"Hie Dalles Daily Chronicle.
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AND WAKCO COUNTY.
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1 now on hand, we will, for the next 30 days, sell cook
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marked down every stove in our house from 15 to 20 per cent.
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OUR LAND OFFICE MUDDLE.
By reason of a ruling, made at the in
stance and dictation of United States
Inspector, Harbison by name, the re
ceiver at United States land office The
Dalles, Or., refused on Saturday last, to
issue any more tinal receipts to entry
men offering proof as required by law ;
assigning as a reason the sickness of the
register, Capt. J no. W. Lewis. It will
be remembered that during the first
session of the present congress, efforts
were made to secure an extension of
time in which claimants, under act, of
September 29th, 1890, were allowed to
offer proof and pay for lands embraced
within the law, generally known as the
Jiailroad Forfeiture act; but notwith
standing the combined efforts of the Or
egon delegation, the democratic house
could not be induced to allow said ex
tension 10 embrace only such entries as
where claimants were actually residing
Tipon such land at the time of the pas
sage of said act, and the time allowed
for all other claimants was restricted to
February Sd, 1S93. This was a small
consession by a large democratic house,
and was a gracious boon to a righteous
few only, as nine-tenths of the claimants
.under the act of September 29th, 1890,
"were either living on other lands, or had
exhausted their rights under the general
land lawe then in force.
t)ur object in calling attention to the
"provisions of the forfeiture act, is to
ehow the "condition" which "confronts"
entrymen, now ready and anxious to
make final proof; and to show the
. grounds of complaint which the general
'-public are now making of the way busi
ness iu the U. S. Laud office , at The
Dalles is now conducted ; and to show
the manner iu which this important
branch of the public service is being run,
through the oyer-otficiousness and domi
nation of a V. S. Laud office inspector,
whose assumption of authority, is
"cheeky" to say the least, even in the
"wUd and wooly west."
"To say that this man has made him
self obnoxious, in his official capacity
with the general public is putting it
mild, and the sooner he is ordered and
directed to seek other fields of labor and
pastures new, the better it will be for the
splendid record of the U. S. Land office
department under Mr. Harrison's ad
ministration. We of the west had a
surfeit of insane circulars and arbitrary
rulings irom the general land office in
thr days of Andrew Jackson Sparks ; and
we vigorously "kick," just at the close
of a we'l spent life, to be subjected to
the idosyncracies of this "government
official."
But a few days since a number of citi
zens from Sherman cuunty came to The
Dalles bringing their witnesses with
them for the iurixse of making final
proof on entries uuder the forfeiture
act; but upon application at the land
office were informed that the receiver
would not issue them final certificates
(receipts), but that the receiver would
issue them a receipt dictated by Mr.
Harbison, which in effect can only be
construed as a personal receipt. In
, tliis connection we call attention to the
decision of Secretary Vilas, in the case
of Mathieson and Ward, upon applica
tion to purchase, from which we quote:
"The receiver has no authority to re
ceive mont'v except when tendered in
payment upon an application made to
the register for the purchase of lands
upon which the local officers having au
thority to act," etc., and further: "A
payment received by the local officers
in" advance of the time when they arc
readv to act upon an application and
allow the entry, is not in pursuance of
any duty enjoined by law."
We believe enough has been said to
show the necessity of "culling the atten
tion f ''ur delegation in congress to the
condition which :iw obstruct entrymen
' upon forfeited railroad lands, and in
uigmg that tbe :itU-ntion of the com
missioner of the general land otlice le
called to the eituaiiou ; to the end that
some definite instructions may be given,
looking to the relief of this class of en
tries. k.
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Leading Jeweler.
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FRENCH aiid FUR FELT HATS
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j The Dalles,
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TilE DALLES. OREGON.
Oregon.
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