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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1913.
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VOL. XVII NO. 19
City Dads Meet
In Regular Session
Contract Let to Light the City
Look Out for Your Dogi
and Chickens.
Cove Power Plant
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Ready for Business
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The city council met Tuesday
evening in regular aeiwion. 1'reaent
Mayor Clifton, Councilman Gray,
Oooier, Ward, LafollcUo, Zevoly
and Shipp. Recorder Howman,
Marshal Coon and Nightwatch
Huston,
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
Chairman Ward of the Streets
and I'ulilic Improvements commit
tee reported the need of a city
dumping ground for garbage. He
thought the promiscuous dumping
wf trajih on low ground on the north
side stop was a menace to the pub
lic health as well as unsightly for a
town that made any pretentions to
neatnem. The council agreed with
him and Instructed his committee to
confer with the Oregon & Western
Colonization Co. in regard to Be
curing ground for said purpose.
Meantime, the marshal was in
structed to see that garbage was
not dumped all over town.
The street at the east end of the
F street bridge will be graded and
made passable for all kinds of traf
fic. E. H. Smith was granted permis
sion to alter the front part of his
building.
J. II. Wlmlom asked permission
to build a garage in a blind street
adjoining his ptereiaja . that was
never used for any purpose The
council took the ground that while
they could not grant such permis
sion Mr. Windom might use it for
the purpose specified as long as it
diil not inconvenience the public.
The recorder, marshal und night
watch made reports which were ai
proved and ordered filed.
The following bills were ordered
paid :
Wliinck Co, iihIhk $ 1 05
Win Johnson, cliivkliitf tox roll 3 00
H C Klmlor, labor 7 00
I W Ward, lulior , 8 00 '
T I? J lnlty, service 5 00 j
Cluuile Smith, trt'its snlit y 2. 00
WnuV lliiHtun, iilnlilwotcli 47 M
Mrs Muling, rent 25 00
A It Ituwimin, fees 10 45
Deschutes rower Co f2 15
K M TeinpletoiMilglitwiiteli HO 00
Marshal Conn, salary 75 00
C O T Ai T Co ,. 4 00
Two ordinances were passed to
put a crimp on the running at large
of domestic fowls and dogs.
The chicken ordinance makes it a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine
of from t5 to tl!5, or to be con
fined in the city jail one flay for
each $2 of such fine, not to exceed
30 days, to allow chickens, ducks,
.geeso or other domestic fowl to
run at largo upon the streets of
Prineville. They tuny be- confined,
however, on private ground with
out molestation on the part of the
city olhcials. Ihls ordinance is
now in effect. Head the ordinance
in another column.
The dog ordinance imposes the
aaino fines and penalties and makes
tlio same reservations as the chicken
ordinance. Doth ordinances are di
rected more especially to town
nuisances than to country people
who come in to trade. The niarshal
was instructed to use his discretion
in the matter, but to show no mercy
to city violators of the ordinance.
Look out for him.
Another good thing the city coun
cil did was to make a three-year
contract with the Deschutes Power
Co. to furnish 23 100-watt tungston
lamps and 7 arc lights of 2000
candle power'to light the city. The
city pays $2.50 a month for the
small lights and 17.50 for the larger
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OREGON
ST.
Otvgnn will no dnulit derive grrst anil
luting bnflts from the rmncnt dit
pUv of grsins snd grmiun in the exhi
bition room of the Northwest Develop
ment League la BL Tsui. Splendid
samples of wheat, oats, flax, rye and
barley were part of the state's mag
nificent agricultural exhibit at the recent
Minneapolis and Chicago land ahows and
were brought East for display purpose
by the Great Northern Railway. Com
mercial organlutioni, the railroads and
the Development League are carrying on
an extensive publicity campaign to at
ones. The lighting system will be
the most up-to-date to be had. It
will be installed within the next 30
(days if the material can be found
on the coa-st, but if not, then with
I in the next 60 days.
I The matter of Vlowing, watering
and seeding the city park was
PH'cea in Hie hands ot louncilmen
Gray. He will take the matter up'
at once. Council adjourned.
Ladies Annex Holds
Regular Meeting
The Ladies' Annex held its regu
lar business meeting on Tuesday
afternoon.
The following officers were chosen
to serve for one year: President,
Mrs. John Wigle; vice-president,
Mrs. Oscar Hyde; secretary, Miss
Dollio Hodges; treasurer, Miss
Baldwin.
Mrs. Carey Foster suggested that
the club have a tag day for the pur
pose of raising money to help beau-
tny me paiK. iius motion was
unanimously carried and a commit
tee appointed to arrange for it.
The remainder of the time was
sient in discussing the culture of
plants that are best suited to this
section.
J. A. Churchill
Succeeds Alderman
Governor West has appointed J.
