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Newspaper Page Text14 row Vol. XXX. HIIXSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTV, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ji, 1902. No. j 7 xrir a i4 id t 1 IT 1 I II II I'UUI'KSSIOSILC'AUIM. TUOS. H Tl'XUI'K. B, B. TOKllUfc Notary Public. TIIOS II. E. B TOMHE,' TTOKNEYS-AT-LAW, " HI Ll W l , I UKUON. Orrius: Ko.iii3,4, 5, Korean Mook. W. K. IUUKETT, ITol.NEYS'AT-LAW, lil.,lHOIUI.Oi.ItiiOl . A lm : Oeutral UUio. KoosS sod ItKMON HOW MAS, TTORNKY-AT-LAYV. illI.LHWJUO. OKEUON Owua: itooine 8 and 7. Morgan block JOHN TH. W ALL, A TTORNKY-AT-LAW, II I I.I.SIM KO, OKEUON. lialley-Morgan lllm, llooma 1 A 2 N. T. LI.NKI.A I KK, H. It. ('. M. IHIYS1CIAN ANISlTHUEON UlLLHItOUO, OKKtiON. Ihinii: at residence, east of court llonae. wber he will t found at all nouis wbeu uoi visiting patients. J. I'. TAHIKNIK, A. .. P. It. H. SURGEON, HlLL-sUOrtO, U tO N. s. Orris trnr Itsjunsan i corner Third and Main Htroom. Office boom, HiaO to 12 a. u.. 1 to ft itnd llolp. iu. Telephone to reeidnuoe from 1 1 rook X He In'. l)ruiiKre si ll boars. All calls promptly attended, tiihl or tiny. r a. iiui.kv, si. v.. pilYSlt'IAN AND SURGEON IULLHHOUO, UUKOON. Oilier- Morgan-Hailcy Hlot-k, up alntra, rooms t: laanil la. Keiiiileuoe, b. W. Oor. iiane Line ud Hoooud trtl- IkitU it-oiie. J. K. ADKINS. . DENTIST, IIII.I.sr.oHO, ORKliON. Orru s Hoiks; 9 a. in. In 4 :'M p. m. Oiliee in Union Mock ivit J'liarmaoy A, II. II II LEV, 1). I. . K F T I S T. IIILLSHOKO. Ol.K.UON. I) UlxMiirt ID and It Morttan-llalley llk. .nrtWn HouV: t) t Vi "ml 1 t4 P- K. MXOS, IXENTIHT, I.-OUKHT iKOVK, OKKtiON 'llrnlartt tin! loot li W prrt. (Vment nw AniiiliriiMi nlliiiK" fi-ins -h. Uold lilliiiK Iroin II n. VitulUt'tl air for put" dew rurlioii. Ornt'St Ibree doort north l Hrwa ntom. 4 Itnoe bourn f roiu H a. ni. to4 p. KMit "f Bi-cesi mnK all the Canon ol t'il.ral.i. Mng situtl on tleniiin lini of the lenvr Hio Hiumle l'lwini Canon C'ily anil Haliilit in II. fnul raiiK of I lie lloekiv, W Hit' iint riilar, awe-in-ilriug Hint iiiHnittcenl. lown tin inielily i l. fl in llii heart of Hie lauili roci-linrrier rudi the ra ing wat'TH of IhP Arkansiift Kiver, IdNlied lulu foHiniii); fury anil ilitnlii'it Inlo M tiniiniu .- r iy by it- swift (! ! through Ihe t.iilii'iin ill lib'. Ho I sr row i Hit' ,i-H.it;C Hi omi "point Hint there whh im room fur txlh the riMol ami river, anil IliiTeforr' a rur loutly i-oiwtrurti'tl lrl.Kt of alrt'l had to N thrown Wwy thwise of the mIivmiii. Mixin-niliil from hon aii- jMirtu niorliMil Inlolho canon walla on iMi h mIh lo tlin right ami Irrt. Ami r.ilit lier can l'f m vn Hio pi ti. a i of all iIip ciiiionV crnmliMir, Ilial uhlrlt lit Utu aptly ralliNl Th Uoyal lorgt." For two thousand lis liiimlmt fet-t the Mid numolilh iMmr upwanl Bvo times na lofty as I ho Wmliiiigtuii Monument, tlie liiKliit-1 HTiii:iiii'iit striii'luro reared ly tlie Imml of man. N- wonh ran ai iiunlt'ly iK-riliP lh mafriiiflifiirr of Hip aci'iir. Only tlirwo who have , U'lii'bl lis gloriin ran appriviatP lliein. This Is but nnn of lh many Won ders of na'urr revealed In tn travel er on the U'liver A Hln (imnile - IliilroHd, 't h Kivnic Lino of Ihc World." Fur detailed informal Inn alxut ihis lii I delightful trip to Hi" ) jtt, AiMrexH J. I). ManiAeld, V Hio Uraude 8ystrm, Port-t,n. vy - r - r - r - p - r 'S. i:;UU;iiV v'3 : .';X'.:i"..'v-2. I Home Study Course! Self Education Through Prepared Atidei by r1 r'V-V. OUR f fNATIVE TREES f THOMAS H. 'maCBRIDF Ph. D., r of Hutanu. lum unut t"MMtermM. a; a.' iTuOW a kVMVlMel41llelle)lenrS I.