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VOL, V
BEND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER i, 1907.
NO. 30
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IRRIGATED LANDS
-WITH-
PERPETUAL WATER RIGHT
$15.00 TO $40.00 PER ACRE
185,000 acres ia the Den Chutes Valley.
60,000 acred now under 350 mites of completed canals.
Most fertile soil, abundant and never falling water, glori
"otis climate j 10 sunshiny days per year cheap lumber and fuel,
Worlds of water power, (till, game, and Iwatttiful mountain seen
cry, combine to make an Ideal country to UVI( in.
As for MAKING A LIVING, man after man of our settlers
is producing this year from these cheap lands from 50,00 to
100,00 an acre In clover, alfalfa, oat, wheat and barley crops.
Vegetable and fruit crops have yielded from f, 100.00 an acre up.
146 varieties of grains, grasses, fruits ami vegetables raised and
ripened on the land. Clover 8 tons per acre, alfalfa 7 tons, oats
80 bushels, potatoes 300 bushels, swectcorn 180 bushels roasting
cars, strawberries 1 i.o villous, and other crops in similar pro
fusion.
WHY, MAN; IT IS LIKE.FINDING MONEY.
Have you got your tract of land yet? If not, why not?
Get a hustle on and get it now, while you can get yotr pick.
Remember this is Carey Act land.
YOU PAY ONLY FOR TUB COST OK IRRIGATION.
You get the land absolutely free directly from the State
of Oregon.
For particulars write today for Booklet G,
Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company
Clias. P. Richardson, Manager Sales Department
Room 203, No. 6 Wall St., Spdkanc, Wash.
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BEND, OREGON.
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GAS LIGHTS FOR BEND
Plan Is Afoot for Lighting
Business Streets.
AN AUTOMATIC q.AS BURNER
City Council Ifai Ordered One Lamp
on Trial and If It Gives Satisfaction
Others Will Do Procured.
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At Bend,
Oregon.
A Complete Stock of
DRY
Rough, Surfaced and Moulded
-LUMBER-
All Widths, Lengths and Thicknesses
At Rcrt,
Oregon.
Reasonable
Prices
(lood
Grades
Dry
Stock
INCH COMMON
DIMENSION
SHIPLAP
RUSTIC
T. & G. FLOORING
BEADED CKILINO
WINDOW JAMBS
WINDOW CASINO
IIItAD BLOCKS
O. Q. BASEBOARD
STAIR TREADS
WATKR TABU
O. 0. BATTINS
MOULDINGS
P, B. D. PATBNT ROOFING
FKNOK PICKKTB
SHINGLKS
jtTC, ETC.
Lumkr
Delivered at
Low1 Cost
Any u hero m
Tho Lands of
iTIie D. I. & P.
Co., or
irk C.S.I. Co.
It is very probublc that Bend will
soon have its business streets light
ed with a number of gas lights.
The council has taken action look
ing to that end, and one complete
lamp has been ordered from Chic
ago and Upon its arrival in Bend
will be set upland given a trial. If
it proves satisfactory and makes
good, n number of them will be or
dered and installod along the bus!
ncss streets. The sample outfit has
been shipped from Chicago and is
expected to arrive here in two or
three weeks, coming by freight.
The new lamp is known as the
"Royal Gem" and burns gasoline.
In appearance it resembles closely
the gas lights seen on the streets
of any city. Connected with each
burner is a small gasoline tank
which supplies the gas. There is
also an automatic clock contrivance
which can be set at any desired
hour and at that hour the lamp will
go out. Thus the lights can be
allowed to bum all night or can be
set so as to go out at 12 or 1 o'clock
or at any time of the night desired.
The lamp is guaranteed to light up
a circle with a radius of Coo feet
surrounding each burner.
Mayor Goodwill ic says this lamp
comes with many flattering recom
mendations and that it is used very
extensively in small towns through,
out the Mississippi valley.
MANY ARE IN LINE.
CUSTOM FEED MILL IN CONNECTION,
APPLY TO
Central Oregon
Development Company
BEND,
OREQON
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The Bulletin Sets the Pace.
Persistent Pc'oplo Waiting for tlte
Chsnco to pile on Timber Land
Early on the morning of Scptem
ber 38 people began to arrive nt the
Lakcview laud office. They formed
in line and began the weary 30-day
wait in the hope that their persis
tence would be awarded by secur
ing to them a choice quarter-section
of titubcrland. The first night was
a cold, disagreeable otic and caused
much discomfort to those in line.
The Lakcview examiner tells about
it as follows;
AH day Saturday the line con
tinued to increase in length, in
spite of the fact that n blinding
snow storm was ragiug and mak
ing the temperature anything but
comfortable. Huddled together in
the cold, narrow passageway ex
tending to their goal, stood those
ambitious, patient and persevering
individuals whose sole thoughts
seemed to be of the harvest they
should reap at the end of the thirty
days.
