'V HAS THE CIRCULATION- PRINTS THE NEWS- REAi. .yCft THE PEOPLE - - - - i t( - vi r OFFICIAL PAPER OFE COUNTY THE EXAMINER IS VOL. XXXV. LAKEVIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 12, 1914. NO. 11 o MOSS CATTLE ARE CLAIMED FORTY-ONH HEAD OK STOCK NOW IN CHARGE OF SHERIFF SNIDER ISO HEAD IN WHOLE BAND Prm ch G 1 fin n and Ifaaley Men In Utate Search Warrant for Mom Cattle Being Fed la ThU Valley at. A. Modle and C. Ward, in the employ of the French-Glenn Land Cuttle Company of Harney County arrived bare laat week from the "P" Ranch and alleging that they recog nised aome cattle which were being fed for W. Z. Mom on the Norln ranch a few miles south of Lakevlew. at being the properly of the French Olonn Company and William I Inn ley got out a search warrant for hte oatid which Included about 160 head. The warrant waa aecured and Mmt!. Modle and Ward with 81ii!iT Snider aearcned the band and 41 head of the rattle clalmod by the Harney County men, were taken out and plared In a generate Held and will te In charge of the MherlfT pend ing further development In the mat tor. The cattle were brought over from Waruer Valley by Mr. Mom some time last December and placed on feed at the Norln much. Mr. Moss Just returned lant niKht from Califor nia whero ho went some time ago with a band of horses. Mr. Modle has returned but Mr. Ward In yet In Lakevtew Other re - (Continued ou page eight) -u ' DIFFICULTAUTOTRIP ltricK CAR MAKES GOOD IIAKD DRIVE ON Prlnevllle lealers Houre Ituick and . Clialmers Agency for Lake and Crook Counties Fully demonstrating the endur anre power and efficiency of the Dulck automobile, H. C. Hayes of the Howard Co., Portland, O. L. Huff of the Central Garage, Prlnevllle and 0. A. Shirley also of the latter place, arrived in lakoviow Friday in a Model 37, 1914 Dulck. They report ed the running time between Iake view and Prlnevllle aa 17 houra, and despite the bad 'jondttlon of the roada made the trip on the car's own power with tho exception of oue Impassable place at the Meyers place nine miles north of here. There they had to be pulled out and were held up over night. They hud but one puncture on the trip. The party left yesterdny Piori'lug on thtir re turn, going by way of Alert and Al kali Lakes to Bend. The Huff-Noble Auto Company of Prlnevllle, proprietors of the Cen tral Garage, has aecured the agency for the Dulck and Chalmers cars for Lake and Crook Counties. While hore they signed a contract with Frank Bauers for the purchase of a Ilulck 25, and they report several promising prospocts for the sale of more cara when they make the de livery of Mr. Uauera' car next month. They will bring in four cars on the next trip and Mr. Shirley will remain here looking after the buslnesa in this county. Aside from the durable and effici ent features of the Dulck the 1914 Models are surely beautiful machines and will doubtloBa prove favorites among those who are In the field for the purchase of cara, . .. o ooooooooooooooooooo o o o OPINION ON SUNDAY CLOSING o o An opinion rendered rocently o by Attorney General Crawford o is to the effect that the state law o providing for the closing of cer o tain classes of business housoa o on Sunday dooa not prevent a o a city from enacting and enforc o Ing a Sunday closing ordinance o of Its own. o ooooooooooooooooooo Mr. Wakefield Honored Warner Lake, Mar 10. On Feb 28, the friend of Mr. end Mra. T. 11. Wakefield gathered at their beau tiful new home In Warner Lake, In honor of Mra. Wakefield's birthday. The evening was very pleasantly spent In playing progressive eucher until midnight when Mrs. Wakefield was presented with an elegant dinner set and other presents as tokens of esteem and appreciation of her kind and loveable disposition. After the distribution of prlxes a delicious sup per was served. On account of the downpour of rain (for which we were all secret ly glad) it was impossible to leave so the balance of the night waa agreeably passed by singing, playing, fortune telling and conversation. At an early hour of the morning all de parted wishing Mrs. Wakefield many returns of the occasion. O.MONISDEAD WAS ONE TIMK CLERK OF LAKE COUNTY ItarcaMed leaves Wife and Two Dau ghters In Portland Family Says Was Accidental The Portland Oregonlan of March says: With a gunshot wound through his 6. brad from temple to temple, thought by the police to be the result of an attempt at suicide Thursday night, W. N. Button, an egg candler, 53 years old. Is at the point of death in the Good Samaritan Hospital. The sulfide theory is denied by Mr. Sut ton's famll) . Sutton has been unuble to get em ployment (or several weeks. While his wife was preparing xllnner Thurs day night she heard a shot In a bed room. She ran to the room and found her husband lying unconscious on the door. A physlclun was summoned, but thu injury was not thought danger- joiih and utton was not taken to the hospital until yesterday. ills family told Detectives Itoylo find Ooltz that lie wan shot while, cleaning an old revolver. The Oregonlnn of March 7 stated that Deputy