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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1914)
r.'i unvaet 0WmS 'i HAS THE CIRCULATION- PRINTS THE NEWS- REACHES THE Pi RLE o THE EXAMINER IS THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LAKE -OOUNTV VOL. XXXV. LAKEVIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 19, 1914. NO. 12 1 m RAILWAY MEN NSPECT ROAD nmui, officials make short business tkii to nohth- I KS' TERMINAL PREDICT BRIGHT FUTURE Much Money Will B SHnt 'Mil Year In Improving Komi Bed Many Seltlr 1:mhImI TIiU Yar I toad N Improving T. F. Dunaway. president and gen eral manager of the N.-C.-O. Hallway. II. V. McNamurii. trallle manager of the Humo line, and Win. M. Gotwaldt, Muff correspondent on tho llcno Gaz ftto. Monday came up from llm Ne vada metropolis in Mr. Duiia way's private car. The otlltinls stated tluit there win no Importance attaihed to tho trip otliiT than an Inspection of. tho business and general conditions hIoiik the Hum. In conversation .villi Mr. Dunaway hei spoke very optimistically of fu turo prospects ami predicted that the dawning year would he a prosper u one for th Gooho Luke Valley. .Mi. Mi NHinnru staled lint Hi- r puny exn.i ted i;.llte u liUKe tnllux ol KettltTH to thin valley thin sciuon, ti.4 iiuiueroiiit inquiries are beginning to come In rcK'inlliiK 'he l'.v Jlnt rate that havobcen established with the Westoru Purine between h -re lId San Francisco. Ini ldeita.lv he i-lule I thnt the nail bid was getting much belter with the present good wentlur and that they expected to noon re Mltne the Slimmer schcilu'e. "We ei pect to upend between $.10,000 tind $100.0(10 In Improving the road be tween Ken j and Lake lew this yeur," said McNamaru. Whllu In Lakevlew Mr. St vnlilt was busy securing 'ati and Informa tion f ir n l-niMhy urtlcle on tho re sources of t ti !k ciun'.ry for his paper. Tuesday forenoon the parly left by private olive; :i nee foi Fulrport - w here they remained over nlKht. re turning to llcno yesterday. ROAD WILL BE BUILT NOKTIIKKN IjAKK COl'NTY CITI ZKNM Yllb IM).'ATK WOKK New ThorouKlifare Fmni Tort Itock to ltoud Is I'laniie l Settlers Higu 1'etltlon The new road to Itend now being planned seems to be an assured fact, says tho Fort Itock Times. The road will be built by the public, and a pe tition to this effect lias been started and though for the present no one is trying bard for signatures, over 00 persons have signed it, promising to work on tho road. The Forest Supervisor of tho Hend District ban pledged himself to give tho right of way through the reserve und furnish u man to niulio the pre 1 1 ii Inury mincy. The lino of tho proposed road, ac cording to thoKt) who are in a position to know Is a much eusler grade thun the present road by way of Ua I'lno and Is about 20 miles bhortor, The old road, has two uiountulns or butleii to go over, w hile the proposed road has nono. It will bo an upland road, on Boll that will hold up when the spring thuws begin. Muny miles of the old road has what might be called no bottom to it for a month or more in the spring. Watering places on the proposed road will bo as frequent or more so than by tho present road. It will Join tho lieud-liurns road, a well travelod automobile road, about one mile east of tho end of Horse Hldge. n Hull road for rrinevlllo A railroad to extend from Trlne vllle, Crook County In Eastern Ore gon, to the junction at Metolius with Hill's Oregon Trunk Hallroad and llarrlman's Deschutes Hallroad, will bo built immediately according to plans announced by H. II. School, secretary of the Hercules Sandstone Company of Tonlno, Wash., which Is financing tho project. The railroad will be 31 miles long and the estimat ed cost la $600,000. Scheel announc ed actual construction will begin within 80 days. Mil. Ill I llllll is IIM Nl (Ct .MIlN TO HEART FAILURE IN SACRA M E.NTO Deceased Wuh a Former Resident of Luke County, Removing From Hero l our Yciiik Ago William Arthur, a well known for mer citizen of thlH place and Hon of "Grandma" Arthur of tho Went Side, succumbed to heart failure In Hacra iM en to on Monday, March 16. Death wan very sudden, ho dropping dead while on lh? street. Tho funral services were held yeiiterdav at Sac ramento. Mr. Arthur