County Journa
VOL VII.
PBINKVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1903.
NO. 39
Central Oregon, Crook County And Prineville.
WURZTVEILER 8 THOMSON
Crook
THE BIO STORE
Interest iiiiuiiii! the InidiiiK people ik centered on our place
of busim -s Wnniw ol (he LARGE STOCK OK FALL AND
WINTI.'li (i( IS jnt : vf. If there is mi article pur
chasable In Central Oregon, we run duplicate it. Ot'K
prices and (ji'auty auk also right.
Wc Have Ladies' Waists, Skirts and Dress (ioods
In The Latest Styles.
Just now we are very busy and arc enjoying nn ever increas
ing inliuniivi'. AUK YOU AMONG OUR CUSTOM KUS?
IK NOT. WHY NoT?
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Hamilton Feed
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Redby Feed Barn . . .
IltOl II ,V COUNETT, Piioi-'s.
Fine Saddle Horses and Livery Turn Outs
Stuck ): rili. I by day, week or month. Kali reasonable.
Gno.l iK'cnimuoilutioiif. Iteiucnilier lie when in Prineville,
niul wc guarantee that your patronage will be appreciated
nnu ui'.ierven nv us.
...Hfleentli Annuul Exhibition...
Second Eastern Oregon Dist. Agricultural Society
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The Dalles Carnival Association
The Dalles. OrcRon, September 39 to October 3, iooj
Four Th'HiMiml Dolliiin (iin n Amy in l'lirnen niul l'rcni
imits. I.ilierul Au'iinln Fur Livestock niul Agrirulturnl
Kthihiis. No entrance Fee charged on Articles I'onlcst
ting For Premiums.
RACES EVERY DAY DURINU THE PAIR
llItKddN PACIFIC AND oltl KNTAI. STUKKT CAR
NIVAL The grcnlint -show o( ihu agi Will give two
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Muie liv the Viiiieouver Military Hand, lteilueiil rates
Write Tor Premium Lists and Speed Programme
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1). 1. ADAMSON'S
(Tlie Brick Drug Store)
Woodbury's
FACIAL PREPARATION
For nil skin troubles it in
THE HKST.
1). 1. ADAMSON'S
(The Hrick Drug Store)
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Pylillirjcry
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Mrs. Bd. Bradford, an
4 perienced nilliner will Occu- Ir
py the Building Formerly
used by P. B. Doak as a But
cher Shop with AN UP-TO-
DATE LINE of l ine riillin-
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Grand Opening, Sept. 15
The Liulies of Prineville i
iii-o Coulially Invited to In- 9
spect this Slock Whether
they liny or not.
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WASHINGTON LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK.
OLAY A. SIMPSON. M'c'r InUrlor Oapt.
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Haa the largeBt percentaue of
oash assets to eaoh dollar of lia
bility ; earns the highest average
interest, and issues the most up-to-date
progressive policies for in
vestment or protection.
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IT'S KirilKR HAY Ol! CATTLE.
A Proposition with Serioim Aspect
Which In Confronting the
Stockmen mid GruHB Kaisers.
Stoi knien over the county who
a shoit time ago were alarmed at
the high price asked for hay, are
gradually regaining their peace of
mind. The results of high hay
while detrimental to the general
interi-HtK of the county are not far
reaching enough to cause a slump
in the Crook county fall beef sale.
While the Journal lia ahxnlutely
no criticism to offer regarding the
high price asked for liay.still it doe
seem that 7.60 hay is much better
than $10 for Olio season and then
5 hay until the stock interests
have recovered from the effects of
$10 hay. It is an inevitable result
that the latter will force all sur
plus cattle out of the country, as
every man who can not feed from
his own stacks will see. When
thin has occurred where will the de
mand lie tlult regulates the price ?
In t he meantime several local
sheepmen have declared their in
tention of driving their bands to
Idaho and other places where range
and cheaper hay can be had. lie
it said in favor of the surplus hay
raisers that their demand for 110
per ton is not unwarranted for
that price and higher is general
through the whole inland empire.
The question we want to illustrate
is: Is it liest for our country and
how can the local stock raisers who
have to buy hay counteract it?
Certain it is that they cannot
afford to p.iy $10 for hay with
which to winter their stock. Rath
er than have a general unloading
by our county cattlemen who have
to buy, we believe they could bet
ter buy oats or barley at 50 cents,
have them chopped, and feed them
in place of hay. It has been de
monstrated that chopHd grain at
that price is a great deal more eco
nomical than $10 hay. Over in
Malheur county a couple of years
ago fodder was imported from east
ern states and was said to have
been much choaer and nearly as
satisfactory as hay, the latter sell
ing for $(i.
