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Crook 1 " County Jour
VOL. VII
PRLNEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 14, 1904.
NO. 31
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Pine Livery Turnouts
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Wines, and f&Ci 19 Finest Cigars
Liquors, AJrCiM In Stock.
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First -Door South of Poindexter Hotel.
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Osteopathic Physician
Prineville, Oregon,
, CROOKS
Neat Market
J. h. Crooks, Prop.
FRESH MEATS and
LARD VEGETA
BLES, FISH and
GAME IN SEASON
None but Healthy Animals
Killed, Which Insures Good
WholesomoJMeats.
ONE DOOR NORTH
TEMPLETON'S
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THE DALLES JEWELER
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LIGHTNING BOLT
STRIKES HOUSE
Daughter of Thomas Ludi
ker Injured by Force
of the Current.
A bolt of lightning, which laxt
Thurwlay evening tore a great hole
in the roof of the building occupied
by Thomas Ludiker on the north
side of the city, carried with it
aliuoxt futal rehiilts, The aix-year-old
daughter of Mr. Ludiker was
ascending the stairs leading up
from the room where, her parents
were sitting when the lightning
struck the house. Sl was knock
ed down the steps unconscious and
did not regain her senses for
several hours.
The family, composed of Mr.
and Mrs, Ludiker, tli6 little girl,
Opal, and Oscar Baldwin, who is
lioarding there, had only a short
time before finished eating supper.
About 6:30 o'clock, when the
storm was at its height, the little
girl started up the stairs followed
by Mr. Baldwin. When half way
up the flight the room was sud
denly lighted with a bolt of
electricity which came through the
ceiling and apparently spent its
force within a foot' or so of the
child. She was knocked down
the stairs with terrilic force and
Mr. Baldwin at the same time was
thrown down by the violence of
the holt. . Mr. and Mrs. Ludiker
also felt the impact of the blow
hut none save the little girl lost
consciousness, for ft time it was
feared that the child would die,
hut prompt medical assistance
soon brought her back to life.
She was quite badly burned about
the face and arms, hut it is not
thought any permanent injuries
will result.
The bolt of lightning tore a bole
in the roof of the building about
loot square, throwing tte
shingles and pieceB of board a
distance of two hundred feet. In
the kitchen the electricity seemed
to jienetrate everything of a metal
lic nature in the room. The iron
in the stove was splintered, and
the tinware punched full of holes.
Half a dozen or more baking
powder and other cans, which were
setting on a shelf, were filled with
small holes as close together and
as numerous as those in a sieve.
A wire clothes line, which ran
from the corner of the kitchen to
the wood shed, 100 feet distant,
was converted into a line of fire for
a few seconds time. The heat of
the electricity melted the staple
where the wire loinca the corner
of the building, but the current
passed through the wire to the
staple in the wood shed which
held long enough for the force of
the bolt to shatter the post into
hundreds of pieces. The damage
to the building will not amount to
more than $50.
CATTLE OUTLOOK IS POOR.
Grant Mays Says Market Is Over
stocked and Expects Prices to
Go Still Lower.
Grant Mays, who holds his
home at The Dalles, but who
counts his cattle over the hills of
Crook County and here-and there
through Southern and Eastern
Oregon, was a guest at the
Imperial yesterday, and told of
conditions of the cattle market
and what the cattlemen can
expect from this on until the
range-fed beef is off the market for
the year and the stall-fed steer
takes its place, says the Oregonian.
According to Mr. Mays, who has
just returned from an extended
trip through Eastern and Southern
Oregon, the market conditions can
not be painted too black for the
cattlemen of the country. The
prices are now quoted at v&.a a
hundred here in Portland, and the
money offered to the grower of the
country is governed by that stand
ard and the freight rate from the
place of sale. Thus the farther
from Portland, or any of the large
markets the cattle are, the lower
the price that is "paid to the man
who offers the stock for sale.
