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Crook Cotaety
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1909.
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FOUR IN FAMILY
DIE OF TYPHOID
Caswell Family Wiped
Out by Disease
THREE ORPHANS YET REMAIN
On of These Low With Fever
Serious Condition Found
Too Lite to Save Live.
Four dent li from typhoid have ai
re ml jr occurred lu the I'imwcll family
t t'rlni'vlllu within the past few
wwks nnrl nnnthi-r member of the
family, a little hoy four years old I
I tit In tin' clutches nf the disease and
' limy not iworw, The father ntnl
mother, one little girl and one boy
Imre HuecumlttHl to the fever, their
cases having leen too fur develojHHl
iM-fore the pitiful condition m ills
covered mid proper medical attention
received. .
The family, tile father, mother and
five children came to Crook County
a few months ago from Idaho. They
went lu destitute circumstances and
lived from plaea to pluce. Wlillo at
tho J. C. Taylor ranch Mow I'rlne
vllle the disease flriit made lu p
M'liriinre and It was here that the
first child died. Theo the family re
moved to cabin on Poverty Flat
and In a short time the mother and
two of the children were stricken
down. (Here the father tried to care
for hi family, and when neighbor
came to realise the desperate straits
they were In, they found the mother
and children trick In bed and the
father wu discovered several nit leu
from borne delirious with the lever
himself. The entire family wan re
moved to Prlnevllle where every
thing that could be done wu done,
hut the dlwtuMi had Rot such a hold
on lie victim! that the mother died,
then tho father and the last of the
week a ulue year old boy also suc
cumbed. Of the seven member of the faintly,
thrie orphan remain. Cue of these,
a bright little girl 6 year old, will be
adopted by Mr. and Mr. Frank
Hell, who are In I'rluevllle represent
ing the IIovenden-Koule I'luno Co.,
of I'orlland. The Utile boy who I
U'k I four year old. The baby
boy, two yeur old, I now In the
care of Mr. C. A. Luellliig. The
county ha provided for the care of
the family, lnce they were brought
to town.
It I stated that the only near
relative I a grandmother to the
children, living In Idaho, the lady
being W) vear old am unable to pro
vide for the future of these children.
One ha found a home and loving
Continued on lust pitge.
MRS. MADDUX
"NOT GUILTY"
State Fails to Connect
Her With Killing
RODMAN TRIAL SET FOR TODAY
Latter May Never Be Brought
to Trial Prosecution Ha
A Weak Cate.
Mr. JIasel Maddux m found not
guilty. Khe wm Jointly, charged
with Frank E. Hodman with the
crime of manslaughter, In caiiHlng
the death of Mr. Clara May Real on
the Linton road on the night of
Augusts.
After deliberating for 35 minute
the jury brought In a verdict of "not
guilty."
Mr. Maddux wn commanded to
tand while the verdict wa read.
When the moment of -suspense wm
over a broad amlle spread over her
face, and a few moment lutcr she
pressed forward with her husband to
thank the member of the Jury.
On the first ballot the Jury stood
ten to two for m-)iilttnl, but It ll
ntd that one man misunderstood
what wn being voted upon, and
wu In favor of the defence. Only
one Juror wa In doubt as to the
the failure of the tat to prove It
cone, and after a short discussion he
Joined the majority, making It unanU
moil.
The weakness of the atate'a case,
rather than the strength ol the de
fense, wo reMponilble for the verdict,
according to one member of the Jury.
He nld he did not consider that the
defence gained anything by It testi
mony, and the result would Rave
Wn the ame had no testimony
been presented on that aide. The
Jury fulled to see that Mr. Maddux
bad been connected with the killing
of Mr. Ileal In any way upon which
a verdict could be baaed.
"The Jury felt that the death of
Mr. Iteal probably wa an unavoid
able accident," ald one memlier of
the Jury. "Some automobile driver
ran over her add ran away from the
scene. That wan reprehensible, but
we could not ace enough testimony
to connect Mrs. Maddux with the
tragedy."
It wa the failure of the atate to
produce a witness who could Identify
Mr. Maddux on the Llnnton road
that night that broke the back of the
proaecutlou. Even with Mr. Mad
dux Identified near the Portland end
of the road going out and Hodman
Identified at the Clarcmnut tavern
coming in did not eufllce, lu the
opinion of the Jury, to make a con
vincing Inference that they were to-
Continued on'lnat page.
