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3END BULLETIN. VOL. V IWND, OKKOON, HKIDAY, MAY I, 1908. NO. 7 THE ii ANOTHER RAILROAD il Electric Line to, Be Built ironi coiuion. BVCKr:D D,Y HASTKRN CAPITAL Portland lluslness Atoti State- the Koad Will Come by Way of Hay Creek and I'rlrtovlllo to Ilend, The latest news In the railroad Hue I1 n proposed electric road to be built from Condon to Priucvllle and to llciid. This promised line is lie iii); promoted by Portland business men, nud It Is believed that I-intern capital Ii luck of the enterprise. Dr. II. J. Kccucy, George C. Mason and Murk W. Oil!, Portland business men who arc at the head of tlili road, were in Prinevillc last week explaining their p)nni to Wincvlllc capitalists. They stated (lint If their present plain are mic ccnnful tl'ity will construct an elec tric line by way of liny Creek to Priucvllle and on to llcnd, with branches from Priucvllle to the Howard mines and to Ashwood. Speaking of this enterprise the Portland Journal says: An electric railway company or ganized by Portland and Seattle wen will btiild a line from Condon to llcntl, crossing the John Day riv er and securing power from that itrcain. nlKo erecting a dam 200 feet high in the Deschutes river and developing power there. They propose to tap a coal field near Mad ras and serve the Oregon King gold mine controlled by Jack Edwards near Ashwood, constructing a smelter at the latter point and sup plying the coal for reducing Ash wood ores. Among those who nrc engineer ing the deal arc Dr. U. J. Kecticy, George C. Mason and' Mark W. Gill, and it is understood that Hast en! capitalists nrc interested In the enterprise. The concern will be known ns the Portluud Construction Com pany, which filed article of incor position with tho county clerk at Portland, stating that the capital of the new firm wns 300.000. Dr. Kccncy js president of the new concern, and Mr. Mason, now vice-president of the Construction & Engineering Company of Port land, is one of the othe officials. "We arc not in a position to di vulge our plans," said Dr. Kccncy, "but wc will be able to give the public information as to what we propose to do in a short time." The company lias made filincs for water power at a point just be low the government reclamation service filings in the Deschutes riv er. The country over which the electric road will run is similar to the region between Shaniko and I'rlncvillc, and while some of the grades to be encountered would Ik ohjcctlonabla for n steam road, it is said an electric line will have no troubles overcoming the difficulties. QIVGN ANOTHER TRIAL. Will Mako One Atoro Attempt to Oper ate Mndras-Shsnlko Road Train. The Mndras-Sliatiiko rond train Is to be given another (rial, accord ing to the Pioneer The Holt Man ufacturing Compduy, which makes the machine, persists in declaring that its machine can be successfully operated over the road from Shau iko to Madras, and will take charge of the big machine that is now at Shaniko and prove their statement. The company stntcs (hat its ma chines nrc operated over similar roads in California nud can also lie run In Central Oregon. A little work will have to be done on the roads, nud this the company will look after. It will be remembered that n company of Prinevillc nnd Madras men bought tills machine intending to use it to haul freight to and from Mndras from the railroad. When irivcti a trial Inst fnll it proved a failure and the scheme was aban doned for the time. It is thought that the trouble last full was due to too, dusty roads, there being mi much dust that the roads would not pnek sufficiently to allow the" sue cessful operation of tin- heavy en gine. The company believes this trouble can now W overcome with the noil dampened by the winter and spring rains ' MAY WHIIN CONSTRUCTION. lixpected Hint Work n nvn Call Power Plant Will IU Started Soon. C. L Shattuck, who hud charge of construction of the Prinevillc Light & Power Co plant when it was being built four years ngo, is again in Priucvllle awaiting instruc tion!! from his sutwriotis. The journal iay it is generally believed that work 011 the Lava 1'nlls power plant above llcntl will be sturted soon, anil continues: "In speaking of the Installation of the new wati-r power plant nt I.nvn Falls this morning, Mr. Shat tuck said that lie did not know when work would be" in on thccoti. hirnrilan nf the nlant and its vari ous Hues to provide electricity for Priucvllle ami oilier towns in me Deschutes valley, but that he had Imcii ordered here for 11 vcar or more nud is awaiting instructions from Mr Gales' Money for Crook County's Schools. The state treasurer has decided to disburse among tlie counties of the stale