-What Is a Tree? T REE8 in our country are for tunately ao common as al moat to paaa without defini tion. Everybody knows a tree and knows all about it too. At leant be thinks bo doen. IIo knows that a tree has an erect persUtent stem, wlde epreadlntr or deep U.Hoondliig roots, waving, fur extending brunches and abundant leaves, canting In summer a grateful shade, lu autumn falling. IIo knows that treea, some of them at least, bear flowers and fruits nnd seed, reproducing the leeles "after theU kind." This much everybody knows, and these indeed are some of the pa tent, obvious features of a tree. Ner erthclcHS, as may be suspected, this Is only an outnhlo or surface view of the subject. When we come to Inquire how the tree comes to bo what It Is, how It does all tho things that we see It do, how It pushes the roots through the hard ground where a plow can hardly go, how the leaves elnlmrate Its food, how It builds stem and bnrk and branch and carries pound after pound, ton after ton, nwny up Into the. air, bow It endures whllo living summer's drought aud winter's cold, not for a few years, but yeur "after year, for centu ries-and centuries -when wo Ix'jilu to Transverse Section of a Maple Twig Highly Magnified. C The Cam bium Line, think of trees in this way, It Is plain that all our surface knowledge counts but little. Wo are In the presence of mechanism of wonderful efUcleney, but also of great complexity, whose delicate adjustments may tax the cun ning of the wisest. Now, In a few short diopters which constitute this course a complete an swer to the problem of the tree or even n complete statement of It Is certainly not to Ik? expected. We may perhaps study the problem in some of Its simpler asiiects, learn little of the structure of a tree, of Its history, aud more ftf Its utility and exceeding value to enlightened uiea and nations. Perhaps the most striking peculiarity of the tree Is Its persistence. ' Other plants grow, send up steins and leaves and flowers, begin many. of the thlugs done by the tree, but theso presently perish, survive few months or years at most and arc gone. Only plants of the tree type seem able to accumulate, to carry forward the work of life and make. each year contributory to life's perennial triumph. Fortunately this particular property of the tree, taking things as hcy ore, admits of compara tively simple explanation. We find the explanation In so far In the tree'a struc ture. Just as In the case of any mech anism we may study the ports and Ami o'lt bow they work and so understand the machine. If we make a thin cross section of tbe stem of a small tree and Iny the section under the lens of a nil croscope, we shall see something llk that shown In the accompanying Illus tration, which Is Indeed from photo graph of such section. Here the. whole section seems made p of UtUo rings. Tbe early observers thought tl?se rings looked like a sec tion of a honeycomb and accordingly colled them cells. At glance we per ceive that tbe rings or .cells are not !ik,e. They differ greatly In size and stupe. A second glance shows ns that the cells fall easily Into groups which form together a circle around within the margin. The cells which make up this band or circle are In tho growing tree, all living cells and all active, each In its own way. Within the limits as signed os her w may not couslder themvall, but must pay attention to ths .TWr-&nletiBnJx.hj!4Uiat njakonf - y - r - r - ry - v - r - r - r T T 7.7- e" -i! :SiiCV v'S: :i: .S'.;:.V .-':: Vv."v (Ar Medium qf Specially Prominent Instructors 4-:'. narrow band, marked C In tbe figure. It Is to those tiniest but ever living cells that the tree of the forest owe II character, its long enduring vigor. Be ing living cells, these can grow, and by their peculiar way of growing they ac- couiplisb three things they lie between bark and wood, and all tbe time in th growing season those on tbe outside be come transformed into cells that inak up the cortex, ultimately the bark, and are added to its-inner surface; those oe the Inside are In a similar way pass'Inf over Into the form of the cells of or dinary wood, either to form wood ds novo or to bo added to ttie wood at ready In position; the. middle cells of the band simply divide and divide and so keep up a perennial supply of cells of such plastic sort. Uere is the secret of tho tree's endurance and of its in crease in thickness, for we must re member we are studylug a cross sec tion of the tree, taken anywhere, and we must therefore conceive these tluy cells to form a living sheath cover! ug tho whole tree, lying between bark and wood. In spring we very easily pull tho bark from a living tree a willow, for Instance tbe separation