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The new age., 1906-12-01
MUCH Land STOLEN
Government Grip Tightens on
Plundefef's Of Domain.
MANY HIGH OFFICIALS INVOLVED
Machinery Of Law At Work Against
Men Who Ruled Land Office
To Rob Nation.

| Salt Lake, Nov. 29.-The grip. Of the
government and of Justice is Tightening
slowly about the organized gangs which,
it is alleged, have for years, with the
IconniVance of the Land department,
robbed the public domain of coal, min
eral and timber land valued at many
millions of dollars. In the end, it is
stated, every member of these gangs.
whether he be a plain citizen Of the
United States or occupies high official
position, will be made to answer in the
criminal courts for his completely in
the most gigantic frauds said ever to
have been perpetrated ON the United
States government.
Every agency of the government, in
Guiding the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, the secret service, the Federal
grand jury and the court of equity,
has been set in motion to accomplish
the end desired. While the Interstate
Commerce commission is taking testi-
mony here tending to show that the
Rio Grande railroad and its allied COM
panies, the Utah Fuel company and the
Pleasant Valley Coal company, have
been securing by fraudulent means all
of the coal land in the state of Utah
and consequently building up their
monopoly in this line, the Federal
grand jury here is awaiting the out
come Of the hearing with a view to
gathering all of the guilty ones into
its net.
The peculations of which the govern
ment complains have been perpetrated
in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Mon
tana, New Mexico, California, Oregon
and possibly in other states. The rob
berries Of the public domain have been
almost as extensive, it is charged, in
timber land as in mineral land.
That such enormous frauds, extend
ing through long period Of years,
could not have been rated withs
out the completely og tlle Iatsd separt
ment Is said to be i patent faet
During the hearing here yesterday a
glimpse of the real power behind the.
throne was given when it was stated BY
government land agents that they had
been compelled to see Senator Francis
r, Warren regarding official business
of the Land department. Senator War
rem is charged with having ruled the
land Office for a number of years. It
was his influence and that of Senator
Clark which secured the appointment,
during President McKinley's admins
tration, of Willis Vandevanter to be
assistant attorney general for the Inter-
ior department. Vandevanter was the
legal conscience of the Land depart
ment and Vandevanter had been at
torney for the companies charged with
the land. 1t was Warren who
made Congressman Frank w. Model
assistant land commissioner, who later
put Binger Hermann in the position of
commissioner, and who succeeded him
by present Commissioner Richards. 1t
is Warren, it is claimed, who still con-
trolls the land offices from Nebraska and
the Dakotas to California and Alaska.
The new age., 1906-12-01
Send Colony to Africa .

London, Nov. 30.-A report was cur
rent in this city today that the South
Africa company has offered the Saliva
tion Army 1000, 900 acres of land in
Rhodesia for colonization purposes,
with the stipulation, however, that in
the event of the colonizing scheme
proving a failure, the land should re-
vert to the company. General Booth
said tonight that the plan had been
prematurely disclosed. He declined to
commit himself to any statement of
details, because he said the plan might
still fall through.
The new age., 1906-12-01
BRlNe eRAETERs TO JUSTICE.
Stolypin. Starts Vigorous Inquiry Into
Famine Fund Scandal.

anime Funu Scandal.
st. Petersburg, Nov. 80. Prompt
steps have been taken by Premier
StoIypin to deal with the famine relief
contract scandal in which LidyaI and
Al Gurko, assistant minister of the I7-
terror, are involved The premier has
called 4 special meeting of the council
of ministers for tomorrow to discuss
the affair.
m Gurko has resigned. When he
presented his resignation, the premier
told him he should not quit Office, but
5is6sss for his own sake at least, he must
face the court
The premier is expected to appoint
an inter-ministerial commission COM
posed az assistant ministers to investir
gate the case He will then bring if
before si Department of The sem
ate in public session asaTe &
been given to collect evidence and cross
examine all persons connected with the
affair, and General Fredericks, COVER
nor Of Mimi Novgorod, has been sum
moned to st. Petersburg to answer to
the charge Of standing sponsor for Lid
val. A certain Sotskich, an assistant
of Lidval in buying grain in the pro-
vinces, also has been summoned by the
minister of the Interior, but has failed
to answer and is thought to be in. hid
inc
The new age., 1906-12-01
Gar Fixes TweIve-Hour Dsy.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 80. = The en-
peror has approved the resolution in
troduced by the council of ministers
fixing IL hours as working day, in
cluding two hours for meals, in all in
dustrial and other circles. This law
will become operative six weeks after
its pronunciation.
The new age., 1906-12-01
plans for NV Sugar Trust.