Good Buyers Are Coming to
Our prices on Groceries, Hardware, Implements, as well as on the elegant line of
Foot Wear, Clothing and Dry Goods bring us the business. We shall continue to
make interesting prices and you can be sure that none will undersell us.
Us.
Bargains in Dress Goods.
All through our entire line of Dress Woolens
we have applied the knife, cutting off for this
and all of next week a Big Slice of the Price.
Space will not permit us to make prices here
but our store fairly bristles with price cards
showing timelylbargains. Akto see our Dress
Goods.
Ladies Corsets.
We make a special price
on the entire slock for this
and next week.
Our 75o line now -.60
Our $1.00 line now .80
Our $1.60 line now 1.20
Our $2.00 line now 1.65
Our f '2.50 line now 1.05
Our 13.60 line now 2.5)0
This is bargain extra
ordinary. Ladies, do not
neglect it. ' . ,
Ladies Skirts.
Thoroughly up-to-date,
made by the most reliable
eastern houses.
, Heavy all-wool Serge-all-wool
Panama Cloth and
Alpacas regular prices
16.25 to $6.50, priced for
this occasion at H.70.
Newest Prunella cloth in
all shades, regular 16.00
values at only $4 45. Mis
ses heavy Worsted skirts in
all shades regular $5.00
garments now leduced to
$3.75.
Ladies Shoe Sale.
Regular $4.50 to $5.50 footwear at $2.15
to $2.35. Look these over. A few days
and they will be gone.
Millinery. v
We are now closing out our ready-to-wear
millinery and you will find this de
partment full of surprising bargains. In
cludes children and also Muses hats.
Closing Out of Baby Buggies.
Prices $5.45 to $8.50, includes wicker and also palont collapsable buggies, which retail
regularly at $8.50 to $11.00. . :
Buy your plow
now. Stock of
plows complete.
Ask" for our at
tractive prices on
all lines of im
plements, har
rows, scrapers,
disc harrows &
wagons." We
have a good
price for you on
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'Ilk
Wire Fencing
Buy Your Plows
Now
High. Water'.
Shoes.
The kind that keeps out
water, mud and snow.
For men & boys.
Heaters! Heaters!! Heaters!!!
No free "this or that." We make you a price oh the
stove that gets the business. We will not quote a price
here. You know what your money is worth. Come
and see if you can find a heater that will suit your
needs. " '
Co Wo ESMes Company
TRACKLAYING IS
NOW UNDER WAY
TRACKLAYING MACHINE IN USE
Blasting Day and Night
Along Deschutes
Harriman Line Expects to Have
Ten Miles of Steel Laid by
. : the First of the Year.
A apecial to the Orrgonian from De
finite, dated Nov. 13, eays: "With
track-laying commenced on the Harri-
miQ road on the east bank of the De
icliutea Canyon, and the Oregon Trunk
Line contractors wording at eight on
the grade on the west bank, a race to
determine which railroad shall be the
first to reach Central Oregon U ap
parently under way.
All day long blasts touched off on one
tide of the canyon or the other rever-
brate from side to side and across the
Columbia to the gaunt hills beyond and
back again. Blasts from the Oregon
Trunk Line work are heard at all hours
of the night at this, the mouth of the
Deschutes Canyon.
The explosions have even disturbed
the wild geese, which in other years
have roosted at night on Miller's Island
in the Colombia opposite the mouth of
the Deschutes in almost countless
thousands. The geese have now trans
ferred their roosting grounds to the lar
eastern end of the island and have
ceased flying up the draw of the De
schutes t9 riach the wheat fields.
Railroad transportation of its own
and the earlier establishment in the
Said of contractors at this point has
given the Harriman line an advantage
in commencing track-laying.
Last Friday a track-laying machine
was put at work at the material yards,
one mile east of this point, and where
the Deschutes road leaves the main line
of theO. E.4S. I
The track is now laid for i distance of j
one and one-half miles and the track
men say that 10 miles will be laid by j
the first of the year.
la the material yards are rails now
on band sumcient to lay 34 miles ot
traci, and ties are piled np in sufficient
numbers to correspond, while kegs of
spikes, angle bars, galvanized iron
culverts, bridge timbers and other con
struction materials are scattered in piles
over several acres of ground. The
track-laying machine, designed by L. C.
