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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1910.
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CROOK COUNTY ,
FAIR THIS FALL
$350 to be Offered for
Baseball
BESIDES A FINE SILVER CUP
Board of Directors Met Satur
day to Discuss Way
and Meant.
The lord of director of the
Crook County Fair Aaiociatlon
nx-t Saturday to diwcus ways and
mni for the (sir this fall.
Larger urr will be hung up
for baacball. It was decided to give
V'tO toward a baseball tournament.
1200 for firt money, flOO for
second, and 150 for third. Besides
the cash priara the aseociatiooT will
offer a championship silver cup to
bo the properly of the club that
can win it three times in sue
minion. The ball tournament wiil
commence on Thursday, October
20, and continue on Friday and
Saturday. The games will be
played in the forenoon so as not to
interiors with the racing.
The asportation ha granted the
free ue of the fair grounds to the
baseball boys for practice or for
aiatcb'gatnes.
The board took op the matter of
securing a band for the fair this
fall. A committee was appointed
to see what could be done in this
resect and will report at a later
meeting. ' . .:
The members of the directorate
are getting down to business early
this season and seem to be imbued
w 111 a determination to tnl l he
fall fair surpass anything before
OimHs of Arabia.
David George Hogarth, ibe fogr
nber and tiiliirvr. uitil that In tm.
ern Asia there art vast areas on which
tto European foot ts known to have
trod nor even any European eye to
bare looked. The areattat unseen area
lta in Arabia. Almost all tbesouthera
bair of Arabia Is occupied, acrordtDg
to native report, by a vast wilderness
ealled generally Ruba-et Kball. "dwell,
lug of the void." No European tuts
ever entered this Immense tract, which
embraces some 000,000 square miles.
It would take a bold man to venture
out for the naMce of either 850 miles
weal to enm or 050 north to south In
the Isothermal tone of the world's
greatest beat.
Photographing Sound.
Professor Pnjton U. Miller of Cleve
land. O. aars be baa discovered a
means of photographing- sound. He
claims tbnt by the use of bis device It
will be Doeitlble to distinguish oo films
the dlffrrt-nce between tbe human
voire and the tones of a musical in
atronient The Invention directly pho
tographs the aund waves, magnifying
them 3.000 times and recording them
on films.
In bis Invention Professor Miller baa
eaed a, harmonic analvser, an Instru
ment made In gwltaerland. which sep
arates sound waves Into their compo
nent parts.
C. C. H. S.
COmJOiCEIENT
High School WiH Close
This Week.
NOW HOLDING EXAMINATIONS
Exercises at Club Hall The
Public Cordially Invited
to Attend.
May 20, Commencement Extreiaes
will be held at the same place
Prof. SweeUer, of tbe University f
Oregon, will deliver the Com
mencement Address. Tbe follow
ing is tbe Commencement program
Music Orcliettra
Invocation .....Keverend Lewelleya
Vocal solo........ Miss Celia Nelma
Commencement Address, Professor
8wetser, U. of O.
mlia 8olo , ..'.....Mr, Morgan
LPresentatioD of Diplomas Ju!e EPis
Vocal 8olo... Mies Conwsy
Benediction........... Reverend Bailey
Music ...,....,.... ..Orchestra
The publie cordially invited to
all the exercises.
This is commencement we4c at
the Crook County High School.
The baccalaureate sermon was
preached last Sunday by Rev. C. C.
Babbidge. This (Thursday) even
ing. May 19, class-day exercises
will be held at Commercial Club
I fall. The following is tbe pro
gram: Music Oicbestra
Class History....... Miss Agnes Elliott
Giftatory ..Clark Morse
Vocal 8oIo...,.........MIm Helen Klkins
Class Poem ...Miss Louise Bummers
ClaaaWill ......Miss Ethel Moore
Vocal Bolo..... Miss Nellie Summers
Class Prophecy Wilford Belknap
Class Oration, "The Obligations of
the Present to the Pent"....,,..,
t .....Mies Emerien Young
Manic ...Orchestra
Tomorrow (Friday) evening,
Welsh National Costume.
When tbe Trench made a half heart
ed attempt to Invade Great Britain In
1707 a landing was made at Fishguard,
Wale, but tbe soldiers of Napoleon
were frightened off bjr the sight of a
great number of Welsh girts and wo
men, whom the mlitfook at a distance
for soldiers on account of their red
dresses and tall black bats. That is
atlll tbe national costume of tbe Welsh
women.
Crushed,
Mr. Timid (bearing noise at 2 a. m.)
I tbtblnk. dear, that there Is a
m mao la the bouxe. Ills Wife (scorn
fully Not in this room. Boston Tran
script.
tleaven and enrtb Bgnt la vain
against a dnuee.-Kcblller.
