OMMaS 1 r i i f I COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910. J EnWNf tthraitoAltft4 Prineville, . VOLXIV-NO.15 rook STOCK WINTERED U IN FINE SHAPE Losses in. Crook County Less Than 2 Percent FALSE REPORTS DO INJURY T, J. Ferguson . Says His Stock Got Fat Thii Winter Feed , j on Desert it Good. ?TJ. Fergunon, the Bear creek tocknmn, callod at the Journal office Saturday for the purpone.of correcting the falno reports that have been circulated of lute re garding the Iom of stock in Crook county. Moseys that he has not lost one jH i cent of his cattle, ami that the total loss for his section . of the county v will not reach 2 per cent. MVh," said Mr. Ferguson, "my tKk was thinner when winter commenced than wheu it ended. Not in 23 yesrs has there hecn a winter so good for feeding. While the weather was cold yet the cattle were hungry and eat up every thing you pave them good and clean. I am feeding 100 htud now and will have hay left over. As a You will find our lines of Implements to this country. Call and let us OLIVER Sulky and gang plows with either chilled or steel bot toms, Oliver double disc plows, Oliver steel and chilled plows, Oliver side hill plows. FULL LINE OF REPAIRS FOR ALL RECENT OLIVER IMPLEMENTS John Deere sulky plows with either sod or stubble bottom. John Deere walking plows, disc harrows, spring tooth harrows, spike tooth harrows, hacks and buggies, Mitchell wagons. WE OFFER AT REDUCED v OUR PRICES ON THESE gg-TO Mg ' UNES ARE CONVmdNG. 1 extra good funning mill. ' i"T T Irpr j"?' '. -ffItt 1 2-horse Stover gasoline pump- Vk ; "i" VlM'flrj WE HAVE THE GOODS ling engine. ' -".llLJ" ; V : ' Several styles steel fencing of 7feeTK nra utmn wrt rpniAiw different heights. ' -.V :' - ;fetV' ' ' ON HAND-NO TEDIOUS 2 iron wheel wagon gears. ' sbww J net tve vr. iwmw vmi 1 double disc grain drill, No. 14. T-25 DELAYS TO ANNOY YOU When ready for groceries let us show you how much you can save buying from us. Some stores have low prices when "just out;" youVe met em. You will find our prices right and that we have the goods ready to deliver W. matter of. fact the stock will not leave the grass to come up for hay. The grass is too good." Mr, Ferguson says that the loss in horses has Wen grossly exagger ated. In his country the loss has been very light. It is true that streams froze solid, making water scarce, and this fact may account for some slight loss among horses. "There is some slock in tny country that could he bought," said Mr. Ferguson, "but mo t of them have been turned out on the desert where the feed is extra good for this time of the year. Water too, is more plentiful than in years gone by. Both water and feed are 0 plentiful this year that stock men will try to hold their cattle on the desert all the year. This is something unusual and never at tempted unless conditions were ex tremely favorable. 1'lease make these facts known so that the country wont get a black eye," was the parting admonition of the stockman. Normal School Question. Ynu know what a rooiI trarher means to a child. You know what be lurana to a euiuuiuittly. W mutt bar cliooli ami we niuvt hv th7it. The normal school iiicti.ni now iihmittrd free from Milium. iiiaU till) way you want it kept. If you pay Ui on lo0 It will cost you four cent a year to maintain the HUie Normal at Monmouth. Vote, yea, ou tiila lull. i "Set Heh'l Kaei Kuttiaf BaUet" Removal Notice. Dr. A. W. Orater hn moved hl office from the I'oliiUlr hotel to the olltoe one iloor north of the Price iJroa. ator. w here ha will be pleaw.1 to meet all patients. 8-3lf 3LKINS ; COMPANY ALBERTA HAS NO CHARMS FOR HIM W. 0. Oliott is Glad to Get Home Again BETTER OPPORTUNITIES HERE Too Much Winter There For One Used to Balmy Central Oregon Weather. W. O. Klllott, wife and child, arrived the first of the week after an extended stay In Alberta, where they went to Investigate conditions with a view to locating there. "The streets of rrlnevllle looked (rood to me," said Mr. Klllott on arriving home. 1 jrueis I'll take my chances In old Crook county for we failed to find any place that suited us ft well lu Canada. I went to Alberta thinking that It would l Just the place to go tutu the stock ttUMlness, but when we got there we found that all the good land had been taken up years ago and that you cannot find a much better piece of land there now than you can In Crook county for homestead lug. "But the climate Is the worst draw back of all. One would have vrr to feed his stock more than six of the twelve months In the year, and any crop that Is rained must be planted, grown and harvested wlttilu three or four months. I learned, too, that the big yields of grain reported there are not what Is claimed. They do aot raise any more bimlicln of wheat to the acre than we do here. And Just think of It, a man can hardly stick his bead out of doors more than half the time. It's a different deal you get there iram the bright sunshine of Central Oregon. 'Tin going up on Crooked river and homestead a piece of land that Is good enough for me and better than any that I found available in Alberta. I can put a ditch on about 40 acres of It and have good outside range, too. "It does a man good to go away and see some of these farfamed regions, then alien he gets back to a good country, he will be contented to stay there.' , Wanted. Pome White Rock beg or chicken. J. 8 Fox, PrineWlle, Ore. , 3-17-2t Woman Wanted. A miridl-eel woman to do houoework. Apply to T. r . Mct.'aJUeter, Prineville. 