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PRESIDENT IS COMING WEST Will Leave Washington on or About April First . INITERARY NOT COMPLETE But His Sojourn Will Probab ly Occupy About Two Months WILL. SPEND MOST OP APBIL IN YELLOWSTONE PARkUxD COME TO THE COAST IN M A Y--SERlOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST AN ATTORNEY. WASHINGTON. March 14- It la rea sonably certain that President Roose velt will start from Washington on his Western tour on April 1. The itinerary jf the journev. which will occupy at least two months and perhaps a little longer, is being prepared. Indeed, many of the details have already been worked out on the basis of starting on the lHt of April. The Kater part of the month of April will be spent by the President In Yellowstone Park In rest and recrea tion. Several important-stops will be made by the President en route to the Park. He wfll go from Washington to Chicago. Thence he will go to Milwau kee and St. Paul. Minn.; Yankton. 8. D.. and perhaps to some other points .east of the Yellowstone. In the latter part of April he ; will start for St. Louis in time to partici pate in the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. April 30. From St. Louis the President will go to the Pacific coast. During his sojourn in Yosemite Valley. The trip includes a Journey to and numerous stops in the California the President will visit the Northwestern states. Washington, March 14. Some serious charges have been filed with President Roosevelt against a practicing attorney at-law, who formerly was an employe of the Postoffice Department, but they are of such a nature that, at this time, they cannot be disclosed. The charges were placed in the hands of the Presi dent by T. C. Campbell, an attorney of Cincinnati, representing one or more of the Turf Investment Companies for preparing an opinion, declaring the statement of such investment compan ies to be legitimate and. for a promise of protection to be given to the com panies by the officials. When ye mat ter was brought to the President's at tention he regarded it as so serious that be ordered a sweeping investiga tion to be made. The President has directed that no means be left untried to develop the facts and to punish the guilty, if the guilt of any official shall be shown by the investigation.. A Box of Shamrocks. - Washington. March 14. Presidentj It'tosevelt received today, from John, Redmond, an Irtish member of Farlla-j tnent for Dublin, a box of shamrocks It is a reminder of the near approab of St. Patrick's Day. To Succeed Ludington. Washington, March 11 It Is under stood that President Roosevelt Has de Hded to appoint CoL Cha. F. Humph! ry Jr.. Quartermaster-General of the Army, to succeed Gen. M. L Ludington. retired. In Walla Walla May 25. j; Walla Walla. March 14. President Uonsevrlt will be here May 23: Mayor Hunt received word to that effect to day from. Washington. I THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS RIVER STILL RISING AT MEMPHIS. - AND THE SITUATION IS SERIOUS. M KM PHIS. Tenn, March 14. The xtase of the river at o'clock is J7? feet a stage equal to the maximum of flood of 1 $97. The rise since. o'clock, this morning has been half a rt. All the levees in this vicinity are reported to be holding. There is grave apprehension, however, for the safety of the country beyond the levees. One of the greatest causes of fear is the anxiety that the levees may be cut by some person who would be benefited thereby. No Material Changs. . New Orleans. La,, March 14. Though New Orleans experienced the., most trrriflc rainfall In many years, the river tonight is at the same stage as in the early morning. 19.3. feet., three tenths under the record of six years ajto. During the forenoon the work of mending weak spots in the- levees along both sides of the river was con tinued. Tonight discloses no material change in conditions.! No breaks up the river had been 'reported when darkness felL I : ' . ONLY. AN ESTIMATE "SEVERAL DISTRICTS IN CHINA TOO HOT FOR ENUMER-..,,. - ATION. '.