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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGONTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1909,
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MADRAS, OREGON
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Oregon Trunk Officials Are
Inspecting Work
MAKE TRIP A-FOOT UP
DESCHUTES TO FERR
Gonoral Manegor Vlalts Madras Th
Party Visits Construction Work
On Crooked Rlvor
Jackson Bmitli, vice-president nnd
general rnonager pf the Oregon Trunk
Line, Chief Engineer G. A. Kyle and
Lqcating Engineer Jf. C. Baxter, also of
flcials pf that line, were in Madras last
Sunday, accompanied by Mr. Buck
chjef pf construction for Porter Broth
ere. Tho last three gentlemen "hoofed
it" from Sherars Bridge up the Dee
chutes canyon to Warmspring ferry.
where they were met by General Mana
ger Smith, whp had made tho trjp to'
this section in art autompbjlp, and
brought them to this city. They stayed
over night In Madras and next morning
continued on their trip to Bend, going
via the construction camps on Crooked
River, where they inspected the rail
road work being done at the crossing
over that stream, and also visited the
engineering camps between Redmond
and Bend. The Oregon Trunk officials
returned to Madras Monday afternoon
and in the evening departed, going
North.
Chief Engineer Kyle, who has only
recently come to the work on the Hill
road building into Central Oregon, is
proving himself to be almost a past-
master in the matter of pedestrianship
as his trip a foot from the lower Des
chutes to Warmspring ferry is only a
duplicate of a hike hp took a few days
ago from the ferry up the Deschutes to
the Covo on Crooked River. A miscal
culation of the distance on this trip
combined with tho difficult walking
caused Mr. Kyle and his companion to
spend a night out in the open with short
rations and no bedding, and only a camp
fire to temper the night air. '
These trips a-foot aie presumed to be
for the purpose of securing n personal
knowledge of the surveys and the char
acter of tho work which will be encoun
tcred in the construction ot the Oregon
Trunk, bo that when work is started at
any given joint, it will proceed in a sya
tcmatic minncr and with little delay.
The construction of the Oregon Trunk
Lino is largely composed of heavy, ex
pensive work, much of which is in rock,
and a specific knowledge of all the de
tails is essential to an economic hand
ling of the work.
Tho recent trips ot the chief engineer
and other officials of tho Oregon Trunk,
between Madras and Trout Creek, prob
ably mean that construction crews will
shortly be placed between those points
and that ere long grades of tho Hill road
will he completed to Madras.
JUDGE GEORGE H. WIL
LIAMS IS IMPROVING
Oldest Living Cabinet Officer Was
A Pallbearer At Funeral Of
President Lincoln
J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON
GENERAL MERCHANTS
A1ADRAS, OREGtfN
Rallying from a surgical operation
periormed last Thursday morning at
tho Good Samaritan hospital in Port
land, Judge George II. Williams or that
city, Oregon's most noted statesman
and jurist, was reported in a condition
lato that evening that forecasts a rapid
and entire recovery from his present
illness, which haB for the past week con
siderably alarmed his relatives and
friends. The attending surgeons inado
an examination of the distinguished pa
tient at 10 o'clock last Thursday night
and announced his condition as encour-
ging and favorablo.
Tho cystotomio operation undcrennn
by Judge Williams was successful be
yond expectations Baid Uio physicians.
Wore it not that Judge WilliamB, al
though hged, has tho flro of youth in his
veins and a well-preserved, strong con
stitution, there would bo cause for
alarm, It 1b very difficult, howovor, iu
such a case, to determine whether or
not his condition Is what It seems.
There might come n change for tho
worse any moment. In fact, such a
chango in ordinary casea would bo ex
pected, Tho prcsoht Illness grow out of a mal
ady )u mild form of long standing. Al
ter, participating in a me'otlng of tho
Taft arrangement committee, of which
ho was a member, Judge Williams wont
Land Office Doesn't Grant-
t.. m .1 l. till -!.,,J W ' - t '
J.' OT 1U UJIJ'M 111 CUUlifHUU JUIillWIjVlt MU"
raal, when it was doclded an operation
was necessary. Ho was removed tp
Good Samaritan hospital Wednesday
evening of last week.
ghoujd, Judge Williams do at this
tjrqp ft wopld record the passing of tho
last of the men who acted as pallbearers
at tho funeral of the martyred President
Lincoln and the oldest living cabinet
officer, having been Attorney General of
the United States under President Grant.
