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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
s4nARIEs OF sHER1FES.

The Judiciary committee, it is said, has agreed to report bill putting the eight sheriffs of the State on a salary basis, instead of paying them, as now, by fees. The agitation over the abol- ishment of the fee system wherever it is now in force has been intelligently carried on and debated. It is a relic of the political organization of society, when men were paid in accordance with the simple service they rendered and when steady service was undream- ed of, In these days when more busnesslike organization of society has come in response to needs which are of every day occurrence, the payment of official services in the form of fees suggests return to the stage coach as means of visiting surrounding towns and cities.
 According to Hartford dispatches the Judiciary committee has been extreme ly liberal in Its apportionment of the eight salaries, $6,OOO for New Haven county, $5,000 for Hartford and Fair field counties $4,000 for New London county, s2,5O0 for Windham and Mid d1esex counties, SS,O0O for Litchfield county and s2,G00 for Holland county. In the absence of exact information as to what the office of sheriff has paid in the past it is difficult to give final opinion as to the quality of the judg- ment used by the committee. We should say, however, as an illustra- ton, that paying the sheriff of New Haven county S6,000 year makes him approach very nearly to the justices of the supreme court and the judges of the superior court in compensation and official dignity, while it permits him to soar over the head of the gov- ernor of the State, who would then get $2,000 a year less.
 If we understand rightly it is the purpose of the new sheriff of this coun- ty to follow the example of Sheriff Durham and live at the county jail where rent is free and board is free. Estimating these advantages at their true value we should find him, with but one exception, the highest paid of ficial in the State of Connecticut. This is an absurd discrimination to exercise as between servants of the people. es-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
HE pERs1srhNr BICrcLr


 The bicycle, like the horse, persists in the face of the automobile. Of course 1t doesn't persist in getting in the way of the automobile, but it doesn't get off the earth just because the automobile has got on 1t. Figures have been gath cred from number of cities, and in Cleveland, Ohio, where the conditions of the trade are said to be typical, the increase in the business of the bicycle dealers thus far has been from thirty to fifty per cent. over that of last year.
 Much the same story comes from England. It is interesting to hear that not even in the palmiest days of the first boom have Coventry and the oth- CT English centers of cycle manufac- ture been so busy. New works are said to be "springing up like mush- rooms" and the enormous increase in factories has so increased the demand for cottages that some of the workmen have to cycle miles to their homes.
 As the bicycle is an accomplishing, useful and comparatively gentle steed, the revival 1t is having is good news.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
story of q Dandellon.

A dandelion grew in a garden plat In the shade of an old stone wall; Her slender leaves made an emerald
 mat,
 Where the stem grew straight and
 tall In the cool spring days she had worn
 hood
 That was small and tight and green She wore 1t as long as she possibly
 could,
 Till many a hole was seen. Then she sent down word through her
 stem and mat
 TO the storehouse under her feet, That she needed at once a bright new
 hat,
 With trimmings and all complete. It was fine as silk and yellow as gold Like a star that had fallen down With brightest trimmings, fold or
 fold,
 The gayest hat in town And next she wanted summer hat, Adorned with small white plumes; So they sent her one, Tn place or thai They had sent with yellow blooms. For many a day she waved and danced And bowed to the birds and bees; For many a day the sunbearns glanced Through leaves of the friendly trees But brisk little wind went by, ont
 day,
 "Piease give me your hat" he cried He carried the little white plume' And scattered them far and wide.
 Elliot A. Curtis.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

dependent life away from home, and who do not complain of them. It is this which makes the case a more than or dinarily serious one to deal with, If we are correctly informed, deliberate charges of neglect and excessive ex- penses were made over a year ago to the corporation, and while in some of the more important details a cor rection was made in administration, no such improvement in a general way has been made as to justify criticism of the present hostile attitude of the student body.
 Even admitting the difficulties in the way of satisfactorily feeding hundreds of students three times a day, and they must be many and serious, the burden still rests on the Yale authorities to find a solution of them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, one Dollar a Yeal
WHY NOT IN NEW HAHENq

