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About Falls City news. (Falls City, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1915)
r FH VOL. XII ♦ WOULD SHOOT SPEED FIENDS Indapendanoe Visitor Would R tg u * lata Spaad ot G as-W agons t * t ) 4 I N Editor Monitor— Your corres pondent visiting your city last week was surprised to find thut it does not enforce a 16-mile speed limit. Walking down on the road to Salem, a mile out o f vown, I was overtaken by a my- torcocle speed fiend who scorched by me within two feet going at lit) miles an hour. Altho he hud the whole w’ idth o f the road to travel, I was on the side, he looked back to see if he had knocked me down. Now then as u person has a right to proctect himself Irom "assault and battery” w e’ ll say under the law. I claim I have that same right on the road against these ' ‘fiends” and shall exercise it should occasion require by shooting. It is against the law to carry concealed weapons so mine will be openly carried for self protection on the high way. I shall take out a license for carrying a gun and - hunt as speed "fiends” are always in season. Albert 0 . Yates. I*. S. I jet every person exer cise his or her right for self pro tection and speed "fiends” will soon be a thing o f the past.— Monitor. PORTO RICO PLAN AID TO LABORERS ’to County Judge H. B. Beatie, of Clackamas county, and paid no attention to it in taking his cruise. During the conversation be-1 tween Mr. Nease and lax Aoent Marshall, in the form er’s office, Judge Bee tie was secreted in an adjoining room and witnessed the whole transaction. The cruise given Mr. Nease by Mr. Marshall was many timesj smaller than the one he eventu ally made, testifiedAMr. Nease. The trial ended this afternoon, j In rendering a decision, Judge! G o v e rn o r to A p p o in t M om bera of Campbell ditl nut question the H o m e sto a d C o m m issio n P ro vid e d F o r by N o w A c t— W d l H a v a to In h a b it value placed by Assessor Jack. However, he compromised be ! • nd O s vo lo p N o w T e r r it o r y — L a n d o w n e rs U n d e r S m a ll O b lig a tio n . tween the county and private cruises and the assessed valua-1 Hau Juan, Port» ItIco. —Governor Ya tion o f the Weyerhauser’s hold ger H preparing to appoint members o f the homestead commission, provided ings will be reduced somewhat, i for by an act of the last legislature of Poor Men Abie lo Buy Farms and Homos Cheap. WILL BE UNDER BOARD'S EYE Sovan Units Concerned Seven units were concerned in controversy, contains 4240 acres. The entire holding o f the timber company in this county amount to over 21,000 acres. The court sustained the county cruise on three oi these units and lowered it on four. About 5J0.000.00f) feet o f timber will be lopped o ff the assessment rolls as a result. The trial took two days. Dis trict Attorney Giloert L. Hedges appeared for the county, and Robert McGuire and L. Star for the plaintiffs. Porto Itleo. This <ouiuil**i»n will have to deal with a homestead problem lo Inhabit and develop a new territory. It 1» charged equally with developing the re sources o f the people and the island. The last legislature, however, appro printed $10.000 for the purpose o f muk- lug further surveys, aud government surveyors are now at work near d a les These lands are to be offered to Porto «lea n laborers on easy terms In an ef fort to establish them as small farmers and land owners. Although Porto Blco Is dependent solely on agilcultufe. there are compar ntlvely few small farmers In a mens LAST TRIP IN SEARCH OF A LOST GOLD MINE TRY TO WORK ! If COUNTY BOARD N. S E L IG ’S Unsuccessful Prospector F A « L L S C I T Y D E P A R T M E N T S T O R E Wm Gj¥0 |t yp> New Westminster. B C. — Wilbur Armstrong, a Washington prospector in Taxes on Tim ber Lan d s of seventy-two, plunged Into the niouu >talns o f P itt range recently on bis tenth trip In search o f Slumagh's mine, l-'or ten yeers Armstrong has made thle Oregon City. Or., Alleged pilgrimage every summer, bnt this, he tactics o f the Weyerhauser Land says, will be the last If It proves as company, the largest timber hold barren ns the others. Armstrong 1» not the only man who ing compuny in the world, a cor has headed search parties tn the at poration valued at close to$2.t)00. tempt to locate this hidden treasure, 000,000, to keep the assessed whose location Is asserted to he within twenty miles o f the head o f Pitt lake, valuation o f its holdings down, yet which has been discovered by but were told in the Clakamas county one man. who Is now dead, since Slu- circuit court by M. G. Neatje, magh. the Indian after whom It 1» named, was hanged In the Jallyard at timber cruiser o f Portland. New Westminster In 1801. Walter Jackson, the second discov Mr. Nease’s testimony was erer. panned out thousands o f dollars’ given while on the stand in the worth o f gold In n few days whetr he trial o f Weyerhauser Land com located It In 1001. Burying the main pany vs. Clackamas county, on purt o f his treasure, he came out with appeal from the board o f equal dust and nuggets to the value of $8,000. Intending to return and utake claims at ization o f this county. The board Ills leisure. But he fell sick and. being refused to lower the valuation about to die, bethought him o f Andrew Hall, who had grubstaked him at Oay- placed by Assessor J. E. Jack tos many years before H e wrote to upon 4210 acres o f the timber Hall and drew n chart. Hall, finding company’ s holdings in Clackamas himself In need of money 1i\ the Yu kon, sold the letter and chart to a county. cousin o f Armstrong, to whom the doc Several years ago Mr. Nease uments flnnlly camp. Jackson's description of his Und. was; employed by Clackamas which Is In n creek In a canyon to Vounty to make a cruise o f all its which there la no outlet except by an underground channel, says In part: timber lands, “ In going upstream 1 found n place Offerod Free Qruise. where the bedrock was bare, and you According to Mr. Nease’s test will hardly believe me when I tell you the bedrock was yellow with gold. In imony to day, George W. Marsh a few days 1 gathered thousands, and all, tax agent o f the Weyerhauser there were thousands more In sight.” B ig Lum be r Conoern Gel Reduction St V, OUR GROCERIES WILL SUIT VOU TO A “ T .” VOU WILL LIKE THE FLAUOR OF OUR EXCEL LENT FOODS; VOU WILL LIKE THE PRICE. VOU SPEEND MORE MONEY FOR THINGS TO EAT THAN FOR THINGS TO WEAR. BUY VOUR GROCERIES FROM US: TAKE THE MONEY VOU SAVE AND LET US SELL VOU ALL VOUR THINGS TO WEAR. Land company at the time Nease made this cruise, offered him M U T E . T A L K S T O A N IM A LS . free, a cruise o f all the timber F a rm e r H a t Bssn U nable' to Spaak to company’s holdings in Clackamas F rie n d s F o r T w o Y e a rs . county, and said the Weyerhaus Crane, Mo.