A. Churchill of Baker, Oregon, to
succeed State Superintendent Alder
man. This change is to take place
July 1st.
jvir. Lnurciull is considered one
of the foremost educators of the
state and is thoroughly acquainted
and in sympathy with all depart
ments of school work. He has
taught in the Baker schools for the
past twenty years and has placed
them among the best in the West.
It would be dillicult to find a man
who is better prepared for this
work than Professor Churchill,
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WELL REPRESENTED IN THE PERMANENT
PAUL AGRICULTURAL DISPLAY FROM
"ZONE OF PLENTY."
tract the attention of visitors in the
Twin City to the display of the products
of the anil of the American Northwest
and it is likely thousands of people will
view the exhibit annually.
One of the features of the Oregon
exhibit is a sample of fall rye seven feet
high. Varieties of oats Include Mam
moth Cluster, Storm King and Silver
Mine. White Bonanza is also ahown in
the display. Crail Fife, Big Club, Blue
Stem and Red Club varieties of wheat
are well featured in the Oregon grain
exhibit. Excellent Has
row barley form a part ot the display.
Shelled grains in glass jars complete the
grain exhibit. Grass
Homeseekers Should
Investigate
Lawrence Thompson, of Minne
sota, was a caller at the Journal of
fice Saturday. He was one of a
party of prosjiective settlers who
were attracted to this country by
advertisements that were misleading.
Perhaps the newcomers expected
too much. At any rate when they
landed at their destination and took
a survey of their surroundings, they
were so disjusted that all of the
party except Mr. Thompson took
the next train for Portland. The
report of these people will work an
injury to this country for which
those responsible for sending out
the wild statements and those who
made a hasty examination of its re
sources will both be at fault. Peo
ple cannot form a correct judgment
of a country by simply looking
around a few miles from town.
Meaner should they condemn a
country as worthless for agricultur
al purposes until a thorough inves
tigation has been made. Mr.
Thompson was the only one of the
Minnesotans who had ever heard of
Prineville and he decided to take a
look at the place, and he is not sor
ry. He has decided to make his
home in this neighborhood. He
thinks, however, that Prineville
should make enough noise about its
resources to attract the attention of
people ivho are looking for homes in
a new country. Families that want
land and a chance to make a living.
Mr. Thompson saw better opportu
nities right here than at any other
point investigated since leaving ,St,
Paul.
Bids for Wood Wanted
150 cords ot 4-foot yellow pine, all
body wood; corded 12 feet high. Must
bo all dolivered by Nov. 80, at Hotel
lYuievil'e. Bids will bo opened April
15th. I reserve the right tp reject sny
or all bi Is.
Mbs. C. E. McDowkll
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timothy, red clover, slsike, alfalfa, bunch
grass, blue joint and brume.
In the Oregon exhibit are a large num
ber of jar containing fine samples of
processed fruits of different varieties.
The forests have provided an exhibit of
woods of several kinds. The exhibition
room is well supplied with Oregon liter
ature descriptive of the state in general
and by communities. The exhibit is open
morning, afternoon and evening and rep
resentatives of the League give informa
tion about the states of Oregon, Minne
sota, Montana, ..Washington, Idaho and
the Dakotas, the seven states which the
Development League is seeking to advance.
sample and six
sample include
Crook County
Irrigation Problems
Salem. Msrch 31 State En
gineer John H. Lewis returned
today from Washington, D. C,
where he conferred with Secre
tary Lane of the department of
the interior and Mr. Newell, head
of the reclamation service, re
garding cooperation between the
reclamation service and the state
in the construction of the Colum
bia Southern project. He said
that both Mr. Lane and Mr. New
ell were favorable to cooperation
and expressed confidence that
the government, if no obstacles
of a legal or engineering nature
were in the way, would put up
dollar for dollar with the state
for the project.
,-I don't understand the objec
tions that have been raised to
considering the idea of coopera
tion, said Mr. Lewis. "I have
not decided that cooperation
would be the best, but I want to
look into the mutter and find out.
Before I am prepared even to
make a recommendation ,in the
matter I want to obtain the fig
ures on the cost of the smaller,
or what is known as th original
Columbia Southern project, and
compare them with the cost of
the larger project."
Mr. Lewis said he did not see
why cooperation with the recla
mation service need cause any
material dolay iu the construction
of the project. Ho said he found
Vlwf. riohll'C In tba onvoi.nmi'nl.'c
nmrlr in thn nnct iriarn lurnoln rln.i
to delays in the office of the sec
retary of the interior, aud now
that a Western man occupies
that office he thought the work
would be expedited.
