: :;
Unt rrtgated Ad rm
Scene in the Great
I'allty Montana
Land District.
Land Immediately
Alongside lias Been
Taken up Under the
De cert Land Law
by L a Ise Swearing
the Land Evidently
Being Eon-Desert.
dltlons has already been brought about by
range control on the forest reserves, and
that the great bulk of the western stock
men are definitely in favor of government
control of the open range.
Fifth. Upon facts presented at many
public meetings held throughout the West
and upon Innumerable suggestions which
have been received and considered.
Your commission concurs in the opinion
•f the stockmen that some form of gov
ernment control Is necessary at once, but
Is opposed to the immediate application of
any definite plan to all of the grazing
lands nllke, regardless of local conditions
or act uni grazing value.
The following
plan is intended to bring about the grad
ual application to each locality of a
form of control specifically suited to
that locality, whether it may be ap
plicable to any other locality or not.
Your commission recommends that suit
able authority be given to the Presi
dent to set aside, by proclamation, certain
grazing dstrkts or reserves. To the Sec
retary of Agriculture, In whose depart
ment is found the special a< quaintance
with range conditions and live-stock ques
tions which Is absolutely necessary for the
wise solution of these problems, authority
should be given to classify and appraise
the grazing value of these lands, to ap
point such officers as the care of each
grazing district in.n I'uune, to Ch&rgO
and < ollai t i modi iate f>
f u Ki ising
permits, and to make and apply definite
and appropriate regulations to each graz
ing district. These regulations should be
framed and applied with special reference
to bringing about the largest permanent
o< cupation of the country by actual set
tlers and home seekers. All land covered
by nnv permit so given should continue«
to be subject to entry under reasonable!
regulations notwithstanding such permit. .
enforced its growth would have been im
possible.
If 1» often asserted in defense of large
holdings that, through the operation of
enlightened selfishness, the land so held
will eventually be put to its best use.
Whatever theoretical considerations may
support this statement, in practice it is
almost universally untrue. Hired labor
on the farm can not compete with the
man who owns and works his land, and if
it could the owners of large tracts rarely
have the capital to develop them ef
fectively.
Although there is n tendency to sub
divide large holdings in the long run, yet
the desire for such holdings is so strong
and the belief in their rapid increase in
value so controlling and so widespread
that the speculative motive governs; and
men go to extremes before they will sub
divide lands which they themselves are
not able to utilize.
The fundamental fact that characterizes
the present situation is this: That the
number of patents issued is increasing
out ot all proportion to the number of
new homes.
Respectfully submitted.
W. A RICHARDS,
F H NEWELL.
til EFORD PINCHOT.
Great Surgical Feat.
“Dr. Spllnton is the most experi
enced surgeon in town. Why there’s
no kind of a fracture he can't set, and
set with satisfactory results.”
"Is that »□?" said the man with the
steely blue eye. "I wonder if he would
be any good at setting a broken egg.”
Mining laws.
The Making of Event».
Your commission has not yet found it
possible to take up the extremely Impor
tant subject of the revision of the mining
laws with the thoroughness which it de
serves. From the evidence nlready sub
mitted it Is obvious that important
changes are necessary, both tn the United
States and In Alaska. The commission
hopes to treat this matter more at length
in a subsequent report.
Some men nre hammers, and they fall
With swift relentless shock
This 'Ife for them is. after all.
One grand persistent knock.
Rights of Way.
Year after year the question of rights of^
way ucross the public lands and reserva
tions has bet a called to the attention of
the Congress In the reports of the Secre
tary of the Interior and the Commissioner
• f the General Land Office. The laws on
this subject are numerous and apparently
often incongruous.
Rights of way are
granted conttngeat upon the execution of
work within a definite time, but decisions
and practices are now in forte under
which It has become almost Impossible to
divest the public lands of the Incubus of
these rights, granted conditionally In the
first place, but still in existence, although
the conditions were not fulfilled.
Rights such as these are very numerous.
They lie dormant until actual development
has'beguu to take place, either under the
reclamation act or otherwise; then they
appear in enormous numbers to the very
serious hindrance of new enterprises.
Your commission is engaged on a study of
this subject and wiU report hereafter
upon It.
Attention Is called ngaln to the recom
mendation of your commission in its pre
vious report (hereto attached) that entry
of agricultural lands Included In forest re
serves be permitted under surveys by
metes and bounds, and special emphasis is
directed to the recommendation, which Is
here renewed, that in such cases actual
residence at heme on the land t»e rigidly
required and that no commutation be al-
lowed.
And some are anvils standing there
In undismayed repose.
Firm placed and solid they must bear
The impact of the blows.
The hammer has Its work to do.