The Presidential campaign isn't very warm yet, but there is pretty warm campaign. on out West to get the na- tional conventions Chicago wants both of them and means to have them St. Louis also wants them, and Kan sas City is lat present" asking only for the Republican convention. But 1t is asking hard, so hard that the Kansas City Journal feels moved to say: If Kansas City's two overgrown rivals persist in their hoggishness Kansas City can play that game, too. It must be remembered that Kansas City ham dles a good many thousands of hogs every year and two more will not make much difference. Moreover, if Kansas City finds that in order to ac- complish it's object, to get the Repub- lican convention, it must go after the Democratic convention also, to trade votes, etc, our St. Louis and Chicago friends must understand that we have every facility they possess and then some. We have ample railroad facili- ties and more central location; bet ter climate in summer; plenty of frst- class hotels, unsurpassed by either of them; warmer brand of hospitality, and finer convention hall, With far better acoustic properties than any building in St. Louis or Chicago. In other words, they have no advantage over us in any material respect, while Kansas City has two important ad- vantages over them, that is, in the po- litical aspect and in it's unequaled as- sembly hall Men who go to a nation- al convention prefer above everything else to hear and to be heard, on the floor as well as in the newspapers.
 That's talking some If the fight gets too warm why not compromise on New Haven? New Haven may not be quite as conveniently situated for a national cohyention as some of the cities of the Middle West are, but national conven. tions which were not political have been held here to the entire satisfaction of all concerned New Haven is a good convention city, and political conveners would have a good and an interesting time here and at savin Rock just as other conveners have had, It may also be said that New Haven is as conven- lent place for national political con. vention as Philadelphia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
I'D QUE HEADERS.

We begin in to-day's issue what we confidently expect will be a wise, in- teresting and discriminating review from day to day of the doings of New Haven society people. What our friends and neighbors are doing to add to the social life of the city, what their diversions are, and what shape the ambition of their hours of recrea- tion takes, form human documents which experience shows are of never failing concern. As it is the purpose of The Journal and Courier to enter respectfully more and more into the Hives of the people of New Haven, we have added this feature to those other features which have already brought us congratulations and an increased number of daily readers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

the summer and I want to have 1t over before she goes so I can have the satisfaction of not inviting her."-Chi- cago Tribune.
 Maude--"I thought you had made Jack swear off smoking cigarettes" Ethel-"I did. But I had to let hina begin again. couldn't think of thing to give him for Christmas that didn't have something or other to do with tobacco. Life.
 There is no way of guessing the races" remarked the man with sad look in his eye.
 No," answered young Mrs Torkins. T have noticed the jockey with the most beautiful costume is as liable to win as anybody else. Washington Star.
 Tt Is easy to see that the baby takes after me" MT. Nupaw asserted. He is as bald az am, his eyes are brown as are mine, he resembles me in features, he"
 Also" cut in the wife, as tlie kid set up a howl for his monday meal, he goes after the bottle about as often as you do." Mrs. Nupaw did all the talking for the rest of the evening" Bohemian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
GENERAL KURoKr IN vEw H4rEY.

The brave General Kuroki came to New Haven as modestly as he went to war. There was nothing fiamboyant about him or his reception here. In- deed, his reception was just little too modest. For when he rode by the noble Green on his way to Yale he looked at it with interest, and, strange to say, his eagle eye didn't see the glorious Flag of the Free flying from the fiagpole, for the reason that it wasn't so flying. It would have been a pretty compliment to him to have the flag of his own country flying from the flagpole, but not to have any flag showed that somebody wasn't thinking as hard as public servants say they think. But however. as the song says.
 1 The General had a good quiet time here and seemed to enjoy 1t. He has seen much in this country but nothing grander or more useful than Yale. And 1t may be remarked that Yale and New Haven have not often seen a grander and more useful man than the stout-hearted and thoroughly trained little Japanese General who was the victor in three of the most important and savage battles of these times and perhaps of any times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
4 PRINCIPLE INVOLVED.

The facts which The Journal and Courier has already printed in connec- tion with the management of the Yale dining hall have no relation, either re- rnotely or otherwise, with any desire to start a newspaper sensation. What ever a personal disposition might be to ignore mistakes in administration in any of the departments of Yale uni- versity, a sense of duty towards very large community of young men de- tnands such conservative publicity as we have been appealed to to give, and which we have given.
 From one point of view the city of New Haven is as directly interested and concerned as Is Yale univer- sity, for though there is some thing of disagreement upon this point by mer of like intelligence, wa still maintain that the lives or the two are So CloselS OOll0SI ed that errors of judgment in the conduct of one heap up the burdens to be carried by the other. Whether the wholesale producers of the city of New Haven should have the advantage of the trade of the dining hall is a ques- ton by itself, though, as general proposition, it would appear that local dealers should, all things being equal, he considered. There is no question as to what the attitude of the dining hall management should be towards the hundreds of students with whom con- tract is made to board them in a heaithful manner and a liberal spirit
 The students complain and complain bitterly, that while they are charged for the best meat and produce to be had in the market, and while the best prices are paid, the meals are inferior both as to quality and substance. These are not charges made in @ f1tful way bv boys who suddenly miss the cosk- ina they have at home. They come fiom students who are accustomed tc the exaetiens and sacrifices of an in-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

The Buffalo Commercial says that the daily revelation of the antics and the immortality and the tomfoolery in the ranks of the prominent million aires, make decent people, men and women of limited incomes, proud of their poverty Not exactly proud of their poverty perhaps, but sure that they wouldn't behave so, even if they had the time and money
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
INVITATIONS.

