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PIUNEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 0 1905.
NO. 4
VOL. JX.
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Mechanical Toys, Automobiles and many others, too,
numerous for mention. In fact anything you could
wiah for tho littlo folks Christmas Present
Wo hava just received 3000 pounds of Oandies and
Nuts for the Holiday Trade and our prices are RIGHT
For tho older ones we havo a variety of beautiful and
useful articles suitable for your friend, sweetheart or
relatives a present.
To fully appreciate the many different articles we
havo in our store for Christmas you should call and
see for yourself and wo will take pleasure in showing
them to you
The Bee Hive
The Place That Saves You Money
ft
The Opera Saloon
ROARK & lnOEl.l Proprietor.
In The Glaze Hall!
' A First Class House
in l'very Kcspcct
CHOICEST BKXNDS OF UQOURS,
WINKS, and CIGARS
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Professional Cards.
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Jllurnty-mt-jCaw
!Piinvilt; Ortyon.
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Huh, tlanio, and
OyHti-rM In S nnon. llrwul For ,MnH
I Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited
W, fiarnas.
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IPrinmmtU,
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!Prinill; Crtyon,
Jjpt Shrink
jfitamiy and Cemntmlar at jCaw
SPrinntiUt, Orryan.
MASKED MEN
SHOOT
SHEEP
Fred Smith Loses 509 Head
in Attack Made on His
Band Near Paulina.
Five hundred head of sheep
were killed and ft hundred or more
wounded and featured in an at
tack nude last Saturday afternoon
on tho band owned by Fred W.
Smith of Paulina. The butchery
occurred on Urindstona creek at
the head waters of Crooked river I
and on Mr. Smith' ranging ter
ritory, oKsession and right to
which has never been questioned.
The story of the shooting and
inexcusable killing of the bind is
similar in detail to those which
have several times before been re-
corded in thi county during the
past grazing seauon. The attack
was maile Saturday afternoon by
a band of six masked men which
wle up to the herder with rifles
leveled at hi body. Commanding
him to throw up bis hands they
proceeded to blind fold him and
take him awnv to a safe distance.
Then the slu lighter with rifles
knives and clubs began. During
a period of tbree or four hours five
hundred of the band were killed
outrieht and the wounded ones
scattered In every direction with j IRRIGATION WAR
the remaining numbers. -
The slaughter is looked upon
by both sheepmen and cattlemen
alike to he one utterly inexcusable
in every detail. The sheep were
on their own territory and were
in no wife molesting tho cattle
men's district, and the action of
the masked band tends to uphold
the article appearing in ft recent
issue of the Oreconian in which
it was stated that an organize
the indebtedneM from last year
was reduced only $25.42, but if
you take into consideration the
the expenses of 11200 paid out by
the city for rebuilding the Crooked
river and Ochoco bridges, you will
find that the affairs of the city
have been handled very economi
cally. The city expected to re
ceive a revenue for building these
bridges from the county out of the
road money collected during the
year of 1902-03, amounting to
$1100, which amount, however
was refused by the county court.
Inasmuch as both these bridges
weie unsafe for public travel this
indebtedness was involuntary ex
pense. "The fire department is one
institution of which the city
should be proud. The apparatus
is all in good condition and the
men shou.d be congratulated on
their work and the interest they
have taken. "
'J call the attention of the
council to the management of the
water supply of the Prineville
Light and Water compauy, and
steps should lie taken by you to
make the company live up to its
contract.
"I also call the attention of the
council to the fact that the reve
nues are insufficient to , meet the
City's expenses and I recommend
that you take such action as seems
best for the city and business in
terests of Prineville."
BIG AUTOMOBILE
ABOUT COMPLETED
IN KLAMATH COUNTY
CAaa. S. Cdumrdt JV, !P. Simtknap
Ctmmty fAy,emm)
32c I knap dc &d wards
iPAytict'ant and iSmrymm.
0t Jt-rtr w mf Wimmwft
ry Stmrv
!Primtvill. Ortgoit.
..Henderson & Potiard..
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Wines, and
Liquors,
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Finest Glars
In Stock.
Country Orders Solicited
First Door South of Poindexter Hotel,
SPhytteia and Surytcn
Cmltt antwml promptly day mr myMt
Offirm tmm mfwmr fmf fVmrt'
2rup Smmm. ,$RMrM mww
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!Prinnu'U,
Oryn,
THE WINNER CO.,
DRUGS,
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Incorporated 1003.
STATIONERY AND UP-TO-IIOUSE
FURNISHINGS.
