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. I. Crook County Joureal vol. vi i r. PRINEVILIK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 22, 11)04. NO. 41 m L l l , IF'"" " IT Retiring Jtrom business r. . :-.... .. . . . On July 11 I shall begin of MII.LINKItY, DltlvSS KlItNlSIIINliH ul SO Cents on the dollar I nm compelled In go mil ul business mi account ul sickness nnil this mli' will afford my patrons an opportunity to secure tin1 l'st ImrninK over offered ill Prineville, 7rs, d Bradford l'" BBBBBBBI22SS2) a T Hamilton Stables l. E. tblelflSfHtM, fFOP. . Stuck hoarded liy tho tiny, writ or niontli lit Ki'iimmilili' ruti'H. licninnher us when in I'rino vilk It A'l'KS UKASONAHI.E. Wo have Fine Livery Turnouts f ltun in Connection with tho Ut-iul Stable. ..Henderson Wines, and Liquors, Qountry Orders Solicited First Door South ot Poindexter Hotel. THE WINNER CO., Incorporated 1903. DRUGS, STATIONERY AND UP-TO-DATE HOUSE FURNISHINGS. Km-yr- tjj Shirts A W 1 i '' i . . l " l 1 SPECIAL SALES IN ALL LINES AT THE BEE HIVE The Place That Saves You Money Midsummer Stock taking over ami we must have room for fall goods which will soon arrive. (Ionic quickly or you w ill lose the chance of your lifetime Michel & Go. , ... :. .. 'IIiii my entire stock COOllS iiiul LAWKS' S2222238S3KS5HQ vy ! M ! & Pollard.. fZift Finest Giars JLPCIi in Stock. Sow Lino Of FURNISHING GOODS Specialty G011LEY! TAILOR a. - . l l I 1 U A n ti n la Professional Cards. 31. Ciiiott, Jftfamiy-at-jCam Printvillt, Ortytn. W. SSarnes, JftUrntjf ml am. Pri'mtiHih, Orgem. 7fi 3S jfitmrmty.mt-jCam & SSrm Jflttrmtf mud Commitltr ml Xmm PrintwIU, Ortjan. rAftitimiu mmd Smrfm. ww- wVr Apr w-.. , Pri;tl4, Of go. f Jt. Slostnitrg Pfiftttimn mum' Jy.M -" miwr.4 promptly fmy mjt Off.! am .W. mM 9 Vm.t.Hm Prmtwllt, Ortfam. CROOKS Meat Market J. II. Crooks, Prop. FRESH MEATS and LARD VEGETA BLES, FISH and GAME IN SEASON None but Healthy Animals Killed, Which Insures tiood Wholesome Meats. ONE DOOR NORTH OF TEMPLETON'S sr n . i j as, O. JCeiey ft 1 ? J hotographer j POTRAITS, VIEWS, J jj ENLARGING AND A j STJPKJtlOTl J GRADE OF WORK GETS RIGHTOF WAY FOR AUTO LINE Arrangements About Com pleted for Road to Ron into This City. A. r.. iliimmoml, engineer in elmr(! o( the crew working on the nutoniohile lino and one of the ;rcmiot'rn of tho enUprint', wat in the city the lout of Die week look ing lifter riht of wuy matUm. The line in to run into thin city from the Forest ranch on Crooked river where the rond from Heinler ritation to lie nd croKnea, and Mr. lliimmiind tuted that he was en countering hut little difficulty in getting mattcrii Hlniiglitened out. He said people at) a rule through the Crooked river valley were ready and willing to take up with a progressive movement and he le!ieved he would have the right of way for the line permanently arrangeil and settled inside of a few days. A large working force is now employed on the line some ten or twelve miles south west of Heeler and two miles of tho road nreheing constructed daily. The road bed is sixteen feet wide and is being rolled and packed as rapidly as ix)ssitle. It is believed that the machines will I able to haul their loads and make good time on the roadway in its present con- lition, although by next summer. or sooner if possible, the road will he thoroughly packed down with petroleum so that it will present and even and solid surface which will withstand all kinds of weather. When asked how the companv proposed to get its freight from the railroad to the terminal point of the line, Mr. Hammond 6aid it was not the intention of the auto mobile company to do much freighting from Shaniko. "If the Columbia Southern is not extend ed to our lleisler terminal by next spring," he said, "we will build up over the hill to the rail road itself. But we feel pretty certain that tho Columbia South ern will be built that far." It is the intention of the com pany to complete its work on the auto line by the middle of Novem ber and have the cars in service by the first of December. The schedule will be so arranged that the car leaving this city will con nect at Forest's with the car run ning through from Bend to Heisler and the same arrangenmet will be in force on the return trip, the l'rineville ear waiting at Forest until connection is made by the machine coming back from Heisler. CO-OPERATIVE STORE WILL OPEN SOON Papers were filed this week with County Clerk Smith incorporating the People's Cn-operative Mer cantile company, and arrange ments are completed for the open ing of the company's store about the middle of October in the build ing which has been occupied during the past few months by A. 8. Fields. The incorporators named in the pajiers are C. C. Mikkelsen, A. S. Fields and Dr. K. O. Hyde. The capital stock is placed at $'000 divided into 200 shares at the par value of ih each. Nearly all of the capital stock has been subscrilied. and considerable interest has been taken in the project by those who have been put in touch with the company's plan of action. The move to bring into exist ence a co-operative mercantile business is the result of the efforts of the Socialist party in this coun ty, C. C. Mikkelsen having first broached the matter and