The Redmond Spokesman
Published at the “ Hub City ” of Central Oregon
REDMOND. ( ROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1910
VOL 1. No. 10
PLATS FILED
IN CO. COURT D. I. * P.
Redmond Plata Submitted
for Approval and
Filing
$1.50 PER YEAR
TO BE LOCATED IT REDMOND Clothing Store
News Received Here From Authorita­ Prineville Journal: From the General Offices and Headquarters of
Hub city there are four additions the Deschutes Irrigation & Power
tive Source That the Above Road i this
month, all presented to the
county
Will Be Completed to Redmond By nix. court by Engineer Phoe­ Company to Be Moved From Bend
the Time the Deschutes Railroad Is tant The *pl«t largest
and most impor­ to This City Where all Business of
is that of the Oregon the Company Will Be Transacted
Finished to This Point
Trunk addition which embraces
E. L. R A PP’S
Sixth St., Redmond, Ore.
Is now open and ready to fill your
wants in the Clothing Line. We
have a new and complete stock of
the late and up-to-date styles of
Hoffman-Rothchild
CLOTHING
120 acres, and is platted to con­
form with the railroad grade.
The streets are all cleared and
A prominent Redmond Inwi- minus on the other side of the are Ixnng graded.
The news from an authorila-! from the assets of the company,
tive
source has been received and then realize as much as pos­
The survey of the First addi­
nesM man lust week received the mountains.
Fine Stock of SHOES for Ladies, Men and Boys
here
that
the general offices of sible for distribution among the
tion
to
Redmond
is
an
alteration
news from an official connected With the above entering this
original survey, making the Deschutes Irrigation & Pow­ stockholders. We have no prom­
with the Ilurriman system, »tat* city, Redmond will have three |of the the
Full Line of GENT’S FURNISHINGS
streets
alleys to conform er Co. are soon to be moved from ises to make to the stockholders
in# thut the Corvallis & Eastern lines of muds, two north and with the hill and which
is included in Bend to this city and Redmond
from that. We hope they
ruilroud woidd In1 built into Red­ south trunk lines and an east and the plat. It affects that part of made headquarters for the com­ aside
I am here to stay and want your
will secure their money.”
mond to connect with the Des­ west line through the Wiliam* the survey lying east of the town. pany, from which point all busi­ The assets of the Deschutes Ir­
trade, and am going to make it an
The Mountain View Addition ness in the future will be trans­ rigation & Power Company con­
chutes Railroad that is building ette Valley to Portland.
object
for you to buy of me.
The company still owns sist of 214,911 acres of irrigable
Several weeks ago The Spokes­ ! to Redmond is a forty-acre tract acted.
into this cityfroin the south.
by the Redmond Realty their former commissary and of­ lands in Crook County, which
The informant further said the man had reliable information owned
and
Investment
company, which fice building here on the corner were selected by the state of
E. L RAPP, “The Head to Foot Clothier.”
Corvallis ait Eastern would reach that the Corvallis & Eastern road is west of the town
and north of of Sixth and D streets.
Oregon
under
the
provisions
of
Redmond and have trains run­ would build to this city, and Melrose Park. This addition is In sjteaking of the affairs of Carey Act, the value of the
ning by the time the Deschutes printed the story, and now that intersected by the Redmond and the company, which will soon be the
j B. Williams to begin work on the
land being fixed at more than $2,
satisfactorily adjusted, the Port­ 000,000.
road at once, and it is promised
road reached here, the idea of the other parties have received the Cline Falls road.
It
was
proposed
to
irri­
The South End Acreage is a land Oregonian of the 9th, had gate and reclaim the land thru
: the highway will be completed
ruilroad people lieing to form a same rews from authentic sourc­ tract
of forty acres that is cut the following:
: inside of 60 days.
the construction of a number of
junction of the two lines at this es it looks as if it was an assured into one
Pooling their claims, aggrega­ ditches.
and
two-acre
tracts,
The road begins at the north­
To
raise
the
money
for
fact that Redmond will be the most of them being one acre or a ting >800,000, creditors of the that work a bond issue of $500,
point.
