J s. fi2 r A ' ' ' v. . Crook Joureal VOL. JX. PMNEHLLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 30, 1905. NO. 10 County MICHEL & CO. Reliable Goods at Living Prices Great Bargains In Men and Boys GlotlilrKj Men's medium weight nil Wool Suits in Black, Dark Grey and Brow n mixture: Very Special at $9.50 a Youth's all goods; very at Wool Suits servicablc. Michel & Company Michel I In (Wv''l I w I lililiiiillOiOiiiiM glacksmithjng That I The Kind Von Get A Stork of Farm Machinery always on hand , A. H. LIPPMAN G CO. LINCENSED Manufacturers FURNITURE I in Black mixed Special value $7.50 A Nobby New line of ready to wear clothing Pants for long men and short men ready to wear and made to order GORMLEY Pleases at' J. II. WIGLK'S (Successor to) CORRJETT & ELKIKS'S UNDERTAKERS iiml of all Kinds of ssan H a & Company ha Professional Cards, &. Ctliott, !PrintH'il, Ortyon Jfttomty-nt-Cmm Prin.tH'ii, Oroyon SSarnes, . jfttornoy at jCam,' IPriifvilU, Orison, Chaa. tf. Ctumrts JIT. ff. SS.lknap County SAys,can) el knap dc d wards iPAjfsician and iSuryeont. 00, JWr Sfear mtt of tfim't Prin.in'ita, Ortyon, t JC, Siosonbery SPAytici'an and Jury.it Caft iwiwrrf promptly tlay or niyJkt Sntr Stvmr. MnUm mow iPrin.ttiii, Ortyon. LOCAL OPTION DIES IN MORROW COUNTY Circuit Judge Sets Aside Recent Act on the Ground That the Law Was Il legally Enacted. ;J -By a decision of Circuit Judge Ellin, given yesterday afternoon, prohibition in the eigh precincts of Morrow county that;! went dry at the recent elcclioif, was set eside on the ground that the law wan illegally enacted. The case that was argued yesterday, and upon which the decision was given, wag that of the state ver sus Dan P. Doherty, a saloon keep er of Lexington. Doherty is said to have been running a saloon at Lexington continuously, and wan charged with having violated the local option law. The cane for the state was con ducted by District Attorney Phelps, while C. E. Redfield.of the firm of Redfield and Van Vactor, appeared for Doherty, .The evi dence in the case was taken at the recent session of the circuit court held at Ileppner, and the time for the arguments postponed until yesterday. In many ways the case from Morrow county is similar to the Ireland case from Freewater, which was tried here over a month ago. However, jn the present case, the only point raised was that the election was not ordered at a regular session of the county court. No issue was made con cerning the proper recording of the petition by the county clerk, as was done in the Ireland case. However, the decision yesterday affects all of Morrow county that went dry, whereas, in this county it applied only to the sub-division of which Freewater was a part. Of the eight precincta that went dry in Morrow county, Lexington and Hardman were the only ones in which saloons were being con ducted, lone and Ileppner voting wet. From accounts that have been published the opinion has become prevalent that the decisions of Judge Ellis and Judge Bradshaw on the local option law have been directly opposite. . However, this is said to be untrue by local at torneys, for the reason that in the Hood River case, in which Judge Bradshaw upheld the law, the only point raised was as to the constitutionality of. the law, and the contention that the law "was not regularly enacted was not raised. In ',he Gilliam county case, in which it has been stated that Judge Bradshaw has over ruled the action of the county court it appears that the only thing done was to grant man damus proceedings to compel the Gilliam county court to canvass the vote and declare the result This is said to be required whether the law is upheld or not, and can not be taken as meaning that the law is to be held as legally enact ed in that county. 'East Ore gonian. NEW RECORD FOR RAILROAD Only eight miles of new railroad track was laid in Oregon last year This was by three railroads. Tracklaying is already in progress on three roads aggregating more than 80 miles, the Great Southern, extending south from the Co-. lumbia River to Dufur, a branch of the O. R. & N., from Arlington to Condon, and the portage rail' road, and contractors are pitching their camps to begin grading on the Hood River Railroad, which will extend from the town of Hood River for a distance of 17 miles to a point near the junction of the West and Middle Forks of Hood River. In connection with these the projected roads that it is expected will be built this year, and part of which it is decided will be rushed to completion, corn prise a total of 2C7 mile that will be included in the record of the year. While it ia confidently antici pated that this will constitute but a small proportion of the building of the year, these are lines for which the necessary capital for construction is already in sight, and in several of the companies named being paid