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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1912)
OiiEGON HEWS NOTES CF GEfJERALJNTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. r.rmor.' We.k at 0. A. C. Llktd t'orvallls. Comiiloto dutu on Farm rr Wtk registration tit Orison Agri cultural coIIxkk, as ooiniillxil In the of ficii of Hutilstrar Tmiiutit, diva tin Inliil tiumlier of pi'opl nttondltiK oii or mors of th lcturi and tlt-inon-atratloiis at 1140. Of this numlxT 813 wore men Hid 828 were woiiiimi, Tha total atioiuliiw of 1140 lucluiles C3& ri'Knlnr stmlinita, alrnaily rvKtatprml fur culU'Sa work, ao tlila niinilicr d-ductr-il frum the Krind tolnl lavpa tins a thn nu in In' r who cnin to (. A. ('. fur the mil" purpose of tnkltiK nd vnnlnK" of Hi" work offxrvd uurtug Purmnrs' wwk. Charges Against Banksrs Droppid Balnm. With u nuil loll mnda by IHctrlrt Attorney Jnhu II. McN'ury, JiuIk I', It. Ki'lly, of the circuit court here, iiin.li an order dlsmlssliiK the fniir criminal rases Instituted by tlia mini aitalrixt J. Thiirhiirii Kiwi), John K. Aliclilunn and T. T. Ilurkhnrt, aa to all the defendant save Huss. In nil I'liKc the tiiillclmmils rhurireil thi defendant with mliilriiirliillng school fund brliiiiKliiK to Ihe slate while th defendant were offtrers of thn Title Guarantee & Trust compiuiy. of J'ori luiul. INTEREST IS MANIFESTED Dairymen of State Hold Interesting Seeelon at Albany Albany. Completing a session marked by Important action for thn betterment of dairy condltlniia In tbla into, th Oregon iMilrymi-n a aKocln tlim adjourned Ita J!3d anuuiil conven tluii. Morn Interest wa manifested at tills session In dnlry problem ntid Ihcre was a more whnlesouled desire fur tho Improvement of dairy condi tion nml the development of thn In dustry In tlila stale, apparent thnn at any former convention of tho nunoclii- tlon. J. M, Dickson of Suedtls, win elected j president of tho association fur tlio i year In the nnnunl lection, Charles j Kuiuo, of Tllhimook, wna elected first vice president, and Edward Cnry, of Carllou, Bcoml vice president. K. U Kent, of tho Oregon Aprtrtilt urnl col leen, of Corvnlll. ' reelected sec retary and treasurer. Tllhimook was selected for next year's convention, but the dute wna left to the officers P. A E, to Extend Road Six Miles Mcdford. The directors of tho Pa cific & Kaatern railroad have voted an appropriation aufflclent to extend the enst end of the road six nillcs run hiT Into the timber along the rluht-ot way townrds Iteud, providing Unit the assurance la Riven to them I lint an adequate mill Is built nnd op erated at Unit end of line. The con struction of the additional six miles Df rullroiid will entnll an expenditure Df close upon I250.0ii0. RESOURCES ENUMERATED Immigration Agent Chapman Prepares Information for Homeseekera Portland. An Immense fund of In formation aa to Oregon, Ita resources and opportunities, la supplied the homeseoker, the settler and tho In vestor In the Initial ofriclnl pamphlet Just issued by C. C. Chapman, atnte Immigration agent. Wrappers for iOn.Ooo copies have been addressed, nnd the literature will be placed Im mediately In the hands of peoplo In quiring about Oregon, Provision for the public.nl Ion wns made at the lust Ket.sfon of tha legislature, when a stuto Immigration department wns created and an appropriation of $25,000 mudo lo meet expenses of operation. The pamphlet probably la the most complete compilation of Its kind ever iiHitemliled In this atnte. It la replete with drawings and Illustrations uliow ItiK. among other things, the land area and population, classification of lands by counties showing tho acreage avail nblo for settlement, average produc tion, yield and price of staple crops In Oregon nnd other stntea, yield of agricultural crops and their value, and general Industrial Btntlstlca. Sheepmen Fix Meet Date y;l0i Convention dates for the lGth annual meeting of the Oregon Stato Wuolgrowers' association In Vale are January 2, 3 nnd 4. Special trains are lioliig arranged for by the Vulo cham ber of commerce to convey tho dele Ijitna from Ontario to Vnlo and return, In addition to the regular railway trnlu iiervlee belwoen these points. Crusade Against Big Signs On. Aurora. The city council at ie last mooting ordered druwn up an ordi nance prohibiting big glaring ' bIsdb Hint mar the appearance of Btreels nd preniliTs. DR. ANNA H. SHAW $ by Anixrk-an I'nva AwwclMloa. Dr. Anna H. Shaw, president of tha National Woman'a Suffrage Assocla tlon, who disapproves adoption of ori ental dress by American women, GOVERNMENT SUES S. P. One Di I lion Dollars In Property May Be Involved lo Angeles, Cnl. t)no billion dol Inrs' won li of Cnllfornltt oil-bearing binds, It whs anld, probnbly would be Involved In the litlKullon which waa begun here with the flllnit of the Uu'V OO0.OU0 action In enulty BKiilnst the Boulhern I'uclflc cumpniiy and Ita aubsldliiry corporntlons. Tho Stand ard Oil comimny, throuKh Ita subsidi aries,, la expected by fedenil officers finally to be Involved aa well as the McKeiiileMaiin Interests, the HrllUh Colunihla Oil Symllcnte which la siilil to be Inlerented extensively In Cull foruln. Three or more years probably will elnpse before It Is