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mmtmr VOL. XXXI LAKKVIKW, LA K K COt'l - ORKUON, JANUARY 27.1910. NO 4 NATIONAL COTT NOW AGAINST MEAT BOY- ALL Movement to Force Down High Prices Spreads Rapidly and Thous ands Stop Eating for 60 Days rillCACO. Jan. til. The move ment to combat blub prices of nt spread rapidly tod My mid Im hhhikdiiiu ualloual character. Cul'icldeiit with the ruth or Mm movement came anuouncit'naut from Milwaukee and Cleveland that the price of meat bad drowmd. ;lo Milwaukee two retail butchers quoted porter Iioiihh steaks at ID emits a pound, a sirloin at the name price and other meats In proportion. The wholnmila prion of beef fell l!i cents a hi i Ire I po la I I OUftiUu I. From Denver came the report idui n.iii.ifi firiiHliimit of the WvMtern Hotel Men a J'roleclivn hhhooibuoh, announced tbut the proposition of cutting down tint consumption of meut would lie brought before hi organ iatlnu at a mauling to be held hem In January 'II. IMxpntchen from KanH City, Halt liiore, Milwaukee. Omaha, Memphlti, 1'lttahurg and othi-r rltlea toM of the rapid growth of the movement. Cleve land, credited with l.elug the oriulna tor of the scheme, now has :m,UH) nntiea unrolled in the rruaade while Kaniiaa City report that It may aoon huv Kii.iKH). The beadH of the lauding packing boiiMea of Kamiim City and Chicago refused to discus the elfect of the movement on their business. AFTKK TIIK UKKF TRUST WASIIlNOroN, J it ii. 21. -The "beef truat" no called, la to be prose cuted by the national guverpiueut Tbe denailment of junitlco eldnutly lirlievea Ha exUtennu la a leaillutf fac tor lo maintaining tua , pmMiui high pricaa of freah fjienta. The contempliite I nctlon of tbe de paitmeut fulloa an investigation that lias been ooudui titd by special ageutn for aome mouth Initial pruned liugs will be lu before the grand Jury at Chicago, and may Include both civil and criminal actioua. The firm mentioned in connection with the mutter Include Kwitt com pany MnrrU an! company nnd Ar mour hd I company, Moat all of whom it la said, are Intereatud lu tbe Na tional I'acklog locnpauy. The llret three nauitvl concerns are commonly reported to control the National cor poration. The aim of the department baa been to aucertain the relations betweeu the several Hrma, Individually and with tbe National Pack inn company, to de termine whether tbey have controlled tbe pricea of frettn meats. One possible method of action may be a Bint to disKolve the compmy, under tbe Sherman autl truat law, operating in reatralnt of Interstate trade. Proceedings against Individ uula alao may result. STOCK MKN ALARMKD DhNVF.K. Jan. Thegrowiuu move ment to boycott meat baa aroused etockmeo of tbe weat to protest that the eirect of the boycott will be against tbe rtnekmen rather thau against the pucker. It In aeaeited that a number of liveHt ick organizations are preparing .to protest an I call utteuton to the danger of depleted production which will follow the present movement. HE SHOULD HAVE COME I1EREFIRST Where Land is Cheaper and Better Fruit Is Produced H. P. Wallace, of Montreal Canada evideutly la it mau of few words and a hustler, lie recently paid Medford a visit, and tbia ia tbe report of tbe Mall: . L1 "No use to wuit or come baok to inaka a del. I'll take ten acres of that Creetbrook orchard tract. Here's the cbeuk ; make out tbe papers. Plant and care for It a couple of years for uie, will youY 1 can't come rlnht away Three thouaund dollars you sayT All ritfht, it's mine. 1 leave Saturday for borne. Look for me and otbeis, too. before mauy moons. Ves, I'm connected wltb tbe Uell Tele phone per pie in my town. Bo long." Hut If be bad taken tbe troublo to ootne to I akeview be oould bave se cured a better bargain foi bis money, and bad the sat infection later of mar keting a higher priced fiutt Outside Testimony as to Value off Our Lands for Apples 11 AKIiliM AN, HILL, HUGHITT STRUGGLE LooKs as Though They are Planning to Invade Central Oregon ONTARIO, Or., Jao. 17. It la re ported that 80 mil's of tbe proposal llarrlnian rullroad arcona Central Iri'Kiin, from went Into the grfcst Harney alley, will ie ouni. aa cuou tit ti e weather will permit of con Ntruotion. It la ald that the con tract foi the (.