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SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 11, 1903. VOL. VII The ganiiam A9D SOQWf) —VIA PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT d* IO, LINK By D. C. Humphrey. Per annum........................... ....see . msm . sbsww ^ILM State ! Southern Pacifii Co. OBEGOH CO., ti : b SBASTA KOSTE. Trains leave West Scio for Portland and way stations at 10.45 a. in. Leave or Albany at 2.45 p. m. Advertising rates made known on application 1 rnnsient advertisements must be paid for when the or ier is given for their insertion. Oregon £c!o CP7I0ER3 Prefident. .................... T. J. Müwxxns ........................ W. A. E wisg Cashier... weaves Portland 8.30 a. m., 8.30 p. m. “ Albany 12.10 p. m., 11.30 p. tn. Fntv red at the postoffice at Scio, Oregon, at Arrives Ashland 12.33 a. m., 11.30 a. m. “ Sacramento 7.55 p. nt., 8.55 a. tn acconti class mail matter. D e« a general banking and exchange << San Francisco 7.55 p. m., 8.55 a business. 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Pianos, Organs, end Sewing Machines Repaired. 120 First Street - • Albany, Oregon IPRESIDENT TO CONGRESS Chief Executive Sends Message to i People’s Lawmakers HANDLES MATTERS I BEFORE PUBLIC Favors Lewis and Clark Exposition—Undesirable Class of Immigrants Should be Kept Out—Ap point Commission to Inquire Into Needs of Ship ping—Extend Rural Free Delivery—Better Legis lation for Alaska—Panama Canal Question. NO. 24. demandine a. regarda rights ot way or acquisition ot real estate. PRESERVATION OF FOREST8. EVENTS OF THE DAY Need There.f le Recognized Now at GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE Never Before. The study of the opportunities of recla TWO HEMISPHERES. mation of the vast extent of arid land shows that whether this reclamation is done by individuals, corporations, or the state, the sources of water supply must be Comprehensive Review - of tha Import effectively protected and the reservoirs guarded by the preservation of the for ant Happenings of the Past Week, ests at the headwaters of the streams. Presented In Condensed Form, Most The engineers making the preliminary ex aminations continually emphasize this Likely to Prove Interesting to Our need and urge that the remaining public Many Readers. lands at the headwaters of the important streams of the West be reserved to in sure permanency of water supply for ir The Panama canal treaty has started rigation. Much progress in forestry has been made during the past year. The ne on its way to the United States. cessity for perpetuating our forest re Japan has postponed the meeting of sources, whether in public or private hands, is recognized now as never be the diet in the hope of receiving an fore. The demand for forest reserves has answer from Russia. become insistent in the West, because the West must use the water, wood and Sum Both houses of congress entered upon mer range which only such reserves can regular from special session without supply. The admin istrative features of forest reserves are at any notable transition. present unsatisfactory, being divided be Dowie alleges his assets are four tween three bureaus of two departments. It is therefore recommended that all mat times his liabilities, and makes an ters pertaining to forest reserves, except offer to settle with his creditors. those involving or pertaining to land Secretary Shaw estimates that the titles, be consolidated in the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agricul- entire appropriations nee.ted for gov ture. ernment use for 1905 will be >624,502,- INDIAN AFFAIRS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-President . giving us our place on the Pacific sea Agents Should Not Be Dependent Roosevelt’s message to Congress was read ; board, and making ready the way for our Upon Partisan Politics. - before the Senate and Housft today. The ascendency in the commerce of the great The Indian agents should not be depend est of the oceans. The centennial of our text of the message fol low«: ent for their appointment or tenure of To the Senate and House of Representa- establishment upon the Western Coast office upon considerations of partisan poli tives: I by the expedition of Lewis and Clark is tics; the practice of appointing, when iv be ur congratulated^on wiiat»*»*____ to be celebrated at Portland, Or., by an The country is to th^amount^of’sibstantiar'achlevement | Exposition tn the Summer ot 1905. and this possible, ex-army officers or bonded super tne aniuuiii vi ouMDv«*..