Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 09, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHK MORNING OREGOyiAy. THURSDAY, JTJXY 9, I90S. IT DESTINED FOR FOREST RESERVES Railroad-Grant Lands, if For 'aited, Will Be Disposed of to Settlers. GOOD NEWS FOR OREGON House Committee on Public Lands Prepared to Block Move to With hold Great Area From Actual Homeseekers. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 8. Forfeiture of the Oregon & California Railroad lands In Western Oregon to the fritted States would not be followed by their annexation to the forest reserves. If the sentiment of the House committee on public lands is a sure guide of the future policy of the Government. That committee, during the last sesson of Congress, unmistakably favored opening the lands to commercial and industrial uses. It is said on good authority that had thece been any possi DUity of the administrations annexin the lands to the forest reserves, the nub lie lands committee would have presented a resolution, subsequent to the Fulton resolution, declaring that no disposition of the lands should be made without sanction of Congress. Hut the President has no power to create additions to the forest reserves in Oregon. The committee had this fact Investigated by B. D. Townsend. assist ant to the Attorney-General In the coin lng suits against the railroad and Indl vlduals who purchased 1000 acres or more from the railroad, In violation of the terms or the land grants Mr. Townsend was often heard to say nmt no was connaent no attemppt would be made to include the lands in forest re serves; that such disposition of the lands would be contrary to the purpose of the suits and the Congressional grants and me interests or the state. Matter Most Important. inis matter is or high importance to Western Oregon, since the Government ui seen, in the suits about to be brought by Mr. Townsend. the alternative reliefs or iorreuure of the lands to the Govern. ment or of specific performance of the original terms or the grant, which have ueen lgnorea By the railroad for 40 years win De instituted in the United circuit uourt for the District of Oregon. Mr. Townsend prepared the bills 01 complaint before leaving Washington and Is expected to file them in Portland as soon as they can be printed. Of the 2,000.000 acres possessed by the railroad and the 400,000 acres held by the big purchasers, fully 1,000.000 acres In and south of Lane County can be used for farming, and can support an additional population of 60.000. More than one-fourth of the 2.400.000 acres Is In Douglas County nu wiree-iourins or it is In Iane, Doug- junppninH ana jacKson. Some parts of the land grant area would probably be put into forest reserves, in case of forfeiture. Such would certainly u me uispusition or tne lands now In- " witnin tne boundaries of forest reserves. Small parcels of land might w nuui-u to rorest reserves to fill out certain areas and the same disposition might be made of remote lands that are useful only for timber and that would be held long periods of time by speculators iu realize tneir value. Amount Is Limited. But probably not more than 200,000 acres would lie disposed of that way. such at least being the temper of the house com- ".nee on piioiic lands, which threshed out the land grant matter many weeks inter ana spring. Involved with the railroad will be some 50 companies and persons who bought lands from the railroad in quantities of 1000 acres or more this in violation of n.e luv-uvre limit ror purchases, and of the 2.50 an acre price limit and of the "actual settler" clause. These holders possess some 400,000 acres, the chief ones wrinfi uk ioiiows: Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, ln Lane and Linn Counties, 77.000 acres. , H.pm,mond A- B Winton." partners, 'J "Inniook. Yamhill and Washington, Hammond Lumber Comnanv in ti.n 14.500 acres. ' Curtiss' Lumber Company (a Hammond company), in Linn. 5000 acres A. a. Hammond Company 6000 acres. J. and G. K. Wentworth I-ano. 33,000 acres. Avery, Green & Richardson, waukee. In Linn. 15.000 rr Wade H. Richardson, in Lane acres. T. I. and K S. Collin ,of0 acres. Willis H. Gilbert, trustee, in Marion and Clackamas, now Central Lumber Company, 15,000 acres. William G. Gosslin, in Lane S500 acres L. Uerllngcr, in Poik, 7000 acres. Lumbermen Hold Lands. in Klamath, of Chicago, in of Mil- 10,000 in Clackamas, Company. in Polk, Spaulding Logging 5CO0 acres. Big Bend Milling Company nnd Butte Falls Sugar Pine Lumber Company of Davenport, ln Jackson, 7000 acres. A. R. Downs, in Douglas, 4000 acres. John Claflln. in Klamath 5000 acres William R. Moffitt, in Multnomah' 5000 acres. W. I. Vawter. ln Jackson, 2000 acres. A. C. