Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921, August 10, 1916, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextCROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PAGE 5 PROCEEDINGS OF THE Court reconvened thin 7th diiy of August, 15)10, at 10 o'clock A. M. puriiuudt to its order of adjourn nient July 11, 1910, in regular h1 journed session. The following ollleers were present: G. Springer, Judge presiding. J. F. BUnclmrd, Commissioner. Wurren Brown, Clerk. K, H. Knox, SherilT, whereupon the following proceedings were hml to-wit: In the matter of the Tumulo Desehutes llridgo, Tumulo Develop, ntent league. Plans for wood bridge at Tumulo across Deschutes river on Tumulo Deshcutos road, presented by Tum ulo Development league were pre sented by the league's 'president, J. M. GrllTen. Suld League pro posed building said bridge accord ing to pluns submitted for the total sum of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1200.00). The proposal accept ed, subject to approval of pluns by County Surveyor. Court suggest that 6 x 10 bo used for stringers in lieu of 5 x 18 and that 5 posts be used in each Bent in lieu of 3 as shown in plans, and reduce string ers to a lines In lieu of 10. When olans aro accepted or modified, by county surveyor he shall forthwith notify said J. M. GrifTen to proceed with work. Barnes Butt County ftoad : Con tinued to first day of Sept. term. Tumalo Project No. 1 Road: 'Continued to first (Fay of Septem ber term. CarlinRoad: Continued to first day of September term. , District Attorney: Order war rant favor District Attorney for $15.00 re Brewster apeal. See order. Stute Highway Commission: On account of Inconvenience of hand ling warrant for the full sum of $10,000,00 in connection with State road Oil Dalles-California Highway, it is ordered that said warrant for $10,000.00 be cancelled when re turned to County Clerk and in lieu thereof issue 10 One Thousand Dollar warranU on the General Fund. . P. II. Rimple. E. E. Vareo: Clerk instructed to draw warranU in favor of the following: P. G. Rimple, $12.00 road work. E. E. Varco, $13.90 bridge work. $7.00 for registering voters, totul $20.90 1 J. F. Blanehard: Order warrant drawn for $200:00 to be used on co-operative basis'with city of Prineville in sinking well another 100 feet. f " City of Bend: Vacation plat of portion of Greenwood Ave., Bend, approved and filed in office of County Clerk. School District Overpaid; From Crandall's report it appearing that certain school districts had been overpnid, County Treasurer in structed to corre -t such errors by withholding amounU shown in said renort from funds accruing to credit of such districts and turning sumo into General Fund of County. Crandall's Report: Report on audit of County records received and ordered filed. Consideration of same continued. J. F. Blanehard: Order warrant for $1000.00 drawn in favor of J. F. Blanehard for road work. II. J. Overturf: Order warrant drawn favor H. J. Overturf for road work to be reported on later. Wilson Headquarters Opened in Prineville Woodrow Wilson headquarters have been opened in the office of the Crook County Abstract Co., with G. Springer, president, and D. II. Peoples, secretary. The ob ject of the organization in this city is to further the interests of the President. Thoso interested are invited to call at the office and sign a campaign pledge and receive a badge of membership for which no charge will bo made. Com munications relative to the Demo cratic campaign will be freely answered if addressed to the above officers of the club. TlIlClTY Miss Orsa Sears is in the city. Orrin Noble is on the water wagon. Miss Mubel liixby is visiting friends In the city. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Shawe were In town yesterday. D. T. McKay went to Portland th first of the week. Mark Forrest and Earl Ralstonj by uonares, all single persons having were In the city yesterday. . an Income of $2000 ami persons with ,, II it ii . ,..., . dependent families having an Income Mrs. Harold Hub h. re urns to of 2 her homo at Vino, California today. ,,,, tU l,,1(1r exI-t,Ilg Uw Norris liixby went to Paulina, the minimum Is $:iooo and 4oo re yesterday for a two weeks vacation. ' spctlvely. . , , , ., . , , The committee estimates that a to- mrs. a. r. m-o anu cniiuren ie.i;ta, ll(.rram, o( 0,000,000 win be ob- this morning for a visit to her i mother at Combs Flut. I a u.. - M..I.I.. ...! t-i,1. 