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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1902.
ing into consideration the fact of
the large amount of land entered
under the homestead law during
the past year in the Agency Plains
country we iuay reasonably expect
to' soon become oue'otthe great
wheat producing counties of east
ern Oregon.
''I will not jndenie o that; re
sponsible position any man who
habitually deals in 6toi'ks" said
the President recently, when asked
to secure .in appointment for a
bright young man who takes an
"occasional flyer on the stock
market."
During the past month President
Roosevelt has been cheered by the
association of Canadian Railway
Passenger Agents, the French
Chamber of Deputies and praised
without stint by the German Em
peror. To few men is it given to
attain such unlimited respect and
popularity at the nge of 44.
With the mineral wealth of Ore
. gon immeasurable, those interested
cm reasonably expect that the care
ful expenditure of every dollar in
the development of a mine should
be returned from ten to twenty folci
arid in many cases in this section
the proportion ot increase has been
much greater. And the average
Oregon company of repute for
there are those of no repute is
ready to be a protection to invest
ors in behalf of honest and legiti
mate mining. Portland Journal.
Secretary Root recently per
formed ac unpleasant duty which
should earn for him the respect of
all right thinking Americans. A
retiring board found that an officer
was suffering from chronic alcohol
ism and recommended that he be
retired. The Secretary ordered
him discharged saying, "the evi
dencs shows teat the officer was
suffering from chronic alcoholism
and on at least one recent occasion
had been drunk on duty. These
are not gsounds for placing an
officer on the retired list and sup
porting him in idleness for the rest
of his life, at the expense of the
country, but they are grounds for
dismissing him from the service
which he has disgraced." . The
Secretary is to be commended but
the country is not to be congratu
lated' for congress will doubtless
pass a special bill restoring him to
the retired list with increased pay.
To the Public. .
Allow me to say a few words in
praise of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. I hud i very severe cough and
cold and feared I would get pneumonia,
but alter taking the second dose of
this medicine I felt better, three bot
tles of it cured my cold and the pains
in my chest disappeared entirely. I
am most respectfully yours for health,
Ralph S. Meyers, C4 Thirty-seventh
St., Wheeling, W. Va. For sale by
all druggists.
From all points of the compass
in this county come reports of the
good done by the rains of last
week. Whllj the long dry spell
wasjvery detrimental to the early
growth of grass on the ranges there
is now sufficient moisture in the
ground to bring a good crop of
herbage unless cold weather should
Set in earlier than usual here.
Fears were entertained by many
that if the dry spell continued up
to the first of November it boded a
long cold winter, but when the wet
spell began nearly two weeks ago
it was a continual and regular
thing and has been about as- wet
as the proverbial Webfoot weather
usually is. Should the present
temperature bold out until Christ
mas we may look forward to one
of the best crop years that has ever
favored this county, as there is at
the present time nearly double the
acreage of grain in that there was
last year arid with favorable con
ditions for spring ' grain there
should be a much larger acreage
of that put in than last year. Tak-
On the first page of the t Journal
will be found a lengthy communi
cation to the Oregonian from Ma
jor Sears, who was here last sum
mer in the interests of the big irri
gation 'Corporations on the Des
chutes, in which he makes an
attack on Williamson principally
and wn all those who . would have
the public lands left as heritage to
the people, in detail.
So far as Sears' letter concerns
the people of this county we will
deal wiUi it. It is simply the fear
thnt the general government may
take hold of the mutter and that
(he corporations will thereby suffer
that animates the old man to the
point of of writing this long winded
pistle. The frequent libations of
spiritus frumenti that were indul
ged in by him must have set hard
on his stomach to bring forth such
foul gasses. We would advise him
to bring along a supply of Bull
Run water the next time he comes
up here to inspect the irrigation
ituation.
In the first place he says that
the country is in the hands of a lot
of selfish stockmen, who wish to
preserve the public domain for the
purpose of grazing( their herds upon
the same, This in itself shows that
the man is ignorant of what he is
talking of, for the large stock own
ers have long ago given up the idea
of holding the public lands for
grazing purposes and furthermore
there are hundreds cf small stock
owners now grazing their herds on
all the public lands of this county,
and the isolation of any large tract
of land is an utter impossibility
without first acquiring a title to
the same.
This windy "blatherskite" would
have us think that it is for the best
interests of the state to have the
Carey law exploited to its fullest
capacity and then let the general
government come in and irrigate
a lot of the arid waste; that is left.
The state in this case is the people
and the people can do a great deal
better under the reclamation of the
land by' government aidj than by
any Carey law or any other land
grabbing scheme that was ever
promulgated by the land barons.
In the first place the lien granted
on the land by the state law is en
tirely too much to admit the settle
ment of the land by the masses of
the people who make the bent citi
zens. This lien approximates 110
per acre in the Deschutes valley
and when it is understood that
there will be an annual rental for
water of one dollar per acre in ad
dition to this hen it will be seen
that no man of common means can
ever hope to become the possesor
of 160 acres of this land. In fact
the matter stands in about, the
same light that Mexican peonage
does at this day in old Mexico. A
case in point. A comes out from
the east and locates on a quarter
se.'tion of tl.e best land in the Des'
chute. valley and makes a pay
ment on his home. Then lie goes
to work to reclaim it, for notwith
standing the claim that the parties
who have the contract with the
state to reclaim the land, there has
been no reclamation taken place,
but only that water has been con
ducted to outside lines and the set
tler is compelled to construct all
the laterals and side ditches. Then
there is sage brush and junipers to
re nove and many other things to
do beside fencing the land before
the settler can begin to plant his
farm. He has become indebted to
the corporation in the sum of f 1600
for his wild land and then must
pay the sum of $160 annually on
the same for water rent and inter
est on the orrgnal lien, of perhaps
another 1160. ' Thus he is com
pelled to pay for his land a good
round price and then interest on
the investment besides. This in
reality makes his 100 acres of raw
land worth the sum of f32O0, for
which sum one may buy the same
amount of improved land in locali
ties where no irrigation is necess
ary. Think you that we will be
able to get this country settled up
under such conditions?
