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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1907)
Madras Pioneer he MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1907, II NO. 27 ES iring us any WHEAT, HOGS, EGGS, BUTTER or PRODUCE You have to sell WE PAY YOU THE HIGHEST PRICE NOW READY TO BUILD Try our SUGAR CURED HAMS From now on vc will sell only that which wc cure ourselves LENA M. LAMB MADRAS, OREGON Harrlman Roads Said to ;Bo .Sure Go Thlo Time WILL'OBAOE NORTH AS FAR AS MADRAS Orogon Trunk Lino's Right of Way Difficulties Up Doochutos Aro AIbo About Sottlqd (J C. E. ROUSH Wo Can Supply You Glvo Uo A Call PROPRIETOR S MEAT MARKET Keeps Constant) on Hand lbs Best Fresh and Cured Meats MADRA wcmninnosi morKoi prico Cm (at stock, bultor, oggs ind (arm produco Madras, Oregon u 11 J. W. LIVINGSTON, Proprietor Good Teams and Riga. First-class Service given to the traveling public. Office df Bend and Laidlaw Stage. 1ADRAS. OREGON Tlint railroad building Into Central Oregon Ih to begin during tho coming Spring Ih now practically assured, and tlio persistent rumors of tho building of tho Natron and Ontario lino end atxl went ncroHH tho Htato have as sumed a moro tangiblo form In the announcement that tho Harrlman In tercut will begin actual construction of that lino not later than May 1, 1007. While no ofllcial announcement hot yet been made, tho Htory has leaked out from ofllcial Hourceq, and there In no doubt thai tho Information Ih au thentic. The Htory Ih as follows: Early In tho-Sprlng actual construc tion will be begun on tho Harrlman lino Kast and .Went across tho state,, from Natron to Ontario, tho road cros- fling Central Oregon at Kosland near tho lino between Crook and Klamath counties. At tho name time that cou Mtruction work It) under way . on tho East mid West line, the graded will bo built on branch lines North an fur hh MndniH, and South hh far as Klamath, ho that when tho main tiast und West lino Ih built, Hteel can bo laid on tho 'feeders" North and South, and these branch linen bu Immediately ready for operation. Eventually these branch lines will bo extended, tbo southern branch on into California, and the northern branch down tho Deschutes i canyon to the Columbia, to connect with tho O. It. & N. line, so as to give the-IIarrlmun interests a through lino on an easy grndo Into California, I avoiding tho heavy grades over tho I Siskiyou Mountains. With lines ex- j tondlug Kast and West and North and (South through Central Oregon, liar ! rlman's domination of tho transporta 1 tion Interests of that section will bo I assured for all tlmo to como. This ' story bears-out tbo statement recently ! made by one of tho Harrlman oiirIu- ecru at llend, that extensive railroad construction in Central Oregon would be begun In tho early Spring. Orogon Trunk Lino Rumors In connection with tho story of tho i I immediate construction of tho Oregon J Eastern road from Natron to Ontario, and tho branch lines North and South, thorolsu persistent rumor that tho dlfllcultleH In tho way of tho Oregon Trunk Lino up tho Deschutes have been adjusted, and that tho right-of-way will bo granted to tho Nelson lino as soon as tho Holtlement arrived at can bo approved by tho Interior Department. It will bo remembered that the Oregon Trunk Line, an inde pendent line up tho Deschutes canyon as far as Madras promoted by Mr. W. V. Nelson, had begun actual construc tion of their. grado when their right-of-way was hold up by tho Reclama tion scrvlco, which proposed to utilize tho gorge of tho Deschutes for 1m menso dams for powor purpotes, tho power to bo uped In pumping water from tho Columbia Itlver on to lands In Columbia Basin. Right-of-way for tho Oregon Trunk Lino wuh refused, unless that road would raise Its grado 100 feot,,Ho us to bo above the lurgo power dams. Owing to the character of tho Deschutes canyon, this re quirement was prohibitive, and work on the rull road was suspended. It Is now known that Mr. ilenny, tho tho government engineer who made tho recommendation which tied up tho right of way for tbo Oregon Trunk Hue, has agreed to recommend the abandonment of one of tho proposed power dams, tho other to be built at a point wliero it vill bo possiblo for tho Oregon Trunk lino to raise its grade ml run Its lino over tho proposed power pluut. If approved by tho in terior department, this, will remove the embargo. placed upon the construe Hon of tho Oregon Trunk line, and work may bo resumed upon that lino In tho near future. At the time work wae suspended that road had been amply financed, and tho only obstacle in the way of Its Immediate construe Hon woh tho refusal of its application for right of way over government land in tho canyon. Although tbo promised settlement of tho right of way diillctiltics of the Oregon Trunk lino may have no beur ing upon tho announcement that work Is to commence on the Hard mail line, It is significant that the hit ter announcement couies just at this time. DUMPED IN GRAVEYARD Jefferson and Deschutes County Bills Killed in Committee BELKNAP W0RKIN6 FOR NESMITK COUNTY In Dlroct Opposition To Expressed Wlshoo of Majority of Constituents Ho Roprosonts Prinovillo OnJy REGISTER IS REMOVED Michael T. Nolan Dismissed from The Dalles Land Office MISSJ.ANG, RECEIVERJOW IN CHARGE & 0. PLOWS ARE WORLD FAMOUS Nolan Offered Resignation. Which Was Not Accoptod Controversy Rosults In Summary Dismissal Si' Triton Two Furrow No. 4 Disc Plow toe wjth Work can i 11 owed repeatedly W has many advantages. over the common share and mouldboard plow, ilhit wlion 1 ,!.:. i J-.. U,., until tlio nrdinnrv nlow. 'Land plowt tting share forms.a harH pan on.ri level with the bottom of the furrow, through which ifa .. - . . if. .1 ii : 1 1 . i . v-oinm u, :...! .k.:i m-.nnnm t wwon into mc iouiucu uy tuumaiv tiuium Cr.T hi.... 1 ... r 11 . . i 1, IKn nnAI!illir M ellVl "v l"UW I with the necessity of sub- leaves n hml? 