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Crook County Journal
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 28, 1912.
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VOL.XVH-N0.1
VISITORS
SURPRISED
At the Prineville Exhibit
at Land Show.
CROOK COUNTY COFFEE HAS
Them All Faded Jack Sum
mer Makes a Big Hit
at Portland.
Portlond Telegram There is
one exhibit In the Land Products
Show where tho coffeo bean can
be found as it grows. Amazing
as it may seom, that exhibit is
from Crook County, the semi arid
realm whore there are cold nights
the year through, and whore dry
farming methods are necessary.
The coffee has been grown on a
mere bush, which the expert
manager of tho exhibit Jack Sum
mers, has nursed to maturity,
Just to show what ho can do.
The exhibit suggests anything
hut a rnnlKHl lunula urhor. roffee
in its natural state thrives. If
over an exhibit was arranged to
make the Western plainsman
ihomeslck, it Is this. After look
ing at it for a moment, you can
mell the sagebrush smoke of
tho Indian tepee, hear the bucca
roos riding through the grease-
wood as tbey attend the Fail rodeo
and see steers fattening on the
whitened bunch grass of the roll-
log hills. If ever a setting was ;
designed which would Bujrgest!
the opposite of a coffee plantation lons are lhe 6nv6t thnt could be
it is that whiff from what thoUund anywhere in the world.
world hns rrgarded the "Eastern
Oregon Desert."
Hut the coffee is there in its
niuivo pod. -on the bush, which
givw on a Prinoville farm. It is
not Mocha nor Java, but the ver
a Inns word of tho muster of
this exhibit is ylveti, that it is
real coffee, of tho bush variety,
ami that its Lome was where tho
coyotes serenade at night and
jackrabblts disport all the time.
For originally, it is conceded
by visitors that the Prinlville ex
hibit is remarkable. It Illust
rates the pace of development
between the Rockies and Casca- j
des, where the sage brush is unl
-versul. An Indian tepee is on
tho right, begriraod with smoke,
from which it would not surprise
one to se tho greasy fuce of a
Piute obtruder. There is grease
wood and sagebrush nest, and
then the famous bunchgrass, just
us it is taken from the Eastern
Oregon hills. Thon come the
tirst products of tha white man,
and Biialy all the vegetables and
fruits known to the region.
Land Product Show Instructive
In point of now developments,
the dry-farm exhibits at the
Land Produnts Show are hold
by many persons to be the most
instructive.' There is one from
Ashland, another from Madras,
a third from Wallowa County and
minor ones from other districts.
In the Ashland exhibit there
are 280 products, most of which
are grown on one farm on the low
hills adjacent to the town. In
the Ashland district tho rainfall
is said to be between 18 and SO
inches a sear, a considerable
portion of w.'Jch of course falls
in the winter. For a long time
tne hills of theRogueRiver basin
were supposed not to be available
(or cultivation, except by moans
of irrigation, but the extensive
work done by the d ry farm near
the town has opened the eyes of
the people of the district, ami
they are urging this ' form of
cultivation.
From Wallowa another exhibit
has been brought by C. U. Carper
of Promise. This man wont Into
what was sn unsettled country
at the time of bis arrival, and bas
made revolutions by long, patient
study of the soil and climate,
f'ich LwerVot thought lW8'iible
uisexniouis commanuing mosi
careful study of the farmers who
are looking to conquest of new
conditions in the Northwest.
Tillman Router, the dry farm
expert of the Madras district, has
from tho view point of moisture
concervation, the most Interest
iDg display of all in this line.
His products were grown in a
section where the average rain
fall runs 10 to 12 inches. Dry
farm experts grow good produce
where tboy get five to six inches
of rain in the year, but for aver
age farming conditions, it is said
that little can be expected where
time is less than 10 Inches. Till
man Router has taken table land
ground of the Deschutes basin
where nothing but grain bus boon
grown In most of the early opera
U'0. and proved that Intensive
farming 18 possible there
with results which are most
striking.
