County
VOL. VII.
PRINK VI LLK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 13, 1903.
NO. 35
Crook
Clearance Sale
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FENCES MUST GO.
Stockiiicii Olicy Order To
Tear Tlicin Down.
On Inspector's Order.
ThoiiBarxU Of Acres Inflow! For
Ornzlnir Purposes Will Be
Thrown Open.
JCustern Oregon elwknii-n wiMj
iiimrcnlly, oU-y llio order !( Ihc
Interior Department to tear down
the fnicin (hat incliisf puhlic lands.
Tlioso upon whom reports have
been made liuvu oU-yed instruc
tions, and lliousarnls of acres of
public hind will be thrown on
this full. A large pnrt of the ter
ritory included in the itincrury of
the sciul agents is understood to
lie already oien, but o small por
tion will be fenced in until this
season's oro nro gathered.
Kdward Dixon, the special agent
of tho Interior Department, in
charge of the work, lias not been
aide to go over more than 20 per
cent of the land. Ho was called
away from his work by other
duties, but is to return V Kastem
Oregon within a few dnys.
It is likely that the specialSigenl
will be in the field until the cold
weather drives him out. It may
lie he will be able to complete his
task by that time, but if he finds
more work to lie done it will In-
taken up next spring.
The work of compelling the
stockmen U takedown line fences
on public lands is being prosecut
ed by the United States Attorney's
Ollice, in conjunction with the
special agent of the Interior De
partment. It is declared that
prosecutions will follow in the
event any of the stockmen refuse
to obey the order orarodeliniiient.
Since the work cannot be com
pleted until late in the (all, it is
not likely there will beany further
extension of time. The officials
in charge of the mutter had de
termined to allow such settlers
as had crops on tiovernment land
nn opportunity to harvest them,
insisting that fences should come
down when harvesting was com
pleted. The special agent will now
go over much of tho territory
after the crops are in, and he will
be expected to see that fences come
down while he is on the ground.
This deteminrntion to compel
those ursurping public lands to
take down their fences immediately
grows out of the fact that any
other action would necessitate a
second visit, and the fences can be
removed within u comparatively
short time. The special agent
would save time and his mission
be better fulfilled if he remained
until his orders were obeyed.
While Federal officials have no
intimation that, the threats of
trouble between sheep and cattle
growers in Eastern Oregon may
have had any connection with the
Government'! crusade, it is felt
that trouble may possibly occur
after the public lands are restored.
Instead of being ablo to protect
great ranges, growers will lie cum-in-lied
in the future to take chances
with smaller operators. This
might lead to clashes, but, even
though it did, the Government c.m
not take any other action save to
compel the opening of its preserves.
As it now stands, some of the
larger stockmen not only inclose
their own holdings, but fence in all
the surrounding grazing lands
that they can 'use, driving away
smaller growers and keeping out
settlers.
In the past frequent stories have
been told of the big stockmen's
action in threatening new settlers
and compelling them to move away
from districts which cattlemen
have regarded as their own graz
ing territory. Whether the stock
men will lie willing to abandon
their contention that small oieru
tors must keep out after the fences
aro down is a serious question, but
one that will not come up for some
time.
It is not believed that stockmen
will lie inconvenienced much this
season bv the action of the Govern
ment in ordering down the unlaw
ful fences. As a rule, it is the
policy of tho growers to feed upon
the Federal lands, reserving their
own holdings for winter and (all
pasturage. K this plan has been
generally followed, the stockmen
will not find themselves in need of
greater rangen until next Hpring.
At that time, according to Feder
al officials, they will have to take
their chances on obtaining grazing
privileges on the public domain.
Wall Khlp nation.
While at Izee last week F. M.
Lacey and J. F. Turner of this city
purchased 13 10 head of two-year-old
weathers of Kccrins brothers and
Mrs. Lizzie Bailey. This band
will be added to a band of 000
head purchased of a sheepman
named Allison, of Malheur county
and 1000 head of ewes and
weathers owned by Mr. Lacey,
and will be shipped to the Omaha
market. The Izee sheep aro now
on the trail and will be taken to
linker City for shipment about the
middle of the present month, and
it is intended to place the sheep on
the market about the last of the
present month.
