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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1913)
figgsaJAj1i',) w wwxm,MJNiUm'X:nimu mui ii n Mm nn m i, i y PENDLETON. OREGON 3 SEPTEMBER 1M 2-13, 1913 8 Excursion Fares I TkWpU oa SU Sept. IP, 11. 12. 13 -Final Return Limit Sept. 18. 1913 U I Wild and Wonderful Jj Furious and Exciting B PONY CXPRtM HACIt sHfiN NtwCoMMtsimlorciwT 1 RONCO VUSTTMC litfil Oitf CfMmplOM. mu tnd kM B INDIAN, COWSOVS la'i.Kw I P) 5 1 IMS Y Bprtbqwd fj OUTLAW NOftSfS, V3LiV ! MSOaHai, H Get Fares ard Particulars' Ss From any Agon; 0-W.R.tM. LAKE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY Incorporated. A Complete Record We have made an entire transcript of all Records In Lake County which In any way, affect Heal Property In the coonty. We have a complete Record of every Mortae and transfer ever made tn Lake County, and ever Deed given. Errors Found in Titles In transcribing the record we have found numerouH mort gages recorded In the Deed n-cord and indexed; and many deeds are recorded In the Mortgage record and other hooks. Hundreds of mortgages and deeds are not indexed at all, and noit difficult to trace up from the records. We have notations of all these Errors. Others .annot find them. We have put hundreds of dollar hunting up these errors, and we can fully guarantee our work flanager. J. D. VENATOR, Send This Coupon Today It will bring you information as to how YOU and jour entire family can visit the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 on the dollar-a-week plan. Not only that, but everything will be of the best, everything reserved and it will cost you less than if you pa 3' when you go. CURTIS & UTLEY, LAKEVIEW, OREGON Agents for SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION TOUR CO. Tours. Name Address You may send me free literature about the San Francisco Exposition Grand Celebration ALTURAS, CALIF. WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 22nd COUNTY FAIR Z AND Base Ball Tournament $2000.00 in purses and prizes will be given Remember Date, Week Beginning Sept. 22 f0H jHift&TorRE "ITS J HO 1 1 BALL TIME" and tint hest thing to make a good Highball from Is our brand of pure Seotvh Whiskey unless you prefer the domestic ltye, In which ease we van also nerve you with the best. Thin Is Just the right season for Jlighbulls and here Is jjluve to get the bent necessary lit' gred tents. We guarantee all our Wines and Liquors the qualities sjieuk for themselves. KENTUCKY SALOON POST 4 KING, Proprietor Magazine Praises Oregon The September number of Munaet, the Pacific Monthly magaaine U devot ed to Willamette Valley, Oregon, the feature article being entitled "The Land Where Life is Large," from the pen of William K. Llghton, who was brought across the continent to write the story. Mr. Llghton was so favor- My impressed with that portion of the state that he purcrayed a farm home in the Willamette Valley and will continue his writing from Ins New Oregon Home. The magazine ie pro futely illustrated and this feature story will do much in bringing before the general public the wonderful resources and possibilities of the more develop ed section of this state. URGE BILL TO CREATE ROADS ACROSS AMERICAN CONTINENT Dank Deposits Gain j Deposits In state and National banks, in Portland increased $1,577,914 13 be- tween September 4, 1912 and August 9, 1913, the date of the last call ac cording to a statement issued by State Bank Superintendent Wright. This is the hfth timo in 27 years that fie call has come in August, the last being in 1907, and because it comes before the crop season is over, the statement , is not as flattering as it would have been had it come a month later. An ( attractive feature about the statement) is thut it shows the reserve to be 33 ' per cent, while that required by law j Is but 25 per cent. The resources of the banks in Portland aggregate $37,- j 927,704,68., of which sum $29,164,446 , is reserved. i The August call was the fourth one j this year, and another will be made i before December 31. Convention to Ask Congnta For cross Country Military Roads. Steps to lay lief ore couirrcss the n ccsslty of building from country mili tary highways and the pawsago of secli Mils, as well n to bring before I lie atnto legislatures Mils for the roust mo tion of lateral roads enntierted with the federal tohs country liltihwiiyx. will he the purpose of n hIx days' con vention of the Vlilted States tiood Uonds association In St, I.ou!s. The association was formed at r.lnnlnc linm, Ala., ami Is a consolidation of forty road ImlldliiK organizations that will hnve headquarters In St. I .on Is. The association wants the east and west roads to lie federal lilitliwiiys (im. Ktrnotod by United States engineers and maintained by the government. An important feature of the conven tion will be nu exposition of road building materials and machinery, un der the auspices of the conventions bu reau In Suburban Harden, where the eon vent Ion nlwo will lie held. It la be lieved the entire cluhty stx good roads organizations in the t'nited Slates will be nthllated with the new association by November. AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC HARD ON ALL MACADAM ROADS Ropaira, Needed One a Year, Ara Dif ficult and Short Llvtd. Highway engineer long ago dlscov j ered that the ordinary macadam road lias no chance under automobile trnf i fli. The best of them, well founded I and crowned and surfaced, hardly last j a season. "Spotty" repairs are dltll- cult and short lived, and a highway : nine-tenths of whose surface la In good i condition soon has to bo entirely