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VOL XII
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 15, 1908.
NO. 44
FULTON SCORES BRYAN
IN SPEECH AT OPERA HOUSE
Senator Charles V. Fulton,, the
firt United Stales senator that
ever entered Crook county, spoke
lu re Tuanday evening to a packed
lioune, and was repeatedly applaud
rd. Tlie eenator praited Taft high
ly.snying the republican party had
never nominated a better or more
able man, and lis condemned
Hryan at a dreamer and a man
who, while meaning well, is men
tally incompetent for the exalted
odke to which he aspires.
J. N. Williamson of this city, a
lifelong friend of Senator Fulton,
introduced the speaker to the
lirgo audience, which numbered
not a few democrats and some
sociality among it. lie said that
Prineville was to he congratulated,
the audience as individuals were
to he congratulated, the senator
and hlinnelf were to be congratu
lated, because this wss the first
ti no in the hixtory of Cro k county
Hint a Uhited Biatea senior had
vinlted and spoken here. Senator
Fulton, in responding to Mr.
Williamson, paid that gentleman
a very high tribute, saying of Mr.
Williamson that he bore a charao
ter and attained a plane of friend
ship second to none other among
the friends of his career. Ap
plause greeted this remark
Benator Fulton began by saying
that he had been contemplating
this trip into interior Oregon for
many years, but that he bad al
ways been diverted until now. He
said: ''Hince I have put in two
days riding over this country (he
spoke at Madras Monday night),
I have noted the wonderful devel
opment now going on, wonderful
not alone for its present progress
but much more for the greater de
velopment to ensue in the future.
Considering the immense area of
your county and its potential
wealth, it is the greatest wonder, a
wonder among wonders in Oregon,
a state of wonders.
"Ten years from today, on rid
Ing over this county as I have
ridden this week, will pass through
a continuous settlement. American
homes, American farms, American
villages, will dot the landscape on
all sides. It is to be a develop
ment of which the whole state may
well be proud, for its wealth of
area, population and earning
capacity will not be surpassed in
any other like area in the nation.
"I have been sent here by the
Republican state central com
mittee to talk politics to yoo and
to tell you why I believe the re
publican party should receive your
support November 3. I do this at
the hazard of losing the few friends
I have left laughter, but I do it
without fear of the consequences
and because of the republican
party. Applause.
"I will not touch on the Haskell
incident any more than to say I
do not believe that Mr. Bryan was
responsible for it, though the smeiT
of oil got pretty strong. Laugh
ter. Mr. Bryan I believe to be
morally upright and patriotic, but
mentally insincere and incompe
tent. He is irresponsible and bis
whole career attests this fact The
people bare repudiated every prin
ciple and policy he ever advocated,
and be himself bas repudiated
his own paramount principles each
time be bas run again. The only
thing he baa never repudiated is
bis desire to be president, and be
never will repudiate that Laugh
ter and applause.
"In 1896 it was all iree silver
with Mr. Bryon; otherwise, the
country would be ruined. Yet in
that year it was at as low an ebb
as a result of the Cleveland demo
cratic regime as at any time in its
history. By 1900 Mr. Bryan bad
forever abandoned free silver,
though the country, far from being
ruined was more prosperous than
ever, and be cried: 'Imperialism!
Imperialism!' without the over
throw of wh'cb the country would
again be ruined. Yet lets than
two years before Mr. Bryan bad
urged seventeen democratic sens-
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Ladies' Coats
Are arriving daily from the makers, and cover
a great range in price and quality that is sure
to be pleasing to our trade. Call at once and
get the first selection.
PRICES $7.50 AND UP
Ladies' Fine Tailor Suits
New arrivals keep this department full of choice
new style. Now is the best time to buy.
PRICES $16.50 AND UP
Men's
Suits
Up to-date, without
the extra price you
will find here. Smart
styles at reasonable
prices.
Coat Sweaters for Everybody
A lot of the nobbiest of the new ones for men, women and children, in the beat qualities and combinations
SPECIAL-V Neck for boys, at 8Sc
Mothers
Look
Here
Our boys' Suits for all agea are the Smartest
Styles and Best Values ever shown here.
While in town for the fair call
and let us interest you with
many exceptional bargains.
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Come and select your new fall hat before the cream is
gone. Our new models include the very best ones
SHOES! SHOES!
Prices lower than ever, quality always good. We
will be pleased to show you a big line of good
footwear from Infants' to Mothers'. Nothing better
made.
