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♦ * OFFKHI, I'AI'KR OF KLAMATH oounjy . ♦ ♦ VOL. XIV. (NH'NTY FAIR AND CARNIVAL KLAMATH REPUBLICAN. KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 29, J909 T NO ATTENTION WILL HE PAID TO ■MMJTH-KKLLY CO. AND ANHOt'l- ENGINEERING DIFFK I LTIEN TO HILL AND HARRIMAN FORCES ATEN TO DEVEN»I* HOLDING BE OVERCOME i*ORTF.R UROH. TAKE THE FIELD » ♦ LEADING PAPER of SOUTHERN OREGON. ♦ * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< NO. 18 NEWER BONDS AWARDED The Big Crops Guarantee an Agri Council Considering Character of cultural Exhibit Hurimulug Any NysU-m to Be Installed— >lay Report From Oaklaiul Nays Bill lias Illg Mill Will H« Erected to Manu Couri'll Ik-chlcs to Place Outfall In Hill Throws Big Force Into tin- Des- <liul*-s Canyon and Proposes to Ever Neou Here I se Lake Ewauna facture Timber < oinlng From latke Ewauna—City Will Hurely Been Buying Water Front There Hold RIght-of-Way Be Enjoined Yamsay Mountain to Euler the Bay City Bom« move should be mud« look ing toward preparation for ths hold A mammoth sawmill plant and fif A special meeting of the City Porter Brothers* * announcement lug of a fair this fall. Thu tine la that they will build a railroad rapid teen miles of railroad will be con Coua*il was held Tuesday for the not far Blatant when such an event ly up the Deschl'.tss canyon will be structed by tbe B<x>th-Kelly Lumber purpo»<- of going over the plans for will haw to bo hold provided Klam ' completely Ignored by tho llarrln an company and tllelr assoc la tea In the the sewage system with City (Engi ath county la going to hold onto lie , system, now engaged In a similar vicinity of Yamsay mountain, where neer Zumwalt and deciding on the lo share of tha Htate money thut goes | project, according to Julius Krutt- the parties concerned have holdings cation of the main sewer and the dis with the holding of a fair. It awing schnitt, director of operation and I of about 87.000 acres of timber. posal of the sewage. The question of to bo pretty generally agreed that In maintenance of all Harriman linos. Messrs. Booth and Kelly and Mr. the kxatlon of the main sewer was addition to the uaual events held In Tho railroad operator, when Been, Danaher of Detroit, Mich., the own the Subject of extended discussion. connection with tho fair there ahould answered questions put to him with ers of thia tract, returned from there Councilman (.'astel was particularly bo something additional on tho iinl<M>kod-for readiness. yesterday. While the parties would desirous of locating the main sewer atroota of tho city. Many have aug- *'I don't care to say that Porter admit nothing concerning this mat on Kiaiuath avenue, giving as his gealed a at reel carnival, othera gome Brothers are making gr«at prepara ter, it Is known that while there they reason a wish to avoid the cost of form of entertainment. Whatever it tions for road building Just for the decided on the route for a branch laying It on Main street from Cen la. preparatlona will have to b« made purpose of working a 'stull* on the railroad to the timber which will con ter str*-* t to Payne alley. It was de In advance and the time la at hand Harriman management,'* said Mr. nect with the Natron branch at the veloped however, that it would be when steps ahould be taken to decide Kruttschnltt. "in fait, wo are sim lower end of the marsh. Impracticable to use Klamath avenue the question. for this purpose Because the grade I ply proceeding to build our line up Fifteen Mlles of Railroad Under the Blate law the fair will th» 1muchuleu with tho utmost pos low to serve the territory The length of the line from the was have to be held under the auspices of sible dispatch. We are taking into Junction to the timber 1» about fif that must be cared for, and by unan a fair association. though tho actual uccount no other efforts, but simply teen miles, the grade being practic imous vote the main sewer was lo work can be delegated to another or trying to attend to our own business. cated on Main street. ally level, and only one crossing of ganisation if the aaaoclatlon aeeu fit The next question to command the Expect Railroad to Pay the Williamson rlvor being necessary to do go. The premium llat. however, A surveying party will be sent In attention of the Council was tbe dis "That we believe in the results will have to bo prepared und paid shortly to locate this line. The com posal of the sewage, and It was sur out by the aaaoclatlon In order to so that will attend tbe building of ths pany owns a splendid mill site near prising to find that the sentiment was i cure the benefit of the Blate's money road Is attosti-d by lb« mere fact thut : the terminus of this railroad with in favor of dumping It Into the lake. appropriated for auch uae. The we are building it. We wouldn't be Councilman Hanks was the ouly i sufficient water for all purposes. Chamber of Commerce ahould ap apt to undertake tho constructioa of member voting "no” on the prop ' point a committee to confer with th« a railroad from which we expected ffn-di<llon Being Fulfilled osition, thus placing himself on rec This bears out tbe statement of a ord as favoring the septic tank sys fair aaaoclation In order that plana no returns.