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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1901.
1AREYARIDLANDA0T
How States Must Proceed to
Procure Its -Benefits.
THE MEASURE AND AMENDMENT
Hatter Is of Special Interest to Ore
eon, as Coming Legislature Con
templates Taking Advant
age of tlie Bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. In view of the
expected action of the Oregon Legisla
ture at Its approaching session looking to
securing to the state the benefits which
accrue to It under the Carey irrigation
act. It may be -well at this time to look
over this act and see just what it pro
vides. The Carey act, which was made
a section in the sundry civil act of August
IS, ISM, authorizes the Secretary of the
Interior, with the approval of the Presi
dent, to contract and agree to patent to
the States of Oregon, Washington, Cali
fornia, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, "Wyo
ming, Colorado, North and South Da
kota and Utah, or any other states in
which may be found desert lands, not to
exceed 1,000,000 acres of such land to each
state, under certain conditions. The origi
nal Carey act was amended by a provision
In the sundrv civil act of June 11 1S96,
known as the Carter amendment. The
Carey act Is as follows:
"That, to aid the public land states in
the reclamation of the desert lands there
in, and the settlement, cultivation and
sale thereof In small tracts to actual set
tlers, the Secretary of the Interior, with
the approval of the President, be, and
hereby is, authorized and empowered,
upon proper application of the state, to
contract and agree, from time to time,
with each of the states in which there
may be situated desert lands as defined
by the act entitled 'An act to provide for
the sale of desert land In certain states
and territories,' approved March 3, 1877.
and the act amendatory thereof, approved
March 3, 1S91, binding the United States
to donate, grant and patent to the state
free of cost for survey or price such des
ert lands, not exceeding 1,000,000 acres in
each state, as the state may cause to
be Irrigated, reclaimed, occupied, and not
lees than 20 acres of each 160-acre tract
cultivated -by actual settlers, within 10
years next after the passage of this act,
as thoroughly as is required of citizens
who may enter under the said desert land
law.
"Before the application of any state Is
allowed or any contract or agreement is
executed or any segregation of any of
the land from the public domain is or
dered by the Secretary of the Interior,
the state shall file a map of the said
land proposed to be Irrigated which shall
exhibit a plan showing the mode of the
contemplated Irrigation and which plan
shall be sufficient to thoroughly Irrigate
and reclaim said land and prepare it to
reise ordinary agricultural crops and shall
also show the source of the water to be
used for irrigation and reclamation, and
the Secretary of the Interior may make
necessary regulations for the reserva
tion of the lands applied for by the state
to date from the date of the filing of the
map and plan of irrigation, but such res
ervation shall be of no force whatever
If such map and plan of irrigation shall
not bo approved. That any state con
tracting under this section, is hereby au
thorized to make all necessary contracts
to cause the said land to be reclaimed,
and to induce their settlement and cul
tivation In accordance with the subject
to the provisions of this section; but the
state shall not be authorized to lease any
of said lands or to use or dispose of the
same in any way whatever, except to
secure their reclamation, cultivation, and
settlement.
"As fast as any state may furnish sat
isfactory proof according to such rules
and regulations as may be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior, that any of
said lands are Irrigated, reclaimed and oc
cupied by actual settlers, patents shall
be Issued to the state or its assigns for
said lands so reclaimed and settled; pro
vided, that said states snail not sell or
dispose of more than 160 acres of said
lands to any one person, and any sur
plus of money derived by any state from
the sale of said lands In excess of the
cost of their reclamation shall bo held
as a trust fund for and be applied to the
reclamation of other desert lands in such
state. That to enable the "Secretary of
the Interior to examine any of the lands'
that may be selected under the provisions
of this section, there Is hereby appro
priated out of any moneys In the Treas
ury, not otherwise appropriated. $1000."
