Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 27, 1911, Page 6

Rk ] Hnl !'or M ‘Day Conference—Qulrry Workm At- tend’ Funeral of Mu-.hele Dissandis — Prof. C. H: Douglass to nfing Suit in Auto Damage Case—Post ‘Office Employes A.rnngmg For Joint Ounng—Henry J. Palmer’s Death. The genmeral conference of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination will be held with the Westerly church the jatter part of August. Delegates will attend from all sections of the United States. It i3:20 years since a confer- ence was held in Westerly, but during the period conference has been held twice in Ashaway with the old First Hopkinton chureh. ~ Rev. Samuel H. Davis of Westerly Is president of the conference and has the order of exer- cises nearly complated. The exercises will be held in Bliven opera house and the church will be utilized for commit- tee purposes. ‘The Westerly church has appointed an executive committee to have charge of the entertainment of the delegate: This committee is composed of Alber R. Stillman, Ira B. Crandall, Charles 3. Stanton, Charles P. Cottreil, Walter 8. Price and George B, Utter. There are several sub-committees all mony and working* systematically ‘o make the conference successful. Tne comm ed the big b for a @ining hall, which will easily accom- modate 500 at a sitting. Fifty members of the Junior Hol Michael's par; Jeft Westerly af 8.15 Wednesday mo ing by Norwich-Westerly line to Nor:h Stonington, and from there hiked it in easy stages to Lake Wyassup, where thiey established Camp St. Michael for an outing of three days. The boys are the guests of Rev. Dr. John Neale, rector of St. Michael's, The outing was promised th dependent upon good behavior, last winter. and the Doss won the outing. A regular routize Bbas been established for the camp which will be adhered to wita the strictest of military regulation. Over 100 quarry workers from Brad- ford came -to West Wednesday morning to attend the funeral of Mi- chele Dissandis, who wa. irowned while bathing in the John Thompson abandoned quarry at Bradford last Sunday. The friends assembled at the Murphy undertaking rooms and escort- ed the body to the Church of the Im- maculate Conception, where requiem mass was celebrated. Burial was in St. Michael's eem3tery The deceased had been employed at the Crumbd quarry in Bradford for three years and was popular with h iates, Prof. Charles H. J. Douglass and Family of New York have arrived for the season at their summer homa in Greepman avenue. Mr. Douglass’ automobile was run into and wrecked season hefore last mear Thompson's corners, by an auto- mobile owned by Theodar» Bodenwein of New Londom,s who acknowledged that he was in the wrong and would pay all damages on presentation of tha bill. 3r. Douglass had his automobile re- Paired and the bill was presented to Mr. Bodsnwein and payment refuscd made o is said bring a Beveral attempts have heen eollect, but_without success. that now Mr. Douglass snit to recover for damages. to A committee of the Westerly post- office employes is making arrangements for a joint outing a Brightman’s pond Aug. - stants. clerks, carriers and s of the postoffices in Nor- ondon, Mystic, Stoningtor: all empio; swbch, New and Westerly are interested in the out- dng. and it is sxpected that all except those on duty will attend. All the ar- rangements will be mad, 1 committeemen and effort 0 have the event the b by the lo being made ever. A bicycle ridden by John McKenna #nd a surrey driven by Connie Farrell were in collision at the junction of Broad and Eim streets. riding towards Dixon square McKenna was an, the surres was goinz in the oppo di- rection. elaim that the other fel Jow was at fault, as is the rule in such The bieycle was smashed. The boy escaped with cuts and Th= horse and surr Mr. Farrell escapdd injury. Defora this incident a he : fel! on_the *manhole cover near the #ame place and the driver was thrown out, but was uninjur: Local Laconics. Rev. and Mrs. Hamilton ' 3 BE PERMANENTLY OVERCOME OPER PERSONAL EFFORTS THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ONE TRULY BENEFICIAL LAXATIVE-SYRUP FI6S AND ELIXIR o SENNA, = RIGHT LIVING GENERALLY. %o 6ET 7S BENEFICIAL EFFECTS, AUWAYS BUY THE BENUINE. SYRUP = Figs AND Euxm o SENNA MANUFACTURED BY GurorNiA Fie Sveup @ SALE BV S JALE S A sEhmus prvsurTs PRICE Wher: to Buy in Westerly INDUSTRIAL TRUST COMPANY Westerty Branch Capital Three Million Dollars Burptus Three Million Dollars Over Fifty Thousand Accounts. Liberal, ccurteous and efficient ta its management. FOR SALE t 73 Woercester are visiting friends in West- erly. Band concert in Wilcox park this evening. Attorney A..T, L: Ledwidge spent Wednesday in Norw Robert Kenneth ew Haven is visiting his brother in Westerly. Local labor organizations have not yet decided upon a definite plan for ob- servance of Labor day. Mrs. Isaac Gourley of Westerly sailed from Boston Tuesday for Liv pool,. where she will visit relatives Walter and _Ira Snyder of the cl cal force of Nash's news store ai spending a week’s vacation at Pleasant View. Letter Cartier Michael his annual 15 days' vacation. J. Spargo is doing substitute during the vacation season. Dr Charles B. Eldred has returned Flynn is on Thomas work to Norwich aft>r spending his vaca- tion at the home of his mother, Mrs. Eldred, in Westerly, and at Pleasant View beach. Henry J. Palmer, who dieds Tuesday in Westerly, aged 13, leaves z widov a son and 'a daughter, L M. T. Palmer of Norwich and Mrs. Herbert D. Chapman of West M. it is at least three vears since the town council of Westerly voted to pave that section of the Broad str bridge within the town boundary. a brick or paver has been laid. Committees of ‘the Wester] of Trade, the Granite Manuf association and the Granite Cutter: uulun arz endeavoring to have the ne office building ~ constgacted of “este!