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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1916)
TITE MORNING' OREGONIAIT, TnUKSDAT, AUGUST 24, 1916. GRANT LANDS NOT SUBJECT TO ENTRY Secretary Lane Issues Warn ing Against Schemes of So-Called Locators. NO PRIOR RIGHT POSSIBLE CALIFORNIA HEIRESS WHO IS WEDDED TO ENGLISH EARL. 3SSZ22: Action Under Congress' Bill Must Be Carried Out Before Lands Can Bo Filed On Money Spent for Location Wasted. OREGONIAN' NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington, Aug. 23 Secretary of the In terior Lane tonight made the following statement: "Lands within the Oregon & Cali fornia Railroad grant are not yet open for entry and settlement and will not be open until they have been duly restored in the manner directed by Congress under such rules and regula tions as may be adopted. In the mean time, it is utterly useless for any person to attempt to acquire any pref erence right upon any of these lands. There is no method or manner by which any filing can be made that would give any preference right for the purchase or acquirement of any of these lands", or of any right whatever which can be respected by the depart ment. When the lands have been clas sified, public notice will be given from time to time fixing and defining the terras upon which the lands are to be disposed of and the time of their dis position. "The attention of the department has been called to the fact that there are already at work in the field locators who are saying that through their services preference rights can be se cured for the payment of a small fee. The department desires at this time again to warn the public that no such preference right can be obtained at this time and that any money paid to such locators will undoubtedly be money thrown away. "It is the policy of the department that when the lands are ready to be thrown open for settlement and entry, the public is to be notified so that every one will have an equal oppor tunity and an equal chance. This policy will be strictly adhered to. Jt ? I - 0T , - 1 .: J "Ml' III 4 1 ... Ill i ' m : - Ml ' Mf-i;x ,r . v. M Wlf ff JL& W " " ' i W III - ' ' Jv? Mr I - ' 'Jr EXPLORER ON WAY FROM GRQGKERLAND Ensign Green Expected to Tell Whether Land Peary Saw Was Real or Mirage. NO REPORT IS YET MADE COISTESS COTTEXHAM,' FORMERLY PATRICIA 'BUBJvEX CARLTON HAS HOTTEST DAY Grain Ripens Rapidly and Good Yields Are Reported.. CARLTON, Or.. Aug. 23. (Special.) Today has been the hottest of the season and is real harvest weather. The Jate sown grain Is ripening rapid ly and if three weeks of good weather continues the harvest will be over in that time. All small grains are yielding well and several reports of wheat going 40 bushels per acre have come in. The best yield so far reported Is from the farm of C. L. French west of town. He had 17 acres of oats that yielded 10 sacks that average 90 pounds or nearly three bushels per sack, and three acres of wheat from which he got 100 sacks that weigh over two bushels per sack. This was on ground that had been in clover for the past two years. SNOW IS STILL IX MOUNTAIN'S In Timbered Sections Depth Is, Re ported Unusually Great. ALBANT, Or.. Aug. 23 (Special.) For the first time in many years, deep snow remains late in August in tim bered sections of the Cascade Moun tains of this section of the state. Usual ly early in this month and always by the end of it, snow practically has vanished from all of the timbered sec tions of the mountains and remains only on the snow-capped peaks. But guards of the Forest Service and travelers in the mountains report there is yet deep snow in many places in the mountains and from present in dications some of It will remain all sea son. Vhe fact that much more snow than usual fell last Winter and the unusually cool Summer have combined to produce this almost unprecedented condition. BEAUTY WEDS EARL Patricia Burke, California Girl, Now Countess Cottenham. FATHER REPUTED WEALTHY Before Going East Miss Burke Won Beauty Contest, Later Figuring in Social Life In New York for Time. ' " NEW YORK, Aug. 23. (Special.) Patricia Burke,' a noted California beauty, is another American girl who has married an English title. She is now the Countess Cottenham, having been married to the Earl of Cottenham in London on August 16. The Countess' father is John Hum phrey Burke, a land valuation expert of Los Angeles reputed to be a million aire. She won a beauty contest in Los An teles a few years ago and then came East and figured in New York social life for a time. She was reported at one tinte engaged to Prince Ludivico Pignatelli, a fortune-hunter who has married since another wealthy Ameri can. Before leaving Los Angeles she fol lowed literary work and was employed on a newspaper there. The first wife of the Earl ot Totten ham killed herself accidentally when hunting three years ago. ROAD FUND IS III DOUBT OFFICIALS WONDER IF FEDERAL ACT PROVIDES FOR Y. threshold of his completion of a half century of life. "What is my greatest ambition?" he repeated in a low, meditative voice. "To see my boys do the best they can in the world. I think the father In man kind is the strongest attribute of every individual man." "And what ambition after that?" "Well, it is much the same, only in a broader sense. After all, the man who is