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THE MORNING O REG ONI AN, MONITAY, DECEMBER 19, 1904.
OLD ANNALS IN DARK
Oregon Records Abundant But
Need Sorting.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO ACT
Secretary F. G. Young, In His Annual
Report, Shows the Present Dif
ficulties of Properj.and
Systematic Research.
Numerous as arc the records of Oregon
history, held by the Oregon Historical So
ciety, they serve but poorly the historical
investigator because they lack segrega
tion, collation and Indexing. Owing to the
scarcity of funds, the society has done
little toward classification of Its materials,
and has spent its substance rather on.
gathering up records ere they should be
lost, leaving the other work to some fu
ture time.
But now some start should be made
toward the proper sorting of the historic
evidence that has been gathered. If it is
to serve a useful purpose, and if study
of Oregon history is to be encouraged.
This was one of the chief recommenda
tions of Professor F. G. Young, secretary
of the society, in his annual report, sub
mitted to the society last Saturday. The
writing of historical-narrative for the
youth and of historical treatises for popu
larizing the study of Oregon history will
languish until that is done.
Secretary Young pointed out also that,
while one function of the society was
that of finding old records, documents and.
relics, another function quite as important
was that of "filing history as it Is made."
"We have not the library force," ran
the report, "to place our own collections
in shape to stimulate production of his
torical papers for the Quarterly, nor are
the documentary sources sufficiently seg
regated to be available for Its pages."
Secretary Young suggested the issuance
of a "series of historical leaflets" for
school reading, each to narrate an historic
episode. To carry out this suggestion, the
board of directors authorized President
C. B. Bellinger to appoint a committee
of three members. Secretary Young rec
ommended also that the society strive for
the Lewis and Clark memorial building,
for which the State of Oregon has already
appropriated 550,000. To promote the car
rying out of that and other recommenda
tions in the report. President Bellinger
was authorized to appoint another com
mittee of three members.
Text of Secretary's Report.
The report is in part as follows:
A rich store of material representing the
results o sir years of activity is packed
away and piled up In the society's different
rooms. How rich only ' the librarian's art
and library facilities can make evident. I
shall submit a few statistics of our acces
sions up to date, knowlnp full well that
these can give hut little Idea of the measure
of light our dopumetits, newspapers and
books shed upon Oregon's past. Our collec
tions include:
Personal letters 3.-48G
Other documents - 1.742
Zlarlefi, Journals, account books.... 180
Maps and charts - 83
Sound volumes of newspaper, files..... 140
Miscellaneous papers 33,701
Books 4.5S2
Pamphlets (library titles, 6C93) 2,113
Historical pictures, portraits and
photcs- j.... ........ 3.15B
Pioneer relics S31
Archaeological relics ......... ...I 490
"While thus the main work of the society
has rightly been that of gleaning the rem
nants of scattered records, from the nature
of the case the time must come when our
efforts should turn rather to the work of
.-flllng history as it 4 made. Of course, a
keen lookout will always need to be kept
for stray documents of the past and care
fully planned campaigns of search should
be conducted unremittingly. Yet the work of
collecting must relatively decrease and that
of filing contemporary records and of mak
ing our library serviceable to tbe present
generation must increase. This natural evo
lution of our functions we are anxious to
accomplish.
Society's Strong Popular Support.
, For the best performance of Us leadhig
lunction in the past the society made appeal
to a wide constituency of membership on the
ground of civic interest In the preservation of
the commonwealth's records of the past. The
response was most gratifying and I have
yet to learn of a historical society with as
strong popular support as ours. From this
time on, however., the ground of our appeal
for membership- must more and more be that
of the same patriotic Interest in the right
filing of contemporary documents and in the
largest and highest use of the guidance and
Inspiration of history in the upbuilding of
the commonwealth.
Among the more important collections of
the past year were 20 bound volumes of
newspapers published in Salem commencing
In 18C9 and edited mostly by S. A. Clarke.
These were the gift of Mr. Clarke and his
daughter, Mrs. S. C. Dyer. Another im
portant addition to our library material,
mainly of newspapers, was obtained from P.
L. Brlstow. of Pleasant Hill. Lane County.
These were the accumulations of Mrs. Zil
pha Rigdon, his aunt, a pioneer of. 1S46, re
cently deceased. Charles E. Ladd gave us a
carefully selected list of 47 books bearing on
the early history of Oregon. There has been
a. fair measure of accessions of all kinds. But
the state has been so thoroughly scoured
by Assistant Secretary Hlmes that possibly
a different line of tactics is advisable for fur
ther economic yet effective Bearch.
