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The journal Carries More Advertising Than Any Other Paper in Central Oregon. Paid Circulation Nearly 2,000 Copies PAGES CfOO-lC CLASSIFIED ADS ON PAGE 3 COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE VOL. XX PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1916. NO. 30 111 0.1 ft m 4 i a . K'-a ex tr i. 0 CITY COUKCsL ISSUES j STATEMENT ONBONDS Promise Railroad to This ' City Before Winter. ANOTHER ELECTION . REQUIRED Posaibitity of Error Being Avoid ed ThU Time Delay About Thirty Days. To the I'rineville IVople of the City of Oregon : In order that tho people of I'rineville may know exactly the ulatiw of the proponed Railway Construction Bonds, the plun of action to be adopted by the City, and the reasons for adopting this plan, the officers of the City make ' 1 1 the following public statement: (Supreme Court of Oregon twice. The evening of Tuesday, the! profiting by the experience of our ahofJune, 1910, was the time ,mt issue, which has failed, and by set by the Council for receiving! that of our neighboring towns! bids on our proposed $100,000 bond j wt, have decided to adopt the plan issue. No bids were received at j finally followed by Grants Pass in that time. That this call for bids jt, successful issue, anil now being had been fully advertised is shown , trjed by Bend after failing in one by the fact that nearly one-hundred letters of inquiry and suggestion have been received by us within the last month. We now face the fact that these bonding companies' entire supervision of our record have not found themselves in a I wjtn the legal department of some position to buy our bonds even,rt.iai,iu bonding company, who though the present demand for agree to furnish all the necessary bonds Is unusually good and the market high. , Wo find three general reasons for this lack of bids. First, the form of the bonds was not accepl- able" in that the optional period for redemption was too short.! This optional period is always j considered by bonding companies, when making a bid. Our issue would not sell well unless raised ' from a ten to at least a twenty year , redemption period, hecoml, all the companies agree that they figure the value of an issue on a (i per cent basis. We called for bids on a 5 per cent bond and for that reason our issue would have been handled at a decided dis count. The third and most serious objection to our bonds is that we offered no guarantee of their legality. Reliable bonding com panies will not accept the opinion of local or Portland attorneys on this matter. They requested us to take our issue before tho supreme court of thii state in a friendly suit or else to procure an opinion from one of the few law firms in the United States who are final authorities on bonding issues. We called for unconditional bids, re quiring the bidder to satisfy him aolf as to the legality ot the issue before bidding. It is evident from the absence of bids that tho pre liminary opinions of these com panies was not favorable to our is sue. Wc know that the represent ative of at least one reliable com pany was ordered not to bid at any price as they considered the elec tion voting our issue absolutely illegal. Neither Mr. Davidson nor the bonding companies will take our bonds on the record we have to offer at this time. There is only one way to procure a clear record and that is to hold a new election, and procure a competent legal opinion declaring its legality. Prineville is not the only town in Oregon to fail in its first attempt to place a railroad bond issue on the market, which is considered the most difficult issue to make legal. Grants1 Pass is now happy and prosperous with a railroad, but it took three elections and a Grange Picnic At Opal City Friday A huge picnic was held at Opal City luii Krithy under the auspices "f the Grange, whi.-U was attended by hundreds from that pjirt of the district. The Opal City Grange in one of the oldest of the few fanner's organizations of (antral Oregon and has accomplished much toward the betterment of it community. At present there are about eighty ! active members. John Hendriek- jnon, Hulph Armstrong and It. K. Keeney are officers of the associa j lion. Tlfis annual picnic in part of a Hellenic of extension to interest and benefit farmers. Friday's event was featured by agricultural Continued on paife 12. talks supreme court opinion to put through their bond issue. Rose burg is now on its third election an,j has taken it record to the election, and adopted by Hums and other towns in their first attempt to secure a railroad. Under this plan, wo place the ordinanccs, resolutions, notices, ballots and otnor forms; agreeing ; to jiroeure the favorable opinion of an expert guaranteeing the legality of our issue to the; date of the call fr bids, and further agreeing to place a bid at the proper, time. We have made such a contract with Keelher .Brothers of Denver, who nro to Mart work on our proeoed- ings immediately. The city has pU.,.d itself under no obligations whatsoever to accept the bid of Keelher Brothers, but will be in a position to accept the bills of Mr. Davidson or any bonding company. We shall place the new issue at the original sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, making the rate fi per cent und changing the optional period from ten totwenty years. We believe that tho people of Prineville sincerely and unitedly wish to build a railroad from Prineville to a connection with the main line. We believe that we have your support in our efforts to secure the nu-ins to build this road. We honestly believe that the quickest way to bring in this railroad is to begin anew and adopt the plan for the new is.