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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1913. .
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VOL. XVII-NO. 39
Many Fine Farms Near Prineville
Hogs and Dairy Cows Profitable
A vinit to the furm of Ix-o
I jtfulU'lto I enough to convince the
rnimt skeptical thitt hog raining unci
dairying In Crook county pays.
JuhI now Mr. Ijifolk'tte i very
much interested In finishing seven
teen of hm lino I'olunil-China hog
for market. These animal are ten
months ohl and average about 250
pounds earn. At Hi renin, the
price anked, they will net their
owner a neat mini. ,
Mr. IiHfollette began three yearn
ago with two brood sows and this
fall will have thirty line one. His
motto him been quality rather than
iiantity and each year, he markets
all except the very beHt. He now
haii 130 hogs and the increase by
full will five, him a band of at leant
2(H). Mr. Ufollette believes in
good care and plenty of feed from
the first for he says it pays to mar
ket hir as early as they can be
got in shaie, lie has experimented
with the feeding and nays he finds
for fall pigs that middlings mixed
with skim milk is best until they are
good sized shoatea; during which
Crops Turning Out Well
Returns from soma of the
crops In the county have boen
recolved and the general aver
ago is much higher than was ex
pected. The lack of moisture in
in the early part of the season lo
gethor with the backward spring
gave promise of very short
crops, but while the general yield
in somo places will fall alyirl of
last year the results of the har
vest in most sections aro gratify
ing to tho farmers.
In the Round llutto section
Cm) grain is estimated to run
from 23 to 40 bushels to the acre;
in the Madras country wo under
stand that in an v fields will yield
a return of from fifteen to
tweuty bushels to tho aero and
that thoro will bn more crops
that will average above ten
bushels to the aero than will full
below Unit mark,
In the Powell liutto section the
farmers expect a good average
crop of both grain and hay. The
threshing wilt soon begin and
then definite, information can bo
obtained.
lioth grain and hay in tho
Paulina section is turning out
well.
Around Motolius and Lamnnta
the crops are good, in many in
stances the yields are much
largor than was expected. So
altogether Crook county has
reason to be proud of hor crops.
Accidental Shooting
at Post, Oregon
Coroner Poindexter was noti
lied by phone yosterduy that Mr.
McCuddina of Post, hud been ac
cidentally shot, Accompanied
by Dr. Belknap he loft at once
for tho scene. Upon investiga
lion they found that McCuddins
u nd his sister in-law, Dolpha
Fruzor, a young girl about 16
yours old, hud boon engaged in a
friondly scuflle with a gun'
which was supposed to havo not
been loaded. The gun went ofT
striking tho man just above the
right eye and entored the brain.
It was reported that tho same
gun had boon usod on a hunting
trip the previous day and rofused
to shoot.
Mr. McCuddins and family re
cently came to Crook county uud
purchased ono of the Knox
time they are given good pasture.
He gives his spring pigs plenty of
good pasture and a little grain all
the time. When ready to round
them off for market he confines
them in pens and for six or eight
weeks feeds rolled barley with some
alfalfa hay. This with plenty of
cool clean water puts flesh on very
rapidly. lie says that for the
money invested hogs bring him
more money than anything else on
the place. They are not as much
work as coss but to secure beBt re
sults require close attention. He
keeps only Poland-Chinas because
they are easily fattened and are not
vicious nor breachy.
Mr. Lafollette is now milking
about twenty fine Jerseys and says
hogs and cows go well together.
He sells his cream to the local
creamery for which he receives
good sized check each month and
uses the skim milk for his hogs.
He expects to increase both his
dairy herd and his hogs until he has
a market on his farm for all that
his land produces.
ranches near Post where they
were living at the time of the ac
cident. lie leaves a wife and
two small children.
Coroner Poindexter held an
inquest and it was decided that
Mr. McCuddin's death was due
to accidental shooting.
Harry Thaw Recaptured
Coatlcook, Quebec, Aug. 19.
