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Save Money. get your I JOB PRINTING done at the JOB PRINTING. (Tillamook When you Want Butter Paper, WE have in stock the pure parchment . eadlight Offiee. Magazine Seetion.—Tillamook, Oregon, February 22, 1906. rUEST OF KING EDWARD. FITZHUGH LEE’S VIEWS. Once Told General Howard Southern NEW SHERIDAN STATUE. THE YOUNGEST SENATOR. Burkctt, of Nebraska. Who Defeated IN TROPICAL ARIZONA. km. J. Bryan tor the Toga. !& POTTER PALMER, SOCIETY OHIO ERECTS MONUMENT AT A Defeat Would Work for Good. DESERT SANDS BEING TRANS LEADER, SPENDS SEASON COST OF TEN THOUSAND From the farm furrow to the Sen In March, 1896, I had the pleasure, FORMED INTO VERDANT recently remarked an official of the In ate is the somewhat remarkable IN LONDON. DOLLARS FIELDSAND ORCHARDS. years. Thousands of acres of vines and orchards perished miserably and the desert once more began to en croach upon the cultivated fields. With a courage born of experience with arid conditions, a sublime faith in their chosen Held, the people brave ly. tried to meet misfortunes and to overcome them. It was u hopeless struggle. Salvation, though near, was Just out of reach. The great Hoods which came each year, sweeping away bridges and tearing out canals and ditches, could not be utilized because dian Department, of traveling in com record of the youngest member of that pany with the "Indian party" from body, Elmer J Burkett, of Nebraska. Striking Figure of theCaz.ilry Lead Washington City on its way to Car To be elected a Senator is considered Country Was Once Inhabited by an lisle, Pa„ to attend the annual com er as He Appeared in toe Later a distinction worthy the ambition of Ancient People—Only Ruins Left to mencement exercises of the Indian Years of His Life, But Not as He any American youth; to be the "baby” Indicate a Teeming and Prosperous Looked During the War. school there. member of the greatest of legislative Population. With the party, which included ■ Mrs. Potter Palmer, social censor The dedication of a statue of Gen bodies is a higher distinction, and es Swinging gently in one’s hammock ter the great world of society in Chl- some members of both houses of Con eral Phil Sheridan at Somerset, Ohio, pecially as in the case of Mr Burkett, beneath wide spreading tig trees load tego, is numbered among the few gress and a tew officials of the Indian ed with luscious fruit, aud breathing ■nerican women who have really and service, were the fearless, forcible on Nov. 2nd, revives interest in the where the race was a hot one, and his into the nostrils the fragrance of a opponent an able and renowned an career of the great cavalry leader of Fitzhugh Lee, and that knightly ■uiy penetrated to the inner circles of field of Peruvian clover mingling with Christian soldier, Major-General O. O. the Union armies. The state of Ohio tagonist, no other man than William the almost tropical bloom about me, it ■elusive society In England. erected the statue, an equestrian one J. Bryan. ■One hears every day of I,.?s. This or Howard. indeed hard to itelieve that this very Out in Nebraska, says Edgar C. is Naturally the two old veterans, and there his birth was recorded, ■rs. That who has set the "octal world spot, only a few years ago, boasted ■ London agog, but few of this vast serving on opposite sides of our coun which will stand in the public square Snyder, of the Omaha Bee, who Is fa nuught save the horned toad, the [umber ever do more than receive an try's most desperate war, found much of the quaint old village in which miliar with state polities, there has Gila monster aud the rattlesnuke. A nvitation or two to affairs which are in common to talk over and discuss; Sheridan lived as a boy. It was al been In the past a number of long suspicion of a scent of desert sage ■ no means the entertainments of the and were together during the entire ways believed prior to his death, that drawn out senatorial deadlocks. The wafted on a summer morning's zephyr trip. Sheridan was born in the village. He people were not only dissatisfied with ■art set. I had the good luck to be included and his family allowed the Impression conditions, but they were determined awakes in one a realization that. Just | Mrs. Potter Palmer, however, is a this fair oasis, gaunt desola- iroman whose social position is as in their conversation from time to to remain as there was some hope to stop it They concluded to direct beyond tion, weird and auu ui/Burriuun, mysterious, stalks siuiika pired and has been for a number of time, and heard much that was in that he might be nominated for Presi the action of the legislature. wide under relentless skies of brass. dent. Sheridan himself was always tears. To know her is the open ses- structive and entertaining. All these thoughts and others nre Nomination by the People. From present events their conversa proud to call himself an Ohio man. Ime to the most exclusive houses in The newspapers took up the matter yours when you drop into Phoenix America, and so when she went tion drifted back to the heroic days of When he died his relatives admitted Abroad last summer and announced the civil war, and they fought over that he was not even born in this of a popular nomination very ener or Mesa, or any of the little oases in .Jer intention