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BULLETIN. i V V w vol. iv BEND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907. NO. 47 TrOR BEND - " ecauso wo arc selling tho samo and bettor quality nt n closer margin is a very good reason why you will find our storo tho best, placo to buy anything in tho lino of Groceries, Drygoods, Furnish ings, Shoes, Hardware, Sash and Doors, Paints and Oils in m mmmmmmmmtmmmmm niiiin unman he PINE TREE STORE I!. A. SAIMI'.R, PKOPItliriOR n muggy""" """ i J"tirrrTrTrirgirgMTT?'Tui..jMiM At llctul, Oregon. A Complete Stock of DRY ttoujch,, SurfHCed find Moulded LU At Hcnd, Orogon. All Widths, Lengths anil Thicknesses INCH COMMON DIMENSION 8IUPLAP RUSTIC T. ft O. FLOORING KeiHonahle bkadkij ceiling Lumber WINDOW JAMBS ll.UvrrM l Prices window CASING Djlitcred at (()0lj HHAD HI.OCKS , L0H. Ust O. o. baseboard Anpucrc on firades STAIR TREADS Tlic lands or i)rv WATER TABLIi r,ic " ' & '' O. O. HAITI NS Co.' T " M'ttk MOULDINGS f,lc C S- ' Co- P. K. D. 1ATHNT ROOKING KKNCK PICK UTS SI UNGUIS ETC., KTC. ihwwimi ! iwwm iii 'Hi CUSTOM FEE!) MILL IN CONNECTION. Th Ok I Pilot Butte Development Company Hl:ND, OREGON WW PROFESSIONAL CARDS C. S. DENSOJ, ATTORNEY AT LAW Buiul,t - Oregon. W. P. MYERS LAND ATTORNEY 1' tin. 1 ml mut-tlre Iwfafe (lit If. S. I , I iii Hi lMrcmril of tbl iKMftor. l .1 g. iicml irttflc. Ofiui. Laiw.aw, Okk. U. C. COE, M. D. 011 m: OVKK HANK Physician and Surgeon Tl Utl'MONK NO. 21 HI Nil OKKflON DR. I. L. SCOFIELD DENTIST Dl M), . OU1IG0N lOflico In resilience on llnwtliorne Ave, R. D. WICKNAAl Attorney - at - Law Ol'l'IClt IN HANK IIUII.IIINCI. IJ'.NI), . . OUKOON mi'. . : -i -ug ; Several new subscribers nut on is week, Yotlr turn next, M. V. TUIU.EY, M. D. Physician nml Surgeon OVflCK IN JOHNSON HI.WI, OK WAM, T. HKNH. 0RKC5O.N J. II. IIANL'R, ABSTRACTER of TITLES NOTARY l'UHUC fir latum iw, I.lle Imimmmc. Sufrty Hondo, Heal liaUU, CouvcjrtttdHK I'KIKHVIU.K. ORHC.ON THE First National Bank of Prlneville. IthtuMiklicil 1888. Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $100,000.00 II. 1'. Altm. . . Will Wiimvvllcr.. T. M. IkiMwIu ... II. lmUIlii I'rcnlilrul .. ..Vice Trrtlilcnt Ciulilcr Annlalnilt Cuntilcr TIIOROUailHRGl) Black Langslwn Cockerels FOR SALE Your Choice Now for $1.00 B. C. PARK UKDMONI), - OKHGON My fowl took bcvcu firsts nml three bccoiiiln ut the fnlr FAILS TO MISLEAD Journal Admits Facts Ad vanced by Divisionists. TRIES TO POOL TAXPAYERS llullclln'ft Statoiiicut Hint Prlneville Man Paid No County Road Tax Can Not He Refuted. The Prineville Journal makes n desperate attempt to overthrow the fuels disclosed by The Bulletin when It published a "comparative statement" of the tax levy paid by Priueville and the county in general for the last tliree years. It resorts to it usual method of juggling figure Mild thereby confusing its render. I!y a subtle evasion of the truth it attempt to justify the actions The Bulletin has condemned a graft. Discussing the levy made for county purposes nloiie. The lltilletiu published the following dHtnniug evidence against I'riuc ville luetics: BILL IS INTRODUCED. Last Saturday, A. L. Goodwillic received a message announcing that on the previoun day (Friday) the bill to create Deschutes county had boon introduced into the legis lature, with most favorable omeuc for it successful passage. LONG WAIT f OR MAIL I.KVY 1'AIII HK COWXTV I'riiwvilW 18K Crook county t r-UHfonxa. I90J Uib 'S tf i The Journal doe.s not deny the truth of the almve. It vociferously HtateiJ. however, that The Bulletin is perverting facts and telling lies and to uphold iU contention adds to the county levy paid bv Prine- ville the levy also jwid for city pur x!cii, getting the following result: I9"M ivs 190 rHncvill jj jiH 4M Croak roMtity i it 1$ If the attempt to mislead the peo ple mid r.ull the wool over their even was not so apparent in the above Journal figures, it would be ridiculous Into a discussion re garding the levy for county pur poses alone, the Journal drags the levy pjkl by Prineville for city road, city school and city general tax. Using the same method of figuring, Ilcnd paid on the 1005 levy, 4.J mills a 10 mill school levy and a 13 mill general levy. Hut The liulletiii was discussing levies for county purposes levies that all tax pnyeoi have to jay and conse quently did not include a tax that goes to beautify and improve the city of Prineville. Thus thu facts remain as stated by The Bulletin. While the tax payers throughout the county were paying si, 21, and 15 mills on the dollar ior county expenses, Prine ville paid only iS'j, 18, and 135-j mills in other words, no roal tax for county piirroww. That brings us to a little further discussion of that road fund question. More Journal figures. To again prove that "the truth is not In The Bulletin," the Journal publishes what it states nre official (?) figures from the road master s records. The Bulletin accepts these figures with much doubt, for it remembers that the Journal made n statement regarding county nuances last June which the comity officials later repudiated. The officials said they did not know where the Journal got its authority for such statements. Furthermore, a Western Crook man, examining the records, could not find any thing to correspond with the figures the journal now prints as official. This only strengthens what The Bulletin previously suggested, that perhaps there are two