COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
Crook CoMinity J.omraaS
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE
VOL. XIX
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1915.
NO. 23
MAYOR ORDERS
CLEAN-UP WEEK
The City Will Provide Teams
To Haul Rubbiih Away
Everybody Should Help
Mayor Edward Hat Divided the
City Into DistrictsPaste
Thii in Your Hat
BAPTISTS' MEETINGS
Rev. and Mrs. Driver, the well
known evangelists and gospel sing
er who uro in charge of the chupol
car "Good Will" ure speaking and
singing to vtyil congergations at the
Baptist i (lurch this week,
Those jM'ople came to Prineville
to attend the Deschutes Baptist
association, and were engaged for
some nix-rial evangelistic services.
These meetings occur each evening
at eight o'clock. Special music is a
feature of the meetings. Everyone
is invited to attend.
Use Electricity Suc
cessfully For Cooking
f Pursuant to an order of the city
council, the period from May 4 to
May 11 next is hereby designated
mmi-iiii wi. Power company on electric ranges
AM property owners. and tenant durinjr tho ,)ttst two ww.8 have
are requested to clean up all rcluse ho(.n( M lhe 8))ow IiW)l,c wouj my
Plans Being Made
For a Great Fair
MARKET QUOTATIONS
The Crook County Fair, which is
to be held at Prineville this fall,
will be the biggest and best event
of its kind in the history of this
country.
The board of directors, which held
a meeting Saturday at the McCall
ranch west of town, has decided
upon a number of important im
provements and changes that will
combine to put the fair on a better
and broader basis than it has ever
been. The matter of a secretary,
on whom tho heavy work of all
The cooking demonstrations which fairg fai8) has been arranged on a
have been given by tho Deschutes, basis that separates the business of
from their premises and on the
streets adjacent, placing it conveni
ently so that it may be hauled away
by the city teams. The city authori
ties will have the refuse thus dc-po.-ited
in the streets hauled off,
but bropcrty owners and tenants
will be required to pay fr charing
the alleys.
The city teams will operate in the
various parts of Prineville as follows
Thursday May 4, all of Main street
and one block of intersections on
either side. Wednesday May 5, all
of First street and intersections to
&eond. Thursday, May 6, Noble's
addition and ull of Second and inter
sections to Third. Friday, May 7,
Third street frmn old Crooked River
bed eiet to city limits, and that sec
tion lying between Third street and
the Ochoco. Saturday, May 8, a)l
that section north of the Ochoco and
played to packed houses.
The demonstrations covered every
phase of the science from the finest
of pastry to bread baking, anil all
of the work was done on electric
ranges which convinced the ladies
present that this is a quick and
clean way to cook at least.
No longer need the ta.sk of prepar
ing the meals be looked uon as a
burden. Quite the contrary. In
the board and the managment of
the fair, and will result in a great
convenience and improvement in the
managment of both.
The new board are: H. McCall,
president, E. T. Slayton, vice pres
ident; and J. B. Shipp, secretary
treasurer. Mr. Shipp will act as
secretary for the poard and will
have active management of the en
tire business of the fair.
R. H. Schee, has been chosen ex
position manager, and upon him
will fall the work of getting out
thing in the nature of entries in the
pavilion, in the livestock department
and in racing will be entirely free.
This has been the cause of con
siderable friction in times past, and
the new board has decided to follow
the lead of some of the other most
successful fairs in the state this year
and make the entries all free.
There will be a material reduction
in the purses for racing, and a por
portionate increase in the amount
of premiums for livestock and other
exhibits. The total purses for all
track events will probably be not
more than $500, and much attention
will be given to feature sports of
different kinds. In other words,
racing will be a side issue instead
of the principal event as has been
at some of the fairs in the past.
The livestock show will be the
best in some features that has ever
taken place on the Pacific coast.