occurring In tbe plane of this living but proper tlonatcly delicate cell layer. This liv ing, active luyer has long been named the cambium. We ahull refer to it again. But let ns look at our section again. We may discover still another pecul iarity. Tbe border cells arrange them selves In groups, with slight intervals between. Tho cells of these Intervals are continuous with the large cells of tbe middle, with the pith, or medulla. They may be regarded as at first part of the medulla. They form the medul lary rays. They build as they grow vertical plates radiating outwardly from the center of tbe tree. At first the plates are comparatively few, but as growth proceeds tbe primary rays re continually re-enforced by others, originating Indeed 1n tbe persistent ranibium and Intercalated between those already formed until their num ber, as may be seen In any bit of i wood, as ook, becomes very great. Split a piece of such wood, and the medullary plates appear and shine, railed by the artisan "silver grain." Let us now recapitulate the struc tures of tho stem as we have studied them. In the center of our section lies the medulla, or pith, bounded on tbe outer side by a ring of forming wood. Next to this outwardly lies tbe cambium, beyond which, again, is the cortex, the forming structures of tbe bark. The elements of bark and wood are gathered plainly into groups, and Intervening ' between these several groups, intercepting what would be otherwise a continuous arc, occur tho medullary rays. (Copyright, IMS, by Lewis D, Sampson. Tress as Air Purifiers. F. Schuyler Mathews in a recently issued work on "Familiar Trees and Their Leaves" says: "The greatest sphere of usefulness which a tree oc copies Is counected with Its life. It Is a great air purifier. It absorbs from tho atmosphere the carbonic acid gas which is poisonous to us. It holds and slowly dispenses moisture which the pa relied air needs. It gives out the oxoue (or oxygen In an active electro nega tive condition) which is particularly conducive to our health and It modifies beat which would otherwise be over powering. Step into tbe thick woods from au open space on a very hot day, and Immediately relief is experienced from the Intense beat This is not wholly tbe result of shade furnished by the trees. Much of It proceeds from tbe modification of tbe air through tbe breathing of tbe tree leaves. "I have estimated that a certain sug ar maple of large proportions which grow near my' cottage puts forth In one season about 432,000 leaves. These leaves combined present a surface to sunlight of about 21,000 square feet, or an area equal to pretty nearly half an acre. Every Inch of tbla expanse breathes In life for tbe tree and out kcalth for man, while It absorbs In the aggregate an enormous amount of heat and sunlight." Washington Beautified. The city of Washington baa sot a good example to American municipal ities In the matter of tree planting. Within its limits there are now no lees than Mo.isil shade trees, and It Is no rieceesory to dwell on tbe added beau ty thry lend to the place. Farta has an even greater number, and It Is said that M.r) Is expended annually by the latter city in the car of them aud lo tbe setting out of new ones. Every stn-et of a certain width Is entitled to a row of trees on either side and every street of a certain greater width to a double row. THE ASTHtmUE BTKIklt ITS EOCliL EttECTS. The anthracite coal area Is 4 S3 square miles. .Upon Ibis territory about 400,IHKI pertiou are directly de pendent upon the analog Industry for thdir subsistanrr; another 200,000 are Indirectly dependent upon It aud were necessarily affected by there- cent strike. Among this group of C0O.OO0 souls industrial war prevailed for nearly six months, ltie wages of 110,000 uiloe employees, which aggregated a monthly average ol over three and a half millions of dol lars, were rut off. ' The wholesale houses beard thejuin of battle from afar, and in the spring restrain! the activity of their ageuts and watched development Conservative busi ness men who saved from live to ten per rent, on., their purchases by buy ing early in the season withheld