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THE BEND BULLETIN. Ilnnl, you know, li K"I"K I" rclchrnte on July 3 till year, Thin In Just it memory joiilfr, lest you forf'et. The wan who get the flusl new today It the live, puh in(?, energetic mnn; the man who advertises. VOL. VII UHND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNK 30, 1909. NO. 16 Bend Is Ready For The Big Celebration. Are You Coming? WEDDING DELLS KING AT REDMOND i Two Popular Young People 2 Mnrrlpil I nut Tluiruilrii T.n...M M147 IlllllinJIII CEREMONY AT BRIDE'S II0A1U Lire Number of (luesls (lather to Wish the Younr Couple (lot! Speed on LMe'a Voyage Other Notes from Our Correspondents. UKnuoxn, June ;. Two of the most popular of Urilnionil's single ilrlm wrre united In marriage on Thursday at high noon hy Rev. Lilly it the home of the hrltlc's parent. The cmitraclini; partCc were Joe McClay, who l In the livery anil feed liutlnrss, and Atnia Archer, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Win. Archer, of the Tctherow hutte district. After a reception at the home of Ihe bride, to Intimate friend, the parly were driven to the home of Z, T. Mc Clay, where over luo of their frlendt par took of Ice cream and cake. Two larKe tablet were laden with presents from menus, besides acveral that were too large to look well on a table; after which Ihe young couple attended a dance glv en In their honor at Zumwalt's lull, Joe had everything ready for house keeping, having rented the Koby col lage opuilte the Kcitmoml school, where they arc now at home. llvcrvlhlng on wheel In till neigh. Ixitlxiod ha tcen engaged for July jrd an 4th, the majority of them for a trip to Itend. It. C. Rotuk of Rostand and Dr. M. V. Tnrley formerly of lleml pcnt two day In Kcdumnd during the week, look. Iiik up Investment in town property. W, I. Myer and wife of l.alillaw were In town on Monday Interviewing our merchant In the Interests of iheChroul clr. 0. O. rorrard of Portland and Ja. C. Wllion of Seattle were looking up proa ct lit Ihlt neck ' the wool on I'll ilay. J. C. Cockcrhain of tlutler, Oregon, (topped over In Kedmoud long enough on i'rlday to accurr title V acveral buil. lie anil reililcnce lot, which he say he will Improve with building Ihe coin ing fall, lie will return after hi hop crop I harvetcd, The Ladle Guild of Ihe l'reibyterlan church, met at Mr. Mcl,atlin'a on Thurvlay to devlte waya and mean to (uriiUh Ihe new church to be built thi fall. Meant, nilrtand Howard of the I). I. & l'. Co. with Trdf. Vox at the throttle of a new "Kealt" ttopped at the new railroad terinlnu to ihake handa, on their way to lleud on I'rlday, Wo hoe to le able to give a Hit ol the owner of acveral new butlne and rcI deuce building now being flgurrd on here, to houc the new optc coming in, neat week, Sunday' hall game between Red inond and I'owoll Ilutte mulled In favor of the home tram, by a tcore of l to 7. J Rostand New. Kosi.AW, June XI. ltd. Mahu wat down lo Holland Saturday, and left for Crane 1'ralrle where he I tatloued for the shimmer, Mr. and Mr. Ileech will leave for Mr. Deceit's station on lllg Klvcr, Monday. Vaughn' sheep paucd through Ko. laud I'rlday, and Canning' went through Thursday, The annual tchool meeting held in Rutland loat Monday wa n very pcac able, and take It altogether, wat a very aatltfactory meeting. A tax of live milli wat levied and a hew tchool ordered built In the north cud of the district. Geo. T. Sly wat re-elected director mid W. G, I'ordham clerk of the hoard. Martin and t'red Smith are putting In n watering place for ranac Mock juat south of the county line In Klamath county. The range Mock have bothered the settler In Ihil vicinity fur the putt Ihtce year M-iy much and uudoublnlly Ihe watering place will remedy the trouble. I.. M, Hurl and Mr, l!va I Wise went lo Ilnnl I'rlday and will probnbly goon lo I'rincvlllr before rrtiiruing. Mi. M. I.. Cook I tliltlng the K1101 girl up on their homcilrad aUive Crcs cent. Mr. .Short, wife of Hrv. .Short of .Sil ver l.nkr, pnstol through Kosliud the first rl ot the week oil lirr way lo I'ortland, Mr. J, H. Ilouue and' daughter Mary, alx Geo., will iciid their Jtli at I'ort Klamitli and will pay Mr. and Mr. Julius l'oole a villi, Geo. fily hit gone to Doris, Oregon, to visit hi mother. Inkllnr from Ulit. (iST, June iH. Grovcr I'ulllini re. turned from the Valley KatunUy with a fine herd of mllrh cow. Gnncr ha an rye for buiiurs. The baulmll game Sunday wa an ca ching one fom start to finish, The