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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-02-01
THE HOP INDUSTRY BILL.

The bill introduced TO encourage the hop industry ought to
pass this legislature,
II provides that in all local option elections the question Of
selling malt liquors SHALL BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY.
That means that dry precincts now given over to bootleg
gng and blind pggeneS shall be allowed TO vote to sell beer
This means that hypocrisy shipping IN vile bottled whs-
keys and illicit drugstore traffic SHALL GIVE WAY TO
HONEST METHODS.
Back Of ALL failure to pass this bill means that the arg
est hop growing state in the Union shall be guilty OF the
INCONSISTENCY Of giving Of its principal industries
deahblow
II means that product turning S3500000 year aver
ace output for the past ten years SHALL BE RENDERED
WORTHLESS AT HOME.
Of the 80 90 acres in hops in 1906 last year 5000 acres
had already been plOWed up,
means that from $4,000 to 100000 people employed in
the hOpyardS during the year shall FIND OTHER EMPLOY
MENT OR GO WIT0UT.
means for intelligent Oregon business men to kick them
selves in the face to encourage fraud and disorder and inn
morality
How member OF the legislature living in a hop growing
county have the gall TO vote against this bill TO the
hop industry PASSES COMMON UNDERSTANDING.
Certainly the 1000 hop growers in Oregon will see 10 II
that no such person ever gets back into public office
again.
Next the pune industry will be attacked because PRUNES
ARE DISTILLED INTO ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS.
The apple business will have to 80 because apple waste
Is made into cider that gets hard,
Barley will have 10 be stopped growing in Oregon because
1T is MADE INTO MALT LIQUOR.
Are the who represent the barley growing counties go
ING 10 vote with the Prohibition counties to kill the bill for
COuragemen OF the hop Industry
LET THIS LEGISLATURE BE HONEST AND NOT STUlTl-
FY ITSELF by building up the Illicit traffic in strong liquors
by killing the bill TO permit The people to vote for malt bev
erageS If they want them
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18

friend M. expressing himself, as by such we members of house can know opinion of the masses. We have many things presented to US and expressions from the people IS all the way we are to know whether the people in the majority want and need many things some few mem- bers ask for. The member from Scott county and myself agreed, as parties had asked for such a bill, that I should introduce it and that would develop the opposition. Hence am glad he spoke out (ln meeting). l have been asked to create a common pleas court. Also to raise per diem of petit and grand jurors to s. Also raise salaries of circuit and chancery judges to S3O0O per annum. am not for all these things now, and am always glad to have the opinion of the people and their reasons as Friend M. gives his.
 Respectfully,
 Hamilton of Polk.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
WIND, RAIN AND HAIL
Russellville Has Experiences With a Combination of Natures Elements
 That Was Alarming.

Russellville, Feb. IA. = A terri ble wind and hail storm visited this place and vicini'y last mig ht. The rain commenced yesterday evening at about 6 o'clock, but did not increase into d general storm until about 9. Ire rain fell in torrents until about mid night, then changing into hail, which fell at intervals until morning.
 A great deal of wind accompa- nied the rain, together with con- tinuous thunder and lightning which, on account of it's fearful and awful noise and the vivid forked electrical phenomenon, terrified many people.
 Both wind aud rain came from the west and southwest.
 All streams in this vicinity are flooded, and not even the oldest inha bitants remember such rain storm as the town experienced last night.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
JUST COMMON BUSINESS
 SENSE

