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A California Letter. Lompoc, Calif., Sept. 28, 1904. It Tias been twelve months since we parted company. We were not sure that we could keep house without you. Wo have missed your weekly visits, bringing us conservative editorial, pun gent paragraphs and primitive pointers in "Saturday Night Thoughts," all of which are calculated to make the reader wiser if not better. Since leaving you we have travelled quite a little, as far east as Ohio, not ing the advantages of each state as compared with those of the Pacific coast. The states of the middle west are one vast area of agriculture which is with exceptional years, an annual source of wealth. The cities and many interior towns have extensive manufactories, which give employment to tens of thousands of men and a consequent market for the country's products. In this particular the Pacific states are far behind. They possess the nat ural resources in great abundance but fail to utilize them. If they would make the thousand and one things that they now ship in from the east giving employment to an army of young men who in turn would build up homes.' It would give an impetus to the business thrift of the country. Albany itself would double its popur lation in a decade if it would utilize iU power now going to waste and its capi tal now lying dormant. Prices of farm land even in Nebraska runs from $75 to $100 an acre and adapted to nothing but agriculture and that is very uncertain, while in the Willamette Valley a failure of crops was never known upon land that goes a-begging at half the price. In com paring the three Pacific states, Cali fornia excels only in climate. It is I think over rated as a home land a uiucu to mime u uumiui uiuiu, easy hv- ing as compared to Washington or Ore-, place to make a comfortable, easy liv- gon. The "glorious climate" gives it pres tige but distance lends enchantment even in that tho valleys that are studded with fruit trees now were once a desert covered vmn sage nrusn until tho rivers were turned and dis- tributodlupon Jiem but all HUC'll land 1'S now out of tho reach of the ordinary means. Much of the vast hill and mountain portion of the state is lit for littlo else but limited grazing and a home for tho coyote. Such land in Oregon and Washington is valuable for tho crop it now bears in stately firs and cedars. Land in this country sells at from one to five hundred dollars per acre and is not sure of a crop unless it can bo irrigated, which is not yet done. In speaking of Oregon, they inquire if the people there don't get tired of tho rain. I tell them no. It is like tho Indian's whiskey, "a littlo too much is just enough." I notice that when they get a few Oregon rainy days it tickets them -most to dcatti. From my observations east and upon this coast I find tho cheapest real estate is lound m tlio Willamette valley. .Why it is so I cannot tell, but it is a fact nevertheless. There must be a change soon, for the east is becoming crowded and "west the tide of empire is taking its way." The'big exhibition at Portland next year will do much to advertise Oregon and Washington. Much honest adver tising should be done there, and when tho people realize the health, the beauty and cheap homes in the Willam ette valley many of them wilt find a lolging place there. 1 look for good lands to appreciate 50 p?r cent in the next few years in Ore gon, the state with her motto "who HL-s wilhher own wings." Rospeetully, Milks K. Llwis. - That was a shabby trick played on tho "centrals" of Cincinnati who were suspected of flirting over the lines. A horrid mean manager laid a trap for them by calling up from different parts of the city and started tho usual talk and the unsuspecting creatures, putting on their sweetest goo-goo voices, were caught to the number of fifty. Now tho voices of the new centrals sound like the tiling of a rusty saw and all communications are strictly business. Now, let somebody set a trap for tho departiuont store girl who allows you to stand unnoticed for ten or fifteen ........ . I minutes while sue inusiies up nor chat with one or her admirers who has dropped in to talk it over. There should bo no discrimination in these delicate matters. Lantern. It is related of an editor living in a . neighboring town that he visited an in- j sane asylum while in St. Louis recent- ly, nnd was mistaken by a lunatic for a fellow sufferer just arrived. Becoming confidential, tho inmate asked the edi tor what mnde him go crazy, and to humor him the editor replied, "Trying to make money out of the newspaper business." "lints," said tho lunatic, "you'ro not crazy; you are just a d n fool." From certain suspicious rir cumstanccs connected with the case we are lead to believe that tho editor above referred to was our genial friend Colonel Clark Wood, of the Weston Leader. Milton Eagle, OREGON. To Elvin. I The pleasant summer days have passed away, The hour3, so bright, of each glad happy day Alas, are now all numbered with the past; They were "too bright, too beautiful to last." And now the autumn leaves are turn ing red, And trees their verdant robes .begin to shed; And birds which sang all day in shady bowers Have gone away with spring and sum mer flowers, And sad, but pleasing melancholy falls As to the autumn days the robin calls. To checkered shades i tangled wood deep and In which to view sweet scenes I've of ten stood; And rivers deep, and far off mountain heights wnere evening s latest golden ray alights, Round crypts and caves where zephyrs sleep, wnere munics ot the hills their vigils keeps To echo back from wood and vale and hill Each word and call, if low or loud and shrill, My heart shall often wander back again When I am gone away o'er desert hill and plain III Dear Oregon, the land so loved and fair, To leave your borders with its scenes so rare; n1 . , ' , Edonlc hills, and groves and plains Where loveliness without a rival reigns! And smiling plenty seems always as sured i To you my hearts best love you have allured. ...... I . , ' 1 J Place SO dear VOU VO round within I my neart; . With all its charms tho vision will re-1 main 1 Tho' I should pass this way nor come again. ' Iv And as I turn away, and say farewell My heart with strange impulses seems to swell. And, as I think of: those whose hand and smile Extended help and welcome all the while I tarried long, within this healthful clime, And count the days which hurry on the lime When I must bid adieu (and go my way) To those with whom, ah yes, I fain would stay, There comes a welling dimness to my eye To think that I to goodhy. (Ri:v.) J. A. Albany, Oregon, Sept. 28th, 1900. these must say CltUTCIIFIKLI). Dave Mill's Live Talk. Ferdinand Zoigel, president of tho Commercial Travellers' league, received a letter from David I). Hill in which letter he said. "If you are to have an executive who loves war more than peace and who has proclaimed his affection on the house tops; who advocates that tho Unaot Slates should go abroad, in his own words, 'with a big stick,' who says that ho would act the part of a policeman among the republics of South and Central America, compelling them to keep order within their own territory and even to pay their debts; who has already threatened war on u small country, theUniled States of Colom bin, without consulting congress, who, before he was president according to the testimony of his then superior of. ficer, Secretary Long, when his honored predecessor, McKinlev. was doing ,,ii that lay in his power to prevent blood-1 shed, urged that wo, before congress h:ul acted, should make a piratical at- . . ... ... . . tacK on ipiiin and destroy her ships: who says in his letter of acceptance that diplomacy is useless unless nceom- panied by threats of force, who has nbandonild the traditional language of diplomacy which is courteous and has d nlt in violent and threatening langu- a fo addressed to foreign nations; it is likely that we shall escapo from being plmged into any great war between nitions, even if wo do not be-; fully refrained from touching any of c nne involved in a private war on our the big trusts that plunder the people, own account? , is to make a few speeches for the re- "The voters of this country have ' publican ticket, Mr. Knox, it will be never shown a preference for a policy , remembered, was excused from Mr. of brag and bluster, advocated by n Roosevelt's cabinet in order that he hero of a single fight, nor will they ' might represent the Pennsylvania rail cW't president n mere blusterer, a road in the United States senate. swaggerer, Womoastcs rurioso, or a Tartarin of Oyster Hav." C. G. Rnwlings. who last year got h's limit by eight o'clock this morning came back with only four. Republicans Want to Monopolize the Corruption Business From theyournal. The associated press reports that the eastern marr.'rs of the republican campaign 'afaauurmed over the prospect that the wicked democrats mill spend a Urge corruption fund in Indiana just