The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 4, 1906, Page 10

y is adequate for that | of dil the assign- that the st 3 | v t t f provision has purpose, While this showing, on its n » convenient vehicle for| face, indicates a complianc with sense spirit of fhe law and for) law, the fact remains that the water ve been carried facilita the acqutsition of lands in| supply, if any at all, is not sufficient : ¥ homesteads afei large Bboldings. The law lim the to permanentiy reclaim the land. > The records - of amount which one person or cia The-ownership of stock in a pro , ign- | jected irrigation ditch which does : ; ies examined show tion ef persons may hold, by a cent of ‘the Coonsiiiol ment or otherwise, prior to patent to >» transferred withig, 320 acres of such arid or desert ri tion “of tix, lands. Thé most con form of at » was obtained to tempted evasion of requirement not exist in. fact, or the ownership j p of a pump temporary installed, has often been accepted, in connection with eh testimony, as proof of the i show that two-thirds of the commu- is for two or three individuals to ion of water. Many alleged ters immediately left the state. In form themselves into a corporation, tion ditches or reservoirs are e many in foreigners, particu-7 each indiv member of the corpo-| familiar to members of the Commis- k ' Jarly f Canada, came into ration sec by entry or assign- sion which are utterly inadequate to e 0 ee mporters an 0as ers are Cc 1 } this red their intention, ment, 320 acres of such lands and irrigate a square rod, and upon the of citizens ,took up home the corporation as such 320 acres, strength of such works patent has * steads, commuted, sold them ,and re-, These same individuals then form an-| frequently then issued to 320 acres of turned to their native land. }other corporation under an entirely | land, The reasons given for adhering to diferent name and procure an as- Frauds committed through conven- the commutation clause are diverse signment of another $20 acres, and) tional forms of perjury and through and many of them are cogent when this process is continued indefinitely, | lack of proper verification of the applied to individual cases. It is | The General Land Office has within} facts as to the recllamation of the said, for example, that the commu-) the past year endeavored to put a/land justify the taking of immediate ter desires to raise money for use in| stop to this practice by holding that| and radical steps in the revision of improving his place, This is often a corporation or association of per-| the law. The law should absolutely true, but in the majority of cases the sons is not qualified to receive a des-| require an actual adequate water records show that the commuter im-| ert-land entry by assignment where/ supply, and the limits as to quantity mediately leaves the vicinity. The its individual members ,either singly| should be defined. frequency of loans {fs traceable in or in the aggregate are holding $20 | In short, the law should render im- many places directly to the activity acres of such arid or desert lands.| possible the continuance of the of agents of loan companies, who This ruling, if enforced, will tend to| practices by which desert lands are often United States commission- lessen the evils resulting from large| without water, without cultivation, ers also, eager first to induce settle- holdings prior to patent, but it fs not | and without crops are passed into ment and then to make these loans deemed possible to secure adequate} the possession of claimants. on account of the double commission control of this question unless the | received, Later they secure the law prohibits assignments of desert- Grabbing Lands. business » which accrues to them land entries. By repealing that pro-} The great bulk of the vacant pub- ) vision of the law and requiring the) lic Jands throughout the West are un- . cliimant to show that he has made) suitable for cultivation under the the entry for his own use and benefit] present known conditions of agricul- and not for the benefit of any other} ture, and so located that they can person or corporation and that he! not be reclaimed by irrigation, They has made no agreement by which the | are, and probably always must be, title shall fnure to any other person of chief value for grazing. ‘There are or corporation the evils Incident to it is estimated, more than 300,000,- large holdings of such lands under | 000 acres of public grazing land, an the sanction of law will be materially area approximately equal to one-fifth lessened, |the extent of ihe United States It is a striking fact that these large, proper. The exact ‘limits can not be holdings of desert land are not re- set, for with seasoned changes large claimed and devoted to their best) areas of land which afford good use, Three hundred and twenty acres! grazing one year are almost desert in of irrigable land is entirely too much! ynother, There are also vast tracts for economical handling by one per-' of wooded timbered land in which POSTUM FOOD COFFEE All Along the Line..