Crook County Journal
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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1911.
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VOL. XV NO. 26
CROOK COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL
Closes a Very Success
ful Year.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Held Last Thursday Evening
President I toman De
livered Addreit.
Commencement niht lat
Thursday, w a fitting climax to
a moot delightful week. Mr.
Marx again captivated t lie audi
nca with her honutitul voice, and
the orchestra rendered two most!
excellent selection. Iu work i
always good. Mr. Luckey deserve
much credit for trie clan of muio
that ho in (living to the people of
I'rineville.
I' resident
llomnn of Willamette
University wn the speaker of the
evening, lie wu introduced by J
It. A. Moltain, an old-time friend
of Mr. Human. The subject of i
the evening address was "The
Balanced Life." I'reeidi-nt Ho
man spoke with hi charactcriHtic
earnetnef. He is a strong )
speaker and always bring a mes
sage. Judge Brink, at tho request of
Judge Kill, presented the di
plomas, Principal Cou in pre
senting the class, spoke of the ex
cellent work accomplished by the
school during tho year and out
lined the work for another year.
Crook county U to he congratu
lated on the excellent high school
it is maintaining.
The clans of 1911 ia small and
composed of girls, hut they are
strong and capable.
Clam Day exercises held at th
Club hall Tuesday evening of last
week were a fitting prelude to the
Commencement exorcises held on
Wednesday.
A new and very pleasing feature
was the flower march given by the
young ladies, dressed in white and
wearing and carrying garlands of
(lowers, representing their different
class colors.
The freshmen with their orange
and black,, sophomore with ma
roon and gold, junior with gray
and crimson, escorted tho senior
with their purple and cream
through some very pretty figures
up the center aisle and onto the
Btage which was beautifully dco
orated with ropes of purple and
white violet, potted plants and
statuary, with a back ground
made effective with a huge class
penant of 1911.
The school, for the first time in
its history, was represented only
by the fair sex, but their frosh, girl
ish beauty made up for the lack of
the masculine element.
Miss Blanche Wilson in a pleas
ing manner represented the class
in the presentation of a beautiful
has relief of "Aurora" to her alma
mater.
Miss Fay Baldwin with a touch
ing finality made the class will
and it is to be hoped the C, C. 11.
, 8. will not contest its appropriate
and effective bequests.
Miss Ethel Klann delivered the
clans oration in her clour and
methodical way of handling her
subject. "Launched, but not
Anchored," Bhowcd that she would
not be satisfied with anything but
the best of harbors for her "ship of
state."
Miss Lotta Smith closed with
the clasB prophecy and from out a
blazing cauldron, tended by the
witch, Mamie Bailey, she reoeived
the burning scroll which foretold
the future of each one In a happy
and apt manner.
Mr. Delphina Marx, one of
Portland's leading contraltos,
favored the audience with three
solo and each time responded
in ox t graciously to an encore.
The board are to be roost highly
commended in giving such a rare
treat to the chum of 1011 and inei
dently to the people of I'rineville
Memorial Day
in Prineville
Decoration Day was observed in
i'rineville Tuesday for the liri-t
time. The Odd Fellow and He
bekaha were out in full regalia,
the Kunday school were repre
sented with their teacher in
charge, beside other on foot and
in carnages. The line of march
wa forincJ on A street
and ex-
tended three block,
At the cemetery, after a short
address !y Attorney Wirlz, the
graves of the departed were decor-
MlMil Witt, ll(tu-ra I Wirt ItY
. . ,, ' i " .'.i ! that made by any other county
hi add reus, reviewed some of the!. ,. .
brave deed of those who had laid!.
down their live for their country!
and impressed upon the mind of
hi hearer the great reason for
oUerviug the day.
In tho evening the people of
I'rineville enjoyed a rare musical
and literary treat at the Coiumer
ciul Club Hall. A chorus, con
sisting of about thirty voices,
rendrred old-time national hymns
and songs that have become a
part of the American ople.