The Arkansas Gazette in lengthy editorial calls the attention of the state legislature to the fact that Missouri gets 3.29 l-2 per cent for the use of state funds by authorized Repositories, and then says:
 Arkansas should get at least as much if not more The state keeps an average of nearly s700. GOO in money on hand, and 3 l-4 per cent on that amount would be S22. 750 more than enough to pay the salaries of the treasurer and his assistants and all the expenses of his office and nearly enough to pay every circuit judge and chancellor in the state an additional Sl, 000 a year in salary.
 For the past two years there has been an average of some 1900, ,000 in the new capitol fund. On account of the failure of the last legislature 10 make an appropriation for the new capitol, this money has lain idle in the treasury. If the state officials had the power to put state funds at inter- est in banks this money could have been placed at interest of per cent, we believe, because obviously the state could not use it until 1t should be appropriated by the legislature of 1909. Four per cent on $500, 600 for two years would be S2i, 900. A thou sand dollars a month for two years that the state has absolutely thrown away
 What member of the legislature having $500, GOO, either of his own or of trust funds, that was not to be used for two years, would lock that money up in vault rather than put It at interestg
 Arkansas never will thrive so long as the peoples representatives ignore plain business principles in handling the money over which they have control.
 It is with mighty poor grace that our legislators talk of the need for higher taxation so long as they, from pure neglect, allow many thou sands of dollars of the peoples money to lie idly in the vaults that should be earning good interest and at the same time be building up the states industries and thus increas- ing the amount of taxable property
 Less politics and more business sense is what is needed.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

Millet seed is said to be splendid feed to increase egg production.
 Bad roads are beneficial only to vehicle makers. All the rest pay the cost.
 Sunlight, cleanliness and good food are as necessary to the health of your chickens as to your children.
 Authorities advise us to blow and replow garden land and let it rest at least three weeks before putting seed ints it.
 How would this idea strik you :? Put in a few acres less this year and give closer attention to what you do cultivate.
 Don't buy fertilizer for your plants until you know what they need. You may do them more harm than good.
 Only wealthy farmer can afford scrub stock of any kind and he would not be wealthy if he had not first found it out.
 A writer says tbat if moles bother by eating your seed corn, stir it IT castor oil until it is well greased and it will kill the moles.
 It is mistaken idea that hogs are only contented when up to their ears in filth. It is as detrimental to them as to other animals.
 The man whn neglects his home garden neglects a thing that not only means better food for his table but better health for his family.
 A good mule is almost always in demand at a good prize. Besides that, you will notice that the farmer who owns good span is hardly ever anxious to sell them.
 Some men will willingly work hard in the field who begrudge every minute given to fixing up the house and making it more pleasant for everyone themselves included.
 Many farmer makes mighty lit tie profit from his work because he depends on crops that he has to sell instead of providing for his home needs from his own fields. Make your living at home as far as possible.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
Rational Brevities.
Davidson

Get rid of small annoyances; they will ultimately breed disease and unhappiness.
 It is through defeat and over ob- struction we are educated to right steps and correct lives.
 Fixed opinions are dangerous, whether of man or things. They are weights that hinder and prevent advancement.
 A religion that feeds on emotions and expectations of reward and pays little attention to the thousands of
 Conservation of forces is the eternal law of nature, therefore no effort for good is ever lost. Press on and do your best.
 To get wisdom we must become polarlzed to principle and not to theories or dogmas. If magnetized by set opinions we cannot advance beyond our cable rope.
 All necessary potentia!ities for right living and the successful ac- compllshment of any laudable pur- pose are innate in the human brain and only require the proper appli- cation.
 everyday duties, is like a millstone about your neck and you in the deep blue sea. Sink you must.
 Do not dispute with those whose opinions do not coincide with yours. He is wrong from your standpoint and you are in error from his view. So let the matter rest there. Time solves the problem.
 Many a costly contiagration IS but the result of spontaneous combus- tion of accumulated rubbish that would not be tolerated if there had been cleaning up of the mentality. Rubbish is repulsive to a clean men. tality.
 All highly developed minds have grown impersonal and lost all thought of personal fame. The very presence of the desire for re- nown is proof that the mind still fingers on a lower plane than that Df higher development.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18

