Crook County journal., March 26, 1903, Image 1

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VOL VII.
FJtLNKVILLK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 20, 1903.
NO. 15
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TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Comment From T li
Tclcriun.
Somo Political Forecast.
Ho If. Tlio Only Loultiii) Oitnilltiato
; Fur The Nuxt EopuWIenn
Nomination.
Tin- ,i.-iiilo nil uloiiK the ri)llt''
llll' I'l'csilh'lll's i'; t.TII lour will
welcome him cordially, li; u matter
(if course, in the President o( tin
Uiiilrd Stales, but their welcome
will go liryuiiil this, 'or tnui-t pen
jilu n( llm country, ami innro'es
pecinlly in llm West this side li"'
Mississippi Bivcr, have uii en
thusia tic admiration fur Theodore
Koiiri'vcll'n character as i tiiiin'
mill iih nn executive, II in nut its
good ii publicum President Mi:-Kiul'-y
was; i" tnt as urbane and
smooth nnil .-.i 'tliiim in in his in
tercourse with politicians and nicii
uf iiillueucc, n( nil 'n; yt'l from
some points of view, while ninny
of Mi Kinli y'n IniitH with irresist
ibly admirable, Koosevelt inspires
llii' (fri'iitiT degree of respect. Mo
Kinley was nut n weak man, but
liooscvclt's Mt rt-ngl h shows, if nut
always quite su keen observation
iiinl (imil political judgment an u
partisan, more ni(i.'i''l, viiiln inde
pendence. No invidious couipnri
urn in intend' il, nor need he made,
fur tin1 two ini n wore differently
constituted, cast in riiliri'Iy differ-
1 1 1 In j 1 1 1 . .
Tim people uf I'urtlainl, anil of
Ihcenliro Pacific Northwest, deep-
ly deplored tlic circumstances
that prevented Mr. Mch'inlcy from
contiiiuiiiK li- intended tour a
year ago hist Summer, nnil sincere-!
ly Inn I''il his tragic anil linliliir
ly fati). at llnffalu n few weeks
later; ami it will nut le. witlmiit
remembrance' of 1 1 1 . murdered
President that we welcome his suc
cessor, j
Witliuiit asserting tlmt President.
Roosevelt's judgment in never at
fault, the people likeliiin and trust
Iiim, because tliey iniilii:ily be
lievo tliut lio always mi-iuiM to do
exactly right, mid that h" has the
courage Hint in high oflicinlo is al
together tuu rare to du what if
right even if counseled otherwise
by sapient hut not tuo conscien
tious party leaders, anil though it
aecms that tho net would injure
his political prospects. The coun
try, let him he sure, is with him as
Against any clique composed of
ueh members uf Congress ns Han
na, I'latt, Aldrich, Elkins, Quay,
Burrows, Payne, Dnlzcll, Grusvcn
r, etal. Inmost uf these men
tlio puhlic 1ms no real conlidenee;
somehow people d6 not believe
they arc working disinterestedly
for the puhlic welfare, hut do he
lieve that Theodore Roosevelt has
no other aim or object in his puh
lic service except, of course, to
merit a re-election; he hits a righl
to consider himself to that extent,
and could not avoid doing so
liut the puhlic weal.
Tho President is not so accom
plished a politician as his lament
ed predecessor, hut it need not be
concluded therefore that he in de
void of a fair supply of political
acumen. In these days, when al
most every voter knows nil about
tvery prominent public man, the
President or other high ufliciul who
sincerely ami earnestly servcB the
jieople, rather than follows the ad
vice of scheming mid selfish poli
ticians, is himself the butter poli
tician, whether lie is so conscious
ly or not. President Roosevelt
next year will in all probability be
stronger without fixing a fence or
laying a wire than nil these poli
te-inns euiiiyinel, even if they
dioiild unite lo Ciimpns-i his defeat,
li'.it they will noli whim they sei
i hat tho tide in his lavor is irre
i.. tilde, they will ride loftily on il
.Hid pretend that it ruse at their
bidding aiel that they are direct
ing it. Telegram,
t . .' ',
v Shrewd politicians tin nuf deny
iiuMspitj cr lies for it is known that
lien travel faster and farther than
denialii, and that denials only give
liicm impetus.
Senator Morgan has at least
proved his title lo be known as n
wonderful old 111:111. He bus utter
ed J,.'i07,!t!X) words against the
Panama canal treaty to date.
ShakeHi.iin! only wrote H."0,(K)O in
all bis works.
