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rook Journ VOL V. MINKVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OltEGOX. MAY 1901. NO. 25. ak A j RAILROAD NOTES. Columbia Southern May Extend its Lines to Crook County Points, Irrltnlloa Kvnioiim to 1) Put in Operation ut un Early l:iv. Now that tin) troubles that de layed' thu progress o( the Columbia Southern Railroad have Wen set tied, there in a prawn;; demand for the extcnttoii nf itH line through the country in which survey wure made li . , year. The Columhiii Southern pn j. ct ! two 'ii.es one ttoutliwanl across the state to Lake- view, find the other up tho John Pay River to l'r.iirie City. It was understood iha'. plans had been made for the extensions when the ilitHontioiiH aroe that blocked nil progrrss. Nwthoioad hilts at Shaniko, where, Manual im ' provementit liavc been made by the railroad company and others, and vn important trade has grown up. lint the people of tho interior and merchant of Portland are pressing fur tt asportation faiilitio far to the southward of Shaniko. Impor tant divelopment agencies are at work in that country, and they, too, arc crying for a railroad. 'l i e timber of the DeschuasVal ley has all been secured by Min nesota ami Wisconsin lum'iormcn. There it) nearly 125,003 acres of this land, and .t ill yield 1S.000 feet, board mii r , t the aere, of fir and pine, or more thin 2,200, tKXi.OOO feet f excellent lumber. Three extendi jnrigation projects are on foot. A. ,V, Lrako, a Wis cornin capitalist. ' a alreily in vented about $10,0 K) ia the- prelim inary j re hi ration (for an irrigation system that will cover about 30 , 1)00 n( res in ti e vicinity of Bend, 2r miles vcstwaid from Trin iville. lie left for lie Kant this week to perfect Lis financial arrangements. The Oregon Irrigatim Company, organized by C. C. Hutcl inson, of Han Francisco, has surveys made f ir irrigation Bystem that will cov - i.r nearly GOO.OOO acres ou thu Do clu.tos bottom to the westward of riineville. W. II. Moore, the Moro bankt'r, hag plans for irrigat ing some 400,000 acrea to the south ward of Eend, and C. M. Cart wright, of the Baldwin Sheep and Land Company, is preparing to ir rgatc a large tract west of the Des ehutce. The completion of these Miterpriset will open a largo and rich area of tho state to general ag riculture and afford a profitable business for the transportation lines that Khali aerve it. The forest land is easily cleared, and farms will immcdiatly follow the remov al of the timber. North and east of Prinevillc there are promising oil prospects, and coal and asphalt have been dis covered, though tho prospects have not been pursued far enough to de termine heir value. . , , The development of that coun try will considerably chango the character of its industries. Hie l-ai.ge Htock business will retire, hut it is not presumed that' less (live stock will to kept there. Instead c.( the large hcTd and flock roam . log over .Ui range almost At will cuyh farmer will have his bunch of cattle or sheep, and the animals sold will be fat, not mere range stock that must be prepared else where for the market. This will leave more money in the country. The closer working of the natural resources will be mure profitable to all concerned. The railroad company continues to make improvements at Shaniko, which is becoming an important shipping point. A wool baler is now being put up there, ond it is expected that Hhaiiiko will lie one of the greatest primary wool mar ked in the state this season. The rail rate to The Ualles has bem re-j dueo to 30 cents per 100 pounds for wool, which will result in a great deal of the wool going to the railroad at Shaniko that has hither to been .teamed to The Dalles. The Columbia Southern now has a OUR SCHOOLS, Compare Very Favorably With Others. Supt. Bcep,li Visits ,1 Number of Tliom and Flndu Thcin In a FJonrkkliis Condition. Superintendent Boegli returned Saturday from an extended trip visiting a portion the schools of the county. lie first visited the Haystack school in district A'o. 10 which is under the supervision of prof. G. M. Paul who baa thirty three pupils enrolled. The school shows good progress lieing made From Ilavstack he crossed to the bisters school in district No. 9 war houso at Shaniko .'iOOxlOO feet. ana it is adding an extension which is under the supervision of feet long and two stories high.! Dayton Elliott. This school has The company is aho building ai twenty four pupils .enrolled all of round House wiui lour stalls, and . wk,i ftre progressing nicely and repair shoja for the road are being! the superintendent is