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. .