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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-17
COAL LAND sW|NDLE
SUPPOSED 10 BIZ ON FOOT
IN THE ALASKAN FIELDS
Government Agents. Suspicious
Aroused By the Faith With Which
People Having No Resources Have
Applied for Coal Land Entries
They Are Probably Backed by
Great Corporations Scheming for
Monopolles In the Fields.

The fact that men OF no wealth,
whose standing is unknown in Seat
ue, have recently been going In large
numbers to Alaska and taking out
applications for coal land entries,
which they have no visible means or
prospects Of ever being able to de-
velop, has aroused the suspicion Of
the government agents and they are
making a quiet investigation which
may result in startling disclosures in
the near future, says the Seattle
Times.
The government operatives believe
that one Of the largest coal mining
corporations Of the east has for some
time through its agents in this city
and the northwest, been sending to
the coal regions of Alaska men of
little worth and honor, whose sole
object has been to locate on a coal
land claim Of 160 acres. after doing
~ little as necessary in irder to Sc.
cure the patent to the property. The
men are under agreement to turr
that title over to the corporation
furnishing the stake and they are Il
receive a good sized sum In ex
change for the perjury and other IL
legalities necessarily committed II
order to consummate the fraud.
II the suspicious Of the govern
ment officials are correct there will
in the near future, be made an ex
posure OF coal land frauds which viii
equal. II not surpass. anything Of tn
Kind attempted in the timber fraud
OF Oregon.
The district affected will be tn
Aleutian Peninsula and islands
which are rich in coal desposits, ant
IN some few places, are now bein
developed by legitimate and homes
companies.
The peninsula and islands ar
however. in many places, almost des
tjtute OF settlers and there are doubt
less some Of the islands which hav
never been investigated by whit
men. It is therefore, a very simpl
matter for a local agent to get cos
properties. After the time necessar
for completing the title has passe
and the patent Is granted, there wi
apparanely be a legitimate sale {
the property by the claimholder I
the corporation, with nothing said q
suspected OF the previous agreemer
and the money furnished by the cas-,
err capitalists.
There enters into the matter, how
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-17
mouths. while the life Of the storage
cells is about eight years.-Lewiston
Tribune.
Utes May Lease Sioux Land.

The Indian bureau has been advis-
ed Of the willingness Of the Sioux In
dians at the Cheyenne River reserva-
ton to lease 100000 acres Of their
land to the band Of 500 Ute Indians
who left their reservation in Utah last
summer and who wintered in Camp
Heade. Nothing has been heard a.
to the attitude of the Utes toward
this proposition. but the fact that
they have expressed a determination
to remain where they now are leads
to the conclusion that they win ac-
cept. The bureau will put no obsta-
Gle in the way of such an agreement
II the details are satisfactory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-17

By June Is Naches City. q town in
which the first house was built dur
ing last January. will have q gravity
water system in operation. furnishing
water enough for household use, ir-
rigation and fire fighting. Naches
Is in Yakima county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-17

Reas the East oregonian.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22
Cough Remedy is both
Agreeable and Effective.

Chamberlain Cough Rem. dy has no
superior for coughs, colds and Group,
and the fact that it is pleasant to take
an ltains nothing in any way in
il ,uA has made it favorite with
mothers. Mr.. VS.. Pelham, q mer.
chant In Kirksvi!lg, Iowa. says: "FOr
more than twenty years Chamberlain
Cough Remedy has been my leading
medy for all throat troubles. 1t is
especially successful In cases Of Group
Children like it and my customers no
have used it will not take any other"
For sale 10y the Columbia Pharmacy.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22
GRANDVIEW.

