OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
Coot Port Decision Goes Higher
Marshneld. Immediate steps will
he takeu to appeal the case of Hen
aessey against the port commission
Of the port of Coos Hay, in which
case Judge Coke in the circuit court
decided that the port had a right
to take the tideflats for navigation
purposes. The case is of such vital
Importance to property owners and
the public ot this locality that the
lawyers are anxious to have a decis
ion from the supreme court as soon
s possible.
Board Aids Wateruiere, I proposed by the Oregon State Fedora,
remlleton. Thtny-two water users 1 tlon of Labor committee has been
on Mud Creek, in the northern part ! Changed to April J.
of the county, are the first in the coun- ' Th o!fio ot ' architect, created
ty to get certificates of their water , b-v the Preaent state board, effected a
rights from the state board of control. , ving ot IS65D for the state In the
County Clerk Salin has received course of its first years business, ac
these certificates, defining the amount ! cording to statement prepared by
of acre feet to which each tract of ' Sta,e Architect Knighton,
land along Mud Crek is eutitled and. j Marlon county Democrats In mass
as soon as they have been recorded meeting adopted a resolution favoring
on the county books they will be seat
to the water users.
CANDIDATES RUSH TO FILE
Secretary of State Swamped With ; ade a sensational confession to Gov
Decl.ration. of Intentions. I "no.r We' " ! ,h. bU"D robb'rT
Salem. With a rush that almost
swamped the office, candidates
swooped down on the secretary of
state department Saturday with com
pleted petitions to such an extent that
there promised to be a corrupt prac
tices act pamphlet such as has never
before been seen In the state. With
the close of business there wire 65
who had filed completed petitions
which entitled them to a place In the
pamphlet
Of these there were 15 Democrats
and 50 Republicans. This is nearly
being now all told 100 Republicans
half the entire number filing, there
and 40 Democrats In the field who
have filed.
There are fire presidental candi
dates entitled to places In the pam
phlet These are William Howard
Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Robert
M. La Follette, Republicans, and
Wood row Wilson and Champ Clark,
Democrats.
Oil Speculators to Bore Soon.
Albany. The Halley Oil company,
which was recently organized here to
try to locate oil In this county, has
been securing land leases, and accord
ing to a report has secured leases on
3000 acres. The committee has prom
ises on over 10,000 acre. It says.
Where first work will start has not
been decided, but boring for oil In
Linn coun'y is to start in a short time.
Vessels Load for Alaska.
Astoria. The Alaska Fishermen's
Packing company's vessels, the bark
W. B. Flint and the ship St. Francis,
will be brought from their winter
Quarters this week to load cannery
supplies for Bristol Bay. The former
will load for Koggilung, while the lat
ter will load for Nushagak. Both will
be ready to sail for the north about
April 10.
INITIATIVE PETITION OUT
Two Papers Circulated From Pacific
Grange Bulletin Office.
Cresham. Initiative petitions for a.
county highway bonding act, embody
lng two bills, the first creating the of
fice of State Highway Engineer and
the second providing for the holding
of road district meetings for the issu-'
ance of bor.ds, have just mode their 1
appearance. Thfy are being issued I
from the office of the Pacific Grange j
Bulletin at Lents and are authorized j
by the executive comniittee of the i
Oregon State Grange.
As the grange or Oregon is numori- j Baker, from putting other mills out
caliy strong enough to initiate any bill , of business by refusing to haul logs
authorized by the State Grange tht-re : from the timber districts has been
will be no difficulty in securing the ! carried to the state railroad commis
requisite number of signatures, thus j sion in a complaint filed by the Baker
securing the bills a place on the offi-: commercial club,
cial ballot. i The interstate commerce commis
Benson Estate Is $40,000.
Roseburg. Papers of final account
were filed In the probate court in the
estate of ex-Governor Frank W. Bon-1
son, deceased. According to the re-'.
port of the appraisers, the estate is
(valued at $40,000, consisting mostly
of real estate In Roseburg.
Nearly 40 Volunteer Firemen.
Cottage Grove. Organization of a
Tolunteer fire department was com
pleted here. The city has ordered
preparation of an ordinance allowing
the fire laddies pay for attending
meetings and drills.