5-10 , Piano For Sale. A 8475 Cambridge Irera & I'ond piano. Haywood cane, in excellent condition, tor SJ50. Inoiiire at Journal otllce or of Marjrario V. Brink. , 8-17-tf Eggs for Hatching. Single-comb R. I. Reds. Orders booked now. Mra. J. . Adamaon. 3-10-3iu - Clydesdale Stallion for Sale. Coming 3 yean old; weight over UiOO lha. Addreos h. A. 1'roac, 1'rineTille, Or. S-lOin best adapted show you OLIVER No. 222 Extra Chilled new plow, cuts 1 4 inch; will plow any kind of soil; out wears any other plow made. Don't fail to see it. KEEP SETTLERS ON THE JUMP Peculiar Practices j of Interior Dept. PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THEM Special Agents of Land Office Arrest Settlers for Crime on ; Trivial Offenses. ... Cutting of timber on public do main for domestic purposes is be ing made by special agents of the Interior Department an absorbing topic for the homesteader and ranchman. Special agents bare been working oyer much of the state to ascertain where there baa been illegal cutting of timber on the domain, and report that many infractions of the law are being uncovered." Wherever possible, it is planned to bare prosecutions commencej, bringing the ranch men and homesteader into the court on a criminal charge, and either imprisoning him or making him pay a fine, in addition to the costs of the prosecution. How many cases will result, from .this new campaign cannot be forecast ed, but it is believed that there will be many. Oregon ranchmen, farmers and homestead entrymen are passing from the time when no attention whatever was paid to their cutting of timber on the domain, to a period when every act is to be watched by a special agent. In early years no restrictions what ever were placed upjn timber cuttings for., 'domestic and farm purposes. Timber was a drug on the market, an impediment. Liberal use of timber and lumber was universal in the state. When ever the farmer or ranchman want ed fuel or timbers, be proceeded to the nearest forest on the domain and cut all he needed, without license, let or hindrance. These men have been educated to this condition, in fact have known no other, and there has been no sug gestion to them from the Interior Department that a changed order has arrived, when criminal prose cutions may be brought for doing what has been a life-time custom. By publishing decrees and rules at Washington, the new order is ushered in, but the farmer and rancher out in Oregon learns nothing of this until a minion of the law swoops down with 'some terrible arraignment of the hapless husbandman. Farmers and ranchers cannot understand why, when an order of business or. administration is changed, the fact should not be given publicity among the men at' fected. They argue that this would be an r conmical system, compared with that of maintaining a large number of officials to press prose cutions against men who are not aware that they had committed any offense. It the cost of one or two suits were put into the issuing of a pamphlet, giving the new regulations or new rules adopted and : being enforced complete publicity among the people affected, farmers believe that there would be no need of prosecutions except in rare instances. They back this as sertion up with the statement that dozens of men are Becking infor mation constantly aa to what the law authorizes and permits. They do not want to violate any law They have been accustomed all their lives to certain privileges, and through vague press reports learn that a change has been ordered by officials in Washington. They com mence writing, as best they know how, to get the facts. In the mean time they or their neighbors are charged with having committed crime. . - v " 5 ' r In the matter of clearing a home stead, there is also an acute issue. The law requires a homesteader to proceed to clear and cultivate his land. ' Yet should a man clear timber from his land, then find be does not want to continue bis work of perfecting title, he is subject to prosecution. If he clears timber and burns it on the ground, he is supposed to be complying with the law's requirements, but if in clear ing the timber, be seeks to have it utilized as lumber, instead of being wasted, he again violates the law. When hedged about by such con ditions which have an element of contradictoriness, and when feeling that the details of the law will be unfolded to him only through criminal prosecutions,' the Oregon farmer and rancher ' acquired a dread of everything identified with the Interior Department. Instead of maintaining a big batch of special agents to wander over the state to detect innocent infractions of the law, some the leading ruralista are urging that a little decent publicity be given new laws and regulations, to give law-abiding people a chance to escape trouble. Telegram. Sue Crook County to Collect Bad Bill But County Doesn't Owe Bridge Contractor Anything. Connty Clerk Brown and County Treasurer W. F. King were sum moned hastily to Portland Satur day in a suit brought against Crook.connty for an alleged nnpaid balance on old contracts. The story goes back to 1903 when J. B. Tillotson was given a contract to build a bridge across Crooked river, near the Frank Forest place,' for the sun) of $3580, the county agreeing to furnish all material except the