THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1910. LIEU LAND MAYBE CHOSEN BY STATE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW HAVOC CREATED BY PHILADELPHIA STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY JETS PERT REPLY - . t t .-.vwvw- f :' m vr j. oi 'v i v -. . . . . . Withdrawal for Reserves Now Deprives Oregon of Valu able Holdings. Hitchcock Says Association's Assertion Is So Wrong It Doesn't Deserve Comment. New Hair Goods Department MAGAZINES PLANT HAWLEY SEEKING REMEDY Authority to Slake Selections Within Reserves Themselves Will Re quire Speelal Law, Secretary Ballinger Rules. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Keb. 27. Representative Haw ley Is working in season and out to secure for the State of Oregon title to Its school lands tied up In forest re serves, or their equivalent, preferably the equivalent. In furtherance of this project. Mr. Hawley has written the Secretary of the Interior calling his at tention to the equity of the state's claim, saying: "The act admitting the State of Ore gon Into the Union granted to the state for educational purposes the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in every town ship of the unappropriated public lands within the boundaries of the state. State Unjustly Deprived. "The forest reserves In the state In clude vast areas of the lands that were, at the date of the admission of the state, unappropriated public lands. As these lands will be permanently closed to appropriation under the general laws, and will probably not be surveyed as the public domain usually is, where subject to appropriation, the state Is deprived of the uses and benefits aris ing from these lands, and ought not to be. - understand that the right of the state to these lands is not disputed. The lands are only unavailable under existing conditions. We desire to se cure relief in the proper way, and I therefore respectfully request to be in formed as follows." Mr. Hawley then sets down nine questions, which are replied to seriatum by Secretary Ballinger. Lines Can Be Projected. The Secretary's letter, containing both questions and answers, sets forth the following facts: Upon request of the State of Oregon, township and section lines can be pro jected on the maps of the forest re serves to determine the amount of school land in the reserves to which the state is entitled; no legislation by Congress is necessary. When the lines are so projected and the number of townships in any reserve determined, the state is entitled to select indem nity lands in lieu of sections IS and 36 In such townships. When the town ship lines have been' so protracted, title to the sections 16 and 36 does not vest in the state, the purpose of the protraction merely being to ascertain the number of townships or sections for which indemnity may be selected. Special Act Not Necessary. In answer to the question, "Is any act of Congress necessary to confirm to the state the title of the lands found due, or to authorize a selection of lieu lands?" the Secretary replies: "This department and the courts have uniformly held that the grant of sec tions 16 and 36 to a state does not vest until the lands are Identified by sur vey. The Supreme Court has held 'that until the survey of the township and the designation of the specific section, the right of the state rests in com pact." No further legislation is neces sary, however, to enable the state to select indemnity or lieu lands. Congress having made provision therefor in sec tions 2275 and 2276 of the revised statutes, as amended by the act of Feb ruary 28, 1891." It is not necessary, in Secretary Bal linger's opinion, for the Oregon Legis lature to take any action whatever looking towards the readjustment of these school land matters. The state's title to the school sections in place, he says, take effect -upon identification by survey without patent or certificate. Selections of indemnity or lieu lands, however, ai made, as a rule, by a commission, board or agent authorized by the Static legislature, and such se lections arjbject to approval by the Secretary (tP'-ie Interior. Reserve Lands Bill Prepared. Selections of indemnity lands may be made from any unappropriated, unre served, surveyed public lands, not min eral in character, within the State of Oregon, but lands which are a part of any forest reserve are not subject to selection by the state under existing law. Congress, however, in the opinion of the Secretary, has the power to au thorize the stale to select indemnity lands from lands which have been em braced in forest reserves. The Secretary, at