VOL. XXXI
LAKKVIKW, LAKK COUNTY, ORKfiON, JANUARY 13,11)10.
NO. 2
PROCEEDINGS OF
m sr a T wy
I lib LAIU
COUNTY
Official BooRs Exam
ined and Found Correct
and New Road Districts
Established
lo tbe County Oourt of in Htata
of Orgoo for Lake concur, Tue ley,
Nov. :h liWJ.
Oaurt njoveneJ pursui it to a IJoti r
oment of yesterday wlt!i l'i muh
ottloer preseot.
Tbe entire day wi spsut lo a n I-
log tba book of tha oounty oil isr.
Oourt adjourned to Dad. I. WJ to
9 :30 A. M.
In tba Couoty Oourt of tha State
of Oration for Lake County, Wednes
day December lit, 1909.
Court oouveued pursuant to ad
journment, seme otflosrs present.
. ihs Oourt spent tba day Inexsmln
aa booka of tba County Officers.
1 Ooort adjourned to December 2
19U9, at 0:30 a. m.
In tba County Court ot tbe State
Oi uregou lor wuuij,
day December, 2nd, .Court couvened
. i
lursuani lo aujouruuiein ui
un nlllrara present.
COURT
luoka of tha County Officers ar
Mulshed, mill said booka found cor-
rct.' , ,
Inithe matter of claims .tgalnst
Lake County, Oregon. Tue following
claim were examined, approved and
warrant ordered drawn on tba Coun
ty 4 Treasurer for ;tbe leaped I ve
amount to lie iid out of tba Gene
ral loud, to-a if. Klaiunib Falls
Lukrvlew atuge line, freight, mo
O. D. Arthur for caab ulmicel lor
return of prisoner Iroiu Klamath
county ' U 7:1
Court adjourned for tha term.
0a it remembered tbat regular
. aaaalon of tbe Ceanty Court ot tbe
Couoty of LaWe. Htate of Oregon,
was bogun on Wedosaday, January
5, 1910, tbe following otUoeie being
present :
Hon. . Daly, Judge
C. A. Kehart, Commissioner.
Albert Dent, Sheriff, by W. 11. Bui
der. Deputy
and F. W. Payne. Clerk
When - tbe following, proceedings
ware bad to wit ;
lu tbe matter of tha establishment
of a Hoad district lo be known a tba
Lake Koad dMriit, No. 13. Out of
territory embraced in Uoad District
No. VZ Htid changing tbe name and
number thereol to l.aka Koad bis
trlct No. H 7J
It appearing to the satisfaction ol
thin Court, utter m careful InveHtlga
tolu of ull the tacts relating thereto
tbat for tbe better couveuleuce of the
people reading at or near the Post
Office of hake, Luka County. Oro
on, tbat a Hoad Dbtrict abould be
established, lo oonfurm to the boun
dary lines of tbe Voting 1'ieoluct
lieretnlore nettil'llntied at Itiat pllii'e:
It U hereby ordered ooiihtdereJ and
i adjudged that a Uad Patriot be
mid the mime U brr'ty eHtalillabed,
aud tlmt tba fHid Hoad Dieirlut
Khali be known a Lake Kond Pitdrlct
No. 13. aud bounded anfollowa:
lioKlnnlng at the Northoaat corner
of Lakn County, Oregon, tbeui-e Weal
uloug the Noith bouinlnry Hue of
uttld County to the Nortbeniit corner
of T. i!i. H. K. Hi. K W. M. ; tt-euoe
South on the Kauge hue between
Jtangea 10 and 17 .K NV. M. to the
Sonlheaiit ooruer to T. 25.- H. K. Hi.
K W. M. , theui-e Went ou tha lowu
ahip Hue baiweuu 'lowiubips 25 and
21 to tba No theoHt i-oruer of I 'Jti.
