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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1908)
1 omdw mmtm VOL. XXIX LAKKVIKW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEITKMHHtt 10, UmW. NO. .".7 BIG INTEREST IS MANIFESTED A Stream of Enpuiry Com ing As to the Oregon Valley Lands A SATISFIED MAN WRITES A Participant in a Similar En terprise Tells How the Drawing Was Done Tbe Examiner i Hooded with en quiries us lo the Oregon Valley Ieud Compuny, it land, it methods; nbnwlng widespread intercut. We . are also akd repeated lly u to open- hum for Inislne, for bomes.for farm, mid the like. If we gave each o of the applicant- a personal reply, we could do nothing else, mid would have to employ help bcid . Ho fur we have ent copies of the paper to Olio mit ltd It go Mt tint, Hild mm time, permitted have auwrd ome of th letter. We have personally een none of t e literature of the company a to their holding hi-re. We believe however, thut each tract and the. lot to lie woitti the price anked. no mutter where In dued, either mh a fruit or chicken much, a fur in. or h lunge. We mid. ridiind thul III" KH'li" gen tlemen interested III ' he r gou Valley lauds liiive just c need n s.inllur prop osition III the Sun Lulu Vitlley In Col orud , it iv I lit the drawing lut week there wci h M'M) people from all part of tho oo'inlry, hii I it I I'liiinied hII were sat iollav with their allotment. One of tin' holder or mi iillolmeiit wan W. L. Illlmi, of Itockford. 111! not, liu wuM present ul th- drawing, aud being i we.II pleased with all that weut on the e we besought 111 m lo give ii au account of the munu, which he did H follow : Dour Ivlltor: As one who wu on tb, a ion a I h 1 1 tin ii the drawing of the Man LuIh Vlley lauds, you hiive aske I me to tell your render jut hew that whs done, Hid It I wl:h plcamire Ihet 1 comply with your itv"ent. Th9 h'nr "t li Company ex pluliiM how it 4 doni hut It dor not te! how it WAS lo-ie i When the delegate had assembled they elected from their mi in her, three Trustee w ho received a deed lor the entire Irani of tl )M acre an I tu rrvoit ami flitches. The Company then gave (nit the Club Sheets, w hich ill Hint deal hud Inn iiiiiiich of Contrai Holder to each sheet, ("lull Cup- j taiuri hn i lieeu iiipiiiiited for about a ' third of nil the -heel and home tnnej wai I'oiiHiimed i t appoint lug I ?uplaiil for other. ()in party coiillj act a captnin for ae vend Hheeta it he w lulled i") I lo - v-i ul I list nil. i-n this f u tliu i'iimi. With the Club Sheet , nil hended llh their respective! Cuptains, the Auctioneer who had' been appointed by I he trustee, pro ceeded to dl the liT.'i'i farm and town lot. A hunch of lip had lieeu pro- vided hy tlin Lund Company or the. Trusters hii d on each slip a the (! cription of a t wn lot and mo numy acre and then a deHcrlptiou of the farm. The better farm drawing the poorer town lot and the reverse hid for No. I on hi Mheet and no on clean thru to No, I on all of the cluli sheets, then he started on No. 'I on Cluli Sheet No. I and went thru the entire lint of the second name on all the ahei-t, when we had Mulshed that No. :i wa credited with land trad' a they were read off by the Trustees. In tbi way each Club Captain would hid int once for the party for whom Hi laud wa Intended, llrl for he party on the No. 1 line on the No 2 lire and o ou thru tun entire lot and the nartie receiving & or Id acre wert Junt mm well at lulled a the parti who received Hi) an I IIHJ acre, j fur we all knew that we had a iuar j deal. The alip drawn hy the TiiHtrtKMi were upldw dowu and were uliulfle neveral time durlnu the day an I f acre tract ui nld be aanriwicheii hi between W nad I'XI acre trcl, and II any one did not happen to uet one oi the laruer tract It wa junt luck. The literature of the Company aid that the M)verl farm and town lot would be old to the tiUhent iddder. tint we a brother and inter aureerl ainoutf ourHelvcH that tln-re would liinu tiiddiiiK above the routract price. We had all bought contract for a llxed price ami not a woman on ttie ground wihe anythliiH more than we i ad already paid. It wa tunny to ee the at tempt of the Auctiouetr to tiy to run up the hid on Home ot the I Tit 'f I tract but after try iiitf for Bev. riil iimo : lite be would knock it ilomi to I h" tlrnt bidder, who would a- liooiice the! name on Much, a line n the Cluli Sheet called for by the Auctioneer. j There were MimethliiK more Ihiin .'hHJ oeople on the Kroiiodi and a liner i buiicli ot peoplu I never w ell lo meet. There wa nut a Mingle d lturtnince ! duriiie' the ten