Thomas W. Lawson who is spending
the spring and in
the morning, prepare the diner, put the exhibit and arranging the
it in an electric range, set the clock j details of the show. Mr. Schee is a
attachment at the hour you want to young man of marked ability in the
line of expositions, and his success
in the past in work of this kind in
sures the management something
worth whiic in the way of exhibits
u-rs
the tirouer
we.-1 oi main sreei. mommy, may ; r,.,u.)ei Qth
10, all that section north of the
Ochoco and ea.st of Main street.
AM property owners and tenants
are requested to have their premises
cleared of the refuse ready on the
serve it piping hot, then take your
husband out fishing or motor to the
mountains. When you return, dinner
is all ready for you to se rve.
There are three types of ranges ; an( amiiM-ments
offered by the local company. One He wi'd assume his Bctivc duties
has attachments whereby the cur- jn H,i,t two weeks, and will remain
rent is automatically turned off j Jn the field working on the matter
hen
Portland.
Wheat Club, $!25; bluestem $1.30;
red Russian, (1.20; forty-fold, $1.28;
red fife, $1.22.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15;
grain hay, $12; alfaifa, $13.50; ralley
timothy, $12.60.
Butter Creamery, 25c.
Eggs Ranch, 18c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 25c.
Mohair 32 33c.
SHEEP SHOT ON
FRIDAY THE 23D
Seattle.
Wheat Bluestem, $1.34; club $1.28;
red Russian, $1.23; forty-fold, $1.29;
fife, $1.28.
Barley $25 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $16 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Butter Creamery, 25c.
Eggs 18c.
Baptists Hold Very
Successful Meetings;
Isadore Meyera' Band Raided
and Many Killed
Raiders Were Masked
Thirty Sheep Shot and Camp u
Burned in Broad Daylight
Arrests May Follow
The fourth annual session of the
Deschutes Baptist Associaton met
with the First Baptist church in
this city April 22 to 24.
There were in attendance twenty
three delegates besides the local
membership, some of the visiting
fact a great part j delegates being people of consider-
of his time on his ranch on lower able prominence.
Crooked river, will bring the best j Special features of the meetings
collection of swine that there is on j were the addresses given by the
the coast if not in the United States general workers of the denomination
There are hogs in this herd that
cost Mr. Lawson from $500 to
$1000 each, the item of express
Miss Ruby Weyburn, field secretary
of the W. F. M. S. for the northwest
district and Miss Harriett Cooper,
alone on some of the individuals district field secretary of the W. H.
amounting to as much as $150. jM. S., entertained and inspired
They embrace practically all of the 1 those present with the accounts of
standard breeds, and several strains j the work of their respective socie-
teinperature ih
have other ad-
been
of the city as above j ,H, kl.pt quitc m(tl
street on the days set for hauling
in the sections
de.-ignated.
Should the teams overlook anyone
it is requested that the Marshal be!
not i lied and he will see that the
oversight is corrected.
C'has. S. Fidwards, Mayor.
Find An Ancient
Burying Ground
Three human skeletons were dis
covered in the field belonging to C.
J, Johnson about a half mile south
west of the city limits on Friday
afternoon. In plowing for an
irrigation ditch accross a sandy
knowl a short distance south of the
west residence on the Johnson
ranch, some bones were discovered
which upon investigation proved to
be parts of humnn skeletons. A
search was made and parts of at
least three skeletons were found
practically in the same spot, and not
more than a foot below the surface
of tho earth. Two of the skulls
were complete, and many of the
bones were in a good state of prcs'
crvation. Dr. Belknap examined
them and pronounced the skeletons
to be those of Indians, and said
that all indications point to the
fact that they had been, buried there
for many years.
vantages.
Twelve of these ranges have
sold during
I local users.
j ladies because of the fact that the
of exhibits, among the farmers and
stockmen, practically all the time
until after the fair is over.
One of the big features of the
the past two weeks to j fair this year is a complete change
They appeal to the . in t)e mutter of entries. Every-
of the same breed. Bessides these
there will be large exhibits of first
class ftock from the Henry McCall
ranch, the Douglas Lawson ranch on
upper Crooked river, the Dixon &
McDowell ranch and of course a
great many others.
