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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18

The Glee Club of Willamette Uni
versity, under the instruction Of
Professor Mendenhall, dean lof the
College of Music, will appear in the
Grand opera house tomorrow night
The club has been practiciDg every
day for several weeks, and it has
reached a degree of harmony and
perfection which is almost beyond
criticism, and the music-loving pub
lie will certainly be we'll entertained
at the Grand tomorrow evening.
Besides the musical numbers by
the glee club there will be a comic
sketch entitled "The Raiah of India" +"
in which James Blaine Oakes is a cir
Gus in himself, and Peter Pfaff is a
close second. This sketch will con-
sumo Is minutes, and it alone is
worth the price of admission. The
quartet will give two or three selec-
tions.
Probably the best thing on the pro-
gram will be Alfred Schramm, in the
"Mlsarare" scenes from al Trova-
tore" He is assisted by Mrs. Men,
denhall, teacher of vocal music in the
College of Music. Mrs. Mendenhall
has a beautiful voice and Schramm's S
pure, ringing tenor in this grand
opera scene will certainly be a treat.
Rusty" is one of the first tenors,
and he is best in solo work. Another
interesting feature in the program
will be Perry Reigleman, reader.
The leading stuntsman is Luke
RAIDER, and his humorous dialect and
laughing stunts will certainly bring
down the house.
The Willamette Glee Club is
stronger and better this year than
ever before, and is second to none
in the Northwest at the present time,
The boys in connection with the club
are working hard to sell enough tick
cts to fill the opera house, and, with
the splendid advertising it has re-
ceived, their desire will be fulfilled,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18

The announcement of Councilman
Durbin, chairman of the sewer CON-
mittee, in behalf of that committee,
that it will refund or reduce unjust
assessments made upon property
owners for the installation of sew
ers in the city, will come as cheering
news 10 all the property owners
who are suffering from these un-
equal and oppressive assessments.
The announcement came when the
committee made a report lifting the
assessments from two lots of Mr..
Fry and one of Mrs. Inman, located
near Mill creek. The former coun-
ell had turned down their appeal,
and Councilman Elliott resisted the
lifting of the assessment last night
Councilman Durbin declared that
the property on one side of the
street, where the lots in question
were located, was valuable, and had
handsome residence upon it. De-
spite the fact that the Inman lots, he
asserted, were practically valueless,
they were assessed the same as the
other property. This, he declared,
was unjust, and the committee had
decided to lift the assessment from
one lot. When questioned by Elliot,
he declared that it would be the pol
icy of the committee to make reduc-
tions wherever the assessment up
on property was unequal and unjust,
as compared with other property on
the same street.
There are scores of property own
ers in the same condition as Mrs. In
man, and they will be glad to learn
of the announcement, so that they
can avail themselves of either a re-
fund or reduction, and they may
do so by presenting their grievances
to the sewer committee, of which
Durbin is chairman
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
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+ STATE NEWS.
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Judge David ]. Lowe, one of the
Oldest pioneers of Southwestern Ore
gon, died at Marshfield last Thurs
day He came to the coast in 40 and
to Oregon in 56.
Stayton is sore over it's census,
claiming from 300 to 500 more than
the census gives it. 1t has more than
300 school children, indicating a
population of about 1900 instead of
the 7OS given it.
Henry Heilkemper, of Oregon City,
is growing purple fleshed potato,
which is said to be of excellent flav-
or. He expresses his willingness to
give a spud or two to farmers for
testing.
The Seaside Lumber & Manufac-
turing company's plant has been or
dered sold by Judge Eakin, to satis-
fly a mortgage of $175,OOO.
The body of William Childers, who
was drowned in the Clackamas river,
early this month, was found yester-
day in the backwater of the Cazadero
dam.
Ellen S. James, of New York, has
given the endowment fund of the AL
bany college, $4,000.
Nathan A Brown, of Willamina, a
pioneer of 1850, died few days ago
at his home in that place
Coos Bay still hopes for a railroad
via Drain.
An Oakland doe recently sheared
10 pounds of fine mohair this is up
to the record mark.
The census gives Coos county H.
$50; Marshf1eld 1880; North Bend
2,O7S; Bandon 1903 and Coquille
1898.
Stayton is going to grow 10 acres
of rice as an experiment.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
COUNCILMAN
DURBIN WILL
HAVE A Big JOB

