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CLAIMS SAVED CERTIFICATES
WEH GUNS
Names
of
GRANTED
Th* »# Sui.essful st l ast
le uhers' t summation
WESTON FOLK 3DRKHART AIRSHIP
ARE BUSY
Aiti
Aeroplane
and
HERE MARTIANS
FINISH CANAL
Soon lie Assembled
trials Begun
Big
Appropri ilion la f avored
Columbia .nd Other
ttar.vor
River Improv ementa
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HOMt.sf I Aliti
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BLSV <ASUNO SQL Airi.RS
Vossrupul->us
I o».at >rs
Misleading Ignorant
Blamed tor
Newcomer»,
Causing Trouble
Newport. Or., Feb. It —(Special )
0. B Dvluiurier. a Siletz homrotea!er.
ia busily engaged in compiling a treati«#
on law regarding squatters on oth' r
persons' claims.
While visiting his claim recently, for
which he has his final papers, he dis­
covered a man leading two others, who
l»ore heavy packs on th« ir backs, onto
his claim, and, without hesitation, he
drew h a six-shooter ami commamled
them to retreat. The command waa
ob»'y«d.
Some days later DeLaurier discover
ed a tent on a hidden part of h's claim.
Nobody was in th«- tent, but it di-ap
peered mysteriously a little later, leav­
ing only some ashes to mark the sfiot.
Subsequently a badly frighten*«! man
appeared in the office of th«- Prosecut­
ing Attorney of Lincoln County and de
mai-ded that DeLaurier be arrest««!
The attorney, after hearing th«' man,
deciiied that th«' caw dependtd on
whether or not DeLaurier had used
more force than waa necessary in eject­
ing the squatter, and decided thaf he
had not.
J K
AA .-arih. rfor l, of A * ■
having much trouble with his various
claims, having no less than four suits at
this term of court. < >ne of the squat -
Um haa lived nine months on a claim
for whidh Mr. Weatherford has held a
patent for eight years.
"Such caws as thia.” sa d W. S.
McFadden. Assistant Pros* ruling At
tornev. "are due to unscrupulous men
who, for a nominal fee. |<s-ate th< »<•
men, knowing that they will undergo
hardship and privation for an indefinite
period, only to be ejected by the court
in the end, with noth ng to reimburse
them for their time and toil. ”
MARS’
Th« following are the names uf thoee
w ho «uccessfully pa->»<d the examina-
Hon für first, »«und and thlrü grade
tra- h« r’s c« rtificate* at the last l.inn
cvunty sc I mo I examination hehl last
week:
First Grade Bertha Wright. O. B.
Cyrus. Albany; Margaret McCormick,
Sh.« d; l'«-s»i# Truelove, Tallman, Mona
Nagel, Albany,
S*cord Grade - Francis Arrold. Mag­
gie McDonald, Ralph Urh nakl, H. W.
Cjrua. Sc<>. Harry I wvrr, Jvfferaon.
Ina White. Halsiv; ll*ii er Pearson,
Archiv Erskine, Clarence and Ralph
1 h« m. Anna McCormick, A M Young,
Annie l>in»c«die, I ebanon; D. G.
i mw. Berlin C. E Cady. Pendleton;
Mrs P W. >tcrei Sweet Home.
Th'rd Grade W, J. Green, Tht'mas.
Mi dred Dver, Jefferson; Fst Ile Itowe.
I n-wnsviBe Verita Earl, Hala«v Etta
llevne. Waterloo; Helle Stol, M»ry
Hart, Tanger t; Beatrice DeVaney,
kein; Wahlen Morgan, Shedd, Isalwlle
Tracy, Albany.
f ight candidates failed in th«- exami.
na t ton.
WHJIT OF EHE ALDRICH CURRENCY PIAI
Committee la Named to Draft Initia­
tive IUII and to Outline I'ubll
c'ty Campaign
Weston. Or., Feb. 14.—(Special. )
It i meeting of the local normal achot I
committee this afternoon the fol owing
executive committee was appointed: ( .
