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THE END OF HARRY THAW
USING THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC BRIDGE
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The Southern Pacific Company will earn the gratitude
of the people of Salem if it grants them the use of its
bridge while the new structure is building and it seems
likely that the higher officials will grant the privilege
asked.
If there should be no way for vehicles to cross the
river for a year or more the loss to the business interests
of the city will be heavy, and many people on both sides
oi me river win oe seriously inconvenienced, especially
during the fruit canning season. If he railroad bridge
can be planked and opened to general travel it will to a
very great extent remedy a bad condition. The railroad
company in this event would be entitled to most of the
credit for averting a grave disaster
Another thine: that people of Salem should see to is
that passage of bridge, if it is planked for travel, is made
, t 1 . i 1X1 -v t-i-v II ohMilJ tvrt AUnunrJ U. i.1 i. 1 I
Harrv Thaw seems near the pnrl ,,f hu stormv rn.-eer. Wl1 "l"&eu uwause mat wuiua mean
... , ... . . .7 , nn . levying a tax upon tne business coming into the city.
If he dies many will express satisfaction that his affairs , poetically the only cost of operation will be the employ
will no longer fill the columns of the newspapers others j ment of watchmen and this expense should be met by the
will reel a sympathy lor unfortunate and perhaps mis- city, county or citizens oi Salem or by all combined
guided young man. In his case money had much to do with
his misadventures and his untimely end. Raised in idle
ness and the companionship of the dissolute and dissipat-
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uu n vvafc easy lounu arm louuw i ne oroau roau mac ieaas New clues indicate that possibly Bernard Lewis was
to death, which we are told is the wages of sin. Yet , not the murderer of Mazie Colbert. These clues are
lhaw had done nothing particularly bad up to the time strong enough to cause the detectives and officials who
OPEN FORUM
THE LIFE OF A FARMERS WIFE
toll bridge never was a popular institution and it is less
so in a case of this kind where a community is reaching
out tor and inviting trade.
he killed Stanford White and considering his provoca
tion, and the benefit conferred upon society by the re
moval of that lecherous individual this act might have
been condoned. But for the attraction of the Thaw
millions Harry would have been easily cleared. The
temptation to blackmail the mother and relatives was too
strong for lawyers and the parasites that hang around
them to resist, and the Thaw case dragged for weary
years, worrying the devoted mother, and to the disgust of
newspaper readers.
Quite likely, if the real truth is ever known, the latest
charge against Thaw was mainly trumped up for another
raid upon the family fortune. We would rather believe
that theory than any other in the absence of conclusive
testimony to the contrary.
Somehow we cannot but feel sorry for Harry Thaw,
believing that too much money ruined a young man who
otherwise might have been a useful member of society.
In the passing of William F. Cody, known everywhere
as "Buffalo Bill," one of the picturesque figures, that
connected the present with the old Plains days and the
"wild and woolly West" as it has been pictured and
described in many a thrilling border novel, is removed.
It might be said that he was the last link between the
present and those days. Of commanding figure, fine ap
pearance, a splendid rider and pistol shot, he was the cen
ter of attraction when his big Wild West shows visited
any section, and for days after was the hero of the ad
venturous small boy. While he saw active service on the
"Plains" against the Indians and won distinction there
by, it was as a showman that he became a national char
acter. How much he was admired by the younger gener-
were so positive Lewis was the murderer, to admit they
were possibly mistaken. With the story of B. C. Brown,
a traveling salesman, to the effect that he saw a man
jump from a window of the apartments at the time of the
murder, and that he and a companion had seized the man
but let him go again, and that he saw him the next day
on a train, and heard his name when a friend he was
with spoke to bim, brings the matter up to this man to
explain how he came to jump from the window at that
time and why he did so. If the salesman's story is true it
would seem that the new man in the case may be the real
murderer. It surely has been a bewildering affair and
the end is not yet.
The governor has read his message, and given the
legislature his opinion as to where reductions can and
should be made in the state's expenditures. On paper it
makes a nice showing, and may be as good as any ar
rangement that can be devised. That it will be so con
sidered by the departments cut down and those be
headed, is not at all probable. There are ?Q senators and
twice that many members of the lower house and it is
doubtful if there are two in either house that at present
are agreed as to where it is best to pare, or what, if any
commissions should be combined or done away with. The
message was the first shot at the target, and it is not
likely that it hit the bullseye. The state fair board asked
for bread and he governor tossed it a fair sized dornick.
The University was given a close shave, it being cut with
the Oregon Agricultural college $131,000.
