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1 sil" f A r i r r 7 f ( n t ) A ouurit ureal f i PIUNEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 8, 1004. NO. 52 VOL VIII. Crook C n n 8 N I i It r TOYS! Mechanical Toys, Automobiles and many others, too numerous for mention. In fact anything you could wish for the little folks Christmas Present Wo havo just rocoivod 300 pounds of Oandies and Nuts for the Holiday Trade and our pricos are RIGHT For tho oldor ones wo have a variety of beautiful and useful articles suitable for your friend, sweetheart or relatives a present. To fully appreciato tho many different articles we have in our storo for Christmas you should call and seo for yourself and we will take pleasure in showing them to you The Bee Hive The Place That Saves You Money ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft I I I SHORTAGE CAUSES THE HIGH PRICES irst Time in Many Years Wool Supply Has Been in Such Demand. The extraordinary wool situation n the Kant is Mummed up tersely the Shepherd's t Bulletin of Joston, as follower The fit nation in wool is a most markahle one, being seldom if ever before paralleled in the history the trade. The demand has continued active' for so long a me, and thin year's clips have it'll taken so freely by the large consumer that there remain now tho seaboard market but a small percentage- of the stock usually on hand at thin time of the ear. In fact, there is Jews wool in the Speciat Sao on Sale to continue for 10 days. 71 lare and varied assort' went of Winter Hats from 25 cents up Professional Cards. 2?. Ctiiott, jfttomty-at-jCaiM ZPn'ntviiie, Ortyon. . . . n . Wrs. d Bradford ' fmrnhntrt. '(. ! " . ,V i"te n v. DYSTKIt 1IOUSK and LUNCH COUNTER 0N'll at nil Imtirrl Day or nlulit. MciiIk ( nil klmU nerved to order. Flnli. iiimi', ami OvHiern In S'Mhoii. O'NEIL Brothers Managers O We make n tf Inllly of putlli'iK up to order I'leM mill Cuke for the family tnule. Ilivail For Sale Your Patronage Kcspcctfully Solicited $ fiarnes, jfUorney at jCaw, iPrineviilt, Oregon, .. ZPrintviiit, Origan, ?. . Sirink Jlttorntu aiid Lamitflor at J-au ZPrineuillt, Ortgon, ..Henderson & Pollard.. Wines, and Liquors, B 9 Finest Giars In Stock. Qountry Orders Solicited First Door South of Poindexter Hotel. Chita. 6. C J wards JT. !P. Sltlknap Cticlkncip & dwards iPhjfsictattt and tSnrfon. 00 &rwr ZW- m f tCiMf !Prinitie. Crtyon, JC. Rosenberg Physician and Siryeen CalU amsmrd pnmptfjf day r n.'f .ht Off,: m amrm soutA mf T7mTtm' it mm KfW Strt. iPrineviit: Creyan, THE WINNER CO., Ineorporaled 1003, DRUGS. STATIONERY AND UP-TO-DATE HOUSE FURNISHINGS. ' l Iff" I ., W I don't want to sell you the Earth but I do want to sell you a f all Suit and Overcoat CITY Meat Market ELLIOT S LISTER, Prop's. FRESH MEATS and LARD VEGETA BLES, FISH and GAME IN SEASON None hut Healthy Animals Killed, Which Insures Good Wholesome Meats. and providing in their itead the ofIice of county attorney. Thi, he think, will be a great caving to the utate, and will be more oatiu factory in many other way than M the preent syBtem According to the plans of Mr. Mayger, the county attorney will be paid a nalary to le fixed by the county official, and the authority of each will lie limited to the coun ty to which he is elected. There are at present nine district attor neys, who are paid by the state, and they are paid salaries the amount of which depends on the size of the district in which they serve. The salary for the fourth judicial district (Multnomah coun ty) is more than for any other, but a larjre number of the attorney's get about f.'JOOO a year. The work does not, as a rule, take very much of their time, and the" pay is gener ally considered :nore than suf ficient. There will be nolhinz in the law if it is passed that will interfere with the present district attorneys, DUFUR ROAD TO BUILD SOUTHWARD Great Southern Intends to Extend Line to a Point in Crook County. JoMon market today than is i for it will not be effective till after ONE DOOR NORTH TEMPLETON'S OF Call good and examine my and get prices I A MATTER OF HEALTH a GORMLEYH TAILOR usually found there at the begin- ing of Februiny.; There is every ndication of a very large con- umption of wool during the next six months, as the mills are enjoy-1 ing generally a good business, and the prospects are that there will be an excellent heavy-weight season for the manufacturers as the result of the cleaning up of stocks in the lands of the trade caused by the xceptionally cold weather ex- irrienccd last winter. . With a large consumption of wool facing the trade, and with supplies reduced to such low limits, there is increased anxiety as to where they are to obtain sufficient stock to meet the wants of their usual customers, " Tho- buying ft the past few months has leen mostly by the urge consumers, and while the wants of the latter must be, by this time, pretty well supplied, the fact that a number of them are still in the market looking for de sirable selections, and that the smaller concerns have not yet by any means supplied their wants, renders it pretty certain in the minds of the wool merchants that they will ho "down to bare hoaruV' before the clip of next year be comes available, and that to meet the needs of this country it will be necessary to import large quanti ties of