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T mmtne VOL. XXVIII. LAKKVIKW, LAKE COUNTY, OIIKGOX, THURSDAY, MAR. 21, iX)7. NO. 12 E mi PROVISIONS OF NEW SCHOOL LAW Severest Law In l;orcc United States. in MUST GOTO JAIL FOR TRUANCY. Local .School Authorities Regard Law a too Barbarous for a Civilized People. Tim 'iuiiiitlHory education law, which tuiM been passed I y Hit) recent legislature, provides among other tlllllgH IIH follow : All children between tli awe of !t illlll II tllllMt go to public School all tlm term. Children from II to li must -llher woik or go to school. The ex ceptions to I lir ho requirements are -hildru in private schools, pupil physically unable to nt tt-lid, pit i 1h under 10 living Inorn Until one iiinl one half mile from school, hi i i 14 of uny iik'" living more tluui three in ili-n from Hi'liuol iitnl pupil under private tutor ut liniiiii. Tim mean irovil'il to enforce the law urn UN follow : I Appointment of truant ollli-er In I'ui'li district. 'J. First class dis tricts have power to rull on police. It-County School Superintendent fur nishes nlllccrs With U li.it of teacher. I -Teacher compares record with run -Him each iniiiilli. 5 Ti'iirlur report i-Unin-iitri to triiiint otlleer. Offi cer notifies parent and teacher. 7- Officer make complaint to Justice of l'cueo. HJustice issues warrant and conducts ti lal. The u n In tlflliMl t for ti nancy 1m a f 1 no of from " to ?J' or imprisonment In Jul I olm from two to ten iluyH, Mini ull olllcers, ' . jil 1 u tlm School Superintendent ami teach ers niiiy Im lined from to jn for failure to perform tint duties Incum bent on them under th.t act. Thiri law seem ho unreasonable and drastic, that The K.vaminer Iiiim se cured uii Interview Irom )r. H. Ialy in reference to it application to. the pul lie school of the state. )r. Daly liiiH not only lieeii a member of the Imard of ediu'iit ion for Lakeview dur i ij K tint pant eighteen yenrH, lint dur ing IiIh Kei-dat i ve career, man ifested a Kfcat interest in every measure per t-itiniug to the educational mat tern of the w hole state. Ir. I 'aly'rt views are im follow. : "The compulsory education law, in ho far im it providen for the impris ouinent of our hoys und girl in tho county jail, for truancy, thereby com pelling them to become companions of crieiinals, is nlmply barbarous and should ho consigned to ohliviou iih a relic of the dark ages rat her thau hu placeilupon tho Htntute liookri of a great and pl ogrossi vo state like ( trefoil. Tim purpoHu of thu law, to compel ull pupiU of school ago to attend Hi'hool, 1h very commendable and should receive the earnest ami con Hcleiitloim Hiipport of every teacher mid H. hiiol ollcer of thu tituto. It bhould also have, tho active co operation of every parent who hart a lioy or to educate, in order that ull pupils of Hchool ago ahull wee, ore. at Joust a good common school education. The knowledge tnat u common Hchool ediiontion imparts is not only necessary In order to become success ful men und women, hut it 1b iiIho CHflential that every hoy and Kill Hhould bo thoroughly oipiipod by ed ucation and training, ho as to bujipuul illed to assumo tho grout respon sibilities of cltlzeushlp. 1, therefore, believe that if all tho teachers and Hchool ofJIoers of tho stato will do their full duty la making a determinant effort to have every pupil of Hchool ago attend school, there shall bo no occasion to invoke that part of tho h tat ute providing for tho imprison ment ot school girls and boys, for mere truancy, und which, in my judg ment, should have no placo iu the educational laws of a civilized coun try.' Tho Exumiuer heartily eudorties every word Dr. Daly lias ttuid, iu reference to that puit of tho law whlcn provides for tho imprisonment of public school pupils for truancy and we hope that all oUieers who are charged with its enforcement shall let it uloep, and luter, bury it in oblivion whore all inglorious things should be consigned. Kelatlvo to the Maine matter, we kIvii the vlewN of Trot. Hi'ott I"Hvltt, principal of the l.'ikvlow publh Hchool : "Upon careful coimideratiou, 1 (Ind 40IIHI provision in tho new law which 1 can heartily eiidorHe, Hiid Home thiugH wlilch I um heartily oppoMn, 'TIiohh provisloiiH requiring the utten- iIhiich of