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VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 197. No. 42. : RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY SHIPPERS ting at Albany Adopts Further Plans or Relief of Rail road Situation. "hi following resolutions were the : result of the meetiDg of the Ore l shippers and business men beld at )any last week to discuss the oar rtage and other railroad relief wares for Oregon : Vhereas, the transportation facili i of the state of Oregon have been ren to be entirely inadequate to idle the commerce of the state and railroads have utterly failed to ip pace with the progress of tbe te, and, fhereas, the lack, of transportation ilities has not only retarded tbe 'elopment of the state as a whole, i in many instances has caused irre able injury to tbe producers and pperi of the state and more partlou ly to those In Western Oregon, la it resolved, Tbat the Shipper and iduoers' Convention is in favor of enactment of a law providing for tilroed commission with rate msk- powar and also providing for de rrags and reciprocal demurrage et with proper penalties, the said r to be of such a general nature a 1 enable the commission to correct abases which tbe people of the te have suffered at the bands of transportation companies; that it ;he sense of tbe convention tbst tns I now being prepared by tbe Ohem 1 of Commerce of Portland, in con lotion with the Oregon and Wash ton Lumber Manufacturers' Asso uan, and the commercial bodies of i state at large, is designed to pro te tbe best interests of the shippers i manufacturers of the state, and is mob a cbaraoter that if enacted o law it will provide substantial lef te tbe people of the state and t we veqnest and demand that oar reseotatives in tbe Legislature rk for and secure tbe enactment of tu-er .some, ' equally- meritorious More. tesolved, That it is tbe sense of the ppers' and Producers' Convention Albany, tbat the attitude of the rriman system in rofusiag to sell timber and agricultural lands lob were placed in tbe hands of the gon A California Railroad Com iy by tbe Qovernment at a time en they sorely needed these lands order to nse them as collateral for ns to be need in the construction tbe road and wbioh were, by the ms of the grant, evidently intended be beld in trust by the railroad upany and later sold to tbe settlers Oregon, has worked and is working t barm to the people and interests Oregon; and we emphatically pro t against this policy and respect ly request the members of the Ore I Legislature to bring forcibly to i attention of the National Congress s condition of affairs and memorial- Congreee to tbe end that these ids may be put on the market at early date and at the price and der tbe terms and conditions con aplated by the original graut. Whereas the operations of the locks Oregon City by corporate interests poses a tax of SO cents per ton on 1 freight passing that point; aad iVhereaa, the Shipper' aud Pro oers' ' Convention unanimously rors tbe condemnation and purchase said locks either through National state legislation, therefore be it Seeolved, That we respectfully re quest tbe coming Legislature to take such steps as will lead to an early abolition of this unnecessary and un just tax. Postal Inspector Camp was in Ash land a few days ago looking into a violation of the postal laws which had ben detected and reported from the department, in which a patron of the Ashland offics mailed a package as merchandise, which contained certain writing contrary to the regulations No summary action has been reported but the department is on the lookout for all such infractions of the postal laws, and a penalty of f 10 fine is at tached. Tidings. THE CREED OF THE NAIL ORDER HOUSE Mississippi Paper Gives Command merits in Line With the De crees of M. O. Houses. DEDISION ON GRAZING ON FOREST RESERVES Department Claims Press Re ports Misconstrued Judge Whitson's Decialon. Twelve commandments make op the decalogue of the mail order house. These commandments were not written on stone by Moses, hut tbey are thoroughly understood and fre quently humped into by anyone who deals with the catalogue mall order ooncern. Following are tbe 13 commandments whioh thoroughly indicate tbe busi ness side of these conoerns: 1. Yon shall sail your farm pro ducts for cash wherever you can, but not to as; Jwe do not buy from you. 2. Ton shall believe our state ments and buy all you need from us because we want to be good to you, although we are not acquainted with you. 8. Ton shall send in tbe money In advanoe to give us a chaooe to get the goods from the factory with your money; meanwhile you will have to wait patiently a few weeks because that is our business method, 6. You shall buy your church bells and interior church fixtures from us and forward the money in advanoe, for that is our business method. 6. You shall collect from the busi ness men in your vicinity as much money asyoucan for the benefit of your churches. ' Although we get'more money from you than they do, still it is aganist our rales to donate money for building country churches. 7. Yon shall buy yoar tools from us and be your own mechanic in order to drive tbe mechanic from your vicinity, for we wish it so. 8. You will induce your neighbor to buy everything from us, as we have room for more money. 