Crook County journal., December 26, 1918, Page Page 8, Image 8

CROOK COntTT JOVKNAL
IK( KMllKR INI 10111.
VITII THERCHANGES
tterrtlng Items Called From The
Oregon Papers.
Crop conditions ere reported as
wery fTorble In the Weston country
fnlnwing an almost Ideal seeding
Winter wheat Is looking well, al
though not so far advanced hore is
la usual at this season. December
outlook tor tall-sown wheat is report
ed to be 100 per cent. In Umatilla
county. The state acreage is -the
largnat on record, being 693,000
acres. Weston Leader.
L. C. Patterson is North Powder's
im- king. He lives among his bees
aad enjoys their company when
their temperature is Just right. Be
fore the real cold weather came he
stood in the midst ot hts bee village
on the lot opposite the News office,
while not a bee was emerging from
avny ot the hundred hives, and he
eadly lamented, "Nobody to hum, no
body to hum." He then carried them
Into the house and all was quiet for
many days but when warm weather
came the little Imps wanted more air
and freedom until they filled the
room and one could hear patterlngs
t Patterson as he moved in the
donden and crowded atmosphere,
murmuring In a high key. "too many
to hum. too many to hum!" and L.I
C ooened the door, left the bees to
ettle their own disputes, and went'succes because all will not cooperate
wtdoors to bun aroupd. North the burden falls n a few who be
Vowder News. come discouraged and give up in die-
s Plr- Some say, "Let them alone and
. . ,, . they will become so numerous they
Ladybug caches are now considered j wil, Btarve or d(e of p8gtiience Tni8
a worthwhile find. Foresters, county j ,ook, ke , naiardous pian. Hence
aents. farmers, and in fact everyone the onl fea8ible wsy j, boun(y
fm Interested in the fighting qualities wnlcn require8 eTery one according to
of the insect. Owing to the fact that ( nig ablutT to contrtbute to the ex-
anach grain and alfalfa in the states
oi uregon ana wasningion was in-
Jured or destroyed this year by aphis
",0 ,u
In former years. As the bugs are
destroyers ot the aphis many mil
lions are being taken In a dormant
trained for the great offensive which
is to start in the spring in the grain
fields of the two states.
Several large caches have been lo
cated in the mountains a few miles
from Milton. These will be taken in
to training sometime during the win'
uk u-
lex. According to the locators of
these caches, their number will be "' 1J"B P"' survive,
sufficient to form several compan- the 8ma,1' rnnche canont succeed and
tea. If their warfare is carried on there will be vacant houses and aban
against the aphids in a manner like don,ed, form9 in everT community
Milton boys tough the Huns farmers h,nle Inducement to attract new set-
need have no fear for next seasons,
top. It Is understood that Forester
Cecil of Portland will direct the big
drive In the spring. Millions of the
little fighters are now being mobol
ized at Portland for the bis drive.
Wilton Eagle.
The prosperity of Harney county
depends upon agriculture and stock
raising and neither ot these indust
ries can flourish while Jack rabbits
are allowed to roam unmolested.
"When the bounty law was adopted it
waa evident there were more than a
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million rabbits In this county. The
rodenta were able to destroy enough
feed in the fields and on the range, to their Intention of accepting the corn
sustain at least 50,000 horses or cat- munlty method. The number will be
tie, or 200,000 sheep. In spite of Increased to ISO, says L. E. darling
these facts, some stockmen opposed house, one of the committee. The
bounty and protested against paying plan is to divide the valley into blocks
the tax. each blink having about fifty cows In
When the law went Into effect, it, and have a aire tor each block. In
thousands of rabbits were shot.'pois-. two or three years the sires will be
oned. and killed In drives on which! moved to another block. The cost ot
no bounty was claimed and hundreds, the best stock Is estimated at $500 an
of thousands were scalped for the animal.
bounty. In two yeara they were so J The committee to arrange the de
reduced in numbers that they were tails ot the plan Is L. E. Garlinghouse,
capable of doing but little damage,' A. L. Hudson. Robert Laird, M, K.
and with the bounty law In force Krlgbaura and Willis Mitchell,
would soon have been exterminated. J The school was voted a success by
They are so proline mat it lett atone
a few years they will be numerous
enough to eat all the hay and grain
In the fields as well as the grass on
the range.