Held as fugitive from justice of
the United States, a man admitting
he is Harrv K. Thaw, slayer of
Stanford White, who escaped early
Sundny from the Mutteawan asylum
for the insane, near PougKkeopsie,
N. Y., is under arrest here today.
The prisoner is sullen and uncom
municative. "I am Hurry K. Thaw, all right,"
he said, "but I have committed no
crime. You have no right to inter
fere with mv liberty and I demand
the privilege of going to Quebec."
1'ortland Journal.
Thos. W. Lawson An
swers Sulzer's Friends
Prinovillo, Or., August 17. I
have a reply from Governor Sul
zer, of New York, to my recent
telegram and also urgent re
quests from editors and leaders
the country over to act. The
consensus of opinion is that Sul
zer's impeachment is tho culmi
nation of a long-hutching plot to
soize the state machinery, usurp
tho constitutional authority, re
lease from prison Senator Still
well and Lieutenant Becker and
make it impossible to finish the
investigation now under way' and
contemplated, which threatened
exposure of the past qaarter of a
century's grafting.
The Knickerbocker Express
of Albany, making calls for a
National committee, has urged
me to come East at once to or
ganize such a committee. Ore
goniun.
Mr. Lawson came from the East
a few days ago to visit with his
daughter, Mrs. MeCall, who lives
near Prineville, and says he must
have some rest before returning to
the East.
Alleging that Governor Sulzor
ol Now York State made a false
and fraudulent report to the sec
retary of state regarding the ex
penses of his election campaign
and for wilful and corrilpt con
duct in office, a legislative com-
mittoo has tiled resolutions for
his impeachment from office.
Oregoniun.
Secretary of Interior Lane
Visits Crook County
KxcerpU from Sc. Lane's talk:
"If there is any part of the
country that deserved well of
the government, it is Central Ore
gon, and I am going to try to see
that it receives its Just recog
nition. "The government wants the
land put into use, not held from
those who want to make use of
it. The day is coming when
eastern Oregon will be one of tbe
richest, most fertile and most
thickly settled parts of your
state All that it needs is water
Madras, Or., August 18 A
secretary of the interior is see
ing the bigness of Oregon recla
mation opportunity today with
his own eyes.
For the first time a secretary
of the interior has left tbe beaten
paths, and is viewing the great
stretches of land that are to b
some day tbe homes of thousands,
if the ideal of state and govern
ment cooperation in taming the
water out of tb deep canyons
upon the waiting land is realized.
Here, for instance, in the valley
of the Deschutes is a scheme of
land reclamation that challenges
imagination to grasp.
A half million acres without
homes or production is the sub
ject of survey jointly financed by
state and government, at a cost
of flOO.GOO. Two hundred and
sixty-thousand acres not in any
reclamation project now planned
by anyone are included.
These, tbe estimate is. can be
irrigated at a cost of $50 an acre,
mostly from the waters of the
Deschutes. The call for govern
ment and state financing this
reclamation means tbe spending
of (13,500,000 upon lands worth
more than 120,000,000 when re
claimed, worth less than $3,000,-
000 witoout water.
It would mean place for homes
of more than 800C people.
Franklyn K. Lane, secretary of
the interior, looked upon only
the portion of the great area
that lies about Redmond this
morning and marveled Mean
while, the people of Redmond for
the tirst time celebrated the ad
vent of an active head of the in
terior department.
They had a speaker stand
draped in flags. They had a
band at the depot and delega
tions of leading citizens from
communities of 50 miles arouud
about. Automobiles carried tbe
entire party through the Powell
Butte district, viewing both dry
uud irrigated land funning.
Secretary Lane's visit to Oregon
has aroused all the people who
are concerned for the reclama
tion of the arid lands of the state.
There are issues vital to land
reclamation, which only he can
settle. They want to know if he
meant that 20,000 acres of the
west Umatilla extension would
be abandoned when he approved
the immediate beginning of work
on a first unit of 10,000 acres.
They want to know if the policy
or ms otnee will be to recognize
Oregon's merit in future recla
mution apportionments.