S. H. I&. K. W. M. i thenoe South on
the Kunge Hue between Kangea 13
and 1U K. W. M. to tha Soutbeaat
corner of T. 27. S. H. l.r E. W. M. s
thonoe Eaat, on the Towuahlp line
between Township 27 and 28, R dis
tance of tbiee luilus; thence South ou
the Soot ion line h distunue of nlue
hi Hen; theuce Kast ou the Section Hue
to the East bouuditry line of Luke
County, Oregon; thonce North ou the
East bouudary line of Lake Couuty
Oregon, to the nlaoe of beginning.
That tba aald Luke Hoad Dlatilct
No. 13 lu Lak County. Oregon ehall
be for all purposes wbutsoaver a dla
tluct an t aeparato Hoad' .District as
are ull other Hoad Districts of Lake
County Oregou aud tbe houndarlea
of all Uoad Districts of said County,
which are effected by the creation of
wutd Haka.Huad District No. 13 out
,,ofthe territoiy embraoed In Hoad
tor rvjMv ('""lot No 12. audcbungiug the mime
l?L , r'L. . ' l. ., l,-ri,C t.n Lake Hoad Dil-
e-Vvtfier: "to enfi
'i2r1 VaaJL ''! Lake Uoad
- - - - w n r in lii Liin
ictiou work, uuu s.
Vlll It. til AVItMft.Mfl I hilt tL
I llsbinent
known
ou HA .
Wltti lufituf la LiKinniiliit.in
A.W of
tuetnber of the weHlthy Swops faty!1"8
are dead from typhoid aud tbeV't0;
tborltles claim tbe germs were Intro, 0'
duced for tbe Purpose of causing thlu
rinufha tn hrlno about a wronuful dis-4 V
triuutiuu oi iuo yiiivnf.
Ihe Famous Warner Valley to be
U
ALFALFA GROWING
A GREAT INDUSTRY
Hay and Seed Yield
Big Easy Honey
to Our Farmers
Experiment being made lo growing
aifaltu ened for the market profM It
to be one of the greatest money mak
er of the age, particularly lo eo
t Ion so adapted to tbe growing of
altulfa a la Lake oounty. Vary
few of tha farmer of tbla section
have undertaken to raise teed for tba
market, but the farorabla report re
cled from other sections would war
rant a fair trial being fclven. Tbe
following report from llagartnan, Ida
ho, will be of Interest to tbe farmers
cf Lak:
"That alfalfa la ooe of tba staple
product of tba llagerman Valley la
bown by tba amount of seed rained
Ibis year. It I oouservatlrely esti
mated there will be from eight to ten
oar loads shipped from here.
Oeorue 1. Drufen, from thirty-flf a
acraa of alfalfa, sold tMJU worth of
aeed. Dauial Jooea sold 22,000
pounds of alfalfa seed for 2,700.
II. W. Ebbart threshed 20,000 pouu U
of seed which acid for f 2.500. Several
other large yields are reported.
"An alfalat Held doe not bare to be
plowel. planted, harrowed, leveled,
rolled or cultivated in any way what
ever, except at the beginning It la
harvested by a tnao with a team and
a mower, it I stacked just aa bo
much hay. Tba ouly Jabor tbat en
ters iu tbe consideration I a few day
lacking and tba turasttiuc.
SETTLERS PROMISED
BETTER CONDITIONS
Move to Grant Leave of
Absence During Winter
Plan of Congress
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 7
On account of tin Severn wuitei
weatbei which Iihh pev ailed tbioug'j
out the WPt fur the pant mouth, pre
venting settlers from making resi
dence upon lnod entries, and prevent
ing them from making a living upon
land on which reeldeuce bat beu
establ isbrd. au etlort will te made in
Congress to have legislation euacted
wbloh will relievo tha situation.
Hepresentut ive Martiu, of South
Dakota who fans introduced a bill
tu grant homestead entrymeo a leave
of ahtanoe from their claims during
the wiuter months, will receive the
co-operatlmi and support of Chair-
uibu Moudell aud other members of
the Jlou a l'ublio Lands Committee,
iu b'u elforts to ascure early actiuii.
