DAILY CAPITAL JOUBNAL, , SALEM, .OREGOHV .TJUTESDAT, MABOH ,28, 1905.
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TONIGHT.
Edison Vaudeville.
Edison Presents Strong Bill.
Tho theatro was packed, and the
lobby was packed last night at the Ed
ison. Many went away unable to gain
admission. Tho Wiley Ferris Company
offered a catchy act, being a littlo o
everything well performed. The boy in
tho act has a flno voice, and won many
admirers. Tho acrobatic stunt were
nimbly executed, and tho company
made a hit. Morris & Morris also con
tributed thoir sharo to the entertain
ment of the largo audience and Morris
Jones scored a hit in his monologuo
turn. Miss Cosetto sang tho illustrated
song, and tho Edison-o-scope ran a new
film, depicting various subjects. Too
much cannot bo said in praise of tho
entiro now show.
New Edison Theatre
B. P. Starkey, Manager.
Weok commencing 'Monday, March
20th. Vaudovillo Headllners.
Initial debut of tho Wiley Ferris Co.,
introducing their comical acrobatic
travesty, "Tho Irish Japanese."
Morris & Morris, refined and accom
plished sketch artists.
Talkativo Morris Jones, that funny
monologuo man.
Ethel Cossotte, latest illustrated
songs.
Marvelous Edison-o scope, new views
in motion pictures.
Matinees Wednosday and Saturday.
Chango of acts Thursday. Admission
10c.
Grand Opera House
JOHN F. OOEDRAY, Mgr.
Comic Operetta
and
Farce
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
Farce to be presented by Misses Eth
el Harris, Bertha Kay, Gussio Farnel,
Eleen Fawk, Messrs. Jnmcs Mott, Ray
Chnpler and Wallace Trill.
Operotta by a Chorus of GO Voices.
PUBLIC LIBEABY BENEFIT.
Box oflico opens Thursday morning at
9 o"clock. Prices 50c, 35c and 23c.
MEN" OP LEISURE have tho timo
o shop and tho monoy to pay for
what they want. Naturally they
give attention to their dress. Wo
are always pleased to welcome men
of this class to our store.
Our salesmen will givo them every
attention, and our stock will bo
found worthy of their study.
E. KOPPE,
Clothing and Furnishing goods. Y.
M. C. A. Building, Salem.
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THIS ONLY WAS THE
WITOHOBAFT SHE USED
You'll find tho secret of her success
ful baking to lio in tho fact that sho
uses Wild Boso flour. Makes tempting,
toothsome, wholesomo broad, cake,
pastry. Goes farther and la cheaper
beeause raueh better than other
brands. Always uniform in quality,
reliable, economical. Best on the mar
ket for the money. A family flour that
once tried becomes tho household
favorite.
Salem Floating Mills
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A Government Railroad.
A literary bureau has boon estab
lished by the railroads in Baltimore for
tho purpose of publishing articles com
bating tho general sentiment among
the people in favor of government reg
ulation of railroad rates, and it may
bo expected that articles will appear
from timo to timo giving a one-sided
view of tho situation, and endeavoring
to quiet tho peoplo in this popular
movement for relief from oxecssivo
charges and unfair discrimination.
In a recent article the information is
given that a decreaso of one mill a miln '
on the ono hundred and seventy bil
lions tons of- freight moved per milo
in 1903, would amount to enough to
wipo out tho wholo dividend surplus of
tho railroads and crcato a deficit of
nearly fifty million dollars.
It certainly will be interesting news
to the people to realize that there is
no hope for any further reduction in
railroad rates, for such a reduction
would rob the stockholders of any divi
dend whatever.
It is truo Mint in many cases part of
the earnings has been put back into
betterments, so that tho railroads rep
resent considerable moro nctual money
invested in proportion to tho stock and
bond issuo than they did years ago,
and theroforo the public aro not quito
so badly mulcted ns they were thon,
but it is still true that tho railroads
earn an income on much inflated value;
for instnnco if a road originally cost
in nctual money twenty or twonty-fivo
Miousand dollars a mile, and its bonds
and stock represent seventy-five or ono
hundred thousand dollars a mile, and
its rates woro fixed to earn nn intorest
on the lnrgo sum, it is plain tho rates
aro too high and tho public seriously
overcharged, thercforo if tho railronds
now say that no further reduction in
rates can be made, it seems to place
before the peoplo tho necessity of some
effort to help thcmsolves.
