OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF CENERU INTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
nrlnsrs Will Plook te Coot Itpt, 1
Marshntilri. Kxtmialve preparations
III mad here for I hit pilgrimage
tt Mnrahftidd of the Ancient Arabic
nlr Nobles of the Mysllo Bhrlne,
which will Ink plate HcplerAbt'r 3.
Elaborate iilnrtnliimeiil will be divan.
'Um hakes mill oihnr events of a inv.
I nature will lie urrungncl liy commit
a composed of Mnanna from every
Hr In the roil nly.
ynamltart, Foiled, Thousands Savad.
linker Tim ante of the I'ntlerwood
Vlarer Mines company, nl Cornucopia,
M miles southeast of here, was rolled
nl of the office ami dynamite used In
m effort lo open l(, at IIib fool of the
tiibaiikninnl at th initio, but ahole
trtim Ilia superintendent of tha mine,
Charles Camel, and Ilia rapid approach
ot a body of men aiirarii by tha
allots, rauaed tha burglars to flee,
leaving tha lliouaanda of dollars In
0ild nugg la In tha anfa.
i LABOR DATA COMPILED
"Taltphen Conearna Employ 1621 Par
aona. Kalrm Unta coniplM In tli office
f tha bureau of labor statistics for
toe year ending Auguat , 1 J 1 2. on tel
phono, boota and ahove and bulldnra
f bridges, ahow the following hilar
at lug facta:
Thorn r 169 enlarlcd employee In
KU comnterrlKl telephone bualneaa In
Oregon, who receive J137.47H In ealar
lea. The wageearnera number 1.182 and
arc paid t!,76l yearly. There are
till mutual tnlephonea In the atale
or the handling of which aeven salar
kid persona are employed.
Five shoe fuctorlt't employ fit work
areti at an annual aggregate wage of
S4,3tl, and aeven aalarled persona
Vi receive H6.365. The mlacellan
uu eipenaea were I2,17. The
Inula are valued at M2.6HS and the
utput for the year ending July 81,
HIJ.. valued at I1IH.S75,
five arms employ 3B& wage-earner
at an annual wage of I27t,6.1t, In the
tnnstrucllon of brldgea. Materlnla
ooat ID1B.275. Mlacellaneoua eipena
ea were 1:7,2113. The flrnia earned II,.
175.117 tor Ihe year ending Auguat 1,
It II There are eight salaried per
una receiving $11,7:6.
Mount Hood haa Rival,
linker. Mount Hood may aoon have
an official rival in height. In the do
aire either to confirm or disprove the
aaaertlon that the Eagle Cap mountain
fcttween here and Wallowa li the high
et In the atnte, Clydo II. Altchlaon,
ahalrnmn of the atnte railroad com
siiaalon, will tnke accurate measure
ments of the mountain within a abort
lime.
FOREST FIRES ARE FEARED
Wore Hunter In Wooda of Oregon
Than Uaual.
Halcin. With the foreata virtually
warming with huntera the Hold war
One of the foreatry department In
tlielr reporta to the atnte foroater are
expressing fear that before the season
U ended the atate la dnatlucd to be
ilslted with a aerloa of disastrous for
at Area.
Several daya prior to the opening of
die season, they declare huntera be
gan to flock into the wooda In order
to be on hand on the opening diiy, and
Uiey eiceed by far the number going
ut laat yenr. During the hint year,
(ureal flree occasioned by the reckless
eaa of huntera, destroyed vast arena
f vuluable timber, and the depart
ment doea not intend to allow a repeti
tion of it thin year, for aa aoon na it
Becomca appuront thnt Area originate
trom the oarelossneaH of huntera, the
atate foreater will ak the governor to
feau a proclamation declaring the
luutlng aeiiaon cloaed. Compared
wilb Inst season, the trepartment thus
tax baa been fortunate aa to forost
Ires, aa but a fow minor ones broke
ut In Mny. There were no flree dur
kig the montha of June and July.
Kuntera Found In Pitiable Condition.
Klnma'h Fall. Knmlshed and worn
at by a struggle through dense under
rush and mnrHh lnnd, Dr. K. II. Ly
nan, a dentlat, and V. 0. Buckloy, a
rent estate man, both of Sun Bernard
fco, Cal., who wore lost while hunting
Am on Mount Pitt, were discovered
y iearcliera, wnnderlng about, un
able to get their bearings.
four May Have Perlahed In Storm,
Unker. Four peraona are belloved
ttoiftave perlahed aeven mlleB west , of
Huntington, when a waterspout awept
away the borne of John Powell. Mrs,
Powall and her three children, ranging
from- four to 11 years, ate belloved to
lave perished. The storm caused
ttamuge amountlrg to thousands of
dollars.
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EUGENE W. CHAFIN
rhoto bf Aiiwrlcaa Prwa AaaoalaUaaw
Eugene W. Chafln, the National Pro
hibition party's candidate for preel
dant. ENJOIN NEWS SYNDICATES
Antl-Truat Decree la to Stop Poaalble
Combine.
Chicago With the filing of an
agreed decree In a civil antl-truat suit
agalnat the Western Newspaper Un
ion and the American Preaa Associa
tion the federal government look an
advanced atep under the Sherman law
to prevent what the department of
juatlre regarded aa the possibility of
a combination to Influence the
thought of 60,000,000 readers of rural
newapapera.
Aa the result of the failure of nego
tiations to effect consolidation In 1909,
the petition chargea that the defend
ants began a campaign of destructive
competition In 1911 and expresses the
belief that unless forestalled, one or
the oilier of the corporal lona would be
wiped out.
Inaurgtnta Fire Into Tssaa City.
Kl Paso, Te. About 60 shots were
exchanged between United States sol
diers and unidentified men from the
Mexican aide of the river in East Kl
Paso. No one waa bit. There were
no arresla made.
It has been reported that the firing
waa done by Mexican rebela to attract
attention of American aoldlera to a
apol on the ftlo flrnnde, while rebft
'gun-runners" crossed at another
point, but thla haa not been confirmed
officially.
CANADA'S WARSHIP
OFFER CONDITIONAL
London. Robert U Harden, Canad
ian prime minister, who Invited the
British cabinet mlnlalera to visit the
dominion, haa made Ills position clear
on the subject of the naval assistance
thai Canada Is to offer the mother
ooii n try.
Canada, he told the British cabinet.
li prepared to aaalat Great Brltnln to
maintain ber naval aupremacy, but
when she doea ao she will want to be
oonaulted as to the way the money la
apent.
Mr. Borden la reticent as to what
Canada will do, but outspoken enough
aa to what she wants In return for any
contributions she makes. One of
tbeae desires la for a real Imperial
parliament, representative of the
whole empire, to deal with all mat
tore of Interest to the empire.
Missouri Editors In Duel,
llunlsvllle, Mo. Bitter personal
quarrels over the democratic congres
sional race In thla district resulted In
a street duel here between John N.
Hamilton, editor of the Hunlsville
Herald, and Vandlvla, editor of the
liunlttvlllo Times. ,
Woman Candidate Files.
Olympla. Loola May lillnn, of Se
attle, haa filed her declaration of can
didacy for the office of state land com
missioner with Secretary of State
Howell.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wfieat Track prices, new; Club,
77o; bluestem, 80o; red Russian, 77c,
Oats New, $26 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $15; alfalfa, $13.
Butter Creamery, Sic.
Eggs 23o.
Hops 19U crop, 20c; contracts,
19c.
Wool Eastorn Oregon, 18c; Wil
lamette valley, 23o.
Mohair 32c.
Seattle.
Wheat, new BlueBtem, 80c; club,
78o ; red Russian, 76c.
Oats $35 per ton.
Butter Creumery, 81c,
Eggs 24o.
Hay Timothy, $18 per ton.
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BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
I.lnn county'i first Industrial school
fair will be held Id Albany Auguat 2$
and 24.
Tha second annual meeting of the
Columbia Delta Gardeners' association
was beld at Clatakanla laat Tuesday.
Mrs. Loulalana Dannala, Oregon pio
neer of 1852, and resident of thla state
for (0 years, died at ber home In Al
bany, aged 78 years.
Practically the entire town of liar
rl it burg turned out to celebrate tha
event of the Oregon Electric reaching
that place Haturday.
The aummer aeaslon of the Oregon
normal school cloaed Friday with an
enrollment of 164, making the total
enrollment for the year 297.
Moee Lane, a Hlleix policeman, waa
badly beaten at Toledo while trying
to quiet aeverul other Indiana who
were engaged In a drunken bruwl.
The Bute Line Water Company of
New Pine Creek, with a capitalisation
of $26,000, haa filed artlclea of Incor
poration with the secretary of atale.
Charged with embezzling United
States government funds to the
amount of $1000, Aator A. Anderson,
postmaster at Jewell, Clatsop county,
Waa arreated.
Rueben Aim, II years old, waa In
tantly killed at the treatle of the
Mount Hood railway acrosa the Bandy
fiver. His bead waa cut off under the
wheels of a car.
The Eugene city council haa direct
ed the recorder to advertlae for blda
for a main trunk sewer and two main
branchea, which together will coat up
wards of $200,000.
Tha constitutionality of the legis
lative act of 1911 governing the brand
ing of butter la Involved In the appeal
of the case agalnat Roy Ooodhue, ap
pealed from Multnomah county.
U W. Hill, chairman of the execu
tive board of the Oreat Northern rail
way, will apend a month or more In
Oregon In the Interest of the Oreat
Northern Immigration campaign for
aettlers for thla atate.
While the atate treasurer baa made
demands upon 27 counties In which
the atate Incurred expenaea In fighting
forest fires laat year for their propor
tion of the expenaea, but 12 of them
have forwarded remlttancea.
President Taft haa commuted the
prison sentences of A. W, Hedderly
and Richard Hynea, convicted at Port
land of complicity In land frauds. Phy
Iclana bad testified that the men
would die if longer Imprisoned.
By the end of thla week practically
very logging camp In the Columbia
district will be In active operation, tha
varioua companies having begun plac
ing crews to work again the past week
after a cloae down alnce July 1.
Congressman Hawley has received
notice that the drat Oregon benefici
ary under the new pension act of May
11, 1912, la Enoch W. Conyers of Clats
kanlo, a veteran of the Mexican war,
who has been allowed the maximum,
$30.
With assurancea that 60,000 of the
125,000 school children In the state
will send exhibits to the children's In
dustrial fair to be held thla year In
connection with the stale fair, It Is
certain now that this fair la destined
to be a success from the start
According to the census just com
pleted through the office of the super
intendent of public Instruction there
are 189.506 school children In Oregon,
and lust week there waa divided
among the counlea of the state $352.
481.16 by the atate treasurer for school
purposes.
A verdict bf $200,000 waa awarded
the Hammond Lumber company by a
jury at Salem In condemnation pro
ceedings brought by the Willamette
Power company to secure power and
water rights on the Breltenbush and
Santiam rivers. The company had
asked $970,000.
W. Cooper Morris, convicted Port
land banker, who la working with the
convict gang on the Shell Rock road.
near Hood River, has assumed the
role of friend to the convicts, and Is
offering his Wenatchee fruit ranch as
a haven of refuge and work to paroled
men and released convicts.
According to State Railroad Com
missioner Miller, with those who com
pleted their hearing of the Sumpter
Valley railroad log rate case, the road
haa a valuation of $1,250,000, exclus
ive of its right of way which haa not
been completely estimated. This Is
far greater than waa expected.
Henry Dumontler, a laborer employ
ed by the Utah Construction company
on the Natron cutoff, haa begun suit
In circuit court at Eugene against his
employers for $25,000 damages on ac
count of Injuries sustained, when he
was precipated te the bottom of the
gulch by the giving way of a trestle
a short time ago,
Differences In opinion between the
attorney-general and Botne of the mem
bers of the executive committee of
the state board of normal regents will
probably result in the attorney-gener
al being overridden in a plan to settle
the Monmouth normal school dormi
tory appropriation tangle, and man
damus proceedings will be started
soma time this week to compel the
secretary of state to pay out money
in the appropriation.
First Oregon District Ag
ricultural Society
..F A I R..
Prineville, Oregon
October 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1912
$3,000 in Premiums.' Racing $2,800
$3,000 in premium will
Domestic Animal of all kind :
Crook county ; Work of Art Esthetic, Mechanical and Indus
trial, etc.
Free Season Ticket to every active teacher and enrolled pupil in
the county. ,
RACING PROGRAM
FIRST DAY
Introductory Race I mile dash . $100.00
Crook County Trot or Pace, mile heats, 2 in 3 150 00
Saddle Race, 1-mile dash, stock saddles and horses 75 00
Crook County Commercial Club Stake, running -mile 300.00
b&UUMJ VAX
Running 1 mile dash ; 200.00
Crook County Colts, 3-yr.-old, trot
Crook County Merchants' and Manufacturers' Purse, 2:30 class
trot or paca. heati 3 in 6.
Quarter mile daeh
THIRD DAY
Farmers' and Breeders' Stake, running mile dash 300.00
Running J-mile, 2 year-olds. 150.00
Gentlemen's Double Team Roadsters'
to drive 10000
Running J mile dash '. .. . 100.00
FOURTH DAY
Indian Women's, one mile
Society's Purse, 2:25 class, trot, mile heats, 3 in 5 500.00
One-hale mile handicap 200.00
Running one-half mile Consolation
Entries to all named races will close Oct. 1, 1912
Over-night entries 8 o'clock p. m. night before race
American Trotlins Association
the society being member of the
to govern running races
hotrance lee to all Btakei and purees, 10 per cent of same
Money divided 70, 20 and 10 per cent
For further information apply to
J. N. WILLIAMSON, l'resdent,
or Prineville, Ore
F. CADLE, Secretary,
Pl'INEVILLE, Ore
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THE HAMILTON STABLES
J. H. WIGLE, Proprietor
PRINEVILLE, OREGON
Stock boarded by the day, week or month at
Reasonable rates. Remember us when in
Prineville. Rates Reasonable. We have
Fine Livery Rigs For Rent
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The records ahow a clear title to your property? The
records tailed to show correct title In a sale made this
week by a leading: real estate company. RESULT Long
' delay and posalble loss. Better let the Pioneer Abstract
Company look after your Interests.
PIONEER ABSTRACT COMPANY
(Member Oregon Association of Title Men)
be distributed for the exhibit in
Agricultural Product railed in
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fprl!nftof th Interior. TJ. n. Uini Office
I Tim loilM, Orton. Jul? loth, l''U.
Noli la hrtrr f len that liar LmfollKIt",
of Prlnovllle, lntn, who. on Juno l-rtb,
) hommteao, No. M. tut n oJ i Iota
I. nH 1 Iw. a n1 lot. i. i, arrtlon 4, town,
hip IS south, fans 1 tul. lllmtla Merl--:n.
has nird nollmor Inw-nlUo to mak
oonimiiollon proof, to rtallh claim to tha
land atjova 4f!rit4l. IWorv Warrn Brown,
count? cl-rli at hl offlne. at HrlnrTllle, Ore
Son, on lt) IIMh itar of Annul. ISI2.
tlalmant namra aa wltnuwa: J a mm A.
Momu.John Y. Hopper. Olenn Hmxlrtckann.
Th.mia. H. Laollalu-. all of Prlnlll. ilro
gon. 7.1p g. v. Mooas. ifefUter.
Hotlce for Publication.
I-parttnnt of ih inu-rtor,
I'. 8. 1-an.lOfll'e at The balles. Orofon.
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Notice Is heivbr tlvep that
lI A- lllon.
of PrlnrTltle. Op-son. who, on fVptrmher Ut
1VI0, marie hoimatead. No. 073X6, for H ne1'..
nw n-H, and nH-i nation , townxhlp
,( I h, ransa I'eaul, Wlllanwtte Meridian
ha filrd notlne of Intention to make com
mutation proof, to e.taMi.h claim u the land
a'K,ve d'crtt-d, before Ttmothr E. 1. Iurrr
I. H. f 'ornlnlaHioner. at bl omce, at Prin
Tllle. Oregon, on tlieAitb dafof Auut. Itfl'i.
Claimant namea a wIlneNtea: Mgar J.
Hundr. Waller U. MpNelr. Ajrrea I Kooerta,
H. Karl Croee. all of l'rlnevllie, Orefon.
?-'P '. . MOOKK, Kelter.
Notice (or Publication.
lM.artrnentof thelntertor, V. H. jtnd Office
at I he Itallea. Oregon. July Stb, UM.
Notice la hereby hlven that
Maude fierce,
of Held. Oreon. who. on April th. Wit,
made Homestead, No. OriTto. for wH ne1. and
n'4 aeV ae.-ttoo 15. townwhlp lit south, ranee
lOeaat Willamette Meridian, haa flled notice
of Intention to make commutation proof, to
eatanhah elalm lo the land above deacrlbed.
before arren Brown, county clerk at hie
office, at Prineville, Orecon. on the JOlh dav
of Auruat. 1K12.
t-Ialmant namea aa wltneaaea: Pant Held,
John Campbell, of Held. Oregon, Klaber .
Ingan and Orvllle 1 liavlaon of Barnea. Ote-
goo 7-Up C . Moons. Beglater.
Moticc ior Publication.
Department of the Interior, 0. fl). Land Office
at The Dollea. Orecon, July Stb, l12.
Notice U hereby given that
bora 8 Campbell,
of Held, Oregon, who on April 20. Wit, made
uoinealead entry No. 7M, for n vl4, aw'
ae't. aec lu, and na1', ,', aee II, tp It aoutb.
range lOeaat W. M., baa flled notice of Inten
tion to make commutation proof, to establish
claim to the land above deacrlbed. before
Warren Brown, county clerk at but offloeat
Prineville, Oregon, on the ajtb day of Auguat.
Claimant namea ai wltneaaea: Paul Held,
and Maude Pierce of Held. Oregon. Flatter U.
Logan and Orvllle 1. Liavlaon: of Ramea.
Oregon. 7-ttp C. W. MooKa, Beglater.
Kotioe of Contest.
Department of tbe Interior,
United States Land Office.
The Dalle.. Oregon July 25, 1912.
To Clara E. Johnson. Madras. Oregon.
Conteatee:
ouare hereby notified that Charles
A. Hurst, who gives Pnnevile. Oregon.
care of B. W. Wright, aa bis postoffice
address, did on July 8,1912, file in this
office his daiy corroborated application
to couteaa aim secure me cancellation OI
vour homestead Entry No. Serial No.
0r5v made April 10, 1911. for iwj se. sec
lion u, w't ne'4 section 24, township 12
a., range 14 e.. Willamette Meridian,
and as gronmls for his contest be alleges
that said Clara E. Johnson has woolly
abandoned said tract of land for over two
years last past ; that she has wholly
failed to reside upon, improve or cul
tivate the said tract ot land aa by law
required since making said entry.
Yon are, therefore, further notified that,
the Mid allegations will be taken by this
office as having been confessed by you,
and your said entry will be canceled there
under without your further right to be
heard therein, either before this office or
on appeal, if you fail to hie in this office
witnin twenty nays alter the KOU Klrl
publication of this notice, as shown below
your anawer. under oath, specifically meet
in and responding to these al legations of
con teat, or if you fail within that time to
hie in this office due proof that you have
served a copy of your answer on the said
contestant either in person or by registered
mail. If this service is made by the de
livery of a copy of ) our answer to the con
testant in peion, proof of such service
must be either tbe said contestant's writ
ten acknowledgment of his receipt of the
copy, showing the dale of its receipt, or
the affidavit ot the person by whom the
delivery was made stating when and where
the copy was delivered; it made by
registered mail, proof ol such service mnst
consist of the affidavit of the person by
whom the copv was mailed stating when
and the postoffice to which it was mailed,
and this affidavit must be accompanied by
thi postmaster's receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer the
name of the postoffice to which you desire
future notices to be sent to vou.
C. W. MOORE.
7.4 Register.
Date of first publication 'August 1 1912.
' second August 8, 1912.
" " third ' August 15, 1912.
"fourth " August 22,1912.
Notice of Replat of Redmond
Acre.
In tha County Court of the State ol
Oregon, for the county of Crook.
In tbe matter of the vacation of plat of
Redmond Acres.
Your petitioner, the Northwestern
Townsite Company, corporation, re
spectfully shows as follows :
That on or about the 1st day of March
1911, a plat waa approved by your
honorable body showing the subdi
vision ol the southeast quarter o the
southwest quarter of section ten in
tnwnsbip fifteen south, of range thir
teen mist of the Willamette meridian,
which plat waa designated as ''Red
mond Acres."
That since tbe auoroval of said Dlat
by your honorable body this petitioner
became the purchaser of the entire
body o( land covered by said plat of
Redmond Acres, excepting lot num
bered twenty-two (22) thereof ; and is
now the owner thereof:
That said lot numbered twentv-two
(22) is now owned bv Bessie Y. Bell as
shown by the deed records of (Jiook
County, Oregon :
lhat it is desirable to replat the said
tract to more nearly conform to the re
quirements of this petitioner and we be
lieve will b- more beneficial to the
public;
lhat this petitioner has caused said
tract to be resurveyed and reoi tied
and said replat is now before your
nonoraoie oociy lor approval;
lhat said replat do-s not in any
manner change the street accommo
dations affordei by the original plat to
the owner of said lot twenty-two (22)
and does not change the lines of the
tr ets adjacent to said lot twenty two;
mat no other pereons, hrm or corpo
ration, excepting this petitioner and
the owner of lot teniy-two are in any
manner affected ''V 'he renUt'ing
of said "Redmond A'res";
Now theref re, the Said petitioner
hereby respectfully requests jou honor
able body to approve he vacaiimi pat
cf "Redmond Aned" now bef ne you,
and th ) th rep t of -aid "Redmond
Acres" be app'eve.l replatled
Resi-ecttully submitted.
Noriliwe-i Inwnsite C tnpany,
(C nporate Se,
By I 'has. A Rei. M. Vice-P' eat 'ent.
Atte-t: V, lie- . Secretarx
It t..-d July IS, 12 7 2Vftt