Crook County
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE; CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1910.
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VOL.XIV-NO.30
SUMMER NORMAL
CLOSED SATURDAY
One of the Best Ever
Held in County.
UP-TO-DATE METHODS TAUGHT
Teachers Receive Inspiration
nnd Help Along Pro
fessional Lines.
Lust Saturday marked I lie clove
o( one o( tlio nioxt helpful and suc
cessful Hummer Noriuil ever held
in i rook county. I he review
tli hand work mi J tlm iiiftliutle
work wrri) carried on Irniu tlie
beginning and besides bring ready
(or tin) August examinations the
teaehiri feel thai they have receiv
ed inspiration and help along pre
fi'ii'lonitl linen. Several teachers ol
experience raid thnt it wan the
ImkI Summer Nortnul they hud ever
utleiided.
The time ha arrived whin the
ptorn-ive teacher cannot affoid
to remain away Iroin Hummer
Normal. It in hoped tliat next
summer will find every Crook
county teaeher in Hume good Hum
mer school.
Principal Coe ol the Crook
county High School hat written
Superintendent Ford that he will
reach I'rlnevill a no lit August 20,
ready to begin his school woik.
Miss I'arrott left Tuesday (or
Madras. She will also visit Hcd
uiond and Lairiluw in the interests
of the C.C.I I. 8.
Mr. Wickirshaui end Mi Par
roll will leave Saturday (or Port
land. They expect to attend the
t'lmuUu(ua at Gladstone Park.
Miss Parrott will iend some time
at the I'nlversity Summer ichool
before returning to ber home in
Douglaa county. Mm. Wicker
ham will visit friends and re
lative in Jackson county.
Teachers' Examinations.
Notice it hereby given that the
county iiHTiutmletil ol Crixik county
will hold the regular examination of (
I'lienntt for ttale papers at I'rlnevllle at
folium:
('nmiiinneltig WrilmtiUy, August 10,
at 9 o'clock a. in. and continuing until
Saturday, Atigtil 1.1, at 4 o'clock p. m.
Wednesday Penmanship, li it I or y,
pelting, physical geography, reading,
lyclinlfny.
Thursday Written , aritliiuetlc, the
ory oHeai'hlng, grammar, bookkeeping,
phvslra, fivil government.
Krlilty l'hytliiliigy, geog'aphy. com
HHiiiioii, algebra,
Hatiirdsy Botany, plane geometry,
gnueriil history, Ijiglish literature,
eliool law.
li. A. Fohii,
County Ktliool Superintendent.
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MAIL CONTRACTS
NOW EFFECTIVE
Few Changes in Crook
County Lines.
THE C0RNETT STAGE & STABLE
Company Control all Trunk
LinesBids Wanted to
Supply Bear Creek
July 1 the new contractu (or
mail service (or the (our years
ending June 150. 1914, became
effective.
The lines operating out of I'rine
ville are under much the same
manogment as before, the trunk
lines in control of the Cornett Stage
& Stable company. There was an
increase in price for all contracts,
because of tbe increased" cost of
operation.
The Prineville-Silver Lake line
was let to !, M. Cornett, distance
115 miles, contract upwards of
17000.
Prineville Hums line, distance
153 miles, was let to (. M. Cornett,
contract price about $8000,
Prineville Shaniko line, die
tince 60 miles, contract price 19,
800, former price 12797. The
reason (or the increase in price of
the Shaniko line was given by Mr.
Cornett as the great increase in
the weight of the mail and the
fact that the line would lie dis
continued as soon as a railroad
should be completed to Madras.
The department made many
efforts to get other bids but were
unsuccessful because of the fact
that the line was considered an
unprofitable venture by other
bidders.
The Prineville-Sisters line wan
let to John Hunsaker, contract
price about 2'JO0, distance 42
miles.
Tbe Prineville Howard line
was let to S. li. Cooper, contract
price about tGOO, distance 18
miles.
Runaway Accident
Mrs. Hanson, who came here a
few days ago from Kent, Wash
ington, was painfully injured by
being thrown from a load oj timber
on the McKay road Tuesday.
