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fife VOL. XXVI. LAKKVIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OK EG ON, THURSDAY, DEC 7, 1905. NO. 49. BOOTH- KELLEY Wins Case and Will Get Pay for Land In Klamath. Nalom Tho Oregon Centra! Mili tary Hoiul Company will receive fllOO.OM) In cash from tlio United States (lovcrniin-nt for land be longing to the road company In tho Klamath Iullfiii llcwrvutlon, pro tiding tho appraisement of a (Jov prnrornt agent and a representative of the Hooth-Kclly Company, tin- assignees of the roal company, Im approved by tho lutcrlor Depart ment and Congress make the iitwH sary Appropriation. Thin claim In the ri'Mutt of a suit brought against the Qovcrnmeot by the road company for the recovery jf every other section of land within tea milt on each aide of tho road running through the Indian rescrva tlun. Thla null wan adjudicated In tho Supremo Court of the United States more than a year ago. Tho Klamath reservation was net apart by a treaty made with tho Indiana In 100. The Kraut to tho land com pany wna made at a Mibsequcnt date, but the road company con tended In Ha ault that It wascntltlcd to the land for reuMon that the Pres ident's proclamation setting nldc the laud In the KlaiuatU reservation wim not Issued until 170, subsequent to the passage of the law by Con gress making the land Kraut to the road company. . The . (loverument contended that the reservation waa established at the time of the signing of the treaty. The rose waa decided In favor of the road company, on the ground that the Government In a prevlotia ault to vacate the road company's claim to the laud did not wet up this treaty a a bur to the road company ob taining title to the laud, and for that reason It waa prcauiucd to have been waived on the part of the i lovernnient. MoHtofthe btnd In tpicsllon hart been diluted to the Indiana on tin? reservation, and Ih very valuable farm land. The road company hav ing won the suit, It devolvea upon the (ioverument to deliver possession of the laud to t he company or pay what It la worth. It waa for the purpose of determining the value of the land that the tiovcrninont agent and the representative of the Itooth Kelly Coiniiauy recently uppralaeil It at $900,000. The state chilma IM.OOO acrca of swamp land In the reservation, which was grouted to the state at the time of the passage ot the enabl ing act, many yearn before the crea tion of the reaervatiou, but the In terior Department turned dow n tin? atate'a claim which nntedatcH the clalma of both the Indiana and the road company. It la said sorlcus trouble would ensue If the (iovern nient should attempt to dispossess the hull. ins of the laud now claimed by the road company. Mr. W. II. .shirk, agent for the Itooth-Kclly Co., when naked ubout those minora concerning the recent trnuaactlou of the liooth Kelly Co., stated that he had not heard a word from the company, and knew noth ing of the deal except what he had seen in tho paper. He alao staled that Mr. liooth waa hi the East and was presumably there on Home sort of a deal, but he had not been In formed of any (leal e.s yet, ulthough he expected to be notllled within a few days na to the authenticity of the report. which mains miles THREE APPOINTMENTS, RAILROADS AND WOOL. cntrnl OFcgon ih receiving a liberal share of H. II. Harri- man's devoted attention. Tlic latest conies from Omaha to the effect that Mr. Harriman will spend $r,00(),000 for the con struction of a Central Oregon line which is to be finished before an other year has passed. He will also construct lateral lines in Oregon, and extend his system futher into Washington, wil bring out to the Coast a number of the new but well-tested gasoline mo tors which are his latest hobby, and will do all in his power to control the railroad situation of the Northwest. All this informa tion comes from Omaha, the cen ter of the great Union Pacific sys tem, and is no doubt true in all its essential features, though, as yet no definite announcements have come from headquarters of the company detailing the plans about to be fulfilled. The time has come when the Harriman system can no longer overlook the field of Centtal Oregon or to neglect to bring it up to the high est point of development. Hill is reaching out for the territory, and it will be a race to see who will control the situation. Investigating Committee Reports. Lukeview, Oregon, Dec. I, 190.1. To the Council of the Town of Lake view, Oregon. f KNTI.KMEN," We your committee on Sanitation, to whom wan referred the Investiga tion of the Sanitary condition of the School IIouhc, (Jrounds, Toilets, Privy