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PBINEVILLK, CI100K COUNTY, OKEGON, FEBRUARY 5, 1903.
NO. 8
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THE COUNTY NEWS.
Our Correspondents are
Punctual.
News From All Quarters.
Cold Weather Prevails Ovor The
County. Tlonty of Uay
For Btoolc,
Roftlund llviui.
It. II, Caldwell, of Lava,
wont
to l'rinuvillo last Monday.
February llth, II. J. Pciigra will
have seen his 80th birthday anni
versary. Minn Daisy Sly Iiiih boon nick
tliu past few days but we are glad
to nay in much better.
J, J. Vandorvort, of Lava, who
some time ago full upon tin) iT
ami hurt bin leg, is very much im
proved. Last Sunday night, biiow full to
n depth of hsx inches, and since
tben it baa increased to liflecn
inches making very good sleigh-
i"g-
Geo. lioguo started out tho other
day for a sleigh ride, and bad tbo
misfoitune to break 1 1 i sleigh
tongue, but it was Boon mended
, and be journeyed on,
On February Mill heretofore, we
have looked forward to a social
function of some kind in our
neighborhood but thin year it
look like a failure.
Tbo people living between lieud
"jilld Itoshind would like very
much to know why the stage coin
puny carrio mail for ono hull of
them and does not for the other
half.
The stage in coming through
from Silver Lake and Prineville
on Hcbedulo time, but forgoU to
take tbo individual mail sacks
from tbo boxos ulong tbo road;
causing very much inconvenience
to tbo people living along the
rou to.
Hank Slover while hunting on
Dig Kiver tbo other day near the
Twin Swamps had tbo good luck
to get a couplo of shots at a large
cougar and the bad buck to misB
him. lie said ho was headed over
our way when he loft him but we
hope he will change his course bo
fore he roaches hero.
Mr. Wise, of Upper Deschutes,
Delected a very blustery timo to go
to towif as he went last Wednes
' day. Mac.
Jan. 30. 1003.
Alrkay l rook Nolen.
Delia Canlrill has dropped out
of school.
Edith MoCord was 1eot from
echool Friday afternoon."
Toboggen riding i tho iport for
most of the young people this
week. -
.' Miss Jennie Templeton was tho
guest of Miss Edith McCord last
Wednesday evening.; i . ': J '
MiBB Ora Andrews closed a very
successful term of school at Lower
Rye Grass last Tuesday.
There aro only four week of
school left and the pupils will soon
begin to get ready for examina
tion. Cell MoCord, wife and baby and
Bertha Oann were the guests of
Marion Templeton and family last
Sunday.
There will bo preaching at the
Lower . McKay school house Sun
day February 1, 1903, by Rev. Alter.
Mins Ora Andrews, Mm. I'riee
Cowhow and MrH. It. M. Temple
ton visited our school Wednesday
afternoon,'
There is to be a dance at
French's now ball on McKay
Creek tonight given by 8, McCallis
ler and Pearl Johnson. We hope
it will be a success.
Snowklakk,
Paulina I'oIiiIom.
The I'rineville-Iturns stage
make its regular trips.
C. (5. Comett is spending a few
days at Paulina visiting friends.
The ground is covered with
snow, and there is fine skating on
ponds uml rivers.
Stock are wintering lino in this
section, all having an abundance
of bay.
Archio Macmnn was in our
neighborhood a few dayB ago on
business. '
Tbo old bachelor in our vicinity
are having quite a time now adays.
They say they draw straws to see
who shall get breakfast and who
shall milk their solitary cow.
Messrs. Cornett and Faulkner
met with quite a surprise recently,
while feeding their caltlo in the
shapo of a rattler with five rattles.
They say it had wintered well up
to the time of its lieing discovered
and killed.
IloBKI-KAF.
l.aw-er Drier! Rnmbllma.
We have about six inches of
new now with us again which ha
put every one to feeding.
We are still occasionally visitec
iv men from tho lust who arc
looking after timber.
F.ditor Journal, thinking a few
item from thi locality would be
of interest to your readers, we beg
space in tho "columns of your valu
able paper.
