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Tarn mmtntt VOL. XXII. LAKKVIEW, LAKE COUNTV, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. .r, 1901. NO. 48. TELEPHONE M. E. CHURCH DEDICATED CONTINENTAL CANAL FOR AGAINST LEASING TO WARNER RAILROAD IRRIGATION 1 ? J I 1 Another Project on Toot to Extend th Present Line to Plush and ' Add from Crooked Creek A move li on foot now to extend the telephone line to rtaib end Ariel, and it will La done provided the people In Warner Valley want it bad enough to ubefirlh ai lilieral a on Die new line from Lakevlew to Silver Lake. TIm nittol iMittinir up Diia line waa aUmt 70 per mile, nd It would not lie wine In put up a clieaer line than tlila one, a. there will no have to tie any repair, made (or yeara to come; it I. aiibsUn tlal and work a g'aal a the heat. The plan has tieen talked ( consider ahle ly the business men of I,akeview, who are anxious to have the line ex tended to Warner. A list will be sent over ami the ieople o( Warner will have an opairtunity to aubacrll as much of Ihe amount a they wish. The idea in to hratirh the line off (nun the I-ake-view Silver Lake lino turn place in OiKiked Creek and run It to flush, a distance of 111 miles, and thrn run it I. Adel, 2ft mile" south. Thus the rout nt 70 jnt mile would le 2,H70. Thin enlerpi ie would l of inralntla Me heiirlit and a great convenience to the residents, of Warner, and Hhould he met 1 1 1 1 ihe name interest end zeal shown in the line to the norlh fj I lie county, hhould thin t-it! t-r r iee la realized, l.akeview, Ihe county sea', would U in clone loui'h with all pnrta ol the county. The KxJunincr hope to ace i... .1.0.1 ...... I.. .i.liiv i.v ,. mm, ii. (.r ' The Newa Away From Home. . (Jueer iau't it that you can learn mine about the huppciinga and eventa of yjuir own balilek away from home limn you can right here, and the far ther iiwh.V the neua cornea from the Inore atiirtling in ita intuitu. '1 lie fol lowing itema were n III lelit-il in the Sua anville Advocate: "The I'luuiHH .Wuiouul-llolletiu .f Nov. i t chrmiclea the receipt of a priviito letter in which it ia stated that aiiuill mix ia spreitdiim in Modoc and I tike coiinlicH, anil, giving report h an tlioiilv, anya there ate twelve new cuaea at IMy, three at l.nkeview, and aeveral ar ('edarvill. The National-Hu letiu advises the Health ollicera of Pliiiiins und l.aaaeii to hi on the alert to preven tl.e malady from reaching this part of the Mute. Thia it certainly good ad-vi'-e; but, unfortunately, l.acae'i c unty V i no Ib'iilth ollicer. In thia connection the followii.g ia fimd ill the Alluin I'laiudealer ol Nov. I. nke cotiiily hii" ii'inriintined Hiiiiiit K liiliuith, w hile M. iloc h.a put up the Kirn iigaiiiHt Ijike. With hik Ii precau- 1 1 ill H the iliaeuae oiiulit t lie kepi In. Ill t-pi'iilllig." Now, for the beiieMt of the people' i" 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 of II", or ritliera ill another ill tiM'tioti who have been mi'-iuforuied, we w ill a:iy that there in ver huu been but' one ciiae ia I.uku county, who haa -. covered, and that there vv II not be any ' more cuaea here on n. count of recau tiona taken. Klamath county haa had '. fineiul citacH, hut in verv mild form an the one here, nod it ia claimed that , country and hecamu ipiilo a bit interest none have died from the effect. There m1 " 1,111 informed ol ita existance iu thia ian't now, nor never haa there been iinv i region. Inning bin converaation Mr. excitement about the iliaeaM' here, but I biiaineaa !iita continileil to go on Hs""r people tiaiiul, mnl the Hchoola have not loat u day. Neighbor, don't believe nil you hear unlcaa you get it atreight. Council Meeting. . At the regular meeting of the Citv Council Tueaday night T. K. llernard, i hairiiiun, railed the meeting to order, Mayor Miller being out of town. Very little biiaineaa outaidu of the regular routine of allow ing billa, etc., whh done. However, a petition to have two 32- can lie iwer incandeacont lttmpa put up on South Ievey atreet, waa prenented to the council and the. prayer whs granted. Thu fire bell tower whh ordered to be lioxed up and put in h!ihk for a plane to keep the. hueq cart, ' The projiobitiou of having a company of six men ap- pointed as firemen to take charge ol thehoae cart and drill once a month I was talked of. The town would pay them 60 cents each for every drill and hUo exempt them from poll tax, mak ing about per year. Presiding Cider D.T.3ummrvllle held Dedicatory 5ervlces In New Church at Paisley. Ilev. D. T. Hummerville returned from I'.mley Monday and left nest day for hit home at Orenls I'aaa. Mr. Hummer ville ha rrrnainrd in this county for ever I weeks in order to be on hand to deduaie the new church at Paisley on leceiiiher lat. The services were regu larly held in the ew church Runday in the presence of a large congregation. Hev. hummerville preached sermon, and before proceeding with the dedica tory ceremony a statement allowing that t lie tiw edifice