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SALEM CHARTER FEATURES i Information About the Old and the New Isome Attention Will Be Given to Vital Statistics A municipal chnrter, to truly serve tho city of which It Is the orgnnlc Icodo, miiBt expand, symotrlcally, with Itho growth of tho community It stands for. It varies from a constitution In that It deals with tho active potentlall. ties of public llfo, rather than with basic principlo of law only. A city ;rovs at a swifter pace than a state or intlon, and tho fundamental law mi Jor which it operates becomes re stricted and unserviceable unless It Is amended frequently, and kopt to the full standard of advanclnc renuire. lent. h Tho orlglunl charter of tho city of Salem, which ha undergone six fchangos at .the hands of tho Oregon legislature, In tho course of 39 years. (fill soon bo again submitted for intendment, and It Ib hoped tho now Instrument will fully meet tho expec tations of municipal life, as represent ed by tho flourishing llttlo capital of Jrcgon. Tho present chartor. known ii. iiiiii inn uimzciih cnarter, was, nppar. Bntly adequate for the greatest ncods f Salem at tho tlmo of Its passage. Jut tho romnrkablo progress made by 3io city since 1S99. loavos a good deal tti bo desired In tho way of charter- ithorlty, and It Is to supply this bin- Jib that tho charter commission ap- jintou, jointly, by tho common conn- I) nnd th Grenter Salem Commor- al Club, is now fnlthfully working. Nio existing chartor contains many svlsiona that will call for the en- Srcemcnt of pollclos absolutely now tho people of Snlom, and tho most fthem have worked for tho public Igpdj this, after all Is said and done, Itho pnramnunt purpose of ull such KQdCB. and when tho cliartor commls- Eton shall have ronortod now nmand- nients. there will bo a bettor and broader basis upon which to construct tjwmanlfeBt destiny of Salem nmong Itho cities of tho groat Northwest. fii tho remnrkublc dotall of city bus ies s It Is exceedingly difllcult to frame a charter that shall cover every ninaso of action, nnd the weakness of aany a provision Is hot discovered tin- Jdollberato effort Is inndo to opornto IKKinricr tho gulso of nn ordinance. KTIiefle failures must bo made good by intendment, though tho original pur- Ijoeo of the provision Is not disturbed, land this class of amendment Is enter- mm AB largely Into tho work of tho nres- it commission; hut there are mini- Sb of new elements of civic Inw en ding Its attention. lit would be of lmmenso bonoflt to municipal corporations of Or If a general law could bo framed tho legislature conferring upon Ri'nclls, subject to the approval of ilzens Interested, the right to fond their chartors without rotor- bo to tho law-making powor of tho ito. This could bo dono by pre- Sblng certain limits of oporatlon by tes of various degroos of population uy enforcing constitutional ob- ranees, and would rollevo the logls- turo of a burdensome task, and give people of towns and cities a clos- grasp upon the organic law In gUlch, as taxpayers, they are. sololy MsFested. Wno ten men now at work upon tho gner of Salem aro sooklng, dlslu- Jtedly, to put tho law of tho city iuch condition that nothing shall eking In the expediting of pub- affairs safely and creditably, and endeavoring to cover all tho lapses jrent In tho present law. They are Ing with somo vory Important fires bearing upon tho boundaries, ice, adornment and safety of the and will soon submit a group of ailments that have boon drawn the utmost care wn mny advance readily and con- her general business securely. gout the hampering incident of tu ition and Irresponsible Interfor- though it Is certain no such In- intent can be so nearly perfect as Bcape criticism and legal attack Sether. but the opportunity for tlvlng thi- work may s reduced imlnlmum long the newer provisions being ip by the commission. Is that re- log the maintenance of vital sta- the public ronord of births, is, dlseaso and sanitary Inspec- Ta safeguard no city of the size of should bo without; and