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, in Klamath. 15.800 acres. R. S. Moore and S. A. Parker, ln Jack son, 10,000 acres. FTed A. Krlbs, in Coos, 4000 acres. Olean Land Company, in Tillamook. SO00 acres. John M. Keith, of BakersfleM ri on Keith Oil & Land Company, In Jackson. KKX) acres. V eyerlweuser Lumber Klamath, 15.000 acres. Charles A. Smith SO.000 acres. Southern Pacific Company, ln Lane and Polk, 6500 acres. I.. A. Lewis, of Portland, K00 acres. William SI. Ladd, In Douglas. 12S0 acres. All tnese holders of land will be made rWrauanta in the Government's equity uits, one Important reason being that they all violated the terms of the land grants the same as did the Oregon & When Informed of the foregoing dis patch last night. Mr. Townsend corrob orated the information as to annexing the forfeited lands to the forest re serves. He said that he was confident the lands. If forfeited, would be opened for settlement. As to protection of Innocent purchas ers those who bought lands from the railroad for settlement Mr. Townsend remarked that there need be no alarm an their side. "Their titles will not be disturbed at all." he remarked. "The Government will not sue them. Wire Sllpm Sulrlde Foiled. ECHO, Or.. July 8. (Special.) James Ross, a young German, about 27 years old. tried to commit suicide by hanging himself with a wire, four miles above town, last evening, near the Furnish head gates. The wire slipped on his neck, however, letting him drop about 15 feet helnw Intn a nllA - , . . I 1 rocks, bruising him considerably. He " " urwugni to jeeno ana 1 r. Dorn dressed the wounds. He will likely live. He has three sisters, two living ac mieni, ur jurs. Alice Turner, and Miss Anna .KoDinson, and one at Sioux Falls, o. u., miss uora turner. Builds Alfalfa Meal Mill. ECHO, Or., July 8. (Special. ) J. E. Murpny, or Portland, this morning com menced the erection of a fireproof building 32 by 60 and 18 feet to the eaves, of cement and steel, to be used for an alfalfa meal mill. The mill will ha-e a capacity of 25 tons every 24 nours, ana win cost when completed murpny nas leased the .Henrietta mills and win run them ln connection with his alfalfa meal mllL Company Will Have 75 Members. ASTORIA, Or., July 8. (Special.) captain aiarcmus, of the Oregon Na tlonal Guard, who has been here dnr lng the past two days examining ap pneants lor membership In the First Company, Coast Artillery, being organ ized in this city, had accepted 70 men tnis evening, i here are several appli cations still pending, so the Indications are tne new company will have a mem bership of 75 when it is mustered into service by Lieutenant Hollman, of Sa- lem, tomorrow night. REPUBLICANS PLAN RALLY BIG MASS MEETING TO BE HELD AT BAKER THEATER. o HI II i 1 II ill Cut-Rate Drug Prices Lipmaii-Wolfe's "Owl" Cut-Rate Drug Store Established 1 850-FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS IN BUSINESS-Established 1-850 Good Merchandise Only Quality Considered Our Prices Are Always the Low est Victor Talking Machines At the Lowest Prices in Portland Nomination of Taft Will Be Ratified at Gathering Monday Xight, July 20 Prominent Speakers. At the meeting of the Forty-Fifth Precinct Republican Club last night in the hall on East Twenty-Seventh street. Chairman Ben Riesland announced that full arrangements had been completed for the coming mass meeting to be held in the Baker theater, Monday night, July 20. He said that the principal speaaers will De Judge ti. H. Northup; who will talk on National politics, and Dr. Henry W. Coe, delegate to the Na tional convention, who will speak more particularly of work on the convention and of Mr. Taft as a Presidential can didate. Mr. Riesland reported that both the state and county central committees have given the meeting their indorse ment and that W. M. Cake and J. p. Kennedy will be present. A large num- per or special invitations will be Is sued to prominent Republicans. The Oregon Quartet has been engaged. Women will be made welcome. At the meeting a Taft club will be formed. In his report Mr. Riesland said that the committee had received encourage ment from many prominent Republi cans. .The report was adopted and the committee was continued to complete its worK. following the report. J. D. Lee, one of the Presidential electors, made a brief talk