Every body is having the grip these
days, even the correspondent, who
tries to stay up to date so while having
the grip mist a weeks correspondence
Some very hard rains have bsen hit
ting this section lately.
Frank CULLEN and family spent Sun.
day before last at the home of Charles
CULLEN.
Miss Josie Wyder who has been quite
sick is able to be about again.
Miss Clara aud Minnie Straub visit.
ed Kennewick last Friday and Satur.
day.
Marvin 1'elford, James Pointer and
Mel Dimmic went to Yakima on Tues
day where Mr.. Telford ,mmutcd on
his homestead.
This part Of the country has been
connected with Kiona by telephone
since the last writing. c. B. CULLEN
and Hans Smith are the last ones coll
nected.
When the blizzard like storm bega,,
raging on Sunday, March 10, it lookt
as If we were to have anoi her like last
years, but being from tho south west.
it soon turned into a heavy lain; then
the farmers breathed easier.
Mr.. Helmsis spend ng a week in
Umatilla.
OrvilIe CULLEN celebrated his 9th
birthday OH the 9th of March, with u
party. Tnose present were: Misses Sci
ma Norman, Christie Harris. Cassie
Dennis, Eva Mattht va, Leila L. id,
Bertha Mat hews Ei,a Denns
MessIs. Thsir Bronson, Charlie Todd,
Howard Norman Veto, Norman, Har-
~ Case, Ra PHI Matthews, Everett Tyr
rel!, Herbert aud OrviIl- CULLEN. The
youngsters began games at 1870 and
kept going at bo'h II d NOT aid ou'.
door games until 4 in the afternoon.
Dinner was spread in picnic style and
partners were secured by matching
broken hearts. Wien the time came
for parting it was very tired Lu'
happy crowd that went their separate
ways.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22
Call for Town Warrants.

The foll,w:ng Kennewick town
warrants drawn upon the current ex-
pense fund Of 3 id town. will lie paid
upon presentation to the town treas
urer at the Exchange Bank, Noe. 25O
3Ol incl isive. Interest on the al owe
war antawiIl cease on and after Mar.
g, 1907. Il. F. Knapp, Treas.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22

FOR RENT-For cash, the Beach
richard offs acres. south Of the town
tie. Apples, peaches, pear. plum and
berry trees in bearing. Plenty of
'od land for vegetables. Fine irriga-
son system and fluming. See the
,,Wner, Mrs. C.. J. Beach.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22
The Railroads Humbled.

around in remarkable fashion. Less
than a year ago the railroads were
hooting at the possibility of federal
rate legislation. They said and
,hot that they were too big to be
controlled in that way. As for
the state legislatures they were al
most too ins 'gni6cant and scattered
to be thot of seriously. Today on
the other hand, the railroads are
II t only accepting rate legislation,
but they a'e clamoring for govern
ment control to protect them from
the state le legislatures. The federal
probe applied to the Hartman lines
showed a surprising state of rotten
ness. The chances are that there
will be more revelations in the
same line. Ard the big railroad
officials of the country, the expo
nents OF high finance, are turning
yearningly to the White House to
be pro,ected-from what? The
results of their own doings for a
generation past.
The roads are in prosperous
condition now. Thes all have
more business than they can handle
and they want more money to ex
tend their equipment and make
improvements. 1t is said thai
there are 81 ,ooo,ooo worth of high
class railroad bonds and securities
now in New York that the under
writer's cannot get off their hands
simply because the pubic will not
bay them in the present state of
the railroad and legislative situa-
ton 1t is believed if the Presi-
dent would make some announce
ment in favor Of the roads and
would assure them Of federal pro-
lection against adverse state legis-
alton that there would be a renew.
al of confidence on the part of the
public. Donb less there would be.
But when the President was ap-
preached this week by a number Of
correspondents and asked for an
expression of views, he said that
there was nothing to say that he
had not said many times before,
namely that any railro., d or other
industrial corporation that conduc'
ed its business honestly would
have nothing to fear from the ad-
m'nistration So long as he was head
of it. But so far as attempting to
protect any corporation that has
been Juggling and watering stock
and making misleading returns of
its earnings and expenses for the
sake of rigging the market, he had
except that he hoped the law would
take its course and that the course
would be short and direct.
So the matter awaits the confer
euce between the President and the
railroad officials. 1t is probably
after that is over that the roads will
be given distinct assurance that the
general government will undertake
the control of int, state commerce
aud in doing so will pre-empt the
rights of the states TO deal with in
terstate lines running thru their
borders on rhe ground that the two
systems would be incompatible. If
this position is taken, it will put
the roads in much safer position
and pro 'ect them from prosecution
at the hands of state politicians
who merely want to make capital
out OF their unfriendly attitude to-
ward capital. But the effect will
be federal control with the hearty
consent of the railroads themselves.
And that would have been an en-
tirely unbelievable thing a year
ago
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-03-22

