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Crook "Couety; Journal VOL. VI, PJIINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 13, 1902. NO.-13 LET THEM SHOW Cause Why the Range Should te Leased. Letter by B. W. Rice. Unanswerable Arraignment of Thone Trying to Rob the Common People. "Let them show cause why the range should not be b awd" is the point reached by tbi proposition, in other words let them show causes why they should not sur render their homos, their pros pects, their hot of the future, for the benefit of the syndicate. Here are some of the causes wby: Last the 'rang and you may mark on the map "unknown ter ritory" around the district which is destined to have a thousand home and tent. of thousand of America' indeiwndent citizen and soldiers. , Ieaso the land and you may de signate "robbers roost" here and there throughout district where i.ow little town are taking form and color. Ia the range and may deeig nate a "grating lands, unprofi table" where prospective railroad line are now surveyed, and where the decree baa already gone forth that a new country shall be open td to which the over-inhabited rant may turn with relief. Lenne the range and write on your mat "not for Americana" w horevcr the syndicate of no mat ter what national control. Icasc the range and mark the annihilation of the border meraan- tile business. I.cae the range and you tny mark the territory "keep off the grass" for eve ry one of the bun dreds of thousand of eastern peo ple who are retreating from syndl cate combine of the same inno cent type, and who are seeking home in the west. Lease the range and you may write history as follows "devastat ed by worse than wars" over a vast territory where hundred of homes are now comfortably builded, and where other hundreds are emerg ing from year of privation and hardihood. Lease the lands and you will see the disappearance of the little aehoolhouse, miss tho sound of the occasional church bell, and. turn the voting precinct into n bunk house where no woman ever visits excepting she be a barlot. Ieaso the range and when! you meet a horseman therein you may consider him a hired man instead of the ambitious owner of a home, ' an American citizen in the true sense, a freeman, a taxpayer, a volunteer soldier in times of war, and an upbuilder of tho industries of America on the scale that none other can reach, that is tho Ameri can family. Lease the range and you have killed at one stroke1 the hopes of tho pioneer, you annihilate the ambition of the son of the pioneer, and dust ray the reasonable prophe cy made as thoy sat in tho gray dawn of the new country. Lease tho land and you retard the mining industries therein, you endanger the timber thereon, you create temptation for dishonest tax-maneuvering. , Lease the range and you remove the present desire to search for ar tesian water and you preclude tbe po.-ibility of . reservoiring the water which now waste on to tbe sea. Lease the land and you take them out of the reach of the poor and place them in the bund of the rich, a thing that has been the full of nation after nation since the angels sung together at creation of the world. Lease the range and you may mark tho map "no poor man's district" over the territory leased and all the surrounding territory where little town are now pros perous, and where the region is now self-supporting. Lease the lands and you create a district in which criminal will have a freehold, in which crime will be didicult of detection, and to which the outlaw of tbe whole country may flee a a house of re fuge. Lease the ranges and you stop the stringing of telephone and tele graph linct therein and remove the neceseity for the stage line that carries the daily paper and the magazine. Lease tbe rango and you take from thousands of people that which they may never regain a good start in this woild, affair, a Grra and steadfast resolution to do right, and a lovo for American in stitutions. ' Lease tbe range and you devote a vast territory to tho raising of the calf and the colt whore home should be builded for rearing tbe American boy and girl. ' Lease the ranges and you create a revenue for the general govern ment that will probably one hun dredth part defray the expense of the disruption created, the results of which will bo a disgrace to every citizen on the Pacific coast, and a dishonor to every citizen elsewhere in tho United States Lease the ranges and you will have an opportunity to show cause why a few jpundred men who know no fear, who .'ear nothing but to do wrong, should sit idly by and see their cattle brand changed without tbe price being paid, ee their homes torn down against their wish, have the waters