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I'd Or Grook COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY VOL. XIX PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1915. NO. 8 Gomiety State Legislature Nov In Session Buloin. Kvarytlilug wns In remit neua fur 11m convening of the Twenty eighth (!niufiil Assembly of Oregon Monday morning. Secretary ot Sluts Olrott, custodian of tli eapllot, had the annate anil house chambers unci rommttUia rooms renovated and iut lu , ahlpshape, Th name of each mem ber, hi district end county, eppoara on tub clvnk, the drawers o( which ware bulging with stationery and oth er paraphernalia which Oregon fur nishes) her lawmakers. Doth ttio sen ate and the house convened at 10 o'clock. Hen HoIIIhk, of Muttitomuli county, won the speakership fight In I lie bouse of rcpreeanlatlves. Ma defeated Allen 8. i:ton, of Lane county, by a vols of 87 to 3. On mot Urn of Eaton, attar result was announced, tha election A Belling waa mad unanimous by vha voce vota. Will a. Mara, of lllll.bi.ro. placed . tha name ot Belling bufore tha houaa. When Temporary Speaker 8. B. Una ton recognised him, Hare declared the demand of the stale for business ad ministration forbade any bombastic presentations, but ha admitted that the legtstalure hu hum lit disrepute, and that tho time has come for tha reproeeniuttves of the people to win Lack their lost respect. Tho nomination of futon wan pre acntcd by I uii a 11. Allen, ot Marlon county, II declared l.'alon to bo the dean of the present session, having been returned by hla constlluente five tliuee. "If a man'a worth la Judged by hla cn :ilca," he said, "Mr. Raton la a great niun Indeed." No Conteat In Senate. It required barely elfsht minutes for tha annul to perfect a temporary or ganization and take a rerun to allow time for tha committee on credentials to prepare a report. Tha senate waa called to order by Senator W. I). Wood of Washington county, tin dean of the eeuate, and the temporary organisation wai com plcled, the necessary conimltteea ap pointed and a recess taken. There waa no contest In tha aenate, and only one name waa placed In notn . Inatlon, yet Senator Ptrnlck and Sen ator Ketlaher refuaad to vote for Thompaon and caat their ballota for Senator Wood ot Washington county. Senator Thompaon alao caat hla com plimentary vote for Wood. Deviating from the uaual procedure, the two democratic aenatora, Garland of Linn and Strayar of Maker, Joined In on the organliatlon and did not place one of themselves In nomina tion for the prealdency. Dr. Wlthyeombe Takaa Office. Pr. Jamei Wlthycombe waa Inaugur ated Tueaday, taking the oath at a Joint aeaalon of the two bouaea. The oath waa administered by Chief Jus tlce Moore, The ceremontea were almple. A brass band played, but no atreet par ade marred the accuatomed decorum of Salem's thoroughfarea. Neither waa there an Inaugural ball. The Incoming governor vetoed that detail. It waa hla flrat uho of that prerogative. Membera of the leglulature had planned on having the Inauguration Monday, ao all the preliminaries would be out of the way and tbo aeaalon could got down to actual business ear ly Tueaday. Hut they did not care to upset the arrangements that already had been made, Governor Went dldjiot read hla mog ilalia In peraon, Printed coplea were placed on the doNke of membera, Im mediately after hla Inauguration Gov ernor Wlthycombe rend hla meaaage. Of prospective legislation chief In terest centered In a propoaad exeou tftlng law to make effective the prohibi tion act paaaed by the people, at the Inst election. A draft recommended by the committee of one hundred, which directed the recent prohibition campaign, prohibits the sale of liquor by drugstores and restaurants, as well ns saloons. Hotel men of Portland announced that they would try to got this modified to permit the serving of liquor with mcnls'ln large hotels, Chnpln Gets Pardon From Governor. Sulum. -W. II, Chnpln, convicted of lurcony by bailee In Tortland for ap propriation to his own use of J.1D00 bo loiiKhig to Marlon Annie Orace, was Klvim a full pardon by Governor .West, who executed the Instrument upon re celvliiK a bond, signed by Chapln's .frlonia, guaranteeing that ho would muho restitution. Type Setting Machine for the Journal Ml arrangements Imve Loon made for the Installation of a typo setting niueliino in the Journal olllco. Tho need for thin machine bin been felt for a long time and tlx InereaHlng volume of buli)cj justi fies Its Installation. It will enable us to get up a greater amount of type thun has been ponsililo to act by hand and will Rivo the Journal