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The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
The Canning Factory.

No man, or association of men should engage in any enterprise until a need for that papticular enterprise. has developed and in so far as human judgment can extend, look toward the final outcome, be it for education, charity or profit, and having determined upon a given course follow it according to the best light available.
 Now the real and pressing need for canning factory has developed (as fruit growers know from past experience), and will increase as time goes on-as the acreage of fruit in this county is increasing very rapidly. A steady home mar ket, at fair prices for our surplus fruit and garden products, becomes more and more necessary every year.
 No enterprise is more worthy to be called a community interest-and if every one does not raise fruits or vegetables for market he keeps his neighbor who does and when you keep your neighbor you in no small way keep yourself.
 The pure food laws have increased the value of fruit lands and people begin toirealize that the market for pure food is the world, and there was never a better time to put in canning factories. Properly man. aged, there is no such word as fail.
 The average business or profes- sional men has no idea of the handi- caps that attend the fruit grower, or how diligently he must seek markets for his products, or the benefit the grower would receive from an unlimited market. In Polk county we have the soil and climate to aid us, for this is the home of small fruits. and the average yield from our trees will compare favor
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.l

Chicago News.)
 Be healthy and you will be happy. It is easy to forgive when you can get even"
 About the cheapest form of charity IS giving money.
 It's easier to fall in love than it is to fall out again. Sweet are the uses of diversity for our neighbor.
 A bluff is all right as long as you can keep the lid on.
 Beware of the man who is forever harping on his honesty.
 After coaxing girl to sing man IS apt to wish he hadn't.
 After a woman has made a stren- uous but successful effort to marry
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
--------- LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR
 HESTER.

It is somewhat strange that man of the standing of G. w. Hester of Texas should go so far out of his way as he has to harass man who is known to have lived noble and useful life for more than twenty years. Even if the charges against the Rev. James Thomas were true, which they evidently are not, he has certainly made good" to a degree to entitle him to some measure of forgiveness for early errors. MT. Hester will receive but little sym pathy in the predicanent in which he has placed himself, especially as he showed disposition to try to run away from the mess he had vol. untarily stirred up,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
DUNMAN BROS. NEW STORE PICKERING AVE-

a certain man she is apt to discovo, that he is very uncertain.
 A reputation for veracity ofton enables one to lie effectively
 Many man lies out of cbar;tv but it seldom works well. T.K.H'
 Money is the grease paint that makes many bad actor look good
 Most of the worlds heroes dwell between the covers of dime novels
 Don't expect to strike any man favorably if you aim at his pocket s.. book.
 A woman speaks volumes with her eyes and whole libraries with her tongue.
 The headache of a woman is nat. ural, but that of a man is usuallv acquired.
 A man without collar button is almost as helpless as a woman with out hairpin.
 When young man squanders months salary on an engagement ring-that is love.
 Stage money is the only kind that talks; the real thing gets there as quietly as gum-shoe politician. Occasionally a married man goes around half dressed because it takes so much to dress his better half.
 When a woman wants to make man feel like $l minus 70 cents she asks him to describe the costume some other woman had on.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
tNew York Press.

kNtW tofk iEtas.1
 Every woman in the world can be interesting to men unless she is in- tellectual.
 The red hair of the parent shall be visited even unto the third and fourth generations.
 There is no great pain in having singing in the next flat when you are away from yours.
 When a woman passes l45 on the scales it's a race backwards between her age and her weight.
 One of the curious things about a girls weak ankles is when they can't walk step how far they can dance.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
The Security of Bank Deposits.

