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Crook County 'journal
TWELVE PAGES.
vol; vi.
Pit NEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 21, 1902.
NO. 36
LIVE STOCK SHOW.
To Be Held Here Some
Time in October.
Should Be Encouraged.'
It Will Bo of Grout Benefit to Lo
cal fltookmon and
Farmers.
Tuesday ni;lit a miiriW ' th:
local nt(K k lin n n ml others held a
meeting l tlcti.r ntino whi-lht-r thtire
wunlil be a stock show und fair bold
here this full nr not. The gctii.Tiil
opinion u tlmt tli'Ttt would be no
races, but tlmt thoru would bo a
il rung effort made to bold u Mock
show mid Agricultural fair ut nine
time in lb') future tlmt w Mild be
the muni convenient for nil con
cerned. There in considerable In
terest being manifested by the
stockmen of the county in ouch o
hbow and it i well for w to do so
an nil tho other comities in the
Mate arc preparing for something
of tin kind this full, und Crook
county certainly is not so f ir be
bind her sister counties that be
ounnot hold a show, that will bo
worthy of notice. We can dhow
lino flock with any county in the
state And eoniii off winner, (or the
world's winner arc owned in this
county, then why net bring them
out once u year und let the home
ieok' have a look at them and
thus encourage others' to trv und
improve the breed now owned by
them. This kind of thow in pood
for the stockmen to get together
mid talk over their individual
methods of bundling block and it
will piomoio a rpirit, of friendly
rivalry among them to outdo any
thing heretofore shown in the coun
ty, beside it gives ewn'on? a
chance to tee what bis neighbor
ha and to make trades and buy or
Midi as the case may be. These
tdiowg arc of great importance from
mimeroux standpoints and should
be encourngod, by not only the
stockmen, but the business men of
this town. They bring together an
aggregation of the populace of thc
county and scatter a little ready
money in the town, besides they
will foster the stock industry and
help to make the county more
wealthy by improved methods of
breeding und farming thus build
ing up business. As the business
of the merchants of this town de
pends solely on the slock and farm
ing industries it would seem no
moro than just that (hey should
support such a move ' liberally and
no doubt they will do so. The
idea of fall races was given up as
not being practicable at this time
und it is fur belter to have a stock
show and fair any way for the
races bring in a cr,owd from outside
sources that is composed of unde
sirable characters and do more
harm than good as a rule. Let us
have the stock show und fair and
then form a permanent oreaniza-
tion and have something of the
kind every full and it will not be
long until the benefits derived from
these shows will be apparent even
'o the mi st unobserving person in
1be county.
More 1'inr Siiep.
Tuesday evening J. P. Van Hoir
ton, accompanied by E. II. Deaiv,
aravctl in Sbuaik i am liic asi
where he bad gone to receive some
fine sheep for the lialdwin Sheep &
Land Co. Eight of these sheep are
Krcnch merinos direct from France,
two rains being from Gilbert, und
one ram und liveewesfromSi-rcau,
both celebrated breeders of fine
merinos in the land of the frog
eaters. To fully appreciate these
sheep a person should be a grower
of fine breeds, though a novice cun
tell that in sheep lore such line
specimens belong !o a royal family.
Along with those French merinos
were twenty rams and seventy-four
ewes, the pick from the best flocks
of Hpanish merinos in Ohio.
T,is
new blood taken to the U. H. A ,.
Company's ranch, will constantly
elevate their grade of sheep und
thore will b no danger of dete-
rioration from in-breeding. Shan-j
iko Leader.
niior lur ivoi IhiikiI.iii.
Sai.km. Aim. 14.-Govemor Geer
celebrated his return from Crater
Lake bv issuing the first Labor Day ;ortSanized tor the purpose of build
proclamation ever iwued in Ore- uch tt a but rom
gon yesterday. The governor hav
ing climbed the hills of Southern
Oregon, and instilled with the
mountain roads and hot weather,
realized, as he never did before,
that labor needed a holiday. The'
proclamation reads as follows;
"Whereas, The legislature of Or
egon has set apart the first Monday
in September of each year &- a le
gal holiday to be known as Labor
Dav':
"Therefore I, T. T. Geer, govern-
or of said state, do hereby recom-
mend, that all places of business of,
whatsoever kind-.-as far as nossible.
