1W mtnttitt VOL. XXIII. LAKE VIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 8. 1002. NO. 18. CATTLEMEN jBOWERSOCK BASEBALL TOURNAMENT a.nkcvicw citicns Put vp $m) HERMANN SCORES THEM DALY ORGAN "THREATENS" STILL FIGHT BILL HELD UP For a Free l:or All Series of (James in July Week. II there i any dnibt rIhuiI Lake vi.tw's liberality, or that w urn not "dead gaum sport,'" urn 1 1 1 but o take n look m llif rwrMtii aunoiinring f hi rnt'D fur r th and bc'all here dur ing tho firm week in July, l or race 11,300 wil li iiit out mil that money smght to attract the Itest firinlT in the omntry. For baehsll hou in purses vill In pi veil to tint Tournament win ners. There are twenty-one hundred dollars to Ih given away, and every body has a chance to gel some of it. No small interior Ioaii on tliu Pacific 'C-oatrt haa ever made such li showing hi Lakeview will during the season o( 1M02. Tlm first money for baseball will iKH, certainly h grand offering lor the top nolrli Lull players of the coun try. Tim second moimv'of l-W l"r the econd In-lit team is not to Us aneezed at elOier. If ever there, m a TIME had in thia northern nwk o' tlm woods l.iikcvicw will have it during tin- first live or six ili-yit in July. Tlm baseball t.urtiMim til in in tlm hand of reliable and einiiiei iit men uud ila auoei-na ia rtumired. It in it free for all "'"I ' cxMTtud that then? will U w.ine of the Ik-hI teania in the l ountry here to take part. The tournament will eclie any tliintt ever jriveli oulnide of the liliiH in the way of ktnod ball and fat purtM-H. It ii BiiyueMid by the muiiHlieliulil that iiian'uiK ' '!if to eeler ' ""' teft nmke entiy with tlm r-eerelaiy, Joe Lane an conn im ptihoihU June llMh entry eim-ea. Iiiinndialely after that late a full program will be annouined throiib the pteca und by laii! poatera, Kivinn delaila ua lo how the touruil inenl i to be eoiidue ; . At leant three team ouUide of A e county inuat enter the eoliteat. The l'.auiiiiT looka for a uiand and aiiereaHful tournuineiit, and vihitora will ho afHured of tvmrteoua trentinenl and the best I.akeyiew can offer. Now baHC ball Kr"1"11! b' flxeil tip al the race tracK, juhi uppoauu mn urund at and. A new and coinniodioua ijrand aland w ill alao be built for the comfort of those who dcaire to ace the Hiorla. The celebration will bo a Krand one mid l.iikeview will have the Urgent crowd of viHitora duriiiK Fourth of July week that ever eon(i coated in Lake county at one time. New I roni Tonopah. "1 received the Lake County Kxamiiw er yeaterdny, mid it will like u letter from homii ," aav Man Whorton, in a letter to The Kxuniiner from Tonopah. "Thia camp ia aurely a goixl one and jjrow inn better every day. Another hiii atrike wax initdu here a lew days nn, which ia Hiiid to bo far ahead ol the Mizpah !roiip. The now find is juat at the edge of the town, an I ivea an aa Burance that Tonopah will be one of the Kreateat camps anywhere for the nxt few yearn. I am working regularly at five 'bucks' per day. There ia nothing to tpeuk of in this country outside of j uiniiiK but u itocu aupply ol horned. toad1, tarantulas, and, I expect, a few try land crocodiles. Tho climate is ex tremely diMintreuablo very hot in day time and cold aa winter at iiitfht. The wind blow, to 'heat the baud' every nh'ht. 1 will puts up a picture of thia fanioti camp in a day or two so you can aeo what Tonopuh looks like." Altuias will celebrate Inly 4th. Taya the Modoc press. So Another Hill licfore Congress to Lease the Public l-ands-IHII I Urjfenlly Pressed. WASHINGTON, April .'Mt A tre mendous pressure in being brought to bear on Cnngre to hh noun law for li-HNiiiK tlm vacant public domain for ..... . . grazing tiiiriMivim. l alllc. iwercsi now represented Imre have abandoned Iiok of getting tdroiiKli either tlm MillHrl or llowerock bills, Hint are endeavoring to Si-cure enactment of pe (! leasing legis lation for Nebraska only. The Prosl dent hax aked the (ienera! I-und Ollice if mu ll a hill would b advisable, and ('o'iiiiiiioiier Hermann haa replied that it would not Ik, a it would he a dis crimination uttninnt other Wentern StaUi and lurtheriiioie, would not paioi in that Hhupe. Chniruiau Laeey, of the Iloimc public lainU eomiiiiltee, ban carefully druwn and Intrxliuvd a bill providinK for lea. iti v iua nt public: ratine lunda of the, We.t. and baa iilblnltteil hid uieaiure to tlm llnura eoinmitlee. Tlm bill l Iw lieved to mift the conditiona of the In terior Jieportment. Hereafter, tlm llouxv cptniiiilte will eoneentrate it efTortn on 1 thia meiidiire, and may rcorl it Mr adjournment. Thia bill ia drawn primarily lo wive homestead pctllctsand unalUtockow n era an opporlunity in the arid renin im to improve and proVect the graaa uon the public domain in the vicinity of limit holding, ho a to prevent further deteri. ratl'f:-.!id (be f ?Mipolizn(lon of the ramre I'V owner of laryo herda if live Mock. Cnder thia bill, ao much of the arid and nemi arid region aa ia not capa ble of initiation may le lcawd for atick Kinill: purpone. aubjiH't to ri'bt of houie atead, mineral and other entry under ex- iatiiiK lawa. 1-aaea aro to run not over five year, and xhall la limited to areus no" exceeding IlSKiacrea to any one Hr aon. l.t'Hfi'J ahall only la made to actual homcMcad aetller or freeholder whose land are tributary to the landa to he leaned by them, and the holder of a homectead prior to patent may obtain a lcane to not exceedinK 