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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1905)
Hal Newspaper ol Kltmith KLAMATH County and Uffdlnf Journal of the interior Oregon Country. REPUBLICAN. The Lergert Circulation and It the Bett Medium for Beaching tProtperous and Trading Public KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 20 OL. X O SETTLEMENT WITH KLAMATH CANAL PEOPLE RESIDENT HAWKINS WANTS | TO PROVE VALUE OF $250,000 DOLLARS FOR PLANT EXPERIMENTAL FARM IS )flrd of Engineers Has Hade Deals With all Other Interests and Say That Government Could Not Use Klamath Canal System if Bought. * •i» * CAPITALISTS NOW BEING ESTABLISHED INTERESTED : t ~ SPECIALTIES AT T he URICK STORE “Quality” Dress Skirts» Linen and Crash Skirts» Silk, Satine and Silkolene Underskirts Fancy Silk Shirt Waists Wrappers, Kimonas» Huslin Underwear. CHILDREN'S DRESSES AND APRONS o NOVELTIES IN 1 __ Hair Ornaments, Eta., Eta, TO ARRIVE SHORTLY JeCelebrated ‘American Lady Shoe’ New Lines—Up to the Times i^^REAMESiJENNINGS^^ pencoli whwti ber» state>i tliat it mlght Ite possible to gel thè reelsmation Ser vice ami thè agricultural department to assist in Ibis Work. Il ibis experiment pruves a succo»* it will resiilt in in- rreased sale, in swamp landa, a. pros pettive buyer» rati *sg tak-n on thè land and can see (or tliemselves wliat it will «row. Moe* ni thè over flowei or swamp land, are owncl in largo traci, and thè •mal) farmer tias boeri backward aloni ' inveating ss he 1* not aure of thè value 1 <4 thè land al Ibis lime. talist ol f.'inetunatti, Ohio, and W. G. Rnwll Allen ami H. L. Jackson, hie private secretary and expert engineer H1 A.H com,any with Mr. HoliUrd of the Weed Railroad. 4» CARDS 4» NOVELTIES 4* PERFUME3 4* DYES <• CHITWOOD'S 4? 4* DRUG 4* * STORE e 4* * 4» 4* 4* 4? 4* 4* * These gentlemen came here to look over our country. Before leav ing for the railroad this morning they expressed themselves touch with our town and county. GATES BROTHERS IDENTIFIED. LATEST delighted Spring Millineiy The biggest ol the land fraud», _ in- ------------------- great frauds will never lie heard from 11 to the land. It is a question whether --------- ... . ----------- ---------------- „ ------------------ public officials ini0"1*“1* °< *•»*•** immediate localities.! taken as a whole five per cent of the tim Solving the highest I r-ai.rn states, •nmi-of tlie western «tatea, and ___ untold Th*--------------- <<* »Bic is tbwt sweh fraud. her and stone entries are actual bona- have lieen legal—frauds committed en I fide claim« in which the entryman car- si reage« of land would form after ail I riea out hia part nl the contract in strict tirely within the law. but a |a««ing nine days' wonder with But how can a land frand 1» legal? c/mipliance with the spirit of the limiter the busy |»>|iulace were it not for the Au instance: The legislature of Geor and stone act The deaert land act arid tact that their ramifications are so ex gia granted some three million acres of the commutation clause are twit «0 uni land to certain syndicates. The grant versally fraudulent in their operation tensive that as fa»t ode net ol men la became a law. Nuber-quently it was dis I mj t the vast preponderance of claims iudicte I the investigations of ihegovern covered that all the memlters of the leg under them are to a more or leas extent ruent bring forth another brood of frauds. islature who voted for the grant were frauds and do not in any fit sense comply The government land frauds of the tueni*>ers of the various syndicates with the spirit of these laws which re weal 1« a queati'in, however, of far deep which secured the land; but the title quires settlement am! horoemakin«. ar eignifli anee than the mere matter of never-the-lers was dedared good. This So that even ahotild the government the ihegal a* qirrinvut, duririat the past was legalised fraud. Ho in the west. >« able to make out its cases, and fine f"W years, ul aoOie puidic lands or tim The timber and stone law, the desert and imprison every man indicted for ber by private individual«, corporations land law and tlio commutation clause of land frauds, the great bulk of (ramlalent I or government officials. Tlie question