Coroner Dunning an nouured yesterday that no injuest will be held In the cnBe of W. N. Sutton, an egg candler, who shot himself Wednesday at his hoie, 1356 Knst liarricon Street, and died yesterday at the Good Samaritan Hospital. While hU family contend the shooting was accidental, the po lice theory Is suicide. Mr. Sutton with his family, for merly resided In Lakevlew, they having removed from here nearly 20 yeara ago. At one time he waa clerk of Lake County, and he with F. M. Miller and W. A. Maslngill founded the store here which is now the Lakevlew Mercantile Company. He la survived by a wife and two daugh ters, the latter of whom are grown but neither married. TOMATUES ARE RIPE FRUIT IS GKOWN HERE IN WIN TER TIME Mifs Den.le ItureNN Pick ltl)-e To mato lor Her School Grade March Ilitl Ripe tomatoes grown right here in Lakevlew Is the record of Miss Bessie Burgess, teacher In charge of the Fourth Grade of the Lakevlew Pub lic Schools. On the third day of the monto the first tomato was picked and divided among the pupils of that grade. The plant producing the to matoes has of course been growing all winter, and when it first made its appearance It waa scarcely expected that it would produce anything dur ing the 'Winter months, but Nature decreed otherwise, and aa stated above the first ripened tomato was plucked on the 3d Inst, and others are to follow in the near future. The plant has been in the High School building and waa grown aa a part of the agricultural course, and demon strates clearly that with proper un derstanding of conditions vegetables can be grown here during the winter months 08 well as in other sections whore hot-house products command almost fabulous prices. Charles II. Jones, republican, of Porltnad has announced hla candid acy for tho nomination for Governor of Oregon, making the lEtu candi date in the race for that office. SURE WAY TO KILL RABBITS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SUBMITS FORMULA FOR EF FECTIVE DESTROYER INOCULATION IS A FAILURE Poisoning Is Considered Most Econo mical and Applicable Method of Destroying Pests-Harm-leas to Stock The Examiner is indebted to Con- greMtnan N. J. Sin not of this district for the following method of destroy ing Jack rabbits as prepared by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. Rabbits may best be destroyed by poisoning, trapping or driving, and these methods to be fully effective in any given district must be applied co-operatively. In winter. Jack rabbits concen trate In the valleys or along the bor ders of the nearest irrigated districts, When food Is scarce, especially when snow is on the ground, practically all of them congregate near hay stacks and this Is the best time to poison or to trap them. As long as there is no profitable way of utilizing the animals poison Ing Is the most economical and most generally applicable method. The following formula has proven very effective: Dissolve one ounce of strychnine (alkaloid) In 1 pints of hot water containing a half teacup of vinegar Mix two tablespoonfuls of ordinary gloss starch In a half cup of cold water nnd stir into the boiling stry chnlne solution until it makes a thin (Continued on page eight) o 640-A. HOMESTEADS CONGRESS RECOMMENDS CREASE IN ENTRIES IN All Ln.Jh in This Section Subject to 820-Arre Act Would be Affected A 640-acre homestead appears to be a possibility in the near future if the recommendation of A.. A. Jones, first assistant Secretary of the In terlor, Is heeded by Congress. It would appear that the recomenda tlon la endorsed by the administra tion, for Mr. Jonea has embodied hla recommendations in a bill which he has submitted to Hon. Scott Ferri3, chairman of the Committee on Pub lie Lands. In the sand-hill country of West ern Nebraska Congress by the Act of April 28. 1904, permitted the entry of not exceeding 640 acres of land upon condition thut entrymen com ply with the homesteud laws as to residence, improvements and cultiva ttou, and also place upon the land entered permanent improvements of the value of not less than $1.25 pet acre. "The lands I have in mind," says Mr. Jones, "becuuse of their arid or semi-arid character, or because of their location upon the mountain tops or sides, will not produce agri cultural crops for sale or exportation In sullciont quantities to Justify ac quirement thereof end residence un der existing laws. They do, however, posses? some value for grazing pur poses and often Include tracts of greater or less extent upon which might be grown forage crops of lit tie value for sale. Those who have already entered lands of this charac ter under existing laws in amounts less than 640 acres should be placed ou an equal footing viti thopo who make entry after the passage of this law, and provision has therefore been made for the making of additional entries by such entrymen or land owners." According to the tenor of the bill it would include practically all lands that are now subject to the 220-acre homestead ate, and instead of the cul tivation now required by the homo stead law would