CROOK ODTOTT JOCKSAL
JA.M'AKY M, 19lt
RESUME OF WORK OF
- OREGON LEGISLATURE
Prompt Organization of Both
Houses Augury of Sue
: cessful Session.
Prohibition Amendment Ratified Sol
diert' and Sailor' Commlaalon
Formed No Conflict Over Consoli
dation Would Suppreea Criminal
Syndicalism State Police Depart
tent Proposed Compulsory Ern.
lloymant of Soldiers.
Continued from page 1
proposing an Incrrmse in the salaries
i certain officials in Hood Hirer
eawnty, was sustained by the senate.
A bill to license real estate brokers
was Introduced in the house by Rep
sesentajlve Gordon.
Amendment to the inheritance tax
taws so that they shall apply to es
tates which pass by dower and cour
tesy, or because of any deed, grant or
g.'.t as an advancement or division of
Ike decedent's estate, along with
greatly increased rates, are included
an the provisions of a bill introduced
fe the house by Representative
Behnebel.
Having procured Oregon's ratlflca
Baa of the national prohibition amend
asent by a total vote of 87 to S in the
aombined branches of the legislature,
the prohibition forces of the state now
art to train their "dry" guns on the
stent medicines and so-called tonlca
aontaining a generous portion of al
cohol. President Baker, of the Oregon
Anti-Saloon league, is authority tor
tfee statement that bills touching on
these patent medicines will be Intro
tnced. Represertative Cross of Clackamas
canty would have the school certifi
cation law of 1911 so amended that
sraduates of universities and colleges
aonld teach in grade schools of the
state.
WITH iJHE RCHANGES
Ray Goodmiller made a flying trip
to Prineville recently in the old De-
troiter. He limped in on three tires
en the return trip. Madras Pioneer.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
In a telegram received today by
County Clerk J. H. Haner, Circuit
Judge T. E. J. Duffy stated that he
was leaving St. Paul this morning
and would hear cases requiring his
attention here on January 27 and SS.
Bend Bulletin.
A young fellow got on the train at
I. Crosse, Iowa, recently and passed
the tip around that a special officer
was on the train, looking for booze,
-with the result that several suit
eases went overboard. The fellow
dropped off at a siding, went back
and collected a few months' supply
f juice. Jefferson County Review.
Some interest has been taken on
the western shore of the river Des
chutes in the white man's scheme for
irrigating the big plains and other
lands east of the reservation and it
appears now that those who have ap
posed the scheme heretofore and con
tended that it would ruin them and
the whole country are the first ones
to attach a higher value to their
lands when it seemB quite probable
that the thing is going to materialize.
An old Indian a long time ago absevr
Ing closely the movements of the pale
(ace gave expression to his ideas by
saying, "Ugh! White man mighty un
certain, talk one way, do another, all
time double tongue." Warm Spring
Jiews in Madras Pioneer.
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EXROLLMKNT WKKK l S.
BOYS' WORKING RESERVE
The announcement of the U. S. Em
ployment service of the Department
f Labor plans to continue and ex
pand the U. S. Boys' Working Re
serve as one of the major factors in
agricultural production, establishes
the Reserve as an essential part of
she reconstruction machine.
The boys of the United States who
enrolled in the Reserve in 1917 and
1918 may well be proud of the record
which won for their organization
this place of honor on the Nation's
post-war program.
Each day during the last two years
Has found the Reserve boy doing
some important task. In the wheat
fields of the Northwest, in the can
aeries of Alaska, on the sugar plan
tations of Hawaii, in the corn belt
f the Middle West, in the fields of
the South and East, our present food
aoiergency is being met and over
come by the United States Boys'
"Working Reserve.
Our farms must produce greater
rops fn 1919 than ever before. Am
erica has pledged to ship 20,000,000
tons of food to Europe as compared
with only 11,820,000 tons last year.
Food is the only weapon with which
to combat famine, and never has the
American boy had such an opportun
ity to show his spirit as he has now
Vy enrolling in the U. S. Boys' Work
tag Reserve and serving his country
and humanity.
Every boy in Crook county between
the-ages of 16 and 20 should enroll
this week. Those who are out of
Prineville should enroll with the
teacher of their district, who has
teen. designated an enrolling officer.