the homestead law, are in themselves land dealings would continue exactly ' is. will the [.resent proarcutions affect and the regulations under which they the same. The activities ol tlie Depart thesyaU-m? Notone iota. The case« are administered, fraud laws and while ment will simply make land and timber la-iug puabad are those in which the their letter may lie observed their spirit ruen careful to evade the laws «nd hot I government sleuths think there is a can tie violated and the men who receive criminally violate them. The laws 1 l»«»ibility of obtaining conviction. The government pateuta under them, in the themselves must lie revised if honesty is great mass and majority of equally majority of cases, lisve no right iu equity to ba expected in land matters. and Dress Goods Shirt Waists and White Dress Goods M'jsün and Gauze UNDERWEAR At the Novelty PHONE 106 Stilts Co FIRE AT ALTURAS. _____ Ll-."W AND Peed Store R. P. Breitenstien •r —’ !■>■» '» T- WHEAT BARLEY OATS FLOUR HAY ETC Notice. CLOCKS FOR ALL Just received a new line of tan-r mantel clocks. The latest hit of the satoon. I also have the largest line of Watches, Jewelry and Gptieai foods in the eonnty. Get price» be fore sending away for your goods. H. J. WINTERS. Watchmaker and Jeweler. OreduJM Opth-iaa After May 1st w» will refuse to fur Buy your Pry (footle al The Novelty. nish current to glo'nes other than the Edison globe manufactured by the Gen- | AU new Good., UU'at Spi lüg St. I.IUC- eral Electric Company; unless special j mer pattern*. arrangements are made with us for use np, tron^rg All wool suits from of other makes. K. F. I, A W. Co. i ♦*> up. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bodge, Tlie Novelty has just received a new the citv tailor. stock of 1 te.lies underwear. DRY GOODS Compiete New Stock of Goods foi* €lio Spring and summer Trad ALL THE LATEST PATTERNS IN Percales, Rajah Cloth, Veronels Champagne Novelties, sum merset Lawns, Silk Zephyrs Kyoto Crepe, Dotells, Mar montel, Dotted Swiss India Linens, Etc A Full Line of Staple Cottons ELECTRIC CASH STORE L F. Willits, Prop’r >w—«i I A The Alturas, California, gives an account of the disastrous which occurred at that place last week. The carriage factory of Negley A Atthle and tin- Altura« Plaindealer weretotally destroyed and the Grand Central hotel wa« damaged. The l.«s is sat united at nearly *15.000. The Plaindealer had re cently moved into new quarters snd had been equipped with a new power press and other new machinery. Sotoe of the type war rarsd hut the pres« Was ruined. It .« believed that the tire Was ol incen diary origin as a big water tank which had l>;en left fill«d the previous night was found empty when needed. The fire started Mou’lay morning at ■bout 1 o’clock. I I mplement WAGONS BUGGIES REAPERS MOWERS RAXES ETC 4» EASTÉR were In Klamath Falla thio week, in LAND LAWS MUST BE CHANGED TO STOP FRAUDS I MOUNT SHASTA IN ERUPTION. **• W. A. Bradford Jr., a millionaire capi Both the men who held up the Gem Sisson, Calif.—Torn open by some , powerful internal distnrl«r>re is the oou- saloon in Lordsburg and were later killed ditmn ol a varant lot adjoining A. Ko- in tied at S-|«r, N. M.. while resisting le'eks'a livery stable bsre. Great ,ag srrest, have been positively identified as g>sl cracks have o|irn«*d, froru which the notorious Gales brothers, thurge constant streams of dark colored, oily and Edward Vernon, known throughout mud are flowing in g ent quantities. At ihe west awl |>articularly in California. I Tlie identification was made by fletec- Ì alarut the satue time the upper side of a lug All acme» Big canyon sank 40 laet. tive Thacker nt the Well* barge Rxpec«s This phenomenon occurred at 10130 company. When the bodies were ex ( o'clock Thursday morning. The till humed George Gates' feft side and fnr»- ( acmes Big canyon was built about six artn Were covered with marks of bird years ago l,y the McCloud Railway com- ahnt. He got this charge on his ftr-t |anv, and was considered one of the I holdup in California, where lie held np safest Alls on the entire road. The a store, <>n the night of March 31, 1304, they i sinking <4 Ihe fill ami the upheaval at the same time givna ground to much held