of the streams they have freely used for half a century taken from them, and their coun try dovasted, without having tbe feeling that prompted tho states man to exclaim "give me liberty or Rive me death." B. W. Rut hi Vale Democrat. Journal Ourgatn Sale. Beginning with April 1 we will have a bargain sale of campingi) et.it scriptinnj to the Journal, The sale will only hut five days und no mb- tcriptiuns will be taken after the ex piration of that time at the bunjaiii rate. The sale will begin at eight o'clock on the morning of April 1 and close at 6 o'clock on the evening of April 5, The price of the Journal fur three months during the bargain ale will bo 35 cents strictly In ad vance. This is made for the purpose of getting new subscribers, but old tubicribers who pay all arrearages may take advantage of the sale. THESE tiUBSCRIPTIONiJ AUK ON LY GOOD FROM APRIL 1, 1902 TO JUNE 30, 1002. And this rate will not apply to any other mouths in the year. Onion seta and evertiling else iu teed. See Bee Hire. STOCKMEN MEET Stock Growers' 'Associa . tion Organized. To Protect Home Range Offllcers Elected and Other Busi ness Transacted --Resolutions Passed.' Saturday at one o'clock the stockmen ol this county to the number of about sixty met at the court bouse pursuant to a call published in the Journal. The meeting wo called to order by Judge Wills who explained the ob ject (or which it was called. A temporary organization was then effected by electing Judge Wills temporary chairman and W. A. Boll tcmjiorary secretary. On motion a committee of five was appointed by tbe chair on per manent organisation, consisting of Wra. Wigle, T. II. Lafollett, An drew Morrow, J as. Montgomery and C. F. Smith, Alter due de liberation tbe committee reported as follows: V recommend a permanent or ganization to he known as The Crook County Stockgrower As sociation and that the officers of the' association shall consist of a president, two vice-president, sec retary and treasurer. " That there shall be a board of director whicb shall consist of the above officers of th association and' that said board of directors shall be in structed and directed to draw up a constitution and by-laws for tbe government of the association and tliat said board of directors shall be authorized and empowered to transact all business of the associ ation. That there be -another meeting of this assiciation at such a time as tbe meeting shall direct at which meeting the board of di rectors shall report a constitution and by-laws. On motion another meeting was called for at 8 o'clock. The -as sociation then proceeded , to the election of permanent officers which resulted a follows: Presi dent, T. II. Lafollett; 1st vice-president C. Sam Smith; 2nd vice-president, J. II. Grey; secretary, W. A. Bell; assistant secretary, W. T. Fogle; treasurer, C. E.. McDowell. On motion a committee -of three was appointed to draft resolutions on grazing in the Cascade Foresi Reserve, consisting of Andrew Morrow, Roscoe Knox and Judge Wills, after which adjournment was had until 8 o'clock. At 8 o'clock tho meeting was called to order by tho president and the committee on constitution and by-laws reported a constitu tion with the following preamble: "That the purposes for which this association is formed are as fol i lows: To advance the interests of j the growers of all kinds of stock in i Crook county, , Oregon, in every ! possible way and to protect their j interests in the 'ranges of this county. To receive and give out ' any information concerning stock j for sale through the secretary of : this association. To settle range ' dispute and to hold Crook county range for Crook county stock as j fur as practicable, and to take any lawful action necessary at any , time calculated "to advance or pro tect tbe interests of the stock grow ers of this county. To encourage improvement in the breeding of stock; to hold and maintain public fairs and exhibits of tbe stock of thi county." Aftor reading the first time the constitution and by-laws were taken up by sections and adopted with a few coirections and alter ations, The committee on resolutions then reported as follows: Whereas, Crook County is al most exclusively a stock growing county, showing by its tax roll for the year 1901, cattle 18326, horses 10401, sheep 166381, a large num ber of which will have to seek pas tare in the summer in the Cas cade Mountain Reserve, and whereas that part of tbe Cascade Reserve used for pasture is situat ed nearest the stock growers of Crock County, and applications heretofore have only been received at The Dalles, Wasco County, Ore gon, one hundred and twenty miles from the county seat of this county and tbe homes of