Finance is an intricate problem, but most of it's complexities arise from the fact that there is no abso- lute security for depositors who put their money in the banks. Admit ting that the establishment of such security is practically the whole problem, it is submitted that great resourceful nation, rich in natural wealth, in actual money, in splendid business minds, and presumably Tn common patriotism. ought to be able to devise some means by which the element of risk would be ellmi- mated from the banking business. It is not for the layman to suggest how this should be done, but It IS pertinent for the laymen to suggest that it could be done and should be done, not alone in the interests of those who want to save or use money, but in the interests of the nation at large---its business, its enterprse, it's spirit and it's progress generally.
 In state legislature bill was once proposed providing for the mutual insurance of state banks. An officer of large bank protested that such system would make the strong banks responsible for the weak. ones. The author of the bill replied: There is no such thing as strongsbank. Under our pres ent system every bank is liable, under possible pressure, to assaults that it cannot withstand. Banking strength is relative. The individual institution may fortify itself, but after all it partakes of the weakness of the weaker banks"
 A bank cannot afford to act mere ly as a depository. It must have money to make money, and it must make money to pay it's expenses and to reimburse those who invest in its stock. Otherwise, there would be no inducement to engage in the banking business, with it's incalcula' ble protection Iand convenience tc the public, A bank cannot be ready at all times---nor at any time---tc pay all its depositors on short notice But if depositors knew that under no possible circumstances would they lose their deposits, there would be no such demand at any time. Il is the fear of loss, not the fear o1 inconvenience, that precipitates run: on banks.
 Congress is in session, and it ha: under consideration recommends tions made by the President witt reference to currency legislation Even the President does not desig nate the kind of law that should b. enacted. but trusts to Congress tC meet the requirements. And there should be in Congress enough capaci ty, determination and patriotism tC | find some way to prevent the recur renee of such wholly artificial strin gency as that which has of late affected the nation. Kansas City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
How Joe Cannon Keeps Old. Fashioned

Joseph Gurney Cannon is a self made man of prairie design and Washington finish. He is a Quaker by birth, a farmer by nature, law yer by profession, a capitalist bv chance and statesman by an average majority of l5,OOO. He is veteran ef the forty years tariff war. and Tor thlrty-four of these years has
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Cash for cotton" are the words
 that come nearer curing the panic scare in this section than all the gold importations and bond issues and issues of certificates of indebt- edness in the East and Washington.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

lawmakers can be justified in refus- ing to take some step in this direc- tion for the protection of the peo- ole they represent.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

The farmer who makes it prac- tice to raise as nearly as possible what he needs for the use of himself and family is the last to feel or sui fer from any sort of panic.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
THE MENA EVENING STAR

Is a progressive newspaper furnishing 10 It's readers a daily service covering eral happenings as we'll as those items of local news that 20 to make home paper invaluable to citizens of any com fnunity If you want the news Tn your nome each week day, subscribe for The Evening Star. By carrier or mail, 40c
 CT month.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Uncle Sam's big fleet of warships is about ready to start on it's cruise to the Pacific. If there's any par ticular country that objects, pro- tests should be filed quickly.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

those readers who enjoy such news will have to possess themselves with patience until the Thaw trial again takes the stage.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
NEW STORE---DRY GOODS. GROCERIES, FLOUR
 AND FEED

x17E Have recently purchased the building and lot formerly
 w occupied by Mosey & Sons on Pickering avenue oppo site the freight depot We have put in new stock Dry Goods
 E1o,r and Feed and will endeavor to merit portion of - de We can assure you that rule will be "a fair deal = v customer Our stock not as large some but it is m ood as any, and will grow. Come and see us.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Now that Mrs. Bradley has been acquitted for the killing of United States Senator Brown of Utah,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Nothing is impossible to man who can and will.-- Mirabeau.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12
rlENA BANKS VERY STRONG

This issue of The Star publishes the official statements of the two national banks of Mena, as required by law. Considering the fact sthat all the banks of Mena have during the past weeks placed no restrictions upon their depositors, something almost unknown elsewhere from one end of the country to another, these reports are especially inter- esting, showing as they do, that the banks have in cash in their vaults almost three times the amount re- quired by law as a legal reserve. They are certainly to be congratu- lated on the showing made, and 1t is evident from the deposits that the people appreciate the conditions.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12