HAS ADOPTED THE POLICY OF
CHANGING SEWER ASSESS
MENTS, OR RATHER OF UN-
DERTAKING TO EQUALIZE
THEM, AND WILL PROBABLY
MISS HIS VACATION THIS
SUMMER.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
Gives Aid to Strikers.

Sometimes liver, kidney and bowels
seem to go on strike and refuse to
work right. Then you need those
pleasant little strike-breakers-Dr
Kings New Life Pills-to give them
natural aid and gently compel prop
er action. Excellent health soon fol-
lows. Try them, 25c at ]. G. Perry's,
Druggist.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
He WANTS TO
FURNISH HEAT
FOR SALEM

f. ], Page last evening made ap-
plication to the city council for a
franchise to lay underground wires
and conduits in the city FOR central
heating plant. An ordinance grant
ing the franchise was read the first
and second time and then referred
to the committee on ordinances, and
it will submit its report upon it at
the next meeting,
Mr.. Pages plan is to install cen
tral steam heating plant 10 supply
heat to the residence district, He
agrees to put up a bond to carry the
plan into execution, il franchise is
granted him, and also agrees to COM
mence work on the plant by Septem-
Der, and have It completed by Decem-
ber OF this year. The season during
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
Call for City Warrants.

Notice is hereby given that there
are funds on hand and applicable to
the payment of all warrants. drawn
on the street fund of the City of Sa-
lem, Oregon, and endorsed, mot
paid for want of funds" Holders of
said warrants will please present
them for payment, at the Office of the
city treasurer, as interest will cease
from and after this date, April IS,
1911.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18

which he agrees to furnish heat is
from September Is to May Is, and
he agrees during that time to keep
his patrons house up to 70 degrees.
Providing the city will furnish the
apparatus, he agrees to furnish heat
to the public library free.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
Federals Are Whipped and Fleeing.
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1np.l

Douglas, Arlz., April l7.-Thor-
oughly beaten, carrying their dead
and wounded, the federals withdrew
from their position opposite the
rebel trenches southeast of Aqua
Prieta at o'clock this afternoon.
They retired in good order and
took council of war etaoshrdluetaouu
took up position half mile out of
range, where apparently council of
war was held.
Rebel horsemen made wide de-
tour beyond the rebel trenches but
faild to draw the federals' fire and
being outnumbered, they returned.
Every eighth woman is a wage
worker
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18
CLUB
AT GRAND
TOMORROW

WILL PRESENT A FINE AND
VARIED PROGRAM AND SA-
LEMITES WILL HAVE A GEN
UINE TREAT-AN INTENSELY
FUNNY SKIT, "THE RAJAH OF
INDIA" is ONE OF THE GOOD
THINGS.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-18

Prompt relief in all cases Of throat
and lung trouble II you use Chamber
lains Cough Remedy. Pleasant to
take. soothing and healing in effect.
Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

more ability and such sincerity In adj
ministering the duties of his Office
than has William Howard Taft, but
what difference will that make to the
man with political or physical
crouch. AS queer as man is he will
stick to his party while he Is doing
well and feeling well, but just cause
him to suffer little defeat, or let the
hired man run off with his wife or the
chinch bugs destroy his crops and his
misfortune is caused by the party in
power. He is just as apt to bolt the
Democratic party as the Republican,
but he will be a bolter If things go
wrong. and prosperity can never be-
come a permanent and assured &C.
quirement Of this government until
the voters quit charging their person
al failures up to the men to whom
they owe their support and loyalty.
Verify. we are funny lot, but as the
cattle men say, 1t takes all kinds of
cattle to eat off the pasture, and we
have no reason to worry whole lot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26
Why We Grunt.