out for the labor employed in building. There is a revival of railroad construction throughout the United States, as well as extraordinary buying of railroad equipment that can only suggest that the big com panies are on the verge of exten sive betterments, and will strength en themselves by means of feed ers from present main lines to tap new tributary country. That the Northwest is going to have its share in this renewed activity is apparent from the above mile age table. None of the projected lines that have, not completed surveys are included, as, for instance, the extension of the Washington &. Columbia River from Pendleton, to be about 25 miles in length; of the Sumpter Valley toward John Day, or the O. R. & N. into the Wallowa country, all of which are probable, but not fully confirmed as to be construction of tl9 present year. The electric roads are included in the above the Oregon Water Power & Railway line from Gres ham to Troutdale, and the Ore gon traction Company both to connect Portland with additional suburban territory. Both of these are promised for the present year. In a statement contained in the current number of the Railway Age, reviewing the situation of last year and outlook for the present, it is shown that Califor nia was in the lead on the Pacific Coast last year, with 203 miles of road, and that state will again have considerable mileage bv reason of the Western Pacific constructing its line to San Fran cisco. However, with the build ing in prospect, Oregon is more than likely to take front-, rank among Western States. Telegram. LAKE COUNTY MINES CREATE STIR Never in the history of Lake county has the mining outlook been better that at the present time, says the Lakeview Herald. The various kinds of ore found throughout this and surrounding counties give assurance that there lays hidden a vast amount of ore which when discovered will make Interior Oregon famous as a min ing district. Several good prospects have been discoxered the last of which is the strike made at Willow Ranch by C. Norton, who spent the past week prospecting in that vicinity. Mr.-Norton brought back with him samples of ore that, when assayed by Geo. H. Avers, went $ 223.23 in gold and $2.70 in silver, Mr. Norton, i-t is reported, located a six leet wide ledge ot tnis ore on the Kirkpatrick ranch near what is known as Willow Ranch in California. 1 In speaking with C. U. Snider of the Willow Ranch prospect he stated that in 1872, 1881 and at various other times gold was found there; that one piece of quartz found there years ago went $2,000 to the ton, and that colors can be found anywhere just north of Willow Ranch. The report of Mr. Norton's dis covery, has created considerable mining talk in this town, and, if the mine should pan out it will no doubt cause a rush into this country. The cropping' of the prospects located by Wm. Hammersley, in Quartz valley assay, according to Mr. Ayres, $2.17v in gold, and indications are that richer ore will be found under the ground. The Norton mine at Paisley contains a ledge of ore that assays $8 to the ton, and Mr. Norton informs us that no further work on the mine will be done until the men who are interested in the prospect can come here and in vestigate it. CATTLE MARKET REMAINS DULL Slight Increase of Prices in Grant CountyLocal Figures Show but Little Advance. R. N. Stanfield, the Butter creek stockman from near Echo, was in Pendletan last Saturday transact ing business. Mr. Stanfield gays that there is about 2,000 beef beef cattle left in the Butter creek dis trict, and that unless the markets are better these animals will be turned out in pasture until June, when they will be turned off for beef. The prices are at present 34 cents a pound, with an occasional sale of 4 cents." The 2.000 cattle Mt are owned by A. B. Thompson, J. B. Saylor and Mr. StanheM Mr. Stanfield has sold nearly 800 head this winter and spring. Little.dipping will be done by the Echo stockmen this spring, as at present there are few indications of disease among the cattle. The treatment of stock last fall has al-, mos completely eradicated the disease, leaving the remainder free from all traces. Mr. Stanfield says that little seeding to alfalfa will be done in the Butter creek neighborhood, as the lack of snow in the mountains will be apt to leave the creek dry in the summer. ' Considerable work will be done, however, under the Butter creek extension, a3 the river will have more water than Butter creek this season. The Crook county market re mains practically stationary, but little buying hav.ng been done and at prices which are not con sidered satisfactory. It is believ ed, however, that the first heavy sales this year will be followed by an advance in figures. Over in Grant county conditions are considerably improved over those of last season, and cattle men in the John