2 THE LAND OF THE PEMTENTIES A BIT OF AMERICAN LIFE WE KNOW LITTLE OF. Grewsome Sights of Torture and Self Scourging. (By M. J. Brown. Every man to his own liking Very ofton I see a newspaper heading "See America First, and I just can't help but read it. But it will tell you to follow the tour i.sts' footsteps and see some of our well-known, or widely adl-r Used natural wonders. Great, if you like lliein, but there are other wonders I like heller. But each to his own liking I have been all around Yellow, stone park, hut too busy to call I have been along almost the edge of the grand canyon, but too bent oil hunting something old to even leave my card. I have been within five miles of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky with no desire to ex plore it. But I HAVE seen the great riv er of slono in America; I have seen tho famous historic rocks where the Spaniards carved their history when there was no way to write it; I have seen the cliff dwellers' ruins, where men lived died and their history was ohlil crated before a while man's foot ever touched America ;I have seen ancient and wonderful Zenii, in habited today by the same race that lived Ihere dim ages before Coronado ever crossed the Hio Grande; I have seen the ancient cave dwellers- homes, the many inhabited and abandoned pueblos tho forest of agate; the strange and unknown Penilenlies, and many other odd sights. This is my idea of seeing Am erica first. Is there any of you who reads these lines that can locate the places above? Can you tell just where any one is except pos sibly tho petrified forest? Try it without tho aid of an alias. There is a locality in New Mex ieo. northeast of Santa Fe, far hack from the railroads, and hid den in the great mountains, that few whites have ever seen, and it will be many years yet before many do see it, for it is a toil soino journey and one must hit tho rough places. But it was ever my yearning to get into these un known corners and I have pass ed by tho many of tho big wonders and their $5. a day hotels to hunt some old Indian idol, nnd I have almost waded in dangers to find them. Twice I have visited the Indian hamlets of the l'enitenties once in February, when wo were lost, snow bound and poisoned, nnd the second time in sunny November, when the trip was one of con tinued wonder and pleasure. I found a man near F.spanola, who wanted to take a team thru to a mining camp south of Taos, but ho would not go through alone. He and I were not long in signing articles of agreement ho to drive, I to pay the freight. The journey whs one conlin nous un the mountain and down again, mountains way up in the air 8,000 feel, and the weirdest and strangest of great hills; mountains that, were cinders that appeared to have been pushed up out of a great furnace; mount ains of almost solid rock; giant hills of strange colors and fan laslio shapes. And in I he valleys between these, hills, hidden away from Ihe markets of men, are hamlets of a strange people, people who live in a world of weird fanaticism and witchcraft,, sclf-seorgers crusifiers, flagellants. But or liese later. 1 want, to tell you of a strange find first The second day out we had gol len well into the. mountain fasl ness, and Unit jolting was gel ling monotonous and tiresome. My side partner pointed out a peak ahead, not more than a half mile distant, where our road would pass, hut he said we must go fully three miles in a zig-zag to reach it. I quit the outfit and climbed for Ihe peak, telling him I would go ahead ami order din ner. Half way up, on a little plat eau, I chased a kangaroo squir rel (two long and Iwo short legs) and shot, at him. I thought I had hi! him and followed him into a dense growth of brush, when I came info an opening, a cleared space of perhaps an eiglh of an acre, half of which was solid, smooth rock, polished by Ihe sands of time being blown over it. And Ihere on Ihe rock's face 1 saw something, what I don't, know and what none of those connerl ed with the historical museum in Santa Fe knew of or could tell inn about. Carved in the solid rock was .what resembled a great checker hoard, with squares about ten inches across, Ihe alternating ones cut in fully two inches, Ihe others level with the rock's face. Around these squares was a bor der, and outside the border on nn, side, something like a wheel, with spokes close together, and on Ihe oilier side, paralell straight lines on an angle. The whole cutting covered about ten feel square. 