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County Joura
PBINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 12, 1903.
NO. 13
VOL VIL
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OREGON'S LAKES.
Their Locution and
Yalne.
A Modern read Sea.
Bonio of Thm are of Laruo Oom
niorclul unci Solontlflo
Value.
(KIOSK ,AKK.
(iooSII Lake is till) largest
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tiiimt important lake possibly in
tlio enmity. Lakovicw tlio county
town, lies lit the Im'H'I "I 1 1 i lake,
ntiil it in not imly tin? most i tn port
unt tow n in tli'i county, In is sur
roundel l y mm ol thu iclnl farm
ing ninl ntM-lt-r.iirinj4 sections in
tin' state. Gno.-o I.aku is said to
have been name I from the fact tlmt
in early tluyit myriads of wilil geese,
dotted itH wuti'M ami fad on 1 1 -natural
in -ad iW4 that bordered its
idioros. They have not entirely
nlianiliini! I llm place yl ami ducks
and liranln ami swan ami other
feathered game still fn'fjm-iit the
place.
( loose I.nke in 10 milr long ami
averages from nn mile lo ten in
width and its depth ranges (rom a
few h i t to 1(X). Ahoilt half of Un
like lion in Oicgon, while the other
half lien in California. From one
end to tlio other it shores uro lined
with comfortable homes surround
ed with rieh farms tliat produce
everything thai i" grown in mi ll a
latitude. While people of thin sec
tion hiivu (ureal sport in fishing,
liiintinn and skating on tlio lake,
hut liltio boating is done. Al
though a strong breeze in contn
uullv hhminir nnd tlm water in of
'"snirteicnt di'litli a fail ii never i-een
on thin vast hodv of water, which
in bouslcd of an the "inland pea" of
Orison ami California. A small
row boat ni:iv he Keen now and
then near some ranch home huilt
close to the water's edge, hut theiie
for mine reason do not venture far
fro ii the shore.
OTItKK lllfi I.AKIX
The two Warner Lakes and Sil
ver and Summer Lake arc each
nurroundcd by settlements of well-to-do
rancherH and stockmen.
The Warner Lakes are ahout 10
jnileB from Lakoview and Summer
Lake is ahout ('.) miles from the
county seat, while Silver Lake in
100 miles distant. These art) each
largo hodies of water and uUmjj
their shores and along the stream:!
that flow into them beautiful
meadows formerly existed which
are now cultivated and produce
large crop-. . annually. Some ol
these people are innro than 200
miles from a railroad train, yet
they are intelligent and prosper
ous and lumpy.
HALT AND noilAX I.AKIX
Only a few miles from the
Warner Lakes arc a cluster of
twinU lakes that produce large
quantities of salt and borax. For
a number of years tlio rancher of
Lake county havo ohtained their
.supply of ftoek suit exclusively
from these lake?. The. lakes "go
dry" in summer and leave a deep
layer of salt of good quality over
their heds. The ranchers, come
with wagons and shovel this fait
tip and haul it away hy the ton.
Of more rocont years a wealthy
man of tl.a county lias ohtained
ownership of one of the principal
' lakes and hires the salt shoveled
up and supplies the Lake County
market. No salt is shipjied in
from the outside except for table
use.
HOW BORAX WAS PISCCVKHKD.
Borax was discovered to exist
thronirh more accident. One year
when the lakei "went dry" they
left no rait on the turface. The
niluhelfl Mere annoyed ahout the
matter anil concluded that if there
was no salt on lop of the ground
there ought to he some under the
ground, and they proceeded lo dig
in the hed of the lake for fait.
Within a few feet they came to a
hed of a white substance which
they immediately discovered wiif
not salt. In sheer disgust one of
the men took a sack full of it to
town to find out what it was. The
town blacksmith was regarded as
the best authority on such matters
and the case was submitted to bis
judgement. He took a shovelful
of the substance and used it in
welding a piece of steel,1 and im
mediately pronounced it borax.
It hat' since been learned that the
blacksmith was right, and that
rich borax deposits lie at tunny
points, in the country. Steps are
U-ing taken by capitalists lo es
tablish mines, and the results are
looked to with enthusiasm, as lu.r-
nx Cuinniands a good price in the
market and tint quality discovered
in Lake County is said to be of a
superior quality.
other water inhabitant may be
found in jt, and even the ducks
and geosn, so plentiful in the coun
try, do not light upon its water.
It produces instant death to the
fish or other water inhabiiant
when placed in it. The Che
waucan River flows into the lake
over a fall of several feet in height.
