Crook CoMinity JoMraM -
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
VOL. XVIII-$1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1914.
Entered t tbe pontnfllc t Prlnevlll
OrecoD, MooodlM matter
NO. 39
Heaviest Crimnal Docket
in History Crook County
Great Northern Railway Offers Handsome Silver
Cup at Crook County Fair
Prineville, Oregon, September 16-17.18-19, 1914
Farming Recognized
as a Business
With the heaviest criminal docket
in view In the history not only of
Crook county, but of the Seventh
Judicial District, circuit court will
convene here Tuesday, September
8, In a little more than two weeks.
There will be three murder trials
alone which will strain he prose
cuting attorney's office to the
utmost, throwing more work upon
that official than has ever been the
lot of a public prosecutor in the
district.
Aside from the murder trials,
John Md'herson, who was awarded
a new trial by the supreme court,
will appear for trial. Jack Harper,
who was secretly Indicted for a
statutory olTense at the March
term, and was apprehended at Free
water, will stand trial, while there
are a "number of. defendant that
have been held to the grand jury in
which new indictments will, no
doubt, be returned. Court will not
adjourn for three or four weeks.
Of most interest, perhaps, is the
Scnggin case. Henry McDowell is
in the county jail held without
bonds on a charge of murder in the
Iirsi uegree ior giiuumm nmj
Seotririn at the breakfast table on
July 31, the details of which were
given at the time of the murder.
It is likely that eminent counsel
will be employed both by the state
and the defendant for this trial.
In connection with this case, on
Tuesday of this week Mrs. Mollie B.
Scoggin, widow of Avery Scoggln,
was arrested, charged with being
jointly responsible with Henry
McDowell for the death of Scoggin,
and is now confined In the county
jail awaiting a preliminary hearing
which is likely to be given today.
R. G. Sheldon is In jail, charged
with murder In the first degree for
poisoning his infant son only a few
hours old by giving it laudanum.
The Sheldons resided at the Comp
ton & Dee sawmill on Willow creek
at the time of the crime, which was
last June.
Gay lord McDaniel, who shot and
killed Herman Poch December 31,
1912, will 1ms retried for murder in
the second degree, the supreme
court having awarded him a new
trial. McDaniel has been In the
Crook county jail for several
months.
The term would be a heavy one
In any county in the state because
of the unusual precedent of three
murder trials at one term. The
practice of Circuit Judge Bradshaw
of holding court both day and night
while in Crook county Is especially
trying on the lawyers and other
court officials.
Circuit Court Jury
for September Term
Court called 10 a. m., September
8. 1914.
C W. Foster, Prineville.
John Ferguson. Bend.
David Miller, Sisters.
Chas. Dillon, Madras.
Chris Kaas, Madras.
Frank Stangland. Gateway.
James Fuller. Mill Creek.
Guy Sears. Redmond.
J. W. Howard, Iwer Bridge.
J. H. Bettis. Lamonta.
Dan McDade, Madras.
Harvey Harris, Redmond-
C. F. Smith. Lamonta.
G. W. Wiley, Prineville.
Edwin Graham. Grandview.
L. E. Throop, Paulina.
N. P. Weider, Bend.
Win. Farrell, Gateway.
S. S. Black, Ash wood.
W. I. Dishman, Mill Creek.
F. 0. Minor, Bend.
W. E. Sandell, Laidlaw,
Cole E. Smith, Bend.
Geo. M. Telfer, Ashwood.
Geo. B. Woods. Grandview.
S. D. Percival, Gateway.
James Hurt, Gateway.
G. A. Bradley, Redmond.
W. C. McQuisten, Bend.
F. M. McClintic, Madras.
J. N. B. Gerking, Laidlaw.
Buyers' Week in
Portland a Success
Crook County Demo
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Buyers' Week is a thing of the
past, but it was a week that will be
vividly remembered for a long
time, probably until next year's
"Week," which from all indica
tions will be attended by a greater
number of buyers than the one just
past. The registration at the Port
land Commercial Club .reached
nearly (500 and the visitors repre
sented practically every town of
any importance in the Pacific North
west. It is estimated that goods
purchased from Portland manu
facturers and jobbers during the
week amounted to approximately
$1,000,000.
Report of organization meeting
of the Democrat of Crook county,
Oregon:
In answer to a call from the
Democratic State Central Commit
tee sent out through its special or
ganizers in Crook county, a mass
meeting of the Democrats of this
county was held at the county court
room in Prineville, Oregon, on Sat
urday, AuguBt 15, 1914. Whereup
on the following proceedings were
had:
A temporary organization was
effected with M. R. Biggs in the
chair and O. C. Claypool as secre
tary. The chair appointed C. Sam
Smith. E. L. Milner, W. II. Lucy,
S. W. Spear and Geo. H. Brewster
as a committee on resolutions and
order of business. This committee
drew up and reported the following
resolutions:
1. We, the committee on resold
tions for the Crook county Demo
cratic organization, resolve that it
is best for us to effect a permanent
county organization at this meeting
2. We most heartily endorse our
present national administration, es
peclally its firm stand on the Mexi
can situation and the trust prob
lems and its firm attitude toward
currency revision.
