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B, IS. Lytle, who boa beon
pre8iU'Jifc ahd principal owner
of tlie ColuinbiH Southern Rail
way frort) Biggb to Slianiko
since thu road was first built,
litis resigned his position at the
head of the company owning
that line, thus coji 11 fining the
repeated rumors uirtt tlie road
is now owned by the IIarri
man interests. The announce
ment'of Mr, Ly tie's reBignition
was made last week, his control
of the road having been relin
quished on the ihjpt of this
month. Tne rosigmition of Mr.
Lytle elicits the further inform
at ion that the transfer of his in
terests in the Columbia South
ern was made nearly a year and
a half ago, but through an ar
rangement with Mr. Harriman
Mr. Lvtie retained, the nosilion
of ofiioiai head oF the Slianiko
lino,
- What bearing the resignation
of Mr. Lytic will have upon thn
proposed extension of the Co
lumbia Southern, or whetheV or
not hie resignation on the eve of
the date set for tbe commence
ment of the construction. of the
extension has any significance,
no one seems able to say. The
organization of a new company
by members of the Jlnjiriman
stalT of officials m Portland,
with the nvowfd purpose iOf
building a road from Natron to
Ontario, coming at the same
time with the announcement of
Mr. Ly tie's surrender of control
of the Columbia Southern, has
caused the rumor that the Co
lumbia Southern extens:oti has
been abandoned, and that this
section of the state will be
served by the east and west line
from Natron to Ontario, or by a
branch, line oft that road.
Mr. fcytle refused to bo inter
viewed on the subject of his
resignation;, but stated that he
had plana i'or the development
of Oregon through railroad
building,
a T&fii?io puSt stIrm
Last week's dispatches tell
ing of the big dust storm wihich
swept through the wheat belt of
Eattqrn Oregon, the Palonse
country in, Washington a,nd in
Idaho, August 27, recall the
storm experienced here on the
same afternoon, Beginning at
about 4 o'clock there was a very
severe wind storm for an hour,
and this wag' accompanied by
clouds of dust wllich were so
dense that objVots could not be
distinguished 30 feet away, A
shower of rafn followed the
wind- storm, settling th'(1ust.
This is the jbfet rain that Mas.
fallen in twn months, and al
though it rained quite hard loi
a few minutfjBy within nn hour
after it .csksed raining the
gfounU -was quite dry again.
In the ,Pendleiton country
,whsu theiluit storm was at its
worst a great amount of ttain-
age was eltyie to the grain which
was yefinliarrested. The grain
w badly shattered ana in
many, places nothing butstraw;
teautiiHKl of the fine crops stand,
tfc twforev the storki, Tele-
'grapu and, tslephone wires were
bkxwtt-down "and in the cities
totaldera,blaRmfaxe was xlotin
lo building, un I'encueton tne
Utortn f'Ti'ik tfiont 1. o'el j k in
shionued In complete dark
it being impossible, tq distin
guish objects live feet away.
The storm raged for an hqtlr,
filling' stores and resienjies
with dust, nnd almost suffocat
ing people even in houses well
protected from the dust.
l, II. Curtis, of this place,
who was returning from Colfax
on the train running between
Walla Walla and Pendleton,
says that when the cloud first
appeared J,t looked black as
night and the passengers on the
train thought it was a cyclone
coming, That when the dust
cloud settled down about them
the train was surrounded by
darkness, and that the train
slowed down until it was barely
moving.
The storm extended all
through that section of Ore
gon and Washington and the
Panhandle district of Idaho. It
was the worst storm that has
been known there in years.
The tremendous clouds of dust
which accompanied the storm
are supposed to have been due
to thelong drought and the great
amount oi ou m mer tallowed
lands throughout the wheat sec
tions of t)io three states in
which the storm raged.
FrfMSUS AERONAUT KILLED
Professor John Baldwin, the
famous aeronaut, was blown to
atoms while exploding sticks of
dynamite from an air-ship at a
county fair at Greenville, Ohio,
on last Thursday. Fully 3000
people were watching the exhi
bition, among the spectators
being his wife and children. The
airship .was 1500 feet in the air,
when suddenly a great cloud of
smoke appeared and after this
had drifted away the airship
was seen to have disappeared.
Half a mile away, searchers
found fragments of the aero
naut'a body and pieces of the
airshin. It is supposed that in
igniting the fuse witil which the
dynamite was exploded, Bald
win fired the gas in the balloon,
and tliat the six sticks of dyna
mite which were known to be in
tho airship were exploded sim
ultaneously.
"THE GONTRAQ? $ LEf
PA FW Tfl MiSRHFR
W mm Ml if wiv-avMit.Maa
OF "SHORTY" DAVIS
OrCRonian,
Woll'A, Bell, deputy illalrlct attor
ney of Crook Couuty, who Ima boon
In Portland during the past few duyp
mnklnc an iavestlcatlou Into tbe
ciuiBeo that led to the disappearance
about three jeara ago, of "Shorty"
David, forrnorty aheephoVder of the
Crooked River country, returned to
Prltioville Sunday night, having In I1h
ptteseealon what Is believed to be the
tint authentic clow" to the unsolved
tragedy yet uueartheu.
