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Crook - County
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1910.
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VOL, XIV NO. 3
SCHOOL OPENS
SEPTEMBER 19
Teachers Getting Ready
for Year's Work.
BIG ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Crook County High School
Under New Leader
hip.
Tli l'rinevilln ii IkioU will open
on Monday, September 11).
Tim rorpt if thirteen in
structor in aaaeiiibling, tml prep
ration for the mining year's work
are going ahead at a very talia
factory pace.
Never before have the proectH
been o bright for I'ig attend
ance and a busy and auccensful
year. Never before hat there been
so elrong faculty, and to coinpe
ti'iil and harmonioiia working of
the liK-al loard.
The principal of the public
mIiooU tit J. K. Myers, formerly
superintendent of school in
Walla Walla and a man of good
school ability.
Mr. Mycin will have charge of
the eighth grade. The other inriii-
The
The
b-raof th Miff ato aa follows:
Min Kdyth Hideout, seventh
grade.
Miaa Therm Cawidy, sixth
grade.
Mia Vivian Allen, fifth grade.
Mias Klva J. Smith, fourth
grade.
Miaa June Alien, third grade.
Mifa Ethel Moore, aecond grade.
Miaa Alwilda Wilaon, firat grade.
The secret of aucreaa for school
work la to lie on hand the firat
morning and every morning there
after during the year when achool
ia called, and every parent owea
thia much to the coming gener
ation. ft C.ir Hik ScUJ.
In the high achool building
there will lie five instructor un
der the leadership of E. L. Coe,
who arrived the firat of the week
from Iowa, where he Ima been
teaching for the punt several
yeara. Mr. t'oe ia a man of con
aiderahle experience, young in
yeara, but a vigorous achool
worker. lie ia now preparing hix
work for the coining year.
Miaa Catherine V. Conway, E.
K. Evana and 'Miaa Itoa B.
l'arott will also he in early in the
week. The place occupied by Mra.
Emm II. Wickersham laat year ia
taken by Mra. Eva l.ane Walker,
who coinca to the Crook County
High School from Idaho, where
ahe haa been doing very successful
Continued on lont page.
C. W.
Shoes and Oxfords
For the next fifteen days we will sell at less than
cost our stock of Infants' and Children's, Misses and
Ladies', Boys' and Men's Oxford Canvas Shoes and
broken lines of footwear. Prices begin at 25c.
Several dozen pairs of $3.50 Oxfords at $1.50
Children's School Shoes . .
$1 per pair and up
Old Ladies' Low Snoe . .
50c and up
Men' Dreaa Shoes, good
enough for anywhere,
$2.50 and up
The remainder ol the slory will be
in our shoe room. See the
shoes. Sec ihe prices. Then buy.
C. W.
FRANK B0RS1NI
KILLS HIMSELF
Shoots the Top of His
Head Off. .
BODY FOUND BY NEIGHBORS
He Wat Subject to Fit of
Despondency for Many
Year.
Frank Itoraini, who baa reaided
in Crook county for many yeara,
was found dead In the door of bia
lonely cabin at Juniper Butte,
south of I'rineville, Tuesday morn
ing. A .30 caliber rifle with the
barrel clutched in hie left band,
atick about two feet long held be
tween the fingers of tb right hand,
which had evidently been used to
touch the trigger of the gun, the
position of the body, and tbe fact
that what money and valuable! he
had were undisturbed, leada to the
theory of auicide. Ilia actiona and
talk with other peoplo on Monday
all item to substantiate that be
lief. As far back aa fifteen years ago
lioaini waa subjected to spells of
depression and often talked of
Elkins
Our Shoe
Sale
For the nexf
15 D
ays
Elkins
fti0t7ianV.
killing himself. These fits of de
spondency became more frequent
at Jime advanced. Monday tie
came lo the home of Paul Held,
who was on of his nearest neigh
bors, and told Mrs. Held that be
wanted her husband to come over
Tuesday morning and get his
team, that be would not need
them any longer. He stayed at
Held' for dinner, got his mail and
about one o'clock started home,
telling Mr. Held good-bye and
saying that she would never see
him again. She tried to get him
to stay until evening when her
husband wbuld be at home, but he
would not. A little way from the
house he met a stranger in the
road and talked a few minutes,
which is the last be said to any
one, ao far a is known.
Tuesday morning Tom Rick man
and Mr. Stevenson' ten-year-old
aon came to the Borsini home
bout the (awe time. At the west
door of the bouse on th tep the
body of Borsini was found, where
be bad been sitting in the aun tbe
evening before, with a bullet
wound entering the bridge of the
nose, and tbe entire top of the
bead blown away. From all indi
cation tbe deed wa committed
about four o'clock on Monday.
