The Madras Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1906,
NO, 11
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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,
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We Can Supply You
Gve Us A Cell
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lABLISHED 1000
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$80,000.00
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MADRAS MEAT MARKET
Keeps Constantly on Hand the Best Fresh and Cured Meats
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And paye highest market price
for fat stock, butter, eggs
find farm produce
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THE PEOPLE'S BIG STORE
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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'
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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.,.
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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,