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Lake County Examiner -www-- j Official Paper of Lako County, Oregon A0VERTI5IN0 RATES. BwiUr Mantlta art. tl.CO o ' "K'f eHMiitrd Itw Iwlo monlb. t ort ol coir iwt aion chnrfwl torl) aiira chanrt. All Mc"H oaitioni tra. All horl lna !. RoKlert, loci eoluinn. 10r. rr lln J l enlon. Wnt 1. c. Horch nTtioa rtl of thnk II W. Rwolulto" erniUv vuf. $I.M and upwards. fS Trunnion Advertising nd M $ , cub in adrana. A II btllt mm be paid ths Brst ol cb nonth. Lnkevlew, Oregon, ThairmUy, Augiiat lO. Senator Chamberlain has a tentative bill locking to the participation by the government in the development of power eites. He would have the gov ernment do work very similar to the work done by the reclamation service. St Paul is to have a land show in December, the dates being from the 12th to the 23d inclusive. The Chicago how closes December 9. and those ex hibiting at that place will have an op portunity of going to St Paul. Oregon will have a State exhibit and Lake ounty should be represented. President Taft has scored a "decisive victory in the passage of the Canadian reciprocity measure and has materially stremthened himself with the thinking tnassea of the people, according to Frank Davey. of the Harney County News. The insurgent republicans who opposed the bill made a serious blunder nd largely destrojed the prestige they were in a fair way to establish when the people thought they were actuated by vital principles. If it is true, as Secretary Fisher ays. that Ryan's Controller Bay filings j re subject to re ision and cancella- i tion, what a smoke there has been from a small fire, remarks the Oregonian. Mr. Fi-her is a man whose word can- j iot be doubted. He is a conservation ist who out Pinchots Pinchot. and he is fcmwn tie ccurtry over as an uneom-promisirg- enemy of graft. If he says there ii- -o danger the chances are tieavy that there is none. Although contributing four times as much to the reclamation fund as is .being expended within the state. Ore gon is not to have any n"w reclamation projects in the next four years, accord ing to a statement made by Secretary Fisher to Congressman Lafferty. when he called to urge consideration of the West Umatilla project. The Secretary ! said the work of the Reclamation Ser vice for the rext fuui years was all mapped oi:t to include the expenditure of estimated receipts from all states, and this program did not include any new work in Oregon. ' Governor West last Friday wired the forestry department. Washington, D. C.. relative to the state's desire to tx chance o ld ectiu:is of state land with in the forest reserves for a solid thick I of timber lar.il which may he converted into a state, forest. This matter was taken up with the government some time ago, but the state was informed then that there was no law authorizing the exchange. Idaho has recently secured such an exchange, and the governor now hopes lo secure the same for this state. Land in one Llock i s considered much more desirable to the state than scattering sections. The statement which has been going the rounds of the press to the effect that seventy million acres of coal land now withdrawn are to Le restored to -entry as the result of the field investi gations now being conducted by four teen Geological Survey parties, is branded by Director George Otis Smith as grossly misleading, if nut absolutely untrue. Director Smith calls atten tion to t!. fact that this entire coal land area belonging to the Government, is in fact '.pen to full and free agricul tural entry, the Government reserving the coal lights only. Under the highly important Mondell Act of June 22. t'JIO. separating surface and coal rights, ar.v Government coal land. however valuable for coal, may be entered by the horn seeker lor its sur face farming right. Tims the present coal land withdrawals and classifica tions do not operate to retard the iime-makir;g development of the West. It is but a short time since a great iiieand cry went up throughout the country, and especially in the Middle West, for a tariff commission. In due course of time such a commission was appointed by President Taft. and its IS rut report will be submitted to Con gress at the opening of its next session in December. However the present Congress is unwilling to await the re port of the tariff commission, which would no doubt enable it to act intelli gently upon the question, but it must Vipolitics and endeavor to put the IVegident in a hole, as it were. Presi dent Taft should and no doubt will veto ndUi riff bills that may be passed at the present session of Congress, and Ike foaue will then be fairly presented to tba people