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'J of o Crook County Joilrhal COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR ' CROOK COUNTY COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRI NEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, .OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1913. loUrM ftt lb pm(nmM at Pr1nr111 Oraon, noogMiH malm VOL. XVU NO. 49 Metolius, Prineville & Eastern Slow but Sure T. M. Baldwin. C. Sam Smith and Henry Cram have returned from Portland where they went to meet H. P. Scheel, the contractor for the Metolius, Prineville & East ern Railroad. A mooting waa held latit week in Portland, which waa attended by Mr. Scheel, William P. Davidson, president of the Oregon 4 Western Conization Co.; and A. R. Rogers, the wealthy Minneapolie lumber man Mr. Scheel explained to the committee that he waa ready and willing to begin work jut ai aoon a the right-of-way waa aecured. The Prineville committee re ported that moat of the rlght-of way had been signed up; that the terminal in both Prineville and Metolius were ready, and that the balance of the right-of-way' was only a question of short time. There are three or four tracts that You Can Swear in Your Vote Nov. 4 As there It so much inquiry con cerning the registration of voters for the special election to be held on November 4 th, County Clerk Brown has thought best to have the opinion of the attorney general given on the matter of registration, which reads as follows: Mr. Warren Brown, County Clerk of Crook county, Prineville, Ore. Dear Sir: Replying to Yours of October 16, I would advise you it lias always been the opinion of this office that any statute requiring registration as a condition pre cedent to the right to vote is void, being in conflict with the State Constitution; that portion of it which provides the qualification of voters. Our Supremo Court has held in cases of Livesley vs. Litch field, 47 Oregon 248, White vs. Commissioners, 13 Oregon 817, (that a city charter attempting to require registration as a condition precedent to the right to vote is to that extent unconstitutional.) You will note that Section 6 of Chapter 323, General Laws of 1913, pro viilea in case the registration law should be doclared unconstitutional, that tho voter may vote by using Blank A at the polls. While this particular statute has never been passed upon, an analogous one has and has been doclared unconstitu tional and therefore would advise you that it is mv opinion that the voter qualified as provided in the Constitution mny vote at the polls without previous registration by the Now is the Time to Prepare for Fall Planting of Fruit Trees and Berry Plants. ORDER NOW! and receive your trees while we have a large stock to select from Office Adamson are giving trouble and when these are adjusted work can start. Mr. Scheel explained that he did not want to commence work in one place and then have to move his equipment to another part of the right-of-way. He wanted to be able to start in and complete the line from end to end without the bother of shifting; from place to place. The Metolius, Prineville & East ern will be electrified, power to be furnished from the Cove plant of the Des Chutes Power Co. The line will be thirty miles long and will cost 15(10,000. Yesterday Mr. Baldwin received word from Mr. Scheel thaf he and Engineer Von Planta would be here the latter part of next week to help the committee finish up the right of way so that work could be commenced. use of Blank A. Yours very truly, A. M. Crawtord, Attorney General. Therefore, all electors who are not registered, and are otherwise qualified, may vote at the special election on November 4th upon the affidavit of six freeholders as pro vided by law. The Crook County Abstract Co. has the required blanks for those not registered and J. B. Shipp heads the list of the six freeholder that do the, swearing, so if you want to vote step into the abstract office a minute and you can get your credentials. It doesn't cost you anything. Educational Films at the Lyric An educational reel of pictures will be shown every Friday evening at the Lyric in compliance with several requests from parents who wish their children to see some of the many instructive pictures shown and Manager Morgan has aptly termed Friday as "School Night." The Spotted Elephant Hawk Moth, to be shown Friday of this week, is the perfected jnsect trans formed from the familiar red and yellow Btriped caterpillar. In this film the entire metamorphosis is shown in a clear, concise, instruc tive and entertaining manner. On the same reel are shown views of Athens, once the center of civiliza tion, and its ruins of which all have read