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 I , ' I'h4 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 , Auala J'uiliHunil Dlwnmiia . "vi'I'.Iiiiih a,!IM.:ill I'nriillurc nml Hxtlinw t,W.M H. Hl Hltil.. II.7IW.IKI Caih on hand and dua from banki (47,809.95 f IHH.Otio.Vtf Sale at I US xSL - : - Butter Better Are Not Satisfied. Home. OLD HARPER" Sold By Silvertooth & Browder Shaniko and Bend, Oregon V. M. Ki.kinu, CmIiIm OREGON Liabllitlai On p tail Vlild III full Hlirplua I'mllvlili'd pruIU lli;ilHlla . .. ,0,'XHI.IKI , , . a,sNi jfj ,, 1I0,UII.7 8IK,S,lW),i8