*— —------- . intendents to the vacancies that occur Is .... ___ .... . . v. . both event should receive recognition and sup suo- which has marked the past year, both working well. Attention is invited to the as regards our foreign and as regards our port from the National Government. widespread illiteracy due to lack of pub domestic policy. lic schools in the Indian Territory. Prompt DEVELOPMENTOF ALASKA. With a nation as with a man the most heed should be paid to the need of edu important things are those of the house cation for the children in this territory. hold, and therefore the country is esPe‘ Legillation Is Needed and the Survey PENSIONS. dally to be congratulated on what has of Public Lands Urged. been accomplished in the direction of pro I call your special attention to the Ter No Other Class Deserves So Well of viding for the exercise of supervision over the great corporations and combinations ritory of Alaska. The country is develop the Nation as the Veterans. of corporations engaged in interstate com ing rapidly, and it has an assured future. No other class of our citizens deserves merce. The Congress has created the De The mineral wealth is grea* »nd has as so well of the Nation as those to whom partment of Commerce and Labor, includ yet hardly been tapped. The fisheries, if the Nation owes its very being, the vet ing the Bureau of Corporations, with for wisely handled and kept under National erans of the Civil War. Special attention the first time authority to secure propel control, will be a business as permanent is asked to the excellent work of the publicity of such proceedings of these as any other, and of the utmost import Pension Bureau in expediting and dis The forests, if great corporations as the public has the ance to the people. posing of pension claims. During the right to know. It has provided for the properly guarded, will form another great fiscal year ending July 1, 1903. the Bureau Portions of Alaska expediting of suits for the enforcement ot source of wealth. settled 251,982 claims, an average of 825 the Federal anti-trust law, and by an are fitted for farming and stockraising, claims for each working day of the year. other law it has secured equal treatment although the methods must be adapted to The number of settlements since July 1, to all producers in the transportation o the peculiar conditions of the country. 1903, has been in excess of last year’s their goods, thus taking a long stride Alaska is situated in the Far North; but average, approaching 1000 claims for each forward in making effective the work of so are Norway and Sweden and Finland; working day, and it is believed that the and Alaska can prosper and play its part the Interstate Commerce Commission. in the New World just as those nations work of the Bureau will be current at RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES have prospered and played their parts in the close of the present fiscal year. the Old World. Proper land laws should ISTHMIAN CANAL. Indications Are That the Surplus of be enacted and the survey of the public lands immediately begun. Coal-land laws Review of Dealings With Colombia the Present Year Will Be Small. shold be provided whereby the coal-land From all sources, exclusive of the pos entryman may make his location and se and Recent Events. tal service, the receipts of the ^y^njnent cure patent under methods kindred to By the act of June 28, 1902, the Congress for the last fiscal year aggregated M>0,396,- those now prescribed for homestead and authorized the President to enter into 674 The expenditure« for the same period mineral entrymen. Salmon hatcheries, ex treaty with Colombia for the building of were $506,099.007. the surplus for the fiscal clusively under Government control, the canal across the Isthmus of Panama; year being $54,297.667. The indications are should be established. The cable should it being provided that in the event of that the surplus for the present fiscal year be extended from Sitka westward. Wagon failure to secure such treaty after the will be very small, if indeed there be any roads and trails should be built, and the lapse of a reasonable time, recourse should surplus. ’ A large surplus 1« cer building of railroads promoted in all le be had to building a canal through Ni tainly undesirable. Two years ago the gltimate ways. Lighthouses should be caragua. It has not been necessary to war taxes were taken off w’ith the express built along the coast. consider this alternative, as I am enabled intention of equalizing the Governmental to lay before the Senate a treaty provid receipts and expenditures, and though the HAWAII ing for the building of the canal across first year thereafter still showed a surplus the Isthmus of Panama. This was the it now seems likely that a substantia Greater Power Should Be Vested in route which commended itself to the de equality of revenue and expenditure will liberate judgment of the Congress, and the Governor. be attained. Such being the case it is of we can now acquire by treaty the right great moment both to exercise care and I recommend that an appropriation be to construct the canal over this route. economy in appropriations, and to scan made for building lighthouses in Hawaii, The question now, therefore, is not by sharply any change in our fiscal revenue and taking possession of those already