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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1905)
A mmttwi VOL. XXVI. LAKKVIKW, LAKK COUNTY, OIIEUON, THURSDAY, NOV. Hi, 1905. NO. 40. mil ' - 5 APPROPRIATION Sl:T ASIDli. "Tl NorlllWCSt division of tin Ihirrlmitit railway system has set aside H.KIO.ixmi fur tlx construction of a projected line in l!X).'i ami !!NM(," says tin- Portland Orcgonlun. "ami llUM announced tin fai t, lull Mill not rnrikf i 1 .1 1 tli Identity of tin' line under consideration. Its liH'atloii or it CXtcllt. General mnmmcr .1. I". O'llrleii, when asked iin to whether or not tlil .ipproprlatlou had to do wllli tlx ' himI rin'1 Ion of tin' long (In nuicd of roail through I In- cent nil part of 1 1 slate, khvi' a knowing smile, but no words." Mr. O'ltrlni Htnii-il thai S I, t o. had no Interest In the Portland Till amook road, ami Hint I he Coom liny road was already provided f r, i-oii-ci 1 1 -1 1 1 ly. Inference was drawn that t In-mvnt appropriation iiiiimI ! for the cast anl west road across I he late 'I" Ik concensus of opinion Is that to hold tip- trnllie of Lastcm Oregon. Mr. 1 1 minimi will at I Hi send li In t rii 1 ns arroMH t In1 "I a t e. lie seldom makes a ppropi 1 1 1 1 iiih and aiinoiini'- . ft hU Inti'iit h mi until Ik' U ready to! lit. 'I hi- new pi' 'J' it'll route I a' feasible one a nil ne t ha t will tap a' numeral Ive lleM. I I Further t he On-gonhiu kii.vh: "From I'oi'tlaii'l to Natron on tlx i pri'M-nl Nprhitttlrl'l branch of t he j Southern I'aelie U an grade, j laid practically In a straight line. I The lift across the Cascades by use of ' modern engineering U no harder or j greater or longer than that across, the III ii Mountain, now In nxe. Tin! line in tiihi the cent ral part ( the state 11 one lone; reach of ea.y grade .inil roiistnictlon (l.roughn falnnm- j ly rich ami practically Irgin conn t ry. Joined at Ontario with the ). IC.& N. hhI Oregon short Line the new nnul sr. on hi make a short anil derect route to tlx F.ast. These are the grounds for the lcllef that the I liirrlmiui n.vh t iiii will construct the Central Ore gon f'lid. A great empire will lie opened by (ho construction of this road iim It Ih Intended to go. From Natron the hi I Id wiil i limb the hanks of the mid Hi fork and will follow In a general wav the old wagon road through mil across t he Cascades to t he icin ly of Crescent lake. skirting the foot hills lo the promising trnlllcdlsirlcts .rf 1, like and Klamath conntleM, and from (licit' the way Is easy across Lake and Harney mid Mnlhcureoun ties, (hence along Malheur river to Ontario and a Junction with the . It. A X. All of this country In wonderfully rich In prospect and In present fact, and Is easy of access once the mountain-) nrc recroMsed. Douglas county with Its iiiIiich; Lake, Harney and Malheur counties with their Mock and their million of aces of fertile lauds waiting for a market and peo ple to till (hem, offer an unrivaled Held for the Htipport of a much need ed railroad. In Douglas county I here arc Ml!, 77" aires of public land waiting (o be taken, In Lake county J,.Jlfi,'2!t:: ncrcH, in Ifamey I,2."0,:i0l, In Malheur I,!)7S,!.VJ acr.'H. Along the Malheur river there are Ino.ooi) acres of rich land waiting to be Irrigated, while Klamath county holds ::20,00 acres In Lake county arc .::.'.i,ihmi sheep, ;;.,00( cult It', and IIO.OIU) horses anil iniilcH from which tho 4000 people, re- nllw, III iplli' of conditions, an an nual Income of f!MtO,000. Harney county 250,000 cuttle nnd 500, (IK( i-hisp from which tl.(M),(MM In, annually received. Malheur county each year proline- es L'.OOO.IHM pounds of Wool, to Any j iiothlliKof the richness of the noil or of the agricultural advantages, j It Is Into this country which blooms mo richly us an undeveloped j wllderuesM that the central line will, llud Its wiv. It will cut tunny tulles from the present llarriiuan route to the Must, while at the Manic time ll draws its sustenance from the vast: territory tributary to It, Its main, line ami feeders. A year from now will see trains1 i rillililntc on fcheillile lime." ' Thanksgiving Day. According to the almanacs, or at least part of them. Thanksgiving comes on t he l''!d of the mouth, tlx fourth Thursday. It has been tlx practice to appoint the last Times-1 day In November Thankful vlu. nnd ' ('resident ICoosevdl has made no ex ception to the rule. Consequently,, there belne; e Thursdays in Nov ember t his yea I , Thaukse,! vim; falls oil the .'Mth. liehiw w- pillili-ll