‘l\ granite. Jeremiah Pu; shoeing shop, Broad streets, for 33,y ill has closed his hor: corner of Mechanic which he has conducced . All of His predecessors old stand \were removed from in that the business by death. The building for the cotton depart ment of the Bradford Dyeing ass tion is nearing completion, and plans are out for the woolen department building, which will be one-third larger than the first building. ymas Matthews of Providence representative in the general assem- bly and state president of the Ancienc Order of Hibe addressed members of 0. 1_in Hiber- nian hall W ¥ evening. STONINGTON. Twe Big Cranes Appear at Casino— Steamers Have Day of Mishaps— Pig Jumps Overboard from Freight Dock. Pas: s bon the trolley petween Westerly and_Stonington ed by twd large white ing on the bank and swimming in the at the ( t where .thex ery. Tt is sup- are from some park, having R is thought tney came from They are quite tame. They stand about 5 feet hi Day of Mishaps for Steamers. Tuesday morning the Block Island only made W ch Hill. The New Shoteham did not veach Stonington . The steamer Watch t of order on the 4.30 hen leaving Watchr Hill aused her to strike a rudder was disabled. Captain Babcock get a boat from Cap- tain Barber of Watch Hill to convey engers in a motor boat from here. When about to make vork land- t side The Constance, Delagrange, and a by W. 1l was put p. m. tri the low of Stonington point, owned by R. M. large power sloop owned A, Stanton were brought into service and made trips to and from the Hill dur- ing day evening. The steamer Watch Hill taken to West Mys- tic Wednesday for repairs.’ The ex- tremely low tide was the cause of the accident to the Watch Hill. Ow- ing to the failure of the New Shore- ham to come Tuesday afternoon four- teen passengers were left over here. Live Freight Causes Trouble. Tuesday :n the upper harbor, about m,, there w stock 'in the ht to be takem by the steamer ch Hill, bound for the Hill. There n separate crates, and 75 pounds ehch. One n around the deck, king fun for the passengers. With piain Babcock’s dog the pig made things lively for women on board. Fi- nally the pig leaper eamer overbo hipyard. He captured soon after lis swi by August Muller and Harry rup, who' put ouf in a dory. The pig was tired out and was soon captured and re-crated and sent to his destina- tion. Smack Etta and Lena came in ves terday with eight barrels of flound- ers, $80,000 Cargo. The steam lighter James A. Walsh, bound from New York for Providence and loaded with pig copper, valued at $80,000, pent past two da in the local harbor. Borough. Election. e annual tion of the borough nington be held Monday, Kelley is visiting in 2 urns o is the guest of Mr. D. Webster, Mass., and Mrs.’ Charles Miss Violet M. serts, the pastor's ant at the South Congregational church, Middletown, is spending her vacation at ding a number of con- ferenc in the southern and western states, and is acting as leader in special phases of Sunday school worie, at those ih Among the con- ference that Mi Roberts will at- tena those in Wisconsin, Penn- vinia_and Tennessee. She will re- Midd vn- egfly in August. A pair in the ten-kronen nests. eberby . have Stolen,a number bank notes to 1 their BUNIONS‘ CALLOUSES! KEENE'S ng vacant that ean be secured at ces it % purchaser (d hayin, eat, elects umbing. hn-uuo-‘ l—.w.oapl-dnqfl- Westerly, R. L §e b -m;""’nozfi' ts. modern ted. hpu!.vnh.o.b. justmerof lens metrist. | om 1 “GLAD-PHEET” REMEDY “litte OL A U and cver wish the thin ebber GLAD.PHEET PLASTER ani vou'l forpet 4 ever eet it T D i w treatment! Po.tive sesds 136 & 230 AT AL DRUGEISTS. Presndent Furmshes a CompxehensWe Answer to the Crmes of His Ehmmatxon Order, in Response to Resolutmn- of Senate FRANK DISCUSSION OF \THE “DICK TO DICK” LETTER - No Trace of it in the Files or Elsewhere—Charles P. Taft Never Hegrd of Corntroller Bay Railroad, President Says, [{,ntil Very Recently—President Al\one ‘is. Responsi- ble; He Declares—The Attempt to Besmirch Characters of Officials Having to do 5 With Alaskan Government, Calls For Condemnation. Washington, July 26.—President Taft today sent to the sepafe a message concerning the Controller bay affair and the reduction of the area of the Chugach national forest reserve to pes- mit the Controller Bay Railway and Navigation company to acquire land on the bay to be used gs terminals r a railway line to the Bering coal elds, twenty-five miles away. The message is in response to a resolution passed by the senate June 27 last ‘which asked for copies of all depart- mental orders, maps, surveys, letters, reports and official documents in the case. Copies of these documents ac- company the message. The executive order of Oct. 28. 