for hchool purposes $1 19, too that has accumulated in the common school fund. This dis bursement is generally not made until about August t, but because of the uuusual amoutt of money on hand the state treasurer will ty out a portion of this money now The balance due the counties will be ta Id later. Crook county's share of the first payment will be $1,500. Hcretolorc tlie overage yearly amount juld out through the com mon school fund has aggregated about $250,000. It is believed the amount will be much larger this year. Local Option petitions Piled. Local option petitions were filed with the counlv clerk Monday. They ask for a vote nt the June election on the local option amend ment and wcrcsigncd by 360 names from nil parts of the county. An other petition will be filed from Kutchcr precinct where some 80 names have been secured and per haps a third from Paulina., The lam two named will make tlie con test n precinct fight ns well an n county issue. Organizations have been formed both for nnd against the amendment nun n cioseiy con tested cnmnaiiMi will no doubt re sult. Prinevillc Journal. Socialists Nominate County Ticket. The Socialists of the county met in convention at Prinevillc last week and placed the following county ticket III the field: County judge, J. II. Homey of Madras; sheriff, Thomas Long of Prinevillc; county clerk, Ii. lf. Wilhoit of Prinevillc; treasurer, J. II. Smith of Priucvllle; Commis sioner. V. H. Harucv of Prinevillc: superintendent of schools, C. W. Alienor Laiillaws surveyor, j. k. llcnham of Laidlaw; assessor C. D. Swaiison of Powell Huttcs: coroner, J. A. McCall of Gist. Pleasant Rldgo Items. I'i.i;asant KtliOK. April jo. The cackle of wild geese ii now heard la the land. Dry weather and wind seem to be the prevailing habit ol the day. Prof. I. Alton Thompson, teacher of the I.aidlaw piilillc schools, did not gel oat last week 111 annul seeing to 111 fnrin duties l'rldnys and Saturdays id each week, Win. Hlrdsell nud family were guest of the Hev. Ilarradcrand fatally ntCllae Palis for dinner Imt Sunday, Clint Woods Is irrigating hi ground this week before needing. We think tilts a very good Idea mid n plan that lion lil he practiced by all fanners who can do so. Mr. l'rlckett of Clllie I'nlls was buying loud of seed oiita of Sherwood llros. this week. On the 1X111111! of Mnv H the Ladles' Aid Society ( l'lciisaut Kldge will glvu 1111 entertainment and. serve ice crcuui, sherbet nud cake for refreshments. The proceeds will go to- swell a fund with which to buy uu organ for the Sunday school, TOPPLES INTO RIYER Lnldlrtw I-xul Mas Narrow tBcnpe from Drowning. J. I). OIIJSON HAS RUNAWAY Morses llecome Unmanageable nnd a Had Smash-up Results Other Notes over the County, I.Aini.AW, April 3J. The little son of air. ami Jlr. Jienneii ii! a very nar row tvuwpc from drowning Tuesday. Ilertle, with oilier children, Mas crossing lo middle island oil a narrow foot bridge when he lost Ids balance and fell In. Mr, TulUr heard the frantic crli-s of the child ren oiid hastened lo the trenc and wo 1 nblc (' rescue the little fellow below the wagon bridge. The pretence of mind that led llcrlic to close his mouth white under the water saved hit lungs from filing, and after drying up he was m happy as ever. Waller Kocheuderfer, who hat been enjoying a few weeks' visit with Ills par ents, Mr. and Mrs, It. I). Kocheuderfer, left Tuesday morning for Waltsburg, Wash., on his way to Spokane. Jim Uarter started for Shaniko Tues day where he will meet Mr. and Sirs. Jrsc Hurler. Mrs. Uarter returns much Improved in health. Pied Sherwood of Pleasant Itldgc wa n business caller Wednesday, The surveying gang that was laying out the cast road lo Powell Duties com pleted the work Tursday, A DAD RUNAWAY. Tumato Man and Family In a 'Rather Serious Sntnsti-Up. Tuhai.o, April o. J. I). CIIhoii and family cnuie near having n icrinua acci dent last Sunday. They were on their way to Cllac Palls and were driving a fine pair of young hories to their top buggy when one of the horses shied and the ucckyokc broke. The horses bvcauie unmanageable and started at a furious gait. fortunately the tongue of the buggy broke und let the horses free from the buggy ul In time to sate Mr. Clif ton and his family from gelling badly hurt. The horses rati away with the harurss on them, and the last we heard Mr. Gibson had not found one of the hortc. It was a close call for Mr. and Mrs. (iIImoii and their little sou, Pine weather and farmer all busy. John Itdward has lieen gathering up horn lately, having sold nine head to outside buyers. Mr Udwards got a good price for Ins hordes, no doubt. O. W. Wittier & Sons have had word from outside partic who want to buy some heavy droit