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VOL. XII
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 27, 1908.
NO. 37
PECTS
AILROAD BETTER THAN EVE
Crook
County
T3
PROS
FOR A R
BEFORE
LONELY BACHELOR
WANTS A WIFE
Girl Musi Be Young and of Loving
DUpoiiton and a Cood
Housekeeper
The following special dinpatch
from Omnhft, Nebr., apnri'd in
Tuwiluy' Orrgonian
Finding bachelor life in tho wild
of Oregon a liltlu loiicnome, Fred
A. .oil lin written a letter from
the town of Madras, Ore, to font
master Thomas, nekin Utter
to secure liiin a young wife, the
remuneration for hi services to 1
120, C. 0. I).
Tho term of the contract arc
rather binding. The young woniani
inuxt bo between 20 nnd 21 j enr
of age, a good lioneckcrper arid of
a sweit and lovcaldo disposition.
Correspondence with Cinderella
whoso f''t will fit thin ilipx-r in
solicited. Tho text of the closing
pnrt of fr. Zell'n missive read a
follows:
"Th'a la between you and me.. If
this proposition works all rivht and
I ad the girl, after the wedding I
will give you $20."
Mr. Zull incloses a picture which
shows liiin to be a strongly built
fellow of about 30 years of ago. He
bus a 6H0-acre ranch near Madras,
which he anyi furnishes him an
excellent living and considerable
profit. Mr. Zell' rcmarkin Ida
letter that all the ranchers in hi
country are well fixed, but that all
aro bachelors, and that there in
not a woman within an astonish
ingly long diKtance. lie desires to
exchange pictures with his ft i II un
known intended.
THREE ARE INJURED
BY SADDLE HORSES
J. K. Terrell of O'Neil, OrvalDavii
of Haycreek and Maggie
Allinghara of Lower Bridge
J. K. Terrell, C2 years old, of
O'Neil, was seriously injured io
the iieighborhK)d of bis home on
Sunday through the cavorting of
his horse, breaking both his collar
bone and pelvic bone and sustain
ing complicated internal injuries
which make his recovery doubtful.
He is now at the I'rineville hotel,
Dr. Kdwarda being the attending
physician. It is reported from
O'Neil that Terrell, in-suddenly
checking up his horse, threw the
animal over on its back. The
man struck the ground first,
tho horse falling heavily upon him,
where he rolled and struggled be
fore Terrell, unconncious, could be
extricated.
Orval Davis, ranch foreman for
the 11. S. L. Co. at llav Cretk, met
with a painful accident at 5:30
o'clock Friday afternoon, being
thrown from bis horse when the
animal stepped in a badger hole.
The rider's collar bone was broken
and he sustained severe bruises
and sprains, but will recover as
rapidly as the bone knits together.
Dr. Belknap of I'rineville was sum
moned by telephone and was hur
ried to the scene by Ed Hodson in
the latter'a automobile.
Maggie Allingham, the 13-year-old
daughter of O. D. Allingham,
living at the Long Hollow ranch
of the Black Iiutte Land cfc Live
stock Co., met with a bad accident
last Thursday evening while out
hunting for cattle. Her horse
stepped in a badger bole and the
rider was thrown violently to the
ground. Her arm was broken
close to the eheulder. Dr. Ed
wards was summoned to reduce
the fracture. Unless new compli
cations ariee the young girl will
get along nicely.
HILL OR HARRIMAN
READY TO BUILD
UP DESCHUTES
Nelson Has Sold Con
trolling Interest of
OregonTrunk Line
AT C. W. ELKINS' DEPARTMENT STORE
Woolen
Dress
Fabrics
Early buyers will be
able to see the advance
showings o f woolen
dre$s goods nt our store
on Saturday of this
week. New browns,
London Smoke, fancy
and plain blues in serges,
Panama and other lead
ing and sensible weaves.
Wash Goods
We arc now showing new fall ginghams, percales, calicos and
other cotton fabrics, which were bought when prices were the
lowest. Nothing nicer will be shown this fall. New prints
and in the latest brown shades, besides blues, maroons,
etc., now on sale at .
White
Ready to wear
Garments
Specials in all white
ready-to-wear garments,
shirtwaists, lingiere suits
corset waists, skirts and
gowns at one-third off.
All ladies dress skirts
One-third Off
TheGotzianShoe Men's
Made la St. Paul since
1855.
"Fits like your footprint."
Shoes
Have you tried
Gotzian shoes?
E a s e Comfort
Style.
ThelNew
Lace Front
In two models,
for all sorts of
people. Dresses
look best when
fitted over a
Jackson Corset.
