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64 Year Old But Has Only Had Fifteen Birthday
KLAN LEADER IN
HERRIN INDICTED,
CITIZENS AROUSED
JItXocal
Stealers
CRATER LAKE PARK
The tnekmn of Jackson county will
meet next Tneadary morning at 10
o'clock at the Hotel Medford to disease
the IlTeatock situation. Miles Cant
Tall, chairman of thla branch of the
economic conference which la to he
held In Hertford next week has as
pointed committees to jrather the nec
essary data. Eyery stoelc association,
end If possible, every stork raiser,
should he present to help frame the
final report. Som Interesting and
aliiable information will be presented.
Crater Lake. Bear Preserve
"The attempt by the superintendent
of Crater Lake park to have created
a twenty mile bear preserve around
Crater lake win he fully discussed,"
said Ralph Cowsflll, publicity chair
man, today.
"The park superintendent sent out
a letter tinder date of January 17, to
all stockmen In southern Oregon mak
ing Inquiry as to personal knowledge
of depredations npon live stock by
hear. The following Is an excerpt
from the same letter: '
"Knowing something about
hears, I am convinced that they
seldom attack live, sound domes
tie animals. With bears, as with
sharks, all of ns have heard their
hair-raising stories, but usually by
lone hunters wlthonj witnesses
present."
"It Is a well known tart that a bear
will kill from one to thirty sheep in
rne night, and that cattle will not re
main In the same neighborhood with
a hV,ar. An area of land twenty miles
Jn width around Crater Lake park will
take In all of the beat grazing land in
southern Oregon.
The sheep owners are very anxlons
to learn about this new kind of bear
that Is to be put In charge of the range
around Crater lake. There will he
some testimony given that may se
riously shock the superintendent's
theory about tame bear. Peace loving
people do not want to turn Crater Lake
park Into a bloody battle field."
John R. Courtney, of Atlanta, i Centrury evn leap year Is skipped.
Georgia, on of tho unfortunate ! He had no birthday from 1J
persons whose birthday Is only until l04. Mr. Courtney Is glrtn
celebrated . In Leap Tear. Al- i a real birthday party to celebrants
though it seems as though Mr. whose birthday occurs on f'ebru
Courtney should have had sixteen I ary lth. Mr. Courtney U hsrs
birthdays, he has been cheated out : shown anticipating the day of his
of one sines on the torn of the i anniversary of birth.
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George Mansfield Gets a Big
Boost in Portland Journal
(By Fred Loekley.) I signed a contract witn the Indians for
This la a story, not of an Oregon U per cent of the total amount I re
ploneer, but of one who pioneered In covered. I went to Washington. D. C .
undoing a great wrong against the very
oldest pioneers of all America.
HEATTLE. Feb. H. Oovernment
imrllee and concerns, under the ron- i ,h Presbyterian chtirrh
trol of the United States shipping I next to the oldest of the nine children
board are making money and the ! In our family, all of whom Joined the
While at Eugene recently I met
George A. Mansfield. We sat down
together at breakfast a little a'ter 8
o'clock and it was nearly 10 before we
got up from the table, I don't mean
to say that we ate for nearly two
hours, bnt I do mean to say that. I was
so Interested In what he was telling
me that I had no Idea we had sat at
the table nearly two hours. In this
brief article I am going to glvo a
few of the hlgn lights of what I L-arn-ed
from Mr. Mansfield.
"I was born at Ozark, Ark., April 8,
1SSS." said Mr. Man-field. "My father,
W. W. Mansfield, was a Kentneklan.
My mother was of one of the pioneer
families of Tennessee. One of my
forebears. Grandfather Mansfield, of
Scottsvillo, Allen county, Kentnrky,
served as a colonel In the Revolution'
ary war. When the company In which
he served was organized he was elect'
ed captain and before the end of the
war he had become colonel. My people
hailed originally from Scotland, so it Is
not to he wondered n that both my
father and mother were members of
1 was the
"success of Ihe government merchant
marine will be known before long."
declnres K. P. Krekenbach. director of
the l.'nlted Mate shipping board, who
Is In this city.
"When one Is fully apprised of the
merchant marine everyone should be
grateful and proud of what the gov
ernment has done." stated Mr.' Krek
enbach. "The success of Ihe govern
ment merchant marine will be known
before long. Government owned ships,
privately operated, under control of
the shipping hoard, are making so
much money that when the facts be
come known politicians will be hard
pressed to estahllnh public reasons
why the government should sell the
vessels."