Our membership roll at the close of the
last month Included 819 names, represent
ing a net gain -of 19 for the year. Our roll
now comprises 122 life members, 689 annual
members, and 8 honorary members. During
the year we lost 12 annual members by
death, and 37 by discontinuance, and gained
S new life members and 80 new annual mem
bers. Tbe receipts from dues for the year
ending November 30, 1903, were $1420; for the
year ending November 30. 1904. $1662.
Register of Pioneers.
During the year 20.361 visitors were re
ceived at our rooms and a pioneer register
of. 10,000 names was compiled. This register
arranges in most serviceable form the data
that Mr. Hlmes as -sccretary of the Pioneer
Association had for years been accumulating.
This register is bound -to become one of
great value. So much of It as was, com
pleted last April was transcribed with co
operation of the State Lewis and Clark Com
mission to cards arranged In a cabinet and
placed in the Oregon building at St. Louis.
The society, also In co-operation with the
commission, secured a relief topographic
map of the United States on a section of a
. globe 16 feet in diameter, on which were
marked the Lewis and Clark routes and the
Oregon and other principal transcontinental
trails. The society has this register and
map as tho nucleus of its exhibit for Lewis
and Clark Exposition.
Turning, to our'nnancial situation we face
a somewhat serious condition of affairs. The
society's revenues for the last two years
have been about $4500 each year. This sum
includes all of our appropriations and all of
"our membership fees collected. This year we
, had $4,669.25, but there was a deficit from
last year to meet. These resources have sup
ported the activities of which I have spok
en, maintained the headquarters at Portland
and provided the means with which to is
sue the Quarterly.
The board of directors arranged a budget
for the past year in which a careful appor
tionment of the society's resources was
made for the support of Its different activi
ties in proportion to their relative needs. Our
experience with this budget Indicates that
-flees for th,e organization of the society in 'a
static condition and falls to provide .the
means for the development of those library
the present measure of our funds barely suf-
p
activities wherein the promise of highest
ser-!ce to this state lies.
The Quarterly, too, is very much handi
capped. Our printing fund has not sufficed
for getting out the -full number of Issues. In
dexes for the last three volumes are held
back. Two numbers of the "Annual Pro
ceedings" have failed to appear because of
lack of funds. But the special handicap on
the Quarterly lies in the fact that we have
not the library force and facilities to place
our collections in shape to stimulate the
production of historical papers ' for tho
Quarterly, nor arc the documentary aou&cs
sufficiently segregated to be available for Its
pages. In a word, our condition Is simply
analagous to that of a small boy growing
out of his clothes.
"With the prospect before us of a permanent
home in the Lewis and Clark Memorial
building, we were not warranted In estab
lishing any fixtures In our City Hall Tooms,
had our means permitted. At the opening
of the Exposition season our books will
mainly be found neatly .plied on the floor
of our library rooms and our documents safe
ly stored In our vaults. The society will, of
course, go as far as the conditions of safety
will warrant In displaying the most Inter
esting features of Its collections at the Fair.
Its headquarters there Tshould be manned and
equipped ior conducting the most active
registration of the location of historical ma
terials and for the recording of. historical
data.
Historical Leaflets Suggested.
A most Important work towards prepara
tion for Oregon's centennial celebration falls
to this society and calls for Immediate ac
tion. I refer to the preparation of a series
of historical leaflets to be placed in the
hands of the older children of Oregon schools
and to furnish the bases for Instruction In
the main epochs and movements and factors
in the making of Oregon. The leading topics
of our history could be presented in separate
leaflets In a form that would appeal to the
youth. Our best writers would, I am sure,
stand ready to prepare these as their contri
butions to a. patriotic service. The early ap
propriation of a nominal sum by the Legis
lature would furnish the means for distrib
uting them to the schools. The result would
be, a manifold enhancement of the good ob
tained from our Exposition through a per
vading, intelligent and enthusiastic interest
In it on the part of the youth of Oregon.
