Boosting Character. It is always a pleasing thing to sea a city progress, increasing in population, with new residences and industries ap pearing everywhere. But there are other things. It is just as important for a city to improve in character, and no better boosting is done than that which looks to the betterment of the morals a city. One of the best rec ommendations of a city has is that it has some splendid people in it. The more splendid people in a city the bet' ter. Character ,is what makes them People selecting a town for a home inquire about the character of the peo' pie the first thing, and with reason. They want good associations for them selves and their children. They may not be religious at all, but when it comes to companions they are looking for them with character for their child' ren. No one wants a son to run with bums. Therefore boost for a better as well as for a bigger Albany. Getd Olt Easy. Mr. Weyerhau8er, one of the richest men in the U. S. objects to an assess ment of $16 an acre on his Linn county holdings of timber land, which could not be bought for that by cocBiderable, Mr, Weyerhauser should not kick. He is well treated. Besides paying taxes on his timber holdings Mr. Weyer- houser should be made to pay an income tax on his enormous income of several million dollars a year. This is some thing favored in the democratic plat form, and it is a splendid thing. Ten to one Mr. Weyerhouser is doing his level best for Mr. Taft. Rich men have no business kicking at taxes. There is hardly one in the U. S. who pays as high taxes as he should. The country needs an income tax with a graduated scale so intense that the man with an income of a million dollars will pay about four times as much as the one with $500,000, and so on down. Face the music, M r. Weyerhouser. Dinner Pails. Why base a campaign on falsehoods. The Oregonian in a caricature says the kind of dinner pail the democratic party ofTers is full of wind. It offers one full of "grub". The republican policy is a full dinner pail for the millionaire. Mr. Bryan is for the people. The republi can party in two years has kept full 90,000 more dinner pails for office hold ers, coming out of the pockets of the peoplei It hs increased the expenses of the government to the enormous sum of a billion dollarB a year, which the people pay out of money that ought to furnish grub for the dinner pail. It has driven small industries out of busi ness by legislation in the interest of the trusts, and the dinner pails of the discharged men have had to take care of themsolvos. How silly for reputable newspapers, even when steeped in pro duce, to make such assertions. Ofrlelnia Should Nut Butt In. If one official has no business to en gage in politics another has not. If it is propor for the president to butt in it is for postmasters and others of the lesser lights in politics. A congress man has no more right to take sides in an election than any one else. As a matcer of fact no man in oflico should interfere in an olection. As soon as he begins tho duties of his oflice ho is the servant of all the people regardless of politics, just as much of one as another, paid to attend to the duties of his ollico Dot for his party, but for his people; not just for the pcoplo who voted for him, but for all others just as much. ' Gov. Chambcrlainlhas been raked up hill and down for not taking a hand in tho election; but he has displayed good judgment and taken the proper course, l'rcsidcnt Roosevelt should have done tho same thing; but he lucked the moral courage. A Great Farming Country F. II. Scriber, of Wisconsin, a big slock man recently in Oregon said: "The Willamette Valley seems to be about the finest farming country in the whole United .States." Mr. Soilier was undoubtedly correct. Altogether it is prob ible the vullcy is the beat farming country, when the soil and cli mato are considered together. A great improvement in tho market adds to the value of tho valley as a funning coun try. The versatility of the producing quality of our farms dues great things f jr the business hero. Almost anything an be raiseJ here, and raised well. Money in the banks is not idle money. Tho Oregonian ought to know this. Most of it represents active business conditions, coming and going continu ally. Bank money as a rule is turned ovor and over. The clearing houso figutes of the big cities spoak for this fact. The