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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1912)
tagk e. T11H MiNl) nUMiKTIN, JURND, WKUNKHDAV, JULY IT, Mill. II! . i i! i 1 I tJ I! r ' THE BEND BULLETIN OEOUOK PATiMRIl PUTNAM Kdttor nml Publisher. U. N. HOFFMAN Managing Kdttor. An Independent nowspapor stnntt tng tor tho miunro ileal, clcnu bust new, clean politics nml tho best In to rests of Dond nnd Central Oregon. One year $1.50 Six months SO Thrco months.., SO tnorlts ot tho rather Involved altun tlnn under discussion, tho means for securing detailed Information nro too Inadequate for tho paper to do more than lionnlt nil sides of tho mnttei thorouRh airing. All subscriptions nro duo nnd I'AYAULK IN ADVANCE. Notice of expiration will bo mailed subscri bers nnd It renewal Is not made with in rensonablo tlmo tho paper will bo discontinued. Tlcaso notify us promptlr of nny ohnngo of address, or of failure to ro colvo tho paper rosularly. i Make nil checks and orders pay- nblo to lletnl Uulletln. AVKDNKSUAY, JUIiY IT. IIMS. nitl.liV WKU. IIAUDIA'! How many people In lloiul reallxo tlnit this Is a "rtwldentlnl ymr" and ns sueh unavoidably dull? need's lumber mills aro running to cnpaolty. ono ot them night nnd day. 'About $50,000 Is being spent hero in tho construction of permanent brick ulldtngs, and probably halt as much ngaln in tho erection of frame struc tures. Tho town s monthly payroll Is In excess of $30,000, and nearly twice that amount Is being paid out for labor each mouth In tho vicinity. There nro practically no vacant busi ness buildings, and, despite the great number of houses that have gono up lurlng the last )car. the demand for homes still exceeds the supply, whllo tho hotoK nitw and id. together with the svoral new rooming houses, all re w filled. Mend's railroad busl- nes b wtMtantly Increasing. There is trigger demand tor labor than ever Iwter In the history of the town, llend pixmIhcU are being shipped out Mtid in return for them money la com ing bMk. Last, but by no means least, tke crops for all this section are xcepttoHally good, nnd a tar larger ae range Is under clutlvation than over More. .', the "presidential dull noes" heoMs a Ml of a myth hereabouts. If Head does this well when the rest of the country is going at half speed, what wilt the town do when tho nat ional throttlo Is thrown open? According to n nottspnper direc tory recently Issued, there nro 24GH dally newspapers In the United Htntoa now, which la 30 less than there wcro n year ng. Weeklies show n de crease ot 40. , leaving 16,229: while seml-wcokltes number 00ft ns ngntnst 017 last j ear, Tho trend Is unmlsj takablo. Tho tendency Is townM cinnnllilitllnll nf linnnra iMltillahitli v..vv. v. i",ru''i t...... . and public apparently ronllxlug wit mnro and more force that one stroll paper Is a l3ttor asset for n commui Ity than sovcral weak ones. At various times there nrlse conl plaints because ot real or fauoled pol lutlon ot tho water of tho Hwolnit ut and near llsnd. While, the wnt kitpply for tho olty continues to I taken out of tho rlvor below tow! fthoso who Imvo fears regarding thj alleged tainting of tho river might il well to turn tholr attention to til liAthlug that Is In almost dully pro rcss nbovo town. AVAlil.ACi: It. SKIiLKlW. Bend has lest a lotcd and respect ed oltlzen In the doath of Wallaco llarton Sellers. Very few men, if nny, who bavo made their homo horo havj acquired a more universal ad miration than did Mr. Sellers. Al though sadly nfllletcd for a number of years, he wan always active, to Ills full physleal capacity, in the faith ful fnlflllnioHt of his responsibilities to the Interests for which he worked nnd to the town. He was as honest nnd straightforward