ourinial.
VOL. X
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 28, 1905.
NO. 2
Crook rComety
CLAYPOOL BROS.
SUCCESSORS TO J. F. MORRIS
Dealers in General Merchandie, Dry Good
Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Furnishings and Groceries
WHILE THEY LAST
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$15.00
12.00
9.00
7.50
All ladies' coats, suits, waists and
wrappers now selling at actual cost
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Professional Cards
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BUY MYRTLE
CREEK MILL
Prineville Capitalists in
New Company.
$80,000 PRICE PAID
B. F. Allen, H. Taylor Hill and
Others Purchase Big Sawmill
and Timber Holdings.
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TOYS! CHRISTMAS TOYS!
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CANDIES, NUTS and FRUITS
ill llii' very hitflii'M lit I i t V . .ipi'iinHy unli-ii'il lor the holiday triiilt". We
uk Unit you innki' mi i 1 1 -i rli.in ol our .in'k of Nl'TS Tliey lie frt-li
Mini fil mill ii ri- iM'iiiK snlil nt priei"- k tinlil to tiiwl your upprovnl
CIGARS, PIPES and TOBACCO
riii-piiiili I Kt'll in llii-M uiirn iii f llin' i-l' olulili-lieit nirrll only. ituL
lility imi'ftiKi'K ol'eiirnlN, n nici pipe of loliaoeo pouch an1 nun very ioii
ulnr Kilt fur Ki'iilletuiMi. Ifyuii Iihiimi wiint lor them-, I Iiiivp llir kimmIi.
A COMPLETE LINE OF NEW GROCERIES
NOTIONS, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC., ETC
i-nvcioECEni.
J. a CANTRILL
Feed and Boarding
Stable :-
Stock boarded by tha day, weak
or month and good attention
glvwn the name. Your patron
age solicited.
AT III. II llll.l.lUN MI AMI
PRINEVILLE, OREGON
acrtu in the valley uceptible of
irrigation sod settlement.
Horjientead csbirm have been
built rapMIy on the open tract
during the past few months and
the residents in the new region
about a month ago drew up a pe
tition te the county court of Lake
county praying for the lonntruc
tinn of a county road northward
to the Crook county line. Prine
ville in the nearest general trad
ing point and an effort will be
made to construct a good road Ie
tween the valley and thin place.
Tl district is about 4.r mile
south of here and indi vidual et
tiers in the region lact year par
tially conctrucUwl a road toward
thin point. Now the nnemtance of
Lake county has leen atiked for
and it in probable that when the
travel towards the region Itegin
again next pprlng that the regi
dntK will petition . the Crook
county court 1o make pansable the
road leading ttoulhward fromthe
Millican ranch at Pine mountain
to the Crook county line on the
fouth.
One of the attractive features of
the Christmas Lake vallev is the
fact that water can Ik-Struck from
1 to 30 feet lielow the surface.
The district lark hard winters
and heavy snows and this coupled
! with the richness and fertility of
(the ttoil will no doubt be the means
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i'l iirilJiliK ii' lirAi irni mr
mofct rupid settlement of any lis
trict east of the Cascades.
More Land Under Pringle Ditch.
Information concerning the en
largement of the Pringle irrigating
ditch by the Ochoco A Ryegrass
company, as published in The
Journal last week, was not com
plete. Sam Collins, one of the
PRIMARY LAW
NEXT ELECTION
New Law Effective the
Coming Year.
PRIMARIES APRIL 20
Complications of Law's Provisions
Will Keep Politicians Busy
Until Votes Are Counted.
H. K. Allen, president of the
First National Bank of Prineville
li. Taylor Hill, formerly of this
city and who is a property owner
here, purchased the holdings of
the Johnson Lumber company at
Myrtle Creek last week for 180,
()00, together with othercapitalists.
The new firm has filed arti
cles of incorporation as the Myrtle
Lumber company with a capital
stock 01 :u,uuu fully paid up.
