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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1918)
CROOK COIKTTT JOIUNAL AtOl'HT , 10tS OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAMNTEREST Principal Events of the Wiek Briefly Sketched for Infor mttion of Our Readers. Lebanon hss good prospects of hav ing flouring mill established there. ' Th run of salmon in the Columbia river for the past week haa been ex ceptionally pood. A drastic measure forcing all Idlers to co to work baa been adopted by the Klamath city council The Columbia river highway be tween Rood River and Cascade Locks was opened to traffic Sunday. . Marion and Polk counties will cele brate the completion of the new Inter eounty bridge over the Willamette river at Salem on July 30. According to records. 10,000 more automobiles are In operation In Ore gon already this year than were In operation during all of 1917. Attendance at the summer school of the Oregon Normal at Monmouth haa now passed 400 and Is a few In ad vance of the attendance last year. During the month of August the tate supreme court will take the an nual summer recess and most of the Justices will leave on vacation trips. lira. Mary Elizabeth Bryant, one of the oldest pioneers of Oregon, who crossed the plains in Infancy, died at her home in Portland at the age of 87 years. Fruit growers of the northwest are being urged to place their orders for boxes as early in the season as pos sible In anticipation, of a possible shortage of box shooks. , J. D. McKennon, president of the La Grande city commission, has offered publicly to furnish a suitable site for any reputable dehydrating firm that will Install a plant there. Farmers near Redmond are having difficulty in obtaining help in their hayfielda. Practically every boy over ! 11 years of age is out on the ranches doing the work men usually do. A deadline on Yaqulna bay to pro tect the oyster Industry and conserve the supply is being planned through the co-operation of the oystermen and the state fish and game commission. The first annual convention of the Oregon State Elks' association will be held in Portland August 26, 27 and 21 when an attendance of 12,000 Elks and their friends will Join In a three days' patriotic celebration. The body of Ralph V. Polndexter. manager of the Owl Pharmacy at Bend, who, with Vernon A. Forbes, waa drowned In Crescent Lake, has been recovered. Mr, Forbes' body had been previously recovered. Captain W. C McNaught. well known In marine ctrcfes In Portland, haa been appointed a member of the Oregon state board of pilot commis sioners by Governor Wlthycombe, to succeed Captain J. Speier, resigned. An Investigation of the price of sub stitutes for wheat flour sold In Ore gon haa been requested by the na tional food administration, according to a letter received from Senator Chamberlain by Attorney L. E. Bean. The high cost of living haa Invaded the University of Oregon summer camp. As a result men who attend the second summer camp for the to days period beginning August S, will have their expenses Increased 25 per cent As a result of Investigations in ducted In the state by George T. Del ton, special representative of the fed eral trade commission, prices of coal are to be Immediately lifted, according to Fred J. Holmes, state fuel adminis trator. That some of the Indians on the Klamath reservation will not be able to take stock, available this year un der the $400,000 congressional appro priation, on account of shortage of hay crops, is reported by some of the prominent Indiana. A forest tire which haa been burn ing on the northern boundary of the Klamath Indian reservation in Klam ath county, now haa entered the south ern portion of the Deschutes national forest and threatens great tracts of standing white pine timber. For the purpose of educating the public to the value of dafry products as a food and stimulating the almost moribund state of dairying In parts of Oregon, Governor Wlthycombe will be asked to set aside an entire week In August as Dairy Products week. Threshing outfit have be.un work In Linn county threshing fall grain. The fall grain generally is yielding a fair crop and in many cases grain planted on land well drained and prop erly cultivated is producing a good crop. Due to lack of rain, the spring grain is practically a failure. The University of Oregon received notice from the war department that It will be permitted to send additional students to the cadet officers' training camp at Presidio up. to one-half Its present student quota In the ramp. There are now 37 students and four faculty members receiving instruction. Eighteen additional students will be appointed to attend. Appropriations carried tn the rivers and harbors bill for maintenance work and Improvements In the first district of Oregon consist of $40,000 tor the Coqutlle, Coos, Siuslaw and Yaqulna rivers and Coos, Tillamook and Ne halem baya. and $260,000 for the Co lumbia river and lower Wlllamotti. County Agriculturist H. R. Glalsyer, of Klamath county, and J. K. Ptttman, of the department of Irrigation and drainage, who have been conducting experiments tn this county, renort that the application of 100 pounds of sulphur per acre on alfaira lands has Increased the yield about one ton per acre. Valuable fir timber on an area ap ' proximately two miles wide and four J miles long, the residence of J. C. Wil liams, on Kogue river, in tne western part of Jackson county, and many buildings owned by farmers In the district badly burned, is the toll of a forest tire one mile south of Rogue river. ) At the request of sheepmen In Klam ath county, Representative . Slnnott haa submitted to the wool division of the war Industries board petitions for lower freight rates on feed, and that bureau has promised to take the mat ter ap with the railroad administra tion and secure any relief that Is found proper. The Pendleton water commission haa Installed a chlorine plant at the Intake of the city water system to guard against any possible Infection from river water which was turned Into the system some weeks ago to avoid a shortage during the time the new extension to Chaplish springs is being completed. Prices tor the fall run of salmon on Oregon coast streams were announced by W. B. Ayer, federal food adminis trator, following several conferences and approval of the prices by the food administration