or studied. Fall Millinery 1 can nave you money on Millinery. Look my stock over and lie convinced. (iKKTIU'llS PaLMKII, 10 2 Mi'Clli(t(ir building, I'rinevillu. Laf ollette Norsery Company Bldg., Room 12 November is Bargain Month for Journal November is Bargain Month with the Crook County Journal. Thirty days seem a long tima but Crook county is too big to cover any sooner. During November old as well as new subscribers will have a chance to get the county official paper for Crook county for half price. Old subscribers must pay up back sub scription and they can pay in ad vance at the 75c rate as far as they please. New subscribers are not limited as to time. Bear in mind this privilege lasts only 30 days. After that the old rate of 1.50 will be In force. Do not put off. Send In your subscriptions at once. Crook County High Defeats Wheeler Co The Crook County High School football team strengthened its hold on the Eastern Oregon football championship by defeating the Wheeler County High School 13 to 0 last Saturday at Foasil. Consis tent work by "Moose" Lister, to gether with superior playing on the part of the C. C. H. 'S. team, es pecially the back field, was respon sible for the victory The story of the game is as fol lows: Prineville kicked off te Fos sil. The Prineville line held forcing Fossil to punt. After an exchange of punts Estes and Weigand broke through the Fossil defense for 20 yard runs, putting the ball on Wheeler's 8-yard line, from which place Lister carried it to a touch down, scoring after 8 minutes of play. Lister kicked goal. The teams battled in mid-field during the second and third quarters, both showing a rather slew and ragged offense. Fossil displayed a forward pass that gained a. number of first downs before being solved by the Prineville backs but after that there was nothing to it. Bub Estes averaged 35 yards to his kicks and easily outpunted Dunn of Fossil. In the last quarter Prineville showed a flash of good football and rushed the pigskin the length of the field. Capt. Claypool opened a hole through center for Roberts to score the second and last touch down. Prineville missed goal. The Fossil men never got inside of the Prineville 25-yard line. After the game both teams were the guests of the Fossil High School girls at a reception, where everyone became acquainted and had a good time. The Crook County High manage ment has arranged to play a return game in Prineville on election day November 4. Band Entertainment November Seven The new band, under the leader ship of Mr. Zinke. is working hard preparing for an entertainment to be given at the Lyric Theatre Fri day evening, November 7. Besides the regular program of pictures there will be vocal solos, selections by the band and a musical novelty in a trombone quartet. The proceeds go Into the band treasury and as this is somewhat of a minus quantity right now, the boys art justified in asking the co operation of every individual in the city toward making this entertain ment a success, both financially and otherwise. If the entertainment proves op to expectations in all re spects, it Is likely that the band will continue these entertainments every two or three weeks through ou Ahf winter Be sure to do your part in help ing the band along as it is expect ing too much that the burden of its support fall entirely on its mem bers. Prineville needs a band and can just as well have a good one.. Auto Turns Turtle on West Side Grade Jim Toney met with a bad acci dent last Friday morning in making the grade on the west side of town. He had two passengers in his new Chalmers six bound for Redmond and had made ' the grade without trouble until he reached the steep ascent to the bench. At that point the car became unmanageable and backed, off the road. The embank ment is not very high at that place, not over ten or fifteen feet, but it was high enough for the car to turn bottom side up. One of the pas sengers jumped before the car turned over but the other stuck to the car along with the driver. No one was hurt. The man that jumped was scratched a little and the other two got a bad shaking up. Toney walked back to Prineville, got another car, and continued his trip to Redmond. The auto was not damaged as much as one would expect. The top was smashed so also was the windshield and one wheel was broken off at the axle. The steer ing post, too, will need repairs. The machine was insured against fire but no other form of accident. The Dalles Conference at Prineville Next Week The Dalles District conference will convene in Prineville Novem ber 4 for a session of three days. Among the notable features of the meeting is a lecture on "Tennyson" by M. H. Marvin. This is said to be