The
O b se r v e r .
Monopoly
of Water Power Sites.
REPORT OF SHERMAN COUNTY SCHOOLS
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MORO RACKET STORE
LOUIS HEYDT
JOHN TONKINS, Proprietor
Harness and Saddlery
Spokesman Review: There has
For the Month Ending March 25, 1910.
been much discussion recently as
to whether or not the waterpower
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trol^of a monoply. Recent re interested in the general welfare of our schools
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that although such a monopoly has county.
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completed
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has
Come and ascertain our prices.
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been a rapid concentration of the D m . N o .
water power companies.
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Bigelow . . . . . .
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though many valuable water power S2
cept when for money making purposes
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Such notice« at regular rate« at the option
Anna
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sites are reported to have been
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W e w ill not be re»pon»ible for the
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neglect of subscribers to notify us of panies before the blanket with
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change« in their addrea«. N or w ill the drawals by Roosevelt, none of
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notification of a Postmaster that the sub
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scriber has ” Rem oved” settle the bill of a these have been patented,
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have any new filings been made. 13
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D id it ever occur to you that it costs no Mr. Finchot’s orders to the forest
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more to produce printing that i> pleasing
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to the eye than the other kind?
The rangers to locate their cabins on bl9
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Observer is equipped with all the modern
160-acre tracts, selected so as to 20
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faclitiea for doing good work at the very
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minimum of coat. Try us with an order
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and if it is not executed to your perfect the forests, prevented still others
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satisfaction you need not pay for it.
from being filed upon by corpo 25
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Send for advertising rates.
ration dummies.
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lution is good or not till after it examined the lakes, streams and b3l . K » > lo « n • d • ik • e • ............
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mountain canyons, locating all 32 . Rosebush .......... A lta O ’ d e ll............. 13 20 40 5 27 3 8() 8 i I 0
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water power sites and Ballinger is 35 . Dobie P o i n t .... Cora Daugherty. . . 12 14
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Theodore may have learned withholding these from entry, al
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wisdom from the 6phinx, but ap though all surrounding lands are
Note:
a School not in session thia month,
b Teacher faHed to report.
parently he did not learn silence being restored.
Many who are opposed to the
Pinchot conservation policy say
■ Straws have been blowing with
Redmond expects to become an
that it is the government’s inten true of the states and individuals.
sufficient distinctness to show that
But do the people want econ incorporated city, next month.
tion to prevent any use of these
republicans cannot afford to fight
power sites for years, and thus omy? Are they not opposed to
among themselves.
hinder the development of the economy? Congressman Gillett
“ Do it now!” seems to be
D E A L E R S IN
west. This is a mistaken idea. of Massachusetts, speaking on this attitude of the trusts toward
Lim
e,
Plaster,
Cement, Builders
Trade between Canada and the These sites are being withheld question in the house of represen public.
Supplies, Lumber, Wood, Coal,
United States made its highest only until congress prepares a plan tatives said: “ Public opinion in
Cedar Posts, and Hay.
record in the calendar year just under which they may be devel the United States takes no interest
A colleague calls Uncle Joe Can
ended and has more than doubled oped. Ballinger and Taft have in economy. That sentiment of
non the most intrepid watchdog
in the last 10 years.
MANUFACTURERS OF
recommended that these power indifference seems to be increasing. of the treasury that the United
sites be leased for a term of 30 The man who takes an interest in States has ever had. And there is
Objections are made to John D years on terms which will enable advancing economy of public ex no evidence that he ever wawered
Rockefeller’s way of disposing of those who develop them to re penditures gains no popularity at in his role.
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his wealth. Objections are also lease them. The reason for the home—such a course makes him
made to his plan of accumulating leasing plan is that in this age unpopular.”
Fifteen democrats voted against
when the use of electrical power
it : what can he do?
He declared farther that as long Champ Clark as a member of the
is being developed »in so many as something is done for the peo house extended committee on
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ways,
it is impossible to tell how ple at home, it makes no, differ rules. Champs exploits’with insur
The modernized system of news
gathering is a back number, but is valuable these power sites may be ence how deeply the hand is dip gent republicans may teach some
copyrighted. Thus: Yesterday, 29 a generation hence. Thirty years ped in the treasury, and that the tricks to his own side.
years ago, P T Barnum died ; 67 ago the possibilities of the use of man who is able to secure big ap
ye^rs ago today Adeline Patti was the water power of the Spokane propriations for his home district
Two years ago the democrat just
SHARPLESS CREAM SEPARATO RS
borh ; 50 years ago tomorrow the river at the present time was be is thereby popularized with his elected to congress in Massachu
yond the wildest dream of its constituents, no matter what his setts was a republican and is still a
Pony Express was established.