The other incorporators named in
the paiiers are A. M. Kelsav and
K. K. Allen, of Hood Kiver, and S,
S. Johns of. The Dalles. The
offices of the company will he at
Myrtle Creek. The property in
volved in the transfer of interests
includes the following: A planing
mill nt Myrtle Creek, a sawmill
six miles east thereof, a flume con
necting the two mills, 2'24C acres
of tine timber land, all lumber on
hand and all land, rights-of-way
and water rights acquired by the
Johnson Lumber Co.; also the
projierty of the Myrtle Creek Hotel
Co., comprised of the members of ! main promoters of the enterprise,
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OFFIOeHS:
W. A. Booth. Prtldnl
O. M. EkKiM. Vic Prtldnt
Fiio w. Wilson. Chlr
OlRtCTOHS:
W. A. Booth. O. M. Clkins,
O. r. tTewAMT, Fnt o w. Wilson.
Transacts a General
Ranking HusineHH
Exchange Bought
and Sold
Collections will re
ceive prompt attention
I Jtyde d WfcRae
I the Johnson Lumber Co., the pro-
ffilperty consisting of the nite of the
Myrtle Creek Hotel, which was
destroyed by tire some time ago.
In addition the purchasers acquiie
full water rights from the planing
mill to Willis Kramer's flouring
mill, about 100 yards distant.
The new company haa made
arrangements to commence ojiera
tions inside of the next three
weekB and a force of at least 40
men will be put to work, the num
lier to be gradually increased as
conditions justify. The daily out
put of the mill next spring it is
exacted will le increased to a
total of 40,000 to 60,000 feet. The
milling plant lies some little dis
tance from" the spur of the Southern
Pacific railroad, but a flume ex
tension is to be built through
which the finished lumber will be
carried to the yards near the
Myrtle Creek deot.
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I he U Iv Meat Market
Our haircutting is up-to-
date. Our shaving is
comfortable. Our shop is
" new and clean.
Henderson Building
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STROUD BROS., Proprietors
FINE TRACT IS OPEN
Christmas Lake Valley Will Have
Influx of Settlers.
states that the company will have
water for sale for irrigating pur
poses at an estimated rate nf $1
per inch, and that the canal will
furnish enough water to irrigate
all the land on the north side of
the river lying under the ditch
letween Prineville and Dodson
lake.
The work at the intake just
al)Ove town was completed this
week. It has lieen substantially
constructed of rock and gravel and
it is not probable that high water
will damage it to any extent. The
canal when completed will be eight
feet wide on the bottom. It will be
in readiness for the earliest spring
irrigating.
Among those most heavily in
terested, whose name was omitted
last week through inadvertance, is
William Davenport. His farming
lands will le irrigated from the
canal.
The reclamation of all this land
will make a considerable increase
in the tillable acreage immediately
contiguous to Prineville. It is
exceptionally fertile in character
and of the same kind that has
produced bumper crops of alfalfa
under irrigation.
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Dealers in Choice Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Butter
0 Eggs and Country Produce
Your putroiiiige respw't fully Holicited and a trial order of one
7C of our liimsts or Steaks will convince you that wo sell only the
Best. In the bIiou foniierlv oceupieil bv Crooks it Sailor
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Telephone Orders. -WiH B Given I 'romp t Attention
I. W. SPEAR
3eeci Stable
and r9 Camp Jtfoui
WHEAT HAY
25 Cts. HEAD
Hay Hut! lirtiin Sl.'J.i per iluy.
TraiiNient
Usui' soliciltit. Come wnere you ami your
teams can oe niuue coiiiioriaine ui iiie out
McFarland Stand, Prineville, Or
Son Loat Mother.
