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The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-05
INCREASES PRICE or TIMBER LAND.

The Oregon's Washington cor
respondent has the following II
n recent issue:
Beginning December /. unre
served public timber lands enter
ed under the timber and stone
act must be paid for at It's ap.
praised value and will no longer
be sold i.r @ flat rate of S2.5C
per acre. Secretary Garfield 10.
day promulgated a regulation ia
this effect basing It upon the
law, which says that timber land
shall be sold for minimum price
of $3.50 per acre. " Garfield
holds thati If $3.50 is the minimum
price, a greater amount can leg
ally be charged for valuable tim
ber lands.
Under the new regulation a
person desiring 20 make q timber
entry must file his application.
accompanying il by an affidavit
stating that he has been person
ally upon the land and must sub
nit his own estimate as to the
amount Of timber and It's value
and value of land when cleared.
These filings win give him a pre-
ference right 10 the land.
Within nine months the Gov
ernment will undertake to make
its own appraisal and. when this
is done, the applicant can have
the land at the Governments
price, but his preference right
will he forfeited if he fails to
make payment within 80 DAYS
after the Interior Department
completes its appraisal. When
ever the Government fails to
complete appraisal within nine
months, the applicant can secure
the land by making payment 1t
his own appraised valuation.
Where the government S apprais- .
al is considered too high the land .
can be reappraised at the expense
of applicant.
In no instance will timber land /
be sold for less than $3.50 per \
acre. No entryman can cut tim
Der during the time apprisal is
being made, nor before he re-
ceiyes a patent from the Govern
nent.
Last winter Secretary Garfield 4.
,ndeavored TO persuade Congress
% amend the timber and stone
'ct so as to provide for the dis
'osal Of timber land at appraised |
'alue. When Congress failed TO
let 1t was announced that the
would do by regulation
What Congress had failed to do
~ legislation. Today's order is /
he carrying out of the threat. II
order is not retroactive.
I does not affect any entry here
o fore made. Il
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-05

great body of 40, 900 square miles
of territory without a railroad.
One of these ranches is in the
southern part of Harney county.
Most of these are what are
known as range cattle, yet they
are improved in every respect
over the old style of range cattle.
| Many thousand head of beef cat-
| tie are driven out of this country
each season, down through the
Klamath country to the railroad,
but there are still many thou
sand that are sold in Harney
Lake counties TO the ranchcrs
who raise large quantities Of al-
falfa and fatten them between
November and March. so they
go on the market in the spring
in good condition bringinga much
better price than if sold in the
fall.
There are scopes of country in /
Oregon and Northern
California where the wolves and
coyotes have become 50 trouble /.
some that the sheepmcn are go
ing out Of the business of raising
sheep and stocking their ranches
with cattle More and more
zach year the large ranges are
being divided up, yet there are
more cattle raised i'm Oregon
.oday than ever before Blue
Ht. Eagle.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-05
rugrlrloN FOR lIQuoR lIoENsE.

We the undersigned legal voters Of
Lake Precinct, Ilarney County, State OF
Oregon respectfully petition the Hon.
County Court of Burus, Harney County,
State Of Oregon TO grant a license to
Harris q Fitzgerald to sell spiritous Malt
and vinous Liquors in less quantities
than one gallon IN Lake Precinct,
Harvey County State Of Oregon for q
period Of COY six months as In duly
bctnd yvp will ever nrnv.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-05

The Times-Herald is in receipt
of a very complete report of the
Oregon Conservation Commits
sion to the Governor which gives
some very interesting informa-
tion regarding water and water
power conditions in this state.
The various Carey act segrega-
tons throughout the state are
shown by maps, besides some
half-tone cuts show some of the
fine water power sites while 9th
ers show the effects of irriga-
ton.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1908-12-05

Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday
the 18th day Of December 1908 the un-
ersigned will apply to the County Court
Of the State Of Oregon for IIarney Coun-
ty, for the license mentioned In the
foregoing petition.
HARRts & FfrzGERALD.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
HAWAIIAN Bazaar.

