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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1920)
Pace 4 CROOK COUNTT JOl'RNAL MONDAY. MAY IT. I0o line raeswick THE BEST OP ENTERTAINER WHEN GUESTS ARRIVE A WONDERFIX COMPANION WHEN YOU ARB ALO.NB THE BRUNSWICK 18 THE ONLY PHONOGRAPH THAT FULLT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OP WHO APPRECIATE- TUB GREAT ARTISTS AND GIVES A "CORKING" RENDITION OP THE "JAZZ" POPULAR MELODIES WE ALL LIKE MANY DIFFERENT CABINET MODELS IN STOCK NOW COME IN AND HEAR THEM NEXT TO POST OFFICE. EASY PAYMENT PliAN. J. FELLOWS TRAVELING REPRESENTATI VE WILEY B. ALLEN COMPANY. The City W. F. Freund was in Prineville Sat nrday on buaineaa. Eleanor Yancey left Friday night tor a visit in Portland. E. H. Stewart was a business rtoit- or In the city Saturday, Leland Spear was a caller at the Journal otfice Saturday. George F. Kelley was a business Tisitor in Bend last Thursday. J. E. Fuller was attending to busi- Bess interests in town Saturday. Jimmie Fellows left Friday even ing tor a week end business trip. E. P. Luthey of Powell Buttes was a caller in town Saturday on business. Mrs. Williard Wirtz spent several days visiting with friends in Bend the last of the week. Isaac F. Shown, who recently mov ed to Mitchell to make his home, was in the city Thursday and Friday on business. R. E. Jones, who formerly operat ed a sawmill about 12 miles up Ocho co, left Friday evening for a trip to Portland. Loren Kimball, whose father for merly conducted a ranch at Summit Prairie, arrived in Prineville for a visit with friends here. John Combs. County Sheriff, left Sunday on a 200 mile trip up in the i Paulina country for the purpose of I attributing election supplies. MaryV. Charlton the candidate for County School Superintendent was attending to business here Sat urday. The Cornett sale, which is in full received a good start last Friday with about 20 housewives of Prineville waiting at the front entrance at 9.00 o'clock, when the sale was scheduled to Degin. John Combs returned from Port land last Thursday, where be went to take a man by the name of Bor den, wanted in Portland for forgery, wnum ne apprenenaed nere. Joe Speechley has Just put In a new cold storage plant in his butch er shop, and this will greatly impro ve things in the way of handling meat during the warmer weather. Ruth Blood, who has been teach ing in the public school for the last year, and living with her uncle, C. L. Shattuck, left Saturday morning for her home in Massachusetts. She does not expect to return next year. Gertrude McCarthy, Effie Cuthbert Helen Halvorsen and Margaret Nel son, teachers in the Public School this year, left Friday evening for their homes in the Willamette Valley. Miss Cuthbert is the only one of the quar tett who will return next year, the remaining number having made other plans. Bob Zevely was given permission by the Commercial Club to elect a manager to attend to the Baseball games that Prineville expects to have i.uin luiumer, work win ne commen W.P.Davidson returned from a trip in the Valley today. John Elliott is attending to busi ness here today. Alex Hinton was In Prineville to day. R. B. Cross was a caller In town to day. Earl Hereford is a visitor In our city today. C. O. Stover came In from his ranch at Post today. W. B. Morse came In from his ranch on McKay today. Homer Norton of Post was a bu siness visitor In the city today. J. E. Williams was attending to bu siness interests in town today. E. T. Curtis came In ' from his ranch today to attend to business. Joe Gerardo has a new truck which will be used very extensively in the butcher business. Mrs. C. A. King came In from the Dickson & McDowell Ranch today to visit and attend to business. A marriage license was issued by the County Clerk to Otis McKlnnon and Jennie A. Stevens Saturday. Mrs. S. J. Newsom has gone to Post where she expects to spend the sum mer with her son, Sam, and family. Fred Noble has purchased a 200 acre ranch from B. F. Johnson, "repre sentative for the Oregon & Western Colonization Company this week. . Jas. Newson Jr., will leave Wed nesday for Detroit Michigan where he will Join his father, John, who is an engineer in the Ford factories. J. C. Houston received a pair of valuable bear hounds from an Ohio fancier the last of the week, which he expects to train with his old dogs this summer. He kills many bear each j summer in the cascades where he ranges his stock. DR. MARKOE KILLED IN NEW YORK CHURCH new lorn. nr. james .Markoe, a well known surgeon, was shot and killed Sunday while taking up the of fering at the morning service In the fashionable St. George Protestant Epis copal church. The murder occurred soon after the rector of the church. Dr. Karl Holland, had concluded his morning. sermon, In which he had advised his congregation io be friendly to every strangar visit 'ng the church. Dr. Markoe was tak ing up the collection when his assail ant produced a revolver and fired a shot which took effect In the heart, death resulting soon afterward In a hospital. Before Shelley was captured outside of the church he fired another shot wllch grazed the cheek of J. Morgan Jones, an usher, and wounded Dr. George E. Brewer In the leg. He told the police he