day we were there! and only one drunken man lie drew' MijM'rc lit the afternoon and had been out to wee it and It looked ho! good to bun he celehratid He uIho rciio8tftd Hint the deed tor the laud be pluceil lu the numc of lii two daughter, ro he could not turn it into money aud Kpeud It. All were eati lled and contented. Kepeclfully Kiibiultte 1. V. U Klinu. Mr. If I i ti ti wa no well Hat lulled with the Sun Lui drawing thnt he decided to look into the O-egon Valley land deal here He wa here n week, and weut over the ground nod took into connlderatiou everr factoi. and liked it o we. that he I going to drop everything in Konkford, aud come out here and lieconni one of u. lu coming to tbi dtuMmiu, the gen tlninani hot anting on inipuliie, nor t he a hmr blaiued euthuaiiitic ;on the routrary be I an experienced aud hml headnd tniBluen in Mil. who i aatiatied thut this eer.tluu I vouu to develop into one ot the gardeu apota of the earth, aud tor that reaaon lie want to take advantage o! the nppor tun it lui) be can aee lying here ou every band. LAKE VIE W HA S FINE SCHOOLS Prepartions Now Underway for Opening the Schools Monday Morning The school ch Idren of Lakevlew, j from the nmall tot up to tbot lo j their teen, are belug marhaled in itowu, aud from the country, for apjpbrance In achnol bright and early next Monday morning iiecauxe of tbi fitct eiicb home I tuixy with pre piimtlon for the event. Thomi of ii who have left the school man or i "ennui, linn eniereu inn rains oi to pay boi-inefH. or prnfenMi lnid life, can up , predate me preneiu reeling in i ne Uilud ot the voung hopetul. We well reiiiciuhpr, hII of u of hcthHt-xe, the (lav ten the foul wall of "The : Little Ke l ISiick School iioiii-e" held u with it hour- of tudy We can ; not forget the pleuniire aud -oirowH, the pickliik of on In, (ruit ami tlnwera ion the any to M-hnol ; the gam we ' playe I in DUininer ti'iie . un l the wlnterM, t'lo, mith katug, coaHtiug, i Mleigliing riding, with big hot co-ily Aniong all our nchool mates for in taure. only one ha attained world wide fame, and he who then wa I ttle freckle-faced, red headed girl, i dow well aud favorably kDOWD everywhere in the world of letter. So It will he with the little and young folk who will trudge their way to school Monday. Home will, perliHpa, become great, while other will drop by the wayside, it maybe "unwept, on honered, unsung " Hut never Uie-lehH, there I room in the world for all, anil the better prepared Is the mind or th band tbe Letter, f or at leaet eio-icr, will becotre life's I battles when it come the time for! them to pun out of the school room, and beyond the cm tines of home, as all must do sooner or latrr in the na ture of thing The school f Lakeview Lave a high reputation for efficiency lo the pHst, and it goes w thnut spying that ' j prepared to fight the chidy period by i smudging" have good yii Id. ' , Thl smudging consisted of hrusli fire on the windy side of the trees and the smoke thus engendered wa wafted among the blossom, which were thus protected from, miury. "lint they have a scientitla stsfem which they are introducing now," be stated to a Tele ram reporter, "Bnd : this include a series of wires and a I thermometer which warns tbe or chards of cold weather by ringing a bell at the house and keeping the ring up until the kettle of crude oil have been lighted and the tempera ture In the orcbarda raised above the danger point. I expect to see tbe or chard of Southern Oregon placed In a position, where tbe owners can virt ually defy the frots of spring by the use of thes kettle of petro'enrn. " It 111 be observed from the above that (loose Lake valley Is not alone liable to damage fom early frosts. It I also very likely that when or chards are Introduced here on a com mercial scale, that similar processes for protecting fruit from possible frosts will be introduced here, as is now tb- case in Rogue River. Hood River aud other well known fruit pro ducing regions of Oregon v.-.t.- fA-y &i :: - :, 1 1 ' -",v- ; M'iwgM.T m TrT7 T' . i ;-V " .'