East Oregonian : E.O

Baker county has enriched the state school funds to the amount of $940 in fines imposed on violators of the anti-gambling and Sunday closing law. The cost of the prosecutions will amount to something less than this sum and so the state breaks even, the cause of justice is strengthened and the law respected.

The dispatch with which the cases against the violators of the law have been brought to trial and convictions returned in Baker county is encouraging to those who desire to see the law enforced in Umatilla county.

There is no reason why a grand jury at the June session of the circuit court aided by the vigorous public sentiment and an energetic prosecutor, should not bring about a wholesale respect for the law in this county. The frontier days of rowdyism, law violation and open vices in the West are passing. The standard of citizenship must keep pace with the surrounding progress of the age.