Crook County
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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
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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.
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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.
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HAMILTON STABLES and
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BOOTH &
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EVERY
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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.
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01" NEW YORK.
OLAV A'. SIMPSON, M'a'r litttrlor Dept.
Has the largest percentage ot
oash assets to eaoh dollar of lia
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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
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