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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1905)
EUtl Sjc'ttf PTT OH . i OJti MAGAZINE SECTION. IIOULTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, iv:rrir.F.R 1. inn.-, . r t-ci x. A 4 1 IT vOv I I1 d V I ! ! YU M il . . (! M i v C IKE A PIMIE OF OLD. ALEXANDER MACLEAN ROAMED . TIE SEA IN S WIFT SCHOONER. Accompanied by Thirty Reckless Buccaneers He Defied Governments and Gunboats Now In Tolls of the Law. There' never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-three. Captain Alexander MacLean, as bold a rover as ever lived during the priv ateering days when pirate ships lay waiting in the pathway of Spanish gal leons, will roam the sea so more. That Is, he will not sail the deep In that free-handed manner whlctt made him the object of search by United States and British authorities. A few weeks ago, under an Indictment for conspl- A ' MA I M THE PIRATE'S racy In fitting his schooner Car menclta in violation of the sealing lav3, he was arrested at Victoria, Brit ish Columbia. The Department of State received a telegram announcing the ar tist of a crew made up of men said ,16 be "as choice a hand of pirates and cut hr"pts us -ver mannpcf a nlrntt craft uoi! tr.e aayg or captain kiuj." 1 MacLean's home has ever been on the sea; he knows no life but that on the deep blue and he finds no enjoy ment on shore. He ha3 been a rover and not a freight carrier, and any dare devil enterprise at sea that needed a Btrong arm could find an adherent In Captain MacLean. whether in search of pirate treasure, running a contra band cargj or illegally poaching for seals found him the man; he has had experience in all. MacLean's ship, the Carmencita, was formerly the Jenny Ihelln, built in 1S69, when speed and Dot carrying capacity was desired. Poact.Ine for Seals. What the rakish looking schooner did prior to 1S94 had nothing to do with MacLean's operations, but It was alleged in April. 1904, that the schooner was chartered and outfitted for a poach ing cruise among the rookeries of the far north. The Russo-Japanese war be ing then uppermost in the minds of the two nations concerned, it was -considered by the poachers that they would CAPT. ALEX. MACLEAN. not be In a position to guard their in terests, and a raid on the Russian seal ing islands was the real object of the cruise. Great Britain, Canada and the United States Jiave an agreement to prevent pelagic sealing, so that appar ently to protect the ship's owner from prosecution under either United States or British laws, the ship's name was changed to Carmencita and registry papers taken out in Mexico. Thirty Devils at Beck and Calf. On May 5 she headed for the north ern islands, Maclean sitting aft, thirty reckless dare-devils forward and cases of repeating rifles and ammunition in the captain's cabin. She had cleared for Victoria for a cargo, but instead sailed for the little islands in the Ber ing . Sea, where it was understood a new rookery was discovered. Captain MacLean ha" had ft varied experience with tl e authorities, not only on the Carmei clta, but on other vessels of which n was master. At one time a revenue tfutf annoyed bim ' by demanding that his1 fapers be sent on board fcr examination. Upon his refusal the revenue' officers threatened to open fire on him. Invoked the Stars and Stripes. MacLean hearing this, ordered one i ' ? : vl ' 3 ! 15 f cf his men to "ma up the flag." The Stars and Stripes were hoisted and "Big Alec,' as he is known, yelled out, "Now fire and be d d to you." The revenue cutter dipped Its flag thrice and turned away. Several times this bold navigator has had set-tos with gov ernment authorities, but a short time ago the Carmenclta made a raid on the copper Islands and had a brush with the revenue patrol, one of the crew be ing wounded and sent to Seattle, Wash., for treatment The attention of Mexico having been called to the illegal acts of the Car mencita's crew, that government on November 1, 1904, cancelled the Mex ican registry. With this taken away from him, MacLean had the came of the schooner changed to the Acapulco. It is understood that when he dropped into Drake Bay for supplies he had only 100 skins on board taken from the sealing preserves of the Arctic so that government officials have suspect- SCHOONER ed that the great amount of money dis played on that occasion must have come elsewhere than from the fund de rived from the