their orders. The hotels where commer cial tiavelers stayed lost fifty per c-3nt. of their .traocieut trade, The backs found a considerable falling off !q tbe deposits. Over the hardware, clothing, Jewelry, furniture, and dry good stores hung a depressing sense of Impending calamity. Before hos tilliawere declHred.au ominous de pression in business circles tlnough out the anthracite coal fields pre vailed. .May 12 proved how well these men had read the signs of the times. An army of about 140,000 producers did not rescind that morn ing to the gongs which sounded at the. four hundred colliers. . The ttrug- gle was or, and Hume men who bad wetclud t lie development of affairs since 19110 felt In their hearts that It was to lie a costly, stubborn, and protracted one. Society in the strike letritory was divided iuto two hostile camp', and tbe line of cleavage was along the an.tngiiui.-tic Interests of capital and labor. Mine suierintuudeuts, fore men, clerks, diid some favorite min ers id all about Dve thousand strong . were on the side of tbe opera tors. - Th rank ami BU' u,ine eio- pteyeen were on. t lie other side. The mert-hauif, from business considera tions, held their (M'uce. Professional men of influence were diaemt, but their conservatism anil pecuniary in terests inclined them to the side of the operators more than to that of the men. The clergy, cautious and timid, could not prevent the spirit of fiction frrnu entering the churches. A few were outspoken, but the rank and file of our spiritual leaders were silent and prayed for peace. Soon alter the strike was declared family and social bonds were scveied. For the first month mine workers migrated In large numbers from alt anthracite communities. We had over thirty thousand young wiav bachelors in our towns and villages. Hundreds of these packed their trunks, carried them to tbe depot, and left for either fatherland or else where in quest of work. If any one Imagines that the Slavs are not sus- ceplable lo the tiea of sympathy and fellowship, be should have teen these people at the depots. They kissed each other farewell, tbe departing lingered on tbe platform of the train and waved good-by, and strong men turned their tiers to brush off the falling tesr. Some left stealthily. They owed hill and feared attach ment. There were men at the depot watching the migrating ones. Tbe tax-collector was theie. Merchants who had information that their cred itors were leaving bad constables attach the guods in the depot. I saw one of tbeser debtors brought before a Justice of the peace. The man was passive, but the wife argued her ease with such effect Ibat two dollars were taken off the costs. The bill was paid, and as the woman left, the con stable said, "She's n holy terror." The only persons kept busy for the first month of the strike were ticket agents, constables, ami justices of the peace. One of this last class said in June, "Business is gmal, I've taken in over five dollars, day for the last month." The English speaking mine em- ployees did not leave in troops, as did I he Hie s. Many families of them, however, have left these coal fields. In the towns of Mahanoy ami Shen andoah houses were very scarce tie- fore the strki; lo-day Ihecaad "For rent' is seen in every street, lew are the Koglish-speaking . families throughout the anthracite regions which have not been broken up. Young men and women were quick to see the economic pressure wbldi would fall upon the family, and to stay It as long m possible, tbey took their departure for the cities of New York and Philadelphia, or to the lift coal fields. The boys made he roic sacrifices. Mooey was scarce. Tbey would board a freight train aod take a "Johnny Mitchell excursion' to some distant point. Th cities of Eistoo, Alletitown, New York, Phil adelpbia, etft , were soon glutted with cheap labor. The boys begged tbei food and tramped in quest of work Tbe Philadelphia and Heading Kail way Company found it necessary to put a stop to Illegal car-rldiDg. The incoming trains were stopped on the bridge crossiog tbeSusquehanua Kiv er before entering the city of Phila delphia and the transgressors arrest ed. I