< RATER LAKE A .MYMTERY
true the forest roservi.iion which win.
ectabllshcd b«-<mi',«« <t Do* In nut les of
('ruler luke tifol the region Immedi
iii«-ly surrounding It I n destined to be­
come on«« of Die greateHt playground»
of the mil Ion.
Having »<•« n everything worth see­
ing In this und other countries, Mr.
Ilurrlmun wan compl«-t«dy curried
awny by Crater lllke
On the oc« u
»Ion of tils first visit to the lake some-
on«< nalil that there was nothing In
th«« whole world Ilk«- It "Tliat I h not
the wav to put It," Mr. Harriman
replied. "You should say there I h
nothing In the world « qual Io (."
than ti iii II m bulow Ita summit, und
weakvned II thut Die cono fell luto
ilo« yawnlng crater und wuh coiii -
pletely »wullowid, leavllig Die Juggeil
tini 7,000 feet a bove Die M'tl l«-V«-|.
spirit and io ba Inhabited by mon­
H. (>. JOHNSON HATH "INHWT"
sters culled "Haos."
AltriKtivc HurroiiiolIngH Mirrored in
'' I < y believe I nut znoever guz«-s I Finds the Stori«-» of Railroad Con-
III«- Deep Ilin«- Wilier« Willi
«-trmtiou I nexuggrrat«-«!—Ready
■ hi li.e lake will : die i-1 1 be dragged
Striking R cii II hiii
to Work for Ibis City.
into Its depths, the,.- to feed I«'-
In whatover manner th«- «rater H » • Ji monster or
Irugcii which
H. O. Johnson, president of the Hot
Tin- follow Ing article from Die Chi
may bave b«-en crcuted, no one can dwells therein. Tills belief was en-
Spring»
company, has returned from
«ago Evi-uIng Post Is an Interesting
uci-ount for the presene« of the lake, lian« « «1 by the l Mtidden death of an
a
trip
to
Prineville, where he went
write up of ('niter luke, mid goes to
whlch I h ho deeply and gloriously army officei who fell d«-ad while gaz-
for
th«-
purpose
of seeing for himself
h I iow how much attention our blv»»«-«l
bili«- tliat thera I h no otlier «olorlng Ing for tin- first Dm«- upon the lake.
I
wl.at
was
really
being done In rall-
country I m attracting In the world ut
In «-urlìi, In sky or Iti wuter whlch
It 1» possible that the Indian be-
I
road
drcleM.
in
speaking
of what he
large:
«un compur«- wlth il. It» phenonte- lief regarding the monster they be­
I learned Mr. Johnson stated:
(Ilin Andrew» I h the correspond
nal colorlng I» attribuì«-«! lo U h great lieve Inhabits the lake Is due to a p«--
"I have been greatly Interested in
cut wl<> fiirnlHhi««) thlH urlici«« to th««
depili. Ho far uh ha» be«-n ascertalne«! culiar phenomenon <aus«-d by air cur­
th«’ railroad news that has been ap­
Pont und hl» description of thu great
tlicrc I h no Inlet nor outh-t to th<- rents. Not infrequently when look­
pearing In the Herald, and 1 was anx-
tintura! wond««r I m one thnt will b<- '
luke.
ing from the rlm on the waters of the
| Ions to »«•€• whether all of Die infor-
enjoyed by nil who r«-ud it
But comparisons do not ndd I <>
Despite this fuel, ItM waters a re lake tlo re comes Into view, seeming­
' mation furnished by the Herald and
scenic In-uuty.
California ha» her ever sweet and pure and clear, iiik ! ly, a moriKtrous dragon, which ap-j
I sec u red from other sources was really
Picture yourself on th«« ridge of u Yosemite und big trees, ami there are apparently are unaffected by the parently Iles close to the surface of
I unexaggerated. J am satisfied that
Wyoming li uh spring hoods from the mountain the wuter, und whose h«-a«l and body
glorious w«-»t« rn mountuln rangt« no others Ilk«- them
nothing has been overdrawn. in the
Above, around un«i beneath you her Yellowntone Park, ami It I h Mil- P«-iika or th«- drougbtM of the long gently osclllat«- from side to side.