nn entire new dress of which we und our readers may well be proud. Tho detnunds of our reader und the spirit in which they anl the local btiHinofw people are supporting the Journal justifies the investment. Other Improvement will bo made as fust an the papci ' support Vill warrant. We are firmly of the opinion that Princville and the community are entitled tu a first-class paper and it is our intention to deliver the goods CmuIjt CaauaiausMr H. 1. Of artari H. J. Overturf Ap pointed Commissioner The county court last Friday appointed J. E. Adamson to suc ceed T. M Balfour as janitor at the courthouse. The change was made Monday morning of this week. . Judge Springer and Commissioner Blanchard appointed H. J. Over turf of Bend to take the place of Commissioner Brown on the county board. The new commissioner as sumed his duties Monday morning 7 r - i -- -1 - " and tho new court has been hard at work all week. Ovcrturf fs a man of ability, bav iiiK been connected with various InrRH concerns that hitve been active in tho bundling of timber lands near Jtend for several years. r ay , f, . Gatmnr WilkcMdit The court felt that the west side of the county was entitled to repre - Canty Cmaiiiimr J. F. BlucWJ sentation. "The fact that some two-thirds the voting population of the county and more than one-half its wealth resides in the west half of what is now Crook county makes the appointment of a west side man the only fair course," the court stated, "and in casting about for a man to fill the place, there seemed no one better qualified or more popular than Mr'. Overturf." Homestead I can locate you on a homeatead aitu ated on the upper Ieschutes river, con taining 30 acres of river bottom land and 60 acres good yellow pine timber, remaining 80 very good quality bench land. Inquire Journal ollice. if 10 HANDS ACROSS THE SEA. : Chapin in St. Loulg Rapublio. County Court Inspects Roads The county 'n t made 'a. trip last Friday and J Vurduy through the Milliean cr:nty looking over various county r-.-.'M. They in spectd seven madg that are at present private but for which peti tions have been presented asking that they be made county highways. The party returned by way of Bend where all the county charges were visited and investigations made as to their condition. The trip was made in company with Sheriff Knox who drove his own car. II. J. Overturf accompanied the court to Prineville Sunday and took his oath of office Monday morning. Slaughter Sale Prov ing Great Success The Prineville Mercantile Com- ; pany's sale is an immense success, Sheriff E. B. Kaox Not only are the owners of this es tablishment well pleased with the results, but the people in general are even more pleased at being able to obtain the values offered. Six clerks are constantly on the jump taking care of the business A great many dollars have been kept in the town by the bargains offered by these people. If you have not already done so, it will it will pay you to go in and look over the stock offered. Goods and prices are both on the square. Sell your vegetables to Maddux & Company. 1-7 Prineville Getting Ready for Stockmen The third annual meeting of the Cattle and Horse Pvaisers' Associa tion of Oregon which will be held in this city next month is perhaps the most Important meeting of its kind for Prineville, The first meeting was held at Baker in 1913. At ' this time a permanent organization was per fected and the meeting place for last year was chocen. The second meeting was held at Pendleton and was attended, among others from this part of the state, by J. F. Blanchard and E. T. Slayton of this city. Through the work of these ! was secured for Prineville. As this is essentially a stock coun try and this association, statewide in its scope, is for the purpose of promoting the stock industry, a ' place all state receipts in the gen more important meeting can hardly i eral fund in charge of the state be imagined for Prineville. It is treasurer. the business of the residents of 1 Recommends that efforts to Prineville and the surrounding economize should not stop with the country t.o mane every preparation for the entertainment of the several hundred delegates from all parts of the state. . j Committees who have the matter of entertainment in hand report splendid support and, no doubt, by the date of the opening of the three days' session which is February 9, all details will be arranged. The delegates will be met at Redmond by automobiles and motor trucks and conveyed to Prineville and a banquet is being arranged for them. The meeting closes on February 11. Fourth Annual Irrigation Congress The Fourth Annual