heads at Washington. The approved price for chinooks is placed at 8 centa. That for stlversldes is set at 64 centa, and that tor chums at $4 cents. , Secretary Lane has approved Con gressman Sinnott's bill granting the cttixens of Malheur county the right to cut timber In Idaho tor agricultural, mining or other domestic purposes. The passage of the bill will be of great assistance to cltlxens of Malheur county in Gordon valley, and Mr nott will endeavor to. hay ( H arvest Su Of all kinds, including PPI ies i i" Peering Mowers,Binders,Hay Rakes. Binder Twine Will all be very scaCrce this year, and we urge upon you the necessity of ordering early. This' applies to repairs of all kinds aswell. We have a complete stock on hand, but for your own protection, we repeat, Order Early And Be Safe LAKIN HARDWARE "Where it pays to trade" i jl 1 1 iw c it if triiif v. o -n-Tfi r'---ii: fenfn Olney. logging; field, lumbering; Principals and superintendents of Oregon schools In attendance at the University of Oregon summer trhrol are sending out letters to the school boards of the state urging that the districts send some man of their fa- , culty to the second summer camp at I the university, which opena on August 3, thnt they may be trained In military work and be able to teach the boys In the schools. A reduction Is shown this week In the number of accidents reported to the state Industrial accident commis sion. During the week there were re ported (34 accidents, of which five were fatal, as follows: Louis QJertsen, Lester Vaughn, Spring- S. Mathlaen. Port land, shipbuilding; Charles Erkert, Tillamook, logging; William O. Mur ray, Portland, motorman. The shortage ot harvest hands In the Prinevtlle community Is becoming very acute. Many ot the farmers are able to obtain only about one half the number ot men required for harvest ing their crops. A number ot men and boys from the town, Including store clerks and professional men, are working In the harvest fields, because of the scarcity ot labor. The wagea paid average from $3 to $4 a' day, In cluding board. A second shipment of foxglove, 850 pounds enough for nearly 610,000.000 doses ot tincture of digitalis dried and shipped by cltltens of Oregon at the request of the United States gov ernment, haa Just been sent by Deau Adolph Zlefle, ot the Oregon Agricul tural college school of pharmacy, to the federal laboratory at the Univer sity of Minnesota where It will be made Into tincture of digitalis tor the army and navy. State Highway Engineer Nunn has submitted to Governor Wlthycombe statement showing the total of estim ated funds available for highway Im provement purposes contemplated by the commission for the five-year pe riod. 1917 to 1921, Inclusive. The statement ahows that from the several sources a grand total of $15,058,500.13 will be produced. Up to July 1, this year. $t.895,525.M has been expended snd the total amount available In the next rive years will be $13.162,1174.22. Probably not alnce the days when the waters of Jordan rolled back at the command of Moses for the chil dren of Israel to cross dry-shod, has a more wonderful phenomenon of this kind occurred than the drying of the rapids of Link river at the west end of Klamath falls by winds sweeping up the canyon from the south. These rapids, which have a fall of 63 feet hi two mllea, and which furnish enough power under ordinary conditions to turn every wheel t Klamath county, were blown back tr a few hours, leav Ids the bed ot tre river so dry that u could be crosund na foot at almost any point THE MARKETS Portland. Oats No. 2 white feed, $81 per ton. Barley Standard feed, $53 per ton. Corn Whole, $75; cracked, $78. Hay Timothy, $34 per ton; alfalfa, $28. Butter Creamery, 49c per lb. Eggs Ranch, 40c per dozen. Potatoes Old, $2.25 per hundred; new, 3 Vic per pound. oultry Hens, 21 23c; broilers, 26 30c; ducks, young, 30c Troops From Camp Lewis In France. Portland, Ore. Cable measages ar riving In Portland Indicate without doubt that all of the 91st Division, which left Camp Lewis late In June tor overseas, has arrived safely la France. BIG FLOUR MILLS ARE SOLD Max H. Houser 8ecures Control of Large Milling Companies. Portland, Ore. Financial control of the Portland Flouring Mills company, one of the largest and oldest milling companies on the coast, ban passed from the Wilcox estate to Max H. Houser, vice president of the grain corporation, and several associates, It was announced by Mr. Houser. While the consideration was not announced, It Is believed to have been close to $10,000,000. The deal involves complete control of the Portland Flouring Mills com pany, Puget Sound Flouring Mills company, Puget Sound Warehouse company, Pacific Coast Elevator com pany and subsidiary corporations. The company owns and operates 11 mills In the northwest having an ag gregate capacity of more than 11,000 barrels of flour dally. The principal mill is In Portland, having a capacity of 4000 barrels. Archangel Taken From Bolshevik! Kandalaska, Russian Lapland. A revolution at Archangel has resulted In the complete overthrow of the Bol shevlkl and the flight of their troops from the city. The revolution was led by Interests favorable to the entente nations. ' Following the striking ot the first blow in the revolt allied troops were landed at Archangel, occupying the railway station and the telegraph office with insignificant resistance, Give Us a Trial Order Goods of absolute quality is our chief slogan. If it isn't right, we make it right. The Michel Grocery Co. THE STORE OF SERVICE " The NEW STORE AND LITTLE PRICES SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! We are showing the Best Bargains in Shoes ever seen in Prineville. ' A look at the Shoes and the Prices will convince you that this store is a REAL BARGAIN CENTER AH we ask is the pleasure of showing and pricing our goods CASH AND CARRY HAS PUT PRICES DOWN REMEMBER We sell Groceries at the lowest pos sible prices. You save money by trading at , Tri -State Terminal Co. LEE ANDERSON. Manager PRINEVILLE, OREGON UwblCffMb,ttS Grafonola and Columbia Records Play a Grafonola in your home There is a Grafonola for every homo. We are anxious to hcl p you choose yours wisely. If you think you can decide best in your own home, we shall be glad to send any Grafonola there for you to play.. The Prineville If Hp CohaUCn(ul,Sll9 Drug Lompa ny sir 6 mm ill? vrs