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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-
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