10 time the area of laud included in aaid homestead, while freeholders may acquire leaaeholds in aimilar ratio upon the heretofore ac itlod limit. Leaaee may fence leased land and protect same from treapass. No corporation ahall lie entitled to a leaae under the hill. Where two or more peraona are eligible to acquire leaaea upon the same land, and there is not enough public landa in such locality, the available lands will be equitably ap portioned. lunula to lie leased are to be chiailied in six jjrudes, and shall rent for 1 to G cents an acre, according to classification. Such of tho public domain as is not leased tdiall remain open for jrrazinu priv ileges. The proposed law will not alter the status ol prazinn lands in forent re serves, but the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to collect a r capita charge on horses, cattle and sheep w hich are permitted to graze in tho reserves. When mineral or other entry ib made upon K need land, the lease shall be can celled. Watering places on leasable landa are to lie reserved so as to be ac cessible from all leased lands in the vi cinity. Leases may be renew ed, provid ed, the lands do not full into the hands of corporations. The children M Miner Wallace were taken to the home of his mother at Kugene, this week. They were accom panied to their new homo by their moth er and Mr. Stubblefleld, The Cattle Darons and Corpora. tions Thwarted in Scheme to Rob the homesteader. WASHINGTON, Aprils, The I5ow ermx k grazing bill provid UK for the lease of nil vacant public lands in the great Wept, amounting to 1100,000,000 .t if . :l i Keren, na imimi lata on tne sneu umii the next session of Congress. This i the reault of the attack made on the bill by Secretary Hitchcock an J Ijtnd Com missioner Hermann, w ho showed up the vicious nature of the scheme. Com missioner Hermann ilid not hesitate to characterize the scheme as a "hujie graft," mid when he revealed how the cattle barons would profit at the ex pense of the small landholders, it was clear that the bill could not mrvive. It is now said by friends of the bill that they will not press it, "on account of the election coming on." At today's hearings before the Tub lit: IjuhIs Committee f the House it was tacitly agreed that the bill should be pigeon-holed. It came out, informally, that the meat trust had entirely to much interest in the bill to suit many members, and others declared that if such a bill were pasKKl by this Congress they would never laj rrlurned to Wash ington by their constituents. A united efiort of the cattle baron and corNirutioiia to pass thia hill, or a similar one, next session will lie made, however. Letter From Ed. J. rtiwtronjj. "I have sold out in Puya'Iup, and my present address is Ihirton, Washington," writes Kd. J. Armstrong, well known contractor anil brick mason, to The Kx aniiner. "Please send The Kxaminer to my new address; it's like a letter from home with money in it. My mother who, ly tho way, made several acquain tances in l.akeview during our brief stay there, lias just passed through a very critical oiieration lor tumor, at the hands of surgeons. The operation was very successful; tumor weighed 15',' K)unds. She is out of the hospital and is now doing her own house work, and feeling better than sh has for 20 years. I haven't accomplished a great deal since I arrived on the Sound ; it's a poor country for my business. There is no place like' I.akeview for me, and I only wish there was something doing in my line there, If there was you would see Armstro g back there p. d. q. If there ia any prospect for that new court house in I.akeview I want to know it. Give my best wishes to all I.akeview friends." County Clerk William Cunther is go ing quietly about his duties, staying close to his desk and attending strictly to the affairs of his ollice. Mr. Gunther will probably not have the time to make a political cunvasa of the county, but ho w ill probably not lose a single vote on that account. Hy bis courteous ness and ability in the Clerk's otiice for th) past two years he has made many friends who will nt forget him on election day. "Billy" Guuther has served but one term as County Clerk, and having made a faithful, efficient and painstaking public servant he is em inently worthy of re-election. No man can truthfully say aught againet Mr. Gunther as a public otlher. Lake county has never had a more faithful officer. J. M. Fulton, formerly manager of the N 0-0 Railway system, and a prominent citizen of Nevada, is In I.akeview on business this week, 5omethin About "Grafts" That the Daly Organ Should Con sider in Daly's Behalf. Commissioner Hinder Hermann rtrorigly denounce the scheme to lease the public Unds. Among other things he say: "The bill is objectionable and inde fensible from many points of view. While it provides leases for stock- crowing purposes alone, it subject all classes of land to such lease and con fers upon the Secretary of the Interior no power w hatever to refuse to lease any vacant public lend that may be ap plied for, except it may lie such as has been hornesteaded or is mineral. It oay be land proper for disposition un der the desert land law, or may be val uable for agricultural purposes, or for it timber yet all such classes are made available for the leasehold privilege. Neatly all the public domain lying west of the Mississippi river (exclusive of Alanka) is included within the pro vision of this