There is a report going the
rounds Hint the young men of
Smith Dakota am so eager to get
wives that almost every m.iri'iiiL'e
able woman who goes to the state
i. imiu' ilinti ly snapped up and
there is great dillieully in getting
girls enough to teach school, (tel
ling down to details the report
goes on to say that u 'traveler in
thestiite recently found an empty
school house with a card tacked
on the door saying "Teacher want
ed. If single, must he old and un
attractive, as a wealthy bachelor
in the neighborhood threatens to
marry the next teacher of this
school."'
' The navigating and ordinance
ollieer of the Oregon, in her famous
jourtey from the Pacific to the At
lantic, and during the investment
and battle of Santiago, who had
bten 2!) years in the Navy, then
received tlut) per annum, while
the chaplain ij the same ship, who
bad been nine years in the Navy,
received f2KI)0 per annum. In the
distribution of prize money the
chaplain received more than the
navigating and ordinary ollieer.
Upon this and similar cases, Secre
tary Moody basts his application
for a change Hi the law to require
the pay of ehapl tins to be graded
according to their term of service
from H'il)0 to IfloOO.
Nicaragua has enacted a labor
law that is unique when viewed
from the plane of American civil
ization. All S'lsons, men or wom
en, not having ."(K) pesos or more,
arc classed laborers. When found
unemployed, they may be seized
by, the government, and put on
public works for 20 days. Kach
laborer ,must carry a small book,
which is sign by his employer.
Supposo limes were stringent,
and employment was difficult to
secure. TJio Nicarnguan is sub
ject to seizure and imprisonment
for not having the same. How
would tho miner in this district
view such a law? How would a
citizen of the United States receive
such law-miikcrs? Vurily a strange
H'tiple exist in the south. Con
stant turmoil over what dictator
shall oppress them, yet nicck sub
mission to the very embodiment
of slavery.
(iovcrncr Pardee bus signed the
bill appropriating 120,1)00 for a
California building nt Portland's
Lewis and Clark Kxpnsition ' in
11)0"). The building will bo used
(or the installation of exhibits and
reception of visitors. The law pro
vides that if the State of California
shall, before the year 11)05, pro
vide for the installing ol mainten
ance of an exhibit of the produces
of the slate nt the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, to be held in St.
Louis, Mo., in 1004, the said ex
hibit, liion the termination of the
said Si. Louis Exposition, shall be
turned over and delivered nt Port
land, Or., to the commissioner ap
pointed under this act, who is here
by authorized to receive the same.
HE COUNTY NEWS.
Our Corrt'SjioiHlpnt.s An;
i'iiiictiial
News From All Quarters.
Tho Journal Hiurthe Bat Ooi-rte-upondents
Of Any Pupor la
Intorior Oregon.
Itftwliilid Item.
SVaim days and cold nights pre
vail in ibis vicinity.
Mr. I'urke of Upper Deschutes
made your city a visit hist week.
(leo. llcntty, who has been quite
sick is able to be out again.
Wm. Everingham went to Bend
on business one day last week.
William St. Thomas returned to
your city from the timber this
weck.
The Silver Lake Land commis
sioner is tloing 11 rushing business
at the stage station.
. ij
Me tiniiks before spring appears.-
some of the stockmen will be in
need of butcher knives. 1
Master Lockwood Simpson who
has heeii spending a few netks:i.,r nj ti, summer.
here, has returned to his home at,;
Prinevillu. ;
Charles Findley. nnd Frank
William. left here last Tuesday
morniiiK for The Dalles, where!
they go to bring their Jamilies to Piersoiu last Sunday.
the Deschutes valley. j Clyde Hon and wife and Mr.'.
Some people report to vou that ! Ida Hon ,ver'J vi,iiti"P ' rrine
there is plenty of hay here for the vlllc duri,18 t!,e I81 week' ,
winter and come back home and I J. J. Pierson spent the fr.-t of
drive their stock to the desert on J the week visiting" bis daughter
account of shortage of feed. ' j Mrs. Thomas Gage of Bridge creek.
D. A. Morson and Chas. X. A. C. Knighten brought his c;.t-
Si olt, of Portland, representatives tie up from the Elliott ranch last
of the Oregon Development Co., j Sunday.
were here the fore part of the week , l(,v Tmlkin3 ,ud .j,, Ht.
in the interests ol the company.
Wii.i.ii:.
March 10. 1903.
1
PuuUim I'ollltettl.
Mark Hannah is still foreman
on the figure live ranch.
Grass
is starting out of the
ground and it is making stockmen
feel better.
A disease called pink eye is get
ting away with some of Beaver
creek's best horses.
Al Stewart made a trip to Pau
lina valley in his buggy yesterday.
Wonder why.
Wm Trcichel has been sick for
the past two weeks but is slowlv
. 'I
recoverini,.
S. J. Clemens is recovering from I
a kick ho received last week from 1
11 horse.
Mr. King is doing a good busi
ness in Ibis vicinity, and he and
his Jiorses are getting fat.