Harney Valley bas an exhibit .
which is partly of irrigated pro
ducts, there Is another from
Puisly, in the Chewaucan Valley,
and a third from the Blue Moun
tain district, but the re are also
examples of artificial moistening
.of the ground, as w.ll as dry farm
worK- tt 1)110 108 ran89 or ino
exhibit in dry farming lines is
Sroat-tho Individual collect-
Telegram.
To Be Held Annually.
Making the Land Product Show
an annuul event, combining
agriculture and horticulture, and
having it cover tho entire North
west, including British Columbia,
was voted yesterday by the ex
hibitors and district represent-"
atives attending the tirst land
product snow ever held in Port
land. This strong sentiment for
continuance of the sow, and for
making Portland its location,
proved very gratifying to the
people of Portland, who were at
the time of the friendly express
ion entertaining the visitors at
luncheon In the Commercial Club.
It has been the desire of the
most public spirited local men to
make the present Land Products
show such a success that it would
be made a permanent institution.
To do this, the producers have
to be satisfied that some ad vant age
to the cause will result from
gathering annually here, and the
people of Portland and adjuoent
country will have to be so inter
ested that they will attend in
large uumbers and furnish the
foundation upon which the pro
ducers and management can
build.
Many ideas have been suggest
ed to make the Land Products
Show more than a mere fair, and
before this week closes it will be
the effort to get a concrete work
ing plan from- ail those who have
studied the situation. Tho fact
that the men who produce the
fruit and agricultural products as
gladly stated that they would do
their part to make the show
permanent, will be a pronounced
encouragement in taking up other
details.
Two general benefits come fro m
SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT ROLL, 1912.
Crook County, Ore.
('lassinrstion of property
Acres of tillable lands .
Acrci of min-tillal)l lands
Improvement on deeded or pUmt-d lands
Town snd city lots . ......
Improvpmwnls on town snd city lota.. ..
Improvements on land not deeded or patented
Stationary engine, manufacturing machinery, etc
MurchandiM) and stock in trade .
Farming implements, wagons, etc
Money, notes and accounts
hharea of slock ..
llouaehold furniture, watches, jewelry, etc
' Homes
Mlieep and Goats .
"oira..
Total ...
Crook County
Good at
"Crook County chxibits and all
other county exhibits at the
Northwestern Products Exposi
tion at Minneapolis, have variety
and quility," writes Mr. John R
Stinson of the Oregon & Western
Colonization Company, who is in
charge of their exhibit there.
"Evry Northwest state is rep
resented by bothstatesnd county
exhibits, but there is nothing
superior to Crook ccunty grains
and grasses.
"Another thing that is attract
ing a great deal of attention is
the fine showing of commercial
sized potatoes..
"While our apple exhibit is
small in size in comparison
with many of the fruit exhibits.
great surprise is shown that we
grow such fine apples. One box
of Winter Banana Apples in
particulsr has excited great in
terest, for in comparson it is a
first class competitor of the same
variety of apples from Wenatchee
Yakima, Outario and other fruit
districts.
"The alfalfa showing is very
tine; wheat, birley, outs and rye
are excellent, but the center
a land show. Ono is to bring
tho producers together for study
of each other's methods, and the
other is to instruct the non-agricultural
population in what the
country is doing, and can be
made to do, that the whole citizen
ship of a state may be allied in
promoting land production at
every opportunity. By holding
a great show each year in an ur
ban center, where a third of the
population of the state resides,
and which will know little or
nothing of agriculture except by
such means, it is believed that
the very highest results may be
attained. Telegram.
Cupid Working
Over Time
County Clerk Brown has issued
the following marriage licenses
since our last issue:
Elmer V. Ward and Iva E. West,
both of Bend.
Albert F. Koehler of Richland,
Wash., and Luella L. Buehler of
Metolius.
Herman W. Kludas of Connell,
Wash., and Ida M. Buehler of Me
tolius. ,
Samuel Reichen and Anna B.
Strasser, both of Madras.
Oren Lott and Lizzie McGhee,
both of Lamonta.
What girl is going to win a silk
dress for Chrsitmas by securing ten
new subscribers for The Journal ?
Work-horse for sale or trade.
Chas F. Condart.
See
11-28
Value
(trio.ws
4,9i7,64S
.'(27.74
t,8.'!7 i
mj7o '
47,650
.,....,.