-radian of tba HO unlet him been awarded to tba Utah Con t ruction company. Hiicural nurlnurlu fif material have arrived nt Vain, including three cart of dynamite, which will be lined lu blunting the roadbed In the Malheur canyon. When tbe tt rat YSt milei of the road are completed, Ontario will I. e connected by rail with Harney Valley. Tba road Into that vallny la to lie completed thin season and will continue westward .o tbe coast. The building of the road bad been under eoiitempaltlon for some time.. II. e activity of the Hill people In thla aectlou of Oregon la tmlloved to be the caiiHH of the early building of tbe line. NEW HOMESTEAD LAW IS LIBERAL Free Homes Can Now Be Secured that Will be Valuable Soon The new bometilead law Is a very liberal one, and is Kc)io to rcHiilt in the ma': Ins of thmiHHiiils of new homes in the ureal weet. Meu or inle women may uow II l on .1-0 aoren, and havn nix month' time, If they want It. before they have to commence llvlnit on the laud. At tbe etui of 14 mouths they can prove up, if they waut to. and et a deed for Ihe land hv pnrioK fl.'i'i an acre. Or after living live y.-nrs on the land they Kt't it for iiothiii. There are vacant homesteads still plenty of thorn riitht lu Lake County, and any of our real estate men can tell you about them and locate you on them. An other ycai or two and tbey will all be irone, aud will to developed into farma worth $100 an acre and up. COLONIST RATES GRANTED, 45 DAYS it Give Eastern People a Chance to Come Here SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. -Advices received here from headquar tres of the llarrlnian Hues in Chicago aunouuoe tbey will place in effect, as has been their custom dutlng tba past seasons, colonists rates from March 1 to April 15. This means tbat during this period tbeie wilt lie a rate lu effect from all Missouit River points such aa Omaha, Council lilutfs and Kansas City, and a f) rata from Chicago, New O r 1 e a o a and other cities In tbe same olaaa. The Oldest joks. It will be (II flic ii It to discover an old er practical Joke than that of th cop perainitb and the maker of brazen Im ages for tbe temple of Osiris, which Im embodied In Kpyptlnn Inscriptions dat ing from the reign of Meiies, founder of Memphis, who ruled over 7.000 years ago. According to ancient rec ords, there dwelt between these two craftsmen u quiet mnn whose desire was for H'lico a, ml who was undly dis turbed by the noisy occupations car ried on by hln busy neighbors. He therefore HHkcd each of thorn to say for whnt mi in they would change their dwelliugs. Tbia they did. Each calcu lated tbe uinouul required, and be, be ing Butlsflcd. paid It over to them. "Now," be asked of tbe coppersmltb, "where is your new dwelling'" "I bnve taken that of tbe maker of Im ages." was the reply. "Aud you." queried tbe quiet man of the latter, "wbltber goeat thou?" "To tbe house of the coppersmith!" This Is one of mauy tales told lu all ages which are woven into myth and legend and differ only Ui local color Horticulturist Willamette Both Pronounce Our Apples The Very Best Grown The quality of tbe orchard products r4 Lake Countj and Ihe (in! it-u U'ifiae Lake Valley are yraouaUy becoming rnootfnlzed, and in a abort lime will become famoua Kvery stranger who anlve coi rlriiia tbe reports to bis frieudi in -rt part of tbe Unioii wbicn cauoot re suit Otherwise than lu a liemnudous Immiurstlon to th' ae oartn in tbe ntar future, lodeed, tbe advance Kuard of thousands beaded tbu way are ar riving every Jay . A Portland tifltor. who recently ratne dowu here to verily report as A tba wciidertul po ind I i m aud op portunitlea for tbe boiiieBteker aud investor was amazed at whnt lie saw. Among othor thlniis of which he bad oncular evidence waa some spleudid Wluldr Uanana Apples on exhibition in town from tbe John Hnles orchard. He oould Dot belibvn bissenseeaui exclaimed: "Do you mean to tell me tlioan appplea Krow in tbia couotry I lu this valley?" Heinu so assured he said: "Well. I will say r)ht now It. at 1 1 bave been all over the lamous apple sections of Spokane, Wenatchee i HoKue River ami Hood River, aud never in all my life saw such niHinl I befrnt fruit. ! He said further: "Hood River is toe BCknowledued center of