McCoy, the engineer in charge of the
steel construction, was built in the yards
here, and the workmen are now install
ing a hoisting engine on a big fiat car,
to which will be added a derrick for
heavy bridge building.
Hie track-laying machine, which is
the first of the ; McCoy design ever
built, it haB demonstrated already, is a
success. - It is much cheaper of con
struction than the ether machines now
in nse in railroad work and requires
fewer men to operate it. W ita a gang
of 35 to 45 men a mile ot track per day
can be laid.. The Roberts or Harris
types, while faster . in , operation, re
quires about 100 men to work to their
capacity.
The principal advantage claimed for
the McCoy machine is the small num
ber of men required to operate it. In
the event track-laying overtakes bridge-
building or grading the number of men
held on pay is not so great.
The material yard equipment also in
eludes a machine for , curving rails,
which is operated by a gasoline motor,
. Ten miles of track will carry the
Harriman line's work to a point where
some of the heavier biidge work begins
and will permit the shipping in of ma
terials by rail, and promote faster con
struction in that locality. "
For both roads the work near the
mouth of the Deschutes is light com
pared with that farther up the canyon.
The Oregen Trunk Line, in rounding
the bluff into the Columbia River Can
yon, has a rock tunnel to construct, on
the approaches of which work is now
under way. ' Between the mouth of the
Deschutes and Celilo a great part of the
construction 'j in rock.
The Harriman road is laying rails of
the continuous joint type, which is now
the standard type of rail on the O. H.
A N. main line. The main line of the
0. R. & N. is built of 75-pound rails,
but for the heavier traffic between
Portland and The Dalles it is said that
the track is to be relayed this winter
with 90-pound steel. On the Deschutes
road 75-pound steel is being laid.
Work Has Begun
' On Willow Creek.
nrnr the mouth of Willow Creek.
Mr. Porter will reinuln In this vi
cinity a considerable portion of the
time and superintend contraction
upon his contract. The Hill road
expects to rush construction aa
rapidly aspotutlble In this section and
It la said there will be 2000 men
employed between Trout Creek and
Madras within 60 days.
Division Engineer Hickman, who
haa. charge of the construction on
the Oregon Trunk from Trout Creek
south, baa made bis headquarters
here to look after the construction
work In this section. Engloeer Mc
Vkker, who has been running pre
liminary lines la Madras and on
south, yesterday received orders to
divide his crew and send a portion of
It to assist Engineer Crane, who Is
making permanent location and
cross-sectioning down Willow Creek
canyon.
Carpenters in the' employ ot the
Oregon Trunk Line arrived In town
Tuesday evening and yesterday
morning began building a con
struction camp lust west of town at
the head of Willow Creek canyon.
Porter Bros, commissary depart
ment has been opened and supplies
are already arriving. Pioneer.
GOULD LINE TO
USE OREGON TRUNK
Will Make Counscticn
at Lakevisw -
HILL OWNS INTEREST; IN LL'E
Western Pacific Trains to Run
Into Portland .Over, the
North Bank Track "
Death Has Claimed
German Pastor
Rev. John G. Moehrlng, pastor of
the German Methodist church sis
miles southwest of Madras, died at
bis home in that vicinity Saturday,
November 6, 19dD.
The funeral was conducted Tues
day, Nov. 9, there being a short ser
vice at the residence, which was tol-
lowed by a funeral sermon at the
church on Methodist Hill. The ser
vices were In charge of Rev. Hepp of
Portland, presiding elder of the
German Methodist church, and Rev
H. F. Lange of Walla Walla, also of
that church. Rrvs. Moorhead,
Brown and Waterhouse of this place
were In attendance. The service was
touching and able and sympathetic
words were spoken by the visiting
ministers, who feel that a zealous
i and humble worker has been taken
from the field, .. " ,
Interment took place In the Ger
man Metnodist cemetery near tne
church. The funeral was attended
by a large concourse of sorrowing
friends, who feel deeply the loss of
Mr. Moehring, and who condole most
sincerely with the bereaved family.
Rev. Moehrlng was a man of superior
character, and we was greatly be
loved and respected throughout this
entire section.