There were no powder marks on
the face, as the gun need smoke
lets powder, but the position of
the gun and other indications, the
empty shell in tbe barrel of the
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Co.
Co.
FILE YOUR
PETITIONS NOW
Tomorrow is the Last
Day.
SIX WANT TO BE SHERIFF
The Other County Office Co
Abegging Last of
Candidates.
The last date tor filing nominat
ing petitions for state and district
offices was Saturday September 3,
and tomorrow, September 9, is the
list date for filing nominating peti
tions for county and precinct offices.
For state and district offices
there'are a large grist of candidates,
tbe total for all such office in the
state being over 100. Four-fifthsof
the candidates for these office are
of republican faith, while the min
ority party produces about a score
of office seekers.
Many of the candidate have co
opposition. II. P. Belknap of Ibis
place has no opposition for re-election
to tbe lower house of the state
legislature; John II. Lewis has no
opponent for the place be now
holds, and a few other not general
ly known here are in tbe same
favored position.
In the county all the offices, ex
cept for sheriff, are little sought
after.
For sheriff there are just a half
dozen candidate. Assorted, it is
true from different part of tbe
county. There are two from Mad
ras, two from Bend and one each
give their addresses a Prineville
and Fife. Whether it ia cheaper
for the voters to have tbem come
in half dozens or dozens is not yet
apparent, but if satisfactory results
come from the present election,
perhaps we will try a full dozen
next time.
For clerk, Warren Brown, the
present incumbent, has no opposi
tion.
.For commissioner R. H. Bayley
of Laidlaw will be the only candi
date to Bucceed himself, and he
will not be a candidate if he faite
to file bia petitions by tomorrow
night. There are no candidates
for coroner, and from the present
indications this office will be left
to tbe third party, the Socialists,
who will conene here for the pur
poses of nominating a ticket on
September 17.
A complete list of the names of
candidates that Crook county
voters will have to consider on
September 24 is given below. You
will want this list twice each day
until after the primary. .Paste it
in your hat.
For state and district offices
For Govenor, republican candidates
Albert Abraham, Jay Bowerman,
Grant B. Dimick, and . Hofer.
Democratic candidates Jefferson
Myers and Oawold West.
For Attorney General A. M.
Crawford and J. N. Hart, both re
publicans, with no democratic can
didate.
For Secretary of State F. W.
Benson and G. Wingate, republican
and Oliver Turner, democrat.
For State Treasurer Ralph W.
Koyt, Thomas B. Kay amd Thomas
F. Ryan, all republicans.
For State Engineer John H
Lewis, republican.
For State Printer William J.
Clark and W. S. Duniway, republi'
cans, and J. Scott Taylor and
James E. Godfry democrats.
For Labor Commissioner O. P,
Hoff and G. M. Orton, republicans
For Railroad Commissioner
Frank J. Miller, republican, and
Hugh McClain and Charles P.
Strain, democrats.
For Superintendent of Public
Instruction L. R. Alderman.
For Justices of the State Supreme
Court (elect four) Thomas A.
Mi-Bride, Frank A. Moore, George
Burnett, Wallace McCamant,
Henry J" Bean, republicans, and
Woodson T. Slater and Will R.
King, democrats.
For Superintendent of Water
Division No. 2 George T.Cochran,
republican, and F. M. Saxton, dem
ocrat. '
For Representative in Congress,
Second District W. R. Ellis, A.
W. Lafforty, C. J. Reed and George
S. Shepherd, republican, and John
A. Jeffery, democrat.
Circuit Judge, Seventh Judicial
District Samuel W. Stark, re
publican, and W. L. Bradshaw,
democrat.
Representative Twenty-first Dis
trict (elect two) II. P. Belknap
and W. Lair Thomson, republicans.
The county situation ia much
more simple, tb complete list of
candidate being a follow:
For Sheriff, J. A. Coulter of Mad
ras, Frank Elkins of Madras, Si
Hodges of Prineville and Millard
Triplett of Bend on tbe republican
ticket and T. N. Balfour of Fife
nd John E. Edwards of Bend,
democrats.
For Clerk Warren Brown, of
Culver, democrat.
For Commissioner R. H. Bay
ley of Laidlaw, republican.
For Surveyor Fred A. Rice of
Prineville and George S. Young of
Bend, both republicans.
For Coroner, no candidate.
Bsside these, each precinct will
have it precinct officer.
The office of county treasurer is
without a candidate, and whether
the present incumbent, W. r.
King, will hold over or whether
some one can be found who wants
the job and will come out inde
pendent after the primaries is a
matter of speculation.
The office pays a salary of but
$50 per month and the court is al
lowing $25 per month additional
for tbe registration of warrants,
while the duties are many and
hard.
If a bond is bought, which must
be for $30,000, the annual cost
would be almost $300, which
leave the office holder very little
for his work. The duties of this
office are growing much faster
than the salary.
