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VOL. XI
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 7, 1907.
NO. 47
SALE BEGINS
MONDAY, NOV. II
WILL BE OUR STIRRING
SALE BEGINS I
MOFIDAY, NOV. II I
To the Public:
We take this occasion to thank you for your generous patronage and support during the past two years years of enjoyable, prosperous and ever-increasing
trade. It is therefore with many feelings of regret that we here and now announce that owing to other business interests presenting opportunities of greater
promise, we have decided to dispose of our business here at the earliest possible date.
THEREFORE, Beginning on Monday, November 11, we will inaugurate a WONDERFULLY STlRRlNa -AJSHD COLOSSAL
Closing Out
that will be felt in every section of this County, reducing as if by magic our superb assembly of splendid Merchandise. Nothing will be spared to make this the
greatest event of the kimleycr known in Central Oregon.
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Neither time or space is allowed us to make mention of the innumerable bargains, of unexcelled merit that will greet the hundreds of, careful buyers in every
'department of our Store. Dry Goods, Ladies' Furnishings, Footwear of AllKinds, Men's Clothing and Furnishings, Groceries, Hardware and Machinery have
never been sold at greater advantage to the public than they will be during this Sale.
Let every man, woman and child prepare at once to take advantage
of this momentous event. . . . The opportunity of a lifetime
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Our Line of
Heating 'Stoves
IS COMPLETE
You win buy thorn at an iniinonso suvinj?
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PRINEVILLE, OREGON
Remember, This Sale
Begins Monday, Nov. 1 1
CROOK COUNTY .
i PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The school exhibit of tho comity
at tho fnir hint week was good ami
while comparatively few schools
were represented on account of tho
abort tune, and the chaos caused by
the installation of tho new hooka,
those that did exhibit did justice
to the occasion.
One good feature about the ex
hibit wan the fact that the work
exhibited wan regular school woi k,
that iH work that had been handed
in as clans work and not aa work
especially prepared for the exhibit.
Thin waa certified to by tho tench-
era and waa clearly shown by he
papers, aa many bore the red ink
mark of the critics pen, showing
up tho defects and proving that
there waa no reeopying after work
1 had been handed in ns china work
Thia method in a commendable
one, aa tho exhibit thus hoeomiB
an incentive to careful duns work
and cultivates a habit of neatness
in tho preparat.on of written work
The premiuma were awarded as
follows: First premium, general
exhibit, Crook County High School;
second, Prinoville Public School;
third, Bend Public School.
The premium for which there
was the most competition was the
Best Composition from 0 to 8th
grades inclusive. There were 2C
entrios for this number and all
wore excellent compositions. lie
land Belknap took first; Warren
Yancey second with Carl Iluntor
of Ben only one point behind.
Other prizes awarded wore:
3d grade Language 1st Alma
Lippman, 2d Mabel Bixby, Prine-
ville.
4 5 grades Language first
Glenn Houston. Prineville. 2d
Melha Baker, Bend.
5 8 grades Arithmetic fust
Claude Kelly, Bend.
2d grade Arithmetic 1st Car
oline llironaon, rrineville, ;m
Frank Killingbeck, Opal Prairie.
1st grade Arithmetic 1st Viola
Brown, Bend 2d Iva Hodman,
Opal Prairie.
The exhibit from Madras ar
rived too Into for entry, although
the Superintendent got permission
from the fair authorities to hold
the entry for them till Saturday
evening. I lie work was good a no
they would undoubtedly have
captured some of the prizes had
the exhiibt arrived in time. Tho
Arithmetic scheme and at least one
of tho Language exercises were
especially good and would no
doubt have taken second if not
first in their respective entries.
As a whole tho exhibit as held
this yenr is a good index to tho
work of the schools of the county
and should bo encouraged by all
interested in school work the pro
gress of education and the up
building of our school .
The judges took particular pains
in adjudging the different prem
iums laboring without compensa
tion for all of one and most of
another day in looking over and
grading and deciding tho award
ing of the different prizes. All
sectionalism and every other con
sideration except the merits of the
article exhibited was banished
from their minds. All boing past
masters of the school room and
school work, chosen to represent
the different Brctions of the county,
there is no doubt in our mind that
those who earned the premiums
got them.
