Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-13

the case OL fdrk piace, In Wn1C
street the railroad company has lai
an entire new line of rails althoug
it has not run any cars at all over |
in years, except within a few month
when 1t began running a single hors
car, which ran up and down the tw,
blocks and so around into Barcla,
street. In the latter street the OLE
car also held the right of way, bu
not so in Vesey street, where the
city authorities were able to order
the cars out on a prescript of the
court. The authorities wanted to lay
down new wooden pavement so the
railroad people laid new tracks in
Park Place, and themselves supplied
the tracks with the new pavement,
which will be extended over the full
width of the street. The car run
over the tracks takes in about a
nickle for a fare, every day or two,
and the conductor and driver con-
slider it quite an event when a pas
senger gets aboard. But the rail-
road company holds on to the tracks
just the same.
Mrs. Mary J. Wakeman-Sounders-
Powers-Gay-Lindley has
married again. This is her eighth
venture, and 1t probably entities her
to be considered the best married
woman in the world, and probably
the business of marrying when she
was only IA years of age, and is now
SO, so the average period of domes-
ticity enjoyed with each husband is
about three years, which is enough
to get acquainted with each of them,
but of course she has to refer to her
accounts at times to recall separate
one. She is now Mrs. lie Page, hav-
ing married her last named an Amer
icanized EnglishmAn, who is a few
years younger than she Is, and has
liberal bank account. She has been
married to this latest one about six
months. Mrs. lie Page has inclined
to Connecticut husbands more than
to those of any other state, four of
her eight coming from the Nutmeg
state, while three have come from
New York. Jersey City contributed
the other one. She divorced four,
and three have died. She has kept
track of them very well, indeed, and
at no time has had two at once, which
shows that even marrying can be car
ried on Systematically and without
errata.
After all the fuss and fury made
over the Rapid Transit company's
charging a double far to Coney ISL
and, and the riots that occurred on
the line when the conductors under
took to collect fares. the appellate
division of the supreme court has de-
cided that the company is perfectly
right in insisting upon passengers
paying two fares. and that its col
lection of such fares is according to
law. After fight began to get pret-
ty hot the company was compelled,
in order to satisfy the public and
the newspapers, TO issue rebate tick
cts promising TO refund the extra
nickle II the higher courts decided
against its contention. These will
now be worthless. The courts estab-
lished in the newspaper Offices, are
overruled, much TO the astonishment |
and indignation of the cigarette
smokers who wrote the decision for
the livery sheets. Judge Gaynor, |
On whose obiter dictum the papers |
also relied, found occasion before the !
appellate court spoke to give out an
to the effect that his de-
cision was really not of much con-
after all. which is another
argument for not having any politics
on the bench. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars are involved in the
natter in checks already issued for
while the loss to the railroad
would have amounted to
in few years.