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FJtlNKVILLK, CROOK COUNTY, OHKOON, NOVEMIMB 7, 1901.
NO. 47
VOL. V.
TEACHERS MEET
Annual Institute Is
Held
Three Days' Session
Prof. Bonttle'ln Attendance-Only
One Local Teacher Absent.
-Inatruotlve Meeting.
Last Tbmday, Friday and Satur
day were devoted to tho Teachers'
of the county in Annual Institute
assembled. It wan generally re
gretted that Htate Superintendent
Ackcrman could not be in attend
ance as advertised, but the time he
idiotild have occupied was ably
filled in by I'rof Orton, of the
Prinevillts l'uhlic School. All
but one of the teachers of the
county now in commission were
present and all report a very en
joyable and instructive institute.
On Thursday and Friday evenings
I'rof. Poattiu lectured in tho M. U.
church to apprtciative audiences.
Thursday's exercises were con
ducted by Profs. Ueattic and Orton
nnd the subjects handled were,
Principals of Education, Arithme
tic and Language Work. Friday,
Piineiplcs of Education and Read
ing were discussed by the Profs.,
Bupph intnted by an instructive pa
per by C. IJ. Dinwiddie in the fore
noon and in the after-noon Supt.
Boegli handled School Law.
Faturday tho titno was o cupicd by
Prof. Ucuttio in the fore-noon with
the subject of Psychology Applied
to the Recitation and Principles of
Education; the after-noon was
taken up by Prof. Orton in the
ditcusHHou of Arithmetic and His-
tary. Prof. Ecattie left for his
home at Weston on ths stage in
the afternoon.
The tea'-hers present were as
follows; K E Orton, C B Dinwid
dle, Jerry Banks, Chan King, Lilly
Read, I.eona O'Kclly, Pearl Yan
derpool, Ada Foster, Mrs Frances
Clark, Grace P.clknap, Ward K
Lamson, Lulu Luckcy, J E Cala -van,
Lillio Knox, Chas Lewis,
Neva Kizcr, Alma Throop, Jessie
Andrews, II F Wilhoit, 0 M Paul,
IdaOnieg, Emma Kctchum, and
William Boegli.
A vote of thank was tendered
Prof. Beattio by tho members of
the institute for the able assist
ance rendered by him.
Culver Cuttings.
Chas Lamson is moving to fhe
"Basin" where he will put in the
winter.
P had to go courting last week
and E had to go along.
Dave Peck is putting in the time
hauling wood since he returned
from Grass valldy. i
John Atkinson was down from
Lava last week trading at the new
tore and laying'his winters supply
of spuds.
Dave Rogers has gone to Shani
ko for goods for tno new store.
Henry Windora is having his
winters wood hauled from Grizzly.
Potato digging is in full blast in
the Haystack country. Some
email yields, but big spuds.
Ferd McCallister will start in a
few days to Wapinitia to buy bogs
lor winter feeding.
A number of new settlers have
taken claims in this part of the
county recently.
The danco in the new hall was
postponed until Nov 8 on account
of the lamp and other trimmings
not getting here in time. '
There is great encouragement to
home seekers to, see large loads of
grain going to market from hern.
Thousands of acres of good land
are still left in this section subject
to homestead entry, that only re
quire cultivation to produce large
crops of grain. Haystack.
J.iiiouruglnu Out lokt
It is encouraging to note that!
every week companies are being
promoted for the purpose of de
veloping property in this camp.
The Trout Creek camp is becoming
wide ly known, and as the different
properties upon which work is go
ing ahead is oixmed up, it will
attract still more attention. There
are now half a dor.cn or more com
panies organized, whose purpose is
to develop their chums on an ox-;
tensive scale. Ouf real big com-:
pany with plenty of money, open-
ing up property as though it meant,
business is worth more to a camp
as an advertisement than are all
the small pro.'pect-holes on earth.
This is peculiarly true in this
camp, where it is a recognized fact
that it takes money to open up a
claim. Very few of the claims of
tho camps have shown pay ore any
where near the surface, but where
ever any depth has been acquired,
good ore has been exposed. The
Trout Creek Camp is destined to
become one of the greatest mining
centers on this coast, if we can rely
upon the testimony of many ex
perts who have been in and viewed
the prospects. Litigation has, un
fortunately, tied up the only pro
perty in camp upon which there
has lecn any extensive develop
ment. Let ttiat part be settled, or
let there be any mine in the camp
opened up to the extent that the
"King" is and witness such an
influx of capital into these diggings
as has not been since the Cripple
Creek boom, Prospector.