OUR BANKS IN
FINE CONDITION
Dr. Mary Lane Institute
The staff of iilivsians connected with
this, the lending institution of its kind
in Portland, are uraduatoR of the best
medical and surgical colleges of the
world. Maternity casus are given
special attention. A modern sanatorium
is maintained in connection. All cor
rospondonce is confidential. Address
Mary Lane' Institute, rooms 5 to 14
(irand Theater building, Portland, Ore-
itoii. Consultation tree. lo-ip
There has been no uneasiness
felt in Prineville over the monev
stringency in the East. Our
banks are in splendid shape finan
cially am business haa not been
interrupted by the" legal holiday
proclamations of the governor.
The present, crisis in money
matters is something that haa no
parallel in history. In the midst
of the greatest prosjtority ever
known in our country we had a
mighty close shave from a very
disastrous panic. The disturbing
cause was due to Wall street. F.
Augustus Heinzo and his crowd
tried to corner the shares of a cop
per company. They (failed and
were driven to the wall. The
chain of banks under their control
closed their doors. This fright
ened tho depositors of other banks
and a hasty withdrawal of funds
followed. A wute spreau panic
seemed imminent. Tho greatest
financiers in the country then
came to "the rescuo 'with offers of
help. Even King Edward of
England headed a committee,
representing five of the .largest
trust companies in New lork
whose total resocures are placed
at $350,000,000. This committee
worked wjth J. 1. Morgan and
John D. Rockefeller and others
and raised a relief fund of $50,
000,000. The government came
forward with $25,000,000 more
and this wide-spread disaster was
averted. To prevent tho west
from being drained of its money
the expedient of calling a legal
holiday was resorted to until all
danger shall have passed.-
Entrymen, Take Notice
We have received the following
notice from the Register and Re
ceiver of The Dalles Land Office:
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office, Washington,
D. C, October IS, 1907. Registers
and Receivers, United States Land
Office, Gentlemen: The following
rules will govern your action upon
homestead commutation proofs
hereafter submitted, namely:
1. Commutation proof offered
under a homestead entry made on
or after November 1, 1907, will be
rejected unless it be shown thereby
that the entryman has, in good
faith, actually resided upon and
cultivated the land embraced in
such etitry for the full period of at
least fourteen months.
2. Where such commutation
proof is offered under an entry
made prior to November 1, 1907,
if it be satisfactorily shown thereby
that tho entryman had, in good
faith, established actual residence
on the land within six months
from the date of his entry, he may
be credited with constructive resi
dence from date of entry; provided
that it be also shown that such
residence was, in good faith,
maintained for such period as,
when added to the period of con
structive residence herein recog
nized, equals the full period of
! fourteen months residence required
by the homestead laws; and
3. In no case can commutation
proof be accepted when it fails to
show that the required residence
and cultivation continued to the
date on which application for
notice of intention to make such
proof was filed. R. A. Ballinger,
Commissioner.
WHY NOT RAISE
HOGS IN CROOK CO
Broken lines of fancy dishes
almost at your own price at J. E
Stewart & Co.
Fine Pasture. Grain for Sale.
1 have the best kiud of altalfa pasture
for horses. Hay. hoi h baled and loose,
oati and barley for sale. .1. F.Taylor,
at tho Newsom ranch. lin
L. A. Hunt of Culver was in
Prineville with grain the other day
and while here he expressed him
self as somewhat disappointed at
the price paid for wheat but was
not nt all discouraged with the
outlook for wheat raising. Instead
of curtailing his production he is
going to enlarge his acreage.
The next change he is going to
make will be in the method of get
ting his product to market. In
stead of hauling it in a wagon
hereafter he will feed it to hogs
and market fat porkers. He be
lieves there is good money in it.
There can be no reason, he says,
why Crook county should import
from one-half to three-fourths of
its pork products. It is an in
dustry that brings good returns to
the producer and one that always
finds a ready market. Crook
county with alfalfa, Kafir corn and
grain should become as great an
exporter of hogs as sheep and cat
tle, and the Journal is pleased to
note that the subject is taking hold
of the minds of our farmers.
