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JOB PRINTING. ons You Save Money When you Want Butter Paper, GET YOUR JOB PRINTING WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE PARCHMENT. DONE AT THE Headlight Office Liiterary Seetion.—Tillamook, Oregon, January 4, 1906 LIKE A PIRATE OF OLD. ALEXANDER MACLEAN ROAMED THE SEA INSWIFT SCHOONER. Accompanied by Thirty Reckless Buccaneers He Defied Governments and Gunboats—Now in Toils of the Law. There’s never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-three. Captain Alexander MacLean, as bold a rover as ever lived during the priv ateering days when pirate ships lay waiting in the pathway of Spanish gal leons, will roam the sea no more. That is, he will not sail the deep in that free-handed manner which made him the object of search by United States and British authorities. A few weeks ago, under an indictment for conspi- of his men to "run up the flag." The Stars and Stripes were hoisted and “Big Alec,” as he is known, yelled out, “Now fire and be d----- d to you.” The revenue cutter dipped its flag thrice and turned away, ¡several times this bold navigator has had set-tos with gov ernment authorities, but a short time ago the Carmenclta made a raid on the copper islands and had a brush with the revenue patrol, one of the crew be ing wounded and sent to Seattle, Wash., for treatment. The attention of Mexico having been called to the illegal acts of the Car- mencita’s crew, that government on November 1, 1904, cancelled the Mex ican registry. With this taken away from him, MacLean had the name of the schooner changed to the Acapulco. It is understood that when he dropped into Drake Bay for supplies he had only 100 skins on board taken from the sealing preserves of the Arctic so that government officials have suspect- THE PIRATE’S SCHOONER racy in fitting hls schooner Car- mencita in violation of the sealing laws, he was arrested at Victoria, Brit ish Columbia. The Department of State received a telegram announcing the ar rest of a crew made up of men said to be ed that the great amount of money dis played on that occasion must have come elsewhere than from the fund de rived from the sale of skins. The gov ernment agents believe that several men now under indictment in the West in connection with this poaching trip furnished the funds. MacLean’s home has ever been on the sea; he knows no life but that on the deep blue and he finds no enjoy ment on shore. He has been a rover and not a freight carrier, and any dare devil enterprise at sea that needed a strong ann could find an adherent in Captain MacLean, whether in search of pirate treasure, running a contra band cargo or illegally poaching for seals found him the man; he has had experience in all. MacLean’s ship, the Carmencita, was formerly the Jenny Thelin, built In 1869, when speed and not carrying capacity was desired. MacLean’s movements were conduct ed so cleverly that he could never be held until now; he always made the technicalities of the law cover his op erations, but the Department of Justice has been gathering evidence through the personal direction of Chief Wilkie of the Secret Service and it was this evidence that led to his indictment in San Francisco a short time ago. So now the piratical course of Captain Alexander MacLean seems at an end and the stern hand of the law holds him in its grip. It remains to be seen whether bis luck will again serve him in good stead and enable him to sail away to the "great white silence” whore the treasured fur-bearing ani mals are found, or whether the govern ment’s evidence will be strong enough to shack)'' him. "As choice a band of pirates and cut throats as ever manned a pirate craft since the days of Captain Kidd.” Poact.ing for Seals. What the rakish looking schooner did prior to 1894 had nothing to do with MacLean’s operations, but it was alleged in April. 1904, that the schooner was chartered and outfitted for a poach ing cruise among the rookeries of the far north. The Russo-Japanese war be ing then uppermost in the minds of the two nations concerned, it was consid ered by the poachers that they would CAPT. ALEX. MACLEAN. not be in a position to guard their ln- terest3, and a raid on the Russian seal ing islands was the real object of the cruise. Great Britain, Canada and the United States have an agreement to prevent pelagic sealing, so that appar ently to protect the ship’s owner from prosecution under either United States or British laws, the ship’s name was changed to Carmenclta and registry papers taken out in Mexico. Thirty Devils at Beck and CaN. On May 5 she headed for the north ern islands, MacLean sitting aft, thirty reckless dare-devils forward and cases of repeating rifles and ammunition in the captain’s cabin. She had cleared for Victoria for a cargo, but instead sailed for the little islands In the Ber ing Sea. where it was understood a new rookery was discovered. Captain MacLean ha” had a varied experience with t> e authorities, not only on the Carme> cita, but on other vessels of which hj was master. At one time a revenue <*uttr • annoyed him by demanding that his* papers be sent on board for examination. Upon his refusal the revenue officers threatened to open fire on him. Always Eluded the Law. Japanese Dwarf Trees. In . Japan are some very remarkable They are hundreds of years