March, 1903
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Friday, March 27, 1903
- The
Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
Local
Events of the Week
R. Bond whiskey is to be had at the Pioneer Saloon,
Shaniko, J. J. Wiley, proprietor. A good
grateful drink, refreshing, invigorating.
The Reception Saloon, Shaniko, offers the most
tempting inducements to timber locators going into
the woods. The very best brands of whiskies,
such as Cyrus Noble, Old Pepper, Hunter Baltimore
Rye and other standard goods, always to be had
here. Call at the Reception.
C. B. Don, the redoubtable fisherman and sheepman of
Silver Lake, was a passenger on Tuesday stage for
Shaniko. Mr. Don was once a Crook county man,
and knows the Deschutes from source to mouth; but
lately he transferred his allegiance and affections
to the county of Lake, and is enthusiastic over its
prospective bright-hues future.
R. J. L. Milligan, Sabbath school missionary for the
Presbyterian synod of Oregon, assisted by Rev. Alter
of Prineville, handed out large bunches of salvation
to the citizens of Bend last week. The
reverend gentlemen were domiciled in the Drake
cottage, in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Drake, and
they were compelled to concoct their own hash.
The office force of the Bulletin partook of a dinner
served and cooked by the missionaries, and if either
of the gentlemen ever desires a recommendation as
chef we will be pleased to hand our names in as
references.
Cruiser Allingham passed Monday night at Bend.
He was on his way to the tall timber, with a large
party of locators in tow.
Chas. Finley, accompanied by his wife and two
babies, passed through Bend on Tuesday with a
load of freight which he is taking to his ranch at
the upper end of the Big Meadows. He reports
the roads between Bend and Shaniko as having greatly
improved with the past week of spring weather.
A party of twenty-three people from Duluth, Minn.,
and West Superior, Wis., passed through Bend on
Tuesday, on their way to the tall timber. They
were under the guidance of Mr. Jones, a prominent
locator, and will probably find what they are
seeking in the vicinity of Silver Lake.
The name of the postoffice at Bend has been changed
to Deschutes, and mail should be addressed
accordingly. The usual inconveniences will
follow for a time, until the people become
accustomed to the change. The citizens here
should inform their correspondents and friends to
address all mail to Deschutes, Crook Co., Oregon.
The survey of the new townsite, “Lytle,” has been
completed, and lots will shortly be placed on the
market. There should be no trouble disposing
of them, as the townsite is unusually slightly and
well chosen, being in close proximity to the new
mill and directly on the line and near the terminus
of the Columbia Southern Railway.
“Dad” West’s new City Meat Market has been graced
with a very artistic sign, painted by Barney
Lewis. Instead of writing the proprietor’s
name on the sign, the artist drew an unusually
lifelike picture of Mr. West in the center, to
enable illiterate purchasers of beef-steaks to
distinguish the proprietor without asking foolish
questions.
The force of men engaged in building Reed &
Steidl’s sawmill have been busy preparing timbers
for the framework. The frame will be completed
in a short time, and it will not be very long until
the mill will be turning out finished lumber of all
descriptions. The power will consist of a
powerful undershot wheel for the present.
Later an improved turbine will be added.
This office wants a load of wood. Bring it in
and get your money.
Persons desiring books reviewed, wells dug, wood
sawed, townsites surveyed, or any mental or muscular
work performed in a first-class manner, should call
on D. F. Steffa.
Mr. John Steidl left for Portland Sunday morning on
business connected with the Reed & Steidl
sawmill. While at Shaniko Mr. Steidl will have
the machinery now in the warehouse forwarded to Bend
immediately.
The Bulletin has taken up its quarters in the old
log schoolhouse which has been a landmark here for
many years. Our start is similar to the first
appearance of the Oregonian, which also resided at
first in a log cabin; but God knows whether or not
fifty years from 1903 will see us installed in a
magnificent sky-scraper, enjoying the reputation of
one of the leaders in journalistic thought and
enterprise. The possibilities of this country
are unlimited, and if we expand with the country and
increase in knowledge, experience and worldly goods
accordingly we shall make no complaint.
Contributed by The
History of Today
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April,
1903
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Friday, April 3, 1903
- The
Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
There is certainly enough mail carried between Bend
and Prineville to justify the postal authorities in
putting on a daily mail. We could then hear
the outside news a trifle more frequently, and could
depend upon receiving our express with a great deal
more regularity than heretofore. It will mean
more business for the stage company and a great deal
more comfort and convenience for us.
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May,
1903
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Friday, May 15, 1903
- The
Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
The townsite of Bend will be staked off very soon,
and as soon as plats are filed with the county clerk
the lots will be on the market.
Friday, May 22,
1903 - The Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
The
Smallpox Situation
Prineville's New Scare Over – Affects
Freighting Route to Bend
The report from Prineville last week that the new
smallpox patient was Charley Dennison, recently from
Deschutes, proved to be incorrect. Dennison is
all right. The new patient is Charley Rife,
who was stricken with the disease while staying at
the Hotel Prineville. The hotel was under
strict quarantine until Wednesday, when everything
was so satisfactory that the quarantine was raised
from both the Prineville hotels. The danger
there is regarded as past and business is resuming
its normal condition.