The following is the text of the Carter
amendment to the foregoing act:
"That under any law heretofore or here
after enacted by any state, providing for
the reclamation of arid lands, in pursu
ance and acceptance of the terms of the
grant made In section 4 of an act enti
tled 'An act making appropriations for
the sundry civil expenses of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1S95,' approved August IS, 1S94, a Hen or
liens Is hereby authorized to be created
by the state to which such lands are
grantd, and by no other authority what
ever, and when created shall be valid on
and against the separate legal subdivi
sions of land reclaimed for the actual cost
and necessary expenses of reclamation
and reasonable interest thereon from the
date of reclamation until disposed of to
actual settlers, and when an ample sup
ply of water Is actually furnished In a
bubstantlal ditch or canal, or by artesian
wells or reservoirs to reclaim a particular
tract or tracts of such land, then pat
ents shall issue for the same to such state
without regard to settlement or cultiva
tion; provided. That In no event. In no
contingency, and under no circumstances,
shall the United States be in any manner
directly or indirectly liable for any
amount of any such Hon or liability, In
whole or In part."
In explanation of how the states shall
proceed to avail themselves of the pro
visions of this act, as It stands today, the
General Land Office has issued the follow
ing circular:
"The second paragraph of the above act
requires that the state shall first file a
map of the lands selected and proposed
to be irrigated, which shall exhibit a plan
showing the mode of contemplated irriga
tion and the source of the water. In ac
cordance with the requirements of the
act, the state must give full data to -show
that the proposed plan will be sufficient
to thoroughly Irrigate and reclaim the
land and prepare it to raise ordinary ag
ricultural crops. For such purpose a state
ment of the amount of water available
the plan of irrigation will be neces-
m. The other data required cannot
bo fully prescribed, as it will depend upon
the nature of the plan submitted. All In
formation necessary to enable this office
to judge of the practicability for Irrigat
ing all the lands selected must be sub
mitted. Upon the filing of such a map
and accompanying plan of irrigation, the
lands embraced therein will be withheld
from other disposition until final action
is had thereon by the Secretary of the
Interior. If such final action be a disap
proval of the map and plan, the lands se
lected shall, without further order, be
subject to disposition as if such reserva
tion had never been made.
The map must be on tracing linen. In
i i. '.Irate, and must bo drawn to a scale
w greater than 1000 feet to 1 Inch. A
n . nr scale Is desirable, If the neces
sary ire' ''Vatlon can be clearly shown!
"The nJ and field notes In duplicate
must be filed in the local land office for
the district In which the land Is located.
A plan and field notes covering tracts se
lected in several land districts need be
filed but once In duplicate; one copy In
the other districts will be sufficient; but
in such case a-duplicate map of the lands,
at least, must be filed in each local land
office, showing the lands to be segregated
in that district. The map and field notes
must show the connections with public
survey "corners wherever section or town
ship lines are crossed by the Irrigation
works proposed, and must show full data
to admit of retracing the lines of the sur
vey of irrigation works on the ground.
"The map should bear an affidavit of
the engineer who made or supervised the
preparation, of the map and plan, and
also of the officer authorized by the State
to make its selections under the act.
"The map should indicate clearly the
tracts selected, which must all be desert
lands as defined by the acts of 1S77 and
1801, and the decisions and regulations of
this office therein provided for. The lan
guage of the former act and the decisions
thereunder are as follows: 'All lands,
exclusive of timber lands and mineral
lands, which will not without artificial
irrigation produce some agricultural crop,
shall be deemed desert land.' It is pre
scribed also as follows:
"First Lands bordering upon streams,
lakes or other natural bodies of water,
or through or upon which there is any
river, stream, arroyo, lake, pond, body
of water or living spring, are not subject
to entry under any desert land law until
the clearest proof of their desert char
acter is furnished.
"Second Lands which produce" native
grasses sufficient in quantity, if unfed by
grazing animals, to make an ordinary
crop of hay in usual seasons, are not
desert lands.
"Third Lands which will produce an
agricultural crop of any kind, in amount
to make the cultivation reasonably re
munerative, are not desert.
"Fourth Lands containing sufficient
moisture to produce a natural growth of
trees are not to be classed as desert lands.
"The map should be accompanied by a
list in triplicate of the lands selected, des
ignated by legal subdivisions. "When a
township has not been subdivided, but has
had its exteriors surveyed, the whole
township may be designated, and when
the records are in such condition that the
proper notations may be made, a section
or part of a section may be designated,
but no patent can issue thereon until the
land has been surveyed. This list should
be dated and verified by a certificate of
the selecting agent. The party appearing
as agent of the state must file with the
register and receiver written and satis
factory evidence of his authority to act
in the premises.
