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urook VOL V. PJUNEVILLK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 21, 1901. NO. 49 II III 11 POTASH COMPANY Plant Will Be Built in Lake County. An Oregon Industry Uavo Contracted With N. 0. 0. to Build Railroad to Bum roor Lftlto, There in not the least doubt in the, world of the reliability and substantiability of Orogm Potash Company, wIioho filing f lfl,,tl in the Hummer Lake and Abort Lake wciion in Lake county have not people to wondering. In ono day u few months ft (jo thcro were filed iu tho County Clerk's o lino hero by CIhik. M. fain, President of thf Oregon Pol ash Company, some thing like seven hundrol claims to lands in tho localitic mimed. For monlliH past peopl ' who have spoken of tiii matter have done ho with a smile, giving tin impression that they had iittlo Mth in the pigantic proportion to f'dlow uh a result of the claims Ukcu at the lakes. Things have come to pass since the filing were nudo, however, that clause the aspect of tho situ ation, and it is now a foregone con elusion thai the Oregon Potrt4i Company is an orginmitinn with millions of dollars at its back, slid that it means business. No one has any reason or right to doubt Ihu word or probity of Mr. Sain, president of the company, who lias mat. Hi burs' of his company in this county to crtablirh a hi;; en teriirise. Mr. Conn was informed a few hiys ago tl,ul arrangements had been I erfecte I nod mi ngiomcnt entered into with the Nevada-Cali-fornia-Orogon railway company, whereby that company will build their line to Alien and Summer lakes for the purpose of developing the properties of ibe Oregon Potash Compauy. President uin says tho railroad company "expects to build in next yi ur, or ut leaf t to J.hkeview." Judging from present indications, 'J he Examiner belives that the Oregon Potash Company will es tablish plants and make improve ments in this county within the next two years, that will fairly astonish the, local public. The Examiner has been informed upon reliable authority that the com pany will build roiining works on their property that will cost about a million dollars, and that five hundred and possibly one thousand men will he employed in the works. Offers have been made by pres ident Sain to ranchers at Summer Iko for tho purchase of their places at topnotch figures, but no sale has vet bcecn recorded. The N-C-0 will build n broad gung line from Reno North. Lakeview Examiner. The font of Htilkes. Carroll D Wright, I'uitcd Hates Commissioner of Labor, states that the cost of strikes and lockouts dur ing the twenty years, ending with the year 1900 amounted to M68, 003, 581, says the Bulletin. During this period there were 2;!,7:'J8 strikes and lockouts, the strikes largely jpamtingiu. cumber.. &q Lit as losses could be actually traced, the cost to labor was 12(5,000,000; k capital H2,000,000. This U a lo without a gain that might have been uciuircd by mutual ewess ions. Tho interests of capital and labor are so nearly identical that no considerable percentage of the loss of one cotdd be considered the gain of the other. Mr Wright's in vestigations do not include th;- indirectloss to the country-that is, to interests not immediately affect ed bv the strike or lockout. For example, a f irmer who depends upon the market created by factor ies for tho sale of his product lost indirectly in consequence of a strike by the diminished purchas ing power of tho people resulting from a suspension of labor in the factories. Every department of business is compelled to contribute to the cost of labor strikes. The causes of such strikes tire mainly two iu number the employer tries to pet a larger part of the products of labor and capital than his invest ment would justify, or labor wants a larger share than the employer can afford to pay. In nearly all. cases tho books of an employer would show about the rate of wages his business would justify him iu paying. There have been cases in which labor 1ms consented to a re duction in wages upon a showing that there was no profit left to the employer after paying current rate of wages. ;, While no employer would consent to the submission of bis books, to public inspection most employers would submit t'wm to a committee which would hold to both parties the relation of coun sel to client. The waste of strike and lockout adds its full amount to thu c(t of production, and to this extent handicaps tho country n which the strike occurs in com pctiton with other countries. ' Lava Lore. From our regular cimtcmi undent. November 10 Major A F Scars., chief engineer of the Oregon De velopment Co, was surrounded b his friends at a dinner given in honor of his 72:h birth day. Oik present