more monoy in the banks the greater the business of the com munity. . I Saturday Night Thoughts. About the same old election report this Saturday night, necessary in a mention of the events of the week. Mr. Bryan has been holding his own, perhaps gaining. The republican as sociated press reports bets in favor of Taft. Mr. Bryan reports chances in favor of Bryan. There you are. This week the Democrat received an arti cle about two columns long, from a Lana Co. minister, too long for the condensed columns of 'his paper, giv' ing pretty conclusive reasons why Christian people should vote for Bryan, a splendid representation of Christian manhood; while Mr. Taft rejects Christ. "While Governor of the Philippines," says the correspondent, "he is reported to have participated in the betting races on Sundays and to have never turned down his glasses," and numer ous other things to the point. Mr. Apathy certainly has been in Linn county. Two public meetings have been held during the week by re publicans, with a total attendance by actual count of approximately 125. Perhaps the democrats would have had no more. It takes some one with an extra reputation to draw these days of Gcneial Apathy. Nevertheless there will probably be a big vote in Linn county This week a real U. S. Senator has been in the city, a wealthy gentleman, who, it is said, will pay the highest rent the coming year for a Washington residence, of any U. S. Senator. Mr. Bourne's visit here was supposed to have been non-political. Really it is immaterial. If he will take a live in terest in some Albany wants the poli tics may take caie of themselves. Po litically Mr. Bourne's influence is financial. A new industry Jwas started in Al bany during the week, a fruit cannery. It has a backing jwhich will mean its success. It is needed here, for Albany is a fruit center of importance. A good cannery will increase the fruit and vegetables a cannery is after. Albany is going ahead in the kind of manner that suits, steadily and reliably. The papersare full of the emmanual movement, given as something new. But it is notjnew at all. It is about 1900 years old. It is simply the Christ life, that's all.ICun it be possible that men have not discovered before that the very essence of Christianity, tho real article, is kindness and that genu ine optimism acts upon the body as well as upon the mind, in different de grees. But there is a golden mean in the construction of this, and men will do well not togot excited and claim too much physically, for it will take sur geons to' set legs and medicines and manipulations torcgulate the system Nevertheless a life full of sunshine is an immense medicine. This week there has been a lecture along mysterious lines, into depths that seem strange, but which in skilful hands become plain. So it is. Tricks beyond comprehension are as clear as ico made by the Albany Butter and Produce Co., when explained. Much in nature is that way. We cannot under stand, but when revealed there is no mystery. What marvelous things in the telephone, and the wireless tele graphy, perhaps after all, they are plain as the tricks of tho magician when understood. The merchant should display kindness in his treatment of his customers, as a business proposition, nccorJing to the consensus of opinion of prominent men of Corvallis and Albany. So should men in every other business, the law yer, doctor, editor, minister, mechanic, day laborer. It is a good rule for everybody, men and women, boys, and girls. The Oregonian is tho most purtizan paper anywhere in the U. S. Some times it cluims to be independent, but it is abjectly tho opposite. Sometimes it gets personally mad at some member nf its nnrtv imil stnna him viiinimlv ! when it looks as if it is a little inde pendent. But that is not independence. Real Estate Movement. C. G. Burkart reports a couple good sales this week, the Wolverton tironer- , ty and the Bruekman property, and a good many inquiries for home property I from new comers. In order to secure a place in which to reside it has become : necessary, almost, to buy, and even j roon.s are scarce, for emergencies. I The forty or fifty new residences and j cottages this year are not nearly enough. I Next year should see at least one hun I dred go up. City Property Wanted. Wanted at once two or three pieces or well improved residence city prop erty, between Montgomery and Wash ington