. -'st:-. j OUR OREGON A FAVORED LAND Floods, and Disaster Rule in the South, While Here Sunshine Floods HOMESTEADS ALLRIGHT Lakeview Office Decides the 37-10 Case in Favor of Homesteaders BEEN UP FORJIX YEARS Ervtrymen Get First Decision In the Rehearing After Years of Waiting ! VIEWS OF AN OLD PROSPECTOR buried beneath robes, and sitting ; ou a lot of straw; the singing, ! the laughter aud a shout from the boy.Hiid sin ill giggle from tti'i rirK I when the t-h-iph struck a "loenk ! you, ma H'ii"! and pilled every body ' eninmnH into the deep ami velvety I snow. Thnso were, indeed, happy Wliis; and how glud e hII wool! bo I if we cotii I live them over again ! Hut Tbe entire South from Virg'uia to New Mexico is striken by death and distruction of property from floods, unprecedented in the history of that jctran. The people of Eastern Oregon fscHpe such disasters. Here we are bark lug in tbe warmth of almost per petual sunshine, tempered by balsam-laden-health giving zepbera; reveling in this glorious ozone-tilled air, mean while mooching borae-grown fruit of ali kinds, getting a taste of Teddy's forbidden duck once in awhile, or a trout that would make a feast for an Olympian God, and taking al' tbe comfort in life that always accompan ies' a well filled stomach, a puffed up purse, and a lot of good neighbors ail in like easy and Comfortable circum stances. Viewing things in this light aud knowing the disagreeab e condi tions elswebere, it Is not to be won dered at that people by the thousands are casting their eyes Oregon wards, and are longing for some of the opportunities that at present are so abuudantautly strewn on every hand. Savs Iloajj District Ilcst I lei ! liver Saw, but is Very j Poorly Handled i The TriiHtnes would draw from these slips, one at a time aud read oil' the figure on the slip, as for in atniica: No. 2I&7 block. 121, lot V4, aud 'JO acies Tract 21, section fit!, Township :, Range, 7. This would be the complete description of the laud ami then the anoUonoer would auiiounce club Sheet No. 1 an . tba ('aptalu of that sheet would bid the aount of the contract price or f l.'R) for tho party whoae name appared op posite the No! 1 Hue ou the sheet; the Trustee would then tead oft the next slip and Cluh Captain No 2 would j The A lturna l'laindealer says a pros pector paused that town Sunday and attracted considerable attention. Hi outfit was packed on the backs ot two burroM, aud rendu led us of old times. It I just such men that have developed the mineral wealth of the ,,reat west. He has been look 1 iug over the lloag district aud said to the writer; "You people do not appreciate the value of your home district The sur face indications are tba best." he said, "1 ever saw, and sooner or later some grout mine will be devloped." The, trouble be said was that the whole couutry wac taken up by men who are not miners men who could uot develop their properties uor per mit others to do so. those dar are gone. All we can do now is to watch the smiling and bright faced children, living their present life a if we did in those days of yore i and as we look at them, other little faces pas iu review in our. mind I faces of those once dear, but now j gone, man? of them iuto tbe Great i lleyoud. All ot them started out j filled with hope and ambition, the I same a iinvv thrill the mluds of these youngsters. And bow few , reached the goal of their ambition I MONEY IN FED COWS ON ALFALFA "It pnys far better to feed alfalfa to cows than it doe to feed it to stock cattle for fattening purpose, aud for that reason I am sure that a creamery at Trinity ('enter. Trinity County will pay," Maid Kred Grotufeud, of Red ding. He I a large stockholder lu the Trinity Land and Cut tlo Company that owiih a large ranch near Trinity Center, and he hits junt. returned from a visit lo the properly. "Furthermore, even if we have nc i nunnery, 1 Juni hiiio that it will pay belter to raise cows than it does to raise steers, " continued Mr. (Soto feud, who ha been interested in the laud and cuttle company for several year. "What, would you do with your cream if yon l'd no creamery V" "Ship it to Ashland, 0e., wan lhe prompt reply. "1 Imve just returned from Ashland, where I studied tho creamery business Unit hand from one who bus Hindu a fortune at it in a few ye lira, i was aniund to luurii at Ashlund thut tanners tlud it profit able to haul oroain iu wagons u dis- uuder tbe guidance of Prof. Ilany there will be no g ling backward in this regard. He has as bis arfBUtaut-i: Miss Gertrude Vernon, Miss Anna J Goodwill, Mis Luuri Austiu, Missi Applgate aud Mrs. A J lianby, all teachers of ablity and experience. The school work includes tbe gram mar school up to the eighth crade.aud beside') three years of high school work before graduation. The. work there tits students for entrance to tbe higher schools of the state. lhe ti.xaminer herewith presents a picture of the high school of this towu with the grounds which when first erected was a very complete aud well appoiuted building; but there is talk of erecting a larger aud more modern buildiug, as there is a uecei-s ity now for such au