County Joufhft.
VOL V.
PKINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 29, 1901.
NO. 37
Crook
Ho
SUMMER FALLOW
How They Do It In Wal
la Wal la County.
Modern Method3 Best
"What Obtain la Waablngtoi
In Applicable- To Crook
County.
aw the exhibit at Buffalo and
nine interested.
be-
Itrcoril iifllm Younger.'
January 15, 1K44 Colo Younger
inn.
l.r, 18-18 Jim Younger
2'J 1855 Bob Younger
"The rc:ion the yields ore
much better in tho fluids of Walla
Wall county during the past few
yearn," Maid a wheat grower win
rama to tlm city yesterday ff tin
purpose of obtaining Home "extra
for his header, "is because th.
longer thin land is farmed th.
more the farmers learn about hot
to handle it. With the samo con
(litions that would bring only i
fair or medium crop five years agi
we arc now able to rake off fron
w o nj nuviicit 10 me aero ant.
land that three vears ago wat
yielding 18 bushels now yicjds 28
It is neither in the land nor tin
climate that the change has come
but n the farmer."
Other farmers agree with this.
They say that 5 years ago the soil
of the Walla Walla valley wai
tilled but poorly. Two cayuws
and six inch plow were all that
the average farmer thought he
wanted in order to begin operation,
lie scratched the ground over, just
kind of stirred it up, and tlien
owed his wheat. The result "was
lie got a poor crop and went right
to work putting in another with
out letting the ground rest at all.
J utt as long as this continued the
yield was poor. Now the farmer
say they have discovered that tht
lighter lands of the count v can 1
worked to advantage but onct
every two years, and need to hi
"scratched deep." The soil is per
fectly plowed and then harroweil
two or three times which gives tht
moisture abundant opportunity tc
soak in during the wet season.
.Mummer fallow off this land bringf
yields which were unheard of un
der the old system.
This form of farming permits of
the cultivation of much land
which before was regarded a
worthless. For instanue in regard
to the sandy tract in the vicinity
f Touchet and Mow and along
t ne nana want river, five
years ago these sage brush tracts
were thought to be without value.
Today those who till them receive
a paying return for their labor.
And the farmers say it is all be
cause they know how. Walla
Walla Union.
That the samo conditions obtain
in this county is evidenced by the
fact that in the Haystack region
this year summer fallow gave good
yields, while other lands produced
only a nominal amount of grain
When the farmers thoroughly tin
dcrstand the conditions of our soil
there is no doubt hut a fairly good
yield can be obtained every year,
from ground that has heretofore
been considered worthless.
Should this system -of summer
fnllow prove successful throughout
this county it would cause many
thousands of acres of socalled des
rrt land to be settled upon regard
less of the present contemplated
vanabj and irrigation ditches,
Edison has sent a man to Oregon
(it jijounc the nickel mines. Ho
Jan
orn,
Oct,
orn.
In 1802 their father was mur
ered IVKcdLegs."
Colo Younger joined Quantrcll's
iiierillas.
In 181(5 he was commissioned, to.
ELECTRIC ROAD.
To Re Built In The
Grand Round Valley.
Its Great Developer.
Will Cause Larue Farm To Be
Cut Up Into Smaller
Trao.a.;
A company will le Incorporated
by about a dozen of the prominent
men for the purHe of building an
electric road connecting I Grade
with the town of (Vive, 10 miles
away on the eastern side of the
Round valley. All the
imnediments to success of the road
Kaided Liberty, Mo., bank. Took i )avc Wn tI0MMlgny canvassed
and their seems to 1 no sufficient
aise a Confederate regiment in
'alifornia.
Returned and formed guerilla
1 .l 1 1 . .1 1 .1. - !
ana wun nis urouicrs ana ""Grand
lames liovs.
572,000. Boy shot dead.
October 30, 18(50, raid on Lcx
ngton, Mo., bank. Got $2000.
March 2, 1867, raid on Rk1
nond, Mo., bank. Took $4000.
rhrec killed.
March 20, 1808, raided Russel
ille, Ky., bank and secured $17,-XX)
Cole Younger shot Bartrap, La.,
planter, dead for foul in horse race.
December 7, 1868, robbed Galla
in, Mo. bank and killed cashier
June 3, 1871, plundered bank at
Corydon, U. Secured $40,000.
Soon after roblied Columbus, Ky.
bank of 1200 and killed cashier.
Also roblied Kansas City Fair
, .Vssociation of $10,000 in the pres
ence til'lOOO people.'"