Fish from the river drop over this
fall hy the thousands. Rut when
they reach the water of the lake
they immediately make for the
bank and throw themselves out of
the water. The shores of the lake
near the mouth of the river are
lined with fish in all stages of de
composition and the sands ere in
tcrmingl'Ml WitU,lvm;s ol iho fiU
that have been dead for years.
"moIikhn IlKAt) SKA."
Allart Lake, 52 mile? from
Lakeview, at the gateway to the
"desert," is called the "Modern
Dead Sea." It is 20 miles long
and averages from one to 10 miles
in width. It has ni outlet. It is
fed at one end by the Chcw-uiciin
River and at the other by a hot
spring that boils up liko a creek
from the earth. Liko the Dead
Sea it never makes any percept
ible change in depth and its water
is so impregnated with minerals or
othef substance no living thing
can survive in it. Not a fish or
A MOVINO I.AKK.
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Sand Lake, in the heart ol lie
di'sert, is the puzzler to tlio people
of Lako county. It is in the midst
of great snnd beds and sand dunes,
and its shores aro lined with fos
sils. In fact, it is the center of the
great Lako county fossil fields.
That the lake moves from place to
place is verified by the citizens of
the county who have lived there
for a number of years. 'J hey can
point out where it was at different
times. It is explained Hat tne
wind blows continuously in one
direction for a long time at certain
seasons of the vcar; that the sand
is moved like dust in a storm; the
lako is gradually filled at ono side
and the sand from the other side
is blown out and the water follows
the holo made by the wind. They
claim that itv one season the lake
will move a long distance in this
manner. Then tho wind changes
from another direction and thus
changes the courcs of the hike in
its restless condition; and so on
until in the course of a decade the
lake moves long distances in differ
ent directions. v
BOXES MAIIK THE TRAIL.
This theory is ako proved by
the fact that fossilized bones are
found at every point of tho desert
at this place, and under the argu
Concluded ox Page 5.
THE COUNTY NEWS.
Our CorreKiioiKlents Are
i'lmctual.
News From All Quarters.
The Journal Han the Bot Corres
. upondonts Of Any Papor In
Interior Oregon.
Auhwood GleitninKS.
From th. Proct.ir.
Mr. V, 8. Thomas visited at
Hay Creek last'Thursday.
"Hill Nye" Doak is in Antelope
lo day, taking a much-needed rest.
Dr. A. K. King, of Antelope, was
in Ashwood last Thursday night,
returning next day. s
John Ncw.-om, the Prineville
surveyor, is in town this week, en
gaged in surveying eome claim
for the Red Jacket Company.
AlShcrrill left last Wednesday
for Antelope, from which place be
expects to leave in a few days for
the Sumpier gold-fields.
During the past ten days, Clay
Grater has lost several head of
calves, which ate supposed to have
died from poison caused by eating
wild parsnips.
H. W. Gamble has leased the
Hamilton Hotel, and took charge
of it on hist Monday. He is an ex
perienced hotel man, and promises
a first class house in every particu
lar.
Mrs. Thron Thronfon and child
ren left on Monday for Dayton,
Washington, where they will ro
niain until Mr. Thronson replaces
his dwelling which was burned
several days since.
Addison Black left last Thurs
day for Portland, after a pleasant
visit with his sons on Blizlard
Ridge. He was accompanied as
far as Shaniko by his son Addison
Jr.
J. W. and J. C. Robinson left
yesterday for Shaniko, where busi
ness calls them. We r informed
that they are making arrange
ments to incorporate their Gold
King properly from which they
have been taking some excellent
looking rock.
McKajr Creek Nolo.
Guy Ritter has been absent from
school several days this week.
Verl Jones has been absent from
school several days this week.
Miss Delia Canlrill
was the
guest of Miss Jennie
Teinpleior.
Sunday.
Vida Jones was absent from
school Thursday on account o!
sickness.
'School was dismissed Wednes
day on account of the funeral of
Hertha Gann.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Thomp
son Fpent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Templelon.
Edith McCord was absent from
school Thursday and Friday on
account of sickness. Jennie and
Belva Templeton and Lizzie Pow
ell were absent from school Tues
day.
At tho home of Cell McCon:
Monday evening about 5:30 o'clock
Bertha Gann age about 19 years
Bertha as she was familiary known
hv her friends has spent most ot
her life in this part of the country
She was thrown from a horsi
somo three or four years ago in
juring her spine which finaly re
suited in her death. Her death
was unexpected. . On Sunday slit
visited her friend Miss Edith Me
Jord but complained of a head
ache and on returning home in the
evening the pain increased and
die soon retired. Every thing was
.lone to relieve the pain until the
next morning Dr. Rosenburg was
summoned but it was too late to
save her, and she died in the even
ing. Her remain were laid to
, : ii. a i I' v ,! T n
M Ft III tlio A. . KJt . . tlllii A. V.
