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. -,x WEEKLY EDITION The bend bulletin. VOIi. XX I1ISND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OIIBOOW, TfM'ICHDAY, APRIIj 20, 1082. U. S. INSPECTOR HERE TO PASS UPON PROJECT George , Archhold to Have Report In Soon FINDINGS ESSENTIAL IJn of Crniut Prairie Hllt Ami H " irnxlmi nf Ilccliimiitloii Tlmii Will Depend t'Miu llrroiif incnilnlliiiiK. To gather Information necessary for a report mid recommendations lo tlm department of lliu Inturlar on which will depend Hi" securing by tho North Count Company of tlm Criinii Prairie reservoir nltu mid lliu extentlon of tlmu for tho reclamation of liuidH In sngruKiitliiu lints (I uml 1!), (leorgo II. Archhold, Inspector for tlm general land officii nl Washing Ion, I). (.'., In In Bend mid him Imme diately started on hi work. Kiim lllnr with Central Oregon conditions us tlm result of Inspections Involved In making hlii voluminous ri'poit of 191 C niul IiIn supplementary report of 1 919, Archhold will coiicmitruti! on tliu now (ill it ncH of irrlKntlon his lory ulncii tlm latter ilnti, lucliidltiK thn transfer or rights by tho 0. O. I. Company, nnd thu standing of thu recently organized North Cm ml Com pony. ltrMirt Dili" II)' .Mil)' Tlmt hu expects to hiivo liU ri'port completed by May 1 for considera tion liy tho department of tho Inter lor. In Archhold'H statement A fnvorutilu report on tho uu of thn Crnnu Prairie reservoir slto anil ilnm extension for reclamation, urn thn final essentials for development, John Dubois, hood of thn company's engineering department, states, TAX COLLECTION RATIO IS LESS G7 Per Cent Announced By Terril Delinquencies of 2 Years $130,091.95. Tun per cent less limn last year is tho ratio hotwenu Iiixiih received hy tho Deschutes county shorlff'H of ficii und tho first halt of tuxes col lectable show flgureH given by Deputy Sheriff C. T. Torrlll for April 15 The percentage of collections to date on 1921 assessments Is G7, whllo on tho sumo data In 1921, thn percent ago of collections on 1920 nsacss montn was 77. Half ot tho levy placed on the sheriff's books this year Is $307, 103.C-I, and of this $200,970.04 has been taken In, On $249,698.04 col lectible last year, $102,544.62 hud been received on thn corresponding dote. Delinquencies on taxes levied on 1920 und 1919 assessments total $130,091.35, Torrlll said, $33,518.40 being listed ngnlnst tho taxes collec table In 1920, and $07,172.89 against tho tax rolls turned over to tho sher iff In 1921, accurately reflecting tho Influence of depressed economic con ditions. Cash payments required by law ll'rJmako heavy Inrquds Into tho funds mado available through the work of thn collector. Such nro tho stato tux ot $102,110,70, payable In two Installments, nnd bond Interest amounting to $0,891.13, BEND MEN TO SHOOT AT PENDLETON MEET Iocnl Team Mny He Knterctl -Northwest Tournament Is Mny 19, la and 14. ' ' Soversl shotgun exports from Bond will attend tho, 38th annual tourna ment of tho SportBmon'a, association at tho northwest ut Pendlofon May 12, '13 nnd 14 under tho ausplcos of tho Pondlotoux Itod &. Gun club, It was Indicated huro today. Just who will go Is not yet known. A regular team ropresontlng th'o Iloml Trap xhootlug club may ho ontered, ThlB tournament Is not to bo con fnsod with tho Orogon Statu Trap shooting association tournamont to bo hold in Bond just a month later. MOVEMENT FOR TEN HOUR DAY FAILS, STATED 8 Hours Resumed By Mills After Trial 4-L PRESIDENT HERE With Lumber .Market llittir, f.iihor Market Shirk Taken t't Hiiinn lllnicult)' In (letting Men Hlrerigflirim I'onIiIoii. Thai tho movement to Increase tho worklim day from tlm eight hour standard set hy the Kour Is I weak ening, and that only a hiiiiiII propor tion of tho II 1 1 1 Im In thu northwest which hiivo koiim to nliiu or 10 hour production will huvu failed to come hack to night hours hy tho