sale of skins. The gov ernment agents believe that several men now under indictment in the West in connection with this poaching trip furnished the funds. . -- i Always Eluded the Law MacLean's movements were conduct ed so cleverly that he could never be held until now: he always made the technicalities of the law cover his op erations, but the Department cf Justice has' been gathering evidence through the personal direction of Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service and It was this evidence that led to his Indictment in San Francisco a short time ago. So now the piratical course of Captain Alexander MacLean seems at an end and the stern hand of the law holds him in its grip. It remains to be seen whether his luck will again serve him in good stead and enable him to sail away to the "great white silence" where the treasured fur-bearing ani mals are found, or whether the govern ment's evidence will be. strong enough to shacks him. Japanese Dwarf Trees. In Japan are some very remarkable trees. They are hundreds of years old and not a hundred Inches high. The most marvelous collection Is in Count Okuma's garden, near Toklo. Here are pine trees that started to grow in the seventeenth century, that at the dawn of the twentieth century are not too large to be carried in one hand, pot and all. Others, whose seed was planted about the time when Co lumbus sailed for America, are already outstripped by saplings planted year before last In another place is a grove of lilf putian plum trees, gnarled and knotted and twisted by centuries of wind and weather, that are none of them too large to grace a dinner table, as they often do when in full bloom. More marvelous still, there are other little trees, probably planted In the early "sixties," that are still thriving (it is too much to say "growing") in a tea cup, while others planted before Cleve land's last term in office have not out grown a lady's thimble. - The Japanese are past masters in the art of dwarfing trees. They nip off the tree's roots and pinch its limbs and starve It with little soil and let it go thirsty and dry, but at the same time Keep the breath of life in it. un til it becomes the veriest travesty of a tree, a manikin vegetable, with the wrinkled face of an old man on the legs of a little boy. Infinite patience and skill and time are given in order to stunt and dwarf Into these gro tesque growths. . Will Wed lor love Only. Princess Victoria of England, the only .unmarried daughter of King Ed ward, declares that If she marries at all it will be for love. She is thirty- seven years old, and for twenty years has refused to consider every marriage proposal suggested by her father, the King. "If I marry. It will be to the man of my choice," she is reported to have said. "Father, mother, and govern-' ment shall not choose for me. I will love the man I marry, If I ever marry." This bold declaration by the daughter of a king has shocked royal and aristo cratic circles all over Europe, but It has been read with delight by the English people, and ir appeals equally to Americana. FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA. UNDER CZAR'S RECENT MANI FESTO, LAST ABSOLUTE MON ARCHY DISAPPEARS. The Kew Empire Promises to Be a Regime of Constitutional Libert) and Representation Victory of thv People Widely Celebrated. As an outcome of the tremendous agitation which has been shaking Rus sla to the very core, the Czar has sur rendered and has granted rights which if consummated, will result ii civil liberty. It seemed for a time as though the history of the French revolution would be repeated; that the aristocracy and the bureaucracy driving ahead In their arrogance and self esteem, wouk. fail to recognize the uvel'Wutr'mlt'.S force of the volcano of public, seuu ment surrounding thorn, and by their refusal to recognize conditions, plunge the whole ensure iuto civil wui' aim anarchy. But the handwriting on Ha waii was recognized und the Czni compelled to practically capitulate 1": imperial throne. True, promises arc thus, far more in evidence than fulilll nient, but Count Witte has apparently been made the real Russian leader uni. much is hoped and expected in the way of a peaceful reform. la old Russia, the Russia of last century, of last year, of last week, the Czar was all powerful. Russia was the last remaining absolute monarchy. The policies of ihe nuvii iiun-iit WtTO crcaled and enforced by the Czar uml hi Grand