the Uihi Icii t 's procla ma t ion ior thebeu elit of those who may have b -en mis led by t he almanacs "When nearly three cent uries a-o, : tlx tlrst settlers came to the country which has now heroine this ureal re public, they fa I not only hardships j and privation, but terrible risk to. their lives. I n those uriin years t'.iej custom urcw of setting apart oneday j in each year for a sjs-cial service of tlmiMMnlvlnic to tlx A 1 1 n Ik I I tor preserving the people tl.roilk'h the chauulue; seasons. The i iistom has now become national and hallowed bv liuiix-iiiorlal usae. We live In' i easier ami more plentiful times than , our forefat hers, the men who. with niKKed strength, faced the rugged 1 days; and yet the dangers to nation- nl life are quite as Krca( iim at liny; Mrs. C. II. McKendre' died at previous time In our history. iionanza last Friday, after a severe "It Is eminently t)ttlu that onciMi Illness of about three weeks. Mm. year our people should set apart a Mc Kendree has Ihvii ailing for near day for praise and thankse;lvh) to ly thrti' years, and lust fall went to the Klverof Kood, and at the Maine Lmh AnKeles, where Hhe partially re time, that they express their thank- gained her health. rorw'verai fulness for the abundant mercies re ceived, should manfully acknowledge t heir shortcomings and pledge t hem- selves solemnly and In good faith to strlve to overcome them. Kurlng the past year we have been blessed with bountiful crops. Our business prosperity has ben great. Noother people have ever stood on as high a level of material well-being as ours now stands. We are not threatened by foes without. The foes from whom we should pray to, be deliver ed are our passions, appetites and follies, and against these there Is nl-1 Lakevlew, arriving here Sunday wiijm need that we hhould wur. ! night, and were laid to reHt In the "Therefore, 1 now H-t apart Thurs-1 jt o. O. F. cemetery Monday at 10 day. the . "Kit Inlay of this November, m.ock a. in. Mrs. McKendree was iim a day of thanksgiving for (he past i Wl.i known about Lakevlew, liTiving and of prayer for the future, and on iH4M, rai80d here. Slie was foriiierly that day I ask (hat throughout the A.m,ia .ntone, and had many Nation the people gather In tt'" j frlfiidt-i wlt will Im pained to learn honies and places of worship, and, In j ()f llt,r ,it.miH(J HO vavy life, rendering thanks unto the Most High j M(l,,y of the relatives of Mr, Mc for the manifold blessings of the past j Klmim. ,lMli friends of deceased fol- year, consecrate incniHcive-, io a me , of cleanliness, honor and wisdom, ho that this Nation may do its allotted work on I he earth In a manner w or thy of those who founded it nnd of those who preserved It. "In witness whereof I have hereun to set my hand u ml caused the seal of the Tutted States to he uillxed. "Done at the City of Washington, -V ' vWf"V"Hyr,rrse'f. ' It. ' t FORMER SENATOR Mrs. Mrcderlck SchotT. president of ilwlir.u tltnfl l-'-it,il I 4m, in, ,ti r.it-mer i the enmity of the Mormon that his life Is In dully ril. The Cornier senator uually, principally from San Fran wns horn In Utah, Is u son of Geortfc U i iiiuiou uixl w as hruuxUt up In the cisco, amounting to more tlian 5,000, Murmon faith. He ta forty six yea of a," nnd u Mitot. OHO pounds. (iy rf Nl,V(.11l(.r , ,,, V(.ar - of our Lord, one thousand nine hiin j 1 1 red and li ve, and of the Independ ! euce of the ('lilted States the one hundred and t !iirt let h. "TIIMOHOUM KOOSMVMLT. ; "IJ.v the President. MLIHI" ROOT, Seiretarv of State." Mrs. Creed McKendree months after returning to their home near Uly, she was compelled to go on crutches, but she gradually re- covered, and threw away thecrutch- es during the hunuuer. About three weeks ngo'she became worse again, and after Intense suffering for three weeks, Biiccuined. Her death was a sal shock to her husband and little Hon, who survive her, also to her mother. Mrs. Louie Meyers of Lake view, whose l-'l-year-old hoii died only a few weeks ago from poisoning. The remains were brought to lmvid the remain) from F.onnnzu and lily, where sho lived for several years. Those w ho came were: 1 lesides the husband and little hoii of deceased, John Wells and wife, l'rcd McKenilree and wife, S. Mc Kendree and wife, Owen McKendree and wife, Mrs. Joe Howard, Mrs. M. L. Kllgore, Mrs. K. Casebeer, James and Jas. Watts and J. O. Ilatnaker. fc ' t,f . S s . j. M t K . 