MOVE TO ORGANIZE
ANTI-TRUST LEAGyE
This Effort Should be
Endorced and Aided by
Every Consumer
WASHINGTON, Deo. 30. To com
bat the trust and attempt to briug
dowu prioes of the necessities ot life
to a reasonable figure la the purpose
of h movement which will be inaugu
rated here tonight by the organiza
tion of u national anti-trout league.
The proposed league has the sup
port of a do.eu congressmen and of
these several will bs prsseut. Tbe
l.iArm f tlm ninvnninnt hellava mora
can be accomplished by such au as
sociation ttmu by legislation.
A simllur movement io Germany
a few rears ago is pointed to as an il
lustration of the successful outoome
of such an o.'ganizatiou.
Tho New Code
It will require two carloads of pa
per to priut Oregou'a new nodus
The code will oonsist of two volume,
and there will be primed 5,000 sets
or a total of 10,000 volume, a re
spectably large library. State Print
er Duo i way estimates tbat tha print
lug will take 70,0tHi pounds of book
paper. The first volume bus already
lieen compiled and tbe copy is being
placed lu the baudr of tbe printer
rapidly William P Lord. Jamea 11
Moua -lie, James Oodrfey and Wil
liam P Lord Ji., oo in pose the com-
mUsioii ere ted oy tue ibhi. .eK"a
tur lor omiplHog a new oode. It
lll be ready tut distribution in No
Opened Lo
One of Lhe Greatest Irriga
tion Enterprises in the
West, 1 50,000 Acres
Under Carey Act
Lake county in peculiarly and for
tuoalbl. situated for loose aeeklug
new bomea, io the faot of it bei4
oue ot the most Isolated aeotlous In
tba Co I ted States. liioaua of that
fact opportunity, for tboae wbo are
ambitious is ready to ba graapa 1 oo
ev-ry bsod.
Tula fact of isolation coupled with
tbe further fact or its great and au
paralleled pioduotiveoeas lu the
grain, fruit and vegetable line was
tbe prime factor for luduoing man
of hraios and capital to beoome in
terested In tbe exp'oita'lon of our
vast undeveloped resouroe of. forest,
ret ne farm and orchard
Tbe work the Orogoo Valley Land
Company Is ooiug lu tots county ba
haa frequeot meotioo iu theae nnl
umns and is a very important factor
iu tne up building ot cue reuuroes of
the county by inducing a lig num
ber of people to become Interested,
with a view of ultimate settlement
Now co nes another proposition of
equal luipjrtance to tbe luiuie ot tbe
county duplication tbe splendid work
of the Oregon Valley Lnd Company,
wnlcb-is tbe exploitation of tbe great
fertile Warner Valley.
Tbe editor of The Kxamlner upon
bia advent iuto this county at once
became impreaed with tbe immense
possibilities of tbat valley, aud urged
bis readers to take advautage of eucb as it would be considered a Moocbao
opportunities but with iuditleient sue 'aeu dream, even to bint at their size
osea. ttsctsnl developments, nowerer,
indicate tbat it is perhaps bettor tbat
tbs free government laoda there did
not fall into private bands, tuasmucb
a tbe preliminary itcpt irs. oov all
taken (or tba development ot tbat
wonderful valley, to tbat it will sooul
become the borne ot toousauas ot
piosperous sod cooteoted people.
This great undertaking is in the
bands of tbe Warnei Valley Irriga
tion Company, wblob waa recently in
corporated under (be law ot tbe
State of Oregon, with a capital stock
or 2TiO,000. Tba officers of the com
paoy are: W. H. Bradford, Prtsi
dent. K .C Ilelkoap. Vice Prekideu
and Chief Engineer; C. H Gleim,
Secretary ; aud H. H. Millard, Asist
aut lieasurtr and general manager.
It Is understood tbat these gentlemen
are experienced la cooductiug irriga
tiou enterprises uodre the Carey act,
and Lake couoty is indeed fortunate
in having their engage iuauch an en
terprise. The rbtet eugiueer Mr.
Uelkuap arrived in Lakeview Thurs
day night accompauied by h:s chief
surveyor, Paul S. West, aud his
Chauffeur, J. II. Meyr.-, wbo is also
a civil eugiueei. They came over
from Klamath Falls, in tbeir poer
ful Thomas Flier, and bud uo trouble
in musing the trip.