icore wa 6 lo 7. Tiuilwr seems lo I taking a mote lately. (Julie a number of Inquiries for timber, and some (ate being mule. The eople of Gltt are going lo pcnd their fourth at Itend. Quite a crowd out from Slaters Sun day to see Ihe Ull game. New scarce Ihi week. Tumalo Items. Tuuai.o, June 37. The sheep hate begun to move through to their summer range on Ihe forest reserve, Crop In thi section arc growing fine at present. Jets and Roy Root went lo Ihe Matote Saturday on a fishing trip. The Spoo-Daytou mill I running out lumber itcadity now. C. I Gist of Gist wat In Tumalo I'rl day peddling beef. Jack Winter and wife returned to Tumalo Saturday, and will remain. Jack went out lo Shauiko last week and of course, like many other, returned with a surprise to Mime of Ihe roptc, Pleaaant Ridge Items. 1'l.itA.SANT UliK-.it, June 29. CroM are looking fine In litis section, with pros pecta for the best yield in five years. Mrs. Irvln I enjoying a visit from her sister of Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. II. 1', Itewlut Is also enjoying a visit from her (liter, Mitt l.ydia I'ike, ol Indiana. Mrs. Green lseirctlng her daughter In till wrek from llarriMtu, Idaho, to remain ermaiiently. Mis I.ancll, formerly of New York hut who hat been visiting recently at Corvalll, I now located on her illicit 40 west of Clint Woods' place, preparatory to making final proo(4hl summer. Jacob t'cterson and Andrew Nelson have been busy for the past two weeks clearing laud. J. A. Chase I now working on the ditch and ha employed Grandpa Giles to look after hi irrigation, Misses l'crii and Doltie Hall who for Ihe past winter have been teaching school in the Hear Creek country, hate re turned In their home here. The Cliue I'alls Sunday School Im extended a cotdlnl lnvitatl:m lo the 1'lrasaul Ridge Sunday School to meet them Sunday, July 4, in a joint discus sion of the lesvin, and a basket dinner, with Ice cream, at the noon hour. Itend Teachers lingaged. Contracts have been signed with the teachers of the Demi school fdr the year of 19091910 as follows, the teachers In each case 'having; accepted the position; Principal, Miss Until Held; assistant princi pal, Miss Anne II. Market of Kock ford, III.; intermediate, Miss Mar ion Wiest; primary, Miss Nona Richardson, Miss Maude. Vandc vert, for the grammar grades, has asked, for n little time before sign ing her contract with the board. WANTED Automobile driver. Slate experience. Write Deschutes Automobile Co,, Haul, Or, ' FURTHER DELAYS ARISE ON DESCHUTES RIGHT OF WAY Report That Secretary Ballinger Had Approved Surveys Was Incorrect Harriman Asks For Bids on Klamath Falls Extension, To Be Submitted Not Later Than To-day. ' The onnouncement which came from Washington on June 18 that Secretary Iintliugcr had approved the surveys for the entile right of way of the Deschutes road where it erotics govern incut laud, has prov en to be incorrect. It now trans pires that only the first 40 miles have been passed upon by the sec retary. The Oregonian explains the eiror as follows: A. A. Ilochliug, one of the Har riman attorneys in Washington, upon examination of the records of the department of the interior, finds that only the first 40 miles of right of way has been approved, leaving three upper sectious'yet to be acted upon. Doth May Ute Ssme Track. However, as to one of these sec tions, the Oregon Trunk Line has just been given 30 days within which to show cause why the Har riman right of way should not Lc approved. This action is necessary because over a portion of this sec tion of the road the canyon is so narrow as to require both roads to occupy the same right of way and the same track. It is the law for the department in such cases to grant right of way lo both roads, but in conforming to the law the road first to obtain right of way is afforded the opportunity to show any possible cause why its compet itor should not be allowed to ttc its right of way. Two Sections Huns; Up. Mr. Ilochliug also finds that as to the remaining two sections of the Harriman road absolutely no action has been taken by the general land office or interior department. Those two Harriman maps remain on file in the laud office unacted upon. The official having them directly in charge stated they would be tak en up when reached in regular or dcr, probably in 10 days or two weeks. He was unable to say whether these two maps arc In shape to be approved when reached or whether they involve still further conflict with