Crook -County
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PRINEVILLE, CROOK CQUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 21, 1907.
VOL. XI
NO. 10
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REPLY TO
MR. H0DS0N
Bend, Feb. 18, 1907.
Editor of the Crook
Ladio' Finn Finished Union Suit,egular
$2 00 value, now $1.57
MnV Finn BiiHcndrr, regular 3.ro value
now , . . 19c
Men' Hand Finished SuH'iider, regular 75c
value, now 46c
M nV Fin Pre Pant, regular $5.00 values
now. $3.25
Men' Heavy Overcoats, regular $15.00 value
now $9.25
Boy' Fine Suit, 4 year to 8 yea re, regular
$3.50 value, now $2.29
Child' Naiareth WaisU, now 21c
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Wc arc now conducting a general Clearance Sale, great reduct
ions are being made on all of our lines of Dry Goods, Ladies' and
Gent's Furnishings, Notions, etc. The following prices on shoes
will be maintained until the arrival of our New Spring Stock.
$2.25 Ladies' Shoe lor $1.50
$2 75 l.adieh' Shoe (or 1.65
$.1(M) Ladi' Shoes for
$.'1.25 Ladies' Shoe for
$:i.50 Ladies Shoe for
$1.25 Ladies' Shoe for
$4.50 Ladies' Shoe for
$5 00 Ladies' Shoe for
1.75
1.85
2.00
2.50
2.65
2.75
am:
50o Mii-es'
Shoe for
00c Misses'
Shoe for
$1.00 Mines' and
Shoes for
Children'
25c
Children'
60c
Children'
60c
$1.50 Misses, and
ShoeB for
Children'
85c
$2.00 Mines' and
Shoe for
Children's
....$1.10
$2.25 Misses' and Children's
Shoes for.... $1.25
$2 50 Misses' and Children's
Shoes for $1.50
4'
$2.75 Mises' and
Shoo for .
Children's
....$1.65
CLAYPOOL BROS.
PRINUV1LLE, OREGON
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To the
County Journal: I nee by the
Bend Bulletin that fit. llodon
eenis to think it hrdly n!eary
to reply to n.y inulting remark
Kilnted at him in the Crook Coun
ty Journal, and that he replies
only for the benefit of those who
wre not acquinted with me. He
nays that my questions and re
mark are directed at him from
personal malice. If there i any
eronal niHlice I am cure that I
have none againt Mr. IIodon,
hut jM-rhnj he has some against
tnc, and if he ha he is welcome to
hoard it against me as long as he
sees fit to do so. I do not even
care to know what he holds against
me.
Mr. Hodson says that my ears
deceive me as he never made any
such assertions as I claim he did.
To begin with he says the figures?
he quoted to me he got from re-
liable H-rHons who had examined
the county records to obtain them.
I say he did not know what Smith
k Wilt's assessment was until he
took my figures from the Crook
County Journal, and he says that
he told me it was $7240. Did he
tell me that Smith Wilt had
any town property, any cows, any
horses, or any lands beside their
stock of good? I will say to Mr.
Hodson that he never mentioned
anything but their stock of good,
and I will say further that he did
tell me hnt Smith & Wilt wore
assessed at $11,000 on their stock
of good alone. He never said a
word about anything else they bad
to assess
Mr. Hodson says that he did not
tell me the highest assessment on
any store in Prineville waB only
$9000. I want to say to him most
emphatically that he did tell me
that the highest assessment on any
store in Prineville was only $9000.
He says that neither did he tell
me that timber in the Blue moun
tains was assessed at ouly $500 per
quarter section and that timber on
the Deschutes at $1000. I want to
sav to him that he did tell me
that these figures were what tim
her lands were assessed at, and
want to say to him that he did not
know any difference until he read
my figures in the Crook County
Journal. He says himself that he
wa informed by reliable parties be
fore he started out to the jack pines
and when he got there he com
menced to misrepresent assess
ment to the very best of his abili
ties. Did he sav who the reliable
not sign a petition for a division of
the county, if there is any man
on the Denchutea river that I can
fix I am certainly not aware of it.
I defy him to find one man that I
tried to force. In bis next breath
he refers to me as the gentleman
of the jack pines and a pastmaster
in the art of juggiing the truth
and no doubt have my diploma is
sued by the Crook County Journal.
I will say to him that he is a past
grand master at juggling the truth
when it comes to misrepresentation
of the taxes that are paid by Prine
ville stores, by Smith & Wilt and
on timber held in the Blue moun
tains by Prineville men.
