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VOL. IX.
PJUNKVILLCItOOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 3, 1SI05.
NO. 33
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MICHEL & CO.
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Trunk or a Suit Gase
AVe luiv IIhmu in ii iimmiImt of styles and sizes and prices to suit
TIM INKS
SUIT CASKS
CLUB HAGS .
TKU-SCONiS
$1.50 to $10.00
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$1.00 to $1.50
$ .50 to $1.50
BJ Michel & Company Michel & Company
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Announcement
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Boyd Adams having purchased an interest
with 0. C. Dunham in the New York Racket
Store, and they having purchased the stock of
Clothing and Furnishing Goods of B. Gormley
desire to annouce to the public that the new
firm has moved into the building formerly occu
pied by Mr. Gormley and will do business in our
new quarters under the firm name of the
OWL GASH STORE
In our new quarters we have more room and in
addition to the lare stock which wo now havo
we will add several new lines making: our store
the most complete and up-to-date in the county.
We wish to call your special attention to our
Shoe Department as we intend to make this our
specialty and cater to the wants of the particular
Thanking you for your patronage in the past
and with a cordial invitation for all to call and
see us in our new quarters we are
Yours respectfully,
DUNHAM & ADAMS
CROOK'S SCHOOLS
SHOW GREAT GAINS
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Total Increase of Pupils
During the Year Num
bers 509 Teachers' Sal
aries Increased.
The annual whod r'ort, com
piled from nil the m-IiooI ditttrlctf
in Crook county, which County
Sujicrintcndent Dinwiddi has
prepared to forward to Stat
Su jriiitoiKlctit Ackerinnn, shows
come interesting gains in the
various districts.
The total enumeration for the
county hows 2018 children be
tween the nge of six and 20 year?,
at present attending school.
There are SOI tunics and 1214
females. Thin in an increase of!
who in tarn had gent word to the
agent at Metier, from whom the
Dutchman heard the account.
Not waiting to investigate, he
hurried to The Dalles with tho
sensational tory for the officers.
To add to the story, Captain
Charles Nelson, of the little steam
er Maja, which runs ln-twetn The
Dalle and Cam.ade Lock, hud
i-eeh the trunk on the river hank
Monday, and a young lady of The
Dal lei, who eame up on the steam
er Regulator Satuiday, hail feen a
woman with with a large new
trunk put off the lioat at Tunnel
No.
Taken altogether, the story of
the tramp seemed plausible, and
the entire bevy of jxace officers
took passage for the scene.
Confident that an awful mystery,
was to he unraveled, and certain
that an inquest would he neces
sary, Coroner Burget joined the
party. When the officers reached
the spot where the trunk and dead
man were supposed to lie, so coufi-
practicallv Stf, per cent over tha 1 denl as ihe Coroner, who by the
enumeration of last year The J W,J 'H an undertaker, that he was
total number of students shown on ! in the Pre8t,n"e ' the dead that
Iat-1 year's report was 1500. Super-jne voirefHie could smell a corpse,
intendent Drdwiddie states that!Bt,t neithr trunk nor cone
the enumeration this year, high m,C0U.M Le fouI,d' thol,gh tbft tiU f
it it., does not include' the -name-1 a trunk and pome I,iece8 of woid
of all the pupils who will U . ere found, and tracks could be
rolled this fall. Since the .im.ieen lpa(,ing to a dim waoa road'
This.
was
evidence
and all
that the
had been
of lakintr the enumerition in
February manv families with 1 trunk TF.
children'have moved into thecoun-1 nau,fcd awa' ,0 "ome Pkce of on
ty to make this their home. In
consequence the attendance in the
54 districts into which the county
y divided, will lie much heavier
next month when the fall term
begins than is at present shown
in the report to the state superin
tendent. The county census was
taken, according to law, by ' the
various district clerks, last Febru
ary, but the individual reports
cealment. (!nd the mystery waa
deep, until a resident appeared
and began relating how a young
NOT MANY HUNTERS
IN THE COUNTY
County Clerk Smith Has
Issued Licenses to Only
21 of Those Who Hanker
After Powder and Shot
Unlesi there is a great influx of
sportsmen in the office of Cpunty
Clerk Smith during the next two
months, and a great many more
hunter's licenses issued, the gay
and festive jackrabhit together
with the mule tails are not likely
to encounter much difficulty in
avoiding those who have lived up
to the law and procured the neces
sary certificate which permits
them to shoot at everything that
comes under the classification of
game. Up to the first of the week
the county clerk had issued only
21 licenses to as many hunters,
and it is safe to assert that there
are twenty times that number of
men in the county who have a
hankering after the powder and
shot. Grant county has issued
150 permits, and adjacent counties
have -likewise shown their true
blue sportsmanship. All but
Crook. County "Clerk Smith
states, however, as his opinion
that there wi.l be a large number
of licenses issued during August
and Spiifpmhipr anrl nartipnlarlv
lady neighbor who hjd been visit- the fifgt ha of thig montfa Man
. " . .... I the seaon tor aeer hunting opens.
the law having been changed et
last Saturday and had left her
trunk on the river -bank until
Monday evening, and when a
team and wagon had been sent
after it, it was found that the
trunlc had Wen cut open and
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thus a
were not filed with the
suiK-rintendent until the last of
June. Theiatter's report to the and a big sensation vanished, and
state gujicrintcndent is made upl
from thedistriet reports and will
supposed foul murder
four officers hung their heads and
be sent to Salem this week.
climbed up to the railroad track,
where a freight train was standing.