bill, and when once leased any disjiosal which the Goyern uient may desire to make of mob lands except under the homestead or mineral laws or for reclamation purposes, must Le subject to the leasehold. It is not uiidcrttod why valuable timber and desert lands are not excluded from its operation. Under the desert land law the Government during the last year dirposcd of 152,160 acres, while under the timber and ftoi.e act there were s.'d SHi,'3 acres, for which is received l,H4tM in that one year. Nor can it be said that very large portions of land opened to leasehold for stock pur poecs are unfitted for agriculture. Tl.a contrary is shown. Should such lands be thus withdrawn from the usual dis position gross injustice will be done. "Another objection noticeable is the low price at w hich the lands are to be leased. It has no parallel, either in leasing lauds belonging to railroad and wagon-road corporations, nor in leasing Indian lauds by the Government. The minimum price fixed by the Govern ment in its sale of public lauds is 1.25 per acre. Even 3 cents an acre for a leaae would only represent a fractiou over 2 per cent annual interest on the lowest Government price per acre. "I am confident that this bill, if en acted into law, will work incalculable injustice to the majority of the people of the Western Slates, will retard devel opment of the public domain, will im pose additional privation upon pioneers, will compel the small stock owner and settler to pay tribute and fetal to syn diiate owners or drive them from the n . i... i open new, win encourage greai iuuu monopolies upon the vacant domain which should be tree to all, a.ud will en gender a feeling of hostility and ine quality among those who should be friends and equals " A. L. Howell to be Foreman. It is understood that' A. 1.. Howell has been promised the foremanship of the laly Corioration land and cattle property in North Warner. This is said to be a fine position and Mr. How ell is to be congratulated. If the land leasing bill should pass, this ranch of 2ti00 acres, with thousands of acres ad jacent thereto that will be for lease, will make one of the greatest stock ranches to bo found east of the Cascade range. Mr. and Mrs. G. Grimes left this week for some point in California, w here they intend to locate. Last Resort of a Vanquished and Desperate Man Appeal Tor Public Sympathy. The legal mind of the Hustler baa wandered off to "blackmail." Two years ago, it says, a campaign of "black mail" was inaugurated against Dr. iJaly while he was trying to get to Con gress. "Joseph" knows, if he has not forgotten, that blackmail is a very seri ous offense, and when a man is guilty of the crime he is usually brought before the court to pay the penalty. He afso knows, and so do all the people of Lake county, that if B. Daly was black mailed by any of bis political opponents (and especially by the editor of The Ex aminer) that the said B. Daly would lose no time in instituting proceedings against the said blackmailer. B. Daly's hand organ has never denied, or attempted to deny, any of the state ments made against B. Daly. The Truth may hurt, but it must prevail. The reference made by the Daly organ, showing the contrast between the recent reception cf Mr. Williamson by his own town people and that of B. Daly when he returned to Lakeview, after aban doning bis canvass for Congress, is ridiculous in the extreme. Mr. Wil liamson is highly honored by all the people of Crook county. It -s unneces sary to say more regarding the reception of B. Daly in his home town. He re turned and immediately set about mak ing promises to put all the laboring men in Lakeview al voik rebuilding bis properties at big w ages. The laboring cldfg knows what that promise amounted to, and how many "citizens of Lakeview" were employed. His promises, however, saved him from los ing the vote of his own county by 26 ma jority otherwise he should have lost it by at least fifty majority. Dr. Daly is again making promises, but that sys tem of campaigning will not do this time. The public knows what these campaign ptomises are worth worth votes to Daly and nothing to the man w ho hoi U the promise "after election." The Daly organ threatens "to devote an article to the membership of the courthouse "RING," naming each one byname according to his importance." "lersonalities," "blackmail," eh? It is probable that no member of the al leged "KING" would object to seeing his record in public print side by side with the record of B. Daly and the Bustler boys. "Lay on McDuff, and damned be he who first does cry, hold ! enough !" Hudspeth Higglns. Last Friday afternoon a quiet wed ding was solemnized at Eagleville join ing together for life Ernest Hudspeth and Miss Etta Higgins. Both are well known throughout the county as popu lar young people and good teachers. They left Saturday on a trip below, go ing by way of Adin, where the bride's parento reeide. Their many friends wish them happiness and prosperity through life.- Cedarville Recoid. The groom is a brother of George Hudspeth of the Lakeview soda works, and is known as a bright and affable young man. Spring Lambs at I1.7S A dispatch from The Dalles uuder date of April 2U, says that the prion of spring lambs has dropped a notch and Eastern buyers are now offeriug $1.75 per head, w hereas a few weeks ago they were paying $-. Sheepmen do not seeat to be able to prescribe a reason for the slump. ( I