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Crook -County If ourmial PRINEVILLE, CROOK CQUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 21, 1907. VOL. XI NO. 10 rn,vi',ii"in',i'ininnMri'!ir,irirnii'irvir irwinw r i r ii r i J I J r "i J n LJ r i - j r t. 'j i j M U r i r i t J r 1 i. j r i i. j r t j r i i j rr L'J r i LJ t i LI ri u ri t,i r .1 k j r i Mail Orders Promptly Filled Send your name and Get Premium Book FREE BY MAIL POSITIVELY Not After March 2nd But Until Then You Can Get The Following: All Heavy Outing Flannel, r'j?u!ar l'ijc to Ido value, iw. 9Jc KIi'IkIkt Shetland Klo, regular 10c . Ladi' Regular 1.1.75 now -At , 110 value 7Jc Dn r "i a M r i w J r LJ r i LJ ri u M LJ r U ri Li r 1 LJ r L J r 1 LJ r i L J ri LJ ri LJ r ,i L J ri M LJ r i LJ ri Li r.i wJ r.i i J Skirt, pwhil .. $2.55 Ladies' Regular r.M) H 1)11 at Dree Skirt. $4.69 . &idt Regular W.M Pre Skirl, i-ix-cittl : rmW .... $5.49 Ladi' Fiiio Kinihed $1.00 value, now. Lnd'uw' Kim. Kinihed $1,50 value, now , Union Suit, regular 69c Union Suit, regular $1.22 These are but a few of the many hundreds of specialties to be found at C. W. ELKINS MAN STREET, PRINEVILLE, OREGON r.iriirrpirnr rirrirfl-riir7iririrrirtr.r.rrnr.rirrr.irririrrrirrr-;-ir ---k-k. --L.U- Jk'- iLJLJLJLJl JkJL JLJLJLJL Jl '.,iriririr,irinr.iniririmr i 1- a L J ri L J ri L J r i LJ ri L J ri L J ri L J r i L J ri LJ ri LJ ri L J ri LJ ri LJ ri L J ri L J r.i LJ ri L J r.i LJ r..i LJ n L J f..1 LJ r.i It ri L J r.i LJ r.i l J r.i L J r.i LJ r.i r.i L J r.i L J r.i L J r i LJ r.i LJ r 3 LJ n L J r.i LJ r.i LJ r.i L J r.i l J r.i L J r.i L J r.i L J r i LJ ri L J r.i L J r.i LJ ri L J r.i L J r.i L J r.i Lai r .-t L J r .1 LJ r.i LJ r i LJ r.i L J r.i LJ r.i REPLY TO MR. H0DS0N Bend, Feb. 18, 1907. Editor of the Crook Ladio' Finn Finished Union Suit,egular $2 00 value, now $1.57 MnV Finn BiiHcndrr, regular 3.ro value now , . . 19c Men' Hand Finished SuH'iider, regular 75c value, now 46c M nV Fin Pre Pant, regular $5.00 values now. $3.25 Men' Heavy Overcoats, regular $15.00 value now $9.25 Boy' Fine Suit, 4 year to 8 yea re, regular $3.50 value, now $2.29 Child' Naiareth WaisU, now 21c irir.irim AiLJLiU LJ ... . . Wc arc now conducting a general Clearance Sale, great reduct ions are being made on all of our lines of Dry Goods, Ladies' and Gent's Furnishings, Notions, etc. The following prices on shoes will be maintained until the arrival of our New Spring Stock. $2.25 Ladies' Shoe lor $1.50 $2 75 l.adieh' Shoe (or 1.65 $.1(M) Ladi' Shoes for $.'1.25 Ladies' Shoe for $:i.50 Ladies Shoe for $1.25 Ladies' Shoe for $4.50 Ladies' Shoe for $5 00 Ladies' Shoe for 1.75 1.85 2.00 2.50 2.65 2.75 am: 50o Mii-es' Shoe for 00c Misses' Shoe for $1.00 Mines' and Shoes for Children' 25c Children' 60c Children' 60c $1.50 Misses, and ShoeB for Children' 85c $2.00 Mines' and Shoe for Children's ....$1.10 $2.25 Misses' and Children's Shoes for.... $1.25 $2 50 Misses' and Children's Shoes for $1.50 4' $2.75 Mises' and Shoo for . Children's ....$1.65 CLAYPOOL BROS. PRINUV1LLE, OREGON 14 14 To the County Journal: I nee by the Bend Bulletin that fit. llodon eenis to think it hrdly n!eary to reply to n.y inulting remark Kilnted at him in the Crook Coun ty Journal, and that he replies only for the benefit of those who wre not acquinted with me. He nays that my questions and re mark are directed at him from personal malice. If there i any eronal niHlice I am cure that I have none againt Mr. IIodon, hut jM-rhnj he has some against tnc, and if he ha he is welcome to hoard it against me as long as he sees fit to do so. I do not even care to know what he holds against me. Mr. Hodson says that my ears deceive me as he never made any such assertions as I claim he did. To begin with he says the figures? he quoted to me he got from re- liable H-rHons who had examined the county records to obtain them. I say he did not know what Smith k Wilt's assessment was until he took my figures from the Crook County Journal, and he says that he told me it was $7240. Did he tell me that Smith Wilt had any town property, any cows, any horses, or any lands beside their stock of good? I will say to Mr. Hodson that he never mentioned anything but their stock of good, and I will say further that he did tell me hnt Smith & Wilt wore assessed at $11,000 on their stock of good alone. He never said a word about anything else they bad to assess Mr. Hodson says that he did not tell me the highest assessment on any store in Prineville waB only $9000. I want to say to him most emphatically that he did tell me that the highest assessment on any store in Prineville was only $9000. He says that neither did he tell me that timber in the Blue moun tains was assessed at ouly $500 per quarter section and that timber on the Deschutes at $1000. I want to sav to him that he did tell me that these figures were what tim her lands were assessed at, and want to say to him that he did not know any difference until he read my figures in the Crook County Journal. He says himself that he wa informed by reliable parties be fore he started out to the jack pines