Published at the “ Hub City” o f (en trai Oregon 4. N». 2» $1.50 PE R Y E A R R ED M O N D , CROOK C O U N T Y . O R EG ON, T H U R S D A Y . N O V E M B E R 20, 1913 I0W IN FIELD HOMESTEAD PROGRESSING n llrld Wfrfnrwlay und (’«rumour day Evening«, Noven* A h Shootn ut lluNbund Central Ile E n t e » Home to [ber 19th und 20th W OUNDED tK ARK N A M E S C H O SE N M AN SE R IO ! SI.Y Project« Are Being Pushed Forward Greet W ife INS' A N D PR O GR ES- Oregon Vigorously IS Strength, Solidity, Stability, Security S T A T E IS D O ING GOOD IN J U R E D W O R K O N T H E TI M AI.O Be Affray Took Pluie on the Bear State May Take Over the Cen The above four words is a brief biography o f our bank. Butte. AI>out .'ill .WileM South- tral Oregon Irrigation Projert The bank that has these qualities should have your account. Çtyi/rn'a Cnndidnten Derlinen west if Not W e live by helping others live. the Nomination Are in Pursuit of Gun User l|y| ( ounrilmen Are to led in Derember— One of m l.a.t Saturday forenoon Deputy Sheriff M r f l a y o f thlv rlty. received a phone fneaease from Sheriff L ik ins af Camp Creek. In the eastern end of the county, to look out for a man by the uame o f Mali who had shot a man named Dickinson, snd was try- ins to escape T h e details o f the sho olins were measer. but the f o l low Ins dispatch from Itend. where Dickinson was taken to the hospital, under date o f Nov 16 says Aa a result o f a ahootlns In which the usual Jealous husband, u n fa ith ful w if e and trouble maklns a d v e n turer flsured aa the dramatic |x-rsnn- ae. Jam e. It Dickinson lies here l o ti Is bt at death's door with a bullet In bis stomach and doctors s lv e him practically no hope of recovery Dickinson Is the husband In Ihe storv T he man who did the ahootlns 'a Alec Mall, who, toseth er with Mr Dickinson, halls from Filina. Wash T h e tragedy incurred Isat night at about I I o'clock In a desolate h o m e steader's cabin, 60 miles southeast of Itend, In the Hear Creek Hutte country, when Dickinson broke !n the door and found Mall and hla wife. N elli e Dickinson, acc ording to Dickinson, and Mall opened fire on him at once About a month ago Dickinson took up a homestead latst week he sent for his wife, who on Krlday went out from (tend to the rlatm In company with Mail who had accompanied her from F.'lma In the meantime Dlrklnaon came In fro m the homestead, mlaalns hla wife and Mall on the road I n tu i r l e * here disclosed Ihe fart that Mall and his w ife had been here several days and Dickinson became auspicious Me hired a car and hur ried hack to hla cabin Me bro ke In Ihe cabin door and. he all eges In For T s i r l n r Term to. K G » Phoenix. 17 W Mrl'afTer y. 1« A l.ynch. 16 F o r O n e -F e a r T e rm : J Muni. 13 It M r l ^ l l l n . 7. P' Il V ■ This C ity — Posses Completed by Next Meeting of the legislature grow. We will help your cash Patrons o f our Time Deposit department not only have unsurpassed protection for their funds, but are allowed ■uond I* to ha ve tw o tickets In Id fo r the D ecom ber r l o l i i i i i . ll e n a " llr ke t anil a “ H r o i n o - l l r k e l being (h e tianina adopted rival farilon a Wednesday e v en in g , N ovem b er jnieellnu was held In (he Spar k. 1er for the |>ur|>aae o f noml five candidates for ronnrll retina • called to o rd e r by Moore, ( ’ resident o f the lied I'o nin iercla l Club, at 9 Jo k C II M d u illln was chosen r manen! chairm an and M t‘ la Vtaa elected secreta r) ht candidates were placed In nation, and aa th ere we re hut I l.r elected and three of them I» >r«r te r m * uud ( » • ’ f"r oat terms, a motion was carried the three nominees re. el vins hlsheat number o f vole s In the Ins be declared candidates for [two year term, and that the nest hlsheat be the candidates for o n e year term. T h e balloting re I aa foll o w s ». of 11 V In U I V OMRg ami I o llarr we re the other three whose es we re placed In nomination motion was carried that the et be rail ed Ihe I ’ ltlten a' Ticket tr Lynch called at T h e Sp oke. office and stated that he d o . l m t under.tood that he did not partiel In any o f the meettnsa. that hiu Hie » a a used without hla consent, it further that he pos itively would be a candidate f o r council on any ket T h e demands made upon his )e m Ihe conduct o f his business Continued on Page 3 Continued on pase 4 U N T IL JAN. 1915 For $1.00 D U R IN G THE B A R G A IN AN E N T IR E PE R IO D YEAR E N D IN G NOV. 30 In order to place The Redmond Spokesman in the homes of every family in ( ’rook county the publishers have decided to give the above B A R G A IN R A T E until the 3()th of N o vember. This will give the paper more than a year for ONE DOLLAR. The al>ove rate