horses. The parties want large horses for hauling copper ore nt the copper mines in southern Oregon. Alex Smith of Sisters was a pleasant caller nt Tumalo last Monday. Mr. Smith informed us that business Is good at Sisters and everyone busy. Thomas Arnold of Ctovcrdalc will soon start for Summer Lake to look at that country. Mr. Arnold just returned from looking over California', but found nothing to suit him, so wc hear. Interesting Notes from Rostand. HoslJiNI), April 3J. Joe Taggnrt started driving the stage from Prinevillc to Koslaud Wednesday evening. I.ec Caldwell arrived here with most of the sawmill Tuesday evening. He was compelled to leave one trail on the road as his load was too heavy for his team, Geo. Holes arrived in Holland with his household goods Tuesday evening. If all goes well with the sawmill his wife will come up from Portland later on. Geo. Hague returned from Prinevillc Monday evening, lie left his father. 1. S llogue, in Priucvllle to be treated for hit eyes. J. N Mastcn came up from llcnd with George. Prank Hummer was in town Priday for another load of provisions for J, h, Poole, Mr. Poole has moved his family out to his ranch nt Heaver Marsh, from Crescent, where they have been living for about a mouth, Curl WUo is hauling liny nut to the stage station for Prank llogue. Mrs. Cook nnd Genevieve Howard went down to llcnd Sunday, returning Monday evening. Mr. nnd Mrs. Geo. T. Sly and daugli ler Dora were visiting nt win, May-field's Tuesday, The tvoya nrouud Holland turned out Wednesday morning to ux up tne new rond south of town so that I.co Caldwell could get over it with the mill. Mr. Hawthorn, the road supervisor, had promised to fix It, but claims the county road supervisor instructed him not to do so uutll after May 1, Such accommodat ing officers are the ones lliat expect to lc reiuctnlercd nt election time. O. T. Ccwiue, II. R. Illrsch and h. A. linker, the drummers with Perry Poin dexler, were In town Saturday evening. O. W. Ingram nud James Ilrady were in Koslaud last Thursday nnd Priday. Chester Hollingshcad arrived in Kos laud Priday with n load of grain for the atHKC company. He left in company with II. II. llinfou of Madras and An tone of I'ritmvlllc. A PLIJASANT nVKNINQ. Mr. and Mr. Huealnjc of (list llnlcr taln Friends at a Card Party. Gist, April 39 Mr. and Mrs. Itiictlitj; Invited a few of their friend to n card xirty at their home last Saturday even ing. Prires were givi-il to theories mak ing the highest number of joints, four urirea being given Jerome Skelton and Mrs. Arthur Tcmplcton won first prio n decK ol playing cards ana box 01 sia tioncry. Chas. Carson ami Mrs, Pord won the liooby prUc pen wipers for both. l.co Arnold was there but forgot to bring his wife. All had a nice time. Those present were: Jerome Skelton and wife, Chas. Carson and wife, Arthur Tcmplcton and wife. Alva Tcmplcton and Miss Haul, Mr. Pord and wife, Mr. Hutting and wife, Ieo Arnold, The Squaw Creek Irrigation Company has a crew of men working 011 its ditch that carries water to the lower desert, Guy McCallistcr is clearing nulto a tract of land on his desert claim near Gist. !.co Arnold made n pleasant call at Gist today on his way to the Summer Lake country. The Ilighlower-Sniith Company is running its mill in full blast. We are glad to sec it running again. It looks as though the wedding belts will ring again soon in tin Gist neigh borhood. We are informed that Ray Poster has bought a third interest in the Sisters lowusitc. Now girls, don't be slow. Alex Smith went to Uend last Suuday and returned on Monday. P. M. Phlllpps made a trip to the Madras country this week after n load of grain. C. L. Gist is doing some repairs on the nurkhard lateral this week. Redmond Items. Hkdmo.sd. Anril 21. We are acaln experiencing the goodness of heart of our Kedtuona ncixiioor. 111c occasion this time is a light attack of typhoid fever In which Mrs. Park is Indulging. In Its beginning it was aggravated by a telegram saying that her mother had typhoid also and wanting to know if she could come home. After a visit from Doctor Helkuap the patient is progress ing nicely under Sir. McKallln's care. Word received last evening from Mrs. Trisler in Ottumwa, lown. stale that she is very sick with typhoid fever, but the physicians nrc confident of her re covery. Priends of Mr. Drown arrived the past week from Winona, Washington. looked over land aud went on to Silver !-ake. They nrc expected back however iu 10 days or two weeks. 