li Crook County ournal PRINKVILT.E, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, SKITKMBKR 8, 1901. vol. vi i r. NO. 39 m . SPECIAL SALES IN ALL LINES AT THE BEE HIVE fieTlacc That Saves You Money Midsummer Stock taking over and we must have room for fall rooiIh which will soon arrive. Come quickly or you will lose the chance of your lifetime Michel & Qo. I . - ft WILL BEGIN WORK ON AUTO ROAD t Grade from Shaniko to Bend Will Cost About $3000 a Retiring 3rom ustness On July 1st I liull begin wiling my entire Mock ut MILLINERY, DRESS (IOODS and LADIES' Kl'KMSIIINdM ut 50 Cents on the Dollar L?. I am com'lli il to go nut nl ImsliMna on account n nick new ami this wile will afford mr patrons an niMirtuiiity to secure the liest bargains ever offered in I'rineville. TJfrs, Cd Bradford Professional Cards. jfttrMtf-mt-jCmm PriKnili; Or.fm. S3B2K23B T!i Hamilton Stables U. E, tUUJaM, fR,OP. StcM-k hoarded by llie day, week or month lit Reasonable rales. Ki-nieinWr u wlii'n in I'rine ville. RATES REASONABLE. Wo have Fine Livery Turnouts MFltun in Connection with tlio Hew) Stable. jftHrnig mt mm, jitUrnif-ml-Xmm I 11 Archie Mnfon, a well-known railroad contractor, left Portland thin morning for Hbaniko with an extensive outfit of nu n and teain tn gn tn work on the Mm! for the promised automobile line diet ween Slmniko and Bend. "The roml will be KU miles long." Mr. Mason mid, "mid its cost will average a mile, making J (i,(XK) the Biiiinmt riiuired fur its construction. We hope to com plete the contract within the next seven months, "The Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company in nt the hack id enterprise. It has large holdings id hind in Crook county, ami al ready has 150 miles of ditches in position, and will finally bring 500,000 acres 'of hind under a system of irrigation. In order to ffl I thi- laud, it heeuine necessary to huild a good road into it. This will now lie done, and travelers by ailtoinoliile will Jw Mv Jo make the 80-mile trip in five hour when we get the road done. , "The average grade ofi road is not more (hail it -r cent, although there are a few short stretches where it ruin as high as 12 per cent. 1 he width uf the mail will he Hi feet, which will permit of automobiles pa-Ting each ether in perfect safet ;. No teams will he permitted to ue the grade. as the coinpuny has a deed to the right of way for the entire distant e." Tele gram. i. . Si. fs 0rfn, ..Henderson & Pollard.. Wines, and ff9 Finest Giars Liquors, JLPCii In Stock. Gountry Orders Solicited First Door South ot Poindexter Hotel. JitHrn mm ,mmwr mt JLaw ffiolknap de Cdwards Pit ft$r r 6mt mf 9t trmf Smr t mm 9n JW. PnnwU: Orfo. THE WINNER GO., I ncorpnra tetl1 flOS. DRUGS, STATIONERY AND UP-TO-DATE HOUSE FURNISHINGS. New Line ' Of FURNISH. NG GOODS CROOKS Neat Market J. H. Crooks, Prop. Shirts i . Specialty j GORMLEY1TAIL0R FRESH MEATS and LARD VEGETA . BLES, FISH and vGAME IN SEASON None hut Healthy Aniniala Killed, Which Insures Hood Wholesome Meats. WILL FIGHT lic and tooli. will he on hand in ide of a iew days and a force of 12 men will then start huilding the first reservoir. Reservoir No. 1 will lie huilt on the south-west slope of the moun tain and it will cover ahout 200 acres uf land. The depth of water in it when it is full and ready to he used for irrigation purKises will lie eight feet. This reservoir will lie fed by Bulger and Swamp creeks during the 'spring while the waters are high and it is expected that a siilitient iiiaiility of water can lie stored in this reservoir to irrigate the entire tiact lying he low. A second .reservoir, however, aliout a mile and a quarter to the southeast will lie constructed in the spring, mi there will he no danger of a shortage of water for use during irrigation season. Through the base of one cf the walls of the reservoir a sixty foot pipe, eighteen inches in diameter will be laid, and through this the water will lie conveyed to. the canals. The conU-iita of the sec ond reservoir which lies higher up on the mountain will he brought into play whenever necessary. The Interior department has not, as yet, sinned the contracts for reel. liming the selection, and it is hardly expected that this action will be taken hefore spiing. owing to the slownss of proceedings of this kind. liis'etor tireenv visit ed the ai id tract some"" week ago and there is no doubt entertained but that he made a favorable re port. Congressman Williamson has written to Washington in re igard to the matter Und the con I tents of. Mr. (jreene's resirt will lie khown in a few davs. SUES DRAKE C. t Lytle for Remunera tion for the Services Rendered Last Year. LOCAL OPTION STOCK THIEVES ARE CAPTURED Wood River valley stockmen have been missing cattle for seve- On the gronnd Jihat the Oregon local option law is invalid, for the reason that it is in c inflict with the state constitution, the op ponents of the enactment have instituted ioiWiedini74 lKrainat it in the courts and there way to ci,, j ral yeam hut ull efforts have been the wing of thse who would unavailable to locate the niarau- liielch the liquor trallic, before 1 ders until last week. The stock- the November election. I , ,i,i,ii ... ,,.,.,,, strict watch The nature of the suit is ' ulon tlie C!ltUe So', to I ready if i .ii.nl n T ,a aaii. . .