before election. The surprising nature of this alleged or suspected intention, it being something that the virtuous republican managers would never have even dreamed of doing themselves, has almost paralyzed them with astonisli m2nt. Neither they, nor their pre dacessors, ever used, or thought of using, any money in elections execpt for the most strictly legitimate pur-, pwes, in Indiana or elsewhere. Dud lay's "blocks-of-five" order in Indiana s:me years ago was merely for the pur pose of making sure that no republican vjtedjwho was not entitled to vote, and to prevent the unscrupulous democrats from seducing any of them with $2 or displayed considerable of a tendency $3 bills. The tens of thousands of ' this way in the past few years, and, it illegal votes cast for republican candi- broods trouble for the future if it is dates, openly and safely in every elec- permitted to become established as the tion, are not corrupted votes at all; in policy of the government, and we are fact the republicans have plead with placed in the same class with Russia them, e'en with tears, not so to vote, 1 and England as a colony grabber. This or if they must vote, to vote for the home paper and peace lover doesn't be vile democrats; but the votes having lieve in anything of the kind, and is been cast they could not be segregated, ; dead in earnest in the establishment of an I so had to be counted. True, "the republican managers in 1376 swindled the country out of a duly 1 elected president, but they were relig- iously confident that the end justified the means. True, in1896 they tenor- ized hundreds of thousands of working- men into voting against their wish or will, by threatening them with starva-' tiDn, and then, it is strongly suspected, ! The United States lost a man this had to "count out" the democratic week who came into some ill-favor dur electoral votes of several states in ing the past few years because ho was order to beat Bryan; but again they too much of a man to truckle to the had to do this to save the country and party whip and advocate a policy he ' it, t the trusts firmly established in power. But except for good and suf- ficient reasons, in their estimation, they withstanding their professed endorse never did anything crooked or corrupt ment of it. Senator Hoar, of Massa politically. chusetts, leaves a pretty clean record. But if Senator Clark is going to ! throw a lot of money into Indiana, why I In politics a principal thing has been the safety of the trustg the . tions. the national banks and the office- linl, !,,. will inoiifV ri.fnl!tnn,OIInral J ' """ Eren tho most pious of Christians, when hard pressed by the fight him with fire. devil, will An AdciicKS Story. Thomas W. Lawson, in Everybody's Magazine for October in his "Story of Amalgamated," tells the following an ecdote: "Once upon a time Addicks, entering Detmonico's for dinner. stumbled on a couple of newsboys at l)!u't of their reports. This is to be re tho entrance. One. broken-hearted. Plotted, as the association should was being consoled by the other. Ad dicks, observing the deep sobs, asked: 'What's the matter with you, bub? Tho consoler explained that his chum had lost $2, his day's earnings and cap ital, and 'His mudder his fadder's dead-an' the baby'll get trun outer de tenement.' f Addicks, without ado, slipped tho suffering young news merchant a bill which his friends sup- nosed was S2 to renlaee the lost funds. until, as thev were taking off their I coats in the hall, the little fellow pushed his way in with: 'Say, boss, did yer mean ter guv me do twenty?' . Ad dicks nodded a good natural assent, and his friends registered silently a white mark to his score, and felt that, after all, somewhere beneath the sur face he was more of the right sort than they had given him credit for being, j After dinner, as they left, tho newsboy again approached. 'Sense me, boss, but me chum'd like ter fank yer too. I'm agoin' ter pive him a V oufrer it. " ,' Addicks looked at the boy in his mildly cold way and said, 'Let me have that bill. I will change it for you.' The boy gave it up, and Addicks, after methodically placing it in his purse, handed him back a $2 bill with: 'That's what you lost, isn't? And you' (to the second little fellow) 'you didn't lose anything, did you? Well, both of you run along now!' !! 1 Prontho Guard I v The Srent Oregonian and a few of the Oregon Republican papers in Orc- Bn' mn mo,'ning contemporary includ- ; nRV0 tlm0 aml aKam referred to ; National Chairman Taggart as a gnmb- IT..