"The lists must be carefully and crit
ically examined by the register and re
ceiver, and their accuracy tested by the
plats and records of their office. When so
examined and found correct in all re
spects, they will so certify at the foot of
each llet
The state should number the lists in
consecutive order, beginning with No. L
regardless of the land office in which they
are to be filed. The Register will there
upon post the selections in ink In the
tract book. After the selections are prop
erly posted and marked on the records,
the lists, papers and maps will be trans
mitted to this office, accompanied by the
evidence of the agent's appointment. It
is required that clear lists of approvals
shall In every case be made out by the
selecting agents, if, after the above exam
ination, one or more tracts have been re
jected, showing clearly and without eras
ure the tracts to which the Register is
prepared to certify. Also the aggregate
area properly footed in the columns and
set forth in the certificate.
"For rejected selections a new applica
tion and a new list will be required, upon
which the Register will note opposite
each tract tne objections appearing on the
records, and Indorse thereon his reasons
in full for refusing to certify the same.
The agent will be allowed to appeal In the
manner provided for in the rules of
practice. Lists containing erasures re
ceived at this office will not be filed, but
will bo returned for perfection. On the
map of lands selected the Register will
mark 'rejected' such tracts as he has
rejected on the lists.
"To the list of selections must be added
a contract signed by the state officers
authorized to make such contracts.
"When the canals or reservoirs required
by the plan of Irrigation across publlq
land not selected by the state, an appli
cation for right of way over such lands
should be field separately.
"In the preceding paragraphs instruc
tions aro given for the designation of the
lands by the proper state authorities.
Upon the approval of the map of the
lands and the plan of Irrigation, the con
tract is executed by the Secretary of the
Interior and approved by the President,
as directed by the act. Upon the ap
proval of the map and plan, the lands
are reserved for the purposes of the act,
said reservation dating from the date of
the filing of the map and plan In the local
Land Office. A duplicate of the approved
map and plan, and of the list of lands, is
transmitted for the files of the local Land
Office, and a triplicate copy of the list Is
forwarded to the state authorltlea
"By the Secretary's decision of Jan
uary 22. 1S9S, it was held that the act
of 1S96 applies to all lands segregated un
der the act of 1894. and patents will be
Issued for all such lands in accordance
therewith.
"When patents are desired for any lands
that have been segregated, the state
should file in the local land office a list.
to which is prefixed a certificate of the
presiding officer of the State Land Board,
or other officer of the state who may
be charged with the duty of disposing of
the lands which the state may obtain
under the law, and followed by an affida
vit of the State Engineer, or other State
officer whose duty it may be to superin
tend the reclamations of the lands.
"The certificate Ib required in order to
slvow that the state laws accepting the
grant of the lands have been duly com
piled with.
"The affidavit is required in order to
show ompllance with the provisions of the
law, that an ample supply of water has
been actually furnished In a substantial
dltoh or canal, or by artesian wells or res
ervoirs, to each tract in the list, sufficient
to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim it. and
to prepare it to raise ordinary agricul
tural crops.
"These lists will be called Lists for
Patent, and should be numbered by the
State consecutively beginning with num
ber one. The list should also show, op
posite each tract, the number of the ap
proval segregation list in which it ap
pears. "Upon tho filing of such list, the local
officers will place thereon the date of
filing, and note on the records opposite
each tract listed.
"When said list is filed in the local land
office there shall also be filed by the
State a notice, in duplicate, prepared for
the signature of the register and receiver,
describing the land by sections, and por
tions of sections where less than a sec
tion is designated. This notice shall be
published at the expense of the state
once a week in each of five consecutive
weeks in a newspaper of established
character and general circulation, to be
designated by the register as published
nearest the land. One copy of said notice
shall be posted In a conspicuous place In
the local land office during the entire
period of publication.
"At the expiration of 60 days from the
date of first publication, the State shall
file In the local office proof of said publi
cation and of payment for the same.
Thereupon the register and receiver shall
forward the list for patent to the Com
missioner of the General Land Office, not
ing thereon any protests or contests as
to failure to comply with the law, or as
to prior adverse rights together with any
recommendations they may deem proper.
"Upon the receipt of the papers in the
General Land Office, such action will be
taken in each case as the showing may
require, and all tracts that are free from
valid protest of contest, and respecting
which the law and regulations have been
complied with, will be certified to the
Secretary of the Interior for approval
and patenting."
