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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1920)
ttlAIMII 1 1, twin. ciutox. ci;.vn jovma Vug S chego; i;e;vs'hotes of general weeest Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Plans are under way for a rpcrgan h (I merchants' siotoeialloii at limn! Itlvcr. I'l'inlji'ton will hold It third annual automobile show on Murcli 11, 12 and 13, Tho lallea city physician ruports Unit smallpox Is allowing n teiemy to liicr n. Tim HU'J l roll fur Clatsop county toluis l,CI8,7!;".fifi. t!i lm;cHt In the hi. 1 ry of tint nullity, W thin ill) il:iy H (iiiiiimny will begin drUllnit for oil In Clatrop county, u. coriliiij to r. II. Kil'f, un oil oxpurt of Oklahoma. liiiiiiJnn county holds llio record mo far fur llio number uf lloennod liy the county, llofl il'.g.i U'lu hig tli coutt ty Ho nut; tuKs. A lU'W bk Kill! i! advinoln;? tin) nillilinuiil of H Ml h thort i pan) tn i"i a tluy, wim announced by the n mill owut ra of HenU. deerim A. Urlst-op. who hnn bee n su perintendent of tin' Ashlumt schools for nliiu years, lnm been reelected for two year term. Itoseburg will bo u stopping place (or aircraft which It In aliened will noon bo plying between Han Krauelsco, Port Uiul ami Hcattln. Tho Ashland Canning company clos il a moHt mii'ci'ihful season with a total pack exceeding that of any pre vloim year anil valuiMl at (38.500. County Agent Bi'dtt of Clackamas county announces that the last carload f eggs shipped to ths New York mar kat netted tha producers &5 centa. All high acboola In Southern Orogon, xcopt Kugeue and Koaoburg, bare withdrawn from tha Oregon Stata De bating league became of tba prava leuce of Influonta. Burglars entered tha hardware atore of Wardle t Campbell at Carlton and aecurcd about $145 worth of pocket knlvea and razora. Klfbt dollura waa takon from the till. A contract ha been signed at Saletn whereby lloury I lleuta of Aurora, will aell his entire crop of bops for the year 1820 to an English firm at a stipulated price of 87 cents a pound. In the blKK't day'a catch of tha past year, 104 offending motorliits ware arrested by I'ortland police one day lent week on various charges of violating the traffic lawa. The Baldwin ft Swope Construction company, recently organized at Hood River, has been awarded the contract for building a new achuolhouae at Moslor to be 00 by 70 foot Mra. Earl Stilt, who wan burned while atunlng a fire In the kitchen range with oil waul.-, died at Lebanon. Bhe waa the Kngliflh war bride of Earl Hlltt, a young overseas aervice nan. The 1919 census of the Umatilla pro ject, Juit published by the reclama tlon office, ahowa that the total value of tha crops grown during the year la ever $600,000, averaging almost $75 par acre. One hundred China pheasants from the Simpson pheasant farm at Spring field were released on the HlOOacre Cartwrlght ranch adjoining Harris burg, which baa been made a stale game reserve. Tha city of Roseburg, through Ita at torney, B. L. Eddy, filed with the Ore ion public service commission lta brief opposing tha proposed Increase In rates sought by the Douglaa County Water A Light company. Remonstrance against the paving of Kailroad atreet waa made at tha jneotlng of the Albany city council by butting property owners and may re sult in the former decision to. pave tha atreet being rescinded. The best Jersey bull that $1000 will uy Is to be purchased by a group of dairymen In the Alsea valley in west ern Denton county. This action was taken at the close of a three-day ex tension school held In Alsea. Five more allowed members of the L W. W. were indicted under the criminal syndicalism act in the f,lnal report of the Multnomah county Feb ruary grand Jury, returned to Presid ing Judge McCourt Saturday. 1 State Treasurer Uoff has increased the appraisement of the estate of C. O. BlgoloW, who died a few months ago In Josephine county, from $110,713 to $40,71-. inheritance tux on the estate as now appraised will total $475. ' From an assessed valuation of $29, $54,209 in 1900 to $312,671,785 in 1919 U tho record of Portland, as disclosed In the tar rate sheet for Multnomah county for 1020, bused upon the 1919 assessment and tax roll, and issued by Henry H. Rood, assessor. Senator Chamberlain, Senator Mo Nary and Representative McArthur have telegraphed the Albany post of the American Legion that they are In favor of the proposed bonus bill for ex-scrvtce men or similar legislation In the intercut of tho former soldiers. ( Approximately IfllO real estate dal- era In OrKou bate filed application j for llceiisea for 1020, according to a : report pu purnd by O. V, Joliimon. who la lit i lmrn of the ral (statu ill u, I went of the liitoii'iiiK-e ('oiiiinlHMloner' office. ,unt y.