foreign wool. But it is not easy to secure large and desirable selections abroad ex cept at continuously advancing prices. This is especially true of coarse wools, which have enjoyed the best demand for the past two years. Seldom have foreign markets been so well cleaned up as they are at present, the war in the East having stimulated a demand for many lines of wool which are usually available for export to this country. The situation, in fact, increases steadily in strength as the weeks pass by, and holders of what wool remains here are re luctant sellers except at advanced prices. ' It is perfectly natural, therefore that there should have been more or less suppressed excitement in the wool trade the past week, and that in their desire to make suit able provisions ' for future wants, some wool men should have yield ed to tho temptation to contract for the 1905 clip. This has been done to some ex tent in Idaho and IHah aa well as in Oregon and Montana. Never before, at such an early date, has the attempt been made to contract for wools the following season, and it is, perhaps, needless to state that these contracts have in . a number of cases been made at very high prices. the close of the terms. All the dis tiict attorney's in the 6tate at the present time will hold office till four years from the last June election. There is nothing in the present plan of the law to provide for any other changes in judicial districts, the district judges to be elected as formerly. The bill will probably meet with some opposition on the part of those who have ambitions to become distr.ct attorneys at some future time. Another bill that Mr. Mayger is planning to introduce is one pro viding for the agreement of juries in civil cases. It is the intention of this bill to provide for a verdict when nine of the twelve jurymen agree. According to the present Jaw, one juryman can hold up decision if he can continue to stand against the other members. This is deemed unfair in civil suits, and if the proposed law goes into effect t will require four jurymen to hang the jury. There is often much complaint make with the present jury system, and some be lieve that the method should be discontinued, and only competent judges be allowed to act in tha capacity. WINTER WHEAT IS DAMAGED Aa soon as construction trains can be put on the line the Great Southern Railroad company will push construction of the line on south from Dufur. The first 30 miles, from The Dalles to Dufur, is now graded and ready for the rails. Iron bas been purchased, and will be laid as rapidly as pos sible, says the Portland Journal. "We will have the road in opera tion as far south as Dufur next summeij" says Julius Meier, who is secretary of the corporation and purchasing agent of the company. We do not expect to slop at Dufur. The road ia being survey ed southward, and will probably go to Bend. That is a fine coun try, xf great resources, and fully capable of supporting two rail roads, even should any other road be extended to that point." It has always been supposed that the Columbia Southern was to be extended from Shaniko to Bend, but since the Deschutes peo ple have established a n automobile road between those two points and invested a large amount of money in the building of the road, and its equipment, the idea prevails that there is no likelihood of an extension of the Columbia South em. So far as present prospects indicate, the new line from Dufur would have sole possession of the business of the Bend country, ex ceptingf that which will go to" the automobile road and the Columbia Southern via Shaniko. John 11. Ileimrich of teatlle is general manager of the Great Southern, and is backed by his father, who ia one of Seattle's mil lionaires. The elder Heimrich has. purchased a home on Hassalo street, in east Portland, and is making preparations to remove next week to this city, to make his permanent home here. nd then rented a small wheat farm in the Juniper country. He waa attended with succecs from the start and in a short time was able to buy wheat land in the Juniper country which at that time was considered almost worth less. However, Mr. Terjcsman went ahead regardless of the talk of others and was successful in raising good crops. At the end of four years he had his land aid for and was ready to invest in other real property. Ilia crops turned out well each year and as be increased his earn ings Mr. Terjeson overlooked no opportunity to purchase more land. He kept up this system ? until this fall when he decided that he owned about all the wheat land he could successfully manage. "I guess I will get all my proper ty abstracted and see just where stand," said he to a neighbor the other day. Accordingly on Moo- day he came to the city and had the work done, and no ene was more surprised than he himself when he learned that he was pos sessor of $35,000 worth of land all free and unencumbered. "I acquired all this property in seven years, beginning with scarce ly a cent of capital," said he. "I think, now, that will do me for a time and I will take life easier now." Pendleton Tribune. , GOOD VEIN STRUCK IN DIXIE Absolutely Pure HAS HO SUBSTITUTE NEW BILLS BY STATE LAWMAKER George G. Mayger, representative to the legislature from Columbia county ,is planning to introduce a bill at the coming session