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FLORENCE, OREGON, SATURDAY. JANUARY If
The Morning Register has the
following special regarding the
homestead case of Bert Froh
mader who lives on Big Creek
North of Florence.
Washington, Jan. 13.— Rep-
■esenative W. C. Hawley was
Iresterday advised of the final
^disposition by the office of the
secretary o f the interior o f the
homestead entry of Bert Froh
mader, who was a member of the
Salem company of the Second
Oregon Volunteers during the
w ar With Spain. The secretary’s
office reversed the decision of the
commissioner of the general land
office adverse to the entryman
and approved his entry remand
ing the case to the general land
office for final action looking to
.th e granting o f patent in due
. course.
be Frohmader case is an inter-
jN W n g one and has been stub-
ittoponily contested.
M r. Froh-
<g_mader settled upon land near
J B k c e t a Head in the western part
.W lf c a n e county, Oregon, in June,
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ceedings for the purpose o f
securing a cancellation o f the
entry.
M r. Frohmader defended his
rights, but the commissioner of
the general land office took
adverse action and held the entry
for cancellation. An appeal was
taken to the office o f the sec
retary o f the interior, and a mut
ual friend of the entryman -and
Representative Hawley asked him
to take up the rights o f the entry-
man. M r. Hawley made an in
vestigation o f the case and be
lieving the entryman had acted
in good faith and complied with
the law he urged favorable action
with the above results.
JMBER 8«
Lane county has an area of 2,951.680 acres all told; of
this the forest service has 1,567,124 acres, or more than
one h alf o f the county. I t requires $760,000.00 to pay
the running expenses o f the county one year; we re
ceive $6,199.52 from the forest service, or 25 per cent
of the gross receipts o f the National forest; we pay in
taxes on less than one h alf of the total area o f Lane
county $753,800.48. more than the National forest. Is
this a business proposition? Is the forest service pay
ing its proportionate share of the tax?
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Let a young man of tw enty years of age put twenty
dollars at interest, instead of expending it for tobacco.
Then, at the beginning of the next year repeat it, and
include also the principal and interest of the preceding
year, and thus continue to do so from year to year un
til hereaches the age o f seventy, the amount he would
realize would exceed th irty thousand dollars.
How
many o f you young men w ill try it?
Co-operation among farmers in gathering,
and marketing their products will enable them
better prices.
State Capital, Salem, Ore.,
Jan. 14.— Possibility that there
will be six or more constitutional
amendments submitted to the
voters by the present legislature
is given impetus to the proposal
that a special referendum elec
tion be called again this year in
terms somewhat similar to those
of the special election bill o f the
last session. I f the special elec
tion is called it is likely that the
amendments and bills referred
by the legislature will go to vote
next fali instead of waiting until
November of the following year.
but was unable to secure a
filing upon it until May 9, 1910,
Bi when he made his formal entry
H b la im in g the benefits of the sold-
^ W e r’s rights in making entry on
^jpublie lands.
Before he made
^"hifi formal entry, but subsequent
^j||to the time he made his original
settlement the land covered by
’ his entry, together with other
Governor Withycombe has ap-
lands had been included in the Jjointed R. A, Booth as his perann-
B Siuslaw National Forest, and the al representative at the Panama
Sgwrernment brought adverse pro- Exposition.
Govern-1 platform in the house of repre-
nbe be- eentatives, and members of M r.
lycombe Withycombe’s fam ily had specia
>day, in places to the le ft o f the chair.
When the house was called to
order the senators filed in from
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the other end of the capitol and
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OR. JAM ES W IT H Y C O M B E
the presence o f a notable com
pany o f jurists, statesmen and
prominent citizens.
Chief Jus
tice Moore and the entire mem
bership of the supreme bench
occupied seats on the speaker’s
Dress,
and
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a roll call showed every member
present.
A fte r Speaker Selling had
turned the gavel over to Presi
dent Thompson of the senate.
Senator Langguth moved th at a
cgjpmittee of two be appointed to
invite retiring Governor West to
the hall.
A committee was appointed to
escort D r. Withycombe and a
committee of five was sent to in
vite the justices.