New Orleans, Nov 29.-Plans to
form a $2S, ZOO, 900 merger Of Louisiana
suagr plantations and sugar houses are
announced by a committee in charge Of
the project.
The new age., 1906-12-01
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The new age., 1906-12-01
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KALISPEfL, MONTANA

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The new age., 1906-12-01
The REASON WHY
Bourne Should Not
Be Elected U.
S. Senator

The New Age has said before and il
now says again that it does not be-
lleve that the next legislature will
elect :. Bourne, Ir., to the United
States senate. IT has been said that
our opposition to Mr.. Bourne is in
spired by prejudice. and that we can
give no good reason for opposing him
since he was regularly named by the
republican voters for the offiee.
We opposed Mr.. Bourne during the
primaries for the reason that we knew
him to be unfit for the high Office to
which ne asPired.
First-That he Is not : loyal and
consistent republican.
seeond-That he is traitor and
political bIack-Ies.
Third-That he could not be depend
sd upon e support Roosevelt,
z he had been ! loyal and consistent
republican hs would not have deserted
BIZ psrty q tas hour u IL dire 4
tfsss' when tVs blight y srgsnlsR
populIsia Ovsrshadowed the country ii
1906. But as true and loyal rspuB-
Iican would have put self aside and
'SHuSTeu Whatever service he could
for his party and his republican
friends. If Bourne,s will had prevailed
and Bryan had been elected who can
say that there would have been todav
strong, lnvincibIe republican party
n Oregon to honor him for his perfidy.
The legislative session of 1895 was
The most spectacular in the history Of
Oregon and the King Pin of that ses.
zion was J. Bourne Jr., whose mai
'dorous record is even yet a stencil in
he nostriIs of decent people. With =
Ioodly supply of money and other cor
upting influences the trick of thwart.
ng the will of the people and debauch.
ng the honor of the citizenry was the
pecial mission of this political monte
'ank, who, now, ten short years after
ward, has the brazen affrontery TO seek
his high and honorable position at
he hands Of the party, whose murder
lie conspired to bring about.
In the light of the past record Of
ar. Bourne, who is so unsuspecting as
o trust him in the future7 Does any.
ne who knows him, save his hired
enchmen, think for a minute that he
an be depended upon to stand UP for
epubIican principles and policies in
he United States senate, and to up
old the hands of lifelong, true and
ried republican leaders in that body,
nd to "stand pat" with the party's
natchIess leader, nose profound
patriot and humanitarian
ince the days Of LlncoIn-Theodore
ROOSEVELT.
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tween the raspberry and blackberry.
Il has the taste OF the former and the
size and shape of the latter. It may
have been produced by a mingling OF
the pollen of the other two berries
growing side by side. It has been OBJ
served that wherever the forest has
been cleared away patches of food ber-
ries spring up in the place where the
trees had been.
The hungry deer hunter finds other
foods than berries in the Adfrondacks
in autumn Nut bearing trees and
shrubs, chestnuts. hickory. butternut
, and walnut trees and hazel bushes drop
their products at his feet. It has been
found that in seasons when nature has
been most bountiful of her fruit and
nut crops in the Adirondacks game too
such as deer bear and rabbits are un-
usually plentiful. Even foxes ara
found il. greater numbers.
Game and fish are now more plenti-
ful in these mountains since the state
of New York undertook their preserva-
ton. 1t may be mentioned that it Is
considered more of triumph to shoot
a red fox than a deer Ten deer to one
fox is the proportion Of these animals