A. Johns and J
L. Rami, of Bak« r
City, W. At Pierce ami Turner Oliver,
of IjtGrand; J
H Raley, R Alaxar -
der. Dr. C J. Smith. James A Fee ami
Frank Saling, of Pemilcton, C. A.
Barrett, of Athena; I' A. Worthington,
of Portland, C. W St«—n at-d A R
Shumway, of Milton T A l.icuellen,
of Adams; O M Richmond and I*. F
IjAVamler, of Weston.
Tu this committee was assign«-«! the
duty of drafting an initiative bill for
th# Eastern Oregon Stste Norms! I
S<-h«M>l and of outlining ami directing
the campaign
It was also empowered '
to appoint such sub-committ«-« as may
lie considcrinl necessary.
A I'xsl finance committee was also 1
apyomted eoi misting of William Mac
Kenzie, I. A. Barnes and J. H Pnce
'1 he sum of Ft'«' was subscribed at Go-
meeting as a nucleus fur th«' fund need­
ed to get the initiative measure pro|>er •
ly before th«' people.
Whether an indepemicnt bill will Is-
drafted as was done at Monmouth or an
effort be made to secure a three-ach*s>l
measure by cooperation with Mon­
mouth ami Ashland are matters left
entirely to th«- judgement of the execu­
tive committee, which wi I meet at
Pendleton Saturday. February S».
The biplane of J. C Burkhart, men­
tion of which has heretofore been
nade by the Herald, arrived in Al-
uany yesterday from Portland on the
steamer Pomona. It came securely
rated in two boxes, one measuring
al-mt .#• feet in length and the other
somewhat smaller.
I he part» Will be assembl' d in the
«ero station now living erected on
Gulira field Trial flights will be in­
augurated nt an early day and Albany
given the first opportunity of any place
in the stat«- to witness the evolutions
of th«- wordvrful new airship
It may
he taken for granted that Coltra field
will t-e eloaelv watched from now on.
Tuesday’s Albany HeraM
Pt IS
O
K
OS I XCI IS Ml Rill W
Dr FdwatdA Spitxka. brain sts'cial-
<t of the Jefferson Medical College.
il'„
'ng of the Pi'itestsnt Episcopal Clerical
Brotherhood that "Murder and suicide
ar« at times justifiable. "
His rssertion. wh ch caused a sens»-
lion, was made In r< ply to questions
¡nit by » clergyman after listening to
an address by Dr Sp.txka
" There are times when murder, and
< ven suicide, appeal to a normal mind
as justifiable, breaking no law, and
t>erha|M as th'- <>nlv human way out of
a horrib c situation " said Dr. Spltxka.
"Take, for instance, a soldier wh » is to
tie hanged aa a spy or it utilatcd by a
I'arbap'Us foe
lie knows there is no
• scaie anti armed with a w«-a|M>n, kills
himself. 1 think this case I» justifiable
suicide.
"Now. in answer to th«' other ques-
tion, '!» the taking or ending of a
human life ever justified? Asole fn»m
legal homicide, such as an electrocu­
tion, the physician sometimes is con­
fronted with the problem of saving a
human being unmentionable tortur«* by
giving a gram of morphine.
The
"Take a radroad accident.
physician is face to face with a human
tiring penned under a train ami suffer-
One gram of morphia will
ing agony
It ia not uncommon for a
end it all.
physician to have to face this situation,
ami I will say that umler some circum­
stances h# is juatifiad in using his judg­
ment aid gidng relief in the semblance
of death to the sufferer. "
Another statement of the physician,
that fathers more than 50 yarn old
produce the moral aid religious child­
ren. caus«! the clergv men to gasp.
"Childrwn or fath-rs less than IS»
years old usually are egotists, military
aid aggressive," he said.
"Th<«ae
born of fathers l»etw<-en Io aid 50
years nr»- phik>aopheni and thinkers,
but the finest moralists, religious
teachers, ami philanthropists, such as
Benjamin Franklin, were born after
the fathers had reach««! the age of 60
years.