edifice, aud this need rill become more manifest in the course ot a year or so. MERCHANT DIEBER TALKSJAILROADS Reports a Lot of Surveying Progressing South of Lakeview Redding, Augui-t 27 N. Uiebei, fouuder of tbe Lusseu County towu of the same name, was in Redd iug yester day. He l fs au extensive property owner In liu Valley, Lassen County, In which tbe towu of Itieber is located. He bus recently purchased tbe large mercantile establishment of the Mo Arthur Ifrothera at MoArthur, iu Fall River Valley, iu the northeastern pait of Shasta Cunuty. Naturally he is deeply intersted in such railroad projecs us the Goose Lake aud South- aud Klamath tance of forty miles to the creamery at that place. 1 was still further amazed ,... . i... i .. i iii"i" nisi, nie nii.ii.iu ui.,...u eastern aud the Modoc us Willows Why. we , could Imve ,A t f 1Hiirimi, ,urVeying crean from Trinity Center by team o ,, CHn ij(1 vfJ , t))e ,loI.t,.H(it. Limine Biiil' on t.ai- t l.a i t i it. Mm n. .iinil ' ' w w " it Ashland and still make a great more money out. of altulfa (ban by feed ing it to stock cuttle. "To make it creamery pay lit Trinity ('enter we must have at Icimt 1,(HK) cows to pay tribute. In my investi gation iiinde laat week 1 tun sure there can bo l.'i.tHK) cows tributary to the Trinity center institution. There are 700 acres of tilt allit hind ou our O'Shay ranch, '-'iKl acres on the Graves place above Trinity Center and HH acres more ou the Cttrr farm at Carrivillo, to suv -nthing about tbe smuller pur cels. ' Mr. Grol.'fcud will make a trip to San Francis m next week to study cieiiineri" about the buy. there Is little doubt that the result will bo t he erection, of a creamery neiir Trln iy Cunter-the llrst lu Trinity County. ot the unite, m Shasta and l usseu Couties. says Mr. liielu r. "I'aities are out iu many diinct i"iis noil we are in the hopes of mi era of construct ion and develop ment, a thing we have waited foi a great ninny years. It is the im pression among our people thut tbe building of the Western 1'uuitio is the cause of the activity in our couutry on the part ot the I! "We are in doub the prohuhl! el lee asceudeucy of liar iu the ulluirs of the as it may mean t must lie dornniut l road coiistriictiou t couio. " OUR FLOUR MILL READY FOR WORK Machinery Will be Ready Make Flour to Next Week Work has so far progressed ou the new flour mill, that the machinery will a,ll be in place, and ready to start manufacturing flour by about tbe 20th hist. The first grade of flour is to be called the "Rauuer Brand." A very pretty desigu of the flour sacking may be seen at Mr. Rieber's store. Tbe mill, wbeu in operation, will at once be appreciated, as it will not only reduce tbe erst of flour, now supplied froui outside mills, but it wid also furnish a market for home growu wheat. Messrs Hunting and Rieber are cer tainly worthy of comniedoation in briugiug about Us successful estab lishment, j ; ' SMOKE CONTRIVANCE TO FIGHT LATE FROST CFNTRAL OREGON'S DAY IS .SOON COMING The Lakeview Laud Office has rendeied a decision in the famous 37 10 case, in favor of the homesteader and tbe Timber Claimants. The case will probably be appealed to the Gen eral Land Office and it wll be a year before tba float decision is reached. In all there are aboot thirty claimants interested. F. II. Mills represents j about thirteen of them, C. F. Stone and A. F. LaHerty tbe rest. Tbe history of tbe case in briel is as follows: Janury 31, 1002, tbe State of Oregon tiled school iand indemnity covering this land. Ou February 8, 1004. the Aztec Land & Cattle Com pany and Edward Perrin presented lieu selections for tbe land to tbe office. Two day later on February 10, tbe State of Oregon filed its re linquishment of all right, title and iterest in tits previous selection. On March 4, tbe Lakeview Office rejected the lieu selections of tbe Aztec and Perrin people.'for tbe reason t bat they wete in conflict with numerous prior homestead and timber laod entries, then pending, but since Anally dia poeed of and rejected. Tbe case was appealed to tbe General Land Office and tbe decision was affirmed. It was then appealed to tbe Department and the Secretary of tbe Interior vacated tbe decision, and issued iustrujtious to accept tbe applica tions. They were again rejected in December, 190, for the reason that tbe lands bad in the meantime been withdrawn for the Klamath river pro ject. Thus tbe matter has been before tba Land Office for six years, until this year a rehearing of tbe case was ordered and the evidence and deposi tions were taken before tbe Lakeview Land Office in rendering