1,020
10,747
5
17,2W
101,471
2,037
140
285
63,84
270,4.'8
125
266,6.SI
16.,7.i6
8,724
1,821
&!6 :
19,001,677
Makes
Minneapolis
piece of the exhibit is i beautiful
bunch of timothy, some of the
heads of which are 14 inches long.
I have been told by many farmers
that they have never seen any
thinf to equal it.-
"A feature of the exhibit that
is attracting a wonderful amount
of attention and which is certeinly
advertising the fine climate of
central Oregon Is a hive of real,
life bees from Prineville, with an
exhibit of alfalfa honey. Thou
sands of people have been drawn
to the exhibit by their desire to
see the bees working.
"It would require pages to tell
of the wonderful advertising
work that is done in these land
show exhibits. . Every visitor is
from Missouri, and when you are
able to "show him" the actual
products of the soil there is no
better way of convincing them.
I wish I could impress on the
farmers of Crook County the ad
visability of stronger cooperation
with the Commercial Club in pre
paring these exhibits, for every
body contributing toward the ex-1
hibit contrbutes to the growth j
and welfare of Crook County." j
Here's a Chance for
a Lonely Bachelor
A young woman of Pennsylvania
writes to the Journal that she wants
a husband. She isn't so very par
ticular about it either. He must
be somewhere between 35 and 40
and have some means. Now.
Crook county can furnish plenty of
good men who can fill the bill. It
doesn't matter if you have red hair
or no hair at all. Your age can be
anything you want to make it and
as to means well, you can leave
that to your conscience. Gin up,
you old bachelors and make this
girl happy. Her letter reads as
follows:
Crook County Journal.
My dear sir:
Please print the following in
your paper at your earliest conven
ience: Husband wanted by an
Eastern girl, Only one of some
means may write, whose age is be
tween thirty-five and forty.
Respectfully,
Miss Rd. Katherine,
Gen. Del. Pittsburg, Penn.
Laugh and Grow Fat
The one who doesn t want to
laugh should steer clear of the lec
tures to be given by Dr. Bancroft
next Monday and Tuesday evenings
at Club Hall. - .
The high school has been ex
tremely fortunate in booking Dr.
George Gilbert Bancroft for a series
of three lectures to be given at Club
Hall Sunday afternoon, Monday
evening and Tuesday evening.
Number
l.".1.5.-i7
.. 1.416,31
The Sunday lecture entitled
"Man's Hell" is given to men and
boys. Ajmi&sion free. A collec
tion will be taken up, however. On
Monday evening he lectures on
"tv, tr... n 'm-
uj otiu imwiib ui iriairimwiy
or When
Whom and How to Love."
lt vou venture out to
this lecture!
see that your belt is buckled tight,
for we won't be responsible for the 1
l. :.! I;..- I I
reauiui oi mue-npiiiung laugnier.
the lecture is anything foolish for
Dr. Bancroft has a message that is
worth hearing.
Or. Tuesday evening comes his
masterpiece, Hoodoos, or Riddles
of the Mind," in which he will ex
plain in his inimitable way a great
variety of phenomena, dealing many
humorous yet telling blows to the
proverbial black cat, seeing the
moon over the left shoulder, the
rabbit foot, room No. 11, the spill-
ing of salt. No. 13, omens, armu-
lets, etc., etc. Dr. Bancroft is con
sidered by competent judges to be
one of the cleverist and most versa
tile lyceum attractions in the coun
try today, and to miss seeing and
hearing him will be a genuine mis
fortune. Secretary Olcott
Announces Result
Final official figures in the result
of the general election in Oregon
were completed by Secretary Olcott
Saturday, The final count shows
that thi income tax amendment,
which has been reported as carried
several times, lost by 246 votes.
The official count on the lead of
Harry Lane, democratic candidate
for Unite! States senator, over Ben
Selling, republican candidate, is
1719. ; ,
United States senator H a r r y
Lane, dem., 40,172; Ben Selling,
repub., 38,453;
Jonathan Bourne,
25.929; A. E. Clark, prog., 11,083;
B. F. Ramp, soc., 11,093; B. Lee
Paget, prohi., 6853.
