$2100 in Purses
Hung up by th Fair As
sociation (or trick event.
Don't (ail to ee the nee.
Crook County Fair
0.m nt I'rliicvlllt' October
ITlli, cliim-it October IKInl.
Get ready to attend.
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1909.
VOLXIII-N0.42
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
Crook COMety ..ioMraal.
BETTER GET THAT
EXHIBIT READY
County Fair Opens In
Nineteen Days
SCHOOL DISPLAY TO BE GOOD
Will Be Contest Between Grades
of Same Rank Two-Year-Old
Trot In Race Events
In nlncUxtn tiny th Crook County
Fair will Ins In lull swing. What have
you dune about in exhibit? It I ex
pected tint every section of the county
will have ft display typical of tint
locality. Our county Is so large and
And our rMiurri to varied tint there
should l no trouble in filling the
pavilion. All it taki it a little time
til tmergy to collect the product.
Ono f oritur 11 of the fair that will l
owcially uiiliailxod tliii year la the
Mutational divlniin. County Hchool
BuHriuUndt'iit Ford It Indcfiittgnbln In
lilt labor to thi end. lnitnad of
school againat kIiooI as the practice hai
been liori'luforc, the educational exhibit
will bo by grade. First grade will com
pete with!flrt gradn, second grade allh
aecond grade, etc., hiih i niaiiid-itly
bettor plan. A (2 prlaso i offered
each of the twelve grade with an extra
dollar to the bent exhibit of all. In ad
dition to the prixe for the grade exhibit,
there w ill le prlxe for the bout indl-
idtml exhibit In (hat grade.
The racing program ha been changed
somewhat einco it wa publiahcd lit the
Journal. A 2-yeaf-itd trot hl been
added. The d program follow :
Tt'KMUAY, CkTOHKH
I.'paf rnro. V mile $100
Hcconil nut', live furlong lot)
Wkiinmuat, Oitomick 20.
Forenoon
Wild bronco race 1st tW,2d 125, 3d f 16
Afternoon
Flint race, three furlong 1"
rkvond race, six furlong 1W0
TlK HHUAV, CKTOHKH 21.
Flrat race, H nH ,
Kiswuicl nice, one mile
Third race, 2-yr-old trt, 3 henta 100
Fkidav, Octoiikm 22.
Flwt rnce. furlong 1"0
KiTnti,! nice, trottlnir nice fur
Crook Comity horse 100
Third ruec, lmUc 400
"HATl ltHAV, (KTOItf'.ll S. '
Flrat nice, llnmllcuit. five fur-
Ion tea 200
Koeong nice, two-yeiir-old trot
ter or piwera, for Crook
Count v borne, bent nice, one-
liulf mile, two out of three 100
frmik Count v Journal. Count? Ofli
cial l'atH-r. Hubxcrilm lor it. $l.ftQyoar
CORRESPONDENTS'
PRIZE CONTEST
HARRIMAN ROAD
JOLTED AGAIN
Another Obstacle to Hill
Pushed Aside
TOO PLAIN A HOLD-UP CAME
Southern Extension Railway
Put to Sleep by Department
Had No Sane Existence
Haninian railroad plant la the Pea-
chute cmiyon received another un-
jointing blow Friday by the deciiion of
the Coin in Innioner of the Cluneral Land
Oillce refusing right of way franchise
to the Southern Kxtentioii Railway,
iy the Kvening Telegram. Tbia wa
the company which W. W, Cotton, gen
eral counsel for Ilarriman Interest here
admitted in court bad been purchased
by hi people aa a guarantee ot some
route In the Deschutes canyon. Hill
intereata freely charged the Ilarriman
people with having organized the com
pany in the first instance, and with
tiling it to obstruct all rivala in the
canyon.
The article of Incororatlon for the
Pouthern Extensions provided no aane
traffic terminal. It wat clearly in
tended to secure only a aection of the
Deschutes canyon, a it neither reached
the Columbia on the north nor any
good traffic center of Central Oregon on
the aouth.
Aa the inrvey ot thit company fitted
Intothote of the Denhute Railroad
Company and were in conflict with
those of tli Oregon Trunk, the infer
ence immediately wa drawn that the
fragmentary road wa backed by Ham
riman Intereata.
The Central Land Office decision
ustains the Hill contention that th
the Southern Kxteniion ha no legiti
mate existence. A portion of the
commissioner' decision it expressed in
the following language: .
"Good faith U always required of a
railway company applying for a right of
way, and in case falling nnder the
econd section of the ttatute, where the
grant of a right of war in common with
that of anotiier road is involved, and it
appear that if audi right were granted,
iinutail of aerviiii to Promote trade and
commerce it might be need to binder
and halt the construction and operation
of a rival road, such an application
should be subjected to the e trie tost
acrutior.