of staying for the re again many of its battles. Then they country, but on a ship when l . s par getically, and the plan was suggested the Salt River Valley, after the long recalled old days at West Point, when ents were en route from Ireland. of having a state convention nominate hot ride across the burning sands [ ,_ _—- - , Howard was an instructor aud had They settled first at Albany, N. Y., a candidate for United States Senator, which intervene between it and El "Fitz” as his pupil. and there his birth was recorded and instruct their legislative nominees Paso, Texas. You are glad to feast "Do you remember,” said General However It was in Somerset that he to vote for him when the legislature your eyes on the green verdure which Howard, “the time at the Point that I grew up, a quick alert little Irish lad met. Of course, there was opposition seems to spring suddenly from out induced you to attend chapel serv whose greatest delight In youth was to the plan in certain quarters, for it the sere desert ices?” An Almost Tropical Climate. to await the coming of the stage that materially interfered with the desires "Yes,” answered General Lee, "but he might ride the horses to water, of the "bosses” who had controlled Phoenix, beautiful in a garb of I didn’t go for the services, I went for nis old mother used to tell in her de Nebraska politics for many years, and tropical luxuriance, with wide aven OF THE SALT RIVER you.” clining years of Phillies great love for ues shaded by magnificent palms or OIANT CACTUS VALLEY. Again their conversation was about horses and bow hard his father used Burkett was not exactly to their liking. shapely umbrella trees, with pleasant The opposition, however, did not de storage necessitated an expenditure the war, and its decisive battles, and to whip him for riding every horse he velop any great amount of strength, homes almost hidden by vines and beyond the means of the people. to the wonderful changes since those could find to mount flowers, bids you welcome. and Mr- Burkett was unanimously de Many of her pioneers and her best tragic days of ’61-5. Once Lair of Geronimo’s Apaches. Early Cavalry Training. clared yfe choice of the Republicans of citizens came here to fight a Inst bat They had discussed the industrial Far up in the San Francisco Moun That early love of horses stood Phil the state for Senator, to succeed Sena- tle with that dreaded scourge, the tains, once the rendezvous of the conditions of the country, and General Lee seemed unusually well informed in good stead when he entered the White Plague—tuberculosis— and the Apache outlaw Geronimo, and his cavalry arm of the service and fitted as to the needs and opportunities of welcome they received from the des band of murderers, Salt River aud him for the famous “ Sheridan ’ s Ride ” the South. ert brought the bloom of health to Tonto Creek come together In Tonto "Do you know,” he said, "the next to the battle of Winchester. Sheridan their cheeks and new hope to their Basin and flow into a deep and nar decade will witness an industrial re began as a clerk in the village store hearts, and is reflected in the welcome row canyon. Near the entrance to naissance for us. We are just begin and was sent to West Point by a con which greets the stranger at their this gorge the Engineers of the Re ning to get an Influx of Northern capi gressman who hoped to catch the clamation Service are building the gates to-day. tal and push; and we are learning that Irish Catholic vote. Alas, the con Ours is usually termed a new coun Roosevelt dam, one of the high,-st gressman was beaten, but he gave the we can get along without the niggers.” try, yet in Arizona one views the re in the world. From bedrock to tsp "Yes,” assented Howard, whose nation a great soldier and in later mains of a civilization that flourished It will be 275 feet high, or about half thoughts seemed still to cling round years when the man was in trouble, as long ago as the eighth or ninth cen file height of Washington monuinenit. MRS. POTTER PALMER. past events, “it’s all the result of that Sheridan came to his relief tn a grate tury, and mayhaps as ancient as that It will lie of rubble masonry, and in ful manner. The mother ot Sheridan at Gettysburg.” of the first. There is an irrigation ca its construction; will require 229,01)0 ta season at Cowe3, it meant one flght almost outlived him and died at the "I don ’ t know as to that, ” responded nal, deep and wide, cut from the solid bbls, of cement. When completed it Sxnore distinguished American woman General Lee, “but I wish you would age of 90 retaining her faculties to the rock by a race which lived in the will store 1,400,000 acre feet of water, Ko be admitted to the King’s circle. last. He visited her often and she tell me how ’ you ’ ens ’ came to win that Salt River valley ere man had or sufficient water to cover that many I Mrs. Potter Palmer never does battle." was never so happy as when she told ■things by halves, and this was never learned the use of metals. On the acres, one foot deep. Once full, it "Well,” said the gentle Howard, “I all her neighbors "My Phlllie is com Knnre thoroughly demonstrated than didn bank one finds a broken stone axe, will insure sufficient water to cover ing.” He gave her a nice little home ’ t win it, Fitz, God