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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1905)
Official Newspaper ol Klamath County and Leading Journal of the Interior Oregon Country. KLAMATH VOL. X. REPUBLICAN The Largest Circulation and la the Best Medium for Reaching a Prosperous and Trading Public KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 26, (go5 NO. 30 BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF LOWER KLAMATH PROJECT HAVE BEEN ADVERTISED FOR RAILROAD FROM EUGENE TO KLAMATH FALLS TO CONNECT WITH CAL. NORTHEASTERN irrigation ratification EASIER ROUTE THAN OVER KNIGHTS GIVE STREETS TO WAGON LOAD MEETING NOVEMBER 4th THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS EXCURSION BE CLEANED OF DUCKS Governers of Oregon and California, Senators, Engmeeis The California & Northeastern Railroad, Railroad Men, Commercial Bodies and Newspaper vdopment Company and Representatives Invited. p„ Klamath ■ mol« . S.-Vrlirlwr (b, Rl.niaih Wate« • w|llh.4.l« HiMilli.« "• ,Im' khuldrea lo ratti» Ike alg'dn« 1,1 <-»«'»••• “I'h tlie ^.n.i.eul lor llw IrulMing ol ilio ■wot Klamath project It baa te-er, j -, t-i ledi a latiti, «ti-«" rnewtliig , mi Uro I rll-wii g dav to c. lebrato tlm rrm< and at«» the rrlver Haiti« of Irida vlung EnKHiwr |.i|»|»ln< <>n atl(| Mrp»re Nahatf«»r and UriHilmg, nl th«« Unlit ornia A N«»it|i«*a»lrm l< »druid. Th« h>ll>»«biK colli Hi H Irra urrv « h,-n |*Hiilr«l K. 1* Mourr. M. L. 1 IC Milla aa a rucntuitl«-« aiwl rirrulatr a i«*u («• l«v to th»’ < lly Uotiiii || nailing that thr loiiar fir ka and other <>b»|r*i< tion oil th* airrria I* rahMl up and hauled away. U N. U or-lrn J \V. H«*uien» and W <> iiiiili, a roinmiUrr mi prrinaiwnl quarter» lor lhe Ch»miter «»I < «•nniirrcr . ■J. K ..u Taylor, Air*. Marlin Jr. and J U >ianirii»( on »«mahlr rraolutioii« rvlaiiv* i«> t*i9 death ol I W Hwmakai The meeting adjourn««1 until Monday ri viitug. Will Elect Successor To Contractors Begin Work Councilman Ward, On Railroad. The town t’onn.-il at ila nett reen- hr meciing on Sowmlier <> a ill elect a Ina letter rrcetved this week f rom W. b- Patterson, who m employed in one nf the luintier < amps at W«rd, ( all- fornta, he save that thr cnn»triirtioii w0»k has ci'minrncfd on thr California A North«*aMlrrn Kaiiroud. E. B. A L. Stone, th«’ contractor», have two steam »hmris, twu machine drills, one loco- motnr ami 2*> «lump rars At work There ate also MO head of hors«*» ami carta and 4»l0 mm rmpl«»ved. Another engineering outfit |>a» started out from W«*r«l, ami thv »hrl rails nit- Ireing hauhwi to the rn<l of the mam line for thr ritension of thr track. .fames ytiMvIr. foreman for thr E. B. ami I.. Stone C<«mpanyt a ho was Award rd tin* Conlriicl for thr construction of thr first Aft lion of th«« California A Northeastern Railroad, arrived in thr city Friday ami was here s«*veral «lays l<Miking over thr country. Hr stated to a Republican representative that hr just came up to »re thr town and country as Im wi»hr«l to make a trip «»ver the route. It is lirlirvrd that E. B A I.. Stone Company is dgurring on bidding on Amur of the government work, and it may l»r this was the object of Mr. Quayle's visit to this city. Aeeordinx to the new charter tlie lawn ia rliv -Im! into three war-la. At prevent the third war-1 baa no repreavn- latir» the • <>nd baa three in the |ier •wa ,.