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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1914)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF. GENERU INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout tha State During the Past Week. Applt Packer Trained. Hood lllver,-l)Klrmlrtg I lie lecond week In September, the annual pack ing school at tha A mile Grower' a delation will hold Ha elun. A portion of the big warebou of the aaaixilHilon will bt fitted with pnnklmi table Mild expert pucker will Inairuct tli iinmteur, who will come from nil piirta of tli mid-Columbia dlHtrlrt, The nnnunl piirklim school nre al wny well iittenditd, Mitny of the grower of the vuM, whose orchard lire coming Into bearluir, attend with their wive and fittnllle to lriini tha Intent method of packing attractively the apple, which will soon bo iniltur tug. Fruit Statistics Sought, Albany. (Slithering iiccuriitn tntl tied of Oregon' minimi fruit crop la being planned by the slnte board of horticulture. B. 0. Hubert, of l.plmn on, prfhlili'iit of tho board, anya that the board hope to outline a sytiteiii that will aid it to discover ami rem edy cause for poor fruit yields, The plan la being tried thla year for the flral lima In Polk county. Extemlon Bill Pleate. llermlaton. The people of the Umatilla project nre greatly elated out the final pnHsnga of the 20 year rxtttiialon bill that hna been vlgiied by the prenlditlit, Thla new law given lb gettler 20 year without Interest to pay hla ta int right i-burge to tho government Tho payment nro also made mini 1 1 In the beginning. Douglaa Invert Million In Autos. Koweburg,- According to figures compile! here, Doughi county clll xoiia have Invented more than $1,000, ODil In nutomnblli-a In the Inut aeven yeiir. This doi-a not Include ninny cure which were purchased by pnrtlo who subsequently located in thla sec tion. MAIL VOTERS PAMPHLETS 19 Constitutional Amendments, 10 Measures to Bo Passed Upon. Baliim. Coplt-a of the Initiative pamphlet, laaued by Secretary of State len W. Olcott, are being mailed to every reglatcred voter In the atate. The proponed " cutmiltutloitul Amend menta and measures contained therein are to be aubmltted to the voter at the general election on November 3. There are 19 proponed amendment to the atnte constitution and 10 pro posed Initiative measures in the pam phlet. The leglHlnture referred eight propoxed coUHtltullonal nmendmeuta and two meaaure to the people, and 11 proposed constitutional amend ment and eight menaurea were Initi ated through the effort of various persona or orgnnlisntlun. A proposed ronatltutlonnl amend ment referred to the voters by the legislature la aa follows: Amendment of section 2 of article II of the constitution, so ns to require voters to bo citizens of the United Blutea. At present foreigners who, at least one year prior to the day of election, have declared their Intention to become citizens are entitled to vote, Double Celebration I Plan, aruuta PaHB. Ornnta Pass 1 to have a big double celebration here and at Wlldervllle, September 7, In honor of the completion of the municipal unit of the Grants Puss & Crescent City railroad, and nlao In honor of tho return of Joseph Knowles, the nature man, wIioho experiment will terminate about that time. Costly Imbler Fire. I.a Grande. The mill, elevnlor and warehouse, together with 70,000 bush els of wheat and 3000 barrels of flour, belonging to the Imbler Flouring Mill company, at Imbler, 15 miles north east of here, were destroyod by fire Sunday morning, causing a loss of $125,000, about half of which I cov ered by Insurance. Girls of 16 Die In Creek. MurHlifleld. Vera Hurry ind May Willey, two girls of 10, were drowned In a creek nt IlrewHtrr valley. They were bathing In a small stream and got beyond their depth, Chloroform Kills Girl. , Saloni, Mlns Menu Smith, 15, daughter of Mrs. O. O. Smith, died from tho effect, of an anaesthetic giv en for an operation for tcnsllltis In the office of Dr. II. J. Clements. Artillerymen Are Busy. Roebiirg. -Members of the locul oompany, coiiHt artillery, who have teen selected to take part In the vari oub Bhootlng competitions on the state "rifle range at Clackamas are making dully preparations for the events. KING ALBERT Si ,.