Sherman County observer., June 01, 1906, Image 5

SUPPLEMENT TO THE SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER.
i a fe rtile region by boring a few hun- opposition to Joseph N. Dolph and
idred or thousand feet. T h e soil In ' defeating him In 1895, and of put-
jth a t region Is fe rtile , when moisten- 11,
up
|n gn a tt
, to
TO GIVE TITlf TO
Vofr ft
ed. Much o f the area seem s hop e-i
K
: lessly beyond c a n a l Irrigation. If > U r e the Republican prlm<Hes from
there Is one borjQf project In the j the regular organization In April,
country m e r lt ln g a n experim ent by j 1896. In the samfe year Mr. Bourne
the governm ent, th is Oregon field i waa nom inated as a M itchell Repub-
seem ed to be It
But the rulin g o f , Hcan fQr |h e leg,„la
on
th#
mo lauds
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the secretary of the In te rio r forbids;
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work
even where promise that he would vote for him
tu iv u M c u VI
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p r e s s e d of such promise, and un- for senator, which promise It is
•r a tio n May Reoeive Title on
i less the laws are changed, the ru l- claim ed, he broke.
I Ing reversed or the govern m en t’s aid
They charge him w ith h avin g held
Showing Lands are Chiefly
¡en listed through especial appropria­
up the legislature of 1897 to defeat
Valuable for Grazing
t i o n , artesian experim ents In the
' heart of the Oregon desert w ill be M itchell for the sen ate and of hav­
ing m aintained lavish headquarters
left to private capital.
SENATOR ANKENY’S MEASURE
In th e Eldridge block for th at pur-
pose.
RELATING TO IRRIGATION
ÍN JUSTICE TO JONATHAN
The tim e for these republicans to
BOURNE.
get busy was before the primary. The
Secretary Hitchcock Interprets Re­
proper th in g to do now Is to take the
The Dalles Chronicle:
Purchasers of Land on Umatilla Res- any ®«P®r‘*«®nt»’ wor,t’ even " here
TicKtt
(
1 ? II.
Secures Injunction Restraining Con­
struction Down North Bank of
Snake River Below
Riparia.
I
j OPEN WARFARE BETWEEN
ROADS IS ANTICIPATED
Northern Pacific Construction Crew
Straightening and Raising Aband­
The g r ea t'u n d e rly in g principle <rf! m edicine »» pleasantly as possible,
oned Track Running Into Lewis­
pecting for Artesian Water— Well republican governm ent 1« m ajority j To adopt Just such p olitical tactics
rule, and the subm ission of the m l-'» » they »®c »»«® Mr- Bourne of having
ton—Fight for Territory Coming.
Boring Permissable
clamation Law to
Exclude Pros­
norlty. T his applies w ithin parties practiced^ and blame him for so do­
wn w ell as betw een parties, but the ing, Is unw orthy of Oregon partisan­
principle is con stan tly Ignored and ship, citizen sh ip or patriotism .
For m any m onths we have heard of
abused to a greater or less exten t.
|
opp<Med Jona(han the virtu es of electin g United States
, Bourne Jr ' ag the choJce of Oregon senators by direct vote of the peo-
R epub„ cang for Unlted s ta te s Mena-1 pie. If Mr. Bourne Is the people s
| t ° r. but Or««on R epublicans ex- choice he should be named by the
legislatu re and It Is m orally bound
1 pressed for Mr. Bourne.
to
do so.
' The Chronicle defers to the ma-
¡ Jor, ty
¡t d off„ jta cap l o the w ill of
WASHINGTON, May 29.— S en a­
tor F ulton
yesterday Introduced
a bill providing that persons who
have heretofore purchased land on
the U m atilla Indian reservation and
sh all hereafter make full payment
for the sam e, shall receive t it le
frorn the governm ent upon sh ow ing
that the lands are ch iefly valuable
for grazing and not suscep tib le of
c u ltiv a tio n — —
i tbe people and to Mr. Bourne. It
Senator A nkeny yesterday r ep o rt^ ---------------------------
ed a bill to the senate providing that ! »»X® <R>wn. but I t lays dow n pat.