When nightfall, with its bitter
cold, seized the opportunity to in
dict its ravages upon the shivering
aggregation, n rather uninviting
predicament offered itself. About
datk, a large number of cold ridden
people who had driven continually
for about 48 hours, nt breakneck
speed, in order to obtain favornble
position in the litie, took their
places there, Some were destitute
of overcoats, nnd were ex posed fully
unprotected to the cold wind that
swept up the hall-way.
Many of the people obtained sub
stitutes to relieve them for the night
paying as much as s.s for each ntut
evidently were delighted to get them
at that figure. On Sunday morn
ing there were 31 persons, meti and
women, enlisted in the army of
laud-seekers.
A system was inaugurated on
Sunday morning whereby each per
son in the line-up agreed in writing
to retain the number in the line-up
that he had assumed, in order that
each one's position would be secure.
James McShanc was appointed
special police to keep order and sec
that no one attempted to confiscate
another's number, and Mr.Coguurn
was appointed clerk to keep and
call the roll and excuse anyone
from the line for five minutes on
their securing permission from him.
In this way the people did not have
to constantly stand in their exact
position iu line, but could keep
within the presence thereof. This
system was a great relief to the
crowd,
At nightfall on Sunday an agree
ment was reached by all that they
would leave the line for the night
and put their interests in the care
of Messrs. McSbatte and Cogburn,
and report at 7 o'clock Monday
morning, which they did and found
things secure.
Finally a plan was adopted which
has been approved by Commission
er Ballinger, and the local land
officials agreed, unofficially, to assist
in maintaining order. The plan is
for all applicants to register as they
appeared in line, and when night
comes to rest, returning the next
morning to answer to a roll call.
All attempts at usurping places in
line will be opposed by the land
office officials, and h is believed
that oil will be well in the end.
Beit Improvements Will V(n.
J. M.' Wright, whose daughter
Lulu, was the lucky one to draw
the short straw in the lottery agreed
upon by the contestants on the
claim she settled on, telephoned to
the land office Tuesday, to ask
what chance his daughter ha'd in
case someone was in line at Lake
view with the intention of Sling on
the same laud. He was informed
that his daughter's chances were
good and that the persons having
the best improvements would be
the ones who would win out in
most cases. Mr. Wright and his
daughter have returned to the
claim to continue permanent im
provement work. Silver Lake
Oregonian.
QRADE IS TOO NARROW.
RULES ARE CHANGED
Residence on Pitch Land
Not Required,
BOARD RECONSIDERS ACTION
SUtc Officials Rescind Ruts Requiring;
Residence- within Six Months
from Dite of Purchase.
Wider Road Necessary through Cow
Canyon fur Big Freighting Enclnc.
After making a very satisfactory
trip out as far as Cow canyon, the
big traction outfit of the Central
Oregon Transportation tk Forward
ing Company had to turn back to
await the widening of the t,rack
down the canyon, the road being
too narrow to permit the road-train
to pass, says' the Madras Pioneer.
At those places where work had
been done by the company on new
grades, the train had no difficulty,
but on the old wagon road there
were many places where the engine
and cars could not get through.
There was some difficulty along the
side-hill grade, the road-bed giving
way under the heavy engine and
running it olT the grade. These
difficulties having rendered further
progress of the' train impossible, it
turned back to Shaniko to replen
ish its supply of fuel oil, and to
await the widening of the road.
When this is done it is believed
there will be no further trouble.
A score of men and a dozen or
more teams were put to work at
once on the road widening it and iu
places where there is danger of cav
ing, it is being dug further back in
the hillside in order to give the en
gine a solid road-bed,
Will Improve. Bend's Streets.
At the council meeting this week,
arrangements were made for bulki
ng a sidewnlk from the corner of
the old Sheldon blacksmith shop to
the Kstebenct corner on Hawthorn
avenue. The .sum of 75 was auth
orized to be spent in grubbing ont
trees on Eleventh street betweeu
Juniper and Irouwood avenues, on
lromvopd avenue between Eleventh
ami Tenthj on Tenth street between
Irouwood nnd Huwthoru, and on
Hawthorn avenue between Tenth
aud Bond streets,
From Information now on hand
it appears that purchasers of ditch
land will not be required to estab
lish residence thereon within six
months from date of purchase. The
dispatches that appeared in the
Pottland papers last week were ev
idently a little premature as to that
section requiring residence, and
that feature of the new ruling that
made that provision has either been
rescinded or is held up pending an
arrangement that will be more sat
isfactory. It was evidently the intention of
the State Land Board to incorpor
ate such a provision in the rues
governing the sale and purchase of
Carey Act land. The first of the
week The Bulletin received from
State Engineer Lewis a copy of
that section of the new rules which
provided for residence within six
months after purchase and cultiva
tion of a certain stipulated acreage
each year until . final proof is
made. The rules covered this fea
ture in detail and were very ex
plicit. It now appears that these
rules bad not been fully adopted,
but had been temporarily held up
by the board pending criticism and
ruggestions.