up a Hottlhwrn Pacific train at Cop ley, Shasta County, Cal., robbed the ex speculation s> f i the pmlmble cause. .Many of the older ctUaens are inclined press car and killed William O’Mett, the to favor the theory that Ml. chaeta is meesetiger. The Mate of California, tlie on the verge ol upheaval. When the express company and the railroad t’otn- I mud first l>cgan flawing from the lot pnny ofleml rewards aggregating $H<M> shove the livery stable Mrs. Koletska apiece for the arrest and conviction of Bbe saw that these men. was at the barn alone. the mud would floiwl the town if left to PAPERS IN CARR ESTATE LOST its own course, so gave the alarm and - ■ — soon had men at work digging trenches Salinas, Cal., — When the matter of from the barn fo the tuatn sewer diu-h. The trenches, however, cannot carry the tlie distribution of the estate of the late volume ol flow ing mild and the streets Jess f. Carr came up for final action Mrs. Jesse D. Searl, daughter of the de below are gradually fitting. Home of the tn nd was thfotVn Info ceased, filed suit against Stirling D. and cleat water. and an oily substance s<.«n Larkin W, Cart, in which she prays for unanimous in asking lor government Ir covered the top of the water, which indi judgement and a decree Uv have certain rigation, there was a sure prospect for cate* the presence of much oil. It is re land*, etc., left by tlie deceased ascer lor them to get it at once. ported here tlist the mesa above town is tained and determined so that an eqnit- I able division can be made. The plaint- The Board of Eiigitieova with Mr. gradually sinking in several places. I iff conU'nds that certain properly was Iltiitipbery left Saturday morning. They $J6 Reward. 1 set aside to her by her father. Papers will visit ilia Yuasa projeol in Nevada I alleged tj be confirmatory of this state- and return U> lets Angelos lot ■ tiasl We Will pay the »utn of |«0 for the meetitig on ths J^th <4 this month. At' conviction of any peraoti or percoua de- and referring to the Carr ranch in Mo- that time the U.«n| will make their rec- facing or damaging our reservoir, street il.se County are said to have d: rap [.eared from a box in which they declared to ■immenilalioiis hi tlisr Hrrcretary of the light., polas or other property. have been at the time of Mr. Carr’s Interior and It will prolialdy be «boat K. F. U A W. Co. death. As no clew has been obtained to ninety days before their report will l<< made publi» gild the derlsioll of the except the Klamath (’anal Cmopany, their vherealtotita, the present suit has Secretary 1« known in regard to the and the engineers claim that they oan- been brought- '"H I------------------------------- net Interfere with the work. Th» cott« Klamath project. There is very ttttls A. F. & A. M« doubt eapraaaed her« by thoee connect aidoration In these deals arc not made There* skill b» a s|>ecial meeting of public at this time, but it la stated that ed with the agiVica «• to the result, Mr. Ankeny it to receive |**.0UO and a Klamath l/dge Wo, 7? A.F. &A. M., ft is almost certain that the government water right tor 1700 acres, ami Mr. (Saturday evening âf<rll 23. Work in will go ahead with the work this sum Adame is to receive |IW,lW for his sys second, Mason, in good standing in tem It is also reported that Mt, Aiken« mer. was o offered *1*7,000 tor the (hear l-*k* vitati. By order of W' M, It is said that satialactory deals have WHI U.-><- m «• W. K. Bowduin, Hecrrteryi been mrle with «11 the local interests. | reservoir .tic. "Butter Brown1 and Fancy Collars and Ties, Belts, Hand Bags, Veils. Parasols. An experimental farm la being under* taken by Frank Adamson swamp land owned by It H Moore on the West side of the river near town. There is about Hl* a< res In the tract and i I hi land is diked and the water within the bank will pro),ably Im pumped out, and then planted to grains gra»»c* and possibly vegetables It is understood that a num lirr ol the large swamp land owners will lend their tliiani ial assistance in thia ea|terimeril, so as to demonstrate the value of our ms amp lands. Mr. Lip- 1 îr 4» ri »aweling <4 the U«r d nt I nginer-ra ■ .vipy of lbs |rr<irv«r||ng* ul tbr rotifer lieviul that they did have the right and lba..lM I--'* A—Ul“"* « I'* enee, which hr had given lntn end wlurli it sass matter that could only I* wt K1.