The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 11, 1906, Page 9

ER AE ee MAGAZING SHOTION, Che Butler VOL, XXVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY always thought he was until the ex- posure of his wrongdoing was made, then he must have welcomed death as a happy issue out of all his trouble, He was an old man. He had sounded the depths and shallows of life. He had run the gamut of human emotions, He had felt the glorious thrills of tri- umph and the pangs of disappointed ambition. He had associated, the world around, with the men who give impetus and tongue to the uplifting thoughts of mankind that are hurry- ing us on to a civilization that will eventually realize the poet's dream of Utopia, “What he must have suffered in his last days—what devils peopled his brain, what repinings of what might have been must have depressed his soul—who can imagine these, let alone tell about them? Napoleon fretting out his proud life on St. Helena never was as unhappy as John H. Mitchell must have been while suffering the stings of humiliation after expos- ure and conviction came with a suddenness that carried him to the depths of despair. He told more than one Senator who had seen him since hh trouble that he would never go to jail.” Had there been attempt to consider resolutions of respect for the memory of Senator Mitchell it is likely that there would have been objection. There is a precedent for such action, for when Senator Broderick, of Cali- fornia, was killed in a duel with Judge Terry, of that State, resolutions of re- spect were offered in the Senate, They were opposed by Senator Foster, of Connecticut, and the resolutions were referred to a committee and never were heard from afterward. «ee — ——— GHOST POINTS WAY TO_GOLD,) crew. He also was a member of the freshman class of the football team, and actively participated in the pro- motion of college athletics. Upon the completion of his course at Mr. Longworth studied law in the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1894. He served as a member of the school board of his home city until elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1899, by the incredibly small majority of 4, being the only Republican elected that year, Subsequently he served in| All precedent was ignored by the the State Senate until elected to the/ United States Senate in the case of Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re-|the death of the late Senator John H. SENATOR'S DEATH IGNORED, ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP- ITOL, WHERE HE HAD SERVED MANY YEARS. MISS ALICE T0 WED, ©ONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG. SVORTH, OF OHIO, THE MOST FORTUNATE OF MEN, AGrand White House Wedding in Mid- February—Culmination of Romance Believed to Have Occurred on Ocean oyage. There is to be another wedding in the ‘White House, and society at the capi- tal is already looking forward to what undoubtedly will be the most brilliant event in the history of the mansion, It ts just about two years s! Rep- Tesentative Nicholas Longs rth, of Cincinnati, began to lay siege to the heart of the charming daughter of the President, and his attack has been un- remitting. Now he has captured the heart of Miss Alice, and will lead her to the altar in mid-February. Several times during the last year Mr. Longworth’s engagement to Miss Roosevelt was rumored, but it was never confirmed, and the social world degan to convlude that a warm friend- | A was about all that existed between Due to Conviction for Defrauding Gov- ernment of Lands—Both Oregon Congressmen Also Under Indict- ment or Conviction. ry Chance of a Lifetime. Ut was when Miss Roosevelt deter ) mined to accompany Secretary Taft’s @arty to the Orient that Mr. Longworth epparently saw his crowning opportu- nity, and he forthwith became one of the party. Throughout the jaunt his attentions to the daughter of the Pres- ident were more marked than ever be- fore, for in his wooing he had the ad- vantage of being the only courtier in the field. Though his friends now say that they had observed the glint of a glori- ous. victory in his eyes when he re- turned from the long voyage, he never confided his triumph to a soul, and the firat information of the engagement did not reach society until Mrs. Roose- velt told it to a few personal friends in the House, Then, of course, 80 ciety soon heard of it. Will Tour Europe. It is expected that after their mar- riage the distinguished couple will take a leisurely trip throughout Europe. They will, of course, be certain of a splendid reception everywhere, espe cially in all the capitals of the Old World, Miss Roosevelt has never been in Europe, although she has had several opportunities and invitations, notably when she was invited by Mrs. White- law Reid when Mr. Reid went to Eng- land as special ambassador at the cor- onation of King Edward. In Paris; too, the Longworths are certain of lavish entertainment, as Mr. ‘a sister, the Viscountess de Chambrun, lives there. Miss Roosevelt, who is the only child of the President’s first marriage, will be twenty-two years old in February, and is named for her mother, -Alice Lee, of Boston, to whom the President became engaged in his college days at bg and whom he married in On the death of her mother, one year after the latter’s marriage, Miss Roose- Miner’s Story of Discovery of Rich Mineral Deposit in Unexploredl Canyon, Bringing a large bottle filled with almost pure gold, taken from a lode long hidden in mountain fastuesses, not a great distance from Seattle, W. BE. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well known local business men, are reported back after a perilous trip to the Cas- cades. Theirs, however, was labor richly rewarded, though the story is so in- terwoven with spiritualism and ro mance that it is well-nigh incredible. Bartlett is the grandson of D. BE. In- gels, a miner of the early ’50s in those parts, who was murdered in the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are spiritualists, anf Bartlett declares that his dead and murdered grand- father, through a Portland medium, appeared to him and described how he could find the lost mine and that he would be independent for life. Bartlett asserts positively that he received specific directions from the spirit of his grandfather how to pro- ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he was told to select M. C. Black to ac- company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but say it cannot be reached save by making an extremely dangerous trip and one filled with hardship, especially at this time of the year, when the mountains are firm in winter’s icy grasp. In the spring they will return and develop their find. In a rough and mountainous section, they say, they found a gray quartz ledge, literally filled with precious metal. Small pieces were broken off, pounded up in a frying pan which they had with them and the gold picked out. Should the ledge prove as rich as the samples, or even a quarter as rich, a NR LEE TFPI e eee eiever ese oo | | | \ \ Copyrighted by Frances Benjamin Johnston, MISS ALICE turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by an overwhelming majority. There is @ great light in “Nick” Longworth’s eyes these days. ——___—. What Became of the Change. Gen. Chaffee was once asked by a soldier to lend him a quarter. “Didn’t you receive your month’s pay yesterday?” asked the General. “Yes,” said the veteran. “Where’s your money now?” “Why I left the post and crossed the ferry with $15.60, I met a friend, and we had dinner. The bill was $8.00. Then I bought $1.00 worth of cigars; then we went to the theatre for $4.00. After theatre we went down to the Bowery and I spent $2.00 there.” —“That-makes $15.00,” said _the-Gen- eral. “What became of the other fifty cents?” The old soldier seemed puzzled, and finally said: “Why, I must have spent that fool- ishly.” ROOSEVELT. Mitchell, of Oregon. Yet there is no body of men on earth which is a great- er stickler for ceremony governed by precedent than is the United States Senate. But the Mitchell case pre- sented a unique situation. The official recognition of the death of a Senator is always a solemn and affecting pro- ceeding, but even the usual funeral rites were omitted in this instance. The Oregon Senator had been convict- ed of a grave crime against the gov- ernment. Excepting Senator Burton, of Kansas, no other members of the Senate has ever had to face a criminal court trial. The Senate has expelled members and has often exercised its constitutional prerogative of unseating a Senator, but with the two exceptions above stated, it has never been con- onted_ with such 2 situation as was _pan_out- forced upon the public attention by Senators from Oregon and Kansas. soe. of te GON © make Bim The Vice-President, who is the! As an evidence of their find they ona ine of Ne det ae me, on have the bottle of gold dust, which has int the usual committee to atten ady been viewe lozens of the funeral held in. Portland, Ore.| 70” eS og Senator Fulton, the sole representative of Oregon left in Congress, had intend- ed presenting a bricf resolution, re- citing the death of his colleague, and asking that the Senate adjourn as a mark of respect, but even this was not done. Not even was the desk which the late Senator occupied veiled in the heavy mourning drapery as is the cus- tom. In a word, the Senate, in sad- ness, passed over the death of its for- mer Senator as quietly and unostenta- tiously as possible. There have been no eulogies. His successor, appoint- ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem- ocrat, comes to Washington from the far Pacific slope and the sovereign State of Oregon will again have its full representation in the Senate. ee ON Easy When You Kaow How. A farmer left to his eldest son one- half of his seventeen horses, to his second son one-third and to-his third son one-ninth. The executor did not know what to do as seventeen will not divide evenly by neither two, three or nine. In the afternoon a_ neighbor drove over and learning of the diuicul- ty said, “Take my horse and you will then’ have eighteen.” The executor then gave one-half, or nine, to the eldest son; one-third or six, to the secoid son; and one-ninth, or two, to the youngest, and the neighbor took his horse home and ever after called him “Problem” in the morning and “Solu- tion” in the afternoon. i Peace Now Reigas, After warrings for more than a hun- “ION. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH. became the charge of her aunt, . William 8. Cowles, who was then ‘are. ~ Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the Seats Vacant in the House. Oregon’s representation in the House will remain vacant until the courts have finally passed upon the indictments and trials of the State’s two Representatives, Messrs. Binger Hermann and John Newton William- son. Mr. Williamson already has been convicted by a Federal Court: of of- fenses similar to those for which Sen- ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and is now awaiting the outcome of the appeal of his case, as was Senator Mitchell when death gratefully re- lieved him of further humiliation and ae Ere mate her xg at a = fm January, 1902, since which has enjoyed a succession of i Project—Wyoming—Neb: ple, and assays have been made which prove that the mineral is the teal i — Hops were introduced into England in 1524 by a native of Artoris—the home of the Artesian well. Physicians denounced their use as dangerous and Henry VIII forbade brewers in zisé HE 4 # A GROUP OF (FRAUDULENT LAND Attempts to Hold Government Land Claims Under the Government's Ni Se - raska, Photographed by Government 11, 1906, PART WO, echln Times. NO, 11 ‘FOILS THE LAND THIEVES, | SECRETARY HITCHCOCK'S RE- LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND GRABBING THIEVES. Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate of Government Irrigation—Irriga- tion Work of His Department Highly Successful. By Richard H. Byrd. It is rumored that among probable Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock is to shortly retire from the Interior Department of which he has been the head since the second McKinley ad- ministration, It will be recalled that more or less definite statements as to Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and his probable successors have been of very frequent and regular occurrence, but the reason therefore is probably not hard to find. Mr, Hitchcock has made a very great Secretary of the Interior. He has torn to pieces a vast fabric constructed to steal, not acres, but square miles of the public lands, to grab from the government great tracts dent McKinley's administration, were as strong recommendations of this pol- icy as have ever been written. He called attention to the fact that a vast fortune was allowed anaually te waste itself throughout the West; that a wa- ter supply was uselessly running to the sea which would irrigate 70 million acres of the most fertile desert land in the world, and he called attention to the fact that an irrigated west was capable of supporting the entire pres ent population of the United States, It was not in keeping with the spirit of the times that this great oppor- tunity for home building should be ne- glected by the nation, Then when Colonel Roosevelt bee came President, the irrigation bill waa passed and the administration of the law was entrusted to the Interior De partment. Mr, Hitchcock was ready. The Geological Survey, a bureau of » had been making ex- s and in reality, getting was immediately commenced and in- stead of eight or ten years of prepara- worth millions of dollars. The land grabbers have been men in high po- sitions; they have employed perjury, bribery and forgery, to say nothing of more forceful crimes to defraud their country, Their ring was backed by wealthy and influential men and in- cluded members of the legislatures, United States Commissione special land agents, notaries, ete, The trail even led to the head of the General Land Office, into the national House of Representatives and into the United States Senate, The loose land laws of the country made their task possible if not easy. Crime in High Places. Secretary Hitchcock, shortly after he became a member of the Cabinet, had his attention called to evident frauds in the acquirement of government land. He set to work a quiet investl- gation. It finally culminated in the indictment of great numbers of people and in the recent conviction of a United States Senator and a Member of Congress. Perhaps, though the cul- mination is not yet. No man knows where the trail may lead next or how much evidence Mr. Hitchcock has and is working up. It is stated to have been a good deal of a surprise to the wiseacres at Washington, and in fact throughout the country, to see the way in which the Secretary of the Interior has “made good” in his land fraud prosecutions, It was never supposed last winter that the government could ever secure a convicion of any Congressman or Senator in Oregon. It was announced that the Secretary had been illy ad- vised and had gotten himself into a deep hole, the outcome of which would be disastrous to himself, Tried to Have Him Removed. The Secretary remarked on several occasions that the land frauds were HON, ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior. tion and reconnaissances and surveys, such as has been the history in the | great irrigation works of every other country, there are to-day in course of construction, a dozen huge proiects, and last June, just three years after the law was passed, the first project was completed. Of