Hurrah for the Hawaiian bazaar
which opens in the Kapiolani building.
corner King and Alakea streets, at 9
Q clock Saturday morning, December
49, with just the things to give for
Xmas and New Year 's-tapas, pillows.
hats, Niihau mats, fans and fancy
fiber baskets, leather bags, and useful
articles too numerous to mention. Phi
luncheon at II a. m. Come one. come
all, and watch the natives work. -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16
PILES CURED IN s no a nAvs

FAzo OINTMENT is guaranteed
- cure any case of Itching, Blind
bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to
= Gays or money refunded.-Made bv
PARIS MEDICINE CO., Saint Louis
L. S. of A, ''->'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16

Automatic telephone operators never
get tired or cross. Their nerves are
steel. Call or phone TO Waterhouse
Trust Co., and get on the list.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-16

~ 1 say do you think that Virgins trusted?"
. trusted! Yes rather Why, Id him with
but with anything OF value, n-Philadephia Inquirer
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15
PRESENT CONDITION OF LIVESTOCK INDUS
TRY IN SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON.
By A Staff Writer.

should have to make the fight for bet.
ter prices successful. Therefore, we
have found it necessary to take the
more difficult and more expensive way
of sending our own staff writer to in
terview these growers and get their
experience at first hand.
The writer found that conditions in
Southwest Washington are probably
as serious as in any part of the state,
with the possible exception OF the
Okanogan, where the growers are even
more at the mercy of the packers. The
one-time prosperous industry of grow
ing cattle for the market, is rapidly
declining, and hundreds of growers
have been forced to sell their farms
or go into other lines of farming. But
the specific instances which we are
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15

NoThe Northwestern meat packers reply to the
criticisms that they good to the
growers Of for their beef They attempt
prove by quoting prices which they in the Cali
foa Montana market where they in direct
competition with the Cuay SWlfts and Arous and en alter
this worthless testimony they add Of course those farmers who
, IN the Pacific Northwest packing houses the
benefit of their contiguty with the market
In the following story show how those in the country
tributary atpang establishments of the North
west the their contguty with the market The
once thriving livestock industry OF Southwestern
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15
HISTORY OF THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY IN
SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON.
BY L. X. Cogswell.

to stations from much of this land
indicate that they should raise grass
to be fed to stock that can be driven
to market instead of grain, vegetables
and fruit that costs from one to two
thirds of it's price to get it to market
but the very low prices of cattle the
past few years caused most of the
stock raisers to say they have quit or
will quit growing cattle, because they
can not get what it costs to raise
them. A few years ago | have seen
two big train loads of cattle brought
in and shipped from here in single
day, followed by many other ship
ments, and many cattle from this
country went down the Cowlitz River
by steamer. They seldom take any
Continued on Page Al
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15
- oUTHWEST WASHINGTON, o.

- which Chehalis is the central
trading and shipping point, has
been noted as a stock raising section
ever since the earliest settlement OF
the State, and used to furnish Vic
toria, B. c., and the Sound markets
with fat cattle, sheep and hogs by the
thousands. When I came here stock
raising was decidedly the leading in
dustry. Since then a vast acreage OF
bottom, swale and hill land has been
cleared and partly cleared and as much
more has been cut over and logged off
by our many big milling and logging
companies. Most of these lands need
manures to quickly redeem them from
their wild state and to double their
values. Bad roads and the distance
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15

SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON
Packer-Another barrel, please.

Washington slowly coked sranged by the cooperative avarice
the Northwestern packers the last of it's
decline here the Of dozens Of
men, records of loss only exemplary Of
decline Of the industry itself In conclusion is only
tied hand foot
the packers them for their beef the
Seattle Portland Tacoma and Spokane paying
higher price beef than prevails other cities the United
very highest price Of the last Years
growers Southwestern Washington getting
prices city Of the Pacific
Northwest several cents pound for bee dressed
they Who gets the "swag
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15

IT. HE RANCH submits herewith the
experience, gathered at first
hand, from score of the live
stock growers of Southwest Washing
ton. When the editors of this paper
inaugurated this campaign for the
service of the livestock growers of the
Pacific Northwest, it was expected
that the growers would see fit to rem
der us all the assistance possible, by
writing in letters of testimony, re-
citing specific instances of the low
prices they have been paid by the
agents of the packers for their beef.
We have received numerous letters
from all parts of the country and have
printed some of them, but we have not
had the volume of testimony that we
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-03-15

Northwestern Consumer-A
please, if it's cheap.
Butcher-Twenty cents today
packers have raised the price.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
INDEX TO coon TIMES.
slump in Number of Failures shows
 Business Rapidly Improving.

