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Volavia .XXX'.
JOJfjY DAT, GJi'.'LYT COlA'TV, OUEGOjV, TlfUJiSlUV. SICPTEM If E 11 10, 1003.
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GEA
COUNTY
NEWS.
THE FOREST PROBLEM
AND THE WATER SUPPLY.
jrydrogniijhor Jewell, Chief of the Kc
clnmation Service, flakes it a Venture
in His First Annual Report.
One oi'tlio mot interestinc. as
wull riH most imiKirtflnt features in
tho firnt annual report, just issued, nf
Hydrogrnphor Now.oll, chief of tho
reclamation service, is tlio dinous
sion of tho foroBt problem in its ro
Intion to tho conservation of tlio
wator sunnlv of tha west. Mr.
Xowoll hns always been nn ndvo
ontu of tho furvf t rt'erv system,
especially in plncea whore water is
Hoar co and inoiinlitin streams aro
.doubly in iiwd of prot'-otion. Ho
has devoted mucli study to tho sub
juot nnd enn senk mithoritati vuly.
Within the arid and semi-nrid
parts of tho weft, Mr. N'ewoll i-nys
there nre nearly 120.000.1)00 acreB of
woodbind in which tho trout, though
sonltorod, nro vnluablo for firewood
nnd foticing purKMies. In addition
thoro nro 75,000,000 ncros of heavy
forest having commercial vnluo as
timhor.
Tho aggregate nreu of desert,
woodlnnd nnd fo,r at iH n littlo ovor
hnlf tho nron of tho nrid nnd f-tuni-
nrid rogioifs. Tha remainder iB
grazing lnnd.
Thus, M fur nS area id concornod,
tliu grnxing industry is now, nnd will
probably roinnin, tho prinoipnl pur
Hiiit of tho westerner. So fur as
values go, however, tho situation
bus n different look.
Tho open range of tho nrid region
iH generally thought to ho capable
of supporting ono cow to every '20
or i'O acres of laud. Tho stuno
lnnd, watered nnd sown to nlfnlfn,
it! capable of supporting 10 cows to
ovury '20 ncron. Or, in orchards nt
suitable altitudes, tho twenty ncro
trnot will supK)rt :i fninily of from
three to five persona.
Tho opon range mny hnvo n vnluo
of 50 cents per acre while under ir
riyatioti the snuio tract will jump
frequently to $50, or, if in orchard,
to $f00 por ncro. Tho vnluo of tho
lands is thus reversed by irrigation,
the grazing lnnd having the least
value nnd greatest extuiit, nnd tho
irrigated lauds the greatest value
nnd least extent.
Mr. Nowoll maintains that the
best development of the western
country requires the conservation of
tho forests along the bend waters of
tht principal streams. And in fact
of all streams that can lie utilized j
for irrigation purKsiis.
Mr. Newell believes in the proper
regulation of cutting the timber,
nnd would permit tho rtimovnl of
' rfpo tree. lle'ljolioves further in
encouraging n more general cutting
of such than is now generally
praalicod. In some iortions of the
west ho thinks that fully 10 per
cant of the timber standing has
pnuod it maturity nnd is either
dead or dying. .
Tho report states that from the
commercial stand point tho highost
value is in the lumber products,
and by good fortune the industry is
not antagonistic to the proper regu
lation of the removal of the timber
and preservation of tho forests to
conserve tho water supply.
The first step in tho preservation
of tho forestp, the rejort continues,
is to protoot them from their great
oat enemy, tho forost firu. Tho
next stop is tho judicious cutting of
trues. This should bo oondctod on
a busiuost-like basis that should
niHKO tlio forests yiosl a lovonuo
Bullloiont to pay tho cost of patrol
iug and protecting them.
Tho report also embodies the sug
gMtion that it ought to lie, and
dwihtlow isj'ousy to devise a plnn
of systematic supervision similar to
that prncticed by the old world peo
ples, nnd one that will protect tho
headwaters of the streams without
cost to tho taxpayer.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Items ol Intorost Cllppocl
our Eiuhnniios.
Krnost Dtirr. a naval cadet, is nt i
home on n three weeks' vncntion
Major Dolmar has lowered tho
world's trotting record for geldings
to "2.02 i.
Active hostilities nro now iioing
enrriod on botweon Turkey and her
Macedonian provinces.
