The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-01-13

Perpetrators to Be Prosecuted
TO the Limit.
SECRETARY HITCHCOCK TO STAY.
President VIII Insist That He Re-
main In the Cabinet and Run Down
Land Thieves-Back To the Eleventh
Cavalry of Fiction.

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Men who have committed frauds
against the land laws of the govern
ment ana have endeavored TO cheat the
United States of its public domain will
be prosecuted to the limit of the law.
1t has been made easy to obtain land
in the United States. Settlers who
want land have had no difficulty in
making their entries and obtaining IL
tie. The law has not been hard to
comply with. No burden was put upon
the settler snore than that which fails
to the lot of the average pioneer. The
persons who have been engaged in the
frauds are those who desired to oh.
tain valuable lands without conform.
ing to the law. They are being found
out, and they are being prosecuted.
There will be no let-up i'm these prose
cutions as long as Theodore Roosevelt
is president He is determined that
the men who have been cheating the
government must suffer.
Hitchcock Will Stay.
One result of unearthing the land
frauds is that Secretary Hitchcock will
remain in the cabinet 1t was general
ly believed that Hitchcock would close
his public career on March 4, but
Roosevelt will insist that he remain
and continue his work against the land
thieves. For years western members
Of congress have expressed their dis
pleasure with the administration of
the interior department. Criticisms Of
the secretary have appeared in the pa
pers, and western men have expressed
their disapproval to the president. 1t
has never developed just what the OBJ
jections TO Hitchcock are except that
the western men were always having
trouble with him. Now, however, with
all the various fraud cases pending,
any one who talks about the removal
of Hitchcock will be an object of sus-
picion. Some one might suggest that
he wanted to get lands patented to
which there was questionable title
or that he desired to save some friends
who had been in crooked land business.
Arizona Is Here.
You can run against q man from
Arizona almost anywhere about the
capitol these days. They are here for
the purpose of defeating the Joint state
hood bill. These Arizona people do not
relish the idea of being tied up to New
Mexico. OF course they will get its
name, but New Mexico will get every
thing else save one member of con-
gress. The men from Arizona declare
that their people would prefer to re-
main out of the Union rather than
come in doubled up with New Mexico.
Among the prominent Arizona men are
NJ. f. Murphy, miner and railroad man;
n. o. Murphy, former delegate and for
mer governor, and Mark Smith, eX-dele-
gate and delegate elect. They have
been making a close canvass Of the
senate, and they believe that things
are so we'll fixed that the bill will new
er go through.
Territorial Division.
Two years ago when the statehood
bill under Quay's management was
pending in the senate the three terrific
rial delegates. Flynn Of Oklahoma, Ro-
dey Of New Mexico and Smith of Ari-
zona, were all working together. Now
there is a different division. Mcclure
Of oklahoma and Rodey are on the Re
publican side, working with Beveridge
and Nelson. Wilson Of Arizona and
Mark Smith are on the Democratic
side, working with Dubois, Bailey and
Bate who have made their arrange
ments with a view of holding up the
bill until the session dies. The activity
of these territorial representatives is
one Of the interesting features of the
debate.
Back to the Eleventh Cavalry.
I. II Senator SCOTS bill abolishing five
regiments of cavalry should pass that
noted regiment Of fiction, the Eleventh
cavalry, could again be the pet of novel
writer's. For years there were but ten
regiments Of cavalry, so the novelist,
with a license to which he was en-
titled, always wrote about troop OF
the Eleventh cavalry. In that way he
could either protect real officers and
men or he could create an entirely new
scene in which the gallant Eleventh
could become heroes. Now that there
is a real sure enough Eleventh cavalry
the novelists have had to write about
the sixteenth or Seventeenth.
An Unpopular Suggestion.
The proposition made by James r.
Garfield, chief Of the bureau of corpo-
rations, to require license from all
corporations doing interstate commerce
business is meeting with all kinds of
opposition. Some people assert that the
scheme is unconstitutional, but the
main objection to it is that it is imprac-
ticable The impression is that Mr.. Gar
field will have to try again. 1t is not
believed that even an attempt will be
made to carry out his ideas with legis-
lation.
Bate and Father Time.
"When Dakota came here for state
hood some six or eight years ago." said
Senator Bate while discussing the
statehood bill, mo one on this side
objected to the division of the terri
tory as requested because he thought
it was too rge" Time no doubt slips
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