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IIILLSBOUO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEU. 21, 11)01
Number 41
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LAND FRAUDS
IN OREGON
STORY OF THE WHOLE THING
Showing Hew the Great Heitage
to this Nation Is Belnq Squan.
4rdRidiculous Laws.
rrom Collier's Weekly.
A mountaineer went Into he great
forest of Eastern Oregon lu l'J02 and
acquired title to a one hundred and
rIxt y acre timber claim. The timber
alone was worth at leant $15 an acre
Under the timber-and-ritone act, this
man got the tract of land, timber
and all, by the mere payment to the
government of $2.60 an acre. Tbis
did not satisfy him. He wanted
more timber, or rather the lumber
company that employed him as
"dummy" did. As he wai entitled
to but one hundred and sixty acres
under the timber-nnd atone act, he
took up one hundred and sixty more
acres, adjoining the first tract, under
the homestead law. To do this be
was obliged to swear that the second
tract was more valuable for farming
purposes than for Its timber, that he
resided and Intended to reside on his
"farm" for the purpose of cultivating
crops; that he was, in fact, a bona
fide farmer. He was compelled, of
course, to He, This land was on top
of a mountain, covered with deep
snow until June, making it Impossi
ble to cultivate anything but timothy
and a few hardy vegetables, even If
the bind was cleared. The extent to
which It was "farmed" may be gath
ered from the accompanying photo
graph. Tbis man never lived on
the land and never Intended to do
so. The only pretence be made of
complying with any part of the law
was to pile together a few logs Into a
rough shack, which he called a house.
In plain words he and his witnesses
were guilty of perjury, of conspiracy
to defraud the United States Govern
ment, and what he actually did was
to steal one hundred and sixty acres
of valuable land from his benevolent
country.
We mer.tlon the case of this moun
taineer not because it Is Isolated or
nusual, but merely because it is ty
plcal of the methods of those who
are now gobbling up the remnant of
our public lands In the far West an
attitude which you must reckon with
before you can understand the mag
nitude and apparent shamelessness
of the raids upon the public domain.
This mountaineer violated the letter
of the law, but he probably is no less
patriotic than the hundreds of his
fellow Oregoniana who have violated
and are violating the spirit of It. If
an Invading army should land on
the Pacific coast or, for the matter
of that, at Boston or New York, he
would probably be as eager as the
next one to enlist In the First Ore.
gon Volunteers. He merely regard
ed the public domain as a large pro
portion of people In certain section
of the country do regard It is the
property of those who have the cour
age or good fortune to push their
way into it and grab it and that all
government laws that In any way
hinder their convenience in taking
possession of whatever they want
even our absurdly Inadequate laws
are to be evaded Instead of obeyed.
He regarded the government in oth
r words, precisely as eminently re
spectable Eistern people regard the
government when . they are return.
Ing from a summer in Europe and
wish to get dutiable finery through
the custom house.
More than three millions of acres
of timber land of the Northwest, has
been practically given away by the
government in the putt two years'
Probably nine-tenths of this was
grabbed either by actual fraud or by
violating the spirit of an absurd and
Impotent law. There Is nothing
particularly new in this except that
the Und grabbed has been particular
ly valuable, the destrnctlon of tim
ber particularly ruthless. Kesect
able citlx ns have always thought it
proper to cheat the government.
Were It not that such men a Sena
tor Mitchell, Congressman Dinger
Hermann, Surveyor Meld rum of
Oregon, and Frederick Hyde, presi
dent ol the San Frnnc'sco school
board, are under Indictment, the
blase Kmt would not even take any
Interest- The West takes land grab
blng for granted. The whole history
of our public lands is one of ruthless
grabbing and still more of idiotic
laws and farelftl attempts to enforce
them.
The manner in which the
government has given away it pub-
lie lands makes the dealings of Mrs.
Chad wick's bankers look like the
apex of conservative and astute
finance. We have thrown away and
are throwing away such an empire
as was never before given to any oth
er nation under the sun. Under the
altruistic theory that the public land
should be given to the people for
homesteads and farm, domains vast
euouatu to constitute separate states
have been tossed away to speculators.
railroads, ranchmen and lumber cor
poratlons. To the states, for the
avowed purpose of providing for edu
cation, we once gave thirty thousand
acres of Und for each senator and re
presentative In Congress. The states
which had no public land received
scrip which eventually found Its way
into the open market. Wall street
speculators at one time advertised
the college scrip of nine states. The
entire scrip of one university was of
fered at one time for thirty-seven and
a hair cents an acre. The greater
part of this land, the income of which
was intended to be used for educa
tion, has long since been squandered
and lost forever. Under the old
Swamp Ltnds act thousands of acres
in the Sierra Nevada mountains
were slez1 as swamp-lands five
thousand feet above the level of the
sea, actually requiring irrigation to
make anything grow on them.
