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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1913)
Lake County Examiner Official Paper of Lake County, Oregon ADVERTISING RATES. Untie All Handing ftsftnlar atandlrtf ad. 11.00 en Inch SO tun n face, per mnntl. All standi Shtnavrt frr twice a rn'Mith. IVwt o pompnai I n charred tor all chantma All iipectal ioaltlon. aitrm. All nhnrt term ada. extra Header, lorp I eiumna, 10c. per Una each In-e-tlon. ,!. c. a line each Insertion Card of than'!. II.M). Reaolutlont o. eomto tuK, II .Wi r't upward!. lTSr-Tntintnit Advertising and Job Prlut U,rfc In adranra. All bill! mail be paid too Brat of each month. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On rear, In advance, tlx nanlha, " Three moniha, " OrI'iotpaldla sdranoe, U HtMrMi flOO l.Sft .7 Natlca la Sabecrlbars Saharrioerito I he Riamlner who rernOT from one locality to another, or ehai r their poetoffloe addren ahnnld remember to drop tblanfllr a card ao their paper can be ad dreaacd to the riiht poatofflt-e. Lakevlew, Oregon, Thursday, January 1, 1IH3 THE t01 TAX LEVY The tax levy for all purposes for 1913 la eight and one-half mHs, as against eleven and three fourths mills last year While this levy is one of the lowest ver mile by Late County, yet the amojnt or money for the public schools h s been increased from two and one-half mills for 1912, to two and seven-tenths mills for 1913. The law onlv provides for a levy of SS per capita for children of school age for school purposes, but th's yesr the amount raised for the public schools will be In excess uf S20 for every chil l f school age in the county. This very libersl provision should place the pub lic schools of Lake Countv in the first rank for educstional efficiency. The tsx for rood purposes was re duced a half mill from the levy ot 1912, but inasmuch as most of the metal cul verts and road roacninery necessary for the county, have been purchased, near ly all of the money raised this year can be used in actual road construction. The tax levy for all soecial funds, auch as the scslp bounty fund, the High School fund and the County alchool Lihrary funda, have teen in eluded In the levy for County purposes. and when the taxes are collected the amount required for eah fund will be transferred irom the general fund as provided by Isw By including all of these funds in one levy mich expense in clerical work aecessary to extend these funds on the assessment rolls by the county clerk, and also the segregation nf the several amounts to the different funds by the sheriff Is saved to the taxpayers. It ia safe to say that Lake County will continue to have the lowest tax levy of any county in Oregon, so long as the present business methods of efficiency and eennnmv are followed. ORCOOXIAX ANNUAL Ah th old ypar gave plae n th ew the Portland Draconian lsmief a most creditable annual edition. Thl year's nil mWr consisted f 78 pages and n filled with news of th de velopment and pmgrps of Oregon nd 11a metropolis. The publication Is of great value to t! e state as It will most likelv find its way Into every nook of th i earth, and servo the good purpose of heralding to th U'slde wortd the nevs. resources and possibilities of the enMre state. To glva one a vasrn Idea of th" snderraking of printing such a .Mammoth Issue the following bit of Information ! (riven: If all the piper that was used !n printing The Oregoi fan's annual edition lar we-k wee sire rclHil in a straight line, th fu 1 width of th or diuary newi-p trier's pug', it wouM reach from Fi.rtl."i,d to Oinah on the east, inoi" thmj il'j) mMes beyond the Mexican hr,rVr on the south "d to Him vicinity i,i Jun.-a'i, Ala-k9 jr. the north. Tne edition consisted fcf liiO.OOO papers. The paper welched ttii po iii l aii l f u r ounces e,'h, aaakiig th tot-l weLiit the tdidju 145,4:- 0 pounds, or Hourly t-jus. ltO.! JMlMtOVi:.MHXT "The appropriation id htrgi; mm by the state rovi-niiue'its to build iruuk rbttdt tl-rousitt llie country ounht in encourage ev-rv mi til coiniuunUy to Hiiprove Ks lncal couiiiiuolcutiom, Is the good advice given by tlw Or gonlan. There ought uot tu be the slightest conflict between tlx; pro moter of the trunk bnes of roads Hum for good rond, and I hey should be ready to spend moi ey freely la addition to the regular r ad taxes. W e shall never have good