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VOL. IX.
PillNKYILIiti, CROOK COUNT V, OREGON, AUGUST 31, 1003.
NO. 37
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Announcement
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Boyd Adams having purchased an interest
with C. C. Dunham in the New York Racket
Store, and they having tjurchased the stock of
Clothing and Furnishing Goods of B. Gormley
desire to annouco to the public that the new
firm has m ivod into the building formerly occu
pied by Mr. Gormley and will do business in our
new quarters under the firm name of the
OWL eRSH STORE
In our new quarters we have mora room and in
addition to the laro stock which vj now havo
we will add several new linos making our store
tho most complete and up-to-date in the, county.
We wish to call your special attention to our
Shoo Department as we intend to make this our
specialty and cater to the wants of the particular
Thanking you for your patronage in the past
and with a cordial invitation for all to call and
see us in our new quarters we are
Yours respectfully,
DUNHAM & ADAMS
Great Southern Railroad
Will Soon Be Running
Trains from The Dalles
to Dufur.
Track-laving on the Great
South rn Railway is being proi-e
cuted m it In the greatest vigor, and
the rails Are now in a portion for
about twenty-two miles from thu
e.ty, or about a mile beyond
Wrenlhiim mid about eight miles
from Dufur. says The Dalle
i,iiroiiicii'. iiit; company nas a
track-laying machine at woik,
that, with the aiJ of pioneer!1, is
capable of finishing about two
miles of track every day, ready
for the roiling Mock.
There have been some pry
heavy rock cut;, and considerable
bridge building; but these are
iicarly ail eomj'Ieted, and in a few
days the iron horn- will celebrate
jits' advent into the tit v. of
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lir-t one about seven inileo' from
the city, where, it if feared, during
the rainy season there may be
trouble from failing rock. Some
of the bridge are quite high; hut
none have been very difficult of
construction. In time these
wooden structures may be re
placed by concrete and iron ones;
but the bridges now erected will
a party of "JO more men arrive in
a few day; nccomodationri for
whom have been enilied at
Eugene. There are geven Hur
veyorH in the fir t gang, accom
panied by chainmen and other
helper.
The route to lx; mapped out is
by way of Diamond I'eak Ptt:H,
emerging at Cre.cent Lake, from
which point free access in fuid to
the Klamath and Lake county
field. Later the line may be
changed nt as to strike for Sum
mit or Diamond Lake, and thence
by way of I'engra Pan. A Gould
purchased the Nevada, California
C Oregon recently, which road ex
tend northweft from Ueno to
Madeline, California, end i pro
jected on to Lnkeview, it is sur
mised the surveying party is
locating a route through the
mountains and southward from
there to Lnkeview, so as to connect
with that road, which' will later
join the main line of the Western
an
Pacific from Salt Iike to S,
Francisco.
The surveying party is headed
for the eastern part of Lane coun
ty, and the members admitted
they would Im- in Eugene and
Dufur. f vicinitv for several months.
from hugene surveys have been
made for an independent line to
Portland, and it id presumed later
the line connecting Lakeview with
Eugene will be carried north.
Railroad men agree that the fact
that seven surveyors are in the
Lane county field means some
thing important, ad the party is
too lar'e to le maintained by an
irresponsible or "paper" road.
Telegram.
REGARDS TALE
. AS A HOAX
County Judge Bell Puis
Little Stock in Story of
Grand Jury Investiga
ting Davis Murder.
County Judge V. A. Bell, who
returned from Portland yerterday,
says the mrnora regarding the
"Shorty Davis" murder mystery,
which have found considerable
space in two of the Portland pap
ers, are, so far as he knows, with
out foundation. Ife. has neither
seen nor talked with Christian
Feurbelm, alleged to have told the
circumstances attendent upon the
murder of Davu about ix years
ago, and has not been in confer
ence with District Attorney Mene
however, prolx? the range wari
in that section of the Btate, and
will examine witnesses as to the
facts surrounding the disappear
ance of Davis and other incidents
of the troubles between Bheepraea
and cattlemen in the Crooked
Pviver country. It is said that
much of this testimony will be
used in the retrial of the William
son case to show that the defend
ers were not hard pressed by the
cattlemen at the time they are
said to have secured tb filing of
fraudulent entrymen on lamia
adjoining ibe ill a -i .. .r-.-'l, r
sheep ranch, and Wt,, j J . , :
laied to' and on friendly tciuis
with the cattlemen.
