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f & 'iffl USE TIMES WANT ADS MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED TRESS. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1907. No. 34. VfaLV tfKf r lr T jy TEr iX ; STOI PRYQr yTKsieEST in !UL vWiBjJ'f QUs CEWTURY I T!tAPU 'dluCTBtif' ',V,,,K lo 1Inl,ul PQttli of Com- f 9 m 9 tliwMi IHIV y l"IeY.Piesent SFiife,Ecels ? lFI n'flLi'ivB- fP8!J wdikuut'. ? Ipf I J x I a I PT I vy r . . iT JSET AW B " Tw, g:lnt SPWajllns, tho West- t VauiP M -JzJL JP fi ern Unlo.ilaud Postal TV'egraph com- T (OF stiJF o U. S.JmorAr&iilis Peopia AgnsJB eMfi n g on Rajl- 1 .fnoT I Afco ? n,nnJ Iai8 f ISrV V wieyuw. i tfe a y um Lgr'ncoi o my nHiuiimus J ljf X. V f jK Trt Jf sriSr Qp!cliU Declines No One Cfin Claim U Title To Railroad inuh' Jl At Present. (Telegram.) That lawyers and timber locators are mulcting hundreds of people out of their money, with no prospect of ever giving them value received in procuring them to make application for lands covered by the Southern Pacific land grant, is asserted by United States Attorney Bristol. Money paid to these lawyers and locators, for locations upon and ap plications for railroad lands under the idea that It gives the applicants a prefertory right is nothing less than money thrown away, says Mr. Bristol, for the reason that no right to the land can be Initiated before the possessory right of the railroad company is terminated. "The public is entitled to know tho truth in regard to this matter," said Mr. Bristol yesterday. "These people who are paying lawyers and locators all the way from $10 to $100 "to locate them upon railroad land and "then make application to purchase the land, are doing nothing less than giving their money away. "Under the law the railroad com pany1 is tho present owner of this land. Whether rightly so, is not tne question. They are now the legal owners. They have the title that goes with possession of the land and can hold it against all the world un til its right of ownership and posses sion is terminated. "It Is Idle, then, to suppose that while it is the owner of the land any one can go upon it and initiate a right. Tho man who goes upon it is a trespasser and the man who pro cures him to do it under a pretxt of helping him to Initiate a right pro cures him to commit a trespass, and nothing more. "Nothing is plainer than that no man can take another upon tho land of another and give him a right to that land, before the right of the other has been ended. Two rights to the same property In this sense cannot bo enjoyed at the same time. One must begin when the other ends, and cannot begin before. Can't Gain Title. 'As long as the railroad company is in possession of this grant, no man can gain color of title to it by merely going upon it, claiming it and then effecting to purchase it. Filing a notice of offer to purchase with the County Clerk after tho offer has been refused by the railroad "company gains nothing for the applicant. "Should the government by suit torminato the grant and come Into possession of the land, it would then be open to settlement and not before. Then one man would have as much right to it as another. Any qualified person could then legally and regu larly file upon tho land, but tho mere fact that he had gone upon it and claimed it beforo tho government re gained title to it, would not give him a prefertory right, as no right could be initiated while tho railroad com pany was In adverse possession of the land. "It also appears that many of those who have offered to buy tho land and in pursuance of that pur pose have been located upon it are residents of other places, and have no intention of becoming bona fide set tlers. Many of these applications are those merely of speculators, who want to get hold of piece of this land. It is folly to suppose as a matter of policy that the government would recognizo the genuineness of the pur pose of such people and give them a right or preference over bona fide applicants who might file on tho land as soon as It is thrown open to settle ment." WILL BUILD FINE HOMES IN PLAT B H. J. Isaacs has lumber on his three lots at the corner pf State and Sherman avenue in Plat B for build ing a seven room residence. This location Is on the main thoroughfare between Marshfleld nnd North Bend, and is an ideal building site. Mr. Isaacs cleared these lots some time ago, and hopes to have his home finished within two months. J. P. Morris has