was 4'i yearn of ape and a native of Missouri. Kor a number of yearn ho lived with bin parents in Lako County, Oregon, where he mar ried Althn, eldi-Kt daughter of Mr. nud Mm. Win. Tatton, who wit!; their two sons, aged about 15 and 18 years aro left to survive blm. About four yeurn uko they removed from here to Cullforula und for tho past; neverul luoulliH hu luiH been employ- ed by Clem H'Tyford In a livery stable In Sacramento. lb-sides hln mother and family be 1m survived by three brothers and two sisters namely, (3. P., Sim and Chan. I). Arthur and Mm. Mollie ltolton und Mrn. Anna Harvey, all of thin vulley. ROAD IHI'KDVEMENT! j IIK.IIH AY ASSOCIATI.O VKAIt HOOK in (H I Niinieiiiiio Counties in I nile.l Staten 'I'nke A ltaiiliiKe of HondiiiK SyNteui in Iluild lioiiiln 'tiormous development of me llnanclal siiin of tlto road movement j shown lu the fact that U'SO coun-' lli-K in the I nlted States now have i outstanding highway bonds aggre- , rating a quarter of a billion d'tllurs, ! according to the Ollicl ii :lood Heads Year Hook for 1U14, which 'was Is-' sued ! the Amelia n Higtiv.ay Aso- j elation lu Washington early in March. The fact thut the counties men tioned have bonded tin mselves to the extent of a quarter of a million dollars in order to Improve und main tain their roads is only one of the surprising developments of the road movement an shown by the lutest Year Hook. A stupenduous new business is shown to have grown up in the I'nited States as a result of the road boom a business employing more than one thousand persons in actual supervision of the roads, in addition to the increase in banking business tiue to bundling bonds, in creases In tho road machinery and materials, and other by-products of the boom. Not merely has there been a treuienduous saving In tho wear and tear on horses and In the pre vention of waste on the farm due to the inability to get to the shipping points over poor roads, but there has been au" actual Increase in prosper ity as a result of the need for work and materluls on tho construction ol new roads und the Improvement of old ones. Progress reports from every stato highway deportment comprise a chap ter in the new Year Hook which shown that only eight states have fail ed to establish highway departments, whllo lu several of tho states, not ably New York. Illinois, Iowa and New Mexico the tendency towards centralisation lias progressed so fur that practically all the work of road Improvement is belnc cone under state supervision. The Y'ear Hook, which Is a complete inventory of roud statistics and other neuessary duta, sets forth- that approximately twenty thousand miles of roads have been constructed under state super vision In the past year. Highway olllclals In the vurious states havealreudy applied for the latest edition of "the Year Hook, which gives a digest of state rond laws; shows tho use of convicts on the public roads; bond issues; mllo age, appropriations, directories of of ficials, manufacturers and contrac tors; types of roads; full list of books documents and authorities; descrip tion of foreign road system; highway engineering In colleges; construction of bridges and culvorts; and revlows of all the addresses and technical ar ticles which appeared in 1913. J. B. Pennybacker, secretary of the Ameri can Highway Association, whose president is Logan Waller Page, di rector of the Federal Office of Pub- fi. U. CLELAN D ENDS .CAREER ENDED LIFE WITH REVOLVER IN' 1IIS HOVE AT PLUSH THURSDAY' DESPONDENCY ASCRIBED Was A Kill ol Year and a Native of California Coming to Lake County In 1HHO 1'unernl Held Here Sunday An briefly mentioned in last week's Kxarnlner, I). U. Cleland ended his lite last Thumduy about noon in his hoiiHo at l'luBh, by shooting him self with a revolver. The fatal shot wun flred about the noon hour as about ten o'clock that morning hU youngest daughter visited him, and about two hours later bin two dauKli-i-iv.. Mm. Wm. Crlsel and Mrs. Augiift Iloguer, went to the place takinp their father some cake, and found bis body lying on the bed. There wan nothing to Indicate but what the wound had been self inflict ed. Apparently lie had partially un dresn.'d hlniHclf, and fired the shot while sitting on the edge of the bed. The gun