"Consuuiptlon nuts In miiv fuinll.v,
nml through It I lost my Mother."
writes K. B. Helil, of Harmony, Me,
'For the past five years, however,
on the slightest- sljin of a Cough or
Cold, I have taken Dr. Kind's New
Discovery for Consumption, which
has saved me from serious lung;
trouble."' His mother's death was n
sad loss for Mr. Held, but he learned
that liniK trouble must not lie neg
lected, and how to cure it. Quickest
relief and cure for coughs and colds
Pi-ice ,"hic ami jfcl.uo; 'guaranteed at
-...I. II . nipleluiiV ;iiid l. P. Ailain
.15'' drus ' lore. Trial "bottle free.
Settlement and cultivation of
the entire tract of over 300,000
acres of vacant land in the Christ
mas Lake valley is looked for next
year, i Hiring the past season over
100 settlers have taken up land in
this region which lies north and
east of Silver Lake and from 18 to
25 miles of the southern Crook
county line. It is believed that
the district will receive during the
next twelve months the largest in
flux of settlers of any region in
Central Oregon.
Last year the govem.nent recla
mation service segregated some
380,000 acres at the north end of
the valley, and locations of home
steads and desert land claims are
now being taken at the east end of
the district where a body of land
approximating the same number
of acres as that set aside by the
government for irrigation pur
iwses is open for settlemedt. The
district is 40 miles long and 15
wide and is an unbroken tract of
fertile sage brush- land, a chemical
analysis of whose soil shows the
land to be exceedingly rich in
lime, potash, phosphoric acid and
nitrogen, uovernment engineers
who examined the tract last year
estimated that there were 1,000,000
Winter Residents Leave.
Winter weather around Prine
ville aside from its mildness has
one other distinguishing feature
this year there are no robins or
blackbirds, nor have there been
for some time past. This is a
peculiarity noticeable for the first
thne in a good many years and a
satisfactory explanation is lacking.
The absence of these chattering
winter residents might be taken
ae an indication of a severe winter
were it not for the fact that the
chances for such a condition were
fast disappearing with the approach
of the new year. Failing in this
as an excuse it must be taken as a
slight upon the community, the
birds having found to their satis
faction a better winter resort elsewhere.
The direct primary law, which
will lie used throughout the state
for the first time next year, incor
porates so niacy complications
relative to primary elections, peti
tions, filing of certificates, etc.,
that both lawyers and politicians
find it no easy task to straighten
out the variations in the language
of the statutes. The law, however,
applies to Crook county as well as
to all others and its provisions
must lie lived up to next spring
and summer if the new county
officers step into their respective
ollices with legal garb upon their
shoulders.
Secretary of State Dunbar and
Attorney General Crawford have
spent considerable time getting
liuht through the maze of compli
cations in the provisions of the
direct primary law, and the fol
lowing list gives all the dates of
interest to both the candidate and
wter:
Kegistration hooks opened hy
couniy clerks, Tuesday, January 2.
Registration books closed for
primary election, April 10, 5 p. m.
Registration books opened after
primary election April 25.
Registration books closed for
general election, May 15, 5 p. m.
Number of signers required to
initiate laws of amendments, 7489.
Last day for filing initiative
petitions, February 3.
Last day for filing pamphlets
advocating measures, December
30, 1905.
Last day for filing pamphlets
opposing measures. February 5.
County clerks give notice of
primary election not later than
March " 1.
Last day for filing petitions for
placing names' on ballot for state,
congressional and district ofliees,
March 30.
Last day for filing petitions for
county ollices, April 4..
Date of primary election, April
20.
Canvassing votes ol primary
election for state offices. May 5.
Last day for filing certificates of
nomination for state ofliees bv
assembly of electors, April 19.
Last day for filing nominating
petitions for state ollices, May 4.
Last day for filing certificates of
nomination for county officers by
assembly of electors, May 5.