contracted for the clear ing of his lots at tho corner of Sher man avenue and Commercial street, in Plat B. He will immediately be gin the erection of a seven room dwelling on the lots when they are cleared. This residence will be an exact counterpart of the house being built by Mr. H. J. Isaacs. DRIVES FROM FORTUNA UP TO COOS COUNTY W. H. Noblo & Sons drove the first pile yesterday for tho large building to be erected by Flanagan & Ben nett, corner of A and Front; streets. or imines, lKfirativeft steaklajrrthe 1UU30 ui tie uuainess wVcWTare to- ay enMtfill ljfbltterjflFugglo with their UWfisludjof enuffojaB through out MUnJflojf StauC Nolnce the niiwuuo wHiiKjilL i ino teiGOHinhprn 83 JwireV almost to a matNnverv ratpf 1ft VIsTteyr-iave thoVjle- tfW" coinpaftjes been cSimtsytfed 'VwBjf a coHidltlftn of affairs such as iklSCB-todayV Ii 1.883 the onerators pst. This time .Vie balance nnnnnrs O be in their ltYr. f!nn1IHnns tn- day are not wfflat they were 26 years ago. At thoftime of the tie-up In 1883 tho puJMc did not depend upon the telegraph to the extent that a completeiiemorallzatlon of business occuney although much Inconveni ence wis felt In many districts. In ifio present crisis the situation is (URerent. Tho rapid growth of thecountiy In the last two dpr.nrlRs made the telegraph wire a neces- adjunct to quick dispatch of communications between every busi ness nrin and individual in the United States and Canada. The tele graph has kept pace with the snlrlt of the times and today a network of wires extends from every metropolis touching every village and hamlet from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to Alaska. The re sult of a complete tie-up of these wires has caused almost a total paralyzation of business. Stock markets, brokers, grain exchanges, merchants and tho public in general leel tho blow which suddenly takes them almost back to the days when stage coaches and one train a day were the only means of conveying communications. Struggle Began March 1. The struggle that Is now engaging officials and labor unions over the entire country began March 1 last, when a 10 per cent advance in wages was announced by both the Western Union and Postal Telegraph com panies. This was made at a time when tho Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America was making great inroads among tho operators, secur ing hundreds of membors with a view of presenting their grievances to the telegraph companies. Immediately following the advance March 1 the operators alleged that the advance was not Impartially given and a demand for further con cessions was made which resulted in a strike of Western Union operators in Oakland and San Francisco being called by President Small, of the union, Juno 21. Through the inter cession of Commissioner Nelll, of the United States Department of Labor, this strike was settled several weeks later. . The telegraphers assert the com panies agreed to re-employ all strik ing men without discrimination but the companies allege they agreed to re-employ the strikers only on con ditions satisfactory to themselves. Operator Was Discharged. A Western Union operator was discharged at Los Angeles last week, the cause being given as insubor dination. The entire Western Union force walked out. Soon afterward the Los Angeles Postal forces joined in tho movement. An effort to com pel the Chicago forces of both com panies to work with nonunion men at Los Angeles resulted In the Chi cago offices striking. Within threo days the strike has extended throughout the United States and Canada, even to the Associated Press men, who were not expected to take an active part at least not at present. FILIPINO STUDENTS MAKE GOOD RECORDS Hand of Twenty-one Leaves Chicago for Islands With Honors Gained at School. Chicago, Aug. 14. Twenty-one of the original 100 young Filipinos sent to the United States by their native government four years ago to be edu cated in American colleges, left Chi cago last night for the Philippines with diplomas In their pockets, pre pared to tackle the intricacies of self-government. Twenty-threo of the boys started back home a few days ago, and the remaining 4G have decided to remain In America. The students appeared happy, hut prouder than any of them was Mnjor Edward J. Vattmann, chaplain U. S. A., retired, and assistant superin tendent of tho insular bureau In charge of all the Filipino students in this part of the country. "I am proud to say that every oius of