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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1919)
crook conmr jooinai. rxToiiKlt 21. inio. TiiE City Roy Gray pas In the cily Monday. Merlin Allen la attending court ttala week. T. J. M. Biggs was a business Tlslt or Monday. O. C. Hyde ia In Portland this week on business. Alex Hinton of MoKay was in town on Monday. A. O. Brown Is In the city this week on Jury duty. John P. Hopper is doing jury ser vice this week. H. B. Hayes of Dayville was In the city Saturday. L. B. La toilette went to Antelope on business Sunday. August A. Anderson of Bend was In Prinevllle Friday. F. G. Owen of Medford was in Prineville Saturday. Earl Hereford of Meadow was In Trineville Monday. Earl Brent left Sunday for Port land on business. J. F. Rice was in Prinevllle Monday from Powell Butte. Claude Smith of Lamonta was In Prineville Monday. TV. H. Porter was a business visitor the last of the week. March Logan of Paulina is attend ing court this week. Wm. Harold was in Ihe city attend ing to business here. E. C. Faught was In Prinevlle on Tuesday of this week. Ed. McFarland was in Prineville from Paulina Friday. John Kemmling of McKay is in Prineville this week. Claud Smith was in Prineville from Lamonta on Monday. Harvey Payne is visiting friends In this city from Ontario. S. D. Mustard waa a visitor from Powell Butte Tuesday. H. S. Cram was in Prineville at court Monday morning. Ed. Williams was a business visitor , from Powell Butte Monday. Henry Keoch of Howard was in the city Monday on business. D. B. Tolliday of Paulina was a Prineville vsitcr Saturday. Dr. J. T. Fox of John Day is vis iting relatives in this city. Edgar Barnes and wife were in the city Saturday from Culver. J. E. Fuller of Mill Creek is in the city attending circuit court. Mrs. Geo. Hobbs was In the city on Saturday from Powell Butte. Fred Jones of Mill Creek was In Prineville Monday on business. Clarence O. Stover was atending court here the first of the week. Orval W. Osborn waa in attendance' at court here the first of the week. V. Butler of Lower Crooked River is in attendance at court this week. Henry J. Edwards of Powell Butte was at court in this city on Monday. Floyd J. Warner was in the city from his Roberts ranch on Saturday. Miss Ethel Potter of Spokane is the city this week visiting relatives. John Morgan of Paulina was in Prineville several days of this week. N. F. McCoin wg in Prineville on Tuesday from bs ranch on Grizzly. C. M. Elkns was in the city on bus iness from his ranch on Crooked riv- . er. E. J. Wilson, cashier of the Crook County Bank, is in Portland this week. Commissioner H. J. Lister was in attendance at county court on Sat urday. F. M, Wood was a business visitor from his cattle ranch at Paulina Sat urday. Norris Morgan was in Prineville from the Stanton ranch on Mill Creek Tuesday. T. H. Brennan and Mrs. Brennan of Paulina were in the city the first of the week. D. P. Adamson and daughter, Ruth, returned Tuesday from a business trip to Portland.. W. H. Wilson, an attorney froia The Dalles, was in the city the last of the week. Prior Barnes of Burns was In the city Saturday, called here by the death of his sister Irene. Denton G. Burdick was in Prine ville on business connected with the Lone Pine Irrigation District Mon day. The Standard Oil tanks are being . placed in position at the station, , which 8 being completed west of the depot. , Earnest Hayes drove to Portland and McMinnville the first of the week where he will visit relatives and friends. The Degree of Honor Lodge will , meet at the home of Mrs. H. P. Bel knap in this city Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. W. H. Lewis of Seattle was in the , city Tuesday on business connected with the sluicng operatons at the , Ochoco dam. George Roberts, Gardner Perry and L. C. Perry left the first of the week for a ten days' trip In the Blue moun tains hunting. Dr. and MrB. Horace Belknap of Portland were in the city Monday, the doctor having been called here to assist in several surgical operations. J. A. Moffitt was In Prineville the first of the week. He recently re turned from upper Deschutes, where he spent the summer on his ranch. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Albany school teachers want more money. The assessed valuation of all prop erty In Lane county this year Is $106. 351 less than last year. The paving of the Columbia river highway between Cast-mic Lucks and Wyeth has been completed. Teachers of Coos county have or ganized for the purpose of demanding a minimum salary of $1000 per year. Approval of Sunday, October 26, as "go-to-Sunday school day" Is given In proclamation Issued by Governor 01 cott The recently organised Albany Fair association is planning to raise $10,000 to prepare grounds and purchase equip ment An unidentified ex-service man was Instantly killed at The Dalles while attempting to board westbound freight train. Multnomah county fares the largest tax delinquency in its history, unpaid taxes on the 1918 roll totaling more than $1,000.(100. The large mill on Coot bay of C. A. Smith, idle for vtr nine months, has resumed cutting lumber with a small force of 200 men. The Clatsop County Bar association, at a special meeting, decided to raise all the fees for legal services approxi mately 50 per cent. Mrs. Mary Catherine McQueen, sis ter of the late Robert Eakln, Justice of the supreme court, died at the Salem hospital at the age of 64 years. John W. Giuuer, geologist from Min nesota, has arrived at the Oregon Ag ricultural college to take up his duties as assistant professor of geology In the school of mines. Nine veteran foresters of Lebanon and vicinity have left for the Santlam national forest, where they will plant 60,000 fir and white pine trees on South Breltenbush creek. After burning over 800 acres of yel low pine and second-growth timber, fires which have been raging In the Pringle Butte section, 30 miles from Bend, were brought under control. Apples are piled (telling high In the Albany cannery store room, and Man ager W. R. Scott expects to have ap ples enough to run the cannery at capacity speed until the first of the year. Daniel Schnell of Tlgard was In stantly killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding collided bead-on with a truck, about a half mile from Multnomah station on the Capital highway. Apple shippers in Oregon were de nied a commodity rate for the ship ment of apples In bulk in refrigerator cars, for use In manufacturing pur poses in the east by the railroad ad ministration. The special-city election for the purpose of submitting a charter amend-1 ment to the voters, increasing the annual city tax ievy (rum 8 to 11 mills, will be held in Portland on Wednesday, November 12. A fatal accident occurred at the Big Creek Logging company's camp near Knappa, when Charles Fulton was In stantly killed and his companion, John Warner, was so severely Injured that death is expected to result Profiting by the experience of recent year, when fall grain has yielded much better than the crops planted in the spring, farmers in the Willamette valley are rushing now to get as much grain as possible planted this fall. A . warrant for $115,405.74 was re ceived by Governor Olcott from the United States treasury, In payment of the sum due the state of Oregon from revenues collected by the government from national forests of the state. An organization of good roads advo cates was effected at Coquille. Its aim Is to become an advisory committee to the county court, which requested as sistance and advice from men ac quainted with the county's needs. The Hood River apple crop has even surpassed pre-season estimates, both as to quality and quantity. The yield will exceed 2,000,000 boxes, and the apples are running more than ever before to the extra fancy grade and desirable sizes. Creation of a park on the summit of Spencer's Butte, a mountain 2000 feet high, six miles south of Eugene, to be reached by a scenic road, Is suggested by a number of Eugene men as a suit able memorial for Lane county sol diers, sailors and marines who gave up their lives during the great war. With several small flurries of snow already encountered, It will be only a j short time before crews on the Old Oregon Trail will be compelled to leave the higher levels and commence work from the foot of Cabbage hill, between Pendleton and La Grande, heading to ward Pendleton. Grading on this sec tion of the state highway has progress ed 12 miles southeast from the foot o the hill. Frank