Irrigation Congresj closed a most successful session in Portland Saturday night. A tax of one-half mill for irriga gation was recommended by the c ingress for action by the legisla ture. Some of the delegates con sidered other plans of financing the various irrigation projects of the state, but the tax levy was decided upon The matter of where the $450,000 federal money for this state is to be spent was left with the reclama tion service without a recommenda tion. Officers elected for the next year are: Asa B. Thomson of Echo, president; Fred N. Wallace of Laid law, secretary; J. W. Brewer of Redmond, John Rigby of Vale, and a. jvi. crawiora or baiem vice- presidents. Gold Discoveries on the Deschutes The Portland Journal, under date of last Saturday, published a sensa tional Btory concerning gold dis coveries on the Deschutes in the vicinity of Lower Bridge. From the best sources we find that there has been a strip of land two or three miles wide and six or more miles long filed upon as gold claims. The filings are made by local peo ple largely In the name of a Port land association who plan to work the mines. All who have been at Lower Bridge. and at other points along the Deschutes in that vicinity will remember the strata of black sand in the banks of that stream. In these sands the gold is found, to gether with some silver, platinum and traces of radium, it is said. Considering the nature of the de posits, it is hardly probable that the extent of the formation is as great as is hoped by the locators. Call and subscribe now for the Semi Weekly and Hundav Oregon Journal, just the tiling for busy farmers. 1 8 Kay V. Cox?pablr, Agent. Recommendations by the Governor Hon. James Withycome was in augurated as governor of Oregon on Tuesday. In his initial address to the legislative bodies of the state the governor recommends that the legislature set a record for brevity, especially in the number of laws passed. Urges a short sane session, with a few good laws. Would have several elective offices made appointive; recom mends the consolidation of various commissions and bureaus and sug gests that a committee be ap- pointed to make a survey of the best way to centralize the state government and report in 1917. Would abolish continuing ap propriations, except for state edu cational institutions, and would state, but extend to the counties. Of every f 100 taxes, $12.50 goes to the state and $37.50 to the county, therefore the county administration costs the taxpayers three times as much as the state. The legislature should save at least $20,000 in its own expense of operation this ses sion. Recommends anti-liquor regula tions that can he enforced; wants the governor to have the power to remove officers who do not enforce the prohibition laws; favors a sub stantial appropriation for investi gation by special agents. Recommends a one-half mill state tax for road purposes and the use of the automobile license fund for the same purpose. Would evolve a rational state mortgage credit system and memorialize congress to take action on the rural credit banking laws. Recommends that a non-salaried committee of seven business men see what can be done to establish new industries. Unreasonable re strictions on commercial activities should be frowned on. Would encourage the normal schools. Recommends that from the sale of lands in the Tumalo project set the money aside for future irriga tion aid under state supervision. With one exception, the state in stitutions are in good shape. The exception is the penitentiary. There is not enough work to keep the men in physical trim. They should work on road3 or manufacture something not made by free labor. Because youths and hardened crimi nals are not segregated, the state is conducting a school of crime, as the novices imbibe the spirit of the veteran crooks. The exaggerated leniency to prisoners in the past will not be re peated. A more sparing use of the pardoning power will have a salu tary effect. Only in exceptional circumstances will sentences be set aside or modified. Portland Cattle Market. In the cattle market at North Portland this week Harold Baldwin topped the market Monday, re ceiving $7 85 for steers. C. J. Johnson sold at $7.65. Since Mon day the market has been lower be cause of more cattle and a poorer grade in many instances. Cofoid & Mace shipped four and a half cars of cattle, a half car of hogs and three cars of sheep to Seattle this week, arriving at that point Tuesday evening. For Sale Three sound, gentle horses, weight 1200 each. Alo other Mtock. Owner iriilnu East. Address Hubert Harney, box 526, I'rluevUle. 1 14p