was on the floor be side the bed, presumably where It had fallend when he fell backwards. The bullet went Just over the honrt. The !rdy was hroueht to Lake vli:w Friday by Win. tJrlsel and Aug ust ItoKner, tho funeral services be Iiik conducted Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from the home of Wm. (Junther. interment following in the (Continued on page eight I WILL COLONIZE LAND CKUMANS Wll.l. SKTTI.K IN CKN Tini, OKFtiON I'lMile of UOO.IMIO Acre of Crook County Iiiin ln for Chicago Kky MTusr Discloses I'lan Watson 1'. Davidson telegraphed from St. Paul today to J. L. D. Mor rison that the trade of central Ore gon lnnds for the Transportation building In Chicago lias been closed, says the Portland Journal of March 14. The building Is valued at about $3,500,000 and the lands figuring In the deal aro to cover $1,000,000 of the price. Mr. Davidson Is president of the Oregon .fc Western Colonization com puny, headquarters of which are in this city, and Mr. Morrison is the company's sales manager. ' L. W. Hill president of the Oreat Northern rail way, is one of the principal stock holders in the company. Of greatest interest in connection ni(!i the transaction to the people of Portland and Oregon, und particular ly to the central part of the state. Is the announcement from Mr. David son that the land involved, approxi mately 200,000 acres, will ut once be colonized by thrifty Germans. The trade has been under way for several months and In the meantime the h.vhdlcuto taking over the hind has been studying tho problems of placing settlers wlthoi't Jelay. Coiinsuinatlon of the deal is taken to Indicate that this problem hr.s been solved and thnt this very spring the colonists will begin to pour onto the binds which are located in Crook County east of Prlnevllle, and with in reasonable distance of the Hill and llarriman lines running by way of the Deschutes river canyon. o Growers Iteptuit Commonting on the advancing price in the Nevudu wool market, the Klko Free Press says: "Karly nelllng has cost the Nevada growers a tidy sum. Most of the 1014 clips havo been sold on early con tracts it being estimated that 80 per cent of the entire Nevada wool crop is already sold. If growers had not been stampoded through fear of the new tariff they would now be receiv ing from 8 to 5 cents a pound more for their wool than they will realize on the contracts made some time ago, lie Roads, Is editor of the Year Book, and Charles P. Light Is business manager. PROGRAM m GOOD MAW H 17 WAS W TXL OUSKKVIOD IN i,.kkvii;w FntcrlHlnmcnt at Hnider's Ojiern Houma Wan Great Buccenn Large Crowd Present St. Putrlck's day was observed by the Irish Catholics of Lakevlew Tuesday In devotional services and exercises commemorative of the day consecrated to Ireland's patron saint. The program rendered Tuesday even ing in Rn'der's Opera House under the auspices of the Local Division of Hibernians was attended by a large crowd the audience numbering up wards of 300 people. There were seventeen 'lumbers on the program, coslstlng of songs, re citations and musical selections and each was received with hearty ap plause. Nearly all renditions were encored, providing about two hours of good, wholesome entertainment Several of the parts are deserving of special mention aod commenda tion, particularly the music furnish ed by Darnell's band. The slides showing scenes In the various parts of Ireland were both Interesting and instructive. The affair proved a suc cess both financially and socially. After the program the floor waa cleared and many indulged tti danc ing until a late hour. Music for the dance was furnished by Jesse Dar nell, clalronet; Chas. Wallace, trom bone and Mr. Sawyer, piano. MATTER IS ADJUSTED AGHKKMKNT ItKACHKI) IN HAN I.ICl' VS. MOSH CASK I'a ics I'm" Identical Itrand, Hut ' 'Irlanloy's W as Never Hecorded In Lake County t'pou tho arrival iu Lakevlew last week of Attorney C. H. Leonard and Tom Allen, foreman for the Hanley Cattle Company, of Burns, the lat ter swore out a complaint for the arrost of W. Z. Moss on the charge of larceny of cattle which were be ing fed in this valley. As was stated in last week's Ex aminer there were forty-one head of stock Involved which had been sepa rated from the band of