tbe fluent I of fruit, tbe Win lei Hauuana apple, and 1 must say that 1 never eaw apples there that were half so larue as tbotte, and none can approach them for col iorloK, firmness or freedom from blem ish of any sort. 1 must uow confess I that you bave an apple Krowind suo I tion here that will become a world beater. I shall eet busy at ooc, aa 1 kuow you bave a future in that lloe second to uoue I" I Another illustration as tbe value I of this section lor apple prnductiunls bad intbe t:a of U. I'.. Snerl iek one of onr promiiieui afieep owuers, who uutil recently had uo concetitlou as to tbe poailbiliiies of those pir n in aov other way than in his particular liue. i McKoe racnb, kouth of town, of sev 1 eral hundred acres, tie had a bazy notion it mieht be a good buy as a speculation to be devoted to general .farmig. On tbe place were several ap ' pie trees. This fall one of tbe trees i was loaded with a particularly fine ! apple, as to size, appenrauce, flavor ' and quality. He did uot kuow tbe I name of tue variety, so be tbouitbt i be would seud a few Kpecioieua over i to Horticuluriat Coraou of Urauts j Pass. Tbat gentleman wrote him I tbey were the world wide famous I Newtown Pippin variety and were lot a very superior quality, judging Success Lies In Man's Use of His Will Power. By the Rv. Or. MADISON C. PETERS of New York. ILL is the determinative force in man. The great works which excite the admiration of the race are the evolution of concentration of thought and determination to CAK IIV OUT TO SUCCESSFUL ISSUE THE IMPULSES OF THE WILL t n n The men who have done great things in the world have not been miracle workers, nor have they been gifted hevond those who have done little or nothing. The secret of their greatness lay in their AS SERTIVE WILL POWER, which they put forward" to push them to the front, while the others were lying prone behind, not using the taleuts with which they were endowed, because they would not EX ERT THEIR WILL tt t at TO GET ALONG IN THIS WORLD, TO RISE TO ANY HEIGHT OF EMINENCE, YOU MUST A8SERT YOUR INDIVIDUALITY AND LET OTHERS SEE THE STUFF THAT IS IN YOU AND WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING. You who grumble at fate and think you deserve much better treat ment at the hands of the fluctuating goddess, put on your thinking cap and try to realize why you are in your present position. Dissect your own character and bring the pieces carefully under the micro scope of your own criticism, and you will find that you DESERVE NO BETTER THAN WHAT YOU ARE GETTING. Aa a general rule, the world takes a man at his face value. Tie may intrinsically bo worth a mint of gold, but that consideration has nothing to do with bis ACTUAL WORTH in the world. K H K THERE ARE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS' WORTH OF GOLD HID DEN IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH, BUT IT IS USELESS AS LONG A8 IT REMAIN8 THERE. IT BECOMES VALUABLE ONLY WHEN IT IS MINED, SEPARATED FROM THE ORE AND FUSED INTO INGOTS. IN THE SAME WAY A MAN MAY HAVE HIDDEN IN HIS COMPOSITION THE RAREST QUALITIES AND FACULTIES. BUT THEY ARE USELESS UNLESS BROUGHT OUT AND MADE TO DO HIMSELF AND THE WORLD Gorson, and a Valley Man, from samples seut. Learoinu tbia t- i Mr. bher i.ek was verv macb cl hki lut-'i 'o think that be hnd not sent lelter and lartter i-ieciuiene which he had in abouudauce Mr Coroon advied Mr. Mu-rlock to pintit a laive acreage of Newtown Plppi f. as If was of ti-e opinion that we bad here a region that was especially adapted to tbe Production otti ismucu toiiubi tor, bigh rriceo apple Mr. Sher'ock Imme'ltately or dere'i 0O0 treea of th-t var ty wbicb he w 111 tl out lo tbe spring so noou as tbe weather will admit of work. Many ol our local people, In tl is and otht-r parts of the county, are alxo planning on setting out new orchards, and are also eularelng thoKft now in bearing, so tbat they will be ready to meet local demaod and also be read) to s!i(p elsewhere when tbe rallroa is reach this Iccailty. N.C.O. STRINGING STANDARD TIES S. F. Ahlstrom Thinks Plan to Widen Road From Doyle. S. P. Ahlstrom reports tbat from the juoctiou with the Western Pacific at Doyle t) Alturas broad-gauge ties are strung aloDg tbe toad, which in