Mrs, Hanson had gone to the
timber with her husband for a
load for Ship &. Perry and drove a
wagon on the return. In putting
on the brake she dropped a line
and the horses starting to run, upset
the wagon and bruised Mrs Han
son badly, besides cutting an ugly
wound over her right eve.
She was brought to Prineville
for medical aid and is attended by
lr Hyde, who says she will be
around again in ten days or so.
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STATE ENGINEER
IN PRINEVILLE
Looking After Crooked
River Survey.
IT WILL BE COMPLETED SOON
How Water Right are to be
Determined by the State
Board of Control.
Announcement
Extraordinary
To ilemnimtrnte the rich, beutitiful
tone ut the relehrnteil UPTON PAR
LOR GRAND PIANO which we will
Klve nwny ABSOLUTELY FREE iih
heretofore iilitioiiiii'ed unit which In
now mi exhibition In our store, we
hnve arranged for n I'liino Itivltul to
In- (J veu Rt our Htore Siitiirdiiy,
July Uth, ut 2:110 o'clock. We ex
tend it cordial Invitation to the
music lovers of our city to nttcntl, iik
tills recital will tie a freuiiliiH mind,
enl treat, Iteiiieiuher the tliite, July
Uth, at 2:110 o'clock. The program
will 1m h t one hour.
All Men's Clothing
All Boys' Clothing
All Ladies' Woolen Suits
All Ladies' Linen and
Cotton Suits
AH Ladies' Skirts
All Ladies' Muslin Underwear
Hot Weather Specialties
Every day's sales makes a showing in our store.
The past week has been one of the best.
Beginng Saturday we will make marked reduc
tions on all Spring and Summer Goods. This
creates an opportunity for you to make com
plete your summer wardrobe at about whole
sale cost.
AU Lawns, Batists,
and Waistings,
AH Summer Goods
Including several dozen patterns
All Fancy Parasols
All Canvas Shoes
and Oxfords
Several Dozen New Trimmed Hats
Just arrived by express. These are going rapidly,
.reducing the price radically on these and they,
other hat in our Millinery Department, is Reduced in Price
We are
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Our Gordon Hat for Men $3
If you have been
Gordon at $3.
paying $5 or even $3,50 for your Hats Try a
You will find them just as good, perhaps better.
Summer Vests and Shirts
ens Summer Vests ooc to il.jK)
Shirts-....., 1 75c to 3.00
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Come to Our Store Saturday, July 9th
Free Piano Recital at 2:30 p. m.
C. W. ELKINS COMPANY
John . Lewis, state engineer
and rcsjdent of the Board ol Con
trol arrived in Prineville Tuesday
to look after the survey of Crooked'
river which has been in progress
for several months. He was met
by II. K. Donnelly who has been
in charge of this work. Tbe sur
vey will be completed within about
ten days.
The object of this work is to make
a map showing all irrigation
ditches, tbe area of ail irrigated
lands, location of power plant,
and to gather information for the
determination of water right by
the Board of Control. A petition
by water users was filed last year
requesting such adjudication. Tbe
board bns completed tbe taking of
testimony on Squaw creek, Tumalo
creek and Paulina creek' in this
county.
Tbe determination on Willo
creek in Umatilla and Morrow
counties, where 250 claimants were
involved, wag completed by tbe
Hoard and confirmed by the court
in but a little over one year with
out any contests and only one ex
ception being filed with the court
and the exception was to correct
an error due to illegible writing
by the applicant.
The system is direct and simple.
It is inexpensive and effective.
The determination is made under
the law enacted last year which
has proved a. success beyond ex
pectation. This law, together with
the new state law accepting the
Carey Act, is the result of Mr.
Lewis' work during bis first four
years in office. Tbe water right
records accumulating in his ofiice
will soon place water titles upon
an equal footing with land titles,
and his assistants have authority
to protect these rights when deter
mined.
unin the next lew months a
blank form will be sent to each
water user on Crooked river and
its tributaries upon which he will
be requested to present bis claim
to the superintendent at a
convenient point in the valley at
the date fixed in the accompanying
notice. Due notice of this hearing
will be given in the local papers.
All claimants will later be notified
by registered mail of a time and
place where these claims will be
submitted for inspection and con
tests permitted. In this way the
adjudication is up to the people.