but ordinarily the business IS done within three weeks. The court meets twice year in each of those counties, which gives total term ot thirty-one weeks, leaving vacation of the judge and prosecuting at- torney of twenty-one weeks each year. This seems to be about rest enough for public servant.
 The objections to a measure Of this kind are not few. In the first place it creates three new offices, that of circuit judge, prosecuting attorney and court stenographer. This will involve an expenditure in salaries of at least three thousand nine hundred dollars per year. The clerks, sheriffs and other costs would not be affected by the change. The business of Scott county is almost without exception transacted in two weeks, Montgomery the same and Polk in three weeks. So we have a judge drawing salary of $2,50O per year for fourteen weeks service and thirty-eight weeks vacation. Is this good logic in the face of our oft expressed intention of retrench- ing expenses of administering the government? This mountain dis trict, if created as proposed in that bill, would create a sinecure for some aspiring lawyer and for some court reporter or stenographer. Principally all play and salary.
 Before the creation of chancery district there might have been some reason for this, but taking the Sixth chancery district as for example, and applying our deductions to the other districts of the state we are bound to conclude that the circuit judge having the trial cases at law, so far as the civil trials are con- cerned, and criminal cases have been relieved of at least one-third of what was heretofore necessary for him to adjudicate, that is all cases properly triable before the chancellor.
 Another objection to the creation cf the new district, as it now stands, is this that it will require forma- ton of the other districts and parts of districts affected by the change. It will leave the Ninth district with four counties and twenty-four weeks of court per annum. If there be any necessity for this change the writer fails to see it. He, as yet, has heard no logical req son advanced in support of this measure. Respectfully, M.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18

of a single human being including hobos whose very life does not depend. daily, upon the skill and industry of the farmer There IS no one.
 President Roosevelt did really 3 big thing when he appointed his countrywide commission.
 The commission has reported that there are really only three grave needs of the American farmer:
 First Cooperation of organlza- ton.
 Second A new kind of schools foI country children. Schools that will prepare the pupils for country life rather than city life, and
 Third Better means of communi. cation; especially good roads and parcels post.
 The schools can be improved so that they fit boy to judge rotation of crops as well as to keep conduc- tors cash slip on trolley car.
 Nobody but the express companies can deny the farmers right to a parcels post so long as the farmer is willing and able to pay the post age.
 America will bloom, prosper and flourish in the exact ratio that its people become tillers of the soil. When we can furnish the necessities of life to half the world we can all have more luxuries at home. When the fresh air of the fields is the breath of life to our children instead of the sickly vapor of the tenements the health of the nation will be robust.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
GOVERNOR SIDESTEPPED
Douaghey Does not Propose to Wrangle With Caldwell & Drake Over
 Capitol.
pecial to The star.

Special to The Star.
 Little Rock Feb. Is. Governor Donaghey this morning sent a special message to the house de- clinipg to go over to the new capitol building with contractors, commission and house committed, saying that such a course would engage him in a controversy which would last several months and that he could not spare SC much time from his official duties. He further declined to go any where with Caldwell & Drake, but offered to go with house committee alone and point out defects at any time.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
A "BiRD" OF A JURY,

That is the caption used by tht Fort Smith Times in describing the aggregation finally chosen to try the murderers of Senator Carmack in Memphis.
 In the fullest sense of sarcasm, that is an appropriate appellation.
 It is bird" of a jury--a collec- ton of the illiterate rag-tag of Ten nessee chosen to pass on the guilt and assess punishment to be meted out to the murderers of one of that states brightest men.
 Yes, it is bird" of a jury. Here it is:
 Four men who can neither read nor write.
 Two who can barely understand the English language.
 And some of the remaining six swore that they had not read a newspaper in ten years.
 The only creditable feature about it was that it took twenty-five days search to find in Tennessee twelve men who knew so little.
 The most discreditable feature is the law that practically bars men of intelligence. who can and do read and keep in touch with the affairs of life, from acting in capacity where intelligent action is needed to further the ends of justice.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
Want to Trade for Farm.