stieets Have customers now waiting. Call at my oflice and list your property if you want to sell. C. U. Murkhnrt, 102 E. First Slrtet C. H. NEWS Circuit Court: Jacobson & DeHaven Co. agt R. P., S. E. and J. L. Howard. A suit to re cover $106.47 and interest on a note made Jan. 20, 1908 at McMinnville. Hewitt Sr. Sox attorneys. In Linn County agt The Calapooia Lumber Co., a demurrer was filed by Hewitt & Sox denying the capacity of th9 plaintiff to sue, that it has no jur isdiction and that sufficient facts are not stated. Demurrer by J. C. Christy in Cran dali agt Karstens. ' Articles incoporatsng the Scio Con densed Milk Co., filed. Capital stock $15,000 in shares of $1000, $250 and $50 each. Incorporators A. G, Prill, E. C. Peery, John Nesely. Marriage license: Sig. Peterson, aged 34, born in Sweden, a sailor, and Viola Keebler, aged 29, born in Mo., of Leb anon. No. 14 for the month. Probate: Guardian ad litems in estate of V. H. CaldwF.ll appointed. In estate of Truman Pritts final hear ing set for Dec. 7. Deeds recorded: Lewis Montgomery to E. V. Lit- tlefield 160 a : $ 1 Hester M. Coates to H. F. Bodek- er 160 a 150 Jacob Rossi to Emii Steger et al 43.50 a ...... ...... - 1300 Grace Hodson to R. R, Myers in' terest in 163.50 a 102 W. M Myers to R. R, Myers in terest in 163.50 a 408 Deeds Recorded: Elizabeth Irvine to Margaret Ir vine 6J by 67feet bl 48 Albany $ 1 J. B. Cox to G. B. Williams 3 lots ' I Frank French's ad Brownsville 170 . Frankie E. Cox to G. B. Williams 1 lot Brownsville 60 Clara E. Wolverton to L. A. Kros- I chel lots 3 and 4 bl 70 Albany. . 3250 Mortgage for $800. Circuit Court. New Case: P. L. Robnett agt. C. A. Ryburn. Suit on note to recover $300 A. A. Tussing attorney. Probate: In estate of John F. Surrell. who recently committed suicide, Ada Surrell, his daughter, was appointed ad ministratrix. Value of property $4000. 1465 hunters licenses issued. OBITUARY. Another pioneer has passed away. John Cams departed this life at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Al Saylor, of this city, at the age of 88 years, 1 month and 27 days. He was born in Vermillion County, Indiana, in 1820. He was married to Miss Hannah Murphy on March 5, 185J Three weeks later he with his wife, in company with others started across the plains to Oregon, being six months on the road, enduring many hardships. Landing in Oregon Vie took up a dona tion claim near Harrisburg, where he lived a good many years. In 1890, he with his family, moved to Benton coun ty, living on a farm. Owing to the ill health of his wife, he later moved to Corvallis where he lived till the death of Mrs, Cams in 1907, when he again, became a resident of Linn County, making his home with his daughter. He was the father of 11 children, four of whom preceded him to the better world. Of the seven living, there is ono daughter, Mrs, Hattie Saylor, of this city, and six sons, George, of Bishop, Calif.; Gilbert, Floyd, Charles, Thomas and Madison, Lincoln county; four of whom, with the daughter, were nt the funeral. He had eight grand children, six living, two dead. Two nieces weie at the funeral Mrs. Fred Delfenbachcr of Coburg, and Mrs. Tom Plaster of Lebanon. The services at the house were conducted by Rev. Gordon nf the M. E. church,at9 o'clock Wednesday morning. The interment took place in the I. O O. . cemetery at Corvallis, Rev. S. M. Wood officiat ing, being the same minister who per formed the last sad rights at his wife's funeral. HARRISBURG. Bulletin: The Southern Pacific announces a rate of one and one-third fare, for round trip to the Albany apple show, Nov. 10th to 12th. May & Senders have been loading up seven cars ot wheat which they sold to Southern Oregon mills. Some of the furniture type that hold nearly double tout or an ordinary car. Mrs. E. E, Warner reports tha Hoto WalKer killed a large buck deer in the mils lust bacK ot tier ranch. Monday. Walker is a resident of Brownsvilie, recently from Iowa and this is the first game he over brought down. Rev, Lyon's moving picture enter tainment it M. W. A. hall next Alon d iy evening under the auspices of Royal Neighbors. Geo. Devaney and his family are to move to town soon in order to give the children school advantages this winter. They had intended to spend the winter at Albany but were unable to secure a suitable residence. The Senator. Senator Bourne, after a reception at the Alco Club parlors