Vast Import to Nation. Secretary Hitchcock's vigorous work in saving the public domain for home- seekers, and in bringing into prac..cal operation a policy for the absolute creation out of a desert nothing, of thousands and eventually millions of prosperous American homes is, in reality the greatest work of the gener- ation. The actual benefit of this great internal development and improvement of the nation’s property far surpasses astounding in their magnitude but that he proposed to stop them. He was laughed at but just the same some of the land grabbers began to get a little nervous and the newspaper rumors began, to the effect that Sec- retary Hitchcock would probably re- sign—in the course of two or three months, after he had finished with cer- tain investigations being made at that time. But the investigations have never been finished. Before one batch of frauds has been disposed of, er sensation has been sprung in some other state so that there has never been a time when a change in the Interior Department would not have been hailed as a victory for the land grabbers. Platte Irrigation tors. The Secretary's rugged honesty and unswervable determination to weed out the despollers and the grafters who are looting the agricultural and timber lands of the west have called forth many high enconiums from thoughtful people who have followed his course. No public official has taken more literally to heart the strong expressions against public land grabbing of the President in his an- nual message to Congress, - Believes Irrigation Great Question. connected with the the government. (The b folowing ts the last portion of the report of the President's Public Lands Commission, two of whose members are employed under Secretary ‘itchcock, and whose views on land fraudsaccord with their chief's.) Grazing Lands. The great bulk of the vacant public lands throughout the West are unsuitable for cultivation under the present known conditions of agriculture, and se located that they can not be reclaimed by irriga- j tion. They are, and probably always must be, of chief value for grazing. There are, it is estimated, more than 300,008, the work of any other department of | of public grazing land, an area approxi- . mately equal to one-fifth the extent of the United States proper. The exact limits can not be set, for with seasonal changes large areas of land which afford good grazing one year are almost desert in an- other. There are also vast tracts ef wood- ed or timbered land in which grazing has much Im portanss, and until a further classification of the public lands is made it will be impossible to give with exact- ness the total acreage. The extent is so vast and the commercial interests in- volved so great as to demand in the high est degree the wise and conservative han- dling of these vast resources, It is a matter of the first importance to know whether these grazing lands are be- ing used in the best way possible for the continued development of the country or whether they are being abused under a system which is detrimental to such de- velopment and by which the only present value of the land is being rapidly de- stroyed. At present the vacant public lands are theoretically open commons, free to all citizens; but as a mater of fact a large proportion have been parceled out by more or less definite compacts or agreements among the various interests. These tacit agreements are continually being violated, The ail men and cattlemen are in free quent collision because of incursions upon each other's domain. _ Land which for years has been Sy aoe as exclusively cattle range may be aa yd upon by large bands of sheep, forced by drought to migrate. Violence and homicide fre- quently follow, after which new got ments are made and matters quiet down for a time. There are localities where the people are utilizing to their own satis- faction the open range, and their demand is to be let alone, so that they may parcel out among themselves the use of the jandss oat = poe “ae to-day ma; roken to-morrow by cl con tions of shifting interests. a The general lack of control in the use of public grazing lands has resulted, natu- rally and inevitably, in ever; and the ruin of milliens of acres of etherwi valuable grazing territory, Lands ‘useful for grazing are losing their enly capacity for productiveness, as, ef course, they must when no legai control is exercised. It is not yet teo late to restore the value of many of the open ranges: Lands parently denuded of vegetation have im- proved in condition and productiveness upea coming under any system of control which affords a means of preventing over- stocking and of applying Tntelligen man- agement to the d. On some large tracts the valuable forage plants have been utterly extirpated, and & is imprac- ticable even to reseed them. On other tracts it will be possible by careful man- agement for the coage| native plants to recover their vigor and to distribute seeds, which will eventually restore much of the former Prompt and effect- wha of ry auth af ths Reishi ete ch 0 lic domain is not to be totally lost. ve as reached The conclusions to Teguita of ong scquaia- in publie- of your part of each member Becond, Upon the requits of careful