Dukes. Popular representation was a fragile promise. Free speech was under the ban; freedom of the press was un known. Even all private mail was subject to censorship. The prisons were filled with political offenders. Imagine casting a man into a United States prison because bis political uet--wore rot relished bv the povernment! A system of public espionage fol lowed t very man's move. - Old Russia was divided into two classes, the nobility and practical slaves. Education of the masses was worsp than a farce. ; What U promised for Russia? "j The n Volition of the rule of the Ro manoff House. Freedom of speech gvtnrnntced and; rreenp'n rr ri'sci inviohM !i. . A limited monarchy similar to that of England with a guarantee of popu lar government, with a cabinet respon sible to tbe people, and with suffrage made almost universal, and with provi sion for a representative parliament and for a general educational system. The right of habeas corpus recog nized and the freedom of the press assured. Following the Czar's Imperial mani festo outlining the proposed regime of liberty, all Russia celebrated. In St. Petersburg and Moscow the day was one such as the Russians never before had seen. The Slavic people, who dur ing the long war just closed and the anxious period preceding the an nouncement of the new era of consti tutionalism, seemed self restrained, gloomy and apathetic, gave themselves ruiiy to the exuberance of the mo ment and spent the entire dnv in pa rades and assemblies which for the first time In the history of Russia were rreeiy permitted. It was stated fls n significant orru n that after. a fortnight of gloomvnd depressing weather, symbolic of the days of the great strike, the sun shone out brightly on the date of f'p Czar's manifesto, a nrignt and radiant In dian-summer day. The Aromatic Havana. Apropos of the real enjoyment of a cigar Cauthorne, the newspaper cor respondent, in that most fascinating story of "The Tallahasse Girl": "If you will permit me. I will smoke." said he, taking out a curious cigar case of very fine workmanshiD. - "It does not even amount to a kind neBS on my part." she answered; "fo I enjoy the fragrant sweet of a good cigar." "Thank you, I can never fully appre ciate an open air chat without the company of this InoMan luxury. But really I am no great smoker. Two or three a day are all I take." "Yon must be an excnption. Papa smokes twenty pipes full, a day, and most gentlemen" are always Indulging." "Yes, they lose eight of the equisiie part of the thing which is a subtle pleasure coming only to those who use tobacco of the finest quality and spar ingly." . Sometimes I abstain for several days In order to get the full benefit of a slow burning Havana." - Haze Precious Stones. Prior to the discovery of the South African diamond a few months ago, weighing in the neighborhood of a pound and a half, the largest-perfect diamond in the world was that which was exhibited in Paris, having a value of one million dollars. This was the most valuable stone la the world: the largest and best ruby In existence Is owned. In London, and Is valued at $50,000. It has no parallel, even In the Crown Jewels, and it Is related that It was once carried all the way to St Petersburg for the Czar to have a look at The largest and most beauti ful cat's-eye In eilstence weighs one hundred and peventy,. carats and Is In sured for 30,000 rupees. The Mggpst emerald In the world weighs 2.980 carats, and Is In the Imperial Jewel Office In Vienna. The most costly church of ItJ size. In America, is in the Quaint old town of St Augustine, Fla. DRESS REFORM FOR WOMEN. Advocate of Practical Walking and Working Carb Relief from Heavy Skirts. Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, of Minneap olis -Uniu., l.euevos Uiat many it' tue aches and ills from which women suffer are the direct result of the clothes they wear. She says that in lur professional capacity she tries to impress upon her vomeu patrons the need cf dress reform. ".Not the old time hideous bloomer continue of years ago," laughed the doctor. but! a rational, seu.