OREGON KEWS NOTES
OF GENERALINTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Y'eek. k
Two Men Killed; Duel Indicated.
Prineville, Evidently the victims
of a HP duel between themselves,
the bodies of Felix Jones and Roscoe
Brown were found at a remote spot
on Criisly mountain, neur the sawmill
of J. W. Jones, father of Brown's wife.
The opinion Is general that the fatal
tight was due to Brown's Jealousy for
his wife.
The bodies were lying S6 feet apart
Jones had been shot through the back,
while Brown had beon shot through
the chest. Each still clasped his rifle
In his bands whoa found, indicating
almost instant death In the case of
each.
Breeding For Mutton.
Pendleton. Sheepmen of Umatilla
county are u the midst of their breed
ing season and reports from their
camps indicate that many are chang
ing from the fine wool breeds to the
coarser, and that a number are also
breeding for early or winter lambs.
There seems to be a growing tendency
among local flockmasters to pay more
attention to the growing of mutton,
their reason being the high prices of
meat, and the change which the tariff
has made In the wool market.
TAXABLE PROPERTY JUMPS
County Boards Place Oregon Valua
tions at W13J68.527 for 1913.
Salem. The total value of taxable
property as equallied by the county
boards of equalization In Oregon, not
Including the property of public serv
ice corporations which will be assess
ed by the state tax commission for
1913 is 1835,168,527, according to an
announcement of the commission.
The Increase over 1912 is $42,173,-
346. Messrs. Eaton and Galloway,
state tax commissioners, said the levy
which would be made December 1
would be about S mills, a large in
crease being necessary to meet the
appropriations and other expenses of
the last session of the legislature, f
Lane Will Have Expert.
Eugene. As a result of the meet
ing of a delegation of prominent
grangers of Lane county with the"
commissioners' court, the court has
decided to appropriate $2000 for the
purpose of employing an agricultural
expert for Lane county, the state to
give a similar sum, according to the
law passed by the last legislature.
Fairs Get Support.
Salem. N. C. Maris, field worker
for industrial fairs, has returned from
Grant county, where he visited 22
schools in the interest of the fairs.
Mr. Maris sajB teachers and pupils
are taking the liveliest interest in the
fairs and that a new record will be
established next year.
Greenhorn Ore Strike Reported.
Greenhorn. Kelly & Larson, pion
eer prospectors of the Greenhorn dis
trict, have uncovered a quart deposit
of unknown extent showing free gold
values reported to run between $4000
and $7000 a ton.
WANT EXPERIMENTAL FARM
Never Has Been Determined What
a Section Offers In Agricultural Way.
Klamath Falls. The first steps
have been taken to get an experiment
al farm tqr Klamath county. The
county court has been asked to make
a special levy to employ an expert
and to maintain the farm. The mem
bers of the court have signified a
willingness to further the movement
Farming in the Klamath country is
yet in the experimental state. A farm
conducted under an expert should
prove of material assistance to the
early development of the farm lands
of the vast area embraced in Klamath
county. Rapid strides in farming
have been made in recent years, ..j
Unitarians Will Meet.
Hood River. The North Pacific
conference of Unitarian churches will
be held at Hood River November 11,
12 and 13. The Unitarian churches
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana will be represented in the
conference.
Market Basket Day In Klamath.
Klamath Falls. Plans have been
practically completed for holding a
weekly market day in this city. The
chamber of commerce and the Klam-
.ath Water Users' association have in
t dorsed the movement. It is planned
to get the producers and the consum
ers in direct contact
Youthful Burglars Have Winter Shoes
Albany. A double robbery involv
ing the theft of $300 worth of doctor's
implements, six pairs of shoes and
$10 in cash from a store is believed to
have been committed here by two 17-year-old
Independence boys.
JOHN PURROY MITCHELL'
A: i
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John Purroy Mitcnen, fusion candi
date for mayor, who administered a
crushing defeat to Tammany In the
New York election.
Brief News of the Week
Notes amounting to $70,000 and cur
rency in the sum of $3936 were taken
when robbers blew open the sate of
the State Bank of Walthara. six miles
from Austin, Minn.
The palatial home of John Hays
Hammond at Washington has been
bought by the Russian government as
a home for the Russian embassy.
Price paid was $500,000.
