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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1902)
I Xocal 9?Jeition. Mrs. 0 E. MoBowell is convalescent from a severe attack i toniIitis. Will Minks 1ms accepted a position with the Hamilton livery mid feed sta ble. James Allen was a business visitor from the mining town of Ashwood Monday. Edward Hollis wns down from Price the first of the week attending to bus iness matters. John Claypool has uncovered snffi riently from his recent illness to bo on the streets again. Walter Parrish was up from Hay treek the first of the week looking lifter business affaire. Grant Mays passed through town Saturday en route home from The Dalles to Camp creek. William Canning and Roy Canning were arrivals from Council Bluffs. Iowa, on Sunday's stage. A movement is on foot to place a Steam ferry on the Columbia between Hood River and White Salmon. Oscar Hyde has his new house com pleted and it is one of the neatest lit tle cottages in the court housedistrict. Jerry Schooling, who has been stop ping in town for the past week, left on Monday's stage for his home at Hay creek. Hon. J. N. Williamson, Eastern Or egon's next Congressman, wns a visitor to Shaniko last Monday night. ShaD iko Leader. V. A. Bell is sojourning on the des ert for a few days and we may expect to be regaled on duck stories when he gets back. Mis3 Ethel Swearingen is again with lis, after spending some time in Prine ille visiting friends and relatives. Bhaniko Leader. A race meeting at this place it being talked of among horse men and we tuny expect it to come off some time between now and October, John Knight, one of the owners of the Trout creek district, Was up from Ashwood last Saturday transacting business at the county seat. Perry Poihdexter, Ed Crabtree, Dr, C. A. Cline and Bill Sportsman left for the deeert the first of the week and there is no telling what they will bring back with them. L. Sandcz, the Shaniko liveryman, Was in town Inst week with a load of paseengeie. Mr. Sandoz is an assayer end speaks very highly of Crook coun ty's future in a mineral way. J. C. Wilson, of Culver, made this office a pleasant call Monday evening He is Ht present engaged on the con struction work of Dr. Rosenberg's new house near the south end of Muin street, H, V. Gates arrived up from Hills- boro lust Friday and spent a day in looking over the busiuess of the light mid wa:er plant and then went to Burns and Lakeview, where he is con teniplating putting in water works. G. H. Eussell and Robert Wiley, of Post, passed through heie Tuesday with a band of horses that Mr. Rus sell had bought in the Upjjer Crooked river vicinity and is taking with him to 'J'licoma. Tiiey were a nice looking lot of horses aurf should bring good prices anywhere. After several weeks of the finest Weather ever experienced in any couu try snow begun falling on Monday liiglit Mini we will now no doubt have a spell of winter. The larger part of the icehouses in town have been filled with very thin ice, but they may now have a chance to get a b-.'tter lot, V. T. Higtjins was down from his lioar creek ranch last week and re- Jmrts work progressing nicely on the dam that the company is putting in. A numlier of damB will be built in or ler to keep a supply of water for fu,- ture use from the spring freshets. If Wore of these storage reservoirs were built m this county there would bej luore than double the present area of, farming land'iiiider cultivation in the j Jiear future. The land this company' is reclaiming is very fertile and will jji-oduce any kind of crop that can be JaUud In interior Oregon, Farmer's Institutes ftir Eastern Or egon. V. T. Kendy letumed Friday (mm a meeting of the board of regents of the State Agricultural CnHego ut Cor vallis. During the meeting ho intro duced a resolution, which wns paused unanimously, to the eU'oct thatduring the summer vacation the professors of the . college should bold A series of farmers' and stookgrowers' institutes in this and adjoining counties on tliej south. The first of the series will be' held in IYuievillo, probably some time in July. From here they will go lo Rosland and thence to Silver Lake,! Summer Lake, Paisley, Lakeview, Bly, Sprague river valley, Bonania and Klamath Falls, and at such other places as the time will admit. The! topics to be handled include stock feeding, breeding, and discuses; the j value of the various trasses adapted ! to sage brush lauds without irrigation j and such other matters as may come up foi discussion that am of interest to stockmen and farmers in this sec tion. These meetings will be well ad vertised beforehand and should be well j attended, as a great deal of useful in formation will be gained thereby. Mr, I Keady certainly deserves the thanks of the people of this part of the state for the interest he has taken in this matter, as it is the first time any no tice lias bee I taken of the importance of this growing country. Order of Washington. The charter list of the order heing organized here continues to increase,' with the names of many of the prom inent business men of the city and now contains between 30 and 40 mem bers, and will be inst'tuted in the near future. The paraphernalia ol the order is now on the way, having beeu shipped by expross from Portland. 