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VOL. XXXIV. , r LAKEVIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 25, 1913. NO. 52
POSTMASTER WAS
NOnpCED"
P. M.Chrlttman Tendered
Resignation After 2 3
Years' Service.
F. M. Chrlsman calli the Examiner'!
attention to an error appearing in an
article Uit week, "It ffai a Long
Haul to 8ilver Lake," taken from the
Bend Bulletin. ' Instead of being
"bounced" from the poatmaiterahlp
at 8ilvor Lake owing to tbe preaent
administration, Mr. Cbrlsman wntea
tbat aftertwenty-three yeara service,
eight of which waa under Democratic
admipietratiou, he resigned on May
30, 1918, ard waa appointed by the
Civil Service Commission to conduct
the examination of bit tuocessor, which
be did.
lie wrote three letter a to tbe depart
ment urging the appointment of a suc
cessor, and at tbe end of five monthe
waa able to torn over tbe office to Mias
Martin, wbieb he etatee waa done with
pleasure.
muchInHst is
takenwobegon
Great Benefit Will Follow
the State Exhibit at
Land Show.
Portland Telegram : C. C. Chapman,
aecretary of the Oregon Immigration
Commitelon, wbo had charge of tbe
Oregon exhibit at the United States
Land Show at Chioago, which olosod
lait week, returned to Portland laat
,-etgbt. Ontpfnftn'iiya he believe that
?0 per cent of the farmer who visit
the Panama fair in 1915 will visit Ore
gon. More mtereit centera about the
Pacific Northwest than any utner part
of the country, be aaye. It baa been
auggested that Oregon establish a per
manent exhibit in Chicago, but Chap
man doea not favor that idea.
before going Kant he wrote a circu
lar letter to many farmers in the states
of the Middle West Inviting them to
meet him at the Land Show, and be
says they called in large numbers
identifying themselves by the letters,
and anxious for information concerning
Oregon. The Oregon exhibite bave
been turned over to the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific railroada,
with the understanding that the grow
er's name would not be detached from
the products.
. OPPORWffME
TO DR1VERABB1TS
A. P. Koozer Reports
Great Numbers of Pests
on West Side.
A. P. Koozer, of the West Side,
cime into town Tuesday after a loud
ot supplies lor the Creeks who are
doing the rook work on the South
Drews canal. The Greeks made ex
tensive preparations for the proper
observance of the Holidays, in the
way of eats, drinks, eto.
To an Examiner representative Mr.
Koozer stated that the rabbits are be
coming more troublesome than ever in
hia section, and that the pes' were
likoly to do great damage to bis or
chard during the Winter. Even at
present be is having much trouble in
keeping them out, and when the snow
banks up against the fences, affording
a much easier means of ingress, he
expects to have his trouble still furth
er increased. lie has made a trap in
side bla orchard inclosure and captures
many nightly, but be can' see no ap
preciable decrease in the numters that
nightly haunt his neighborhood.
Mr. Koozer also states that the
rabbits are fully as numerous as last
year, and that in the vicinity of the
Bernard ranch many thousands have
congregated. The storms of this week
would make drive highly successful,
as the new fallen snow la soft and the
rabbits could not escape so easily as
when tbe snow is crusted.
Jingling bells accompanied tbe first
real snowfall of the Winter Menday.
SPECIAL SESSION
UNNECESSARY: WEST
Governor Says Horse
Sense Only Requisite for
Election Laws.
A news dispetvb from Salem under
1st oats, says: There will be no
special session of the Legislature to
Ox Op tbe registration laws. Governor
West made tbia clear when be said
tbe use of a little borae eenae would
straighten out any supposed !"'e
or confusion In tbe eleetion laws.
"It tbere is anything wrong with tbe
election laws tbey can't bold another
'lection, ran they?" be said with
smile. "They couldn't elect another
Legislature, which would be a god
tend. The govcrnmeut would go on
just tbe lime, aa under tbe ruling of
tbe attorney general an official can not
reaign or leave bla office until bla sue
oeeeor qualifies."
Tbe question oi a need of a special
session bat arisen over the conflict in
the eleetion lawa which provide tht
tbe registration booka ahall not close
until 6 P. M. May 15, which lathe date
of the primary election. It is obvious
ly a physical impossibility for the reg
istration books to be open for registra
tion and In use for election purposes
on the same day.
