Crook County ournal 0 vol. vi r. IW II. PI11NEVILLE, CfiOOK COUNTY, OREGON, AI'iilL 23, 1903. NO. ID New Spring Every Department in our Big Store is full to Overflowing with Brand New Spring Bargains. The Ladies will find many New Things. They are too numerous to mention but if you want anything go to the Big Stora. They'll have it. WURZWEIIER 8 THOMSON PrlncvlSc's Leading Merchants C. J. STUBLINC The Dalloa, Oregon A FEW FACTS ConnTiiinj? G It K K N R I V K K Whiskey 1. (IliKKN HIV Kit is pure. l (IliKKN lilVKU l Tl-lly matured. ,'t. (iUKICN KIVKIt Iijih mi exquisite flavor. I. (iltKKS HIVKK is tho whii-key without a headache ft. (lltKI'S HIV Kit is Hi.' 1'. S, NhvuI Hospital Whiskey I). tiHKKX HIVKK is wilil ly C. 15. McDowell, Prineville C. J. Stubllng, Distillery Distributor Distillery Ladies DOM HOD THIS New SPRING HATS at Mrs. Slayton's in the Newest and Prettiest Styles. A Choice Line of Novelties and Neckwear, and everything City .Markets afford. COHSl'TS AND (JLOVliS 1 ITTllD fUm POINT OF VIEW LOOKED AT from (very point of view, KcCormick mowen will bt found laultlcu in deln, modern In con traction and thorough In equipment, with the matt practical featur'u. Theie mowen ire w perfectly balanced, to easily operated and do Hich imooth and even cutting that they Instantly become the lavorite of every man who buys one. Th McCormlck book, "A MODEL MACHINE," trill all about Model mowen. ELKINS & KING, Agents HAMILTON STABLES and REDBY fEED BOOTH & Distributor EVERY BUMS.- Slock boarded by day, week o, month. Fine saddle horseB and livery turnoiiln. Rates reasonable Good accommodations. Remember us when in Prine villo, and wo guarantee that yuoi patronage will lio appreciated and deserved. CORNETT, Proprietors. V- Goods fjfiHER fa QROSH POCKET KNIVES AT I). I. A DAMSON'S (Tire liriik Drug Stun ) St a i o ne r y ...at... 1). 1 ADAMSON'S (Tho Brick Drug Store) Woodbury's for nil skin troubles il is g THE BEST. I D. P. ADAMSON'S I (The Brick Drug Stun-) il 9 5 Days' Treatment of Our Sure Cure for LOST MAXHOOD, Nor vousncss, Failing Memory, Varicocele, Atrophy, Palpita tion of Heart. Send name and address to I' It OF. A. A U 1) U 1! K, i N. First St., Portland, Oregon, and receive by return mail thii grand remedy absolutely freo of cost. Send no money This is a bona lide offer. Write today, an it costs you nothing to try it. WASHINGTON LIFE INSURANCE CO. 01" NEW YORK. OLAV A'. SIMPSON, M'a'r litttrlor Dept. Has the largest percentage ot oash assets to eaoh dollar of lia bility ; earns the highest average Interest, and issues the most up- to-date progressive poltcios for in vestment or protection. nidi ,) " M , ' flf ' "i 1 w . . i ,n ' ' - More Railroad Talk ( From the Oregonlan.) The Oregon Railroad & Naviga tion Company will extend its sys tem into Central Oregon,; guar anteeing to Portland merchant control of the trade of this rich section and making its rapid de vcbpuicnt certain. This decision of tho officers of the company has just been announced. The pro posal to extend lias lieeil under consideration by the oornpt ny for some time, but until today noth ing definite has been given out that would reassure Portland job ber" and wholesale men. The ab solute promise of ar. extension has now lieen made. To T. 13. Wilcox, who came to New York as the representative of tho Chandier of Commerce, be longs the credit for securing this early announcement of the com pany's plans, if not the entire credit fur putting through the deal. Mr. Wilcox has been in consulta tion with President E. H. Harri man, of the Union Pacific and chairman of the board of directors of the 0. R. & N., relative to the extension for some time, and has now departed for his home with the assurance that the company will do as Portland has desired. The details of the extension have not yet been worked out, but these will be decided upon im mediately. Construction' work will Be commenced socn. ( The Oregon Railroad & Navi gation Company has two plans for the construction of this extension which might be accepted. Either would accomplish the result sought and save the trade of the central portion of the state to Portland, cutting off, at the same time, all probability of an extension from California which would divert this trade to San Franciisto, or from Idaho, which would send it to Boise or Salt Lake. Tho 0. R. 4 N. can either ac quire the Columbia Southern, over which there has been a hitch in tho proposals for a sale, or it can extend its own system over a sur vey which has already been com pleted. The probabilities, Port land railroad men believe, are that tho company will make its own ex tension, though President Lytle, of the Columbia Southern, is now in New York in consultation with 0. R. & N. officials. A matter that stands in the way the sale of the Columbia 4 Southern to the 0. R. & X. is the valuation which the owners of the property dace upon the road. The Columbia Southern is a small road running out of Biggs on the 0. R. & X. as far into Central O'e gon as Shaniko. The road was originally constructed by the aid of tho O. K. it A ., winch took up the company's bonds and made it possible for the promoters' to lay the rails for their line. The 0. R. i X. still owns these bonds. The