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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1910.
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VOL. XIV- NO. 52
DECLAMif1""
Eight Contestants Will
Take Part.
A COOD PROGRAM OFFERED
V The Winner Gels Cold Medal
' fuver Medal for
j Second Place.
f
Th Iryrmts for the inter-society
d Umalivti content were held
' 1 ThuriilaJ and. Faturday evening
'J)p iuw l and 3.
C Thirty-one students from both
societies entered and the tank ol
chmwing tour to tepreaent each
society w, by no meant, an easy
one.
This contest showed a marked
Improvement over the one of lent
year, not only in point of numtars
but in quality of work done, and
the Crook County High School in
roud of every student who tried,
whether Its won a place or not.
The dvcliion of the judge was
at follows: Alpha contestant
Blanche Wilson, Hoy Lowther,
Corrinne Collin and Warren Yin-
try; find alternate, Maud Potter;
lecond alternate, Wild Nye.
Children iwtmter jacket!..... fiOc
Boy's V neck sweater ..75c
Boy's sweater jai ket.... 11.10
lloy'a long heavy rain coat "He
Hoy's short panta .40c and upwards
Hoy's long pants ... $1.25
1 toy's short pant sults$1.00and upwards
lloy'a long pint suits $3.25 and upwards
lioy's overcoats 3.50 and upward
Men's wool pants $1.50 and upwards
Men's cot ton mixed pants....trom l)0c up
Men's odd piece underware 40c upwards
Heating
a special
Now is
Do So
The
Uchoconian contestants Leola
Kit, Robert Lialer, Murle Ireland
id Van Brink; first alternate,
Nora Llvingaton, second, Harold
Cooko.
The final battle between the two
societies takee place in the Club
1111, Friday evening, December 0.
1'lie winner in this oopteit receive!
a gold medal, and may represent
the Crook County High School
at an inter scholaHllo content.
The winner of second place it
awarded a silver medal and the
winning society recelvoi a trophy.
Hftldce the declamation, several
muiical number are being pre
pared. The following ii the pro
gram:
Vocal Holo Mr. K. L. Aahby.
"The (iulde in (ienua."
Warren Yancey. (Alpha.)
"The Swan Bong."
Leola Katua (Ochocoutan.)
Naughty Zell." Ill.ncU Wllaoa A
Vocal Hulo Miss tarrua Winnek.
"Aunt I'uly'a (ieor(a Washington"
Maria Ireland 0
"Tl.aKloux Chl.il', IiaiiKhtor."
Corrinue Collin A
Vocal Holo l'rof. K. L. Coe.
"The Ohoat." Kobert Uster, 0
"The Scene In Uia Arena."
Kuy txiwthar A
"The Busiest lay In ttnmkin Center
Van Urink O
Inatrumental I Mint Miaae Krelyn
Millnrn and Mamie liailey.
Mr,. Kliattark, Mr,. C. W. Klklns
an I Mra. Belknap will act aa JuTlgea.
Horse Lost
IMl kiius (wo wevka tiro, gray paring
saldh horse, elililng atwjl llf0 lla.,
lft', hands high and hobblwl when
uniting away. Anyone hearing ol or
Uniting horae, pirate take car ol him
ami receive reaard by notifying Anna
Ilrothera, ilend, Uregon, at once, VI A
LOOK.H
Business this fall has far exceeded our expectations and al
ready we find many of our lines badly broken. We are
placing these broken lots on our counters at about One Half
regular price. A partial list is given below at prices that will
clean them Qut quickly.
Men's hats .
Man's wool shirts.
Men 'a sweaters f 1.00 and upwards
Ladies' black sateen petticoat. 95c up
Ladiea' corsets, sir.es 24 to 28, 40c and up
Ladiea' extra heavy fleeced underwear,
67S'o.
Ladiea' ribbed fleeced underwear i',c
Ladiea' outsise vests, extra heavy 45c
Ladiea' fleeced cotton hose..... 13c
ladies' extra heavy fleeced hose 25c
Ladiea' heavy wonted hose. . ,25c
Besides these are innumerable items in our hardware and
grocery departments. Every item on which you will be
able to make a saving. .
Stoves as mentioned
lot at jobbers prices,
the time to select your holiday goods.
Now and Avoid the Rush.
C. W. Elkins Company.
"CITIZENS' CALL"
CAUSES TROUBLE
Criminal Libel Suit on
Its Hands.
ITS PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
Held Under $250 Each to Ap
pear Before the Grand
Jury.
J. A. Hoffman. O. T. More
bead, L. D. Wiest. R. V. Con
stable, lion Cotter, E. A. Hunt
and Karl Hon ton, committee on
publication of the Citizens' Good
Government League and editors
of the Citizens' Call, are mude
defendants in a sensational ac
tion for criminal libel begun in
the justice court at Princvllle on
Monday. Tbe defendants were
served with warrants and are
now nominally under arrest.
