$8 si
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Wle (ftvenl 3Mnnn?u (Cotuilru
Couth an nrcn of 0,428,(100 Hcret ol
Intnl. 4,031,061 acres yet vacant mibccl
to ontry unilcr tho public land laws of
Urn United KliitcR.
Tho omd1 lViper of Hurnoj County
hu tho Urgoat circulation mt It ono of
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BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, FEBKUABY 4, 1011
NO 12.
VOL. XXIV
She., ekme
ADVERTISING THE ST A TE
Should Be Officially
the State Legislature
HILL AND HANLEY HOBNOBBING
Suggested They Had Better
Back to Harney ValleySome, More tiood Koaua
Information Rep. Brooke and Irrigation laws.
Louis W. Hill, president of the.
Great Northern railroad, was in '
Portland tho first of tho week,
hobnobbing with Bill Hanloy and
other notables, but didn't say n
word about extending tho rail
road into Harney Valley. Ho
told Bill ho was coinc to make
another trip into tho interior this
spring and insisted that Hanloy
'chaperon" the party as insi'nlicuu, lor wo can anucipaiu uio
year, but Bill had better consider
this proposition first before ac
cepting. When Mr. Hill was
here last summer ho said that it
was up to Hanloy so far as rail
raid building in this section was
concerned
Tho same day Mr. I
Hill told "Grandpa" Maco he
would ride out of here on a Great
Northern train inside of two
years. "Grandpa" is still look
ing forward to tho promised
pleasure and Bill's neighbors ex
pect him to mako good his part
of the agreement without any
delay. Therefore it is a serious
undertaking for these two to be
caught in these parts together
again for there is a suspicion in
the minds of a few that must bo
allayed before they aro safe.
While Mr. Hill made no public
expression regarding future rail
road building in the Harney
country, ho did say some things
about the interior of Oregon that
were good
" w r" -
The recent sale of the Malheur
Canyon rights of way hold by
the Hill interests to the Ilnrri
man system is not significant, he
said. Such a transfer does not
necessarily preclude the use by
the Hill roads of any lino that
!... -t 1.-1.1 I... I
may be built He expressed an
inclination toward joint owner-1 Tjie f,jrurca jU3t given were
ship of lines through sparsely l obtained af ter careful computa
KotHml districts. The parallel L- ,-... ,. f firn.
settled districts
tracks through tho Deschutes
-
Valley are unnecessary ho
pointed out The money spent
in building the second line could
have been used to much better
advantage in now development
Mr. Hill is even more enthu-
siastic over tho development on
this state than his father. He says ,
the people of Oregon aro not do
ing enough to exploit their wond
erful advantages. He wants the
legislature to make an appropria
tion for advertising purposes.
"I can go to Salem and tell the
boys there what I know of stato
advertising from my experience
1 . v .-. --cv v I
in the states that have tried it 1
It will not ho mere theory. It
will bo definite facts.
"The state should place its
stamp of approval upon every
piece of literature that is sent
out by tho railroads, real estate
agencies, the commercial bodies
and by private individuals. Many
people in the East fail to believe
the alarming statements made
about Oregon. Some of them arc
suspicious of promises of home
steads and five-acre land tracts.
Tho truth of the matter is it
Hounds too crood to be true. But
if these assertions wero backed
... ..w..w ..-
by the indorsement oi mo sum;
itself the prospective BettlcrJ
would have moro confidence in i
what he reads."
That Oregon can become tho
homo of 1,500,000 additional
people in tho next ten years was
his unqualified declaration. This
can be accomplished, ho said,
through proper publicity meth
ods. Whilo tho stato Bhowed a
healthy growth in tho last ten
years, ho contrasted it with that
of somo of tho Canadian pro
vinces that have advanced in
population 700 and 800 per cent.
"Why Oregon has moro to of
fer its settlers than any stato in
the Union. Its resources aro not
limited to ono lino. It has great
advantages in every lino. If a
man expresses his wants, Oregon
can take care of him. Tell those
things to tho pooplo of tho East
Encouraged By
Make Good Before Coining
and wo will brinjy them out by
tho trninlond. Tho tnorchnnU
should join in tho publicity cam-
paifrn, and tho development of
tho state by tho extension of
trade into tho nowly sottlod dis
tricts. "The railroads will not bo bo-
hind tho procession. In fact,
thoy will try to keep just a little
coming of tho Bottler. From tho
inquiries wo are receiving in our
eastern offices right now I know
positively that thousands of fam.
iliea will (lock into Central Ore.
gon as soon as tho Deschutes
Valley lino is completed. Those
aro the kind of people you wane
in this state, not tho tourist who
travels in tho parlor car, but tho
immigrant who loads his houso-
hold (roods, his livestock, his
farm machinery and his family
into n box car and goes into tho
new country ready to start plow-
mg.'