9. You shall often look at tbe beautiful pictures in oar catalogue so your wishes will increase and yoa will send in a big order, altbongh yoa are not 'in immediate need of the goods; otherwise yoa might have some left 1o buy necessary goods of yoar local merchants. 10. Ycu shall have the mechanics that repair the goods you buy from us book the bill, so that you can send tbe money for his labor to ua for new goods, otherwise he will not notice our influence. 11. You shall believe us in prefer ence to your local merchants. 12. Yoa shall, in case of aooident, sickness or need, apply to local dealers for aid and credit, as we do not know you. Sentinel, Yazoo, Miss. The Woodmen of the World installed their newly elected officers for the ensuing term last Friday night. After the installation ceremony an adjourn ment was taken to the banquet room where a fine spread bad been arranged by the committee in charge. Justice blanks at the Courier office DADT AIMC i D n n vji ni IM o WiO acres of choice land, all cleared, with 9IUU cottage and barn, only mile out of city limits; an ideal place to raise poultry and hogs; must be sold quickly. Terras, if wanted. ) lQAA 2 choice lots and large barn, with shed on j V''"' two sides; close to central part of town; 1 r. barn alone is worth the price. This is a ' snap for some one with a team, as there is plenty of room on the place for a dwelling. ! W. L. IRELAND ) ! THE REAL.ESTATE MAN Several good HOUSES FORWENT. GRANTS PASS. ORE. 0 A recent decision of a Federal judge has been widely commented up on throughout the West on tbe sup position that it deolared illegal the regulation of grazing on forest re serves and the system of charging for grazing permits. As a matter of fact the decision which was handed down by Judge Wbitson of the United S tates District Court for eastern Washington in tbe case of the United States vs. Mathews has no bearing whatever upon the legality of the grazing regulations or of grazing fees whioh stand precisely as before. The legal question involved was simply this: Does the law authorizing tbe Secretary of Agriculture to issue regulations make the breach of those regulations a orimeT Judge Whitson's decision merely answered this question "No." It was in substance tbat the objection to the indictment against Walter Mathews was the absence of a law defining tbe act therein charged as a oriminal offense. Upon that ground tbe ooort beld that tbe demurrer mast be sustained and tbe defendant dis charged. Though the point was simple and clear enough, it was entirely mis oonstrued in the press reports of the decision and in editorial comments upon it. For instance, in tbe Wyoming Tribune of Tuesday, No vember 6, news of Judge Whitson's action was given nnder'tne headlines : "Grazing Fees Illegal Decides Federal Judge," and the article declares tbat "As a result of the decision, Mathews, who entered tbe Mount Ranier Forest Reserve without the permit required by the secretary, is still using tbe reserve and is not pay ing the fee imposed by tbe secretary. As a matter of fact. sheep were ininiedia on notice by the foreit officers and have not since entered tbe reserve. In the Sheridan, Wyo., Post it is said: "A decision fraught with im portance to Wyoming stockmen is that appearing in this issue, wherein it is hsld by the United States District Court that the collection of fees for grazing live stock is illegal. Since its imposition this fee has been regarded as illegal and arbitrary by uianv well-iutormed Wyoming people, aud the views expressed by tbe court in this decision meet with general approval here. The litigant is still running his sheep on the Ranier Reserve without paying the fees." Decisions like Judge Whitson's had before been made by the Federal courts in three other districts, one of them six years ago, but none of then interferes in the slighest with the right of the United States to institute civil action against trespassers violat ing the grazing regulations, or with charging the grazing fee.1 The United States Circnit Court of Ap peals for the Ninth Circuit decided definitely, in the case of Daatervignes vs. United States, that the provisions of the act of March 4, 1897, delegating to the secretary the power to make regulations, is constitutional, that the regulation prohibiting the pasiur ing ot sheep on forest reserves with out a permit is valid, and that the Federal courts will enforce the regu lation by Injunction. The supreme court of Arizona, three iudires sit ting, in the case of Dent vs. United States! 