well pleased built there. A large number of set-: with the status of the school. From tiers are going into that acction, Sisters to the Desert school house Mammoth Nugget. The Blue Mountain Eagle is in formed that a mammoth nugget has just been taken from the placer mine owned and operated on by Hobt. Cannon, of Spanish Gulch, and W. II. Johnson & son, of John Day, down at the Mule gulch in the Spanish Gulch mineral belt. The nugget weighed about twenty- five pounds and while it contained considerable quartz, it was valued at 12500. This is decidedly the largest nugget taken from the placer mines of Grant county since the early mining days when Bob Mar shal had a $10,000 nugget stolen from his mines in Vinson creek by a Chinaman. This placer mine operated on Mule gulch by Messrs. Cannon and Johnson produced handsomely last season, and bids fair to do equally well again this season. They have a large supply of water and will be able to continue the ojicration of their mine until late in the fall. This property is decidedly one of the most productive placer mines being operated in interior Oregon at the present time. GENERAL HEWS. Items of Interest Gath ered Here and There, Soino Stolen, Others Not Culling From Our Exchange, Sew A'ote of the Week. Tliiiely lopta. where 1 1 ml was never cub i voted j in district Xo. 4" was the next before, and they are exjiected to;moVe. Here Miss Carrie Fee has have a considerable wheat crop to! eighteen pupils enrolled all of whom arc showing a great deal of interest in their studies. The next move wuh from Sisters to the Combs fiat school district No. 21, a dis- tos'iiiif.on Sbaniko in the fall. Tho e who are acquainted with the region say no other part of Ore gon promise so rapid and so even development in the coming years. Orcgnnian. i iuw ranee oi 4i miles. Jiera aum Ada Foster is training the youthful idea in the way it should go. This is one of the smallest schools in the county at present: but the attend- "Lake Michigan District," is in am.t. in propertion to the enroll- Wii .ill ill irtim (uw.l'ilwr n rim wi.in ..... .... ' ' ' nient is the large.-it as all the pu pils enrolled were present. The A Nnn Trrnhtry, Capt. George V. Stnafer, of the War Humor. a territorial delegate to Congress. Many years ago Capt. Streater was wieckcd on a sandbar in Chi cago harbor. As the vessel was about nil he had in the world he locided to stay on the bar. After awhilo the sand began to roll up am nd th-i vessel until an island was formed which now is said to contain 800 acres. Chicago cast covetous eves on this island and attempted to gain pos session of it, first through the police an l then through the court. It failed in both instances. The state of Illinois then attempted to gain 1 ossession of it and was likewise scholarship and deportment in this school were found to be excelldut. From Comlia flat to Xewsom creek a distance of 18 miles, was the next distrfct visited. There the school is under the management ot ilrs. J. r. Lvons who lias a I small school at present, but the Tho city of 'attendance is good, fhia district In an interview with a London Daily mail Yeprescntative Wm T. Stead in shaking of the future history of England said: "The Boers are calculating upon Eng land's becoming embroiled with Russia, or some other complication. If I am not mistaken, we arc on the verge of a storm across the At lantic that will rudely shatter our peaceful calculations. When the United States congress meets, the Clayton Bulwer treaty will be torn into shrills and thrown into or.i faces. We shall have to choose be tween fighting or eating humble iic." The first serious discussion of the possibility of such a war will do more to keep the Boers in the field than all the speeches of all the pro-Boers in existence. About 12,000 builiels of wheat changed hands at Grass Valler last week at 45 cents a bushel. G. P. Miller hsis been appointed Postmaster at McKinlay, Or., riet Homcr Shepard, resigned. A dispatch Ironi Amsterdam an nounces, that Mr. Kruger will leave for the United States at the com mencement of June. Monument boasts of a girl base ball nine. The girls get out and practice frequently,. and will un doubtedly challenge totuchodv soon. According to a ruling of thf comraisioner of the general Ianif. office, all niiueral springs mt hereatter be taken up us placer claims. usually has a very good enroll ment for ihe winter term. A new school houso will lie built this sum mer. Tho district has lately seat ed its schoolhousc with the latest patent desks. All tho above dis tricts ore well supplied with op The next eclipse of the sun will occur on May 17th, on whicl date the great orb will be out of sight for six and one-half minutes pro vided tb day is clear. The war stamp on tank check goes out of existence on tire first, of. July, having been aboii.