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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1909)
X CHEAT l OPENING Settlers to Ee Allotted Six Hun dred Thousand Acres. FIRST CHOICE FOR INDIANS. United States Government Will Open Coeur d'Alene, Flathead and Spokane Lands and Award Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Homesteads by Lot Flood of Applications. Uncle Sam is about to kill two tre mendous birds by using a -stone of record breaking size. The latter part of this summer be will break up the tribal relations of nearly 4.000 Indians In Montana, Idaho rand Washington. place them all on farms and give to American settlers something like 600,- 000 acres of the Indian lands In those states. These farms of 160 acres each will be awarded to lucky Immigrants by the lottery system, which has placed bo many thousands upon homesteads of their own: . ; For many generations the United ' States government has been feeding and clothing the Indians. The effect upon the Indian himself has' been pro nounced, as might have been expected he will not work for what he has received free for so many years. So the government' has decided to appor tion the lands now held by the tribes In common among the various Individ uals and families and permit the red men to learn something of the hon esty of labor. The Indians to be affected In this In stance are (537 Coeur d'Alenes in Idaho, 2,379 Flatheads in Montana and nearly 700 Spokanes In Washington. Regis tration will begin July 15 and will end Aug. 5. The drawing will begin Aug. 9. The swarm of people to the north west to try their. luck doubtless will be enormous. About 3,750 farms will be opened for settlement For a month or more the land office has been receiv ing an average of from 800 to 1,000 letters a day from people all over the United States, prospective settlers in quiring as to the conditions governing the lottery. Only 3,000 or 4.000 people can hope to receive the prizes. Before white men are permitted to ' settle upon a single acre the Indians themselves are to be given first choice of the lands for fariniC On the, Coeur d'Alene reservation the 637 Indians have been alloted 102,000 out'of a total of 310,000 acres. So each Indian will also receive 160 acres, including men, women and children, giving Indian families much larger farms than the white settlers will receive. The Flathead Indians have been al loted 222.0C0 acres out of a total of 1.200,00a acres, while the Spokane In dians have been alloted 66.280 acres. - Some timber-land on the Coeur-d'AIene- reservation will be opened for regis tration, but timber lands will not be opened on the other reservations. The white settlers will have to .pay the Indians withitf five years for all the lands taken up for. settlement at from $1.25 to $7 per acre. This mon ey, paid to the government in annual Installments, will be deposited in the United States treasury to the credit of the Indians, and they will receive individually each year, the "interest-en their funds. ' All who desire to register for these lands must go io person to the regis tration points at Kalispell or Misspula, Mont., to register for Flathead lands, to Coeur d'Alene, Ida., to register for Coeur d'Alene lands and to Spokane to register for Spokane lands. Appli cations will be received only at Coeur d'Alene, where James W, Witten of the general land office will conduct the lottery. Applications, which may be sworn to before a notary public, must be sent to Judge Witten by or dinary mall, not by registered mail, Snd- no envelope which bears a return card or the address of the sender will be counted in the lottery. y Soldiers and sailors of the civil war, Spanish war and Philippine insurrec tion or their widows or children may register through agents. This means that the veterans or their heirs do not have to go way out to Montana ; to ;-?frister. All applications for registra tion must reach Judge Witten at Coeur d'Alene before Aug. 2. All applications filed on - Identical blanks will be heaped In a room and thoroughly mixed. Judge Witten will pick out one of them at random. A clerk will mark that blank "No. 1," and the man or woman whose name it bears will be entitled to first choice of a farm. In this way a number of blanks equal to the number of home- steads available will be selected. No selections of homesteads will be made prior to April 1, 1910. All per sons winning the right to enter will be notified when -to appear to select their farms. If they fall to appear on that date they .wilf lose all rights un- der the number assigned them.- -No charge will be made for regis tration, but at the time of entry per sons who apply for Flathead . lands will be -required to pay one-third of the appraised .value.' and toose apply ing for the lands on. the other reserva ' tlons will be required to pay one-fifth of the appraised value. Residence must be begun within six months aft er, the date en "which entry is made. Settlers must build homes and culti vate the lands In pood faith. - At the cud . of the five year term they receive ; title and may dispose of tbelr lands. At the end of fourteen months those desiring to do so may pny for' their lands In full, when they will receive title and be authorized to ell their lands if they so desire. Washington Cor. Boston Herald. HIS WIFE'S PRISONER :' ' . By AGNES HUNTINGTON. Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso- - clation.J - ' -. I Mr. and Mrs. Owens returned from the theater at 11 o'clock. They found the light in the hall turned low. as they had left it, and, leaving it so for the night, as was their custom, went upstairs. They had barely turned up the gas on the second floor when' they heard a sound below. Mr. Owens de scended the staircase to learn the took charge of the wonderful growth, cause and at the bottom met a man. MAMMOTH MUSHROOM. Weighed Over Thirty-three Pounds . When It Reached Scales., In a field sis miles back of Pitts burg, at Mitlvale. Pa., Dr, Allen J.'Wil- tetts. professor of economy and Eng lish in the Carnegie Teck schools, re cently discovered a mammoth mush room. -The mushroom, after some pieces had been broken off in getting It to the. scales, weighed thirty-three and a half pounds. It measured thir ty-two inches on the top and nine Inches in thickness.; V The Carnegie institute, which at once declares that, while there is historical record of a mushroom weighing forty- flve pounds having been found, it has reason for belief that the find of today is as large as if not larger- than any other ever foupd. Detail as to1 the mushroom of history is lacking, and there are also lacking some parts of the Pittsburg mushroom which were intact when found. Dr. W. J. Holland of the institute, "Who are you, and what are you do ing here?" asked Mr. Q wens. The man "put his finger to his lips. 'Be ... quiet." he said in a . . whisper. "There are burglars In the house." '-. "But you how did you get In?" "I am a policeman in plain clothes. I came in through the same window as the burglars." . Mrs. Owens, fearing some danger to her husband, followed him downstairs who raced by auto into the woods for and asked what was the matter. the mushroom, when notified declared that it must have weighed over forty pounds when Dr. Willetts came upon it "Burglars," whispered her husband. "Great heavens! . - We shall all be murdered." ? 4 "Not while I'm here, madam,;) said The mushroom is what is known as the policeman, "and if you'll only keep the polyporas kind and cannot be cul- quiet I'll bag them all. : Go upstairs tivated at all, though it Is of the edible and leave them to me.' variety. The mushroom appears to Mrs. Owens ran upstairs :as fast as have grown so fast that blades of she could go. " Mr. Owens would have grass cut through it. remained below to assist in the cap ture, but his wife called him and threatened to go down "again ; if ' he didn't come up. The policeman . told him frt rrt anil Iroon hpf nniot . fr Remarkable Military Greeting Fcr the Qwens followed hls wlfe Stairs and Norwegian ngvcuah One day while In Norway an oppor tunity was given to L. P. Richards to Prices Boiled Down to Make Best Bargains See These BJORNSON'S POPULARITY. verify the statement that the name of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwegian poet, means as much as the Norwegian flag. "A battalion of Norwegian and Swedish cavalry, infantry and artil lery, between 3,000 and 4,000 strong. was returning from its maneuvers to the post in Christiania," he says. "In passing Aulestad the general in. com mand sent his adjutant in advance to get Bjoruson's permission to bring him an ovation With his family and Into her bedroom, where she locked him In with her and took the key but of the lock. .'" ji" . Mr. Owens remained comparatively passive, for some ten minutes occa sionally listening. Hearing muffled sounds below arid not liking the idea of the contemptible position he occu pied, he demanded the key of the bed room door of his wife, that he might go down to see what was going on and take part in it if necessary.: Mrs. Owens, terror stricken at such : an event and fearing that her husband guests assembled about him on the would take the ke? force' rushed veranda, the monumental figure stood to the window, lifted the sash .and with bared head to receive the military threw the key out. Mr. Owens uttered oTPPtir.Er an exclamation of dissatisfaction, but "As each resiment passed in review eoula do nothing. ' He was locked in below, presenting arms to their chief- Under such circumstances one will tnin. there weTir m a rlenfoninff ahnnt Often do Something ridiculous. MF. of personal salutation from each of Owens leaned out of the window and the soldiers, who then joined in sing- looked down through the gloom for ing the national hymn, to whose author the key. He heard in a stage whisper they were offering fhlS spontaneous sa- from below "Hist! r active One Dozen Ladies' Wool Tailored Suits At Actual Cost. . . All Ladies' Oxfords At a Big Reduction cials and Boy's at baler rices A Lot of Boy's Cloth ing, 4 to 14 years, at HALF PRICES lute. There was the unique spectacle of a man in private Ufa being accorded a military, spontaneous demonstration by the nation's army which a king might envy." RICH , GRADUATE IN CALICO. "Who are you?" asked Owens. - v-; "A neighbor of yours. '' I think there are burglars in your house." "There are, .but there is a plain clothes man after