76 Pacifio Reporter, 456), went still further, under circumstances which made the decision most em phatic Dent was criminally prose cuted for grazing sheep on a forest re ssrve without a permit, in violation of the regulations, aud the court had held that his act was not a crime; but as soon as the Dastervignes case was decided for the Government th Arizona court granted a rehearing of the Dent case and beld that the Dastervignes decision was bindlna on all courts in the Ninth L.tPfn t In criminal as well as civil cum nrf that Dent was therefore goilty of a crime. So far, therefore, the court decis ions as to the criminality of trespass oontrary to tbe forest reserve regula tions are conflicting. Final adjudication on the point can not"Jbe had until the ruling of a higberoourt baa been'secured ;;bot no oourt has questioned tbe right ot the Secretary of Agriculture to make regulations and to recover damages for trespass through civil action. Grazing trespassers will be re strained from violation of the regula tions by injunction proceedings and sued for civil damages until the higher conrts shall have reached a de cision as to the criminal character of such trespasses. The Forest Service will continue to exclude unpermitted stock from all forest reserves and to collect grazing fees for all stock under permit. THE GROWTH OF FREE RURAL DELIVERY R-emevrkevble Development of One Brevnch of the Postal Service. Rural free delivety has been in operation 10 years. The climax of its development was reached two years ago, when the servioe was installed on 9447 routes. At that time the average number of petitions filed per month was 700, wbioh average was maintained during 1905. Now, bow ever, it has fallen to 800 per month. The rapid growth of this servioe under Government encouragement is pointed out in detail in the report of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. In 1897 there were just 8S carriers in the country, and the cost ot the service was $40,000. In 1898 the carriers had increased to 148 and tbe appropriation to 50, S50, and in 1899 there were 891 carriers, and an appropriation of 1 150, 0000. Then be gan the growth whioh was one of the wonders of tbe time. From 1276 carriers in 1900 tbe number went up to 4301 Is 1901, to 8466 in 1903, to 15,119 in 1903, to 34,608 in 1904. to 83,055 in 1905, and to 85,666 in 1906. Tbe appropriations went up corres pondingly, from 1450,000 in 1900 to 135,838,800 in 1906. Complete ooonty rural servioe was one of the early demands of the soon as the rural UPHOLDS EXCHANGE OF THE INDIAN LANDS Klamath Indian Agent Wilson Sevya the Exchcvnge Was cv Fewir One. t, Mr. Mathews'! conutry districts as soot fcely removed upTTdelivery system had become fixed, and there are now 448 oouulies in tbe United States wblob have . that ser vice. One hundred and sixty-five of these counties were provided with complete servioe last year. There are 15 states having each more than 1000 rural routes. Illinois heads tbe lUt with 36U3, and Ohio comes next with 3440, Iowa is third with 32l'0. The other states having more than 1000 routes each are Georgia, 1381, Indiana, 2105; Kansas, 1566; Michigan, 1813; Minuesota, 1382; Tennessee, 1594; Texas, 15 Missouri, 1825; New York, 1723; North Carolina, 1152; Pennsylvania, lltsfi; Wisconsin, 1450, The states and territories having the fewest number of routes are Arl zooa, with two; District of Columbia, with five; Hawaii, with one; Nevada, with one; New Mexico, with three, aud Wyoming, with five. In the ex treme West, Washington has 194 routes; Oregon, 182; California, 264, aud Idaho, 57. The report of tbe Fourth Assistant Postniaster-Uenural bears down hard on the question of good roads. In many of the states the rural service lacks efficiency on account of bad mads, and petition" for additional routes have been rejeoted. The de partment is makiug con siderahle hea wuy with its movement for co-operation with Btate officials looking to ward road improvement, and is now aiding road officials iu Illinois, Wis consin, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Mew Jereey and Maine. Indiana has a new law requiting that roads traveled by rural carriers shall be kept iu a passable coudition through out the year, aud legislative action along similar lines has been had in Pennsylvania, iu both instances with marked improvement of condition. The sniallness of the pay of rural carrieis has led to niauy resignations, whioh will be used as a leverage dur ing the present session of Congress to bring the pay up from 1720, tbe pres eut maximum, to 900. During the past year the registrations numbered 4441, tbe largest number in any year, and 135 more than in 1904. when 17 per cent of the total number of rural carriers in tbe country resigned. Tbe proposed increase in pay would tend to make rural carrriers hold their I positions, thus strengthening the ser vice all along the line. Tbe Courier has the largest corps of correspondents of any paper in Socta H. 3. Wilson, . superintendent and special disbursing agent at Klamath Agency, is out with a statement in defense of the much talked of ex change of lands of the Oregon Central Road Grant with the Klamath In dians. Says Mr. Wilson : "The exchange was considered the best possible for both paries con cernedthe Klamath Indians and the Road Company. It would have been a pronounced hardship on the Indians to have been compelled to give np the lands embraced within the road Grant npon which they have taken allotments and would have caused an told trouble, while on the other hand the Road Grant Company oould handle a comnaot body of 87,000 acres to muob better advantage than they could the larger acreage in the checkerboard fashion in which it lay. "I am certain that tbe Interior De partment and especially the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs, Hon. Franois Lnepp, considered that the exchange was for the beet