THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1907. 6 FINDS LAND OF 1ST RESOURCES i W. C. Hawley Is Back From o l TriD to Lake and j Klamath. MONEY PLENTIFUL THERE Despite transportation Facilities, Southeastern Oregon Is Making Wonderful Strides Mon ster Irrigation Projects. SALEM, Or.. June 0. (Special.) 'Tbe n-ealth. the amazing growth and the pos sibilities of that portion of Oregon con tained in Lake and Klamath Counties Is what impressed me." said Congressman W. C. Hawley today, in speaking of his recent trip to Southeastern Oregon. The people of Lake County have on deposit in the hanks over Sl.000.000 or 11300 for ' every voter in the county. That might not be surprising in a commercial center, but In a county 90 miles from a railroad, sparsely settled and development tout fairly begun, it seemed to me to be a remarkably good record. Such bank deposits as that are indisputable evi dence of enterprise and' thrift on the part of the people and of unmeasured natural resources of which the people of the rest of the state have but small conception. "Because of their isolation the people depend almost entirely upon stockraising, but the completion of the railroad al ready constructed from Reno to Made line. Nevada, will open the way for an agricultural development that will soon increase the population to several times the present numbers. Both climate and soil are favorable for agriculture, though of course irrigation is necessary for the greatest success in growing cultivated crops. Dry farming, however, has proven successful where it has been tried,, and I predict a very rapid extension of this method of. farming in Lake .County. . Fruit Trees Are Thrifty. "I was greatly surprised and pleased with the appearance of the orchards In Lake County. The mental picture of Lake County we have always carried did not include orchards, but I never saw fruit trees that had a more thrifty appearance than those I saw In that part of the state recently. The orchards are well cared for, free from pests and they thrive either with or without irrigation. The apple growers have now on hand in an ex cellent state of preservation apples from last year's crop that were kept without being placed in cold storRge. Cherries, apples and pears are their principal fruits and these they produce first-class In duality. "The development of agriculture and horticulture must of course depend large ly upon improved transportation facilities. The people cannot raise crops which they cannot get to market. The latent agri cultural wealth Is there and as soqn as a railroad shall be completed the county will be rapidly settled, the growing of cultivated crops will become an extensive industry and there will be traffic enough to make a railroad , profitable to its builders. "Lake County people are much in terested In questions that arise out of the creation of forest reserves. As to the general idea of a forest reserve there is great difference of opinion but there is practical unanimity of. opinion that in Lake County the Government lias included in its forest reserves con siderable areas that should have been left out. In some localities three fourths of the land within the bound aries of the resorve is in private owner ship. Of course the land that has been patented is not made a part of the reserve, but the reserve lines extend around it and on the map It Is rep resented as being all in the reserve. Hopes to Correct Abuses. "This conveys to strangers an er roneous Impression and works an in justice upon the ranchers. - A man who is farming In a comparatively new country and hopes to see other people come and settle near him, doesn't like to .have the Government represent him as living upon land suitable for forest Reserves. And I think the forestry of fctals do not intend that such a situa tion shall exist. I have written the department, calling attention to . the matter and asking that an Investiga tion be made. I have no doubt that as order will be made changing the boundaries of the withdrawal so that the reserve will not include the patented lands. "Lake County has undertaken to build a new Courthouse and now has in its treasury 25,000 to devote to that pur pose. The next tax levy will raise 126.000 more and the Courthouse will be paid for when it Is completed. "Irrigation is the paramount sub-ju-ct for discussion In Klamath County, where the Government project has been commenced. The original estimate of the cost of the canal system was $20 an acre for the land irrigated. A main raaal ten miles long has been com peted under contract, the work having nen done in an excellent manner and witli satisfaction to the people, who eventually must bear the cost. Disappointed in Government. "Some time ago the reclamation ser vice changed the estimated cost of re