as ho was gen tle; he was courageous, patient, smil ing; he was diligent In caring for affairs that were his own and notable in his kindly respect for the rights nnd privacies of others. A It.YIriMOKK SlllKUOIIT. Whllo thn complete Btory ot ti Baltimore convention, as told In th Clnclnnattl Kuqulrer by James Faulkner, Is well worth rcprlntlif here, ss space will not permit Its fu publication the following Introdud tory paragraph mor'ts attention, t gives n clever sidelight on tho nomi nation ot Woodrow Wilson: If nny person protending to tho possession ot knowledge gives It out that In tho lato fracas at Baltimore, Md., William Jennings Hryan was run over by n steam roller, had his tnll foathors pulled out or lost his hold on the party, bet him ono million dol lars In pennies that he Is full brother ito the monkey of the Jungles. It Is I true, possibly, that William lost the1 consideration and respect at certain' Itolltielans whose little game he' blocked most beautifully, but It ls not true that he lost anything else, i And do no let anyone, however, high j his brow may be. get away with the story that the bote ran the conven- Itlon. That is one of Hon. Theodore, Koosevelt s hallucinations. The politicians were like the cele brated pack of fox-hounds that a mis guided man imported Into a country Infested with wolves. He took them out for a trial run and thoy disap peared In the timber. Whipping up, ho followed tho trail until he enmo to a cabin by the roadside In front of which sat a man with sandy chin whiskers, who was meditatively smoking a cornoob pipe. "Neighbor," said the foxhunter. "did you seo anything of n pack of dogs around here?" Tho smoker nodded. "How were they doing?" asked tho owner, with pardonbble pride. j "Wa-nl, it appeared to me thoy were a Icetlo bit ahead of the wolf," was tho answer. And that's tho way tho bosses won at Baltimore. They nominated Governor Woodrow Wil son after Hryan was through with the Job. The houn dawge, the Tam many Tiger and all the other fore looping animals of polities were tho' fox-hounds, and the Nebrnskan was the wolf of the story. I Almost every month a few mora roads are added to tho network that criss-crosses about Crook county, Kvery month more and more auto moblllsts, many of them strangers to the country, tour the Interior, not to mention hundreds of folks who movo about In wagons, many of them llttlo acquainted with the roads. For all of these, and in truth also for most of us who arc reasonably familiar with the country, there is little or nothing done to make travel easier by pointing out what roads to tako and where thoy load to. The condi tion is particularly bad on tho west Bide of tho county. A signboard at ovary eross roads and Junction would lie a reasonable. Inexpensive and highly boneflaial Improvement. It the county will not take up the mat ter, as It should, it would be well for the various commiinltlos to get out sueh travel aids and see that they aro placed where they will render much uvodbd service. "AX IDKAI, CAXDIDATK." (Tho Public). That Woodrow Wilson will mako a stronger candidate, and If elected, a better Presldont, than any of tho other men In nomination before the Baltimore convention, cannot be thoughtfully disputed; and It is not seriously denied nnywhoro outside tho circles of those whoso enthusi asms wore otherwise enlisted. Ills Independence has been proved under the most trying circumstances. His progresslvlsm has endured tho best of tests. Ills popular strength was demonstrated nt the primaries to bo greater than that of any ot his ad versaries. For purely party purposes others might have beon preforrod, men who boast It is that they Imvo al ways been loyal to tho Democratic machine; but for