determined whether the Southern 1'nclflc and other Inter ests wronKfully obtained the miuenil bimla specified In the action. The suit already Involves the In rues t amount ever soukM In an eiiully ac tion In tho blaiory of the United Blates and federal officers any it will be ended only when the supreme court o the I'nlled Suites renders a decision. John H. Hall Pardoned WnahlnKton. John II. Hall, ex t'nl ted States attorney, has been fully pardoned by Resident Tnft. Hull la pardoned on two grounds. Klrst, that the department of Justice, after thor oiikIi InveKtlKittlon, la convinced he waa not guilty of the offense charged, and secondly, that his conviction waa secured by Jury "packed" by Wlllliim 3. Ilurna, aa wna tho Jury that con victed Wlllard N. Jones. . BRYAN AND WILSON HOLD CONFERENCE , Trenton, It. J. President-elect Woodrow Wilson and William J. Bry an conferred here In the governor'! room at the stnte house. Mr, Wilson said frankly that, while he had talked with Mr. Dryan about men for hla Cabinet, the name of 'the Nebraskan waa not mentioned. The summoning of Mr. Bryan to dis cuss legislative policies and the per sonnel of the Cabinet was, the Preal-dont-elect Indicated one of a series of ateps which he li taking to determine on the fitness of Individuals for the Cabinet. In view of Mr. Bryan's connection with the drafting of the Democratic platform, tho conference largely con cerned plans fur carrying out plntforra pledges. Tho Governor wnp asked if Mr. Bryan Boomed to be In favor of any precedence In tho order of legislation. 'We went over the platform In a general wny," replied the Governor, "with no special emphasis on ono plunk more thnn another." Natal Sails With Body of Reld Portsmouth, Knglnnd. The British armored cruiser Natal sailed with the body of Ambassador Reld on board. Full naval honors were paid. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Club, 79c; bluestem, 83c; red Russian, 77c. Onts $26 per ton. Hay Timothy, $18; alfalfa, ?12. Butter Creamery, 87c. Kggs Candled, 32c. Hops 1912 crop, 20c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 18c; Wil lamette valley, 22(S. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 83c; club, 79o; red Russian 77c. Eggs 33c. Butter Creamery, 38c. Hay Timothy, $19 per ton; alfalfa, $12 per ton. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON At the city election In Ashland O. II. Johnson was elected mayor and the town went dry by a vote of 405 for license and 13f( against. A plan Is ou foot with the people of Coijullle and Unndon to form Port of Unndon for the purpose of Improv ing the lower Coqullle river. Attorney Oeneral Crawford has held that the eight hour luw passed by the people at the last general election Is void because of the absence of an enacting clause. Tha Oregon branch of the American Poultry Association was organised at Kugene by the adoption of a constitu tion and bylaws and by the nomination of a set of officers. I). C. Kcclea of Ogden, Utah, baa been elected president of the Sumpter Valley railroad and other Oregon In stitutions recently controlled by his father, the late David Kcclea. Mrs. Nancy Whlteukor, wife of the first governor of Oregon, died at Ku gene in her eighty-fifth year. Mrs. Whllenker crossed the' plains from MliKourt with her husband In 18!i2. Circuit Judge Calkins at Mcdford sentenced Mike Hpunos and Frank Ki- moiir, alias Parker, recently con victed of murdering George IVduska lons, a Greek, to bang February 14 next. Governor West has appointed Coo. Cornwall, editor of the Tlmberman, of Portland, as a member of the Ore gon Agricultural college board of re gents, to succeed W. W. Cotton, re signed. What the farmers of the state are di lug In co-operative associations In Hi j matter of Irrigating their lands, will bo tho keynote to the Irrigation Congress meeting In Portland January 9, HI and 11. Frank R. Forbes of Spokane has been appointed traffic manager of the Portland, Kugcue & Kastern railroad. Ho will assume his new duties Janu ary 1 and will have his headquarters In' Portland. There are 8.15(5 school children In Linn county, according to the annual enumeration Just completed by Coun ty School Superintendent Jackson. This It a f;:iln of 2o2 over Inst year's omunoration. Superintendent Alderman will urge a change In the school textbook laws at the next bchsIoii of the legislature which ho believes will work a great leacflt to the school children of Ore gen If It la adopted. Mim;;le Adams, known as the moth er of the Tillamook tribe of Indiana, died this week at her home at East Garibaldi. She was 109 years old and remembered the coming of the first white man to Tllnmook Bay. That 1,000.000 boxes of apples, enough to fill a train of 1200 cars, 15 miles long, will be shipped from the Hood River valley through Portland by the wny of the Panama canal to European markets next fall, Is pre dicted. In a summary completed by the state board of tax commissioners of the assessed valuation of all the coun ties In the state as assessed by county assessors, the complete assessed valu ation for 1912 la shown to be $793, 095,181. Miss Clara C. Munson, daughter of a survivor of the Whitman massacre and a graduate of St. Helen's Hall In Portland, has