Mr. Hawley's re quest, drafted a bill to give the states such authority, but added that he does not care to be understood as favoring sucn legislation. i iiat bill has been in troduce by Mr. Hawley, and at an early he will urge its considera tion by-che House committee on public lands. TRIBE NEAR STARVATION Crops Lost-, Indians Wander In Sorry Plight Through Mexico. EL. PASO. Tex., Feb. 27. In dire straits for food, bacausa of the failure of their crops and without even sved corn for planting, the Tarahumare Indians of the SierraMadres are wandering through the States of Chihuahua and Coahuila. The Tarahumares are peaceful and fol low agricultural pursuits. Their condi tion Is pitiable and they are on the point of starvation. Captain Joaquin Chavez has appealed to Governor Creel for aid for them. SETTLER RECOVERS MONEY Land Bought of Canal Company Fqund to Belong to V. S. ATTALIA. Wash.. Feb. 27. (Special.) Judgment has been rendered in the Su perior Court of Walla Walla County in favor of Alden O. Morris against the Columbia Canal Company for $553.35 dam ages and costs. Morris purchased a five-acre tract at Attalia of the canal company last Spring on a land contract. He afterward dis covered the land belonged to the United States and that the company had no right to sell it. This suit was brought to re-cv-v the amount paid on the contract. ;; PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW HAVOC CREATED BY PHILADELPHIA STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS t r-.v. n zrL - ; "-m"' I W RECKED TROLLEY CAR DESERTED BV FEAR-STRICKEJff PASSENGERS AND CREW, ill :- ' : ZlMPi k I 1 ::. . Ur5& rtH K3 W " tS- S3 i . 7s flM. r w $M'V CT5- I f c-JiiiJi---:-:.;:i' - - - itfvi'Tn rrrrini" mrar ifviviiiii Tiiiftiifilriii " J I OFFICERS CLEARING IP WRECKAGE OF CAR THAT HAD BEEN STONED. I X... ......... .......................... UNIONS AID CARMEN Philadelphia Trades Vote Sympathetic Strike. STREET RIOTS CONTINUE Cars Are Wrecked and Employes Stoned Police Make 75 Arrests. Citizens, Fearing Outcome, Strongly Vrge Arbitration. (Concluded From Page 1.) eral hours', but it was determined finally to abide by the original resolution. There was much rioting during, the day. Cars were stoned, motormen and conductors were beaten and many pas sengers were struck by flying missiles. Xearly a dozen riot calls were received at police headquarters. In most instances the mobs were dis persed with riot sticks alone. Seventy live arrests were made. Crowds of men and boys who usually fill the streets on Sunday were respon sible for most of the attacks. The orders of the director of public safety that wagons must not be used resulted in many disturbances. Driven at a high rate of speed to es cape a mob that was pelting it with bricks and stones, a trolley car struck an obstruction, left the track and plunged into a brick house. The car was demolished and the motorman, con ductor and policeman on guard were In jured. When a policeman on a car fired a shot ' from his revolver over the heads of a threatening mob in another quar ter, every window in the car was shat tered by stones. State Police Hold Mob. The frightened motorman and conductor sought protection in a store. The mob endeavored to demolish the car, but state police drove back the rioters. Policemen were obliged to shoot before they succeeded In dispersing a mob of 2000 gathered at a corner where a police man had forced the driver of a huckster wagon, converted into a bus. to unload his passengers. This had infuriated the crowd and they started to wreck a pass ing trolley car. Charged with complicity in a plot to blow up trolley cars tilled with passen gers and to destroy other property of the company, Charles R. Copeland, a striking conductor, and William Field, a stationary engineer, formerly of Mew York, were held In J2500 bail today by Magistrate Heaton in the Central Police Court. The men were arrested by H. S. Silcox. chief detective of the company, who said at the hearing that a plot had been hatched at a secret meeting of the trolley men to blow up cars. Striker Carries Bomb. Early today, he said, he saw Copeland pick up something from a track in West Philadelphia. When arrested, Copeland had a bomb in his pocket. Members of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Street & Electric Railway Em ployes, while admitting that Copeland is a member of their union, deny any knowledge of ie alleged plot and say the detectives have "framed up" the dynamiting plot to discredit the union. A man and a boy are dead and four other boys were seriously hurt when a trolley car jumped a switch down