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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
REGISTER NOW
DONT PUT OFF
Voters Should Not Wait
Until Last Minute
NOT MUCH INTEREST TAKEN
Registration for Primaries Closes
September 14 Mutt
Regitter to Vol'..
If you wnt to voUi at the
primaries you must hustle and
register with tlm county clerk or
witn the registering officer in your
precinct, before rVpteniber H. It
dos not matter liow many liims
you have registered lor previous
elections, till election requires you
to register again.
Ho far the registration it very
Unlit. Registering ollicert are re
quired to forward all used hlanka
to l ho county clerk once a week.
Home of thrin nil to do .0.
Hy precinct (he reiteration so
fur U a follows:
Prineville Rrp 45; denj 35, hoc
3, in.l 2; total K5.
Ashwood Kop 7 .dem 4; total 11.
Creek Kep H, dem 4; total
Heaver Creek Hep 4, dern 4;
total 8.
Itend Uep 2.
Klack Ilutle Uep 21), dew 17,
intl I.aoo 2; total 4(1, '
I!reee Uep 4, dem 1; total 6.
Camp Creek Ren 1. dem 3:
total 4.
Cross Key Uep 2; total 2.
Deschutes U.p 1, dem 1: total
2.
Hardin Uep 8, dem 4; total 10.
Haystack Kepll.deinl . aoo 2:
total I I.
Johnson Creek Uep 2. dem 4.
hoc. 1; tolul 7.
Kutcher Uep 19, dem 2, roc 2;
total Kl.
Laldlay Rep 1.
Lamonta Uep 7, dem 7: total
14.
I-yle Cap Rep 1.
Madraa Uep 15, dem 7, ind 8,
00. 4, prohl 1; total 31.
Maury Uep 2, dem 1 ; total 3.
Mill Creek Dem 2.
Montgomery Uep 7, dem 4, ind
1; total 13.
McKay-Uep 1), dem 4; total 13.
Newsom Creek Uep 6. dem C.
ind I j total 12.
Powell Uulte Uep 10. dem 0.
ind 2, 100 5; total 2S.
Redmond Uep 1.
Warm Spring Uep 1.
Willow Creek Rep 6. dem 2;
total 7.
Tetherow Uep 1.
For Sale.
...'i?1 ",l',le ll,,m' '! bridle.
W ill tie at Hamilton hulilo Aug. 1. 1 i
CAME NEAR
LOSING HIS LIFE
Lamonta Man Fell Thru
Header Bed.
SKIN TORN FROM HIS BACK
Injuries Very Painful
Not Necessarily
Fatal.
But
Oscar Cox of Lamonta was the
victim of an accident Tuesday that
came near coating Lira his life.
He was working with a number of
other men on the ranch of K. T.
Baleson, heading grain, when the
headerbed cams to pieces letting
Mr. Cox fall through in front of
the wagon. Ilia legs got entanulf d
about the doubletree, and the team
ran a quarter of a mile or more
dragging the unfortunate man on
his back. The team wan stopped
just as they were about to plunge
through a rotky gorge that would
have meant certain death to the
unfortunate man.
Several men were required to get
Mr. Cox from under the wagon
and into the houss where his
wounds were dressed. I'bvticians
found that practically all the (kin
Had been torn from bis back and
that he was seriously bruited, al
though no bones were broken and
no internal injuries were din
covered.
Mr. Cox is a heavy man, of
about middle age. Such an acci
dent will no doubt Cpnfine bim to
hia lied for weeks
Freighter Killed
Near Shaniko
A press dispatch from Shaniko
last Friday states that C. M. Dun-
lit r, a freighter, whose borne is
near Lamonta, Crook county, was
thrown from a loaded freight
wagon and killed about 10 o'clock.
I he accident occurred five miles
west of Shaniko, on the Cow Can
yon road leading to some railroad
construction camps on the Deschu
tes river.
Harry Pitzer, another freighter,
was following some distance behind
and when he came up with Dun
bar's outfit found a front wheel of
the wagon resting upon the victim's
neck and chest. Pitzer said there
was no indication of a struggle.
The body was brought to Shaniko
and ia held awaiting orders from
his widow. He was apparently
aliout 75 years of age and formerly
was a farmer near Des Moines, Ia ,
and Hpringview, Neb.
Between Prineville and
Madras.
a
PRESENT ROAD IN BAD SHAPE
With Increased Traffic It Will
Soon Become Impassable.
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.