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The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
THE INGALLS, Case

The case of ingalls,, the OlinghouSe
mine owner. VS.. the CCentral Pacific
company before Registrar Cohn and
Receiver fremont of the United
States land Office in this city, is under
way The case involves the title to
mining land in Olinghouse canyon.
which is claimed by the Central Pa
cific under patent and by ingalls,
as a mining location. This case is
another feature of the case recently
decided by Judge Curler against In-
gals in the district court in Reno
E. c. o Brien and Judge Downer rep
resent ingalls, and Attorney Levers
Of Reno represents the railroad COM
pan-.
The taking of evidence by the land
agent here is the preliminary step
by the United States government in
an action which will probably be filed
against the railroad company on a
criminal charge.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
WOULD OPEN The MINT
I he Nevaca Commercial League Want
Coming Resumed at Carson

At the regular meeting of the Ne
vada Commercial league last evening
it was decided to cooperate with
Governor Sparks in asking for the re-
opening Of the mint at Carson. The
league will ask the legislature 10 ap-
point a railroad OF freight rates. Com
mittees reported that specimens are
being collected for exhibition at the
jamestown exposition and for a per
manent display at the Utah chamber
lot commerce. An appropriation Of
$500 was made and Will be used I'M
mediately in special advertising to set
fort. the resuorces Of Nevada. The
league proper was reported in eX-
/ ceHent condition and is progressing
finely. Considerable good for Carson
and the state will be accomplished in
| the coming months.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
LINCOLN COuN1Ys BONDS
Another Fight to Be Made in Re.
funding 1t This Winter

Last session an attempt was made
to refund the Lincoln County debt
which is increasing every year. The
Lincoln delegation passed the bill but
the governor vetoed it.
The Lincoln county delegation ex-
poets to make another fight in the
coming legislature to have the bonded
Indebtedness of their county wiped
out by a compromise. The debt has
reached mammoth proportions and is
growing annually to figures which are
staggering. 1t now totals sos, 1857
or at least that was the amount on the
first day Of the year. The debt is one
of the old stories of Nevada. 1t was
in 1873 that the county became am
bilious and, during a boom, erected a
, court house and other buildings which
cost s1s1,2O0, issuing tonds bearing
10 percent interest to meet the ex
pense. The boom was shortlived, how
ever,an d soon the county could mo-
even pay the interest. Judgment wa:
taken against the county at variou:
times, and finally the interest ant
principal have now reached the sun
of S76O7.37, all bearing interest. Al
together about $4,000 in interest ha
been paid On the debt.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
TRAVEL STILL INCREASING
A Night Train Will Be Put On to the
Southern Nevada Camps

Banks business needs have been
recognized by the Southern Pacific
Company, and to accommodate this
city and the Southern Nevada Mining
camps a night train TO Tonopah and
Goldfield will make its initial run
+ February 3. The announcement of
the addition to the service was made
yesterday morning when District
Passenger Agent Clapp received tele-
gram from Charles S. Fee of the San
Francisco Office. The new train will
carry baggage. mail and express cars
and a buffet diner will furnish break
fast on the down trip and supper re-
turning here. .a
With the change in service, which
will give two trains daily each way
over the Tonopah & Goldfield road
comes the announcement that if the
increase Of travel continues much
longer a special out of Salt Lake will
DE established. The officials of the
Southern Pacific will wait until the
two train-a-day service proves made
Quate to the needs of Reno and Gold
field before installing the Salt Lake
special.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
QUEER Manifesto

