X Crook Gommity Journal VOLX PRINEV1LLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 15, 1906. NO. 48 r u r.i r.i El r.i n LJ r,.i r.i :1 We Want You to Try Our PROFIT SHARING PLAN an for Our Elegant Catalog of PREMIUMS Showing What You Can Secure With Our PROFIT SHARING GOLD BONDS THE NEW COURT HOUSE H It will mean an Investment that will bring you many 3 useful articles of the very best qnality--at a figure so small as to seem a mere nothing. A request by mail will bring catalog to your address by return post Clothing Specials Cold Weather Specials r.i L J r i LJ r i LJ r i L J r.i LJ r.i LJ n LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r.i L J r.i LJ i: r-i f.1 L j ri LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r..i LJ ci LJ r.i LJ r a LJ R.I LJ r..i LJ r,i LJ ri LJ r.i LJ ri LJ r.i LJ r..i LJ r.i L J r.i LJ r..i LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ ra LJ r.i LJ ri LJ r.i LJ r.j LJ ri L J r.i LJ r..i LJ r i LJ r.i LJ r.i LJ r 1 i j r i LJ n LJ r.i LJ r..i L J ri L J r 3nrr,nrjrir"iririirirrir.7iriririrrr!rirr!irrtrrirrrrirrrririr-irsr!irr!irrrir.irnr..i LClhi'JUUC JLJC JLJL' JW JLULUL JL JLJLULULULULJLULSJL JLUL JLULULUL JL JLULULyLUL JLJL JLviL JUiJLJ L J r.n LJ lLJ i i r..i LJ H r.S M r.i LJ r-a I ri M LJ r..i L"J ri LJ r.i LJ r. i . LJ 3 $12.50 Suits at 115 (H) " . 17.50 " " .. 12.50 Overcoats at 15.00 Overcoats at $ 9.95 SIMS $13.85 $ 9.95 $12.45 New Arrivals New Haviland Fancy China for Holiday Trade 1'illow top and centerpiece outfit Indies and Children's Oolf Gloves All colors , 25c to 65c White and Colored Cotton 75 cent values at $1.25 values at $1,50 values at Large Size White Wool Iilankets 60c $1.00 $2.25' Blanket Underwear Specials Outing for Flannel iN'iirht Dresses Indies and Children. Children's Fleece Linen Union suits 50c Ladies' Union Suits 75c to $1.75 Men's Heavy Fleeced Underwear at $1.25 to $2.50 per suit ,.i LJ LJ r.a LJ r-,i r4 ni L J r.l LJ r.i LJ E3 Mail Orders will be given prompt and careful attention C. W. E LION'S Sbnuiko, Oregon General Storage, Forwarding AND Commission Merchants Dealers in Blacksmith Coal, Fluur, Barbed Wire, Nails, Cement, Lime, Coal Oil, Pinster, Sulphur, Wool and Grain, Sacks and Twine, Grain and Feed. A gen la for Wbbco Warehoune Milling Co's. "White River" and "Dalles Patent" Flour. Highest price pajd (or Hided and Pelta. Special Attention is paid to Baling (or Eastern Shipments. Wool Grading and Stock Yards with all the latest and best facilities (or Handling Stock. , TTfark 2our Soods in Care of "S. W. Co." Ohamko Uarehouse Co. E; CRQQZ C01I17 BASE omocNa: W. A. Booth, Prtldnt O. M. Elkini. Vie Praidnt Fnio W. Wilson, Oahlr . DIRECTORS: W. A. Booth, O. M. Eikin. D. F. Stiwamt, Frio W. Wilsom. Transacts a General Banking Business Exchange Bought and Sold Collections will re ceive prompt attention Bids Have Beea Received but the Question is Still Pending. Bids (or the construction of a new court house at Prineville were opened by the count court at their November session. The lana and specifications submitted were the same identical plans offered when bids rere called (or last June, but at that time the contractors did not visit Prineville to inform themselves as to the local conditions (or prosecuting the work. This time the various contractors came here and inspect ed our quarries, brick yards, etc., and submitted their bids with a (elter understanding of local conditions. These bids are now in the bands of the county court and that body positively refused to consider them unless the people of Prineville would guarantee the sum of $6400 to be used (or heat ing and plumbing purposes. A committee of business men is now at work to see what they can do toward raising the amount. It does not follow that the building will go up even if the amount is raised. The county court has not committed itself on this point. One thing was stated positively and that was if the building was undertaken it would not cost the county more than 140,000, and might be built (or less. The plans call for a stone founda tion 9 feet above ground. Here will be located the cells, jail cor ridors, heating apparatus and wood room. The main floor above will con tain the sheriff's office in the north east corner, the offices of the county clerk in the northwest corner, and on the south side of the floor will be found the rooms of the county court, the county judge and the recorder and treasurer's offices. As the main part of the county's business is transacted here the offices were given the most convenient location. This floor is reached by three broad flights of stone steps, with covered porticoes and vestibules leading into a rotunda situated in the center of the building. The entrance to the different offices of course is from this rotunda. Two flights of stairs lead from this room to the one above. On the second floor will be located the district court room, jury rooms, the circuit judge's room, a retiring room for the use of members of the bar, surveyor's office, grand jury room, library, school superintendent's room, assessor's room, etc. Two toilet rooms are located both on this floor and on the main floor below. As will be seen, the plans and specifications call (or a building that will meet all demands for at lesst a hundred years. The structure will have a native stone foundation and a super-structure of stone and brick.