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mm HEWS NOTES (FGSIMTEfiST Events Cccurrirg Througlicu: t.c C.2'.2 Djrir the Past Week. NcA-c-t Will Es Vct." N-i vo:t. v'.irt will K vet ii'.ir-f-. cv-i v.:r. la tlu statement at V..i;.it Wil vx. .Vt tlu- root".! ty ejection the town tr s4 Itrvlf r.ry. Mayer Wilcox ae e ri:i!:-ly isstiivl a proclamation d th? rofult ami entering the :.: oo: s closed. Tl'.e saloontnen re Cum.iI to obey the crier atul continued ) Jo t;:s;ne:-s as usual. Mayor Wil ecx ticn advised with Attorney Gen eral Crawford, who says that the method used to call the local option ejection was irregular and that the tesult Is null and void. Foundry Enjoined From Making Post rttgene. Suit has been Instituted gainst Gross Bros., owners of the iron foundry, which made the cluster Bshting posts now being erected on the business streets of Eugene, to en .Join the further delivery of posts fot the. alleged reason that the defendant it Infringing upon certain patents which the Independent Foundry com pany, of Portland, holds. The found ry company and C. H. Crelle, also 01 Portland, are joint plaintiffs In the xuiL Grelle was an unsuccessful bid der to furnish the posts. KO EXEMPTION THIS YEAR Initiation Proposed Forcing Asses sors to List Property at Value. Salem. At a meeting of the state Board of tax commissioners it was de cided to not apply the household ex emption law to property assessed fot v the year 1912. This course was In compliance with an opinion rendered y the attorney-general. it the meeting the subject of legis lation for the coming Bession of the Bseislature was taken up. Under the nrraeot system the assessors fail to assess property at its full cash value, thougn the law provides that they shall do so. The suggestion of provid ing a way for removing assessors who tail to comply with this law seems to neet with favor, and it Is likely that some recommendation along this line will be made. Spanos is Guilty of Murder. Medford After less than two hours deliberation, the Jury' in the Mike Spanos murder case returned a ver dict of murder In the first degree. Spanos had previously confessed tc tn murder of George Dedaskalout lere September 22, but when the casi same to trial he claimed the confes sion was forced from him under du less. TO REFORM COURT RULES JSn'nt Representative Smith of Klam ath Falls Preparing Bill. Klamath Falls. Believing that the widespread criticism of the courts is due directly to preventive methods a In vogue, V. O. Smith, Joint re presentative of Klamath, Lake and Crook counties has in preparation a sail to facilitate court work. to circuit court work, the attornej whe files a suit or action will be re suired to secure the issuance of sum mans within one day thereafter, and ii the defendant can be found within the aounty where the complaint has been filed, service must be made within 10 days, or outside the county within 20 days. Then, after the filing of a complaint and service of summons, the case mast be tried within 10 days, unless the court is actually engaged in the trial of cases previously filed. The measure to be introduced by Xr. Smrth will take away the power of the courts to extend the time foi answering or for trial, eves on stipula tion of opposing attorneys, except foi unusual reasons, and then the moving party must pay to his opponent all ol tite expenses, including attorney's fee. to date. In no case will more than ne postponement he granted. The bill will also require every luestion to be decided within 10 days (him the time it goes to the court foi that purpose. Poultry Show Planned at Heppner. Heppner. The first poultry show for Morrow county will be held at Heppner December 24, 25, 26 and 27. TIi3 poultry men of this county met Sere and decided to hold the show on tile dates named, and have engaged tfie- services of W. M. Coates, of Van sourer, B. C, to act as judge. 