town tonight and crashed into the front of a cigar store. The victims all Were stand ing in front of the store. There had been a disturbance down the street and someone had turned the unused switch j at this point. The car crashed through the crowd on the sidewalk, stopping only after it had torn the front out of the store. Realizing that much of the disturbance was started by children, Archbishop Ryan issued a letter, read in every. Roman Catholic Church today, warning parents not to allow their children on the streets during the trouble. Officials Profess Confidence. Officials of the company declared to night that they were not seriously con cerned by the threatened general strike. At the offices of the company it was re ported from men who had attended the labor meetings showed that three votes had been necessary before the strike resolutions were adopted. More cars were in operation today than at any time during the strike. During the rush hours 1.040 cars were in oper ation, and it was planned to run the regular Sunday night schedules of 540 cars. These plans had to be abandoned because of the riots, which broke out at nightfall. Two explosions of fulminate of mer cury occurred on the Gorman town -a ve nue line tonight. In one case the' win dows of houses in the district were shat tered. In an attack on a car. a motorman was stabbed in the back. His assailant es caped. Following an attack on a car In the northwest section Thomas Wagner, aged 15, was shot through the chest by a policeman. Physicians say he cannot recover. SOCIALISTS SEND MONEY AID Woman's Day Brings Out Militant Suffragists in Force. NEW YORK, Feb. 27. A fund was raised for the striking carmen of Phil adelphia this afternoon by hundreds of socialists and suffragists, who filled Carnegie Hall to applaud arguments why women should have 'he ballot. Here, as throughout the country, the day had been set apart by the Social ists as women's day. Box seats sold for $5 and the flags of various suffrage organizations hung from the balconies. Although the audience received the "Marsellaise" "ith enthusiasm, a call for the red flag of anarchy brought no response. The contribution to the Philadelphia strikers will be taken from the pro ceedings of the meeting, but the amount was not made public. Bethlehem Strikers Quiet. BETHLEHEM. Pa., Feb. 27. The violence and rioting which marked yes terday's labor trouble between the Bethlehem Steel Company and Its em ployes, when the state police went on duty, were not repeated today. Only a few state police were on duty. The strikers have promised Chairman Wil liams to stay away from the works so long as the state police are here. 75 ARE REPORTED KILLED Wallace, Idaho, Message Says Ava lanche Buries 15 Families. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 27. A tele phone message from Wallace, Idaho, to the Spokesman-Review says that 25 families and probably 75 persons were buried in an avalanche tonight. A special train at midnight is leaving for Wallace carrying rescuers. The Mule and Dry Farming. Cor. Chicago Record-Herald. When H. W. Campbell, the pioneer of the so-called dry farming In the far West, took up a homestead in Dakota Territory fn 1883. all he possessed be sides his family was a few farming Ira. plements. a plow, a wagon, etc., a lame I mule and a long-horned ox. The ox and mule yoked together broke the sod and put 'in the crop of wheat. The rains came, the water fell on the loose sandy soil, sank into the ground and ran off Just as fast as It fell. TRADERS ARE TIMID Professionals Alone in Wall Street Operations. GRAIN NEXT' IN INTEREST Speculators Anxions About lieports From Winter Wheat Sections. Full Bank Accounts Help to Keep Prices High. NEW YORK, Feb. 27. The stock mar kets of last week in New York lapsed into a state of inactivity equal to the dull periods of midsummer and February of last year. The movement of prices at the same time became sluggish and irregular, manifestly prompted by noth ing more than the board room ventures of the professional traders, timidly pur sued In view of the lack of any more substantial operations to carry the tide of the market. The passing of factors lately influential was Indicated by the indifference shown to the public address of the Attorney General, reiterating the policies of legal restraints on corporations. The import ance s of this subject is not changed In financial estimation. It is expected that re-ival of its influence will now await the decision of the Supreme Court in the American Tobacco and Standard Oil cases. Market Turns to Wheat. The large attention paid to the news