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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1904)
v p a Ah a A 6 "(rx; Croo County PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OKEGON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1904. VOL VI If. NO. 42 JoMrnaL1 i-'-l 1 SPECIAL SALES 'll I I I e A Complete and Up jall and Winter Ami yu will II ml in this Uno nf goods the very f thing you Inivn nvn wauling Uiii long while, and, f the timiMn purchase your Kail and Winter Hut is NOW. Our store in located in the liuililing lor- merly occupied by Mr. Wicgand and here you will always llml the latest designs in Millinery )fc ifc I's prs. oa vsraatora jmmMmt. . 1BBBBBBBBEKSEZW T Hamilton Stables l. E. ru.l.ipaftyM, ffOP. SltM'k ImiiuiM liy llm ilny, week or monlli nt Reasonable rate. Remember im when in Prine ville. KATKH RKASONAHLK. We have Fine Livery Turnouts f tPRun in Connection SEEEEEEEEEEEEEBnEgE22 ..Henderson Wines, and Liquors, Gountry Orders Solicited First Door South of Polndexter Hotel. THE WINNER CO., Incorporated 1!W3. DRUGS, STATIONERY AND UP-TO-DATE HOUSE FURNISHINGS. 1 w IN ALL LINES AT THE BEE HIVE Theliacg That Saves You Money Midsummer Stock taking over and vc must have room for fall Hoods which will soon arrive. Come quickly or you will lose the chance of your lifetime Michel & Go. Arrived - To - Datc Una ol tyMnery and Jfats with I ho Bend Stable. & Pollard.. LP ft Finest Clears LJCmI In Stock. Aow Line III FURNISHING GOODS A 5 G0RMLEY1TAIL0R I -1 i i wrs A '.HWW f) 8 ft I I ft I I Professional Cards, jfttirnf-ml-Xmm Ortfom. W. $arn, fWmtWU, Or,,,. ll). " jfttrmf-mt-Cmm Orfttt, Orfom, d Srink Prinwmlh, Off. jr. f. git.. $olknap & Cdtvards 00. Jrr Dm. SmH W.hh Jt X. &ostttry Off hn. bn mM m Tfm?Hn' At mm WPmlm JMpMMw Ortfmm. CROOKS Neat Market J. H. Crooks, Prop. FRESH MEATS and LARD VEGETA BLES, FISH and GAME IN SEASON None but Healthy Animals Killed, Which Insures Good Wholesome Meats. ONE DOOR NORTH TEMPLETON'S - OF Photographer I POTRAITS, VIEWS, ENLARGING AND A SUPERIOR GRADE OF WORK m . ... 5 - J i ISM MTV "A GREAT INCREASE IN TAX VALUES Assessable Property In creases Nearly $1,000,000 in Two Year's Time. No belter evidence of the rapid growth and developmoit ol Crook county can he lound than the annenHnr'8 roll for this year which AaaeHDor Johnann has practically completed. An increaHe in the taxable value of proerty in thi county amounting to nearly 11,000,000 is shown over the roll of 1W2. Thin remarkable growth in the county's wealth when the fact la taken into consideration that it has been acarcely two years since the county first moved for ward on the line of ita recent de velopment. The valuation for the three years beginning with VM2 are shown on the assessment records as follows: V.m VMl 1!KM l,K.r,2,2Sl 2,399,020 2,68,783. Hearing on the rapid settlement and development of Crook county, no better evidence is obtainable than the aliove figures, and going into detail this immense increase in proerty valuat.ons Is directly traceable to the increased holdings of both tillable and non-tillable lamU in the county, the valuation on non-tillable land alone having doubled during the list two years, The increase during the years 1W2-4 along lines of permanent improvement and substantial growth are best shown by a com parison of lands and values. 1902 27,678 653,273 118,729 1904 37,4111 752,386 $43,202 Tillable acre N'on-tillable Town Iits Improvements on lands not deeded 21,892 141,60! Total Assessment On Tillable lands 1149,378 1194,626 Non-tillable $663,921 1,165,289 PORTAGE ROAD IS ASSURED Right of way for the portage road has been secured over practi cally all of the distance to be traversed. The first great under' taking of the Open River corumis sion has been accomplished with a celerity which has exceeded all expectations, the next step is the letting of the contract for the construction of the road, and ar rangements for this will probably lie made tomorrow, when the exe cutive board of the commission and the members of the state por tage board are to hold a joint meeting at Salem. Terms of the right of way have been reached with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company with I. H. Taffe, and with Seufert brothers, so that all that now re mains is to complete the negotiat ions with the Dalles Packing com pany. It is stated authoritatively that there will be no difficulty in dealing with the packing com piny, with which terms will be made as soon as a meeting can be arranged with its president. The O. R. & N. company has agreed that where absolutely necessary the portage road may be built upon the company's right of way, and when it becomes neces sary to change the location of the company's tracks, the expense is to be home by the Open River commission. This will involve an expenditure by the commission of $12,598. One of the members of the Open River commission is authority for this information. He states that the negotiations with the O. R. & N. proved very satisfactory. The commirsioners found Mr. Calvi a man of few words, but these were straight and to the point and easily understood, and while every detail could not be closed they feel