The lower user will not later be
permitted to complain if he allows
bis neighbor above to go uncontest
ed if he presents a claim for water
in excess of his right. The priority
date and amount of water used per
acre are the important point3 for
consideration, and most water users
know about the extent of his neigh
bor's rights. The late impropriator
will not permit the earlier appro
priator to put in an exorbitant
claim without contest. The incen'
tive for filing such excessive claims
does not exist as the water allowed
is thereafter protected by the state
and permitted to be taken in rota'
tion when needed.
The determination settles rights
for all time. If a shortage occurs
a water maBter can be secured with
authority to enforce and protect
determined rights. This will be
accomplished by closing headgatee
or by closing and locking the gate
to admit only the water, to which
the dicth is entitled. The water
master haB authority ' to make
arrests.
The determination' when made
by the Board becomes effective at
once but must be , filed with the
circuit court wbere exceptions or
appeals can be taken.
Tbe Umatilla river, involving
about one thousand claimants, and
the Rogue river with even a larsex
number of claimants, arc the larg
est of about twenty streams which
have been surveyed and testimony
completed. The development on
Crooked river was a surprise in
that tbe area of irrigated land
found was greater than along
either of the two streams above.
Mr. Lewis is also secretary of
tbe Desert Land Board and has
charge of the correspondence and
detail work relating to the Carey
Act projects in this vicinity as
well as eight new projects initiated
nnder the new law. He was ac
companied to Bend and Prineville
by Attorney General Crawford.
Mr. Lewis goes south from Bend
to inspect construction work now
in progress on the 30,000 acre project-
of the Deschutes Land com
pany. Thence to the Paisley pro
ject and later to the 100,000 acre
project in Warner Lake Valley
east of Lakeview.
CITY COUNCIL
HOLDS SESSION
Matters of Great Im
portance Pending.
County Committeemen Meet
A meeting of tbe Republican
county committeemen was held Id
Prineville Tuesday, In reoponse to a
call lusued by Chairman It. A. Ford,
ol the county central committee.
The attendance was not aa large
as was expected owing to the busy
season. Those that were present
favored some sort of a party organ
ization and thought tbe assem
bly plan conducive to that end.
No county assembly has been called,
however, owing to county division
questions and other contests that
would crop ont at this time.
Eighteen delegates to the state as
sembly were selected aa follows:
Prineville H. P. Belknap, R. A.
Ford and M. K. Elliott.
Madras Howard Turner, J. A,
Coulter.
Black Butte Kobert Smith, G. W.
KuBBell. -
Bend X. A. Forbes, W. P. Vande-
vert.
Powell Butte i. W. Reynolds.
Laidlaw and Redmond W. D.
Barnes, Carl X. Ehret, J. Alton
Thomson.
Cpper Crooked River Hugh Lis
ter, W. W. Brown.
Ashwood T. S. Hamilton.
HayBtack Henry W'indom.
Lamouta and Willow Creek J. S.
McMeen.
Grow Alfalfa Seed.
Central Oregon iB one of the best
countries in the world, so govern
ment service men tell us, tor tbe
production of seed plants, especially
alfalfa, and yet in the local market
alfalfa seed sells today for 27 cents
a pound, and the product is shipped
from the eastern part of the state
or from the central states.
Last year R. M. Powell and
other farmers on the McKay grew
some fine quality seed, but their in
exprience caused many mistakes
that lessened tbe quantity of their
output 75 per cent.
Now comes a Portland real
estate firm with an idea that is
good, well worth copying by tbe
dry. farmers in Central Oregon.
This firm has secured a large
place in the vicinity of Culver W.
F. Hammer's place and will
parcel it out to Portland and other
outside people at 1100 an acre for al
falfa gardens. The method of pro
ducing alfalfa on this land is
wherein the merit of the plan lies.
Any man who has an irrigated
ranch will tell you that it cannot
be done, but pn second thought he
will tell you as firmly that it can.'
Tbe plan is this: Prepare the land
in the same manner as the dry
farmer does, that is, after the
system advocated by the Campbell
method or some such similar
method, and in the early spring
plant alfalfa seed in rows as you
would corn.
