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Crook Coiuety Jotaraa. VOL. IX. PIUNKVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 12, 100 NO. 5 i i y n L L Uu V V-. g I Tlio Holiday nro gone, and in order to make room for our enormous Spring Stock, wo will make radical reductions on our lino of Winter Hood. Ladies9 Ghitdrcns9 and Gents9 Mackintos lies at Your Own Price a OKT YOUU T1CKKT8 ON Til K Y A UK WO II Til Michel & Company Michel a3SSS33BSB8833S33 The Opera Saloon RUAKK & IS H I) H I. I. , Proprietor. In The (llac Ilalll A First Class House in livery Hcspcct CHOICEST BUNDS OP LIQOURS, WINES, and CIGARS OYSTER IIOIISI- and Opennt nil hour O'NEIL W Uy or nlKltt. Inlltyof puttlmr. uj MeulH of nil kln.l B TO t h C T S to order Pies n,l nerved to order. Managers r"k,'M ,,,r J,u' 'amll-v VMi, (lam.', mill ,r"U'- o o OyMtri-M In St iiHon. I trend I'or Sale Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited 7tr - siiiiiuuiivenieni II: A VINO purchased the business from N. A.Tyo & Bro's. known as tho Red Front Bazaar, I wish to amfounco to tho trading public that I will have, as hood as possible, ft complete and up-to-date lino of Merchandise, such as this store linn formerly carried. Our intention in to make this store the most popular trading place in tho county and to do thin wo will carry a lino of goods of tho Wst quality and sell them at prices that will suit you. In order to be come lietter acquainted and also to dispose of tho present stock I am going to sell It at tho extraordinary price of 60 Cents on the Dollar. A cordial invalation in extended you to visit the store and take advantage of thin offer. f-qy. jt Tff fi -qi ngt ny jr tff B33 asirsp?5aHai!nisi; cash ruucnASKs M O iN K Y TO YOU LUNCH COUNTKR , Yours Respectful ly. J . E . C A L A V A V - wfft tft trfi if t 191 tft 'tTyr tfjfi tyt I don't want to sell you the Earth but I do want to sell you a . . r Fall Suit and Overcoat Call and examine mv good and get prices GORMLEY HI TAILOR ft & Company i4i Professional Cards, Clliott, ormy -ml-jCaw Ortyon t W. 33arns, jfformty at jCow, !PrinHl0, ' Ortyon. jfttmrmejfmtjCmm SPrimtMtU, Orym. fff . SSrmA jftternty mmd Cmn$lor ml jCmm tPritfttill; Orym. Commfy &Aylimi'ait) ffiolknap dc Cdwards SFAytiian and Surytomt. Vm f-w ZW Smat m to.' !Prinviit, Ortaon. t Rosenberg ZPiyiiciam anil Suryton Cnltt unstwroii promptly day mr m'yAt Ml mHtf 9im Strt, !Printtille, Ortyom. BEND RESTAURANT R. G. SMITH, Proprietor. Mi hi ii Jill lours Are prepare 1 to 'urnish hoard and lodging b the day, week or month. Also keep a fresh line of pastry always on hand. Lunches for travelers will bo prepared on short notice. Newly Furnished Rooms ISo itl, Oregon. FOR 3 ALE: A Clover Ranch. Sit uated 4 miles east of Sisters J mile from county road, 1J mile from school 1uU8C, 1G0 acres deeded, fenced, divis ion fences etc. Nearly all can bo cultivated,' 30 acres in clover and timothy, good stand and can be ir rigated with one fourth the labor re quired to irrigate any like number of acres in tins viemity. stock m Squaw Creek Irrigation Co's ditch, house of C rooms, well of good water, two bams and baruroom for 100 tons of hay. Price $1800. Call on or address II. E. Glazier, Sisters, Ore, CROOK COUNTY WILL EXHIBIT Arrangements Being Made for Fine Displayiat the Portland Fair. Crook county will nuke an ex hibit at the Lewi and Clark Cen tennial, that much having been definitely decided by the county court laxt Tuesday when It ex propped iU willingness to support such a move after reading the opinions exprem-d by some of the heavieht lax payers anJ reviewing 111? signatures to the petitions asking for an appropriation. The amount of the appropriation to he made has not In-en stated, nor is it likely to be set down at the extra session to he held next .Sat urday when "the executive com mittee will furnish the court with as definite a' statement of the funds required as is possible at that time to determine. This re port will contain an approximate figure relative to the cost of col lecting and maintaining an ex hibit but of course will be nothing more than a close estimate. From the sentiments expressed by the court last Tuesday it is probable that when something tangible has been arranged by the executive committee the court will set a limit appropriation and the cost of the exhibit will then have to fall beneath that sum. This is believed to be the most catisfactory manner to meet the expenses of gathering together the various articles, produce and stock and systematizing the work so that the greatest work can be-done for the lowest figure. In presenting the views of the executive committee to the county court, Mr. Lafollett stated that while nothing definite had betn fully decided upon, the committee felt that if the county intended to make a display of its resources, that display must be complete in every detail. It was useless, he stated, to attempt to make an ex hibit unless the funds were suili- cient to cover the cost of making a showing w hich would be on a par w ith the other counties which will be represented. Ho then out lined hastily the different features which such a display would era- ody and the approximate cost to be encountered in collecting the livestock, mineral, timber, agricul tural and fruit exhibits, then in preparing them and making them ready for shipment. He held to the samo opinion as. did Mr. lilkins and Sheriff Smith that if the countv undertook to advertise itself it must do the work thorough ly and make the exhibit one in keeping with the boundless re sources of the county at tho same timekeeping so far as jossible within the bounds of economy. Mr. Elkins