maa completed and paid for, waa read. The magnificent slruc ture rout l,7u0, and it waa all raiaud in that neighborhood except f.'WO, which was donate! by the Church Extension No aeal had been provided however, ami it waa found necessary to raise f 150 (or tliie purpe U-fore the church rould he. dedicate!. Hev. hummerville hal novel plan to spring on them, whicl wurke! like a charm. It iiai ueeu elsted previouiily and everylaaly be licved it to be a fact, that every cent lind been tailed llial could be rained and not another cent could be got, and ol course everyone was anxious to we how it could he done. A blackboard on the wall un.overed disclosing it to , Ih- laved off III square. Two ol the up j er etinrte were marked 25 each; mi del this was thrct atiare mnrked with 1 1 10 i-ui'h ; following t.1 1 1 m was leu squares ' with eui'h. ami In the last row waa ; eight square with 12.50 each. Rev i Soiiiincrville auctioned off these amount with alacrity and good feeling and when inside of twenty minuteii the amount had been raiaed, there wan burst of enthusiasm, and all seemed glad and proud to think that it had Imm'Ii done, an easily and quickly, liev Mimmcrwllo waa highly praised for hia ability ami the interest he hna taken in thia matter, und he in like mauiier-aks in high teruia of the hospitable and gen e ous people of Paisley and vicinity. The people of 1'uii-ley at e proud of their new church mid of their pastor, did well they might be. They are on the ii grade to a higher plane of civilizuliou mid education, and I lie good class of in tending settlers will seek their kind. The N. C. O. Again. Wliile the editor of (lie thewaii.un I'o.-l waa in ltenii he found out liuiiiv thinga that Hie of intereat to hla rend eia. In h caking of lailroad mnttera be anya iu art: "In mi intetview with Mr i in vv lev, we were informed that the N C-t I. latin ad whh making for 1'uii-ley, and tlnit building would lie. rapidly puah eil along until thia point waa reached Mr. C'luvvley aiultd that the Nevada I'ol.i-li Co. thought they had a gmid thing, nnd he waa will plcafcd with the brief ileaci Iptioii of thia country and ihe m iv j i, c I ! for rich mineral depoaila and ita lieltn of timber, along with it many other teaoiircea. Ilo waa ahi-olutely iiii- awaie i f any imlicatiou of gold in ihia iVhw ll'.v M 'lliu icre.itH of you of you and and the interchta of tiie N- CO. Kiilvvay Co. are mutual, und any inloi uiatiiiu wo can fill niah you w ill bu fieely given.' " A HIk Rainfall. Talk khout rain, well don't it juat aur piine the nativea. Kverybody knows w hen it commenced hut none but the w ii-cacrca know when it ia going to quit. "1 never eaw It rail) like thia before in thia country," nays one. "Why, moaa w ill begin to grow on our back a if thia keepa up," vaya another. Hut it don't aeeni to be hurting anylMidy ao fur, at lenat, only thoae that have to be out in it crhaa. Iuriug the whole month of November juat l.tlft inches of rain foil. Sunday night, the lat of Pec, .70 of an inch fell, , There waa no rain on Mou- day, but that night ,ln of an Inch fell, It rai ed hard all day Tueaday until evening when it ceaaed. The record for the day was ,7ft of an inch. Thu total from Sunday night to Tueaday turning is 1.71. That is (juito a rainfall for this county. A n w Branch to Connect Oregon Short Line to Coast Line at Eureka, Cal.Other Unes Redding Trt fraa The railroad building in Northern Cal ifornia, present sod prospective. hS led to the revival of IHe plan to hi hi a aec lion of road which will close a gap ami give California another connecting road with the East. The scheme ocorup- lishetl what the Oregon Midland, pm poees but not built, would have done. The Ilurlington waa liehind the Midland propoeition and it is believed Astern railroad interests are fostermc the new plan which is helngdirum-d. I tail road building is in the air. The great increase in lumber and rattl traffic ia causing branches frtm the main line to put cut in several direc tious. One of the latest schemes is for the extension of the branch from Mon tague to l reka on to the western por lions of Siskiyou county, Thomas Ii Walker, the lumlier king, ia expected to build a long branch through the eastern Siakiyou timlajr belt. Simultaneously cornea the report of the prospective vork which will have more-lhan a local imartance in that it will supply a link for a traiiacoutinental system. It ia probable that one of the seversl Siakiyou county branches la-itig ex leniieii triwarl tno tlregon laiumlary in developing Northern California am Southern Oregon will x brought to form a trunk line down thecoaatto Ktireka ta join with the old Donahue nHil and reach San Francisco bv at Tihuron, while north ward a connection would be niHile iu Kaatern Oieg' n with the Oregon Shortliue to Ogdeti in Utah The Yreka Journal suggebts that i natural anil esay route tor croamug sis kiyou county from Shaata' Va.tey would bean extenaion of the Yreka railroad to S'coit Valley, thence over Salmon