Crook Goumty outusl VOL XI PRINEVILLE; CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 28, 1907. NO. 50 i wa raw swill The close buyer and the careful buyer have kept us busy every day. We are rapidly reducing our stock but our lines are still in perfect condition and every buyer can find plenty for a selection Men's Clothing No part of our big store has more attention during our CLOSING OUT SALE than that devoted to Suits for men and Boys. This week we make drastic cuts on the .price of the Urge stock yet on hand and have marked every suit at ONE-HALF of the regular selling price. This means LESS THAN WHOLESALE COST. It means a big loss to us, but every suit must be sold and that very soon. Be sure and look these over : Heavy Corduroy Vests Pants Regular $12 Overcoats . Hats See our special at Heavy Blue Flannel Shirts Heavy Gray Wool Sweaters ..$125 ... 2.00 9.95 1.75 95c . 125 Ladies' Flannelette WRAPPERS " Sanitary" Manufacture Price, $1.75 Suit Cases ftzg $1.75 -$2.45 and Upwards Ladies Furnishings Fine Medium Weight Vests. Heavy Cotton Fleeced Vests Heavy Fleeced Union Suits Fine Cashmere Vests Medium-Weight Fleeced Hose. Extra Heavy Fleeced Hose -27Jc . 69c 69c 1.20 . 19c . 32c Petticoats Special illustrated list of ten different styles sent on request. Ladies invited to inspect this bran new line IS G'OflEPV PPlfPlJ7Q We invite your inspection of our IVUOl 1 JT llMvJCiSj line of Groceries. Nowhere else are such low prices, mentioned on first-class goods. You can effect a neat saving if you buy of us. HEATING STOVE We have sold a good portion of our stock of Heaters but the line is in good shape. The prices are low enough to claim your instant attention; much lower than elsewhere. Everything that goes with a first-class stove is sent out with each- cvo-Seeour stovemEin before buying Orders by mail receive our personal attention. They are filled the day received. 0. W. MUESMi . PRINEVILLE, OREGON D If you cannot visit our store in person, drop a post card for samples of what you want ARRESTED ON A - j GRAVE CHARGE 0. 1). Salnave, better known as Bert Salnave, was arrested in Prineville IhhI Thursday afternoon, charged with fending obscene letter through the mails. A num ber of girls, whoso age would range aoraowhere between 12 and It year, received letters of an in criminating nature and the matter was placed in the hands of Sheriff Klkins who took tho young man in custody. Some of the letters were signed with a fictitious name, prefixing Mrs. to the initial Big nature, but always giving the same number of postofliee box for ans wer. The young man can he tried by both the state and federal authori ties. There is this difference, how ever, that the penalty is much more severe if convicted under in dictment by Uncle Sum. Understate laws, if conviction follows, tho jmnnlty is a $1500 fine and a term in tho state peniten tiary, either or both, at the dis cretion of the court. The federal laws provide a pen alty of not more than a $5000 fine and for not more than five years in the penitentiary, either or both at the discretion of the presiding judge. ' The postoffice authorities will take the case up first. An in spector is now on the way to Prine ville to take the case in hand. He is expected here today or tomorrow. SMALLPOX AT MITCHELL Dr. Edwards, the health officer, reports three cases of smallpox at Mitchell. The disease is of a mild type. The three cases are quar antined and it is thought there will be no further trouble. The contagion was brought from Day- ville and Day ville got it from the John Day country. Correspondence From Sister Sisters, Ore., Nov. 25. Charles Foster and his son Louis have retnrned from Hood River. Rod Foster has moved into the residence he purchased of Mart Wilt. Mart Wilt and wife have gone to Kansas for the winter. John Schilty and wife have UBt returned from Bend. George McAlielor is suffering from rheumatism. Vern Urit is recovering slowly from a spell of typhoid fever. Robert Smith and family have gone to Grass Valley to visit his brother, Harvey Smith. John Wilt, the road master of Sisters district, is doing some good work on tho roads down within five miles of Cline Falls. CROOK COUNTY VALUATIONS Hone Lost $10 Reward Lost, bay gelding, branded figure 5 on left stifle; star in forehead; Raridlo marks and marks from work; wuiuht about 11(H) pounds; 10 years old; a little still from packing. Horse rained in Paulina country. The above reward will be paid by tinder notifying 10-31-lmp uua IjAKMuin, .Sinters, Oregon, For Sale Orain, alfalfa anil baled hay for sale. Will deliver by load or sell in stack. Inquire of Omar Olaypool, atO. W. Klkins' store. Hay Ranch for Sale Good hay ranch for sale on upper Ochoco at $10 per acre. 120 acres of land well watered; quite a lot of Rood timber on place. Inquire of 13. M. riliUSON, rrtnevllle, Ore. 11-7 A list of the amount of assessable property in the various road and school districts - has been com pleted for the use of the county officers in the work of adjusting the amount of assessments to be made. The lists show some in teresting facts concerning the development of the county and the progress of different parts of it. The value of property assessable for the benefit of the Prineville city tax reached $445,317, ft ma terial increase over all previous years. It is thought that if the valuations could be put at actual market value the - total would reach upwards of three-quarters of a million dollars. The only other incorporated town within the county is Bend. The amount of property there according to the assessor's figures is a little more than $72,000. The value of all property in Crook county reached about $7,000,000. In 1903 it was only $2,300,000. Part of the increase may be credited to the increase in valuations of all property as listed by the assessor. The actual in crease, however, will more than parallel the assessor's valuations The amount of timber lands that are passing to patent this year will increase the amount of assessable property before the first of March next year perhaps $1,000,000. Rolled barley, lowest cash price at J. E. Stewart & Co. Cleaning, pressing and repairing men's clothes. Miss Hawking and Cohrs, room 14 upstairs, at the lledby. , House and lot for sale cheap Call on J. W. Horigan or D. F. Stewart. A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION The second