-.. :n r 1.1; c"" "' 111 lepuuu cans have one F. C. Baker as chair man of their state committee. We wonder if he ever gambled; or got drunk, and went home and broke up' the furniture in his domicile? The Dalles T. M. : Philander C. Knox, who "busted' the Northern Pacific merger, but care- Judge GeoT D. Barton." a prominent I Portland capitalist, returned home yes- Vmy pv.e"'nK '"oK'ng a"er his J. W. Swank has moved from the lountry to Albany to reside. Saturday Niaht Thoughts. War new3 has had to take a back seat this week, for nothing particular ly. There may have been some fighting at Port Arthur, and in a few weeks Murkden is to be attacked, and that is about the size of the situation. There are preparations going on which mean a good deal more in the future, and, everything indicates that next year the strife will be more bloody than ever, and something of a fierce char acter will be doing. There has already been something pretty bloody, but next year an extra supply of gore is to be introduced into the tragedy. And the whole business is the result of the devilish spirit of imperialism which has hold of the nations of the world, perhaps of Russia a little more than some others. It suggests that it is a good idea to- stop and contemplate the matter. The United States has j an administration on some other basis. ' We don't have to have a colony in every sea to be a world power. We are the greatest already. Not big navies and big armies but big brained and large minded men and women can make a world power, when backed by patriotism. knew was wrong, the same as thou3- amis of others know to be wrong not- tlie western trip of Mr. Fairbanks, the ,,i,ii t : ,0i,w A ....! ' ..- n mie vice urraiueuu me mere figure-heads, but Fairbanks is a candi date for President, and, in reality is laying his cables for the 1908 election, but alas, even if Roosevelt and Fair- I banks are elected, the office of vice i president will kill his ambition if past experience plays any part in tho mat ter, for most vice presidents have fol lowed their retirement with obscurity. The associated press is so tainted with prejudico these days that not much re liability can bo placed on the political bo one absolutely impartial, giving the exact news whether it pinches or not. ' . This week the open season for upland game birds began, and it was ushered , 1,1 Wlth the rattle of thousands of shot, morc-lMany a Celestial dropped in his 1 tracks with his beautiful ring neck limp j 111 death' the victim of man's love for sl)01't, in which kings and laymen have ahviy3 ""lulfred for the love of one of the best of all sports when observed in fairness and in a sportsmanlike man ner. The time sportsman is game, and is always glad to give the object of his hunt a chance for life, never shooting at a bird until it is well on the wing, and always respecting the age of his mark, letting the squibs grow into a palatable roosterhood. It is doubtful iE there is a better game bird in existence than the Mongolian pheasant, and, it shoula be tlle Policy of n" hunters to trmt him decently, always respecting the law, keeping within the limit, which ought to satisfy any hunter, and re specting the rights of property owners along the way. This week the public schools of the city, the bulwark of our educational in stitutions, began the work of the year. We have first-class schools in our city, a fact that should nlways be of advan tage to the growth and prosperity of the city. The best man"forour town is he who praises it and talks about it without grossly exaggerating its resources or his own importance. He trades at home and encourages everybody else to do the same thing. He will always have his eyes Jopen and endeavor to steer industrial enterprises into his tDwn, but will never try to fill the town with people before there are means for a livelihood for them. A dull t wn is the home of idle people. Th's man will be courteous and will not have a hard luck story on the end of his tongue, nor will he tell them that the town is going to the eternal "bow wows." He will never put himself ahead of his town when the public wel fare is concerned. He will encourage the public officers; he will never lose his vote; he will keep himself well in formed on all questions wherein the Puonc " concerned, ?ana will always be UP with the times.