them carried oft some kind of honor or prize In tho college ho at tended," said Major Vattmann. "There was only one trouble with tnem they studied too hard and wo had some difficulty In pVoventing them from overdoing. Their upper most thoughts were of tho day when they would havo a hnnd In conduct ing affairs of the government. They are quieter than Aiuorican collogo students and absonce of cigarettes is noticeable in tho Filipinos." After giving each young man his transportation, $15 and a work on "The Faith of Our Fathers," written by Cardinal Gibbons, Major Vett mann turned tho party over to J. E. Vandez, one of the older boys. It is said that not one in the entire 100 failed in his examinations. Senator Knox has managed to 'maintain a boom of very respectable proportions without any incidental embellshments in tho way of resucea or complications in beverage. ns jmr J $ $ $ t $ t $ 4 4 $ $ ! $ Jt v i 4 5 ! $ TELEGRAPH STRIKE PRECIPITATED OVER INSULT TO MRS. Just because Mrs, Sadie Nichols, a woman operator in tho West ern Union telegraph offices nt West Oakland, and known to the union operators as a "scab," reported that John Edgar Ryan, an operator in the Western Union offices at Los Angeles, nnd a stanch member of the union, had insulted her oyer the wire for taking a union man's job, the telegraph business of' the entire United States is practically at a standstill. On account of tho alleged insult Ryan was discharged. His fellow employes then walked out. Two people in tho southwestern part of the United States have kindled a blaze which reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The actions of the twain, whose combined incomes are not more than $70 a week, have tied up business which is computed in the millions. ' The saying that a woman Is at the bottom- of every bit of trouble has again been exemplified, but in this case she has none of the marks of a melodramatic heroine. She Is simply a hard working American woman, 4G years old. The fight Is far bigger now than any dispute as to the reinstate ment of Ryan, however, and the matter of the. alleged insult is the smallest factor in the affair. All over the United States this strike was smoldering. It needed but tho touch of the spark to cause it to spring into flame. When the Western Union employes of Los Angeles walked out the head councils of the union seized the opportunity to declnre a general strike and finally the whole working force of telegraph operators In the United States followed. $$$$ ! J t J ! J $ J $ $ Salem-Portland Road Will Be Extended to Albany and Eugene. LQ0KS LIKE HILL PROJECT A. Welch Asks For New Franchise In Salem and States Intentions. Salem, Or., Aug. 14. A petition was presented to the City Council last night asking for a franchise over several streets of the city, from the northern to southern limits, with an outlet upon the Willamette River, for an entirely new electric railway system.' The purpose of this Is to construct a line of railroad from this city southward as far as Albany, on the initial stretch, and contemplates an extension to Portland on the north and Eugene on the south, with a lateral or feeder branching from the main line at Turner to Metoama. The franchise is asked in the name of A. Welch, of Portland. He Is backed in the enterprise by Eastern capital, whose Identity Is withheld from publiaction at present, but the circumstances surrounding the scheme smacks of Hill interests very strongly. The petition for the fran chise covers two separate lines, both of which have their starting point at the Fair Ground store, on the Portland-Salem road, where It joins wlth'the original L."B. French right of way. One traverses certain promi nent streets through the residence portion of the city, terminating at the river's brink, calculated to give an outlet to the system Into Polk County. The other takes a river course through the city In a nearly direct line to the southern limits, and will connect In the vicinity of the Reform School with the line that has already been surveyed for which right of way has been secured from this city to Mehama. The peclflc conditions mentioned in the franchise, are that work must be begun within six months after the granting of the franchise, and the entire road completed between this city and Albany within two years. This Indicates that there is need of hurry In tho completion of the pro ject. Mr. Welch, who Is at tho head of the Willamette Valley Company, recently sold