CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. I). F. 8TEFFA. . S. M. BAILEY. Published ftery TliurnUy at Tb Journal Buitdiog, rrinevllle, Orrgon. Terms of Sulmcrlwtlon: One year, month, 75 cent. Single copies 5 OFFICIAL PAPER OF, CROOK COUNTY. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1905. The St. Louis World's Fair com mission has awarded the medal to the Black Butte Quicksilver Min ing company of Cottage Grove, Lane county, (or its display of elnuaW t.r. .t hf company tk.H llit way -aily f. - n C,tHoTn;-i an 1 '.'(im both of f.-; i v .lie it nesi r- p i rcsentations of the mineral. K v witnesses who saw the cinnabar exhibit at St. Louis state that none of the ore on exhibition there begins to compare with the speci mens which have become so com mon around this city since active operations began in the cinnabar fields on Lookout mountain. These specimens are beyond doubt the richest that have been produced anyplace in the United States and it is safe to assume that if Crook county comes in for a display of cinnabar at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, and she is arranging to do so, all of the blue ribbons, bronze medals and tin washers will be thrown at her head without a question of doubt arising. At least if the Black Butte company can carry away the medal at St. Louis, Crook ccunty ought to be able to lord it over the former in her own state for it is stated that the manager of the Black Butte company not long since, when a specimen of Crook county cinnabar was sent him to assay, refused to do so on the ground that he believed he was being made the victim of a joke and that the ore C(lt wmc V .( 1 VM.)l.tt T. hail been purwtiiu-eU iu a uru store. The sample was pretty good, running about 65 per cent mercury, and it knocked the breath out of two or three Lane county people wheu they learned later that it had been taken from the north slope of Lookout mountain in Crook county It is safe to remark that Crook county will see a greater influx of people this year than has crossed its borders since it first became a county. Extensive advertising, combined with the publicity to he given the resources of this district at the Lewis and Clark fair, will have its effect and the county's population by the end of the pres ent year will be materially in creased. And this increase will come along the lines most desired. New lands, through the efforts of he largest and most substantial irrigation companies, will be thrown open to settlement and every quarter section bought means a new home for one or more persons. The small irrigation companies will also work to ad vantage, and while not attracting as great a number of new. settlers, their lands will become the per manent residences of scores of new people. The county as a whole has never been in a position as at present when it can offer to pros pective home seekers a diversity of soil, climate and location. The low lands and the high lands each have their advantages and both will be placed ia readiness for the; plow. For the climate, but little is necessary to add. No district west or east of the Rockies can produce a climate as agreeable, invigorating and generally admir ed as the one found in this section of Eastern Oregon. A wholesale butchery of sheep occurred two weeks ago on the head waters of Crooked river. Such slaughtering of sheej) has become the common thing in the interior counties since the war to the death began between the cattle men and sheep men to see who can keep the other's flocks off the public range by means fair or foul. The Prineville Journal denounces in a fearless manner these acts of lawlessness, and appeals to the better sense of the citizens to see that the jruilty parties meet justice. enemies takes nerve. The whole thing calls for serious consider ation. Local officers are powerless Kntertil at Ihc Trine rill post otttes at SJ clam rmtea. to quell the disturbances. It will ccst a sacrifice of lives and money, hut the state authorities should step in. lift the legislature en deavor to straighten out the tangle. Hood River Glacier. SECRETARY A. VwiGLE RETURNS JOMENVER A. L. Wigle, secretary of the Crook County Cattlemen's associa tion, returned yesterday from Denver where he had been repre senting the local organization in the annual meeting of the National Livestock association. Mr. Wigle Faid that while Denver was in the throes of freezing weather there was not a cold minute during all the proceedings which took place. In fact the meeting was in a tur moil most of the time and heated words and arguments ruled the day. One day there was so much warmth of feeling that the repre sentatives present forgot to go to dinner and put in most of the day arguing on empty stomachs. Wh.le the annual meeting was called to discuss measures and conditions pertaining to the stock interests, most of the important matters, action upon which would have been of vital interest to the local associations, were lost from sight and pigeon holed in the struggle which began soon after the convention settled down to ' t.;, i .n v through im effort to allow the packers and railroad interests membership in the convention and resulted not only in the expression of bitter feelings but the organi zation of a new association under the name of the National Stock Growers association. The latter was organized under a new con stitution permitting the packers and railroads to a full vote. The National Livestock association re mains as it was, an organization in