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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
The Poor NIiddleman.

In these days of investigation of
the high cost of living it is generally
the result of a scholarly inquiry that
the profits are going to the middle
man. This not only works out with
the work done by the expert econo-
mists but 1t is demonstrated by the
amateur Investigators. Last fall a
Wenatche apple grower placed a note
in a box of apples which he packed
offering a reward to the final pur-
chaser Of the apples If he would re-
turn the note telling where and when
he bought the box and how much he
paid The grower was paid s1.75 for
his box of apples. His note was re-
turned to him with the information
that the apples had been purchased
in the New York market in February
for 1915. Poor old commission
man. Allowing fifty cents for
freight this worthy object of pity
only received $1.5O for the service of
handling a box of apples from the
producer to the sonsUmer. OF
course these we're not Hood River
apples but a note In box of Hood
Rivers for which the grower received
about $2.75 would have brought a
reply from New York saying tn It
they had been bought there for
about IS. Again our sympathy To-
the man who gets only dollar or
two for making some brief entries
on his books, perhaps storing the ap
pies few weeks and telling the peo-
pie he has some apples to sell. Why.
his profit is not much more than
81 900 on a carload. And the man
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02

who grows the apples may get nearly
$4,000 from the carload.
The producer of course gets a good
price but when the man who some
times never handles or even sees the
commodity gets almost as much and
often more than the man who pro-
duces, it is easy to see the cause of
the high cost of living. Hood River
growers get more for their products
because they have their selling asso-
citation and have cut out the middle
man at this end of the line but the
consumer in New York and London
still pays tribute to the commission
man at that end. OF course the man
who can indulge himself in the de-
licious Hood River Spitzenberg may
not care for the pittance the commits
sion man exacts but if we look in
other lines, for instance in lines
where we are consumers we will find
that there is long jump from the
price the producer receives to the
price that we pay for the article. We
need the middleman and he is a
necessity but it would be better to
pay him at the rate we pay for other
necessities instead of paying in the
way we pay for great luxuries.
Hood River Glacier.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02

packs a different size, and so on.
The grading table should be just the
other side Of the packing bin, that is,
Immediately across from the packer
and on the high side of the bin, so
when the packer calls for fruit the
grader just turns around and ele-
Yates a box to the side of the bin
and gently tips 1t over onto the can
vass. The mailing bench consists of
a strong stand fitted with springs;
ordinary carriage springs do very
well, with foot lever and ratchet
and descending arms to catch the
covers and press down on the box
The ratchet then holds while the
pressman nails and cleats the box
He should be on the left of the
packer and have a long table made
of two 2x4's a foot or so apart to
receive the packed boxes on. The
sizes of tables and bins are of course
determined by the amount of fruit
and number of people engaged.
AS to grades, a few words will
suffice The following classifica-
tion is used by the Hood River Apple
Growers Union and applies to ap-
pies. only, but the same general terms
would apply to other fruit:
Fancy grade, consists of perfect
apples only. They must be free
from worm holes, stings, scale, fun
gus, scab, rust, or any other disease,
and free from all insect pests, decay
or injury. They must be free from
bruises and limb rubs, and the skin
around the stem must not be brokea.
All apples must be clean, fully ma
tured, not deformed, and must have
a healthy color. Spitzenbergs' must
have 70 per cent or more good red
color. All red apples must be of
good color.
Choice grade, consists of apples l
little below fancy and includes such
apples as are not perfect. These
must be good apples, not culls. No
apples with worm holes or broken
skin will be accepted. Limb rubs
must not be larger than a 1O-celt
piece. Only two strings will be al
lowed and no string is permitted
where the skin of apple is broken.
No apples will be accepted if affected
with San Jose scale or dry rot, Jr
which show an open or black bruise.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
| ARGE
(The palles chronicle. June 2e.l