"Iu view rf the new aspect of the
case lice Cling of the record, inch ac
tion U required here."
While the Southern F.x tensions Com-
pany bad outlined a right of way of
several mile length, to give its existence
tome semblance of legitimacy,, in fact,
aurveya had been made for only a few
mile of track in the Horseshoe Bend
district, of the Deschutes Canyon, and
the conflict w itli the Oregon Trunk aur.
vey is said to have been (or only about
Ove miles.
This Paper Wants Re-
: " porters
IN EVERY PART OF COUNTY
Ladies!
Our Millinery Stock
is most complete with the becoming
fashions for Fall. Our expert trim
mer will trim to suit your taste.
New Arrivals to
Our Suit Department
Thi week. Come and get the neweat Our tpecialty
this icaaon is our
' $25.00 Suit
When suit and hat are bought here we can makejyou
a'saving". If you will make your selections we will
convince you. , '
To Our Out of Town Customers
-
New Dress Fabrics are so varied this season that we
want you to snd for samples. If you cannot come,'
try shopping with us by mail. You will find our prices
highly favorable and our goods the very best
Visit Our Remnant Counter HOUSEHOLD Remnants of Shoe Lines
, r A M A 1I V All size for all ages. See display on
Lengths of outings, flanelettes, dress Jtj V- IN J 1V1 I our shoe counters.
good.-be.ide. odd. and end. of VHIT BOYS' KNEE PANT SUITS $2
underwear for children, hosiery, etc TvIY 1 VU and up. Just the thing for school.
. Oliver
Chilled
Plows
i
All new stock, in
cludes the new
gangs, new sulkies
and the new disc
low. Complete
r l
ine or modern
repairs. Get our
prices on these
goods. We have
several Walking
Plows and Sulky
Plows of other
makes that we
offer very low.
I ' : il 1. i! 'SI . f l'viT.
1 J J J
J X V I 7
Farmers!
We are introducing the ,
New Kentucky Drill
with the disc feed, impos
sible to choke , it up
impossible to crack grain.
Prices right Call and see
this new implement
Closing out
Buggies
&! Hacks
Closing out my entire
stock of Buggies and
Hacks. My prices on
these will be convincing.
If you are Wanting a new
rig come at once. ' j
C. W. ELKINS BIG DEPARTMENT STORE
Valuable Prize Given
. Get JSusy Send in
" the New..
Away
Bt'idnninz with oar nest Issue
October 7th the Crook County
Journal will a tart a correspondents'
contest, open to erery resident ot
Crook countr, for the purpose ol
keeping erery section before the pub
lic. The time I here when each and
every locality ahould be heard from
and there la nothing like a good lire
correspondent to do It.
We want the new and will pay
for It In good substantial prise that
should make it worth while to any
ambitious man or woman. Aside
from the prise you are directly bene
fitting your community by keeping
It In touch with the reading public.
There la a call tor Information about
Crook county that cannot be met In
a better way. It the "happening"
in a community It aoclal and In
dustrial life thai people want to
know about Erery mall brings rt
quest to the Journal for sample
copies by people who are looking in
thta direction for homes. We, there
fore, call upon each locality to come
forward and speak right out In meet-
Ins. We hare land and resource
but comparatively few settlers. Its
up to you to help supply the need.
Your resources and opportunities
for homeseeker ahould come In for a
large amount ot space. Tell us
about them. All Item and articles
should be as condensed a la consis
tent with clearness. Now get busy.
Send In your letter as early aa possl
ble so that it mar be published the
week It Is received. ... ,
We bare not selected allot our
prizes, because we do not know how
many will enter the contest, but we
hare chosen two a gentleman
open-face gold watch, Waltham
movement, valued at 125.00, and a
125.00 Columbia Graphophone. There
111 be other prises, but not so ex
pensive, when It Is known Just bow
many wish to take part In the con
test Every correspondent will get
something. Remember, we want
correspondents In erery part of the
county. We want "hustlers," both
tor new and subscribers, so begin at
once. The terms ot the contest are
as follows:
New items, one point each.
Headed article from 25 to 100
points, according to merit.
