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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1909)
THE EVKN'INfl NEWS THI'HSIUY, iKOKI11KR 2 ttMIO COAL LAXI1S STKAI., Holiday Goods OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE Juhu K. Ijitlirojt fit Mt'CIupes Maga zine lulls the Slory. The January rumher of McClures Magazine has an interesting story OEY' about the methods employed by land K rubbers and coal barons, and In part Mr. Lath rti says: NEW 1909 CROP SEEHKI IUISIXS, SMYKXA FIGS, 1JLEACIIE1) SULTA.V HAISIXS, SOFT-H SE LLED WALNUTS. ClltHAXTS, CITltO.V, OHANUE VEIL, I.EMO.V I'EKL, HEINZ MIXCE MEAT, HEIXZ Al'l'l E BITIEH. I'UitK MAI'LK SVUl'P, APPLE CIllKlt. S7 r- Give Us a Call Phone 238 PERFUMES For Christmas Gifts 1 ounce LAZELL'S "PERFECTL'S" Violet In elegant silk lined box, 2.75. 2 ounce LAZELL'S VIOLET ELECT in handsome package $3.75. 1 ounce LAZELL'S "PERPETUS" In beautiful package 2.50 2 ounce "LAZELL'S" In silk lined box IJ.1.75. HUDNOTS celebrated perfumes In odors Chrysis. VIOLET EAN DE ESPAGNE, White Rose, Hleliatrope, all In elegant packages 25c to $1.50. HUDNOT S and LAZELL'S Toilet Water 50c to $1.50. PERFUMES all odors In fancy Japanese boxes 25c to 50c. CHILDREN'S PERFUMES In all odors, nttractlve Loxes 25c. SELECT and fine assortment of military, brushes lialr, brushes, mirrors, safety razors and manicure sets and single at ROSEBURG PHARMACY, Ihc. See the Cook's beaming face as she gazes on a can of Folder's Golden Gate Coffee. She knows her boss will like her Coffee. She will grind Folger's Golden Gate herself, so that it will be at its best and give that finishing touch so necessary to a good dinner. - Folger's Golden Gate Coftce is the best we sell and gives our customers more satisfaction than any other coffee- we know of Alton S. Frey ill Sp 1 CHRISTMAS GIFTS COME IN AND WE WILL ASSIST YOU' IN SELECTING YOUR PRESENTS Our'stocK is large and Better than ever Australian and German Decorated China. Suit Cases. Craphaphones. Rugs and Draperies. Children's Carts and RocKers. Chiffioners and Dressers. Center and Library Tables. Morris Chairs and RocKers. Coaches and Lounges. Space is too limited to name the many beautiful articles that will please you. Come in and see. ROSEBURG FURNITURE CO. Headquarters for Celebrated Columbia Graphaphones, Doable DUcs and Indestructible Records. "In 1901, prospectors for sit found a billion dollars' worth of coal in southern Alaska. Thiv we-e look ing, without nmcli luck, for oil wells, when the Indians and squawmen took a few of them bark into the glaciers aim showed ttiem the mountains ot coal along Boring river known to the lH'al tribes for years. Nowhere else on the face of the earth has any thing like thete mountains ever ben discovered. They are masses of tilted rock from 1000 to 4000 fet-t high, cut across from one end to the othet with seams, ftom & to &0 feet thick, of the highest class of btttimluo is and an thracite coal. The people having in side information on this land wore naturally nnxiens to secure title lo it, away from the United Stntes govern ment, which owned It. Congress has been giving coal lands for 35 years, but while extend ing the coal land laws to Alaska had careloEBly failed to remember tha it could only give away surveyed lands, and theBe were unsurveyed, hence ail that would be grabbers could do wp to take possession and hold the lands till a new land law could be passed. Various groups of capitalists made ef forts to get possession, the best ter ritory, containing more than 200, 000,000 tons of coal, being taken by a group called the "politicians' syndi cate," whose manager was ex-Mayor Harry White of Seattle, a "power-ot-attorney" man. PowerB