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The CvcOFFiaAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1913.
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VOL. XVII NO. 6
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7 Herman Poch. it woll known
)Jrancber and fur dealer of this
city, with lib home milee up
. Ochoco, wis shot and almost In
ttaolly killed Tuesday morning
V bit stepson, Us j lord McDan
ft who immediately phoned the
sYirilf and gave hinmelf into
custody. Hie shooting occurrod
at 8:25, and at 8:80 the victim
was dead. The shooting was
done with a IL'gaugo Winchester
shotgun, and several wounds
were Inlllctod, one shot piercing
the heart. Hie others Injured
the chest and other organs of the
thoracclo cavity.
Coroner Hyde and County
Physician Edwards were early
n the scene, the former with
hastily Impanelled jury, and the
mother and her son were subject
ed to a rigid cross-examination,
von though the boy admitted
tlrlr.g the fatal shot,
j The tragedy seems to have
s beon the outcome of a long and
serious tale of domestic Infelicity.
Married lust Muy, Mr. sod Mrs.
I'och appear to have run Into
trouble almost from the start,
as the testimony adduced si the
coroner's Inquest shows con
clusively. The fur dealer and
bis wife did not get along, and
either a separation or a tragedy
was bound to be. The evidence
there given was in some particul
ars unfit for publication, being of
such a revolting nature. The
twdy was brought to town Tues
tiny sfternoon and prepared for
burial.
Herman Pooh was a man well
liked all over the county. ij
secured a piece nf laud which
wus bis home several years ago
and has made it Into a splendid
little ranch, starting without one
Boost for the National Highway
from New York to Portland
The secretary of the Prineville
Commercial Club has received the
following letter from ('has. W.
Thatcher on good roads, which
should receive the 'special attention
of the jieople of this county. Such
a highway would he a great thing
for any country, hut more eecial
ly for a sparsely settled region
like Central Oregon. I?y all means
let us boost for the road. The let
ter reads:
Kngineer's camp en route, Sacra
mento, Culif., December 27, 1912.
My dear sir
I regretted beyond my capacity
to give expression that I was un
able te reach your city last August.
I have good news for you. Your
city is oh the nationul routo of a
great national highway from New
York to Portland called the Lewis
and Clark Boulevard. I shall start
from San P rancisco in the spring
and go to Salt Lake City and Oma
ha and back through Oregon to
Portland in August. I shall come
from Boise via Weiser, Vale, Har
ney, Burns, Prineville and Sisters
Pass to Portland. I shall also put
up markers, monuments and paint
directions' for tourists along the
route as well as hold booster meet
ings for good roads. La Pine will
have a monster barbeque at this
time. I feel confident that Prine
ville will not want a sister town to
excel them in boosting. You may
rest assured if Prineville advertises
the Good Roads' convention as she
. should and makes preparation in
by Step-Son
dollar and building It entirely
by his own effort, and his murder
wrought the settlers in his
neighborhood up to a white heat
The bearing of his slayer will
probably take place January 2.
although the time has not yet
been set. Following Is the cor
oner's verdict:
We, the jury empanelled by the
coroner of the state snd county
aforesaid,' to Inquire into the
death of Herman Poch. find thst
thodoceased, Herman Poch, came
to bis deatn in Crook County,
State of Oregon, at the ranch ofU
deceased about 8 miles east of)
the City of Prlnevllle, from
wounds caused by a shot fired
by and In the hands of Gsylord
McDsnlul, death occurring about
HMO o'clock in the morning of
December 8!, 1912, said shot
being fired with Intent to kill.
J. P lllanchard
L. M. Dechtell
Jesse Yancey
Henry A. Cram
Edgar J. Hundy
L. B. Lafollett.
(i ay lord Mc Daniel, the slayer,
is in the county jail pending the
preliminary examination. He is
23 years old, and a son of Mrs.
Poch by her first husband. She
has a son by her second husband,
Hobort J. Brown, aged six, who
is with his mother st tne ranch
McDanlr.l was vry cool at the
coroner's inquest, telling a
straight story and was seemingly
not a particle sorry for having
committed thecrime, and even the
widow testified that she would
have killed ber husband if the
boy had failed to do so. I'och
was 53 years of age, and has two
sisters, whom the authorities are
now trying to locate.
proportion to the calibre of the en
terprise that I will give you a date.
And besides I will look forward to ;
making it the greatest good roads
rally ever held in Central Oregon.
We can not boost too strenuously
at that time as we want an appro
priation for a state highway East
and West through Prineville from
Portland to the Idaho line. I shall
go from Prineville next August to
hold booster meetings in Portland
and Salem, We want a booster
Good Roads' convention in Prine
ville that will reach from hill to
hill, over mountain peuka and plain
to the very walls of the capitol, the
people's voice should be heard.