10U will parnou personal reier-
ence, because the experience la In
common with hundreds of others. 1
secured an excellent stand ot alfalfa
and in order to save it and my (rain
from destruction, I bought heavy 8 -
foot netting and built two and one-
half miles of fence enclosing 200
acres at an expense of more than
$500.00. Little rabbits worked In,
big ones dug under and lett no trace
ot alfalfa. -
The Important question la, "What
Shall we dolo get rid ot tnemT LO-
cal individual effort has proven a
failure on account of the migratory
nanus or tne roaents. urgsmsea
community effort has never proven a
pense. Prosperous rural conditions
jngure pr0Bpertt- ln the city. Tne
enlire cUlenBnlp is benefitted by a
bounty, hence it Is Just and proper
that all contribute the small tax to
get rid ot the menace. Practically all
tne bount money retained In the
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VUHUV V til 'V U V VU V UJWHUUIUg
of home industries.
When a poor homesteader or far
mer loses a tew crops ho is at his
row's end and is forced to leave the
county, and look tor a Job to obtain
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J, "nu. "uiain tor uiuiseu ana
" rauoiui in
habit this fertile country or do we
prefer honest, industrious farmers
and stockmen? O. A. Collier, Sun
tex, ln Burns Tribune.
As a result ot the two days' session
of the dairy school held here last
week, the dairymen decided to fol
low set by the stockmen's association
and get community sires for their
herds and raise better stock. After
some little debate, with a very little
difference ln opinion, however, the
Holsteln stock was chosen. Dairy
We wish to take this means
of thanking the people of this
community who have given
us their generous support and
patronage during years pasl,
and in the same sentence
pledge our future as a news
paper and otherwise to the
task of securing for this com
munity the development to
which it is entitled, and
which will keep it among the
firs! of Oregon's besT: communities.
GO. JOURNAL
men are signing up for the plan aud
' owner ot 118 cows have signified
those attending, and It was noticeable
that when a dairyman came once he
always came back. Many Interesting
things were brough out in the talks'
and discussions. For illustration, a 1
diagram was shown, stating that a '
cow weighing 1,000 pounds, giving
10 pounds ot tour per cent, milk will
bring the owner 121 a ton tor the al
talfa hay she eats. Another cow the
1 same siie, giving 40 pounds ot four
per cent, milk will bring 147 per ton i
tor the hay.
It was planned to form a milk
testing asoclatlon, but it will not be
taken up until a little later. Pine
Valley (Baker County) Herald.
Rallegh Scott, our postmaster,
went out to his ranch last Sunday
and some fellow had been there and
stolen two or three dollars worth of
bacon. He should have put the bacon
in hts safe in town and left his money
at the ranch, as the bacon was more
valuable. Mitchell Sentinel.
, P. M. Chrtsman of Silver Lake,
passed through here Tuesday noon
with a Four Wheel Drive truch which
the company Is to operate on the road
between Bend and Silver Lake. We
forget how many feet of snow this
truck Is guaranteed to go through,
but they are positive that they will
be able to keep tne roads open
throughout the winter with this
truck. La Pine Inter-Mountain
Don't rap and knock your home
town. The place may be ever so big
or ever so small the rappers and
knockers do congregate. Instead ot
being a fauIt-tinderon the side-lines
get in the game and assist In making
the burg be what you'd like It to be
If you don't see what you want, go
out after it and bring it in. Then
start a little "insist club" and begin
Insisting that the home villege wake
up.
