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THE OREGON PAtLY ' JOURNALV PORTLAND, MONDAY , EVENINO, SEPTEMBER ' 1911. : '
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QUESTION OF HOW
NOIYMSIRED
Register of Land Office at Ju
neau and Secretary of In-
- terior Do Not Agree; Pro
moter's' Labor Shown. '
By John E. Lathrop.' t
Written for The Journal and the .-Newark
(N. J.) News. Copyright.
Juneau, Alaska, Sept. 4 .If, as Reg
ister Walker, of, the federal land office
here, believes and as he stated to me,
Itichard S. Ryan, president of the Con
' troller Railway & Navigation company,
did not make any filings in 1910 on 'the
four land claims, two In the name of
his brother, James J. Ryan, and one
each In the name of Arnold S. Scheuer
and Frank F. Davis of New York, what
did he do? Secretary Fisher, reporting
, April 26, 1911, to the senate of the
United States, In answer to the La Fol
lette resolution, stated officially that
Ryan filed On four claims;-and that he
based his statements upon telegraphic
advices 'from the Juneau land office.
Then the papers werent sent to Wash
ington, D. C,, in April, 1911, and the
office here 'contained nothing from
which could be traced what action Ry
an took, and what action the land of
fice here took. The only information
I could get here, upon that point, was
from C. B. Walker, register of the
land office, who, by the way, was cour
teous, obliging and, Quite obviously,
anxious to open the public records . to
Inspection.- Mr. Walker was not In
Juneau at the time Ryan made Ms Til
ings, hence, so he said, he could not
elucidate the disputed point.
Worked for Tears.
Proceeding upon the basis of the
statements made at the land office here,
and from known records in the interior
department, it would appear that Ryan
nad worked since 1907 upon his Con
troller Bay railway plane; had gone
along through that year and the next,
according to his assertions in corres
pondence with the federal government
executive offices in Washington, D. C
until, in 1909. he organized the Con
troller Railway & Navigation company,
incorporating it under the laws of the
state of New Jersey, with Probst. Wets
lar St Co., commission bonkers of New
York elty, as his backers; that, in 1909,
ha made application for the elimination
of lands from the chugach national for
est, into hlch early that year Presi
dent Roosevelt had withdrawn the lands
just before he went out from the White
House.
That, after extensive correspondence
and interviews by Ryan in Washington,
he Induced President Taft to restore the
12,800 aores. and, then. If Register
Walker's understanding was correct,
with all the advantage in his hands,
the restoration ;having been made con
fessedly for Ryan, and after four years'
work and heavy expense Invested in
the project, he permitted the opportun
ity to pass; merely left with the land
Office "evidence that he had acquired
soldier's additional homestead rights,"
and "did not actually and formally file
on the 'claims."
All Bseords Shown.
This Is not to call in question the
veracity of Register Walker; it is to
raise lh question the reasonableness of
his understanding of what was the
true situation. Mr. Walker was cour
teous and frank throughout an Inter
view which lasted from .1:15 p. m. to
4 o'clock, during which time he freely
showed me the records of the Ryan
filings of rights of way. The records
of the fllinps on the four additional
homesteads having been sent on to the
national capital, he could not show
them to me.
Thr enterprise of Dick Ryan to
build a railway from Controller bay to
the Bering (Cunningham) coal fields,
with terminals on the bay had been
of sufficient Importance, first, to en
list the strong support of Probst, Wett
lar & Co., a Wall street commission
banking house which Is not reputed to
laok facilities to learn the truth; a
concern that did business under the
shadow of the building in which J. P.
Morgan & Co.'s banking firm is housed.
Importance Is Shown.
It was Important enough to induce
subordinates of the president, secre
taries In his cabinet and many under
officials, and even the president bim
elf, to take cognizance; to adopt a
special rule in making reservations for
Ryan, by omitting the usual 30 day
clause, and permltUng Ryan to file on
the lands Immediately.