"The thing to do is to use a little
horse sent," said the governor.
And when 15 daya before the primary
election arrive oloae the registration
took, and those who have not regis
tered can srar in their votes on elec
tion day. ' There could be no greater
calamity than a special session of the
Legislature"
GAME COMMISSION
MEETSJN SALEM
Wallowa County .Man Is
Last Member Appointed
On Board.
At a meeting of tbe State fish and
Game Commission at Salem laat week
were discussed suggestions of Gov.
West that tbe board have its head
quarters in Salem ; employ a perman
ent secresry and consolidate tbe offices
of Maater Fish Warden and State Game
Warden, final action waa postponed
until Dec. 29 when the board will meet
in Portland. C. H. Evana of WilUi
was the last member of tbe Com mi sa
lon appointed. Thia appointment
makea Eugene the nearest representa
tion to the Lake country at Commiss
ioner Kelley ia a resident of that place.
It la possible that another vacancy
will occur on the Commission in the
near future and it ia considered pos
sible that Southern Oregon will get
thia place.
The Fish Warden waa authorized to
plant 5.0(10,000 ateelhead eggs, and an
announcement was made at the session
in Salens that a car of Hungarian par
fridges be received for libera-tion
over the state.
SANFORD 0. PEASE
ANSWMSTO CALL
Honored Lake County Citi
zen Diedat Lakevlew on
Sunday Afternoon.
One of the pioneer men of this
County has crossed into the Great
Beyond with the passing of Sanlord
Orin Pease, a resident of the Summer
Lake section , for the past several
yeara. tie was well known and highly
respected throughout the entire County.
His death occurred last Sunday after
noon at the residence of Zed Harris in
this city He wsa 82 yeara. 7, months
and 26 day of age when the demise
oame.
The deceased was born April 25,
1831, in WeBt Andover, Ohio, In the
year 185'J he came west to California,
later removing ta the Summer Lake
Valley In 18S7. He was one of the
early day minora in Nevada City, Cal
ifornia. For the past 25 years he had
made bis home with the Harris Broth
ers at Summer Lake and his nieoe,
Mist Flavia McDowell, postmistress
Continued on page eight
MERRY CHRISTMAS
TODAY the entire civilized world
joins in celebrating the world's
greatest festival, the birth of Christ.
The stretch of human history be
tween the event for which Christ
mas stands and Christmas Day, 1913, shows why.
flit is a season of gladness, of giving and receiving
gifts, and of love to all mankind. May the day
be fittingly observed, and may no little heart be
saddened, nor any little eye tear-stained by a slight
from Old Santa. But may each and everyone
throughout our happy community be gladdened
and made happy by gifts from the little children's
patron Saint. flTo the many readers of the Lake
County Examiner, friends and foes alike, if any
there be, we extend the greetings of the season.
May each and everyone enjoy a Merry Christmas,
and may the returns of the occasion be many.
FILINGS BEFORE
U.S. COMMISSIONER
Many Applications Made
For Land In Northern
Part of County.
Up to Wednesday of last week, 54
filings bad been msde before II. S.
Land Commlasoner Tbomaa at. Ft.
Rock, on the "unaorveyed" land says
the Times. 51 tilings were made on
the opening day, December. 15. In
Township 26 South, Range 16 East, a
total of 24 tilings were made, in 2716.
15 tilings, and in 2515, 15 filings.
The tint filing made waa that of
Rex R. Hacktt of Arrow, He was
one of a party that arrived at the Com
missioner at 6 A. M. These 64 filing
are estimated to be about one half of
tbe filings that will be made, as many
are taking advantage of the 90 days
time allowed tbem.
CONGRESS WILL BE
HELD INFEBRUARY
Delegates Will Be Sent to
Irrigation Congress In
Portland.
Portland, Oregon, Dec. 23rd, (Spec
ial) February 12-14 is tbe date aet tor
the 1914 meeting of the Oregon Irrlga
tion Congress, which will be held in
Portland at the Imperial Hotel. Tbe
executive committee is busy preparing
a tentative program that will be an
nounced shortly.
It is planned to give a banquet on
the night of February 12 for the dele
gates to the Congress in celebration of
the effective work done at the last
Congress. This banquet will be given
under the auspices of the Central Ore
gon Delegation.
About 40 organizations ot water
users, ditchowners and commercial
bodies are associated with the congress
and each will send five delegates. It
is expected that 250 delegates will be
present.
