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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1908)
wtnmtjj Mmttm VOL. XXIX LAKKVIKW, LAKK COUNTY, OIlhGON, THURSDAYfcfVY 4, I'm. NO. 2:i ACTIVITY RAILROAD VORK Systems Racing To Build Into Lake County HARRIMAN AGAINST THE GOULDS Contest Is On For Transportation Control of Lake County and the Harney Valley Each week brings Interesting devel opnieots lu railroad new. Tbe Intent It tbo announcement by Edwn Gould "pattmiider lor lha ocean to oceao railroad" ambition of LI. brother, George, that the Gould lino, would be built not only to Kan, Francisoo but i uIho to rorllaml. lor a year or more it tia been txdieved that the UoulJs were beblud the little line running rro.n Kino ro Liiaeiy mm icown ua the California, Nevadn A Oregon Thin line la being ateudly rushed forward to Lakeview, and the generul belief Ik thnt Gould will enter Oregon nt Ijikevlew nnd (truHH the state north ward to Purtluud. That would bring lila lino directly through tbia section and would ItiMiro traiunortatluu for iieud and tbo bend country. The faet that llniriman officials buve euddeuly announced their determln tlon to tuilkl Into LAkevlew at once would lend strength to the theory that (Jould would enter Oregon at that place. It will undoubtedly be m race lietween the two syvii to see who can occupy thnt territory first. Ileud llulletln. The Portland 'Journal sizes up the eltuation aa follows: Announcement from a member of the (tould family that the Western Paclflo Railroad company will build into Portland, Oregon, was received todayby th Journal from San Fran Cisco, ibe news la taken to mean that tbe railroad from Reno to Like ly, known aa the Callforina, Oregon A Nevada loug regarded ait a Gould line nnd now under construction toward Iakeview, Oregou, will lie extended by aoine covomeut route Into the Willamette valley and Portland. i'-.vcr sinco mo western I'acino was projected to the Pacific Coast It haa been believed that the Gould people tnuHt do more tbau merely tap Han Francisco to justify the construction of no largo a mileage through tbe nuinreoua mountain rmigpa between Salt Luko aud the Callt'oruln coast. The road had hardly boon commenced when the little lino running from Ro- 110 to Madeline, with a survey Jtn Lakeview, changed hands under cir cumstuuees that stamped the transfer aa a Gould purchase, Kver tiiuco that time it bus been expected that the Western Puciflo would break luto Oregon. The newa thnt it ban determined to do so was nnticipated a few days ngo by tbe llarrimau Huoh, which have included Lake county in their schomo of rail road development in eastern and Houtberii Oregon. A week ngo the chief officials of the Southern Pacific incorporated a company to build a line from Anderson via tho east shore of Goose luko to central Oregon. Yes terday Oregon" "officials of tho llarri mau Hues incorporated another coin puny at Kuloni, to build a short stretch of road between Lukeviaw nud California line. These develop iiients have come in succession with startling Huddeuuess, and in tho nature of bolts out of a clenr sky. Tho public bad no exportation of hiicb serious moves on the railroad checkerboard in Oregon und north ern California. Tho reaHon now becomes pluin. Tbe duclslou of tbe Western Pacific to immediately begin construction of its Oregon extension was no Hooner iiiudo thitu tbe Jlunimuu interests becamo advised uf it uml quick action whs necessary to got strategic advan tages. Tbe ofhYltils of the llarrimau lines have lost no time. It is said tbe result means another railroad building couteHt like tbo north bank race, aud tbe latest contest Is for tiannportation control of Laks county und the llar-j ney vuley. Decoration Day The Htars and Stripes unfurled, Held aloft by a veteran hand, ' While we march to tbe beat of the drum And the low aad strain, of tbe band. We are thinking of the sleeping bo rons Thin thirtieth day of May, And the time they shouldered tbelr musketa And marched tin a far distant day. All of them were young men, Mere atrlplinaa were anme, Hut they gave up all and fcllowed the flag At their Country, (-all to come. Went to trva their country, Hid friends a aad adieu ; Many never returned again. This they did for ma and yon. Oft' waded through twampa and cane brakes, Klent oft In mud aud mire. Or thought of borne and loved ones While they dried tbelr clothing by tbe camp Ore. Tbey have been In the beat of tbe battle Fared canon and ahot aod abell, IJI.ea.ee weie contracted audcontti totious broken, Hut through all they loved aud served tbelr country well. And though their deeda atill llvetb, Their bodies are sleeping today. And we have come to do