Crook County journal., December 01, 1904, Image 2

CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF CROOK COUNTY.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER I, I90A.
ARE THE TEACHERS PAID ENOUGH?
How often do we hear a man
ask, who is contemplating a resi- j
denceina new community, "Are
the schools good?" How often do j
we see in a special article, written
solely to attract attention to any
given district, the schools placed
at the head of the column, with
stress laid on the assertion that
the educational facilities are an
inducement to iny one coming to
make a homo in that communis'.
Educational advantages are alw ays
an attractive feature of any com
munity, more especially of a new
section of country or one which
is undergoing the transition from
a sparsely settled region to one of
rapid development and settlement
with its accompaniments of new
families and children, and every
man, born with the instincts of
American manhood in 'him,
whether he has children or not,
takes a certain pride in the ad
vantages which he sees given the
generation soon to hold the reins
of government. In good schools,
under an able management and
presided over by a corps of efficient
teachers he funis a subtile in
fluence and attractiveness not
surpassed by the land he conies to
till or the trade oi profession he
begins to practice.
Speaking generally, Crook coun
ty has an excellent system of
schools. Fifty-two district? out
side of the one in and contiguous
to the county seat, and an educa
tional board willing and eager to
create new districts whenever con
ditions will be facilitated by so
doing. These outsid districts pay
- mm ..it. for theit -ser
vices. In consequence the entire
country region throughout the
county is under the tutorship of
the best teachers that money can
procure, a condition little short of
remarkable when the isolated
position of the county is taken
into consideration.
But in Prineville itself, where
the High school is a drawing card
and a recommendation for the
entire county, conditions do not
seem to lie quiet sn favorable. As
lias been stated in these columns
before, the city schools were never
under a more able and efficient
class of teachers than :s here at
present. But are they paid
enough? Are they receiving a
just compensation for the arduous
duties they an? required five days
in the week to perform? Is there
any man or woman, who fits him
self or herself for the teaching pro
fession, lacking so much qualifi
cations that their services to this
district are worth hut $,ya month?
If there are teachers here who fall
short of the requirements of their
profession then their s e r v i c e s
should he dispensed with at once
and others secured to fill their
places; Rut it is not so. At least
a careful investigation fails miser
ably in bringing to light a single
instance of incompetency, and yet
a great deal more is required of
the teachers in this district than
from those filling simi'ar positions
in the country schools. The class
es are larger, the scope of their
teaching must necessarily he more
extended, and with greater num
bers in keeping, their hours of
work must in consequence he
longer and the strain on the
mental faculties all the greater.
Yet with all these encumbrances
some of them are asked to give to
the pupils the mental results of
years . of preparation for the
positions they are tilling. They
are asked to give this thoroughly
and in a manner systematic and
convincing and take in return
apittance of $450 a year 'H.W
a month, for it should he remem
bered that a teacher must live
through the three months of en
forced idleness during the summer,
when other occupations are not
readily found, and at a time when
the strain of the preceeding nine
months has to a degree exhausted
the mind and body.
Crook county set a standard in
educational matters when it erect
ed its new High school building
at a cost of f J;?,UH That stand
ard must Ih maintained, and it
can be maintained only when the
cotopt nsation to the U achers here
is in proportion to the services le-
manned. It will not do to have
the riff-raff of the teaching pro
fession centered here, but instead
as eomjetcnt a corps as is here at
piesent. Neither is it fitting, nor
are the Ust results obtained when
there is a constant effort being
made to leave the positions and
take up work in another district
or another city, even when the
latter does not point with pride
to its High School building as its
latest achievement in educational
facilities.
The school board may harbor
the excuse that the low salaries it
is paying are the result of a lack
of funds. lUit no citizen ,who is
worthy the name, Would allow, a
few dollars to stand lie t ween him
and the means by which his child-
Jren are given the birth right to
secure the advantages to evade
the pitfalls lying in the path of
ignorance. Education will place
them on an equality with their
fellow men and tit them partially
for the awful struggle they must
endure when the school room
doors are closed and they stand
face to face with the vacillating
world.
TEE Bl'SY PUBLISHER.
The country newspaper man
usually has enough to do. Reyorld
the problem of making ends meet
he must be a handy man general
ly. An eastern paper mentions
that an attorney of Dululh recent
ly wrote to Dr. MePherson, pub
lisher of the Little Fork (.iuardian,
taking him to task for neglecting
to answer some letters relating to
the publication of. land notices.
