Crook County Journal.
PmusHKn Kikhi Thirhiav m
THK .101'KSAI, IM'M.IMIIXO
WHKX PKKSISTKXCY COUNTS IuimI with Hit' oaMorn nmimw
.nearly exhausted prohahlv half
i A strikinit cximide of the per- the life tinicof a nncr:ilion will nee
si-.tioicv of American womanhood .
Iw.is shown nl Crokston, Minn., s
EXTRA
it trnmdonnittion in tin'
ivnlnennd usefulness of western int'
l'..,.n.-(lrnil P.l.lfB
Ue weeks ago when the Hed
Lake
Tb Jm-nsAi. U nun t Ike clHf ', Intlil" rcwrvKlion W thrown
Pritie'llk. Orfir., for hniiii"ll IhM'Hirh tile : ,.i , , .1 1 1
1-. n. mull ic.w.1 clw . open lo settlement. At the land f
""oflic ill the above mimed town,!
Sl'llSCKIi'TlOX RATES j two women stood next lo tln iloor
ix xivam'R for nearly day waiting for the;
oni Vm !.' moment when they conhl iw their'
right to tile on timber claims.
The list II anil hmldiiiit were (lacked
as ha fallen to the lot of the eastern
limner Wits.
Nik Mmmim .,
ThHKK MoNTHf
THIKS1UY. PKCKMItKli 10, lata
HOXKSTV VS WSllOXKSTY.
The accusing finger of guilt is
going the rounds, and with many
of our prominent federal official
tailoring under indictments we
wouldn't Ik surprised if ioor old
St. Peter was sooner or latter in
cluded in the lot. This fraud howl
is in line with the calamity howl
of "9ti, and while there may In
more or leas substance to Kith,
they will go on record as good il
lustrations f the short coinings of
human nature.
That there are boundless oimr
tunities for corruption in nearly
all of our governmental depart
ments cannot be denied. Neither
ran it be denied that they cannot
lie corrected in a day, in a year,
nor even in a presidential term.
The pessimist who is wont to howl
at every mistake, real or imagin
ary, should remember that Tncle
Sam is a pretty big hoy and is
having a remarkable growth
in every way. His inter
nal affairs, foreign commerce ami
other departments are reaching
forward with strides without a
parallel. As a result conditions
and needs rapidly change, and in
his great scramble for a com
mercial zenith, he has very natur
ally taken on a few barmcles.
They will always be there in
more or less numlier for unfortun
ately Adam gave us a mixed
standard of honesty when lie stole
the forbidden fruit in the Garden
of Eden.
Now that, president Roosevelt
has commenced to scraoff a few
of these parasite of the last three
or four administrations, as well as
those of hi:
.,1..: i... .1...1
Willi Citlivr vi.iiiti.ini7 n uu vi,'n,ivu ...... I'll ! ,1
, . , nil, Mill, mpv liiiiui ii
and lostled each other during the . ' . .
' , . , that measure. It is
many Jiours ot noi too paueni
waiting. Hut the two women who
headed the line were eiiual to the
occasion. One of them fainted
'wicv, the other once, but Ihith re
gained consciousness in time to j
AX lXKIXD KATIIKR.
If ever an offspring received an
unmerited drubbing from an (in-
kind father, 'twas when representa
tive Chai'teti JMinson, of Grant
county, framer, of the portage rail-
the good ot
also a poor
to
uake, when he frames a bill, ge
nres it passage, and hardly lie-
PRIMARY'S FORECAST
CkninoloRkiil Events Preceding Pi lite
villi's City L'kvttoii By Oik of
the "Stars" in the "Chamber.
fore the gowrnorVsigiiature is dry
to say, ''the bill is of no further
ti. ) i-!i, Ai.rv.t.l lie itltrifets
swear in their applications, al-i .' ., ., ,,
though they were compelled to j ..(?o
tight for their position,. against ;Jlhn8i .,lw.MlsC(,l)wl)
timing of uiifc ling nicn. j, ( M
The two claims which were se-i ... . .
, , , , , ! wav is still a crvmg need,
cured by these two types of sturdy j " '
womanhood were well worth the having g
em-riput lorin 10 s.vure.uem.H.s . . . , ,
country which growth is attribut
ed to the conservative wing of tin-
party, the radicals losing in the
meantime. The socialist party of
s a factor which w ill
stated that the timlier on either
one of them would bring 110,000 i
today and inside of few morel
years their owners will be a long
ways from the cry of the proverb-,
,al won at the door. . ,mye ,0 u wi(h
Twenty-five years ago, when the
Minnesota timber land
much the same condition as the
j The army canteen having been
ilium, iiuc with for nearly two
pine belt in Central Oregon ' veiir8 pas," stiii ,,, illto discus
presents person would have been: si(m wmMh.m an a,pliibious
thougbt enuy to stand hour oflkvr fHi thir8tv ((,r
tier hour. Hungry aim uiirs.y ai .. . , tj , .
tit n is said to l a crying need.
and thirsty at
the land otlice door, waiting u
chance to tile on a claim. And
even two years ago such a course
would have ln unnecessary lw
cause the pine in this
gion was going
Now that Wall street's water
istix-k has been proven nearly
! u.nrtt,l,.M f.,r KiwHMilntive onrihises
interior re- j i
begging for' an "
...o T tint it
owner. How quick a change has -'V ,
been bright .Iwut in the value lf " n?,1" 8
and quantity of available timU'r
tracts may be gleaned from the
action displayed ill the, first, and! Kvidently the senate committee
lirobably last rush at The Dalles ' appointed to look into the matter
laud oflice a few weeks when a of army promotions thinks it can
township near the Deschutes river find better timber for a major gen.-,
was Ihruwn umn the market. Kor eral than U-onard WW.
months before that time the timh-j
er land throughout the entire j American beer carried off all
length of the Deschutes valley had honors at the scientific test held
suddenly passed from government recently at the Prague, (ieiniany.
to orivate ownership, and when Kaiser Wilheltn will siirelv have
own, let's help him by his last reDiainiiig townsliiii was il,er relanse.
keeping quiet, and not sit idly by j offt.r(.,j f(ir sa,. fact iH-cauie; ;
ami yell fraud on all side-. 'clearlr evident that timlier land1 m ,. , .. .
