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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 1911.
Entrr1 at the ptmtntnm at Prlmrvlll
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VOL. XV-NO. 4
RED-HOT BASKET
BALL GAME
Kough-House in borne
Places.
PRINEVILLE 25, REDMOND 14
Tho Best and Hardest Fought
Gamo Ever Played in
Prineville.
rrlnevillc 25, It.nl mond 14.
Tho hotteet bakctball game
ever played In Prineville took place
Saturday evening at the Club hall.
Tho Kama was fnsl anj furious at
all tlngee. It was no "tldilln-de-winka"
gams, either. There waa a
little rough-house in certain parts
hut not enough to mar the pleasure
(jf witnessing the atruugle "between
two evenly mulched team ol
crack haxktithall players.
l'rinevillc started off with a rush
and fairly allot here J Redmond in
the first ball with lightning pa Keen
and accurate banket throwing. The
neons stood Prineville 11, Hed
niond 5.
Itoth tea ui lined up for the
second half with a determination
to win the game, Redmond here
showed her bent team work during
the game and worked the hall
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down the floor and into the banket
three timea, making the score
board read 11 all. Then the prac
tice and endurance of Ellis'
proteg overpowered Redmond
and it wai I'rinvillc'i game all
the rent of the way.
Ilowman starred for Prineville,
eluding hit guard and ahooting
five goa'.i from the field, besides
making Prineville'. onry free
throw. Hi playing undoubtedly
won the game. "Shorty" Foster
wat there with hia bard clean
game that baa made him the best
basketball player on the Pacific
coaat.
llewett played a strong floor
game for Redmond. Ilia team
wai greatly handicapied by the
absence of Foote, their 230-pound
guard, who wai unable to make
tbe trip. Hoy Brewster, of Prine
ville, who waa living in Redmond
when the game waa scheduled bad
agreed to play with them and did
o Saturday evening. In the
future he will line up on tbe
Prineville aide. Eliis and Brew
iter found it very bard to get into
the game for fear of crippling each
other to that they could not get
into the Prlneville-llend football
game next Saturday.
Hie line-up of the teami is aa
aa follow? :
Prineville Redmond
fcllia . lull forward Oumm
Ikiwinan . .. rllil (orwani 0. Ilrewaier
Hliortv". renter timet
ItreliU'll Mt gnar.l Ilrantly
It. Mil alllattir . ...r guard... K. Hrawaler
Held I u knla 1 'r i nev I Il K I Ua
Bowman 6. rotter 3. McCalliater
ltilm ili.l llnwnlt 2, It. llrrwater 4.
Kre throw- llowiiien 1, (in una i.
Kwleree II. Ilalilwiii.
Vnipire Shipley.
Time ol halve 15 minute.
Sales and No Profit
Cutting out the profit in order to sell Winter Goods is the
''Slogan" of our
January Clearance Sale ! !
This may not appear like profitable business but it enables us
to get money to buy Spring Goods.
The Wide Swath we are cutting in
our line of Men's Clothing shows
wider every day. Suits $5.75 and up.
Young Men's Suits, $4.25 and up. Boy's
Knee Pant Suits, $1.25 and up. Any
how, come in and see our suits.
Men's Hats. 50 cents,
What are we doing
Children's Shoes, 50 Cents and
and Ladies' $2.50 Shoes $ 1 .00.
you for $1.50 and $2.80.
Men's High Top Shoes at a
LADIES:Thisisthe time in the
year to get sewing done. , Get your
Suitings and Ginghams here. Have
you seen our worsted dress goods
at 22 1-2 cents, 30c, 42 1-2 cents.
Why not?
Outing Flannels, Extra Heavy,
12 yards at $1.15. 35c Yarns at
22 1 -2 c 35c Hose, 20 and 25c
C. W. Elkins Company.
FOOTBALL NEXT
SATURDAY
Prineville and Bend to
Settle Championship.
TEAMS EVENLY MATCHED
Cet Out and Root for the Boya
They'll Need it Before
Came i Over.
Pr'neville and Bend will settle
tbe Central Oregon football
championabip next Saturday at
thia place. There will lie a bot
time. The no-score game at ISend
December 20 allows that tbe big
fellows from the Deacbutea know
the game. Itotb sides are strength
ening their lineupa.