What Is the greatest lack In your
town? Think about It, concentrate
on It and then start a movement to
turn the lack Into a fact. It Crane
must Incorporate in order to make
any further advancement, now Is the
time to act. Our own baliwlck
should forge ahead from now onward.
Gather up your ideas and plant them
in the home town. Ideas put to seed
later bear fruit In Ideals. Crane Am
erican. , . , .
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When writing advertisers, plea
mention The JournaL
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WLSQH SPEAKS AT
OPENING
SESSION
Th'rd and Last Session of 65th
Congress Is Formally
Opened.
Washington. Problems of peace
and reconstruction promise to occupy
fully the third and last session of the
66th congress, which opened Monday
at noon. After a 10 day holiday, most
of the members of both senate and
house were on hand.
The usual formalities of the open
ing of a new session were hurried
through because of the fact that Pres
ident Wilson, about to sail for Europe,
desired to deliver his address on the
first Instead of the second day of the
session.
In his address to congress. Presi
dent Wilson formally announced his
Intention to go to Paris tor the peace
conference, saying the allied govern
ments have accepted principles enun
ciated by him for peace and It la his
paramount duty to be present
The president said he will be in
close touch by cable and wireless and
fhat congress will know all that be
does on the other side.
. Referring to his announcement thai
the French and British governments
had removed all cable restrictions
upon the transmission of news' ot the
conference to America, the president
said he had taken over the American
cable systems on expert advice so at
to make a unified system available.
He expressed ' the hope that he
; would have the co-operation of the
'publle and of congress, saying through
the cables and wireless constant coun
sel aad advice would be possible.
1 Railroad Problem Left to Congress,
i Much of the address was devoted to
the railroad problem, for which the
president said he had no solution to
'offer. He recommended careful study
by congress, saying It would be a
disservice to the country and to the
railroads to permit a return to old
conditions under private management
without modifications.
The president declared he stood
r.aey to release the railroads fromi
governmental control whenever a sat
flsfactory plan of readjustment could
be worked out .
Paying tribute to the people's can-
duet In war, he spoke particularly of
the work of women and again ap
pealed for woman suffrage by federal
amendment
i Declaring he had no "private
thought or purpose" ln going to
France, but that he regarded It as hut
highest duty, the presideat added:
"It Is now my duty to play my full
part In making good what they'
(America's soldiers) offered their
life's blood te obtain." , ' .
; He. paid a glowing tribute to all
men ln the army and navy and also
to all who stayed at home and '
worked tor the war. particularly the,
women ior wnuni urn urgea equal
rights. vrvr&!3iif"
No Reconstruction Plan,
' No definite program of reconstruc
tion can be outlined now, Mr. Wilson
said. He expressed the hope that con-
gresa would not object to conferring
upon u war ir.ue oo.r. or m.
other agency the right ot giving ex-
nnrt nrtnrttlaa to anatira ahinmjint nfi
food to starving people abroad.
as w taxation, tae presiaent in- have brought here from Cologne 830,
dorsed the plan for levying 8,000,00,- 000,000 marks in gold, which Is being
000 In Mil and for notifying the pub-1 restored by Oermany to Belgium. The
llo ln advance that the 1820 levy will armistice with Oermany provided for
H.OOe.000.000. -1 the return of the cash deposit of the
' ' . ' . 1 I National Bank of Belgium, which was
Washington. The navy's newest
type seaplane, the giant NC I, the
'argest seaplane in the world, broke
ill recordB for the number of passen
gers carried ln any airplane when lt
nade a flight with 10 men on board
it the naval air station, Rockawey,
At this Holiday Season we like to
think of our customers as our friends.
We like to feel that in a broad sense our
customers are our partners that our
success is but the reflection of theirs.
And so on the eve of a New Year, we
extend to you ov l;;nrty good wishes
with the sincere hope that the coming
year will bring to you j .ater prosperity
and happiness than cvt: before.