The anvil may not yield
In opposition. "’Twixt the two
The worlds work is revealed."
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Uncle Sam’s Navy, on a certain Satur- I
day last month was Rear Admiral |
Coghlan, commandant of the New
York Navy Yard. He discovered it
was his sixty-first birthday.
According to all accounts the ad
miral did not, or would not, know his i
age. His headquarters in the old ’
frame building at the yard was fra- ,
grant when he walked upstairs yester
day morning. Sixty-one American
Beauty roses were on his desk, At the
entrance the admiral halted.
gime was selected in a monarchial seems that he has been chosen to rep
form; and again by vote of the Storth resent Norway at the London court.
ing, Prince Charles of Denmark was
selected as the new ruler. There were
DISISlECTED BARBERS.
a number of the bright lights of Nor
way who favored a republican form of
Our
German cousins have gone far
government, but they could only mus
ter to their banners about twenty per ahead of us In hygienic requirement«
with reference to barlier shops, ac-
cent, of the entire vote cast.
The separation of Norway from cording to Consul-General Guenther,
Sweden by vote of the Storthing is but of Frankfort.
the culmination of a struggle that goes ! Tlie municipal restrictions apply not
■way back to the early part of the pres only to the utensils and cosmetics, but
ent century. The general cause as
signed for the separation is the refusal
of King Oscar of Sweden to grant Nor
way a separate consular service of its
own. But this overlooks a salient fact
of history.
Intended Effacement cf Norway.
Bernadotte, Napoleon's marshal,
when Invited by the Swedish nobles to
become king, pledged himself, for him
self and his successors, to make it the
great principle of Swedish diplomacy
to gradually effect the absorption and
effacement of Norway. The nobility
of Sweden hoped by this method to
atone for the loss of Finland. Berna
dotte was unable to complete this pro
ject, but instead arranged a union
which gave Norway many rights. His
pledge he kept so far as he could and
each of his successors has felt it bind
ing on him. King Oscar of Sweden,
kind and good natured, would prob
ably have been glad enough to give
the Norwegians their separate consu
lar service, but for the promise made
by his ancestor.
Throughout the eighty-seven years
that the line of Bernadotte has been
on the Swedish throne Norway has
never relinquished the demand for in
dependence, and the fruition of this
great dream is certain to be followed
by determined efforts toward progress.
They are intensely democratic, are the
Norwegians, in marked contrast to the
Swedes, who havo the habit of aris
tocracy strongly fixed upon them.
There are said to be only five noble
families in Norway, while there are
three thousand in Sweden.
Outwitting the Russian Game.
With such difference in tempera
ment many expected the people of
Norway to vote for a republic, but
since the separation became a certain
ty there has never been a moment that
anything but a monarchy was possible.
Had a republic been selected, such a
government would have gotten little
sympathy from any cf the powers of
Europe, so that Russia, which has al
THE ROYAL FAMILY
ways cast longing eye« at Norway,
might easily absorb the Norwegians even to the personal cleanliness of the
“Corporal, why those flowers?”
when the time for the blow came. The ; barber himself, The following ruiei
“Congratulations, Admiral,” Captain
iiave
rcccnly
been
promulgated
by
th.!
split between Sweden and Norway
Cronin bu.st out, stalking into the
seemed to offer a new chance for Rus government of a large German city: house, “and many more to you.”
sia to pounce upon the little mouse, The cut-off hair must at once be re-
"Many more what?” esked Admiral
but the cleverness of the diplomats of mov.ed; the floor of the shop must be Coghlan, looking worried.
Norway in selecting King Edward's waited at least twice per week; cokl
"Birthdays, sir,’’ said the captain.
nephew as ruler and thereby making and hot running water must be sup “Isn’t this your sixty-first?”
England an ally, thwarts Russia in all plied, and the barber must wash his
Admiral Coghlan looked for his
efforts to absorb the new monarchy.
hands with warm water before attend chair.
With Prince Carl, second son of ing to a customer, No cretonne or
"Good Ixird.” h© ejaculated, "am I
Crown Prince Christian of Denmark, c»' lets are permitted in barber shops, as old as that?”
the new King of Norway, the Berna Tue bead rest must be covered for
All day the congratulations poured
dottes do not cease to reign over the each customer with a fresh napkin of In. There was a tinge of sadness in
upper half ot the Scandinavian penin paper or linen. The employees must them, because one year more and
sula, popular opinion notwithstanding. wear clean, long upper garments of Rear Admiral Coghlan will be retired,
The mother of the new Norwegian light color, without pockets. The soap according to the naval regulations. He
King was at one time Princess of Swe used must be in form of powder or insists that he is in no need of the
den and Norway; her father, Charles small tablets.
official chloroform and is good for and
XV., ruled over the union prior to The lather from razors must be re anxious for many years of active serv
King Oscar It's accession to the moved by means of paper. Instead of ice.
throne.
sponges pieces of WJOlcn cloth or
King Haakon VII.
napkins have to lie used, Alum or
The most expensive tea Is known ns
The King is a young man of thirty- I magnesia can only lx» used, kept in a ‘‘gold tip.” It is worth from forty to
powder box. The bowls and shaving fifty dollars a pound.
