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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 19, 190S.
NO. 49
SHERIFF ELKINS BETWEEN
DEVIL AND DEEP BLUE SEA
Crook County Official Commanded to Sell Stock
of Booze in Dry County Which Horn
of this Dilemma Would You Take?
Uiu axy rent the head of Sheriff
Klklns lhm day. He is waiting
(or ftil vice (rum the district Attor
ney. How can sheriff tell boose
in A dry county, when it in his
duty to arrest anyone t'le who
tliM- tho tame thing? Hint is
what in worrying the sheriff l
Crok.
The circuit court bus issued nn
order commanding him to cell,
under attachment, to Ilia hlghext
bidder (or each in hand, the rem
nant of tho troublesome Kotehenet
t(K'k of liquor at lU-nd, at the
cvurt houne door in Prineville on
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Table Linens
Ueautifiil Damask Table Linen
() in. wide special
Tine Uleachcd Pure Linen 72 dl Cfl
inches wide, plain center plOU
Puro Irih Linen, lleaehod, JC
heavy twill, 72 in., Thistle jat., pl
Heavy Tablo Padding, special ()9c
White
Largo shipment of puro white Haviland
direct from importing oflico at figures
much lower than if bought from Coast
houses, and wo arc quoting you prices 10
to 15 per cent lower than ever before.
This is tho celebrated "Kansome" pattern
ar.d you will always bo able to add new
pieces to your collection.'
Handled Tea Cups and Saucers, set 3 00
Largo Colleo Cups and Saucers ., set 3 75
51 inch Plates set 2 25
7 inch Ureakfast Plates set 3 00
8 inch Dinner Plates set 3 75
Coupe (Soup Plates)... eet 2 75
12 inch Hatters each 1 75
14 inch Platters each 2 GO
1(5 inch Platters ...each 4 50
Chop Plates each 2 00
Covered Tourcens, Covered Dishes, Gravy
and Sauce Hats, Etc.
Fill Your Needs
We are making a special effort to call
your attention to tho good things wo have
for you, and trust that you will not let
the opportunity pass without filling your
needs in theso goods.
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Nov. 21. If he ninkrn the sale
doia he violate the "dry" law? If
he refuMn to obey the command o(
tho court, interested parti might
make trouble with hid bondsmen
U'cnucc tho sheriff refused to per
(orm hi oflkiiil duties.
' I'm between the devil and the
deep blue en," says Sheriff Klkins.
"I'll let the dintrlet attorney decide
the matter.
' Furthermore, it's a loop, cold,
dry drive from Bend to l'rineville.
I'll have to look around for a
freighter whose character U beyond
question to bring that tempting
cargo over from Bend."
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he Table on Thanksgiving
: $1.25
Haviland
C. W. ELKINS
Try-Out Debate
Tomorrow Evening
The'Hryoul" debate o( the Crook
County High School will be held
tomorrow (Friday) at 1:45 in the
highschool building, the subject for
debate being, "Kenolved, that the
preitcnt policy of the United States
government regarding Chinese ex
clusion bo continued." Thin con
tent ia 0xn to all high school
students, who are at liberty to
elect either vide of the question.
The judges for thin debate are:
W. A. Hell, J. N. Williamson and
Dr. Dunn more. Everybody invited.
Each speaker will be limited to
5 or 10 minutes, and judge will
"elect three, to comprise the debat
ing team of the school. Tho Crook
County High School has entered
the Slate Debating league, and the
firnt debate acheduled for tho lo
cal team ia one with an all-Sher
man-county team, tome time in
December. The results of the
league debates will pit winnera
againet winnera, eliminating de
feated teama from the contest, and
the winning Eastern Oregon team
will ultimately compete with the
winning Western or Southern Ore
gon high school debaters in a con
tent fur the rtate championship.
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SPECIAL
Thanksgiving Groceries
Xew Jersey Cranberries, every ber
ry sound and wholesome, quart
Extra good Seeded Raisins & Cur
rants, 1 lb pkg., each
Extra fancy Citron and Lemon
Peel, per pound
Fresh Paper Shell Almonds, pound
New Paper Shell Walnuts, pound
Other New Goods
Heinz Mandclay Sauce Sweet Pickles
Chow New Olives
Xew Corn Tomatoes
Diamond W Catsup and Mineement
Silverware
Wo guarantee the Holmes & Edwards
Silverware to be as good as any on the
market and to carry 25 per cent more
silver than standard plate. The following
in French Grey Finish:
Teaspoons . Dessert & Tablo Spoons
Cold Meat and Salad Forks
Perry Sets Soup Sets Jelly Knives
Putter Knives Sugar Spoons
Hollow Handle Knives and Nut Sets
Coat Sweaters
J ust received today immense line of
Sweater Coats.