Columbus Safeguard: Nine times
out of ten when you hear man com
planning about the Taft administration
you will learn upon inquiry that the
"grunt' is coming from a sore spot
caused by dyspepsia, ingrowing toe
nails, wife desertion, defeat in trying
to land an office that he had no rea-
son to aspire to, or financial failure
because of just common plain every
day laziness. Any one of the above
reasons will cause man to turn his
back upon the leaders of the great
party that has given US the best con-
ditions the country has ever known,
unless it was few years back before
this list of dissatisfied voters com
menced their howl for something diff
ferent" There hasn't been time
since the beginning that man didn't
want something different. Men are the
funniest critters ever born. They are
never satisfied with what they have
and half of them wouldn't be satisfied
with what they are trying to obtain.
In some ways man Is similar to COW,
they will jump out of high clover into
barren fields and cuss tho govern
ment and vote the Democrat ticket II
they fail to find their way back. No
man under the shining sun has shown
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

often find 1t in two or three places at
once. It is harder to corner than a
flea. / never saw such peripatetic
school,
The fact that the stories At SO
aptly into anybody's college life sug-
gests the clever adroitness with
which they have been told. Siwash is
typical of American colleges of a par
ticular size, and that Is why even the
author himself finds the locale illus
i've. The tales are not only funny,
they are absurdly genuine. Mr.. Fitch
has the true humorist's faculty Of
founding his fun on something that is
significant and essentially human.
That is why they are amusing and
why also they are always something
more than amusing. The reader en-
1oys the fine sense Of discoverer in
seeing for the first time the really
funny side Of situations which are
long familiar but unappreciated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

With the outward movement Of mer-
chandise from the United States sur
passing all previous August records,
there was further generous addition
to this nations favorable balance of
trade last month, although the inn
provement was less striking than for
similar period in certain earlier
years. This was due to the fact that,
with the single exception of 1910, inn
ports were also unprecedented in
volume, yet the excess of exports dur
ing August of little over s1S.400, 900
compared with deficits Of 1851 1929
and s7,342,1S7, respectively, in the two
years Immediately preceding. When
comparison is made of the returns for
the eight elapsed months of the cal
endar year, it is seen that this coun-
try has established credits abroad in
that time to the extent of fully $780,
100000, whereas in 1910 there was ac-
tually balance on the import side Of
slightly more than s1,O00,000 and in
1909 the margin of exports did not
reach s5s.5oo,OOu.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

An effectual blow at the eastern
trunk lines control of the freight
business of the great lakes is the in
ward meaning Of a recent ruling by
the interstate commerce commission,
unfolding the proposed reduction from
twenty-three to twenty-one and one
half cents a hundred on -four from
Minneapolis via the lakes to New
York and the seaboard by the western
railroads. Eastern trunk lines pro-
tested against this and requested
either a suspension of the lower rates
or permission to withdraw from the
joint arrangements. The commission
would do neither and must assume
that the railroads would later adjust
rates from intermediate points so as
not to discriminate
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26
The MethodIsts and "Tama jim"

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
Methodists at Waterloo, representing
the upper Iowa conference, have also
taken a wflack at "Tama Jim" Wilson.
It is all right to pass resolutions
against a man who has lived a chris
tian life for more than seventy years
and who has been praying man dur
ing all those years, especially when
he belongs to the Scotch predestina-
ton school. But after 1t is all over
they will find that Mr.. Wilson has
been merely a victim Of the brewers
VINO placed him on their program as
an honorary President, thinking there
by to honor the government of which
they are citizens and under which
they are taxpayers. 1t should be taken
into consideration that while from a
church standpoint a brewery is unde-
sirable that, nevertheless, in the eyes
OF the federal government a brewery
has just the same rights to exist as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26
4AT GOOD OLD sIWAsH."