Those who are In Prineville and are
mt now members should enroll with
E. E. Evans, County Chairman of the
D. S. Boys' Working Reserve.
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When writing advertisers, pleas'
Vention The Journal.
Influents conditions continue to Im
prove in Albany.
Members of the Oregon Sta,te Motor
aooclation held their annual meeting
In Portland Saturday.
Of the 429 accidents reported to the
industrial accident commission for the
week ending January 16, none were
fatal.
Umatilla county was the first coun
ty In the state to contribute-its quota
of the Armenian-Syrian relief cam
paign. The flu situation in Grants Pass Is
now being handled with firmness.
Every house in which there Is a case
of the flu Is strictly quarantined.
The farmers and dairymen of south
ern Clackamas county studied, prob
lems relating to their business at a
school of dairying which was held at
Canby.
In a collision between' a speeder
and a gasoline-driven passenger car,
near Biggs, John Dlacutnts, track
watchman on the 0.-W. R. & N., was
fatally Injured.
Melvin C. Spores, formerly of Port
land, a farmer five miles south of
Monmouth, killed Miss Lena Brown,
a young girl neighbor, and In turn
committed suicide.
Plans are under consideration for
the construction of a new Elks' temple
in Portland, with sufficient facilities
to care for the needs of the order for
the next quarter century.
The Coos county court has adopted
a new method of handling the high
way appropriations for 1919 and has
placed thp work entirely under direc
tion of Roidmaster J. S. Sawyer.
All fuel administration regulations
as to pr.es and tones on coal and
coke will be suspended February 1,
according to a telegram from Wash
ington received by Fuel Administrator
Fred J. Holmes.
Captain James O. Convlllof the
Cnited States employment service In
Portland, declares there are approxi
mately 10,000 unemployed men now
in Oregon, most of whom have bea
released from war work.
Hope of securing oil in paying
quantities from the well on the White
aker ranch, southeast of Dallas, has
been abandoned by the Oregon Oil at
Pipeline company. The well was driv
en to a depth of 1200 feet.
The Oregon state highway commis
sion was denied a reduced freight rate
on materials for highway construction
in a letter received by Senator Mc
Nary from Edward Chambers, traffic
director of the railroad administra
tion. John Cyril Liard, convicted of sec
ond degree murder for the shooting
and killing of Deputy Sheriff Frank
Twombley, was sentenced to life Im
prisonment In the state penitentiary
in Circuit Judge Gantenbein's court
In Portland.
Through an agreement reached be
tween the Coos Bay Shipbuilding com
pany officers and the carpenters' and
joiners' union, the strike in progress
at Marshfield since January 7 was
settled and the 652 workmen returned
to work Friday morning.
Final computation of figures for
Oregon's war savings stamp campaign
for 191S shows that the state has ex
ceeded its quota. Purchases through
out the state amounted to $16,489,
972.83. This Is one half of 1 per cent
In excess of the state quota.
At a meeting in Pendleton of repre
sentative citizens from every com
munity in Umatilla county and from
farmers and commercial organiza
tions, a programme of road-building
for the next two years calling for the
expenditure of over $1,500,000 was In
dorsed. Constituents of Senator Colon R.
Eberhard, of Morrow, Umatilla and
Union, have protested to him against
the continuance of the office of state
biologist, which they declare "is not
necessary, and the money expended
for such office could be better applied
to better purposes."
Merita of irrigation projects along
the Deschutes river are being placed
before federal officials of the reclam
ation department by State Engineer
Cupper and Congressman N. J. Sin
nott in the hope of enlisting federal
effort to develop the irrigable lands
as part of the se ller settlement or
reconstruction program.
Approximately 9,000,000 acres of
land await reclamation in Oregon, ao
cording to the official report of Dr.
A. B. Cordley, director of the Oregon
agricultural college experiment' sta
tion, for the bienaium of 1916-1918,
which has Just been made to Presi
dent W. J. Kerr, of the college. Al
most 3,000,000 acres can be profitably
reclaimed by irrigation, more than t
000.000 acres of swamp, tide and other
wet land iieeds drainage and 2,750,000
acres of burned-over and logged-off
lands can be converted Into profitable
farm lands.