The Rev. John G. Moehrlng was
born In Germany, January 15, 1850,
where he resided nntll 18 years of
age when be came to the United
States. In 18S0 he became a minister
ot the gospel and was' a faithful
preacher of the Word until the time
of his death. He came to Oregon In
1901 and has been a resident of Crook
County for about four years. John
G. Moehrlng died November 8, 1909,
aged 59 years, 10 months and 24
days, and leaves an aged wife, three
daughters and one son to mourn the
loss of a faithful and loving husband
and father. Madras Pioneer.
Construction lias commenced upon
the Oregon Trunk Line In Willow
Creek canyon. This Is the glad news
brought to Madras Wednesday. W.
n. Porter, who has the contract for
the work, Is in town and states that
a force ot iuen are now employed
Change of Location..
J. S. Fox, the public stenographer and
bookkeeper, is moving his office head
quarters from the office of M. R. Biggs to
Room 10, Adamuon block, over the post
office, where he is including a branch for
real estate. He is now ready to list prop
erty as he expects to be able to give this
work considerable attention and bring a
number of new settlers to these parts in
the near futare. The stenographic and
bookkeeping ends will not be neglected,
and attention will be given to orders for
work the same as before. Room 10, Adam
son block. Postottice address, P.O.Box
10, Prineville, Or. i .' . :
For Exchange First class hotel with
block of lots in town ot muy
equipped and furnished, 47 rooms.
Valued at J30.000.00, for a good wheat
ranch. Owners only. Address, Box 253,
Albany, Ore.
Portland is to have another trans-
s
continental railroad line, the Western
Pacific, in which J. J, Hill and associ
ates are now heavily interested, says
the Journal. The Western Pacific will
operate its trains over the Oregon Trunk
Line, and into Portland over the North
Bank road. "
"While the Western Pacific will have
financial interest in the Oregon
Trunk Line railroads, it will possess all
essential privileges of an independent
railroad line operating over that road,"
said s Pacific coast railroad man, who is
in Portlund today. "As I understand
it the present line of the Nevada, Cali
fornia A Oregon will be used from its
junction with the Western Pacific near
Honey Lake, Cal., northward to its
present terminus at Altnras, which is in
the south end of the Goose Lake valley.
From that point the line will be ex
tended to Lakeview to meet the Oregon
Trunk Line. ' ''
The N. C. & O. is already built and
operating.into Alturas, which is bnt
oO.miles south of Lakeview, Or., and
the intervening distance offers a fine
roots and easy grade through the Goose
Lake valley, with very large tonnage
agaiting a railroad. In that valley
private capitalj is now developing an
irrigating project that will water soma
150,000 acres of extremely productive
laod,and this is an attractive field .for
railroad construction, The business of
this field would be competitive between
Portland and San Francisco merchants."
More than a ' year ago Edwin Gould,
in the midst of the financial troubles' of
the Western Pacific, publicly stated at
Los Angeles that, the Western Pacific
would build throughOregon and into
Portland, "in the near future." The
prediction is now to be made good, but
through the agency of the Hill deal in
Western Pacific. ,
The line from Lakeview northward
will undoubtedly come through the
Summer Lake and Silver Lake valleys,
and across the.- Fort . Rock country to
connectjwith the new projected line of
the Oregon Trunk from the Columbia
river to Madras and Bend. , This routs
has not been openly claimed by the
Oregon Trunk, but the Harriman
people ran out the line three years ago
and made a preliminary survey -for a
line over this route as the beet one that
was to be found from Lakeview north
ward, y ,;
This project verifies the reported
large purchases of . lands . by . Oregon
Trunk Line officials in the Goose Lake
valley and at various points between
Lakeview and Madras, while it is a sig
nificant fact that they have made no
purchases in the Klamath basin, 70
miles to the westward of the Gooae
Lake valley. . ,J. , ... i
The project verifies the reported re-,
modeled line of the Nevada, California
& Oregon will make a junction, with the
Western Pacific in northeastern- Cali
fornia is a well selected junction, located
with a view to securing the best grades
and saving of construction of additional
trackage." At this pcint the main line of
the Western Pacific turns due south for
a distance of 30 miles, and at a point'
called Chilcoot it veers west through
Beckwith pass and thence southward to
Oakland and. San Francisco.' ' -1
Absolutely
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