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1 • Buoj OtBoJ •ffice. fou Save Money ffîllamooh GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE eadlight Offiee Ifadltjgîti JOB PRINTING When you Want Butter Paper, WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE Liit«rary Seetion.—Tillamook, Oregon, February 1, 1906 USS ALICE TO WED. SS-SÆ and actively participated NGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG WORTH, OF OHIO, THE MOST FORTUNATE OF MEN. rand White House Wedding In Mid- ebruary—Culmination of Romance elie ved to Have Occurred on Ocean oyage. here is to be another wedding In the ite House, and society at the capi ta already looking forward to what doubtedly will be the most brilliant nt in the history of the mansion. It is just about two years since Rep- entative Nicholas Longworth, cinnati, began to lay siege to rt of the charming daughter of ldent, and his attack has been itting. Now he has captured rt of Miss Alice, and will lead the altar in mld-February. Several times during the last year . Longworth’s engagement to Miss sevelt was rumored, but it was ver confirmed, and the social world gan to conclude that a warm friend- p was about all that existed between in. SENATOR’S DEATH IGNORED. in the pro motion of college athletics. ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP Upon the completion of his course at Harvard, Mr. Longworth studied ITOL, WHERE HE HAD SERVED MANY YEARS. law In the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He served as a member of the school board Due to Conviction for DefraudingCov- of his home city until elected to the ernment of Lands—Both Oregon Ohio House of Representatives in 1899, Congressmen Also Under Indict* by the incredibly small majority of 4, being the only Republican elected mentor Conviction. that year. Subsequently he served in All precedent was ignored by the the State Senate until elected to the United States Senate in the case of Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re- the death of the late Senator John H. Chance of a Lifetime. It was when Miss Roosevelt deter ned to accompany Secretary Taft’s rty to the Orient that Mr. Longworth parently saw his crowning opportu- ty, and he forthwith became one of e party. Throughout the jaunt his entions to the daughter of the Pres- nt were more marked than ever be e, for in his wooing he had the ad- ntage of being the only courtier in e field. Though his friends now say that ey had observed the glint of a glorl- s victory in his eyes when he .re ned from the long voyage, he never flded his triumph to a soul, and the t inforn-ation of the engagement not ream society until Mrs. Roose It told it to a few personal friends in White House, Then, of course, so- ty soon heard of it. GHOST POINTS WAY TO GOLD.} Miner’s Story of Discovery of Rich Mineral Deposit In Unexploredl Canyon. Will Tour Europe. It is expected that after their mar ge the distinguished couple will take leisurely trip throughout Europe, ey will, of course, be certain of a lendid reception everywhere, espe- lly in all the capitals of the Old Miss Roosevelt has never been In rope, although she has had several portunities and Invitations, notably en che was invited by Mrs. White- w Reid when Mr. Reid went to Eng- d as special ambassador at the cor ation of King Edward. In Paris, too, the Longworths are tain of lavish entertainment, as Mr ngworth’s sister, the Viscountess de ambrun, lives there. Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child the President’s first marriage, will twenty-two years cld in February, d is named for her mother, Alice , of Boston, to whom the President ame engaged in his college days at rvard, and whom he married in Copyrighted by Frances Benjamin Johnston, MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT. turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by an overwhelming majority. There is a great light in “Nick” Longworth’s eyes these days. What Became of the Change. On the death of her mother, one year Gen. Chaffee was once asked by a r the latter’s marriage, Miss Roose- soldier to lend him a quarter. “Didn’t you receive your month's pay yesterday?” asked the General. “Yes,” said tbe veteran. “Where's your money now?” “Why I left tbe post and crossed tbe ferry with $15.50. I met a friend, and we had dinner. The bill was * 8.00. Then 1 bought $1 i 00 worth of cigars; then we went to the theatre for $4.00. After theatre we went down to the Bowery and I spent $2.00 there.” “That makes $15.00,” said the Gen eral. "What became of the other fifty cents?” Tbe old soldier seemed puzzled, and finally said: “Why, I must have spent that fool ishly.” Easy When You Know How. HON. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, elt became the charge of her aunt, rs. William S. Cowles, who was then iss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pree nt day is as much the child of Mrs. owles’ affection as though she were er daughter Instead of her niece. ' Her Debut in Washington. __________ Ml Miss Roosevelt made her debut at a ball given in the great East Room early in January, 1902, aince which date she has enjoyed a succession of attentions never before offered any American girl. At the World’s Fair tn St. Louis, when she was the guest of Miss Catlin Miss Roosevelt was admired by thou sands who saw her. and was voted a true type of the American girl. Thou sands followed her wherever she went, but her demeanor did not indicate that •he was any more than a plain Amer ican. Her sweet smile completely cap tivated the throng, and in St. Louis or the West the President'» daughter will always be welcome. Mr Longworth is the only son of the late Nicholas Longworth, one of tho great millionaires of the West, mother inherited all of the estate of hi* always thought he was until tho ex- posure of his wrongdoing was made, then he must have welcomed death as a happy issue out of all his trouble. He was an old man. He had sounded the depths and shallows of life. He had run the gamut of human emotions. He had felt the glorious thrills of tri umph and the pangs of disappointed ambition. He had associated, the world around, with the men who give impetus and tongue to the uplifting thoughts of mankind that are hurry ing us on to a civilization that will eventually realize the poet's dream of Utopia. “What he must have suffered in his last days—what devils peopled his brain, what repinings of what might have been must have depressed his soul—who can Imagine these, let alone tell about them? Napoleon fretting out his proud life on St. Helena never was as unhappy as John II. Mitchell must have been while suffering the stings of humiliation after expos ure and conviction came with a suddenness that carried hlnj to the depths of despair. He told more than one Senator who had seen him since his trouble that he would never go to jail.” Had there been attempt to consider resolutions of respect for the memory of Senator Mitchell it is likely tnat there would have been objection. There is a precedent for such action, for when Senator Broderick, of Cali fornia, was killed in a duel with Judge Terry, of that State, resolutions of re spect were offered in the Senat- They were opposed by Senator Foster, of Connecticut, and the resolutions were referred to a committee and never were heard from afterward. A farmer left to his eldest son one- half of his seventeen horses, to his second son one-third and to his third son one-ninth. The executor did nut know what to do as seventeen will not divide evenly by neither two, three or nine. In the afternoon a neighbor drove over and learning of the d.-acui ty said, "Take my horse and you will then have eighteen.” The executor then gave one-half, or nine, to the eldest son; one-third or six, to the second son; and one-ninth, or two. *o the youngest, and the neighbor took his horse home and ever after called him "Problem” in the morning and “Solu tion” in the afternoon. Peace Now Reigns. After warrings for more than a hun dred years. In which time thousands of lives have been sacrificed and the greater portion of the Washoe and Piute Indian tribes wiped out, peace has been declared between those tribes. This arrangement was brought about by Capt. Pete, head chief of the Washoe tribe, and Cant. Dave, head chief of the Piute tribe. They met in Reno, Nevada, and through Johnny Kay. Capt. Dave's lieutenant, the two old warriors shook hands and for an hour or more over the pipe of peace discussed the plans that led to the ending of hostilities. Now they are planning a big peace dance. It will take place at Sparks, and for six days both tribes will join in celebrating the big event. The Plutes father. once constituted one of the largest » Wholesome Sort of a Man tribes in the Northwest and the Washoe The future son-in-law of the Presi tribe was a close second. dent la an enthusiaatlc lover of outdoor sports, as his splendid physical devel The forestry station at Dodge City. opment plainly indicates. He Is an ex Kansas, is giving away trees at the pert on the golf links, a cross-country rate of 500.000 a year. Since the in rider, a good marksman with shotgun auguration of tree planting on an ex and rille, and a veteran fisherman. At tensive scale there have been remark Harvard be was a member of the ’varsity rowing crew, and for three able changes tn ths climatic condi year» subsequently rowed in the clnaa tions of Kansas. Mitchell, of Oregon. Yet there is no body of men on earth which is a great er stickler for ceremony governed by precedent than is the United States Senate. But the Mitchell case pre sented a unique situation. The official recognition of the death of a Senator is always a solemn and affecting