secured by hunters. 1t is because the
fox is so smart-so foxy. in short.
Foxes are hunted all winter.
If New York state had let the mill
lionaire spectators alone, by this tima
they would have had the whole Adiron-
dack region, with its million of acres.
fenced off and guarded as a series Of
private game preserves, where mona
but a privileged few might set foot.
But the commonwealth walked up Just
| in time to prevent this at wholesale,
though there are hundreds of thou
sands of acres thus under private own
ership.
one interesting experiment made by
the New York game and forest COM
mission was that of introducing moose
into the Adirondack woods that they
might reproduce themselves and grow
into herds. The first installment Of
these. animals, two bulls and four COWS,
was turned loose more than four years
ago at Uneas point, in one of the wild
est and most unfrequented of the
mountain districts. The experiment
will, however. take years to come to
complete success. A moose is not
easy game to capture alive A full
grown male weighs 1900 pounds. and
his temper is uncertain. and mooses
are not plentiful anywhere. It was
necessary to send to Canada and even
to the northwest territory to procure
the ones first liberated in the Adiron-
daczs. IN the private game preserves,
however. there are both moose and elk
in considerable numbers.
LILLIAN GRAY.
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AFTER and later year by year
mountain and forest lovers
who have homes in the Adj
rOndaclSs nnger there. The
Warmest house made is said to be the
one built Of logs. The log palaces OF
ltae milionaires in the mountains have
electric lights plate glass windows, eel
lars stored with all the Injuries Of all
seasons, fur robes and rugs and elder
down quilts. with make believe old
timey dreplaces but which. unlike old
timey hreplaces, don't smoke. In these
are piled logs of fragrant spruce, pine
and hemlock that give out sweet per
rune as they expire in fame.
Why should not the rich be COM
Portable and happy even at the north
pole, If what wealth may bring can
make anybody happy?
The picture represents the Adiron-
dack home of Hon. Timothy L. Wood
ruff. thrice in succession elected Re
publican lieutenant governor of New
York state. Mr.. Woodruff is the youth
full looking individual on the right of
the picture The others are the
friends and acquaintance that help
compose his Adirondack camp. Wher-
ever the ex-lieutenant governor is there
ne has friends around him. Almost
everybody likes him Among the pee
Pie with him in front of the log man
sion are Hon. and Mrs. Horace White,
MIR and Miss Wick. Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ.
J3elden, Mr.. Pomeroy and Colonel Yer
beck.
hindoo would say that Timothy L.
Woodruff brought good "karna" in
TO the world with him. He has wealth,
health. honors, brains. hosts of friends
and a beautiful wife, and at the age
of forty-eisht he looks at most thirty
Eve He is president Of the board of
trustees Of Adelphi college. brooklyn
At a commencement of Adelphi an Off
sal of the college. pointing out the
lieutenant governor to n friend said
That's Jimmie Woodruff He looks
7oung enough to be my son, doesn't
le?"
The friend agreed, whereupon the
Itnes said
We're just the same age and were
Iassrlates together n Yale
In fact Timothy Woodruff looks
7eUng enough 10 be his own son. He
married his second wife some two
vars go. ana his son was married
pout the ane time. ana father and
On and 5heir brides al went to Eu-
raQc= together On a honeymoon trip.
enc cause Of Tins youthful appear
suce is his haDpideG round fun face.
4Fsons with round. lump faces ought
20 pc thanlsf u for them.
v-oo1rur is one Of those Who seem
20 be successful in all financial under
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AN ANCIENT LOVE LETTER.