mado ! over, because of the ruined one-tenth, : says the New York Evening Post. The i various forms of surface bound nine ; adams tarred, oiled, etc. have given : hotter service than the plain macad j nms, but they, too, are comparatively ' short lived under heavy motor tralllc ami similarly defective In requiring complete renewal when but a small part of the road Is worn out. The result of tills new situation U that t!' macadam road, which fur nished a comparatively chenp and sat isfactory highway for horse tratlle. has become one of the most expensive forms of road surfaco. The fact that ALL CONDITIONS AREJpilSTIC Favorable Report Qlvon on Duslnoss Outlook Over Country. The Sunday Oregotiian gives the fol lowing acouuiit concerning the rum plt'xl.in of national business alTairs: Increasing optimism is the dominant tone in every present day utterance of the men who conduct the business of the Nation. Farmers are optimistic, and they hav a right to bo for this year's crop production, while not promising to be a record breaker, will bo well with In the average. As agriculture lathe principal indus try of the nation till other lines of activity are favorably directed. A re- "Oregon Forest" Map There la a great deal of difference between the Oregon forest and the forests ot Oregon, and officials of the United States Forest Service are mak ing haste to say so. Two weeks ago an incorrect report was circulated to the effect that the forest service had ready for distribution a new map of the "forests of Oregon." Now the forest servico really meant that It had compiled a new map of the Oregon nations! for est, a section comprising a million acres or so esst of Portland, lying south of the Columbia rlvor, west of the Dcsrhutoa river and north of the watershed of the Clackamas river. Tho Hull Hun water reserve lies within I s limits. The forest service has been besieged with reipitst for trrse "statewide" maps and many requests were even made of Chief Foroiter Craves at Washington. Map nf the other national forests within the state will bo Issued from timo to time, but they are still in A woman of Alma, Kansaa states that she prepared a fresh-laid egg In a skillet with butter and iriod It "to a T" on n flagstone before her door with only the sun for heat. A house was also burned, the lire being started by the sun's ravs shining through a lamp chimney in a window on some papers. We've heard of hell on earth, but never knew they had it in Kansaa, A Municipal Farm? Suppose that Lakeview should buy a piece of land somewhere near enough to the city limits to be convenient, well drained ar.d capable of being put under cultivation; should fence it with rabbit tight fence around its outer boundary and secure the services ot a ; competent man, capable of managing a ranch successfully and put him in charge! ! It could all be put under cultivation, ' and if necessary after everything was fafrly started, a well could be out upon the place and a pumping plat t installed for irrigation purposes. j Provisions could be made for having ' the 6lnp irom every home taken away regularly and delivered 8t the farm, which w( uld be a long step in the di-, rection of better sanitation in the city, i ! and would provide a large quantity ! of cheap feed lor a large number of. bogs which could be kept there and raised for the market. This would prevent present condi tions which make it necessary some times for the family trarbsge canto stand in the back yard for days uncared for, a breeding olace for flies and germs of disease, because there are, not suitable arrangements for its reg-1 ular removal. If the city should assume the responsibility of this branch , of the work necessary to the public j health, what wonderful improvement it would permit along that line, to , say nothing of the profit that might be derived from that source were it . turned to account in the feeding of a, number of hogs. j Of course there wouid te the grain ; that could be produced upon the farm to dupplement the feed brought from . the city, and by projftr management. ' a fine quality of pork could be produc- ed, as it would be possible to provide a patch of alfalfa for range, not only for the hog3, but also for other ttock that might be raised there. ' j Then let the city council provide an '' ordinance compelling every keeper of etocK or poultry inside the city limits j to keep his premises clean, by remov- i ing all accumulation of manure around j u,i about factories where heavy track WANTED AT ONCE liijjlit cxpcricnml men to work a rou nil sawmill on Drews Creek. Good wages to those who will earn it. S. C. Cami'mi:i.i., Snpt. MACAIAU HOAI t'SKl) ONE VEAH. but a small part of I ho road surface Is iii'cVd for motor trallli- iq highway not iim.-li traveled could carry 0!) mt cent of Its trallk- on two strips six inches wldi;: where there was more travel four strips would bo necesaary) Ins )d to tl:e suggestion that the rail way track principle bo applied In Imildini; automobile highways. Ap parently a test of this plan has not been made at least not on n acale suf ficiently law to furnish conclusive in formation ns to Its practical value. Such ali'ipM have been used on bridge Let Tho Examiner Figure on Your Next Job Printing his stable or poultry houses at regular j intervals, depending upon the number ! of stocK kept, and where the owners j had no land of their own upon which ! , ... 