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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-08-24
nMstR tAND. ...kcI JUNE 81 isIs NOTICE. FoR
PUBLICATION
United States Land office.


Ia Granie. Oregon. June o. 1909, I
Notice II hereby given that IN compliance With the
provisions oi the at oi congress ~ June lSrs e.
tri An act ioT the sale oi timber lani> m the states
oi California. oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ti,orN. a. extended Ia all the Public Land States b,
b> at OF Aul ust ., lS9s,
10 \ {. hllLMAN.
%, Sumptet. ,ounN of Baker. state oi Oregon. has
this iay filed IN this office his sworn statement No.
us.. Tor the purchase oi the NJ MN, NIaNW.
sni lot one OF See 20 Tp. No. X, range No, ,S
twM, ani wlll otter prOoi Ia snow that the land
sought II more valuable tor It's tinker oI
stone than Tor agricultural purposes, ana Ia esiae-
hsh his claim IL SAID lant tsioTe Charles h.
Chance. L y, Iommi>>oner, al hi office AT
Sump,er. oreeon,on "Wednesday. the sist isy o.
August, iOos
Mead. Van Ren,>elser Mead. Ene y, Bergman.
all of Sumptrr. Oregon
ANY ana all PERSON, claiming adversely the above
described lands are requested To hle their claims in
this ouce before saii ,st iav OF August. ieo~
L. W. DAVIS. Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
ilsolated Tract.)
PUBLIC LAND SALE.
! u, y. Land Once.
Granle, Ore,

Y
la Granie. Ore.
NOTICE ~ HEREBY GIVEN. That In pursuance q
~ instructions from the Commissioner of the Gen
crll Land omtc, untrT authority vested IN him hy
Section 5.SS u y. Revised Statutes, ~ amended ty
the act ~ Congress approved February 40. ISoS We
Will proceed To otter AZ pu'c sale, AT ten O'Clock
ON the s,th iay OF September ion4, AZ this office
he following Uat Of Lana, to wit: NV ;. Nj y
See a.. I. 80 y Range " J. ". N
ANY ana all persons claiming adversely the above
irscIihel LAND are requested to file their claims In
this office ~ before the day above designated ioI
the commencement oi ali safe: otherwise, their
rights will he forfeited
Dated August ~. ioo.,
I W. DAVIS. Register
A. A. ROBERTS. Receiver
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-08-24
DESERT LAND. FINAL PROOF NOTICE FOR
PUBLICATION.
United States Land Once.

Ls.tHahie. OfrHoh. June lo i0o4
Notice Is hereby given that Joseph Whsm. Of
Unity. Oregon. has filed notice ot D., n,ou 10 max
proof ON his desert land claim No. ,Yb. tor the Sc.
~ before the County Clerk Of ,"' fnur'
Baker City. Oregon. ON "Wednesday. the 9>'h day Of
August. 1000.
Tie ,mes the following witnesses TO prove the
complete Irrigation ana reclamation of said land
Gene ieager oi Unity. Ore. Thomas II. Boy-r OF
Hereford. Ore.. Thomas Thompson OF Unity. Ore.
Alfred Whi,ei oi Unity. Oregon.
l.. w. DAVIS. Register.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
FoREsTERs IN SESSION.
The Principles Involved in Forest
Taxation Discussed

