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Take (ttfllYfYf VV V I U II macazixi: SKCTIO.V. LAKEVIKW. OKHftON. THURSDAY J WIARY 11, 1000. PAGES 1 TO 4. MISS ALICE TO WED. CONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG. worth, of omo, the most FORTVNA TE OF MEN. A Grand Whit Mouse Wedding In Mid February Culmination of Komance Believed to Have Occurred on Ocean Voyage. Thorn In to bo another wedding In the while House, and society at the capi tal Is already looking forward to whnt undoubtedly will ho the most brllllinit event In the history of the mansion. It li JiiHt aliotit two years slnco Rcti reHentntlve Nlrholaa lungwort h, of Cincinnati, began to lay slego to tha heart of tho charming daughter of tho President, and hlit attack bus been un remitting. Now ho has captured tha heart of Mini Alice, and will lead Lor to the altar In mid February. Severn! times during the last year Mr. Ioni?worth'e engagement to Ml us Roosevelt was rumored, but It was never confirmed, and the social world began to enneliido 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. lngworth apparently saw his crowning opportu nity, nnd ho forthwith, been me one of the party. Throughout the Jaunt his attentions to tho duughter of tho Pre Ident were more marked than ever be fore, for In bis wooing be had the lid vantage, of being tho only courtier Id the field. Though his friends now say that they had observed tho glint of a glorl ous victory In his eyes when be ro turned from the long voyuge, ho never confided bis triumph to a soul, and tho first Information of the engagement did not reach society until Mrs. Roose velt told It to a few personal friends In the White House. Then, of courso, so ciety soon beard of It. WiN Tour Europe. It Is expected that after their mnr rlage the distinguished couple will take a leisurely trip throughout Kuropo They will, of course, bo certain of u splendid reception everywhere, espo- clally In all the capitals of the Old World. Miss Roosevelt has nevor been In Euroi although sho has had several opportunities and Invitations, notably when she was Invited by Mrs. White- law Reld when Mr. Reld went to Eng land as iectal ambassador at the cor onatton of King Edward. In Paris, too, the Longworths are certain of lavish entertainment, as Mr l.ongworth's sister, the Viscountess do C'hnmbrun. lives there. Miss Roosevelt, who Is tho only child of the President's first marrlago. will be twenty-two years old In February, and Is named for her mother, Alice Loo, of lloston, to whom tho President tecamo engaged In his college days at Harvard, and whom be married In 1883. On the death of her mother, one year after the latter marriage, Miss Roose IION. NICHOLAS LONQWORTn. velt became the chnrge of her aunt, Mrs. William 8. CowIcb, who was then Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres ent day is as much the child of Mrs. CowIcb' affection as though she were tier daughter Instead of her niece. Her Debut In Washington. IMIbb Roosevelt made her debut at a liall given In the great East Room early In January, 1902, since which flate 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 Bhe went, hut her demeanor did not Indicate that she was any more than a plain Amer ican. Her sweet smile completely cap I hated the throng, and In St. 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. Ills mother Inherited all of the estate of his father. 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 Is 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 in tha class crew. He also was a memtcr of the freshman class of the football team, nnd actively participated In the pro motion of college athletics. Upon the completion of his course at Harvard, Mr. Longworl h studied law In tho Cincinnati Law H hool, and was admitted to tho bar In 1H9I. He served as a member of tho school board of his home city until elected to the Ohio House of Representatives In IN!!), by tho Incredibly small majority of 4, Ix-ltig the only Republican elected that year. Subsequently be served In tho State Renato until elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re- Copyrighted by Francos Ik-njamln Johnston. MISS ALICE turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by nn overwhelming majority. There Is a great light in "Nick" Longworth's eyes these days. What Became of the Change. C.cn. C'hnflVe wns once asked by a soldier to lend him a quarter. "Didn't you receive your month pay yesterday?" asked the General. "Yes," said the veteran. "Where's your money now?" "Why I left the post and crossed the ferry with (t.i.f(. 1 met n friend, and wo had dinner. The bill wnseH.tio, Tbr I bought $1.(hi worth of cigars; then we went U the theatre for JfLtiO. After theatre we went down to the Rowcry and I spent $'.() there." "That makes Jl.'i.txi," said the Gen ernl. "What became of the other fifty cents?" The old soldier seemed puzzled, and finally said: "Why, I must have spent that fool ishly." Eusy When You Know How. A farmer left to bis eldest son one- half of bis seventeen horses, to his second sou one-third nnd to bis third son tmc-nlutli. The executor did not know what to do ns seventeen will not divide evenly by neither two, three or nine. In the afternoon u neighbor drove over nnd learning of the di. acui ty said, "Tnke my horse and you will then have eighteen." The executor then gave one-half, or nine, to tho eldest son; one-third or six, to the second son: nnd one-ninth, or two, to the youngest, nnd the neighbor took his horse home ami ever arter called nun "Problem" in tho morning and "Solu tion" In the afternoon. Peace Now Reigns, After warrlngs for more than a nun dred rears. 