SPECIAL SESSION WILL
REVISE LAND LAWS
Professional Cards.
Ctliott,
glacksmithing That Pleases
I The Kind Yoii. (ict at
J. II. WIGLE'S
(Successor to)
CORNETT & ELKIXS'S
A Stock of Farm Machinery always on hand
t-Xam
Ortgon.
H Jtr tttrnjr-at-yCam
The financial reiwt shows that j ne' a8Kea permission oi tne
a total of 111,473.22 was paid in ! conductor to ride, but simply took
salaries to the county teachers ! I10SSCS8ion of a flat car and rode
during the past year, an average qtly home.
of $5lJ to male teachers, and 145.34 I
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to tetnaie icaciters, an liacrease in
both instances of several dollars
over the preceding year. The
total amount of money received
from all sources for educational
purposes during the past year
amounted to 123,500.39. leaving
a balance divided among the
various districts of $G17S. 32.
Superintendent Dinwiddie's re
port covering bus own work, which
he is compelled to give in detail,
shows that during t'he school year
he visited 31 schools in the county
and in so doing covered a distance
of 400 miles. '
At the present time there are
J."i0 books in the library, and this
amount will be largely increased'
this vear owing to the new state'
law which provides for a library
tax with which to equip the school
libraries with suitable volumes for
educational purposes.
the last session of the legislature
fron. July 15 to August 15 as the
date upon which deer hunting can
begin.
Those who have paid their fee
and secured licenses are given in
the order in which the permits
were issued. Unless otherwise
designated, the names given are
those of local hunters:
J. Frank spinning, V. A. Bell,
P. B. Poindexter, Ralph Poindex
ter, L. A. Booth, O. C. Gray, O.
C. Hale, Madras, Issac J. Lefiler,
Madras; W. E. Luckey, Harry
Danly, John C. Herman, Antelope;
A. M. Laprath, St Helens, Wash.;
W. A. Templeton, Brownsville;
Otto F. Turner, Pendleton; John
V. Lane, Pendleton: TJiomas
j Sharp, Jr., Elliott R. Corbett,
Tho Public Lands Commission, I Harry F. Evans, Philadelphia, O.
aonointed nearlv two vears asro to ! B. Gray, V. A. Booth, Allen II.
year, as the wool bins in all the
great markets are cleaned out,
tft$ output of wool is not increas
ing as rapidly as the demand for
woolen manufacturers is increas
ing and so the American sheep
men will l a favored man for the
next few years.
In the same letter Mr. Gwinn
says there is a strong demand from
all the corn states for feeders and
if the sheepmen do not hold out
for unreasonable prices the move
ment of this class of sheep will be
very heavy this year.
CLOUDBURST OCCURS
AT TWO POINTS
Mitchell waa visited by its first
water spout of the season Tuesday
night. The stoim swung over the
town from the southward and the
streets and canyons about the
village were soon filled with water.
The deluge of water recalled to tha
minds of the residents the flood of
last year and no little anxiety was
felt for a short time, but the water
fall, although heavy, continued
but a short time. Growing crops
were damaged considerably, and
much of the hay which has just
been cut was washed away.
A few hours after the storm
broke over Mitchell, a water spout
occurred a short distance out of
Shaniko, extending southward to
Willow cree'k. All the canyons
throughout the entire distance
were filled full of water and the
damage in this district is much
heavier than in the section around
Mitchell. The cloud burst was
accompanied by an electrical
storm which burned out numerous
telephones and destroyed the con
nection on the Prineville Shaniko
? fri .is .
une. ine souin oouna stage was
delayed by the high water, not
arriving here yesterday until
afternoon.
Ongon,
( Ctunty tican)
ffialknap dt Co wards
Physicians and Surgtaits.
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A. FL , LIPPMAN 8 CO.
Furniture and Undertaking
Ranges
AT PORT LA N 1) PR I C US
investigate and report upon the
operation and needed modifications
in the public land laws, hopes to
submit a finl and comprehensive
report to President Roosevelt prior
to the assembling of Congress next
Fall, says a dispatch from Wash
ington. The commission has
about completed its investigations
as reganls tne homestead, tne
desert land and "the timber laws,
but has not disposed of the
mineral land laws.
To gather detailed information
as to the manner in which these
laws are oiierating, and to ascer-
TO IRRIGATE LAND
ALREADY UNDER WATER
It is
a unique feature of the
Moore, Crabtree.
The section of the state statutes
providing for the issuing of
licenses is as follows:
Every person hunting game,
animals or fowl in this state shall
first iirocure a hutjer's license
from one of the counties, except he
be hunting on his own land.