Armed with the statement of Curh
tlan Feuerhelm, a sheepherder of thf
ri'irlou. who Is itere now as a wltuess
lu the land fraud cases at present occu
mvIiib tbe attention of the Fedora!
grand Jury, BJI will 'Book tho former
residence Ulf Chorty Davis, and It Is
espeotetl the latter's remains will Ke
lie' recovered from the bottom orau 83
foot well lu the vicinity,' where It Is
alleged they were thrown after ho was
murdered, the horse that he was rid
luifat the time Using likewise oast,
Into the .vawnlutf abyss
FeuerlU'lm olaliiis that tile Vnurtl4rr
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became Mulcted wtu remorse to aueu
au extent that he oonftseeedh.is ortme
to him, ever, olug into datjA)Pin
matters conneot.ed with tbSvUiUng.
a close analysis or the eatweiihkih:
ta his taklBir-ofT. Accord nto
IVuerhelm, there was a netlv$ In
slaying Davis, aud it is ieuv(uneHu-
tlioutleB or uruoa vjuuutf
Mmlonof all the facts In thisaoji
iWiinn: and are omtratiu'r ill cwjfluo
Hon with tlie Federal fflolala lu Ore
f;on la .BriHiH'S Yrm w1 i
n
he .jiv,
Fot Advance of hc CoIumlBla SoYdh-
crn Rallvay."
Under a Portland clate-line
jthe Bend Bulletin(publishes the
following railroad news. Its
autlienticity is vouched"for by,
the Bulletin, although the source
pf the informatiqn is not made
public. The despatch follows:
"Prom an inside authority
that catynqt be quoted but is en
tirely trustworthy it is learned
that the contract for extending
the Columbia Southern railroad
from Shaniko to, Madras has
been agreed upon anc that work
m the field will begin next
month. The contract calls for
the completion cf the line npt
later than Ju,ly 7, 1900. $0 de
tails are yet obtainable. An
official announcement will be
made soon. According to one
authority the construction work
will begin within fivevweejis,
and according to another defin
ite official announcement will
be made within that time. All
are agreed that thereJs no.longer
doubt about the building of the
railroad to Madras. Not all the
details are yet settled nor is the
building between Madras and
Bend yet determined, Those in
position to know, however, say
if the Columbia Southern halts
at Madras it will find the field
south of Crooked river served
by another road,"
IHlYLE DIES
A. K. Lylejone of the moat
prominent cattlemen of: Crook
couiity, died in Portland on last
Friday morning at 5 o'clock
His death occurred in Nau's
dragstore, underneath the Port
land Hotel, to which place he
had gone for raedicineto get re
lief from an attack of heart dis
ease. During the early lours
of the morning he arose from
his bed at the Belvidere, and
telling the night clerk he was
not feeling well, was directed to
Nau's, and a few minutes after
he reached there fell to the floor
and died. t
Mr. Lyle was a member of the
firm of Lfrle & Brown, Whose
large cattle business is con
ducted near Heisler in this
county. They own several thou
sand acres oft land and a large
number of cattle. Mr. Lyle has
also been prominent int.the.pol-
itics ot the county and in
this section of the state, and
several years ago was a mem
ber of the state legislature from
this county. The news of his
dentil which reaohed here Fri-i
day was a great shock to his
many friends.in this locality.
v The only surviving relatives
are Mrs. Harriet Vodzie, ti sis
ter, residing in Portland, and
William Lyle, a brothel-, resid
ing at jwngene, xne remains
wore shipped to Dallas for in
terment,
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Th'e Fall term'of oircnit court
will convene in Prineville in the
first- week of Ootobek The
Prmbvllle Journal says that anj
unusually large docket will bel
sounded, and that the term:
promises to be a fon'knd busy!
onu. A ccoro 01 incuoHnentsi
havifc been-1 Teturned against
stock" rustlers, Hud sbm' of
these bases' will be yijk)tcild-
fonded 1 iHierjssarf'JauBi-j
ber of other itijjjortant criminal
catjies.
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postal card to the, WM Marble voftts of
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im PriKS 20lbsi fsr a $ I ; Btftr coig. M t
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1.40
Snear. per . sack.
14 lbs. sugar,
10 cans milk,
50 lbs. Sk.-tablo salt
10h0 lbs. Skstock sa.ljt', ,(
Cans lWatogQ, Corn
Peaa or Beans,
A Big Assortment of
GALtON AND DRIED
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AIJ per6fii5H indebdvjossaiirm
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fa w Merchant's 'Pfflleelive Association
Just Arriv
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SHINGLES, LIME & GEM EN
BINDING,., TWINE
SHOES SHOES SHOES
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For good shoes atJ bedrock prices
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MAlRAS MILLING & .MERCANTILE Ctj.
m HATE A GOOD SDPfLY OF STOCK ani DAIRY SAB ON HiMD
TEA AND, COFFEE
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quality - . Unsurpassed
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.Madras Oregon
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