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R55MECsuaBuasBwwEBsea., i -. The bend bulletin. Vol. XIII. MINI), OHKGON, WKDNKSDAY AFTlUtNOON, SKPTF.MHKK 21), 11)13. 30, r G. G. PRINGLE IS KILLED BY CABS LIVES HALF HOUR AF TER ACCIDENT Hoy While, AVUIi Hint When Train Hacks Inlo Wagon, .Jumps to Safe- t.v Scattered Dynamite Kalis to Explode Funeral Tomoriun. Charles Q. Prlnglc, for four years ac employoo of tho Hend Hardwaro Compnny, died yesterday morning as n result of Injuries received when nn Oregon Trunk train backed Into a wagon In which ho was riding at tho Ohio street railroad crossing. Tho Injured man llvod about 30 minutes after tho accident, dying whllo being taken to tho hospital. At tho lnquost convened by Cor oner P. 13. Polndoxtor, tho Jury found mat l'rmgio was partly responslbel for tho accident und recommended a city ordlnanco to protect grado cross- lngs. Tho nccldont, which resulted In Mr. Prlnglo's death, occurred about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, when ho, together with Itoy A. Whlto, oxpress urivor ror tho Pioneer Livery barn, was returning from tho Hend Hard waro Company's powder houso with a quantity of dynamite. Upon nrrlv- lng at tho railroad crossing on Ohio street, tho Oregon Trunk passenger train crow was engaged In switching two flat cars attached to tho front of tho onglno. According to a statement by Itoy Whlto. who was riding In tho seat with Mr. Prluglo, tho train at tho tlmo thoy arrived at tho crossing Mocked tho wny. Thoy Btood about ICO foot from tho tracks for a few moments and tho train pulled ahead nbout 10 fcot. At Prlnglo's sugges tion and bellovlng that tho train had pulled up to pormlt tho team to cross the track, Whlto whipped up his horses and started to mako tho cross ing. At this Juncturo tho train back ed, catching tho front wheels Just as thoy woro between tho rails. Tho horses had crossed tho track and broke looso. Whlto, on tho right side was freo and Jumped clear of tho train, but Mr. Prlnglo, on tho loft eldo according to Whlto, clung to tho "neat as'tho wffgon 'W.h lifted by tho car and was thrown eomo dlstanco between tho rails north of tho cross ing. Tho wngon was overturned and completely demolished. About 125 pounds of dynamlto was In tho wag on and was thrown In nil directions but nono exploded. As soon as tho; train crow know that n collision hadj occurred thoy hnstcned to tho spot, llndlng Mr, Prlnglo undor.tho trucks of the sleeper. Ho was removed from tho trucks, and by this time, resi dents nearby becamo advised. Upon tho arrlvnl of Dr. II. Forroll, It was found that both legs and tho loft arm wero broker, and thoro woro cuts about tho fnco nnd nbdonien. Not until Mr. Prlnglo was glvon stim ulants did ho loso consciousness. When ho appeared to bo at ease, ho was removed, and enrouto to tho hospital ho died. According to Dr. Ferrell, who nmdo a hasty examina tion, It Is believed that death was Immediately nttrlbutablo to strangu- (Contlnuod on last pago.) CONSIDERATION TlnClilM with her Tnny Saiug nnk Tho Small Hoy with his Small Change The Lady with her Pin Money Savings The Small Man with his Small Roll The Big Man with his Big Roll ARE EACH ACCORDED THE SAME CONSIDERATE ATTENTION AT THE DESCHUTES STATE BANK BEND, OREGON The Bank of Personal Service li. FERRELL President GO TO TUMALO. Everybody Is going to tho Tunmlo fnlr on Friday. It will bo the host fair over held In the - west Bide town, tho band will bo there to furnish music nnd nt noon you will havo tho first chanco )ou ever had to pay for a meal at a Tumalo colebrrtlon. Hero Is your chanco to cot nvnn. - Co to the Tumalo fnlr on Frl - day. 0. 0. 