WILL ENGAGE!
DAIRY BUSINESS
San Francisco Men Buy
Good Hay Ranch In This
Valley.
J, Lawrunoe and L. Coffee, who
have been In Lakevlewjfrora San Fran-
cisco the past several days, last week
puronased through Curtu & Utley 160
aorea of land known as the Sherlock
Meadow. The property is located just
west of the W. R. Bernard ranch and
ia about ten milet northwest of Lake-
view. Tbe consideration ia reported
at I3.8U0. Tbe new owners will go
into the dairying business on their
lately acquired property.
WORK IN CANYON
NEARLYFIN1SHED
Water Can Soon be Di
verted From the Dam to
Antelope.
S. C. Campbell, superintendent of
tbe construction work on tbe Goose
Lake Valley Irrigation Company's
project on the West Side, was in town
Sunday from the company's aaw mill
on Drewa Creek. He stated that with
the exception of about fifty feet all
fluming and work in the canyon was
completed last Saturday night, and
predicted' that this would be finished
within tbe next few days.
With completion of this psrt of the
work water can he carried from tbe
dam to Antelope,, bringing it out into
the vallev a distance of about fave
miles. This unit insures available
water in early Spring for considerable
land under tbe ditcn.
STORES MANIFEST
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Lakevlew Business Houses
Keep Abreast In Hand
some Window Displays.
It is pleasing to note the Christmas
and Holiday spirit manifested by the
many local business bouses in their
window decorations. It gives the
town a much more cheerful and pros
perous air.
Among the store that have been
keeping up witb cieditabie window
displays thia season are: Lakeview
Mercantile Co., Haiiey &Massingill A.
Bieter, Britten & Erickson, Tbe'FroBt
Kandy Kitchen, Drug atores. Meat
marset and Pobtoffice store.
The window deaorations to te seen
in Lakeview are right up with some
of tba large city department atores.
and it nut only reflects great credit
upon tbe management of the business
bouses but upon citizens of the town
in general.
DREWSDl
NOWJCOMPLETED
Contractor Berney Leaves
For Fallon, Nevada, to
Spend the Winter.
E. S. Bernev, of the Berney Con
struction Company, which built the
Goose Lake Valley Irrigation Com
pany's dam on Drews Creek, departed
last Friday for Fallon, Nevada, where
he will Join hia family for the Winter.
Mr. Berney informed tbe Examiner
that the dam is now completed and in
readiness to remove the tools from the
scene of work. He will return to
Continued on page eight
FRANK ROGGERS
LOSESJQNE EYE
Doctor Fears That the Re
malnlng Member Is
Also Badly Injured.
By a letter received in Lakeview
from Dave Cleland who reeenltv ac
companied Frank Rogger to Reno, it
It learned tbat tbe physicians treating
Mr. Roggera, removed bit right eye in
an operation performed Sunday.
It will be remembered tbat Mr.
Koggers met with serious accident a
few weeka since by an explosion of
cap while working on an irrigation
project near Flush. Be was taken to
Reno to Have tbe advantage of an eye
specialist in the nope ot restoring bit
sight.
Mr. Cleland also states tbat tbe doc
tor does not believe tbere ia an even
chance ot saving the patient'a left
eye, and it will take a few dayt more
to develop result acd tbe affect of
tbe recent operation on the remaining
member. Ha write tbat tbe left eye
ia injured in several places but tbe X
rsy doea not show any foreign objects
in the eye ball. In addition to tbe op
eration It is atated that a number of
pieces of copper were also removed
from bis body. Mr. Cleland is unable
to ssy when tbey will return home.
It is indeed pitiful, especially when
a man lives a useful career until after
the middle age of life ia reached, like
tbe ease of Frank Roggers, and then
be stricken with such a sad affliction,
but all bis many friends can do is to
sincerely trust tbat tate will be kind
enough to save bim the loss of his re
maining eye.
OUOTIHCED IN!
SOUTHERN STATES
Republican Party Adopts
Radical Change at Wash
ington Convention.
The Republican National Committee
in convention at Washington laat week
concluded its labora for reform in
party procedure and launched its cam
paign fur a reunion of warring ele
ments by adopting a resolution provid
ing for a radical change in the basis
of representation in National com
mittees which would reduce the quota
of Southern states trom 33 to 16 per
cent of the convention's total.