sets of rec ords, 011c of which is not open to the public. Accepting the figures, however, for the sake of argument, we find that $11,509 were spent on roads in 1906. Of this amount $4,413 were spent in the districts lying north of Priueville on the Prine-ville-IIny Creek road, a highway that Western Crook practically never uses, We also find that these districts only paid $977 into the road lmid. Again, in the districts directly surrounding Priueville the roads of which run directly into that city we find that $1,482 was spent on roads, i. c, in the districts ol Johnson Creek, Breesc and Mc Kay. These districts contributed only $594 to the road fund. On the first road, the Priueville-Hay Creek, nearly five times as much was spent on the road as was paid by those districts; on the second rosd mentioned, not far from three times as much as was paid. And yet Priueville admits that it pays nothing into the county road fund. Rather selfish gobbling, is it not7 Taking the Journal's figures again wc find that only $2,155 were spent in the proposed new county. And right hire the public's atten tion should be called to a clever piece of figure juggling. The Journal has undoubtedly included in its table of figures those amounts in each district raised by the per capita tax of $3.00. The law says that such sum must be expended on the roads in the district where col lected. Thus by the recent canvass of the proposed Deschutes county, it is shown that close to $1,800 would be raised by this per capita tax, over and above what the same section jwys into the county road fund. Deducting this $1,800 from the sum expended in the new coun ty for roads and we have the magni ficent sum of $355 spent on roads in the proposed Deschutes county, for which the county road fund pays. That certainly should satisfy Western Crook taxpayers, when they take the Journal's table of figures and learn of the large sums expended on roads that benefit Priueville directly. Or are the tax payers entitled to a just kick? The facts in the case remain as The Bulletin has heretofore stated. The Journal rants and rails, jug gles figures and tells half truths, makes statements that the county officials afterwards declare are false, labors heroically to keep Prineville from being deprived of a section rich from a tax standpoint, and halts at nothing to accomplish its ends. And in the meantime, 93 )r cent of the settlers in the pro posed new county grow stronger than ever in their determination to be forever rid of a county seat that evades its just taxes through a criminally low valuation of prop erty, and rid of a county court that admits having spent the taxpayers' money illegally. Bend Has Been without News for Many Days. BAD WASHOUTS ON RAILROAD Menvy Snowfall and Much Rain Com pletely Demoralizes Mall Service for Central Oregon. A NGW DHPARTURH. Bank Money Orders Issued by Hie Central Oregon Banking & Trust Company. Many people are not aware of the advantages of our batik drafts over postomce money orders. Postofilce money orders are good only nt one office. They can be transferred but once, and if lost or stolen you are subject to tedious delay before you cau get your money returned or another order in its place. Money orders issued by this bank arc good anywhere, and can be transferred as often as desired by endorsement, nud if lost or stolen, you can get your money or a duplicate without any annoyance or delay. All of the money orders that we issue, after -being paid by the Portland or New York bank, arc returned to us, ami arc filed away where they can be seen at any time by the purchaser, show ing that the money was received by the party to whom it was sent, a proof that is impossible when you send your money any dther way. Postoflicc money orders cost 30 cents per $100.00. Our drafts cost but half that amount. No mail has been received in Bend since last week Thursdav night, and none is expected before Monday night. It is doubtful if the stage will reach here by that time. This unusual state of affairs is due to washouts and laud slides on the 0. R. & N. and the Colum bia Southern, caused by the unpre cedented snow- and rain-fall of the past two weeks, the snow having been rapidly melted by chiuooks and warm rains. H. R. Satchwell reached town Wednesday from Madras and re ported the above facts regardiug the railroads. At Madras he met W. J. Buckley, recently arrived from Shaniko. Mr. Buckley re ported that the O. R. & N. brklge at tbe mouth of the Deschutes river was washed out, 300 yards of track were gone, and that there were three land slides on this road along the Columbia. He also reported two washouts on the Columbia Southern, one in the vicinity of Grass Valley, the other near Moro. Thus it is seen that no trains can reach Shaniko for several days and when rail communications arc- opened there will necessarily be a terrible congestion of mail and ex press, it is reported that the Cor nett company has nine stages at Shaniko waiting to handle the traf fic when the first train arrh'es. Mr. Satchwell said that when he crossed Trail Crossing Tuesday, urookeu river was on a carrying fences, logs, along with it. While all this damage, loss and inconvenience is being caused else where tbe Deschutes is as steady aud reliable as ever 111 the Bend country. During the time of the heavy rains and melting snow the rise at Bend has only been a few inches. No danger of floods aud washouts