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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1906)
Col t n UMBIA MAGAZINE SECTION. IIOULTON, OREGON, HUDAY, JANUARY 12, 1000. UGES 1 TO 4. 1Q 11 lUfM HISS ALICHO WED. COXGRESSUAX XICHOLAS lOSG. IYORTU, OF OHIO, TUB MOST FORTVXATS OF HEX, A Crand White House Wedding In Mid-fcbruary-Culmlnatlon of Komanc Believed to lla ve Occurred on Ocean Voyage. There Is to be another wedding In the White House, aud society at the capi tal is already look Inn forward to what undoubtedly will be the roost brilliant vent la the history of the mansion, It li Junt about two years el ore Rep resentative Nicholas Long-worth, of Cincinnati, began to lar aiuse to the heart of the charming daughter of the President, and bis attack has been un remitting. Now he has caotured the heart of Miss Alice, and will lead bor to the altar la mid-February. Several times during the last year Mr. Longworth'f engagement to Mlsa Roosevelt was rumored, but it was never confirmed, and the social world began to conclude that a warm friend ship was about all that existed between them. Chance of a Lifetime. It was when Miss Roosevelt deter mined to accompany Secretary Taft's party to the Orient that Mr. Ixmgworth apparently saw bis crowning opnortu ntty, and be forthwith became one of the. party. .Throughout the Juunt bis attentions to the daughter of the Pres ident were more marked than ever be fore, for la bis wooing he bad the ad vantcgo of being the only courtier la me noicj. Though his friends now say that mey nad observed the glint of a clorl ous victory la his eyes when he re turned from the long voyage, he never confided bis triumph to a soul, and the nrst information of the engagmnnt did not reach society until Mrs. Roose velt told It to a few personal friends In the White House. Then, of oourse, so ciety soon heard of It. Tour Europe. It is expected that after their mar rlage the distinguished couple will take a leisurely trip throughout Europo. They will, of course, be certain of a splendid reception everywhere, ese dally la all the capital of the Old World. Miss Roosevelt has never been In Europe, although sho has hnd several opportunities and invitations, notably when cite was Invited .by Mrs. White- law Hold when Mr. Reld went to Eng land as siwlal ambassador at the cor onation of King Edward. la Paris, too, the Longwortha are certain of lavish entertainment as Mr. Longworth's sister, the Viscountess de Charabrun. lives there. Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child of the President's first marriage, will be twenty-two years old In February. and Is named for her mother, Alice Lee, or Boston, to whom the President became engaged In his college days at Harvard, and whom be married In 1883. On the death of her mother, one year after the latter marrlago, Miss Rooso- HON, NICHOLAS LOSawORTIL velt became the charge of ber aunt, Mrs. William S. Cowles, who was then Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres ent day Is as much the child of Mrs. Cowles' affection as though she were her daughter Instead of ber niece. Her Debut In Washington. Miss Roosevelt made her debut at a ball given In the great East Room early In January, 1902, since which date she has enjoyed a succession of attentions never before offered any American girl. At the World's Fair In St. Louis, when she was the guest of Miss Catlln, Miss Roosevelt was admired by thou sands who saw her, and was voted a true type of the American girl. Thou sands followed her wherever she went, but her demeanor did not lndlcate'that she was any more than a plain Amer ican. Her sweet smile completely cap tivated the throng, and in 8t. Louis or the West the President's daughter will always be welcome. Mr. Longworth Is the only son of the late Nicholas Longworth, one of tho great millionaires of the West His mother Inherited all of the estate of bis father. : . r Wholesome Sort of a Man. The future son-in-law of the Presi dent is an enthusiastic lover of outdoor sports, as his splendid physical devel opment plainly indicates. He la an ex pert on the golf links, a cross-country rider, a good marksman with shotgun and rifle, and a veteran fisherman. At Harvard he was a member of the 'varsity rowing crew, and for three years subsequently, rowed la the claBS III A J i OUI rrew. He also was a member of the freshman class of the football team, and actively participated In the pro motion of college athletics. Upon the completion of bis course at Harvard. Mr. Longworth studied law In the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the bar la 1834. lit served as a member of the school board of his home city until elected to the Ohio House of Representatives In 18U9, by the Incredibly small majority of 4. being the only Republican elected that year. Subsequently be served In the Slate Senate until elected to the Klfty-elghth Congress, and was re ZEE V .V M Iff M. i ... . ,".'