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ONI YKAR $2.00 IN A,PVANCB.
Secretary Taft urges' die con
struction of a cable to Panama
as a military necessity. Proba
bly he wants to be in 'shape to
wire a tight ac a moment's no
tice. ' '.' ' ; : "
A bill appropriating 100,000,
lor navy maintenance, has just
passed the House. Now the na
tion can turn in once more and
renew tne eloquent pica lor uni
versal disarmament.
Paper Money
A Washinton dispatch says it
will cost the government $300,
000 just to secure the blank pa
per on which to print the supply
ot' paper currency for 1907. This
will, prove a good investment,
however, because Uncle Sam will
nmnulacture the paper into notes
and bills with a lace value of
$7tf5uUUO,UOu. The biggest item
in tiiis total is the $5 denomina
tion, of which there will be 1 148,
OUU.OUU; there will be $93,000,
000$ 1 bills and 140,000,000 of
Jj5 gold c rtjlicates. bills of lar
ger denominations are fewer in
proportion. Jouricr.
Uncalled For War of Races in
Old Mexico
That so many Americans should
be killed in a race war at Cana
nea i-i in our view uncalled for.
Because the reasons given so far
as we arc able to judge, are not
bulficient to warrant such a
slaughter of men. The Ameri
cans who reside in a foreign
country and not be slaughtered
as this case seems to indicate.
It the Mexican authoiities are
not able to meet the emergencies
in the preservation of lives, prop
erty and etc. of foreigners who
reside in thai country they should
be held responsible and made to
sutler the consequences of such
neglect.
New ItitW: on Desert Lands
Absolute ownership of all wa
ter rights is required before des
ert land entiiescau be proven up,
according to a rule promulgated
by the general land office, which
has resulted in the .rejection of
numerous final proofs.
"The claimant must be abso
lute owner of the water stock
appurtenant to the land," said
General Frank C. Prescott, regis
ter of the land office here, today.
"Five thousand dollars of stock
hypothecated for $500 is an in
sufficient showing of reclama
tior.
"Another drastic rule relative
to desert land entries is that on-
1 I -
ly the first plowing and break
ing of the land is credited to the
the work of reclamation; subse
quent cultivation and crop rais
ing is held as a mere investment.
These two rules indicate a policy
of the general land office adverse
to, any effort to use the desert
land act for speculative purposes.
L'l A. Express.
,.Tli Strength of ti Nation
t
From r an article in the May
number of Opportunity, written
bv Geo. H. Maxwell.
Why is Nevada today a state
of great ranches and few penple
a population of only a little over
50,000 where it might just as
well have had a million.
The writer was once traveling
on the railroad down the Valley
of the Ilumbolt in Nevada. The
train stopped at Goleonda, one
of the waste places in the land
created by land monopoly. Two
young men crawled out from the
trucks. They could stand it no
longer. They were so covered
with white alkali dust that you
could hardly tell they were hu
man beings. And there was nei
ther work, nor a chance of it
where tney had to give up their
effort to reach a place where the
homes of men would otter them
an opportunity to work and live.
Is it much to wondered at tiiat
we are breeding socialists when
year after year. Congress goes
steadily forward with the policy
that destroyed Nevada!1
"The evil that men do lives af
them" but if Arizona now be
sacrificed to the blight of a land
monopoly such as destroyed Ne
da, the day will come when the
young men of this nation, who
will some (iav awaken to the
value of their birthright in the
public lands, will curee the mem
ory of the man who sold their
birthright for a mess of pottage.
The danger to Arizona arises
from the fact that the people of
the whole country do not realize
the marvelous opportunities Ari
zona offers to the young men of
the nation, and do not realize
how completely land monopoly
as it would be created under the
joint-statehood bill, would Tush
out and destroy those opportunities.
Homestead kijrlit Not Trans
ferable.
The Director of the Geological
Survey recently requested from
the Department of the Interior
as to whether a homesteader
whose entry is within the irriga
ble area of an irrigation project,
but not subject to the restrict
ions, limitations, and conditions
of the Reclamation Act, may sell
a relinquishment of part of his
entry.
The Assistant Attorney Gener
al has rendered an opinion which
is approved by the Secretary of
the Interior, that an entryman
who has not acquired title to his
lands may not convey or agree
to convey to a water users asso
ciation one or more legal subdi
visions of his entry, to be Jield, in
trust by such association and
sold for the benefit of the home
steader to persons competent to
enter such lands,: under the same
form and in the samti manner
inow provided for thecohveyance
and sale of lands in private own
ership lying within the limits of
jau irrigable area.
The opinion recites that one of
the indispensable conditions of
ihe homestead law is that , the
entry must be made fortheexclii
sive use and benefit .of the iip'pli-j
cant and not "either directly or
indirectly for the us? or benefit
of any oilier person' Revised
statues, Sec. 2290. In submit
ting final proof, the entryman is
required to make oath Unit "no
part ot such land ilas been alien
ated, except as provided in sec
tion twenty-two hundred and
eighty-eignt" (Sec. 2291), which
provides for alienation for church
and cemetery purposes. Under
such prohibition, "a contract iiy
a homesteader to convey a por
tion of the tract when he shall,
acquire title from the United Sta
tes is against public policy, and
void."
'."Until the h(mesieader has:,ac
quired either a legal or equitable
title to the land, he cannot make
an agreement to convey any por
tion of it that will secure to
another any right or interest
therein. He may relinquish 'f.ll
or parts of it, but the relinquifi
ment must be to the United Sta
tea. Ex.
When the subject of liarscnmos
up in the United States Senate.
It never seems to occur to anv-
j body to submit a niinorit report.
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