L. Rain, (trand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Or der of Elks, the chief of Elkdom Id this country, waa visitor la Portland Saturday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Kuln, the two' making tour of the I'nlted States. A disease known is the Kansas horse plague has broken out with consider able force on some central Oregon ranches, W. 11. I.ytle, state veterin arian, reports. d-orse Rodman, a Jef ferson county farmer, hat lost 23 out of his herd of 30 horses. Contract for the medals to be gtven by the state of Oregon to all soldiers, sailors and mnrtnes entering the serv ice from this state, was awarded by the state medal commission to White head t Hoag. a New Jersey firm. The price will be 25 cents each. Eight reels of motion pictures show ing preventable accidents In the log ging Industry will be shown In all the large industrial renters of the state under the auspices of the state labor bureau, according to plant uow under way by I jibor Commissioner Urn in. The Oregon Federation of Women's clubs has filed articles of Incorpora tion. The organization has property valued at $10,000 and the officers are Mrs. Charles 11. Casiner, president; Mattle F. Beatty, vice-president and Mrs. F. H. Buchanan, secretary-treasurer. A grand total of $35,484,032.23 has been provided by state, federal and county governments for road work la Oregon since 1914 and Including work already contracted for, to be completed during 1920, according to a summary prepared by the state highway depart ment , The Standard Oil company sold 2.445.195.5 gallons If' gasoline In Sep tember, according td-a statement filed in the office of Deputy Secretary of State Sara A. Korer. The tax. at the rate of 1 cent a gallon on gasoline and one-half cent on distillate, totals $25, 799.10. Producers, associations and othtya Interested In the marketing of Oregon applet are being requested by the pub lic service commission to express an opinion relative to the establishment of a freight rate on bulk shipment of applet, with a view to encouraging the shipment of cull apples Into eastern states. Dorothy Slnnott, 17, eldest child of Representative and Mrs. Nicholas J. Sinnott of Oregon, died at Saranae Lake sanitarium, New York, according to a telegram received by Mr. Slnnott Miss SInnott's death wat unexpected, although she had been a patient at Saranae sanitarium since 1917, suffer ing from tuberculosis. At a meeting of the North Bend city council a resolution was adopted or dering a special election to be called early In December to submit to the voters of the city the question of In creasing the special tax limitation from 10 to 15 mills, to secure revenue j to meet the financial requirements of the city for the year 1920. After coming all the way to Klamath Falls from Santa Cruz, Cal, to gratify a cherished wish to be married m the home of her grandparents, the house In which she was born, Miss Ivy Pearl Martin found that the (regon law prohibited her marriage to Wesley II. Gibson of San Francisco, because nei ther was a resident of this state. Plans for a north and south road i along the summit of the Cascade moun tains to connect the Mount Hood loop, the old Willamette valley and Cascade mountain wagon road over the San tlam pass, the McKenzle road and the highway to Crater lake are being de veloped by 'Will G, Steel, superintend ent of Crater Lake. National park. Five fatal accidents were reported to I the state industrial accident commis sion during the week ending October 16. The workmen who lost their lives were: Allen Sfiumate, Portland, con struction; Alfred H. Gove, Bend, log ger; Paul Cantrcll, Brighton, logger; Glen Wllhelm, Grants Pass, logger; James W. McElvain, Portland, con struction. Highways under construction In Ore gon at present total 380.95 miles of pavement 234.8 miles of macadam and 686.1 miles of grading, according to the summary compiled by the state highway department. The construction now going on represents an expendi ture of $19,824,396.25 bid prices, and Including 10 per cent for contingen cies and 10 per cent for engineering. The Increasing travel to Crater lake and the exceptionally large travel In general this year, together with that in view for next season, has led Alfred L. Parkhurst, president and