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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" Saturday kvknixu, December 2, 1U10. ' CHARLES H FI8HEB, Editor n Manager. ,1 .- ! ' ( '.t 5 .i 'J! : i PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OBEQON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. I 8. BABNES, CHAS. H. FISnEB, DOBA C. ANDHESF.N, President. Vice-President. Sec. and Treas.. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bsily by carrier, per year . . Daily by mail, per year . . . . FULL LEASED W1KK EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwell, People 'g Qas Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier docs not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we cbu determine whether or not the carriers Bro following instructions. Phone Main 81 beforo 7:30 o'clock and a taper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. Tr aftek'it.is decided, what ? There is much interest being taken in the AdamsoU law test case now before 'the United States supreme court, and there seems to be an idea that when that august bodyftas passed upon the matter that there will he a great light thrown on it, the subject of the eight hour day and the right of congress to fix wages on a public utility. There may be reason for this faith in the effete East, but here in Oregon not much is expected of the decision other than that the matter will be still further befuddled when the supreme court gets all its legal verbiage fastened upon it. Oregon has reason to doubt any clearing of the situation by the supreme court, for it has had some experience in that line. When the Oregon California land grant cases went before the supreme court, naturally the citizens of this coast, many of whom were directly interested having locations that were or were not valid, and which they had been unable to learn, were profoundly interested. The case dragged along wearily until finally the wires brought the glad tidings that the supreme court had decided it. Everybody read with avidity the court's decision, and then that same everybody as of one accord asked: "What does it mean?" Everybody asked, but nobody answered. In substance the court hejd the grant was a gift in praesenti, and the title passed from the passage of the granting act. It held the Southern Pacific was the gran tee of the Oregon & California railroad and as such took over all its rights in said lands. It held that the company had a title in fee simple with a string or condition on it. It held that under the granting act the company must sell the lands in tracts of not to exceed 1G0 acres to one person and at a price not above $2.50 per acre. It held that as no time was fixed in which the company must sell said lands, that it was left to the company to sell the lands when it got good and ready, and that it need not sell them at all. It left every fact in the controversy worse muddled than it found it, and the settler, or would-be settler as far at sea as ever. It left the question so far undecided that the company claims under the decision the right to sell and remove the timber from the lands before offer ing them for sale, and even denying congress the right to take back the lands at $2.50 per acre until the company has removed the timber. If the court can manage to befog the Adamson eight hour bill one half as badly as it has the land grant bill the tangle will not be straightened out in the next fifty years. The East may look forward with some degree of confidence to a solution of the Adamson law tangle, but out this way we feel differently about it. We have rea son to feel so. The Oregonian tells a soul harrowing story of the ill treatment of a negro named Crawford in South Carolina. The case was one of cold blooded outrage, and it is pleas ing to note that the businessmen and leaders in the com munity got together and condemned it. The trouble started over a dispute with a storekeeper, and the wrath of the element that attacked the negro was on account, so the Oregonian states, of the temerity of the negro in disputing a white man. Well let us see. Over in Silver ton not long ago a colored preacher was run out of town and made to stay out too. What was the nature of his offense? So far as has been heard from it was convert ing a whiteman and making a christian of him. Greece proposes to maintain her neutrality even if she has to fight the allies to do so. In the light of the man ner in which the allies have allowed all who joined them to be whipped without any material aid being rendered or offered them, Greece is displaying considerable wis dom and most excellent judgment. The Coos Bay limited was wrecked Wednesday night by a cow that thought the track would make a nice place for her night's lodging. The cars have not been running long on that line and the.cows have not learned yet that the engine carries a cow catcher. It might be added that the cow was wrecked too. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G8 CAPITAL - $500,000.00 J Transact a General Ranklne Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT l'er month 45c Per month 35o TELEOBAPH BEPOBT .$5.00 . 