Last Tuesday Max Richardson
of Bend received a 'phone message
from E. A. Baldwin of Portland, of
the D. I. & P. Co., stating that the
section requiring residence within
six mouths had been rescinded.
That is the latest news obtainable
by The Bulletin regarding this most
important matter.
It wilt be welcome news to all
those who now hold this laud and
are so situated that tuy do not de
sire to move upon the land. The
rule had aroused vigorous opposi
tion among local people. They
claimed it was unjust. Some men
had bought laud in two or more
tracts not adjoining. The question
was how could these meu establish
residence on both tracts at the same
time. Many local purchasers hold
tracts so situated. Tuir intention
to cultivate and develop the same is
good, and those opposed to the new
rule as reported last week, argue
that it would cause so much trouble
and loss to these purchasers that it
would be a most unfair rule indeed.
The further objection has been
made that it would limit and prac
tically do away with all sales of
land in the immediate future, thus
defeating the desired object, that
of securing the settlement of the
laud.
There are several other objec
tions, but those noted above are the
chief ones. It is admitted that in
so far as the new rule would elimi
nate the speculator, it would be a
most desired provision.
Puctt Homestead Contested,
In the absence of Commissioner
Kills a contest was heard before F.
0. Minor, a notary public, the first
of the week. It was a contest
brought against the homestead en
try of Robert A. Puett by Mrs.
Stella A. Myers of Daidlaw. The
chief allegation brought forward by
the contestant was failure by the
contestee to reside upon the laud.
To refute this the contestee in
troduced evidence to show that he
could not make a living on the
place and was obliged to move from
the homestead iu order to provide
a living for his family; also that he
health of his wife was sucji that
she could not be left alone upon
the place. For these reasons they
left the place In September, 1906,'
and moved onto tue' old Sisernorc
ranch where" 'Mrs. Puett's father
was then living. A short time ago,
they moved back onto the home-'
stead. Puctt alio showed that he
had spent several hundred dollars
In bujlding an irrigation ditch onto
the homestead, that he had fenced
and cultivated 35 acres, had fruit'
trees and bushes set out and had
made various substantial improve
ments. He admits his absence from
the place from September of last
year to within a short time ago in
so far as residence is concerned,
but maintains that he has spent
much of his time 'there making im
provements' and cultivating the
land. Attorney W. P. Myers ap
peared for the contestant and At
torney Benson for the contestee.
WW Develop Fruit Ranch.
Last Tuesday the Sherwood
Bros, bought the Dr. Coons 40-acre
tract lying a half mile east of Bend.
The consideration was $2,700 and
included several tons of hay and
the farm implements. The Messrs.'
Sherwood intend to make a fruit
farm of the place and will set out
a large number of apple trees and
various other kinds of fruit as rap
idly as possiBle. This tract is
especially adapted for such a pur
pose as it is very free from early and
late frosts, seemingly protected by
its location at the foot of Pilot
Butte. It already has quite a num
ber of young fruit trees on it, goose
berry, raspberry and currant
bushes, and a strawberry bed that
yielded abundantly this season.
Rev. Short will move onto the
place and occupy it, but the Sher
wood boys expect to farm it them
selves next year.
Airs. Rowtee Sentenced.
Last week Mrs. Rowlee was sen
tenced by Judge Frazer at Portland
to 50 days in jail for her part in
placing the Francis girl in a disor
derly house. The judge, in pro
nouncing sentence, said that he
would make the sentence somewhat
lighter than he otherwise would
have done since the defendant had
already been confined in jail 30
days awaiting trial. Mrs. Rowlee,
upon the advice of her attorney,
pleaded guilty, although she main
tained to the last, amid tears and
sobs, that she did not entice the
Francis girl into the disorderly
house but that the girl went there
of her own free will.
Money Order l)ntess.
Following is the money order
business transacted by the Bend
postoffice during September:
S91 domestic orders issued ,...f 6,48a 01
Fees on same 39 63
3 international order issued. .. 50 70
l'ceaoij same. ...,,.,, .,,,.... 60
Total ,, f6,56i 93
raid 33 domestic order ,709 93
" 3 international orders 19 48
Total f79 4t
Irrigation Project at Summer Lake.
It is reported that McKendree &
Hnmmoud will commence work on
their big irrigation project at the
head of Anna River, at Summer
Lake, this week, Water will be
takeu from the river and made to
flow south along the west, and up
per, side of a large tract of the
most fertile land in the valley, the
water to be taken as far south as
the old Lloyd Hunter place, now
owned by W. M. Marsters. In all,
about 1,600 acres will be watered.
Silver Lake Oregonian,
Are you a sulwcriberf
If not, you should be.