roada lu Oregon and Washington until Individ uals learn that the inooe.v spent a poo them id a good Investment. In no other way can it be made to rvturu as heavy Interest, This leeson has been learned In some-places, hut In many others It has still to be taught Farmers are too apt to look upon funda Hent on roads as bo much dead loss. The tru.h is that nothing pays so well. There an many little things which public-spirited men In every community can do to help the cause. They can build and use the "split Ion drag," whL'h has proved so useful upon the roads Wherever it has been tried. Instructions for making this simple i n piemen t ate given lu one ol the Government bull tios, which may be obtained gra Is by writiurf to the Department of Agriculture, afore over, each man who wishes well to the cause of good roads ought to go out now and then and actually till up some mndhole or drain some miserable slough. He will thus set a good etauule which neighbors may possibly follow la the couree of time. This part ol tbe won will never attract settlers as it should until we have solved the problem of good roads, and that problem will never be solved until every ludlviduttl learns to do hie part. v OREGON TKUXK COMING Anent the possibilities ol the Hill rail road building through Lakcview on the line lietween Portland and San Fran cisco the Oregon Journal gives the lol- luwuif e chloral comment: James J. Hill did not come to Oregon on a gamble. His whole railroad ca reer lias been one of consummate de signed. The $50,000,000 he spent ou the North Bnnk as the finishing touch to his trans continental line wus not spent lor a city but torrn t input. He wunti more than (he business oi Portland as sus tenance from which to pay the interest on o uds and dividends on stocks in thatgicat enterprise. Hi.- railroad philosophy is a philos ophy of breiidth. Extensions and feed ers tor converting a line into a system is the policy synoryuiuus with his name. It is reported that their i: to be an ex tension ol the Oregon Trunk to Lukcvicw for a connection with the Hcno toad, and that the junction will atTord access ol the Gould lines to I'ortlaii't and the extension of Hill operations fur to the touih wurd. It would also afford Hill access to San Francisco. That Hill has sought access to Cahlorma is proven, first, by 6' ven months of time spent bya corps of his engineer in surveying a line from fiend into the Sacramento Valley, and se ond, hy the fact that tuch an arrangement would match the known Hill policy ot aggressh ei.ess and invas ion. It is asr-erted that ht a point fifty iii ill s be) ond I'.end there is a maximum :ilt itude In ni which a boxcar started in either direction would roll from its own momentum ir.io Poitland or San Fran cisco, the maximum grade in the latter direction being sixth-tenth of one per tmt. kailroal tumor are often thin air. j W hatevcr may he the fact in present re- p, t- there is one certain tl. t u. i v be assumed as definite and iiK.. oi able. Ii,i. io.s )it a lare jtrogram and a lot to do in H e railroad world of Oregon and he w ill Oo it. i Valley; a garrison of soldiers waa atattoned on the mountains border ing Warner Valley and a few "took men lu that valley. Prom Warner to Steins mouutain were only coy otes. Jack rabbit, antelopes (thous ands ot I hem), anil occaslorally a mountain sheep plenty of them, per haps, but they managed to keep out ot eight, aa a rulo. and srery. w hero waa sage, sage, eage and the snull of it, Huuch grans there wits In abundance lodlatis, too. but they kept out of sight, for the great Modoc war wan btewit g, and broke a few months later. On and on and en we waudered. To the Ow)hee, across hiskey Hills, swam Onake Kt ver, and like Columbus, on, over the great plains, where are uow cities and towtit,, and fields made groat by the push and vigor that has carried water to the desert and tuade It to blossom like the rose. I sit here now, on that point of rocks In a comfortable structure ol brick and st. ne, and hammer out theiie recollections on a typewriter, and wonder what "Uncle tieorgo" Nurse would say It he could see It, aud talk ever the telephone, and turn a button wheu he wauled to 111) t up his tavern. 