Crook County
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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1910.
VOL XIV NO. 32
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RAILROAD FORE-
MAN KILLED
Shot Near Madras Sat
urday Morning.
MURDERER NOW IN JAIL
He it an Austrian Who Hal
Been in This Country
But a Few Montht
A railway construction born wan
murdered by one of hit workmen
on the Oregon Trunk line Kulur
d;iy morning at 1 a. hi., at a point
nlioiit ten inilnt went of Madras.
Dun Ksrough, an Auntrian, who
him I'wn in America lens limn (our
month, it heltl in the county jail
hers clntryed with the crime.
Kiiruugh wait discharged at the
rlntc ol work on Friday. He had
worked five weeks at the l'orter
and Connolly camp. After hi dis
charge he went to Madras and got
a rninity of whirkey and told tin
c in ploy ment agent there that lie
hiiii Ik en tired and would get i re
venge. Toward mldniiht he whs
hnck at the camp and left there a
little later. His former employer
was directing a night force of men
in a cut some forty feet deep a
ipili.
Ladies' Shirtwaists
Regular at $2.50 and $3.00
Now only 1.00
Regular al '3.50 and 4.50
Now only 2.00
Duck Oxfords
Ladies' While Duck Oxlords 50c to 1.40
Children V Duck Oxfords. 50c lo 1.00
Boyi While Canvas 75c lo 1.00
The
short distance from the camp.
About 1 a. m. a flash and sharp
report of a gun from the lop of the
rut broke the stillness of the night
and the workmen found that their
Iums hnd been shot in the left side
of the head. Death followed in
stantly. A runner started at once to the
camp and a physician was called.
The physivisn, timekeeper and a
deputy sheriff li ft Madras at once
in an auto and at 2 a. in., while
yet five or six miles from the scene
of the trouble, lan Karough was
met in the road and immediately
recognised by the timekeeper.
The car was stopped but Karough
had left the road and gone into
the wheat fields and could not be
found. His track was taken at
this point the following morning
and at 7 o'clock Sunday evening
he was discovered lying in a wheat
Held some four miles south of Mad
ras. The news of Karough's capture
spread rapidly and three camps,
with a total of some 200 men, turn,
ed out to lynch the murderer. It
was with great dillicully that the
prisoner wss kept from the mob
until Hheriff Klkins arrived. They
went tu the jail in force but the
prisoner had been sprinted away a
few minutes before and was in
hiding in t vacant building a short
distance away. The angered men
were told by the interpreter that
the sheriff had already departed
with the prisoner and they slowly'
went back to their camps.
When questioned Karough says
that he is 45 years of age but can
not remember anything about the
trouble.
The ruilroad boes wss an
Austrian and was well liked by the
men under him.
Summer Rummage Sale
Read these prices that have never been seen here before.
To make trade lively all summer in our dry goods de
partment we are putting all summer goods enumerated in
this "ad" at extremely radical figures.
C. W.
FINE NEW
BAPTIST CHURCH
The Building to Cost
$10,000.
WILL COMMENCE RICHT AWAY
Native Stone Will Be Used
Throughout the Struc
ture. The First Baptist Church Associ
ation will begin the erection of a
$10,000 stone building cn their
ground corner of It. and Second
streets as aoon as the contractors
arrive.
The work has been awarded to
Douglas & Phillips, who had the
sub contract for the stonework on
the courthouse, and will be done
at so much per foot, the exact price
being regulated by the way the
building measures after it is com
pleted. The ground floor plan of the
building will be in the shape of a
cross, and will consist of a main
building 36x40 feet with a wing
24x24 and another 12x24 feet.
The interior will be so arranged
that a gallery can be added when
Only a Few Hats Left in Our
Millinery Department
All Hats at $5 to $7 now $2.50
AH Hats at $2.50 to $4.50 now 1.50
$1.50 Sailor Hats now 50
Every Hat must be sold. . Read the prices again
and then come and see the goods.
Ladies' Linen Suits
Ladies' Linen Two-piece Suits..
Ladies' Lawn Lingerie Suits...
f& tfSfVN
Lace Curtains
Regular 1.50 styles now 1,20
2.25 " ".1.65
" 3.00 " " 2.40
" 4.00 " ' 3.20
Elkins
necessary. The floor arrangement
will be after the approved modern
plan of sloping to the pulpit.
The church will be one story
and basement and will be built of
red stone. It is the plan at pres
ent to dig to hardpan, which will
be about eighteen inches, and lay
the foundation which will place
the basement almost above ground.
There will be a public reading
room and the Sunday School
rooms In it. It will have ao eight
foot ceiling and will be roomy, well
ventilated and lighted.
The building will cover a part of
the ground now occupied by the
parsonage, Kxcsvstion will com
mence as soon as the parsonage
can be moved which work will be
commenced by Contractor Mc
Laughlin Monday next. The par
sonage will be moved north toward
the Nye property.
