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THE BEND BULLETIN ,VOL. IV BEND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1907. NO 46 Because wo are selling the same and better quality at a closer margin is a very good reason, why you will lind our store the best place to buy anything in the lino of Groceries, Drygoods, Furnish ings, Shoes, Hardware, Sash and Doors, Paints and Oils The PINE TREE STORE U, A. S ATI ILK, I'ROI'UlirrOK r A Complete DRY At Henri, Oregon. migli, Surfaced -LUMBER- All Widths, Lengths INCH COMMON DIMENSION SHIPLAP RUSTIC T. & O. FLOORING Reasonable WADED CKII.ing Lumber WINDOW JAMHS Deliver nt Prices WINDOW CASINO 1 L r t fl00d IIISAD BLOCKS InvvTherc ofl 0. O. IIASKBOAUD -JF? ? . (irades STAIR TREADS Jic 1 Lai Bds or i)rv WATER TAIH.lv I" V.l.&V. O. G. HATTINS ?., or StOCk MOULDINGS 1C C- S ' P. H. D. PATENT UQOFING PENCE PICKETS SHINGLES ETC., ETC. CUSTOM FEED MILL IN CONNECTION. The Pilot Butte Development Company BEND, PROFESSIONAL CARDS C. S. BENSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bend, - Oregon. W. P. MYERS LAND ATTORNEY TwliHf yrtprcUI ptArtlte table Hie U. H. Mint (Jlflec ami I)Kiilmciil uf (lie Iiilciior. Alio Ktucral jmetlcc. Ofiice, - Lauh.aw, Okk. U. C. COE, M. D. OI'l'ICK OVKK HANK Physician and Surgeon TW.KVHONK NO. 31 IWNI) 0KK00N DR. I. L. SC0F1ELD DENTIST lll'.Nl), ORHGON Oflice in residence 011 Hawthorne Ave. . R. D. W1CKHAM Attorhby - at - Law OI'l'ICK IN HANK llUII.IIlNO, Ul'.ND, OHI'.GON Several new subscribers put on this week, Yotir tttrh next. Stock of mid A,Vouldcd At Bend, Oregon. and Thicknesses OREGON nonnniM ,JD M. V. TURXEY, M. D. I'hyslcinn nnd Surgeon Officii I.V JOHNSON llUMI. ON WALL ST. MINI), ORltOON J. II. IIANER, ABSTRACTER of TITLES NOTARY l'UllUC llic ln.iiioncc, I.llc liKiirnucr, tiutcty llonJi, Heal Httf, Conveyancing I'KINHVIU.K. ORltOON THE First National Bank of Prinevllle, Kstnlillshed 1888. Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $100,000.00 II. V. Allen.... l'rotiltni Will Wurincllcr Vice I'mlilcnt T. M. llnUlwlii ., .Clilcr II. IIuMmIii -A.il.Uiit Cunlilcr THOROUGHBRED Black Laiigsliah Cockerels FOR SALE Your Choice Now for $1.00 E. t. PARK KBDMONl). OKKGON My fowls took nevcn firsts nnd three seconds at tUe fair FACTS VS. FICTION Street's Noisy Utterances Proved, False. STATEMENT WITHOUT PROOF Low; Winded Article against County Division Contain Neither Argu- ntent Nor (load Sense. The rancher-prcachcr-p c d d I c r, the Reverend II. M. Street of Sis ters, rushes into print in the Prine vllle n.icrs in a wordy attack on county division, ami incideutnlly calls The Htilletin a liar in no tin certniu terms. If The Htilletin so desired it could hurl back nt the reverend gentleman as nasty and Mriirriloiis a set of epithets ns he seems so proficient in using. It could engage in a controversy on a level with a street brawl where the man with the foulest mouth and moat blatant utterances is consid ered the strong num. Such pro cedures, however, arc beneath the dignity of nil honest person and a decent publication notwithstand ing Mr. Street's use of such meth ods and The Htilletin will confine itself to proving that the reverend gentleman is cntitcly unacquainted with the subject that he discusses. The Htilletin dislikes to call any man n liar; to flare back at Mr. Street with his ovn epithets would only be a loss of our own self respect. Hence, we do not say that the Reverend Street is a base prevaricator, but rather that he does not know what he is talking about. A perusal of his article will show many statements mai.c with no proof. Those thnt deserve notice if any of them do The HuIIctiu will treat us follows: 1st. He makes the statement that holders of property for specula tive purposes in the new county scats would be benefited; others would suffer a greater tax. In the proposed Deschutes county there is now a valuation of more than 3,000,000. This is a matter of fact, not mere wordy statement. The figures ore based ou the assess ment for 1906 for Crook county. This will yield 45,000 at the pres ent levy of t5 mills more money than the new county would need In fact, it could We run' at a lower levy than the old county now de mands. Thus Mr. Street's state ment of a greater tax burden is shown to be false not. by mere uiouthiugs but by a statement of figures taken from Crook county's assessment roll. 2nd. His second statement is that disgruntled office seekers arc working for the division in the hope of getting nn office. We challenge the revet end gentleman to name a single uinii from ltciid, Laidlaw cr Redmond who has taken a prominent part in this agita tion who has ever sought n Crook county oflice. They ore not the office seeking class. Such state ments arc little above the twaddle of an imbecile. 3rd. Ou n par with the nbove statement is the one that ninny favor division in order to spite Pritieville business men w h o have refused them credit. What silly rotl A hurried cauvass of Western Crook showed that 03 per cent of the population favored divi sion. This is a statement that can be proved by counting the signers of the petition for county division. When The DUllctiu makes that statement it states a fact not n street rumor. Mr. Street would thus have it that 93 per cent of the people have been refused credit by Priuevillc merchants. What a "slam" ou the characters of his neighbors and incidentally what twaddle. 