This society owes It to the cause It repre
sents to follow up and see through to reali
zation the memorial building project, as all,
no doubt, are aware the Item of $350,000 for
such a memorial to Lewis and Clark was
eliminated from the bill when before Con
gress. As National action on Lewis and
Clark memorials now stands. Sergeant Floyd,
who was with the party on their outward
trip as far as where Sioux City, la., now is,
has a monument through the aid of Con
gress. The services of Lewis and Clark,
however, and of their party as a whole, who
had part in the exploration to the Pacific,
are dented recognition, because forsooth a
memorial in the form of a most serviceable
building Instead of a mere shaft would have
made an annoying precedent.
$50,000 Already Appropriated.
But the situation to which I wish particu
larly to call your attention and with ref
erence to which to urge action. Is the fact
that the State Lewis and Clark Commission
Is reserving intact $50,000 for such a build
ing. It is doing this In accordance with the
provisions of the general act making the
state appropriation and especially In ful
fillment of the pledge to the Legislature
that such a building should be realized for
the state from the Exposition. The State
Commission cannot, however, take the 'In
itiative in providing such a building.
According to the conditions of the act a
site In the City of Portland must first be
provided and the Exposition corporation must
first appropriate at least $50,000 towards the
construction of such -building. A commit
tee from the membership of this society to
watch opportunities and promote the realiza
tion of this building project In accordance
with the Exposition! act would seem advisable.
TO DISCUSS DxCOBPOBATIOff.
Montavilla Residents Will Meet for
That Purpose Tonight.
At a public meeting to be held this
evening in Oddfellows' Hall, corner. Hib
bard and Railway streets. Montavilla, the
"Hon and -the lamb" will come together
in the matter of incorporating that sub
urb. For several ears there has been
constant warfare over the subject of in
corporation, or annexation to Portland,
but. according to teports. the warring
factions have come together on incor
poration, and will pull in the same har
ness in that direction. This meeting to
night Is to start the ball rolling that will
make Montavilla a city of 2500 population,
with a full corps of officers from the
Mayor down to Marshal.
Inspiration for this movement Is found
in the efforts of Mount Tabor to incor
porate. Montavilla does not want tn bo
left out in the cold on this proposition.
A committee on charter will be appointed.
who will be authorized to frame the nec
essary laws to srovern the Dronosod non
city, These will be brief and to the point.
ana win De cnaracterized by the absence
of a lot of provisions usually considered
necessary in a city charter. The com
mittee may even be able to find the old
charter that passed the Legislature In
corporating Milwaukie, which will lighten
its work. That charter was passed and
officers were nominated, but when the
document and officers were submitted to
a vote of the people the whole proposi
tion was snowed under.
That was over ten years ago. Condi
tions have changed. The Montavilla
school district now contains between 2000
ana ZaOO people, with an enrollment of
400 and an attendance of 3S6 pupils.
Dwellings have gone up in all directions,
until Montavilla now equals In size and
population many of the important towns
of the "Willamette Valley. It will now bo
a race between Montavilla and the west
side of Mount Tabor which shall become
a city flrst.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Police Capture Two Amateur Forgers
in Saloon.
Eugene Duvaul and Elliott Held xcpro
caught last evening in a raw attempt
to pass rorged paper. They entered the
saloon of Henry Llebe, 111 North Third
street, ana offered in payment for
drinks a check on the First National
Bank by the North Pacific -Lumber Com
pany for $45.8d, signed "W. D. Mac
kay," secretary. It purported to be pay
able to Frank Webber.
But Llebe was wise. Held had passed
a. Biuinur cnecK on mm several days ag
and ho knew it Was nn trnnA Tin
nered the two men and made them wait
oenma tne oar wbllc he telephoned the
police and secured Offlcrs Gruber
Burke and Batv. He
and. excited, and the two did not dare
attempt escane. When tho nfflnr,
rived and curried off the men, he was
ami bo excuea mat ne was going- to
leave his saloon emntv and nninpii-o.i
The two men, who are well dressed
ana oeiieved to be 'known crooks, were
recognized on description for two men
who had been working Puyallup and
Tacoma. They have only been here a
few days. Duvaul had upon his person
$60. While Held had thrpi cViPir ce
llar to the one -which they attempted
iu puss, mi ior &b.u. Tiie penmanship
was verv Door and It -wnni.i nm
anyone would know that the secretary
ol a. lumoer company wouia write a bet
ter hand. Moreover, the name should
have been W. B., not W. D. Mackay.
The forging itself was raw enough,
but tho ;tttfmrt tn nnso similar hnmm
checks in the same place twice showed
an amateur hand or a belief that the
ponce were not very active here.
