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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE
VOL XXI
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.
NO. 8
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Council Completes Plans for
Immediate Construction at
Regular Meeting Held
Tuesday Night
BOND SALE NETS MORE THAN PAR
Bid Was $98,000.00 Plus Accrued Interest and
, Further Interest up to the Time Money is
Actually Used Committees Appointed
Council Will Ask for Figures on About 60,000
Ties for the Road and Bridge Across
Crooked River Will Receive Imme
diate Consideration
Committees consisting of Mayor Stewart, H. Baldwin
and M. E. Brink for the west end of the line, and N. G. Wal
lace, George Dixon and other citizens who will be selected by
Mr. Wallace for work on the east end of the railway, are in
the field securing deeds for right of way. for Prineville's rail
road, and hope to have the greater part of it secured during
the next ten days.
The survey has been completed, maps drawn and com
plete estimates made by engineer Kelly, and a start on con
struction will be made as soon as the right of way has been
secured for a part of the distance.
The bond sale was completed Thursday evening last,
when Keeler Brothers of Denver purchased them at $98,000
cash, plus $ 1 ,000 accrued interest, and further interest at the
rate of 6 per cent per annum up to the time the money is all
expended. This is considered worth not less than $2,000
more to the city.
L. A. Booth of The Dalles was present and bid up to
101 for $43,000 worth of the bonds, but because of the lower
bid offered for the remaining block the sale to the Denver
firm was the best.
Mr. Keeler was present and made a payment of $5,000
on the purchase and will return by the middle of January and
receive the bonds, and make final payment for them.
This practically solves the financing of the road and
clears the way lor immediate action, which was taken at the
regular Tuesday evening meeting of the council."
In addition to.the right of way commitees' work, the
cost of approximately 60,000 ties' which will be required for
the road M'ill be determined at once, and a committee was ap
pointed to work with the engineer in the purchase of piling for'
the bridge, and other places that it will be needed, about 1 50
pieces in all. x
The cost of a bridge will be determined, and the advis
ability of using steel, or other material will be decided upon at
an early meeting Jwhen the difference in prices is determined.
A heavy cut on the west end of the line will be made at once.
The Oregon Trnpk and O-W railways have been noti
fied that the council is ready to contract for the delivery of the
steel and rolling stock with which to equip the road.
The council wishes to impress upon the public that
this is the peoples' road, that they will be called upon to assist
in a moral way at least in the securing of rights of way and in
other ways, and with their support the early completion of the
project will be easy.
All arrangements are being made so that as soon as the
weather becomes so that danger "of freezing is past, and dirt
. can be handled without too great expense, the' work can be
rushed to completion,
Some of the councilmen are of the opinion that trains
are possible by May 1, while others set the date 30 days later.
The work will perhaps be contracted, they say, at least
parts of it, but that the road will be built in, the shortest pos
sible time is the united desire of the council.
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MRS. SKEFFINGTON
Photo r Am.ric.ii Prwa Aaaoclatloa.
Mri; F. 8. Skeffington, widow of the
Irish editor slain by the English, who
recently escaped to America with hei
son. " '',
SEAT FROM CULVER
Moye Was Made January
as Vote Provided
LITTLE JEFF" HAS FIREWORKS
Seventy-Five Citizens of Madras '
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and Surrounding Country
Take Gounty Seat
A force of 75 or more people j
from Madras and the country i
nearby went toCulver in the early j
hours Monday and loaded the
county records and other property
of all offices excepting the sheriff,
district attorney and county ; super
intendent into wagons and autos,
and took them to Madras, where it
appears the county seat is today
The possibilities of this kind of a
ruse had never occurred to the Cul
verites, and they were at breakfast
or peacefully slumbering when they
awoke to the fact that the enemies
were in possession of the courthouse
and before the full realization of
the facts dawned upon them the
wagons and autos were moving
toward the town to the north, ac
companied by cheers from the
Madras people and their sympa
thizers. .
Sheriff Black arrived in time to
save a part of his property from the
invaders, and a part of it was taken
by sheriff-elect James Wood, which
may result in a situation where
both men will claim the office of
sheriff. .
Several guns were in evidence, it
is said, and both the Madras and
Culver people were in some in
stances in readiness to defend them
selves but there was happily no use
of firearms.
District Attorney W. P. Myers
who refused his successor, Bert C.
Boylan, of Madras, admittance to
his office as he had not yet taken
the oath of office and thus held the
records, telegraphed the govern
or for the militia which was
promptly refused by the chief
executive.
Sheriff Black made an attempt
to get state troops to return the
records to Culver, also without re
sult, and Deputy Sheriff R. C. Hill
man and Geo. Rodman left on the
next train for Salem to plead with
the governor for aid.
The case has grown out of the
litigation, over the location of the
county seat, and in which the peo-
! pie seemed to consider possession
I about nine points. Had they de
I layed until the following day, the
'.Madras people think another in
junction might have been issued,
j preventing a removal.
MADRASTAKES COUNTY
CROOK COUNTY HIGH
165 Students, New Ones
From Post and Portland
SEMESTER ENDS IN 3 WEEKS
Address of Homer Davenport on
Monday Next-Band Will
i.; Appear Soon
j. School opened again Tuesday
morning with lots of enthusiasm,
which we mutually pledged to carry
through the remainder of the
school term. Mr. Baughman told
us that we should be happy and try
to make others so, vet serious in
applying ourselves to our daily
tasks whatever they may be.