Resident hunters shall pay $1 and
non-resident $10 a year for this
license. The county clerk shall
issue the license upon application
and a license will permit hunting
in other counties. The penalty
for violation is a fine of $25 to
DALLES MYSTERY
HAS HUMOROUS END
Ortgon.
iPAysict'an and iSttrgton
C ats ansvrt promptly clay or my At
(fffiv two etoort xatttA of TToiiptmto '
st mm 9ffin Stromtt.
CPrinevilla, Oregon,
F. 7. DIEM
WATCHMAKER and JEWELER
Wati'II, Clock nml Jswki.ky Rkcaikinu A
SPECIALTY. Frh'cs Roasonnblo, All
Work Ouamnloed. A lino o Watohi'8 nml
Spociaolos t Reason able Trices.
Shop between Blgga' and Bell's law offices on
street leadiug to Court House.
Prineville, . . .
WOOL PRICES WILL
Tho Dalles has as good and alert
oflicers as any place in the world,
seldom does a wrongdoer escape
them, and the inkling that a crime
has been committed is sufficient to
put them on their mettle. But
occasionally they get onto a wrong
lead. Wednesday was one of their
unfortunate days, and as a refult
of an exceedingly novel wild goose
chase the entire community has
the laugh on them.
The cause of their chagrin was
a'story circulated by a tramp and
enlarged on by an exciteable Dutch
man. When the easthound train
arrived Wednesday, it bore a
German from Mosier, Vho, with
intense horro, related that an
awful crime had been committed
at Tunnel No. 3, seven miles be
low Tho Dalles. His story was
that a tramp had cut open a trunk
near the river bank and found the
body of a dead man. Tfae tramp
Oregon had told his story to a section boss,
tain what changes may be neces- j $100. or imprisonment of five
sary in the interest of good ad-; thirty days,
ministration, a . special committee, j
consisting of Alexander C. Shaw
and G. W. Woodruff, of the Forest
Service, Frank Bond, of the
General Land Office, and A E.
Chandler, of the Reclamation
Service, have sent into the West to
inspect and report on mineral
land operations generally, both in
and outside forest reserves.
Meanwhile, Chief Forester Pin
chot is making a tour of the West,
gathering information as he goes;
Chief Engineer F. II. Newell, of
the Reclamation Service, has long
been in the West with his eyes
open, and Land Commissioner
Richards, the third member of the
commission, and its chairman, has
gone to Utah to conduct the open
ing of the Uintah Reservation.
. At the close of the bummer, the
Commission will meet, consider
what information the individual
to
That next year's wool prices will
be equal to or better .than the
prices received this year, is fully
proved by the activity of wool
buyers who are now endeavoring
to contract next year's clips at the
high water marks of this year's
prices.
A private letter from James H.
Gwinn, secretary of the National
Livestock association, to the East
Oregonian, says, that buyers are
now making every effort in Wyom
ing and Nevada to contract next
year's wool clip at the highest
'""' l : i .1 m
members have gathered and what!murK Paiu 11118 W OIienng as an
has been prepared for them, and . additional inducement to pay one-
will then, as speedily as posstme,
agree upon their findings and sub
mit their views to the President.
If their report is complete in all
details, the President will make it
the basis of recommendations of
changes in the public land laws at
the next session of Congress.
third of the contract price down
now, thus giving the sheepmen use
ot tnis amount tor the coming
year.
Air. Owinn says that there is
no doubt whatever about the prices
being as high or higher than last 1 Klamath count)'
Klamath reclamation project that
of the 250,000 acres to be irrigated,
at least half is now constantly
under water of a depth varying
from one to fifteen' feet. In all ir
rigation service, drainage accom
panies irrigation as a vitally neces
sary adjunct, but for half must,
for two or three years precede ir
rigation. It is proposed to drain
off all the waters of Lower Klam
ath lake and to uncover half the
lands in the Tule lake, the Federal
Congress and the Legislature of
Oregon and California having
given the necessary permission to
the reclamation service. The two
states have. ceded to the National
Government all lands in the lake
beds, and these lands, with the
exception of the acreage now held
in private ownership, will be sub
ject to homestead entry when
thoroughly drained and ready for
cultivation.
A greater part of the area, 190,-
000 acres, under the Klamath pro
ject, will be irrigated with water
drawn from Upper Klamath lake,
a natural and inexhaustive reser
voir. No storage dam is required
here, the lake having sufficiently
higher elevation than the lands to
be watered. About 60.000 acres
will be watered from Clear lake in
California, or from Horsefly reser
voir situated in Oregon.
Of the now dry lands under the
project only a few thousand acres
are public lands. The greater
part of the lands in private owner
ship is held in large tracts, and,
under the provisions of the recla
mation act, those lands must be
sold in small lots, as one person
can purchase water for no more
than 160 acres. The Klamath
Water User's Association, a cor
poration of landowners with a
capital of $3,000,000, has organiz
ed to co-operate with and assist
the reclamation service. The office
of .the association is at Klamath
Falls, Oregon, the county seat of