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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
Troubled With Beaver

VIM, Fry. who lives on Butte
creek four miles east of Woodburn,
writes TO County Clerk Allen that
he is being very badly troubled with
beaver, This rare fur-hearlng ami
NAL is supposed TO Inc almost extinct.
but MIR, Fry's statement would make
Il seem that this is a mistake. He
says that the beaver are destroying
his carrots, potatoes and corn. and
Is afraid they will tackle his fruit
trees. lie also reports that they are
destroying much young timber, and
writes to know what he can do TO pro-
tect himself The law against killing
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
Salem Camp

Salem Camp
The Salem camp OF the Modern
Woodmen now has 325 members, an
increase of over 100 during the past
year. There is something doing"
every Thursday night and from the
report that floats out upon the street.
the boys are certainly having a good
time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
SWELL
ELEGANT
JONES
Ezra KendalIS Latest and Greatest
Humorous Creation

It has been said of Ezra Kendall,
who is coming here Wednesday, Aug.
21, under the management of the
Harry Askin Company, that he has
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17

on hand constantly bologna, minced
ham. lunch ham. boiled hams, liver
sausage, Vienna sausage, met worst,
knobIach, summer sausage, blood
sausage. pork sausage. link pork
sausage. head cheese, pluck sausage,
pressed corn beef. Salem never has
such variety of sausages. Try them
Steusloff Bros.
Ash Wood For Sale-wm. Brown a
Co. Phone Main 115. 10t-eod
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
The Preferred Kinds

or fresh vegetables are making
the grocery store of ]. NJ. Lawrence
a very popular place to trade these
days. Pleased customers are the best
advertisement for a grocery store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
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For Sale
High-grade Bstey organ. slightly
used. good a. new. wenger q Cher
rington. s-o-tf.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17

Dirt. by the Capital City Steam
Laundry. All work called for and
delivered. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Phone Main 16b 7-s-tf
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
Organs Wanted

Secondhand organs wanted. VII
give you good trade for yours. Wen
ger a Cherrington. S-s-tf.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17

Try steusion Bros Celebrated
ssusages Our sausage maker is
from tho German school. We keep
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17

For Sale
High-grade Estey organ. slightly
used. good as new. Wenger a Cher
rington. S-6-tf.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
Free Circus Tickets

Any boy or girl who Is willing 20
do half an hours work, can 20 10 tho
Ringing Brothers circus. August
2s, We only ask YOU TO get us two
subscribers and bring In go cents for
the first month on each. Call at
Journal Office and get blanks.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
THE DEnAGOGUE.

With the changed conditions in the United States have come class distinctions, lamentable as it may be, but they are here as truly as they are in tbe older nations of Europe. Then there is the large influx of immigrants people who are in no way acquainted, without traditions and speaking a different tongue. They come for the most part from the lowest and most igno- rant classes of Europe.
 The questions that arise from these things are many, but the most important is, will these institutions of our country succeed in this new era? They will, but the chief dan. ger is the rise of demagogy.
 Demagogues and men of their type are attempting to develop a horizontal line of party instead of a vertical line. By misrepresentation fraud and hoax the discontent of the poor man is being aroused. He is being told that men with brains and education are exploiting him for their own good.
 The aim of the demagogues is to make a new alignment of party, te make every man who works with his hands turn against the mar who works with his brain. On one side will be the discontented, the man who has been persuaded that he is discontented, and on the other will be for their own protection, tho men of brains.
 This new alignment will indeed bt calamity Dallas Times Herald.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
FISH MAY ENJolN HARTMAN.
Illinois Law May Prevent Any Person Voting Stock Held by
 Union Pacific.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-lt is possible that the struggle for the control of the Illinois Central railroad between Stuyvesant Fish and E. H. Hartman may be taken into the courts.
 Sunday the attorneys of Mir. Fish were engaged in the preparation of a petition asking the courts to enjoin any person or corporation from voting any stock in the annual meeting, to be held Wednesday next, which may be shown to be owner or controlled by the Union Pacific railroad. The action, it is said, will be brought un. der an Illinois statute which prohibits one corporation from owning stock in another, The attorneys for MT. liar. riman have already declared, in view of possible proceedings along this line that the Illinois Central by reason of its special charter. would be exempt from the operation of this law even fl it were not a fact that railroad cor. porations are by implication, exempt from it's operation.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
Not Uu to Expectations.

A little girl of 4 or } was quietly playing on the porch one afternoon says Harper's Weekly, while her father and one of his friends were enjoying smoke and a chat on political matters. They pald no at- tention to the little girl, who in turn seemed entirely absorbed in her dolls and teddy bear. When the guest had gone, and bedtime came, the child's mother noticed that she wss unusually silent and thoughtful. And when she knelt to say her pray CTS there came pause after the usual petitions, and then she re- sumed very earnestly: And now, God, take great care of Yourself, for if anything should happen to You. we should only have MT. Roosevelt and he hasn't come up to papa's expectations" :"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
The Saloon in Politics.