Martial law prevailed at Peking and
arrests and summary executions took
place as result of drastic action by
President Yuan Shi Kal, in his strug
gle against the Chinese parliament
Eleven women named to act on the
grand jury at San Mateo, Cal declare
they will prove they can keep their
months shut They say they will iot
divulge secrets of the jury room
Decided efforts are being made to
Induce the British government to
come to an agreement with the suffragists,-
whereby a measure for the
enfranchisement of women can be
made a part of the official programme
of the liberal party.
The tango dance will be Introduced
at the insane asylum at Sacramento.
The new form of dance will be tried
on the patients to see if the diversion
will have more effect on the inmates
than the other forms of dancing.
In order to facilitate marriages min
isters at Republic, O., will perform
wedding ceremonies free of charge
The large percentage of marriageable
bachelors, old maids and maidens in
the town is said to have caused con
certed action to aid Cupid.
The notable gatherings of the week
included he conventions of the Anti
Saloon League of America, in Colum
bus, Ohio; the United States Good
Roads association, in St Louis; the
National Municipal League of the
United States, in Toronto; the Amer
ican Association for the Study and
Prevention of Infant Mortality, in
Washington, D. C.
People in the News
Mrs. Annette Abbott Adams, a wo
man attorney of San Francisco, as
pires to be United States district at
torney. Willie Ritchie, lightweight cham
pion of the world, defeated Leach
Cross in a 10-round bout, which went
the limit, at Madison Square Garden
In New York.
Dr. Charles McBurney, who was In
attendance at fpe bedside of the fatal
Illness of the late President McKinley,
died at Stockbridge, Mass.
Dr. David A. Arter, believed to be
the last remaining delegate to the
convention which nominated Presi
dent Lincoln, died at Canton.
John Hoyle, warden at San Quentin
penitentiary, will resign his position
to enter the hotel business at San
Francisco with his brother.
Representative Gardner, of Massa
chusetts, defeated for governor, has
announced that he will resign from
congress to run for governor again
in 1914.
The fortune of $3,000,000 left by
the late Charles G. Gates, goes to the
widow. Had the young man lived he
would have received the bulk of the
estate of $35,000,000.
General Felix Diaz was wounded In
an altercation which occurred in the
Malecon at Havana. He was stabbed
twice, being wounded behind the ear
and in the neck. He was also beaten
with canes.
Mrs. Hope McEldowney, at Chicago,
testified that she had given James
Ryan, clairvoyant, known as Profes
sor Crane, $15,000 for advice, after
she had been convinced by him that
she was followed by bad influences
which make Investments unsuccessful.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
Grade teachers of the Eugene pub
lic schools have formed a local branch
of the National Grade Teachers' asso
ciation. A new gymnasium will be built at
the Oregon normal school at Mon
mouth. Ground has been broken on
the project, which will cost $3000,
and which will be finished In (0 days.
James J. Hill states that the Hill
railroad Ink-rents are building and pre
paring for operating fast steamers to
ply between the Columbia river and
San Francisco.
Monument has been added to the
list of "dry" towns of the state. Elec
tion returns show that prohibition
won by six votes. Ballots of the wo
men Influenced results.
Representative Haw ley of Oregon
has introduced bills prohibiting lieu
land selections in Oregon, except
when the base lands surrendered to
the government are also In Oregon.
The ruling of the Industrial welfare
commission that women employed In
factories shall not earn less than $164
a week or work more than 54 hours
in any week became effective Monday.
By freakish antics of nature there
has been produced In the orchard of
Joseph N. Hunter, at Bend, a combin
ation of Spltxeuberg and Jonathan ap
ples, the flavors and colors of the two
varieties being separate and distinct
in one apple.
A bottle dropped overboard oft the
Siberian coast by the hydrographlc
expedition of the Pacific ocean, three
years ago, to ascertain the rate and
direction ot the current, was found at
Yaqulna bay.
Jackson county court's offer of pay
for a section ot the Dollarhide toll
road, has been accepted by the owner
of the road. The section Is needed In
connection with the construction ot
the Pacific highway.
Senator Claude McCulloch ot Baker
has been retained by the corporation
department to prosecute actions now
pending in Multnomah county for vio
lations of the blue sky law, as well
as those in contemplation.