-v , r. .. Copyrighted by France Iienjuula Juhnsum. MISS ALICE turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by an overwhelming majority. There Is a great light in "Nick" Longworth's eyes these days. What Became of the Change, Con. ChnfiVo was onoo asked by a soldier to lend him a quarter. "Dldn t you receive your month s pay yesterdnyr asked the General. "leu," said the veteran. "Where's your money now?" "Why I left thc.H)st and crossed the ferry with $15.50. I met a friend, and wo bad dinner. The bill was 1 8.00. Then I bought $1.00 worth of clears; then we went to the theatre for $4.00. After theatre we went down to the Rowery and I spent $2.00 there." "That makes $15.00," said the Gen eral. "What became of tho other fifty cents?" The old soldier seemed puzzled, and finally snld: "Why, 1 must have spent that fool ishly." Eusy When You Know How, A farmer left to bis eldest son one- half of his seventeen horses, to bis second son one-third and to bis third son oue-nlntli. The executor did not know what to do as seventeen will not divide evenly by neither two, three or nine. In the afternoon a neighbor drove over and learning of the dlulcul ty said, "Take my horse and you will then have eighteen." The eiecutor then gave ne-linlf, or nine, to the eldest son; one-third or six, to the second son; and one-ninth, or two, to the youngest and the neighbor took his horse home and ever after called him Troblem" In tho morning and "Solu tion" In the afternoon. Peace Xovr Reigns, After warrlrics for more than a hun dred years, In which time thousands of lives have been sacrificed and the greater portion of the Washoe and Piute Indian tribes wiped out, peace has been declared between those tribes. This arrangement was -brought about by Capt. Pete, head chief of the Washoe tribe, and Capt. Dave, head chief of the riute tribe. They met in Reno, Nevada, and through Johnny Kay, Capt. Dave's lieutenant tre two old warriors sbok hands and for an hour or more over the pipe of peace discussed the plans that led to the ending of hostilities. Now they are.-plannlng a big peace dance. It will take place at Sparks, and for six days both tribes will join n celebrating the big event The Plutes once constituted one of the largest tribes in the Northwest and the Washoe tribe was a close second. The forestry station at Dodge City, Kansas, Is giving away trees at the rate of 600,000 a year. Since the in auguration of tree planting ,on an ex tensive scale there have been remark able changes In the climatic condi tions of Kansas. SENATOR'S DEATH IGNORED. EXTIREL T 0 YERL OOKED AT CAP. ITOL, WHERE UB HAD SERVED ilAXY TEARS, Due to Conviction for Defrauding Gov ernment of LandsBoth Oregon Congressmen Air Under Indict mentor Conviction. All precedent was Ignored by the United States Senate In the case of the death of the late Senator Joha IL i ) if ROOSEVELT. Mitchell, of Oregon. Tet there Is no body of men on earth which Is a great er stickler for ceremony governed by precedent .than is the United States Senate, But the Mitchell case pre sented a unique situation. The official recognition 0f the death of a Senator Is always a solemn and affecting pro ceeding, but even the usual funeral rites were omitted In this Instance. The Oregon Senator had been convict ed of a grave crime against the gov ernment. Excepting Senator Burton, of Kansas, no other members of the Senate has ever had to face a criminal court trial. The Senate has expelled members and has often exercised Its constitutional prerogative of unseating a Senator, but with the two exceptions above stated, it has never been con fronted with such a situation as was forced upon the public attention by Senators from Oregon and Kansas. The Vice-President, who la the President of the Senate, did not ap point the usual committee to attend the - funeral held in Portland, Ore. Senator Fulton, the sole representative of Oregon left in Congress, had Intend ed presenting a brief resolution, re citing the death of his colleague, and asking that the Senate, adjourn as a mark of respect but even this was not done. Not even was the desk which the late Senator occupied veiled In the heavy mourning drapery as Is the cus tom. In a word, the Senate, In Bad ness, passed over the death of Its for mer Senator as quietly and unostenta tiously as possible. There have been no eulogies. His successor, appoint ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem ocrat comes to Washington from the fnr Pacific slope and the sovereign State of Oregon'Wlll again have Its full representation In the Senate. x Seats Vacai.t In the House. Oregon's representation in the House will remain vacant until the courts have finally passed upon the indictments and trials of the State's two Representatives, Messrs. Blnger