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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
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Takasow imported Oriental mate
rials for his machine. The frame is
of bamboo, much lighter than Wright
metals, and its cost was only $500.
The Japanese claims he never has
seen an aeroplane other than the
one he has constructed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
Salem Bank
& Trust Co..
GeneraI Banking and Trust Business

With our assurance that we are
able and willing to take care Of it,
we solicit your Banking Business.
Open an account with us and we will
extend you every favor consistent
with good banking principles.
We Pay Four Per Cent on Savings
Liberty Street, Just on State
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26

beaver dam. All in crop, with all
farm machinery 6 horses, 7 COWS,
chickens, hops, in fact, everything
goes with land at price 800 per
acre. Terms. The best buy in the
valley. See my agent.
BECHTEL & BYNON.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
JAPAN IS
PREPARED
FOR FIGHT
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Of
CAPITAL JOURNAL WRITING
FROM YOKOHAMA, GIVES THE
SITUATION AS 1T APPEARS
THERE.
(By E. o. stoll, special correspon-
dent Capital Journal)

dent capital Journal
Yokohama, April 10-The word
lingo" is such a nasty title to have
added to ones name by his fellow
countrymen, that there is many a
correspondent in the East who hesi-
tates to write the things Of which he
is convinced, simply because they
will not be believed by those who
can not see the situation from his
vantage point. Japan is preparing
for war and all the balance of the
world sees 1t except our own people
But we are so absorbed in carrying
the gospel to every creature" and
in our International Peace societies
that we wilfully shut our eyes and
hold them tight shut lest we be con-
vinced against our wills by seeing
Let US not argue by what people
say, but let us look at facts as they
are and see to what conclusion they
lead.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
RESCINDS
CONVICT
CONTRACT
GOVERNOR WEST REVoKEs THE
AGREEMENT WITH LOWBN.
BERG & co. FOR THE HIRING
OF CONvICTS TO WORK IN
THAT CONIPANY's FOUNDRY.

With the view of securing benefi-
clal concessions TO- the state and
convict labor. from the Lowenburg
& Going company stove manufac-
turers of Portland, and which has a
contract with the, stete Tor the manu-
facture Of stoves BY sonvicts in the
state penitentiary, Governor West to-
day rescinded the contract on the
ground that its provisions had been
violated by the company, and If tide
sires to avail itself of convict labor
in the future in the manufacture of
stoves, 1t must enter into contract,
the terms of which, are satisfactory
to the governor.
Governor West issued the instruc-
tions to Superintendent James this
morning to direct the convicts to
cease work in the foundry at noon,
and promptly at 12 o'clock they were
instructed to cease laboring until
further orders. The company has
been advised by the governor of his
action and also that a new contract
can be entered into with certain con-
cessions and it is expected that
rather than lose the convict labor
the company will make them and
that the $50 convicts who have been
employed for the last year in the
manufacturing of stoves will be al
work again soon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
Be General Cleaning Up.

There will also be a general
cleaning up at the state prison" said
Governor West today in discussing
the subject Cleanliness is next to
Godliness and all the convicts at the
state prison are going to get next.
Under the present arrangement
the convicts laboring in the foundry
have about three minutes at the noon
hour to wash and clean up for lunch,
and this is going to be changed so
that they will have ample time. The
men working in the foundry also
have not had facilities for keeping
their persons clean and this will be
remedied. There is an antiquated
bathing place at the prison and it
falls far short of answering the pur-
pose, A mill race runs right by the
institution and as means of affording
the convicts bathing facilities during
the summer, a reservoir will be in
stalled, the water to be taken from
the mill race. ihe work ION this res
ervoir is to commence Immediately.
Foundry Also To BE Cleaned.
The foundry itself will also un-
dergo cleaning process continued
the governor The interior itself Is
in an unclean condition and that will
be remedied so that the prisoners
will have clean place to work.
Then there are lot of eyesores about
the grounds which will be removed.
The governor made a visit to the
state prison this morning and break
tasted with the convicts.
The contract was entered into with
the stove company under a former
administration.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
Wants Warships.

