WEEKLY EDITION
The bend bulletin.
VOL. XIV.
HEM), DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FElUtUARY 1, 11)17.
NO. -18
DESCHUTES COUNTY CREATED DEYOND RECALL
Senate Passes House Bill 135, and County Now Stands
Unassailable; Action Speedily Follows Report of the
Judiciary Committee; Bill Barely More Than Week
: Old; Governor Withycombe Ready to Endorse
"CREATING" COUNTY
Executive Again Congratulates Residents
v of New County
X'ABORS OP THE ANTI-DIVISIONIST LOBBY SINCE
- TUESDAY, UNCEASING OPPOSITION OUT
SIDE OF OLD CROOK, ALMOST NIL.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 31, 2:15
this afternoon, the House of
in the Senate amendment to
The amendment remodels the
clause only, leaving the clause fully effective. The bill
will probably reach Governor
tomorrow.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 31. (Special.) Deschutes county is
created beyond possibility of recall, legifl tangle or tech
nical delay. The long fight against it has ended in utter
defeat, and the county stands a legal and unassailable
entity, doubly secure in its creation by the voters last No
vember and by the action of
House Bill 135 passed the
-vote of 27 for and none against, three being absent, ft
was favorably reported out of the judiciary committee,
and was speedijy disposed of by the Senators.
There was no question to the measure in the Senate,
with the exception that a slight amendment was made in
Tegard to the emergency clause, which amendment will be
adopted by the House this afternoon.
Senator Baldwin supported the bill on the floor, and
previously in the hearing before the judiciary committee.
The absent Senators were Olson, Huston and Bingham.
Representative Forbes has sent the following message
io W. F. King and Roscoe Howard, leaders of the anti
division lobby: "County bill has passed Senate without a
dissenting vote."
Representative Vornon A. Forbos
Introduced the bill In tho House tho
socond day of tho session, and last
'Tuesday It passed tho Houso with
-46 favorablo votes and only 11
votes opposed. Its chief sponsor In
tho Senato has boon George T. Bald
win, of Klamath Falls, senator from
tho Deschutes county district.
it will probably take a day for
tho engrossing commltteo to proparo
the bill for final action bytho Gov
ernor, but Governor Withycombe
states that ho will sign It tho mluuto
It reaches his desk.
Kill h Storm Center.
"I'm gottlng accustomed to 'cre
ating' Deschutes county," said tho
chief oiocutlve. "Wlion I signed tho
proclamation doing It last month, I
congratulated Its citizens upon tho
jfacceM of their efforts, and now In
.signing this bill, which both reere--utes
It and removed any possibility
for further legal quibble, I congrat
ulate Deschutes county and Its cit
izenship again."
? Since emerging fcom the House
with Its big favorablo vote, House
$111 135 has been the storm center
of much activity. A. bard working
delegation from Prlnovllle, rein
forced by Iloscoo Howard, of Des
chutes, and a couple of Redmond
citizens, havo labored unceasingly to
put It to sleep,
Anti-DivUlnnUts ISusy.
Thursday night theso antl-dlvlslon
lobbyists, led by W. F. King, ap
peared bofore the Senate judiciary
commltteo and argued long and ve
hemently against the bill. Their
success was about the same as
the success of Mr. King's provlous
ffprts In tho House namely, thoy
had next to no success at all. But
they kept at It hard, with individual
senators and backed with a generous
ammunition chest of telegrams and
messages which poured In, almost all
Jrom residents of "Old" Crook
county.
Satisfaction Genera!.
J, N. Williamson was ono who
seat long telegrams, and all sorts of
combinations wero entered into to
lhH) .? Influence against the bllL A
notaVfei feature, however, was the
ftlMaat entire lack of objection from
UiIr PMckutes ceBty. The pec-
!W$L;h ew eenaty, with Ue ex
BECOMES A HABIT
P. M. (Special.) At 2:15
Representatives concurred
the Deschutes county bill.
wording of the emergency
Withycombe for signature
the legislature.
