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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1903)
W I - X I f Elkiiis (i PRINEVILLE, OREGON. WE WANT THE TRADE Or ttvurytma at Hud and its vicinity, and are willing to muut you (ill more than half wy to got It. W Unowtluit aftur trtiding with about Mcurlug youi' mihsaqumit ordortf. , ' . ' Wu will give your MAIL ORDERS- The inino nttcnlloii and prompt shipment tlfnt wc would wore you pre ei( lit inKii, '.'. Wo will Hull yott nothing Imt, flr.S uIkim) goods at as lowa price as it is poadule to" itiuko, quality bijng coiuJfriurvd. Sund us a trial unlur. ' ' Yours for business, The Winnek Drug Co. Carries n Complete Line of Fishing Tackle, Toilet Articles, Stationery and Patent Medicines. BEND Von Can't AliM m. C. AWBREY'S saloon IN DltHCIICTIUl, OKHC.ON. Stonewall, Monogram and Kentucky BOURBON WHISKIES, Olympia Beer and Fine Cigars. HAPPENINGS IN BEND. v A. M. Dmkc has gone to attend ..the national irrigation cougnyrf nl Ogriuu. Vnolo Jack" Vaiiiluvcrt. wJio'"-,B of some hwivy looms. The was nlarmiiiMly HI lt week, h'asj "" l"cli is completed s far as it recoveicd his wonted health and i.i pretty lively for u loy of 81. J H. ondC. K. Wimer. of Grnut'i,.f lwi t.,,.,1 ,iu i ,ir ,iirul Pass, cflme in with their families last week and went to their home' steail alnnit 10 miles northwest nf Hid. They brought teams mid complete outfits mid will have com foruibtu homes theie. Mis E. II. Stenbcrg at rived Wednesday from Portland to join her partner. Miss Handle, in the milliner)' ia"fl dress-making bust- utss. Tlicir new store minding next the jiostoulcc, is wall along toward completion. , Mr. Wie.st was fortuiuite enough to kill,u In rue hawk winch he found lurched on one of his hen houses . Wednesday evening wutchlng for the chlekciis to go in to room. That bird and a badger were the only acquisitions this week, except ill tame cut that got caught in a trap but was released ttiiiujurud. The fruit wagon from McCnllis tor's ranch ciiiuc in loaded Tuesday night and the stock was soon tits- tMWd ot to the uualcrs. rso n)orc puddling of fruit for Hend. The dealers have the trade well in hand now. . Hund in .suffering from a butter famine. Those who are willing to nay 80 cents a roll can gel supplies if tliey arrange for them far enough in advance, but anything less leaves the matter open' to .uncertainty, which usually means no butter. Every timepiece in I)cm has a happy way of going it alone and all kinds of time prevails, but no standard. Tho whistle of the P. 1). I). Co. mill can be heard in all parts of town and it might be well to accept that as setting the stand ard time hetc, in the absence of any other guide. Arut Autie, who is ut his home stead about eight miles south of town, has been suffering n week or more with an ailment resembling sciatic, rheumatism. lie is unable to get about at all and cannot rest flight or day. , Ills family and the 'family of his son-in-law, Oliver El! . - " . us once tliont will be no rouble ELKINS b KING. OREQON. Johnson, live near enough on nd joining claims ami they 'tire able to give the old mnii all necessary enre. Tile Coliiiulilu Soutlicrit ditch work is progressing slowly just now is uesiguwi 10 carry it mis year una several lateral have been led out a lMit ftltljki wr.1i Ifltltt. f A rvtnnifi UIICIIU Hit! inn. Work at the I. H. I). Co. flume is progressing without h bitch. The blasting is done for Imlf the distance and the timbers on which tho Hume will be supKrted are be ing 'assembled.' Tht framing of the flume timbers is about half done. The mill in steadily cutting the lumber, which lb nsaortud and set to teuton. All the men and teams available are Ixiiug used in the work. The Oregon King Mining Com muy is shipping a carload of flue ore trom Shauiko this week. The value of the ore hub not been made public but It is understood that ill is 11 kjiiioii 01 uie very uigu graae ore ihnt has lccn taken from the lour and fivc-humlicd-fout levels. A ih wood Prospector. Hon. Anne M. Inug, receiver of The Dalles laud office, and hor sis ter, Mint Kllsnbcth l.ang, arrived lit lieiui .Monday evening and arc guests of Mrs. Dnike. This is a vacation visit of the young ladies, who wished to become personally acquainted with a locality that has occupied so prominent a place in laud office business, and also to seek rest and recreation in their lair. A. II. Kennedy, who was fore man of The Hum.win from its start last March, left Monday morn ing for Prineville to take charge of the Review, which he has leased from William Holder. Mr. Ken nedy is a good newspaper man and the best iou printer in Central Ore gon, evidence of which will be im mediately apparent in the Review. His place with The lu'LUtTiN is taken by W. A. pudley, who comes here from Portland. The fishes are said to be unusually frisky since Kennedy left. When he was here he had them completely cowed. Hut he promises to return upoiv occasion And renew acquaintance with' the speckled beauties. i S. P. DONKE SLAIN STOT FROM nfilllll ' AT HIS CAMP M'AH fi$. Oody wus Hurled ortiiS P're Built oviir It lo Dentroy (lv!ilenc of the (lrnv"AnUiortifc$ lave. tlgcitlnf; tho Crime, The body of a- P Donkel, with a bullet I10U in tliti buck of the limd near the left Mir, was found biirid uiirietAwo ffflt of earth at his cithip on tile PdltOu place, 16 inittts nlHive Uend, TtiBwJay. lit had bcn niiiwing for eixlit day. A brush Arc had been built ovcrthi- erare to ob! iter to all aurlace' marks. It was uvidunt that mur der had Iwcii coininltKl. and the object is stippoftud - to luve been roblxiry, ns nottwthilig like $40 that is said to I111VO bu carrieil in thu old man's pockatS was mwsiiig from the corpse, though hm silver cawl watch wna left. The coroner and sheriff have .investigated the matter but have not , yet connJ to any conclusion its to who committ ed the crime. Mr. Donkcl aud hit sou, Cleve land, lud bcti for iT'i'iiontli or more haying on thu old Pulton placu, on thu east skle of tho Ueschiitei 10 miles alwve HuiHll They had "n rtide cm 111 p consiUti of a few boatdx for a roof with a place for . fire outside at ou tud. A rough table stood under tlic roof and be side the lire was the blink in which the sou slept at nigllU The father slept in the barn, a few rods away. This place whs on Utft opjxKiite side of the river from this. WilSey place and about a quarter of a mile dis tant from the Willqy residence, though an island iti the river ob scured the view between them. The evidence addutmd bciore the coroner's jury wag tliat the elder Doiikel had been sen by a ucikIi bor late in the HfternOOn of Sunday, the 12th. Cle eland Ionkel. who lelt Monday niorulng to ride for cattle, says lie left life lather alive j and well. Peyond this statement 1 of the buy there are no tidings of the old man alter Sunday nUeruoon. The boy was nway ajl week and none of the othci members of the family knew where he was, which, however, was not an unusual cir cumstance. When the father had not been seen for a few days, and his hor&c was in the puMiurc aud his saddle in the barn, inquiry was set on foot. Hears that something hud bapiHiued to him became more or ! lea general Sat ut day ami Sunday the neighbors began a serious, search. Tlie river was dragged and wires were stretched Across lo intercept, floating bodies. At length the. searcliers wore moved to make n closer examination of the jlaee wliere he had beQn staying- Some of the men went to the camp and poked among thu ashes where the Are hud been. A beef bonu was brought to light, but the searchers thought it might be a human bone nud that the kl man had been consumed in the fire. They got'a shovel uud scrnpod the ashes Away and in sodoinfc dbturb od the earth'ami uucieri u fresh ly cut tree root. This lod them to pursue their iuvcstiguttotti in that line nud tliuy soon found that they were digging. in the looac ohrth of a fiesh grave. Al'txitaud'u half Ixlow the surface a man's, boot was struck. When it Ui-amo evident that the man's foot was inside it and that the foot doubtless belong ed to the corpse of S. l lj)onkel. the work was dropped. That was Tuubday morning. Cleveland Don kcl, who had been camping with his father all summer, was sent to l'rineville fou the MieritT and coron er aud further iuvetig'itiQii of the case was left to the authorities. The young man rode 11 horse to Ileud and here got a team from the livery stable to drive to Pdneville. reaching that place late at night. Wednesday Sheriff Smith, 13qputy District Attorney Hell. Coroner Crook nud Dr. llclkunp came out from the county scat. They got to tue J'eton place in tune to ex hume Donkel's body and identify it aud ascertain that there was a bullet hole in the skull, accounting for the death. The inquosO was postponed until next morning. Coroner Crook empaneled jury composed of Messrs. Chflctwell, Allen, Hamilton, Willy, nngVlU iam and Richard Vuudevert,v,slhis .. ' jury hoard tfie testimony of the eldest son Isaac, who had seen the father Sunday nftunioon, and the youngest sou CIe'claiid, who had U-eu cninpiug with the father and said he let the old liiuti nil right Mommy morning. This, with the word of iJr. Helknap as to the necessarily fatal character of the wound, moved the jury to reiwrt tnat deceased came to his deatn .rout a bullet wound inflicted at jioiuc time bet ween the 6th and 13th of September. No attempt was wade 111 the jury s verdict to place rurtpouaitm.ty lor the fatal aqot. Cleveland Donkel's testimony was to the effect that the relations Ijclween hin and his father had iK-eu harmonious since the Fourth of July, when the father got some liquor a. id they bad a quarrel. He aid he lelt the camp about 8 o'clock Monday morning, when his lather was in hiri usual health na was preparing himself to go out riding for cattle. Jt wfls itipiioftcd that the deceased had $35 10 40 in cash at the time lie was slain. No trace of this whs found on the lody, but a silver watch was in a pocket of the cloth ing, the slayer not caring to take that. The body was heavily cloth ed and the outer coat was buttoned to the coin, indicating that it was cold at the time the man was shot such conditions as might have oeeu stipjioAed to prevail imniodi rflely alter rising