Eas"f !.
who is Running Nevada, The Western
Federation or The State Government?
The following dispath dated Jan.
14th comes for Colorado Springs:
The Western Federation of Miners
has issued a manifesto forbidding all
prominent Cripple Creek owners from
operating in the Nevada goldfields.
Those included were active members
of the Cripple Creek District Mine
Owners and Operators Association in
aiding Governor Peabody and his state
militia
The list includes President William
Bair1riGge and all of the officers of
the mine owners order, Sherwood AL
drich and other officers of the Elkton
Gold Mining Company. Others under
the ban are the officers of the Port
land, Golden Cycle, indicator, Gold
Dollar and other leading mines; Ad-
jutan, eneral Sherman Bell, Governor
Peabody's main support; city and
county executive officers and many
others
These men are warned not to visit
Nevada with view to operating
mines and union miners are inform
Cd that they are disturbers and are
menace to any community in which
they live. Severa l of. the persons
named reside here and are already in
terested in Nevada mines.
Either some imaginative press re-
! Western Federation of Miners is run
| by men who have never read the con-
| stitution of the state or any of its
| laws
The idea that a body of men with
headquarters in Colorado can issue or
ders to men doing business in Nevada
is about the top limit of absurdity. II
the people whom they have ordered tr
cease business in Nevada want Il
fstop in this state nd conduct peace
full avOcatiOns they will receive the
same protection here that any orhel
class will.
The right of some pc )ple in Colo
RADIO to dictate who shall do busines.
in Nevada may be seriously question
ed by the authorities in Nevada.
We ought to have state govern
ment strong enough to protect an.
citizen in the peaceful pursuit of an,
business he chooses to engage in.
If there is any question about tn
right of people coming into this stat
to live, and live in their own wa
: so longe as they do not enfringe ou
laws, the matter should be definitel
, settled without delay.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
WANTS A STRAIGHT. lleKEE43'

There is no question but that voting
machines are good things-many
times for the politician-but. Nevada
has many needs that are crying and
is not now ready to invest in any
luxuries. The most of us can con-
tinue to use a pencil and mark our
ballots. There is one improvement IN
the the voting, however, which the
News does favor and that is ballot
so that the voter can vote straight"
ticket with one mark as in other
states, instead of having to individual
ly mark each candidates name.-News
The Appeal has favored a straight
ticket for Nevada for years but when
it comes to a vote in the legislature
each individual member is governed
by what he thinks the result woud be
in his case with a straight ticket.
If it helps his party he is for il and
if it don't he fghtes it.
Nearly every state in the union
have a straight ticket except Ne
vada.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
T0:C0RN R \.
- 1.ei : en- Id NHl..
vADA COPPER

BOSTON, Jan. 16-The tremendous
copper discoveries in the west and es-
pecially in Nevada has caus d the for
nation of q combination of moniej
men to corner the copper output of
the world 1t is proposed to form an
association Of copper interests which
will rival the big steel trust and Hen
ry H Rogers is reported to be at the
head of tie combine
1t is stated here in high financial
circles that a movement is on foot,
headed by Mr.. Rogers, to consolidate
practically all the producing copper
mines of the country. The Standard
Oil man already is heavily interested
in the Amalgamated Copper Company
which controls the Anaconda and 9th
er high grade mines at Butee and
he is also known to be a part owner
of a dozen other copper companies op-
Grating in various parts of the Unit
ed States and Mexico. The state
ment therefore, tnat a unifcatiOn of
producing copper mines is under con-
sideration has merit of plausibility,
since Mr.. Rogers rarely engages in
a business which he does not sooner
or later seek ito gain control
Agents of the trust are already in
the field to secure the biggest copper
properties extant and the recent big
discoveries in Nevada are already at
tracting their attention. Agent o1
the combine are now in Nevada with
the object of securing the best cope,
properties in the state.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
THREE MINERS SHOT

GOLDFIELD, January hillary
Jardine accidentally exploded a shot
gun in this city last night and injured
three men sitting in another room
next to the one where Jardine was
standing with the gun in his hands
Jardine was explaining the gun to
Secretary Willis of the Miners union
when it suddenly went off the charge
Of shot piercing a wel and striking
Fred Melburn, were in the next room.
All three men were painfully injured
though not seriously.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
OIL IN CHURCHILL COUNTY
Possibility Of Great Discovery Near
FaIlon