Little Fork is in the wilderness of
the northern lake country, away
from the iron horse and the tele
graph wire. Here is the letter the
attorney received in reply to his
complaint, showing up the work of
the journalistic Pooh Bah.
"Received your registered letter,
read your complaint and accept
same with good grace. While I
have neglected to answer letters, I
have always got the affidavits
away in ample time before the
date of proof. I offer the follow
ing excuses for neglect in answer
ing your communications:
First. I am the editor, the
printer the devil and the chore boy
in the office.
Second. I am the village re
corder, and in a new town like this
there is much to he done.
Third. I am the town clerk of
Jameson, and that work has to be
attended to promptly.
Fourth. I am the chief forester
in the local camp of a secret society
and have to devote three nights a
week to that duty.
Fifth. I have rented a farm
he;e, plowed and worked it myself,
and am now digging the crop. I
have 200 bushels of potatoes, 42
bushels of onions and lots of other
farm truck. By the way, I have a
cabbage that weighs thirty-seven
pounds. I have cleared an acre'
of land on my claim this season.
Sixth. I have built a barn 12
by 10 and have erected an addition
to our house 12 by 18. I have
brought provisions from the Rainy
river in a canoe 20 miles and I
have canoed over the same route
4000 pounds of brick and helped
to build the chimneys on our
house.
Seventh. lam in the hog in
dustry on a small scale, and we
have twenty-one chickens, and I
have to feed these three times a
day.
Eighth. I have to bring in
water, cut wood and bring that in
Lord knows how many times a
day. ' j
I have no love for labt-r, but
you will observe that I am moder
ately busy. A person saw fit to
contest my claim to ix piece Nof
land, and it lias co.t inn a great
Uloal to defetul my right. My',
j wife is ill in a hospital at Winni
' peg, and her way must W paid.
It is a mighty hard struggle, and
only time will tell the survival of
! the fittest.
j I am glad you roasted me. It
; brings us to an understanding,
i You are at lilerty to roast mo as
you see fit, hut don't forget that 1
need your business. Don't forget
that I nm a mortal and that I fall
into the pitfalls along the journey
of life, and, again, let me remind
you that you can roast me at any
time you see fit, providing you
continue to do business with me.
I mvd the business."
MIST HAVE BEEN SLIGHTED.
We can see w here the editor of
the Condon (IioIms is about right
in his comment on the w rite-ups in
the Pacific Homestead. He must
remember that all the suckers have
not vanished from the face of the
earth as yet. W e are inclined to
the belief that a fat boy, with a
mallet and planer and a little spit
on his hands, might hammer out
something that could be recogniz
ed, but we are afraid that the Con
don editor's remarks about the
HomesteadVlllO.000 a year) field
staff of editorial writers will 1h a
terrible s hock to these quill push
ers, wIk) attempted to give a des
cription of Gilliam County. The
Globe says: "The paid w rite-ups
which were perpetrated by the
amateur, journalists who did the
leg-pulling act was still worse than
the mechanical features. Infor
mation to the effect that Bill Jones
is a prosperous and prominent
farmer with a farm of H0 acres,
ot w hich he already has 1 1-2 acres
now under cultivation, and that
Peter Hayseed owns a large stock
farm stocked with two horses, one
cow and a pig, is mighty bum stuff
to send East as information to
prospective settlers. It is simply
ridiculous and w ill do more harm
than good." The "Rough Riders"
field-staff of the Homestead will
not be abb to repeat this dose in
the counties they visited. One
dose of this kind will undoubtedly
cure most of the enterprising
citizens who parted with their
monev. Cline Falls Press.
A wager between wine anil death,
made 55 years ago, may soon be
paid. In the vault of a bank at
Covington, Ind., reposes a bottle of
ancient vintage, the contents of
which will be drunk by the single
survivor of a little band of 20 sold
iers of the Mexican War. The
wager is the most unique of the
kind on record. After the close of
hostilities w ith Mexico 20 of the
veterans who went to the front
from Fountain county, Ind., met
in reunion. This was in 1810. It
was voted to assemble yearly there
after on Thanksgiving day. At
the first dinner a bottle of wine
was presented to the little com
pany, and in a half joking manner
one suggested that the bottle re
main uncorked until but one
survivor remained, this one to quaff
the wine to the memory of those
gone before. the idea met with
instant favor, and it was so agreed.