oml of 00 or 90 days, wan thu declaration thlN morning of Noriniiu F. Columnii, head of thn employes' anil operators' organization, on IiIn arrival In Bend Wednesday to attend tho seml-an-nual mooting of representatives of tho 12lii dlntrict. In tho last few week tho lumber market him strengthened with grad iinlly Increasing demand, Coleman huIiI. "With liuttur prlct.'H mid morn ni'itd for men, thn slack In tho lulior market U being tukuu up, mid oper ators who huvo gone to a longer workliiK day urn finding It Increas ingly difficult to net crows,'' hi: nn alyreil thu Munition. adding that thu groat majority of oprriitorn would ho very reluctntit to change from tho eight liour standard. 1 urn 1 1 mi ImpiHuilliln Tho fow who havo Increased thu length of lliu working day hnd as their only hopo tho poiuilhlllty that othcim might follow their lead, ho ox Iilalned. Thin hope lino not been real ized, nnd tlm deserters will coino back, Two or three tn 1 1 1 it which are peculiarly situated, may contlnuo on n nl no or 10 hour busls for tho bal ance of thu year, however, Coleman said. FATTYTOGET ANOTHER TRIAL Hays Will Make Probe- Bend Fans Silent When Arbucklc Film Announced (Ilr Unllrd I'rru to Thn IWnJ Ilullctln.) NKW VOI11C, April 19. Fatty Ar buckle will havo another trial, tills tlmo on a charge of causing tho death of Virginia Uuppo at a "wild party." This tlmo thu trial will bo a searching Investigation conducted by Will II. Hays, movlu cznr, whoso first official act was an order cancel ling all Arhucklo film bookings, und discarding all films In which ho ap pears. What proccdtiro will be used In tho Investigation has not been decided "Fatty" Arhucklo has not boon ac quitted by Bond mnvlo fans, It was shown Tuesday when nit utter all unco greeted tho scrouu announce ment that tho comodlau would up- penr In n film coming to Bond In tho near futuru. Tho sc roe nod words ac companylng tho announcement In formed tho crowds which packed tho houso for tho showing ot "Tho Sheik," that thoy could evldunco tholr appreciation by their applause. It was ono tlmo when silence failed to glvo consent. Tho funs polled a unanimously nogatlva voto. RANCH IN ARNOLD IS SOLD PORTLAND. MAN J. E. Church ot Portland has pur chased tho L. S. Rlckard 40 aero iranch in the Arnold district, the Bon- ham Falls Really CO, Handling the doal. Mr. Church plans, to make his homo on tho ranch, Ho loft last night tor Portland aftor completing tho deal, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH WILL BUILD Under thu direction of Harry Gnnt, work Is being started an tho coniitruntlon of n $3,000 church building, for tho. Christian Science society, In River Terrace. SETTLERS MAY SIGN NOTES TO OFFSET DELAY 100 Unanimously Agree At Pilot Butte Meeting CAN'T REBUILD NOW Will HiiIm! HtWS.OOO Or Mori- ,1'or Temporary I'liuim-lng -Included HelllrrK I'nll To Agree On I'rlcv I'or Water Her Ice. Nearly 100 settlers of the Central Oregon Irrigation district unanim ously agreed last week nt a meeting at Powell Butte, to sign notes for temporary financing of tho district, amounting to between $25,000 and $30,000, This step wus made neces sary by thn deluy In bonding thu district, resulting from thn appeal which the excluded Pilot Ilutto canal nettlom havo takou to the supremo court, contesting tho validity of tho election of Inst fall. Rebuilding of the C. O. I. canal will bn postponed until full, us a re sult of this situation, according 'to J. 0. McUuffle, secretary of tho dis trict board ot directors. Meanwhile tho old canal will bo repaired for UNO this year. Tho proposed nolo IsEtin will tnkn care ot this and other maintenance cost. Iditer Mining Planned Meetings of settlers to discuss this plan will bn hold nt Alfalfa tonight; Friday night at Griingo Hall, and In Redmond precinct some tlmo next week, tho date to bo announced later. The district's offer to furnish water nt $1.26 an