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KLAMATH FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 30, 1*09
VOL. XIV.
ANOTHER BIG
FIRE AT WEED
THIRD \\ IIKII IIAM Oil I It III It IX
PANT THREE AA I I <KH
A IIRIMAN IS BADLY IVIHRI I)
R«lic«c«l I ik «-niilitry A11 •-m |>l •-< I
l><«tr<>y Fillin’ A wr«l ■>(
l.umlx-r
to
A i<'|><>it from Wit'tl state» Hint n
• in of Im • ndiary origin started In
the main lumber yard of tbe Weed
Lumber Compuny lit tn Id n I a h t Hutiir
day, uml for two bourn th« entire
force of the big company fought the
flatiK'> Hint thri nti'iii'd to dontroy not
only th» lumber In the yard but the
mill» mid now dry nlK'd an Well.
The total I oh . i will reach between
|&,0ou mp| >7..'>00 The lumber «1«
atroyed wan dlri'tly back of th« big
milt mid the fortunate swerving of
th« wind Hitvi'd th« building.
Several Itnllnti» who fought th« Or«
wete Injured «lightly, on« of them
being quit« badly hurt, (’harlea Os
wald, another employ«» of On com
pany, «iislaln«'d n few minor brill»«-»
There In absolutely no doubt about
th« Inii-ndlnry origin of th« fir« The
piles were all found to be burning
from the bottom. Indlentlng that th«-
firebug had made u determined ef
fort to destroy tie vast quantity of
lumber plliwl In the yards.
Thin In the third tire Weed han had
within three month» mid I the »,.<
ond that lot« rinilteil In »«rlouH dam
age to the Weed I.umber Company.
Illi.I. n Y h TEM T o TAI’ RED-
AVOOD OF NORTH < Al.ll <»RNI A
Itnnior« Tliat Oregon I'runk I.Im* Will
lie Extended Through t'a-iiirnl
Oregon to Illi li Timber L«n<!»
That the lllll system la actively
engaged In forging It« way Into the
ie»|uoo<l district of Northern Cali
fornia through Central Oregon la the
latest news In railroad building. Re-
port hn» It that the plan la to con
tinue tin- Oregon Trunk line through
the l>- '< hut«n Valley nnd Central
Oregon southwest by the Crater Lake
National Park, and croaalng th«
Rogue River Valley, Into the redwood
timber of lad Norte County to the
coast nt Creaccnt City.
The report la largely baaed on re
cent occurrence« In and about Med
ford which have just como to light.
Th«» name of John F. Stevens figure«
prominently In the matter, a« It also
did In connection with th«« Oregon
Trunk Line before Its real backers
were flnnlly announced.
James J. lllll. when In Portland
Iasi week. d«clln<«d to discuss the
Oregon Trunk line, saying that It«
eventual terminal would be ascer
tained upon the completion of the
rond, leaving the Inference that Bend
would not neccHHarlly figure In that
light
And these are the circumstances
leading up to the concliiHlon« that the
northern lines are contemplating tap
ping one of the richest timber belts
In the world through Its gateway of
th« Deschutes Valley:
In June Inst Stevens and a party
of lllll engineers came south from
Rend In an automobile by way of
the Crater Lak«» National Park to
the Rogue River Valley and to Med
ford, which Is on the line of the
Southern Pacific between A«hland and
Grant's Pass.
For the last fifty miles of this trip
the route taken by th«» Stevens party
was through the country In which
the Pacific & Eastern Railway hnd
been projected, but never completed,
the road having gone Into the hands
of a receiver after fourteen ntlles
of grading had been delivered.
About the same time John Roberts
Allen, a New York operntor, who Is
said to havo acted before In the ca
pacity of a Hill scout, appeared at
Medford and in July and August ne
gotiated nnd completed the purchase
of the Pacific A Eastern Railway.
Following this purchase graders
were at once put to work, nnd It
was discovered that th«» contract had
b«»n given to Porter Bros., who are
doing the work on the Deschutes line.
