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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1920)
rase IS CROOK COUNT! JOURNAi MAY. 1.1, tnao ELECTION, MAY 21 STATE ROABS: Vote 302 X Yes For State Road Bond Limit 302 X Yes 303 No BALLOT TITLE IS AS FOLLOWS;- 00 X ST nTT IO N A L AMENDMENT Rtsfertwi to th ppl by lh LIMITATION Or FOUK PEW CENT ftTATK INDCBTCDN ESS FOR PERMANENT ROADt.-Hurp.wv: T uutud Smifm J of Article XI if thcConUtuiKtu til UiStatf Onni tut u permit ttt crwiwnttf khutatid liabilities iiM-iutiutf pivviuus tk&taamf liabilitiM fW thapurpttaeof buikiiijt ami munteumiig rmiittt to th mount of itur per cent of thtsfttawta. vnluttKm tl all tli property in the futt ( Orecoit, inxtmd of two per cent iu nw pruvnitxl by iuw. NO PROPERTY TAX-NO DIRECT TAX NO INCREASE 1.1 AUTO LICENSE FEES NO INCREASE OF GASOLINE TAX Keep these three facts in mind. The present auto license fees and gasoline tax will pay both the principal and interest ou all the bonds under this amendment, and will yield an annual surplus besides for other state highway work. No additional taxation of any kind. FEDERAL FUNDS KUST BE MATCHED Oregon mast have sufficient Highway Funds to match Federal apportion ments or OreRon cannot get the benefit of Federal monpv for Oregon Roads. Increasing this constitutional limit is a necessity. Unless limit is increased, either state roada. cannot be completed for many, many years, or must be finished py direct property taxation. This measure averts direct property tax for state highways and makes early completion possible. Let's get thu road built now, Income from Present Sources Sufficient to Pay Principal ind Interest . . The tiu,t revenuea fem auto licenae feea and saaoline tai, without irereaee of preaent ratea will be amr-ie m ay b.,Ui rniripal and interest on theae bonda. ia tlearly aot f- rlh byotticial ficum m the (.late Paraph et, mailed tj every roistered Y.er Refer to State Pamphlet fur veriSrali n txainine the tabie caivfu .y. It pmv. that Do property Ul ia required and thit nnwut rati fui uto l eerae few and r ta- will redeem principal and inter at and yieid surplus b-aidea For Interest Table, Pamphlets nr further Information, write ta OREGON ROADS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION I. L tW rnutt. 2ts Ui rwtttal ( I CltPSU. (kre Imlia (mmcm. 1 1 . ai Ounpaifn Headquartera, 311 Worcester Building, Portland, Oreguu VOTE 302 X YES-Fer i Stat Road Bond Limit JUNIOR PLAY C. C. H. S. Class of '21 "A STRENUOUS LIFE " MONDAY, MAT 17 CLUB HALL General Admission .50 School Children .85 Reserved Seats .75 OX SALE AT NICOLATS Standard Flour Prineville Flour Mills We indorse the Good Roads meas ures to be voted on at the Primaries on May 21. We urge that you vote for them. . ' TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Prineville, Oregon FROM WHEAT FIELD TO YOUR TABLE STANDARD flour comes to you fresh from the fields of waving wheat and with all the good ness of the wheat berry retain ed in its soft, Bmooth, white, substance. This White flour is nourishing and will make the best of bread and pastry. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENEnAUNTEKEST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Elijah C. Jeffers. 80. an Oregon plo tieer of 1847. died at the family home In Astoria. The Umpu.ua Academy association will hold Its fourth annual reunion at Wilbur June 5. William Howard Taft may appear In Hood River on Memorial day in a lecture on the league of nations. The Fossil Telephone exchange has filed application with the Oregon pub lic service cummlssiou to Increase Its rates. A $21,000 bond Issue to finance the purchase of a park site ou the banks of the Deschutes will be voted ou at Bend. , Work on the welcome arch to be placed at the main entrance to Baker on the famous old Oregon trail has been started. Fire destroyed the opera house, two stores and two other buildings at Mer rill, In Lake county. The loss Is esti mated at 120.000. Mrs. Sarah Thompson, t believed to have been the oldest woman In the state of Oregon, died In Portland at the age of 102 years. The seventh anuual convention of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' associa tion of Oregon will be held at Burns in Harney county May 24-25. . At the meeting of the Douglas Coun ty Sheep and Breeders' association, which was held In Roseburg, it was decided to form a mohair pool. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Van Winkle, 77. Oregon pioneer of 1853, died In Salem at the home of her son, I. H. Van Win kle, assistant attorney-general of Oregon. Dorothy Cooper, the six-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cooper of Wauna, about 25 miles east of As toria, was fatally burned at the family home. Sixty-five bankers from lower Wil lamette and Columbia valley counties attended the annual meeting of group No. 1 of the State Bankers' association at Salem. David M. Leach, 70 years old, pioneer resident of the Lexington district, near Heppne'r, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head with a .38-calIber revolver. Interest on Irreducible school funds of the state (rom August 1, 1919, to May 1, 1920, amounted to 1350.926.11, according to a stuteuient Issued by the treasury department. Caught by the swift current of the Tumwater falls, near Celllo, Roy Dunn, machinist, and W. D. Darling, his help er, in a small boat, were swept over the falls to their death. Farmers from all sections of the Morrow county wheat belt report wheat bhowing a fine stand and, since the ad vent of warmer weather, stoollng out well and making good growth. While working alone In the gasoline pumping station at Oakland that sup plies water for the Southern Pacific company water tank, Cuy Martin was caught In the shafting and killed. Steel workers have arrived at Stans field from Pittsburg, Pa., and work is under way on a 50,000-gallon steel wa ter tank, the first step in the building of a modern city water system for that city. No further contracts for Improve ment work will be let by the state highway commission until a recovery of the. bond market assures the com mission of a higher return from its issues. Automobile tourists can easily make the trip over the Pacific highway from the California line to Portland at an average speed of 15 1-2 miles an hour, according to Herbert Nunn, Btate high way engineer. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has advised Senator McNary that it will be impossible to detail any battleships, of the Pacific fleet to Port land for the national Shrine conclave, June 22 to 26. Sugar will go up to 40 cents a pound in the next three or four months, is the prediction of E. L. Knapp, vice president of the Alsea Lumber com pany of Eugene and owner of a sugar plantation In Cuba. More than 300,000 drivers of motor vehicles are expected to register on or before July 1 under the act passed at the last session of the legislature pro viding for the licensing of operators or drivers of these conveyances On the strength of a confession made by Jesse Mulllnix, Mrs. Theodora Stei ger, wife of a prominent rancher of north of Salem, was arrested by Sher iff Needham charged with complicity in an assault on Steiger with intent to kill. Two men are dead and one injured, perhaps fatally, as the result of a log rebounding when it became snagged In the woods above the Haskell-Carpen-ter company lumber mill at Cherry Grove, a few miles west of Gaston. The lead men are: Lester Ridge of Beaver ton and William Lana, Ballot title for the proposed Initia tive measure ceding to the I'nlted States government Malheur lake reser vation In Harney county for use as a native waterfowl refuge and designat ing the same as Roosevelt bird refuge, hits been prepared by the attorney general. Four years old and registering 41 pounds on the scales Is th record of the first marked salmon of the 4000 turned out In 1916 from the Columbia river that has returned to Its home waters. The fish was cought at The Dalles In one of the wheels there on May 4. Fees front the motor vehicle deport meut of the secretary of state's office for the mouth of April totaled 1104.193 according to a report prepared by Sam A. Koier, assistant secretary of stats. Total receipts of the automobile de partment for the first four mouths of the year 1920 were $1,753,045. The sale at Salem of Gertla Poppys Stmawes, a Jersey bull offered by K, A. Doerfler, owner of a large live stock ranch located 13 miles east of Salem, to Thotu&s li. Moras of Dun- geness, Wash., for $10,500. established a new record of prlco received for this class of animals on the Pacific coast. Oregon produces as fine Jersey cat tle as are found anywhere In the world but the Industry has suffered from the lack of publicity, according to state ments made by M. D. Dunn of Chicago, president of the American Jersey club, In an address at a banquet at Salem lu honor of the Oregon Jersey Jubilee. A favorable report on the so-called Benham Falls reservoir, which Is In tended for storage of water for the Deschutes Irrigation district, will be forthcoming before June 10, according to a telegram received at the office of the state engluveer from the United States reclamation service at Washington. By the text of Its report, filed with Judge G. O. Bingham of the circuit court, the Marion county grand Jury severely criticised bond transactions between O. P. Huff, state treasurer. and John I- Etherldge, of the Portland firm of Morris brothers, and declares that exorbitant profits were exacted from the state by the Portluud bond bouse. Citizens of Douglas county are In arms over the recent bill that passed the senate transferring a lurge part of the Umpqua forest reserve to the Cra ter lake national park. It Is declared that If the house should concur that thousands of sln-ep and cattle Ltloiu- Ing to stockmen, which are annually grazed lu this forest, would be forced out of the county. FOR COUNTY COMMISSION:!. I will bo a enndidato for the nom lnutlon of County Commissioner on the Republican ticket at the Primary Election to be held May 21, 1920. HERMAN K. ALLEN. Paid Adv. 23tfc. FOR COUNTY TREASURER I will be a candidate for the nom ination of County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket tit the Primary El ectlon to be bald May 21, 1920. O. P. REAMS. Paid adv. 23tfc. FOR COUNTY TREASURER I will be a candidate for the nom ination of County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket at the Primary Election May 21, 1920. If I receive the nomination and am elected at the General Election I will devote my en tire time to the office work and will always be found at the Treasurer's Office in the Court House during of fice hours. JOHN D. LAFOLLETTE. Paid adv. 23tfc. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for Sheriff of Crook County on the Democratic Ticket, subject to the approval of the voters at the primary election, tf O. H. OLSON. FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the office of State representative subject to the approval of the Republican voters In Crook, Jefferson, Grant, Lake, Kla math and Deschutes counties. If renominated and elected to fill one of the two places for my fourth ses sion I will continue to serve each of the counties of the District to the best of my ability. DENTON G. URDICK. (Paid Adv.) State Representative. FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT I will be a candidate for the nomin ation of County Superintendent on the Republican ticket at the Primary election May II, 1920. Paid Adv. IStfe J. E. MYERS FOB SHERIFF ' I will be a candidate for the nomin ation (or Sheriff of Crook county on the Republican ticket, at the primary election, May 21, 1920. Paid Adv. 18tfo JOHN COMBS. FOR ASSESSOR -1 will be a candidate (or the nomin ation of County Assessor on the Dem ocratic ticket at the Primary election May 21, 1920. Paid Adv. 18tfe H. A. FOSTER. FOR COUNTY CLERK I will be a candidate (or the nomin Inatlon of County Clerk on the Demo cratic ticket at the Primary election May 21, 1920. Paid Adv. 18tfc ASA W. BATTLES Your Money M'YK 100 PER CENT VALUKH If you trade with us. You pay tot no clerk hlrs or city las. We have none. Your cost Is the lowest whiilt sule , price plus our small per cent profit Our Intorests are mutual. 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