ANXIOUS TO COME IN
"WOODSTOCK AND IVA3THOE KNOCK
ING AT THE CITY'S DOOR.
Petitions in Circulation Asking That
the Boundaries Be Extended
to the Westward.
A petition has been circulated generally
at Woodstock, Ivanhoe and In the inter
vening additions between the Powell's "Val
ley road on the north and Woodstock ave
nue on the south, and the old Mllwaukle
road on the east, asking the coming Leg
islature to change the city boundary so
they will be a part of Portland. At pres
ent, the boundary cuts south across the
Powell's Valley road near the northeast
corner of the Richard Williams tract,
taking in a narrow strip of the Williams
tract, and follows a straight southerly
course to Woodstock avenue, leaving the
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territory referred to outside. If the
boundary be changed as prayed for in
the petition, it will follow the Powell's
Valley road eastward from the point of
Intersection, instead of going south, to
the old Mllwaukle road, thence along this
road south to Woodstock avenue, and
thence along Woodstock avenue west to I
a point Intersecting present boundary.
The territory Includes the settled portion
of the Woodstock school district, but not
all the district. Much of it lies to the
east, but Is sparsely settled. Some ob
jection to annexation Is urged by resi
dents of Tremont, as It will leave them
without school facilities. This movement
for annexation Is made In the hope of get
ting Bull Run water and securing the ad
vantages of, the city schools. Including
the High School. It takes in the Wood
stock schoolhouse, where there is an at
tendance of about 90 pupils. It is a four
room building. The district has about
$5000 bonded Indebtedness.
ABRIDGE SHOOTING SEASON
A Farmer's Suggested Remedy for
Game Abnses.
HALSEY, Or., Jan. 7. (To the Editor.)
Some time ago It was stated in The Ore
gonlan that the Oregon Fish and Game
Association were revising the game laws.
As that august (?) body has finished its
work, a few remarks will be in order.
There are two things wrong with the bill.
First, it will not protect our upland game
if it becomes a law; second, it ignores
the doctrine of equal rights. If I have
read the bill rightly, it allows an Indi
vidual to catch 125 trout per day during
the fishing season. But the people who
cannot go fishing shall have no fish.
The deer-hunters are allowed Zi months
In each year to kill the deer, but the peo
ple who cannot kill for themselves must
do without venison for 12 months in the
year.
On upland birds, such as Mongolian
pheasants, native pheasants, grouse and
quail, the shooters are allowed to kill 15
bldrs of each kind for 75 days in the year;
but the people who cannot go hunting
shall have no game at all. In fact, it
makes It a crime for this class of people
to get their share, and If it is a crime to
sell it is a crime to buy.
Now, this may look all right to the Ore
gon Fish and Game Association, but, as
a matter of fact, it is all wrong. It is a
game-hog proposition from A to izzard.
First, the demand for game comes from
people who cannot kill for themselves.
Second, not one in 20 can kill his or her
share of the game so highly prized. Third,
every citizen has a right to some of the
Oregon game, providing he or she Is will
ing to pay for It during the open season.
Fourth, the Supreme Court of the- United
States has decided that game. In Its wild
state, belongs to the people collectively;
also, that the object in protecting the
game is to get food for the people a va
riety of luxurious food. Fifth, to pro
hibit the sale of game during the entire
open season is to prevent the masses
from getting their share.
If any of the different kinds of our
game are too scarce to admit of being
sold, the sale, of course, should be pro
hibited, also. Our deer are on the In
creasemore plentiful today than 10 years
ago and there Is not a single reason for
beating the masses out of their share.
Now, what is the matter with the Ore
gon Fish and Game Association? Why
are they trying to beat the people out of
their chare of the fish and game? In an
swer to this, allow me to relate the fol
lowing story:
A few years ago a poor widow, with six
children, moved Into the village of Hal
sey. One day she sent her elder boy o a
farmhouse on an errand. The boy got
what he was sent for and was about to
depart, when, seeing a large watermelon
on the table, he remarked: "What a fine
watermelon." "Yes," replied the lady,
"that is a fine melon, and you may take
It home to your people. If you wish."
