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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
Congressional Irrigation Commit.
tee to Make Tour.
WILL VISIT PORTLAND FAIR, TOO
Distinguished Party Starts June ! to
See Government irrigation
Work in West,

Washington, May 20.--on June ! a
party Of so, composed Of the senate and
house comittees ON irrigation, with
their wives, will leave Kansas City on
a tour of the West, which will include
visits to most Of the irrigation projects
where government work is now under
way, as well as the principal cities OF
the West. Not all members OF these
committees, but q majority OF each,
will make the trip.
As heretofore stated the trip is made
for the purpose Of giving senators and
representatives an opportunity to see
what progress the government Is max
ing under the National irrigation law,
passed only three years ago. II is con-
ceded that the law will eventually need
some revision, but until it has been
tried and its weak points have been
found, congress has been 10th to make
amendments. The trip this summer
will be an object lesson to the senators
and representatives Of the party, and
will enable them to discuss more intel
ligently than before all questions affect.
ing national irrigation,
Aside from visiting the various irri-
CATION projects now under construction,
the congressional party will spend two
days, June 2S and "a, at the Lewis and
Clark exposition and in Portland; will
spend June 25, Sunday, in Tacoma and
Seattle; will put in half day at Boise,
day in San Francisco, another at Salt
Lake City, and wind up at Denver on
the Fourth of July.
On June II, the third anniversary oi
the signing of the National reclamation
act, the party will be at Hazen, New,
at which time the water will be turned
upon so, 900 acres OF land under the
Truckee-Carson project, the first large
irrigation project to be put into opera
tion by the government. Leaving Ne
vada, short stops will be made at
Ogden. Salt Lake and numerous points
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana, Wyoming and Colorado.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
eowEN.LooMIs CASE IS UP.
Cabinet Discusses Il and President
Receives Statements.

Washington, May l9.-The principal
subject considered today at the cabinet
meeting was the Loomis-Bowen CASE.
No definite action was taken pending
an additional statement from Mr.. Bow
en-. Just prior to the cabinet meeting,
Jose Paul, representative of VeneEu-
ella in this country, called at the White
house and had q talk with the presi-
dent regarding the case. II is said that
Mr.. Paul is familiar with the transac-
tions involving the exchange Of a check
by Mr., Loomis with the Asphalt com.
pany at the time the former was United
States minister at Caracas.
During the cabinet meeting Mr., Bow.
en- called at the White house, and,
through Secretary Loeb, sent note TO
Secretary Taft. The note simply indi.
Gated the presence at the executive
offices of Senior Pastro y Mora, friend
of Mr.. Bowen, who the minister desired
should talk with the president and Mr..
Taft. Soon after Senior Mora had q
conference with the president and Mr..
Taft, lasting some time. Senior Mora
did not disclose the details Of the inter
view, but it is known that, having at
one time been connected with the as
phalt company in Caracas, he was on.
abled to throw some light on the pres.
ent situation. When Mr.. Taft left the
White house he said that no determ-
ination Of the case had been reached,
and none would be until all the facts
from both sides had been developed.
He indicated this might take several
days.
Mr.. Bowen today filed with Mr.. Taft
his statement in reply to Assistant Sec
retary Loomis' charges and also bearing
on the charges against Mr.. Loomis
which he transmitted to the officials
here.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
Togo South of Formosa.

Annoy, China, May 2O.-It is believ.
ed that part of the japanese fleet ID
taking up position below Formosa,
and that Admiral Togo has planned tc
fight the Russians south Of Formosa
The Japanese get orders from this vi.
cinity at night time. The state of mar.
tial law first declared at Tamsui, island
Of Formosa, and subsequently made
general throughout the island, has been
followed by the appointment of mill
tary executive, and the moving of the
women and children from the Pescadore
islands to Formosa.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
GOVERNMENT CHIMES HERE
Bells Will Furnish Quaint Music from
High Exposition Tower.