*’ Mr. Kruttschnltt stated that he prominent lumberman who said re may bo outlined for the carrying out tem Th*- principal reason for the of a program that will insure ade was not tn a position to announce cently that within five years all of decision was one of expense, the be quate entertainment and a flral-cla-ta when trains wIM be operated from the large holders would have im lief being evident that It would be a fair. Never before haa thia county the Harriman linos over ths Northern mense lumber plants in operation It. much chea|>er way to dump directly "That simply this section end that the lumbermen been blessed with the abundant cropa Paclflc Into Seattle. 1 into the lake than to erect and use depneda on the completion of prep would do more to bring competitive that will be harvested thia fall. Tha septic tanks. Engineer Zumwalt was farmera will now be enabled to gath aration for service," he said, “Aa for roads Into this section than any oth i emphatic In his declaration that the er apecimena and thus contribute as the actual construction work on the er factor. In fa<t. the larger Inter i only method that ahould be consid sistance to the Chamber to atari an Deschutes, tho people of Portland est» are at this time figuring with ered wa» septic tanks, but his opinion exhibit that will ahow to the homo- know as much about that as wo do. throe different railroad companies to was swept aside and tbe other plan aeeker the agricultural resources of I simply need to add that our policy enter this field. adopted will be aggressive.*' the county to good advantage. Tho Herald hop«e that the farmera will graap tbe splendid opportunity a fair will give to tho county at thia time and while the Chamber of Com- mere« or the fair aaaociatlnn la pre paring plana tor the manner of enter tainment to go with tbe fair, will not fall to do their part by aeloctlng and arranging the beet apecimena of their cropa aa they mature and have them In readiness when the time arrlvoa to uae them. PYTHIANH INSTALL. OFFICERS Wants First Hand Knowledge Mr. Kruttschnltt named as the Initial object of ills present visit to tbe West an Inspection of the lines controlled by Harriman in this asc- tlon. “1 want to become hotter in formed on the situation.’* ho said "Staying In an office listening to re ports doesn't do tho good that meet ing men face to face does. I am only »orry that I am not able more often to detach myself from the du ties of the office and tome out this way. It Is truly a great country, with marvelous piauilblllties." large AH* ndance and Much Enthu«i- Oakland Terminal a tiood Guess r»ui Mark the Occa-uon One of tho moat onthualaatlc meet- Inga ever held In the hlatory of Pyth- lanlam In thia city waa held at San derson's hall Monday night. Th« oc etalon waa tbe Inatallatlon of officers During the paat alx months the lodge haa more than doubled in member- el Ip and la now riding on a wave of prosperity that la aure to make It one of the strongest orders in the city. It waa decided at the meeting that the lodge would change ita quarters, and hereafter the regular atatod eou- ventlona of Klamath lodge No. 89, K of P. will be held every Wednesday night In the hall over the Virgil t Bon furniture atore. The hall haa boon secured for lodge purposes and la being furnlahed by the I. O. R. M In a manner that will make ft a credit to all the organisations that are to hold their meetinga therein. The move to the new hall will be a decided Improvement in the meeting place. It glvea a central location and commodious quartera. With the new quartera will alao come another pe-- ceptlble increase In memberahlp, an many of the membera of the order connected with lodgea In all parte of the United States are taking steps to affiliate themselves with the local lodge. The offleera installed at the meet ing Monday night were aa follows: Wm. Wagner, C. C.; F. B. Brimmer. V. C.; John Irwin, prolate; F. W. Ritchie, M. A.; Bert North. M. W.; C. C. Hogue, K. R. 8.; C. C. Cofer, I. G.; Jesse Hart, 0. 0. Bills Being laid for Building A dispatch from Oakland aays: "James J. Hill's reported action In commencing construction on a line up the Deschutes river in Oregon is Interpreted hero us conclusively con firming tho theory advanced several months ago. when a large slice of Oakland watcrfron|ago was acquired by purchasers, whose Identity was carefully masked, that Hill had de termined to secure a deep water ter minus horn In order to obtain his share of local transcontinental and Paclflc Coast traffic, at present bot tled up by the Harriman Interests. Recent purchases of right-of-way In northern California and in the vi cinity of Oakland give ndded sub stantiation to the belief that Hill is rapidly preparing to span the last gap (the 700 miles between Oakland and tho town of Deachutcs on the Columbia river In Oregon) of hla pro- posedd transcontinental railroad from 8t. Paul, Minn., on the lakes, to Oakland." MIXING IT ALL AWN« THE UNE WITH BUBORDINATEB Secretary Running Ilia Department Along Ntrictly Legal Lincs and Will Keep On Doing No WASHINGTON, July 28.