Apparently, a great many important
persons In private and official life here
In. Alaska, New York and Washington,
D. G, regarded the Ryan project as im
portant enough to Justify the elaborate
action taken in getting those lands
eliminated from the Chugach national
Apparently, "too, former - President
Roosevelt head at that time of the
great executive department, able to get
Information from the government ex
perts thought Controller bay waa of
some Importance; for h, withdrew from
public entry the lands that encircled it,
and planned that the nation should use
it according to moderar ideas of publio
, owned docks and terminal facilities.
Apparently, too, Ryan regarded his
enterprise as serious, for he rushed pro
ceedings to get the shore lands and to
file maps of his rights of way; he trav
eled hurriedly to ond' fro between Alas
ka and the national capital, and spent
much -money in putting it on Its feet
Left "Borne Evidence."
Yet, after all these elaborate pro
ceedings, after the expenditure of all
this money, after getting the govern-,
ment of the United States to exert it
self in his behalf, after these four
years of constant effort by him, if the
understanding of Register Walker at
Juneau be true to the complete record
(now In Washington), Ryan idly left
"nnmn evManfA that haA rnnirA
soldier's 'additional homestead rights,"
but did not actually file on the (obvi
ously) coveted shore lands.
Hore Is a point that will have to
be probed; probably will be gone into
by the committee on expenditures in
the Interior department, when It shall
have resumed its Investigation the mid
dle of October: The unmistakable dis
crepancy between the only obtainable
Information in the Juneau land office
and the official statements by Secre
tary Fisher April 26. when he replied
to the La Follette resolution.
SOUTHWEST m BIB
VILLLASTAWEEK KINGDOM AT HAND
Centralia and ' Chehalis Will
Have Public Holidays
Tomorrovtf; -
(Special to Hie Journal.)
Centralis, Wash., Sept. 11. What
promises to be a most successful fair
was opened by the Southwest Washing
ton Fair association, one mile south of
Centralia this morirtng. Today had, been
designated "as baseball day, and a gams
was to have been played between ths
Centralis pennant winners and a nins
picked from the other three clubs In ths
state league, but owing to the condition
of the grounds the gams was called off.
Tomorrow is Centralia and Chehalis
day, and has been declared an bfflcisl
holiday by Mayor Gingrich of Chehalis
and Mayor Querncr of Centralia.
The racing .program opens tomorrow.
Many of the' horses are already at ths
fair grounds, a carload arriving from
Vancouver and one. from Portland this
morning. The racing program is in
charge Of Dr. E. C. Truesdell of Cen
tralis, and an excellent card has been
arranged. There will be both trotting
and running events, and nearly every
well known horseman In ths state has
one or more entries.
The grain, fruit and stoak exhibits
have some In as never before, and the
various buildings at the grounds are
taxed to their .fullest capacity. The
farmers of every county in southwest
ern Wshlngton have taken an unpre
cedented interest Jn the fair this year,
and their exhibits are all that could be
desired. The crowds began coming Into
Centralia this morning, and It is pre
dicted that ths daily average of visitors
for the week will be well over 4000. A
carnival has been- arranged by the Cen
tralis Amusement committee, which or
ganization la composed of many of ths
city's leading .business men, and will
run every night this week as a source
of entertainment to the visitors who
will make Centralia their headquarters.
PROGRESSIVES IN
COLORADO PRIMED
William Allen White Talks, but
No Mention of Taft Made
by Speakers. ,
(United Pits taaed Wire )
Montrose, Colo.. Sept. 11. The first
deflnije step towards the organization of
the Progressive Republicans of Colorado
for the 1912 campaign was taken at a
banquet here Saturday, at which Wil
liam Allen White of "What's the Matter
With Kansas" fame delivered the prin
cipal address.
While the resolutions adopted by ths
banqueters made no mention of Presi
dent Taft or his candidacy for renoml
nation, several speakers referred dispar
agingly to the Taft administration.
The resolutions "pledged the' Progres
sive Republicans of Colorado to the prin
ciples enunciated by the National Pro
gresslve Republicans and expressed a
determination to nominate an entire Re
publican Progressive state ticket for
the next campaign.