1,.f I . A , . this morninir for a two weeks out- Ling at Summit Prairie. Mr. Lee has three iron workers from Portland assisting on the concrete bridge eust of town. The last week seems to have been one of many accidents, with the little fellows suffering the most. The Chautauqua Association has turned $86.85 over to the City of Prineville for the Park fund. ' Oscar Hyde expects to go to Minneapolis this week. It's hard luck to leave this cool clime for the sultry one of the east. John Kemmling and Lloyd Powell went to Redmond yesterday to attend a meeting of the newly formed ' Cow-testing Association. M. B. Hockenberry arrived in the city last night. Mr. Hocken berry was one of the first principals of the C. C. H. S. Services at Pringle Flats Aug. IS, Barnes Aug. 10, Riverdalc Aug. 17, Fife Aug. 18, Paulina Aug. 20. W. L. Van Nuys. Arthur Michel, who has been seriously ill for the past two months, was taken to Portland by his mother for special treatment Saturday. R. L. Schee and Dr. Rosenberg went to' Bend yesterday "afternoon.. to see about securing a steam roller for the race track at the fair grounds. . . Today's papers announce the fact that wheat has advanced 10 and 12 cents in price, or the highest since the war began. The rise was caused by damage done to world wheat centers of late. The First Central Oregon Cow testing Association met in Redmond yesterday afternoon and made plans which will enable them to start work next week. Mr. Kerhlie is coming' with a tester and equip ment to lay out the route by next Monday. Mrs. Geo. Euston entertained with a pleasant lawn party some twenty guests at her home on the Notrh Side yesterday afternoon from 2 until 5 o'clock. Sewing of fancy work and 500 were enjoyed by all in the cool shade of ths spa cious lawn and delicious refresh ments were served before the guests departed. Portland and Seattle Market Quotations Wheat Club, $1.05; blucstpm $1.14; rod Russian, $1.03; forty-fold, $1.03; rod flfo, $1.02. Hay Timothy, $20 per ton; alfalfa, $16. Barley, No. 1 Fond $27.75. Rutter Cronmery, Sj'Jc. Ekks Ranch, 30o. , Wool Eastern Oregon, 30c; valley, 32o. , . Hops 1015 crop, 9c; 1916 contracts, nominal. Seattle. Wheat niiiestem, $1.14; club $1.06; rod Russian, $1.02; forty-fold, $1.03; turkey red, $1.08. Barley $28 per ton. Butter Creamery, 30c. Eggs 30c. ' Too Late to Classify WANTED By private family, to hear from six Hjgh School beys wanting room and board for the school ysar. Will take wood or farm produce as part payment for board. Apply at once. Ad- " dress Mrs. M. D, Swank, city. . 39t2c. PLANS TO LOWER TAXJNJNCOMES Members of Senate Finance Committee Would Cut $1000 , From Exemptions. Washington. If tlio action of the democratic majority members of th senate finance committee Is accepted taln-d by lowering the maximum of exemptions The committee also decided finally to reduce the exclHe tax on copper and ... .. ..... ... .... ! add to the list of taxable articles for excise purposes, products of lead, zinc, Iron and steal, when used in connec tion with tbe manufacture of muni tlous. May Not Adjourn Until September 15. September 16 was generally agreed on by senate leaders as tbe earliest posalbte date of congress adjourning. Despite the procure of scores of rep resentatives and senators who have campaign business with the folks Wk borne, It was declared It would be Ira possible to complete the legislation agreed on before that time. ' There still remain the general rev enue bill, the government-owned ship line measure, the child labor bill to be passed by the senate. Tbe first i two, It Is agreed, easily will take s month; the last may string along un til the end. of next week. In addition, there are the conference reports on the rmy and navy bills, Philippine bill, conservation bill and a- raft of local bills considered vital to political success In doubtful states. Congress Will Not Intervene In Strike, After a conference between Prest dent Wilson and Judge William Cham bers, commissioner of the United States board of mediation and concili ation, It was Indicated that the federal government would take no formal ac tion to avert the threatened strike of 400,000 employes on 225 railroad sys tems of the country until representa tives of the managers and workmen had conferred In a flual effort to reach an agreement. , .ny Immediate action by congress was precluded when thaenate com merce committee tabled a resolution by Chairman Newlands providing fur an Interstate commerce commission Investigation of the hours of labor on railroads and Including an appeal to the railroad tnanagtys and employes to postpone .consideration of their dif ferences until the Investigation was completed. Favorable action on the resolution had been urged by the chamber of commerce of the United States aud opposed by tbe representa tives of railway employes. Denmark Agrees to Sell Islands. -Purchase by the United States of the Islands of St Thomas, St Croix and St John, lying to tbe east of Por to Rico and comprising an archipelago known as the Danish West Indies, Is provided for In a treaty signed by the United States and Denmark. It will be submitted at once to the United States senate and the Danish parlia ment, whose ratifications are neces sary to complete the purchase agree ment. Speedy Settlement of Mexican Troublt Speedy settlement of all differences between Mexico and the United States was seen by officials here, following dullvery to the state department by Ambassador-Designate Arredoudo of Mexico's reply to President Wilson's