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PRINEVILLK, CROOK COTOTY, OREtlOS. JASVj AH 'TMty '
VOL VIII.
NO. 4
WURZWEILER 8 THOMSON
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Redby Feed Barn . . .
I.. K. ALLING1IAM, 1'iiiniiif.roii
Fine Saddle Horses
Stock Wi'iIhI liy ilny, week or
Good accninnnidiitinns.- Itenieiiiber im when in Primville,
and we guarantee Unit your patronage will Im- appreciated
ami ilim rvi'il by us.
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.Tonsorial
A Complete mid Choice Uw. of
M Veal, 'Mutton, Fork, Bacon,
bird, aiijl Country. Produce.
Main st. Mk
Henderson
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WINES, LIQUORS,
COUNTRY ORDERS
SOLICITED.
PRINEVILLE,
Wal 1
AT
CUT RATE PRICES
10c Double Rolls for fie' 15e Double Rolls for 7Jc.
20c Double Rolls for 10 c. liOe Double Rolls for Uie.
35c1)ouhle Rolls for 17Jc. -10c Double Rolls for '20c.
fiOc Double Rolls fof 25c. INGRAIN 30c.
Prescriptions Cut. Also Patent Medicines.
REMEMBER THE LOW PRICE STORE
D. P. ADAMSON'S STORE
Is The
Snvcntory Sato x
Cleaning up for the
9Jcw Spring Stock
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Octets and Grids
to bo closed out at
Clearance Prices
Stable
and Livery TiirnOuis
month Rati reasonable.
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Artists.
Foster & Lehman
Proprietors.
'Phone 31.
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FRESH MEATS ,
Of all kinds
VEGETABLES & FISH
In ft'tinni)
The Cheapest and Best Place
in Crook County '
In the Building formerly occupied
liy P ll Doak
lur Vholrr
Homestead
Locations
Timber
Desert Lands
ROBT. SMITH,
jl'rineville, -
WASHINGTON LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK.
OLAY A. SIMPSON, - M'g'r Inferior Dpt.
i Ti
Haa the largest percentage of
oaah attaata to each dollar of lia
bility ; earns tho highest avemse
interest, and Issues the most up-to-date
prosrressive policies for in
vestment or protection.
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TIMBER
TROUBLES
Difficulties Eneouit'
tered In Making
Final Proofs.
y Trouble in again brewing for
timlicr I11111I claimants. During
the pant ten day the Register anil
I'.eceivi'f al the Lakeview land
nlliiT have rejected many linal
I -rcxiftf on timber and stone entrir-H
on account ol their irregularity
and non-conformance with (lie
rulings of thi' general land office.
Timber locators hero in die city
have received nuiw rous com-1
plnints from persons they have
located, and word cnmeii (rum
Albany that a large number of
claiiniijits in that city have had
llieir entries rejected.
The exact cause fur the rejection
of so many final proof is (set forth
in a letter from the Register of the
l.akeview office to an Albany
claimant and js as follows:
Lakkvikw, On., Iiec. 19, 1903:
It in shown by-the records of thin
ollice that you made timlier anil
stone application No. for the
purchase of and that the
aine wan taken More II. W. Reed,
U. S. Commissioner, whose ollice
vvas at liend, Or., outride of thin
land district.
Under the circular letter of the
commissioner of the general land
ollice of March 26, 1!H2 (31 L. I).
271) all affidavits, proof and oaths
of any kind made by applicants
under the tinilicr and stone act,
am required to lie made before a
qualified officer wilhin the dis
trict whent the land Is situated.
Your sworn srateinent for die
reasons stated, is illegal, and the
proof is rejected.
You are allowed th'rty days in
which to appeal.
Very n,perttf...!!w '
J. N. Watson, Register,
0. U. Sxiiikii, Receiver.
I.. K. Allingham, of this city,
is in receipt of letters from several
parties whom he located in which
it is staled that their claim." have
leen rejected on the grounds that
the filings on the land, which is
situated in the Lakeview land dis
trict(were made in I'rineviUe al
though final proof was made before
a commissioner at Silver Lake.
If the officials hold strictly to
the ruling which is now beginning
to he enforced, it will cause scon
of persons the loss of their claims,
or else necessitate them appealing
from the rejections, in which event,
should the appeal be granted, the
work of making final proof will
undoubtedly have to be done over
again.
SUE FOR $30,000 DAMAGES
L. D. Wiest and S. H. Dorrance
Think Their Names Have
Ucen Injured to That Extent.
(lood names are things of great
value out at Bend. In fact the as
sets of that community apparent
ly are reckoned by the monetary
tone of an individual's cognomen.
At least one would so judge after
reading the complaint which 1ms
been filed in the Circuit court by
I-. D. Wiest and S. H. Dorrance,
of Bend, w ho have brought suit in
the joint sum of .'!0,000 against
H. W. Reed, W. H. Staats, George
Schlect, Patience Harshnian and
W. A. Pope. As grounds for the
suit the arrest and trial of Mr.