east
corner of the old Redmond
The Corvallis & Eastern al­ junction point for two north and little over. It is owned by E. R. Deschutes Irrigation & Power 000 was issued in 1904. The
townsite and goes east on A
ready has a survey into R«*d- south roads with the Corvallis & Tichenor and is situated south (Company last Friday joined in a bonds were placed in Columbus,
street It will be almost a direct
petition
to
the
United
States
and
west
of
the
original
townsite.
line from this city for 17 miles
Eastern.
mond, and prominent railroad
Ohio, under security of a chattel
Court
for
an
immediate
fore­
It
is
understood
that
this
will
be
into
Prineville.
construction men say it would not Redmond will be a railroad cen­ put on the market at about $125 closure of the first mortgage on mortgage which provided that
on the bonds should be
take long to build the road into ter and the best city in Central per acre.
the company’s property. The interest
Improving Redmond-
paid
semi
and that for
this s<>clion from its present ter- Oregon.
order was granted by Judge every acre annually
land sold in Crook
Madras Road
Charles E. Wolverton, who ap­ County $3 of should
florae
Race
Here
be
placed
in
far enough toward completion the
Hallowecn Social
Funds have been raised by sub­
pointed Receiver C. M. Redfield fund for the redemption of
event wi'l be held there, other­ Next Sunday
scription
in Redmond and other
a special commissioner to handle the
and Bazaar
the bonds.
wise in the schcwl house. The A horse race will lie run at the the sale.
towns
between
here and Madras
The Ladies Aid of the M. E. ladies are now busy outliningtheir track here Sunday afternoon be­ It is announced by L G. Ad­ Suit was begun by the bond­
for improving the stage road lie-
church are making preparations plans to make the entertainment tween Snell & Green's mare dison, representing the Ohio holders upon the allegation that SUFFICIENT MONEY
tween these points before the fall
to hold a Halloween and Hand­ a success.
“Bessie Green” and “Bay Nel­ bondholders who caused the Des­ no interest had been paid since
set in. It is the intention
HAS BEEN RAISED rains
kerchief Itazunr the night of Oc-
lie.” The distance is a 300 yard chutes Irrigation Company to be 1908, and that the company had
to "straw” the road and other­
failed to place the money in the
tol>er 31st. If the new church is Subscribe for The Spokesman ; dash for a purse of $00.
wise fix up the bad places on the
placed in the hands of a receiver redemption
fund
for
more
than
line.
There has been so much
as a bankrupt, that every effort 49,000 acres of sold land. It was
traffic
on the Redmond-Madras
will lie made to protect the in­ further charged that the Des­ County Commissioners Let
line
this
summer that the road
vestment of the 600 or more chutes concern had authorized
Contract—Finished
became badly cut up.
stockholders.
a second issue of bonds for $150,
As intended at this time and 000,
in Sixty Days
it was charged that
Will Put in Wood
as a part of the plans under money and realized
from the sale of
which action was taken Friday, land was to be used
Yard Here
the re­
the creditors will buy in the prop­ demption of the latter for issue.
Carl Woods of Shaniko, was in
C.
erty at the advertised sale and M. Redfield, of Bend, was ap-
Redmond
the first of the week
The
construction
of
the
Red-
will immediately wind up the af­ pointed.receiver in March.
and
was
so
favorably impressed
mond-Prineville
wagon
and
auto­
fairs of the Deschutes Irrigation
with
the
future
prospects of the
mobile
road,
seventeen
miles
in
& Power Company by the organ­ Since that time the receiver
city
that
he
bought
100 feet front
a
direct
line
east
from
this
city
ization of a new holding com­ succeeded in securing an agree­
of
property
on
E
between
Fourth
to
Prineville.
is
now
assured.
ment
among
all
of
the
creditors,
pany. The new concern will be
and
Fifth
streets.