acre to the Pilot Butte settlers, who were excluded at tholr own request at the last elec tion, was refused. Tho excluded set tlers demanded that a rata of 80 cents an acre be fixed, or that the cott bn arrived at for tho Pilot Ilutto canal separately. .Settlement of this question was expected to havo meant thn dropping of tho appeal on the validation proceedings. Srmign Against .Notes Only a light attendance was re ported at tho C. O. I. district lrrlga- tlou mooting held In tho Orange hall section Friday, held to consider tho question of a $30,000 noto issue to finance tho district until the val idity of tho December bond Issue can be passed on by tho supremo court. Considerable sentiment against such a plan was evidenced, it was stated today. Director J. G. McGuffio reports that the settlers In tho Alfalfa com munity, whero n meeting was held Thursday night, aro favoring tho nolo Issuo. BEND GIRL WEDDED TO PORTLAND MAN Fen S. Walto ot Portland nnd Miss, Marie Fox of Bond, both former em- than plenty on tho chin, ho man ployos of tho Ccntrnl Oregon Bank, aged to hand Woods a fow hard wore murrlud Tuesday afternoon at tiro Methodist parsonage hy ltov. J, Kdgar Purdy. They loft oo tho ovo- ulng train for tholr now homo in Portland. Tho bride is tho daughter of Councilman nnd Mrs. U 1.. Fox, and a graduate of tho Bend high! school. Ml BID IS ACCEPTED FOR HIGHWAYS; STATE PAYS $52,500 On n bid of $05,000, approximate ly 25 inllou of tho Redmoml-SIstors nnd Slstors-Tumnlo highways will bo grnvolod, according to telegrams ox changed Saturday by tho Stato High way commission and County Com missioner M, W. Knlckorbookor. Of this amount tho county will pay f 12, (00. Surfacing with crushed gravel is at tho rate of $1.75 a yard, with bridges costing $6,100. Tho contract wus awarded Saturday by tho stato highway commlsslou to Marsh & Ilowors to sttrfaco with rock 10,8 miles of tho Cllno Kails-Sisters soctlon, nnd 15 miles of tho Tumnlo Hlstors soctlon of thu McKomlo high way, 'completing tho Improvomont of this highway In Deschutes county. Tho award was tinned on u bid of $n7',7B0. nids 'woro received hy tho com mission In Portlund Friday, but Mrs. Nye Comes 2,700 Miles To Be Married; Doesn't Change Name Mrs. Marin Nye camo 2,700 miles to Ilend to bo married, hut hIid didn't chance her nnmn. Shu murrk'd James Murtlri Nyu, Tuuiulo rancher, to whoso bro ther shu liud been married for 35 years previous to his death xnvurul years iu:o. Tho mnrrluKO wun performed lato Monday at thn Methodist parsonage, hy Rev. J. Kdgar I'urdy. Mrs. Nye cam i) from Pittsburg, It being lier first trip this side of the Mississippi. They will llvo on a ranch near Tumnlo. FINLEY PROBE IS IN SECRET Investigators Meet Behind Closed Doors Women's League Takes Action A secret session of the committee of thu city council which is investi gating tho conduct of the Woman's Protectlvo division under Dr. Anna Rels Flnley. was held Tuesday night at the offices of Mayor E. D. Gllson In the O'Kane building, Members of the committee aro II. IZ. Nordeen, chairman; G. II. Baker and C. J. Icvorett. At a special meeting held Tues day afternoon, tho Woman's Civic leaguo decided not to oppose tho tem porary discontinuance ot tho protec tive division, on the understanding that that was the only basis on which tbc council will at present consider the removal of Dr. Flnley. The league also went on record as up holding tho council lu Its insistence on the removal of tho Aune barii. WOODS INNER IN TEN ROUNDS Bend Boy Favorite From Third To End of Fight MulT Bronson Loses. (Hy Unllrd l'rru toThc Utnd bulletin.) PORTLAND, April 19. Four out nt tho flvo bouts staged by tho Port land boxing commission in the Armory Tuesday night wont tho limit, nnd every contest was a "main event" as far ns excitement was concerned, A real slam-bang affair was tho Speck Wooils-Joo swatn contest and It went tho full 10 rounds, Woods