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THE BEND BULLiTIN , , .pmmmr-r VOL. IV BUND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. '97. NO 45 ...' .' ' .' WW .'." ' ' .'" Because wo are selling thQ same and better quality at a closer margin is a very good reason why you will find our store the best place to buy anything in the lino of Groceries, Drygoods, Furnish ings, Shoes, Hardware, Sash and Doors, Paints and Oils TE PINE TREESTORE U. A. SATIimt, I'ROI'klinOR r" THE REASONS WHY At Item!, Oregon. A Complete Slock of DRY K ought Surfaced and MoubJcd -LUMBER- At Ik-iul, Oregon. All Widths, Lengths and Thicknesses I Reasonable Prices Qood Grades Dry Stock INCH COMMON DIM HNS! ON SHIPLAP RUSTIC T. &C. FLOORING BEADED CEILING WINDOW JAMBS WINDOW CASING III-AD BLOCKS O. G. BASEBOARD STAIR TREADS WATER TABLE O. G. BA'ITINS MOULDINGS P. II. D. PATENT RQOIfIN.G PENCE PICKETS SHINGLES ETC., ETC. Lumber Delivered at Low Cost Anywhere oa The Lands of I The D. I. & P. Co., or r mic C. S. I. Co. CUSTOM PEED MILL IN CONNECTION. The Pilot Butte Development Company BEND, OREGON A PROFESSIONAL CARDS C. S. BENSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bend,' Oregon. W. P. MYERS LAND ATTORNEY Twelve yM aprclnl pruetlce Itefiire tlie II, 8, l.aml Olfice ami IJcatlineiil cit tlic luUllur. AUo tinciul jirncllcc. Office, Laidi.aw, Okk. U. C. COE, M. D. Ol'l'ICIt OVKR HANK Physician and Surgeon TIU.ltl'UONMC NO. 31 WKND OKKOON M. V. TURKEY, M. D. Physician niul Surgeon oi'i'icK in joiiNSON nr.nc. on vai.i. st, IIHNI), OKKOON A Sufficient Statement for County Division. The tax roll shows that I'rincvillc nicrcliniitit ore taxed nt from 17 per cent li in twr ront n Ihnlr utneka. Mer. chants outside of 1'rlncvilte arc taxed 011 from 50 to H3 per cent 01 mcir siocks. Mr. Lafollctte say that perhaps It is "because tlir outside merchants arc more honest." Ottff! BELL'S AgQUAlBNTS REFUTED Quotations from Tax Roll that Show No Small Oraft In Pnvor of the County Scat Taxpayers. J. II. IIANIiR, ABSTRACTER of TITLES NOTARY Pl'W.lC I'ltc Illumine, t.lle limuiniiCT, Surrty HomW, IU1 l(Ute, Conveyancing IHtNUVM.I.H. ORKOON DR. I. L. SCOFIELD DENTIST JUJND, ORKOON Office III resilience on Hawthorne Ave, R. D. WICKHA1YI Attorney - at - Law Ol'l'ICIt IN HANK IIUM.lllNU. ilKNI), - OKKOON IJ-.-1. rg mi -Ji Several new subscribers put on this Week. Vottr turn next. THE First National Bank of Prineville. KstublUhcd itm. Capital, Surplus mid Undivided Profits, $ioo,ooo.uu 11. V. Allen President ..lit .. II-.. lttu l!.....!.!..... Will 1 llimVCIItl... t IVV . ......v... T. M. Ilnlilwlii Clilcr II. Ilalilwhi AuliUnt Catlilcr THOROUGHBRED Black Langsliari Cockerels FOR SALE Your Cllolce Novtfor $1.00 E. C. PARK RKDMONI), OKKOON My fowls took .seven firsts and three seconds at the fair In some three or four columns of "flnjKloodlc" the Crook County Jouttlnl of last week set up a howl about the proposed creation of n new county Irom parts 01 trooK, Lake and Klamath. It was about as piofouud as one would expect from a base ball "rooter'. It is the world-old style of "noble" used by those who have no argument that will anneal to a reasonable mind, vir.: that it is all done by one mini for his own selfish interest. Such an accusation can be made by nnvone even ill the total absence of evidence but it is used almost ex clusively by the .shallow-minded. It deserves no answer. All will be anxious to learn the facts impelling the west side to this separation. We shall state a few collected from the tax-roll in the office of the county clerk. If von should take the second volume of the tax list including all names from M to 7. you would find that no jrcrsou whose address is now I'rincvillc is assessed over $750 on a timber claim; and that no person whose address is Bend is assessed less than $ 1000 on one or $1750 on two. When called upon to explain this at Powell Buttes Monday niclit judge Bell gave the specious reas on that claims in tlie Lascaues are belling for $2000 to 52500 while those in the Blue mountains arc difficult to sell at $1000. Even as late as May a man in Bend sold n claim for 1.200 and this was the first sale reported even at that price Now, at wnnt rate snouiu properly valuation be fixed. Listen to the statutes ( B & C Code Sec. 3057) Alter qualifying and "forthwith assessing all property in the county the assessor "shall