What promises to be one of the
most sensational discoveries ever
made in the State of Nevada has been
quietly coming to the general pub
lie information for the past twenty
days or SO. 1t is nothing more nor
less than the strongest kind Of a
belief that OIL has actually been dis
covered in this state. The parties
who made the discovery did SO by
accident. They have not sought pub
licity. In fact they have endeavored
to avoid it.
The Reno Observer says:
The discovery became known VI
Fallon and other nearby points some
twenty-five days ago, and those who
got in on the information, lost NO
time in getting down some locations
There is one man in the state "
nevada to whose frontier explorations
in out Of the way places, is due the
finding Of more new and valuable
state sources of wealth than can b.
accredited to any ether. This man IS
Charles w. Kinney, and it was c. w
Kinney who first fell upon what il
now believed to be a great tract 0
oil land near Salt Flat, in Churchill
county. In this fiat Kinney had {
number of salt locations and wa
making a test on one claim for othe
than oil search. In fact neither oi
nor gas was even thought of. I
sinking shaft his men passe
through bed OF clay eight feet dee
then through a starata Of stuff whic
an expert has since pronounced crud
asphaltum This had depth Of seve
feet. Following this was an eight foC
layer shale, or black sticky stuff q
MIR. Kinney pronounced it. Immed
ately after passing through this
sort of a cement was struck.
All these indications are ceruai
signs of oil
1t is now considered merely que
ton Of time.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
LAD BUSINESS

Louis Stankovich. Greek, accom-
panied by ten of his countrymen, ar
rived in Reno, last night On the Ne
vada- California; Oregon railroad from
Chilcoot where they have been en-
ployed by the Western Pacific, and
stated that they had been discharged
because they refused to pay $40 per
according to the weather bureau, was
Camp 4. The men claim that all men
working at Camp 4 ere required to
pay $40 to the foreman every month
,ney work, a.1a that unless they pay
this money they are discharged and
men who will agree to pay ibis money
are employed.
1t is claimed that labCrer1 Ca the
Nevada allforniaOregc RI, ='oaG
have to pay some one to get jobs.
In telling a Gazette representiVe
/ Of the matter this morning Louis Stan
/ kOvich said: Il went to Samp with
number Of other Greeks about a
month ago and asked for a position
1t was given to me and we went tt
work in the tunnel. When our pa,
c ecks were given TO us, we were re
quired to cash them and give a fore
man SO. | refused to do this. as dit
ten other men, and we were immedi
ately discharged. We were told, how
ever. that W could return to work
We paid the money demanded Of us.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
RECORDER ALL RIGHT
Books in Bad Shape But No Short
ago


ago
The Virginia Enterprise has the
following to say regarding the ac-
counts of lie Auditor of Lyon:
The reported tangle in the office of
Recorder and Auritor Powers in Lyon
county, has been exaggerated. The
trouble seems to have been caused by
a penny-wise and pound-foolsh Board
of County Commissioners. When Re
corder Powers took the office, he
found it equipped with a dilapidated
book typewriter, as all the recording
is done by the loose-leaf method. The
business of the Office was handled
with the machine until the strike at
Ramsey brought to the office a rush
of work, and this was augmented by
an avalanche of location notices, trans
fers, ETC., from the Mason Valley dis
trict. Recorder Powers tried to keep
UP with the work by employing help
and paying for it himself. Still he
was unable to catch up, and he has
a stack of notices in his. office which
are piled up to the ceiling. He re
peatedly applied to the Commissioners
for additional help, but they refused
him aiG, a-.1 he was unable to gel
out his quarterly report for the last
o..dTcer. To add to the Recorders
j.
a great ''roae" but his bowling vii
do him no good, as Recorder Power:
has every cent received in his office
and when the Commissioners, give hin
enough help to catch up with hi:
work his balance sheet will be perfect