that ' in dealing with him technicality will stand in the way of carrying out the agreement, nor will there be any shifting of condi tion. The ilixcuwinn with him was confined strictly to right of way mutters, and the consequence was the business Whs soon closed. The agreement of the ojien river commission with the state required the Kirtage railway to keep off the canal right of way, and as the south line of the canal right of way U at several points the north line of the O. R. A N., a consider able use of the company's right of yiny must be made. The company lias agreed that where absolutely necessary, and where it docs not interfere with its trackage or oper ating arrangements, the portage railway can be built on the O. R. & N. right of way. Where it does interfere with the company's track age or operating arrangements, the builders of the portage rail way are to pay the actual differ ence necessary to make the changes, which amounts to a total of $12,598. This includes chang ing the track at Mess House curve for quite a distance, putting in a switch at Celi lo, changing the track and building new grades for bout 2,900 feet at Tumwatcr and putting in a switch at Celilo. In arriving at the sum to be paid, the O. R. & N. company gave the open river association credit for work which the company had ntended to do, thus reducing the amount which would otherwise have had to lieen paid by about $40,000. The oien river commis sion will uIh) get the use of the grade where the track has to lie abandoned and the changes made as above stated. From this it will he seen that outside of the actual cost to the 0. R. i N. company cf making the necessary changes, no charge for right of way is made against the open river commission. I. H. la fie has executed an agreement covering the right of way over his property near Celilo, nd Seufert Bros, have executed a ght of way over their property. o charge was made for either of those rights of way. This leaves only the right of way over The Dalles Packing company, to be obtained as soon as the president of this company comes to the city A. J. McMillan, the engineer re tained by the state board is en gaged today and checking over the lines of the right of way arranged for the portage road, so as to re port at tomorrows Salem. Journal. meeting at HROWN OPEN TO ENTRY The Secretary of the Interior has ordered restored to entry a portion of the lands in Skagit and What com Counties, Washington, that were temporarily withdrawn m December, 190'2, with a view to enlarging the Washington forest reserve on the west side. These lands were examined by the Forestry Bureau and found un suitable tor forest reserve pnrK)ses. Some are agricultural in character, some grazing lands, hut a considerable area is valuable for its timber. The reason the timlier lands are to be turned back to the public domain is because they are isolated tracts, located among lauds now in private ownership. It ' would not be practicable to reserve them with ¬ out reserving the adjoining private lands, and this policy is not favor ed. In restoring these lands to entry the Interior department is adopt ing a new policy. These ami all other lands hereafter restored to entry will not become subject to settlement immediately, but will be advertised for 90 days. This is to give every one an equal chance to take up newly-oiened lands, and to prevent any one getting un.'air advantage. This was not done in the case of the Blue Moun tain lands restored in Oregon, but the rule will hereafter apply to all lands eliminated from withdraw als, as well as lands which are cut nut of established reserves. YOUTHFUL HORSE THIEF ARRESTED 17-Year-OId Boy Must An swer Charge for Stealing Animal at Bend. Melvin Hughes, a 17 year old loy who claims his home at Leba non, was given a hearing before Justice Luckey Tuesday afternoon and will stand trial during the October term of the Circuit court on the charge of horse stealing. He waived an examination and was bound over to the grand jury, his bonds being fixed at $250. Young Hughes until a short time ago was at work on one of the irrigation crews near Bend. About a week ago he came into town from the river riding a horse which he claimed as his own. The day after reaching here he sold the animal to Dr. Belknap for $18, and left the country. Soon afterwards it was learned that the horse was the property of Arthur Taylor at Bend from whom it had been stolen, and the sheriff of Linn county was at once notified to arrest the boy should he make his appearance in Leba non where the boy claimed his parents resided. He was taken in charge there the last of the week by the city marshal and returned to this city Sunday with Champ Smith who was sent to Linn coun ty upon word being received that the prisoner bad been taken, into custody. SHEEPMEN HOLD ANNUAL MEETING Sheepmen from all over Eastern Oregon were in attendance at the annual meeting of the Oregon Wool Growers' Association which held a two days session at Shaniko last week. Questions pertaining to the sheep interests were given a breadth of discussion and many important measures were acted upon. The association will hold its next annual meeting at Port