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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1913)
Ef&fraiai Page of The Salem Capital Joes FRIDAY ! AUG.29,19l2! The Capital Journal PUBLISHED BY The Barnes Taber Company GRAHAM P. TAB EE, Editor and Manager. An Independent Newspaper Devoted to American Principle! and the Progreaa and Development of Balem in Particular and All Oregon in General. Pibllshal Btt? BTenlDC Except Bandar, Balem. Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (lOTtrltblr In Advance) Dally, nj Carrier, per rear ...15 20 Per month.. 45c Dallr, by Mall, per ear 4.00 Per month.. 85e Weetly, by Mall, per rear .... 1.00 ill month!. 50c rUI.L LBA8BD WIHB TKI.EORAPH REPOBT ADVERTISING RATES. Advertising rates will be furnished on application. "New Today" adi strictly caab in advance. 'Want" adi and The Capital Journal carrier boyi are Instructed to pat the paper! on the porch. If the carrier doe not do this, misses von, or neglect getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this Is the only way we can determine whether or not the carrier! are following Instructions. ' Phone Main 82. A MENACE SQUELCHED. THE OREGON ENUNCIATOR COMPANY and tho Oregon Telephone Herald company, both of Portland, have boon refused permission to sell stock in thoir respective companies by Commissioner Watson of the Blue Sky department. The object of each of these companies is to furnish nows at the homes of its patrons. It is planned to have a central office in each community at which there will bo an editor, who every morning at stated hours would, after reading the morning papers, and selecting such mot tor as ho considered fit for the company's patrons to hear, read the Bamo to thorn. In each homo or office would bo a serios of receivers, enough for all. Those, at the proper time would bo strapped to the heads of the membors of the families, say as they sat down to breakfast, and tho news would be poured into them without any offort on thoir part by tho editor aforesaid. They could absorb suicides with thoir coffee, murdors and auto accidents with their oggs, and have all kinds of combined food and information togotbor. It iB also part of the plan to have the telephones connected with the churches and theatres, so that without going to church the family can sit at home and hear the sermon, and in case they so dosirod when there was any thing in the mimical line at the theatres, it could bo heard at homo. It is a great scheme that would do away with tho newspapers, especially tho morning editions, and also eliminate the churches, for the pastor could do hiB preaching in his own homo and folks would not have to dress up, hunt up the small change for tho collection, or do anything of that kind, and tho women folks could even walk around and cook the dinner bb they listoned to the words of their pastor. Commissioner Watson turned both companies down and forbade their sell ing stock in the state because they did not own or control wires or phones and had no means of fulfilling thoir contracts, Thoro are many other reasons why these comifinles should not be permit ted to operate, one of which is that it might bo "cruel and inhuman punish ment" to have to listen to the stuff tho editor might select. It, is bad enough when the reader of a paper has the choice of rending or passing by tho matter furnished him by the papers, but just imagine a poor dovil of a soekor after news with a couplo of recoivors lashed to his ears so that he could not get away, and having to listen to tho Thaw case, or tho Diggs-Caminetti trial just bernuso that stylo of stuff happened to please the editor at the control office. Just imngino sonio thousands of persons hero in Salem sitting at their breakfast anchored to a telophono rocoivor and having a Capital Journal or Statesman editorial poured into them by a heartless and non-gnt-at-ablo min at tho othor end of tlio wiro. Commissioner Watson not only did a wise thing from a financial standpoint in turning these heortloss would-be dostroyors of peace down, but ho performed a charitable and Chris tian act that will make even bis memory sacrod in Oregon. IS HE RIPE FOR THE GALLOWS? -UDER THE LAWS OP OREGON those under 18 years of age who violate 1 the laws aro not Bent to the penitentiary, but to tho reform school. This I is done on the theory that they are, in a measure, irresponsible on ac count of their youth. It is a wise law, too, and one which evory poreon who is not naturally vindictive endorses. Tho law does not cover the crime of taking human life in any of tho dogrees of murdor or manslaughter. Because of this there is now in tho prison hero awaiting execution, a boy of 18 years, but who at the time the crimo for which he is aentonced to die next Friday, waa committed, waa barely 17. Tho distinction made by the law Is po culiar and hard to understand. It holds that for a minor crime tho age of tho criminal should bo takon into consideration, but for tho graver offense-, it makes no provision. If a boy of 17 is too young to send to tho penitentiary, he is too young