Right along this line comes the
result of experiments made by the
Kansas Experiment station. The
United States Bulletin says:
ALFALFA HAY FOR HOGS
The Kansas Experiment Station
has recently reported, the results
of experiments made to test the
value of alfalfa hay fed to pigs re
ceiving all the grain they would
eat.
The pigs, averaging 125 pounds
each, were placed in lots of ten in
large pens provided with shelter
sheds open to the south. Alfalfa
hay of the best quality was fed
dry in a large trough, the pigs re
ceiving in addition all the black
hulled white Kafir corn they would
eat without waste. The animals
were given more hay than they
would eat and they consumed only
the leaves and finer stems. Be
ginning November 24 and con
tinuing nine weeks one lot of pip
was fed alfalfa hay and Kafir corn
meal dry; a second lot, Kafir corn
dry; a third lot, Kafir-corn meal
dry; and a fourth lot, Kafir-corn
meal wet.
The gains per hog in the nine
weeks from the different methods
of feeding were as follows:
Kafir-corn meal drj and alfalfa hay 90.
Kafiwjorn whole 59.4
Kafir-corn meal fed dry 52-4
Ka6r-corn meal fed wet J
At the end of the experiment
the alfalfa-fed pigs were well fat
tened and were marketed. It is
estimated that under normal con
ditions it would have taken four or
five weeks longer to pot the other
lots into good marketable condition.
The gain from feeding alfalfa
hay with Kafir-corn meal fed dry,
over the meal alone fed dry, was
more than 75 per cent.
Ten hogs in nine weeks were
fed 656 pounds of alfalfa hay, and
for each 7.83 pounds of alfalfa hay
and for each 7.83 pounds of alfalfa
hay fed with -the dry Kafir-corn
meal alone a gain of 868 pounds
of pork per ton of alfalfa hay.
These results are not due to the
feeding value of the alfalfa alone,
but also to its influence in aiding
the dogs to better digest the Kafir
corn. The alfalfa hay also gave a
variety to the ration, making it
more appetizing and inducing the
hogs to eat more grain. The ten
hogs having grain alone ate 3,885
pounds of dry Kafir-corn meal,
while the ten hogs having hay and
Brain ate 4,679 pounds of the Kafir
corn meal and 656 pounds of alfalfa
hay. The hay-fed hogs ate more
grain and gained more for each
bushel eaten.
In a former experiment at this
1
college, pigs were pastured through
the summer on alfalfa with a light
feeding of corn. After deducting
the probable gain from the corn,
the gain per acre from the alfalfa
pasture was 776 pounds of pork.
Redmond Items.
Redmond, Ore., Nov. 4.
Mr. Johnson, State Sunday
School organizer was with us yes
terday and preached. !We are
always glad to have him with us.
A pleasant Hallowe'en social was
given by the Ladies Aid on Thurs
day evening, but as we were not
present we cannot report fully.
Saturday on our return from a
trip to Madras we were rather sur
prised at meeting some twenty or
twenty-five passengers in various
rigs in the course of two miles. It
was not until they were all by that
we figured out that they must be
C. & E. surveyors. We did not
learn what Mr. Harriman is going
to do about furnishing us with
transportation.
D. C. Wods of this neighbor
hood, E. M. Gillam, Ueo. Rodman
and A. L Williams were transact
ing hog and poultry business at
this farm the past week. The
latter gentlemen expressed them
selves as quite surprised at the
transformation . that has taken
place in this juniper and sage
brusb country in the last three
years. The wood and water looks
mighty good to them.
JU. u. rarii.
Horse Lost &10 Reward
Lost, bay gelding, branded figure 6
on left stifle; star in forehead; saddle
marks and marks from work; weight
about 1100 pounds; 10 years old; a
little stiff from packing. Horse raised
in Paulina country. The ahove reward
will be paid by tinder notifying
10-31-lmp OLA LARSON,
Sisters, Oregon.