't hat it was done ages ago, every thing indicated. The corners ami edges were worn smooth by the fine sand which had blown over them. Wind and erosion had alone done the work. What was it? I don't know, but I would give a year's subscription to the Cour ier to find out. This carving was remote. There were no inhabitants in tU is locality. There were no valleys, no grass, no water. A llocky Ml. goat could not live there. But one day people did live there. Ani mals did not carve it, and it must have been done since the age of sleel or that rock was soft tufa one day.. I drew a crude diagram of it and hustled on, and then tho driver met me on tho peak; he came out to see whether I was lost or a lion had seen mo first. Ho would not even go back to look at it. And I stood there and looked off to the west to where tho cliff dweller's ruins are crumbling, up Ihere at the beginning of the Santa Clara valley, and I wonder ed if these prehistoric people, who so mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth, had not some connection with this strange checker marked rock hid den on this mountain top. And long after I am dead and long forgotten, others will find these stone carvings and wonder again. After lunch we hit the trail again and it was little more than a trail. Tho driver added to anti cipation by saying il was neces sary to pound the ponies on the back and get into one of the Mex ican hamlets, for he said it was not safe to sleep out in that loc ality. He said there were many es caped criminals from the prison at Santa Fe, and other baa men of the southwest who had never been caught, who lived and hid in that locality. They were certainly safe hut he said white men were not. They think only sheriffs and deputies have any business in there, and they know what their business is. Many a deputy has gone in there lo earn a reward, and never come out to claim it. The convicts trap and pan gold along the streams, and they have some trusty Mex ican who acts a s the lence. Just as it was getting dark we found a Mexican dobie and stup ed for the night. My partner could speak a half breed Spanish, and when ho ran short of words ho would fill in wilh gestures. l'hey understood what we wanted, a place to sleep. We had food and colfee. Profiling by our experien ce, we uiu our own Kiicnen worn and cooking. There was a father, mother, two grown girls and a 11 tie kid. We gave him some sup. per and a cup of colfee. He went to the whito bread and bacon like a tramp lo a back door hand out, but he would not drink the cof- s. He would taste it and look at his sister. II was probably his first taste of real coffee, and his tongue was educated to roasted mosquito beans and soap weed concoction. One of the girls was striking ly hansome. Dark, an olive shade, wilh fine features and red cheeks and she had a smile that would inako one almost want to for- ako civilization and become a sheep hording fanatic. But I Hint of ihe wifo and baby back in York state and faced tho other way. Hulled in our blankets we slept iiilside. The Mexicans offered us ... I, i... i one room, inere were uiruej mo, we figured it the family would have to cord up or sleep outside if we accepted, so wo declined. Tho next morning wo took all Iho eggs they had, g5ve them a dollar for hotel accomodations, and drove on. I started to write you some thing about Iheso strange people and this wonderful fanaticism, but, the pencil has chased oil' mi other trails. Next week 1 will get back lo them. 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Editorial Comment on the Matters Before the People. Have you read the editorials in regard to the vvoolen mills company being indicted for "planting" the dynamite in order to discredit the strikers. Did you see where Ihe great dailies called the company officials "a lot of murderous fiends," etc. . Didn't see it? Now that is strange Did you look for Ihat kind of stuff and the demand that those criminals be made lo answer for their crimes? Well, I have read a few of both Democrat and Republican papers, 'but nary an editorial wilh the exception of the paper before you, namely the Courier. That is the only one outside of the Soc ialist press that I have noted lo comment on this' matter. And another thing I have not heard either of the old party papers de nouncing the conditions at Law. rence, Mass. Even that paragon of Noise, Theodore, is silent on that subject. Crime consists only upon the sole condition of who commits the act. Tho soft, velvety paw 'of the politician is abroad in the land. I went up against il recently and it gave mo a chill. Fearing pneu monia I resorted to quinine. Take no chances; heller go prepared. Farmers Look Up Your FALL Requirements in Farm Tools N O W If you need a new Plow or Harrow, Feed Cut ter, Waj?on, Buggy ANYTHING in Imple ments or Vehicles, you will find it in the mitcbell Line The Best for The West See Us ! CANBY HDWE. & IMPLE MENT CO. Canby, Ore. BIG FREE IMPLEMENT Only reeenlly mini her forcible example of the uncertainly of our economic system was had in Ihe suicide