Is it not »lout tine for Senator
Aldro h to present hi« currency ¡oir In
hi« speeches last autumn he declared
in effect that h1 had not yet ngrei«!
with himself what he should present,
but Intimat'd that he waa working up­
on a measure, and it is said that his
ambition ia to present such a measure,
aa will rumpl-tely fill th«- country’s
wants. He evidently is finding it a
difficult business. All bia life he haa
given the impress on that he leans to
ward wealth, and toward combines of
capital. His work on the new tariff
last year confirm««! this Ix-lief atm>ng
AA hat aa m ¡hey l»o?
the (X Ople. Hence there is an impres-I
sion which amounts slmost to s belief
Scioans and people in general are
‘that whatever his currency plan may somewhat anxious to know what th«-
finally crystalixe into, its foundation timber buyers, who recently obtained
will rest on interest twaring bonds, the opt o-is on several thousand aerea of
i iterest to I m - | aid by the |WO|> e, thus timber up Thomas creek, purpose
foreshadowing a |>er|« tual debt, draw iloing. The option will ex;sre in a few
ing perpetual interest. But is that fays when, uf course, it will lie known
what the tM*ople want? Was that what if the purchase is to be completed.
The New» ia not a Democratic pajx-r
the fathers ha I in mind when they
It is generally believed that the
in the sense which the Dallas Observer
made gobi ard silver the money of the paiilea purchasing sie representing ti e
states, but is independent in its politi
country, ami left to congress the ('urtia 141 mtier Co. and, if ao, a large
cal thought.
It ia aa ready to com
authority to coin money ami regulate mill will be constructed, with a logging
mend meritorious acts in Republican
the value thereof? Of course, th«' railroad with which to haul the logs
legislators or office holders, as it is if j
country has learn««I much by its ex­ out. Others think the purchase is for
they were Democrats.
It commends
perience since th«' fathers live*!. One speculative purposes only and to close
the fearless stand taken by the so-
thing they have I wen made to realise, ■ out the smali saw mills, etc.
called insurgent Kemiblican members
which ia that of all cowan!« gold ia the
Whatsoever may be the purpose. It
of congress and would be glad to so-
greatest, the one that scents possible seems hardly probable, that timh« r,
enough more Republicans inaurg to
trouble first and is first to run to cover. now fully "ripe” and should be con-
drive (Lannonism and Akjrichiam from
Amither thing learned is that when the vrrted into lumber, would lw purcham-d
the halls of congress.
The N ew -
i nation was in th«- very crisis of its life for speculative puri«>aea. Hence, if the
believes that there haa been too much
legislation in the interests of trusts ami1 th*- faith of the jieople in the integrity sale is concludtd, it is quite probable
and power of the government cause«! that preparations to place thia timlwr
tariff beneficiaries and too little in the
them to accept its (taper, with only a on the market, will be made in the
interests of the common or mass«-« of
vague promts# behind it. aa money, and near future.
Possibly it means the
the people. It will hair with gladness
it brought the country through. And building of a large saw mill at Scio, or
Would Let Incurables Die.
any movement in congress which will
since then the 3345.000.000 millions in in the near vicinity.
Some two or
redound to the interests of all the pen
Dr. William Townsend Porter, tine
vreenbacks, has done mug# work than three years ago, the Curtis company
pie, no matter Whether the measure i<
feasor of philosophy at Harvard Uni­
t «rice that amount in gold haa done, waa considering building a mill at or
verslty has enunciated the theory that
championed by a Republican or a Dem­
Meanwhile th«' country haa inereaaerl near bcio, which gives « p P t to the
hopeh-sMly unfit humans should be al­
ocrat. But so long aa the majority of
i three fold in people, five or six-fold in opinion that such may I m - the purpoae
lowed to die in order that the money
Republican congressmen stand, aa they
1 wealth. And when the panic was pre­ at the present time.
devoted to charity I m - used to save the
now do. for the interests of the trust«
cipitated »wo years ago, roukl th#
Timlx-r men say that a large portion
hopefula.
