7 0 Crook County mm VOL IX PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 7, 1905. NO. 51 on CLAYP00L BROS. SUCCESSORS TO J. F. MORRIS Dealers in General Merchandise, Dry Goods Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Furnishings and Groceries WHILE THEY LAST i.".k 12.00 10(H) -Mimi'h SuitH for $15.00 12.00 9.00 7.50 All ladies' coats, suits, waists and wrappers now selling at actual cost PRINEVILLE, OREGON Professional Cards. ?. Cttftt, ty-mt-jCmm Jtlrnjt-mt-jCmm ynmin'U; Ortftn. Cm: J. Clmrnr, Jf. 2. S3tkmmp ( Cimmty FAfUmm) ffiolknap dc 6 d wards ytftJimm$ mmtt Jnrfmt. 00 M ft Ct mmi Wmf tSfm piacksmithing That Pleases ftU The Kind You Get at J. H. WIGLK'S (KnccvMur to) COR.VKTT & ELKIXS A Stock of Farm Machinery always on hand CmIt mmimwr? promptly Imj wr nifAt 0 ftmm f V m&rmf Jtm. SfS'fl Ayticimm mmi Surf ('Al.ljr Akmtmicii Promptly l)AV OR Ml.tll orrn uk it Imki North or AWKXiVl Imt u mturk. K iuiiikki k ommfTft MkTHllT I'llftl'M IS WORTH $2,000,000 Expert's Opinion of the Dixie Meadows Mine A NEW STAMP Mill Will Be Erected and Shaft Sunk 300 Feet Deeper Bond Issue , Will Provide Fundi. I- 3VL" I Ct JiiXj TOYS! CHRISTMAS TOYS! I Iihvi llni-from wliii ll to m-lil uny one of which i Mire to tk'liKht Iht-rliilitrvn, A t-tiil.l X man i inroniplrtr y itliiiiit a ! ool toys CANDIES, NUTS and FRUITS ol tlii vtrry ImkIkmI nuulity, mwiRlly ordered Kir tli holiday trml. We Rk tluit you iniikc mi Iic-ix-ciiou of our xiork of N I'Trt They are fruuli nuil owcrt ami are IxMng wild Ht price Kilurnnlecil to mitt your approval CIGARS, PIPES and TOBACCO if cntalilinlicj merit only. Hol- Thi'itoods I im-II in thene liufH mi' tlnt limy pai'kRiri'H ol rlniirx, i ulMr for KriilU'iniiii. iility pai'kaireK of cliir. a nice pie or tobacco pouch are now very K)i- ll von have a wuni lor tiicw, i nave tneKOoui. A COMPLETE LINE OF NEW GROCERIES NOTIONS, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC J. G. CANTRILL Feed and Boarding -: Stable :- Stock boarded by the day, week or month and Rood attention given the same. Your patron age solicited. AT Oi l' Illl.l.luN HTAMI PRINEVILLE, OREGON IJI III .5 1 The 0 K Meat Market $ STROUD BROS., Proprietors Dealers in Choice Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Butter Eggs and Country Produce mil mm mi OFFICERS; A. Booth, Pridnt O. M. Ilkimi. Vlc Prildnl Fnio W. Wilon, Cithier OIREOTORB: w. A. Booth, O. M. Elkins, O. F. Btcwamt, Frio w. Wilson. Transacts a (leneral BankiuK Iiusine.sa . Exchange Bought and Sold ' Collection will re ceive prompt attention Urr4IllU;ilriJrr4qd Star Barbershop X Our Kaircutiing is up-to- date Our shaving is comlortable. Our shop is new and clean. Henderson Build inur 4 PRINKVILI.K, - OKKMOX jt I. W. S PE'A R Jfieeci, Stable and Jreff Camp Jfouatr WHEAT HAY 25 Cts. HEAD Huy nnj Uriiin $1.25 pur day. Transient tnulo Doliuitpd. I'onie wncre you ami your tennis can tx iiukIc comt'ortulmt lit the old MoFarland Stand, Prineville, Or Additional machinery in to 1-e inHtalled at the Dixie Meadovm mine, located in Grant county near Prairie City, ami the work of further developing the jirnerly will be commenced. A tifteen Ntatnji mill, and an air comiiretiFtr drill and other equipment for a sinking plant will he in cluded in the additionB made. Thece at teat are the plans' which are now contemplated by r.har holdcra among whom are Dr. H. P. Ilelknap, (5. M. Cornett, T. M. Kaldwin, W. A. Booth and oth;r prominent bumneM men of Prine viHe. A meeting of the share holders will e held in this city next week when Dr V. C. Belknap and R. C. Reese, of Prairie City will be pre sent. At that time definite action is expected tc be taken to provide for the improvements outlined above. The plan in to make an issue of l)ondrt in the sum of 15,0(X), the bonds to be purchased by local capital, largely among the share holders themselves. The machinery now at the mine is rolling mills, the first set having a ca pit city of 1(0 tons per day and the second set twelve tons per day, which limits the output to the latter figure. A depth of :M)0 feet has been leached, and the owners desire to go down oOO feet further. One thousand tons of the ore have leen worked, and was smelted at Sunipter, 45 miles from the mines. This yielded ttn average of $10 per ton, although specimens fo the ore are enormously rich in free gold. The majority of the ledge matter is low grade refractory ore and must be either smelted or treated by the cyanide process. The company is contemplating the installation of a cvanide plant at the mines. The mine was discovered about five years ago by K. C Reese. The ledge varies from a width of six to fifty feet. A few weeks ago Charles McQueen, of Portland, ex- perted the property and assured owners that with only a compar atively small amount of additional development work, the mine would ie ot a marketable value ot over !f2,(XX)(000. AO work has been in progress on the property since last July Last week Taylor Hill of Green ville, who also owns shares, came to Prineville and made an effort to secure control of the voting of the shares by proxy, in order to get some action in the matter, and as a result the idea developed to bond the property and resume develop ment work. While the majority of the stock, 600,0(10 shares, is held by the directors at Prairie City, most all of the 400,000 shares which were put on the market to raise funds for working the property are held by Crook county people. the people of Culver and Madras will long lie remembered for their hospitality. These meeting