1 remember tbe Modoc war and the terror of It 1 raw Cap tain Jack and his conferera hanged at Fort Klamath In the fall of '13, I set up and pub lahed the tJrst news paH'r iu Southeru Oregon east of the Cascade mountains, aud remember many front lei lucldents that have mide widow aud orphans, and rich men and poor men; Incidents that made outlaws of good men, aad gave reputations to nun who were noteu tttled to them These thought al most sidetrack me Into philosophising, but I must leave philosophy to some other ocnsslon. Later, as a United States deputy surveyor, I set many a corner, ahoi e, since I lieu, other corners have been estaaliFbed i.e., co'liers In timber, corners In stock rang a, corners In eligible water sites, etc., etc. yueer world, this; but my philosophy tu's me to speculate on men aud thluws. A I look back at It It feeing like a moving picture show, and yet, tnov iua pictures were not known theu. Iu I visi;ed Crater Lak. Its ex isteuce as an entity was then vnly ad mitted by the very few who had seeu it. No road nor trull led to it. and to stand ou its bunks then aud look Into it gave the thrU that can only come to the discoverer of great things. People who see It "u from the cush ioned sent of aa auto, who have traveled to it over smooth roads and regulated grades, have Uot seen ll at Us greatest. iNeltner will any one ever again eee it M. Many things like these1 are the pegs upon which history can otdy truthfully tie bung, and jet the real "seers" of thlugs ure seldom the historians of them, and the world gets them badly Jumbled. I was the first resident attorney licenced to vracticelaw in Luke coun ty, aud Luke then embraced whit is sow hake ami Klamath. 1 mixed In politics ia Jackson county when that county embraced what is now Jack son, Klamath and Lake, and remem ber bow we fumed with Impatience when waiting for lire returns from CbewauLMU to reach Jacksonville, tbe county seat. 1 here was lesa than 1,0(10 ve es then In tlist whole ter ritory. There are people now living in Kbi ni a tli county who have lived In three counties, and have never mov ed. But eurjiuh of this. I seem moved to fill In the picture of which I have only sketched the frame. 1 will leave this to the leisure moments of the ''old timers ' POSSIBILITIES OF GENTRUOREGON Much Land Awaits the Hand of th Industri ous Settler ICKMIiVISCHNCKS The f i b) wiii;c iutereKti'.g reininU fences cif the 'loose Lttku Va!l"j and Klamath County by C. H. Watson, now oi Anhluud, appears lu the Klamath liquid. Forty years ago pole bridge, board shanty, called "tavern,"; little and the vldagea situated at a db tiiuce sliack on the point of rocks, called from their course Cross rj.td ur A , ''store''; blacksmith shop, where the little valuo until the maUi thorough, horses were shod and ramshackltj fares have been built. When that j wagons togged up; t.ne shanty fundamental work baa been done they i where people lived aside from the become invaluable: Both taskn hboulrl (tavern; a nbed where hay (wild hay) proced together. Tbe btate can iot was stored, and Jailed horses fed; do everything. Much must be left to then rocks, and toads, and sunken, the publioapirited Initiative ofsep- aud sagebrush. Sags, sage, sago arate communities. One essential brush every where luilea aud miles lirellmloary is to get rid of the feeling of It aud alkali and "Injuns" and that work done for the public I wast- J tho Applegatea aud Shooks aud a d. ' It U n t wasted. It I Of- :i ' I - 'i' r ' flwl fami'l-"." uost profitable kind of work iudi-j That was Linkvllle aud the Klain rect money returna. A man ho'ath couutry forty years ago. Ke. ends bis team and band i to build a tween hero and Alkali Valley was ieca of road with nu expectation of only sago brush, alhali, Jai: rabbits, Ja'v will receive returns In the iu- coyotes and Injuns." l'.etweeu reed Talue of bis lands. Clubs 1 Alkali Valley and Yauax, ditto, and Ibeuld be formed la every village, to ' ao on to Goose Lake. A few hardy Domestic Science Course For the benefit of the ladies of Lake- view and vicinity who wish to take a short course in Domestic Science, the weeks beginning January 131 ri aid end ing January 24h will bi given this spec'al work. Two classes will be proposition formed, the first in plain cookery and the second for more advanced work. No tuition will be charged but a tee to cover all cooking material used will be charged as follows: First class lee $1.50 ai.d the second or advanced clatts, 82.50. The classes