cxprcsed the sentiment u! aU'whcn ho said" How delightful, Lava, the Deschutes, the snow chapped Sifters, the climate, th people and real turkey(not bacon. Tho following were present: Major A F Scars, Portland, chiei engineer; l'hilo Ilolbrook, Knox Huston, Alfred Sears and Robert Scars, ajsislnnt engineers, C N Scott, Richard Sears, Mr and Mrr Yandervcrt, Maud Yandervert. William Vandcrveit. Mr and Mrs Hawthorn went to Prineville this week after their Christmas goods. Andrew Prather, of tho Dalles, has taken a homestead on the Deschutes and contemplates spend ing tho winter here putting lip u house and otherwise improving his property. Ripe strawberries on the la of this month are an evidence of the- most pleasant fall we have had for years. Mr and Mrs Frank West have gone to Haystack after their' winter supply ef apjdes, potatoes, etc. The crack shots of this placo are busy every day now, but Iittlo George Vandcrvert oarried off the prize by killing two-largo- geeso at mi', idiot.. Eu.M'.U Giusi. STOCK MARKET M. E Bain returns After Five la tho WiU,.mette He Says He Mot With a Certain Measure of Sucoose.-BaU Hopod For Batter. M K Rain returned yesterday from the Willamette valley towns, where he has been for five weeks past, in the interest of tho Over land Mining company, which enter prise he is promoting, He says that he met with a certain measure of success, but not to the extent that be had hoped for. He dispos ed for consid Table stock to per sonal friends, wl)hve been wait ing for him to gotomothing of real nurit, which he undoubtedly has in tho Overland. Mr Bain says he was suprisel to lvarn of the large amounts of money that the valley town" have invested in eastern Ore gon mines; that nearly every man bo talked with on the subject of stock had already bough', into one company or another. His estimate is that Oregon City alone has sent more than $30,000 here; while several hundred thousands have fortunate feature of the business is that thee people have acquired a peach of a collection of gold brick. The rcas n for this is plain and also characteristic of the region. Thev have been looking for cheap slocks and finding them. When you talk to them about five cents or over, they tell you of some unheard of company that is selling for one and a half or two cents. Portland is not yet tlu mining center of the northwest, an 1 notwithstanding the noisy efforts of the newspapers j to p rotcct the lambs and the warning of the stock exchange to' "buy only from us," it seems ihat several people thorn have nibbled t a bait end swallowed a cruel hook. Mr l!y.in left foi Chicago to day. Sampler Miner. Ci.inc lint; Onion?. hn joi'UNAi.;-in tne issue o! votir . pnper da'.ed Nov. 7 lDOl, your score Maddox, will be represented by At thc parties who hunted on Harney j torneys Gearin, Abnuns and Riu Lako, chr micled by the Weston dell, and the Oregon King Corn Leader. I beg to state that you pany have for tin ir attorneys, Mr have been misinformed as to the W II Wilson of the Dalles, and cause of the "fast vanishing.flocks." Messers W W Cotton and Ralph E In springtime when the, ducks and Mo dy of Portland. Owing lathe geese are laying on the Ilanicy and val e of the property in litigation, Malheur lakes, the settlers gather ' th s case has excited great interest the eg,;s in s.ieksfull and haul to j throughout the state. In thiscamn their respective homes ami feed there is mora than a passing in them to hogs and chickens. Scire terest in the outcome; the camp these vandals, but let tho hunters lias been retarded in its develop shoot all they please. Where the nient, an 1 mvcb valuable property hunters kill one these well thev He-j there in idleness, owing to this a e nam ilessdi stroy a hundivd. nir. It will be a most acceptable I write from pure friendship for Christmas gift to the camp, should you. I h ive seen tho people haul ; bis litigation come to an end next tho eggs away in wagon loads, but. Harney county is too deply interes ted iu irrigation problems to up held the laws of the state. Sincerely, A Fiut'.M). Silver Lake, Nov. 12, 1901. Tho writer of the above would have nddeii a great deal more feveo to bis article if be bad sk'ned: his name. Wii-rc not iii thohald'Cof when all departed for their homes sen!ed,ti the Jepk-'iitJ'f Vwii.u- publishing- anonymous communi- dwUiping tncy h:wspent tki even- indi.vi!uals w!u-!pur,i!e r.)-,.i.