1910, referred to in the resolution was in the terms following: CHUGACH NATIONA‘L FOREST, ALASKA. Under autnority. of the act of congress of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11, at 3¢ and 36), and on the recommendation of the secre- tary of agricuiture it is hereby ordered that the proclamation of Feb. 23, 198, en- larging the Chugach National forest be modified to reduce ‘the area of such na- tional forest by eliminating therefrom the following described tract, containing ap- proximately 12,800 acres of land, which has been found upon examination to be not chiefly valuable for national, forest purposes: Beginning at a point where the meridian of longitude 144 degrees 5 minutes west crosses the coast line of Controller bay, thence north along said meridian line to the parallel of latitude at 00 degrees 10 minutes north, thence west along said parallel to a point where the same crosses the coast lime at or near the mouth of Bering river and thence along the coast to the place of beginning. ‘The tract above described is hereby re- stored to the public domain. WILLIAM H. TAFT. The White House, Washington, Oct. 28, 1810. The president declares that the order does mot permit the Controller Bay Railway and Navigation company to secure a monopoly of the Controller bay harbor as, under the law, a strip eighty rods wide must be left between each entry, having a frontage of 160 rods on navigable water. The law also keeps the control of the shore, which includes the flats lying between high water and low water, under the di- rection of congress. This provision, says Mr. Taft, fully protects the pub- lic and absolutely prevents any in- dividual or corporation from acquir- ing a monopoly. In regard to the “Dick to Dick” let- ter, in which there is a reference to Charles Taft, the president denies that his brother ever'spoke to him con- ecerning Controller bay, Richard S. Ryan or any grant in Alaska. He says that the letter in question cannot be found in the files of the government, and he refers to it as a “wicked fab- rication.” He declares that his Broth- er never heard of Controller bay un- til the president sent him a cablegram regarding the subject. Possible Harbor In Controller Bay. The message describes the location of Controller bay, which was original- Iy included in the Chugach forest re- serve. kor a time it was thought that the water of the bay was too shallow to make it valuable as a harbor, but in 1907 a channel was discovered ex- tending into the bay about seven miles. The tract taken from the forest re- serve by the president’s order covers 12.800 acres in a triangular form, the side along Controller bay being be- tween six and seven miles long, which covers the channel mentioned. The president’s message then says: All the territory surrounding Con- troller bay was included in the Chu- gach forest reservation in 1909 by a proclamation of President Roosevelt. The importance of Controller bay is that it lies about twenty-five miles from very valuable. coal deposits, #known as the Bering coal fields. Ka- talla bay is to the west of Controller bay and glmost immediately adjoins it. It is an open roadstead, upon the shore of which an attempt was made by the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate to establish a railway terminal and | thence to build a road to the Bering | coal fields, already mentioned. The attempt failed for the reason that the | breakwater protecting the terminals | was,_destroyed by storms apd the terminals became impracticable. Some fifty miles or more farther west of Katalla bay is the mouth of the Cop- per river, where there is an excellent harbor, on which is the town of Cor- dova. There the Copper River rail- road, owned by the Morgan-Guggen- heim interests, has its terminals. and | the line runs to the northeast along | the Copper river and has nearly reach- ed certain rich copper mines in the in- terior. A branch from this main line 18 projected to the Bering coal fields and is feasible. ‘When the channel in the Controller bay was discovered Mr. Tittman. su- verintendent of the coast survey. as shown by his letter in the record. was of opinion that it was of great value and ‘ought to be maintained as a na- val reservation because of its proxim- ity o the voal fields. His letter was ! submitted by the secretary of com- | merce and labor to the secretary of the futerior, who invited the comment | ¢f the director of the geological sur- vey t officer replied “that the harbor was a poor one and that- it would not be as good for a naval res- “ervation as one alrcady selected, but tanc he thought thar private capital ogght fo he evcouraged¥o construce a rflway from the chaunel o / wud Hats to the shore and mmme to | therefowe glad and an=fous to throw e conl tields. Captain- Pillsbury of the army en- gineers in a report in the record made it open to entry and settlement as one important step in encouraging raiiroad enterprise. I was certain that congress in 1907 .mentions three possible objec- | had provided in the statutes affecting tions to Controller bay—first. that the | the entry and settlement of land in surrounding islands may prove to beso | Alaska limitations which would pre- low as not fully to