1. SETTLERS HAVE NEW SCHEIE TOJip REDRESS Plan Itiliiglnn Complaint to Public benlco Commission lloily Claims Jurisdiction Courts to Decide. Itesort to tho Public Sorvlco Com mission of Oregon Is under consid eration by tho Water Usors' Assoctn tlon of tho Central Oregon Irrigation Co. In an effort to obtain redress for tho wrongs thoy claim to bo enduring at tho hands of tho company. News of tho contemplated action became known when a copy of a petition to tho commission concerning tho com plaints of tho sottlors was received by tho Hend Commercial Club. Tho settlor's complaints aro tho Bamo as havo had so thorough an air ing In tho past and concern tho mat' tcrs of Beepagc, tho condition of tho flume nnd tho company's uso of main tenance foes and tho expected general condition of tho project on Its ac quisition by tho Bottlers In n few years. Tho novel aspect of tho proceed Ing Is tho resort to tho Public Sorvlco Commission. Lawyers familiar with tho statuto giving tho commission nuthqrlty feel that whllo It may havo Jurisdiction In tho particular caso It will tako a decision of tho Supremo court to settle tho question definitely. At any rato, before results enn bo ob tained from tho appeal to tho com mission a tedious delay lit tho courts will bo necessary. Tho provision of tho law undor which tho settlors plan to proceed, and under which, It Is understood, tho commission claims Jurisdiction Is tho ono giving It authority ovor wator and other companies. SERIENCESJE IMPOSED Norrls, Collins und Mrs. Howell get From Ono to Twenty Years. Sentences of from ono to 20 years woro Imposed by Circuit Judgo Duffy on Dr. RT Rea Norrls, Mrs. Ethel Howell and John Collins, found guil ty by a Jury last week of contribut ing to tho delinquency of a minor. Klda Dell of Tumalo. Execution of tho sontenco was stayed by a notlco of nppeal filed by attorneys for tho three prisoners. Dr. Norrls Is now out on ball, Judgo Duffy having set $5,000 as tho nmount of bond required which wns furnished by two Prlnovlllo men. Mrs. Howell and Collins aro still in Jail, having boon unnblo as yet to furnish bonds. That Dr. Norrls' troublos In con nection with tho case aro far from be ing 'over became npparont yestorday when Sheriff Knox camo ovor from Prlnovlllo and arrested him on an Indictment found by a Wnsco county grand Jury charging ropo. Tho In dlctmont 1b based on acts claimed to havo beon committed at Tho Dalles whllo on tho trip. Sheriff Knox took his prisoner to Prlnovlllo to hold for the sheriff of Wnsco county. E. M. LARA Cashier STR AH 0 R N EN TERSGEN TR AL 0 R E G 0 rT t FAMOUS RAILROAD BUILDER HAS ENGINEER ING PARTY NOW AT WORK IN COUNTRY SOUTH OF BEND -IS GETTING DEFINITE FACTS AS TO COSTS TO DETERA1INE FUTURE ACTION IN THIS FIELD Robert 12. Strahorn, builder of tho North Coast road and of tho Port land, Eugene & Eastern, from tho presidency of which ho recently re signed, has started an engineering party at work In Central Oregon. Careful surveys nro being made of tho moro cxpcnslva portions of tho routes, which Mr. Strahorn has been considering for tho development of Central Oregon, for tho purpose of obtaining oxact Information as to costs, etc. Asslstad by tho Informa tion so obtained Mr. Strahorn will dccldo whether ho will proceed with tho ontcrprlso. In authorizing this nnnuonccment Mr. Strahorn says that ho does not wish tho public tn get unduly oxclted over tho nows nor to got tho Impres sion that this actually moans a rail road. Thoso who havo been In touch with the railroad bulldor's Investiga tions, feel, however, In splto of this warning, that n long steo toward tho desired lines has been, taken, and aro hopeful that Mr. Strahorn will dccldo to go ahead. Only tho termlnll of tho linos un dor consideration nro known as yot, Mr. Strahorn's stntoment speaking of tho lino between Ilond and Hnrnoy vallev and between llond and Klnm ntli Falls, Paisley, Lakovlow, Sllvor Lako and Summer I.nko aro belloved to bo In lino for railway benefits, however, In caso tho work Is taken up. Tho