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THE BEND BULLETIN. VOI,. IV UKND, OKKGON, I'KIDAY, NOVKMDIJR 16. igoO. NO. 35 BfiND SCHOOL WINS Captures Prizes at Crook County Pair. TWO FIRSTS AND ONI: THIRD Mlaa llowdo Doiiklo mid Clnlrc Hunter llrlnjc lloiturH to tho l.ocnl IiikII- tittlou of l.cctrnliiir Scholars in the lieud schools have again shown their ability. A re pott of tint primt wluuurs in the cd ttciitloiinl exhibit nt the Crook .county fair linn just been received from Superintendent Dinwiddle, which shown that Jleml scholar captured a goodly share of the plums, ait tiaual. Mim Heaaie Doukle received tlr.st premium for beat rsaay, written by ttdtolarsof the vventh mtd eighth grade. 1'iIac, fa oo. I'irat premium lor lest language scheme, open to acuolars of the sec ond jjiade, was won by Claire 1 1 tinier. The prixe was $2 00. The Itcnd schools took tliird premium on the bent general school uxlubit. The comity high chooj won litsl premiuui, and the I'rine vllle achooln second. The tliird premiuui aiimuuted to $3.00. The total premiums offered in the educational department amounted to . The Item! achools captured ..oo In ptcmiuuiM, or uunrly one half of the total. ON Till! WAKI'ATII. Drunken Indian Seeks Vcnitemico on Yuiiiik (luck nnil II In Sipiaw. Old Indian Charley imbibed n little too much firewater yesterday mid alaited on the warpath in the vicinity of Adam Kotziiuui's ranch. He started after the acaltw of a young buck and hU nquaw who were camped nearby ami who, thor oughly frightened, ran to Kou tuan's and took icfugein thehoufte. The old brave wotihl have fob lowed into the hoitae but Mr. Kotx uiaii, it in reported, took a hand in tlicurTairand inflicted corporal pun ishment 011 the old buck. Kou man then Milt word to Heiid, ask- iujC that the sheriff be notified. A. C. Lucas culled up SherifT lilkitis on the 'phone and told him of the trouble, whereupon thesherifTdepu ti.wl Mr. I.ucus and John II. Wcuaudy to go out and arrest the warlike individual Heforc they could get ready, however, another niu!iiu(jur arrived from Koumau's and announced that the young folks had left and there was jwnee again. The old buck claimed part of the time that the young aquaw was his wife, at other time Unit she was his daughter. May Have Power IMunt on Deschutes. . The Priuevillc. Unlit & Water company is contemplating setting up a plant at some point on the Deschutes, says the Review. The new Ho-kllowatt generator ordered some time ago is now held at Slinn iko pending tiuaugemcntH, now in the making, involving the iustal lntiou of the Deschutes water pow er plant. In case the company se cures a suitable location on the river the present plant will be worth less, and totally different generators similar to those used by Portland General lilectric will thereafter be used here. If a power site can be secured at a reasonable figure the change will be made almost at once, uud bids for setting up poles asked for. If the holders of power sites nlong the river put the price too high, the company will increase its present plant mid run by steam awhile yet. Wood is comparatively scarce, but still there is enough to rjttpply the company for many years. (loveriiment Men at Silver Lake, Supervising Kngineer C. K. GritmskcyAn U. S. reclamation scr- yicj! wan, arrived in Sijver Lake Tuesday cvenitiBi dJfcct fromwasli- ington I). C, ami will make an ex haustive examination of the sur rounding country to ascertain the amount of water that is available for irrigation purKscs. drographle branch of the The hy geologl- en I survey has had a imrlv of l'col. ogisls in northern Lake county for the past several weeks, and it is very gratifying to the people of this section to know that the gov ernment is taking an active interest in reclamation work here. With the certainty that construction will commence on the O. S. I,, survey, which tmwics through this end of the county, within a year, and the government taking an active part in the development of this section, the outlook is very encouraging for northern Lake county. Cen tral Oregoiiiau. SKIN Till! PI2TITION. 