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Crook Gomety Journal
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1913.
VOL.XVII-NO.20
ortoo MMiidjwM matter
Road-Bonding
Enabling Act
During the punt four years Crook
county has spent 225.518.97 for
roads and bridges. In l'.K)7 117,
M1.70 was spent; In 1910. :13.67U.
tC; In 1911, I58.B4H.24; in 1912.
1 115.729.07. These fact were
brought out In a bulletin just Issued
Iy Henry L. Bowlby, executive of
ficer of the Pacific Highway Asso
ciation. Mr. Bowlby is a stickler
for scientific roads built by scientific
methods. If he could only show
how much money is wasted In Ore
gon every year on the present patch
work method of fixing roads his fig
ures would be still more startling.
But he doesn't do that. His bus
iness is in connection with the new
ly created State Highway Depart
ment. He says:
"A great step upward has been
taken in the creation of a State '
Highway Department In Oregon..
This places Oregon in the list of i
those progressive states of the Un
ion which have taken up the devol-;
opuient of their roads in a scientific
manner. The llate Highway En
gineer will be at the service of all
f the County Courts that may de
sire to ask for his advice and as
sistance. The services of such an
otlicer will lie found of great value
, , . . , ,. .
o couimra in ihiuiiiiiiik unoiawu
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and efficient engineering advice on
ail of their local road matters.
"The passage of the County Koad
Bonding Enabling Act Is the hope
of all good road enthusiast for the
completion of a large amount of
road construction along permanent
lines during the next two years.
"All money raised by bonds for
road purposes must be spent along
permanent lines. If this is not;
done trouble will follow when the 1
results of the expenditures are;
gone and the people are forced to j
continue to pay for the bonds. I
"The realization of our dream for
a passable road to California by
1915 turns upon the efforts put
forth by the counties through which
the highway passes during the years
of 1913 and 1911."
Under the new law a county can
assess itself for two per cent of the
, ., , ,. ,, .
assessed valuation of the county.
Thus Crook county, with an assessed
valuution of 9,9S0,823, would real
ize 199,0 16.
"It will be noted that if each
county issued the full amount of
bonds possible under this law, and
if Iho county court made the same
levy for roads and bridges in 1913 1
as in 1912," said Major Bowlby,
"the aunual interest on the bond is
sue not only would be paid, but
there would remain approximately
2.220,000 from this regular levy to
be spent on ordinary road construe
. tion in the counties.
"This means that there can be
..spent in Oregon-$18,000,000 on a
system of improved roads by the
county authorities, also, that there
can expended $2,220,000 each year
on ordinary road construction, and
the taxpayers will not have to pay a
greater road tax than they did in
1912.
"Moreover, this does not take in
i to account the great increase in val
. ue of the taxable property of the
. state due to the expenditure of a
i largo amount of money on improved
road work. The actual result would
vbe that, due to the increased value
of the property because of the con
struction of improved roads, the
levy would decrease from year to
year."
Improved Roads Mean
Better schools and larger attend
ance. Botter health and quicker trans
portation. Better farms and more cultivated
land.
Better crops and cheaper transportation.
County
Butter economic conditions nd
more producers.
Better social rnnditiont and loss
isolation.
Better church attendance and bet
ter citizens.
Better postal service and closer
friend.
Better business and more cus
tomers. Better Industries and more em
ployment. A better state and a petter nation.
Prineville Stuff Tops
the Market Again
"There was nothing to it but
Prineville at the Union Stock Yards
last week," says Otto Gray who got
back from Portland Friday night.
Prineville stuff received the highest
prices paid. "I received tH.25 fur
a carload of steers that averaged
1.1(H)." His Htock wa principally
2-year-olds. They were full-bloods
and high grade. He had also a
mixed shipment of steers and heif-
; era that brought t7.W, five heifers
that brought (7.75 and 8 bulls that
! sold for lti.00. "No trouble at all to
1 get the Wat prices going if you have
blooded stock. It pays every time.
Crook county has a reputation for
high grade stuff. Just recently the
I Bonnyview Slock Farm shipped a
yearling Hereford bull to J. W.