If tho government would start tho
building of a rnilrond lino say straight
ayay from New York to Denver, thoro
to connect wiMi tho 'Western lines, nnd
this governmeut road givo no prefer
ence to any city, but go in practically
a straight lino from ono poiut to tho
other, with spurs to tho nonr-by cities
for instnnco tho first spur to run down
to Pittsburg, another to Buffalo, then
Clovclnnd, Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit,
Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and
say Kansas City, St. Joseph and Oma
ha tho method of proceedure might
bo something like tho follewing:
Appoint a railroad commissioner, n
first-class man experienced in railroad
construction; mako surveys, and sub
mit a careful, practical estimate of
cost; then if tho plan appears feasible
and practical, begin tho construction
nnd establish tho rate of wage for tho
actnnl labor Mint would not bo high
enough to attract workmen from other
positions, but would establish n semi
permanent opportunity for tho employ
ment of tho unemployed to obtain liv
ing wages to tide them ovor poriods of
industrial depression when so many
men arc thrown entiroly out of work.
This would furnish a sort of safety
valvo nt such times, nnd it is the opin
ion of ninny people that tho govern
ment should, in a sensiblo mannor sup
ply some sort of monns to onablo idlo
men to holp thomsolvos during periods
whon thoy aro holploss.
Tho construction "of Buoh a railroad
would probably oxtend over n number
of years. It would bo built by tho peo
plo and paid for by tho surplus in tho
govornmont treasury and would set up
another Wise principle, Mint is to tnx
tho luxuries, and thus oarn enough sur
plus above tho actual nood of tho gov
ernment to supply n reasonably large
fund to furnish work for the unem
ployed, and' thus distribute among tho
peoplo tho public money.
It would monn a slmplo plan of
gathoring a volume of money from
those who could afford to contribute it
in tho way of Jaxos, to bo paid baek
to tho peoplo for work, and the gov
ernment would aequire ultimately a
groat, property, whieh would add to the
actual assets and value of tho govern
ment every dollar that it cost. Thero
foro no loss.
Thon when the railroad was finished
and fully equipped, tho managers to
bo oxpert railroad men would fix a
rate for freight and passenger traffic
that would in the first place take care
of a suitable four or five per cent in
eonio on tho investment and would be
paid into our United States treasury
next, to earn enough to lake care of
the yearly expenditure for keeping the
property up in first-class condition, and
when, all tho necessary earnings were
computed, thq traffic charge would be
fixed to secure those earnings; thus wo
would havo an old-fashioned, simple
investment, yioldlng a suitable, safe
and suro net Income, nnd at the samo
timo each citizen would receive every
year a direct money income from the
saving in tho freight which affects ev
ery sort and kind of article of food,
clothing or convenience.
It is clear that such a government
railroad would add to tho f armor's in
como in every bushel of wheat, corn,
rye, oats and every bnlo of cotton, ov
ery pound of bcof and mutton shlppod,
and reduce tho cost of wearing apparel
and nil of tho necessities of workmen
just in proportion ns tho freight rates
woro reduced as compared with what
they aro now.
Such an arrangement would directly
pay Into tho pockets of tho tanner,
work peoplo nnd merchants, of this
country, many millions of dollars and
put an effectunl stop, by compelling
other roads to reduce rates to thoso
charged by tho government line, to tho
existing methods by which a few Bar
ons of tho Rhino" lay toll, and heavy
toll, upon all tho peoplo for carrying
produce over tho highways.
Thcro is n loss to tho farmers, mo
chanics nnd merchants each year, and
thcro has been for a great ninny years.