- .;. ., PKKIN, March 14. The Board of Revenue has completed the census of r-hina. showing It td nave a popuia tin of 426.447,000. The number of In habitants In Manehuria Mongolia, Thi bet and Turkestan were only estimat ed. -V - . !,-"-": .. - ' '. .ODD FELLOWS OEFICERS INSTALLED . AT f THE MEETING oV ' OLIVE LODGE AT THE TEMPLE LAST EVENING. FTom Sunday's Dally.) Olive Lodge No. 18. L O. O. In stalled officers at its meeting In the Odd Fellows' Temple last night, to r serve dtitillP' lh tt-rni: i.iMin'' JllllC V A portion of : th nm - ' ... . on January 1. but on account of the Illness of the Noble Grand- Ject. the Induction Into their positions of that officer and ais appointees was post poned unta last evening's 4 meeting. The corps! of officers of the lodge Is now constituted as follows: Frank P. Toevs, noble grand: Richard Carlson, vice grand; B. B. Herrick Jr.. record ing secretary ; ; John Moir. treasurer; Wm. Welch, warden; W. J. Culver, conductor; J. Q Wilson, right sup porter noble grand; K. A- Etfxon, left supporter; ; A. A. Lee, right supporter vicej grand; Geo. Maurer, left support er; George W. Gosser. inside guardian; J- A. Poland, outside guardian; George Emert; right scene supporter; Oscar Bair left scene supporter. The officers were installed by Past Grand J. A. Fo land, acting as Grand Master, assisted by"past Grand Master Claud Gatcb, as Grand Marshal, i EDITORIALS ! OF PEOPLE i I United States Lands Cannot . Be Taxed for State j Purposes WOODLAND SHOULD BE SOLD WITH PROVISO THAT PURCHAS ER MAINTAIN TIMBER GROWTH EXPANSION OP COAL MINING CONSERVATION OF f FOREST, j - 11 ; (From Sunday's Daily.) '- Editor Statesman: I suppose It is so common with editors to find the most imjiortant ; words of an editorial left out f in the setting up as to make the ' statement of ' such a mis chance trite reading. That occurred in relation to the hastily written paper you published as an "Editorial of the People" : in the Statesman of the 14th. The word tax was left or dropped out where the effect of United States res ervation of forest land is ; spoken of. The lands of the United States within a state! cannot be taxed for state or county purposes. This Is in accord with the plain conditions of the admis sion of (Oregon as a state. The func tion of' making siles of these public lands as fast as applied fo. by the peo ple was the general national policy when Oregon was admitted. Vand was plainly! Inhibited from interfering by over-taxation df non-resident purchas ers. There is not an intimation of any reservation of public land from sale or gift to the people except for national defense or in aid of commerce. It must not be understood that' the writer has an wish to see the forest wealth of any Western state neglected or heedlessly destroyed. He Is a lover of trees, and the suggestion that wood lands hereafter be sold with a proviso that the purchaser maintain. the- pro portion of timber growth that he buys, subject only to the change that the harvesting of the mature crop and the seeding or planting of a succeed ing cjrop Involves, Is the one he wishes to urge. This; of course Involves the necessity of asserting the right of eminent domain by either the nation or the state or both, and the .supervision of an interest involving so much the general welfare. Nor Is It made blind ly. The writer laid his claim for a donation claim for 'himself and wife five miles frem Salem. There were not then five ar-s of good, usable tim ber on the fall section.' Grass fires were stopped after 1846. and the few large fir seed trees did their work by the aid of the winds, so that there is now fifty acres of good Woodland on one-half of U. and twenty-five acres of nice fir and oak on the other, and the wood growth has become a means of annual Income for fruit drying : and family fuel.! Thin introduces the question of coal supply as a conservation of forest product. The hand which writes this paper wsg for three and a half years exercised In mining coal, securing the small earnings necessary to pay a young man's way from Pittsburg. Pa, to the Pacific Ocean by digging coal for one -cent per bushel of eighty pounds, one hundred bushels being a moderate day's product equal to four short tons! and more than equal to the daily consumption of twenty families. Then many families of Western Penn sylvania got their own wood. ( This condition haa so increajed and spread by Increase of railroads as to cover the Middle West, and Is so rapidly becom ing so in the Far West, the public land states. In which are these forest re serves under the present policy, as to curtail the use of natural pasture on woodlands not properly "forest, to Interfere with meat and wool pro duction on vast areas most desirable for family homes. It Is a recognition of the extending use of coal as more convenient and. economical- In some portions of Oregon even that the sug gestion is made for new public pol icy Involving an assertion- of eminnt domain over coal measures to at least a national supervision of the conditions of mineworkers. The United States of America has recently given all civil ised nations a lesyon of humanity by endorsing Us foremost cltixen In an, rort to orotect the laborer whose fate involves going down Into the coal pit from extortion by overweight ana un just . dockage. This grand act J cheer fully paid for by the people's represen tatives is not a final settlement; in- a it Mm to -have' bred labor strikes and the tyranny of labor union snv and seems to point to a near tim when In addition to an expansion of coal mining- as a conservation of rnr.t wealth, the national supervision of mines and miners will become public necessities. The wruer na p.