Haying will be a short job on
the creek as Elkins & King are
selling hay bucks and stackers to
almost every rancher on the creek.
P. B. Howard was uu a few davs
ago but could not stand the mui
and cold weather and the last we
snw of him be was going toward
Prineville in a long trot.
Tkixik.
I'rooKud lllvrr lltipieiiliig.
The farmers are busy plowing.
Lovely weather causes smiles on
the farmers' faces.
Miss Winnie Weaver is sick with
a sore throat.
H. C. Wilhoit and wife went t
.1. .-vi 1 . 1.1
Mr. nlkins, on Ochoco last week
on business '
Mr. West, of Bend, was over and
pUfhased a beef of V. Forert on
March 10.
(icorgi! Kodman mid family were
.:in-sls ol his fistcr Mrs. F. Forest,
-uinlay the 15th.
B. K, Wilhoit returned lo his
homestead, week ago Monday after
a tussel with la-grippe.
Mrs. Forest is now the owner of
a nice new buggy. We hope to
ee her out among her friends quite
often now.
Mrs. Olive Butler and children,
of Hays-lack, came over Sunday to
vitit several days with relative
and friends.
Mr. McC'allisler returned home
lest Sunday from bis fruit ranch,
where he had Is'cn at work on his
orchard. He was accompanied by
lis daughter end son..
Mr. Philips returned from Shani-
! ko with his family 011 Thursday
! March 12th. He . started for
j Agency Plains with bis cattle the
' following Sunday.
! McDowell Brothers are working
I on the Company's Iirigutiou ditch.
I mm 1. : . 1 .1
(icy are masing several cnaiiges
0 .
(Ill II. C Ulll.ll tlllU MJBU 1IIUI1II Jl
larger. Charley Graves did the
surveving last week. The coin-
iany iti.ndi to have plenty water
Howard Item.
Zella Dyer was a visitor at J. J:
urday night, Sunday and Sunday
night at the Howard school house.
School began at the Howard
schoolhouse on last Monday with
Miss Andrews as teacher.
Colonel Mulvabill has just turn
ed Dut 150 head of bis cattle. The
Colonel's cattle are in good condi-
tion and be lias about the best
band of cattle there is on Bridge
creek.
PitoK. Biu. Basks-.-
DmiKur ol Cold aud (arljt.
Tlio greatest danger from cml anil
grip is their resulting in pneumonia.
If reasonable care is used, however,
and Ohniiili.'i'l.iiirs Cough Reined
1 ""' "'
Among llie tens of thousands who
L (, used this remedy for these tiis-
ens we have yet to lenrn of a single
0su l'ving result! in pneumonia.
which shows conclusively that it is ;
certain preventative of that danger
ous disease. It will cine a cold or nn
1 attack of the grip in less ti e thai
any other treatment. It is plensnui
and sale to take. For sale by Adam
stin & Win ek Co.
Secretary Magers of the Orcgnr
Good Roads A-sociatitm is busy at
present sending letters to tin
unty Judges of Oregon request
"'P eaen 01 uicm 10 appo.-m
delegates to the International
Good Roads Convention, whic!
will bo held at St. Louis Iron
April 27, to May 2. Not mucl
business is expected to be transact
ed on the first three days -of thi.
session, as these will he the dede
jcatior days of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition. The State (low
j Ro'"!s Association will appoint tei
''el"Us nt li,rf e 10 ''0,m"
1 tion.
I). W. Harnett, of II ivstnek, wa-
, ., '
Prineville visitor Tuesday, rt'tnrnin,
j home Wednesday. He reports tin
spring fanning opening up nicely.
HEWS BRIEFLY TOLC
Items 'of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Soma Stolen, Others Not
Oullinga From Our ExchanKts
News Notea of the Week
Timely Topics.
There were doings in tho United
Slates Senate the other day, Illi
nois forced a Mason to quit his job.
Washington took a Turner from
his grindstone and Missouri pulled
down her Vest.
The following query, put by a
smail boy to bis father in an
underground carriage, may puzzle
a good many people. The child
said: "Daddv, where is the wind
when it doesn't blow?"
Germany now has second place
among maritime nations. Great
Britain still leads with M,S0!),4rt9
Uiiib of merchant shipping. The
United States has third place, but
only by including its large coast
wise shipping tonnge.
A hundred years ago the Phila
delphia North American published
an advertisement 0 the sale of J)i.
Benjamin Franklin's library, and
even at that early day the owner
felt called upon to pledge that "nol
a single volume will be sold among
them that was not really the book
of Benjamin Franklin."
Of the 1G5 kinds of snakes found
in the United States, but 20 are
venomous. They are the copper
head and water moccasin, which
are closely related; the coral snakes
of the Southwest, and two specks
of rattlesnakes. The most danger
ous of them, the water moccasin, is
not seen -north of Tennessee.
