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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1903)
I r J y I 1 1 The Bend Bulletin 'IW "'" '! I UL-1 I" "'II 1,11 I - rt)LMiin Kvmv mttuv v MAX MltMHlMANN Vot r. Rra " . Knrten SUIvSCRHTltlN RATKK: Vtt Jrtufv-... Thf MMriM.. ..... l . (tnvwrteMy t mIvviw.) AUretKwn tM whk ( ctwtngc IhHr iwlru ihaW hr -fqr In Wr than Tuexhgr iwoe litnuWmr tht tn M ftMH h s4ri FRIDAY APRIL, io. 1903 HXIT H. V. CORMKTT. The passing away of Hon. H. W. Corbctt Inst week in Portland marks an epoch in Oregon's history. Mr. Corbctt was about the last of the pioneer merchants nnd men of af fairs in Oregon. He has seen Or egon reduced in territory but in creased greatly in wealth, popuht tlon and importance, and lie ho htcn the principal man of public life here for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Corbctt's place in the world of business and olitics will now U taken by a younger generation who may use his fortune and stand ing for Oregon's good, or may not. Wc hope that it may be for thegood of the community, however, and that the young men who will have the expenditure of Mr. CorbcttV fortune will co-operate with the present new blood which is taking upon itself the mantle of govern ment in this Western country. The old pioneers the men who made Oregon wlwt it is today are slowly but surely dropping out and thoir places are being filled with young men of progressive, up-to- date, twentieth century ideas and business ability. 'Mr; Corbctt has done much for the upbuildiug of Portland and Or egon, which will be remembered for a great many years, but he should Iiavcfcldnc much' raorcf and we ear- iiesth- trust tlintLH 1i.ire ..ni ,r be biased and handicapped by ante dated ideas of superfluous wealth 23,080 feet, which was reached by two men iu 1837. The opinion of most experts is that plenty of time nnd money will enable picked moun taineers to roach the top of any peak, under favorable conditions. With provision for plenty of suitable food. uowever, tnc explorer must go slowly, adapting himself to the rar efied air by resting weeks at a time, .it dinbrent camps on the road, and taking two or three years to com plete the ascent. Kvcn it Kckeit tein or his followers should gain the ascent of Mount Hvcrcst, some higher peak may remain to be sur mounted. The Himalayas have been but imperfectly surveyed, and several mountains are known to tower above 28,000 feet, while more than a thousand exceed 20,000 feet. that nu ordinary steam launch is made. useless. It was to overcome this djOiculty that Count Zeppelin constructed his launch with propel lers iii the nlr: and so uffctftivc hn's the new method of propulsion be come utnt the light boat, drawing only ten inches, skims the water at 4 to :G milts an hour. -MX) ft'-O POLE THK ONUS ON UNCI.K SAM It will surprise no one to learn dndmd$lkQiisp.' let them invest their mbney inisome of? the latent industries of Oregon, and if they see a chance to help along a legiti mate business enterprise which wishes to locate in Portland, let them donate some of their laud, or their money, or their influence, and though the returns may not be immediate, they will greatly profit in tho end, both in a pecuniary way, and, what is more important, iji re taining the good will of the people. And when they pass to the groat lx-yond people will not say, "Well, Mr." CorlxJtt was a good man, but he kept out more industries and re tarded the growth of Portland mort than the combined opposition of nil) one hundred men could have done." What we need now is less mos backism and more progrcssiveuesri. that the huge scheme of irrigation to which the last congress devoted the proceeds of arid and scnii-nrid regions will cost nearer $12 an acre than S5 and is quite likely to over run the revised figure. The esti mate of $5 was based in part on the cost of irrigation by private coinpan cs, and it is now discovered that private companies have secured all j the sites where cheap irrigation can be practiced. It is the uxpensive ami unprofitable part that has been left for the government. Philadel phia Record. This is nobody's fault but Uncle Sum's, who should have taken hold of this work years ago and fore stalled the private companies. Tlfc support of the public should, how ever, rest with the private compan ies, as experience has proven that when Uncle Sam starts in on any sort of public works, plans arc changed from time to.time, and the work drags along so slowly that the people are glad when the work is taken out of the hands of Uncje Sam's hired men and turned- over. by