Luminous Wateh Dial.
A permanent! self luralnoas watch
dlnl and military nlgbt compass was
tale exhibit In London by U E. a
rblllipa. Tbe glasa dials bare figures
on tbe opper surface and are backed
with a radium bromide compound. Tbe
figures stand out very clearly at night;
During this Week and Next Only i
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These are Genuine Reductions to
Clean Up Entire Stock
$6.50 Waiau ; $4.25 Ladies, call and make early
3,50 selections. Nothing reserved
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Special Glove Sale
Cleaning up on Ladies Cotton
and Silk, Gloves. Call and see
for yourselves.
Large Size Corsets ahout Half Price
Do you wear size. 25, 26, 27,
28 or 30? If so come and get a
high-grade Corset at half price.
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THE ROAD LAND
CHANGES HANDS
800,000 Acres b the
Big Deal.
WILL BE OPENED TO SETTLERS
A Great Thing for tbe Whole
Region of Centra!
Oregon.
Men's Clothing
We have extra good bargains in
Mens Clothing, Suits, Odd Pants or
Fancy Vests.
Come and Look Them Over
HOMESEEKERS and all others-Get our prices
on Good Groceries before buying anywhere.
Jill
: C. W. ELKINS COMPANY :-
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A diepntch from St Paul states
tbat tranffferes have been com-
pleted in . New York by means ol
which a St. Paul land corporation
closed the largest land deal ever
made in America, obtaining title
to 800,000 acree in Central Oregon
Tbe immense tract is transferred
entire, and repreeents a belt bout
400 miles in length and of varying
widths, extending diagonally from
Albany, Or., in tbe Willamette
valley, east to the Idaho line at
Ontario, Or., in the Malheur valley
Of this total 660,000 acree is rich
agricultural land, much of which
will be improved under irrigation,
and 140,000 acree is heavily Um
bered, containing 4,500,000.000
feet of standing pine, fir and cedar.
The land transferred includes some
of the richest districts in Oregon,
and will be copied and settled at
once. '
To handle the tract the Oregon
and Western Colonization com
pany was formed with 112,000,000
capital. Its headquarters will be
in St. Paul, and the active manage
ment will rest upon President W.
P. Davidson, a well, known land
operator, and Vice President John
E. Burchard, wbo has been for
many years one of the most prom
inent of northwestern land dealers.
O. A. Robertson of St. Paul, who
hae extensive land interests, is
treasurer, and Joseph C. Wood of
St. Paul is secretary.
Notice was received by wire that
the transfers would be concluded
and President Davidson and Vice
President Burchard made immedi
ate preparations for an extensive
inspection trip, including an 800
mile automobile ride over the
entire ' tract, during which the
general condition of tbe property
will be investigated and plans
formulated for immediate coloniza
tion.
Tbe land will be transferred to
the ownership of actual settlers
through an active campaign, which
with the rapid railway develop
ment now in promise, will create
new fruit and grain districts equal
to the most famous of the present
Oregon valleys. . - -
Of this 800,000 acres, nearly 300,.
000 lie in Crook county and include
the richest and most fertiW agricul
tural and y, irrgable lands in
central Oregon. Thousands of
acres of the tract are worth today
between $ 50 and . $200 an acre.
The same run ' of values hold true
throughout the confines of the
grant in Harney and Malheur
counties. The men who chose the
land years ago for the road com
pany for a distance of six miles on
either side of the line had the
entire country to pick from and
they selected the meat of central
Oregon from Albany to the Idaho
line. .
With scrip quoted at $13 an
acre, the purchase of which is the
only meanB open for the acquire
ment of large bodies of government
land, a greatly enhanced value is
given to he company's holdings
which cannot be classed as agricul
tural areas, but instead will be
sold for grazing purposes. The
grazing lands, however, represent
but a small part of the 800,000
acres held outside of the timbered
districts in the Cascades,
, With the transfer of the vast
tract from the French bankers to
its present owners, who are plann
ing on subdividing it and opening
it up to immediate settlement,
new interest has been added to the
history of its acquirement.
For 40 years the grant has lain
in idle uselessness, the owners
refusing to sell any portion of it,
except here and there a quarter
section and tbe town lots in the
cities which have been located
within its boundaries. Generally
speaking, most of this immense
body of fertile land has been viewed
as worse than useless for more
than a generation, and the fact
that it has remained undeveloied
has done much to retard develop
ment.