The price paid for the Izee sheep
and for the Malheur county sheep
was $'2.12J )ier head. Blue Mount
ain Eagle.
Ilvtneateaa Caaea.
Two more actions to' set aside
alleged fraudulent homestead
patents were brought in the United
States Court yesterday by the
United States District Attorney,
as the result of the recent investi
gations that led to the removal of
the United Spates Commissioner at
Eugene, Marie L. Ware. The
fictitious boniefteaders in these
eases are "Robert Simpson" and
"Frank II. Heme." The com
plaints show that, as in the other
cases, the homesteads were deeded
to M. F. Henderson, William A.
Peters and 1'. F. Woodford, as soon
as the patents had been illegally
secured. It is alleged that the
three had full knowledge, of the
fraudulent method of procedure in
securing the patents, and for that
reason deserve to lose the land.
There are 3'JO acres in the Rose-
burg district involved in the two
uits
Uaius Ol Croakta1 Ulrer.
F. Forest has been ailing for a
few da vs.
Aylette Tetherow is working for
Mr. Dodson through baying.
Several of the Haystack farmers
were in this locality attending to
business visits last month.
Miss Grace Merrill has had re
Inps of her former illness, We hope
she will soon recover.
F. McCallister was over from his
fruit ranch looking after his hay
ing, which is in full blast.
Mr. Ben Pettyjohn and family
have moved to Sunnyside, Wash
ington, where they expect to make
their future home.
The Uev. H. Street was over
from his ranch on the Matoles, and
made a pleasant visit at the home
of J. !. Merrill.
Mr. Phillips, of Bend, was in
this neighborhood the middle of
last month buying horses and
cattle for Mr. Hammond.
F. Forest is baling hay at the
Tetherow ranch. They report the
baler doing good vork. He has
contracted his bay for $10 per ton.
Mr. Batson and family have
moved from Grizzly into tho Car-
micael bouse. They aro engaged in
helping put up the hay of this
valley.
Mr. Montgomery went to the city
Monday last, on business. While
there he visited his daughter, Mrs.
Fogle who is sick at her home with
remittent fever.
Mr. Bruner, of Portland, visited
several families the tfrst ol last
month. He was getting signers
for a petition to get bis bou pardon
ed from the state prison, where he
has been for the past three years.
Thixy.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Sonic Not.
Oulllngs Prom Our Exchanes-
News Notea of the Week
Timely Toptce.
It is estimated that Oregon has
400,000 head o( cattle, 300,000 of
which are in Eastern Oregon.
The Naval Observatory has secur
ed an excellent likeness of the Bor
elli comet. It looks like a bit of
stray cloud.
Hie iMIipinos seem to imagine
that the new trans-Pacific cable
was laid especially to enable them
to ask for reduction of the tariff.
They are harvesting quite a crop
of revolutionists down in Venezuela,
but another crop will probably
spring up without any reseeding
Since bearing his remarks anent
Ireland it would surprise no one to
learn that Edward VII kissed the
Blarney stone in the course of his
travels.
Secretary Root has stated the
facts regarding the Littauer glove
contract without fear or favor and
has referred the entile matter to
the Attorney General.
The most captious critic cannot
blame Egypt for objecting to the
so-calied "Egyptian dances" at the
St- Louis fair. They arc a slander,
even on .Egypt.
Major Baden-Powell announces
that the War baloon is a thing of
the past and must yield to the pai
to the man-supportine-kite for
which he predicts a widely useful
future.
Judging from the number and
serious character of the charges
aeainst Marie Ware, Ex-U. S. Com
missioner at Eugene, we should
sav in addressing her, Mane
Beware."
State Treasurer Moore has made
his annual apportionment ot school
money (or 1!)03, which is $230,019.-
20, compared with $214,039.35.
This year's apportionment is based
upon a school population of 143,
757. A German newspaper announces
that the cause of seasickness is
anaemia of the brain. Would not
the natural remedy for this condi
tion be standing on one's head or
hanging by the knees from a
trapeze?
A discharged employee is trying
to create trouble for Pension Com
missioner Ware. The public has
the satisfaction of knowing that
if the employee has been really
wrong he can secure justice through
the Civil Service Commission.
