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Crook County Journal. FCBIIKHII) KVKRT THI HHIUT BI IH Ol'liNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. W,,T. TouLt, Fraioi QouNTYOFriciAt Paper. , tU JouKXAL b ntrrad it tlx pmtodio la PrimtUle, Jreg., (or tmuniuinn through the Vt B. Boili Moond olM mmtUr, ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES. i 1;I BTAJiff Oni Yur. !.) buMuMHH ..7" Thru Months ..M) -T- ' THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1902. ing into consideration the fact of the large amount of land entered under the homestead law during the past year in the Agency Plains country we iuay reasonably expect to' soon become oue'otthe great wheat producing counties of east ern Oregon. ''I will not jndenie o that; re sponsible position any man who habitually deals in 6toi'ks" said the President recently, when asked to secure .in appointment for a bright young man who takes an "occasional flyer on the stock market." During the past month President Roosevelt has been cheered by the association of Canadian Railway Passenger Agents, the French Chamber of Deputies and praised without stint by the German Em peror. To few men is it given to attain such unlimited respect and popularity at the nge of 44. With the mineral wealth of Ore . gon immeasurable, those interested cm reasonably expect that the care ful expenditure of every dollar in the development of a mine should be returned from ten to twenty folci arid in many cases in this section the proportion ot increase has been much greater. And the average Oregon company of repute for there are those of no repute is ready to be a protection to invest ors in behalf of honest and legiti mate mining. Portland Journal. Secretary Root recently per formed ac unpleasant duty which should earn for him the respect of all right thinking Americans. A retiring board found that an officer was suffering from chronic alcohol ism and recommended that he be retired. The Secretary ordered him discharged saying, "the evi dencs shows teat the officer was suffering from chronic alcoholism and on at least one recent occasion had been drunk on duty. These are not gsounds for placing an officer on the retired list and sup porting him in idleness for the rest of his life, at the expense of the country, but they are grounds for dismissing him from the service which he has disgraced." . The Secretary is to be commended but the country is not to be congratu lated' for congress will doubtless pass a special bill restoring him to the retired list with increased pay. To the Public. . Allow me to say a few words in praise of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy. I hud i very severe cough and cold and feared I would get pneumonia, but alter taking the second dose of this medicine I felt better, three bot tles of it cured my cold and the pains in my chest disappeared entirely. I am most respectfully yours for health, Ralph S. Meyers, C4 Thirty-seventh St., Wheeling, W. Va. For sale by all druggists. From all points of the compass in this county come reports of the good done by the rains of last week. Whllj the long dry spell wasjvery detrimental to the early growth of grass on the ranges there is now sufficient moisture in the ground to bring a good crop of herbage unless cold weather should Set in earlier than usual here. Fears were entertained by many that if the dry spell continued up to the first of November it boded a long cold winter, but when the wet spell began nearly two weeks ago it was a continual and regular thing and has been about as- wet as the proverbial Webfoot weather usually is. Should the present temperature bold out until Christ mas we may look forward to one of the best crop years that has ever favored this county, as there is at the present time nearly double the acreage of grain in that there was last year arid with favorable con ditions for spring ' grain there should be a much larger acreage of that put in than last year. Tak- On the first page of the t Journal will be found a lengthy communi cation to the Oregonian from Ma jor Sears, who was here last sum mer in the interests of the big irri gation 'Corporations on the Des chutes, in which he makes an attack on Williamson principally and wn all those who . would have the public lands left as heritage to the people, in detail. So far as Sears' letter concerns the people of this county we will deal wiUi it. It is simply the fear thnt the general government may take hold of the mutter and that (he corporations will thereby suffer that animates the old man to the point of of writing this long winded pistle. The frequent libations of spiritus frumenti that were indul ged in by him must have set hard on his stomach to bring forth such foul gasses. We would advise him to