THE HTTLE ART SHOP
Open Evenings.
Those who wish their pictures framed
for Xroae will please leave their orders as
early as 'possible.
BOTH ON THE WAY HOME
(Continued from First Page.)
frauding and the consummation of the
conspiracies has been accomplished.
Still Another Story.
But there is another story, more sig
nificant and resting upon the other to a
certain extent. There are those who
have been convicted of conspiracy to de
fraud the Government who are not now
so adverse or so reluctant to converse
with the representatives of the Govern
ment, so it is said. Why were the re
maining cases of fraud and conspiracy
and forgery continued at this time when
there were so many and so palpable
charges waiting to be proved by- the Gov
ernment? The man who tries to an
swer smiles as he says: "If you convict
a man of one thing and have a dozen
others waiting to be proven, all of them
serious, and some penal offenses, when
do you think he would be willing to save
his rreck, before the second conviction or
after he is submerged under a dozen
sentences? Therefore these close corpora
tion meetings just at this time look very
significant and the ceaseless haunting of
the vicinity of the Government looks like
the back of somebody's spirit was not so
strong as three weeks ago.
"Suppose." tho rumor runs, in answer
to a question as to the credibility' of such
testimony, "suppose that the testimony is
backed up by letters, original correspond
ence that might be extant? What if the
tale that may be told is corroborated by
proof about which there is no doubt?''
Then the rumor looks sad again, think
ing of the Idols which may be shattered.
"Hermann's conscience is easy,
though," they say. "He Is not coming
back."
Not Asked to Come Back.
Hermann was not asked to come back,
so the Government says. Be that as it
may, there is a strong Inclination to be
lieve that Mr. Hermann will be discussed
most earnestly in the city during the
week now opening.
Irvin Blttenhouse, who is now clerk in
the General Land Office, and who used to
be the confidential clerk and private sten
ographer of the Commissioner under the
administration of Mr. Hermann, is in the
city and is in communication with the
side of the Government This may be
significant, or it may be coincident, and
the solution will be coming.
In connection, however, the story Js re
vived of the vanished record, which could
not be found after Mr. Hermann went
out of office as Commissioner. Forty-one
books, in which were recorded the cor
respondence of the office, or at least a
part of it, cannot be found. Then the
story comes up again that sometime be
fore Mr. Hermann went out of office he
called a clerk to him and asked that cer
tain books be taken out, the volumes cut
in two and the stubs remaining brought
back to him. A couple of days after the
parts remaining were ordered destroyed.
In defense of this Mr. Hermann says that
the books contained private correspond
ence, but the inference is that at least
some of the letters were written in the
transaction of office business. There has
been rumors of indictment in Washington
for destruction of public records, but that
phase of the question would have nothing
to do with the Oregon jury.
There is one thing, so It is said, which
might involve the former. Commissioner
here and that Is a charge of conspiracy to
defraud by his action in regard, to Gov
ernment surveys. It is alleged that Mr.
Hermann awarded surveying contracts to
many men which were not necessary, that
worthless sand and desert and Impassable
mountains were surveyed in order that It
might be acquired for scripplng purposes
by corporations and private speculators.
These are the rumors that affect Mr.
Hermann.
Mays Linked With Stories.
F. Pierce Mays, the Portland attorney.
Is pet haps 'the nert -most prominent name
linked with the stories of the street. Tho
tale is that he is mixed with both Mitchell
and Hermann In whatever might have
been done here by all of thftm. He gave a
letter to Puter Introducing him to
Mitchell, so the testimony of the first trial
showed. He went to Washington as
Puter's attorney, so it is said, to see what
could be done in advancing the claims of
the Puter-Watson combination. He did
what he had started to do. and was also
active while In Oregon. As part remunera
tion. It is, stated that he received several
quarter-sections of good land, which were'
afterwards sold. There are various other
rumors, but these are the chief links
which seem to hold Mr. Mays in the track
of the grand Jury
Perhaps the only real certain conclu
sion, one that-would make a good bet, is
on the Indictment of S. B. Ormsby and
C. E. Loomls. the two special agents who
told such harrowing tales about Trapper
Wolgamot and honest, hardworking
Emma Watson, who toiled In the railroad
camps to support her widowed mother
and orphaned sister. . If the statute of
limitations has run against Loomls he
will escape through the kindness of the
law. otherwise he will, in all probability,
be indicted.