Only a Few Hats Left in Our
Millinery Department
AH 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
Lad?es' Linen Two-piece Suits $3.50 and up
Ladies' Lawn Lingerie Suits... 2.50 and up
3
Ladies' Shirtwaists
Regular al $2.50 and $3.00
tVow only 1.00
Reflular al 3.50 and 4.50
Now only 2.00
ci, A mm
Duck Oxfords
Ladies' While Duck Oxlords 50c lo 1.40
Children's Duck Oxlords 50c lo 1.00
Boys" While Canvas 75c lo 1.00
Lace Curtains
Regular 1.50 styles now 1,20
2.25 " " 1.65
3.00 " - 2.40
" 4.00 ." " 3.20
Bath Towels
Heavy Knap Bath Towels
2 for 25c. 221 271 33Ae
Boys' and Men's Summer
Suils, Elc., Etc, all reduced
The C. W. Elkins Co.
Developments follow rapidly in
Central Oresonr (iood roads
should keep pace with development.
Within five months the bane of
railway supplies for Prineville and
all territory south and east
will change from Shaniko to Mad
ras. The difference in the distant
is some thirty-five miles and by far
the worst end of road is to be
avoided by the new route. Besides
this the direct haul from Madras
to this point will be over a country
that is mucB better for building
than the Willow creek and Hay
creek routes which were followed
by the old route from Shaniko.
For more than a score of years
the supplies for this vast territory
were hauled from Eugene or Albany
across the Cascades or from The
Dulles. Then the base of supplies
changed suddenly to Shaniko and
the volume of freight, passenger
business and mail quadrupled in
a short time. During the past two
years it has doubled several times
again until at present the condi
tion is difficult to describe. In
fact there is freight in the Shaniko
warehouses today that will be re-
shipped by rail to Madras The
past two winters have seen this
main trunk line road from Prine
ville to Shaniko almost impassable,
excepting for light vehicles.
The condition that confronts the
residents of this part of Central
Oregon at present is this: The road
from Prineville to Madras is worn
into ruts, so bad. in fact, that it
takes three hours to make the trip
by auto when it should take a third
less time. Auto traveling now is
not one-third what it will be next
summer with the railway terminus
at Madras. During the spring
months this road was in bad con
dition for freighting. With in
creased trafllo it will go from
bad to wcrse.
It is safe to say that the care
actually expended on this forty
miles of road since the beginning
of time would not exceed 11500,
True, we have never needed a pike,
but a new condition confronts us
and the question is, ' How long will
this trail be passable?"
E. II. Harriman, when speaking
to a number of business men at
the Prineville Hotel in 1908, said:
"We can build railroads and will
ouua mem, put the thing you
people muBt do is to build wagon
roads. You have one of the best
countries I have ever seen for easy,
cheap and efficient wagon road con
struction, and the item of main
tens nee for these roads would be
very small indeed, but wagon roads
and good ones will develops your
country fast, even faster than rail
roads. Fix it so that the man in
an automobile can get around."
The Harriman and the Hill in
terests are making good. They are
building the railroads to our very
door and the question for us to
apply to ourselves is, ''Are we ready
for the change that is now in
sight?" Improve the wagon roads.
Will Be Into Madras
by January 1st
It is now believed that the Oregon
Trunk line will be in readiness tor
train service to Msdras by January
1, 1911. Work on the line is being
propecuieo wun splendid success,
according to reports from the
various camps, and the eradins
of the' road from the Columbia
river to Madras will be completed
by beptember 1
Laying of rails will be begun as
soon as the ferry to carry the steel
across the river at Celilo is
completed. It is hoped to have
the craft ready by the time the
grading is finished. Ballasting of
the track will be done as nuicklv
as each mile of rails b as been laid
thus it w'U be but a short time
intervening between the laying of
the last rail and the completion of
the road
Grading south of Madras towards
Bend is also being rushed, and the
laying of rails over that distance
will follow immediately upon the
completion of the road to Madras.
Portland Journal
WILL PUT IN A
PUMPING PLANT
Hillraan Fake
Finds
Candidate for Sheriff.
To the Democratic voters of Crook
county:
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Sheriff of
Crook county, subject to the approv
al of the voters of the county at the
primary election to be held In Sep
tember. Respectfully,
. T. N. Ba'i.fouk,
Fife. Oregon.
For Sale.
Both alfalfa and srraln hnv for sale
at the J. O. Fowell place, near town,
to feed beef cattle that are belnjc
driven to nuirkof, 'Pimno v.
Cross, either 'phone, or call at the
tale of Hillraan lots is said to
have ceased in Portland, since At
torney-Ceneral Crawford wrote 1
letter to District Attorney Camer
on a few days ago, calling at
tention to the alleged fraud being
perpetrated upon purchasers of lots
in the townBite says the Oreeonian
The offices of the company were in
charge of a lone stenographer yes
terday, who said that both F. P
Cooper and T. M. Taylor, the sales
agents, were out of town.
It is reported, however, that
activity has been transferred to
Spokane and that vicinity, where
the glories of "the coming metropo
lis of Oregon" are being heralded
to anyone that has as much as $10
to invest in real estate. District
Attorney Cameron endeavored to
probe the enterprise yesterday.
but found no one who could tell
him anything about it. If an at
tempt to sell lots in this iurisdic-
tion is renewed, a thorough investi
gation will be made.