return to the county clerk on or before the first Monday in September next follow ing the assessment roll with a full and complete assessment of such taxable piqpcrty entered thereon including a full and precise descrip tion of the lands or lots owned by cacli person therein named on March 1, at the hour of 1 o'clock a. in. and every person .shall be assessed in the county where he resides on the first day of March " Now have the board of canaliza tion any right to place upon prop erty the valuation it possesses in September when the law sets the time at March 1. For instance, a man at Howard, visited by the as sessor and swearing in his property in March, lias a mine mat is worm virtually nothing, but before Seo tember he makes a "strike" that yields phenomenal profits. Would the board tax tlie vuiue in Septem ber? Suppose n mill company, vis ited by the assessor and swearing their property in March, have .j, 000,000 feet of lumber worth $10 per thousand nt retail. iietorc September, as occurred on the Pacific coast last year, lumber rises 5.00 or more. Would the board assess the company for 52000 ad ditional? Or suppose the lumber should burn, there being no in surance. Would the board strike the nuiue of the mill compuuy from the tax roll? Of course not. The question is self evident. Judge Hell's reason is only a flimsy ex cuse. The discrimination is a graft, pure and simple, and no one knows it better than the judge. Judge Bell. also gave the differ ent items of expenditure from the general fund for iyo7. , Among them was "Salary of Water Master ! 14000." This office is provided for n a bill draftel by, the Chamber of Commerce committee in Port land and not yet introduced lit the ANOTHER HILL RUMOR Will Build from the Coast over Cascade Range. lcgh-lnturc. Suppose a few more such bills were drafted and fail (6 pass. It would be easy to build court houses with the surplus in the general fund. The judge showed that after all such legitimate "expenses" were paid there would be only 5,000 left in the county general fund This was to prove that heavy valu ation on the west side is not a court house graft. Then some impudent citizen usked how they could pay for a court house foundation cost ing $18,000. The judge replied that he knew "but he did'nt have to tell." Keep your weather eve on that $4,000. The judge further had the cop per plated gall to boast that Princ villc had always assisted develop ment in the west end; that they even sent a delegation to the Port land Irrigation Cougress when the first segregation near Bend was applied for. The fact is that they fought the segregation claiming it to be timber laud on account of the juniper, and their leading spokes man at the congress in Portland, T. N. Williamson, denounced it as a landgrabbmg scheme. And be hold the county general fund sul fered to the extent of $200. Coun ty records show it was to pay the expenses ol the delegation men tioned above. The records also show that the same fund shrunk $200 to pay the lobby against the Stockman county bill. Judge Bell admitted this at the Sisters Wednes day night but said if anybody "kicked" he would "pay it back." What a prodigy of public bouor. Now some one burglarize the judge's house and if you get caught "give it back." if uescnutcs county fails, wonder how much the lobby bill will be this time. There is one question, however, which the county court docs not explain and even the judge with his oily logic shies entirely aroutiu it. A clear majority of the elector ate of Crook county last June re quested that no coutt house be built. The court proposes to build it anyhow. Why? To bene fit Prineville. They say, with the blandest innocence that when the county is divided we will get our share of the appraised value. In view of the rankly unfair assess ment, it would be a case of Prine ville putting in two btts, and West ern Crook putting in four bits, nud then dividing the pot. And does CONFIRMS DESCHUTES LINE Recent Transactions In Railroad Cir cles Indicate" that Mill Will Tap Or egon with Atony Roads. It would protiably be well worth while for that part of Crook which is left alter the creation of DescitutiM county to up M!t this growdy unequal tax roll. It will be an cav matter, and n salutary loti to the Prineville grafters. A comparative statement of the levy pain ny i'rincvillc airi y tie unisncc u. Crook ponnty