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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910.
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V0L.XIV-NO.21
Journal
an council
HOLDS MEETING
Ordinance Passed Reg
ulating Auto Speed
MOTOR CYCLES, TOO, INCLUDED
Muit Fill Up Sloughs No More
Nonsense Will De
Tolerated.
The city council held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday even
ing. Present I). F. Stewart, may
or, Councilman J. II. Uppman,
Jense Yancey, Wardwell Cram,
(ieorge Btorkmsnn, J. It. Shi pp and
J. II. Hoeenberg, City Marshal
Kelso and Recorder iSreeee.
Minutes of the previous meet
ing read and approved.
Pour additional hvdranta have
li n added to the city's fire system
,An ordinance to regulate the
speed of automobiles and motor
cycles came up for extended die
cuosiun. After various suggestions
and amendment the following or
dinance was passed:
Ordinance No, 173.
An onliimuee to regulate the sjiee-t o(
automobiles sod motor eyelet within
the city limits ami fur lighting of
lauipa on same,
Hc 1 1 on 1. Kverr twraon running; in
automobile or motor cycle within the
i lly of I'rlneville at a greater wxl than
S milMS er mils shall lie guilty ol vio
lating this ordinance, ami upon convic
tion be (or Hit itecortlar'a Court aliall
be tlnel oot lea than ten dollars (110)
anil not more than fifty dollars $o0,(
sad In default of payment of audi fine
and the cut of orowwution such per
aoiia aliall, by oritur of said court, be
confined In the city jail, one day lor
aril two dollar, of such fine.
Unction 3. No person shall run an
automobile or motor cycle within the
city of 1'rinevllle after dark without
having the Iront and rear lamps lightml.
And any pereon running an automobile
or motor cycle without lamp or lamp
lighted, ahall be guilty of a violation of
this ordinance anil a in conviction be
fore the Recorder's Court, shall be fined
not leas than live dollars (ft) or more
than ten dollar (glU), and in default of
payment of such flue and eoet of proew
eution such perton shall, by order of
the said court, be confined In the city
jail, one day tor each two dollars of such
tine. .
Kuctlon 8. Any physician called In
sn emergency cane or where the life of a
pereon i at stake, (hall not be guilty of
a violation of this ordinance.
Hection 4. Any person running an
automobile or motor cycle within the
city limits shsll, upon approaching all
tnteraeciioti ol mems, eouuti an alarm,
and any person failing to give the alarm
hall I guilty of a violation of this or
dinance, and uon conviction Wore the
Kocorder'e Court shall be fined not leva
than five dollars or more than ten dol
lars, and in default of payment of said
tine and coU of prnaeciition, such per
son aball by order of the said court be
confined in the city jail, one day lor
each two dollars ol such fine.
8ction 6. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances In conflict with this ordi
nance are hereby repealed. Inasmuch
as the city ol I'rlneville, Oregon, has no
effective ordinance to provide for the
regulating of speed of automobiles and
motor cyclea and inasmuch as it is necee
sary for the -ece and safety of the citi
aens of the said city that such an ordi
nance should exiat, sn emergency i
hereby declared tosit, and thl or-
INSTITUTE AT
CULVER
Instructive Session Held
Saturday.
MANY GOOD PAPERS READ
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Superintendent Urges Local
Official to Take More
Interest
The institute held at Culver last
Saturday was a most interesting
and instructive session. Superin
tendent Ford was assisted by Prof.
Evans, Miss Parrott and Mrs.
Wickersham of the Crook County
High School, and by Principal
Meyers, Misa Hartley and Miss
Hideout of the Prineville graded
schools.
The meeting was opened by the
county superintendent who, in his
remarks, emphasized the impor
tance of teachers attending these
local institutes and urged all school
officials to take greater intereat in
the educational work of their dis
tricts. Prof. Myers followed with an in
structive paper on intermediate
and advanced arithmetic. He
laid great stress on the importance
ot thoroughness and gave severs!
helpful suggestions for securing
the interest of the pupils.
Mrs Pougall then discussed prim
ary geography and gave methods
for securing better work in this
subject. She suggested several
sources from which teachers could
secure helpful material for this
subject.
Each paper or subject was follow
ed by an interesting discussion
which resulted in getting helpful
ideas along these lines of thought.
