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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
TILMON FORD
Pioneer, law-giver and jurist and
friend of the people, dead.

nations that asked his help, and es-
poused many causes for the good OF
the community. one of his last great
fights before the supreme court was
TO establish the right Of the people
to petition under the referendum.
and to defeat the attempt on the part
OF the legislature TO cripple the dl.
rect legislation amendment TO the
constitution. He made that fight for
the farmers OF Linn county. without
money and without price, as a matter
Of principle. He won the suits
against tho Southern Pacific for suf
ferers In the Labish wreck. involving
damages TO the amount of hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars, as a labor Of
love against a great corporation
that was trying 20 escape responsible.
ity for negligence that was fatal
Tllmon Ford committed many acts
OF kindness unknown to the public.
and was a constant friend of young
men and those In trouble. and leaves
many warm friends. AS lawyer he
was thorough, going nj the vital prin
cIpleA. ana sweeping aside technicali-
ties. Ills funeral will take place
from the First Congregational church
Tuesday at D. m. Services conduct
ed by Rev. p. s. knight.
Tilmon Ford accumulated n large
estate. but leaves no family. lie has
one sister. Mrs. Agile Ford-wsrrea.
OF Portland. and two brothers, +, NJ.
Ford. OF Moptana, and Charles D.
Ford. OF Salem.
President John H. MoNary. Of the
BAR Association. at the meeting Of
that organization this afternoon. ap'
pointed the following honorary pal.-
bearers for the funeral OF Tilmon
Ford
Hon. william Waldo. Hon. Geo.
n. Burnett. Hon. William Galloway,
Chief Justice Bean. Governor Cham.
berlain. Hon. A. Bush, Hon. VIM. r
King. Hon. Geo. @. Bingham, Hon
w. n. Holmes. Hon George VIII.
lama. Portland; Hon. A, G. Wood
cock, Eugene. Hon a. n. Hewitt,
Albanyi Judge Charles E. wOlyer.
ton, Portland.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
CHANGE
WAS NOT
WANTED


Vancouver. B. c.. March a.
please don't trouble about the
change-your ettention here one mo-
ment-thanks. The man TO whom
thes. polite remarks were addressed
Is the owner OF small trading store
on Doctor Island. at the entrance os
knight inlet on the mainland coast.
When he heard them he tnrned
around TO understand what the Gus
toners meant. The information he
gained cost him $3S0.
Looking into the barrels OF two
able-bodied revolvers the trader was
so bewltched by the persuasiveness OF
the two men holding them that he
lost all interest in tho contents Of
the safe, which he had just opened
TO secure change for a twenty-dollar
gold piece one OF the men had hand
ed him In payment for some small
purchase. The men then left the
island in a small boat. In which they
had arrived.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02

POLICE
KILLED
tUulted Press Leased wIre1

(Unltod Press Leased wire)
Portland. Or. March 2.--During
an alteration over the arrest OF
Herman Shaifer for disturbing the
peace. by Policeman Nathan suitter.
at the shaffer home last night, Suit
ter shot and killed Shaffer. The dead
man had been entertaining a dozen
friends az a dinner party In honor OF
his wife's birthday Nelghbors cont
Rlalned OF the noise. and Suitter was
detailed to quell tho disturbance.
In doing this suitter declares
shatfor attacked him. and he was
compelled TO shoot In self-defense
Mrs, shaffer declares that the police.
mans action was uniustlaed The
eoroner's Inquest will be held this
afternoon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
-rrLMoS FORD, PIONEER