which route the isthmian canal shall be system which may reduce our income. built. The territory should be reimbursed built, for that question has been definitely The integrity of our currency is beyond for whatever amounts it has already ex and irrevocably decided. The question Is question, and under present conditions it pende'1 for lighthouses. The Governor simply whether or not we shall have an would be unwise and unnecessary to at should be empowered to suspend or re Isthmian canal. tempt a reconstruction of our entire mone move any official appointed by him with Last Spring, under the act above re tary system. The same liberty should be out submitting the matter to the Legis ferred to, a treaty concluded between the granted the Secretary of the Treasury to lature. representatives of the Republic of Colom deposit the custom« receipts as is granted bia and of our Government was ratified by IN8ULARPOSSES9IONS. him in the deposit of receipts from other the Senate. This treaty was entered Into sources. In my message of December 2. at the urgent solicitation of the people 1902, I called attention to certain needs of Philippines Should Be Knit Closer by of Colombia, and after a body of experts the financial situation, and I again ask appointed by our Government especially Tariff Agreements. the consideration of the Congress for these to go into the matter of the routes across Of our insular possessions the Philip the isthmus had pronounced unanimously questions. pines and Porto Rico it is gratifying to in favor of the Panama route. In draw FRAUDS IN PUBLIC SERVICE. say that their steady progress has been ing up this treaty every concession was such as to make it unnecessary to spend Appropriations Urged to Investigate much time in discussing them. Yet the made to the people and to the Govern ment of Colombia. We were more than Congress should ever keep in mind that just In dealing with them. Our generos Land and Postal Affairs. a peculiar obligation rests upon us to In my last annual message, in connec- further in every way the welfare of ity was such as to make it a serious ques tion whether we had not gone too far in tion with the subject of the due regula- these communities. The Phillippines t.’on of combinations of capital which are should be knit closer to us by tariff ar their interest at the expense of our own: for In our scrupulous desire to pay all or may become injurious to the public, I rangements. possible heed, not merely to the real, but recommend a special appropriation for the even to the fancied rights of our weaker better enforcement of the antitrust law PUBLIC LAND8. neighbor, who already owed bo much to as it now stands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Ac Necessity for Revision of the Laws Is our protection and forbearance, we yield ed in all possible ways to her desires in cordingly (by the legislative, executive and drawing up the treaty. Nevertheless the Pointed Out. judicial appropriation act of February 25, Government of Colombia not merely re 1903. 32 Stat., 854, 9(M). the Congress ap The cash receipts of the General Land propriated, for the purpose of enforcing Office for the last fiscal year were pudiated the treaty, but repudiated it in such manner as to make it evident by the various Federal trust and interstate $11,024,743.65, an increase of $4,762,816.47 commerce laws, the sum of $500,000 to be over the preceding year. Of this sum, the time the Colombian Congress ad journed that not the scantiest hope re expended under the direction of the At approximately, $8,461,493 will go to the mained of ever getting a satisfactory torney-General in the employment of spe credit of the fund for the reclamation treaty from them. cial counsel and agents in the Department of arid land, making the total of this Immediately after the adjournment of of Justice to conduct proceedings and fund, up to the 30th of June, 1903, ap the Congress a revolution broke out In prosecutions under said laws in the courts proximately, $16.191,836. Panama. The people of Panama had long Experience has shown that in the West of the United States. I now recommend, been discontented with the Republic of as a matter of the utmost importance and ern States themselves, as well as in the Colombia, and they had been kept quiet urgency, the extension of the purposes of rest of the country, there is wldesorea-1 , only by the prospect of the conclusion of this appropriation, so that it may be conviction that certain of the publlc-.end ' the treaty, which was to them a matter of available, under the direction of the At laws and the resulting administrative ' I vital concern. •When it became evident torney-General, and until used, for the practice no longer meet the present reeds. 