out his Interests in tho Eucene & Eastern to Story and others, who are promoting a system of lines out of Eugene. Ho is devot ing his entire efforts upon the present project, which contemplates a con tinuous system of electric railway from Portland to the southern boundary of tho state, with laterals reaching out to the most fertile sec tions of the valloy, having no rail road outlets to the principal markets. Two crews of surveyors will be placed In tho field the first of next week, and will complete tho surveys, ac cording to the designs of the promo ters, as they proceed. MEN RULED OUT IN THIS ONE INSTANCE Misses Agnes Hutchoson, and nvoivn Anderson and Mesdames . Jack Flanagan and William Lawlor , are In possession of tho Sigma unt . boat .house this weok and are enjoy-1 Inc an outing uninterrupted by the. presence of the sterner sox. YOUNG GIRL USES REVOLVER Lovo AiTair Responsible For Flora Rlxetlcer's Suicide. San Francisco, Aug, 14. Flora Rixecker, a young gi.l who camo here recently from Los Angeles with her mother, shot and killed herself with a pistol yesterday at her resi dence. A love affair, is believed to have been the cause of tho act. She was 1C years old ELEC1C LINE UP THE VALLEY SADIE NICHOLS, OPERATOR. $ $ $ $ !$$$$$$ J $ J Washington Water Power Company In Line for Damage Suits. 3,000 ACRES SUBMERGED Many Fanners Arc Homeless De struction Along St. Joo nnd Cocur d'AIene Rivers. Post Falls, Idaho, Aug. 14. Be cause of a dam built by the Wash ington Water company at this point, thousand of acres of farm land are overflowed and the crops that would ordinarily "be harvested are a total loss. The farmers of the country along the St. Joe and Coeur d'AIene rivers are greatly wrought up over the loss of their homesteads. Nearly 300 ranchers are affected, their liv ing and very hqmes being at stake. It Is estimated that more than 3000 acres lying along the Coeur d'AIene river alone are completely submerged In several feet of water. Along tho St. Joe river are other dis tricts of lesser acreage beneath the water, and in the Wolf Lodge coun try and other lake regions there aro hundreds of acres of splendid graz ing meadows now covered with sev eral feet of water. The total amounts to many thousands of acres that aro absolutely worthless under tho pres ent condition of affairs. The farmers will club together and fight the corporation that has prac tically ruined their farms and homes and left them in bad shape for the approaching winter and one of the most extonsive and complicated law suits ever brought In this part of tho country is now threatened by the farmers of this district. ' The thousands of acres now over flowed have herptofore been har vested in the month of August and produced from one to threo tons of splendid hay to the acre, which sold on the market from $12 to $16 a ton. Now, however, as tho entire tract Is, and has been for some time overflowed with several feet of wa ter, there is practically no hope of any hay being harvested here this year and the winter feed will not only be lost for the stock but many families who depended on their hay crop to buy their winter supplies will bo rendered destitute. In many cases tho farmci j hrva lost all their possessions by tho high water. The Washington Water Power company claim they have a right to dam tho lake, having derived this right from Mr. Post, who settled nt Post Falls In the early days and who derived his right from tho govern ment when ho took up his homestead here. The farmers took their home steads in good faith, received a pat ent from the government and there fore claim that tho flooded lands aie a loss to them and that they are eu tltlod to damages. Tho farmo.s claim that tho hay grown In tho flooded district is worth annually not less than $113,000. BOATS AND STAGES SHORT ACCOMMODATIONS Evory boat which leaves Portland for Coos Bay is unahlo to accomo date all those who dcBiro to come hero. The stage routes havo the same difficulty, and threo stago loads were loft at Rosoburg tho other day. Tho Drain stago route finds itself unable to handle the travelers who aro coming this way. MOTHERS' CLUB WILL MEET THIS AFTERNOON The Mothers' Club will meet today at 3 o'clock in the Baptist church. Several subjects on tho training of children will be under discussion. All Interested aro cordially invited to attend. DAM INUNDATES IDAHO FARMS INDIANS.ftECEIVE PAY FOR ESTATES Payment Is Made by Go eminent to Klamutli County Indians for