The boy, however, stood gazing at the
melon. "What is the matter," asked the
lady; "don't your folks' like watermel
ons?" "Oh, yes, ma'am," said he, '.'they
do very much, but it seems like a pity
to waste so fine a melon among so many
If you will give me a. .knife, I will go out
in the back yard and eat It all by myself."
The trouble with this boy was this: He
was abnormally selfish. The shooters
who are trying to prevent the people from
getting their share of tho fish and game
are just like the boy. They think if the
sale of game Is allowed the open, season
will nave to be made shorter.
This will curtail their sport, and they
ask the Legislature to give them a knife
and they will go out Into the backyard
and have it all to themselves.
I may remark right here that I am a
farmer, and on my ranch there are over
100 birds surplus each year. I may also
add that that surplus lives largely at my
expense. The people in the cities want
that surplus and are willing to pay for it,
but the would-be sportsmen say: "Oh, no;
that will never do. If we allow your,
farmers to sell that surplus, when we go
out the game will all be wild and scarce.
and we will have to tramp all day to get
a bag full of game. Of course, It Is a
little rough on the people who cannot
kill for themselves, but then they have
no rights that we are bound to respect."
This is the exact situation, and there is
no use for any one to deny it.
Now, what ought the Legislature to do?
Simply this: It should stand firmly by the
doctrine of equal rights. It should give to
the would-be sportsmen a dose of what
they are trying to deal out to the people
who cannot kill the game they happen to
want. The shooting season should be
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ADMISSION INTO THE CITY.
made short enough to conform to our
supply of game, and let the masses have
their share. I challenge any one to show
a single reason why the sale of game
should be. prohibited, provided we allow
It to be killed.
Now, I shall be told that the buffalo
were exterminated for their skins; that
the wild pigeons of the states were de
stroyed by pothunters, and that bird life
has decreased 45 per cent In 30 of the
states (this includes birds of pjumage)
within tho last 15 years. The wild pig
eons were destroyed and driven out of
the several states by Indians, sportsmen
and pothunters. But this doesn't prove
that the people should be deprived of
their share of the game. It only proves
that too much of this kind of game has
been killed. No one wishes to have the
game exterminated; and to prevent, let
us apply the proper remedy. The rem
edy lies not In depriving the people of
their share of the game; not In prohibit
ing the sale, but simply in abridging the
shooting season.
Should the Oregon Fish and Game As
sociation succeed in getting tho law in
Its way, It will mean an open season all
the year 'round for the country boys.
Six weeks ago a farmer In Harrlsburg
precinct remarked as follows: "If the
next Legislature allows the sale of Mon
golian pheasants I shall obey the law.
If not, I intend to have birds on my table
every week in the year." This man owns
700 acres of land.
Since that time I have heard more than
100 men say the same thing. A few weeks
ago a farmer in Halsey precinct made
the following remark: "Our game laws
are a nuisance. The only law we need Is
a rigid trespass law. The country boys
are bound to kill the birds all the year
round." I replied: "There Is just one
thing that will keep them quiet during
the closed season. Allow the sale of blrdg
25 days on the last end of the shooting
se-tson." He said that I was right.
I may say right here that more viola
tions of the law have taken place in the
southern half of Linn County within the
last year than in all years previous, yet
only two men have been caught, and only
one convicted. Why so few caught? Sim
ply for the reason that the farmers are
not in sympathy with the law. Ninety
nine per cent of the farmers regard the
Mongolian pheasant on their own land as
their own property, and they will give the
deputies no aid whatever.
Within the last two months I have
talked game laws with a great many peo
ple, and 95 out of every 100 are agreed on
the following: First, that we should pro
tect the game and fish for the benefit of
all not merely for the benefit of those
who can kill. Second, the open season on
deer should begin September 1 and close
November 15 of each year. Sale of veni
son should be allowed from October 15
to November 5 of each year. Third, open
season for Mongolian pheasants, native
pheasants, grouse and quail, beginning
September 20, and closing November 20 of
each year; sale of above birds allowed
from October 25 to November 20 of each
year. Fourth, sale of trout allowed 25
days In each year. Fifth, nonresident li
cense law: all nonresidents of the state
to pay $10 license for the privilege of
hunting in Oregon. Sixth, a rigid trespass
law. Seventh, an appropriation of $2000
to be used for the purpose of protecting
the deer. i. e., to prevent hunters from
killing out of season for the hides. But
if we are going to prevent the sale of
venison, not a dollar should be used for
that purpose.