- Direc tor Newell of the reclamation service left here yoater day for Portland, where next Thur sday he will hold a conference with Secretary Ballinger and the district engineers of the rec lamation service. An effort will be made nt this conference to arrange a schedule of work to be done by the reclamation service on all govern ment projects during 1910. Tho purpose of this gathering Is to apportion the funds for next year and to decide on what work shall be carried on. The amount for use on the Klamath proj ect will he decided on, though no pu.bllc. announcement as to how much th nt will be need be expected for some time. Work on tho superstructure of the new block being erected by G. W. White has been started and the building will be rushed to completion as rapidly as possible. The lower floor will bo occupied by stores and the second floor will be used for of fices and lodge rooms. Two of the store rooms have been leased already •—one by Chastain, Langell & Co. and the other by the Star drug atore. Not Worried About His Job Director Newoll As not worrlod over W. L. Melton, who recently had his reports thut he is to loao his job. Ho anklo broken by a runaway team has been assurod by the President near Lakeview, arrived In the city that thoro is no intention of displac Tuesday and la getting along nicely. ing him. THE DALLEH, Or«., July 25.— "We are going to build a railroad along the Deschutes, and it Is not going to stop In the canyon, either, but Is going to be built Into Central Oregon,*’ said Johnson Porter of Porter brothers, the big railroad con tractor, here yesterday. "it is not a Hiil line, never has been and never will be," continued the railroad man. "The right-of-way Is owned by Porter brothers, and the road is going to be built by them. Other fellows can build if they want to. and we are not going to try to stop them. Our rights-of-way con flict In some places. Ours has been accepted as far as Madras. "We think that Central Oregon Is a very productive country, and our railroad is going to develop it." Hundreds of men. forty horses, forty wagons and all facilities for construction of roadbed and wagon roads arrived in this city yesterday afternoon fry boat. About twenty more men arrived last night and others are ex,*e< ted the first of the week. Ail supplies will be freighted from this city to Deschutes. Work will be commenced at once building wagon roads to the proposed route at different points. Offices have been rented In The Dalles, though the main office of Porter In railroad work will be In Portland. Johnson Porter says his people had the first survey into Central Oregon, and that Harri man followed In their footsteps. "I don't think the struggle for su premacy in the rugged Deschutes canyon will be one of picks and shovels, but of motions and briefs," Council Nliowed Undue Haste remarked a man closely Identified PLANT WILL BE OOMl’LETKD The Council showed undue haste in with tbe Harriman interests in dis EARLY NEXT MONTH its adoption of the lake plan, for the cussing the activity of Porter broth Effort sl»>uld Be Made to Becan- reason there was not a member who ers at The Dalles. Th- »peaker has knew wbat the difference In the cost been more or less intimately con (Riser i’tauls and Thun Create a ' would be. Engineer Zumwalt bad nected with the preliminary opera Needed Weekly Payroll ' not prepared figures on tbe lake out tions which have been undertaken in It has long been recognized that If fall. for the reason he did not believe the proposed railroad invasion of this city is ever to be anything else that the Council would adopt this Central Oregon, and Is in a position than a small farming town some sort method. Mayor Sanderson expressed to know what he is talking about. of manufacturing establishments I himself as believing the Council was There is every reason to believe must bo brought here. The easiest making a mistake, and one that that Porter brothers, who have ap to secure at this time are box fac would have to bv rectified within a parently acquired the surveys and tories. and the quickest way to get year. I other rights of tbe Oregon Trunk, them Is to offer them cheap power. I represent the Hill interests. Two of Difference in Cost Small The Chamber of Commerce should the brothers were closeted with Hill's If the Council will heed the senti take hold of the matter and see If confidential representative. John F. something cannot be done In the way ment of the community