3.00 JUST OVER About all that is definitely known as to the situation at Chihuahua .is .that the de facto troops were badly whipped and all that could skip made a run for the border. General Gonzales and others are organizing a new army to go back and retake the city, so they say, but what use there is in taking it when Villa can take it away from them again whenever he wants to, is something an American cannot understand. Many of the residents are fleeing across the river into the United States from Juarez, fearing the dread bandit will capture that city. This is hardly probable as Villa will not be likely to show himself that close to the American armies, as he knows they are iable to take a fall out of him, and he realizes .that fighting Americans and and, widely different jobs. has dropped a monkey wrench in the running gears of that American-Mexican commission and .delayed any agreement being reached concerning the border. One of the things insisted on by the American commissioners was that Carranza must show not only willingness but ability to guard the border, and this is just what he has demonstrated, or Villa has for him, that he cannot do. The end of the Mexican trouble is " still apparently a thing of the remote future. Mr. Green, who yesterday exhibited samples of onions grown near the city on a small tract, says he was told the soil would not grow onions profitably." However he is satisfied with the result of his experiment and will plant a large tract next year. His experiment justifies going into the business on a larger scale, for he produced from a tract :0 by 40 feet square, 14 sacks of first-class onions, or at the rate of 518 sacks to the acre. They will aver age about 85 pounds to the sack, which would make the yield per acre 44,000 pounds, or about one pound for each square foot of land. At two cents a pound they would make the crop from an acre worth $880. If thus result or even half of it can be obtained from a large area, it will prove one of the most profitable crops the valley can grow. Of course there are many onions grown in the valley, but heretofore the greater part of them have been grown on beaver dam land. Mr. Green's experiment shows that the average land will do well enough. While congress discusses the proposed food embargo it should not overlook the fact that when crops are good prices are low. The fact that crops were sh6rt and con ditions made an unusual demand on themjs responsible for a large part at least of present high pj-ices. If meas ures are to be. taken to. maintain prices at a level or near it, congress to be fair will bave the job on its hands of keeping prices up to normal when crops are abundant. It will think twice and then several more times before putting its foot into that trap if it is possessed of even a modicum of wisdom. x It is a matter of sentiment, of almost religious duty, to eat turkey on Thaknsgiving. The disposing of the remnants for several days turkey, turkey hash, turkey soup and whatever other shape the careful and saving little housewife can devise to present the once noble bird, is a matter ,of -economy only, and to that extent a duty. Still the last fond good bye to the Thanksgiving turkey is not evidenced bj copious tears. The Oregonian Friday had a lengthy editorial On "New York's Relation to the West." The answer is: "There ain't no such animal." It used to be that New York gambled on everything that came out of the West, and got rich at it. This is so no longer. Since the seventh day of last month New York would not gamble on any thing west of Pennsylvania, and is doubtful about some sections north of herself. According to the statement made by Attorney General Brown the present liquor law will remain in force until the legislature provides such laws as are necessary to make the new law effective. This means that' for six weeks or two months yet two quarts can be purchased every 00 days. As after that there will be nothing doing, it is likely the ordering business will be run to the limit until that time. The sheriff at Seattle has considerable contraband whiskey, seized in raids, in his possession; and says a gal lon of it is used daily to keep the water in the city's auto tanks from freezing. We do not pretend to doubt the sheriff's story, but wellwho saw the autos get it, and did they get it in the heck? The women of Portland have called a meeting for to day to take steps toward giving old High Cost of Living the fight.of his life. The old pirate might as well sur render and save his face, for the women are thoroughly aroused and that settles it. Next comes the city election. Pick out your chief of police ana. recorder, and it you are lucky enough to live in the right precinct you can also make choice of a coun cilman. The city election and Christmas are the only hilarious occasions left for the year. . ;"' Those defacto troops are-not champion fighters but are sure winners as foot racers. In their flight from Chihuahua, they threw away their guns and being in a hurry left their horses and reached the -border on foot. THE BORDER Mexicans are two distinct In the meanwhile though, he after in the shape of cold The women of San Francisco, without any organiza tion or concerted movement, but acting individually, re