Furnace heating will be used
and the ventilation will be after
approved modern methods.
As yet no date can be set for the
completion of the structure, but
work will be rushed as rapidly as
possible while good weather con
tinues. It is needless to say
that the Baptist Church when
completed will be the finest build
ing of its kind in Central Oregon.
Its erection shows the solid
financial condition of the church
and community in general.
Bids Wanted.
litis wanted for HO cords of Juniper,
HI inch or 4 (est. Adilrms M. It. Ki.
i.iorr, tterk School District No. 1,
I'riueville, Oregon. 7-21
. . $3.50 and up
. . . 2.50 and up
Bath Towels
Heavy Knap Bath Towels
2 for 25c 2. 271 33k
Boys' and Mens Summer
Suits. Etc., Etc., all reduced
Co.
" POVERTY FLAT'
A MISNOMER
Most Productive Part
of . County.
GOVERNMENT LAND TAKEN UP
A Few Years Ago Converted
Into Productive Farm
, Get One.
The territory lying immediately
north of l'rinevills for a distance
of ten miles or more, commonly
called Poverty Flat, a few yeais
ago, is one of the most productive
sections of Central Oregon".
There has always been ' good
crops produced on the low lands,
called the river bottom, but for
years the matter of from twenty to
City feet elevation between the
river bottoms and the bench lands
was supposed to mark the differ
ence between land that is as good
as the world can boast, and land
was worthless. Indeed less than a
mile from the city limits there is
land that has been allowed to "go
back" to sagebrush for the reason
that it was considered unfit for the
production of a profitable crop.
Talking to a man who owns many
acres of both kinds, the fact be
came apparent that he considered
there was but little difference in
the value of "bench" and bottom
lands, conditions being equal.
The uplands drain better than the
river bottoms.
The Roy Stuart place, four miles
north of Prineville, is producing as
good a crop as could be wished for
this year, and without irrigation.
Jeff Evans who owns a large tract
of land on the slope of Grizzly
butts will harvest a good crop of
potatoes, and gets almost two tons
of wheat hay per acre every year.
The best results are obtained, of
course, by the dry farming
methods and it is by this plan
that the uplands will really come
into their own and rival the lower
or irrigated land in the matter of
production.
One of the most remarkable
cases of dry land development is
the homestead of C. J. Sundquiet,
which is situated eight miles north
west of Prineville. Mr. Sundquist
came here three years ago from
Minnesota with nothing but a
large family and the proverbial
thrift of his nationality.
He filed on 160 acres of govern
ment land that today has the ap
pearance of one of the best culti
vated farms in the county.
A Journal reporter visited this
dry ranch Saturday and this is
what he saw:. Two acres of the
new grain spelt, sown the first
week in May. The heads were
well filled on July 16; eight acres
of corn, planted May 9 and was
setting on ears same date as above;
fourteen acres of potatoes planted
about May 1, looked fine, many of
them in bloom; half acre of beans
with the most uniform growth of
any seen this year; eighteen acres
of wheat that will cut about one
and a half tons per acre or if
thrashed will yield thirty bushels,
rye that will average a height of
six feet and thick on the ground.
In his orchard was found fruit
trees looking well, melons, squashes
and other tender plants, and a
patch of about a half-acre of alfalfa
which had been used for pasture
that showed a good even stand but
needed water to keep it growing.
On the Otto Borreson place a
few miles east there is a patch of
several acres . of alfalfa and Price
Coshow has several acres adjoin
ing. This land is irrigated in the
springtime from the flood waters
and produces one good crop and
uihkes a good pasture. The first
CKp has been harvested and the
fields are a waving green while yet
the first crop is being hauled from
the field.
All crops in this belt are heavy
and well filled. Taken all to
gether the farms in this section
have len cared lor a little better
than usual and the result is a
marked increase in the way of
crops.
Will Commence to
Grind Next Monday
The new fifty-horse power steam
plant has been placed in position st
the Prineville Flooring Mills and
will start the machinery to grind
ing Monday morning after an idle
ness of several week, caused by a
shortage of water power.
The engine is of the latest ap
proved type and the boiler is of
the return tube pattern, so con
structed that it utilizes the greatest
porsible amount of heat generated
in the furnace.
The steam plant is situated at
the estt end of the building and
the power is transmitted to the
drive shaft in the basement of the
building by means of belts.
Fuel has been provided from the
Jones' sawmill on the Ochoco.
Fire risk will be reduced by a fifty
foot smokestack with which the
furnace is equipped.
The demand for mill products
and food stuffs has been heavy dui
ing the past few weeks. Prineville
flour has been out of the market
for several weeks. Madras and
White River brands have been the
only supply of bread stuff. The
price is very high on account of
freight rates. A few days' run by
the local mills will bring the flour
shortage back to normal and the
price of mill products will get
dewn to where they belong.