The market is falling ami has
not reached its lowest stage by
any means, The reason is plain
to been seen in the cattle con
ilition of the state. The Wil
lamette Valley is full of cattle, fat
and ready for the market. South
ern Oregon and the ranges to the
east are overstocked until the
sheer weight of numbers is driving
the prices lower, -nd there will
not be a change for the better until
the surplus stock is disposed of
and the game started over again
In the eastern part of the state,
all over the state in fact, the growers
have three years' stock on their
hands. Last year the market was
dull and they failed to sell their
2-year-olds or their yearlings, as a
result of which they now have on
hand the old cattle that they have
lieen carrying for a couple of years
and their yearling cattle from the
last increase. There are all in
good condition aud are now ready
for the market, and, what is more,
will have to be sold. The growers,
in most cases, will have to sell
their surplus in order to handle
the remainder of their holdings
through the winter season, and
when they begin to offer this sur
plus on the market the prices will
be forced still lower than they are
at present.
POWER COMPANY ORGANIZE
Plant at Prairie City Will Furnish
Light and Power for the Dixie 1
Meadows Mining Co.
On Tuesday night, a meeting of
the Middle Fork . Electric Power
Company was held in this city.
This company has been organ
ized for the purpose of building an
electric power plant on the Middle
fork. The meeting Tuesday night
was one of a preliminary nature
and the corporation will be per
fected immediately and the many
matfers of. detail receive careful
attention.
At the meeting, R. C. Reese was
elected president; Sam Newman,
secretary; Dr. V. C. Belknap, treas
urer and Joe Reese, general mana
ger. The company will build an
electric power plant that will cost
in the neighborhood of $10,000.
It is estimated that they will be
able to generate a 700-horse power,
and this will furnish power and
light for the Dixie Meadows mine.
It is, however, a distinct corpor
ation, and has no connection with
the Dixie Meadows Mining Co.
This is a great enterprise and
will result directly to the benefit of
Prairie Citv, as its power can be
utilized for running sawmills,
planing mills and innumerable
concerns that might take advan
tage of it. The company will also
supply light and power to all the
miners in the district. Prairie
City Miner.
BANKING CONCERN AT BEND.
Articles of Incorporation Were
Filed Last Week' by New
Trust Company.
Articles of incorporation for the
Central Oregon Banking & Trust
Co. were filed with Countv Clerk
Smith last. Saturday. The
incorporators named in the papers
are W. E. Guerin, Jr., A. L. Good
willie and J. M. Lawerence.
A general banking business is to
be carried on at Bend and the
capital stock is placed at $'25,000
divided into 250 shares.
The Bulletin at the Bend say
the corporation will be organized
and ready for business in a few
days. It has been decided that the
first banking house will be a frame
building with stone vault. The
bank will get in operation right
away and put up a stone structure
a little later.
FLOOD CAUSES
HEAVY DAMAGE
High Water Last Week
Sweeps Through the
Ochoco Valley.
Heavy rains, accompanied by
two small water spouts which fell
in the valley of the Ochoco a few
miles east of the city last Friday
afternoon converted the stream
into a river filling its channel
from bank to bank. The Ochoco
was a foot higher than it was in
the spring during the freshets and
as a result some heavy losses oc-
cured amone the hay ranchers
where the current flooded the low
lands.
A heavy rain swept over the city
between three and four o'clock
Friday afternoon and from differ
ent points here it could be seen
that the bulk of the water was fall-
in;it, ni,n .,ii n s
Ochoco valley. At 5
oclock the stream had risen only a
few inches, but inside of half an
hour afterwards the river had fill
ed up to the top of its banks.
Along with the first high wave of
water came tons of brush, trees
and boards from fences which had
been swept down by the force iof
the current.
The heaviest spout of water
from which the greatest damage
was done struck on Comb's Flat.
Here the water accumulated quick
ly into an enormous stream which
aped down the slope toward Ihe
Ochoco. Eye witnesses say that
when the wall of water, which was
nearly 20 feet high, struck the
channel of the Ochoco, it passed
clear over it as if it had been
nothing more than a flat piece of
ground. Then it rushed up on
the other side and finally fell back
again into the valley carrying
destruction in its path.
The ranch of Steven Yancey was
the first to suffer, the grain fields
their receiving the first on
slaught of the enormous volume
of water which rushed off of the
flat above. .Almost his entire crop
of grain and hay was ruined, the
water and debris driving into
the ground those portions of hjs
products which were not. torn up
by the roots and washed down
stream.