He
intends
to
At
the
last
ipeeting
of
the
aside
from
the
stockholders,
called into existence for the sole
establish
a
wood
yard
and
feed
purpose of handling the assets in whereby all of the debts will be county court at Prineville a dele­ corral on his property, and ex­
such a manner that the debts canceled. H. D. Turney, of Co­ gation from the Redmond Com­ pects to be ready for business in
may be cleared from the records lumbus, Ohio, is president of the mercial Club, composed of Mayor about twenty days.
and a dividend secured to the company; F. S. Stanley, vice- White, City Recorder Phoenix,
president, and Robert Smith, Councilmen F. W. McCaffery.
stockholders.
in
"The Ohio bondholders repre­ treasurer. L G. Addison and J. F. Hosch and H. F. Jones, J. Improvements
Oregon
Hotel
sent approximately $400,000 of A. King Wilson were the attor­ K. Macpherson, Judge W’ilcox,
the indebtedness,” said Mr. Ad­ neys representing the bondhold­ E. B. Williams and H. Kanzler F. T. Redmond, who recently
dison Friday night, “but we ers. while Jesse Stearns and appeared and showed the county bought Wm. G. Phoenix’s inter­
want the property so handled John Hall appeared for the com­ commissioners the advisability of ests in the Oregon Hotel proper­
constructing this road.
that there shall l e no losses to pany.
here, is going to make some
Redmond Commercial Club ty
anybody. The entire assets, in­ All of the notes and personal had The already
improvements
in the property.
raised $300 for the A number of new
cluding notes signed by settlers, property of the old company will
rooms will be
will be sold. After the creditors be sold at auction in Portland, road, and after hearing the ar­ added on the upper floor to ac­
buy in the property, our people while the land sale will be held guments in favor of building the commodate the increasing pat­
road the county commissioners
intend first to pay the debts in Crook County.
the house in enjoying. A
appropriated $500 for the pur­ ronage
building
also been put up in
pose, and the Prineville Com­ the rear of has the
he promises the people of the mercial
Club agreed to give $150. as a laundry. hotel to be used
county that if nominated and The county
have
elected he will see that the laws entered into a commissioners
contract
with
E. Spokesman for job printing.
are enforced to the letter. He
believes that if a law is obnoxious
to
that that is no reason
Millard Triplett Seeking the why a few,
it
should
not be rigidly en­
Nomination for
forced.
Mr. Triplett has a strong fol­
Sheriff
lowing in the Bend section of the
county that is working to secure
the nomination of their candi­
Millard Triplett of Bend, re­ date.
his friends ask all the
publican candidate for the nomi-| voters and
of
the
county who are in
nation of sheriff, needs no intro­ favor of a clean,
upright admin-!
duction to the voters of Crook istration of affairs
Proprietor
C. F. ANDERSON,
in the sher­
county. He is one of the early j iff’s office to cast their
for
settlers in the county, has been a him for sheriff at the vote
primary
prominent business man in Bend nominating election the 24th of
Our tables are supplied with the BEST
for a number of years, served on this month.
Eatables possible to secure.
the city council of that city for
Paid advertisement.
We Lead in Prices and Quality as we
several years, has been deputy
have no rent to pay.
sheriff under the present sheriff, Milo Covert, who has a nice 40
Frank Elkins, and is a man not acre tract two miles north of the;
afraid to declare his principles city, was in Redmond last week
Fine Line of SOFT DRINKS AND CIGARS
and live up to them.
to
make
final
proof.
Mr.
Covert
REDMOND,
O R E G O N Mr. Triplett stands for the en­ is a hustler and has his land well Corner Sixth and F streets,
REDMOND
forcement of the law as pre­ improved and a commodious res­
scribed on the statute books, and idence on it, besides barns, etc.
NEW ROAD IS
Redmond-Prine-
ville Road Will
Be Built
YOUR CLOTHING
Will Look Right, Fit Right and
Wear Right if
BOUGHT AT OUR STORE
We have received our large stock of Men’s
and Boys Fall and Winter Clothing and can
fit you out in any style suit desired. All our
Clothing is guaranteed as to cloth make and
fit. Our coats have horsehair lining to hold
their shape. We can save you money if you
buy your clothing of us.
S u its fro m $13.50 to $25
Full Line Gents’ Furnishings,
at prices to fit your pocketbook
Full For Line Ladies,
of the Men Celebrated
GOTZIAN
SHOES
and Children. There is no
better shoe made than these for the money.
E Everything
H R E in T General B Merchandise
ROS.
BEND MAN
IS CANDIDATE
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ROYAL
RESTAURANT
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