be closed on Monday, September l.!Tht,r8 wold ilhcr P,,id out in
1902, and that the day be devoted
to an ol.,'vi'.i..u of Such cxerviues
as may contribute to a better un
derstanding between labor and cap- j reaching out after then let that
ilal, the great moving forces be- j t()Wn sit b"ck 0,1 i,s "hunkers" and
hind modem industrial develop- ' w,mo more enterprising place
m.nt, and it is especially urged rt'HP the harvest. The Jouhkal
that employers co-opera to with ,m8 advocated 'his road early and
their employes in a mutual obsorv-j 1;lte ond is Perfectly willing to
ance of the day in such manner as kecP ftt ,-t if tllere any interest
will fittingly recognize the reliunce ,aken hy tr!e business men of The
which each must place upon the! 1JuJlefl but wt! Ma Fet an outlet to
other before the best results from j01"" P1"" without having to get
both may be expected or attuined. ldown on our wes 10 any town
"In testimony whereof I I.uvh !
hereunto set my hand and caused
tlio great seal of the state to be af
fixed hereto. Done lit the Capitol,
in the city of Salem, this 13th day
of August, A. D., 1902.,
"T. T. tall, Governor."
hnmanen from a Defective Hrldjjc. j
The couniy court of Linn count trncd from a trip through Harney
at last week's session offered to pay j county. The sentiment of that part
!W for damages sustained by Fruit j ()f tho eUU(S ig for aR outlet t0 tlu
it Schick by tho loss of a horse) wwtern part of the state and tbev
that had to he shot recently asajwjn get it at n0 distant day.
result of going through a defective jManv of ti,e residents of the
hriige on the cast side of the Wil-. wetftern Dart of Uarnev count v
samettc, four or five miles north-
oast of . Corvallis. Ihe bill pre-1 prinevillo this fall for their
sented by the liverymen was forf willter gUj,,,it,e ani jf pricef, wcre
$100. Tho matter will be amicably !rilt they would continue to
adjusted between the two parties I trade with us. With cheap trans
in the near future. At the 'same J portation from this place we can
session tho conrt paid Logan Hays I secure the larger part of the tiade
$20 on ucccunt of personal injuries I of that region and we must work
sustained in tho sumo smash up.- j t0 get it. A g(K)J wftgon road rom
Corvallis Times. j here to Detroit would be a great
This should be a warning to our help to cheap freight rates as we
county court to look to some of the j
orioles in mis county oeiorea sim-;
ilar case happens here; especially ,
the Newsom creek bridge across ,
Crooked river.
There is urgent demand for har-
mil kniids in Etsiesu U'asbuitutt.
A NEW RAILROAD.
The Dallies to Biggs
By Fifteen Mile,
Is It a Wind Pudding?
Now Company Mow Organized to
Build It a a Branch of
the O. 8.
i
In another column will be found
a clipping from the Mountaineer,
regarding the incorporation of a
railroad from The Dulles to Biggs.
What is to be the great gain to The
Dalles from such a road is more
than we can see at this time. This
company has been incorporated
with a capital of $500,000, enough
to build and equip nn elevtric road
from that place to l'rineville. If
, men lmd ,ia1 thc g',od of The
81 man u,ey ulu ,wve
? ti . . 1 i i I lit
indications it would seem
a scheme of the , Columbia
Southern to ward off any such an
enterprise, as one of the incorpor
; ators is a large holder of'Columbia
.Southern stock. The Dalles has
been at one time a great distribut
ing point for this interior country,
but that time has passed never to
return, unks it comes to the front
wuii mis electric proposition, or
something of that nature. Besides
'"Pl'l.v'ug Crook county, which is
11 ,n,b111) "pire m 'wen, sucn a
rmd wouId Pe" 10 The Dalk'8 ihe
InrEe't rrt o Harney county
1 he Dalles, or pass through there
not less than 9flO0flM for mer-
! chandise. If this sum is not worth
and that is what we will work for
hereafter. Albany and Salem are
ufler the trade of this country und
they have reasonable hope of get
ting it in the near future. Be it
understood that thc sum aforemen
tioned is not for wholesale goods,
but. lor retail business, and we know
whereof we sneak, havimr iust re-
Uatuj lhcir intention tu come 'to
wn get reigllt delivered here at a
considerable reduction over what
jt 1K)VV C0!rt!,. e,,,, jf ti, r0!l(J
(oes not at first mwt the require-
mentsofan all the year round
r0lldi it will be a better summer
uad iiiaja ibo oae m.w ia we hmu
here to Shaniko, and the greater
part of it would be level, as there
are no hills until the ascent of the
Cascades is reached. It has been
stated on good authority that there
will not have to be more than
twenty-five miles of road built to
reach Detroit and that the larger
part of it is easy construction
work. Twelve miles of the farther
end of Hie roal is practically built
as the C. & K. has granted the use
of its grade for the wagon road and
by that reason the road will be
shortened that much. This mat
ter will be called up at the next
meeting of our commissioners and
there is no doubt but that they will
willingly lend their aid to the
the proposilion,
Oil Will Be Cheap.