bonor. And a Just tribute of respect to pay. Ho lay the flowera gently, And with a generous band. For the Hold ler Hoy who wore tbe blue N Are the ones that freed our laud. Comrades place tbe stars and stripes Unfuiled oer each mans grave. The boys that wore the blue you ci.. Hi 'hat It might wave. .. ...vly, so as not To niMurh hfs culm repoi-e. Hut may each generatlou Watch faithfully oer our dead heroes. Written in honor of the memory of tho dead heroes'of tbe Civil War, who ar burled at Lakevlew Oregon, this thirtieth day of May, 1908., by Hclota T. Jones Lakevlew, Oregon The Land Fraud Caaes Tracy 0. Becker, of Buffalo, N. Y., epeoial assistant to tla attorney general of tbe United States, baa be guu to arrange evidence to bo used In tho ontrled land fraud cases, wblcb will bo taken up by tho Federal dia trict court on June 2. Tbo first case to be tried will bo that lu which J. II. Ikiotb, ex receiver of the Rose burg land office, wbo is charged with bribery in connection with alleged uulawful aoquisitlou of publio lauds In southern Oregon, llecker states that tbe caso against ex-Congressman J. N. Williamson and ex-Cougrcss- man Hluger Hermann, at one time commissioner of tbo general land office at Washington, will bo tried by F. J. Ileuev of San Francisco late this summer Williamson and Her mann aro under indictment iuconnec tion with Oregon laud frauds. PUTER AGAIN IN THE TOILS helped Millionaire Smith to Get Timber Lands S. A. O. Puter, the star lund fraud actor bus aguiu been brought under tbo limelight. A federal grand jury h now in session lu Portland for tbe purpose of Investigating the manner n which C.A. Smith, a Minneapolis millionaire mill man bus acquired titlo to uearly 10,000 acres of Oregon timber lands through the manipulation of 1 A. Kribs and Puter. While tbo statute of limitation bas been allowed to operate against tbe onsets involving Smit h aud bis alleged co conspirations, there is a belief thnt be cnu yet crimin ally proaocutod on a charge of fraud ulent land transactions. At any rate, an ellort will bo made to cancel tbo deeds from the government to Smith for theso lands. Several eutrymeu bavo also boon named us defendants in tho suit. Jce Jones not Joe Jones of Plush, but a bud man known us ''Sailor Joe", of Mod oo couuty-sbot aud iustnutly illed Nick llottondorf near Alturas lust Friday morning. From reports it was a coldploodud murder. Jonos was at a sheep camp and was drink ing, when Uettandorf came up ou a horse. Joues picked up a rlflle aud told Hetteudorf be was goiug to kill im, but said bo would give him tune to say bis prayers, aud fired, killing tbe man lutsautly, Tbe shooting was tbe culmination of former trouble. oues escaped but it is said Is euro of belug captured. UNOFFICIAL RETURNS' OF THE ELECTION A Summary of and Klamath Counties It being impossible to give tho official count before about Friday or Saturday, Tbo Kxamioer bas done tho next tBt thing In getting tbo un official count as glveu over tbo 'phone at tbo end of tbo count in each pre cinct. All precincts are given on moot of tbo contested county offices. Tbo unofficial count shows tbo fol lowing summary, not given in tbo table below : Chamberlain ahead in Lake County 70; in Klao tb Cake baa a small maj ority. Uawley and other Republican candi dates for state offices well ahead. v. a S 3 t CANDIDATES. For I. S. Senator. Ceo. II. Merrvinaii, U TA VH 2'1 :12 25 ":i ICS IS 25 4M G. Sprlnwr, D IW .'J-l H 17 IS 37 41 10 2G3 For Dlatrlct AMornev, D. V. Kuykendall, it 7 10 J1 19 2:1 .11 f.l 20 10 50 3f2 W. J. Moore, 1) Mi 20 41 14 M 72 95 20 18 402 For Sheriff. J. G. Barker. I) 110 26 52 7 22 30 37 3S 1 5 17 4 34P Albert iK nt, It 4'J 51 30 35 19 05 118 20 37 18 41 .521 For Clerk, K. N. Jaquuth, H 13 4 18 24 32 14 91 115 20 32 55 32 452 F. W. Payne, I) 153 31 87 14 29 30 36 48 1 10 39 13 491 For Aawtwor . J. B. UlHir, It 37 6 . 33 31 82 108 18 25 40 21 446 A. J. Footer, 1) 124 29 79 14 27 15 43 40 3 13 54 23 470 For School Hupt. K. B. JHckaou. D 82 22 72 18 4S 33 29 48 2 22 55 11 440 J.Q. Wllllt. K 72 12 2JJ 11 8 11 t2 105 19 19 30 31 442 For Commissioner, E. K. Henderaon, D 149 27 92 7 13 22 17 23 5 27 2 304 C. A. Rebart, K 10 7 9 28 41 21 101 128 33 53 43 474 For Prohibition, 87 24 CI 11 21 29 28 32 7 10 48 7 371 AKuinst Prohibition, 37 7 32 20 35 10 95 110 9 17 39 35 452 RUSH FOR LAKE COUNTY IS ON Stranger are coming into the country by tbo dozens. There seems to be a powerful force at work in tbe interests of Lake County, and Nature offers tbe chief reuson for this great, Influx of homeseekers. Not only bomeseekers are looking toward Lake county, but men looking for business locations are eager to get a foothold bore. Nut a day passes that does not bring inquiries from uieu in pursuit of business location. The lack of rail transit bus ever kept this couutry back, but now that we are assured of one or two railroads through tbe cen ter of tbia county iuvebtmeut-seeking cupitul is turning this way. e!vv - v1 . .'x J. PIERPONT MORGAN AND MRS. 