protect the channel; second, that the flats extend two or three miles from the shore, and, third. that ice formed in the rivers entering the bay and, affected by tidal currents, destroy structures put upon the flats and especially a long trestle built over them. Ryan Asks For Land. In December, 1909, Richard S. Ryan, fepresenting the Controller Railway and Navigation 'company, applied to Mr. Pinchot, the then forester, for an elimination from the Chugach forest reservation of a tractiof land to enable his company to secure railroad ter- minals, bunkers. railroad shops, etc., on the morthwest shore of Controller bay. This application was referred by the associate forester to the district forester at Portland, Ore., and by him to the forester in Alaska. The result of these references and the application was that early in 1910 Mr. Graves, who bad in the meantime become for- ester, reported that there was no ob- jection from 'the standpoint of forestry interests to the elimination of the tract indicated or, indeed. of 18,000 acres on the northtwest shore of Controller bay. The attentiou of the mavy depart- ment was invited by the forestry bu- reau to the proposal to open the shore of Controller bay to entry and occupa- tion, and inquiry was made whether the. navy department desired to use Controller bay as a reservation and whether it objected to its being opened up. The answer was in the negative. The matter was considered by the | forestry bureau,.by the secretary of agriculture, by_the secretary of the in- terior and by the general land office, to me in May, 1910, that an elimina- | tion be made of 320 acres with a front- age of 160 rods on the northwest shore of Controller bay. I considered the whole case in Au- gust, 1910, and directed that the' 320 acres, recommended by both depart- ments, be eliminated as recommended. The question finally came before the cabinet late in October. After a full discussion of the matter and after a consideration of the law 1 expressed dissatistaction with the order because it. purported on its face to, make the elimination for the benefit of a rail- road company of a tract of land which the company could mot secure under the statute, for it was a tract 320 acres in one body when enly 160 acres could be thus acquired. In the seeond place, I preferred to make a much larger elimination of a tract facing the entire channel and with suficient room for a terminal railway town. 1 was willing to do this because I found the restrictions in the law suffi- clent to prevent the possibility of any monopoly of either the upland or the harbor or channel by the Controller Railway and Navigation company or any, other persons or company- It bad been originally suggested by the forestry bureau that 18,000 acres might safely be eliminated so far as forestry purposes were concerned, but | fear had been expressed by one of the district foresters that such a large elimination would offer an opportunity to the company to use land scrip and | acquire title to extensive town sites, and the result of the joint considera- tion of both departments had been the reduction to 320 acres. Assumes All Responsibility. I wish to be as specific as possible upon this point and to say that I alone am responsible for the enlargement of the proposed elimination from 320 acres to 12,800 acres and that 1 pro- posed the change and stated my rea- sons therefor, and. while both secre- | taries cordially concurred in it, the suggestion was mine. The statement of Mr. Ryan, who had been properly vouched to the forester { by two gentlemen whom I know, Mr. | Chester Lyman and Mr. Fred Jen- nings, and swho had produced a letter from a reputable financial firm, Probst, Wetzler & Co., was that the railway company which he represented had ex- pended more than $75,000 in making preparations for the construction ef a | Palway from Controller. bay fo the coal fields, twenty-five miles away, but that they were obstructed in so doing by the order reserving the Chugach forest reservation, which covered all of the Controller bay shore. He, as well as Probst. Wetzler & Co., gave every assurance that the Copper River Railway company, owned by Messrs. | Morgan and Guggenheifn, had no con- nection with them and that they were engaged in an independent enterprise | in good faith to build an independent railroad. No evidence to the contrary | has been brought to myx_ attention since. -~ Of course it was possible that the owners of the Copper River Railway | company might attempt to buy this rafiroad when and if it was built It was possible that Mr. Ryan was act- ing in the Interests of the Copper Riv- er railroad. although | did not believe it Protected by Congress. If a raflroad was to be constructed from Controller bay to the Bering coal fields it was perfectly evident that there must be a terminal town OB the shora_of Contzoller bay, and 1 Wes | [ vent the possibility of the exclusive appropriation of the harbor and chan- nel of Controller bay or fts shores or upland to any one raflroad. This I pro- pose now to show. The only practicable method for se- curing title from the government in such a tract as this after its elimina- tion is by the use of what is called “soldiers’ additional homestead right” evidenced by scrip. 