It follows that he is tir­
and protected classes, the N k « s will
government have declared that it would, of th# Thomas creek timl«er is "clear"
nounc««l as a cold-blood««! scientist anti
atand fominat that party.
Likewise,
for a year to come, nay its running ex­ stuff and that thia quallity of timtwr
as un-('hriatian.
ao long as the Republicans of Oregon
penses in new greenbacks to be taken available to the present Mill City mill
The theory was advanced at the
atand for an assembly which will dic­
up and retired when the storm should is beginning to be scarce.
As clear weekly lecture liefore th«- Harvard
tate the nominations of Republican
pass, would not relief hav# come in­ lumber is in greatest demand in th#
Medical aehisil. where Dr. Porter has
candidates for office, thus setting aside stantly.
markets,
this opinion may be cf held his chair for seventeen years
the spirit of the primary law, the Niw»
Again, our exports to silver countries, weight.
The doctor m*«lifi«d his position a little
will oppose with what little ability it which contain half the inhabitants of
Whatever is the purpose, we hope it to-day. but rriterat««l his belief in the
may possess. But an assembly for the
the earth, have ceaoed. What is Mr. means a big mill for Scio, fur thi> s irvival. under present coml it ions of
purpose of consultation for the l~ «t Aldrich going to do to restore that
would make a 200H population town of the fittest.
interests of the state ami to advise who tra*ie? He knows that if the govern­
Scio in the next two years.
A few
"The moat pressing problem is what
will make the beat officers, if elect«!, ment wou 1*1 rehabilitate the silver pro­
days mor# will show if the purchase is «hall we mak# of the present comli-
it commends.
We are glad to see the duced from our mines which is not
to be conclude and. in a short t.me, tions? The first main problem we have
great modification of opinion of aa enough to buy the *-gga and chickens
the purpose of the purchaser will likely to consider is in regard to the relieving
sembly advocates of to-day, from that which New York City consumed, not
be developed.
of distrvaa," sad Dr. Porter. "It is
of a few weeks ago. By the time of only woulil that trad# b# restored in a
evident there ix m>t money enough to
the primary election, at the present month, but that silver would lw as
Could Not Agree.
go around.
Ami it is evident rqually
rate of modification, there will tie go*»1 as gold, all the world around. To
rhat
It
is
desirable
to »|wml money on a
nothing in the intent of the a-sembly to
The jury in the Binger Hermann trial
which, even a Democrat will object.
(Continuée! on page 4)
was discharged last Monday morning thing from which we get th« moat
After nearly two days deliberation, it value
w
"Let ag.OOO fMe to Save 90,00.”
reporter! to Judge Wolverton that there
We have in the nrighborh««»! of all
waa
no
prospect
for
agreement
Eleven
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rTHE IVAPROVfo "
«
i large citiro, hospitals for th# treatment
were for conviction ami one for acquit­ of tutwrculoaia. If we had known in
ASpkfdidOwral
tal.
This one juror aastimed that his IWW what we do now in regard to the
..f that di»«as« regiments of men
judgement waa equal if not superior t*
for every use.
that of the other eleven and the whob would be walking th# streets who now
Cut generoua-
ar« dead. In such hoapitals they will
five weeks labor goes for naught
ly full. Two
not take patient* in an advanced Mage
It
ia
not
stated
when
or
whether
r
of the disease, for if they did it would
hip pockets.
trial will be undertaken.
Th. ieripardise the Ilves of thoae already
Felled aeama.
n is ready to take the mattei there ami defeat th# purjxise of the
Coatinuoua
institution.
In other words, to save
re. but the defense asked am
fly.
S.OOO persons Zfi.Oxi and more may have
was granted an indefinite extension.
•et*«HMn
COPPER
to be rej«t#d.
RIVETED
"It mav seem rruel, but when a
WHY. «Ml I CO.
nerson gets to that point where he ia
ph.-sicallv unfit for life the most eco­
Subscribe for—
nomical thing for a community >a not to
. give him relief.” Chicago Tribune
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TUE SANTIAM NEWS
ejbonßareil
OVERALLS,
IRRIG A I ION
SCHI HI
Is
SI I N IO AAORK AAOMH.RS
Profess* r I'crvlval I »well,
staff,
A.