If you are th in k in g of getting a cream
owners. So 30 years hence, no conduct relative to general legisla protectionist. The lesson from
separator, get a Sharpless, none better.
body can even conjecture the val tion, „„
Capecod is that politics is mixed.
A professor in the university of
ue of the water power of this ; The present national adminis Republicans in that district must
Missouri avers that the fashionable
tration has raised its voice in the have been afflicted with an amount
country.
woman is a clotheshorse for the
Once the titles of all these water interest of saving in expenditures of over confidence amounting to
display of a rich man’s wealth.
Look over your harness before spring
power sites pass into the hands of and legislation is be*ng formulated indifference. A difference not eas
He certainly has the courage of
work
begins and if you need extras or
private individuals the formation looking to a placing of the govern ily defined.
his convictions, but who is it that
a
new
harness, we have them.
of a complete monopoly is only a mental departments on a strictly
rushes in where angels fear to
matter of furnishing sufficient business basis. It is held that the
tread?
By the appointment of six regu
Now is the time to fence. Get our
mbney to procure them. Public contemplated reforms in methods
lar republicans as the component
opinion
has
no
influence
in
de
of
conducting
the
government
and
AMERICAN hog fencing.
General QeOfge H. Williams is
of the 10 members of the house
termining
to
whom
an
individual
business
will
save
$100,000,000
an
dead—
is to sell his property. The peo nually. And Senator Aldrich is extended committee on rules, that
See our up to date line of cutlery just received.
** Like a clock worn out with beating
tim e, •
ple are willing and anxious that quoted as saying that if he could chamber is at last almost ready to
T h e wheel« of weary life at last
these water power sites should be manage the affairs of the govern push the republican program. In
«land «till.**
surgent, as well as regular republi
Oregon’s Grand Old Man died in utilized, but will insist that they be ment himself; he could effect econ cans, express satisfaction at the se
sleep at home during Sunday night. forever kept from the control of omies aggregating $300,000,(MX) lections which have been made for
yearly. This statement may be
The end came as he had wished. any power trust.
true or may not, but when such the republican end of the commit
His daughter summoning him to
men as President Taft, James J. tee. Some of the regulars favor
Americans Besetting Sin.
arise Monday morning, found that
Hill, Senator Aldrich point to the increase to 11 members to avert a
death had touched him. >»He was
the chance of tie votes.
James J. Hill in a recent address needs of economy, the condition
active to the last, and cheery with
delivered before the St. Taul Con calls for serious consideration.
Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Stains,
usual health.
servation Congress, declared that
Because the United States is a
President Taft has suggested that
Calcimine and Glass«
The verdict of a New Jersey extravagance has become a nation rich nation it seems to be the the people of the «country answer O
al
trait.
He
quoted
figures
to
notion
that
millions
of
expendi
the questions of the census enum
jury to the effect that “ damn” is
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not an oath within the meaning of show that the ordinary expense of tures, more or less, make little dif erators. The fact that the presi
have opened a fresh new stock of wall paper,
the vice and immorality act of the- the federal government in the ference. Every dollar uselessly dent should make such a request
state no doubt accords with popu years between 1890 and 1909 had expended by the governm :nt indicates the importance of the
paints, etc, and promise to make this my
lar opinion. Usage has largely iacreased by more than 121 per causes the producer to part with census in the opinion of the ad
home, and -
shorn the word of the suggestion cent, and that the increase from that much more of his private ministration. And its importance o
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of profanity it may once have had. 1890 to 1909 was more than 201 earnings, and tends to increase ex is not exaggerated. In this way
W A N T Y O U R BUSINESS
travagance all along down the line. Uncle Sam not only determines
It has become bowdlerized in the percent.
am a first class workm tn with the above goods,
That this statement is true and This may be a billion-dollar how big he is, but what he is ; and
course of time and transformed
timely
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and
country,
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