miiim tain to Sulmon river or down Scott river to ihe Klamath, as may be deemed upon survey to lie the moat practical, and thence acroaa the level roast valleys direct to Eureka, to which point the California Northwestern or Donohue road is now- gradually reaching. At Portland ami Seattle, three con tinental railroads have a terminus, and two overland railroads with another building tap Southern California, w hile there is only one continental lailroad between the extreme south and Port land, Oregon, a distance of over 1400 miles. A railr.md from Kaitern Oregon through Siakiyou county t ) Ktireka on the coa-t would make connect ion a for a abort mnl direct route to all Kaatern Oregon, Wtiahing'on, Idaho, Montana and Hriliah Columbia, und hIm fonu another route to l'oitlund and Seattle, no well aa forming connect iuiiH w ith all the continental roads of the north to wards the Atlantic. Curious Vaccinations. While washing her daughters' arm that had been vaccinated one day week, Mrs. Creed Pendleton had occasion to scratch her eye and that very sensi tive member become immune from the small pox while who "winked the other eye." While she was not ho much averse to being vaccinated slii) did not care to raise a scab on her eye, and the case was submitted to lr. Kleiner, w ho reports the lady iu a taciturn mood in regard to her eye, but thinks the injured optic w ill he alright in a few dava. Another case of this nature hna come before The Examiner's scrutinizing no tice. No doubt many citizens have noticed the dignified air and carriage of Attorney Joe Moore as he walks around evidently trying to make people believe that he has a pet when it is noticed that he carries the back of his neck in a sling. Two weeks ago a fine, well developed boil made its appearance on Joe's tieck, and as It felt so good, tas those small tumors usually do,) and as Joe had a very tender regard for ita feelings, he waa loth to touch it, but someone .else did, as was stated in The Examiner two weeks ago. In soothing the injured pet he scratched a spot in the neighborhood of the aforesaid boil and this spot be came inoculated, and now Joo holds his I head on the other side. Northern Klamath to Have a 65- Mile Ditch to Reclaim i65.ooo Acres on Deschutes River J.J. Windle, of Minneapolis, represent' ing a syndicate of capitalists of that cby, who are contemplating the construction of an irrigation canal in Walker's Basin, on the headquarters of Ihe Dtwehutea liiver, in the northern art of Klamath county, is in Portland. He haa een five weeksin this state, making investigation! in connection with the purpMii irriga tion a -heme, and also looking into some timber land proai lions. Major Alfred Hears of that city, is now en .aged in making a reconnaissance along the route o the proponed canal, ami J li. IVngra. for many years a resident of the sou them part of the state, has afforded Mr: Windle all the information and assistance in bis iwer in making his investigations. Mr. Windle is very favorably impress ed with the sections of Oregon he has been over, and says be thinks thecountry is going to Us settled op very rapidly. The backwardness in this respect, he says, is to be attributed to the fact that Eastern people do not know w hat there la out luvfe. The people of Oregon have apparently lieen asleep and have failed to advertise their slate, while Ihe Wash- ingtunians have la-en wide awake and hustling and bustling all the time. Mr. Windle has had a great deal to do with handling lands, as the firm with which he is connected he told 1,500,000 acres of land east of the Mississippi River. Heretofore it hna rot operated in the West, and ia now just starting in. He find it a long way out here, and imag ines it will be expensive operating. He ays 10 men come into his office in Min neapolis inquiring for Washington lands to one inquiring for Oregon lands. Ah to iuigation schemes, thegreut trou ble with them, Mr. Windle says, is that, while they open up thecountry they do not as a general thing prove profitable to the investors, and irrigation securities are the hardest kind to sell. Walker's Basin contains 150,000 acres tusceplilile to benefit by irrigation. To irrigate this vast tract successfully will require main canal about 115 miles in length, from where the water is taken from the Deschutes River to where the anal discharges into the river again. There is plentrv of water. The soil ia very good, consisting of de- eom posed lava. The trouble is that in laces there is too much lava that has not deconis-sed. The loose lav forma tion in places makes the construction of canal difficult and renders a great deal of lining and filling necessary. Mr. Windle figures that the canal will cost about f 5,(HK)a mile. Ti e lands along the iH-schutes River are the only ones iu the tasiu which are taken up and are owned by stiH'kiiicn and hav grow era. Transportation facilities are a factor which must be taken into consideration in connection with the irrigation scheme. said Mr. Windle, and