It has been announced that Lieu
tenant Perry will ninko nnother nt
tompt to reach tho north pole.
An oflieial of the state depart
ment says that tho Columbian ca
nal treaty will hardly bo revived.
' Jack Munroe nnd James J. Jeff
ries hnvo signed to light n '20 round ,
contost nt Los Angeles, October tho
lfith. j
Snm Morris, the wonderful Nez
Percy Indian pitcher, has gone to
California to join tho Portland
Browns.
Tho governor of Colorado is be
ing harshly criticised for sending
state troops to quiill the mining
disturbances.
Tho Tnitud States cruisers Hint
were sent to investigate the Turkish
situation have arrived at the scone
of the trouble.
Tho Baker polico raided the city's
opium joints last week and found
six white men nnd n number of
Chinamen iiends.
Tho Snnko river minos nro re
ported to be in a most prosperous
condition nnd nthor enterprises cor
respondingly nctivo.
The Baker City papers report
heavy sheep sab s from that section,
made for tho purioso of relieving
tho range situation.
By a recont order the consular
service has been advanced to the
merit system nnd heronfter tho im
portnut positions will be filled by
promotion.
Geo. K. Trnoy, tho assistant pott
master at Baker City, is so seri
ously ill that n Huntington man
hns been temporarily installed in
Ids poeivion.
Severe storms have dono vast
damage to life and property in the
New Knglaud states and the to
bacco crop entiroly ruined by u re
cent cloudburst.
The coroner's jury in tho Martin
Bowers poisoning enso returned n
verdict charging tho wife of tho de
ceased nnd her sister, Mrs. Sutton,
with poisoning him.
Tho Pendleton butchers have de
termined to experiment with the
cohl storage plant for preservation
of meat instead of feeding cattle
tho high priced feed.
lCaatern Oregon mines have em
ployed double the number of men
of any previous season. They have
also shipped in moro than double
the amount of machinery nnd sup
plies. A number of troops comprit-iug
tho logntion guard nt Pekin were
wounded in n quarrel with Kroncli
soldiers. Although the American
troops carry no arms when off duty
the Frimoh soldiers do, nnd wore
the ugiircdbors, The American utli-
era hare domaded the punishtnet.L
ot the olJ'eiidur.
Henry Woilhrunnor, a half de
mented young farmer, wan recently
hauled out ovor the wheel of a
buggy and relieved of a pistol with
which ho had attempted the life of j
President Hoosevolt, j
The whont orop of the northwest
is estimated at I"),7501(XK) bushels
for the teneon of 1SKKL Thin is a
shortage of 7,000,000 compared
with the uevious yield of 1002, and
of 12,000 compared with 1901.
Chns. Murphin, a Seattle
bookkeeper, drowned himself in
Lake Washington because his no
counts worrshirt. He said ho
would make the shortage good and
did fo by this Btrenuou? method of
maturing a $2000 insurance
icy.
Secretary of State Hav has been
throAtoncd with n8asmnUon by n
From crank with n clnim against Cler
mnny nnd who had written over
UK.' threatening letters to the score
tnry. Tho fellow was badly de
mented nnd hns Iwrn placed in con
finement. After January 1st no return tick
ets will bo issued to elockmen who
ship their stock to eastern markets
over tho transcontinental lines. A
mooting of railway officials hns
been held nnd this policy adopted
as a moans of circumventing the
ticket scolpors who found profitable
traflio in tho return tickets of tho
Btcckmen.
DEATH OF BAKER CITIZEN.
Body of Hnrry Lockwoon Found In
Powdor Rlvor.
Harry Lock,wood, h wrtfT 'known
resident of Baker City, was found
(load in Powdor river last Friday
afternoon. Tho body was only
half under wator and the i;ruesonio
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lint. Pntil fVn.ftl! ia lit. tfno nt, lnu
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boy, Paul Carroll, as he was on his
rounds delivering newspapers. It
was thought that either murder
or suicide stood back of the sad
and untimely and, but a coroner's
jury did not so find.
Tho latest theory advanced to ac
count for the death is that of an ep
ileptic stroke, to which it is said tho
unfortunate man was subject.
Mr. Lock wood was n representa
tive of the American I lomeseekers'
association, lie wns nlso n promi
neut lodge man and carried hoavy
old lino policies as well. His entire
insurance is said lobe about $10,
iflOO.
BUTTER CREEK STOCK.
Feed Scnrco nnd tho
Gloomy.
