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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. No Interest, no taxes. 10 dis
count for cash. Title insured and guaran
teed by the uovernment or urmsn Colum
bia, which owns one quarter of the town
site. Only those who act quickly trill be
able to ouy at nrst cost.
Nat nra 1 Rnonrrei Security Co., Ltd.,
-112 Winch Bids- Vancouver, B. C.
Habits Positively
Cnred. Only anthorired KeeleT In
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Barettes
Hair Nets
Hair Pins
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Hair Store
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Special
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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
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shows His Majesty in a pleasing light.
A Paris entertainer was at Brussels
and the King, who was Indisposed, sent
for her to read to him Racine's 'An
dromache." The lady obeyed the summons with
misgivings, but she was soon unde
ceived. For two hours the King lis
tened to the reading. The tender pas
sages seemed, so the lady says, to
make the least Impression upon His
Majesty, but frequently during the
heavier parts he interrupted the read
ing to observe. '"Racine is a powerful
writer." or a similar comment.
Toward the end a court attendant
announced the arrival of some visitors
who had an appointment. The King
turned to the reader and said: "You
finish. If you please, mademoiselle."
and to the attendant he observed: "Ask
the ladles to wait. Tell them the King
Is engaged with an Ambassador."
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Portland, Or.
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