"I can see where from a polit
ical standpoint it would be better
for the state to go ahead alone,"
he said, "because public senti
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ment Seems to be against coop
eration, but the undertaking
would be more stable if we were
united with the reclamation ser
vice." Asked whether he thought the
law enacted by the last legisla
ture would permit cooperation,
he said he did not know of any
provisions that would prevent it.
'.However, that is what we
should look into," he said. "If
there are any legal or engineer
ing or other valid objections co
operation would be out of the
question." j
Governor West has pointed out
provisions in the law which he
interprets to exclude the possi
bility of cooperation. The first
section of the law says that "the
desert land board is hereby auth
orized and directed, on behalf of
the State of Oregon, to complete
so far as can be done with the
appropriation made by this act,
the reclamation of lands includ
ed in Oregon desert land selec
tion list No. 13, and private lands
i included in the project commouly
; known as the Columbia Southern
irrigation project, in Crook coun
ty, Oregon."
George Messinger
Out On Bail
George Messmger is now at
liberty, having filed his bond of
$3500 on Tuesday. The sureties
are L. E. Messinger, tho mother;
Keely Messinger, Walter Messiu-
gT att&
Jane French. Messin-
RfT IS Milder
a total of $5500
bonds to appear before the May
term of court, the bond of $2000
on his commitment from. Bend
having been furnished some time
since. '
Hogs for Sale
Thoroughbred hogs, registered O.I.C.,
for Rde on reasonable terms.Address J.
I,. Ginson, Redmond, Oregon.
4-3-lni-pd
Wire Stringing Wffl rVFinuned
in a Day,a$ fcJien
tie Cnrrent
The Journal man made a trip
with Manager Simpson of the Des
chutes Power Co. Tuesday to the
main power station of the company
at Cove.
Mr. Simpson has crews of men at
work stringing the wire that is to
connect Prineville with the main
plant These men are working be
tween Culver and Lamonta and in
the course of a few days will have
the line completed.
"Few people," said Mr. Simpson,
"have any idea of the amount of
material and labor involved in
putting in the wires and poles alone.
We have 3i carloads of wire and
25 carloads of the best poles to be
found. They are 35 and 40 feet
long, all neat and clean. The long
ones are used to make up for the
inequalities of the ground. The
cross arms and insulators are of the
best. They have to be. For in
stance, if it were demanded we
could deliver 2000 h. p. in Prtnei"
ville with only 10 per cent loss.
You see it takes careful work and
good material to do it. At present
however, we will need but 200 h. p.
to supply the demand. This leaves
a big margin to supply possible
manufacturing concerns in the
future. We have 80 miles of lines
in the county that cost approxi
mately $160,000.
-.''At proeent- Prineville is served
from the Cline Falls end of the
system, with the exception of a resi
dence section of the city that is
ocrved by the home plant up to 10
p. m. In a few days, as I have
told you, the main plant will be
working."
The main power plant at Cove is
contained in a solid concrete build
ing 35x50 feet. Here are located
the twin Sampson turbine water
wheels in a ten-foot steel encase
ment. The pair drive a 750 h. p.
generator, three transformers, etc.
As more power is needed provision
is made for the addition of more
power units. The ponderous
machinery works as smoothly as a
watch. It is worth a trip to see it
in motion. Everything at the
power house is ready for the signal
to turn on the electricity. This
will be given in a day or so.' The
total cost of the company's plant
will reach close to the $300,000
mark.
New Millinery
For the newest and latest creations
In Millinery, see my carefully selected
stock. A pleasure to show goods.
GEiiTiu uK Palmer,
MeCallidter Building, next door to
Journal otttve. 4-3
Farm for Sale
100 acres, 100 acres plowed and clear
ed, on Crooked river bottom. For in
formation address E. J. Leach, Post,
Oregon. 4 3-lui-pd
Eggs for Hatching.
Have 4 Buff Orpington Ducks snil
have gut over 200 eggs Bince Dec. 1st;
are winter layers anil always lay in
same nest; white eggs Btrain. S. C.
Rhode Island Reds Hrst pen cockrel
won 2nd at Portland fair 11112; pullets
of equal mating; S.C. White Leghorns,
W. B. Brown strain, cockrel score 9l!?i'
1912 'Phone or call at ranch.
3-27 . Mrs. A. J. Norle.
Notice.
Slemhers of the Mill Creek Livestock j
Association wanting salt or other sup-
plies will please let their wants be j
known to secretary-treasurer. j
3 27-2t Raymond Calavan.
Don't Economize When Buying '
Of any kind for breeding purposes. :;
(let a few settinge of high grade White
Plymouth Rock tip, Per setting $2 00. 1
3-2T-8t K. W. Twiss, Mecca, Or. j
Seed Wheat for Sale. J
Early Wilbur. P. P. Adamson, Prine
ville, Oregon. 3-27
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