'I ho Mnvu for New Mall Route Meets n Very I'nvornblc Reception. Have you .signed the petition for n new mail route through Western Crook, running from Shaniko to IJeud via Madras and Redmond? If you have not, you should do ao at once. In lieud copies of the peti tion can be found nt the I). M ittnre, at K. A. Sather's, and at Mrs. C. A. Jones' office. Copies can alto be found at the Johnston ranch and there is one twiug cir culated in the Arnold ditch district. The etitiou tins also been sent to the following places and is beiuir signed by many: Uiidlaw, Red mond, Cline Falls, Sisters, Tumalo, Rowland. Silver Lake and Odell. People as far south as Christmas Lake heard of this (Mitition and wrote to the lieud coiumitte and asked that a copy be sent them for signatures. lllsli Wind and Much Rain. The rainfall Wednesday night was one of the heaviest that has visited lieud for many mouths, and the wind accompanying it was very strong. Houses .shook and trem bled beneath its blasts and signs were torn down. The tent in which the D. I. & V. boys who are 'leaning the canals were sleeping, waa blown down and piled upon Horry Keunnrd, who extricated hiniMlf from its rain-soaked folds with difficulty. Grabbing their bed ding and clothes, the boys skiddood lor Arm Amies barn, splashing through puddles of water nearly to their knees and with the drenching rain beating through their night clothes. They say it was the cold est b.itlt they have ever taken. Many New Settlers Arrive. C. II. Kilts wat in Head Tues day from his Powell Unites ranch. Mr. Hllis reports that settlers are moving onto laud near the buttes and are building homes. He is soon to build n house for one of the new c nners, Mr. lines by name. Mr. Imes has purchased 80 acres of ditch land mid is now building him a barn. I lis house will measure 20X2.) feet with 10 foot posts. Another new comer there is R. Haldettnan, from Coulee City, Wash. He owns 160 acres of ditch laud and has built n house 14x28 feet with 10 foot posts-. Mr. Halderman will begin clearing his laud soon and will prepare about 100 acres for cultivation. Must Put In Screens. The deputy fish warden for Lane county has published a notice noti fying people that all irrigation ca nals and mill-races must have a fine mesh wire screen placed at the point of itwakc from tie stream that feeds them. Many trout have been going down the iirigation ca nals in the Silver" Lake country and when the water Was turned off thft fields they have Uceu left strande A on dry land. ar- 5 Qhi Wanted. The HulletiW is in need of m com positor and can gjve.ii portion to some young1 girl who woul d like to learn to set type. Call at this office for further1 particulars. vSel high , st.ati lSfpr,,(y(purself, um none lor yo nrjghbOM, AFTER DEEP WATER New Machine Is Drilling at Redmond. (10IN0 DOWN QUITE RAPIDLY An Hxpert from the Rant In flood Progress, with but Dclnys In the Work. Making Few HitriMONi), Nov. 11. Thursday the toot of the engine for the well drilling machine took on n new sound. Work had lieguii. l'orty feet was the record the fl rat day and Go feat the -next day, with nlxml 30 fact of casing hi. How ever, the lower lull of the well caved in nittl operation were auapended for a time. Work wm tiroKretiug(piileraii. ly through a kind of pumice Mone which could Ihi cut quite eaaily with a knife. Monday drilling hod again lcu reunited ami the drill hail rtnihol n depth of gj feet with Ho feet of the smaller eating in. ThU Nearly nwile up for the low chumnI by the cave In. An expert from the oil firldtt of Um Kart Uh charge of the wertc. The ma chine drills a six-inch Me. UOIi'CAT WOULD NOT SliOO. Redmond Lndy Meets lllg Cat In Iter Path Other News Notes. KtsoMONri. Nov 12. .Mr. J. II. Mc C.unlc started aero lot for town the other day and encountered a large tub- cat The bobcat would not shoo, awl m Mr. IeCuflc felt that there must be a wiHinromiM: she herself tumml and went around by the road II. I'. I'ltulcy N nt home again from Dormnce'ii, wlwre he w! let out by the closing of the mill l'iuis Woods I tlie snortaiiMii of the town just now. Saturday morning lt brought down a swan that measured seven feet from tip tu tip. Mr. Young from HortH of town wm aiHitner Rend visitor. Of course be went for lumber everyone dec HowHi.Iays, Mr. Hansen went too, for seme more; We notice that finis Wood i going to improve his iKMiliry a he ha imr- chased some tin Mlaek lAHKstutu stock. Me already lias some good ltalf breed chickens. C. W. Minim waa at home I'riday. TlMt U ittMiit a long as he can stay while the road aru good, ImU he makea things hum with Ills six horse while lie U here. I'riday he had all six of them tupping beet