IUHC U " Crook County Journal VOL VI. PKINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 3, 1902. NO. 16 FOR CONGRESS Williamson Nominated r Ity Acclamation. , Ha Will Be Elected. Moody DoIotiUtoa Refused to Pu.. tioipato In Convention. Mt aaor News. Monday was a do'.iilve day for th republicans of thin district as V at wa tlic day for the nomination of our neat Congressman. While there ha been mi dotilit in the minds of our people Ikto n lo tint result, there has been some doubt as to how the opposition would feel whin it wag ocr. '1 he result of the district convention in highly satisfactory to thu jcople ol t 1j in county ii Mr. Williamson wa iioni i antral by acclamation. We were unablo up to going to pres lo get full particulars, but tlm latest news indicates that the ma deletion did not go into . the convention, which shows what 'liunit they are. A'ler turning every trick known It' tho poliliial Irada they lost and tlien were nol iiii'it enough to take their medi cine bat went off arid pouted like a little school girl. A feeling of quiet m.tijfui'tion pwvades the air i i thin place and ewyorte in weil satisfied with the result. HuntcMcad C'ontiM in Lane. There is a lively timo jnst at (resent among a Urge number of Hiople in Lano comity who have been taking up homestead claims on government land, which come from a large number of contractf that have been tiled in the land office at Roscbnrg. It in reported that 137 contests have been filed against homestead locatinug in Lane county. "" There contests, It U asserted, bave been filed by land speculat ors, who are hoping to gain pos session of the land either under the timber claim act or by meant of land script, an hag been done in other part of the country. The rush of land seekers for the past two or three years hag been very great, and hundreds of locitions have been uiadj on government land in that vicinity, both under the timber claim and tho home ' stead acta. The great demand has been for land valuable for its tim b;r, which is chiefly nought by timber men from Wisconsin and Michigan. It is claimed that a vast amount of land hag been taken tip under the homestead lawn which is not more valuable for agriculture than for any other purpose, each homesteader having to swear that tho land taken i more valuable for agriculture at tho time he makeg his filing. ' Again, it is claimed that many of these homestead - entries are made by prrsons without any in tention of "ever making it a home or placo f residence, as the law require, but simply for the specu lative value. of the laud, with the intention of selling the land 'as soon as final 'jiroof .js made. It is claimed Jutojr boats trad entries have even been rriado by persons who have never seen the land trtidl klnive made no attempt to cultivate or make it a pbre of residence within the meaning of the law. j Somo of tin! contents are nmdoi on the ground of the scaler having! made no improvement, as rwjuir cd. In one instance in particular, a claim that is contented on thin ground bait been under cultivation to sotui) extent for a numlier of years, Grass seed has been sow n and a fairly good pasture has been modi!. On this tho owner is keep ing stock, with which ho ha an; attendant nearly the entire tine.) There is a house, barn, etc., on the! place of considerable value. There are oilier claims under contest on' which tho settler has mude similar! improvements. The outcome ofj these cases is looked upon with : great interest here and will be of i interest to settlers in ull parts ofj the country. Ann wood UIi.uu.iihs. Mr. Lou Tomnclsoi) has return od with his wife. Mr. Durham passed through' here during the week. j The Ashwood Mining Co. have; put a night shift on the new tun-, nel. Mr. Irvin, of Antelope, wus in town Fridsy night and Saturday, looking after business. School closes the Hilt of April with a basket social and free dance. M'.aiey to be applied to debt on building. ,- Pupils rf the rchool earned 121. Q5 by giving a basket social. With a part of this they will purchase a book case and the balance will be used to build a flue. The Kimberly treasury stocks are selling rapidly and it is ex pected work will commence s soon as it is possible to get ma terial and machinery on the grounds. Mr. 0. M. Rosondalc, M. E. & E. M., of Portland, recently visited this camp. He examined the White Butte claims and was very favorably impressed with tbat property. Persons holding stocks in this company a:e very fortun ate. "' Crook County ltenf. J. B. Cornott passed through town last Saturday with 82 bead of beef cattle for Portland market. These cattle were fed at Summit Prarie, which is noted for the supe rior