BUSTER BROWN Children's School Shoes are the
best Prices the lowest
SPECIALS-Saturday & Monday
GALLON PIE FRUITS
Apples 40c
Apricots : . . 75c
Blackberries 60c
Cherries 60c
Grapes . 45c
Peaches, peeled 60c
Pears , 55c
Plums 45c
ALL STANDARD CAN FRUITS 20c
Ralston Health Food 174c
Self-raising Buckwheat Flour 174c
C. W. ELKINS, PRINEVILLE, OR.
Rainy Weather During
Crook County Fair
MANY ATTEND IN SPITE OF IT
Fine Exhibits of Livestock and Agricultural
Products Display Fully Equal to That
of Any Previous Year
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Crook county's fourth annual
fair and livestock exposition
opened here Tuesday under the
most unfavorable weather con
ditions that could well be con
ceived, except tbat during Tuesday
afternoon there was a temporary
suspension of the rain which lasted
long enough to enable the opening
races to be pulled off. Rain began
falling Sunday but on Monday it
cleared op so that not a cloud vu
visible. Tueedsy, however, the
rsin fell again and it has continued
intermittently ever since.
Notwithstanding the rain, se vert 1
hundred ranchers, farmers and
cattlemen are present from all
parts of this and neighboring coun
ties, and everybody seems well
pleased.
Dr. James Witbycombe, director
of the Oregon Experiment Station
at Corvallis, is in the city to judge
the livestock.
The fair this year is fully equal
to previous efforts and reflects
credit on its management and the
county alike.
Racing programs are held daily
between some fast ones, and the
showing of Oregon horseflesh is
typical of this section of the Beaver
state. The racing will continue
until the Saturday matinee, with
suitable purses for the winners in
each event
The agricultural exhibit is very
ORCUiT COURT
CONVENES MONDAY
Raton to Grand Jury Method of
bdictlBf Offender! of the Law
good, some exhibitors having on
display specimens of as many as
twenty varieties of food plants and
gratnr. The stock and chicken
exhibits show practically all the
standard breeds extant in the west
today.
Lack of money this year, as for
merly, to make of the Crook coun
ty fair all it should be, with ade
quate prizes and awards, bas
induced the fair management to
consider appealing to the next leg
islature for segregation of Crook
county from The Dalles district,
thus placing the local fair on a
level with the best district fairs.
A feature of the fair is the rest
and lunch room opened by the
Modern Woodmen in the vacant
store of the Prineville hotel, where
visitors may leave parcels, luncbea
or coats while viewing the exhibits
at the fair grounds.
Race results Tuesday were as
follows:
First Race Quarter mile; $100
purse. Wade Hampton, first;
Brandy, second; Lamonta, third.
Wade Hampton won by a nose.
Second Race Five furlongs;
$150 purse. Seventy, first; Silver
Bow, second; John H., third. Sev
enty won easily by more than a
length.
On account of the rain and mud,
Wednesday's races were postponed
until next Monday.
JURORS DRAWN FOR TERM
Moat of Gvil Docket Cases
Are Suits to Collect Notea
Not Much Crime
"IT'S A SHAME THAT CENTRAL
OREGON HAS NO RAILROAD."
Big Land Company Ready to Co-operate in the
Building of a Line R. J. Martin Says
Harriman Intends to Build
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R. J. Mai tin, of Kansas City,
Mo., and Lakeview, Or., president
of the Oregon Valley Land Co.,
who passed through this city a few
days ago with W. F. Nelson, of
Seattle, Wash., owner of the Oregon
Trunk Line; H. A. Hunter and
K. A. Martin, en route by auto
from Portland to Lakeview and
other points in the southern part
of the Btate, said in an interview
with a Journal reporter that he
favored concerted action by ail the
land companies of interior Oregon
toward building a railroad into
this territory.
"What the Deschutes Irrigation
& Power Co. has so ably begun,"
said Mr. Martin, "must not be al
lowed to lag tor lack of support.
"My company is willing and
ready to back any enterprise which
means a railroad for central and
southern Oregon east of the moun
tains, and in my opinion the very
best road which can be built is up
the Deschutes river from the
Columbia, through Madras, and
possibly Prineville, to Bend and
Lakeview, beyond which it would
meet the line now building north
from California. Our company sold
over $1,000,000 of land the past
year, so yon see we have the means
and the settlers have the resource
of the lands acquired.