last night left for southern points on his first mixture with his constituency. He was impressed with the justice of the d 'msnd for an improvement of the river at this city. and promised to do his b st to secure, government aid. IN THE LEAD. Albany continues to lead in the regi mental shoot, with 601 as the record, and Prof. Marquam leads in the indi vidual score with a record of 168, with Private H. G. Singley of Dallas second, with 165. Eugene is second in the team shoot, with 591, Dallas third with 582 and McMinnville fourth with 559, C Co. of Eugene were shooting this af ternoon. In the shoot yesterday at Eugene Corporal Rone made only 25, while his companions made 38, 40 and 43 in the 600 hundred yard range. It looks good for Albany so far, but there is danger at Roseburg. The individual score of the Albany men in the shoot here was: 500 yards Marquam 44, R. Karstens 43, O Karstens 34, Abraham 36. To tal 158. 600 yards. Marquam 46, R. Kar stens 39. O. Karstens 34, Abraham 34. Total 153. 200 pards. slow. Marquam 41. R Karstens 43, O. Karstens 37, Abraham 38. Total 159. 200 yards, rapid fire. Marquam 37, K. Karstens 6i. u Karstens ii, ADra ham 31. Total 132. At the" Hotels. Hugh Freeland, who has been spend ing about ten years in the development of theGoldJCreek mines, with something doing in sight. J. S. Cooper the Independence bank er and hop raiser. A. A. Morse, prominent in Sunday school work, of Portland. Ed. Hall, one of the best insurance men on the coast, who went out to Lebanon for the day. ' Chas. Feitig, Thomas. J. O. Hendricson, Newport. John Walling Lebanon. Jack C. Currie, a Linn native on his regular trip. Mrs. A. J. Brown, Corvallis. Joe Steens Airlie. John Bradford, Portland. Mrs. W. E. Fathemen, Newport. Lee Boyer Portland. A. L. West Salem. Geo. A- Peel, Portland. W. Peek, Alsea. W. T. Fry. Jefferson, Wis. S. A. Catlin, Chilhome, Mo. C. H. NEWS. Transcript filed in Howe agt. Robin son. Marriage license Floyd D. Wade, aged 23, born in Iowa of Brownsville, and Grace McClure, aged 21, born in Oregon of Sweet Home. 1467 hunters licenses. Deeds recorded: E. D. Cusick trustee estate of H. A. Sommerville, a bankrupt, to R. E. Morris, 290 acres $2900 H. Bryant to John A. Swanberg, 6.1 acres 11-13 w 488 J. A. McFeron to Mary Dunn, 50 by luu teet mock 30 JU W. H. Hulburt to Leonard Falk, 104 acres 4000 Five bonds for deeds from Luella Cary, Alice C. King, Edward G. Cary, nobert u. Uary and Anna Kate Carr, for the sale cf 16.623 acres 10-2 west at $500 each. Mortgages for $2009, and $150. Release for $1058. The W. F. Building. The matter of the location of the new W. F. building at the depot has been settled today, work was stopped, but it has been resumed. The building will Btay where it is. C. & E. trains will back up on a track to be put in at the east end of the W. F. building. It is said tne Springfield and Lebanon trains will come in on the track at the west end of the depot. Where the freight depot is to be located is not know n yet. Arts and Crafts Exhibits. On Tue3. afternoon and evening Oct. 27, Miss Roma Jean McKnight, of Port land, will have an exhibit of handiwork in Albany. During the afternoon speci mens of work in metal work, (silver, copper and brass), stencilling, tooled leather, embroidery, china painting, etc , will be on view at Foshay & Mason's drug store. In the evening Miss McKnight will meet informally any who care to come to Tremont Hall to view the work and hear a discussion of the Arts and Crafts movement. Classes will be organized in drawing, china painting, watercolor, metal work, leather work and stencilling. Get the Best. About the most important thing in tho world is flour, the stuff that makes the staff of life. The best flour that can be made is none too good, and that is considerable. The best that can be secured is Johnson's Best, Albany. It is made in the proper manner, and when it is up ready for the market there is nothing left to be done that could improve it. When you call for flour ask for John son's Best, the product.of an Albany industry. 