Vault and other matter per taining to the public schools of Lukeview. leg leave to report that we have made a thorough and painstaking Investigation of the Hume and do find that the School IIouho and Grounds are neat, clean and an Kunltury as It U possible to make them; that all the the recita tion rooms are large, clean, well lighted, and thoroughly ventilated; that tho buildings containing the toilet nnd privy vaults nre clean, odorless, and In a much better san itary condition than such buildings nro usually kept where there Is no sewerage system. The water supply Is furnished by the Lake view Water Company, Is conducted through water! from mountain springs live distant, Is both pure audi A wholesome While we found tho grounds, build ings, toilets and privy vaults lu good sanitary condition, yet we would recommend that the privy vaults should bo frequently strewn with Chloride of Lime or some other suitable dlslnfcccuut. Publicity in reference lu all public matters should be encouraged, but such publicity should be hutted upon facts and not upon mere Idle rumors, and no Newspaper Is Just Hied lu printing serious charges against the public schools, which results lu Irre parable Injury, not only to the Schools, but against tho entire inter ests of the community without first "Miirso Henry, ascertaining that Mich charges 'are true. llespect fully Submit ted, V. L. Smci.i ino, Mayor, H.vitKV ISam.ky, t'tiiiiicilman, I. S. Lank, Councilman. Committee on .Sanitation. Ed. Bunting In Reno, Ho received a letter from F.d. H. limiting last week, who Isstopplngut Ileno for the present. I'M. Kays there has been considerable storm O toeks of Oregon wools are ncarlv exhausted in the Hos ton market. The latest advices say there was only one small transfer of staple wool there dur ing last week. In this transac tion, 2 cents in the grease, or the same price as in the deals of the previous week, was received. The general Eastern markets have ruled very, quiet, but dealers do not admit any recessions from legitimate values. The latest is sue of the Commercial Bulletin says of the situation: "The worsted mills have been large buyers during the season, and, while iheir consumption of wool has been great, their pres ent stocks are sufficient to pre clude the necessity of immediate purchases of' consequence. The time for stock-taking is near at hand, and naturally fev purchas es except tor aeturl needs will be made until afterward. A quiet market at this time of the year is consequently a normal one. "Sales during the week have been confined to small quantities not many having touched tho 100,000-pound point. Holders of worsted wools have no diffi culty in obtaining their price." T ' "-' f - ' w ui ;! ., . - ..... ra. . . . v .: (vyVf!-.. t g. 1 . r V" ..)- vlVti ., NEW PICTURE OF HENRY WATTERS0N. Henry Walters m. the veteran Kentucky editor, wields as trenchaut a pen i iking several dollars ou each auimal, ns ho did forty years ago. when he first devoted himself to editorial work. I ,,,., i , , , IW lu. 1.4 .V11I...1 J atYtv-fU-a v.uira rf i... n.ul 0!si litgiiiKluvl ns journalist, onilor nnd polltieiau. wus a stiiil' oftleer In the ronie.l. i: te iirniy. Iiiiin.i t'.ie In Ileno since lie went down there. There is not mueli doing at present, he says, though i hey have just finish ed a big bildg- across the Truckeo rlver.whicli cost the county a pile of money. I'M. askes to have his Kxumlncr forwarded to iilin at thut place. Ho says "It's like getting a letter from home with money in It to read The Kxumlner, and he don't want to miss one of them." HP he President on December 1, made the following appoint ments in Oregon: To be United States district attorney, for tho district of Oregon, William C. Bristol, vice Francis J. Heney, resigned. To be Register of the land of fice at Roseburg, Benjamin L. Eddy, of Tillamook, vice Joseph T. Bridges, removed. To be Receiver of public mon eys at the Roseburg land office, James M. Lawrence, of Bend, vice James II. Booth, removed. Wm. C. Bristol, the new dis trict attorney, is a well known Portland attorney. He came to that city from the East several yeais ago and was employed by Cotton, Teal & Miner. J. M. Lawrence, receiver of the Roseburg land office, is a U. S. Commissioner at Z?end, and the editor of the Bend Bulletin. He was for several years employed on the Portland Oregonian, also run a newspaper in Oregon City. B. L. Eddy, the new receiver is a well known attorney, served in several state legislatures, and is the author of the Eddy corpora tion tax law. His appointment was agreed upon some time ago. ! Didn'L Offer Enough. Horses are getting