Hay is gotting to bo a scarce
article, and some think if the win
ter Btay with u twenty-five or
thirty days longer bay will be $10
per ton and hard to get at that.
A few of our sport went hunt
ing a few days ago anu auer a
long day tramp they returned,
very fatigued with only onb jack
rabbit.
On last Friday and Saturday
the 23 and 24, we were visited by a
rain which caused tho Matoles
river raise some live feet, thus do
ing much damage to some of the
settlers along its banks. D. M.
Uiggs say it started to take a
wheel away for him with which he
raises water to irrigate his orchard
but fortunately uncle Dave was
watching and got a log chain and
chained his wheel up. L. E. Al-1
linham was probably the heaviest
looser, tho rivof haying overflowed
it banks nt his "place and almost
totally destroying about four acres
of fine land that he' anticipated
puting out in orchard in the
spring also a building whiclt, was
used in summer as a plaea- ta keep
milk as it "was nice and cool' hav
ing been built over the water. It
contained at the time of the freshet
his winters meat which consisted
of four bogs. But what makes
the wholo community feel sod is
the loss of the bridge which Mr.
Allingham built last spring. It
makes one rather tremble in their
boots when they realize Jhat they
must commence using the old re
liable ferry boat to cross with, a
horso known os Kitty. We
earnestly hope that Mr. Allingham
will hasten to build another bridge
and one that will stand for time
to come. The Kid.
FENCES MUST GO.
30,000 to 40,000 Acres
Will )a Opened.
May Cause Controversy
Fences Have Been Ordered Taken
Off of Government
Land.
The order fr tbo removal of
fence from the Government land
1
s causing consuieraoie iiiuigmuion
. . it .if .
in the Eastern part of the county.
The majority of the stockmen
blame W. W. Brown for it. As
near as can no leameu Drown
could have saved himself and
many other stockmen a large
amount of money as well as pas
turage by complying with the first
order from tho Interior Depart
ment, but be was not satisfied to
let well enough alone, and so in
formed the Government agent that
he bad a lot more land fenced, and
in consequence he was ordered to
take it all down. This order rais
ed Brown's ire, and he began com
plaining on bis neighbor,.and the
result will bo tbo opening of per
hai 30,000 to 40,000 acres of Gov
ernment land that has been fenced
up. The greatest Iosb will fall on
Mr. Brown, who will be required
to remove 100 to 200 miles of
fence.
As a great deal of this fencing
bus been done by cattlemen, it
will be seen that they will lie the
losers, and it will leave a lot of
range open to the public that will
bo fouiiht by the sheep tTniujme
in from ou'side points every sum
mer. Should this be the case,
there 1b a strong probability that a
larje numVr of Brown's sheep
will go tho way of others that have
come in the way of the cattle men
of that section and, a Brown has
large bands of slieep that will be
ranged in close proximity to a
irreat deal of the land that has
been thrown open, and is looked
upon by tho cattle-owners as the
cause of the opening of the fences,
he will naturally be the object of
their vongeance.
Much of the land that has been
under fence is but poor pasturage
at best, but, it being easier fenced
than loft outside, many of the
stockmen have inclosed it with
their own premises. One reason
that so much of the land in this
county has been inclosed is that a
large area of "road land" has been
leased by the stockmen, and, it
being in alternate sections, there
has been a tendency to inclose all
the land within the boundaries of
the road land so as to form a
square or other Bolid body of land,
thus taking a much less amount
of fencing that would otherwise be
reuu red. tile thoso who have
done bo are fully aware that they
were inclosing Government land
to which they had no right, they
have never in any way opposed
any one in settling within their
inclosures who desired to take a
homestead or other claim. In this
they have differed widoly from the
cattle barons of Northern Cali
fornia and Nevada, where it was
as much as a man's life was worth
to attempt to take a homestead in
side g! one of the great inclosures
without first promising to sell to
the cattleman who had the
under fence. Oregonian.
land
A PrlneTllle (ilrl Win. Laurola.
In one of the hardest fought
basket ball games ever played in
the Willamette University gym
nasium last night, the plucky
Willamette girls went down to an
honorable defeat before the Cor
vallis belles.