will meet daily, making a coime of ten lesson. Lectures on different Domeutic Science subjects will be given through out the course and tbe reference library will be free to all who take the work. All those desiring to take this course will please register at once, staling which class is desired, as only a limited number can be accomodated. AddreBs or telephone. O. M. Gardner, Supt. Free School Lectures At the Hi-h School build'iif; in the sewing room there will be a nivcn a course ol lectures on following subjects. "Nutritive vulue ot foods:" "I'rinciplts of cooking:" "Adaptation if foods to climate, oc cu;,i Viioi n i.ii UK1'." "Meats;" "Cai 'bohydriilcs;'' The lecluies will be nt 1.30 p. in, and w ill be on January 15, 17, 21, 22, and 2t. All ladies interested iu any of these subjects are urged to uttend whether With an area ot public land almost 20.000,000 acres In exteut, Oregon offers to the settler probably greater Inducements than any other North western State ,says the Oregoulan. There are hundreds of thousands of acres here that require only the efforts of the settler to render them highly productive. The homesteader or the Irrigation 1st who would take nd vantage of the land laws has a favorable oMiitng here to make a home for himself and family. It should not lie understood, bow ever, that there are lands l:i 'hie state open to entry in fully settled districts or even the large communities. This idea is unwarranted. Much of the unappropna'ed land remaining lu tbe public domain Is probably equal to any lu the state In quality, but It must U found la the newr and little devehed sections. Naturally it t in a wll'l condition. Anyone who seeks public laud III Oregou should not de lude, himself with the idea that ho can acquire, free of charge, a quarter sec tlou convenient to tratnqstrta ton lines or lead for the plow. Ho will meet with disappointment If this Is his plau w hen he comes here. A ;reut portion of the puldlo lands 1 1 this state Is mltorallv un-ulted io agricultural purposes am) has not been taken up for this leasoti. Much of It, however, Is deslrithle for farming and remain tiovernmetit property because It lies far from the railroads, j with the c instruction of rail Hoes, however, now itoluit forward lu this state, tn ewe lauds will become valu able. Thousands of acres have been filed upon during the past year In Central O'egtm uhvre the approach of the Hill and llarrtmau lines up the lecliutea Canyon k solving the1 great irohlfiii of transportation. This Is a bugbear that hat hitherto kept interior Oregon from lleve- l ipluK. It lias lieen virtually a wilder-! nes hluc.e the bt-xinninK of things Is?-. cause Or kmi railroads have been built almost wholly along- the horde- j of the state. Oo the m-rlh the llarr' mail I. lies followed the t'ohiuihbi River, on the west tbe MHithern PacitU" traverses the statu from north j to south wed of the Cascade ount-j alas, tbe i. at oral banler that has fenced off (he i;reat mid-state region denied It an outlet. Government land Is scattered throughout the state, every county, j with the probable exception f Multnomah, having so at unclaimed I ureas. The only practical way br' the intending settler to s itlsfy him self as to the value of these public lands Is to Inspect the records In the various laud oihces anil then make a1 personal vblt to the t act i,'sire,. Another point should iie tiortie In j mind by the imendiug sett lei. Laxity in the administration of the laud laws which formerly prevailed per mitted an evasion of the. strict letter of the law as regards homestead, but that time has passed. Tim settler if he hopes to secure a title, must oci-upy the lauu in goou laitn titiii make It bis home. Government 1 iiids lu this btate are divided into agricultural, timber, desert an'! mineral claim", tleis'iidintt upon their character and the manner iu which they in ay buobtaLxd. Htaie lauds Include all of these clasnitlcauoi-8 tt'id are obtained by purcha-e, regnrlless of their charac ter. Uovernii eut lamls are oiilaineil through the land ollices, i.f which there are six la this state, located t Itosebuig, Portland, Lakevlew, Tie Dalbs' Latiraiidt: and Hums. The records are o,en tfJ the puhlu; la lh.se offices, and the otliclals ot each will give such iiifoi'iu ttiou us they poss- m regarding vacant tracts. 