work of tho onglneei'ig partv which Is now In the field will denl first with such divides as that bo twecn Pnlslov and Lakovlow, and bo tweon Sllvor I.nko and Summer Lako, tho work beginning nt Lnkovlow nnd coming northward. Weather permit ting tho surveys will bo extended ovor tho moro dlfllcult sections of tho lines between llond and Harnoy vnlloy and SHEEP UNME ACTIVE Deal Involving 910,000 Closed nt Silver Imko. Snoop buyors In Central Oregon hnvo been nctlvo this week both In buying and transferring sheep from summer to wlntor rnngos. A. doal In wjilch A. Whcolhouso and C. A. Woathorford of Arlington nnd James West of Hicknnll, Wash ington nro Interested was closed last wook In tho Sllvor Lako district In which 12.000 head of sheep woro pur chased for immodlato shipment, Tho totnl prlco for tho sheep is in tho neighborhood of $40,000. Sixteen cars of sheep woro ship pod out of llond yestordoy for tho wlntor rnngo nonr Coloman. Moro than lii.000 head of sbsop aro In llond awaiting shipment to coant markets and winter ranr;ea in tho stnto. FRANCE WANTS HORSES French Army IiisK,ctirs I!uo Or ders to liny r.,000 Head. With tho vlow to purchasing nt least &.000 bond of Control Oregon horses, O. V. Mnuhrlst and I.. A. Pougot, of Paris, roproseutatives of the Fronch government arrived inj 2!5j5lji&565SjS5fejrfKjf A COMPLETE LINE or CARPENTER TOOLS AT: Bend Hard The Company ihnt put the IF YOU'DID NOT GET A CATALOG jg CALL FOR ONE & US. I 3WW1Wf&?9ttl&Si between llend and Klnmath Falls. To Ih'termliio Costs. According to Mr. Strahorn recon nnlssnnccs and other' observations made by him havo failed to satisfy him of tho cost and general prnctl blllty of tho project nnd these Bitr voys are being made for tho purpoBo of acquiring nbsoluto knowledgo of tho cost of thoso portions. On tho less expensive sections It Is compar atively easy to determine upon routes and costs, but thoro nro nljcrimtlvo routes and other complications con nected with tho costly sections, tho true gravity of which only nctunl sur voys can satisfactorily determine. Tho engineering party consists of some 10 or 12 men under tho leader ship of Mr. Strahorn's locating en gineer, N. II, Iloguo. Mr. Iloguo passed through town last weok Mon day, coming overland from Tho Dalles. Hn wan Joined hero bv others of tho party who had preceedod him nnd all wont on south nt onco. Tho party had Its own nutomobllo nnd carried a good supply of tents nnd other camp outfit to onnblo It to stay out comfortably until cold weathor. Mr. Strahorn first visited Tlond In October, 1914, coining In with W. D. Cheney of tho Hend Park Company. Ho exnresscd himself nt tho time an very fnvorably Impressed with tho country nnd was especially enthus iastic over Hend nnd lt prosuects. Ho has been hero nnd through tho sections tn tho south sovornl times slnco his first visit. Various conjec tures as to his fuluro plans wero mndo at tho time of his retirement from the presidency of tho Portland, Eugene & Enstoru, but this Is tho first public Intimation that ho mlgh have undor consideration tho railroad development of Ccntrnl Oregon. Uend Tuesday morning and left on Tucsdnv afternoon In company with li. A. Wright of Hend for tho stock country south of llond whero thoy will buy horses for tho French army. It Is snld that theso army Inspec tors hnvo orders to purchaso nt lenBt 10,000 horses In tho northwest with in tho noxt few months. Thoy will also tour tho Klnmath Falls district. B00STERSPLAN TRIP Prlnevlllo Men to AdtcrtUo Crook County Fair on Long Trip Friday. For tho purposo of advertising tho Crook County Fair to bo held In Prlnovlllo nn October 0, 7, 8 nnd !, a party of Prlnovlllo boosters will mako n whirlwind tour of Jiifrorson and Crook countlos on Friday. Ac cording to tho Crook County Jour unl thoro will bo not loss than BO or fiO people In tho