„.II. t amd Coinpanv Friday he «.id, ■liowerl wlint had la-rn dotte. tied In the courts. The result would lie. u,nsd Without coming l*> any agri* No agreement had Inerì made and lie he said, that It the Company won, the did not itnilrrsiaud that the Klamath government would lose, and if the gov I Canal Coiii|«uy was bi go on with their ernment Won, of course his cotnfiany «patfo**®1 ",rrl1"« *’ alillrli.g projeiaili. n A* lai a* tlie ar> would lose. lie then «talr-d that at ths ^,„«1 w II rande... gbo ralhwl agir— meni wa* com-ot hh |, l,e »aid lune Ihe negotiations wi re broken .4! st Itimi a mamuramliim wa* prepared, to Washington, it bsil been practically , i*ti*l • nifis"? "’•kr ,h* * lie mmMdered a» a ba»ia, lull mi agree. agrued that the price would I* la-twoen „lt pr.(— iii'ii* •• “• •h“‘ I meat. which cuald 1« called a definite »I'lO.tlO and (tW.IIW) and they Were to w I out Io’• g, ».„.lar.on 'be ' hair •tat agreement wa* arrived at or signnl. *«* allowed MM* lo l<MMl Ini lies ol water Mr. Hander* then «aid that the work lor developing power arid navigation buay mat th- rtllieyl.*! “ 1.4 the anginri-ra wan simply to make a right. Th" only thing they could not .1 de»l ‘4 «'"k •*' U,,‘ “ I recommendation, and Hint they were agree on was ibr price. The agreement, now there lo bear any pro|«.aitiou that lie slated, rested on three conditions. ,M i, “' I" nar-sn-l th»« everithm. that was 1 Mr. Hawkina might have to idler. He The whole ¡rro|s>eition was to be ap role’te» I tn their claim that tlie govern- proved by the U slur Users’ Asewiatiuti, ,1 have to *» “• at ». tfonralleil "I"”’ Mr- ,’*wk • meal wa* the Aral in the Held in Uie I Board <4 Kngilienrs and the Hixri-tary of ,4 Kisui.th Canai Company, tor a Klamath nuuntry, and llial tliey did not I the Inter tor. u«w«l tlw Klamath Canal Company's i At this point Mr Hawkins was in USW'tliHl Hawkins Mid that he ondi .■l.x-t In Idin«. Imi were dlepoeed lo treat all formed that no concession« would l>e „ lb. „wlihg wa* to Iw *>n ply • «m fairly and b<>uural4y aa man to man. granted and that Ilia only thing that Malum <4 ths » ttstl'Hi* which had the ealy thing that «M eaprrfed from 1 would lie considered Would Is- a list cask fegen in «••bingi'ii •udon ar the l anal l uuipany w aa that they ah mild proposition. In that case, Mr. Hawkins said, his .•lol ll.|«'rbr. .. lived from the make a flat cash pt"|»mlion, for which ; they would 1« willing to retire horn the company would withdraw Irom the field W user*, ha.1 '«*'■ <rll(„cr.. bad met hue and m-r. fir-1.1. The Chairman a.errted lliat I be) gun, stork ami barrel, for |ZfiOTJOO. During lire meeting, Mr, Jacoba and II, „.«vM.gaisil Ihr pmK‘ **• -1,1 - ba-hevcl the Canal Company did nut atlaMeinl»' I.» «ml lo Washington 1 have any tights lo aril that aere «ahi others ul the hoard staled that they The) did ».it bave a right lo take w arid mil lie in favor of anything i-xci-pl awH tlie.dlhrr* ..I lb- Ke. lamalKH. able mwwaadlha' IU«4y Ihr» M ' »■«•'*> I waler from ihe Klaiualb Like, list thia returning the money actually eX|*ode<i in construction with inten-at. mi th* dtsni*»iiin ol taking i*Vwr 11« - aaa a matter that wa» not to 1« oosm M Mr ('liuwhlll. presideft of the Waier ■.totin' Klamath Canal C.mi|moy i «red in thia meeting a* It wa» a matter « walls, «•• le"'. .n»i I. '•-! when lor lite court l>> astile, tn rfiei t, it wa» Carrs' Aea-w lation, said lie thought It 4il[wU*h ••• rrrrnrd fr»<m Kfematli isaeiea* lor the Canal Company lo take was the sentiment of th** people that the Sils to lbs sflerl that lbs land ..am rs .ip lime arguii.« on their tight» and the girvantinenl buy the Klaiuatli Canal He refer red lo ««hi m»< agire lotti, trim» wbu li wem value -4 their »v*tem, a» they did not Orwtpnny out entirely .[■« -1 i i ' ''l.t'«* tu-d It bate any. It llieydi.1 not baie anv pro- a resolution |«as«rd by tlie Ass a latiuu 1 pawltl-in lo ofli’r It would 1« well to ad tn the loretitam Ui the effect tiial they | ' votary la put <fl pr.-wlmgs until allow the C anal Cvmpauy a sum equal 'sagiaawrswmMI-»* <!