Oldet Bra of Ice In KiUteue.
Prof. W. T. Lec announces to the
Denver Academy of Science lately,
that he has discovered within 200
miles of Denver tho oldest sea of
ice in the knowledge of man. The
find was mado in an extinct volca
no which tho Colorado and South
ern Railroad has been using for a
supply of ballist, taking out thous
ands of cars of lava for distribu
tion along the tine down through
Texas. At a depth of 200 feet the
men ran into a stream of water
that could not be overcome with
out expensive pumping. The bed9
were abandoned. Investigating
the trouble, Prof. Lee found a per
fect glacier imbedded, which he
says antedates anything of the
kind in the world, He applied
for permission to delve through
tho deposit with tho hope of un
earthing valuable data concerning
trie glacial era.
Keep your eye on tho starry
dome about the 15th of this month
as it is said that we are to have a 1
repetition of the shower of meteore
that Ml in 1833, which was tho
finest ever witnessed, At that
time it was thought to be the end
of the world.
CROOK'S SHEEP
Some of Them ih Lake
County..
Ramboulettes Delaines
A E'ff B nch of Thoroughbred
hama, from Allen St iB
follett, of Priueyi
L. B. Lafollett, -: ' representing
Allen fc Lafollett, breeders of fine
blooded sheep, was an orrival in
Lakeview last Thursday. Mr. La
follett arrived in Lake county
with 255 rams this week, and the
animals had reached Bummer Lake
when ho come on to Lakeview.
One half of these rams are thorough
bred Delaines and the other half
arc a cross between-the two fine
strains of Delaines and Ram
boulctles. They come from the
Alien & Lafollett breeding farm
near Prineville, Crook county.
These gentlemen have been breed
ing up the best strains of sheep at
this same farm for twenty-five
years, and believe they hav5 reach-
ed the acme in the business of sheep
breeding.- These sheep were orgin
ally of tha Spanish Merino blood
and having after yeaat of experi
menting, been bred Up to Ram
boulettes and Delaines. The wool
of either of the two latter breeds is
said to be to dry, but the cross
makes the wool more' moist, and
altogether a fine sheep.- The Ram
boulettes are slightly the largest
sheep, but the Delaines are said to
exceed slightly in wool. The firm
has just received a pair of gold
medal prize winning Delaines
which were bought for the Crook
county farm at the Kansas fair.
Out of the 225 head brought to
Lake county by Mr. Lafollett, 9G
head were purchased in Summer
Lake by wool growers, Win Harvey
George Winklcman, S. R. Mos3
and James McXew. W. J. Sher
lock also purchased quite a num
ber from the same firm. There arc
159 head of these fine rams left,
and they will be brought to Lake
view the last of this week for in
spection by our local sheepmen.
The sheep can be seen for the next
couple of weeks, if not sold sooner,
at the pasture of John Bull, a
short walk west from Lakeview,
near the slash. The Crook county
breeding farm supplies nearly all
of Eastern and Southern Oregon
with fine strains of sheep. Allen
& Lafollett raise about 1000 rams
annually. Lakeview Examiner.
Regulations issued by the post
office department in Washington
some months ago distinctly stated
that tho department had no au
thority to designate any particular
kind or kinds of box that should be
put up by patrons of rural delivery
mail routes in order to receive the
benefit of service. The act of con
gress, ii was said, simply required
that a "suitable box" be put up.
Many a man can make for himself
a ' suitablo box" that will meet all
the requirements of the. act. And
if ho does so, the department has
no legal nor other right to force
him tobuv from a manufacturer!
whose contrivance is endorsed by
officials of the department,
Prominent Visitor.
W. P, Keady and II. V. Gates,
gentlemen who have gained
state wide reputations in
their different callings, were
visitors in Lakeview during the
past week. Mr. Keady is now en
gaged in developing mines in the
Ochoco district, Crook county, and
expects to uneover a rich property.
He was twice Speaker of the House
in the Oregon legislature, and also
a meml)er of the Board of Regents
of the Agirculural College of Cor
vallis. Mr. Gates is an electric
light and water system promoter,
and owns several plants in the
state, among them the systems at
Klamath Falls and Burns. Mr.
Gates will soon go to Alturas to
discuss with the citizens of that
town the proposition of establish
ing a water system and electric
light plant. Lakeview Examiner.