As regards the upland birds. If we pro
hibit the sale entirely, a deputy in every
precinct will not be able to prevent them
from being killed out of season. On the
other hand, If we make It an object for
the country boys to protect these birds,
they will kill but very few until the sell
ing begins. With the selling season put
off until October 25, the coutry boys can
not average more than six birds per
shooter per day. I might say, right here,
that more Mongolian pheasants were
killed each year In Linn County than
Were marketed In the whole state during
the 30 days in which they could legally
be sold. Not less than 10.000 were killed
each year under the Xawson law within a,
radius of id miles of Halsey. Linn, how
ever, is the banner county for Mongolian
pheasants. I would like to say a great
deal more, but my article is long already.
Permit me to subscribe myself for the
ample protection -of our fish and game,
and, what Is of still greater Importance,
equal rights to all. Yours, truly.
T. A. POWELL.
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OREGON AT BUFFALO
Plenty of Space Allotted for
Exhibits.
GOOD WORK OF COMMISSIONERS
Opportunity to Advertise the State
at a Time When All Eyes
Tarn Toward the
Const. ,
BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 4. (Special cor
respondence.) In my letter of a week ago
I spoke about a storm, which Is still with
us, except that it has increased in sever
ity, the wind more piercing and the ther
mometer has gone almost out of sight.
This zero weather is not congenial to the
average Oregonlan, but as we have nearly
completed the task for which we came.
We shall be happy to turn our faces to the
setting sun once more. Give us rain, and
plenty of it anything is preferable to this
snow and Ice.
We have selected the following spaces,
subject to the approval of our Legis
lature: Agricultural building, 1500 square
feet; Horticultural building, 1400 square
feet; Forestry building, 2000 square feet;
Mining building, 2000 square feet; Edu
cational building, 1200 square feet. This
is about 1000 feet more than we had at
Chicago or Omaha. In the Manufactures
building we can have what space our
Manufacturers' Association wishes to oc
cupy, if any. In most of the buildings all
the space Is practically taken, but Gen
eral W. I. Buchanan, director-general;
Colonel Weber, Professor Taylor and Dr.
Day, who had charge of the departments
at the world's fair and trans-Mlsslsslppl
exposition, and who occupy high positions
here, having seen our exhibits at the other
places, gave us all the privileges we
could possibly ask for, and by a little
Judicious shifting we secured as good
positions as we could have done had we
been on the ground first, though a little
later we would have been shut out.
The exposition grounds cover 350 acres
just north of Buffalo, and are accessible
by all electric and steam cars, 20 minutes'
ride from the center of the city. We were
certainly most agreeably surprised. What
Impressed us most was not the constella
tion of bluldlngs, but the uniqueness of
the constellation regarding the structures
individually. At Chicago and Omaha there
were large, barn-like buildings, which
one had to travel miles to see, and which,
with thelrwhlte glare, caused many ruined
eyes and compelled us to wear smoked
glasses. Hero the unique arrangement
brings everything within range, and the
20 large exhibition buildings, with a free
adaptation of the Spanish Renaissance,
with its balconies, and tinted in beauti
ful and harmonious shades, form a grand
spectacle. It Is Impossible to describe It
in a short article, but the elaborate and
beautiful electric lighting effect, using
over 200,000 lamps, besides the patrol
lights, will surpass anything ever at
tempted In this line. At Omaha we had
30,000 lights. It affords me great pleasure
to state that an Oregon boy is at the head
of this department Henry Rustln, whom
many Portlanders will remember.
Then as to the Midway. As a general
thing, midways are "hurrah" places,
where one looks In vain for evidences of
refinement and good taste. The buildings
now approaching completion are above the
average, and bespeak a better elites of
entertainments than Is usually given. The
slum features are here repressed, and
architecturally the buildings, as a whole,
are far ahead of anything we have seen
so far.
In order that you may understand the
magnitude of this exposition, permit we
to say that the commissioners have been
at work about five years. For two years
past they have occupied 80 offices In the
Elllcot Square In the city, and 30 offices
in the Service building on the grounds,
with a clerical force of 600 people, and on
the grounds some 5000 people have been
and are still employed.