A few Dreadnoughts more or less
and a few millions spent in facilities
for the training of our boys are not
very serious additions to our taxes
and oh they are cheap compared to
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
Conditions Are Similar.

For six months before the Japanese
Russian war we used to hear the
cannon booming, almost any time of
day at the naval station down the
bay, where the Japanese were test
ing guns and training gunners. In
the meantime they have hardly ever
been heard. Now, they are booming
again. I was awakened this morn
ing at my home ont here in the SUI
burbs OF Yokohama, by heavy firing
of big guns, and since l have been
dressed and at my desk, there have
been the boom of SO big guns, with
another making my windows rattle
even as I write these words Japan
is preparing for WARMTH whom?
The world says America! Shall l
sit down and fail to do my little part
in urging my countrymen to be pre-
pared. America ready for war, awake
and watchful is a subject for fawn-
ing friendship! America asleep and
dreaming of the millennium of univer-
sal peace and of being an example to
the nations, is America endangered
Wants Wnrshlps.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
Japan Preparing.

Japanese newspapers can be taken
as no guide, for they are so COM
pletely under control as to reflect
just what they are wanted to tell
But even so, they show that every
navel yard in Japan is working night
and day and that two of the most
powerful ships have been ordered
abroad. $1,250,OOO worth of field
guns have been made in England and
are now on the way to Japan. This
was an absolutely secret order and
the news came out by accident in an
incidental paragraph in English pa
pers. It was Immediately noted and
denied officially in Japanese papers,
but 1t has since been positively con-
firmed by number of English pa
pers. 1t is not a crime to make war
preparations, why then were these
guns ordered secretly and why did
the officials deny the facts when the
news came out. This article may be
jingoistic but If so, God bless Hob
son and the jlngos in their efforts to
have America prepare for the worst
while hoping for the best There are
a lot of us at least who have not for
gotten the manner in which the Rus
so-Japanese war opened. 1t is true
all is fair in war, and Russia ought
to have been watching, but perhaps
her peace societies had convinced her
that there was no danger.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26
What Governor Wants.

The main concession desired BY
the governor from the company is {
provision in the contract which will
limit the number of convicts to b,
employed in the foundry. Accordinl
to the terms of the old contract, anC
which he has rescinded, the compan,
must use at least $50 convicts ant
might at it's option demand the labo
Of as many more as it desired, say
that it must always leave enougl
convicts to discharge the labor Il
and about the state prison. TIL
governor took the view that shoul
the state desire to work some of 1t
convicts, though they were not EN-
ployed by the company in it's foun
dry at the time, that the 'compan
might seek to come back at the stat
/ for a violation of it's part of the con
tract The company agrees in it
contract that 1t shall pay for the cor
Wet labor on the Goth day of eac
month, but it has been in arrears eve
since the first of the year. The GOV
ernor here saw a loop hole to re
scind the contract, and get his cor
cession and did so. With a new cor
tract limiting the number of cor
victs to be employed in the foundr.
it will be possible for the state t
use the extra convicts in road worl
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-26

the long lines Of fires with which the
japanese cremated their own and
the Russian dead on Manchurian bat
tlehelds.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
The PROPER ONE

We give in this issue of The Times
the official announcement of Arthur
Capper as candidate for governor
of Kansas on the Republican ticket.
1t is pleasure to see a c.ean and
successful business man like Mr..
Capper announce himself for any
office of public trust for which his
life and experience have fitted him.
Mr.. Capper is genuine native
young Kansan, worthy IN every re-
spect of the full confidence of the
people of the state. We expect to
see him nominated without opposi-
ton and elected by 40 or so thousand
majority.
With a man like Arthur Capper
as the nominee for governor, there
is no need of or excuse for any
factlonal fight within the party.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
THE AUTOMOBILE ROUTE