I.,
Says
of
I lag­
He's Choto*
graphed Redeemed Desert
Chicago. Feb.
It
»Special.)—An
announcement uf final proof that the
planet Mar.« is inhabited w as made by
Prof. asor Percival Ixnvell, the famous
Mm tian rxi«rt nisi director of th«-
"I m i vatory of Flagstaff, A I . to Chi
«•ago aatronumvrs as he passed through
th«- city today.
Profcssoi Isiwcll announced that he
had seen a new cai a spring into twing
last summer, thawing. he d«« lured, that
it had I ■ - n mat ■ • , let• -I bv tIn-
Martians.
Water had just Item turned into it,
and vegetation had just sprung up in an
hitherto uninhabitable part of the great
desert which compris«» most of the
planet's surface.
Not only di<i h«- see th«- new canal,
but he photographed it
Previous
uhotographs of this region, made as
late i« last May. fail'd to show any
trace of the new canal The fact that
it deve'oped la-tw-en May ami Septem
ber. when it was first observed, Pm
feasor laiwcll regarded
aa |«>aitive
prm f that it was artificial, and there
fore that living beings exist on the
planet.
The n«w canal ia I'«"1 miles long and
• he strip of vegetation on its banka,
revealing its presence to the eye and
camera is about 3> miles wide.
HEAVY RAILS ARE
ARR.VING
Southern
Pacific to
l ay
Uo Pound
Steel on New Road.
Springfield, Or , Feb
It Fifteen
carloads of 90 pound steel, part of
which is already at Natron, ia on the
way for delivery for th« Natron exten­
sion. The rails are 15 pounds to the
foot heavier than any rail on the
present main line, where 7&-pound steel
was laid a few years ago.
The work on the 32 miles above
Natron is progressing rapidly, even
under the difficulties of almost impass­
able roads and a shortage of feed,
Contractor Dye has finished his first
grade, a piece of alxtul thrr«« miles a
short distance this side of Jasper, and
moved his gang up the river. The big
steam shovels are rapidly building the
track bed grades for th«- other con­
tractors. The rails will lie laid by the
■MMithern Pacific track crews as warn as
the grades are completed.
CournII Proceedings
The City Council met In regular
session on Thurwiay evening February
3. Present wrre Mayor Mver, Record*
er Myers ami Cuunrilinen, J A llilyeu.
W E Arnold, N. I. Morrison,
Cain. W A. Ewing
Th«' Baptist
church was given a rate of »I per
month for electric light for church
house.
Committee on Accounts ami Current
expenses waa given further time to
re;«>rt upon the re;x>rta of treasurer
am! recorder for 11X19.
Bills ordered
paid: I*. H. Maclkonald f’. Hi); Ralston
Supply Co. 329.07; Santiam News |fi 25
W. C. Simmons S2 00; E. G. Bal
schweid is 50; F B. West IM.tiO; N I
Morrison !*fi c.
The recorder waa instructed to write
the Pacific Telephone company propos­
ing tn buy four unua«-d pnles upon Main
street. Iwlonging to that company.
In
case of refusal to sell, the poles Were
orlered remove*! from the street. Re­
port of city electrician read and placed
on file.
Commercial and Mutual telephone
companies were onlen-d b> place poles
where telephone wires cros»««l electric
wires
Light am! " ater committee was rm
powered to make yearly contract for
the purchase of electric supplies.
Application of Walter Bilyeu for th,
position of electrician was order'd
place«! on file.
Portland. Ore , Feb 13
Special)
That the Columbia Liver improvements
fared well in the Rivers ami Harbors
lull now before Congress was th«- a v ce
receive«! in Portland this week from
the capital. A total of t.’.L'ki.NW is
pt.q«>s"l to be spent on Columbia
River work and items provid.d for in
the I ill ar<-as follows
Wenatchee to
Hridge|>ort. 326.UUO; Bridgeport
to
Kettle Fall». Ksi.IMM). Celilo to Snal e
River. SW.OOU; at The Dalles, »lOJ.OOi.
t'uscadcs Canal.
i
Vancouver.