I. . " , ,. , , ( The reading public is commenc-
..at. ier.em.-u . .'.-" ""- ....,. I.,. n-l,at L'imt nt . fuss
'"8 '" "' 1 " " "
John Mitchell in his address at vance in value and desirableness.'
Trinidad, Colo., said the union ! Perhaps it will lie a long time be-,
would strike hard in the present j fore Central Oregon pine will
labor difficulties. That was to be; command as large prices as the'
pxpected liecau
bers dig coal.
Dreyfus is anyway.
Ed. Hyslop, a 15 year old youth
arrest for
most of the mem- timlier in Minnesota, nevertheless of The Dalles is under
litis here in immense qiiantitcs, ' being "sloppy."
SANTA
(Jot BWI. St'KrlAI. SkhvIik. )
The barla'd win1 on the fence
leading to The Journal olliee was
wild with telegraphic exi'iteuu'iil.
Sixteen pounds of nails hail been
driven insane in the space of (our
.niuiitt'S. At I'.'ilt' a. m, Dec. 21.
this olliee received word Unit the
city ticket had been nominated
Kvery one but the noniinalors.
who met down in the city meat
market's cabbage cellar, and three
men, who arc clirouL' dyspectics,
h:ul gone hotne.
The law coui'ls the candidates
to annoiice themselves one day at
least tH'fore election. Kleclion day
was Dec. 21. At U:'iS p. in,
20, the primary sal itself among
the rutabagas anil liirniw. The
Professor ot Ktiiilibriutii, who is a
prominent ward heeler, reeled him
rselt on a potato sack.
"Older," he says. "Now lo busi
ness," he says, "we ain't got much
time to lose," he says.
The convention straddled tin
business of the evening.
"We need a sidewalk nail driv
er," says the professor, "someone,"
he says, "who is niiihllin' lair at
batteriu' heads. Xow nominate
him," he says, and ha was nomi
nated. "Next in order," says the profess
or, "is a cow chaser. The- bovines
ain't none loo genteel about travel
ing on ihe sidewalks. We want a
man ior this job who knows how
to handle the weaker sex. Now
nominate him," he says, and he
was nominated.
The Prolessor o' K iiilibriuin
spat in the eye of a potato and
continued; "Let us now cotisanii
nate our minds," he says, "on the
mast perticler event ill the ovenin',"
he says, "that's the patrol system
for our bohvards and chief
thoroughfares. We want wide
awake men," he says, "who is
familar with t lie streets and un
familiar with some other places
where sleep's the prime asset. Now
nominate two men," he savs, ami!
they were nominated.
"We will now confine our atten
tions," he 3ays, "to the health boaid
and the light and water commit
tee. I'resenl Indication is," lit'
says, "tlnit the gents on the former
will he kept tolerable- busy lookili'j
after I lie health ot the lights ami
water, and Ihal the h)ht and wat
t'l' COIlllllillee will be lipplviu' to
the hoalth'boai'd lieloii.' long ler re
ciiperaliu1 papers," he says, "Now
itoiuinalc the ciilers to till the
bill," he says, and they were nomi
nated. At 1 Mil) the Professor ot iiiili
hriuitl slid off his potato sack.
"Convention's 'jniirncd," he says,
Wher.upon the nienibers nnuoune
etl the names ot the candidali'S in
hollowing voices thai echoed and
re-eeho,d among the withering,
turnips, "Hurrah for Piineville
anl tis,"lhey says, " llnrtih!" and
they begin lo llle out belwivii the
rows ot vegeliibles,
"Hold on!" yells the pi'utessor,
as he tired a cabbage at the lea. let
to heiul him off, "I'll be corn swag
gled if we ain't don - f.irg it t n
noniiiiate a mayor nod the alder
man," he sais, ,
"Sweel Mik'," says lh leader,
Hireat p. nth ile-," siys aiiotiier.
"Darn my cousin's aunt's black
cat's whisker," t.iy aii.ilh -r boss, :
if we ain't pretty near left lie' city j
without it's stool pigeon ' and
Irimiuiiis, and only iilteeu seconds '
left to set her up an supply the ;
decorations."
"Well nominate 'em," says the j
professor as he sp it in the olher j
eye it tin' pitalo, nod th"y were!
Iloininali d jtl-t as the clock Up
stairs struck twelve. Two uiiniilin '
later Die ehrtrical telegraphic
barbed wire fence conveyed the1
news ut t In- convention's proceed-;
ings to Toe Journal.
On thai saute morning, Direm-i
lor 21, the candidates were told of
the fact they had Ik'oii noiuiiialeir
for city ollices when llu-y came I
down town from br.-.iktast. Four j
ordinary nan were stricken diinihj
with piraNsis ul ilienigmil honor:
which had U-en In -slowed upon
them. Itn: evervtbing passed off
smoothly, an I late in the idler-;
u. ion. wiien everyone liatl hian
lold that il was election day, and
that the candidates names could
be learned from a glance at the
ballots, the votes were nil ill and
the new city ollieials elected. Once
more Prineville had added a little
more moss and everyone apparent
ly n;is happy.
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