'MORGAN. In the diilkult task of stemming the tldo of distrust lu Wall street and other fluanclal centers tho leaders of finance turned to the great banker and art connoisseur, J. P. Morgan, tho man of tho hour. Iteccnt photographs of Mr. Morgan nro ditllcult to obtain. The one reproduced shows hint sitting lu a currlaue with Mrs. Morgan. the Vote In Lake Merryman in Lake about 250 ahead and 400 in Klamath. Hrattalo and Belknap elected Kuykendill and M'oro about oven in Lake, Kuykeodt.il about 275 ahead in Klamath. i Klamath county went dry by aboot 20. Republicans In Klamath elected sheriff, clerk aod ccbool superin tendent; Democrat, commissioner. Treasurer and assessor. Lata unoffi cial dispatcher give Chamberlain a bout 2000 majority in tbo state, j Dispatches, unsubstantiated, bow ; ever, by official counting, indicate : that tbe people have chosen Chamber lain as U. H. Senator. More anon. X X 7. C r c H cr i I ' 3- 9? c -1 cr 33 i 3 5 r r 1 7T a T n S3 DISBARMENT SUIT AGAINST LAFFERTY A. W. Lafferty, tho Portland attor ney for entrymen on tbe lands in volved in tbe famous 37-10 case, wbo j visited Lakeview a few dais ago, bas I been made defendant in a disbarment suit, based upon charges made against ' Governor Chamberlain, as a member ' of tbe statu land board. Lafferty charged that Chamberlain refunded ' money on apparently fraudulent land transactions. It is also stated that tbe department is not pleased with Lafferty 'a actions in resigning as a government special ngent and accept ing as clients tbe parties whose entries he had investigated and reported upon while in tbe government employ. An effort ia being made, presumably by tbe attorney's for the Azteo Land and Cattle Co., to disbar Lafferty from further practice before tbe land department. . j.. Surveyors at Work Another important move haa been made in the matter of tbe Goose Lake Southern Railroad. Tuesday ri R. Cooper aritved in Altutas witta a foroo of surfeyors to work out tb line. An office was engaged In tbo N eg ley building, teams bired and tbe same evening tbe entire party left for New Pine Creek to begin work. N'o tiao was lust, aod tbe party gave out very little Information. Tbo purpose is doubtless to permanently establish tbe lino aod set tbo grading atases'. la conversation with Mr. Sbaw, wbo purveyed tbo line last anmmerfor tbo Oregon Eastern, ho expressed tbe opinion that having no legal organiz ation in this State tbe new company will merely follow tbe lino of bis survey ia order to Hie tbe plats acroeo Government laud. Another company of surveyors is expected hero in a few days to begin work down Pit River valley from this place. Tbia id our opinion is tbe most im portajit novo yet made, and we confl deutli. believe will result in tho build ing of this road in the very near fut ure. A loan for 113,000,000 baa boon floated in tbe East and it ' is stated grading on tbe line will begin this seaeon. Alturas Plaindeler. (Tbo surveying crew arrived here lust week and went to work down tbe valley. ) Lakeview High School Last week tbe High School closed with tbe largest enrollment Lake county bas yet known. Altbongh there were noire taking tbe 11th and 12th grades, tbe pupils of tbe 9tb and 10th showed by their work that tbey weio ready interested in their studies, and that next year and tbe year follow log would witness tbe gradua tion of many students from the Lake view High School. . In tbe 10th grade tbere were nioo wbo took tho exam inations this year, and all passed, none falling below 90 in average. Tbo 9th grade pupils also showed good work by tbo high average which each received. Fifteen took the examin ations and there was not one failure. Such excellent grades as were made by tbe Lakeview High School students this year, give evidence of genuine interest in the work and careful training at tbe bands of tbe instruct or. Both tbe pupil9 and principal are deserving of praise. Lack of time prevented closing exer cises this year. However, tbe pupils aro talrly up with tbelr studies, so that next year more time can be do voted ja such work. Next term another teacher will bo added, aud it is hoped that all the pupils will return aod take advantage of the opportunity to prepare themselves for higher work. ROSS GETS A HEAVY FINE President of Defunct Title Cuarantee & Trust Co. Salem, Or., May 23 J. T. horborn Ross, piesident of the