( Pr,-.nient Marlin and Willila Md Hebnlluek, while Mr. Ilr.liop reprr. w-nta the flrat. The tit i rd ward ia en titled to a menrlarr in tlie council an i thia I. a good lima Io g. I one. Next •pting they wilt have to elect two mun. ilmen in the tliird and they elioni.I have a chance to try some ■nan •>"W to a.. i( |)a nut,, g.aal Judge (ien. T. Baldwin ret limed from BFtland Tucnlav evening. After are- “«die eloaing of the |«wia A Clark raw, Judge lUl.laiu joined the buai- mena aaaoctatioa (roan Portland on f <ir ««xt'uraitm to attend tli<* opening of «»•»1 poti turn at LewiaUm, I.iaho. tepori» a very tine trip. II« Friends Hot 'Springs Company kngineering of the Harriman linr», « * ii |4«^« m I by th«- Otegnn Eastern Hailroad <'oinpauv, r«-ceiitly iiM'orporaf« ♦*) with Colo Me I William Crooks mm it» prv»id«-nt, art- «-ngag«*d in »nrveying n route for the line from tlie tt-rniiniis of theNpringfhdd branch at Natron Io the I a»» of the C»M'M<h-ii Ju»l south of Cres cent l.ake and thence »winging in a long ■ weep of »light . urvaiurt- to bort Klam ath. th«'ii<« to Klamath luike. b r-»m W«-ed, on ll««* Fouthcrn l‘a< >fi» , the Cal ifornia Northea»lern, foimerly known ms IJ»r Weed Railroad, built fur a dia* tanre of al*oiit 22 mil«*» by tlie Weed l.iiiiili't t'oinpauy arid recently »old to tt» prriM-nt owner», ia making surveys prelltninari to completion uf that line t«> Klamath luik«*. 4 distance nt alwHit 70 mile» Il is stat«*«l <>n seemingly good authority that the engineers « inpluyt«d in making th«* survey are »Iso working 01 the Southern I'stilh- (‘omj»»ny, of which the < >r«*g<»n b s-tern is also an auiiliaiy. Tlie ultimate <»hj««ct to lx-al tained tn constructing these two line» II a route which will supplant the pres* ent main Im«* for through roast traffic t-etwern \\«-e*l and Eugene, evading tin* liravy grades of tlie Kiekivon moun* tain» aii'l another equally •lifticult and e* |tensiv«« pi«<«*«> of track through Cow Creek Canyon »ntith of lb»s»*burg. Field W ork la Under Way. While official conti rmation cannot I» ha«i at present of thv plans here out* me*I, there is ample substantiation in the field work and connection witli both roa<ls of uin«*iala of the Harriman sys tem. Articles of incorporation of the 1 )re- gon Eastern •!*•< tfy that tnr company pro|w»“rs to build a line from Eugene to Huntington, with n branch to Klamath b all». Colonel U llliam Crooks, presi- lent of the couipany. is managing di rector of the Harriman lines in the Northwest in the office o( Vice-Presi- dent and Gyneral Manager O’Brien, Surveyors locating the mute from Natron, th«« end of the Woodburn- Natron line, near where the cut off to th«’ main line near Eugene is tiring built, have prm-e«s|«*d in ihelr survey to the crest of the Cascxdrs along tho route of the military wagon road, which, it 1» repotted, will hr pretty closely fol I low«* I aero»» thr divide to a point near fhr northrrn lw»rder of the Klamath In* 1 ian Ra-srrvat ion. thence la«aring to the * »«ulh«r»( to W oim I “ Kivrr, and down that »trram to Fort Klamath« thence ukirtihtf Epprr Klamath l*ak» from thr mouth of Wood River to Klaitialh ball». Rv thi» r»mtt> thr roed »ill not reach an •Ititude lower than that at Klamath ; Fall», 4JtM‘ feet, from which it muat ag*in ascend to the divide, on the eart »ide «4 the range, and, according to in formation «ibtainrd from turn attached to aotne of the anrvevmg crew», would have a maiunum gra«lr of 2 par cent, with au average very much lower, which, if true. w«»ul«l make the route an exceptionally favorable one. One Lina Maa large Snbaldy. The California A 1 from the Weed Ltimlier Company, in ai- ready completed lor a distance of 22 miles, and hzr a hicli the peopled Klaru ath Falls have pledged a bonus <>t *100,« (XX), of which IIH.IXX) h as subscribed by Kan Francisco men Hants. I turned late ly following the acquisition of thia prop erty, General Manager Calvin, ol the Southern Pacific, is reported to have