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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
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VOL. XVIH-$1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 1914. Koau.,,,,. Nn
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Crook County Fair Closed
Good Exhibits for Off Year
The Crook County Fair clotted
Saturday evening after a run of
four day of hard luck. The
weather was bad. Thli kept many
people away. The mason was bad.
The worst Central Oregon ever ex
porienced. This kept the exhibit
away. Money Is tight. This helped
to keep both exhibiu and people
away. Yet, notwithstanding all
these discouraging circumstances,
the fair as an object lesson, was the
tst ever held at this place. To
know that Crook county could raise
the fruits and vegetables, grains
and grasses found on exhibition in
an oft year has given greater in
spiration to the farmers of the
county than anything else could
have done. Every vegetable grown
in the temperate zone was there.
Bocgli's display of fruit and grapes
and kindred stuff, while not as large
as formerly, was fully as good as
the best he ever had. Size, quality
and flavor were there. His four
varieties of grapes were a great sur
prise. The general displays of S. D.
Mustard of Powell Butte and of
George Russell of the Ochoco valley
give wide range to the agricul
tural possibilities of Crook county.
The corn exhibit will start many to
growing this hitherto considered
impossible crop.
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The racing program was carrM
out every afternoon as advertised.
And in connection it might not be
amiss to say a (rood word for Rizzl's
Band of Portland. This organiza
tion more than fulfilled its contract
They not only furnished first-class
music but gave It in abundance.
Their free evening concerts were
the delight of all who had the good
fortune to hear them. The people
would bo glad to welcome them
again.
The sjeclal premiums were
awarded as follows:
First National Bank of Prineville,
10 for the best bushel of wheat,
any variety, accompanied bv a sheaf
of same variety not less than six
Inches at land. Won by S. D.
Mustard of Powell.Butte. He also
won the fair premium of t.1 for the
same.
Crook County Bank of Prineville,
$10 for the best heifer," under 2
years old of any beef breed, was
won by the Bonnyview Farm of
Post.
The t5 cash offered by the Crook
County Abstract Co. for the best
collection of grains in sheaf was
won by S. D. Mustard.
The 15 pair ladies' shoes offered
by the Prineville Mercantile Co. for
the best embroidered lunch cloth,
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GROCERIES
E. STEWART
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Tills handsome silver cup was won
Crook County Fslr, beld Sept. 16, 17, 18.
by the Great Northern Ry. (or the best
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by 8. D. Mustard, of Powell Butte tt the
19, 1914. It was offered sis special prise
exhibit of grains, grasses and vegetables.
Fresh !
Prices!
GROCE
Circuit Court Adjourned
Three Got Life Sentence
Circuit court adjourned Saturday
night after two weeks of purely
criminal work, not a civil case hav
ing been called for trial. The last
act of the court before adjourn
ment was the sentencing of Henry
McDowell to life imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
The work of the September term
was a record one three men hav
ing been convicted of murder in the
second degree. They were con
veyed to the penitentiary by Sheriff
EJkins Monday.
Rex Sheldon, whom four leading
physicians of Prineville pronounced
insane a couple of weeks before
court set gladly pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree when
offered that alternative by the dis
trict attorney. The trial of the
case would have been an awkward
one for state's attorneys, owing to
the fact that the law prohibits- the
trial and sentencing of an insane
man. A doubt as to his insanity
might have been established in his
favor so that a verdict of second
degree would have been perhaps
difficult to obtain after a long and
expensive trial. Sheldon murdered
his unnamed infant son a few hours
old by administering laudanum to it
Gaylord McDaniel, put on trial
for murder in the second degree.
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was reconvicted, and Henry Mc-v
Dowell, jointly indicted with Mrs.
Mary B. Scoggin for the murder of
the latter's husband, was found
guilty of murder in the second de
gree. Mrs. Scoggin's attorney re
quested a severance of the case and
she will be tried for the crime in
December. She is being detained
in the county jail pending her trial.
J. F. McKay, a youth 19 years
old, was indicted for forgery and
pleaded guilty. On account of his
extreme youthfulness, he was
paroled from the bench, after hav
ing been sentenced to from twe to
twenty years in the penitentiary by
Judge Bradshaw Saturday evening.
Ed Bush of Madras, indicted for
giving liquor to a minor, pleaded
guilty and sentence was suspended
upon the request of the grand jury.
Clyde Wornstaff of Bend, indicted
for a similar offense, was tried,
found guilty and sentenced to pay a
fine of 150 by Judge Bradshaw.
Johanna Smith of Madras was in
dicted for pointing a gun at some
children. Her case was continued
to the December term in order to
allow her to get witnesses for her
trial which will be called at that ,
time.
Andrew Gabhardt, indicted for
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