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LAKKVIKW, LAKE COUNTY, OKEGCft, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, !90i.
VOL. XXV.
ROOSEVELT
FAIRBANKS Former Governor of New Jersey
Said to be Choice of the Lend
ers for Chairman.
Koottrvi-lt and Fairbanks on Murnl
ird lieHrers, former Governor Frank
.Murphy of New Jersey, for chairman
( tint National CoiniiiitUi atxl Chns.
L. Henry, of I mliuiKi . fr vice-chairman
thlnlslhe latest combination
workd out by men Im do t lilnit In
the dominant political parly's conn-
Hi. There mi-ms lit t U loult that
1 he combination will Hand tin tit
of the National Convention's ballot
lug. TIh plan lias Is-en staini"! "O
K"ly tlif party lender In New York,
liKllo.na end Washington, and Im ex
lrtd loiueet with the mil Id support
of the administration throughout the
ountrv. If tin- selection are anade
jiuother precedent of political history
will be broken, for bothtbechalrtnnn
mid the vice-chairman will 1 the c-hs-tlws
at Iho VlrM'nwWUmtlu.l can
didate. For years It ha Isen un
written law thut tin Presidential
i-audldato shall name t hi campaign
niaiwiyrir anil that hi word shall Is
i nni.
'I'll' plan wan conceived eighteen
niontliM nun and wic matured In the
liolltlayN Inst year. Tin President
sent for Representative llemliiwiiy
ami asked lilm to request Senator
Fairbanks to accept the second place
n the ticket. After u week of nego
tiation tin Senator's acjulesceiire
wiw secured. He agreed on twocon
dltloiiM that tin national chairman
and vice-chairman should la IiU
friends and that he Mhoiild control
t lit organization for P.tos. Chronicle.
reconsider It decision and sell these
landM to said setHeraatthemlnliiium
price. In cast the Hoard should not
accede to thin request, then 1 inoMt
respectfully urge that you cause the
Slate Laud Agent, Mr. Oswald
VVnit, to proceed to Warner Valley
Inke County and make a -roiinl
eiHinlnatloii of the land In question
ami report his findings to the Htt
Laud Hoard for It dual decision In
the premise.
Very ltes'ctfull.v Yours.
II. 1'Ai.r.
Some couutlcM In California are
seriously considering publishing the
nsnesMinent made against each tax
payer. Thin matter has len dis
cussed In Oregon, and In apt to lie
favorably considered by a numls-r of
con nt leu In thin state. The publica
tion of the iisscssment would bo of
great ttenefit to the assessor an well
iiM tin county on It would give every
limn a chance to know whether hi
Uiinhbor wiw withholding brojM-rty
that should bear It burden of tax.
atlon, and In addition would provide
a mean by which every taxpayer
could know Just what hi taxes
would tie. Thin matter will Is
further dealt with In them columnH,
and It Ih likely that a bill providing
for such publication will come up In
the next Oregon legislature.
COLLINS IS
I who lie consulted alnnit crossing
the river, an the bridge had gone out
ARRESTED at thnt t,l,M, ,,erc ,,e tu,M",, hM''
but It In thought came to the river
Me Said HI. Name Wa. Rhodes- In another place where ho awarn hl
I5rouKht Here Sunday and ,,,orHe m'r,MM, n,,,, l,M,,, mml tU"
a i- r .. I. ii annum loom.-.
Luujcg ill vuumjr wan.
MM... .- L-.mI,
' ' .. ... . ,. , 'National IJank of Iakevlew have
ilay with Fred ('ollln, allan.Pliode, ,
, . . . , . made rapid prognnn in final detalln.
who wan arretted at 8uuiiitT like ' 1
t .1 i it t . 1 1 )rKanUatloii wan iiertecten .Marcu
lat wwk for the theft of a horne.