-l. ',. I 1 .... ' I :;L!.:r;V'. .' J King Albert, of Belajum, who I In personal command of tha Belgian troops opposing the German. HIGH PRICES NOT JUSTIFIED Reports Indicate Increase in Cost of Food Are Not Warranted. Washington. Preliminary repoiis received from district attorney and special agent of the department of justice all state that unduly high food prices are unwarranted. Reports are pouring Into the depart ment from all over the United State. These, without exception, hold that preliminary investigation find no basis whatever for extortionate price. Eucouraged by the early reports, tbe entire corps of apodal agent of the department I on the trail of tbe food speculator. It, I stated that a num ber of caaes have been found action able and that prompt prosecution will be Instituted by the variou district attorneys. Hetnllers, wholesaler, Jobbers and commission men are all coming under the government probe. insane Negro Kilts 8lx Persona. Madison, Wis. Julian 'Carlton, the Insane negro chef, who lew Mrs. Muimn h llerthwIek-Chciicy and five other persons, and injured three more near Spring Green at the bungalow of Mrs. ilerthwlck Cheney, and rVank Lloyd Wright, a Chicago architect, wa captured Into by a ponse and lodg ed In the Dadgevlllo, WIh., Jail,' The negro attempted to commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid, but anti dote restored him. REBELS ENTER THE MEXICAN CAPITAL Mexico City. The national capital la In the handa of the constitutional lata. In accordance with a prearrang ed plan, General Obregon marched la with hi army and took peaceful poB eBlon of the city Saturday. The clt ttens greeted him and his soldiers with cheers. The evacuation by the federals was completed Saturday and constitutionalist troops are now quar tered lu the barracks which the gov ernment soldiers recently occupied. General Carranzu, with the main body of the army, entered the city Sunday. With tha resignation of the military governor ot the states of Chiapas, Vera Crux, Tubasco, Campeehe and Yucatan, the lust vestige ot the old regime disappeared. For the first time In month Amer ican flags flew beside the Mexican colors. General Obregon caused to be posted throughout the city a decree threatening the immediate execution of an officer or an enlisted man who disturbed public order, Ohio Will Vote on Suffrage. Cleveland, Ohio. That the voters of Ohio will be given the opportunity to vote on a womnn suffrage amend ment at the general election on No vember 3, was made certain when petitions with more than 200,000 names were placed on file with the aecrotnry of state. Awaits Regular Mexican Election. Washington. President Wllaon, it was learned authoritatively, ha de cided not to recognize the constitu tionalist government of Mexico until a regular election la held, THE MARKETS Portland. , Wheat Club, 85c; bluestem, 88c; red RusHlan, 83c. liny Timothy, $16; alfalfa, $12. Butter Creamery, 32c. Eggs Ranch, 23c. Seattie. Wheat Bluestem, 92o; club, 8flc; red Russian, 83a. Hay Timothy, $17 per ton; alfalfa, $14 per ton. Butter Creamery, 3lo. Eggs 30c. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Three are dead and one seriously In jured us the result of a fire at Morgun, which started at 11 o'clock Friday night and destroyed property valued at I2.0UO. Six Medford people are In Portland undergoing the Pasteur treatment to prevent hydrophobia a the result of a Mtrange epidemic of rable in tbat city recently. The senate committee on publio land ha reported out Representative Slnnotl't bill permitting entry men to file on an enlurged homestead after making final proof. With the tooting of steamboat and factory whlalle and the ringing of church and school bells, Astoria cele brated the opening of tbe Panama cnntil. iloseburg celebrated the opening of the i'unuma canal by an automobile puritde, blowing of whistles and ring ing of bells. The few firecracker In town also were fired. That Frank J. Kooney, whose body wa found near Troutdale last Tues day, was murdered a week ago ap pears certain from development, ac cording to Deputy Sheriff lieckuinn, who Is Investigating the cuse. localise of the danger of forest fire as result of cnmpflres carelessly left by hunters. Governor West has Issued a proclamation closing the deer bunt ing season. It becume effective Mon day. State Highway Engineer liowlby states that August 26 ha been fixed upon as the time for opening bid for construction work to be performed on the Columbia river highway In Hood River county. This county re cently voted $75,000 In bond to build It link of tbe highway. Through the effort of Representa tive Hawley and Senntor Lane, con gress recently passed a bill granting a pension of $20 a month to Dr. Wil llnm W. Oglesby, of Cottage Grove, who served aa captain of company C, Bccond Oregon state militia, In the Dannock Indian war In 1878. Representative Slnnotf bill, pre vlounly passed by the house, permit ting homestead entrymen to divide their five months' annual leave of absence from their land