OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERALINTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
Walnut Grower Art Pleated.
Kusene According to local walnut
growers this year will be on of tit
best In the history of t'.ils country lr
the nut industry. H la exinvied ti
harvet M rounds to the tree am'
with between 4t snd 50 tree on ar
acre will produce 1000 pounds oi
more. The nuts will sell at 17 or 1
cents a pound, which means that ai'
acre will
year.
produce $.160 worth in fl
Man la Killed by Own Gun.
Heppner. While stepping from
log in the mountains near rtlack
Hutte. In the Blue Mountain ranse
Klchard Conroy. a shecpherder, i
shot and fatally wounded by the acet
dental discharge of a ahotRvin. Con
roy lived for about 1J houm after ttu
accident, and for part of that t'rte h
was able to converse with those about
him.
INJUNCTION IS ASKED
University Regent. Plaintiff, Allege!
10, COO Names Are Fraudulent.
Sa'.eru. Alleging fraudulent signs
tures to the number off 10,311 on tht
referendum on House bill 110. appro
priating I32S.J5S to the 1'nlversitj ol
Oregon, snd fraudulent signatures tc
the number of 10.396 on the referen
lum on House bill ill. appropriating
1175,000 tor a library building for th
same Institution, two suits were filed
In the circuit court here by ex -Justicf
Woodson T. Slater, asking that tht
secretary ot state be perpetually en
joined from placing these referendum
measures on the ballot to go before
the people. S. H. Friendly, of Eu
gene, a member ot the board of re
gents of the university, Is named as
plaintiff.
Alleged Horsethief Is Caught.
La Grande A. Huntly. alias Oscat
Hunter, accused of stealing horses in
Vmatllla county, was pursued across
the mountains by Deputy Sheriff
George Propeck snd captured while
asleep in A. H. Parson's barn, three
miles east of Elgin. Hunter was well
rmed. bavins: two heavy rifles and
two six-shooters.
BandOQ has recently organised a
division of naval militia, known as the
Fifth Division, with Lieutenant D. P.
Sorenson, a veteran ot the Philippine
war, commanding
By unanimous content, at the re-
Quest of Senator llourne, the Senate
passed the Sherman county settlers'
bill, which gives them ISS0.000 to pay
their claims.
Oregon pioneers took up the trail
to Astoria Tuesday, where they cele
brated Oregon Pioneers', Indian War
Veterans' and Native Sons' and
IVtnghtera' day at the Centenulal.
Fifty forestry students are In
Marshileld to got practical instruction
n the Coo county woods. IT.
Schcnk, president of 'the Hilt more
Forestry School, and other instruct
ors, are with them.
The single tax Initiative petition for
Clackamas county has been com
pleted and is ready for tiling with the
secretary ot state. It requires about
500 names ot legal voters ot that
county to make It valid, but some
thing like 700 signatures have been
secured.
Hood River orchardista and busi
ness men are beginning to lay plans
for the annual apple fair. The Fruit
Fair Association owns several lots
Bear the O.-W. R. N. Co.'s passen
ger depot and a large pavilion will
be erected for the apple show. It is
planned to make this year's apple
show very large.
Oregon's Development League and
the Northwestern Fruit Exchange will
distribute Oregon apples at the big
land show in Pittsburg, October 1J
!S. A carload of apples will be fur
nished by the Fruit Exchange, and
the development league, which
already contracted tor space at
land show, will have charge ot
distribution.
Astoria Lets Contract for Dam.
Astoria. The water commissioners
have let the contract for construction
ot the dam at the headworks of the
water system to Bidwell, Hayden &
Co., of Portland, for J74.SS9 90. The
contractors have until October 1 to
bcein work, and must complete the
job within a year's time.
Each Town to Have Day.
Dallas.' Preparations for the big
Polk county harvest festival to be
held in this city September t, 7, 8 and
, are being made rapidly, and a most
successful fair is expected. It has
been decided to give each of the prin
cipal cities of the county Falls City
Independence and Monmouth a day.
LUMBER MEN MERGE
West Coast Lumber Manufacturers'
Association Now a Reality.
Astoria. The Oregon & Washing
ton Lumber Manufacturers' Associa
tion, at the meeting held in this city,
voted to affiliate with the southwest
em Washington and Pacific Coast as
sociations, thus forming what will In
future be known as the West Coast
Lumber Manufacturers' Association
The object is the better exploitation
of the manufactured product ot the
mills of this section.
The Oregon trustees of the new
merger were elected as follows: Wit
lamette Valley district. A. C. Dixon
Eugene; Astoria district, George B.
McLeod, Astoria: Portland district,
L. J. Wentworth, Portland.
Sheridan Veterans' Host.