20 Cents for a Meal. At noon a fine dinner for 20 cents. Fite hot cup of coffee, and oysters any way you want them. At the Mission Parlors, 309 W. 1st St. If you are in doubt as to what you want, come to me uregon Minuet, there you will find.just what your ap-! petite calls for. i MISFITS. Not to be oat&me by Portland Salem has a tragedy Give flowers and smiles to the living whin theyarre well. Oregea has only four votes, but they might -decide the matter. Ton are missing a good deal if syou are not in that Alco gym class. Oil prospects all over Oregon; but what's the use. Rockefeller would sit on it. Even the Telegram admits that Indi ana, New York and Ohio are doubtful. Must be then. Mr. Bourne at least isn't making any Taft speeches. P. S. Mr. Bourne does not make speeches, not a bad fault. A woman was recently drowned in a wine vat at Santa Rosa, Calif. That would just suit the average hobo. You can't fool anybody on whose friend Standard Oil is. All its contri butions go into the republican fund, which is kept secret. "That dinkey curtain going across the stage for a train was enough to make one jump," said a man at the show last night. The Democrat referred to the visit of Jonathan Bourne ud the 'vallev as non-political. The Telegram calls it political. The emmanuel movement is the cur ing of disease by smiles. Well, they help. Long faces are a mighty poor tning at tne sick Dea. The Woodburn Independent says the Rnelfev Mountain P.Ynrooa vana nnnlr and the audience yelled "Btune". About the size of it.. Some one has discovered the fact that just as soon as Heney changed from a democrat to a republican the land fraud prosecutions ceased. After paying his Linn county tax Mr. Weyerhauser will have enough left to build Aspen Lodge, about twelve miles from the celebrated Pelican Bay lodge of Harrimnn. When Senator Bourne was getting $1000 prize essays on Roosevelt he prophesied that Taft's nomination would mean Bryan's election. Was he a wise prophet? Hope so. A Ranier man is said to have bet $1000 that Oregon will go for Bryan. If so he will undoubtedly lose his mon ey, and, yet Bryan is going to run the vote down to a very small maioritv for Taft. A Seattle man is being roasted liv the papers for trying to cook his wife on a stove. That kind of roasting isn't enough. There ought to b e a barrel of sulphur with it. Albany college ought to be heard from in debating the coming year, with the two best debaters the high school ever had and a member of the champhns of Oregon, besides several young men who can talk. The New York Central promised its employees an increase ef wages if Taft is elected and a decrease if Brvan is elected. "Then Mr. Bryan said; The little ward heeler who goes around and bribes a man for five dollars is a moral character beside the man who attempts to use ms power to tnreaten tnose who work for him by the promise of an in crease of wages or threaten them by the promise of a decrease." News from Albany's Six Early Trains. The college foot ball team left .for Portland to play Multnomah this after noon. On account of injuries in the last game and at practice two or three of the players could not go into the game, and several changes had to be made for this contest. The line up scneduled is: Gibbons center; Hodge and Cole guards, Dunlap, of O. A. C. fame, and Prof. Flo tackles, Ward and Schumate ends, Wilbur quarter back, Beeson and Townes at half, Rogoway tull back. Ed Sommers, who has had charge of the American JCigar Store the past year, has disposed of his interest to his partner, Mr. Jackson, and left for Portland to go on the road again. He has made a host of friends in Albany who will miss his genial smile. Harold Jackson will have charge of the store. Miss Greta Fortmiller went to Ore gon City on a short visit. Prof. McMinn, the dancing teacher, returned to Salem. Miss Mabel Schultz, of the Halsey schools, came down tor a two days visit at home. J. A. Archibald, the monument man, of Philomath, returned from a Browns ville trip. Al rs. Guy Howe went to Thomas for a visit with friends. Cal Goddard returned to Mill City. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Crawford went to Portland on a visit with their daughter. Mrs. Lillian Rader. Mi. and Mrs. Radcr have just gotten into their new home, which Mr. and Mrs. Crawford will duly inspect. J. M. 'Ralston went to Portland. Amateur work developed and finished. Satisfaction guaranteed. Leave orders at woodworm s drug store. 