Crook Goumty
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VOL XI
PRINEVILLE; CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 28, 1907.
NO. 50
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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
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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.