47.NAI, I m -I ow
Port lami.
Including
Willamette River, $175.issi, mouth of
Columbia, (l.2i»l,ixxi, gauging $l,tx)O
If this money is appropriated, as
now H'-etns likely. the improvements tu
the Columbia 'luring the coming year
will I m .' lasting in their lienefita and
will lie of gr< at advantage to th#
whole Pacific Northwest
The work is
too important to be claim*«! as a la I-
terinent by any on«' slate for an open
river from the Inland Empire to the
««•a will benefit almost every person
living in the Northwestern states morn
or less directly.
By clearing out the upper river,
steampoat navigation will be aided,
with a good effect on rates tu and from
the interior, while the improvement of
the channel to the sea from the Colum
iiia will facilitai«' ocean shipments both
to and from the Northwest states
The Great Northern Railway will ex­
ploit Central Oregon, and has sent two
men through that territory to get data
fur bulletins and other railroad publi­
cations that will descrilH- the country
thoroughly ami tell proa;n-ctive settlers
what they may expect there. The
valley of the Ib-schutes river tributary
to the Hill road now building up the
11. «. hutc w ill .-.mi'' m for mm h fu-. • i
able publicity and its resources, i rop
IMHUiibihtlea ami general future will I m -
lokl. The Hill lines are taking an in­
terest in Oregon that will mean much
for th«' state. At exhibit rooms III St
Paul, the Great Northern shows Oregon
pr'slu. Is and similar exhibits are to be
maintained by the railroad company in
Philadelphia and Itostun. Those places
will direct a great deal uf attention to
the opportunities in Central Oregon for
the settler.
Celebrating its quarter centennial as
a state institution, th** Oregon Agrlcul
tural College will hold the moat elalmr
ate function ever given at the institu
tlun at the cloae of the college year.
President W. J. Kerr and the regents
have taken steps to prepare n suitable
"baervam'e of th*' achievements uf the
past quarter century and the faculty,
student Is sly ami alumni will join in the
demonstration.
During the past 25
years, the institution has increased Ha
hoklings of lam] from 35 to 236 acres;
th# buildings from on«' to 20; faculty
from nine members to *»!. ami th#
student laxly from 07 to apnruximately
1 fix) The great g'xal to thia stale re­
sulting fioin the work of the institu­
tion can hardly I m - over ■ -timatisl
In th«' annual rejx>rt of Master Fish
Wardan, McAlhatrr, lately aul'inltled,
it 1« shown that the Haiti crop of «almon
harvest««! in the waters of the Colum-
bia river, Oregon side, amounted to
17.fiiH.W7 fHiunils, which la a deerease
of MAX,640 pounds. The . hi.-f reason
for th«' decrease is thought to be the
shortening of the open season by th»
legislature. Blue back salmon alone
show a gain in the pack over HMM).
I air Grounds Purihased.
Last Friday the Fair Board, repre­
sented by President A. G. Prill ard
Secretary II. Shelton, concluded the
purchase of the present Fair grounds,
from Mrs. V. A. McKnight. The tract
comprises 2D acres ami th«' nurchaxe
price ia JJiaai. to be paid in four defer-
ed payments of 3rX»i each, at
cent interest.
The Fair Boa ni ferla that
building of consequence has
undertaken, this year, that the pur­
chase can tw safely undertaken. Our
citixena should now commence Iteautity­
ing the grounds in the way of trees ami
shrubs. It should be made a veritable
play ground for all classes of outdoor
entertainment for eastern Linn county.
I xmi U here! I can fumiah you with
groeeriaa, lunch gooda, pnM cards,
atalionrry. anil school supplies, con­
fectionery ami tobaccoea. Orders taken
for office supplies and rubber stamps.
Agency for the American Weekly.
C. 0. GOUGIf,
St to, Oregon.
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