Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921, August 29, 1912, Image 4

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    OREGON'S GOVERNOR
ON UOJULMUSADE
Chief Executive Declares War
on Vice Conditions in City
of Portland.
Fortland. "I'm prepared to go down
the line on the enforcement of the law
In Portland an,d 1 am here to ask your
cooperation. If I don't get that, I will
go H alone, and from now on I will
be on the Job every minute aa long
as I am In office. I will clean up Tort
land It it takes me until January 9,
1915."
With this declaration, Covernor
West announced hia crusade against
vice in Portland, at a meeting with
the mayor, chief of police, district at
torney and members of the municipal
association and vice commission at
the office of the mayor. Sheriff Stev
ens did not attend the meeting, send
ing word that he was too busy.
During the whole session the air
was charged with tension. Covernor
West sweepingly declared that none
pt the city or county authorities had
been doing their duty.
Governor West announced the ap
pointment of Walter fl. Evans as spe
cial deputy in District Attorney Cam
eron's office to handle vice cases, and
declared his intention of appointing
Tom Word, W. H. Fitzgerald and other
candidates for election as sheriff as
deputies to aid In law enforcemeuL
Sheriff Robert L. Stevens takes the
position that he has been performing
the duties of his office according to
the requirements of law, and will not
recognize the governor's right to in
terfere with him in that work.
District Attorney Cameron Issued a
formal statement in which he attacked
the governor's activity in Portland and
assumed an attitude of defiance to
ward the governor's declaration of In
tention to place special deputies In
his office to prosecute the vice cases.
ROOSEVELT MUST WAIT
Senate Committee Unable to Arrange
Early Hearing.
Washington. Colonel Roosevelt will
not have an opportunity to answer
John D. Archbold's statements before
the senate in committee Investigating
campaign expenditures until late In
September.
Senator Clapp, chairman of the com
mittee before which Mr. Archbold told
his story of having contributed $100,
000 to the Roosevelt fund in 1904, tel
egraphed Colonel Roosevelt that the
committee would not be able to hear
him, as the colonel desired.
COLONEL TO WRITE
FULL STATEMENT
Oyster Bay, N. T. Having failed to
obtain a hearing before the senate
committee investigating campaign con
tributions because of the Inability of
the committee to get together. Colonel
Roosevelt plans to write the commit
tee a letter, embodying some of the
things to which he would have testi
fied. He reiterated his declaration that
he knew nothing of a contribution by
Mr. Archbold, of the Standard Oil
company, to the republican campaign
Of 1904.
Mr. Archbold testified that he under
stood Colonel Roosevelt knew about
and Indorsed the Standard Oil contri
butions which came through the late
Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the
republican national committee.
Four In Auto Rob Bank.
' Vancouver, B. C. Four masked for
eigners entered the Cedar Cottage
branch of the Bank of Hamilton at 9
o'clock Saturday night and while three
of them held up the officials, the
fourth man rifled the cash drawer,
besides taking about $400 lying on
the teller's desk.
T. R. MEN PLAN TO FIGHT
Eastern Washington Convention In
dorses Full County Tickets.
Spokane. Roosevelt progressives
representing the 11 eastern counties
of Washington met here and discussed
the question of putting county tickets
in the field. All were agreed on the
proposal to support an entire state
ticket, but representatives from Pend
d'Orellle, Franklin and Adams coun
ties protested vehemently against
1 nominating coisnty tickets.
A rote on this proposal was strongly
In favor of the new party county tick
ets, but It was expressly stipulated
that this decision was not binding on
the indi viduaf counties.
Tobacco Used Liberally in California.
San Francisco. California con
sumes more high grade cigars and to
bacco per capita than any other sec
tion of the United States, according to
Percival S. Hill, president of the
American Tobacco company, whe Is In
this clt on a VlsIL
GOVERNOR WEST
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Governor West, of Oregon, who has
announced a crusade against vlc in
Portland, declaring local officials have
not been doing their duty.
Brief News of the Week
Tetitions to abolish hanging in Cali
fornia have so far failed, and Gover
nor Johnson refuses longer to grant
reprieves.
Bids will be opened September 3 at
Portland. Seattle and San Francisco
for 10.000 tons of hay and S000 tons
of oats for shipment to the Philip
pines. Japan's building at the Panama Pa
cific exposition will cost $1,000,000,
will occupy four acres, filled with rare
plants and flowers, and will be a per
manent gift to the people of the Uni
ted States.
To accommodate travelers of moder
ate means, the Southern Pacific has
put into operation a "lunch counter
car" between San Francisco and Los
Angeles, the first ever put Into service
on an American railroad.
Affairs In Nicaragua are growing
worse daily. It Is now apparent that
more American bluejackets and mar
ines must be landed on Nicarnguan
soil if the safety of American life and
property are to be assured.