the Trunk Line. If there is a conflict over any portion of the road embraced in these two maps, then the Trunk Line will have 30 days in which to make its showing. Ilsrrlmsn Urging Action. Mr. Hoehling states that the Harriman representatives have been working every endeavor to get their maps approved, as they are anxious to proceed with construction. The only stumbling block in their path has been the Oregon Trunk Line. If that company will interpose no further obstacle, he is of the opin ion that the long-standing trouble before the interior department can be cleared up in a month or six weeks. . Was Prepared to Ask for lllda. The official announcement that only the first 40 miles of the Des chutes road have been approved is a disappointment alike to the Harri man officials and the people of Port land and of Central Oregon. When it was announced that the govern ment had approved the maps of sur vey for the entire distance of 130 miles, the Harriman officials con fcrred last week for the purpose ol outlining a plan for immediate ac tion, by which the lew remaining right-of-way questions might be speedily adjusted. Definite steps in that direction, however, were de ferred, pending the receipt of official advices from Washington. Mr. Harriman's Portland representa tives had hoped to be able to ask for bids for construction in about 30 days, but probably will not do so until the government has passed on the maps of survey for the entire distance and all right-of-way prob lems have been adjusted. Secretary Ballinger assured Gen eral Manager O'Brien that the maps for the remaining 90 miles of sur veys will be acted uppn imme diately. HARRIMAN CALLS FOR BIDS. Contractors Asked to Submit rtcures on Klamath Palls Intension. Chief Engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific has called for bids tor the extension of the railroad northward from Klamath Palls and southeasterly from Natron. This is for the building of the Natron Klamath Palls line, which crosses the mountains and skirts the south shore of Odcll lake. Its nearest approach to Bend is in the vicinity of Crescent postoffice, about 40 miles south of this place. Last Saturday's Oregonian said: Bids for the construction of 59 48 miles of the Oregon Eastern rail road, projected from Natron to Klamath Palls, will be received in the Southern Pacific offices at San Francisco during the next two weeks. Of that mileage, 34 24 miles will be constructed south easterly from Nation, white the re maining 35.74 miles will be built in a northwesterly direction from Klamath Fulls. Bids for the construction of the Klamath Falls end of the extension must be .submitted on or before June 30. Contractors, however, are allowed until July 10 to submit proposals for building the 34 miles of the track from Natron, the pres ent northern terminus of the pro jected road, Local Harriman offi cials will make no estimate of the probable cost of building the two sections of this railroad, but it is believed the improvement will in volve an expenditure of approxi mately $2,225,000. Cover Third of Length. The two extensions,- aggregating about 60 miles, for which bids have been asked, cover about otic-third of the length of the proposed road, which will be 198 6 miles in length from Klamath Falls to Natron The extension of 34 24 miles out of Natron is nil In Lnnc county, and is regarded n heavy piece of con struction work. It will penetrate both n mountainous and a heavily timbered section. Construction at :he Klamath Falls end will not be so difficult. The extension from Klamath Falls will terminate in the vicinity of Survey station, at a point somewhat northerly from Spraguc river. The action of Harriman in call ing for bids for extending this road by beginning work simultaneously at Natron and Klamath Falls is ac cepted as conclusive evidence of his detcrminatiou'to complete its con struction. It is figured that to build the 60 miles of track for which bids have been invited will practically exhaust the appropriation that has been made for this road for the en suing year. For that reason addi tional appropriations for further ex tensions are looked for next year. Means Completion of Road. There can be no question of the ultimate intention of Harriman to complete this road between Natron and Klamath Falls. Completion of the extensions for which bids have been asked cannot in themselves add materially to the value of the property. By extending the road 25 miles northerly from Klamath Falls, the