chosen to govern a Nation, a state or a city is a father in a broad sense of all the people he is called to serve. Just now I want to do for the boys for the children of Seattle what I want to do for my own boys. I want them all to have the best chance pos sible. with the least obstruction to their progress. . "It is a fine thing to be whipped when you are on the wrong side, and it is a finer thing to get it into your blood that the whipping was deserved. and get over on the right side. Since I now have the law behind me. I am making the best fight I know how to make to give the coming generation a better chance than we had. I want to help hurry the time of National pro hibition. I want to see the whole world dry." HAM DECISION COSTLY PACKERS WILL LOSE 1,000,000 YEARLY BY RULING. Charge lor Containers at Meat Prices Held Law Violation by Judice In Yonkers Court. Heavy Frost Hits Garfield County. POME ROY, Wash.. Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) The Valentine country in Gar field County was visited by a heavy frost last Friday night, the first oc currence of the kind at this period of the season within the last 32 years, according to Ed Malone. EXPLOSION JV1AY BE FATAL Fire of. Unknown Cause Injures Marshfield Man. MARSHFIELD, Or.. Aug. 23. (Spe cial. ueorge iratt was dragged from the Jay Doyle cleaning and repairing shop this evening, following an ex plosion which he could not explain. In a serious condition. Mr. Pratt was working alone in the building, sup posedly cleaning clothing. Passersby saw a puff of flames and the windows were shattered. The build ing at once became a furnace of fir and the men who were near caught Mr. Pratt just as he was stumbling from the inferno. He was burned on the face, arms and body above the waist and was taken to the home of his father, V. O. Pratt, where it is be lieved he will not survive. The young man could not tell how the accident happened. The building was gutted, but the fire did not com municate to other buildings near. Twelve MUea of Highway Would Have to Be Built to Connect With Two Other. THE DALLES. Or.. Aug.' 23. (Spe cial.) Secretary J- W. Brewer, of the Chamber of Commerce, is collecting in formation regarding' an appropriation for construction of a road from the proposed link road in 'the Mount Hood forest reserve. This spur is shown in the guide maps of the Columbia Gorge Park and Ore gon National forest and leaves the Gov ernment Camp road at Mount Lookout and will connect with the automobile road to the Meadows from this city. The spur forms a Y. one connecting with The Dalles road at the Meadows and the other with the road leading to Dufur over the old Barlow trail. It will mean about 12 miles of road con struction. The question at present interesting the good roads advocates here is whether this connecting spur was In eluded in the appropriation for building the connecting link of the forest re serve road from Government Camp around Mount Hood up to Mount Hood Lodge in the upper Hood River Valley where the forest reserve road will join the regular Hood River Valley road. Already special taxes have been voted for improving the road to Mount Hood flat, and T. A. Sammis is giving time and funds to improve the road in that section. YONKERS. N. Y., Aur. 23. A fine of 100 imposed on Swift .& Co., meat packers, by City Court Judge Joseph H. Beall, carried with it a decision, which will cost the country's meat packers 1,000,000 a year, if approved by the higher courts, according to their at torneys. Judge Beall found the packers guilty of having violated the law by charging for meat containers at the same rate as for the meat they contained. It was charged that the company had sold ham -weighing 11 pounds six ounces, in a container weighing six ounces and charged for 11 pounds, 12 ounces of meat The company's defense was that the hams are not classed as ordinary meats and that the buyer knows he is paying mat pri!s for paper containers. FAIR TO AUCTION POULTRY Each Kxliibitor at Salem Slay Enter Any Number of Birds. SALEM. Or., Aug. 23. (Special.) An auction sale of any or all birds in the poultry exhibit at this year's State Fair has been decided on by Superintendent "Fulmer. This sale will be the first to be held at the fair, and is believed to be the first to be held in the North west. Under the conditions of the sale, any exhibitor has the privilege of en tering as many birds as he sees fit. The plan has shown good results in the Last. Another innovation this season is the , manner of judging birds. They will be judged oy comparison, not strictly ac cording to points scored. Fifty-Seven Pheasants Released. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 23. (Spe elal.) L. H. Darwin. State Fish Com missioner, brought 67 pheasants here Tuesday and turned them over to J. M. HofT, county game warden. These game birds, raised at the experiment station at Walla Walla, will be re leased in this county and be protected. HI GILL IS 50 YEARS OLD SEATTLE MAYOR DECLARES HE WANTS ENTIRE WORLD DRY. Unique Northwest Character Says H Ambition Now la to Make World Better Place. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 23 (Special.) niram c. Gill is 50 years old to day, it. is proDable that no one individual In the city is so familiar to all the people from all standpoints as the present Mayor of Seattle. He has been for a decade the central figure in one ol the most terrific battles waged by tactions divided on vital question or civic me that America has known. "Hi Qill was for a time the leading figure on one side, and Hiram C. Gill is now the leadmr figure on the othe side. He has faced about completely, surrendered all his former following, and won a most enthusiastic following from those who were for a time hi bitterest foes. Ho was interviewed today, on the Xaval Officer, After Tliree Years in Arctic, Is Safe at Copenhagen ' Whether Land Is 3Iyth to Bo llevealed on Arrival. WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. Ensign Fitzhugh Green; the American naval of ficer assigned to the McMillan-Crocker-land Arctic expedition, has reported his safe arrival a't Copenhagen on Au gust 19 to the Navy Department, but has made no report on whether the expedition found Crockerland or of the whereabouts of McMillan and the other scientists in the party. Green announced his arrival from three years of Arctic exploration in a brief cable saying he would proceed to Washington unless instructed to the contrary. The Navy Department late last night ordered him home, but made no request for further reports of the success of the expedition. Admiral Peary Concerned. The National Geographic Society, its officers say. has no connection with the expedition and knows nothing of the results. Rear-Admiral Peary, who reported his discovery of Crockerland in July, 1906, is at his Summer place in Maine. When, in the Fall of 1914, the McMillan expedition reported, it had not yet been able to find the con tinent the Admiral reported having seen from Cape Thomas Hubbard, Admiral Peary remained unconvinced and ex pressed belief that it would be located. Representative Helgeson, of North Dakota, who has been active in support of Dr. Frederick Cook in the polar controversy, raised such an objection some time ago to Crockerland's being shown in the Navy hydrographlc charts that it was removed, awaiting contir mation of the discovery. Navy Department's Interest NIL Green was attached to the expedition at the request of the American Museum and at his own solicitation. The Navy Department has no interest in the ex pedition other, than to further sci entific research generally. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Officials of the American Museum of National His tory said today they had as yet re ceived no word from Ensign Fitzhugh Green. Jerome Lee Allen, of Iowa, the wire less operator of the McMillan expedi tion. declined to discuss here reports that the expedition had decided Crock erland was only a mirage, but brought word that relief had been sent from Denmark to other members of the Mc Millan party and the Hovey expedition, which first went to the relief of Mc Millan in the auxiliary schooner. George B. Cluett. Denmark Expected Soon. The party from the Cluett, inoluding Dr. E. O. Hovey and Thompson Comer, an experienced Arctic explorer, located the McMillan party near Etah, Green land, late last Fall, Allen said, after an unusually hard trip in which the schooner had to be abandoned at North Star Bay. The McMillan party was found in dire want. Members of both expeditions then returned to the Cluett. In January Allen, Ensign Green and Dr. Hovey started on a 1300-mile dog sledge journey across Greenland to get assistance, but Hovey caught a severe cold after traveling about 60 miles and had to return. After two months hard traveling the sledge party reached Egedsminde, a Danish settlement, and took a steam ship for Denmark. Subsequently the steamship Denmark was dispatched to relieve those remaining near the Cluett. all of whom were well. Allen said, when he left. It was stated today by the museum officials that the Denmark was ex pected to reach some Scandinavian port in about a month. 'V'?- " - ' ; ," ' ." . - - " 11 " " -s- ' 'i ' ?-t$-i'-w ' ': -- ' --- ' ' " ' " ' " " - - . .- ADMIRAL CRON AN AND STAFF Have Selected the O-W. R. R. & N. STEAMER -LL O aJ o POTTER as Flagship to Carry Admirars Party to the TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL it A TThinn a mm Hi mm A SEPTE1MBER 1, 2, 3, AND 4 From Ash-Street Dock, 9 P. 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Freight teams are already busily engaged in hauling grain from all directions. grade crossing over the Pacific High way near Divide have been submitted to the Public Service Commission. At this point R. A. Root and a party of six were struck by a train last week and received serious' injuries. Tho Commission has authorized the County Court of Gilliam County to construct a road over the O.-W. R. & N. Co.'s tracks at Klalock. Fatal Crossing: to Bo Eliminated. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 23 (Special.) Plans for the construction of an under- Ess! It . ;KiP H H TRACKED btj-tfio B of tiio 11 H FisH Rubber Com- pjl . ( . ) pa.nu And thoiif EM Hj ,sventoen uoary ofoxeri- Ipj onco in lTiai-ixirvcturin fgjgi tpl . oniu tfio luliost gv2uslo' ' .t 3 pnoumatic tiros P la- Mlfffi Fist Tires Far Sale By Jll Dealers iS I fp The Fisk Rubber Company 9 Sa 11 V 'j . oiN.Y. IMM ff vl U General Office : Chicopee Falls, Mai. ' Kpl . Portlandranch 54 North Broadway ) lofsl VMJL ' Tim toRlr? 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