 The metropolitan newspapers, regardless of party affiliations, that are notoriously against the policies of reform advocated by President Roosevelt, are unanimous in finding fault because his late message in some particulars follows the lines of his former one. Some papers, like some politicians, belive in making a great shout for some reform meas ure in behalf of the people and then forgetting all about it. Mir. Roose- welt realizes that there are many evils yet uncured and is not going to allow the legislators to forget them if he can avoid it.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Governor Haskell of Oklahoma in his message to the new legislature urged as most important that de- positors in state banks be guaranteed against loss by failures. It would be pleasing to see the new state take the lead in this movement for the protection of it's people as well as against panics that result from lack of faith in banks.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Superintendent F. B. De Garmo, who was in Mena yesterday in the regular line of his duty. expressed himself as being especially pleased with the city generally, but objected seriously to what he chose to call joints" which he believes are responsible for much demoralization among railroad employees. MT. De Garmo seems to feel that despite the long list of indictments found by the last grand jury there is still much work to be done in Mena along lines of law enforcement.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-12-12

Some of the newspapers that have been most active in abusing the national administration for spending money in getting the great fleet of warships ready for its'cruise to the Pacific are now professing to be greatly alarmed for fear the Japs are going to force us into war. It is easy to figure out what they would have said had the navy not been fully equipped and ready for "any event ality, "as Admiral Dewey is pleased call it, at this time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
AZ the VI. T.. Church

good-sized audience was present
the First Methodist church last
ht for the opening meeting OF the
nngelistic campaign by Evangelist
X. Haudenschieldl After a short
ne service, the evangelist was In
Pdueed by the pastor OF the church,
H. sellek, and at once produced
favorable impression by his splen-
baritone voice In the leading OF
y chorus.
During the evening Haudensehield
'pAe on the topic What Shall do
BE Saved" from Luke 1876. His
press was full OF humor, and at the
'ne time had much OF seriousness
y force. There is no doubt but
y the Methodists have secured
Ia man 10 conduct their revival
''iees' and that much good will
'oR from his visit. He will speak
fg night except Saturday. with
Hee services on Sunday.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
CIRCUS RIDER DEAD.
Peculiar Death Of Aged Performer
In Circus Ring.

A New York newspaper says an oil
man giving the name OF John Morris
sey and who said hs was n former
circus rider. died suddenly while civ.
ing an exhibition IN q circus in that
city. Tho man had applied TO the
proprietor Tor aid saying;
Let mo work 10 earn Il. can
ride for you n you'll lot me. Tt's
been my trade. My namo Ia John
Morrissay."
He was sent TO the cook tent and
later was given a pony and told to
show what he could do. To the sur
prise OF the performers Morrissey
went through feat after feat. The
shabby old man became transngured
ON tho horse. Several times he
laughed aloud as the other perform.
ers applauded his riding.
Suddenly the man flung his head
Into air. struggled an instant as N
20 retail his balance and then pitched
headlong Into the ring. A physIcIan
who was summoned said the man
died almost instantly.
Nothing Is known about the old
circus rider. and his body was car.
ried 10 tho morgue.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
! CURRENT EVENTS /

The American warships now IN
Central American waters will be re
tanned there.
The Great Northern railroad an
nounees reductions In its passenger
rates for the whole system.
The Anaconda Copper Company.
of Montana, announces profits OF S..
100000 in one year.
At Bradford. X. /. two submarine
boats are making sa 24-hour trial
test under water with "a men on
board OF them.
The American immigration com.
mission to investigate sources OF for
eign immigration has gone abroad TO
carry on its work
The Pennsylvania legislature ad-
journed today. II passed n two-cent
fare bill and created a railroad COM
mission.
The Baroness de Massey. convicted
OF manslaughter in killing Gustav
Simon, was sentenced today for sew
en- years.
President Roosevelt was today
made a life member OF the National
Association OF Professional Baseball
Leagues. He was presented with
gold card eonferring life member.
ship and entry to 256 cities. compris.
ing the association.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
ROSEBURG RALLIES
FOR ELECTRIC ROAD
TO COOS BAY
The Public Spirited Citizens Subscribe 0He Hundred thousand Dollars
In Iwenty.fOur Hours