NNBMBBHHBE old and not a hundred inches high. The most marvelous collection is in Count Okuma’s garden, near Tokio. Here are pine trees that started to grow in the seventeenth century, that at the dawn of the twentieth century are not too large to be carried in one hand, pot and all. Others, whose seed was planted about the time when Co lumbus sailed for America, are already outstripped by saplings planted year before last. In another place is a grove of 1111- putian plum trees, gnarled and knotted and twisted by centuries of wind and weather, that are none of them too large to grace a dinner table, as they often do when in full bloom. More marvelous still, there are other little trees, probably planted in the early "sixties,” that are still thriving (it is too much to say “growing”) in a tea cup, while others planted before Cleve land’s last term in office have not out grown a lady’s thimble. The Japanese are past masters In the art of dwarfing trees. They nip off the tree’s roots and pinch its limbs and starve it with little soil and let it go thirsty and dry, but at the same time keep the breath of life in it, un til it becomes the veriest travesty of a tree, a manikin vegetable, with the wrinkled face of an old man on the legs of a little boy. Infinite patience and skill and time are given in order to stunt and dwarf into these gro- tesque growths. Will Wed for Love Only. FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA. UNDER CZAR’S RECENT MANI FESTO, LAST ABSOLUTE MON ARCHY DISAPPEARS. The New Empire Promises to Be a Regime of Constitutional Liberty and Representation—Victory of the People Widely Celebrated. As an outcome of the tremendous agitation which has been shaking Rus sia to the very core, the Czar has sur rendered aud has granted rights which If consummated, will result it- civil liberty. It seemed for a time as though the history of the French revolution would be repeated; that the aristocracy and the bureaucracy their arrogance at fail to recognize the overwhelming force of the volcano of public seuti- inent surrounding them, aud by their refusal to recognize conditions, plunge the whole empire into civil war aud anarchy. But the handwriting on the wall was recognized and the Czar compelled to practically capitulate bis imperial tliroue. True, promises are thus, far more In evidence than fulfill ment, but Count Witte lias apparently been made the real Russian leader alm much is hoped and expected in the way of a peaceful reform. In old Russia, the Russia of last century, of last year, of last week, the Czar was all powerful. Russia was the last remaining absolute monarchy. The policies of the government were created anil enforced by the Czar aud his Grand Dukes. Popular representation was a fragile promise. Free speech was under the ban; freedom of the press was un known. Even all private mail was subject to censorship. Tlie prisons were filled with political offenders. Imagine casting a man into a United States prison because hls political acts were not relished bv the government! A system of public espionage fol lowed every man’s move. Old Russia was divided into two classes, the nobility and practical slaves. Education of the masses was worse than a farce. What is promised for Russia? The abolition of the rule of the Ro manoff House. Freedom of speech guaranteed and freedom of person inviolable. A limited monarchy similar to that of England with a guarantee of popu lar government, with a cabinet respon sible to the people, and with suffrage made almost universal, and with provi sion for a representative parliament and for a general educational system. Tlie right of habeas corpus recog nized and the freedom of the press assured. Following the Czar’s imperial mani festo outlining the proposed regime of liberty, all Russia celebrated. In St. Petersburg and Moscow tlie day was one such as the Russians never before had seen. The Slavic people, who dur ing the long war just closed and the anxious period preceding the an nouncement of the new era of consti tutionalism, seemed self restrained, gloomy and apathetic, gave themselves fully to the exuberance of the mo ment nnd spent the entire day in pa rades and assemblies which for the first time In the history of Russia were freely permitted. It was stated as a significant omen that after a fortnight of gloomy and depressing weather, symbolic of the days of the great strike, the sun shone out brightly on the date of the Czar's manifesto, a bright and radiant In- dian-summer day. The Aromatic Havana. Apropos of the real enjoyment of a cigar Cauthorne, the newspaper cor respondent, in that most fascinating story of “The Tallahasse Girl”: “If you will permit me. I will smoke.” said he. taking out a curious cigar case of very fine workmanship. "It does not even amount to a kind ness on my part,” she answered: “foe I enjoy the fragrant sweet of a good cigar." “Thank you, I can never fully appre ciate an open air chat without the company of this Indian luxury. But really I am no great smoker. Two or three a day are all I take.” "You must be an exception. Papa smokes twenty pipes full a day, and most gentlemen are always indulging.” "Yes, they lose sight of the equisite part of the thing which Is a subtle pleasure coming only to those who use tobacco of the finest quality and spar ingly.” Sometimes I abstain for several days In order to get the full benefit of a slow burning Havana.” DRESS REFORM FOR WOMEN. Advocate of Practical Walking and Working Garb—Relief From Heavy Skirts. Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, of Minneap olis, Milin., iH'lieves that many of the aches and ills from which women suffer are the direct result of the clothes they wear. She says that in her professional capacity she tries to Impress upon her women patrons the need of dress reform. "Not tlie old time hideous bloomer costume of years ago,” laughed the doctor, “but a rational, sensible and beautiful adaptation of our clothes to our needs.” “And what are our needs,” was asked. "Normal, unrestricted movement; a prosperous homes for themselves and tamilies, und raise an annual product of a couple or three million dollars. In the canyon proper the great ROCK BARRA GE A CROSS NARRO W forces of nature have wrought won derfully. Enormous granite boulders CANYON IN MOUNTAINS OF have detached themselves from the WYOMING. mountains anti rolled down thousands of feet, crashing their hundreds and Government Works Will Store Flood thousands of tons into the rocky Water® For Fertilization of One gorge. Here the river continually Hundred and Fifty Thousand Des plays upon them, searching out the seams and splitting them up, and ert Acres. wearing them away and polishing them smooth. A quarter of a century ago tlie The Rock Pile of the World. home of tbe buffalo, and later a cat tle and sheep pasture, with an occa In the canyon’s middle, below the sional ranch bouse, the Big Horn dam site, the jungle of rocks in the Basin in Wyoming is now tbe scene of narrow river bed appears as though a a great activity incident to the build thousand blasts of giant powder had ing of one of the largest of tbe govern rent the mountain sides and tumbled ment irrigation works. Some years every rugged projection into the ago Colonel Cody, better known as depths below. There is no dirt or Buffalo Bill, made a survey of the sand in this river bed; everything is Shoshone canyon, aud in connection rock. The imperishable granite, gray, with General Miles, projected a com pink, and vari-colored, oldest of the pany to construct a dam and irrigate geological formations, made by the some 60,000 acres. The necessary cap welding of various substances when ital however was not forthcoming and the globe was a molten mass; the when the national Irrigation law was later limestones and black volcanic passed, the government took up the rocks, conglomerates also melted by proposition, and a large party of en great beat, the hard red sandstone and gineers has since been employed on its white and brown contemporaries, the preliminaries of a great work of formed from the grindings of other rocks subjected to enormous pressure, desert reclamation. The Shoshone River dashes down a and lastly the geyserites and sulphur narrow’ canyon, with Jagged and per rocks, soft and honeycombed, the re pendicular walls, and ut its narrow sult of ceaseless spoutings of steam est point tlie government hits begun and hot water from the earth’s bowels tlie construction of tlie highest dam —all are found in wonderful profu i ?v?r built. It will cement together sion. Below the canyon where the river ihe two canyon walls for 240 feet Tuns more peacefully, all these forma above the stream bed, and its founda tion will go below the water line 8b tions are represented in the huge beds feet additional, down to the solid bed of cobble stones and smaller boulders rock. The stream, where it passes over which the water plays. The cob between these granite canyon walls. Is blestones were themselves once jagged but G5 feet wide, and tbe dam will rocks, detached by wind, water, frost form a great lake of 5,000 acres, with and sun from their mountain bases, a watershed of 1,250 square miles, and rolled and ground by river force and storing enough water to irrigate 150,000 acres through seven miles of 14-foot tunnels bored in the solid rock. HOGE IRRIGATION DAM. Little Chance For Land Grabbing. This will cost about *25 an acre to bo paid back to tlie government by settlers, under the business-like pro- v inions of the irrigation law. The land flood and then boiling over great rocks itself is free under the homestead act, and has been reserved by Secretary Hitchcock from entry under the Desert and other land laws not requir ing actual residence and home-build ing. Few such picturesque and wildly beautiful scenes can be found a3 this Shoshone canyon. The river is a suc cession of foaming, rushing rapids, the water coursing along in a deep green flood, and then boiling over great rocks nnd boulders in a white surge. Only for a few hours each day can the sun find its way to tlie bottom of tills daepl.v-cut gorge, tlie mountain Bides towering into the clouds two and three thousand feet. From above tlie dam MAKING A CANYON ROADWAY, DR. CORA SMITH EATON, site as one looks down at the engin- freedom from confining bands; eers working on the foundatlons, until all! their sharp corners have relief from heavy skirts.” directly underneath, they appear like been worn and poislied away. Dr. Eaton puts to practical test her mimic men. A Giant Fire Cracker. ideas on tlie subject. The weight of Watching the government engineers Giant Forces of Nature. all garments she wears is from tlie This Shoshone