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About The Deschutes echo. (Bend, Or.) 1902-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1902)
Echo VOL. 1. BEND, CROOK COUNTY, ORIÜON, OCTOBER 25, 1002. LAND OLI ICE REPORT. LAND OFFICE. NO. 22. tinu s micheli Portland undaniag-[ A. M. Drake is expected lionio t» .1 «:. ! the first of tlu* week from a Imsi- From there it was sent the entire ucs.« trip to Portland aiul t ’olora- Classified List of the Enormous Un»t,h of J ,u; XVillum*tt‘‘ Valley, ^ Springs. and into Cal lornia where it was Jose pi» Speneer and Marion Eusiness Transacted at Ti e aneiiored fora snort time at Red- Ernest are here from Cottage ding. At the latter place the j Grove to take timber claims. / PaPes. message was transei ibed to paper, put into an envelope and carried : David Hill passed through Bend Friday with a load of hogs which The statement of business for the by stage to Bcibcr where it reeeiv-l he marketed in Prineviile. quarter ended Septonibi r GO, 1tt()2, t d the post other mark and was j George Bates and Henry Statile at The Dalles land o.liee is as fol forwarded to Aditi. At Adin the nu-r-age in the envelope was | wt.nt ,,ut (t) thcii |„„m.steads the lows: 323 homestead entries; IS orig thrown into the Klamath Falls first of the week, inal desert land entries; 23 excess mail sack and finally reached that! I S l“‘,uvr <’f Cottage Grove homesteads; 1 mineral land entry; point still undamaged. Here the postmaster rang up 'vm> he re Tuesday to locate on 1 eoal declaratory statement; 1 ad verse mining claim; 1 Dalles Mili Lakeview and transmitted the mes- *iiïil>»‘i claims. tary Wagon Road Co. List; 1 sage as he read it from the slip of John Sizemore went to l’rine I keep a fall line of all necessary blanks for the purchase oi gov- amended state desert land selcc- paper. The government official ville Monday to attend circuit . , , , ,n. , , . . ,, tion; 23 sales of isolated tracts, at Lakeview likewise telephoned court. ■rnment lands under the limber and stone Act, as well as anv • rhus o3,9o9.10 acres have been the man in ¡Silver Lake who was Uharles Dennison is here from fiber law of the United States, and having had many years experience appropriated from the public do waiting in a state of nervous ap l’rineville superintending the con prehension and heart-rending pa struction of a building bring erect main. am entirely familiar with the mode of procedure to acquire title to tience. Final proof was made on .">1 ed by W. II. Staats. t he message to reach a point 66 same, and also to all classes of State land; will make all original ap homesteads, S timber-culture en t\ Snipes, a prominent man of tries. 1 preemption, 2‘ desert land miles south of Bend had traveled The Dalh>s. spent several days at plications and pioofs. Special attention given to Homestead entries north, west, south, entries, 1 commuted timber-culture I north-east. Bend this week. Mr. Snipes '-egis- entry, 92 commuted homesteads > smith-west, south-east and east for and the purchase of Desert, School and other lands. tcred at the Hotel de Sizemore. and Ido timber and stone claims. a distance of 118o miles and had gone by carrier, telephone, tele- Neb on paid rilievi • ; n Number oUaere- on which final . graph and stage! business visit this week. ! proof was offered, 49,203.96. Time of transmittal: Mr. B.— Total number acres sold. 44,d73. (.'apt. Craig of Pittsburg, l’enn., savs a Plymouth Rock hen of his 79. amounting to ¡M ">,430.16. was in Bend and vicinity a few in the Received from testimony fees, sprouted three molars days this week looking over the Valuable information furnished regarding most promising oil interim between the sending •1410.03. making'the total fees and timber prospects. . and receiving of the dispatch. prospects yet found in Oregon. commissions ♦7.408.06. Messrs. Slv and Anderson of Ay, verilv, do we live in a won The receipts of the office in fees Lava were on "o u r stru ts” the | and commissions and the sales of derful age of improvement! First class in ancient history first of the week. public lands amounted to ♦92,838. j m please stand up now and recite! S. 1*. Donkel was down front 22, being I7.481.S2 over maximum Lava Wednesday. Mines and mining stock bought and sold. Facilities unexcelled ! for one quarter alone. Invitations are out fora " H a l During the three months ."73 Echoes Along the Deschutes. for handling same. lowe’en” party given by Miss timber and stone sworn statements were tiled; 32 contests initiated and W. F. Best has gone to his ranch Marion Wiest at the horn«' of her over 200 applications of various near Lava to make some improve parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Wiest. kinds rejected and suspended. ments. W. H. llollinshead and family This is the heaviest quarter’s W. 11. Brock and D. F. Stoffa were here Saturday on their way An extensive list of real estate, consisting of town lots and houses; work in the history of the office. left l'uosday to attend circuit court | to l’rineville. Mr. I lollinshead farms, improved and unimproved; stock ranches; lands of all kinds in ,ll!ri"br whicl* in Prineviile. , and his wife proved up on their forfeited nv the Northern Par ¡fie , . i timber claims while here. tracts large or small. Options given and taken. If you have property Railway Go. were being purchased George Hogue was down from' ,, ... , . . . ... . 