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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1903)
LAKE COUNTY EXAIINER, LAKBVinW, OKEUION, JUNE 23, lOJ ; A BUSINESS ; ENTERPRISE J. E. Bernard & Son the Largest Wagron anJ Implement Dea .lers In Southern Oregon. There Is a Arm In l,akeKlew who now . handle tlu largest stock of hardware. Implements, wagons ve hicles and farm machinery of any Mriii In southeastern Oregon, or northern California, who started In business hIx years ago with only a few hund red dollar capital. We art speak Ing of J. K. Iternard & Son, whose business ha Uvn growing with rapid stride on aiTount of their square dealings, and handling noth ing but the lest quality of goods. In 1M7 they did a ."HXt tiusincss. and In 1!H2 their business Increased to f.'Ji).(VHt. These figures are ac curate, and show a large increase in six yearn. They have just moved Into one of the finest lirlek structure iu Lakevlew, which they have Just . completed, and are now 1 tetter pre pared than ever liefore to iu-coni mo date and supply the public demands. Their way of doing business Is to say to a probable customer: "We nre in a posit lou to offer you the juost satisfactory coiubinn tlon of qunlity and price. We uame quality first Iscause It is of the first im portance. We aim always to give the must for your money, and can't do it by offering cheap goods at ehei.p prices. The best wears out fast enough, and you can't afford to pay good money fur inferior articles. It is by saying and doing what they say that their business continues to increase as it does. One of the articles that has heljied to make them the most widely known and liest sellers of tin lx-st vehicles, the Studebaker wagons and l)Uggies, which they have handled since they legan business. Their salt's since they have I teen handling them have amounted to 171 farm wagons and 117 spring wagons and buggies, making a total of in all. They buy thrse vehicles by the car load, and consequently save a great deal in freight. It was only last week they received i's buggies. Studebaker I'.ro's Mfg. Co., with their northwestern bratieh at Port land, do-s an Immense business. Their factories are located at South llend, Indiana, and cover a tract of land of thirty acres in extent, not Including tin acres covered by dry sheds and liimbrr yards. It requires sixteen stationary engines, with a combined capacity of i.mo horse power, to operate the loll) machines in daily use. The average length of belting is over eight miles, ami -"HX) men are required to produce the "", (HM) vehicles, for which they have an annual capacity. From the rudelog yhed near Ashland, Ohio, which is Ntill pointed (jut as the humble place .whore the Mtudebaker Brothers were taught their first lessons in vehicle billdiiig, It lias acquired the deK tinction of Itelng the largest vehicle manufactory in the world. With such a strong firm lx-hind them it is no wonder that the local firm of Bernard & Son have made Milch progressive strides in tin; sale of vehicles. They can rcccornend these goods as the liest made, as they have the largest ami best firm ls'hlnd them. There is nothing In the vehicle line that Studebaker Bro's do not make, and that Bernard & Son cannot supply. You are invited to call and look through their new store building, inspect the goods and compare prices with goods from other places, and If you find the prices are not lower, (quality considered) they will make them ho. Pasture! Pasture! Pasture! Plenty of fine pasture adjacent to Lakevlew with abundance of feed and water. Kii'iuire at Harvey's cstsiunint. -M-it. FLOOD AT MEPPNER. (continued from 1st page.l late. Houses wen surrounded by raging torrents, which sucked every thing movable Into their twisting eddies, and escape was Impossible. The hot weather makes prompt in terment of the bodies necessary. Many bodies nre supposed to Is' hid den In the ruins, or have lieen swept down the valley. Through railway communication It Is said cannot lie expected lief ore Friday. All crops In a distance of ."at miles were practical ly destroyed. Heppner, the town that was de stroyed Sunday night at .VM o'clock by the most terrific cloudburst that linn ever Nvn known In the history of the state of Oregon, was a thrlv lug. hustling little city of npproxl mutely l.'Ht souls. Its location is most unfortunately advantageous for the destructive force of such a flood as was poured upon It last night. The town Is built on the banks of WUlow Creek, In the neigh borhood of the converging point of four other mountain streams, that drain a large area of rolling and hilly country that reaches from three to twenty mile to the foot hills, and along the course of Willow Creek Itself fur a distance of miles to the base of the Blue Mountains. Willow Creek and Its confluents have a general northerly course. To the west and east of town, running southwest and southeast reflective ly until they empty Into Willow Creek, nre two deep gulches, which run back some three miles back among the foothills, as they narrow ; to form the valley in which the town lias nestled In peace for so many years. Flowing almost directly south to the Willow, and Joining but a half-mile or so above the town, is Balm Creek, which drains in its course to t he foot hills, for a distance of l.'i miles, a wide region of hilly country: next east comes the main watercourse of Willow Creek, with an immense area of drainage that extends northeast for a distance of '2 miles to the Blue Mountains. Farther east yet. some four miles or such a matter. Is llintoii Creek, that runs practically parallel with Willow Creek for a distance of ill miles, hav ing Its rim- in the foothills, and enter ing into the most easterly gulch a few miles south of ileppner. The terrific rainstorm fell over the terri tory drained by these streams, each of which in an unaccountably short period of time from the beginning of the downpour was a raging torrent. pouring its devastating flood upon the defenseless city In the narrow I valley lieloW. Willow Creek, at the site of llepp- j ner, flows through a narrow valley. ; The major part of the business ami; residence sft ions of t he tow II lying i to the west of the creek iu a low bottom, covering an area of about; l.VM) by l-IMI feet, the longer distance ! being along the creek and the width in places between the high hills with which the town is flanked being less than loot) feet. Lake County Murderer Pardoned. (jovernor Chamberlain Tuesday of last week granted a full pardon to Henri lirown, who was serving a life sentence In the Penitentiary for the murder of Harry Schick, at Paisley, Luke county, Oregon, In April, iss. lirown was committed to the prison in June lvv and his pardon was granted by virtue of sections :iiol, i74 of the Oregon Statutes, which provide that if a prisoner earns two thirds of his required numls-r of credit marks la five years of his ner-j vice, or three-fourths of thetn within fifteen years, he Is entitled to a par don In the discretion of the (Jover nor, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the Peniten tiary. IJrown shot Schick, a bar k;cper In a Paisley saloon, as the re sult of a dispute over a game of cards, and he claims the shooting was entirely accidental. lirown served in the Navy during the Civil War under Amiral Fnrragut, and was a sheepherder at the time the crime was committed. In the next congress Oregon will have a united delegation that Is, they will all belong to one faction of the republican party, and this we are told, will enable them to accom plish wonders for the slate. We await their acts wit It fond hopes and expectations. i SPRING BAILEY Kin"; PAPIR . HANGLR niiil-f ml Hi-null ful llurof Hmnplra la r Ifrt front. WORK . UUAKANTLT;!) PKICES . REASONABLE r aKeview brewery AYRES & 5CHLAUEL, Props. SALOON IN CONNECTION liter sold Wholesale & Retail Delivered any place in Town L. BAILEY. . . . 1 jS PAINT t R . . AND 7 FOR It CLOTHING GO TO MASSINGILL us up on the Phone if you want Anything iu our Line. HIGH SHOES Lowest Prices See Me ! G R A si . . PLATFORM . . .DANCE. There will be a Big Platform Dance 4th of July week. You will miss it if you don't have your measure taken for a suit in time for the big dance. We guarantee fit and satisfaction at THE MONOGRAM. AHLSTROM BRO'S. "C Mil. i i'iil 'A ::ii,h:i::;';!;i-kili ' 5 1