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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."
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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-
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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.
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