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Editorial Page-Washington Co. News. .1. F. WOOOS, Editor. Publish ed Every Thursday by the W a sh in g best appreciate the recent decision, which declares the Swift combination ton County Publishing Co. Incorporated under the Sherman law, to be unlaw at Forest 6rove, Oregon ful. In summarizing the bill, Justice Holmes, who handed down the decis C IR C U LA TIO N 1500. ion, said in part: “It charges a com $1.00 a Year in Advance. bination of a dominant proportion of the dealers in fresh meat throughout Entered at the post-office at Forest the United States not to bid against Grove, Oregon, as second class each other in the livestock markets of mail matter. the different states, to bid up prices for a few days in order to induce the cat Address all communications to Wash tlemen to send their stock to the ington County Pub. Co., stockyards; to fix prices at which they Forest Grove, Ore. will sell and to that end to restrict shipments of meat when necessary; to I f the NEWS fails to reach its subscrib establish a uniform rule of credit to ers or is late, we request that immedi dealers and to keep a black list; to ate attention may be called to the same. make uniform and improper charges for cartage, and finally, to get less THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1905 than lawful rates from the railroads to the exclusion of companion.” The Lewis and Clark officials have CENTENNIAL NOTES made a final decision in the matter of keeping the exposition open on The finest collection of tiger skins Sundays. The grounds will be open ever exhibited will form part of Siam’s from noon up to the regular closing display at the Lewis and Clark Fair. time, but none of the amusement fea An elaborate display of toys will be tures of the fair will be permitted to run. a feature of Switzerland’s 830,000 ex By opening the exposition on Sundays hibit at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. the class of people that usually visits New Hampshire’s building at the the parks will go there instead, and if Lewis and Clark Centennial will be a all the amusements are closed, there reproduction of the birth place of can be nothing but educational fea Daniel Webster. tures to be seen, and they hurt no A company of marines from the U. man, Sunday or any other day. S. navy will give daily drills and main tain a model camp at the Lewis and Why can’t Forest Grove have a Clark Centennial. park? Granting that the whole town An exhibit showing the method and is a beautiful park in itself, yet there is extent of flax growing in Marion County, a most desirable spot that could be Oregon, form part of that county’s wirh a little fixing, converted into a exhibit will at park that would be a pleasure to visit. Centennial. the Lewis and Clark The unoccupied ground of the Congre gational church society, which is sj A comprehensive exhibit of Oregon desirably located, could be made into ^ sses which won the Prize at a most ornamental place without much St’ ^ uis- in competition with the cost, providing however, the church world- wil1 b.e shown at the Lewis and society would condescent to permit it. (-'lark Exposition. With a fountain of water in the center Work on the Oregon buidling of of a carefully mowed lawn and cement ' the Lewis and Clark Exposition has walks leading to and fro, bordered been begun, and the building will be with beds of bright flowers, and a few completed by March 15. The struc- rustic settees scattered about, il would ture will be of handsome appearance, make an imposing picture, and would 45x90 feet and will cost $9275. be á comfort to the eyes of our down \ The Emmanuel Swedenborg Club, townspeople as well as the stranger of Chicago, an association interested in who chances to visit the city. It j the perpetuation and data of the illus- might be compared with a well arranged J trious philosopher and scientist, will advertisement placed in a good, live erect a handsome pavilion at the Lewis newspaper—it would bring results. and Clark Centennial. An infernal machine, intended for The activity of the board of trade the commander of the warship Viscaya, which is being revived now is not which visited New York just after the being done any too soon to put that destruction of the Maine, will be dis body in readiness for the work before j played in the Dead-letter office exhi it in the near future. When spring bit at the Lewis and Clark Centennial. opens up there will be plenty to do, j and in fact there is plenty to do now, j Margarita Fischer Co. Monday Night but there will be more when the new j electric line is begun, the Lewis and Clark exposition gates are swinging, j open to the world, etc. If we would get our share of the immigration that is bound to come westward this year, we should show that we desire to have it locate here. The work heretofore done along that line has been good, j and has been done by a mere handful! of enterprising citizens who had the courage to take charge. For greater results than have already been accom plished it will require