', s Coiaoty JomiraaL PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 31, 1907. VOL XI NO. 7 Crook r-viMnr inr,v,ii"irirv lr v inr.i" wir in'iri1"!1" irTrirrnr '.rTr'ir'.r'ir ir"i I. J TV 77 oney aavmgs FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 4th IX i j r i i J n u r i i j n M r i i. VI r W J r i u t Vj r t I? kj i i j r i li r i Li r.-i i. j r i LJ r i LVI r i i j r t t J n r u r.i u r kj r.i L J r i t j r i u r i H L J r i LJ r i u r i L J r i u r i u r i Li r 1 t J r i LI r i l j r.i k J r i k j r 1 k J rn k J 1 ' 4 ktit u1 Hlii llund FI'"K, rt'k'ulur He Siecil nt ..... , 10c. vnl-.('. I Ifn vy OtitiiK, regular 12 Jo to 15c values 10 vanli for. . Hilc I,.nlic' Ciltl Fnt Itlii' k 2fr Hose fj.e. 13c HI Mm' Hfw Oulinfc Flannel Nijslit Shirt-, rPRiiIiir 11.25 Vollll'H fftilll t StHc i i. mm m mmm. iimi. mi wlf-ninnm I.ciiI!ih' Kino Hemstitched llnnd" kerchiefs, north 12Jc, rt'cial now at , . , .fic Men's All Wool double hrensteil Umlersuits, worth tl.hO r pirnirnt at 8'Jo lloyV lleuvy Hose, regular rial nt Ribbed" School 8.rc Knide f- 22c Ladies' Beit in less Rlack Hone ri gular 2()c soods, now 7c Mfii' MM to 6.CX) Fine Med Dress I'nnttt 200 jht j-tiir Wor nr $2.49 Mcn'a Heavy Melton Kerwy OverconU, also . Knglish UU ters, worth 112.60 to $20.00 now ftt.95 to $12.'J5 600 jmim Men' Women' and Children's Shoe, special now at 48c to $2.70 per pair GROCERIES Alnkit Halni'io, thin stile, . . , . , fMH'iul at . . ;. ,7c ran Pure Ai'i'lo Jelly in clear plus tumbler IKe One run (iiiileiiei Soup ti.ceial at. Ik; One quart Dili Pickle, fxial nt 14" One har While Laundry nnp fMcial at ! One bur Fin 8von sil at coup ..3c. One jHiund Mocha and Java Coffee, regular 40c grade special at 21c One pluc s per hi I at I)ipMr Tol wicco 22c These only represent a few ol the numerous bargain in our More thin Hpare will not per mit uh to quote tlicin all. These good are lirnt claxa valiieH at the regular prices and you are respectfully re quexted to call in at our store and secure some of these big bargains. :: :: :: :: :: "WEEK c. w. ELKINS r..i k j r.i k j ri k J r.i k J r.i LJ r.i k j r i LJ r i L J r..i k j r, i k j Li r i k J r.i k jj ri k J r.i k j r i k 4 r.i k j r.i L J r.i LJ r.i k j r.i k J r.i k j ri k j CI r i LJ r.i k J ri l j r.i l J r.i L J ri k j k j r.i L J r i L J r i k j r.i k j ri k j ri LJ r,i k j r.i k j ri k j r.i LJ r.i k j r.i L J r.i k j r.i k j n k J r.i k j r.i LJ r.i k j r.i k j r i k j n L J ri LJ ri L J r.i l'j r.i k J r.i k j r.i LJ A PROTEST FROM BEND An Appeal to Western Crook County. FALSEHOODS NAILED Western Crook Not Ready County Division Only Grafters Benefited. for rneir ir nr ir-.rrtr irir inr trv."nr innrinnrirnririnrirriririnririrsri kLJLLLJLJ, JkLlk Jk JLJLJLJLJL JLJLJLAJLJLJLJLJLJLJLJL JL jljljljljlj.jljljllilj 2 Wc arc now conducting a general Clearance Sale, great rcduct- J ions are neing inane on ail or our lines 01 ury ihhius, juauiva .um (Scut's Furnishings, Notions, etc. The following prices on shoes will be maintained until the arrival of our New Spring Stock. $2.26 Ladies' Shoe for $1.50 $2 75 Ladies' Shot for 1.65 $:$00 Ladien' Shoes for 3.25 Ladies' Shoes for $3.50 Ladies' Shoes for $1 25 Ladies' Shoea for $4.50 Ladies' Shoes for $5 00 Ladies.' Shot s for 1.75 1.85 2.00 2.50 2.65 2.75 60o Misses' and Children's Shoes for 25c 110c Misses' and Children' Shoes for 60c $1.00 Misses and Children's. Shoes for 60c $1.50 Misses, and Children's Shoes for... 85c $2.00 Misses' and Children's Shoes for $1.10 $2.25 Misses' and Children's Shoes for $1.25 $2 50 Misses' and Children's Shoes for $1.50 $2.75 Misses' and Children's Shoes for $1.65 mm 14 Z4 14 14 14 CLAYPOOL BROS. PKINEVILLli, OREGON l& 14 14 14 Bend, Crook Co. Jan. 24, 1907. To the Kditorof the Crook Coun ty Journal: There seems to be a great hub hub made in western Crook over this very extravagant court house that it to be built in Prineville. It rs claimed that western Croo't is paying the difference of $-50,000 more this year than Crook county had in 1900. Well, I want to ask the taxpayers of Bend, Laidlaw and vicinity bttw and why are they paying so much taxes? Surely the people of these towns are not taxed up this much. They claim they are farmers in the western part of Crook and do not wantto mix with the stock raisers of eastern Crook, and therefore want a county of their own. ARE THKfK VOTEHS TAXPAVEii? I will now ask the people ho have taken land Under the Carey Act if they have a deed to the land they lought from the D. I. & P. Co. of Bend and also of the Colum bia Southern Irrigation Company? 