1'bn F.xauiiner bas knonu ot ibis er
terprise for some time, but us 'lie
matter was not advauced far enough
for publio ruentiou, we refraiued trim
giving it publicity. The segregatiou,
however, f nearly 100. ooo ucres of
government land in tbat valley, the
pi lis of the eauie being tiled iu tt e
local land iffice Inct week i,ave notice
to tbe world that something was ou
tapia.
Tbs arrival of Mr. Belknap, bow
evr removed lu a iu ensure the veil
as to the iutent of the compuuy aud
we are at liberty to give a few facts
as to the purpose of tbis newest Irri
gation enterprise.
lu tbis couuectiou Mr. Ilelkutip
stated tbat be bas hnd eugineers
quietly at work for the past eight
months to determiue tbe amount of
laud that could be Irrigated aud the
amount of watei that could be devel
oped lor tbat rurpone. No publicity
was glveu aa to their movement un
til tbey bad concluded all detail work
aud bad obtained the right to irrigate
the publio lands uuder tbe Carey act.
It whs demonstrated that water suf
ficient for 150.000 acres cau be devel
oped. This enterprise will open to set
tlement oue of the nuest valley iu
tbe Paoitlo OoaBt. Warner Valley ba
CHIEF FORESTER
PINC HOT FIRED
Ballenger Draws First
Blood, But the End is
Not Yet-Wait!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-Piuchot
was tbia afternoon, following a meet
ing of Presldaut Taft aud the oabluat
dismissed from tbe surv.ee of tbe
government Tbe dismissal followed
an Investigation aud oiboubbiou oi iua
letter sent by him to Senator Dolliver
Settlement
been famous since it fertile beauty
ws first beheld by General Jobn C
Free oi out. Tbe valley 1 approxi
mately 100 mile in length, and
atretohna out in a wide plain. It is
ao sheltered by tbe mountain tbat
it ba a climate all of It own. It I
mild in tbe winter and not too bot In
1 tbe ao umer. It is some 700 feet
lower altitude than tbe (Jolden Gooesv
Lake Valley, sod tha escapes 'tbe
early and late frost tbat sometime
ooour lo certain part of this section
io bigber altitudes,. For years tba
stockmen of tbe surrounding ranges
have made it a practise to drive
tbeir stock into this valley for winter
range. Tbej, of course, under tbe
coming order, of things will use tbe
valley for tbe same purpose, but un
der different conditions, a
tbe present free and open pasturage
will muke way for alfalfa fields, and
it will then be neceeaay far tba stock
men to boy their feed of tbe farmers.
The soil ot tbe valley, as wm d
monatrnted last fall at the local Fair
Is supremely fertile, and under the
fructifying influence of an abooo
dant water supply, will become oue
tbs gardeu spots of tbe Pacific Coast. '
f ruit of the nuest quality of all
kind are growo there, while the size
of tbe vegetables grown lo tbatvallev
j are actually too tig tu tell atnut
and quality
It is the intentioo of tbe company to
sub divide tba lands thus segregate'!
into 5 to 10 acre tracts or larger and
aell tbem to people of a snore de
sirable class In tbia way only good
neighbors will bs secured, and It will
result In one uf tbe oiiat modtl cut
onies lo tbe entire Great West
Tbe-Examiner is promised toll de
tails uf tbis enterprise, so soon as
tbey are worked out, and will be
in a position to keep its readers ad
vised as to tue undertaking.
ic is now in
- in shape t begi
t dam and dltcbi
it is now expected tbiuga will be
io construction on tbe
tcbea about the tlrt of
June.
The principal office of the onmpaoy
la in Portland and branch offices have
beeu estHblistied iu Chicago aud other
eastern cities.
DUCKS HAVE LONG
BEEN USED AS FOOD
Scientists Claim Presence
of Wild Duck on Earth
3,000,000 Years Ago
Tbe wild dock has been through all
ages oue of the greatest sources of
food aupply for mankind. How loug
the duck bas beeu on the ulobe, Dr.