frame timber for the Buper structure. The bridge was built and the sum of $3000 was paid Tillotson. ' The re maining $580 was withheld on agreement with the county court until the contractor should file his bond and guarantee that no per son should suffer injury through any fault of construction of the bridge for a term of 12 years. This Tillotson failed to do. The county court, acting on this fail ure, issued an order that Tillotson should not be paid the remaining $580. In the steel bridge across Crook ed river just west of Prineville Til lotson took the contract for $4690 Everything was to be furnished by the county except certain parts of the woodwork that the contractor was to supply. It was stipulated that fir should be nsed. The con tractor ignored the stipulation and put in pine. When the bridge was examined before acceptance the substitute was discovered and the county court docked the contractor $190, as the estimated value in the difference between pine and fir. This the contractor . agreed to and the matter , was supposed to be settled. But it wasn't. it seems tnat liuotson owes a firm in Portland a sum of money and this firm learning that an -on- paid balance was withheld for some reason decides to sue Crook county in an endeavor to recover. Hence the county officials were summoned to Portland to testify as to the truth or falsity of the al legation. The officials took docu mentary evidence with them show ing that Tillotson did not comply with bis contracts in either case and that he got all that was com ing to him. Baseball Next Sunday Afternoon The married and single men will croBS bats next Sunday afternoon on the high school grounds. The game will be called at 2 o'clock. Both sides have been practicing and both expect to win. Turn out and -see who does. The following Is the line up: Single men Married men Hinkle e Elmer Zeek Helsler p . Walter Foster H. Belknap .; tb....j.Harry Lanitis Morrii.. ........ ..sl........... Spaulding Arthur Zeek. tb.; ...w. Dvi Peg Belknap as. Roaenberg Bert Barnea.. U gtorkmann Fred 8pire... ...,..,cf Frank F'oater Pete Lister .......ri, Jordan "See Holl't K..t Kuttiif Babies" ALPHAS WIN THE ; CHAMPIONSHIP Basket Ball Games Draw Big Crowd ALPHA GIRLS ALSO WINNERS Literary Societies Render Best Programs of the Year - Personal Mention. The basket , ball season closed with a double game last Thursday evening. The : interest and en thusiasm manifested showed that not on ly the students but the citi tens of Prineville were becoming intensely interested in the game. The Alpha Society had the championship for both the girls' . and the boys' team, as the Alpha g;.rls won over the Ochoconians with a score of 3 to 0, and the Alpha boys won with a score of 28 against 18 by the Ochoconians. While the Ochoconians lost, they contested every inch of the field and both sides played a game that would have done credit to teams that have played several years in stead of but one. The program rendered by the members of the Ochoconian So ciety was enjoyed by the students, as every selection was of the usual excellence. The first number was an instrumental solo by Miss Le- ola Estes,- which was followed by current events by Lawrence Lister, who discussed the topics of present interest in an interesting and in structive manner. The Ochoconi an "Review" which followed, edit- eu vj imam unsweii ana iuaoei 1 1 mit i ii - r Doak, contained many clever ar ticles as well as amusing incidents. The president, Wilford Belknap, then gave a talk on "How to Amend the Constitution," which was greatly appreciated by all, as was the humorous selection by iuc iuo urauun, 1110 Influence of a Great Teacher." bv Miss Agnes Elliott was one of the best selections the society has been favored with this year. The pro- critic, Clark Morse, who commend ed and recommended as there was nothing to criticise. . j Alpha. ... .,, The program of the Alpha So ciety last Friday was one of the most finished that the society has had the pleasure of listening to this year. A talk "On What the Pupils Could do for the School and What the School Would do for Them," by Robert Kester, was of especial interest and Robert brought out and emphasized the value of an education to the men of today by showing the difference in the earning power of the edu cated and the uneducated, and he further emphasized the importance of training by his statement that no sane man would enter an untrain ed horse against a trained one, yet little attention is paid to entering an untrained mind against a train ed one. Robert closed his remarks with tVA filirrryoatirtn that aaih ctn. dent of high school make an earnest effort to increase the enrollment for next year, in order that the board mnv fpl nt. liliprt v in nrld nthpr departments that would be of special help and benefit to the students. . . . This was followed by an Im promptu, "The Greek Theater," by George Mingers, and all who heard it have a very clear picture of this unique Btmcture. The next num ber was an oration, "American Ideals," by Miss Fay Baldwin, who showed unusual oratorical ability, and the Alphas feel that the Ochoconians will have to work 11 nie coming comesi is tueirs. ' The Alpha paper edited by Roy Lowther was well organized and was full of newsy items of school and society life as well as giving some excellent current topics of in terest. "Miss Vivian Hinkle's se- Continued on laat page.