and when he got there he com menced to misrepresent assess ment to the very best of his abili ties. Did he sav who the reliable not sign a petition for a division of the county, if there is any man on the Denchutea river that I can fix I am certainly not aware of it. I defy him to find one man that I tried to force. In bis next breath he refers to me as the gentleman of the jack pines and a pastmaster in the art of juggiing the truth and no doubt have my diploma is sued by the Crook County Journal. I will say to him that he is a past grand master at juggling the truth when it comes to misrepresentation of the taxes that are paid by Prine ville stores, by Smith & Wilt and on timber held in the Blue moun tains by Prineville men. Well Mr. Hodson, the evidence and proof are coming to me every day now and if you want the proof of what you said I have the goods and will deliver them to you at any time. When Mr. Hodson started in with his vituperation and contumely he reckoned without bis host and he reminds me of a drowning man catching at straws. As for living among the jack pine on the Deschutes river I will say that I am glad of it for the simple reason that I do not have to come in contact with pin-heads very often. In fact only when he hikes to the jack pines on his mis sion of mercy to get signers for his masters at Bend so that the tax payers of western Crook will not have any taxes to pay, but pin head and his masters will issue their circulars from Bend to us poor devils in the jack pines and say come in and get your yearly stipend as perhaps you need it now, and if you do not arrive by the 15th of May will have 10 per cent added and so on until you re ceive your cash. Hoping that this will meet with the approval of my friends in Crook county, I remain your truly, . John Atkinson. DESCHUTES CO. KNOCKED OUT fi3us&M&fi&& fy tmms Fancy Poultry Must Examine All Land. Deschutes county is a thing of the past for at least another two years. The Prineville delegation that was sent to Salem to help take care of the matter returned Tuesday and reported that their labor were at an end. Deschutes county hadn't the ghost of a chance to become a reality. The prospects for a new county on the north of us are exceedingly bright. A bill for the creation of Nesmith county has passed the house and there is not much ques tion but that it will pas the sen ate. The new county of Nesmith takes a slice off the northern part of Crook, so that our northern lines run as follows: Beginning at the township line between townships eight and nine be ing the southern boundary line of Wasco county, thence west along said line to the summitof the Cascade range: thence south along the western boundary line of Crook county to the southern boundary line of the Warm Springs Indian reservatin; thence easterly along the southern bound ary line of said Warm Springs Indi an reservation to the Deschutes river; thence northerly along the Deschutes river to a point where said river is intersected by the line between townships 10 and 11; thence east along said township line to the southeast corner of township 1C, south of range 13 east, W. M.; thence following sec tion lines north 3 miles, thence east 5 miles; thence north 8 miles; thence east 7 miles; thence south 6 miles; thence east 6 miles; thence north 1 mile; thence east 6 miles thence souht 3 miles; thence east 6 miles; thence south 3 miles thence east 6 miles; to the western boundary line of Wheeler county heavy taxpayers, while not wish ing to be cut off from Crook, have stongly objected to being put into Jefferson county and having to go to Madras for a county seat, thus of the two expressing their prefer ence for Nesmith county and a county seat nearer the railroad. On the Neemitb county petition appear the names of a majority of the resident in that portion of Crook most affected by a county division, many of whom would be obliged to travel from 30 to 40 mils to Madras a a county seat as against 15 to 25 miles to Ante lope as a county seat While a number of heavy taxpayers living about midway between these two point say: "By all means let us have Antelope rather than Madras for a county seat, if we must be cut off from Crook." This doesn't appear like bitter opposition to Nesmith county from "the terri tory to the south." The main op- poeition comes from Madras, for obvious reasons. "The Antelope people" diJ find out, by circulating a petition, how tbe people of Crook included in the strip asked or felt about the matter, and by securing the signa tures of a majoity of the residents in that strip, it would seem that their wishes should be respected. ' Bro. Lueddemann may have for gotten that he once lived in Ante lope, and that two years ago he was one of tbe hardest workers in the fight for Nesmith county, up holding her just claims valiantly. nd apparently was one of the chief mourners at the obsequies of the enort that " died a-bornine. So, as we before remarked, the light in which one is standing oft en changes the coloring of a picture. Practical Dry Fannin;. Shaniko Warehouse Co. Shfniko, Oregon General