For Boys and Girls, each
For Ladies
$2.50
For Men, extra heavy
NEW WELL FOR
CITY WATER
Big Steam Drill at Work
in the City
HOPE TO AVOID OLD TROUBLE
Test Well to Be Completed and
Tried, If Satisfactory Sereral
More Will Be Installed
John Moore has brought his big
steam well drill in from Redmond
and is sinking a well for the
l'rineville Light & Water Co. near
the power plant. The well now
Wing put down is a test well and
will be sunk 70 feet.
Tim tilan !k to drill and case the
drill hole to the depth named,
when the stratum ol quicksand
will have been reached, and then
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with a centrifugal pump a large
cavity is to be excavated in the
bottom of the well. This cavity is
to be filled with gravel and later a
double caeing will be installed with
a cement lining between casings to
avoid any possibility of surface
water finding its way into the well.
The difficulty the water company
expects to overcome in this well is
the packing of the quicksand about
the strainer in the bottom of the
well, which seriously checks the
flow of water and makes necessary
so many different wells. The
gravel-filled cavity is expected to
accomplish this. If this test well
proves a success, several moro will
be drilled, but this one w.U be
completed and tried before opera
tions are begun on any others.
This is the same kind of a well
that is being inttalltd by the
Southern Pacific railway company
along its lines through the desert
regions, where they are said to give
the best of satisfaction.
Popular Madras
Couple Weds
Chester E. Roush and Mist Katha
rine Hering Married in Prine
rille Sunday Evening
Mr. Chester E. Roush and Miss
Katharine A. Hering, both of Mad
ras, were married in the parlor of
the Hotel Prineville Sunday even
ing, Nov. 15, Dr. Charles Dunsmore,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, officiating. With a short
but impressive ceremony Dr. Duns
more united the happy pair in the
presence of a few of their friends at
5:30, and after congratulations had
been extended the party were
served with an elecant weddine
supper in the Hotel Prinevill din
ing room.
The groom is a prosperous vounu
merchant of Madras, where he has
resided for several years, and dur
ing this time has made for himself
an enviable reputation for personal
worth and business integrity. The
bride is a most estimable joung
woman who came to Madras tore-
side from Michigan about one year
ago. Since coming to Madras she
has made many warm friendships
by her amiability, and while the
groom is one of the very best of
Crook county's young men he has
won a helpmate who is in every
way worthy to share the promise
of a most successful and useful
career.
Mr. and Mrs. Roush returned to
Madras Monday afternoon and
will make their home there.
Those present at the wedding
were: Sheriff and Mrs. Frank
Elkins. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. RirMln
and son, and B. F. DeVinney, of
rortland.
Stockmen's Range
Meeting Dec. 10-12
The Forester has authorized a
stockmen's meeting to be held at
Prineville, Oregon, December 10,
11 and 12, for the purpose of ad
justing the lines between the cat
tle and sheep ranges in the Des
chutes national forest. Much in
terest and a large attendance on
the part of Crook county stockmen
is expected.
A. S. Ireland, forest supervisor
in this district, with headquarters
in this city, has the matter in
charge.
Indian Name of Deschutes.
The old Indian name for the Des
chutes was Tawah na-hi-ooks. It
received its present name from the
early French voyageurs, who plied
the Columbia river in their bateaux,
going from the upper country to
points along the Columbia. They
were fur hunters and belonged to
the Northwest company.
Lewis and Clark called the Des
chutes by the old Indian name.
Before they reached the rapids of
the Columbia at Celilo the explorers
heard from the Indians of the great
falls, where all the water of the
Columbia goes leaping over to
break in the baBalt depths below.
HOW WILL CITY RAISE
MONEY FOR COMING YEAR
Absence of $3000 Saloon Licenses Puts New
Face on Question Council Passes It Up
City Election December 21.
City election day will be Mon
day, December 21. At that time
the qualified electors of the city of
Prineville will be called upon to
elect a mayor and three council-
men. Another councilman will
probably be appointed in January
by the new mayor, whoever he
may be, to take the place cf
Councilman Walter O'Neil, now a
resident of Shaniko.
With the dawn of another year
comes the mooted question of the
sources of city revenue to meet the
expenses of that year. Heretofore
the (3000 from six saloons at 150 a
month apiece has been forthcoming
as the bulk of Prineville city rev
enue. Under the local option law
now in effect none of this money is
available.