4th. He states that it would cost three times us much to keep up three groups of county officers and three sets of county buildings. Grant that it does, ami we slill can show that it would be x cheaper for the tax payers bf Western, Crook to have county division. Under the assessment for 1906 Western Crook must pay fully half of llie lax bur den, or 44,192.30. Tip's again is from figures taken from county rec ords, As stated above that is more than the new county would need. So tho argument ol iilcrciiFcd taxation has no terrors for Western Crook. It will be only n matter of justice, if division forces n higher tax on the people of Princvillc with their stocks of merchandise and valuable ranches heretofore sworn in to the assessor at such criminally low valuations. And as The BuIIc tin has previously stated, there will be a great saving in the mileage of jurors, witnesses mid citizens to and from n nearby county scat. 5th. Mr. Street nsks if the coun ty officers nre not cnpable of doing the work for the whole county and dwells on the efficiency of their work. With the present sheriff, clerk nnd treasurer, The Bulletin has no fault to find. They arc effi cient men. However, proof that they can not take care of the grow ing county business is shown when it is known that County Clerk Drown is now two months behind in his work. A representative of n large timber firm at Hcud was forced, in order to get his papers recorded, to hire a man and pay him out of his own pocket to do the work. He hud previously sent a fee with the pnpers to be recorded. Hence, he was forced to pay two prices to get work done that should have been done by county officials. Deeds sent from Bend a year ago to be recorded have not yet been returned. Two months salary of the preceding clerk $300 was re- WILL REASONABLE IT Is more important that there be a new county than Hut Bend shall be the county teat. Thnt is, the new county movement is not mere ly for the purpose of helping Ucnil. But Ilcnil is the only incorpor ated town in the proposed county, it is centrally located and easy of ac cess from all directions. Therefore it docs not seem unreasonable that it should he named ns the temporary county scat, granting free expres sion of the voters 011 the selection of permanent county seat before there shall he a dollar expended in county buildings. If this is not fair and reasonable will somebody please toll us what is? The opposition to the new county having no merit of iu own, not a reasonable leg to stand 011, will try to break up the new county forces by any sort of means. Will reasonable men be footed in this way? Which will govern, reason or prejudice? taincd by the county court to pay for recording documents that he had failed to record. More evidence of the efficient way in which Crook county's business is done. Clerk Brown offered to clean up all this back work for reasonable pay. Judge Bell refuses to pay him, though he retained $300 for that purpose. Hut, you see, tint $300 must go into a new court house. That's the highly efficient manner iu which our county business is done. 6th. Mr. Street refers us to the records nnd says that last year $17 000 was spent on roads, and that Western Crook received $5,000 more than Eastern Crook. Au ex pert could find record of only $5,400 .spent on roads the amount the road master's voucher calls for. Of this, only $296.50 was spent on roads iu the proposed new county during 1906. That was all nn ex pert could find on the records, Mr. Street speaks of the road work done in Western Crook very highly, while every man hereabouts asks where it has been done, they having seen none of it. Does the revercud gentleman know that not a bridge in the new county has been built but for which the citizens contrib uted practically the entire; cost? Such is a fact, however. Oil the other baud when a bridge was wanted across Crooked river at I'riueviUe, the corporate limits of the city were drawn in so that the county would have to pay for the new bridge and the new grade lead ing out of Priueville. Priue,ville's city limits originally extended, be yontt wlietc the, steel bridge how stands. 7th, The statement is wade that BURNED TO DEATH A Life Goes Out In Shock ing Manner. PIONEER OF CROOK COUNTY Supposed That Bed Clothes Cnuzht Tire and Suffocated Sleeper Body Burned to n Crisp. Lcandcr Dillon met death by suffocation at Princvillc last Sun day morning about 3 o'clock. The old man had been drinkinc during the day and was helped to bed about midnight. It is supposed the bed clothing caught fire from his pipe. The coroner's jurv rendered n verdict of death from suffocation, the smoke first suffocating the old man and later the flames burning him to a crisp. The accident hap pened in a wagon fitted up as a camper's wagon by Dillon and in which he had a bed. The wagon stood in the Dillon fecdyards, close to the stable. About 12 o'clock Sunday night a workman at the barn by name Smith heard someone putting the old man to bed. Three hours later he was awakened by the report of two cartridges exploding. He at once saw the wagon was afire and ran to