The new case, which had fatal result this morning,
was thoroughly isolated out of the city. The
first reports were greatly exaggerated and served to
spread alarm in all direction. The truth is
slowly overtaking the lie and the fright is wearing
off accordingly.
Prineville, 30 miles away, is the nearest approach
to Bend the smallpox has made this year.
The Lake county authorities have recovered from
their scare sufficiently to let the mail stage
through, though Silver Lake postmaster says he will
not open the way sack, which carries the Bend mail
for Lakeview, until ordered to do so by the postal
authorities. So this route is still tied up,
so far as the handling of way matter is
concerned. Mail matter from Bend now gets to
Lakeview by way of Portland and Ashland. It is
the same mail that would go by way of Silver Lake on
the regular route, but there is no panic-stricken
Silver Lake postmaster to hold it up on the Ashland
route. Letters to go to Lakeview now should be
marked “Via Portland.”
Freighters throughout the interior country suffer
material inconvenience because of the smallpox
scare. None of the regular feed stations are
open to them, and they are obliged to camp where
they may and carry their own feed supply with
them. This, together with scarcity of horse
feed this spring, has made freighting expensive,
increasing the cost 50 per cent over the usual
figure. It now costs a cent and a half a
pound, in ton lots, to get freight to Bend from the
railroad at Shaniko.
People who may desire to reach Bend without passing
through Prineville may do so by leaving the regular
stage at Heisler station, on Lower Hay creek, about
27 miles this side of Shaniko. At this place a
road turns off to the right through the Lyle &
Brown ranch and follows the surveyed route of the
Columbia Southern extension through the new town of
Palmain, the Agency Plains and the Haystack
country. At Culver postoffice the traveler has
the choice of two routes. One, the most
direct, leads due south, crossing Crooked river at
Trail Crossing, with a straight shoot to Bend.
The other goes around the eastern end of Haystack
Buttes, crossing Crooked river at the Carmichael
ford, but on account of delays caused by high water,
quicksand and other things, the Trail Crossing is
the best and safest.
The distance from Shaniko to Bend by way of
Prineville is 95 miles, while the other way is
easily ten mile shorter. The road is just as
good that way, and the route is free of smallpox.
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June,
1903
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Friday, June 5, 1903
- The
Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
The population of Bend has increased by at least 50
people in the last two weeks. Most of these
people intend to locate here and are at present
camping in the vicinity.
Friday, June 12,
1903 - The Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
Ezra Guile and family, of Spokane, have established
camp on the ridge, just above the Staats hotel and
will build a cottage there.
Daniel Heising has commenced the erection of a
cottage for his family, on the ridge a short
distance back of “Dad” West's place.
A scheme of street names is under consideration for
Bend that shall give a definite identity to every
part of the town. This scheme contemplates one
set of streets to be named after the old settlers of
the locality; another set of streets to be named
after well-known trees; in another part of the town
the streets would be called after the names of
flowers. In all these arrangements the names
would be run in alphabetical order – Awbrey, Brock,
Cottor; Ash, Beech, Cottonwood; Aster, Buttercup,
Crocus. Then another set of streets would bear
names of the ordinals. By this arrangement the
carious parts of the town would be easily fixed in
mind and the stranger would soon learn where the
various classes of streets are. Something of
this sort is likely to be decided upon for naming
the Bend streets.
Friday, July 17, 1903
- The
Bend Bulletin (Bend, OR)
Local Events of the
Week
Martin Pratt, Barney Lewis and Ed Hill left Tuesday
morning for Prineville, expecting to work in the
Crooked river valley hay fields during the season.
In the first six months of this year more than 200
letters were registered in the Deschutes postoffice.
The Winnek Drug Company carry a fine line of
prescription supplies. Opposite the P. B. D.
Co.'s office, Bend, Oregon.
A. C. Lucas, of the Pilot Butte Inn, left Wednesday
morning for Hay Creek. Mr. Lucas has some milch cows
at Hay Creek that he can use very advantageously at
the Inn, and his trip is for the purpose of driving
them up here. He will be back next Wednesday.
W. A. Laidlaw left Tuesday for Portland. He
reports work on the Tumello ditch as progressing
satisfactorily. He will return in a few weeks.
A. C. Lucas is repapering the Pilot Butte Inn.
The original work in this line was torn and badly
damaged by the cloudburst of June 15. The new
paper sheds a delightful, homelike ray of sunshine
over the Inn.
C. C. McCarthy, of Grand Rapids, Minn., ex-state
senator from the Fifty-second senatorial district of
that state, was here the first of the week. He
was well pleased with the appearance of the timber
here, and left on Wednesday's southbound cannonball
for the bigger variety.
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