Roseburg Special: The Rosebure
and Coos Bay Railroad will be built
The future OF the Queen City OF
Southern Oregon is safe The crisis
has been bravely met and safely
passed The committee has secured
subscriptions to the capital stock
from Roseburg citizens amounting to
100000. This was all that was
asked for at this time and insures
the speedy construction OF the line.
There is no use In denying the
fact. The fate of this city has
long been hanging In the balance.
It has got to build this or some other
road or sink into obscurity. The
business people of Roseburg are not
doing any sinking or shrinking just
now, and the road to Coos hay will
he built Immediately.
Within less time than twenty-four
hours, the public spirited citizens
of Roseburg subscribed 100000 TO
the capital stock OF the Roseburg
and Coos Bay railroad. The commit
tee. consisting OF w. II. Fisher, A. G..
Marsters. +. Il. Alley. w. l.. Cobb
and J. II, Booth, started out with
the subscription paper Monday af-
ternoon at o'clock and secured
$4,000 before the close OF business
that day. This afternoon the re-
mainder was raised.
This means there Is no longer any
doubt the road will be constructed.
and the work will be done speedily.
Marshfiela citizens have already con-
100000 as starter and
are willing to do more
The committe that did the excel
lent work OF raising the funds will
leave Roseburg Thursday or Friday
for Coos Bay and will meet Marsh
field Saturday with committees from
that city. North Bend Coquille. Ban
don and Myrtle Point to plan the
details for the building OF the line.
At this meeting II is expected
that the company will be organized
and all the details of the enterprise
be determined upon. II Is probable
that the construction work will be
begun at both ends of the line and
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible. As soon as few miles are
built at each end, cars will be put on
and the people will begin TO derive
practical benifits from their prog
-ess before the road Is completed.
The 100000 subscribed by Rose
burg citizens In a few hours by no
means represents all that Roseburg
viii invest in this enterprise. This
Imount was subscribed merely as an
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
BURNED TO DEATH.
bur Children, a Baby and Mother
Escape With Burns-Incen-
diarism.

n walla Walla. Wash, May 16.-In
h IRE which broke out in the upper
IONS Of James Leightle's residence
y North Palouse street. near Web
Ne tannery, at 9 O'Clock Tuesday
Eght, a 6-year-old boy was burned TO
bath, and, in rescuing an 11-year-ol |
ky, the father was so badly burned
&nt Il is feared he cannot live. The
8er boy was severely burned on
D arms, but will recover.
Mrs. Leightle escaped downstairs
|th baby In her arms, She was
Ferely but not dangerously burned.
fnr other children escaped with
bly slight burns.
/ The whole family was sleeping up
RIrs when the fire broke out In the
tys' room from an unknown cause
ben the father awoke his night
pbe was on fire and the stairway
Fs ablaze. He carried out the old.
boy and attempted TO go back for
y younger boy. but the fines we're
p fierce and he was driven bacl:
p light was burning in the house
N the origin OF the fire Is a mys-
'y.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
Law Commencement.

The law department OF Willamette
University will hold its commence
ment exercises Saturday evening In
the First NJ. Il. church OF this city.
The following excellent program has
been arranged:
Guiraud
Professional March ....... .CautieF
T. s. Roberts.
Invocation.
Vocal selection, Good Night. Good
Night. Beloved" ....,,,..Pi Pinsuii
Misses Ketehum and Hales. Messrs
Bisbee and Strang.
Address. Hon. Alfred +. Sears, Jr.
Vocal solo. II Baocio, "valse
Briiliante" .ATditi
Mernle A. Hug.
OF class.
OF degrees.
Vocal selection. The Long Day
Closes .... o. ...... .sulllYan
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16

The black bear has her cubs. from
one To three. In her den during the
months OF March and April. and Il IL
an Interesting thlng 10 know that
she has the power 10 give birth 10
her young at least two weeks before
the proper time n driven from her
den. She will return TO her cubs N
let alone. In the den she cares for
her young until the SHOWS of tho
north country have sufficiently melt
cd TO permit OF her getting about.
whom she hits the trail' again. She
eats nothing during the ave months
that she hibernates. except that from
time 10 time she will lap the lcicle
which is made by the freezing of her
breath on hor paws. She ventures
forth as soon a. the snow has sufie.
iently melted TO permit OF her getting
about and for several days will eat
nothing but heml0ck bark and certain
roots. which act aA a Dhysic. When
In her normal state Of health again
she Il ravonoualy hungry and will
diligently nah the brooks and streams
Ia search OF dinner OF trout. will
hunt up the earcasses OF deer or
moose which have been ovefeome BY
the severity Of the winter OF will prey
upon porcuDlnea BY quickly putting
her paw under the stomach and roll
Ing tho poreupine on its back. then
with n slap tear out the entralla and
escape the qullls. Field and Stream.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16
Hand Concert.