¡north everything is lively and the con-
Arizonn has its Brand Can Hummer months Never changing, th««
Ho startlingly lifelike is this illu-1
spreads u panorama Of IIIUtchll'HM prein«-
struction work of tbe Southern Pa­
bounty mid grandeur. All Ih«« world yon. and It »hinds alone in D m class luke forms u giganti« mirror wherein sion that many white men who have ’
cific an«l Oregon Trunk is being
1» below, Hcemlngly enveloped In ever Oregon has Its Crater lak««, und. uh are faithfully noted every change of seen It have lnsl»t«-d strenuously that
pushed with all possible vigor. The
Mr. Ilurrlmun says, there 1» nothing zephyr, of mountain wind, of cloud It was In reality the dragon.
liiHtltig culm und p«-ne<-
¡result of this activity Is going to make
Air Current» < sum - Ap|Hiri(ion.
Hudilenly there springs Into .lew u anywhere equal to It.
and of atmosphere.
a great change in tbe map of this
Careful investigation has shown
l«rokcii, it-ggi-d. Impoidt g rlm «1 mild Surveyn for Yul<«iii<»l>ile Rotul».
The bike was discovered I In 1853
state, and not many years will elapse
that the illusion is due to th«- air!
ro< k
A h suddenly n« It come«« Into
This gr«-ut acenlc wonder I m being by John A. Hillman und a I party of
before the barren wastes of interior
current» which ruff!«.- the surface ofi
view It apparently <llsapp«-nrs mid mud«« n<<<’Hslbl<> to all who may de­ , prowpectorH.
Iter-ause of Its ultra-
Oregon will be dotted with thriving
the Inkl­ irr« gularly, thereby produc- I
you m >- gnzlng Into a fenrsorne < I iuhiii sire to visit It. Burveys arc In prog marine blue waters It
was then
towns and prosperous farmers.
thut yawns beneath you a full 1,000 re»» over several point» from which : named Deep Blue luke. It IjHK since ing an aparitlun which tak««« the.'
"This great development will surely
form of a dragon
feet, dropping uwny so ubruplly thut I! I m pur|Mi»«-d to run automobil«- ; been known an Lake Mystery,
atect the future of Klamath Falls,
Crater lake 1» slightly elliptical in
you Involuntarily spring buck In fear r<u«d» thut «Ill r'«nch Di«- very rim of Majesty, Hol«. In th«« («round,
£.«d If this city will grasp Its oppor­
shape, and 5 K miles in diameter
of tumbling Into Its awful depth«
th«« lake, At on«- end of the Ink«- filially ('rater lake, which most natur
! tuulty and fight for its rights li will
at its widest point, Near the shore
Pr< »« utly till» fear I m overcome unit (here will noon b«« erected a tavern ully d<Hcilb«-M it.
mean that a city greater than any-
on the western side is a huge cinder
«on look iicnln Into the chasm, tlicr«- whhh will command not only a view
'
thing conceived by the most san-
« lici<t« iu «l l«> Vtouiiliiiii ( II iii I h r-.
cone, remarkably symmetrical in
to bc.hold n«-w beiiutlcM of nature on of th«« Ink«-, but a panorama of moun­
, gmne person will spring up and be
Until r<-««-ntly the huge remains of form
and rising 845 feet above the
um««d of. forming u picture whlcii tain. plain, lake and sky which has
-mistress of the vast country to the
I the mountuln containing ('rater lake lake.
it is known as Wizard island,
will never fade While memory Irst».
no superior.
'•■ast sind north.
hud no name During the summer of
and it has a crater of its own which
At the bottom of th«- 1.000 f«««-t of
It I h ImpoMHlble to stund on the rltn 1896 th«- MuzamaH. a mountain-
"Klamath Falls is a city of destiny.
Is fully 100 feet deep, and contains
sheer, ruggird, painted biiMiilt rocks
of Crater Ink«- und guz«« Into Ila blue cllmbiig « lub of Oregon, visited
It will grow, but the rapidity of that
snow during the greater part of the
are the wat«-ni of a mugh- lake. Mir
depths, 1.000 feet below, without ('rater lake ami chrlstem-d th«- moun­
i growth will depend more upon Die
year.
rored in Its blue depth» I» a n< w
f«-«-ling th«« most powerful emotions, tain Mount Muzama
' pres» nt residents here than on an/
Almost noth-
At present Do- most pleasing meth-
world no, not a new world, bill the
which continue when one has de- ing wum known of th«- lake and Its
' one thing. Every man, woman and
od of reaching Crater lak«- 1» by ratl-
very twin of this one, reproduced
H««-nd«-d to th«- level of the wuter, and Hurroundngs, however, until 1895.
child . hould fill up on optimism an«!