which only the stock interests are represented. Mr. Wigle was the only repre sentative in either Oregon or Washington who stood firm in his convictions when the disagreement was reached and refused to let the local association join hands with the railroad and packing interests. He said he could not see how such an alliance could benefit in any way the cattlemen of this county or any other county. "It is not reasonable to suppose," ho stated yesterday, "that the packing interests and the railroad monopolies are going to pay their pro ratia amount of fees into an organization and not get some thing out of it, especially when they are not engaged in the rais ing of livestock. One of the great est difficulties we have to overcome is the grasping tendencies of both these corporate interests and it does not appear to me that mat ters can be remedied by having them parties in an organization which is spending most of its time in fighting them in order to re ceive from their bauds decent con sideration. At least these are the grounds I toon and they accorded with the views expressed and maintained by other cattle repre sentatives. On the other hand the action at the convention shows clearly that the sheep interests are more thoroughly organized in every respect than the cattlemen, and the next move to be made among the cattle owners should be more thorough and systematic organ izing, not only in this county, but in others and in other states. Texas has the best organization of any in the country and the way they hustled things around at the convention shows clearly the power and good there is centered in an association which is per fected in every detail." Mr. Wigle got a bearing on the and he read the resolutions before the convention. The fight among the stockmen and the packing and fl..V). Six ceuta each. railroad interests, however, threw this matter of husimv tlio same as it did practically all other measures of importance, to the lat day when it was referred back to the commit te on resolutions without any action being taken. A conference was had with the government authority who looks after diseased cattle and he put himself on record by stating that it would not be compulsory in the future to dip all the cattle sent from the state. This first step to be taken will be to ascertain whether any stock is afflicted with mange. If so, then the stock will have to be dipped; it not, the way will be clear for the owner to ship his herd to market. M r. Wigle said that alter the or ganization of the new Livestock Growers association and it was found there was such a decided difference of opinion relative to who should hold membership in the organisations there was at once a cry of harmony. But the cattle men stood film and remained with the old organization and made a positive assertion that no packers or railroad men should be allowed in their association. On the IHh of next May both organizations will meet again in Denver to per manently organize. It is expected that at that time there will an other clash and a struggle between conflicting interests. In all pro bability there will remain two sep arate and distinct organizations with the cattlemen in one, and what other stockmen care to join, and the sheepmen and railroad and packing interests represented in the other. n i an V. I.ar. tUi OPENS LOCAL OFFICE Prospective settlers, who come to Prineville to take up land in this vicinity under the Deschutes Irrigation and Power company's cnnal lines, will be paved the "0 UiUe trip iroui iierc lo belld iV the. arrangement inaugurated early in the week by the company and through which the sale of irrigated tracts will be carried on to ad vantage in this city. The com pany has engaged a suite of rooms in the Prineville Hotel where maps of the segregated tracts, to gether with the price lists and general information concerning the lands, will be kept on file for in spection by intending settlers. Conveyances will also be kept in readiness at the local stables to aid in carrying the applicants to the lands desired and surveyors will stay here to assist in the loca tion work. ' The offices in this city have been put in charge of Frank Gar dinier who until recently was en gaged in the real estate and rail road business at Sumpter and he will have able assistance in the line of work mapped out. Only the ditch lands will be sold, the company not undertaking to handle any of the town property in the vicinity of Bend cr any other district. The Arabian The eOMEBY BRRMR eaST OF QHARAQTERS Mr. Arthur Hummingtop Prof. A. C. Strange Ralph Ormerod Mr. D. Macleod Joshua Gillibrand Mr. Joe Larson Dobson Mr. Aleck Zeverly Mrs. Hummingtop Miss Winnie Cllne Mrs. Gillibrand Mrs. H. P. Belknap Rosa Colombier Mre. Julia Lytle Daisy Maitland Miss Maud Kidder Barbara Miss lora Ward General admission 25 cents. Reserved Seats 50 cents Turn NMhtsi Two Nidhts i Aiiiieiic Hall, While tho ale of lands will cover the entire selection made bv the IXvchuteo Irrigation A Power company, particular attention will be given to the tracts lying ad jacent to this city in the district to the north and south of Powell Buttea and along the old river bed where some of the host tracts under process of reclamation by the company are located. As these lands lie nearer to Prineville than Bend it was thought expedient to open offices here and do away with the long ride otherwise necessary ingoing to Bend and returning again over half the distance in order to reach the desired tracts. The opening of the offices here will materially benefit the business house of the city and a quick disposal of the lands to which particular attention is to be paid means added business in the near future to the city in general. Mr. Gardinier, in speaking of the ar rangements which have been made, said yesterday: "There is no question but that the lands which lie in tho region of Powell Buttes are the best the company is reclaiming, and the selling of a quarter section to one settler means a ready disposal of several more to his friends and acquaintances. In this way the whole region should soon be taken. 