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APRIL, io. 1903
HXIT H. V. CORMKTT.
The passing away of Hon. H. W.
Corbctt Inst week in Portland marks
an epoch in Oregon's history. Mr.
Corbctt was about the last of the
pioneer merchants nnd men of af
fairs in Oregon. He has seen Or
egon reduced in territory but in
creased greatly in wealth, popuht
tlon and importance, and lie ho
htcn the principal man of public
life here for the past twenty-five
years.
Mr. Corbctt's place in the world
of business and olitics will now U
taken by a younger generation
who may use his fortune and stand
ing for Oregon's good, or may not.
Wc hope that it may be for thegood
of the community, however, and
that the young men who will have
the expenditure of Mr. CorbcttV
fortune will co-operate with the
present new blood which is taking
upon itself the mantle of govern
ment in this Western country.
The old pioneers the men who
made Oregon wlwt it is today are
slowly but surely dropping out and
thoir places are being filled with
young men of progressive, up-to-
date, twentieth century ideas and
business ability.
'Mr; Corbctt has done much for
the upbuildiug of Portland and Or
egon, which will be remembered for
a great many years, but he should
Iiavcfcldnc much' raorcf and we ear-
iiesth- trust tlintLH 1i.ire ..ni ,r
be biased and handicapped by ante
dated ideas of superfluous wealth
23,080 feet, which was reached by
two men iu 1837. The opinion of
most experts is that plenty of time
nnd money will enable picked moun
taineers to roach the top of any peak,
under favorable conditions. With
provision for plenty of suitable food.
uowever, tnc explorer must go
slowly, adapting himself to the rar
efied air by resting weeks at a time,
.it dinbrent camps on the road, and
taking two or three years to com
plete the ascent. Kvcn it Kckeit
tein or his followers should gain
the ascent of Mount Hvcrcst, some
higher peak may remain to be sur
mounted. The Himalayas have
been but imperfectly surveyed, and
several mountains are known to
tower above 28,000 feet, while more
than a thousand exceed 20,000 feet.
that nu ordinary steam launch is
made. useless. It was to overcome
this djOiculty that Count Zeppelin
constructed his launch with propel
lers iii the nlr: and so uffctftivc hn's
the new method of propulsion be
come utnt the light boat, drawing
only ten inches, skims the water at
4 to :G milts an hour.
-MX) ft'-O POLE
THK ONUS ON UNCI.K SAM
It will surprise no one to learn
dndmd$lkQiisp.' let them invest
their mbney inisome of? the latent
industries of Oregon, and if they
see a chance to help along a legiti
mate business enterprise which
wishes to locate in Portland, let
them donate some of their laud,
or their money, or their influence,
and though the returns may not be
immediate, they will greatly profit
in tho end, both in a pecuniary way,
and, what is more important, iji re
taining the good will of the people.
And when they pass to the groat
lx-yond people will not say, "Well,
Mr." CorlxJtt was a good man, but
he kept out more industries and re
tarded the growth of Portland mort
than the combined opposition of nil)
one hundred men could have done."
What we need now is less mos
backism and more progrcssiveuesri.
that the huge scheme of irrigation
to which the last congress devoted
the proceeds of arid and scnii-nrid
regions will cost nearer $12 an acre
than S5 and is quite likely to over
run the revised figure. The esti
mate of $5 was based in part on the
cost of irrigation by private coinpan
cs, and it is now discovered that
private companies have secured all j
the sites where cheap irrigation can
be practiced. It is the uxpensive
ami unprofitable part that has been
left for the government. Philadel
phia Record.
This is nobody's fault but Uncle
Sum's, who should have taken hold
of this work years ago and fore
stalled the private companies. Tlfc
support of the public should, how
ever, rest with the private compan
ies, as experience has proven that
when Uncle Sam starts in on any
sort of public works, plans arc
changed from time to.time, and the
work drags along so slowly that the
people are glad when the work is
taken out of the hands of Uncje
Sam's hired men and turned- over.
by contract, to the lowest bidder,'
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-jwc- me -uacuue l.QCKS, ailU Oilier
government work which has been
perfonned(?) in Oregon.