'lwinm in ihn furrow and does away r coming but frozen ground need stop a disc plow in this district, i ncy aic nmuc nu., disc M7o nr it. i : rn nnr not nnces. J- W. & M. A. Robinson & Company MADRAS, OREGON Michael T. Nolan, Register of the United States Land Ofllco at Tho Dalles has been removed by tho President, and tho land olllco has been turuod over to tho Receiver, Miss Anne M. Lang, until a successor to Nolan can bo appointed. This is tho nowa which a dispatch from Washing ton City brought Monday evening and which puts an end to the controversy which has raged about tho local land olllco for 6omo tlmo past. Tho tfact8 leading immediately up to tho remov al of Register Nolan, da to buck several mouths, and are doubtless still fresh lu tho mind of tho public. Early hi last Novombor Nolan attempted to resign his ofllco, but accoptnnco of his resignation was withheld, and from his summary romoval at this tlmo it Is apparent that meanwhile a quiet Investigation has been under way. His romoval comes withlu n fow weeks of tho end of his term, which would havo expired somo tlmo in March. A successor to Nolan will doubtless bo appointed at once, aud in tho nioau tlmo tho ofllco has boon placed lu charge of Miss Lang, tho Itecolvor. Whon Nolan eont in his resignation iu November It was accompanied by a letter to the President lu which ho mado statements which could not bo construod othorwlso than as an at tempt to reflect upon tho ofllcial Integ rity of Ida assoolato lu tho laud olllcc. Tho charges, however, were ho absurd and tho animus so' apparent that thoy fell lift, their only efl'oQt bohip; to arotiso the Just Indignation of all who know Miss Lang and tho splendid oharaotor of her years of sorvico In tho land olllco. In tho light of that un warranted attHok thoro Is a touch of pootlo Justice In tho present romoval of Mr. Nolun aud tho plaolng of the land ofllco lu tho boIo charge of Miss Keport comes from Salem that tho bill for tho creation of Jefferson county out of a portion of Crook was killed In tho House, tho bill having been re ported adversely by the committee on counties. The bill for tho creation of Deecbutcs county out of the south western portion of Crook met with a similar fate, and Loth bills wero un ceremoniously dumped luto tho graveyard known as "indefinite post ponement," wliero their bones Ho bleaching along with those of other 'Jhopes deferred". Jeflerson couuty had the approval of practically all the taxpayers within I La proposed limits, and none more enthusiastic than tho heavy taxpayers of the proposed county, who saw in it an opportunity to establish a small. economically maintained county, tvhero many of the evils existing under tho old county government could be remedied. Petitions were circulated, aud with a few raro excep tions, all of the residents aud tax payers of the territory asking to bo created into a new county Joined Iji tho demand. Backed up with this kind of a showing, it "was reasonable to assume that the representative from this county would at least not oppoao tho wishes of those whom he was sworn to represent, and tbo falsity of that assumption was the stumbling block lu the way of tho creation JefTersou County. In the legislature deference is paid to the opinions of ,a representative upon local legislation afrecthig,blB district, and when.Itwaa leurned that Dr. Belknap, as tha rep resentative of this people, was oppos ing Jeflerson couuty aud using every means to defeat it, it was easily ap parent that the wishes of the repre sentative would bo .regarded In the House. In addition to the opposition which he waged against .Jeflerson County; Dr. Belkuap further disregarded the wishes of a large number of his con-. stituents by favoring the creation of Nesmlth county, which takes in a goodly portion of Northern Crook. A largo number of tho residents of that section of Crook remonstrated against that proposed division of this territory but if Dr. Belkuap ever looked at tlio remonstrances ho certainly ignored them. Tho Baldwin Sheep & Land Company, the heaviest resident tax- payers in the county, protested vigor ously agaiii8t the cutting In two of their property, which would result with tho creatiou of Nesmith county, but that protest also appears to haye been without weight. Tho efforts to creato Jefferson and Deschutes counties have failed for the present, but tho light was not alto gether without avail. It has mado county division a llvo issue, and henceforth tho fight will be waged until It becomes an actuality. Wes tern Crook County has a weapon in its hands in Us numerical strength at thn polls, and it will bo wielded in a man ner mat will booh nut an end to tho domluutlou of the countyseat ring. GUMMINGS WINS CONTEST Gets Decision In His Favor Fron Tho Local Land Office Barney Cummings has recelvod uotico from tho laud ofllco at Tho 1 Dalles, that tho contest brought by him against tlio homestead entry or Maudo E. McLaughlin, formerly ' Maude E. Kidder, has been decided In his favor, tho defendant being allowed thirty days for appeal from that de cision. Tho testimony iu this content was taken at this place last month, at whloh tlmo a largo numbor of wit iiesses wore examlued. It was admit. ted by tho contestant that cultivation aud Improvement of tho homestead had beon in accordauoo with llm ya. lulrements of tho law. tho onlv lion at Issue being tho question of residence, In tho decision haiwit down by tho looal laud office. It was hold that tho residence of the defend. aut as shown by tho evldonco wnn 'oolorablo but not aotual". ami timm. foro not a coumllance with th r- qulroments of tlio homestead law, upon this issue tho contest was deold- jia ! Synt Lang. cu aguiusi mo ueronuant,