Crook County Journal.
PtmisHiui K.khv Tio'iisnni" in
THK JiM HN'AI, rrill.lslllMl "!.
CollSTV OmOIAl l'AI'KU.
Tlie V,ill:i Walla eno coneem?
lioiui'slciul.j In which putonls were
insneil as lonil n;:o ;is lint years,
tl.ns cliowiii" thai the, Soorepirv ot
! Int.'
tense Sftlisnirlion of all, llie peont
nry of Slate p'ls on his ear on a
foreign inestii.n, ami llu sivri'lurv
of Agrii'iiltnn .li-lies out seeils, t hi'
oi.nsiilorsn palont ii small wrvlary of the Interior is Win,;
li'viili'iu-i-nf mvnoi'sl.in unless the ! roundly i-niw.1 Tor the way la
" T"T7 , , 7 "7- . I locator lias ctwii.lW with the law.; Imn.lles the many eoinplox inier-
Tli .lol'HNAl. I" P.U-M'il at III' "tt 'lUn i ! I :
t'ili,i.viliiiiiir.,I.uiiiiii-i''iiil.i''"i!tiil" j lie il sahl in favor of the home-: nl Heslions cumins; before his of-l;'s-I""-"'1
'' -'' Liea.lsWin,: taken in our s lion hv. Us our opinion that if it.
that Ihey are inten.le.l for the, "frill ftinu a year to ilisli on'
mosl i.ari for homes ami sueh lo-; ' to a eOnstituem-y it.s certain
Ications cannot lvi.nl leiial. How-i '.v worth !H,tHH year lo ercat,
" V 1,;., ,.' .,( ....(., foivst reserves ami 'recieve the
-"illileheivk's is a eonmienilahle ,,,w!kU-k rvsnltini!.
: and if striollv enforeoil w ill nxtt j .
slop entirely illegal homcstcail en-u i.n,c ,., Jll(, Uri,,iw,
tries, ami ( erjureil ti-limony. j
MilWCRH'TloX UA'I'KS
IN AllVASIB
Sll MN1I
'i'HHKR MeSUIH
TIHHSHAY. OlT01il.lt 8, l!t:i.
A Till' ISM.
To the observer who lias sivli
nelual developments occur, this
i section presents a future replete
with the inerrv hum of industry
of every description. I
Stock raising, nuricullure, tim-
Iter anil mineral development
awaiting the hand of thrift, arc all
within easy reach.
One who has seen the rountn
pass from a section of exeeplion
ully rich, nutritive trusses, lo one
of average ramp's, will ask, "How?"
Ill the lirst place !y investing the
surplus profits derived from home
induslr.es in further improving the
local conditions.
We do not Wlieve that (here is
another county in the slate that
has as few tine homes and well im
proved farms, to show for the large
sums of monev loaned as has
Crook. This fact is ever evident,
and is not routined lo homes anil
farms, but can W seen at a slanoe J
in our own little city, the umnh !
seal. j
Why this condition? This, con-
dilion is traceable to one thing a-j
lone, and that is, "people have
come here and abused the oppor
tunities offered by the county as
a home building section by mak-
ing a comx'tence and following
this process by moving elsewhere."
Surely.no section under the sun
can offer Ix-lter inducements for
ierinanent home 1uilding than
("rook county. The best of cli
mates, pure water, and the above
mentioned resources will soon
prove a Mecca for an immigration
that will surpass anything of the
kind ever witness? J in Central
Oregon.
XO LAISKI.S A ll K XKKnKO.
I wrile you liecausu in the article
' HOMKSTKAl) KXTRIES
In the wake of secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock's many recent
land ruiings which have Wen
criticised generally, comes one con
cerning homesteads situated in the
Walla Walla land district that
cannot but have an important
Waring on the settlement oi
government lands where ever
taken.
The homestead evil has develop
ed from the purport of the original
law lint I, through peijury of wit
nesses, it has come to be a graft.
In few cases does the claimant
comply with the law, and 'certain
sections have Wen virtually stolen
lieo. V. Humes,
I'rineville, Ore.,
i IVar Sir:-My attention has been
"Albeit." said I he sage, "when a ! called to an article in the (.'rook
man tells me he is strictly honest ' County Journal of Sept. 17, 1IHW,
in every way, then do I turn mv ! purporting to give a statement of
eye to a point and watch him with ; fai ls and the decision of the court
much scrutiny," on ihc law in the case of the Stale
And the sage is right. The man f Oregon vs Arch McKay, tried nt
who is continually flaunting his i the last term of court tor Wheeler
honesty in your face is the man county.
tiKn whom a careful watch should ;
i . i ii ii.. i. . . I
lie maminn.eil. ur genera. ,y i.is;,.ou rc r0lor,tH s,lvilj;
' 1 . . my diTision was diriTllv epposile
smew., oiisim-ss ,-. ., ...,, ,Uxifion j,, simi.ir C.,S(
consume all of the tine points of, lvmVhI m.lK, wvml wau
busim-ss acnm, n and saeity, , u, tirs, kmm. m
with ninth of llie slihtli. arts, lo t . ....