1 that the treaty whh hopelessly lost, the due enforcement of the laws of the United The character and uses of the remaining 1 people of Panama rose literally as one States in general and especially of the public lands differ widely from those of man. Not a shot was fired by a single civil and criminal laws relating to public the public lands which the Congress had man on the Isthmus in the interest of lands and the laws relating to postal especially in view when these laws were the Colombian Government. Not a life crimes and offenses and the subject of passed The rapidly increasing rate of was lost In the accomplishment of the naturalization. Recent investigations disposal of the public lands Is not fol revolution. The Colombian troops sta have shown a deplorable state of affairs lowed by a corresponding increase in tioned on the Isthmus, who had long been in these three matters of vital concern. home-building. There is a tendency to unpaid, made common cause with the peo By various frauds u ud b,' forgeries and mass in large holdings public lands, es ple of Panama, and with astonishing perjuries, thousands of acres of the pub pecially timber and grazing lands, ami unanimity the new Republic was started. lic domain, embracing lands of different thereby to retard settlement. I renew and ■ The duty of the United State« in the character ard extending through vari emphasize my recommendation of lart premises was clear. In strict accordance ous sections of the country, have been year that so far as they are available far with the principals laid down by Secre agriculture in its broadest sense, and to ! taries Cass and Seward in the official docu dishonestly acquired. whatever extent th*y may be reclaimed , ments above quoted, the United States RURAL FRFE-DELIVERY SERVICE urder the national irrigation ’.aw. tlie re- ! gave notice that it would permit the malning public lands should be held landing of no expeditionary force, the ar System Must Be Extended, and Sal rigidly for the home-builder. The atten rival of which would mean chaos and de tion of the Congress is especially directed struction along the line of the railroad aries of Carriers Adjusted. to the timber and stone law, the desert and of the proposed canal, and an Inter The hural free delivery service has been land law, and the commutation clat.se ruption of transit as an Inevitable conse steadily extended. The attention of the of the homestead law, which In their ( per Congress is asked to the question of the ation have in many respects conflicted quence. Every effort has been made by the Gov compensation of the letter carriers and with wise public-land policy. The d scus- ernment of the United States to persuade clerks engaged in the postal service, slons In the Congress and elsewhere have Colombia to follow a course which was especially on the new rural free-delivery made It evident that there is a wide di essentially not cn!y to our interests and routes. More routes have been Installed vergence of opinions between ’.hose hold to the Interests of the world, but to the since the first of July last than In any ing opposite views on these subjects; r r.d Interests of Colombia itself. These efforts like period in the department's history. that the opposing sides have strong ».nd have failed, and Colombia, by her persist While a due regard to economy must be convinced representatives of weight b< th ence in repulsing the advances that have kept in mind in the establishment of new within and without the Congress; the dif been made, has forced us. for the sake of routes, yet the extension of the rural free ferences being not only as to matters of | our own honor, and of the Interest and delivery system must be continued, for opinion, but as to matters of fact. well-being not merely of our own people, The work of reclamation of the arid but of the people of the Isthmus of Pan reasons of sound public policy. No Gov ernmental movement of recent years has lands of the West Is progressing steadily ama and the people of the civilized coun- resulted in greater Immediate benefit to and satisfactorily under the terms of the • tries of the world, to take decisive steps the people of the country district«. law setting aside the proceeds from the to bring to an end a condition of affairs disposal of public lands. The corps of had become intolerable. The new LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION engineers known as the reclamation which „-------- ----------------- „ ---------- Republic of Panama immediately offered service, which is conducting the surveys negotiate a treaty with U6. This treaty Congress Should Give It Support at and examinations, has been thoroughly f herewith submit. By it our interest/ Well as Recognition. organized, especial pains being taken to j ftrp better safeguarded than in the treaty I trust that the Congress will continue to secure under the civil service rules a . w||h Colombia, which was ratified by th< favor in all proper ways the i Louisiana body of skilled, experienced and efficient 8enate ftl its last session. It Is better li Surveys and examinations are terms than the treaties offered to u Purchase