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VOL. XXVIII.
LAKKVIKW, LAKE COUNTY, OIIKGOX, THURSDAY, MAR. 21, iX)7.
NO. 12
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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.