canyon nnd its Rur- cutting a road along the side of the shoulders. Her gowns are made in canyon for the transportation of sup one piece—a little on the Princess rounding mountains plies to build the dam—60,000 barrels of cement alone will be needed—the writer observed the explosion of a big charge of dynamite, which burst with Shoshone a roar, echoing up and down the can Canyon Scenes. yon with deafening reverberations. Immediately an oblong granite rock of some 150 tons weight was torn from Its base nnd hurled down into the river Capt'. Jeremiah n hundred feet below. Shatters of rock flew In nil directions, and a great Ahern. splash of water rose like a geyser out of the black depths of the canyon. Yet this huge block of granite was but a baby addition to the family of boulders which had been detached by more giant forces of nature, anil tin-own Into the river bed. A few hours before we had crawled directly under this rock In our canyon "explor ation.” Returning, we were fain to accept the assistance of one of the road builders in getting across this place, looking down the while into the river boiling below among the rocks. The engineering credit for this great project with its great dam, its enormous spillways, its rnoun- Niiii road building and its miles of canals and huge tunnels bored through the solid rock Is due to Jeremiah Ahern ,a government dis trict engineer who, almost cut off from the outside world, has taken up his residence for several years in this wild canyon, o.'ice a fastness of the Sho shone Indians. /. * J*. . The Government Irrigation Program Huge Precious Stones. Prior to the discovery of tbe South African diamond a few months ago, weighing in the neighborhood of a pound and a half, the largest perfect diamond In the world was that which was exhibited in Paris, having a value of one million dollars. This was the moat valuable atone In the world; the largest and best ruby In existence Is owned In London, and is valued at *50.000. It has no parallel, even In the Crown Jewels, and it is related that It was once carried all the way to St Petersburg for the Czar to have a look at. The largest and most beauti ful cat’s-eye In existence weighs one- hundred and seventy cara’s nnd Is In sured for 30,000 rupees. The bigtrest emerald in the world weighs 2.980 carats, and Is In tbe Imperial Jewel Office In Vienna. Princess Victoria of England, the ordcr. though really a modification only unmarried daughter of King E<1- of the Empire. ward, declares that if she marries at It is a delight to watch the doctor all it will be for love. She is thirty move nlioiit In her brisk, energetic seven years old, and for twenty years way. Her body, sensibly clothed, has refused to consider every marriage and beautifully poised, with that fine, proposal suggested by her father, the straight line tieloved of physical cul- King. tnrists. from the head to the heels, is responsive to the many demands of “If I marry. It will be to the man of her busy life. It would lie Impossible my choice,’’ she is reported to have for her to accomplish her work, she said. "Father, mother, and govern says, hampered by the usual style of ment shall not choose for me. I will dress. . love the maD-I marry, if I ever marry.” This bold declaration by the daughter Favorite Among Cigar Markets. of a king has shocked royal and aristo cratic circles all over Europe, but It Bismarck used to boast that in his The most costly church of Its size, fifty years he had smoked over 100,000 has been read with delight by the Invoked the Stars and Stripes. English people, and it appeals equally in America, Is In the quaint old tow* cigars. In later years he was seldom of 8L Augustine. Fla. 1 without his immense meerschaum. MacLean hearing this, ordered one to Americana. nature's groat handiworks. All has boon cut out by the silver stream, rushing In Its tied lielow. For count loss ages ft lias eaten its wav through granite and limestone, wearing, wear ing, wearing away. For centuries and ages it hns flowed, ceaselessly anil likewise uselessly on Its way to join the flood of the Missouri; now it Is to be harnessed and made to produce for man. A thousand farmers will make What does all this great irrigation work of tlie government throughout the west dignify? Simply that the nation hns decided to use the money derived from the sale of western public laudH to make its desert soil of value, and furnish many home-build ing opportunities. It means that many men will find employment In tlie construction of dams nnil canals in every wewtern community, and that finally, as the works are completed, one by one, new farm homes will he established, adding to the nation’s wealth and balancing our population now Inclined cityward. e For n thousand years longer this splendid dam site would likely stand Idle before private capital would de velop ft to Its magnificent full capac ity. for the difficulties in the way of tiie engineers are many and unknown; but tlie government will meet all ob stacle* nnd overcome them, and finally turn over to a thousand farmers a perfect job of engineering, compara ble to the great works of the Peru vian Tncaa, the Egyptian Rameaea or the British engineers of India—an en during monument for all time to the wisdom of the present generation of America. 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