asked a mother, whose young est Bon, twenty years of age, bad left home, "Have you heard from Rich ard?" "No," she said, "he's been gone now ten days, and I haven't beard a word." The boy and twen ty-ulue others were arrested on the bridge aud sentenced to ten day Im prlsoniueut. The boy bravely served his seolence, and savod his mother from worry by not telling her of his misfortune. These young men who dig anthracite coal show a, delicacy of feeling and fi'lnl tenderness wor thy of a Coriolauus. One of them le It for Philadelphia and got work there. He regularly sent money to his mother: but that was not euough; she wanted to see her boy. He de layed coming uutil a week ago, and said, "I lost thirty pounds from July to August. I knew 'mam' would worry if she saw me. In the last month I've gained fifteen pounds." This breaking up of family tics be cause of the strike Is a fuct seJdom mentioned, but privation and hunger do not rend the heart as this does. 1 have seen young girls from sixteen to eighteen years of ago leaving home because tbe family's income was cut off. Can any heart tell what It means for those to go into a ft range cily to try to eke out a Buhsistance? ( ne of these, seventeen years of age, left for . All her mother tould gather was enough money to buy a half-fare ticket. The girl didn't have another cent, aud wa- scantily clad 8he slrpt the first night with iriends In the city, and on the following morning looked for work. She got it, and earned $3. .10 a week, liefore-1 tbe month was up she came home, her shoes woru aud lorn, aud her clothing la a dilapidated condition. She was a girt of strong moral cour age, and she came home. Hut not only does industrial con flict drive men and young women from home, it als'i disturbs social eaco at home and wis brother against brother and family against family. Two men who left their mother country together, shared the same bed, and divided equally their earnings, are today enemies they will not exchange the time of day. One of them weut lo work, and the other called him "scab." Tbla op probrious epithet sticks and stings most virulently. When uttered It means social ostracism, and for it there is no remedy. There is a sin as grievous as "scabbing" in the eth ical code of thess workers. Half a dozen women, metnberaof the ladies' aid society of one of the chuaches, were talking of non-union workers, when one of them said, "I could look at 'scabs hanged," aud the otl.ers echoed her sentiment. To what ex tent this feeling carries men was il lustrated in Ltngford. Sharpe, a un ion man, who was shot by a deputy, had a fuoeral such as was never wit teased ta that town. All tbe union men from the mining villages came to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom they considered a martyr for the cause. The union leaders r were In charge, ami the procession was solemn and Impressive. A few weeks after, a non-union Hungarian who worked was accidently killed. On the day of the funeral the under taker could not get a man to remove his remains from Ihe house to the funeral car. His fellow-countrymen said. Him die a scab, him bury a scab," and to a turn they kept away from Ihe funeral. The families of the men who worked are subject to social ban. Some men left Laraweua County, where they would not work, and rame lo Schuylkill to seek employ ment. They worked where they were not known, nnd kept closely wllhin tbe slorkade of the colliery. If their neighbors at home learned that they were working elsewhere in theso coal fields, Ihe lives of their wives and children were soon made misral.le. It meanliat9trac4sin. Three wives came from Luzerne County to Schuylkill lately In quest of their husbands. They said they could not stand It longer, and re solved either to stay at the colliery with their husbands or to go borne together. The childreu of those who worked were subjected to Insults, and many ti-iticuffa were the result. One young man whose father worked lu soother section w&s badly beaten in a fight. His mother said, '.'Wby didn't you let them alone to say what they would?" No, mam," he said; "I wasn't goiog to let Iheiu speak dirt about