The railroad commission has been
advised that the Southern Pacific has
granted a reduction In the freight rate
on car lots of canned goods from C res
well to Portland from 25 cents per 100
pounds to 174 cents.
State Game Warden William F. Fin
ley Is sending broadcast an appeal
asking hunting organisations of the
state to donate to the charitable In
stitutions of their vicinities, game for
Thanksgiving.
The Oregon Butter and Cheese
makers' association will hold its ad
journed session at La Grande on De
cember 5, In connection with the farm
ers' congress and trl-state dairy meet
ing, to be held there at that time.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon has
introduced a -bill making Milton
Wheeler, ot Portland, a colonel on the
retired list of the United States army,
volunteer rank being held by him dur
ing the civil war.
Governor West commuted to life
imprisonment the sentence of Lem
Woon, who had been sentenced to be
hanged November 14, for the killing
of Lee Tal Hoy In Portland, March 7,
1908. The Chinese said he eventually
would be able to prove that he did
not kill the man.
The Oregon public ownership league
organized temporarily at Portland by
the election ot John L. Schuyleman
as president and J. B. Stilwell as tem
porary secretary. One of the princi
pal objects of the league is to urge a
law establishing a system of voting
by mail.
The secretary of agriculture has ad
vised Senator Chamberlain that be
will furnish telegraphic crop news to
Oregon farmers, beginning the service
Immediately. The secretary will tele
graph his reports to the weather bu
reau at Portland and that office will
print and distribute information to all
the daily and weekly papers in Ore
gon. Despite the warnings Issued by the
state fish and game commission, laws
which were meant to prevent one
hunter from killing another, and the
suggestion by State Warden William
L. Finley that all hunters wear red
caps and coats, the hunting season
which ended November 1 marked the
dea'h of two hunters and the Injury
of eight others.
After a conference with the reclam
ation commission Secretary Lane set
aside from the reclamation fund $15,
000 to be used jointly with an appro
priation ot a like amount made by the
Oregon legislature to defray the cost
of survey and examination of various
water power sites on the Columbia
river, with a view to formulating plans
for their development.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, for the
W. C. T. U., has protested to Senator
Lane against the bill of Millionaire S.
Benson, ot Portland, Introduced by
Senator Works, to prevent the manu
facture of spirituous liquors In the
United States. She says beer and
wines are more harmful than whiskey,
and that the brewers, through owner
ship of saloons, control the white
slave traffic, and would have much
more power if the distillers were put
out of business.
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To Teople Who Want to Buy
A REAL CAR
As evervone know
Car tor almost 3 4 ffk f"X yr, i1 mosl
people know what 1 it has duito. It
thej do not it is VVtAA Bi!ly 0 g,, proof.
The car show for itaelf and is ready for in ction at any
time, or a trial trip. If you are looking tor real car value,
why not buy a Velie and save future exjvnse, as the upkeep
is aim out nothing. I have six-cylinder Yelies now at 12,500
each that sro second to nous.
Prineville Machine Shop
L C HODSON, Proprietor
r,
Central Garage
Phone No. 20 Agent for
t
Chalmers and Detroiter Autos
All Kindt of Auto Repairing
Tires Vulcanized
Full Line of Auto Supplies
Special Prices on New and Second-Hand Auto
Huff-Maker Auto. Co.
HOT LAKE SPRINGS
HOT LAKE. OREGON
(Union County, 9 miles east of La Crande
NATURE'S WONDERFUL CURE
The hottest and most curative spring In the world
REACHED ONLY
VIA THB
GET
Oil
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Extensive Improvements Have Been Made In All Department!
SPECIAL REDUCED FARES
from all O-W. R. &. N. stations
The MEDICATED MUD, VAPOR and MINERAL BATHS of Hot Lake
have proven a boon to sufferers from Rheumatism, Blood, Kidney and Liver
complaints. Accommodations at the Sanatorium delight ully complete
and rates within the reaeh of all.
Apply to any O-W. R. & N. at(nt for particulars and ask for the special
rate with hotel coupon, also for booklet telling; all about the Springs; or write
to G. W. TAPE, the new Manager at Hot Lake, Oregon.