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tfPANY
AMERICAN PEACE
DELEGATES NAMED
Washington. The representatives of
the United States at the peace confer
ences will be:
President Wilson; Robert Lansing,
secretary of state; Henry White, for
mer ambassador te Franca and Italv'
B M HoUB6. Qeantl Tw)ker H mu
repreientlltlv, thi AmMlcM ,rmr
,h th. ...nr.m. ,, n v...
sallies.
This announcement was made at the
white house. In the absence of any
official explanation It waa assumed
that the president' goes as president
of the United States and that Secre
tary Lansing, Mr. White and Colonel
House and also General Bliss will be
delegates with ambassadorial rank.
It was recalled that the president's
announcement that he would go to
France "for the purpose of taking part
ln the discussion aad settlement of the
main features of the treaty of peace,"
said that It was not likely that he
could remain throughout the sessions
of the neace conference and that h
weuld , ..,ecompanIed
who will sit as the representatives of
tkr United States throughout the con
ference." 200 U-Roats Were Sunk. " "V
London. The Kxoh in ETA TpTprrm nh
co,pany iay, lt hu IearMd m
German submarine were sunk during
9 wtr
Brussels. Oerman representatives
removed by the Germans,
. Frenoh Losses 1,400,000
Paris. French soldiers to the num
ber of 1,400,000 were killed during the
war, according to a statement by the"
socialist deputy, Lucian Voilin, in the
Chamber of Deputies.
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i COMPANY
I llll Wlnlien ever) one very pro-
INI ! perous and happy New Year,
llll There is promtne of (treat tiling IN
j mi , come to thin country In the
! HI! next yeur. A development In
; Mil new (lirertloi.s mid along Hue l
l of grenler benefit In Individ
ill uuU, The recoiiNirurllon pn !!!
UN reMN Is surely koIhk to develop
I ml irreater ronxlilernl htn for each l
HI! pitrticular one of the relilent IN
llll of the country. The world Is In " l
llll the art of rlmiiKltiK to new Hue. D
' UN of em envor. We hope and
llll believe thut many Brent bene
llll fit will come to I'rtnevllle and 1 1 ff
llll vicinity In the coming year, and
I UN wa hope each one of you will
llll receive your Juxt .hare of theM
llll benefit. R
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BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
Frau Augusta Victoria, wife of the
oace Oerman emperor, baa arrived In
Holland from Potsdam, to join her
husband In exile In Amerongen castle,
President Polncare, replying te a
speech made by King George at the
Elysees palace In Parle, said that the
war has united Trance and England
forever.
Boston, New York, Newport News,
Va., and Charleston, S. C, are the
ports the war department new plana
to use for the return ot the army from
overseas.
The appointment of Herbert C
Hoover as director of rellof, having
charge of the entire feed and relief
administration for the European' al
lies and the United States, Is under
consideration. , I
Following the example of the for
mer Oerman emperor, the king of
Wurttenburg has publicly abdicated.
He renounces the crown only In hie
own name, making no mention ln hi
declaration of the heir apparent.
Under Instructions Issued by Postmaster-General
Burleson, no letter
mall will be accepted by postofficee
In the United 8tates for delivery to
members of the American expedition
ary forces wlthou a return address en
the envelope. , . , '
Hawaii Seek Statehood. " . I
Honolulu, T. H J. Kuhio Kalan
lanaole, re-elected territorial delegate'
to congress, will leave for Washing-
ton early In December. His first move,
lt was said, will be to ask congress
for statehood for Hawaii. ,
11 Dinner Will Coat Soldlere 78c )
Washington. Dollar meals ln rail
road diners will be served for 75 centa
to soldiers returning home after be-
lng mustered out, Director-General
MoAdoo announced.
Woman Live 103 Yeara.
Berkeley, Cel. Mrs. Mary Irwin,
103 years old, died here at the home
of a daughter. " Mr. Irwin had lived
at points or the Pacific coast tor 42
years. She was born ln Ireland,