A brief paper prepared by Mr. Alfred
Alderman, state forester of Massachusetts,
read by Mr.. Wesley J. Gardner. and a more
exhaustive one by Mr.. Alfred Gaskill were
| presented at the weekly meeting of the So
ciety of American Foresters last evening.
| These papers and the discussion which fol-
lowed dealt with the difficulties on account
of high taxation which attend the holding
of forest lands; the influence Of the present
systems to cause land owners to cut clear
and abandon the land after numbering and
| the immediate need, in the interest of the
entire people, of new or revised forest laws.
Mr.. Akerman's paper assumed that forest
lands should be taxed according to their
producing ability. His discussion of the
princ iples of forest taxation involved the
consideration of four different points: a. Is
the present system OF forest taxation re-
| tarding burden upon the forest industry?
| (2) Would exemption from taxes upon forest
land give relief. and would it be practicable?
| O. Should the tax be levied upon the crop
| when harvested? ~ Would rebates solve
the problem, and are they also practicable?
The conclusion brought out was that some
system Of rebate would be best, similar to
that Of Pennsylvania, but one which could
be extended to larger tracts.
Mr. Gaskills paper, after noting that for
ests are in the interest of the commu-
nifty. as we'll as Of their owners. said:
While it has been recognizea tnae local
parts of the country, no adequate measures
have been taken to relieve the burden thus
imposed. Forested regions are necessarily
poor in their taxable resources-scantily
settled and without Industries, and there
fore with difficulty able to raise even what
is necessary for schools. roads. ETC.; and 1t
is unfair that the state should not assume
a part of the burden where the existence OF
the forest benefits the whole commonwealth.
Under the present system there Is, in many
cases. no alternative but to tax woodland
heavily
HANGED timber value the tax levied upon
standing timber Is often a warning to the
owner that he must cut 1t or run the risk
of great loss; and when he has cut 1t the
bare land is taxed so high that he is forced
| to abandon 1t.
"Forests should be recognized as a public
good. and consequently should In the tax
lands. In applying this principle the land
ought to be distinguished from the forest
that stands upon It, The growing forest
might well be regarded as personal rather
| than real property. for 1t is essentially a
cron. It would be we'll that the tax on
growing forest should not be collected at
ali until the timber is harvested"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
OF ALL SORTS
Continued from Ninth Page.)

ting record made by Cresceus at the
Wichita CKan.) track October 10. 1908. has
finally been thrown out by the board OF APP
peals Of the American Trotting Associa-
ton, in session at Chicago. George H.
Ketcham Of Toledo. Ohio. owner OF the Tor
mer champion trotter. was found not guilty
of establishing a fraudulent record. The
board declared that the evidence fell short
ticination in the claimed fraudulent agree
ment for an illegitimate record, SO far as
Mr., Ketcham was concerned.
The board. however. found the officials
Of the Southern Kansas Fair Association:
on whose track the race was run, guilty OF
connivance to establish a fraudulent rec
ord, expelling from the American Trotung
Association President c. II. Irwin and an
the other officers connected with the wien,
Ito fra Oh at that time The others expelled
are 8. b. Amiden. judge; A. c. Jordan,
Fred Stearns and H. T. Games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
Large Attendance Expected.

Secretary George w. Drew of the joint
committee on the ratification meeting of
the Roosevelt and Fairbanks League and
the Old Boys Junior Marching Club, to be
held tonight at Grand Army Hall. states
that he has received hundreds of letters
from prominent men who have promised to
s. A.. has loaned the organizations many
flags and lot of bunting with which the
hall wiz be decorated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
INSISTED ON PEACE.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong Pre-
vented "Mix-Up" at the Treasury.

Assistant Secretary Armstrong acted an
peacemaker in his Office In the treasury
late yesterday afternoon and succeeded in
making peace between the two over-heated
men who were ready to personally settle
their differences. ]. o. Thompson, collector
of internal revenue Of Alabama, and one
of the referees In appointments in the state,
met William Tibbetts, collector of customs
at Mobile, in Mr.. Armstrong; office. They
haven't loved each other for these many
days, political feuds having prevented that
brotherly affection that sometimes exists
between men in the same party. Mr..
Thompson felt that Tibbetts had insulted
him in the way he acted when they met in
the Office and proceeded to notify him of
the low estimate at which he held him.
Tibbetts retorted in about the same terms
and Thompson started for Tibbetts. They
were prevented from coming to blows and
Mr.. Armstrong insisted on one apologiZing
and the other accepting the apology. i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
Whist News.

A number of invitations have been sent
out by the Washington Chess and WHIST
Club, Ga 18th street northwest, to com
pass game Of whist for Saturday night, the
10th instant.
The game last Saturday night was Wen
contested by twenty-four whist enthusi-
asts The top score. North and South. was
made by Messrs. Queen and Leith, and
East and West by Messrs. Nevins and
Nevins.
It is proposed to continue these saturc az
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evening games during the winter, and all
whist devotees are cordially invited to at
tend
Coming Wrestling Match.

Articles of agreement were signed last
night by Manager Charles J. Weiss of Bal
timore and Joe O'Neill of Ohio for a finished
wrestling match between Weiss protege,
'Shad Link" and Joe O'Neill. the former
wrestling partner of Farmer Burns" The
bout will take place In this city on Friday
evening, December 10. 1904. at catch-as-
catch-can style. with every hold to go
even the terrible strangle-best two in three
falls to be made. The winner will secure
the entire purse of 500. Link" is well
known in this city. where he had sew
eral matches last fall. In all probability
Joe Grant will be chosen as the referee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
Notes of the Boxers.