pap." Little children would not play with "scab" children, and most pathetic was it to hear a child say, "I'll be Johnny Mitchell man only let mo pluy." Women anxious to live ineaee were insulted by their neighbors if their husbands worked. Innuendoes, sneers, oblo quies, aie weapons which hurt, and up civil or military power can save the victim. A family moved from one part of town to another a week ago, anil the mother said, "I couldn't stand It any longer; those women are terrible." The landlord said, "I'm glad they're gone. 1 don't want dynamite here Wause of scabs. " When the Eighth Hoglment was called out on the night of July 30, antagonism between men residing in the same town was still further In tensified. Many mine employees who were loyal union men belonged to that regiment. Each one's soul was racked by conflicting duties the Stale versus the union but, to the credit of the yeung men bo it said, not one of them fulled lo respond to the midnight summons. No one willeverknow what Mas tho sacri fice these boys made when they obeyed the Oovernor's call to arms. Oue hesitated and SHid, "Pit run away, mother." "Fred, no; Will, your brother, was no coward." Will had died In (hePiiillipines, and Fred weut lo the armory that night. As . the callers went from house to house where their coinradesJived, the strik ers soon learned their mission and gathered in large companies near the armory. Each member as he came was hooted and vilified. A young lad left his homo, and lmmldistely his parents heard the crowd yelling. They feared violence, and both of tboin, barefooted and scantily clad, ran to protect the sou and accompany him to the armory. As one company left the armory their companions and neighbors called them "scabs." It was too much for one of tbe soldiers; he stepped from the ranks and struck one of the vllltlers a mow wnicn floored him. The soldiers who are union men may be excommunicated from the union. Many of them will leave the tympanies as soon as pence is restored. One this class said, "To think of shooting down my follow workmen is terrible. No more for me as soon as this is over." Troops from a distance are not so rent by cjoflctlng scntimeuls. They cm calmly speak of shooting a mine em ployee, and joyously exhibit the but- ( ts which would lay low Ihe Slavs. The troops will not tolerate the cut ting epithet ol "scab." The troops stand no "foollu;." Men grew of late more careful in loading them with reproach. In one of our towns sev eral were prosecuted for calling men scabs." The word was dropped, but the strikers' sentiment suffered no change, and now the offender is dif ferentiated by saying, "There he goeS there he got!" A soldier on horseback was on a street of one of our towns when he heard the word, "Scab! scab!" He. Instantly turned his horse, dismounted and looked for the culprit. lie returned crestfallen amid the laughter of seclators, for the criminal was a parrot which lie- onged to one of the miners. Not for a generation will the en mities and hatred-engengored by this strike die away. Industrial peace is n sight, but it will not bring peace to the men who stood by the opera tors in this emergency. The famil ies which have suffered reproach In the last few months will not be res tored to favor. Social ostracism will remain when the troops are gone and coal produced. A troop of young men standing on the street corner in Hhenando.th discussed tho treatment of "scabs" when the collieries re sumed. "Yes," said one of them, "we'll tend to them good," and any one familiar with the mines knows what that means. A young lad on Ihe HaZ -Itoo mountains calmly out lined a scheme whereby the "scab" could lie blown to pieces by powder. The lot of these men who exercise their natural ri'ht to work; will be a sad one for msoy days t come. No foreman will be able to protect I hem from Iho hatred of the union men. The financial loss to our communi ties because of tho strike was great, but that will In a few years be made good. The burning rancor, the un compromising hostility, the rending asn oder of ties of friendship, the so- cial ostracism, the opprobrious epl thets these remain. Time