Mav 1.' 1873. looted St. Gene
vieve, Mo., hank of $4100,
Julv, 1873, wrecked Rock Island
train in Iowa, killed engin
eer and secured $0000.
Robberies of trains in Wayne
county, Ma, Muncie, Ind., and
elsewhere followed. Also a bank
at Huntington, Va.
September?, 1870, final raid on
Northfield, Minn., bank. Cashier
Hey wood killed.
September 11, 1876, desperadoes
surrounded near Shieldsville,
Minn., but escaped.
September 13, 1870. three of
the Younger brothers finally takon.
James boys escaped.
November 1876, tried, pleaded
guilla, and sentenced to prison for
life.
November 21, taken to Still
water. September 16, 1889, Bob Young
er died.
July 10, 1901, Cole and Jim
Younger pardoned by state board
ol pardons.
The Lebanon Criterion mixes sev
eral different kinds of news as fol
lows: Dr. Lambcrson is rejoicing
in a new microscope of great power
It magnilies 2,000 diameters.
Animalculae look like sea scrpente
and tho parasites on a fly's wing
resembles good sized Newport crabs,
The doctor expects to use it to find
the conscience of the present county
official board. He will not need it
to find the $07,000 debt. That is
isibl to the naked eye.
Mr. Walter Mooro, who returned
from the Upper Deschutes last
week, where he had been taking
his outing, says that the problem
of irrigating the arid lands of Crook
county is about to be solved in
way, both cheap and practical. If
so, Crook county ought soon to be
ablo to boast of one of the most
prosperous farming communities
ol the state. Yca New
reason why it should not succeed
from tho first. The font of grading
will 1 very small, since the coun
try is almost as level as the floor,
awl the power necessary to operate
the rolling stock can be secured at
a minimum of cost. "
Cove has a number of streams flow
ing down the mountain side, the
largest of which carries even at
this time of year 12 feet of water
not less than a foot in depth, or at
least five cubic feet. The flow is
rapid, the fall being between 400
and 600 feet two in miles. By utiliz
ing about two mfiles of the
stream above the irrigating ditches
ample power can' be lecored "to
operate nil the rolling stock the
road would need in any reasona
ble length of time.' By the same
power electric lights will probably
be famished to tho towns of Cove,
Sibley and Alicel.
TIhj business status of the enter
prise is practically this: A com
pany in Utah with unlimited capi
tal back of it has offered assurances
of assistance if the local company
will do its part. It expects the
local company to complete a survey
and to purchase the right of way
and the land at each end of the
lien, for buildings. When this is
done the outside company will
build and operate the road.
It has been estimated that the
road can be built and equipped at a
coHt of $6000 j.er mile. As it will
not run direct to Cove, but will
extend over a distance of about 20
miles, the total cost will be in the
neighborhood of 120,000. The
roundabout course is . necessary to
to include on tho route the towns
of Island City and Nibley and the
rich fruit and beet land lying north
of the Grande Ronde river.
The road will undoubtedly cause
the division of the large land hold
ings into small tracts and encour
age country residences on the part
of many who now live in town.
Held For Iinrcenx,
Deputy Sheriffs J. C. Wooley
and Kd Libby, of Granite, arrived
in town last Friday evening with
C. M. Maddy and George Clements
in charge, who were placed under
12000 'each by Judge Brown of
Granite to await the action of the
coming term of circuit court. The
newspaper reports, ia as follows:
C. M. Maddy while on the road
to Sumptcr last week displayed
alout $400 in amalgam, claiming
it to be a clearup from his placer
mine near the Rod Boy. Further
tests proved the amalgam came
from the Red Boy mine and Mad
dy was arrested. Inducements
were brought to bear upon him for
a confession, which he made, im
plicating Clements, the trusted
millman of the Red Boy, whose ar
rest soon followed.
Godfrey & Taber, the owners of
the Red Boy, claim that for some
time the cleanup at the mill was
not what various assays showed it
should bo, and many teets have
failed to disclose any facta regard
ing the loss. They do not say
that cither Maddy or Clement are
responsible for past shortages, but
they arc positive in their belief
that a conspiracy existed for the
purpose of stealing amalgam from
the mill, but are not yot prepared
to say just who ia connected with
such.
However, before Maddy can be
convicted it will devolve upon the
state to prove that his amalgam
came from the Red Boy mill, and
to establish beyond a reasonable
doubt that his confession is true
before Clements can be convicted.
Blue Mt. Eagle.