They declare "emphatic approval of
the official acts of the Progressive Re
publicans in congress and emphatic sup
port of those principles." They further
"congratulate the people of California,
Oregon, Kansas, Wisconsin and other
Progressive Republican states on the
efficiency and integrity of their state
administrations."
Pastor Russell Says Messiah's
Reign Will Come After '
Time of Trouble.
ffftSfOR. gUSSELD
DESERTS ARMY 10 BE
AT MOTHER'S DEATHBED
(Publisher Preas Leatd Wire.)
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 11. Just as the
last spadeful of earth was thrown into
the grave of his mother in the old North
Manltus cemetery Robert Beechner, 21
years old, was arrested on the charge
of being a deserter from the United
States naval marine school In Brooklyn.
He was looked up pending receipt of
instructions from Washington by
Charles W. Chryst, In charge of ti re
cruiting station here.
The young man admits being a de
serter, but behoves he will be pardoned
when his story is heard before a court
martial.
He enlisted last June, and a few
weeks later received a letter from his
mother, Mrs. John Boechner, telling him
she was 111 and not likely to4 stirvlvs
his enlistment. She pleaded with him
to soma home and remain with her un
til death should, relieve her sufferings.
The youth's filial love got the better
of his sense of duty to his country, and
he seised ths first opportunity to run
away.
"With you here, my son, I am not
afraid to die," were her last words.
GERMANS WOULD OPEN
DOOR TO AMERICANS
(Publlshera' Preas Lea I'd Wire.)
Berlin, Sept. 11. At the instance of
the senior board of the Berlin Corpor
ation of Merchants an urgent demand
Is to. be made that the German gov
ernment open the doors to the Impor
tation of American food products on
more liberal terms. '
The board is an "official body and
Its recommendations are likely to se
cure widespread support among Oar
man business men, who' see in ths
present financial degression and high
cost of living S severe International
crisis next fall when the elections are
held. The board advises especially that
steps be taken to facilitate the Impor
tation of grain and meats and inciden
tally intimates 'That the government's
Mt Lake Park,
Md.. Sept 11. Pas
tor Russell was ths
principal s p o a k r
, yesterday before the
International Bible
Students association
convention which
has been in session
here for more than
5 week, and has
een addressed by
many able Bible
scholars. Pastor
Russell took for his
text Isaiah 11,' 2,
but Included in his
discourse ths re
mainder of the chapter.
He declared that in the- symbollo
language, of the Bible, the mountain of
the Lord's bouse means the Kingdom
of the Lord, ruled over by Messiah and
Lhls house, the church. The promise of
fine text, that soma day Messiah will
reign over all the kingdoms of earth,
the speaker believes will soon, be real
ized. It Is for this kingdom that God's
people have for years been praying.
"Thy Kingdom come, they will be don.
on earth,, as it is done In heaven."
None of the kingdoms of this world
are Messiah's kingdoms, declared Pastor
Russell. None of them bear the ear
marks of Messiah's kingdom, outlined
In the Bible. They are the kingdoms
of this world, ruled by - the prince of
this world, "who now worketh In the
hearts of the children of disobedience."
Nevertheless, Messiah's kingdom will
be ' Inaugurated; Satan's empire or
mountain, deceiving mankind through
Ignorance and supersltlon, will be
brought to an end. Satan will be bound
for a thousand years, while Messiahs'
kingdom, equally Invisible, will domin
ate .the world, chasing away ignorance
and superstition and filling the whole
world with the knowledge of the glory
of the Lord. To that kingdom "every
knee must bow, and every tongue con
fess," as the knowledge of ths glory
of God shall gradually fill the entire
earth.
Ths Kingdom XsraeUtlsfc.