Thecore was 6 to 1, but even
this scor although chine, does not
give a correct idea of the game be
tween the two teams which were so
evenly matched, both being train
ed to a high state of perfection.
The firHt half, which was fifteen
minutes in length, was fiercely
contested from start to finish, and
resulted in tho score of 2 to 0, in
favor of the O. A. C, Miss Edith
Linville having succeeded in toss
ing one basket. The second half
of twenty minutes, was played
even harder than the first, Ethel
Linville and Una Stewart for Cor
vallis and Nellie Parsons and
Minnie Koschmeider for Willam
ette, each playing like demons.
During this half Mis Lottie Ran
dall received a sprained ankle, and
time was called while she was re
moved and her place filled by
Gussio Randall, Una Stewart
threw one basket for Corvallis, and
each team scored one point of foul,
making the final score 5 to 1 in
favor of Corvallis. '
The individual work of each
player was strenuous, but Corvallis
showed iuperior team work, and it
was this slight superiority which
won the game for Corvallis. The
playing was entirely clean on both
sides nothing occurring to mar the
sjiortsmanlike qualities of the
trame. Tho line up of the two
teams was as follows:
W. V. Minnie Koschmeider,
center.
Jennie Coyle, Nellie Parsons, for
wards.
Lotta Randall, Lila Swafford,
guards.
O. A.
Myra
C Edna Smith, center.
Yeager, Rea Smith, for-
wards.
ITtel Linville,. Una, Stewart
guards. '' '
Salem Statesman.
i'rsokea Mirer Happening-..
The teams that are hauling
wood pass up or down every day.
Earl and Mark Forest are back
to their duties in school.
Singing school began Sun Jay af
ternoon with Prof, West" and 18
pupils present.
The school children are prepar
ing a program for the last day of
school.
The youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Merrill has been quite sick
but is some bettor now.
The pupils were free to roam
last Wednesday as the Professor
was called to the city on that day.
Snow still covers the ground and
the weather is pretty cold along
the vallev.
Messrs. Merill, Yocum and
Smead started for Bend-Sunday to
deliver the machinery for the saw
mill.
Miss Grace Merrill, who was ab
sent from school most of last week,
nursinn , her sore throat, is at
school again.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wilhoit and
wife went to Prineville Wednesday
in the interest of their timber
claims, returning Friday.
Prof. B. F. Wilhoit and wife
went to tho county seat Saturday
to look after timber claims return
ing Sunday!
. -.. -
More interest should be taken
in the Library Society for the wel
fare of the children and others in
this locality. . Friday, February
13th, is the night to elect officers,
and all members should be present.
XAX.
Stops the Cough and Works off the
Cold.
Lautira Erorou Quiniet Tablet curti a
oold in ud (lay. No Cure, No Pay,
Pric, 85 ornt.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some S tolen, Others Not
Outlines From Our Exchanees
News Notes of the Week
Timely Topics.
A dispaftji comes from Salem to
the effect that Deputy Warden
Dilley ha been too intimate with
one of the women convicts confin
ed in the penitentiary. Hie
Times-Mountaineer suggests that a
surgeon with a sharp knife is need
ed.
We used to bear the phrase, "As
rich as CroesuB." Old Croesus
was hitherto supposed to be
wealthy, but this classic myth has
been exploded. Even old Li
Hung Chang left an estate much
larger than that of Croesus, whose
wealth has been figured up at only
17,000,000.
Last week the Oregon Supreme
Court banded down its decision in
the case of the of the State of Ore
gon vs. the Ex-School Land Clerk,
Geo. W. Davis et al. Davis when
state land clerk embezzled some
thing over 131,000 of the state
school fund. That was over six
years before his shortage was dis
covered. The Court holds that
the state's claim against him was
outlawed before action was brought.
The editor sat in bis easy chair,
lighting his pipe on his auburn
hair. A halo shown over his face
so fair, but his knees were out and
his feet wer barer And he bang
a song both sad and sweet, while
the flies died all around his feet,
for he had no grub in his shop, to
eat, and the ground was covered
with sleet. Now what in the
world was the cuss to do? He had
eaten the paste and swallowed the
glue; he hadn't a drink, -he hadn't
a chew and while he stared his
whiskers grew. And the band
played on. Swiped. "
An Egyptian mummy of 2,000
years ago, recently exhumed, show
ed evidence of having died of ap
pendicitis. This is published as a
wonder, but no one has supposed
the disease to be absolutely new.