especially fine. It will be given on Wednesday evening, November 5, at the M. E. church. Redmond Potato Show and Fair a Good One Redmond, Ore., Oct. 25, 1913. The Third Annual Redmond Potato Show and Fair has come and gone. It has awakened memories, taught lessons, opened up new vistas of the future and had many other effects, not all of which can be sensed at the present time- Re marks were frequently heard from those who attended the Redmond Fair in 1906 and 1907, and the re marks always emphasized the rapid advancement the country has made since that time. , One lesson that the Potato Shows have taught was expressed by Kirk Whited when he said that our peo ple have learned the difference be tween big potatoes and good ones. Formerly it was the big potatoes that were picked out for exhibition; now it is the uniformly medium sized, smooth ones. Professor Hys lop of the O. A. C. who judged potatoes this year and two years ago emphasized the same fact in his lecture this afternoon. The increase in fruit shown this year grown almost entirely in this neighborhood, is evidence that fam ily orchards at least can be de pended upon to give good returns with anything like an average year. As will always be the case in such contests, many of our old exhibitors and successful ones are still with us, some have dropped out who were successful and their ranks have been filled with new ones, both from new settlers and old ones who have not heretofore partici pated. Among the latter we note Helmholz Bros, from Riverview Ranch, and Chas. Muma. The show this year has also drawn from a larger extent of territory than formerly, including J. N. B. Gerk ing of Laidlaw and Sundquist, Rus sell, Baldwin, J. H. Gray & Son and other individual exhibitors from the Prineville Commercial Club. Several years ago when the writer was reporting news regularly from this "Little Town on the Desert" it used frequently to be his delightful duty to compliment the ladies of the segregation on the ability with which they could pre side at the cook stove. That fact has had another exemplification in the exhibits shown and awards made in the culinary line. It did not excel the showing made, how ever, in the fancywork department even if it did appeal more to the writer who is something of a con noisseur of kitchen products. Two remarks that were made to the writer show the general opinion in which the show seems to be held: "Any show in the country might well be proud of your display."- Prof. Edmond B. Fitts, O. A. C. "Its a fine show in there, Mr. Park, and ought to have a suitable write- up." R. E. Gray. As to the quality of the exhibits it probably surpassed in most re spects anything that has been done locally before this, the exceptions, if any, being in potatoes and other root crops. Last year was evi dently the bumper year for potatoes, both for quality and quantity, al though the number of entries was greater this year. There was S. D. Mustard with 10 varieties of potatoes, C. J. Sund quist with 7 and others with less. Mr. Mustard being the present proud owner of the $85 bronze brass clock given by the Oregon Trunk Railway. The railway com pany, through D. C. Freeman, haa made arrangements with Mr. Mus tard to take the potatoes to the Chicago Land Show. The Silver Loving Cup by the Great Northern Railway for the 36 largest and best potatoes goes to W. G. Mustard with Clara Newman second. Four tubers picked at random from Clara's bushel weighed ten pounds and four ounces. Possibly these items should have, been begun by telling of the crowds that visited the exhibits. - If so then it should have been headed, "Prineville Comes to the Fair" in big headlines. Prineville autos cer tainly were not lonesome coining; over nor on the streets after ar- " riving. Friday it seemed as if everyone was wearing a Prineville badge, and the writer extends a cordial invitation to the whole com munity to come again and bring as many more, and if necessary we will be glad to plat a new addition to Redmond to take care of the overflow. The management of the Show de serves the thanks of the out-of-town patrons for arranging for the lectures to begin in the afternoon enabling many more to hear them at a minimum of inconvenience. The lectures by M. S. Shrock, Deputy Dairy and Food Inspector, and by Professors Fitts and Hyslop of the O. A. C. Hog Raising and Forage Crops and Improving the Potato Crop were attentively listen ed to by eager audiences and many questions were asked at the close. An attempt to report the lectures would require a separate article in itself. The college is to be thanked for moving picture films, showing scenes on the campus, stock on the Continued on 6th page PRINEVILLE, OREGON