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undccthaAct of Congress of March 8,18.0.
HURSDAY September 13, 1906
THE AWAKENING.
If there has ever been any
lingering doubt in the mind of
the public of the existence of a
well-organized gang o; land
thieves iti the state of Oregon,
that doubt is forever dispelled
by the startling disclosures in
' the. Jsiue Mountain Reserve
case, which has been on trial in
the federal court at Portland
during the past two weeks.
Even, those sycophant news
.papers which have been crying
"persecution" and trying to
mould public opinion into the
belief that innocent men were
being sacrificed, to. the displeas
ure of an irate Secretary of the
Interior, must now be silent in
the face of as complete a story
of deliberate and organized
crime as the records of our wes
tern courts hold.
. Puter's story of the opera
tions of this "Inner Circle" of
Oregon's land thieves a plain
unvarnished tale of graft, of
public office used to further
jprivate ends, of public officials
corrupt and corrupting others
in their lust for wealth has the
ring of truth to it, and it will be
believed. Taken alone there
might be some hope that it was
not true, but it fits and dove
tailuinto the political history
of the state for a generation
jjastin snch a manner as to
command belief, illumining as
it does those dark by-ways into
whioh the land frauds and
other forms of graft led that
faction which has dominated
Oregon politics for so long a
period. Mitchell, Hermann,
Williamson, Mays, Brownell,
Hall all were necessary parts
of a well-constructed machine,
working smoothly in the com
mon cause of robbing the gov
ernment and the people of vast
areas of their priceless timber
lands.
Small wonder that the govern
ment went out of Oregon for a
Heney to investigate and pros
ecute the land irauds of this
state, where public office was
.used but for the furtherance
of these schemes of wholesale
.robbery. And still less won
,der at ,the opposition his ap
pointment aroused. Better far
to have some one of their own
naming, whom if thvy could
not corrupt the' could destroy
for both processes were a
part of their stocK in trade.
, Their undoing win the Je
suit of that selfishness which is
the dominant characteristic ol
,inen whose money-lust leads
.them into the devious ways of
.crime. Puter, in the toils, re
,Jied upon that "honor among
thieves" which has ever been a
.Stumbling-block in the path of
.Justice, and appealed to his
erBtwhile companions in crime
.for help. A paltry thousand
dollars would have kepi hiwi
oyal and quiet. But they,
relying upon his fear of self
incrimination, forgot that the
spirit of "get even" sometimes
.overcomes even the spirit of
, caution, and as a result all
rtheir corrupt practices, their
, betrayal of'the public trust, the
-corrupting, and debauching of
the people's servants, is Jaid
bare.", What a revenge for Pu
tori What a fall,for those
. whom the stntojias hqpored. in
l the past! What a shame for
Oregon!
tKe dalles HOSPITAL
An Institution of Which Eastern dra
gon Is Justly Proud.
Few moulcal lustltUtlouB In Oregon
havo had ttio suioess of Tho Dalles
Hospital over since Ha eatnbllshmnut
by jjnetnrb Ferguson and Reutor. Few
have So rapidly witied and bo (Irmly
held the confidence of tho uQIIuted and
suffering publlo, aud for none are the
prospects of a bright and useful future
ho evident, or bo well merited. Thla
Institution, .beautifully and health
fully situated on a commanding bluff,
besides being nn orunmeut to the city,
la most lu&pirlug to the uaturally de
pressed patients, and strongly conduc
ive to tbolr recovery.
Tho building Is heated In cold
weather by the most Improved system
of "hot air;" the ventilation a most
important feature or hospital life le
simply perfeot, and, by a skillful me
chanical devloe, tho oppressive heat of
summer and the stuffy atmosphere
can be most refreshingly cooled and
reduced t the proper hygienic tern
perature. A corps of well-trained
nurses, under a skilled superintendent
minister to tho patients and leave
nothing uudoue to relievo their suffer
ing and advance their recovery. The
maternity-obstetrical department is
unsurpassed by any Institution in tho
country and its success Is best nttested'
by the fact that there has been no
fatality In this class of cases in Tho
Dulles IIopital.