Last day for filing nominating
petitions for county offices, May
19. - . '
General election, June 4.
effect for the first time, culls for
heavy expenditure in the matter
of registration books and supplies,
and it is a safe estimate that the
total expenses attendant upon the
use of the new law will donble the
cost of election. Besides the in
crease of expenses in this direction,
the county must stand the cost of
the trial of George Miller at the
May term of circuit court. This
will entail an additional experts
of 2IJ00 to $4iW. Miller was
brought here from Harney county
on a change of venue and the
witnesses' exnseii will be unusu
ally heavy. Malheur county, in
which Miller has lieen tried twice
before, is in debt and the exjienscs
oftJuselast trials have not been
met yet except through county
warrants. The exiienses of the
Miller trial here in May will, of
course, le met by Malheur county
some time, but this county will be
deprived of the use of several
thousand dollars until the former
county has funds with which to
pay off its warrants.
County Superintendent of
Schools Dinwiddie has conferred
ith the court and states that .
complaints have reached him from
various districts in the county
that the levy for school purposes is
not sullicient. The rapid settle
ment of the country districts has
brought a large increaseof children
in the schools and expenses have
necessarily increased. The court
will consider this matter at its
next session and in all probabil-.
ity will have to levy a higher tax
for general school purposes.
After next year the county High
school expenses will le reduced
materially. The levy for 1906 will
be sufficient to make the lust pay
ment on the cost of erecting the
building and thenceforth only the
running exjienses will have to le
met. The county court, however,
is not worrying about future levies
and expenses, the present con
tingencies being enough. The
problem to solve this next month
is how to make a low rate of tax
ation conform with many additi
onal expenses. - Judge Bell said
yesterday: "I believe the running
expenses of the county this year
will be from $7000 to $10,000 more
than they were last year. Part of
this, the expenses of the Miller
trial in May, will come back to us,
but the county, nevertheless must
have this additional amount on
hand to meet tlv? ' current
expenditures."
COMING TO MADRAS
Great Southern Engineers Locatinf .
Line Into Crook County.
FIGURE ON TAX LEVY
County Court Will Have Problem
at January Session.
At its Janu.it , session, which
convenes next Wednesday, the
county court will be compelled to
use up some gray matter in order
to keep the county taxes for next
year as low as the levy for this
year. County Judge" Bell said
yesterday, "1 Wdieve we can keep
the levy for next year down to
last, year's figures, but it is going
to take some figuring to do it. We
Kobert ferry died ot heart Jail- I expected a much larger increase
ure last Tuesday morninc at the! in the tax roll, but the difference
C. T. Lilian! ranch near Paulina
where he had been employed for
several yearSi Deceased was about
40 years of age and had no rela
tives in the state so far as known.
The remains were buried at Pau
lina todav.
over last year s assessment is not
as great in proportion as 'the in
crease of expenses which we must
face this coming year."
Next year will be an expensive
one for the county. The new pri
mary election law which goes into
Surveyors for the Great South
ern railroad, which is now build
ing an extension of their line
from Dufur into Tygh valley near
the northern end of the Warm
Springs Indian Reservation, in
vaded the Madras district last
week and have commenced the
location of their line in that por
tion of the county. The Madras
Pioneer says:
"A locating party belonging to
the Great Southern Railway Co.
commonlv known as the Dufur
Road, is at present camped on the
Bill Lyle ranch in the Big Cove
on the Deschutes River, about
seven miles below the mouth of '
Trout Creek. Mr. F. S. Gordon,
the chief-engineer in charge spent
last Friday and Saturday in Mad
ras, looking around for the most
feasible route for Teaching Madras.
On Saturday he made a horseback
reconnoissance down Willow Creek
from Madras to the mouth, and
stated upon his return that a very
good line cotild he constructed
that way.
"The surveying party is now
making a very careful location of
the route from Dufur for about 100
miles out this way, preparatory to ;
the letting of contracts for con
struction work early in the spring.
Mr. Gordon says that his people
are very anxious to begin this 1(M)
extension and that as soon as
favorable weather sets in next
spring,' work will be started and
that they -hope -to have the 100
miles completed and trains run
ning within a year from that
time."