' iler the law, not only dealers who sell
30 Men Apply For Pastorate j sflOTt velght California butter are sub
Oregon City. More than 30 min- J'-,'t to prosecution, but also agcntB
Isters have made application for the I w'' solicit for California manufuctur
pastorate of the First Baptist church j erg- a,l who have nothing more to
of this city, which will soon be vacat- j d0 with the transeutlon than to take
ed by the Rev. S. A. ilaywpnh. j the order. 4
b - 'li" Ildilli IlilhMMWn
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
I Work tins begun In Mrm li on ciitv
j Itruclton of the OrvKon Klwtrlc road
Mwepn Junrllon City and the WU-
'' Ht near urri8burg.
1 luv srunitt fiuoiic DIIIII11I1KV Com
mllleo hut reported favorably bill
I siithoriiliig a public bulUlUm at Cor
! vallia to cost tlOO.000 and on at
j Klamath Kails, at llU'.Ot'O.
That a woman may act aa pontine-
ter In Oregon at th age of 18 jeers
U the substance of an opinion furnlnh
d by Attorney General Crawford to
the postofftca department at Washing
ton. The Klamath Peveloptuejit company
has been Incorporated to amalgamate
several Interesta heretofore not In
cluded In It The corporation now
controls interesta luild to aggregate
$30,000.00.
Owintt to the Inability of a number
of prominent educators to be In Salem
March IS, the date for the conference
the abolishment of the office of coun
ty recorder, declaring It to be a use
less appendage In county government
and therefore a needless expense.
Charles A. Barrett, who recently
on tne steamer tiumnoiut in mu. was
paroled by the governor and turned
over to the United States government.
The first cougar to fall In the war of
extermination In Umatilla county de
clared against predatory beasts by the
state game authorities and local !
sheepmen was a female weighing 154
pounds and measuring seven feet from
tip to tip.
Senator Chamberlain has Introduc
ed a bill reciting that no action to
forfeit the title given by the Central
Pacific railroad for lands In the As
toria-McMinnville grant shall be valid
unless instituted within 90 days after j
passage of the proposed act
, The trout streams of the state will
be thrown open to fishermen of Ore
gon April 1. The open season for
salmon in the Willamette river also
begins on that date. The season for
steelbeads is now on In the Willamette
and Columbia rivers, but catches are
light
Governor West has announced the
appointment of Dr. W. H. Lytle, Pen
dleton; Dr. S. B. Foster, Portland;
and Dr. Robert E. Hunt, La Grande,
as members of the Oregon State Vet
erinary Medical Board, The appoin
tees will hold office until July 20,
1915, the appointments being for four
years.
Holding that the land was more val
uable for agricultural purposes than
for Its mineral, the secretary ot the
Interior has forwarded a decision to
Roseburg In which he sustains the
findings of the general land office and
the Roseburg land office In the con
test case Instituted by A. H. Howard
against Frederick Cook.
With $459,416 outstanding warrants
against the general fund marked "not
paid for want of funds," and with only
$13,498 now in the fund, the state
again finds itself confronted by the
problem of paying Interest on large
sums ot money owing as a result ot
the present system of segregating and
keeping idle various funds.
Plans and maps of the dam and
canal known as the north canal diver
sion in connection with the Central
Oregon Irrigation company's Carey
act project near Bend have been filed
with the state engineer for his approv
al. The dam and short feeder canal
comprise an important key to the en
tire project, much of which is already
under irrigation.
The fight of the Baker lumber mill
Interests, backed by the Baker com
mercial club, to prevent the Stimpter
Valley railroad company, which is also
interested in the lumber business in
sion has begun further Inquiry into
Southern Pacific freight rates between
California and Oregon points. At
previous hearing the carriers sought
to justify the present rates, but the
commission was not satisfied and or
dered the production of further testi
mony. The commercial Interests are
represented by W. R. Wheeler of San
Francisco and E. M. Cousins of Port
land. Answering several questions pro
pounded to him with relation to the
short weight law In the state by Dairy
and Food Commissioner Bailey, At
torney General Crawford, among other
tilings, gives it as his opinion that tin-
CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN
Captain Roald Amundsen, the Nor
weglan explorer, who tucctdtd In
reaching the South Pole.
Brief News of the Week
New Mexico's first state legislature
convened In Santa Ke Monday.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
was defeated iu the Massachusetts
legislature. ,
The 54 labor union officials and bus
iness agents under Indictment In the
dyuamite cases were arraigned In the
federal court at Indiannpolts Tuesday.
Sun Francisco Is overrun with Idle
labor men. There are 35,000 applica
tions for work on the exposition build
ings, on which not more than 4000 will
be employed at any one time.