A GREAT
Combination Offer
The Journal management has made arrangements with the
Portland Evening Telegram whereby we can give sub
scribers the advantage ol a gigantic combination oiler (or a limited
period. You can get a metropolitan evening paper with all the
latest news from all over the world and the news ol Crook County
at a remarkably low price.
The Evening Telegram is the best paper in the state,
market reports unexcelled, Saturday edition contains a magazine
and comic section in colors.
The Crook County Journal is the county official
paper ol Crook County.
The Portland Evening Telegram, per year $ 5.00
The Crook County Journal, per year 1.50
Total $ 6.50
Both papers through
this office if paid in
advance for one year
on or before December 31, 1913
You Would Enjoy the Journal
I have run a Yell
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WELL
$4.50
Summon
In the rlrvult nnirt of the tnU of
Orvtfuii tor Crook county.
J, 11. Iliuier, piiiimirr,
v.
llllnm Trine, John Trine, Kriitik II.
I'rtne, Hnrnh Tower, I'. . Trine,
I'Miil Ith.i.l.', Nor nil HIi.mIiw, An
nette Kliodi , H.rthti Kluiili-, Will
litre Ithodc, mill nil mikuuwu
heir ol linvld Trine, deceiiM-d, II.
K. Allen, li. K. Allen n mlinlnl.
trntor of the wlntn of VYIIIIntii
r'tmter. iI.whh.mI, Annie Million,
executrix ol the eetnl ol ('. ', Mill
ing. ilit-eiiM-.l, ami nil unknown
heir of t", C. Miillim, devcHned,
and all other Inter.!..!, difcud
nut.
To llllnm Trine, John Trine, Frnnk
II. Trim', Snriih Tower, V. H.
Trine, TmiiI KIiiii. Nornh ltlio.li',
Annette Hh.ide. Herihii ltlio.1.',
Wnlliicc lihudc. n nil nil unkil iwu
heir of I'nvl.l Prlnc, (I.vciommI, It,
K. Allen, II. V. Allen it ndinliii.
trntor of the entHtH ol U llllnm
KonIiT, ilcecnaed, Atinli. Muling,
executrix of the eatiite ot C C.
Moling, iI.h'ciin'.I, nnl nil un
known heir of ('. I'. MittlniC. !'
eeimed, nn.l to nil other Inlcrcatcd,
thenli.ive iininril ihletidntit :
In the mime of the tnt ot Ore-
iron, You nn.l ciii h of you tire h. tv
by rv.iilrc.l to ninur nti.l nimwer
the coiiiliilnl of plnlnllff tiled
niitlnt yon In the nliove cntlll.il
villi nn.l court within ten day from
the .lute of the M'rvlre of till Ktiin
iiioii upon vuii, nerved In Crook
county, etnte ol Orctfoii, or II scrvcl
wllhln nuy other county III lh!
title, then within I wcnly dn from
the diite of the wrvlce of thl sum
mon upon you, or II wrved ty puli
IliiUliin it provided by Inw, then ou
nr iH-lnre tint
Zttk fcf f NW, If IJ.
tut vrtii mnl I'li.'h nt vou lire lieretiV
, iintlli.'.l tlint If you full to nppcnr
iiml nnw'cr, for wniit thereof, the
plaintiff will lake a decree) of ahl
court ngnliiKt you lor the relief
prnyed for In the complaint, to-wit:
i Tor a decree ol thl court to the e(.
I feet Hint the plaintiff, J. II. Ilan. r,
I the owner In lee wimple, free from
all Incumlirnnre, of lot mimlier one
I In block uumlier four of the city of
I Trlnevllle, Crook county, etnte of
Oregon, necorillng to Monroe
llixlg.-' iilnt of nld city now on
tile nml of record In the olllce of the
county clerk of Crook county, tnte
lot Oregon. That the il.-lriiilanl
' and each nml nil of them lie forever
! bnrred nnd etopied trom having or
claiming nny right, title or Inlerrat
In or to Kiild iirenile, nnd that the
plaintiff' title thereto lie forever
Ulcteil, rontlrtiied nnd etnlilU!icd
In hluiM'lf, hi heir nnd niwlgn.