Kvery numbr eolo and choruses
was heartily applauded. A a
fitting close to the evenii g'a enter
tainment all present were invited
to remain and enjoy a lunch of
hardtack and coffee.
The first observance of Memorial
Day in Prineville wn due to the
efforts of Rev. Lininger. He
trained the chorus and took
charge of details. The chorus
work was the best seen in Prine
ville for a long time.
It might be stated in closing
that the custom of Memorial Day
originated in the South and has
been fittingly adopted by many of
the Northern states. On May f,
1SGS, (leneral John A. Logan, who
was at that time commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, issued an order appoint
ing May 30 of that year for (.Irani
Army services. This beautiful
custom of setting aside one day
each year to pay tribute to the old
soldier, hns beoome quite general
throughout the United States.
These soldiers accepted death for
love of country and made immortal
their patriotism and their virtue.
On this day also, the graves of
loved ones receive tender care and
we pause in the busy world of af
fairs to bestow a loving thought on
the life of a departed one.
A "Live Wire."
Mrs. Silbaugh of Seattle opened
the 1912 campaign for Oregon dry
lust Sunday evening at the M. E.
church. The lady is certainly a
"live wire." She talked for an
hour and a half and there was not
a moment that she did not hold
the undivided attention of a crowd
ed church. Her story of "How
Seattlo Was rurified" did not lose
anything of interest at the hands
of the speaker. She was in the
thickest of the fight all the time
and understood the intricacies of
the situation from start to finish.
Relinquishment Cheap,
A quick sale on good homestead
for sale at a bargain; garden fenced,
gooseberries, currauts, part lias been
cultivated; fenced; irciud eprlnit; all
goes for 100 If taken at once. Ad
dress I. O. Box 341, rrlueville, Ore
gon. 5-18
Crook County, an
Crook County, of which I'rine
ville U the county seat, is the
fourth county in urea in Oregon,
bolnjf exceeded in size by Har
ney, Malheur mid Luke, but the
tatter county U only a few miles
turgor. The area is 77!it square
miles, or 4,00:i.H4(j acres. There
lire four states in tho Union.
1'iich of which lit Mimllcr than
Crook County Connecticut, Del
aware. Now Jersey and Rhode
Island. I give these fucts to
(how what a vast domain I Vine
villu dominates; but area docs
uot cour.t for much unless it is
occupied. However, Crook is
being occupied, her lands being
taken up faster than any other
county in Oregon, as the recent
census will show. Inl'JOOCrook
had a population of S'.iCl.or prac
tically one person to each two
square miles; by tho recent ceu-
sua her population Is given as
'J3l"). showing a gain of 1115 pe
cent, which was greater than
in Oregon. Even Multnomah,
in which Portland is situated,
and which made what was con
sidered a lihenotnonul growth
gained 11H pur cent, or 1 per
cent less than Crook.
Hut I do not think that these
figures do Crook justice, fori
believe the influx of population
since the taking or the census
lust year has been far in excess
of that of any former year. Aud
that the inhabitants aro becom
ing more prosperous year by
year is shown by the increase
in taxable property, which has
arisen from less that 1.000.000
a few years ago to f 9. 199.008 in
1910, the amount for this year
not being availablo. But it will
show an enormous increase.
And these figures are based
upon a cultivated area of only
100,000 acres, which amount has
been increased o rapidly that it
is difficult even to guess at any
thing like the real figures nine
estimates out of ten would be too
low.
Prineville is the capital of an
empire, but her survival, growth
and prosperity will not depend
upon her political position; these
must come about throu"h her
tributary country, from the
products of the soil. No matter
what advantage her geograph
ical position gives her; if the
country tributary does not go on
growing and prospering the
town cannot prosper without be
coming "topheavy," as is said of
places built up by boom methods.
For two days I have been go
ing over the county within a ra
dius of 20 or 80 miles, and I
have seen enough to convince me
that little is known by the aver
age citizen of Oregon about this
section, And 1 shall try in plain
language to give the reader an
idea of Prinevillo's position in
relation to tho surrounding
country.