the mo- Operandi prescribed will entail no land costly charges. In the ostab- ant of a health department, but so arranged that the cost wH demics shall monnco. or aflldt the city The record of vital statistics -will bo added to tho work of the recorder oce, and cost tho people practically nothing, except tho payment of tho penalties for violation of tlm w u. other vnluablo adjunct will bo tho au thorlty to bond the city In redemption of accruing bonded Indebtedness, without going to tho legislature for specific authority, a provision that will confer no power to crcato addi tional debt, without the command of the pcoplo therefor, but still save tho credit of tho city by permitting tho council to promptly and honestly dls poso of her recognized obligations, when thej: shall mature. Still another proposition of worth Is to establish a popular park commission, that will nsurc tho proper appreciation and treatment of tho municipal park lands and at no cost to tho taxpayer, Bavo that which Is voluntary. Again, tho commission will put tho city In her proper position In tho mnttor of roads and streets, and tho resourcos Incl dent thereto, and give her ti.n mm.i. site authority to collect and miming ior ail taxes In ti.ic fn.i mi.. ----- .... .ubuiu, 1HU commission will recommended ex panded boundaries for tho city, and nio Its reasons thorofor, nnd oxplaln tho probablo roeultB of such oxpan slon, as to population, Incomo and cost of malntonnnco. They will also provldo the requisite powor for the acquirement of all tho great locrl' utilities, such as water, gas, electric sorvlco nnd other public convonl onces, under a systom In which tho People shall havo the solo direction, and, when takon possession of, the absolute ownership and control of these valuable olemonts of municipal no. uosKios thoso things, thoro will be many minor changes, correcting the shortcomings of tho present char ter, and supplying many details that win onnanco the administration public nffalrs. Tho entire THE DAILY JOURNAL, 8ALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1902. YOUNG RIP VAN WINKLE Played at Salem by Thomas Jefferson Immense Audience Turns Out . at the Grand PAGE THREE.. 'II I III I I I II III I 1 I I H Ml I 1 1 II I I 11 I I H-H-t-t I 1 M 1 1 1 I I I 1 1 Mlfl-H H 1 1 I III It IWt of charter commission meets again on Monday night to hear reports front sub-commlttoes. ACAUSE OF HEADACHE One Very Common Cause, Generally Over-Looked Hondacho Is a symptom, an Indica tion of dornngemont or dlseaso in onto organ, nnd the cnuso of tho headache Is difficult to locnto bocauso so ninny diseases hnvo headache as a promlnont symptom; dorangoment of tho stomach nnd llvor, heart trouble kidney dlseaso. lung trouble, oyo strain or III fitting glasses nil produco bond- aches and If wo could always locato tho organ which Is nt fault tho cure of . obstlnato headaches would bo n much simpler mnttor. However, for that form of hondacho called frontal hcadacho, pain back of tho eyos and In forohend, tho cnuso Is now known to bo' catarrh of the hoad. and throat; when tho hondacho Is located In back of head and nock It is often cuusod from catnrrh of tho stom ach or liver. At any rate catarrh Is the most common cnuso of such headaches nnd tho euro of tho catarrh causes a prompt disappearance of tho bond achos. Thoro Is at prosont no trontmont for catarrh so convenient nnd olfectlvo ns Stuart's Catarrh Tablots, n new In ternal romedy In tablot form, com- iioHou oi antiseptics into rod gum, blood root which act upon tho blood nnd cause the elimination of the ca tarrhal poison from the system through tho natural channels. Miss Cora AInsloy , a prominent schools, sponks of hor experience with school toachor In one of our normal catarihal headaohos and ouloglzos Stuart's Catarrh Tablots as a cure for thorn. Sho says: "I sufforod dally from severe frontal headache and pain In the baok of my eyes, at times so intensely as to incapacitate me In my dally dutlos. I had suffered from catarrh, moro or less for years but never thought It was