9hs Sale'h Military Band gave q
delightful program lat night in Will
son avenue Notwithstanding the
ohIlliness OF the weather. there was
a large and appreclatlye crowd pres
ent. The next concert will be given
In Marion square Sunday afternoon.
The program rendered last evening
was as follows:
March. March Royal" SO. Bagley
Overture, Morning Noon and
Night ...... ........ .Suppe
Waltz. "The Spirit OF Love-. Hall
Schottish. Goodbye, Jennie Jones"
...... ..ssss u NOhboF
Selection, "The Sho Gun" ..Luders
Characteristic march. big Chief
Battle Axe" ....,,.......A Allen
March. Chicago Tribune ..
............. 80. Chambers
March "Gloria" .Losey
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16

liquors is invalid aud for that rea-
son the conviction of Berger must
fail.
The Judgment.
Jake Berger plaintiff. VS.. the City
of Eugene, municipal corporation,
defendant.
The above cause came on 10 ba
heard, the plaintiff appearing by its
attorney, l.. Il. Bean, city attorney,
and ]. NJ. Williams. After hearing
the argument of counsel. the court
reserved said CAUSE for further con-
sideration and being now advised In
the premises.
II Is ordered considered and adj
judged that tho Judgment rendered
against ana sentence imposed upon
the said Jack Berger on the 9th day
OF February. 1907. In the recorders
court for the city OF Eugene In the
cause wherein tho city OF Eugene was
plaintiff and Jake Berger was de-
fendant. he and said Judgment and
sentence are hereby annulled.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-16

evidence Of good faith in order that
when the committee goes to Marsh
field Friday its members can say to
the Coos county people: Gentle
men, we will meet you half way"
Roseburg Is expected to invest
heavily in this road, because the cap
italists of this city are looking for
good investments. and Il has been
elearly shown that this will prove to
be one of the best and safest. From
the very beginning II Is believed tho
road will pay 10 per cent on its
stock after paying interest on any
money Il may be necessary TO bor-
row. and paying for the cost of OPP
Grafton. As the terminal cities grow
ans the fertile country along the
line develops, this percentage will
very materially be increased.
glance at the subscription list
will show that the business people OF
'Roseburg can be depended upon 20
meet any emergency that arises In
the affairs OF the city. IL will be seen
that many OF the heaviest investors
are men OF moderate means. and
men whose money Is tied up In their
everyday business. Yet their faith
In this project and In the future OF
the city Is SO great they have been
Willing TO make some sacrifices.
While the money asked for was
raised in an incredibly short time. it
meant a great deal OF hard and EN-
Client work on the part OF the mem
bers OF this committee. and their SER
vice to this city is one that will not
soon be forgotten. ,
Coos Hay Ready.
Coos Bay II ready TO receive the
new electric road. A company has
already been organized to build a
terminal road that will connect all
the string OF bay towns and when the
line first reaches the coast connec-
tion will have already been provided
for all the Coos points.
+. u. Waite. OF Marahfleld. who
Is a member OF the Marshfield com
mlttee. was In Roseburg today.
Speaking OF the road This morning.
he said:
I'VE have organized local COM
pany for an electric road terminal TO
extend from the mouth of Deep creek
on Sunset bay through Empire. North
Bend and Marshneld TO the head OF
lsthmus slough.
"The feeling in Coos county for an
electric road connecting Douglas and |
Coos counties. IL enthusiastic ana |
our people are very anxious TO co.
operate with tho people OF Douglas
In building the road"