mid carrot while he (Hilled them. Mr. f.audert lm his water tank ruady for the winter now. W. It. Iuinb and Yours Trul have their cave nearly com pleted. The nro small items in them selves, but when there ntx- uuough of them they show somulhiug. One what. We are pleated to note ntikmg lumber buyer the jvut w eek Mr. I)u Creeu&lgh. We kiw two loiul for him from the 1. II. 1). Company of about 4000 feet and 3000 shingle. The tongue of the trailer broke however uud Mr. GrceiMlgh wki 11 day late gutting one loud of hU IUm br. In this country when any extensive improvements are Iwguu it i nccoary to look well to Uie water supply, Thurs day the force repairing tho main chunl hnd iiscii nil water remaining and had to move to Ilouil so as to work down the canal nud so keen a alrennt followlni! them. We are. pleated 6 note the arrival of 15. h. Iv jrsou front North Itakota. Mr. h erron. was In 11 year ago and purchased two eighties and now has coinc to make hl'iiMarkon tlteitt. With him came a young man whose name we did not learn bu t who own u forty cost of forked 1'iorii. Watch Ucdinoud grow. Saturday's meeting of the 1). I. & 1. Settlers' association Was vll attended. The road liotice was putirt prflfxir shape, an cutcrtftittlheut for TlwusgK'iM night was provided fdc, and it was decided to encourage Ulcf formatjan nud mainte nance uf timid for Itcdmond, X co;n- iiutte was also appalmtM to iUaw .up rcsolulluns ,nud ivetitlons agsbut the nctlutl Of the United States tcdaiuatibn service in iiracttcalljr closing the i)cs. cnuics river 10 lauiwid ouikiiok. (Jric year 4fcal Sktw tfj HtytAyfofy uroveiuto kcuuioiul wiu uie jency cow. The IlVery txtrii w in course of erection and we wondered what ft wa to be. Tho Jackson Lumber Company was alM) building the present hardware lHiiMing. There was no saloon iMiildiug, not nearly half a much store or store as thre 14 now. Carl Ithrel lived with his family in the lck part of the store a he had no nice big residence at that time. We might name many other change that have taknu place in that time, but wc turn with briifht face to the future rather tlwu the past. Wc camped that day Wide lateral C and the next day hail ten caller. 1'retty good for a start, wai it not? Tumalo Items. Tumalo, Nov. 10, The hard winds of Monday blew many tree down in this vicinity. This is the hardest wind that ha blown here for years. 1'. W. '.cverenge wa in Tumalo on limine today. M. Mclviti passed through horc on his way to lieud on butlueM Monday, Mr. Tracy, from Portland, was here the first of the week looking over titn Iter. Mr. Kilo Hoottc and Mr. W. J. High, tower were calling oh Ir. G. W. Winter lortav sir. iIIUirg wa a Tumalo caller Su.nUjr. II nay he tike this country better eeery day. Mr. DennisoH of Madras wm in Tuma lo over night Thursday, having come after lumber at the HigMtowcr-Smilh mill. The C. 8. I. Co. have a crew of men at work repairing and clearing out tln-ir ditch prenaratory to next season's irri gation. Geo. W. Winter & Sou have about 30 acre ot ground plowed which they ex pect to seed to alfalfa next spring. 1'art of this is clover sod which should be a great tietteflt to the ground for alfalfa. Wc are glad to hear of the start the Redmond people are making In drilling for water. My sncee erowu their effort. This project Till be eagerly watched by many on the wet side of the river and if proven a sttccet Redmond many wells will be drilled in this local ity, which' wit! lie a great help to every one. Rosland Items. (To Iste aw wt fc.) Mr. Maytield purchased a new phono- graph reeeuUy. Mis 1'etinington i getting along nice ly with her school. I.ee Caldwell tuts l4i riding the range for cattle lately. Will Dorrelt i driving stage from Rosland to Priueville. Mr. Kelsey's freight team pael through Rosland this week. Mr. Strotts of Red Top raneh Is build ing an addition to hi boat WchoarAI. Trobee is tmllding a tx room dwelling liouse on Ids homeAtcad. Win. lksue is thinking of putting up a new hotel at Roland soon. Geo. Sly has been doing lots of work in hi blacksmith shop lately. 