made a trip over the line trom Weed, arid to have I wen accompanied by an engineer ol the Southern Pacific. The California A Northeastern also acquired tlie property of the Klamath Ilevelopmeiit Company, embracing a large acreage adjacent to Klamath Falla and the Klamath Hot Bprings Company is said In lie another auxiliary. At the time the Iwnus was raised and right of way into the town granted, a franchise was also obtained for an electric street railway, to lie in ofmration within one year niter completion of the steam road rhe limit lor completion of the railroad in order to obtain the bonus is March 1, lUXi, but present indications are that tho transportation line will tie finished early nuxt year, and that it will bring connections to both the north and south By the present main line of the South ern Pacific the distance la-tween Eugene and Weed is 285 miles, which will not I* increased a dozen miles, and may even lie slightly less by the now route. This is due to the increased mileage on the In avy gradients and sharp curva ture of the hiskiyou mountain«, avoided | I by the new route. The Knlxhtaof Pythias lodge had t|,e 1 honor of giving the flrat excuraion on tire nr» atextner Klamath, which was recently Inuit by the Klamath Lake Navigation Company, A more perfect | day coni.I not have Ireen M.locte<l than Bunday and the crowd of nearly a hun dred enjoyed every mile of tire trip. Tlie trip down the river waa delight- ■ Ini. A* the boat followed the winding of I the river each sight that met the view | M-etned grander than tire last. Know L___ . | capped Mount Shasta loomed up in the i distance in all her grandeur with lower mountains in the foreground. Tire big ' low Merrill. The town Council held a spacial meet- ing last evening to m t on th« jietition of the Chamber of Commerce a>.d tax payers ol the town, asking that the lisise rocks on Main street be cleaned up and hauled away, ft was decided by the members to have the streets cleaned W’m. Wilaon, of Merrill, waa arrested I Mt Friday by deputy game warden Bale and two other game wardena, and 12 aacka of ducka aeizerl wbicb be waa hauling to l-aird'a landing for shipment to ban Franciaco. Mr. Wilson waa at- derail to appear before the Justice of tlio Peace in Klamath Falls the following day at 1 o'clock. Mr. Wilson came to Klamath Falls and there being no com plaint filed against him by 2 o'clock tho case was dismissed. The ducks were brought to this city and are still lying in the county jail. Each sack was consigner] to a differ ent party ami were billed to be shipped from Bartles, on the McCloud railroad to 8an Francisco. Following are the l supposed owners of the ducks as their names appeared on the tacks: Henry Johnson, J. H. Williams, 0. Libby, J T. Cotman, J. J. Hickey, C. Paulson, iC. Hidgnes, H. J. Woodbury, Frank Hedrick, A. C. VVatson, Frank Ankeny and E. C. Dearborn. It ia stated that state Game Warden Baker has been summoned and that the caae will proba bly come up later. and to use the loose rocks in filling up and improving Mill street on the west side. The Council lias grown tirej of having portions of the streets and side walks blocked with wagons, Ixixes and rubbish au‘J a resolution was passel ordering the marshal to notify the offenders to clean up and remove obstructions at Shoes * * ■ to to to to to to to to to to to vb to (’.<>. Johnson, secretary ami Oras Unsubscribed Lands in Upper Project urer of the San Diego Gem Company, has been in tlie city the past week. £ Complete Stock Mr. Johnson ia on Ins return from Port land where he delivered an order of I gems to one of the leading Lamia <>f the Upper Klamath Project Portland within the Canal line* not subscribed to dealers, and stopped here to look after a tho Klamath Water User* Association. piece of properey w hich lie owns at TONNA VALLIT: Keno Springs. F. J. Bowne, Bonanza, 2IW0 acres Shook Brothers, !