it in an endeavor to save Dillon. As he looked into the wagon lie saw that the old man was already dead from his burns, MEN BE FOOLED? so he gave the alarm and iu com pany with others moved the wagon from its close proximity to the barn. The fire company responded to the alarm and the flames were soon put out. Before the fire was extin guished several loose cartridges exploded in the wagon, the first explosions having awakened Smith. Funeral services were held Mon day nnd interment made iu the Prinevllle cemetery. Dillon was a pioueer of Crook county. He came here from Cali fornia iu 1885 and took up a home stead on the river about eight or 10 miles south of Heud, engaging in the stock business. In 1890 he moved to Princvillc. Last sum mer he played quite a prominent part in the coutest of Miss Carrie Olson vs. The Northern Pacific Co. tor title to a tract of laud on which is situated Dillon falls, a very val uable water power site on the Des chutes. Mr. Dillon appeared as intervener in the contest, claiming that he had horaesteaded the land iu the early days. The falls have borne his name for many years. The deceased was 65 years of age and leaves a widow and a large family of children. SPENCER-McCANN. Air. Ralph Spencqr and Miss Florence McCann Married Last Monday. At 6 o'clock last Monday eveti lug the Rev. Campbell Tavenor pronounced the words that made Mr. Ralph Speucer and Miss Flor ence McCauu husbaud aud wife. The ceremony took place nt the homestead of the bride's parents, only relatives and a few fricuds be ing present to wituess the event. At the appointed Umc the young couple took their positions bencatl a prettily decorated boll and Rev Tavenor rend the beautiful and im press! vc ring ceremony of the Methodist Episcopal church. The bride wns gowned in a dress of cream motisliu dc soie while the groom vorc the customary black. After the ceremony a splendid wed ding supper was ervcd Mr. and Mrs. Spencer left on the Tuesday evening stage for Silver Lake where they will be at home to their friends after March 35. This wedding is one in whicl' The Bulletin takes special interest, inasmuch as both these young peo ple have, at different times, been faithful members of its force. Mr. Spencer is now editor of the Cen tral Orcgonian at Silver Lake, which position he has held since last summer The Bulletin heartily concurs in the remark made by a friend of these young people when he said: "Mr. and Mrs. Spcnccc will be an honor to the community where they live and to any commun ity they might choose to visit, for they arc estimable ottng people." DYNAA1ITE EXPLODES. Alan Killed, Wife Badly Injured, and House Burned, near Madras. A disastrous explosion of dyna mite occurred about 9 o'clock Tues day morningat the H, J. Bachmann place nine miles west of Madras whereby Mr. Bachmann was killed his wife badly injured and their, house burned. Mrs. Bachmann will recover from her wounds. Bachmann was thawing four sticks of the explosive in the kitch en stove oven, and poked one of them to see if it was getting soft. Whereupon the four sticks explod ed. Bachmann was struck just ov er the eye by a piece of flying iron, which penetrated the socket about an inch. Another piece struck him on the forehead and fractured the skull. There was alsq a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee. He died within a few hours, death being due tq his having breathed Sre and smoke from tho explosion. Mrs Bachmann was in the room aud was severely scratched on the lace. She was badly wounded in the richt eroin. a diamond shancd piece of iron penetrating the groin about 1J3 inches. Her left knee was wounded in five places, and a piece ol iron was driven iuto the bone about one-half inch. The lower leg was badly shattered. In this frightfully wounded con dition Mrs. Bachmann helped her husband from the burning building Dr. Snook of Madras was called at once and later Dr. Edwards of Princvillc was summoned to assist, OLD INDIANS DIE. Joe Lane and Ills Wife Die Within One Day of Each Other, Two deaths occurred ou the Warmspriugs reservation last week old Joe Lane, a well known Indian and his wife having died within a day of each other. They had both been ill for some time with pneu monia. The wife died first, and while the Indians were buryiug hei remains, the husband died at home where lie had been left alone. After the burial of the wife several of the Indians went back to tho house to look after Joe, and to at tend to his horses and cattle of which he had quite a number, aud when they went iuto the house they found the old man lying on the floor dead. He had evidently arisen from his bed during their absence, aud while trying to cross the floor had fallen. Joe Lane and his wife both had valuable allot ments of land on the reservation, and in addition they owned quite n number of cattle and horses. Most of the illness recently re ported on the reservation was the result of exposure during the receutcold weather. Superintend ent Covey says that there is very little sickness there now. Madras Pioneer. Land to Clear. Parties engaged in clearing lands are invited to submit fimires on cost of clearintr s; acres in Stf nf SR. Sec. 22-17-12, a miles northeast 01 .ueuu, urcgon. -h. si-imng, Wilbur, WasninfctMu 4