' i suen ipiesuon in pomi ot law, as
carry to to a successlul close. j ,,v Thl, w nM
,.,.,,,, o, ,., ivu u ,nai..,. in h(, McK.u. (,US(, , ht,iirtl
Neither il.X'S it require a constant of u VWflM j j( n
voicing lo maimain i.s x.n iolirn,. The onesti,,,, raiW
andetWts in the brolherl.oo.1 ' in ,ie McKay ease ami the one it
mankind. It is easily reeognue.l. ! W(.nt (lff 01) aj mi kmm. VM
r ..i.. ,...,,, . ..- ,.-.- tothcsalliciencyoitheccrtiliiiite of
sonality Has a, companion win. , C(miU. (( lht, t
sp,.aksfor himself and n.vds no :l . (he (,)v o( tlu, m.iiri, (f Uii.
other introduclion. for it is one oi . , ( , ,. i..,,,,.,, ,
th,e cardinal virtues which pass-; , , , , , . , ,,,..:,.:.' , .
es at fare value and is felt, seen !; .,.,, ,,i?. i. ,i ,, ., .
and known without the aid of any ) hl,nfm. , admissible, and that
this was the only tiuoiion I did
pass on. As to the oilier question
raised, M to whether or not a
( brand recorded subsequent to thc-
U-ommission of the offence wa ad
The exchange editors on the ) mw,he: w)lilr I commented some
Portland pai'rs anxiously scan;onit, j dil m,, .Kls on it, and
even the smallest journal publish-, ,aill .,, tllt. (in,e i wou( , .
ed in Central Oregon, and clip the olll,.r ,,uesti,i passed on settled
railroad articles with almost ; thcquivtion so far as that ca-wa
ferverish eagerness. Kvidcntly i 0l,Uc.Tjied, and as I had once pass
Ihey realize more forcibly even c, oll nlat question, and as it was
than do the jobbing men them-;,lot ,ltvwsary in llu McKay ease,
selves, that should Mr. Mohler give j r wuu j lul.-s on the question .
tiaker City, Pendleton or The, .Now I submit to you as a fair
Dalles, the common rate allowed I minded man ii this is not the
Portland 'freight from eastern j tru,i,, anil that il is not true that
points, a strong comiietitor would; J ,lme a decision in the McKav
human airency.
I,
WHEN' THE WOII.M THINS.
immediately spring up, and Cen
I ral Oregon's present and prospec
tive trade would Ik- forever lost.
Perhaps its this eud'.'el in the
band of Mr. Mohler that prevents
an aggressive campaign for a Cen
tral Oregon railroad by Portland
capitalists.
(ireat bodies move slowly but
if slothiul movements are indicative
of size the railroad that slricks Ibis
section will lie a close second to
the Big Four.
M'OUTH MOUE PAY.
case opposite to any former de
cision of mine.
Yours truly,
W. L. 1!kaiiiiav.
Prineville, Ore., Oct., 5th, liiltt.
En. Joni.VAi. :
In your la-t i.-sue there was a
lung letter from II. II. Hendricks
the leading Attorney of Fossil in
reference to the rulings of Judge
lirad.-haw in the case of the State
vs Arch McKay which I wuuld not
have noticed, but since then I
The sec etarv of the Interior has : have received u letter from Judm
mosl certainly want lo svt him
right.
am vei'V loalh lo wrile this, for
if a quVstion of yeiiii ily shouU ill
any time arise between Judge
ISnnlshaw and mvselt hie wonl
will W taken anywhere before
mine, but in defense of myself 1
must say thai when we ntlempled
lo introduce Hie records ot I .vie &
lirown's brand two objections were
made against it being received,
namely: thai it was not properly
eerliliiil; second licit the indict
ment alleged that the crime ww
committed in DecemWr, IM02, mul
that the record we were attempting
to introduce showed that l.yle A'
Brown recorded their brand on
May 1st l!Kl;i.