bring along a supply of Bull Run water the next time he comes up here to inspect the irrigation ituation. In the first place he says that the country is in the hands of a lot of selfish stockmen, who wish to preserve the public domain for the purpose of grazing( their herds upon the same, This in itself shows that the man is ignorant of what he is talking of, for the large stock own ers have long ago given up the idea of holding the public lands for grazing purposes and furthermore there are hundreds cf small stock owners now grazing their herds on all the public lands of this county, and the isolation of any large tract of land is an utter impossibility without first acquiring a title to the same. This windy "blatherskite" would have us think that it is for the best interests of the state to have the Carey law exploited to its fullest capacity and then let the general government come in and irrigate a lot of the arid waste; that is left. The state in this case is the people and the people can do a great deal better under the reclamation of the land by' government aidj than by any Carey law or any other land grabbing scheme that was ever promulgated by the land barons. In the first place the lien granted on the land by the state law is en tirely too much to admit the settle ment of the land by the masses of the people who make the bent citi zens. This lien approximates 110 per acre in the Deschutes valley and when it is understood that there will be an annual rental for water of one dollar per acre in ad dition to this hen it will be seen that no man of common means can ever hope to become the possesor of 160 acres of this land. In fact the matter stands in about, the same light that Mexican peonage does at this day in old Mexico. A case in point. A comes out from the east and locates on a quarter se.'tion of tl.e best land in the Des' chute. valley and makes a pay ment on his home. Then lie goes to work to reclaim it, for notwith standing the claim that the parties who have the contract with the state to reclaim the land, there has been no reclamation taken place, but only that water has been con ducted to outside lines and the set tler is compelled to construct all the laterals and side ditches. Then there is sage brush and junipers to re nove and many other things to do beside fencing the land before the settler can begin to plant his farm. He has become indebted to the corporation in the sum of f 1600 for his wild land and then must pay the sum of $160 annually on the same for water rent and inter est on the orrgnal lien, of perhaps another 1160. ' Thus he is com pelled to pay for his land a good round price and then interest on the investment besides. This in reality makes his 100 acres of raw land worth the sum of f32O0, for which sum one may buy the same amount of improved land in locali ties where no irrigation is necess ary. Think you that we will be able to get this country settled up under such conditions? Some of these land grabbers think that they can pull the woo) over the eyes of the people by at tacking the stock interests of this county as being the greatest draw back to the acceptance of the cen trists of these cororations by the government, but they cannot do it and a Btrenuous effort will he made by the eoplo of this inland coun try to have these contracts held up until there is an investigation by those who cannot be controlled by honied words, sugared whiskey or a little spot cash. This bewhiskered prodigy would have us understand thut unless the state gets this land settled up through the efforts of some corpor ation under the Carey act that it will not be able to get any good out of the land., lie says that the state must enter upon a gigantic advertising scheme in order to se cure scalers for this laud under government irrigation or any other mode of. reclamation save by the means of the Carey act; that under that method the land grubber must do the advertising eto. Suppose the state does need to do a little advertising, it will do no harm, but once the people get taken in by these greedy corporations then that part of the state where such cor porations are operating will re ceive a black eve from which it will be impossible to recover for a decade. It would be nice for these landed barons to sit back at ease and have a few hundred poor dev ils workins for them all their lives. a pleasant (prospect or the hard working farmer to contemplate. Suppose that the state signs a co..t a t with these corporations and the government accepts, or ratifies it and the corporations do not sell this land for a number of years, or suppose .they sell it and then the buyer atter working on a quarter section for several years fails to make his payments and is ejected from his home, what then becomes of his land? The