'The statutory lim- | itations upon this method of acquiring title are threefold: First—No more than 160 acres can be entered in any single body by such scrip. Second.—No location of scrip along any navigable waters can be made within the distance of eighty rods of any lands along such waters, and no entry can be allowed extending more than 160 rods along the shore of any navigable water, and along such shore 2 Bpace of at least eighty rods must be Teserved from entry between all such claims. ‘Third.—Nothing in the act contained is to be construed to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters ‘within said district. Under the first limitation the pavi- gation company and every other per- Son is prevented from locating more than 160 acres in ome body. By the construction of the land department, as shown in the record, this requires # separation between any two entries terest of a tract of forty acres. This would prevent the possibility of any one person or any one interest acquir- ing an entire tract like that of 12,800 “and the result was a recommendation J-acres. Frontage Held by Government. The second limitation is important in that it prevents the entry of claims at any point on the shore having a greater frontage than half a mile and requires that between that and the next claim taken up there shall be a frontage reserved to the public and kept in public control of a quarter of a mile. The consequence is that in the seven miles of the frontage of this eliminated tract there must be reserv- ed for government conirol and use and such disposition as congress may see fit to make and free from private ap- prapriation a frontage aggregating two and three-quarter miles and 'so distributed along the shore in front- ages of eighty rods as to make cer- tain of a public frontage of this width having all the advantage that any pri- vate frontage can have. In other ‘words, if a tract with a half mile frontage is located at a particularly advantageous place with reference to the harbor then on each side of that frontage must be reserved to the pub- lic a frontage of a quarter of a mile, or a half mile in all, for public uses. These -two restrictions necessarily prevent a monopoly of land abutting on the shore, and as they necessarily prevent a monopoly by any one lo- cator or in the interest of any com- pany for whom locators are acting they take away the motive for the ac- quisition of land and frontage merely | for the purpose of excluding other companies and possible competitors and tend to confine locators to the ac- quisition of land to be profitable in its use. / Since the executive order was s sued, Oct. 28, 1910, there have been | four locations under soldiers’ serip, { three of them of 160 rods each along the bay, separated by two divisions of elghty rods. I shall assume that | all of them are in the interest of the | Controller Railway and Navigation company. None of them has been ap- proved or passed to patent, but I shall assume they can bepassed to valid patent. Frontage Left Open. Of the shore frontage unlocated which may be appropriated by scrip | there remain six frontages of 160 rods each on the shore of the tract opened by the executive order facing the bay | and channel, and in addition at least two and threequarter miles of front- { age distributed in eleven " eighty-rod | -strips, subject to public use and the disposition of congress. There is thus { ample room for many other railroads to reach high water mark on Control- ler bay and there to acquire tracts i for terminals. Of the 12,800 acres the | entries in area have covered only 800 | acres, and all the rest is avaflable for | serip locatlon under the provisions of the act. There is a third reason why the opening of this tract to settlement and | limited private appropriations capnot | lead"to a monopoly in the Controller l Bay company or any one eise. The dis- tance from the dry land—i. e., the shore | land—the tine of high water mark—to the line of low water mark fs between two and three miles, and the distance to deeper water is about a mile far- ther, making it necessary, if a harbor is to be renched and used, to con- struct a vinduct or trestle three or four miles long from the shore to the chan- net. This tidal fiat is owned by the United States, and the acquisition un- der the public land laws of tracts, on the shore abutting these tidal flats gives no right or title to those flats. This would be the law if the statute by the sime persom or in the same in- | was silent on the -umcr. hni,ut only the statute of 1808 but also the amend- | ing statute of 1903 expressly the f-nmm that no title or right can be obtained under the act in the shore of a navigable body of water. * 4 submit to all fair minded men who may have been disturbed oyer the charges made in respect to the execu- tive srder of Oct. 28, 1010, that it has been demonstrated by the foregoing that pno public interest has suffered from its issue, that great good may come from it and that no dishonest or | improper motive is needed to explain®| it. I might, therefore, stop bere; but, rather, for the purpose of the moral to be drawn from them than to vin- dicate the order, 1 propose to consider the attacks upon the order that hys- teria or rancor has prompted. Order Was Made