On every tea
brushes must I m » cleaned each time bush grow four or five little gold tips.
after having been used. Nobody is Great care Is taken in gathering and
allowed to be shaved suffering from preserving them. A plantation of
a visible skin disease, unless the pro three or four thousand acres will
prietor of the barber shop is con yield only a ft-w pounds of ‘‘gold tip."
vinced that it is not contagious.
Sponges, powder puffs, magnesia and
styptics in lumps, and revolving
brushes are prohibited.
Scissors,
brushes, and combs, as well as the
luiir-cutting machines and razors,
must be cleaned with ammonia or
and uu antiseptic solution.
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Large and Small Holding^«
Detailed study of the practical operation
of the present land laws, particularly of
the desert bind ai t and the commutation
clause of the homestead act, »hows that
their tendency far tin) often Is to bring
about land monopoly rather than to mul
tiply small holdings by actual settlers
Tne land laws, decisions, and practices
have become so com vl lea ted that the set
tler Is at a marked disadvantage in com
parison with the shrewd business man
who alms to acqtdrs large properties
Nut infrequently their effect is to put
a premium on perjurv and dishonest
methods tn the acquisition of land. It Is
apparent, in consequent »•_ th it in \
many localities, and perhaps In general,
a b.rger proportion of the public land is
passing into th«? hands of speculators and
curpornttons than into those of actual
- "
settle re who are making homes
This la wot dve to the character of the
land
In all parts of the United______
State*
knawn to your t'ornmisaton where ouch
large holding» are b<ing acquired the
genuine homesteader is prospering along-
A CLOSE SHAVE”
try of hl« birth, Denmark, under the
THE NEW NORWAY.
aminations made for the < onumlssion of side of them under precisely the same
dominion of which Norway remained
*.7!z : _ _r the laws have ~ been
“
the grazing systems of the Sta(£ of Texas, < onditions. Wherever
for four hundred year» Six oth
the State of Wyoming, the Union ano so enforced as to give the settler a reason
~r2Z“2rLt,
Northern Pacific railroads, and of the able chance he has settled, prospered.
Haakon« have ruled Norway in years
Indian office in the case of permits to built up the country, and brought about
stockmen lor the use of Indian lands suit more < ornplete development an 1 ’ larger PEACEFVL WITUDRAWAL FROM past when the Noisemen were free
The first thing King Haakon will be
able fur grazing, and of the grazing con prosperity than where land monopoly
sjsîcn ai arcuy l ipar
ditions throughout the West. A map has Nourishes. Nearly everywhere tin- large
expected to do is to develop Nor
been prepared showing the general loca landowner has succeeded In mnnopo-
ALLElED
AV
HISTORY.
wegian
shipping and maritime trade
< timber
tion and area of the summer, winter, aao lizlng the best traets, whether of
The tinder that started the quarrel be
I
been
year-long ranges, and the sections which ' or agricultural land. There has
are largely dependent upon a temporary some outcry aga.nst this ( condition.
of tween Norway and Sweden was a de
water supply for their untilisation in graz Yet the lack of greater protest _ I ia Bignifi- Frustration of Cherished Ideal
Sweden to Gradually butCoir.pUtely mand for a separate consular service.
th energy,
ing, and those where there has been ex cant. It is to be explained by the
the
le men
____ to
tensive development by wells and wind shrewdness, and influence of “
Absorb Norway-Fersonai.tyoi New Now she will have her own consuls
mills. We believe that this map will bo whom the continuation of the present con
Free to act independently of Swe
Monarch»
found exceedingly valuable and Interest dition is desirable.
ing in the consideration of all grazing Your Commission has had inquiries
A new monarchy has been founded den, Norway will now have a chance
made
as
to
how
a
number
of
estates,
riroblems, and It is »herefore submitted in
to stride forward, making, it is be
sele< ted haphazard, have bee a ac quired. and its King rules his people to-day; lieved, far greater progress than hei
he appendix.
Third. Upon the results of a meeting Almost without exception collusion or yet the accomplishment has been
'
called to confer with the commission by evasion of the letter and spirit of the made without one deed of violence. neighbor. The people of the tinted
the National Live Stock Association in land laws was involved, it is not neces Fancy, a few hundred years ago, the I States can testify to the admirable at
Denver early in August, 1904, which was sarily to be inferred that the present
tributes of such Norwegians as comt
attended by the Secretary of Agriculture owners of these estates were dishonest, secession of a powerful people from a
' to our shores and make their homes
and by representative stockmen from all but the fact remains that their holdings Î yet more powerful one.