15. I,. Iverson has received a part of his stock and has otned for business. Prank Glass has moved into his new office building. Mr. Scheimletn and wife are new ar rival. They have purchased northwest of town. Chillier and Pord have been clearing for G. W. Davie but arc now camped In town where they have bought lots. In the stress of other things to think of wc neglected Inst week to mention that Mr. A. A. Hoiincy, state organUcr for the grange, was here. He talked up the matter of a grange and will probably return to organuc otic iu the not very distant future. It begins lo look a good deal as though wclinve u school house. The shingle are on and some of these day Redmond will tie having an educational house warming. Seeding is the order of the day, J. It. I.auib doe not get back from Nebraska very fast, the only reason bciug that he cannot make a safe of his place there. Should he not be able to get back iu time to put iu a crop this year, we look for his sou De Witt, and a neighbor, with J. H. and another son following later. Mrs. Prank Morrill was 111 and had to luive the doctor a week ago, but 1 com ing 011 finely now. Dr. Helkuap treated tins case nlso. Finds Indian Relic. While nt work on the "desert" recently Wm. McCarty unearthed att Indian relic, in the form of a perfect mortar and pcstel. It stands about 16 inches high, is about 30 inches in circumference aud pointed at the bottom, giving it the appearance of a huge bullet. The hollow, or basin, iu which the pestle was used is about nine inches across at the top. The pestle - is a very heavy oue. -Silver Lake Ore-gonian, MORE ABOUT SICILY Enjoys Experience with a Foreign Mob. VISITS AN ANCIENT TOAlPLn A. M Drake Writes interesting of tfar Ruins of the Temple of Diana and the City of Segesta. Cai'RI, July, March 3t. On Snnday morning wc went to the pretty little cloister of the JJrmiti, now in ruins, aud on to the ceme tery where stands the chapel whose vesper belt brought on the uprisings and massacres of nil the French garrisons on the island, known in liistory as the Sicilian Vespers. In the afternoon wc drove out the Via Macquida where all Paler mo drives or parades, attired in Sunday best, and were greatly amused at the peculiar styles and customs. Sisters seem to always dress alike, from shoes to bats, in cluding a most wonderful get up of the hair, compared to which the most ultra pompadour toilet ever seen in America would be tame. Palermo boasts of the largest opera house in Europe, but as the season had not opened we visited the Poliwama, the second largest. The hotel people had secured our seats, so we strolled over about 9 o'clock, the opening hour. Crowds filled the square in front of the building, but the iron gates were closed, and from suppressed excite ment, it was evident that some thing was doing. We pushed our way to the gates, when suddenly rocks began to fly and the immense stained glass windows over the en trance were shattered. As wc stood bewildered the crowd parted and a young university student addressed us in broken Englbb, praying us to quickly betake ourselves away as there was to be a menace and police and soldiers' coming and the crowd did not wish foreigners to be involved. We backed off to await results. A regular regiment of guards appeared and amid hooting and bissiuir arrested the leaders and hurried them to jail, followed by the sympathizing crowd iu pro cession, we could get no explana tion and the gates remained closed, but an officer seeing we had tickets, escorted us around to a guarded side door through which we were bustled privately. The perform ance was on, but most of the peo ple were reading newspaper extras which men were excitedly selling throughout the theatre. In the row beyond us, a man got into a wrong seat which po excited the usher that he threatened to brain him with some opera glasses. The crowd joined sides for and against till the preformance was drowned and for awhile it looked like a free for all. The audience was equally demonstrative towards the perform ers, so after the first act we got out. It seemed that an Italian Heneyhad just convicted Senor Nasi, a cabj- uet oiuccr anu oiciuan, lor puuuc graft, and the latter s partisans were manifesting their displeasure by forcing theatres, universities, etc. to shut up through out the city. Dur ing the night, bombs were explod ed at the perfect's house and some guards injured. The government had foreseen trouble and took prompt action to suppress it. For several days the streets were crowded and soldiers in squads, making arrests right and lelt, while the store keepers were closing their iron windows at every sign of possible riot. Such is Sicil ian character. Before leaving Palermo we made a side trip to the ruins of the old city of Segesta with its famous old Greek temple of Diana. The place is out iu a lonely section aud wc had intended joining a Cook party, but as the party was abandoned Miss Wood aud I decided