A great many of the residents of
McMlnnvllle have been cutting down
their old maple trees and luplacing
them with English walnuts. There
are two reasons for this, as the walnut
Is a prettier tree and the root do not
destroy the sidewalks as do the ma
plea, and there Is a crop of nuts,
which Is worth considering.
Many applications for re-employment
of -spruce production soldiers
who worked at Marshfield In mills
and logging ramps are being received
from men who are being mustered out
at Vancouver; The men who are ap
plying come from all sections of the
United States and say their experi
ences lead them to choose the Pacific
coast as their homes.
Lumbermen of the Pacific northwest
have been called to meet In confer
ence with the Portland district freight
committee Tuesday, January 18, re
garding the proposed new rate for
lumber and forest products. This will
be the hearing before the committee
upon protest of the industry, from
which numerous objections have been
made to the proposed revision.
Gerheard Kllever and Peter F. FrJe
sen. two Polk county residents, who
before coming to America were resi
dents of Russia, were refused natural
isation papers In the circuit court at
Dallas by Judge Harry H. Belt be
cause they were classed as "conscien
tious objectors to wan," Both stated
that they did not believe In war and
would not fight for this country. I
The towns of Jacksonville, Grant
Pass, Roseburg, Eugene, Albany, Sa
lem. Oregon City, Astoria, St Helens,
Hillsboro, McMiunvtlle, Dallas. Cor
vallis, Tillamook, Toledo. Coqullle,
Gold Beach, Med ford, Ashland and
Marshfield are to receive German can
non taken as trophies in the late war
by the terms of a bill Introduced In
the house by Representative Hawley.
While records at the office of, the
insurance commissioner do not yet
disclose the effect of the Influenza
epidemic upon the insurance societies,
it is known that they have been hard
hit Between 30 and 40 fraternal in
surance societies are licensed to op
erate in Oregon and at the office of
the commissioner It is said that the
fraternals have been suffering severe-
To discuss the financial end of start
ing force account Jobs to give employ
ment to discharged soldiers and sail
ors, the state highway commission
met with the roads and highways
committees of the legislature Monday.
Meanwhile, Highway Engineer Her
bert Nunn has been Instructed to en
gage about 60 soldiers and sailors to
work on the Three Rivers road project
at once.
Representative McArthur haa an
nounced that he has been authorized
by the war department to appoint two
cadets to the Cnited States military
academy for the term commencing
June 13. 1919, and that a preliminary
examination will be held in Portland
on February 8 for the purpose of se
lecting candidates for the final ex
amination conducted by the academy
authorities on March 17.
William F. Turner, president of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway,
was appointed receiver for the Pacific
& Eastern railway, a subsidiary cor
poration of the Hill railroads, owning
S3 miles of road extending from Med
ford to Butte Falls. The short line
railway was thrown into receivership
on the petition of the Columbia Tryst
company, of New York, trustee for
the eastern bondholders of the com
pany.
It is barely possible that a final de
cision on the question of an Increase
in rates for the Pacific Telephone
Telegraph company may not come
(rom the public service commission
until late in February, or possibly un
til after the adjournment of the legis
lature" The telephone company asked
for a hearing on Monday, to present
further data, and the commission con
templates handing down its order a
few weeks afterward.
Following the arrival in The Dalles
of J. E. Peck, resident engineer repre
senting the state highway department
preliminary work was started on
Wasco county's 8700,000 road program
for 1919. Besides the road from
Mosler to Hood River, the Dufur road,
will be paved from The Dalles to
Three Mile creek; the road from The
Dalle to Chenowith will be hard-surfaced,
and the 11 mile link of the
Columbia river highway from The
Dalles to Seuferts will be paved.
The first train on the Sumpter Val
ley railroad to carry passengers since
the strike was called on January 1,
left Baker Friday morning to make
the run through to Prairie City. The
train was manned partly by official
of the road and partly by employe,
and was taken out after a two days'
session between D. C. Eccles, presi
dent of the road, and the strikers, In
which the latter were offered their
position at the old wages. The at
tempt to open up the road for traffic
is being made by President Eocles,
who is of the opinion that the govern
ment does not intend to take any ac
tion affording the road relief, and also
because appeals are being made by
communities that the line serves,
stating that the closing of the road is
causing suffering and distress. i
TIIK WAY TIIKY DO IT IX KANSAS
Hutchinson News A petition sign
ed by forty-seven bualnea men of
Turon haa practically ostracised K. K.