applies to both old anti new subscribers alike. Old aubscribera can get this Bargain Rate by pay ing up all arrearages and one year in advance. The Redmond Spokesman is one of the leading papers of Central Oregon, publishes Ihe County Court proceedings of Crook county, prints nn interesting serial story each week and gives all the news of Redmond and the county that is worth printing. Mail or bring in your subscription T O D A Y . C A SH M UST ACCOM PANY ALL Redmond REDMOND, Bank OREGON of Commerce SODA Ï0 BE MINED; CO. JUDGE SPRINGER ARE NOW READY TO BIG DEPOSIT AT LAKE TO THE TAXPAYERS BUILD TO PRINEVILLE The Redmond Spokesman MORF. T H A N a constant and liberal interest on their deposits. A recent Salem dispatch says: A l though the progress of the work has The depositor with a small account will receive just as been disappointing, the members of the Deiert Land Hoard believe that courteous and careful attention as the one with a large ac Irrigation projects In Central Oregon count. under the Carey art have passed the eiperl-iienlal stage, and that moat of The first consideration o f the officers o f this bank is the them will be completed within a few years. The state la In active charge security o f the funds intrusted to our care by depositors. of one of these projects Tumalo. or old Columbia Southern, and the pro W ith a large paid up capital, a strong surplus and undivided moters of the others are sanguine aa to the outcome. Several of them, profit account, a practical and conservative management, and howevi r. face difficulties, but they a representative board o f directors, this bank is prepared to are pushing ahead At :h<- last session of the legisla, offer you the best service possible based on sound banking ture fbo.oOo was appropriated for ro-opernllon with the Cnlted States principles. In making comprehensive plans for (he development of all feasible Irri I f you are not doing business with us why not begin gation projects, and particularly thoae In the lieschutes Uasln An today ? equal amount haa been contributed by the Department of the Interior, and Joint work la artlvely under way Murh Information haa been obtained which will he complied for submla- alon to the neit legislature. The last legislature also provided for submit ting to a vote of the people In 1914 a constitutional amendment through which honda may be laaued for the construction of Irrigation projects, and for the development of cut over timber land Completed Project One Governor West, who Is a member of the Desert Land Hoard, has made the following statement of condi tions "So far Oregon haa but little to show In the way of results through the Carey act. The only completed project Is a small one of about 1000 acres near Itedmond. controlled hy a few old settlers. "The Columbia Southern project waa x dismal failure, and haa been taken over by the state. The Mor- aon project on the Upper lteachutes, while having been under way for a number of years, has as yet no wa- I tered land. "The Central Oregon Irrigation Company haa the largest project In f : xtf :\ s i \ f : in d u s t r y pr o m is - t e l l s th km a b o u t t h e i»i4 t r a n s f e r ok k ig h t of ' w a y is the state The company has spent f : i > fimi c k n t k a l okf : g o \ fjstimatk b e in o m a d e perhaps $1,360.000. and has done much good work, hut It will need to spend perhaps $760,000 more to complete the desired units of Its project. The project has passed the Mati-rlal t 'an Be shlp|s-<l Just as FA- Outlines 1’ luns f o r Demonstration Statement Is Made That Actu al ( on- critical •lago, and Its completion. In t r a d e d . A f t e r G r ind ing — F arm s in the Uounty f o r strut-lion W o r k W i l l Begin my opinion. Is an aaaured fact. If $10,000 In vest ed C o m in g Y e a r T h is W e e k not by the company, then by the state. "Other projects are In Initial atagea. Some of them undoubtedly will be carried through, but others The estimates published for your Prinevllle. Or.. Nov. 15.— H. P. An Industry that promise* much will blow up. In my opinion the consideration are liberal, as we are Scheele and Fingineer Von Plants ar future development recently ha* atate should lake over and complete ¡ been launched In the unfrequented bound to keep within the limit, and rived in Prinevllle this week to ar all these projects In the same man section* of Central and Southern Or i It Is better to be long than short We range the details of the transfer of ner It haa taken over the old Colum- j have paid off In Indebtedness since the right of way for the Metolius, egon by the Oregon Borax Co., a January 6. 1913. the sum of $139.