this transition per iod In the affairs of mankind, whon old things aro passing away and all things political aro bocomlng new, not only In tho United States but throughout the civilized world, Woodrow Wilson is as nearly as pos sible an Ideal candidate. W00DR0WWILS0N A Trite "Scholar In Politics" Nominated by Democrats For the Presidency His Life and Work Some of His rVisdom In I Form. nl booh. Including "The Blnte-Hle-menu of ItMorleut nml Priicllciil Poll, lie." "An OUL Muster and Other Po litical Unsays," "Division mid Iteun Ion." n sketch of tho history of the Union during Us great ihtIoiI of do teftmuumt from IS'-",i to issti. "Mere 1. 1 1 unit tiro," u volume of literary niul hlMorleiil papers, nml n series of papers In the Atlantic Monthly on 'Tim lie. construction Period," "A lllnlory of the American People" npjieared In IINW. When President Prniirls Uitidey Pat ton In 11)00 announced hi Intention of retiring Dr. Wilson wan nt on re look eil uhiii ns III logical Hiici'essnf The fact Hint he min not nu ordained mill liter, though he Is, of course, it Pre li.vterlnn. nt tlrst threatened to xiui.d In the way, ns some of tho faculty nml boerd of trustee wero not In tutor of (Mill) OF TIIANKH. Wo wish to llinnk nil those- who helped us during nnd after tho recent lire which dentin) ud our household properly. Mil. AND MllH. J 1). DAVIDSON, MIIH. A II IIUOWN. NOTION, Nollce I tiiirntiy given Unit (, llond llrlok A Tllu Company hits n Ci ntippliMiiniitnry nrllclen or IniuriKirV. tluu dimming IIh iiiiiiiu In tlm ,,. . Ililuk & Uinhor Compnny, " Dated July 0, 1DU ' lly older nf tho llunril of Dlreitnrs of llend Hrlak f Kiimbei' roiupnii) TIll-J IIKHT KVKIt OFI-'KHKl) AT TIIK I.OWKST HBSEai 1'itirn. Electric Iron Why not be cool when you iron? Wo soil tho "FANSTKEIi" Kloctrlc Iron nt $3.50 nnd It Ik KUnrnntcoil for ton jonrnl It lientn In linlf tho tlmo of othur Iioiih. Actunlly IioIiIh tho hunt twlco rut lout;. It olIVctH n IiIk wivIiik In coHt nnd comfort. Skuse Hardware Company Ori'Kon Street, LVm 9 ? . iSXaBkT -t'ti 4PKntl VflBLJf 1KIBV .agneraaaM Me1 1 t sMKfiaw TiSi' mBHft., ,;xi T(C aaaVi Y ; MEN'S CLOTHING In addition to toy usual complete stock of attractive Men's Wearing Apparel, I purchased in Portland lust week .sonic specially taking NECKWEAR. and a choice assortment of SNAPPY SHOES at prices that will please you, A. L. FRENCH Oregon St reel. i - .- .-., ,,... .,.,.0 444) Wc Nave Taken Over the Unlive Stock of LUMBER of the Pine Forest Lumber Co., nnd are in a position to fill orders of any size. In addition we carry a full Hue of Building- Material Lime, Cement, Piaster Brick and Fire Clay. Also COAL and LAND PLASTER. Photo copyright, 1912, by Amurlrsn Trass Association. WOODROW WILSON. Iaet week The Uulletln published the toxt of a recent lettor sent to tho Dessert Land Doard by J. II. Couch of Laldlaw. John II. Winter, among others, objects Berlously to sqroe statements made In this conimunlca tion. Mr. Wlmor has prepared a re ply which will be ready for publica tion next week, he says. The Uul letln will bo ua glad to lend Us col umns to this tetter as It was to tho Other or to any communication that iajof legitlmnto interest to Its read ers. As regards tho merits and dc- Whst Jn Bld, "Did you hear the satirical reply Jane Bharp made to Tommy OllderF "No; what wns Itr "lie snld, 'It wouldn't be ray money 'you would mnrry me for, would Ity" "And what c.d Jane snyr "She snld. -What awful coueeltr" eiorotaud Plain Dealer. Precautionary, niobbs Why do you strike nord uppe for i loan WfTf time yiw meet hImT You know he never has nny money, Hlnbbs Merely In self de fence, my Itoy. If i didn't strike him he'd strike me. Philadelphia tteeord. The hlchext compart we oin make wlih our fellow Is. U( then' tie truth between us foreveriuore.