H. C. Humpr.s of the American Na
tional Museum ot History of New
York, believes he has approximately
deterimued. tie has acquired for the
museum the complete skeleton of a
piebistorio duck which be and associ
ated scientists estimate to be 3,000,
UO years old.
Tbe specimen is so well pieaerved
that greater part of tbe skin of tbe
bead, body aud legs may be seen.
Tbe skeleton was found io ancient
rock stratitlcatloua near Lance Cieek,
Wyoming.
'Mummies of F.gypt. 3000 or 40u0,
years old," said Dr. Hum pus. "are
cousiaeied of respectable antiqiuty,
and still more veuerable are tba
mammoths fouud buried in tbe frozen
tundras of Siberia and Alaska; but
ventha mammotba, tens ot thousands
of years old, ar only creatures of yes
terday compared with tbe antiquity
f tbis dinosaur mummy."
Tbe Huisian museum similar to tbat
of New York, bas two specimens of
prebistorio ducks dug out of tbe ioe
and rook of Siberia wbich are given
by F.uropoau scientists an aniquity of
1,80c), 000 years. These specimens, how
ever, are uot as well preserved aa tbe
one which tbe American museum baa
now aud which will soon be publicly
exhlbted with other treasures of the
early days. Unidentified.
Intense Cold Every-where
The terrible cold of tbe east con
tinues aud dire su If -ring everywhere
is iuteuKe. As au instance ot the in
tense cold, it is stated tbat it is pos
sible to skate ou tbe Mississippi ice
from Minneapolis to Memphis, a dis
tance of over 000 miles. The fuel
supply is short everywhere, aud in
Chicago becaiiHe of ioe floe in the
lake tba water supply Is in danger.
Luke County wants you.
SENATOR BOURNE
WATCHES TREAS'RY
Is Investigating Cost of
Congressional Worth
less Investigations
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. -Sena
tor Booms, a chairman of tbe sub
committee of tbe Senate publio ex
penditure committee, believes there
is need of investigating Congression
al investigations He bas been look
ing up tbe cost of the investigation,
ordered by Congress 1907. nf what
cau-ed tbe advance in tbs pries of
timber. This bas already cost up
wards of 1 200. 000 and is not com
pleted.
Tbe Brownsville investigation cost
$00,000. without result, and the Pin-
cbot-Balllnger probe probably will
cost over 1100.000. Investigation
wbich have been ordered br Consress
and are under way, with oo sign of
completion, are tbe probing of tbe
steel industry, tubacco and cotton
iodotriaa, water powers, corporations,
transportation by water and toe har
vester trast, and tba coat ot these will
aggregate 11,000,000
SOUND LOGIC ON
TARIFF QUESTION
Veteran Author Says
Creates Class Who
v Rob the People
it
Jobn Biglo. the agei writer, has
just written a letter to tbe Civie For
um in which be condemns the Amer
icau tariM policy ou tbe broadest
grounds. Araoug other things be
says:' "No -system of government
tbat la founded upon a hostility of
interests to tbe trotberbood of man
can be reformed. It infects, circum
scribes, aud coisoos tbe relations of
every class, aid its prusress like t'.e
moou's ai-ceneiou. is but its progress
to decay or tbe palliation or a de
sease the progress of which ouly re
sults more rapidly io death Our tar
iff compels ao luequitable distribu
tion of tbe wealth of tbe country,
thereby creating a class always in
creasing in number whose interests
are hostile not only to the rights but
to tbe best interests of all -It cre
ate ao aristocracy of wealth which,
like all aristocracies, must eud soon
er or later in flagrant war."
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
CALIFA SQUIRRELS
Said to be Bad as Rats
in Spreading the Bu
bonic Plague
WASHINGTON. Deo. SO-Whole
sale killing uf plague riddeu squirrels
in Californlab is to be discussed soon
at a conference between Public Health
and biological Survey official?.
While the plague is declared by e.
perts to be localized, danger to other
sections is feared.