had escaped from lunatic asylum last week and told rambling stories of his career as an itinerant printer since coming to this country from England. It also developed that be was a deserter from the Canadian army, the police said. He told the police he had never seen or heard of Dr. Markoe. Census Data Grow. The statistics of the first renins of the Vnlteil StntM were published In one Hmnll volume consisting of !MJ puces. The stiitlKflr of the 11)10 pen su required 12 volumes having more than 40.000 pages. Th Wolf Cry. Timber wolves when x.umr.inrf their nm- h.to the ulr ami send nut wireiess calls Unit curtl e the l.l...ut of every human nml I, tin I... ..I Minium within hearing. Hut the other timber wolves reply at once anil wnrb I,,-.,. each other until the pack , united. mm if P IIP. 3 l HII Reason for Using 8tone. The forest' runner on Mount Italnii-r have a house on tup of tin iiniiiiiitiln hullt of stone, n herens under usual im (lltlnns It s the i-iini.uii in construct these buildings of wood. The pro Itnlty of the sii.ne and the scarcity of wood and the difficulty of ohtnlnltu- it from the lower levels Is responsible for this departure. Mending China. Broken rhlnn ." be allowed to "sei" In a hex ,,f naw. ousi. i inre in any d..lr..,l ..,i,i.. nd Its own wi'ltrlii u.'i'i k..i.i '"i i ne piece nfiiuj ti in ii mo cement hardens. The Milkweed. The milkweed n plant that hns a flinch Imiikit num.. Hum that, hut aMHi until,) nut be nenrly as atiroe live for lis to use. Is rl.e.-lly well kmmu In America In the minium when the pods have iiH'iit and lliero ' ii brisk hrifisi.. the wind rnrrl.-V ',M'1'' ! fur mid near. Then th 'IllWtIV ,,,, r ,.,. flyl,,,, l)ny nlrsilw iiliiuiui everywhere. In scann f it Inmii.'IiI;.. ertiwlnr pine, where 'hey tuny npiK-nr In the spring as tall, 'lender sinlks Doge1 Few a Delicacy. In the Island of Formula dogs' fee are considered a rrent delicacy. ' I BRIEF GENERAL NEWS Cornish Tin Miners. The men who work In the Cornish fin mines are a class by themselves, and nil their differences are adjusted by the stannary courts, as they are called from the Latin word stannum. These curious courts have existed In their present form since the middle of the thirteenth ontury. and, In a sim pler form, much earlier; and the min ers cla!m to be free from all other Jurisdiction, "except In matters af fecting the land, life or limb." Prairie Dogs. The little ground squirrels, or prai rie dogs of the western plains,- have their homes 12 or 15 feet undecgroiind. with corridors and rooms. In some of these chambers the squirrel family lives, and In others food and various materials are stored. Do You "Hate" Yourself? For I stiy, through the grace given unto me, to very man that is among you, not to think of himself mure high- ced on the Ball Park Tuesday, and I ,v he ""-''t think." Paul In will be put in first clans conditions. I hls letter to the Unmans, 12:3. COMING! Lombard?, Ltd. FRIDAY an J SATURDAY Roumanla bas placed an order for fifty locomotives with the Baldwin Locomotive company of Philadelphia. Latest figures from the presidential primary in Illinois show that Gover nor F. O. Lowden's plurality over Major-General Leonard Wood was 77,- Roger C. Sullivan, 59 years of age, democratic leader of Cook county, and prominent In state and national politics for 30 years, died at his home in Chi cago of bronchial pneumonia. He had been seriously 111 a month. The nation-wide railroad strike ap parently has collapsed. Except In a few isolated sections railroad officials report the bulk of the men who follow ed the leadership of John Orunau of Chicago, had returned to work. The strikers, who acted In defiance of their railroad brotherhood chiefs, have gen erally returned without any definite promises of more pay, The "overalls club" movement, In tended as a protest against the high prices of clothing, Is spreading rapidly over the country. City officials, bank ers, doctors, students, Judges, drama tists, preachers, merchants and busi ness men generally are rising en masse. In a sense official sanction has been given the movement, for the petition of the employes in the Nor folk navy yard to wear denlin has been allowed. .A Learned Capital. Anraii. cnpltnl of the Swiss canton of Argovla. possesses one of the h,-,rd. est working libraries In Ihe world. Though Ihe library consists of only fiO.fsTO volumes whleh Is not so large as nubile Institutions go In the United States 1 lie population of the capital Itself Is only 1O0O0 with eight vol umes per Inbabiiaiil. the library of Aarau has Just eniie to must of Itself as a miniature Alliens. Completion Of Crook Countys Highway Program E3 sr&fits suras $8 bond ' 302 x te Vote roe 00 ROAB Vote 302 X Yes for 4 Stats Head Bond Limit NO PROPERTY TAX MO DIRECT TAX NO incpsass !N AUTO licbw FEES , NO INCREASE OF GASOLINE TAX Present Auto License Fees and Gosolins Tex will pay both principal and interest on all the bond;, under this consul, t.oria, amendment. Approval of this a.ncnd ' U necessary to permit early completion of State Highways. the state and nation Cost' much of tte exPeie being borne by Vote for GOOD ROADS MAY 21 Vote 302 X Yes for 4 ;- n-. n.. .w tuuu uona ohpti Pres., 811 WorcesterBTdfi: Porand Uent As W. L. Thompson