its decision finds for the intervenor and timber and stone entrvmen, and ia of the opinion that the script should be re jected, and tbe homesteads and tim oer rod stone entries of the various parties of this case be allowed to stand intact on tbe records. Tbe Purtlund Journal on its editorial page, gives us this cheering bit of news: Central Oregon's day for de liverance is apparently near at band. 1', as is gueraliy believed, tbe Ore gon Trunk or Deschutes valley pro jected read is a Hill enterprise, it uieaus that Harriman's fence will soon be brokeu through and bis dog-iu-tbe manger dominion ovet thut region end ed. Hut no sooner will Hill turn loose up there than Harriman, if he cannot stop his rival, will get busy Has Opened Office niiu, iij iik liu i 'j as iuuvu t'l ilia territory as be can, and to duplicate bis rival's enterprise. This is Harri man's way. But in any case ceutral Oregon is pretty sure to get not ouly i a roal, but roads, before long. ' i HARRIMAN TO BEGIN BUSINESS in Po land for Central Ore gon Work t- Wouldn't this Haunt You ? A Cleveland woman has bad ber husband arrested because be would not furnish ber with a gallon of ice cream extension of the llarriiiinu lines into oauy : i cnirui wreijMU Fa 'us Youn r. general auditor of tbe Harriman svsti ms, met his chief In Portland on the otb inxt While there his main buxIncKs will be to open a set of book for the proponed TWO INSANE' MEN SENT TO ASYLUM one here was about to kill him. Tbi conditiun was rendered more acute by his becoming associated recently with Westlake who tilled with imaginations as to his own wrongs tired Hall to action On Sunday be wired Presi- remittance man from England ! deut Jioo.aeTelt ft.iiig forth an ar- rfiO . f 1. 1-1 I . . .1 ithinuilln.l tl .. .l a. rlmii lerst, livw . ii to , i ' I Hi) Vopui lv'l . ,i o.cr G i'.i ! . i n PucifM 1 ..I oniuif t v ! tsiie.it lo ii..'' S'ivei i.l yeai to I The average murr ed imw imlj .ill. bis worse side to hi better bull. !. Van Gesner, of . Portlaud, who 1 i.j r t rne l from a' few weeks visit i !,",,'. a River valley, says the fruit j . of that ssction are prepariug 1 1 fo; u"y their orchards against un 1 ti'uic.'.v rosts another season, hy burn 1 1 0,, . . le oil among the trees -when tin) it'iiiperuture is low lu tho spring. 'I oi' 'r; it crop around Medford, be s..-, '.is beeu cut down this seusou l 'dun frosts aud protracted colli , us, but tbe farmers who bad Two cases of insanity came before tbe Couuty Court Monday and b itb persons were aa judged insane and w ere committed to the asylum at Salem. Oue of them was John Westlake, said to be a with tbe usual predilections ' of the cluBfl, who bas been making trouble the past few years for different post masters here, claiming tbey had kept his remittances and forged bis name. Inspectors have been sent here aud of j oue course found the charges groundless. He has some mining claims eaBt of here which be calls "Tbe Sage Heu Mine." He also has beeu very jeulous of this property, and would allow no oue to inspect it, although the, opin ion generally held is that it posteses but little or no value. The other iusaue person is Wilson O. Hull, formerly from Des Moines, Iowa, where it is said be attended the state university. Hi mind be came unhinged from too close study aud thought upon socialistic questions. He lately compiled a samll phumplet under the noui de plume of "Oi vell Ouzellow," treating of railroads, bank ing aud insurance. He mude an at tempt to dispose of them. Failure to accomplish sales aud jeers, scolfs aud adverse criticism, caused him to brood over matters until he reuuhod a frame of uilud in which be imagined some iug that the Piesideot must have known the message coul 1 have emu lated ouly from a diseased mind. Ou Monday be tried to buy a revolver, and being refused tried to borrow These acts dually came to the uotico of tbe authorities, aud he was taken iuto custody, as was Westlake, tt'.d held for examination as to in sauty. with reeulta us above set forth. Under the Oiegun luw it is at (list necessary to notify the asylum au thorities of the case, with tbe prob able uumber of attendants uecessary to convey theui properly to the asy lum. This bas tieen done by ' the county court. It will probably be a week before such attendants arrive. Meauwhile Hall is confined for safe keeping uud Westlake, who bas evinced uo harm ful tendencies, is kept under survey lance. Westlake Is a uihu of dissipat ed habits aud is probably 70 years of age; while Hull is probably a ilttle over Ik) , ami bus the aupearuuue of belug au intelligent man.