contract, to the lowest bidder,' ).Mli... rf L.. r J.i.. . .. -jwc- me -uacuue l.QCKS, ailU Oilier government work which has been perfonned(?) in Oregon. The government should submit specifications and receive bids on the proposed wgrk at tiicdalles of the Columbia,' aWl$tftout bj don- tract to the lowest bidder; otherwise our great-grandchildren will be gray-beaded before the work there is completed. .' ' A OKUitSOMir l't.vn. PrinevJllc, Or' Ape 6. A m m m dis- For removing from the stomach metallic objects that are attracted by the magnet, S. Mayon has de vised a method that requires nocut- tmg. A small electro-magnet is ar ranged to slide in a tube similar to that of a stomach pump, and the apparatus is passed into the stom ach through the mouth, when the magnet draws the foreign body in to the tube, "y lighting up the stomach witji X-rays, the operator is ablelQ bring the magnet into con tact with the metal at the point most suitable to enter the tube. r 11 - ., , . , Renewed interest in the possibili ties of scaling the world's loftiest mounfaii lias been aroused by the setting out for the Himalayas of the expedition under Kckenilein. The highest known point in the world is Mqunt Kvorest, which rises to 29,002 fcet above sea level, and the greatest height to which anybody Has yei ciunocu is uie summit ot Mount Aconcagua in the Andes, a covery of a human skull with horns is reported from'.thc Adkins, ranch! on .-ucituy crecK, some distance north of here. Thomas Adkins and an assistant delved down into a pile of rock which had evidently been piled up long ago as a species of cairn. Several feet down they are said to have disinterred a man's skeleton with huge backbone foints. The skeleton lay amid rocks' which had been built in after a rude fashion. The skull was the most interest ing portion, according to the s'torv. The teeth were wide and large, and the jawbone very prominent Horna projected from each side iyi inches Jong.- The skeleton is still on the Adkins ranch.- Oregonian. We have an idea that Mr.Adkins has been trespassing uixmi the sa cred precincts of someone's family vault. Wcsuireest that the Ore- gou Irrigation Congress investigate tills and find out who has buried n prftc shorthorn. ' Clover with four leaves ii lio lon ger merely a curious freak, as I)e Vrioa, the Dutch biologist, has nro- dticedit m a normal variotv after long-continued selection. In the eplortion of tropical wa ters, the dciwe growth of aquatic plants often so obstructs the screw a 1U.ACK. Jtvit iok tun-ritu CUHItK. A general misapprehension pro x'nls' regarding the requirements of the law governing locators on arid Iaiitl to be reclaimed under the I'cd eral irrigation act. Ignorance of the laW has permitted more or less of deceit by laud sharks, who have been aided by the fact that -Hjopte in otfrcr localities arc usually not acquainted with the character of the sod on the irrigation reservation. I he truth is that people who take up homesteads on that reservation will have to comply with the law, and cannot expect to accomplish tlie evasions that have been features of the Federal land business in the past. They must live on the laud, and the residence must be actual, must improve it, and they cannot commute it. Presuming that n per son has filed on 160 acres, he will not know whether or not he can hold that much, for if the govern ment decides that 160 ncras is too much land, that amount may be cut down to 40 or 80 acrci, as the case may be. The provisions of the Maxwell law relative thereto are: Section 4. That uiwn the deter mination by the secretary of the in terior that any irrigation project is practicable, he moy cause to be let contract'' for the construction of the some, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections arc available in the reclamation fund, mid HiprfMinrm in- i.f.ii ..;., miblic tintiiv hf tti. ImwN l-'ii.t.. I. . : ' O -"w under stfch "project, and limit of area per entry, which limit shall rejM-ehcnt the acreage which," in the hopinion of the secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family lipon the lands in ques tions also of the chargatf which shall be mode per acre upon the said entries, and upon lands in pri vate ownership, which may be irri gated by the-waters of the said ir ligation project, and the number of annual installments, not exceeding ten, in which suth cjiargas shall be made, and the time when such pay ments shall commence The said charges shallibe determined with n view of returning to the reclama tion fund the estimated cot of con struction of the pioject, ami shall be