Into two per iods, passed tho senate. Under the existing law the homesteader must take his leave In one continuous per iod. When the cadet regiment' of the agricultural college visit the Panama- Pacific expoBitlon at San Francisco next fall It will be in the high classifi cation known as class C. This I a technical rating adopted by the war department to designate those cadet regiment In which military Interest and proficiency I very high. Practically every southern Idaho aud eastern Oregon city and town wa represented at a meeting held at Ba ker to further the movement to se cure the routing of the national high way from the Snake river through Baker, Union and Umatilla counties to the Columbia river, rather than through central Oregon, which is mak ii g a strong effort to get the road. A special appropriation of $15,000 has been granted by congress to Im prove the Clackamas fish hatchery on the river below Clackamas station. The government own two sites on the Clackamas, only one of which Is UBed. The present site is above tbe site recently purchased, which will be come the new location for the build ing. Plan are being completed at Washington. After following hi man for nearly two years, during which time he trail ed him to the Argentine republic on the south and Edmonton, Alberta, on the north, Charles T. Has, of the Hnss Detective Agency of New York, arrested Oalln N. Jackson at Grants Pass on the charge of embezzling $85, 000 In New York City. Jackson came to Grants Pass last spring and pur chased a ranch about eight miles from that city and was erecting an $8000 residence.' Announcing that the money could be used to better advantage, the atate fish and game commission has re moved the bounty on bobcats. The bounty hUB been $1 a scalp and the state has paid out about $0000 so far this year. Commissioner Duncan said a large part of the animals had been caught In the southeastern part of the state and that the hunters benofited other stateB as much a they did Ore gon, The removal of the bounty on bobcats hus no effect on the bounties on cougars nnd wolves, the commis sion announced. Three boys were caught In tho act of setting foreet fires on thd head waters of the Rluslaw river and they will probably be prosecuted. Carl V. Oglesby, head wnrden for the Lane County Fire Patrol association, had suspected that the numerous fires dis covered in that portion of the moun tains were ( lining maliciously started, and began to watch for the guilty parties. One evening thla week he cutight one youth 19 years old and two boys between 11 and 13 years old applying a burning torch to the dry underbrush and tern on both sides of the road for halt a mile. FOR SALE! The machinery used by the Oregon Agricultural College on Demonstration Farms at Redmond and Metolius: 1 McCormick "New 4" Mower 1 Two-row Cultivator 2 Dunham Soil Pulverizer and Packer 1 Campbell Packer 1 Disk Harrow 1 Sythe with Cradle 1 Hand Sickle This machinery may be seen at the Redmond Lumber & Produce Company's warehouse. If interested see or write A. E. LOVETT, County Agriculturist Redmond, Oregon 7-9 Imo Just Arrived Double Deck All Steel Bed Springs Ostermoor Mattresses Art Squares and Rugs Imported Vienna Bent Wood Chirs Also a Fine Lot of Sewing Machines A. H. Lippman & Co I "PRINORE" AND "STANDARD" Prineville Flour r. De LAVAL Cream Separators Sold on Easy Terms Pioneer Prineville, Oregon City Meat Market HORIGAN & REINKE, Props. Choice Home-Made Hams, Bacon and Lard Fresh Fish Fruit and Vegetables in Season 2 Eureka Weeden with graft seeder attachments 1 Portable Platform Scale 1 Donald Pities Wagon Scale 1 Hand Cultivator 16 Double Disk for Drill 16 Alfalfa Reducer for Drill 1 Cream Co. 'J and Oysters , . aummoiia. In the clrcntt court of the state ot Orejfini for Crook "ounty : E. C. KlriK, Plaintiff, vs. Cecil Wolfer, Vlrjtll VVolfer nnd Lillian .Wolfer, Uefendunt To Cecil Wolfer, Vlrll Wolfer and Lllllnn Wolfer. defendant: In the name of the state of Oreiton, you and each of you are hereby sum moned and required to appear and answer the complaint tiled again you in the above entitled court and cause on or iiefore tbe 11th day ot .Septetnter.l914, and If Toil fall o tn appearand answer the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief prayed for In hi complaint to-wlt; For a decree tliftt tbe plaintiff 1 the owner and entitled to the possession of the south half of the eontbwest quarter of section eleven, the north east quarter of the northwest quar ter and tbe northeast quarter of sec tion fourteen and tbe southwest quarter of the northwest quarter ot 1 section tnirteen, in townamp aureen, I south, of range fourteen enst of Will 'aroette meridian, in Crook county. ; Oregon, and that the plaintiff tltlw to the same shall lx forever quieted j as against you and each of you, anil ! that yon and each of yon tie forever ! barred from claiming any interest Id said lauds or any part thereof. The date of the first publication of this summons Is July 80, 11)14. This summons Is published by or der of the Honorable ti. Springer. 