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Dragon Historical Society PO 'Ti.AHD TWICE A WEEK ROSEBURG PLAINDEALER Vou XXXV ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1903. No; GO VERY ROTTEN LAND METHODS SECRETARY HITCHCOCK .AND HIS MAN FRIDAY , ! JOBBING HONEST CITIZENS flf . THEIR EIGHT TO TIMBER ENTRY. During "fte past month, through the manipulation of Secretary Hitch cock aaSlife special agents, tbe Xand Office at Heseburg has been tie place where citizens of the United States have beenield np and robbed under the gnise of law by the forced col lection of fees not contemplated by the law .and for which there is not even dhe -shadow of law. This graft has been, put in practice and money extorted.from victims who do not know :their rights or the -law in the case made and provided. Women haveheen most outrageously insulted and ihemeaned by inanisitorial -star chamber, proceedings and the .method pursued, in many cases would have been. a- disgrace to a ienth .rate un derstrapper to the Czar of Russia. If fcheireports hsre-tf-f ore published about tthe disgraceful .affair are true Secretary Hitchcock xnt to .be thrown outtof .the President's cabinet bodily. If fee persons sxrare lalsely to the statements made and published .they ougjit.tobe plaoftd in the peniten tiary. JThere is no getting around LUC JUCOUiiiUUUii AZJAU ICUUiUS uc either .true or fake. The Plaixdeal er did not believe the reports until the editor saw and head a proceed ing that would have disgraced a gut ter snipe bum if he had been guilty of such conduct Eut the past is past, hut. to show the bald .hypocricy J of Secretary Hitchcock and InV double dealing with land .affairs, we osity ol simon pure damp fool- . . . .lshness snouia be saved to the world state: He nas sest to the brotber shonld be exceeding- spemlagsntsfrom ins &partaentp topxevem ciuas. i xd -tea CMn,t,lml, wo,t . . XiC raLxaiu luab uauujo ucun: turn mitted and yet he and his agents practice fraad in their attempt land. Tiered millions of dollars at stake in the timber Pacific coast and the lands of the r.,L err thiertothemanwhowante to . chase 160 acres only means that the W. TnonnnnliM land is wanted so that iiiuiitf tiiris-. f . - railroads and combines steal it political and honeft measures, and management of land affairs than the olazon effrontery oi land tneits m times past. Npw regarding citizens taking up ; T.imnAr inTino r.hprA is n npr.iRinn m w' . the United States Circuit court, affirmed by the Supreme court of the tt j L-J 630 Fed Z No X Z shoi5d j Priced SrlS be they are righi f.?and Hitchcock et al wrong. We set Mr. Hitchcock and his lick-skillets thinking. The judges of the Supreme court in affirming the lower courts decision say: "The statute does not by its terms assume to obligate a person who ac quires a title to lands under it to keep the land, or to control his use or right to dispose of them for any period of time after he shall have complied with its provisions in per fecting his right to it. The law goes no further than to prohibit entries by persons who have prior to the filing of their applications bound themselves by contracts." The Land Office has a right to en quire of the applicant if he has en tered into a contract to dispose of the land before tiling, but by the de j cision printed above all inquiry must stop there. i Since the Plaixdealeu commenced to expose the vicious and intenselv demoralizing inquisitorial questions j cand insults offered American women in the land office by a man who mast be II 4- a It li.- r wxm i 4- i institution where cerebellum degen- i i eracy, infirmity or ignorance is treat-' ed, or maybe he is posing as a candi-, date for initation into the hidden j mysteries of a distillation of bitumen ' and the effect it has on the human I anatomy in causing the hair bulbs 0fi the epidermis to sprout leathers the svstem has been toned down a little There is a regular examination and cross examination blank to be filled in by applicants to purchse timber land but those blanks have been practically set aside :and the follow - ing questions taken from a sheet of waste bad office paper shows what kind of ears tbe critter flops that asks such questions: What do you intend to do with the land and the timber thereon! How long do von expect to keep the land? Do you expect to sell it at a profit? Why do yon expect to purchase the tract of land? Do you intend to cut the timber thereon yourself or do you intend to have some one else to cut it? The questions are foolish and ab - surd and their only possible use would be to attempt to entangle tbe applicant in his answers so that the . ,. .... , ..r 'luwimnn 11mm lvi mic mucmu jj. they were got np by Hitchcock he ought to take hinder garten instruc- tion. If they are the prolific eniana - t tions from an over educated brain i the author needs a pad set in his j chair to protect his cerebrum from ' pinmiccinn Rnnfc a rinn?nrrcif t nf . .,, miTor ai. - '"'""" - " - " " nal eclipse. The use of a double il ,,. ...... , jpxatecnonto tas urain is strongly ! iirtr.