Mrs. ] A. Waylapd. wife of Editor
of The Appeal to Reason, of Girard,
was killed in an automobile accident
June 9th. Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland,
their two children and a Mrs. Clem-
ents of Indiana were in the car,
taking a ride when something went
wrong with the steering gear and the
machine veeredin into telephone pole.
The rest of the company escaped
injury.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

and listening, it is said, mainly to
the advice of his FreeTrade Secre-
tary of the Treasury, has allowed
himself to become obsessed with
the idea that 1t is perfectly fair and
in all ways desirable to subject to
unrestricted competition several
millions of American citizens (and
voters) engaged in agricultural indus
try, in the paper making industry, in
the lumber industry and in the fish
ing industry. He cannot be per-
suaded that these several millions
of citizens (and voters) are right in
the contention that they are unfair
ly Disseminated against and are
going to be hurt by Free Trade in
products competing with their own.
He conscientlously believes that
they are wrong and he is right. SO
he travels to Chicago to deliver an
address in which he relterates all
his previous arguments and says
little or nothing that he had not
said before in substance. American
Economist.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

I am a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Governor
and the support of the Republicans
of Kansas at the primary election
in 1912.
l have been interested in pro.
gressive Republicanism; not as a
game of political advantage; not
for the purpose of furthering the
interests of any faction nor to ad-
vance the fortunes of individuals;
but as a means of work. lg out
sound policies of government; of
correcting the abuses that have
arisen, and of promoting the rights
and the prosperity of all the people.
l believe in party organization
/ believe in political leadership, but
1 am now and always have been
opposed to political combinations
whose power is intended to be used
for the benefit of corporate interests
and not for the benefit of the
people generally. Enlightened and
determined public opinion, working
chiefly through the Republican
party, has wrought tremendous
changes in political affairs in
Kansas in recent years. The
people are taking the public busi-
ness more directly into their own
hands. Our election machinery
has been changed so asIto make ii
more nearly real vehicle for the
effective expression of the popular
will. 1t is a constructive age IN
politics; the light is being turned on;
evil tendencies In many directions
have been checked; the methods
which are against he public good
and degrading to the public morals
are being corrected; the burdens oi
taxation are being equalized; and
the affairs of the state administered
more efficiently and more honestly
than ever before. have faith
that Kansas will continue to lead
in the study and the solution of the
great social and economic questions
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
and Carriage Paints Phone $685. Street No. Ill w. Main
AN OBJECT LESSON
An incident illuctrot;no

An incident illustrating the injus-
tice of mob violence is reported from
Wright County, Mo. Two families
had been "spatting" for some time,
and when one neighbor missed jug
of whisky and other less priced COM
modities the young son of the other
neighbor was "suspected" Idle
gossip famed the suspicion into a
fame which broke out in talk of
lynch law. The fire. eaters of the
community decided to take the law
into their own hands and rid the
place of the accused boy. The
latter very sensibly and expeditiousiy
sbsented himself and sought safe
seclusion in a neighbor!ng state.
But hardly had he placed himself
beyond the reach of unlawful ven-
geance than his innocence was
proved beyond question, aud there
was a sudden change in public Sen
tlment in his favor. He has now
returned to his presumably repent
ant neighbors. 1t the latter do not
teel thoroughly ashamed of them.
selves they certainly should, for
their conduct was as ineXUusable as
their su 'picion was baseless. If the
young man had been guilty he
should have been given a trial as
the law provides. instead of being
made the intended victim of mob.
If setback shall be, given to the
tendency. far roo prevalent, to rush
for rope and a gun when some
body is suspected, accused or even
proved guilty of crime, the Incl
dent will at least have the merit of
having accomplished some good,
though the brand of neighborliness
displayed by the Rayburn commun.
ity is anything but laudable.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
MIR. CAPPER,S ANNOUNCEMENT