HULTNOMAH
FIGHT IS ON
Mitchell Forces Set Date for Dis
trict Conventionto be Held
at Portland on April 3d.
lilt preliminary examination rexiilt-
1 10, 1!H)4. Capital utock f .V).(HH), which
In all taken. Ntimlicr of dlntUiri
will m twelve, which have not lieen
el In IiIh Im'Ihk bound over to the,
i ln nlt i-oiirt. I111.ll tteltiir flli'd AtfSOO.
. , , 11 1 t ' elected yet. The bank will commence
In default of which he wan lodged In '
th county Jail to await hU trial
Hay Scarce on Lost Klver.
The AlturaM I'laludealer learnn
from Johnny Kane, who ha Juxt re
tunnel to Candy from the lAt ltl v
cr country, that hay In cnrce and
t lioiihandH of cattle have been turned
on the raiiK from the Carrnnd other
rauchert In that HtTtlon, and that
I owing to the condition of cattle, If
J the HtoruiM tdiould continue a heavy
I I ohm would rcMiilt.
He wan known about Mummer Lake
an IthodcN, but a atranger happened
to apiwar there about the time he
wan being tried for horne ateallng
who knew hi 111, and told him In the
presence of other that bin name waa
Fred Col I Inn, to which the man ac
knowledged. .
The borne that wan'atolen from
tlw Innett ranch In Hummer Lake loat
w-eek returiKsI to the ranch the latter
part of the week. It neetua that the
thief foMDd that officer were on hi
trail and lxtomlng frightened, turn
ed the home loone.
bunlucKH an noon an the charter
In granted. The f. I". Snider ntore
building on Water atreet will In uwil
an temporary headquartern until a
bank building can be built on tin
corner oppoalte the IJalley St Mannin
gill store, now occupied by the nod a
workn, which will lie removed.
Begin a New Year.
The Central Oregonlan, published
at Silver Iake, haaenterod It necond
year. The Central Orogonlnn wan
itarttnl there a year ago by Mennra.
IJalley and Kelnay under condition
none too flattering. It waa thought
It wan thoughtj that town could notanpport a newa-
that the fellow' name wan ithoden.
lie had worked on Will Sherlock'
ranch In Hummer Lakeome time lie
fore hln departure, and had evident
ly returned there, taken one of Mr.
Sherlock' home and rode It till he
came to the In tie ranch where he
decided to exchaugu It for a lietter
one, an the Sherlock hoij wa found
in an adjoining field the next morn
ing and It preneuce wan unaccount
able for In any other way. After
changing horne. the thief rode on to
Talnley where ho wa overtaken by
paper but the Oregonlan hn sur
vived, and It editor predict for hi
paper another year of pronperity.
Fire in Oklahoma.
A prairie flro In Oklahoma recently
devanted thousand of acre of graz
ing land and farm,and cauned con
nlderable damage to small town.
It la estimated that fOO.OOO worth
of proerty and ome live lost are
the result of the fire, which wa
started from stubble fire, set out
for the purpose of burning off the
J. P. Hill, the northern stage driver, stubble from farming land.
Askt for Kecon.deratUn.
Since the State Laud Hoard's de
i lnlon to sell at public sale to the
lilghcMt bidder, the unnurveyed
wainp landn In Warner valley,
Comity Judge Italy han Intervened
In Ix-half of the m'ttlern lu Warner
valley who have i-enldcd upon and
Improved these land. Judge Daly's
letter follows:
likevlew. Oregon. March l"th,
Hon. ticoui.K 11. Chamiikki.ai.v,
Governor of Oii'gou. Salem Oregon.
Dear Sir:
I have Just been Informed by the
ottoruey representing the settlers of
Warner Valley, Lake County, who
recently applied to the State Laud
Hoard to purchase the lands v here
on they reside and t lint the Hoard
decided to sell said lauds at public
sale to the highest bidder. 1 very
much regret that the State Land
loard made this decision, for the
reason that nearly a ll of these people
are bona llde settlers, some of whom
have resided and made their homes
on these lands for nearly ten year;
I hat a great number of said settlers
have valuable Improvement upon
said lands which represent year of
toil and labor; that to proceed under
the ruling of the Hoard mid sell said
lands and the Improvements thereon
to the highest bidder would In effect
Ik the cwnilscatlou of the property
of these settlers. Allot these state
ments are within the knowledge of
almost every one lu Lake County
and can be verified if deemed neces
sary In the form of atlldavlt and
filed with the Board.