Portland, May 19.--Chimes for the
government tower at the Lewis and
Clark exposition arrived in the city
yesterday from Cincinnati. They occu-
pied two cars which were at once
switched to the peninsula spur for un-
loading. Today they will be raised in
to place in the east dome, 260 feet
above the earth.
These chimes will furnish quaint
music during the exposition. When
President Roosevelt turns an electric
key at Washington on the first of the
month the effect will be to set these
chimes to tolling out the inspiring
notes Of America" AS it is neces-
sary to have the chimes in place for
this important ceremony they will be
adjusted Immediately.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
NO MORE LIEU SELECTIONS.
Hitchcock Holds Law Means What Il
Says-May Be Amended.

oafS-"af Dc HU1eHueu.
Washington, May 20. - Secretary
Hitchcock, in a circular issued today to
registers and receivers OF local land
offices, holds that congress meant what
it said when. by the act of March 3,
1905, it absolutely repealed the lieu
land law. With the exception OF own
ers of certain lands in the San Francis
co and Grand Canyon reserves in Ari-
zona and the Santa Barbara reserve,
California, who are specifically provid-
ed for by special act, the secretary
holds that all right to make lieu selec-
tions expired March last and local
land officers are advised that they are
without authority to accept relinquish-
ments of lands within forest reserves
after that date and allow the selection
OF other lands in exchange therefor.
The secretary says, however, that all
lieu selections made prior to ard pend
ing for adjudication on March 3, 1905,
may be perfected and patented and, If
in the adjudication Of any selection
then pending, the same should be held
invalid for any reason not the fault Of
the party making the same, another se-
lection for like quantity OF land may
be made in lieu thereof.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
Military Attaches Going to War.

Washington, May 20. - Brigadier
General Thomas H. Garry, Colonel
John r. vanoff, of the Medical depart
ment, and Captain Sidney A. Cloman,
Of the general staff, in this city, will
proceed to st. Petersburg and report to
the United States ambassador prelim-
mary to their joining the Russian army
in Manchuria as military attaches.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
Lapan NAV Rux Argentine ships

St. Petersburg, May 19.-The Rusky
slovo declares that Russia having fail
ed to complete the negotiations for the
purchase of the Argentine warships, an
Intermediary has now arrived in Paris
and is negotiating their sale to Japan.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-05-25
Railroads Accused of Breaking Law

Topeka, Kan, May 19.-Upon re-
quest of the Interstate Commerce COM
ission, United States District Attorney
Dean has filed suits in the Federal
court here charging railroads with vio-
lation of Federal statutes. The Mis-
souri, Pacific is charged in three in
stances with not complying with the
law requiring safety appliances. A
similar suit is brought against the Iron
Mountain railroad. The st. Louis &
San Francisco railroad is charged with
keeping cattle on the road for more than
"a hours without food or water.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
4 MASsA CHUS E1Ys NOTION.

They don't believe in chloroforming
 old men in Massachusetts. Instead they are talking pretty seriously about soothing their declining years with pen- sions. The Massachusetts House of Representatives debated the other day
 pension measure adversely reported
 by one of it's leading committees. But in spite of this handicap the bill receiv- ed surprisingly generous support. It got s5 votes, against 97 in opposition Last year similar measure was de- feated by 90 votes to 54., In itself the defeated age pension scheme was far from radical. It proposed to give g a week to all male citizens of Massachu-
 setts of sixty-five years or over But the applicant for pension was to have paid poll taxes continuously for twen- ty-five years. He was to be required also to show that he had not within five years previously been convicted of fel- ony; that he possessed a good moral character, and that he was not addicted
 to the use of intoxicating liquors. It was argued in support of the project that it would greatly increase the States revenues from poll taxes, and
 that it would also greatly reduce the number of paupers now maintained as
 public charges in the local almshouses. No estimate of the probable cost of the experiment was submitted, however, and the measure was attacked and de- tended mainly on theoretical grounds. Its advocates declared, in effect. that the State owed every worthy citizen a certain support in his old age, regard less of his own efforts to secure himself against helplessness and indulgence. The opponents of the scheme denounced it as hindrance to thrift and self-denial and as departure from the doctrine of free competition and individual respon- sibility. This is interesting, and perhaps im- portant. Massachusetts isn't as afraid of notions as some of the States are, and the next time she may adopt an
 old-age pension plan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
THE VENGEANCE OF BILLY THE
 KID,