of Captain Merry in Port, land. For many years he was rated a success, but ape and the changes of coinlil ions brought Ihe fear of wnnl and suicide. You may be nexl. "Oh," you say, "Ihat is the last thing I would think of. doing." Once litis man thought likewise. Of course you have never coininilted suicide and you never will. Did you observe thai congress had given us a parcels post? So we will catch up with other na tions bye and bye, if the next con gress could have a dozen Socialist members, we would likely gel some form of old age. pensions. I wondered why Straus was nominated for governor on the Roosevelt ticket until 1 saw he was controller of 11. II. Mary Co Ihe big New York department store. Then wondered no more. No workinginan need apply, but just give up your votes, pay your taxes and look pleasant. I have been asked by a man who never read Frenzed Finance as to what important information it contains in regard lo McKinley's assassination. I.awson says the Ill's!, examination revealed that Mckinley could not live, bul that Standard Oil put a press censor on all bulletins and misinformed tho public into the belief of re- oregon:city courier, fridav, covery; that Standard Oil intend ed to bring on a panic at the time of his death, just to make a few honest dollars. I say by all means get a copy somehow and read it. It's interesting, coining from the inside of Big Business. And then take another look at your idol. The tariff question may not be settled this year, neither will all reforms be adopted, but the ques tion "Who's a Liar," ha9 been definitely settled. Taft may not want to take the slump, but he might stand in the market place and show his pre convention scars. I believe in the secret ballot as the best means of feerless ex pression, but somehow can't see why a candidate for public office nominated on a party ticket, should hide his party colors. It certainly canot be from cowardice for after defying millions of germs, kissing all the babies what more is there to fear? We prohibit tho shell game and forbid three card inonle, but per mit the speclular purifying the moral atmosphere in the cities. But perhaps it is just as well not lo meddle in the show business. A family of four were out hop picking and took in a cool hun dred dollars in three weeks, so Ihey proudly announce. 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It destroys the germs of decay, helps whiten and preserve the teeth, makes the gums red and rosy, and leaves the breath fragrant and sweet. If it doesn't do all this if it doesn't please you your money hack. Price, 25 cents. Sold in this community only at our store. Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City, Canby, Hubbard, and Molalla. For any pain,' Jrom lop to loe, from any cause, apply lr, Thom as' Eclectic Oil. Pain can't stay where it is used. J X II tun. NH il oct. 4, 1912 NEWS OF OREGON LITTLE STORIES OF THE BIG GEST OF STATES. Interesting Little Bits of News of the Coast Country. A hop farmer in the Mission Bottom Country, near Salem, has grown $40,000 worth of hops on $100 acres. Tho crop is already soiu at mat figure. A farmer in the Molalla dis trict, has sold $800 worth of clov er seed from eight acres and has 27 tons of clover hay, worth $270. from the same land. A man in the Table Rock dis trict of Jackson county raised 6,000 sacks of potatoes on 30 acres. These potatoes are now worth, at the Medford depot, $1.25 per sack, or $7,500 for the crop from 30 acres. Thomas Morgan, of Enterprise, harvested $10,000 worth of grain from one ranch in Union County and he will grow enough on other ranches near Enterprise to bring his total crop up to 35,000 bush els;, Mrs. J. W. Kochor of Portland found a snake having two heads. It is eight inches long and with tho exception of the extra head, Is like. any of the hundreds of others that infest the neighborhood. The heads grow out from the neck side by side and each is as large as the head of an ordinary snake of the size, would be. L. R. Alderman, State Superin- That Never Fall Down Hoosier Drills Positive Forced Feed Bloom Manure Spreaders Double Steel Reach J. I. CASE PLOWS The Plow a Man Can Pull Dick's Feed Cutters A big line, and good Drew Litter Carriers A genuine labor saver ' HARROWS Disc, spring, spike-tooth Water Systems The Mitchell Wagon Monarch of the Road See Us! w. J. WILSON & CO. Oregon City Ore. YOU UPON REQUEST tendent of Public Instruction, has a project under way that ought to prove helpful. He proposes to make the school houses the soc ial centres of the various com munities of the state by giving an extended lecture course dur ing the winter months. These talks will be by well informed speakers, who will" discuss sub jects of common interest. The Albany Commercial Club has adopted a