party. Thoy will bo headed by n baild and have along n path Under car nnd a repair car, According to tho program tho par ty will go first to I.nmontn and tlicm on to Madras, Metollus, Culver, Opal City, Torrobonne, Itodmond, Cllni Fnlls, Tumalo. Ilond nnd Powell Ilutto. Tho longest stop will bo mndo at Tumalo whoro tho Tumalo fnlr will bo on for tho day. & - ware Co. "Wur" In Ilurclwura J. FAIll ATTENDANCE CONHIDKHKI). Tho matter of attendance at the various fairs to bo hold In Crook county In October wns dlsciiraed nt tho luncheon of tho Commorclcl Club Saturday. Manager II. II Do Ar inoml wns nppolnted to get out as largo delegations as possible. Tho luncheon this week will bo at tho Pilot Ilutto hotel. SHEWN MILL WRIGHT FALLS TO HIS DEATHFROM SCAFFOLD W. .1. MeCIcmloii Fractures Skull Supposed to llntc Hail l)ly Sik'11 I.uiiws Wife In Portland. W. J. McClondon, of Portland, em ployed by tho Shovlln-llhon Com pany as n mill wrlght, wns fatally In jured last ThuiBday afternoon by a fall from a scaffold 12 feet from tho main floor of tho mill nnd died early Friday morning nt tho Pond Hospital. Tho Injured man was removed from tho mill to tho hospital Immed iately after tho fall whoro nn exam ination wns mndo by Dr. J. C, Vnude vort. It was found that his skull was badTy fractured, meecssltntlnn tho removal of a portion of tho bono. According to Dr. Vnndovert, hnd this been tho only Injury, Mr. McClondon would probably hnvo survived tho fall but owing to n cerebral hcniorrhngo of n serious character nn Immediate operation was Impossible. Mr. McClendon wns engaged In fastening bolts from tho scaffold. Nono of tho mill Wrights snw him full, nnd tho only conjocturo given Is that ho was taken with n spoil of diz ziness nnd reeled oft tho scaffold, striking upon his head. Tho Injured man did not regain consciousness. Immediately after tho Injury Mrs. McClondon, who Is n nurse In tho Good Snmnrltnn Hospital In Portland, wns ndvlsed, but was unable to ar rlvo until Friday night. Tho deceas ed, who waB !15 years old, Is survived by his wlfo, and wns a member of tho Portland lodgo of KlkH.. This death la tho first fatality In connection with tho mill construction In Hend. TO HON) INSTITUTE. Tho annual school Institute for Crook county will bo held In Prlno vlllo on October I, C nnd 0. Insti tute londorn nro J. A, Churchill, stato superintendent of public Instruction, 11. W. Husk, of tho extension division of tho Unlvorstty of Oregon, 10. I), Uessler of tho normal department at O. A. C, Mrs. Kmmn 11. Drazollo, a school supervisor In Multnomah county, II. J. Ilockonhorry of Port laud nnd Chas. II. Joiioh. HIHIIOP PADDOCK COMING. Ilobort L. Paddock, F.plscopal bishop of eastern Oregon, will' con duct! services nt tho Presbyterian church on Sunday evening at eight o'clock, tho uso of tho church for tho occasion being given thtpugh the courtesy of Hov. II. O. Hnrtrnnft. HlHhop Paddock's subject will bo "A Man's Religion." Ho will spnnk In Prlnovlllo Sunday morning. Thoro will bo no services nt nny of tho oth er Ilond churches Sunday night. LI-IWIH' 8UTTLICM LAKH HHPOItT. The report on tho Buttles l.uko Irrigation project by Stnto Kuglnuor I.owls was received this weok by Geo. S. Young, engineer In charge of tho work. Knglnoor I.owls' report boars out In almost every detail tho ropoits mndo by Young and O. Lnurgaard of Portland. A booster meeting hi be ing hold tonight nt tho Grnndvlow school lioiiNo to stimulate Interest In tho bond election to bo held Oc tober 2 nt which tlmo tho resident of thn SuttloH I.nko Irrigation district will decldo whether to vote bonds to the amount of f UOO.OOO. X,fJPXyXJ' "XmSS '5!' C4lV 9twJ9 hxh'W CWSJ mgtj mf(xmjkwj The First National Bank OF BEND. BEND, OREGON l'. C (.OK, I'l evident V. A N TIIKH, Vice- 'ie.ldinl ('. S. 1UJDHON. I ii-bler ('uplift! fully pwld - - i-J'i.OOO