The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-05

The had no arms. Inere came near pc
ing suicide.-Albany Democrat
At Seattle VIM. S. Thomas, alias
Kid Smith, held for murder OF Patrol
man A. c. Schaneman, succumbed to
surgical operation. The doctors say
that cowardice was the real cause Of
death, as Smith always feared lynch.
ing
The Retail Butchers Association
holds national convention at Wash.
ington, d. c., today. Wonder if they
will take up the all-important ques-
ton, how much free cats meat is
an ordinary customer entitled to call
for at the counter?
Is It any wonder that DIR. Andrew
c. Smith couldn't get to he president
Of the senate and fell down on his
candidate for the United States sen.
ate? Has he displayed brains and
ability at anything but slandering sa.
lem?
You can't do business these days
without advertising in the daily pa.
pers, any more than you can sell a
piano without playing the instrument.
The man who does not advertise,
slowly but surely drops out of the
trade.
Ncrdica opens her farewell concert
tour at Baltimore tonight. She has
become a famous woman since The
Journal X-ray man used to take her
home from a backwoods country ting.
ing school in Iowa back in the '6Cs,
when she wore short dresses.
The gold output IN Colorado has de-
clined about $2,5OOOOO on account of
the prolonged miners strike in that
state. That is only a small part Of
the loss caused by the interruption of
all industries. Are not all strikes a
method altogether too costly in a civ.
ilized country?
Miss Bryan is well married, Bryan
is stumping Ohio, and later will go to
Europe with his son. Mrs Bryan will
run the house at lincoln. the hired
man will run the farm, the coal and
wood for the winter are probably pro.
vided and the wolf will be kept from
the door. The harvest from politics
probably continues to yield bigger re.
turns than from Mr. Bryan's Nebraska
ranch.
Men OF Irish extraction have risen
to prominence In our state, but none
so rapidly as DR.. Woods Hutchison,
secretary Of the state board Of health.
But few years In the country, he is
practically at the head of a most i'm.
portant body, that holds the welfare
OF the state and its citizens in the
palm OF its hands. Just to look at
his published pictures one would
think that he had but just come from
County Kerry, and to study his mouth
and read his utterances, one feels
sure he must have kissed the blarney
stone.
With Salem their largest field to
sell newspapers. II would seem as II
the Portland publishers might abe a
little more considerate about publiea.
tions announcing that our water sup
ply is polluted when they have no
proof OF that fact. The statements
already published can never be re
called. The injury TO Salem real es-
tate can never be made good. Yet
the Salem people continue 20 shell ont
thousands OF dollars annually for the
newspapers that are so careless about
the good name and fame OF the com.
munity where they get their bread and
butter Let it be said that the Salem
reporters for those papers uniformly
speak well OF this city. The mud
singing is done by people at the other
end who are not alive to their own
best business interests and the devel,
opment OF Oregon as a whole
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Oregon once had a state board OF
charities. II performed a few fool
acts and was wiped out OF existence,
The state board OF health should learn
a lesson from the history OF that
short-lived body. What right had the
state board OF health TO single out this
community for special attack? Could
they not have made their communica-
tion to the proper authorities in this
lcity and have accomplished a great
deal more for real reform? win gen
tlemen use their official position 70
give any community a black eye be
fore the world? Could they not have
discussed the sources OF water supply
without naming any city? Was it not
in wretohed bad taste TO name one 10