1 understand that at Laidlaw 200 settlers signed the petition to di vide Crook county into three parts. It the 20U voters are taxpayers on the Columbia Southern Irrigation impany s lands and have got deeds from the state, then I am all wrong in saying that the stj.e.f Oregon has not received a patent from the United States govern ment, and therefore no tax can be collected from anv settler until he has a deed from the state or has made proof on his homestead, and hence the taxes he pays on his lands under these ditches are very small. All that can be taxed is the improvements houses, barns fences, etc. which is very Bmall and not worth the trouble of the assessor's time. I will ask, is anyone who has taken land under these ditches within the past four or five years who have paid taxes? NOT ONE IN TEN TAXPAYERS. I am inclined to think that not one in ten has paid enough taxes to make the grafters of Prineville look as if they were very badly bloated with graft. I am, there fore, inclined to think that we had better let Prinevillo build us a court house and vaults that will be fire proof than run any more risk of having our records burned or destroyed as this would cause the taxpayers of Crook county so much litigation that it would be hard to tell where it would stop and cost n.ore than the extravagant court house could possibly. What has raised the $88,000 in Crook county is the timber land land that haa been taken up and patented. This is one of Crook county's assets that the band of man has not made valuable. This timber was here before the white man ever saw the country and I do not think the resident taxpayer ever tnrned a hand to assist nature in the production of the yellow pine that grows in Crook county or anywhere else. If the lumber companies and timber speculators had not come, in and bought the timber lands of Crook county it would not have been worth any more today than it was ten years ago, so if these men want the tim ber let them pay taxea on it. It will belp the county to have this money distributed in all parts of it. 1 his money is sent into the country and is a clear gain. THAT ROAD MONEY. It is claimed that the western part of Crook county does not get any money for roads, i. e., around Laidlaw, and from the Sisters to Bend it is impossible to haul loads over them. Each road district gets from the county court the amount of cash that is raised by the road levy in that district, and each voter is taxed $3 in cash which the supervisor collects and expends on the roads. This law was passed by the legislature, I think, two years or more ago. I do not see where the settlers on the lands taken under the Carey Act have any kick coming for our county gives them the full amount that is due them. If they do not get it they should have some one look into it and see that they get every cent that is raised in their district for road purposes, but don't ask me to help make roads outside of my own road district, as I think it would not be fair to make you work and pay in my district. THE BURDEN OP A NEW COUNTY. Who the prime movers are in this dividing of Crook county I do not know, but I do know that they are agitating a cause that will be a hardship on the taxpayers of the new county for years to come, The chances are that the bonds that would be sold to build a court house would not bring 50 cents on the dollar. Granted that they brought dollar for dollar these bonds would have to be paid and I say tnat 1 do not oeueve tney would be able to build a court house in the western part of Crook county for $50,000; if they did they would have to do better than they have done in anything I have seen built in western Crook so far This slop that the prime movers are throwing out to the taxpayers that Drake or the D. L & P. Co. will give these buildings to be used as a court house for five years is nothing more than slop sweetened and the pulling of wool over the eyes of the taxpayers who do not stop to think what they are doing when they sign a petition for a new county. When they look ihe thing square in the face they will see they have made a mistake. ARE VOTERS TAXPAYERS? Western Crook claims they have three-fifths of the voters or more. I wonder if these three-fifths voters pay three-fifths of the taxes of Crook county? If they do, I er one, am in favor of a nejr count. If they do not then I am againtt it. Just because you are a voter you are not a taxpayer unless you pay taxes. Justly and morally you have no right to sign a pe tition to move a court house or di vide a county as you might there by put a burden on the taxpayer and producer of Crook county that would be wrong. I know there are men living in Crook county on homesteads and on timber lands who do not in