Senator Olson's senate bill No. 10 may be all right,
and perhaps is. At the same time it reads in such a way
atlbn was shown by the intense interest awakened by his j that a question has been raised as to whether or not it
sickness and the keenness with which news of his condi- j would not prevent a person having an abstract of a piece
tion was persued by those now past middle life, who, as. of real estate from using that abstract in selling the prop-
youngsters, saw his great shows and admired the gallant
plainsman. May the grass grow green above his resting
place for he was in every sense of the word: "A good
old scout."
erty and giving the purchasei the abstract made when
the seller bought the property. It is also open to the
suspicion that it is calculated to shut out the small
abstractor who is unable to make good any losses should
thev occur, due to errors or mistakes in the abstract, and
permit some big companv to absorb the business and
To the Kditor: I noticed in your val
uable paper of the 8th inaf. a wa
with the above title, by James M.
Heady, which I regard as unfair anil
unpatriotic; not that it in the true spirit
of the gentleman but his mistaken view
of the subject.
It ia unfair because it painfa the
darkest pictures in the life of the far-j
mer's wife that his poetic pen control
and oiiitH only ironically to her re-1
lief. Describes her labors as though she
were a hound slave, with no pleasant
anticipations, save the food sheents
and a place to stay. It is unfair be
cause it dies not picture the dark side
of city life, hut asks for an answer
from the gloomy pictures he has paint
ed of a country home. He is unpatriotic
for he derides the noble efforts of our
pioneer mothers, who. but a little bet
1 Some Little stories and
Gossip of the Legislature
"1 greatly regret that I cannot be from which the governor recommend
present to congratulate personally Ore- a cut of .".0Ot) be made. It was opea-
gon -s football players upon their aplen- , hinte(, fht ,he , ,
did victory. We are all proud ol X . , " 7 2
!!,,., ; Oregon bred coyotes so as to ip-t
The above is the test of the tele ; bounty on their scalps,
gram liovernor Withycnmbe sent yes ' I'nder dose scrutiny as to their uae
terday to the members of the l"nit rsi- ! fulness are the State Humane society,
tv of Oregon football ream that ntiWUel asks HMO; the hoard of pilot
being banqueted in Eugene by the commissioners, which was declared to
Chamber of Commerce. I have outlived its usefulness; and tho
traveling expenses of the state offi-
A measure that will probably comej'"'als.
up in the house withiu a short tie is one I 1
in which Robert K. Smith, secretary of j Senator Farrell of Multnomah, whea
the taxpayers league, is interested, and roll ''all was completed this morning,
which aims at reducing the expenses of rose to a question of personal pre
elections. The proposed bill ilnns to;'"K'- He had seen an article on the
leliminate one election judge and a social Jtage , evening paper, notifying
ter than half u century ami dared the "qmiy snerii I rrom serving at tne polls .nc pui.iic iui , ,-resuieni .noser, -
danger, of the emigrant trail cheerful- "v -SSL '"' Priding judge a dep .conipanien OT nis wile and two .laugh
lv and brnvelv with her family to build l"tv sh1",U- V ft? P" ' lo ? S "ftS u !? w !i T
up the rural homes, the foundation of''' V,n-T ln '-00 ,',,,',t," precincts ; ator saul while he congratulated the
our now great state ot' j president of the senate on the suddem
They d.d'not drudge as menial! , acqnisitiou of two daughters soo
slaves but worked with that true spirit ' Tu l'"""1"' mxainst dependent old j after his arrival, that he himself de
of uomauliood that lifts true honest iaKt' to encourage thrift nmong the ! sired commiseration or haying lost hi.
labor ahoM. the shackels of slavery and : ' Pl a '"II was mtroduced in the stenographer l'resident Motor diffi
places it, where it belongs, as the niii-!"'"a,(' yesterday by Senator Mat pro-dent and bashful as he always is hay
tive power of our prosperity. 1 nm v "'K 'ol statl' similar j '"P been bom that way; made a heroic
Dleaaed tn know Unit the .lmnrhtcrs nf 1,111 leu tne House at tne ii. ses-iaucmpi 10 oiusu, uui a ner tae rmra
those Horde women, he she in the city
or country, is not afraid to do her pa if
to rear her family, build up society
and do anything fair and honorable for
the bone and country that ike M dear
lv loves.