of atttrney wnre ohtglnd by hundreds, from al sorts of people, one stock-selling concern operating In Portland, headed by a banker and an owner of a leading newspaper. There were finally 950 of these pow-er-of-attorney claims, covering the whole Berii:g river coal fiHris, not 5 per cent of he claimants ever having been near that locality. The fight was for the most wonderful coal dis trict in the world. it Is the only frlst class bituminous and anthracite coal on the Pacific coast; from the Bering river district railroads can be built to the sea, not more than 110 miles long, over per- factly level counu-y: ntic, aeeording to a published statement by Alfred H, Brooks. hn(t of the government's geological survey work( in Alaska, there are 6,000,000,000 tons of it In both fields more than one and a half times all the coal that has ever bef.n tairen out of Pennsylvania. Two thirds of this has been filed npon by these claimants that is, as mnch coal has come from the mines of Pennsyl vania. Mr. Brooks estimates it to be worth $1 a ton as It lies; that is $0,000,000,000. Alaska people objected and pro tested,, but got no satisfaction until 1904, when the demand became irre sistible, and then the Cunningham group, composed of millionaires, took the lerid. Cunningham was the man ager, and according to one of his memoranda, Senator lleyburn wr.s t' get a KiO-aere claim, t worth prehaps $1,500,000, for legal services, The coal land law provides that any citi zen or prospective citizen of the Uni ted Stntes is entitled to take one 1i0 acre tract of coal land at a nominal price, and no more. So association or company of men can take more than 040 acres of this land a privil ege allowed to fosr "r more men who have spent $50 ' i" '"nprovements on this square mt' land. This law lertl to wholesale per 'lury nnd the lands Invariably pass in to the hnnds of great corporations, llevburn sought to have the law chnngfd in the interest of the syndi cate, but was not Mtecesafui. Then the crovernment got busy prosecuting land iraud cases, and rtoosevelt held up all these coai land claims. By this time the Guggenheim syn dicate had become the greatest mo nopoly of its kind In America, and as far nnd fast as possible acquiring these Alaska coal lands. In 1S05 the GtiKgenheims secured control of the great Bonanza copper mine In soirn- err Alaska, and Omn begnn to rea?-l 1 out for this enorm- i "ai field, and j they bought out (" i ' -hts as to coal j Innds. a railroad r.ad n harbor of an rSiicllfh compfttiv. With posses?!'' -i rf the only feasi ble harbor, that if lrdova, and with their Copper -'vt" railroad alreadv hullt over a thir l rf tho district to the field, the Onggenhelms hold an ab solute key to transportation. Several spwial agenJs siircpssiveiy reported, at firM. that these Cunninglmm-fiue-s;enheim claims were frauc.uipnt or il legal, during or prior to the time that i. A. Baliinger of Seattle was rr.m mipHionrr of the general Hurt ofih-e. and ho appointed Louis R. Oiavis to mnko a further and special report. InilueritiaJ men got busy, and Ghtvis. who found the claims fraudulent, wan called oft, Ballinger, after ecaefng to be land j fommlssloncr, became attorney for the Cunningham clnimums, and espc eiallv for the White group. On bp coming secretary of the interior Pal linger turned :hls business over to hi turccssor as IpikI commissioner, Fred DonnMt, who had hon Senator Hans brough's private secretary, and lator a land office official and real estate speculator in Seattle. Om speHa! ie.nt, I.ove, had at first reported the claims frau'Julant, hut later modified his report. On January 4, 1908, a totecram, siened by Commissioner BalHrn-er tt-ns sent to !,ove in Alaska, askim: him to pend the plats of the runninir hnm clnitns required for issuing "pa tent." the last approval still reriuir- I ed from the sovern'ment for fb'se claims. On January 7. Asm?tnm Commissioner Dennett notified OlaviH f,ov report. Olavls. having some that the Cunningham claim?