Vat areas were surveyed when
flooded and grabbed or Included, be
cause some far-off corner of them had
a mud hole in it. They tell a story
of a man who put a boat on a wagon
ana nad nis muie draw him across
a stretch of fertile prairie. Then be
went to the land offlce and entered
his claim for swamp land, producing
several witnesses who were quite
wil'lng to swear, orally, that he
rowed over the claim in a boat.
IUilroads, by Juggling the "alter
nate sections" they received when
first running their lines through new
country, have acquired tracts of
weuty or even fifty miles, which
they have held unimproved, waiting
for values to rise, . while the home
steaders beyond these belts were
driven back, compelled to content
themselves with tho Imagluary ad
vantages of a railroad perhays fifty
miles distant. The government has
not always even kept faith with its
own children. It has Invited settlers
Into a country, and after they had
built houses and started farms in
good faith, has sold out the whole
area to a railroad or speculative cor
poration at, for example, $1 an acre.
The homesteaders were then ejected
or obliged to buy back their own
land from their nw masters at, for
instance, G an acre, paying for the
Improvements that they themselves
had made. And so on, and so on.
It's an old story now one that
makes appear respectable the aver
age performance of pickpockets and
thieves.
Wailing about the land that is
gone now merely as a tardy locking
of the barn door after the horse Is
stolen. It is to save the remnant of
the pnblic domain that the president
and secretary of the interior are con
ducting the present investigation
and running the guilty to earth
wherevur the cleverness of speculat
ors and the opposition of public pre
udics are not to much for them.
There are three acts under which the
greater part of our public land is
nowadays acquired the timber-and-stone,
suposed to apply to land not
available for agriculture; the home
stead, supposed to apply to farming
land, and the desert land act, sup
posed to apply to land useless for
agriculture without irrigation. As a
matter of fact, thousands of acres of
fertile land are fraudulently acquired
every year as "desert land," and
mountainside after mountainside of
supberb timber is gobbled up by
those who pose as farmers and home
steaders. A primary objection to all these
laws is that conditions to which they
have been applied in the prairie
country of the Middle West are ut
terly changed in the mountain coun
try of Oregon or the vast ranges of
Montana. Distances are so great
and traveling so difficult that person
al Inspection of claims by the land
office agents is often impossible.
The word of the lumberman or
ranchman must be taken for what it
Is worth. Men may take op a tim
ber claim under a homestead entry,
and before the Inspector has visited
it have cut down all the trees and
skipped away. Even were there
enough inspectors to keep tab on
every claim, the timber-and -stone
law is so faulty that the destruction
of the forests would be little lessened.
This law does not require residence
nd improvements like the home
stead law. All that lumberui
have to do is to "prove" bis entry
and buy land worth anywhere from
115 to $100 an acre for $2.60. Al
though the assumption is that land
is intended for the Individual, there
Is no law that can prevent him from
selling it immediately after he has
bought it. lu this way, itisaslm
pie matter f-r a lumber corporation
to send a whole train load of employ
ees, clerks, workmen, telephone
girls any oue that they can rake
and scrape together into the public
demain. and acquire title in a short
space of time to a timber area that
mltbt support a principality.
There is another feature of the tlm-
ber-and-stone law which has been al
most as disastrous as tbis business of
the dummy settler. When the gov
eroment adopted the policy of creat
ing forest reserves, it provided that
any settler who had a homestead
within the reserve previous to Its oc
cupstion by the government would
receive scrip which he could ex
change for other land outside of the
reserve. 'There is no provision in
the law which compels the settler to
exchange land of the same value as
that which he surrendered. The re
i
sult has been that sp"culators and
land grabbers have learned in ad
vance of the proposed boundaries of
forest reserves, taken up claims with
in them, perhaps of utterly valueless
land on tbe tops of mountains cover
ed with snow, so steep that Dothing
but a mountain goat could live upon
them, and have exchanged this for
timber land outside of the reserve
covered with finest timber. By mak
ing their original entries upon land
of little or no value, tbe grabbers es
caped all danger of competing claims.
In this part of the recent land grab
bing that most of the actual crime
has been committed. In order to
find out the probable boundaries of
proposed reserves, and to rush claims
through the land offlce, the grabbers
have resorted to forgery, perjury,
bribery, and systematic corruption of
public officials. Entries are filed In
tbe names of persons who never ex
Is ted; men are hired to impersonate
others and to file proofs upon lands
they have never seen.
What happens In the forests of
Oregon and California happens in
another way in tbe grazing country
of Montana, uuder the desert land
act. Here whole counties are gob
bled up by ranchmen, who send
their cowboys, or any one that they
can get hold of, Into the land to take
It up under supposed settlers' claims.