The speaker declared that the Bible
everywhere shows that Messiah's in
visible kingdom will be represented
amongst mankind by princely charac
ters of the Jewish race, who will be
resurrected to human perfection for
this very work. Instead of Abraham,
Isaac and Jaqob and the phophets be
ing any longer the fathers, they will
be the children the first born chil
dren of Messiah, in the full perfection
of human nature. The church, the
bride of Christ, Is not, declared the
pastor, scrlpturally known as children
of Messiah. In perfect accord is the
text, "One is your father, even God;"
and again, "The God and father of our
Lord Jesus Christ who hath begotten
us" (Ic Peter 1, 3).
Crawling Into ths Books.
, Discoursing on other features of the
chapter, Pastor Russell called atten
tion to fhe fact that the words declare
a Judgment of the nations. In the time
of trouble which will then overthrow
soolety, financial, political, social and
religious, the nations will be so chast
ened by war that thereafter "Their
swords will be converted into plow- j
shares and their spears Into Drunlne
nooKs," and the study of war will ba
at an end. Pastor Russell surmised that
this great time of trouble will result
from anarchism, which he believes will
Invade the armies of the world and
turn them against the very powers
which organized and armed them.
All were cautioned to avoid, so far as
possible, having any sympathy with
the anarchistic spirit. In harmony with
God's Message to His people, "Walt ye
upon me, salth the Lord." In other
words, do apt attempt by foroe to right
present wrongs; rather submit and
leave the entire matter in God's hands.
The Phophet Isaiah, said the Pastor,
calls attention to the idolatry of wealth
-sliver and gold and Indicates that
uch Idolatry will entirely Dans awav in
the great time of trouble with which
Messiah's reign of righteousness will
be Inaugurated 'He must reign until
He hath put all onemles under his feet."
In the shakings of the time of trouble.
at the inauguration of Messiah's King
dom, many people will be in perplexity,
and will crawl Into the caves and dens
of the earth, and the clefts of the rocks.
Pastor Russell quoted Revelation vl.
16-17. He Interpreted the dens and
oaves and rocks to signify political and
social fastnesses Insurance and com
bines. He declared that many are al
ready in fear and are hiding themselves,
described in this scripture, although
the great storm has not yet broken, and
will not break ou,t In its severity for
a few years yet probably not before
1915.
The Revelation of Our God.
One of old truly said, "Thou art
a God which hldest thyself" (Isaiah xlv,
16); How true! As a result the world
by wisdom knows not God. He is near
in His wisdom and love, yet He can be
seen only by those whose eyes of under
standing have been opened. But we
are glad that the time Is coming when
all the blind eyes shall see olearly. "As
I live, salth the Lord, ths whole earth
shall be filled with My glory;" "The
knowledge of the glory of God shall
fill the whole earth as ths waters cover
the great deep" (Habakkuk 11, 11). Then
all shall see what God hath wrought and
our past blindness will but accentuato
the glorious brightness of His wisdom.
Justice, love and power.
In the end It will be seen that the di
vine permission of the reign of sin and
death in the earth, instead of being a
blot upon divine character and a demon
stration of divine unwisdom and incom
petency, will reVeal the great Creator to
His subjects, His children, as nothing
else could have done. Besides, the ex
periences of mankind during the 7000
years from Adam's creation to the end
of Messiah's mediatorial kingdom will
demonstrate traits of the divine charact
er which could not otherwise be mani
fested to angels or to men.
The speaker closed with an exhorta
tion that his hearers remember the
words of Jesus, "Watch ye, that ys may
be accounted worthy to escape. all these
things coming upon the world, and to
He de-
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CHARACTER
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CHICAGO
tlnlte Press teased Wire. I
Chicago. Sent.- 11. Oeorss P. Bemls.
75, former mayor , of . Omaha, paid
ins nrsi visit io umcago sinos ths Co
lumbia Exposition, and while he was
here married Mrs. A. Neff, 4J. The
bride Is also a resident of Omaha,
Ths ceremony was performed In ths
Chambers of Judge O. F. Heard of Free
port, who has been sitting in the county
building for ths past week. Bemls Is a
cousin of George Francis Train, and
with him toured Europe in the interests
of ths federal government during the
CIyU. war. Mark Twain .mada. Bemls
one of his principal characters In a
stage ooach story in "Roughing It"
Jersey Girl Cast Shoe
(Special to The Journal.) " '
New York, Sept 11. -Kicking out on
foot - to dislodge a grasshopper In her
openwork hose, a young Jersey miss
cast her she on crowded Broadway. It
landed In a taxi and the chauffeur
helped her put it back on again.