did. ” ■ when she arranged the marriage be- mute evidence of the wonderful pa 200,000 acres In the valley with live on the edge of the village, and under “ Yes, General, ” Lee answered, “ I ■ tween her niece. Miss Julia Dent know you went up into the steeple of a great tree that stands in the yard, tience of a people of whom history feet of water, the amount needed to ■ Grant, and the Russian Prince Can- that old church at Gettysburg for some speeches have been made by the first records nothing save this sign of skill produce a full crop. The people ire | tacuzene. It was one of the mefct bril- purpose, but I didn’t know it was for President Harrison, by Sherman, in engineering and irrigation. Van pledged to pay $3,600,000 in ten yuirs lllant matrimonial achievements the that" ishe<d are they into the misty for this work. To-day only 100,000 Tom Corwin, Garfled, Hayes and Mc tile acres are irrigated under present sys- [social world has ever known, and, un- past So long ago that; Lee gazed for some time out of the Kinley. The father of Sheridan lived I like so many similar affairs, the union I has turned out to be a supremely [happy one. When Mrs. Potter Pa.mer deter- | mined to Join the social colony at I Cowes last year she leased the hls- r torlc Egypt House in England's fa mous beauty spot, the Isle of Wight I Everybody who is anybody in English 1 society goes down for the regatta sea SENATOR ELMER J. BURKETT, son, for the King is sure to be there, of Nebraska, I and society flocks at the royal heels. This recalls that the interior of tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi Egypt House is a splendid example of can nominee’s for the legislature were the simple luxury which prevails in so pledged to carry out the action of the many old English houses. Several state convention. years ago it was leased by Consuelo, Hot Contest With Bryan. Dowager Duchess of Manchester. The William Jennings Bryan was the uni Duchess is one of the oldest friends of versally accepted candidate against King Edward, and during the season Burkett, supported by the Democrats. that she was mistress of Egypt House Populists and Free-Silver Republicans. she was the King’s hostess on more than one occasion. The flght was thus narrowed down to The Duchess had the old place done one between Mr. Burkett and Mr. over in anticipation of the King’s com Bryan for control of the legislature. ing and all the floors were highly pol Which one would be senator was de ished and covered with expensive rugs. pendent upon the political complexion His Majesty was escorting the Duch of that body- The campaign, extend ACENE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA. ess Into dinner one evening when he ing over a period of about five months, An Irrigation Ditch Runs Through the Town. slipped on the polished floor and nar was exceedingly virile, and there was oldest legends of the oldest Indian terns. The Roosevelt dam will double rowly escaped getting a bad fall. For plenty of uncertainty to make it inter tribes convey to us no word of an in the acreage. It will also furnish 10,- the instant the King was angry and esting, and at times almost bitter. dustrious race of busbandmen who 000 horse power, which can lie used reminded the Duchess that he detested Mr. Burkett, like bls distinguished carried the waters of the Salt River for pumping wator from underground polished floors and would never again opponent, is of even temperament, out upon the desert and made it to sources where tne supply is known to enter a house where they prevailed.' slow to anger and plenteous in that blossom. Merchants of London received or What dreadful catastro be large. Some of the power will bo ders the following day to take meas brand of good nature that never wears phe overwhelmed them? What cruel conveyed electrically to the San Carlo« urements of all the floors in Egypt off; and so whatever may have dis fate overtook them and swept them Indian Reservation, and water pump House, and when the King again vis turbed others, it can be said that noth from the face of the earth? Ask of ed from wells may restore to the Pima Papago Indians the lands which ited the Duchess there he found every ing harsh or bitter ever passed be the desert, which quickly returned and room and corridor carpeted in fine to claim its own and obliterated under are now worthless, and change a tribe tween them personally. now almost wholly nomadic into their Persian effects. The King laughed Roosevelt's great popularity made Its drifting sands the long lines of former condition of prosperous agri and partly apologized for his bad tem canals and ditches and the wide the state surely Republican, so far as culturists. per on the previous occasion by say the electoral ticket was concerned, but spaces of green. It answers not Thirty miles of wagon road up the ing, "You are very good, Duchess. You Mr. Bryan’s popularity and hie force Centuries passed, and then the Anglo- rugged Salt River canyon have been see. I am not as young as I used to Saxon came to battle with the des as a campaigner made the outcome as completed, a cement mill at the dam be.” Since that time polished floors to the complexion of the legislature ert. . As his groat steam shovels swept site Is turning out hundreds of barrels have been