to send to tho gallows, or to holl. If ho is too young to bo hold responsible for heft and burglary and all that class of crimes, ho iB also too young to be hold to the greater punishment of dmth provided for the crime of murder. Under our laws to constitute murder thoro must be premeditation, Thoro must be tho deliberate act of a sane, reasoning person. Who is there that would class a boy of 17 an Biich a person! If Morgnn must hung in order to satisfy tho crav ing of ft fow bloodthirsty persons for gore, then tho laws should be amended and the ago when a baby is old enough to merit death for its acts should bo fixed. This would, of course, bo hard to determine, but even tho most grocdy for human blood would probably consent to it being fixed at somo date after tho buliy was weaned. Morgan deserves punishment, but do he deserve death t MUZZLING THE PRESS. FROM CONGRESS down to the lower judges of record there is a disposi tion among thoso in authority to my what newspapers shall or shall not print. Presently, wo suppose, the patrolman on tho beat will take tho matter into his own hands. Congress Invades newspaor offices and the supremo eourt holds that instead of violating the liberty of tho press, It is only applying new conditions for tho use of the mails. Thus encouraged, Senator Works Introduces a bill forbidding publication in tho District of Co lumbia of more than a mere statement of the fact that a crime has been com mitted, , In Arkansas a bill passed the seimto prescribing the make up of novrepapers mid limiting their activities in now'gutlioring. in Indiana thoro is a new Inw making it a penal offense for a newspaper to print "any article or cartoon cal culated to expose any person at any election to ridicule or contempt." Tho Texas Legislature was recently asked to consider a bill punishing news jMipors for printing deceptive ndvertisments, whether Innocently or by design. A measure of tho same kind passed In Mulno was vetoed by the governor. The recent penitentiary sentence of l!i years Imposed upon a 1'atersou, N.J. editor for "hostility to the government" must nt ill bo In tho public mind, as is also the attempt of a trial judge to imprison a Kansas City editor for con tempt because ho printed truthful narrative of certain court proceedings. Less than a month ago tho mayor of Seattle undertook to suppress a news paper by a police ordor, and last week in Missouri a judge ordered the indict ment of a reporter who had sent to a newspaper some account of a grantt ju ry's proceedings. These episodes are now recalled because this week a circuit judge in West Virginia ordered the arrest of three reporters for contempt for the reason that at a public trial they disregarded his order that no newspaper should dis close anything that waa going on in his court. When he graciously discharged them, the judgment was foolishly described as "a great triumph for a free press." Is this Russia or San Domingof Now York World. THE DELAY WAS FATAL. S' AN FRANCISCO has just held an election for the purpose of voting on the matter of issuing bonds for tha construction of municipal street railways, and the bonds carried by a vote of four to one. There wore several reasons for this. One waS) that the Geary street road in opera tion lees than a year, has shown a net profit that will for the year be about $100,000. Another reason was that the United Railways, the company owning the city's street car system haj 0st the most valuable asset any com pany can have the good will of the public. It was run and managed by Pat rick Calhoun, a man who was Indicted when Mayor Schmitz and Abe Reuf were convicted. He was charged with bribery in connection with the secur ing of franchises for his road, and while Schmitz and Reuf' were sent up for accepting these very bribes, Calhoun Was finally, by the grace of money and pull, cleared. Since that time he had a strike on his hands and boasted that he broke it, which he did. Since that "victory" he has run the United Rail ways on "The People Be Damned" principle, thinking ho was larger than all of them put togother. The building of the Geary Btreet line by the city, and its phenomenal success, coupled with the proposal to vote the bonds and extend the system made Patrick suddenly wak0 up to the fact that he was about to' get what was naturally coming to him. H0 tried to dodge by a pretended sale ana a stepping down and out, but that dodge was too old to take, and so the bonds wore carried and tho end of the reign of Calhoun and his gang is in sight. Hod ho stopped out, and stayed out a, year ago, it is likely tho smash ing his road got Tuesday would have passed him by. Ho stuck to his place too long, and when only throe or four days before election he made a pretended solo of his interests, he got only the horse laugh and the everlasting whaling that he and his gang deserved. William Woodhead, of San Francisco, is president of the National Advertis ing Men's Association. Evidently the association has measured itself up and knows what kind of a head is best fitted to it. Astoria has secured a 40-acre