They want the size of his defi
nition of government and state
cooperation, the new reclamation
idea. Consequently it was grati
fying to secure from him on the
train a clear cut interview di
rectly touching these points.
';When I said first unit, I
meant first unit," said he. "I
did not mean the abandonment
of tbe remaining 20,000 acres of
the west Umatilla extension. It
was hard enough to get the
money scraped together for 10,-
000 acres. The rest of the pro
joct will be developed just as
rapidly as possible Of certain
ty, we will be governed quite1
considerably by the success of i
the work on the first 10,000
acres.
"Now, as to Oregon apportion
ments. You say that Oregon
has contributed f 10,000,000 to
the reclamation from the sale of
public lands, and has received '
back for Oregon reclamation pro-'
jects a little over $900,000, or;
about 10 per cent.
"I do not believe that Oregon
has ever received any where bear
what is due her in reclamation
pportionments. I think Oregon
should have much more. But
man, you haven't bad raiiroad
transportation in Oregon. As
inUrstate commerce commis
sioner I called the attention of
the whole country to the fact
that fifty thousand square miles
of territory in Oregon had no'
railroad, a bigger area than any
where else in the United States
in such condition.
"Railroad building must pre
cede reclamation. Railroads and
reclamation must go together.
It would be criminal to reclaim
lands and put people on them,
without transportation so they
can reach the markets with their
products. Oregon with railroad
transportation will get her share
of reclamation funds and I am
not unacquainted with the fact
that great areas in this state can
be reclaimed and produce amaz
ingly.
"As to government and state
cooperation in reclamation I
am mightily pleased that Oregon
has progressed so far as to ap
prove this policy. Four hundred
fifty thousand dollars of govern
ment money is available from
the Interior department to be
spent dollar for dollar in con
junction with a similar amount
from the state as authorized by
your legislature in the reclama
tion of a given unit of a recla
mation project.
"The government money will
not be spent on a different pro
joct than that approved by the
state. You will not see the
state's money spent on the Tuma
lo project, for instance, and the
government's money spent on
another project of the compre
hensive Deschutes reclamation
scheme."
It has been hinted that a separ
ation of funds on units of a re
lated reclamation scheme might
be favored by the government,
but the secretary's expression
ended the thought.
He indicated perfect familiari
ty with the fact that Oregon has
lacked railroad transportation
development and population be
cause of the policy of the old re
gime, which was to build into a
country only when its develop
ment showed that tonnage would
be furnished from the start suf
ficient to pay profits.
"Harriman merely held Ore
gon as a preserve," was his ex
pression. Aboard the special are all the
members of the state land board
except Attorney General Craw
ford. The list includes the gov
ernor, secretary of state, state
treasurer and state engineer.
New State Superintendent Making
Graduations Possible in Three Years
Salem, Or., Aug. 14. In prepar
ing the new course of study for the
high schools of Oregon, State School
Superintendent J. A. Churchill has
given pupils a greater freedom in
selection even than was forecasted
in the report of the committee of
city school superintendents, ap
pointed at the meeting of the de
partment of superintendents at
Portland last June to outline a ten
tative course of study.
, , "Wj have Rotten away from the
idea that the high school course
must be fitted to the college," de
clared Mr. Churchill. "In fact, we
have emancipated ourselves from
college dominance. But I am in
structing the high .school principals
to advise each pupil entering high
school what the college entrance
requirements are, so that the pu
pil may prepare -for entering college
if he desires. As soon as I can get
to it I intend to have statistics
gathered showing the per cent of
high school pupils in this state that
go to college. I estimate it will be
about 15 per cent.
"In the preparation of the high
school courses, consideration has
been given for the different aptitudes
of pupils and for the different prep
arations which a high school must
give to fit all of its pupuils for large
spheres of usefulness.
Developing Natural Bents.