finally brought it to a successful termina tion. This is the first mercantile business of its kind to be started in this state so far as is known, the promoters of the enterprise drawing their ideas from the 20 and more such businesses in the ilate of Washington. Californi also has over IK) eo-operativ general merchandise stores, all c which are in successful operation and those interested in the local .'heme believe that it will meet with as much favor as those in the two neighboring states mentioned It is the intention of the ones hacking the local affair to sell their general line of supplies to the stock holders at a price not exceeding 10 per cent of the actual cost of the goods laid down in the city, while the prices to the out side trade will lie controlled and fixed by the board of directors. Those who are not stock holders, however, will not be charged price- much greater than those who own shares in the concern, To begin with the Co-operative company bus the assurance that it will receive the trade from all of its 200 stock owners and with this trade steady and that to tie deriv ed trom the general public, a flour ing business is made certain. PRINEVILLE WINS AT ANTELOPE The Prineville baseball team surprised the natives at Antelope last week by winning the first game by a score of 11 to 7 and securing the honor of defeating the Anteloie team for the first time they were ever defeated on their home ground. After this game Anleloie got busy and com menced to rustle new players a strengthen their injield, but the Prineville boys were game and secured M K. Meach of Sloro to play second base for them. His playing the infield gave the team confidence anil when the sicond game was called both teams lined up evenly matched. Ante)oie took the bat and secured one run the fireLcanto and added another in the second. Prineville did not succeed in hitt.ng Osborn hard enough to bring a result until the fifth inning when they placed one run over the rubber. There was nothing more done until the seventh inning when Barber knocked out a home run and tied the sccre. Nothing more was done until the first half of the ninth when Antelope made three runs hy hard hitting and winning the game by a score of 5 to 2. This was the best game of the series and while Prineville lost it was largely due to the umpire in giv ing them the worst of it on a couple of close decisions. The game in tho afternoon was between Prineville and Fossil, which was won by the local boys with a score of 15 to 6. The first game Sunday morning was between Antelope and Fossil and it was conceded that Ante- lojie would win easy, but this is where they were mistaken, for Fossil had secured new players and had Barber and Bailey of Prineville in their line up. With this line up they put up a better game than the one with Prineville the day before and for eight in nings had the Antelope team guessing with the score standing 6 to 6. In the ninth the Antelope boys by a combination of errors secured two runs, while Fos sil was onlv able to secure one losing the game by 8 to 7. Antelope and Prineville were then tied for first place and the next game was between them for thecha.npioiiehip and the percent age money. Considerable betting as done on this game with Prine ville a favorite. It was generally conceded that they were evenly matched and that it was any ones game. In the first inning Ante lope secured one run and Prine ville was shut out. In the second inning both failed to score and it looked as if it was going to be a hard game, but in the third the fun commenced and Prineville secured two runs and from that time on it was a slaughter, Prine ville winning by a score of 13 to 1. The Prineville team was com posed of Andrew Larsen, Jerry Barber, Bruce Gray, A. G. Richard son, r rank Foster, Pat'Roark, Ralph Jordan, M. E. Meach, B. W. Scott and S. Sf. Bailey, witli Harry Esping as official scorer. NEW STAGE LINE TO THE RAILROAD Local Business Men Incor porate and Will Handle Overland Traffic. Plans are on foot to operate an other stage line between this city and rihaniko, and it is expected that the new transportation com pany which is being organized will be in readiness to care for the passengers and traffic in a short time. A company with a canital lock of 10,000 is being formed among a number of the local busi ness men, and although no definite steps as yet have been taken the operation of the line is assured. Various arrangements will have to be made, and matters gotten into shajie before the company will be able to issue a schedule. It is the intention of the com-1 pany to put into use the best coaches that can be purchased and have relays of fresh horses every ten miles so that the trip through from the railroad can be made in less time than at present and with greater ease. An effort will also lie made, through the efforts of the county, to maintain better roads and construct new ones when found necessary. With the capital stock subscribed and the assist ance to he secured from patrons of the line all along the route of travel it is believed that in a short time the entire road from the ter minus of the railroad to Prineville will either be macadamized or place in a condition equally as good. The roads are