Every shipper, nnd in fnct every indi
vidual in tho United Stntes contributes
a sum, lnrgo or small to tho railroads
in excess of what might bo eonsiderod
a fair and just contribution for tho ser
vices rondcred. Tho peoplo at lnrgo
hnvo been losing monoy each year in
this way for a great many years. Would
not fair play dictate that tho shoo go
on tho other foot for a timo, nnd por
haps permanently f
Ono thing is quito suro, Mint in or
dinary commercial transactions it is
considered ontlrcly propor for a man, If
he has been, subject to excesslvo charges
for a number of years to estnblish his
own plant or his own method of pro
duction, in ordor to protect himself
from such oxeessivo charges, and the
law of tho unit is gcnornlly tho law of
tho mass. If u proper proceduro for
tho individual, why not a propor pro
ceduro for tho peoplo! Tho Sontry
urges careful consideration of this
question, particularly by farmers,
workmen and merchants.
THE SENTRY.
You must hayc a peculiar
tea taste if no-one of the five
Schilling's Best is right for
you ; and coffee four.
Your grocer's; moneyback.
Spond Money at Home.
Spend your money nt homo with
your homo merchants. Every two-bit
pieco that is sent away from homo for
goods Is just so much money taken out
of circulation in Salem. Stiok to your
homo town and to your homo mer
chants. Seo Miss Bertha Kay in titlo rolo,
"Mr. Bob," Thursday night, at opora
house
Learning
By Experience
An Investment last winter and spring
of $78 in advertising space In two agrl
cultural publications put $2,400 la n
farm boy's pocket, ne advertised seed
corn. It was Uie first publicity pur
chasing he ever did, and naturally ha
went about It in that dlflldent, Incred
ulous manner which Is of considerable
assistance to the "new man" In killing
trade. Still ho made money and, what
U more important when philosophical
ly considered, Jearned to appreciate the
ralue of printera' lnkv-Agrfcultural Ad
vertising. If (her are mar dmbln Thomaeee
utnoaa ear merchant, ther" eaoald
advertloe la thU paper. It reaches
the barer In town and the adjacent
territory
.
$3hats Salem
BUREAU OP SOILS
REPORT ON SALEM ARBV
Tho United Statos department of ag
riculture Imp issued a bulletin of tho
soil survey of tho Snlcm area. It Is
published by tho Bureau of Soils nnd
tho pamphlet, which was written by
Charles A'. .Tcnson, shows Mint a vnst
amount of study has beon mndo on tho
subjects treated.
It deals with tho soil conditions, cli
mate and gcnornl prosperity of tho
farmers of this section of tho Wlllam
otto "Vnlloy. A map covering eight
townships, four east and wost and two
doop, with Salem ns tho center nccom
pnnios tho bulletin. This is tho district
which was survoyed and investigated
by tho government.
Undor tho heading of "Agricultural
Conditions" it says:
Generally speaking, tho farmors of
tho area nro enorgetic, thrifty, nnd
prosperous. They havo a good idea of
tho value of things, nud it is seldom
ono sees fnrm implements, standing
about exposed to tho weather. Fairly
good houses and fnrinynrd 'buildings
aro seen, nnd tho community In general
tippenrs to bo prosperous.
Tho grcntor number of the farms aro
operated by thoir ownors', a fow aro
run by manngors, and a fow aro rented.
No statistics by countlos woro availa
ble, but 82.2 por cont of tho farms of
the state aro operated by tho ownors.
A t'ow Chluoso enrry on truck growing,
and somo also own and successfully op
orato hop anil fruit farms. A few In
dians and negroes also nro engaged In
ngrleulturo In tho nroa survoyed.
The average sizo of farms lu Marion
county, In which most of tho area sur
voyed is locatod, is 144 acres; while
tho nvorago sizo in Polk county is 210
The Only Butter in the Market that is
Neatly Cased in a Pasteboard Carton
So that no foreign odors or garnia of, any kind may reaeli the butter te eontamlnato It, either in haudllng or be
tween the store and the table. Qnjyiswaot cream, thoroughly posteurljuxl, Is used In Mils butter, mukfng It abso
lutely impossible fur any MHkewlthy germs to rell In the better at auy time, If ydu want pure buttor try ft
roll of WHITE CLOVER.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT SEND IT BACK AN OE YOUR MONEY. ALWAYS rBESH. SOLD ONLY BY
FHONB 671
COB, COMMERCIAL
AND COUET
Have Yot A Boy
BETWEEN 8 an 16?