(The Dalles Chronicle, June 29.)
The joint debate between Rev.
Clarence True Wilson, of Portland,
and Colonel Ernest Hofer, of Salem,
drew a packed house at the Vogt
theater last night. The audience ap-
peared to be about evenly divided
with sympathizers of the two policies
as advocated by the speakers. The
question debated was Resolved,
that the proposed prohibition amend
ment to the constitution, to be voted
upon in November, would be bene-
ficial to Oregon" Rev. Wilson ia
vored statewide prohibition, while
his opponent talked in favor of local
option and high license.
Rev. Wilson opened the debats
with a half-hour talk. Colonel
Hofer followed with a speech of 80
minutes and thus alternating, both
sides were put before the audience
of about $50 people for two hours,
the only intermission being to take
up a collection for expenses The
audience responded with enough to
cover hall rent and advertising.
Both sides received great deal of
applause.
Mr.. Hofer was introduced as a
probable candidate for governor,
which position he modestly declined
to assume but said he was in favor
of aspirants for public Office coming
out and stating where they stood on
this and oAher vital questions. mo
man can be elected governor of Ore
gon this year." he said, amid great
applause, "who straddles this issue
and carries water on one shoulder
and beer on the other" The state of
Oregon should decide this matter
whether there is to be statewide pro-
hibition or the present system of To-
cal option and high license and reg
ulation for the cities, and If the
state goes dry, the man who is elect
ed governor should enforce the laws
and If the people vote Oregon dry
and elect him governor, the Salem
editor said he would use all the exc
cutive power to see that the state
was made dry and the mandate of
the people was obeyed 80 don't
vote dry unless you expect to go
dry" he continued 'I shall do all
in my power on the stump and in
my newspaper work against this
to the constitution, TO
d feat this amendment, but believe
the will of the electorate fully and
fairly expressed should be the su-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
AUDIENCE
HEARS The DEBATE
Between Colonel HOer of Salem, and Rev. Wilson, of Port
land on Liquor Question as to Merits of Proposed Prohb
ton Amendment to Constitution

preme law Of the land" CGreat ap-
plause.)
DR.. Wilson made an eloquent ap-
peal for the rights Of the home and
the family against the liquor traffic.
He made a strong point in favor of
statewide prohibition by showing
that all the bad debts of merchants
were caused by men paying cash to
the saloon keeper and buying of the
merchant on credit. Colonel Hofer
asked Dr. Wilson If making and SELL
ing intoxicants were to be made a
crime, why not go a step farther and
make drinking liquor a crime? Dr..
Wilson defended the right of private
drinking as matter of conscience
and personal privilege and responsi-
bility, while he said traffic in intoxi-
eating liquor was matter Of public
concern. Colonel Hofer asked him IL
prohibition were founded on truth
and principle, why the German ma
ton was leading all Europe in indus
trial, financial, educational and moral
progress, while 1t was the nation
farthest from practicing prohibition.
The Portland minister attacked
the wholesalers and manufacturers
of liquors in Portland as the back
ers of lawlessness and corruption in
Oregon affairs. He said. 'Why try
to find the blind pigs under the law
today, when the manufacturers and
wholesalers Of liquor, the power that
is demoralizing Oregon politics, the
power that owns the police commits
sion and council of the city Of Port
land and controls the newspapers, Is
sending men to dry territories to sell
liquor, telling them that they will
see them through, that they will pay
their fines If arrested, and see that
they do not get into serious trouble.
These men are doing more to defy
the sovereign law of Oregon than
any other body of criminals in the
state. They are damning our boys,
running our girls, corrupting our
laws, defeating good men for cleo
tion, even on the circuit bench in
Oregon" Rev. Wilson said that there
was no use to fool with the blind
pigs any longer, that the people
should go to the center of the
trouble, and prohibit the sale and
manufacture Of liquor
Colonel Hofer's strong point was
that, If the amendment was carried,
there would be many communities
which would not be in sympathy with
the new enactment, and that 1t would
be impossible to enforce the law
there, that more laws would be brok-
en- and more liquor sold than under
the present system.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02