necessitate the en tryman expending not less than $1.23 per acre in improvements. To invest $800 in a homestead in three yeara would aeeiu dead easy, but not all JOBLESS MEN EXCITE RIOT CALIFORNIA'S UNEMPLOYED HIT STATE CAPITOL NEARLY 2000 STRONG WANT TO CONTINUE EAST Deputy Sheriffs Have Bloody Con flirt With Industrial Workers la the Street of Sacramento 'General" Kelly Arrested The jobless army of California was forced from Oakland laat week at the point of gun and c'ub, the city of Oakland paying for their street railway transportation to Riclmond From that place the army continued to Sacramento, reaching the State Capital nearly 2000 strong. The Dee states that a committee of three governing the "Union Army of the Unemployed" visited Governor Johnson to request transportation and food on the ground that the army waa hungry and without work The goveri or offered the three men vork Immediately at Union wages out of his own pocket. Each in turn re fused to work and admitted that tin der no circumstances would they work until a solution of the unem ployed problem acceptable to them had been reached. Money was Anally raised by the Sacramento citizens to ship the so called army of unemployed back to San Francisco. A fund of $2500 ve.s raised for the purpose, but the lead era want to go east Instead of return ing to the coast. A dispatch from Sacramento of the Bt.tays: Three hundred deputy sheriffs armed with pick handles. (Continued on page eight) ATTEND TO ORCHARD COUNTY FRUIT INSPECTOR OF FERS SUGGESTIONS Now is Bet Time to Cut Out Might DiseaNe and Spray the Trees County Fruit Inspector J. L. Hampton of Paisley wrltea the Ex aminer the following suggestions of benefit to the fruit growers in eradi eating the Pear Blight which affects the pear, apple and quince: 'More can be accomplished now before the sap starts than later on. Every fruit grower should go through his orchard and examine it thoroughly and cut out all hold-over blight, which is easily detected by the dark discolored bark, and if found to extend to the roots, as is sometimes the case, the whole tree should be dug up and burned. "Care should be taken to use a dis infectant after each cutting on the tools used and on the wound. Cor rosive sublimate should be used in a solution of one part of the poison to 1000 parts of water, and kept in glass bottles. No other disinfectant should be used. One should never fail to disinfect the wound made iu cutting out Blight. "It is better to spray now with lime and Bulpher, composed of three gallons of water to one pound each of lime and sulpher, as the eggs now on the tree will be destroyed by the spray, ana their destruction re moves the cause for the young Aphis which hatches out as soon ns tho leaves begin coming out in the Spring. V.-C.-O. Hearing Postinmod Alturas Plalndealer: City Clerk C. A. Ballard is in receipt of a letter from the State Railroad Commission changing the date for the hearing of the N.-C.-O. rate case from 'he IStli to the 27th of this month. Citizens of Alturas and Modoc County only de aler, fairness and it does appear to us that the ruilroad management should meet them in a like spirit. homesteaders under existing luws do It. There is no doubt but that the law would meet with the hearty ap proval of those desiring to secure free public land, and if its provlslona would be of great benefit to this sec tion of "Uncle Sum's" domain. State Registration is 79,033 According to announcement from the office of the Secretary of State at Salem the total registration in Ore gon up to last Saturday night waa 79,633, which la a little more than one-fourth of what it la estimated that it will soon be. The republicans have a strong lead over other parties their tout being 48,132, aa against 20,267 Democrats, 2,826 Progres sives, 8,178 Prohibitionists, 2,132 Socialists and 3,109 miscellaneous. The total number registered from Lake County as ahown In the an nouncement ia 371, divided as fol lows: Rep. 216, Dem. 112, Prog. 10, Prohl. 1, Soc. 22, Miscel. 11. Attorney General Crawford has held that the books may be kept open until May X for registration for the Primary, and from now on It is expected that figures In each county will grow rapidly. RANGERS TAKE BODY REMAINS OF AMERICAN RETURN ED FROM MEXICO Evidence Unearthed That Texas Rancher Waa Murdered Over Border by Federals Laredo, Tex., March 8. Texas Rangers, who secretly crossed into Mexico last night, today brought to the American side the mutilated body of Clemente Vergara, Texas rancher, and establshed the fact of his execution, after he was seized by Mexican federals. . Vegara was shot twice through the head, and once through the neck. The skull was crushed as by a blow from a rifle and the chared finders of the left hand indicated that he had been tortured before being put to death. The body waa not decomposed, de spite its three weeks' burial. In ad dition to recognizing the features, re lative, including Vergara 's nsphew. took a bit of cloth from the trousers en the body and matched it to the coat his father wore the day he