The cost of preparing exposition build
ings and grounds, including the Midway,
it is estimated, will reach $10,000,000.
In speaking to people on the trains or
in the corridors of hotels, all seem Im
pressed with the future of the Pacific
Coast, but to our surprise few know any
thing of Oregon, and the question, "How
far is Portland from Seattle, or from San
Francisco?" is a common one, which per
haps is accounted for by the fact that
these people are too busy to inquire who
are their next-door neighbors. But there
is abundant capital seeking investment,
and many manufacturing establishments
looking for branch locations. By a Ju
dicious representation of our mining In
terests, our manufacturing facilities,
coupled with cheap fuel and power, and
the many other advantages Oregon pos
sesses, we may reasonably expect a large
return for the small Investment in making
an exhibit of Oregon's resources.
While the factory chimneys are all
smoking and the dinner-pail brigade is
large, the prosperity seems one-sided. The
wives and children of this brigade show
it by their pinched faces, and are thinly
clad and poorly shod. They are restless,
and the rumblings of the approaching
storm of migration westward, predicted by
sociologists for five years past, are heard
louder and louder every day.
As we enter upon the new century, do
not let us look upon it as beginning life
over; do not let us think of making a new
start, but consider that the push and en
ergy of the past is behind us, urging U3
on and on to renewed activity. With a
united effort and a solid front, Oregon
must and will reap Its share of capital,
manufactories and peoples.
HENRY E. DOSCH.
VICE IN NEW YORK.
Frank Moss Says Civic Pride "Will
Redeem the City.
NEW YORK. Jan. 8. Frank Moss, ex
presldent of the Board of Police Com
missioners, speaking last night at the Uni
versal Thought Salon at Wlnterbury Hall
on the topic, "Things In General," blamed
the men who buy special privileges for
municipal misrule In New York. He said
among other things:
"This unanimous pointing to poor Sena
tor Sullivan, Martin, Engel, Percy, Nagle
and Devery Is suspicious. It is suspicious
that all the newspapers agree in attacking
vice. It is suspicious that Tammany itself
points to the particular vices of gamb
ling and disorderly houses. I am inclined
to look behind and see what greater evil
Is shielded. The men who might start
an organization to overthrow Tammany
are themselves guilty of doing practically
the same thing. The men who have been
building up this system of coruptlon know
that the men who were.in control in New
York life were buying privileges and were
fattening upon the fruits of specla pur
chase privileges.
"Devery is bad enough, but he is a
mere creature, a mere product. The com
missioners are as guilty as Devery, yet
they talk of taking one of them to be the
single head of the department. He is the
very man who broke faith with a chief
with whom he had no fault to find, to put
Mr. Devery where he Is at the behest of
politicians and gamblers. Tflere has
been all this discussion about vice, but ha
has done nothing. There has not been 8
single trial, but he is not the ultimate
criminal. He is the creature of a system.
"Croker is certainly an object against
which we have to turn our batteries, but I
don't know that he is the vjorst one.
There are men in New York who are
great financial powers and who have been
furnishing the "brains for Tammany Hall
For Sick ,
First the medicine that
holds the record for the
largos t number of abso
lute Gssres of female Ills
Is Lydia E Plnl&am's
Vegetable Compound
Second Mrs PInkham
can show by her letter
flies' In Lynn that a mil
lion women have been
restored to health by her
medicine and advice
Third-All letters to Mrs
PInkham are received,
opened, read and an
swered by women only
This fact Is certified to by
the mayor and postmas
ter of Lynn and others of
MrsPinkham's own city
Write for free book con
taining these certificates
Every ailing woman Is
Invited to write to Mrs
PInkham and get her ad
vice free of charge
Lydia E. Pinkhcm Sled. Co., Lynn. Mass.
for years and profiting by It, and they
have been using the rough man who Is the
nominal head to control the masses and
they have given the rough man's price."
Mr. Moss described the enormous value
of the subways as an Illustration of the
special privileges which he said a certain
few men were Interested in, and he said
that it was to protect them in the enjoy
ment of that monopoly that they main
tained Tammany and through Tammanj
prevented a construction of the pipe gal
leries which would carry wires in compe
tition with the subways.
"This Is the. condition, yet the misera
ble public is amused over dives and gamb
ling dens-and the holders of special priv
ileges slyly" say 'We'll see If we can get the
reformers to put In nomination for Mayor
some man who won t Interfere with our
special privileges.'