The famous "Nig" Pringle will
direct tbe Band team at quarter
back, and Dr. Cue, sn old college
star, will play fullback.
Tbe Prineville team, with the
exception of a few changes in the
line, will practically be the fame
that put up such a bard fight at
Bend.
The ltend team baa a good
sprinkling of ex-college players and
outweigh the Prineville boys, but
tbe Utter team bas a fast back
and up. Caps, 10, 15
in Shoes-Every Pair Reduced
up. Your Choice of Dozens of Pairs of Misses
Ask to see "Shoes" and see what we can get
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Big Bargain.
field besides a good variety of for
ward passes and on-side kicks that
will open up tbe game and make it
a good one from the spectators'
point cf view. As this will be tbe
last game to be played in Prine
ville this winter a big crowd
should La out to root for the borne
team.
Tbe Prineville lineup is as fol
lows: Thompson, center; Quinn
and Barnes, guards; McMahan and
McCalliater, tackles; Lowther and
Coe, ends; Brewster and licchtel,
bai (backs; Collin, quarter; Ellis,
fullback.
Fancy Chickens.
C. E. Shaffer, proprietor of the
Clover Leaf Ranch at Fort Rock,
was in Prinevil'e tbe last of the
week on bis return from Sbaniko,
wbere be had been for a shipment
of fine chickens for his ranch.
Among tbe lot were Silver
Spangle llamburghs, Buff Orping
tons, Plymouth Rocks and Golden
Wyandotte.
Most of the birds were shipped
from a poultry breeder at Des
Moines, Iowa, and are some of tbe
lest chickens ever received in this
country.
Mr. Scbafer bas over 100 full
bloods on his Clover Leaf ranpb,
and expects to add to tbe number.
He comes to Oregon from Ohio,
wbere be sold large poultry farm.
Horses to Winter.
Good bay, feed yard, and running
watur. Eight mile south weat of Prine
ville on lmonla road. Terma, V per
head per month. Otto Borraon. 11-22 tt
and 25c.
THIS COUNTRY
SEEN FROM WHEEL
Bicyclist Impressed by
Its Magnitude.
FINDS LOTS OF VACANT LAND
The Industrious Homesteader
Made to Feel at
Home.
Randall R. Howard, a Prineville
boy, made a bicycle trip through
Central Oregon and writes to the
Pacific Monthly of tbe " Present
and Future of Eastern Oregon. He
says:
"Tbe Eastern Oregon visitor is
sometimes impressed with the
great amount of apparently waste
land that he must traverse be
tween tbe towns and the chief
settlements. It should not be de
nied that there is much waste land
in Eastern Oregon. Compara
tively, there is much waste land in
iff .-
tie 4 ,,4-f J , t
Some Prineville Homea.
Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and in
tbe New England Stales, of about
tbe same area. Also the slow
moving Eastern Oregon traveler
often forgets the waste areas that
he is whisked through on the train
in other parts of the West. And
much depends on the point of
view. I met a weary, dilapidated
bomeseeking outfit that bad come
from the humid Willamette Valley
a distance half as far as from
New York to Chicago, who said
they were "going back to the road"
because they couldn't find any
open land with running water on
it. The man from the humid
section is often disappointed at first
with tbe semi-arid Eastern Oregon.
Street Scene
This big inland area was first of
all a stock country; and years ago
the cattle kings and tbe sheep
barons hunted out and gained
possession of practically all the
running water, that they might
control the range.
Hence nearly all of the Govern
ment lnd in Eastern Oregon is
open to entry under the 320-acre
Homestead Law, a first provision
of which is that the land be semi
arid and non-irrigible. It Bhould
not be forgotten, however, that
much of the recently taken and the
still open homestead land in East
ern Oregon may, in the coming
day of cheaper fuel, be irrigated by
pumping plants. A late report
from the Department of Interior
classifies the open land in Crook
county as follows: One-tenth
mountainous, two-tenths agri
cultural, seven-tenths grazing.