What did you have for lunch?'
 q had some nearcoffee, some almost eggs, little baconine, and wedge of not-quite pie" Washington Herald.
 Knicker-"Do you consider poker a game of chance?" Purely. Sometimes my wife finds it out, and then again she n't."-Harpers s Bazaar.
 Blinks-"The first principle of anar- chism is to divide with your fellow man. is it not?" winks-"No. The first principle is to make your fellow man divide with you."-Chicago Daily News
 Don't you think" asserted Mrs. Old castle, that the new minister was rather grandiliquent Sunday morn- ing?" Oh, I don't know" replied her hostess; "in fact, he looked rather pale and thin to me.''-Chicago Record Herald.
 Nan-"Going to marry Jack this month. are you? He just wouldn't wait till June, eh?"
 Fan-"It isn't on Jacks account that I'm hurrying the weding. That Gar linghorn girl is going away in June for
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

pecially as we here in New Haven have before us a proposal to give school teachers a mere pittance in advance of what they now receive. Just imagine the board of education measuring school teachers from the point of view of the New Haven county sheriff, or just imagine the taxpayers estimating the value of school services compared with those given by the high sheriff. Then some wise discrimination could be looked for.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

Mir. Mason, who is the chief bene- ficiary of the James Henry Smith millions, explains that the reason why his uncle favored him was because he always stuck to his job of railroading and never showed a disposition t" dis count his wealthy prospects. People who have not wealthy prospects will also do well to stick to their jobs
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

the Shrines of Ise They were pre- sented by the Japanese War Office. A thanksgiving service was rendered to the imperial ancestors. whose assist ance is regarded as having given vic- tory to Japan's army. Major General Oshiage mentioned in an address at the service that the number of prisoners taken by the Japanese in the war was 64,SOO, the number of rifles captured 11O,54S and the number of swords and lances 6,455.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
4 LOOKING roR rRouB1E.

Wilful waste makes woful want, the old readers used to say, and there is no doubt that the United States is a wasteful country. Indeed, it can fairly be called extravagant. Mines and Min erals thinks that in our haste to get rich we are destroying at least fifty per cent. of everything in the mineral line we lay our hands on. Nothing but the richest gold mines are worth looking at; the same thing applies to all the mines of precious minerals and pre- cious stones. When we come to our iron deposits nothing but the richest of the ores is shipped away the leaner ore is wasted, much of It destroyed for- ever. It is a fact, and has been proved by the United States Geological Sur vey, that forty per cent. of the mag nificent anthracite deposits in Pennsyl- vania, the duplicate of which has not been found on earth, has been lost Tor ever. Up to this time, fifty per cent, of the bituminous coal area worked over has been wantonly destroyed, and the destruction is being swiftly carried on on every side, 3l
 By and by the evils of such work will be severely felt. The evils of the way our forests have been dealt with are already felt
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

A Kansas woman has broken a bone in her wrist while doing fancy work. There is no report of a woman break ing any bone while doing plain house. work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

A pair of extraordinary elephant tusks lately shown in London meas ure in length eleven feet five inches and eleven feet, respectively, but each has girth at the base of only eigh- teen and one-half inches, and together they weigh but 29S pounds. The great length and slenderness of these tusks, as contrasted to the usual comDara- lively short and stout ones, has sug- gested that there may be two races of elephants in East Africa, the supposed source of the tusks.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

Two more States have established direct election of United States Sen ators--Iowa and Washington-making five States this year, and a total of eighteen The Northern States are Oregon, Washington, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma, with unanimous House in Pennsylvania and tie vote in the Senate, and the contest still "on" The Southern States are vir- ginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arr kansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

A Kentucky court has decided that speculating in stocks Is not gambling. Does that mean that it isn't even a game of chance?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS
 A MONTH. S8 FOR SIX MONTHS. ss A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES. CENTS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
Ehnrattn11.

MIR. FREDERICK WELD will engage the services of 8 limited number of good singers for corus choir. Voices tried at 139 Orange St.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

During the last six weeks 452,O0O peo- pie have died of the plague in India More than three times as many people as there are in New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
SAYINGS AND DOTNGS.
The number of baptized citizens in Japan has increased since 1872 from 9 to more than 50,0O0.