1. S. lloKue & Son are doing a largo Iwmikmm in their store at present. b'rauk lkHiue is on hi way to Sluniko "for supplie for the Roland store. Therm)! Moffet of Priueville is ruling the range in search of cattle at present. Miss Howard, who has been workini; at the Uegue hotel, returned home last week. Miss Jessie Andrew lstenohinir school at the Red Top ranch. She has a large attendance. Mr, and Mrs. Will lloguc have re turned from the valley. They report tuiving a good time. Geo. Hewitt and Otto Clausou took a hunting trip a few days ngo. They were hunting for (dear) deer. Mr. Holllu&hcad and family have moved to llcud where their children will attend, school this winter. Mis,. Cook, the Rosland hotel pro prietor, has moved to rriuovillc since the hotel at Rosland burned down. Mr. Hall's people, who have been liv ing on Mr. Sharp's homestead, Have -returned to their heme in Washington. Geo. Mayfield. accompanied, by Ids' grandparents, Will Mayfield, ami wife,' returned' from Klamath Falls with a load of winter supplies recently. , Joe Taguett was seen driving , dowm the road the other day making au'aWfuV dust. He is 'driving the stage now be tween Rosland and Silver Lake. Gcorgo llpgueWnl Will DorrcHY Vho went to the valley to pick hops and ee- cure a cooic, leturueu iiome wtiuouc nlckliiL'ii hon orsecuriui! n cook -eilhor, Mr. Grace HeUoii and John .Knox were united 111 mafrtwee n rcw veeKs .lx T..!... t.l.l.Ut. n.tt,.!...!.... Tl... W , w wk Kv, jui fjKn?v, wm arc living 011 her homestead UUiCK PlNm, THE DESCHUTES DAM Reasons Why It Should Not Be Built. VAST INTERESTS INVOLVED In a Letter to The Bulletin, L. D. Wlcst States Soma of the Objections to Darning the Deschutes. To the Kditor: In a communica tion published in the Madras Pio neer of November 8, the superin tendent of the Warm Spring agen cy, Mr. Claude Covey, calls atten tion to the proposed dam in the Deschutes river by the U. S. recla mation service and to his intentions of entering a protest to the same on bchnlf of the Warm Spring Indians on account ol violations 01 tiicir treaty rights that the construction of this dam would cause and also inviting the people of the Deschutes valley to join in a petition to the secretary of the interior and our members tu congress. While we believe that of all obli gations the government should by all means hold its agreements with the Indians the most sacred of all, there are also other very essential reasons that should be a most po tent incentive to cause not only us but also Portland, all of Central Oregon and the entire Northwest to join hands with Mr. Covey. That the reclamation service is showiuc an effort to construct a number of systems in Oregon is both commendable and just on ac count of the large amount of money that the department has received from timber sales in this state; nor are we surprised that they come rittht into our door yard to divert our waters away from us, and spend thousands ot dollars in doing ir ror the benefit of a district so remote as to make the cost almost prohibitive, when we consider that for four years the Blue Mountain counties. under the matchless leadership of such men as Mr. Will R King. Judge Hatly and others, have beep continually calling attention to their undeveloped resources until the ue partmcut has become thoroughly imbued with the idea that the small mountainous lringc along the east ern border of the state is the great state of Oregon. Neither are we as tonished that of all counties in the state that should receive the most attention from theTeclamation serv ice, on account of the large income received by the government from the timber sales in the county aud the vast undeveloped resources both in land and water that could be utilized for one-half per acre that this Umatilla project will undoubt edly cost, Crook county has abso lutely received no attention, isor cau wc blame tlios; energetic aim active Uluc Mount. liu boys for con tinually Jailing theHr pockets with our golden plums that we have per sistently refused to- pick. However, we may ask, is it mot time to call a halt to all this w lien they cornel right into our door-yards prepared to take trees and all? WJiat has Crook county ever done to call at ten tiott to her won derfully .extensive and unequalled undeveloped resou trees to induce cither capital or the reclamation service to come wit bin her borders? It is true that 1 :apital wisely in trenched itself uud er the. Carey Act in the western par t of the county, but not from any 0 snspicuous guide jwsts that we had 1 irected at every fiuaucial cross-road , throughout the United States, call! tng attention to either the sparklin cc vatew of the, Deschutes, the wo nderful possibil ities of the fertility of 4be -soil to vhlch the water c mid easily be ap plied, r our salub rious fclimate. 