Representative in Congress, Sec
ond district N. J. Sinnott, repub.,
15,121; James Harvey Graham,
dem., 8322; George L. Cleaver,
prohi, 1800; C. H. Abercomble, soc.
3037.
Secretary of State Ben W. Ol
cott, repub., 64,023; B. Elmer Ken
nedy, prog., 17,402; F. P. Redda-
way, sec., 13,972; John B. Ryan,
dem., 29,540; O. V. White, -prohi.,
6050.
Justice of the Supreme Court
Robert Eakin, repub., 64,856; C. J.
Bright, prohi., 9689; R. J. Slater,
dem., 35,638; W. C. Weaver, soc,
16,048.
Railroad Commissioner, Second
District Clyde B. Atchison, rep.,
24,545; Lew Anderson, dem., 13,-
111; Louis J. Gates, prohi., 2830;
E. P. Mahaffey, ind., 15,750; Robert
Service, prog., 10,163.
Woman suffrage Yes, 61,265;
no, 57,104. Carried by 4161.
Lieutenant-Governor amendment
Yes, 50,562; no, 61,644; lost by
11,082.
Uniform taxation amendment
Yes, 51,852; no, 56,671; lost by
4S19.
Taxation by classification amend
mentYes, 52,045; no, 54,483; lost
by 2438.
Repealing county tax amendment
Yes, 63,881; no, 47,150; carried by
16,731.
Majority rule on constitutional
amendments Yes, 32,934; no, 70,
825; lost by 37,391.
Amendments to banking corpor
ationYes, 82,981 ; No, 21.736;
carried by 61,243.
Malarkey public utility bill Yes
82,981 ; No, 40,946 ; carried by 25,
029. Cascade County bill Yes, 26,463;
No, 70,239 ; lost by 43,776.
Millage tax bill Yes. 48,701; No,
57,279 ; lost by 8578.
Lost. ltusset leather pocket book,
blue print and other papers. Leave
at Journal oflice. E. S. Fox. 2Slt p
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0
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that many of our readers, both
young and old, have decided to earn
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Now is the time to get busy.
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day you bring in your names,
j This is an excellent opportunity
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Open for Business
. .- -4.:
The Terrebonne Co-Operative
, Creamery will be opened for busi-
ness Saturday, Nov. 30, on and
after which date we will be prepared
to receive cream. We guarantee
to pay Portland market price for
butter fat, and more if the manu
factured product market will war-
; rant. The association is a co-operative
institution and we hope to put
! this appellation to such practical
I use as to convince eream producers
j that it will pay to patronize us.
"Courteous treatment, fair
: weights and just tests," is our
motto. Give us a trial.
Terrebonne Co-Operative Cream
ery Ass'N., Terrebonne, Oregon.
W. E. Johnson, secretary. ll-2S-lt
Teachers' Examination.
Notice Is hereby given 'that the
COUiitv will hold the reeular examin
ation for applicants tor state and
county papers at court house, Priue
villf, as follows :
For state papers: commencing
Wednesday, December IS, 1912, at 9
o'clock a. in. and continuing until
Saturday, December 21, at 4 p. iu.
Wednesday forenoon Writing U.S.
History, Physiology.
Weduesday afternoon : Physical
Geography, Reading, Composition,
Methods In Reading, Methods In
Arithmetic.
Thursday forenoon : Arithmetic,
History of Education, Psyeology,
Methods la Geography.
Thursday afternoon : Grammar,
Geography, American Literature,
Physics, Methods lu Language, The
sis for Primary Certificate.
Friday forenoon : Theory and
Practice, Orthography, English Lit
erature. Friday afternoon: School Law,
Botany, Algebra, Civil Gov't.
Saturday forenoon : Geometry,
Geology.
Saturday afternoon; General His
tory, Bookkeeping.
Yours truly,
R. A. Fohd, Co. Sup't.
Note: Teachers whose certificates
expire in December or February, and
teuchers holdiug county permits,
must take this examination. No
second permit can be granted.
The text on Theory aud Practice is
Colgrove.