The "surgery" is equal to anything
on the coast. At a cost of about 5SUO0
this has been -equipped with all the
modern appliances, and the latest do-
vices for successful surgical treatment; j
the floors, glass tables for instruments,
anastbetics aud surgical dressings;
marble and porcelain sinks are lta fur
ulshings. The operating table is a
porcelain slab resting on a steel frame
No wood or other substance that could
poFsiby be the seat of germ or septic
infection has place there, even the
eceptacles for the. sponges and hand
solutions are nickel aud porcelain
plated.
The sterilizing room, an annex or
the surgery aud a vital feature of pru-
deut and successful hospital treatment
is one of whioh The Dalles Hospital
may well be proud. In this room, by
a syBtem of boiling nnd steaming, in
struments, towels, sponges, aprons
and even the blankets ure thoroughly
cleansed, and infection from these but
too often dangerous sources, rendered
absolutely impossible. The precau
tious taken by the doctors when about
to perform au operation are remark
able.
Under a liberal flow of pure water
from a fauoet operated by a foot lever,
the hands are thoroughly cleansed
with soap, then antiseptic solutions
are used and rubber gloves immedi
ately put on and the operator is ready
for work. A good hospital, well equip
ped and skillfully aud conscientiously
managed is an incalculable boon to
any community, and the general opin
ion is that The Dalies Hospital comes
up to the high standard.
Incited by the unexampled success
of The Dalles Hospital aud the Incalcu
lable benefit It has been to the people
of Wasco, Sherman, Crook, Wheeler
and In fact all of the Eastern Oregon
counties, the people of Condon, Marsh-
Held and Roseburg arc looking toward
tho establishment of similar institu
tions in their respective localities.
But in The Dalles Hospital such a
high standard litis been set that sue-
1 est fill imitation or rivalry will be
very difllcult indeed. Unquestionably
many a life could be saveu and much
intense suffering alleviated If only the
poor ufllieted could receive prompt at
tention and skillful medical treatment
such, treatment and care and attend
ance as hocpitals alone afford. An
other feature of local hospital life is
that the patient is closer to home and
more accessible to tho ewect and en-
lourairinir visits of relatives ami
friends.
During the past year the hospital
has been unable to accommocatc all
who applied for treatment, therefore
the management was forced to en
l.trge" Tho addition Is just now com
pleted and Increases the -capacity In
l.eds, and by a few slight oliaugen 10
more can be added. This makes a
total of 33 beds in service with an ad
ditlonal 10 If required. Fire escapes
l.ave not been overlooked and all pre
cautions have been taken for the cafety
of the patients.
Drs. Ferguson and Renter may well
be proud of their work, and every
progressive hospital will do well to
e'nuiate their example.
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with hayrack, two two-year-old maie colts
(on range), one Durham cow, one jersey
cow. For particulars address or call on
F. J. Brooks, Madras, my agent. J. A
Messinger.
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For Rent.
Three hundred and sixty acres, Jocated
7 miles east of Madras; 135 acres under
cultivation, 350 acres tillable. Will lease,
for a term ot years, or by the year, on
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Dty FarmingThe Hope of the West
A Method of Producing Bountiful Crops, Withoui Irrigation,
In Semi-arid Regions;
Ma
Tb. ..now,,,,,. u. , j. -jsija"rsSw
. . . it... imil manful
Company. It contains mticn moni k -
methods ot dry farming, most on.urMiiiiiigij ......
.ill rttfldi rdsirvnil.)
seaboard ;
that there Is oitmili land now utilised
if at. all. only for griming, tomakop'W
Bible the trebling or qiMdrupllngnf Jn
i.iuK.'iit farming poptiatl..ii or tin
V lilted States; that oiiiwI.Im of ooiupar
atlvcly small arctiH In Wi-i-rii Texas
itiiil In p.-rtlniiMof U1a.l1, Neviida. Art
bona, ldrtho, YVjomlng. South D.iUnU
and Foulheiii C'llifoiiilti. I hero Is Utile
ard.le Und In Hie great Vt that tuny
not bo dlvideiMii'o foiiy nero f.irin.
each one of whioh wHI he opable of
supporting tv average sized family.