ts a heal ing hand, but death alone, will cure these wouods. Hero in our towns these irritated and enraged men will continue to live, aud so strong is their hatred that iu social, political, indus trial, and it-liglous life they will Dev. er let pass an opportunity to "do" their mail. Should not this lameut able condition of affairs, dun to In dustrial conflict, couut for something in the eyes of the world's men of act ion, Of thought? The Thirty Years' War scotched the progress of society lu (lermnny for fifty years. A six months' industriul war leaves, our communitlis in a state of material, intellectual, and moral confusion which will need many years ol patient work to set in order. P. Q. It. iu Outlook. KWS 01' THE HTATK. The foot ball team of tho Oregon Agricultural College defeated the McMinnville (College last Friday by a score of ft.'i to 0. Mrs. Frauds Fuller Victor, a well known historical writer, author of the Hiver of the West Jos. Meek's biography died in Portland Friday morning last, aged, 70 years. Plans are being arranged for hold ing a.hig poultry show In Newberg in January. From five to six hundred birds are already In sight for the show and a fine exhibition Is expect ed. A colony of about 100 beavers has been found in the Cascade Mountains ou the head waters of a stream that flows east into the Deschutes. The good suggestion is msde that the gen eral government protect them. Tbe f.fkloitr Id nrtt fur frnm llrAlor ImIta i t...... j . . i . . w . .... . . u I . . . h . v. a and would make a fine setting for the uutional park, Tho new group of copper mines at Al house, Josephine County, in the Orayb'ack Mountain, which werj lo cated last year by Messrs.- Babcoclc and Kitterman, are under develop iri.nt and give promise of being the bet copper producers In the stile. These mines are only a few miles Iroin the wondorfull Josephine caves. The. plans, for the new Baptist church to replace the building des troyed by the Are last summer, have been completed and the work of building will be begun In a short time. The new church will bo a very handsome structure and has many point's of improvement, both in apiieArance and arrangement over the former building. The Three Sisters Canal Company has Died iu the ofllce of the State l.nd iioard an application for eon tract for Ihe reclaiming of 30,000 acr cs of arid laud lying In Ihe western part of Crook County, The tract Is located between the mountains known as the Three Sisters and the Deichutes River. State Engineer Oeorge L, Uiilmau will go aud examine) the land this week. It is projswed to ir rigate with water from tributaries of the Deschutes. Albany Herald. Ex-Superintendent of Public In struction Jrwin, late of this stale is under arrest at Juneau Alaska charg ed with malfeasance in ofllce. He is U. S. Commisloner there and has Jurisdiction of criminal actions at one stage af their trial. Two attorneys charge that he illegally appropriated to his ow n use a large amount made' up of sums ranging from tl to f 10 on criminal cases which came before him lor trial. In order to do this 'OcccHsfuily, the complaint stts, the accused falsi fled certain records and mutilated others. Up to the present time Ihe accused has borne an excel lent reputation. II. M. Watson has sued the Tilla mook Headligh for libel placing the damages at fiooo. This is the libel ous paragraph that is the cause of the action : "We would suggest that the new newspaper tie called Ihe 'ltaby Act Uraft,' and should give a graphic account of Watson's last bout ith his wife, going home drunk, running into debt and horiowing money from his son in-law, an honest, hard-working hoy. aud suddenly skipping out without paying the same; also the tight place Walsiu louod himself in when lie had to clear out of Elina or commit suicide, w hicli he threatened to do. Tins reliable facts will n,ake theMUi.y Act Graft' exceedingly In teresting to those who allow the man who has guziled whiskey enough to float the Hm II. Elmore lo Up them again. We have a spark of sympathy however, lor Watson, for It Is distress ing to sec a man at enmity with his own relatives and headed for the asy lum."