Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-16
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Eugene is to have new bank,
backed by a capitalist, J. w. Dono-
hue of Bird Island MINI.
49,
It is believed in some quarters that
Jimmie Culver has his eye on the
sherlff's office. Well, he will line out
for a home run.
Tom Kay is all right in demanding
that the present registration law be
changed. 1t is a fright.
Astorian: There is said to be a
man in Astoria who does not want to
go to heaven, for fear of meeting his
first wife there.
We and the Japs had Port Arthur
captured Saturday. But, it seems
that it got away again.
Was loud shouting ever known to
accomplish anything since the walls
of Jericho went down before it,
There is nothing unusual about an
editor being the brightest man at the
Methodist conference. The Lord has
to reach out and use one of the unholy
professions once in while.
If the committee to select form of
improvement for Court street would
take a drive over the brocken rock
road to Liberty they could see just
how farmers go to work to do things
and they might be able to make up
their minds before 1905.
s@&
Anyone with a thimbefull of gray
matter who will go and see what kind
of a road broken rock makes, by rid
ing or walking over the road to Lib
erty, summer or winter, and then not
conclude the dirt or river gravel roads
are not up to the intelligence of an
ostrich. ought to ask to have his intel
ect put to soak or have a receiver
appointed.
BY all means build a monument for
Sacajawea; incidentally, once in a
while improve the public school a
little and do something for the gener-
ations of today.
OF course, the honorable conser-
vatives on the school board may not |
be aware that they are giving Salem |
a reputation for going backwards with |
our public schools that it will take
years of advertising and enterprise on
the part of the people who are not
dead yet to overcome.
Bryan's outspokenness is in whole |
some contrast to Parker's close-mouth- |
edness.
Port Arthur was again taken in
Saturdays dispatches. Well, we will |
keep on taking it on paper until the
Japs do get it in reality.
OF course, it would be too much |
to ask the state government of Ore
gon to sprinkle the streets about the |
state house grounds where clouds of |
dust have been running the beautiful |
shrubbery and flowers and lawns. We
must save few dollars a week If we
ruin the property.
|. l.. Manning is doing the editorial |
work on the Salem Statesman in the |
absence of Ex-Gov. Geer, in addition
to his duties of handling the States
mans political news in this campaign |
Mr.. Manning is understood to have
very tiattering endorsements for
federal appointment in connection
with the Panama canal. Having been
for the past ten years in Nicaragua he
is accustomed to the climate and un.
derstands the prevalent jargon in that
country. Gov. Geer is to be at ST. |
Louis several weeks.
The people of Oregon will do well
to vote freak propositions. The local
option bill and the direct primary bill
were probably the work of one per.
son for each-one person with wheels
on the subject on which he got up
bill. The time has hardly come for
any one man to dictate public policies
which no one petitioned for and for
which there was no crying demand.
Colorado has adopted all these freaks,
and Is the worst hoodoed state in
America.
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