corpor ation has a lien on the land arid will keep it until paid, and if that is not a virtual ownership of the land what is? Our good friend of the many initials to his name! would have us believe that the stockmen of this country want to virtually own the land sought by the corporations, for grating pur poses, while those tame corporations are the benefactors of the state and the people of this county, but they are benefactors for money, which is a good thing and any of us would liVe a job of the same kind. When the National Irrigation Congress gets through with this land grabbing scheme it will look like thirty-five cents or less and if the people of this interior country attend to business, they will be able to save their heritage without the stigma of a system of peonage being established in their midst. Ir. C. A. IViiiti, IM.im, Ui.nt Oct. I, l:m:'. I wish ti thiuik va lr mv jvllt f. 1 wan HiirTri iii-j iiii'mii's fi-mii iiil.- :in i whh taking li'r!iu' tn n-lii'vn nm w!u-ir. nil tin' ittlMC'.' if ti fti.'ii.l, I pi". iMiriT'l a U.HIe "f "ur l'''iiin i'ili SjuTitie mul t"tk it tuliMu! itt, iii.lit i.lul HlK'tt't'l- ill tilt HlllltlillX'. At ilitl! past twelve, liimii, Iny wilt! nvy lui ."inuttior t'lUi'-t ni-iifii), when my pu In .ill nt"ipeil. Ill two llilVM I w.n il'il- tn titMul uiy ri'K'ilur- Ini-iui-H , ntirvl rtlifvctl. It w us mi ii 1 1 . - woihli-rl'ul. Jiiliu-, Mvypili'ifer, Knrrit'i, lkl,-im. .WriC'K FOK rt ULlCATloX. Land Office at The Unlit. Ortym, Nurruilwr S, KMi. Notice heiehy Kive tlmt the following iikiued kettler Iiah tiled notice of hit intention to wake final proof in ti)iM.rt of hie claim, and that aaid rtKf will he wade before J. J. Smith, County Cleik at Frineville, Ore gon, on Friday, December, IB. 1H02, vii: John J. Coleman, of I'rineville, Ort'Kon, 11. K. So. 71411, for the 8W' sc, as, tp. la S., K. 14 E., W. If. He naruea the following 'witneMee to prove bif continuotui residence upon and cultivation of aaid land, via: John Hanlcy, L. M. Thoinui, Jnteplt Wiirond and five. Moore, ull of l-uinonta, Oregon. JAY P. Ll'CAS, X 13 Keguter. Notice of Final Settlement. lu the mutter of the estate of AlUut K. Smith, Drri'Uwd, N otice i,l,er.'hy given that the iiii1it siirlK'il, the uiiluiimtrator of the c-hitr of Allien K. Smith, ban llleu hi Mini I nr. r.mutilitf ol his liiliiiinistratioli f Muid t-i tate, ami the Hun. County .1 ihlgi for Crook I'uuuty. ori-giin, Iiil-i not' the 4th day of January, Iln2, at the County Court Kijom, in 1'riiiL-ville, Ori'K'in, a-' the tunc ami plaru for hearing aiil tillill ni'i-iliitili. Wm. smi hi. Ailiiiini-trator of r;-t:itc ot A i.:, f'kt K. Smith, IJi'i caM-'l. Dated the. h'.th day of Xovt-tnhi-r, Virl. Prmeville-BiiEriis Stage Line. CORNF.TT & CANTRELL, Props. Carrying U. S. Mail, Passengers and Fast Express Leaves Prineville on Mondays and Thursdays at 0 a. in Passengers waybilled for Post, Paulina. Fife, Kiley, Burns and all way points. U. 1. Y liVMilv, Agent, Prineville Get Your Job Printing Done at the Journal Office With a new outfit of type and machinery, we line up with the very best printing houses in Oregon in turning out job work of the highest standard of exwlbne-?. :::::: II by t i r For that Millionaire Feeling wear garments made-tO'Ordcr i i Strauss Bros. 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I thank you for the many favors bestowed upon the retiring firm and trust the policy of the new firm may warrant your patron age. 0 ffffffft ran aim wmiti Ooening Mens and Womens Under- g clothing in the latest SWEATERS IN GREAT VARIETY A complete line ol Ladles', Gents' and Child ren'a Shoes An elecnnt assortment ol Jewelry direct "J from the manufacturers RED FRONT BAZAAR N. A. TYE & BROS., Props. Reliable Merchant Prtneville-Silvcr Lake Stage Line. DICK VANDERVERT, Prop. Carrying rU. S. Ttfail and Passengers Lea i'es I'rineville Morula f, Wtdnewlays anil Friilnyn, (looil rigs, careful drivers. Freight and paMiengers waybilled for Hem!, Lara, Roeland and Silver Lake. ' C. I. WINNER, Agent. A BIG CONSIGNMENT OF CONFECTION KRY, TOIiACCO AND CI GARS Imx just been received in addition to our already complete stock. GIVE US A CALL and a ehnlice to convince yoti that our Stock, Price-" and Treatment are all ri;.dit. REMEMBER We liuve a Well Equipped l!illnard and Card Rooiri where you can alwayn spend a pleasant hour. J. E. CAMPBELL & CO, Have You Seen Mrs. Slayton's Store? The largest stock of Fall and Winter Millinery in Eastern Oregon. City Styles, Artistic and Satisfying. Ladies Furuishing Goods; latest cuts of CorsetB; all kinds of Wrapt, Monte Carlo'ii; Collarettes, Furs, etc. The little ones especially looked after. Make this your headquarters during Fair week. MRS. SLAY TON, Milliner. K WWWtWH TTH H I I I..M.H.-M- H H H I H' I' I' -M', X