apportioned equitably; Provided. that in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a'day's work, and no Mongolian labor shall be employed thereon." The results of the fraudulent statements that have been made. and of the ignorance of actual con ditions, are that many parsons arc going to Kcho.to locate or buy land who should not have kouo. Feus of from ?25 to $o have been ax- ncieu oy Jocntqrs, who liavc elthor told aUuhiU- falsehoods or re mained silent, ,uud thus permittad the intending settlors to retain false ideas about the JJcho region. The facts arc that every acre of land that i worth anything now was taken years ago. Only wrtter in abundant quantities, Mich as the government projosfl to supply.will add one acre to he arable area, and three or four years must elapse be fore the government can put water on the laud, even though it is de cided to make permanent the now temporary Jicho or Mutter Creek irrigation reservation, J . 1 . wliwtlerjias found 110 site for the irrigation, -of the Uutter Creek rcSLTVat, nil v At Mio rtvwi,if o o 2 o s Asl Your Grocer Por THE BEST In Tens, Coffees, Spices, nnd Unking Powders. They nre the cheapest High Grade Goods IN THE WORLD Take None But Monopole. No Store Is Complete Without o o r ra MONOPOLE suhscrihi; for thh WEEKLY OREGONIAN A.VI THE BEND BULLETIN. BOTH PAPERS $2.00 PEI YAR. time, therefore, the prospects nre that there will not k any reclama tion of those lauds. It is Imrely possible thnt the ditch projected by a former company, of which the late ham P. Stutvis was the tirincin.il mcjnlwr;" rriWJ lw tftketr up, Iftit the probability is smiill that it will be done. Poudleton Corres. I'orttuud Jounial. This should serve as a good illus tration of the advantages of inking up IoimI under the Carey arid land law, under the operation of which n man can take as much laud as he is able to pay for and handle, nnd he is sure of a water right as long as he can (my the nominal maiutun mice fee. Will Pay Tnxc Twlfe, Taximyera. in Oregon will pay taxes twice in 1904. They will pay the tnxua levied upon the tnx roll o 1903 and also the taxes lev ied upon the roll of 100.1. This is due to a change in the law by which taxes nre to be hiUI in the full of the same year in which the assetrsnieiit is made. Under the present law the, astetui mentis made after the first Mon. day in March, the assessment roll being filed in September, the levy thereon made the followiiiK Janu ary, and the taxes collected by the first Monday in April. Thus the tuxes 011 the nwummunt of 1002 arc not jwld until 1903, 1 he new law provides that the assessor shall on the first Monday in January procure blank assess ment rolls nnd proceed forthwith to make his awessment, and return the roll by the first Monday in Tulv. showing all property then owned in the county on the first .Monday in January. Section 360 of the Code hos been amended so as to provide that the county board of equalization shall sit on the first Monday in July, in stead of on the first Monday of August, ns heretofore, Section 3082 was amended so as to limit the time for correcting the assessment rolls by the board of equalization of the county court to county courts must make the an nual tnx levy in September follow ing thcnssoasmunt.-Mitchcll News. New Saylnj-s of Mm. Wire "I've made it a practice to nut all my wftrrfas cwii in the Ixittom of my houit, then sit on the lid n' smile." "You never kin tell which way any pleasure is a-cotHiu'. Whoever would n thought when wc alined at the cemetery that we'd laml up a ilrst-clas fire?" "I b'lieve in bavin' a good time when you start out to have It. If you git knocked out of onapkiii.yoti want to git yorself unother rirht qukk, before yor sperri.s has a chance to fall." "The way to git cheerful is to smile when you feel bad, to think olxuit somebody else's headache when your own is 'most bustin', to keep on believin' the siuf is n-shin-in' when the clouds is thick cuoutrh to cut.""J.ovey Mary," in The Century. Ilulletin and Weekly Oretfonlan only $2.00 per year. Sulwcrilxi. Columbia Southern RAILWAY. .'AHHItNai'K TRAIN TIMI1 CAHII. HnlMlre llruir j tt. MO. J CAM. IKAVB I'.M. 1 y 1 ?' I4 r 01 3 4( 4 4 16 4 5 400 AMKIV -m-ii.mhm..Im STATIONS. -SI "W4..H1MMWIHII, Mn. AilwA'n .M a ..(lIUMKii -lnL. ,VH'Hir.M,,...M. .... ......JllllHllll,,. u, -JUPOii'liii........,. ,...., ....,,.,, vl MMrtM.d 'W'.. J "Kflil MM $umz::::"z Dally U yon vily, joint l)y city, mnl I'omiI. C. It. IATI.H, K. I). W00J1DMUK.V, BuiitrliiiaRlftit; ' , rWuuTtoOrc ' --- ii-tiai 2ouay, unuer the now law the ui i', ami r. ,,, Ubanlko, Or.