Well Mr. Hodson, the evidence
and proof are coming to me every
day now and if you want the proof
of what you said I have the goods
and will deliver them to you at
any time. When Mr. Hodson
started in with his vituperation
and contumely he reckoned without
bis host and he reminds me of a
drowning man catching at straws.
As for living among the jack
pine on the Deschutes river I will
say that I am glad of it for the
simple reason that I do not have
to come in contact with pin-heads
very often. In fact only when he
hikes to the jack pines on his mis
sion of mercy to get signers for his
masters at Bend so that the tax
payers of western Crook will not
have any taxes to pay, but pin
head and his masters will issue
their circulars from Bend to us
poor devils in the jack pines and
say come in and get your yearly
stipend as perhaps you need it
now, and if you do not arrive by
the 15th of May will have 10 per
cent added and so on until you re
ceive your cash. Hoping that this
will meet with the approval of my
friends in Crook county, I remain
your truly, . John Atkinson.
DESCHUTES CO.
KNOCKED OUT
fi3us&M&fi&& fy tmms Fancy Poultry
Must Examine All Land.
Deschutes county is a thing of
the past for at least another two
years. The Prineville delegation
that was sent to Salem to help
take care of the matter returned
Tuesday and reported that their
labor were at an end. Deschutes
county hadn't the ghost of a chance
to become a reality.
The prospects for a new county
on the north of us are exceedingly
bright. A bill for the creation of
Nesmith county has passed the
house and there is not much ques
tion but that it will pas the sen
ate. The new county of Nesmith
takes a slice off the northern part
of Crook, so that our northern
lines run as follows: Beginning
at the township line between
townships eight and nine be
ing the southern boundary line
of Wasco county, thence west
along said line to the summitof
the Cascade range: thence south
along the western boundary line
of Crook county to the southern
boundary line of the Warm
Springs Indian reservatin; thence
easterly along the southern bound
ary line of said Warm Springs Indi
an reservation to the Deschutes
river; thence northerly along the
Deschutes river to a point where
said river is intersected by the line
between townships 10 and 11;
thence east along said township
line to the southeast corner of
township 1C, south of range 13
east, W. M.; thence following sec
tion lines north 3 miles, thence
east 5 miles; thence north 8 miles;
thence east 7 miles; thence south 6
miles; thence east 6 miles; thence
north 1 mile; thence east 6 miles
thence souht 3 miles; thence east
6 miles; thence south 3 miles
thence east 6 miles; to the western
boundary line of Wheeler county
heavy taxpayers, while not wish
ing to be cut off from Crook, have
stongly objected to being put into
Jefferson county and having to go
to Madras for a county seat, thus
of the two expressing their prefer
ence for Nesmith county and a
county seat nearer the railroad.
On the Neemitb county petition
appear the names of a majority of
the resident in that portion of
Crook most affected by a county
division, many of whom would be
obliged to travel from 30 to 40
mils to Madras a a county seat
as against 15 to 25 miles to Ante
lope as a county seat While a
number of heavy taxpayers living
about midway between these two
point say: "By all means let us
have Antelope rather than Madras
for a county seat, if we must be
cut off from Crook." This doesn't
appear like bitter opposition to
Nesmith county from "the terri
tory to the south." The main op-
poeition comes from Madras, for
obvious reasons.
"The Antelope people" diJ find
out, by circulating a petition, how
tbe people of Crook included in
the strip asked or felt about the
matter, and by securing the signa
tures of a majoity of the residents
in that strip, it would seem that
their wishes should be respected.
' Bro. Lueddemann may have for
gotten that he once lived in Ante
lope, and that two years ago he
was one of tbe hardest workers in
the fight for Nesmith county, up
holding her just claims valiantly.
nd apparently was one of the
chief mourners at the obsequies of
the enort that " died a-bornine.
So, as we before remarked, the
light in which one is standing oft
en changes the coloring of a
picture.
Practical Dry Fannin;.
Shaniko Warehouse Co.
Shfniko, Oregon
General Storage, Forwarding
' A N I)
Commission Merchants
Dealers in Blacksmith Coal, Flour, Barbed Wire,
Nail, Cument, Lime, Coal Oil, Plaster, Sulphur,
Wool and Grajn, Sucka and Twine, Grain and Feed.
Agent for Wasco Warehouse Milling Co'. "White
Hiver" and "Dalles Patent" Flour. Highest price
paid for Hides and Pelts.
Special Attention is paid to
Baling for Eastern Shipments.