-. knowledge of the cruelty or the black list, and the barbarity of the Ignorant striking miners to fellow wokmen who cannot afford to strike. Better. In finitely better, in my Judgment, would be a new policy conservative of mines and the freedom of the miners than present methods. ! J- MINTO. Jba M Y A. Ban? a .v. ATEEKLT OREGON STATESMAN, TTJESDAT, MARCH 17, 103. injunction ; WAS ISSUED By Superior Court, of Ccnnec- ticut, to Restrain THE TROLLEYMEIi'S UWION From Interfering With Con necticut Railway & Light in? Cos Business CANADIAN ; PACIFIC COMPANY WITHDRAWS OFFER OF , ARBI TRATION WITH EMPLOYES AND DECLARES STRIKE A FAILURE STRIKE OF NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION SETTLED. WATBRBURT, Conn-, March 14. An Important move In relation to the trol- leymen's strike was. taken today when papers were Issued and a temporary in junction granted, by Judge Elmer, of the Superior Court, on the application of the Connecticut Railway Sc. Lighting Company .restraining the Trolleymen's Union and most, if not all. of the un ions In this city, from acts "calculated to Interfere with the company's busi ness or its railways. ;Th Proposition Withdrawn. Vancouver." B. G."' March 14. The members of thp TTnltMl ' Rrnhartwwul nf Railway Employes - today announced vicinity, for $3,000,000 for extension and their acceptance of the olter of the Ca- endowment. It is found that the $400. nadian Pacific Railroad to arbitrate but w hnium., it n-i rtav the offer was made ten days ago and was at . that time declined. Now the company declares that, as the offer was refused, it has since been withdrawn, jfor the numbers of men coming: to the More of the striking clerks returned to ! building . dally. The several branches work today and company announced! . . . . ; ... i of the Association in the city and the that as permanent positions had been I given to those wno had replaced ithe .colleges, and with railroad men, require strikers, the latter could not be rein- suitable homes for their growing work. stated. The company claims that the strike failed of Us purpose. . : j Ship Builders Strike .Settled. . New - York. March 14. After a four hours' conference In the rooms of the National Civic Federation, this after noon, between the representatives of the Federation and the striking em ployes of the shipbuilding corporations, the strike was declared settled, - All strikers will return to work on March 18. The strike was said to have been the result of a misunderstanding. A later conference will be held to find the cause of the trouble and to settle It. STATE HEALTH BOARD .,;''! HELD FIRST MEETING AND TRAN SACTED LARGE VOLUME OF BUSINESS. (From Sunday's Daily.) The State Board of Health, composed Smith, of Portland; E. A. Pierce, of Salem: C J. Smith, of Pendleton; E. B. PlckeL of Medford. and Alfred Kin ney, of Astoria, held its first meeting at the Capitol building yesterday aft ernoon, and at the Insane Asylum last evening, and completed ail of the bus iness which had been mapped out for transaction at this meeting. Dr. A. C. Smith, of Portland, was elected president of the Board; Dr. Alfred Kinney, vu-e president, and Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of Portland, secretary, the latter at a salary of $20) per month and all traveling and inci dental expenses allowed. A committee on by-laws, compose J of Drs. E. A. Pierce, Harry Lane and C J. Smith, was appointed, to draft a set of by-laws to govern the Board and a committee, composed of Drs. C. J. Smith, E. B. Picket and Secretary Hutchinson, was appointed to consider the situation as regarding the diseases of animas, which threaten the health of the community of the state and to report what action, in their. Judgment, would be suitable to prevent their spread and to report at the next meet ing of the Board, and the secretary was Instructed to send out circulars of in formation to the officers of every school board in the state, explaining the dan gers of the present epidemic, small pox, and the necessity of universal vac cination, and Instructions as to a meth od of recognizing tuberculosis, diph theria and other forms of contagious throat diseases and the most effective means of preventing their spread. Secretary Hutchinson was also in structed to at once go to California and make a study of the plague, cholera and other deadly and infectious dis eases, and make a detailed report