-
Walker of Corvallis for which tlf.O
, .
ww puiu. n e nave anipiit-u nioea
as far away as the Hawaiian Islands,
so you see we are getting something
of a reputation for good stuff."
George Slayton had two carloads
of the heaviest steer that ever
passed over the scales at the Port
land Yards, lie had 21 steers that
averaged 1 6 0 8 pounds. They
brought 8,25 a hundred. This big
stuff was bought for the Alaska
trade. He had 23 steers thet aver
aged 1478 that sold for 18.25; 23
that averaged 1336 brought 18.10
and 22 that sold for 18. The Slay
ton stuff showed the effects of good
careful feeding.
H. L.Priday had one steer weigh
ing 1300 that brought $9. The rest
of his stuff sold for 18.25, 18.00 and
fo50.
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brought f7.'J: and V7.90 respective
ly.
K. H. Shriver had 37 head that
he sold for $8. His was contract
price. The stock was sold before
they left Prineville.
Columbus Johnson had 49 head
that brought $8 and $7.75. Twenty-four
head averaged 12G2 and
i sold for $8.
The Portland Union Stock Yards
market report says:
"Swine trading steady to a shade
lower toward the close. Market
opened with a rush Monday when
tops brought 9.80 and advanced to
9.90. Recent runs have been liber
al enough to supply packers imme
diate need, the latter was a factor
of the late market and succeeded in
pushing the range back to 9.75.
The market is considered Bteady on
this basis with possibilities for ad
vance or decline.
"Mutton market steady to strong
er with a remarkably short supply.
Buyers want prime stock but it
Beems to bo scarce. Liquidation is
doubtless retarded by the lambing
season in the sheep raising districts
at this time. Prime wool yearlings
selling at 7.25 and ewes at 6.00
featured. Not a single lamb sale
was made. Market is strong 7.00
to 8.00.
Bids for Wood Wanted
150 cords of 4-loot yellow pine, all
body wood; corded 12 feet high. Muat
lie all delivered by Nov. 80, at Hotel
Prineville. Bide will be opened April
15th. I reserve the right to reject any
or all bids. .
Mas. C. E. MeDoWKLb
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Crook County Journal, county
j official paper. $1.50 a year.
BLACKFEET INDIANS IN GRASS DANCE
-,-t-t r-I t 'Ah',
Blackfeet
New York, Mnrch 20th, 1913. Broad
way wu trraUil to so Indinn Hanre
ymUrdny when Hi Top and ton Black
net Indians, here to ice (be sight in oon
nrctinn with the Seoond Annual Travel
and Vacation hnw, performed in honor
of the women along the "Uay W hite
Way." To muaio of tom-tom thry
danoed for eeral minuU-s in front of the
cflicc of the Urrat Northern liailway
which fuminhttl tlii'm a special ear from
Glacier National Park reiervation, Moo-
lb atx)V picture show the
Prineville Railroad
Up to the Farmers
Not much doing in railroad mat
ters so far this week. The com
mittee that went to Portland to see
H. P. Scheel, the contractor, have
returned and report that everything
now depends upon the right-of-way.
Committees from both Prineville
and Metolius will no doubt wait
uon the farmers to urge upon
them the gnuiting of the right-of-1
way privilege. The great benefit
that would accrue to them through
the building of the road would
more than compensate for the land
needed. Mr. Scheel, with a party
of engineers, is expected in Prine
ville the latter part of this week
when the work of surveying will be
gin. Then with the right-of-way
secured railroad construction will
follow. But right now the whole
question is really in the hands of
the fanners through whose ranches
the road will run.
Crook County Gets
Another Hustler
W. J. Linfoot of Salem, Oregon,
spent some time in looking over
Crook County recently and so favor
ably did it appeal to him that he de
cided to locate here. He picked the
Roberts neighborhood for his future
home and will start a general mer
chandise store there. He has al
ready bought a stock of goods and
is having it packed and shipped to
Roberts via Redmond and Prineville.