-Ka.xi-I , , '. , , 'anv attempt was made Xo drive titioned to issue an order restrain-; 1 . I.. i...i, i I...1.H.,.. ! them off. Last Monday they be- HirWUIIlt Drift I11NII lllUIU I - an election on the liipior question, j came suspicious of a party of men as provided for in the act, and the fr0ui the Umpqua, who had been court will, without doubt, make !.nrui,, i the hav fields and were an order requiring the friends of,, . ., . . t ,:,, , , , 1 8 , , leaving on the pretext of going the law to apiear and show . cause - . why a permanent order of injunc- j u"""'- 1"7 "l u"" tioii should not issue. This thev , Sheriff Ohenchain, who went to ('. 1C. I.ytle, general passenger agent of the Columbia Siuthern railroad, has tiled papers in the circuit court demanding judge ment against A. M. Drake, former president of the I'jlot Butte De velopment company, in the sum of f.'l.'iOO and interest since January 1, WW, as the amount of. a com mission agreed uiion provided Drake through the plaintiff's ef forts succeeded in selling out at the time mentioned, which was subsequent to tiie time4us had made an effort to dissjse of his proierty to other parties. The al legations contained in the com plaint are in substance as follows: That in December, 1H03, the defendant was principal owner of the capital stock of the Pilot Butte Development company. Tiiat on the 0th of December one W. A. Laidlaw entered into a contract with defendant for the benefit of himself and this plaintiff where by it was agreed that the plaintiff w as to procure a purchaser for said property and in case sale should result the said W. A. Laidlaw or this plaintiff was to be paid by A. M. Drake a sum equal to 5 per cent of the purchase price. That pursuant to staid agreement the plaintiff procured certain per suns in I'ortlcnd and took them to Chicago to confer with said A. M Drake, ane that satisfactory terms were agreed upon and the proper ty ontie l-ttnt BtnTe-T'Plupnici.n company purchased lur $".i,000. That the coniniissisn agreed U'hid and earned by the plaintiff was and is 1:550a, That after said contract was en tered into the said contract was assigned to said plaintiff, C. E. Lytle. That there is now due and owing from the defendant on ac count of said services the sum of f'i'iOO. Plaintiff demands judg ment against defendant and inter est on said amount from January 1, 11104, at the rate of 6 per cent and for costs and disbursements in tnis action. "M. R. Elliot', appears as attor ney for the plaintiff. the accidentr.l prospecting which brought the old masonry up to light. ''1 have only a general theory to offer," continued Mr. Vernelson. "The water ptfwer furnished must have linen of enormous force, and" the only Conjecture I can frame is that it must have been used for the operation of some ancient mills or other works used in prehistoric times by some ancient inhabitants of the John Day valley. No trace of any machines, however; could tie found, though we searched dili gently" Sumpter Miner. FOREST FIRE STILL RACES will do, and thSU the battle will he on. the fort during the night in com pany with Sam Walker. The cat- I he specitic grounds uik.u winch : tle W1,r 3,.irWll tie fonowing night the law will lie attacked have not FIND MARKS OF ' ANCIENT WORK Between midnight and this morning Monday 7000 cords of wood, valued at more than $10,000 whirled skyward in a vast sheet of flame, smoke and ashes two miles from Halbrook, Or., where a fire that has Bpread through more than 100 acres of fine timber is now raging, says the Telegram. The wood belonged to the Davis Fuel Company, of Portland. News received by C. R. Davis, of this company, this morning indicated that the lire was beyond control, and that nothing could stop it ex cept a heavy rain. Two Jiiles of fiiiiue is believed to have been burned early this morning, and the little town of Holbrook itself is in danger. A large force of men is working to prevent the spread of the flames, but human efforts avail little against the wall of tire which is drifting rapidly liefore a northwest wind. The smoke which so obs cured the air yesterday and late Saturday night came from fires to the northwest of Portland, fires lliaiuift -oulc- a om..AiffttiV4-ly- short distance from this city, and which, unless rain falls, may easily approach the outskirts. Much green timber is burning now, the fires at Holbrook' being almost wholly in green' tiinher, with the exception of the under brush and the cordwood. Tne holdings of the Alger Log-. ging Company, near the burning district, had not been touched this morning, and it was expected they would eacape the general con flagration which now seems to be raging. Word from Sylvan by long