the cause of my headachos. but Anally became con- I'liinnml lltnt a,ili .,-nu tin. .. aiiua l.n to the end that cnuso tne uoatincnes were always worae whenever I had a cold or fresh attack of catarrh. "Stuart's Catarrlr Tablet were highly recommended to me as a safe and pleasant catarrh cure and after using a few fifty cent boxes which 1 procured from my druggist's 1 was surprint! and delighted to find that both the catarrh and headache had gone for good," Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are fcolil by druggists at fifty cents per. fiackage under the guarantee of the proprietors that they contain absolutely no eo calnet found in so many catarrh cures) no opium (so common in cheap cough cures) nor any harmful drug. They oontaln simply the wholesome antiseptics neoemary. to destroy and drive, from the system the germs of A house packed, and with scats in tho aisles, greeted Thomas Jefforsdn In tho play Immortalized by his fath er, tho world-famous Joseph Jefferson, In tho dramatization of Washington Irving's "Legond of Sleepy Hollow." Without much preliminary heralding, tho people Bhowed their appreciation of a good play that attempts no great amount of morality, and yet pleasos all. Tho temperance man nnd tho tin plor sec their side of tho case pro sented. Tho hon-peckod htiBband and tho abused wife got nbout equal satis faction. As Rip, tho younger Jeffer son, Is moro demonstrative than his father, but In many places approaches near to tho perfection of nrt attained by the sonlor, who plnyod the part of Itlp going on half a century. To most persons not up In tho tra ditional refinement of the elder Jeffer son, tho nctlng of tho youngor man will be moro satisfactory, for tho rea son that Joseph Jefferson llonts along In nn ntmosphero of mystic Idenllsm created out of the tradition that ho Is the one and only man who plays the part to perfection, and. therefore, leaves the mind of the audlonco to (111 In nnd supplement his nlmost im palpable touches. While he suggests, Thomas Jefferson nets and cnrrles the throad along In a most masterly ninn ner. In tho second scone, nftor re turning from the long sleep, and ask Ing questions of the inn keeper who succeeded Nick Vedder. ho reaches the high-water mark of his art, and wns glvon a curtnln call, somothlng very rare with our people. The part of Hip's wlfo was best In the first scenes; but ns Doldrleh's wlfo somo what stilted. Tho children wore ad mired by nil for their splendid work, except that Meenle. nged twenty-six, talked as a girl of 10. In nil the piny was well staged, except that tho thun der was too plainly artificial for gen ernl enjoyment. Hut wo cannot have all these matters porfoct at a one night performance. Thoro wns a large nttendnnco of somo of the- best people of tho surrounding towns. NEW GOLF VESTS WITH SLEE- $4.00, $4.50, $5.00 EACH. DENT's Gloves for MEN and WOMEN $.75 and $2.00 pair. GLOVES The usual Holiday Lino Is hero. Wo always carry the host J 1.00 and $1.60 values. Also a complete lino of Dont's Gloves for Men and Women at $1.75 nnd $2.00. Men's silk lined kids In nil sizes nnd shades. !i PURSES, BAGS, ; ChattelaineSj " UlitCe SOCIETY PLAY AT THEGRAND Next Tuesday, "Friends" to Be Presented New Chain Purses $35cto$4.00each New Postilion Holts, made of Kino Tnffotn and Ienu do Sole; trimmed with small buttons, fancy bucklos. Cloaks Sails The entire lino at SALE PRICES Wo want to closo all of our Ladles and Misses Jackets, Suits, Skirts, Silk Waists nnd Walking Skirts bcfqro Jan. 1st, nnd In ordor tp do qp offor tho greatest values over known. $6 Values $0 Values. $f5 Values $20 Values $3.95 $6.67 $9.90 $3.35 Fi rut 9 Marten, Mink, Fox, Nuttiu, IJoavor Scnrfs, muko good Christmas gifts. $.50 to $30.00 SUIT CASES CLUB BAGS, etc Dent's Gloves for mon nnd Women!! $1.7G and $2.00 pair. " A flno assortment of lonthor bags- of all kinds Just in. Prices of'- Grips. start at $. 