Joe Bernstein and Johnny Burdick have
signed to box twenty rounds on Decem-
Der le, before the Pittsfield (Afass.) A. c.
Joe Cans and Jimmy Kelly, the New
York light-weight have been matched to
box fifteen rounds before the Eureka A.
c. of Baltimore on December 80.
Mike Schreck, the Cincinnati middle
weight. Is getting rusty for fight and 10
willing to tackle Gus Rubin for fifteen
or twenty rounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-09
Anglers Association Elects Officers.

At the annual meeting OF the Anglers
Association, held last night, Mr.. p. B.
Otterback was unanimously reelected pres
ident. The following officers were also
elected: A. ]. Whitaker vice presidents
c. E. Ingiing. secretary-treasurer; II. @.
Bergling and I. ]. Atchison, members of the
executive board.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
POOR CONCERNS, BIG SAFES
Business Houses of Questionable Sta
bility Have Larger Strong
Boxes Than They Need.

One distinctive and distinguishing
feature of financial eollapses is the large
measure of attention which is attracted
to the safe or safes of the defunct firm
Or corporation 1t is a well-established
axiom in business circles, states the
New York Sun, that 1.-The poorer the
credit the larger the safe.
New concerns of questionable stabil-
ity in every business district almost in
variably equip themselves with elabor-
ate, ornate and usually powerful safes
protected against burglars, fire or other
unforeseen contingencies and having,
usually, some very elaborate Combina-
ton. When the smashup occurs the
sense of confidence among creditors, in
spired by the formidable character of
the safe, leads them to insist upon the
opening of the strong box in the appar-
ent belief that it is sure to yield large
hidden treasure, an exception almost
never realized.
A new concern which would start in
business without a formidable safe or
safes would certainly lack one of the
chief resources for getting credit; put
Notwithstanding this, huge safes con-
tinue to be almost an integral part of
all businesses in a line where large cred
it and very little real resources are de-
manded. In the furnishing of new Of
flee or offices the item of safes is never
large, but in no way better than by the
purchase of safes can a full measure of
credit be established.
Some day there will be a smashup in
the business district of New York, and
the sensational discovery will perhaps
be made that there was no safe in pos
session of the concern, but so far no such
case has been disclosed, and every large
concern, it is now sometimes said has
small safe and every small concern q
large one.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
WOMEN "BUcK THE TIGER"
How the Dealers in Montana Gam
bling Resort Get the Work
ing Girls Wages.