GOOD ROADS FIGURES.
Kailroad rates cost n cent and
half to three cents a ton mile.
People kick at the cost. Tho
average good Oregon wagon
road transportation costs twenty-
five cents a ton mile,
Tho great
majority of Oregon roads aro not
yrnriA nnrl rna -ffrtrtl flftv Pftflfa fn
Kvvu tlU voi tsut tj .jj w
on dojar ton n,je hard
surface road of macadam con
struction costs eight cents for
transportation a ton mile, yet it
is only tho farmer who mires his
empty wagon when he goes to
town in the Oregon winter that
kicjS nt tho cogt
null 41UIII UVWtJT ttVVfciVM w v..
iron by the Oregon Good Roads
Association. Tho contrasts in
costs on good and bad roads has
given tho association moro cour
age to continuo its fight for bet
ter-built highways in this state
nMpn,i ta mni,n mllnh ilifTor
cnce in C03t to con8Umer3 and
proflta to producers. Thus says
the Good Roads Association tho
increased transporation cost of
bad roads takes money from tho
farmer's pocket and adds to tho
price of living without profit
either to the produceror tho con
sumer; sinco tho mud swallows
all tho difference and never
ill bltU 4l
makca returns.
When advocates of good roads
from every section of Oregon
went before the legislature last
week they had tho tremendous
cost and the effective develop
ment restriction of bad roads in
mind. They were a littlo disai
pointed when somo of tho legis
lators urged that each county
could conduct its own road build
ing without help. It was be
lieved that broad-minded legis
lators would know that the very
purposo of their gathering to
mako laws was to work in unity
XUI uiu kuuu mi niu owm nu w.
f.. ilin w wl tl.l tflflfA flffwl Irtr
cvery county in the state, and
that concortcd action in road
liuildinir wnB nerhans moro im-
nortant and moro essential than
any other stato activity. Gover
nor Oswald West, in an inter
view, answered Uiib mtstaKen
idea on the part of tho legislators
when he said "it Ib a notorious
fact that tho road work of the
stato has been dono in tho past
upon a crazy quilt hit and miss
plan which gave no permanent
relief from bad and often times
practically impassable roads.
There- can bo no doubt concern
ing my deslro for tho inaugura
tion of a sano and sensible sys
tem of building good, service
able, permanent highways in tho
stato of Oregon. I am heartily
in favor of tho construction of
good roads and hope to seo tho
time speedily arrlvo when tho
public highways in this Btato
will bo second to nono. I truBt,
thoroforo, that tho gentlemen
who aro now banded togothor
for tho promotion of tho good
roads movoment will keep ovor
in mind tho idea of tho practical
and economical, and that out of
their united efforts will como for
Oregon a uniform and dosirablo
system of public road building"
It was necessary for Judge
Lionel R, Webster, Dr. Androw
C. Smith and othors of tho good
roads association to say forcibly
boforo tho scnato for tho benefit
of uninformed opposing sonnlors
thai tho proposed highway board
and commissioner does not spend
monoy obtained either from stato
aid or by counties bonding for
road building in counties, but tho
county authorities locate tho
roads and spend tho monoy whilo
tho state board and highway
commissioner givo ndvico and
direction as to scientific construc
tion of roads in each county.
Tho vote that followed showed
that a majority of tho senate
wero not slow in understanding
nor narrow in development am
bition. Whqn tho Highway
Board and Commissioner bill was
approved great satisfaction was
felt by tho hundreds who had
como boforo tho legislature, be
cause it was on that bill that the
whole system of road making
planned for Oregon counties de
pended. It was thought then
that to secure the passago of tho
other bills would not bo difficult
becauso upon count it was found
that a majority of Oregon legis
lators Bland for progressiveness
and development and not for
obstruction.
TO CIIAN0U IRRIGATION CODO.
