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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1907,
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NO. 27
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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
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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
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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
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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,