>atry, 2000 100 160 80 80 f.060 N. 8. Drew Estate, Dairy, John Hedger, Bonanza, Mrs. Mary Sutton, Dairy, Tota) QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS OUR MOTTO This has demonstrated itself for our business has doubled in the past two months. We want your £ " •• *• " " •• 5^ rox VALLXY: Frank Roas, Bed field, patronage, we have the goods at the right prices. 240 “ LANOKLL VAt.LBY : VdfkTCH OUR SATURDAY SPECIAL SALES IÇ dollars MENS CRAVENETTE OVERCOATS dollars dollars dollars dollars dollars Jiç.oo 12.00 $20.00 Coats for 17.00 Coats for t : Do not forget the day and date Saturday. October 28 Mens Suits........................ $5.00 to $20.00 Boys Suits........................ 2-700 8.00 Tours for business Don t overlook our fine line of men s and boy » clothing which hat just arrived. ' ♦ for Celebration. 1 he best shoes that $3.50 and $4.00 can buy Napa Tan Shoes th Working, Loggers -Jnf and High Tops Napa Tan shoes are guaranteed to be as near water proof as leather can be manufactured Our rubber line is complete It will pay you to see our foot wear. K. K. K. STORE. Good Goods Phone Main 174 'rms Coats for........................... 12 9 Coats for........................... 7 Coats for........................... 6 Coats for........................... LÇO Coats for........................... 20 per cent off on all our Ladies Ready Made Skirts Be. ranches on either side of the river were .once. If the orders of the marshal are i not complied with within 24 hours, the an interesting sight to the stranger, who will be arrested and ar by gazing on the vast stretche* of rich parties land, could gain a slight idea o( the ex- raigned before tlie police judge for trial. The marshal reported that he had tesivenees of the Klamath Basin. Tlie steamer left the dock shortly j re|«atediy notified certain parties to after 10 o’clock and reached the landing remove obstructions and while they lour miles from Keno at sbout IJ o’clock. had always promised to comply with Here the party waa met by hay wagons the request, they bad entirely failed to and conveyed to Nelson's grove about do so. He wished instructions as to a mile distant. Nearly everyone had what he should do in such a case, and brought their lunch baskets along, but the Council informed him that the town w lien they reached tlie grove a grind would stand behind him in enforcing For abstracts go to Mason A Blough. surprise met them. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. tlie law. I Nelson had tlie grove nicely arranged and decorated for the oh asion. Tables and seats were all prepared for the con venience of the excursionists. Theee hospitable people did not intend that there should lie anyone without suffi cient to eat. Pitcher after pitcher ol fresh milk »ere place«! on the tables and chicken, a « hole tub full nicely browned, and pies, pumpkin pies, and cake and Difficult Stretch Of Railroad. ' There are few pieces nf mountain rail- > more cake. There were many other road in the country of such difficult op delicacies but it is doubtful it any of the eration as that between Ashland and I hungry crowd were able to sample more Hornbrook, and none on a trunk line than half. It waa surprising to see how handling a* heavy business. Ten much some persons could really get freight cars is the limit for a train over away with, and it was pitiful to liehold the many backward looks of longing and the mountain section