The O b se r v e r . COUNTY COURT PMO CKgPM M S. IT DEFENDS MOB RULE Morning Oregonian. A daily paper, and it is a leading daily, in a city boasting 250,000 ih ík m * h population, has attempted to incite M O RO . ORI a mob to an act of lynch vengeance. When criticized for this reprehens D. C. I rblard a S om .......... E ditors ible course, The Seattle Times re­ iterates its belief in mob rule, and C. L. I bkland , M anager - asserts (bat “tt is pure theory and Send for advertising rates. all rot” far-Tbe disgraced. ■ •r« «Mr orpioiAu r a r a s ó» rapo». cept when for money making purpose». Such notice« at regular rate« at the option of the publisher«- • • i Before coming to the city to trade read­ er« are requested to examine The Ob«ei ver advertising column«. It« the active, wide­ awake bu»lne«« man who advertise«, con­ sequently he 1« the m oil accommodating, »ell* the cheape»t, and deals the most lib­ erally In every wav We will not be responsible for the neglect of eubscrilwrs to notify ue of changes in their address. Nor will the notification of a Postmaster that the sub- ■criber has “ Removed” settle the bill of • delinquent. • , Mr. Taft will be told of bis nom­ ination July 28th. But the secret may possibly ‘leak out' before that time. , Of almost equal importance with the size of the wheat crop is the iprice at which the great American staple can be marketed. Last year the Pacific Northwest experienced the benefit of that bappy combina­ tion, a big crop and high prices. This year the crop will be much smaller than a year ago, but fortun­ ately for the growers there is very little prospect for low prices. The market throughout the season has shown surprising strength, and the occasional weakness that has ap­ peared at times during the pkat six months has always been so quickly dispelled that it resulted in very little loss to the holders of wheat. Not in ten years has the statistical position of the cereal exhibited so much strength in this country as at the present time, and this strength is reflected in prioeA far-above the average forth« opening of a new season. Iu a first page display editorial the Times called on the friends of Judge Emory to lynch Chester Thompson, Emory’s slayer, if lie returned to his home iu Seattle. In support of that uusouud aud un- Atneiieau advice the Times reviews two lynchings, oue iu Minneapolis 30 years ago, thjj other in Kansas city 26 years ago. It now asks were those cities disgraced! Assuredly, they were disgraced, aud every •ight thinking person there would admit it if questioned today,though some thure are who can not see or feel the disgrace of a violent depar­ ture from the law by an angry, reck­ less, thoughtless and bloodthirsty mob. • The September option in Chicago yesterday touched 90 cents, and De­ cember sold abfive 91 cents per bu. These prices have been reached without any extraordinary crop- damage reports, of apparently any other bullish feature of importance except the strength of the foreign market and the rapidly shrinking reserves in this country. The Amer­ ican visible last Monday showed a decrease of 1,542,000 bushels, and had dropped to a total of 13,827,000 bushels,'"R figure touched on a cor­ responding date but once in the past ten years. This depletion in American stocks was due to the free selling that was induced by the high prices in Europe, and for the year ending June 30 the exports from this country were 36,000,000 bushels greater than for the year ending June 30, 1907. ' T ~ Send The Observer to your absent friends. It is -better than a letter, and gives all the home news. Four The Seattle Times says those months for 50c. lynchings were parpetrated by the people. That is doubtful. If the Yon can’t fool the ,American people of Minneapolis and thepeople working man, says Mr. Bryan, and of Kansas city Wont out on masse he ought to know, for be has tried |M)d lynched two prisoners, it was it twice, in 1890 and 1900; and failed most unusual performance, for both times. mobs are almost always a very in­ considerable fraction of the people Those touching lines: “ If at first and usually are made up of a com­ you don’t succeed; try, try again,” paratively few irresponsible, excite­ must begin to read like an old story ment seeking, murderous hearted to men like Commander P ea ry W . persons, who are generally brought together by the harangue of a single J. Bryan, et. al. individual. It is absurd to call these mobs the people. They almost Trne to their natioual custom, the invariably operate under cover of French in Madagascar are improv­ ing rivers and digging canals. It darkuess and slink away to their has .been a long time since water hiding places before the return of way missionaries were among the French people. needed The monitor Florida, which was made the target of big guns and a torpedo as a test recently, has been put out of commission for repairs, which will cost about >30,000. Then the ship will be rechristeued