-Ex. G. F. Burkhart, of near Lebanon, went to the conference at Harrisburg txlay. MISFITS, Good bye, Mongolian ring necked fowls. Some of the foot ball pictures are terrors. Valley hunters are now practicing their dogs. There is a land office business in shells just now. The Albany Driving Association has its troubles also. The Hague Commission ought to be ashamed of itself. The usual election gambling is in progress over the country. "Get low down" is the slogan of coach Smith of the U. of O. The farmers now will appreciate some rain m their plowing business. j H will be elected gover nor of New York however it goes. A new 21 game has been opened in Portland, but that is nothing new. J j The steel bridge is itself again. It is an immense thing when it cannot be used. Rockefeller may huild a railroad or two to the coast. It is not all oil with Rockey. ) The Indian War Veterans of Oregon can now elect a commander from their own ranks. After all the blow all the trust mon ey is going into the republican cam paign fund. Regardless of ancient graves the Russians are about to be followed into Murkden itself. Carrie Nation is about to be heard from again. She is now at Wichita with her hatchet. Some fellow 'citizens of numerous Albany people from Siletz have been in the city selling baskets. Lipton is about to make his fourth challenge. The man with 600 stores is getting tired of inactivity. Albany ' is growing right along. It has another restaurant, and there will be business for all of them. If democratic consistency is written in small letters REPUBLICAN CON SISTENCY should be in caps. For the benefit of the Oregonian it may be remarked that Oregon will probably not go for Parker. The Northwest is now full of teams." Later 'winning foot ball there won't be as many of them. The finest valley in the world, said a man in the city today after an absence in other parts for a few years. Harper's Weekly says Davenport's picture's this year are yeast cake affairs, and reproduces his Vermont Maine cartoon to prove it. An Eastern man predicts sky high hops on account of the English shortage. If they went to a dollar the men who have sold would kick themselves blue. A feature of the conference at Eu gene last night was a prayer meeting in one of the saloons, conducted by C. A. Hess of Portland, whose father was once a saloon keeper. A Pendleton young man paid for a ten cent drink with a $5 forged check and will now spend a year in the penitentiary, where he will have time to sober up from his debauch. Oregon hop- pickers will have to re tire. Emil Weselsky of Ukiah, Calif., recently picked 1148 pounds, equal to almost 23 boxes in a day, for which he received $11.48. He must have stripped things. Isn't this awful. The eastern repub licans, who have secured an election fund several times the size of the demo crats, are afraid the democrats are are about to use a corruption fund in one or two doubtful states. Wouldn't that make the sphynx wink. A new foot ball play is the tackles shift. The tackles run from their places, the half backs jump into the line just before the ball is snapped in to play, an attack following with the tackles carrying the ball either straight or in tackles back form, being varied so as to cause much confusion. An Albany young man recently learnt d a lesson from a little thing in Portland. At a jewelry store there a very valuable gold watch was offered for sale at the regular price of $225, and every day the price was reduced $1. Men who want ed it, said each day, "well, I will wait till tomorrow, and get it for a dollar less," each day repeating the remark. Finally it disappeared and the oppor tunity was lost. A lesson on lost op portunities. Prof. Mitch ill. the crack shot among the teacher?, had two birds just before no in. TELEGRAPHIC. bteadi y Advancing. Chepoo, Sept. 29. The news re-' ceived from Port Arthur oontinues to show a steady, if slow advance of the Japanese upon tqe Russian fortifica tions. Day by day the remoter posi tions rof the beleaguered fortress are being taken by the Japanese, and that its fall is only n matter of a short time is the general belief nere. The num ber of Chinese refugees arriving here increasec constantly, and this is taken to bode no good for the Russians. Means a Long War Paris, Sept. 29. A dispatch from Toulon states that the Russian govern ment has just ordered from the Com pagnie des Forges el Chantiers de la Mediterrannee 11 torpedo-boat destroy ers of the latest pattern, the construc tion of which is to be begun at once. Four will be built in the dockyards at Havre, four in the Norman dock yards and three at Laseyne. They