cross ed the Rio Grande. Recovery of the body was made by a ' force of nine Texas rangers. ! including friends of Vergara, acting at the instance of the troop of Texas rangers and Captain Saunders, who have been Investigating for Governor Colquitt the circumstances of Ver gara 's seizure by Federals. A secret investigation, in which many Mexi cans had been queptioned is under stood to have preceded the trip Into Mexico. Leading the force was i man who claimed to have been a wit ness to the execution and burial of Vergara. Vergara left his ranch near Bala- fox, Texas, February 13, and crossed tho river Into Mexico on a message from three federal soldiers that the Captain of Hodalga garrison, wished to settle for eleven horses taken from Vergara'a place n Rio Grande. He was assaulted and carried away as Boon as he crossed the river. CALL FOR NEW BIDS XCLE HAM WANTS STAR ROUTE MAIL CARRIERS All HMs For Carry ing Mail Over Lo cal Lines Were Reject ed by the Government Owing to all bids on local mail carrying contracts having been rej ected by the Postoffice Department otices are now posted advertising for new bids. The lines affected by this are all three star routes operat ing in and out of Lakevlew, namely, Lakevlew-Plush; Lakevlew Paisley and Lakevtew-Klamath Falls. The contracts are to be let from July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1918. It la understood that the reasons for bids on these lines being reject ed waa both on account of time sche dules and what was considered ex cessive costa. Apparently like condi tions exist all over this interior coun try as we note by numerous ex changee that bids are being re-ad vertised. Bidders naturally feel entirely at sea when it comes to figuring on what they will be required to. carry as mall during the next four years owing to the parcel post, and It ia not likely that satisfactory bids will be received unless the department al lows for a material increase on for mer prices. o 11 IE EXAMINER FOR JOB WORK LONDON WOOL PRICES BISE MUCH WOOL WAS BOUGHT AT SALES AT ADVANCED PRICES WORLD WATCHED AUCTION Climb la Increase Was Greater Thaa Anticipated Several Sale Had ' lav Oregon Daring the Past Week According to all press dispatches the attention of the world centered on the sales at London laat week. Wool dealers of this country antici pated an advance at London but were more than surprised at the rise In prices. A London dispatch states that there were 13.800 bales offered at the wool sales In one day. The" parcel was largely croas- breds as the market waa in the sel lers favor. Americans bought greasy merinos and crossbred. That these sales will have a decided effect in 8trenghtening the American market is generally conceded. The Oregonlan partially sums up the American wool market and con-, ditlons for the past week as follows: There has been no cessation of wool contracting In Eastern Oregon this week but buying operations have necessarily slowed down somewhat. as growers are asking for more money. Several clips have been tak en In the vicinity of Heppner and Ar lington and across the river from the latter place. These deals were made at prices about the same as last year's. It Is estimated that ful ly a half a million pounds have been (Continued on page eight) o COUNTY STOCK NEWS ' " SEVERAL CASES OF DISTEMPER EXIST AT PAISLEY Conditions Reported to be Good for Sheep on Desert Loco is Killing Horses Distemper in a most virulent form is present in the Paisley district. The loss would run into the thou sands If they were actually comput ed. Dr. J. L. Lyons has lost eight horses on his ranch. Distemper and Pernicious Aenemia (Mountain Fe ver) was the cause. J. D. Heryford Is having trouble with siek cattle on his New Pine Creek ranch. Federal Live Stock Inspector If. H. Sparhawk made an official trip to Summer Lake the latter part of February to see a valuable stock horse belonging to the Jim Foster ranch. A bad report was circulated regarding tbe horse but upon exam ination no serious disease was found Sheep on the. desert are doing nicely with plenty of feed and water. One band belonging to P. P. Barry o( ? Plush, has been quarentined by Live-,., Stock Inspector f I. II. Sparhawk. . Scab was very evdont in this bund,-. Many horses are dying on the desert with Loco poisoning. One re port states that William Brown of Wagontire Mt., has lost 1000 head. Bourne Will Not Run , Jonothan Bourne will not be a candidate for United States Senator in the coming campaign, according to ar. announcement made to that effect in the Portland Journal of March 8. In the announcement of his decision not to enter the race, ooooooooooooooooooo o CLELAND DEAD AT PLUSH o The news reached Lakevlew o I o about noon today that Dave Cle- o o land, a well known Lake Connty o o resident, aged about 50 years, o o waa found dead in bed in his ca- o o bin at Plush, with a bullet o o wound In his heart and a revol- o o ver lying by the body. No par- o o tlculars are available but it la o o believed that the wound was o o self-inflicted, o o o ooooooooooooooooooo v t J