tend to live in Crook county after they have made proof any more than I have of going to live in China or some other foreign coun try. These men are not bona fide voters of Crook county nor are they - bona fide taxpayers. They are here only because tbey think they can eet a timber claim by homes teading and as soon as proof is made will go borne to their families. AS APPEAL TO HONEST MEN. Now. I want to appeal to the fair-minded man of western Crook. I know there are a good many of them and a good many honest set tlers. I know there are some who will not have to hold the candle for the so-called grafters of Prine ville. These so-called grafters of Prineville, I must say, have run Crook county's affairs in a very eco nomical way. Crook county is one of the few counties in the state that has no indebtedness and never has had since I have lived in the coun ty, and I must say they have done exceptionally well ALL BOSH. Of course, as these prime movers say, western Crook will make the richest county in Oregon. This is a little more slop. It has been es timated that the timber lands along the Deschutes river carry as much as twelve billion feet of lum ber. Just how many townships of yellow pine there are in Crook county I am unable to say, but if there are only twelve billion feet it is not as much as I believe I can find. Townships of fir timber in Linn, Marion or Clackamas coun ties will carry twelve or fourteen billion to the township. Theiefore I do not think that western Crook has any great wealth of timber, and as for this new county being the ricbest in Oregon that is a mis take pure and simple at the pres ent time. It will take years to de- ; velop it so that it will be a rich county as the farming lands are hard to develop on account of the dry character of the land. Take for instance the Haystack country and the Agency Plains. Three years ago the farmers bad a good crop in the Haystack section but the last two years have been more or less a failure and consequently i not to be depended upon as yet These things should be taken into consideration before we take the step that the western part of Crook county anticipates. LOW TAXES. As for our taxes today they are lower than they were five or six years ago. I do not doubt but that some are assessed higher than they were five or 6ix years ago. If they have no more to be assessed than at that time they are at a standstill, perhaps using their time kicking about high taxes instead of trying to better their station in life . What interests me more than anything else concern ing taxes is not the amount I have to pay, so long as they are not ex orbitant, but the amount of money a county has to spend for the bet- lerment of roads and bridges. If this money is spent as it should be it will all stay in the county and I do not tbink the taxpayer is hurt if he pays less this year than he did last year and still raise a large revenue for the expenses of the county. If, however, the con ditions are reversed, and you pay more this year and get less than last year then the taxpayer has cause for a kick and he should kick hard. There is no doubt that things are done in our county court at Prineville that do not meet the ap proval of everybody. This hap lns in every county in the state. We cannot all see alike and some will censure and some will ap prove. In the Journal of January 17, 1907, there are some pretty hot shots at A. M. Drake and John II. Kyan. I do not believe that hot words and vituperation will do any good and they should be avoided as much as possible. A. M. Drake has done as much for Crook county as any man in it. I believe he will protect the settler on the irrigated land around Bend as much as any one will, and that he is a friend of these people, but I know that some of the citizens of IV nd give him a bard name, and I know or at least I think so, with out cause: SIGN A REMONSTRANCE. I will ask every fair-minded man that is a taxpayer in Crook county to sign a remonstrance against the creation of a new coun ty at the present time. If he will stop and study this matter awhile he will see this as I do, for the simple reason that it will be cheaper to the taxpayers to run one county court than it will to run two and we will have a better chance to keep down graft and be in a stronger position to call a halt. Therefore, let every taxpay er set his foot down and say I will not stand for county division. I have tried to write this with out giving offense to any one and hope that this will meet with the approval of all taxpayers in Crook county. Yours respectfully, John Atkinson. Hotiea to Debtors. All persons knowing themselves to le