Aden did not stop with the pur-
chare of the bankrupt road. Before
leaving for the East ho had secured
a fifty-year franchise for an inter
urban trolley line running through
the Rogue River Valloy, and inci
dentally had picked up mi Interest In •'M AN INA" PEOPLE
several timber holding» und probable
TO 111. REFORMED
townsite locutions.
—
Among other things, All«-n mal Sc< i« «iiry W 11 «.oil I'litii» to I'laiit He«-«l
of IndiiHtry Among Central
a careful personal ins|M«ct|on of th«'
American l*«-«q*l*-
country between Medford uml
cent City, In l>«l Norte County, along
WASHINGTON, D. C , Dec. 29.
th« lln« of th« old Draper survey.
Together with n man by th« num« To make the Central American citi
of Town«», h«» owns th« Blue Irodg zen live les» In the future und more
copper mln«, at the point where tbe In th«« present Is th«- large, not to
-ay Htri-tiuouH tusk which Secretary
old survey i-rosaes the California <lr<
of
Agriculture Wilson Is attempting
gon line. 11« was also In frequent
i >nf<i «'iiccs with represent stive« of down at Panama.
Agricultural Department officials
the owner« of the redwood timber
nr«-
trying to Instill n little farming
I iiik I s III Del Norte County, which
would be t»<-n<-flt<«i by a lln«» from .-'ll»«- Into the Panamnlans, but they
Cr<».<'«nt City to n transcontinental i ar«- having a d«-spalrlng time of It.
Manana" is the slogan of every true
<«m m-ctlon; nnd after he left Med
It means
ford h«< ha«l a conferen««. with Htev- son of South America.
tomorrow,"
but
there
has
never
been
en« In Portland, nt which. It Is pre-
■ iltned. tlic plrni« for the building of a paternal Uncle Ham heretofore to
the line from Bend were consum itake th«- Monroe Doctrine under on«»
arm and gentle Indlcat«« that th«- way
mated.
In th«« riii'iintlm« Allen has return of th«« procrastinator Is bar«-.
R«'c«-ntly th«' Department of Agrl-
ed to New York, where he 1« wiling
th«« bond« of the Pm Ifli- a Eastern • Illture was Uhked to look over the
1‘he rond Is announce«! as tupping farming po-i-lhllltli-s of Panama. The
g,000,000,000 f««t of timber, nnd preliminary r«-port submitted by one
«>P< nlng up th« pathwuy to the Crater of th«> experts sent there says that
■ •ven food except th«- fruit which in
Lake Park
Contracts have b«-cn let for the ihut «Ululate can not be kept from
construction us far a« Butt«« Falls, growing Is cared for on the "ma
'hirly-one miles from Medford, and nana" system.
I'nclc Ham is Investing millions of i
th«- |l>.<* Is surveyed as far as th««
■I'llIarH
In Panama and the operation
park
From Butte Falls to B«nd the
¡«ml
surveillance
of the canal will
distance 1« roughly 200 miles, and
those who claim to «peak advisedly noceMitat«« a large colony th«-re. ,
«ay that this gap will be filled and , With the excitement of completing
the 1**11 line built Into th« Rogue th«« digging of the ditch, vitality per- :
haps may be fairly well maintained
llli«t country and on to the coast
on
canned food, but this Is only a
Obviously th«- «Ignlflcmic«- of Al-
|> « i ' h ««iterations In this t<rrltor> «!«•- temporary makeshift, not overly good
I - *i>l un Ills relations with lllll, but for engineer«* digestion« at that, and
i
Inter«--t shown by Steven« Is taken a very bad basis upon which to lay ■
the activity und health of the per-i
a» <‘Viden<«' to thin point by thos<< who
have been following the developments manent future caretaker of the pro-
i Ject.
« f th«« last summer.
These |M«op)c do not believe that
lllll Intends to continue building I E. IMil N\ RECEIVES X Mis.
«town Hi« coast from Cr« »cent City.