will take 15 months to build. After Russian Pictures. St. Louis, Sept. 28. -When the Rus sians exhibit in the varied industries building at the World's Fair was opened today it was discovered that several valuable oil paintings of Emperor Nich las had been torn from the wall and mutilated by some unidentified person or persons. Another portrait of the Emperor, a handsome and valuable panel, done in colored silk, has been torn from its support and subjected to the greatest indignity. A Russian Version. Mukden, Sept. 28. Many skirmishes and reconnaissances are reported to headquarters here, but except for these quiet still prevails. In the fighting that has been taking place the Russian , scouts have almost shown superiority to the Japanese, both in riding and ' fighting. The Japanese movement up , the Taitz River appears to be by a comparatively small forces. Ct-.n't Have Them. I Washington, Sept. 28. The natives of the Philippines now at St. Louis are under orders to return home immediate ly, and cannot be held over for the Portland Exposition. If any natives are to participated in that Exposition it must be under specific authority of the Philippine government. Saloon Keepers Petition ! Canyon City, Or., Sept. 28. The lo cal option question in this county has heen hnntrht. sharnlv tn t.hp fvnnf. hr j the recent action of the anti-prohibition ucujjiu in iiiiu u jjei.it.iuii iui a vutu ill November. The petition presented is for an election on the question of pro hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in the precincts of Canyon City, John Day and Bear Valley. ( Worse Til an Bullets Tie Pass, Sept. 29. The Japanese armies around Liao Yang are. reported to be decimated by epidemics, due to decaying corpses. The rJapanose are said to have dammed the Liao River above Liao Yang, flooding the country in order to protect their left flank. Winter clothing is being received by the Japanese from America. Postmaster General Paine IV. Washington, Sept. 29. Postmaster General Henry C. Payne is seriously ill at his apartments at the Hotel Arling ton here. Marked symptons of heart trouble have developed, and his condi tion became so serious during the day as to cause grave concern. I Mr. fayne returned recently from a trip in the West and appeared much improved, though his health has been poor for a long time. 1 he Proper Thing. I New York,- Sept. 29. The Herald is authority for the following: William R. Hearst will be nominated to succeed himself as Representative from the Eleventh District. Judge Parker was iustrumental in suppressing the opposition which had arisen to " the candidacy of Hearst, and in getting them to consent to the renomination of his most active opponent for the Presi dential nomination. Hoar Dead. ' Worcester, Mass., Sept. 30 George Frisbie Hoar, senior United States Sen ator from Massachusetts, died at his home in this city at 1:35 o'clock a. m. ( The end followed a period of uncon sciousness that had lasted since early Tuesday, and came so gently that only the attending physicians were aware of the exact moment of his ending. I Armenian Alassacre. I Paris, Sept. 29. The Temps this , afternoon publishes a dispatch from : Constantinople saying that private in-. formation had been received there stat ing that there village of Ramsa, Ar menia, was yesterday the scene of a massacre of Armenians by Kurds. Was at Klamath Falls. ! Mr. C. H. Burggraf returned this morning from a business trip to Klam- atn rails, a very nusthng and live busi ness center. While there he metDr.G. W. , Maston, aformer Albany physician, who has a eood business and besides has be 1 gun the erection of a building for a sanitarium which he is about to estab lish there. He has fully recovered from the accident resulting in the loss of his right leg below the knee and does business now on crutches. He also met Prof. Don Swan, of the county high school, who i3 well liked. I A. C. Hausman, of Brownsville, has just given his grandson $50 in cash fcr quitting the use of tobacco and liquor. I A cheap buy for both if the arrange- i ment is a perpetual one. Six hobos were taken charge of by Chief of Police McClain this morning. 10 cents cents was the capital of the entire outfit. The young men had worked in Portland, but had blown in all of their money. T. W. Hale,' the hobo ' who had the quarrel with John Miller, at Lebanon, over a game of cards was sentenced to 15 days in the county jail ana was brought to the citv last evenin? for hia J short imprisonment.