Senate this afternoon with a
ceptions of a few chronic obstruc
tionists, and thoso actuated by per
sonal motives, nro satisfied. It wus
brought out, too, that thoro Is wide
spread commondaton for th,o county
court appointments made by Govor
nor Wlthycombo and for tho appoint
ments of offlcors mado by tho court.
Extonslve petitions and tolegrams
came In from tho east side of the
old county signed by frlonds of Dos
chutcs county, urging sonators to
help the bill.
Whlla, of courso, tho primary cred
it for tho passago of tho bill Is duo
to Representative Forbes, thoso fa
miliar with what has transpired ho re
during tho last week givo great cred
it to Fred N, Wallace, of Tumalo,
and II. II. DeArmond, of Dend, whose
consistent work has proved most ef
fective. TWO OPERATORS WILL
BE UTILIZED IN BEND
Western Union Find IlUNlness Hero
Justifies .Additional Help and
Equipment Hull Impressed.
(From Monday's Dally.)
Upon his return to Seattle last
Friday, after spending several days
In Dond Installing, equipment for
the Westorn Union Tolegraph com
pany, J. Nelson, equlpmont man for
the company, was Instructed to ro-
turn to Dend as soon as possible and
add to the present outlay enough
apparatus for two operators.
The Dond business it has been
found Is too heavy for one operator
to handle, and as soon as the equip
ment Is put In tho two-man service
will become effective. I. C. Hall,
who has been In Dend for several
days has been more than impressed
with the town's activity and the fu
ture of the Western Union's busi
ness here.
A new window sign Is being paint
ed today oa the window of the office
today.
mSTOUY OF CONTEST
- GOES HACK TO 1014
Tho final decision, lacking -
only tho formality of tho gov- -
ernor's Blgnaturo to end def-
inltoly all doubts caBt upon -
Deschutes county's right to con-
tlnuo In business as a munlc-
-- Ipal corporation, Ifl tho 'climax -
of a contest lasting ovor four --
years. f
- First proposed In 1914, Des-
- chutes county fallod to bo sop- -
aratcd from Crook by a baro
margin of two and ono-half por
-- cent less than tho G6 per cent
needed to carry. Division was
-- again proposed last summor, -
but oxcoptlng In tho precincts
whoro division was strongly fa-
- vorod, llttlo campaigning was
done proceeding tho November
-- election. Dut In theso pro- -
ducts, tho work was dona bo
woll thnt nn easy majority for
division wns tho result.
Shortly after tho proclama-
Hon of tho now county by Gov-
- ornor Wlthycombo, camo tho
sorvlco of papors In tho quo
-- warranto proceedings, In which
tho antl-dlvlslon olomont
brought suit against tho coun---
ty, through tho liamo of Gus
E. Stadlg, of Lowor Brldgo.
Tho BUlt Is still ponding, but
becomes of no forco by virtue
of tho passago of tho bill "ere-
atlng Deschutes county."
EQUIPMENT .EXPECTED SOON
(From Wednesday's Dally.)
Equlpmont for tho prlvato branch
exchango switchboard for tho new
Pilot Iiutto Inn Is expected to arrlvo
lioro thla wcok and will bo Installed
by special representatives of tho Fa
clfla Telophono & Telograph Com
pany as fioou as It arrives. Tho out
lay provides for 05 telephones, most
of which will bo put In tho guest
rooms.
CENTRAL OREGON
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Map aliowterrltory iHMuiuted by Itoitcue Howard, of the-CentnU Oregon showing of the bul-of-town contest
Irrigation Company, la artkle la the Oregoa .Voter. Mu, Especially ' At Redmond and
BENDITES GO TO
TERREBONE DRIVE
3. II. Miner Is EnUntltiR Nnmra of En
thusiasts Who Enjoy This Sport
To lie Held Sunday.
(From Wednesday's Dally.)
More than 100 Dend people will
participate In tho big drlvo next
Sunday, whon sovoral thousand jack
rabblta will bo subdued by tho In
vading hordes from outsldo points.
J. D. Minor, of Dond, Is making un
offort to enlist a largo party to go
down to Torrobonno next Sundny
morning.