Publie. The charge has been made that this was 4 secret order and that though it was made in October, 1910, go one knew it until April, 1911. Thid is ut- | terly unfounded. The statement of Mr. Vernon, the correspondent of the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle, a news- paper of wide efrculation among a peo- ple most interested fn Alaska, shows that ten days before the order was made mews of the details of Ryan’s application and the probability of its being granted was given wide public- ity. It further appears from the rec- ords of the interior department that the evening the order was signed, Oct. 28, 1910, a full notice of the issue of the order and its details was furnish- ed by the department to all corre- spondents in the form of a news bul- letin. Finally the agent of the Asso- ciated Press certifies that at 7:23 p. m., Oct. 28, 1910, there was sent out by that association to all its newspaper clients a telegram taken from a type- written statement issued by the in- terion.department as follows: ‘Washington, Oct. 28.—Approximately 12,- 800 acres of 1and in the Chugach National forest, Alaska, have been restored by the president for disposition under appropri- ate land laws, according to information made public today by the interior depart- ment. These lands are situated on_the coast line of Controller bay, in southern Alaska, near the Cunningham claims, and have been found upon examination to be of little value for forestry purposes. It would be difficult to prepare an advertisement more informing to the public or more likely to attract the at- tention of all likely to desire acquisi- tion of land on Controller bay. On the | 29th the chief forester sent a telegram making a similar announcement to his district forester at Portland, Ore. ‘The order has been attacked on the vision delaying its taking effect for thirty days after its publication, as | orders restoring land to settlement by homesteaders frequently do. An ex- | amination of the record furnishes an | explanation of this feature of the or- | der as made. When in October they | two departments had agreed, with my | mequiescence, that the order should be ] [ | | | an elimination of only 820 acres an order describing the 320 acres, direct- ing its restoration to settlement and containing the usual provision post- poning its taking effect thirty days ‘was prepared in the forestry bureau and forwarded to the interior depart- ment. There it was deemed wiser to spread on the face of the order a spe- cific declaration that it was made to dfford terminals for the Controller Railway and Navigation company, and as no one else was expected to inter- vene and take up any part of the elim- { inated tract the restoration was made | tmmediate. Approved by Secretary. The form thus amended was submit- ted to the secretary of agricuiture, who expressed his preference for the im- | mediate restoration order ‘through his | soliciter’s memorandum on-the face of the order, as follows: Mr. Clements, Assistant Attorney In the Interfor Department—We think this O. K. The secretary says it is the direct way 2nd appeals to him. GEORGE P. M'CABE. Thq idea of the secretary doubtless was that the short form of order was preferable because on its face it was directly indicative of the purpose to secure an opportunity to the railway company by proper entry to settle on the inzd eliminated, and as no one else was expected to intervene no postpone- ment was needed. Accordingly when the case came for decision in the cabi- Det the order was without any post- ponement clause. This was the form sent me for my signature by the acting secretary of the interior department. When I directed the striking out of the reference to the railway company and the enlargement of the area from 320 acres to 12,800 acres the form of the order in its provision for imme- dtate restoration was not changed. I have no doubt that this was the rea- son why the order issued took the form it did. Had the postponement clause been suggested I would doubtlessly.| have directed it to be embodied in the order. But the event has proven that | it was really not important in this | case, for in now nearly nine months ‘only the Controller Railway Naviga- tion company has made any scrip en- | tries on the eliminated tract, and this although 11,000 acres and three miles | of water front still remain open to en- | try and there are several different rail- way companies in addition to the Con- troller Railway and Navigation com- pany that had filed locations for rights of way in the vicinity in the last two years who have had in the last nine months the fullest notice of their op- portunity if they wished to enter on this land. The “Dick to Dick” Lettor. Before closing 1 destre to allude to & circumstance which the terms of this resolution make apt and relevant. It is o widely published statement at- { tributed to a newspaper correspondent that in an examination of the files of the fnterior department a few weeks ago a postseript was found attached to a letter of July 13, 1910, addressed by Mr. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary Bal- linger—and in the present record—urg- ing the elimination of land enough for terminals for the Controller Railway NCharles P. Taft, and the disclosure of ground that it did not contain a pro- [/ and Navigation company. The post- script was said to read as follow: Dear Dick—I went to see the president | the other.day, He asked me who it was hwdflflbmtflulflnfll’l regolution. Who 18 really responsible for its wicked fabrication, if it ever ex- isted, or for the viclously false state- ment made as.to its autbenticity is immaterial fon, the purposes of this eommunication.” The purport of the al- leged postscript is and the intention of e fabricator was to make Mr. Rich- ard 8. Ryan testify through its words ‘o the public that although I was at first opposed in the public interest to granting the elimination which he re- que Dnevertheless through the un- due ‘influence of my brother, Mr. the real persons in interest 1 was in- duced improperly and for the promo- tion of thelr private gain to make the order. . \ The statement in so far as my brothér 1s concerned—and that is the chief feature of the postscript—is utterly un- ‘founded. He never wrote to me or spoke to me in reference to Richard S. Ryan or on the subject of Coutroller bay or_the granting of any privileges or the making of any orders in respect to Alaska. He has no interest in Alaska, never had and knows nothing of the circumstances connected with this transaction. He does not remem- ber that he ever met Richard 8. Ryan. He never heard of the Controller Bay rallroad untll my cablegram of inquiry reached him. Mr. Ballinger says in a telegram in answer to my inquiry that he never received such a postscript and that he was in Seattle on the date of July 13, when it was said to have been writ- ten. Mr. Richard S. Ryan, in a letter ‘which he has sent me without solicita- | tion, says that he never met my broth- er, Mr. Charles P. Taft, and that so far as he knows Mr. Charles P. Taft never had the slightest interest in Con- troller bay, in the Controller Raflway and Navigation company or in any Alaskan company, and he utterly de- nles writing or signing the alleged postscript. The utter improbability of his writing such a postscript to Mr. Ballinger at Washington when the latter was away for his vacation for two months must fmpress every one. ‘The fact 18 that Mr. Ballinger never saw the letter of July 13, 1910, to which this postscript 18 said to have been attached. [t was sent to me by Mr. Carr,’ Secretary Ballinger's pri- vate secretary, at Beverly, on July 14—the next day. 1 read the letter at Beverly in August with other papers and sent them to the White House. It was placed upon the White House files and remained thers until April 22, 1911, (when it was, by request of Secretary Wisher, for use in connection with his answer to a senate inquiry, returned to the interior department. and it was after this that the corre- spondent is said to have seen the let- ter with the postscript attached. Mr. Carr saw no such postseript when he sent the letter to me. 1 did not see-it when I read it. No one saw it in the exeeutive office, but it remained to ap- pear as a postscript when it 1s said that the correspondent saw the letter in April or May on the files of the in- terior department. All others were de- nied the sight. The person on whose statement the | existence of what has been properly characterized as an amazing post- script is based is a writer for news- papers and magazines, who was given permission by Secretary Fisher, after consultation with me, to examine all the files in respect to the Controller bay matter, and this under the super- vision of Mr. Brown, then private sec- retary to the secretary of the interior. After the examination, at which it is alleged this postscript was recelved from the hand of Mr. Brown, the cor- respondent prepared an elaborate arti- cle on the subject of this order and Controller bay, which was submitted to Mr. Fisher and which was discuss- ed with Mr. Fisher at length, but nev- er in the conversation between them or in the article submitted did the cor- respondent mention the existence of the postscript. Mr. Brown states that there was no such postscript in the papers when he showed them to the correspondent and that he never saw such a postseript. Similar evidence is given by Mr. Carr and other custo- dians of the records in the interior de- partment. Stronger evidence of the falsity and maliciously slanderous character of the alleged postseript could not be had. Its only significance is the light it throws on the bitterness and venom of some of these who take active part in every discussion of Alaskan issues. The intensity of their desire to be- smirch all who invest in that district and all who are officlally connected with its administration operates upon the minds of weak human instru- ments and prompts the fabrication of | such false testimony as this post- 1 dislike to dwell upon this | seript. feature of the case, but it is so full of a lesson that ought to be taken to the heart of every patriotic citizen that E 4 cannot pass it over in silence. Wten I made this order I was aware that the conditlon of public opinfon in reference to investments in Alaska, fanned by charges of fraud, some well founded and others of an hysterical and unjust or false character, would lead to an attack upon it and to the questioning of my motives in signing it. I