New subscribers, 100 points each
Subscription renewals, 60 points
each. ; . ' '
The contest will close Thursday,
December S3, at 13 o'clock noon
No correspondent will be. permitted
to transfer points. The total num
ber of points made breach corre
spondent will be published weekly
so that all may know lust bow they
stand. Now, begin; a fair field and
no favors.
and recommended that the city re-im-
btirse him for the $ 14.50 alleged to be
due from hint and which waa paid by
him sum tim ago under protest. A
warrant wa ordered drawn in favor of
Mr. Crook for the amount, with Inter
est and one dollar extra far good
measore, and the ex-marshal completely
exonerated from any blame. Thi
natter escaped the Journal reporter
who happened to reach the council
meeting a little late, and failed to learn
that any action had been taken until
attention wa called to it.
The whole thing arose over the report
of expert Max Crandall, who went over
the city account the first of the year,
the report showing that 114.60 more bad
been collected by Mr. Crook for water
rent than the records showed bad been
turned over to the treasurer. .
A has been itated all along no one
bad any Ides that Mr. Crook waa
holding out money that belonged to the
city, but the allowing was attributed to
the lax manner in which the record
were kept. , However1, the council de
manded aettlement and Mr. Crook
settled. Now the council i satisfied
there waa no shortage and pay him
back. The Journal is glad to make thi
matter, clear to it reader, some of
whom might be under the impression
that Mr. Crook waa still nnder the
charge of being abort in hi official
account with the city.
BEND MILK COW
HASRUHYOVHERS
J. H. Wood's Bossyils
Qaimed by Another
CASE MAY RESULT SERIOUSLY
Two Diatinct Chain, of Owner
ship Are in Conflict Caie
Heard at Bend Today.
W. F. King Co.
Has Incorporated
The general hardware, implement
and grocery business of W. F. King has
been incorporated under the name of
the W. F. King Company. The articles
of incorporation were filed with County
Clerk Brown September 25th. The
capital stock is $25,000, share valued at
$100 each. The incorporator are W. F.
King, Joaquin Gerardo and C. E.
Smith. These three men with Hugh
Lakin. will be the stockholders. The
entire force of the big store are now
busy taking stock and the plan is for
the transfer of the bueineaa from the
name of W. F. King to ' that of the cor
poration to be made the first of the
month. However it may be a few day
later than that.
When asked about the change in the 1
organization Mr. King said ; 'Our idea
for incorporating is to make of the busi
ness an institution instead of a one
man concern. No matter what hap
pens to member of the firm under in
corporation, the business goes on just
the tame, unhampered by the courts or
administrators.
"But that i not the main reason in
this case. I have here with me three
aa fine boy as ever helped any man
run a business. I wouldn't give them
up to anybody, and wanted to tie them 1
to the business, so we have incorporated
and Joe Girardo, Claude Smith and
Hugh Lakin will own stock in the con
cern with me." . . .
The W. F. King hardware business is
one of the oldest firm in Prineville and
has grown to be one of the largest in
Central Oregon. It has always been
along with and just a little ahead of the
procession of progress ut Crook county.
Morgan-Smith Wedding.
Joe Howard Secures
- Beef Supply Contract
The contract for supplying beef for
the railroad construction camps of Por
ter Bros, on the Hill railroad up the
Deschutes baa been secured by a Crook
county man
Joe Howard of Lower Bridge has
landed the contract for furnishing the
Mr. Lewis C. Morgan and Miss Ceole
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Sam Smith, were quietly married in
Prineville last Mondar evening, at 8
o'clock at the Presbyterian manse, Rev,
Claremont C. Babbidge performing the
ceremony. None other than the con
trading parties, the 'minister and the
two witnesses. Mrs. Babbidze and Miss
Thresa Jennings were present.
' The marriage was a complete surprise
to everyone, including the mother of
the bride, who was in the city, and
waa keDt in the dark until the bride
came and presented ' her with her mar
riage certificate.
Mr. Morgan is the popular clerk in
the forest headquarter at Prineville
under Supervisor Ireland, while the
bride is one of the charming young
ladies of Crook county, who was born
There' a nice old gentle bossy cow
over at Bend that is causing seventeen
different kinds of trouble to almost as
many different person. People over
there say that it looks like someone had
stolen a cow, but we want to say right
here, before we start to relate thi tale
that this paper is not accusing anyone
of the crime, nor taking any side of the
case at all. There are enough side to
it already.
As a matter of fact J. H. Wood of
Bend bad possession of a milk cow.
The cow strayed around Bend, contrary
to the peace and dignity of the city, and
was impounded by Marshal Glen Ayera.
Adam Kotzman, a stockman living
a few miles east of Bend happened
along, saw the cow in the pound and
noticing bis brand on ber, AK con
nected, redeemed her and took her to
bis ranch.