—Physicians are puzzled er company would fight him, if j by an ailment vvhlch strikes W. H. j.Hilton dumb when he attempts to ad the county cruiser did not enter dress persons near him, but permits the privat cruise as his own. him to speak plainly to persons at a Believing it to be the easiest distance or to animals. Hilton Is a farmer and has suffered way out o f it, as he testified, Mr. with the affliction since he had the Nease agreed to accept this cruise, whooping cough two years ago. He but immediately turned it over Is slxty-flve years old. OOVKHNOR V A »S R . ure this Is due to the fact that much land Is either held iq large tracts or Is farmed to crops thut demand large acreage. The laborers on these plantations and elsewhere frequently live In houses which they own. but which are built on leased land. Agricultural workers seldom own both house and land, and It Is the exception rather than the rule when they do any farming for them selves. They live largely on food 1m- Isifted into the Island, chiefly rice and beaus and codtlsb. The new homestead law provides that the government may sell to de serving laborers tracts o f land for farming purposes not to exceed five acres each or tracts for dwelling pur poses not to exceed 500 square meters, the laborers to have from eleven to thirteen years lo pay for the land, which Is to be tax free until Anally paid for. In order (o be of assistance to the most needy the law provides that no one may become an applicant who earns more than $500 a year or who Is not married or who does not have a family to support. The law also pro vides that for a period o f seven yenrs (hose taking the small farms roust cul tivate them under the supervision of the homestead commission. So that the homesteader may become the ultimate owner o f the land the law provides that the homestead may not he taken for debt and It may not be transferred to another except under regulations established by the commls slon. I f a homesteader dies Ids heirs may_asstinic the obligation o f Jiaylng for the property ami obtain title Io~ It when the property has been completely paid for. The on y obligation which the home steader takes upon himself Is that within one year after he comes into possession o f a five acre farm he must build a shack o f a value of at least $50 and have at least one-third o f the land under cultivation within two yearn. From the third to the thirteenth yeas he must pay to the government annu ally a sum equal to 10 per cent of the assessed value o f the property, and be must live upon It for at least a period o f five years. Ih tjie event that these conditions are not compiled with, the property reverts to t ie government, to be again disposed o f by the homestead commission. D s a f, T w is t s N eck, H s a rs . Tm y. Kan.— Following an attack of typhoid pneumoula. Frank High, a young man o f this place, was tcftally deaf for ten months, and his doctor failed to help him. A few days ago In a tussle with Zack Bailey. High's neck got twisted, and Ms bearing ••ume back Iwstnotlr ROC KEFELLER R E M IN IS C E N T . R iche st M an Tells of Taking H i* F irs t Job, S ix t y Years A g o. Tarrytown. N. Y.—Sixty years ago John f*. Rockefeller took his first job. and when the old man's attention was called to the fact It was evident that he had been thinking o f the old days and thnt first Job. for he had facts and figures at his fingers' ends. “ It was Sept. 2ti. 1835. that I went tn work In Cleveland as an assistant book; keeper," he said, "and 1 worked front that date until Jan. I for $50. I w on der what the young men o f tods y would say If they had to work that time for the money 1 received.” "And I suppose tllen you got a raise?” a reporter asked. “ Well, the rest speaks for Itself," he replied. * Mr. Rockefeller appeared to take much pleasure tn thinking o f the old days and thnt first job. He gave the reporter the Impression that nny young man who wns willing to work and was thrifty would get along In the world. WARNING Section 537 Postal Laws and Reg ulations. Whover shall use or attempt to use in payment of postage, any canceled postage stamp, whether the same has been used or not; or shall remove, attempted to re move. or assist in removing, the canceling or defacing marks from any postage stamp, or the super scription from any stamped en velope, or postal card, that has once been used in payment o f pos tage. with the intent to use the same for a like purpose, or to sell o r offer to sell the same, or shall knowingly have in possession any such postage stamp, stamped en velope, or postal card, with intent to use the same, or shall knowing ly sell or offer to sell any such postage stamp, stamped envelope, •or postal card..or use or attempt to use the same in payment o f pos tage; or whoever unlawfully and willfully shall remove from any mail matter any stamp attached I thereto in payment o f postage; or shall knowingly use or cause to be used in payment o f postage, any postage stamp, postal card, or sta.mped envelope, issued in pur- suai ice o f law, which has already been used for a like purpose; shall, if he be a person employed in the posta 1 service, be fined .not more than .iv e hundred dollars, or im prison ed not more than three years, or both:; and if he be a person not employ ed in the postal service, shall b e fined not more than five hundr» id dollars, or imprisoned not more t ban one year, or both.