"It is a hurning shame that
thousands of sturdy Americans,
who have braved the trials of a
new country, now that they have
it well settled and in a state of
cultivation, should be denied
transportation facilities and quick
communication with the outside
world. We demand a raidroad,
and if Hill or Harriman won't
give it to us we must build it our
selves."
When asked if he thought Hill
and Harriman were merely bluffing
Mr. Martin replied in the negative
"I believe there will be two rail
roads in here within a year," he
said. "Both Hill and Harriman
are now fighting for an entrance
into this country by way of the
Deschutes canyon and one if not
both seem bound to enter.
"Hill, as I size it up, is trying to
get in, and Harriman wants to
come whether Hill does or not. If
Hill gets in first it means two rail
roads for Crook county, but if
Harriman landB the prize I don't
believe Hill will come."
Traveling with Mr. Nelson, as he
did, Mr. Martin ought to know
whereof he talks, as Nelson is be
lieved both in Portland and Prine
ville to be working for J. J. Hill.
The fall term of the district
court opens in Prineville, with
Judge Bradshaw on the bench,
Monday, October 19. The calen
dar this term is short when com
pared with many sessions in the
past, and the criminal docket is
not nearly so formidable as on a
number of previous occasions.
Under the new law, voted into
effect at the June election, the dis
trict attorney no longer files infor
mations against criminal offenders
or those alleged to have committed
criminal offenses. This work is
now performed by the jury, which,
after being empanelled, acts upon
cases called to its attention and
then indicts the defendants. Be
cause of this procedure the court
calendar this term appears all to
gether, there being nothing but a
civil docket to report in advance.
The grand jury will consider the
case of A. B. Estebenet, for arson;
Jack Kitching and George McVey,
for shooting up the M. E. church;
Ada Pierce, for larceny; and maybe
some others. The defendants men
tioned have all been bound over to
await the jury's action.
All veniremen have been sub
poenaed by the eheriff. Their
names, , occupation and precinct
residences are as follows:
TW Jury List.
Prineville W. J. Wright, farm
er; L W. Ward, capitalist.
Kutcher John C. Paxton, farm
er; J. H. Jackson, farmer; W. II.
Stonehocker, farmer.
Bear Creek M. D. Nye, stock
man; J. W. Shattuck, stockman;
J. E. Roberts, stockman; David
Hamer, stockman.
Powell Buttes S. B. Yatw,
farmer; Guy Sears, farmer; H. W.
Turner, farmer.
Montgomery Thomas Sharp, jr.,
farmer; J. M. Montgomery, farmer.
McKay J. H. Prose, farmer;
A. A. McCord, farmer.
Lamonta Oren Waite, farmer;
J. S. McCoin, farmer.
Laidlaw L. H. Root, farmer;
F. V. Swisher, farmer.
Newsom Creek J. H. Kelly,
stockman.
Ireland W. P. Vandevert,
stockman.
Redmond F. T. Redmond,
farmer.
Howard J. H. Zevely, stock
man.
Ashwood C. S. McCorkle, stock
man.
Summit W. J. Schmidt, stock
man.
Black Butte D. N. Riggs, farm
er.
Willow Creek Joe Smith, farm-
300 HUNTER'S LICENSES ISSUED IN CROOK
Exactly 300 hunters' licenses
have been issued to date this year
in Crook county, the new ones
added since the last report in the
Journal being:
Prineville C. C. McNeely, Jo
siah Williams, Charles Hadley, H.
L. Parry, J. H. Haner.
Bend William Thomas Steph
ens, E. W. Richardson, H. L.
Whitsett, R. H. Deyormand.
Culver R. C. Osborn, C. O. Lee,
W. C. Barber, Walt Mendenhall.
Lamonta S. H. Hadley, T. J.
Benefield, J. C. Benefield.
Howard Henry Zevely, M. L.
Elliott.
Redmond D. L. Miller.
Medford F. J. Swenning.
Portland Wells Gilbert.
r.
Haystack C. A. Whitsett, farm
er.
Mill Creek C. M. Lister, farmer.
Bend E. A. Sather, merchant.
Civil Calendar.
W. Bolton, Smith French and
Nellie French, partners, doing bus
iness under the firm name and
style of W. Bolton & Co., plain
tiffs, vs. John McLennan, defend
ant; note and account. Huntington
& Wilson and M. E. Miller, attor
neys. The Northrup & Sturgis Co.,
plaintiff, vs. Hugh O'Kane, defend-
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