3s it not a fdet that . ever sfnee the" NewlandiUUl was enacted, wve hove been' utterly lhdiffi :rent? While it jstt fac X that .cstfdidl (has iriwirW the. T)eseV inte-L it hOS'becn fully- demonstrate I by the Mliest! settlers that there . areoAher-aeotions ,jn the valley equttaiyittsigootU The, ice comes aicic ws wua lujpinm. .-- chutes' at an enormous expense is proof in itself that if their attention is properly called to it they will un doubtedly prefer to use this money in the reclamation of the rich and desirable lands of Crook county in preference to the questionable sand dunes of Umatilla. Then why not call the department's attention to the large volume of water that annually goes to waste from Crook ed river and its tributaries, and the fertile lands to which it can be dl verted? The actual intentions of the Newlands bill, as wc remember it, was to develop systems that would be prohibitive for private capital to consider. On account ot the storage reservoirs that the Crooked river territory requires rnpital has hesitated to enter there Surely those of us from the western part of the county would like to see both real estate and the population of the eastern part of the county re ceive the impetus that would natur ally result, for undoubtedly some ot the crumbs would come to our coffers. Another reason that concerns the entire Northwest is the blocking o; an important highway on the Dcs chutes to which Mr. Jesse I. Starns so ably, called attention in his ad dress beore the irrigation couven lion at Hood River. Anyone who is familiar with the topography of Oregon can readily see that the Dcs chutes canyon is not only absolutely essential for heavy traffic from Cen tral Oregon to the coast but that it will eventually become the most economical route for trunk line service between Portland and east em and southern points. It wai w'th this knowledge in view that not only capital has commenced in vestments both in lumber and irri gation enterprises that will require millons of dollars aud permanently add thousands of both wealth and population to the state, but was the cause of large numbers bringing their families to the Descbults ant investing all they had in the devel opment of the land on which they have located. By the construction ol this dam as now contemplate these enterprises and developments would not oniy receive a stagger ing blow but both the east and west and north and south trunk lines would become so seriously crippled as to make it doubtftf whether the present plans woult' ever be perfected. While it is a well kuown fact that the O. R & N. has the best outlet through the Cuscades on the Pacific coast, it is also well known that the usefulness of this outlet is impaired by its present route of heavy graces over the Blue Mountains. When con sidering the fact that from Th." Dalles to Ontario via the Deschutes river canyon there is a route that not only avoids all the objectionabU features on the present line between .Qmaha. aud Portland but also makejs possible -a north and south line that misses all the sen ous obstructions to heavy trafik over the Siskiyou Mountains, it should behoove not only all of Ore gon but also Idaho, Utah, Nevada California, Colorado, Wyoming Washington and Montana to joir. hands with Mr. Covey in his noble work. Still auothcr reason, to which Mr. Covey las called attention, if that their appropriation of the stir plus water .of the Deschutes for this dam would impair numerous possibilities throughout the Des chutes region. Where can you find either better soil or climate than .there is right on tue v arrn Spring reservation? Nor is t)ie res ervatiou the ouly place tp wluch any surplus water not already ap plied for can be economically til verted. In conclusion we will say t"t we do not believe that it us tb inten tion of the reclamation service to carry out work that would cripple any section, and surely ot .any thing that would be so detrimental to such a large scope ot country Consequently we would suggest that atteution to this matter be ot only -called to the interior depart uient, our total representation in congress, the states of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California, Washington. Colorado .and Wvominc. but also of Ltkei teclainatlo'hXser vice. I,. D, WIXSX.