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 Cant. Pete, head chief of the Washoe tribe, and Capt. Dave, head chief of the riute tribe. They met In Reno, wovaaa, and through Johnny Kay, Capt. Dave's lieutenant, the two old warriors shoos hands and for an hour or mere over the pine of peace discussed the plans that led to the ending of hostilities. Now they are' planning a big peace dance. It will take place at Sparks, and for six days both tribeB will Join In celebrating the bis event. The Piutes 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 nwny trees nt the rate of 600,000 a yenr. Since tho in auguration of tree planting on an ex tensive scnlo there have been remnrk able changes In the climatic condi tions of Kvnsas. SENATOR'S DEATH IGNORED, ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP ITOL, WHERE HE 11 All SERVED MANY YEARS. Due to Conviction for DefraudlngGov ernment of LandsBoth Oregon Congressmen Also Under Indict mcnt or Conviction. All precedent was Ignored bjr tho United Stales Benato In tho case of the death of the late Senator John 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 tho United States Senate. Dut tho Mitchell case pre sented a unique situation. The official recognition of 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 crnmcnt. Excepting Senator Burton, of Kansas, no other members of the Senate has ever had to faco 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 Is the President of the Senate, did not ap point the usual committee to attend the funeral held in Portland. Ore Senator Fulton, tho solo 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 tho heavy mourning drapery as la tho cus tom. In a word, the Senate, in sad ness, passed over the death of its for mer Senator as quietly and unostenta tiously as possible. There have been no eulogies. Ills successor, appoint ed by Governor Chnmlierlain, u Dem ocrat, comes to Washington from the far Pacific slope nnd the sovereign State of Oregon win again have its full representation in tho Senate. Seats Vaca..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. Ringer 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 his 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 who 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 be were the man, I always thought be was until the ex posure of bis wrongdoing was made, then he must bave welcomed death as a happy Issue out of all his trouble. He was an old man. He bad sounded the depths and shallows of life. He bad run tho gamut of human emotions. He had felt the glorious thrills of tri umph and the pangs of disappointed ambition. Ho 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 will eventually realize the poet dream of Utopia. "What ho must have suffered in bis last days what devils peopled bis brain, what replnlngs of what might bavo been must Lave depressed bis soul who can Imagine these, let alone (ell about them? Napoleon fretting cut his proud life on St. Helena never was as unhappy as Jo!-n H. Mitchell must have been while suffering the stings of humiliation after expos ure and conviction came witn a luddcnncss that carried him to the depths of despair, lie told more than one Senator who had seen blm since his trouble that he would never go to Jail." Had there been attempt to consider resolutions of respect for the memory ; grabbers have leen men in high po of Senator Mitchell it is likely tnat sitions; they bave employed perjury, there would have been objection. 1 here Is a precedent far such action, for when Senator Drode'lck. of Call- fornia, was killed In a duel with Judge Terry, of that State, resolutions of re spectwere offered in the Senate. They were opposed by Senator Foster, of Connecticut, and the resolutions were referred to a committee and never were heard from afterward. GHOST POINTS WA Y T0.G0LI. Miner's Story of Discovery of Rich Mineral Deposit In Unexplored! Canyon. Bringing a large bottle filled with almost pure gold, taken from a lode long bidden in mountain fastnesses not a great distance from Seattle, W. E. Bartletl and M. C. Black, both well known local business men, are reported back after 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 Rartlett is the grandson of D. E. In- gels. a miner of the early '60s In those parts, who was murdered in the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares that his dead and murdered grand father, through & Portland medium, appeared to him and described bow be could find the lost mine and that be would be Independent for life. Bartlett asserts positively that be received specific directions from the spirit of bis grandfather how to pro ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, be was told to select M. C. Black to ac company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but say it cannot be reached Bave 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. Should the 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 Una they have the bottle of gold dust, which has already been viewed by dozens of peo-1 A GROUP OP FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES. Attempts to Hold Government Lnd Claims Under the Government's North Platte Irrigation pie, and assays have been made which prove that the mineral la the real thing. nops were Introduced tnto England In 1524 by a native of Artorls the home of the Artesian well. Physicians denounced their use as dangerous and Henry VIII forbade brewers In his kingdom to use hopes In making ale. For nearly half a century the sew ing machine bas been in use, and yet for the ahlrt we wear the poor work woman receives but sixty to eighty cents a dozen. FOILS THE LAND THIEVES. SECRETARY HITCHCOCK'S RE LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND GRABBING THIEVES. Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate of Government Irrigation Irriga tion Work of His Department Highly Successful. By Richard XL BynL It Is rumored that among probable Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock Is to shortly retire from the Interior Department of which be bas been the head since the second McKinley ad ministration. It wilt be recalled that more or less definite statements as to Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and bis probable successors have been of very frequent and regular occurrence, bnt the reason therefore Is probably not bard to find. Mr. Hitchcock has made J Kreat Se cretary of the Interior. He has 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 brilory and forgery, to say nothing of more forceful crimes to derrand their i country. Their ring was backed by wealthy anil Influential men and, In cluded members of the legislatures. United States Commissioners, special land agents, notaries, etc. The trail even led to the bead of the General Land Office, into the national House of Representatives nnd into the United States Senate. The loose land laws of the country made their task possible If not easy Crime In High Places. Secretary nitchcock, shortly after be became a member of the Cabinet, bad bis attention called to evident frauds In the acquirement of government land. He set to work a quiet Investi gation. It finally culminated in the indictment of great numbers of people and In the recent conviction of a United States Senator and a Member of Congress. Terhaps, though the cul mination is not yet. No man knows where the trail may lead next or how much evidence Mr. Hitchcock has and Is wo-klng up. It is stated to bave been a good deal of a surprise to the wiseacres at Washington, and In fact throughout the country, to see the way in which the Secretary of the Interior has "mafle good" In his land fraud prosecutions. It was never wipposed last winter that the governnu ut could ever secure a convlcion of any Congressman or Senator in Oregon. It was announced that the Secretary hall been illy ad vised and had gotten himself into a deep hole, the outcome of which would be disastrous to nimseir. Tried to Have Him Removed. The Secretary remarked on several occasions that the land frauds were astounding in their magnitude but that he proposed to stop them. He was laughed at but just the same some of the land 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 or two or tnree months, after he had f nished with cer tain investigations being made at that time. But the investigations bave never been 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 hailed as a victory for the land grabbers. The Secretary's rugged honesty and unswervable determination to weed out the despollera 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 bis course. No public official bas taken more literally to heart the strong expressions against public land grabbing of the President in bis an nual message to Congress. Believes Irrigation Great Question. Closely connected with the land question in the west Is the irrigation question, and since be first came into office Secretary Hitchcock has been an ardent friend of national irrigation. Hla annual reports, evea under Presl- dent McKlnley'i 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 waste Itself throughout the West; that A wa ter supply was uselessly running to the sea which would Irrigate 70 million acre of the most fertile desert land in the world, and he called attention to the fact that an Irrigated west was capable of supporting the entire pres ent population of the United States. It was not in keeping with the 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, the 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- HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior. tion and reconnaissances and surveys, such as has been the history in the great Irrigation 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 Ilitchcock's vigorous work in saving the public domain for home seekers, and in bringing Into praccal I operation a policy for the 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 this great internal development and improvement of tie nation's property far surpasses the work of any other department of the government ( Tkt followinf is the last portion of the report of the Frestdent's Public Lands Commission, two of whose numbers mre employed under Secretary Hitchcock, andwhosevuwsoniandjraudtaccord with their chiefs. ) Grazing Lands. The great bulk of the vacant publlo lands throughout the West are unsuitable (or cultivation under the present known conditions of 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 300,000,000 acres of public grazing land, an area approxi mately equal to one-fifth the extent of the United Slates proper. The exact limits can not be set, 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 tha 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 aenmte compacts or usreenieun among the various interests. These tacit 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 as 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. The general lack of control in the use of publlo 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 tsxm n.nrfllfiHv.nnBl am tf rii 1 1 r- u .2 I Vl must when no legal control Is exercised. It Is not yet too late to restore the value of 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 tneir vigor ana to aisinouie seeds, which will eventually restore much of the former herbage. Prompt and effect ive action muBt be taken, however, ir tna value of very much or the remaining pub lic domain Is not to be totally lost. The conclusions as to grazing reached by your commission were based: First. Upon the results of long acquain tance with graxing problems In the public, land States on the part of ach member of your commission. Btcoua. upon ins result oi carsxui ex.