Could tho local stockmen who
are short of hay get together and
make a goneral effort, it is possible
that something could be done to
relieve their situation. As an en
couragement they should take the
outside stock prices. The latter
show a good substantial raise and
it is anticipated that the good fig
ures of a year ago will soon again
be a reality. At any rate let there
be no rush sales, but careful con
sideration instead; and let every
stockman ask for his cattle just
what he thinks them worth instead
of accepting the cheap offers from
transient cattle buyers who are
looking only to their own interests.
The Journal offers the foregoing
remarks with the future interests
of the county at heart, and with
absolutely no criticism or partiality
toward any industry.
SANITARY PR KCAUTIOXS.
Our School Board Taking Com
mendable Action to Prevent
Contagious Diseases,
It is a matter of interest to
parents in our district, who send
their children to school, that be
fore the opening Monday, our
school hoard had had every room
thoroughly cleaned and fumigated,
and that in the future every pre
caution will betaken along sanitary
lines. Should any of the children
he alllieted with any contagious
disease, during the coining school
year, they will Ik1 re-admitted only
upon the certificate of their at
tending physician. At the present
time there is no contagious disease
of any form in the city, and this
action of the board reduces the
danger ol infection of our schools
to a minimum.
WHEAT CROP SHOUT.
Estimates Now Being Made Show, Some Remarkable Features of
a Great Decrease in This
Year's Yield.
If the estimated wheat yields for
this year, which are coming in
from the various grain producing
counties in Oregon and Washing
ton, are to be relied upon, that
cereal is likely to experience a
steady increase in price. Figures
compiled during the past week
show a total shortage this season,
compared with last year's produc
tion of these two stales, of 7,300XX)
bushels, or about 20 per cent.
Umatilla county beads the list in
this state with a yield of 2,750,000
bushels, which is not far below its
production last year. Morrow
county, however, drops down over
r)0 per cent, with a total production
if only 40,000 bushels. Several
of the minor producing counties
arc also short in their yields as are
most of the grain counties in
Washington.
The total yield for the Pacific
Northwest is estimated at 34,750,-
000, which is 12,000,000 bushels
less than was produced in the same
territory in 1001.
Threshing operations in Crook
county show a strip of good grain
and others not so good. On the
whole our home wheat is said to be
fair in both quantity and quality,
and the Brvan talk of dollor wheat
is a reality here. However, all
raised in this section will be con-
unicd nt home, and our present is
olatcd location justifies that price.
PURSES SHOULD BE LARGER.
No Team Likely to Come Unle.-s
More Money Is Put
Up.
If the Prineville Jockey Club,
which has arranged for a series of
races here during the last part of
Octulier, bad put up a trifle larger
purse for the baseball game, the
results would probably justify the
means.
Fifty dollars is not a very big
sum with which to invite an out
side team to come here for a
match game, especially when it is
practically impossible for a
visiting team from any desirable
point to get here for that amount.
If the Prineville team goes to
Antelope, the latter will expect a
return game and it is only reason-
ible to suppose that she will ex
pect the courtesy extended to her
at the time of the races. In the
meantime satisfactory arrangement
should lie made with the Jockey
Club, either for a larger purse or
else for the present purse and the
gate receipts the day of the game.
A good game with a reasonable
sum up for the winners will draw
almost as large a crowd to town as
the races themselves.
PRINEVILLE AND ANTELOPE
Baseball Team Left Wed
nesday to Butcher
the Buckskins.
Prineville' baseball team, hot
and ready for tho fray, left yester
day morning for Antelope to play
three u..cli games commencing
with today. The purse for each
game is $-'iO and tho boys feel
confident of winning at least two.
The team left in good trim and
spirits and whether the games are
won or lost, Antelope will probably
be asked to play a return game
here during the race meet of the
Jockev Club in October.
The line up follows:
Ncwsome, lb; Richardson, c;
Knorr, 2b; Rowell, lib; Boyd, s.s;
Sharp, l.f; Ravi, c.f; Myers, r.f;
Lewelling, p.
CENTRAL OREGON'S FREIGHT
Transportation Extant in
This District.
The most cursory observer who
visits Eastern Oregon does not fail
to notice the heavily laden freight
teams which are constantly passing
through Prineville to different
joints of distribution. So com
mon have these miniature trains
become that scarcely one person
out of ten realizes, and only then
in a vague way, the enormous ton
nage handled by these freighters
and the mileage covered by them
in a year's time.
J. C. Conn's freight team, which
passed through town last Friday
on its way to that merchant's store
in Silver Lake, is perhaps the most
typical er mple of these horse
power trains which wind their way
day after day across the deserts
and mountains canying food and
merchandise to the isolated por
tions of Central Oregon. The
Conn outfit which consisted of four
spans of mules and one span of
horses hitched to the three wagons
two of them trailing carried an
average load of general merchan
dise weighing 28,000 pounds.