at large it is Stevens, in Portland for several certain that It will reconsider this of offering such enterprises power at hours only a few hours ago. as exclu a price that will be a sufficient in method of disposal. The additional sively related in the “Telegram" at cost for the septic tanks will not ex ducement for them to come. The the time. Stevens has spent most of ceed 82,000. For so small a sum it price could be graduated for the first the past month looking over the Cen is a grave mistake to take the flve years, or a rebate given at the tral Oregon country and his friendly chances attendant on using the lake expiration of that period. If some relations with the Hills is too well as a receptacle for the raw sewage, such an arrangement could be en known to admit of doubt, while Por tered Into, the growth of this city for it is certain that If an injunction I ter brothers have always been iden would be rapid, and the merchants is not secured before the work is tified with any large railroad con completed It will be granted very would be given some incentive to struction projects undertaken by shortly afterwards. work for bigger things. Hill, including tbe North Bank proj Engineer Zumwalt was instructed ect. In that memorable contest Por- To Be Complet«il in August to prepare specifications and adver The box factory that Is in course tisements for blds for the entire sys ter brothers won their fight on the of erection on Upper Klamath I-ake, tem. with the exception of a portion j conflicting locations and Hill's law- adjoining the mill of the Long lake of the north end of the city and the i yers won the legal battles in the Lumber company, will be completed pumping plant; the specifications to courts. Harriman .was completely early in August and be in operation contain the proviso that the city routed on every point. Harriman's legal staff believes it about the 10th of that month. The reserved the right to construct all or factory Is being erected by the Great only a portion of the system. This will be no difficult matter to block any serious encroachmqpts on their Northern Box company, and will be provision is incorporated for-the pur in charge of Superintendent Charles pose of enabling the city to remain domain by Porter brothers and the men behind them. In fact, it is un McGowan, it will have a daily ca within its financial limits. derstood that papers are already in pacity of about 40,000 feet, and will preparation which are likely to throw furnish employment for about thirty Zumwalt's Estimate *44,000 fl vo men. Mr. Zumwalt estimated that the the Deschutes enibroglio into the system could be built at a cost of courts in the near future. Mark« Real Ih-giiining It lias been brought out in pub Many members of Tho starting of this plant will about 14 4,000 mark the real beginning of the de the Council believed that this was lished reports inspired by Harriman velopment of the lumber Industry of too low, and it was tacitly agreed officials that the Oregon Trunk Line this county, for It is a well-known that only the main sewer from the has no legal standing in Oregon, be fact that Klamath Is in possession of Hot Springs addition to Payne alley ing a Nevada corporation which, un more box pine than all the rest of would be built to start with, and such der the provisions of its articles of the Coast combined. It Is only a additional mains laid as could be Incorporation, violated the comity matter of time before many other paid for out of the remaining funds. of States. In addition to this, the plants will be In operation in this If the blds received are low enough government approved survey maps of city, furnishing employment to hun to permit of the building of the en the Oregon Trunk and not Porter dreds of men and creating a pay tire system, then the contract will be brothers’ maps. It Is, therefore, held roll for the city of thousands of dol so let; if not, then'only so much will by the Harriman Interests that the be constructed as there are funds to successors to the Oregon Trunk peo lars per month. ple have no more standing, legally, meet the expense. An adjournment was taken until than Nelson, Williamson and others The final dimensions of the great drydock which the United States Monday night, at which time the ad who secured the surveys for the Ore navy is building nt Pearl harbor in vertisement for bids will be consid gon Trunk. tho Hawaiian Islands show that the government is wisely building for the future. The dock will be 1,152 feet long from the coping to the outer sill, 140 feet wide nt the top, and will have 35 feet of water over the entrance sill nt mean high water level. There will be a sill in the mid dle of the dock for an Intermediate caisson which will divide It Into two docks, 575 feet and 532 feet long, re spectively. ered and ordered published. It is of Interest in connection with the battle for possession <f strategic points In the canyon tl it Porter brothers waited until the very last day of grace before sending construc tion crews in there, to-day being the time limit within which the Oregon Trunk had to make good or forfeit the rights bestowed by the govern ment in the approvaf of the survey maps of this project.