When Mr. Wood found what had
bejome of his bossy, be at once com
menced replevin proceedings. Deputy
Sheriff Millard Triplelt, armed with the
necessary papers, went to the Kotzman
ranch to get the animal. Kotzman
absolutely refused to deliver up the
cow, but Triplett said that didn't make
any difference to him, he was going to
take her along with him anyhow and
be did. He now has her in his posses
sion, and since be took her back to
Bend she ha "found" a new calf.
The cow has two pedigree of owner
ship. One is a great deal longer than
the other.
Mr. Kotzman says that he bought her
as a yearling from George Dodson, who
lives below Prineville.
The other pedigree begins away back
when she was taking her main suste
nance from her mother as a baby calf.
Then, it is claimed, Grover Caldwell of
Rosland sold her with her mother to L.
H. McCann who raised her as a pet, and
then sold her to Anton Aune. Mr.
Aune then in turn sold her to J. H.
O'Neil. O'Neil then traded her to
Charles Findley for another cow, and
Findley sold her to J. H. Wood, who
was the possessor of the cow at the time
she fell into the clutches of the law, in
the person of the Bend marshal.
Today, Thursday, the ownership of
the cow is to be tried out in Justice
Merrill's court at Bend. Attorney Geo.
Bernier of this city will represent Mr.
Kotzman in the case, while Wood's
counsel is C. S. Benson of Bend. There
ill be -a lot of witnesses to testify, some
of them to ccmie from as far away as
Crane Prairie, while evsryone of the
long list of owners named above under
each of the pedigrees will be there to
tell where they got the cow and swear
that they did not steal ber.
Laying all jokes abide, this case will
probably result in someone being
brought to trial for the larceny of a
cow. Deputy Sheriff Triplett say he
has the cow and calf as a starter, and
that he expects to have a big drove of
cattle before the case is settled.
fresh meals to be consumed by the and grew to womanhood here.
husky laborers, and the basis on which
he figured was for the killing of an aver
age of about .13 beeves daily, or some
where in the 'neighborhood of 8000
pounds of dressed meat each day.
Mr. Howard plans to feed the beet at
bis big hay ranch at Lower Bridge and
to butcher at Madras, Grass Valley and
at one other convenient point for de
livery to the different camps along the
line. .
Mr. Howard's contract calls only for
the supply until the road ia constructed
as far as I Madras, but even that much
railroad building will require six or
seven thousand bead of beef to furnish
the sinews of war.
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are . at the
Prineville, where they .re receiving the
felicitations of their many friends, i
Tuesday evening the members of
Morgan's orchestra met in the parlor of
the Prineville and serenaded their
leader and his bride. The evening was
spent with music and conversation and
light refreshments were served.
Had Big Time by Himself.
Ex-Marshal Crooks
' Owed City Nothing
At the last meeting of the city coun
cil the matter of an alleged shortage in
the accounts of Ex-Marshal Joe Crooks
was settled in full. . The finance com
mittee of the council, after making a
rigid examination concluded that Mr,
Crooks did not owe the city anything
Hugh Lakin arrived home the flrst
of the week from a vacation trip
spent at Crane Prairie and on the
head waters of the Willamette. Hugh
started out In company with Oliver
Adams, but when they got as far as
the Shonquest place above Bend
Oliver received word that his
brother was very ill away out be
yond Diamond Lake, so Hugh con
cluded he would tackle the wilds
alone. Hugh killed a deer, lots of
ducks and geese and landed plenty
of big redslde8. Some times he had
company and times be didn't but he
says he had an enjoyable time and
we guess he did, tor no one knew him
when he got back.
Lamonta People
Go To California
John Helfrich of Lamonta, his sons
Ben and James and their families, and
Dave Rogers and wife of Opal Prairie all .
expect to leave Crook county in a few
days to go to Pittville, Shasta county,
California, to make their home.
Ben Helfrich was in Prineville Mon
day and states that he and his father
spent most of the summer at Pittville,
where they have bought land, and have
returned to take their folks and some of
their neighbors with them. Mr. Hel
frich bought 40 acres adjoiniug the
town of Pittville and 320 acres in
another tract in that vicinity. They
all expect to buy more land and will
farm and raise fruit. Hill railroad sur
veyors are now in Shasta county
these people expect to toon be on
line of the new railroad from
Columbia river to San Francisco.
The elder Mr. Helfrich recently
eighty acres of his land at Lamonta to
Rev. Adams of Moro, a brother-in-law
of Tom Leach, for $1000. Ben Helfrich
and his father have been offered $19 an
acre for 200 acres of their land at La
monta, and this deal will probably be
closed this week. Other Lamonta peo
ple are also thinking of going to
Pittville. .
and
the
the
sold
Owen Beam ot Albany was in
Prineville last Friday. He Is look
ing up land in Crook county tor
Albany people.