the mem bers of this association, and at a point both inconvenient and ex pensive for our stock growers, re sulting in an advantage to tbe non-residents and in ft discrimina tion against the people of this county in choice of allotments, and in great injury to the local grower in the'destruction of his grass and, ranges by the passage of enormous herds of sheep from other counties through this county going to and from the Reserve., , Therefore, It is resolved by the Stock Association of Crook County in regular session assembled, that it is but just and right that tbe stock owners of this county should have first choice in the selection ol range, and further, that those who have the fixing or alloting of these ranges should meet the Stock As sociation of this county at their place of meeting in Prineville, Ore gon, to the end that the people of this county be awarded their just proportion of the Reserve in the future. .. On motion the resolutions were adepted and copies ordered furn ished the Crook county papers and that marked copies of the papers be sent to our members of congress and tbe Interior department. The membership fee was fixed nt II and on motion the. charter w as ordered kept open for 90 days. On investigation it was found that there are no less than 27 townships of the Cascade Reserve inside the boundaries of Crook county and only eight in Waseov It was also ascertained that the charges mado by Superintendent Ormsby against certain Crook county sheepmen were untrue, he having no doubt based his charges yn reports of rangers who were not ! "cry scrupulous as to truthfulness. From now on however things will take a change and our stockgrow ers association will see to it that our Btock have an equal show, at least, with foreign stock. " Th8 dato of the next meeting of the association was fixed on the first Saturday in June. The an 1 nuul meeting 1 fixed for the first J Saturday in March each year and i tbe other meetings quarterly there ' after during the year. After some j other work of minor importance j the association adjourned,. . .. .. Subscribe for the Jolilnal. Price Paragraphs. Norris Morgan and family have moved home from Hampton Buttes. We are still having some winter weather yet and mud for further orders. Mr. Robert Odell and family are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Boynton. Harry Barnes is over from Crocked river and is doing some needed fencing. Grant Miller has moved into the C. A. McKinnon house for tho pur pose of schooling his children. Bye Bennet rnd N. B. Moses have gone to Buck creek for the purpose of disposing of some cavalry horses. Bob Baker and Charles Shep herd passe j through here recently enroute to Portland with a bunch of horses for W. V. Brown. Strayed from the' Hackleman ranch, a man with dark bair and mustache; a little bowlegged and slightly pieontoed. A liberal re ward will be given for his recovery. - - Jumbo. Beaver Creek Ripples. R. A Stewart recently sold his real estate to G. W. Noble. , ; Nearly everybody is still feeding and stock is looking fine. , . George Cox is again on the creek after an absence of two years. ' G. W. Noble had the misfortune to lose one of his fine young cows a few day since by having her gored to, death : ' ' E. E. Laughlin has moved his cattle from Beaver to his ranch near Suplee, where lie will turn out as soon as the weather permits. Fred Powell has just started a large pasture fence that will be five miles long when completed. Tho enclosure will be used as a calf pasture. I have been told that it was customary in former times for the men to go to see the women, but that isn't the way up here, with the widows especially. Mr. Bob Bush; Of Southfork, was a visitor on the creek a few days back and informs us that Joe Treichel was over In that section recently with the intention of buying out Billy Stewart. . Jake. At Pendleton, J. M. Ile.ttliman has yielded up his star as marshal to J. A. Blaklev, the recent appointee, and John MeCourt suc ceeds J. E. Bean as recorder. , Tho injunction restraining the mayor, and Iur comiciimeu who sup ported him in the recent con tention, from interfering with Keathman and Beam, was dissolv ed by Judge Ellis, Little Joe Simon is home in Portland tu run , the primaries. The Oregonian .censures him for leaving Washington, but It?e bis; daily is in error. Joe did right. He don't amount to anything in the senate, but as a ward poli tician he is risrht in his clement. ! and he lias judgment enough to re- jturn to a field where his peculmr talent can bo utilized. Jefferson Review. - Don't forget that you ran ve 50 rents on your winter rending hy oil suriMnK f'r the (in-xuniuu with thft JocknaI fur iliO. .