Many sales of flour have been
lost by the milling people and
local merchants that would have
gone to the construction camps
near Redmond had the mill been
in running order. Mr. Stewart
says that the steam power plant
will prevent any slacking up in
business in the future or at least
until the electric supply from the
Cove Power Company's plant is
available.
Died.
"Uncle Jack" Vandervert, one
of the pioneers of Oregon and
Crook County, passed away at the
home of his son, W. P. Vandervert,
at Lava, Monday, July 18, at the
advanced age of eighty-eight
years.
Mr. Vandervert had been failing
for a year past and the end wsb
not unexpected. There was no
immediate cause for his death,
except old age, and physicians
could do nothing to prolong the
mature life.
Mr. Vandervert was born October
10, 1822. In 1843 he drove an ox
team across the plains to the gold
fields in California. He settled in
Lane county in 1850 and was
married to Miss Grace Clark in
1853. He came to Crook County
26 years ago and settled at Powell
Butte, where he spent much of his
time until the past few years, when
he became too feeble to live alone,
his wife having died as result of a
bullet wound inflicted by hostile
Indians in 1875.
He united with the Methodist
church at the age of eighteen years
and later joined the Presbyterian,
with . which organization he
retained membership until his
death. He was always an influence
for good in the community.
The funeral was held at Prine
ville Wednesday at 9:30 A. M.
Three sons survive the deceased,
W. P. Vandervert, "W. J. Vander
vert and Dick Vandervert, all of
this county.
Giving Satisfaction.
Salem, Oregon No particular
complaints are now being received
from the settlers on the Deschutes
project, according to Attorney
General Crawford, who has just
returned from a trip through East
ern Oregon on official business,
and the section is settling rapidly.
"If sufticient money could be
secured to complete the project it
would make a community of which
the state might be proud," he said.
"There are now 40,000 acres for
settlement and there ehould be
60,000 more. Railroad building
is progressing and the country is
showing remarkable signs of new
life."
NO LET-UP TO
RAILROAD WORK
Line Will Be Poshed
Madras to Bend
WILL COMMENCE TO LAY RAILS
From Mouth of Deschutes to
Madras Sometime Next
, Month. ...
Reports that the contractors who
are building the two railroads into
Central Oregon have been laying
off men and adopting a policy of
retrenchment have arisen once
more but, as usual, have no founda
tion. There are more than 7000
men and adequate outfit engaged
in the two projects, the Oregon
Trunk and the Deschutes Railroad.
The Oregon Trunk has in excess
of 4500 men scattered along .the
course of its line, while the
camps of Twohy Bros., builders ol
the Hsrriman road, have more
than 2500 men making the dirt
fly. This quota is declared by
local officials to be the normal
amount of labor that has been
employed since the initial work
was undertaken.
It is also stated by the contract-'
ing firms that the only drawback
they have now to contend with is
the stringency in the labor mark t
which prevents them from getting
as many men as they desire. The
call of the harvest fields has proven
too attractive to a great volume of
laborers whom the railroad employ
ment agents have been trying to
corral. - As a matter of fact, the
contractors are considerably elated
over their success in keeping as
many men in their camps as
they do. It will be still harder
for them to keep their ranks from
being depleted as the harvest season
progresses.
Arrangements are ding for
ward for getting grading started
on the second section of the Ore
gon Trunk between Madras and
Bend. Camps are being scattered
along the proposed right of way at
frequent intervals, and this stretch
of line will be made ready for the
rails within a few months.
A rumor brought down to Port
land by a man from the interior a
few days ago to the effect that
Bend would not be on the main
line of the Hill road has been
vigorously denied at Oregon Trunk
headquaters. The story was that
the main line would swing to the
eastward about five mile south of
Bend and the latter town would
be hooked up on a jerk-water
branch.
"There is no truth whatever in
that yarn," said a high official of
the Oregon Trunk. "Our main
line is going right into Bend; we
have secured a fine right of way
through the townsite as well as
such land as will be needed for de
pot, terminals, trackage, ware
houses, etc. We could not afford
to eliminate Bend for a number of
reasons its .fine location on the
Deschutes, its central location from
the standpoint of tapping the enor
mous timber belt, its accessibility
for developing irrigation and agri
cultural projects and the possibil
ities of developing vast water-power
projects."
The same official stated that the
laving of steel for the first 109
miles from the mouth of the Des
chutes to Madras would be com
menced early in August, and ought
to be completed in less than 90
days from that time. Telegram.
For Sale.
Both alfalfa and grain hay for sale
at the J. O. Powell place, near town,
to feed beef cattle that are being
driven to market. 'Phone Stroud &
Cross, either 'phone, or call at the
ranch. 7-14- tf
For Sale.
7-ra8senger Touring car, Stevens
Duryea, (Big Six) six cyliuder, in
good condition.
AIbo for sale, 7-PasHenger Touring
car (Thomas Flyer) In good con
dition. Will sell for cash or trade
tor land. Kktts Auto Co,,
6 lti The Dalles, Oregon.