THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1907.
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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 . .
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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