1. If UmlltirJ linnn k A nltu farm. The result of such a policy if carried out faithfully would be that at the end of a tew years the city would own one of the best ranches to be found anywhere in the valley. Experimental work could be carried on to some extent there, and it would ! certainly be cne of tho very best ad 1 vertisements for our valley, to have j such a place where strangers who were interested in land and its pro ducts, could see what could be done with proper care and management upon land where care was taken to increase the fertility of the soil, and give crops a fair chance to do their bert. In time, as the land was developed to a high degree of fertility and bet ter improvements made in various ways, it might be possible to enlarge the tract, or sell the improved claoe and develop another. What could a citv do in such a valley as this, that would be of more benefit to not only the city itself, but to the whole valley? And with average management of such an undertaking, it should be a source of revenue in actual cash, to say nothing of the benefit to be derived from the influence of aitch an example. Good land could no doubt be secured within reasonable distance at a price that would make it a profitable invest ment. II. B. ALGER. loads have to be moved. Hecciitly, however, tho subject has been taken up In I'ligland, and there appears some probability that the "hard road fctrip" will lie given a thor ough test lu the near future. A Brit ish engineer, discussing tho problem, suguosts the following possible bard strip materials: Asphalt, wood par ing, metal plates, concrete blocks. The most obvious dllflctilty to bo overcome In these strip roads Is that of main taining (ho proper relation between the strips and the rest of the road surface. Thero will always bo u tendency for the macadam to break along tho edges of any hard ntrlp, and the problem of keeping the surface In good condition at these points will necessarily he a difficult one. Will Destroy Objectionable Billboards. Advertisers who use objectionable or disfiguring signs or billboards along the highways on Long Island and in Westchester county, N. Y., have been warned thot their advertisements will be destroyed by the National Illghways Protective Hoclety of the state and that the Infringers, persons or firms will be prosecuted for vio lating the law which makes such signs a misdemeanor. Roads Incroate School Attondaneo. Seven millions of t be 25,0(XJ,OOO school children In the United States do not regularly attend school, and one-half of these live lu tho country, where bad roads, muddy roads, rutty rouds and dangerous roads not only prevent thorn from getting to school, but their Im poverishment of the farm prevents the existence of any good schools for them to go to. vivm oi iraue Doin export ami uomes-, ,, ., t.c-coin Mont with tho marketing of Pro''1-" of '" the Full crops is predicted by men who are well informed. In the volume ani Importance of its business, transportation, in the United States, ranks second to agriculture. Railroad presidents and steamship officials are optimistic. They antici pate a season of increased business and biggr earnings. With an expansion of operating revenue to meet the con stantly increasing operating expenses the raliroads believe that tlicv ran make a showing sufficiently satisfac tory to investors to attract Fupropran funds for extension and development work. -'K Railroad development in the United States virtually has been at a stand still in the last year, due partially to wholesale rate reductions and a de creasing business. This made Euro pean capital cautious. War In the minor Nation as of Eastern Europe drew heavily upon European coffers. This demand was met by "cashinir in" American securities and Investing 1 the nu nev at home. j Now the situation is changing. The money market is becoming easier, j Uankiirs who have bean culling in their loans and increasing their reserves are , preparing now to look ihout for Invest- ments. , Further financial relief Is promised ' through tho adoption of a currency ' measure. Whether tho currency bill passes at the present session of Con gress or not bankers take a hopeful view of the future because of the evi dent intention of the administration to provide sume manner of currency reform. Cankers, therefore, join with the farmers and the railroad men in ex pressing optimistic sentiments regard ing business conditions. Despite a prospective adverse tarifT, manufacturers, too, are optimistic, and not without cause. The greatest manufacturing institution in the country the United States Steel cor porationhas enough orders on its books row to operate all its mills con tinuously for the next six months. Its net earnings in the quarter ended June .10 were $10,000,000. This reflect! favorably upon all other manufactur ing lines. THit ni.DKST K"TH!.1SHKI KKALTV HUM IN Pol'TllhltN UKKOO.N ONE TO 12.000 ACRES OF LAKE COUNTY BEST LANDS For n:ilf vitlirr for stork or ugrl cult nr.il wriosr. J. W. MAXWELL A. SON LMHiview, oncaoN Oic:GOwr ana washincto 3 ; Business Directory i.!v:n: il II. h : v.-.v i .-.. 1 lw! o I WM 1 1 ..f : :..'mI, J.i., Mlwt; !. 1... I Ii.- i " ! iidiii . ,.'i,t ; x.-.r . v, ,:t,. .( !K.J ly ill r of -.. I ( (.. fcK.l'l l ( K Dr. W. 13. Ilennetergcr, of tho bu reau of Animal Industry. passed through this city last we.'k enrouto to John Day, Oregon. Weeland Bottled Boer At the Palace Bar A Comparison 'DSD As the TungsLan incandescent light is superior to Lhe original electric light, so is Lhe Behning Player Piano superior to other Players. We ask you to prove this for yourself. SHEPHERD & SONS Ashland Klamath Falls SHAMROCK STABLES CON BREEN, Proprietor HALF BLOCK AST or COURT HOUSE Special Attention to Transient Stock Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month Always Open Phone 571 LAKEVIEW OREGON