Wool Grading and
Stock Yards with all the latest and bent facilities
for Handling Stock.
We have thirty Bro. Leghorn hens
which wo are mating with Single-Comb
Jluff Oriiington mules; the latter pur
chased from Harris Poultry Co., Clay
enter. Neb. We will sell one setting
(14 eggs) for $1.00. Orders tilled in ro
tation. FRANK FOKEST,
2-.Mui Prineville, Or.
TTJcrrk 2our Soocis in Care of
"S. 20. Co."
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Thoroughbred
Poland China Boar
For Service.
Black Langshans, Stock and Eggs
for salo. E. C. PAKK,
Redmond, Oregon.
Department of the Interior,
Notice for Publication.
Lund Office, at The Dalles, Oregon,
January 24. 1!X7.
Notice is hereby given that l'errv Walter
Newtiill, of Uriisly, Oregon, has filed no
tice of his Intention to make final commu
tation proof in support of!us claim, vi:
llomwleau mry jno. hsid made mv. i,
1!W5, for the 85K SW', 8WJ4 8KX of
Section S2, Xl. 12 South, Range 15 K., Lot
JamtSWW NK'-iof Section 6, Township
t South, Kungt) 15 K., W.M., and that
said proof will be made before the County
Clerk, at rrmeville, Oregon, on Slarcl
Mth. 11)07.
He nnmiw the ' following witnesses) to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of the land, via:
Henry Montgomery, P. Ohitwood
Joseph Smith, James M. Henkle, all of
ttrisxly, Oregon. Miciiaki. T. Nolan,
1-atp . . Uegister.
parties were?' Did he ever men
tion one of their names'? If he
did I have been unable to find
any one who has. heard him. He
had hi orders to keep the pro
moter in the back ground.
I want to say a few words to
these promoters. If they had
been honest in their convictions
that it would be better to divide
Crook county why did they not
come right out ana agitate me
question beforo the people and not
neak around in back allies afraid
to show their faces? This would
have been a manly and honest en-
eavor, but to try and make a
sneak in the shape that they have
done is about tbe worst sneaking
graft that haa ever come before the
people of Crook county. V
In Mr. Hodson's ' letter to the
Bulletin he has to bring in the
0,000 stock of good of C. W.
Elkins. He says that he told me
that Smith & Wilt were assessed
nearly a much asC.'W. Elkins.
I do not know what Mr. Elkins is
assessed at as Mr. Hodson did not
tell me, but I want to call his at
tention to the fact that Mr. Elkins
was making a sale of his stock at a
sacrifice or in other word to clean
up his old stock, and therefore
made as big an advertisement as
he could to attract attention to
what he was going to do. My pin
headed friend could only think
that Mr. Elkins should pay taxes
on his $70,000 advertised stock
He says in his article to the Bulle
tin that 1 boasted I would fix some
of the people so that they would
By direction of the president
hereafter no patent shall be issued
to public lands until an examina
tion of the ground shall have been
made by an authorized officer of
the government. The president's
order is in the form of a letter to
Secretary Hitchcock, and under its
provisions orders are being sent
out to officials of the General
Land Office. Following is the let
ter. .
The Secretary of the Interior
To prevent the fraud now practiced
in the acquisition of public lands
of the United States, I have to di
rect that hereafter no final certifi
cate, patent, or other evidence of
title shall be issued under the pub
lic land laws until an actual ex
amination has been made upon
the ground for or by an authorized
officer of the government, but the
following shall be excepted from
the force of this order:
"First All claims which have
heretofore been examined upon the
ground by an authorized officer of
the government whose report is
found satisfactory.
"Second All claims where an
officer of the government other
tnan omcers authorized to tk
final proof, shall have been pres
ent to the taking of final proof to
cross-examine claimant and wit
nesses, if such proof is found satis
factory.
"Third-All claim where claim
ants' compliance with law has
been established by contest or
other regular proceedings.
"Fourth iintnes which may
have been confirmed by virtue of
any act of Congress.
'Fifth Selection and entries in
which no residence or improve
ment is required by law, when the
lands embraced are in agricultural
districts, or when character has
been fixed by investigation --and
classification raadu in accordance
with law. .
"Sixth Classes of reissuance of
patents because of some clerical
error occurring in the patent here.
tofore issued.
"Seventh All Indian allot
ments which have been regularly
approved in accordance with in
structions of the Secretary of the
Interior."