Outlook Is
Tho feed and tho cattle situation
of tho Butt$ Creek district is bnd.
The country" is overstocked with
cattle nnd there is not enough feed
to carry them through the winter.
Some of the farmers who had a
good supply of hay on baud have
disposed of what they did no: need
mid this has left the other farmers
without any chance to buy.
Cattle nro being brought in and
they are in oor condition, the rango
being particularly short this year.
Cattle pricoa are low, $20 being of
fered for an animal. In somecntos
cattle nre not in a un lilion to be
placed on the market.
THE OLD RELIABLE
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
WERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
JP0j
LAKEVIEW LAND
: MAY
Unless theOregon Delegation Trot Out
m
a Cnmiiduto to Succeed Register Urit
tain and Receiver IJaiJey;
It is
President
with the
delegation
currently rumored that
Roosevelt is displensed
failure of tho Oregon
to name successors to
I Hrittnin nnd Hniloy, nnd thnlho-or
dcroreil tho present incumbents re
moved summarily, with temorarily
i apKinted oflicinls to carry on tha
work of ths office while tho delega
tion is getting together on good men
to fill tho positions of register nnd
reciever regularly. But tho presi
dent was informed by Secretary
Hitchcock that this could not bo
dono nnd that tho ollico would have
to bo closed if tho present oflicinls
were dismissed before now ones
were appointed in their stead. Bo
causo of the vast amount of busi
ness transacted at tho Lakeviow of
fice that plan was not deemed ad
visable, nnd tho secretary of the
interior was nsked to name tho men
for tho plnco in case the delegation
continues to sulk.
The way in which tho Knowlos
case was handled i said fo indicnto
tho future policy of tho president in
cleaning up lbe v'rvgsm land busi
ness. That is, if thoroughly good
men nro recommendral by tho dele- j
gation or by any part of tho dolegn
(inn lliov will In) imimuilixl tn tint
I " "I I w
,nCM , th(J pr!eiJ0nt. l)ut if lho
. .
delegation sulks and refuses to
namo n man,
' standing by"
way noticeably
delegation will
president will
or if it insists on
any who is in any
unfit, the Oregon
be ignored and the
turn to Secretary
, lutciicock, tneir arcn enemy,
i In the meantime it is broadly in
i timated that the delegation hud
I bettor trot out their candidates for
1 tho Lakeviow offices, or even that
busy mart may bo closed down.
OREGON SLOW.
Contonnlnl
Promoturs
Wnkod up.
Hnvo not
The Baker City Domocrat says
that tho Lewis and Clark Centen
nial is not known of in the east and
that many of tho prominent news
paper men have not even heard of
such a project.
Quoting from a returned eastern
visitor the article is as follows:
"The managers of the Lewis and
Clark Fair association claim to have
already dono n great denl of work
in the way ol advertising the lUOj
fair throughout the I'nited Stutos.
But while I was in the east I found
that even loadiuv "owepnnor mou
had never hoaitl of tlio Vo"tr. A
good many people living on tho At
lantic seaboard don't oven know
where Oregon is or that Portland is
the metropolis of thu northwest. I
talked with tho editor of the Pitts
burg Dispatch nnd ho was simply
surprised to learn what wo intend
to do in PJ05.
"Tho Philadelphia Knquiror man
was in iipi.il ignorance.
"In Washington, Buffalo, Phil
adelphia and Baltimore wo could
not find a singlo copy of nn Oregon
paper, except n few copies of tho
Orogoniaii of hack dates. Kven
in the congressional library at
Waihington they told mo that they
do not receive the Oruironian recti-
J lnrly nnd that more than half of
' tho time it is stolen.
I "In Baltimore the great daily,
! the Sun, published a column and a
half interview with us on Oregon.
Wo advertised Kastorn Orogon to
, boat the band nnd we had our own
' band to prove thnt Oregon is it.
I "If wo are to have this I'JOfi fair
j advertised it is about time that the
OFFICE
BE CLOSED DOWN
3
nowspnpors of Oregon put some of
tho eastern patcrs on tho exchange
list nnd filed copies with somo of
the public librnries of the castorn
centers.
"Too much importance cannot
bfi attached to the advertising fea
tures of tho duties of tho fair board
ns tho time is not long, and if this
part of tho work is not puuhed im
mediately tho eastern people will
never know anything about the
fair."