The plants should be cultivated
almost constantly, and in this
manner the Boil will retain the
moisture and produce a good strong
plant.
Investigation shows that this is
the method used by the govern
ment in producing its alfalfa seed,
and tests made by these men show
that a very large percentage of the
seed is fertile, a much greater
percentage than of the irrigated
seed.
The maximum amout of seed
tnat can be expected trom an - acre
is one thousand pounds according
to good authority, which readily
shows that any kind a seed crop is
better than bay.
TWO NEW ORDINANCES PASSED
Council and Commercial Club
Will Work Together for
Better City.
The city council held an Important
meeting Tuesday nlgnt.
The meeting waa called to order
by Mayor Stewart, with eouncllmen
Llppman, Yancey, Rosenberg,
Storkmann and Sblpp present.
Report of R. W. Breese, recorder.
Joseph Kelso, marshal, and A W.
ancey, night watch, were read and
approved by the council.
A motion was" carried to per
mit Mrs. Mallng and Contractor
Pancake to place the building now
occupied by Stroud & Cross, In the
street by Young' blacksmith shop
hiletbenew building Is nnder con-
structlon.
Ordinance No. 174 waa presented
which provided for the raising of
revenue by a city road tax, and or
dinance Xo. 175 which makes a poll
tax a law were presented and
passed, and on motion they were or
dered published In the Crook County
Journal three successive Issues.
The following bills were allowed:
R. 8. Price, ailing slough 26 55
A. W. Yancey, nlghtwatch 60 00
M. E. Brink, drawing ordi
nances 10 00
Mrs. Annu Mallng, rent on bldg 35 00
Joe Kelso, marshal salary 75 00
R. W. Breese, recorder's fees. 5 80
W. F. King Co.. merchandise... 16 90
L The matter of electing a new
councilman to fill the vacancy caused
by Ward well Cram resigning was
left over until next month because of
tbe lateness of the hour. ' ,
PreskJeutr Williamson oT'the om-
merclal Club and other members of
tbe' governing board of the club
were present and several matters of
great Importance to tbe city were
discussed by the members of the two
bodies.' .The matter of at ordinance
for tbe grading of Third street waa
brought up by Mr. Williamson, also
tbe removal of all wooden awnings
on Main street. The purchase by
the city of a modern and complete
street sprinkling equipment was
taken up, also tbe matter of a sys
tem of sewerage or septic tanks for
the city, and a gravity water sys- -tern.
It was remarked by all present
that tbe removal of several of the
wooden awnings on Main street dur
ing the past month had made a
wonderful Improvement la the ap
pearance of the street.
If the property owners do not act
In the matter themselves, action will
no doubt be taken to pass an ordi
nance for their replacement by suit
able duck awnings.
The matter of grading Third street
will be considered at the next meet
ing of the council and after this
street is graded many others will no
doubt be treated the same way.
Street sprinkling by individual
contract was decided to be Insuf
ficient, and action will be taken by
the club to collect data from other
towns and cities regarding the cost
and installation of modern appar
atus, the same to be bought by the
city. These gentlemen were also re
quested by the council to get facts
regarding the cost of proper sewer
age, either sceptic tank or other
sewerage, and to submit facts at
some future meeting as to the pros
pective source and the probable cost
of a gravity water system as the
present system is not sufficient fi r
the city at Its present size, regard
less of Its prospective growth dur
ing the coming months.
A new city hall was mentioned
and met with much favorable com
ment. The city owns a lot that will
be suitable for the location of the
building, and a brick or stone struc
ture should be and will be built It
the sentiment of the meeting Tues
day night can be taken for anything.
These matters naturally lead to
the proposition of finance, and a
bond Issue of sufficient size to care
for several of these Improvements
was favorably considered.
It was agreed to have the club col
lect data on all these matters of city
Improvement and to notify the may
or when repdy so that he could call
a meeting of the property holders to
discuss the matter of Issuing bonds
and providing for the expenditure.
Wanted. .
Three men to saw logs and split
pine wood. I furnish the timber,
but want work contracted. Ad
dress P. O. Box 205, Prineville. Ore
gon. 61tt
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