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THE CROOK COUNTY
An
D. F. STEFFA.
PulilMint rvorv
OFFICIAL
The Jnl'MMI. i iitnft l Hit' nf
' Priiwville, Uny., tiirlrMMiiiwii-ititliiouKntlir'
t. 8. mull weond clw multtr.
"tHI'KHHAY, JANTABY U, UW.
AXNOUNCKMKN'T.
With thin issue of The Journal
tlH) unilMsiidifil severs his connec
tion with the paper, having fold
his bufinee itnd interort to 1). F.
Strffa. The latter will collect all
bills due for advertising. in
scription, job work and will pay
all bills contracted by The Journal
Publishing Company. In turninc
over the pupcr to Mr. Steffa it is
not with out regrvt, for windy no
county publisher ever did business
with a fairer lot of people than it
has been our lot during the year oi
our management. However, we
bespeak for the new proprietor the
game liberal patronage that it has
been our pleasure to enjoy, and as
he ia a young newspaperman oi
ability, the grand old premier
paper of Crook County will con
tinue to forge ahead in the favor
af the people of this section.
V. C. Ui.a. K.
HOW ABOUT THE OIL?
What's become of all that en
thusiasm and nervous energy that
was running riot over Crook coun
ty's oil prospects a year or two
ago? Asleep is it? Well, just at
present there seems to be no indi
cation of its being attacked with
insomnia. And the monument
makers, too, may have an order
before long. Enthusiasm over one
subject in this community it seems
does no more than wssh its eyes
in the morning bath before a new
sensation, with all the noise ac
companying, has thrust its face in
the bowl. A bare and hound
chase, as it were, with new hares
constantly joining the van guard
and as many additional canines
following faithfully in the rear.
Surely, history is a double recaf
er in Crook county.
But back again to the subject
matter. Scarcely two years ago a
group of credulous persons be
came interested in the county's
oil prospects. Investigation of the
fields, under whose surface untold
oily fortunes lay, lead to the organ
ization of a company, and notices
of location soon dotted the area in
which development was soon to
begin. Hut aside from consider
able talk, the matter got no furth-!
er. The surface indications were
ideal, and the" parties interested
were undoubtedly on the main
track, but their suspicions got
switched and were never satisfied.
Sot a single spade full of dirt was
lilted on eartU's greasy treasure.. ik.ase sii(.lice ,aii
Sheets of paper by the score, how-, nPVerTt Uvn kll0Wn ln WM ,,
ever, were coneumed in making r-- i c Ulwn a)(, i( Uf ,( ()f hlnst
cords; ink flowed like water; cjtv j(s r(,sourtt.s ftIu tllt.
claims were cheap, talk cheajer, j wealth of the country surroundiiig,
and but thats all. Xo one can then out with the goods, Indust-
nriTT?
THE
:
OUR FOURTH ANNUAL I
Clearance
OF WINTER GOODS
At Greatly Reduced Prices in
MICHEL &
Independent Newspaper
PtM.ISrtl:D UV THE JUL'KNAl. PUM.ISHINU CO.
Tlmrwlay at Tlte Juttnirtl liuiMluir, Prim -
PAPER OF CROOK COUNTY.
tell exactly why. It's a
drum. Will some one
solve it?
Cl.fli WORTHY
MEMIIERSHII'
A short time ago the Portland
Journal announced in an editorial
its organisation of the Portland
Push Chile a society for the up
building of that city and the ex
penditure of latent energy in the
directions where its effect would
lie felt the quickest. The fees for
joining w ere nothing. I he dues
nothing, the cost to the memla'rs
absolutely nothing save the use of
a little grav matter in Imosting
the town, its industries, its re
sources, its people in fact every
thing in the town worthy of the
boost.
The scope of the beneficial re
sults to le obtained by the ad
vocacy and attainment of a large
meniliership to such an organiza
tion, in any city tr town, is incal
culable so far as its weight upon
the future of that particular place
is concerned. Any town would
gain by its presence, no town
would lose, or could lose by having
a mutual benefit association of
this kind within its limits.
And the rule is applicable to
this city. A merchant, who has
leen in business hen? for several
years, said the other day that
t'rineville would change to some
extent when a new generation rose
up and took hold of things, and
not More. From an abstract
point of view, he was right. Al
most any community will exper
ience the shedding and taking on
of a new skin inside pf ;10 years, the
lifetime of a generation. But more
broadly speaking, he was wrong,
or at least he should lw wrong in
his supjiositions.
Prineville's slowness, which no
one will deny in taking up new
customs, building up new indust
ries and stretching out its arms
for more, and in this way establish
ing a live city and a little empire
of its own. is due more perhaps to
the easy going manner of its resid
ents and their well fed stomachs
than to any other "caite. It is
that slothful feeling of being too
well satislied with life that has
kept enterprise down and deliver
ed a body blow to civic pride, en
thusiasm and energy.