- “THERE’S A REASON.” process. Each visitor seeg Postum made of different parts of the wheat berry treated by different mechan- ical methods and one part blended with a small part of pure New Orleans molasses. So he knows Postum contains not one thing in the world but Wheat and New Orleans molasses. It took more than a year of experimenting to perfect the processes and learn how to develop the diastase and properly treat the other clements in the wheat to produce the coffee-like flavor that makes suspicious people “wonder.” But there never, has been one grain of old-fashioned or drug coffee in Postum and never will be. Many people have found out the truth about old- fashioned coffee, They have overcome disease caused by it. The plan was easy and sure, Quit Coffee and use Postum, Proof with one’s self is stronger than any theory. The Postum army grows by hundreds of thousands yearly, The old-fashioned Coffee Magnates are now derid- ing Postum through the papers. Because their pocketbooks are hurt, they would drive the people back to the old cofice slavery, From an old wood-cut illustration in Richard- son's * West of the Mississippi.” -A. “Home” 14x20 (inches, not feet) showing that false swearing in acquiring government land is ho new art, through the foreclosure and transfer of the property, The true working of the commutation clause does not ap- pear until after foreclosure upon the maturity of the loans, One significant brought out by the investigation is that a large portion of the commuters are women, who never establish a permanent resl- dence and who are employed tempo- rarily in the towns as school teach- ers or in domestic service, or who are living with their parents. The great majority of these commuters sell im- mediately upon receiving title, the business being transacted through 4 some agent who represents his client in all dealings and prepares all pa- pers. The commutation clause, if it is to be retained to cover special cases, should be effective only after not less than three years’ actual—not con- structive—living at home on the land, Under present practice, the commuta-! ¢rop ghould be required on not less| A Heroic Bronze Figure of France's tion period being fourteen months, six months of this time is generally taken to establish residence, so that only eight months remain. This time is usually arranged to include the ‘ summer, so that the shack built need { not be habitable in severe winter and the residence on the land may consist merely in a sum- mer outing. Obviously it is assen- tial that residence should be far more strictly defined. It is probable that i lax interpretation and enforcement of the provisions of the law regard- ing residence is responsible for more weather, son, On the other hand, inspection shows that in the same locality and under the same climatic conditions the homestead entries, where not com- muted, are reclaimed and utillzed. The desert-land act us it stands up- on the statute books appears to have many features which commend it, as before stated, the practices gov- erning it have largely nullified its good features, and the resulting | evils mot be fully overcome with- j out 1 ton. The area of the desert entry should be cut down from 820 acres to} not exceeding 160 acres, and discre | tion should be given to the Secretary | of the Interior to cut it down still further where it is apparent that in- tensive cultivation is practicable, A \farm of 820 acres, if irrigated, is en- tirely too large for a single faiotly, and its pos ion simply prevents | other settlers from coming into the country. Furthermore, it makes land monopoly easy and induces specular: | tion, grazing has much importance, and until a further classification of the public lands is made it will be im- possible to give with exactness the total acreage.’ The extent Is so vast and the commercial interests in- volved so great as to demand in the highest degree the wise and conser- vative handling of these vast re- sources, It is a matter of the first import ance to know whether these grazing lands are being used in the best way possihb'e for the continued devel p- ment of the country or whether they are being abused under a_sys- tem which is detrimental to such de- velopment and by which the _ only present value of the land is being trpidly destroyed, ‘At present the vacant public lands are theoretically open commons, free to all citizens but as a matter of fact a large proportion have been parceled out by more or I*ss definite compacts or agreements among the various in- terests. These tacit agreements are Actual living at home on the land for not less then two years sheuid be required before patent. Your) any settler siculd be given both a homestead and a desert entry, either | of which without the other should suf- fice, under the law, to 1urnish him . sheep, forced by drought to migrate. | home, ‘The desert-land taw | shoul | be a means of settlement, and actual | bona fide residence should be rigidly required. Toe actnal production of a valuable ‘than one-fourth the area of the en-| try. At present, as a rule, the great- er part of the desert entries are, never actually watered.. Hundreds of desert entries were examined by members of the Comm mn in the jlast year, and the great majority of them were found to be uninhabited, , unirrigated, uncultivated, and — with} jno imy nents other than a fence. |'This applies both to desert entries up- on which a final proof is now being | offered and to other entries to which title has been given, It is a fact that a very small pro- “ ‘ uent collision because of incursions Commission can not understand why | a continually being violated. The sheepmen and cattlement are in fre- each other's @omain. Land which for years has been regarded as exclusively cattle range may be in- fringed upon by lage bands of eeeeecatiierenmannaann ROCHAMBEAU STATUE. Field Marshall Standing In Front of White House. One of the very striking and majes- tle bits of bronze in Washington is) the Rochambeau statue which stands! in what was called Jackson Square, One coffee prevaricator says: “It (Postum) has lately been exposed and found to contain an excess of very ordinary coffee.” Another that “it (Postum) is made from a small amount of parched peas, beans, wheat, dried sweet potatoes, and paste of wheat middlings.” Here’s to you, oh faithful followers of the tribe of published. Ananias: $100,000.00 CASH will be deposited with any reputable trust company (or a less amount if desired) against a like amount by any coffee roaster or