The Eisterner winders why the bona
fide Individual settler does not com
plain. He does not, because he is as
helpless on his little farm, surround
ed by the vast domains of the big
ranchmen, as a sheep among a pack
of wolves. If he does protest, hj is
lucky oftentimes to escape with his
life or to be tied to a tree while he
watches his herd of sheep shot down.
Under the desert land act, by which
the settler la enabled to acquire 820
acres until recently 640 acres by
agreeing to reclaim it by irrigation,
thousands and thousands of acres
have been taken up by ranchmen,
with scarcely a pretence of irrigation,
for grazing purposes, while in other
Instances settlers have acquired
whole sections of fertile land on
which Irrigation was not necessary
by entering It as divert land, calling
a sink-hole a reservoir and a mean
dering plow furrow an irrigation
ditch.
Such fraud may be the result of
the laxity of the land office offl ials,
or it may be bought about by actual
perjury on tbe part of the entrymen
and the imporwibility, because of the
enormous areas to be covered, of per
sonally and properly Inspecting every
claim. As it not enough land had
been given away under the general
desert Isnd law, two bills are now
before Congress which if passed It
would allow anyone who has a 160
acre homestead entry in South Da
kota or Colorado to take up 480 acres
adjoining it. The alleged Justifies,
tion for this bill is that a farmer in
this neighborhood can not make a
living from a 160 acre farm. Hav
ing already received 160 acres for
nothing, it Is assumed that the set
tler Is entitled to a whole square
mile. While the privilege of 'com
muting that is to say, the privelege
of purchasing the land for $1.25 an
acre, after having lived on It sup
posedly for fourteen months the
settler can turn over his claim to bis
employer, ranchman, speculator, or
what not, and he ran not be legally
attacked. Even as applied to the
1C0 acre homestead claim, the com
mutation clause is disastrous, enough.
Continued on Last l'ae.
BUNCOED OUT OF
$10,000.00
BY THE "COLO BRICK" SCH CM E.
An Albany Man Parts From
Money and New Lisa Dan
gerously III. -No Clue.
His
William Vance, the wealthy Al
bany man who was swindled out of
$10,000 by the "gold brick" trick at
Salem last Thursday, lies very ill at
the residence of his son-in-law, W.
B. Peacock, '214 Eleventh street,
while tbrouhgout the country de
tectives are bendiog their energies to
capture the confidence men who ac
complished the daring robbery.
Never in the history of the North
west, detectives declare, has a rob
bery so daring and so successful been
brought to light. Many of its feat
ures are so remarkable, they state,
that It aeoms almost Incredible that
they can be true. Yet they are veri
fied in every detail as published in
The Oregonlan yesterday.
Strange as is the accomplishment
cf the crime, still more so does it be
come when It is known that a daugh
ter of Mr. Vance used every effort to
persuade her aged father to have
nothing to do with the man who
called himself William Dunn, and
who operated at Albany until he had
won the entire confidence of Mr.
Vance and took him to Salem, where
the $10,000 check was cashed at Laud
& Bush's bank.
Ouglielmo to Ilang.
The supreme court rendered a de
cision affirming the lower court
In the case of the state vs. Frank
Qugllelmo, the ItaliaH who murder
ed Freda Qaracio in Portland, June
14, 1904. The decision is rendered
on the point whether the deputy dis
trict attorney had the right to sign
the district attorney's name to a
criminal information. The supreme
court rules that by prosecuting the
ease District Attorney Manning rati
fied the action of his deputy. Ougliel
mo has twenty days to file a petition
for rehearing.
Tbe following opinions were also
banded down.
rotate of Oregon, respondent, vs.
James O. Lee, appellant. Appeal
from Washington county. T. A.
McBrlde, Judge. Reversed and a
new trial ordered. Opinion by Just
ice Bean. .The defendant was tried
and convicted of stealing a calf from
one Dennis. The lower' court admit-
ted testimony tending to show that
Lee had committed other crimes,
which the supreme court holds er
roneous. Senator Mitchell is packing up and
preparing to return to Oregon. He
hipped several boxes of letter-files
to Portland Monday and others will
follow. He himself will leave for
Portland between March 1 and 6,
not before. He was at bis committee-room
every day during the week
but he did not go near the senate
chamber.
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There s a lot
in a shoe which
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like new." You'll find
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your children
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SH0E
Lincoln's Birthday.
The celebration of Lincoln's birth
has already been suggested. Four
years from the present month will
complete the century, if any cele
bration Is undertaken by the govern
menr, some minting will be re
quired about the proper method.
i Such possible details as tbe unveil
in of a statue at th Psplrnl h
opening of a parkin Kentucky, and
ceremonies In Washington, Spring
field, and other cities, will be more
effective if they are all made part of
a general scheme under national su
pervision. The south will probably
be glad to take her part In the cele
bration, for most southerners realize
that they lost more than any other
part of the country when Lincoln
was snatched away and the difficult
lea of reconstruction were left to men
who were stupid where he was wise,
or full of hatred where he was char
ity Itself, or ready to plunder a suf
fering people whom he would have
protected. Lincoln's birthday every
year brings up memories which we
all wish to keep alive. February 12,
1909 will intensify these memories.