"One ot the biggest builders in New
York said to me: 'If I were to tell you
some of my experiences It would turn
the city upside down.'
" 'Why don't you tell me?" I said.
" 'Oh, it would end me,' was the reply.
"What white-livered men wc are In New
York. I have seen men turn pale, when I
suggested that they speak out. Though
vice Is bad It Is not the worst thing. If
It was not for corruption in business life
there would not be so much in politics.
One can bo a railroad-wrecker or an ab
sorber of corporations and be considered
respectable.
"The strife that Is now on will go on un
til a force of men who have patriotism
and civic pride will redeem the city."
Discussing the developments and the at
titude of Tammany in connection with a
Bystemfofprotection to gamblers and oth- 4
er forms -of vice In this city. Dr. Park
hurst said last night:
"If these charges are true and can be
presented by the District Attorney as
absolute evidence, resulting In the con
viction of guilty men, It will be a great
thing for justice and the city. We all
have knOjWn that these crimes of Tamma
ny existed, but the names of the men in It
were what we wanted. We wanted to
know particularly as to how the .system
worked and what portion of It reached
Tammany Hall as an organization. If
tho District Attorney can go before the
Grand Jury substantiating these charges
with names and dates, connecting the
men who paid the money with the crimi
nals who recolved it, it will mean Sing
Sing for a lot of them.
"There is nothing so important for re
form in New York as to cut the strings
of Tammany's treasury. The leaders nev
er cared for anything but money. All
their apparent interest in organizing so
called reform movements has been a mere
pretense. With the proof there Is no rea
son why Mr. Phllbln should not make
quick work of it, and remove the neces
sity for Mr. Croker's return to New York.
"If we could get about 100 of the gang
Into Sing Sing the city would have some
chance for Its municipal life. To convict
Tammany as an Institution is one thing;
to convict its guilty members as individ
uals is quite another. I have always be
lieved In the ultimate triumph of virtue
ani the people. If looks hopeful to hear
that gamblers have no quarter with the
system of blackmailing them.
"Complaint has been made of the May
or's inactivity. But Mr. Van Wyck has
been made unable to do anything, even if
ha wanted to. The Tammany system is
In control. -
"From the present disclosures it looks
as If Tammany Hall might be destroyed
entirely. I hope they will be sustained
by evidence' and the blackmailers sent
to Sing Slng.'i
The charges that members of Tammany
Hall ad New York city officials have been
collecting ''blood money" from gambling
houses and other disreputable places of
the city is officially denied by the Tam
many committee Of five. Lewis Nixon,
who la chairman of the committee, ha3
made public a statement, in which he
says:
"There is an organization of men known
as the 'Combine.' that is organized for
systematic blackmail, and they cloak the
workings by pretending to be paying
Tammany Hall the money they collect
for the protection they are supposed to
furnish in Its name."
If local leaders can be found to carry
on the fight, Bishop Potter will assist in
launching a anti-vice crusade in Philadel
phia, and will speak at a mass meeting at
the Academy of Music In that city to be
held tomorrow night.
"I understand that Philadelphia is in
as deplorable a condition in regard to its
municipal government as is the City of
New York," said the Bishop. "And what
is more, Philadelphia is a Republican
city. It would seem, therefore, that mu
nicipal corruption may flourish under the
auplces of either party. This Is a truth
which both Republicans and Democrats
are bound to admit.
"A delegation of prominent citizens
from Philadelphia called on me some days
ago and asked me to speak In that city.
They told me that the city was In sad "need
of an awakening of popular sentiment
and of reform In municipal affairs. I
said that I would gladly assist in any
movement which had for its end the ex
termination of vice and corruption, but I
declined to take an active part until I
knew that there would be local leaders
to carry on the fight. I expect to hear
tomorrow If satisfactory arrangements
have been made."
Fatal Prlzefljrbt.
BASTON, Pa., Jan. 8, Frank Welch, a
pugilist, died today from tbe effects of
his fight at Cedar Park, Phlllipsburg. N.
J., on New Year's Eve with Paddy Donl
van. Warrants are out for .the arrest of
some 30 men connected with the fight.
Donivan and several others are In Jail
at Belvldere, N. J.
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