MANY AFFLICTIONS.
Latest
Fntnllty
Mr,
In tho
Pultt.
Family of
Tho family of V. II. Puitt, a
well known resident of Prnirio City,
hns boon tho victim of n long train
of fatalities, and was recontly called
upon to mourn tho donth of ono of
its youngest and brightest members.
And death enmo suddenly, too, ns
though in keeping with tho unex
pected, sometimes violent, taking
off.
Karly Tuesday morning, of last
week, Hub Puitt was seized with
an attack of typhoid and on tho
next day ho died. Relatives were
hnslily summoned but before they
Ley
2
arrived death had approached; thoy
were four hours behind the dre
messenger.
On July -I tit a brother of tho
deceased was fatally shot in a row
and a fow days afterwards a sister
suddenly expired.
Tho next sorious misfortune was
not fatal, although n half a dozen
blasts were exploded within u fow
feet of tho unprotected body of nn
other brother, Willis Puitt, in tho
Dixie Meadows mine disaster. The
fact that he was not instantly killed
seems a miracle, and may bo taken
to moan that however harsh the
fates may bo there is yet a moro po
tent and kindlier power that still
refuses to iiermit a condition so
hopeless that it is ever pons i bio to
say MthiB is the worst."
DIED UNDER BLISTERING SUN.
With Lei; nnd Shouldor rirokon, no
Holp Convjs
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A most painful (j distressing
death on the rango is eji rted from
tho Owyhee country.
A Spaniard by the name of Do
mingo wns driving through one of
the most lonely stretches of road in
that section when his horse evi
dently lurched and threw him out
of the buukboard in which ho wns
traveling. His leg was broken and
his shoulder crushed in the fall, so
that he Could neither walk or crawl.
: In spite of his frightful predicament
tho Spaniard retained cniiciouaness
and tried to drag himself through
tho sago brush to find water.
In this effort, however, Domisgo
failed and after two days of untold
ngony in the blisierii.g sun, died of
his uogtcctcd wounds.
IN THREE STRAIGHT.
Is How Amorlcn'ti Rullnnou Uont
EnKlnnd't: Uhnmrook.
Tho third and concluding race in
tho series for tho famous yachting
cup that carries the blue ribbon of
tho soa was won by the Amorioan
boat, Reliance. The Shamrock got
tangled up in tin fog anil did not
cross tho finish line.
This made it three straight for
tho cup-defender.
Only first claa job printing at
the Xiiws oftiwi.
Sept, 1903.
o
Articulates
Institutions
ington
with the
of Oregon
Classes will be
the 9th and
A five month's business course will bo added for
pupils who wish to take up work in this line.
This year wo have graduated eight puplla from
the ninth grade.
Tuition, SI .50 per month tn 9th grade and $2
per month in I Oth grade. Scholarship
In business course good un
til work is complete
-SI5.00.
Board and rooms
formation, apply to
may bo had
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Our full lino of DKKSS (JOODS, WUAPPKKS, HUM
MBit SKI UTS, SHIHT WAISTS, UNDKlt
WKAK, HOSIKItY, HATS, OLOTII
I NO and all kinds of notion
to lie closed out at
RIDICULOUSLY LOW PRICESIII
Wo hnvo resolved to reduce our stock of
DRY (UJODS within tho
NEXT SIXTY DAYS.
Do you want nny thing in ttiit line! If to,
gufc-our pricoj; they will ASTONISH you.
A full lino of KKKSH GKOOKIUKS con
fctuntly on liitud, nt rciuotiable prises,
(Joint) and sou.
Burton
I Guernsey's Sawmill. 1
Ml Loootod on Vonoo Crank. VJ
l O. Guernsey, - - Prop'r j
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H All Kinds of
i Dressed
ft
Leave orders with C. 0. Guornsoy nt Canyon City, Or.
I CANYON CHEEK SAWMILL
A. C. DORE,
Bough and Dressed Lumber of all kindf In ttook iu
sullloiont quantity to fill any renoiiable-iid bill
Kirnt-uliua Shingles nUo in ttock,
Large nd Small Orden
CANYON CITY,
May, 1904.
o,
Collegiate
and Wash- -
sustained in both
10th grades.
at reasonable prices. Kor further in-
PROF. H. L JiAOK,
Principal.
& Holloway x
Rough and
Lumber.
Proprietor.
Qlven BptcUJ Attention.
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