Moss Cattle on the Norln ranch and placed In charge of Sheriff Snider, upon com plaint made by the Hanley and French-Glenn Cattle companies' In terests several days ago. At the hearing held before Justice I'mbach here Saturday last, the mat ter was adjusted, the prosecuting witnesses failing to furnish convict ing evidence against the defendant, Mr. Moss was represented by W. Lair Thompson. While the plaintiffs contended the stock to be thep roperty of the Hanley Company, the W. Z. Moss brand, which was recorded In Lake County over ten years ugo, undihe Hanley brand are identical. In so far as both use the Bell A brand, but the latter was never recorded in tlii.-i county. To Klamath This Year news lhpatcli from Klaniuth Falls siates thnt 11. N. Woods is au- iiioritv for the statement that the Southern Pacific has secured a per mit from the California State Kail- road Commission to complete its line from West wood. Lassen County, Cali fornia north to Klamath Falls, O-e thi". year. ar:ier renorts had if that the line would reach Lookort. Modoc County, California, this year. The maximum grade is to not ex ceed 1 per cent and the curvature will not be greater than 4 degrees. It will enable trains to make the run from Sand Francisco in about live hours less time than the present FKl.edule. o-. Marriage Licenses Tlie following marriage licenses have been issued recently by County Clerk F. W. Payne:' Carl Bohr and Llllle O. Harris, B. F. Lane and Martina A. O'Kelley and Ambrose N. Heeder and Bessie E. Marsuka. All parties are residents of tho northern part of tho county. u ' No Train Last Night Owiug to a freight leaving the track Just ahead of passenger No. 1 yesterday below Likely no train ar rived here laBt night. It Is said the track will be cleared and the train will arrive heie on due tlnw tonight. LAND IS OPEN TO SETTLERS ALL OK AULA IN LAKKVIKW AND TIIK DALLES LAND OFFICE DISTKICTH PRESIDENT SIGNS ORDER Over 400,000 Acres In National For- est Reserves Are to be Releas ed Ojien to Settlement May 9, Filing June 8 Portland, Oregon, March 15. More than 400,000 acres of land in the Desch'ites and Paulna national forests in Crook, Lake and Klamath counties, Oregon will be thrown open for settlement within sixty days through an order signed by Presi dent Wilson, withdrawing this land from the forest reservations, accord ing to notification received here to day.. It Is reported that the land will be opened for actual settlement May 9, and that filings will be permitted on and after June 8. Officials of the forestry bureau in Portland estimate that of the aggre gate of 410,763 acres thrown open approximately 120,000 acres are oc cupied by settlers. These settlers wlli be permitted to remain. Settlers on the remaining 290,000 acres will be permitted to take up homesteads of 160 acres each in accordance with the federal land law. The formalities of transferring this land form the Agricultural Depart ment of the Federal Government to (Continued on page eight) LAUNDRY IMPROVED NEW MACHINERY IS INSTALLED IN PLANT ' Steam Power Has Been Replace! With Electric Motor Wet Wash ing Will Be Handled The Lakeview Steam Laundry has lately installed an electric motor, to replace the steam power, Mr. Jensen furnishing the machine. Mr. Hunker states that the electric power is more efficient and far cheaper than the steam as was formerly used. The laundry has also received a fine new washer. It Is an Adams, double geared, over drive, C move ment. The cylinder is a four com partment, 72 inches by 36. The barley rolls will be removed and the space that has heen occupied by this will be used for the new ma chine, and also a more convenient arrangement of all theN machinery. Tl.e bailey rolling will be difpensed with for the spring and summer at least, and should this branch be handled it will be done in another building. The Laundrj will launch a system of wet ashing next Monday and thU work will be done under the follow ing terms: Bundles of 35 pounds cr less, at 65 cents and 5 cents for each additional 5 pounds. The Laun dry weights must bo taken, the bund les being weighed when received at tho Laundry. Such work must be re ceived in sood time or wait until af ter the middle of the week. This work w ill also be delivered promptly. By wet-wash is meant simply the washing and wringing clothes, con venient for delivery. The new machine will afford more time and better opportunity for all starched and finished work, and bet ter service c:m bo rendered. Al&o more prompt delivery is to be fur nished for all' tho work. Change iu Traiu Schedule Instoad of departing at 6:40 fir points south, the N.