The United Stales Depurtunnit "I
Agriculture, the governments of the
various States in whioh vuuai.t publ r
lands are located, and the erent trail
continental mIIioiuIh owning land
grants, have awakened to n realization
of the Importation of "dry farming" or
suientlflc soil culture, which mean
more to the people "f the United Htates
than do all of tho costly Irrigation pro
jeettj now under way or projuuted lor
the future.
Estimate of tile amount of land
that can bo reclaimed, by Irrigation
vary all f he, way fri m 60,000,000 acre.i
up to 125,000,000 hch-n with Urn
weight of authoritative oplnlo'i decid
edly favoring the lower figure. Yt If
one per eeni of the money now being
expended for Irrigation works wer
madu available for the education of
the people who otiv'ht to be Interested
In dry farming, it la probable tliut live
hundred million acres of land-rper-hapi
mom 1l1n.11 that could tie re
claimed from Its present unproductive
and comparatively worthless state,
juctai rapidly as settlers, whether
native born or immigrants from for-
.... I ...m.t.lnu nnt.lil ... tt.lrj.ll fn It
Empire. With tho exception or wasn-1 -'k '., v........ ..-.. ... .
ingtou, Western Oregon, the northern j n i-i...u.ticu
half of California, and small portions wore of experiment stations, on hh
of Idaho.and Montana, the term Arid "m".v more inouej iiirnis iiia.imunc..
Amorlr.,.. I net tiling virtuallv all the by Western railroad, ami on nun-
inn.i hpttrppn tlm ono-hundredlli me-'dreds of private frius, that all that In
ri,il..n mill tin, l'acilic. Leavliic out of ' neeesHitry on the plains anil in Hie
consideration theportI011sth.it extend inter niotintain pi.rks and valleys Is
..nrr.m ilin Canadian and Mexican intelligently mi hikko 1110 iiiokv 01 tin
irnnvriBht IMC. t)v TliD Cciilury Company.
smiiis alomr tho Atlantic
is em iy uuu-iiiiiu ui .--v - -
of the United States, exclusive of Alas
ka nud our Insular possessions, eon
nlsts of vacant public lands regarded us
naturally unsnlted to cultivation on
account of Insufficient rainfall.
Tho vacant puljllo domain now con
sists of about 600,000.000 acres. Of
tills area, probably 70.000,000 acres are
absolute desert, of sand, alkali, rock,
Mini InhosPlthblo mountain peaks, on
which no useful vegetation is found,
and whioh will probably never
be of any cpnstderat.le economic value,
to mankind, excepting for their miner
al resources. Approximately 90.000,
0U0 acres may be deoribed as wood
land, sparsely covered witli trees, In
dividually of small value, but yet use
ful for firo wood, fenoo posts, mine
timbers nnd similar purposes; and
some 70,000,000 acres are heavily lim
bered and of Inestimable importance
to present and futuro generations, not
only for lumbering, but also for the
conservation of the water supply.
Possibly 70,000.000 acres may be re
claimed by irrigation, and thus
hrought to a high state of productive
ness. There, will then remain more
than 300,000,000 acres, useful, accord
ing to commonly accepted ideas, only
for grazing.
.However, tho vacant publlo land
comprise only a part of the region of
deficient rainfall, known hh Arid
America. To these must lie added the
great railroad grants, the allo.ment of
school lands to the several states, and
the princely domains that have pased
into the hands of private owners. In
Texas alone tl.ero is an area of unim
proved and uncultivated land almost
equal In extent to the whole German
boundary lines, it covers a territory
extendiug north and south for u ills-
taupe of 1200 miles, and east and west
for 1300 miles, embracing four-tenths
of the total area of tho republic, anil
containing not less than one thousand
million acres of land. To thla may
not improperly bo added the so-called
sub-humid region, between the ninety
seven tb and the one-hundredth merid
ians, iti which occusioual seasons of
Huffli-ient, or superabundant, rainfall
are followed by years of drought,
hen scorching winds shrivel up the
growing grains and grasses upon which
depend the hopes of the farmers Over
almost exactly one half the area of our
country, therefore, ihe rainfall is In
sufficient for the successful cultivation
of the ordinary crop plants by ordi
nary farming methods, at least. Ag
riculture, wherever attempted at all,
partakes of the nature of a hazardous
speculation, generally resulting In
disaster, or at best In a meager and
hand-to-mouth existence; aud grazing,
backed up by ample capital and re
sources, Is considered the only safe and
profitable pursuit. This vast area in
which grazing is the principal industry
extends over all or part of seventeen
Biales and Territories. In ten of
these, not more than two per cent ol
the laud Is under cultivation, aud the
population averages less than three to
the ivouare ni Ho
... If the unoccupied pullic
lands to which water can never be
taken by irrigation ditches could be
made as productive a- ordinary Wes
tern land under the ditch, they alono
would easily support a farming popu
lation of 35,000,000 souls. Tills Is
mor than the entire prasent farming
population of tho country. That Irri
gation alono can never furnish a satis
factory solution of tho problem pre
sented by arid and semi-arid lands of
the West Is proved by the fact that wers
every inch of the annual rajufall west
of the one-hundredth meridian con
served In storage reservoirs and dis
tributed to the best possible advantage,
nu area equal to one-fifth of tho total
land sin face of the country would re
main uusupplied.