remarked this when I made the order, and I was not mistaken. ' But & N public officer when he conceives it his duty to take affirmative actfon in the public interest has no more right to al- low fear of unjust criticlsm and attack to hinder him from taking that action that he would to ailow personal and dishonest motives to affect him. It 18 easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal. 1 am ip full sympathy with the con- cern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not be turned over to be exploit- ed for the profit of greedy, absorbing o s ‘tion of undue m w right from the governamut in that \trict. But every ove m know the resources of Alaska can pever i come available elther to tie people of Alaska or to the public of the Unftes States unless reasonable Sl granted to those who would fovest their money to secure a return propor- tionate to the risk run in the favest ment and reasonable under all the cir- cumstances. On the other band, the acrimony of spirit and the intense malice that have been engendered in respect of the ad- ministration of the government fn Alaska and in the comsideration of measures proposed for her refief and the wantun recklessness and eager- ness with which attempts bave been made to besmirch the characters of high officials having to do with the Alaskan government and even of per- sons not in public life present a con- dition that calls for condemnation and requires that the public be warned of the demoralization that has been pro- duced by the hysterical suspicions of good people and the unscrupulons and corrupt misrepresentations of the wicked. The helpless state to which the credulity of some and the malev- olent scandal mongering of ofhers have brought the people of Alaska in their struggle for its development ought to give the public pause. for un- til a juster and fairer view be taken investment in Alaska, which fs meces- sary to its development. will be fm- possible, and honest administrators and legislators will be embarrassed in the advocacy and putting into opera- tion of those policies in regard to the territory which are necessary to its progress and prosperity. WILLIAM H. TAFT The White House, July 26, 1912. Evolution of the Nursing Bottle. The original nursing bottle was s cow’s born, to the small end of which ‘were sewed two pieces of leather, as a finger of a glove, and the infant drew its nourishment between the stitches. According to Dr. D. Forsyth, fifteentn century mothers used to nurse their bables for close upon three years. & uratiopegtill customary among the Japanese #nd - Greenlanders. Ia the time of the Stuarts it had declined to between eighteen months and twe years. In the time of the Georges it fell to one year, aud now be reckoned the average as eight months. During the Hanoverlan period the practice of feeding bables artificially became somewhat common, Cow's milk was not then considered just the foed for a baby deprived of its mother’s milk. and the substance called “pap” was introduced through the cow’s horn. “Pap” was a mixture of crust soaked water and sugar. A baby that thrived on it was usually one of rare constitu- tion. The nursing bottle with a long rubber stem succeeded the cow's horn, and by degrees the comparatice sanitary feeding bottle of today was introduced. —New York World. An Island In a Cloud. White island. thirty miles to the mortheast of New Zealand. is perbaps the most extraordinary isiand in the world. It is an enormeus mass of rock nearly three miles in circumfer- ence, rising 900 feét above the l} and is perpetually enveloped in dai clouds, which are visible for peariy 100 miles. The island consists almos? entirely of sulphur. with a small per- centage of gypsum. Some years ago an attempt was made to float a com- pany to work the sulphur, which is of high quality, but sufficient capital was not subscribed. Therefore the export of sulphur from White island is still very small. In the interior is a lake fully fifty acres in extent, the watee of which has a temperature of 110 de- grees F. and {s strongly impregnated with acids. On one side of this lake are craters from which steam escapes with great force and noise. Thbis steam and the vapor from the lake form the dark cloud '.haz envelops the island. West Indi English. The moot questlon as to why EngHstt is spoke as she i has apparently been settled by a colored mammy of the old school. In a recest visit to the West Indies she accompanied her mistress and after returning regaled her emvi- ous neighbors with vivid accounts off her travels. “In dem Wes’ Indles,” she remarked, ' “dey don’ talk Unabted States. No, suh. dey don’. Dey talks foreiga sn’ English—English, yes, sub. Ax’ dat English dab ain’t de same as what we all talks. No, suh. Dey says down dah, dey s ‘ahn’t’ for ‘ala’t’ and ‘cahn’t’ for ‘can’t’ an’ such like doin’s. Yes, suh. An’ you wan’ to kmow how come dey talk dat foel talk? Wky, suh, when he English dome busted away fum de Unahted States dey was 50 'shamed dey'd evah beionged to us dat dey trahd to get eben, an’ jes’ out'm spite dey done change de promounes- ment of de whole language.”—8t. Lous Republic. AT FOUNTAINS, uorul. OR ELSEWHERE nl-lGemnn !HIIHLIGK’S MALTED MILK E:.‘i“.fl’.':."““ Py Not in any E PO Insist o-"mlcl"' 'r-l--m—-