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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1919)
rag. moos oocsn jocrnal MAIU'H 87, 919. OREGON HEWS NOTES if 1 OF GENERAL INTEREST i Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Hardware dealers of Oregon will set In convention In Portland this week. Burglars cracked the safe In Tuffs ros.' general merchandise store at Kerbjr and obtained between $4000 and 15000. The Southern Pacific company has j a crew of men rebuilding the railroad trestles on the Lebanon-Woodburn ranch. The 16th annual convention of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's asso ciation will be held In Portland June S, and 10. Austin Bond, a prominent Linn count; farmer, was killed when a southbound Southern Pacific passen ger train struck his automobile, which tailed on a crossing In Albany. , Walter Brackenbush and Peter Nel son, two alleged moonshiners, were arrested near Hillsdale, In Washing ton county. A small still for the manu facture of prune brandy waa found in Deration. Oregon bankers subscribed approxi mately $4,000,000 to the Issue of Uni ted States certificates of indebtedness aatad February 18. Thla issue is In anticipation of the fifth loan, and ma tures July 15. The body of Omar dinger, 42, un married and one of the best-known and universally liked citiiens of east ern Umatilla county, ws found buried ear his home, 15 miles south of Mil-, ton, the Tictim of an unidentified tnnrderer. While the people of Bend are enjoy ing the greatest prosperity la years, Vith a building programme outlined for the coming aeason which will total Several hundred thousand dollars, the city is virtually bankrupt. Mayor J. A. Xastes declares. Petitions from Roseburg for the op ening of the Oregon ft California grant lands were presented to the in terior department by Representative Hawley with a request tor information as' to why the government is doing aothlng to dispose of these lands. Dr. William Shackelford, whose ca reer as pioneer surgeon and physician in the northwest for over half a cen tury had been intimately linked with tte early history of eastern Oregon and Washington, died at his home in The Dalles at the age of 10 years. Agitation has been begun of a movement for the annexation of the Hosier fruit district, now part of Was co county, to Hood River county. It Is said Mosier fruit growers favor the plan when the Hood River-Hosier sec tion of the Columbia river highway is completed. A plan to hold joint meetings of the executive committees of the chambers f commerce of North Bend and Marshfield monthly, as a means of promoting closer oo-ope ration in mat ters affecting the welfare of the two communities, was Indorsed at a meet ing of the two bodies, i A co-operative shipping association, formed in August, 1918, by members f the farm bureau of Linn county, has shipped 26 carloads of livestock from six towns. The saving has been 10 cents a. hundred pounds, or $2000 n the 2( earloads. The present mem bership is 177 farmers. . United States Jackson is dead at Cepperfield. He was born in Halifax, Nora Scotia, In 1852 and when a small toy moved to the United States. He was a government guide and scout in Arizona during the Indian wars with Oeronimo, the noted warrior chief. Mr. Jackson came to Oregon 20 years ago. According to state engineers who arrived in The Dalles last week to work on the preliminary surveys and estimates of the Columbia river high Way, the route from Seuferts to the Deschutes river has been chosen by the state highway commission. It will fellow the original line, approximately along the railroad j;rade. . All the northwest national parks are well cared for In the appropriations for their support and maintenance, contained in the sundry civil appro priation bill just reported to the house. Crater Lake park receives almost the total sum asked for by the. interior department, and the sum named will are for all requirements. Orain growers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, organized as the Inland Bmplre Shippers' league, filed with the Interstate commerce commission an attack upon the 25 per cent in crease in freight rates on grain and grain products made by the railroad administration last June. The com plaint of the shippers asserts that the Increased rates from points in the three states to Portland "were, when xacted, and still are inherently and relatively unjust and unreasonable," by comparison with other portions of the general freight rate structure. They ask for a return to former rates and reparation. II III A I i . ! i I I 451 Col Scotty Milne Auctioneer The railroad tie business, which hat been a big industry in the eastern part of Linn county during the last year, received a jolt last week when the purchasers announced a reduction of $3 a thousand feet on all new con tracts and that they would not let any new contract for more than 30 days. Purchase in Portland of 340,000 bar rels of flour for European export has been authorized by the food adminis tration grain corporation. Nearly $3, 500,000 is involved in the purchase and approximately 1,530,000 bushels of wheat will be required to manufacture the flour, and five 8800-ton steel steamers will be needed to transport it James Fullerton, of Eugene, editor J ana publisher or the Hornet, a folio size paper issued at Irregular Inter vals and devoted to attacks on the University of Oregon and various per sons connected with it, has been ar rested, charged with criminal libel. Five Indictment were returned by the Lane county grand jury against Ful lerton. Neil Guiney, Canadian; George Mln coff, Bulgarian, and Samuel Levail lant, alias Albert Bertrand, 'German Swiss, who have been active In the Portland L W. W. organization, are being detained In the Multnomah coupty Jail by R. P. Bonhara, immi- j gration inspector, pending the receipt I from Washington of warrants for de-1 portation. 1 Indications that the federal reclam- ation service is making preparations for extensive Irrigation work were seen in an announcement made at Bend by United States Land Commissioner H. C. Ellis, who stated that some 80,000 acres lying east and northeast of Bend have been withdrawn from homestead entry. The land Includes the Benham falls storage reservoir site. The question of boring for oil and gas In the country around Lacomb, ten miles east of Lebanon, Is again being agitated and the prospects are that something probably will soon be undertaken to test eut the prospects there. There has been a general be lief for many years that there is oil In that section. -.Two wells hare been started at different times, but neither got deeper than 100 feet. That the dairy industry is the lar gest by far of all the agricultural in dustries of the state was brought out at the recent investigation by the sen ate committee of the dairy industry. M. S. Shrock, general manager of the Oregon Dairymen's league, stated that there are 23,000 dairy farms in Ore NORTHWEST SHORTHORN BREEDERS Ninth Annual Spring Sale and Show of horihorii Union Stock Yards, North Portland. Oregon TUESDAY, APRIL 1ST, 1919 There will be offered at this sale the Highest Class Shorthorns ever placed in the Sale Ring in the Northwest They are carefully selected individuals from the herds of the leading Shorthorn Breeders of the Pacific North west Range men of the West never had such an opportunity to get the kind of Bulls they wanted as this sale of fer! richly bred from 18 to 24 months old. The catalog gives the full information write for your copy NOW, study the breeding and plan to attend. gon, employing approximately 48,000 men. There are 91 creamerfes In the state, 71 cheese factories and a total of over 100 employes In these factories The fuel famine on Coos bay has provided employment for many of those forced into Idleness through closing of the Smith mills. Before the shutdown the mills had furnished a large portion of the fuel consumed In Harshfleld, but now there Is noth ing coming from either mill Hen have gone into the woods In nearby sections and opened wood camps. Many leasts ars occupied In delivery of the output and the fuel situation is better now than at any time during the winter. Every preparation must be made to make the dirt fly on some 83 miles of national forest reserve roads in Ore gon by the beginning of the construc tive season, according to orders just received by District Engineer L. I. Hewes, from the chief engineer of the bureau of public roads In Washington. The 53 miles is included la 300 miles that must be ready for construction In the entire district. No. 1, which In cludes Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Alaska. Oregon's share is considered large. As a result of thirty farm bureau demonstrations, seven carloads of flowers of sulphur, aggregating 300, 000 pounds and constituting the lar gest co-operative order of sulphur ever assembled in Oregon, were shipped for fertilizing purposes on volcanic ash soil into the recently developed irri gated sections of Crook and Deschutes counties. This shipment was secured for 183 farmers in the two counties of the district Each farmer had pre viously joined a sulphur-alfalfa club, organized by the county agent, and la so doing had pledged himself to apply at least 500 pounds of sulphur to al falfa at the rats of 100 pounds an acre. Because of the size of the srder the farmers saved $3,500. Washlngton.--Babieb born in 1918 will bring varying Income tax exemp tions to their parents, depending on the month of their birth. A child born In January, 1918, gives $200 exemp tion, in addition to the $2000 allowed married persons, but if a child 'was born in July the parent la entitled to exemption of only $100 on the infant's account If the child was born in October, the taxpaytng parent Is al lowed only $50 exemption. Under another regulation of the rev enue bureau a person living in one community acting as the principal sup port pf a person living elsewhere may be considered the head of a family and entitled to exemption of $2000. FRANK SAVING THE DAYLIGHT Don't forget that on Sunday, March 30, all clocks In the country will be turned forward one hour. We are to observe the daylight saving law the same this year as last. This advance in time will remain In effect until the last Sunday In October, when the clocks will again tfe turned back to conform to our present time. Copyright im kr R. J. Reynold! TobgccoCo. 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Reynolds Tobacco Catt Hefa BROWN, Sales Carlton, Oregon Albion Peterson went to Portland Saturday. W. It. McFarland returned Satur day from The Dalles, where he wmii to visit Mrs. McFarland, who la ill In the hospital there. Ira Cox, who was recently dis charged from the army, passed through Prlneville Friday on his way to bis home at Held, handed - two - Company, Winston-Salem, N. C Manager Mr. find Mrs. A. T. Bogue were In rnnovllla Saturday from then ranch on Crooked river. Jlohcrt Osborn returned Saturday to Portland to resume his work at hied College, after spending a ten days' vacation with relatives In the city. Ha was accompanied by bis sister, Vesta Prose, who Is going to Ashland to remain with her sister, Mrs. Elsie Miller forseveral months. I --mm t-mr k n s m IIP If