According to the Telgram
Representative Brooke has again
taken up changes in tho irriga
tion code. It is hoped that some
day they'll got a practical work
ing law governing water rights
and ubcs in Oregon that will
stand and not have to bo "mon
keyed" with every two years
and thus keep irrigationists up
in tho air. Perhaps tho bill in
troduced by Mr. Brooke may bo
what is needed, but it should bo
carefully considered boforo it is
passed and mado to cover every
emergency that may arise, then
let it alone. Tho Telegram says:
Brooko of Harney nnd Malheur
introduced an emergency bill this
moruing in tho House, covering
30 closely typewritten pages and
including tho whole subject of
stato irrigation. Its number is
241 and it was prepared Binco the
session began by tho introducer
nnd Senator, of Josephine. In
amended form tho present irriga
tion laws aro incoriwratcd, and
tho additions include the follow
ing important provisions, as given
in tho titlo; Providing tho man
ner in which two or moro irriga
tion districts may unite in tho
acquisition or construction of an
irrigation system; extending to
irrigation districts tho power to
provide for, drainngo of lands;
defining the effects of a chango
in tho boundaries of a district;
providing tho manner in which
land may bo included within a
district and tho terms of such in
clusion; providing tho manner
and terms by which land may bo
excluded from a district; provid
ing the manner nnd terms under
which two or moro districts may
bo united; specifying how a dis
trict may bo-dissolved; providing
tho manner in which tho regulari
ty and legality of tho proceedings
connected with tho organization
or tho issue or Bnlo of bonds or
other proceedings of a district
may bo determined nnd confirmed
and tho manner of hearing con
tests; defining tho effects of tho
amendments incorporated in tho
bill.
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ILLEGALLY
Timber Tresspass Cases Against Wm.
Hanley and J. Frank Adams
COURT AND PROSECUTOR AGREE
Lund Department and Department of Justice Held to
Have Ikon In Error IiV' Policy Followed In Recent
Years Other General itfi'd -State News of Interest.
Thnt tho United States Depart
ment of Justice has no right to
prosecute individuals for trespass
upon timber lands, or for cutting
timber upon Government land
unless moro than $T0 worth is
cut in one year or if it is used
for other than mining, agri
cultural or domestic purposes,
was tho statement made by
United States District Attorney
McCourt boforo Federal Judge
Bean yesterday morning, says
tho Oregonian of recent date.
Tho question camo up upon Mr.
McCourt's application for dis
missal of tho indictments against
William Hanloy nnd J. Frank
Adams, of Klamath Fall, charg
ing illegal timber cutting. The
indictments wero dismissed,
Judgo Bean saying ho had no
doubt that tho statement of Mr.
McCourt as to tho law was cor
rect In moving for a dismissal of
tho Hanley caso, Mr. McCourt
said in part:
"In the first place, Mr. Hanley
has fully Bottled his civil liability
for tho timber removed by him.
In tho next place, it seems thnt
tho Land Department or the
Department of Justice lias been
laboring under an error for some
time in tho procedure in Ui'sso
cases for trespass on timber
lands.
"Tho Circuit Court of Appeals
for tho Eighth Circuit a few
years ago, decided that this sec
tion 'ltd, so far as tho public
land states were concerned, had
been amended or a portion of it
repealed by implication by tho
passage of tho timber nnd stono
act which prohibits tho cutting
of timber upon tho public lands
for tho purposo of export or sale,
nnd provides a punishment of a
fine, merely; whilo section 2-101
of tho Revised Statutes provided
imprisonment and n fine not less
than I don't know whether
doublo or treble-tho value of
tho timber cut.
"Now, in thnt case, United
States '.vs. Morgan, tho Circuit
Court of Appeals held that tho
timber nnd stono act repealed or
amended that act insofar as tho
punishment was concerned, that
is, it did away with tho imprison
ment altogether, and that it left
tho law so that a person could
not bo prosecuted for cutting
timber upon tho public domain
unless ho intended to sell or ills
poso of it
"In this caso, Mr. Hanloy cut
this timber for tho purposo of
using it in a dredgo that ho was
operating on what is known as
tho 'I" Ranch in Harney County.
Thoy wore cutting a channel
through for tho purposo of re
claiming a swump so that, under
that decision, Mr. Hanloy had no
criminal responsibility whatever
and should not havo been in
dicted. "Tho Land Department and
tho Department of Justico havo
been going nhead for tho past
fow years nnd indicting persons
who cut timbor upon tho public
domain, even for their own use,
when thoy cut in oxcess of $50,
without a permit or tho consent
of tho Secrotnry of tho Interior.
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"Sections of tho act of 1891
provides that timber may be cut
upon tho public domain for min
ing, agricultural or domestic pur
poses under rules and regulations
to bo prescribed by tho Secretary
of the Interior has prescribed n
rule that $50 worth of timber
may be cut by any ono person in
any one year, but if moro than
that is desired to bo cut, there
must lo a permit secured or
agreement with tho Secretary of
the Interior and Mr. Hnnley had
no such agreement For these
reasons, Mr. Hanloy wiib not
liable criminally, and I move to
dismiss tho case.
"Now tho Bamo applies to case
of United States vs. J. Frank
Adams, of Klamath Falls. Mr.
Adams also was charged with a
similar offense. His timber was
cut for the purposo of fencing a
largo tract of land owned by him,
and for tho same reason that
caso should bo dismissed. And,
notwithstanding the fact that ho
has offered heretofore to plead
guilty and pay his fine, it would
not bo proper, in my judgment,
to take tho fine from him under
the circumstances of tho caso."