All who read George Fftch's de-
lightful Siwash stories as they were
published in successive installments
in the Saturday Evening Post will
hail with pleasure their appearance
in book form So too those who miss
ed reading them in that publication
will gladly welcome them In a form
in which they can be permanently
preserved. The volume is published
by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, and
should be on every library table in
the country. The humor is distinct
lively American and wholly spontane-
Gus. There is nothing forced or un-
natural about 1t. 1t bubbles forth
of itself and is deliciously human in
quality.
In his preface Mr. Fitch calls at
tention to the disjointed nature Of the
narrative and pleads that this was
the only way he could write a truly
college yarn II found 1t impossible
in writing Of college days which are
Just one deep-laid scheme after an
other, to conf1ne myself to one plot, "
he declares How could | describe
in one plot the life of the student who
carries out an average of three plots
day? 1t is unreasonable. So I have
done the next best thing. There is
plot in every chapter This requires
| the use of upwards OF q dozen vii.
| lians, an almost equal number OF
| heroes, and whole bouquet OF
heroines. But do not begrudge this
extravaganza. 1t is necessary and
that settles It."
Much discussion has been aroused
over the probable location OF Siwash
More than one enthusiastic alumnuf
has fixed the place to his own salts
faction right down in the front yare
of his particular alma mater. The
balance OF favor seems to rest witt
Knox college, where Mr.. Fitch him
self spent his undergraduate days
But the humorist CONSIDERABLY set
the preface Of the book itself. HI
says:
"Siwash isn't Michigan in disguise
It isn't Kansas. It isn't Knox. !
isn't Minnesota. 1t isn't Tuskegee
Texas. or Tufts. It Is just Siwasl
college built it myself with type
! writer out OF memories, legends ant
contributed tales from q score of col
, leges. have tried to locate it mysel
dozen times, but can't. ! hav'
tried to put my thumb on 1t firmly an
say. There, darn you. stay put Blu
no halfback was ever so elusive a
this Internal college. just as hay
definitely located 1t on the Kno
, college campus, which ! myself ono
| infested, / look up TO find
on the Kansas prairies. surroun
It with infinite caution and attempt :
nail it down there. Instead, I find
in Minnesota with a strong Norwet
ian accent running through tn
course of study. Worse than that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

An interesting suggestion for the
regulation of industrial corporations is
made by Judge Grosscup. who prom
,ses to have more to say on the sub
iect when he gets through with the
muck rakers Instead of government
price-fxing, as has been suggested by
Judge Gary of the steel trust and
which has been objected to as offering
legal and practical difficulties, the
Chicago jurist favors government
limitation of dividends and supervision
of securities. With the right given TO
earn a fair return on the capitai &C,
tuallv invested but limit placed be-
vond which dividends could not go
and with stockholders melons cut out
there would be no inducement 10
charge extortionate prices and the ac'
tual fixing of prices by the govern
ment would not be necessary. There is
much that might be said in favor OF
this idea.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26
keokuk, Iowa Sept %, 1911

THE FORKS OF THE ROAD.
II you could go back to the forks Of
the road
Back the long miles you have carried
the load,
Back to the place where you had to
decide
by this way or that through your life
to abide:
Back of the sorrow and back Of the
care
Back to the place where the future
was fair
df you were there now, decision to
make,
oh, pilgrim Of sorrow, which road
would you take?
Then, after you'd trodden the other
long track,
Suppose that again to the forks you
went back.
After you found that its promises fair
Were but delusion that led to a
THAT the road you first travelled with
sigh and unrest,
Though dreary and rough, was most
graciously blest
With balm for each bruise and a
charm for each ache
oh. pilgrim of sorrow, which road
would you take?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