HMiE r<> SO NOTIFY 11*1.E MEN
Th« ic are other Indications In tin- lie
tlvlty of the Walker interests. In add U <«rl> < «'tiiiiicii« «-«I on Pacific A East
ern I tai I r< ii«< I Near Eagle
ing to their holdings In Shasta Coun
Point
ty, that are interpreted a« meaning
| that lllll will bull«! south through the
Klamath
Lake country and on
F. E. Ank«-ny Wednesday recelv«-«!
President En
through the timber belt, where i un »age from
Walker and the Terry Company ar«« ver«!. of the Jackson County Bank at
Medford, requesting him to notify all
located
In thl« connection It Is said that the Idle men In Klamath Falls that
Walker and th« Terry Company hnv<- ther«> Is work f«ir them on the I*. &
r«w«ntly com«- to a b««tter understand E. Railroad m-ar Medford. Mr. En-
ing. The Terry Company In now op i yard state- that 5C0 men are wanted
erating a broad gang«« logging road at one«'.
north from Anderson, and Walker has
Th«- Pacific & Eastern Is the road
a survey which could I»«« coupled with i that has been taken ov«-r recently by
this < ml leading through th«« Pitt parties suppos«*d to repr«ment the lllll
River timber.
j Interests. Work is at present being
Til's Is on«« of the routes which It don«- on the roa<! beyond Eagl<* Point
has b«< ii conjectured lllll might take , through the timber in the direction
in coming Into the Central California ■ of Crater Lake, and It is reported
Valley, an«l the association of Walker i that this Is to connect with the Hill
with the Minneapolis railway mag road from th«' Deschutes, which is to
nate has given color to this assump open up Crater Lake and extend from
tion
Portland Oregonian.
i Medford to the timber section In
¡Curry County.
NOTED ART IM" DEAD
Frisiert« k Remington, the Xian "Who
Knew tin- Honro”
Frederick Remington, the noted
artist, died at Ridgefield, Conn , on
Sunday, after an operation for ap
pendicitis. He hnd been In apparent
good health until a week previous,
when h«< was slightly Indisposed. A
New York sp««<-lallst was called and
an operation was performed. He
seemed to be progressing favorably
when th«» change set In.
Mr. Remington was in his 48th
year and was a native of Canton, N.
Y. He went west after a short ap
prenticeship as an office clerk and
became a cowboy.
It was in this
Western life that he found the sub
jects for most of his creations of
pt ncll and brush.
Cuban scenes were also favorites
with him. He was a member of the
Nntlonal Academy of Design, and. In
addition to his painting, h<» attained
mu -h success nt sculpture and ns an
n.ithor of several books on Western
life.
He Htudled art at Yale and
later In New York.
DEVEIiOl* LIMESTONE QI AltllY
ROSEBURG, Ore.. Dec. 29—The
big limestone and cement deposits
a few miles south of this city are to
be developed next year.
A plant
will be placed on the property soon,
with a acpaclty of 100 barrels per
day. The big cement plant of the
company is being located near Port
land and will have a capacity of 1500
barrels per day. Most of the ma
terial for its operation will be shipped
from the Roseburg quarries.
Five Chinese government schools
are teaching railway engineering,
nnd n sixth probably will establish
a course.
>A» Y I UIJ» TO t.EI
ENOI (.11 MEN
I n< le Situi lln* New l‘rol»l«*ln to M«-«-l
— Ila» More Sliip» Tliun Men
to Man Them
WASHINGTON, D.
Dec. 29
In ti developnt« nt of the navy the
Unit«-«! States has reached a point at
w lih h It Is necessary for C<»ngr«-»H to
stop ami consider.
It Is no longer a question of build-
Im? InAtb-shlps, but a question of
manning th« in. Already th«- navy has
45,000 men, but the number If in
sufficient to man the ships now at
»«-•i and tbo.-e that are «non to go
Into comml»»lon. To secure a crew
for th«- Michigan, which will Join the
Atl'irtlc fl«et. It was necessary to
pl:i«c tn«- New York In reserve. On
tiie Pa-I tic coast there are two cruls-
< 1». th« Milwaukee and Charleston,
which I ev<- but a single crew. When
on«- r« < to sea th«- other must re
main fast to the lock. To keep ’h«-m
all In trim th«- navy has adopted tie
policy of taking them out In turns.