road to Klamath Falls, From this
w ith startling clearncsH
Huch, In
tiontlng In n boat on It» bosom of in­ when W. O. Ht«««dc. a mountaineer
point there Is a Journey by boat con- I—<<>iue a booster. Money should be
brief, I h ('ruler hike, hldtl'-n in a »nd-
tense blue, guz«« upwuril and then of Oregon. start«*d a movement to
I raised ,o advertise "he town and coun­
Burning the greater part of th«« day on
di«« of th«« Cnscud«- range in Houtha-rn
downward on a constantly changing have this region created a national
ty und nothing should be left und«»ne
Upper Klamath lake,
This lake is
Oregon.
panorama of b«-uuty.
to
crush out every knocker that might
park
one of the most beautiful in the
In thu jears to come this lake will
i want to ply his unworthy vocation.
This fragment of a one«« mighty
III January, 189«. President Cleve- West.
|M« one of th«- greatest and most talk«-«!
There is no room for such here, its
mountain Is the only sign left of that land slgned a proclamation with-
Leaving the lak«- near th«- Klamath
about wonders of the world, and peo-
■
'
t| tumult In natur«« ages ago, when the drawing ten townshlps from the
resources are unlimited, and its fu­
Indian reservation, there is a stage
ple will com«- In largì- numbers to en-
ture the brightest of any place on the
internal und volcanic fires of this market, but on account of strong op- ride of twelve miles through
beau-;
Joy Its maJ««Htic wonder.
For the
Pacific coast. My company stands
western coast range, as far north as posit Ion the blll was not puHs<*d, and tlful forests to Eort Klamath.
From
|ii<-»«-iit It is a silent, un< I u I iikh I nnd
ilood and Runler, were bluzlng and the project lay dormant for many Fort Klamath the distance is twenty- ready at all times to aid in every way
llttl«- known wilderness, fnr awuy
possible to advance the development
throwing forth their stone und mol- years.
two miles, the road leading through
from evldenc«*» of civilization, a ro­
of
Klamath Falls and Klamath cjun-
ten lava
Mr Steele practically gave his en- <-ne of the most piituresque valleys
mantic region In which the lover of
ty. and it can always be counted on in
[tlre time and energy to th«« project, of the West, fraught with interesting
nature may lose self and rrvul In Origin is Mutter of ( <>iij<-< turc.
Th«« m««th««<l by which nature creat- nnd during the HcsHlonH of congress history of early Modoc Indian vt.’i, joining in any move that will win for
«-mot bills which com«« only from con­
this section all of the good things to
ditions of untouched grandeur und <-d the lake Is u matter of conjectui«*. which were held In 1901 and 1902 ami then into the Crater Lak«- Na­
which it is entitled.”
Hclcntlsts »uy that at one time this he succeeded In urousing the whole tional park.
beauty.
For a large part of the distanc«*
Within a short time this freak of was a mountain higher and even population of the State of Oregon,
THOMAS CALLOWAY
grander
than
Shasta,
possibly
the
and
thus
secured
the
passage
of
the
t!ic toad winds along the brink of
nature, beautiful nnd awe-inspiring,
Thomas Calloway, who has been a
may b««c<>m«« easily acce-alble to all hlghoHt between Alaska und Old Mex­ bill creating the Crater Lake National Anna creek canyon and through fur-
eat of primeval beauty.
resident of this city for some time,
who may wish to enjoy It» charms, for ico. That It was a volcano there can park.
died suddenly Friday, death be-
the progress and development that be no dlHput«*.
President Roosevelt presented Mr
There are scIvntiHta who believe Ste«-I«- with the fountain pen which
(RANCE-IIEN 1.1 NF.
are conquering the barren spaces of
ing due to paralysis of the heart, su­
thnt
there
occurred
a
mighty
explo
­
perinduced
by pneumonia, from which
the great West are rapidly coming
he used to sign the bill. Recently Mr.
Miss Essie O. France and Archie
sion
which
tore
away
the
top
of
D
i
I
h
this way.
Steele has been placed In charge of Henline were married at the residence he was recovering. Mr. Calloway re-
In another y«-ar the Southern Pa­ great mountain to a depth of fully th«« reservation, and Is devoting his of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Crissler Thurs- t timed a few days ago from Dorris,
cific railway system will have pene­ 7,000 feet and blew Into the air entire time to exploiting t and mak­ day night. .Mrs Henline is the daugh­ where he had been ill with pneu-
trated the mountains and the plains »•-ventiH-n cubic miles of earth and ing it acc<>M»ible to tourists.
ter of Mr. France, formerly engaged monia. He was still suffering from
hereabout», to within ten miles of 1 hl» rock, the material dropping far away Indian liegciids Arc Interesting.
