'--,7 i Crook YUli. J 1 1. , PRIVKVTT.T.w nnnnc-rnnwrnv nwr,T ',V; ' rT.'r'"""' vlllVVIt vvuiiAi, uncuun, ftUYflJltfiSll 10, 1904. NO. 48 a j 9 7 A Complete ntiil Jatt and Winter And you will find in this Lino of good the very thing you have been wanting this long while, and, tho time to purchase your Fall and Winter Hat i NOW. Our store in hvuted in tho huilding for merly occupied by Mrs. Wicgand and here you will aiwnyii timl tho It(t designs in MiUinrry AWfrs. d Bradford T! Hamilton Stables . StH-k hoardi d hy the day, week or month at Kminonahle ratt-M. Itcmrinlier w when in Prinr. vilk H A T K S HKASONAHUK. . Wo havo Fine Livery Turnouts W a Uun in Connection ..Henderson Wines, and Liquors, Ear Gountry Orders Solicited First Door South of Poindexter Hotel. THE WiNNEK CO., Incorporated 1903. , DRUGS, STATIONERY- AND UP-TO-DAT I HOUSE FURNISHINGS. (JrrtUiirTi-TM--i-v UU SPECIAL SALES IN ALL LINES AT THE BEE HIVE The Place That Saves You Money ' Midsummer Stock taking over and vc must have room for fall good which will soon arrive. Come quickly or you will lose the chance of your lifetime Michel Co. - I'p-To-Date Line of ?tf Winery and Jtats Fmrm'iAtrt. with tho Bond St aide. & Pollard.. Finest eidars In Stock, 1 I don't want to sell you , tho Earth but I do want to sell you a . . . Call good and examine my and get prices GORMLEY 11 TAILOR ;; .... . ; p Professional Cards, JftHmijf-mt-Xmm mt-jCm jfUtrnry mm CmmUr mt Xmm Pri,t,, Or.. i r Weltcnap dt 6 d wards ffAjfsieiam$ mnm mrS,.ns. 00 JCirtr Aw S.,t mf 9C,mm.; v St jr- CITY Neat Market ELLIOT & LISTER, Prop's. FRESH MEATS and LARD VEGETA BLES, FISH and GAME IN SEASON None but Healthy Animals. Killed, Which Insures Good Wholesome Meats. ONE DOOR NORTH TEMPLETON'S OF C. K McDowell, Prop. Thoroughly Renovated and furnished Throughout. American Plan. Rates $1, $1,30 and $3 per day. Accommodations are Unsurpassed in the ciiy. Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers, Long Distance Telephone Station in the house, . f Hotel PriReville" i Semi-Annual Statement Of the Treasurer of Cronlr i j. a s t nn end.ng Sepfeml 30U,, 1904 ; ' -v uwm w.i 8 -1 - I Si O 00 8 to 8 -1 Ol -5a Qi I- as Ol o OS STATE OF OREGON, County of Crook, SS I. 0. C. Grav.- do herebv certify tho i correct statement of the amounta received, paid out and remaining on hand in the county treasury of said county for th six months ending on the 30th day of September, A. D., 1904. " W itness my hand this 30th . Semi.Annual Statement Of the amount of Moneys and Warrants revived tnr o,i Money paid to the County Treasurer - A.AA il.. - A. I . vcSun, ,ur w.e B,x monins ending Cash on hand April 1st, , 1904. Amount collected on 1902 tax roll Amount " " " 1903 " " " - Sheriff's fees. Total. By Amount paid County Treasurer with County Clerk.. Balance in Sheriff's hands. STATE OF OREGON ) County of Crook, - j ss- , . I, C. Sam Smith, Sheriff certify that the foregoing statement ... Witnes8. mi' this, the 28th T .T . . . By L.fs, Liggett, Deputy. (continued, f wit-gun, ior tue six month of Jfor,8 received and paid out, from source, and on what account paid out. SSI s s s n i" ts J! o - 3 S M w ITJ mm - t 23 5 W '3 SS8 8 53 2 . o 6 '5 i -1 "3 Ol -1 Ol W -14 01 00 -1 day of September, 1904. 0. C. GRAY, : County Thkasurer. bv the Sheriff t rrh- nl. i -vvt K'y wv vvum . 7 the aoth dav of September, 1904 v: $1430u29 - " 55 27 9183 04 26 00 23575 60 as per vouchers filed 1 1 $23103 17 . . 472 43 ; - ; of Crook County Oregon, do hereby is true and correct. day of October, 1904, . '.C.Sam Smith," Sheriff. ox page. 2) STOCK LANDS WILL BE THROWN OPEN A Ilarney countv stockmnn who 19 in the city to look " intn markef prices of heef, jayg thnt radical change are taking place in that region, aavg the John T)v News. "The biz Htock comnanipa losing," said he. "The time has passed when they are able in iroi tnousands of acres of good grazing and meadow land and .!: .. . proni on tne cattw? n. dustry. Thf result is that the bi rancnes are splitting up. l beheye next year the entire Olenn-French holdings of Ham I ir t. ... . " . ' nu Maifieur wijl be divided into 160 and 320-acre tracts for sal tn the settler. It is common, infor mation also that the Pacific Live stock comoac v. vdioti .i... interests once manaeed bv Lux and Miller, will begin the parti tioning process within another yea: or two. Harden and RiW. owning extensive land on Harney iae, sola to an eastern crowd at a fancy price, but the newcomers are losing on the game and I think would be glad to unload. ; Ihere are other cattle barons of the old time who are disappear ing. John . Devine has immense (sessions of land, but tte settler is destined to cultivate most of it. In Lake and Klamath counties the same tendency i noted. Raising beef by syndicates has become unprofitable because land is too valuable and thev are pet ting ready to turn their princely possessions over to the multitude of settlers who await the time whet) tier amy gecuro a tract i;ai I sWf of bing cultivated, .and man ..;,. i... . . . i J influx of settlers. . Take, . for', in stance, the; Glenn-French holdi in Harney county.' The, pia ijiond an Pea ranch sections on Duutler and Blitzen river will accommo date several hundred families when thrown open to purchase. I have ridden over these tracts and found mile upon mile of beautiful mea dow and