sIumn in Number of Failures shows
 Business Rapidly Improving. New York Commercial.
 InsolvencIes in the United States during the third quarter of 1908 show that while in most cases there still appeare an increase compared with the number and amount of liabilities for the same branches of business last year, there are more instances of ir1i- provennent as the date of the depres- sion becomes remote, so that it IS generally indicated that the last three months of the year will make much better exhibit than previous quarters. and should be decidedly encouraging when compared with the correspond ing period last year.
 While total liabilities of manufac- turing failures were slightly smaller than in the4 corresponding three months of 1907. improvement is who'll ly due to a few exceptionally large suspensions last year in lumber and building and in the. iron and steel in dustry Improvement Is also noted in clothing. the cotton industry and mis- cellaneous. but the only decrease of importance was slightly over $1 000.- 900 in the, clothing manufacture. There was a decrease in cotton, while the same number was reported in woolens. but in every other occupation HlQFe oF Aebs increase appears m com parison with the third quarter of 1907. with the largest difference about fifty in clothing. '''
 Trading failures in the third quarter involved a much larger amount of de- faulted indebtedness than the corres- bonding three months of last year. Miscellaneous trading failures were over s2,oo0;000 larger. but in no other instance was the difference more than $500, 900.
 The manufacturing comparison was not only favorable In respect to the total amount of indebtedness, which occurred mainly in the unfinished forms of Iron and steel. and in lumber and building. but ten of the fifteen sub divisions recorded more or less irn- improveent
 Trading failures were much larger In amount, and there was an increase of 160 in number.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

"In Nebraska the farmers are pros porous SO far as their crops go, but are bitter against the truets, whlcn rob them on the one hand when they ship their cattle, hogs or fruits to market and on the other hand extort from them the highest prices for cloth Ing, farm utensils, lumber, and all that they need In the conduct of their daily life.
 1T absolutely believe that these three great States, Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa. will give their electoral votes to Mir. Bryan"
 Otto Doederlein has charge of the foreign press bureau of the Democratic National Committee. He is no novice In the work, having served before In the same capacity in the 1900 campaign and in several State campaigns. Un- der Grover Clevelands administration he was Consul to Leipsic. He knows tn German community we'll, and what he has to say in the last few days con- cerninR the vote 1t will cast this coming election is of value.
 Mr. Doederlein says he has refrained from giving out any figures on the ex- tent of the drift of the Germans to Bryan because his information seemed too extraordinary to be believeable. But he is finally convinced that the reports which come to him are authen- tic and should be given out.
 Tt looks to me-" he says, ''as If the German disahection this year alone will give the election to Bryan. In fllinois are 100000 German voters. Heretofore about 75 or so per cent have voted the Republican ticket. This year fully quarter of these will either vote for Bryan or refrain from voting
 "ohio has 1,750,000 German voters. the old and the new percentages of the vote are about the same as in Illi- nois. Indiana has 750,000 German voters. Wisconsin of course. is heav- fly German, and in both of these States the trend toward the Demo- cratic party among them Is decided.
 "The general feeling appears to be that they are influenced mainly by desire for a change of administration. They feel that the indefinite contlnu- ance of one party in power does not advance the ideal of civic liberty: they who came here from the Father land are mostly from that class which has always stood for the Democratic conception of government. They be- lieye in rotation in offioe." Two other Germans of standing, not altogether disassociated with politics. called at the Democratic National head quarters after a "trip through Wiscon- sin. One, Hugo Grosser, said: T al- most hesitate to tell you exact facts. We found German communities here- tofore well-nigh unanimously Repub- lican which showed tremendous drifts toward Bryan. General dissatisfaction with conditions is observable every where. Germans form a large section of the voting population in that State and they are going in vast numbers to Bryan"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

of the merely useful garb we call fash Son was induced by the jnstincttve feminine desire sc please the male eye rivalry with her own sex has sub-or- dInated this alti." Accepting the Gen. estic account or the fan of man and the realistic nature of tho joke about the Easter hat this explanation is un- exceptional. Another writer publishes the scientific theory that the charac- ter of women is adventitious. Man, says he, 'has always insisted that wo- man shall be better than he is." And then he adds: Purity. constancy. re- serve and devotion are the qualities In woman which please and hatter the Jealous male; and when woman re- sponds to these demands, both really and seemingly, without any conscious ness of what she Is doing, she acts in the manner which makes her most pleasing to men.' Pleasant reading for the men. For sgenerations bachelors. young and cid, have been assured very positively that 1t is the influence of good women that keeps mankind from damnation. (Probably our man of science has escaped this experience.) Now the bachelors may retort, But Professor So-and-so says that it. is we who keep them pure, constant. reserv- ed and devoted" However, 1t would become our scientist to make peace with the gentler sex. not by saying that their efforts to please men are ur- conscious, but by writing an article on the adventi.ious character of men Harper's Weekly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