Kill the squirrels!" 's tbe slogan,
and a government biologioal expert is
io California investigating the most
desirable aud economical bait for this
purpose. "Is there auy possibility
of tbe plague spreading beyoud tbe
Kooky Mountain?" was asked of
tbe Hio'ogeal Bureau.
"No, v,e wou't let t" was tue an
swer. "It might possibly get 'oto
Oregon, but we are working bard on
tho situation and propose to stop its
spreading anywhere it possible."
Bosses against Primaries
The Argonaut, an organ of the In
terests, says Seuator Flint hesitates to
again become a candidate for tbe
Seuate aud gives as a reason tbe pri
mary law of tbe last Legislature
Tbe fact ot the business is Mr Flint
knows bis masters canuot manipulate
tbe primaries aa tbey oun tbe political
conventions and State Legislatures.
And his record is too well-known to
trust it to the fierce onslaught ot
tbe people. Tbe bosses ot Oregon,
too, would like to down . our primary
law, and return the state to tba form
er political condtlona when every oue
outside the state held their noses
when Oiegou was mentioned because
of. its eeuational election soaodals.
But tbe primary law Is bare to etay I
CHAM
BERLAIN WOULD
PROTECT WATER
Oregon Senator's Water
Power Conversation
Bill Embodies Roose
velt's Policy
WASHINGTON, O. C. Jan. 7.
Senator Chamberlain ba introduced
a bill for tbe protection of water
power sites, tbe purpose being to pre
vent private corporations from ob
taining permanent title to tbem.
The bill in alt detail agrees with tba
Roosevelt power site policy. It pro
vides for leases for tarity rears and
appl'cation fee of 10 cents per bora
power, and an established water fund:
and an annual lUcense of from ooe-
half of 1 per cent to 1 per cent of tbe
gross receipts, readjusta'ole at tbs end
of each ten-year period. The Covet n-N
ment under tbs bill is to control
charges for power sold to consumers.
Tbis bill bas tbs indorsement of all
conservationists, including Piocbot.
FARMER DOES NOT
Z3
GET BEEF PROFITS
Secretary Wilson Dis
cusses High Price of
Food Supplies
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3-"Ws have
already discovered that the farmer is
not getting tbs exorbitant profit out
of the beef be raises," said Secretary
Wilson, io discussing tbe high priees
of food supplies today. 't bsve on
douot," he concluded, "tbat tbe
same couditiona prevail in most oth
er lines ot farm products. The De
partment of Agriculture will
tborougbly investigate conditions end
tell tbe truth, no matter how it
hurts." -
CANNON GETS HIS
FIRST DOSE-
Congress Takes Away
His Expected Privilege
of Appointment
WASHINGTON. .Jan -Supported
by the Democrat the bouse iusur
gents succeeded in having tb Uallio
ger Pinchot resolution of inquirv so
amended a to tequire thut the ap
pointment of the investigating com
mitter shah be made tiy the house
and not by the speaker. Tbe vote
was ll'J to 145.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. -The Fitz
gerald amundmeut eliminating tba
forest service Irom tbe proposed Bal
linger investigation was lost by a
vote of 6fi ot 2"2(.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.-Tae house
late today adopted the joint resolu
tion providiog for au investigation
by congress of the interior depart
meut and the forest bureau
THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IS DEAD!
Let It Get Off the Earth
and Make People
Glad!
Marse Henri in tbe Louisville
Courier-Journal says: "What the
democratic party needs is time to
breathe and think. "lit it thinks long
enough it will uouclude to ceast
"breathing" and oousider itself
dead. It will uuit imagining itself
a party, and make room for a new
American paity ot tb people, for tbe
people and by the people, tbat will
put an eud to furher domination
of the party of Rockefeller, Aldricb,
Cauuou, I'aft and the trusts I If it
will only get dead, and stay dead,
tbe American people will embalm its
remains in bronae aud poiot to its
Inglorious record, as having at last
mads ledemptlon for its sin of being
only an abject echo of the party of
tbe interests I
SENATOR
POWER
RIGHTS
mier ;
yesterday