In view of the a foresaid fact and
In order that Justice may lie done to
Ihesu home builders and settler of
Warner Valley, 1 would earnestly
request that the State Iaud Hoard
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GERMAN ELECTRIC CAR WHICH RECENTLY ATTAINED A
SPEED OF OVER 125 MILES AN HOUR.
Th alecfrlc car ahown In the tlluntratlon rcent)y made a new record on
tha MarlanfnMa-Zoaaen experimental line In Germany by ipeedlng acroaa th
country at th rate of 125 4-5 miles per hour. The car carried about a dosen
pnongers, all of thorn experts, and they declared that the motion of the car
waa no more violent than that experienced on an ordinary express train. The
ear la supplied with alx trolley arms and has four motors capable In the ag
icregate of about 1,100 horse power. The engineer who built the car think a
speed of 140 miles may yet be attained and are of the opinion that at present
US miles an hour may ba made without undue peril between Berlin and
Hamburg.
The Iiepublicnn Central Committee
of the Second Conirrewfona! District
met In Portland ifnrch 3d. Th
committer chosM April 13 as the day
and Portland an the place of the
convention, which I to nominate
Mr. Williamson' successor. But It
mentioned neither Mr. Williamson
nor Mr. Moody.
Should the Mitchell-Carey faction
defeat the Simon forces In the next
Republican primaries Representative
J. N. Williamson will go back to'
Congress. Should the Simon faction
win ex-Itepresentattve Malcolm A.
Moody will probably go instead.
Never a brickbat of the political
feud between the Williamson and
t lie Moody camp dropped Into the
committee. The fact Is no brickbat
were in the air nor dagger In hiding.
The rival had come together under
a white flag. But beneath the
neutral ground boiled the vitals of a
volcano which will soon gush forth -and
flow over the entire Second dIT. .,
trlct.
Citizen will see hot and heavy
gun-play thl year, such a will make
the Japanese war look like a cock
fight. The past ha been bitter with
the feud, but compared with the
future just at hand, the past will be
as peaches and cream.
But never a word of thl dropped
from the Hps of the gentlemen. They
stepped around carefully to escape
treading on each other's corn, spoke
softly to turn away each other's
wrath ami shook hand just like
brother of the same blood.
The whole proceeding wa per
functory anyhow and it wasn't
worth anybody's while to lose hi
temper. If the committee could have
nominated a candidate, thing would
have been doing for Bure, though the
Moody men must have lain down
since they were but a minority. If
the committee had been of a mind to
postpone the district convention
until after the state convention or to
reject the apportionment of theState
Convention, the minority would
have raised its voice, for It suspected
all manner of thing.
But the majority treated the
minority considerately, elected one
of Its number to the chair and fol
lowed the usage of preceding com
mittee In the date of theconventlon,
the place and the apportionment.
Baker 14. Clatsop 10, Columbia 7,
Crook 5, Gilliam 4, Grant 7, Harney
4, Malheur 5, Morrow 5, Multnomah
71, Sherman 4, Umatilla 16, Union 10,
Wallowa 6, Wasco 12, Wheeler 4,
Total 184.
Multnomah County will control
the District Convention; at least will
hold the balance of power without
which neither Mr. Williamson nor
Mr. Moody can secure tfce nomina
tion. The outcome of the factional
fight in thl county therefore will
make all the difference in the world
a to who shall represent the Second
District lu Congress next time, for
the faction that captures the County
Conventlou will send It own delega
tion to the District Convention, and
It will capture the County Conven
tion by defeating its adversary at '
the forthcoming primaries. Multno
mah will send to the District Con
vention 38 per cent of the delegation.
Oregonlan.
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