Hermann and John Newton William son. Mr. Williamson already has been convicted by a Federal Court of of fenses similar to those for which Sen ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and is now awaiting the outcome of the appeal of hla case, as was Senator Mitchell when death gratefully re lieved him of further humiliation and woe. , Mr. Hermann is yet to be tried. It thus happens that there was no one in the House from Oregon to make for. mal announcement to that body of the death of Senator Mitchell, so that no official attention was paid the Incident There is so little that can be said of the strange, tragic, pitiful case of Senator Mitchell that the men of the Senate who knew him best who liked him best, who had served In that great forum with him longest,' and wbo'are most grieved at the sad ending of his career, have been disinclined to speak of him at all. "He is dead," said one Senator, "and that ends all. If he were the man I always thought he was until the ex posure of bis wrongdoing was made, then be must bave welcomed death as a happy Untie out of all his trouble, lie was an old man. He bad Bounded the depths and shallows of life, IU had run the gamut of human emotions. He bad felt the glorious thrills of tri umph and the pangs of disappointed ambition. He had associated, the world around, with the men who give impetus and tongue to the uplifting thoughts of mankind that are hurry ing us on to a civilization that im eventually realize the poet's dream of miopia. "What he must have suffered In his last days what devils neonled ho brain, what repinings of what might have been must hava 1enreao1 hla oul who can imagine these, let alone tell about them? Kannlenn frottin out his proud life on St Helena never was as unbappy as John 1L Mitchell must bave been while suffering the stings of humiliation after f-xno. ure and conviction came with a suddenness that carried him to the depths of df snalr. He told more thn one Senator who had seen him since his trouble that he would never go to Jail.- Had there been attemnt to crmsMpr resolutions of resDect for tha mpmnrv of Senator Mitchell it Is likely that mere woum have been objection. There Is a precedent for such action, for when Senator Broderick, of Call fornla, was killed in a duel with Judge lerry, 01 mai stare, resolutions xiT re ipect were offered in the Senate. They were on nosed hr Rntlnr STwIpf nf Connecticut and the resolutions were reierrea 10 a committee ana sever were heard from afterward. GHOST POIXTS WA T Ta.GOLD. Miner's Story of Discovery of Rich Mineral Deposit In Unexplored! Canyon. Bringing a large bottle filled with almost )ure gold, taken from a lode long hHrfen In mountain fastnesses, not a fTeat distance from Seattle. W. E. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well known local business men, are reported back -Iter a perilous trip to the Cas cades. Theirs, however, was labor richly rewarded, though the story Is so In terwoven with spiritualism and ro mance that it Is well-nigh Incredible. Bartlett Is the grandson of D. E. In gels, a miner of the early '50s In those parts, who was murdered In the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares that bis dead and murdered grand father, through a Portland medium, appeared to him and described bow he could find the lost mine and that he would be Independent for life. Bartlett asserts positively that he received specific directions from the spirit of his grandfather how to pro ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he was tdld to select M. C. Black to ac company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but soy it cannot be reached save by making an extremely dangerous trip and one filled with hardship, especially at this time of the year, when the mountains are firm In winter's icy grasp. In the spring they will return and develop their find. In a rough and mountainous section, they say, they found a gray quartz ledge, literally filled with precious metal. Small pieces were broken off, pounded up in a frying pan which they had with them and the gold picked out Shouldthe ledge prove as rich as the samples, or even a quarter as rich, a man could pan out in a week's time enough of the' gold to make him wealthy. As an evidence of their find they have the bottle of gold dust which has already been viewed by dozens of peo- A GROUP OP FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES. Attempts to "Bold Governtoient Ind Claim Under the GovernmentVNorth Plafte Irrigation Project Wyoming Nebraska. Photographed by Government Inspectors. pie, and assays have been made which prove that the mineral ia the real thing. Hops were introduced Into England in 1524 by a native of Artoris the home of the Artesian well. Physicians denounced their use as dangerous and Henry VIII-forbade brewers In his kingdom to use hopes In maUng