legislator can render his constituency,
is not in the passage of more laws, but in the defeat of
unnecessary laws, for there are laws aplenty on every con
ceivable subject.
The Ross Removal
Governor Pierce would have been in a better position had
he rt fused to give any reason for the removal of Dr. Thon'as
W. Ross as fish commissioner, and contented himself by
asserting the ouster "for the good of the service." The
reasons given are specious and illogical, and merely
camouflage for the Governor's own particular brand of
politics, which he has played ever since in office.
The charge of purchasing liquor made upon an unsup
ported affidavit, was dropped during the public hearing by
the Governor and the commissioner gijen no chance to dis
prove it, the Governor accepting his denial. As to extrav
agence, if there was any, Commissioner Kendall was as much
at fault as Dr. Ross and to be consistent, the Governor should
oust him also.
The new appointee is evidently amply qualified because he
knows nothing alxmt the salmon industry and it will take him
a long time to familiarize himself. Meanwhile one of the
state's greatest industries, which furnishes the revenues for
the fish commission to operate, will drift at the mercy of
politicians, playing a political game for the patronage
available.
Fish and game are always bones of contention in legisla
tive sessions and Governor Pierce has thrown down the
gauntlet for another fight and will be in luck if the
legislature does not take the commission out of his
jurisdiction.
Salem Man Former
Training Partner of
Vanquisher of Lewis
Wayne "Big" Muiin, who list
Thursday won Hie heavyweight
wrestling championship of thr
world by defeating "iUrangler "
Lewis at Kansas City, hus ait old
chum and training partner liv'ns
In Saleiu, it became known tutl.;y.
K. K. Mulioncj, who opcrutt'i a
grocery Btore on South llgli
street, lived In the name block In
Sioux City with Muitti, and clerked
In a Kfocory etore where I he pres
ent champion trailed.
"There were three of iw lo go
out and run with him when he
was training, " says Mahom-y.
"Due of us would niu at u liuio.
while the others rode in the ear."
At that time the fall of
Muun was training to ho a buu
It v. ait not until u year ago thai
Muun, moving from Sioux City to
Omaha, hgau his training to In
ft wresth-r. ("mmenlius on
Mitnn's meteoric rise a a wrtw'lrr.
Mahoiu'v say.
"Mo doesn't know how st vov
he is. Ho would have made a
pretty good boxer clever nn1
everything hut he couldn't lan.l
riinishmcnt. lie was In two
fights there in Sioux City, bin
each time the other fellow lanoVI
him one in the nead and tint
made tils groggy.
BEND WOMAN WILD
IN DOWNING MURDER
ninil. Or.. Jan. 13. Mm. IW
la Norton irrmted Katunlajr on
chnrBe of perjury. It mill hui
In Ills county Jail. Her ball wan
filed at 12000 but had not been
provided tbi mornlnir. Time tor
her hearing hu not been mi but
It will be act aoma tlma th af
ternoon for another day.
The perjury charire wna tha re
sult of contradictory tcatimony
Riven at the Inquest following the
ulclde of W. P. Downing, local
reataurant man. Mm. Norton la
not connected so war as is known
with tha shooting hut shs teatl
'led that Mr. Downing had not
flslted her rooms before the time
when he cams thera and shot
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Editor end Publisher
of fundamental law.
that every existing evil, every
any way alleviating conditions,
Minin g weiylu ranges betweeu
276 and 290 nntinrf. M:.hi-iiv
nays. He la 8 feet 7 lochoa tali,
auu a man 6 feet lu height look..
like a dwarf wueu staudttig
bu-
mdo him. lie t 4 or G iiu'u
taller than Firpo, who is u
Having closely followed Munn'rf
eartter, wuicu uaa urougm mill lo
the top of the wrentliiiK world in
year's time, Mahoney stuteit that
Muun hus had lus than a do en
matches and never lost ow.
Most of his contents wero sch-jd-uled
as preliminaries to Lewis
inatehoH. Mahoney bttievea that
A'miti had an object hi this.
"He was studying Lewi., aiyn
Mahoney. "He figured Lewis
didn't have tin vl bin if hut
tlial
headloek and he could beat that
Mahoney Mates that 1
must ha o tried lo "pull hotuo
thing dirty" at the match. "The
p:ipcr ;iya Munn picked Ia-wIs up
and thnw him over the rope 4,"
:y ' Maimiu y. "M,i wouldn't hi-
done that unless Lewis had done
somethin ; to him Munn's the
"leanest sp irt you ever saw."