obtaining Ilcfcreo Orumnn'a decision. After tho third round, ringside fans woro picking tho round in which Swain would go down for koeps, but nllhough ho took more Jolta himself and remained on his foot throughout. Both boys woro given n big hand for their efforts when they climbed out of tho ring. In tho hcadliner, Jimmy Sacco, ot Boston, beat Muff Bronson tn 10 rounds. Bronson failed to put up his customary fistic opposition. no decision was mado until Knick erbocker could bo communicated with. Ho wus advised Saturday of tho offor, tho commission adding that as tho county has nlrondy spent $40, 000 on these roads which woro un dortakon on n 50-50 cooperative basis, $12,500 deducted from the stato's oxponso and added to that of tho county would mako a total of $53,500 for each. "Havo you fuqds avallablo for your sharo and shall wo award contract on bid?'' tho commis sion inquired. Knickerbocker lost no tlmo in wir ing back that tho county has tho money und desires tho lotting of the contract. A contract for tho grading of ap proximately ono mile of highway through tho town of Sisters was lot Monday hy tho county court to Kdg Ington A Harrington, for $911. Tho noxt lowost bid was $24 htghor. STILLWEL'S CONFESSION READ IN COURT, COINCIDES IN MOST FEATURES WITH HIS TESTIMONY LEVERETT QUIETS CANDIDACY REPORT City Councilman Drrlilm .Vot To Kntcr ltncr For Koprmcntn the .Nomination. Quieting reports that he would be a candidate for nomination for state representative from the 21st district, C. J. Levcrett, city councilman, de finitely stated last week that ho has decided to make no attempt to gain a scat In the lower house. He believes that It would be too long a step from the office of councilman to that of representative. Levcrett has been requested by a numbor of Bend residents to run, and has had the question under consider ation for some tlmo. RIVER DRAGGED FOR SLAIN MAN Frank Bowker, Killed By Russell Heckcr, Known To Bend Dancers. (Ilr Unittd Prc to Tbc Bend Bulletin.) ALBANY. Ore., April 19. Fol lowing the confession of Russell Hecker that he threw the body of Frank Ilowker, tied in a hop sack and weighted with stones, from a bridge over the Calapoola river on the Alhany-Corvallls highway, grap plers searched the waters today for the body. Further developments In the case are held up pending the finding of the body. Nobody had been found In the Cal apoola up to early this afternoon. Hecker, accused murderer Is being held incommunicado In the Portland jail. Qrapplers have been working since dawn here. Frank Bowker, whose body was be ing sought today in the Calapoola river, was known In Bend, having played here with his dance orchestra In 1919. Among the men now in Bend who knew him lntimatly is J. B. Sparks, theater manager, who was associated with Bowker and his bro ther at Heppner several years ago. C. 0.1JSMT MARKETS BONDS Securities Go At 93 Deal Depends On Successful Outcome of Suit. Salo of tho $180,000 C. O. I. dis trict bond Isbuo at 93, tho highest rato paid in many years for irriga tion district securities, was ofTectcd Tuesday, H. H. Do Armond. at torney for the district, reported to day, tho bonds going to tho G. R. Miller Cov of Portland. The deal is mado subject to tho success of the district In tho supremo court case now pending in which the bond election proceedings uro questioned by sottlers recently oxcluded from tho district on their own petition. It is expected that the company will aid tn temporary financing, un til the salo can bo Anally closed. REINSTATEMENT OF PAULSON AT ISSUE Under an order issued by Circuit Judge T. E. J. Duffy, tho directors of the Bend school board aro re quired to reinstate Mark A. Paulson, dismissed last tall as high school principal, or appear April 28 to show why reinstatement should not be mado, FUNKltAl, HELD TODAY Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Hull Dudrey, -who died