for tlie past"thtc'c',ycar followi; ' " y l?o5 19 Prineville . itui IB It's Croolc county., ....aV' 31 15 That is to say Prineville In three year-. lias uacn exempted 7 nnn,or one nan o (hi- nr.wnl infill rnilhfv tnfcea.' Thfl rest of Crook county igoinj to fjnd out wny. anyone for a moment suppose that the building five years from now will be appraised at its original cost? The I-own-thc-enrth-vou-k e e n- off-the-grnss swagger and the John L,. Sullivan sneer ot rrinevuie is gone. The Journal pathetically wails that they "are up against tue real article this time" and old Crook huth nowhere to hone her hat. Of course its bad but you can't repeal httmau nature uy an act 01 county court. Men are nrone to suffer as louc as evils arc sufferable, but a persistent policy of corruption and en invocation will make the most paticut secede. Prineville is just hanging onto the band wagon with her toe-nails, aud she doesn't look well after her record of iusoleuce for years, In the past she has been as bashful as the sailor was with his landlady; itonl? R.1I1I mv lailv. "la it ppoi you'll try, Or punch or toddy, If perhaps you're dry?" "Oh," said the sailor "though I can't refuse, You see, my lady 'taint for me to choose, I'll, take the grog to flnUh off my .lunch r And drink the toddy while you mix the ptfuch." A VOTKR. Everybody reads The Bulletin. Announcement has been made in Portland that the Northern Pacif ic has purchased the Astoria & Columbia Kiver railroad. It is now said that it is a part of a Hill plan to build down the west coast of Oregon from Astoria, across the Cascade ranee and connect wi'tli a line to be built up the Deschutes rU-nr. the line across the Cascades to be pushed across the sUte to the eastern boundary Such a report as the above is ol interest to the people of the upper Deschutes valley, as it connrms me ln-Iief that it is Hill's intention to build un the Deschutes river. It has long been surmised, on pretty gcxl grounds, that tlie ure;on Trunk Line was backed by Hill and this report from Portland only confirms the belief Wbrk on the Oregon Trunk Line up the Des chutes canon is now suspended, due to the action of the reclamation service, but it is also generally be lieved that right of way through the canon will ultimately be granted the Trunk Line. The Portland Journal, in report ing the sale of the Astoria & Co lumbia River road to the Northern Pacific, says: "Surveyors have been in the field for some time between Seaside, the coast terminus, and Tillamook. They have been working ostensibly under orders from the Hammond management, but it is now believed that these operations are but a part of the Hill scheme ol invasion of Ilarriman territory-. This explains the warmth of tlie contest that has been on between the Astoria & Columbia River and the Pacific Railroad & Navi gation company agent for rights of way between Seaside and Tillamook. Mt is reported that the Oregon Coast & Kastern, promoted by lUker & Crab tree of St. luis i a !' t of a great scltemc of Hill to ribOregoii from north to south and from cast to west, in con junction with the proposed line from the mouth of the Deschutes river to central Oregon. If such a plan Is worked out, the Hill companies will have a system paralleling the coast and crossing the state from the mouth of the Siuslaw, via Itugeue, to central Oregon, and there connecting with the Deschutes river Hue. completely hemming in the most productive portion of the state." MONEY SPENT ON ROADS. Prineville Pays No Road Tax Yet Gob bles Orcater Part of Fund. 4 MAM.fi.1 inntn nt the rtfOOtlls dlS- closus the fact that the amount expend- cu In 1905 on roans in inc re jnv.wni tO DC lllCIUIICU ill UCSCUUieo luuni; . ii.vr -,,. nml Hint in 1006 it was f2o6.so. Vh rauntv luiU-e has stated that the 1 1 $--!. 