water front and having $800,000 for the pur pose, will erect a fine system of docks. Astoria is wide-awake and grabbing Opportunity by both home and the forelock, will wrestle for supremacy. More power to her elbow, and gunning and wisdom to her think tank. "tTeeet.i8 the heaviest ever known, and most 1 HE RCIITNTVTTP X nf tf. i. V,v , Tho postoffice at Monmouth was rob- Airs. Caroline Hays, a pioneer of bed for the Becond timo Tuesday night. nenion county, coming in 1853, died at About $280 in cash and stamps valued at $500 were secured by the robbers, I e e e her home in C'orvallis Tuesday. e Monroe has its golden spike eclobra- Albany citizens have formed the lion next Wednesday There will bo iuverside Cemetery association, to nn delegations from all parts of the valley prove and take proper care of the city LAPP & BUSH, Bankers TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. SAFETY DE POSIT BOXES. TRAVELERS' CHECKS. there to assist in the big event. J. E. Stout, near Carvollis, this year grew 216 bushels of oats on nn acre and a half of ground. This was the result of using plenty of fertilizer, the balance of tho tract, unfertilized, yielded only 35 bushels per acre. TlTo explosion of a charge of dyna mite in a "missed hole" at Oregon City. Tuesday, seriously injured four men, one of them probably fatally. The men were working at a "missed charge" intending to reload it, when It was struck by a crowbar, and the explosion followed. e Among the othor experiments tried at Lebanon is one of O. H. Todd who has grown 35 acres of mint, erected a still and has completed tho work of distillation: Now when the returns aro n it will prove intoreating reading. e Four tons of rhubarb were shipped from Lebanon to the cannery at C'or vallis, Saturday. see Starting a firo in the yard to heat wator for washing, Lola Jones, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Jones, near Berlin, was badly burned. It scorns somo ten pounds of blasting powder supposed to huvo been spoiled by being wet was thrown in the ashes, where tho firo is usually built for heating tho wash water and when tho girl kindled tho firo, this exploded. She wnB badly burned about tho faco and arms, but not seriously hurt. e e The election for tho port of Bandon, Wednesday, carried by a vote of 518 for to lit against MrB. Rebecca Meyer, a pioneer of 1847, died at tho homo of her daughter Mrs. George Grnde, on tho Columbia Slough, near Portland, Tuesday. She was TO years old Oregon City is suffering from an ep idemic ef typhoid fever, severnl deaths recently being duo to that dread dis ease. see The travel to Crster Iiko this year AND STILL WE LEAD ALL SALEM In the greatest bargain-giving. Come and tee the crowd, of people that vi,it our , daily, then you can tee at a glance the reason. The people appreciate real bargain COME AND SEE The wonderful stock of New Fall Silks' and Dress Goods we now have on display, n. latest foreign and domestic goods shown, and at the lowest prices on this coast. Hop picking and prune picking J will soon oe hero. Contract your I bread and coke supply early with J THE SALEM ROYAL BAKERY f Former Oermnn Bakery, and you will bo assured of dealing with nn up-to-date, snnltary and respon sible firm. Phono 373, No. 10 Commercial Btreet. GOLDSMITH & THEUER PROPRIETORS. AAAAAAA.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA cemetery. Severnl of the churches and Sunday schools of The Dalles have joined in planning a picnic for Labor Day nt the high school grounds. The garbage contractors at Astoria are about to build an incinerator on Young's river near Williamsport and will put an auto truck in service for collecting. e Wallowa has invited the son of John W. Gates to come and be a good fellow in the midst of wild Alpine surround ings, and promises him as many thrills as he's got dollars. e The popularity of Roseburg's public market is steadily Increasing, and the Review hopes a Biiitable building may be provided for housing it before the rainy season setB in Baker Herald: Secretary of the Tn- tcrlor Lane could not but be Impressed with this part of the country, even if he saw it only from the car window It takes but little Investigation tW prove the worth of this vicinity. A Toledo mill last week cut 10 sticks of timber eight inches square and 05 feet long, for use in building the new reservoir of the Newport water works, which tho Toledo Sentinel considers worth recording on the score of length. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic pow dor. It rclioves painful, smarting, tender, nervoua feet, and instantly tnkes the sting out of corns and bun ions. It's the greatest comfort discov ery of the ago. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain relief for sweating, callous, swollen, tired, aching foot. Always use it to break in new Bhoos. Try it to day. Sold everywhere, 25 cents. Don 't accept any substitute. For FREE trinl packogo address Allen S. Olra Btod, Le Roy, N. Y. REVIVAL SERVICES WILL BEGIN NEXT THURSDAY The members of tho Nazarene church have pitched a largo tent on tho corner of Fifteenth and Mill streets, two blocks east of the S. P. passenger depot and will conduct a series of meetings in tho same. The first service of tho se ries to bo Thursday evening, Aug. 28, and then every evening for at least three weeks, We are expecting nn old time revival like our fathers used to at tend and about which wo love to hear them tell. We haven't anything new to offer. We believe and teach tho whole Bible, hence a topless heaven and a bottomless hell. We exalt Jesus Christ a perfect and complete rnvior. Je sus and .leus only can save from sin. ' ' Wherefore he Is able also to save them to the uttermost that como to C.o.l by him, living ho ever liveth to make intervention for them." Come out and hear the old time gns lel preached in the old-time way, ami save your soul before it is too late, for "God It not willing that any ihoull COME AND SEE our New York buyer's purchases of Ladies' New Fall Coats, Suits and Dresses. Our bur er is an expert in the cloak and suit line and you may rest assured that when it come. I quality of materials, the latest in Paris and New York models, he has no superior. We always make the low prices for Salem. COME AND SEE , OUR AUGUST WINDOW DISPLAY. This is the month when cost cuts no figure, COME AND SEE the greatest stock of Domestics and all kinds of Wash Goods in Salem. Prices, yard, 4c 5c 8 l-3c 10c and up NEW FALL MILLINERY now on display. Satin hats and all the rest. Come here for bargains. We Are Here With The Best Values the STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY rim . . Berria X perish but that all should come to re sentence." Come to the first service and you will be a regular attendant. WOMEN REFUSE TO TAKE HINT TO LEAVE COURT ROOM UNlTBO HUBS UAStD WIM. San Francisco, Aug. 29. When Con stable T. A. Reed, of Reno, started tes tifying in the Caminetti case concern ing soiled linen found in the bunga low, Judge Van Fleet yesterday after noon interrupted the witness, and, turning ot the women BpectatorS) said: "I want to warn you, ladies, that the testimony to come now will not be very pleasant to sensitive ears. I want to warn you that al! ladies who re main will do bo at the expense of their Bense of delicacy." Despite the court's warning, not one of the 20 women present left the court room. odgo of tho business. Mulally is now assistant president and directing head of the United Railroads. REAL ESTATE MAN JAILED. united PBIBB LliSED wiai.l San Diego, Cal., Aug. 29. J. W. Rouso, a real estate man from Spokane, Wash., was arrested here this afternoon on re quest of Sheriff Stone, of Spokane, on a warrant charging obtaining r.: -under false pretenses, lie wn (' j- huimirtrr In win an nntnmnliilA vWI ..... ...... V.. .A j...t U.,,.1.1 C, '. had 10 cents and a $300 witthsb'j cioines. ino uetaus oi imrysu', n)iAt.rA Bra Lnnnrti rtAM If The recall, when used, wouUbtwr impressive and bettor respected il f "t people voted. ! ALL OF OLD GUARD ARE THROWN INTO DISCARD united rnr.HB UASED KIBE. Sun Francisco, Aug. 29. Thornwell Mullally and all tho old guard of the United Railroad directorate, except three, were cast in the discard nt the stockholders' election yesterday nfter noon, which resulted in tho retention of 8. B. (iuiness, C. N. Black nnd George Willcutt, of tho old bonrd. The new directors chosen aro Washington Dodxe, A. W. Foster, II. T. Scott, A. N. Pnyson, John A. Ruck, J. C. .McKiu. s'.ry, I.ennder Sherman nnd Jet.FO Lil-ienthit), Although Mulally was dropped from the boaid. Llllentbni stated that he would ninke no changes li the working stnff, at, least until he got a knowl- ( jj FIFTY -SECOND ANNUAL n t 5! Oregon State Fair II n 1 r a ft 11 ! wmawaaab swwur.1 mi mwa i mm m I E A .L1 1 1 t rt AAA n. wnoie wee or pleasure and pront; Uiuu""' I in premiums on Agricultural, Livestock, Poultry, Tex- j tile and other exhibits. I Horse Races, Shooting Tournament, Firevorki, Band J C -i- r . r- ... i . Dl-Mommta and other Free Attractions, including Boy & Oj'f j One-Ring Circus. Free Camp Grounds. You sre uv t, I vited. Send for Premium List and Entry Blanks. Reoc(J j rates on all railroads. For particulars address I. 9 FRANK MEREDITH, Secretary i WlTUfl T OPIATES UIIIIUUI NARCOTICS FOLEY'S HONEY andTAR COMPOUND STOPS COUGHS CURES COLDS For CROUP, BRONCHITIS, WHOOP ING COUCH, LA GRIPPE COUGHS, HOARSENESS and ALL COUGHb and COLDS. It is BEST and SAFEST for CHJLDRENin:! fotGROWN PERSONS. Tr. V"i -- v.;w p.-vagf DB. STOXE'S DRUG ST0BR 11 u Salem, Oregon A -''-TTVTTTTTTYTTTTv,'' I I 17- . .1 ... .. . . . . a - I k BdOP" ' . ...c mil. iimo in u;o msiory oi . - w of Marion and Polk counties can secure ail in" , t. .... . . . . . . t - .BAnu"i i sncits ai ritrht nr i in th ; niteaa o ineir tune and money in going ing one cent a pound for all k ... (PI'S . mm to Portland. W.": inds of rags. W . u klnrl. nf rait iron prices paid for all kinds of old clothes, housel and fumitiii-i. wm l vrvthin needle to a piece of sold. All kinds of tools pr chinery and pipe bouaht and sold. The house millinn lv M ! o.l': . . ...nun uai gains. , t 233 State Street. Phone M