O. F. cemetery.
Weep not that her toils are over,
Weep not that her race is run
(iod grant that we may rest as
Calmly, when on werk lilto hers is
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done.
A Pr-i'ii,,
'Ur.od Koad. In linn flu rat.
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,,.,'hlie. nelivitv in Honduras. Be
cause tlie country has had no sad
or convenient highways, the iie
terior districts have been greatly! The Secretary of the Interior
retarded in their development. To has called attention to the viola
reniedy this a new wagon road tion of law by which the remain
has been built from Tegucigalpa, : ing public lands are rapidly being
the capital to San Lorenzo, on the ' gobbled up by hind monopolists,
coii"t. Jiie grade of tins road
varies between 6 and 2 per cent, stead law is practically a dead let
in many places the road is fifty ter. The Interior department is
feet wide, on a foundation of lava, making every effort to' break up
covered , with fined v beaten rock. '
Side ditches run along the way, 'era brought to justice, but Con
and marly all the bridges and gress should at once repeal the
culverts are of stone. Across the' land laws which make such a gross
large rivers no bridges have yet violation of the homestead act pos
tmen built. The length of the road sible.
will he about eighty-one miles, i The Fel)ruarv -mae o llie The
When it is ull finished it is the in-,0regon Tinjberman contains a re
tention to use one side for a trolley : pon o( (he cu(j, of 8-g p.lcific C()ast
line for electric freight and passen-; m;Hj m o, wbJch afe in 0rCgon,
gercars. Abundant water power ; an( theM Ortgon mis cut
is available for supplying mc-l've 319 of ,umW anJ 32i265
force .-X. Y. Tribune. 1 shingles for the year 1902. These
hwuii i.ie. cd Attention. I reports were received in answer to
Governor Dole's message to the ( 450 inquiries sent out, so that the
Legislature was read in both returns arc far from complete, but
hou or Uie80th hte- ItTcterfftoaS all theTargeVmiTis are ' Included'! "
the unprosperous times, among in the list, and a number of those
sugar men during tho past year not replying did not run last sea
as emphasizing the need for giving son, it is probable that the cut of
special attention to securing a di-, those not reporting, would increase
versitv of industries and encourag-, the total cut of Oregon for 1902 to
ing small farmers. Attention is 'over 1,000,000,000 feet,
called to the decrease of leprosy j Fof gome ,;me ;t ha9 been the
and the diminishing number of.,,.,, at wetlJjnss in Xew Vork
inhabitants of the leper settlement. ci( . bridesmaids. At a re-
The Governor recommends a l'l -
nil appropriation lor an ni.m
at tho St. Louis Exposition, and;
ihoan appropriation lor me es-
tablishment of an agricultural col-!
lege in Hawaii and to assist the;$25 for apl,(,aring jn t,.
Federal agricultural experimenting tr.lin There are voung
station. Local option is adv;sed . . . tino
in the matter of liquor laws.
The suggestion has been made;
icre that the claims of British
ubjccls against the Hawaiian
Government on account of the Haiidha i a short time ama sed
leged illegal imprisonment of them ,,
.luring the Hawaiian revolution
mii:ht be referred to The Hague!
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nbuna,!. Tlio chums have been
the subject of continuous jiegotia -
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lions since the revolutions of lis'JS
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ind 1WI1, and in his message to
the legislature (iovemor Dole pro-
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nosed that a commission be pro-
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vided to assist them.
The dredging of Pearl Harbor is
now uroceedine satisfactorflv. It
is stated by the contractors that
within a few days the channel lead
ing to the locks will he deep
enough to allow small steamers to
enter.
The island of Guam is said to
have been considerably changed
is a result of the earthquake of
September 22. Navigation officers
report the waters shallower than
icfore the disturbance, at some
points.
Japanese aro migrating to the
oast from Hawaii in large num-
lers. Almost every boat going to
San Francisco carries a big delega-
ion of little brown men and their
vives and babies.
A movement is reported to re
tire Chinese from these islands
or Mexico. It is stated that sev-
rul hundred of them are willing
jgo.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and Tliere
a Rtnlan. Others Not
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Oullings Prom Our Exehanaoa
Newa Notes of the Week
Timely Topics.
The authorities at Washington
have taken up the subject in re
gard to the survival of the Indians.
il i siaieu mat yu per cem oi me
Indians die of tuberculosis, rndl
llhe 1uelion ,iM 1)(;Cn rai?'"' ", ,0
! whether this disease has been intro-
iduced by contact with the whiles.
and that in some places the hnme-
this practice and have the trespass-
eeixt we.ltlfnz there were no fewer
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, t jj the
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L.rille's father, thev each received
of ft j x o h 0 ir,
, h & .