Around these rumors and conjectures
are clusters and garlands of dreams. Men
high in the life of the state are pointed
to by the finger of supposition and are
herded with the lesser knaves, the pawns
in the game, in the casting as to what
will be. The week, perhaps, will solve it
all.
NONE GUILTY SHALL ESCAPE.
President and Secretary Hitchcock
Are of One Mind.
Following is. the interview with Sec
retary Hitchcock, written by William E.
Curtis, special correspondent of the Chi
cago Record-Herald at Washington, and
referred to in the Washington correspond
ence of The Oregonlan yesterday morning:
The President has sustained Secretary Hitch,
cock In every step he has taken, and both are
determined that no guilty man. shall escape
this time. The Secretary says: "Eyery ob
stacle that could be contrived has been thrown
In our way, which has required time, patience.
constant -fCort, determination and courage on
the part of thwe havlnjr charge of the Investi
gation to overcome. The men Involved and
their friends have diligently sought, with the
aid of the most skillful counsel they could em
ploy, to thwart tbe purpose of the investiga
tion and control Its results favorably to them
selves. These difficulties have been success
fully met and overcome, and the taction resorted
to by the parties criminally Involved and by
their friends have been circumvented and de
feated at all points. It has been the determi
nation of the President and my self from the
beginning that the Investigation should be
thorough and complete, and that every guilty
roan shall be punished to the full extent of
the law, and nothing has been left undone to
accomplish those results.
"The fraudulent operations," continued Sec
retary Hitchcock, "have Involved an attempt
to secure titles to hundreds of thousands of
acres of public lands In the various public-land
elates and territories In exchange for state
school lands lying wlfhln tho limits of forest
reserves In California and Oregon. The titles
to these school lands were acquired in a fraud.
ulent manner by means of forgery, perjury.
false applications and affidavits, and by the
use of fictitious names In other documents re
quired by the laws of those states In connection
with the purchase of school' lands. "When the
fraudulent and worthless titles to these school
lands within the forest reserves were obtained
they were relinquished to the United States
under the act of June -4, 1897, In exchange for
other public lands. That act of Congress pro
vides, amontr other things, that the owner of
lands that are Included within forest reserves
may relinquish them to tbe United States and
select other lands In lieu thereof, outside the
forest reserves. By collusion with certain off!
clals, the dates of the patents to the lands In
tho forest reserves were set back, and titles
were proved up for hundreds of thousands of
acres. But only about 40,000 acres of public
lands had been secured by exchange when the
conspiracy 'was discovered, and. by my direc
tion, the Issue of patents upon all selections
and entries were suspended. The Government
Is, therefore. In no danger of further loss
i through this conspiracy, the combination has
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Chickering Quarter Grand,
the "Bride's Piano." Prices
are moderate. Sold only by
Eilers Piano House, 351
Washington street, corner
Park.
Stores also Spokane and
Seattle, Wash.; Boise and
Lewiston, Idaho; San Fran
cisco, Oakland and Stockton,
Cal.
been broken up, five of the conspirators have
been convicted In Oregon, and three more aro
already under Indictment and remain to he
tried In that state. The defendants tn the
California cases have exhausted every means
known to the law to prevent their trial In the
District of Columbia, where they were In
dicted, and their final appeal and. last resort Is
now pending In the Supreme Court of tho
United States, where we hope to have a hearing
at the earliest possible date. The defendants
are under heavy ball to answer the decision of
te Supreme Court when finally rendered.
"It Is quite probable that the defendants
can secure further delay of a year and a half
or more In the California cases, which will be
not only embarrassing to'the "department, but
there Is danger that their conviction may be
prevented by the death of Important witnesses.
These circumstances emphasize the necessity
of amendments to the law, whereby the re
moval of Indicted parties to the Jurisdiction
where the Indictments are found may be pro
moted, so that prompt trials can be secured.
These men, like others who have been detected
in frauds against the Government, "rely chiefly
upon delay and accidents, which have too often
happened, to prevent their punishment. It Is
always extremely difficult to secure convictions
for frauds upon the public lands, particularly
when the culprits are men of wealth and in
fluence. We have the consolation, however, of
knowing that a gigantic combination and con
spiracy against the Government has been
broken up and Us power for evil-doing in the
future has been utterly destroyed. The lands
selected by fraud have been restored to the
public domain, and we are confident that the
guilty parties will ultimately be convicted and
punished."
In the Oregon cases several of the defendants
have pleaded guilty, and two have made am
issions of all the transactions known to them.
