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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
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! 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.
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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!
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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
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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'
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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
.
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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
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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.