"Greater freedom in the choice
of electives h been given, with the
hope that nupils will not be forced
to take a subject for which they
i have no aptitude, but rather that
, courses will be selected that will
, give a natural development of the
i faculties "
Two important innovations have
I been made by Superintendent
i Churchill. One is that a pupil who
i is both mentally and physically
j strong may complete a high school
course in three years, instead of
j four, by taking five subjects, the
' maximum number each year. An
other is that a pupil may study
They will go on to inspect the
Tumalo, Central Oregon. La Pine
and Paisley projects, viewing al
so the salt and sodium project at
Summer and Albert lakes and
returning to the capital via
Klamath Fails, Crater Lake and
Medford.
Mr. Lane also said, "In my
month out of Washington I can
truthfully say to you that I have
seen no country more fair than
this valley of Powell Butte which
you have shown me from auto
mobile this morning." "I see
you today with a town of 600 or
700 people. There is but one
reason why I would not find you
a city of 6000 or 7000 if I come
again among you in five years,
and that would be your failure
to cooperate, to work together.
The United States can do but lit
tie for you; there is much you
can do for yourselves. Journal.
Finds Business
Conditions Fine
E. N. Strong, a well known man
of this section, and one who is thor
oughly interested in the upbuilding
of Oregon, has the following to say
concerning crop conditions:
"Business conditions in Oregon
ought to be one of the best in years
following the harvesting of large
crops now going on over the entire
state," said E. N. Strong, state
agency supervisor for the Oregon
Life Insurance Company of Portland,
who arrived in The Dalles Saturday
night, accompanied by Mrs. Strong.
music outside of school and be given
credit for it as a part of the course.
"My experience in high school
work years ago led me to believe an
injustice was being done pupils who
had a talent for instrumental or
vocal music and were not permitted
to develop it because of the rigid
high school course which recognized
no value in any subject taught out
side the prescribed studies of the
course," said Mr. Churchill. "Many
a voice that might have been a joy
to the possessor and his friends by
entertaining, or by assisting in wor
ship, has been hushed by the inabil
ity of the pupil to find time to prac
tice. The same may be said of
those who might have become pro
ficient on some stringed instrument,
but who were denied that pleasure
because the rigid curriculum of the
high school demands all their time.
So we are instructing that pupils
who so desire be given credit for
music done outside of school, which
will permit them to carry one less
study in school and have time for,
practice on their music. In doing
this I feel that the best interests of
many pupils, as well as those of the
community generally are being
served."
But Must Practice 80 Minutes
Under the prescribed course,
which was completed today by Su
perintendent Churchill and put in
the hands of the printer, a pupil
may earn from one to three credits
for graduation, in either vocal or
instrumental music taken outside of
school, provided that the pupil ha3
spent at least 80 minutes in practice
or instruction each day, and that
the principal of the high school
shall be satisfied as to the compe
tency of the teacher. A total of
15 credits is required for gradua
tion. The teachers' training course
in the high schools has been
strengthened in the new course by
requiring pupils taking it to have
definite teaching practice and sub
mit written reports of each assign
ment. "I have been over the entire state
in the last few months, with the ex
ception of a part of the interior,
and while I find acreage a little be
low the average, the yelds of both
grain and hay crops are exceeding
expectations with an upward ten
dency in prices on account of the
drouth in the middle west.
Root crops are starting off at fair
prices and the fruit prospects .are
the best in two years.
"Everything in the live stock line
is eagerly sought at a premium.
Having- just returned from the
heavy timbered districts, I find the
lumber mills working night and
day.
"As for our own business, Oregon
Life wrote the largest amount of
I business in July of any month since
organization, and closed the first
seven months of 1913 with more than
a 60 per cent increase over the cor
responding time of any year pre
vious. This is accounted for by the
icreased loyalty on the part of Ore
gon people to its home institutions.
Oregonians are fast finding out that
it serves their own interests best to
keep Oregon money at home.
"The 'buy-at-home' movement
now being carried on in this state
will mean more to Oregon than
any other subject demanding our
attention, and this will mean to
local people a greater demand for
every product grown or manufac
tured in the state." The Dalles
Chronicle.
Mr. and Mrs. Strong have many
friends in Crook county, and we are
glad to have these statements from
one who is acquainted with condi
tions throughout the state.