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1 0EOM SALEM. OREGON, TV ESI) AY, FEBRVAKV 14, 1011. NO. 38. NTAT1VE POUTS FIGHTS lALAMiY REPRESE BILL POLITICS Hi DOT THE POSTAL DEFICIT CAUSES THE ATTACK ON MAGAZINES HITCHCOCK ATTEMPTS TO POT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS FOR AIDING PROGRESSIVES Blythe Summing It Up Says: "The Vital Thing Is That the Administration, Exerting Its Taxing Power, Is Endeavoring to Abolish the Free Press, Not Only in the Case of Its Own Political Ambition, But in the Interest of and for the Pro tection of the Financial Powers It Seeks to Serve." I'MTEll 1IIKSS 1.K.IHKI) WIDE. Washington, Feb. 14. That not economy, but political considerations, Is the underlying cause for the Taft administration's determination to In crease second class postage Is the statement here today of Samuel G. Blythe, a well known Washington correspondent. Blythe maintains that the whole movement la designed to wipe out certain of those popular magazines which have dared to criti cize the acts of the Taft administra te He says: (Copyright, 1911, by the United Press Associations.) (By Samuel O. Blythe.) ' Politics, and not the postal deficit, Is the underlying motive for the ad ministration's attack on the maga ilnes and the periodical press through Increase of second class pos tage. Postmaster-general Hitchcock's ex cuse for the move, Is the alleged pos tal deficit; President Taft's excuse Is that he Is supporting his cabinet, who is trying to put 'the department HAS COUNTY SEAT FIGHT TWO COVXTY COMMISSIONERS ARE IX JAIL, AND IT IS GUARD ED TO PREVENT FRIENDS RE LEASXG OR THE OTHER SIDE MOBBIXG THEM. M'MTKD I'HKSH I.KAKKD Willi. Oklahoma City, Okla., Feb. 14. Mb spirit is rampant in , Salanson 'owty today as a result of the fight vr the reamovaj of the county seat 'r' Mountain Park to Snyder. Jonnty, Commissioners Bull, and mpson and County Clerk Brlstow r Prisoners In the Mountain Park , barged with Illegally removing county records to Snyder. Additional guards were stationed wand the Mountain Park jail today, t was feared that an attempt will , mi br Snyder residents tonight ' release the prisoners. . -Connor Cruse has wired the jrltt of Salanson county to keep '" at any cost '"mhiest'hoxors a dirty scrub v.!?'1 vkk 'eased w'-i ' ' t Mshington, Feb. - 14-Presldent John u y has the ' acceptance of m.. Hamn,ond, whom he ap 2M8PeClaI ftmbdor to the of King George of Eng. Gri t.7 "Peciai ambassador to 'elL .k a" ThMdl Rowe ls. J? attenJed the funeral of '8 Edward VII. Some Has the Measles. lT; U-St- Valentine's fcttta M JrfuI M 41 mlSht It, v i" An epidemic of meas- XmtT, Ut ,n E8klmo 8ettle- tildrl 8 now the white M . ,f Nome- A" lhysl tJ . 8re devting their en- ay to checking the lepidem- OKLAHOMA on a self sustaining basis; the ad ministration senators who tacked the amendment on the postofflce bill have the excuse that the president de mands the increase. They are making these excuses, too, now that they are discovering how thoroughly the people are aroused on this mater of using the taxing power of the government to confiscate. That's what it amounts to for the free press that dared to criticize and condemn certain acts both of. the administration and of the administration's' supporters in con gress. Laying aside the tremendous econ omic fact that the imposition of this tax means ruin to the magazine and periodical business of the country and the absolute extinction of popu lar magazines, look at the principle of it. Three facts are certain, First, that the tax " Is part of a carefully matured plan of the administration In conjunction with those interests, (Continued from Page 4.) DRUGGIST LICENSE REDUCED MAY SELL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS BY TAKIXG OUT LICENSE COST IXG THEM 35100 PAYIXG AXD SIDEWALKS THE OTHER BUSI XESS OF COUXC1L MEETING. Wlth the view of relieving the drug stores from the hardship of having to pay a license of $200 a year to sell intoxicating f liquors, an ordinance was introduced last evening in the city council to reduce the license to $100 a vear. After its second read ing the ruies were suspended and It was read the third time and enacted into a law. Councilman Durbln who la the au thor of the ordinance, stated that un der the old ordinance but one drug store that of Dr. Stone, had taken out a license because they felt that the amount was too large. They sold liquor, however, it seems, but when Chief of Police Hamilton re cently notified the proprietors of all drug stores that to do so they must secure a license or suffer the penalty of the law, they ceased. This condi tion of affairs was found to work a hardship upon -many customers-ras for Instance, people living In the ru ral districts desiring liquor for med icinal purposes were required to Be-, cure a doctor's certificate to procure It and the price of It as a rule would be double that paid for the liquor. With the view of eliminating this condition proprietors of mest of the drug stores had a conference with the ordinance committee and agreed that if the license was reduced to $100 that they . would take out licenses. Other Ordinances Passed. An ordinance regulating the weight of loads to be carried by different kinds of vehicles . upon the paved streets of the city was passed and so Iron Moulders strike. Bakersfield, Cal., Feb. 14. Two hundred iron mounders, blacksmiths and machinists, em- ployed a,t the Bakersflld iron works struck today for an 8- hour day. The demands of the men were refused by their em- ployars last night on the ground that Bakersfield Is in direct competition with Los Angeles where a nine aud ten-hour day is maintained. The civic body is endeavoring to effect and ad- Justment. was an ordinance establishing a grade on Fourteenth street. An ordinance placing the height of awnings at 7 feet instead of eight feet as now fixed hv ordinance came up for consideration but was re-referred to the ordinance committee. An ordinance licensing peddlers and another regulating the posting of bills were introduced and after being put through the first and second readings referred to the committee on ordinance's. To Build Walks. Resolutions were passed directing the construction of plank sidewalks on the north side of Chemeketa in front of block one In Willamette ad dition; a plank walk on the same street In front of the property of the heirs' of Fred Hurst; and a walk on the same street in front of block 17 in Willamette addition. A remonstrance was filed by prop erty owners against the improve ment of Ferry street. It is based on the fact that the Portland, Eugene & Eastern has a franchise on this street and they desire the track laid before the' Improvement of the street is gone forward with. A petition asking for the Improve ment of Summer street with asphalt was referred to the street committee, and the same action was taken with regard to petitions for the improve ment of Commercial with bltulithU and Center with concrete. (Continued from Page 4.) o CEMETERY IS INVADED BY FIERCE WAVES MORE THAN SOU. YARDS OF SEA WALL PROTECTING THE CEME TERY AT ROSS BAY XEAR VIC TORIA, WASHED ' AWAY BY LATE STORM. Victoria, B. C. Feb. 14. Over 200 yards of sea wall which protected the cemeteries at Ross Bay have been washed away, a number of graves have been torn open, leaving the cas kets exposed and several coffins are lost at sea as a result of the gale which swept the coast until early to day. With the wind blowing at 40 and 50 miles an hour, huge waves bat tered their way through the seawall late yesterday and then ate away the banks.' In the old Chinese portion of the cemetery 17 graves were exposed and 12 coffins, from which the bodies had been removed, were swept to a. A number of caskets were disin terred by the cemetery caretakers and removed to a place of safety be fore the earth crumbled. o : ROYAL KIDS HAVE JUST COMMON MEASLES INITED l'KESS I.EAKKO WIRE.) London, Feb. 14. The condition of the Prince of Wales and his broth er. Prince Albert, who are suffering with the German measles at Dart mouth was unchanged today. It was officially stau)d that neither of the snyal pot'ents was In danger. 4- Students Struck. Seattle. Wash., Feb. H. The faculty of the law school of the State University today stated that 150 students, who went on strlkki yesterday, will be sum. marily dealt with. The law students refused to attend classes, declaring that it wan an Imposition on their rights to hold classes on Lin. coin's birthday. After parading the . campus several times, to show theJr In dependency I, the students dis- banded. They appeared at classes today. THE DADDY OF ALL THE Lumber Trust Now Being Or . ganized Would Make Stand ard Oil Look Like a Hand out From the County Poor House. OWNS 238,000,000,000 FEET At $10 u Thousand Tli! Would Moan Nearly Twenty-Four Billion Dollars Cut Into Lumber . and Loaded, on Cars It Would .Make a Train Nearly 100,000 Miles Long, and Would Girdle the Earth at the Equator Four Times. ll'MTKl) I'XKSX I.KAHKl) WIltK. Washington, Feb. 14. Producing some startling statistics, Commis sioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith today sent a special report to congress asserting that a lumber trust i.i now being organized which will make the Standard Oil monopoly look like a pigmy. Smith declares that four-fifths of the