Chief among the stock owners was John Chisholm, whose brand was on thousands of range cattle. Billy work ed for Chishalm a short time, but soon he had his inevitable quarrel with his employer. It was over a question of wages, Billy claiming that Chisholm had not squared their account. Only the fact that Chisholm was surround ed by guard of hard-fghting cow boys, with reputations as killers" Kept him from assassination when he and the young desperado parted. As it was, Billy managed finally to exact terrible penalty from Chisholm. It is more than likely that the Kid swore his vendetta against Chisholm and other cattle owners simply as matter Of course instead of a punctilious af- fair of principle. Billy would naturally take sides with the rustlers who were
 making life miserable for honest men in Lincoln County. He soon became a leader of the desperate crew and was in the thick of many of the deadly en- counters that took place during the course of the war" It is estimated that he put a second dozen of notches on his gun-handle during this fiercest of range feuds, every notch represent. ing a human life. Two of victims were sheriff and his deputy, who had driven him and part of his gang into an adobe house :
 One day the Kid turned up at one of the Chisholm cow-camps. He had not forgotten his old feud with the cattle king of the. Pecos, Three of. the cow boys were at a fire, cooking supper, and twenty yards away Barrett Ho-' we'll was hobbling a COW pony Billy rode up to Howell and asked him if he; worked for John Chisholm. On being answered in the affirmative, the Kid. shot the cowboy through the head, at the same time crying, in his high-pitch, cd voice: Well, there's your pay"
 The cowboys at the fire sprang to their feet, as they saw their comrade
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
A TRUE DOG STORY.

John Chase, a stage driver, on tn mail line from Saratoga to Dillon, is the owner of a remarkably bright shep- herd dog, which money could not buy, for he helped his master out of a very difficult matter and probably saved the lives of four horses. ~--.
 Mir. Chase was on the road to Dillon with four-horse sled-load of mail last week, and reached point near what is known as ''Snow-slide hill." when his horses got off the road and all four of them got down in the snow. Chase worked for houre, trying to get them on their feet again, but in vain. After most heroic efforts, all four of the horses remained "belly-up." It was growing toward night and the weather was sharp. Chase was desperate. He saw that all his efforts to get the horses up were in vain.
 Joseph Farrell and two or three other men occupied a cabin about a mile back on the road. Having this in mind, he turned to the dog. who was an inter- ested, but helpless spectator, and said:: "Go down to the cabin and tell those men to come up and help me" He had no thought that the dog would under stand, but it seems that the dog did, for he at once started down the trail on a run. Chase has often said that the dog knew all he said to it. but all his sto- ries of the dogs intelligence were taken with grain of allowance, his hearers knowing how much Chase valued the canine.
 It was not very long, however, before the men, armed with shovels, made their appearance, accompanied by the dog, which seemed to be leading the way. They, said the dog. had come and scratched at the door, and had shown so much anxiety for them to follow him, running off up the road, barking and whining, that they felt that it's
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
PROGRESS IN gHE TRANsTAAL.