At Colonel Nye's place several
head of sheep were caught in the
whirling waters and drowned
Then the torrent tore out the
sheep shedsf reducing them to
shattered boards, and reaching out
farther covered the grain and hay
fields. That portion of the croiis
not entirely destroyed was covered
two feet deep with drift wood and
sand.
E. T. Slayton is probably the
heaviest loser of those who own
ranches in the in the valley.
About 75 tons of hay which had
been partially stacked were washed
down- against the fences. The
latter gave way under the weight
and the crop was strewn for several
miles along the stream. At the
Minor Lewis ranch, which is
rented by J. H. Smith, about eight
acres of grain were washed out and
the same amount of land was torn
up at the ranch of M. R. Biggs.
Both of Hie Cram ranches
suffered heavily from the suddent
rising of the waters and the hay
crops, which were partially cut
were strewn in every direction.
At the William Elliott place the
water quickly encircled the house
and covered the floors a depth of
a foot. Wagons standing in the
barn yard were carried down with
the current and tossed to- one side
like so much paste board. At the
Dawson Elliott place, one of the
Lafolfctt ranches, a wave of water
eight feet high came down the
canyon back of the house. It
carried with it an enormous
amount of huge boulders and ocks
which were swept down the slope to
the Ochoco. Fences were cut down
as if a knife bad been used. The
harn standing on the property whb
literally battered to pieces by the
torrent of rocks and water and
inside of the frame which was left
standing there is a deposit of rocks
and stones some places three and
four feet high. After the water
had subsided the field in front of
the house looked more like a stone
quarry than a field of grain.
The water left behind it a path
averaging 300 feet in width which
is so thickly covered with boulders
and stones, fence posts and brush
that it is impossible for a buggy
and team to cross it.
For a distance of 15 miles the
valley of the Ochoco presents the
appearance of a district visited by
an enormous tide water. Boulders
two and three feet in diameter
have been washed down from the
side hills and the roads in several
places are filled for a distance of
several hundred feet with rocks
and stones.
At this time it is impossible to
estimate the loss from the water
spouts and will be until it is fully
determined to what extent the hay
has been damaged, Much of that
still standing in fields, which it
j was thought would be useless on
iltcounl 01 e"ment washed on
it, is still
m good condition.
Several light rains have freshened
it and cleaned off the dirt and the
damage will be small. Other
fields, however, which had been
partially cut and staked, were
almost denuded of their eutire
yield.
Sunday and Monday of this
week a force of 20 men was at
work on the roads and they were
soon made passable. At many
points along the way gullies were
cut across the roads to a depth of
eight feet and only prompt and
steady work has put them again
into a condition which will allow
teams to pass.
Reports from every section 'if
Crook county indicate that heavy
rains and water SDouts were
prevalent during last week. - Even
as far east as Grant county the
precipitation extended and the
damage has been exceedingly heavy
The heavy down pour at this season
of the year has wrought havoc to
many of the hay crops and turned
many a field of grain into a lake.
THE DALLES THE TERMINUS
Great Southern Railroad Has Made
Aarangements to Build into
the River City.
Our citizens have responded
very liberally in subscriptions to
the $0500 to secure the terminal
shops and depot of the Great
Southern Railway in this city, and
all but about $100 has been secur
ed, This last sum, it is expected,
will be given by parties who have
dot been approached, and for this
reason the committees feel justified
in stating that the subscription
has been fully raised, says the
Dalles Chronicle.
The next movement will be to
enter into contract with the Great
Southern Railway Co. for the ful
fillment of certain conditions de
sired. At the rate at which the
road is being constructed it may
be expected that through trains
will run from The Dalles to Dufur
within the next two, years, and,
perhaps, before that time.
It is not known how much
farther south the railioad will
he constructed; but, with the
amount of capital behind the
project, it is not reasonable to sup
pose that an independent line will
stop fifteen miles from this city,
where there is a rich country, de
siring developement and transpor
tation to market, situated in the
interior for hundreds of miles, and
which would build up a trade that
would reimburse almost any out
lay of capital. Then again, by
having terminal facilities in this
city' the Great Southern can afford
its patrons cheap water transpor
tation to market. All these mat
ters will be taken into consider
ation by the projectors of this line
of road, and as they a re enterprising
men, looking for safe and sure re
turn for investment of capital,
such opportunities will he eagerly
sought and appreciated.