Togardon. a farmer living west of
that place. The business men claim
that Mr. Tegardon Is well-to-do and
is plenty able to give to the various
war activities. They also claim that
he attempted to assault the commit
tee which visited hftn to secure a sub
scription to the United War Work
campaign.
F. O. Allman. a prominent business
man and stock raiser of that vicinity,
phoned the story to the News office.
He said, "There has ben a petition
gotten up in Turon and signed hv
practically every business nVHn In
town to cut off K. E. Trgarden from
securing any accommodations In Tur
on. Forty-seven buslnes men have
signed this petition and they absolute,
ly refuse to sell him a single thing
until he comes across with his just
and honorable subscription to this
War Work fund for our boys lu this
country and over there.
"We know that Mr. Tegardon, who
lives about three imlea west of here,
owns a half section of good flat land
and he Is considered well-to-do. When
the committee visited him to secure
his subscription he a'ctnpted to as
sault Mr. Cliff Shanllne. This Isn't
the first time he has refused ta do his
part, either. He has always been a
sou, r-p of considerable tr-iuble In mat
ters similar to this. We had to send
his name In to the S'nto Council of
Defense during the fourth Liberty
L'SM and when he roeelved J letter
from them he bought his share of
$500.00.
""-re are some of the thing he
ci'iiot do and can:- -t purciin-e In
Turon: He can buy no bread, no ,-sal,
no hardware, oil or rsoHne. grocer
meat. Jewelry. lumber, lUtlilng.
m'll'nery and drugs. He can t mil
pv grain o rproduee or cream. He
rat.not eat at any hotel or rest itirant.
lie cannot call the doctor or en m ih
dentist, neither can he deposit r bor
row money at the bank. He .an t
get his shews mended uero. nor Mr
the liveryman, and he can't get shov
ed at the barber shop. H can get no
blHcksmlthlng done und cannot have
any long distance clls ovr th tele
phone. There Isn't a Mrturo show
In town that he can attend until he
comes across as h? should.
"There Is only or,e mun whom we
exempted and thnt Is the undertaker.
He wasn't asked to o'.un the petition
because If misfortune cam.? a'ul Mr.
legarden died then we didn't want
anythtng to stand in th! way of Bit
ting him buried. We have Just leurn-
ei mat rreston has followed our ex
ample and has done 'he same thing.
He lives between Turon and Preston,
although nearer Turon."
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BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
TELL US
Your Fuel Troubles
Slab Wood, $ 8.25 cleliv'd
Mill. Wood, 7.75 deliv'd
CoaUXp 14.50 deliv'd
We handle chicken feed, mill feed, baled
hay and whatever you need in these lines
After being closed to the public for
nearly two yeaia because of the war,
the White house was reopened to vis
itors Saturday.
Count George P. von Hertllng, the
former Imperial German chancellor,
died Saturday night at Rahpoldlng.
Bavaria. He had been 111 for six days.
'With Its holiday vacation ended,
congress settled down Mondsy to the
task of clearing an unusually heavy
legislative calendar before the session
ends, esrly In March.
Because of Interference by the po
lice, the National Woman's party an
nounced that It bad abandoned Its
plan to keep "watch fires" burning In
front of the White house until the
senate bad passed the Susan B. An
thony suffrage constitutional amend
ment resolution.
While the expected declaration of
an Irish republic by the Sinn Felners
has not materialized, the countrywide
demonstration Sunday indicate that
secret plans have been formed to keep
up constant agitation so that the Irish
Ituation will be held In the fore
ground during the peace conference.
The Influenza epidemic, which swept
the country during the latter part ef
last year, caused 111,688 death In
the 46 largest cities and Increased the
combined death rat for those com
munities In 1918 to 19.6 per 1000, ac
cording to statistics made public by
the census bureau. Total figures for
the country were not available.
DR. TURNER,
EYE SPECIALIST
Visits Prineville each 1st and 8rd
Frday of each month. Consult,
him at Hotel Prineville
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