dis tance telephone was to the effect that the nearest fire was within two miles of that place, but that it was doing practically no dam age. As far as are known, these are the only flres in the vicinity of Portland. ' ONE DOOR NORTH TEMPLETON'S OF t fas. tS. Jfelley 4 5 tPholographerX yet been determined, although it is known that it will be on the al legiil contention of its unconstitu tionality. It may contend that the law was improperly passed, and hence is not in point of fact law at all. The whole fight will lie on technical grounds. - Ex-United State Senator Joseph Simon and Judge Martin Luther Pipes have been em ployed to rep resent the liquor interests in the light, hut neither of these lawyers is yet ready to talk about their plans. They say that the specific grounds on which the battle will be waged have not been agreed upon and another conference or two will be necessary before this will be known. WORK TO BEGIN AT BUCK MOUNTAIN POTRAITS, VIEWS, ENLARGING AND A STTPF.RIOTt GRADE OF WORK Work on the construction of the reservoirs, which will irrigate the :1000 acies of arid land lving 1 under $5000 Imnd around the base of Buck moun- gave their names as J tain in the south-eastern part of the county, will begin this month. Sheriff Smith staled yesterdav that as soon as some of the con struction material which had licen ordered arrived the work would commence. All the necessary and a posse of IS men was organi zed mid divided into two hands. The sheriff's party contained six men and Deputy Ceo. Denton Jim Wheeler and Jack Pelton were with the second party. They started ill ' pursuit and overtook the rustler before they had gone over 15 miles. Evidently think ing they were saie they had stop ped for a rest in secluded pl ice in Cherry Creek canyon, but were surprised by the sheriff and hand cuffed u fid brought hack to the Fort. All were armed. They had stalled with 75 head of cuttle but ow ing to their haste and the rough ness of the country only had 2" head left wheu caught, IS ol these belonged to Melhase Bros, and 7 to tleorge Loosley.' They waived examination before Justice ol the Peace James Emery of Fort Klamath and were placed The inen O. Stevens. Walter Lerwell and Walter Simp son. The latter furnished bail and the oilier two were brought to Klamath Falls and placed in the county jail to await trial at the A traveler returning from the John Day and passing through to Baker City on his way east tells a remarkable story of a discovery made in the Strawberry Butte re gion. His name is Christopher T. Vernelson, and he hails originally from Albany, New York. He has been looking after mining interests in the Quartzburg district. Rela tive to his discovery lie says: ''In company with several min ing men, fiiends,and acquaintances of mine, I joumied through the var ious ranges of mountains known by the general though somewhat indef inite name of Strawberry Butte. ii one of theranyons cutting into the main oiiening, we discovered hat we believed after mature observation to be a prehistoric dam dating back for probably hundreds of thousands of years. While dig ging on the mountain side looking f ir mineral bearing lodes, we came across some' ancient masonry. which had evidently been used for the purpose of damming the smal water course which Amis its way through the canyon, and furnish ing power for some prehistoric machine. The antiquity of the work is ev, deuced in the fact that by natural wear water had cut through the solid masonary, and worn it down uutil only the ab utments projecting from the moun tain side were left, and these were so deeply covered by talus from the neighboring slopes as to render CATTLE MARKET REMAINS DULL November term of cmrt. Klamath them invisible and unsuspected to Republican. , loisual observation. It was only 0. J. Millis, live stock agent for the O. R. & N., tells the Pendleton Tribune that the cattle situation is rather quiet. The effects of the strike in Chicago are being keenly felt by the stock interest of Oregon and the results are uncertain. Stockmen are not anxious to ship to this uncertain market. Con dition might look very favorable at the time the cattle were loaded, hut -perhaps by the time thev reached Chicago the tables would lie turned and there would he absolutely no market for the stack. For this reason cattle shipments to the Chicaeo market are very light. The home market is ex ceptionally good, hut it is not suf ficient to take care of the cattle of the state. " Mr. Millis expects- the Chicago situation to alter in.: a hort time and then hopes to se better prices for the Oregon stockmen. Mr. Millis says that the situation in Crook county, the seat of the present range wars, is very serious and the ultimate outcome is un certain. The slaughtering of thousands of head ol sheep will mean a great loss to the indi vidual owners in addition to the industry as other ownem will not go into the business as exten sively as in other years when the situation was less alarming.