ale. For nearly half a century the sew ing machine has been in' use, and yet for the shirt we wear the poor work woman receives but sixty to eighty cents, a dozen. FOILS THE LAND THIEVES. SECRETARY HITCHCOCK'S RE LEXTLESS rVRSUT OF IAXD CRABBIXG THIEVES, Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate of Government Irrigation Irriga tion Work of His Department Highly SuccessfuL By Richard IL ttyrd. It la rumored that among probable Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock is to shortly retire from the Interior Department of which be has been the bead since the second McKlnley ad ministration. It will be recalled that more or less definite statements as to Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and bis probable successors bare been of very frequent and regular occurrence, but the reason therefore Is probably not bard to find. Mr. Hitchcock bas made a very great Secretary of the Interior. He bas torn to pieces a vast fabric constructed to steal, not acres, but square miles of the public lands, to grab from the government great tracts worth millions of dollars. The land grabbers bave been men In high po sitions; they have employed perjury, bribery and forgery, to say not'jlng of more forceful crimes to defraud their country. Their ring was backed by wealthy and influential-men and in cluded members of the legislatures. United States Commissioners, special bind agents, notaries, etc. The trail even led to the head of the General Land Office, into the national IIous of Representatives and Into the United Stes Senate. The loose land laws of the country made their task possible it not easy. Crime In High Places. Secretary nitchcock, shortly after he became a member of the Cabinet, bad his attention called to evident frauds In tbe acquirement of government land. He set to work a quiet lurestl gatlon. It finally culminated in the Indictment of great numbers of people and In tbe recent conviction of a United States Senator and a Member of Congress. Terbaps, though the cul mination is not yet No man knows whore tbe trail may lead next or how much evidence Mr. Hitchcock bas and is working up. It is stated to have been a good deal of a surprise to the wiseacres at Washington, and in fact throughout tbe country, to see the way ia which the Secretary of the Interior bas "made good" in bis land fraud prosecutions. It was never supposed last winter that the government could ever secure a convlcion of any Congressman or Senator in Oregon. It was announced that the Secretary had been illy ad vised and bad gotten himself into a deep hole, the outcome of which would be disastrous to himself. Tried to Have Him Removed. The Secretary remarked on several occasions that the land frauds were astounding Jn their magnitude but that he proposed to stop them. He was luughed at but just the same some of the bind grabbers began to get a little nervous and the newspaper rumors began, to the effect that Sec retary Hitchcock would probably re signIn the course of two or three months, after he bad f nished with cer tain investigations being made at that time. But the investigations have never een finished. Before, one batch of frauds has been disposed of. another sensation has been sprung in some other state so that there has never been a time when a change in the Interior Department would not have been balled as a victory for the land grabbers. The Swetary's rugged honesty and unswervable determination .to weed out the despollers and the grafters who are looting the agricultural and timber lands of the west have called forth many .high enconlums from thoughtful people who have followed his" course. No public official has taken more literally to heart the strong expressions against public land grabbing of the President in his an nual message to Congress. Believes Irrigation Great Question. Closely connected with the land question In the west is the irrigation question, and since he first came into office Secretary Hitchcock has been an ardent friend of national Irrigation. Hla annual reports, even under Freal- dent McKlnley's administration, were as strong recommendations of this pol icy as have ever been written. He called attention to the fact that a vast fortune was allowed annually to wants Itself throughout the West; that a wa ter aupply was uselessly running to the sea which- would irrigate 70 million acres of tbe most fertile desert land la the world, and be called attention to tbe fact that an irrigated west was capable of supporting the entire pres ent population of the United States. It was not in keeping with tbe spirit of the times that this great oppor tunity for borne building should be ne glected by the nation. Then, when) Colonel Roosevelt be came President, tbe irrigation bill was passed and the administration of the law was entrusted to the Interior De partment Mr. Hitchcock