The premium list has been revised
and put up to date. It will be issued
and distributed soon.
room where one is being used can
Karl Lenz Dead.
Karl Lenz,' who has been employ
ed about the Hotel Prineville for
Home time past, died suddenly last
Thursday night at 9 o'clock. He
had not been sick, but died almost
instantly, apparently from heart
fai lure.
Rev. Luke Sheehan will hold
services in Prineville next Sunday
May 2, at 11 o'clock.
Horse Market Is
Much Improved
Crook County horses, which have
ieen a slow sale for the past several
years, which fact has caused the
ranges to become crowded with
them, are in greater demand just at
present than any of the other kinds
of livestock.
James Rice and J. R. Wilson who
have a contract for 5000 head to be
delivered to the government of
France, have information that indi
cates that their contract will bo in-
reased to 10,000 head.
These horses will be bought in
Oregon, many of them east of the
Cascades. Buying for these men is
progressing rapidly now in the Will
amette valley, and will start in this
country early next month, when the
range stuff gets in a little better
condition.
These men figure that they will
have to look at some 25,000 head of
horses before they can secure the
desired number.
Charles Holland of Kansas City
will be in Prineville tomorrow and
will buy horses, mares and mules of
the artillery type. It is said that
Mr. Holland has a contract for 25000
head but this report h,as not been
verified. That there is a good strong
demand for every surplus horse in
this part of he country, . there is no
question.
Election Costs Crook
County $5,600
It cost Oregon over a quarter of
a million dollars to hold the clect
inos in 1914. It cost Crook conunty
$5,025 and Wheeler which got
off the lightest paid out $1,412.08
in the same election with Multnomah
paying out $72,415.99 at the same
time. The figures were compiled
by Secretary of State Olcott, and
given out yesterday.
Artesian Well on
Thos. Lawson Ranch
Artesian water was struck at a
depth of 370 feet on Thomas W.
Lawson 's ranch west of town last
night by Wagoner & Company. The
flow is not a strong one yet, the
water raising to the top of the
ground only. Another well will be
drilled for Mr. Lawson on the same
ranch in a short time.
Uncle Sam to Help
Kill Coyotes
The United States government
will send a force of men to Oregon
to eradicate the coyotes according
to an announcmcnt carried in the
Portland papers this morning. The
information comes through the offiee
of the State Health Officer, Calvan
S. White. The work will be carried
on by the Department of Agriculture
Mired in the Mud.
Two motor trucks and a load of
hay were mired in the mud at one
time in. the lane near the fair
grounds Tuesday evening. Irrigat
ing in the adjoining fields has made
I the roads very soft at that point.
Property Changes Hands
A deal was closed this week
whereby Frank B. Foster becomes
the owner of the M. L. Brown ranch
near Paulina, and Mr. Brown gets
tho Foster place on John Day. The
Paulina property includes some 600
acres of land with which are includ
ed about 200 head of cattle and
other stock and machinery. While
the consideration in the deal is not
made public it is said to be a little
less than $20,000.
Mrs. Rose Howard is quite sick
at tho home of C. F. Smith in this
city.'
Crook County High
in Per Capita Income
The census bureau at Washington
has just given out some interesting
figures arrived at by the last census.
The per capita cost- of government
is higher in Klamath county than
any other eountyjn the state, being
$22.77. Crook was below the ever
age, being $15.22. Multnomah
was $8.76 which was the lowest
in the state excepting Hood River
which was $7.56. Tillamook county
had the highest per capita revenue
receipts with Crook second in the
state. The former received $38.93,
while the receipts in Crook were
$21.58. Crook received less money
from a general property tax than
any other county in the state, the
total being $32,798.
ties.
Rev. Thomas Moody, missionary
to Africa had the facts of the African
field at his command. He made the
t
need of the vast continent a living
reality. Much has been done for
Arfica he says and much more
remains for the Christian world to do
Rev. O. C. Wright, general mis
sionary for the Oregon Baptist state
convention presented the need of
the state misssions and showed the
relation of the state work to the
world wide missionary enterprise.