duced the sales of Thanksgiving turkeys in that city by fiifty tons, so a prominent dealer estimates. That amount was sent back into cold storage. Turkey differs greatly from chicken as a steady seller, it being largely a creature of sentiment, at least so far as Thanksgiving and Christ mas are concerned; and when these days are past turkey is a "by-product." It looks as though' hereafter the turkey price will be fixed sometime before Thanksgiving and fixed at a price below thirty cents, too. The director of the mint recommends the coining of a two-and-a-half -cent piece, and says the country demands it. For one thing here on the coast it will do away with a five cent raise being the minimum one permitted on most products. While congress is having the matter under discussion it is as well for someone to get a name for the new coin. ' - THE HAS-BEENS I read the papers every day, and oft en counter tales which show there's hope for every jay who in life's battle fails. I've just been reading of a gent who joined the has been ranks, at fifty years without a ecr, or credit at the banks. But undismayed he buckled down, refusing to be beat, and captured fortune and renown; he's now in Easy street. . Men say that fellows down and out ne'er leave the rocky track, but facts will show, beyond a doubt, that has beens do come hark. T lfnnw - for T vkn write this rhyme, when forty-odd years old,' was down and out. without a dime, mv whiskers full nf mnA nv black disaster I was trounced was t miiure so pronounced i aiarrp need assign. And after I had soaked my coat, I said (at forty-three), "I'll see if I can catch the goat that has escaped from me " I labored hard; I strained my dome, to do my daily grind, until in triumnh I came hnme mv hillv-o-nof KoTi aJ x any man who still has health anu nave a macne at iame come back. KILL THE WEED LIEN AMENDMENT Kclitor Journal: At the coming city election voters tire to adopt or reject nil amendment to the city charter al lowing liens to be plnecd against their property for what ia cnlled weed cut t iiijj. An ordinance ia to be drafted if this charter amendment is adopted authorizing the city to have weeds cut on vacant lotB and 'on streets in front of anyone's property and charge the expense to the owner of the property, and if-not paid the charge becomes a lion against the property, tho same as a mortgage or street or sewer assess ment, lucre are already liens author ized by law for all kinds of taxes and improvements, including sidewalks, and now weeds are to be made the basis of nnother kind of lien. There should be some way to get rid of noxious weeds without putting a cloud on real estate and .Authorizing the city to sell it under marshal's sale. Thero is a state law against certain kinds of weeds but it seems that is not enough to suit the city officials. So the city council has initiated this new proposition for another kind of an incnivbiance on property, with costs of alvertising and expense of getting up and filing the lien. Several attempts have been mnde in tho past to put over an ordinance for the same purpose but they hnv'o been defeated and this HU ii II I "iwftT 1 i m - "CHAPTER XCI. From the bouillon to the coffee the dinner was perfect. We had mushrooms and kidneys under glass, roast duck with the most delicious dressing, candied sweet potatoes and other vege tables, alligator pear salad, and a won derful dessert; each dish cooked and served as only Mandy knew how. When we finished Burns Mayson remarked: "That's the best dinner I have eaten in years. Hammond. I envy you! " I was very proud not because of what he said, so much, as that he had said it to Clifford. "Mrs. Hammond manages very well," Clifford nonchalantly replied; but I knew by his expression that he was pleased, that our guest's expressed ad miration had gratified him. After dinner Clifford proposed that I play and sing. I was very much sur prised, as he seldom listened to me un less I requested him to. But I made no objection and played end sang for more than an hour. "You are a fortunate man. Ham mond," Burns Mayson remarked as he rose to go a little before midnight. "It seems that Mrs. Hammond is able to do many things, and do' them all well" ' Bums Mayson is Discussed. "The dinner was very nice!" Clif ford volunteered after our guest had left. "Wasn't it!" I replied. "Mandy until it jarred my spine; I 7 J ".J ftjviiiuu. ilJHl may with the winners stack. and weaitn lor has-beens do charter amendment should be defeated. This is not n favorable time to en cumber property with new improve ment charges. Rather let us get rid of some of the loads we have to carry before we put on new ones. Sec what an opening there might be made for a big swindle by having a weed-lien ordinance. A city marshal or street commissioner or whoever is made the high lord constable of the weed patch might set fifty men at work beautifying the city mowing weeds on vacant lots, nnd on vuiused streets, from a combine with some law firm to prepare the thousands or two thousands liens, get a rakeoff for pub i lishiug the notices ten -days in some I newspaper as required by this amend ! ment, run bills for thousands of dol I lars against tlie property owners, par them nil out of the city treasury and tax them up to the property in the form of liens. This scheme has been worked before and it will be worked again if tho voters do not kill this amendment. These are days when a chance to make easy money by of ficial and legal procedure is not over looked by anyone, not even .city of ficials. Safet'v first. Kill the bill. E.