1. ma A A J I nitinnlll nvnatlll ltMl 111 1I11H UICU 1UI lUAtl purposes last year was between f 6,000 ...,i tis rii. n.tnnUhini- iliiTerence tietween tlic judge's statement and the lacts WHICH tlie county reevmis uwiw can only be explained upon the theory that the county has two sets of books ... r ...MMi U not nrx-n to the iui)ec- tion of the eenerol public. Perhaps Judge Hell, by reference to these private accounts, can explain why f 16.00 worth of beer furnished to a crew working on the Vriueville-Shaniko road last year Is charged up to the county as "incidental expense," As a matter of fact, anyone convers ant with Crook county couditions knows ... ..rar.tli.nlK. nil nt tilt rcviil eznetldi- ture lor 1906 (the voucher to the road ..,o.h.rcaiu(nrt..itl has been made on the highway tietween Prineville and Hay Creek, a roan wiucii western irooK never uses. That is to say, tlie area proposed to tic Included in Deschutes county pays over one-half the total coun ty road tux, Prineville pays not a penny ol It anci men sue jik wic iuuu iui e own particular roads. No wonder this division will be like "cutting on uotn a man's legs," as a Prineville man re marked. Wlwn property In Prineville is assessed at from one-sixth to one-third its value, while tliat on the west side Is as sessed at from one-half to one and one half, and when in addition to this Trine vllle people pay no road tax (though its roatlS'aiul bridges cost tne county a pret ty figure annually) Prineville can ccjfi talhly afford to subscribe 6,oco toward building Judge Hell's Prineville. court house and sue Trill be abta.d of the ghuie iHiti, JUDOE BELL AMjTS QRAFT Says Atoney Was Paid from County Funds to Defeat Stockman County Division? While numerous glaring inequal ities in the county assessments have been brought to light during the different county division meetings, a more sensational matter was brought to light at Sisters. At this meeting L- D. Wicst stated that in asmuch a.4 Judge Pell, in his speech at Powell Buttes, bad. accused the division movement ' of chnrging raft in county matters and as the judge was now present to dclcndthe court, he" (Mr. Wicst) would now charge the court of graft in their official capacity. Turning to Judge Bell he said "Is it not a fact that the county court allowed a bill for lobbvinu at the state legislature to defeat the Stockman county move ment two vears ago?" The judge renlied "It is." "unaer wnat statute of the laws of Oregon was this allowed?" This the judge re fused to answer, whereupoq Mt. Wiest not only claimed that there. was no authority by law but that the payment was graft. In his ad dress Judge Bell made the startling admission that the bill was allowed 011 account ot an appeal oy some ot the citizens of the county to scud a delegation; that be was one of the rtcmicnts of this money and that it the act was wrong he was willing to return his share ot tne county funds. ON HIQHWAVS AND BYWAYS. Remarks Made by Citizens Regarding County Division. "Then agajn you nmst provide for t.l.t..Aa.M MH.l t.M.1...htf M...1 H tltfll.OM.,.1 and one other tilings never dreamed ot at tne tune 01 creating a county. Crook County Journal. Which is better? To pay for highways and bridges and not get them, or have county division, pay less taxes, and have necessary bridges and roads built. If county division will give us highways and bridges then let us haye that divi sion. Now the taxpayer pays ins good money into the maw at Prine ville and no roads arc built except those that benefit directly the coun- tv seat. "It is true that timber Interests on the All of Crook county except Prineville pays road taxes. Prineville, oa whose roads and bridges 80 per cent of the county road funds are annually expend ed, pays none. Crook County wants to know why. wtii fiiilt An- lart'elv owned bv ."."."'..TV.. Zt i, ... capital ana can be muKeii to tue num. Crook County Journal. What! Does the Journal admit it? It has long been stated that the "ring" deemed it proper and just to "milk" the timber interests on the west side. They now practical ly admit it. it is worthy ot note, in this connection, that practically all the timber interests on the west side favor the division. "Prineville had a close call in the new county deal. We came within an ace ot being annexed to Bend." Journal. Nay, Nay, Brother! We are not asking for what we do not want. on? Two new "Wmililti't that lar counties out of old Crook. If you don't watch out there will not be a knob big enough to hang your hat on." Journal, That new $43,000 court house if it is well propped might make a knob large euough for the judge to hang his hat on. Reciprocal Demurrage. More miles of railroad havo been built in Texas in 1906 than in auy other state in the union. Texas has n rplirncfll demurrage law. Evi- .yrtr dehtly the passage of reasonable demurrage laws does not preveut railroads from extending their oper- ations wherever the business justi fies expansion