Sheridan The fifth annual encamp
ment of the Yamhill Veterans' Asso
ciation is being held in this city
August 22 to 25. Sheridan Post
working with the commercial club to
make the encampment the largest
ever held In the history ot the asso
ciation.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
COLONEL JOHN E. GILMAN
'" .1
Colonel John E. Cllman, command,
er-in chief of the O. A. R., which began
its annual encampment at Rochester,
N. Y Monday.
Brief News of the Week.
has
the
the
State Capital Gleanings
Articles cf Incorporation were Bled
by the Rogue River Valley Fair As
sociation, with capital stock ot
$5000.
True to his promise of a year ago.
Governor West has appointed Jay
Bowerman a delegate to the National
Conservation Congress in Kansas City,
from September 15 to 27.
Considerable building Is under way
at state institutions at present, and
convict labor is figuring greatly In
the work. Plans have been prepared
for the new heating plant at the tu
berculosis sanatorium and for a new
barn.
That automobile or automobile
trucks used as Are apparatus are ex
empt from the motor vehicle registra
tion law is the substance of a letter
which Secretary Olcott has sent to
tlie chief of the Portland Ore department.
After visiting Cow Creek Canyon,
on the Southern Pacific, and Inspect
ing the line of the Salem. Falls City
4 Eastern, Railroad Commissioner
Campbell has decided that all the ex
eruptions from the fencing laws which
were asked by the roads are just, and
they will be allowed.
Seven hundred and seventy-five pu
pils in Oregon will be given an oppor
tunity to pass the eighth grade exam
ination and qualify for entrance to
high school September 7 and 8. That
number has been reported to the
state suierintendent's office by the
various county school superintend
ents. The following delegates to the
American Mining Congress lit Chi
cago September 25-29, were named by
Governor West: Robert Glenn
Smi'h, Grants Pass; X. E. Imhaus.
Baker; Judge J. H. Crawford, La
Grande; Emil Metier, Baker; Judge
George C. Davis, Canyon City; J. A.
Howard, Baker; Francis Ciarno, Port
land; V. W. Tomlinson, Ontario;
Mark Holmes. Rlckreall; O. P. Co
show, Roseburg; Will R. King, Portland.
Fruits and vegetables of many sorts
will be sold in Chicago by weight In
stead of by measure after January 1,
1912.
Ten thousand elk from the Jackson
Hole country are to be shipped to
Colorado and distributed over that
state,' tke railroads having agreed to
transport the animals free ot charge.
The engineers In charge of the
work of raising the battleship .Maine
have decided to suspend the operation
of exposing and exploring the hull
until after they cleared away tu
wreckage.
New York state and the Middle
West have a bumper apple crop for
export shipment this year, according
to a bulletin ot the Boston Chamber
of Commerce.
The political campaign In Canada Is
Increasing In Intensity as It pro
gresses, and scarcely a city, town or
hamlet from coast to coast but will
hear the oratory of the platform
speakers during the week.
The curtailment among the New
England cotton and woolen mills has
extended to New Bedford, Ftlchburg.
Amesburg and Wakesfield, where be
tween 30.000 and 35.000 operatives
were given two weeks vacation, with
out pay.
News of Noted Persons.
Portland Notes
Negro Waives Hearing.
Dallas. L. J. Majors, the negro ar
rested by Sheriff Grant, of Polk
county, and charged with an assault
apon Mrs. W. Jorgenson at West Sa
lem, has decided to waive a prelimi
nary examination. Majors is in the
eounty jail here.
President Taft sent to the Senate
the nominations of Leslie M. Scott, of
Portland, to be Cnited States marshal
for Oregon, and C. V. Johnson, of
Corrallis, to be customs appraiser at
Portland.
On September Portland will have
opened in the business center a
branch ot what promise to be the
largest banking Institution in Ameri
can history. It will take the name
of The Portland Branch of the United
States Postal Savings Bank.
Portland win bare a vice commis
sion it an ordinance now being pre
pared is approved by the mayor and
council. This commission Is to be
composed of 15 members, appointed
by the mayor, and it will be their duty
te investigate all forms of vice In the
Isaac A. Manning, of Oregon, now
consul to La ettualra, Vencxuela, was
nominated as consul at Barranqutlla,
Colombia.
Miss Ida Conquest, the actress, will
be married In October to Riccardo
Bertelll, oldest son of the late Ad
miral Luigi Bertelli. of Genoa, Italy.
Oscar A. Brindley soared higher
from the ground at Chicago than an
aeroplane had ever been before and
set a new world's record at 11,726
feet.
Partners on the stage for many
years, Edward 11. Sothern and Julia
Marlowe, America's foremost Shakes
pearean stars, were married In Lon
don recently.
Joy filled the home of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., in San Francisco, w hen
the stork left an eight-pound daugh
ter as a gift to Mrs. Theodore Roose
velt, Jr., daughter-in-law of the ex
president of the United States.
President Taft, John Hays Ham
mond, James J. Hill and Secretary of
the Interior Walter L. Fisher will be
the principal speakers at the 14th an
nual meeting of the American Mining
Congress, to be held in Chicago Sep
tember 26, 27, 28 and 29.