When are but think that less than
per cent ot our population are real fi
nancial successes, ot which the couutrv
ion but did not get through the sen-! trial gave it up.
ate. The old age annuity is to be paid When recess was taken, however, (iui
for by the bonifieiary. j walked over to .Senator Furrell's desk,
and with a puzzled contracting of hia
Reduction of the salary of the gov- eyebrows, asked: "Say Farrell sineo
ernor'l private secretary from $:I000 to when have you taken to reading the
$24(K) a year met a favorable reception society pages.' and what fort" Scua
at the meeting of the ways and means I tor rerreU did not try to answer or
committee yesterday. This committee I even to blush he realized the limit of
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h-is !,.., shni-,. sii,.i n. mnv livo i ih. wj.ii 100K into the salary lists ot the nis powers anu accoinpiisnments.
lap of luaarry, and let than 15 por coot yHom ! Prtments and may
or,, rm...! eit.,r0 iUo,-;,.,t an r.r- i rf' o mmeiid t urther salary cuts. The; I'rohibition matters have occupied a.
of our population who really must wort
to keep their homes and meet their ob
ligations. This is true of both cUy and
ountry. we should readily understand
that the farmer's wife is not the oulv
appropriation asked for by C.overnorj large portion of the time of the sea
W itliyconibe of $5000 for the apprehen-1 ate. One of the senate joint memorial
sion of criminals was cut to $4000. The! asks congress to deny the U9e of tfce
committee eliminated the following j mails to all liquor ad vei tiseraents writ
items: stallion reuietration board, IS,-1 ten or printed, seems somewhat unnec-
woman who helps heep the home, while
BOO; and the board of higher curricula, 1 essary, in view oi the Webb-Kenyon
the wife of the modem successful &W-IK0' alul slTr" oi non-resident poor, law, unuer wnicn liquors can oe. siop
mer, with the modem transmission of 3S"0 , , . , 1.W coming across the Oregon border,
thought and locomotion can eniov as1 Thls ,mnee ordered the drafting When it xs impossible to send hquor
hiah n rf..i7T,... at i,l,.,isnr. !. tl... "bi.iv ot a bill appropriating $.,000 tor cur- into tne state it would seem a work of
ot the city.
Aa I stated iaboi
The Cereo factory which started in this city is moving
to Portland. It is the same old story the biggest city in drive the individuals out,
the state wants everything in the way ol a tactory or
industry that is established in Oregon. Big and over-j Those eastern suffragettes are evidently trying by
Kiuuii, its Jtupit; are uuuuie to realize mat it eutinot
grow beyond the ability of its tributary territory to sup
port it. Railroad rates are manipulated in order to force
all Industries into the one big city while other state
towns are unable to offer inducements to secure or keep
them after they are secured. Portland has never been
able to grasp the idea that development of the state and
the growth of its smaller cities will lead to its own most
permanent prosperity. And therein lies the real cause of
Oregon's backwardness as a state, Portland's capital and
influence being sufficient to throttle the efforts of all
other enterprising communities to go ahead.
their rediculous acts to convince that United btates
that women are unfitted for intelligent citizenship
The Oregonian and C. C. Chapman are having a little
discussion as to the quantity of "gas" used in Oregon
during a year. Gentlemen, you are too previous. The
legislature has only met; not adjourned.
An eastern sporting authority says the Pennsylvania
team was in no condition to meet Oregon. That is no
news out this way; but it can be added that it never
will be.
LADD & BUSH, Banker
Established 1868
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Some one has suggested that the legislators will not
adjourn so frequently for visits to Portland as they
formerly have done. Portland is also dry.
AN ILL WIND
To pay the grocer for his butter I had to
soak my lyre; my warlike breast was all a
flutter with forty kinds of ire. I quoted
passages from Dante, in my profound
despair, and said I'd wreck the grocer's
shanty, and pull the grocer's hair. And
than I heard that merchant mutter, "Cool
down, cool down, my son! I wish that I
could sell you butter at fifty cents the ton.
For I get tired of hearing kickers who
snort around and swear; I'm weary of the
man who bickers and howls and paws the
air. The grocer, friend, is in no danger of salting wealth
away; it is the horny-handed granger who's getting rich
today." Then I cast down my martial armor, my shotgun
and my sword, and said, "If this thing helps the farmer
Pm sorry that I roared. When I was young and full of
yearning for manhood to begin, I used to do the weekly
churning, and bring the hen-fruit in. And so I'll make no
further splutter, no more I'll rant around; for I'm aware
that country butter is worth two bones a pound."