pro ceeding, but even the usual funeral rites were omitted in this instance. The Oregon Senator had been convict ed of a grave crime against the gov ernment. Excepting Senator Burton, of Kansas, no other members of the Senate has ever had to face a criminal court trial. The Senate has expelled members and has often exercised its constitutional prerogative of unseating a Senator, but with the two exceptions above stated, it has never been con fronted with such a situation as was forced upon the public attention by Senators from Oregon and Kansas. The Vice-President, who is the President of the Senate, did not ap point the usual committee to attend the funeral held In Portland, Ore. Senator Fulton, the sole representative of Oregon left in Congress, had intend ed presenting a brief resolution, re citing the death of his colleague, and asking that the Senate adjourn as a mark of respect, but even this was not done. Not even was the desk which the late Senator occupied veiled in the heavy mourning drapery as is the cus tom. In a word, the Senate, in sad ness, passed over the death of its for mer Senator as quietly and unostenta tiously as possible. There have been no eulogies. His successor, appoint ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem ocrat. comes to Washington from the far Pacific slope and the sovereign State of Oregon will again have full representation in the Senate. Seats Vaca..t In the House. Oregon's representation in House will remain vacant until courts have finally passed upon the indictments and trials of the State’s two Representatives. Messrs. Binger Hermann and John Newton William son. Mr. Williamson already has been convicted by a Federal Court of of fenses similar to those for which Sen ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and is now awaiting the outcome of the appeal of his case, as was Senator Mitchell when death gratefully re lieved him of further humiliation and woe. Mr. Hermann Is yet to be tried. It thus happens that there was no one in the House from Oregon to make for mal announcement to that body of the death of Senator Mitchell, so that no official attention was paid the Incident. There Is so little that can be said of the strange, tragic, pitiful case of Senator Mitchell that the men of the Senate who knew him b“-i, who liked him best, who bad served In that great forum with him longest, and who are most grieved at tbe sad ending of his career, have been disinclined to speak of him at all. “He Is dead,” said oae Senator, "and that ends all. If he were the man I UAII 0 TUP I A NIT THICVrC dent McKinley's administration, were LVlLlJ lH£l LH1W iniLlLO. as strong recommendations of this pol icy us have ever been written. He called attention to the fact that a vast SECRETARY HITCHCOCK'S RE fortune was allowed unuually to waste LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND itself throughout the West; that a wa GRABBING THIEVES. ter supply was uselessly running to the Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate of Government Irrigation—Irriga tion Work of His Department Highly Successful. By Richard H. Byrd. It is rumored that among probable Cabinet chunges Secretory Hitchcock is to shortly retire from the Interior Department of which he has been the head since the second McKinley ad ministration. It will be recalled that more or less definite statements as to Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and his probable successors have been of very frequent and regular occurrence, but the reason therefore Is probably not hard to find. Mr. Hitchcock has made a very great Secretary of the Interior. He has torn to pieces a vast fabric constructed to steal, not acres, but square miles of the public lands, to grab from the government great tracts worth millions of dollars. The land grabbers have been men in high po sitions; they have employed perjury, bribery and forgery, to say nothing of more forceful crimes to defraud their country. Their ring was backed by wealthy and influential men and in cluded members of the legislatures, United States Commissioners, special land agents, notaries, etc. The trail even led to the head of the General I.and Office, Into the national House of Representatives and into the United States Senate. The loose land laws of the country made their task possible if uot easy. sea which would irrigate 70 million acres of the most fertile desert laud in the world, and he called attention to the faet that an irrigated west wan capable of supperting the entire pres ent population of the United States. It was not in keeping with the spirit of the times that this great oppor tunity for home building should be ne glected by the nation. Then when; Colonel Roosevelt be came President, the irrigation bill was passed and the administration of the law was entrusted to the Interior De partment. Mr. Hitchcock