Committees Meet and Plan Patriotic
Exercises and Program of
Sports for Independence
Day Demonstration.
u
WO DAYS OF CONTINUAL
SHOW AND AMUSEMENT
’arade Will Be Spectacular Proces­
sion Exceeding Anything Ever
Seen in The Dalles— Music by
Many Bands— All Kinds of Sports.
The Dal es Chronicle:
one band, but several w ill furnish
music-; not one float, but several,
w ill grace the parade, the plan be­
ing to attem pt to secure some of the
floats used in the "Made in Oregon"
parade In Portland.
Every feature
which will make the parade a sp len ­
did one and every sport which w ill
n ake the day a pleasant-on e, w ill be
resorted to.
Being Am erica’s birthday, It has
be» n considered fittin g to Invite all
Am ericans to have a prom inent part
In the exercises of the day, and so
the "residents" of W ishram , Celllo
and other Red Men w ill be prom in­
ent In ^ p a in tin g the town red” on
that o aslcn.
To t>‘“ Indies' com m ittee, of w hich
Mrs. E. O. McCoy Is chairm an, has
been assigned the duty of arranging
for the liberty car and the platform
exi rck.es follow in g the parade, and
a l f a d y they have a p lan for choosing
the Goddess o f Liberty, which Is re­
ferred to In another colum n.
At the m eeting Thursday night the
work w ill he system atized and a com ­
plete ou tlin e of the program for both
days reported.
TH E COWARDLY ASSASSIN.
LEWISTON, Ida.. May 2 9 — The
first open breach betw een the Ore­
gon Railroad & N avigation Company
and the Northern Pacific In the con­
struction m ovem ents on the Snake
river was made known today when,
at the Instance of the Northern P a­
cific, the judge of the superior court
of W hitm an county Issued an in ju n c­
tion restraining the Oregon Railroad
A N avigation Company from con­
struction 0Qwn the north bank of the
Snake below Rlparla.
A w rit was
Issued at Colfax Saturday n igh t and
made effectiv e yesterday and word
reached here this m orning.
It haB been known for several days
that the Oregon Railroad A N aviga­
tion Company contem plated building
down the north bank of the Snake
below Rlparla and during the last
week several hundred men were put
to work grading on that line. It is
now expected here that
w ithin a
short tim e both roads w ill be In an
open fight In th is vicin ity.
Engineer S^taser, of the Northern
Pacific, is now cross-sectionin g the
line south of Lewiston and a con­
struction crew under his orders Is
stra ig h ten in g and raising an aband­
oned track which runs to the north­
ern porUon of tl^e city. There can
5e~no other conclusion than that the
Northern Pacific w ill build In the
Waha section. In the sam e vicinity,
w orking w ith a crew, la E ngineer
Cobb, of the Oregon Railroad A Nav­
igation Com pany’s local electric line.
All three surveys, from observations,
w ill con flict, and It is not un lik ely
that a fight for territory w ill again
be soon participated.
farm u n its on governm ent Irrigation It has no apologies to m ake to any- Portland O regonian; „
t-
projects be fixed anyw here betw een ¡body for anyth in g. It retracts noth-
A man's political character is a
20 and 160 acres. The bill o rlgln - lng.
If has been overruled and It proper subject for discussion;
and
ally made ten acres the m inim um , j becom e|| pasa| Ve untjl such tim e as It bo Is h is private character,.Jf he as-
,
t<> p u b|,c p)a(.e
But ,t
Desert lands entrym en whose la n d s'
were Included In the governm ent «hall be proven right or w rong,
cow
ardly,
despicable
and
infam ous
w ithdraw als, must relinquish all but ! The man who w ins out In a po-
to m ake anonym ous attacks;
the
160 acres If their holding Is made I lltlc a l contest Is en titled to the »«P-I more
of course. If they are ma-
part of a governm ent project, but . rt o f b,g party organ , ta t ,Oh. The llclou s and false, as are the attacks
If the w ithdraw al Is revoked, they
party candidate runn ing Is entitled on Jonathan Bourne, printed and
are given credit on their desert e n ­
"square deal" during his en- circulated by thousands. In the hope
try for the period of tim e develop­ to
o f d efeatin g him for the United
cum
bency.
The partisan who .never
ment recorded by the w ithdraw al.
States senate.