AND JURIsT DEAD.
The people OF this city we're
shocked 20 learn Of the death OF TIL
mon Ford, who for over 30 years haA
practiced law in the same ONCE. The
nrm OF Ford, Kaiser q Slater is one
of the most wideiy-known in the
state. and up to within a few weeks
Mr.. Ford was engaged in active prac-
tice. Ia the winter OF 1905 he had
the misfortune 10 fall and break hts
thigh bone, and has been crippled
ever since. but for the past year has
been able 20 go about. and had re-
snmed an active participation in the
legal business Of the iirm.
story Of His TAfc and Death.
TTlmon FORD. 4 pioneor and leader
uf me Marion county bar, died Sun
dny night AZ 8 o'clock. from the eff
ferts OF paralytic stroke suffered
February f3. For week past he
mas gradually grown weaker, taken
no nourishment He passed away AZ
the home OF his partner. VIM. Kais-
er, on Liberty street. lie was bora
In 1s43 on the plains. after his faith
er. John Y. Ford. left for the over
land Journey 10 Oregon. The family
settled that year on a donation land
claim two and halt miles north ot
the present city OF salem The boy
Tilmon attended the old mission
academy, and graduated from Will
iamoito University IN 1870 tie read
law with Bonham a Boise and was
admitted 20 the bar In 1874, az which
profession he at once rose 10 proml.
nonco. 10 was always prominent
Republican. although raised Of tho
opposite political principles. and was
twice sent 10 the legislature, ami
served once Rs presidential olec,oe
He took part IN many campaigns,
but wpa OF too broad aud liberal
mind 10 be- successful politician.
tIe was member Of the old Salem
volunteer are department. a charter
member OF the odd Follows and
Elkn. hut belonged 10 no church. Tie
was liberal supporter OF all denom-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02

A good many people get mad
when you tell them they've got dys-
pepsla. hut way down deep In theif
stomachs they know they've got II.
"I'd love to eat It, but can't" Is
one kind OF dyspepsia.
II hate TO think OF IT," Is another
kind. There arc thousands OF people
today who hate their meals and love
them at the same time. They have
not that hno empty-hungry feeling
that goes with every good, strong.
healthy stomach. That's because
they have dyspepsia. And then there
are others whose mouths don't water
at meal tImes or any other time.
They sit at the table and go through
the motions. only because II Is time
to eat. These people. too, are dys-
peptics.
Every possible kind OF stomach
trouble can be cured by taking some
thing which will Just take right hold
OF all the food In your stomach and
digest II alone without the help Of
the stomach. and let the stomach
tnko rest.
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do this
very thing. They are composed OF
the best digestive known TO science
and are absolutely cafe. one lngre.
dlcnt alone OF one Of these tablets
will digest 5000 grains OF food
These tablets do exactly the work
that a good. strong. healthy stomach
does.
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets cure all
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send US your name and address to-
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
REPORT
ON USING
TOBACCO

Omitted Press Leased wireD
New York. March s.-Dr. George
Meylan. physical director OF the Co
lumhla University, has just complet-
"a statistics showing the eject OF the
use OF tobacco aud alcoholic heyer-
ages on 6S7 students. mostly fresh
men. who have attended Columbia
Ia the lasl swo years.
Tie most Significant facts brought
out by the test. according TO pr.
Meylan. are thai smoking does not
AFFECT the lung capacity. as Is gen
eraiy supposed; neither does Il seem
10 have any eneot upon the height OF
the individual ON the contrary. Il
was found that In these measure
ments, as well as she others. the
smokers eNeellod.
The Inference drawn by Dr. Mey
Tan "a that the popular belief con.
corning the iniurlo1s effects OF to.
hacco Is larsely cNaggerated. lie
makes no attempt 20 deny that
smoklpg has lts bad effects upon IN,
heart ana lhc neryous system. but
he does ma.nialn that smoking may
he lndulged la hy the average heal.
thy individual IN moderation without
noticeable damase TO his physieal
condition, As a solentinc fact. to-
eaeeo Ia any form le more iniurloUs
10 the oasprlng than 10 The user. an1
as eaect Is tclt more b. ihe next
generaiion IN lowering The nervous
organization, ana making the chill
aFen more easily tan before mtsc-I
sioas and contagious diseases.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
Probate Oases---

The following matters v
on by the county court
ing: The bond OF W u. u
guardian OF non Carlos
minor. was approved for 4
S25O. Minnie McCaaley
guardian OF the estate OF
Cauley.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
LOUIS FOLSOM HAS
PROBABLY LEFT

Louis Folsom. whose "a
charge OF vagrancy was SCI
day. has probably left tova
titled Policeman Foland
night TO tell his mother
would never see his face
mother was entirely decd
his being In the house
street, ne telling her, after
Job at the court house, M
a position at the state pris,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
HUME'S FREE FARM
CONTINUED from par.

into 20-acre tracts on whIoI
settle families for a 20.ya
Ave years free and 50 pes|
the rest Of the term. when|
will be the occupants. H
also furnish a COW. pigs and
and lumber for houses 70
tier. Asked as TO the hsl
Initiated. he advised the
the whole state to vote IN
them. Il would cut down |
abolish traps and abolish 4
and all taking OF salmon
water, II would give N
chance TO restock the streaa
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02

Splendid leadership OF the Repub-
liean party was shown up at Port
land Saturday. when Beach. Bailey
HodsoR and Idleman became very
prominent II Is easy 20 see wh-re
the next goyernor ana state chairman
will come from.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-03-02
HUNGRY ASA BEAR
AND CAN'T EAT
m, When MeaItime Comes, You Suf-
fer From a Yes-NOt Kind Of
Hunger, You're a Dyspeptic.