desire to trade for farming property near some good growing city my residence property at Mena, a city of 6,000, located on K. c s. Ry., in healthiest loca- ton ih Arkansas. The property is seven-room plastered house, situated in one of the best resi- dence districts, four blocks from the depot and five from the post. office and business center. It is on Stilwell Heights, overlookin 2 the city and Ouachita valley. The property Is we'll improved, has good well, city water supplied to lavatory and bath, electric lights iu every room aud in barn, yard we'll set with bluegrass aud abundant fruit trees at the rear, barn is neat and very convenient. Property IS good investment for home and will rent we'll, though h most too good Tor rental purposes, as 1t has been my home until work calls me else where.
 If you have anything 10 ade, write with full description, terms, etc, and also state that the title is absolutely good, as only such offers will be considered. If tht proposition seems good 1 will look your property over.
 l refer you 10 either national bank or to Mayor Mark F. Ol- ney as to myself and the property.
 J. B. McMahon,
 2S6 6t 6 I'm Mena, Ark.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
MAN ATTACKED BY EAGLE.
John May of Amity Kills Large Bird
 With a Pine Knot.

Anity, Feb. l5.-Saturday af- ternoon as John May, who lives in town and farms on the Antoine river, was returning from work, a Rocky Mountain golden eagle at tackled him. MT. May succeeded in getting a pine knot and killed the bird, which measured 715 feet from tip to tip. Allen X Boaz bought 1t from him and will have 1t stuffed and mounted.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
Insult to Intelligence.
To Editor of The Star.

To Editor of The Star.
 Dear Sir:-I notice in the last two weekly issues of The Star what you say about the depository law for Polk county, and am glad The Star takes stand for right and the pc pie and think all friends of truth and justice should stand by it, and should send such an avalanche of letters and petitions to Messrs. Hamilton and Logan that they will get the measure through or else never have the face to come back to Polk county. The article in the Democrat is a gross insult to the intelligence of the average voter, and it is the Democrat and not The Star that is trying to mislead the people. It can be proven by hun dreds of voters that John P. Logan made a leading point of the deposi- tory law in the campaign and got the peoples confidence. and that no doubt caused his election.
 But what do we see. As soon as the measure passes the house lot of bankers. both Democrats and Re pubicans rush off to Little Rock to lobby the bill to death and defeat the will of the people.
 So the measure dies in the senate, perhaps at the hands of Polk county lobbyists, and it now remains to be seen whether Messrs. Logan and Hamilton will carry out their prom ise to the people or submit to the demands of a few interested parties. There is no lodging the issue. It is clearly defined and the many hun dreds of people to whom these men made the promise to carry the meas ure through have not forgotten it, and will take no excuse for it's fail ure. We are reminded that in cam paign times it was the good farmer and the dear people. but now, after breathing the air with lobbyists, they send back up here, saying what do you fellows want, anyhow?
 The Democrat assumes such inno- cent ignorance of the present situa- tion, will give suggestion:
 For instance: Suppose one of our banks was operating another busi- ness and would give the county ! treasurer a good job in the business and he deposit the county funds | with said bank. Then if, as esti- the use of the funds are worth Sl, 800 to $2,OO0 year, and that, if so disposed, the bank could lip off few hundred to interested parties, hire an attorney to go to Little Rock when things get scary Town there, and still have a nice um left.
 Success to The Star and right and md truth. Very respectfully,
 A Farmer and Taxpayer.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
TWO GLASSES OF PEOPLE.

The Southwest American, under the heading of Let's Kid the Farm CT, :" refers in most sarcastic vein to that class of people who think it funny to refer to the farmer as a "hayseed, jay" etc. Following few sentences on this kind of smart aleckism, the article takes up the subject of the farmer and his relation to all the rest of mankind The subject is large one and is forcefully handled, illustrating as it does the necessity of making the life of the producer more attractive by giving him greater part of the results of his labor, the only thing that can stop the tendency of de- populating the country and gorginp the cities with non-producers.
 Do we realize that there are only two classes of people in the world: people who live on farms and people who live on farmers? /?
 Do we realize that ever in the worlds history there have been more farmers than there have been of all other people combined.
 Think then that not a mill. mine, factory, shop. theater or railroad could exist were it not for the farmer.
 He furnishes the raw material from which our food and clothes are made. All our luxuries represent the profit on the farmers produce.
 There is just man and the earth in all this great problem of life. The earth yields living to man and exacts his labor as her price.
 The farmer applies his labor to to the earth and brings forth grain and timber and wool and leather and meat.
 Then the rest of us take what the farmer has wrested from natures storehouse and, giving him as little as possible Tn return, proceed to juggle with the fruit ot the farmers toll in order that we may each have an excuse for eating three meals. wearing clothes and sleeping shel- tered.
 The mines are needed to furnish materials for machinery to work up the farm produ.i; for railroads and ships to haul it; for coin to measure it with; for wires with which to fence the land or upon which to telegraph market quotations.
 The brokers gamble in it. the l banker loans on Il, the lawyers argue about it; the judges split hairs over it; the doctors care for the bodies of the farmers and the rest of the world which is working over farm produce
 The preachers are paid out of the crops to care for our souls.
 Stop and think if you can conceive
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
Do We Need itl
Editor Mena Star.