They will be used as witnesses for the Govern
ment. One tf the principal witnesses for the
Government absconded, which made It neces
sary to postpone some of the trials, but he has
since been arrested, and Is now at Portland.
Senator Mitchell and Representative Hermann,
of Oregon, are badly wanted as witnesses. It
la asserted that the fraudulent patents were
put through the land office with unusual haste
by ilr. Hermann, when Commissioner of Pub
lic Lands, at the request of Senator illtchcll,
and their testimony Is desired on that point.
Both of them have refused to obey subpenas.
pleading their Constitutional exemption, on the
ground that the Interests of their state require
their presence In "Washington. There has been
some spicy correspondence between 'Senator
Mitchell and the prosecuting officers. The lat
ter are willing to fix the day for the trials
during the Congressional recess to suit the
convtnience of the Senator and Representative
Hermann, but bey have not complied with
the request. The defendants remaining -untrwd
are men of great prominence and Influence in
Oregon politics. One of them. Henry Meldrtim.
was recently Surveyor-Genenl of the state, and
has been associated with the Senator in pol
itics for many years.
When the forest reserves In Oregon and Cali
fornia were set aside by a proclamation of the
President, many Individuals came forward and
claimed that they had long before settled upon
the state lands. To sustain their contention
they submitted forged evidence, false affidavits
and other documents containing the names of
fictitious persons who claim hundreds of thou
sands of acres. These claims were hurried
through the land office, and patents were
Issued. The patents were then usually
conveyed to other- persons, both real
and fictitious, A woman named Emma L.
Watson already has been convicted of the
fraudulent conveyance of a large part of the
lands involved. There are two other women
involved In the same way. They served as
clerks In making up fictitious claims. In forg
ing legal documents and In making false alii
davits In the way of proof.
When the patents, to the lands claimed within
the forest reserves had been issued they were
used to locate large tracts of valuable lands In
other parts of Oregon, California, Arizona and
New Mexico, and new patents to 40,000 acres
had already been Issued when the conspiracy
was discovered. Tho discovery was due to an
accidental disclosure by one of the conspirators
to a special agent of the land office.
The chief defendants In the California cases
are wealthy and prominent real estate dealers
and speculators In public tanas In San Fran
Cisco. Frederick A. Hyde, one of them, has
been a conspicuous citizen for 30 yearn, and
has wielded great social and political influence.
He Is now president of the Board of Education
In San Francisco. John A. Benson, his part
ner. is also very wealthy, but lost his reputa
tion some year ago by being caught In another
lot of land frauds, for which he wns maictea.
but escaped conviction. Henry P. Dlmond, a
prominent attorney, has been tneir iawjer.
and. It Is said, has managed the legal part of
the frauds for tnem, wnne joosi . aenneiaur,
of Tucson. Ariz., has been the practical man
in the field, selecting and locating lands, under
a large salary, and It was through him that
the conspiracy was disclosed. Schneider Is now
in Washington under $10,000 ball, awaiting
trial upon an Indictment found in the District
Court by the grand Jury last February.
Hyde and Benson, with the assistance of
Dlmond and Schneider, It "is ciaimea, pur
chased nearly 300,000 acres of school land In
California and Oregon for $1.23 per acre. The
laws of Oregon prohibit the sate of more than
320 acres to any one person. In California
the limit is 640 acres, but the conspirators
evaded that law and secured vast tracts of
land by the use of fictitious names and by se
curing the signatures of bootblacks, laborers
and other unsuspecting persons to applications
and affidavits. Having obtained titles to these
lands, amounting to nearly 300,000 acres in the
forest reserves, from the State of Oregon and
California, they brought their deeds to the
United States Land Office and exchanged them
for better land outside of the forest reserve.
which they were able to sell at all the way
from 5 to $20 per acre. It Is asserted that
not one single acre of their enormous holdings
has been honestly obtained, and that tho des
perate measures which they have been- using
to avoid being brougnt to. Washington ior inai
Indicates that they realize how serious their
predicament Is.
The Got'ernment has seldom been able In the
Western courts to convict anyone of prominence
or wealth of plundering the public lands. Pub
lic sympathy Is always with the defendants in
such cases. Everybody Is against the Govern
ment. Although an army of special agents
and lawyers ore constantly employed, they sel
dom succeed In convicting persons who can
appeal to political, commercial or social In
fluences. No rich man Is ever sent to Jali.