upon same, and also to prepare & list, of quarantinable and notifiable diseases to be furnished to the different health officers, acconpanied ; with instructions as to the Dest means their spread. : . ; of preventing WILLAMETTE WINS AGAIN j .. . e . , LIVELY,, GAME IN WILLAMETTE GYMNASIUM WITH OREGON CITY TEAM. (From Sunday's Daily.) The basket ball team from the Oregon City Y. M. C A. met defeat last night at the hands of the Willamette braves to the tune of 1$ to The game was called about 8:30 and for some time the ball danced from W. V. to Oregon City territory without be ing placed In either basket. Soon, how wr Jerman broke the spell by drop ping a neat one. This was followed by three more In the-first half for .Wil lamette and one basket for Oregon City. In the second half the game was not very scientific, ; but J rough play was quite noticeable. Willamette Increased her score telr points and Oregon ; City three. Total score,1 W. U. 1$. Oregon city . c: f i ; Just a few seconds before time .was, called a little Incident occurred which' leaves a taint on the evening's pleasure The ball went outside and was given to Orefyon City by Referee Fechter. The Oregon City player; however, failed to bring the nail back to the place desig nated by Jthe referee before returning It to the field of play. The referee then declared the ball Willamette's. Willi ams, of the visiting- team, took excep tion to this and left the floor followed by. the rest of his team. This was a rash thing to do because the decision was perfectly Jurt and there were bo points In question. The heme team dis like this little affair, but It was said by several who know, that this la the usual performance of that player. . Next Friday Dallas 'College wijl play the Willamette team in the University gymnasium here. This will be the first of a aeries of three games to settle the championship question. . , ? " ;. The line-up last night was as follows: . W. V. Judd. Jerman. forwards: Pol lard, center; Matthews, Parsons, guards Oregon City Williams. Williams, for wards; Williams, center; Peters and .Humphreys, guards. THE BOSTON ASSOCIATION Is Asking Supporters for 1,- 000,000 for Extension and Endowment A BUILDING NOW. ORGANIZED, ON BACK BAY. ERECTED TEN YEAR AGO ENTIRELY INADEQUATE TO MEET , GROWING DEMAND AN ENORMOUS DEVELOPMENT. . (From Sunday's Daily.) ' The. Boston , Young Men's Christian Association is asking its supporters and the friends of young men in Boston and Bay. which - was erected ten years ago. .1 overcrowded and entirely inadequate They have demonstrated what can be done at other points for which build ings are asked. The sum of $f50,000 is asked for a central building to contain dormitories, larger social rooms, gym nasium, class rooms, etc.. capable of accommodating 6000 members and of providing for 2000 men In evening edu cational classes and as many in the gymnasium. The new building will have a roof garden and restaurant, and "Will cost about $1,000,000. Five college Association buildings to cost $175,000 are demanded. There are thought to be necessary three buildings, costing $200,000 for the Working boys, provided with dormitor ies. Kvm nasi urn. school rooms, manual training anJ bath rooms; a building for colored young men to cost 5,000. to be located in the South End. making spe eial provisions for educational classes- ' several buildings for steam and elec- Itrfc railroad men, to cost $450,000-:-there are more miles of railroad in and around Boston - than in any other city In the United States; for Army and Navy Associations. $130,000 for the erec tion of four buildings and their endow ment, at the forts near the Navy Yard. Another plan is advanced for ten boardT ing places for young men, to be located in different parts of the city, and to cost $250,000; a relief and industrial depart- znen . to help and encourage indigent young men to self-support. $150,000; sev eral smaller "branch buildings in such places as Rox bury. Dorchester. East Boston, etc $300,000; to maintain differ ent parts of the city Christian temper ance saloons and a new philanthropic work for men employed in Industrial pursuits. $150,000 is needed. The board of directors, which Is com posed of . some of Che leading business men of the city, whtf have been identlr fled with this organization for many years and studied the educational, phy sical and social needs of Boston, have backed these requests and made liberal rotttributlons themselves for the pur pose. They consider that endowments of special departments are needed and that the evening Institutes which en roll nearly 1000 men and boys need $150,000; the Association library which should be distinctly a young man's 11 brary. $25,000: a normal