Each year the annual dinner has
been held, and each one more
closely cemented the ties of corn
radship formed on the plains of
Mexico. For years at the annual
gatherings the bottle has occupied
a place of honor at the head of the
table, and it was annually the sub
ject of merry jests and predictions
as to who would he the last survi
vor to drink its contents. As the
years passed and the little band
became reduced in numbers, the
jests ceased and instead the old
soldiers who were left Icoked with
awe and veneration upon the flask,
regarding it as a link that binds
them to the memory of those who
have gone before. Now there are
17 who have crossed the dark-
river, leaving three who nil! K'u ly
assemble on next Thanksgiving
day. Of tho three that aie left all
are past SO years ofag ami all
know lull well that soon the
strange compact made in 1840
must end. Each wonders to whom
the lot will fall In the yearly
interval between the Thanksgiving
day reunions the bottle of winp is
kept safely under guard in the
bank vault, but before many years
it will be removed from . its place
of deposit for the last time. For
55 years it has been preserved, a
pathetic memory of the shadowy
past, but it will not be long until
its mission will be fulfiled Chicago
Chronicle.
For thirty year the eoplo of
the Inland Empire have battled
for mi open river to the sea. Con
gressmen and senators have U-en
elected, lived, died ami are almost
forgotten, pleas and petitions have
Itocn poured into the car of con
gicsses and legislatures all with
out avail, until the people them
selves took up the task! The goaf
is now at bund. The contract for
building the portage road is signed
and work will toon begin! This
is enough reward for all past
labor, expense and disapjnunt
ment. Cmatillu county, while the
last one of the great wheat grow
ing eounteis to take up the work
of raising her share of the $ lO.tXXt
deficit in the portage fund, will
not Ih the last on the ground wdh
the cash. The f",000 to be r.tisid
by the farmers and shippers of
this county should be contributed
in a week. Nothing means more
to the future of the county than
the construction of the portage.
Boat lines on the river may not
directly benefit some (tortious of
the Inland Empire, at first, but
the very existence of an open river
will reduce rales. The transpor
tation monopoly will be broken
and the river will l the refuge
and hojie of the producers. Short
lines of road will be built to tap
the interior. With competition,
the entire traffic of the Inland
Empire will be organised. Ter
minal rates will be granted and a
new era in shipping conditions
will open in Oregon, Wellington
and Idaho. If it were not that the
portage will U ditrimental to
present shipping conditions it
would not be fought so hiiterlv
E.G.
Over two hundred timber land
patents have I teen received at the
Lakeview land office during the
past week and these will 1 e sent
to the various applicants as soon
as possible. This, too, in the face
of the fact that the Interior de
partment looks upon every tintWr
land applicant as a fraudulent
operator and a thief. But just
now the center of attraction seems
to be drawn to western Oregon
where the McKinh y-Ware-Puter
scandal is engaging the attention
of both the courts anil the popu
late In the liieiiiiiiuit', r.iMt i ii
Oregon timber applicants move
serenely onward. It is probable
that their timber oitcratinns were
such gigantic robberies that Lut
ein Allem Hitchcock has passed
thein up as bad medicine. Or
jterhaps the timlter laud appli
cants in this section were "com
paratively innocent," as the Bend
Bulletin says, ami will slide out
sofllv on the plea of half guilty.
Either one way or the other, it
makes no difference, just so the
patents come along.
The new method of irrigation by
means of a gasoline engine and
pump, w hich is being brought into
play on .the Foster ranch for the
first time in the history of the
county, presages some great ad
vances being made in that line in
other districts inside of the next
few years. The Foster experiment
cannot fail of success and the
simplicity of the whole scheme
brings out 'strongly the fact that
there are hundreds of other fertile
acres lying in the county whoc
productiveness could readily be
utilized with some such arrange
ment as noted. The day is not
far distant, however, when the
eager "demand for tillable acres
will necessitate the , cultivation of
every acre into which a plow can
be thrust, but how much could
be gained if that work was put
into play now and the owners of
inese various Domes ot Janu were
realizing the profits from their
expenditures.
A large experimental farm, in
actual operation under the direc-ti'-ri
of skilled agriculturalists.
w.il be one of the many novel
spectacles at the Lewis and Clark
Centennial. The farm will be
located on the western side of the
Fair grounds, and the work of pre
paring the soil and laying out the
farm is already well under way.
