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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1896)
just to commit a second fraud to clinch the first? Does two frauds - ! make one right? Who is going to pay the settler for all these years w KD nksday march n. — — spent in hard labor improving a Editor ranch which we all know was set w.c »,KP tled upon with honest intentions. The present administration is not In this issue we publish, taken from the Oregonian of the 5th, a to blame, the road company is not batch of land contest decisions'by to blame, but the state board that Hoke Sn itb, which concerns, im accepted the repert of the company mediately, our county and the loss at the time the road was bui>t and of tht homes of some of our best declared the contract fulfilled, the citizen«- " e mean the homes of congress that allowed the land Peter Clemens, John Newman, S. grant in consideration for services never rendered. Lampshire and some others. Th.e rottenness of state and con The military wagon road com pany has decisions favorable to it gressional legislation at the tim»1 from Secretary Hoke Smith. We I the grant was made, is responsible do not know what action the above i for the present entailed loss of th« named parties will take in the • homes ofjthe Harney settlers who mises. but do say it is an awful unfortunately settled on what is • ' stice for which somebody or the | now known as road land.' •ernment is responsible. The i The Supreme court has decided three mentioned have proven up, I that neither eongress or cabinet bf money taken by the government ‘‘fleers nor the president, can inter and certificates or bond for a patent fere in the behalf of the settler or deed issued by Uncle Sam, then against the prior right or claim of comes in the road company plead the road company. ing a prior claim, which ia recog nized and accepted by the Secre The inference to be drawn from tary of the Interror, and the settler the arts of Com made’-in-chief braving the dangers and inconven Booth, of Salvation 'Army 'eis that ience of frontier life is the loser, not be regards allegiance to God sec the government amply able, nor the •ondary to allegaince to Great road company which in the first I Britain place saddled a fraud on the state government, but the, pretended,} The favorite son game has now much prized and respected frontiers- reached the explanatory stage, and m*:i and “civilization pusher” is 1 Congressman Hainer, of Nehr.. is i: the one who bears the loss. |one of the chief explainers. We are not here to blame the road company for pushing its claim j The MeKinleyites are losing no but bow it is possible for the gov tricks by failing to claim them. ernment to trample on recognized squatters rights, is the conundrum They now say that McKinley will we are called upon to unravel. This be nominated on the first ballat, if land was settled upon before it was he can hold the southern votes surveyed, the settler entirely ignor pledged to him' ant of how the lines would fall or as to the location of odd or even Who said John Sherman wasjun sections, but placing entire conti forgividg? He knows that the dene, .in the government ns >>«! Cuban g’enernl Jone Mneeo. when a would his God, for justice, and Ink- enntmon mountain bandit, plotted a squatters claim believing in to kidnap him (Sherman) and hold that power to protect him, spent Mrofora ransom, and yet be is a bis little all in the wav of improve friend of the Cubans. ments on his claim, and then the gavernment, which he reverenced, Even Senator Tom Carter has instead of compelling the party been mentioned-at least one consec which obtained its right fraudulent utive time-for the republican Pre ly to take lands in lieu, thereby sidential nomination. perfecting the right of the settler, whose money had already been re The Spaniards are Lot blooded, Ccived, and_voucber for his home but they are not fools. They will given, hav given land and improve ments to the corporation, and left let off their surplus steam by talk ing, but will take good care not to an the viiv K/'iiva w ivuvuv — — the ciiuvi settler uuv out in cold without sympathy, without a home, and ^art a war with the United States. -..k* r. ___________ __________ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■»■■■ subject to draft or conscription in What’s this? Dr. Lyman Abbott, case of war, to fight the battles of who fills Beecher's old Brooklyn the corporation, to protect its pro petty and homes, also the very land pulpit, says he doesn’t believe the to which, in all justice, he, the set world was created as stated in the I book of Genesis, but that it is the tler, is entitled too. It dota look as if the road com result of evolution. Where are pany. having two thirds of all the those people who were trying to land on the route of the read to se 1 convert Bob Ingersoll? lect from, could, in justice to the settler, select lands in lieu of that Somehow the Nicaragua Canal settled upon by the ranchers. people have lost their grip, and are And can the government blame not M confident of Congrssional the abused settler for crying mon j help as they were. opoly ? How many instances can be cit Korea is the bone and Russia ed where the settler prevailed and Japan the dogs which are ready against the corporation? Not one to UgUt ■ -- ----------------------- t TAJ DOI VFI1. fight 4UI fur VO :ts € jjvroov; ’possession Korea w ere there was the semblance of ! stands to lose either way. rial it 1_ • right on the side of the ____________ monopoly ’ We are aware of the facUtbatthe When Maryland voted for a ‘•re state of Oregon accepted the report f orm ’’ it had no idea that «v it wo Id _ iviua •• * - » of the company and declared the also be given convict officials, But co ntract fulfilled. At the door of it gut’em all the same. the governor’s mansion lies the first and primary sin, but is it right or McKinly’s friends are beginning a j R ohrman , B rewer , J ohn to act like detectives in search evidence to use in a breach promise case. OF THE FAMOUS Wonder wbat'new political devil try “Little Billee” Chandler is hatching? He didn’t throw all is a hard man to bamboozle. It was bad enough to use the machinery ef the G. A. 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