ln which he com mended the work the club had under- taiten. encouraging remarks were made by Will Hale, Henry S. West brook and C. L. Canfleld, the keynote of which was that Oregon should pile up a Dig majority tor Taft at the Novem ber election and demonstrate that Ore gon is a Republican state. benator Fulton was invited to ad dress the mass meeting, but he replied that owing to other engagements he would probably not be able to attend. The club adjourned till July 22. J uly Clearance Pricesin AH Sections Today Smart Straw Sailors $189 Values to $2.75 Three of the latest Straw Sailors, in eluding the new block " Harvard," fine quality Belgian Split and Sumatra Straw Sailors. Both high and low crowns, wide or narrow brims, styles to suit every face. All are A trimmed with black JkB O Ok silk bands. Values I Ski W to $2.75 for only . . VF. $2.25 Cambric Skirts at $1.39 Vomen's white cambric Skirts, with deep flounce 1 Of. of embroidery and tucks; regular values to $2 2o P X .Oil $3.00 White Skirts for $1.69 Women's white cambric Skirts, extra quality, daintilv trimmed f eooo r01,dery tucks' lace' etc- Regular values 0f Ck to $3.00; sale price p 1 .Oil $6.00 White Skirts for $2.98 Women's white cambric Skirts, extra quality, deep flounces, trimmed with insertions-and lace edgings; regu- t0 OO lar values $6.00 ; sale price . .p29o 40c Corset Covers for 29c Women's cambric Corset Covers, circular neck; lace Oft and insertion, etc.; values to 40c wtC Regular $1.65 Drawers for $1.10 Women's extra quality cambric and nainsook Drawers, vari ously trimmed in dainty effects; values to $1.65 fcl 1 f this sale only ij 1 J Bntterick Patterns for August, 10c-15c August Delineator All Parasols Reduced Bathing suits Regular $6.00 Suitcases$3,98 Straw Suitcases, straps all around, fancy linen-lined, heavy leather corners, shirtfold, patent locks and bolts; f0 sale price ipO.IO $8.00 Leather Suitcases at $4.98 Cowhide leather Suitcases,' double steel frame, extra cowhide binding, straps all around, shirtfold, heavy brass d A fl O locks; sale price ij't.70 $9.00 Cowhide Suitcases at $5.98 Cowhide leather Suitcases with short straps, heavy leather cjina conmae Dinainir around bodv of pass. heavy locks; regular $9.00 values, for. $5.98 Sale of Bedding White and gray cotton Blankets, very fleecy, plain or colored borders, much reduced : 10- 4 Cotton Blankets, 85c value 69 11- 4 Cotton Blankets, $1.25 value 98 12- 4 Cotton Blankets, $1.75 value. $1.39 6.00 White Wool Blankets, pair. $4L89 $ 7.00 White Wool Blankets, pair $5l89 9.50 White Wool Blankets, pair $7739 $12.50 White Wool Blankets, pair $9.49 All Hammocks Reduced All the new designs of the season in good,, double twined weaves, in light and dark effects; full size, with upholstered pillows, spreader and deep valance. $1.50 Hammocks. . .$1.19 $2.00 Hammocks. ..$1.59 $2,60 Hammocks.. .$1.98 $3.00 Hammocks... $2.39 $3,50 Hammocks. ..$2.79 $4.00 Hammocks. . .$3. 19 $5.00 Hammocks.. .$3.98 $6.50 Hammocks.. .$5.49 PUBLICITY HIS 1 John Hays Hmn.cnd's Vice- President! Eoorrt. WANTS PLACE IN CABINET WHEAT CROP INCREASED western Canada Will Produce 125,- 000,000 Bushels This Year. WINNIPEG. July 8.After a care ful review of the crop situation in Western Canada, the leading railways estimate the total wheat yield in West ern Canada will be 125,000.000 bush els, or an average of 20 bushels to the acre. Last year's wheat croD was 80.- 000.000 bushels, of which 67.000.000 bushels was exported. It Is estimated that 100,000,000 bush els this season will be available for export. Hopes Congress Will Create Depart ment of Mines of Which He Would Be Secretary Dream Far From Realization. ORKQONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash Ing-ton, July 11. The mystery of the John Hays Hammond Vice-Presidential boom has been cleared away. Mr. Hammond, though an avowed candl date at Chicago, never had any idea that he would be nominated, nor did he have the slightest desire to be run ning mate for Mr. Taft. The Ham mond boom was launched purely for advertising purposes; it was designed solely to get the name of Hammond UlTPUrnrl IO lIHnr- ruir-rH solely to sel tne nam I Hammond Ml I UnlsUOrv 15 IVlAUh Url I fcF before the people, so that hereafter, if the name is again brought into prom (Continued from Page 1.) step toward the removal of the banner was taken this morning when a number of Lincoln business men began the cir culation of a petition to the Republican State Central Committee that it be taken down. John T. Kent, chairman of