rent expenses of the legislature. It is supererrogation, whatever that is t
nni nr oi,,i i the .plan of the ways aud means commit- bother about the advertisements. It
be regarded as a calamity by our wo- ,M ,0 kef ,ho t-'P,'Ils's ' t' session lis a safe bet that if liquor can't be
mcI ' j considerably below that ot last ses-j'sent into the state the advertisements
The wife who labors behind the conn- H10"' nicn was iow. ,wui not ue sent, tnrougn tne mans or
ter all day pleasing customers and do-! e lnemners or. tne committee pi.in ; oiuei wise. 11 is surplus age ana reauna-
all she can to make good sales fori10 VIS ' a" tn0 lar? msututioiis per- jancy, or as rne lawyers say, immaterial,
the business, perhaps with a headache i sonal,T- institutions win proo-1 incompetent and irrelevant,
within the close confines of a crowded : a,,1' 1m' ,,,a.red .f?r. fl and then what-j
store mav mi home at niirht the hannicst i yn ,s W1" 0(1 U'verteu to oettcr- oo tar no resolution lias tieen mtro-
woman in the block if she but has a L ,u ' ... , ii-.UrtMK w
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companion with loving sympathy who i " " . " ' T j .....m8 Sn
tries to make the best of home. fed Is the $90,000 bounty appropriation j ot themselves and quit.
She looks not upon the dark side une senator tins morning in toe loo
life, but paints a prettv mental picture I j y suggestea tnat this 8aouid be done.
f how her small earnings will add to! "ring 11 nonie in paper saciis 01 wan tin- " cuuimnwr
the family nurse and with it rear herltil it is earned. The farmers wife who on state nonse grounds had but little
dear ones until they take their places helps do the chores does not feel that to do and it would be quite the proper
among the worthy of the land. She! all she gets out of it is the mere pen-! thing if it would plant a peace tree,
teels that she has been faithful to berimes ot that days work. or ai icasi a piece oi one.
trust in the labors of the day and with To her as she feeds her poultry she vvnat s the. idea asked Ohapman,
true womanly pride eniovs the blessings beholds a real moving picture show, who just at that time was taking a few
of what she has. not one that vanishes with the curtain i minutes off.
This is true of thousands who work 'drop, but one that points to prosperity.; iherc ain't any idea," was the
n the factories, canneries, laundries Her calves afford anoQrer scene in tao I reply. "But its like the fellow who
in, l the manv other lines of business I pleasing panorama of life as they feed i got his feet tickled with a feather when
hat affords labor to the families of ; from pails of milk or graze upon the) he had the colic. The treatment wan
the citv. : verdant lawn. 1 warranted, to do 110 Harm it it did no
The same conditions and results are Her colts are toys of real live beauty. ; good.
true of the farmer s wife. 1 In short each vegetable and flower en-
This world is not so bad a world Iters into her life, and helps make up j It is rather surprising when one con-
s some would like to make it that, round of pleasure known only to filters the condition around the state
But whether good or whether bad 1 the person who enters into her busi- .house a dozen or so years ago whea
Depends on how we take it. ness with the true spirit that mattes (every committee room was a small six-
He complains that the farmers wire I life worth living. jea narioom. to near tne clerk readiug
rises at earlv dawn. .Now it she does.; 111 conclusion 1 win say, tnat in my ;ouc luuuiuiuoii measure aner anotner,
he has slept as many hours as the city ! opinion if the husband who lives 111 city land far more surprising to see the nirm-
liiutron. or country will faithfully fill his obli- tiers voting solidly tor each and all or
A country doc barks with as manv i nations, and neither go to or down: them. The water cart did not in tho
sharps and flats as a city cur, while 1 town to shirk his duty, be considerate 1 old days seem an especially nice vo-
the solo of a frog is as musical as the ' of the feelings ot his companion, mnke;incie Tor riding on and lew there were
reak of a street car, when we try to j her feel that she is a full partner in; who tried it. Now it is different aud
sleep, the area ot a farmer wife s home
is too broad, too many plots of vardnt
grass in the in the diversified crops, to
compare it with a house lot. It is as
easy for a farmers wife from her well
filled larder to prepare a meal as to
the affaiis of life, without social or the entire legislature and all the em-
fiiiancial secrets, pointing to the bright- I ploy 83 rival each other in their efforts
er side of each endeavor be . it city or to get on the seat with the driver.
country, his wife s cup ot happiness
will be bubbling near the brim.
WM. H. BO AN.
TRY JOURNAL WANT IDS
HUvTYHUSBANDANDI
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CHATTER CXLX.
After I had made my explanation to
Kate Jordon, she remained quiet for a
moment and remarked:
"Oh. that us have been what Mabel
Hoiton meant when she told me that
Mr. Hammond stayed out at the Coun
try club for two or three days. They
had the swellest kind of a time, so she
said, dancing, etc. Mabel was staying jmy
UNPLEASANT INFORMATION
feagOj nothing of what she had told me
I MUST NOT give her the satisfaction
of knowing she had hurt me.