-<
Artesian
well
boring,
except stop s fighting Is certain to disrupt
Who
are
the
cow ardly culm lna-
where
prelim inary
work
assures his party. The citizen elector who
tors-and assassins, who do th is work
success In reaching a profitable flow
never stops figh tin g Is the i>oorest and shield them selves under anony­
o f w ater. Is prohibited by the re­
m ity? E vidently they are persons
clam ation rules. Secretary
H itch ­ kind of a poor Am erican citizen.
Thè Chronicle believes that Mr. who have m oney to back their m t-
cock has interpreted the law creat­
ing the fund" to mean that operations Bourne secured the nom ination fair­ ilgUlty. on the one hand, and their
on the reclam ation fund are perm is­ ly and he la e n titled to fair and Just selfish desire to open the senatorshlp
to purchase, on the othec.
Circu­
sib le on ly w here there are positive
treatm ent at th e hands of Republi­ lars by tens of thousands cannot be
en g in eerin g assurances of fu ll re­
turns. P rospecting for artesian w a­ can politician« of the Aitate, . ......... printed sod sent through the m alls
The C hronicle docs not endorse w ithou t m oney, and a good deal o f
fer cannot be classed under such
projects.
the underhand attem p ts to k defeat It. W hat plutocrat, or group of
» Oregon Is one of the keenest su f­ Mr. Bourne. R epublicans have made plutocrats, Is " p utting up” for these
anonym ous
defam ations?
They
ferers from this ruling, as It has
been a cherished hope of Senator th e,r cho,ce and ahou,d aMde by U; ' probably wHl yet be discovered, and
Fulton to secure provision for sev­ If Mr. Bourne receives the . major branded w ith the infam y they de-
eral w ells In the great central and vote for senator on June 4 he should serve.
southeastern section, w here the land be chosen by the legislature, no m at­
No creature is so despicable as he
Is arts. North of Hummer and H ar­ ter were he the horned, cloven-hoof­ who uses the assassin's weapon of
ney lakes there are section s so far
anonym ous attack. Criticism of the culars to the in vestigation com m ittee
removed from w ater sheds that Irri­ ed and forked-tailed prince of the political career ofTTinathan Bourne,
of the M unicipal Association o f Port­
realm
of
th
e
dam
ned.
There's
noth­
gation by any practical canal Is Im­
or of any other public man, Is a l­ land, Mr. Bourne requested an In­
possible. Some of this land Is pro­ ing lljte p layin g square, even In deal­ lowable, If done openly and d ecen t­
quiry Into the charges they contain.
nounced above any feasible ditch ing with the devil.
ly; but even this never should be Several persons, believed to be the
line, even though the cost elem ent
Portland
p olitician s who held done'-by those who work In secrecy authors or promoters of the accusa­
were not considered. Senator F u l­
avow tions, were called to come anfj te sti­
their
peace
previous
I»» the primaries, and concealm ent, afraid to
ton believed the only practical solu-
them selves. A ttacks on the personal fy, but all of them refused 'or de-
lion of the situation was artesian I are new very m uch In evidence. They
and private character of public men i d in ed . The com m ittee had no pow--
boring, and that this offered much > Rre taking a hand to defeat Mr. by a m alignant cow ardice that con- er‘ to compel the atten dan ce of wlt-
of promise was attested by an ex- nourn<>.
T hese
underhand poll- ceals Its own personality and u tters , nesses, and the gentlem en who are
haustlve reconnaissance of the field | QCjans accuse Mr. Bourne of com- calu m nies from under cover, should (know n to be among those who carry
tiv the geological survey tw o or Ih r e e ;. . '
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b in ln g w ith Dem ocrats while a mem­ be treated alw ays w ith the contem pt ¡the dagger of libel and slander In
years ago. T h e g re a t A nna riv er
that such despicable work deserves. the sheath of anonym ity refused to
spring, where an Immense volum e of ber of the leg isla tu re In 1 XRF> to de­ To an anonym ous circular no right-
appear. Cowardly scoundrels, al-
feat
Sol
H
lrsch
for
senator,
having
water rushes from the ground and
minded person can pay any atten - wnvs. nre those who pursue the work
after a flow of three m iles, forms tried to defeat John JL .Mitchell, the u on w hatever; and If calum nious.
of secret defam ation. But as Rome
Summer lake, has been accepted as
caucus - a nom inee, ami of ^voting the work cart only excite l o a t h l h g o f these men are known, they yet
itroof that the big desert tract to
towards those g u ilty of It.
probably w ill have the advantage. In
,
the north, w hence this underground again st him.
spite of all their efforts for secrecy,
They
accuse
him
of
organizing
an
T
aking
some
of
these
libelous
clr-
flow, comes, could be converted Into
to tell In open court what they pre­
tend to know.