Orville Yancey and Audry Noble
of last year's class were present at
the opening exercises and each bade
us a happy and successful New
Year. Orville will be remembered
as one of our state championship
debaters and Audry as a member of
the cast of the "Fannev" play of
last year.
Wt have the pleasure of adding
the names of Bernice Scott of Port
land, the Gibson brothers of Post,
and Rolla Weigand, who has been
put several weeks on account of ill
ness, to our, present enrollment,
making a total of 165 students.
The high school band will appear
in concert soon. The exact date of
performance will be announced
later.
Miss Jackson, Mrs. Terrill and
Messrs. Baughman, Smith and Da
vis of the high school faculty at
tended the state teachers associa
tion in Portland last week. They
report a very enthusiastic meeting.
Only three weeks more until
semester exams, which means that
one-half of our school year is gone.
We believe, if throughout the com
ing semester, the same spirit of
progress and success permeates our
efforts that has heretofore been
manifested, the year will have been
one of the successful ones for old
Crook County High. This is our
endeavor with forethought and
intent.
Clarence Dishman will continue
the splendid addresses we have been
hearing from our seniors next Mon
day morning with a discourse on
Homer Davenport, a cartoonist. If
Clarence can manage successfully
his class play, why couldn't he
make a good speech?
LYNDEN GORDON COMPANY.
Will appear at Commercial Club
Second of the Commercial Club's
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GENERAL MANGIN
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General Mangin, the French com
mander who recently drove the Ger
mans back at Verdun.
ANNUAL NEW YEAR
RECEPTION IS HELD
Large Number of People At
tend Annex Function
DECORATIONS VERY BEAUTIFUL
Blending of Colors and Subdued
Lighting Effect Produce
Beautiful Result
The annual New Year Reception,
given by the ladies of the Annex,
was better this year than ever be
fore, if that is possible. The dec
orations were of a distinct and orig
inal type, and blended beautifully
in the subdued light of colored
candles.
The reception room, which was
presided over by the former presi
dents of the Annex, was decorated
with Juniper, With the blue berries
in place, which affords one of na
ture's blendings that is rarely
equaled.
The second room was decorated
with Fir, and a liberal splash of red
carnations.
The third, where refreshments
were served, was also of the same
plan.
Beautiful gowns, worn bv the
elite of the city, were of a class
that cannot be excelled anywhere.
A musical program of about two
hours' duration was given, and the
annual function for this citv was
pronounced an unqualified success.
on the night of January 6. The
Lyceum Course for the winter
BUM DETECTIVE Oil
JOS III DESCHUTES
F. L Masters Of Detective
Agency at Work
HIRED BY DESCHUTES PEOPLE
Investigating Election Record,
and Say All Elections
Are Irregular
F. L. Masters, one of the, famous
Burns detectives, has been in Bend
for several days checking over the
alleged irregularities In connection
with the election there, and is in
Prineville today we are informed to
report his findings to someone.
District attorney Wirtz says that
he has never met Mr. Masters, and
knows nothing about him whatever.
N. G. Wallace saya that he knows
that the detective has been employ
ed by Deschutes county people for
.the investigation, and that while
some Prineville people may have
known of the matter, they were not
the prime movers in securing the
services of Mr. Masters, who is said
to have made the statement that all
elections are more or less irregular.
" There has been no private de
tectives working in Crook County
under the district attorney's office
investigating so-called - election
frauds at Bend or in any other pre
cinct in the county. If the county
is employing private detectives to
ferret out so-called election frauds,
it is being done under some other
official," said Mr. Wirtz yesterday-
"I have talked with no detectives
regarding any election investiga
tions and knew nothing about the
investigations being made until I
saw an account of the presence of a
Burns' detective in one of the Bend
dailies on Tuesday of this week.
"If any evidence of election
frauds has been uncovered, such
evidence will be placed before the
grand jury when it meets next Mon
day, but mere irregularities of
election officials cannot be taken up
and will not be taken up by my
office.
"The failure of election officials
to follow all the red tape provided
by law has nothing whatever to do,
in my opinion, with the qualifica
tions of the voters- A qualified
voter cannot be deprived of his
vote merely because a registration
official or clerk of an election has
not signed his name to a printed
oath on a card or piece of paper.
tf such law violations are to be
taken up by the graud jury, we
will begin at home and we will not
begin- in the Bend precinct until
the home precincts have been Clean
ed up, and when we have tried ail
the local violators of the election
laws, we will work over toward
Bend". From the number of euch
violations that have come to my at
tention we will get to the Bend pre
cincts about the 1st of July, for I
have yet to find a precinct, no mat
ter how small, where there were
not some slight irregularities, that
might cause some if not all of the
election officials of that precinct
some trouble should the grand jury
see fit to indict them for intentional
and wilful and malicious violation
of the law, '
"However, if any detective has
found where any voter repeated or
where registration lists were pad
ded or where there were ; gross
frauds in the handling of returns by
election officials which amounted to
a wilful and malicious attempt to
pervert the results, such cases will
be taken up and prosecuted to the
fullest extent, regardless of whom
such prosecutions might affect."
Tbe second quarterly conference
will be held at the Methodist church.
In thin city on Saturday evening at
7:30. Superintendent. H. C. Perry will
preach on Sunday at 11 o'clock,
preaching by tlw pastor in the even
ing. Everybody invited.