-ihlo and beautiful lidaptaiiou of our clothes to our ueeds." "And what are our needs,' was asked. "Normal, unrestricted movement; a DR. CORA SMIT11 EATON, freedom from confining bands; and relief from heavy elvlrts." Dr. Eaton puts to pra-llcal test her Ideas on the subject. The weight of all garments she wears is from the shoulders. Her gowns are made In one piece a little ou the Priucess Shoshone Canyon Scenes Capf. Jeremiah Ahem. order, though really a modification! of the Empire. It Is a delight to watch the doctor move about In Iter brisk, energetic way. Her body, sensibly clothed, and beautifully poised, with that fine, straight line beloved of physical cul-tvr'-,s. from thn bead to tim hoU, Is responsive to the many demands of her busy life. It would lie impossible for her to accomplish her work, she pays, hampered by the usual style of dreBS. . Favorite Among Cigar Markets. Bismarck used to boast that In hla fifty years he had smoked over 100,000 cigars. In later years he was seldom without his immense meerschaum. f - v I ! .. v.-?v I ' : l : - ' i ; , . . i i '- ! i 1 : ; v : ; 4 : i i ' ' : ': ' i '7 - 1 1 II: VJ - I - . .i v rl I - " " " J if . ui j : It " , s I- f i : - - ' I -, . ' ,;'.-;' ''. i .v - S?i ' - V v l m' "'-'u- "S'1,-', ":Xi, . i ' ' ''Cry:-' --' ' "- HUGE IRRIGATION DAH. ROCKBARRA GE A CROSS NARRO W CANYON IN MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING. Covernment Works Will Store Flood Waters For Fertilization of One Hundred and f ifty Thousand Des ert Acres. A quarter of a ceirtury ago the home of the . buffalo, and later a cat- tie and sheep pasture, with an occa sional ranch house, the Big Horn Uasin in Wyoming is now the scene of a great activity iucideut to tlie build ing of one of tue largest of the govern ment Irrigation works. Some years ago Colonel Cody, better known as r.iiffaiu Kill, made a survey of the Shoshone canyon, and in connection with General 'Miles, projected a com pany to construct a dam ami Irrigate Koine do om) acres. The necessary cap ital however was not forthcoming and uiion the national irrigation law was passed, the government tooti up the ;iion. nud a large party of en- ..-ini'ir li:i since bueu. employed on tho preliminaries of a great work of (h-seit reclamation. The SShoshone River dashes down a narrow canyon, with jagged and per pendicular walls, and ut its. narrow est point tue government ims uoguu the construction of the highest dam ?ver built It will cement together :':i two canvon walls for 21D feet above the stream bed, ami its founda tion will co below the water line W feet additional, clown to the solid bed reek. The stream, where it passes i.i tiviMMi these pranito canvon walls, is but (15 feet wide, and the dam will - - .... V. I. r. t H fVTio with 1114 111 II l-Hl. tHW ..,.r . , . . a watlTSllCU Ot J.-.IO fiquaiu inuen, nnd storing enough water to irrigate 10,000 acres through seven miles of H foot tunnels bored In the solid lock, i Little Chance For Land Crabbing, j ' This will cost about ?25 an acre to be paid back to the government by settlers, under the business-like pro visions of the irrigation law. The land flood nnd then boiling over great rocks it.-elf Is free under the homestead act, and has been reserved by Secretary Hitchcock from entry under the liesert and other land laws not requir ing actual residence and home-building. . Few such picturesque and wildly beautiful scenes can be found as this Shoshone canyon. The river Is a suc- ccsslon of foaming, rushing rapids, ihe v,-it:T cours'.i.g nlo"g in a deep preen flood,' and then b'oil'ng over groat ronta and boulders in a white surge. Only for a few hours eaeli day can the sun find Its way to the bottom of this deeply-cut gorge, the mountain sides toweling into the clouds two and three thousand feet. From above the dam Bite as one looks down nt the engin eers working on the foundations, directly underneath, they appear like mimic men. Giant Forces of Nature. This Shoshone canyon and its sur- rounding mountains, are one of nature's great handiworks. All has lieen cut out by the silver stream, rushing In its bed below. For count less nges It has enten its way through granite nnd limestone, wearing, wear ing, wearing away. For centuries and ages It has flowed, ceaselessly nnd likewise uselessly on its wny to Join the flood of the Missouri: now it Is to be harnessed and made to produce for man. A thousand farmers win make 6M prosperous homes for themselves and tamilies, and raise an annual product of a couple or three million dollars. In the canyon proper the great forces of nature have wrought won derfully. Enormous granite boulders have detached themselves from tue mountains and rolled down thousands ot feet, crashing their hundreds and thousands of tons Into the rocsy gorge. Here the river continually