Exposition. This exposition men. commemorates the Ix>ulslana purchase. progressing throughout the arid states and by thF Republics of Nicaragua and Coat Klca At last th» right to begin this sr»a which was the flrst great step In the ex territories, plans for reclaiming works be- Rtca. ‘ available, Panamt panslon which made us a I. continental ing prepared and passed upon by boards un<jertaking is made Nation. The expedition of Lewis and of engineers before approved by the Sec has done her part. All that remain« L Clark across the continent followed there retary of the Interior. In Arizona and tor the American Congree« Io do It« part on, and marked the beginning of the Nevada, In localities where su?h work Is and forthwith thia republic will ente process of exploration and colonization pre-eminently needed, construction has al upon the execution of a project colo««a which thrust our National boundaries to ready been begun. In other parts of the tn Ita «lae and of well-nigh Incalculablt the Pacific. The acquisition of the Oregon arid West various projects are well ad poa.lhllltle. for the good of thl« country Country. Including the present States of vanced towards the drawing up of con and the nation» of mankind. THBODORB ROOSEVELT. Oregon and Washington, was a fact of tracts. these being delayed in part by i Immense Importance in our history; first necessities of reaching agreements or un- | Whit« House, December 7. 19W. 146. The steel trust will reduce expenses a hundred thousand dollars a year by dismissing a number of “Carnegie’s pets.” Minister Lifton, of Canada, declares that country is loyal to Britain and regrets its infantine attitude over Alas ka decision. A party of Colorado nonunion miners were ambushed near Trinidad. Of five only one escaped to give the alarm. The sheriff with bloodhounds has gone to the scene. An epidemic of diphtheria at Stan ford university has put 12 in the hos pital. Pope Pius is trying to secure more cordial lelations between France and the church. The British consul finds the outrages in Congo Free States fully equal to the first reports. The wages of something like 14,000 miners at Birmingham, Ala., have been reduced. More creditors of Dowie have come to hisr escue and it is thought he will yet come out all right. Secretary Hitchcock refuses to rein state Asa B. Thomas as receiver of the I.a Grande, Oregon, land office. Senator Foster, of Washington, has introduced a bill giving the Puyallup Indians the right to sell or lease their lands. Speaker Cannon gave the best house committeeBhipB to old members, and Oreogn got only minor positions. Washington fared but little better. Edward L. Wentz, the young Phila delphia millionaire, who lias been missing since last October, has been found in a demented condition wander ing in the mountains of Tennessee. Martial law has been proclaimed at Cripple Creek, Colo. An international administration is proposed for Macedonia. Herbert Spencer, the famous writer, is seriously ill in London. Seven large creditors of Dowie oppose the move to declare him bankrupt. Ex-Congressman William M. Spring er, of Illinois, and a Democratic leader, is dead. The simplest solution to The Dalles canal right-of-way muddle appears to be purchase by the state of Oregon. In his annual report Secretary Moody strongly urges a general staff for the navy, similar to that at the head of the army. A forest fire which is raging in the mountains northeast of San Bernar dino, Cal., has already destroyed about 6,000,000 feet of sawed lumber and other property and is not yet extin guished. The loss will reach at least >100,000. The submarine boat Pixie stranded on the Virginia coast. has Emil Roeski, one of the Chicago ban* dits recently arrested, will plead hyp notism. The two Chilean warships supposed to have been sold to Japan were pur chased by England. Six hundred coolies sailed for China from San Fran isco on the »«earner Lothian a few days ago. Japan has demanded an answer from Russia to the former's latest note on the Manchurian question An ex-Cuhan official tells the senate •ommittee that General Wood changed laws to meet his own ends. The British cruiser Flora is ashore on Vancouver island and there is danger of her being a total wreck. Although a number of Western sen ators deeire to see Secretary Hitchco< k removed, President Roosevelt will not ask him to go, Dowie will be forced to take the stand and give the standing of Zion Ci»y. It is claimed his wife took >7,000,000 worth of securities with her to Aus tralia. Dowie, the Zionist leader, has been forced into bankruptcy. The United States stands ready to tender its good offices to effect a settle ment between Colombia and the new republic. The Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis fair will be an exposition within an exposition. Forty acres are reserved for the islands ami every one who hae seen articles from that island expresses admiration at the richness of the ex hibits sent.