I don't want to sell you
the Earth but I do want
to sell you a . . .
all Oil and Overcoat
Call and examine my
good and get prices
GORMLEYll TAILOR
CITY
M eat Market
ELLIOT 4 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
TEMPI-ETON'S
OF
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The battle between the govern
ment irrigation committee and the
Klamath Falls Canal company is
waging more nerciy. me canai
company is making a house to
house canvass in behalf of their
. project, and the government Jurri--
I . . k .Mi f aa a oAnrlmnr Ant
effort is being made to extermi- Kuuu " "6
nate the sheep industry in this circulars ot warning to tne people
county. , not to enter into a contract wun
Mr. Smith last spring sold a the private company.
band of sheep which he had been The principal points of the dis-
runaing in the neighborhood of cussien are that the canal com
his ranch and only recently pany is making a better offer to
bought this band of 5000 which the people than the government;
was fired upon and butchered last that it , can construct a system
week. The district around the more cheaply ami in a shorter
Smith ranch has always been con- time than it is possible for the
sidered a sheep district as other government to do. The land own
stockmen in that vicinity, besides erg are urged to accept the offer of
Mr.-Smith, have used the region the canal company because it has
immediately surrounding and that L definite proposition to make, the
on the adjoining range of buttes acceptance of which can possibly
as a grazing section for their herds. M0 no harm. It is urged that the
The cattle interests of late years De0nle should stand by the canal
have not looked upon thn district company because it was the first
in question as one which belonged in the field. Finally it is argued
to them, or upon which they could that the purchase of the system
honestly lay claim, and the WOuld be an advantage to the pro-
slaughter of last week in conse- perty, could at the proper time be
quence is looked upon as a das- turned over to the government and
tardly act which lacks a single become a part of its system,
point of justification. The canal company says it will
Representatives of both the construct the system and turn it
cattle and sheep interests, who over to the people for a fixed price
have been in the city during the 0 its $15 per acre, on a basis of
past week, have expressed in un- 50 000 for the land irrigated. If
qualified terms their denunciation this is a business proposition, the
of this last criminal act by men price paid for the system must in-
ho it is believed are irresponsible clude a profit to the promoters of
persons, ana 11 is oenevea mat. the enterprise, ana interest upon
etermined opinions, now finding the capital required to do
A 4&fforsePower Machine
Nearly' Ready to Operate
on Crook County Line.
Autoinibles will soon be carrying
passengers and freight between
Shaniko and Bend, over the new
road now being finished by Archie
Mason, according to the intentions
of the Central Oregon Transporta
tion Company. The distance be
tween the termini of the new grade
is 90 miles. A two-ton automible
is being finished at the machine
sho) of A. G. Gill on Oak street
near First. This huge machine
will be provided with a 40-horse-power
gasoline engine, and will be
capabla of making 25 miles an
hour over the new grade which is
nearly level the most of its length.
The steepest pitch on the whole
line is but seven per cent. The
machine will carry.12 passengers
and will beeapab'e.of making the
90-mile run including stops, in
four hours and a half. Its tanks
will hold gasoline enough to run it
100 miles or more, so there will be
no need of Btopping to replenish
on the road. The cost of the
machine will be about 13500.
Another automible to carry
freight exclusively is being built
for the Company in San Francisco.
Bend, the Southern terminus of
the road, is a thriving town in the
midst of a region now being
reclaimed by irrigation. A great
has assumed greater proportions
eah winter, until the coming sea
son promises to see northern Grant
stockmen banded together in a
way that promises results.
"Home grass for home aheep,"
was the ancient slogan which held
first place at the Hamilton meet
ing yesterday. Passions of set
tlers present roue at the memory of
alleged depredations by outside
sheep on their very farm, and of
occassions when they drove their
holdings out to neighboring, range
in springtime, only to find then
what they bad considered their
legitimite pasture devasted by
flocks from Morrow, Gilliam or
Umatilla county.
A formal organization has been
effected at Long creek and Hamil
ton. Similar organization is ex
pected at Monument
LAND TRIALS CAUSE
HEAVY TIMBER SALES
Frederick A. Kribs, the well
known timber land dealer, is dis
posing of all his holdings in Linn
county, says a dispatch to the
Telegram.- It is rumored that the
methods by which he secured
larg? tracts of valuable timber
land in that connty are under in
vestigation in connection with the
land fraud cases, and tnis is
thought to be the cause of the
sudden sale of his large property
interests here. Kribs has ac
quired several thousand acres of
good timber land in Linn county
during the past lew years, being
now one of the heaviest taxpayeis
in tKa pnnnlr anil mrcit nf hlM
deal of money has been expended ... . , :
. J , ... , . holdings are m the bantiam re
gion, in which so many homesteads
in running canals and ditches, and
a dense population will finally
occupy the level plains of Crook
County, which have heretofore
been called "desert . lands" and
only peopled by a few bheepherders
and these only in portions of tha
year. The new automobile road
will finally be extended from a
ooint 10 miles west of Shaniko to
have been taken up in the past
ten years, and wnich is said to
have been undergoing a careful
investigation by special Govern
ment officers for the past few
months.