the united efforts of every citizen and they should join j those who have made these fruitful efforts towards the betterment of the | community. Get patriotic and join the j board of trade and thus contribute your | part to the progress of your fair city. ^ Let it be said, and have the feeling in Rememb€r |he return engagement your own heart, that it was because of q[ the Margarita Fischer Co.f three your own efforts that Forest Grove is 1 nights . } commencing Monday, Feb. 6 th. one of the leading * cities in , this part of | Dont miss it as their plays , are all „ new the state. You owe it to the commu- . A . ... plenty , . of , . on the coast and filled with nitv. to the good name of the city and , . , . __ . “ B 1 comedy to keep you in good , humor to >ourself.________________ from start to finish. New specialties by new people. The Colored Minstrels The decision handed down by the bine(i for Forest Grove, have canceled U. S. Supreme Court in the case of ¿ 3 ^ so don’t expect to see the United States vs. Swift & Co., The Fischer Co. will furnish known as the beef trust, is the first you jjj laughs you need to make decision against the trusts of any con- you happy. Don’t forget the dates sequence. The practices of the beef secure your seats early. Seats on trust are so well known that everybody at Baldwin’s confectionery store, will rejoice because of the victory. ' pnces 50c, 35c, Children 25c. However, the meat consumers in t h i s ------------------------- part of the country and especially in For Sale this community will see no material j yyjH sell 63 feet, fronting the difference because of this decision, Sloan Hotel for $700. One half but those of the middle west and east cash, 1 year’s time on balance at 8 per who were compelled to pay exorbitant cent. E. P. Cadwell, Leaburg, Ore. prices for meats, and the cattlemen ------------------------- who were compelled to sell their stock — Weekly Oregonian and The News at a sacrifice, are the ones who can one year; $ 2.00 in ad vane. I We Are Well Pleased WiLh t>he results of our January Clearance Sales, and feel sure th a t many people were made happy on account of the Extremely Low Prices a t which they made their pur chases from us, and we now wish to inform you that we have in transit from the east a which will be announced in due time We still have a HOST OF BARGAINS For you on our BARGAIN COUNTER, and intend this a SPECIALTY. Don’t Fail to Look it Over. As to Shoes We are still selling some at HALF PRICE and They Are Good Ones Too. Our New Stock Is now on our shelves and we are making the prices very low this season. DON’T FAIL TO LOOK THEM OVER. We have the very latest shapes in OXFORDS, in BLACK and TAN, in Ladies' Gents', Misses' Youths’ & Childrens m the Front Row We are in the Front Row when it comes to GROCERIES and we sell at BOTTOM PRICES. If anyone tells you that some other merchants are underselling us, just Investigate for yourself, and you will find that it’s a scheme to Mislead You. We POSITIVELY WILL NOT BE UN DERSOLD, We Are Here For Business and can save you money. Come in and see us, even though you may not buy anything we are always glad to see you. Hoffman & Allen Co i Main Street, Forest Grove, Oregon W hy Japan Whips Russia. It becomes more and more plain that the difference between Japan and Rus sia In the present contest Is th a t be tween science and superstition. It seems an anomaly thaf It Is the Asiatic nation which represents science and the European nation which stands Cor su perstition. But so It Is. The state ment of Bresnitz von Sydacoff th at the czar Is a fatalist and th at he depends on the stars to light his battles throw s a flood of light on the present situation. So far the stars seem to have been too busy w ith their own affairs to bother with a contest of hum an atoms on a comparatively small planet millions of miles distant. The New York Times says of this imperial believer In charm s and hoo doos, "Nicholas II. may be a dreamy, kindly fatalist like Napoleon III., who ended by allowing women and obsequi ous courtiers to ruin his land.” And again it rem arks th a t “we m ust there fore accept provisionally as In the main true w hat we hear of Nicholas—th at he has an alm ost Mohammedan resigna tion to kismet and endures these tre- mendous shocks to his vanity and fam ily pride because fatalism provides an elastic groundwork In his mind from which there Is rebound. Gossip says th at a French spirit medium named Philippe Is a favorite with Nicholas, who through his aid summons the ghosts of departed czars In order to In terrogate them as to the future. The violent deaths of Bobrikoff and Von Plehve were also fated, so th at Nicho las sees no reason to change the policy tow ard Finns and Russians which they carried out. The Ruaslana are In a sad plight within and w ithout.” The m ystery Is being explained. The czar la self hypnotised Into a belief in blind fate. In signs and In Icons, and the Russians are asleep with him. If they should ever aw aken the story may be different, but It seems improbable that the