defunct Title Guarantee & Trust Compauy, was to day sentenced to serve five years lu tbe state peniteutiaiy aud to pay a fine oi $570,853, aud to serve one day in tbe Multnomah County Jail tor each two dollars of the flue not paid. Sentence was imposed by Circuit Judge George II. Burnett, aftei tbe motion of Ross for arrest of judgment abd for new trial bad been overruled. An appeul bas been takeu to tbe Supreme Court aud Ross has ' beeu admitted to bail in tbe sum of 0000. This is the penalty Ross must pay for the conversion of 1383,370 of state school funds deposited by Stato Treasurer Steel iu the Titlo (Juaruutee Trust Company bauk and paid out of tbo bunk by its officers prior to the time the bauk closed last Fall. Ross was manager of the bank, aud as such, aided Steel in securing legislation which would enable tbe bank to get possesaiou of the state school funds without paying interest tbei eon. Oro goiuau. Patents bavo been received at the Lakevew Laad office for G. II. Dusea bery for 100 acres of timber lund iu Sections 11 and 23, Tp. 34, R. 17. Also torV. Lair Thompsou for 80 aoro iu Sections 32 aud 30, Tp. 23, R. 10. ONLY PRACTICAL RAILROAD ROUTE Construction In Lake Co. May Commence Soon INDICATIONS POINT THAT WAY The Coose Lake and Southern Railroad Will Some Day Bo the S. P. Main Line Tbo recent reaumptioo of work on several of the projected lines of tbe Harnman system is Indicative that It will be but a short time before the order to commence actual construc tion work on tbe Goose Lake and Southern is made public. Last week General Manager ' O'Brien issued orders fqr tbe immediate resumption of work on tbe Wallowa extension of the Elgin branch out from La Grade. Tbe extension is fiom Elgin to Jos eph, a distance of C3 miles, and it is expected that the line will be in oper ation within three mouths. Work bas already been resumed oo a number of other projects that were suspended last fall, and it is extremely probable that before tbe close of tbe present month work will have been commenc ed on a line to Lake County. Tbe Goose Lake and Southern ia to leave Xbe main line of tbe Southern Pacific at Anderson following Pitt River up to a point near tbe southern extremity of Goose Lake and thence to Lakeview. The line will have a very easy grade, and reach tbe elevat ed plateau of Eastern Oregon without crossing any mountain ranges what ever. It will aloeo avoid the heavy grades in getting ont of tbe Sacra mento canyon, which is only second to that of the haul over the Siskiyous. Ralroad men have always contended that tbe only really practical route from Portland into Central Oregon is up tbe Deschutes, which presents no serious obstacle to the construction of a railroad on a water level grade. Such being the caso it is quite likely that at no distant day the main line of the Southern Pacific running north and south will pass through Lakeview. A branch line from this place will afford an outlet to the Klamath country, aud thus tap a large section of country that is now practically shut off from tbe outside world Tbe irrgation systems now under way in this county will bring a laige amount of rich agricultural land iuto cultivation. Work is likely to commence on both tbe Drews Valley and Cqttonwood projects in tbe near future, and with tbe advent of tbe railroad Lake couuty is bound to rriake a wouderful advancement within the neM year or so. k The Show Company The show company that ia playing in Lakeview this week is only fairly good. Coming as it has, after tbe Mong Co., it seems rather tame. Most of tbe parts are either overdone or "underdone". Tbe company does not surpass iu any way, and iu a good many ways is not equal to the plays put ou here by local talent. The music furnished by tbe Lakeview Orchestra, is tbe most attractive part of tbe entertainment. People aro tired of paying traveling shows fc00 or f000 for a weeks' "outertaiu uient(?)" wheu home talont can give better satisfaction and the money cau be kept at home for publio uses. We hope tbe show billed for week after uext will prove to boa better attraction. Railroad Land Case Upou arrival iu Portland of 11. B. Towusend last week suit was Died in tbe Federal courts by tbe United States government to compel restora tion to tbe publio domain of 3,000,000 at lea of laud now held by tho Oregon aud California Railway company under railroad land grant conditioned upon the railroad company disposing of these grants to settlers at 92.50 per acre. Card of Thanks. Wo wish to nhow our appreciation to the mauy friendo who so thought fully and kindly helped us during; tbe llluetw and death of our little Florence and iu our nud tiereavenient. Geo. W. aud Pollle Joliuson.