Land. Last week the Klamath Indians received the first payment due them from tho $25,000 recently received as the Initial sum on tho GOO, 000 acres of land excluded from the res ervation when the boundary was es tablished. The individual amount received by each Indian on the reser vation is $23.88. Supt. H. G. Wil son, assisted by his chief clerk, be gan the work of disbursing this amount last Tuesday at Klamath Falls, paying the Indians who do not reside on the reservation. The claim oi the Indians against the govern ment which has so successfully been prosecuted has been pending for sev eral years past, the late Jesse Kirk and other prominent representatives of the tribe having made several journeys to Washington to urge the allowance of this claim. A brief history, of the transaction is given by the Klamath Falls Express as fol lows: According to the terms of the treaty with the Indians certain points were established and Imaginary lines between these points formed the boundary of tho reservation. When these lines were surveyed an error was made and thereby 600,000 acres of land belonging to the Indians ac cording to the terms of the treaty were excluded from the reservation. Ihis land was taken up by the white men under the public land laws so that, when the error was discovered and tho Indians claimed the lands, It would have caused serious com plications to attempt to eject the set tlers on the land consequently the lands by an act of congress were pur chased from the Indians at 86.36 cents per acre, the total amount be ing $537,007.20. The Indians have received $25,000 as a cash payment on these lands and this sum has been divided among 1046 Indians and each received $23.88. Part of the money will be used in buying cattle for the Indians and in improving the reservation and $350, 000 has been put out on interest which will be received annually by the Indians. OPPOSES1 UNDRESSED KIDS MRS. GRANNIS SHOCKED BY EDUCATOR'S SUGGESTION. President of Purity League Snys if Starr Is Sincere, He AVill Draw Line at Slip. New York, Aug. 14. "Gracious, the very Idea of such a thing!" ex claimed Mrs. Elizabeth Grannis, pres ident, of the National League for the Promotion of Purity, today, when she was asked about the declaration of Prof. Frederick Starr of Chicago University that girls and boys up to 10 years of age should be permitted to ko around absolutely nude. "What do I think of iff" asuea Mrs. Grannis, In a shocked tone. (.Anthony Comstock Is a member of her organization.) "Why, I think the way any respectable woman would think it's positively out rageous. "You newspapers take up the most flippant things," said Mrs. Grannis. "Why don't you come and Interview me on serious things? You always want to make fun." "Do you thiUk New York would tolerate the spectacle of children playing In tho parks without any clothing?" "Certainly not," responded Mrs. Grannis, horrified at the very idea. "The police would be after them In a minute. Oh, it will not happen here." "You believe, Mrs. Grannis, thnt tho dress of children should be made as comfortable as possible?" "Oh, of course; but if tho Starr man In Chicago Is sincere, he will draw the lino at a silk slip. Let tho children go around In that sort of dress. But they must have some thing on." "A good many year3 ago," It was suggested to Mrs. Grannis, "people went around without clothes." "Yes, I know they did," was her reply. "It was all right then. The people of thoso times know no bet ter. But today, in our peculiar civ ilization and tho false idea we get about tho relations between tho sexo3, it would bo positively harmful to let children go around absolutely naked. It would never do. "At tho same tlmo there should bo reform In dress," continued Mrs. Grannis. "Corsets should go. High- heeled shoes should bo abolished. Tho women of tho fashionable world go around on stilts, and it requires nil tho mental caliber and physical endurance they possess, to stand up. "Man's attire in tho summer tlmo is outrageous. Ho goes around In woolen coats which aro padded and so hot as to bo positively uncom fortable. There should bo no sleeves to tho coats." Resuming her talk about children drosssd in tho garb of Adam and Eve, Mrs. Grannis said thnt under certain conditions thero was noth ing lewd or Indolicato about tho nude form. "Pleaso bo serious," Implored Mrs. Grannis at tho labt. "Do your cause some good. Try not to be flippant. Remember wo aro stonily opposed to Professor Starr's