as (he Tallahassee. Brazil has built some of t he finest roads in the world and continues steadily to appropriate money for the purpose. Our big South Ameri­ can neighbor oomprehends the val­ ue of such improvements and is prompt to act. Secretary of the treasury has de cided to retire the 164,000,000 issue of outstanding 3 per cent bonds is sued in 1898, to supply funds for the war with Spain. He will not redeem the bonds, but will refund them into 2 per cent bonds, which banks will probably be glad to get as a basis for new circulation. day. — They are not the people and have □o commission from the people, and thoughtful persons everywhere fore see that a mob in the nature of things, must act upon its own law­ less spirit without authority, re­ straint, or sound guidanoe, and that ttf condone or approve one such act of violence must tend to invite the mob to additional atrocities. Under mob rule no one is safe and all history teaches that the iriob when* tolerated by a weak.cowardly pub lie sentiment, often develops into a thing of evil and frequently turns upon the very men who had ap plauded it. Beattie would assuredly be disgraced if it permitted a mob to execute The Times’ dangerous advice. It must be in fact huiailiab ing to a majority of the people of Beattie that so large and enterpris ing a daily newspaper as the Times has advocated such borderland aud uncivilized methods. These exports of more than 200,- UBhels were made from a crop that was fully 100,000,000 bu. smaller than its predecessor, altho’ a carry-over from the preceding year undoubtedly contributed to the amount. As matters now stand a new American crop is cpming on the market at a time when there are but scanty stocks of old wheat remaining and Argentine shipment very much reduced. The extent to which Europe is depeudent on this, country and Argentine for supplies is shown in worlds shipments for the past year. The total from all of the exportifig countries was 455, 088,000 bushels, a decrease of more than 22,000,000 bushels from the preceding season. The Argentine, with an increase of 16,000,000 bu. and the United States with an in­ crease of 36,000,000 bushels, were the only countries in the list that showed an increase. For the season now opening the outlook ia favorable for a much largerAmerican orop than last year. The crop of Argentine is, of courie, still an unknown quantity, as har vest does not begin until December. Of the other foreign countries there is very little that would point to eheap wheat. Russia, usually dominant factor in the European grain trade, doee not promise any greater yield than last year. India is bad, and England, France and Roumania worse than last year, with the slight improvement in Germany insufficient to have much effect on the market. As has pre­ viously been said, the crop of the Pacific Northwest will fall far short of the bumper crop of last year, but if present prices are maintained, as now seems probable, the amount of money placed in circulation by the erop will be far above the average of many years preceding 1907. D uring t M sight months from the time of its departure from San F ra n ­ cisco until its return to the home W IL L IA M H E N R IC H S , Judge. station on the A tlan tic ooaet the W m . W A L K E R . Gomualaatooer. American armada w ill make visits D. C H IS H O L M , Commlaaioosr. U . S. M e D A N E L , Clerk. of ceremony te Mew Zealan^, Japan J. C. F R E E M A N , Sheriff. and Cbfna. In strength it remains J G Walker, et al, petition (or the same as when under A dm iral Evans? command, although >he A . Booth A On. has confessed to having accepted rebates from the railroads on shipments in refrigera­ tor oars, the maximum fine amount­ ing to >20,000. July, 1900, Term. roads continued. A P Aldermatt was appointed fruit insi>ector. Bill of Rudolf Muslacher, Kent hotel, for meals for election boards, not allowed. 1 JS Fowler, eta l, petition for road referred to district attorney for re­ port on same. Bonds of J C Freeman as sheriff, >20,000, filed and approved. ' Bond of W Stanley as treasurer, approved. Reports of treasurer and sheriff accepted. Application of Judge K V L ittle ­ field to donate some of the pictures belonging to the oounty, used at the Lewis and Clark .fair, to the Portland Commercial Club, grant- «1- . j G A Meloy was appointed county road master, to fill the 1906 unex­ pired term, at >50 per month. Warrants were ordered in pay­ ment of claims as follows:? M IS C E L L A N E O U S . G. R. BourhiU, oounty ju d g e.. 9 76 00 Duncan Chisholm, oomunastoner 39 90 W in. W alker,commissioner.,.. 26 00 W. B. MoCoy, sheriff. 1 month 160. - * supplies .......... 46 96 H S McDanel, olerk, 1 m o n th ... 136. s u p p lie s ................ 7 26 W. Stanley, treasurer......... . 67. Jas Stewart, stock Inspector . 60. W C Bryant school supt............. 118.08 J O Russell, teachers ex. fees .. 14. M ary Taylor, “ “ . . . 9. H H W hite, “ " . . . 9. Mrs E ll a