Sunday Schccls Meet August 25.
Forest Grove A district Sunday
school convention will be held at the
Methodist Episcopal church in this
!ty Saturday, August 2. Delegates
will be present from all the Sunday
choc!a in Washington county.
Crimes and Mishaps
The body of Mrs. Myrtle Reed Mo
Cullough, the well-known novelist,
was found In her home in Chicago.
Mrs. McCullough took an overdose ot
sleeping powders.
Dr. A. W. McDavitt, a San Bernar
dino tCal.) dentist, Is alleged to have
immured Miss Jessie McDontld for
15 months in a cell-like room adjoin
ing bis dental offices.
Three men, alleged to have been
members of the mob which at Coates-
I ville. Pa., took Zach Walker from a
j hospital and burned him to death
J have been arrested charg-d with mur
der.
Batteries, alarm clocks and explos
ives held as exhibits by the prosecu
tion in the dynamite conspiracy ca.-e
cf the M.-Najuara brothers, will be
j shewn to the attorneys for the de
fense, according to an agreement
litT.
EmphaUe protest against the ao-! reached b' tbe orne-
ticn ot the O.-W. R. t X. Co. In
granting Puget Sound ports a rate on
wheat equal to that enjoyed by Port
land, is voiced by many Portland
grain dealers, shippers and millers,
who Tiew the move of the railroad as
one discriminatory ijalatt the city.
The trial of Henry Clay Beattie for
the alleged murder of his young wife
in July 18 were begun at Richmond,
Va., Monday a trial calling for the
elucidation, the prosecution officers
say, of as mysterious a crime as the
South has recently known.
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about over soon be here
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Goods and Suits, School Shoes for Boys and Girls
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Tablets, Pencils, Ink, Composition ltooks, K.XKIuin- Confectionery, Orocerirl, I'rv litiods, Tinware,
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Druggists
Prineville,
Oregon
Watches. Clocks and Jewelry.
If you are thinking ol buying a good Watch, Clock or anything in ihe Jew
elry line such is Rings, Bracelets, Chains, Charms, Fobs, Stick Tins. Cut
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Headquarter for
Thoroughbred Hats
Summer Exhibit
of
Peters Shoes for
Men and Women
Modern Clothes
"The Kind Gentlemen Wear."
WITH the opening ol our Spring and Summer Season, we wish to express our heartiest
thanks to our many customers and Iricnds who have shown us their patronage during the
past year. We hope that our methods ol doing business have been satisfactory to one and
all and once a customer always a customer. Our methods will be the same lor this coming year
Everything Marked in Plain Figures and One Price to One and AIL We don't
sell you an $10.00 suit lor $15.00: our $18.00 suits are marked SlS.OO. that's our price; no
other. But we are not talking prices. Quality First and Last We are today carrying the
Best Clothes to be found in Prineville. Modern Clothes designed and laid out by
Brandegee, Kincaid & Company, Utica, New York
Clothe well selecte! and worn cannot be overlooked by people of discrimination. Exclamations ot great
joy are certain to be called forth by our display ol "College Chap" Clothes, because of their particularly
brik style, and because thev fit so perfectly that they cannot but be well worn.
The fabrics are totally different from those ordinarily seen. Tbe many graceful and characteristic features
Inch distinguish the well-dressed man from the multitude of careless drensers will be found in these splen
id garments. Knowing how to design and how to develop has made "College Chap" Cloths what they
jtbea yon want.
Clifton & Cornett
AT THE OLD BRICK STORE.
Rot ics for Publication
IM'rtment ot the Interior,
C. 8. Land Office t Tbe Oregon.
July Utth, lII.
l I. l.oroK riven t hut KolM-rt "
Bl'nd of ;rtnl. Onuon. who, on November
nth. ixM. ma.ie nomiwi w.
S.HTS.r..r NW-, Kreilon Twn-
Mp li Soulh. (Uw " Kl. willamme
Mt-rtdlen. luu flll notice of Intention to
nie Anal flye-Teur proof to ulllli claim
to Hie land eoove deacrlbi-d. before Warren
Bmwn. count cleric at hl officw. at Prlne
Hie. Oregon on Ihe tn day of Ausiul,
111.
Claimant name a wltnee: Charlea Me.
Kenl, An tone lirle, Henry Moniaomery;
J-t,b V. Monlcoiuery. all of tirlialr. rn.
T-.T p C. . MOURk. Resl'ler.
Furnished Rooms for Rent
Famished, single or double. Also
beds for the Fourth. Inquire at Shipp
house. Mrs. Ida Prose, propr. &-15
PIONEER SADDLER
Manufacturer ot and dealer In
Harness, Saddles, Chaps, Bridles, Silver-Mounted Bits
and Spurs. ReaUs, Quirts, Ladies' Stride Saddles.
E. H. Smith, Prop. Prineville, Or.