northern terminus of the southern extension would reach only into the heart of Klamath county. The construction of an additional 35 miles southeasterly from Natron would terminate the road from the west end in a moun tainous and sparsely settled district. This extension of the road north ward from .Klamath Falls is what the people of Bend have been ex pecting for some time. When it is completed to Crescent 50 miles from Bend practically all of the freight for this section will come in from the south. And if the Des chutes road has not been built in the meantime, the Oregon Eastern nt Crescent will provide a very suit able point from which to extend a road into Bend. Construction of a road into Bend from the south would be an easy matter. TREED ON WINDMILL TOWER Dos Chased Bruin onto High Perch and Mlstreu Shot It. One often hears of dogs treeing a bear, from where the animal is generally shot, but it is not often that bruin takes- refuge at the top ofa windmill tower. The Silver Lake Leader, However, tells about such 00 instance One night recently while R. F.. Lackey, who lives near Cougar mountain, was away from home, the dogs began a furious barking, and Mrs. Lackey went to the door and urged them on. The night being dark the lady could not see what the cause of the commotion was, but knew the dogs had some thing up the windgiill tower. Next morning as soon as the lady could see, she went out with her trusty rifle aud nt the top of the tower she spied a large brown bear. Bring ing the gun Vo her shoulder she soon had a bullet speeding on its way to find lodgment in btuiu's brain, which tumbled him down from his lofty- perch a dead bear. Mrs. Lackey has to her credit this year tlie killing 01 two coyotes in I addition to the. bear Inn A U IP r AC BOUNTEOUS CROP Farmers Report All Grains and Grasses Looking Fine. STRAWBERRIES YIELD WELL Prospects Are Brlrht for One of the Best Harvests bi the Mlstery el the Bead Country Coadkteas on a Few Ranches. Indications are becoming bright er every day for one of the best crops, in 1909, that the Bend coun try has ever produced. From all parts of the segregation come re ports to The Bulletin that crops are looking fine, while some state they believe the harvest this year will excel that of any previous season. One of the first reports regarding favorable crop conditions was phoned in by Fred Sherwood, who, with his brother', has a fine farm in the Pleasant Ridge section. Mr. Sherwood stated that all kinds of crops in general look better now than they have at any time since he came into the country some three; or four years ago. The cause for this fine condition he ascribes to the very favorable June we have had warm weather and no frosts. G. L. Moore, who is ditch rider on the Central Oregon canal, also comes in with very favorable re pot ts. He states that wheat, on the Tom Langdou and C. E. Swan- son places near rowcll Duties, stands above a man's waist, and these two ranches are only ex amples of many others In that sec tion. Mr. Mitchell has a field of alfalfa that reaches to a man's thighs. And all other crops, are equally as good. Spring oats stand about to inches high and are growing rapidly. The local strawberry crop is now on the market. There will be a very good yield. I. J. Wilkmsoa has been selling from bis patch to Bend peopk, and L. H. McCann, on the former Coons place, expects to gather a large harvest of berries from his patches. Mr. Ncff, whose farm lies a few miles cast of Bend, estimates he will have about 100 gallons of strawberries. G. W. Reynolds sent in to The Bulletin a sample box of his berries, grown on bis farm near Powell Buttes. They were exceptionally large, and bad a fine color and flavor. Henry Linster's gooseberry bushes are loaded down with fruit, and L. D. Wiest will have a heavy yield of currapts from bis bushes. These are only a few reports of crop conditions that have come in to The Bulletin, but all with whom we have talked are confident the Bend country will produce a very favorable crop this, year In spite of the cold and backward spriug. Shows Healthy Growth. Elsewhere in this issue, The Bul letin publishes the second statement submitted by the First National Bank of Bend to the U. S. treasury department. The report shows a substantial increase in business The bank had, on June 23, tl e date of the report, $67,777.48 in deposits, an increase over the pre cedlug report of $14,396. The bank is also carrying a safe cash reserve, having "$57,ai2.a6bn hand.