Locusts are proving hardly less destructive in German Southwest Africa than the three years rising of natives. A settler not long ago att tempted to defend his little plot of land by digging all around it a ditch one yard broad and of equal depth, at the bottom of which he lit a fire. But the insects swarmed into the ditch till the flames had been extinguished by their accumulated corpses.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
Ihe gGmruaI sud Cn1rrter

THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE, 900 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB- LISHED IN CONNECTICUT.
 Founded 1766.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

Work isn't giving out yet. It is es- timated that 60O00 laborers will be needed during this season in different sections of Canada in constructing new railroads. New steamers are go- ing into commission and all available ones will be chartered for the new immigrants that are booked in Great Britain for the Dominion. As an in- ducement, laborers have only to pay S4S4 on their passage, the balance to be deducted from their wages. They are guaranteed $2 a day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-21

Three of the great pieces of artillery used at Port Arthur, including the big gest of the nine hundred guns captured from the Russians in the war, have been permanently mounted in front of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-08
Among the Exchanges
of the Inland Empire

reforestration nursery on Mink creek
in the Pocatello National forest. will
shortly be enlarged to provide for
the planting of approximately mil
lion trees The capacity of the Mink
creek nursery is now about 10000
plants. Mr.. Spring arrived in Po-
catello Tuesday, accompanied by Mr..
Sickle, and on the following morn
ing they were driven to Mink creek
by Supervisor Peter Wrensted of this
city. After an inspection of the
nursery, and an examination and
analysis of the soil and climatic con-
ditions, which conspire to make the
Mink creek region almost ideal for
reforcstration purposes. Mr.. Spring
announced that he would recommend
to the forestry bureau at Washing
ton an enlargement to provide for Il
million young plants. The work of
extending the nursery will be taken
up as soon as possible after Mr..
Spring returns to Washington
| Pocatello Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-08
Two Men Badly shot at Kippen.


As the result of a fight here to-
night, A. f. Peterson lies at the point
of death with a bullet through his
forehead and Murray Gum Is dis
abled by a bullet through both thighs.
w. II. Curry, who fired the SHOTS Is
in jail at Lewiston, to which point ne
was hurried by Deputy Sheriff Mas
ters.
owing to the great excitement pre-
vailing here only meagre details are
available 1t seems that Murray,
Gum and w. F. Curry had quarreieu
with each other all the afternoon.
Finally the matter eliminated in an
encounter In which Curry drew his
gun and fired, one bullet striking
Murray and penetrating both thigns,
and the other from all that could
be learned, accidentally striking Pc
terson in the forehead
Curry, the man who did the shoot-
ing, is saloonkeeper from Mohier'
Gum will be remembered as the man
who was formerly marshal at Culde-
sac and who at one time was arrested
for stealing n picture from a res
taurant there. Peterson Is an engi-
neer at the Erickson sawmill at this
place.
As far as could be learned Peter
son was a on-combatant and was In
a room in the rear OF the saloon
when struck by the bullet
Peterson Is in serious condition.
1t appears that the shooting al
fray resulted from Murray Gum tax
ing IS from q table run by Curry IN
a gambling game.-Lewiston Tribune
(Kippen Corres.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-08
Ro,sc.Cal,iwell Intcrurban Sold.

on last Wednesday a deal was
closed by which the Boise Valley
Railway becomes the purchases Of
the Caldwell Interurban Railway.
We understand that the purchase
price was $4,000, which is to be
paid in bonds of the Boise Valley
road. We were told by DR.. Ustick
and Mr.. Cherry who were here and
concluded the deal for the Boise
Valley people, that the road was to
come down from Boise on the town
ship line until they had reached In
dian creek when it would follow the
edge of the bench northwest until
about oppose the stockyards and
would cross the o. s. L. just above
the stockyards and come over to Ar
thur street and then down into town
by Campbell & Gartin's barn, and
would there turn and run to the de-
pot-Caldwell News.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-08
ssOO.OOO for 35,147 Acres.

One OF the biggest deals in land
on record in this section was con-
summated Wednesday afternoon when
the newly formed Yakima-M Mckee
Valley Land company acquired from
p. M. Joice and Ida M. Joise. Of Lake
Mills, Iowa, S5,147 acres In the
Mckee valley, about ~ miles east of
this city.
This deal Is put through in accord
ance with the plans Of the Rose Land
company which organized the new
concern and is made with a view to
securing irrigation for the land and
putting It on the market as orchard
and farming property.
In the deed filed In the auditors
office ]. II. Rose and Luella Rose are
named with the Yakima-Moxee COM
pany as purchasers. The sale Is made
conditionally upon the recognition of
the rights to some Of the property
acquired by third parties. The con-
sideration is 00,000.-Yakima Re-
public.