for many years. Happening to hear It's veteran managing clerk, Maj. A. R, Peacock, coumenta pn the unfortunate death of MT Bennett, Mir. Crouch.
 without a moments hesitation, hasten ed into a brokerage office at the hotel. locked himself into an inner room,
 and fired q bullet into his brain. On
 the table by the side of his dead body
 was found a pack of cards, on top Of
 which lay the seven of spades. known by fortune-tellerB as "tha sign of
 death. It seems strange that a man
 who once had wealth and power should finally lose everything. even
 hope. It is not generally known that
 nearly every great hotel in New York
 prominence and wealth, and liberal spenders in their day, who have be-
 come the victims of misfortune. and
 now rely on the bounty of friends for
 support. Mir. Crouch had lived for
 some time at the Hoffman House as a beneficiary of its popular and gem Ferous- hearted proprietor, MT. John P.
 Caddagan, but this fact was known to
 very few It Illustrates the generous hospitality of the successful hotel
 managers of New York city The late James Breslin had more than one
 beneficiary at the old Gilsey House.
 and these were treated with as much
 deference as his mostprofitable GUS toners. Not one of. the great hotels
 of New York is without it's pensioners. who in tn cir day were liberal patrons
 and who were on such intimate terms
 of friendship with the proprietors that the latter were only too glad to share their hospitality with penniless friends who needed it. A captious public. which is altogether too fond of critis- ink our great hotels has little conoep- tion of the drafts made on their generosity by the unfortunates of all l classes. Many a hotel proprietor should be classed as a philanthropist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

place of the extravagant wholly un- satisfactory and even foolish method of appropriating government moneys for isolated projects in response to political demands and in payment of political debts.
 Some time ago Senator Knox. of Pennsylvania. talked to the members of the Pittsburg Chamber of Com merce on 'The Future of Commerce" during which he said:
 When the Federal government as- stunned charge and control of the navi- gable streams of the interior 1t enter ed into a practical contract with the States and communities bordering the streams. that their waterways should be improved to their highest capacity. The States were, thereby. prevented selves. Corporate enterprises was forbidden to undertake the canaliza- tion of important stretches and fix the cost of their works and franchises on the public. The Federal government has made its formal and deliberate declaration that 1t will do this work That necessarily involves that 1t will make the Improvements adequate to modern needs and possibilities. To do any less would Do meckery and breach of good faith"
 Under a fixed and definite policy the governmental contract for improve nent of the waterways of the country with a sufficiency of appropriations and with, continuous work. as the Na- tional Rivers and Harbors Congress urges--with the strong endorsement of the commercial. industrial and ag- ricultural associations of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pa. cIfe-the undoubted governmental contract would be carried out, with t-ade. commerce and agriculture reapfnE the vast benefits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
APPROVING WATERWAYS.
The Hope of the south is in a Fixed Policy of Enlarging TranspOrfa-
 tion Facilities.
BY WALTER PARKER.

New Orleans, Oct 16.-Following close on the heels of generation of rapid development. .wasteful extrava- gance and the making of many multi miIlionaires, the multitude of Ameri- can workers are now fast coming to see. not only the folly Of what has been done, but the necessity for a more consistent and economical policy in regard to all those conditions which affect the general welfare. More mill lionaires have been made through rail- road promotion and building than in any other way because the waste grant lands through which railroads have been run have brought high prices when sold by the railroads and there by railroad promoters have realized monster prof1ts. On this particular sscore the generallpublic has not con crete cause for complaint since the same opportunity that gave the far sighted speculator his millions gave the farmer, the laborer and the busi- ness man new opportunities for the ac- cumulation of fortunes of their own.
 But aside from all harmful prac- tices, the rub comes when both the railroads and the people are brought down to hard pan and when future profits become dependent upon sus- tained exort, economy and intelli- gent management rather than upon the first rich fruits of turning undevelop- ed natural resources into sudden wealth.
 And this great need for economy in the use of natural resources, the ex- pansion of markets and opportunities. and the reduction of hurnanity's ever living scheme for the obtaining of food, rainment and such happiness as lies within reach has brought the people to an acute appreciation of the value to them of open, free and prac- tieally unlimited water transportation facilities through the turning of the nations great rivers and lakes and their tributaries into arteries of com merce.
 Hence the huge general interest now being taken in the coming assembling of the. National Rivers and Harbors Congress at Washington. December s-11 of this year.
 According to the Educational Bu- reau at Washington of this great or- ganization. of which Congressman Jo- seph B. Ranadell of Louisiana Is the president Conservation of Natural Resources" has been written into more party platforms and into resolu- tions by more commercial and trade organizations during 1908 than in all the years the United States has been in existence According to Mir. Rans- dell the wide and absorbing interest in the subject and especially in the l improvement of the nations water ways has not yet reached high tide The National Rivers and Harbors | Congress is working with an actery | definite object in view. that of com hitting the Federal Congress to a broad and comprehensive policy oi waterway and harbor improvement in