Let all Prineville and country com
mence now to plan and boost for
this meeting. I feel sure that some
big-hearted rancher will be too glad
to offer a young beef for a barbe
que at that time, and the hunters
will fall over one another to furnish
several venison. Around the ban
quet board while partaking of this
cheering repast we will also partake
of a more radiant feast which will
represent a great highway from
ocean to ocean through Prineville
which will mean a city of thirty
thousand in twenty years. Los
Angeles has sprung from a city of
fifty thousand to almost four hun
dred thousand in twenty years with
only a fraction of the resources of
Prineville. Dreams materialize in
proportion to the strength of the
desire, and the desire is gauged by
the amount of effort to bring about
a realization of these dreams.
Good roads and national high
way. have advanced by lea,,, and fQf Summcr PastUre
bound since I pasted through Cen
tral OreRon. It marks the eve of
an epoch-making period in good Chance 4 Kimbl r
rr.l.' hUrnrv. I hv. t raveled i men that bought the Lone Pine
since August hundreds of miles ,
searching for engineering reasons
constructed up the Sacramento riv-j,lac wl" 10 Provlde mmer
er through California should not Pture-
join Central Oregon at Klamath! 1 want 10 keeP itock" Mid Mr
P.ll. ln.i..i f .rln. th Ki.klJ Chance, 'and I cannot do it with-
vnu mountain, tn Aahlanri .'out Pture.
..Hnnmi !
I hsve succeeded far beyond my .
fondest hopes. The stack ofengi-i
neering evidence in my possession ! Now-1 8m oin to mak P""
most eloquently declares that theture that wi" keeP 100 head of
Central Oregon route is the ony ! k on the new place. This I can
logical route for this great inter-'
national highway from Mexico to
Panaris I TVMtaj.ua tnuiila tnfnrmft.
- ,. that telta m, we tan .
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j..n.v. r.. r.n.,i nrn.. ir ,.!". Then I will go over the ground
bring a strong pressure to bear up-
u'ii a wa w v hi viLft"" a
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on the section or California that
controls the political situation, be -
fore the convening of the e(riata.
ture in January. If thousands of ,
letters in the next ten days pour In-1
to the address below, Central Ore."''"1 UWBa" J0Ke oul Jusl
gon has won this great treasure ' what h ha8 done for that 8tate-
trove n the form of a ereatnat on -
a) highway, l am sure
you will
recognize this as an
opHirtunity to perform
service for your country.
And 1 1
anticipate in advance that you will
enter into this campaign with fiery
enthusiasm. Kindly write to the
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sufficient number of carhon ennies
in your city and vicinity can sign a
full set and mail one to each 'ad
dress. Call at your school and by
personal address ap)eal to each
student to write a full set of postal
cards and mail one to each address.
It is a superb writing lesson and
the teacher will take pleasure in
writino- the form nnd sil.ireases on
the hoard. Thin is the form p,t
by the schools: j we" that me P8- swiftly and
IVar sir ' that everv da' '8 a hew beginning
j Please aid Chas. W. Thatcher in! else many, might become too dis
boosting the Yellowstone Boulevard j couraged to press forward in the
throuirh Central Oregon unon his
arrival in your city.
Yours truly.
Name
Hundreds of letters from Prine
ville will place your city more con
spicuously on the map and impifWs
unon the minds of the powers that
rule in California that Central Ore-
m.n U th hoar mot for thi dtpbi
national highway.
Remember my services are yours
at any time. My heart is with
vmir .tmn in it ffm-t fr ,Wol.
nnment and no task will he ton
! 1 10 a?sist you jf m r
to do so. Yours truly,
Chas. W. Thatcher.
Important addresses
President Moore, Panama Expo
sition, San Francisco, Calif.
Bec'y Chamber Commerce, Stock
ton, Calif.
Sec'y Chamber of Commerce,
Sacramento, Calif.
Sec'y Chamber of Commerce,
Maryville, Calif.
Sec'y Chamber of Commerce,
Oroville, Calif.
Sec'y Chamber of Commerce,
Chico, Calif.
Horses for Sale
Addresa K. V,
Otegou.
Constable
rrineville,
12
Notice
Parties having horses in my pasture
are requested to remove them at once.
1-2 2tp Mkd Vaxui tool.
Keys Lost
Home Security Savings Bank, Bell
ingham, Wash., key ring. Kinder re
turn to olllce and receive reward. 12
For Sale or Trade.
Oue Holmes Business College
Scholarship, value 75. Student
nniHt enter More January 1, 1913.
Inquire, ol Mrs. J.C.Breeding. 12-12 2t
I Will Grow Rye
ranch trom the O'Neil Bros.
Mr.
that
Chance inform the Journal
the first thin ne will do on the new
That is what is the
matter with so many farms
in this
countrv
They nave no pasture for
d0 by owln two hundred acres to
rye.
"No, I'll not clean it
but just sow the seed
up at all,
broadcast
over the rough land, sagebrush and
w',th ';ttht
cultivator and the
thinir rtcna If ( tw. ffiuwawnvV
" ..-.. ...
:either' witn me- 1 have tried il
! years and I know just what I'm
k... tl..'. i .i
BU"ul- ,,uw "K
came to have wild oata in California. !
1"" - ' v"um "Ul KCl ",U,,B
: D U 1 1 1 a 1
iv. vvc, bucii as i nave jusii
unparalleWidriM'wiIlworkwo"derginthiHcHo L l 1
ti a lasting tounlry- And furthermore, it will ; otinson, say that they are more than
y necessary w reseea tne lanu
i once in four years.