stated that the com mittee had talked some of securing the assistance of Mr. Iki Fried of Portland, a man, he said, who was interested in Crook county and who could render some- valuable aid after the tinal arrangements had heed made. He thought Mr Fried would be willing to look after the shipments as soon as they arrived in Portland nnd would see to it that they were got into place and arranged in the best manner possible. The court and the members of the committee present then dis cussed the matter in a general way tho former body expressing its willingness to support a county exhibit provided the committe later handed in a detailed state ment arranged in such a way that the court could use it for a basis npon which to make an appropri ation. This meeting will be held Saturday when tho court will con vene in extra session In the mean time the committee is at worn 10 determine as near as possible the expenses to be met in getting livestock prepared for exhibition purposes, the cost of gathering the agiicultural and c o o other products of the county and Ixjxing them ready for shipment. With therKj figures gathered and the approximate cost of labor ami freight charge it will not he diffi cult for th court at its meeting the last of thin week to set aside a reasonable sum to he used for exhibition purposed. MALHEUR TO HAVE PECULIAR DISPLAY "Malheur county is going to make a notable exhibit at the Iew is and Clark Fair," said C. W. Parrish, a prominent lawyer of Burns. Mr. Parrish was a visitor at Exposition headquarters, and told of the plans of that county to advertise itself at the big Fair says the Telegram. "The intention is to raise $3.r00 for the purpose of an exhibit," paid he. "The County Court has ap propriated $1000 already and will doubtless set aside another $1000, provided the citizens of the county will raise $1,500 mere among them selves. This will probably be done. "Our chief exhibit will be a col lection of the wild animals and birds found in our county. The carcasses will be mounted true to life, and there is no reason why such an attraction should not draw considerable attention from those who will see the Fair. The collecting of wild animals for the purpose has already begun, but we ill wait until the Spiing flight for the birds. Of feathered creatures alone we will be able to collect about 250 species. Owing to the large lakes in Harney county, we have gulls, pelicans, six kinds of geese and 20 varieties of ducks, be sides innumerable other water fowl. Of both wild animals and birds our county can show a great assortment. He in tlarney Lounty are farther from Portland than Alaska is. . It takes five days to reach the county seat. Our nearest railroad is Sumpter Valley line, and that is 110 miles away. It is 250 miles to the O. R. & N. line, on the Columbia River, and about the same distance to the Oregon Short ine tracks in Idaho. We are lo cated in an immense territory, 400 y 500 miles, without- a railroad in it, unquestionably the largest area of the United States so isolated. OSTMASTER SIMMERS SUES T. I GEER Postmaster George Summers has filed suit against ex-governor T. T. Geer and ex-state land agents B. Geer and W. II. Odell for the recovery of fblio which was paid over to the defendants for the pur pose of securing base lands for the plaintiff and 25 other residents of this county, the claims aggregat- ng the sum mentioned. The action of the defendants in accepting the money and then in turn sending to the applicants base which has proved invalid is held to be an unlawful acf inasmuch as the money for the worthless, base has not been returned. The other claimants mentioned in the com plaint and who have apparently disposed of their interests or claims to Mr. Summers are: E. Clark, who claims $312; Mabelle Starr, $240; Mary Ban nard, $420; J. II. Dobbins, $150; W. W. Chase, $50; Florence M. Johnson, $100; Thomas Powell, $258; James F. Davis,- $400, John M. Swanson, $400 William J. Adams, $400; W. B. Palmer, $312.50; C. L. Hartshorn, $100; George Mack, $350; Albert Harts horn, $150; Albert E. Battson, $400; Charles S. Schlenker, $400; George Wilson, $400; Victor J. Chapman, $350; P. B. Howard, $480; Anna Keenan, $480; William Wurzweiler, $480; Matlie Sum mers, 480; Mrs. Alameda Fuller, 500; Walter Hammond, 281.75; John B. Erickson, 60; all with more or less interest from the 1st day of November, 1901. The complaint is one of the long est which has ever been filed in Marion county, comprising as it does 224 typewritten pages. The case will be tried at the next ses I jsion of the state circuit court. TAX LEVY WILL BE LOWER County Assessment Nearly 2 Mills Lower-City Levy i Mills Higher. Residents outside the city won't pay as much taxes this year as they did last, the county court having fixed the levy Tuesday. The levy this year droj to 21 mills or If mills less than it was for 1903 the last year upon which taxes were paid. The decrease is due to the lowering of the state and county tax both of which had lj mills sliced off their figure for 1903. This makes a total of 3J mills reduction, but this was par tially counterbalanced by a slight increase in the road, school and High school tax to be levied upon the last roll. A comparison of figures shows the difference in mills for the two rears: 1904 10 5 ' 2-J 3 21 1903 131 4 2 ' 2J 22 i State and county School Roads High school Total The figures above make a very ratisfactory showing when coupled with the fact that the county is making extensive improvements in every direction and at the same time is maintaining a High school. It was to be expected in conse quence that the taxes would in crease