interests of the In dians, and It was solely for the bene fit of tbe Indians that the commis sioner was concerned. "When Commissioner Lnepp visited the Klamath Agency in June, 1905, it was not for the purpose of making any arrangements whatever concern ing the exchange of land, but bis visit was at my argent request and for the purpose of aoqnainting him with oertain improvements at the Klamath Agency and School, and get him interested in the Klamath Reser vation through personal knowledge of its situation, condition and needs. "I feel that in tbe publications fol lowing the negotiations and legisla tion for this exchange of land Francis K. Lnepp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has been unjustly criticised. I know him to be a man who bates graft in all its forms and I personally know tbat he has done all in his power for the beoefit of the Klamath Indians. , "There never was any request made by the Indians for a cruise of their lauds and the amount of allotted acres was more than 21,000 acres in stead of 10,000 as has been stated in previous publications. It is also stated that a dear gain for some one of more than $3,000,000 has been made by the transaction. We all know that timber has been advauoing in value very rapidly of lato, aud that timber is worth practically whatever tbe timber kings wIhIi to make it. I do not claim to know what the value of the 87,000 acres of land is but if ous surfaoes of the timber in this tract is increasing I destroying the at so rapid a rate as has been inti mated the same must be true of the timber in the Road Grant Lands restored the Indians. There is iu the Road Grant Lands almost as much timber as in the tract of 87,000 acres, and in addition to that the allotments of the Indians. "Tree, some of the Road Graut Land sections as shown by my ap praisals, are worth but little and on the other hand there are sections of the 87,000 acres traot in a good body of timber but there are seotions in the Road Grant Land that far exceed in stumpage any section of the compact body given in exchange. I stated la my report that I considered the 87,000 acre tract worth as much if not more than the 111,400 acres in the odd numbered sections of the Road Graut. I also stated I did not think it riant to take the laud away from the Indians and felt that If taken the Indians should be reimbursed for the value of the 87,000 acres, asking that the Department take such action aa might be necessary to have congress make the neoessarry appropriation." In bin estimate of the value of the Military Road Graut lands, Mr. Wil son was very conwrvative, being of the opinion that tbe government would buy .them outright. In'his re port the valuation placed upon the lands was 371,000. In this amount was inoluded the value of the allotted lands, $36,000, and the im provements thereon, $10,000. Mr. Wilson is thoroughly conversant with Indian affalis, as evety one knows who has had any business with his office. ' His statements in regard to the case are fully oonoorred in by Capt O. C. Appplegate, who was Mr. Wilson's predecessor at tbe Agenoy. To Meet In Southern Oregon. Tbe next annual meeting of the Ore gon State Horticultural Society will be held at Medford. This was about the only oonsolation Rogue River Valley oroardists got out of the state meeting beld at Portland last week. In the award of oups for the best dis plays of apples and other frnlts Rogue River Valley, which it is acknowledg ed leads the world for fine apples, did not get; a." look in," doubtless owing to the. fact that the growers here failed to put their fruit forward in the oompstitlou for prizes at this meeting. Next year this valley may be eipeoted to oapturs everything. The following offloers were eleoted by tbe association : Honorary president, Dr. J. R. Cardwell, Portland; president, H. O. Atwell, Forest Grove ; first vice-president. Hunt Lewis, Medford; second vice-president, O. D. Huffman, La Grande; secretary, Professor E. R.' Lake, Corvallils; third member fi nanoe committee, H. M. Williamson, Portland. $100 Reward, $100. The '.Readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at liast one dreaded disease that scienoe has been able to oure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh.; Halls JOatarrh Core is tbe only positive oure now known to tbe fraternity. Catarrh be ing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hulls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and inu tile system, tnereny foundation of the di sease, ana giving the patient atrengtn by building np the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in ita curative powers that they offer $100 for auy case that it fails to care. Send for list of testimonials. Address: K. .J CHUNKY & CO., Tolodo, O. Sold by DraggiHlN, 75o. lake Halls Family Pills.for consti pation. Edison and Victor Talking Machines at the Music Store. IIoihom I'-ui-iiIhImmI OompltMt Immense Carpet Sale Carpets at the Prices of Common Matting 500 YARDS AT 30 CENTS PER YARD For immediate purchase only and cash at tho time of purchase, you can have it delivered any timo. Those gooda aro sold at 50 centa any whore. YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS SALE Thomas O'Neill, Headquarters for things for the House