clamation to $25 or $30 an acre and adopted the plan of doing the work on the force account Instead of by con tract. The land-owners axe dissatisfied with this, for they have no means of knowing what the cost may be. with the understanding that it would be about ICO an acre they mortgaged their farms as a guarantee that they would repay the cost. -Quite naturally they are anxious to keep the cost as low as possible and with that end In view they favor construction by contract after competitive bids. The Water Users' Association, composed of the' land owners, has recently proposed to un dertake the construction work at the amount of the original estimate. They might not be able to do it for that amount of money, but since they must pay the cost anyway, it would make no difference to them whether they paid. the excess In carrying out a con struction contract or in making their payments to the Government. Their chief concern is in keeping down the tost of construction. nU Estate Is Active. v "Klamath Falls has been experiencing freat building activity. Five brick buildings have been erected in tbe past year and as many more will be con structed this year. Beal estate' has been very active and values are con Itantly Increasing. One man. Abel A doe. who went to Klamath Falls two years and a half ago without a dollar. Is now worth. $260,000. He engaged chiefly in real estate transactions. "Both Klamath and Lake Counties are supplied w-tth fine stores that carry large storks of goods. Business-houses of all kinds are aa up-to-date as in portions of tbe state near the com mercial center." FATE OF NEW COUNTY FIGHT Judge Rice Convenes Court Today to Decide on tbe Issues. ABERDEEN. Wash., June 10. .Spe cial.) Superior Judge Rice will "near counsel tomorrow at Cbehalis on the question of the jurisdiction of hiscourt under the act of the Legislature pro viding for the creation of Gray's Har bor County. Attorneys J. M. Ashton and W. H. Abel will appear for the antls. wlle the dlvislonlsts will be represented by Harold Preston and J. T. Mumhv nf Seattle, and J. C Hogan and W. I. Agnew. of this city. ' Should the court decide it has the jurisdic tion, nothing remains foul; to show that the petition is what the law requires, and that Chehalis County will contain at least a population of 4000. This be In found the Governor will Issue the proclamation creating the county. College of Music Graduates. catctvt riT- .Time 10. 4Sreclal.) The annual fn,nmi.nnmfTit exercises of Wil lamette University College of Music were held this evening at tne rirst Meinoaist rnicMn.i rhiiToH ninlnmajt were grant ed to Marguerite Bowers, piano: Mernie AiKarto "Wiier vfiirt and Fleda Eithel Mc- Peek. piano. Certificates were granted to Bcrdie Bllen Butler ana tinzaoem uinei Quinn, voice. SPURNS CUIUS. GIFT COUNCIL OF ABERDEEN LOCKS HOKXS WITH CITIZEXS. Matter of Furnishing Site for Build ing Kept in Air Labor Union to Take a Hand. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 10. (Spe cial.) The Council has taken a peculiar attitude toward the Carnegie library prop osition. Immediately after its initial meeting It rescinded a resolution adopted by the former Council accepting Mr. Car negie's gift of $16,000. This was done be cause the labor unions had agreed to a policy to fine every man who worked on the proposed building $10 a day. Prior to the passage of the resolution by the old Council a lot for the building had been secured through subscriptions from prominent business men. . When the present Council refused the larnegte offer Councilman Sherwood .agreed to raise the necessary $15,000 for the building within i days. The board of library trustees accepted the promise, and, after three months, when the money had not been raised, went to the Council and was point-blank refused a hearing. The Council was then asked to pass a resolution submitting the question to a vote of the people, but this plan was instantly killed. The subscrib ers to the lot then gave power to the secretary of the board of trustee i to sell ti e Carnegie lot, but the Council removed the secretary fiom office. Then a committee was appointed to con fer with the trustees as to the disposi tion of "the lot. and the committee, with out a conference, attempted to trade the Carnegie site, which had been put In the name of the city, with the library board as trustees of the property, for a lot which the Council had agreed to buy ad joining the City Hall, on which it is planned to erect a two-story building with a jail underneath and the fire department horses at the rear and the library over head. This is a Scheme to ge rid of the horses and Jail in the new City Hall, which Is a combination building erected despite protests of taxpayers, who were familiar with the failures of combination buildings In the Bast. If the attempt to make the trade ia car ried out. It will result In a lawsuit over the Carnegie library lot. The entire transaction has caused a great deal of unfavorable comment throughout the city. Soon Dump Rock for Jetty. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 10. (Spe cial.) E. L. Carpenter, resident United States engineer in charge of the North Side Jotty, who is up from Damon's Point, says the right of way has prac tically been secured and that the work of building the railroad from North Bay to the ocean will begin, in a few weeks. As soon as the road is built plledrlvlng for the Jetty will be com menced and the structure will be ready to receive rock next Spring. The work' will not be let by contraot, but will be performed under Mr. Carpenter by day's work. For Today we , Suit Sale; Suits, values up to $25 Today . . J. FLAYS " THEM " ALIVE Ruick Grills Idaho Land-Fraud Defendants. HE DOES NOT MINCE WORDS Prosecutor Declares His Work Is Backed "Cp by the President and That the Administration's Aim , Is to Get Men Higher TJp- MOSCOW, Idaho. June 10. (Special.) Backed with the knowledge that he had the pre-endorsement of President Roose velt and hisegal advisers In the use of all legal steps to convict the alleged North Idaho land conspirators. United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick of Boise today consumed six hours in a par tial presentation of the Government's opening argument to the jury in the case in which W. F. Kettenbach and G. H. Kester, president and cashier of the Lew lston National Bank, and W; Dwyer, tim ber cruiser for the bank, are the defend ants. It was one of the most scathing ar GRAND COMMANDER KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF WASHINGTON. r III i. t M irf ri iiaMffrnni r r"-" David B. Shelter. TACOMA, Wash.. June 10. The 0th annual conclave of the grand enmmandery. Knights Templar, of the State of TVashVnfftuu was held here today, with a large attendance. David B. Sheller, grand sommander, is presiding over the ceremonies of the order. ralgnments of its kind ever, heard In the Federal Court at Moscow. The presence of the wives of the defendants In court did not deter him from calling their hus bands timber thieves. In measured terms he grilled them as perhaps few men have been arraigned before a Jury. The prose cutor said It Is the policy of the admin lstratlon to punish those high up. letting the noor man go if necessary and that this policy has been so waged in the West as regards umber rrauos, ana at the orders of the President that tfle once high and mighty are now clamoring for a "square deal." One of the strongest arguments Mr. Ruick made was concerning the book keeping methods of the Lewiston Na tional Bank, stating that It was farcical for the banker defendants to say that they did not know what their paid em ployes were doing,' using that statement as a shield for themselves. Step by seep he showed the development and execu tion of the alleged conspiracy, by which the prosecution declares the Government was defrauded out of many thousands of acres of valuable timber claims In the Clearwater section. Use Funds as Appropriated. SALEM. Or.. June 10. (Special.) Attorney-General Crawford today ren- A i Keduc Is necessary during the next thirty days, and we are making the. most radical price reductions in the history of Portlandf This sale will make all former sale events in this city look like ex travagance like throwing money to the birds. A ' You Have But to Look at Our Windows to Be Convinced The success of our Suit Sale eclipsed anything we had previously undertaken. Recognizing the wide-spread admiration of this event and the consequent demand for them, we immediately determined to maintain a full stock of styles, colors and sizes up to the very last minute of the sale, that there should be equal privileges to all and special favors to none. will continue this $5.00 WATCH FOR THE GREATEST SKIRT SALE IN THE HISTORY OF PORTLAND. ' FIFTH AND ALDER dered an opinion, in answer to an In quiry from W". W. Cotton, of the Board of Regents of the Agricultural College, in which he holds that the Board must apply its 1907 appropriation of $65,000 on 1907 contracts and its 1908 appro priation pf a similar amount on 1908 contracts. WRECKED BY CIGARETTES Tacoma Toung Man Now Being Ex- amined as to His Sanity. TACOMA. Wash., June 10. (Special.) Thin and pale, a nervous wreck from poisons In cigarette tobacco and paper of cigarettes, Leonard Glenn, 36 years old, under examination by a commission of physicians in Judge Clifford's court, confessed that he was at times mentally irresponsible. He offered no opposition to the effort to determine whether or not he should be committed to an asylum. Nelson Bennett, the railroad contractor who made the complaint against