dictees tbat tbe N-C-O will be a etao lard gauge from that point north-. WBrds. He says rails and ties enough for exetnisoo to Davis Creek are now oo the ground at Alturas. and it Is expected tbat tbe road will be rushed to that point as soon as it can be done. He thinks tbe line at first will be a narrow gaug, but it will be widened or a third rail laid bo as to not inerfere with present traOJo, but tbat the standard gauge will tecoo-e a necessity lu connectiou . with the tratlio tbat will oome from the West ern Pacific. Millions of Eggs According to tbe estimate of the editor of a poultry jnurnsl, 7,159,481 ggs were laid in Petaloma and vicin ity during im This is claimed to break all records. SERVICE. GET A PIECE OF LANDJQOODADVICE Those Who Neglect Present Opportunity Will Regret It The Examiner baa always advised people bere to take land, and is pleased to note its neighbors who heretofore bae ridiculed our efforts, are living similar advice. Tbe borprlae Valley Record last week Rave some good advice to tbe young men of Modoo county advice tbey should beed. Tbe Record nails attention to toe va t amount of vacant lund in Modoo county aod advises young men to secrue locations before it '8 too late. Two waves of immigration are oodj fng this way one from tbe north and another from Ibe south. When these wa.- meet all tbe land upon which a man can live will be taken cp. Land that is dow regarded as worthless will be located and good homes built uoon tbe same. Anywhere within tbe great Lake liasin, comprising tbe counties cf Modoo, Lake Klamath and uraot, ban o o b opportunities be found. Here tbe land is free, and tbe young man tbat overlooks this opprotunity will live to see bis error, and regret it. Tbe time is past wben young meu can "go west." The great West, as the older generation knew it, is a thing of tbe past. Then young man get you a piece of land refore it Is too late. You will be independent of tbe world: otherwise you will be come "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for those who are more en terprlsing than yourself. . SPECULATOR!) HOLD TIMBER CLAIMS Little Opportunity for Securing Any in This Locality A gentleman of Colorado Springs wishes tbe Examiner to tell him something about the timber lands of this section. If be means by tbat government land open to aprlicants there is none, unless it may oe bere and there a few isolated 40-acre tracts of little value. Tbe good timber baa passed into the bands Weyerbaaser and Walker, St. Paul and Minneapo lis. Tbe portion remaining is in tbe timber reserves established by Presi dent Kooaevelt piiuclpally b y tbe efforts of Gilford Pincbot who was recently dismissed by the man tilling tba interim between tbe terms of President Roosevelt. Tbe gray wolves of "frenzied finance" are bowling now in unison for these lands to be opened to 'The poor set tler," who aooording to tbe afoie said gray wolves, is belug defrsuded of bis rights by tbe forestry policy of tbe governmenL It looks now as though tbe wolves would get tbe smalt balance of tbe timber still re maining in government bands, unless a certain valient be-spectacled gentle man returns from Africa with a olub big enough to kill off these pestiferous varmints, for tbe benefit of further generations of tbe American people. We Grow Fine Pears Tbe tine pears on exhibition last fall at our i'alr, bore ample evidence as to size, flavot aod appearance. Tbe exhibit showed that lu pear prodnu tlou this section nead not take a back seat to any otbr locality. At prsent, in Oregon Medford has toe reputation for Dear production and orchards there last year paid so bigb a profit as S1500 an acre for Uartlett pears, while those of tbe U'AnJon and Cornice varieties netted more. Tbe Aoso, llowella and tbe Winter Nellia varieties also com manded as good prices as the Bartlett variety. With the coming of tbe rail roads, that will afford easy, rapid and obeap transportation there is no doubt but tbat tbe pears of this seo tlou will be as much sought after and will command as good prices a) tbe Rogue River product Reducing FUsh. Whatever else fashion hints, there to not the slightest rumor that flesh la to be stylish in the near future. Therefore women who are not thin are keeping up