This freight team had completed
65 miles of its haul from the rail
road at Shaniko to Silver Lake,
the total distance being 187 miles,
consuming 20 or 28 days for the
round trip. Summing up the
year's work of this interior cara
van, which makes twelve round
trips annually between these two
(joints, some interesting figures are
produced. The average round trip
loaJ is approximately 42,000
pounds, making a sum total for
the year of 504,000 pounds or 252
tons. The total number of miles
covered amounts to 4488 or 1000
les farther than the distance
from New York City to San Fran
cisco.
When the fact is taken into con
sideration that this team alone in a
year's time hauls in as much
freight as 21 average freight cars,
and that it is only one out of scores
of others which are seen daily in
the streets of Prineville, some idea
may be gained of the enormous
traffic which is carried on in this
section of the state, independent of
railroad communication. The
Journal in the near future will
present to its readers some care
fully compiled statistics, ob
tained from the various freighters,
showing in detail the net tonnage
handled by these men who form
one of Eastern Oregon's greatest
branches of commerce.
STOCK RUSTLERS TO SUFFER.
Judge Barnes Leaves for Fossil to
Prosecute Several Cases.
George W. Barnes left last Thurs
day for Fossil, where he will argue
several important cases before his
honor Judge Bradshaw. Among
the cases on the Fossil docket for
this term of court are those of the
cattle rustlers who have operated
on Crook county's ranges for years
past. In the meantime they have
made Wheeler county their home,
where they disposed of their stolen
cattle, and were consequently hard
to detect. It is contidentially
thought that several examples
will be made during this term of
court, and that the penitentiary
tailor will take several now orders
in the near future for up-to-date
prison garbs for one Arch McCay
and his associates.
However, the thieving business
has created so strong a fceline
against these marauders that
should they be cleared and be
again caught at their old work
Judge Lynch would undoubtedly
preside at their next trial. Their
work has resulted in an uncalcu
lated amount of loss to Crook
county cattlemen.
CANALS NEARLY COMPLETED
About Forty Miles Have Been
Completed by the Columbia
Southern Irrigation Co.
Construction work on the canal
lines of the Columbia Southern
Irrigation Company, operating in
the Tumello basin, has been carried
to the limit during the past five
months, and it is expected that the
main line with its numerous later
als will be completed early in the
fall.
Practically 40 miles of ditch
have now been dug, inclusive of
the main canal 17 miles long and
5 laterals ranging from 3 to 10
miles in length. The main conal
runs to a point just east of Cline
Butteg and covers a vast scope of
sage-brush territory to the south
and east. The laterals which hive
been completed up to the present
time are confined to the southern
part of the company's segregation,
but more will be constructed until
the farthest outlying tracts can be
covered with water.
The Columbia Southern Irri
gation Company is the first organi
zation of its kind to begin opera
tions in this immediate portion of
Eastern Oregon and the immense
amount of work accomplished is a
credit not only to the company
but to the district as well. It is
not a remote possibility that the
major portion of the company's
appropriation will have settlers
upon it next year. Three-fourths
of the segregation have been sold
and an early settlement and culti
vation of the land is believed to be
at hand.
HORACE McKLNLEY HERE.
Timber Operator, Under Indict
ment, Still Dealing in
Pine.
Horace McKinley who was asso
ciated with Miss Marie Ware, the
Eugene U. S. Commissioner, in the
alleged timber frauds, arrived in
the city last Friday in company
with Dan Tarpley and Jos. O.
Story, of Portland. The
gentlemen left the following day
for the Pine Mountain country
where they will spend 10 days or
two weeks investigating the qual
ity and quantity of yellow pine.
Mr. McKinley is a jaunty young
man of perhaps 30 years and looks
the typical sport. Whether or not
he and his alleged paramour do-
serve the publicity given them
by the press of the Northwest we
do not know, but his friends con
fidentially claim that Uncle Sam's
case against the pair is a weak one,
while on the other hand
otbere say they will face the most
severe charges and convicting
evidence ever brought against
timber orators in the Northwest.
Just now they each carry a $2000
bond to secure their appearance in
the next U, S. Circuit court at
Portland.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMENCE.
The Attendance Much Smaller
Than Our Population
Justifies.
Our schools opened Monday
with a very small attendance, com
pared with last year. Just why
there is so much difference in the
first days enrollment is not known,
though the outside parties have as
yet not commenced to move to
town. When this haa occurred
and the school gets down to run
ning order it is thought that the
attendance will be more than
doubled. Our population is con
stantly increasing and one natur
ally wonders, "why this small at
tendance." It is possible that
parents are not taking proper in- .
Lterest.