instead., of showing a material decrease. The surplus of unappropriated funds in the coun ty treasury at the time of conven ing of the last session of the coun ty court amounted to $7,800. vt rule everything is running smoothly in the county and the tax payers are getting off easily, a different hue is given matters in the city which is still paying the penalty of enduring a small-pox epidemic a couple of years ago. The tax levy this year will be 4 mills higher than last making a total of 34J mills. The figures for 1903 and 1904 are as follows: 1904 21 1903 County 22 J School District 7 5 General 6J 2$ Total 341 30i The marked increase in the levy on city property for the last asses- ment roll is due to the material increase made in the levy for general purposes. This, however, is in Keeping with the recom mendations made by the mayor in order that the city treasury be reimbursed for the sums ex pended in building new bridges arid in reducing the debt caused by the small pox epidemic in 1903. SUMPTER ROAD MAY YET BE BUILT llarriman or no llarriman, freeze-out or thaw-out, boycott or no boycott, the Sumpter Valley railroad's extension from Tipton to John Day may yet be built according to Chief Engineer Joseph West, who says that the company is just now awaiting future developments, at the same time gathering figures from tramp steamers in German waters, with the intent of buying steel rails abroad, shipping them by water to Portland, thence to the Blue Mountains over the O. R. & N., which will be such a short haul by rail that Harriman's high rates will cut but little figure. It will be remembered that a short time ago llarriman notified the Sumpter Valley company that hereafter a regular rate on steel rail shipments over his lines would be charged. Prior to that time a sort of "courtesy rate" had been in effect. Regular rates made rail shipments impossible and the John Day extension, which was to have been rushed ". to completion next spring, was perforce abandon ed. The S. V. company cancelled all its order for steel rails and gloom settled over eastern Oregon. It was the popular lelief that Harriman's hit-up of rates on Sumpter Valley rails was the first move in a definite plan to quelch the little road and later to b'iy it in, broaden its guage to stand ard, extend into the interior and and make the system of value as a feeder to the main line of the O. R. & N. All of which w exactly what the people of eastern Oregon greatly desire, but fear was en-, tertained that llarriman would take his time in extending further into the interior, it being the firm ly established policy of the O. R. & X. to keep down the develop ment ot eastern Oregon until the fertile webfoot transportation field is worked to a ripe red limit. In an interview with a paper in Ogden, Mr. West's home town, the chief engineer of the Sumpter Valley said that because there is ho particular hurry about the proposition, his company will not place an order abroad for steel rails for some time, and in the meantime will await developments, which means that the S. V. has not yet given up its attempts to prevail upon llarriman to re establish the old "courtesy rate." Sumpter Miner. LIVESTOCK MEN WILL ORGANIZE At the annual meeting of the National Live Stock association to be held in Denver next week an important change will be made in the movement to establish a pack ing house in Portland, says the Journal. The interests of the live stock men will be segregated for the purpose of securing a more effective working, basis for growers' and packers. While their interests run on parallel lines, they are distinct and can be better handled when separated. The organization as at present formed is cumber some and unbusiness-like, and has accomplished far less .-than was expected by its promoters. After the re-organization the packers will be in a position to work separately and invest money in pushing development of the packing industry in new fields. Whether they will look upon the Portland packing house project as a profitable venture is a question fhe near future will decide. The plan heretofore regarded as feasible would receive substantial support among Portland business men if the promoters came forward with financial nucleus sufficient to make it a business proposition. When the matter was first pro posed by the late Charles F. Mar tin, secretary of the association, it was understood by the Portland- ers to whom he made it that the association's representatives would come with a portion of the capital but would expect to receive here the remaining financial support needed. This expectation Port land business men were ready to meet. The promoters came with out funds, and the local contingent was not willing to furnish the entire amount on the terms pro posed. Conditions are expected to im prove when the association is reorganized next week. The pack ers will be in a position to take the field aggressively and will have a compact working organization, still retaining the cordial support and sympathy of the stockraisers. On the other hand, the stockmen will be better organized for work, and they will try to remedy cer tain conditions that have caused much trouble and loss on tho range in the matter of cattle inspection. It is their intention to insist that the government shall reim burse a cattle grower for loss oc casioned by faulty inspection of cattle by any official of the bureau of animal industry. In the past there have been instances wherein government inspectors, on er roneous diagnoses, have stated that herds of cattle were infected with mange and have prevented sales, to the great loss of the cattle owners.