3. We hereby extend our sincere
sympathies to our honored president
in his late bereavement.
4. We heartily endorse our pres
ent United States sentors and es'
pecially recommend the re-election of
the Hon. Geo. E. Chamberlain.
5. We endorse the state and
county Democratic ticket and pledge
ourselves to its support in the com
ing election.
Order of business;
We recommend that the present
temporary officers be made perma
nent, and that we elect one commit
teeman from each voting precinct
in the county to form the Demo
cratic County Central Committee.
Report of committee on resolu
tions and order of business read in
Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway, has signalized
tho Crook County Fair to be held at Prineville, Oregon,
September 16-17-18-19, 1914. by offering a handsome silver cup as a
o,.:i nri fnr thp hest ind vidual exhibit of grains, grasses ana vege
tables. Everybody is urged to enter this contest and help make this
affair a huge success.
full and unanimously adopted by
house. Temporary officers declared
permanent.
W. R. Cook elected acting secre
tary in the absence of O. C. Clay-
pool.
The house then proceeded to the
election of precinct committeemen.
The following full corps were elect
ed in each precinct:
East Prineville, R. W. Zevely.
West Prineville. M. R. Biggs.
South Bend, W. H. Staats.
North Bend. H. B. Ford.
Sisters, J. W. Wilt.
Haystack, L. II. Housley.
McKay, I. W. Spears.
Willow Creek, Wm. Joslyn.
Cross Keys, A. J. Woodward.
Ashwood, Howard Maupin.
Deschutes, J. A. Estes.
Johnson Creek, E. T. Slayton.
Mill Creek, Grover Price.
Howard, Henry Cook.
Summit, Ed. Merritt
Bear Creek, John Milliorn.
Camp Creek, John Schmeer.
White Butte, Orrin Mills.
Beaver Creek, L. D. Claypool.
Maury, Ed. Nelson.
Newsom, Homer Norton.
Kutcher, W. S. Williams.
Breese, Hugh Gee.
Powell Butte, Mrs. Mary V.Charl
ton.
Warm Springs, Gilbert L. Hall
Tetherow, B. A. Kendall.
Laidlaw, J. M. B. Gerking.
Lamonta, L. M. Thomas.
Lyle Gap, R. W. Gard.
Madras, Bert C. Boylan.
Lava, C. B. Allen.
Redmond, W. S. Rodman.
Hillman, John M. Perry.
Cline Falls, J. W. Wright.
Hat Rock, Glen Hendrickson.
Fife, F. D. Scammon.,
Black Butte. Jennie B. Wehrs
Centrallo, W. W. Howard.
Alfalfa, Edgar Barnes.
MilHcan, W. II. Reames.
Opal City, S. P. Burgess.
Lower Bridge, J. R. Howard.
Montgomery, Thos. Sharp.
Metolius, J. E. Chestnut.
Imperial, Sherman Montgomery.
Ireland, James Black.
Hay Creek, G. W. Garlock.
Adjournment.
M. R. Biggs, W. R. Cook,
Chairman. Acting Sec,
By O. C. Claypool, Secretary.
Immediately upon the adjourn
ment of the mass meeting, the
Democratic County Central Commit
tee met at the same place and trans'
acted the following business:
M. R. Biggs was elected perma
nent chairman of the committee and
O. C. Claypool, permanent secretary.
M. R. Biggs was elected Demo
cratic State Central Committeeman
for Crook county.
The secretary was instructed to
send out letters to all precinct com
mitteemen notifying them of their
election and calling their attention
to matters under their supervision.
M. R. Biggs, W. R. Cook,
Chairman. Acting Sec.
By O. C Claypool,
Secretary.
Mercury Climbs High
The purchase of a farm usually
results either from the conviction
that the farm is a good investment
or from the desire to be a farmer.
With the first of these we are not
at this time concerned. Suffice to
say that farms and farm mortgages
are recognized by a majority of the
people as good investments.
Let us examine the second reason
a little more fully the desire to be
a farmer. Just what does it take to
make a farmer? The possession of
broad fields, fat animals and fine
buildings? No, it takes a great deal
more than these to make a farmer.
While it has not always been consid
ered so, farming is an exacting
profession demanding fitness fit
ness which every man does not pos
sess. To say that there are a lot of
men farming who have not displayed
any special genius does not change
the facts. As WHKam- Lighten has
put it, "There are ditch diggers
and senators who might swap places
to the advantage of everyone con
cerned."