regardless of whether or aiotthe bills are passed over his veto. j2 Doubtless the tariff should be reduc- SUBSCRIPTION R ATES. vhi rr. In sdvanc, Mi mwrths, ftiroe months, WOO 1 it II not paid la AilTAure, Si (0 the ti Notice te Sabecrlbrra atwrnoereto the Kiamini'T who remove rhe.il io from one lorAlliy snooicr. r Mielr mwnrt e.icitren .nmuii murinmr ... drop thle pttiee erd o th.ar peper can be art- eo me ngai ed in many instances, and no doubt will, but it does teems as if all fair minded people would lie w illing to wait a few month for the report of the tariff commission before taking such drastic action as is propped by the bills now under consideration by Congress. in an opinion handed down by the Sunreme Court of Oregon recently the famous escheat case of Oregon, re- I pondent. against P.- A. McDonald, administrator of the estate of John Morrsion. deceased, waa affirmed, and the decision of the Union County jury, escheating the entire estate, valued at f. TO. 000 to the state, was allowed to stard. The evidence adduced before trial jury waa to the effect that the couple were never married. There were several other children by James Morrison and Catherine France, and these were the claimants in thia case, having made a demand for Morrison's fortune at the time of his death. The opinion, which is written by Judge Bean, construes the statutes of Oregon to hold that the intestate, being an illegitimate child could have no brothei s or sisters who could inherit his property. This cut off the claims f the other children by James Morri-; eon ana catnenne r ranee. uie intestate was un arried and had no descendants, and as his mother is dead be has no heirs under the Oregon law and the estate was declared escheated to the state. a "1 AV.rt The West is likely to benefit largely if the house of representatives passes j the resolution offered ty Represents tive Raker, of California, calling for a thorough investigation into the work ings of fhe present public land laws, eays a Washington dispatch. The time has come when many of the existing laws have tutlivtd their useful ness ; others by departmental regula tions, have teen distorted so that they do not actually mean what they were intended to mean : and there are num erous charges that some of the bureaus are actually legislating by regulations far in advance of what congress ever intended. There has never been a thorough official investigation to deter mine what is the matter with our land laws and their administration, but the West is pretty well convinced that the laws and regulations need a general overhauling. If the house authorizes anjr.u.uiry, and if that inquiry is both thorough and intelligent, congress will have before it next winter a fund of information upon which it can base a general revison of the land and forest laws, and out of the present tangle the national legislatrue ought to Le able to devise a set of laws drawn to meet present day conditions and present day needs. There has been much eastern opiiosition to revising the land laws, for eastern men do not understand what is the matter; they are content to have the remaining public domain "conserved" by having it withdrawn so that no fraud will be possible. But the West is crying out for develop ment, and development can only come when the land laws are revised and revised practically and thoroughly. The right kir.d of a concessional in vestigation would do the West an enor mous amount of good but if the investi gation is restricted or not well directed, it will result in no benefit. Much will depend upon the men who conduct the investigation, if to be authorized. JIM JEFFRIES OUT FOR ALASKA BEARS Seattle. Aug. 2. James J. Jeffries, formerly champion pugilist, and his brother Jack, have engaged passage on the steamship Jefferson, which will sail for Alaska next Monday night. They will hunt big game in South eastern and Southwestern Alaska, until they are driven out by the deep snows of December. The brothers with their rifles, will disembark hist at Wrangel to try the bear hunting of that neigh borhood. Later they will go to Skag way and seek bear pelts in the White Pass country. After having Bated themselves on the amaller bears they will sail from Seward for Kodiak Island to try for a shot at the great brown bears, which weigh a ton, stand as high as a horse and never flee from man. On the re turn from Kodiak the season in the Kenai i'eninsula will have opened and the ex-pugilist will endeavor to get the antlered he ado of some of the gigantic moose that roam in the hills. FAVOR ACTION BY liriii Timrr nnmn Nttr lAiurr uuahu Woolgrower Are Opposed To Tariff Action at Thl Time Eastern Oregon woolgrowera