Protest against blaming Colonel
Roosevelt for fostering sneaking at.
lection for war is voiced by the Sioux
City Journal, which recalls that If ar
bitration instead of war had solved
the Cuban problem In 1898 Theodore
would not have been elected governor
of New York and would not have been
kicked upstairs into the vice presi-
dency, which led straight to the presi-
dency. Wherefore: 1T was Roose-
welt, the war hero who won popularity
after Roosevelt the politician had ap.
parently been consigned to minor
league company for life. Why
shouldn't the colonel stand by the
bridge on which he crossed into the
hall of fame?' Why indeed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

has church. But so far as Mr.. Wilson
is concerned, the matter in which he
now figures is wholly without his
knowledge or consent. Perhaps it
would have been better for him to
have demanded the withdrawal Of his
name as soon as heard of its use. but
at the present time it has been almost
impossible for him to do so. without
some personal humiliation to himself;
that is, it would merely be said that
he had withdrawn because they had
scared him. He is placed in most I'M
fortunate position, that much all must
admit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26
The Reason Why He Stays


"A heapit stimpart I'll reserve ane,
Laid by for you.
We've worn to crazy years thegither,;
Well toyte about wiz ane anither; +
Wi tentie care I'll fit thy tether
To some hained rig.
WHARF We may nobly rax your leather,
Wi sma' fatigue.
From the Scotch farmers's New
Year salutation of his old mare. 1t is
divinely human.
From different field OF action, but
to the same point, Sir Walter Scott
brings James Fitz James, in The Lady
of the Lake."
II little thought when first thy rein,
I slackened upon the banks of Seine,
That Highland eagle e'er should feed
On thy feet limbs, my matchless
stead.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the
day
That costs thy life, my gallant gray. ;"
From still another field of action
comes the American poet, Tom Read,
in "Sheridan's Ride"
Under his spurning feet, the road,
Like an arrowy, Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind,
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like bark fed with
furnace ire,
Swept on with his wild eye full Of
fire,
But 10! he is nearing his hearts de-
sire,
He is shifting the smoke of the roar
ing fray,
With Sheridan only five miles away"
'The first that the General saw we're
the groups
OF stragglers, and then the retreating
troops.
What was done? What to do? A
glance told him both;
Then striking his spurs with terri
BILE oath
He dashed down the line, mid
storm Of huzzas,
And the wave OF retreat checked its
course tleTe, because
The sight Of the master compelled it
to pause. ~
With foam and with dust the black
charger was gray;
BY the fash of his eye and the red
nostrils' play
He seemed to the whole great army
to say:
l have brought you Sheridan all the
way
From winchester down to save the
day!
sHurrah. Hurrah for Sheridan!
Hurrah! Hurrah for horse and man!
And when their statues are placed on
high,
Under the dome of the Union sky.
The American soldiers Temple OF
There with the glorious Generals
name,
Be 1t said in letters both bold and
bright:
Here is the steed that saved the day
BY carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From winchester, twenty miles
away"
In all these expressions, and in
thousand others that might be quoted
from writer's of every enlightened age
the leading thought is that of feel
ing of kinship, growing out OF a close
| partnership between man and horse
that has existed from time tina
greatly ante-dates the oldest historic
records. And it is in this feeling to
4 ward the educable creature that 81
readily learns obedience; that 81
quickly and alphabetically responds
to the expressed wishes of his master
that knows and loves his master, ant
delights in pleasing hint is in thi
feeling that man has come to b
bound to the horse by an attachment
which no machine can ever dissolve
The horse will stay.
| Granger, Mo, Sept. %.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-26

In a cabled interview from Scotland
Tuesday Andrew Carnegie expressed
great satisfaction over the Presi-
dents proposal to agree with the SEN
ate as to the confirmation Of the arbi-
tration commissioners, and came out
souarely for the denomination of the
President in these words:
mo President ever better deserved
a second term than Taft, who is the
only possible Republican candidate
The insurgents will soon merge with
, the party" And when asked who the
/ democrats would nominate, he re
!. nlied. THAT matters little. Though
| they have choice of good men, the
opposition to President with sucn
/ a record is hopeless.