was ready. The Geological Survey, a bureau of his departement, had been making ex tensive surveys and In reality, getting ready for such u law, so that work was immediately commenced and la- stead of eight or ten years of prepara- Crime In High Places. Secretary Hitchcock, shortly after he became a member of the Cabinet, had his attention culled to evident frauds in the acquirement of government land. He Bet to work a quiet investi gation. It finally culminated in the indictment of great numbers of people and in the recent conviction of a United States Senator and a Member of Congress. Perhaps, though the cul mination is not yet. No man knows where the trail may load next or how much evidence Mr. Hitchcock has and is working up. It is stated to have been a good deal of a surprise to the wiseacres at Washington, and In fact throughout the country, to see the way in which the Secretary of the Interior has “made good” In his land fraud prosecutions. It was never supposed last winter that the government could ever secure a convlclon of any Congressman or Senator in Oregon. It was announced that the Secretary had been illy ad vised and had gotten himself Into a deep hole, the outcome of which would be disastrous to himself. Bringing a large bottle filled with almost pure gold, taken from a lode long hidden in mountain fastnesses, not a great distance from Seattle, W. E. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well known local business men, are reported back after a perilous trip to the Cas cades. Theirs, however, was labor richly rewarded, though the story is so in terwoven with spiritualism and ro mance that it is well-nigh incredible Bartlett is the grandson of D. E. In gels, a miner of the early ’50s in those parts, who was murdered in the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares that his dead and murdered grand father, through a Portland medium, appeared to him and described how he could find the lost mine and that he would be independent for life. Bartlett asserts positively that he received specific directions froqa the spirit of his grandfather hew to pro ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he was told to select M. C. Black to ac Tried to Have Him Removed. company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but say The Secretary remarked on several it cannot be reached save by making occasions that the land frauds were an extremely dangerous trip and one astounding in their magnitude but filled with hardship, especially at this that he proposed to stop them, He time of the year, when the mountains was laughed at but just the same are firm in winter’s icy grasp. ia the some of the land grabbers began to spring they will return and develop get a little nervous and the newspaper their find. rumors began, to the effect that Sec In a rough and mountainous section, retary Hitchcock would probably re they say, they found a gray quartz ledge, literally filled with precious sign—In the course of two or three metal. Small pieces were broken off, months, after he had f-dshed with cer pounded up in a frying pan which they tain investigations being made at had with them and the gold picked out. that time. But the investigations have Should the ledge prove as rich as the never been finished. Before one batch samples, or even a quarter as rich, a of frauds has been disposed of, man could pan out in a week’s tlme another sensation bus been sprung in enough of the gold to make him some other state so that there has never been a time when a change in wealthy. As an evidence of their find they the Interior Department would not have the bottle of gold dust, which has hare been hailed as a victory for the already been viewed by dozens of peo- land grabbers. HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior. tlon and reconnaissances and surveys, such as has been the history in the great Irrigation works of every other couutry, there are to-day in course of construction, a dozen huge projects, and last June, just three years after the law was passed, the first project was completed- Of Vast Import to Nation. Secretary nitchcock's vigorous work In saving the public domain for hoaie- seekers, and in bringing into prae .cal operation a policy for the absolute creation out of a desert nothing, of thousands and eventually millions of prosperous American homes Is, la reality the greatest work of the gener ation. Tbe actual benefit of this great Internal development and improvement of the nation’s property far surpasses tbe work of any other department of the government ( 7Ar following is the last far tian of the report of the Presidem’s Public Lands Commission, two of whose members at e employed under ¿secretary Hitchcock, and wliosevtews on Sana frauds accord with their Chui's.) Grazing Lands. Tho great bulk of the vacant publla lands throughout the