Storage, Forwarding ' A N I) Commission Merchants Dealers in Blacksmith Coal, Flour, Barbed Wire, Nail, Cument, Lime, Coal Oil, Plaster, Sulphur, Wool and Grajn, Sucka and Twine, Grain and Feed. Agent for Wasco Warehouse Milling Co'. "White Hiver" and "Dalles Patent" Flour. Highest price paid for Hides and Pelts. Special Attention is paid to Baling for Eastern Shipments. Wool Grading and Stock Yards with all the latest and bent facilities for Handling Stock. We have thirty Bro. Leghorn hens which wo are mating with Single-Comb Jluff Oriiington mules; the latter pur chased from Harris Poultry Co., Clay enter. Neb. We will sell one setting (14 eggs) for $1.00. Orders tilled in ro tation. FRANK FOKEST, 2-.Mui Prineville, Or. TTJcrrk 2our Soocis in Care of "S. 20. Co." . . . . .. ..,.t.,..-.iJ-t Thoroughbred Poland China Boar For Service. Black Langshans, Stock and Eggs for salo. E. C. PAKK, Redmond, Oregon. Department of the Interior, Notice for Publication. Lund Office, at The Dalles, Oregon, January 24. 1!X7. Notice is hereby given that l'errv Walter Newtiill, of Uriisly, Oregon, has filed no tice of his Intention to make final commu tation proof in support of!us claim, vi: llomwleau mry jno. hsid made mv. i, 1!W5, for the 85K SW', 8WJ4 8KX of Section S2, Xl. 12 South, Range 15 K., Lot JamtSWW NK'-iof Section 6, Township t South, Kungt) 15 K., W.M., and that said proof will be made before the County Clerk, at rrmeville, Oregon, on Slarcl Mth. 11)07. He nnmiw the ' following witnesses) to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of the land, via: Henry Montgomery, P. Ohitwood Joseph Smith, James M. Henkle, all of ttrisxly, Oregon. Miciiaki. T. Nolan, 1-atp . . Uegister. parties were?' Did he ever men tion one of their names'? If he did I have been unable to find any one who has. heard him. He had hi orders to keep the pro moter in the back ground. I want to say a few words to these promoters. If they had been honest in their convictions that it would be better to divide Crook county why did they not come right out ana agitate me question beforo the people and not neak around in back allies afraid to show their faces? This would have been a manly and honest en- eavor, but to try and make a sneak in the shape that they have done is about tbe worst sneaking graft that haa ever come before the people of Crook county. V In Mr. Hodson's ' letter to the Bulletin he has to bring in the 0,000 stock of good of C. W. Elkins. He says that he told me that Smith & Wilt were assessed nearly a much asC.'W. Elkins. I do not know what Mr. Elkins is assessed at as Mr. Hodson did not tell me, but I want to call his at tention to the fact that Mr. Elkins was making a sale of his stock at a sacrifice or in other word to clean up his old stock, and therefore made as big an advertisement as he could to attract attention to what he was going to do. My pin headed friend could only think that Mr. Elkins should pay taxes on his $70,000 advertised stock He says in his article to the Bulle tin that 1 boasted I would fix some of the people so that they would By direction of the president hereafter no patent shall be issued to public lands until an examina tion of the ground shall have been made by an authorized officer of the government. The president's order is in the form of a letter to Secretary Hitchcock, and under its provisions orders are being sent out to officials of the General Land Office. Following is the let ter. . The Secretary of the Interior To prevent the fraud now practiced in the acquisition of public lands of the United States, I have to di rect that hereafter no final certifi cate, patent, or other evidence of title shall be issued under the pub lic land laws until an actual ex amination has been made upon the ground for or by an authorized officer of the government, but the following shall be excepted from the force of this order: "First All claims which have heretofore been examined upon the ground by an authorized officer of the government whose report is found satisfactory. "Second All claims where an officer of the government other tnan omcers authorized to tk final proof, shall have been pres ent to the taking of final proof to cross-examine claimant and wit nesses, if such proof is found satis factory. "Third-All claim where claim ants' compliance with law has been established by contest or other regular proceedings. "Fourth iintnes which may have been confirmed by virtue of any act of Congress. 