>» prnjnct. j palm ills meeting. Mr. liawklna then review«.! the or rn>mp*n> s«iml I............ *|W|4 bl the money they bad espendavi with , t M S« 1st •• pnsMtlir I'lll II w a. un-lé» gan'Seii >n <4 tlie Klamath < ai.al Com- an additional bonus. Aa tins sum «•< > ni that thsy wr.r tog. al.e«al and ' pany. tin- arcuru.g .4 th« Hmng rm.- m*l st sled definitely In figures al the | I a<m«lrats lb" •iwvrss '•< th-ls slum- 1 tract» ami ihr counuen. emani of work tneeiing. il is not known how lar it is <>fl 11« slated that wlwu from tire amount asked by Mr. Hawkins. fieupmiüow. B s I. hs iirie-rmling any ' by hi* vuui|«uy I Mr. Haw tins having submitted hia thsr, Mr. Hawkm* said, b- w-mM I ho first came here b» investigato the |rropr«it|.m and the ulips-ts ol the Con itv)'or» un Iw.» I'olni*. II» wistiml ■avutoci, them *M m4 a mention nt gov knew siisi*.st any tiling lm-1 *^n etnmmit or any oilier irrigali >n un a ference liemg accompli «lied, the meeting • tocliawgv Iba »laies -4 0» situ« 1 l*igr acai«. That Urey receive.! the cu- I ■nljourii—I. At the close <4 ths meetlna an itemlaml statement <4 ths money ex- ) in Ih» »Me «lire the r«m1er. e»Hira<«'(n*tit an I «rlicrtal. •<* -I the tanti y ■ Waalnngvm. and in ase they •re to taka up th» work, aa Uury hrllevrd |a-mti-d bv the Klamath t-aoal Compart, He had was handed to Mr l.ip|wncott by Mr. tngstlisr. h ■• » •>«> lln- tiling muM that to he llro.r <>uiy «ai.ali 'ii It is «late-l that tbs amount k*smiMiaisteri III» rswann for sakmg utrteratiaM that it was the |»4“) <4 the I Hawkins expended was iietwoen *1'V.IAA) and t*la«a«ilia< bi* compsuy had cnwtrarla 1 gnvnrnn.enl net to Interfere where pri Sbkii «awM »»pli» on Ihr Ih'h .4 next eate caiplal was mi»'»ated and there- Uun.nflo, After I'te adjournment a private mart AH ai»i tbsrs was a great 'issi '4 «orto 1 fore Uirv Iteit no tear .4 interiarent» They bed none here, lug of 1 Im Rosid of Engineers and pne of I» fe hnm in crue lliry del not make Irom ibla point hr »aid, 111 g.»«l feilb end he IwlieVrd the Dtrarinr. of the Waler Csets' Asso »•J dml. Mr. fend««* •latí-i that •• tir a» «nv | Dial the. ware aide to gir« Ih» punpie ciation were held and In th»evening the i prsvmii« iir> ler»i.i>dii g as» erwicerned, •a go-»1 a •' aleni a» llw* .over etrent. it two tiodtea met together in executive ft is reported that nothing ha SU not kuo« anything slurul it. I Ihe. wcio tmt interlan«l with, but that session. ill-finite was agreed Upon as to a settle il Ibi- prop!« wanted government irriga« 11» boari ni Engineer* wa« M-tik bere lo foA insr li e props t and mvi «lígale t lie turn, they ware willing l«> »ell out and menl with tin- Klamath < anal Company. Mr. I.ippeucoil gave a very interest In fact, he tawlins i-annl, and lu ra|»,rt lu the withdrew from the field. <«t*l »I ginier. lisas llreir intention said, they ware anai'iue to make a deal ing talk to the Ihrectorw of tint Assm-ia ► bslrwi'«' with lbs rompany they , railier Ilian tn he Hud up with litiga * tern, in winch lie congratulated them on dealing with, to tw- i.onrwt with tfon. Never the less, they followed they the gmsl work they had done and alter Vital right* rn this ccatniry dwelling on tin- greatness ai|d vast op »spl. aildleoof.es' With the gov« hail thev were bats to protect portunities id tiie Klamath Country, he »ni «a m ami H« referred outlined tlie m.et im|s>rtant work for Mt Lippincott, who was presentai tbosi' right« Il iHweowary. fk.mlvrsncr tn Waslitngt'Hi, asid that to the fool that th« Eugimwis bail »tatod the Vt alei Users* Association, for the ♦»! did ma know as mich about ths Hist they Itelloved the Canal Company immediate future. He said that it was htol no right to lake water ln>"t I lass Up gayinerrinc prop >*iti'>n then aa now nec.-saary lor them to exert every effort He in turn a. tirmly 1« hi get all the land owners tu sigu up. H» dtvs Mr. Handers' attention to a per lake. lie "on«hfer**l It trecersmry to get l‘fi per cent id the land under tlie project signed in order to insure immrwltate work by the government. II the people fieri, rtf tb * * SWAMP LANDS All Swamp Land Owners are Interested.-Department Another Eastern Million Of Agriculture and Reclamation Service aire Looking Over Our flay Lend Assistance. County. rfr