Columbia Southern has been anxious either to sell to the 0. R. & N. or to extend its system far into Southern Oregon, probably going as far as the California line. Not a great deal of woik has been done along this line, however, for tho Columbia Southern is blocked in its programme by the fact that the 0. R. & N. holds its bonds. The company has found it prac tically impo'ssible to extend with out issuing new bonds, and it was insisted these must cover the en tire line. The 0. R. & X. refused to permit its bonds, based upon the shorter line, to be cheapened by another issue and this attitude of tho larger road has held up the Columbia Southern's plans for an extension. The proposals for a sale that has been under consideration involved the question of railroad passenger and freight rates to such an ex tent that the two interests have been unable in the past to come to gether. Tho Columbia Southern has insisted that after all fixed charges were paid it netted 8 per 1 cent on the investment and the officials of the company have in sisted upon a sale price based up on this showing. The Columbia Southern has the advantage of being a small road privileged to charge passenger rates of 4 cents per mile and freight rates proportionately large. The 0, R. Si X., should it acquire the property, would be compelled to reduce passenger ra'tes to 3 cents and a corresponding cut in freight tariffs would have to h made. Computing the earnings of the road on the basis of a reduction in rules, officials of the 0. R. & X. have held that it would be impos sible to make the road pay the dividends its owners have claimed for it, and the larger system held that the sale price should be based u I on this condition. In the negotiations which have been pending between the Colum bia Southern and the 0. R. & N. there has crept in the threat of the Uarrimati system to parallel the smaller line's road, and also an in timation that a line might be con structed from either Payette, on the Oregon Short Line, or Made line, Cal., on the Nevada, Califor nia & Oregon Railroad, which is Southern Pacific feeder, into the Central and Southern Oregon ter ritory. The 0. R. & X. has gene so far with its projiosal to parallel the Columbia Soulhcrn as to order sur veys for a line, leaving the main line at or near The Dalies and go ing up the Deschutes River Valley into Central Oregon. From dif ferent points in Central Oregon there have been proposals to ex tend in different directions. The construction of this line has been found to lie entirely feasible and the officials of the 0. R. & X. are inclined to concede that the Col umbia Southern could be built in to the same territory upon an ad vantageous plan. the threat of the Nevada, Cali fornia & Oregon Railroad to ex tend from Madeline into Oregon carried with it the declaration of the Columbia Southern that its line would be continued to meet this system. Should the two smaller lines lie able to carry out this plan, the district in Central and Southern Oregon now prac tically without railroad communi cation would be given a route al most direct into San Francisco, and the construction of the road would divert a very profitable trade from Portland to the Cal ifornia metropolis. Another pro posal for an extension from the Southern Pacific's line into this disputed territory his also been discussed, but railroad men have never regarded the probability of its actual construction very ser iously. Another proposal that threaten ed Portland's interest was for the construction of a branch of the Oregon Short Line from Payette into Central Oregon. Such a line might have connected with an ex tension of the Columbia Southern and would have to be built south of the Blue Mountain district. But it would open up a country neither of the other plans would tap. It is evident from the reading of both the special dispatch from Xew York and Mr. Wilcox's tele gram that the 0. R. & X. has de termined to do whatever railroad building is attempted in Cen tral and Southern Oregon. This determination means to Portland that no outside system will be per mitted to interfere with a trade that naturally belongs to this city and indicates the complete success of the plans of the Chamber of Commerce. Central Oregon is one of the richest sections of country in the West, though at present it is more of a sheep and cattleraising d: (continued on taoe 2.) NEWS BRIEFLY TOLDI, Items of Interest Gath ered Here and There Some Stolen, Others Not Oullings From Our Exchanges- News Notes of the Week Timely Topics. When Mr. Morgan has finished his 300,000 home, will Mr. Carne gie give him a few books to put in it? The nations drink bill $1,300,- 1X10,000 very nearly equals its transportation bill. And who can deny that most of this vast sum was wasted or worse? President Roosevelt left orders to push the Poatoflice Department investigations with unabated vig or and then went away to the wilds of the Yellowstone. Mean while the politicians are frothing at the mouth. Representative Livingston of Georgia says the most important issue at the next session of Con- greeo will be a more elastic cur rency. For once the democratic Representative is correct, as is proven by the fact that the repub