Mr. Krekenbach delivered an ad
dress last night before a meeting of
Ij'nlvsrslty of Washington maritime
. commerce students and businessmen
Interested In foreign trade aboard the
government owned sleam-hlp Presi
dent Msdliion.
HAIR STAYS
COIEDJMY
.Millions Use It -Few Cents
Buys Jar at Drugstore
HAIR
GROOM ) Vff
keepsHair T.
Combedj.
Even stubborn, unruly or shsmpooril
Islr stays combed all day in any style
you like. "llalr-Oroom" is a dlnmed
combing eroam which gives that natural
gloss and well-groomed effect to your
Hair that Una! touch to good drew
1,0th in business and on social occasions.
Hair-Groom" gresseloss; also help,
trow thick, heavy, lustrous h r. Us
jrrn Vt ra-, Untlunt.
Presbyterian church.
"We had a little hillside farm about
a mile from town, on which we child
ren heled make a living for the fam
lly. My father practice pw In a
nearby town- We wero always poor.
In time father became ono i.f tno .su
preme Judges of Iho state. Wncn he
died he did not leave much mney. hut
he lert something I valued muc:i
more, which was n reputation for In
tegrity of character and rugged hon
esty. My father was a typical Ken
tucklan- He was 0 feet 2 inches high
rawboned, and his friends said he
strongly resembled Abraham Lincoln.
who, like himself, was a Kentticklan,
and whom he greatly loved. We were
pioneers and we lived a plonce.1 life.
I studied law at home and received
my license to practice on my Slat
birthday.
"After my marriage I moved to Mc
Alester. Okla. I became a member ol
the legal firm of Mansfield, McMurrav
& Cornlch. 1 found any number ol
former acquaintances from Arkansas
and elsewhere had sworn they were
members of the Choctaw trlbi of In
diana, so as to be alloted lands when
lands were alloted In severalty to tho
members of tho tribe. A croked white
man would pay some old squaw a few
dollars to attach her mark to a state
entitled to a share ot the Indian lands.
This seemed like such a crooked pro
ceeding that I protested against It.
My legal brethren came to me and
tcld me that If I expected to stay in
McAlester I would bare to keep my
eyes and my mouth shnt that the law
yers were being paid 25 to 60 per cent
ot tho value of the land or money they
secured for white men from the In
dians. 1 dldnt' exactly appreciate their
advice: In fart, I strongly resented It.
Py consulting the head men of the
Choctaw and Chlckashaw tribes 1
found they considered It hopeless to
protest against such fraudulent prac
tices, as they had hired an attorney
and tho Judgments against the Indians
by crooked white men had been ap
pealed to tho supreme court of the
1'nltcd States and been affirmed, so
that It was hopeless to take the mat
tor up.
'Our firm entered Into a special
contract with them to recover the
property they had lost In previous lit
igation, when the question was being
determined as to who were members
of the tribe and entitled to share in
the dlviHlon of tho Indian lands and
mnnoys preparatory to having the In
dian country become a slate. Natur
ally tho members of the bar of Indian
Territory were Interested In kopingj
ths claims on th roll, as they wuld lose
their contingent fees, running from 25
to 50 per cent, la case of deafeaL 1
and laid the facts before aenator
Dawes and had a hearing before the
committee on Indian affairs. I had
with me abudant proof of the frauds
being practiced and I asked the com
mittee to have congress create a new
court, to be called the Choctaw and
Chlckashaw citizenship court. In which
the cases in which fraud was shown
could be reopened and retried. This
was done. The attorneys for the fraud
ulent claimants permitted judgment by
default, as they stood on the proposi
tion that they had acquired vested
rights under Judgments which had be
come final. They held a meeting and
selected the man they believed to be
their ablest member to represent them.
He went to Washington and applied to
the supreme court for a writ of prohi
bition, to prohibit the new court from
carrying into effect this Judgment. My
opponent had prepared a lengthy and
able brief dlseuaalng all of the legal
phases of the case in great detail
Judge Harlan asked him how long the
case would consume In argument. He
responded that his opening argument
would probably take a day. Judge
Harlan turned to me and asked me
how much time I would require. I
replied, 'May it please the court. I can
present my case In five minutes
There was such a contrast In the time
to he consumed, that Judge Harlan
looked at me very sharply and said
'This Is certainly astonishing: perhaps
we had better hear you first.' and he
told me to present my case, t said.