scarce In ; county. K. W. Gowan, of this j has been lu the vicinity of Silver I l-'ike trying to buy horses, i from reports he has been unable find enough horses for sale to make a drive. Klamath Falls Itepubllcan. In view of the above we wish to call attention to the various items of horse drives from Lake couuty, of auimals that were picked up from all parts of the county, some of them since Mr. Oowau was in the county in search of horses. W. M. Harvey started 20 head for the lower country last Saturday. W. Z. Moss Is breaking horses for the market, and will make a drive in about a month. There has been several hundred , head of horses driven from Lake 'county this year, and there are yet j several hundred head of good horses j to be hud if buyers are williug to pay a reasouablo price for them. Several of the Lake couuty horsemen j like W. Z. Moss, Ken Vandoru, W. A. j Currier, W. M. Harvey aud others, ! have realized that to sell their horses here at the low tigures offered by outside buyers they were sacrl- I,,.. In,,.. ",,,J ",l,c u """ir O U civil war ht horses to the market and buying (from those who do not want to, j drive or who do not have enough to I make a drive. They pay high urices for those they buy and only uim to make a reasonable profit from their purchuees, while outsldo buyers who expect to double their money on every animal cannot buy hero. Morris Winjfleld returned from Warner first of the week, where he was gathering up tho 200 head of cattle he bought this fall. He start ed them for Paisley Tuesday, where they will be fed this wluter. STATE TAXhS Will be Light In J 906 Referendum Cuts Off Fourth. The total revenue to b ralfe l taxation for state purposes for th year 1W6 will be, approximatrljt. 52.",,000. The total revenue necesa?T for state purposes will le 147,000, bat of this amount $222,000 will to derived from Indirect sources, lcaflnjr the 6Zj,0U0 to be apportioned amoux the several counties of the state ac cording to the fixed ratio provldei by law. These figures were gleaned from ft letter written by Secretary of Stat Dunbar In answer to an Inquiry fro J. N. Teal, of the assessment and tax atlon committee of the Taxpayers League, of Portland, and published in the Oregonian- Toe letter ayt "The marked decrease In tf amount neccessary to be raised fcOr next year, compared with proceeding years, is due to the fact that we not include in the Item of expenses rf the coming year aoDroDiiatlona amounting to $371,09440 included tm chapter 229, laws of 1905, which ther is no provision of law for incurring other than the act itself. Owing t the referendum having been demand ed, It Is not an existing law. If the act had taken effect the amount to be raised would have been Increased by that sum. " In computing the amount to be raised, we only include such Items of expense as the state will be subject to under existing laws, less receipts not applied by law to some special purpose. We estimate such receipts for the current year will be oyer 222,000, which Is nearly one-fourth of the gross expense, the principal items consisting of f 112,000 froin cor Lake poration fees and licenses, $28,000 city from inheritance tax and $54,000 from tax on insurance premiums." and The item referred to by Secretary to Dunbar as not having beeu Included are chiefly the additional appropria tions for the State University and Agricultural College, and the appro priation for Normal Schools, and for improvements at the state institu tions, which were held up by the ref erendum. The reveuue raised by direct taxes iu 11XHJ will be only one-half of the amount raised., by that means in 1!04 aud will be 37. per cent less than iu 1905. Each county will have only half us large a state tax to pay as it had iu 19114. Plush News. H yatt & Short, proprietors of tho Elephant," have just completed a new residence iu Plush. The JJ tlrm started about 400 head of lHH-f to Madeline the first. W. L. Sca uimon has gone to the City to be treated for cancer on the face. Dr. Deboy is acting landlord during Mr. Scammou's absence. II. J. Stein and Joe Jones, two of Warner's best crow-bar shovers, have taken a contract to build 15 miles of fencv fur James Barry, 15 miles north of Mule Springs. up 1 M. Miller spent several days. lu this part of the couuty taking In the situation at tho 7T ranch. C. W. Withers, who bought the McElliinney sheep, started with theia last Monday for Summer Lake where he will feed them this winter. J. A. Morris, the Plush merchant, will, for tho next thirty days, bcII stamps at cost. Pi.usimr.i.K Bii.i.. Alex Fltzpatrick, the ZX foreman was in Lake view first ot the week. 1 - (