Mahoney moved to Salem laat
Inly. He likes It here, he mv.
all but the rain," and he Intends
to stay.
tified ih.it he had been there. The
inquest following the ilwilli of
Mr. Downing w;i ihtttnoned Sat
urday mid will he resumed si
1:30 today.
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tujuarea of tho diagram wlttt tho words wliicli aicrce with ttto acooiu
panint definitions. The deliiitliotu am numbered to correspond with
(be niuiibcrs on lb diasram.
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IDAH McGLONE GIBSON y
A St ltl'ItlStXG UEV ELATION
"Rod, you're mad: Richard
Starmount aald wildly.
"No, I'm perfectly sane.'
'But you Just told m that yoa
did not know whether you killed
him or not.
"I know It This la what X want
you to get into your mind very
clearly. Kathryn w liable to be
accused of 1'uss' murder and I
snail confess that I shot him."
"Hut you dlun't Rod; you didn't
do It."
"No, I didn't do lt.M
"Someone did. The man la dead.
Hut make no mistake he deserv
ed to die, I tthould have kilted
him if someone else had not. What
you have to do. Dick, is to get her
free at any coat.1
"Tell me the rest of it.
"In a moment Kathlyn opened
the door again," continued Rodney
"1 know now she was looking for
her revolver, which I bad picked up
and dropjHd Into roy pocket a tew
seconds before when I waa exam
ining jVoaa to see if he waa dead.
"t told her to go bock and go to
bed. ItMitead, she came down tho
ate pa, imploring me to get away aa
soon as possible.
"To reassure her, I said: 'I have
the gun,' and then she asked if I
had both of them."
"What did he mean by that?"
"She must have known that
Foss was armed."
"Was he?"
"ves. I bent over him again and
picked up a Run and put it in his
pock it, from which it might have
fallen. Just as I was doing this
policeman came up."
"What did you tell him?"
That I was coming to call up
on MIh.1 Leonard and found the
body when Miss Leonard opened
tho door and a shaft of light from
her studio fell upon It
"Kathlvn acknowledged that she
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MONDAY,
Marriage ;
knew Foss. That he had been
calling upon her earlier in the
evening.
Wa told them nothing else. At
the itatlon houfce where I went
with them I reiterated the story
to Skelton, the detective."
"JJid they search you."
"No, but I waa afraid they would
and left the revolver that I had
placed in my pocket with Kathlyn.
The policeman found tho other
gun In Foss pocket, and, remark
ing that It was wet, cuivfully put
It In bis handkerchief. Later at
the etation it was dropped and
picked up by another man. I went
from the s'ation directly to Kath
lyn' house. X knew she would
he terribly frightened. I didn't
want to leave the sun in her bouse
Here it Is."
"IJut this gun Is fully loaded,"
Starmount said a moment after he
had taken it front Rodney's out
stretched hand.
"My God, then I put Kathlyn's
gun In Fuss' pocket. What If the
rain has not obliterated all the
finger prints '"
"That is something we will
worry about wheu we get to U.
What time is It new. Rod?"
"About seven, I think."
"Well, we'll have breakfast and
I'll phone and inquire about the
inquest." .
As the two. men went Into the
dining room a paper was thrust
into Starmount'i hand.
Across the front pane waa em
blazoned in red: "ELTON FOrW
MUHUKRKD." Below, the lawyer
road: "Well-known Ilioker Killed
tn Greenwich Village."
"Ihe battlo Is on." he said, turn
ing to Evans. "I'll leave you and
telephone to Central Station. You
read tho story, and whatever you
do, do not look concerned, lief ore
we have finished our breakfast
we will probably have every police
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reporter In the city here. I'll be
back before that and help you
out."
Rodney Evans did not Immedi
ately read the paper. Instead, ht
laid U beside his plate while hi
deliberately ordered breakfast foi
two.
By the time the fruit had ar
rived Dick Starmount returned and
seated himwlf.
"The Inquest Is called at ten
o'clock thiv morning. I had the
good luck to find tikelton, and by
a little Judicious questioning found
that you will probibly be Indict
ed." "Thank fiod!' fervently dropped
from Rud's lips.
"I'm not so sure, Rod,' said
Dick earnestly. "In any case Kath
lyn will bo called upon to testify."
"She can I'ct'ude to testify, Dick."
"On what grounds? Ycu would
not want her to say that she might
incriminate herself, would you?"
"Certainly not. Sho has a per
fectly good excuse for not testify
ing." Rodney paused a moment as
though choosing his words. Then
he added:
"IHok, the girl known as Kath
lyn Leonard has been my wife for
over a year."
(Continued Tomorrow)
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