- had been annrovpd for patent on ih la'ter knowledge of the evidence against thes claims, protested at nnr by tel egram nnd letter. Immediately after the order to "clear-list" the Cunning ham claims for "patent" was revoked bv th land offlcp. Then the claim ants sought to get legislation needed by them through congress. BVKKV YKAH STYIiKii KKKM TO lMl'KOYB AXI KYKKY T1MK TilK THKIOTMAB BK.48QX HOrXSAriOtNl, WKCAX SAYrwillT ALL liXKKT TIlIt WW HTIM'K IS MlVitKATrHAtn'iYB THAN" THK YKAR MKI-OHH. THIH YKAH IX IA JtTICl'LAH VK IIAVK : ISKKX SlIIHiTL IX SKt-litlXU MANY 8THHTLY MIW ASH ISKl-l L MMCS. LOCKETS Solid Gold, plain and engraved,., and up. Gold Filled, plain and stem set., and up. $1.00 $1.00 Scarf Pins UMBRELLAS For both ladies and gentlemen, with detachable and folding frames. The artistic and servlcaMe kind, 3.00 to $15.00 Solid Gold.. ?5c 25c , Gold Filled, and up Some ot the newest patterns. WATCH FOBS For both ladies and gentlemen; rlbhon, gold filled, solid gold. The latest patterns.. Crt and up. piJy Silverware Ours Is fit once recegnis ed as the best. In email pieces at f 1 50 to large tea sets at $25,00 Hand Painted China Va&?s, Plates, cups and gaugfirs AA and up, ipA.UU SIGNET RINGS Ve have a fine line and certainly can do the' engraving to suit the most particular,. All In solid and up. $i.oo DIAMOND JEWELRY A good diamond is a constant pleasure, A poor one a tonstBiit dlsnpiiotntmettt. We have thorn in nearly all hinds of gold Jewelry. Prices from and up, P3 WATCHES This Is one of oar strongest lines, A watch from llKY'S fa always recognised as a good waten and fully guaranteed, $1.50 to ?5.00 ' SILVER NOVELTIES Match safes. Sterling Pocket knives Pocket files. $1.50 $1.25 75c Pocket combs 75C Thimble and sewing sets 25C Grip tags. Sterling. ..... $1.00 Cigar cutters 1.00 Open Evenings Cut Glass tfappia' Vaaag, bowel s salt and peppers &t $L50 Pieces and up. JEWEL BOXES New styles silver and gold $1.00 f O $10.00 ASHTRAYS Smoking sets and cigar Jars. A Bue lot to make good presents for smokers. fl C A and up. pl.W rTTTTVCI The Jeweler I1UJL X O VI On Cass St.' g RICE RICE, THE HOUSE FURNISHERS Ncw'sthe time to Buy Your Xmas Gifts. Shop Early and get first choice Bettor, bigger than ever is our display of osefuljgifts odd pieces furniture, book cases, desks, dressers, buf felts, sida boards, china closet, combination cases lounges, couches, davenports, settees, parlor sets, chairs and rockers. "Coming Through' the Rye." That's the tune you'll step to if you should fail to shop early. USewinjjJmacMiieg, washing machines, ranges, kitchen cabineUt Everything to make merryj the horns, Cuttlery alf kinds, 1M7 Rognn llrua ailvtsrwear at jrfera llow them ail. Carveru, roasters and coffre percalatora. A pleasant thought, a wice suggestion, a timely hint. Swell lto?kc, Morris chaire. Couches anil Davenport?, liufFetts, China Closete, Itinera and extension tables 11? Roger liros. Silverware. The atest CotFee 1'erculator, Kize 1-3 We Never Forget the Little Ones Little red chairs, ilollie go carts 50 cents yp, toy dishes, tiy tables, toy stoves, knives and forks ami ehiids sets rocier., high chairs, black boards, toy bmk, air guns for buys, toy banks and game boards. There will be something doing if you selected marked and laid away for yon wait too long. Mail orders promptly attended to. Goods mmttttifftrz?: Be wise Read The New.