ull children from I) to II yearH of age throughout the entire term, tinlcMM phyHieally iiiimIjIo to attend, living to tar from a hcIiooHioumc, or taught privately, are, if reiiHouably applied, good. I have little objection to requiring thorns from 14 to 1 to at tend Hchool or work, if able. 1 believe that the I'yHtem provided for uxcer talning who are deliiiiieut in attend mice In very good. Hut in punching iielluiieutM the law overHtepH itnelf. Judge LindMey of Denver, the great Htildeut and exponent of the juvlnelu court cyMtein.poltitH out very conclu nively that the ten leney of jailing a boy or girl Im to make a criminal. It ilentroyM Helf renpect, a uioxt tiec-eHHHry thing to good manhood or woman hood, and aHMoclnteM him or her with hardened characterM who make It a point to give Instruction lu evil ways. Johiuh I'lynt, whoHe recent remark able articleM iu the Kucci-hm Maua.iua telling his life as a boy criminal and a world w ide tramp, attributed IiIh chief impulse toward a real I ife of w ort hlehM iicmm to Ichmouh learned while iu jail for a boyUh eHCapaiie. He wiim not liatiiriilly bud, but lit. learned there a criminal pride and the wijm of the under world. Don't jail a bt y or girl for the folly of childhood : good men and women have thus been Hpoilcd iu the forming. I like better the lawH of many tatcs which In Id parents rt"-ponillc for the attendance of theh children. If u child Im al'Milutely uiicoutrollalile, t In law may take'him iu hand; but it in a mi ft nke to embitter a child toward the better thing of life by being un duly harnh iu forcing them upon him. The beet ion of the law mining the requirement for teuclierM .are much needed changes, and the provision whereby a puplo can demand Mm hchool money from a dinlrict not giv ing hih'h Hchool work, and go else where, will work for good." Joseph Gaston-Concluded. What is true of conditions in the Harney Valley Im equally true of the great valleys of the Deschutes, the John Day and Crooked rivers, the great valleys of Silver Lake, (.'hrist miis Lake, Klam.it !i Lake, (ioose Lake, the Oregon central wagon road grant, and the Chcwuucan. I have Keen and eaten jiint an line apples and peaches raised at Silver Lake Valley and on the uplands north of Lakeview as anywhere else in Oregon. And now near lieml, in Crook county, J. O. Johnston is clgaring live hundred acres of Huge brush laud, which is all to be planted in apples this fall and next spring. Men don't make such large investments without knowing they are safe. Thej hare raised straw- berries at Head with us Hue tlavor and shipping qualities us ut Hood Kiver, and Hood Kiver berries are considered the best iu Oregon. That this region is to become as great a fruit growing district us uny other part of tho Pacific Coast, is a certainty, and that, too, without us yet the drawbacks of insect posts to com but. lu tho year of tho largest crop ever produced iu the United States (l'JOti), Hood Kiver up do growers sold their crop before it was picked from the trees to buyers iu New York, at S'2.40 a box, for yel low Newtons, and 9:1.10 a box, for Spitzon bergs, und niukiug seven-year-old trees pay their owuers a net profit of over iJIkKJ.CO per acre unnuully. Mr. L. 1'olett, of Ashland, Oregon, shipped his crop of Ilurtlelt pours to Montreal, Cuuuda, and llostou, Massachusetts, giving" him u net profit of fttoO.OO an aero on his pear orchard. The cherry crop produced ut La liruudo, central eastern Oregon, wus bold ut prices suilk'iout to pay the growers If500.fr) uu aero profit on thoir cherry orchards. From the little town of Froewuter wus shipped sixty curlouds of prunes to New Voik und other eastern cities, for which tho farmer received fifteen dol lurs per ton for tho ripe fruit; euch acre produciug about twenty tons ; and the net profit to tho growers being about two hundred dollars per acre. This fruit was produced ou average eastern Oregon, soil, and such crops can bo produced anywhere lu the val ley lauds of central Oregon with pro per cultivation. Will tkoso prices for fruit continue? All Indications are thut they will Honorable. E. L. Siultb, of Hood Kiver in uu ublo puper preparod for the NEW SECRETARY TO EXPEDITE PATENTS. Over Thirty Thousand Have Accumulated In the General Land Office. Secretary