indebted to the old firm of Wurx weiler & Thomson, by note or other wise, are requested to call at once and ninke settlement at the office of M. R. Bigji where we are now locat ed. All aeeouuts not settled within 30 days will lie placed in the hands ot a lawyer for collection. Dated thi824, day of January, 1907. A. Thomson, tf Arthur Hodges. APPLICATIONS FOR GRAZING PERMITS Notice Is hereby given that nil applications for permit to grazecattle, horses, and sheep within the BLUE MOUNTAINS FOREST RESERVE ( Weetern Division) during the sensou of l'J07, must lie filed iu my office at Prineville, Oregon, on or liefore Feb. 20, 1007. Full informa tion In regard to the grazing fees to be charged, and blank forms to be used In making application, will be furnished upon request. A. S. Irb land, Supervisor. l-24-5t Estray Notice. There came to my premises a white face yearling steer with hole in left ear and swallow fork in right ear, branded T on right shoulder. Inquire or ad dress J. H. Gray, Prineville, Or. 1-10 oianico uaronouse o. k Shfniko, Oregon 3 General Storage, Forwarding AND Commission Merchants Dealers in Blacksmith Coal, Flour, Barbed Wire. Nuils, Cement, Lime, Coal Oil, Plaster, Sulphur, Wool and Grain, Sucks and Twine, Grain and Feed. Agents for Wasco Warehouse Milling Go's. "White River" and "Dulles Patent" Flour. Highest price paid for Hides and Pells. Special Attention is paid to Haling for Eastern Shipments. Wool Grading and Stock Yards with nil the latest and best facilities for Handling Stock. Ujork 2onr Soods in "S. 20. Co. " 'are of Wood Bids W anted. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will tie received lv Crook County unto Murch 7, 11M)7, for0 cortls of wood, either (irv or nru.il sound body iuniner wood lour feet Innir, or green iine wood 16 or 22 inches or four (eet long. Kids to specify kind noil uuauty mid length of wood and price per cord, and to be delivered on or before Oclolier 15, l!R7, at the Court House and High Hchoot building iu Prineville, Or. All bids to be tiled with the county clerk. lty order of the court. 1-17 Waurkn Drown, County Clerk. FOR SALiK DANDY BOB Thoroughbred Poland China Boar, farrowed April 19, 1006. A fine pig. Pedigree furnished. Black Lnncshan. Cockerels also for sale. E. C. PARK, Redmond, Oregon. For Sale Dr. McLaughlin Hay colt coming fl-year-old next June; sired by Schmeer's "Caution, he by "Caution" 2:2,"), the great speed sire of the Northwest.; he by "Electioneer, tirst dam Nora by Altngo; second, Netty Piper Orlco 84(l; third, Hatcher mure, Vermont fourth, Thoroughbred. Thin colt will make a 1150-pound horse; a mire trotter; Ilia breeding Is gilt-edge, and It you want a first class tttock horse, one that la bred of the best trotting blood in America, don t overlook him. For further particulars inquire at Juniper lluttc Stock Kanch. Gatewood Mining & Trading Company OF HOWARD, CROOK. COUNTY, OREGON Capitalization 500,000 Shares. Treasury Stock 100,000, Par Value Non Assessable. Subscription Price $1.00 per Share Paying from the grass roots down. The property consists of 33 claims in the South eastern part of Crook county, on the head waters of the Ochoco river. There is an abundance 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 mines are now on a paying basis, but with additional machinery they can be made a big dividend payer as the output can be doubled with very little additional cost of labor. In order to install this ma chinery the management has decided to issue 10,000 shares of Treasury Stock. This stock will in all probabilities be the last offered for sale. It will be sold at $1.00 per share. There is no deviating from this price. That the stock will increase in value is a certainty. You can find no better place to invest your money. If you desire to get in on this you will have to do so at once, as this stock was put on the market in order to give the residents of the county a chance to realize something from an investment in one of their owq properties. This is not a speculation at all but a sound business investment based upon ascertained facts. The mine has been developed beyond the experimental stage. About the best recommendation we can give these mines is that the men employed by the company are investing their savings in the purchase of this stock. Also such men as Clark, Daly, Fair, Ilaggin, and a host of others have made their money from mines and the development of them. T I I i Send all Subscriptions and Correspondence to the Gatewood Mining & Trading Company Further Information of thU valuabl property will bo aont on roquott HOWARD, Crook County, OREGON T I sli S)' 131llll) JOHN SCHMEER.