note regarding adjustment by a joint commission. Liquor Smugglers Taken at Astoria Astoria, Or. The first haul In a federal campaign to check the smug gling of liquor from British Columbia Into the Columbia river was made when Charles J. Bertelsen, a former saloon man, and Charles T. Robinson, a longshoreman commonly known as "Bumboat Charlie," were arrestod by Special Agent McGrath of the cus toms department The prisoners were taken to Portland and will be charged In the federal court with smuggling and trading with foreign territory without registry. Progressives Let Parker Run Alone - Indianapolis. Plans for the reor ganization and perpetuation of the progressive party as a national pollti cal organisation were adopted at I conference of Bull Moose representa tives here. The conference after heated discussion decided It would be Impracticable at this late date to re assemble the progressive national con vention and fill the vacancy on the national ttckot caused by Theodore Roostwelt's declination of the nomina tion. ' Yokohama Has Cholera. Yokohama. There are 32 cases of cholera In Yokohama, Toklo has de clared a quarantine against this city. OREGON HEWS NOTES OF GEilFML INTEREST Important Occurrences of Pasl Week Briefly Compiled for Our Readers. , There Is now 40 feet of water at the entrance of the Columbia. The Albany fruit Juice factory bas closed a successful season. Scarcity of skilled labor Is keenly felt In the district around Baker. The aeason for killing deer in Hood River county will open August 15. Free mall delivery for the city oi Klamath Falls Is to be Installed Imme diately. This year's prune crop In Polk conn ty will be exceptionally large and ot good quality. The president has nominated Eliz abeth Thompson to be postmaster at Nyssa, Oregon. An ordinance prohibiting card play ing In pool or billiard halls Is now In effect in Portland. Work on the Portland auditorium which Is under construction Is now progressing rapidly. Warden Mlnto of the state prison dismissed J. Prank Humphries, farm er of the Institution. Coos Bay saw Its first circus last Friday when the Cooper Brothers show exhibited there. Tbe Polk county educational board has elected Floyd D. Moore for super visor of rural schools. Mars Wield was chosen by the Ore gon grand lodge. Knights of Pythias as the 1917 convention city. Six convicts escaped from the flax camp .of the Oregon prison, located five miles northeast of Salem. Lebanon Is to have a summer swim ming pool with a competent man in charge- for the rest of the summer. - A njpyement bas started In Corvallis with Uie purpose of providing gym nasium quarters for women and men. ' , After teaching In the Salem schools for 22' years, Miss Emma Kramer principal of the McKlnley school, hat resigned. . Rev. ."Billy" Sunday opened the cam palgn to keep Oregon dry, In speaking In the Portland Ice Hippodrome, Tues day night The 25th session of the Qreat Coun ell of Oregon, Improved Order of Red Men. hi to convene in Portland August 15 and 16. - Ita- Wlmberly, who .was nominated for postsnaster at Drain by President Wilson, has been a resident of .that city for 25 years. The flour mill at Prairie City has changed bands, O. Q. Trester having purchased the interest of Dr. V. C. Bel knap and R. C, Reese. Many conflicts and duplications in the road laws ot the state are pointed out In a 64-page pamphlet just Issued by State Engineer Lewis. - During the first six months of the operation of the prohibition law only 1058 permits to ship In liquor were Issued, to Polk county people. Installation of new machinery at the plant of the Bend Water, Light & Pow er company, to care for the Increasing demands of the town, is completed. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company ot Salt Lake City, will pay the SutherUn beet growers 50 cents a ton more than the contract price of $4.76 for their crop this season. Rev. Robert Booth, veteran Metho dist minister, celebrated his ninety sixth birthday anniversary In Rose burg at the home of his son, J. H. Booth, of Rbseburg. Found guilty of that clause of the law which prohibits Intoxicating bev erages at public gatherings, Jack Tra vers, of Cascade Locks, was fined $10O at Hood River. Chris Lsssen, held at Oregon City for a week in the county jail as a sus pect in the San Francisco bomb out rage, was committed to the state hos pital for the insane. - Governor. Wlthycombe has appoint ed Miss Margaret E. Howatson, ot Portland, a member of the industrial welfare commission to succeed Miss Bertha Moores, resigned. Reviewing the road expenditures ot Multnomah county the first six months of th'e present year It Is found that there was expended for labor $122,759 and for materials $101,729. Portland will have a Fourth of July celebration next year. Preliminary steps for the event were taken at the final meeting of the committee which managed this year's ceremonies. On the farm of Chester Ralph, -on R. F. D. 2, Dallas, is a freak apple tree. The tree Is now bearing