of the Interior (iarflold ax a reHiiIt of vurioiiM forms of hold up Iiuh iHHiied an order which will expe- pen ling investigations. It H cstlmat dito to the utmost tl e isHiiance of pat- ed tTiat it will take about ten weijks enta to the .'UI.UX) entri"8 that have accumulated ut the general land office SECRETARY JAMES Northwest Fruit (Jrowers Association, shows that apples ate belling for more than they did thirteen years ago, not withstanding the enormous increase in the planting of trees. Kvery new transportation lino uu laud and sea is opening up new markets for Oregon fruit. New uses and forms of coiisum- ing the fruit are found iu the progress This paper opened with the stute of society. Lven the refuse from the ! meut of a man of the widest exper- cidei press iu America is shipped to J ience iu land seeking that here remains F.urope to make cider wiue, of which j "the last low-priced tract of desirable annually nearly u billiou gallons, val- j lauds located in a white man's coun ue l at eleven and one-half cents u try, with u charming climate, left ou gallon. Oregon hits more timber thau any of the eastern states. Tho piuo ou tho east slope of the Cascude Moun tains is considered far superior in quality to the pine of Michigan, Geor gia or Texas, und there is about one hundred billion feet of merchantable timber to the region we have been de scribing. Aud upon tho uplnuds, be tweeu Klamath Falls und Lakeview, und upou the Chewaucan Mountains Hud lilue Mountaius, there is ut least fifty billiou feet more of equally good piuo. Such timber iu Michigan aud Minnesota at eight dollars a thousand. As soon as railroads penetrate this country ull this timber will come into market and will be available at as much as two dollars per thousand, with a constantly iucreaisug value. To tho gold miners belong the cre dit of couqueriug this sectiou from tho warlike Iudiuus. Kiflo iu baud by fours aud tens and twenties, the cour ageous gold seekers commenced going into tho gulches aud canyons of tho llluo Mountain Islands, heretofore de scribed, about the year 18G1 ; aud since thut time more thau one huu drod million dollars in gold has been tukeu out of the mines of eastern Ore gon. Another source of mineral wealth is the great deposit of ulkaliue salts lu oho driod and drying lakes of Harney iud Lake counties. The borax works at Rose Valley, iu Harney county, have boen successfully operated for niua yours. The consumption of both oda aud borax is rapidly increasing in the United States. Twenty-five years ugo the anuual produotion of borax iu the United States did not excoed six hundred tons. Last year the production was thirty thousaud tons. Vast amounts are used iu glaz ing kltcheu aud sumtary wares. The for the present force at the land ottlce to vet caught up with the work. R. GARFIELD. Pitsburg Sanitary Goods Manufactur ing Co mpany have their owu works in California, to make the borax used iu their own sodu manufactories. The amount of soda, iu ull forms, used in the United States lust year uniouated to u million tons., worth ?M.50 per ton. this continent." That is a sweeping statement; but it is true. The wild rush to get homesteads, whenever a little patch of an Indian reservation is opened, proves the exhaustion of good lands at ordinary entry. If a man wants to expatriate himself aud swear ullegiunce to King Edward he cuu get good level laud iu Canada, in a very cold cliamte, producing noth ing but wheat aud grass. But the American citizen wunts to make bis home under tho Stars aud Stiipes. While there is a senseless rush of youug nieu and wotueu to the cities to "get u job, " "get a position," and bo somebody's servant, there is a counter desire of thousands who have tried city life aud want to get out on a little piece of their own laud, be "their own boss," aud sit down in pouce, comfort aud independence un der their own apple tree. Five rail-road companies ure now heading eight railroads into the ceu tral Oregon country. They have ex pended withiu tho past year over one hundred thousaud dollars in surveys uloue to flud the best routes on which to locate the. proposed linos. This has not boon done for show or to hood wiuk the public. This is a peculiar country in its physical aspects. Trav eling through it, carelessly, a