What are some of the require
ments of a successful farmer? First
of all he should be a man who loves
the open, a man who takes joy in
being in close touch with the earth.
That is the main thing, then given
this love for the soil, the more
training and experience he has had
the better. Other characteristics
desirable are health and strength,
mechanical and business ability. He
must certainly have some training
in the fundamentals of his profes
sion.
Having agreed on the qualifica
tions desirable in a farmer, let us
now turn our attention to some of
the advantages and disadvantages of
farming. A well qualified farmer
has a good opportunity of securing
with a fair degree of certainty, a
comfortable home and a moderate
surplus, which is as much or more
than the other professions offer.
Among the many advantages of
farming the following stand out as
being especially characteristic of
that profession,
1. The amount of capital re
quired for a start is not as great as
in many of the other lines of busi
ness, yet farming offers opportuni
ties for the judicial use of large
amounts of money.
2. The safety of the investment
is a factor which should receive
consideration. The money invested
in a farm and its equipment is a
good deal more safe than if invested
in some mercantile line.
3. The profits of farming are
less subject to the effects of busi.
ness depression than those of some
other lines of business. In fact it
is the crop yield more than any
other factor which determines
whether "times" are to be "good"
or "bad."
4. The country is the natural
home for man. The exercise inci-
dantal to country life develops a
strong healthy physique. The shar
ing of common labor, the working
together for a common end, teaches
unselfishness, willing service, and
promotes healthy family relations.
The children find playmates in the
colts and calves, which are much
better companions than the urchins
of the city streets.
5- It is a well recognized fact
that the most valuable part of a
person's education is that which he
receives in the home. There is no
place which offers such constant.
varied and unconscious training of
the eye, hand and mind as does the
farm.
The disadvantages of farming may
be considered under two heads:
1. Social. The country does not
offer all of the social advantages
which are open to city dwellers.
Good churches and schools are not
always available. During certain
seasons of the year the work is con
fining, restricting still farther the
J social pleasures.
J 2. Economical. The cash income
Ms usually comparatively small, and
there is no chance to gather togeth
er a great fortune. For those who
wish to become millionaires the farm
is not the place.
Just what should we expect from
the farm? It should provide for a
comfortable home, give fair oppor
tunities for training and education,
make provisions for old age and un-
forseen contingencies, provide means
for the enjoyment of some of the
comforts and luxuries of life- If
satisfaction is found in a full, pure
and useful life, then farming most
certainly pays. If the measure of
satisfaction of an educated man be
bags of gali, then it is true that
farming does not pay.
County Officers May
Get Four-Year Terms
. Having learned the way to the
top of the thermometer in the
weather of last month, the mercury
last Thursday and Friday again es
sayed the trip heavenward, stopping
for a breath at the 96 and 98 de
gree marks, and there struck by a
ghost of a cool breeze, gave up the
journey and came back down to
normal later in the evening. How
ever, the suspense was long enough
to make the streets and half .the
population boil; the other half were
either in the mountains or at the
beach. The hottest mark of the
summer was 100 degrees.
Should a constitutional amend
ment initiated by R. P. Rasmussen
and W. M. Davis, both of Portland,
be approved by the people at the
coming general election, four-year
terms will be established for county
clerks, treasurers, sheriffs, coroners
and surveyors. Provision is made
that the amendment shall apply to
those elected to the offices at the
1914 fall election. The amendment
is brief, reading:
'Section 6 of Article IV of the
Constitution of the date or uregon
shall be and hereby is amended to
read as follows:
"Section 6. -County Officers-
There shall be elected in each coun
ty by the qualified electors thereof
at the time of holding general elec
tions, a county- clerk, treasurer,
sheriff, coroner and surveyor, who
shall severally hold their offices for
the term of four years, and the
term of all such county officers
elected at the regular November,
1914, election shall be four years."
The officers enumerated in the
amendment are now elected for
terms of two years each. AH
other county officers are elected for
terms of four years, and it is con
tended by the advocates of the
amendment that equity demands
that the terms of the officers
covered by the amendment be made
four years. Campaigns for the
offices, as a rule, are expensive,
they assert, and this and the fact
that the term of each is but two
years makes it difficult to prevail
upon men who are efficient and
capable to seek them. Further, it
is argued, that the lengthening of
the terms from two to four years
will reduce the expense of alternate
biennial elections-' one-half . . The
State Grange is said to be favorable
to the measure.
A. L. Riddle Gets
Left Leg Broken
Dr. Edwards was called to the
Fred Powell place, beyond Paulina,
Sunday to attend A. L. Riddle who
had his left leg broken just above
the ankle by his horse falling with
him and rolling on his leg. The
doctor brought his patient to Prine
ville, and he is getting along nicely.