tabooed by the English aside the sands, behold he found bls one of doubt and uncertainty. Then, cement dally, saw mills are smart set. linos crossed and recrossed by of fine big timbers, brick yards are in too, there were local conditions that canal the ancient ditches or following them. cutting were not advantageous to the Republi So great were the returns from ir full blast; thirty miles of power canal Ia Saaless Dungeons. now furnishes 4000 horse power for cans. rigation in tlie vnlley, it was but nat A victim of Russian severity who These were the conditions confront ural that the old canals should be all constructive purjs>s<*s, telephone THE SHERIDAN 8TATLE. was at one time Immured in the grim car window at the flying trees and to see his son win fame In the war, ing Mr. Burkett when the campaign lines, electric lights and water works fortress of Peter and Paul, in St. Pe wheeling landscape. His thoughts but died from the kick of a vicious of 1904 opened- Mr. Bryan, brilliant, widened and lengthened and new are completed, a city of 1,000 tersburg, describes it as resembling a seemed far away. Then, without look horse. shrewd and resourceful as be Is, took house of the dead. at Howard, he said, "Well I’m advantage of every mistake of the Re Took Care of Relatives. “Its dungeons, utterly sunless, are d ing ----- n glad. General, that you licked abodes of gloom and silence. Not a us. It was the best thing that could The General did much for all his publicans, and he went into the cam paign determined to elect a Demo word is spoken among the hapless pris have happened for the South.” relatives and his memory is blessed cratic legislature. He strove mightily; oners, intercourse being carried on in the old town of bls boyhood. Ills he held meetings In almost every dis mainly by gestures. Prisoners com WTiere Age Drought II callh. municate with each other by knocking A proud father in a western town, younger brother "Mike” is a retired trict; he completely covered the state on the walls of their cells, so many who has a number of daughters of a army officer. Another brother, John, with a special train, and made from times for each letter. But even this marriageable age, in speaking of the died some years ago and his daughter five to eight rear-platform speeches a Is sternly repressed by the authorities, qualities of the girls, said to an ac Ellen is now postmistress of the vil day. arousing as he always does, great and captives detected in the practice quaintance that while he loved each lage. Mrs. Sheridan, the widow, was enthusiasm. But Mr. Burkett was also are liable to severe punishment. of them very much, he would like to present at the unveiling with her over the state. He made as many "In short, the prison reproduces all see them comfortably married. "I have children, one of them being an officer speeches as did his opponent and he is the horrors of the dungeons of ro a little money.” he said, "and they in the army. The sculptor, Carl a convfncer. and he visited every por mance, with mildewed walls, cold si will not go penniless to their hus neber, endeavored to represent Sheri tion of the Commonwealth. lence and despair. The fortress, in bands." dan as be may have appeared when Genius for Organization. deed, is never spoken of in Russia "There Is Mary, twenty-flve years making bis famous ride, except that Probably one of Burkett's chief at without a shudder, for imprisonment old, I shall give her $1,000 when she he has pictured Sheridan as be looked there is little better than being buried marries. Then comes Bet, she is more in the lafer years of his life. The tributes in his genius for organization- HUGE ALFALFA HTACK8. •Uve.” than thirty-live, and she will get $3.000. Sheridan of the battle of Winchester As a result of the marshaling of his ditches constructed. With the op inhabitants rests In the reservoir forces, a legislature was elected with timism which has ever characterised where 170 feet of water will cover It, while the man who takes Eliza, who is wore a full beard as pictures taken Noah was a Wise One. more than forty, will receive $5,000 then give proof. The Statue cost ten every one of the thirty-three members the desert pioneer, great works were Geronimo's Apaches working every in the Senate a Republican and only thousand dollars and the dedication undertaken- day on roads or timbering—all those < little girl was asked by her Sun with her.“ There came a day when the sup signs of activity breathe unmistakable The acquaintance after some few mo was attended by Corporal Tanner, nine Fuslonlsts out of one hundred •ay school teacher, “who was the members of the House. The legis ply ceased to suffice, Periods of commander of the G. A. R.. who made promise of speedy prosperity for the ments of aarious thought, wanted to wisest man.” "Noah.” she answered. •Re was the only one who knew know if ha had any daughters fifty or a speech. Adjutant Tweedale re lature met and in Just six minutes unusual and protracted drought fol sunny valley sixty-two tnl.’es beto*. lowed each other for a number of Phoenix redlvlvua. elected Mr. Burked a Senator, cited “Sheridan’s Ride.” sixty years old. aaough to go in out of the rain." ased “Egypt House**, Isle of Wight ■Polished Floors of Famous Man ion Persian Carpeted to Please loyal Whim.