The government should submit
specifications and receive bids on
the proposed wgrk at tiicdalles of
the Columbia,' aWl$tftout bj don-
tract to the lowest bidder; otherwise
our great-grandchildren will be
gray-beaded before the work there
is completed. .' '
A OKUitSOMir l't.vn.
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For removing from the stomach
metallic objects that are attracted
by the magnet, S. Mayon has de
vised a method that requires nocut-
tmg. A small electro-magnet is ar
ranged to slide in a tube similar to
that of a stomach pump, and the
apparatus is passed into the stom
ach through the mouth, when the
magnet draws the foreign body in
to the tube, "y lighting up the
stomach witji X-rays, the operator
is ablelQ bring the magnet into con
tact with the metal at the point
most suitable to enter the tube.
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Renewed interest in the possibili
ties of scaling the world's loftiest
mounfaii lias been aroused by the
setting out for the Himalayas of the
expedition under Kckenilein. The
highest known point in the world
is Mqunt Kvorest, which rises to
29,002 fcet above sea level, and the
greatest height to which anybody
Has yei ciunocu is uie summit ot
Mount Aconcagua in the Andes, a
covery of a human skull with horns
is reported from'.thc Adkins, ranch!
on .-ucituy crecK, some distance
north of here. Thomas Adkins
and an assistant delved down into a
pile of rock which had evidently
been piled up long ago as a species
of cairn. Several feet down they
are said to have disinterred a man's
skeleton with huge backbone foints.
The skeleton lay amid rocks' which
had been built in after a rude fashion.
The skull was the most interest
ing portion, according to the s'torv.
The teeth were wide and large, and
the jawbone very prominent
Horna projected from each side iyi
inches Jong.- The skeleton is still
on the Adkins ranch.- Oregonian.
We have an idea that Mr.Adkins
has been trespassing uixmi the sa
cred precincts of someone's family
vault. Wcsuireest that the Ore-
gou Irrigation Congress investigate
tills and find out who has buried n
prftc shorthorn. '
Clover with four leaves ii lio lon
ger merely a curious freak, as I)e
Vrioa, the Dutch biologist, has nro-
dticedit m a normal variotv after
long-continued selection.
In the eplortion of tropical wa
ters, the dciwe growth of aquatic
plants often so obstructs the screw
a 1U.ACK. Jtvit iok tun-ritu CUHItK.
A general misapprehension pro
x'nls' regarding the requirements of
the law governing locators on arid
Iaiitl to be reclaimed under the I'cd
eral irrigation act. Ignorance of
the laW has permitted more or less
of deceit by laud sharks, who have
been aided by the fact that -Hjopte
in otfrcr localities arc usually not
acquainted with the character of the
sod on the irrigation reservation.
I he truth is that people who take
up homesteads on that reservation
will have to comply with the law,
and cannot expect to accomplish
tlie evasions that have been features
of the Federal land business in the
past. They must live on the laud,
and the residence must be actual,
must improve it, and they cannot
commute it. Presuming that n per
son has filed on 160 acres, he will
not know whether or not he can
hold that much, for if the govern
ment decides that 160 ncras is too
much land, that amount may be
cut down to 40 or 80 acrci, as the
case may be.
The provisions of the Maxwell
law relative thereto are:
Section 4. That uiwn the deter
mination by the secretary of the in
terior that any irrigation project is
practicable, he moy cause to be let
contract'' for the construction of the
some, in such portions or sections
as it may be practicable to construct
and complete as parts of the whole
project, providing the necessary
funds for such portions or sections
arc available in the reclamation
fund, mid HiprfMinrm in- i.f.ii ..;.,
miblic tintiiv hf tti. ImwN l-'ii.t..
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under stfch "project, and limit of
area per entry, which limit shall
rejM-ehcnt the acreage which," in the
hopinion of the secretary, may be
reasonably required for the support
of a family lipon the lands in ques
tions also of the chargatf which
shall be mode per acre upon the
said entries, and upon lands in pri
vate ownership, which may be irri
gated by the-waters of the said ir
ligation project, and the number of
annual installments, not exceeding
ten, in which suth cjiargas shall be
made, and the time when such pay
ments shall commence The said
charges shallibe determined with n
view of returning to the reclama
tion fund the estimated cot of con
struction of the pioject, ami shall
be apportioned equitably; Provided.
that in all construction work eight
hours shall constitute a'day's work,
and no Mongolian labor shall be
employed thereon."