GROCERY SPECIALS ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 5
Table Fruits
2 1 pound cans Fountain and Pheasant Brands.
Peaches, Pears, Apricots, Raspberries, Straw
berries and Blackberries, r. er can . . . . . 20c
All Diamond. W Table Fruits except Black
Cherries, per can . . 30c
"Gold Ore" Coffee
"Gold Ore" Roast Coffee, the famous high
grade blend, per pound t 20c
Gallon . Pie Fruits, Best Grade -
CAN " CASE
Apples 40c $4.70
Apricots .'. 70c $8.25
Blackberries 54c $6.35
Cherries 54c $6.35
Peaches, peeled 56c $6.65
Plums 43c $5.00
Squash 38c $4.40
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Porter Bros. & Welch,
Jim Hill Contractors,
Are the Purchasers
Whether Ilarriman or Hill is
behind the project matters little,
of one thing the people of Crook
county are assured a railroad will
he built up the Deschutes valley to
Bend and beyond within a year,
wort to Or gin next ueceiuDer.
During the past week, positive
statements to this effect have been
made by both the Uill and Ilarri
man interests, and it is understood
; Mr. Ilarriman has promised Gov
ernor Chamberlain that his engi
j neers will have the dirt flying ere
the coming winter sets in.
The right of way up the Des
chutes river has been owned by
I W. F. Nelson, a Seattle railroad
i builder and promoter. Mr. Nelson
in company with J. P. Porter of
Vancouver and John D. Ptfrter of
Spokane, members of the railroad
i contracting firm of Porter Bros. &
Welch of Spokane, passed through
; Prineville Monday by auto bound
for Bend, Klamath Falls and Med
j ford, by way of the upper Des
chutes valley and the mountains
to the south. While in Prineville
the paity visited both the Crook
County and First National banks
and conferred generally with local
capitalists.
It was learned locally that Mr.
Nelson bad sold a controlling
interest in bis right of way up the
Deschutes to the Porters, and the
latter told Messrs. Elkins, Booth
and Wurzweiler of this city that
they would positively begin the
construction of the Deschutes val
ley railroad, known as the Oregon
Trunk Line, this fall, probably
about December. Present plans of
the financiers do not contemplate
running the line into Prineville,
unless it be by branch road, but an
effort may be made here to have
the main line pass directly
through Prineville and out to the
south by way of the Crooked river
valley and Johnson ranch above
town. To do so would probably
mean an appropriation of 1150,000
instead of the $100,000 recom
mended by the Central Oregon
railroad committee to be sub
scribed to the first standard gunge
road entering this city.
It is understood that the Porters
are acting for either Hill or Ilarri
man, presumably Hill. It was
the firm of Porter Bros. & Welch
that built the North Bank road
from Vancouver to Salmon Falls,
Wash., and it was tbey also who
constructed about 20 miles of one
of Jim Hill's main lines out of
Spokane, later turning the proper
ties over to the control of the
Great Northern wizard. One
thing is reasonably certain only
one railroad will be built up the
Deschutes valley, so if Ilarriman
is to build it the Porters are acting
for Ilarriman: ii Hill, then for
Hill,
Dispatches from Medford and
Klamath Falls during the week
state that Ilarriman will posi
tively commence work on this line
in December, and the route shown
goes by way of the Deschutes to
Madras, thence south through
Redmond to Bend, thence on to
Klamath Falls, where connection
would be had with San Francisco.
Such a road would give Crook
county the widest possible range of
markets for borne produce and
livestock. Manufactories would
also be both tangible and
profitable.
Prineville's only hope with such
a line would be a spur to this city,
but as stated above an effort may
be made to have the main line
pass through here.
After leaving Prineville Monday
the visiting financiers went by
way of Powell Buttes to Bend. A
Journal reporter happened to be
walking the road in the same
direction and was invited to ride
by the strangers. In the sis-mile
whir many things were discussed,
and the autoists asked question
after question relative to Crook
county, its needs and its resources.
All seemed answered satisfactorily.
The gentlemen talked non-com-mittally,
but spoke as though the
railroad would be at least 10 miles
to the westward of Prineville.
They were very much impressed
with the apparent potentialities of
this region and spoke very opti
mistically as their auto bumped
and plunged over one irrigation
lateral after another.
LOCAL CAPITAL
.FOR RAILROAD
Committee Recommends Purchase
of Bond's of Company Which
Shall Be First to Build
WANT NEW BOARD OF TRADE
To Manage the Work of Soliciting
Funds and to Act as Trustee
For the Subscribers
BIG FOREST FIRES EXTINGUISHED
C. W. ELKINS, PRINEVILLE, OREGON
11,500 Acres of Fine Timber Completely De
stroyed Fire Area Covers Three Townships
A. S. Ireland, supervisor of the
Deschutes national forest, with
headquarters in this city, said
Tuesday upon his return to Prine
ville from the battle with the
mighty forest fires south of Bend,
that reports qf heavy damage in
the Durned area were not exaggerated.