—Oregon Tele gram. The order of Redmen have leased the hall over Virgil's store at Fourth and Klamath avenue and it will here after be known as Redmen’s Hall. The I’ocahontaa will hold a social there this evening, at which the Red- men will be entertained. After Au gust 1st the K. P.s, Modern Wood men, Women of Woodcraft, the Fra ternal Order of Eagles will meet in Dr Alex Patterron of Merrill wa»> this hall, having sublet the same Miss Nellie Wood of Bedfield was from the Redmen. In the city Saturday on business,. shopping In the city Saturday. The bankers of the city were called into consultation with the city of ficials Monday evening for the pur pose of securing their opinion on the pids submitted for the sewer bonds. The bld of Morris brothers of Port land was made in such a manner as to puzzle the city dads, so it was de cided to submit both propositions to Messrs. White, Moore and Martin. These gentlemen decided that the Chicago bid was about 8400 better for the city than the bid submitted by the Portland house, and the bonds were accordingly awarded to 8. A. Kean A Co. of that city. Now that the matter of funds has been settled, the Council and Mayor are getting down to the consideration of the kind of a system that will be installed. It was discussed to some extent last night and will be gone into further this evening, when the Council will meet at 8 o’clock. It developed from the discussion that the sentiment in favor of utiliz ing Lake Ewauna as a dumping-place for the sewage is growing, and the Indications are that the system will be installed with this end in view. Provision, however, will be made for the employment of septic tanks at such time as the city will be com pelled to use them. The reason for this proposed step is economy. It seems that some members of the Council are not only desirous of hav ing the future generation pay for the system, but also want it to pay for thepenny-wlse-and-pound-foolish pol icy that advocates the elimination of the septic tank at the beginning. - It is as certain as the system is Installed that the city will be enjoined from using the lake for a cesspool. As soon as the attention of the State Board of Health is called to the mat ter it will be more ths^ ilk ly »hat they will take a hand in the matter snd stop it. MERCHANTS SHOULD SEEK OUT SIDE TRADE A Bargain Week Should Be Inaugu rated and an Effort Made to Caj>- ture Outside Trade Are the merchants of Klamath Fails going to make a move towards securing the trade of the outside communities? That is a question that still remains unanswered. Some time ago It was suggested that the merchants get together and issue a catalogue and establish a bargain week. No move in this direction has been made, and unless one is made very soon it will be too late to bring to this city the hundreds of people who have been going elsewhere with their money. They can do better in Klamath * Falls than elsewhere, but they will have to be told that fact clearly and distinctly, and the only way to do It Is for the merchants to issue a catalogue giving prices that can be compared with those hereto fore paid by these people. One method that could be followed Is to turn the matter over to the Chamber of Commerce and have the catalogue issued under Its auspices, the merchants furnishing the articles they desired listed therein. Each business house should select one ar ticle that will be sold during that week at or below cost, and this used as a "puller" for business. In addi tion to this article such others as they choose to run as bargains should be listed, together with a fuller list of the staples that remain at the reg ular price. A "bargain week” would bring to this city thousands of dollars and help the merchants to move goods that would otherwise remain on their shelves for the winter. This »ale should be run during the fair week and now is the time to start The growth in size of steamships and in the cost of labor and the ma terials of their construction has caused a great Increase in the total cost of transatlantic steamships dur ing the past decade. Thus the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 1897, cost a lit tle over 12,500,000; the Oceanic, 1899, 13,000,000; the Deutschland, 1900, 13,250,000, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II. 1903, 14,000,000, while the estimated cost of the Mauretania is 18,750,000. The most fruitful cause of the increase in cost has been the effort in each ship to outdistance her predecessor in speed. This has led to an Increase in the engine pow er from 30,000 in the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to 70,000 In the Maure tania.