quality ol native hay grown there. Although they were fed on hay alone, they were as fine a lot of beef cattle as we ever saw. This may sound strango to those who are not acquainted with Eastern j Oregon hay. However .it is a fact that cattle are fattened on this bay every winter and that the beef is of j much better quality than grain fed! beef, Wheeler County News. I Hon. Geo. 11. Williams, the most! distinguished citizen of the state,! has accepted the nomination tor I the position of Mayor of Portland j by the republicans. Mr. Williams! hag been Judge, U. S. Senator, At-j torney general, wat nominated by; Grant as Supreme Justice of the United States Court, a man whose whole, life of 80 years has been do- voted to the public servico without attain.' What a world this would be, if "all were ai pure and' noble and caiablo as Judge Williams. Arlingtoa Record. DEMOCRATS MEET- Nominate a Full Ticket for County Offices. 0. 8. Smith for Sheriff. 0 invention Paused off Quletly Squabble Ovor Sheriffs Other News. Last Thursday the democrats assembled in force at the court house for the purpose of putting up a county tiekot and electing state delegates. In the morning the time .was mainly consumed in organizing a temporary organization and preli minary skirmishing. After dinner ..they got down to work by making L. X. Llgget permanent chairman, Jay. F. Stroud secretary and J. 13. Merrill assistant secretary. After the usual preliminaries the nomin ations began with that of clerk, which resulted in J. J. Stnith being nominated by acclamation. For sheriff W. C. Congleton and C. Sam Fmith were the nominees end the ballot resulted in 21 votes for Congleton and 35 for mith. For county judge W. A. Booth, W. R. McFarland, M. R. Uiggs and Wm. Wigle were placed before the con vention. Booth and McFariand declining, the ballot resulted in liooth being elected against bis protest. For commissioner C. B. Allen was the ehoiee of the conven tion. M. II. Bell received "the nom ination for treasurentnd J. 15. Mcr ril for assessor. Knox Huston, for surveyor and Joe Crooks for coroner were nominated by acclamation. For delegates to the state conven tion E. N. White, J. W. Robinson, J. W. Henderson and P. B. Doak were nominated by acclamation. While the ticket is composed of very good men, even from a dem ocratic standpoint, it is not the strongest they could have nomin ated and it ia expected that when the polls close on next election day that tho republicans will have made a clean sweep of the county ticket. As to tho ticket in its com ponent parts the Journal will have more to say in tho future. President Corbctt today an nounced tho names of Portland men whom lie has selected to com prise the executive committee of the Lewis and Clark Centennial, says the Telegram. The board is composed of seven members, ex clusive of the chairman. They are: H. W. Scott, Rufus Mallory, Charles E. Ladd, A. II. Devers, A. L. Mills, W. D. Wheelwright, F. Drosser. Tho president will serve as ex-ofiicio chairman of the com mittee and will preside at all meet ings. President Corbett's selection is considered an excellent one. All the gentlemen named on the com mittee are well known and promi nently identified with the business and commercial interests of Port land. Mr. Scott is the editor of Oregonian; Mr. Mallory is of the law firm ' ol Dolph, Mallory & Si mon; Mr. Ladd is of Ladd & Til ton, bankers; Mr. Devers of Cle-s-gett & Devers, manufacturers; Mr. Mills is vice-president of the Se curity Saviujis & Trust Company; Mr. Wheelwright is pisidet of the Pajciik Zxpott Lumber (aiw- pany, and Mr: Dresser is a well known retail grocer. The executive board's duties are most important. It will bave the general supervision and direction of the business and affnirs of the company, but it is not given tho power to bind the corporation by any contract or obligation involv ing a sum in excess of 11000, unless especially authorized by the board of directors. All contracts or other obligations involving less than that sum may be authorized by the com mittee and executed in the name of the company by its direction without reference to the whole board. To tho executive committee is left the selection of a site for the exposition and the formulating of a plan embracing the scope and general execution of the exposition. After the adoption of the plan by the board of directors the committee is to have general supervision and control of the work of all commit-" tees, and shall organize such bur eaus and departments and appoint such managers thereof as may be deemed necessarv. Lknd Hems. Frank Zell made a flying trip to the Bend yesterday. Our genial clerk. Fred IL Strong, is visiting in Portland. 