ARTISTS' CAE SCENE
OF
MURDER
IN VIENNA
(PnbltaheHr- Frets teased Wire.)
Vienna, Sept 11. Great .excitement
was caused in ths Prater Strasse, one
of the most frequented quarters of Vi
enna, by a murder which was commit
ted In ths international artists' cafe.
After a slight . altercation, Herr Em 11
Bartmayer, an actor who had reoently
returned from Alexandria, drew a re
volver and shot ths manager of ths es
tablishment. '. Herr f; Kalomsn ? Muller.
four times, causing Instant death. ' "'
, Ths cafe was crowded at ths time
and a panic ensued, all the customers
rushing into ths stmt. Tit was .with
great difficulty that ths murderer was
rescued by the police from the hands of
the infuriated spectators. Who desired
to lynch him. -sit.
The murder was not premeditated, put
was dons in a moment of soger. ; -
The diamond cutting Industry of Am- ,
sterdam has a waiting list of mors than
1000 persons who desire to learn ths,
work. . vj
I Ut.
prejudice against American meats Is
unworthy of consideration. In -its pub- I stand before the Son of Man.
llshed resolutions it recommends par-' clured that many of the church will
tlcularly the admission of "American 'all to escape a share in the great
canned meat, which . is consumed la trouble time approaching.' Only the
other countries with no noticeable dam
age to public health.
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Home Office,
COBBETT BTTX.BXWO.
' Oor, Viftn and Morrison gts.
. rOBTfcAJTP. OBEOOB.
A., MILLS , . . . . . i . President
L. SAMUEL. .General Manacar
CLARF.NCE a 8AMUUU Asst. Mgr.
Is Best for Oreg'onians
zealous, the saintly, the faithful, the
obedient, will bo accounted worthy to
escape and will be upheld by divine
power, faithful to the very end of their
race. Us, exhorted all those who havo
not entered . the Lord's service as foot
step followers of Jesus to lay not up
for themselves treasures upon earth,
but rather to "Lay up treasure in heav
en, whers neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and whers thieves do not break
through Land, steal," -
There Is one hen to every acre of ter
ritory In, England. ' .
Made with taste and style; made of ma
terials designed for good, , hard wear;
made honestly and well. We want you
to see them.
Boys9 Duplex
Suit
The two pairs of Trousers that go with
this suit double its life. It's guar
anteed all wooL .
5eQ0
We give free a Guaranteed Ingeraoll
Watch with each Boy's Suit we sell.
When You See It In Our Ad It's So
First and Morrison
First and Yamhill
Second and Morrison
' Third and Oak
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The September Sale of Manufacturers' Sample Blankets
Slightly Soiled and Slightly Damaged
At Just About Half Regular Prices
5000 pairs of white and gray woolen blankets from the largest and best wodlen
mills in America.
Some of these blankets are slightly soiled from machine oil some with rough sel
veges and a great number of travelers' sample blankets slightly soiled from Kandlinjj
some with imperfect weaves.
In the majority of cases the imperfection is so slight that it can hardly be detected, yet
prevent them from being sold as perfect blankets.
White, tan and gray 10-4, 1 1-4, 12-4 sizes. ! ,
The vast purchase which we negotiated far in advance for this sale will prove none
too large as the bargains are the greatest we haveever offered before in a sale of this
kind.
Blankets worth $4.00, now, $2.19 pair
Blankets worth $5.00, now $2.49 pair
Blankets worth $6.00, now $2.95 pair
Blankets worth $7.50. now $3A9 pair
Blankets worth $ 8.50, now $4.45 pair ,
Blankets worth $10.00, now $5.85 pair ,
Blankets worth $12.50, now $6.85 pair
Blankets worth $15.00, now $8.45 pair
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