But, notwithstanding the mer
chant's thirty year prophesy, a
change is coming. The light of
expanding i'icas is hrc:iki!!2 into
the coinniimitv, and it i to vte
ho d that the industrial rays willJ
grow stronger as time passes. It
may lie that a Push Club is being j
organized in a quiet way and that
its membership is a private, one
and unknown. But no lodge
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PLACE TO SAVE MONEY M
&i
Caps, Hats, Gelds' Flannel Underwear, and
Overshirts, Mackinaw, Clothing, Macintoshes,
German Socks, Le'ginj; and a Hundred Other
Artich's for winter wear. Come and look
over the bararaiiiH.
JOURNAL
SI.Kll IVr Yclir
vilU On'Wim.
coiuin-j rial parades will attract both at
please j tentiou and enthusiasts, and the
Matter will make a large, strong
membership in a society of pro
UK ITS ! grossivo ways. A Central Oregon
! Push club looks well in print, but!
I in actual existence mid owrattoi)
j it would do more towards gaining
the desired ends.
T11K
1KA! I.KTTKlt
Ott-
niN.VNCE.
i
It is jilmost incredible to be
lieve that iWO lives had to be lost
in order that a city of the magni
tude of Chicago should realize with
such pitiful force that some of its
(ordinances wen1 dead letters; that
many of its city laws, governing
the construction of public build
ings, had Iwn altogether removed
to the background, and that little
attention had lieen uiven to reason-1
able demands for the safety of!
human lives.
But such a st.it.. of affairs is
characteristic of the great bulkv,
spreadina city hv the lake. The
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the pubhe halls and theaters un-i
til the building ordinance had j
been complied with, is alsol
characteristic of the nun, and the I
implusive forces that have always
controlled his actions. But the
edict issued by the head of the
city's government has not lessen
ed in one degree the results of
that horrible catastrophe; neither
has it called back '.o earth the
scon's of human beings whose
lives were snuffed out when exits
were closed and nearly every ave
nue ol escape barred. Instead it
brings out in strong relief the fla
grant violation of ordinances
which apparently have never been
enforced since the time they pass
ed the council andTcceivcd the
mayor's signature. Dusty and ichiireli next Sunday morning and
moth-eaten they are now. brought evening. The aster, Rev. II. ('.
forth and their contents exposed will siend the Sabbath at the
a mmkerv thrown into the faces of. Bend,
those suffering from the ''";-:');,
hand of death.
And Chicago is no exception to
the rule, even though the tragedy
that has enshrouded it in gloom
has laid bare the flagrant violation
of its city's statutes. On the pages
of every city's volume of ordi
nances can probably bo found a
dirth of dead letters. Laws that
were conceived with a view of bet
tering the condition of the people
for whom they were prescrilied,
but which from mere indifferenue
have passed the day of their use
fulness. Become obsolete, as it
were, from inattention and non-enforcement.
.Only when some sor
rowful calamity has been caused
from this negligence is the true
worth of their existence realized,
and then, like Chicago, apprecia
tion comes too late.
An act of much importance to
the arid region of Oregon was pass
ed at the recent short session of
the legislature and it has been ap
proved ly (lie governor. 11 cures
Sale I
CO. I
a defect in the law of lSWand ml-:
thories irrigation companies lo
condemn the water rights of ripar-j
ian owners. It does not authorise
the taking of water actually used
by the reparian owner, or by the
prior npproprintor, but it doen.j
nw.iv will the old doctrine
riparian owners are entill
I to
have the water llow past their
property in its natural condition
regardless of whether they made
any use of it or not. Now repar
ian owners cannot prevent others
' front making lienelieial nso of the
water they do not use. And I he
lirst fellow to use the water has the
l's rinht to it.
TSesugar licet crop of the (irainK
Hondo valley has netted the grow-'
ers this year i'ii.OlKI. the yield j
of beets for the year was l'J.OUll
tons, or !i,(Xt(l tons in excess of I
last season's production. One ton!
oflieets will produce 2-10 pounds!
of sugar. The I'.MHttt tons yielded j
I'.'SS.trX) Hiun.ls of sugar! with a1
valuation of $1-1 1.OtX). i
Additional LOCUS
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Wood for sale at the l!,e n;,.,,
, !iU.'tkl''s "i"1 ,;l'"kil"i
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Mr k Iel.,, Mil,. I,.,,
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Oregon is visitmg w,lh her sons ;,,, , , ,,(m,,v ,,. ,,.
fred and Alex in this city. !ienreaeh year in the county
... ,., ,, . , ., paper having the largest rireulat-
. ' ' , V'C '"'I V""'"1 1 " ' 'ral this year has
ui -mi-n nun .,irs. rogtc s i
parents, J. M. Montgomery and:
wife of Uiwer Crooked river. j
j
Wm. Holder, editor of the Pais-'
lev Post, and S. M. Bailey, editor !
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visitors in Lakeview Tuesday.
Lakeview Examiner. j
The omen's Annex Social and '
Athletic club wishes to announce
that Tuesdays and Fridays, from
2 to ti have been set aside (or their
exclusive use of the club house. I
Mrs. M. J.
hold services
llicinla
at the
ithem will
Methodist1
Babbit
Metal
Melted into 5 pound bars
From Old Type.