GOLD FOUND IN
LAKE COUNTY
Residents in the vicinity of
Lakeview are much excited over
gold discoveries which have been
made in several localities in that
fee relative to the case as stated in re8,on ouring the past two weeks,
the Portland papers. Judge Bell A?sa)'8 the findings have been
stated further this morning that if ma,Je and ehow returns running
any evidence had been given to the as lli&h 83 2f a ton- Most of the
Federal Grand Jury it had not ag .ore is iree muting, the gold being
Lj j be perfectly safe for a long num
Sj her of years and until travel is
H j much more than it is present.
S There are about one hundred
I men employed, and these are en
sj;ggfd i" tracklaying. In places
li-Tl i 1 1 ernili' l.i I f n !ili-no1
fl I especially in some of the cuts '
and this consumes time. During; "Marked development is already
the hot weather it was mwt diHi- j in progress in the Klamath basin,"
cult to keep the men, as the heat j sa.VB J- B- Lippincott, supervising
IRRIGATION PROJECT
BOOMS KLAMATH COUNTY
Professional Cards.
was so oppressive that the same
crew would rarely be working two
days at a time. Now that the
weather is cool no difficulty is ex
perienced in this regard.
A force of men is now engaged
in grading a road on the hillside
from the terminus of the Great
Southern beyond the old powder
magazine into the city, a n d ,
when this is completed it is ex
pected that tho railway will ute
engineer for California, in charge
of the irrigation project on the
Oregon-California boundary line.
Continuing, he said:
"The value of town and farm
lands in the bain has doubled
since the surveys for the reclania
tion works were begun, and a
good many people are coming in
and taking lands. The reclama
tion service has bought our three
existing small canal systems in
the old road for part of its track Ue basin, and lias succeeded in
to the river front," diverging at a uniting all interests, both town
proHr point and crossing the O. and country, in favor of the
H. it N. Co.'s track to the beach. Federal reclamation scheme. The
There is a locomotive and 1 Population in this section is
special ears on the Great Southern bountl lo grow rapidly from now
now, and thee have beon engaged ;on
in hauling lumber for the new
warehouses
other points
at
on
Wrentham
the road.
and
The
The Government surveys for the
project began in July, 1904, and
ihe final plans and specifications
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farmers in the vicinity of the road i are ready for
occasionally come into town on
the freight cars, and leave their
wagons at home.
There will be a large crop of
wheat this year at Dufur and on
Tygh Ridge, and it is expected the
Great Southern will be completed
to Dufur in time to remove the
present harvest. From persons
employed on the road we are led
to believe that Dufur will be
reached about the 10th of next
month, and - that construction
work will then stop until next
spring or summer, when the road
will be pushed much farther south.
t Jf. Rosenberg
tei'an and Surgeon
Calls answered promptly iay or nfynt
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yet been placed in his hands, nor
had Mr. Menefee received any in
formation. These two, if any,
would be the first to kuow of aDy
developments.
Judge Bell regards the matter as
a hoax pure and simple. He said
Mr. Menefee went down to Port
land every few days from The
Dalles to receive medical treatment
and the latter had probably been
seen talking with the official from
this county during these visils,
from which the reporters on the
metropolitan papers had deduced
alleged facts as "printed. Mr. Bell!
said the county authorities had ex
hatlsteii ( net r ffTnrfa vnr rttrn in'
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the hopes of solving the mystery
und would do nothing further un
less there were tangible develop
ments. The Portland Telegram, which
was the first to make note of the
matter, spoke of il in the following
manner:
As announced in The Telegram,
the apprehension. of the murderer
of "Shorty" Davis, a Crook county
sheepman, will probably be the
outcome of the present session of
the grand jury. Brought to Port
land by informati n in The Ttle-
gram that the grand jury would
investigate the killing of Davis.
District Attorney Frank Menefee,
of the Seventh District, arrived
from The Dalles yesterday morn
ing, and, together with Wells Bell,
County Judge of Crook county,
held a conference with District
Attorney Francis J. Heney to
ascertain what tacts in relation to
the case are in possession of the
Government. The murder oc
curred about six years ago.
Mr. Menefee had. to return to
The Dalles on business, but will
come back to Portland when he
will go deeper into the case and
his investigation.
found in porphyry. The discover
ies have caused a rush of pros
pectors to that section and the
Lakeview papers state that fully
200 men are now roaming over
the hills in an effort to locate new
claims. The Herald speaks of the
Wade discovery as follows:
Birt Wade, A. M. Keid and Geo.