was, ready. The Geological Survey, a bureau of bis departement bad been making ex tensive surveys and in reality, getting ready for such a law, so that work was immediately commenced and in stead of eight or ten years of prepara- i HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of tha Interior. tion and reconnaissances and surveys, such as has been the history in the great Irrisatlon works of every other country, there are to-day in course of construction, a dozen huge projects, and last June, just three years after the law' was passed, the first project was completed. , : Of Vast Import to Nation. Secretary.nitchcock's vigorous work In saving the public domain for home seekers, and in bringing into praccal operation a policy for tbe absolute creation out of a desert nothing, of thousands and eventually millions of prosperous American homes is. In reality the greatest work of the gener ation. The actual benefit of thib great Internal development and improvement of the nation's property far surpasses tbe work of any other department of the government ( Tke foUjirinr is the last portion ef ft report t the President's Public Lands Commission, tw of tokos members are employed under Secretary Hitchcock, and trhose views on iand Jraud accord with their chief t. ) Grazing Lands. The great bulk of the vacant publla lands throughout the West are unsuitable for cultivation under the present known conditions ot agriculture, and so located that they can not be reclaimed by irriga tion. They are, and probably always must be, of chief value for grazing. There are. It Is estimated, more than 3uO,00O,0UO acres of public grazing land, an area approxi mately equal to one-fifth the extent of the United States proper. The exact limits can not be et, for with seasonal changes large areas of land which afford good grazing one year are almost desert In an other. There are also vast tracts of wood ed or timbered land in which grazing has much importance, and until a further classification of the public lands Is made It will be Impossible to give with exact ness the total acreage. The extent Is so vast and the commercial Interests In volved so great as to demand in the high est degree the wise and conservative han dling of these vast resources. It is a matter of the first importance to know whether these grazing lands are be ing used in the best way possible for the continued development of the country or whether they are being abused under . a system which is detrimental to such de velopment and by which the only present value of the land Is being rapidly de stroyed. At present the vacant public lands are theoretically open commons, free to all citizens; but as a mater of fact a large proportion have been parceled out by more or less definite compacts or agreements among the various interests. These tsrlt agreements are continually being violated. The sheepmen and cattlemen are in fre quent collision because of Incursions upon each other's domain. Land which for years has been regarded aa exclusively cattle range may be infringed upon by large bands of sheep, forced by drought to migrate. Violence and homicide fre quently follow, after which new adjust ments are made and matters quiet down for a time. There are localities where the people are utilizing to their own satis faction the open range, and their demand is to be let alone, so that they may parcel out among themselves the use of the lands; but an agreement made to-day may be broken to-morrow by changing condi tions of shifting interests. i ne general iaca or control In the use of public grazing lands has resulted, natu rally and inevitably, In overgrazing and the ruin of millions of acres of otherwise valuable grazing territory. Lands useful for grazing are losing their only capacity for productiveness as, of course, they must when no legal control is exercised. It is not yet too late to restore the value or many of the open ranges. Lands ap parently denuded of vegetation have im proved In condition and productiveness upon coming under any system of control which affords a means of preventing over stocking and of applying Intelligent man agement to the land. On some large tracts the valuable forage plants have been utterly extirpated, and it Is Imprac ticable even to reseed them. On other tracts It will be possible by careful man agement for the remaining native plants to recover their vigor and to distribute seeds, which will eventually restnrA much of the former herbage. Prompt and effect ive action must be taken, however, If the vaiue oi very mucn or tne remaining pub lic domain is not to be totally lost The conclusions as to graslng reached byyour commission were based: First. Upon the results of leng acquain tance with grazing problems In the public land States on the Dart of each mmhp Of your commission. tsecona. upon ta results of careful ex.- iki&s