How to Cure All stomach Troubles.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
"White Coal" in Kentucky.

Everybody hopes that the report of the
finding Of a smokeless white coar' in
Kentucky will prove true. Everybody
would like to see some worthy Kentuck-
ian become immensely rich through a de-
posit of white coal, guaranteed not to SCOT
up a house or a town, or to soil the fin
gers. In the present state of the public
mind, that enterprising and fortunate son
of the blue grass state would be voted a
perpetual, unassailable monopoly of the
coal business if he should prove to have
presented the world with a new source of
heat and power. But no arrangements
will be made for shifting from the black
to the white coal until the reports are
verified. These are parlous times in Ken
lucky. The area of the great drought is
spreading. There are spots there so dry
that a grasshopper would shrivel. In GER
tain stages of drought the imagination be-
comes abnormally acute. There are
known instances of men SO dry that they
have seen pink elephants and green cows.
with snakes ad libitum. There is NO
limiting the imagination of the occupant
of desert. So 1t is just possible that this
white coal reported from Wrightsburg,
KY, is to be attributed to the anhydrous
state of mind and that nature is innocent
of freaking fancy fuel.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
THAT LETTER.

Where's that other letter, Brownson, that You
sent along TO Ted?
Mister Brownson, where's the letter that You
wrote?
Where's the letter-or perhaps you can remem-
ber what you said
In your courteous and clarifying note2
Do you s'pose it's in the basket with the scraps
from Teddy's desk?
Do You s'pose it's in the litter the floor?
Do you s'pose the slattern janitress in uniform
grotesQue
May have lugged ii, with her sweepngs
through the door:
Mister Brownson. where's the letter that you
say explains 1t alli
Where's that mystery removing hillet-douK?
Where's the document defining why you asked
for your recall?
II It's lost you'll have to tell the tale anew
But in telling 1t, o admiral be careful what
you say
And adhere to what you know the mlssive
said.
For as like as not land lker) Loeb has got 1t
hid away.
Keen to spring 1t il you get TO raising Ned,
Chicago News.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
JUST TO Be A BOY AGAIN

Just to he a child again." sighed the mil
liOnare.
Knowing not that woe exists, free from every
care;
Just to be child again. filled with boyish glee
Free from all the ills l bear and from sorrows
free
Round the corner lay a boy. fretting in his bed
Gee! | wisht l was man." dsmally he said;
Every winter seems to bring disease,
somehow.
Had the scarlet fever last-got the measles now.
"Yes. I've had the chckenpox and the jaundIce.
too:
SpOse I'll have the mumps the next-always
something new.
When you're sick there amt no fun, cause you
feel bad
When you're well you go to school-Gee, but
life is sad!''
"Just to be a boy" the man murmured with q
sigh;
Free TO frolc as l pleased all things yet to
try.
All, how small mems triumphs are. What a
price We pay
For the little that we get we scheme away
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
Safe High Speed.

An ideal of railroad managers is a
motive power that will develop speed
without being dangerous. The recip-
rocating locomotive, as at present
evolved and in use. has its positive
limitations of safe speed, inasmuch as
the counter weight of the driving
wheel serves to lift the wheel from the
raj; at each revolution and alter
nately to pound the metal. This not
only shortens the life Of the track, but
unquestionably adds to the danger of
derailment Some investigators of rail-
road accidents believe that the ham
mer blow" of the locomotive driver is
responsible for many of the disasters
that have been accredited to broken
rails. defective switches and such like
errors of track equipment. An inven-
tion OF. three decades ago has been
lately revived and improved to the end
of solving this problem. BY this de-
vice the counter weight Is eliminated
through the adoption of double cylin-
ders. which quarter" the stroke, Civ
Evening star., 1908-01-19
|, Jarndyce Outdone.