Doubtless thousands of cases
charged up to peritonitis, inflam
mation of the bowels, etc., took
place every year. Forty or fifty
years ago those diseases were con
sidered hopeless, and carried off!
multitude of people. Whatever
effect it has on appendicitis, if the
people can be induced to stop eat
ing fine flour, and take whole
wheat flour instead, it will im
prove their health greatly.
Emmett Kimberling, the Grant
county prisoner who escaped from
jaii, after being convicted a year
ago, and who was found in Port
land a few week ago and returned,
made his escape again last, week.
In company with Tommy Hill,
who was awaiting trial, he made a
circuit of the John Day country,
and during his temporary freedom,
became repentant and returned.
He crept through the hole in the
jal wall through which he escaped
and went to bed." He told Sheriff
Laurance the next morning that
he had come back to receive his
sentence and be through with it,
that he might the sooner be able
to be with his wife and ehild.
Governor Chamberlain says he
will not issue the call for the
special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congress
man Tongue, until after the sena
torial question ha been settled.
He said that he did not desire to
complicate matters at present.
Hi decision will meet with favor
by all factions, as it would be very
difficult to conduct a campaign
and hold a special election during
the session. The call will be is
sued sometime in February and
the election will perhaps take
place on the first Monday in
April. It i generally understood
that Chairman Harris, of tho con
gressional committee, will call a
special convention of delegates for
the nomination, although some
have talked of the nomination be
ing made by the committee. This
latter is objectionable, however, a
it savors of the "machine."
A bill for a prosecuting attorney
in each county is in the judiciary
committee of the house. The
measure provides for the election
of such officers in 1904 and every
four years thereafter. Each of
these officers may appoint one or
more deputies. The salaries of the
prosecuting attorneys are to be:
Baker 11,000, Benton $800, Clack
amas $1000, Coos $800, Columbia
$500, Clatsop $2000, Curry $500,
Crook $800, Douglas $1000, Grant
$800, Gilliam $000, Harney $800,
Jackson $1000, Josephine $1000,
Klamath $800, Lake $800, Lincoln
.500, Linn $1000, Malheur $800,
Marion $1500, Morrow $800, Mult
nomah $3000, and two deputies at
$1000 each; Polk $800, Sherman
$G00,-T'illamook $500, Umatilla
$1000, Union $1000, Wasco $800,
Wallowa $000, Wheeler $800,
Yamhill $800.
Victory Vmr ftheepmen.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 26. Judge
Marshall of the United State
District court, today sus-
stained
the demurrer ol
the defendant in the case of the
United States against Frank
Martinus, who was charged with
running a band of 2000 sheep on
the Fish Lake forest reserve, in
violation of the rules formulated
for the protection of forest reserve
by the secretary of the interior.
Judge Mars-hall states that con
gress ha- exceeded its legislative
power in empowering the secretary
of the interior to make rule the
violation of which would be a
criminal act, and held that the
law was unconstitutional. The de
cision is regarded as one of the
greatest importance to Utah sheep
men. A number of pending simi
lar cases will be thrown out of
court.
The effect of Judge Marshall'
decision will throw open to
sheep and cattle interest more
than 1,000,000 acres of the choicest
grazing land in the statew which
for the past few years has been
carefully protected by the govern
ment. As soon as the situation
becomes known, it is believed
hundreds of thousands of sheep
will be brought across the line
from adjoining states, and the for
est reserves will be covered with
sheep.
Notice is hereby given that
have sold the Crook County Journ
al toS. M. Bailey and" W. C.
Black, and that they will collect
all bills and pay all indebtedness
pertaining to said paper and plant
and will perfect all advertising
contracts, save and except such
accounts as were contracted by
Fogle & Parker in the matter of
advertising timber land final
proofs prior to the first day of Oc
tober 1902.
Dated at Prineville, Oregon thi
15th day of January, 1903.
, W. T. Fogle.
Approved by Bailey & Black.
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