resolution favor ing the setting aside by the Gov ernor of the second Saturday of October as Fire Day, when ac cumulated rubbish will be burn ed and thereby danger of acci dental fires greatly lessened. . The Portland, Eugene and Eastern, the Southern Pacific's system of electric lines, has def inite plans for bringing settlers to the Willamette Yalley. When the interurban roads are put into operation, special efforts will be made to bring thousands of east ern people to settle on the land, hoping in this way to divide up the large farms and encourage more intensive agriculture. The company will pay much attention to the establishment of canner ies, fruit evaporators and other plants to utilize farm products. Josephine county isn't doing a thing to bootleggers. Ninety days in jail and a !00 fine was given to Lee Yirk for selling one bottle of booze, and St. Jines got 15 days in jail and a $250 fine. The planting of a 250 acre wal. Fall Goods nut farm will be begun in Yam hill County. The culture, of wal nuts has proven one of the most profitable industries for the farmers of Yamhill and a com pany proposes to go into it on a big scale. The attendance at the Pendle ton Round-Up was more than 50,000, and the gate receipts over $37,000. The supreme court in an op inion handed down Tues. refused to dismiss the suit brought by the state against Wells, Fargo & Co., to collect a tax under the gross income law for the three years 1900-7-8. F L HICINBOTHAM CAN'T SEE IT ANY OTHER WAY. Still Contends the Alligators In the Pool Will Get Them. Editor Courier: I cannot answer all the boys in seperate letters but I will notice some of the main points in eaoh of their letters, in this one ar ticle and also give some interest ing points on single tax from an Alberta paper, (The Calgary Her ald, of September 12,) which has been an advocate of single tax right along, but after trying it out to its satisfaction it reports as follows: "The result has been well-nigh disastrous to a number of Alberta towns. Their finances are well-nigh paralized. Single tax as applied to their land, on any reasonable basis of assess ment whatever, does not come near to supplying their actual financial needs. Public works have had to be stopped; public service is demoralized; publio of ficials cannot get their money, and even school teachers have been held up for their salaries, because the municipalities have been unable to, establish a new basi" of revenue, "You see now how misleading are the reports sent out by our single tax breth ren that live in Portland, who have been reporting single tax to be working perfectly satisfac tory in Alberta and the different towns through British Columbia, AsT have printed before, the taxes in Edmonton are 15 or 20 times as high now as they were six or seven years ago, when they first started in with, single tax. Now please don't give me any more such dope as that for your fun eral is set for Nov. 5, and I should hate to have you called into the presence of your Creator and Judge after giving vent to such stuff as that. Bro. O. D. thinks it is possible to harness the assessors up in in such a way that we can make them do as we want them to. What kind of harness are you go ing to put on them, Bro. Robbins, so as to make them put the value of raw land in the different sec tions all over the county at the figure you want them to put it at? How would you come out, if as you say, owners of unimproved land in your locality will not sell it for $100 per acre and the board of appraisers that would have charge of placing a revalu ation on the land, in case the single tax bill should be adopted, (which will have to be done,) would fix the value of wild land in your immediate neighborhood, at just what you are holding it at, $100 per acre?) Wouldn't you have to go down in your jeans, a little bit? Do you believe you can fix the harness so as to control that particular part of their work? If you can't I am afraid you will be crawling out of the swimming hole, too, on account of the alligators. And there is Bro. Rogers, that I didn't know but what he was dead, I hadn't heard from him for so long. He doesn't know what to think of that man Hicinbotham. He thinks I am certainly a stayer on the single tax question. Now I will tell you Bro. Rodgers, why I am a stayer, because I can't see the least inducement in the world to let go. There is nothing in sisrht. You and I have got the kind of property that will have to pay all the tax if this bill passes. We are in the wrong class, and I don't see any chance for us to get out of this class; we have got to have the land to make a living, while tho other class can get along without any land, if they want to, therefore our class would have all the taxes to pay we would be the niggers and slaves, and the other class would be the aristocracy. Do you want that? Why do you swallow all that dope that is sent out by Eggleston, and Cridge and the rest of that Fels crowd that are paid big money all the time to agitate this single tax question? Do you expect to get reliable statements from them? Look at the way they are misrepresenting the conditions of things at Alber ta and all through British Col umbia. I don't know Bro. Lewis, but I will say if he is going to be in the class with the niggers and slaves, he had better do a little thinking before he votes. Best wishes for the laboring men. Ceo. Hicinbotham. .'