Woolcrower Oppocl Lease Iaw.
The Woolgrowcrs' Association
of Malheur and Harney counties
will meet at Ontario, Oregon, No
vember 20, 1901, at 2 o'clock p.
ni. This meeting is called for the
purpose of making the association
stronger, ect., and to take active
measures in rpgard to defeating the
passage of the range lease law.
Opposition to such a law is wide
spread, and the promoters of the
bill will be wise if they hang it up
on a sagebrush. The masses are
determined that the cattle kings
shall not get their mitts on the
public domain. Vale Gazette,
The editor of a country newspa
per has no business to make mis
takes, says Truth. He ha3 no busi
ncss ever to get anything into his
paper that people do not like. He
ought to know that would suit
each individual or he ought to
take each item before it is publish
ed and let the person whom it con
cerns censor it. An editor has
plenty of time to do this, as all
he has to do is to hunt news and
clean rollers, set type, clean the
floor, pen short items and hustle
advertising, fold paper, write wrap
pers, make paste and mail papers,
talk to visitors and distribute type,
carry water and read proof and
correct mistakes, hunt the shears
to clip articles, dodge bills and dun
the delinquents, take cussings and
tell subscribers that he needs
money. An editor has no busi
ness to make mistakes while at
tending to little trifles like these,
and living on oxtail soup flavoring
imagination; wearing old shoes
and no collar, a patch on the equa
tor of his pants, and at the same
time turn a smiling countenance
ou the man who tells him that his
paper isn't worth the sulcription
price and anyone could run a bet
ter one with their eve shut.
Weddings seem to have become
epidemic during tho past week, and, 1 '
from present indications, tho storm The postoffiee department has
is not over. - decided to place the late President
IMeKinley's head in the new ksue
Mrs B F Allen, who has been ill! of postal eards which will' appear
for some time past, is now conva
lescent. Her many friends are
glad to learn of her recovery.
The congregation at the Union!
church last Sunday evening was'
favored with some excellent music,
among which was a solo, "The
Holy City," by Mr Evans, of Ash-
wood.,
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
Oullings From Our Exchanges
News Notes of the Week
Timely Topics
Miss Edna Dungan of Gold Hill,
Or,, has been indicted by the grand
jury for fraudulently using the
United States mails an J she is now
out on $-500 bail.
Rev G. W. Grannis, a prominent
member of the M. E. church of
Oregon for several years, has been
transferred to Pittsburg, Penn.,
where he will move.
- A carload of maebinciy for the
Pomeroy dredger to be built on the
John Day river is on the way to it.
destination and three carloads more
are expected to arrive at Sumpter
in a few days.
James R. Wood, who drew the
capital prize in the Lawton land
district, at the El Reno lottery
drawing last August and settled
on a claim valued at nearly $50000,
is dead of typhoid fever, after a
brief illness.
Among the list of new enterprise?
securing papers of incorporation
from the Secretary of State last
week appears that of the Peoples
Commercial" Company - of Burnr
with a capital stock of $25,000.
The incorporators are C. H. Voeg
tyl, P. G. Smith and M. L. Lewis.
Jim Washington, a negro, and a
unique character in Pendleton, haa
gone insane. One of his hallucina
tions is that E. Y. Judd, the well
known wool man, is Jesus Christ.
Judd was booked to destroy Pendle
ton at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
but failed to fulfill the prophency.
One day last week four Hood
River "youngsters" were seen fish
ing in Hood River, near town, and
it was noticed that one of them had
a string of good sized trout. Their
names and ages are given by the
Glacier as follows: O. C. Bartmess
82; Abner Cox, 80; A. G. Brad
ford, 76; P. F. Bradford, 74; mak
ing the combined ages of the four
"youngsters" 312 years.
We are informed that a new com
pany will be organized at this place,
at an early date, lor the purpose
ot developing a group of seven
claims which are owned by J. W.
Robinson, Lee Wood, Elmer Graves
of Antelope, and T. L. Childers.
The company will Decomposed of
these gentlemen, and Messers.
Keisay and Lytleof Shnniko, anil
j i t. , ...:n v. I
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shortly after December 1, next.
The design, as explained ly Act
ing Postmaster General Madden,
' inrJndes the rear of birth and year
of death immediately at the left
and right respectively of the namo
j "McKinley," which will be directly
under the head. Above the heml
will be the words "series of 1901"
j and awivettat, "one cent.