- ICinvnuia. A clnssined nil In Tho Uulletln Is read by hundreds nnd brings the ad yertiser Rood returua for Clio money Invested. Presbyterian churrh, and his mothrr nan Jessie VtKxlnn, a native of Car lisle, l!ngland. After studylug In prl vnte schools In Augusta, Oa., and Co lumbla, H. C, be entered Prlueeton, from which be wns gruduntcd lu IH7U lie then filtered the Inw collcgu of the Unlvrrslty of Virginia nnd ou gradua tion wns udmlttt-d to the bur of Oenr sla and practiced bis profimsluii In At lanta. Within a few months ho decided that his profession mis not well elm sen. He cloned his olllre ami entered Johns Hopkins unlverxlty as a grad uate student, e InlUIns In history nml pollllcnl eroiiniuy Upon llnlxhliig a two year course lu whs nihil to the chair of history nt llryn Mawr college- Aliout this time he married Ml III len luliie Axhoii of Oeurglu, u niece of the Iter. Thomas A lloyt Tliujf Imvo three duughters-Margurut. Jes sie and idea nor. lu 18Hd lie received the degree of Ph. I), from Jobus ilopkliu inilvurslty for a thesis on congressional govern ment, which was afterward enlarged Into a book that met with muih sue ;cft on both sides of the mean. It was pronounced one of the u blunt coulrlbu tloiH on American political conditions published since "The r'cdcnillut" uml llrjcu's "American Commoiiuciillh." He Qoss to Prlnetton, In 1888 Dr Wilson wus made a mem. ber of Hie faculty of Wesleyau tuilver. sliy, Mlddletowu. Conn He remulneil there only two years, his reputation us u writer and educator hating attract ed the attention In 1800 to the chair of Jurisprudence and political economy nt Princeton. It was not long before the young pro fessor had a notional reputation ns a clear and convincing sneaker and writer. He published several uddl'ioa- breaking tho old precedent. Hut the ijualllUatloiis of Dr. Wilson were so strong that this objection wns quickly oterriddeu uml ho wus formully In stalled us president lu ItxrJ. He brought Princeton to ths front In many ways and Introduced severut Innovations which hate proved sue ccMxful. One of these Is the tutorial sjstum patterned on the Oxford Cam bridge Iden of hating n tutor or sort of assUtuut professor for each group of ten or twelve students. The tutor's duty Is to svv that his charges Iteep up Willi their work aud to help tbuiu lu doing so, 'Elsottd Qovsrnor of Nw Jtrssy, Dr. Wllsou has been a life long Dem ocrat. He was n warm friend mid nil udrcr of Orover Cleveland. When the progressltH Democrat of New J erne) lu 1110 cast nlxiut for a candidate fur governor Dr. WIImoii'h record ns u. stu dent of K)llilrnl hlxtory, his high char filler and general nttnliimuuiH recom mended him as the man of I ho hour lie uas nominated, mid the Judgment of IiIm (Mimical Hpoiuors wns vindicated by his election by u plurality of -til,-(XX), nil hough tils prcdoceHHor, a Itepuli llcuii, bad carried the state by H.OUO. Ah goteruor he secured the passage f u direct primary law, an employers' 'inblllty law that does nwny with dnui sge suits nnd a corrupt practices act regulating the expenditure of cam paign funds nnd making the penalty nf violation the forfeiture of the of fice A public utilities commission tvns created with full (tower to regit, late railways (electric and stenmi, tele phone companies aud nil other public service corjMirntlons, A law was pass ed prohibiting the holding of food In cold storage for longer than ten mouths and providing for the sale nt public nuctlou of all food stored In violation Qvcrturf-Davis-Miller Co. Bend, Oregon. Mccormick mower Wears longer than any other and gives better service, j For Sale by Bend Hardware COr BEND 1 , 1 1'MUIlWlWSWMSSISISBl