Unhappy Musings.
After I left Kate Jordon 's house 1
thought over all she had said and
implied. While my father lay dying
while he was being laid away forever,
husband was spending his time
near the club you know. She mentioned dancing attendance on another woman.
BOinerning aooui v ntr, as sne cans :vir.
Hammond, being annoyed when he re
turned to his hotel because a telegram
he should have seen at once remained
unopened for two days. It was a shame
for you to be in such trouble all alone."
she finished in an indignant tone
not caring enough for me, or father, to
see that his mail or messages were for
warded to him.
quished, that the fight was over for
me.
If anyone should ask me what tingle
thing in life gives most pain, most
agony of spirit, I should answer,
"Jealousy and injured pride" one
and the same thing.
Mildred Longs for a Confidant.
. It seemed to me that I could not en
dure the thought that Mabel Horton waa
deliberately planning to take my hus
band from me, longer alone. I longed
for a confidant. A dozen times T
I thought I would tell Muriel all th aor-
did story; the
ir,i c.ki H,in. . -m:.j 1- . """ t"Iue ouiu not lev
T""" -77 ;l 'J . " " i, and l would decide to wait. Once
. ...V,H.. . . ..u,,,,,, x i when Leonard Rrn. hA .
i.uu isvvu aaaajaa
than usually kind. T stnrt,.,l (nil k;
I but the look he gave me at my first
1 t T a. tt T . r " " I UUl lllf lOOS IIP 17 m V 4 ma a mv firar
--un, x was not aione. 1 uastenea y hy had she told Kate Jordont She word nnAi .ni 11
B.osiirr. her. "My familv wero all I M T...l wor.l stOPPCd me, and all his urgiu
...j -..... ouiiufu ns a ureiu aossip rnn ,1 nt ,!, i: .jL
nn.hnbly wnnt,t mo I, 1.1 I ",c H"" lurtuer. till
to
with me," and then I wished people,
she, would stop saving that foolish
"you know." I knew nothing about
Mabel Horton s movements, and Mrs.
Jordon was well aware that I did not.
But having one's husband with you
means so much when there's trouble,"
she went on. "I know if anything hap
pened to any of my folks and Tom
ou Hf u InVAH uva, .... 1 - . .
her with that end in view. Whnt w,I:.'t ",uuc acu 30 10T
, . . - , I mm a v .t ;
she trying to dot To drive me into leav I I had said no .
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few
mo
at
ana
y questions oimiatint1v anil
changed the subject without giving mo
t ijpia-xur inrormation.
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then too 1 1 didn't ntfi.,1 tr. .u .k- v. j.k
3 r - vv 1 1 1 . mui ue 11 iu n k
Burns Mayson, , want me to know. Of course that mm
ed me j mind made him more surely guilty. If
But it: he were not. why n. !. .
mrr I 1 1 . . . r. . (1,.,. ..V.... 1
. : r,waatt had heard; but had asked a
F; JZa JJ"JZ: 737 m-ZZzV ho he would tell
..L """'"K tnat Mrs. Horton had been in Chicago
with anger: it would not be to nleaiwUi.. - .1.. , v . "
nr .v.nV. 1 I 'V"" llm ,nat was. But he
" -J v ..JTT iwered m
So I spent the long, dreary afternoon
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t "u"u?y 8rl ; M-v ncart already sore with mv sorrow. ith lA tn. :tc
, 1- k .1. 1 l a .v..v.-i,n 111 I III
"a ".r uivic im u iup Hiiowieage or
it never as long as I lived."
1 was angry with her, angrv with mv husband 'a rlrJfe.tlnn
myself, but oh, how I wanted to oues-lwaa terriblv iealnua l
tion her! I bit my lips to keep back I Burton Franklin had both assured
tl ,i w Ar.la It ii tx a 1 1 4 I xi .
vuv ca a-uii . inm.. tu itutl I I1HT IT1 vn W n-a a kii,fA xxt U..t ; . ' i . .
out whether Clifford and Mabel Horton i waa the vm.th in .,. . .... , were.not, -why was he so careful to
bad planned to be together, but I must ing to cope with the wordly accomplish I
not let Kate Jordon see that I knew ments and charm of an oldor w - it. li-T 7"
nothing of Mabel Horton 1 visit ,o Chi- and ! felt rjlafLat,-"ll,ft! Bcomt Bect