( btamv has appeared as brides-:
I . than 20"! wviMins'S.
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1 liAr ic ii war h..int- pir.
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i r.eu uii iM'.weeu uie iiutr leauio1;
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! which is tlte voungest of tin three,
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i nas ocen puuiisning six jiages ior
f 1 b
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opposition from the other two
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liajx-rs who joined forces to wusc
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war S:"'1S' ,le journal, ow 10
make matters worse, the Journal
is preparing to appear as an eight
page pa;er, even reaching to ten or
twelve when occasion demands it.
Tis is too much for the Petit
Parisian and the Petit Journal,
and t tie fight promises to be the
liveliest one in the annals o(
French journalism.
A head tax of 2 cents has K'en
levied on sheep in Lake county,
and the reultant fund will be em
ployed to counteract the effect oi
the repeal of the scalp bounty law
The tax, it is estimated, in this
county.will make a sum of about
f 6000. This sum will equip and
put in the field ten good hunters,
who will patrol the range, destroy
ing coyotes and incidentally assiFi
sheepmen wherever they can ren
der assistance. It is thought thesi
men under projier direction am
properly selected will destroy mop
"varmints" than were destroyer
under the bounty plan, and at no
additional cost to range men.
Cattle-raisers approve the repeal of
the bounty law, but the sheepmen
feel chagrined,
The $200,000 for Mrs. Lydia Do-..
minis, formerly Queen of the Ha
waiian Islands, for the so-called
crown lands which were taken pos
session of by the authorities of the
new republic when the throne was
overturned, was designed more for
relief than justice, because it was
well understood in the Senate that
Mrs. Dominis had no more title to
the property in question than has
the President of the United States
to the unoccupied public domain.
The lands were used by the royal
family just like the palace in
Honolulu, and for the seme reason,
and passed from one sovereign to
another with the crown and tho
scepter and other property of tho ,
state. This seems to have been
the view taken by the conference
committee.
One of most unique methods of
holding up that could possible he
imagined was perpetrated shortly
before 2 o'clock last Tuesday, when
C. Payne, an armless m.:n, entered
I the gambling hall of Club at
Butte, Montana, and with a 44
cnlibre revolver between his toes
'compelled the dealers at one of the
faro tables to give up ?5 which the
crippled man had lost earlier in
the evening. When Payne step
ped into the middle of the room.
and at ,the same time flourished
the weapon at the end of his foot,
gamblers and players scattered in
a hurry. Policemen called to the
place found Payne with a razor be
tween the toes of one foot and a
big1 pistol between the toes of the
o'ther. He was arrested without .
difficulty and placed in jail.
The lightning rod must enjoy
greater favor in Europe than here
if what the London Chronicle says
be true, namely, that the "new
Campanile of St. Mark's will have
a lightning rod." No rod was
erected on its predecessor until
176G, after the tower had been re
peatedly struck by lightening, and
uport one occasion badly damaged
in 37 places. This must have con
siderably weakened the stability of
the old Campanile, though the cir
cumstance does not apjiear to have
been mentioned in the official re
port on the disaster which was
mourned by the world. Before the
adoption of Benjamin Franklin's
lightening rod it was thought suffic
ient by tho orthodox to consecrate
hells against the malignity of tho
demons who were supposed to hurl
the electric fluid at holy places.
Although this pious device failed
signally, the lightening rod was
long rejected a? no better than a
compromise with Satin himself.
The advice of Dr. Cyrus Edson,
to shun la grippe as coutagious, is
sound. It comes,- however, after
very many people have learned of
its truth by sad experience. A
call upon a frieqd suffering from
this prostrating and distressing
disease is not a kindness to him,
since there is nothing he so much
desires as to lie in perfect quiet in
bed with hot water, bags for com
pany and a nurse who knows
enough not to ask him "how he
feels." Then, since ten chances to
one the grip gerin, "a spirillum or
bacillus floating around in tho
air of the bedchamber, seeking a
place to alight, will nttaeho itself
to the mucous membranes of your
respiratory tract, and there you
are. And what is much more to
the point, there it is. So it is well
to take Dr. Edson's advice, send
your grip-affected friend regrets
and flowers and stay away. Clear
ly nothing is to be gained by get
ting, through sympathy or other
wise, a malady so utterly wretched
to appreciate your sympathy or
njoy your .call. Give the Jet
licioirs "spirillum" a wide berth.
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