1 Oregon has about oOO.ntM) acres of huol binds, tho most of widen lies east of the mountains, and It is Hold at not less than 7.50 per acn. .;V i-et-tler may purchase nu.V a noint of this land up to :20 acres, and re-i-('iiiitiiiued on i'ugu iCiiiht they ure nieiiilicin of the coukiu(; la- or not. KeiiK'inber there i abHobutely no charge lor thee Ircitiun, ho inuke it a point to come and ct soinc ood of the schoid. X CorjrtljM II. n Scb.ifMr Af Mtra Your Next Suit What Make? IOUK NliAT SUIT should he a Hart Scha iTiicr tS: Marx there are many reasons why. II. S. K: M. Clothes ate lieimr worn hy thousands of men. II. S. & M. Clothes are always the latest in style. II. iv M. Clothes arc made from the very lest fahries. II. S. & M. Clothesare ni.idf hy the very lest tailors. II S. & M Clothes ivc style, serviee and satisfaction. Unlike other makes of clothes, if yon have a U.S. & M. Suit you know the t'uth of these statements; if you have not, the first suit you buy will convince you. A li variety of Tweeds, Cheviots and Cas si meres in the latest shades, also plain blacks ami blues. 1 'rices $20.00 to $30.00 "A'liij I'll;.',' In I'm', Hut anil H'r.ir' Basket Ball Thursday evening the boys of 'he High School basket hall team will plav the L. a. P. A. C. team in the pyr nasium in the old school building Ad mUmon 25cta. LOST One bay roan horse. bramledY on left hip, some while on faee One small dark roan horse mill,,, brand ( O (bridle till) on shnuKlei. Ona Ik' lit bay mare niulo. liuht Maxe, Itrand M ou left shnulih r One Id ek horse W mule, left, eve out, brand Crown 7 M on left, i-huillder. Liberal reward will be ulven for Informa tion lending to thslr recovery. Manuel Handers, Lakevlew, Oregon, January 1). 1 0 1 I'Olt KALK Make Offer Hit. acres N. B. Hec. 1, T. !I7, It. 22 Kast W. M Lnke Oo AdilresH Ktncktoti, 3141 Parallel, Kansas City, Kas. KKSTOUATION TO ENTKY OP LA N 1)3 IN NATIONAL FOKE.HT Notice Is hereby given that the hinds described helow, emt racing It! T acres, within the Fremont National Forest, Oregon, will be subject to set tlement and entry under the pro visions of the homestead laws of the United Utates utid the net of June 11, 1900 Cii Htat., , at 1 ho. United States Lanil Office at Lakevlew, Oregon, on March 4, 11)13. Any set tler ho was actually and In good faith claiming liny of said lands for agricultural purposes prior to Jan uary 1, 190)1, and has uot abandoned same, tin- n pi eierem-H right to make a homestead entry fur the 'audi actu ally occupied. S.iel In mix wi re listed ipmi I li" n iit, niii ins of tho is-rnnus mentioned below, who n vt) a prefer ence rltht -til'Jivt to the prior right of hii.v -neb settler, provldid auch set tier or applicant In iiulilled to make liomeH end eut ry mid the preference rhrhtjs exeiclHed prior to March 4, 1 11 I.I. on wlilch ilnie l lie binds Will be Fiibji'ct to set tlemeiit ami entry by an iiiiilfle persiiii. The lands are as follows: The t- of HK-4', Mso. 4 T :M N.. It. 21 K. v. M. except a I rln !I3 feet w ide descrlU'd by metes ami i.iiiiihIh .ts fullowH: lleulunlug st a point lti) fti't east of the quarter corner licUoi u Scoh 4 and I), above IowiihIiIii and latiKe, extending thence lli1 fit on each Hide of a line ruiiiiiuLc nortli 2t hulus. to tbe place, where the nd of the strip closes Oil I li- boundary of t he t ract; the net area being 711 nines. Kiiid tract was listed upon the application of Harry Morren, Valley Falls, Oregon; List H-774. TberK', Kec I), T. H( 8.. It. 21 K., except s strip feel wnle off the west Ide of i he t iacf ; the net area being lfN acres. Hald tract whs listed upon the application of William J. Thomas, Vnll-y Falls, Oregon; List 0 7111). The SIC of M-.!4'. tho NKW of Kec. 1!. tint SW! of NW)i of HVX , the KX of NW'4 Uf MWU, tho NVI of HW!,' ol SVV', and 'he of SKtf of Sv)i, See. 2ii, and the of NKJ, of Hue. 2'J. T. 3d 8., II. 1H containing 100 acres, appli cation of D.tvld James Jones, I'alsley O enon; I.I t 0 N2. Approved, Dec ember 10, 1U13. H. V. 1'KOUDFIT, Asslstuut t'oiuinlHstoiier of tho 'Ion era! Laud Ofllce. i , i it "I' 9P- fTh; r M Loyalty In Piano Retailing Forty-six years of piano selling in one family stands for something IT STANDS for Rrlithih't v IT STANDS for Satisfaction IT STANDS for Vide in Business IT STANDS also for Durable Pianos and Players at l"air Prices ASHLAND SHEPHERD & SONS KLAMATH FALLS