Commenting upon the triumph of the prohibition cause in the recent Oklahoma elections The Oklahoman (Dem. of Oklahoma City, remarks that many persons who are not op- posed on ethical or religious grounds to the use of intoxicants, and who use with moderation liquor in their own homes, nevertheless lend their votes and their influence to the pro- hibition side when the liquor ques- tion is an issue. The explanation of this fact, says The Oklahoman, is that "the really independent and impartial voters have become alarmed at the political phase of the liquor problem" and have noted the activity of the saloon power in party conventions and cleo tions." To quote further:
 That the saloon men of Okla homa are largely responsible for their own present discontinue is certain. For years the most liberal laws affecting their business have been subject to constant and ruthless violation.
 Furthermore, their constant in- terference with political affairs had become intolerable,
 "So powerful an element in poli- tics has the saloon interest become here and elsewhere that a conscien- tioas candidate must compromise himself or court defeat in majority of instances.
 "Manifestly this is a condition that is intolerable and should not exist. It would not exist under a regime of high license and local option with proper law enforcement. It's abolition under prohibition de- pends upon proper enforcement of the law.
 If prohibition in Oklahoma means the elimination of the saloon infiu- ence in the politics and government of the state it will accomplish a great good v
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
Fine Target Practice.

Washington. Oct. 15.-Record target practice has been made by the 18th company, coast artillery. now sta toned at Fort Rosecrans, California, which, by the way, has heretofore stood in the front rank in the matter of accuracy of fire. In this last case the command made 100 per cent of hits on moving target at mean range of 5,9SS yards, and six shots from the big 12-inch guns were fired in five min. utes and forty-two seconds. All Of them would have passed through a target six and half yards high by 16 yards wide, and for this excellent practice Capt. F. l.. Dengler will be officially commended
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
K. (. s. Almost a New Road.

In commenting on the Kansas City Southern railroad recently railroad official said that he considered the line on an equal with any in this section of the country now. Tt IS a rare occasion that any train IS made up of less than seven coaches, while frequently ten are hauled, and the coaches are of modern type, largely. The locomotives are as large as any which haul a train through Joplin, and are of the same type in use for fast service, on trunk lines. Much work is being done in Arkansas on cutting the heaviest grades and strengthening the line. In fact, it is a new road. Joplin Globe.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
 MEN WHO DO THINGS.

People are more and more learn ing to admire men who are broad enough to put aside partisan bias when they have been elected or ap- pointed to an office where they arc expected to serve the interest of the public.
 When Joseph W. Folk was elected governor of the state of Missouri it was because he had been fearless in doing his duty as prosecuting at torney in St. Louis, and meted out punishment to crooks regardless of party utilization. He was the only Democrat elected on the state ticket at that time.
 With him Herbert s. Hadley, a strong Republican, received the majority vote for attorney general. Hadley at once announced that, without regard to politics, he should give Governor Folk his utmost sup port in purifying the administration of the states affairs. and would CO., operate with the governor in every thing that was for the protection of the people of the commonwealth from the aggrandizement of trusts and other wrongs.
 Hadley has kept his word. The Standard Oil Company, the rail- roads. the insurance companies, the lumber trust and otner like institu- tions all know it mighty well.
 And what is the result: As the time approaches for another guber- material election, and the indications are that Folk will go higher, the state is looking toward Hadley as the best available material for the next governor. And, if he receives the nomination at the hands of his party. he will probably be the first Republican governor elected in that state since war times.
 Party lines do not cut much figure these days when men come out and work for the interest of those who place in their hands the power to do.
 Incidentally. Polk county has found such a man in Judge Wright Prickett, and those who have best studied the results of his admins tration of the county's affairs, insist that he shall again serve in that capacity. It is another instance where politics will cut but small figure. More such men are needed il Mena and Polk county and Ar kansas.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17