paper read by o. H. Cash Of
Eisenhower, at the Fruitgrowers'
meeting in Roseburg Saturday
To pack fruit properly one must
in the first place have the right
equipment. Good work cannot be
done with any old ramshackle bins
or boxes. The grower of good fruit,
who depends on the profits derived
therefrom, should have enough in
terest and pride in his output to see
that proper bins, sorting tables,
packing and mailing benches are
provided. Not everyone can have a
packing house, altho' the first spare
money the grower has at his disposal
should be invested in a building of
this kind, unless he is a member Of
some exchange or union who main
tain a large house for the packing
house of his own, and belongs to no
organization owning one, he can
with a little care and small expense,
fit up handy place to put up his
fruit, either in barn or under some
trees. First, make one or more
depending on size of CROP bins by
tacking canvas on to a substantial
frame, say feet wide and 8 feet
long, with one side higher than the
other and allowing the canvass to sag
down in the middle. Make the legs
long enough so that the lower side
of the table strikes the packer just
above the hips. The opposite side
of bin being higher the fruit gradu-
ally works down to the low side as
the first is taken out and enables the
operator to continually clean up the
bin. This prevents some of the fruit
from staying in the bin all day.
Make a packing stand of some rough ]
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02

lumber or scraps, of size to just
take a fruit box of the kind you are
using and hold it at an angle of 80
degrees or so, with the slant towards
the packer. A cleat nailed at the
front edge holds the box from sliding
off. Above this, and attached to the
stand, build a light frame with a
board also inclined 80 degrees i'm
mediately above the fruit box and
from to IL inches higher than the
edge of the box. cleat along the
edge holds your paper. Take a bun
die of tissue wrapping paper, nail It
to a board about the same size and
the aforementioned cleat holds it
there just where you want it. A
rubber finger stall on first finger
of the left hand, which enables you
to detach one piece of paper at a
time, completes the outfit The
grading or sorting table is any kind
of a table big enough to hold the
box Of fruit you are grading-also
a box for fancy, one for choice and
one for culls. If the packer does the
grading for size, selecting the fruit
from the bin first for one size, then
another, the grader only grades for
quality. Some fruit men, however,
let the graders sort for size as well
as quality, in which case the table
must be large enough to hold more
boxes, so the grader can have two or
three boxes for each grade in quality
around him. The best practice is un-
doubtedly to let the packer grade for
size as he packs, if he is an ex-
perienced hand, as the moment he
begins a box of certain size he will
see only that size in the heap of fruit
at his right hand. The next box he
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
Closing Acts of Congress.

Taft signed the $2O,0OO,0 900 irriga-
tion bill Saturday night at 10 o'clock.
Each house Of congress in its clos
ing hours appointed committees TO
investigate the charges of bribery in
connection with the Oklahoma In
dian lands. made by Senator Gore.
President Taft left the capitol
building at IL o'clock. having signed
practically all bills passed by
congress.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
Disease from Thought.
(By DR.. Charles Gilbert Davis II
New York World.

NEW 1OTh w OTlu.
If a thought can in an instant
time dilate or contract the blood YES
sells, causing a rush of blood to or
from any part; if it can increase
or diminish the secretions of a gland; !;
it can hasten or retard the action
of the heart; if it can turn the hair
gray in a single night; If it can force
tears from the eyes; if it can in an
instant produce great bodily weak
ness; if 1t can produce insomnia; If,
as has often occurred, it can bring
instantaneous death-then is it not
natural for us to conclude, without
further argument, that it may bring
about more or less continuous de-
rangement of the physical organism,
which we call disease?
On every hand we note instances
where the action of the mind both
produces and perpetuates disease. In.
deed l can truthfully say, after an
observation of many years in the
practice of medicine, that majority
of the cases of illness which come un-
der the daily observation of the phy-
sician are largely due to the condi-
tion of the mind.
1t is not unusual for some one re.
turning from the funeral of a loved
one to be taken ill and in few days
follow that one to the grave What
causes this death? Depressing
thought.
Mother hears of some calamity
having befallen her child. She goes
into a collapse, fever follows and she
is near the gates of death Was it
not thought that produced this i'll
ness?
A man is seated at banquet table
full of health and happiness and
blessed with a good appetite.
A message is brought to him that
his family has been drowned in
flood. He turns pale; his appetite
deserts him and his strength is gone.
Soon he is in a delirium and i'll. All
the functions of the body are de-
ranged; a doctor is called and names
his disease. But is it nol true that
this mans disease has been produced
by what he thought?
l have seen the most wonderful eff
fects follow fit of anger. After an
outburst of passion the function of
every gland in the body is impaired.
Time and again have observed acute
illness in an infant where it was per-
mitted to nurse Immediately after the
mother had been engaged in a quar-
rel, and on more than one such oc-
casion ! have seen death follow in a
few hours.
Such Instances might be multi.
piled indefinitely, and every observ'
ant physician has a mental store Of
such cases.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
WILL The CANAL
GET The TRADE?
TECHNICAL WORLD SAYS THE
TEHUANTEPEC RAILROAD is
A QUICKER AND CHEAPER
SOLUTION OF TRADE PROB
LENS.