been elected mayor of Warrenton by 16 majority over J. W. Detrich, and thereby becomes the first woman mayor In Oregon. That the legislature should enact laws to protect laboring men from coming to the state In response to misleading announcements that work and wages await them, 1b the opinion given by Labor Commissioner Hoff in his fifth biennial report. Govecnor and Mrs. Oswald West have Issued nn Invitation to the peo ple of the Btate of Oregon to attend a reception at the state capltol on New Year'B night, January 1, In honor of the former governors of Oregon and their wives, or their widows. By a vote of 1130 to 62, tho largest percentage mujorlty In the history of the Btate, the citizens of Grants Pass voted $200,000 bonds to construct the Initial units of tho Pacific Interior railroad, a band of Bteel which Is to tie Grants Pass to Crescent City at tidewater. Governor West has completed a tab ulation Bhowlng the outline of his pro posed uniform salary plnn for county officials. This tabulation shows the percentages of area, population and assessed valuation for each county In relation to the entire state and also bIiowb the averages for the three in relation to t-he entire Btate and whnt class each respective couuty will come under. The stnte board of health, at Its an nual meeting at Salem, adopted a mo tion recommending to the legislature a law giving members ' of the Btate board authority to file In behalf of the state on -water rights, to condemn rights of way and build flumes and take whatever other steps are neces sary to carry out the project outlined In the report of Engineer Louis C. Kelsey. This report outlines a plan for supplying water to cities and towns of the Willamette valley' from McKenzie river. Harney Freight Going via Prairie City Prairie City, Or, Dmo. 21 The freight Unfile from th'g place to IJurnS and tho Ilurney country, which was about IS months diverted by ihjauto truck freight line from Bend, is returning to its old channel by way of the Sampler Valley railway, from Bilker to Prairie City, and by freight tea id a froui this point to Hum. The reeson is found in the fuct the auto freight service from liutid to Hums, while a success so far as time and arry ing cupacity is concerned is not as ptntituble to the auto truck company as wss hoped; in fact, it is Mi id to have been practically demonstrated that no mo com oiodiiieg can be delivered into ihe llurney country cheaper by the freighter team from Prai iU City than by euto trice line from litMid The distance from IJend to Burns is about 140 miles, as aguinst about H5 oiiles from Prairie City. Tho road from the lat'er point is for the most part a fairly jrocd one, and lies thro ugh a well settled country, well supplied with bay and grain, and abundantly watered. The facili ties for forwarding and handling freight through the commodious forwarding station at Prairie City, together with the conven enecs provided for the freighters and tbeir teams here, makes this routa in many respects afavorite one. At the present time freight teams aro engaged in hauling from this point, the equipment and furnishings for the new school building now being erect ed at Burns. It is reported here that Sump ter Valley railroad is actively in terested in regaining the Harney county transportation business. Wants to Sell More Land. President Howard and two otiier officers of the Central Ore gon Irrigation company appeared before the desert land board and asked for an additional contract with the state givingthe company authority to sell more land and water rights in their project as means of getting security for raising funds needed to complete the line project. As only three members of the land board were present, no act ion was taken, and the company officials were requested to pre sent their proposal to the board in writing. Company officials explained that they had spent 300,000 on the north canal and dam when engineers' estimates had placed the cost of this work at f 135,000, and that properly to cover the entire project it was necassary to contiuue the canal 16 miles. This, they estimate, would cost from 1250,000 to $300,000. The money already spent lias been raised principally from stockholders and bondholders, and now they want to dispose of more land contracts as a basis for raising additional funds. Reports from tho project show that the company is doing efllci ent work. Information for the Homeseeker An immense fund of informa tion as to Oregon, its resources and opportunities, is supplied the homeseeker, the settler and the investor in the initial official pain phlet just issued by C. C. Chap man, state immigration, agent Wrappers for 200,000 copies have been addressed, and the literntnrn will be placed immedi ately iu tue hands of people in quiring about Oregon. Provision for the publication was made at the last session of the Legislature when a state immigration depart ment was created and an ap nronrion of $25,000 made, to K meet expenses of operation. The pamphlet probably is th most complete compilation of it kind ever assembled in this state. It is replete with drawings and illustrations showing, among o her things, the land area and population, classification of lands by counties