What is probably the Oldest love let
ter in the world has been discovered
written on brick about 1900 B. c. by
a Babylonian TO a lady living at the
two Sippars.7 known to readers of the
Old Testament as Sepharvaim. The
lovers name was Timil, and he writes
thus to his Kasbuya "a word that
means a lamb.
May the sun Of Marduk give thee
eternal life I would fain know If thy
health is good. Send me a message so
that I can be informed of it. am at
Babylon and cannot see thee. and
therefore am very anxious. Send me a
message to tell me when thou wilt
come so that my heart may rejoice.
Come in the October November month.
Mayest thou live long SO that I may
enjoy thy love"
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lie Discovery e. CO...

Coffee was discovered in 1885 by a
dervish nanee HadJi Omar. a native Of
the town of Mocha: hence the familiar
name.
Hadji Omar, lost in an Arabian des-
ert. was dying of hunger, when he dis
covered some small, round berries. On
trying TO eat them he found to his
disgust that they were extremely Bit
ter
Then he tried roasting them and
finally STEPPED a few thus roasted in
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ed the little bride demurely. Then she
glanced around to see if the servants
were within earshot. Say. did you
ever live a couple of months with your
in-laws2" she murmured t1agically.
y p
we went camping in the Adiron-
dacks," observed the much sunburned
young woman. ITS great Right
next to Natures heart OUGHT There
that's nothing. only a little twinge of
rheumatism. I feel it when 1 get up
in and out of chairs. Face swollen?
Oh. weII. perhaps little. You see the
black flies were rather thick. but you
didn't mind them while you we're get
ting bites I mean fish bites. When
You werent-wen, that's another mat
ter
THAT scar on my wrist? Why that's
where the frying pan upset over me,
or else it's where those hornets stung
me. I get rather mixed up. so many
things happened. No. thanks, ] guess
I won't have any of that curried chick
en- for lunch. Ny digestion is q tribe
out of order from the simple life of ex-
listing on fried fish and canned things
Go to a Jersey seashore hotel an
other year? Not much" calculated
the forceful lady from across the way.
Talk about your dead onesi The whole
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1 can tell you
we did them
t n o TO u 8 hIy.
Why. there isn't
q nook or a Ie-
gend I don't
know about, and
my poor feet
are ready to
drop off. Last
year it was
Scotland and
Ireland. and the
year before tina t
En- gla nd the
cathedral towns.
Sha keSpeare and
that sort of
thing. I'm dying
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RAp LUcK DIAMONDS.

According to Miss Bridget O'Reiliy.
who has made precious stones a study,
the car of Russia has a "vindictive
diamond" in his crown Jewels, and an
other in his scepter. These once form
ed the eyes Of idols and were torn
away. Diamonds in more superstitious
days were believed to ward or sorceFy.
repeI poison and confer victory over
enemies.
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piazza snelled
Of camphor be-
cause there was
so much wool
fancy work go
ing on there.
and it had to be
preserved from
moths until
Christmas time
I'm crazy Not
a bit of it. I
tell you those
vo m en- were
knitting woody
Christmas pres
ents the whole
livelon g da y
t on g h J ly
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zoe MANg AUFUMN cAmR n zee ADIaONDAOxs.