25 Suit Cases at $3.50, $4.50, $7 and $ J 0.00 J MEN'S SUITS I Want to dross up' for tho I loll. dnyB? We"l mnko It' easy for you If you-will tako tlmo to look, Fancy worsteds $t 2.00 to $5 Meltons in Oxford $X2 I Black Clay Worsteds $0, $5, $20 MEN's and Boy's SWEATERS i Now lino of colers: Green and I Pink, lied und White, Green nnd lj White, lied and Green, Old Gold and Cardinal. ' $f.25 to $2.50 iHHiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiii-mii imitiHinii iiiiiiiHiimiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 7 A College Social. Tho members of tho faculty and tho students or Wlllamotta Unlvorslty hold a meeting lost ovonlng nnd discussed ever, nnd strlvos to win the prlo various mntters of Into rata to tho col li)- gottlug hor father In IiIb powor ( logo. A muslcul program wns given, and locking him up, giving hor tho the young ladles' glue club nppuarliiK to ench othor. She is tho prima donnn at tho Metropolitan opern houso, wealthy but doos not know It A director of tho opera houso does how- prlzo Tho patrons of tho Grand will en Joy tho production of "Frlonds" that opens on Tuesday night. Dee. 1C. The story is n slmplo ouo. The ndvouturcs of two young mon. "Friends," who share tho one dross suit butwoeu them nnd who sacrifice ovorythlng, ono for tho other. One Is a struggling plnn ist, tho other a poet. When the woman collie's, they still are nil in nil Cured My Wife of Heart Disease and Myself of Nervous Dyspepsia With Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and Nervine. "If l had lut known whit medicine and what nht mcuih were reluble I would lie about J 1 ,000 ahead today. For eart mjr Improftslon that ho has been arrested for embe.zlontflnt. The father Ib an opium fliind, whom tho director hoops supplied with w'hlskoy nnd opium; but virtue Is dually trlumphnnt nnd nil ciuls happily. Tho play Is replete with comedy flnshos nnd well worked Incidents. Tho cast Is wondorfully strong, In cluding such well known people ns Mrs. Soltun Fetter Royal, MIbb Mabel Dlxoy, Miss Irene Orny, Mr. K. Milton Ttoylo, Mr. Km met Shnokolford, Mr. II. I). Dradloy, Mr. AVrlght Grantor and othors. Manngor lien Stoin promises nn elaborate production of tliu piece, for the first tlmo this bouhoii. OMITTED FROM THE C0DE Important Section of the Law About an Office Attornoy-Gouornl Dlaekburn bus Soats on sale at box office Tuosday ' rendered nn opinion to tho offect that 9 a. m. Prices $1.00, 75c, 60o, 36c. Asking For More Pardons the state land bonrd and the olllce of state laud agont aro both authorized by the laws of the stato, nnd aro to bo maintained for tho performance of tho duties that aro proscribed In tho statutes. The section rolatliiR to tho state land agent and his duties was lr.ilu.t In .1,.. nim.ill!.. . . il... ..n... .'...viv ui. VUllllMllllfi Ul lllll J1UW codo by Judges riollliigor and Cotton A petition for tho iiartlon of William who ll ,fl I'ronumoil. concluded that and George Ilaldwin, who aro serving tho houso blu orontlng the stato laud sentences of two and ono year, ro- nKon wnH roponlod by tho senate bill spectlvely. for manslaughter, having whlch Provides for the state land been convicted In Multnomah county. onrd. The lattor bill was panned and has been tiled with Governor Geer. approved one day after the enactment' The tuition Is stronly sinned by a1"1 "I'provnl of the houiw bill, and It wife had been troubled wiih nuiterhie and li'nriinmi iniu Iik-IimMmv in ,.r ttu, was Inferreil that the subHeuuent act $$llm&5St$r& W that found the men gull- repealed the former tatf.i.tlon ... the' tttr'.t '. . . . .!. . . . . . .. . .. till 11 IX Ullllllflt lillt I 111 tl.n .l.l.tl... -. ma tnea neany every ,iy. )m ilaldwin. the wife and inoui- " """J"'. " hip iimiiiuii hi er of tlie two men. swomiianled by Ul8 nUornoy-goneral thnt the second another son ami Attorney Spencer, of " fubsiient act did not content Portland, wns In the nJty today and l'lnt Ul rl'" r " atliortsHg different latul rioclori and patent mcdnine I heard of and my wife bad almoat citeu up In deinair wken my drupitt advUedlier l irive lir. Mrie.' Heart Lure and KeMoratUe Nervine a inaL After Uk in; one-half bottle oi