-C.-O. train No. leaves the local depot af. 6 40 si. m.. tl e change being found neces sary or. "sccount of tlie loss of time on the road by the softening of the track. The change became effective last week, but probably will prevail for only about thirty days when the rogulnr schedule will be resumed. Train No, 2 due to arrive In Lake view at 8:40 p.m., leaving Reno at 8:45 a.m. Train No. 2, leaving Lake view at 5:40 a. m. Is due to arrive in Reno at 6:45 p. m. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o iMiDSON PLEADS GUILTY n o o It o (Hpeclal to the Examiner) o o o o o SILVER CITY, NEW MEXI- o CO, MARCH JH, UPON THE ADVICE OF HIS ATTORNEYS, o JAMES C. DODSON TO-DAY o o PLEADED GUILTY TO ONE o CHARGE, GROWING OUT OF HIS CONTROVERSY WITH o THE HIGHLAND CATTLE COMPANY, AND MUST PAY THE PENALTY BY SEIUING o A TERM. o ooooooooooooooooooj Sheep and Hogs According to C. C. Colt, president of the Union Meat Co., of Portland, Oregon Is becoming noted as a hog and sheep raising state. Since 1912 no hogs' have been shipped to the Portland stockyards from other states, the entire supply being drawn from Oregon. The absence of corn, which has always been considered In dispensable to the finishing of good pork, has not troubled the Oregon farmer, as a combination of alfalfa, barley and other grains has been found an excellent substitute. Farm er Smith, of the O. W. R. & N. Ry insists that within ten years Oregon will be one of the greatest corn pro ducing states In the Union andhat the state will then be a heavy export er of hog products. Spring and Spring Fever Spring fever has struck Lakeview. For the past two weeks overcoats on the streets have been scarcer than millionaires. With balmy weather a" congenial sun and a clear sky, such pieces of raiment are unnecessary and have been shed. That lazy feel ing which comes with spring has struck the population, and the effi ciency records are going to smash. Even the autos are moving Blowly, and the gentle sensation of lethargy prevails. The call of the hoe and rake Is strong, and the desire to dig worms and go fishing is almost ir resistible. Furnace fires have been allowed to go out, and housewives begin to itch far a general house cleaning. ORTON IS CANDIDATE WOULD REPRESENT MULTNO MAH IN LEGISLATURE Former Lake County Man Has En- tered Politics at Portland Announces Platform Arthur W. Orton announces him self as a candidate for nomination of Representative on the Republican tic ket. Orton served as a Representa tive from Multnomah County in 1909. He is a Spanish-American War vet eran and was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Thirty-ninth United States Volunteers. Ho was Register of the Lakeview Laud Office from 1909 to July 1913. Orton's platform says he "favors consolidation of state boardB. Taxes paid quarterly. Discount privelege. Repeal obsolett laws. Pass orly corrective and urgent measures. Give honest wage work to unemployed. To build permanent roads under strict supervision. Make low valuaton and sell on easy pay ments state lands for homes and grazing. Urge Government restore National forest lauds and other with drawals suitable for homes only, not used, kept with drawn by red tape methods. Establish information bureaus, where communities can get vacant government and private lands at low valuation for homeseekers' in formation. Keep taxes down. Put more land on tax rolls and more peo ple on the land." Telegram. Free Baud Concert The Concert to be given in Snl der's Ouera House next Sunday after noon Is free to the public, and every body is cordially Invited. The pro gram will be the same as originally announced for last Sunday, which was postponed on account of a fun eral. The object of the concert is to show the public the progress made within the last year, especially the new members, numbering ten, bringing the total number up to twenty-five.