'Fifth Selection and entries in which no residence or improve ment is required by law, when the lands embraced are in agricultural districts, or when character has been fixed by investigation --and classification raadu in accordance with law. . "Sixth Classes of reissuance of patents because of some clerical error occurring in the patent here. tofore issued. "Seventh All Indian allot ments which have been regularly approved in accordance with in structions of the Secretary of the Interior." George L. Terrell of Smithfield, Utah, who has had 40 years ex perience at dry farming, gave some interesting facta in an interview printed by the Denver Post. He said: "I plow 10 inches deep after breaking the land, and then I usually have six inches of sub-soil. I use horses and disc plows alto gether. With a four-gang disc and eight horses I can plow from eight to ten acres per day, in a Between the Devil and the Deep plowing b done on the stubble I land, after the stubble is allowed I to grow about two feet high. In The Antelope Herald in dicuss-1 the fall that is turned under, and ing the urooK county division I in this way gets all 01 the winter's question has this to say regarding I precipitation, the snow, rain and the matter: frost. Often quite as much depend up-1 "I leave the rough plowing un- on the light cast upon a picture, til spring, and just as soon as it is as the picture itself, in bringing dry enough to work I put on my out its beauty and merit. And disc. I use a different sort of disc the same might also be said of the I than many of the western farmers. "Nesmith" county proposition, the It i manufactured in Logan City, bill for which is now before the Utah, and is known a the six- House at Salem. In last week's gang disc. It throws the dirt all Madras Pioneer, Brothef Luedde- one way, leaving no space for mann makes a few remark con- weeds to grow, cerning our efforts to break away "The boy with six horses puts from the mother county and create the harrow on and continues to , First-class Job Journal office. printing at The county of our own, embracing a I harrow lengthwise and crosswise small portion of Crook county, through the season for tbe purpose He graciously admits that the of killing weed and pulverizing portion of Wasco county which the soil, as well as conserving all lies south of Sherman county and of the moisture possible. eat of the Deschutes is cer- "About the first of September tainly most unfortunately situated each year I put on the leveler and with reference to its county seat, level the earth, the drill in the which it must cross the entire meantime being run in front and length of Sherman county to the seed drilled into the ground, reach." He goes on to say that We sow wheat at the rate of 35 or this section of Wasco is too small 40 pounds to the acre, and let it for a county embracing only its get the next winter's precipitation, own territory, and the territory to I and in the spring, when it is two the south (meaning that portion inches high, take tbe harrows and of Crook which we are asking for) tip the teeth backward at an angle "is unalterably opposed to being of about 30 degrees, so as not to taken in for the purpose of pad- tear up the soil. ding the tax roll of their proposed! "This method breaks the crust new county, and giving Antelope and pulverizes the sou, and it its coveted county seat." Let us there are weeds it will kill them, see how "far from, wrong" Bro. L. We generally harrow it both ways. is, especially m regard to his state- as it gives fresh life and vigor to ment of the bitter opposition of the the grain. We then leave it to residents of that portion of Crook harvest. included in "Nesmith," (not Stock- "By the methods I have describ man) county. Two petitions and ed I average 30 to 45 bushels of one remonstrance were circulated wheat to the acre, ou to yu bushels in that section. The petition for I of barley, three to three and a half "Jefferson" county was signed by I tons of millet, ar.d have plenty of about 20 persons, most of them be- good pasture for my cattle. 1 ing from the Blizzard Ridge and have between 1300 and 1400 acres Sage Brush Flat country. These under cultivation, and rest them people were filled up with wonder- every other year, iul stories about the wonderful "1 put in wheat last year and boom Madras would experience out of 210 acres on groung that I "when the railroad got there," and started to farm 31 years ago and t is quite likely many of them have been farming it every other signed the petition without realiz- year since that time. The crop I tng that they were giving them- raised last year was far better than selves a chance to pad the tax any year that I remember. I roll" of "Jefferson" county, and to broke up a piece of alfalfa ground, help support, a territory that (sowed two bushels of spring wheat hasn t been able to support itself on about two acres, and harvested for the past two seasons, and in 69 bushels of the finest quality. which there have already been two "I kept all of that seed and the or more business failures in conse- millers offered me 10 cents a quence. , I bushel more for it than the price .Several signed a remonstrance of any wheat in the country. I lie against cutting off any part of Farmers' association at the meet Crook county, which would oper- ing last year named it 'Farrel' ate more against Jefferson county Golden Wonder.' I got a teacup than Nesmith, as the former would full of seed from the north of take a much larger slice from England and continued to raise it Crook. It is well known, however, until I got two bushels, then plant that some of these remonstrators, ed the two acres with the result men of large business affairs, and that I have given."