would prefer nU to see the Lar'ollette wool bill become a law and they will not mourn if President i Taft vetoes that bill, according to Dan P. Smythe. see- retary of the state association. I tn the view of Smythe, and also of I other wind men, both among the grow ers and the buyers, the La Follette bill is not objectionable within itself. Hut they do not believe the passage of the bill would end the demand for a fur ther reduction in the wool schedule. They are afraid that the democrats at the retrular session will demand a still further reduction. " Accordingly the woolgrowers share President Taft's idea that all legiala- tion relating to the wool schedule should be witheld until the tariff board can make its report. If this course is taken they say there is hope that the matter of the tariff j on wool may be adjusted "once and for ail. so as 10 stop lunner Knuun. lit la the uncertainty mat aoea me harm, according to the growers. S.P. TO BUILD LINE EUGENE TO COAST Immediate construction of a railroad j from Eugere to Marshfield. at a cost estimated at $3,000,000. has been auth- j orized bv the Soutnern Pacific Com- pany through J. P. O'Brien, vice-presi dent and general manager. Z Preliminary surveys already have been made and six engineering parties are in the field locuting the permanent line. Although the definite course through which the new road will be con structed has not yet been selected. Mr. O'Brien said that the general route will be along the Siuslaw River, through the Coast Range to the coast, thence south to Mars-hheld. where it will connect with the Coos Cay, P.cse burg & Eastern Railroud. now operat ing a line two miles long from Marsh field to Myrtle Point. This read is owned by the Southern I'aciric Com pany. Construction of the road from Eu gene to Coos Bay means the abandon ment by the Southern Pacific of it-" project to build to Coos Bay from Drain, S.S milts south of Eugei.e. at wnich place several million dollars was spent in preliminary construction work immediately previous to the financial depression four years sgo. Part of-the improvement used on the Drain line, it is believed, can be utiliz ed or. the new project. REAPPORTIONMENT BILL HAS PASSED Washington, D. C. Aug. .'5. -The senate this morning passed the houHe reapportionment bill, which provides for more congressmen from several states. Two important amendments by Burton of Ohio were adopted just be fore passage. One provides that can didates for congress may be nominated in the same manner as candidates for governor in the various states. The other provides that the affected states be redistricted by their legislatures, j except v.here the initative and referen dum is enforced. In such states these laws may be invoked. As a result of the vote by the senate, the member ship of the next session of congre.-.s is fixed at 433. The membership of the present session is thirty-three less. The reapportionment bill increases the California delegation 1 : Oregon. 1 ; and Washington 2. The largest in crease is that of New York, whicii pet six. The bill provides for one rep resentative each from New Mex co and Arizona when they are submitted the Union. into ! Probably Mistaken According to the Silver Lake Leader ; "A recent interpretation of the 320- acre homestead law. makes it posnible ! for tntrymen who have taken lecu than the maximum under that law to enter now additional land up to the fulH : amount. U is quite uaeiy mat me Leader in miHtaken, as no auch infor mation has reached the local U. S. 1 Land office. When an entry is made on less than 320 acre of deHiKtiated land, all adjoining lands being appro priated at the time but subsequently opened to entry, then an additional amout bl land can be entered, but not otherviBe. William Arzner was in from the Kes ter ranch over Sunday, and reports that the haying there is now practically completed. The hav has all been baled, Mr. Heater being the owner of a ma chine for doing this class of work. PAISLEY PROJECT Conclnd.il from llrnt mir. and right of way to ami for "reservoir sites and canals, such relinquishment to be filled with the board and to be come effective January 1,1912. unlcas before said date arrangement a for financing the aid project aaliafactory to the board are made. Said relin quishments when effective ahall be considered asolutely as a surrender and cancellation of all companya rights of every nature whatever in and to said project." Governor West nld this morning that the idea of thi arrangement was that it would probably take until January 1 to clean up the matter anyway and that by this action the company would be given opportunity to meet the full requirements of the