-xl lmf. the tnr-tim hif nro K - - i iioseourg iana umce tiar vnamDer iJ0 fJ &eli4iiiff down of aU I tliP fcnl nnpqrirtn it is af nnm tne icoi queaiions it Jo as once aeen I that ttere is alter aU mtnod in the - -t;X SSTS falSS j v . - ..... 'IS WOrked LO the Utmoat limit Of en , . Wnsliino- ton who are responsible clearly give evidence of being rogues instead of 1 r-.i-i And now we no not want any jnan to suppose that the Plaindealed is standing in with the timber entry- t . n. . j-?.j i m in nanonca riT inti twi i pnvm irnm rr" "" " " , : that source. The facts are we stand I in with them because of the insulte i honnorf ttmrn thsm thp PYtnrtinn . . . stand in with them because we see and know the hollowness of the In - terior ifonartment and tbe Drafts of law. So far as the fees are con-; cerned we have taken in in five ( months about thirty dollars i, and this; has been done to bring the Plain- : dealer to supplicate for pap and j while the officials have cut off the' clabber they like a sow, have wallow- ed jn political mud and laid down for theruntiest snig of a democratic meat from the land office. A MYSTERIOUS HALLUCINATION A PASSENCER DREAMS A i VIVID DREAM. THE BODY OF IDA PACE IS SEEN Clunll mlLtO AWAY "There are more things than are dreamed of m our philosopy" may not be tbe exact quotation from Ham- let but as we have not the book at band to verify the quotation we will , proceed with the ghost story. In our last issue we mentioned the fact that -a passenger, when near ! Leland told Conductor Kearney that i he had -seen a strange sight, but we j were unable to verify the statement j On Saturday the Plaixdealer called ! up Conductor Kearney and asked him 'to make a statement regarding the i statement as published in the Plain- j dealer and local papers. He stated J that Professor Campbell of Mon- j mouth, was on the train and got , off at MeJford taking a vacation trip to Crater Lake, that when near Le- 3 land, .between nine and ten o'clock Tuesday night, the Professor told him that he had seen the body of ja woman lying beside the railroad track near Roseburg. He then went ion and described the exact locality 'and surroundings where the body was jsow me mysterious part 01 mis ' ghost dream is the 'Professor did not , tell Conductor Kearney what brand of ' brain food he was eating which -siim- elated the brain to such an extent that lie .raw visions of the dead. When the train which conveyed Pro- r t.ii x il. a i iWre ie said he saw the body -of a woman, iio 1- ha mnnm vQ cr at the railroad depot in Roseburc carnival of crime exhibitors; -but last ( .JlZJItle placed on the boards a ,.., , xue sfcEJCtt rwoseuurKau went w i thesDos where Professor CamDbell " w the dead -body. From all indica il. i it j u. ri I iiuuti luc eiucx. ume uliuu -iua re j Jay down or was laid down where the ... .. body was afterward found was after noov was anerwaro ionno was aiier i 1 t -i i n. 4. n mne 0 clock, k it possible that Pro- fessor Cairnbell like Professor Enircne uiiumu , ? lianddvnamitefeat. It is now time for TT f""!' r ?w 1 f w so xeausuc mat nfi tnougnt ne naa coon tnn nn If ha ana- iha body 1 t,'.-:J. a. x , ...tas the Mecca of Crooks. track why did he not raise an .immediate alarm? Why wait for .at least .three and one-i half hours before he told Conductor Kearnev? if ie aetuallv saw a corpse beside the track, where is that corose? If he drained & dream it is a pity that he had not laeen ' . . , x, . ., ........ ... a little more brain food bo that all the cir- a ....A'A.r.A I . ... . ingpeaceful death by carbobc acid eulo have been accounted for. What tuuifcujucea leauiuir uu w xhm eiueeu - that thafc inam M 1 , , , , , c rereal the form and 6Se noj. 0 man who was at the river side on Tuesday afternoon and . Tuesday night. What a pity that thatvision had not token in thej , , . , . , u, whole surroundings so that no doubt , could have existed in the mind of the , public and forever settled the question 0f murder or suicide. But putting ' Me all H hfc words the factg stated by Conductor Kearney, who commu- nicated to the north bound conductor what he had been told by Professor Campbell shows that there is a mys terious dispensation of providence and that the book of rememberance is somewhere and somehow photo graphed and that visions which to one man are nothing but mist, in some cases, to others are the actual events of photographed life. Panic In New York. Last weeks transactions in Wail street were not rainbow hued as there were about a score of failures among . the dealers in stocks, bonds and mort gages. For years past railroad and ', other stocks have soared and were j rated at two and three times their i actual worth, and the original owners "Each and every person who shall who sold out at exceedingly high deal, play, or carry on, or open or canse prices and took in the gold now want . to opened, or who shall conduct,. to purchase the