country's standing timber is pri vately owned. Three of these hold ings, he said those of the Weyer- hauser Timber company, the South ern Pacific and the Northern Pacific comprises 238,000,000,000 feet or 11 per cent of all the privately owned timber in the United States.' ltiillroiidn In Combine. -Commissioner Smith, in his report, says: 'These holdings have enough stand ing timber to build an orlinary five or six-room frame house for each of 16.000,000 families. If it were sawed and placed on cars, it would make a train 100,000 miles lone. "The largest holders of timber in this country are not cutting It Thus they nre reserving to themselves In calculable profits which will accrue with the country's growth, and the consequent diminishing of the public supply or any further conservation or control thereof. Can Control Mnrket and Price. "Many protests are being received neslnnt such a concentration of con trol of the standing timber of the (Continued on page five.) SIX DROWIIED WHEN LAUNCH TURNED OVER i.lSOI.IM: SCHOOXEK OSHKOSH TIRED TURTLE OFF COLUM BIA RIYEIt BAR I STORM YES TERDAY E X G I X K E R MAY ALOXE ESCAPED. friNITFD PIE LEAKED Will i Astoria, Ore., Feb. 14. Members of the Point Adams life saving crew pa trolled the beach today searching for iMLTfl ,11 1 Gills Must Xot Powder. Kansas City Mo., Feb. 14. By an order that went into effect todaiy, girls between the ages of 14 and 16, employed in Kansas city's largest department store are forbidden to paint or pow- dVir their faces or appear at the store with their hair done up in ''puffs" C. C. Peters, general manager of the store, said the order was made imperative by the tend- ency of a large number of the younger girls to overdress. the bodies of six members of the gas oline schooner Oshkosh who were drowned when the little boat turned turtle three miles off the Columbia river Jetty yesterday. At the home of friends at Hammond, George May, the engineers, who escaped after a terrifying experience, is reported to have practically recovered. The drowned: Captain Thomas Latham, master; W. ft. Deane, Gus Ramzager, Charles Larson, Gus Chil- berg, Al Davis. May saved himself under terrify ing odds. For over three hours he fought for his life In the dark engine room until the overturned boat, drlv en by the heavy gale, struck high upon the beach two miles below the government Jetty and May was able to escape. He Immediately set out for aid and met one of the life savers who hurried him to the shelter of the station. May said that the boat overturned without the least warning. At the time Captain Latham was In the pilot house and the other members of the crew were at their stations. When the craft went over, May grabbed hold of the engine and clung to it. He did not dare let go as the engine room below him was awash and to do so meant death. The Oshkosh was en route from Tillamook to Umpqua river, Southern Oregon. For two days previous the little ship had fought against an 80 mlle gale which had driven her north out of her course. WRITES A PLAY Oil SUBJECT OF "SPREADHEH1SM" mrs. axxie nathan meyers says men are not so rad as the modern woman paints Them, noh the wome,v so (JOOD. : WOULD CS'ITKO VRV.HH I.KAHKII WIHK. New York, Feb. 14. Woman Is not fit to vote ,ln the opln'on of Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard college. Mrs. Meyer Is en gaged In writing a play, In which she pillories women. Discussing her vifws, shui said today: " 'Spread henlsm' Is one of the most dangerous modern manifesta tions. 'Spreadhenlsm,' she ex plained, In the fenlnlne of spread e'clelsm. I coined the word myself, and I think It Is rather good. One srvfl It on all sides inong the wo men of today, that clucking content What have women done that they consider themselves better than men? How have they used their opportuni ties? "In my play I have shown that men are not so bad as the modern women p'lnt them nor woin so good. If women would stop to think they would, In reality, marvel that men are, as good as they are with the temptations they have. The woman tempts the man quite as often as the man Oimpts the woman. As a matter of fact .women the women who have to go out into the world, have encountered temptation, Just as men have, but they have not resisted ps well." I LEADER It THE RELIEVE STATE'S WANTS GROSS-EARNINGS TAX FROM THE CORPORATIONS AFFECTED BY SENATE BILL The Amendments Proposed by payer From Putting Up to Support the Commission, and Cut Out $35,000 Appropriation It Also Permits Commu nities That Want to Handle Their Own Public Utility Cor porations Free to Do So, Without Putting Up for Others. , The Malarkey public utilities bill was referred to