PROGR ESS IN THE JRdNSPAAL.
 In a farewell speech at Pretoria the other day Lord Milner delivered viz orous defence of his administration. He protested vehemently against the habit of perpetual fault-finding so com mon in the TransvaaI, but had, he add ed. no personal grievance on this &C., count. Often, indeed. complaints against his subordinates were accompanied by compliments to himself, but these he could not accept. With perfect sheer ity he could say that he had been most loyalty and ably served, and before the tribunal of posterity he and the admin istration officials would stand or fall together. What struck him most about his band of workers was the enormous mass of their achievement and the gen. eral soIidity of their work. A great deal of it was rough and costly, but there had been no time for trimming. One always had to pay extra when go- ing full steam ahead the whole time. When they took over the country it was, he said, total wreck. Their task was to make it going concern again as soon as possible. They could not stand Adding over small economies while people starved. What had been accomplished? Profound peace reigned throughout the country. The statute book was no longer an unintelligihle tumble, but had been reduced to req sonable proportions and orderly form. There was a steady and incorruptible administration of justice under the Su- preme court; the principal industry was returning to it's old prosperity; new life had been infused into agriculture by the starting of experimental farms, the introduction of better stock and the planting of forests; they had municipal institutions as liberal as any in the world, and free schools containing twice as many children as had been educated in the State schools at any previous period. He then proceeded to enumer- ate the sums expended on railroads, high roads, schools, orphanages, hospi- tals, asylums, etc., amounting to many millions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
SOME USEFUL WORK.

Carroll D. Wright has been making a study of the influence of trades unions on the new arrivals in Chicago. His finding is that the unions are helpful in Americanizing and bettering the conditions of the Poles, BOhemians, Lithuanians, and slovalis, who form so large percentage of the labOrers. Before the unions were organized, each race kept closely to itself. It had its own church, it's own schools, it's own benevolent associations, its own social life. It attempted, when the unions were started. to organize these also on race lines. The leaders, however, object ed, and, for the first time, Irishmen, Germans, Poles, Bohemians, and the rest were forced to mingle-to hold common meetings, to learn common tongue, and to take common action. To a certain extent also the unions have been educators in political science. Here the Eastern immigrant first learns the value ot his vote, and gets some vague notion of his relation to the State. Again, through the union he seeks to improve his condition. Bet ter wages, shorter hours, better homes, better clothes, larger opportunities for himself and children-these, according to MT. Wright, are the staple subjects of talk at the union meetings.
 That is certainly useful work, more useful than some of the work that has been done by some of the trades unions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10

master must be in trouble So they bundled themselves. procured shovels, and determined to find out, if possible, just what was the matter. ..
 With the help of the men the horses were gotten on to their feet once more. There was hay in the sled, but as it was still on the trail, it was too high for the horses to reach it. So he snow was shoveled away to let it down to a point where the horses could feed with comfort, and the outfit left for the night, Chase and the men returning to the cabin for the night. ..
 The next morning Chase was able to get the team on to the road once more and finished his journey without fur ther mishap. Chase says that money could not buy that dog, and he never makes trip over that road without the dog along Saratoga (Wyo.) Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
4 PROMISING PLAN.

That is a promising plan which MT. r. P. Sargent, Commissioned General of Immigration, has by which he hopes to make a better distribution Of immi- grants through the country as they land upon our shores. The greater num- Der of them land at Ellis Island, New York. In 1904 the number of arrivals at Ellis Island was 6O6ooO, the number for the entire country being about S00,- 900. Of these 263,150 settled down in New York city, and the great majority of the remainder went to other cities as laborers, etc., where they are not need ed. A very few found their way to the farms, where they are needed and where they can get employment at once and can be assured of a comfort able living. MT. Sargent's plan is for the government to erect a large build ing at Ellis Island, in which each State can maintain an exhibition of its prod uctS ana 1nQuStr1eS. The immigrant as soon as he puts his foot upon the New World will then have the opportunity to select intelligently the place where he will settle. If he is disposed to en- gage in agriculture or become farm laborer he can tell in which part of the country the crops are produced with which he is familiar and which he knows how to cultivate If market gar dening or fruit growing has been his vocation, he will know just where hs is to go in order to procure the employ ment which is best suited to him. If he has been engaged in manufacturing industries, the exhibits will show him where the factories in the line of indus try with which he is familiar are locat- ed, and he can go there to seek em- ployment.
 This plan ought to be tried. At pres ent the immigrants are not intelligently distributed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10