in the morning. llrtish had been burned over the grave after thu burial, witn the apiMieiil purpose of obliterating all surface marks. The bed of the son , which had been near the fire, hea also beetr burned, bet the appear ance of-things tended to the theory that the brush fire had cauglit in the Iwd after the slayer had lijft rather than that the bed had been used pur)oely to feed the flames. Mr. Uoukel Had thu niisioriuiiej to be very quarrelsome when in liquor, which was not seldom, and his uncontrollable conduct has lud to much lauiily iiiharmony. The sou Cleveland had similar traits, which, with his 1 la bit of going con stantly armed, gave him a reputa tion that was not good. These circumstances, together with the disup)oarnucc of the lather and sou at the same time bred, susjiicion in the minds of ncighlors that thu son was resjionsiblc for the lather's death. Thu bullet that killed the old man was found in his, brain. It was of .38 caliber, the snme as that ot the revolver habitually ear ned by the lo . There was noth ing conclusive in any ot these cir cumstances, but the shtyitt took ilie ievohor into his keeping and has entered upon an investigation that he things will determine definitely whether the sou had guilty knowledge of the lather's death. The condition of the corpse made immediate burial imperative. Tins was done yesterday aiWhoou at the Mend cemetery, where Mrs. Donkel was interred three months previously. Mr. Dankel had $270 on deposit in Die Pnueville bnuk nud he own ed about 50 head ot cattle on the range and a good team and wngon. He wus born in Pennsylvania 63 years ugQ,uiQVd to Oregon in-185, taking u home in the Nohalcin Valley of Columbia County. Soma three years ago he came to Crook county. Looking for Stock Ranch. Mr. and Mrs. John lfry, of Al baur, arrived in Uend Monday, having come across the mountains by team. They are the guests of Joseph N. Hunter, who was for merly their neighbor in the Will lamutte Valley. The Prys are look ing for a good stock ranch. Mr. Pry reports that considerable snow has already fallen in the mountains, though at no place was the road covered. No forest fires wete seen. The government for est warden at Pish Lake told him that unusual care had been taken this year to prevent fires. The Oregon cc Caliiornia Railroad Com pany has a warden qf its own and the Northern Pacific has a similar tuuetiouary working with tfie government officials to prevent fires in the Cascade mountains. A very efficient patrol has been maintained ever since the dry season begun. West of the summit, however, 'it has been very wet for the past two weeks and much hay bus been spoiled. It has not been s.0 wet dawn in the valley. The valley fruit crop this year is said to be the best ever. Cnnvnsslng Timber Prospects. Ooorgc Simpson, of the Simpson & Powers Lumber Company. 01 St. Paul, Minn,, and J. 11. Jtyan, the company's chief timbernmn in these tMirl, came in from the railroad Tuesday night and the men spent Wednesday 111 the woods to the westward of lend, where the Simp son & Powers company has lur&c holdings of forest land. Mr. Simp sou wus wearing a boil 011 his ear, which made him think that Oregon had not dealt kindly with him. Mr, Ryan, though convinced that this country will be the seat of a huge lumber industry, is not so sure the development will be very soon. The railroad question, he says, must first Iks settled. He expresses the opinion that an cast and west line will open this country to the best advantage. At the same time he says he hardly expects to sec any great lumber activity in the L'jpcr Deschutes valley in less than five years. The fact that few tim ber land titles are yet indefeasible he thinks bus an important Ixmring in the matter. In two or three years those titles will all be clenred up and then the ltimbcrmencaii af ford to put money into enterprises here, for they will then know what they can rely ou. Now it is taking more or less risk. XIr. Rynu says Rend is the best point for a lumbering center in the valley and that The Meadows ranks next. Hut mostAif the logs must be hauled on railroads. The river will serve a strip along its border, but most 01 the timber is too far from the river to be handled by any other transportation means than railroads. Altoeur and Notary. wm lrckr In ifll tmn Ml lh tl M. R. BIGGS, V. S. CetBBiiMlner. 1'KXXHVILI.X ORItGOK. Ijih! &ttnnt4 proof AraMk.tuU. Otfifc on uttti ttmilag I0wmirtltout. AULLARD TRIPLETT, BLACKSMITH All kinds of wagon work done. Horseshoeing a Specialty Shop Opposite Schoolliouse. I1KKD, ORKGO.S. City Meat Market4, J. I. WRKT, !Tp. luuLr ix MEATS OF ALL KINDS Butter, Eggs, Poultry, , Potatoes, Vegetables in Season. Opposite P. B. D. Co.'s Store, BEND J. M. LAWRENCE, V. S..COMM1SSIONKR. Notary Public, Insurance, Township Plats for Upper Deschutes Valley, HltKl). ORUOON. Chas. S. Edwards, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OQND ORGQON. Dont forget tp drop into the MINNESOTA BUFFET DESCHUTES ORE a O N We carry only the, finest lines of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. TWOHY & McKEOWN PROPRIETORS. A yk , y- Lr