awakening will occur until aft er they are so completely whipped that there will be nothing left to do except the ratifying of the peace treaty. T’p to date, wide awake, enlightened methods m ust win ns against Igno rance and credulity. Russia should get into the procession of inoderu prog ress. W here the R ussians E xcel. A second rate horse won a race r«- cen-ly, and the result occasioned such su n rise that an Investigation was made. It was found that the horse had teen filled up on champagne. Possibly the sw ift record made by the Russians may he accounted for by the fact that they absorb so much vodka. It Is a fact that with the exception of the llusive Filipino the Russian Is the fast- ist proposition that ever came down the military pike. This may account for the Inrge number of running lights In M u e b irll. If scooting for tall tim ber Is the chief •bject of military strategy there is lit tle doubt that Kuropatkln Is one of the greatest generals known to history. It may I* the plan of the Russian com- miMider In chief to run the Japanese army to death. If so. he will surely win out. for, whatever may be said of Ivan Ivanovltch’s ability to shoot, his power of getting over ground is one of the marvels of the age. There Is little doubt that there would have been much heavier losses among the Russians If they had stayed In one place long enough to perm it the Jap bullets to catch up. The brown men are at a disadvantage In a foot race for the reason that their legs are so much shorter. It seems to be a contest between science and speed, with science getting red In the face nnd panting In pursuit. In a getaway the Cossack can give points to both the cockroach and the Jack rabble The only thing In nature th at Is quite bis equal Is the spectre of razorhacks that Bill Nye once beheld out of a car win dow-. He said he watched them "until they gradually disappeared from sight —on ahead of the train.” Oyama has been watching the Slavs disappear from sight In the same way. It is an Ill'llructlve fact that, so far as we can Judge from the news reports, the Rus sians who marched across country seemed to reach their destination at about the sam e tim e as those who went by rail. Possibly they felt something like the man w-ho was being chased by a hear and who told a rabbit th at had been sean-d out by the wild stampede to get out of the way and give a man 4 chance th at wanted to run. Speaking of R etreats. It is probable th at the magnificent flight of Kuropatkln from Llaoyang will gain th a t general the name of "the Grand Old Iletreater.” W hether this Is to prove the most famous military crawfishing known to history remains to be seen. Xenophon w ith his 10,000 Greeks once m ade a very celebrated getaway, and other commanders of more recent times have done stunts In the retiring line. For one, W ashington once stole sway, leaving some "Quaker cannon” to deceive the British. In tb« w ar t«'tween the states was Beaure gard's evacuation of Corinth, Miss., la the spring of 1862. Beauregard w u strongly Intrenched at Corinth, and Ha I leek and O rant were alowly envoi oping him In a grim cordon he could not hope to break, with a force he did not dare to meet. The Federal com mandera were drawing nearer and nearer every day by means of zigzag trenchea, and the big guns from the boata were ahelllng the Confederate position with ateadlly Increasing fury But Beauregard had been quietly ahtp ping the sick, the wounded, the wag ons, the nnlmnls and nearly all the men fit for service—shipping them south to a position some eighty miles distant— until, on the same evening, when the Federal troops were ready for the as sault, the Confederate campfires rep resented only n strong rear guard In light marching order. It was about 10 o’clock that night when, w ith the big shells bursting all about them, a few thousand men In grny filed from many dlrectiona Into the hard, smooth, sandy road, and six or seven hours later the Fed era Is swarmed over the breast works, only to find a beggarly debris of battered canteens and frowsy horse blankets and the like, w ith Beaure gard’s arm y out of danger and the rear guard trotting southw ard twenty miles away! To be perfectly Just to the Russian commander, it m ust be said that the m anner In which he got his arm y out of a very bad hole was even more masterly than that of Beauregard. It sometime« requires as great general ship to conduct a retreat as to win a victory. One battle In Uruguay resulted It: the killing of 2,000 persons. It is evi dent th at Uruguay has not lenrnod to revolute on the approved Rotitli Ameri can plan. This Is well nigh as bartiu- rous as It would be to kill somebody ill a French duel. There is a new Invention to take the place of the stenographer. It may write the letters, but It will never fill the place In the heart of the office boy occupied by the present m anipulator ef the key«. Those people who regard the battle of I.laoyang as a virtual Russian vic tory evidently believe th at when K 11 - ropatkln escapes utter annihilation he baa scored a triumph. t iA