3kposltlon at Roseburg to Tax. .-luseburg. At a largely-attended neeti&s held here the merchants and pmjJ.wSonal men of the city served notice on the council that they wera. opposed to the proposed increase in the occupation tax, and would refuse to pay the same, pending the estab lishment of its legality in the courts. HELEN GOULD ; ) ilv -y.i Mita Helen Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, whoa engagement to a prominent railroad man of St Louis is announced. HOPE FOR AVIATORS LOST Part of Wrecked Air Craft Found at Sea Los Angeles. Resting places on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a few miles from land, are believed to have been accorded by fate to Horace Kear ny, the young Kansaa City aviator, and his passenger, Chester Lawrence, Los Angeles newspaper man, who started with him as a passenger on an attempted flight in a hydroaeroplane to San Francisco. Faith in the proverbial luck of Avi ator . Kearny was shattered when a party of fishermen arrived In Santa Monica towing behind their motor boat a hydroaeroplane pontoon. It had been picked up five miles south west of Redondo beach, and was posi tively Identified by Charles Day as the one he had constructed for Kearny's hydroaeroplana. Day expressed the belief that the men had landed on the water, proba bly because of engine trouble, and the heavy seas had wrenched off the pon toon, causing the craft to lose its equi librium and hurling the men into the sea. Prohibit I. W. W. From Using Kettle Cleveland, Ohio. Prohibited by city officials from placing contribution ket tles at downtown street corners. In dustrial Workers of the World here held a mass meeting in protest A committee was named to draft resolu tions threatening a repetition of an open fight for free speech and person al liberty recently waged in San Diego, CaL ENVOYS CONFER TO ARRANGE PEACE London. The Turkish-Balkan peace conference was formally opened at St. James palace Monday, by Sir Edward Grey, the Eritish secretary for foreign affairs, who made a brief speech of welcome. The main conditions likely to be asked by the allies include the Imme diate surrender of Scutari, Adrlanople and Janina, to the garrisons of which will be granted full military honors; the evacuation of Eastern Europe by Turkey as far east as Tchatalja, to a line which experts appointed by the contracting parties will delimit on the spot; the cession to Greece of all the Aegean islands, including Rhodes and 11 others which Italy is keeping as a pledge for Turkish fulfillment of the treaty of Lausanne; the annex ation of Crete to Greece, and the pay ment of a war indemnity and the ex penses sustained on acount of Otto man prisoners. In return the allies will grunt complete amnesty to the Mussulman population In the territor ies they annex for any acts of hostility during the war; the return of all pris oners; the recognition of the spiritual sovereignty of the Sultan over Otto man:; beccmir.3 subjects of the Balkan states, and the free administration by the Mussulmans of their pious funds in the Balkans. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Club, 78c; bluestem, 82c; red Russian, 7Gc. Oatc $26 per ton. Hay Timothy, ?18; alfalfa, $12. Butter Creamery, 37c. E'JSs Candled, S7c. Hops 1912 crop, 20c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 18c; Wil lamette valley, 22 c. Mohair 32c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 82c; club, 78c; rd Russian, 77c. Egss 38c. j Butter CreamervpAlc. Hay Timothy, $19 per ton; alfalli, $12 per ton, BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Arrangements are Icing made to esliiblls.li a tile factory In Albany, Jacob Kanitn, pioneer steamboat man, died at his home la Portland at the aste of !S. A meeting of the peoplo of Polk county and school officers was held In Ia!ln Saturday. lr. Nurris. city