fruit hall grown and at the same time is in blos som for the second time this season. Miss Esther Carson has been ap pointed secretary to Governor Withy- combe, to serve during the temporary absence of George Palmer Putnam who Is with the troopB on the border. The condition of the Oregon boys at the border is in every way satlsfac tory, according to L. B. Rhodes, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who has recently returned to Portland after a visit of several woeks n the various troop camps. Heven thousand acres of the ncn bottom land of Butter creek will con stitute a new Irrigation district if tbe petition to be prenented to the Umatil la county court at the next session Is allowed. Three thousand people attended the barbecue given on the bay beach at Newport to celebrate the raising of the first $25,000 of the $100,000 bonus to be given to help build a railroad Into the town. Engineer C. R. Broughton of the Southern Pacific lost his right foot, and Frank Lane, his assistant, was also Injured in an accident at tunnel seven, on the Willamette-Pacific rail road near Marshfield. The receipts of the state Industrial commission for the month of July $93,956.61 were the highest in tbe history of the commission, according to a report issued by the commission covering Its condition at the close of business on July 31. The car shortage on the Southern Pacific in tbe Willamette valley con tinues to increase daily, according to reports received by the Oregon Public Service commission, and the closing of lumber mills Is foreseen unless speedy relief Is afforded. Wheat quotations soared to e new top record for the season in Portland Saturday when $1.14 was bid for blue stem at the Merchants' exchange. Quo tations on other grades of wheat ranged from that figure down to $1.07, which was offered for red Russian. Services of J. C. Cody as superinten dent of the Oregon penitentiary flax plant were terminated by the state board ot control over the protest of Governor Wlthycombe. R. Crawford, of Portland, has been named to take charge of the harvesting of the flax crop. Holding that the local ordinance closing theatere on Sundays la In vio lation of section 2135, Lord's Oregon Laws, commonly known as the Sun day closing law. Judge H. H. Belt, of the circuit court, lifted the Sunday ltd from the moving-picture business In Dallas. The Journal is only $1.50 per year. Clearance Sale on Second Hand Pianos and Organs At present we have bargains ever offered organs. We wish to instruments at once to stock. It will pay you INTEND BUYING IN OUR TERMS ARE LIKE RENT E. H. BRENT, Mgr., Kamstra BIdg.. PRINEVILLE, ORE OTHER STORES: Portland, Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and other coast cities. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, July 28th, 1916. " Notice is hereby given that Andrew Murphy, of Bend, Oregon, who, on April 16th, 1913, made Homestead entry, No. 011547, for SJ, Sec. 23. Twp. 20-S, Range 17-E, Willamette Me ridian, has filed notice of intention to make final three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before H. C. Ellis, U. S. Commissioner, at Bend, Oregon, on the 7th day of September, 1916. Claimant narnes as witnesses: Naum P. Jordan, of Bend, Ore gon, Orlea O. King, Patrick H. Coffey .'J Bob Lisk, all of Brothers, Oregon. H. Frank Woodcock', Reigster. 28t5p. Now turn to the clasifted advertise ments on page 3. IS T The following is a report of the city chemist of Spokane, which shows the local water supply to be above standard in purity. Spokane. Wash., August 8, 1916. Dept of. Public Utilities; Des Chutes Power, Co., Dear Sir:- Jn regard to the two samples of water submitted to me for ex amination on the 28tb. ult. I report as follows; Sample No. 1 Bacteria per cubic centimeter 7; Colon bacillus, none; Typhoid bacillus, none; Odor, none; Taste, good. Sample No. 2 Bacteria per cubic centimeter 6; Colon bacillus, none; Typhoid bacillus, none; Odor, none; Taste, good. These waters are of exceptional purity, free from any sewage con tamination whatsoever. Yours truly, i. P. Maider, City Chemist. The Crook County Fair will be better thsn ever this year. Plan to come. The Oregonian Is handled exclusively in Prineville by H. it LAKIN Delivered at your door die same day as published for 75c per month some of the greatest in used , pianos and clean up all these make room for new ' to investigate if you THE NEAR FUTURE CHIROPRACTIC ADrugles Syitem of healing, re moving the cause of disease. Disease is a lack of or an excess of function in any portion of tbe body. Perfect blood supply means health and perfect nerve supply. Im perfect circulation shows there is in terference with the nervous system. Why not get back to the cause and not the effect? Chiropbactic Does That. Investigate for yourself and like others, who have given up other methods, will become convinced. Dr. H. E. Burdon CrookJCounty Bank Building Prineville, Oregon Send a copy of the Journal to a friend in the East.