Plummer, while prospecting in
the hills about five or six miles
from Kew Pine Creek panned eome
dirt out of a small stream near
where their mine is located and
detected a color in the pan. They
followed up the stream, and then
j began panning the dirt at the
jhead of it, finding colors in almost
j every pan washed out. Just above
the heart ot this little stream is a
dike of roiten porphyry. The
prospectors panned some of the
surface dirt of this dike and got
colors of flour gold in every pan so
that it could be seen with the
naked eye. The boys have gone
down about ten feet on this rock
and loose dirt and solid rock all
pan out about the same. From a
a pan of dirt a string of gold from
an inch to two inches in length is
washed out. There seems to be
an immense quantity of this ore,
and experienced miners who hve
visited the prospect pronounce it
exceptionally good. The owners
of this claim have been made one
or two quite tempting offers for
their prospect but no deal has been
consumated.
publication as soon
as contracts between the land
owners and the Government shall
have been signed. It is said that
already 9S per cent of the resident
landowners have signed contracts
to receive and pay for water for
their lands. There has been some ' will complete
delay in getting the excess-land j It is understood that
contracts signed, but this, it is ' will be turned over to
said, will not materially affect the, county authorities, and that they
early completion of the works, j will handle the case. However,
The. question of railway facilities i developments have come out of
in connection with the Klamath ! the investigation of the range wars
POKER PLAYERS TO
APPEAR IN COURT
SURVEY LINE
AROUND DIAMOND PEAK
To all intents Gould's Western
Pacific has invaded Oregon with
the preliminary work for a route
over the Cascade Mountains. A
party of surveyors, headed - by a
man named Rankin, has arrived
at Eugene frcm San Francisco and
early this morning started running
lines toward Diamond Peak Pass,
following the southeast fork of the
Willamette River. No informa
tion is obtainable from the men,
other than they represent the Oregon-Eastern
railway, which is not
known here, and that there will be
basin project is an interesting one.
The present main line railroad
station for the basin is Thrall,
distant 3S2 miles from Portland
and 391 miles from San Francisco.
Mr. Lippincott says the building
of a road from Weed, on the South
ern Pacific, to Klamath Falls is
contemplated. The distance from
Weed to Portland is about 410
miles, and to San Francisco some
thing like 365 miles. Which of
the two cities gets the major
portion of the trade of the basin
remains to be seen.
in the Crooked River country in
connection with the supposed
murder of Davis which can now
be used to good advantage, and
which would probably never have
beer, discovered by the county
authorities, so much greater are
the opportunities of the Govern
ment for getting information than
are at the command of the local
officers. If any definite informa
tion can be gained as to the identi
ty of the murder of '"Shorty"
Davis, the Crook county officers
say they will prosecute the case
to the utmost and will bring the
The solution of the "Shorty" murderer to justice. There is
Davis mvstery is complicated still a reward of 11000 offered bv
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soniewnai oy me iiuiess oi
diieepherder who is said to be
only live person who knows
the murderer of Davis and is able
to lead the officers to the spot
where the remains of the murder
ed man lie. One night recently
he rt turned home late and fell
down stairs Telegram.
the the county for the arrest and con
the vlction of the murderer. The in
dictment or conviction of the man
who killed Davis would not be a
matter for the grand jury, but for
the county officials are quite ready
to handle the case, it has been, it
is understood, givenvover to them
to solve. The grand jury will,
Unless warrants are refused the
police by City Attorney McXary,
five men who were found playing
poker in the room of "Doc" L. W.
Robertson at the Imperial hotel in
i Portland Friday afternoon will
the matter I he arrested a second time and
the Crook I nrosecuted. while Rohertson will
be prosecuted on the charge of
conducting the game. Those im
plicated are Judge A. S. Bennett,
W. F. Matlock, mayor of Pen
dleton; F- Matlock of Pendleton,
the mayor's brother, Dr. J M.
Davis, a Portland dentist, and
Charles Babb, an eastern Oregon
cattleman.
The arrests are to be made be
cause in gambling parlance an
attempt was made to "pass the
buck" to Mayor Lane for the re
lease ot the men. i he mayor as
serts that the blame must be
placed where it belongs; he says
the men were allowed to go before
a report was made to him.
When taken to the police
station the players met Police
Cameron, who stated that as tho
court before whom the case would
be tried if there was a prosecution
he could do nothing. , City At
torney Mcvary wis summoned
and had a talk with the player .
He says he told them he did
not favor a prosecution under tho
circumstances, but that they
should better make their peace
with the mayor. Then, aecoidin
to his version, they saw the mayor,
who after admonishing them to bw
careful in tho future, said he
would not insist on their pros-cution.