Jefferson once told Washington that
he and Franklin would stand for
ever apart and from and above the
rest of their countrymen. That
place with Washington was never
entirely held by Franklin. It re
malned empty until two-thirds of a
century after Washington was dead,
and then Lincoln was placed by unl
vernal feeling beside our first great
leader. History, which deals harsh
ly with accidental reputations, is
sometimes long busy Increasing
truly founded ones. The love and
admiration which the American
people feel for Lincoln have gone on
increasing steadily since his death,
and, as far as mere interest goes, be
stands ahead of Washington. Col
lier.
A Bad Outlook.
Lee Spangler, the York, P., pro
phet who so accurately predicted
great events in the past has Issued
his proclamation of dire disasters for
the coming year.
"Woe onto Russia," he says.
"She Is fast approaching her doom.
The people will overthrow the em
pire. The royal family and the
leading members of the nobility will
be murdered and subjected to worse
cruelties than they have Inflicted
upon the Russian people."
"The country will be divided up
into small republics and elective
monarchies, and these will be con
stantly quarreling and In a state of
war until the end of the world
comes In 1908."
"The big spot that has appeared
upon the sun Is ominous. It fore
tells rebellion, pestilence and natural
catastrophe upon the earth. The
outbreak of rebellion in Russia is but
a spark. It will be flaunted into a
flame that will sweep over tbe
world."
"The United States will notes
cape. The worst riots In the history
of the nation are to occur this year.
It will be a jear of strike In all the
great industrial nations in the
world."
'There will be many great fires In
- .
of Satisfaction
after
month's ot
to "Look
comfort,
Shoes
Krt r.fttpr made. No better can bo macd.
guarantee goes with every pair.
Our lino of
GROCERIES
is the finest in the county.
Everythinn usually carried by an np-to-date Grocery House. Our
immense sales maks it possible for us to carry strictly fresh Roods.
Not a shop-worn article in the establishment.
JOHN DENNIS.
Tho old Reliable Corner
the United States and in other civil
Ized nations. It will be a year of
great loss to the Insurance compan
ies. In Hussla the revolutionists
when they become mora powerful
will resort to the use of the torch."
The sot on the sun which is caus
ing so much talk in scientific circles,
can easily be seen with the aid of a
smoked glass. It Is in the lower
right hand side and looks about the
size of a cent.
A Kansas woman wanted a set of
false teeth, and sent thla letter to a
dentist: "My mouth Is 3 inches
across, 6 eight thru the Jowl. Some
hummocky, on tbe aige, shaped like
a boss-shoe; toe forard. If you want
me to be more particular, I'd bav to
come to you."
Persons who patronize papers
should pay promptly, for the pecun
iary prospects of tbe press have a pe
culiar power in pushing forward
public prosperity. If the printer is
paid promptly, atid his pocket-book
kept plethoric by prompt paying
patrons, he puts bis pen to bis paper
in peace, bis paragraphs are more
pointed, he paints the picture of
passing events in more pleasing col
ors, and tbe perusal of his paper Is a
pleasure to tbe prompt-paying peo
ple. Paste tbis piece of proverbial
philosophy in some) place where all
persons can perceive It.
Land Cases In Jane.
An Oregonlan special from Wash
Ington says: The trial of the land
fraud cases at Portland will be run
as a counter attraction to tbe Lewis
and Clark exposition. United States
District Attorney Heney said Mon
day that it would not be practicable
to begin the trials of Senator Mitchell
and Representatives Williamson un
til June 1. Before he left Portland
be talked the situation over with
Judge Bellinger and It was agreed
that It would be impossible to com
mence the trials In April.
In tbe first place Mr. Heney will
not get back to Portland before
April 1, and Is planning al that time
to resume examinations into furth
er land frauds, which examina
tions, It is confidently expected,
will result In further indictments.
While he Is conducting these inves
tigations before the grand ury Mr.
Heney will not be able to devote
proper time and attention to the
tt ials before Judge Bellinger.
The Judge, moreover expressed
the opinion that April would not be
a good time to impanel a Jury, and
he thought the trials would have to
go over for a while. In May the
court will move from Its temporary
quarters back Into Its permanent
quarter in the Federal building and
Judge Bellinger wishes to avoid
moving in the midst of the trials.
It was therefore agreed that It
would be about June 1 before Sena
tor Mitchell and the two Oregon con
gressmen could be brought Into
court to answer their respective In
Indictments.
All goods bought of Cate will be de
livemlpromptly at any hour during tbe
day. This Includes meats as well as
groceries.
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