I in the general merchandise business the effects of the disease, but felt that
lake.
Even now the railroad has - from th«- mouth of the crater. They
The Indian legends regarding Fra- in this city. Mr Henline is one of the he was sufficiently strong to remain
polnt
to
rock»
more
than
100
miles
rnached Klamath Fulls, which fact
ter lake, should they ever be com- promising young men of the city. He out of bed, contrary to the advice of
distant
from
the
crater,
which,
they
makes the trip to Crater Uk«« much
pletcly written, would make an In- is filled with the energy and push that his physician. That morning he arose,
claim, were deposited there presum­ terestlng st«»ry book. Until recently make progressive business men. and stating that he was feeling fine, and
easier than it hns been heretofore.
Edward II. Harriman, entranced by ably by th«* greatest explosion of nil very few Indians have gazed Into the his future is certainly very promising. was proving it by dancing around the
til«« beautleH of this region, ha» eu- times.
He is at present employed in the room. The exertion was too much
.depth of th«« lake.
ho
IT RAISES THE DOUGH
CRESCENT
—
EQa-PHOaPHATC
BAKING
POWDER
and doca more than the
higher price powders
and deeo it better.
ONI POUND 25 CINTO
•OLD BY OHOCLM
The school board of District No. I
held a m -cling at which the follow­
ing members were prevent:
I V
Hl«:mens, F Sand«-rson, P. L. Fotin
•ain and Professor Dunbar.
The h«-alth officer was instruct-?-!
t-< inspect the M'h<jols at least race
a month, and • ft.-ner, if necessary
An arrangeim.r t was also entered
into with Mewru Boiler and Shipley
of this city to haul the school children
Ir >m the Upi «.— lake section to the
public school. The rate agreed upon
for this servlte i? $72 per month for
thirty scholars. A covered bus is to
be furnish«?d. This arrangement will
obviate the nv"«-«isity of erect!n; ,i
school buildin" on the Upper lake
and on account of the limited number
of | upils there at present is more de­
sirable all around
Men can be found who are willing
to go to Africa as missionaries who
are not willing *.o take care of a cross
baby for the tired wife for half an
hour.
>.OTI< D FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. 8
Land Office at Lakeview, Oregon,
August 13, 1909.
NOTICE is hereby given that John
c. Beach, whose postoffice address is
Klamath Falls, Oregon, did. on the
16th day of March, 1909, file in this
office Sworn Statement and Applica­
tion No. 01703, to purchase the
SENWK. NESWK. NWSEK Sec­
tion 5, Township 38 South, Range 9
East. Willamette meridian, and the
timber thereon, under the provisions
of the act of June 3. 1878. and acts
amendatory, known a3 the "Timber
and Stone Law," at such value as
might be fixed by appraisement, and
that, pursuant to such application,
the land and timber thereon have
been appraised, June 14, 1909. the
timber estimated 225 M. board feet
at $1.50 per M. and the land $24.50;
that said applicant will offer final
proof in support of his application
and sworn statement on the 22d day
of October, 1909, before R. M. Rich­
ardson, U. S. Commissioner, at Klam­
ath Falls, Oregon.
Any person is at liberty to protest
this purchase before entry, or init'ate
a contest at any time before patent
issues, by filing a corroborated affi­
davit in this office, alleging facts
which would defeat the entry.
ARTHUR W. ORTON.
8-19 10-21
Register.
For Klamath county lands. Send me
description, terms and price, and I
established a »mall home on Pelican
There are other scientists who in­
They hav«« ever been awe-stricken Goodrich Fash Store. MrM. and Mrs. for the weakened condition of his will sell it for you. Ramsey Realty
bay. within a few miles of th«« rlm of sist that the molten lava burst forth In Its presence, and they believe it to Henline will make their residence in heart and he sank to the floor, dying Co.. 217-218 Central bldg., cor. 6 and
in about twenty minutes.
the lake, und If his prediction comes from Die side of the mountain, more he the dwelling place of the gri-rl this city.
8 Main st., Los Angeles, Cal.
The Boston Store
Complete Outfitters for
Men, Women and Children
Let us outfit your Boy
for School. We will save
you Money.
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