1 believe this district will be the first to be settled and cultivated as a compact hotly and that means much to the city here as the latter will receive partially all the benefit. "The main canal the company expects to have finished early in April. This last freeze has de layed work to some extent and the time of completion of the largest ditch will depend altogether upon the duration of the freezing weather. Giving the cold snap a good margin, however, it is a cer tainty that the Powell Butte canal will be finished by the first week in April, in plenty of time for a small amount of irrigating to be done during the coming season. These lands are all of them the plow as very littie clearing will have to be done and there is only a very scattering growth of juniper to be removed." With the opening of the ex cursion rates on the railroad, which commence next month, it is expected that the local land office will be kept busy. The com pany has done some very exten sive advertising in all sections of the east and scores of letters have been received announcing the ar rival in the early spring of pros pective settlers. The city in con sequence is likely to witness another rush of land seekers equal to that seen here two years ago when on all sides was heard the battle cry, "On to the timber." HOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the rt'Kulur Eighth Grade examinations will Im: held at Prineville, Jan. 18-19-. 2U, l'JO.I. All teachere having pupils who expect to take thin examination will please notify nie at once and In-, form nie uh to whether applicants desire to write at home ttchool or come to Prineville. O. B. Di.NwmniE, . Co. Hup't. OR Circus A THREE AGT February 3rd and Uth9 1905 gjj WURZWEILER & THOMSON jjjj m mm M J:1 tl N N5 H OH. N ATM AN riSCHt PRINEVILLE'S GREATEST STOREgj BASK STATE MUST. lit port o th CWitfitm of Tin F iitt Xatiomtl ltiid, i I'rinrrilU, in (A SUttt of ihtgun, at tht eUm of butiiitM, January J 1th, 190,1. Kesourrrs: fMUM ami JiaamnU 1 177.S4tt.S3 Overdraft, trcurwii nj unMCurttl. 19i!U1.79 I'. S. lWU U Mcur circuUtion l'i,.VU Premium na V. H. Honda Bond. SecuritiM. tto t . . J, .171. 53 RankinK housr furniture and nuturva 5,500.00 Iu from NatiiHtaJ lUnk (nt limrv AgtuU) !W,71.43 Due from SUtoIUnk and IW.k.r. 10.337..V) ua from approved irt KnU. 40,4.12.tKl Internal Kevrnue Uini Check and other canh Heme 7M0O Note of other National Hank .... 4'O.0O Fractional paiwr currency, nicklea H c-v't . . . ... 12.!? LAwrtL MonkY KiHlavi IN Han a, Vlt: Scie 14,040 LeKl tender note ... 1.0UO lt.040 00 I'. H. certificate for gold deited Redemption fund with I. H. TreaVr of clrouiati.) Total . Hltl.O0O.OH Liabilities: CpiUl tock paid in I 90,000.00 Surplu fund 10,000.00 Cndivided profit, Im eniienace and Ue paid 3U.OH.V2H National Kank note ouUtandin. 5,5.11.00 Individual deioiU uliject to check 217.731.40 Demand certificate of deoait .... 6iW.36 Total 316.0U1.0H STATU OF OKF.iSON, B OF OKF.iSON, Countr of Crook. I I. T. M. Baldwin. Caohier of the almve- oamed bank, do aoleiuly iwear that tne above tatement i true to the beat of my know lede and belief. T. M. BALDWIN. Cannier Sulicriled and aworn to before me thia 17th day of Janunry l'.n. J. J. SMITH, County Clerk. By Ethm. Liuorrr Deputy. COKRKOT Atteet: Will WrHzttitMl Z. M. Bbow!, Director. B. F. Allien. ) WANTED A chance to print for you or Hoiiieone cine 2o,ooo IwIh and Clark Souvenir ciivcIoimh. One or more colon. Neat, attractive and up-to-date. At Thk Jot iinai. Fkintkkv. Nights Girl A Happy mi J I'rowpvi'uiis New Ycur to our Cum tomr mid all of Crook County JANUARY I90 gj CLEAMJCE SALE All Ladies Heady Made Skirts, Jaekcts, Shirt Waists, l'acinators and J Fur Collarettes at :: :: :; :: ' ODE-THIRD OFF tji A Rare Opportunity! -The proof of the I'uddln U n j In the eating." Oct In on this and be convinced J The entire lot mutt bo sold for Cash CJ rca J FOR HOLIDAY I A. H. LIPPMAN & GO'S. . S.-1I , Heywoods The Dost Grade of Furniture Goods. Known In all parts of the World. Call and O-ct 0a.r UPxiccci piacksmithing That Pleases Sin The Kind You Cct lit J. II. WKSLIi'S (HucccMor to) COHNKTT & KLKIXS S A Stock of Farm Machinery always) on linml Meat, Vegetables, Produce A Complete and Choice Lino of llccf, Veal, Mutton, 1'ork, Bacon, Lard and Country Produce Kept on hand at the City Meat Market FOSTER & HORRIGAN, Prop's. Prineville. At The Old Stand OreKon. .Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Draft and ef Sood Milliard rft &ark d Ttyoore's old I THE EMPIRE STABLES P$ HUGH GEE, PROPRIETOR. Q 2T Special Attention Given (,) . to Boarding :: i: :: Cf) First Cla Team to Let 71 y ai neaeonaDie rrioes, i o.'.-Mt r til kttta i.u cite wuuua ir O outside point :: I PKINEVILLE, .. . OKEiO.V J 8 PRESENTS Oo To Furniture I i 4) TJottlod lioor. Uabla in Connocton iff 14 stand on fain Sirett JJj LIVER Y, HACK AND HOARDING STABLE t T v o t r v r w m, ti.t rr , i