the local Democratic reception committee, declared to the Associated Press that the city or dinances against signs might be invoked to bring down the obnoxious banner, but said the Republicans would be given an opportunity to exhibit their local pride before drastic action was taken. Chairman Hayward defends the action of his committee purely on polltioU grounds and declares there is no objec tion to me uemocrats bringing out i streamer and entering into active compe iiuon. PANIC AMONG FUGITIVES Company, " ln in Coos and Douglas. ln Jackson. Honduras Xo Longer an Asylum for Foreign Criminals. WASHINGTON. July 8. Negotiations are in propress for an extradition treaty oetween Honduras and the United States, PUERTO CORTEZ, Honduras, July 8, via New Orleans, July 8. Correspond ence about the extradition of the four American prisoners, Francis G. and Al bert W. Bailey. H. H. Myers and Al fred Oxley. has become public here. Francis G. Bailey, who was president of the Export Shipping Company, of New Jersey, and who with the others came here on the steamer Goldsboro, pro tested to President Davila of Hon duras against being held a prisoner. President Davila telegraphed in reply: "As your case depends enrtirely upon the Government of the United States, Vhich seta up a claim for your deten tion, I certainly cannot accede to your request, and I must complj-; otherwise there might be complications." The Baileys appealed to the Hondu ran courts, from which they received no reply. Their case, therefore, has caused much uneasiness among numer ous Americans in Honduras who might be subject to extradition should it be put into practice. These Americans rely for safety upon the constitution of Honduras, to which the Baileys ap pealed in vain. John Barrett III In Denver. DENVER, July 8.-John Barrett, of Washington, president of the Bureau of American Republics, is ill at the home of John W. Springer, in this city. It was rumored yesterday that he was threat ened with typhoid. This report was de nied, and it was stated that the expec tation was that he would be out within a few days, as he was merely suffering from a cold. Mr. Barrett came to Denver to attend the Democratic National Convention. Inence, no one need ask, "Who is John Hays Hammond? This statement is made on authority of a close personal friend of Mr. Ham mond, a man who discussed the sltua tion with the high-salaried mining en gineer, and who is therefore in a po sition to speak by the card. Accord lng to this gentleman, who was in Washington for several days. Mr. Hammond believes that in the near fu ture Congress will create a new de partment of mines and mii.ing, and he desires to have a seat in the next Cabinet as "Secretary of Mines and Mining. Hammond Must Be Qualified. This explanation seems fairly rea sonable. Mr. Hammond is not a poli tician; he has not been identified with the affairs of the Republican party; the party Is in no way Indebted to him, and up to the time the Chicago con vention assembled Mr. Hammond was unknown, save as the highest-salaried man ln the United States. Even this reputation, according to his friend, is undeserved for Mr. Hammond has not drawn 8500,000 a year from the Gug genheims, nor anything like that amount, though his salary has been of enormous proportions. The exact amount the friend WJ3uld not disclose. A mining engineer who can com mand such a salary as was paid Mr. Hammond (and It is believed to have been in the neighborhood of $250,000 annually) certainly possesses many qualifications for a Cabinet office such as has been proposed. He must have a broad and comprehensive understand ing of mining conditions and the min ing industry generally; he must have the ability to solve problems confront ing miners and mine operators, and withal must necessarily be possessed of considerable executive ability. So, from the point of fitness, Mr. Ham mond would appear to be well quali fied to conduct such a department. Congress Favorably Inclined. But Mr. Hammond can hardly be a politician or be posted on political con ditions. The bungling way in which his supposed Vice-Presidential boom was brought forward was one evidence of this; but, more than that, Mr. Ham mond must have overlooked the pre vailing sentiment In Congress, as shown at the recent session. A num ber of bills were Introduced creating a department of mines and mining; more bills were introduced creating a bureau of mines and mining. The Pres ident and the leaders in Congress were not in favor of creating a new depart