stock back again at ei?h"" er' PP emP ... .. . , whether for hire or not, any game of about one-half what they sold it for. . ar0i monUjf ronettef rouge-et-noir Uns- The market value of stocks and bonds quenette, rondo, vinpt-um (or twenty- in the past week in Wall street has one), poker, draw poker, brag, bla shrunk hundreds of millions of dollars : tbaw-un' or y banking or other game- i ..1 .:.t. i .1: .i i : and most fortunate was the man who , ,, . , . ... whether the same shall be played fer- succeeded m selling out at high tide moaey, checks, credits, or any other prices. With a money squeeze in New representative of value, shall be guilty York it will take about twelve months of a felony, and upon conviction there- before the grip will be fully realized in Oregon, but we may as well realize today that the country has reached the highest state of prosperity in speculative values and that from this time on until the Presidential election is fully settled that capital s going to be verv careful in investment Quaker Quacks at Eugene. Eugene is going through the throes ' case and the Washington Supreme of the Quaker Qnzc'is convulsion. ' court has sustained the constitution Ripe eggs are used and the officers ality of the law and ordered the man are kept busy arresting and turning ' to serve out his time in the peaiten innocent men loose. The quj cks sue- tiary. The enforcement of the Wash ceed in holding ' the crowd and sell ington gambling law is what has their nostrums and faith cure medicines caused the hundreds of desperate bv the hundreds of dollars every characters to locate in Orerron. night. Pity for Portland. For months past, the crooks who have been doing such fine work in Portland and Seattle in the holds-up and jobbery line, have set a red hot pace between the two cities in the i novelty stunt that is entitled to take I . V -""Don np to mis time, sate ' Jl 1 t ! 1 ...... 1 r, - !"' , 1 h ntrftfc imort n rdmi rrnrti enfrt fm 1 took it 200 yards where thev drilled . . .. , , .4 , - , , holes into it and onened it bv exn mi . ... - mS dynamite in presence 01 a lot Of .f. - , . . .. , Portlan'1 go Seattle one better or for Ortgonian, Telegram and . . 4 . I " fiuuiiuii iu iuti uuvci iianig x ortianu Portlandcr in London. The police have seized several pieces , 01 s"verware belonging to the Rev. ! R- W- Farabar, of Portland, Or., and h-1 Gaston, who at one time lived "cago, two American tax-payers TIT 11 . . ' T A 4 i , 1 m "imDieuon, wno were the i iirar t r inin t r r nnrri wA.'tanfrnHOM f L. ! It . lliiJU Ml IU1U L11C IKL.1 rz I r.M.MJl III movement against the education act. Th was sold at auction to sati- i - - ' fy the rates, amounting to a few shillings, which they refused to pay. , The pieces include wedding gifts and c.hurch Presents made to them in the Umted States- At Duward, Mich., on Friday morn- ing an air brake refufiing tQ ork Qn the second section of Wallace Bros., circua train caused a rear-end collision with the first section in the yards of the Grand Trunk Railroad, in which 23 people were killed outright and more than a dozen injured. WASHINGTON CAMBLINC LAW; IS DECLARED TO BE CONSTITUTIONAL 1 1 IS AS SHORT AND SWEET AS A DONKEY'S CALLOP. .0, snal1 te punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than three years." Washington's New Law. One old gambler in Washington was induced for a consideration to be the stool pigeon of the professional gamblers to test the Washington gambling law. He gambled, was ar rested and sentenced to one year in Ithe penitentiarv. He appealed his Fighting in norocco-. According to a dispatch from Mellilia, Morocco, a fight has taken place between French and Moorish troops near the village of Beni-Fa tt The Moors, who were pursuing a body of Kacvle insurgents, entered French ! territory in spite of the protests of 'the French frontier posts. Three Trench and two Moorish soldiers were - , killed, and a number were wounded. Tonsorial Artfats; Portland im - : 1 "nu and Salem are at war. Tho tmfv r u b """; Vi cavu ciiymtne barber lino irool,Wnn 0-0 Ior a necK sftare an e pot is call- iB the kettle black. That confeder- ated lishness. known a the Barbers .t.iWiuio iui mtr extra nve cent graft and well, we may as well pay the extra price of one- follv. Coos Bay (lets $i0,000. The secretary of war has just noti- i 1CU nermann in reply- , to an earnest request submits based on the petition of the Coos j Bay Chamber of Commerce, that he- has just apportioned ten thousand dollars as an emergency aid for the removal of obstruction in the naviga tion of Coos Bay occasioned by the- recent lormation of a shoal in the channel which delays loaded vessels of deep draft in their outward pass age. To wait until Congress meets; to pass an appropriation would have increased the difficulty, as the ahoaL is constantly enlarging, and the pres ent large commerce of the Bay would have suffered greatly had not the Department made use of the fund at its disposal in cases of emergency.