Redmond Realty
Very Active
From the Hub city there aie
four additions this month, all pre
sented by engineer Phoenix.
The largest and most important
plat is that of the Oregon Trunk
addition which embraces 120
acres, and is platted to conform
with the railway grade. The
street are all cleared and are be
ing graded.
The survey of tbe First addition
to Redmond is an alteration of tbe
original survey, making the streets
and alleys to conform with tbe hill
which is included in the plat. It
affects that part of the survey ly
ing east of the town.
The Mountain View Addition to
Redmond is a forty-acre tract
owned by the Redmond Realty
and Investment company, which
is west of tbe town and north of
Melrose Park. This addition is
intersected by the Redmond Cline
Falls road.
The South End Acreage is a
tract of forty acres that is cut into
one and two-acre tracts, most of
them being one acre or a little
over. It is owned by E. R.
Tichenor and is situated south
and west of the original townsite.
It is understood that this will be
put on the market at about $125
per acre.
For Surveyor.
To the republican voters of Crook
county :
I hereby announce, myself aa a candi
date tor the oilice of Surveyor for Crook
county, subject to the approval of the
voters at the primary election to be
held in September. Respectfully,
9-1 Fred A. Kice.
For Sheriff.
To the Democratic voters of Crook
county, Oregon :
I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for the office of Sheriff of Crook
county, subject to the approval of demo
cratic voters at the primary election to
De new septeniDer 24.
John K. Edwards,
Bend, Oregon.
For Sale.
Both alfalfa and grain hay for sale
at the J. o. I'owell plaee. near town.
to feed beef cattle that are being
driven to market, riione Stroud
Cross, either 'phone, or call at the
ranch. 7-14- U
REGISTER NOW
D0NT DELAY
Just Six More Days for
the Primaries.
1113 REGISTERED SO FAR
The Complete County Regis
tration will be given
Next Week.
Crook county voter are at last
wakening to the fact that they
must register to vote at the pri
maries September 24 and tbe rush
is on t the County Clerk' office.
Voter cannot be sworn in for the
primaries, and unless you register
before closing time on Wednesday,
September 14, you will stand by
helpless and see your favorite can
didate meet his Waterloo.being un
able to help him. "
Up to noon yesterday, the num
ber of name that bad been posted
up from the outlying precincts, to
gether with those who have regis-
tered(in the clerk' office, makes a
total of 1113. Prineville shows
more than twice as many names as
any other precinct, which ratio
may be changed, however, when
tbe final list of names comes in
from all the precincts.
Of the total number there are
736 republicans, 334 democrats,
and half a hundred each of socia
lists and independents. There
are three prohibitionists.
The' socialist band at Powell
Butte haa dwindled from more
than a score two yeara ago to aeven -this
year, the greatest number for
any precinct.
Deschutes shows the greatest
number Of voters without party in
clination a total of 15. Why
men will take the trouble to regis
ter and at the same time disqualify
themselves for tbe primary elec
tion by expressing themselves as
'independent' or 'no party' is a
mystery. Of this number there
are 53 members so far this year,
the largest membership fiom Des
chutes, as above stated, and the
next largest at Warm Spring,
where nine had no politics.
Years ago, tbe Indian vote was a
factor in county politics, but today
there are only two democrats and
two republicans there.
The list of voters, according to
precinct, is as follows:
Prineville 112 republicans, 66
democrats, 5 socialists and 2 in
dependents. Ashwood 20 republicans, 9
democracts, and one socialist.
Bear Creek 20 republicans, 12
democrats and one each socialist
and independent.
Beaver, Mill and NewBom Creeks'
are tbe democratic strongholds.
The former showing 10 members
of the minority party, and 4 of
the republican faith, while the
democrats have a plurality of 2 in
Newom and 4 in Mill Creek.
Bend has reported 88 republican,
24 democrats, 7 independent.
Breese 10 republicans and 4
democrates.
Camp Creek 6 republican 6
democrats 1 socialist.
Cross Keys 3 republican 2 dem
ocrats. Deschutes 54 republicans, 15
democrates, 4 socialists, 15 in
dependent. -
Hardin 9 republican?, 5 dem
ocrats. Hay Creeek 1 republican.
Haystack 18 republicans, 5
democrats, 2 socialists.
Kutcher 46 , republicans, 14
democrates, 6 socialists, 3 inde
pendent and 1 prohibitionist. .
Laidlaw 29 republicans, 7 dem
crats 4 socialists. ,
Lamonta 22 republicans, 13
democrats.
Lava 3 republicans, 1 democrat
1 socialist.
Lyl Gap 15 republicans, 2
democrates, 1 independent.
Madras 60 republicans, 30 dem-
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