-.ue which we have outlined to ytu. As officers of the City of Prine ville, we are endeavoring to the best of our ability to serve the wishes of a majority of its 'people and the best interests of this com munity. We are not attempting to hide our past mistakes from you nor to disguise our plans for the future. We ask for your hearty co-operation in bringing a railroad to Prineville, completed before the coming winter, and we feel now that if you will give us a favorable vote on this issue at the coming election, we are in a position to promise you that actual construc tion work will be begun within ten days after the election. Prineville, Oregon, June 7th, 1916. - ; (Signed) D. F. Stewart, Mayor. John B. Shipp, Carey W. Foster, H. D. Still, G. P. Reams, Wm. J Pancake, N. G. Wallace, Council men. Statira Biggs, City Attorney. KeDUblican rresidential rossibilihes ? A - Any one of this group may be cago Madras Man Meets Death While Fishing. BOAT OVERTURNED WITH THREE Prineville Masons Attend Funer al Services Today Body Found Tuesday- The. Deschutes River added another victim to its toll of many tragedies when Tom Tucker of Madras was drowned Sunday near Vanora. He with Austin Culp and son had secured a boat and were fishing in the swift water, when in making a cast, Mr. Tucker, who was a heavy man. caused the boat to capsize. Of the three men, Culp was tho only one who could swim and he immediately started to shore with his son. Glancing back he saw Tucker standing waist deep in the water, supposedly on a sub merged rock or shallow place, but when he and his son reached safety no one was in sight in the river. It is thought that the victim think ing the water was shallow started for shore and became ensnared in THfODORE"Hx50SEVELT CharxES MuG"ES El'Hy R.OOT ( ( j w mm w 7, ZmS&jy -- sf-i ZULUS' " Z- W-FAIRBANKS SAMOCL W-MCCAll . VlU 'AM &ORH jJ A B-CUMMINS H-D- C3TABR.OOK R MtATOLtE TTE ' ' . t ' J W' jj l Xjjy. M TrttCDORE E-BURTON JOHN W-WEEXS ' .! selected as the Republican candidate for President ' at 1 the Chi- Convention before Saturday night. one of the many treacherous holes of the Deschutes. An alarm was sounded and a search for the body begun. It was late Tuesday even ing before blasting raised the body, fully- two miles below the scene of the tragedy. Mr. Tucker was a man about ntty years old and was well known in the county. OPAL SPRINGS PLANT 10 At the bottom of the Crooked River gorge near. Opal Springs, a point five miles southeast of Culver, Jefferson county, is a pumping system which is the unit in one of the most unique projects of the state. Picture to the mind the rugged slopes and almost in- accessible walls of the Crooked River canyon and a mental idea of the difficulties overcome is fixed. Because of the great height to which the water had to be raised a pump could not be found to per form the task. Earl Thompson, engineer and manager, of the pro ject, went to Portland and in eight months returned with a pump of his own design which now silent ly, masterfully, with, little vibra tion, daily Jifts 35,000 gallons of water through a four inch pipe, to a height of 830 feet. A flume carries water from Opal Springs to a 200 foot, twelve inch Continued on page 12. I ; ELLIOTT DAMSITE ONLY FEASIBLE ONE Will Cost Much Less than! Any Other Reservoir ONE RESERVOIR ON THE MM Location at Kemmling Ranch Found to Be the Most Practical- The investigation of, the various reservoir locations for, the storage j of water for the OchoccK Irrigation t district has revealed the facts that the location of the large dam at the David Elliott place east of this city is the only one that is feasible ! from a standpoint of cost and storage capacity, on the Ochoco. ' On McKay the best; reservoir lo cation is on the John Kemmling place, while another of less value is located on the Alex Hinton place. The board instructed Engineer Rea at their regular meeting on Tuesday, when these reports were submitted, to confine future investi gations to these two locations. The work will be rushed ''as rapidly as possible, and will , be completed Continued on, page 12. RABBIT BOUNTY LIKED BY HARNEY PEOPLE Measure Will Be on Ballot Here in November. SIGNERS NOW BEING SECURED All Must Be in During June Stockmen Favor Measure Pest Is Menace. The Harney County Tribune, published at Burns, has the follow ing to say concerning the rabbit bounty: The Times-Herald published a small article from the Oregon Farmer wherein R. A. Ward, Bio logical assistant at Rtdmond, aired his views on Harney County's rab bit bounty. The gentleman says the means of destroying the rabbi t3 is too expensive, and will have to ttop. We beg to differ with Mr. Ward and the Oregon Farmer. The bounty will not have to cease on account of it being a drain on the treasurer's funds as the rabbits are getting scarcer all the time, and the farmers are not experiencing any dsadvantages from them this year, which speaks volumes for the bounty, the means of getting rid of them. The bounty paid leaves the money where it will do the most good and does no harm to the tax payers and it certainly is getting rid of the rabbits. , ""We lift our voices in protest to any move which would remove the bounty law. It is a good thing and we need all the good things." The Tribune has hit the matter squarely en vhe head. It is not a matter of how much will be paid for rabbit bounties but the only question is this: Will a rabbit and his offspring for the year eat five . cents worth of crops and grass from the ranges? If so, then it is good business to pay five cents and have him killed. if Crook county should pay I $50,000 in a single year for the ex termination of rabbits, which is not ' at all unlikely, this would mean that ! a total of a round million rabbits 'have been taken off the ranges 1 and out of the grain and afalfa i fields of the county. True, the total is a neat little sum of money. But what about the total amount ot property de stroyed by that number of rabbits? That is the only question. If you want to help get the e !-the ba,, ? mis lNovemoer, jjei, a coyy ui inc petition from this office or from Homer Norton at Post, and circu late it. All petitions must be in during this month. $20,000 Fire at Redmond Yesterday A disastrous fire at Redmond about four o'clock yesterday morning, consumed the general store of Taliaferro Bros.,the Brown and Reynolds' barber shop and Butler's drug store. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is thought that it started in the rear of the barber shop. There was some insurance but net enough to cover more than fifty percent of the losses. Score Was 20 to 6. Paulina baseball team The ar rived fullof, hope Sunday but left very badly annihilated indeed. A score of 20-6 was computed after the fireworks.