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VOL V.
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBKR24,1901.
NO. 4'
MA83IED WOMEN
Can Receive latent for
Laud
An Act of Congress
An Act for the Relief of Settlor!
on tho Tubllo Lands.
May 14, 1330.
In order to settle Homo dicpnU'd
o'utt 4 ri'j?!irJing the rights of
married women to make finiil
j.rcol on homesteads we apnl
the Act of l'JOl), which read a fol
lows: He it enacted !ty the Semite
mill House of Ilcpre-eiiatives of the
1'nited Kt:iU- in Congress Assem
bled: Tint the thir 1 section of
tho i4 "f Congou nppiovcJ M iy
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
ifhty. ei.itl"d ''An Act for tin- re
lief of scttl'-rs on th! public land,"
Im amended by adding U'm'to ll,e
following:
'Where un unmarried woman
who lms heretofore n.Htlf.1, or tony
hereafter fettle upon a tr:l(;t
public land, improved, csteblihhed
and maintained a bona fide resi
dence thereon, with tho intention
i.f nppropriatinflt ll'0 fame for a
home, subject to the homestead
law, nnd 1ms married, or shall here
after marry before making entry of
said hind, or before making appli
cation to enter said land, she shall
not on account of her marriage
forfeit her right to make entry and
receive patent for tho land; Pro
vided, that she does not abandon
her residence on said land, and if
otherwise qualified to mukehomc
ntcad entry: Provided, further,
that the man whom Bhe marries
in not at the timo of their marriage,
claiming a separate tract under the
homestead law.
"That this act shall 1 applicable
to all unpatented lands claimed by
such entry-woman at the date of
passage."
Lamonto Lines.
We are having lovely weather
now, but rather too warm for com
fort. Somo peoplo are so hard to
please you know.
We are informed that Mrs, Joe
Taylor and Mrs. Oscar Co left
Salem for Crook county the last of
the present month. They are
bringing with them a young lady
whom we are told is comming to
our country to teach.
Frank Hughes arrived in La
monta the 14 inst, from Hoquiam,
Wn., and is the guest of his friends
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Miller, for
a short time when he will go on to
Post to visit with relatives, the
family of Roscoe Knox.
Ben Helf rich is deep in the mys
teries of house building, being ably
assisted by his brother Jim. What
does it all mean.
The MisBes Edith and Clara
Healcy were visiting friends in
Lnmonta Sunday,
It is being whispered around
Lamonta that one of Culver's moBt
popular young ladies is hard at
work hem-stitching white things,
that look liko sheets and pillow
caBcs.
The Gray butte school opened
the 7 inst under the alio manage-
ment of Miss Lilly Head.
A valuable horse belonging to
John Helf rich Jr. Is very sick
nick with pneumonia.
Will some one tell tm if we arc to i
have our "much talked of but little
thought of" school use. Tol'HY.
Peanut A irt Cimliill.
11 Pi.n mi a an il Mfnmlnrd Oil bad
more to do with the Boxer move-'
rnent in China than the mission
ones," says . relumed missionary.
"For years thousands of the Chi
nese raised peanuts and extracted
the oil which was the only article
ucd for artifleial light, then the
Standard Oil Company enme and
undersold them with kerosene,
which it had a riu'ht to do, and the
industry was ruined. Then Con-
HI I CI l HUH IIUI llliill itiivii p.-"..., . , , . Uf. i
drove the borne product out of the; ' " m acre f
market. Finally a railroad was! land in Crook County ays The
to bo built , and the thousands of j Oregonian. The land is commonly
carriers became frightened, nri'l I culled desert land, and has stood
under the dirccion of the empressl yw.tnt of
the movement was Id-gun to drive ' au :
the foreigners from the country. J' considered it worthless. A
. . j ditch is now be;ng constructed in
.u t nun. i vicinity of the land, and it will
Circuit Court convened Monday.! nt le ing un)il a j!irge prtion
Following is the docket and thejof the H0(J acreg w;,j j,r0(uo;ng
disposition of cases up to the t:mcittM KfKJ cr0,,a ofallalfa afi ever grew
of going to press: jjn t)ie jrrij,ttte,j districts of the
State vs Andrew V Lytic, rnarg-:
ed with murder in the first degree
Flea not guilty. ' Trial will come
up latter part of the week.
State vs Otis Cobb, malicous
damages. Plea not guilty.
PI ALCovs Phii Brogan Jr,
damages.