!. "a reading, of the following news dis
patch from Boston results inevitably in
Z gfeyiyai Of the memory of the Jarndyce
.1ase::
IA case which has dragged through the
courts of Massachusetts for 122 years
rwas finally closed today. by the decree OF
Judge Grant in the probate court. direct
ing William w. Risk, public adninistra-
TOR in nine estates, to pay to the state
treasurer the sum of $1O.3o6. The es-
tates represented were those of nine men,
creditors of the estate of Ellis Gray
Boston merchant. who died in 17S6. and
whose estate was in process OF admins
tration for fifty years. While the es-
tate was still in probate court in 1888, de-
posits were made in a bank by order OF
the court for the benefit of nine creditors,
but neither they nor their heirs could De
found. The deposits accumulated TO
$10.356.
While it is known that American courts
are slow in some matters. 1t was not be-
lieved by the public at large that such
tremendously slow affair as this could
develop in our western judicial processes
Fifty years of litigation carried the case
along to a point of no thoroughfare.
I'm details it differed from the Jarndyce
case That celebrated AFFAIR suddenly
collapsed because the costs had entirely
eaten up the estate. Wheh INC eoui
reached the problem Of finding the cred-
sitors among whom to distribute the funds
after half a century of dispute, 1t could
and none. Neither the original nine nor
their heirs could be discovered. The Gray
case therefore. reached the wind-up stage
80 $50 ahead of the Jagndyce case. The
marvel is that there was that much left
And il Is further marvellous that this
sum OF money has lain in the custody
of the. courts all these years since 1888
without accommodating further costs and
Involving extra litigation. Somewhere are
scattered the descendants of the original
nine creditors of the late Mr.. Gray, and
doubtless many of them would be ex-
trsmely glad of their fractional shares OF
the money which is now in the process of
being absorbed by the commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
The Currency Question.

The Aldrich bill is serving at least one
excellent purpose Discussion of it and of
the whole currency problem is general
throughout the country, and especially in
financial circles. Out of this must come
assistance to Congress In the final dispo-
sition of the matter. The legislators show
no disposition to hurry; and maybe that is
the best policy. The extreme money pinch
is over. What is needed now is such
currency reform as will make the future
path smoother for everybody. 1t Is
neither a political nor a sectional aues-
tion, and any attempt to give 1t a twist
in either of those directions will be mis-
take and should fail.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
COUNT WHATSHISNAME.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t is true that We now have pretty fair
authority for pronouncing the name
Saychaynyee. but that Is not much of an
Improvement over the original when it
comes to remembering it. spelling 1t and
writing it.
From the Syracuse Herald.
Count Szechenyi is evidently not so
hard up as most of the mobiles who come
over here to marry our heiresses. When
reached down In his pocket and drew out
a dollar bill to pay for 1t just as easy and
natural as though he often had dollar
bills there.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
Count Szechenyi says he won't need any
of Miss Vanderbilts money because he
has an annual income of $4,000 of his
own. The count must be planning to live
somewhere else than In New York.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat
The latest titled candidate for an Amer
lean wife gives his name to the marriage
license clerks as Lazzlo-Jeno-Maria Hen
rik Simon Szechenyi He ranks as
count and II names count. has fairly
earned his title.
From the Columbia State.
The license issued to Gladys Wander
bilt and Count Lazio Szechenyi is
numbered 1921. Add the figures
From the Milwaukee Journal
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt is to have two
bridesmaids. Too bad she can't take the
available supply of foreign counts while
she is at 1t and save her American sis
ters from disillusionment.
From the Louisville Courier Journal
The greatest OF financiers is the for
eign nobleman who paid 81 for license
to marry into the Vanderbilt family
From the Buffalo Express
It's but thirteen days to the Wander
bilt-Szechenyi wedding. Why. even now
the dominic is practicing the name.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
ADMIRAL BOB'S RHEUMATIC.

From the Detroit News.
The fleet is way below standard-Ad-
miral Evans has a twinge of rheuma-
tism in his ankle
From the Toledo Citizen.
Bob Evans has the rheumatism. Most
likely it made his bones ache when he
heard of the Observation-Disclosures cpl
Sode
From the Newark Star.
Is the charge against either of those
surgeons on the fleet who are to be
court -martialed that he allowed Fighting
Bob to be laid up with rheumatism?
From the Chicago News
Rheumatism Is the only enemy to which
Rear Admiral Evans has crooked the
knee.
From the Columbus Evening Dispatch.
Up to date there is nothing the matter
with the battleship feet except Fighting
Bobs' legs. and they seem to be of the
very worst landlubber construction.
From the st. Louis Times.
And Fighting Bob lying in bed like
blooming mollycoddle!
Evening star., 1908-01-19
Mr.. Watterson's Bet.

