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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1909)
WHE&fc ARE YOU PLANNING TO CELEBRATE? REMEMBER, BEND WILL HAVE THE MOST UNIQUE CELEBRATION IN CENTRAL ORJtGON llend, you know, is Kolng I" Cftetimte mi July J IliU year, Thl l just n iiiemoty JKger, leal yon forget. The man who gets the bust net today in the live, push 1 11 8, energetic man; the man who advertises. 1 JtlJLr Jl31--1JL IIJ J-JLrLr 1 11 VOL. VII IJKND, OKKGON, WItDNKSDAY, JUNU 23, 1909. NO. 15 EVERYTHING IS IN READINESS Bend's Celebration Promises to Uc a Live One. A dOOD PROGRAM OP SPORTS Commltieci Have Been IJuslly at Work, and I'lfial Arrangements Ara About Complotad-Larie Crowd la Uxrwcted, Preparations arc about completed Tor that bit; celebration at Bend on July 3, and it U now wore evident tian ever that the eagle will scream until it'a hoarse and a few more good bard knotn will be tied In tbc tull of tbc British lion. The com. mitten on aporti it making good progress and tbc program outlined promises an afternoon of much en joyment. I'rincville has promised to tend over the best ball team they have, and their manager writes that if they are defeated they will have no complaint to offer they intend to make a Rood hard run for the money. The Bend team will go to I'rincville Sunday morning to play there on the 4th and jth. Tom Triplett, who has charge of the fishing crews, has bin men se lected. One crew will work l twecit Dcnd and the Dutch John place, white another will be sent farther tip river. A team will bring each dayV catch to town, where the fish will be packed on ice. This wilt be the program for bcveral days preceding the 3rd, and an abundance of those fine, edible Deschutes trout will be ready for all the visitors that may come. The ball game and the trout liar beetle will be the two bin drawing cards of the day, but there will be many other attractions. The com mittee arc arranging a program which will be given largely as fol lows: HOKNINO XXKHCISKS. 013a Parade, accompanied by band. into Program, consUtinu of muiic-and oration tiy ex-Congressman I. N. Williams, c.( Priuevlllc. Utoo I'lsfi barbecue. AITf.HNOON STOHTS. lit 3lld Ujo lloy'arace J.00 f 1.00 I'olato race J.oo l to I'rce-fur-all race . 5 00 J.io Sack rare J. 00 ro 1'at nun'a race... J on uyi Hall ame 7S.( joo immediately follow !iik hallgamc, on the diamond . Iironcho riding .. 15.01 ..... Pony race I J.oo J.cw , l'rcc-forall horse race,..,., 15 r 10.00 Slow race 10.00 5.00 Other tulcrcstlug amusements if lime KTIIllU. And the big bowery dance at night un der the auspices of the llcud ImimI. It will be well to explain the slow race. In this race the horse that crosses the wire last gets the purse. Hut No man will be allowed to ride his own horse. lie who enters a horse in this race will be obliged to ride one of the other steeds, and there is a strong suspicion that each contestant will strive with might and meiu to beat his own horse to the goal, Nothing but good sound horses will be allowed to cuter no cripples. Chairman of Sports II. J. Over, turf it-quests those who have horses that can buck to bring them to town for the occasion; and also re quests all who enn ride, or who think they can, to cuter the bron cho busting contest. The plan now contemplated is to huvo judges ap pointed who will pass on the skill of the various buckiirooi. The purse will go to the mnn who rides his mount best for a certain stipu lated time. No man will be allowed to ride his own horse. This is n brief outline of the day's sports, but It cannot be de scribed adequately in print. It will be a full day chuck full. From early sun rise, when at noisy guns will boom forth the anniversary of the nation's birth, to the wee' una' hours of the following morning when the tired dancers seek their homes, there will be much doing and plenty of it. Jivcryonc in this neck of the woods is planning to attend, and Bend is preparing to take care of a large crowd. MAY ClfANOB MAIL ROUTE. Madras May Do Made Distributing I'olnt Instead of Prlneville. The report, which is said to come from very reliable sources, Is current that an effort is being made to secure an important change in the mail service for Crook county, whereby the main star route, now running fromShanlkoto I'rincville and thence throughout the county, will be rhiftcd to the west side. If the change is secured, the mail will be carried from Shaniko to Madras, which will become the distributing (mint for the rest of the county From