0 G. Collver wag in from Cu'ver Monday for a coffin for Mrs. George Loucks, who died the day previous from jaundice. After the snow it would now be a good time for the rabbit drive on Rye grass flat that was spoken of ill there Columns a week ago, C. L. Salomon is making needed im provements in his store building. ' He has raised the roof and is enlarging the upper part to make room for an extra stock of goods. Miss Myrtle Swearingen, of l'rine ville, arrived in Shaniko Wednesday morning and went to Mr. Fred Young's to visit her sister who is teaching at that place. Shaniko Leader. H. J. LiBter came down from Rabbit valley Saturda and repoits stock looking well in that section of the county and but little feeding having been done so far this winter. There is some talk of a poultry show here in the near future. This is a move in the right direction and should be encouraged. We have some nice birds in this county and tnere is no reason that they should remain in ob scurity. A number of our citizens will begin in the near future to prospect for coal near town, where cropping indicating coal are'said to be found. We hope they may be successful in st'ikiug a laige vein as it would mean much for the future fuel supply of the town, C. W. Elkins returned Saturday from his ranch on Grindstone creek and reports stock of all kinds looking fine in the eastern part of the county. 500 bead of cattle are being fed at hit ranch and a large number of sheep there and at other points near by. Colonel R. C. Judson, Industrinl Agent for the 0. R. & N., was a busi ness visitor to our town and vicinity lust Thursday, He was looking after matters pertaining to his office. The Colonel reports that the photos of C. Sam Smith's cattle thut were taken to the meeting of the National Livestock Association at Kansas City, attracted more attention than any other one thing there. The eastern stock rais ers could not believe that the originals of the photos had net been fed corn and moil, but hud only been running on the range nd eating common bunch grass. He says our coming congressman, J. N. Willia'nison, dis tinguished himself at the meeting and gained a reputation for forceful argu ment that will do much towards bring ing Oregon into prominence. IRZWEILEB & THOMSON. The timo for taking inventory is soon at hand, and wo must reduce our Mock. In order to do so we will offer a discount of twenty-five per cent on the following lines; All of our Wool Dress Goods, twenty-five per cent off. All of our Ladies Jackets, twenty-five per cent off. All of our Ladies Dress Skirts, twenty-five per cent off. All of our Mens' Clothing, twenty-five per cent off. All of our Mens' Overcoats, twenty-five per cent off. All of our Silks and Satins, twenty-five per cent off. II don't matter how low the goods were, they are twenty five per cent lower daring this sale. IN"VEjSTTOE SALE, ' WURZIVEILER 8 THOMSON : EIGHTS & IdlTG- We Would Like TJhc farmers' Outfitters To talk with yon about Plows and Harrows . . . Yen May be Surprised If you have never looked through our immense stock, to know that we buy Plows and Harrows in ear load lota. We will be glad to quote you price on anything in the implement line. We carry the Genuine Oliver . Plow, both the "Chilled" and '.Steel" in hnth Walking, Hulkies, and Gang We have all the Repairs for the Oliver Plows, and quite a ttock of Repairs for other makes OUR PRICES Are as low as is consistant with legitimate business . . ' We Carry in Stock Oliver Chilled Walking pi ows Oliver Steel Walking plow The James Olivei Sulky plow Either Cast or Steel bottom The New Department (ianp Plow with either No. 20 or No. !(), Cunt Bottom, and in 12 and 14 inch Steel l!ottora with third Rottom Attached We have ia Harrows The Loan Steel Lever Harrow The Ixan IVjr Tooth Harrow The Deere' Wood Framed Harrow In the Disc Harrows We have the Deere and Osborne Wheels all ready, With Tires on, that will make your old Hack as good as new f.r a low Price. foster & Lehman are feeding a nice lot ot beef cattle this winter. It seems to be a general impression throughout the county that Prineville is quarantined; such ia not the cane. The town lias only taken precaution ary measures against tin infected dis tricts, which ia the only safeguard it has, as there is no quarantine law in Oregon against infectious diseases in human beings, except in cities, al though our learned legislators djd make provision against the spread of scab and rnauge in sheep and horses. All persons who have not been ex posed to contagion are free to come and go as much so as at any time and there is no danger from contact with ony one while pursuing the ordinary routine ot business. Mr. .las. Munsey and Mies Vida Claypool were married in Albany yes terdny, after which they went on to Portland for a wedding tour. Mr. Munsey ia an intorprieiiig young bus iness man, formerly ol this place, but recently of Portland. The bride is the youngest daughter of 8. B. Claypool, and is an esccllent young My. They will soon return here and Mr. Munsey will go into business in this place or purchase a farm in this vicinity. Lebanon Exuvess-AUrue Jtdamson d.WfnneJk Co. Nothing succeeds like Success Is an old saving, and is abundantly proven by our constantly increasing business. We aim In hava in our Drug Stock everything needed for the sick room. Our prescriptions are carefully com pounded froni the best, freshest drugs and chemicals, in the most sanitary manner, and at as low a Price as is consistant with good business principles, There are several Ways To do business, but onlr one right wry. We do not aim to make our profits from one customer, but by selling to our customers ofteu. When you are near onr store, step in mid . ' amine otrr new stock of Furniture, Carpets, Mattings, Curtains, Wall Paper, Books, Stationery, Musical Instruments, Brushes, Combs. Books and Csmr Kupplies, all at Reasonable Prices jidamson d Winnek Co