from the Winter wheat region is signifi cant of the direction in which the next effective forces In the speculation are ex pected to move. The state in which the Winter-sown crops shall have come through the rigors of the season closing will form a subject for close stduy in the stock market -from this time on. The controller's abstract of National bank repqrts as of January 3, shows a credit position still extended. In spite of the severe deflation to stock market values and liquidation of stock market borrowings, which had occurred at that time. The existence of large outstanding bills on old cotton and wheat would imply a need of further deflation in that field. The continued shortage of foreign de mand for cotton and wheat marks the holding of prices at an unattractive level. The sustained volume of current redemp tion of bank notes by the United States treasury, although not fully up to the unprecedented level of January. Is signifi cant of redundant bank conditions and is an agency In keeping up prices. Labor disputes to be adjusted are kept in mind by the Philadelphia riots and by demands upon various railroads to which answer must be made. Authorities In the Iron and steel trade express hopeful views for the financial prospects, but the price of iron still de clines. Iron Products Brisker. There was more activity in pig iron last week, as well as in finished steel products, there being a larger volume of business than during any of the preceding weeks in February. It Is estimated that sales of foundry iron have been 75,000 tons. Prices have declined to $17.25 and $17.50 for No. 24 foundry at Eastern Pennsyl vania furnaces, and to $13 to $13.50 In Ala bama. There also has been a recession in prices in other districts. It is esti mated that February pig iron contracts have been in excess of 20,000 tons. Both new contracts and specifications for finished steel products have increased and railroads are more actively in the ! market for equipment, placing orders for 85,000 tons of rails, 5000 cars and 55 loco motives last week. ONE-CENT MAIL POSSIBLE Postmaster-General Says Low Second-Class Tax Bars Postage Re duction Rural Delivery Cited as Circulation Aid. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. "Erroneous or . misleading." Is the way the Post office Department characterizes the statement recently published by the Periodical Publishers' Association, en titled, "An Argument on Second-Class Postal Rates From the Business Stand point Alone." The answer of the Department was made public today. It declares the premise on which the argument is based is faulty and consequently every important conclusion reached is fala cious. Postmaster-General Hitchcock says "if the rate on second-class mail were made high enough to cover the entire cost of transporting and handling it, which has not been suggested, it would be possible, without creating a deficit, to reduce the postage on letters to 1 cent. Every time a 2-cer:t stamp is placed on a letter it defrays not only the expense of handling and transport ing the letter, but helps to pay In al most equal measure, the cost of dis tributing through the mails the period ical publications of the public." 1048 Miles, Magazine Haul. The Department's statement is an elaborate discussion of the cost to the Government of handling mail, particu larly second-class matter, and by rural free delivery." It is shown that the average length of the haul of maga zines is 1048 miles, while that of'daily newspapers, also second-class matter, is only 291 miles. The Department announces "the con tention that there is no more expense to the Government in carrying maga zines an average distance of 1048 miles than in carrying newspapers 291 miles is so palpably wrong as hardly to deserve comment." It was contended by the publishers that the second-class matter should not be charged with the proportionate cost of rural free delivery assigned to it by the Department because that branch of the service was "a governmental policy," conducted at a great loss, and because, further, the periodicals have no need of that service. In reply to this point, Postmaster General Hitchcock says: Magazine Tax Conservative. "The Department was conservative in charging second-class mail 40.22 per cent of the cost of rural delivery. Statistics show that 45 per cent of the pieces of mall handled in tills service consists of second-class mater. Were It not for the rural delivery service, the circulations of magazines would be reduced materially." In response to the publishers' asser tion that "with a proper allowance for rural delivery there