The results of the fraudulent
statements that have been made.
and of the ignorance of actual con
ditions, are that many parsons arc
going to Kcho.to locate or buy land
who should not have kouo. Feus
of from ?25 to $o have been ax-
ncieu oy Jocntqrs, who liavc elthor
told aUuhiU- falsehoods or re
mained silent, ,uud thus permittad
the intending settlors to retain false
ideas about the JJcho region.
The facts arc that every acre of
land that i worth anything now
was taken years ago. Only wrtter
in abundant quantities, Mich as the
government projosfl to supply.will
add one acre to he arable area, and
three or four years must elapse be
fore the government can put water
on the laud, even though it is de
cided to make permanent the now
temporary Jicho or Mutter Creek
irrigation reservation,
J . 1 . wliwtlerjias found 110 site
for the irrigation, -of the Uutter
Creek rcSLTVat, nil v At Mio rtvwi,if
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WEEKLY OREGONIAN
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THE BEND BULLETIN.
BOTH PAPERS $2.00 PEI YAR.
time, therefore, the prospects nre
that there will not k any reclama
tion of those lauds. It is Imrely
possible thnt the ditch projected by
a former company, of which the late
ham P. Stutvis was the tirincin.il
mcjnlwr;" rriWJ lw tftketr up, Iftit the
probability is smiill that it will be
done. Poudleton Corres. I'orttuud
Jounial.
This should serve as a good illus
tration of the advantages of inking
up IoimI under the Carey arid land
law, under the operation of which n
man can take as much laud as he is
able to pay for and handle, nnd he
is sure of a water right as long as
he can (my the nominal maiutun
mice fee.
Will Pay Tnxc Twlfe,
Taximyera. in Oregon will pay
taxes twice in 1904. They will
pay the tnxua levied upon the tnx
roll o 1903 and also the taxes lev
ied upon the roll of 100.1. This is
due to a change in the law by
which taxes nre to be hiUI in the
full of the same year in which the
assetrsnieiit is made.
Under the present law the, astetui
mentis made after the first Mon.
day in March, the assessment roll
being filed in September, the levy
thereon made the followiiiK Janu
ary, and the taxes collected by the
first Monday in April. Thus the
tuxes 011 the nwummunt of 1002 arc
not jwld until 1903,
1 he new law provides that the
assessor shall on the first Monday
in January procure blank assess
ment rolls nnd proceed forthwith to
make his awessment, and return
the roll by the first Monday in Tulv.
showing all property then owned in
the county on the first .Monday in
January.
Section 360 of the Code hos been
amended so as to provide that the
county board of equalization shall
sit on the first Monday in July, in
stead of on the first Monday of
August, ns heretofore,
Section 3082 was amended so as
to limit the time for correcting the
assessment rolls by the board of
equalization of the county court to
county courts must make the an
nual tnx levy in September follow
ing thcnssoasmunt.-Mitchcll News.
New Saylnj-s of Mm. Wire
"I've made it a practice to nut all
my wftrrfas cwii in the Ixittom of
my houit, then sit on the lid n'
smile."
"You never kin tell which way
any pleasure is a-cotHiu'. Whoever
would n thought when wc alined at
the cemetery that we'd laml up a
ilrst-clas fire?"
"I b'lieve in bavin' a good time
when you start out to have It. If
you git knocked out of onapkiii.yoti
want to git yorself unother rirht
qukk, before yor sperri.s has a
chance to fall."
"The way to git cheerful is to
smile when you feel bad, to think
olxuit somebody else's headache
when your own is 'most bustin', to
keep on believin' the siuf is n-shin-in'
when the clouds is thick cuoutrh
to cut.""J.ovey Mary," in The
Century.
Ilulletin and Weekly Oretfonlan
only $2.00 per year. Sulwcrilxi.
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