Knrplns 2fi,(K)0 ItlCAh HANKINC SUHVICK. Itegulnr bnuk looust Wo aio piepared at nearly nil time to nrnkq ndvnnees to rolldhlo partltw for thulr rMiutruMiauU. Wool and Hhuep loans: r Wo aro NOW prepared to Lr for thn niirchaiMi of slioen. Wo are now jirtiparml to ndvauco you 10a liar pound on nil wool )ou nloro In the WarwboiiHo ul liuud, at 8 pr emit for oltlier U0 days or six months, Hheep iiidii do not Uv to tell at prtMwut nrleM uuIwm they with. The money Is ready fur you. We are NOW prepwred to nmku loans on cattle for six months, for feeillnr purpoaa, but not on range or Mhe stuff. We are NOW prepared to uinke loans on good farm lands, with ttood water right, no matter where located lu Central OrKuu, the blllter the loan the belter, pro vtdiiiK the proposition la a good one and will ttaud clou eat Investigation us to valuoa and title. Write us for information. linH by mail aud aeeuro our service TFe FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BEND w w t !2 K2 9' "55 55E ' ' ,s" BROOKS READY TO ROCK WORK IS NEARLY FINISHED Temporary Planer In Operation K cuwitlou. Iteguii nt Sltciltti Plant for Dry Kilns Luigo Freight Shipments Continue to Come, ltnmovnl of rock' nt tho Ilrnoks Scnnlnu mill site has so far progens ed ns to mako possible beginning of work on tho mill within n fow days. Work on tho machine shop has be gun and deliveries nro being mndo of brick for tho power houso nnd ot sand' nnd gravel for tho concrete foundations of various buildings. ' Trnusfor of tho planing mill mn chlnory from tho old Uend Company plant wnB completed Inst week and tho planer sot up, It Is now tn opera tion whllo tho yard Is slowly filling with lumber from tho Grlllln mill, Tho temporary bunk houses nnd tho cook houso orected by F. A, Sul livan near tho siding nro nearly com pleted, Mr. Sulltvnu has under con sideration plans for a hotel building of 1B0 rooms to bo situated nonr tho point whom tho spur leaves tho mnliv lino. Now work stnrtod at tho Shovlln plant Includes piopnratlon of tho foundations for tho 20 dry kilns to bo ereftted by Carl A, I.omnn, n crow being lniBy excavating. Anothor crow In also nt work framing Umbers for tho pinner and tho railroad Is being straightened from tho point whoro It crosses tho bridge to lino up hotter with tho box factory nnd Dash and door plant. Largo freight shipments contluuo to nrrlvo for tho 8hovlln construc tion, thoro bolng nn nvorogo of four or flvo cars a day. Two boilers havo been received this week from tho Shovlln plant at Itnlnoy Itlver, On tario, A party of Shovlln odlclala In ex pected hero on n trip of Inopoctlou to wn rd tho ond of tho wook. (1ICTS 11IO HANI) OIlDHIt. One of tho lnrgost orders for snnd and gravel ovor given In this soctlnu has Just beon racalvod by llnlton, Iluoteulk ft May, through their loral tuanagor, Frank May, It li for 1300 ynrds nnd wns glvon to &IV!Mnvi !y Carl A. 1. oilman of Suattlif, wild has tho contract for thn building or tho dry kilns for tho Hhnvlln-Hlxon Co. mentioned elsewhere In this paper. It Is understood that Mr. I.obmim will como to Hend within two weeks to bogln work on tho kilns. Mr. Mny Is supplying sand anil gravel for thn llrooks-Srnulnii construction also und will soon begin running tho plant nt full capacity. .Mo.vnxu: con ho.mi: iimtNH. Tho lioino of Montello Coo, tti his ranch oast of town, was burned to tho ground Thursday night with all Its contents. Mr. Coo, who wiih sleeping alone In thn houso, onenpod In IiIh night rlothos. According to Mr. Cue, ho wns awakened by thn lire about one o'clock nuil had Just tlmo to get out of tho house, Mrs. Cjo und their child woro spending tho night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1.. I). Wlost. Tho Iokh amounts to about $2r00 with only I00 Insur ance Tho ciiiiho of tho lire Is un known. l(i money to shoop men rrr HI !, L A A