Contrary to commonly accepted
ideas as the statement may be, It Is
nevertheless, an amply demonstrated
fact that wherever in tills great arid
empire tho annual rainfall averages us
high as twelvo inches, as good crops
can be raised without irrigation as
witli It. This means that almont every
aortoftho groat plalua between the
Missouri River and the Rocky Moun
tains, and most of the Intor mountuln
parks and plateaus between the
Rockies mid the Pacific, will produce
as abundantly hh will the rich prairie
lauds of Iowa. Mlwourl and Illinois,
and much more abundantly than the
rletmt bf the lands in any of tke older
rams aud snows that full in order to
grow as good crops as can be raised
anywheie. In other words, farmlmr
nit t hmls must be adapted to natural
conditions. This seems so simple ami
t-elf-evident that the only wonder Ik
that men have been so slow in finding
It out.
However, what I ho National De
purtuu-nt of Agriculture, the vnrlotis
state gOvertiiiibiit, and the great rail
road corporations have at last been
made to ml; has been demonstrated
every season for twenty years by Mr.
II. W. Cunpbell, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
the pioneer "dry farmer" of Arid
America. In scores of places from the
James River to the Arkansas he has
been uniformly successful in producing
withou'- Irrigation the same results
tliatiire ex peeled with irrigation, wiih
comparatively little additional ex
pense, but not without a great deal
more watchfulness and labor. What
Western people have become acciu-
turned to calling tho "Campbell y
tern of dry farming'' consists simply Ii
tho exereiae of Intelligence, care, pa
tlence and tireless Industry, It differs
in details from tho "good farming"
methods practised and taught ut the
various agricultural experiment sta
lions; but tho underlying pilnciples
are the saihe.
These principles are two in number.
First, to keep the surface of the lam:
under cultivation loose and finely pul
verized. Tills forms a soil mulch that
permits Hie rains and melting snows
to percolate readily through to (he
compacted soil beneath, and that al
tho same time prevents the moisture
storeti in the ground Irom belinr
brought to the surface by capillary at
traction, to bo absorbed by tho hot,
dry air. ihe second is to keep the
Bub-soil finely pulverized and firmly
compacted, Increasing its water-hold-
ing capacity and its capillary uttrao
lion, and placing It in tho best ponslble
physical condition for the germination
of seed and tho development of plant
roots, u tie "dry farmer" thus stores
water not In dams and artificial reser
voirs, hut right where It can bo
reachod by the roots of growing crops,
Through theso principles a rainfall
of twelvo Inches can bo conserved so
effectively that It will produce better
results than are usuully expected of
an unnual precipitation of twenty-four
lioiies In humid Amurica. Tho ills
coverer and demonstrator of lheo
principles deserves to ruuk among tho
grcutestof national benefactors. lio
has not merely mado two blades of
grass grow whoro only 0110 grew bo
fore, but he has made It possible to
cover with wheut and corn, alfalfa and
other UBoful cropi, ten of thouiauds
of square miles of fertile land on which
nothing but lage-brunti, cacti, Kausae
Bunflowen aud bunch-graw are bow
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