'The writ of prohibition cannot be
granted because the so-called courts
which rendered the original judgments
affirmed by the United States supreme
court were not courts in the meaning
of the constitution, granting the power
to Issue this warrant, but they are a
mere part of the machinery devised by
congress in the exercise of Its plenary
power under the constitution In deal-,
ing with Indian tribes. Consequently
the writ cannot be directed to. a coord
inate branch of the government." I
sat down. Judge Harlan said Instant
ly, 'there can be no doubt da 1o the
correctness of your rositlon." ; Judge
Harlan's statement was assented to
by all the members of the court, so
the great case came to an end without
further argument. Where 'gross fraud
had been perpetrated upon the In
dians, the cases were reopened, retried
and the property restored to the Indian
tribes. Property worth not less than
$100,000,000 was thus recovered for the
Indians. The Interior department, see
ing that my 9 per cent of such recov
ered property would amonnt to so
large a fee, decided to award what It
believed would be a reasonable con
sideration, and it allowed us fi-'O.OOO,
or something less than 1 per cent, fcr
our work. As a matter of fact, how
ever, I bad gone into this Case more
for the satisfaction nf winning It than
for any financial returns. The winning
nf the case helped me In many ways.
MARION. I1U Fb. 14. A solution
of thfr situation in Williamson county
is being eonnHertM by prominent and
influential citizen who Adjourned
early today aftT an all-night confer
ence attended by Major General Mil
ion J- Foreman and CarIo Blaolc,
state adjutant general, commanding
National Guardsmen on duty In the
county.
When the county hoard of euper
visora meets tomorrow the citizen are
expected to p reseat plans for estab
lishing a stable non-partisan govern
ment tr assume control when the
troops leave. General Foreman, has
u'ged suh action be taken while the
troops are on duty, otherwise they will
be withdrawn and settlement of the
situation wtU be leit to the various
factions themselves:
A guard was stationed at the home
here of Samuel Stearaa, exalted y-'
f-lops of the Williamson-' county Ku
KIux Klan, after he told authorities
suspicious persons were prowling
about his residence.
An appeal to the federal govern
ment to Intervene to protect lives and
property' in the county has been made
by Dr. James T. Black, owner of the
Herrin ' hospital which was besieged
by a crowd of men last Friday night.
Dr. Blaclc sent a telegram to Wash
ington authorities Saturday morning
after the troops arrived.
A total of forty-eight Indictments
were reported returned by the Wil
liamson county grand Jury In Marion
yesterday afternoon. It was rumored
that among persons Indicted was S.
Glenn Young, Ku Klui Klan dry raid
leader, who some time ago was ar
rested and indicted on charges of ma
licious mimschlef and wilful destruc
tion of property in connection with
raids he made.
I became acquainted with ont only the
members of the supreme court, but
many of oar leading senators and con
gressmen, so that whenever I went to
Washington I always found warm
friends.
What do I think of present political
conditions? To be perfectly trant, I
believe we are drifting away from the
teachings of George Washington n1
Thomas Jefferson toward a monarcn-
ial type of government. I belie re we
must restore the ideals of Thomas Jef
ferson. Inasmuch as I am a disciple of
size vegetable
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UIKINeAPOI. IS-MINNESOTA
Thomas Jefferson, I am naturally an
ticipating the success of McAdoo at
the polls. It Is a strange thing, but
whenever a crisis In our country's his
tory occurs we have a Washington, a
Jefferson, a Jackson, a Lincoln, a Wil
son or some other really great man
raised up to meet the emergency, and
I believe McAdoo is the man for the
present time.
"My ambition is to render real ser
vice for Oregon and
constructive lines.
"What about my family? I as one
of nine children and I have nine child
renfive boys and four girls, who are
being reared as 1 was, to be producers
and not parasites, on my farm, 36
America along miles from Medford." Fred Locklez
' in Portland Journal.
" New Treatment for
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Swollen veins are dangerous and
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get a two-ounce, original bottlo of
TCmernld Oil (full strength) nt
Heath's Drug Store and West Side
1'hnrmary and start to reduce the
veins and bunches at once.
Physicians recommend Emerald
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a small bottle wilt Inst a long time,
bemuse it is very concentrated and
a little goes a long wny. Apply night
und morning with a soft brush as di
rect fd until the swelling is reduced
to normal.
So ninrvclously powerful Is Emerald
Oil thnt swollen glands and even
goitre disappear when used steadily.
Adv.
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