spikes Of vivid, dusky red, the brilliant,
speckIed 1sarsaparilla vine makes a
glow as one treads past it.
OF course there are autumn leaves
of red, yellow. brown and orange else
where, but in the Adirondacks there is
the vivid contrast of the magnificent
evefgreens. henllock. spruce, cedar, the
balsam and other pines. These in the
fall certainly seem to take on a bluer
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doctors worked over him for three
hours. and the time the whole lot were
upset in the lake, and the memorable
Saturday Peter lost his balance swing
ing on the pasture gate and sat right
plump into a hornets nest you viii see
that l was kept busy and interested.
MY youngest, little Mary? Well, no,
she couldn't get into the mischief the
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boys did, and she was quite a comfort
on that account-that is. she would
have been comfort if she hadn't
caught first the humps and then the
measles playing with the neighbours
children, and it seems to me 1 put in
most of my nights sitting up and Civ
ing her medicine. Oh. no thanks aw-
fully, I'm just as glad vacation only
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a witty. magnetic speaker An ac-
quaintance says of him:
He used to be awfully fond of
horses, but I think he goes il for au-
tomobiles now"
Till the end of October many city
folk rich and not 50 rich. remain in
their mountain cabins. October is the
loveliest month of all the year in the
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leaf bloom. Here are scarlet oaks, vel
low birehes. crimson and golden ma
pies, rel beechss and silver naples.
The mountain ash. which people pay
round prise for as an Ornamental
tree for thu lawn here grows IL per-
fiction. throwing our is dazzling
orange clusters as one never sees il do
when transplanted. The sumac lifts
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Frosts come the latter part of Au-
gust IN these mountains. vet it touches
leaf and blossom so lightly that many
time morning glories bloom far in
to the fal! in sheltered spots. The
Briton jeers lightly at his american
cousin for calling autumn the fall"
yet we are right The poetic Indian
knew this season as the time of the
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fail of the leaf" If summer Hnger
late in the Adirondaclzs the leaves stay
late upon the trees, but instead of
growing suddenly a vivid red they fade
softly into yellow, lighting all the
landscape like a glory round the
shriven.
In the Adfrondacks grow apparently
all the trees that take on new and
more splendid bloom in the fall, the
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Adirondaclzs The 'painted leaves Of
the autumn forest landscape are gor-
geous probably beyond autumn leaves
anywhere else on The globe. At least.
so Ills said. Nearly half a million peo-
pie go to the AdirondacBs annually FOR
the camping. fishing and hunting sea-
son. but comparatively few Of them
know or care anything about the au-
tumn glories of nature herself.
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green though perhaps tbs IS only be-
cause the trees hat cast thei.' leaves
are s. radiant in their fiery red and
yellow dress anyway. ii * certain
that IN the fall when the other leaves
are turning thu conifers' foliage APP
pears u brighter b!ua green than
usual
Oddly, too. weeks after the berry sea
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tal1ings. This. too. belongs to his
..karma,'' the hindoo would say He
got his start in life through the in
ability of friend to repay a sum Of
money Mi Woodruff had lent him.
Queer. but a fact. The friend had a
large interest in a proprietary medicine
which had never yielded any returns
except disappointment and loss Of
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comes once a year and that it's a whole
year off to the next one
y =
Vacation? All, yes, suppose you
refer to the summer months just gone, .
observed the practical woman. well,
1 had just the kind of vacation I like
for once in my life. 1 stayed at home
and wore out all my old clothes and
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water Naturally this was coffee, and,
though of the worst description SO
agreeable did Hadji Omar find it that
as soon as he could make his way back
to his native town he introduced this
new drink to the wise men of the city.
So we'll pleased were they with it that
the dervish was made saint.
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son is ended on the plains blackberries.
raspberries and bIueberries grow lux
uriantly and ripen in the Adirondaclzs
in sunny places. They have rich,
sweet flavor unknown on lower ground.
The deer hunter in the early part of
the open season eats his fill of the best
blackberries he ever tasted or will
taste. A fruit unknown anywhere else
is one which appears to be a cross be-
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money to its owners. The friend turn
ed over this forlorn interest to Timothy
Woodruff all he could do. woodruff
Immediately put capital into the dy-
ing enterprise. gave it his personal at
tentiOn and lifted it to its feet In re-
turn it made him rich in short time.
A man has to be wealthy to maintain
an Adirondack log palace.
Mr. Woodruff is brilliant talzer and
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" T is great fun at this time of the
year to listen to the stories Of
those who have returned from
a their summer vacations 90.
2Ut the interrogation point at The end
Of my sentence advisedly. for most
summer vacations you hear women tell
about sound more in abe nature Of hard
abor than in rest from the same.
= p
'4m mighty glad 10 get home!" ex-
claimed the little schoolteacher as she
1npacEed her steamer trunk and hung
ouf lot of rumpled clothes we took
In sweden and Norway This year. and
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went around at all hours of the day
looking as sloppy as I pleased. Then
I overhauled all my closets and made
a whole lot of new table linen and
hemmed some sheets and had all the
ceilings done over and two of the rooms
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WhtH you Wefe getttHg to see Paris and
Oates Rome, but Paris
and the historic towns of France
don't come until next year and Italy
the year after that You see. there
are six of us. ana each summer
we take a section OF Europe and do it
thoroughly, not sIoppily or at hap
hazard. as most tourists go through it,
Really it's most Instructive We are
taking the countries in order. BEGIN
ming with the most northerly ones, and
in the winter we read up ali we can so
as to be primed up for the summer. If
we have good luck and our strength
holds out we expect to DO the world
before we get through
She rubbed a little cold cream into
the sallow tired lines of her face and
leaned YEARLY back with tired sigh.
eyes, I had a lovely time" gushed the
sweet young thing. "or I guess I would
nave had if there had been any men at
Noisyhurst- the Sea. oh. Of course,
there We're men-kids ard things like
that-but not q soul with money. and
mamma was 50 disappointed she was
positively grouehy. Night after night
I would wear my expensive muslins
trimmed with real lace and made over
silk for just nobody at all. 1t was per
fectly maddening. And mother in
sisted upon staying up to the last min
ute, until I nearly froze to death, just
because she had heard that Willie
Greatrocks and party of rich bache-
fors were coming down. and she wanted
me to get some good out of my dresses
after all the work and money she had
put into them. But they didn't come
after all. Oh. dear met"
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