health officer of Oregon City, says there are probably 7v cases of typhoid fever In the city at the present timet. The Indian appropriation bill car ries a total of $2:13,763 for the Indians of Oregon. For the Chomnwa school $lll.0(io appropriated. II. II. Mack of Huntington, drug gist and postmaster, has pleaded guil ty to the charge of furnishing cocaine to prisoners in a convict cum p. The good weather thnt continued through October and November has enabled the farmers to get their full grain in and a large acreage has been sown. Corporal Godfrey, of the 160th com pany, coast artillery, la dead at Fort Stevens as the result of an accident sustained while working on a ten-Inch rifle. Box manufacturers of the Pacific northwest assembled In Portland this week for the annual meeting of the Northwest Box Manufacturers' Asso ciation. Fruit shipments from Medford for 1913 will reach 77S cars, against 634 for 1910. the previous high year. There were 344 cars of pears, 436 of apples, and 10 mixed. More than 200 members of the Unit ed Artisans from the central part of the Willamette valley attended a big district convention of that order held in Albany Tuesday. Robert Morgan, who murdered Vlr gle Hart, his sweetheart, at Condon on October 16, has been sentenced by Judge Parker to be banged at Salem on January 16, 1913. When the next legislature convenes it will be asked to appropriate In the neighborhood of $135,000 for the com pletion of the new additional capitol building and for remodeling the main building. Henry Monroe Brown, prominent in the commercial and political life of Polk county, is dead at hia residence in Dallas. Mr. Brown died in the same house in which be was born more than 53 years ago. j The lectures and demonstrations of farmers' week at Oregon Agricultural college closed Saturday at noon with a demonstration of "farm butter mak- i ing" given by O. O. Simpson, of the department of dairy husbandry. ! The body of man believed to be Christ Bethleffen was found on the river bank near Salem with a bullet hole through the heart A 32-callber revolver clutched In the right hand ahowed it to be a case of suicide. The complete results of the agricul tural census for Oregon with refer ence to crops are presented In a bul letin soon to be Issued by Director Durand, of the Bureau of the Census, department of commerce and labor. Favorable action on a petition for a , permit to build a bridge for the Wil- lamette Pacific railway across Coos ' Bay is being urged by the Port of Coos Bay, and also the comerclal bodies of Marshfield, Eugene and North Bend. I Although women have been granted the right of suffrage In Oregon, the attorney general's office at Salem has ruled that they are not competent to ' serve on juries, the statute providing that only "male Inhabitants" are eligi ble to jury duties. j R. E. Kitzwater, who paid $180 an 1 acre for 31 acres of land near Leban- , on. In the foothills, bas gathered 6600 bushels of potatoes from 21 acres of 1 the land. At 50 cents a bushel, the potatoes will return almost the pur chase price of the land. The 1913 Oregon legislature will be asked to appropriate $100,000 for pur poses of protection for Oregon forests for the ensuing two years. A like amount was a-ked of the 1911 leglsla-! ture. The amount appropriated at i that time was only $00,000, or $30,000 : per year. I Estimates prepared by the govern- ing board of the Monmouth normal j Bchool indicate that an additional ap- propriation of $15,000 will be neces- sary to equip and complete the new i dormitory. The last legislature ap- I propriatcd $0,000 for this building, I and all has been spent on construe- ! Hon work. As the result of requests arranged ments will be made for lectures upon athletics, with particular reference to the International contest at Stock holm last summer, by BtTl Hayward, trainer of athletics at the university of Oregon, before the students In sev eral high scmools of the state. These will oecur early In the spring. The twelfth annual meeting of the Oregon state teachers' association, western division, Including those of the rural school supervisors and coun ty superintendents' department, the college and normal school department, department of secondary education, department of Industrial edncatlon, department of city superintendents and the department of mnslc, will be held In Portland December 26, 27 and 28. 