upon which all future progress rests
l am in hearty sympathy essentially
with the Republican program of po'
litlcal progress as it now exists in
this state and in the nation, and l
have been glad TO be in a POSITION
to further in some degree this great
movement.
AS a Republican candidate for
Governor, deeply interested IN
Republican success as the best
meaps of furthering the policies in
which | believe, shall stand
squarely for measures which | re-.
gard as vitally necessary to clean,
efficient, progressive, popular
government. believe in the
strictest accountability of the exc
Z cutive to ali the people, and If l
am elected Governor l shall be
under obligations solely to the
people to give the people business
administration, with the same strict
attention to economical expenditure
of the public money | employ in
nv own business. | believe thai
every man who draws a dollar from
the State Treasury should render
full service in return.
| shall stand for the lowest taxes
consistent with efficient public ser
vice in growing state; for agres
sive war upon all forms of inetf
cheney, graft and political corrup
ton, whether round within my owr
party or outside of it; for non
partisan mlnistration of the state
sch OILS, colleges, charitable ant
penal institutions, for the stric
regulation of all public utilities; fo
fair and equitable transportation
rates; for the encouragement o
every effort intended to keel
corporations within safe and homes
bounds; for election laws making
the will of the individual vote
effective on state and nationa
questions; for a more practica
system of good roads for the farm
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
DEATH The VICTOR
Economist

Mrs. Carrie Nation who won
worldwide notoriety by her hatchet
campaign against the saloons and
other vices, has paid the inevitable
debt of nature.
Mrs. Nation created great
sensation during the days of open
saloons by entering these places
and smashing and destroying bar
fixtures and ornaments.
She adopted heroic and unlawful
measures that an evil might be
eraGicated. Her methods cannot
be upheld by law abiding COM
munity, but her purpose is com
mended by all who believe in law
enforcement.
With all her faults and peculiar
tiles she did a great work and ad-
vanced the cause of law enforce
ment by calling such pointed
attention to its open violation.
Thousands upon thousands of
good people in this country who
could not lndorse her revolutionary
methods secretly rejoiced at her
success and prayed for the ultimate
accomplishment of her great desires.
She was sharp witted but motherly
old lady with consuming desire to
better mankind. She looked upon
evil as evil wherever found and
held it should be eradicated regard
less of methods.
She surely accomplished some
good in the world and gave herself
a unique position in the history of
reform. Peace be to her ashes.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Atchison recently sent big dele
cation of merchants and wholesale
dealers out over the Central Branch
on a booster trip. The boosters
distributed, as souvenirs, blotters
proclaiming the duty of Kansas peo-
pie to deal with Atchison merchants
in preference) to those outside the
state. The blotters were printed In
Illinois.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
NO GOOD

The supreme count decided that
the water works bonds, issued by
the city council, last year, were no
good because of improper publi-
cation. $4,000 in bonds were
voted for improving our water
works system, but it is not now
available. Our water supply sure
ly needs doctoring somehow.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
DIRECT ELECTIONS

The senate has passed the sena-
torial direct election bill and it is
now up to the President. This
measure provides for an amendment
to the constitution providing for the
election of United States senators
by a direct vote of the people.
Guess we had just as well have the
law as to have direct election by
subterfuge.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
SEVERE STORM

A severe wind and electric storm
ragged in the suburbs of New York
City, Saturday night, uprooting
large trees, and demolishing small
buildings.
Lightning started several fires
and the destruction of property to
the amount of SIoo, 900 by wind
water fire and lightning is reported.
Three persons were killed among
the general havoc.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
WHAT The PRESIDENT SAID At CHICAGO

President Taft's Chicago speech
of June cannot be said to have
supplied any new or convincing
reasons whv the Party of Protection
should be called upon to stultlfy
itself by enacting into law Free
Trade measure. The President,
shutting his ears to the counsels OF
able men and sincere Protectionists,
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

A Texas dealer in live rattlers
quotes them at rs cents a pound, a
price that leaves no room for COM
plant of the high cost of living in
this item.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Prof. Dyche has ordered all own
ers of dams to install ladders so that
fish can climb over the dams. Dyche
was very considerate. He might
have ordered the owners to install
elevators for that purpose.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Is Colonel Roosevelt entirely con-
sistent when he declares himself for
woman suffrage? Not long ago he
was proclaming that women should
devote their time to the producing
and rearing of large families. But
the Colonel never did care for con
sistency.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

A German statistician finds that
the world has 6a5, ,698 miles of rail-
way, of which the United States has
more than all Europe. Africa is
picking up, and its 20, 900 miles of
railway is almost half the mileage of
South America.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
VICTORS DEMAND SPOILS