West are unsuitable for cultivation under the present knows conditions of agriculture, and so located that they can not be reclaimed by irriga tion. They are, and probably always must be, of chief value for grazing. There are. It Is estimated, more than 3O.1.000.000 acres of public grazing land, an area approxi mately equal to one-tltth the extent of the United Slates proper. The exact limits can not be set, for with seasonal changes large areas of land which afford good grazing one year are almost desert In an other. There are also vast tracts of wood ed or timbered land In which grazing has much Importance, and until a further classification of the public lands Is made it will be Impossible to give with exact ness the total acreage. The extent is so vast and the commercial Interests In volved so great as to demand In the high est degree the wise and conservative han dling of these vast resources. It Is a matter of the first Importance to know whether these grazing lands are be ing used in the best way possible for tho continued development of the country or whether they are being abused under a system which is detrimental to such de velopment and by which the only present value of the land Is being rapidly de stroyed. At present the vacant public lands are theoretically open commons, free to all citizens; but as a mater of fact a large proportion have been parceled out by more or less definite compacts or agreements among the various Interests. These tacit agreements are continually being violated. 7 he sheepmen and cattlemen are In fre quent collision because of IncurBlons upon each other's domain. Land which for years has been regarded as exclusively cattle range may be Infringed upon by large bands of sheep, forced by drought to migrate. Violence and homicide fre quently follow, after which new adjust ments are made and matters quiet down for a time. There are localities where the people are utilizing to their own satis faction the open range, and their demand Is to be let alone, so that they may parcel out among themselves the UBe of the lands; but an agreement made to-day may be broken to-morrow by changing condi tions of shifting interests. The general lack of control In the use of public grazing lands has resulted, natu- ally and Inevitably. In overgrazing and tho ruin of millions of acres of otherwise valuable grazing territory. Lands useful A GROUP OF’FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES. for grazing are losing their only capacity Attempts to Hold Government I and Claims Under the Government’s North Platte Irrigation for productiveness as, of course, they Project—Wyoming—Nebraska. Photographed by Government Inspectors. must when no legal control Is exercised. Is not yet too late to restore the value pie, and assavs have been made which The Secretary's rugged honesty and of It many of the open ranges. Lands ap prove that the mineral Is the real unswervable determination to weed parently denuded of vegetation have Im thing. out the despollers and the grafters proved In condition and productiveness upon coming under any system of control who nre looting the agricultural and which affords a means of preventing over timber lands of the west have called stocking and of applying Intelligent man Hops were introduced into England forth many high enconlums from agement to the land. On some large the valuable forage plants have in 1524 by a native of Artorla—the thoughtful people who have followed tracts been utterly extirpated, and It Is Imprac home of the Artesian well. Paysictans his course. No public official has ticable even to reseed them. On other denounced their use as dangerous taken more literally to heart the tracts It will he possible by careful man for the remaining native plants and Henry VIII forbade brewers In strong expressions against public land agement to recover their vigor and to distribute bis kingdom to use hopes in making grabbing of the President in his an seeds, which will eventually restore much of the former herbage. Prompt and effect ale. nual message to Congress. ive action must be taken, however, If tho Believes Irrigation Creat Question. value of very much of the remaining pub domain Is not to be totally lost. Closely connected with the land lic The as to grazing reached For nearly half a century the sew question in the west Is the irrigation byyour conclusions commission were baaed: ing machine bas been In use, and .vet question, and since he first came Into First. Upon the results of long acquain for the shirt we wear the poor work office Secretary Hitchcock has been an tance with grazing problems in the public woman receives but sixty ' ’ to ' eighty ardent friend of national Irrigation. land States on the part of each member of your commlselon. cents a dozen. HJs annual reports, even under 1’resi- Second. Upon the results of careful ex-