Mr. Linfoot is also a hustling tail
or and if prospects justify it he may
establish something in that line also
in Crook County. He hopes to have
his store in shape for business by
April 20th;
Moved
KlKKs' Shoe Sli' i i ii.iw located In
the City Meat Mai e. Building. Re
moved from the in Itnuk building,
4 10-lllip P. G. ltHKiM.
Pasture for Mitch Cows.
Hyde Park, ea i i .v,,, begin'
ning April to. jvi a imi. is our
representative. 1 f3 per lonth,
U extra for drlvl ivdk i auk Co,
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f. :v
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Tribe Performs in Honor of Women Along
Indinn camped on the roof of the Hotel
McAljiin, living in tepee and cooking
their food in pou, loaned them by Mana
ger Boomer, who i entertaining ihem.
The Indian are in charge of "Big Jim"
Shoemaker of Montana. They arrived
in Jersey City Sunday and where brought
to New York on the ferry. At the first
sight of the skyscrapers Chief Three
liears, who m 80 yean old offered prayers.
The band wu awfrttricken.
Chief Big Top, the tribe orator, was
asked what hi tribe thought of the city.
M. W. Ai Band Concert
The M. W. A. Band will resume
their street concerts which they
were compelled to omit during the
winter weather. The boys will
open their spring season with their
usual street concert Saturday even
ing at 8 o'clock.weather permitting.
Everyone cordially invited. Follow
ing is their program for Saturday
evening.
March 'Blue Jacket"
iene Emer-
March "Alexander's KucTiiue Band
Irving Berliu.
Wall "A tiirlie was Juat Made to
I)ve" George Meyer.
Sung and Dance "Cuba SwoetB" F.
11. Losey.
March "CUimatum" C. C. Sebits.
Overture "Admiration" Charles
Southwell. .
The New Game Code
The fishing season for 1913
wa opened on April 1. The
new game code does not go into
effect until May' 24 or June 1.
Under this the fishing season
on trout will open on May 1. Bag
limit, 75 or 50 pounds. No trout
under six inches long shall be
caught. Use hook and line only.
Trout 10 inches iu length, open
all the year with hook ana line
only. lUg limit 50 trout, or 50
pounds per day.
Bass, crapples, white tisb, cat
tish or grayling, open all the year
with hook and line only. Bag
limit, 40 pounds per day.
Section 2G. New Code, reads:
No person within the State of
Oregon under the age of 14 years
shall be issued a hunting license
or be permitted to hunt with a
gun on lands other than
his premises or those of a rela
tive or guardian.
The new law requires all per
sons over the age of 14 years
who desire to hunt or fish to se
cure a license therefor.
All persons over the age of l6
years who desire to trap within
the State of Oregon are required
to have a license therefor. The
season for trapping opens on No
vember 1 and closes February
ON BROADWAY.
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Street
He likened the high buildings to moun
tains in Glacier Park.
Those in the band are. Big Top, leader,
Three Bean, Medicine Owl and squaw, '
White Calf and squaw, Long-Time-Meep, I
Fish Wolf Kobe, Lair Boy and Cecils ,
Uround, 8 years old, ue daughter of
Carlisle School student. w
The band will be ia New York for ten
days in connection with the Second
Annual Travel and Vacation Show at the
Grand Central Palace, New York City.
Got
Too Frisky
With His Teacher
William Bausch was arrested
at Barnes last week and brought
here for hearing on a charge of
pointing a revolver at the school
teacher there, Edgar Powell.
His prelimioory took place Satur
day morning. He waived ex
amination through his attorney,
T. E J. Duffy, and was held in
!? 100 bonds to appear before the
grand jury. The bonds were
furnished.
23. The law requires trappers
to report in writing at the end of
the season the number aud kind
of fur-bearing animals caught,
where sold and the amount de
rived therefrom.
All persons owning or ope
rating irrigation ditches, canals,
mill races or flumes which carry
water from any stream within
Qregon in which fish may exist
or have been planted, should
look after same and screen tbem.