- Galvanized iron cornice will be used and the roof will be of tin. The building will be surmounted with 40-foot tower in which will be placed a clock with (our transparent dials. The buildingu 75x107 feet east and west, two stories high with basement above ground. The height to the top of the tower is 100 feet.' II built the structure will make the handsomest court house to be lound in Eastern Oregon. SCHOOL Crok County Schools Made Excellent Snowing ia Work Done. OUren's Poem. Tbe Rev. Mitchell requested us to published the following poem (or tbe benefit of his class of little ones: "Just as 1 am," Thine own to be, Friend of tbe young, who lovest me; To consecrate myself to Thee, O Jeus Christ, I come. In the glad morning of my day. My life to give, my vows to pay. With no reeerve, and no delay, With all my heart, I come. I would live ever In the light, I would work ever for the light. I would serve Thee with all my might Therefore to Tbee, I come. "Just as I am," young, strong and free. To be tbe beet that I can be. For truth, and righteousness, and Tbee, Lord of my life I come. With many dreams of fame and gold Kuccees and Joy to make me bold; But dearer still my faith to hold, For my whole life, I come. And for Thy sake to win renown. And then to take my victor's crown. And at Thy fet to cast it down, O Master, Lord. I come. Selected. Range in Bad Conditio!. The range in this section of the country is in a worse condition this (all than lor years past, and sheep and cattle men are certainly having a hard time of it trying to find crass eufficient to keep their stock alive until the snow falls when feeding time will begin Heretofore the dry falls have been partly set off by an abundance of dry feed left over from the spring season, but this year is different, as there is hardly a spear of grass on the outside range, and the hope for rain has almost vanished, for it is now so late in the season that rain would practically do more harm than good. We understand that T. H. McGreer and others, who range their sheep on the John Day river, have already commenc ed feeding their sheep, as that portion of the country is shorter on grass than the Shaniko section Sbaniko Republican. AWARDS ai There have been many inquiries regarding the list of awards made to the schools of Crook county at the (air held in Prineville in Octo ber. We expected to publish the complete list of prizes before this, but as exhibitors were slow about handing in their cards the matter has been delayed. However, for the benefit of onr schools we ap pend the awards made to them: For the best general school ex hibit First prize, Crook County High School; second, Prineville public school; third, Bend public school. Composition First prize. Bessie Donkel, Bend; second, Elmer Pet- tet, Prineville. Arithmetic scheme First, Effie Vanderveen, Madras; second, Nora Mitchell, Prineville. Language paper First prize, Claire Hunter, Bend; second, Roth Adamson, Prineville. Number work First. Alma Lippman, Prineville. The other schools of the county that came in (or honorable men tion are: Axhandle school, Rose Gibson, teacher. Paulina school, Mrs. Elmer Clark teacher. Mill Creek school, Aulta Snyder, teacher. Ashwood school, Orpha Pettit, teacher. Grizzly school, Floy McGee, teacher. Summitt Prairie, Irene Barnes, teacher. The judges of the exhibit were greatly surprised at the showing made, especially when it is con sidered that most of the work rep resented examination papers. The exhibit as a whole demonstrates the (act that the teachers of the county are putting our schools upon a very high plane of effi ciency. A Good Program at the Educa tional Meeting. responsibility upon the shoulders of the wives sn j mothers. Tbe questions srising from our public schools should not be left entirely to the lsdies and our school officials however capable they are to handle them. The ma te rial side of question should at least appeal strongly enough to arouse a little interest in the men. What better advertisement can Prineville have as a progressive. up to-date city than good schools? As County Superintendent Din- iddie