William Hamilton, who last
week outraged Mabel Richards, a
13 year girl of Asotin, Washington,
and aftei outraging her, murdered
her by crushing her head with a
stone, was hung by a mob after
confessing to the horrible crime.
It is typical of the President that
he would not even cause the arrest
of the curmudgeon who swore at the
presidential party last Sunday.
Had Mr. Roosevelt been alone and
the circumstances propitious, the
cad would doubtless have received
summary justice from the president
ial fists, however.
Andrew Carnegie the Scotch
American multi-millionaire is
following the example set by the
heathen Chinese, and is importing
American gold to his native heath.
His latest gift is $2,500,000 in 6
per cent bonds of the United
State Steel Corporation, which he
has given to his native town of
Dunfermline Scotland.
The Oregon Short Line and the
Union Pacific railway Companies
have Kith announced that they
will refuse to carry sheep over any
of their linen unless the 8hipn-rs
can furnish a clean hill of health
from the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry. This is to
guard against the scabby flocks of
certain parts of the West.
Lieutenant General Nelson . A.
Miles was retired last Saturday
and was succeeded by Major Gener
al ft. Ji. M. Young, who achieved
distinction in the Philippines.
The latter has only temporary
command of the army. General
Miles, though hampered in bis
work by the last two administra
tions has achieved signal success
as commander-in-chief which posi
tion he has held since 1895. As a
tactician and organizer, he is per
bai the ablest man the Ameri
can army has had since Cival War
times, and his retirement has been
the cause of many expressions o(
regret.
THE KOVKKSnKNT'S HOMIV.
The Promlacuona frentioH or
Hcacrv-ea llllrla Our Nctlon.
"If the government had wished
to retard the development of East- -em
Oregon for an indefinite length
of time," said a Minneapolis tim
berman who was in the city the
other dav, "it could not have
struck a more lasting blow than
the creation of the recent reserves.
Railroad prospects have been ma
terially stunted, and private capit
alists, owning timber in these dis
tricts, who, under normal condi
tions, would probably extend tem
porary lines into the timbered Ml,
are not likely to undertake the job
pending the final action of the
government." ,
The sentiments expressed hy
this eastern lumberman are not at
variance with the general feeling
on all sides. Uncle Sam' latest
move in preserving practically
four million acres of territory im
mediately east of the Cascade For
est Reserve, is looked upon as the
finishing blow to early develop
ment of Crook, Klamath, and Lake
counties. Of the former countv,
half of its area remains free from
the government's clutches. Klam
ath county with its enormous ex
panse of 4,500,000 acres has been
left three tiers of townships on its
extreme southern boundary open to
settlement, cultivation, and de
velopment, and the county of Lake
retains 2,700,000 acres out of a
total acreage of nearly 5,500,000; in
fact one half of the total area of
the state, or 45,000 square miles,
lies now within the confines of the
government s experimenting field.
It is difficult at this time to un
derstand why the Interior Depart
ment has set aside this immense
scope of territory. Practically all
of it has been entered under the
various land acts by individual
laimants who w.ll retain their
rights of possession unless the
government sees fit to condemn
the tract, and issue scrip or lieu
base to the holders. But it is
generally supposed that the gov
ernment's object in creating reserv-,
es is to preserve the water -sources
and protect the new growth of tim-
. Consequently it would not be
consistent with this theory to set
aside aril tracts, or a- strip ot ter
ritory which supports neither a
water shed nor an infmt (orest.
But the Interior department has
seen fit to lay aside consistency,
and in putting the valley of the
Deschutes, and Lake and Klamath
counties into a region of "no tres
pass" has reserved an area wholly
discordant with the salient points
in its theory ot (lerpetuai water
supplies, protection to forests, etc.
It would not be wandering far from
the truth to as.-ert that eighty-five
percent of this additional Cascade
Reserve is arid. A comparatively
few sections, not townships, support
a growth of jack pine, and with
the exception of its extreme south
ern portion no appreciable supplies
of water are found. Thesed istricts
could easily have been set aside in
lonformity with Hitchcock's pet
theories, leaving the remain-
K-r for progress and development
to use to the material oenclit ot
this portion of the state which will
match with considerable interest
the government's final action and
disposition of the rights invested.
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