Within the next few months three
battl« -hips. In addition to th«- Michi
gan, will be ready to join th«.- fleet.
These an- th«- South Carolina, a sls-
t«-r Bhlp of the Michigan, and the two
giant battleships, North Dakota and
D«*laware Tliese will require a com
plement of at least *00 men each, and
at th«- pr«">«-nt tltn«- th* re are non«-
In sight. To place them in commis
sion, It will be necessary to reduce
the cr«-ws on th«- ships afloat, or
place three of the four new battle
ships In reserve.
STATEHOOD TO AWAIT < ENSl’S
N«-w
Mexico and Arizona Must lb
Patient
WASHINGTON, I). C.. Dec. 29.—
Statehood legislation at the present
session of Congress will not go be
yond giving authority to the people
of New Mexico and Arizona to hold
constitutional conventions and pro-
. vide m«-ans for such conventions, if
the w ish« s of leading members of.
Congress dictate the policy.
Tills
; program Is in harmony with the mes
sage of President Taft.
In the last session of the Sixtieth
I Congress the House paaaed a bill
to admit New Mexico and Arizona as
separate States. It was predicted the
measure would go through the S«-n-
ate quickly. Such was not the case.
Some members of the Senate com-
mitt«H- did not like the looks of cer
tain land grants to individuals which
hail been received under «»Trritorial
administration.
Some claims for
large holdings under Spanish grants
also were viewed with suspicion.
Furthermore, estimates coming
from the Territories as to popula
tion, both as to numbers and class,
were not a«-cepted. and it was thought
best to delay action until after the
1910 decennial census could be com-
I PPER LIKE NEWS
j pleted.
Taft’s «»commendation, it Is said,
The ball at St. Cloud Hall on will furnish the excuse for delay.
Christmas night was a roaring suc
In the case of th«» adoption of the
cess. where flfty-flve merry dancers , Constitution of Oklahoma, the elec
' whirled through the hall In time tion was complicated with the elec-
with the enchanting strains of Prof. I tion of State officers, and Taft is de
Gotild'« string band, and all went termined this situation shall not re-
merry as a marriage bell.
¡«■ur in New Mexico and Arizona.
We can almost promise a boom in
mineral discovery, and if the old
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS
hills east of Klamath Lak«» make
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good and back up the prospects we
Donated to the Public Library by
have, a gr«»at field of bitumen near Mr. M. B. Dr«»sser. fiv«> volumes. Cy
home.
clopedia of Appli«»d Electricity, Amer
Nearly 100 ticket» for the New ican School of Corerspondence at Ar
Year's ball at St. Cloud havo been
mour Institute of Technology, Chi
handed out. Non«» but invited gu«»sts
cago, Illinois; one volume Practical
nr«» expected and none other will be
Telephone Hand-Book and Guide to
admitted.
Telephone Exchanges.
Capt. Wickstrom, af the steamer
From Mr. L. W. Hall, U. S. R. 8.,
Eagle, hns gon«» to Alnmeda, Cal., to
three volumes of history, "The Rist»
spend the holidays with his family.
of th«» Dutch Republic,” by John La
It is said that the ice on Ag«»ncy
throp Motley; "Leaves of Grass,” by
Lake is clght«s»n Inches thick. This
Walt Whitman, Including a fac-sinille
Is a pretty thick story, but may be
autobiography and a department of
true, nevertheless.
Gath«»red Leaves; "The Conquest of
A large spring of water has been
Canan," by Booth Tarkington; "The
discovered in the lak«» margin on
Silver Hord*»,” by Rex Beach.
Buena Vl^ta water front. The tem-
perature of the water has not b«»en SPEND 877,000 ON
tested, but as the ice has not formed
ROAD IMPROVEMENT
on the surface, It may prove to be a
hot spring.