Tho drlvo is oxpoctod to bo tho
biggest that has ovor been held In
Central Oregon, pooplo bolng lnvltod
from nil sections of that part of tho
county. Tho Dond invaders will
loavy on tho morning train Sunday,
Persons desirous of going on tho trip
nro urgod to give their names to
Mr. Miner, so ho may advise tho Tor
robonno commltteo In chargo of tho
drive.
NEW CARS TO COME
FOR THE O.-W. SOON
(From Wednesday's Dally.)
Taking the placo of S. L. Wiggins,
local freight and passenger ngont for
Ktho O.-W. R. & N now in tho east,
traveling freight and passenger
agent, II. C. Oliver, is in tho city,
and will remain horo until Saturday.
Mr. Oliver announced on his arrival
that on February lf. tho dollvcry
of 1G0O now steel framo box cars
ordorcd for tho O.-W. will begin ar
riving from tho east at tho rato of
20 n day, and that Dond will get n
proper sharo of tho supply. He said
that 10,000 O.-W. cars are now tied
up in tho cast.
Mr. Oliver declared that CI por
cent of tho 1916 grain output of the
state Is still to bo shipped.
Livestock conditions throughout
thoKtate, he claimed, iiiu'i'fn -tfiulV
tho stato, ho clalmod, nro of tho bout,
ranchora having mado ample provis
ion for cold woathor by laying In
largo quantities of hay.
LADIES' AUXILIARY
TO ELECT OFFICERS
Members of tho Ladles' Auxiliary
of tho Commercial Club will meet
at 3 o'clock Saturday nftornoou In
tho Council Chambors of tho O'Kano
building, for tho purposo of oloctlng
olllcors for tho prcsont year.
IRRIGABLE
paojccts
oncaoN
LANDS.
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FORTHEANSWER
WILL LEGISLATURE
HELP OUT?
Project Settlers Look to Snlcm For
Aid In CloalriR Leaks in tho Ren-
ervolr Menus Development of
Lands Shown Prtxluctlve.
(From Saturd,ay's Dally.)
TUMALO, OtvUan. 27.r-(Spc--lal)
Tho pnopI.TNTTumalo oro wait
ing for news troJptalom. Whllo tho
farmor la going a"t:,iut caring for his
Block, repairing lihi fences and got
tlng his tools roady for spring work,
whllo his wlfo Is tending to tho du
tlos of tho housohold, their thoughts
nro far away. Whatever tholr farm
probloms may bo, thoy aro receiving
llttlo attention Just now, as thoy
wait for word of tho legislature's
action on tho Tumalo reservoir bill.
Tho Tumnlo settlors, numbering
70 families, comprise ono of the most
progressive communities In tho
stato. Facing conditions that "Boom
ed bound to ruin them until tho
stato camo to tholr aid In 1913, thoy
still stuck to tho Job and In soma
way managed to hold body and soul
together. Then tho loglslaturo ap
propriated $460,000, with which to
completo tho Carey act project on
which they had settled, and tho do
Rpalr In which thoy had viewed their
'vnllMuu ehniiRtMl to a hop vot-
pccumaii ui success.
Money Well Spent.
Tho $4C0,000 was woll nnd eco
nomically spent. All testimony
agrees on that point, nnd whon, In
Docombor, 1914, wntor from tho
main canal wob turned Into the big
reservoir, which was to muko pos
sible tho Irrigation of a larger tract
of land and tho in ore speedy roturn
to tho statu of Its Idvestmout In tho
project, tho futuro Boomed assurod.
Thou In tho spring tho watota In
tho reservoir, na thoy slowly crept
up tho banks, uncovered a crnck in
tho underlying Rtrntn of rock and
bogan pouring awny into tho bowols
of tho earth. Sales of land to bo
watorod from the rcsorolr 'voro
Immediately Btoppod and projoct do
volopmont camo to an end, Unless
tho leak Is closed,, tho project, as
planned by tho stato, cannot bo tho
success It should bo.