The casus belli is a statement
alleged to have been printed in
the Citizens' Call In its issue of
November 29, which statement,
tbe complaint avers, constitutes
criminal libel under the Oregon
statutes. The alleged libelous
matter is directed against Sher
iff Frank Elkins and William
..75c upwards
ERE
Ladiea' trimmed hats, $3 and upwards
Ladiea' lacinatoas and hoods, 45c and up
Silk petticoats $4.85 and np
Lailies' shoes siios 3S,, 4 ami 4tf, $1.00
and upwards. ,
Misses shoes, sines 12 to 1, 75c and up.
Three pound wool batts each $2,155
Heavy ontinge....10c and upwards
riaid dress suitinga.12,SC and npwarda
Bath towels - 15c and npwarda
Comforts .$1.00 and upwards
Lace curtains .60c and upw ards
.05c upwards
in our advertisement
freight added.
Combs, and reads as follows:
"After an effective demonstra
tion by tbe Law and Order peo
ple, comprised of Prlnevllle's
best citizens, Indictments were
returned against tbe two leading
politicians. One was Sheriff El
kins, who, it teems, "when occa
sion demands It. makes it bis
business to vote at both Madras
and Prineville. The other was
Bill Combs, who can, when occa
sion requires, acquire a legal
residence within sixty days
Yet, shielded by tbe protecting
arm of Brother John, he man
ages always to keep 4 out, of
trouble."
Tbe paper containing the ar
ticlo is dated November 29 on
tbe first page and October 29,
which is the true date, on page
2. At that time tbe Call, was not
a newspaper, being merely cam
paign literature. Since then,
however, Hoffman, the man in
charge, has applied for its ad mis
slon to tbe mails as second-class
matter, it thereby becoming a
real newspaper. Tbe Call has
no property of its own, tbe me
chanical work being done at tbe
office of the Oregon Hub, at Red
mond. Tbe defendants are widely
scattered. L. D. Wiest lives at
Dend, Hoffman, G otter, Hunt and
Benton live at or near Redmond,
R. V. Constable is a Prineville
resident, while G. T. Morehead,
who Is a minister of the Gospel,
Continued on ineide page.
last week,
MASS MEETING
WELL ATTENDED
Strong Sentiment for
Civic Improvement
BONDING THE CITY FAVORED
The Matter of Selecting
City
Ticket Was Voted
Down. .
Suppose that in a spirit of good
will you should donate several
days of your good time and some
of your hard-earned coin of tbe
realm, suppose that yon bad talked
to an appreciative public and
called a meeting of the people of
your town for tbe purpose of unit
ing all warring factions, a general
lovefeast in fact, and suppose 70U
had gone to tbe best print ihop in
tbe county and bought with your
own coin, handbills advertising
uch meeting, and after posting
said bills on your own telephone
poles, the unsympathetic city
marshal should arrest you and tbe
city recorder should impose a fine
of 115 for posting said bills,
wouldn't it make you feel that this
was a cold, unresponsive world?
All this and more is what hap
pened (a L. Dooner of the Pione e
Telephone and Telegraph company
Monday.
Tbe purposes of the meetiog, as
set forth by the petition circulated
by Mr. Dooner, were manifold.
First mentioned was a talk con
cerning the regulation of tbe
liquor traffic, and following were
matters of civic improvement, tbe
nomination of a ticket of business
men for the coming city election
and the "burying of the little j
hatchet" of the warring liquor and
prohibition element?.
Mr. Dooner's posters, despite the
grief they had caused their author
during tbe afternoon in tbe re
corder's court, had done eood
work, and no leu than 150 voters
were present when the meeting
was called.
W. F. King waa selected chair
man and R. L. Jordan, secretary.
the meeting. In his opening
remarks Mr. King sounded the
keynote of tbe meeting when he
said that the time had arrived for
an era of progress and building on
the part of tbe city, and that be
would favor the matter of bonding
the city for all munioipal improve
ments that could be well under
taken at this time..
M. E. Brink made the next ad
dress. He said that tbe radical
elements which had dominated city
politics in the past, first the "wets"
and then tbe "drys," were in
competent to do the work of mu
nicipal improvement tbat we
should have done, and tbat tbe
council should be made up of buai
ness men, men who could ju
diciously expend the money that
should be expended in tbe various
publio improvements that should
be undertaken.
Among improvements advocated
by Mr. . Brink was the matter of
grading all streets and establish'
ing curbings. He said that from
actual experience this work could
be done and assessed against the
property owners, at a cost of not to
exceed IS per 80 foot lot. Other
improvements of great importance,
which were advocated by Mr.
Brink, were the building of a city
hall and arranging for quarters for
the city officers and the fire de
partment, . the installation of a
sewerage system and other work of
beautifying and cleansing tbe town.
lie said that every street and side
walk in tbe city should be put on
grade. Mr. Brink said further
that if the voice of the business
men of the, town was unanimous
in matters of this kind, the council
would feel more like taking action
and expending money.
Mavor Stewart said that he
favored bondine the city for mat
inn all improvements of the kind
mentioned that money could be
obtained for.
Councilman Sbipp, Noble and'
Rosenberg all favored bonding and
making tbe improvement enuma
rated. Dr. Rosenberg especially
favored tbe sewerage idea, and
urged tbat it waa of immediate and
great importance.