is a surplus of more than $10,000,000 In all the opera tions of the postoff ices." Mr. Hitch cock declares, "with equal force it must be said, with proper allowance for sec-ond-clasn mail there is a surplus of over $46,000,000 in all the operations of the Postal Service. Even If there were no deficit, the fact that the De partment is conducting one branch of its business at a loss of $64,000,000 usually would demand attention." It is pointed out tnat "the Govern ment Is losing over 8 cents a pound on second-class matter sent through the mails, the annual loss to the Ka tional revenues approximating $64,000,- 000." There are 27,000 publications enjoy ing the second-class privilege, a f-irge proportion of which are magazines. WILD STORM IS RAGING (vToncluded From Page 1.) low water mark. Remarkably heavy wind accompanied by rain prevailed here this afternoon. WRECK FORCES TRAIN DETOUR Three Lines Go by Centralia and Olympia Owing to Landslide. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 27. (Special.) Olympia is again on the map, from a railroad standpoint. All trains operated over the main line of the Northern Pacific are detourlng via Centralia and Olympia. The service includes Northern Pacific, Great North ern and Oregon. & Washington, passen ger service between Seattle and Port land. The reason for this unprecedented traffic is due to Northern Pacific train No. 314, which is reported as having run into a landslide near Rainier, this county. The engine, baggage and mail car turned over. No casualty report Is available. TWO DROWN IX 72-MILE GALE Launch Capsizes at Astoria, Storm Worst of Season. ASTORIA. Or.. Feb. 27. (Special.) Astoria is today In the throes of the LAST GREAT METROPOLIS of North America Is starting on main line of Grand Trunk 1'aclne 't ranscontinental K-y Fort Georn is terminus or on line of all railroads building and projected in Central British Columbia, the land of last great opportunities. Fort gorc. Is Junction of one thous and miles navigable waterways on which teamers are now plying, with tens or ll I lions of acres best agricultural land. richest cold, silver, copper, coal minium, and billions of feet of timber tributary. Fort George, geographical and strategic commercial center of . British Columbia, will be one of largest cities west of Rock ies, and second city in British Columbia. One, hundred million dollars will be spent In viclnitv during next three years In railway buitding alone. Write quick for mans, nlans and official information of fortune making opportunities for invest ment. First offering of business lots fiao to $300 each, payable $10 down and $10 per month. 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Colors: pink and blue. Price 59c Special Ladies' Universal Flannelette Gowns, in military and turn-down collars, or Japanese neck, a good assort ment to select from. Special. 79c Come and See New Spring Models of C. B.' a la Spirite Corsets Now In Today Great Sale of Silks 95c Oriental Weaves, Tussah Pongees worst southwest gale of the season, and while the wind has moderated slightly this evening: the glass is still low but becoming; more steady. The storm began during last night, was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain and today the wind attained a rate of 72 miles an hour at the Heads, but at 5 o'clock this evening it had dropped to 57 miles. The bar is extremely rough. Ship ping is practically at a standstill and only a few boats were able to run to points on the river. One gasoline launch was capsized and two men were drowned, but no other accidents to ship ping or on shore have been reported. Leopold II and Racine. London Telegraph. Among the many stories told of the I late King of the Belgians is one which HEALTHY Strained and overworked eyes soon lose their bril liancy. The luster of healthy eyes soon vanishes when they are wasting their strength; they fast become bloodshot and dull looking. Defective eyes waste their own energy. Correctly fitted glasses save strength. Depend upon it that C. O. Service will give you cor rectly fitted glasses. Our corps of opticians are men of vast experience. Our equipment is the best to be had. Our glasses are fitted and manufactured with skill and care in every detail. Insure the welfare of YOUR eyes by consulting our opticians as to the necessity of preserving their strength. OMAHA, DENVER, SALT We Make Switches to Order from Combings. Our Prices in Port land. Our Work We Guarantee the Best. New Goods Every Day i''Hairri"-l:&f,r'1 $2.45 shows His Majesty in a pleasing light. 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