ous nose of a houseful has softened to the quiet play of a few; while the tramping of miniature army has given place to the lonely footballs o1 an only child, still, as in the olden days, the hearts of parents overflow with love, and the promise and glow of springing life brightens and ms the home.
 Seven million children missing, and the family is two or one !--sucn is the American story. But not all the story; there is more, much more
 Recently, out from the old moth er-State of Massachusetts came the cold figures of an Investigator, tell ing not only of dwindling families, but also startling story of chlldless homes. Of every one hundred coup les, eighteen are without child: More than one hundred thousand homes and not a baby !-so runs the Bay State record.
 All over the state they are scat tered, those homes without a cradle. Count six, and then a childless couple; count six again, and then an empty home. So it goes count SIX then six, and you find them; homes without the care or the comfort of baby; lonely, silent, childless homes
 A home without a cradle! Never since the days when our first savage ancestral grandmother swung her little ones from a bough and croonec some wild strain that meant
 Rock-a-bye baby, on the tree top; :. When the wind blows, the cradle vii rock,
 has home ever been home, in all tho warmer meanings of that sweetest word, unless within it's shelter children played and tired babies fel asleep to mothers soothing lullaby Home without babies! Why homes were made for babies. Ii everyone sprang into life full grown and needing no care, the human race would never have had home Always we would have wandered here or there, looking for food, ane sleeping where night fell.
 But the little fragile baby de manded care, and a place where ht could be sheltered from storms, anc kept secure from harm. The very first home was just the safest ane warmest cave that the barbarian mother could find, of this we may bt sure. For the child came the cave which grew into the hut, the house the home. Yet in every sixth home in Massachusetts today, the baby has no place.
 Nor is there any special reason tt suppose that the situation in Massa chusetts differs widely from that il her sister states. She has given us fig ures, has told the truth about herself more frankly than any other, that il all. However, let us allow that sh' is thirty per cent worse than all thu rest. Still it will be true that ther' are in the United States two million married women who have no child
 Two million childless homes!
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
Masters of the Situation.

The sentence of a briber to the penitentiary for five years is very healthy sign. And he was a big fellow, too-the president of tele- phone company in San Francisco, This is great victory when mans influence or riches cannot save him from the penitentiary. This is a big step in the direction of a re- deemed country.
 We can tell the people how to keep this reform up. It was the fidelity of the prosecuting attorney to the D ople. his ability and vigor in the prosecution that sent this official mogul to prison. Watch your prosecuting attorneys. They are the nest servicable agencies in the great reforms of the day. They are the masters of the situation. The people should understand that And when financial buccaneering, political corruption, public service frauds and illegal grabs at the peo- ple's money are arraigned and pun ished, remember the prosecutor who is in front in the fight, write his name in your hat, and vote for him whenever he comes up for office.
 One of the most important duties
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
WHERE SQUIRREL HEADS
 ARE PROTECTED

By all means provide for the comfort and the keep" of the squirrels in the parks. These little animals are the prettiest and most engaging of all woodland creatures. If they are well treated and well fed they will become tame, affording endless joy to children and pleasure to older people. It is well that the Park boards attention has been called to the squirrels. There are many of them in Budd and Swope parks. They should be invited to stay and multiply by making provision for them. And, by the way, don't fuss about the Sunday morals of a town where squirrels hop about, unmolested, on hundreds of private lawns in the city. Kansas City Times.
 It would look Ike here is an excel, lent opportunity and a very strong inducement for Arkansas editors who fell under the wrath of Jeff Davis to migrate to the parks of Kansas City. Here is chance to be well fed and well treated, where we can afford endless pleasure to the children. What more could be de sired.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
HART NAMED TO
 SUCCEED RIDDICK
Acting Governor Pinda,i Tenders ia Him Appointment to Be Associate
 Justice of the Arkansas Su. !. preme Court.

Little Rock, Oct. 12.-Jesse q Hart, chancellor of the PulasL; chancery court, was yesterday rendered the appointment as as. sociate justice of the Supreme court by Acting Governor Pin. dall, to succeed the late Justice James E. Riddick.
 Judge Hart, it is understood was given until Tuesday to con. slider the matter of his appoint. ment, and on that day return his answer to the governor as to whether or not he will accept the proffered position.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
4 PORTO RICAN CLASH.
Insular Government Refused to Pay Expenses of Federal Court Be-
 cause of Disagreement.

San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. 15.-The insular government of Porto Rico has refused to honor United States Mar shal Hubbard's requisition for funds with which to pay the expenses of the federal court on account of the mar shars failure to conform to the pro visions of the law passed at the re cent session of the legislature, charg ing the former methods of disburse ments of funds of the island. In this respect MT Hubbard claims that the law does not apply to him, as he acts in the capacity of a disbursing officer He further maintains that the salaries of federal court officials and witness fees have not been paid since last July. One case, it is added, was re. ferred to Attorney General Bonaparte for a decision in the matter United States Judge Rodey threatens to in stitute mandamus proceedings against the insular officials and to cable Sec retary Bonaparte to decide the ques tions in dispute.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
A REVENUE DECiSloN'
M.rufacturer of Medicinal Alcoho's Compounds May Have to Fay
 a Special Tax.