-nr the applications for license totaled I5:i!l. I Twmitylwo alli'Kit violations of federal prohibition law are Included i In the final report of the November ! term federal (train! Jury In Portland, . which was dlM liar.eil Hutimlay. fiend etltiK Us report to Federal .Juilp.e lli-iin, i llio Kriiuil Jlirorn returned 37' true billn, five not trim bills and four secret. Thirteen districts In Yamhill cuutity were represented in a meeting ut Mc , MliiiivHle for the urbanization of the Yamhill County l ul.lc Korum, the object of which Is the "fiva and open illiiiio hIoii and ac iou on ail public ipienliniia." It Ih i, oil pin-Dunn ill char acter, yet political d'Bciiitaion will be permitted.. A tun iluys" fair for the year 1!)20 and ultliiialrly a J' - Kate are uml'T conslilerallou by H'D stit'e fair board, and It la rxpeciod that some action to this end may be ml.cn In the near future. Tim report of the fair board shows that all linicbleiliiena has been paid and there remains In ihe treasury a Hinull li.ilancfl. V. W. Cryder, for six years super vlsur of the Uuiatllla national foret, with Ilea liiuaru rN In Pendleton has beeu niitiicd auperliileudent of the Muilieur forest and will succeed Hup I urvlsor C. J. JJIiiKbum, at Joba Day, on March 1. . C. Kulius of Walla Walla, aupervlaur of the Wemiha for est, will have charge of the Umatilla j nwerve after tho change. The machinery for the first unit of the Astoria Flouring Mill company's new plant Is said to be working per j fuclly and is now grinding at tha ' rata of approximately 1400 barrels of : flour daily. Within the coming few ' weeks this output will be increased j to over 1900. The machinery for the . second unit ahould be ready for op-' ! peratlon in about 30 days. ) j With $1200 Indorsed by tha school j directors of Umatilla county as tha I minimum salary for teachers and a ' strong sentiment among them for tha : two mill tax levy for school purpoaea, two steps toward better local educa-' tlonal facilities are believed to have been taken. The directors have ! agreed against competitive bidding ; for services of tuachora within the : county. ! Titles Involving five sawmills and I logging equipment, together with 160 1 acres of tlmljer, passed from the Grove : Lumbar company to a Roseburg com pany composed of Charles McKlhinney, R. L. Whipplo and Krnest Whipple. A I large amount of lumber also goes with the mills, and tho total property is worth approximately $50,000, It is said. The sawmills have a capacity of 15,000 feet daliy each. A member of the legislature of 1919 cannot legally be named master fiah warden, according to an opinion by ' Attorney General Lirowti, given at the ' request of Slate Game Warden Shoe-' 1 maker. The 1919 legislature, Drown' j points out, permits increasing the 1 salary of the master fish warden, thus raising a bar to the naming of a mem ' bar to that post. The same condltiona, 1 ha saya, obtain in the positions of deputy fish and game wardens. Members of the atata irrigation se curities commission certified to $40, jOO worth of bonds issued by the Enter prise irrigation district In Klamath county and $106,000 worth of bonds authorized by the Grants Pass irriga tion district In Josephine county. The Enterprise district comprlsea approxi mately 2400 acres, while In the Grants Past diatrlct there are Included 8000 acres. Development work on both pro jects la in progress. A. determination to get better dairy cowa through the organisation of a Jersey bull association, the elimina tion of rodents and vermin, the pro duction of better crops through soil improvement, constituted the program jf work adopted by the Nashville com munity farm bureau which organized at Toledo. The women's meeting, pre sided over by Miss Lane and Miss Biles of tha Oregon Agricultural college, was well attended. Home demonstration work was new to the Toledo ladles. Tha State Taxpayers' league which held a meeting in Portland denounced the united land Mid labor league as socialistic, undemocratic and a menace to the stale of Oregon. Attending the meeting were representative men from all sections of Oref-on, and there was it considerable sprinkling of members of thel legislature. The resolutions adopted: Indorsed 1.26 mills tax bill for support and maintenance of Ore gon Agricultural college, University of Oregon and State Normal school. In dorsed suhliors', sailors and marines' nulhiKe tax educational bill. Indorsed 4 per cent road bonding amendment to the constitution. Indorsed 2 mill ;ax bill for support of elementary .chools of the state. Indorsed plan for .lividod session of the state legislature, vlnptod resolutions denouncing Land mrt Labor party and Non-Partlsau asne, and outlined plans to oppose i. m throughout the state. Adopted