Bight Of Way
OBSTRUCTIVE TACTICS
HQT P0UNTNPE9
EQUIP1HG SURVEYING
PARTIES EXCITES BURNS
I Southern Extensions, Subsidiary To,
arflman Interests, Hog fjo
flights In Cgnyon
Much speculation baa been caused at
Bums, in Harney Cpunty, by an order
whjch was placed recently with a hard
ware firm of that place for camp stoves
and outfits for 2Q men and requests for
similar equipments for five mpre camps.
The order was placed by County Sur
veyor Faulkner pf JIarney County, who
refuses to disclose the forces behind the
movement. Ifo came in from Ontario
last week with Colonel Wood of Tort
land and WUiatp Hanley, who assisted
some days ago in organizing a branch
company of the Coos Bay & Boise pro
ject, and many are associating the coun
ty surveyor's order with these men, but
Wood and Hanley are out of town and
cannot be reached.
It is also thought possible the parties
may represent John F. Stevens, as they
were in conference with him last week.
Harry Hunter ol Lakcvlew, perma
nently connected with a land grant com
pany, and accredited with intimacy
with Mr. Stevens, insists that it all
means the beginning of the end of liar
ney County's railroad isolation.
COLUMBIA SOUTHERN
TQ RESUME BUSINESS
T. W. Clark of Oregon City, acting
president of the Columbia Soutern Irri
gation Company, successor to the Three
Sisters Irrigation Company, which sue
cessfully defended before Federal Judge
Bean the suit of the State to cancel its
contract for putting water on 27,000
acres in Crook County under the Carey
Act, has issued a call for a meeting of
the stockholders of the company to be
held today.
A receiver for the company's proper
ties was uppointed two years ago, and
since that time the stockholders have
had no connection with them, and they
will now meet to consider their vindica
tion in the courts and ways and means
to complete their project. Although the
Department of the Interior lias sesrre
gated 27,000 acres from the domain at
the request of the company, only 12,000
has been patented to the state, because
the showing of adequate water was only
made on that amont. The contract
with the aovernment waa made in 1903.
and as tho law gives tho company ten
years to put water on the land, it is un
derstood that the company will ptoceed
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10 ueveiop me project.
MADRAS STATE BANK
ELECTS FIRST OFFICERS
A meeting of the poreons desiring to
take stock in the now banking institu
Hon which will bo located at Madras
and which will bo known as the Mad
ras State Rank, was held yesterday af
ternoon, and a general routine of busi
ness was transacted. Tho capitulation
of tho concern was fixed at $15,000.
which it is understood will be increased
in the near future.
A board of directors was elected con
sisting of J. M. Conklin, Max Putz. J.
0, Robinson and Robert Rea. J. M.
Conklin was elected president and gen
eral manager and 0. E. Roush. vien
president. Arrangements were mado for
taking up tho capital stock
as tho final papers aro accented bv tlm
state bank examiner, the bank will
Open itfl doors for ImsinosR
it was decided that nn nnnn nq nrnMi. ueiurat urecon.
l.i i i ...mi 7T".
V.I.UIU oiujiu uuuuing wouia be erected
m wnicu to nouso tho banking business.
Harriman plans in the J)esohules can: '
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yon received anotner unjomung diow .
Friday by tho decision of the Commls
sinner of the General Land Office, at
Washington, D. C, refusing a right p(
way franchise to the Southern Exten
sions Railway, saya last Satprday's Tel?
egram. This wag the company whicl
W. W. Cottpn, gpncral counsel for Hr-
riman interests here, admitted in, court
had been purchased by his peqple ag a
guarantee of some route in tho Dear
chutes canyon, Hill interests freely
charged the Harriman people with hav
ing organized thp company in the first
instance, and with Using it to. obstruct;
all rivals in the canyon. The articles of
incorporation for tho Southern Exten
sions provided no sane traffic terminal.