A South American railroad 875
miles long, costing 117,000.000. and
reaching an altitude of 14.000 feet, has
Just been completed across the Andes,
connecting Arlca to La Pa.
' A new race suicide phase la shown
by birth statistics of New York. Of
an average of 11.600 births per month,
8000 babies are born to foreign moth
ers, and only 3500 to American moth
ers. Great uneasiness prevails In certain
wealthy homes at Chicago and else
where over the discovery that the gov
ernment la In possession of hundreds
of letters written by women and girls
to Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanlsh.
head of the Sun Worshipers cult
They ran from matrons of 50 and over
down to little girls, and some ot them
are declared to be the limit la "mush
Iness." People in the News
Pope Plus has again refused to dis
solve the religious marriage between
Anna Gould and Count Bonl de Cast
ellane. An attempt to assassinate Leopold
Rothschild, the famous banker, was
made In London aa he was entering a
motor car.
General Andrade, ex-president of
Venezuela, was killed at the head ot
the police while trying to quell a re
volutionary movement on Quito.
Lady Warwick, one of the leading
public women of England, recently
landed In New York and will make a
lecture tour of the United States and
Canada extending over six weeks.
J. B. McNamara, serving a life sen
tence at San Quentin for dynamiting
the Los Angeles Times building. Is
said to be dying from tuberculosis.
John J. McNamara, his brother, Is also
In poor health.
Hudson Maxim, the Inventor, Is
authority for the remarkable state
ment that within a very short time
there will be only three countries In
the world the United States of Asia,
the United States of Africa, and the
United States of America.
Political News Bits
A political feature of the past week
was the organization in California of
several Taft women clubs.
Wilson's managers charge that the
Underwood, Clark and Harmon forces
have combined to defeat the governor.
Colonel Roosevelt has about made
up his mind to take the stump and
personally make the light for the num
ination. In his address at Toledo, Ohio, Pres
ident Taft denounced the Roosevelt
idea of recall of decisions as "utterly
without merit or utility."
Kight delegates have been elected
from New Mexico to the national con
vention at Chicago. Four are Instruc
ted for Taft and four for Roosevelt.
President Taft leads In the race for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion. Of the 107 delegates so far
elected to the national convention, 95
are pledged to President Taft against
i for Colonel Roosevelt.
Returns from 115 counties In Okla
homa where Republican county con
ventions were held showed 2!3 In
rtructed delegated for Roosevelt and
!0 for Taft. There will be contested
'.elognttons from six counties.
Champ Clark of Missouri leads In
the race for the Democratic nomina
tion for president. He has ple'lged to
hlin 44 of the 64 delegates already
elected, the remaining 10 being in
structed to vote for Woodrow Wilson.
Awarded
Giand IV!e
trirvrTiil
at A. Y.r.t. f,.
Seattle, 1909
Trie ! ousewife says i
"I know thai ae otlw Maltra cm (ira
Math raatfel tad haeltlihil ilaro aa
Carman'. $ 1 5 Mattress De Ltua
heceuae ita to conKwuliW thai vou (a
to ilaap aliaoat immcikatal enat re
tinae and vwi awale aa wiaJwd and
chtwtful is the morming. IMore pur.
ckanaa em I thoiajhi il iauxaubla to
tad so comlotiahle t maltraak tit
rettaiah Worth tuny bum the $1)
Jrod pay kT i."
We aatt ika Caraias't Maitma t"V t ma
Kara ia it atakaf atatda bavk A it wuk t
$l.tX0 ra antra that ita ktlht mattnu
and contain! man hag Mr Mm thaa lha
stoat whitly xhamwd $ I ) auatna ta A mar.
ica. ha auM aa t JO-nhia haatnal aaj full
purcKaas Jprw refunded il mat up to out
clatma. Tba Carman pnxaaa of Marwaavwaj
lfca co tod into wna Ufa ftutf y larun ataka
it not only tKa moat couifurublo, but lha swat
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Prineville Furniture
Exchange
CHAS. F. CONDART, Prop.