general manager of the Crater Lake company, which has all the Crater national park concessions from the government to decide to build a new hotel In the park at White Horse. It will be in readi ness for the early travel next season. Contracts were let to the Warren Construction company on Monday for the building of the complete system of the Silver lake irrigation district The system will consist of three large dams and approximately ten miles of main canals, diverting the waters from Silver creek, Buck creek and Bear creek to the southern and eastern "bench" sections of the valley. There are some 8000 acres In the district and the lands completely surround the town of Silver lake. NOMAS MKKTIM1 The regular meeting of the Shutnla P. Belknap on Saturday. Club wat held at. the home of Mrt, II, Mrt. R. W. liea gave an able re view of the lifit of Wagner, In addi tion to the regular literary and busi ness program. I) liclout refreshments were serv ed, following the program. Judge T. K. J. Duffy la holding court at Oregon City this week. In the place of Judge J. V. Campbell, who is acting In that rapacity In this city. K X G 1 X V. K I IS' K A M I N 1IO X An examination will h held on December 5. 1919, at 620 t'orbett Iluildlug, Portland, Oregon for all professional engineers who are un able to meet the requirements with out exuniinutlon. of the Act of Legis lature of the State of Oregon. 1919, Chapter 3S1, requiring all profession al engineers to be registered after Jan. 1, 1920 Necessary blanks for application to take the examination may be had on request from A. H. Carter. Secretary State Board of Engineering Examin ers. 520 Corbett Building, Portland. Oregon. All applications to take the examinations given on Dot-moor 6, 1919 must be filed with the state board at least thirty days before De cember 5. BTATKMRNT OP THft OWNERSHIP. MAN AUKMK.NT.' I'mtTI.ATION. KIT.. RK Ul IKKIt BY THK ACT UV COM.HKS8 OK Attit trr 14, ima. or Crook County Journal, puhlUhcd weekly t Prineville. Oregon. fr October I, mitt. Slut of Own. County of Crook, ee. Hefor me, Notary Public In nj for th State ami County aforeaald. personally a peer, ed (Juy Lafollelte. who, having been duly worn, according la law, deplasa and say that he b the owner, editor and publisher of the Crock County Journal, and that Ire following ia. to the brat wf hia knowledge and belief, a trua atatemcnt of th ownership, management land it a daily paper, tha circulation!, etc., of tha aforeaald publication for Ih data shown in tha above caption, required by tha Act ut Aunuat U, lull, embodied In aertion 441. I'oe. tal I -aw and Regulations, printed on tha re verse aide of thia form, to-wil: I. That tha namea and addreaaea of tha pub. Ilaner, editor, managing: editor, and buemeae manager are : Publisher. Uuy l,afollette. Prinevlle, Ore. Editor, tiuy Lafollctte, Prinevllle, Oregon. Managing Ed., tiny tafollette, Prinevllle, Or. Hu.in.-ae Mr., Guy l.afolletle. Prinevllle. Or. t. That tha ownen are: Guy Lafoiletta, Prinevllle. Oregon. S. That tha known hondholdere, mortgagee and other eerurily holder owntns or holding I per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgage., or other eecurttlea are : None.. , 4. That tha two paragrapha next above, tiv. Ing the namea of the owner, atorkholdera, and security holdcra, If any. contain not only the liat of stockholder and aecunly holder aa they appear upon the booka of the company but al io, in caaea where the stockholder or eecurity holder appears upon the hooka of the comiuiny aa trustee or any other fiduciary relation, the name of the peraon or corporation for whim auth trustee la acting, la given; alao that the said two paratrrapha contain atatrmenta em bracing affiant'a full knnwlrdge and belief aa to the circumatam-ea and conditioria under which ttockholdrni who do nut appear upon tha booka of tha eompany aa trustees, hold Reo with new truck body, 33x4 demountable rims and new tires, an ideal knockabout wagon for a rancher, in good mechanical condition Dodge Roadster in fine shape . . . . . Ford with Truck Body Ford with Truck Body . ... .... Ford Touring Car . Chevrolet 490 .......... Chevrolet 490 ......... . Inland Auto stock and aerurttlea in a capacity other than that of bona fide owner : and thia affiant haa no reaaoa