board ami make good with the settler. If they could not, all phases of the company's con nei't.ons with the atate would then and there lie cleared without a chance of litigation. Secretary of Stale Olcott said he waa in favor of throwing the board meet ings open to the press and publi"' here- after ao taxpayers who had to stand I the cost could have the opportunity of hearing who were standing for their interests and who against them, if any. He said there might sometimes be a necessity of executive sessions but that the general run of the meeting would be on. The board was satisfied that the con tention as set up by the representa tives of the project were meritorious. They made the showing that move ments are on foot to finance the work and that there is every reason to be lieve they can make good with the work and establish by the ilrst of the year a showing which will be satisfac tory to the board in every respect. "Memlicrs of the board have ack nowledged that we have one of the finest projects in the slate." aaid Mr. McC'usker in commenting on the latest action. "The temperature there is except lonally good. Summer Lake is fed Lv Anna River, which in turn is fed by not springs 1000 feet deep. There is'an evaporation of four feet annually shown on the bike, which hit no outlet. The evaporal ion of this much warm water leaves the country withoutany frosts and a climate thai is unsurpassed. "In the past there have been difficul ties with water rights on the Chewau can River, from where we will secure our water. Decisions of the courts have shown us where undoubtedly, we w ill have use of tin se rights us iignjriHt all others. In the past one of our greatest difficulties has been in finan cing the project, owing tn the trouble over the water rights. But with this difficulty out of the way we are assured of ample backing." The project of the Portland Irriga tion Company includes lli.Oon ucres of exceedingly rich land which is parti cularly adapted to fruit raising, say members of the State Board, who visited it recently. Other crops will thrive there as well, and there are many crops that grow in the bottom land at present without the aid of irrigation. Labi week the Slate Board cancelled the Portland Irrigation Com pany's contract because of lack of work done by that company. At a meeting of. the Presbyteriun Ladies' Aid Society, held last Thurs day afternoon at the home of Mrs. .1. Q. Wililts. the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi dent. Mrs. Leslie Seager; Vice-President, Mrs. J. Willits; Treasurer. Mrs. II. W. Morgan; Secretary, Mrs. J. G. Campbell. Fifteen members were in attendance. ' LOST Small Brnwn lilly, notriiinU, creiiKe under inline ciiiihciI by Imrb wire, Htar on forehead, Idle right lilad foot. Apply O. K. Shcrlock'M place1 tor reward. S-KJtf The Home of Good 1 100 Pair of Ladies' Low Cut Shoes at Over-Stock Reductions: ALL $4.00 VALUES, - $3.00 ALL $2.50 VALUES, - $1.65 " 3.50 " - 2.50 44 2.25 " - 1.50 " 3.00 " - 2.00 " 2.00 14 - 1.45 " 2.75 " 1.85 " 1.75 " - 1.25 We also have a number of Bargains in Ladies' High Shoes BAILEY Silver Lake Item fSllrer lnk leader) Standing on Viewpoint hill ami look ing cast to Wagontlre and west to Lake one can count one huulred ami twenty, three residences on homestead. Wm. Menkenmaler of Fremont brought in thla week a sample of fall sown wheat that cannot be beaten. The head are well filled and the grain would be a credit to any of the older wheat growing aertlons. C S. Hudson, rahler of the First Nat'l Bank of Bend. P. It. Van Winkle cashier of the First Bank of Fsllis. Okla.. S. n. B-nnett. and J. K. Saw hill. See. Troa. of the Central Oregon Development League, came in from Bond Friday afternoon and went through, bound for Summer Lake, Paisley and other points south, return ing Saturday evening on their return trip. They spoke In high praise of tho excellent crops of this section. Mer. Hudson and Van Winkle were looking over the banking possibilities of this part of the country. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R I A tVN I ESP NOTIt K D.ipnrf mi'i t of tho Interior, I'nPed Suite I.himI Office, Utkevlew, Ore., A ii it 1'Jll. 'I'u Corneliii .WeSvvceney of Holier I'll Cork, Ireland, l'ooetoe: Yii'l 'ir' Iiiri'li,v iKitlllril I lint Johu WIht w tin irlveH Luke vie. Oregon, ' iik hi .ohi.( lllce Mddri'HM dliliiii A. iihI ft. 1 nl, 111.-In ihU oltlce liia ilulv' c.irro'Mirmed :(llott Inn to context mid mvlire Your i I onu led, Kmrv No. ::r. Nl. Set'lnl No. 0l:iS, made- .1 ill v ! I'.Nin. lor HW4NVVl4. wi4vVt4' Sv U7. bMiSK.l.,, NKi4SK'4'. i-ectlon JH Tow iihlp Hi- , Ituiiue l.i I:. 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