Many a Man
Owes His Success
to an Investment
on the limtnllment plan, lie
cause It hna nerved nanti anchor
nml kept blin In a ntrnlglit line
Mild away (rum the ninny "Wet
lilt-It Uuli'k" wliciiieai which are
no pU'titllul todny and which no ;
olteti iiii'iin rli lifn uiily for thel
smooth tonirue.l promoter i
thereof. Bv lnvetlu IN YOUR i
HOME TOWN you fre dealing
with vtiltie and people with
whom you are tu-iiunltiti'd
people who are Interented lu
your welfare Ix-caiim your sue
vv means the micca ot others
about you, nml tlio more sue-ii-ttsftil
citizen a town enn
lioltst of the better pliire It will
lie. Lots lu NOBLES ADDITION
1-nu tie hiul by nmklng a very
small payment dowu and the
liMlmice on term to null the
ptirclittHer, monthly, lil-moutbly
qiiHrterly, half-yearly orniiliunl
payment. Thet (ot nre the
iM-st Investment In city propert.
today. The only lilntrlct with
hulldlni nwtrlctloti nml with
t rift improvement and side
walk already lu. Make your
selection now. A few dollar
will hold the lot tor you until
you can make further pay
ment. You an- entitled to tile
lH-t. Why not net It? Come
In ami let me how vou NOBLES
ADDITION, the center ot build
lug activity In l'rluevllie.
A. R. BOWMAN
Give ua your order for
CORDWOOD
Juniper or Pine, large or
small quantities.
DILLON S YARD
Opposite Post Office.
The Oregon Bar
At the Old Stand
G. W. Wiley & Co.. Prp$
All kinds of Choice Liquors
Wines and Cigars.
Famous Ranier Beer in
Bottles and on Draft
Notice of Final Settlement.
Notice ttt h'T'Jby (ttvrn ly ihe iin.li-n.ftrmM,
th' BilinhilBlnilornl the t'Mittt' of Wilionl .1
(.'ruin, fl(KNaM('l, thm lie ha inado utnl lllol
with ton i-lrrk of tlitr county court litn HiihI mc
i nniitinK of hi fuhniimirmiuij of mild (Mhilr,
find that iho comity court Unn -t Moiiduy.
May tiih, at lUftVlork In tho forenoon,
at tiV nuiiity court room in I'rincvlllr, I in-uoii,
(in tnc tunc mid (dure tor lirintiiff und mi-hUhk
in id tlnnl Ai-rouuiinif. At which Hit Id ttmran-t
pliice, ih'V person InL'Tt Mii-d in mild rMutr-,
him v ni'Vcnr mid ohji.i t lo -tiiM limit Hi-ioutitin ,
li'ntcd thin Kth dny of Mtindi, VH ,
AJ.t'.KHT I. l'l!A(N,
A lmlnistrntor of iho oalulo of Wilford J.
Cm in, deceived, U H
for :.-1 I nittrtul
Woodlark Squirrel Poison
For
The Cash Grocery
Geo. Whiteis, Proprietor
FURNITURE
You lll look lth admiration over the
splrhuVI aa in plea ot modern Furniture
Hint w have on rilitbitltm in our
MiootiKiitia, the moat artiatic slid Iwat
riiatriit'tvt Furniture er turned out
by wood craflera. The ilnh, the
orknianaliip, the beautiful tin in I., will
charm voit t tight, and e warrant
lb durability of every plwo of Furnl.
tut boitnlit from tia. Portland prices.
A. H. UPPMAN & COMPANY
I
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ARE YOU SURE
The tvoinla luwr clenr title to your irowrtv? The
nvuriU fulled to how cornvt title In n nle lunde till
rvk by a lending rent raitttc riitiipiuiy. RtSULT-l.ong
delny nmt H wall ile lima. IWtter let the Nuiiwr Alwtriut
Cutni'Miv look niter your liiletmu.
PIONEER ABSTRACT COMPANY
(.Member Oregon Association of Title Men)
PIONEER SADDLER
Manufacturer of and dealer tu
Harness, Saddle, Chaps, Bridles, Silver-Mounted Bits
and Spurs. Reatas, Quirts, Ladies' Stride Saddle.
E. H. Smith, Prop. Prineville, Or.
r.
Pioneer
None
Money Back if You
Made at
Pioneer Cream Co.
Agents DeLaval Separator.
"I. W.
fcVV,
1
is the whiskey with the delicious "farewell."
Its wonderful taste is a fair criterion of the
all-round excellence of this most famous
brand.
W. A. Booth. Fn.
I). F. Hthwabt, Vlra-i'rca.
Crook County Bank
PRINEVILLE,
Statement of the Crook County Ennk of Prineville, Oregon, aa rendered to the
Superintendent of Banka, June 7th, 1911
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Better
Are Not Satisfied.
Home.
OLD
HARPER"
Sold By
Silvertooth & Browder
Shaniko and Bend, Oregon
V. M. Ki.kinu, CmIiIm
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