.The altitude here is about 800
feet. The valley proper in which
the town is situated is perhaps
15 miles long by two wide, but
those figures do not give any
idea of the extent of the valley
land, for the Ochoco Valley is
some 18 miles long, the McKay
and Crooked Rivers as long or
longer, and there are numerous
other small streams emptying
into these, up each of which you
will find other fine valleys.
That mnch as to the valley
lands, large areas of which are
in alfalfa, and almost all of which
is under irrigation. But it is
the bench laud that will, I be
lieve, bring greater prosperity
to its holders than any other,
Empire in Extent
and I shall try to describe a trip
I have just taken through about
10 miles of these lands L'O miles
out by one road, and a like dis
tance back by another route.
The road from the town and
valley winds around and up a
butte southwest of here, this
road being one of the bust I have
seen ia tho interior. The grade
is pretty uniform at about 0 per
cent, and within two miles you
arc on the second bench, among
the junipers. As you reach the
summit you can see off in the
distance, to the east, many fine
farms way up on the mountain'
althcugh they are not as high as
they look. T. II La Follette.
one of the wealthy and progres
sive citizens of Prineville. was
with me, and he pointed out his
old homestead, taken more than
30 years ago, and the original
Williamson ranch, taken soon af
ter. And around these are many
ffne farms, much of it being in
wheat or rye. Fields w A r e
shown where 3 0 bushels o f
wheat to the acre is the rule,
and this with an average rain
fall of around 10 inches, some
times as much as 1G.
And it is only fair to say here
that the people of this section do
not say that Prineville will ever
be the center of great fruit in
dustries, But they do say, and
can prove, that there are thous
ands of acres adapted to the
raising of hardy fruits and ber
ries, and there will always be an
abundance for home consump
V.oa, with possible
limited!
amounts of the best specimens
for export. Every landowner
can raise all the fruit he needs,
and with less trouble fighting
the pest's than almost any other
place in Oregon.
As we ran along the foothills.
always through or near the ju
nipers, we saw many hew fields
being cleared and seeded, and
many new houses were be
ing erected and scores of fam
ilies living in tents and wagons
and wheat fields in every di
rection, And how well the
young grain looked. There had
not been much rain for some
time. (A fine rain has since fal
len.) But the grain did not seem
to need it, the ground being in
such fine tilth cultivated and
cultivated until It was as fine as
an ash heap.
And this is in what is termed
a dry farming seotion, for there
is no water on the lands I have
mentioned. I shall come to the
irrigated areas later. For about
12 miles we rode through these
fields, which brought us to the
ditch, or one of the ditches, of
the D. I. & P. Co. Then we
turned to the north for a couple
of miles, thence hack to town
through the irrigated section,
or much of the way, for we came
back into town down the grade
first mentioned.
For ono, two, three or perhaps
four years the settler lives in
a tont. He may add a floor, he
may wall it up, he may even add
a small section of a shack to it.
But the most of tho hardy home
steaders who are coming to this
section, who are taking so much
of the land described, pay little
heed to the house until they
have practically all of their land
in cultivation. And those are
the sort of people who win, who
will win in any country.
One phase of the situation
here astonished me. That is
that; the success of this section
does not depend on any one
thing, for it is a country where
diversified farming will meet
the greatest reward. Every
land owner can raise all of the
vegetables and fruits and ber
ries that he needs. In no sec
tion of the state will cane ber
ries, strawberries' and hardy
fruits do better. It will never
be a peach country, but grapes
ought to be a profitable aud
certuin crop. And I am told
there are thousands of acres of
as good hop land here as there
are in the state. As a dairy j
country this section is one of
the best I know of. One man
told me that he sold last Sum
mer the milk from ten cows for
four months and received from
the creamery $100, or ten dol
lars a cow a month. In no place
does poultry do better, particu
larly turkeys, and as for hogs !
Many fortunes will be made
here by raising porkers.