th Nerviue h frit better than he had in twemy yt.r. She bought three botllea of each and it todak en joyinc beller heallh than lite did lit aliler life. I know it U all due to Dr. Milea' He ttoralive Nervine and New Heart Cure, 1 think ReatoratMe Nervlee ft the UeU rocUi cine en earth- At a ttemach remady it can not be beaien. It cured roe of ntivoui df peetia and ii from any caute I feel nervout ana 1 think my Moniarh n comz to trouble me I juattakea few ioe of Nervine and Nerve and Liter IMh and I aeon feel all right again. Dr. Milea' Antt Pain Pill are the brat remedy for headache and paint I have ever uted. I alvraya keep a bei in my bouie. Une Pain Pill will knouk any pain in thirty minutes. 1 have been ujng Dr Milea Reatoratne Rrmedlea in ray family fifteen ) and think tbey arc the be4i in the world." Isaac IJrA'DtlV, Station Mat t, Santa PgB- fc. YfaSIta, Kan, All drufcl"1 "" -nl tntatantec firal bot tle Dr. Mflei Reroedle. Sena for free book on Nervous and Heart DUeates. Adores Dr. Milts McdkaJ Co, ElVhart, Ind. pertwinalli' prewntwl the petition to ,,,B PPlntment and iirenprthlutf the 'the orriMir. Georne IlnMwIti was l,l"" n'' )niienitlon of the state lanu agent, in pawing nn the case, the attorney-general wye that the va lidity of the act has lin recognized fount! ijtillty of maHslautthter for hav ing emteail the death of a companion in a street tight, and his father was ronvlafjHl and sHtenoeil as an hci-oih i pltee ta the killing. , e I MIim Ina Holcomb, a iiHrae Ih the : iialem li(fdtal. arrival yeatertlay to ri-maln for some time, with hor slater, Mra. Marlon Darts, of Springfield, who la unite sick. Huaone Register, o How docs your umbrella stand the weather?, REMEMBER, we recover and repair tnem. 3HIPP & HAU8ER, by the executive and -legislative hraneheff or the state government; by the governor In the appointment of the land agent and sanctioning his acts, the state legislature by making appropriations for th support uf the oince, the secretary of state by audit ing claims from that offlo. and the stato land board by giving Hje aetlons of the ageni an efAot Tfie ajljnjon an the subjeot was delivered lo gecro tar ul Stttf Uujjlair Qn Hrldaj aHor-uofln RAREST SHOW CASES One Alade Especially for Out Glass Ware Solid Walnut and French. Plate Glass Ono of the most attractive plauttH about any city nj this tlmo or tliu year In Its Jewelry stores, osiicclally when tlioy nru flllud with holiday displays, and the ono' place in Snlom Just now that Is attracting the multitudes Is Ilnrr's Jewelry store. Aside from ull other attractions, they hnvo put In tho finest show case for cut gins uvoj' brought to the coast. It Ih made,- of the heaviest plato glase, with solid walnut trimmings. Inside the shelv ing, the lmuk and tho bojtoin arc made of French plate mirrors, which reflect and display tho stock In a mag nlflcont manlier.. It is fllloil with a su perb stock or out glass or the finest manufacture, including scoroH of de signs, and all or a usorul, as wull as an ornamental naturo. Ilnrr's- store, by tho way. has struek tho happy medium or a stm-k that Is within tliu reach or all. and yet them Rre article! fit for the fluent. Aside from having all the cases tilled with uode on display, the large vault is packed chuck full of reserve stdck, euch as silver and table Hure of all kinds. The- throng or Christ inn buy era Is sure to b round at Ilnrr's, and a careful Insiieetion of the stock Justi fies the prophecy that they will not come awny disappointed. The Excitement Not Over. The ruth to the drug store still con tinues and dally scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's IJalaam for the Throat and I.qngs for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Uronohltls and Consumption. Kemp's Daliam, the standard family remedy, Is sold ou a guarantee and never falls to give en tire satisfaction. Price 2Ko and sDo.2 Hlfjheat Cash Prices Pur 'i!eki, titrkufs. ducks au,t gSftse, Wl!Ja!!i$to JfBtol. tf U !i r i only at such Intervals as epi catarrhal disease 12-9tli.j3 JSV,