the committee on railroads. Mr- Fouts, of Multnomah,' will fight for amendments that would radically change the hill. HVa had a bill of his own, which la practically the same as the Kellaher bill in Port land, and by taking the vital parts of his bill and seeking to amend the Malarkey bill in the railroad com mittee, he would makte it. In his opin ion, a much beter bill In all re spects. He will seek to embody section 79 of bis own public, utilities bill In the Malarkey bill. It provides three per cent gross earnings tax on all corpor ations that come under Its operation. That would leave the Malarloey bill only to deal with' such corporations aud municipalities as would prefer to operate under Its' own provisions, aud would relieve communities that wanted to handle their own public utility corporations frafp. to do so, a.nd free from taxes to support the. ad ministration of other cities, and the state at .large, The Fouts amend. UNCO GOOD AND OVERLY RIGHTEOUS A NOT II Kit UT OF FADDISTS WHO ARE "THINGS OF FLESH AND BLOOD TOO GOOD, FOR HUMAN NATURE'S . DAILY FOOD." II NITKII I'UKHM l.HAHKI) WIHK. Trenton, N. J., Fab. 14. Because the word "hllo" sounds too much like the name of the hot place, members of the Second Reformed church, of White Horse, at the bo IJoJtation of their pastor, Rev. Harry M. Hitchcocx, today began a crusade against its use by th telephone companies. 'Chllhren soon learn that by put ting the last letter of 'heillo' first, there Is an altogether different metn Ing given" he said today, "and I hav oftMi hewl youngsters make this reversal. Why should we have a word that should spell such a hor rible place?" Rev. Hitchcock wants the word "!o" substituted for the cheery "hel lo." TKAIX BARELY ESCAPED GOING IXTO COLUMBIA It'NITKU ritKSX VEAflKI) Willi Wenatchee, Wash., Feb. 14. Two mall clerks and a brakeman are In jured as a reHult of the derailment of the east bound Great Northern passenger train No. 4 last night, 12 miles east of Wenatchee when the whole train of nine' cars left the track, part of the train careening down an embankment for .10 feet and stopping on the edge of the Colum bia river. The passengers were all brought back to Wenatchee where they will remain until the tracks are cleared today when they will resume their 'ourney. OUSE TA11PAYER! Fouts Would Relieve the Tax nfouta would relieve the taxpayer from all taxes for the support of the commission, and cuts out the appro priation of $35,000 carried In the Malarkjey bill. Another amendment provides that nothing in this amendment shall af fect or Impair the right of any city to provide for Its public service com mission. Third Rending House Bills. H. B. 184, Pierce, to regulate fish ing on the Rogue river- Passed. H. B. 378, Mann, reducing ratea of Might and expresss for shipping; pure bred stock in Oregon. ,As they now haul a great deal of this. H. B. 32, McKinney, to regulate use of motorcars In Oregon. Passed. H. B. 372, Marion, Clackamas and Yamhill delegation, to protect female deer. Passed. H. B. 335, Clyde, that combina tions of laborers or labor organiza tions nhall not Ijm deemed criminal. Lost. (Continued from Page B.) THE WOMAN GOT AWAY WITH IT ALL RORREIt HELD UP RESTAURANT, FRIEND AND THREE OTHERS HELD HIM UP HE DRUGGED THEM, GOT THE SWAG AWAY, GAVE IT TO A LADY FRIEND. AN SHE SKIPPED, lUNITKH 1'HKNB LEA BHD WIKB J Chicago, Feb. 14. Police Investi gation today of the recent holdup of Rector's restaurant revealed the fart that a woman, who is now believed to be In San Francisco .escaped with most of the loot She double-crossed the man who double-crossed hie pain, by drugging them after they had held up Charles Wlllard, robber No. 1, and relieved him of the $.1300. Befonu robbing the nwtaurant W'l Inrd confided hit plans to Loftus. As Wlllard was coming from the cafe he was confronted by four mnn, beaded by Loftus, and forced to give up the coin. Then Loftus druggtxt his three companions and took the cash. The police say today that Loffun ga,ve thM money to a woman lo keep for him, and that she slipped away and fled to California. . , VACCI.NATIOX ORDER A IIOIIO EXTERMIN ATOR- lUNITKIl I'RKHS LEAKED WIHkS.) Kansas City, Mo Feb. 14. Srange monakers and cabalistic signs appearing on water tanks and sign posts in the vicinity of Kansas City recently as the result of an order to vaccinate all "hoboeu" have made Kannas City strangely free from the weary Willie pest. Chief of Police Grlffln had no Idea he was inventing a hobo extermina tor when he Issued the order, but he got the effect. Police records show that 40 per cent of the usual visita tion of tramps for January passed up Knnsas City without even hesitating.