showing the acreage available for settlement, average prodcctioD, yield and price of staple crops in Oregon and other states, yield of agricultural crops and their value, and general in dustrial statistics. Particular attention is paid the horticultural interests of the state and its production of wool, hops, timber and fisheries. Other statistics tell of the miner al resources of the state, while one map shows the railroads and navigable streams. Another de partment of the publication, which if, called the Oregon Al minac, discusses the subject of tducation. It shows that in 1911 we employed more teachers and expended more money in pro portion to population than majority of tbeot'er states, Under the caption ''Made in Oregon," Governor West, in tn introductory invitation, says the following: ''AH the materials entering in to the makeup of the Oregon Almanac are Oregon products. Hut a short time ago the 'paper upon which you are reading of the facis about Orehon, both cover and inside, was in balm tres that pushed their peakeH growths toward the tkies of the Willamette Valley. The trees were cut, their fiber erushed to pulp, the paper manufactured in Oregon, and today it carries the tale of Oregon's opportunities to millions of readers east, west, north and south. "The printing, the engraving of the zinc etchings and half tones; the drawing of the illustrations, the draughting of the figurative charts and maps everything was done in Oregon. There is an ever growing sentiment that is daily being put to the practical test of 'Made in Oregon.' This sentiment means. more than the mere words of our people. It is a state wide loyalty to the idea that Oregon people believe to the utmost in utilizing Oregon's rich resources. They may be de pended upon to encourage with their patronage all who come to the state and invest their capital in manufacturing enterprises. The people appreciate every effort put forth for the fullest and quickest development of Oregon." The great mass of convincing statistical information and com EVERY DAY in the YEAR THROUGH TRAIN TO PORTLAND Loaves Redmond 7:15 A M. Arrives Portland 5:30 PM. tWOREG Direct Connection for L i in it ed Trains to SEATTLE, TACOMA, SPOKANE, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL, CHICAGO, DENVER, OMAHA, ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY, And All Points East and South via tho North Bank Road, Northern Pacific and Great Northers Railways. Fares, Schedules and Details Will be Supplied on Request W. E COMAN. Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agt. ARE YOU SURE The records show a clear title to your property? The records lulled to allow correct title In a sale made this week by a lending real estate company. RESULT Long delay nud possible loss. Better let the Pioneer Abstract Company look after your Interests. PIONEER ABSTRACT COMPANY (Member Oregon Association of Title Men) parative charts showing Oregon's d vantrigeous position for diversi fied pursuits and as a place of residence, is supplemented bf the following general advice o "How to Succeed in Oregon:" Oregon's climate s far nior favorable than can be found Any where east of the Pacific Skrp. Oregon's hillside and valley are rich and fertile; her scenery is matchless in grandeur. Oregon's home enviroment is delightfully attractive. Conditions for success are far more favorable than in any of ibi older, thickly populated state. All who look to Oregon for a future home should remember, however, that the same qualities of industry, prudence and per severance are requires! for sac cess here that would be need el anywhere. No one should come to Oregnm expecting to "get rich quick"? t achieve success without work and well applied knowledge Above all. no one should come to Oregon expecting to find im mediate employment in any line, in any of the cities or towns. When you come, bring etxjugk funds to provide traveling aofl living expenses for a consider able period while you are visiting different localities and searching for the opportunity which appeals to you and in which you have confidence you can succeed. D not build up false hopes of fabul- Jons affluence and easy life witk- out work. In selecting a location for aa Oregon home, the newcomer should visit the land, to letra whether it is suited to the tastes and requirements of his family and the special branch of agri cultural industry in which h expects to engage He sho&& consult the leading business oei of the commercial organizations of the neighboring community and satisfy himself as to his purchase. If be does not find, exactly what he wants ia one part of the state, it will pay to investigate further, as conditions are so diversified in Oregoa that no long search will be necessary to locate satisfactorily. Onc located yon will find yourseff among hospitable and sociab'a neighbors, whose delight it is ta be of every assistance to him and make him feel at home and help htm succeed. A warm welcome into churches, schools, granges, improved clubs, fraternal organ izations and other societies awaits every new citizen whe comes to Oregon with the honest purpose of achieving independ ence and making a home. OfRlilBV. CENTRAL OREGON LINE II . BAUKOL. Agt, Redmond, Or.