The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-02-08

sweep of territory in, the northern
part of the United States and Can.
ada. A bitter, bitter north wind
whistled like a gale through this
area, which moved gradually west
ward until Oregon and Washing
ton hung upon it's edge. Then
came the weather mans prediction
that another protracted cold snap
was at hand, for all indications
pointed toward the high pressure
zone enveloping the entire region.
But the weather man was fallible
for out somewhere in the Pacific
Ocean, hundreds of miles off the
the coast, an area of low barometer
pressure was gradually forming,
bearing eastward. 1t was Zeph-
yrus marshaling his subtle forces
for battle with the titanic Boreas.
The two wind gods, the fierce, the
raging. the bitter, the cold Boreas,
and the gentle. rollicking, balmy
and warm Zephyrus, were sweeping
toward each other, and the conflict
was unavoidable. The fret intima-
ton of the weather Office had was
when the vanguard puffs of Zephy-
rus tossed up the ocean off the coast
and hurled a roaring surf booming
along the shing1e. This meant
danger and sent the storm signals
up at all points. Boreas' progress
was watched for it had been report
ed from the zero regions In the
East. ....s.- e.. ..
Then, when the giants met for
the struggls it looked as if the cold
and fercy north wind would con-
quer, but he was vanquished and
oriven from the field, and Zephyrus
held the day. Down sank the ba.
rometer and up jumped the mercu-
ry, and the wind sang a chant of
victory. The white blanketed hills
felt the breath of the balmy Zephy.
rus and soon they changed to a
snowless waste of barren slopes.
The waters came down from the
heights, they surged into the placid
streams and choked them with rag
ing, turbulent floods. They up
rooted trees, they ripped out bridg-
es, boats were .buffeted by them,
RATS of logs and !driftwood crept
faster and faster along the crests,
and glutted with this influx from
Its tributaries the Willamette soon
started on it's present rampage.
These factors played leading parts
in the dangerous treshet now pre-.
vailing, and likely to grow worse
during the next few days.
Washington, Feb. 6.-No less
an authority than Richard Olney,
ex-seeretary of state and of the
treasury, has expressed himself, and
in writing, upholding the conten-
ton of California that the manage
nnent of schools is not federal af.
fair.
Sepresentative Samuel w. Cal
of the eighth congressional district
of Massachusetts, was quoted in g
Boston paper as criticising the
language the president used In biz
message, and especially that por'
ton of it where it referred to the
use of armed forces of the United
States TO whip California into line
on the schooling of japanese, ano
the interview called out the letter
from M. Olney, who said that it hae
boen assumed that the issue lay
between the laws of the state o
California and the rights purport
ing to be granted to Japanese b.
treaty.
Even on that theory, he said. th
: laws OF California should prevail
But what be wished particularly t
, call attention to was that, in poin
of fact, no such issue was involved
; Mr.. Olney aualyzed the first articl
of the treaty and said:
IF that was all there was to i
it might be possible to argue, thong
1 think without success, that the,
was conflict between Japanes
treaty rights and the rights ordit
= arily conceded to and exercised b
. the state of California.
Quoting article two, dealing wit
! the police power of the state, M
= Olney says that Japan is who'll
without cause of complaint again
California by reason Of her publ
! school system, and that the Unite
!. States is without legal ground of il
. terfereuee with that system.
II General Draper, formerly amba
: sador to Rome, recently wrote
= Congressman Call approving of Il
= sentiments he had expressed In Il
: Boston paper. -
= Congress is deeply interested
y the negotiations for the new Japa
: 1ese treaty, and Massachusetts, re
> resentatives are discussing the pro
S lems involved, as eagerly as ara II