In Butte, Mont, there is a gambling
house where the patronage of ladies
is the special feature of the manage
ment, and where all kinds of women
play the good old game of faro, perfectly
at home and without fear of Interrupt
ton The entrance is from analley near
Broadway, and the house is luxuriously
furnished. Carpets are laid on the
floors, softened lights shine over the
players, courteous attendants deal and
shuttle the cards and pay bets or take
winnings without the slightest sugges-
ton of the incongruity OF the situation,
says the Denver Republican.
Here many fashionably gowned wom-
en- of Butte's elite come in parties or in
pairs with escorts, to quietly venture sill
Yer or goldpieces coined from copper by
their husbands, who busy themselves in
Butte's continuous political war
Women of the business world keep
track of the game, and both dealer and
player usually maintain rigid silence.
Money is passed out for chips with the
simple word, five" or ''ten, 'and con-
versation is economical to minimum.
And there are schemes to inveigle the
unsuspecting that only the initiated I'M
derstand. Many women of the middle
classes are among the most regular pa
irons of the place. A waiter girl was re-
Gently observed playing her weeks
wages with phenomenal luck. With SIS
she had won $50 and had cashed in her
chips with charming GOODNESS prepared
to go home winner" The dealer paid
her without comment He counted out
the money-two twenty-dollar bills, one
ten, one five, four dollars in silver, two
half-dollars. She picked up the money,
put the bills in her purse and laid
half dollar on the ace. 1t lost. She laid
down dollar. 1t won. Another few
moments and she had lost the silver. Re-
luctantly she drew out five-dollar note
and began to play again. In few deals
she was playing heavily again. In half
an hour she was broke. 1t was simple
trick which has won the bank many mil.
lions of dollars after the player cashed
in-the manner of payment. One is re-
luctant to break bill, but silver is con-
venient to lay down on card, and most
gamblers will do it. Before they know it
they are again drawn in to the game.
They sometimes win, it is true, for the
games are on the square, but one cannot
win always, and the chance on a second
round is in favor of the tiger"
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ent time, though it would be unwise to
attempt to forecast whether the place
will fall by storm, by the slow process
of siege, or by famine. Oyama's troops
were landed at the mouth of the Hua-
yuan river, near to Pitszewo, in the vi
cinity of which place the Japanese
have landed recently. The movements
of 1894 may be taken to indicate those
of the present time. The earlier dis
embarkation commenced on October "a
and Port Arthur was captured on No
vember 81. The troops moved west
through the peninsula, and on Novem-
Der the walled town of Kinchou was
captured near the narrowest part OF
the isthmus, and the occupation OF Ia
lienwan followed on the next day 1t
is not permissible to doubt that the
Japanese are now engaged in like
movements.
From the first landing up to the eve
of the attack, the assailants had been
four weeks in making their prepare
TONS Whether the same rapidity eau
characterize the present operations re-
mains to be seen. Port Arthur then
was strong, but now it is far more for
midable, and it is fair to assume that
there will be a resolute defence. 1t is
possible, therefore, that the Japanese
may think it wiser to await the tens
when the place may fall without q
blow. JOHN LEYLAND.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
BEACONS LINE THE COAST.
Marines Near the American Shore
Are Seldom Out of Sight of
Warning Light.

That the United States government
has been mindful of the welfare of peo-
pie who go down to the sea in ships
is shown by the fact that there are 5000
burning lights and signals stretched
along the American coast, forming a
perfect link, so that the navigator never
need be beyond sight of one of the bea-
cons. One thousand of these are To-
Gated on the Atlantic coast, 1900 are
scattered along the rivers and inland
waterways, 500 on the great lakes, and
$50 on the Pacific coast Of the grand
total including lighthouses of different
classes, buoys, beacons and danger sig
nails, 5000 are lighted, giving forth
their warnings at night time. Of these
a score or more throw a beam of 100,-
600 candle power.
To maintain the lighthouse service a
corps of over 1000 men is constantly
employed and a fleet of more than so
vessels. No service in the world ex-
ceeds our own in completeness and eff
cheney. A modern American lighthouse
of the first class costs between $10O, 900
and 5000, 900, and of this about one-third
is spent for the electric light apparatus
alone. Beside one of them Egyptian
Campus or Rhodes perfect idol" with
"profulgent brows," whose rays streamed
down the purple streams of Mizraim,
would shine as tapers in the Mediter-
ranean night, with no place among the
seven wonders of the world, and hardly
worth noticing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
Psrils of ..self-poctorine. .

Large numbers of people in prosper
Gus circumstances die as sexagenarians
from maladies which are evidences of
degeneration and of premature senil-
ity, while many who pass this period
go on to enter upon an eighth or ninth
decade of life. The former class COM
prise those who have lived without re-
straint of their appetites and who have
sought to allay some of the conse-
quences by Standardization, while the
latter class comprise those who have
lived reasonably, and who, if annoyed
by imperfect digestion, have sought re-
lief by abandoning the errors from
which it sprang-London Lancet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
CHART SHOWING JAPANESE AGAINST