solutions opposing attempt to repeal 6 per cent limitation amendment to ;j coaii.Ututlnn , CHIEF CEf EFAL NEWS R. P. Ripley, for many years presi dent of the Kaula Ke, died at Santa P.arhara, Cal. Two sets of delegates were elc-tH to the ".ilao mtlotnil runve.it 'on by the Souili Carolina republican state convention. J Money In circulation In the t'nitnd States on February ain iuntcl to $5, MO.oiiii.niiii, an Increase of $i2u eo'i.ooo In one year, the treanury departm-jut unnomi'i'd. Oklahoma delegates ep ctel to the national democratic convention at Han Kraiicliuro were pledged to support Senator Rebert L. Owen of Oklahoma for the democratic presidential uonilim alien Karl MureesH, a motion picture ncter. was Instantly killed neir Los Annul' when lie Ml 7e0 feet from mi airplane on which be wan perfoiming in the makliiK of a comedy. James I'ery and Prank Johnsci. representatives of the Y, M. ('. A., were the Aniericiiim klil'd In the re. coolly reported attack by Turk'.st bri Kinds on a convoy of Ari'-ricio reliof miMilies near Alniav In !-'. i :ti, the state department wan adv.pcd. ( opinions In Mexiea we-e d"f.erlbeI as "Intolerable" by (leii n liobert Lee Howxe, comniander of tint LI Paso district, when he teirtifM before the senate nub committee inv i t u' i. the Mexican i 1 1 1 ! i i j n at Kl p.-ci. Tux. Net sales of boss, sheep and catt'e sent to the Portland alockards by the Lane county cooperative shipping as sociation doriiiK the year amounted to $104,076. Sixty four carloads of stock were shipped. Postmasters are to be appointed in Oregon as follows: Wayne E. Klllott, Veneta, Lane countx; Charles W. Sharpe, Camas Valley, DoukIos county; I'ercy E Allen, Elsie, Clatsnp county, and Mrs. Marie W. Havlll, Hoff, Clack amas county. , Ry agreement with the state, the Pa cific Livestock company will put on the market 10,000 acres of Harney val ley land, and first choice will be given soldiers and sailers. They will have 90 days in which to take up the option of aettlement Grasshoppers cannot be classed as squirrels, noxious rodents or predatory animals under the Oregon laws, and consequently county courts are not authorlxod to appropriate money for their extermination, according to an opinion by Attorney-General Brown. Poultry schools are to be establlBhed tn Wasco county by the Wasco County Poultry association according to plans formulated by the executive committee. It Is planned to have six schools In various parts of the county which wlli be Instructed by prominent poultry ex perts. A record price for standing timber was offered at the government sale of 10,000, 000, feet of white pine on the Klnmath Indian reservation, the high bidder, I, II. Larkey, bidding $6.33 per 1000 feet, and $2.82 per 1000 feet rental for the Kirk sawmill, where the timber will be manufactured. , ' If you want a Car or Truck, see" us We have today: 1 1920 7 - passenger Haynes 1 1920 5-passenger Cfcrevrdlet 12 1-2 - Ton Denby Truck 1 Used Ford Touring Car 1 Used Chevrolet Touring Car A CAR OF HAYNES IS COMING! Our stock of Tires is com plete.and all new goods. Buy gas at our 5-gallon pump and save time. Large storage space in our new fireproof gar age. Give us a call. Ne'wellMotorSalesCoo Prineville, Oregon Twn Kangaroos Scarce. A knn;:nron n-!th twins Is one of the rarest sluhts of Austrnlin. Make Concrete Buoys. Floating mooring buoys have been made of concrete by un English Inventor. "Red Tape." The expression "red tape" originated In the fact that tnpe dyed crimson Is commonly and largely used In public and private business in tying up pa pers, hence it has come to refer to ex cessive formality and routine in busi ness transactions. Japanese Handmade Paper. Hnndmnde paper . is produced Id Japan princlpal'y by farmers as a sec ondary occupation which they can pur sue m seasons when there Is nothing to he done In the fields. There are no fewer than 60,000 families engaged in this industry. ANNUAL SPRING SALE OF OF C attle in Pacific International Pavilion, North Portland THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920 75 Bulls and 25 Cows This will be one of the greatest sales of the breed ever held in the Northwest under the auspices of the Northwest Shorthorn Breeders Association. Leading breeders are consigning some of their best bred animals and if it is good breeding and individuality you want, you will find it at this sale. Rangemen have never had a better chance to get the kind of bulls they need on their herds than this sale presents. Send to the sales manager for a copy of the sale catalog. It will be ready to mail at an early date. Study the breeding represented and plan to attend this sale. HARRY C. CRANKE, Auctioneer Nez Perce, Idaho FRANK BROWN, Sales Manager Carlton, Oregon