to attempt it by ourselves. Startiug in the early morning, iu a diukey fussy little train, we rode for several hours at times following the rocky coart, then through groves of almonds, oranges and olives, darting from valley to valley through tunnel after tunnel, until wc reached Segeatn station There a carragcsentlo meet us from Cas telamarc was waiting, into which wc bundled ourselves, guide books, wraps and lunch, in a pouring rain. Then up the mountain we slowly plodded into a lonclycountry which became more desolate as wc ad vanced, until after an hour the driver stopped by the roadside where a mere trail led across a swollen creek, up over n now de serted country to the heights where once stood the powerful city of Segesta. At the trail a band of briggandisb looking natives were in waiting enveloped in great shawls covering heads arid should ers, who persisted in offers to hire us broken down nags, and to serve as guides. Ignoring their offers. wc set off in a high wind and Kit ing rain, I with coat collar up and Miss wood trying to manage a fractious umbrella. Nothing: daunted the entire caravan joined in to accompany us. Hoping to get rid of their undesirable com pany I selected the biggest of the bunch, a strapping youth of about twenty whose bare feet projected from trousers a foot too short, and constituted him guide and lunch bearer Up and on we plodded through stickv adobe mud remindingonc very much of a wet winter day on the Shaniko fiats. One by one our escorts dropped off seeing wc would not relent and ride, until at last weary and wet, we reached the stone hut of the custodc, from wnicu across an intervening valley stood the old temple. Here wc took refuge to rest and eat our lunch, meanwhile gazing out through a classless window at the temple and kicking away some skinny, mangy curs almost frantic at the smell of real meat and chick en bones. When the rain began to let up we dismissed our guide, with a fee and the remains of our lunch, and assended to the temple. Up there alone in a howling wind a subtle feeling of its impressiveness crept over us. Whether it was the deso lation of the place accentuated by the storm or the dignitv of the ruin whose history is lost in antiquity, I cannot say. But there it stood, grim, gray and weather beaten from toe storms of centuries drippiug with the raiu of the last as if in silent defiance. Of titanic proportions and strength, though at the same time Airy and grace ful, it surmounts a green knoll flanked br a barren mountain of rock It is so artistically placed at a point from which several rauey diverge wai 11 is seen from all quarter like the stage of a theatre and from its entrance one looks out over a vast natural amphitheatre. There it has stood in grim grandeur watching the green grass spring up and die year after year through the 3$ cen turies mat nave passed since iu construc tion was Interrupted br the siege and overthrow of the city, the surviving gravestone 01 a departed nation. As wc turned to leave, the wind sud denly subsided and the sun bunt forth adding lights and shadows to the picture. A mall nerd boy witu two long iioraeu Roman oxen strolled up the hUfside. and in our last glimpse were tandlnit silent and still caiiuit into space as utterly in different to the presence of the temple as It was to uieirs. Retracing our ster to the hut. wc took another trail which scaled the rim rock height, where once the old city had so proudly towered, enjoying one of the most superb views imaginable. What a scene of desolation not ono stouc upon another over tho acres and acres of ruins. We sat down in the old theatre whose 30 tiers of seat rose one above the other cut out iu the solid rock in a little ravine facing the sea, aud in imacinatiou tried to mcturc the olden days. Here had stood a city before the t'iioenicians came. Here it was mat Acathocles returning 307 H. C from his expedition against Carthage, treacher ously massacred 10,000 of the citizens and sold the remainder with the women and children into slavery. It was be cause of sending an nrmy to assist Se gesta against bcituuatitat Alliens became involved in the nuarrcls that ultimately produced her downfall. History re counts many sieges which the city sue. ccssfully withstood, aud many other iu wtilcu it succotubed, but mystery nun silence reigns as to wliat produced this utter destruction several centuries after the beginningof the Christian era. Remaining as long as we dared aw hurried down the mountain back to our carrnge. During the descent we fortunately noticed that the planks over the creek where we crossed in the morning had been carried away, but we were still high enough to see a possible crossing (Continued od pg .)