For the week ending May 1, 1910

STREETS TO BE SPRINKLED

The dust nuisance on the streets of Bend is to be checked. Commencing probably next week a sprinkler will make daily trips through the business section of the town, stopping once and for all the disagreeable dust clouds and adding another attraction to Bend’s list.

Barney Lewis will have charge of the work using his big city dray team to haul the 600-gallon tank sprinkler he is having constructed. By popular subscriptions $157.50 already has been guaranteed for the work monthly, this amount having been subscribed by 31 persons on the list at this time.

Commencing at the Lucas barn, Wall Street will be watered to the First National Bank corner. Minnesota to Bond Street and thence around Bond and down Oregon to Wall Street will be the extent of the district covered at the outset. Should this initial experiment prove the success anticipated, more extensive plans may be undertaken later. It is understood that a special effort will be made to get the sprinkling apparatus into operation and the dust well laid before Tom Richardson’s arrival next Tuesday.

REMEMBER

On next Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in Lara’s hall, Tom Richardson of Portland speaks to the citizens of Bend. This is his first visit to the Deschutes Valley; he is the most influential “booster” in the Northwest; he is one of the best speakers in all the West; he is coming to Bend to talk to every citizen of Bend. The meeting will be interesting and it will be worth- while. Let everyone be there, and let everyone pass the word along. Particularly let all remember that this is to be Bend’s biggest and best boosting meeting and come well charged with enthusiasm.

HILL TO INSPECT DESCHUTES?

James J. Hill, accompanied by Louis Hill and a party of eastern bankers interested in the Hill railroad development, are on their way from St. Paul to Portland. It is believed that the chief object of their visit is to tour the Central Oregon country now being opened up by the Oregon Trunk road, preparatory to announcing even broader plans of Oregon transportation development.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending May 1, 1935

STATE HOUSE IS DESTROYED IN NIGHT FIRE

Salem — Oregon’s historic capitol building, home of the state offices since 1876, was destroyed by fire last night.

Flames swept through the building, towering nearly 200 feet above the green lawn which surrounded it. Priceless relics of early-day Oregon went up in flames, and only the shell of the old building remained today. Records, furnishings and office equipment valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars were destroyed.

The state carried no insurance on the building, relying only on a small restoration fund.

Governor Martin, who was in Medford with a group of state officials last night, hurried home this morning to call a special session of the legislature to appropriate a sum possibly in the millions for a new state house. Application for federal money will undoubtedly be made to Washington immediately.

The lawmakers will probably meet in the Salem armory or in a local theater auditorium. House and Senate chambers, which were in the state house, were destroyed.

Records saved from the offices of Secretary of State Snell and State Treasurer Holman were stored in the armory and in university buildings.

So great was the confusion while records were being moved from the offices before the fire gained real headway that it is not definitely known how much was saved. The vaults are expected to have reserved many valuable documents, however.

GERMANY PLANNING TO BUILD SUBMARINES TOO

London — Germany has notified Great Britain that she intends to complete her violation of the Versailles treaty military clauses by building a fleet of submarines, it was said on reliable authority today.

News of the submarine plan — which was denied by a government spokesman in Berlin — came as Great Britain was planning to hold informal naval limitation talks with Germany here.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending May 1, 1960

SHE HAS GOOD REASON

FOR INTEREST IN AREA

By Phil F. Brogan

Howard Belton, candidate for the Republican nomination as state treasurer, was in Bend today accompanied by a person keenly interested in and well acquainted with the region.

She is Mrs. Belton, niece of Bill Brown, an early-day Central Oregon stockman known in the World War I days as the “horse king of America.”

Mrs. Belton is the daughter of George Brown, who for several years worked on the Bill Brown horse and cattle domain that had its capital at a ranch on Buck Creek.

Bill Brown in early days was the owner of some 10,000 head of horses. Brown also raised sheep and cattle.

Mrs. Belton never had the opportunity of visiting the stock empire of her uncle — an empire that shrunk and disappeared after World War I. However, from her father and uncles, she heard much about the huge ranch that sprawled across the Central Oregon plateau.

Belton, who served as state representative for two years and state senator for 22 years, does not plan any extensive pre-primary campaign.

TIM ARBOW TOP ANGLER

Tim Arbow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Arbow, was winner of the Jaycees’ 1960 Mirror Pond trout derby with the 21-inch Brown he caught Saturday.

Second place honors went to Mark Carlton, 6, with a Brown that was 18 1/2 inches long. Third place honors were won by Sam Myers, 10, with a 16 1/2-inch Brown.

THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION INTENDS TO MOVE

HIGHWAY 97 OUT TO THIRD STREET

The news will be welcomed by some and disapproved by others.

It will be welcomed because it will enable the city to make definite plans for the future.

Disapproval will come from downtown merchants who feel tourists should drive by their stores.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending May 1, 1985

LOTTERY DRAWS SWARM SEEKING POT OF GOLD

As balloons opening the first game of the Oregon State Lottery soared out of sight Thursday, so did gambling fever in Central Oregon.

Within minutes after the game began, thousands of residents were crowding retail outlets to plunk down $1 per rub-off ticket for a chance at winning prizes from $2 to $5,000.

Robert Breen of Bend bought only three tickets and won $5,000.

Lottery officials estimate 60,000 to 70,000 tickets were sold Thursday in Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties.

Many retailers said they were shocked at the number of lottery players pouring into their stores.

“We have no signs; we have not done any advertising, and I’ve got people coming in here I’ve never seen before,” said Ray Holmberg, owner of Wagner Mall Liquor Store in Bend.

Holmberg figured 1,500 tickets would last him two weeks, but he sold more than 600 tickets within the first two hours.

The Safeway store in Bend set up a special checkstand just for those buying lottery tickets.

In Madras, Redmond and Prineville, people were standing in lines to buy tickets.

“We sold 315 tickets, and we are six miles out of town,” said Leah Whitmore, manager of Crystal Corral Park near Prineville.

Win or lose, residents seemed happy just to have a chance to play the lottery.

“Everybody was just happy-go-lucky, just enjoying playing the game,” said Butch Rogers, who sold 700 tickets in his Prineville store, the Pine Grocery.

Vern Skaar, owner of Sisters Market, said he got a thrill when the Hostess delivery man bought a winner.

“I’ll be danged if he didn’t hit for $100,” Skaar said.

But some residents looked at the odds — ranging from 1 in 10 for a $2 winner to 1 in 60,000 for a $5,000 ticket — and resisted the temptation to take a shot.

Harry Jarvis of Bend, saying he was “ the lousiest gambler in the world,” sipped a beer in the West Side Tavern and watched others scratch away their money.

“I bought 20 and didn’t have one winner,” said Ken Weston, owner of the tavern, who switched to playing darts.