Chas Allschul vs W T Casey,
ejectment.
J M M inkier vs Alice M inkier,
divorce. Uefered to Dufur.
11 J Pcngra vs A Mason, action
on account Verdict for 1285.
A M Drake vs 0 I Co et al, suit
for money loaned. On trial.
M Bichel & Co vs J W Hamilton,
action on account. Continued.
First Nat Hank vs V McGonagil,
acton to recover money Continu
ed. J Southerland vs Chas Allison,
confirmation. Continued.
II Ilahn et al vs M Mulvahill,
injunction. Answer filed.
C Sam Smith vs W W McVay
et al, injunction. Ilsferee to re
port during vacation.
E G Bolter vs L J Douthitt et al
injunction. Pending settlement.
E G Bolter vs J II Garrett, in
junction I Bichel, administrator of the
Geo Lynn estate vs K Huston, ac
tion to recover money from former
administrator. Taken under ad
visement. G L Southerland vs Nancy E
Southerland, divorce. Referred to
J W Hopkins.
B Cram vs J II Garrett, injunc
tion. Passed for settlement.
State vs W A Booth, adminis
trator of the E Davis estate; in
formation in escheat proceedings.
Quong Hing & Co vs Cline &
Osborne, action on account. Con
tinued. P Hastings vs J Hastings, ac
tion on account. Continued.
C L Salomon vs Wm Circle Sr,
action on account. Settled.
II Clark vs Rena E Clark, di
vorce. .
M II Bell vs G M Cornett, ap
peal. W T Casey vs Crook county, re
view. 0 M Pringle vs City of Prine
ville, injunction.
C M Lister et al vs Wm Eocgli,
mandamus.
Florence Drake vs 0 I Co, injunction.
Hi GI300K GOUHTV
Danker Purchases Tract
of , Land.
800 AdeS School Land
W. M. Barnett, of Waaoo, Believes
by Irrieation tt Will be
Made Valuable.
W. M. Barnett, the Wasco banker
and stockraiser, was in Salem Sat
urday to purchase for himself and
(ia((t jt,.. Tlio land costs $1 2
per acre.
Mr. Barnett has great confidence
in the future of the Crook County
country! and thinks the land lying
in such a position that it can be
irrigated will in a few years furnish
homes for a large number of people.
It was only a few years ago that
in his own country (Sherman)
land oould be. bought at 1 2o per
acre, but the same land is now un
dcr cultivation, will readily bring
115 per acre. While it was still a
part of the public domain most
people considered it not worth hav
ing. As the Crook County country
is settled op and transportation
facilities become better one section
after another will be added to the
tillable land, and 10 years hence
people will look baik and wonder
at the progress that has been made.
Hie land which Mr. Barnett and
his family 1 has bought from the
state was shown in a recent map
of Crook County published by The
Oregonian. It has a few miles
west oi Prineville, and is crossed
by Crooked River, the principal
branch of the Deschutes. It is in
a portion of the country which
Bhould in a very few years be
traversed by a railroad, and it is
quite within reason to expect
that a railroad crossing Crook
County both east and west and
north and south will intersect each
other in that vicinity.
Mr. Barnett sayt that, while he
has not examined the vacant lands
of Crook County, he believes that
there are hundreds of acres that
lie in a good position for irrigation.
Many settlers are now searching
for homes in that country, and
irrigation enterprises are now being
started in various places. In
many of the streams there is water
sufficient to reclaim arid land, and
each succeeding year sees more of
the water used for this purpose.
Mr. Barnett is only one of many
who are turning to cheap land in
the outlying sections as a good
investment, It is not required of
purchasers of state land that they
make their homes upon the land
for any time at all. So far as the
requirement of the law are concern-1
ed, a city business man may buyi
state land he has never seen, and 1
may sell it without ever having
been upon it. While he is required
to swear that he desires to purchase
it for his own use, it is not required
that he use it for a home for him
self or family. Under these favor
able terms many people are invest
ing their savings in land which
can be bought at $1,25 per acre,
only 25 cents per acre being paid
down at the time the application
is made. As might be expected,
Eastern Oregon land is most sought.
for because there is a large area to
select from, and probably better
land can be secured there by going
back from the settled district.
There are also a number of va
cant sections in the coast country,
and these are gradually being
sought out by persons, who-expect
them to be valuable some time for
da'uving. Sales are being made
daily by the State Land Depart-j
ment.' Some of the purchasers are I
1
people who have never seen the!
the land that they buy, but have
earned its general character by .
correspondence with people who
are familiar with the coun try.