Between $50,000 and $60,000 is
said to have been cleaned up by
Looper and Taylor on the deal and
about 35 per cent of the alleged
townsite hae been disposed of.
That sales were brisk is not sur
prising, for the literature issued by j
the promoters stands at the head
in optimistic enthusiasm and in
glittering adjectives. Beginning
with a general view of the wealth
of Crook county, adverting at
length to the entry of two rail
roads into the region, quoting The
odore B. Wilcox on the future of
Central Oregon, the booklet finally
arrives at Hillman, which it says
is in the exact center of Oregon,
on both railroad lines, in a "won
derful rolling valley." The state
ment is given prominence th
Hillman has been promised a rail
road station by the Oregon Trunk
line. The town is said to be hieh
and dry.
In a fervid peroration, the pro
moters say: " hat more at
tractive investment could the man
of Bmall means wish than this?
It requires but a small amount of
money to become identified with
the town of Hillman. Everyone
should become the owner of as
many lots in Hillman as he can
prudently buy, for the more Hill
man property one buys now, the
bigger will be his reward."
The Hillman townsite proposi
tion is a fake, pure and simple.
The vf promoters are now oper
ating in the Spokane country as a
reference to our real estate trans
fers will show. Victims are plenti
ful.
3. F. Wilhoit Will Try
the Experiment.
WILL DIG WELLS AND PUMP
Water on the Place Will l)
a Six h. p. Gasoline
: . . Engine. -
B. F. Wilhoit, who has a ranch
four miles west of Prineville. is in
stalling a pumping plant on hia
ranch that will double the value
of his farm if the plant can be put
nto successful operation.
The conditions which surround
the Wilhoit farm are exactlv
similar to those of man nf tK
. j
farms in this vicinity. The beat
soil in the world, the best climate
for alfalfa that can be found, and
a good supply of water for a first
crop, a' little water for a second
none at all for the thirH Arnn
VirtimJ 1116 walere of Crooked "d Ocho-
f H.UJI15 en rivers am mn.a il,. . :
' - iu.u npprupri-
ate, as many of the land owner.
along these streams realize. In
most of these valleys there is a
sheet of water at a depth of from
six to twenty feet that is almost
inexhaustible. In fact on thi mm.
ply depends the practicability of
the plan.'
Mr. Wilhoit has one of the neat
plants of the kind made and is
digging two wells on his place at
present, one twelve by twelve and
the other a long and. narrow well
that will be "due by team and
scraper almost its entire depth. If
ine water supply as sufficient in
these wells ahird will be bug for
the purpose of irrigating higher -
ground than has yet been covered
byirater.
Water in the first well was struck
at nine feet and at ten feet the flow
was so strong that digging had to
be stopped until the pump could
oe installed to assist in keeoin? the
well dry for digging. He ola ns to
dig it five or six feet deeDer at
present if possible, and will en
down much farther if a.nM;t;nni
depth is required to get suf
ficient water.
The plant is simple and power
ful. The power is a six horse
power vertical standard ensine
made by the Fairbanks-Morse Co.
The engine is fitted for burning
gasoline or distillate and is up to
date. The pump is of a centrifugal
type, and is calculated to throw
twenty inches of water per second
at a thirty-five foot litt.
The intake pipe for the plant is
3i inches and the discharge pipe is
3 inches in diameter. Th nlnnt
guaranteed to pump, and will
irrigate fifty acres in 15 days of
twelve hours each, or in about a
week continuous running.
Mr. Uhoit is placing his engine
and pump on a low wagon and
will haul it from one well to
another as occasion demands. He
expects to profit by an additional
crop on the lands now in alfalfa as
well as the lands that ;n k
added to that crop.
There are a number of farmers
in the vicinity watching the prog
ress of the plant and if this works
successfully there will be a num
ber of like plants installed in the
near future. It is expected that
this plant will be in operation ;n
about a month, or as Boon as thn
work can be done after harvest.
The machinery is all on the
ground. The cost of the plant in
stalled, including the digging of
the two wells, will not exceec $750.
Candidate for Sheriff
To the Republican voters of Crook
county:
I hereby announce myself as cant
date for the office of Sheriff of Crook
county, subject to the approval of
the voters of the county at the pri
mary election to be held In Septem
ber. Respectfully,
Si. Hodoks.
Bids Wanted.
Bids wanted for 60 ecmU nt .Tnni.
16 inch or 4 feet.. Address M. R. El
liott, vivtk Hctiool District
frineville, Oregon.
No.
7-21
?; Patients Received.
FflrSnnfl nPfwlino hnaniUl
uuDfiiai uwuujiiiu-
dations can tind them at my home. I
am prepared to care for nnt.int nr
patients may employ their own nurses.
Maternity
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attention.
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