Some of these land grabbers
think that they can pull the woo)
over the eyes of the people by at
tacking the stock interests of this
county as being the greatest draw
back to the acceptance of the cen
trists of these cororations by the
government, but they cannot do it
and a Btrenuous effort will he made
by the eoplo of this inland coun
try to have these contracts held up
until there is an investigation by
those who cannot be controlled by
honied words, sugared whiskey or
a little spot cash.
This bewhiskered prodigy would
have us understand thut unless
the state gets this land settled up
through the efforts of some corpor
ation under the Carey act that it
will not be able to get any good
out of the land., lie says that the
state must enter upon a gigantic
advertising scheme in order to se
cure scalers for this laud under
government irrigation or any other
mode of. reclamation save by the
means of the Carey act; that under
that method the land grubber must
do the advertising eto. Suppose
the state does need to do a little
advertising, it will do no harm,
but once the people get taken in by
these greedy corporations then that
part of the state where such cor
porations are operating will re
ceive a black eve from which it
will be impossible to recover for a
decade. It would be nice for these
landed barons to sit back at ease
and have a few hundred poor dev
ils workins for them all their lives.
a pleasant (prospect or the hard
working farmer to contemplate.
Suppose that the state signs a
co..t a t with these corporations
and the government accepts, or
ratifies it and the corporations do
not sell this land for a number of
years, or suppose .they sell it and
then the buyer atter working on a
quarter section for several years
fails to make his payments and is
ejected from his home, what then
becomes of his land? The corpor
ation has a lien on the land arid
will keep it until paid, and if that
is not a virtual ownership of the
land what is? Our good friend of
the many initials to his name!
would have us believe that the
stockmen of this country want to
virtually own the land sought by
the corporations, for grating pur
poses, while those tame corporations
are the benefactors of the state and
the people of this county, but they
are benefactors for money, which is
a good thing and any of us would
liVe a job of the same kind.
When the National Irrigation
Congress gets through with this
land grabbing scheme it will look
like thirty-five cents or less and if
the people of this interior country
attend to business, they will be
able to save their heritage without
the stigma of a system of peonage
being established in their midst.
Ir. C. A. IViiiti,
IM.im, Ui.nt Oct. I, l:m:'.
I wish ti thiuik va lr mv jvllt f.
1 wan HiirTri iii-j iiii'mii's fi-mii iiil.- :in i
whh taking li'r!iu' tn n-lii'vn nm
w!u-ir. nil tin' ittlMC'.' if ti fti.'ii.l, I pi".
iMiriT'l a U.HIe "f "ur l'''iiin i'ili
SjuTitie mul t"tk it tuliMu! itt, iii.lit
i.lul HlK'tt't'l- ill tilt HlllltlillX'. At ilitl!
past twelve, liimii, Iny wilt! nvy lui
."inuttior t'lUi'-t ni-iifii), when my pu In
.ill nt"ipeil. Ill two llilVM I w.n il'il-
tn titMul uiy ri'K'ilur- Ini-iui-H , ntirvl
rtlifvctl. It w us mi ii 1 1 . - woihli-rl'ul.
Jiiliu-, Mvypili'ifer, Knrrit'i, lkl,-im.
.WriC'K FOK rt ULlCATloX.
Land Office at The Unlit. Ortym,
Nurruilwr S, KMi.
Notice heiehy Kive tlmt the following
iikiued kettler Iiah tiled notice of hit intention
to wake final proof in ti)iM.rt of hie claim,
and that aaid rtKf will he wade before
J. J. Smith, County Cleik at Frineville, Ore
gon, on Friday, December, IB. 1H02, vii:
John J. Coleman, of I'rineville, Ort'Kon,
11. K. So. 71411, for the 8W' sc, as, tp. la
S., K. 14 E., W. If.
He naruea the following 'witneMee to prove
bif continuotui residence upon and cultivation
of aaid land, via:
John Hanlcy, L. M. Thoinui, Jnteplt
Wiirond and five. Moore, ull of l-uinonta,
Oregon.
JAY P. Ll'CAS,
X 13 Keguter.
Notice of Final Settlement.
lu the mutter of the estate of
AlUut K. Smith, Drri'Uwd,
N otice i,l,er.'hy given that the iiii1it
siirlK'il, the uiiluiimtrator of the c-hitr
of Allien K. Smith, ban llleu hi Mini I nr.
r.mutilitf ol his liiliiiinistratioli f Muid t-i
tate, ami the Hun. County .1 ihlgi for Crook
I'uuuty. ori-giin, Iiil-i not' the 4th day of
January, Iln2, at the County Court Kijom,
in 1'riiiL-ville, Ori'K'in, a-' the tunc ami
plaru for hearing aiil tillill ni'i-iliitili.
Wm. smi hi.
Ailiiiini-trator of r;-t:itc ot A i.:, f'kt
K. Smith, IJi'i caM-'l.
Dated the. h'.th day of Xovt-tnhi-r, Virl.
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Carrying U. S. Mail, Passengers and Fast Express
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U. 1. Y liVMilv, Agent, Prineville
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