In this matter we should protect
the fish by stopping them from
running through said ditches
into fields and meadows, where
i they die.
The sage hen law is the same
in the new code aa formerly, the
grouse, duck, native pheasants
and deer law was changed. The
grouse and native pheasant
seasou opens September 1 and
closes October 31. The duck
season in all counties east of the
Cascades, except Baker, opens
September 15 and closes Febru
ary 15. In Baker county the
season will open the same but
closes on April 1. The deer
season opens on August 1 and
closes October 31. Limit, three
deer with horns in any one
season,
Buckingham & Hechts' Boots and
Shoes wear satisfactorily. Full line
at Elkins' Store. 4-10
Fine line new Shirts and Shirt
waists tor Wonieu at Elkins' Store.
410
Seed Wheat for Sale.
Early Wdbur. D. P. Adamson, Prine
ville, Oregon. 3-27
Teachers Elected
Prineville Schools
At a recent meeting of the Board
of Directors for th Prineville pub
lic schools the resignations of Miss
Engdahl, Miss Barnes and Mist Jane
Allen were received and the follow
ing teachers were elected for the
ensuing school year:
Principal, A. T. Lewark.
Seventh Grade, Miss James.
Sixth Grade, Miss Theresa Cassidy.
Fifth Grade, Christabel Hubbard.
Fourth Grade, Myrtle J. Jeffries.
Third Grade, Mrs. A. T. Lewark.
Second Grade, Miss Mamie Evans.
First Grade, Miss Alice Day
Pratt.
Prof, and Mrs. Lewark were at
Metolius last year where they made
exceMnt records for themselves.
Both bring the highest rec
ommendations from Indiana. A.
j L. Lary, County Superinten
: dent of Rush county, says:
j "Mr. Lewark was one of the best
, high school teachers in the county,
J serving as principal of the Arling-
ton High School three years and the
i Jackson High School four years. In
both of these positions he acquitted
himself creditably and I have given
him a success grade of 98 per cent.
He is a splendid organizer and a
good disciplinarian. His college
and normal training, together with
a long experience dealing with pu
pils and the public, especially fit
him for superintendent, principal or
teacher in any school where tact
and ability are needed." '
Mrs. Lewark has just as good
credentials as her husband. , T, A.
Cotton, State Supt. of Indiana, says:
"I have personally observed her
work in the, school room. Her
methods are excellent and I consid
er her one of the best primary
teachers in the state."
Miss Jeffries ss another new
teacher. She is from Iowa, but
taught last year at Lebanon. Per
sonal letters speak of her in the
highest terms. She can also teach
music, drawing and sewing,
. Miss Pratt is not altogether a
stranger in Crook county. She has
had training in several of the best
educational institutions in the East
and comes to the Prineville public
schools with most excellent records.
The old teachers have all had
good training and successful teach
ing experience. They are worthy
of the high esteem in which they
are held by the patrons of the
schools.
Miss Jane Allen, who resigned, is
going to take up social settlement
work. She expects to snudy in
Chicago this summsr preparatory to
beginning the work.
Wanted by the Sheriff
John Dilworth and family and a
brother of Dilworth's arjd a man by
the name of John Cripps are
wanted by the sheriff of Crook
county for various depredations
committed against the peace and
good order of this community.
Specifically Dr. Fox is minus a
wagon and W. A, Lincoln two
horses. Evidently someone furn
ished the harness either willingly or
unwillingly. The party was in
Burns three or four days ago and
as soon as Sheriff Elkins got wind,
of them he left for that place.
Duroc' Jersey Pigs
Fifty head, thoroughbreds, either
sex. at my ranch at Powell Butte.
Address G. L. Brazee, Redmond, Or
egon. 4-10-6tp.
Don't Economize When Buying
Stock.
Of any kind for breeding purposes.
Get a few settings of hiuh grade White
Plymouth Rock eagi. Per setting $2 00,
S-27-8t E. W. Twiss, Mecca, Or.
When in the market fur Lime, Ce
ment and Shingles, see the Retimond
Lnuibei & Produce Co. 8-27-2m