them." "Aren't you going down to help?" "I'd like to, but my wife objects." -"IT'm! I don't think my wife would keep me upstairs with burglars in the house." v . ' - v .. "Nor mine either if I could , help my lelir She locked fbeToof iind tnrew" Niece Inaugurated Wealthy Man's - Campaign For Plain. Gowns. , -'"Miss Harriet -Walk-eFr a-wea!tby n , the key-out of the window. I wish night "when she appeared for high 7d l"ok for " a"d tof BPhnnl crrartnPttnn In 1W ,nwn Fl ' 'Not I. If yOU Should get ShO.t yOU.r p Wen hpr womthr nnni. rtooi' nr wife would never forgive me ki,- i , ,,t; I "What the dickens am I to do? I'm gowns, and more to satisfy him than locked UP here like a kid ln a nursery. to win the $50 which Mr. "Wells g flia nipra fihp fit h!a ronnost flffnw wear onlieo In and see the condition of things." y "Mv oblect" said Mr Wells, "is to "No. thanks. I've got a wife and .begin a campaign for more sensible flve .-was at borne. I'm not going to gowns at commencement exercises, duck up against me revolvers oi pro Too mny poor people spend compara- fesslonal burglars to save the property Hvelv lnro-n snma n tmr-h trnTxma If Of those Who lock themselves In. . Be- every one could afford it the custom sides, if the police are on to the matter Get on to Our Bargains for next week J. He HARRIS would be all right." NEW SHELL A SEARCHLIGHT. Luminous Missile Fired at Night to Discover Fleets. To detect a hostile fleet or single ship at sea on a dark night, especially when a great distance away, is no easy matter, even with searchlights. The French naval authorities now believe, according to a dispatch from Toulon, that they have discovered a precious auxiliary in a luminous shell recently invented and with' which ex periments have been made with great secrecy. The shell, according to a de- i. nt-in1-iTi nnVan (a fi rod at fl hlfrh an DUWUVU i . - ' " - D I , , I . t . f n(tfa gle. and" when it bursts it scatters """., . 1 , luminous balls over a large part of the horizon, " enabling one to discover a ship within a radius of sixteen or eighteen miles. . ' there's no need of any one else taking it up. Good night. I'm going home. I just thought I'd step over and tell you my suspicions."; - This dialogue "was - carried on in quick whispers between the two men, the neighbor being almost invisible; The neighbor disappeared. Then, after it was too late, Owens thought, that he might have asked him to telephone the police for assistance for , the single .plain clothes man who was trying,to capture the gang below, ; But he was under excitement and not able to think clearly. - , - -- . . v.- - An hour passed and Mr. Owens was still a prisoner. - Then lie heard foot steps below as of several men: passing PLAN YOUR VACATION NOW at our expense A CHOICE OF FOUR FREE To H. R. H.' Juliana Lou. IThe little crown princess of Holland has been christened Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Cable . Dispatch. J . The Holland folk are tickled much - Because they've got a Princess Dutch, ' A brand new blue eyed baby girl . 4 To keep their royal hearts awhirl. An heiress for their little throne : -if That they can call their very own, - Who soon will rule them as she likes . . As little Princess of the Dikes, And for her name - - - , This very same . Is christened by her subjects true ' As Juliana, Juliana,' Juliana Lou. O Juliana Lou, I We doff our caps to you!: ; A princess fair - You truly air, . , O Juliana Lou! '" a ; Some day you'll come Into your place As ruler of the Holland race. And as a queen, serenely calm, . You'll rule o'er giddy Amsterdam And Rotterdam . . . : .- i. And Potterdam ' And all the other dams there be Along the beauteous damson sea. . "And as you walk your regal ways May all your sauce be Hollandatse, ' And may you never use a crutch Because somebody's beat the Dutch, But, rule, serene. . : A happy queen . ,- f Your days all through. ' " O Juliana. Juliana. Juliana Lou! -. O Juliana Lou, t i We doft our caps to you! . . A Dutch treat fair . - You truly air. .2 , O Juliana Lou! -J. K. B. In Harp-er's Weekly. Hello!" called a voice. "Well?" asked Mr.. Owens. : "We got 'em." . ... ' . "Did you? That's good.' :: "We're taking 'em off to the station now. You U De wauiea in tne morn ing to appear against 'em." 7 "All right. I'll be there. Say,, would you- mind looking around down there for a key and tossing it up to me?" -. "Of course I will." - The light in a dark lantern was un covered and moved about under the window." After a few minutes' search the -key, was found and tossed up to Mr. Owens. "Good night," said the man. "Don't forget to be at the station tomorrow at 10. You'd better go right down stairs and lock up." "Are you sure," called Mrs.' Owens, "that you've got all the burglars?'! "Well, there might be some of 'em hidden somewhere. Better take a pin." . This settled it for Mr. Owens. His wife snatched the key from him and threw It again out of the window, . It was 3 o'clock In the morning when, refusing any longer to remain a pris oner, he made a rope ladder of the bed clothes and descended to the ground. He had no trouble getting into the house, for the . front door was wide open. 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