That nil record lucumhrnncco, lieu
nnd cloud ngnlnt plaintiff' title to
a Id prvmlw, exlollng prior to the
2nd day of June, lltlO, be decreed nml
rout Iiialvcly held nnd eoiildercd to
lie riincclcd. ntlfled nnd removed,
anil Hint all pemon claiming title
or nny Intercut In or to nld prem
lc, or nny part thereof, by or
through the ilefemliint or cither of
them, lie forever barred nnd itopM'd
from having or claiming any Inter
est therein, nnd for such other ami
further relief a tuny seem meet to
the court nnd jut ill the pr.-inl.-.
Thl mimiuoii I piilillxh.'d 111 the
Crook County Journal for lx full
week In nevrn conccutlve lue of
aid pitH'r, commcncltiK with the
Imue ol tctoler 16th, 11113, nnd end
ing with the Imme ot Novemlier 27th,
l'.U:i, by order of the Hon, (.
Springer, county Judge of Crook
county, state of Oregon, ma le nnd
entered ou the llthdayot October,
WIS.
tinted nn.l publlhed first time
October ICth, llll.l M. K. Hhink,
Attorney lor plaintiff.
Summon!
I n the Circuit Court ot toe State of Ore.
Sn for Crook county.
tti Kllioll, i'ltliitilT,
v.
Fred A. Mi Di'W.'ll ml Leon
McDowell, defrinlnw.
To Inmi MclHiweH.def.'inUiit:
In the nine of llie 8UU of Oregon, you
are hereby rr.iuirttl to p.'r nd nuiwer
tli complaint tiled npttiimt you hn the
above riiiiileil iut within Din weekn of the
.lute of Hi llrit p'lhliratioii of thin aunt
in. .in, which date of llrit iiuhll. atlon in
the Ulli dny of th tolier, llll.l, and if you
fail to to aimwf r, for want thereof, the '
piii I n li tl will pply to the court for the n
ilef .lelnalitled in aai.t rnlultUtlit, towit:
for a )uil!iiiritt ngninat Km I A. Mcllowi'll
for fliM.'i.OO with intrrvit thereon at the
rate of ten T rem pr milium from the
2nd day of otoher, WIS. for film attor
ney ' feea and for thecuHs and dialmrae
menta of thia milt.
For a tlc-ree ot the ahove entitled court
that the following di'Mcrlln-d Inml, towit:
the aouth half of the imrthwext iiarter
and Iota three and four of Hocllun four in
townnlnp thirteen noutli of raiiK. thirteen
eaut of Wlliuini'ttu Meriillnn In t'roolc
county, Ori-Kon, lie mild liy the nhcrlll of
tln county ui'i'imlitig to law and that the
proe.'t'ila tie applied to the puynieut of
plaintill'i nai.t jiiilifineiit and the cunt and
chutxva of inuainK nuiil mile. That the de
f.-iiumita and all pertionH claiming umler
them or either of tlieui lie forever burred
and fori'i'loKcd of all rl;ht, title, liiti'r"t
or equity of redemption In nulil pii'minea
or any pint thereof.
Thin umiiioni. in published hy order of
the Honorable (i, hpriiiKcr, r.iu'nty jutle
of Crook county, Orciron. made and en
le red on the 'Jiiii dn of (letoher, HUB.
M. It. K.I.UOTT.
Attornev for I'laliitltr.
AdiiilniHf rntrix'8 Notice.
Kliza Palion Estate.
Notice in hereby (liven that the under
flilined has been appointed a.lmlnintrH.
trix of the eatute of Klizn Pulton, do
ceael,by the county court for the atnto
of Oregon for ('luckamaa comity, and
has qualified. All perauna having clnlina
aiiainat aaid eatate are hereby notilied
to present the aanin to T. (i. Thornton,
Koom 15, Mulkey ItuildiuK,- Portland,
Oregon, with proper voucher- anil duly
verified within ix month frcm tlio
date hereof.
Firat publication October 30, 1913,
Okhikuuk L. Nlocqmr,
T. 0. Thornton, Administratrix.
Attorney lor Kstate,
For Sale
200 acres of ood farming ground, .10
a. in alfalfa, all in cultivation, H niilea
northwest of Prineville, 1 mile from
railway survey. All the farm imple
ments, some horses and cows go with
the place. Place haa 50 acre water right.
For furthet particular!- phone or write
Price Coshow, Lone Juniper Ranch,
Prineville, Ore. 8 21t