in their worst shape during two or three months in the late winter and early spring while the rain is the heaviest, but it is believed that the lifliculties then to be encountered an be readily overcome. NO COUNTY DIVISION WANTED The agitation for a division of Crook county is again springing up, but it is evident from the tone of the Madras Pioneer that tte Agency Plains country will stand solid with the southern division in fighting against a premature quartering of Crook county. The Pioneer states in its last issue: "During the coming session of our State Legislation there will probably spring up the question of setting off a portion of Crook and Wasco counties into the pro posed new county of Stockman. This was agitated at the last egular session and was defeated by about five minutes work on the part of C. M. Cartwright and Hon. J. N. Williamson, who was then state senator from this district. But it will spring up again and will probably be harder to kill. A petition was circulated in this section of the proposed new county two years ago, which many people people signed without understand ing the boundaries as proposed or the work that will have to be ac complished in the organization of the new county. "The people in this section of Crook county are nearly unani mous in the opinion that it is altogether too soon for anything of this kind to take place. This is the most thickly populated portion of the proposed new coun ty, and in time, will be the part of the county from which the greatest revenue will accrue, but there is practically no revenue for a county organization from this section at present. The lands here have all been taken up with in the last three years and patents have been issued for only a very few parcels. Most of the people who are now here intend to stay and grow up with the country, and will in all probability take advantage of the seven year limit allowed by the Department of the Interior in which to made final proof, so that it will be at least four years from the present time before the new county could ex pect revenue from the taxes here, and by that time the debt that would have piled up would be something large and of magnificent proportions. "The time it not far distant when Crook will be split up the back in Beveral directions, with Bend as the center of one portion, Prineville with a small part of the original Crook as another center, and the northwestern part in another county, but we are not ready lor the division now." MINISTER GETS INTO TROUBLE Rev. J. B. Stark, who has been the pastor of the M. E. church at this place for the past year, left town last Sunday without saying goodby to his friends and creditors, and of the latter he leaves several. His year was about out at this place and the current report was that the min ister was to leave for the Con ference at Eugene about the middle of this week. He promised his creditors that be would pay them on Mon day; but Monday found him at Alturas on his way to nobody knows where. Reynolds & Wing field, who are among the heaviest losers, telegraphed to Cornish A Shartel, Alturas attorneys, to collect their account if collection was possible. The matter was placed in the hands of the authori ties and several telegrams were exchanged as a result of which Stark was arrested on the charge of being an abscounding debtor, and was lodged in the Alturas jail. It would have cost a great deal more to procure extradition papers and to bring him back than the " bills of the creditors amounted to. it was decided to turn him loose after he had spent a few hours in a cell. Preacher Stark is well known throughout this entire county, having been pastor of the M. E. church at Paisley previous to his coming here. As an expounder of the gospel he never held the esteem and respect of this com munity and frequently it was hinted that he wos not a fit person to occupy a pulpit. His recent escapade only confirms the im pression which bus been quite general in this town for Beveral months. Lakeview Herald. MILLIONS MADE IN OREGON TIMBER At present cash values the Weyerhauser Timber company which has recently been making purchases of timber lands in some parts of southern Oregon, is said to have cleared $'0,000,000 on an original investment of $6,000,000 four years ago, says the Ashland Record. A syndicate headed by Frederick Weyerhauser, of St. Paul, and R. McCormick, now president of the Lumbermen's National bank here, purchased of the Northern Pacific railway its big holdings of timber lands in western Washington amounting to nearly a million acres. The Weyerhauser Timber company started business with $6,000,000 paid up capital, which has been in creased first to eight, then to ten and recently to twelve and a half millions. A block of the company's stock was sold recently at $260 a share. Within four years timler lands have more than doubled in alue. The company has increased its holdings by purchase from set tlers and others, owning today con siderably more (ban a million acres. The policy has been to sell timber where actually needed by mills, otherwise to hold for future high prices. -Members of the com pany said recently that within very few years its holdings will he worth $dO,000,000 in spot cash.