The lirst objection was well tak
en. The law requires a certified
copy of the records, and no other
evidence hut such certified copy
can W received when one uu.ier
lakes to prove ownership by brand
The clerks certilicati' to the paper
wo had read as near as I caa re
collect "I hereby certify thai I re
corded the above instrument on
May 1st, I'.HW on page 2:IS, of
llixik I. of Brands," when il
should have read something like
this, "I hereby certify that the
above and forgoing is a true copy
of the record of the brand of l.yle
( Brown etc" This certificate
was fatally defective, but in justi
fication of our county clerk I am
.compelled to say that he followed
'. prhiled form lhat'has for a num
'Wr of years been ued in this
county without objection.
Atit'the second objeclion, I
culled the u'teiilion of the court t'J
a decision that the Judge made
j here in Prineville on the Nth day
; of May, IS'.lT, in the case of Slate
I vs Wilks and Muligraf accused of
j stealing a steer from Howard find
j Stearns, mul the records introduced
in that ruse showed thai the brand
fof this firm had Win recorded
'just four days before the trial
while the larceny was alleged lo
j have Wen committed some four
j nionlhs Wforv. I objected to the
' introduction oi those records for
j that reason, but the Judge promptly
'overruled mo and my clients went
to the penitentiary, and Judge
i Iiradshaw saiil he recollected that
j case and his ruling, but it was
ina Je in the hurry of the trial and
! without time to examine into the
! matter, and that be had serious
doubts about the correctness of his
ruling and bail wished that our
Supreme court would pass on that
point, and then he went on and
stated that his doubts were so ser
ious that if it was necessary for
him to decide that point in this
case (the McKay case) he would
reverse himself.
At the lime he made Ibis deci
sion Fred W. Wit-on, ncling l)is-
: Iri' t Attorney bad an information
in his picket charging th" same
Arch McKay with the larcciy of
cuttle from Jin-Li-iter and the ru
C irded we had at Fossil of the re
cording ot Lister's brand was certi
fied just as the other was, but we
could have put licit case over un
til the lieM lerni and roncclod
our eerlilicale, but uiifnrlunalcly
the information showed thai In
thai case the larceny hud been
committed Wforv the rei oidini; of
the brand, and after a consiillalion
al Mr. Collier's otliro, where Fred
W. Wilson, Mr, Collier, Willi W.
Brown, Joe I.isler and myself wen..
present. We canvassed the situation
i ml disi ussul the Judge's decision
and unanimously came lo the con.
elusion thai it would be foolish lo
lile that information, If we had
had the least hope that the Judge'
would have adhered lo bis mliug:
in the Wllks-Muligraf case the in
formation would have been lil.d,
I inn sorry thai any feeling has
crept into this case, but lor I be
truth of what I say and have said
1 refer to the almv.i named persons
and Ihc large number of slock in. n
who were in the court room at the
time Judge Bradshaw rendered his
decision. ltcsH.'ifully,
Ct:o. W. Itutst's.
i Nothinit has ever equalled it.
Nothing can ever "P"Ji.
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HAKl-RY and
LUNCH II0USI3
Mis, Nellie IhifUS, Plop.
1
A Spcclully .Made Of
I liiu Ice 1 1 inn ...
In The Building Pound Iv
Occupied qy Mis. HcTiiggHi't
J
(VNeil liros.'
OYSTER HOUSE
EXTRA
Itmile iii Kattiiti'rM llurui'i.
Two Harney county depulie.'. are
dead as a remit of n bat lie with
an ox-convict named John Frost
alias Harry Egbert, a fugitive
Imrglar, wauled in Douglas county.
John ti. Saxton an attorney ofi
Bums, acting as a deputy sheriff,'
with Jack West, of Wild Horse'
Valley as an aid came iqon the
dcsierado, in Wild Horse Valley
lo.'i miles south of Burns, where
he and his wife were slopping at
the house ol Charles Fields.
They were iilonc and a Saslou
and West nppronchcd theix-cou-vict
opened lire from behind tin)
corner of llie building. West was
shot in the back and died shortly
afterwards. Following this Egbert
; entered the house through a win
dow, while Saxton entered through
I a door. Egbert's wife had Hi d
anil what then happened -,v,.s told
, by Ihc appearance of things after
the untile in (he House. I lie des
perado had a rille while the de
puty used ii revolver, and wilh,
these weapons they kept up a lire
at one another through a lliin
board partition. Saxton was wound
ed ill the right shoulder, but lie
changed his we ipou to his left
hand and kept up th." battle, thel
doors Wing barred. In tic mean
time West culled S.ixlon from the
bouse lo gel him a drink of water
from a nearby spring, and while
doing this he was iiL'ain tired upon
by the convict, who bad relreali d
to an upH;r story. The shot ll.at
killed Saxton entered the breast,
ranging downward.