man may think be is following a valley with well defined draiuage outlet, only to flud himself, at the end of a few miles, butting up against a mountain side or an impassable rim rock. The railroad man cau not get into a buck board aud say "corns on, here is the place for the road." It -oa a only be determined by careful surveys. And such routes are beiug determined by the Great Southern Company, locat ing its line from the Columbia river south, through the Desohute Canon to Beud, and on south to a connec tion with tho new line at Lakeview; by tho Columbia Southern surveying an extension. of It line aonlb from Shaniko to Madras, and thence on up tho Deschutes Valley to a connection with the Harriman line from Uiirnx; by the Oregon Short Line locating a line from Ontario up the Malheur Valley und southwest to Burns, and from there on to Uend ; by the South ern Pacific building its branch road from Weed, on the California and Oie gon line, north to Klamath Falls, and extending its line from Natron, in Lane County, southeast to Klamath Falls. This country will be gridironed with railroads within three years. Money to build the Harriman lines has Ixieu set aside and they will be built. The United States Government has bad a large corps of engineers engaged for nearly two years gauging streams, surveying irrigation projects here, and has show n its determination to make good all promises by commenc ing tho actual construction of the great irrigation works at Klamath I Falls which will cost over four million ; dollars, and bring under irrigation I water nearly two hundred and fifty i thousand acres ofjjland. The Govern j meut has the additional projects of j irrigating canals at Paisley, Silver j Lake, the Upper Deschutes, Harney j Lake, and Malbuer Valleys and the ', Umatilla, covering in all Jmore than oue million acres. More than 823,000,- oumjj is in tne National '.treasury de voted to irrigation projects in the West, of which sum Orecon contribut ed from tbe sale of public land io: than any other state, and has there fore an equitable claim for a larger expenditure of that fund within its borders than any other state, liy tbe j exact and thorough work of the Uov I erument engineeis it bas been ascer tained thattbe Oregon rivers con fur 1 1 nish to the arid lands of tbe stata, ; twelve million acre feet of water annu I ally for irrigation at tho localities mcu'.ioiicd. Counting nothing on ar tesian well water, which can be had in many places, as in Kansas, this amount of water will be sufficient to redeem all of eastern Oregon from the charge of aridity. D, is no wild guess, but a scientific deduction from all the facts and ob servations of physical geography, teat this widespread irrigation and evapo ration of such an enormous umouut of wuter will chauge the climate of this region, and there will be, in a very short time, reasonable showers and ample rainfall to raise wheat ou all the rich lands which areabove the reach of the irrigating canal. Cultivation alone bus au enormous effect in this direction. The correspondents cited in this puper speak of a change in tbe climate goiug on now. lint expe rience in other regions bears out these assertions. It has not beea fifty years since the greater parts of Kansas, Nebraska aud the Dakotaa were put dowu on the maps as tbe "Great American Desert". Withiu my iecol lectiou tho limit of the successful cul tivation of wheut iu Kunsas bus been pushed back two hundred and fifty miles; and where it wus thought no crop could be raised in thut state forty years ago, one hundred million bushels of corn aud wheat were raised in 190G. But this is not ull the change that will take place. Little by little the dews, fogs, und showers will extend their fructifying influence from the neigh borhood of the irrigated districts to the higher lunds, and the result will first be A great increase in the crop of grass, enabling the raising of more cattle and sheep. And then next will follow, first on the higher bills aud following down to the low lands, a reforestation of all tbe billy country. Here, then, is the opportunity thousands have been waiting for tbe opportunity of a lifetime. The Gov renment offers praotically free homes to those who will make some sacrifice of ease aud comfort and