schemo. Chlldien know too much, anyway." Dauco at Rink Tonight. Thoro will bo no show at the rink tnnitrht. hut tlin usual social danco will be given. Good music and an excellent Moor. uontiomen, uyc ladles, free; and danco as loug you like DAIHIIIG WILL GETATIEIT1 Chamber of Commerce Meet ing Tonight Will Have Sev eral Fine Addresses. GRAVENSTEIN PRESENT State Dairy and Food Commissioner Hailey Will Talk Also Mrs. Yoakum. Last Friday night it was applet culture at the Chamber of Commerce meeting. Tonight, the dairy cow will hold sway. State Dairy and Food Commissioner Bailey will be present an so will Mrs. Yoakum, the most successful director of a dairy ranch. In Coos county. Commissioner Bailey will deliver an address on dairy opportunities in. Coos county and on the dairy inter ests generally, and Mrs. Yoakum will tell from practical experience, how to conduct a dairy. A number interest ed in dairy farms and creameries and cheese factories, will be in attend ance. It will be an open meeting and everybody, ladies and gentlemen aro welcome. Mrs. Yoakum Is backed by Mr. Bailey in her position that dairy ing is a veritable gold mine In Coos, county and that it is the royal road to sure wealth. The defenders of the Gravenstein, apple will also bo present at tonight's meeting, and there will be other mat ters of Interest to come up. The re port of the Joint committee with. North Bend on the creation of a port commission for Coos Bay will bo heard, as well as interesting corres pondence. There has been a continuous stir at the Chamber of Commerce hall this week, there being few intervals when there haye not been new-comers on hand getting their bearings, by looking over maps and getting in formation about tho city and sur rounding country. Those arriving yesterday stated that others wero left at Roseburg that the stage could not bring and the general report is that a largo number from the outsldo is headed toward Coos Bay. TROUBLE FOR OFFICERS OF RECLAMATIOM Matter's In Klamatli County Not Satisfactory To Citizens. Shakcup Promised. Klamath Falls, Or., Aug. 14. The future of tho Klamath reclama tion project Is absorbing the atten tion of every one interested in tho Klamath country because the dissat isfaction with the methods of tho Government for the past year seems about to reach a climax. Supervising Engineer D. C. Henny, who recently visited the project, said work probably would not begin on what 13 known as the Upper Klamath project until more of the lauds own ed by private Individuals were signed up for Irrigation. Representatives from the upper project Informed Mi Henny that no more lands would bo signed up as long as the reclamation service could not determine when and at what cost the lands already signed up would be reclaimed. Further dis cussion followed, and the parties rep resenting the landowners of tho up per project who have signed their lands for Government irrigation in formed Henny that they would com mence legal action for release from their contracts. Unless It dovelops that Engineer Henny cannot speak for tho reclamation service this mat ter will likely reach the courts short ly. Aside from the upper project, It seems to be qulto popular to be reg istered on the roll of thoso antagonis tic to tho local reclamation govern ment. Many shareholders In tho Water-Users' association are not en tirely satisfied. Tho sworn state ments field by Mason, Davis & Co. In support of their claims for additional pay are held to justify the demand for tho resignation of several of tho officials connected with tho project. Tho government work this year has amounted to practically nothing. Tho present payroll for actual labor ers amounts to about $3,000 a month Tho payroll for over3eors and ofllco employes nmounts to a like sum. This Ie a featuro that is being severe ly criticized by tho landowners DANGER LURKS ALONG THE COUNTY HIGHWAY Several parties who travel tho county road between here and Mor'h Bond havo intimated to a Time- re porter that there Is great daiif.tr Jack Flanagan and William Lawlor routo nro numorous large tries which aro liable to fall at any minute and across tho highway. The recent destruction of a part of tho Fcrn dalo bridge by n largo tree falling on it, Is an oxamplo of tho dangerous naturo of tho road's border- At least, It Is advlsablo to havo trees which stand near tho road cut uown, and thus avoid any possible dis aster. Tho Wilson Htage will leave IMarshflold next Mouday nTTl '--