13t TELEGRAPH, fttfri.ANn, Oct. 22 D C. McClsim was arrested by the Vancouver police in a saloon yesterday suspected of the murder of Jeweler Butterworth at St, Johns, He had a revolver with one -chamber empty, 32 caliber. This is the calmer oi tne bullet tnat Killed Butter worth. His coat and handkerchief are stained, the officials say with blood stains. The suspect Is 37 years old, five feet seven inches in height and says he is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Eugene lodge. Portland Oct 23 Chas A. Straus the finance clerk in the office of the cashier of the Portland postoffice today was ar rested in connection with the disap pearance of the sum of more than four thousand dollars, which it is alleged was placed in his hands temporarily. The money cannot be accounted for. Portland, Oct. 23. That the will of the late George T, Myers is void be. cause it was made under an insane de lusion was the decision of Judge Web ster of the county court this morning, in passing upon the contest begun by Mrs. Geornia F, Stevens, daughter of the deceased. There is $250,000 in volved and the attorneys for the son to whom the bulk of the. estate is left, will appeal the case. Portland, Oct. 23. D. C. McClean, of Eugene, who is in custody on the charge of the murder of Jeweler But terworth at St. John is innocent of the crime Tho officials now are following another clue. PERSONAL. W. F. Gilstrap and Jos. Koke, of Eu gene, were in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Garrison passed through the city yesterday fcr Rose burg after a Portland visit. Mr. Geo. Humphrey, of Portland, came up last night to attend the fune ral of his sister, Mrs. Dana Burmester. Miss Sue Breckenridge has been in Eugene attending a recital of Miss Morgan ot tne u. ot U. conservatory of music. Miss Minnie Howard arrived last night from Ketchikan, Alaska, where her mother resides, and will spend a couple of months with her sister, Mrs. Marvin Brandeberry J. F. Asche has returned from the Bay with numerous salmon. The fish are running some now and a good many are being captured. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown left this afternoon for Jefferson on a visit with relatives. They recently moved from Portland here in order to be with Mr. Brown's mother. Roy W. Nutting went to Eugene this afternoon to see the U. of O.-Willam-ette game, and look after Budge Stew art. He will be home on the 8:18 train. Mr. Bruce Price, of Crook, Crook county, was in the city today. He is down on a visit at his father's, Mr. N. Price, his first visit for nine years. He is one of four sons and three daughters, scattered over the state. Mr. Hollis, of the Bankers and Mer chants Insurance Co., of Fores t Grove, and Mr. Thrasher, local agent of Cor vallis, have been in the city in the in terest of this company, which is said to carry considerable insurance in this city. State Printer W. S. Dunniway went up the road this afternoon to help put Oregon in the Taft column. Also Judge Cake, who did not defeat Chamberlain for U. S. Senator. A fine man person ally, but a man running thirty thousand behind his ticket isn't going to make much difference in the Taft vote. COUNTRY CHARACTERS. "The Honeymooneis," Geo. Mr. Co han's newest and musieal comedy suc cess which comes to Albany Tuesday night ran all last summer in New York at the Amsterdam Theatre playing throughout to capacity houses at $2 prices. A summer run in New York is the hardest test to which a theatrical production can be subjected and the fact that "The Honeymooners" made the meat brilliant record of recent years is sufficient proof of its excellence. "The Honeymooners" presents some ' ati using features of life in the village of Tigerville, Vermont. The cast runs the entire gamut of town chacters and the satire is keen but kindly. A Successful Concert Prof. Palmer and Misses Hansen, Bluckwell and Felenius, of the conserv atory of music, returned this noon from McMinnvile, where they gave a concert last night to a tacked house, a great success. Under the splendid manage ment of Rev. Williams the concert was well advertised, the Telephone Register practically devoting a page to it, with all the pictures of the faculty and that of the Presbyterian church of McMinn ville. They were delighted with the treatment received at the hands of the cultured people of McMinnville. Oysters, Oysters At the Oregon Market are opened Hallu Vnn iraf (horn lianf fmm iYia shell, and more oysters to the measure man ai any uiner place. Just Received. Car of Yellow Fir shakes by Chas. K. Spaulding LoGGinc Co. A Stove Bargain. A good 18 inch air tight stov ior only $U75, at thettore of tthe A Ibany Hardware Co.