and then two en regret when the party was comjw-lled to gines are required. Passenger trains taken out of Portland by one locomotive leave so many g<x«i things on account of require three times the jiower to move living unable to carry more. A vote of 1 them over the mountains. Another thanks is due Mr. and Mrs. Nelson for j section of the road that causes great their genial hospitality and successful effort in entertainment of the guests. diflicwlty of nperatioii is that known as Several pictures of the party were, Cow Creek Canyon, south of Roseburg, taken by Mrs. I. C. Mongold, and also where in the Spring season slides are of j one of the I oat as it waa under steam. frequent occurrence and blockade re After dinner a run was made to Keno sult, seriously interfering with traffic. and then the steamer was headed for: While this section would continue an important portion of the system for lo home where it arrived shortly before .«I Vivvv VVVUVIVIIV, vu.vv UIIU W cal business, building of the new road six. A small and select dinner party of fiive would give advantage of two through which was held later in the evening is lines, and obviate difficulties of its op said to have some connection with the eration and accumulation of traffic dur excursion. A rush order was sent in to ing the periods of trouble. one of the restaurants for a chicken sup- Probably the most influential reason [>er. accompanied by the material for for hastening construction, which seem* the feast in the shape of a dead hen. to lie the intention, is due to the im Tlie hen had been dead so long that it mense tonnage of trattie that will lie was impossible to get the feathers off, so , furnished during the next two or three year* in construction of the reclamation it was accordingly served singed, to-: gether with a cleaver and saw. It was’ works of the Klamath Falls region. With an estimated expenditureof «4,000- a most enjoyable meal. It was at flrat (XX) hv the Government, that will be thought that the hen was stolen, but it w ns later reported to have l>een found in more than duplicated by private enter prise. a large traffic will tie created. a very sick condition and very feeble from age and some of tlie members of Reclamation of 23t’>,0(X) acres of land w ill insure large freight business for the fu the excursion, out of snmpathy, de ture, hence justifying doubly the in cided to bring it to town for medical treatment, w hen it died on the way. vest men t. —Oregonian. T Mrs. Wni. Wight, Dairy, Ladies Ladies Ladies Ladies Ladies Wardens All the latest shapes and leathers. Heavy sole kid lined Box Calf Walk Overs for wet weather. Mr. Quayle stated that hi* company | 18 L.iviies ( tots for..................... Deputy Game WALKOVER SHOOS cently purcha»r<l hv its present owners i $20 Ladies Coats for Cleaned and Obstructions Moved Have Grand FALL AND WINTER STILES NOWHERE IN Northeastern, re-( w.a moving in ti.cir machinery and that a full force of mi-u were being put to work and that conatruction would lw mailed, it ia probable that thia com pany will receive the contract for tlie aecoml »eetion and if thia ahoitld l«e tlie ia«c, they could do the work much quicker w« they would already have the machinery and tlie men on tlie ground. City Council Will Have the Streets Twelve Sacks of Ducks Seized Py Time. Auxiliaries of Southern Pacific jur U« *e- "I d,r looer pr..).cl TI» celebra 11. nt will I h > given under tte management ol tho Klamath Cham ter ol (’..mureree, wl.l. h I» euro|*»«l «4 (II lire lea ling teiMI.e.a men ol Klamath jalla I’. tegoli.ora lo.ui all I tie luona (ml the arvarel a,.'l|..i>« tlimughonl II» cmiritv, will I* aahrd l*. pilo Ilio I barn* lernt i.iminaico In making thia day Al thr nirrting Monday evening thr ig».dlhe inoal ini|*.rtaiit II. tiro Inatuiy rf*|«nrt» of the «'oftiniillrea w«-re heard. Mf Martin t<*|w>fti'd (hat Governor u( Klaaiallr A rail m.vling of lire I liatnlier <4 Chamberlain had accepted the invi (.