The afternoon session was opened
with a vocal solo by Miss Verna
Howsrd, who responped in her
usual pleasing manner to a hearty
encore., ,
Mrs. Wickersham then discussed
language work in the grades. She
pointed out the need of beginning
regular systematic work on auch
troublesome verbs as saw, seen, did,
done, etc., in the lower grades and
continuing this drill through the
eight grades. She then discussed
the value of art work in the grade
and showed how this work could
be made interest ng and instructive
The subject of agriculture in the
schools was then discussed by Prof,
Evans. He urged the teachers to
interest the boys and girls in this
work and said that formerly we
had been unconsciously educating
from the country to the city but
that now we should educate from
the city to the country.
OREGON TRUNK
EXTENSION
FROM MADRAS TO KUMATH
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-: C. W. ELKINS COMPANY :-
Must Be Finished by January
1, 1911-To Cost About
$4,000,000.
Contract Let for 125
Miles
Jsmes J. Hill's second big stride
a his invasion of Central Oregon
came last week with the letting of
a contract for 125 miles of new rail
road. II. C. Henry, of Seattle,
wins the big plum at a bid supposed
to be somewhere around $4,000,000
though the officials of the Oregon
Trunk declare the terms of the
various bids received are private,
The successful contractor is prepar
ed to begin grading for the exten
sion, which will run from Madras
to the northern boundary of the
Klamath Indian Reservation, at
once, ibe road is to be completed
by January 1, 1011, and several
thousand men will be put to work
just as soon as they can be secured
from the labor markets of the Coast
or from the East.
Contractor Henry is the man
who establiehed the record for rapid
railroad construction in pushing
the Pacific Coast extension of the
Milwaukee system through from
Butte, Mont., to PugetSonnd, 1500
miles, in three years. Henry's
local representatives say that
they are successful in getting the
number of men they want they will
make another new record in build
iug this second link in the Oregon
Trunk. . -
The contract awarded lart week
is for a greater milage than that of
the first section, which Porter Bros
are now building from the mouth of
the Deschutes River to Madras,
distance of 1USJ miles, lne con
struction of the line from Madras
south to the reservation is not
fraught with nearly so many en
gineering difficulties as the initial
link has been, for the road will
span a broad open tableland as
soon as it emerges from the Des
chutes Canyon. There will be no
fills or deep cuts, no expensive
bridges or mountainous detours
and no serious grades to climb, sn
that construction will be compara
tively rapid.
Plans and specifications call for
the same high-class standard of
of construction that applies to the
line in its progress from the
Columbia River to Madras.
At no place in the course of the
125 miles of new line will there be
an adverse grade in excess of 1 per
cent. One per cent is the max
imum of southbound grade, while 5
per cent is the maximum adverse
northbound grade. For most of
the distance the moet excessive
grade is around 3-10 of one
per cent,
There will be practically no
curved worth mentioning and with
the 90-pound steel and heavy rock
ballasting that are required a nor
mal speed of 60 miles an hour can
be maintained by passenger trains.
The heaviest freight trains may be
moved by moderately powerful en
gines without the aid of helpers.
While the bridge across Crooked
River is 17 miles south of Madras
and would naturally be embraced
in the contract for the ne exten
sion, it is not included. This struc
ture will be erected by the Oregon
Trunk people themselves. The
railroad company will also lay its
own steel and is preparing to follow
closely at the heels of the graders
It is a wonderfully resourceful
country which the new line will
tap and it is for that reason that
the Hill people desire to be the
first on the ground. From Mad
rap, the line will run to Redmond,
the next important town in the in
terior, passing, however, through a
number . of thriving townsites
which have sprung up since James
gon. ibe most Important town
on the entire line from the present
northern terminus to the southerly
end of the extension that will be
tapped is Bend. The Oregon
Trunk already owns considerable
property in and around Bend and
affiliated corporations are building
sawmills for the purpose of work
ing up the many billions of feet of
timber immediately adjacent to
the town. The mammoth D. I. P.
irrigation project will be tapped
by the new extension and direct
access to a hues empire of unde
veloped agricultural and grazing
ands will be afforded, to say noth
ing of furnishing an outlet for the
vast Weyerhaeuser timber holdings
in the Klamath country. There
are more than 20,000,000,000 feet
of sugar and yellow pine tributary
to the Klamath country, enough to
make 100 carloads a day1 for more
100 years.
Lava, Roeland, Odell and Cres
cent will be other centers of popu
lation, which the new Hill line
will pass through, but perhaps
more important than all of these
will be the fact that the road will
pass within 10 or a doien miles of
that grandest of all grand Oregon
scenic regions, the Crater Lake
Reservation.