INDUSTRIAL NOTKS.
(Portlnnd Correspondence.)
Tho Portland Commercial Club,
representing the Oregon Devel
opment Ivcague, prepared and
forwarded during the past week
a memorial to the Secretary of
tho Interior, asking for tho re
consideration of his action in de
ferring apportionment of avail
able reclamation funds for tho
West Unit of tho Umatilla Irri
gation project Tho memorial
contains a comprehensive argu
ment covering tho fncts of tho
case and was forwarded to the
Oregon delegation in both houses
of congress for presentation by
them to Secretary Bnllinger of
the Department of the Interior.
Friends of the Oregon Stato
Horticultural Society aro urging
tho passage of a bill now pend
ing boforo the legislature asking
for tho appropriation of $5000
every two years for necessary
expenses of tho society, such ns
prizes for exhibits mado at tho
annual show, services of exhibits
committee, judges, salary of
secretary, printing, postage, etc.
It is pointed out in tho arguments
advanced for tho bill that Eastern
states, with very much less
prominence than Oregon in tho
fruit growing business, appro
priate largo sums annually to
promote tho growth of tho in
dustry. The very wide extent of tho
work of tho Oregon Agricultural
College is Bhown in tho report
just submitted by President Kerr
touching tho activity of tho col
lego during tho two-year poriod
of 1908-1910. Ho shows that
during tho past biennium, moro
than 88,000 persons havo actually
participated in tho work carried
on by tho collego or under its
direction. Many thousands moro
havo been supplied with bulletins
issued by tho college, circulars
and personal correspondence.
This shows what a great factor
this institution is in advancing
tho agricullural.horticultural and
livestock interests of the state.
A Lebanon woman is making
chickens pay. During last yenr
her 35 hens laid 4801 eggs. One
of her pull6ts laid 220 eggs and
another 237. Her total net pro
fit for tho year from the flock of
chickens was $154.80 and she has
40 hens left.
Estkayed From tho Sotllc
meyer farm in Sunset last sum
mer a bay maro with whito spot
in forehead, weight about 1150
lbs branded 700, the six being a
continuation of tlie stem of the,
Boven on left stifle, black sucking
unbranded colt following hor.
Suitable reward for her return
or information leading to her re
covery. E. E. Lakskn,
Hnmey. Oregon.
Henry Allllcr buy InlcrcKl ol l.ux Heirs.
Tho following is a recent news
dispatch from San Francisce:
Arrangements have been com
pleted whereby Henry Miller,
head of the multi-millionaire cor
poration of Miller & Lux, will
purchase all interests in the con
cern owned by the estate of the
late Charles Lux and his heirs.
As tho first step in this direc
tion a deed of trust to all of the
property of tho company worth
$5,000,000, has been recorded in
accordance with an agreement
signed last March. The deed is
to secure first mortgage bonds
issued by Miller & Lux, which
will be used to pay off the Lux
interests, which aro distributed
among 37 heirs.
Tho corporation of Miller &
Lux ownR approximately 1,000,-
000 acres of California and Ore
gon land. Henry Miller, who is
now tho largest individual land
owner in tho United States, is
85 year3 old.
The deal now being negotiated
under the agreement will close
years of litigation.
SUNSUT NOTTS.
There will be a meeting at the
Sunset school houso on Saturday
Feb. 11th at 2 o'clock p. m. for
tho purpose of organizing and
arranging for a big rabbit drive.
It is desired that as many attend
as can. It is the duty of cvery
man in Sunset, and surrounding
country to attend. Plans will
probably bo made to drive the
country lying north of Harney
lake, Weaver Springs and Sunset
It is evident that no crops can bo
grown this coming season unless
tho rabbits arc exterminated.
Many of tho Sunset people are
suffering with tho grippe these
days.
Fred and Ray llnrron com
pled the ice harvest for W. G.
Howell last week. They have
stored away between GO and 70
tons for usq through tho hot
summer.
Henry Rlack and diet Myers
havo boon helping tho Barron
boys in tho ice harvest tho past
week.
Quito a number of our pcoplo
aro preparing their masquerade
costumes, making ready for the
mnsk ball at Lawcn Feb. 3rd.
Sunset is to havo a postoflico
Mr. N, Henney will bo post
master. Wo understand tho Gov
ernment has given it the name
of Lomn.
Mr. Johnson of Sunset attended
tho rabbit driyo east of Hums
lass Saturday.
M. J. Nash was home from the
Sod house ranch part of last
week.
Robt. SottUmiyro has gone to
Portland on a business trip. Ho
will bo absent about three weeks.
II. H. Simmons and Mrs. Mc
Keon nttended tho mask ball in
Rums last Friday night.
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