-HOFKK. NEW TODAY ADS WILL BE read in the Journal in all live Marion county homes Try 'em. A DEUGHTED GUEST surely is a wonderful cook." "Mayson was very complimentary," he rejoined. I "He was very kind and nice to say , all those things about me," I laughed. " He did flatter you a bit! He will be here for some time, and we must have him often. He seemed to enjoy it." 'That will be mce!" I replied. "But Clifford, why do you suppose he never nas married lie s very attractive, rich, and not old oh " I stammered, rememhering that he was younger than Clifford, and fearing I had been unkind to mention his age. "I imagine he has too good a time to tie himself down," Clifford answer ed, then turned to his paper. He always read an hour before he went to bed, no matter how late it was I couldn't understand then, why so many people, Clifford among them, spoke of a man "tying himself down" because he married. And why they in ferred that they could have" no more good times. But at that time there was much I did not understand. A Division of Time. Burns Mayson seemed to try to devise means for dividing his time between my husband and me. Business with Clif ford, his amusement and entertainment With me. j Almost every day some plan wa made by which I lunched with him, Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. ; Market Was Sluggish But Prices Firm New York, Pec. 2. The New York Evening Sun rinanfeis.1 review today said: The trading marked time very large ly, in today's short session of the stock' market. Prices were firm for the moat part with particular strength in. the railroad department. There was no great demand, however, but such as it was the level of the market was raised because of the scant dft'ering of stocks. Business conditions continue in good form. According to K. U. Dun and com pany failures this week were 23 per cent smaller in number nnd MS per cent smaller in amount, the actual number being 21". Railroad earnings in October at hand today disclose an increase in gross for the Chicago and Northwestern of $1, 2lH,ljS and in net .H9,:21 nnd for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, an in crease in gross of 1S,27U, n docreasi in net of $l$4,02u and a loss, in surplus ' of $217,019. Prices in the industrial list was some what irregularly changed, although the prevailing tendency was upward. The steel and copper shares were narrow ia the extreme with few exceptions like Utah Copper, which advanced through 124 and Chile Copper, which crossed 34, I'nited States Steel common made fractional gains, moving closely around 12. Further advances were general in the late trading save among certain of the specialties. Rub Pain Right Out With Small Trial Bottle of Old "St. Jacob's Oil" What's Rheumatism? Pain only. Stop drugging! Not one case in fiftv requires internal treatment, Eub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" directly upon the "tender spot" and relief comes instantly. ''St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheumatism and sciatica liniment, which never disap points and can not burn the skin. Limber up! Quit complaining! Get a small trial bottle from your drug gist, aud in just a moment you'll be free from rheumatic nnd sciatic pain, soreness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! Kelief awaits you. Old, hon est "St. Jacobs Oil" has cured mil lions of rheumatism sufferers in the last half century, nnd is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, back ache, sprains nnd swellings. i -it . A - V . NEW TODAY ADS WILL BE rend in the Journal in all live Marion countv homes Try 'em. . either with Clifford, or alone. Then he never had visited Qlendale before, and insisted upon exploring the surrounding country with me to guide him. He had ronted nn automobile and oft en of afternoons he would call for me, and we would drive for an hour or two on the smooth country roads around Olendale. Several times we had passed Leonard Brooke, who had callod but once since Mr. Mayson 's arrival Unfortunately I had then been out. He bowed so -Boldly on the occasions when we met him. that I had a feeling that he was dis pleased with me, although I could not imnirinA anv rensnn T lnA vin:;3 . n : about my pin and flowers, so- it could puesiuiy ue xnai. I determined to call him up the first opportunity I had; but I was o tjusy, Mr. MaVSOB took an mni.h a v - jthat I put it off from day to day. f pwivc ui ii iu v-nrrora, But tjis reply was neither reassuring nor comfort ing. -"What difference does it make if that young cub isn't friendly t" he asked- " He 's probably lonesome for some place to. spend his evenings. Let a see, he's musical. You've. been too good to him, playing and singing with him. Artists are usually self ishl" (Monday A Dinner Dance U Planned- RUB RHEUMATIC PAIN, SORENESS, STIFFNESS V AHD11I1 I V i,"VEl ,1..:..