What shall it profit a nation to
squander more than a third of a bill
lion dollars in digging an inter-
ocenaic canal when another nation
already has in successful operation
rival transportation line that can
cut rates below the possibility of
competition by the canal and still
make a profit?
This is the conundrum that has
confronted the people of the United
States since January 1, 1907, when
Mexico opened the Tehuantepec Ma
tional railway for traffic. 1t will
continue to confront them so long as
the railway remains in operation in
spite of all the rhetoric that can be
touched off in congress or out of it..
On paper, of course, water trans
portation can put the railroads ont
of business with one hand tied. 1t
has been demonstrated beyond the
possibility of successful contradic-
ton again and yet again that a
steamship or steamboat, or even a
canal boat, can haul freight so much
cheaper than a train that the latter
can not even earn interest on it's
bonds. AS a matter of prosaic his
tory, however, it will be remembered
that the railroads, even in their
crude days of undevelopment, simply
took all the traffic away from the
canals, (which had had some years
the start of them, leaving the canal
boats to rot and the canals them
selves to degenerate into duck ponds.
Ocean freight rates are worth on
an average a dollar per ton per
thousand miles. The ordinary
freight steamship makes about 10
miles an hour, or $50 miles day,
thus requiring five days more to go
by way Of Panama, assuming the
time of crossing both isthmuses to be
the same. 1t will take a steamer
about one day to pass through the
Panama canal, while the cargo could
be passed across Tehuantepec and
loaded into another steamer in two
days, leaving four fays to the ad-
vantage of the Mexican route. The
extra cost of the four days to a
steamer with a 50O0-ton cargo to go
by way of Panama would be $4,000;
adding the canal tolls would bring
the total up to $4,000.
That this saving is actual cash by
the Tehuantepec route Is not merely
an academic theory but a commercial
reality has been demonstrated by
more than three years of operation,
The first demonstration was the di-
version of couple of hundred thous-
and tons of sugar per year that was
shipped & from Hawaii by |
way of Cape Horn to New York and !
Philadelphia, saving more than 80 |
days time. The directness of the !
route is shown by the fact |
that a cargo which left Hong Kong |
April 8, 1909, consigned by way of |
Tehuantepec was delivered in New
York May 81, making the time IN
transit SO days.-Technica World |
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
Hay Fever and Asthma.

Bring discomfort and misery to
many people but Foley's Honey and
Tar affords quick and welcome re-
lief. and gives ease and comfort TO
the suffering ones. II relieves the
congestion OF the membranes In the
head and throat and soothes and
heals them. None genuine but
Foley's Honey and Tar In the yellow
package Insist upon having Foley's
Honey and Tar and refuse substi-
tutes. j. @. Perry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02
AN INTERESTING PAPER
ON PACKING OF FRUIT

Describes the Necessary Outfit and Goes Into the Detail of
Processes OF Grading and SeleCng-RueS and Methods in
Use at Hood River and Also the Colorado Methods Given
Well Packed Fruit is Well Sold Fruit and Too Much At
tention Cannot Be Given It.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-02

CONTINUED on Page 12.)
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-05-29
WEDNESDAY, MAY D