It was clearly intended U secure only a
section of the Deschutes canyon, oa it
neither reached the Columbia oil the
North nor any good traffic center of
Central Oregon on the South. Whoever
organized the company, it is asserted,
could have bad no other purpose than
holding up one or tho other of the two,
big riyat popcerna that Mfeje tjien. sur
veying up the canyon
As the Southern Extensions surveys
fitted into those of the Deschutes Rail;
road Cqmpany, and were in conflict with
those qf the Oregon Trunk Line, .tho
inference was immediately drawn tba$
the fragmentary rqad backed by
Harriman interests. Certain alleged,
connections of the incorporators with
Harriman concerns strengthened, tho
conclusion, until the attorneys fo; ihp ,
Oregon Trunk openly charged the Soqthr
em Extensions with being a tfarrimdn,
enterprise, and with having po moro"
legitimate cause for existence than
blocking any rival line that dared tq opr
pose the Deschutes Railway, lip, Oo .
ton stated in court that hia company
had bought the Southern Extenslona
with the purpose of taking advantago
of whatever aids might be found in
their work.
The (aeneral Land Office decision susi
tains the Hill contention, that tho
Southern Extensions baa np legitimate
existence. When its application wa.
filed for right of way across government
lands, the office waa disposed to accept
it in good faith. After Mr. Cotton adi
mitted in court that the new concern
was owned by his people, thp Commis
sioner took another view of the South
ern Extensions, which ia expressed in
the refusal of the General Land Office
to grant right of way over government
lands to the Southern Extensions RalL
way. Tho Southern Extensions will bo
allowed 30 days in which to show causo
why its application Bhould not here
jected by ronsoo of the conflict between
its said line and the right of way grant
ed to the Oregon Trunk Line.
While the Southern Extensions com.
pany had outlined a right of way of sev-
oral miles in length, to give its exist
ence some semblance of leuitiraacv. in
fact, surveys had been mado for only a
a few miles of track in tho Horseshoe
Bend district of the Deschutes canvon.
and tho conflict with the Oregon Trunk
surveys is said to have been for only
about five miles. The decision of tho
Commissioner removes another ol tho
blocks that have been interposed, and
brings tho Deschutes situation one step
noaror the day when there will be it
clear field for one or all of the compa
nies that desire to construct a lino into
NOTED RAILROAD CONTRACTOR DIES
Spokano, Wash., Sept. 10. Dennis D.
Twohy, a raihoad contractor, died this
aftomoon at hia homo after an Illness of
seven montliB. Ho was 74 years old.
Until five years ago ho had lpng been a
resident of Anaconda.
Ills railroad contracting firm has con
structed railroadB and parts of railroads
all ovor the West, inchullncr h
mountain sections of tho Great North-
urn and Northern Pacific, as well im a
portion of the Snoknno. Inrt1 mill t' Kn.
attlo Lino.
Dennis TwOhv was a hmtii fir nf Hm
Twphy Brothers, who now havo the
contract for buildlnc the Delina
Railroad, the Harriman lino
constructed into Centrul Oregon,
WORK PROGRESSING ON POWER DAM
Rend, Or., Sept. 20. Tho first Des
chutes water power to bo made use of
is being harnessed ot Bend. For several
months a dam has been in courso of
construction across tho river dlrecilv
by tho town, which, when completed,
will harness tho first thousand 9! tho
million horsepower with which the Des
chutes is credited.
Tho danf is being built by A. M.
Drake of Portland, who hau oxtenBivo
real estate and gonoral interests in and
around Bond, and when completed will
be used for tho generation of electricity
for city lighting and variouB power pur
poses. LaHt week u crew of Italians'
wero imported from Portland, local la
bor being difficult to obtain,