China, it is not surprising, though it is
noteworthy, that their movements
have not differed very greatly. In
June, 1894 Gen. Oshima, and in the
following September Marshal Yama-
gaia, landed at Chemulpo, and
marched on Seoul, just as Gen. Kuro-
ki's troops did in February last The
Chinese were then in great strength in
Korea, and were defeated near Asan
south of Seoul, on July 20; but the
whole course of the operations was to
drive them west of the Yalu. They
made a great stand at Pingyang, where
they were defeated in a sanguinary &C
ton by Gen. Nodzu on September Is,
but after that they retreated to the
very same positions on the right bank
of the Yalu from which the Russians,
under Gen. Sassulitch, were driven
with such great loss on May 1.
The command of the sea was then,
as it is now, the ruling factor in the
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slams can have failed to anticipate
what happened. AS in the case of the
Chinese, if their left was turned all
else was lost, and nothing remained
but for the troops further south to ex-
tricate themselves as best they could,
and retreat north to Fengwangcheng.
The repeated attacks made by Ad-
miral Togo upon Port Arthur have
shown the great significance attached
by the Japanese to the presence there
of Russian naval force in which
there remained some spark OF vitality.
In 1894 the Chinese fleet had already
been defeated, and, having no inten-
ton of further trying conclusions
with the Japanese, Admiral Ting had
dispatched his remaining ships to Wei
haiwei, where they were dealt with
later on. The operations of Marshal
Oyama, however, for the capture of
Port Arthur may be taken to fore
shadow what is happening at the pres
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st. Louis-Early visitors to the Louis
lana Purchase exposition have found
at st. Louis an exposition so nearly COM
plete that they have in no way missed
the few minor details that were unhn-
ished on the opening day, and which
have since been completed. In fact in
an exposition of such proportions as
this it would be impossible to discover
a thousand little details that might lack
completion.
Weather conditions were against the
exposition management for few days
preceding the opening. Now every
thing is favorable, and the great fair
is entirely complete, a completeness, we
must repeat, that is so enormous that
it is all but impossible to comprehend
what it has meant to the builders. The
last Yestige of sCaffolding that for a
few days surrounded some Of the less I'M
Dortant buildings has been torn away;
the last wagon load of refuse hauled
from the grounds; every flower and
shrub the landscape gardeners included
in their scheme of decoration growing
under the benign influence OF spring
sun, and the exposition stands forth a
completed giant, beautiful in concep-
ton, wonderful in execution, stupendous
in size, by far the masterpiece OF the
worlds expOsitions.
Stupendous size does not half express
it. This worlds fair has many sur
prises for the visitor, but its immense
size is the greatest astonisher of all.
Amusement at the extent of the fair is
heard from every visitor.
1t has been interesting to watch the
visitors these first days of the fair. In
teresting to see what would appeal to
then strongest, but after one has studied
the mass of humanity in their quest for
the wonders it is hard to select any one
feature that could be designated as
general favorite with all. Of course all
visitors are enthusiastic over the general
picture. the grand en- semble, which has
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been created, and for the first hour or
more of their stay inside the grounds
but few get further than the point from
which they catch their first view of this
grand picture.
1T almost takes my breath away,
exclaimed one woman near whom / was
standing as she caught her first glimpse
of the beauty of the cascades and the
magnificence of the grand exposition
palaces. Such is the general verdict.
For beauty, for magniticence, for extent,
ST Louis has beat the world.
There is another feature, or rather
collection of features which seemingly
appeals to every visitor, and with good
reason, and that is THE Pike" The
fair management do not wish to appeal
to the public with side-shOw They
built an exposition which should stand
forth to the world on its merits as an
educator, as a monument to the worlds
progress, but realizing that an amuse-
ment feature was necessary they set to
work to provide the biggest and best in
this line that has ever been known. That
they have succeeded in this is evident
to every visitor who travels The Pike
Nor is this great amusement feature
lacking in educational interest. Here
one may study the architectural fancies
of the world; here he may study the
nations of the world, their methods Of
life, their surroundings, their customs.
He sees realistic pictures of the Esqui-
maux in their snow and ice bound homes
in one minute. and the next is trans
ported to the jungles of tropical Africa.
The Pike is not an aggregation of fat
women and the skeleton men, in no
sense a circus side-show, but realistic
picture of the world upon which five
millions of dollars has been spent.
Six thousand performers from foreign
countries. and busy artisans from every
remote corner of earth are engaged to
reproduce the life of 25 different peoples.
Fifteen hundred animals are required to
lend reality to the varied scenes. Two
shows in the list of 40 represent an out
lay of 81, 400, 000 Twenty of them cost
not less than 100000 apiece, and hardly
an attraction less than $4,000.
Some idea of what there is to be seen
of Pike features may be had from list
of the educational amusement features
which this section of the fair contains:
Alaska and Esquimaux Village; An
cient Rome and Hawaiian Volcano; Bat
tie Abbey; Bohemia; Crystal Palace:
Cliff Dwellers; Chinese Village; Colorado
Gold Mine; Creation; Coal Breaker;
Cairo; Constantinople; Fire-Fighting