annual Crook County Sunday School convention closed a very successful three-day session Sunday. Rev. Chas. A. Phipps, Sunday School Field Secretary was pres ent and gave a very interesting address at each session. If people could only be made to understand what they miss by not attending such meetings they surely would not let another opportunity go by. There were many good papers read and talks on this Sunday School question. Last year Crook county stood second in the state for money raised to carry forward the work. This year our Sunday School peo ple will be disappointed if they do not head the list. The following officers were elected for the en suing year: President J. H. Shipp, vice-president L. A. Hunt, secre tary Mrs. Anna L. Winnek, treas urer J. W. Horigan. PRINEVILLE FLOUR IN BIG DEMAND HEADED FOR PRINEVILLE The Prineville Flour Mills has a record perhaps unequaled by any mill of like size in the state. On the 16th of this month, after a continuous run Bince the season opened, the mill was without a barrel of flour in its warerooms. From the time the mill was started on this season's run the machinery I has been kept busy eighteen hours each day and for several weeks past the machinery has not been allowed to stop. The average out put is fifty barrels per day. Several thousand bushels of choice wheat have been selected and stored in a separate bin which will be made into an extra fine grade of flour as soon as the rush is over. D. I. & P. Co. May Gain A Point The State Land board listened to a continuation of the arguments of the officers and attorneys of the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company against the new code of rules and regulations governing the settlement and reclamation of arid lands in the state, at a special meeting. The company opposes the rule providing that no land shall be sold within the segrega tions to other than actual settlers, as defined in the government homestead laws, on the ground that it will be impossible to dis pose of the land under these con ditions. The Board has taken the matter under advisement and will probably modify the rule in a limited degree, but will insist up on the "actual settler" provision as a safeguard against speculation. DIED At the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. A. W. Benton, at North Main St. Prineville, on Saturday night, Nov. 23, Warren Ellsworth Benton, aged one year and 18 days. Funeral services vere held in tne Presbyterian church on Monday afternoon,0 conducted by Rev. Dr. Dunsmore, the pastor, and interment in the Masonic cemetery. Ine sympathy of their many friends is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Benton in their sad ' afllction, and the fact that Mrs. Benton was also bereaved of her father only about two months ago, makes the situa tion particularly sad. The baby was an unusually bright and handsome boy, and was attacked with cholera infantum about three weeks ago, which ran into brain fever, culminating in tubercular meningitis, to which he succumbed after lying unconscious . for nearly two weeks. A larger plan of electric railway development in the Willamette valley and central Oregon than baa ever before been nndertaken is being launched by A. Welch, and the Willamette " valley company, owners of electric light plants at various points, and builders of the Eugene street railway and other projects says the Portland Journal. With a nominal capital of $1,000,000 they today incorporated the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway company, for the purpose of building an electric road from ortland to Salem, Eugene, Yaquina, Prineville and Ontario. with branches to numerous towns. The total mileage contemplated in their undertaking is in excess of 800 miles. They propose to de velop from the Mackenzie, the Santiam and the Deschutes rivers and streams in central Oregon the enormous power necessary for operating the system planned. rapers were hied today in the Multnomah county clerk's office by Attorneys John A. McNary and C. L. McNary of Salem, acting for the company, completing its incorporation and setting forth an outline of its pur poses The incorporators are J. O. Story, J. C. Bracher, George Bracher, A. Welch, E. M. Hall, John McNary. According to the incorporation papers the following lines of elec tric road will be built: From Port land to Salem, thence to Eugene, from which point they will branch out in several directions. A line from Eugene via Springfield and the Mackenzie river valley will ex tend to Prineville and thence across the state to Ontario. Another line from Eugene will tap Yaquina bay points, and lines will also connect Eugene with Florence, Cottage Grove, Corvallis, Wending, Mehana and Dallas, passing through Lane, Polk and Lincoln counties. This is the most ambitious scheme of electric railroad develop ment yet undertaken in Oregon. How long it will take to develop is of course problematical. The backers say they have completed the nucieus, which is the Eugene Electric railway, and that they have rights of way and water powers already secured for a large part of the lin es. They have been at work more than a year on the preliminaries of the project. It is said their proposed line from Portland to Salem and Eugene will pass on the east side of the Willamette river. Advertising the True Test A newspaper may boom a town through its news and editorial col ums. It may write items without number about the crops, tell of the enormous potatoes, apples, cabbage and Boforth, grown in its neigh hood, but when all is said and done, it is the amount of adver tising that appears in a paper that appeals to the investor says an exchange. To him it is the ad vertising columns that measure the business done in a town. They are the pulse that he feels to see if the different businesses are pros pering. He knows very well that if the local merchants advertise freely there must be a prospect of a good trade with a good country to draw from, or they couldn't afford to do so. Merchants may never have looked at it in this light, but every thinking man will readily agree with us, that when he increases the size of his ad he is helping to boost his town far more than when he pays the professional speiler, and spends his money for all kinds of hot air literature that is looked up with suspicion and taken with a large pinch of salt.