Monday night of pulmonary tuberculosis, woro hold this morning from tho Nls wonger chnpol. ltov. J. Edgar Purdy conducted tho services. A solo was sung by Mrs, It. S. Dart. Intermout was In tho Pilot Ilutto comotery. Discrepancy Is Seen As To Wilson's Part GRILLED BY DEFENSE, Crots-Ktnmlnatlon of Flrnt WitncM' For Htnto Kni! Karly Tlilx Afternoon His Alleged Con frwilon Is Head In Full. Oeorgo Stlllwell's signed confes sion as a technical accomplice of A. J. Weston in tho alleged murder of It. H. Krug of Sisters, on March 24, 1919, was handed to defense attor neys yesterday on a ruling by Judge Duffy. The motion made by the defense Tuesday to force the hand ing over of the document, was denied by Judge Duffy when court opened Wednesday, but after Stlllwell, un der cross examination, had admitted signing such a statement, a second motion from the defense was al lowed. W. P. Myers for the state, before the ruling, declared the prose cution's willingness to give up tho confession, which has remained sec ret up to the present time, but In sisted that the entire statement bo submitted to the jury, John A. Col lier, defense attorney, said that ex amination of the statement would be necessary before any such conces sion could be made. The matter con tained In the confession Is being used; as a basis for cross examination. Discrepancy Seen Discrepancies between George Stlllwell's testimony on the witness stand in the morning and the state ment which ho made In Portland and. signed In Bend, according to his testimony, were brought out this afternoon In the matter of Joo Wilson's knowledge of StlllweH'a alleged presence at the time at which be says Weston committed the murder. Stlllwell testified that he did not know whether Wilson knew it or not; but he told the at torneys and Sheriff Roberts, accord ing to tho statement, that Weston told Wilson that on tho way home from the inquest, and that ho had talked it over with Wilson several times. After this was Introduced by the defense, the state read the entire statement, it proving In practically every other point, to be exactly what Stlllwell testified on the stand Tues day. Charles Gist and John Rungo testified briefly Wednesday relative to a map of the Krug farm which was placed in evidence for reference. Near Confession In 102O Questioning of the witness before the morning recess, emphasized the apparent discrepancies between his testimony given at the first trial 'in 1920 and at the preliminary hearing in October of the same year, at which Weston was bound over to the grand jury. Stlllwell admitted that bis sworn statements at that time, to tho effect that he had not accompanied Weston to tho Krug cabin on tho night of tho alleged murder, and that he had never in his life entered the cabin, were false. In tho essen tials ot his testimony at the present i trial, Stlllwell was upshaken. Ha had been on the point ot mak , Ing a clean breast ot the whole affair at the preliminary hearing, he said, but had been warned either by a defense attorney or by the magis tratehe could not romomber which to answer only the questions asked, he said. His wife was ill la Portland, ho explained further, and said that he feared that news ot this kind, is published, might result ser iously tor her. w Didn't Want ICrag's Money Stlllwell wos.haxy as to the dates of Krug'a two Visits to; the nltll pre ceding the alleged murder. In his testimony in 1920, he bad aald thtjt tho first visit was two days, before the burning ot the cabin, but this morning he- said that the second visit was a week before the tragedy The witness baa no'.knowledge of any enmity which might have boen entertained by Krug against eilherj himself or Yeston, and did noti be lieve that tho old man know that moonshlnlng was going on at tho Wilson sawmill, He rolleralod his' statement made In direct oxamlna-' Hon that Weston had told hlnn (Continued on Pago 8.)