land. The fact that the Blue Moun tain forest reserve will probably be permanently created before the next meeting of the association caused the question of range par tition in that vase area to take leading place in the discussions, half the time being occupied in talking the problem over. While the method of handling the range in this reserve will lie with the Department of the Interior, the representations of the association are expected to have considerable weight in determining it. Officers and members were loath to talk of the conclusions reached, but it is understood the association will recommend a division system similar to that in vogue on the Cascade forest reserve, with a little broader scope. The Blue Moun - lain psriuiou, uunever, is uiucu bigger affair than the Cascade leases. On the latter reserve only 220,000 sheep are allowed. A million and a quarter sheep now range every Summer in the ter ritory to be included in the Blue Mountain permanent withdrawal, while the disKsition of this range affects a majority of the members of the association. A system by which the depleted grass of the Blue Mouutain with drawal will get an opportunity to resume its one-time profusion was unanimously favored by those present. It was argued that to give a big sheepman an annual, or longer term, lease on a certain tract would mean that he would refrain from overstocking his por tion; and would use every en deavor to build up the range Under the present system, with horde of sheep pouring in from half a dozen outside counties, ad ding hundreds of thousands to the large holdings of Grant county owners, the Blue Mountain with drawal range is in wretched con ditional before Summer is more than half gone, unless the season is unusually favorable. This year it has been favorable. The Becond most prominent teature of the meeting was the de- ire expressed by the big sheep- owners present to secure trie enactment of legislation which would sooth the irritation of home sheepmen in the Summer range districts, who feci that the outside stock, which crowds their smaller holdings, is usurping their pre rogatives. This applies particular ly to Grant county, in which lies a large jiortion of the Blue Moun tain withdrawal area, and where the home stockmen have been In a ruined state tor years against alleged trespassing foreigners from such counties as Morrow, Umatil la, Gilliam and Wasco. The method proposed was to allow the Summer range county a poition of the taxes on sheep. Thus if a Gilliam county band of 2000 head were to range in Grant county from June 1 to October 1, one-third of the taxes on that band would be ollowed Grant county. It was not made quite clear whether this should apply to both state and county assessments, or only to the state tax. The exe cutive committee is to attend to the drafting of a measure to bring this about. The association mem bers declare their motives are sincere in talking of this legislation. ANTELOPE WILL PLAY BALL HERE Two games of baseball between the local team and Antelope will be played on the diamond in this city next week. The first game will be played Saturday, October 8 and another game on the day following. The Antelope team will come down determined to win back the glory which it sacrificed to the Prineville ball tossers during the tournament held in the former city a week ago. The size of the purses has not been named as yet, but there will be enough to stimulate good play ing and some lively contests will be witnessed. These will be the first matched games between the two cities which have been pulled off in a number of years and interest in the coming struggle is already being manifested. The close games played between Antelope and Prineville during the recent tournament make certain the fact that two of the best games ever played in this city will be seen on the local diamond next week. Both teams will be represented by their best players and Antelope will in all probability bring down a good sized crowd to help along with the rooting. MITCHELL HAS SECOND FLOOD S. P. Conroy and son were in the city from The Dalles yesterday on a sight seeing tour. They hail j driven from The Dalles to Mit chell arriving there last Sunday morning where they encountered a Hood of proportions nearly as great as characterized the high water there in July. Mr. Conroy stated a waterspout occurred in the foothills surrounding the city and that business houses and resi dences were flooded, the waters leaving mud a foot and a half deep in the stores and buildings. The flood rushed down the canyon at 3 o'clock in the morning, the roar of the water awakening the people who rushed to the foot hills for safety. Mr. Conroy and his son arrived at the outskirts of the village a short time before the flood occurred, but a heavy black cloud in the distance gave them warning. Mr. Conroy stated that he thought at once ot the accounts he had read of last summer's flood there and he and his son camped on high ground instead of going into the valley as they had intend ed. The move was all that saved lioth of them from drowning for had they caniped in the canyon a wall of water 15 feet high would have swept over them.