have shown that people are taking more in- tereit in educational work and patrons and others ai well as teachers are willing to assist in making these meetings an educa tional and social treat to those who attend. Nearly forty mem bers were added to the Crook county educational onion and many more are expected soon. There were present at these meetings nearly half the working1 corps of teachers tn tin county, nearly all assisting with the pro grams. Prineville was represented by Sup't Dinwiddie, Profs. Strange, Ford and Stone, Misses fio&ijn, Vanderpool, Kidder and Rannells, besides a number of High school students. An educational meeting will be held at Bend on the evening of December Hith, a good program has been arranged and everyone is invited. OREGONIAN'S BITTER ATTACK Portland Paper Publish es More Lies WILL TALK BY WIRE CRA1N CASE IS BASIS ReTtngeful Newspaper Takes a Savage Delight in Grilling the Residents of Prineville Your patronage respectfully solicited and a trial order of one of our Roasts or Steaks will convince you that we-sell only the Ucst. In the shop formerly occupied ly Crooks A Sailor Telephone Orders Will Be Given Prompt Attention Son Lost Mother. "Consumption runs in our family, and through it I lost my Mother," writes K. B. Held, of Harmony, Me. "For the past live years, however, on the slightest sign of a Cough or Cold, 1 have taken Dr. King's New DIsctA'ery for Consumption, which lias saved me from serious lung trouble." Ills mother's death was a sad loss for Mr. Keid, but he learned that luiig trouble must not be neg lected, and how to cure it. Quickest relief and cure for coughs and colds Price 50c and fl.UO; guaranteed at J. H. Templetou'a and I). P. Adam son's drug store. Trial bottle free. Two More Extensions Will Soon Be Built in This County. The extension of telephone lines over Crook countv has been among the most noticable improvements made in the p:tst two years and is one of the very best evidences of the very best evidences of the un paralled progress that has been made in Central Oregon during that time. Isolated communities which required hours to reach by Etage or other conveyance are now in close touch with each other, greatly facilitating business operations. This week two more lines are announced to be in the prelimi nary stages of construction, one of 12 miles making direct connection between Madras and Hay Creek, for which the survey has been com pleted and the materials are in readiness, and another, of 45 miles between Prineville and the Abe Hackleman ranch on Bear creek southwest of this place, for which contracts are now being signed. These two lines are to be built by the State Central company, of which George Summers the Prine ville postmaster is manager The Madras-Hay Creek line will be in opetation by the first of the year. The Bear Creek-Prineville line is to be a farmers' line and many residents along the route are mak ing application for service. Last year a line was built to Bend, 32 miles from Prineville. From Bend extensions were made to Laidlaw, eight miles and also to the D. 1. & P. Co's camps, and later to the new town of Redmond. During this year a line was strung to Madras from Prineville oo miles, and another to Howard, 24 miles up the Ochoco river. With the completion of the new lines Crook county will be fuirly well covered with telephone service. The Prineville local exchange has had a rapid and continuous growth. Four new phones were installed this week, one nt the res idence of Dr. Chas. S. Edwards, one at the residence of Mrs. Ollie F.lkins, one at the store of Hideout & Foster and another at the candy factory of the same firm. TEACHERS.MEETINGS At Madras and Culver Prove Most Successful and Instructive. The educational meetings held at Culver and Madras the 1st and 2nd of December were the most successful meetings ever held in Crook county. Nothing was lackr ing in attendance, attention, or in terest shown and the dinners were immense. The visiting people were shown every kindness and The Oregonian, after nursing the wounds received through the col umns of the Portland Journal by Mayor Wurzweiler and the Citi zens' Business league, when the two some weeks ago nailed the focner paper's malicious lies con cerning matters in this section of Crook county, has again begun its attack. Residents here, are not surprised at the unwarranted attack, or the base lies used to bolster it up. It was expected The Oregonian never forgets the enemies which it makes for itself, Taking a common street braw as a basis, the Oregonian in its editions Monday and .Tuesday weaves a wonderful tale of alleged malicious assault made upon Wil- ford Crain by Marshal Harrington The management of the Oregonian in both instances cited was not content to give the simple fact9 relating to a street fight, which had it occurred in any place but Prineville, would have been east asides worth only a few lines at the most, but an honest and fair course does not set well on the Oregon ian's shoulders, and it im mediately set about to stuff its columns with as many distorted facts and falsehoods as possible. It is needless to say that the Oregonian had an object to ac complish. It has hated this sec tion of Crook county for politica reasons for some time past, and nothing too exaggerated or false regarding this section, has been barred from . its columns. Facts regarding the Crain case therefore would not have sufficed, and the Oregonian has with wonder excit ing andacity resorted to a column or more of pure fiction, the kind