The action of tbe committee, criti
cised in vigorous terms by several of
Its member, but made unanimous be
fore adjournment, must be referred to
states which cast a msioritv of votes
in the eleatorlal college before it be
comes party law. In order that such
action shall be taken as promptly as
possible, the committee appointed a
sob-committee of three, to prepare an
addresa to the atate urging Immediate
ratification of the proposal.
Tbe resolution providing for the call
ing of a special convention of the Ke
pubiioan party waa voted down.
ROAD WANTED FED
CATLOWTO PLUSH
Believed That Proposed
Highway Would Greatly
Benefit Lake County.
Austin Deboy, a well known stook
man of the Warner Valley, was a bus)
ness visitor in the county seat last
week, be having oome over to consult
with County Judge Daly the matter of
getting a road established between
Pluob and Catlow Valley.
The proposed highway would lead
from Piusb by way ot the Old Stone
Bridge, a total distance of approxima
tely 25 miles. A portion of the road
would be in Harney County, while the
major portion would be in Lake. ' Mr.
Deboy estimates tbat tbe cost of the
road would be about 93000 to tbis
county and about one third of that
amount to Harney. With this amount
he states that an excellent thorough
fare could be constructed, and one that
would be suitable for auto as well as
wagon travel. While the road would
past over tbe Warner mountain, he
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STATE AUTO TAX
TO BEPROTESTED
Owners Form Association
at Med ford to Have the
Law Repealed.
At a meeting lust week of Medford
auto owners tbe Aoutbern Oregon Auto
mobile Association waa formed with
A. C. Allen of tbat city at president.
rbe immediate work before tbe as
sociation will be to secure the repesl of
tbe state auto tax, which autoiata
claim ia ouconstitatlonal as it ia a
double tax. Tbe membership feet will
be devoted exclusively to a fight
against tbia tax. All member wilt
be asked to refuse to pay the State
auto tax in 1914.
Alhough tblt tax repeal ia the im
mediate object ot the organixation the
association will be a permanent one
and will work for better roads better
lawa and better conditions for tbe
autoiat. A book describing tbe beat
auto trips in Southern Oregon will be
issued, and club auto trips are a possi
bility.
CURRlCflWORM
BILL NOW PASSED
Bill To Be Ready For The
President's Signature on
Wednesday Night.
The administration currency, reform
bill proposing a revision of tbe finan
cial system of the United State and
tbe creation of regional reserve banks
to act aa strength tning elements in
tbe banking and financial world, passed
the Senate Saturday by a vote of 54
to 34.
Forces that had fougbt together for
improvement and amendment of the
measure to the last, divided when the
final vote came. Senator Hitchcock,
wbu bad led the opposition to the bill,
returned to tbe Democratic ranks, and
Senator Weeks, one of the leaders of
the Republicans and Senator Poindex
ter, progressive, voted for the passsge
of tbe measure.
Wide differences exist between the
form ot tbe legislation passed by the
Senate and tbe bill that passed tbe
House several months ago. Demo
cratic leader already have partly ad
justed these differences, and it waa
expected to have the bill complete in
all detail and ready for the Presi
dent' signature lat night.
C.O.D.L.
AID HOMESEEKERS
Plan Is Outlined To Have
League Headquarters
Permanently at Bend.
A bill to remove the limitation
on the amount that may be accepted
from depositors in the postal saving)
banks was passed by tbe House. The
measure would permit unlimited de
posits, but $1000 is fixed as the maxi
mum on which interest will b paid.
Under the present law the limit is. $16 '
in each calendar month, no account to
exceed $500, exclusive of accumulated
interest.
Plans for making Bend the headquar
ters of the Central Oregon Develop
ment league were disoussed at a meet
ing of the Commercial club last week.. -and
the club decided tooflfer the league
iree office for the secretary, J, W,
Brewer. The plan is to have Mr.
Brewer give all his time to the league
work, preparing lists of land open to
entry and purchase and to the organ,
ization of associations in the different
towns that woula provide him witb de
tailed information of the lands in that
vicinity. Through the railroada, all
prospective settlers who bought tickets
to Central Oregon would be advised
to come here and consult the league
secretary, so that they would be able
to find locations that would suit them.
"Uncle" Joe Morrow returned to
Lakeview last Friday evening trom
Santa Rosa to spend the Christmas
holiday with relatives here and in
Warner Valley.
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