The attention of the district court was again taken us this morning in the case Of the Territory vs Mark Lamb, charged with murder.
 The case occupied the court during the entire day of yesterday, and the prosecution rested it's case about F o'clock yesterday morning.
 When the case was called on the calendar by the clerk this morning the at t.orneys for the defense present. ed an affidavit for a continuance until after the 430 train should have ar- rived, giving ss the cause the fact that a very material witness in the Case was expected to arrive at that time in the person of Harry Clark of Douglas The motion was granted by the court and the case continued.
 The prosecution yesterday put on the stand in behalf of the territory the following witnesses: E H Cas- sell. Sarah Marley, Gordon Buttner, Frank Byrd, John Shultz. Josefs Mar nis snd Ygnscio Siquerios, while the
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-05-29
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given tha, the under signed, mayor of ihe City of Tombstone, of he Territory of Arizona, did on the first day of N yember, A. b. 1907. make an entry in the L United States Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona Territory. of the following described lands, belonging 10 the United States, in trust for the several use and benefit oi .he occupants thereof according 10 their respective in terests, to-~ir:
 Lots Five 6, Six @, Eight t8l and (IJ of Section EleveI tiI), Township 20 South of Range 2 East ot the Gila and -al, River Meridao, all ir CochlSe
 County, Anzona Territory.
 "a That United States patent forthe said lands so entered las been issued by the United Stat-s to the undersigned, A. Wentworth. mayor of the City of Coub- stone of the Territory of Arizona. Tn trust as aforesaid That any and all claimants to any lot or lots embraced wi hin the boundaries of the lands so en- tered are hereby r.qaired, under and by virtue of the provisions of Title 70 of the { Revised Statues Of Arizona 1901, 10 fle ! a statement of his or their claim in the | office of the undersigned mayor. trustee,
 al the City Hall in the City of Tomb stone, on or before the 2nd day of July, i A. D. 1910. Such s.a;emen. must be in
 writing, signed and verified by the clalm- ] ant, or in case Of his or her absence from the county, then y his or her agent or ! attorney, specifying the ground. of the claim, particularly describing the lots claimed; the date and name as near as
 may be of-he first actual occupant; what , improve ements have been made thereon. and if the los are actually occupied and possessed by he claim ant. or if occupied by another then showing he right of possession and oocupancy to be in the claimant. Such statement must be ac- companied by the purchase price of the | lot, towit. S5.co for each To, or fraction thereof claimed, together with $ co for each deed to be executed by the trustee. m ayor, together win tive nty-fve cents for each one hundred words or traction thereof contained m such statement as fees of the trustee for his services.
 A. WENTWORTH Mayor and Trustee
 First publication March 20, 1910.
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-05-29
Comet Visible When
 Moon Is In Eclipse

Persons are stiil straining their eyes every evening to zee the comet, which has now passed into the western sky and is . little faint because of the light from the moon. Any semblance ot alarm at the result ofcontsct with tie tail has been superseded by curiosity to see the heavenly wanderer.
 Astronomers announce that the best opportunity to see the comet will come tonight about s o'clock when the moon will go into an eclipse. The comet will be visible n the west ern sky at that time, being slightly south of west. It is asserted that during the period the moon is ID eclipse the comet will be easily visible and the beet view yet obtained can then be had.
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-05-29

Harry Dracbman, one of the high cbie;s among .the Red Men, is a Tombstone visitor. MT. Drschmsn is m the lead on ali Indian rsids, has answered all signal fires by appear ing in person and Is alsays A welcome Indian caller wherever he goes.
 Yuma Heights ranch shipped the fret figs of the season. This shipment consisted of two boxes, one of which went to San Franc sco and the other to Los Angeles. There have been no receipts of ties yet noted in the market reports of either city, so ths. in all proba bility Yuma will have the credit of being ahead of all other places in the country.
 The sum of SlIS,5 was subscribed to the stock of the Hotel Adams com pany at the meeting of business men h, Id al Phoenix Saturday afternoon. Of this amount c Adams agreed to take s75,O 900.
 Large shipments of fat cattle from the Salt River valley to Denver have , commenced. Thirty carloads hav'
 passed through Prescott in the las few days