to believe that any person, nsanrle llon, or corporation haa any Intereat direct or tndlreet In the aald slock, bomta, or other ae curitb than aa an atated hy him. 1 That the average number of eoplea of each. Issue of thia publication eold or distributed Ihrouab the mails or otherwiae, to paid aub errihere during the six months preceding the dale ihown above la iThle information la required from tlallr publications only.) tit'Y I.AKOI.I.KITK. Publisher Sworn to and subec-thed before me thia tint day of Oceoher. IVI. i,akic m nKnnri.f. My eommtaaton enplrea Marvh T, lettl. NOTICK IIP HIIKHIPr S RAI.K My virtue of an eaeeutlon In fofecloeure duly lul by the clerk of the floruit Court of the County of Crook. Stale of Oregon, dated lhl KM day of O.loher. Il. In a certain artlon In the Circuit Court for Ihe aald County and State, wherein Prifl- C'Ut Morlgaire Com oanv ia coniTMlioni la Plaintiff reroverl'ol iinlanirnt aealn.t Harm Van M.ter an ltrlla tMora Van M.-I.r are IVft-ndanla for the tarn of Twriily-three and "S lwi Ih.M.re with Inter eat at 10 ler cent oer annum tn-m lc. I, tu", and the a im of Tocnly-lh-ee and :i.lHI lail lara wllh lotereet at to per rent per annum from Kecrmher 1. t'M, and for the aum of Hevi-ntv-oue and 4IM'Hl tV.llnra with Inlerral at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from the 17th dav of June, lum together with r'lfiy and no-lim liollara atlornev'a frra and the furthr' urn of Fifteen and Kii-lnn ivdlar c.ta, and aci-nilne coata. NOTICK l hereby given that 1 will, on fcit urdne. the SIMh dav of November. lUI". at the N-rth front door of the ronrthouee In Prlne. yllle. In aald County at IS O'clock In the fore noon of aald day. aell at nubile auction, to the hlgheet hldder for cath. all right and title that the above named llefendanta or either of them have or hrd at date of judgment In the follow. Ing deerrilml property, tir-wll r The Weet half of tha Northeant quarter. Kat half of the Northweet quarter of Se. lion Thirty H" Townehlp sixteen llr South "f Range Fifteen Beat of Ihe Willamette Merld ian In Crook County, Oregon. JOHN COMIIS. Sheriff. Dated at Prinevllle, Oregon thia 2'Jnd day of October, lulu. smSc By M.OYD A. ROWKl.U Deputy t ft3SS$$$$SSS$ecc'c$ScS$3$S3$S3eccccee3S3$3Vc ; i CASH FOR FURS 1 pay the highest market prices for furs of all kinds. Send in your furs by mail or parcel post to RAY PUTNAM P. O. Box 312 Prineville, Ore. BARGAINS T7 V T ompany mtiiKR to nunw rAi la the County Court of ihe Hate of Orego for Crunk County I In the matter vf the guardianship of Kr mond J. Wright and Clifford W.lght, Minora. On reading and flllnt Ilia petition, duly vee. Ifled. of Muth Ut gerald. guardian of the above mentioned eatote. for llcenaa in aell Ihe Intereat of Ihe above named minor In lb following deeertbeil real ealate, alluated In Crook county. Htale of Oregon, to-wlt l The Mouth half of Ihe goutheaat quarter of Section eight, Houlhweel quarter of lh South, weat quarter of Section nine, and Norlheaat quarter of tha Norlheaat quarter of Heitlon aevelltven, Townehlp fourteen eoUth of ranea nineteen ea.l Willamette Meridian, for tha maintenance and uppnrt of aald minora. t4 It appearing to tha eourt that eeid land l producing no Income ami la an eapenee and l...l. ., i aid ealnta. and that It ! beneficial j to aald war and for the beet Inte.aete if their aald eelale that the eaine lie eold. IT IH THKMPfOrtK OltliKKKH that th ' next of kill of aald werda and all Hereon ' interested In aald eelata apiiear befora ma In the county court room In the courthou- In Prinevllle. Crook inuniy. Oregon, on Hi Kith dy of November. It, at 10 o'rlock a. m , to ahow cause. If any there he, why ll,rnee should not be granted to aald Kuril Kltageiald. guardian. In aell aald real e-ta'a for the punsieea aet forth. ANH IT IS HIUTHCR OltliKRP.t) That copy of thia onler be aerved on tha next of kin and all peraone Intercated In said estate hy pub. Ilrallon thereof In the Crook County Journal, newipaper published and circulating In Cmk County, Oregon, for three aucceaalv weeka, th tint publication being on th lth day of October, 101 . Paled at Prinevllle. Crook County. Oreg- n. tha lllh day of October. N. G. WAI.t.ACK. 49)4, County Judrt I 4 IN $625.00 650.00 375.00 350.00 400.00 400.00 375.00