Our ride home brought us
through the irrigated section, or
rather along the ditch, for sev
eral miles. Water from this
ditch costs f 17 50 an acre. The
land is taken under the Carey act.
There are thousands and thous
ands of acres now being cleared.
Addison Bennett in the Ore
gonian. Summer School
T ft .
now in session
The summer term of the Crook
County High School opened most
auspciouely last Monday morn
ing and will continue three weeks.
The enrollment was not as large
as was expected, but this loss in
numbers is more than made up by
l'ie character of the students on
hand. It is realized by the in
structors that this summer school
might be the turning point in the
life of a young man or a young
woman who bad been denied early
school advantages and failed to
develop or arouse ambition for suc
cess, so if you are not up in cer
tain subjects or feel discouraged
in your work get in touch with the
teachers at the summer term.
They can help you. All the re
quired work for both the one-year
and the five-year state certificate
is being offered. The instructors
are Mrs. Walker, Miss Parrott and
Principal Coe, all members of the
Crook County High School faculty.
Those registered to date are: O. C.
Colegrove, Mrs. O. C. Colegrove,
Miss Vivian Allen, Isaac Thomas,
A. Dayton, the Misses Edna
Pyatt, Florence Young, Nora Liv
ingston, Mamie Bailey, Lottie
Montgomery.
Hill Officials
Visit Prineville
A party of Great Northern Rail
road officials visited Prineville
Tuesday. 'Mr. Stinson, of the Ore
gon & Western Colonization Com
pany, brought them over from the
railroad in his private car.
In the party were E. C, Leedy,
general immigration agent of the
Great Northern Railway, St. Paul;
F. W. Graham, western industrial
and immigration agent, Portland;
W. E. French, immigration agent,
Great Northern, St. Paul, O. A.
wood, immigration agent, St. Paul.
Mr. Leedy has been on a tour of
the northwest for a number of
weeks. The gentlemen expressed
themselves as agreeably surprised
with the looks of things here.
They thought we had a great
country.
Card of Thanks.
Myself and famely desire to thank
frieutts and neighbors for their many
acts of kindness during the sickness and
death of my husband and father. Sin
cerely, Mrs, John E. Beams, and family,
FOUND DEAD
IN THE ROAD
Powell Butte Man Meets
With Accident.
HAD HIS NECK BROKEN EY FALL
Dick Myers Met a Peculiar
Fate While on Way
Home from Bend.
Dick Meyers was found dead in
the road about seven miles this
side of Bend last Sundaj, with bis
neck broken.
Myer wag a thrifty Herman
who was living on Engineer Red
field's ditch land north of Powell
Butte Station. He also had a
homestead on the west end of
Powell Butte.
On the day of the accident
Myers was driving heme from
Bend in one of those high-seated
California rack wagons from which
he fell, Striking on his head. The
heavy wagon passed over the
man's chest, crushing it. It is
said that this alone would have
been sufficient to cause death.
The team that Myers wag driving
was found about a mile away:
A coroner's inquest was held
and the jury brought in a verdict
in accordance with the above facts.
Just how the accident happened
nobody knows. Myers was buried
in the Powell Butte cemetery
Tuesday afternoon from Lipp
man's undertaking parlors.
Special Election
Went "No"
The special election Monday to
amend the city charter did not
bring out a very big vote. In
fact, only about half of the
electors registered their decision
upon the measures placed before
the voters of Prineville, but their
answer was emphatic. The "noes"
carried by nearly 2 to 1.
An amendment to authorize the
issue and sale of bonds for public
and municipal purposes not to ex
ceed 10 per cent of the taxable
property within the corporate
limits." was voted down. Yes, 40:
No, 73.
The tax issue amendment to
assess and receive taxes for muni
cipal purposes not to exceed 14 per
cent was lost by a vote of 37 to 76.
The amendment relative to the
appointment of city attorney,
marshal, surveyor, etc., was lost
by a vote of 47 to 68.
The bonding of the Prineville
school district for $26,030 was
largely responsible for the de'eat
of the above measures. -
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