lican leaders of the Senate are al ready engaged in preparing a financial bill which will be intro- luced on the first day of the ses sion. In 1902 this country was the largest exporter of domestic mer chandise in the world, while in 1870 its exports were exceeded by three other nations, France, Ger many and the United Kingdom. In favorable balance of trade the United States exceeds all the coun tries of the world combined. Under such conditions the demo cratic hue and cry against the protective policy will find little favor. The gun crews on our warships are doing some extraordinary ac curate shooting of late. On the Illinois, firing at a stationary tar get while the vessel was moving, a score of 12 hits out of 13 shots was made with her 13-inch guns at a distance of five miles. The gun ners of the Iowa, steaming at 12 knots past a stationary target, madi 30 hits out of 30 shots with 6-pounder rapid-fire guns. This feat was accomplished by three gun crews, each having 10 shots. It beats all records. At San Fran cisco on Tuesday the submarine torpedo boat Grampus discharged a torpedo at a range Of 350 yards and struck a stationary target squarely in the center. Anything like this accuracy of fire during a naval engagement when as a rule one shot in twenty makes a hit would make the American battle ships the terror of the seas. "Coal for market will come from our mine in the mountains out from Heppner," said C. E. Red field, who arrived from that city 'diis morning. "There is too much snow up there for us to do any thing as yet, but we are all ready to begin work with a full force as soon as the summer season opens and before winter comes again we will have things in paying shape." The coal deposits of which Mr Redtield speaks are 21 miles from Heppner, and are not in touch with any railroad line, but he be lieves a road will be built to them within a short time. "The road will come," he said. "We have no fear about that, for we know we have plenty of coal there, and the moment we prove that, the rail road will build to us to get our business. As yet we hae done but little work, but we are only waiting for the snow to Heppner coal will be on the mar ket before the end of l'J3." Port land Journal. Dry WoOd At New som's Wood Yard $3.25 Per Cord. Ashwood Gleanings. m ths PrtMpeetor. Frank Irvine is in town today, looking after business interests. Reese and Lester Bryant relum ed from Antelope last Monday. James Wood and family return ed last Friday from a visit to Prineville and Haystack. Jim Rice, the genial riding-boss of the B. S. & L. Company, was in town last Monday. M. L. Oliver, foreman of tho B. S. & L. upper Trout Creek ranch, was in town Sunday. Larry Maloney, former proprie tor of the Hamilton Hotel, has en gaged in the sheep business on Cherry Creek. Machinery is being installed in the smelter plant at Sumpter, and active operations will begin in the near future. The Morning Star Company have reduced their force while working on the cross cut. They are crosscutting the ledge from the luittom of their 200-foot shaft. The Golconda Mining Co. which owns the Goleonda property in the Sumpter district, has declared a dividend of $15,000. That means more stockholders made happy. A meeting of the Dexter Mining Company hag been called at tkis place next Saturday, The com pany has completed its shaft work to the 200-foot mark, and is now crosscutting the ledge from the bottom of the shaft. Our citizens are taking every precaution to guard against the introduction of smallpox into this camp. A large number were vac cinated last Monday, taking ad vantage of Dr. King's presence in camp. - William Powne, of the Morning Star camp was visiting in town Monday, and left in the afternoon for Antelope. He will leave in a short time for an extended Md through the Canadian Northwest terrytory. Pete Lehrman, who has been. visiting in Prineville, returned to camp last Friday. While in Prine ville, he spent some time with his brother in-law, Howard Dillqn, who was ill with what afterwards turned out to be smallpox. . As soon as Pete learned that he had been exposed to smallpox, ho re turned to Prineville, to the great relief of a number of our ner.nlB who were mortally afraid thrt he would bring the disease into this camp, fete is very popular here, hut since his exposure to smallpox distance, very decidedly, lends en chantment. To -the officers and mem! Ochoco Lodge No. 46, 1. 0. 0. F. We your committee appointed to draft resolutions of condolence on the death of our much beloved brother, Charles E. McDowell, beg leave to report as follows. Wherkas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to call from earth Charles E. McDowell, our well beloved brother; ' W hereas, His own happy home is now enshrouded in sorrow and gloom, therefore, be it; Resolved, That the sincerest sympathy of this lodge be extend ed to his Borrowing widow and friends in their bereavement. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the lodge, a copy under the seal of the lodge forwarded to the bereaved family, and a copy printed in the Prineville Review ar.d Journal. Fraternally submitted in FLA T. AltTHTR HorxiKS, J. H. Crooks, Chris Conns. Keacjy to Wear js Suits at Gormley's I 1U