dealer. If the charges prove true we lose, if not we take the money as partial liquidation for the infamous insult to our business. The Postum Pure Food factories are the largest in the world, the business having been built upon abso- futely pure food products, made on-scientific lines, “for a reason” and the plain unvarnished truth told every day and all the time. These factories are visited by thousands of people every month, They are shown into every cranny and examine every ingredient and with many), | Another thing, we have on file in our general offices the original of every testimonial letter we have ever We submit that our attitude regarding coffee is now and always has been absolutely fair, If one wants a stimulant and can digest coffee and it does not set up any sort of physical ailment, drink it, Dut, if coffee overtaxes and weakens the heart (and it does with some). Or if it sets up disease of the stomach and bowels (and it does with some), Or if it causes weak eyes (and it does with some), Or if it causes nervous prostration (and it does Then good plain old-fashioned common sense might (without asking permission of coffce merchants) sug- gest to quit putting caffeine (the drug of coffec) into a highly organized human body, for health is really wealth and the happiest sort of wealth. Then if one’s own best interest urges him to study into the reason and “There’s a reason,” he will un- * A Few Overlooks. “I met an old friend in town to-day” said Mr, Shannon to his wife one even- ing, on his return from business,” and he told me he expected to be married in a week. Ten minutes later, after his wife had finished asking questions, Mr, Shannon wrote as follows to his friend Stodder: “Dear Stodder:—I thought I was a newspaper reporter, but please answer the following questions by return mail. They cover some points I neg- lected to get from you. “What is the name of the girl you are to marry? “Where does she live? A Tension indicator earth great big facts that all of the sophistries of the coffee importers and roasters cannot refute. PENSIONS. Over one Million Dollars allowed our clients during the last six years, Over one Thousand claims allowed through us dur- fog oe last six months. Dise ability, Age and In- crease pensions obtained in the shortest possible time. Widows? claims a specialty. Usually granted within 9O days if placed with us immedi- ately on soldier’s death. Fees “What does her father do? fraud under the homestead act than, portion of the land disposed of under mae | yt all other causes combined. |the terms of the law has actually “Has he any money? pono law and an yp out of It may be urged that the frauds been reclaimed and irrigated, and “Was it love at first sight? pension. successful experience of 25 years and benefit of daily calls at Pension Bureau are at your service. Highest ref- erences furnished. Local Magis- trates pecuniarily benefited by us on Sy sending TABER & WHITMAN CO., Warder Bid’g, Washington, D. C. SILOS Pine, Fir, Cypress and Yellow Pine, Write for Catalogue, Eagle Tank Co., 281 N. Green St., Chicago, Ill. Masons Fenton. PIANOS AND ORGANS STANDARD OF THE WORLD meat Wee ene “Are you very much in love with her? “How old is she? “Where are you going to live? “Did you ask her personally, or write your proposal? “Havn’t you proposed to other girls? “How did you and I come to be such friends? ‘Where are you going for your honeymoon? “Ig it that tall girl you took to the theatre one night last winter? “Why didn’t I ask you all this when you told me? “Were you so excited you couldn't give me any information, but simply had to talk about getting married? “A prompt reply will help me to give my wife some much-desired informa- tion. Next time you tell me you are going to be married, don’t think that is the really important feature about it.-Yours hastily, Shannon.” a ve eae A darky was asked why he went away, and gave the following lucid an- which have taken place under the| scrutiny of many hundreds of desert irae WS ANOS IS IMS presence Clark Mills’ equestrian statue General Jackson, later called Lafa- yette Square, because of the erection there the great Lafayette statue. and now very frequently called Rochambeau Park because of this elegant example of art. The statue war unveiled in 1902. It stands di- rectly in front of the White House. |swer: The movement for the in] “I didn’t went. I didn’t want to the National Capital of a statue of|went, and if I had wanted to went, I Rochambeau was in recognition of|couldn’t have got to go no how.” Tntted wae EC ee E. heed . This ment) There is a group of islands south of was particnlariy strong after the) New Zealand called the Seven Sisters, close of the Spanish-American WT|said to be subject to a practically in view of the services in|constant rainfall. The same condi- by Camboa the| tions exist in Terra del Fuego, except The overn-\that the rain often takes the form of st sent! sieet or snow. SPLENDID WESTERN TIMBER GROVE. In the Region Being Despotled Under the Timber and Stone Act, tions of the commutation elanse( entries now passing to final proof due largely to lax administration. | shows that in the majority of cases, is that the precedents estab-| these lands are not actnally utilized, Gecisions rendered on spe-| but are being held for tive cases have so far weakened the| purposes, owing to several causes, of administration that addi-| among which are the laxity of some of the state la’ The Newest and Best gf the Tome Fen SISTRAP LOCKS oriation of ‘water, for irlention’ pan ental wi dhs Contnettay ens aren | LYNCH PERFECTION WEDDING (and other) PRESENTS poses, and the insnffictency of - the| town YALE PRINCIPLE . pones, it w me are our Lock Buckles for use on Trunks, Telescopes, Cases of all kinds, . 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