The question that now confronts
the citizens of Prineville is, there
fore, how to meet the actual run
ning expenses of the city. Thus
far the outgoing city council has
taken no action in this matter and
it would appear that the present i
council does not intend to do so
but the question will have to be j
RAISES PR1ZEWINN1NG
Tillman Reuter of Madras
Crop Production Produces Corn at Profit
Tillman Reuter was in town
from Madras last Friday and says
he has no complaint to make in re
gard to crop production this year.
And he has a good right to feel that
way, for by his dry land farming
he this year raised splendid crops,
including corn, showing what can
be done by well directed efforts on
the dry lands of Crook county,
without irrigation.
At the recent Crook County fair,
Mr. Reuter's exhibit carried away
14 prizes in all, and his general dis
play of agricultural products grown
on unirrigated lands was awarded
first prize and highly commended
by the judges as well as by all who
saw it. Through the rush in clos
ing up the list of awards for publi
cation, through inadvertence, credit
for this award was given to another
COZY HOMES FOR THE FOREST RANGERS
Snug Houses Being Built by
Who Patrol
C. C. Hon, assistant forest ran
ger in the Deschutes national forest,
has just completed the new Ochoco
ranger station in the reserve. Its
dimensions are 36 by 38 feet over
all, one story being built in the
form of a Catholic cross.
The structure, which is a very
workmanlike job, contains two bed
rooms 11-8x11-4, one living room
13-8x11-4, one dining room 9-4x
ll-4,one kitchen 11-4x8, one pantry
and one 6toreroom. The living
room is in front with a big double
window. Immediately back of this
room is the dining room, then the
kitchen, then the pantry and store
room, one on either side. The bed
rooms are in the two arms of the
cross, the Ehort end of the cross be
ing forward. Three spacious
porches complete the building.
This station is built according to
SUCCESSFUL SUNDAY
Third Annual County Meeting Results in Much Benefit
to Bible School Work
Delegates and church people who
attended the three days' sessions of
the third annual- Crook county
Sunday school convention, held
last Friday Saturday and Sunday
in this city at the First Methodist
settled in some way and that toon.
Taxable property within the
corporate limits of the city of
Prineville has an assessed valua
tion of 1151,470 which, for the
year 1903 was assessed at the rate
of 24 3 mills which, in round
figures, yields a revenue of about
(11,000, but only one-fourth of this
amount can be used for city pur
poses, as will be seen from the
following itemized proportions tf
the total of 24.3 mills:
City of Prineville 6.00
School tax .0O
County and State 8.00
General chool 3.00
High school 1.25
Library tund 05
Total In mills 24..T0
Next year the $3000 saloon rev
enue must be raised in some other
way. If by direct taxation it will
take 6.6 mills to do it. Some peo
ple think that no additional tax is
necessary, claiming that witn a
rigid curtailment of expenses the
city could be run on a 24.3 basis.
We pass the matter up to the
new council for solution.
CROPS ON DRY LAND
Makes No Complaint About
party, but this was a mistake as
Mr. Renter's display was the winner
and was indeed one of the most
meritorious in the pavilion. A
complete list of the awards made to
him is an follows:
Farm products, without irriga
tion, general" display first.
Wheat in bulk first.
Early Adams corn first.
Winter wheat in bulk first.
Winter wheat in stalk second.
Oats first.
Barley second.
Blue Victor potatoes first.
Carrots first.
Prizetaker onions first.
Mammoth Silver King onions
first. Long Keeper onion second.
White Victor potato second.
Early Rose potato second.
Government for Use of Men
National Forests.
regulation forestry plans sent out
from Washington, and is only one
of several such buildings. Each
such forestry station has a big barn
in connection, for the shelter and
accommodation of the foresters'
horses and a cow or two for milk.
Material is now on the ground
for a like building on Rager creek,
which will also be built by Mr.
Hon, who is carpenter in this dis
trict, though holding titles as assist
ant forest ranger. This as well as
the Ochoco station, is a frame house
weather boarded, with drop siding.
It is ceiled on the inside, and will
be cloth papered.
The foresters' station in the
Maury reserve is a homestead farm
house bought by the government
from its . former owner.
All stations have telephonic
communication with the outside
world.
SCHOOL CONVENTION
Rev. C. A. Phipps Lectures
church, unite in pronouncing the
meeting a marked success; greater,
if anything, than the two annual
conventions which preceded it. The
number of delegates was a little
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