"Will tho loglslaturo help usT" Is
tho question of tho projoct furmors,
Lund Is Productive,
Enough has boon accomplished
agriculturally on tho project to provo
that the land, If wujer is brought
to It, will produco crops to support
families and build up homes. Last
summor Hans Johnson ralsod 400
bushels of potatoes to tho aero. Tiio
season was considered by a majority
of tho Tumalo farmers only an av-
orago year, yet tho yields wero cred-
(Contlnuod oa pago 0.)
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Contestants Working Hard.
for Double
Miss Francis Steidl, Bend 470,000
Mrs. J. A. Eastes, Bend ,. 4(55,000
Miss Mabel Bixby, Prineville 401,000
Miss Cora Bates, Bend 430,000
Mrs. Mable E. Lara, Bend :J2G,000
Miss Lucile Parsons, Redmond t. 445,000
Miss Ruth Bayley, Tumalo 427,000
Miss Edith Masten, La Pine 149,000
Miss Cosina Mueller, Bend1 88,000
(From Wednesday's Dally.)
The double voto offer Is rapidly
drawing to a close and tho different
contestants who are taking advant
age of tho extra votes aro having re
markable success in their different
territories. The campaign managers
of the different candidates are using
all their efforts in order to promote
tho success of their nominees and
while their methods differ thoy nro
gottlng tbo results. The surprise of
the camDalrs is the remarkable
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OPINION IS RENDERED
BY GEO. A. BROWN.
LAW0NLYF0RCR00K
Decision Sought by H. H, DeArmond
nt Itiuct or County Court
Having of $2.1,000 Will Ho
Effected hh a IU'muII,
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(From Wednesday's Dally.)
SALEM, Or. Jan, 31. (Special.)
Deschutes county Is not required
to pay a bounty upon jackrubblUi.
An opinion to this effect has Just
boon roudorod by Attomoy aonoral
Doorgo A. Drown to 11. II. UoAr
mond, of Uond, district attorney for
Dcschutos county.
It Ib estimated that this settle
ment of tho bounty problem which,
has boon voxlng tho Deschutes coun
ty court will save tho now county
not less than $25,000 during the
coming year, tho figures bolng basod
uponnho houuty. cost v.'lilcli.ls.plllnc
up in Crook county and upon tho
oxporlonco of Harney county.
At tho last election, tho voters of
Crook county, by a largo margin, ap
proved tho bounty law. Tho kornol
of the attomoy gonoral'H opinion U
that this law applies only to Crook
county, ns such, and that us tho ter
ritory now ombracud In Deschutoa
county Is now not In Crook, Its tax
payers uro In no wlsa governed by
uuy special legislation specifically
designed for Crook county,
Inquiries Many.
Since tho formation of tho now
county Its court Iiob been bcslegod
with Inquiries concerning tho rabbit
bounty law. It refusod to pay any
bounties under tho Crook county leg
islation until tho question had boon
decided. At tho court's roquest Mr.
DoArmond sought tho opinion from
tho attorney general, It substanti
ates tho opinion already advanced
by tho local district attomoy,
"I bellova that this means a dar
ing to Dsschutcs county of at least
$25,000," Bald Mr. DeArmond thin
morning,
Attorney Gouerul DecldeM,
Following Is the completo text of
tho attorney general's opinion:
"Jan. 22, 1917. Mr. II. II. De
Armond, District Attorney, Dos
chutcs County, Uond, Oregon,
"Dear sir: I havo your favor of
tho 18th instant, asking my opinion
(Continued on page 7.)
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Vote Offering
I Prlnovllle, the lutorest In tho success
of tholr ruprosentativo Is growing
keeuer, as tho campaign grown In
ago and tho local candidates must
look to tholr laurels If thoy keep the
Dodge in Uond; In other words thoy
must take advantage of each day left
of the double votes in order to re
gain their standing. Only scroti
day left In which to obtain tho
doublo coupt. Promptly at tho close
of double votes Thursday, February
8, tho Judges will lastall tho ballot
(box and the axtravbtes will he.wut
NO Bill
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