in the upper Deschutes valley. Later Announcement is made that the Cornett Stage Co. has es tablished n temporary line of stages from Shaniko to The Dalles, and that mail will undoubedtly reach Bend Monday night. rampage, ice, etc., RIVER FLOW MEASUREMENTS. Streams County division is assured. Read' The Bulletin and get the news. - Need for Authentic Data on of Central Oregon. C. K. Gruusky, consulting engi neer, United States Reclamation Service, has made a report regard ing his work in Central Oregon and recommends very strougly the need for more complete information re gardiug the flow of streams in this part of the state. He says, in part: "The reconnaissance which I have just made in south-central Oregon has given me an opportunity to become acqunitited with the main physical features that must be considered in planning the irriga tion of lands in that part of the state. "I desire, in the first place, to confirm the conclusions of other en gineers of the service who have made more or less thorough exam inations throughout this region, that information relating to the amount of water that can be made available for irrigation is deficient and unreliable aud that it is of great importance that a continuous study of the water resources in this part of Oregon shall be made. Re liable conclusions relating to the amount of water that can be made available for irrigation cannot be drawn from the records of stream flow until such records cover n series of years. There should there fore be no delay iu extending the study of water resources to these streams. Mftk "The region under consideration is a succession of interior drainage basins in which the lowest areas ate flat alkali beds or shallow lakes often surrounded by extensive swamp land areas. Such streams as there are have a brief earh spring flood in which the rusl- o" water inundates large bodies of lane now mainly used for growing wilt' liny. "Notwithstanding the apparert abundance of water it is quite clear that a submergence of large area- after occasional winters of copious snow fall in the mountains toget he -with swine surplus water discharger' into the lakes is not conclusive n to the actual supply of water tha' can be made available year aftc vear for beneficial use. Kach sourc of supply must be studied to ascer tain its yield before conclusions ca be reached that will be a satisfactor basis for the planning of works. "It is to be stated iu this connec tion that more information is alsr requircd relating to the amount o' water that is needed to supnlemcr t rainfall. The residents at onK points iu this section of the stat -are just making tbe discovery thr there are some seasons in whic' grain crops can be produced by dr farming. It is being discoverer' too, that climatic conditions ther are not unfavorable for the produc tion of hardier fruits and vegetable. There is not, however, enough known of rainfall conditions aiK the behavior of soils under cultivfi tion to determine how much wate: must be supplied per acre of irrigat ed laud. "Not even the rainfall couditiors are known with any degree of ac curacy. The desert condition which prevail over a great portion of this part of the state indicate -deficient supply of moisture iu tic form of tain and snow. But there is some precipitation. At Silver Lake it amounts to about to inche in a normal year. The normal rainfall at Burns in Harney Valley lies probably sotuwherc between ic and 14 inches. At Paisley there is uo record of rainfall but it is generally supposed that this point has as much or more rainfall than Silver Lake. Rainfall records should be kept at Rosland, Paisley, Christmas Lake, Alkali Lake Summer Lake, Riley on Silver Lake aud at the Narrows between Malheur and Harney Lakes. Ob servers should be selected and the necessary apparatus for rainfall observations should be installed at the easliest possible moment." SOLD DISEASED MEAT. Hired to KIM a Steer With Lumpy Jaw, Rancher Turns Meat Peddler. G. W. Elwell, a rancher in the Bake Oven district, was arrested Monday afternoon charged with selling diseased meat. The infect ed meat was disposed of in and about Shaniko. Khvell wiw brought to Shauiko aud he waived a preliminary hearing and was taken to The Dalles and placed in jail. Khvell was released at The Dalles on bond furnished by At torney John Gavin, but when a bench warrant was issued' later, he could not be found. The facts reported are as follows; R. R. Hintou found a steer in his herd which was affected with a very advauced case of actinomyco sis, or lumpy jaw. Wishing to dispose of the animal, he hired G. W. Elwell, n neighboring rancher, to kill it, return the hide, and burn the remains. Elwell killed the auimal and returned the hide, but brought the meat to Shaniko and sold it to several residents of this city, instead of destroying it. Sus picion was aroused by Information obtained through private source, and on Sunday afternoon an investi gating committee composed of severnl business men of this city made a trip to Elwcll's ranch, where, when questioned, he ad mitted that he had sold the meat of the animal he had been hired ta destroy, to residents of this city but stated that he thought it was only a case of broken jaw. Tha committee secured the head of tha animal which was frightfully di seased and brought it to this city. From here it was taken to be used as evidence against Elwell. Shani ko Republican. ut: