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Grook County Jomnraa'
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1912
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VOL. XVI NO. 39
WORK FOR THE
MITCHELL ROAD
THE GOVERNOR
CLAMPS THE LID
Redmond Officials Re
sign. THE MILITIA WLL NOT BE USED
Sheriff Balfour Replies to the
Criticitmi of Governor
West.
The atmosphere at Redmond is
-clvnrinir up. No longer will it be
necessary to carry out the throat of
the governor to place the town un
der martial law urilcaa the mayor
and marshal resign. Both have
done no. The cane against Sheriff
Balfour Is not yet willed. In lib
reply to tho governor's
the sheriff says :
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A Good Thin for Crook
and Wheeler.
BOTH COUNTIES NEED IT BADLY
I'ltoUMi by mortem Fnma Association.
Naur a nnfin( Kx President Itooserelt and Governor Hiram Johnson of California were nominated for president and rice president by the
w OnapSuOlJ progrwialvs party contention at Cbtcaco. Oorernor Wilson of New Jersey was notified of bis nomination by the Democratic
Al h lVk party by Senator Klect Ollle J nines of Kentucky. Henry n. Curran took cbarne of the aldermank Investigation Into the al-
k'Red "wide open'
at Port -an Print was dualroyed by Bra.
conditions to New York city. General Clnclnnatua Leconta, president of Haiti, perlabed when bis palac-e
the following report to the clr-
itricturea cuit court that term :
"A great deal of our attention
"Believing that Governor Wefct haa been given to a petition signed
in hia aoHralled crusade against evil, j by some of the citizens of Madras
-id far as it applies to Cnxik county, ; reeiiing that wrtain evils there ex
is not conversant with conditions as Int and asking that the grand jury
they actually exist, and if he was , geek to eliminate them. Upon in
loss imietuous his censure of county . vestigation we find that Madras Is
-officials would not be so severe, j an Incorporated city, and that mu
Sherift Balfour of Crook county, nicipal ordinances are in force pro
who has been publicly criticised by vlding for the punishment of people
the governor, states that the gov-j operating the establishments, of
rnor'g activities should be directed j which complaint is made. We also
in this county at those "higher up," ; find that the municipality of Madras
whose acts may le responsible for j employs a marshal and night watch
what lax observation of the law as nian at a suliry of $75 per month
jniight or do exist here. ! each, and, further, that there has
"Since I have been office," says' been paid into the city treasurer of ; Mayor Jones and the city marshal
Balfour, "every grand jury of this j Madras the sum of 1725 from April j would hand in their resignation,
county that has had before it viola-i 2, 1910, until the end of that j The officials were given until Mon-
laws to put them out of business,
and, continues the governor, Sher
iff Balfour has enough laws to put
disorderly houses out of business
without throwing the blame onto a
grand jury.
The governor has also discovered
a section of a code which gives him
practically unlimited authority to
carry on investigations, appoint
special prosecutors and prosecute
public officers of any kind for de
reliction in their duty without the
assistance of district attorneys or
other constituted officers if such
constituted officers fail to respond.
Saturday Governor West threaten
ed to call out the militia unless
tions of the disorderly house law and month. -
similar olTenses brought there by me "Under these circumstances this
and my deputies from Incorporated grand jury believe that this matter
towns of this county hns refused to is one that should be left to the
report indictments against the keep- j jurisdiction of the'eity government
ers and their inmates, and grand ; of Madras, and that the taxpayers
juries before my administration of the county at large should not be
have made reports to tho effect that j called upon to bear the burden of
it did not fuel that Uie taxpayers in I whut is in the jurisdiction of a
general should bo burdened with 'municipality. This conclusion ap-
the expense of keeping the towns plies not only to the city of Madras
cleansed when money for that pur
pose is paid by the residents of
those towns Ir'o the city treasuries.
"What encouragement is there
under those circumstances to make
arrests In Redmond or other cities
within my jurisdiction, throwing
extra expense upon the county,
when the taxpayers, through their
grand juries, refuse to indict and
indirectly thereby instruct me not
to make arrests for such offense ?
The governor should direct his ef
forts toward the education of Crook
county grand jurors before censur
ing a county official for doing what
his constituents instruct him not to
do.
"While I am of the Bame political
extraction as the governor, he knows
as well as I that it is impossible to
enforce statutes where you have not
the backing of public opinion, and
when you are without the support
of the grand jury the case is hope
less and his expressions regarding
the inactivities of myself and associ
ates are without foundation of truth
and have no' merit in them aside
from their intended grandstand ef
fect in other communities. Our
grand juries are made up of the
responsible stockmen, ranchers and
business men of Central Oregon, and
it is to those . that the governor
should direct his criticisms as to the
enforcement of law in Central Ore
gon. This condition may not apply
to other communities where the gov
ernor has been active, for I know
nothing about conditions any place
else, but these facts do apply in my
Jurisdiction."
The grand juries to which the
sheriff referred were those of May,
1910 and 1911 and of October 1911.
The May grand jury in 1910 made
day to comply with the demand.
Meantime Jones and the marshal
were convicted of gambling, and
their resignation followed.
Portland Delegation
Sees Great Country
but to all municipalities in Crook
county. We say this not in any
spirit of criticism, but because,
owing to the work of railroad con
struction now in progress in this
county on a large scale bringing in
a vast number of transient people,
this question and similar ones prob
ably will arise in other incorporated
towns and we do not feel that the
county at large should be called up
on to bear the expenses of inter
ferring in matters covered by local
ordinances."
A similar recommendation was
made by the grand' jury of Crook
county in October, 1911, when a
number of disorderly house cases
were brougst to its attention in Bend
by one jf Sheriff Balfour's deputies.
These grand jury reports are on file
with the county clerk and are a
matter of record in Crook county
Governor's Reply to Balfour.
In response to statements made
by Balfour that he has found the
grand jury would fail to return to
dictments against disorderly houses,
and others of a similar nature, the
governor declared that the sheriff
needs no grand jury indictments to
do his duty in this respect ; that the
law is ample enough to give him
authority to make raids and that
the sheriff should have gone ahead
on his own initiative if the grand
jury was not with him.
The governor says too many of
these officers are endeavoring to
shoulder the blame off onto some"
body else, like Bob Stevens of Mult
nomah county, who wanted
to come to the next legisla
ture and ask for the passage of a
lot of laws to put the road houses
out of business. He has enough
Prineville, Or., Aug. 18 R. G.
Callvert. (Staff Correspondence
Oregon'tan) Crook County Is not
worrying about autumn rains, al
though more or less moisture has
fallen throughout Centra,! Oregon
in the last three days. The bar
vest season has been delayed by
previous rains, wtncn came in me
growing season, wiin promise
now of goo I weather tho farmers
are preparing to gather in the
greatest crop ever known in the
district.
Through smiling fields of prom
se, the advance guard of the
Portland delegation to the
Oregon development league meet
ing at Lakeview traveled a great
er part of yesterday. The day
was cool, the rain had laid
the dust, every farmer had a
cheery greeting, induced perhaps
in part by his prosperous outlook.
The machines hummed along
without a single untoward delay.
In Wasco County some damage
was noted. There the harvest is
earlier than in Crook. Iu some
of the fields grain in sacks lay
exposed to the elements, but
these were the exception rather
than the rule.
In tbe Agency Plains district,
near Madras, the exceptional
season has put hundreds of new
homesteaders on their feet and
has brought encouragement to
the older settlers of the district.
Before the advent of the railroad
the Agency Plains were not
framed for scientific agricultural
methods. There was not much
induceinenttogrowgrain. There
was no adequate market. Many
farmers merely scratched the
ground and were content to plod
along and postpone the day for
more active effort to the timo
when a rail outlet would he pro
vided. The railroid two of them have
now come. Along with the rail
roads has come also tbe Oregon
Agricultural College. It has es
tablished a dry farming demon
stration tract near Madras. It
is showing by ocular proof the
value of conservation of moisture
and the fact that born and alfalfa
can be grown on dry land.
If one may judge conclusively
from farm appearances, the set
tlers have had greater faith in
the growing of corn than they
have had in the possibilities of
day-land alfalfa. Agency Plains
farmers have put in a suprising
lot cf corn and, as a rule, it looks
almost as well as that produced
on tbe demonstration tract. A
person could not lose himself in
present-day Central Oregon
cornfield as he might in the fields
of Iowa or Illinois. Even if he
entered a large one he could see
his way out over ths tassels.
Tho dry land corn is a rotating
crop to be fed to stock. In a suc
cession of seasons like the pres
ent one it could be made to take
the place of Summer fallowing.
There would then be "a crop on
every acre every year," which is
the doctrine the college experts
have been preaching to the farm-
ors of districts where the rain
fall is not actually scant. The
taking up of corn growing is a
promise in itself of more live
stock on the farm. It is a pro
gramme in which Portland is, or
ought to be, intensely interested.
It means more money for the
farmers, better prices for the
consumers and general prosper
ity all around.
Two railroads into Central Ore
gon have changed materially the
aspect of the coontry. Yester
day I traveled by automobile
over a route practically the same
one followed two years ago,
Then the railroads bad not been
completed. Yesterday I ate lunch
at a thriving town that was not
in existence two years ago, and
again at dinner I had the same
experience.
Maupin was the lunch stop
for the party. It is not yet much
of a town, but it has two general
stores, a drug store, hotel, rest
aurant and several other business
enterprise. It lies In the Des
chutes canyon on one of the old
wool trails from the interior to
The Dalles.
Wasco connty has replaced the
pioneer ferry with a new bridge'
across the river, and has built
roads down both sides of the
deep depression where runs the
foaming river. These roads are
on well-planned grades grades
that are the easiest of any lead-
Forest Service Would Stand
Half the Cost Get In
and Help.
The people of Crook county have
an excellent opportunity to draw
the trade of southern Wheeler and
the rich John Day valley in Grant
county in this direction if they will
only get together and second the ef
forts of Supervisor Ross of the for
ing into tbe Deschutes canyon. ' t ,; w. rwt nri
Tbe result is that Maupin is bt-1 by a road through
coming the trading and shipping the 0choC(J regen.e
center, with two railroads as out
lets, for a district about 20 miles
square.
Metolius is the other town less
than two years old. Two years
ago it was a characteristic Central
Oregon flat, with a juniper tree
here and there. Today there are
an excellent hotel and several
prosperous looking business I
houses. Central sidewalks are
laid ' where the jackrabbils 24
months ago were wont to scamper.
The trip of that portion of the
delegation which proceeded the
main Portland body begin at The
Dalles It gave the seekers fcr
kuowledza of their own state a
glimpse of Duf ur, Wamic Tygh
Valley, Maupin. Shantko, Ante.
ope. Gateway, Madras, Metolius
and Lamonta, with a stop for the
night at Prineville. The route
followed was not the shortest be
tween The Dalles and Prineville,
but the party is out to see the
country. The visits to Wamic
and Agency Plains were really
side tirips.
This journey covered a distance
of 170 miles by automobile, after
a t rip of 88 miles by rail to The
Dalles. And at that, the party at
Prineville is not yet at the center
of Oregon.
Mileage figures do not mean
much to many readers. If one
should say that the distance cov
ered by automobile Saturday was
almost the equivalent of a journ
ey from Portland to Seattle, per
haps a better idea would be given
of the ground covered and a ful
ler knowledge of the magnitude
of what that country which Port
land people refer to in general
terms as Eastern Oregon amounts
to in extent.
Whereas the advance guard
goes to Lakeview by way of Burns
and Colonel Hanley 's P ranch, the
main delegation will follow the
route that leads by Silverlake,
Gum mer Lake and the Chewaucan
The latter party will leave Bend
Monday, attend a development
meeting at Fort Rock and spend
the night at Silver Lake, proceed
ing Tuesday to Lakeview.
Work Wanted
Girl wants place to work for board
and go to high bcIiooI. Address "O"
care of Journal. 8-22
Stud Horse for Trade.
Big registered Percheron. Will
take broke horses. Walter Quack
enbush, postoffice box 254, Red
mond, Oregon. 8 15-2o
The gross receipts of the Ochoco
'national forest for the year last
past approximated $12,000, one
tenth of which Is set aside for
the purpose of building roads in
the national forest in the state in
which the revenue is derived.
Mr. Ross does not know of a place
in the state that a road is more urg
ently needed. He Joes not know
of a place where such a compara
tively small sum of money could
open up such a vast country and
serve so many people as by opening
a road from Crook county to Wheel
er county over the Ochoco west
branch divide.' The whole thing
could be done for f 2,500, he says.
He would have the choice of two
routes : one by the Mark's cret k
Notice.
, Parties driving beet cattle on Burns
roail to Prineville can et pasture at
Colby's ranch, one mile off the road.
belov the old Davis ranch on Crooked
river , 8-8-lm
Crook County Journal, county
official paper, f 1.50 a year.
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pass and the other by the Ochoco
pass. If the Mark's creek route
were chosen it would cut off the
Howard postoffice and the upper
Ochoco settlement bat the rotd
would be lower and is less liable to
be blockaded by snow in winter
This route would necessitate tie
building of ten miles of new road.
If the old Ochoco pass is followed
the road could be built with less
expense but would not be as good.
It would be higher up and subject
to winter storms that would greatly
hamper travel.
Manager King of the Wheeler
County Trading Company was in
Prineville last week and he strongly
advycated the building of such a
road. He said the trade of his
country would seek the railroad at
Redmond instead of going to Shan
iko, Condon and other points. A
road in this direction, he said,
would turn the travel this way. It
would furnish an easy access to the
markets of Crook county fcr the
fruit raisers' of that section. All
freighting would come this way.
It would also furnish a good auto
road to Wheeler, Grant and Faker
counties.
Of the 12,500' to be raised for
bailding the road Crook county's
share would be 1600, Wheeler coun
ty 1600 and the forest service
$ 1 ,2 )0. Mr. Ross has already taken
the matter up with Judge Butler of
Wheeler county and the county
court of Crook county, if both
counties agree to do their part of
the work the road will begin at
once. Mr. Ross wants the active
support of the commercial bodies
in the counties affected so that he
can make a strong showing of the
needs of Central Oregon. If the
people will co-operate with him we
can get the road. It is one that
should have been built years ago.
Help it along. J
Organ Wanted.
Gool second hand organ winted.
Must be in good condition. Ai' drees
Mrs. W. P.. Stacks, 'Lamonta, O e. 8-22