"It was the worst fire I ever saw
or nan to cope with," eaid Mr.
Ireland. "There was no let-up
day or night; just one continual,
unremitting fight all the time with
the flames nntil they were brought
under control."
Roughly estimated, three entire
townships were burned over,
standing timber in some places
being swept clean and utterly
ruined. In other places the tim
ber was little damaged, the flames
being confined to the underbrush.
All told 11,500 acres were raked
by the flames until not a vestige of
vegitation remained, either trees or
unierbrush.
Patches here and there, one mile
square, or one mile by three miles,
and in some cases much smaller,
were swept clean by the fir en,
making up the aggregate half
township when added together, but
an area represented by three com
plete townships was more or lesB
fire swept. 1
The Teaching Staff of the Prineville Schools
The publio schools of Prineville
will begin the fall term Monday,
September 21. The staff of teach
ers engaged for the ensuing school
year is as follows:
Principal E. L. Ashby of Mary
land. First grade Cora Streitel.
Second grade Alwilda Wilson.
Third grade Hazell Coldwell of
Bend.
Fourth grade Elva J. Smith.
Fifth grade Jessie Hartley of
Madras.
Sixth grade Louis H. Arns
meier.
Seventh and eighth grades wil
be in charge of Jho principal.
Railroad plans in Prineville are
rapidly approaching a satisfactory
consummation, and insofar as the
Central Oregon project is concerned
it can now be stated with assur
ance that $100,000 is available to
the first company which will con
nect this city by standard guage
steam road with the outside world
by way either of the Deschutes
gorge, a road over Che Cascades to
Detroit and Albany or by way of
Klamath Falls into California.
Should a road be built to connect
with the Columbia Southern at
Sbaniko, f 50,000 is available. Not
only that, but the nucleus of a
permanent board of trade or like
commercial organization will be
formed by the present railroad
committee, the primary object of
which is to act as trustees for the
collection of funds for the building
of a railroad and the ultimate ob
ject the boosting of this city,
Roscoe Howard, president of the
CeDtral Oregon railroad company
and general manager of-the Des
chutes Irrigation & Power Com
pany, accompanied by J. Stearns,
counsel for the D. I. & P. Co., C. M.
Redfield and E. A. Cast, came to
Prineville by auto from Bend last
Saturday to attend the second mass
meeting here for the purpose of fa
thering the railroad. At this meet
ing the .following report was read
and after a few minor changes was
adopted:
To the People of the City of Prine
vflle, Oregon:
The citizens and business men of
the City of Prineville, Oregon, as
well as the entire population of Cen
tral Oregon, have long felt the
necessity of more adequata trans
portation facilities, and have, for
many years, recognized the baneful
effect the absence of railroad trans
portation has had upon the develop
ment of Crook county, and the
prosperity gf its people.
We realize tht helplessness of our
citizens themselves to provide the
means of railroad transportation to
even the nearest railaoad shipping
point. , .
Numerous projects have, from time
to time, presented themselves for the
relief of Crook county's rapidly in
creasing trade and traffic, but none
have, as yet, crystallzed to n point
where the City of Prluevllle could
give its assurance of support.
Four contemplated routes to con
nect Prineville by rail with the out
side world are considered feasible.
A line to San Francisco via Klamath
Falls would give us a perpetual
market for our products, a direct
Hue to one of the world's greatest
ports for our provisions and supplies
and a competitor with Northwest
cities for our trade. Railroad con
nection with the Corvallis & Eastern
at Detroit, Oregon, would give us
direct communication with the sea
board, and, if extended eastward,
would open a market both east and
west for oar vast timber resources.
A Hue down the Deschutes river on
water grade to the Columbia river
would reduce our present exorbitant
freight rates. A railroad to Shani
ko to connect with the Columbia
Southern would probably furnish
ample transportation facilities for
the present needs. .
In consideration of the premises,
we your committee on railroads,
would respectfully reccominend:
First, that the citizens of the City
of Prineville, Oregon, and contribu
tory territory, subscribe for ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
of approved bouds of any reliable
person; company or corporation
which shall first connect the City of
Prluevllle, Oregon, by standard
gunge steam railroad with either
San Francisco, California, via Klam
ath Falls, Oregon, the CorvallU &
Eastern railroad at Detroit, Oregon,
(Continued on puge 2.)