Poor men are sometimes convicted. Last year
$100,071 was recovered tn fines and Judgments
for depredations upon the public domains; km
criminal prosecutions are pending, and 123
civil suits are awaiting trial for the recovery
of $2,009,863 the value of the timber unlaw
fully taken.
Now Fraternal Hall.
The Woodmen of the World Hall Asso
ciation, of Mount Tabor, has completed
plans and selected grounds on West ave
nuc for a fine fraternal building, to. be
erected tho coming year, at a cost of
$2000. More than half the capital stock
has been subscribed, and the intention
is to proceed with the work in the early
Spring. The location "selected is the site
SPECIAL SALE 0
CUT GLASS
DEGINNING this morning, and lasting- as long as t1
glass lasts, we shall have a special sale of Staodan
American Cut Glass at most attractive prices. Any
these pieces would make a dainty and pleasing Christma
present.
WATER BOTTLES
Water Bottles, eight inches high, exactly
like picture shown here, with deep rich cut
and high polish, 6y2 inches in diameter;
capacity, 3 pints; weight 46 ounces; regular
price $4.50,
SPECIAL S3.SO
8-INCH BOWLS
Beny or Salad Bowl, eight inches
in diameter and 3 inches deep;
deep cut and high polish; weight 48
ounces. Same cut as picture shown.
Regular price$6.00,
SPECIAL S3.T5
CELERY DISHES
Very pretty Celery Dish, in hand-
some cut, same as Salad Bowl; 11
inches long and five inches wide;
weight 33 Quncesr Regular price
$5.00,
SPECIAL $4.00
To- or ?tas
CREAM AND SUGAR SETS
-Cream and Sugar Sets, exactly same design as picture; six inches in
diameter, 2 inches deep; each piece weighs 17 ounces; sold only in sets;
deeply cut and highly polished. Regular price, $5.00,
SPECIAL PER SET S3.50
Open
Every
Evening
Until
Xmas
fYOUR CREDIT
IS GOOD j
Open
Every
Evening
This
Week
Until
9 P.M.
nf the Oriental Hall, on West avenue.
which was burned down three years ago.
WILL BE FREE OF DEBT.
Subscriptions to the Fund Are Now
Being Paid in Rapidly.
The indications are that Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church, East Ninth
and Pine streets, will be free from debt
by the first of the year. Subscriptions
of over 510,000 taken last Spring cover the
balance of the debt and several hundred
dollars over, and are now being paid Into
the treasury. At the first quarterly meet
ing, held the first of the week. It was re
ported that money on these subscriptions
were coming in rapidly, and the Indica
tions are that practically all would be
paid by January 1, 1903, or soon there
after. Dr. Rockwell, presiding elder for
the East Portland district, expresses great
satisfaction over the prospects of the
near approach of the time when Centen
ary will be actually free from the incubus
of debt that has hung over It for the past
12 years. ' He says that the church is al
ready feeling the Inspiration of progress
in anticipation of this now certain event.
Dr. Heppe, says the presiding elder. Is
doing exiellent work, and congregations
have been on the Increase morning and
evening from the opening of the confer
ence year.
MR. TJ'REN FAILS TO APPEAR
Previous Engagement Prevented Him
Addressing Natural Order Society.
"W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City, who was
to answer R. Dunlway's talk against
Initiative and referendum, failed to ap
pear before the Natural Order Soclety
last night, and naturally a large crowd
was disappointed. A previous engagement
prevented Mr. U'Ren from appearing, but
in his stead several Interesting talks were
made by the members present.
"W. H. Stone, secretary of the Y. M. C.
A., delivered a short but Interesting talk
about boys and their training, which was
very ably answered by Mrs. Abigail Scott
Dunlway. Sir. Stone made a plea for the
boy and his character-building, and de
clared that the boy should be taken In
hand when he was between 12 and 18
years old. Mrs. Duniway. who was on
hand to ask questions of Mr. U'Ren, be
cause she believed in the Initiative and
referendum, said she was disappointed,
but changed her query to an address In
answer to the statements made by Mr.
Stone. Mrs. Dunlway said that, while she
agreed with all that Mr. Stone said about
the building of the boy character, the
speaker and the Y. M. C. A. were for
getting the most important point that
of the girl. She declared that, in order I
achieve success In this line of charactuj
building, the organization should inch
women. Her plea for the girls was iul
ened to with great interest.
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