Many of the steamboat compa
nies und business firms of the city
ure seriously contemplating install
ing plants, for the purpose of using
oil as fuel inslvud of wood and
coal. Representatives of. the oil
company's have got onto this fact,
and are in the city endeavoring to
drum up business.
Two of them are from an Fran
cisco repressnting the Associated
and Union Oil Companies, while
the third is a resident of Portland
und is looking out for the interests
of the Standard Oil Company. As
a result of the competition the
chances are very favorable that oil
luel will be chenp. The first two
companies mentioned are looking
up business locutions here, and in
quiring into transportation facili
ties.
The Standard has the best of its
competitors, as it already has bus
iness quarters here and possesses
its own means of transportation.
It has three big tank steamers al
ready in operation on the coast
plying between San Francisco and
Los AngcleV The company is tow
at work putting in a pipeline from
the Bakersfield oil wells to the Cal
ifornia metropolis, .a distance of
275 miles, through which the fluid
will be conveyed. It is therefore
in a position to be able to come
very nearly controlling the trade,
although the representatives of the
other companies do not seem to be j
at ull discouraged with the outlook.
If they can place a sufficient num
ber of contracts here for unrefined
petroleum they will make an effort
to secure tank steamer which thty
will run north to supply the trade
Portland Journal.
Men who are posted on hops de
clare that if the weather continues
favorable picking will begin about
two week" curlier than usual this
year. It is possible that picking
may begin in the bitter part of tint
month, a thing that has occurred
but once in the last eleven years.
It seems to be generally agreed in
hop producing regions that the
price paid for picking will bo 40
cents per box.
The head citmp of the Pacific
jurisdiction of Woodmen of the
World, sitting at Cripple Creek,
Col., has increased the salaries of
head consul from $5000 to $0000
and of bead clerk from 42500 to
$3000.
Another argument ha hcen
made in favor f a trip Ut the
mountains. A man in Muubuia
was driven thirty miles over a
mountain) road jiimJ cuied .of ;ij-
KtlllicJik.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
OulUnga Prom Our Exchange
News Notes of the Week
Timely Toplca
Several cases of smallpox are re
ported in the valley south of Hood
River, some of the Ciseg being
quite severe.
Major Miller will send a survey
ing party to Alaska next Monday
to make a report on the work need
ed on the Wrangel Narrows.
James B. Sovereign, the ex-labor
leader will be a candidate for con
gress from Idaho, on thc democrat
ic ticket. He lives in Wallace.
Senator W. A. Clark, of Mon
tana, has purchased the Helena
Independent, the oldest morning
paper in Montana, for $125,000,
General Funston, commander of
the Department . of Colorado, has
been operated on in Denver for
fistula. His early recovery is ex
pect!. " f
Four companies of the Seven
teenth infantry, now stationed at
Fort Wr.ght and Fort Lawton, will
take station at Vancouver within a
few weeks.
Cattlemen of Lake county to the
number of 50, all heavily armed,
moveJ several flocks of sheep from
the ranges across the line in Klum
ath county.
A nre in a grain field near Col
fax, Wash., destroyed thresher,
wagon., decJck fork und ctbrr in
chinery, and 1600 bushels of wheat,
uoss $2500;
During vacation many altera
tions are being made at the State
University at Eugene in prepara
tion for tho largely increased at
tendance, expected for next term.
Governor Geer has appointed
Dnn Eve.ns, of Ashwood, and E. G.
8 evensnn, of Greenhorn, delegates
to the International Mining Con
gress at Butle, Mont., September 1.
The Salem city council has ap
propriated money for the examina
tion of sites where water power can
be developed for municipal owner-
hip of a city light and power
plant.
The slfnmer Senator has arrived
at Port Totvnscnd, Wusbn from
Nome with $150,000 in gold. Sls3
brings news of the discovery of the
old channel of Anvil Creek, which
is proving very rich.
So h;d has the smallpox epidem
ic become in Milton and Freewater
ih.U in Miiton all public meetings
ave piobihited until the disease is
stamped out. A total of about 15
persons, aro quarantined in both
towns. The disease has gained a
stronger bald than was at first an
ticiputudvwith the result that quar
antine measures ate being strictly
enfurred.
According lo the Corvallis Tims
during the past month 437 cam
have been transkrred over the Cor
valas & Eat tern railroad between
the east sice a d w .' skle divis
ions of the Soutl it Paafic Of
these 211 were loaded can and 2-15
were eaities. Of the ioadod cars,
nearly ell ware lumber, ea tmi
from Portland and thejr jist to
CiliforiiU.