West's body was buried al Wild
Horse, while Saxton's remains
were taken to Burns,
'1 he Harney Counly Court has
offered a reward ol I'll") for Eg
bert's capture, but I lie two days
start that he has will perhaps
make him hard to catch.
John (1. Saxton, the murdered
deputy, has practiced law in Burns
for nearly four years pa-l, and
an upright citizen. He was t,
member of Bailery A, Oregon Vol
unteer Artillery, in service during
the Spanish war, and thill he hail
nerve is deuiotistated by the haltle.
in which he lost his lile.
I , 1'. I'.lll.dS, .Vtmuigci'
Good MivMs mul Rooms
1 1 i ,i ,.i .I-.
miner milium?, rrmeviiie, urcjfon
FISH ANIi CAME IN' SEASON
BIIKAH AMI PIES Foil THE TIIAHE jj
SPECIAL RATES TO BOARDERS
N. A. Tye and Brothers
Boys' and Youths' Jack Knlfa Shoe,
A Haor Sloe! Jack Knife Willi Every Pair. All Sues and
Widths. Prieo From $2.25 to $2. SO Par Pair.
We Also Have A Full Line of Mens'
Shoos. A!$to Ladies, Girls and Babies.
CLEARANCE SALE
Of our Summer Hat nt l'tt in rilrr In miikc
room (or our Nt v Liur of Winter t!onti,
Elies carry centurion into your hoine, Tanulefool calches
lliciu.
by land companies who secured j by far the hardest situation in the j Brad.-haw who holds me p.-rsonal-the
desired land through an illegal j pr 'sid 'iit's eabmi-t. While the ly responsible for some editorials
entry of a paid locator, who in due j secretary of War earn? glory that appeared in your paper some
along Willi the secretary of the time ago, and 1 ask you to print a
.Navy in preparing national de
fense, the secretary of the Treasury
issues bonds and coin lo the in-
course of lime perjures
along with other witnes
the land is patented and
the company.
himself
es then
sold to
part of the same fur the reason
that if I have at any lime done
Judge Iiradshaw an injustice I
-- a ma ooe jouo.e nuns mi
Big Clearance Sale 1; cm.
Wall Paper
AT
CUT RATE PRICES
10c. Double llolls for 5c. 15c Double Kolls for 7k'.
L'lfc Double Kolls for 10 c. IIOc Double liolls for 15c.
;:.' Double Kolls for 17 je. 'IHc Doubli. lii.lls for m.
il)c Double Kolls for 25c. I.MJKAIX IMIe.
glacksmithing That Pleases
Is l lie Kind Von (id al-
J. II. WKiM-'S
(Siiei'i-.i.r Ii.)
COHM'TT & KI.KI.S'S
A Stock nf Kiinn M:ii liinerv uhn s on h iiul
You will find
HK;VCI.i:Sof all nood makes
L
iAT ..SIIIPFSI
Il It ! 1 1
Kaninicis, imperials, uieais, ami manv
ol hers, Ajtooil line of bicycle Hmiilries AT NIUIT'H,
Also Patent Medicines.
Owing to the l arge Stock of l'all and Winter Goods h
(Constantly arri our .store room will he overcrowed Jjt'
And In order to Get More Room l
REMEMBER THE LOW PRICE STORE
D. P. ADAMSOiYS STORE
-Is The Place-
For the New Goods, we are compelled to throw all Our
Present Stock Of
This Space Reserved for
Shirt Waists, Straw Hats, Ladies Goods
And Many Other Lines Into
ONE BIG BARGAIN SALE f J. MORRIS
THIS SALE WILL CONTINUE UNTIL ALL AUK SOLD.
MICHEL && CO. I
WATTS MARBLE 1 GRANITE WORKS
Watts & Baker, Props.
Marble and Granite Monuments
All Kinds of Stone Work
FIRST CLASS WORK AT LOWEST TRICES
Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
Princvi I lo-Nhan i ko lm line
Dally Between Prineville and Shanlko
NCIIKIII'I.K.
Lciiv Hliimiko, f. p. ni. Arrinw nt Prineville (I n, in,
J.euvi'K Plilievillii 1 p. Ill, Ari'ivcH nt Kl.Hlliko 1 11. in,
First Class Accommodations
BUY YOUK M1LLINI0RY
..ntnl..
LAD IKS T'lJTtNIKIIINCJS
: : AT : :
1VIKS,- El), BRADFORD'S
Piim.fHiir lo Mrn. Sni-io Sl.ij'ton
l'p-to ilalo Millinery nt lens than city prieeB.
DrecB Mulling Pur!orn in connet'lion.