Madras a line would run to I'rincville and the eastern part of the county, while another would run from Madras to Hcnd and serve all the intermediate points. The arrangement would give the west side much belter service than at present. It would give the west side towns direct mail rnmmuni cation with each other, (all mail now having to go through I'rinc ville,) and during the winter the mail would arrive much earlier. During the wet reason of the year the west side roads arc much tat ter than on the Shaniko I'rincville route and GrUzly mountain would be cut out, all of which would re sult in putting the mail into Hcnd several hours earlier each day. Furthermore the mail for Central Oregon is becoming so large that It makes a very 'heavy load for the stages and a prodigious amount of work for the I'rincville office. There is no need of hauling all this mail to Prlneville when it can just as well be dropcd at Madras, and distributed from that point. 0. M. Coructt, who has the pres ent mail contract, favors the change, it is said, and will use his best cITorts to secure ft. There can be no reasonable objection to the plan and it is believed the depart incut will order the change. Inkling from (list. GIST, June it. The fine rain of last week did worlds of good heie. There was a large croud out Sunday at Sisters to see the tall came. Next Sundny they wilt play at OUt. A Kovcrr.mcnt inspector was In the lower desert country recently rounding up some of the settlers that had ga em inent laud fenced. They will have to take down their fences, so he a)s. Road Supervisor Clms. Carson cine near having a runaway Sunday. As he waa driving along the road, one of the traces came unhitched ami the horse starteil to run. lie ran some distance before Mr. Carson could gethim stopped. No damage was done except losing n bolt out of the singletree. Oru VauTatsel, the real estate, man of Madras, has rented the Zumwalt & Mil ler building at Sisters and will open an office there. Lost or Strayed, Drown Setter dog, weuring col lar witli blank name plate, Wus last seen nt Pilot Dutte Inn Satur day morning. Return to II. J. Ovcrturf, Hum!, aud receive reward. EARLY CONSTRUCTION ISAGAIN PROMISED Secretary Ballinger Has Approved Harrimarw Right of Way up Deschutes, and General Manager O'Brien Says Bids May Be Called For Within 30 Days. Secretary Hallinger approved on June 18 all the remaining maps of right of way location filed by Har riman's Deschutes Railroad Com pany, as well as the maps of the Oregon Trunk Line. Nothing now stands In the way of building the Deschutes road into Central Ore gon. Hither Harrlman must "make good" by building the road or prove hiui-eli an unmitigated prevaricator and his promises not worth "two bits." General Manager O'Brien states that they now have 70 per cent of the right of way secured, and that he hopes to clean up the remainder in time to call for bids on con struction within 30 days. If the remaining right of way can not be secured without condemnation pro ceedings, the matter will be car ried into the courts. When finally adjusted, construction will be pushed with crews probably at at each cud and one at some middle point. 70 for Cent or Right of Way Secured. "While wc have not been official ly advised that our maps of survey have Iwcn approved and that the government has removed all ob jections, so a as it is concerned, to the construction of the Deschutes road, I assume that such is the case, judging from the published reports from Washington In yes terday's papers," said Mr. O'Hrlcn Saturday. "Wc have secured rights of way to 70 per cent of the 1 70 miles to be covered by the road. The only obstacle confront ing the immediate construction of the railroad is the question of rights of way over property along the Deschutes river, owned by private interests and held for the develop ment of water powet "Until now wc have uot attempt ed finally to adjust pending con troversies with these interests. It was only when our maps received the approval of the proper officials at Washington, that we gained a standing iu court. Wc will now proceed immediately to take up these questions aud settle them as speedily as possible. "Monda) morning I shall hold a conference with our right of way aud legal departments, when these matters will be taken up for con sidcratiou. We shall make to these power companies what we consider reasonable offers for the concessions 'desired, and iu that manner believe we will be able satisfactorily to adjust the situation nud at the