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VOL IX
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 7, 1905.
NO. 51
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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
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piacksmithing That Pleases
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J. H. WIGLK'S
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COR.VKTT & ELKIXS
A Stock of Farm Machinery always on hand
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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.
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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
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1 The 0 K Meat Market
$ STROUD BROS., Proprietors
Dealers in Choice Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Butter
Eggs and Country Produce
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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. . '