- Prineville & Eastern Railway The bla Southern, or Tumalo project. If subsidiary of the American Soda 000. so that for the present the right of way has been secured for the no bad luck cornea Ihe latter project will he completed and the lands Products Co. of Portland and Sin county Is out of debt, but as no taxes first 14 miles out of Metolius with of any account will be collected dur the exception of three small piec-a thrown open for settlement not later F'ranrlsco.- The project I* an exten»tve and an ing the next two months, we esti for which the company is preparing than next fall ” Important one. It provide# Immedi mate that we will be $35.000 be to bond so that the work of construc IStM» \cres Are Sold hind by January l.but that, like the tion can commnece at once, while ate development of the *oda deposit* other estimates, I consider very lib the matter of condemning these The Carey act provides for the re In Alkali l-ake, Lake county. It I* eral. tracts Is going through the courts. clamation of land owned by the Fed ■aid that theae deposit* now are In The fact that the state tax !s Actual construction work on this eral government. Promoters of the the form of carbonate of god«— a nearly treble the amount o f last state segregate the land, the work of product that enjoy* a ready market. year makes It difficult to arrange for line will be commenced during tho current month, and will, Mr. Scheele Irrigation la started, and. In some In Hy chemical treatment thl* carbon weed lighting and road improvement says, be pushed on to completion as stances. the settlers pay the promo ate of *oda can be converted Into bi without going skyward with the levy rapidly as possible. Prinevllle will tera on the Installment plan. In carbonate of eoda. *oda ash or caus The court desires next year to en be the terminal for the present, but other Instances settlers are exrluded tic soda, commodities that are In force the weed law to the limit, also plans are already being made for ex to Improve some long neglected tensions both east and south from until the work la finished The work constant commercial demand. roads. To do so. however, will re this point. completed, the Federal Government Alkali 1 Jtke contains carbonate of quire about one mill, or poeeibly two This road is to be standard gauge, deeds the land to the state, which In higher than last season. of heavy iron construction, operated turn deeds It to the settler at a price soda In Ita pure form. No foreign I am writing this that all may of o f $1 an acre. The promoter holds- substance* serve to complicate the fer suggestions, whether In person or by electric power from the plant of the Deschutes Power Co. and Is be It need* no a lien on the property until the set- ¡ commercial product. by letter, on IVcember 6. 1913. We lieved to be a link In the Hill system except pulverlling to will be pleased to hear from any and tiers pay for the water rights.which treatment in this state. approximate about $4(1 an acre In place It on the market as common, I all. A. R. Rogers, the Minneapolis lum We have appropriated the small- the case o f the Tumalo project ordinary washing soda. Alkali Lake berman. owns most of the timber In probably Is the only place In Oregon I est amount for farm demonstration $460,000 was appropriated by the the Rlue Mountains, which slope to state with which to do the work, the where this carbonate of soda la pres work that the college would apree ward Prinevllle, and his prominence ! to handle It for. as we are Inclined state expej-tlr.g to get Ha money ent In Its pure, crvstallxed form. In to believe our former work cost more in the frequent conferences that back with Interest when the land fart these crystals alone form the ! than necessary. It Is the purpose of have been held In connection wltn and water rights are deeded to the lake. There la no water In It. the court to cultivate 60 one-acre this road, Indicates. It is believed, settlers. The Tumalo project com- j The soda crystals are pure white tracts distributed throughout the that the line will be extended soon prise* 27,000 acre* In Crook county. The lake bed covers an area of 500 county, and we will be pleased to to tap his heavy timber holdings. Secretary Lane, of the Interior acres, and In some places Is t6 feet hear from one or more In each of the I-adíes' calling cards, latest atyla, Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 3 at The Spokesman office. Continued on page 4 ORDERS. Remember, this offer of Bargain Subscription Price of $1.00 holds good only until November 30, 1913. A fter that date the regular subscription price, $1.50, will prevail. TH E REDM OND SPO K E SM A N FROM NOW U N T IL J A N U A R Y 1915 FOR O N L Y $1.00. YO U C A N T A F FO R D TO MISS T H IS C H AN C E. SEND IN YO U R ONE D O LLA R TODAY