Washington. Oct. 15.-Commission' or of Internal Revenue Capers naf rendered decision relative to the manufactur and sale of alleged medi cinal alcoholic compounds, where or analysis it is found that the said al legged medicinal compounds are suie able for use as beverage. Summing up an elaborate opinion, the commis sioner holds as follows:
 That a special tax is required TOT the manufacture and sale of alleged medicinal alcoholic compounds, or TOT the sale of malt extracts manutac' tured from fermented liquors, the drugs used in the manufacture oi which are not sufficient in amount oi character to render the product unn' for use as a beverage; or, in the case of cordials. extracts and essences, in which the amount of alcohol is greater than is necessary to preserve the m gredients. or to extract the properties or cut the oils, and hold the same 1T solution
 Manufacturers of alcoholic medi cinal compounds, malt extracts, flavor ing extracts, essences and soda water syrups. who wish to avoid liability fol special taxes must satisfy themselves that their products are within the limits herein defined; and also those who put out alcoholic compounds o doubtful medicinal value, or contain ing a questionable process of alcohol must do so at the risk of being re uuired to pay special taxes for ths manufacture and sale of the same.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
DYNAMITE FAILED TO EXPLODE
Car It Was in Was Telescoprd by
 Switch Engine.

Hot Springs, Oct. 12.-- A re- markablc accident occurred here shortly before noon today, when car containing several cases of dynamite was telescoped by a switch engine in the Rock Island yards.
 Just why that portion of the city is not a mass of wreckage cannot be explained. The train men aver that an explosion of some sort occurred within the car after the crash, but the dynamite did not explode.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17

power of its large cities to fortify themselves against corporation graft. Other states will follow suit. It is for the Federal government to take hold of the interstate corpora tions, net alone in the regulation of and the cost of service, but in the control of capitalization. As the President said in his Memphis speech a few days ago. "The chief economic question of the day in this country is to provide sovereign for the great corporations engaged in interstate business. Kansas City
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
American a British Lord

London, Oct. 15.-Lord Fairfax has taken out naturalization papers as |; British citizen and now will be en titled to sit in the house of lords. He has resided in England almost con tinuously since he came here to al. tend the kings coronation. Albert Kirby Fairfax, twelfth Baron Fairfax of Cameron in the peerage of Scot land, was born in Maryland in 1870 the son of John Contes Fairfax, NJ. D. and Mary Baroness Fairfax, daugh ter of Col. Edmund Kirby of the United States navy.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
The Home Without a Child.

The Delineator has undertaken a great wor6-that of bringing to- gether the homeless child and the childless home of this country.
 Last month it contained a splen- did article about ''The Child With out Home" This month there is one about 'The Home Without a Child" from which the following is reproduced:
 Suppose baby--an ordinary American baby-were to write a book
 "I have come into such delight full world" he would say;> it is a paradise for babies. Everybody is kind and loving and unselfish.
 The big, strong people are so gentle with the tiny helpless ones, and so patient and forgiving when we trouble them.
 Here 1 am feeble little bundle of bother, quite useless and unable to do anything we'll, except cry. 1 have no money and no knowledge. Yet the moment l lift my voice every one runs to see what 1 want. am washed and dressed and petted as though 1 were the most important person in the house: and the strang- est thing about it all is that these people really enjoy waiting on me. Plainly, l see, from the way 1 am treated, that everyone in this good world loves babies.
 So of course, must life look to a baby who is nestled warm in his mothers arms, watched with tender est care, and brooded over with fondest love. How could he, in his soft, safe shelter, imagine that any heart or any home could be closed against him?
 Every one in this good world loves babies" It ought to be true, but is it? Is there another side to the American home a side that our baby-author does not know? Let us see.
 Of one thing at least we are sure that fewer babies come to us than filled the overhowing homes of our grandparents. Only five genera tions ago, so George Washington tells us, one-third of all the nation was made up of laughing, dancing. merry children and cooing, growing babies. Now, less than one-quarter of us are little people and all the rest are men and women grown. 1 Eighteen million children there were, when Uncle Sam last counted his family. A vast army-yes, but if we of today had kept pace with our great-grandmothers, there would be seven millions more.
 Seven million babies missing Send out the crier Lost to Ameri- ca somewhere between great-grand- mothers day and ours, seven million little children |"
 l But they cannot be found those seven million lost babies. They are missing because they have never come. They were never invited to come, to this good world where everyone loves babies.
 Seven million missing babies Where are their empty places Eight to a family was the record, so we are told, ''in old Ben Franklin's days" And even eight must have seemed few to a man who had been accustomed in childhood to the crowding and pushing. the play and laughter, of seventeen small Frank lins of whom he was number if teen. But to the average American of the twentieth century eight Why, we barely average two! ! This shrinlEage of the family does not prove that children are less loved. Far from it While the family of eight has dwindled to three or two or one; while the riot
The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-17
Gas at Lamar, Ark.

Lamar, Oct. l2.-R. C. Garner reports strong flow of gas found Wednerday in a 115 foot well drilled on Sam Parks farm, three miles west of Lamar. He ar. ranged a temporary jet, which casts a flame several feet night. For miles around people are go- ing to see the well. Consider able excitement exists, and it | thought vast undeveloped gas field is located here.