the nearest railroad connection is ar. Shaniko, 150 miles dis tant. There is, however, every likeli- ood that the railroad will be extended and this distance minh lessened in the near fiirture. Mr. Windle is inclined to think favora bly of -the scheme for irrigating Walker's Rasiii, but he cannot say what ewect his report w ill have on the syndicate he rep resents, lie leaves .for Minneapolis in a day or two, by the wav of Arixona and New Orleans, in order to look into some irrigation propositions in Arixona. The syndicate represented by Mr. Windle is composed of some ol the best busi.iess men of Minneapolis, and the capital is all uhscribed. "If we take up this propo ition," said Mr. Windle, "we intend to settle the land itli people from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa principally. Many farmers in these states, who have only 100 acres, have boys growing up who must strike out, and these, w ith some of the better class of renters, will be located in Walk er's Rusin." ' The sheriff of Klamath county is hav ing published the delinquent taxes of that county iu the Express. The list runs from IStXl to 1901 for county and city taxes, and occupies six columns iu that paper. Pendleton Woof grower' Meeting Instruct Delegate to National fleeting to Fight Hard. The election of delegates by the Um atilla County W'oolgrower's Association to attend the National Livestock As sociation convention in Chicago this week meets with the hearty endorse ment of all the aheepraisera in that part of the country. J. E. 8milb, one of the heaviest owners of aheep on Die Coast, who will head the delegation from Umatilla County, left for Chief go on bis mission. He will probably vote the proxies on any other delegates that may be named by the county associa tion. Mr. Smith Slated that be went instructed to lalwr and vote for three things above all others that might come before the convention, and there were: 'First We are opposed to the leas ing of the public range landsof the Gov ernment, and this we oppose for the reason that it will not be in favor of the -mall owner, and will tend to retard the development of the country by allowing large owners of sheep or cattle to secure control, and hold it for long periods. "Secoud We are in favor of the en actment by Congress of law requiring that ll goods in which there is any shoddy shall be so branded by the man ufacturer, that people may see what they are purchasing, and not think it is wool when it ia shoddy. "Third We sheepmen demand that Congress, in framing reciprocity treaties with foreign countries, shall see to it that all the interests of the woolg owera are protected." Monte B. Gwinn, se retary of the Idaho Woolgrowers' Association, at tended the meeting, and was the cause of it being held. He urged that the county association take this action, and stated that the Idaho association would send a delegation 200 strong to Chicago, to work along the lines to be followed by ihe association delegates from Uma tilla county. To Be a Qood Road. (Klamath Republican.) The railroad headed for Klamath Falls from near Klaniathon, and which is to be built to Fokegama this winter and next spring, is often lightly refer red to by papers and individuals as a ''timber or lumber road," which tends to depreciate the importance and worth of the line. It is to be standard gauge and engine, cars and equipments will be equal to those ou any other road. It will be prepared to do all kinds of trans portation business and it will be one of the most profitable feeders possessed by the Southern Pacific Co. The new road w ill of course market lumber and develop the vast timber resources of Klamath county, but that fact does not make it merely a "logging road" nor re strict it to hauling planks and scant lings. It would lie as reasonable to as sert that the railroad in the kogue river valley is a '"peach and prune road," or that one in Southern Cali fornia is an individual and tenderfoot road." Our approuchiug railroad will not only handle timber but everything else that wants to circulate, and will be up-to date and first-class in all respects. A Statement. (Klamath Kejmlil lean.) l'eople in the country und outside towns having nn exaggerated idea of the smallpox in Klamath Fulls, we have, in order to impress them w ith the exact facts, procured nn absolutely reliable statement from the local health ollicer. Dr. F. I. Rtames, and publish it as fol lows : Klamath Fall, Or., Kov. 27, 1001. In the last two months there have been twenty-two cases of the light type of smallpox at this place. Twelve cases have recovered completely. Wx houses, with ten mild cases, are still quaran tined. No deaths have resulted from the disease here. ' Before cases are dis missed they are thoroughly inspected and disinfected, and the infected, houses are fumigated. The quarantine ia rigid, guaids being employed, and I believe there is no danger of exposure or in fection of people who cotue to Klamath Falls. V. P. Rimmi", M. V, "J