plays upon them, searching out the seams and splitting them up, and wearing them away aud polishing them smooth. The Roclc Pile of the World. In tho canyon's middle, below the dam site, the Jungle of rocks in the narrow river bed appears as though a thousand blasts of giant powder had rent the mountain sides and tumbled every rugged projection into the depths below. There Is no dirt or sand in this river bed; everythiug"l3 rock. The imperishable granite, gray, pink, and varl-colored, oldest of the geological formations, made by 'the welding of various substances when the globe was a molten mass; the later limestones and black volcanic rocks, conglomerates also melted by great heat, the hard red sandstone and its white and brown contemporaries, formed from Ihe grindings of other rocks subjected to enormous pressure, and lastly the geyserites and sulphur rocks, soft and honeycombed, the re sult of ceaseless spoutlugs of steam and hot water from the earth's bowels nil are found in wonderful profu sion. Below the canyon where the river runs more peacefully, all these forma tions nre represeuted in the huge beds of cobble stones and smaller boulders over which the water plays. The cob blestones were themselves once jagged rocks, detached by wind, water, frost find Biiti frnrn their and rolled and ground by river "force J i:J lf.V:'':-' MAKING A CANVON EOADWAY. until alll their sharp corners have been worn and poished away. A Giant Fire Cracker. 'Watching the government engineers cutting a road along the Ride of the canyon for the transportation of sup plies to build the dam 00,000 barrels of cement alone will bo needed the writer observed the explosion of a big charge of dynnmlte, which burst with a roar, echoing up and down the can yon with deafening reverberations. Immediately an oblong granite rock of some 150 tons weight was torn from its base and hurled down into the river a hundred feet below. Shatters of rock flew in all directions, and a great f plash of water rose like a geyser out of the black depths of the canyon. Yet this huge block of granite was but a baby addition to the family of boulders which had been detached by more giant forces of nature, and thrown into the river bed. A few hours before we had crawled directly under this rock in our canyon "explor ation." Returning, we were fain to accept the assistance of one of the road builders in getting across this place, looking down the while Into the river boiling below among the rocks. iue engineering credit for this great project with its great dam, Its enormous spillwavs. Its moun tain road buildliig and its miles of canais ana huge tunnels bored through the solid rock is due to Jeremiah Ahem ,a government dis trict engineer who, almost cut off from tho outside world, has taken up his residence for several years In this wild canyon, once a fastness of the Sho shone Indians. The Government Irrigation Program What does all this great Irrigation work of the government throughout the west signify? Simply that the nation has decided to use the money derived from the sale of western public lands to make its desert soil of ' value, and furnish many home-build-Ing opportunities. It means that many men will find employment In the construction of dams and canals enery weHtl!rn community, and that finally, as the works are completed, one by one, new farm homes will be established, adding to the nation's wealth and balancing our population now inclined cityward. For a. thousand years longer this splendid dam slto would likely stand Idle before private capital would de velop it to Its magnificent full capac ity, for the difficulties in the way of the engineers are many nnd unknown; but the government will meet all ob stacles nnd overcome them, and finally turn over to a thousand farmers a perfect Job of engineering, compara ble to the great works of the Peru-' vlnn Incas, the Egyptian Rameses or the British engineers of India an en during monument for all time to the wisdom of tho present generation of America. BULLDOG SUSPENDERS BU nut. mrywlMn. Will Oalwur Tbra. OrdliiArv Kind.. Mdo in Lipclit .ltd ll.vy WaiKbu, fur Man ul YoutU. kstr. leor!. Mm. prlc. Willi more .lutle, wuTint.il Dm.niatluii mul paru, fta titnhitrlr anhr-ikablfl. ft, pllaHl. Bull line leather fn't. thry ar. POSITIVELY THE BEST 6U8PENOER MADE,- ' Ir jrvu ilr.lor cannot .uinilv vuu, w will, iHwitiaitl, lur fid cuuta. 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