. We want to call Mr. Hicinboth. am s attention to nis ramer m- concistent position. He is loud in his intimations that the papers which FAYOR the graduated single tax are not honest in their expressions, are pain vy me Fels fund to make them and tnai he does not believe in their state ments, but without question he will take for gospel truth, and concede as sentiment of all Brit ish Columbia what one lone newspaper up there is reported to have said mm will CA TAX HOW II IRKS IN CANADA VIEW THAT DOESN'T AGREE WITH MR. H'S STORY. Asks him to Take a Trip to B. and Find the Alligators. Editor Courier: Friend Hicinbotham seems to worry over the fact that where improvements are not taxed land values go up. They go up because of inpreased population. If any thing attracted 50,000 more people to Hic's farm in the hills his land values would go up. Every additional thousand would add to land values $.1,500,000. This value would either go into the public till or into some pri vate tills, according to what the law provided. In Alberta they take more of it than we do in Oregon. In Edmonton they take a twenty mill tax on the value of the land and run a modern, progressive, enterprising city without robbing anybody of parts of their house or contents, or fining them for carrying on any useful and hon est business. So satisfactory is this system that it has extendod to every small rural township (they have no counties,) and every city is upon that basis, or stepping into it within a few months. H. has the jim-jams over tho single tax. Some people have 'oin bad. They see alligators where trout lay in the pools. There are no alligators my friend. Calm yourself. Here is a tax receipt from tho rural district of Kent, B. C. For 22 years they have been made out that way. A man with $5,000 assessed value of land pays $50 in taxe ten mill tax. He has improvements worth $5,000 and pays nothing on them in taxes. Along side of him is a man with the same value of land and but $250 in improve ments. He pays a ten mill tax on his land only the same amount. That community has inoreasod in population, greatly augmented its land values, is a typical farm ing and dairying township, and has been doing this sort of thing since 1889, when in order "to en courage the people to improve their farms" all taxes for local purposes wero stricken off im provements. The town clerk re sides at Agassiz, B. C, and if friend II. was to go up there and tell them that it would lower their taxes and restore prosper, ity and establish more just con ditions to tax improvements and reduce taxes on idle land, they would conolude. the poor fellow was in need of a physician and had been looking into a recept icale where, if looked into too often, alligators and snakes are seen to emerge and spread them selves over the landscape. The rural sections find that to exempt improvements from taxation works exactly as it does in the cities and larger towns it en courages land use, and discour ages land speculation. It reduces taxes on land users and workers and increases taxes on land spec ulators and shirkers. The municipal clerk of Peach land, B. C, a fruit growing com munity, writes that they have had the exemption" of improvements there for several years, and that it gives to the land owners "en couragement and incentive to go ahead and both improve and beautify their holdings without being taxed for their labors in that direction." He goes on to suggest that a higher tax on speculative holdings in propor tion to value than on used lands would be better than the pres ent Oregon system. This sort of tax is already in operation in some British Columbia towns. A special tax is levied on "wild lands" all over the state, and compels some improvements to be made in order to evade it. It would pay G. H. to take a trip up there and show some of the B. C. people the alligators they are harboring in their pools. He might come back sane. Alfred D. Cridge. Saved By His Wife. She's a wise women who knows just what to do when her hus band's life is in danger, but Mrs. R. J. Flint, Braintree, Yt., is on of that kind. 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