Then
President
Thompson
turned over to Speaker Selling
the official returns o f Secretary
of State Olcott that the new state
officers were duly elected, and
the oath of office was administer
ed to M r. Withycombe by Chief
Justice Moore.
The entire ceremony was ex
peditious and si mple. An orches
tra from the asylum for the in
sane played during the waits.
The Sunday ‘Journal had a
picture showing five generations
of one family, stating that Mrs.
M. R. Bailey, of Gold Beach,-
who lived in Florence for some-
time was a great-great-grand-
mother. The article follows;
Olympia. Wash., Jan. 9 .—
Having celebrated her seventy-
fourth birthday anniversary three
days before Christmas, Mrs. M.
i R. Bailey, of Gold Beach, O r.,
i joined with a daughter, a grand-
I daughter, a great granddaughter
’ and a great-great-grandaughter
i in a holiday gathering in Olympia
i at the home of Mrs. Laura M.
i Canfield, her grandaughter. The
i members o f the five generation
note with the proceeds o f the group were: Mrs. Bailey. Mrs.
sale. In the work done by the Amanada J. Foul, o f S t Johns,-
hog clubs o f the Northwest last O r.; Mrs. Canfield, o f Olympia;
year, an eleven year old g irl at Mrs. W ilda B. Kirkendall, of
Washougal, Wash., made a clear Seattle, and little Laura Cassan
profit of seventy-nine dollars on dra Kirkendrll, aged 15 months,
one’brood sow. In this instance
Mrs. Bailey, the great-great-
two litters, 24 pigs in all, were grand-mother, is a native of N ew
produced. Local educators have York state and a blood descend
expressed the opinion that this is ent o f Prince William the Second
the most important step ever of Orange.
W ith her parents,
taken in this line of work and, M r. and Mrs. Alfred Washburn,
as fa r as known, the first move- she went to Portland in 186$ as
ment of the kind ever started in one of a party in a train o f
the United States.
prairie schooners.
Soon after
ward the family moved to Mon
ticello (now Freeport), Cowlitz
county; Washington, later com
ing to Olympia.
‘‘When I went out in an auto
mobile the other day and rode
ate today confirmed among other around Portland, I could hardly
nominations for postmasters, the believe th at it was the same little
appointment of C. C. Buchanan trading post that t found over 60
as postmaster at Florence, Ore years ago, ” said the mother o f
gon.
•] the four generations.
SENATE CONFIRMS
P. M. APPOINTMENT
Victor Talking
Machines
and a fine selection o f Records
Come in hear them
Toilet Soaps and Articles, Shaving Articles
Collar Bags, Fancy Stationery
Japanese Napkins, Tissue Paper, Tablets and
A COMPLETE LINE OF DRUGS
Surface Drug Store
| in this way been cut off but it is
EARTHQUAKE
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Rome, Jan. 13.— Ita ly
has
again been visited by an earth-
quake o f wide extent which, ac-
cording to the late advices, has
resulted in the death o f 12,000
persons mid injury to possibly
20,000 more in the towns and
villages destroyed.
The shock was the strongest
reported several villages in that
region were destroyed. Likewise
Potenz, capital of the province of
the same name, on the eastern
declivity of the Apennines, with
20,000 people, has been isolated.
In 1857 this town was almost des
troyed by an earthquake.
Morris <& S
Joe. M orris Jr., Norman G . Morris,
THE LEADERS
Rome has fe lt in more than a 100
years. The town of Avezano, in
the Abruzzi department, 63 miles
| east of Rome has been levelled
FLORENCE, OREGON
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! to the ground; here 8,000persons
are reported to have been killed.
In many small towns surrounding
Rome buildings jrere partially
wrecked, while at Naples a panic
occurred and houses fell at
Caserta. a short distance to the
east '
Owing to the wide extent of
the disturbance and. its evident
terrible consequences the actus]
effects o f the earthquake are not
at present known, owing to th e 'e _ ...... ........
cutting off o l communications, poftance to the livestock industry
The fortified city of Aquila has of the Pacific, Northwest was
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