Wiest on the charge of stealing an
organ arc given.
The hitler's complaint alleges
that "prior to the acts hereinafter
complained of be had a good
reputation and was known as an
honest man," hut since then it ap
pears that his reputation and hon
estv have been blown ill divers
directions.
The complaint further alleges
that "the defendants envying the
Plaintiff's good name and for the
purpose of ruining his reputation
and to break down bis character
and destroy his usefulness and
and bring his good name in re
proach did wickedly and without
cause conspire together and did
falsely accure the plaintiff of being
u thief." As a result, and by
reason of these wrongful actB the
plaintiff states that he has been
greatly humiliated, a stain placed
upon his name, and that he has
been caused to be talked about to
bis damage in the sum of $20,000.
8. II. Dorrance brings similar
action in the sum of 110,000, and
(ieo, W. Harnes is named as at
torney for both plaintiffs.
L. J). Wiest is a prominent
chicken raiser of Bend and has met
a decided success in bis line. S.
H. Dorrance was engaged during
the past summer sawing logs for
the Pilot Butte Development Co.,
located at Bend.
VALUB-OF "DEAD" LETTERS
Tcb Million Pieces Handled Dur
ing Past Year and $50,000 in
Money Taken from Them.
The great amount of mail mat
ter that cannot lie delivered or re
turned to the senders, says superin
tendent Davin P. Leibhardt in his
annual resirt on the work of the
Dead l.ctter Ollice, for the past
rear, is due chiefly to the failure
of writers to give their names and
addresses, ami to the dispatch of
advertising anil other printed mat
ter under seal, which must necessar
ily In- destroyed. A large percent
age of parcels, also, which are sup
Ked to contain merchandise an
foujd not to Contain merchandise
at a if,' but pamplets, catalogues,
medicines, fruit, and flowers, which
must Ik- di-stroved.
Altogether during the ye'jr, 10,-
IKI,32-S pieces of mail were
handled by the Dead L-tter Ofl c .
Of this matter 1.259.M1 pieces
were unopened, 8,921,770 were
oened, and 28.1HH pieces were on
hand from the preceding year. Of
the mail that was opened, 27,708
letters containing money, order
ilrafts, 224,il5 with stamp?, 58,
555 with photographs, 110,328
parcels of merchandise, and 2,001,-
633 letters containing writing of
value, were finally delivered.
Of the opened letters 51,416 con
tained money to the amount of
$-18,635,04, including that found
loose in the mails. Fiftytwo thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-
four letters had in them drafts,
checks, notes, money order, deeds
wills, pension certificates, and in
surance policies to the total value
of $1,493,563.65. All these latter
letters have been delivered or are
being held awaiting delivery.
During the year there were two
sales of undolitercd merchandise
matter, at which 133,536 articles
were sold for $8,880. The net pro
ceeds wore $7,146.38, and this
was deosited in the Treasury: $13,
812,39 were taken out of letters
which could not be restored, and
this amount also went into the
Treasury.
CHARGES ARE FIXED BY LAW
Last Session of Legislature Pro
vides for County Clerks and
Recorders Fees.
A bill passed by tha recent ses
sion of the legislature, fixing fee
charges of county clerks and re
corders, is of general interest. In
substance, it is as follows:
That in every county having
less than 50,000 population, the
county clerk or recorder shall
charge 25 cents'for each folio of 100
words, contained in any deed,
trust deed, mortgage, chattel
mortgage, declaration, contract,
bill of sale or any instrument in
writing. For entering and attest
ing satisfaction, assignment or
release on the margin of the record
of any mechanic's lien, real or
chattel mortgage, 50 cents. For
entering a transcript of judge
ment. $1. For furnishing private
parties copies of n-cords and files
10 cents wr folio, and for each
official certificate, 25 cents. For
entering of record an alien's citizen
ship declaration, $1.50. For regist
ering naturalization pa pen $5.00.
The law further provides that in
no case shall a person expect any
service designated, except when he
shall have paid the required fees.
TIME TO
REGISTER
Voters Can Give In
Names from Now
Until May 15.
Couety Clerk, J. J. Smith, in
forms Tbe Journal that he has re
ceived his complete set of regis
tration blanks, and that voters
can register at any time before him
between January I and May 15
which is tbe time allotted by the
statutes. Failure to register will
require the swearing in process
which is both bothersome and un
satisfactory.
Voters should know before ap
plying for registration that it is
necessary in case one lives in an
incorporated town, to give the lot
and block number, and establish
conclusively his residence; or if
he boards at a public hotel or
hoarding house he must also give
tbe numlier of the room. Those
living in outlying districts must
give their section and township
numliers. Citizens foreign born,
holding naturalization papers,
should present them bo as to prove
bona fide citizenship.
Precinct officers who are in need
of registration blanks can have
them at any time by applying to
the County Clerk. -
EGBERT HAS RELIGION'
Well-Known Criminal Professes
Tenilenceand Has Been Bap
tised by Chaplain.