Others are people who "havej
personally examined the land or j
have sent some one to examine it
for them. Some of those who have
been too hasty in selecting land
may find that they have bought
property that will never be worth
the purchase price. The great
majority, however, will see the time
when their original cost of the land
will look small when compared
with its real value.
Fine Oregon Applca.
In a recent letter to Secretary
Lambcrson of the Oregon board of
horticulture Superintendent II. E.
Dosch, of Oregon exhibt at the
Buffalo exposition, gives two ex
amples of the way Oregon and
Oregon products is spreading by
reason of the display made at that
fair. Mr. Dosch says:
"A few days ago I took out of
storage tne last lour boxes ot Hood
River apples. Strangely enough,
they came out the finest of any,
and it was just when I needed
fine apples, too. I was arranging
these apples on plates on our coun
ters when several gentlemen step
ped up and asked some questions
about them. The air was heavy
with their fragrance, and they
looked perfection. One gentleman
handed me his card, Mr. Ludwig
von Arnim, Waldorf-Astoria. He
askel me if I would sell him the
apples, and where others like them
could be obtained. I told him
that these apples cost us, laid down
here, 17.65 per box, rather a high
price for apples. 'All right,' said
heI'll take 20 boxes today; price
is no object so long as I can get
such apples as these for cur
hotel. The gentleman went into
ecstacies over the size, and color
and flavor of fruit. I referred
them to the Hood River people to
get a supply, but I fear the season
was too late for delivering more ot
those apples in New York. Before
leaving, the hotel man said he had
been scouring ' the country for
apples, and was willing to pay any
price for apples that keep their
color and flavor as those did."
Mr. Shepard has accepted the
Mayoralty nomination from Tam-
many, which a few years ago he
was denouncing by every word in
his power. There has been nothing
like it since Horaco Greely accept
ed the democratic nomination for
President Eomo thirty years ago.
GENERAL HEWS.
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
Cullinea From Our Exchanges
Dews Notea of the Week
Timely Topics
A. W. Blackburn has entered
snit in the Linn county court
against G. L. Rees for 9 10,000 for .
aleniating the affection of his wife.
Johann Most has been sentenced
to imprisonment in the "pen."
for one year for publishing seditious
articles in his anarchist paper in
New York on the day following
the shooting of the President, Mc
Kinley. The controller of the Currency
has approved the application of
Leon M. Brown, John D. and A. II.
Gross, Pierce II. Dawson and Ben
Brown, to organize the First Na
tional Bank of Burns, Or., with a.
capital of $25,000.
A telephone line is in course of 7
construction from Lakeview to I
Paisley, which will be great accom-
dation to the settlers of that part
of the state. If it comes on intu I
Prineville it will lie a still greater,
blessing.
A Salem paper says: Mrs Z P
Moody has presented to the state a
large number of palms, cacti and
other large potted plants, to be
used in decorating the interior of
the state capitol. The plants havo
been placed in the two legislative
halls and in the rotunda. The
Oregon Agricultural College made
a similar gift not long ago."
A Chinaman named Tong Yipt
was knocked down and robbed at
Meacham Tuesday night by Meac-
ham toughs. They entered a pas
senger coach while the passengers
were at dinner in the Log Cabin
hotel and speedily did their work. .
Seventy dollars in bills were taken
from the pocket of the celestial,
His face and eyes were bruised but
otherwise he was uninjured.
The Burns land district covers' "
country extending about 145 miles j
east and west, 100 miles north nnd j
south, taking in parts of Baker, j
Crook, Grant, Harney, Malheur I
and Wheeler counties. The dis- t
trict contains 9,307,000 acres of 1
land, in all of which there has been .
1,633,890 acres appropriated.
There are 1,862,753 acres of un
surveyed land. This would still
leave 5,805,357 acres of surveyed
and unappropriated land subject
to the various entries.
The Times-Mountaineer is doing
everything in its little power
which power is as small as the Ut
ile end of nothing rubbed out-r-to
make a future frut and vegetable
exhibit at this place an impossibil
ity. As the Chronicle sees it, at
this particular juncture, the only
way to prevent the utter failure of
such an exhibit next year is to give
the editor of the Times-Mountaineer
charge of the horticultural ex
hibits, and then "amateurs like
Doc Sanders," and R II Weber
and W H Taylor will humbly take
a back seat. Dalles Chronicle.