The United States fuel ship Jupiter,
the first electrically driven sea-going
vessel ever built and the largest ship
of every description ever laid down on
the Pacific coast, has been launched
at Mare Island navy yard. i
People in the News
Orville Wright, flying a hydroplane
In an experimental flight at Dayton,
Ohio, took an unexpected plunge Into
the Miami river when making a turn,
and was only, saved from death by the
shallowness of the stream.
A' plea to negroes to cease depend
ing on uncertain Jobs as a means of
livelihood and to enter farming and
commercial lines was mado by Dr.
Booker T, Washington In an address
before' the National Negro Business
league.
Miss Dora Keen, of Philadelphia,
who led an expedition up Mount
Blackburn, reaching the summit May
19 and removing it from the list of
Alaska's unsealed peaks, has arrived
In Seattle on her way home from the
north. Miss Keen says the mountain
is 17,500 feet high, Instead of 16,140 as
shown on the maps.
Political News Bits
Speaker Clark will slump Maine for
Governor Wilson this week.
Women's departments have been
opened In New York for each of the
political parties. J
A Roosevelt progressive candidate
will contest the re-election of Repre
sentative Longworth, a son-in-law of
Colonel Roosevelt.
With the Idea that the country Is
tired of stumping tours, Governor Wil
son has announced that his present
plans call for few campaign speeches.
Senator Dixon denies the charge of
Senator Penrose that $3,000,000 had
been raised by George W. Perkins to
secure Roosevelt's nomination as the
republican candidate for president.
Dixon says the amount spent did not
exceed $160,000.
It is reported that Rudolph Sprock
ets, of California, and John J. Blaine,
of Wisconsin, both supporters of Uni
ted States Senator La Follette In his
campaign for the republican presiden
tial nomination, have agreed to head
an organization to work for Woodrow
Wilson in the presidential campaign.
Official count of the Kansas primary
gives Colonel Roosevelt a majorly of
34,000 over President Taft. Governor
Stubbs was nominated for United
States senator, although Senator Cur
lis received a popular majority of
1050, the nomination being made by
legislative districts. 2SS3SHSf.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
I'nion county will have no prugrvsa
Ive ticket
Work will soon bt'tiln on the $10,000
hosplml to be built at Dalln.
Albany's first Industrial school fair
whlrh closed Scturday proved an un
qualified success. '
The mnnagi'ptent of the Harney
county fair expects the boat fair ever
held, tHH-nuse of the unusual support
offered.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
aa finally agreed to by both houses,
(Ives $53,000 for roads and bridge In
Crater Lake Park.
Many of the bustne.ts places In Port-'
land voluntarily closed Monday dur
ing the fuuernl of the late Postmaster'
Charles B. Merrick.
Walter Waltoneu, a fisherman, was
drowned in the Columbia river, a
short distance below Tongue Point,
near Astoria, Frlily.
H. E. Roberta, sentenced to be hang
ed for the murder of IXinald Stewart,
waa reprieved by Governor West until
Friday, December IS.
Twelve hundred men, regulars aud
guardsmen, are playing the war game
at Fort Stevens, and day and uight
the camp ts prepared tor action.
Mill No. 1 of the Falls City Lumber
company, located two mile from Falls
City, was destroyed by tire, causing
a loss of $in.000 aud throwing 125 men
out of work.
The Indian bill, as finally adopted,
carries $66,000 to settle Chinook and
Tillamook Indian claims, and $199,000
for maintaining Indian agencies and
schools in Oregon.
A serious accident occurred on the
Jetty trestle at the mouth of the river
when two locomotives. Nos. 14 and 15,
collided at the Jetty sands, and three
men were injured.
The salmon season closed Sunday
along the Columbia river and report
Indicate that a big shortage Is shown
as compared with lust season. Kstl
mates of the loss range from 30 to 40
per cent.
The state board has appointed Dr.
Wilson McNary of Portland us super
intendent of the eastern Oregon In
sane asylum. For 18 years Dr.
McNary we i engaged at the state asy
lum at Salem.
The general deficiency appropria
tion bill reported to the senate carried
the Chamberlain amendment appro
priating $193,543 to pay the war claim
of the state of Oregon against the fed
eral government.
Senator Chamberlain hns made the
following nominations of candidates
for admission to the United States
Naval academy In 1913: Irvine French,
Enterprise, principal; Conrad L. Jack
son, Portland, first alternate.
Major Mclndoe, Corps of Engineers,
Major Mclndoe, corps of engineers,
U. S. A., has Issued specifications for
the delivery of 350,000 tons of rock at
Fort Stevens for use on the south
jetty at the mouth of the Columbia.
Bids will be opened September 25.
The gasoline schooner Welhelmlna,
which struck on the Sluslaw bar while
attempting to cross In Thursday after
noon, broke her rudder and went on
the beach half a mile to the north of
the entrance, will probably be saved.