Clatsop County Has Nearly 200 Mil«»s
The rond to the lake Is fine at
of Permanent Highways
present. The mud seems to just van
As a result of improvements dur
ish the last few days.
We arc not very sanguine about ing th«» past few years. Clatsop Coun
the Ice br«»nklng up on the lake very ty has twenty-four miles of macad
soon. These clear, cold nights are amized road, twenty-three miles of
graveled roads, twenty-eight miles of
not thawing weather.
Mr. Young has be«»n on the sick planked or puncheoned roads, four
list for the last few days, and your teen miles of roads cov«»red with
humble servant has had the neural rock and ninety-six miles of graded
road that ha« not been covered, much
gia. but we are both convalescent.
Work Is progressing on the big of which will be completed during
dry house nnd we hope to see the the coming season.
Under the Carnahan road law the
building in commission early In 1910.
N
.«•veral road dlsirlcts are permitted
o levy a special tax of not to exceed
10 mills each year for road Improve
ment purposes. In that manner over
93C.OOO was raised by the individual
road districts In Clatsop County this
year. All that has been expended
In building highways as well as
slightly over >28,000 additional that
wan appropriaL-d by the county court
from the general fund, making a
grand total of >65,000 that has been
spent or contract« let for during tbe
past twelve months in bettering the
public highways of Clatsop County.
In addition to this, over >12,000 has
been used in building and repairing
bridg"S, making in all slightly over
>77,000 which the property owners
of Clatsop County have donated to
that most commendable work of de
veloping the agricultural districts.
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LEADING PAPER OF
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NO. 39
BIG SALE OF
’ TIMBER LAND
REPORTED TH AT WEYEIHIAI SER
HAH HOLGHT tIO.iMM» ACRES
SAGINAW - MANISIEE
LANDS
<>I v «- h Hiy; Tiinlx r < oncern n Quarter
of a Million Acre« in
This H«-cti«»n
It has been reported that the
Weyerhattser Timber Company has
purchased 60,000 acres of timber land
from the Saginaw-Manistee Lumber
I Company. While this report could
W* VI SON-KIMBALL
not be veriflefl today from anyone
Miss Lyle Watson and Jackson F. connected with the Weyerhauser
Kimball were married at the home of Company, yet it is believed to be re
the bride in Ashland at 6 o'clock liable, as it is known that negotia
Xmas morr^pg. The contracting par tions for this timber have been pend
ties are well known throughout ing for some time.
Klamath County, where they have a
The lands of the Manistee Com
host of friends who join In wishing pany consist of about 60,000 acres,
'hem n:
Mr,, K>*..u,-r ' which lie west of Go«»se
for Sett
Nt
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*»e Oregon lin*
popular
J
~—jfy-three tboT
tlon which »
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sand acres ar< ' icated south of Canby
ability. She I
<71 'W 4 vrtti
In I.atsen Con.. -• and near Big Val
ing personality and has the faculty ley. The balan>e of the timber is
of making fast friends out of her a -- in Klamath County, north of the In
q-.:aintan<'es. • Mr. Kimball is the rep- dian reservation near Odell.
n - -illative of the Weyerhaeuser Tim
Tbe Weyerhauser Company already
ber Company, and is looked upon a» owns over 200,000 acres in Klam
one of its most reliable employes.
ath and Lake Counties and this re
Mr. and Mrs. Kimball will make cent purchase will make them the
th'-ir home in this city.
largest timber owners in this section.
It happened that E. T. Abbott was It jractically gives them control of
In Ashland for Xmas, anä meeting the hest timber lands in an area of
Mr. Kimball In the hotel Friday be 1,000,000 acres.
asked if there was any truth in the
Tris news sim;. • bears out the
report of his approaching marriage. statement of the H rald a few weeks
"Jack" was as mum as an oyster, but since, that the Hill road was build
when Mr. Abbott threatened to get ing through KlamaJi County to tap
out tbe brass band and have the boys the immense timber resources of this
pass out hand bills there was some section. The close connections of the
serious thinking done on tbe part of Weyerhauser and Hill interests Is a
Mr. Kimball. He stayed by his guns, matter of public knowledge an J it
however, md a soor as he could ex has been lite belief* for some time
cuse himself made a bee line for tbe that Hill would eventually build a
home of the bride and told her of the road to connect with the immense
impending charivari, suggesting that bodies of timber in Southern Oregon
the only wav to escape Abbott was and Northern California.