bestow the time, labor and patience to earn tbem It also offers its irrigated lauds witb the water, tbe most productive laud in the world, at a reasonable . price, giving many years to pay for it in in stallments. The irrigation companies on tbe Deschutes River make the same offer. Thus to thousands is possible a home, comfort aud independence, In a healthful climate and wideawake pro gressive country with all the facilities of education and (culture. Here is your opportninty. How many will take advantage of it? W. 0. Bristol has been re-appointed U. S. district attorney for the district of Oregon. HARRIMAN MAY BE DETHRONED i Morgan Tries to Reconcile The President. PRESIDENT SAYS HE MUST GO- Great Railroad flagnate Unmind ful of What is Lawful and What is Unlawful. Before sailing for Europe, J. Pier pont Morgan sought to reconcile the differences between tbe President and the railroad magnates. When he found that tbe president was not hos tile to all railroads, only tbe ones that did not respect the law, Mr. Morgan in a way, offered to promise that the ' presidents of railroads would be good, but Mr. Roosevelt answered, "this is no enough." "What is tbe matter, then?" asked Mr. Morgan. "Harriman," answered Mr. Roose velt, grimly. "He bas no conception of what is lawful and what is unlaw ful. He has a lawless nature. He has no moral sense. He is a menace to this country. He is a disgrace ito the institution of railwnys. He is a stig ma upon those railway men and bank ers who tolerate and condone and help him. "Harriman does not know how to come within tbe law ; be has got to go. The govwnmert proposes to follow bim up and ex oae his dealings and practices Bj-ain.n public decency until it will be imr'-ssir!o for him to stand up let: :c : ""'j at ,e storm of public opiu iou .4. w ill overwhelm him." It seems now that nothing will suit tbe president but tbe dethronement of Mr. Harriman. And to get rid of Mr. Harriman as the dominant rail road factor in the United States and reduce this control to such an extent as to place him at the mercy of the other railroads, instead of tbem being at bis mercy, will be tbe next work of the great railroad interests of tbe country, in tbe cause of peace. Killed Because be Snored. A tragedy was unearthed a few days ago near Rose burg, which reveals one of tbe most grusome crimes in the history of the state. Two men of more than middle age, who bad been occasional inmates of tbe poor farm, it seems, were in tbe habit of living together at a small cabin in an ob scure place, when not on the poor farm. According to the story of the survivor, Wm. Blohs, cn last June, Blobs was awakeued by tbe snoring of Philander Lemon, bis companion, and was unable to go to- sleep again, and raised a row with Lemon for disturb ing him. Lemon retaliated and blows followed. Lemon being knocked down. While Lemon was down Blohs picked up an ax and struck bim a blow on tbe head, killing bim instantly. Blohs strapped: the body of his dead compan ion to a board and dragged it about forty yards from the cabin, where he buried it in a shallow grave. He kept his secret until about a week ago, when he disclosed the fact to the sher iff. Lemon had been missed from the neighborhood, and being of a roaming nature, no one thought much about it, aud when Blohs told his story it was believed he was crazy aud thta was his illusion. But when be was ar rested and taken to tbe cabin, he de tailed tbe circumstances so minutely that the officers thought there might be something In it and requested Blohs to show tbem to the grave of Lemon, which he did, and pointed out the ex act spot where the body was burled. A shovel was secured and but a few shovels full of dirt revealed the body. Blobs is thought to be crazy. We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Geo. F. Atkins, of Corning Cuiif., Secretary of the Fort Bidwell Consol idated Gold Mining Co. Tbe impres sion has gone out that this company is oounected with the Loa Angeles Mines Venture Co., which Mr. Atklna. saya itis a mistake. He saya his com pany is a very strong one and that they will begin operations In the Hoag district as soou aa they oan get Into this country. They will also incorpo rate a company In the Windy Hollow District, where they have some property.