The voters of Milwaukle turned
down both amendments to the town
charter as prepared by the city council
to condemn property for street and
sewer purposes. The vote on this
amendment was 50 for and 95 against. '
During the past few weeks there has ;
been unusual activity In timber lands
In Oregon. It Is estimated that be- .
tween $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 has :
been Invested in Oregon timber, the !
larger part of which being eastern !
capital. I
A $100,000,000 corporation has been j
organized at Los Angeles to develop '
the potash deposits of Oregon. A 40 '
year lease has been secured on Sum- 1
ner and Albert lakes which hold, ac-
cording to estimates, 3,500,000 tons of
potash salts in a soluble state.
Finding himself unable to collect
small credits aggregating the sum of
$85, which he has extended to the pub
lic during the past year In the filing
of papers In his department, Corpora
tion Clerk Ttuhcnck hn nWlnred thnf
he will abolish the credit system.
The bill confirming title of all Inno
cent purchasers who acquired lands
from the Oregon & California railroad
company Is now a law, It having been
signed by the president. The bill con
firms every action thus far taken by
the department of justice against the
railroad company.
Joseph Johnson, a brakeman on one
of the Chapman Timber company's
trains, was killed at the camp, 10
miles west of Scappoose. Johnson
was helping to load a donkey engine
onto a flat car when the heavy skid
of the moving donkey truck struck
him, crushing him againBt the front
of the locomotive. ,
To tap a Btand of 12,000,000 feet
of the finest Douglas fir in existence,
the Silver Falls Lumber company will
begin Immediate construction of a 25
mile logging road, built on main line
standards, southeasterly from Silver
ton, at a cost ef $500,000. Contracts
for grading, ballasting and tracklaylng
have been let to Flagg Btandifer of
Portland. "'.jS&W&WSST '.it-to
IB y v ; nd make your chokd two VTfl
lewl IliiMi
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gun
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icattctload 1k4. !ir!l open
youi uuu un ncuncr gci loo
la a i r i
t pccBu system n wanning gives r is yu. a ijur.iu nuu
to that of ilwJarti kIicII at 40 yJs, and with greater
penetration.
The Htvl lining ftvtt Uw l rJuo rmfrrt .(wtlrm.
(( a bos tu-dy. Youf Ik.J uetUv Ha itwnu
Try llxaa on or"ff t"', with your old dink fin.
Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co.
99d tlrtkacturav New York Titv
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I Premiums 1,500. Races $3,000
(FUN, AMUSEMENT, INFORMATION & INSTRUCTION
W The anniml Wxn.-o and Iloml KiviT Colin IV Fair will U held at
THE DALLES, OCT. 1. 2. 3 and 4, 1912. Thi rxlilbiiion will romfrliw
horse, cattle, sheet', swine poultry, larm pnHtin-ts, Iruit, tlowerx mr.
chamline, nmnufiu-turi'ii, msi-hltiery, wuiuan'swoik, art, children's exliib
its of art and ituril, ninn. H-el ronli'nti', novid attrai-imns an I enlrrlain
mi!it thai will tu-kle you very niuckly. Cume and have the Iw-t time id
your lifH and you will live lllty yr lunger (
Dont Forget the Date.
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Pioneer -
None
Money Back if You
Made at
Pioneer
Agents DeLaval Separator.
: PrinevilleRedmondSisters Stage Line
, Matt Kulesch, Proprietor.
Passenger Fare to Redmond, $1.50. Express from Red
mond to Prineville, one-half cent per pound for over 50
pounds. Small packages of less than 50 pounds, 25c
Leaves Prineville for Redmond Daily. Office at the
Pioneer Cream Company.
11-16 S. R. COOPER, Agent
Statement of Resources and Liabilities of
The First National Bank
Of Prineville, Oregon
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loam and DIkotuiiU S2M,M5 0.1
United HtaUit Bond 18JW0 ou
Bank freml,eti!....: 12,540 VI
Ciuib Due from bank 'IW.tH 01
B. F. All.o, Pr.ald.nl
Will Warjw.U.r. Vk.-PmU.at
W. A, Booth, Pre.
Drook County Bank
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capital Mock, Pll in I 90,000 00
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Uepoalta m,m 63
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TO LOAN
On Improved. Producing
FARMS
Large Loam a Specialty
A. R. BOWMAN
Prineville, Oregon
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Laflers Studio
Fruit Trees!
Central Oregon Crown
The only khxl you run ntTunl
to plant. ILLUSTRATED
CATALOGUE FREE. Wrlto
lor oni'. I'rliifi low riumnli
to mirprlmi yuti.
Ufollette Nursery Co.
Prinrvill., . 6 fl . Ornfon
" RECEPTION "
Smith &' AUingham, Propi.
Champ Htnltli'i old "Iniul.
Imported and Domestic
Cigars
Famous Whiskiet
Old Crow; Hermitage; Red
Top Rye; Yellow Stone;
Canadian Club; Cream
Rye; James E. Pepper;
Moore's Malt.
Porter, Ale and Olympia
Draft Beer on Tap.
Imported Wines and
Liquors.
A AAA
The Oregon Bar
At the Old Stand
G.W. Wiley & Co., Prps
All kinds of Choice Liquors
Wines and Cigars.
Famous Ranier Beer in
Bottles and on Draft.