A French docto. has invented a
harmless bullet, which ought to
have been very useful to French
duelists. It is made of a chalky
compound, and' when it strikes a
person it merely maiks the spot
without doing the least mischief.
With a mask over the face men
can practice revolver shooting at
each other just as they now prac
tice fencing.
Congress Lessler of New York
was the smallest man j hysieally
in the house last sessioh, weighing
only 110 pounds. On the eve of
adjournment "Hank" Smith of
Michigan ssked him: "What arc
you going to do next summer.'
By way of a joke Lessler said:
"First thing I am going to reduce
my weight." "How are you going
to do it," drawled Smith, "cut off
a leg?"
The total gold product. of the
world, from the discovery of
America by Columbus to the year
1900, is according to tho United
Statei mint, in round numbers
nine thousand eight hundred and
eleven million dollars, pure gold
of this value would occupy space
equal to 27,039 cubic feet, or a
solid 30-fiot cube, very nearly,
which would weiuh about 10,272
tons.
President Jordan of Stanford
University worked his way through
Cornell by waiting on table, husk
ing corn and digging ditches. His
tuition was free, under the state
scholarship which he received from
Wyoming county, where he lived.
As a farmer's boy and country
school teacher he had learned the
entire fauna and flora of his vicin
ity and shown unmistakable signs
of his genius for scholarship.
The production of bitumiiiou
oal was eight limes as great a
the production of anthracite dur-
ng the year 1902; for, in that year,
owing to idleness at the milieu, tho
hard coal prsitioii fell to where it
was in the year 1KH5. While there
is a great deal said and heard of
the anthracite industry because it
is concentrated in the, hands of a
few persons, and w .ri;ed as a rule
at a profit, there is a vast extent of
the country which takes the soft or
bituminous coal takes it to the
extent of 250,000,000 net tons.
That there will be a heavy loss
it this county of cuttle, sheep and
horses, caused by the severe winter
and lack of feed, cannot be denied.
Many horses that have been left to
winter on the range, have already
"winter killed," and many others
will go the same way before grass
comes, llie feed tor sheep ami
cattle is now exhausted and many
stockmen are turning out on an al
most barren range covered with a
foot or more of snow. Much of
this stock will undoubtedly perish
unless there is a very sudden and
favorable change in the weather.
A few stockmen who have exhaust
ed their bay supply, are shipping
in corn from Nebraska and other
points, but the almost impassable
condition of the roads makes this
kind of feed very expensive for
those living remote from the rail
road. Malheur Gazette.
There is a long-sufferirg editor.
in Iowa who has been harassed by
the village gossips until he could
stand it no longer.' He is running
the Paulina Times and in a recent
issue he boils over as follows: We
have been reminded by a claimant
to God') kingdom that the Times
is not fit to take into a Christian
home. We don't want the muckle
head to worry about the paper
or the editor, who, he says, "is
working for the devil." - The edi
tor has a charter from the state to
act ne a punching bag for every
thing in the community. The
paper Till be printed somehow and
stand up for the churches, stand
up for the office ceker, lie about
your pigeon-toed daughter's "swell
wedding," blow about your dunce
of a son when he gets a Jl-a-.week
job, weep over your shriveled soul
when it is released from your
stingy body, and smi.e at your
giddy wife's tecond marriage. The
Times and its editor will get along.
The Lord only knows how but
they will get there somehow.
The executive committee of the
State Wool Growers' convention
met Saturday in Pendleton and
fixed dates for sales. Secretary
Gwinn was authorized to settle the
matter as to where the salt shall
come from and how much shall he
paid for it and for its transporta
tion according to his best judg
ment. Anywhere from 500 to
1,000 tons will be used by the'
State that is by the wool-growing
centers, the coming season. Mr.
Gwinn was commissioned to do
business as indicated for the as
sociation simply because . at this
juncture determinate figures are
not to be had either in relation to
the prices for the salt, or for tariffs
on the same. The following dates
for sales were established: Pen
dleton May 28-2'J and June 12-13;
Heppner June 2-3 and June 2'i-24;
The Dalles June 5-li; Shaniko
June 9-10 and June 2li-27; Baker
City June 15-16; Elgin June 18-19.
A New York Judge sentenced
two women to ten months' im
prisonment in a penitentiary for
using bad language on the street,
and warned them that if he bad
occasion to pass scnlence on them
in the future for a like offense be
would punish them to the law's
limit. Mercy's sake! What is the
limit for bad language in virtuous
N'ew York? And if everybody
ho uses bad language there in
the presence of people to whom it
s offensive were thus punished,
how many would the penitentiarien
of that state contain?