At the Oregon Trnnk offices it
was announced that the second
link of the line would conform in
every way with the h:gh-grade con
struction of the 109 miles. It was
further stated that the contractors
will lose oot a moment's time in
putting as many camps into the
field as they can establish with a
full quota of men and teams: Ad
vantage is to be taken of the sum
mer weather and while January 1
is the date fixed for the completion
of the job, the officials rather ex
pect that the , line will be opened
to the Klamath reservation before
that time.
vwin me two contracts now
awarded, Mr. Hill tinder the di
rection of John F. Stevens the
head of the Oregon Trunk, will
have 235 miles of road through the
state by the beginning of next
year. He will also have spent by
that time something like $12,000,'
000 for construction work in this
state in is months, inis is ex
clusive of the $1,500,000 stee!
bridge across the Columbia hook
ing up the Oregon Trunk with the
North Bank for the purpose of di
rect physical connections with
Portland for Pacific Coast-deep-water
terminals and for through
route to the East via Spokane.
hq a norde ol surveyors now
operating along the Klamath In
dian Reservation pushing thei
way southward toward Klamath
Falls, the gateway to California,
and with preliminary reconnais
sance work done from Bend 150
miles eastward toward Burns and
the Harney Valley, the inference
is plain that more construction
work will be undertaken by the
Oregon Trunk long before the pros
ent contracts have been completed
Telegram.
CIRCUIT COURT
IN SESSION
C. SAM SMITH CASE CONTINUED
Notice to Creditors.
Notice Is herenr riven bv the undersigned.
the administrator of the estate of Hariet B.
M&ben. deceased, to all creditors of and all
persona having claims aialnst said deceased
to present the same with the proper vouoli-
rs, to toe undersigned, at me omoe or
Elliott In Prineville, Oregon, within si
months from the Drat publication of this
notloe.
Dated this 31st duv ot Aorll. 1810.
John Maisn.
Administrator of the estate of Hariet B,
Maben, deceased.
Grand Jury Finishes
Its Labors.
long List of Civil Cases
Disposed Of Other
Notes.
Circuit court convened Monday
with Judge Brad sh aw, presiding.
IHstrlct Attorney Wilson was on
band to personally look after cases
coming under big Jurisdiction.
The grand Jury was selected and
sworn In Monday. The following
are the names of those that eom-
poeed It: A. W. Brown ot Helsler.
foreman ; C. F. Smith, Prineville; S. 8.
Stearns, Prineville; J. F. Blanchard,
Prineville; C. W. E. Foote. Madras;
Henry Tweet, Bend; C. R. Henry,
Paulina.
The grand jury finished its labors
Wednesday evening. Its time was
taken np largely with matters that
properly belong to the Incorporated
towns making the complaints. The
grand Jury took the stand that
where a municipality has the power
to correct Its own evils the taxpayers
of the county at large should not be
burdened with the additional ex
pense. Madras has a number ot bawdy
houses that certain of its citizens
want driven out. They applied to the
county authorities and these in turn
presented the matter to the grand
Jury with the result already indicat
ed. Its a pretty good principle to
establish. Other lncoporated towns
will know Just what to do. They
must correct their own evils or suffer
them to exist so far as the county
at large is concerned. The grand
jury's report is us follows:
Prineville, Ore., May 4, 1910.
Hon. H. L,. Bradsbay,
Circuit Judge. .
We, the grand Jury, hnpanneled at
the May (1910) term of the Circuit
Court of the state of Oregon, for
Crook county, beg leave to report
as follows:
We have been In session three da; a
and bave returned one true bill and
eight not true bills. We have had a
large number of witnesses appear ,
before us upon many matters and
have given our most careful at
tention to all complaints of every
kind made to our body, some ot
which are mentioned In this report.
A great deal ot attention has been
given to a petition signed by some
ot the citizens of Madras, reciting
that certalu evils exist there and
asking that the grand Jury seek to
eliminate them. Upon Investigating
we find that Madras Is an incorpor
ated city and that municipal ordi
nances are in force providing for the
punishment of people operating the
establishments complained of. We
also find that the municipality of
Madras employs a marshal and
nlghtwatchman at a salary of $75
per month each and further that
there has been paid into'' the city
treasury of Madras from April 12,
1910, until the end of that month,
the sum ot $723. - Under these
circumstances this grand Jury be
lieved that this matter Is one that
should be left to the Jurisdiction ot
the city government of Madras, and
that the taxpayers of the county at
large should not be called upon to
bear the burden of what is within
the jurisdiction of a municipality.
This conclusion applies not only to
the city of Madras but to all munici
palities within Crook county. We
say this not In any spirit of criticism
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