pro viding for doing away with the offices of the state district attorneys, Wheat crop conditions in the eastern Oregon country are very discouraging at present says the Portland Journal. The rainfall I has been very light this season and now extreme cold weather has set in, which threatens to freeze out the little winter wheat sown. The ground is very dry and the grain has not absorbed enough moisture to sprout, leaving it ex posed to the frost. It is estimated that but about halt the usual acreage of winter wheat bas been sown this fall Farmers are very skeptical as to the result, and are making prepar ations to resow most of the fields in the sprin g, as it is not believed that the wheat now in the ground will withstand the prospective dry, ccld winter. Other Oregon counties along the Columbia river east of the Cas cades are in about the same oon- dition as Umatilla, Morrow, Mor row, Gilliam, Wasco, Sherman and Union counties need rain badly. These counties produce about one half of the wheat crop of Oregon, while Umatilla pro duces almost the wholo of the other half. Winter wheat is the most productive, and a failure of this crop would greatly reduce the output and work a great injury to that section. Of the total yield of 11,000,000 bushels fully . three fourths is winter wheat. A good rain just now, followed by fair weather, giving the wheat a chance to sprout, would mean thousands of dollars to eastern Oregon, while a severe freeze would mean practically a loss of every field of wheat now sown. ORTAGE CONTRACT WAITS SIGNATURE Work at Dixie JUeadows is pro gressing satisfactorily and prepar ations havs been made for an al winter's run, says the Prairie City Miner. The mill which has in the past been the source -of some trouble has been doing fine work since it was started some time ago. Everything is now lookin in fine shape and the management is highly pleased at the ehowin made. A new vein was struck j last week that is as fine as any thing that has heretofore been en countered. Rich veins have been struck before but not of the magni tude of this last one as it is 4 feet in width and runs with an even and high value with considerable free milling ore, no return has been had from the concentrates, but it is believed it will run into eood value. It is expected the mine will commence shipping to the Sumpter smelter next Monday andwill be continued .all winter. This is one of the finest properties in the eastern Oregon gold fields and its magnitude can not be realized until visited. FORTUNE MADE IN SEYEN YEARS Thriftiness persistence and op portunity is thecombination which has made Gunder Terjeson, who, seven years ago arrived in Umatil la county from Norway with scarcely a penny, a comparatively rich man. Mr. Terjeson upon ar riving in Pendleton hired out as a farm hand. He was employed a year or two on farms and saved his earnings. He acquired suf ficient capital to purchase a few. farming implements and - horses A. J. McCabe, of Tacoma, who bas been awarded the contract for construction of the portage rail road at Celilo Rapids, by which traffic may be transported between the upper river and the lower sec tion bv "its 'conveyance to The Dalles, is at the Hotel Portland, says the Telegram. He returned this morning from Salem, where he was in attendance last evening at a conference between the mem bers of the portage Railway Com mission and W. J. Marriner, presi dent and J. N Teal, counsel of the Open River Association. Today Mr. McCabe ba3 been absent from the hotel most of the lime and in consultation with persons interest ed in the project that, it is believ ed, will be of vast benefit to the farmers of the vast region tribu tary to the Columbia River. In response to a question of the Tele gram representative Mr. McCabe stated that he was deferring any plans for the construction work until signing of the contruct, which would probably not be until the first of the week. As the contract has not yet been completed nothing is made public concerning its contents excepi a 1 T I, on ucn tu general uuuiuc. n mo un purpose of the commission to make it include every possible necessity for the successful operation and maintenance of minimum cost of a first-class railroad, of standard gauge, at a cost to the state of $151,000, the amount remaining f tl.o fnnrl nnnrnnrifl f pci for tbn jl l ij tun" rt i -w - building of the road. The specifi cations are made a part of the con tract and include an incline at the Big Eddy to run the cars down to the level of the docks at each terminal, sidetracks at cer tain points, a locomotive, box cars, cattle cars, flat cars, hand cars and the tools necessary for main tenance and use of section men and a telephone line are included. Rails of 55-pound standard are to be used and the track is to be bal lasted within the contract price. It is expected that Portland will furnish a large amount of the labor to be used in building the road, owing to-its proximity to the line. Owing to the fact that it must be completed before May 1, and that a bond will be requir ed to insure compliance with that provision, it will necessitate work ing of the strongest possible force to hasten completion of grading and construction of terminals and docks at each end before any pos sibility of high water in the river from early floods.