«uir'.-e W a* Irebl ThuradaV evening tatou» and would l»e bare on thr 4th 1er th* pM’l»» -II»- laama lire lurid- Thr » “tnuditrw on thr iwlition for < lean .«g .1 an irrigation ratit, ation meeting ing the at«r<da had arc tire« I over luo oa tir* Arti Notrnila r. 1'reai.ivrit •igiirr» and thr petition would Ire j*r<- Ir» T Baldwin l*mg , i I hh . ii I and a arntrd at thr » jxh ia! nu-«-tiiig of tlir varan, y having «relire.! in tire office >4 Council on Wojtteadav evening. Thr VWv prawi'lent try the .Inaili ol J. W. ron mlItr«* on |*riiianrnl quarter» i r«« Han.akar, Col Matt <• W ilkuta waa |M»rlod that Mr. Campl*rll, «4 the licit *wle.l l.l Illi lile lllirvp|re-l lellii. Th* Hpring* Improviuuriit Company, had rankr.i.on mealing waa than diac.iaae I «•fferrd the u»r o( thrtr building, Th» gad g (iqn-a'**l at lire *«-nae of tlowe offer »a» ftiirplid Ah l tlir |.r.arnt lirai lh>' I hailit» r alunihl take a a» ordered to tnakr d««t)nih* anangr tlia lodative m arranging for thia evie- mrnia with Mr. Campbell. ri»» report l«alwin Airi. Marlin Jr. »aa author- thr committee on rraobilionf' wai ar |w»l Ur r.inniiiitiirale by phone with reptrd and pla> <’I on til«» A copy i .«era'll r <l>aiiil«riaiU »I»! (.certain ll ordered pfiiM'i.trd to (he family of the te aotil I lie aide l*> attend, and alto to decraar I an t one «-ach ftirnidird to II.. er Ur ll'iiiiphrri . ol the Iteclainallon ruunljr paper* for |»u Miration, <h. tervne. m regard to Air Li|.|»in<-itt and tiioli tfi it aa««|r<*id^l tn *vin| written .vaal'W Flint. Tlie meeting then ad. tnviuitiiina (» the comnirn ial bodtea <»| joomed ordii Frida) ovening. |\>rtl»nd ami Nan Franeiarn, (o at »I tie- a Ij 'Uine-I meeting Mr. Marlin lend th«* crlrhiat n»n Al*> to (hr lead rvi>>ri.*l tl.al Governor l'liauilmrlam lug |<f*rra of thr (ao cith'« t»> »end rrj (la m lea i»t-m, Idaho, and wool.I re rrarniaiiv«’», and to other prominent torn lo balem iX lite «taf. Mr Martin l«rriMma wh««r namra n.ight l»r present vaa rrmliii ied aa a coin ill litre on lirVI ••d later. The apphratinna of I). 1». tallana, il waa niovef and carried liiat Camplxdl and I’aul Hrvit« nMriu for ' ite foll ia mg g, nllemer Ire invìi, I l,y mrmiterahip wrrr appruve«! ami thrv air» tn artend tire ratificati..n me», mg: Were rlr» led tnrnda ra. Thr meeting Ir.nr l'harulrerlain. < mV Pardee, S-na- then adjoutnr l until Frnlav evening l<> tora Voihin. Flint and Perkina, Super. meet III tltr Jrnninga building. •"'•«•a.” to C.rurrcilmait Frank Ward, alxi i. alwent in Calif.onia Mr. Ward »11I |ir< Jwl.ly not return tin* w inter and Ihle leavra a vacancy, «Indi tlie chai trr «envidra «hall Ire tiliini try an t-lec tion ol the Connell Klamath De- Big Crowd of K. of P. and I-. JACOBS a COMPANY t 4*4*4*4*414*4*# (’. C. Reekman, Jacksonville. 2040 l«0U E. E. Ralston, Ashland, 620 Vinson Rrothers, Ronania, 640 Geo. McDonald, K F, J. M. Patterson, French Gulch, 160 Cal. 480 A. Igtngell Estate, 280 Mary Idtngell Estate G. W. Isaacs Estate, Medford ,320 120 Himon Calhoun, Portland, 160 Fred Fine, Bonansa, 240 M. M. High, Salem, 160 J. P. Bryan, Etna, Cal. 160 Jas Bryan, Etna, Cal. 180 W. A. Rice, Saratoga, Cal. Maggie Deal, address unknown 200 F. H. Cobb, address unknown 240 0. E. Thomason, Salem, Total Grand Total '• •• " •• M " •' “ " •• M •• “ '* 3 & ___ $- g, £ Prices will induce you to buy £ $ if you will investigate *