'Miss Ivy Wist has been quite sick with la grippe, but is very much improved. Clint Whittcd had old friends vi-iting with him a cw days siuce from North Carolina. The Sunday school at this place is progressing nicely, with L D, Wcist, superintendent. A. M. Drake hag gone to Port land on a business trip, but will be buck in the near future. The first bear of the season was seen a few mornings since by one of the residents of the river. In this, our quiet little hamlet, the weather is beautiful, and seed sowing, gardening and planting flowers is the order of the day. The future is beginning to look very cheerful for us Deschutes peo ple, as we are having so many rail road men and timber cruisers with us. On last Monday L. D. Weist, civil engineer for A. M. Drake, with his assiHtants, W. H. Brock, D. F. Steffa and Frank ILxlson ie sumed work again after a long va cation. There was Euster exercises at the school house last Sunday, and the Sunday school children did honor to themselves with music, songs and recitations, also a very interesting talk by Mr. Weist. The house was beaatifujly decorated, suited to the ooeasion. We extend a cordial invitation to ye editor and all nimrods who delight in angling with the tinny tribe, to come out and join in the sport of landing tlw speckled beaw- ties on the banks of this, our lieau tiful and grund old Dcscdiutes,' where our accommodating host, Billy Staats, has meals at all hours and plenty of good horse feed. DixtK. Xotltw- All piirtTwi hnving korses in the E. ; rUvi j)Ht'ir tni Crooked river, jtre ' fioiitirit t ok th away tttoaco, ' m we tiiva midout ko4 will remove ,hy April 10th..i. . , Lamonta Lines. ' George Ilendrix has greatly im proved his residence by having a woven wire fence placed around it- Lee Moore is planting a few more fruit trees this spring and will set quite a lot of small fruit. The woven wire fence J. C. Rush has in process of construction around his bog pasture is nearing completion. The railroad engineers moved to Crooked river Saturday. They were camped at Rimrock for sever al days. The work of definite lo cation is now in progress through Crook county. From what in formation we can obtain constiuc tion will begin at an early date. Rev. Street and family, olPrinc ville, our accommodating post master, Lee Moore and wife, Mrs. G. Ilendrix and family and J. R. Bennett and family, were visitors at Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rush's last Sunday and the day and even ing were pleasantly spent in so- . cial converse. Farmers are busy plowing and seeding throughout this part of the country. For the past eighteen months in this part of the county all has been activity. Many of our farmers will get all their land under cultivation this season, while other? have taken up new land and are developing it. Only a few moments ago I read a letter published in the Eugene Weekly Guard from John J. Ilun saker, a Eugene to at Dcs. Moines, Iowa. He says Oregon is unknown while Washington. v is widely advertised in the east. E. J. Frasier of Eugene, while visit ing in Portland recently reports many immigrants in Portland wbo do not know where to go. If all the papers published in Oregon showed as great enterprise in ad vertising the part of the state iu which they are published, as dt"s the Crook County Journal, these immigrants would scatter out and in every section great opportunities would be discovered for thrifty men of even small means, and a the country filled up and its rt sources were more drawn upon tb volume of traffic would lie added, to, and this in turn would qviickea the activity and growth of the cities. Any one can assist niaieri-" ally in the good work by sewdiug papers and clippings to those whom you know in the cast that would be desirable settlers. For the past four or five months I haw secured small supplies ot literature and in formulion for. tho bome-ceker, which I gladly furnish any promi nent person in the east who might beciuue interests! in the resources of tbe southern part oi Crook county. And I wrote a letter end sent in the same mail, orguig tluti special attention be given the op portunities and advantage pre sented ti the boraesocker and in vestor, ia t'ae region that this liter ature particularly describe or deals with. Tbe people of Crunk county but justly be proud f the JorENAi, it is very ewnptvlksisive to every local interest arid line of tovsiasss, rv"ry resource levltipl or othejwise, every jut vantage J . opportunity for iJie limiese'kiv auvl investors. Tho who bun oi ly labor for tl upbuilding 4 conincimity or oountry, good Honda from il lh wulr. LtuuocUi, Or, JJunJj UVi. -1.1 r i i .4 4 Li