-t-oliww.,but aatbjs liaa .jeimal iuvcxy jjloasauJv ji&'Jtf tt-uiLt al. -r,; ii bearing we will also answer it. We were not misinformed as to the cause of the fast vanishing flocks, but judging from the above letter we wero only partially informed. While we believe no punishment too great to inflict on the indivduala who would bo guilty of the crime of collecting the eggs in above manner and feeding to hops and chickens, yet wn do not retract anything in our former article as to the hunters. Nor do we believe that the citizens of Harney county aro so taken up with irrigation problems as to relax tho enforce ment of the laws of the state. We respectfully call tho attention of the State Game Warden to the alle gations in the above communi cation and earnestly ask an investi gation of the same. The plea of the writer for the game hogs who would slaughter the birds is out of place and sounds bad along side of his righteous outbuest in this remainder of the letter. , C'lrcnll Court DecUlon, The case of Jim Means against the county has been decided upon by the circuit court and referred back to the county court says the Pendleton Tribune. Means ap plied for a liquor license to open a saloon at Echo- Following the terms of the law ho secured 84 sig natures of residents of the precinct to his petition which were pub j. Later a remonstrance was circulated. It secured 0J names, 20 of which wero on the petition. The county court at its September term removed the 20 names that appeared on the petition and re monstrance from both, which left tfic number still on the petition fess than a majority of tho voters of tho precinct, fur which reason fl,n Mim' mnrtrnfmn! tn ar.i nt i tho license. The circuit court held j Whether the gold was in a box cr that the 20 names must be counted j l)'inS lo(We wad not learned.. Simi upon the petition as published and 1 -ilr discoveries have been made at, oi.ntri r,f Ka.umi..,! nn (lierpmnne.; trnn(,e Jt .g nnwk,tto thecountvlave found a number of $50 pieces. court to grunt the license or appeal tlu case. Milling Case Comes up. The trial of the famous Oregon King mining suit will begin in the United States District Court at r..ll.. r.,1 T.il,,1.t. lWunilu- Vi4lUl..., VII ...,rv..V, l'Jth. The Plaintiffs, lirown ami month. 1'ioqtc or. '. i Last Tup day evening the your.g penile of Powell Butt-s, gathered at the residence of Mis' :f.iy Mof - fett, where a very pl.'.t-;'i)t evening was spent. ' After a- m?rry . tin-e was had in making randy, tames wero indulged in until tt late hour GENERAL HEWS. Items of Interest Gath ered Here and There Some Stolen, Others Not Cullinss From Our Exchange News Notes of the Week Timely Topics A violent dispute with Paul Les sar, Minister to China, over ths Manchurian treaty, appears to have been, the immediate came of tl death of Li Hung Chang Hon II W Coibett has started the Lewis & Clark centennial sub' ecriptiim with the sum of 130,000, one-tenth of the entire amount that is to be subscribed by the stock holders of the corporation. lion R- A Booth of Eugene anil J H Booth of Roseburg have bought the Douglas County Bank at Rose' burg from O P Godfrey & Son Messers Booth have been interested: in the banking business in Grant Pass for a number of years past. State Treasurer C S Moore is ia reseipt of a letter from District Attorney Frank' Menefce, of the Seventh District transmitting $580, 85, a portion of the estate of the late Elias Davis, of Crook county, escbwtudJi.ihaiUtevr There" is still a farm of 4S0- acres to bo dis posed of, the fund to be transferred to the State Treasury. The land is valued at $2000. Salem Stateiuan. It is reported from Fort Stevens that a workman there recently un- j ;lrtllMl bi of llje 5J denom- ;m:ition The discovery is said to ! Have OCCII Wlttlin Hie lortlllCat.on fort toiur.uua dv worsmen, Will) H R Neil exhibited in Pendleton a sample of salt bush, which he rais ed on the Wild Horse says the Last Oregonian. lie has been experi menting with the lush to fiiki it the Australian feed will grow it tais country. The experiment wis successful for the bush grew w:th- nt ..,! lund- Those who aro authorities on tho subject say that ibe problem for tho future feeding of sheep has -Lecm solved. Mr iicil Vidi plan! t..o acres of the new bu-h next year. II II Swum, of Sinjkdiie an.', '.i Sharp,, of Ellcn.-bcrg, two special agents of the land department, are. in this section- on orders from !'n; general land o.i'.ci to examine tic No. 1( and C'.i seeiions' of govern ment lands in this pari of tiievt.i'.e. Me-srs Sv.'S.m and Sharp l.m t? cboc.l eigty sections u report i: pen ami, expect remain in Ea'e.u Oregon fv,r.tL li.onths-. Mountain Ea;:lo.. Tho rcgis'or snd rrt iver oi t'.'u United Siii t s and oiiice hav i- : ice ft i:u the co.n Eene.-.il la;ui oj-co : t ono luari.cd .:"ns of 'J.ei s i ci n with-Ti ! vis 1 eon withiir.i a u centlv receive r. i loissioaer of ioi to the ctTcct ' ; end eight s v l'.nd district i.t l;;nd uult.iA hs r irum entry for a i cried ; one ;r"r on the strength ota '..'.: tjofxvM.'?'