Bible institute foivithe training of lay Christian work ers. $100,000: for. supervision of various undertakings. $100,000; for religious d dresses and moral lectures to be given by leading men of the country. S23.000 endowment is needed, and for a Chris tian summer home within thirty min utes ride of Boston, for young men earning smalt salaries confined during the hot weather, congenial self-supporting home, at low prices. $25,000. This is perhaps the most-ambitious scheme for the development of the Young Men's Christian Association ever at tempted in any city, though New York City conducts Association ; work at thirty-three points. . and has property valued at $2,500,000. The Association feels that this scheme Is not chimerical and that the undertaking may be car ried through to success. EEITORIAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN OMAHA. AND SALEM - PRESS CLUBS GETS DEL -EGATEL -'" (From Sunday's Dally.) The National ' Editorial ' Association will meet In Omaha, Nebraska, July -11 Inclusive, after, which an excursion will be taken to Yellowstone National Park. The Salem Press Club will be entitled to send sv delegate. nd Arthur Conklin. president of the Orecon Press Association, would . very much Ilk to name someone from here..; The follow ing have already been named: Ira I Campbell. Dally Guard. Eugene; J. R, Whitney. Daily Herald, Albany C. F. Soule. Leader. Toledo; . A. W. Cheney, Herald. Orensronr rCitryrrStoand tTK Herald. Oregon City; J. H. Zane. A. O. TJ- Reporter. Portland; F. S. Uardr Ing. Tteglster. McMinnville. . . ... J : JLlttle, WllBe Say. d:d Solomon know more than anybody that exit jUved?' ;-':" -K::",: ' . Fa-rHe did. my son with the excep tion, of your lt-year-old brother George." Chk a 0 News. . , .. " . .' mumi urn We have now opened 500 ladies' street hats. New Spring goods, all of the newest styles and no two exactly alike. They invite yonr iiection, they are tempting. The season is now approaching when you should lay. aside that heavy winter hat, that makes your head ache to carry it, and provide; yourself with a new straw, light, durable, stylish, good qual ity and reasonable price For all of these good features interview them at G-RBENB ATJM'Sl 302 CcaciercUl St. 1st door scatbof the Post Office. . ; - Sales, Oregw. More I0OO StibscribeaTs Wanted W. havs now 4,000 subscribers for ths Twice. a-Wssk Statesman. This field ought to maintain at least 1,000 mors. Ws want 1,000 mors this yssr. In order to indue .our present subscriber to hlp us gt th next names on our lists, w mak th following of. - " . ' '! frs, good for 1903: If you will bring or send us two new subscriber, with i - - th 2 to pay for them, we will credit your own subscription on full yar. ; - . For vry nw subscriber, with, th $1 to pay for tho same, w. will credit yor own subscription six months, whthr in advance or in arrears. For every tim subscription secured, payable within six months at th $1 rate, w will credit your subscription thr months. Tbc ar new people coming into th country. Till them about th Twic-a-W.ek Staicman, and scur th ir subscriptions, and thus pay your own subscription, whtlr in advance or in arrears. Time St&scrlbers may sign ibis enter To STATESMAN PUB. CO. Salem, Oregon. Please send the Twice-a-Week Statesman to my address as given below, for 12 months, for which I agree to pay within six months from this date. (II not paid within months the subscription price ia 11.23 per year.) P. O. Address Orders to Statesman Pub. Go. Salem, Oregon; Agency for Eastern Oregon lnlard Vheat Flour ; Peacock Brand, good as the best SWEET PEAS All Kinds 100 po.unds Fine assortment of Tulips, fjladioli. Seed Feed, , Bee and Poultry Bupplies. Paints, Oils and Glass. Largest assortment in the CMj. QAVAGE G IFLET GHEE BALEM, OREGON i . . SEED Some fine clean Lmd PlMster mad Fertilizers We carry a complete stock for the field or garden. ' We have fertilizers for onions and strawberries. It pays you to use it. ' , JCew Kmre A medidnefor cows only. The best on the market, - P. A.' GON i ! Feedmen and Seedsmen . . 91 Court Street, Salem, Or 11 ' MILK FOR EN AM ELE D SHOES. - To keep: enameled shoes in good con dition the best thins; that can be done with them is to wash tbem in sweet milk. They' should be thoroughly wash ed with, it, removing- aiI mud or dust, and then wiped with a soft cloth. This will give them a polish almost equal r something similar VHEAT seed now on hand to new, and the enameled shoes that; are treated In this way will retain their smart appearance for a Ions; time with, out any other dressing on them. , J ! Of course It is consolins; to a pn ster when she sees a married man load-i ed to the xruards with corn Juice. o;of 1