-died as a means of raising a war revenue. The last fiscal year shows that 350, 000,000 checks passed through the- banks, each bearing a two cent stamp, yielding a revenue of $7,000,000 to the government. A. V. R. Snyder, editor of th McMinnviile Transcript, has beea offered and accepted the position of deputy collector of customs at Wrangle, Alaska. The office waa tendered him through Senator Mitchell. Mr. Snyder will leave for hia field of labor about May 12th. Horse rustlers with tiro cars oE unsuccessful, tapt. Streater then i j)iiratus and all have libaries start organized his island into a territory j e(i. Taken altogether the schools which he calls the Lake Michigan j o( Cro:)k C(?vnty eorapare favorably District, and has organized a muni cipal aud territorial government At tlie late election McKinley re ceived about three votes to Bryan's one, and Capt. Streater was elected territorial governor. Ho holds that his island is out the jurisdic tion of the United State-1, and seeks admission into the Union by annexation, as in the case of Ha waii. World's Events. Striket nt Athvood. Crow Canyon Ittms. May 3, 1901. Weather Cue and crop looking well. JomiiIi Williams, of upper Crow ennyou, spent Friday and Saturday of; stolen horses are dodging the ofii- with any portion of the state. There are not so mnnv sprin" terms this year as usual on account of the small apportionment in April. The leader of a band of Yaqui Indians, who was captured a short time ago at Cuesta Alta by a de tachment of Government troops, has been executed at Antcjuda Mexico, by order of General Loren- jzoToires. Prior to his execution 1 he was positively identified ltitit week in l'rineville. A. S. Collins vUdted the canyon on May 1. Forent Qiiimliy,o Lava, was in our vicinity the 2.1. ccrs somewhere in the eastern por tion of Malheur county. The Stock men's Prottuctive Association maintain a sharp survei lance throughout the territory. Tho- Arthur Kelly was in town on busi-j thieves aro well known to tlie oili- nts tt week. as Sid Steams ha the material on the ground to replace hia dam a soon n the river goes down so lie can begin work. Mrs. Stearns ami children have moved from town to their ranch to spend vacation. Joint Haniblcton is in town at Texas is sltooting oil well to en tertain visiting New Yorkers; TIucr was a time when Texans of a eei taiu class were fond of entertain ing themselves by shooting visitor. whose feet were tender. But th old days of gleeful pastimes wit! George Brown and SVill Munger, two workmen at the Morning Star mine in Mormon Basin, near the Malheur and Laker County line Ilnrdlv a day niissc without a new strike being made in the dis-j "Apaehe Kid" by Alexander Mac rict, and each day it become more Do"W. on American scout in the evident that wo have the ridiest!Governul,"nttrool d he camp in the state. The right kind! knew tl,e "KM" wel1 m Arizona. of developed work is now beingl James X. Smith died at Meharr.a done to encourage capitalists trOregon, at 2 p. ni. Saturday, April ! recently completed a shaft througl come in and invest, and when thfij 27, l'.KU; aged 84 years and 10 is brought about, the district and' daye, after a long illness, of la the city ofAshwood will advance grippe. Deceasedwas one of Oregon's at on amazing rate, until a large1 early settler and leaves two child city, Hurrottndcd by rleb producing! ren Mrs. G. Pi'Terrel and Dr. . mines will taka the place of our Siaitk, of Portland. Oregon. prentaftor enjoying (?) hi. attack j "hooter have passed uway for of the mesjiles. ' ; uver- Aguinaldkv been interviewed Art Kelley ia confined to hi room with measles. X. Y. Z. little city and partly developed re- town o( Mehama was named after P Pan : A fftampedt sources. Ptaspeetur, i litis wtte, &Uaiu iituitk : 'r? , Uiaai difCQvcry, ,, . .j by a fully authorized Amerivais newspapt-i man, aad fays heshotihi like to visit the United States, lc is likely that AguitJiddo doecnt: know good thing. At present In? is a star boarder with Ceaenl McArthur. but if he comes to the '-webfoot bedrock" or kurdpnn , Arneiica he wiU fii him.li slur in the old worked out plawr dag-iilp puUic cuit, itbCarr. gings on Pine Crwk, which empties; SBti ad Uher "great p-.-nswis. into Burnt River below Bridgeport.' If Aguimldo will takw a. tip, h They encountered a new lied of fine j W;B eUv o at Maaila. 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