brought out at the Satur day night meeting that about the first question intending settlers ask is "Do you have good schools?" And tbe answer to this nuestion , will largely determine the place where the homeeeeker will make his borne. The Prineville schools are tbe pride of the community. They are improving every year lor there ia no halting place in educational matters. From the common grades the work has progressed in the past few years to the three-year high school course and this year the three-year course has given way to the full (our years' work. A new physical laboratory has been es tablished in the Crook County High School and Principal Strange assures us that next year will see other valuable addi tions made to the school's equip ment so that as complete an edu cation can be had right here at Prineville as can be secured in any high school in the state. These facts should interest property own ers. So from a material point of view we say that the heads of fam ilies in Prineville should turn out to these educational meetings and show by their presence that they are interested in school work. The educational meeting held in the Union Church Saturday even ing was well attended by the ladies of Prineville but lor some reason the presence oi the pater familias was woefully lacking. Prineville, however, is no exception in this respect. It is the case nearly every where that when a movement is on foot for the promotion of the men tal, moral or religious side of life in a community the heads of fam ilies seem quite content to shift the Men are queer. Wouldn't there be a roar when they went home to their meals if they had to climb up on a high stool in front of a table on which there was no cloth, and eat their meals in that fashion, yet a majority of men, when they go to a restaurant to eat, will pick out the high stool and the feed board with no cloth on it in preference to a comfortable chair and cloth covered table. A man will borrow a chew of tobacco and most of them will set their teeth into the plug over where some other man gnawed out a chew. Offer him a piece of pie at home from which his wife or one of the children had taken a bite and he would holler his head off. At home he will not drink out of a glass or cup from which some one of the family had been drinking. Call him into the back stall of a livery barn, pull out a bottle and he will stick the neck of the bottle half war down his throat in order to get a swig, after a half dozen other fellows had the neck of the bottle in their mouths. A man is a queer duck. Fx r r a n o A i r? i r j n o n l l Residence in Prinevi lie i Inquire of $ 1 1 A n A MAM 4 LIS. A a M- i If A U U 41 u 0IT4bvTbv74T4TI I JUS! ARK 800 Pieces Granite and Tinware, Many Pieces worth 35cents. Special at 120 6St I See our New and Up-to-date Line of Ladies' Footwear Many Sizes, Forms and Styles to Select From Boys and Youths two and three piece suits. Some Extra Values at Low Prices CLAYPOOL BROS. PRINEVILLE OREG O N Gatewood Mining & Trading Company OF HOWARD, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON Capitalization 500,000 Shares. Subscription Price $1.00 per Share- Treasury Stock 100,000, Par Value Non Assessable. Paying from the grass roots down. This is the first opportunity the people of Crook county have had to invest in one of their own mineral resources. Uitherto development work on this property has been conducted with private capital. Now the time has come to double the output, and in order to do so the management has decided to issue 10,000 Shares of Treasury Stock at $1.00 per Share for the purpose of increasing the capacity of the mine. This is probably all the stock that will be issued and it behoove those who desire to invest in this stosk to place their orders at once. At present five stamps are running and it is desired to double this output in order to accomplish greater results. There is 3,000 feet of tunnel work already completed, besides 400 feet of drifts and upraises on the ore body. The average width of vein four feet in diorite formation. The values are uniform and run from $25 to $125 a ton. Under the present management the work has gone steadily forward, a force of about 15 men being employed. The property consist of 33 claims in the South eastern part of Crook county, on the head waters of the Ochoco river. There is an abunndance of water for power purposes and some of the best timber in the county is located on these claims. The economic con ditions for mining could not be better. The Company also owns a general merchandise store which furnishes supplies to sheep and cattlemen Send 'all Subscriptions and Correspondence to the Gatewood Mining & Trading Company pSrS-wJii5 HOWARD, Crook County, OREGON