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t Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" Tllll.'SDAV i:vi:.M(.i I'ebruurv 17, 1 1M CHARLES H. PI! Editor and Man PUBLISHED EVEEY EVEXIXQ EXCErT SUNDAY, SAI.EM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, President CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President DORA C. ANDRESEN, bee, and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION EATE8 Dsily by carrier, per year $5.00 IV r month. Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month. .45c .35e FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Wrd-Lewii-Williams Special Agency Harry B. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put tho papers on the poreh. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or negleeis (jetting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation uiuuager, us this is the only way we can determine whether or not tho carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81. AS POLITICIANS VIEW THE SITUATION The first gun of the national campaign has been fired by the republicans of New York, and it indicates pretty strongly the course the party intends to follow. The committee on resolutions of the state convention refused to indorse Senator Root as the state's choice as a candi date for the presidency. Chauncey Depew was there and exhorted the commit tee to pronounce in favor of Root, but his voice no longer charms. It was claimed that Senator Roor did not want the committee to indorse him, and the suggestion was made that this indorsement would be made later. Politicians, however, recognize in thisaction the send ing of Root to the dump heap. This is a sop thrown to Roosevelt who dislikes Root with a greater accent on the "dis" than he does anyone who is a presidential possi bility. The situation is sized up by politicians about this way: The turning down of Root is a distinct concession to Teddy, and shows to what length the party is willing to go to conciliate that greatest of all dictators the party has ever known. The committee also refused to indorse Whitman, but it was intimated that this too might come later. It looks as though the party leaders would go to any length to keep the strenuous one in good humor and on the track. They believe that he has a strong following and that his support is necessary to the party's success. Somehow, they forget that eight years ago he forced the party to nominate Taft, picking him as the best and strongest man in the party; and it also forgets that four years ago he opposed Taft as the worst man for the place the party could select. With this record before it, it seems the party leaders would be chary about permitting him to force another candidate on it especially if that candidate is Roose velt, but that seems to be what is going to happen. It is probably not the intention of the old leaders to nominate Roosevelt, only to conciliate him and rub his hair the right way until' some one can be found suitable to him and the balance of the party. Just who the old guard has in mind for the place is not known except to a few members of the inner circle, but that the candidate is already selected is not only possible but extremely probable. The program has all been made out, the only question is can it be made to work? There is only one reason why it will fail, if it does fail, and that reason is Roosevelt. He is the unknown quantity that makes the problem dif ficult of solution. Roosevelt hates Wilson for the same reason he does Taft. They occupied the position which he feels and believes he alone of all the men in the United States is capable of filling without rattling around in it. It is the intent of certain of the progressives to force the Roosevelt nomination, and it is also the firm intent of the old guard to prevent this nomination. It certainly is a badly mixed situation for the elephant. If Roosevelt is not nominated the main body of the real progressives will again bolt and if he is nominated a large portion of the old guard will not stand for it. They will support Wilson rather than Roosevelt. They have not forgotten, and they will never forgive the man, who having been given the presidency by them, deliberately put them out and a democrat in for four years. The politicians have missed the offices and big business has been curtailed in some of its most cherished exploitations. They hold this against Roosevelt and will make of him about the worst sample of the "also ran" ever seen in captivity if he corrals the nomination and makes the race. Murder seems to be arising to the dignity of a fine art. Every day some murderer adds a touch of artistic skill to! latest case of this kind is that of an undertaker who was arrested recently in New York for murdering his wife, and who confessed. He naively stated that he put his arm around her neck when she was scolding him and held his hand over her mouth until she fell to the floor. Then he went to bed and slept soundly until next morning when finding she was dead he embalmed the body, forged a death certificate and buried her. Chairman Tillman of the senate naval committee yes terday gave the armor plate magnates a hunch as to what may happen to them if they get obstreperous. It is an appropriate reply to the threat made recently by the armor plate gang to hold up and rob the government. He introduced a bill providing means for the government to condemn and take over the plants. Now they will be good. That the United States is making a good average at being neutral is evidenced by the fact that the allies think she is too friendly to the Germans and the Germans think she is too friendly to the allies. Each sees her friendship for the enemy and each fails to see the same friendship for herself. This is a case where if each is right both are wrong. The house river and harbors committee with the recommendation, of the engineers reduced the appropria tion for the dental work on the mouth of the Columbia from $2,104,000, to $1,200,000. Thus is the fat fried out and the "pork" made lean. STATE NEWS .t Lilver f.al;o Ore. Emil Xclsnn, who owns a hnmetenl in se-tioii '.'A, town ship i'Ii. south, six miles north of liutto, this county, was in town this week re hearsini; his wt'llniakini; experiences, lieeently he completed the drilling of a well on his place, and when down to a depth of IJii feet the riti.il passeil through a blue rock strituni "J- feet in tiiickneHH, and below this until the depth of 'J!0 feet was reached there were many different stratas of a red! formation which caved and caused eon-' siderable trouble. At the depth of 2(mV feet the drill reached white sand and warm w.iter, and the deeper the drill, went, into the sand the hotter the water became and when the drill was with draw:! and the pump put to work, the water was found to be too hot for irri-i uatiou and other domestic purposes. Dr. W. A. COX PAINLESS DENTIST 303 State Street SALEM, ORE. ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Reynolds of the Oregonian has a cartoon in Wednes day's paper showing the G. O. P. of Oregon being mar ried to Miss Oregon Moose. It is a catchy picture, only Reynolds should have put "the horns" on Mr. Elephant rather than Miss Moose. Medfurd Mail: Game Wardens Oris coll niul. Walker went to the Green Spring mount mis this afternoon to in vestigate a reported case of several deer having been "snowed in'' that region and as beinir in danger of star-; vatioit or destruction by hunters if not rescued at once. They will have to travel on snow-hoes to reach the point, where the deer are reported to be im-! prisoned. Tiiey will take in "outsider": along to gather unofficial evidence. ' liosebnrc Keview: Kinplovini; ". men. working -under experienced officials andj rushing the work as fast as possible to: take advantage of the favorable' weather, over three miles of steel has been l.iid on the (Isweko, I'nlhis and Knsebnrg Knilroad, ui-cordintf to W. .I.j Ford, who returned from the cantos this niorninLT, where he has been located for the past several weeks. It may be that Oregon discarded capital punishment too soon. If incendiaries should get at work out this way, and burn and destroy as they have in the east, how could they be punished if we would make the punishment fit the crime? "The west is growing faster than the east," sounds well to us westerners, but despite the census sharps it is a self-evident falsehood. New York City is gaining population faster than the whole Pacific; coast. Railroad magnates are human in some respects. In valuing their roads for taxation purposes they are listed as worth $8,000,000,000 less than thev would be priced rat if the government wanted to buy them. If this weather keeps up for a few days Ma will be out in the garden with her head tied up in a sling and Dad will be spading up the onion bed under her direction, and wishing it would rain. j&'Walt Mason , AFFECTATION ( rook County Journal: The meeting of the Oresjon Cattle and Horse Kaisers' association, which was to have been licl, I til Itiikor tin first ivonl.- in tlila month, his been postponed until tho first days of May. A la rue delegation of stockmen from this part of the state will no doubt be able to attend the meeting at that time. Ashland Tidinjjs: The beet snnr fac tory will be located at Grants Pass, prob.ibly on a "iM-acre site just across the river from the city. Final announce ment of tiie location came as an answer to an offer fr o i ii the Medf'ord 1'oninier cial club, which agreed to guarantee the sugar interests ."i.iiuu acres if thev would build at Med ford. Weather diagnosis by the Aurora Ob server's t.ileuted Macksbuig corres pondent: "February, stormy as it has been so far, nevertheless -brought with it miii ii of the forecast of spring. The grass shows that it has not been bile during its long concealment under the snow. Both pastures and lawn are of the deep, fresh green that proclaim the winter to have lost his hold, once more." The Sherwood Xews hopes the pro moters of the Sherwood Fair Association "will meet with success in their pur chase of grounds and the building of a race track mid exhibition grounds at Sherwood." Something will happen to that bad tooth of yours one of these days, (or nights) and then you will wish that you had followed the principle of Safety First It is easier to save a tooth before it aches, than it is after, and it costs less. Let us examine your teeth and prevent the accident. Examination Free. Guaranteed Vrork. Lady Nurses. DR. W. A. COX 303 State Street Phone 926 'country are that thousands of Chinese' pheasants have perished from the snow and cold, too severe for them. Getting ) snow on their tails anil roosting in trees' they get caught by the freezing snowi and it is then all up with them. j THE DRINK OF THE PEOPLE Report on mining operations, in Baker Democrat: "The Snake river copper field is booming and Copper- tielil and Homestead are once again on the map under more favorable aus pices than ever. Carload shipments are going out to the smelters weekly and big payrolls are the result." Work on the city jail at Silver Lake again has been stopped. The Leader says provision had been made for a I building of corrugated iron, but it was discovered tit the last minute that only a building of concrete, stone or brick would stand the test of thle state law and hence the plans already made had ; to be abandoned. "The promise of an increased acreage of wheat in this valley this season." says (lie Medford Mail Tribune, "cir ries with it the additional promise' of a much improve. I quality of grain, flte ter seed has been selected and better seed beds prepared.'-' The police of Medford report that there hnve been fewer wanderers in that city this winter than for many I past, and fewer applications for sleep ing quarters at the city jail. j Mexicans Planned , To Kidnap Children l'p to Thursday, the Fast Oregonian says, snow siiovelcrs working for the city had earned .?;!;!'-'. 