Mr. Bowman, Mr. Quion and
others made short talks on the
matter of beautifying the city.
Tbe matter of health was given
some attention by Dr. Edwards
and Dr. Fox. All agreed tbat a
sewerage system wsi essential to
public health.
A motion was made by Mr.
Brink and seconded by ii. R. Elli
ott, to pars a resolution and for
ward a copy of tbe same to tbe
council, asking tbat all streets be
graded as soon as possible. Tbe
motion passed by unanimoua vote.
C. L. Sbattuck gave some valu
able information regarding tbe cost
of a sewerage system, and Mr.
Winnek gave other valuable sug
gestions. A. II. Young read a telegram
from his associates, stating tbat
necessary funds were forthcoming
and tbat tbe work of grading for a
railroad from Prineville to some
point on the main line would be
begun early in 1911.
The matter of selecting a ticket
for tbe coming election waj next
mentioned and a dead silence fol
lowed. Apparently everyone was
waiting for someone else to do
something. Presently Mr. Doonar
made a motion that a ticket be
selected from those preaent to
carry out the sentiments that had
been voiced during the evening,
and here is where be received tbe
other barrel. The motion was lost
by a good hearty vote.
Prineville is yet without a ticket
The city election will be held on
Monday, December 19.
ST0CKRA1SING IS
GOOD BUSINESS
But
Could Be
Improved.
Much
HOG RAISING VERY PROFITABLE
No
Better Country Can
Found for this Business
than Crook County.
Be
The Portland Union Stockyards'
which have been open for business
a little over a year, has issued its
first annual report. This is the
first tangible report of its present
and past business and future poa
sibilities of Oregon as a stock pro
ducing country, and although there
has been much-said in this regard,
there are more hard facts and inter
eating things in this little twenty
page booklet than have ever before
reached print regarding this great
est of all industries in Oregon, and
especially central and eastern Ore
gon.
Tbe report of the Btockyards
covers the period beginning October
1, 1909, and closing September 30,
1910; and shows a total of 5568 cars
of livestock received, beside the
boat shipments, and the stock
driven into the yards,the quantity
in both cases being considerable.
There are six railroads which
contribute cars of stock to tbe
Portland yards, and of these the
0 R & N which hauls from the
gteat northeastern corner of tbe
stats in which Crcok county is now
d, lead all other roads, xhow
ing a total of 63 per cent of the
cars that arrived in tbe yardp,
pouring fourth a total of almost 70
per cent of all cattle received from
all sources
Of tbe other classes of stock
this line hauled in 70 per ceut of
all calves, 75 per cent of all hogs,80
per cent of all borses and mules,
that were received in the yards
throughout the year.
' Of these numbers of course Crook
county supplied its share, regardless
of the fact that great quantities of
beef have been consumed within its
Continued on ineide page.
CITY COUNCIL
HOLD SESSION
10-MilI
City Tax This
Year.
On FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE
Judges and Clerks of Election
Appointed Bills Al
lowed, Etc
Thesday night the council was
called in regular session at tbe city
hall. Present were Mayor 8tewart,
Councilmen Lippman. Yaneer.
Noble, Rosenberg, Lafollette and
Shipp, and Recorder Breese, Mar
shal Kelso, and Nigh twatchman
Yancey.
Prineville property will pay a
10 m 11 city tax next year. Many
civic improvment are already nnder
way that will require funds, and
numerous others are planned for
1911.
II. D. Still and J. W. Stewart
were present, representing residents
of the extreme eastern part of tbe
city, and presented a petition, ask
ing for tbe building of a sidewalk
on the north side of Third itreet at
tbe eastern end of that street, the
extension to be two or more block
long. The petition was granted
and sidewalk ordered built within
thirty days.
Chairman Lippman of the license
committee recommended that a
license ordinance be passed regulat
ing tbe liquor traffic A model li
cense from the' office of tbe Greater
Oregon Home Rule association was
read and commented upon, and
Councilman Lippman took tbe
model with instructions to draw a
license for the city of Prineville
and present at tbe next meeting of
the council.
A petition to place and maintain
suitable light on tbe bridge in the
western part of the city was pre
sented with a suitable number of
signers, and it was ordered that a
32 candle power lamp be placed at
this point as soon as possible.
It was ordered by tbe council
that tbe street grader be repaired
and put in condition to do street
grading work.
A report of tbe condition of the
street from the bridge west leading
from the city was made by Council
man Lafollette, chairman of the
committe on streets and publio im
provements. After some debate
this street was ordered graded and
graveled in a thorough and satis
factory manner. The work was
left to the supervision of Council
man Noble. The bridge at this
point was ordered re-floored, which
will be done as soon as lumber can
be had for the purpose. The work
of graveling and repairing this
street will commence Monday
morning.
The matter of Judges and clerks ol
election was next considered. M. D,
Powell, Earl McLaughlin and John
Henderson were chosen to act as
judge of election, and H. A. Foster
and A. R. Bowman were selected for
clerks ot election. It was decided
by the council that the election should
be held under tbe Australian ballot.
Continued on inside pace.
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