'county Judge of Crook county, Ore 1 (ton, made on the th diiy of July, , 1014. M. R. Elliott, i Attorney for Plaintiff. Notice for Publication Isolated Tract Public Land Sale. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Ore. Autrust 7th, 1914. Notice ia hereby given that, as di rected by the commissioner ot th general land office, under provision of act of congress approved MarcU 28. 1912, ("37 Stat., 77), pursuant to tbe application ot Manlord D. Nye serial No. 012)42, we will offer at public sale to the highest bidder, but at aot less than $2.00 per acre, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., on the 24th day oi;September, 1914, at this office, tbe following tract of land: Nw$ nwL. sec 8,'T. 18 S..R- 18-E., Willamette meridian. "This tract is ordered in to the market on a showing that the greater portion thereof is moun tainous or too rough for cultiva tion." Any persons claiming adverse ly the above described land are advised to file their claims or objec tions on or before the time desig nated for sale. 8 13-p H. Fka.ne WooDcocK.Reglater. Botice For Publication. Department of tbe Interior. TJ. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Ore. July 23d, 1014. Notice Is hereby given tbut Ansel M. Stewart, of Bend, Oregon, who on March 17, 1011. made homestead entry No 083ti4 for section 1. township 20 south, ! range IS east, Willamette meridian, 1 has tiled notice of intention to make final three year proof to establish) claim to tbe land above described ! before H C. Ellis, U. S Commimsion- er, at Bend Oregon, on the 5th day of September, 191. . Claimant names as witnesses Sam uel W. Merrill, Oscar W. Cruse, Wil liam T. Walters and Rolf O. Brown, all of Bend, Oregon. H. Ekank Woodcock, 7-30 f Register. ' summons. In the circuit court of the state ot Oregon for Crook countv. Julia I. Allen, Plaintiff, vs. Willie Allen, Defendant. To Willie Allen, Defendant. In the name of the state ot Oregon you are hereby required to appear and answer tbe complaint filed against vou In the above entitled suit on or iiefore the 4th day of September, 1914, and if you fail so to appear and answer the plalntifl will apply to the court tor ttie relte prayed lor lu her complaint, to-wit : for a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony now .existing between you and the plaintiff, lor a decree that plaintiff have the custody of Kathleen Allen, the mluor child of plaintiff and defendant, and for ber costs and disbursements of this suit. This summons is published by order of the Honorable ti. Springer, Judge of the county court of the state of Oregon tor Crook county, made on the 20th day of July, 114, which said order prescribed that thin summons be published in the Crook, County Journal, a weekly news paper printed ami puuiisneum rnne vllle, Crook county, Oregon, for a period of six consecutive weeks. The date of the first publication ot this summons is the 23d day of J uly 1914 M. R. Elliott, 7-23 6 Attorney for Plaintiffi. Order of Cause for Sale of Real Estate.. In the county court of the state ofi' Oregon for Crook county. In the matter of the guardianship ol Nora Miller, a minor. This cause comlug on regularly to be heard upon the petition of B. F. Johnson, guardian of Nora Miller, a mtnor, for an order of Bale of certain, real estate of said ward, particularly described in said petition. And it appearing to the court froirr said petition that it is necessary and would be beneficial to salit want that said real estate should be sold. It is ordered by the court that the next of kin of the said ward, to-wit: William W. Miller, father of said ward, and all persons Interested In the estate appear before this court, on Monday the 7th day of Sept. 1914, at 10 o'clock iu the forenoon at the county court room lu Prineville, Oregon, then aud there to show cause, if any there be, why a license should not be granted for the sale of the real estate described In said peti tion. And it is further ordered that a copy of this order shall be published three successive weeks in the Crook County Journal, a weekly newspaper printed and published lu Prineville!, Oregon. Dated this 18th day of July, 1914. 7-23-4 G. Sphincikh, Judgei. Crook County Journal, 11.50 per yr.