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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1906)
The Madras Pioneer MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1906, NO, 11 rsSlONAL CARDS. DEHTI9T V1IXK, OltKOtW 0 ARV PUBMQ 5., tub lfJtAV H il" ' ' ...... iff) (iVCB MEW! OrQON QJAH & SURCEOH la niww""'"' Oltl'.UON ACTER OF TITLES OTAKY I''UC Hi. IrntiJn. Hiirvty JIoimH QIIKCJOX KMAN MANN fARY PUBLIQ fratnillo IlulMliiS QREQON k PUBLIC AMD commissioner 1 OltKUON t j- n-rr tl'rritdcnt, T 51 JUl.iiwin, CaMilor. Strut Vice l're II. l)UUttlN,. Jt ('sllllT. NO. 3851. hi National Bank IlNEVILLE. OREGON I t We Pay Cash For Wheat Bring it to us 'III' V."ll." LENA M. LAMB MADRAS, OREGON GIVE US DIRECT ROUTE CHjlfyQE IN MAIL SERVICE THREATENED Direct Line Through Wostetn Part of County Would Solve Difficulty Qood Roads Year, pound, r a I ! C. E. ROUSH We Can Supply You Gve Us A Cell PHOPlUETQa lABLISHED 1000 fcki tml I'mlivldcil $80,000.00 PruMi MADRAS MEAT MARKET Keeps Constantly on Hand the Best Fresh and Cured Meats L And paye highest market price for fat stock, butter, eggs find farm produce Madras, Oregon f Jl THE PEOPLE'S BIG STORE RE J'OLVtD THT JorC PCOPt-E DoMT Kt4oJ HOV To DRJT THEMfLVJ. WHY DoNTTHEVJwr cone To us ? wc Cam Jhov yoo THr sc st CLOTMtJ IN JmtJ AND QUALITIES' fqR. THC LCAJF n0.iY,ND SCfit U QiaY LooKiMG AJ SfHTlSTIZD ASYoU ffiL.THET PfRSOrtVHO IS WE It DRCJTIDU' ADVANTAGE IN bUJINLSS SOCIAL Life OVECTHC PCUV DBeiff D OrtU'NT IT TRUE. ? WTEF- BR. OWN YOU CANNOT FEEL .SATISFIED UNLESS YOU LOOK .SATISFACTORY To oTHER-5. CAN YOU THEN TAKE CHANCER ON NOT LOOKING YOUR &EST? THE WAY To BE -5URE YOU Do THISIS To 60 To THE BEST PLACE To BUY YblR CLOTHES. YOU CANNOT Too MlCH THINK ABoUT HOW PROPER DRESSING WILL HELP You in Society and in business, many a good man has failed to get what he could have got just because hi-s looks were against him. you have no time to keep up with what is proper in dress. " . many clothing merchants also don't take the time. we do. it pays us. sat isfying a customer brings him back and he tells his friends that's why we have a large! clothind business, we shall not here tell you of the things we have for you only remember this: that if you come to us for anything you WEAR YOU CAN FIND IT THE RIGHT QUALI FY, THE RIGHT STYLE, THE) RIGHT PRICE, J'W, & M. A. ROBINSON &t COMPANY NERAL MERCHANTS MADftAS.OftEGON There is danger that the present satisfactory mail service from the railroad to this place will bp changed to one less sat isfactory in the very near future, owing to the discontinuance of the post office at Heisler, through which this place is served. Postmaster Davis has received notice from the De partment that the Heisler office will be discontinued on Novem berlG, owing to the fact that no one will accept the office of postmaster at that pi wee. Even without an omce at Heisler it would be possible to have our mail come that way in a lock sack from ShanjHo, but this would necessitate sending all mail from Frine- ville and tributary points in tended for Madras and points served through this office, to Shaniko first, and that would of course complicate the Bervice between these points. How ever, if the people of Madras and other points served through this onice were permitted to choose between a delay in their Prineville mail and a delay in in the railroad, mail, they would quite naturally choose the quick service for the railroad mail. Another solution would be to have this office served from the Haj'creek office, and Postmaster Davis has recom mended this to the Department. This would give us our mail from both directions oven ear lier than it now oomes, and the distance is only about twelve miles. Unless the department should adopt the suggestion of the postmaster at this place, it is quite likely that the old, slow and entirely unsatisfactory ser vice from Grizzly will be re in stated, making a difference of at least a day each wajT in cui mails, and entailing much in convenience to the business men of the place. A proper solution of the diffi culty, and one that ought to commend itself to the Depart- ment in the interest of :'good service", promptness and econ omy, would be to have a direct man route Horn snaniko to Bend, through this place. The number of patrons of the post office to be benefited by such a change is more thun double those benefited by the other serrice, and it would greatly simplify the mail service in this section of the state. By the old route between Shaniko and Prineville, llaycreok and Griz zly will be the only waj'-oflicea served, after the Heisler office is discontinued. The proposed direct route to Bend would servo Youngs, MudraB, Culver Haystack, hamonta, O'Neil, Redmond, Laidiaw and Bend, nil of these places except the iirst two thereby receiving their mail nearly a day earlier. Hay creek, Grizzly and Prineville could be served by a branch from Heisler, and bo as well served as they are now. That would bo the only branch route necessary lti serving uny of the oiliei'B tiaiiied, vfllereas now there nre necessary the fol lowing branch routes: Heisler to Youngs (wd Madras; Madras to Culver and flaystqpk; Grizzly to Lamanta: Prineville to O'Jeils and R.tid.tn.ondj Prlne ville to B,end; qnd Bend to Laid law. The splendid condition of the roads in the western portion o the cou,nty during all seasons o the yea,r offers another impor tanc reason ior tne proposed change. From flfeisler to