1 C. It. Kingsley ami wife of Ititzville, from the government not excepted. Kosland tlie last of the week to Wusliington, were here the first of the for sale or if vou wish to buy. call or write. I and is largely due to the rush for make final proof on his timber I week to locate on timber claims, timber lands lying in Crook countv claim. J. II. Hansen and Peter Love- which began early in January, the Mr. and Mrs. William E. ( ’lav- land of Goldendalc, Washington, time for payment after due publi ; ool and Mrs. S. C. Ulaypool were !,n‘ >" R‘ iid looking over the conn- cation having arrived. over from Sisters Satimlav to! try with a view to locating here Mv office in Prineviile is the best equipped Law, Land and Real During the first thirteen days make final proof on timber claims. Mr. Hansen is familiar with the of October, 96 homesteads have Yakima country and says he be Estate office in Eastern Oregon, and consists of a suite of four largì M. II. ia'stina, of Spokane, Was lieves Crook county’s desert will been filed and 134 timlx-r and a business visitor the last of the be nearly as productive under ir- rooms that have been specially furnished and fitted for the comfort -tone applications, week. of patrons and for the convenient transaction of business. Persons j . -------------- Miss Jennie Ji nks, Miss Carrie Frank R. Buell was here from Jcnks, ami Miss Jessie Probet are WONDER O f WONDERS! ! intending to locate on lands in Crook county are invited to call and ex- Fern wood, Idaho, the last of the here from Pennsylvania to become - week to make final proof. amine my maps and plats—the latest and best. Strangers coming to possessors of some of Oregon s yel low pine. rigation as the land watered bv ( rook countv to locate will be cordially welcomed and any assistance Being the Recital of the Honey- the Sunnyside canal. Miss Jackie Brink has returned necessary always cheerfully rendered. moon Trip of a Telegram From S. M. Hair was u visitor from from a visit with friends in Prine- Kitzville, Washington, lie came ville Bend to Silver Lake. to locate on a timber claim. John Mi Taggart returned from P R IN E V ÏL L E , O REG O N . Branch Office, BEN D , O REG O N . Government Lands. Oil Lands. Mines and Mining Stocks. Real Estate for Sale. Prineviile Office. Bend Office. Mrs. W. II. Butts was here Mon- The Dalles with a party of timber Of all the sad things which have day from The Dalles to file on a Inenters .Monday, This office is the nearest Land Office to the timber belts of Crook Will Vundevert was down from liapjiened in the universe, (which timlier claim. and Klamath counties. Locacers and others coming to Bend always is approximately Bend. Oregon,) (L Burlingame was a visitor from Lava the fir.-t of the week atti nd- Spokane, Washington, the lir.-t of ing to luisine.-s matters. Ili- -mis, please take note of this; make this office their headquarters— an invitation is sujierffuous. Will and Clinton, came with him One day last week Mr. B—. who the week, to attend the district school at has Been stopping in Bend for the Murvi.vor was a busi- Bend. past three months, received an mi- „ „ „ vW*|or from Prineviile a few Editor Fogle, of the Crook |M»rtant letter from a business as- j m t.|4 County Journal, informi d an E cho soeiate in San Franeisco whieh de That the al»ove-named offices are the places where the LAND manded a message lieing sent with A township plat of the town of reporter last week that he is going Bend, was bli filed in tin tla ioi,nt\ tostar! a _ pa _ jut at laivn, a neek-o’- BU81NKSS of Crook county is transacted may readily Is- dem onstrut dispatch (»ossihlc to another w‘t: >l in associate in Silver Lake—a town ‘b'fk s office a few days ago show- the-woods u few nd.es from Bend, rd by one glance at the newspajiers of Ctook county. about 66 mihm south of this point. **‘8 Die siine» and la\ m the where the u( the white man Mr. B— , lieing unable to borrow a ’*lrv,"b* lti" planned by Die I dot ||0j often is «een, but where pines saddle horse, purchased one and BuM** Development company b,g and "yellow "'sigh softly, so r.«le to Prineviile. a distance of 31 which ow ns the land. The pl.it a- • gr, B n , if Editor Fogle is miles where he telephoned his mes- filed shows only eighty nen s laid kM»king for u nice, quiet, secluded sage to Shuniko. It was there off into town lots, hut luore is to Iw s|„it where he can "go ’w-a-y bin k put on the telegraph wires and “^ ‘**1 soon as the necessary sur- und f*it down,” he hu* certainly (after lieing transferred several urv* completed. j found the right place. Proof Positive. A. C. PALMER, U. S. Commissioner and Attorney-at Law.