Saturday two deeds were filed
in the office of the County Record
er, in which F. A. Kribs and wife'
WILL
EXCLUDE
OUTSIDE SHEEP
A MATTER OF HEALTH
DM
1, 1 . . ."1 a I .1 x . "i ' . 1 : 11 , .nlr ti.'.on no n.nwuro r a 'H
voice, win eveiuuiiy icnu worn. XI it is not a uusiiiesa pro- nuiuc piutu itvouou eiv.ivu CTCiTH DAIIWft
successful effort in stopping the position, the work cannot be car-1 held over on account of low- prices, j lCrALIl DUlWU
lawlessness which is disgracing te& 0n, for private capital is not r Briefly, the comoination represents AVCD TA II1DV
oAuntv and ita institutions." I na;iaK1a tnr n.mriAa whiM. An mnm stock and much less ramie. I U!L(ll 1U IUI1
WV vrvWJ - - ICVatAUVAV V ..- . 1 . -J ...vu " I ---- - at
not offer a fair margin of profit; The fact that the need for self-
especially is this true in private 1 preservation is greater than ever . J0s. A. Steach, the Round Basin
irrigation ventures, the reason be- before, in aadition to the perennial sawmill and stockman, and John-
ing that practically all of them feeling of hostility toward the out- nie Tribett, of Monument, had a
AWIIAI DPPABT have been financial failures. side sheepmen, has led northern preliminary, examination before
ll 1 14 V4 1 rp, .,,.nuini nttara trimti rV. I o rfinlr aisprfl to. hfiffi n this Pnxl V to TnoiiAn Poa tt lVf nn n mpn t. Mnn-
A ilU gUY?lilUlLIM VV0, llil U UJlt 1 .J.'-'..-- q j I O Uil LIV'VJ i . i- j - -.-.-g " -
the reclamation service, to con- prepare to repel the lyuo invasion. MaV) 0n a charge of larcency ot a
Mayor Wurzweiler called the at- struct for the people an adequate A meeting was held yesterday at two-year-old - mare delonging to
Absolutely Pure
IIAS l.'0 SUBSTITUTE
The Dallas, following the banks of disposed of about 16,500 acres of
the Ueschutes Kiver, according to ,and 0ne deed was to Charles
i it. a i' 1
tnose posieu in tue suuauou. Smith, of Hennepin county
'Ibis 180 miles ot umiorm grade M- 6420 cres and tte
may tmally become the roadbed oi other t0 Charles J. Swensen, of the
a trolley line between the uaues ut transferring several
and fertile irrigated fields of Crook . asareaating 10,000 acres.
County. Telegram. . j tw deeds Kribs transfer
red practically all of his Linn
I county timber land, which he has
been years in accumulating.
A large number of Linn county
t citizens living in the vicinity of
Sweet Home and Foster, were sub
nAnnol in nrvrvAar Iwforft the Ft?d-
i r: i I"-"""-" vv "if
a special irom wujou -"J' " eral Grand Jury last week, and it
recent date says: i wo elements to the Kirbs lands
will figure to a greater extent than that they were cailed to testify.
ovpr hfirn in the Grant countv A few years ago all the available
next spring, and timber laud in this county was
taken up, either as homesteads or
timber claims, and a great many
men of Albany and vicinity and
.i el.- l
nortnern oar oi uie uuuuiy iu fpnm nthfir Barta 0f the state as
take early measures to protect well were located on claims by
liomRplves acrainst the 'annual men living in the eastern pait of
incursion of outside sheep. These the county who were familar with
elements are: irst, decrease in the timber country and who acted
rpa nf nnen ranse throush exten- las timber locators while the rush
sive homestead and scrip filing for claims were on.
the second, increase in the amount of
i
range situation next spring
their presence in exaggerated form
is leadiiie the stockraisers of the
MAYOR SUBMITS
tention. of the city couticu to
several important matters in his
annual message to that body last
Monday evening, and if the sug
gestions which he offered are acted
upon Manager Gates will be called
upon to live up to the provisions
of his contract, with the city and
furnish a better supply of water in
the future
In his report upon the financial
conditions he showed that the
total outstanding indebt e d n e s s
amounted to fobSb.lb, and com-
memtine upon the figures sub
mitted added:
"The above will show you that
system for irrigation and drainage, 1 Hamilton; where the situation was Geo. Irvin, of Monument. The
to turn it over to them at actual cone over pretty thoroughly by the animal had been "found" on the
cost of construction, and to allow growers of that section. The meet-range and" was claimed by Mr.
them 10 years in which to pay for ing was attended also by several Steach, and had deen branded in
it without interest. This system, cattlemen from the Long creek his corral, but not with his brand
when completed, will include all section, while all the small Galleys mg iroD, according to. testimony
the land in the Klamath basin within 20 miles of that place con
susceptible of irrigation, and the tributed delegates. A similar
reclamation of large aras which meeting is to be held next week at
nf. iVin nresent time are usless. The Monument. One was held last
r 1
work done by the government will week at Long Creek
be of a most substantial character, Opposition to the outsider for
and not of a nature to require a J many years has been largely m
perpetual high maintenance charge, 1 dividual, or afleast confined to
aa U iiRiiallv the ease with systems illiall communities. In 1UUU in
built for the revenue and profits to cipient effort began to get organiz
the promoters. - 1 ed resistance together. Ibis enort
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and inbbett.was among the men
who helped in the work. Mr.
Steach is said to have claimed the
the animal until alter the owner
was known. Judge Rea conclud
ed that Tribbett could not be held
and discharged him, but that Mr.
Steach had . better be more
thoroughly investigated and bound
him over to the grand- jury under
$500 bonds. Long Creek Ranger.