0 3 V tv 4 ! ' m SUITS $16,50 to $40.00 G0RMLEY, The Tailor We can supply your needs in . the Flour and Feed Line Prineville Farmers, don't fail of our Liberal Stewart We have a lot olOdd Plives ol Knrn Iture, consiHtltiK "I Kockora, Chair, Drewm-rs, Ladle' Ik-sks, Music itiu ku, Buffets, China Closet, Picture, etc. On these goods we have Cut the Price ! Make Early Selection. A. H. Lippman & Co. Statement of Resources and Liabilities of The First National Bank Of Prineville, Oregon KKMOUICKH Ixam and IHnratinU.. f.tllW 0.1 Uoltnl maMw Honda 1'i.SW OH Bank premlsMUHe U.M0 II Cant) a Hue from banks 2W,J( 01 B. F. All.a. PreiMeat Will Wunw.ll.r, Vice Preiia.ol L1JMBER i THE HAMILTON STABLES J. H. WIGLE, Proprietor PRINEVILLE, OREGON Stock boarded by the day, week or month at Reasonable rates. Remember ua when in Prineville. Ratios Reasonabi.b. We have Fine Livery Rigs For Rent 8 The Journal is Cheap at $1.50 a year Tailoring Don't throw your money away. The Tailor matle wny for mine, Bill. That' a sure run for your money The clothes look right nnd tay that way. Flour Mills to take advantage Exchange system & Carlson Holiday Presents I I.MIIIMTIKI Capital HUx-k. fld In 1 60,01)0 00 Kurplua tund, carntd Uxn 00 Undivided pronta, earned mj.lM t.lroulatloQ t.suo 00 iMpoalK .,. SHO.ow S3 tvn.Ut la T. M. Baldwin. CaahUr H. Baldwin, Am'I Caehler Shingles, Mouldings, Windows, Doom, GlusBefl, Etc. Etc., Etc. SHIPP & PERRY PRINEVILLE, OREGON j) I(flf2( i iTofcsas'.ttal Cards, LawO ffire of W. P. MYERS Kamitra llld'f. PrlnilU, Ore Dr. Charics Macl'aildcii Osteopathic I'hyaician Hvtt-iil 1t-t-tt.t Mint NitMmil TlimM-tillf4 llll-l. illiHUr IM.. t N MH'tllr Office In Kaniatra Blm k TeWphnnai Pioneer,. No. 126. T. 1-. J. Dill 1'V Attoritn'-t- Law (HIIIVIMH I" W. A. Ik'lll I'lll MVI1 IH OltMHI Prof. A. W. Grater, Divine Healer llllice In M"in ItiilMluK Hi tee doors oiuli id Juutiml ollii-v, Prineville, Oregon D. H. PEOPLES Civil and Irrigation Engineer Koom 11 Adaiuaon llld'g Prineville, Ore. lot Dr. Howard (iovc Dentist Croak County Bank Building Cm Ml mmwmrmf prmmfttjp jr mtpmi PrmfM. 0r,f,m. HAVE YOU Filed your Deed? Of Course. HAVE YOU An Abstract? (Vrtnliilv everyone lias an abstract now. iMvon kwiw wher your comers ar. Well, No, Not exactly, Brewster Engineering Company, I'rinoville, Oregun, will locate1 them lor you ami guarantee the work. Survey. i'W, Cutting. Irrigation Kuglneeriiig. I'lions I'loiKvr 201. C J". Wrw JF. 3. Stiknmp IK't'lM.lKTU Belknap c Cdivards (County I'hy.lrlan.) J. Trendies Fox M. It. O. H. Kite; and 1 K, A. Und.mi I.trenerr Orruon Mate Medical lloard. Mprlalbt In tiuritrjfi MvKlene: Ali mentary Canal; ignwn and children's UtwHIMtt. URIn and rrl()fnoe im dimr weal of v Inrek dftis tunt, i'rlnevllle, Ofveuti. S?a Citatt !Phfittimm mmj Jmrf ewa :uj AMiwtatu Himt tT os Niear Orrii-a una Ixjua huitn nr adamsum's Have noes Hoih ufflm au rua). dvuoa lelepuutM. W. A. HI'LL Lawyer Tlie Dnlln Oreirun (i. A. McFAULANi: Lawyer I'rsi'tiee in all courts and V. 8. I sml Ollice. Redmond, Oregon SP. ClUtH, Pn IU, Ortfn. Willard II. Wirtz i Attornffy.nt.Liiw. Ollice In M. It. MIkk' HI-. I'KI.NKVII.I.K. OlIKflOX Jft 6. SSrimk Jfttrwft. !Prin;ill: Orfm. The Brosius Bar Finest Brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor Why not takk the Journal ? t'J t?.vsji-w. tij a,-.-