The
new
were
acquired
or
consolidated
by
practices
the grazing-land States and Territories.
regime would needs have possessed a with us; they are industrious and
The opinion of the stockmen present was which can not be defended.
The disastrous effect of this system upon genius and a daredevil for a leader, make the best of citizens. It is un
almost unanimous in favor of some action
on the part or the government which the well-being of the nation as a whole and then waded with him through derstood to be the aim of the new
would give the range user some right of requires little comment. Under the present
King to try to keep as many of this
control by which the range can be kept conditions, speaking broadly, the lug rivers of blood in order to establish industrious class at home, offering
from destruction by overcrowding and the estate usually remains in a low condition the new throne.
controversies over range rights can be of cultivation, whereas under actual
But in the case of Norway, the bal- them inducements in the way of estab
satisfactorily eliminated, the only ques settlement by individual home makers
lishing new industries. In a short time
tion being as to the most satisfactory the same land would have supported many lot box was the only weapon used and he hopes by this method to cause a
method by which such right may be ob families in comfort and would have the case is without a parallel in liis-
I wave of prosperity to sweep over the
tained.
yielded far greater returns. Agriculture tory.
Fourth. Upon 1,400 answers received to is a pursuit of which it may be asserted
The strange anomaly, too, is pre entire kingdom.
a circular letter addressed to stockmen absolutely that it rarely reaches its best
throughout the West.
These answers development under any concentrated form sented ot the birth of a new dynasty, I Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the famous Arc
show that under the present system the of ownership.
tic explorer, was largely responsible
pasturing value of the ranges has deteri
There exists and is spreading in the while the most aristocratic and auto
orated and the carrying capacity of the West a tenant or hired-labor system cratic dynasty, situated immediately for the movement that caused Norway
lands has greatly diminished; that the which not only represents a relatively low adjoining it. is tottering to its fall.
to seek a King in the person of Prince
i»resent condition of affairs is unsatlsfac- industrial development, but whose further
By vote of the Storthing, Norway's Charier of Denmark. Many Americans
ory; that the adoption of a new system of extensions carries with it a most serious
had hoped that the new King would
legislative
body,
the
Norwegian
people
management would insure a better and threat. Poltically, socially, and economic
more permanent use of the grazing lands; ally this system is indefensible. Had the decided to separate from Sweden; by select Dr. Nansen as Norway’s first
that a certain improvement in range con- land laws been effective and effectually
vote of the Norwegians the new re minister to the United States, but it
HAAKON’S VIKINU ILK ET.
Iran no Repenter.
A young Irishman, who had married
when but nineteen, complained of (he
difficulties of married life and swore
he’d never marry so young again if be
lived to be the age of Methuselah.
The tongwt imw > had a turning,
It Is part of nature's plan.
And th« river wide, we lax beside.
Is crossed by a single span.
The longest night has a momiag;
Th« sun never fails to rise.
And the mountains of doubt we worry
about
Ara stepping st ones to the skies.
three, of gentlemanly appearance. In
excellent health and of a very easy
going. liberal turn of mind. He is by
nature well fitted to rule over the stub
born Norsemen, who do not mind the
harness so long as they do not feel
the whip. He is a typical sailor, and
this fact alone will make him popular
In Norway. Another circumstance In
favor of King Charles or King Haakon
VTT.. as he will be styled, is that he
understands the language of the Nor
weslan people;* tbeir traditions and
history are part of those of the coun-
•Vof a Laughing Matter.
pompons, plethoric Englishman
was ascending
_ the front _ steps of one
__
of our sky-scrapers, when a hustling,
cowboy style of a young man. rushed
past him. giving him a vigorous slap
upon that part of his anatomy which
a very tight pair of corduroy pant«
made especially conspicuous. Looking I
back, the young man. much to his em-1
barrassment. perceived the English- i
man was an entire stranger.
“I beg your pardon, my dear sir.” I
he said, "I thought you were Haw
kins.”
The Englishman straightened him-1
self, and with a most disgusted ex
pression cried out. "Who the ‘I is
'Awkins? Awkins mav like that sort
of a thing but Hi don't.”
Horace to Susan.
"The ballot and the bullet go to
gether," Horae Greeley cnee said to
Susan Anthony. "You women say
you want to vote; are you prepared
to fight, too?"
"Yes. Mr Greeley," answered Miss
Anthony, "we nre prepared to fight
exactly as you have always fought—
with th. pumt of a goose quill."
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