worse of the shot, reminds me of one glorious June day some thirty years ago, on which the writer and friend went fishing in White river below In- dianapolis As We drove several miles through forest-covered hills, the shot gun was taken along to take care of squirrels which might offer convenient shots. There was loon on the river, the first one we had ever seen, and, of course, we just had to have him. The loon seemed to be about as curious about us as we were about him, and swam back and forth in front of us at a distance of twenty-five to forty yards. As head, neck. shoulders and back were exposed, he looked an easy shot, but he wasn't Instead of being killed at the first shot, he was just gone. He soon came to the top of the water, but after the first shot showed nothing above the water but his head and about six inches of neck.
 We shot at him twenty-tWo times at a distance of thirty to forty yards, and when my friend did the shooting could plainly see that the head and neck were gone before the shot struck the water. Had not some strategy been used, it is not likely he would have been killed at all While the loon was under water my friend hid behind pile of drift wood, and I, provided with a stick about the length of gun, kept in sight, acting as though trying to get a shot. The loon presently sWam within range of the gun behind the drift pile, and<that time enough shot hit his head and neck to instantly kill him. The above does not agree with what MT. Linkletter telIsus about the loon he killed, but it is not intended to cast any doubt on his statement. It is doubtless a fact that his loon could not dodge shot, but mine could. For est and Stream.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10

Philosophy is more satisfying to a faded intellect than to an empty stom ach.-Puck. ,.,,
 Even an electric button won't accom- plish much unless it is pushed. Phil adeiphia Record. +S% ...
 If we did all the things that we in tend to do, we'd soon find that we shouldn't have time to intend to do Sd many.-Pucli.
 Easy Foote-''De more a man does de more he's capable uv doin'." Dusty Drowse-(shudderin one crime leads to anudder. Judge.
 Raynor-"Your wife speaks several languages, doesn't she?" shyne-"Four English, French, New Thought, and Henry James. .''-Chieago Tribune
 Well, this is put up jcb. all right, '' said the man, as he struggled under his wife's direction, to hang the pictures on the parlor wall.-Somerville Journal.
 Mrs. Nexdore-"I've been thinking of having my daughters voice cultivated. Would you?'' Mrs. Pepprey-"By all means, if you have tried every other remedy. Philadelphia Press.
 Jack-"Darling, I have a favor to ask, I want you to consent to 8 secret we'd ding" Maud-"oh, Jack! I'd just love to, if you are sure you can arrange to have it leak kout."-Brooklyn Life.
 Uncle John-"Did you cry when you fell down, Willie?" Willie-"No, l didn't do that until just after. "-Ex- change.
 '"Tl1e more I see of these cranks who say they live close to nature" ," said Uncle Allen Sparks, "hte more l admire t,"-Chicago Tribune. ; There was young girl in Schenec- tady
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10

Thus Professor Hugo Munsterberg in the Atlantic: In eternity lies the real ity of our friend, who will never sit with us again here at the fireplace I do not think that I should love him better if I hoped that he might be some- where waiting through space and time to meet us again. I fell that I should then take his existence in the space time world as the real meaning of his life, and thus deprive his noble person. ality of every value and of every ideal meaning. The man we love was not in space and time; he fought his life of strife and achievement as a subject which calls not for our perception with it's standards of casualty, space and time, but for our interpretation with it's standards of agreement, of values, of ideals. We know him as a subject of his will, and thus as a perfect part of the real world in it's eternal fitness of NailQ Values. 1He IlldH whom we love belongs to world in. which there is no past and future, but an eternal now He is linked to it by the will of you, of me, of all whose will has been influenced by his will, and he is bound to it by his respect for absolute values.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10

Who said: -"IfzI fixed up limerick With a rhyme for my town
 am perfectly sure
 It would be the first one ever written" ."
 Exchange. You must be careful said the phil osophic friend, Hest riches tempt you to pride My friend" said MT. Dus- tin Stax, don't worry. After a rich man has been discussed by the editors and portrayed by the caricaturists and criticised by the clergy, he's liable to feel so humble that it makes him cross. '' Washington Star.