The Eastern Oregon homesteader
must be a man of firmness and
vision, ss have been tbe home
steaders ol the past. He is often a
former city resident ; one woman
settler along my route stating that
he 'had never before lived in a
smaller place than Paris." Oc
casionally a "city" homesteader
will be attracted by a fine-looking
level plain, only to discover after
two or three years of hardship that
be is located on a shallow, alkali
Oat. After tbe worst bas been
said, however, it should be stated
that there are still some thousands
of acres of open land in Eastern
Oregon. This land is all far in
land, chiefly in Southern Crook,
Northern Lake. Harney and Mai j
heur counties. Hundreds of set
tlers bave located during tbe past
two years along the promised east-and-west
railways.
The counties of Eastern Oregon
are so vast that the residents, even
the county officials, do not know
them and often bave never crossed
the extreme boundaries.
We were met by a procession of
Lomeeetkers, speculators, investors,
capitalists, traveling in covered
wagons, sometimes rickety and
worn; somo were leading pack
horsee; and I met one wooden
legged man with a great load on
his back. The etages are crowded
n 4'
aid loaded down with baggage and
express. At Sbaniko, the present
railway termini s for all this part
of Eastern Oregon, men were beg
ging to ride through the cold nigbt
on top of the swaying four and six
horse stage coaches; and three
times tbe number of freighters an J
stages could not have emptied the
bulging and overflowing ware
houses. Also hundreds are being
taken into Eastern Oregon on
stage automobiles.
New towns are jumping up ahead
of the southward-pushing Hill and
Harriman railways, and others are
yet to be thought out. As I passed
one of these towns was heralding
itself from a pine tree, in the form
in Prineville.
of a neat little signboard telling
the name of itself and two of its
chief streets to be.
Having passed Lava Butte crater
one of the most recent lava
flows in the United States, we are
in the Deschutes River Valley
country, a rich and most promis
ing section with an altitude of
from 2,000 to 3,000 feet. At the
upper end of the Deschutes River
Valley, which in the pre-irrigation
days was called "the desert," is the
town of Bend. . ..
Among the other established
towns in the Upper Deschutes
country are Redmond and Prine
ville. Redmond is one of the
novelty towns of the Northwest.
Five years ago there were only
five families within a radius of
fifteen miles, and not a single
human habitation nearer than five
miles. Even four years ago one
must travel for miles and
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OLD COUNCIL
WINDS UP BUSINESS
Leaves Good Record
Behind.
On FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE
The New Gty ; Council Sworn
in Last Monday Even
ing. The council met Monday nigbt
for the finishing of the year's busi
ness, and in order to turn over the
affairs of tbe city to the new coun
cil. Present Mayor Stewart, Conn-
cilmen Rosenberg, Yancy, 8hipp,
Lafollette, Noble and Lippman.
The report of G. W. Noble on tbe
special work done on the west end
of Second street was read and ap
proved. The bills for the work
were ordered paid, and a vote of
thanks was tendered Mr. Noble
for the interest shown in tbe work
of graveling and leveling this
street.
The report of C. E. Smith, city
treasurer, was very complete. It
'hows every transaction made
through that office during the year.
Mayor Stewart recommended
new city hall for Prineville, and
the purchase of two chemical
engines for the fire companies.
In bis report submitted to the
council Monday night, a balance
of $4,040.81 was shown to be in the
treasurer's bands on the first day
of the year, and with tbe additional
10 tnilt tax'which was "voted in
December, there will be ample
funds for some of the improve
ments whiih were recommended by
by the Mayor. He stated further
that there is no place for the safe
keeping of the city records, and
that a new ball should be built
with" a vault big enough to pro
tect them properly. '
Tbe treasurer's report shows a
total of 110,437.81 received by that
office during the year 1910. All
bills have been paid nd the out
standing warrants, of which there
are $800 worth, have been called
for.
The report of the finance com
mittee made by chairman J. B.
Shipp, shows a cash balance, with
the amount of the bills paid at the
Monday night meeting deducted,
in the hands of tbe new adminis
tration. The amount is $3,384.82
as contrasted with $399.97 which
was the total of funds on hand by
the council one year ago.
The annual report of Marshal
Kelso shows a total of $104 col
lected from dog tax; $206.40 from
water rents; and $254 from road
tax, and $5 received from renting
the road grader for one day. He
made 38 arrests during the year.
The total receipts of bis office were
$669.40 or $69.40 more than the
salary paid him by the city.
The report of R. W. Bieese, re
corder, shows that a total of $5,-
550.78 passed through his hands
during the year, the largest item of
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