ment, though, the House, after some consideration, did pass a bill creating bureau of mines and mining, and this bill was later reported favorably to the Senate, though it failed to come to a vote in that body. In view of the situation as disclosed. Mr. Hammond can hardly expect Con- I gress In the immediate future to create a department of mines and mining. There is strong probability, however, that a bureau of mines and mining will be authorized next session, for there was little opposition ln the Senate, and it was generally supposed the bill would have passed could a vote have been taken. Time for a vote will be afforded next Winter, unless a filibus ter is instituted, and this is not con templated. . Bureau, Not Department. If Congress legislates on this sub Ject,x it will merely create a bureau of mines and mining in the Interior De partment, and the head of the new bureau will be on a footing with the Commissioner of the General Land Of fice, the Commissioner of Indian Af fairs and the Commissioner of Pen sions. Mr. Hammond, it is said, would not accept a Cpmmissionershlp; he wants to be a member of the Cabinet. But if the bureau Is created, Mr. Ham mond might possibly be induced to ac cept the lesser job, ln the hope that Congress at a later day might make the bureau an independent department. Several Cabinet offices have developed from bureaus. The Department of Ag riculture was once a bureau; so was the Department of Commerce and La bor. It may, therefore, transpire that the bureau of mines, after demonstrat ing Its importance and broadening out the scope of its work, may be advanced to the rank of a department. But the probabilities are that . there will be no department of mines and mining in the next administration. Therefore, the advertising done at Chicago by John Hays Hammond will probably avail him nothing, unless he is willing to accept a bureau Job, and it Is a long step from a quarter-of-a-mtllion-dollar Job to a bureau with comparatively little honor and a nom inal salary of 85000. Six Killed by Explosion. BUDAPEST, July 8. As a result of the fire that broke out here today from an explosion of benzine on the prem ises of- a chemical cleaning company, six employes lost their lives, beinir either burned to death or killed by jumping from windows, and 14 others sustained serious injuries. Ths sperm whale can stay under water ur uuuuies. frank Comparison Over 2000 mechanics are dailv emDlovpr! i making; of the 58 different kinds of Burroughs adding and listing (bookkeeping) machines. They turn out one complete Burroughs every 10 minutes of a working day. It requires a plant of more than four acres of floor space with a mechanical equipment costing more than $300,000, to produce these machines. The mechanical force and the factory is greater by 100 per cent than all other adding machine factories and forces combined. Burroughs Adding Machine Company PORTLAND BRANCH, 216-217 COMMERCIAL CLUB BUILDING. home: offices and factory, Detroit, Michigan, v.s.a. 3ii m Food Foolishness) The druggist lives on your -"food i ollies.'If every one ate the druggist would have to turn grocer. There's no stomach so weak that it cannot digest FORGE. Its thin crisp flakes are quickly penetrated by the digestive fluids and the barley-malt enables the intes tines to digest the starch. FORGE helps Nature. Not a medicine, but a food. " FORCE " it made ol the best white wheat, team-cooked, rolled into thin flakes, combined with the purest barley-malt and baked. Always "crisp" it before serving it by pour ing into a pan and warming it in oven. Then serve in large dish with cream, piling the flakes in one side of the dish and pouring the cream in the other side, dipping the flakes at eaten. Your grocer sells it. No other Flaked Food is "just as good. THE PORTLAND TRUNK MFG. GO. Makers of the Famous "MADE IN OREGON" Trunks. Every Trunk Stamped With a "Made in Oregon" Sticker. WHY BUY EASTERN MADE TRUNKS? Knocked together by piece workers and shipped into Portland to be sold by CLOTHING, DEPART. MENT and DRUG STORES THERE IS NO COMPARISON Between our M Made in Oregon Trunks and the cheap Eastern trunks. Come in and we will shew you the difference. l ..Fit"- r DONT BDYTRDNKS That Are LIKELY to WEAR, But See - That You Get Trunks That WILL WEAR TRUNKS REPAIRED Old 'Trunks Taken in Exchange on New Ones OUR TRUNKS Have Individual Style and Character, Which Stamp Them Superior to AH Other Makes 3 STORES 3 54 THIRD STREET, Cor. Pine 107 SIXTH STREET, Near Stark 229 MORRISON STREET, Near First