To oppose a man In politics Is one
thing; to defam e his personal char­
acter Is anoth er— especially If It Is
done under the cover o f a cowardly
and m alignant anonym ity. N othing
that affecta the character of men
should be published anonym ously.
F ortunately, human nature la so
constituted that such publications
usually defeat the purpose o f those
who utter them.
The Oregonian has opposed Mr.
Bourne on many occasion* hereto­
fore. In former years, when the
money question wan suprem e, it d if­
fered from him most w idely. That
waa ten years ago, and It Is past.
The Oregonian never questioned the
honesty of bis m otives, and It gave
him credit for the courage of his
convictions. That was more than It
could say for many or most of the
conspicuous men of the Republican
party who then were Juggling w ith
the money question. That conten­
tion. however, belongs to the past.
It never will be renewed. No more
forever w ill the gold standard be
questioned. Mr. Bourne wns no
more In error on the m oney question,
and far more honest, than n large
niajffirlty • o f the active
Republican
j politician.t of Oregon; am ong whom
are those now m aking on him these
cowardly attacks from ambush, la
the hope of advantage to them selves
through party dlsorganlrst Ion.
W hile every member of each of the
com m ittees h avin g In charge the
Fourth of July celebration was not i
present at the m eeting held at the
Commercial Club rooms laat nigh t, a
representative of each of the com- ,
m lttees of gentlem en and all but ,
three of the ladles were on hand, j
ready to do what waa required of
them In order to m ake the celebra­
tion a success. A. E. Crosby, chair- |
man of the g en tlem en ’s en tertain - j,
m ent com m ittee, presided and trans­
m itted his enthusiasm to each one
present.
A general ou tlin e of the work ex- : Republican
Candidate for State
pected of the com m ittees was gone
Treasurer.
over and the duly of plan ning for
the arrangem ent of the tw o days'
Rain Was General.
program was entrusted to
A.
E._
Crosby, C. W. Dletzel and E. O. Me- ‘ Reports from all over Oregon ¿fid
Coy, who w ill report at a m eeting to W ashington say that the rains have
been genefnl.
In the Big
Bend
be held Thursday night.
In a general discussion of the country, Eureka fjat, Grand Ronde
plans for the tw o days It was su g ­ valley. Morrow cdunty and In all the
gested that the horse races take wheat dlstrlcts*of the Inland em pire
place on the afternoon of the 3rd, excellent rains have fallen and wheat
w ith a ball gnme or any other sport prospects are consequently; advanc­
An especially heavy
w hich may be selected from the long ed greatly.
list plnnned, and In the even in g a rain has fallen In the Big Bend
band concert and ball.
On the country, where wheat wa3 su fferin g
Fourth the usual exercises appropri­ considerably. The Eureka Cat wheat
ate to the day— parade, exercises at has also been saved as It ’vns In hrfd
the grand stand, hose tournam ent, condition and a few more davR of
aquatic and other sports on the dry w eather would have greatly a f­
According to the
beach, ball gam e, band concert, ball fected the crop.
East Oregonian, some wheat In the
and fireworks.
The com m ittees are not doing footh ill districts of U m atilla county
th in g s by halves, but have determ in­ wai su ffering, hut the r a il bar been
ed to make It In deed as w ell as In of Im measurable benefit and the crop The Oregonian's Conception of Governor Chamberlain's Political Position and Attitude Toward the Presi­
dent and the People..
nam e, a "grand” celebration.
Not is now assured.
v
I
Elect Entire Ticket.
I hoj>e and expect to see the entire
Republican ticket elected In June.
It la high tim e that a strong Repub­
lican state like Oregon should ba
free from the blight of having Its
principal o ffices In the . hands o f
Dem ocrats.— Joseph Simon, ex-U nl-
ted States Senator.