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If so, wo'ro right nfter him. Wo want to put htm lusldo of ono of our
Spring Suits, just for n trial. Our Boys' Suits aro nothing short of perfect
suits and wo know he'll llko them.
Boys' Suits in Worsteds; Cheviots nud Sorges, two or threo pieces, $4.00
$5.00, $0.00.
Our guarantee back of ovory suit.
SPRING
Styles Ready
. You'll seo many now pattorns In our Nogllgeo Shirts for Spring wear.
Tho moment tho weather has a Sprlng-llko appearance, that mlnuto you bogln
to think of Nogllgeo Shirts with tho soft fronts. Seo our $1.00 and $1.50
Shirts.
W. U. NECKTIES, 25c EACH.
Woolen Mill
acres. This, however, includes both Im
proved nnd unlmprovod land. For im
proved land tho nvorago Is 72 acres for
Marlon county nnd 100 acres for Polk
county, tho bnlanco bolng mostly tlnv
bor land, Including a littlo wasto or
worthless land. Thoro aro in Mnrlon
county 2754 farms, and Polk county
1192, practically nil of which havo
buildings on thorn. Thcro bna boon n
heavy immigration to northwest Ore
gon during tho last your or two, nnd
this will quickly increnso tho area of
improved land, ns tho immigrants con
sist chiefly of tho farming class.
Tho prico of land depends, of courso,
on whothor it is improved or not, that
Is, whothor it is clearod of timber. The
"prnlrlo'" soil, ns tho Salem loam is
locally cnlted, brings from $25 to $50
an noro if improved, while tho hill soils
nro hold at practically tho samo price,
If tho lnnd is not very rough, although
owing to stoop slopes, rock outcrops,
etc., tho nvorago price for tho latter is
loss than for tho Salem loam. Bushy
and uncleared hind brings from $10 to
$14 mi aero.
Tho vnlloy is well known for tho ex
cellent quality of its farm products, es
pecially wheat, apples nud prunes. Tho
hops nro of fairly good qunllty, and
thoso grown on tho higher lying lands,
away from the direct infiuenco of tho
rlvor, nro of exceptional qunllty.
Tho adaptation of soils to crops is
quito well recognised, ns much or per
haps mure than is tho enso In most ag
ricultural communities, though it soeius
probablo that hops could bo moro gen
erally grown on tho red hills than at
present.
Transportation fucllltios nro good
CJ.ATWOOD
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Stoe. R?3Bif
that is, thoro nro many rallroacl sta
Mens convoniont for tho farmors. The
wagon roads are, howovor, by no moans
good, and especially is this Into of tho
ronds in tho hill country. Practically
no gravel is used, and tho soil In tho
"prairlo" country soon cuts up bndiy,'
whilo in tho hills poor grades nnd rock
outeropa cuubo trouble
Llko rinding Money.
Finding health Is llko finding money
so think thoso who aro sick. When
you havo a cough, cold, soro throat, oc
chost irritation, bottor act promptly
llko W. O. Barbor, of Bandy Lovol, Vo.
Ho says: "I had a torrlblo chest troub
lo, caused by smolco and cool dust on
my lungs; but, after finding no relief ia
othor rcmodios, I wan curod by Dr.
King's Now Discovory for Gonsrjnp
tlon, Coughs and Colds." Greatest sale
of any cough or lung modidno in the
world. At J. O. Perry's drug store j
COo and $1,00; gunrantood, Trial bot
Mo freo.
Public library bonofit, Thursday,
Grand Opera House. SoatsiSOc, 35o and
25o.
MODERN WOODMEN
Bo out Thursday ovoning. Something
doing. K. I. IUVIN, Consul.
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Jefferson Man Insane
L. A. Kolly, a resident of JolTorson,
was brought to Snlotn lust ovoning by
Countable Donaldson, nnd later taken
to tho Insane asylum. Tho man wan ox
aminod us to his sanity by Dr. W. B,
Morse. This Is not tho first timo that
Kolly hns boon mentally unbnlnncod, as
ho Is subject to those spells periodical
ly. IIo is a nntlyo of Missouri, 1)0
years old, and has a wlfo and three
children.
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