"Yes sir. Til be very glad to
K""5 ",e "urn' "
! experiments in Crook county. There
L 1 I at li m
vruiieuia in vruon county . mere j 11
t a doubt in my mind about thejbody came through
The Glad New Year.
"0 Rlsd New Year! O lsd New Tear!
Du n brightly on as ill,
And bring us hopes, our hem te to cheer,
Whatever may bfall."
The year 1912 (with all its joys
I and sorrows, its successes and fail
! ures has passed into history. It is
: rae Ior Posmon, weaJUl ana honors.
The beginning of a new year is
an incentive for new hopes, new as
pirations and a greater determina
tion to accomplish ones ambition.
We start the new year on a new
level and under different conlitions.
An added
year gives us another
viewpoint and enables us to see our
! defects more plainly. The increased
j knowedse and riper experience
: Qualify us for better living and
working, thus making us of greater
service to our fellow man. What-
ever the past held of sorrow or
failure, has passed with the old
year and deserves no part of our
present strength and thought. The
past is gone and we cannot change
its record but we may mold the
coming months of the new year and
make of them what we will. The
future has its contingencies but it
has its certainties as well as its pos
sibilities and probabilities. With
renewed determination and with
careful preparation and thought we
can achieve greater success than
ever before. This success may not
be the accumulation of wealth nor
the gaining of honors but if we
have msde lighter the burdens of
another; if we have made smooth
the rugged path of the weary and
discouraged then we may feel we
have won success in the higher
sense of the word.
Eighth Grade Examinations.
Notice Is hereby given that the
8th grude exumiuatlous tor January
will be held Thursday and Friday,
January 16 aud 17. The program
will be as follows :
Thursday Physiology, writing,
history and civil government.
KrWay Grammar, a r 1 1 huiettc,
gecgraphy and spelliug.
Railroad to Prineville
Practically Assured
The third time is the charm. This
seems to be true regarding a railroad to
Prineville. It is practically assured that
the terms of the Scheel proposition can be
met and that this city will be connected
by rail with one or both of the trunk lines
entering Crook county. This much the
financial committee concedes. There are
a number of large contributors who live in
the country or out of town that have not
subscribed but will do so at the first op-
.
pOlftUnity.
The soliciting committee, composed
f a
Elkins,
fT VlAOOvn
ui iflOolOi
pleased at the unanimity with which peo
ple met the call for subscriptions. . Every-
gested. , So certain is the committee that
the full amount to be subscribed can be
raised that they have telegraphed Mr.
Scheel that it is up to him to do his part
of the contract. So it is practically settled
that Prineville will get the roadr Hoopla.
A Spokane Capitalist Buys the
. Two Electrical Companies
The electric light controversy
has been settled. Mr. Syvier of
Spokane is now the owner of the
Prineville Light A Water Co. and
Mr. Jacobs' interests at Cline Falls,
and all rights, title and interest of
the Cove Power Co. The deal was
put through the first of the week.
This is undoubtedly the best way
to settle the matter. ; For a time
Prineville would have profited from
the rivalry of the two companies
but in the long run nothing would
have been gained.. Fierce competi
tion is always followed by consoli
dation. This is the history of suA
struggles. We might have had free
electricity or "juice at a nominal
sum" for a few years as suggested
by a member of one of the com-
Flow of Oil Struck
Summer Lake Valley
Silver Lake, Or., It became
known today that Orval Polly
struck a flow of oil while drilling
for artesian water on his desert
claim, which is located in the end
of Summer Lake Valley, where
an artesian belt is located. Thir
teen flows of artesian water have
been obtained by different resi
dents of the section during the
past year at depths ranging from
130 to 600 feet.
. Mr. Pollv was sinking a well
on his claim and at the depth
400 feet a flow of illuminating oil
flowel
out. The well now is I
Baldwin. Smith and
li
with the amount sug
panie. but after that. Well, its
all settled.
Of one thing we are assured and
that is Prineville will have a 24
hour service just as soon as it is
pos-ible to furnish it. Cheap power
will do as much for this city as the
coming of the railroad.
The Cove power plant will be
completed at once. Mr. Simpson,
a-i expert in his line, is expected to
morrow night to take charge of con
struction work. Redmond will have
current tomorrow night and Prine
ville about the first of the month.
The terms ,pf sale have not been
mado public as yet, but it is said
that the Cove Power Co. git tlfiO -000
or better.' This money wiil
now be turned into other channels
for the development of this country.
emitting a howling noise, which
causes some apprehens.ion among
the natives.
Gas wa9 found near the center
of this basin last Spring at a
depth of 200 feet. This well was
sunk to a depth of 625 feet and
the gal increased in volume.
Several times meals were pre
pared over the flowing gas, which
forced its way through huudreds
of feet of water.
It has bean thought for soma
time that an oil basin lay beneath
the section, but the people were
not looking for oil. their object
being to secure natural flows of
water to improve the surround-
of;iug fertile land.
Wri 625-foot well
is located
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