to get marri«»d and out of Ashland
before he could put ‘he brass band
MAMMOTH NEW DREDGE
plan into effect. Accordingly, hasty
arrangements for an early morning Fourteen Shipbuilders Here Io Con
struct Hull for Southern Pa
wedding were made, and the cere
cific C«ni|»«ny
mony was performed at 6 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Kimball leaving for
Fourteen shipbuilders arrived iron;
Portland on the 7; 45 train. When
Oakland
last Monday and went
Mr. Abbott heard of how he lost out
his face was a study, and after a to the Upper Lake to start work on
long, long silence he gave expression the construction of the hull for the
to his feeling by simply saying, new Southern Pacific dredge, the ma
chinery for which is now being manu
"Dog gone him.”
factured at Stockton.
The hull will be 50 by 100 feet
IXM'AL tXlMI’ANV WILL FURNISH
and will be built of timber which was
SEWER PIPE
shipped from Portland. The new
Work to Comim-nce As Soon As the dredge, when completed, will be near
ly double the size of the mammoth
Weather Will Permit in the
Klamath Queen, now being used on
Spring
the Upper Lake. The Southern Pa
Th«» contract was awarded Mon cific has not let the contract for
day to th«» Hydraulic Stone & Brick the grade across the marsh near
Company for furnishing cement sewer Rattlesnake Point, but will do the
pipe for the sewer system to be used work themselves. They are anxious
in the Hot Springs addition. The ex to have the work completed as fast
act aniQjunt of pipe to be used will as possible and their experience oa
not be determined until the survey the lower marsh does not warrant
has b«»en completed, but the contract them in depending on contractors fir
was let at this time in order to en this class of work.
able the local company to make prep
arations for the commencement of PINCHOT MEN IX) NOT
work as soon as the weather will per
WANT INVESTIGATION
mit In the spring.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 2 8.—
The Hot Springs Company maf a
Several Senators who are strong
thorough investigation of the superi
partisans of Pinchot are quietly ex
ority of cement pipe over clay pipe,
erting what influence they can to
and satisfied themselves that the for
induce Republican leaders of the Sen
mer was not only the best but the
ate to sidetrack Senator Jones' reso
cheapest. It is also probable that the
lution proposing an investigation of
city will decide to use cement pipe
the Forest Service and the Interior
for the sewer system to be built next
Department.
summer.
The Forest Service does not court
Besides the advantages of this
the investigation at this time and ha?
grade of pipe, the fact of their being
I lost all interest in the probe of the
manufactured here will mean an in
Interior Department, since it nas
creasing pay roll for the city of be
been determined to investigate their
tween ten and fifteen men, and prac
own bureau as well.
tically all of the money paid by the
Inasmuch as the President ant
taxpayers for pipe will be spent with
Cabinet and many Influential Sena
the business men of the city instead
tors believe that an investigation is
of going out of the State. In addi
I the only thing that will put an end
tion to the men employed in making
to this controversy, there is no chance
pipe, the Hydraulic Stone & Brick
that Pinchot's friends will be suc
Company will give employment dur
cessful.
ing the entire summer to a crew of
at least ten men.
The Ladies' Aid of the Baptist
Church will give a chicken dinner in
the new banquet hall of the White &
Maddock building Friday from 5
o'clock to 8 o'clock. Price fifty cents.
All are cordially invited to come and
enjoy a good social tim«*, and a good
old fashioned chicken dinner.
LAVING TILACK
THROUGH TUNNEf«
Mr. Dillon, chief of the Southern
Tacific track laying gang, who moved
his crew to Dorris last week, has be
gun work laying the track through
the tunnel. It is expected that the
work will be completed and ready for
operation within a few weeks.