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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-