same time conserve the interests of nil purtics. I am ex ceedingty hopeful nn adjustment of all unsettled right of way prob lems can be accomplished without resorting to the courts, If, how ever, we fall after doing all wc can to reach an agreement without re sorting to litigation, wc shall bring condemnation proceedings for n final determination of our rights and what we shall be required to pay for them. Appropriation la Waiting. "Just as soon as we succeed in securing a clear and uninterrupted right of way covering the entire distance of 1 20 miles wc shall im mediately call for bids and proceed with the construction of the road just as rapidly as money and labor will permit. Vou may rest assured we are just as anxious to proceed with building this road as are tbe people of Portland and Central Oregon, the district to be served. Wc have been given the appro priation necessary to tbe construe tion of the Deschutes road and as a business proposition ate desirous of expending this money and in the construction of tbc road insure the premised returns on the invest ment. Until the road is built and in operation our $5,000,000 is prac tically a dead investment, deprived of earning power. "It we succeed in adjusting the few pending right of way problems expeditiously I am satisfied we will be in a position in 30 days to ask for bids for building the road. When construction work is started it will be pushed vigorously that the toad may be completed in the shortest possible time. In all probability not less than three con struction crews will be employed. Work will be started from both ends and a third crew will begin at some central point." It is .said that the engineering forces have estimates and all other preliminaries in etich shape that they could go right ahead with the work at once. The building of the line will involve heavy rock work through perpendicular basaltic cliffs, long tunnels through similar formation and long bridges leaping chasms at dir.y heights. For ex ample, the bridge across Willow Creek at the isi-mile point will be 1100 feet long and more than 100 feet above tbe river. The bridge across Crooked river will be a canti lever structure, 302 feet nbovc the gorge and 350 feet long, the canti lever span being 350 feet in length. A NEW LINE FROM LAKGVIOW NevadaCallforulaOrecon Will BuHd tlxtenslon to Tno Dalles. Invasion of Harriman's Ccutral Oregon preserves by a hostile road heretofore not considered to any great extent by the public, may be the reason for the activity on the Deschutes line announced in the foregoing article. T. T. Dunaway, general manager of the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway Com pany, has announced publicly that his line will be extended from Al tttras, California, through Lake view and across the state to The Dalles. That will bring this line directly through the Hend country and through Harriman's private Central Oregon pasture. The extenslou will cost approximately $5,000,000 and will be commenced within the next three months. The road at present runs from Keno, Ncv., to Alturas and is a narrow gauge, but it will be built standard width throughout. General Manager Dunaway says that work will be started at tbc north cud of the line. Within the post two weeks, the officials of The Dallcs-Dufur line have announced that they will extend their road southward this summer. Can it be that The Dallcs-Dufur and Nevada- California-Oregon are working in harmony and that the two lines will be extended to meet somewhere in Central Oregon? Speaking of this extcntion Gen eral Manager Dunaway said: "For some months past the di rectors of tbe N. C. O. have con templated this work and now it can be statad almost definitely that tbe scheme will be jcarrled out. We have the money and intend to do the work. "It is our purpose to commence tbe extension of tbe line into Lake view from Alturas within the next few months and that portion of tbe road will be built as a standard gauge. That is, standard gauge rails and ties will be used and the roadbed will be built for standard gauge rolling stock. When that work is completed wc will begin building an extension to The Dalles, a distance of 278 miles, as a standard gauge road. "Wc will begin tbc construction of the road as a standard or broad gauge from the north for the reason that we can get the standard gauge engines and cars in from that di rection and could not get them In through Reno without delaying traffic over the line. Once the work is started in the north, how