Rev. W. C. Driver, missionary in
charge of the chapel cr, "Good
Will" was heard with intrest in re
gard to the work of the American
Baptist Publication society.
Rev. W. N. Ferris of The Dalles
gave an excellent sermon on the
work and need of the holy spirit in
the life of man.
Rev. E. G. Judd of Bend preached
the doctrinal sermon, emphasizing
the distinctive principals of the
Baptists. The body was pleased
with several pieces of music besides
the eongergational singing.
The next meeting of the associa
tion will be held with the Baptist
church of Bend.
Four masked men rode into the
band of sheep belonging to Isadore
B. Meyer on his range near Paulina
last Friday afternoon about four
o'clock and firing into the band
killed some thirty head of the sheep
The men went to the camp first
and after taking the clothing that
belonged to the herder, and pack
ing it a safe distance from the tent,
set fire to and burned the camp.
Although the herder does not ,
know just how many shots were
fired, he estimates the number at
about 100.
The sheep had been sold and will
be delivered in a short time to the
buyer at Bend. The contract price,
which is $4 per head, in addition to
the fleece brings the value of the
sheep up to about $6 per head.
They were brought onto this range
last fall and wintered in a feed lot
on the Meyer ranch. Mr. Meyer says
that he can see no excuse for this
kind of treatment of his property.
! as he has been a resident of that
vicinity for over thirty years,
owns 520 acres of land and was
camped on his own land at the time
of the trouble. He had about 1750
head of sheep, what he considers
would eat the grass he is justly
entitled to.
Lawson Has Some
Fine Percheron Horses
Commissioner
Bend today.
Blanchard is in
Good Crops Everywhere,
J. T. Hardy of the U. T. was in
Prineville yesterday. Mr, Hardy
says that he has been over a large
part of Central Oregon during the
last few days and that the crops are
looking fine in all
has visited. He
there is at least
Good Records Made
by Track Meet Winners
The Inter-society track meet which
was held yesterday afternoon on the
high school campus between the
Alphas and the Ochoconians brought
out some good records by the boys.
The Alphas were victorius, the
score standing 61 to 37. Eleven of
the events out of fourteen filled.
Winners of the events were; 100
yard dash, Brosius. 220 yard dash,
Farnsworth. 440 yard dash, Mc
Callister. 880 yard dash Farnsworth
1 mile, Broderick. Running high
jump, McCallister. Pole vault,
Farnsworth. Kunning broad jump
Farnsworth. Shot put, Hodges
Javelin, Prose. Dicus, Estes.
Douglas Lawson took two of his
Percheron stallions through Prine
ville Saturday to his horse ranch
which the Lawsons recently pur
chased from C. W. Colby. They
are a pair or the prettiest animals
that ever came to this part of the
country. One of them weighs 2100
and the other 2160. One is a little
over 17 hands in height and the
other is 18 hands. These animals,
together with Lawson's Mammoth
Jack, King Boy, are standing for the
season at the Upper Crooked River
ranch.
Such animals as these are what
Crook county needs to bring the
standard of the stock up to the
place where it belongs.
F. S. Hoffman has built a foot-
the localities he bridge across Crooked river at his
estimates that ranch. The bridge is made from
15 per cent more, heavy woven wire, stretched tight
acreage planted to wheat this year on either side, 'with a board at the
than usual. I'bottom for the bridge proper. '
Reduction In Light
Rates Announced
The Deschutes Power company
announce a reduction in practically
all rates to take effect on May 1.
The reduction in rate3 for lights
and electricity for cooking amounts
to about 20 per cent, which reduc
tion applies to lighting for the busi
ness district as well. A very low
rate has been decided upon for show
window and sign lighting which
will no doubt encourage the use of
more of this kind of lights.
Reductions are to be made in the
irrigation rates also at this time.
The Christian Endeavor society
will hold a consecration meeting at
the Presbyterian church next Sun
day at 7 P. M. The subject is "Joys
of a Christian Life." Plans for the
summer will
meeting.
be discussed at this