Glenn, was driven to that course in disposing of the case in protecting his family. Glenn began to. write letters to mem bers of Mr. Bennett's family six or seven years ago. Except a period of two years ha bas continued it since, until finally he would send by messenger as many as eight letters a day, either to one of the Misses Bennett or to Mrs. Bennett. In these messages would be clippings from religious publications of the street service class on which he- would, write incoherent comments. IS . AYELL KNOWN IX ASTORIA Man Arrested In Russia .With Red Necktie Once Lived in Oregon. ASTORIA. Or., June 10. (Special.) Theodore Smith, the man mentioned in Sunday's Oregonian as being under ar rest at Riga, Russia, for wearing a red necktie, As well known In Astoria, as he resided here for a number of years. His Finnish name is Sepp, and while here he was employed as a tailor and also as a fisherman. Smith left Astoria about three years ago for San Francisco, and in 1905 went to Russia, where he was immediately arrested and held in 'jail for several months before being released through the ef forts of the United States minister. News of his second arrest was received by his friends here a few weeks ago, but Smith did not inform them what the charge was. RAIN HELP TO ALL CROPS Downpour Over 'Willamette Valley Is Cause of Great Rejoicing. SALEM. Or.. June 10. (Special.) A drizzling rain during the last 2 hours has added several hundred thousand dollars to the value of the "Willamette "Valley crops. Spring grain would have been almost a total failure without it. Potatoes were suffering and hay crops have been promising light. The rain will probably prevent the usual heavy June drop of primes, and will help the hop crop wonderfully. Falls 30 Feet From Roof. PTLVERTON. Or.. June 10. (Spe cial.) Ed Lytle. while engaged in painting the roof of the Sliverton Lum ber Company's mill Saturday, fell a distance of 30 feet, striking feet first on a pile of timber. While not sus taining serious injury, he is unable to resume work. RISER KODAK DEVELOPING. Imperial hotel Also Scenic Photos. GRAND FREE EXCURSION UP ' COWLITZ RIVER SUNDAY I FOR PARTICULARS, SEE PAGE 12 OF THIS PAPER This Morning Only Short Box and Fitted Jackets, vals. up to $12.50 FULL INTO. OWN NET "Wets" Are Badly Worsted in Wheelen County. FOSSIL IS WORST HIT That City Sought to Take Advantage of Prohibition Iver to Call Coun ty Election, Only to Find It self 6ewed Up Tighter. FOSSIL, Or, June 10. (Special.) A special election called by the liquor Interests was held throughout Wheeler County on June 3, and while the returns are not all in yet, the re sult will not be far from SO majority for the "wets." Although the election was a country one. It was called for the sole purpose of making the town of Fossil "wet." as the other county towns, Mitchell and Spray, were al ready wet, and the temperance ad vocates were .satisfied with Fossil "dry," and were opposed to a county election at this time. The reason Fos sil - precinct could not be voted on alone was that it went "dry" last year, and under the law a precinct election could not be held therein for two years thereafter, but as the county as a whole had gone "wet" last year, the law permitted a county election this year. This part of the law enables the Prohibiton people to secure a yearly election in case a county goes "wet," but in this case it was taken advantage of by thplr opponents, the "wets." "When the petition 'for a county elec tion was presented to the County Court at the May term, the members unan imously refused to order an election on tbe ground that the whole county would have to pay the expense of a county election, when only Fossil pre cinct was interested, and, they said, only a small part of Fossil precinct. The court recognized the statute was against Its action, but acted on the ground of economy and' aa it believed nine-tenths of the voters of the county desired It to act But It was beyond their power to atop the election, as John H. Putnam and James Meador, of Fossil, Instituted mandamus proceed ings which compelled the court to call a special meeting and order a local option county election for June 3. The result found the liquor Interests badly scared all around, as Instead of making Fossil "wet," the election came within an ace .of making the whole teounty "dry," and would have done so but for an enormous majority of about 90 to 20 for the "wets" in the town of Mitchell. Fossil, which went "dry" a year ago by- four or five votes, went "dry" thie time by an overwhelming majority, the vote being 115 to 68. Spray escaped going dry by scratch, the vote being a tie, 4 each. and it is a question whether the tie vote won't make it "dry" again. I KISF.B FOB SCENIC PHOTOS. 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