Editor Mena Star.
 In the issue of the Mena Star under date of the 18th inst, I see that our representative, Mir. Hamil- ton, has introduced bill to create the Eighteenth judicial district to be composed of Polk, Montgomery and Scott counties, with the remark that at present this district is com posed of seven counties and the work is 50 great that it cannot be handled properly by one judge and prose cutting attorney.
 In the first place there are not seven counties in this district, but only six Seyier county, three weeks term, Little River the same. Pike and Howard. each three weeks term and Montgomery two weeks, while Polk has an indefinite term
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
INHERITANCE TAX
 NOT BEING PAID
Attorney General NorwOod Calls Atten- ton to Statute Nonenforce- ment of Which Has Caused
 State Heavy Loss.

Little Rock, Feb. l5.-Attor ney General Hal Norwood is send ing a form letter 10 administra- tors, executors and trustees of number of estates throughout the state, calling attention to the law regarding the inheritance tax. Mr. Norwood says the state is losing thousands of dollars an uually by failure to enforce this law, besides the money now due.
 "As soon as the general assem- ply provides the attorney general with a contingent fund" said MT. Norwood, "I intend to have the probate court records investi gated in all counties where l havs reason to believe this tax is due, and then, as the representative of the treasurer, I will proceed to enforce the payment of the amounts to the treasurer.
 The loss of the inheritance tax to the state is a serious one and represents thousands of dollars. In some states this tax vii amount to as much money as the general revenue tax. The follow ing IS the letter sent out by the attorney general:
 ''To the judges of the probate
 courts of Arkansas and to all
 administrators, executors and
 trustees having in charge oi
 trust any property subject to the payment of au inheritance
 tax as provided by the laws 1 this state:
 ''Gentlemen:-In answer te an inquiry from this office, ou state treasurer, Hon. J. l. Yates, says soon after the passage o! the "State Inheritance Tax Law some money was paid in to the treasurer on this account but that, apparently, tor severa years the law has been ignored and no funds have been received by him from this source. there fore respectfully call your attcn ton to section 242 end 243 of kirby's Digest as amended by an act approved May l7, 1907, and section PA and 254 inclusive, oi the digest. You will note that all taxes imposed by this la W shall be payable 10 the treasurer of the state by the executors, ad- mi1istrators or trustees one year from the death of the testator or intestate, and if the same are are not pad, interest al the rate of nine per cent shall be charged them and collected from the time said tax became due.
 "Yours truly
 Hal l.. Norwood."
The Mena weekly star., 1909-02-18
GRAZING REGULA.
 TONS POPuI
Registration of Brands and Maj, Live Stock Protection to Cv,,. Bethesda Mountain Road R..
 ficial Forest Notes.

The new grazing repul,e are proving very popular wi,tJ It sidents of the forest s agreement to assist in kessl down fires in their neighso,sl instead of paying grazing i. is satisfactory to the farmer, ,l wish to protect their pr,,, land. The fact that the br,, and ear marks of all sock n. De registered with the loresl vice at the time of issuarrs permits, will tend to prevent i, siderable confusion which b,, suited in the past in the haudg of live stock in this couutry I forest service is for the prote,I of tf e honest settlers.