1iMi.v.... FRANK J. CANNON. the N.itloii.il Cnj,Tess of Mother. f'lilti,! St:itia tell:ttftr hH HO nTOUHett EJect'on News. Si Imiltz and the entire labor ticket of San Francisco was elected by 12, 000. Weaver, reform candidate for May or of Philadelphia was elected by 40.000 Virginia gives the usual Democrat - Ic majority. The Kepublicans made a clean sweep of Chicago. Anti-Monuan party elected their candidate for Mayor of Salt Lake. Kepubllcaus swept Nebraska by a large majority. Council Meeting. At the city council meeting Mon-: day night the new board was sworn in, the bonds of the treasurer nnd re- corder approved and two bill lowed, that of marshal's salary and one for line work. "I'M ' - ,-:f4- i, , v. . .(., V' V"''-' ')J:' lulu iimf M'A" The resignation of M. Whorton as besides three brothers and two bIs marshal was accepted and Charles ters. Thev are Rodger, William and Touniugscn was elected marshal. The matter of aid for the woman in the red light disrict who was confined a week ago, was brought before the council and Investigation proved her to be In destitute clrcum- stances. The council U-lng powerless to render assistance from the city's fund-, made a personal donation for her Immediate relief. .1 C .Oliver u-iim in tawn ,it i. day to see his brother, A. V. Oliver next Spring. He says there is no of La Grande, and his wife start for . quwitlon about It. and the presence home. Mr. Oliver brought iu some j of 'l ,are corps of surveyors under flue Centennial potatoes raised on j cliar'e of t'hlef EnKIneir Oliver gives his West Side ranch without a drop j color to his assertlun.-rialndealer. of water only what fell frin the j clouds. The potatoes are very large, j Disbarred from Practise, some of them weighing as much as j On charges preferred by Special 2 or .1 pounds each. Potatoes grown Ageut W. W. Scott of the General in the rich sandy soil of this valley j Land Otlice, Oscar C. Stone, an at without irrigation are much lietter j torney of Klamath Falls, was dls thau those that have been Irrigated, barred from the further practise of They may not be quite ho largo or j law before tho U. .S'. land olhco. The produce so abundantly, but their j charges contain various specifica- kecping ijunllty and flavor is superior. REPORT OF COMMITTEE. Iat week we published n long I article rardlnfc: the Jake County I Derelopnjent league, atxl expected j V Ket th; report of the committee i appointed at Its meeting In May to Kather Mtatlstlcs of the county's re j Houret'M, but could not Hecur s the re i (ort. Thin week we are able to the report of the comiiiiit-e, which is a showing that tlx people of fvike county should endeavor to have dlo tribiited all over the country, IUport of the Committee. Lake County I)evelopment I-ague. Mr. President: Your Committee on .Statistics, beg leave to make the following report: Lake County contains 5,110,240 acres of land; classified as follows: Agri cultural and alfalfa, land 1.12U.C4X acres, timber hind 1,124..'!.j2 acres and grazing land 2, k7G,040 acres. Owing ; to the fact that Lake county has no railroad transportation, its chief in dustry Is livestock, there being In the county at the present time about :5'5,(HM) sheep, 7.".00.) cattle and 30,000 head of horses and mules, from which has been sold this year 150,000 lx-ad of mutton sheep. U'O.OOO head of Is i f cattle. 10,000 head of horseH and mules and about .j.UOO.OuO pounds of wool; from which an income of more than "f:MK) per capita has been receiv ed. Her merchants import goodn an- MesiHctftilIy submitted, ('OMMITTKE OX JSTATISTU-8. Edward Munroe Dead. News was received this week of the deatti, at his home near Bid well, of K lward Munroe. An operation had , ueu Performed for appendicitis and i 'or a time indications were favor- ' ttl, for recovery, but the poiaon had '. entered his system and after a few j days he passed away. Death came j on Tuesday. Edward Munroe was one of the prominent young men of Modoc county, and w as born and raised at J Bid well, being about 34 years of age. He was a good man and citizen in ' the full acceptation of the term, and j his death is an Irreparable loss, not al-'oujy to his family, but to Modoc county. He leaves a devoted wife ! aud two children to mourn his loss, Alexander and Mrs. Geo. Ayer of Lakevlew and Mrs. Bertha Snelllug jtf Bid well, i The Railroad is Coining. Dr. Sam Gibson arrived in Alturas' ; Wednesday morning and spent a j few xMtlag Ms brotheTt Dr. j Gl(j8on ,n conver6(Uion wltu tfae ,)r gftve poH,tve ft88Urance o( IU" CXU-'UKIUU ui iue . . v. . . A. . . . t A- 1 1 J 1 tlons of fraudulent and dishonest practises,