Railroad Ecgiseers
Getticj
Busy
A special to tbe Oregon ian from
Jiend says that six engineer camps
ave been established on tbe 125-
mile stretch of tbe Oregon Trunk
Kailway line near there, the con
tracts for which already have been
let, and provision has been made
in the medical contract lust let
here upon tbe basis of the employ-
ment of 6000 men all Summer.
Bend physicians have received
the contract to care for the eick
nd injured. The announcement
was made today by Dr. U. C. Cos,
of this place, that the contract bad
been awarded to him and to Dr. B.
Farrell. Hospitals and medical
supplies for the camps extendine
from Madras to Klamath Azencv.
will be centered at Bend. Dr. Cos
announces.
In addition to the chiefs who
are to be stationed here, assistants
will have charge of work at the
opposite ends of tbe grade and will
report to Bend headquarters, and
when practical have their sick
transported to the central hospital
here. Before the ,5000 ' workers
billed for this portion of the work
put in an appearance the hospital
end of the construction compaign
will be m working order. . ,
Six engineer camps thus far have
been established on the newly-let
portion of the railroad work. At
a point six miles south of Bend,
locally known as Wet weather
Springs, is an engineers' camp
which probably will become the
largest construction camp south of
Madras and the Deschutes Canyon,
for in the vicinity is encountered
the only really heavy piece of
work in the Madras-Klamath
stretch. The survey passes across
a great field of lava two miles in
width at the point of crossing.
supplies are being started in to
the proposed camps, it is under
stood, from both Klamath and
Shaniko, and it is understood
that arrangements are being made
for the transportation by freiget
teams of several steam ahnvpla tn
the vicinity of Bend from Shaniko.
Parks of Australian Cities,
Australians, with a fine rllmnte ha.
Here tn enjoying themselves, and there
are plenty of facilities. Thus In Syd
ney there are parka and squares and
public garde ua with a total area ot
4,335 acres. Sixteen miles from tha
city a shilling excursion train fare-'
la the picturesque national pare, con
taining 86,810 acres preserved In their
natural state. A similar reserve rail.
ed Eurin-gal Chase, comprising 35,300
acres of land, chiefly of densely wood
ed hills skirting for many miles around
numerous tidal arms of Broken bar. la
also held for the enjoyment of the
public forever. Melbourne lias no
fewer than &40O acres of recreatWm
grounds In or near the citv. Adelalda
la surrounded by a belt of park lands
and baa about 2,300 acres set apart for
the public benefit. Nor are Perth and
Hobart and Brisbane and soma nf tha
floe Inland towns less well provided
ror. Westminster Gazette.
THE D0ISE&
WESTERN II R.
Vill Direct Cctrd
Ore-ca.
jakes j. kill ex:;d it
The Exact Route of New Line
Not Yet Definitely
Settled.
With the arrival in Portland ot
of John E. Bucbard, of St. Paul,
definite information became public
as to the building of the Boise &
Western Railroad, as the east and
west branch of the Hill system in
tapping Central Oregon, says the
Oregonian.
Entering the state at Ontario.
the Boise & Western will build in
a northwesterly direction, through
Malheur Canyon to a point directly
east of Malbeur Lake. From that
point two snrveys have been made
for a continuation of the line.
One of tbe projected lines passes
to the north of Malheur Lake and
the other between Malheur Lake
and Harney Lake. The objective
point of the road will be attained
through the use of either line.
Bend will in all probability be
the junction point for the line with
the Oregon Trunk Line, the rail
way owned by the Hills, and which
is rapidly creeping toward tbe
heart of Oregon by way of the
Deschutes River.
Whichever route may be finally
selected will depend upon the visit
now being made to that section of
the state by the party of which
Louis W. Hill is a member. It is
believed that the northern route.
following the survey and grade of
the Willamette Valley & Cascade
Mountain Wagon Road, will be
tbe first constructed. It will open
a larger territory which is soon to
be populated, and which will be
shipping to the markets of the
world before tbe Hill lines reach
the south boundary of the state.
The southern survey will be re
tained for the Hill road to Cali
fornia, which will be built in the
near future.
Following close on the announce
ment as to railway routes, came
that concerning the final closing
of the larger t real estate transac
tion, from an acreage viewpoint,
consummated in the history of the
United States, and the organization
of the Oregon & Western Coloniza
tion Company, with a capitaliza
tion of $12,000,000.
Transfers of the 800,000 acre
grant from the owners of the Will
amette Valley & Cascade Mountain
Wagon Road Company to the new
purchasers, the Oregon & Western
Colonization Company, were com
pleted in New York City, and
John E. Burchard, vice-president
of the new company, is here to
start development and settlement
of the vast acreage. Heretofore
withheld from settlement and use
bv the French owners, it is nronosed
to dispose of the lands rapidly in
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