of journalism that barbarism ruled off the boards many decades ago The "news" facts concerning the beet culture, and recently sent samples of his product to Profes sor James Withycombe. director nd agriculturist of the Oregon Agricultural College. In the re turns just received, chemical analy sis shows that the beets are about verage for quality in sugar con tent. The factories like beets run- ng about 15 per cent sugar sod 80 per cent purity, and Mr. Reed's sample are pronounced by the chemist to come very close to this standard. The seeds were obtained from the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and the samples were grown in the vicinity of the Des chutes irrigation project, without fertilization of any aort. Mr. Reed feels quite jubilant over the situa tion, claiming that there is a large territory adjacent to his ranch adapted, to sugar beet culture, and thinks that his successful tests may eventually lead to the establish ment of a factory there. Ore gonian. Shot Himself in the Foot. K0USE DESTROYED Flames Consume Residence of J. F. Hogg Last Friday N. F McCoin accidently shot himself in the instep of the left foot with a 38 caliber revolver last Sunday morning. He was in tending to shoot at a rabbit when the accident happened and was at the sheep ranch nine miles west of town where he is a partner with J. F. Taylor. The revolver was unintentionally discharged while pointed towards his foot, Drs. Belknap and Edwards attended him and . took the piece of lead from a mass of broken bone well back towards the heel. The in jured man is now at the home of Postmaster Summers in Prineville. case, if any at all were sent to the paper, were handled editorially before publishing, and all of the pent up spite and venom possible to express with English word were included in both the articles and editorial comments. Crook county is helpless in at tempting to counteract the im pression which the Oregonian has created by its unqualified prevari cations. The hrazenness of the printed words, however, is so fia grantly apparent that the public generally can probably see beneath tha purported dispatches and ed torial comment to the foundation of spitefullness and revenge upon which both are laid. The Oregonian probably feels relieved at ridding itself of a quiver of poisoned darts, but it is doubt ful whether the public will swal low all of its insanely exaggerated and contorted expressions, which were given to the public with the sole oblect in view of doing as much damage as possible to-this section of the state against which the Oregonian has before shown its animosity and ill will. The Oregonian's deception of the public will be replied to in due time and in such a way that it will have no opportunity to hedge as it did before, when the Portland Jour nal gave space to the facts as they stood, open and above board and apparent to all. The residence of J. F. Hogg, 25 miles up the Ochoco, was totally destroyed by fire last Friday after noon, together with $150 in paper money which was in the house at the time, the property of Chas. Lizzel, an employe of the ranch. The loss amounts to several thou sand dollars, and was covered by only $400 insurance. The fire started between the first and second floors from a defective stove pipe, and quickly leveled the building to the ground. Lizzel and his four children were the only ones about the premises when the blaze started, and he could do nothing to stay the progress of the flames. Mr. Hogg was in Prine ville Friday where he" haa been staying most of the time while bis children attended school here The house was a two story build ing with a kitchen attached, and made a terrific heat while burning. The barns and hay lofts, which were filled with this season's crop, - stood only a short distance away, and a heavier loss was saved only through the fact that no wind was blowing which would carry the sparks and cinders into the more inflammable contents of the barns. Lizzel had all of his summer's earnings in a room on the second floor, together with his personal effects. The progress of the flames was so rapid that he did not have time to save either his money or other goods after placing the chil dren in a safe place, City to Improve Park. B. F. Jones was appointed night citv marshal at the December ses sion of the citv council held last Tuesday .evening. , Inside of the next year many improvements will be added to the city's park which just now is undergoing treatment by the plows and scrapers. The report of the committee on streets and public improvements was filed at the council meeting Tuesday evening and arrangements made for the future beautifying of the-park, It is probable that a private sub scription will be raised among the businessmen, who have expressed a willingness to aid in the work of improvement, and by early sum mer the park will be open to the public. City Election Monday. Sugar Beets Grown at Sisters. H. B. Reed, a. farmer residing near Sisters, Crook Countv, has been experimenting with sugar City election will be held in Prineville next Monday. A mayor and three aldermen are to be elected. The retiring councilmen are: D. F. Stewart, Walter O'Neil and J. H. Wigle. At the council meeting last Tuesday .evening J. L. Luckey, J. W. Henderson and M. E. Vanderpool were appointed judges, and Earl Barnes and L. A. Booth clerks of the election. The annual election of oflicera and initiation of new members in to the Prineville Fire Department will take place in the department hall next Monday evening. . '