The site allotted to the farm was
formei ly a truck garden which was
conducted by Chinamen. It is an
ideal spot with rich, alluvial earth
capable of producing the most
prolific crops. None of the great
world expositions ever held before
have given such an object lesson
to the people. While there have
been corn stalks of enormous size,
tied with blue ribbons, and fruits
on a china plate, the opportunity
of studying marvelous crop, while
actually growing, will be an entire
ly new and original feature of the
1005 Exposition.
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fflPRINEVILLE'S GREATEST STORE
Additional Locals
J. T. Tetherow and J. N. Ham
mond are in the city front Cline
Falls.
F. S. Hoffman was a business
visitor from Culver the first of
the week.
Mrs. C. M. Brock was in the city
from Rend for a few days' visit
this week.
business.
Rev. Father Hie key, who held
services at the Union church Mom
lav evening, h ft Wednesday for
The Dalles.
Mrs. 0. E. McDowell returned
from Portland this wc k where
she was called as a witness in the
timber land cases.
Postmaster W. II. Slaats passed
Uirougn me city this morning on
his way to Deschutes from Port
land where he has been spending
the past ten days on a business
trip.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Docrng
arrived in the city from Pendleton
Tuesday and will spend several
wofks here visiting with their
daughter, Mrs. Jus. S. Kelly, and
family.
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funics fur the lirowu t'p's.
The Winnek Co.
Headquarters lor Santa Cju
Eil Crabtree and Byron Cady
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camo down noni Lookout moun
tain this week where they have
just completed sinking about 4
feet of tunnel in the B: rnohi min
ing group.
Ike Ward and daughter, Miss
Iora, returned homo from The
Dalles yesterday. Miss Ward who
has been in the Sisters school in that
city was compelled to quit on the
account of her health and will
spend the winter in Prineville.
Ralph Brcese and Miss Ora
Anurews were united in marriage
at the residence of R. W. Brcese
Wednesday noon, the Rev. V. P.
Jinnelt, pastor of the Methodist
church, performing the ceremony.
The young couple have a host of
friends and acquaintances from
whom come best wishes. They
will make their homo at the Breei-e
ranch on Comb's flat.
The work of exporting the coun
ty records is rapidly drawing to
a close. The books and accounts
from all the offices, with the ex
ception of those from the county
clerk's office, have been examined
and checked and Jound all wool
and a yard wide. Mr, "Dunlap
stated the other day that ho and
Mr. Dryden would in all probabil
ity bo through with the work
about the middle of this month.
BORN
To the wife of S. S. SteariiSj
Saturday, November 20, a l.'5-fiound
boy.
YoToTsaTT jl I'rlnevllltf. At TIlC Old Stand Oregon.
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L 1 jjj FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS Oo To "!
F. II. Watts came in from The jjj Jj"
Dalles Tuesday to spend a few jjj mm nnnf . m 5
days l.ioking after hi monument A. lU LIPPMArM CO S
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Our Fall showing in Press goods i the niot
complete we bine ever hud and these Include
many new pieces of fine Block lros Fabrics
seldom found in the so called up-to-date stores
Shirt Waists, Rain ConK Jacket, Skirls and
Collarettes reign supreme here All in the
S. 'iison's latest stvles and fabrics ...
( ict Casi I ( : h cc k s w i t Ii ea ch Purchase
They oro worth monoy to you
Meat, Vegetables, Produce
vomplete and Choice Line
Bacon, hard and Country
City MeaV Market
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Tho Best Grado of Furnlturo
Goods. Known In all parts of
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RIacksinilliing That Pleases
Is The Kind Von (Jet
A Stock of Farm Machinery
To All Fathers and Mothers, Hoys ami (litis:
(iREETING: You are hereby cominaudeil hy his
Mnjosty, KRIS K RING LK, King of the Holidays
to eali at his regular appointed repository and select
at an early date, the good things he has it wtore for
you.j Tlwy aro yours for the asking.
Ii The KING has appointed us his agents, and we
shall take pleasure in showing yon the largest and
most complete- lino of Holiday Goods ever brought
to Prineville, consisting of Toilet Cases, Manicure
Sets, Fine China, Perfumes, Confectionery, Toys,
Useful and Ornamental Furniture at prices to suit
all purses.
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of Reef, Veal, Mutton, Pork,
Produce Kept on hand at the
Furniture
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COKNKTT &.KLKLS'S
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