70 according to warrants paid out by the city recorder, and some of the shovelers were still on tho job. The men 'of simple manners please ; they boast not of i their pedigrees, or look profound, or put on side, or get. ! swelled up with futile pride. The wise man's every action ' ! states, "I'm just like other mortal skates;! I'm here a while to toil and spin, and try to! get my harvest in, and when I leave this! ale of groans, like Tom and Dick, I'll make The Klamath Sportsmen's association has chosen Stukel mountain as a range for the is head of young elk to be lib erated in Klamath county by the state fish and game commission. Winter feed ing will be provided for. El I' iso. Texas, Feb. 17. With two men in jail, and one out on bail, accused of plotting a kidnaping, officers hero today sought two other men, indicted j by the county grand jury. The group, it is claimed, planned toj steal the sons of Cashier Andreas of the City National bank and Vice-President' 'Tooley of the First N.itionnl bank and j hold tliem for heavy ransom. j The men in jail are Werner Fische, a Mexican refugee, a id Jesus Villuscunr.j former illistn, while the man on bail is lr. Henry A. Magnider, dentist. Tnei latter is said to have been the informer! in the eae and he professed surprise j H his indictment. (Grants Pass Courier.) When Oregon went dry it opened the way for the development of a new industry, for the term "dry" only means that men have changed their drinks. From alcoholic drinks our men and women ure going to the bcvenigo that cheers but does not inebratu the juice of tho logan berry, and our farmers should be quick to see the demand and be pre pared to meet it. Oregon is the home of the loganberry, and in no part of the state does the luscious hybrid gTow to greater perfection than in the Rogue valley. Recently the chief of the division of horticulture of the state agricultural college wrote in reply to an inquiry from a resident of this city some facts showing how the Industry was growing in Oregon. He mentioned one concern in Salem that a few years ago manufac tured 2.500 gallons of loganberry juice. Last year these people increased their output to 40,000, and next year they ex pect to market 500.000 gallons. This large increase is made possible because the new drink is fast taking the place formerly occupied by stronger drinks. The expert at the state college states that he expects that there will be at. least ..OOO.OOO worth of loganberry products handled in Oregon druing lOlii. nnd he predicts that the time is not far distant when the loganberry will bring 10,000,000 into the state annually. SIGNS FIRST MEASURE Washington, Feb. Hi. President Wil son this afternoon signed his first pre paredness measure, the bill providing an increase of 300 cadets at Annapoli naval academy, ind appropriating $b'00, 000 for immediate improving the Mare Island and Brooklvn unvv vards. Albany Democrat: Reports from the INDIAN CUPID BUSY The Capital Journal will do your job and social printing. Fresno, Cal., Feb. 1(1. Six Indian couples of "Squaw Valley" will soon be weddded in "white man's fash ion," as a result of mission workers playing the role of cupid. ... ' V It is claimed Germany has olfered Belgium a separate peace on extremely liberal terms, and that Belgium has refused them. On top of the statement it is announced that the allies have again pledged themselves never to accept peace without the restoration of Belgium to he.r original state. It looks like an agreement might be reached on this subject at least, for it is the only thing on which both sides seem to have the same opinion. to see a man swelled up with pride, assunv . mg inverts iuuusii aits, mm vvnu, in I act, declares, "The clay I'm made of is so :A fine, there wasn't anv more like mine. (T'fW J When I was formed, one fateful day, the jJL U Maker threw the mold away, and said,; j 'Improvements now shall cease I have (produced the masterpiece!" When your importance; I seems so steep that all the rest of us look cheap, laugh at! yourself a while, my friend, and let your affectation end.1 Sit down in silence and review the foolish things you say! and do, and realize with many a jar, how blamed ridicul-j ous you are! ' j Trying to Bluff Wife He Committed Suicide LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Oakland, t'nl., Feb. t0. Dei larinif with ins .lying breath that he did not intend to commit suit ide but merely to frighten his wife. Perry Levy, an in surance man, died at his home here to day as the result of cyanide of' pot tnssium which he w tllowed during the night, Levy nnd his wife quarreled over some trivial affair mid finally the man. to scare the woman, said lie "would end it all." lie went to tle basement and return ed with bottle of cyanide, la the presence of his wife he drank n quin titv of the poison but he told at once that he did not mean to. A physician worked over t.evy for several hours, but tould not save him. and deputy sheriffs today are search ing for the thief who tapped several cases of contraband wine held in the basement of the court house under or ders of the com t. j Twelve quart bottles stolen from the contraband stock were found hidden in an air shaft in the court house. Not until, with elaborate ceremony, the of ficers begun pouring the liquor down a sewer, was the theft discovered, I HABIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE Washington. Feb. 10. A romance of the White House basement, was re-; vealed when l.nvinin. Gibson, colored laundress, returned to work, beaming with smiles, and announced she d wed ded a soldier. TO CONDEMN FACTORIES Lift the Latchr of the telephone door to practically every repre sentative business house and residence in the Pacific states. The improved "Long Distance service now offered to our patrons, reaches 693,000 telephones in California, Oregon, Wash ington, Nevada and Idaho. You can talk to 1800 cities and towns, over the "Long Distance" lines of this Company. Make a "Long Distance" call today. OOT TWELVE QUARTS Portland, Or., Feb. 10. Prosecutors ' Wnshinuton. Feb. Id. Chairman Till ninn of the senate naval committee in troduced i bill today to condemn or! pnrehnso the nrtuorplat f ictoriet of thej couutry. 8 1 mi THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE ANDJTELEGRAPH COMPANY