The insurrectos in Mexico think
they are entitled to the full fruits of
victory and are demanding all public
offices, such as post Offices and the
like. These fellows are likely to
have trouble before they get the new
government organized.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Queen Mary has been presented
with a purse of 500, 900 as gift from
other Marys of the realm. As the
queen doesn't need the money she
might gracefully besto@ it on still
other Marys who we're too poor to
contribute,
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Mexico is now in a position to
amend General Sherman's famous
remark concerning war by adding
the words "and so are earthquakes" "
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Playing politics in Washington
with the mercury near 100, and the
results a matter of guesswork, is not
generally regarded as a paying
occupation. Was the extra session
worth calling2
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
KANSAS FARMERS DUPED


Once more farmers in the central
west have been "taken in" by the
persuasive pleadlngs of the peddler
through the land and there will be
many illustrations of the "sadder
but wiser" saying when those catalpa
trees they purchased are grown
for they may find that they are not
the Catalpa Speciosa but just plain
catalpa catalps, And they are
paying SIS thousand for the trees.
Charles A. Scott, state forester
at the Kansas State Agricultural
College, has issued warning about
the buying of these trees, for he is
receiving letters from farmers in
quiring about them. These men
wish to know to what extent they
have been fooled If such is the case.
The letters tell of man going
through various communities sell
ing what he maintains are pure ca
talpa speciosa trees. The man
says he is from Indiana where the
catalpas are native. He has sold
many of the trees and wishes to
sell enough more to- complete a car
load for delivery this fall. The
price is S25 a thousand. What the
writers of the letters wish to know
is if the catalpa trees brought from
Indiana are pure catalpa speclosa,
and is the SIS a thousand a reason
able price for them3
Mr.. Scott says that the catalpa
trees sold by such men are no more
likely to be pure Cataipa speclosa
than the trees offered by any other
person, and not half as likely to be
II
as good stock as that offered by
local nurserymen. There was a
very light crop of catalpa speciosa
seed in the eastern states last year
and the catalpa growers came to
Kansas to find seed for this years
planting. In nine chances out OF
ten, says Mr.. Scott, the purchasers
are getting only common catalpa'
or plants grown from Kansas seed.
Rather queer Circumstance that.
"Twenty.fve dollars a thousand
is an exhorbitant price" says MI
Scott. There are plenty OF nursery
men, he thinks, in Kansas with es-
tablished regulations that will hll
anv orders for less than half the
price asked by the gentleman from
Indiana. Mr.. Scott says, 81 have
seen specimens of catalpa trees
that were supplied by Indiana
statesmen that were nothing more
than Gull seedlings that reputable
nurserymen would not be guilty OF
offering for sale."
Nurserymen grade their seedlings
into three grades known as No. l.,
No. 2, and No. 8 or culls. Ihese
unknown tree agents from Indiana
buy up these No. 8 or culls In Joo
lots at $3.50 or So a thousand ana
then put them on the market TOR
$a5. They make all deliveries be-
cause they have no way of holding
them over until spring. Another
good reason is that they do not
wish to wait until spring for the
money.
Fall planting, he says. is not TO
be recommended in Kansas on
account of the danger of losing the
trees during the dry windy periods
that happen often in the winter
m, T-.a.l
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Colonel Roosevelt promptly de-
nies that he has promised Presi-
dent Taft to support him in 1912.
the gallant Colonel, in the honesty
of his soul, declines to accept
credit that he is not entitled to.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

In a time of long continued
drought the winds blow and clouds
gather, but it turns out to be the
thinnest sort of summer fllrtation.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Yuma, Ariz.. still holds the heat
record against all corners. Medi-
cine Hat has been nosed out of
first place at the bottom of the
temperate zone thermometer, but
Yuma has cinch on the top rung.
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED EVERYWHERE

ga Kansas man is writing his
tory of Populism," says the St. Paul
Pioneer Press. Probably with a
view to showing that history repeats
itself-this time in the form of Re-
publican insurgency,
The Chanute times., 1911-06-16

Prof. Curry of Boston, was struck
by a street car near St. Louis Union
Station on Saturday. He apologized
to the conductor for obstructing
traffic. Boston is slow but it is al
ways polite.