George L. Terrell of Smithfield,
Utah, who has had 40 years ex
perience at dry farming, gave some
interesting facta in an interview
printed by the Denver Post. He
said:
"I plow 10 inches deep after
breaking the land, and then I
usually have six inches of sub-soil.
I use horses and disc plows alto
gether. With a four-gang disc
and eight horses I can plow from
eight to ten acres per day, in a
Between the Devil and the Deep plowing b done on the stubble
I land, after the stubble is allowed
I to grow about two feet high. In
The Antelope Herald in dicuss-1 the fall that is turned under, and
ing the urooK county division I in this way gets all 01 the winter's
question has this to say regarding I precipitation, the snow, rain and
the matter: frost.
Often quite as much depend up-1 "I leave the rough plowing un-
on the light cast upon a picture, til spring, and just as soon as it is
as the picture itself, in bringing dry enough to work I put on my
out its beauty and merit. And disc. I use a different sort of disc
the same might also be said of the I than many of the western farmers.
"Nesmith" county proposition, the It i manufactured in Logan City,
bill for which is now before the Utah, and is known a the six-
House at Salem. In last week's gang disc. It throws the dirt all
Madras Pioneer, Brothef Luedde- one way, leaving no space for
mann makes a few remark con- weeds to grow,
cerning our efforts to break away "The boy with six horses puts
from the mother county and create the harrow on and continues to
, First-class Job
Journal office.
printing at The
county of our own, embracing a I harrow lengthwise and crosswise
small portion of Crook county, through the season for tbe purpose
He graciously admits that the of killing weed and pulverizing
portion of Wasco county which the soil, as well as conserving all
lies south of Sherman county and of the moisture possible.
eat of the Deschutes is cer- "About the first of September
tainly most unfortunately situated each year I put on the leveler and
with reference to its county seat, level the earth, the drill in the
which it must cross the entire meantime being run in front and
length of Sherman county to the seed drilled into the ground,
reach." He goes on to say that We sow wheat at the rate of 35 or
this section of Wasco is too small 40 pounds to the acre, and let it
for a county embracing only its get the next winter's precipitation,
own territory, and the territory to I and in the spring, when it is two
the south (meaning that portion inches high, take tbe harrows and
of Crook which we are asking for) tip the teeth backward at an angle
"is unalterably opposed to being of about 30 degrees, so as not to
taken in for the purpose of pad- tear up the soil.
ding the tax roll of their proposed! "This method breaks the crust
new county, and giving Antelope and pulverizes the sou, and it
its coveted county seat." Let us there are weeds it will kill them,
see how "far from, wrong" Bro. L. We generally harrow it both ways.
is, especially m regard to his state- as it gives fresh life and vigor to
ment of the bitter opposition of the the grain. We then leave it to
residents of that portion of Crook harvest.
included in "Nesmith," (not Stock- "By the methods I have describ
man) county. Two petitions and ed I average 30 to 45 bushels of
one remonstrance were circulated wheat to the acre, ou to yu bushels
in that section. The petition for I of barley, three to three and a half
"Jefferson" county was signed by I tons of millet, ar.d have plenty of
about 20 persons, most of them be- good pasture for my cattle. 1
ing from the Blizzard Ridge and have between 1300 and 1400 acres
Sage Brush Flat country. These under cultivation, and rest them
people were filled up with wonder- every other year,
iul stories about the wonderful "1 put in wheat last year and
boom Madras would experience out of 210 acres on groung that I
"when the railroad got there," and started to farm 31 years ago and
t is quite likely many of them have been farming it every other
signed the petition without realiz- year since that time. The crop I
tng that they were giving them- raised last year was far better than
selves a chance to pad the tax any year that I remember. I
roll" of "Jefferson" county, and to broke up a piece of alfalfa ground,
help support, a territory that (sowed two bushels of spring wheat
hasn t been able to support itself on about two acres, and harvested
for the past two seasons, and in 69 bushels of the finest quality.
which there have already been two "I kept all of that seed and the
or more business failures in conse- millers offered me 10 cents a
quence. , I bushel more for it than the price
.Several signed a remonstrance of any wheat in the country. I lie
against cutting off any part of Farmers' association at the meet
Crook county, which would oper- ing last year named it 'Farrel'
ate more against Jefferson county Golden Wonder.' I got a teacup
than Nesmith, as the former would full of seed from the north of
take a much larger slice from England and continued to raise it
Crook. It is well known, however, until I got two bushels, then plant
that some of these remonstrators, ed the two acres with the result
men of large business affairs, and that I have given."