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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1903)
f-ar .JiVtarf' "--' Vi"!? --t .l" t 7 t n 1 I The Bend Bulletin rfLitm kvy mtnAY by MAX tXHDimMANN Dos T. KliA ... Kditor RUnSCKUTION KATHSl PCf JtNriMMlHHIIUKIIUtlMIM Jt.co jo Thrt moutlu. ...... ........., (InrarUMy In tlvnct. AdmtlKM who wish lo change their JvU houlil hurt copy In not Uttr than Tuly tioon lrt41tig the U.uc In which chute? I tlclrct. PHI DAY APRIL 17, 1903 IMl'ROVKMKNTS NI2UUUD. Some one of our great men hns said that keeping everlastingly at it brings success. We intend to keep everlastingly nt the postal money order depart ment of our government in order that they may sec the suitability and utility of starting a money order office at Deschutes. We nre nlso going to mention the need of n daily mail, so that hereafter we won't be receiving lust Sunday's Orcgonian on next Sunday or later. We also want telephone connection- with the world. Here is a smallpox epidemic next door, at Princvillc, and the only news we arc able to get concerning it is re ports brought by word of mouth by .someone who Has Heard some one else say tuat a friend of his heard that a man in Princvillc had some thing that looked like smallpox. If wc had a telephone we could find out what the matter was, and could take all the necessary precautious. As it is, wc don't know what to do or how to do it. The business men here ought to take hold of these things in a deter mined, business-like manner, and have them put through. Every modern convenience that is added means an extra inducement for peo ple to come here, and of course means increased business for all of us. Get in and dig, and don't al low yourselves to fall into the con dition of come towns and commun ities in the Willamette Valley which we could name. If we get a telephone here the Silver Lake people will not be slow about building a connecting line, and from there to Lake view is al ready a telephone in full operation. Don't go to sleep, neighbors. The good citizens of Bend pre 'cinct had better lay in a goodly supply of disinfectants, and use all ordinary precautions and safeguards against the smallpox epidemic which has been raging in the coun try between Shaniko and Princ villc. As yet no case has appeared . in or around Bend, but the dread visitor is apt to poke his head in at any time, even though the state veterinarian was in Princvillc and said that there was no need of n quarantine. We are not doing this as a bit of free advertising for the Priueville druggists, as it may be necessary to sterilize the disinfec tants we send for; but we want to warn the people so that we may nut contract the dread disease while we are without a doctor or a drug ' store. Mr. A. E. Reames, of Jackson, was nominated for representative by the Democrats of the first district on the first ballot. Mr. Reames is a son-in-law of the late Thos. II. Tongue and is a very popular young man. He will undoubtedly poll the full Democratic vote, but will not bother Mr. Hermann much in the race for congress. We would like to register a No. 9 kick at the lack of expedition in transmitting the paper mail south of Priueville during the last .three weeks. The daily Oregon ian might as well be published semi-monthly for all the good it does us, and we jieed it every day and more than anybody else can, for the reason that the news therein is indispens able to a country newspaper which is without telegraphic or telephonic communication with the outside world. If there is sickticss in the postmaster's family at Princvillc, of course wc do not expect things to run ns smoothly ns clockwork; but when others here get their paper mail and wc do not, it looks like lax methods prevail in the office. The Deschutes office is by every thing right and proper entitled to a daily mail; but since wc do not have that wc would like more prompt results from the present in sufficient tri-wcckly service. As it is, wc await patiently the arrival of last Wednesday's Oregoninn, ten days old now, and those published since that day. Recent Wireless Telegraphy Develop ment. The amazing success of Signor Marconi,' in crossing the Atlantic, has stirred up a host of rivals, and between this country there are now a dozen or twenty systems strug gling for precedence. And the law suits have begun. In this country the dc Forest company is suing the Marconi com pany for n million dollars damages for certain statements said to have issued from the Marconi company. The latter replies by a suit for in fringement against the de Forest company, and asking that the lat ter company remove itself from the earth. It is to be noted that if the Marconi company's claims are up held, this will raise hob with any system employing the coherer prin ciple as a receiver ol the messages. The dc Forest receiver operates on an exactly opposite principle, how ever, and there seems little likeli hood that it will be shut out. In Germany the Slaby-Arco and the Braun systems have found a clash, with a recent victory for the latter, that it does not infringe the Slaby-Arco devices. In France the government has practically confis cated wireless telegraphy, so that the stock-boomers there have not had much of a chance. Italy.proud of its native genius, seems to have taken up with Marconi, and the English government has also equip ped many of its warships with Mar coni instruments. In America the lead in this line seems to have been secured by the dc Forest company, both the war department and the navy having, after competitive trials, given the contracts to the lat ter system. But by far the most interesting point is the question of transatlan tic signalling. Marconi's recent messages across the Atlantic were secured by means of what he calls a magnetic detector. For long-distance work, the old coherers broke down. This magnetic detector, which seems to be far more sensitive than any form of coherer, is the in vention of Professor Rutherford, of