ever, it will be rusbed through to completion. I can state that it will cost the company more than $5,000,000 to do this work. "Tbc road is at present 184 miles in length from Reno to Al turas, and it is 58 miles from Al turas to Lakcvicw. Then from Lakcvtew to The Dalles is 278 miles, which will make the road 520 miles In length when the work is completed." Redmond Notes. Redmond, June jo, I'. K. Daytou was over from Laidlaw Tuesday. C. M. Redfield was attending to com pany matters at this end of the segrega tion Wednesday and Thursday. He re ports n Brest scarcity ot labor. C. N. Marten, traveling salesman for the D. I. & P. Co., was in town on I'ri- day on his way to Dend with John II. Washington of El ma. Wash., and O. A, Simuelscn of Coeur d' Alene, Ida. The following prospective settlers were shown over the segregation by the ral estate men during the week: I. C. Calkin, Pueblo, Colo.; M. Edin, Oak land, Calif.; G. V, Mead and Milt Los aer, Portland; B. C. Doric and T. W. lc, Denver, Colo.; M. h. Strong and 1. W. Morse, Seattle, Wash. The melo-drama, "Rescued," which was presented by local talent at the new tchool house iu the Tetherow butte dis trict In April, was repeated with the same cast on I'riday cvenlug at the Red mond school. The receipts, fit, will be divided between the library fundi of each school. The regular Saturday night dauce at Zumwalt'a halt drew a large crowd this week. Notice to Dee Owners. All dogs not wearing tax tags on nud after July 25, 1900, will be taken care of uccordiug to ordi nance, J. I. Wkst, Marshal. For Sale, Good strong 3'lnch wapon. 5tf Wn, Arnold. UNION HIGH SCHOOL PROVES UNPOPULAR District South of Bend Votes Against the Plan. OBJECT TO INCREASED TAXES Chief ReaH) lor FaHure Dm i Fear That It WwM RetuH Ik tlffiser Taxatlm-M. Trfftott Seeled Director) E. A, Saka, Clerk. The question of establishing a union high school district from dis tricts No. 12, 34 and 72, with the high school to be located at Bead, was defeated at the annual election held last Monday. Tbe Bead dis trict, No. 12, gave 57 votes ia favor of, and 3 against it; district 34 vet ed 13 to 1 against. From district 72 The Bulletin has been naable to se cure any report. We have 'phoned far and wide over the district, bat no one, whom we were able to get on the 'phone, knew anything about the union high school elec tion. Failure in one district, how ever, was sufficient to defeat the plan. To have bcea suc cessful, would have required a majority vote favoriag it in each district. Tbe chief caase of the op position waa the belief that the cre ation of the anion district weald in crease taxes. In the Bend district two Basses were placed ia Boaiaaliea for di rector to succeed Joha Steidl, namely: J. N. Hunter and Millard Triplett; for clerk the aomiBatioas were, E. A. Smith aad L. D. Wiest- The ballot resulted: Hunter, 20; Triplett, 38; Wiest, 18; Smith, 42. Triplett aad Smith were thus elected. Considerable discussion was aroused at the polls over the ques tion whether the interests of the school would not best be served by employing a man principal. Some proposed that a ballot should be taken on this question, and while a few opposed it, the majority were in favor of getting the opinion of the voters on this point. Those who opposed the employment of a man principal conteuded that it would cost the district considerably more per year to secure a man as proficient as tbe present very able principal, with tbe grave possibility that a principal might be secured who was not nearly so well quali fied. There has been some dissatisfaction during the past few months among Bend parents regard ing certain conditions iu tbe school, the chief complaint being lack of discipline, while a few, whose chil dren are below the high school, contend that their children have not learued as rapidly as they should. It should be understood, however, that there is no complaint, by a large majority of the parents, regarding the efficiency of any of the teachers. Mauy are firm in their be lief that the school baa grown so large that it needs a man at the head of it. This dissatisfaction with general conditions found ex pression in the vote on the priuci patship, which resulted: Iu favor of man principal, 45; iu favor of lady principal, 9, Clerk Wiest read a brief report showing the financial condition of the district. The report was not in a form suitable for publication, aud Mr. Wiest has been too busy to pre pare it for tins week. The report will be given in full in our aext i&ue.