all kinds of methods to make them so. Live on noodles Is tbe cry. Conse luently this diet U strictly kept by women who are willing to sacrifice tny thing to be tbin. Tbe latest remedy, however. Is to irlnk camomile tea without sugar au ur after eatlug. This Is said to cure the most rebel lions caae and turn oue of barrel shap ed proportions tuto sylpbllke Hues. LAND IS THE REAL BASIS OF FOR TUNES EVERY Those Who Have It Need Have No Dread as to Their Future Livlihood tiorae one has truthfully remarked tbat over eighty per cent of tbe large fortunes tbat bave been mad In America came from land, holdings. Travel through tbe country from tba Canadian border In the Mexicao Re public and you will And tbat almost all tbe sobsantial fortunes are based on tbe ownership of real estate. Spectacular wealth is made in min ing, bigb finance aod tbe commercial pursuits, but their number is pitiful ly small when compared to tbe almost innumerable rich holdings tbat were began wben wise forefathers corn er! ced to acquire land wben ' it waa cheap aud easily obtainable.' - Go into tbe vast domain of tbe mid dle west and you will find tbat prac tically all or tbe wealthy families laid tbe foudations of t b-if fortunes less tbao forty years ago by either enter ing government lands or buying land at a low figure at private purchase. Tbe farther west, tbe northwest and Texas furnish further proof of this declaration. ' u Bonds and stocks fluctuate, , mines eventually are worked out mercan tile Interests, however prof serous, fade under the blighting influence of financial depression, manufacturing enterprises are destroyed ia a day by labor saving invention but land, tbe bedrock of civilization's support, is as enduring in value as' the first rule in mathematics. Upon iU pro ducts tbe nation depends; and every increase in population adds.! to its worth. 'It you would fix your ou fortune and add to it for tbe benefit of pos terity invest in land while the oppor tunity is at band. (let some of tbe cheap government land or some cheap deeded land in this-section, and bold oa to-it like P.oppy banging to a root, aod so far as you are concerned yoa can snap your Ad f era as to the future, for to yoa will come a competency that will make life easy for yoa and tbose who may be dependent upon you I And do not delay, for these oppor tunities, now to be had for tbe taking will soon be gone, and tbe future will bold do more land for tbe landless. ALTURAS TO HAVE "I A PACKING PLANT Our Neighbors at the South Alive to Country's Needs i Tbe Cedarville Record is tbe , au thority for the following : Thos. Frawley, Altuias bustling butcher came over last wrek and spent a few days here, taking back with a load of pork. Mr. Frawley Is one of tbe movers in establishing a meat packing bouse at Alturas, and is onoOdeut tbat it will be la opera tion tbe coming summer. That is a move in the light direction, and -will no only circulate a large amount of money thruout tbe country, but will keep a large amnnnt from being sent bi i i Hit ' n ui rr lor bacon and lard. 11a is a biet class botcher and under his management tbe output will be the best. Cold Storage Apples PETALUMA. Jaoary tJa-Tbat cold storage is not destructive to tbe food value of fruit was demnuetrtaej yes terday wben officers of to Western Refrigerator Company took out of storage apples cue and a half years old. They were firm aod of fine flavor. Miss FowUr an Anti-suffragist. Miss Ellen Tborney croft Fowler, nov elist, has decided opinions tn opposi tion to tbe suffrage campaign. "For my part," she says, "I would advise the woman of today to confine herself to the four spheres of usefulness which are opeu to her and which she Is so well fitted to adorn tbe spheres of do mestic life, rellt'ious activity, social In fluence and, finally, lutellectual culture, I firmly believe she should keep clear of tbe one sphere which Is at present closed to her, tbat of public and politi cal strife." As might be expected, Mlas Fowler's words have not been received with any degree of enthusi asm by tbe women leading the fight for suffrage, aud vigorous criHi-lam la tbe rule. There are many women, however, who Indorse Mlaa Fowler views, but tbey are not organized llko the BuffragUta. WHERE