Bend the roads are so uniformly good during all eeasons of the year. that there should not at any time be any great delay in the mails on account of impassable roads as is frequently the case on the prineville route. A cer tain amount of sand in the soil and the entire absence o "dobe" is responsible for the good condition of our roads in the Winter season. This change should be urged with the Tjjepartment, for the reasons stated above, and for many other reasons which can be advanced. That the change will be made in time no one doubts, although it is always a slow process to secure a change in a Star Mail Route. The bulk of Crook county's population lte3 in the western portion, and with the development of its wheat districts and its large ir rigation districts it will in a few years become one of the thriiti est and most populous sections o the eastern portiQa of the state lhat the first consideration o the Postal Department in oon sidering tne mail service in Crook county should be the service for these centers of pop illation is what we have right to expect. REWARD OF HIS LABOR Jqe Marnaoh Will Sow 240 Acres To Wtia4 Using 6ub-Surfaca Packer, juuring tne coming season Joe Marnach, of this place will plant 240 acres to "Forty fold" wheal, which he believes to be the ideal wheat for this ocality. He will sow good, clean seed and give his land very careful cultivation, and at his next harvest expects to be rewarded for his labor with an abundant yield. Mr. Marnach believes in the necessity of fre quent cultivation of the ground to be cropped and in the meth ods known as scientific soil culture, in order to conserve the moisture in the ground and get the best results for his labor, and in nddition to the cultiva lion will use the "sub-surfaca packer" upon every acre of the laud which he intends to crop tins year. In addition to the large acre age of wheat whioh ho expects to have, he will sow about GO acres to oats and barley. As an evidence of the reward which awaits the farmer who is willing to put in the requisite amount of hard work in proper ly cultivating his field, Mr. aim nach is offered 75 cents per bushel for the 1000 bushels of barley which ho raised this year on 40 acres, at which price tuac small tract will yield him $1200. He has oulv Hnld , small portion of tho barley, howeverr expecting to hold it for higher prices. Frank Hoffman has purchased a nrw six horse gusoline engine for pumping water at his wells near Culver, Dave Ilarnett hits Utso ordered ag'asohne ehfcine for prtwer fot Juh,piBg pUrjloses, and when II ; nrnvfcft it will be installed at well which lie recemlv haA Urinal . t.,. rahth, M uu ,,,s SHEPHERD WILL HANG, H0YEWIEB 3Q IS DATE OF EnWIQty Justice Moves Rapdl( Fgc First Man;, 'fo Be Legally fgr Murder. Committed, fl Crpok, County. Fred A. Shepherd, who was, convioted at Prineville last-, week of murder in the first de-.. gree, for the killing of Ben Zell. will be hanged at the state pen-, itentiary at Salein on Tovember UQth. The crime for which Shep-. herd wijl suffer the death penal ty, was committed, on the morn-, ing of September ?4th last, when he deliberately and in cold blood,' murdered Ben F. 2ell, a, ranch-, er residing 25 miles south of' Prineille, and after killing the husbaid carried the wife into, the house and criminally as saulted her. The crime was one ofthe most cold blooded, and revolting in the criminal records of this county. Shepherd waa. arrested within a few hours, alter the crime was committed,, and his arrest and conviction, set a new record for prompt ness in the administration; of justioe in this county. His trial and conviction occupied, barely two days, and the cjeath sentence was passed upon him just thirty days after the com mission of the crime. His. death sentence will ba carried into effect almost within another thirty days. Shepherd was for many years a resident of this county, His parents reside now on Beat' Creek in this connty, and upon their aged heads falls the heavy burden of sorrow for the crime of their degenerate son. SCARLET FEVER Mild Type of The Disease Clos.44 School In Mud Springs District, The school in the Mud Sprine district has been temporarily closed owing to the prevalence of a mild type of scarlet fever or scarlatina, in that district. The children in six or eight families have been having a seige of the disease, which was doubtless brought into the school by one of the pupils and scattered there. Scarlet fever is one of the most contagiousof diseases, and it is ortunate that the type of feVer which is pi evaleut in the Mud Springs district is a very mild one, and that no fatalities have occured. The school for the purpose of -preventing the further spreading of the dis ease. In addition to this pre caution, a strict quarantine should bo imposed upon those persons known to have been ex posed to the disease. While the rtuurnmino unquestionably entails some ineonvienee to those upon whom it U impoaed, it will prevent tho disease from becom ing epidemic in the comimin- ity. It is stated that the county 1. .lit. leuuu oiiicei-KnowHof theexist- tenceof scarlet fever in this end of the county but no action has yet been taken. There was some little fear thar he disease had made Its an- pearauco here last week, oii ac count of the illness of several small children, but the attend ing physician stoied efilbhaiic- ally that none of thoad children had the slightest hympton of Scarlet fever in any form,