Toronto, and was exhibited as far back as 1897. It seems to have been taken up independently by Sir Oliver Lodge, in England; by Mar coni; and by Prof. R. A. Fessenden of Washington. Their patent ap plications, now pending, arc in in terference. It is said, however, that Professor' Fessenden offers proof of his invention, or improve ments, a year in advance of Mar coni's application. If this is true, and Fessenden wins, the Marconi company can do business across the Atlantic only with Professor Pes seuden's permission, for so far no other forth of receiver has been shown capable of taking signals sver such a distance. At present the practical difference between all the different "systems" narrows down to the question of re ceivers, But rrot. Ferdinand Braun of Strassburg, Qermany, anuounc- ed recently that he had found a new method of sending the electric waves, in any desired volume, and directed to a given point of the compass. These arc very broad claims, and further details nre be ing awaited by scientific men with the deepest interest. Professor Pu pin, of Columbin, credits Professor Braun with having done the most valuable work in wireless telegraphy after Marconi. Anything he Ihih to say, therefore, will be resjwet- fully listened to. The sparking method of producing the electric waves docs seem rather crude dc vice, and wc might hear any day of anew method which would quite revolutionize wireless. Meanwhile, what is going to hap pen when n dozen different systems arc shooting up poles and bombard ing space with electric waves? It cannot but mean the most hopeless confusion. There can le 110 mon opoly in wireless telegraphy. That is settled. The field Ls free to all comers. Anybody with a common alternating dynamo or an induction coil can set up for business, or to upset somebody else's business. Tuning, or syntouy, is no doubt possible within limits, but nt pres ent these limits arc vague'. With any extensive use of wireless, there is bound to be a mix-up, and 11 gay one. What will the lawyers do? No body knows much about the ether, and nobody less than they. Will they ask the legislatures for wire less franchises? So far as anyone can sec now, that is the only thing that can make wireless telegraphy a practical business proposition. The alternative is that the govern ment should take it over, as France has already done. Harper's. Mow Prlneville Had Smallpox. As an instance of how the news travels we give an accurate account of the spread of smallpox at Princ villc during the week just passed, as word was brought to us from day to day: Wednesday It wasn't smallpox at all; only the 'dobc itch. Thursday One severe case; doc tors agreed it was smallpox; got laughed nt by the citizens; doctors didn't know nothin', nohow. Friday County officers taken down with it; citizens were scared, and, still doubtful, admitted it might be smallpox, but didn't look like it. Perry Poindextcr refused to allow his hotel to be quarantined. Saturday Twenty-seven cases in town; yellow flannel at a premium; Perry was finally overcome and put in county jail while the Poindextcr was formally closed to the public. Sunday Ninety cases; citizens panic-stricken; wired for the state health officers. Physicians making all kinds of money vaccinating ev ery Ixxly. Monday One hundred and sixty-two cases, including six dogs, one probably fatal; marshal ordered to shoot the dogs, and take steps to allow no one to leave or enter the city; not even nobody. U. S. mail quarantined and fumigated. Tuesday Two hundred and ten cases; using orange bunting for keep-away flags. Seventeen state health officers arrive; pronounce it the worst form of smallpox, and call an immense mass meeting of available citizens to take steps to stamp it out and facilitate spread of germs. Wednesday Three hundred and twelve cases; fair grounds turned into a pesthouse; many doctors and trained nurses from all over the state present; seven deaths and five more expected at any moment; ton of foruialdehyde and 1000 vaccine points ordered; typhoid- germs dis covered in the city wells; health officers, terror-stricken, flee from the doomed city. - ThursdaySeven cases, one very serious, rest mild. ' '" General Commission SHANIKO, LARGE AND COMMODIOUS WAREHOUSE. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Prompt attention paid to thoic who favor me with their patronage. Shaoiofrineville Stage Line (1. M. COHNItrr, MANAOICH. v SCMUDUUIl Leave Shaniko 6 p. m. Arrive Princvillc 6 a. tn. " Princvillc t p. in. " Shaniko 1 a, nt. First-Class Accommodations for (lie Traveling Public PASSENGER AND FREIGHT RATES REASONABLE. CHAMP HMITH SMITH & RECEPTION Wholesale and Retail Liquor House PRINEVILLE, OUEQON. Plnent tlrandn of Llmiom nnd Cigars. PRINEVILLE-SILVER LAKE STAGE LINE. DICK VANDEVERT, Prop. Carrying U. S. Mail and Passengers. Leaves Princvillc Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Freight and Passengers wayhilled for Ilcnd, Lava, Holland, nnd Silver Lake. Good rigs, careful drivers. C. I. WINN UK, Agent. Scanford's CAKKIIilt A General Merchandise, Groceries, Clothing, Furnishing: Gtfods CALL ON HIM. PRICKS RIGHT. SHANIKO, 0REQ0N. Hamilton Stables BOOTH & C0RNETT, Proprietors. Stock boarded by the day, week or month. Fine Teams and Rigs, and Reasonable Rates. First-class Facilities for Handling Locators and Commercial Travelers. Quick Service and Satisfaction Guaranteed, Columbia Southern Hotel. SHANIKO, ORHOON. RATES FROM $1.50 UP, PER DAY. Hot and cold water on both floors. Baths for the use of guests. Every modern convenience at hand. . ' .' . ' The dinirig room, under the direct supervision of Mr. Kceney, is, a very model oi taslcful, spotless elegance, and the service is equal to any in the state. All stages arrive at and leave the MOODY, Forwarding Merchant ORBQON. . : -rrt 1HUM CI.lllfK CLEEK'S Two Doom South of Hank, CasSn Store lilt) LINK 01' PRINEVILLE, OREGON. & Redby Feed Barn Columbia Southern, 'i, mt 1 v- J..M. KEewy.l Proprietor.. ) USH ' -