Day valley are refusing $22 per head for two-year-old steers when the price for the same stock last year was only $19. It is stated there that if present pi ices rule during the remainder of the season, three year-olds will command $28 or $30 per head. PUTER TO FEEL LAW'S CLUTCHES Indications now are that S. A. D. Puter and his cohorts in ex tensive land dealings will be call ed to give account of their alleged fraudulent transactions with the state before the State Circuit Court ior this county, .says a dispatch from Salem. District Attorney McNary has been looking into the matter quietly, with the result that he has decided to empanel a grand jury to make a thorough investi gation. Once started, it is expect ed that the investigation will open up for review all the state's deal ings in lands for a period of a i 11 i dozen years Dacs, wnicn may un cover some startling transactions and involve many promiuent men. Puter alone has been purchas ing land from the state by alleged fraudulent methods, for the past eight or ten j'ears, having been involved in buys aggregating about 50,000 acres. This includes the purchase of approximately 15,000 acres of timber land, situat ed in this county, in 1903, the title to which now rests in the Abiqua Land Company. The ca?e the grand jury may be called, to investigate is that in which Puter, on February 3 last, attempted to obtain possession of 3200 acres of school land in Klamath County by means of fraudulent applications, secured through the agency of Basil Wagner. This transaction lavs Puter open to the charge of con spiracy to defraud- the state of land; Basil Wagner to the charge of subornation of perjury, and each of the nine applicants to K-rjury. All of the parties con cerned have been subpenaed to appear before the grand jury of the Circuit Court for this county during the regular April term of court, which . convenes Monday, April 3. District Attorney Mc- Nary, who will probubly be as sisted in the investigation by At torney-General Crawford, says he is reasonably convinced that the state has been defrauded out of thousands of acres of valuable lajid, not only by Puter, but others, and says he proposes to make the investigation without regard to who may become involved. HORSE RUSTLERS CAUGHT AT HEPPNER Deputy Sheriff Burns of Walla Walla county arrived in Ileppner Sunday having trailed a couple of orre thi-vex fr.i,u V..i ;j to Ileppner. On hijtanivul there he placed the matter in the hand of Sheriff Shutt. who nromntlv went to work on the clue and succeeded in locating the crimi nals on the ranch of Mr. Cupper, seven miles below Monument on the John Day river. It appears that the thieves, two young men, had stolen seven head of horses, a wagon and a buggy at or near Walla Walla. They were trailed to Echo, where they traded the wagon and from there they came to Heppner and here traded the buggy to Geo. Steven son -for three head of horses, which they drove with their other horses to Monument and put them in a pasture and secured a job from Mr. Cupper. Deputy Sheriff D. Os Gurdane and the Walla : Walla deputy sheriff left late Sunday afternoon for Monument and the Cupper ranch to make the arrest. Trjfi deputy sheriffs returned with the young men, whose names are Charles and Roy Anderson, Tuesday night, experienced no trouble in making the arrest. The prisoners were taken to Walla Walla, where they wil be tried. ROAD COMPANY WILL AGREE Citizens of Malheur who have been struggling to have the govern ment irrigation project put through, are highly pleased over the announced purpose of Charles Altschul, owner of the Willamette valley and Cascade mountain military wagon road grant lands, to enter into the agreement of the Malheur Water Users' association. R. Blackaby of this county says he has been informed by C. E. S. Wood of Portland, attorney for Altschul, that they intend to come into the agreement, and that the talk in the papers about their keeping out is not correct. Mr. Wood says further that his client is endeavoring to get certain con cessions from ihe envtrrifiitt in regard to this woik, and wLtn there are given they are ready to enter the agreement. When this land is included nothing remains to prevent the government from proceeding im mediately with work, as all other obstructions have been removed. The interests under discussion represent about 33,000 acres of land within the proposed irriga tion area, and will be the roost important single factor in the enterprise. The board of consulting engi neers will be in Fession the latter wart of April, by .which time all details regarding agreements will no doubt be finished. The Water Users' association ' is rushing its part of the work with all possible dispatch that the board will find everything as desired by the government, and may order work to commence immediately. Jour nal. ' V