Just emmgh alloy to hmke it inoro diirtilili
than onlinnry grades, and still nt hard
pitoti'di to heat when in use.
"A
Threshers and Mill Men
Should take advantaL1 of this olf'iT. Supply
limited. I'rice lower than any quotation on
Jiabbit Metal in I'riueville, Jltiv ifow for
'the coining season.
$ ADDRESS: CROOK
Just Arrived
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A. E. NATHAN 8 Go's
Custom
j. f. morriss
The Best Wearing
GENT'S
Kver Uronght to I'rinevillo. STRICTLY
UI'-TO-DATE
ALL CHICKS AND SIZKS
DRY GOODS MILLINERY GROCERIES,
Pout Forget tlie Special Sale on Men's and Roys' j
Clothing. Greatly Ueilnced Trices. 1
K. 0. Weianer was in the city
;(,., llVl.t:ielt Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week. Mr.
v,,jer will furnish The Journal
! ,, ,vs (,, lt s,,,,t,m ,Hrj
j ,, mHn v.ir ,! t,.1Vst-
j j,,, (,)rllieoiniiig from
''"''that rapidly
developing district.
' ,
.Alex I'avis, b'retuan lor 4.
Howard, started Monday with n
band of USD boa 1 of beef cattle for
tlajcllc, from which place they
will be shipped In San Knineisco.
Mr. Howard has already delivered
about llitHl head and now has over
SIX! left. These will be takeij out
later in the season. Klamath
Republican,
tieo. K. Morley, who recently
succeeded 0. I.. Sbatllick as
Inatager ot the local water and
electric system has placed bis
resignation with the company to
lake effect February 1st. lie will
be succeeded by Adrian Crooks, a
I'riueville boy, who is n thorough
electrician, and merits the pro
motion. His place as assistant
will he tilled by Henry Whilsell.
Adrian's many friends are glad to
hear of his success.
The county court last Saturday
again recognized The Crook Coun-
tv Journal as the leading faa'r in
.the county and nwaided it the
official business during the present
l.vear. The printing lor the county
auiltbc publication of its court
practically olti juore suliseriners
in Crook county than any other
paper, and it was Uin this basis
that the award was made. The
Journal's present circulation h
l'r""k c"!""-v h?k'T "', T1
practically equals that of all other
papers eomoineil.
Notice to Church Members.
A lliceling of the lot lld'ers of the
Kir.-t Christian church will In'
lit LI nl the I'nion church Saturday
afternoon at 1 p in.
Wvt. BoHii.i, Clerk.
Grant! Clearance Sale.
All lines ol Ladies, Missi-s and
Chrildieiis. II.it-. Silk Bonnets,
Cii'ils, Jackets and Skirts going tat
co-t and less. :!UdaVH only.
J. I'. Mourns,
COUNTY JOURNAL I
Made Clofhina
and Fitting Iino of
CLOTillKG
. NKW AND NOHUY
A. II. L1W3IAN& CO.
...riauiifrnturcrs of and Dealer In.,.
KlUtN.TUItK, COFFINS mid CASKKTS
CAIITKTS, STOVFS, PALM'S mid OILS
Lumber olid al Kinds of luilding material
For CASH Only
O'Ncil tiros.
OYSTER HOUSE
J K III 1 1 Nil II. .Muniiuce
Good Mollis and Rooms
i
Aliller Building, Princvillc, Ore Ron
KISII AND ( AM 10 IN SEASON
, MIKAD AND 1'IES KOK THE TUADE
SPECIAL RATES " TO BOARDERS
N. A. Tye and Brothers
Big Line
(icnts I'urnisliiiii's
Hats and Footwear
Special marked Prices
On all Cootls
Now in Stock
Special Discounts
On Overshoes
And Kuhhers
Ladies Mackintoshes
At COST
N. A. TYE and
fllacksmilhing That heases
Is The Kind Vou t.il nl i -
j. ii. vi(ii.i:s
roRi:rr v ki.kixss
A Slock ol Farm Machinery
You will find
ISICYCLKS of all t-ood makes
Hanihlers, Imperials, Ideals, and many
others. A koikI line of llieyele Hmulrifn A'l' HIIUT'ri. J
WATTS MARBLE m CRANITE WORKS'
Watts & Baker, Props.
Marhlc and Granite Monuments
All Kinds of Stone Work
FIRST CLASS WORK AT .LOWKNT TRICES
Second Street, The Dalles, Oregon
1 '
'union
i hum
Dally Between Prlnevllle and Shaniko
WIIKDHI.K
Koiivch Hlmniko, ti p. in. ArrivcH-nt rrincvillr tl n. m,
JiPiivi'n I'riiimillfl 1 p. in. Arrivimnt Hluniiko 1 n. m.
' First Class Accommodations
. . anrl . .
LAD IKH
: : AT
MRS, El),
HwcrfHor tn Mm.
Up-to ilnto Millinery nt less limn city priifn.
Hair Dnwing Parlon in cininortiun
BROS., Mrohnt
alwi s on hand
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BRADFORD'S
Hunir Slnytnn