arable ' land. It will grow the best of grain and hav and also fruits of the more hardy nature are quite sure. "The river is fed by Steins' mountain, a high snow capped range. Pete French got hold of many thousand acres here in eaely days, while working for old Doc Glenn of California and in the days when there was no sheep and few settlers to encroach upon the range, they made immense for tunes. . Both of the original men have been killed and the present company is unable to realize the necessary profit to continue. "When Harney county has her cattle barons dethroned and the settler is given an opportunity, . ... , mm community will advance as never betore. I believe such a period of development is at hand and the purpose of the Glenn French management will be the forerunner of many more." UMATILLA PROJECT IS ABANDONED The government irrigation project for Umatilla countv has been abandoned. The attempt to f a, - rovive it, : which was made in Pendleton failed. W.J. Furnish. president oi the Pendleton Savings bank, says the meeting of the delegates from different parts of the county was addressed bv John T. Whistler, government engineer in charge of the reclamation work in Oregon, who stated that the government had passed upon the project and rejected it. "The people of Umatilla county- are, of course, greatly disappoint ed," said Mr. Furnish, "but it had been understood for some time that the scheme was unfavorable. A great many people lost monev on it as they rushed in to take up homesteads with the idea that the irrigation was assured and the land is now worthless. . There is some talk of interesting private capital to prosecute the plan completion but I do not think will amount to anything." ' The Umatilla scheme was one of the first in Oregon to receive at. t tention from the national govern ment. At the time of the time of the meeting f the irrication congress in Portland two vears aim the plan was proposed and throitoh the influence of the Oregon delega tion in congress engineers were sent to make survevx. Tl iminary surveys were very favor. able and it was thought the scheme would le practicable. At this juncture land agents began flock ing to the Echo country and settling homeseekers on land to come under this ditch at $50 each. The business waxed miehtlv and hundreds of credulous people were induced to part with their hard earned money in return for a quarter section of sand dunes and sage brush inhabited bv iack- rabbits. . The operations of these land agents finally became bo detrimental to the interests of the community that the government sent a special agent to Pendleton who informed the irrigation asso ciation that unless this traffic was stopped, the government would slop work. The business men of Pendleton took the matter ud and finally succeeded in nnttinv a. at to the business' but not until after the agents had reaped a handsome profit. The reasons given for-abandon ing the project is that' the soil is unsuited to the convevine of water through the ditches to the reser- - voir. Then the expense attached to the undertaking would be so mucn greater than was expected that it would hardly be profitable, COAL LANDS ARE ''BM DEVELOPED "People interested lit 'tun "euiil deposit of the John Day valley,'., caetern Oregon, Wped to eee" this year bring to light definite infor mation of the extent of the beds there, and samples of coal taken from such depth as would be positive evidence of what the fuel is worth, says the Portland Journal. Save for the work done at Hep pner, on the property of the Hep pner, Coa & Railway company, little has been accomplished in this direction. A score of pros pects, covering an area from the lower John Day, about . Black Diamond, up to near Canyon and Prairie City, have been worked in a very desultory manner. , In some of these the seams were proved at the very surface to have commercial width, and conditions generally favorable, but no com pany of sufficient capital has taken hold of any other than the Hep-.'' pner mine. The property of AvMohr and L. Walker, about 60 miles from Arl ington, has been prospected with the result that a seam more than eight feet in width has been open ed. It is "said to carry a good grade of coking coal. The property near Mt. Vernon, managed by Robert , Hines, has been explored ; by three inclines . 55,64 and 74 feet, respectively, and a crosscut of 64 feet. Here five or six seams were . found in close contiguity, a sandstone layer but a few inches . wide seperating them. The coal has been" given light tests as to its utility, and seems to meet all requirements' ' Other properties have been open ed by ehallow tunnels. The coal area is thus established to be about 60 miles in length. Many farmers in that section use the coal for their smith shops, and some of the domestic fuel. These experiments cease to excite local interest, and are not enetinT ' . T ..... j. enough to furnish valuable infor mation to tne outside world. Most all of the pronertv nwn of that region "follow the work at Heppner closely, where several thousand feet of exnlorati on hnn been prosecuted. Should this mine prove a good producer, and its coal find ready market," there is no oouDt tnat a number ot other properties within the range of transportation or near where new ; rail lines are probable would bj actively developed. to it