Harry Egbert, alias Jack Frost,
who will he executed at the state
penitentiary in Salem on January
29th, has confessed religion to Rev.
Pierre" and was recently baptised
by him in the death cell.
Egbert spent a short in this city
last spring and was then a fugitive
from justice, a fact not generally
known at that time. While here
he robbed a red light resident at
the point of a iin, but proved an
alibi when brought to trial. While
being taken from Harney county,
where he afterwards committed
double murder, he made an un
successful attempt on the life of
the deputy sheriff. The prison
authorities who received him, state
that he was as profane, degenerate
and unruly a criminal as could be
imagined in a person only 23
years of age. However, he claims
that his conversion is complete,
and that he will make no attempt
at suicide, hut will meet death
bravely.
PROPOSED ELECTRIC ROAD
Parties Said to Be Working on a
Line Between The Dalles
and Prineville.
The Journal learns that prelimi
nary preparations are being made
towards getting an electric line be
tween this city and The Dalles.
How far thev have progressed we
have not been able to learn, but
assurance comes from a prominent
electrical engineer that such a pro
ject is thoroughly feasible.
The distance of 120 miles would
he divided midway by a large cen
tral station, which would make the
latter come some place on the Ies-
chutes where abundant water pow
er could be had for generating pur
poses. Four sub-titations would
be all that is necessary for a strong
circuit over the 120-mile route.
Such a road can lie built and
equipped cheaper than a steam
mad like the Columbia Southern,
and the expense of oieration would
lie only a fraction of what a steam
road would cost. Other features
in favor of the project are climatic
and topographical conditions, and
abundant water power. A com
petent authority informs us that
the loss of energy from the electric
circuits in this country ia 25 per
cent less than the average. This
is due to the high and dry climate.
The Journal hopes to hear furth
er favorabale news of the prjoect,
which when completed would Von-''
nect the queen city of the Colum
bia with the present and future
metropolis of Central Oregon.
MUST TEAR DOWN FENCES
Miller A Lux Are Served With
Nftice to Remove 30 Miles on
Government Land.
The Nevada agent of the Millai
k Lux cattle firm has been notified
by United States Marshal Em
mitt to tear down the fences whicfc
it has constructed enclosing public
domain. Prior to the last notice
the company had been served witU
two or three others, but has paid
mi attention to them. Now the
matter is on the verge of going In
to the United States courts for ad
justment, says the Carson City
News.
The big cattle firm has been us
ing 50,000 acres of public land for
some years and did not go through
the formality of purchasing it. It,
however, kept others from getting
any benefits from it, by fencing
it in. A few months ago the
government took up the
matter with the result that it is
sued warning to all who had
fenced in public domain, to tear
down or remove their fencw im
mediately.
1 he land is in Humboldt county
and lies in a large rectangular
tract, of which Miller 4 Lux own
the four corners, and occasionally
a few forties down one side or. the
other. They fenced in the who'ie
tract, however, and apart from
their legitimate holdings they in
cluded between 55,000 and 60,000
acres of Uncle Sam's land.
the fence which the government
will undoubtedly order to be taken
down is estimated to he about
thirty miles in length. In simil
ar cases, heretofore, the United
States marshal has been ordered
to not only remove the fence but
destroy it. Should that be the
order in the present case Marshall
Emmitt will have on his hands
the job of his life. Taking up
thirty miles of fence posts is no
before-breakfast undertaking; still
when up they will burn, but to
destroy from ninty to one hun
dred and twenty miles of barbed
wire is a still more serious piob
lem. It will require quite a force
of men some time to accomplish
such an ordeJ.
WAR FAVORS STOCKMEN
Difficulties in the Far East Will
Make Good Market Prices for
Cattle and Sheep.
If hostilities between Russia and
Japan actually break out, as has
already been reported, Eastern
Oregon stockmen will be material
ly benefitted by the advanced price
of stock which will naturally re-,
suit from warfare between these
two nations. It is stated by those
in authority that the United States
is almost sure to have a hand in
the trouble and that the Pacific
coast soldfrrs will be the first to
leave.
During the past full stockmen
have experienced considerable dif-'
j faculty in disposing of their stock
at living prices and most of them
held over until spring. The mild
winter weather, so far, has favored
this action, and now should the
Eastern trouble culminate in war,
those who have stock on their
ranges will lie able to command
good prices.
Last Saturday morning wheat
advanced 4 cents per bushel around
Baker City and other railroad
points. Other cereals and pork
also took a step higher, and the
Chicago and New York Boards of
Trade were iii active oieration, al
though they had closed Thursday,
the day before New Year's intend
ing to remain so until the first of
this week. While no reason was
given for breaking this time worn
custom, it was assumed that the
announcement of war having been
declared by Japan was the cause.
The Pacific coast will have an op
portunity to profit by the situa
tion in the East, and it is staled
that speculators have already com
menced to feather their uests.