GENERAL NEWS.
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There.
Somo Stolen, Others Not
Leprosy In America..
More Sheep K tiled.
On Suuday August 4, nine men
surprised ono of Wagner & Boyer's
herders while asleep. Two men
took care of the herder with win
cheaters while the others toek his
gun and with their own killed six
ty sheep outright and wouaded 17.
Their camp was located about two
miles over on the Paulina side on
Wolf creek whieli flows into Bea
ver creek. It is said Ueir camp
was about two miles over the dead
lino which the Paulina cattle and
sheep men are trying to maintain
againt all outsiders who may
cross over. Mitchell News.
We are accustomed to think of
the loathesome disease of leprosey
as a danger of an alien and far
away kind, to lie read about with
pity and horror, but not to be real
ized as a present evil in America.
It will be startling news, there
fore to many to learn that there
are no less than 900 well defined
cases of leporsey in this country,
and that the plague is spreading in
the South and in some of the West
ern States. Six cases have been
discovered in New Yerk, six in
Chicago, and nearly 100 in New
Orleans. It is a fact of special significance
that nearly every person afflicted
with leprosy is of foreign birth.
Some are Sweeds, but the majority
are Italians. This furnishes a
new and potent argument for a
stricter enforcement of immigration
laws and quarantine regulations.
There is no apparent reason why
the Southern States should have a
larger proportion of leporsey cases
than other parts f the Union, ex
cept that the health authorities of
Sothcrn ports are not as alert as
some others. If the South, for ox
ample had quarantine officers as
capable, vigilant and eflicent as
those of New York, its cities might
have as few lepers as the metropolis.
The disease is one of the most
terrible scourges known o the
world, and no pains nor expense
should be sparcdg in arrestingjjits
progress. Orrgou Republica u
At any rate, J. Pierpont Morgan
didn't say or do anything abroad
to make his country ashamed of
him nd that's more than wocan
say of all American vhn moss the
AtUutic.
Oullings From Our Exchanerea
Hews Notes of the Week.
Timely Topic
An Eugene agricultural editor
saw a hay baler at work and pro
ceeded to say in his paper that
threshing was in full blast through
out the country.
Wm. Cochran, a prominent farm
er and stockraiser of Brownsville,
Linn County, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy in the fedwal court,
showing his liabilities are$65,64f.
37, with assetB $1800.
Following heights of several
places in the Cascades are the
Three Sisters, 11,000 feet; Mount
A'ashington, 9010; Black Butte,
7600; Cash creek, 4500; Fish Lake,
3400; tho Matolcs, 3400.
South America is being tied u;
by revolutions, as well as war lw
tween Columbia and Equador and
in consequence the United State
has ordered a war vessel sent to
the Isthmus.
, Jack W'inters, the self-confessed
robber of the Selby smelting work
from which-hc took $280,000 in ;,
gold and secreted it in Carquh x
straits, was senteneed to fifteen
years in the state prison at Polsom
for his crime. His confession
probably caused a reduction of
several yea re in his sentence.
Counterfeit coins are in circula
tion in Baker City. One is a
half dollar of 1898, made of leacr
and glass, which is so perfect as to
baffle detection at sight. It ha
not the true ring of the penuin
coin however, and can be detected
bv that test. The other is a $
gold piece, very perfect in appearance.
A Portland corporation headed
by W. E. Burke will undertake ti
reclaim about 8800 acres of land
situated in Harney Valley about
18 miles southeast of Burn. Th
company proposes to dig four well
not less than 50 x 100 fwt fior
which ther expect to obUin their
water supply at a cost of $S7,t)3".
70 or $10 ptr acre.
William Cochran died at Row
land, Linn county, Ang. 17, after
an illness of some time, at the agu
af 87 years. The defeased leave
two sons, N. J. and Wm. T. Coch
ran, and three daughters, Mrs. O.
P. Ccehow, sr., Mrs. Sprrry, of
Eastern Oregon, and Mrs. Turner,
of Rowland, at whose home be wa
residing at the time of his death.
Professors Fulton, Perhoa, Ed
wards and Phillips of the state A;r
rieultural College of Corvaliis Or.
spent last week digging for forstl.
in the Bridge creek country. They
secured many fine' gpccimcK) of
leuves and bone of animals wbieli
I we hope to give our remL'ts thct
names of ia the near future Th
party left Snnday for th. John
Day and Hayst;ck emsntry toeon
tiaiwthir search, for rpcciuifiu.
Whcckr Cutiatv Ncwi.