THK 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.
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Food Foolishness)
The druggist lives
on your -"food
i ollies.'If every
one ate
the druggist would
have to turn grocer. There's no
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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.
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