Mr.. Watterson, in summing up the sit
uation, says:
.The Courier Journal bets half dolla-
Bryan will be the next President OF the
United States. in case the crops are bad
and the banks continue to hoard their
cash.
The distinguished editor must bet again
in order to command serious attention.
Pocket change and red apples are not
regulation wagers in Kentucky. A man
must go higher il he would take a place
in the noble army of sports, and have his
Judgment considered
Mr.. Watterson's remark suggests the
argument of the standpatters as respects
the tariff. In reply to the revisionists,
who want the duties lowered where too
high. the standpatters insist that 1t
will not do to touch the tariff while pos
perity continues. Such a step would
check, if not destroy, all favorable con-
ditions. Wait until hard times come,
when the mills have no orders, and the
operatives are idle.
Is it likely that a revision of the
schedule If entered upon at such time
would result in lowering duties? Would
not the standpatters then insist that the
figures be raised? Should we not be told
that lower duties would add to the gem
eral embarrassment?
1t is charged by the opponents of the
President within his party that whatever
is unfavorable for him and the party
today is due to his adoption of some of
Mr Bryans ideas. There are democrats
principally of the eastern wing of the
party--who take the same ground. The
panic. they insist. sprang from that cause.
There was neither panic nor depression
Of business in any plank of the platform
upon which Mr.. Roosevelt was elected.
Had he remained entirely true to himself
and to the accepted principles of his par
ty, no money would have been boarded,
nor other injury inflicted on the country.
Now these democrats-many of them at
least-yoted for Mr.. Roosevelt in 1904, and
helped to swell his enormous majority
And the republicans of course voted SOL
idly for him. Are we to suppose that if
these influences, ascribed to Organism,
are still operating next November,
those republicans and those democrats
who deplore them will vote for Mr.. Bryan
himself in the hope of ending them
Would not Taft, Fairbanks, Hughes.
Cannon or Foraker be more acceptable,
as likely to steer the ship into smoother
waters? If, as they hold. Organism, ap-
piled by Mr.. Roosevelt, can cause such
distress, what would be the effect of Bry-
anism applied by Mr.. Bryan himself, with
all the power of the presidency to in
crease the power of his elbow?
Calamity was potent cry in 1896, but
il was used against the party which had
caused it, and a platform which threat
ened both to continue and to increase j..
Evening star., 1908-01-19
STUPOROUS MELANCHOLIA.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
'Stuporous melancholia" has been in
vented to fill the place of ''dementia
Americana" Will it go down the esoph-
agus of an intelligent juror any easier
than the other?
From the ST. Louis Republic
One way to avoid "stuporous melan-
cholia' is to swear of from all siren
uous dementia, especially that of chasing
political band wagons when they are lead
ing. the procession backward after a
brainstorm.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
But '.stuporous melancholia" is a term
too cacophonous to appeal to the sympa-
thies OF a jury.
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
If 1t we're an average man the Thaw
jury would stuporously find him guilty
of murder in the first degree
From the Toledo Blade.
One never hears of q phrase like stu
porous melancholy" in the trial of poor
man.
Evening star., 1908-01-19
The Eoyertown Warning.

How many small towns will take warn
ing from the Boyertown disaster and
faopt fire precautions calculated to lessen
the chance OF repetitions of that horror
Probably very few. Here and there at
Gfempts will be made, with more or less
success. 10 revise the fire regulations and
to root out the fire traps and abolish
dangerous nuisances. But custom is diffi-
cult OF change and II will be hard to per-
suade any large percentage OF the people
that the evils which existed in the Penn
sylvania town are TO be found in their
own places.
The average small town. of from 1000
to 10000 population. cannot AFFORD to
build an opera house" and must utilize
Ihe upstairs space in some mercantile
structure In Transforming the second
story into theater little thought Is given
10 the fact that such place is peculiarly
subject TO the FIRE risk. The whole pur-
pose is to provide as large hall as pos
sfbIe at the least expense Now and then
an outside fire escape Is provided There
sMas one at Boyertowp. as the photo