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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1907)
.iLl.n 111 ii ifhe , Madras Pioneer Published every I'Jiursriay oy TI1K MONKISH PUBLISHING CO.- I SUBSCRIPTION RATE8: Ono your .....,......$1.50 Six months 5 Thrco Months 50 ADVKKTIS1MI IIATK8 ON APPLICATION Entered us M-coml clnss. matte Aueusi 9, lflOl, nt the Pnstotfluu nt Miulrns, Ore. under tlio Act of Congress of March 3, 187U. Thursday March 21, 1907 ABANDON RIVER SURVEYS Because the national Con gress did not co-operate with ,the state legislature in appro prjating more tnone; for .tin work of the State Creojogica Survey, in connect ion with ih reclamation of the arid land .tlironghout the state, it is an nounced that a part of the work .will have to be abandoned an a number 01 the stations cut out for lack of funds to carry on the work. J. C. Stevens, district hj'drographer of the U ,S. Geological Survey, state; that he is in daily receipt of de ,niands for information con cerning the streams of Oregon. both for water power and irri gation purposes. Engineers and capitalists from all parts of the country are looking to Ore- icon as a possible field for .future .operations, but .because -of the decreased appropriation information which is desired (Cannot be furnished, except in a few cases. The measuring: of ,tlie streams and water supply .of the state, which was pro ceeding under the co-operation ,of state and national govern .ment is of immense importance .in the development of the state's resources. A number of sta tions will now have to be abandoned. The work in Malheur county will be reduced to one station, on the Malheur river, and the work on the up per Deschutes, near Silver Lake .and on the Ohewaucan, near Paisly, will also suffer. - The rain in this locality, .which fell, almost without m . terruption from Saturday even ing until Wednesday, morning, .was unusual in its extent, for this season of the 3rear. There is no weather station at this place, but the rainfall is vari . ously estimated at from two to .three inches during the three .daj's. There was no heavy , down-pour but the rain fell steadily foi three daj's and nighti, and most of it soaked into the ground as it fell, to be stored up by Nature for future use in matin ing the crops. The rain was timely and great bene lit will result. , During the live months pre ceding March 1st. there had heen, according to the report of the Warmspiings weather sta tion, about saven and three quarter inches of rainfall. A conservative estimate of the rainfall during the past month would be three inches, which t would make the total precipita , Uon since October 1st more than 10 inches. The seasons have certainly been propitious, . and farmers throughout this district are jubilant over the prospects for a big harvest. in the custody of the United States Marshal. Because of their prominence they were turn ed oVor to their attorney by the Marshal, and BerVed oit their six hours sentence in the billiard room of an Omaha club. . As a result, of this travesty on justice the United States Marshal and the District Attorney who ( per mitted it both lost their official heads. It was Also the begin ning of the vigorous investiga tion by the government which resulted in the second conviction 1 of thesr .same defendants, and the indictment of a number of others. At a recent meeting of the Red Jloclc Literary Society, near Haystack, one of the sub jects proposed for debate was the merit of the Campbell sys tem ol dry-land farming as ap plied to this locality, the sub ject to be discussed under the proposition, "Resolved that the Campbell system of dry land fanning should be adopted in this locality". Owing to the fact that the literary meetings have been discontinued until after harvest for the reason that this is a busy season for most of the members of the club, there has been no oppdrtu nit- to adopt this question for debate, but it is to be hoped re-be adopted as a topic for discus sion. It is a live question and one that should appeal to all the residents of this section, as touching very closely our chief industry, and the studjr neces sary for a discussion of the subject cannot fail to bear good ruit. "We see no chance for a lecision for the "negatives", but the study of the question will bring its own reward. l 4 1 1 A petition will be presented COMPLETE EXTENSlUNS to the county court at the May term, asking for a County road Retronchmont Order Doos Not Af between this Place and Hay- foot Rallronll Work In Oregon creek, over practically a now route bet w'een these points. Tho Construction of tho various Hew road will leave Madras at iWs now under way by tin 1 ... the end of B Street, near the Ls- llurriman interests in tin state ham well, extending East nloni will not bo noticeably effected the section lino for about two by the general order of retrench miles, then in a southeasterly di meat lately issued by the heads rection to tho northern , line of Of the Harrimnn system. Gen the homestead ol Mrs. farsley. eral manager O'Jjnen said yes Fiom there it follows a section terdav that but for tho fact 1 lino enstwaul for three miles, additional forces wl 11 not nt then northeasterly along the put to work on the various plo most practical nute to intercept jects, tho work will continue as the bhaniko-Prineville road neni at Present until the lint's I the Parrish ranch. Tho new mapped out are completed route avoids all the bad hil"s,' Thi8 YueatiS the Wallowa the only hill 011 the proposed extension Irom Elgin will g road having an easy .grade. 11 ahead, and the Snake. Rivet will also greatly reduce the dis- line wiii bu coni,)yl0(i. tin- that when the meetings are sumed, this question may Bartlett Richards and W. G. Comstock, owners of one of the largest cattle ranches in theU- . nited States, have been convict ed of conspiracy to defraud the government out of large tracts of public land, and sentenced to line and imprisonment, in the . federal court at Omaha, Nebras ka. They have been lined $1000 each, and will serve a imprisonment. About a year ago these same defendants were convicted ol fencing the public domain, and ,w,ere. lined $300 each and sen lenced to six hours conlinenient Some weeks ago the Pioneer charged that the opposition of Williamson and the Prineville delegation to the private irriga tion projects on the Deschutes near Bend, at the inception of those enterprises, was in the in terest of certain Prineville stock men who had been using that and as range. Since that time he Prineville Review has deliv ered itself of numerous denials and explanations of that oppo sition, without refuting, howev-j er, a single charge made by the oneer. The last instalment of these denials is so absurd that it was probably not intended to be taken seriously, although we are told with apparent serious ness that Prineville stockmen had no interest in that range, as there was a mere, paltry quarter of a million acres involved. If that statement was made seri ously, it would be interesting to know since when their ideas got so large that they regard a quar ter of a million acres as a mere "buck pasture" not worth look ing after. tauce between Haycreek and Madras, the distance over the proposed new road being onl) about nine miles. nil if- 1 me iMactras scnoot closes a week from tomorrow, provision been made for a Central Oregon, lino will be built, tho Coos Bay uxtension, or Oregon Western, and the Klamath roads will be con structed along lines already mapped out. It is problemati cal when the Central Oregon line will be started, as it has time lot the past two years. It is not known here when work on the Coos Bay road wilt be resumed. All the otherprojeots are going ahead having only 1. oocii muiiiiio iciiii. a. lie ici uii 1 1 v. 1 1 .. , , been expected at any UI LUO IOI 111 UUUIll IlilVU UCOU 111 - . . . . creased two montns uy a very small tax-levy in this district. and this should have, been done at the. last annual meeting of the school district, as the. ad vancement of the pupils of the . school is neces sarily retarded by the short ness of the school term and the This year only one mill tax was levied, and that was for the purpose of paying the interest 'on the district. When the next an nnal meeting is held, sufficient of the nexl Congrl-ss. tax should be levied to insure aulV8 Mr Bllrfto1 of at least a nine months term of u'ase 01 omcml ,ne 01 1,1 school. A verv small lew 10 mourns, ana would appeal- would suffice, and it would t0 ref,le on its facu tlly sl0,T greatly increase the efficiency of lhe agreement with the the Madras school. President that he should hold until next December onh VanTas-iel & Davis, real es- when it was expected that the tate agents at this place, are land traud trials would be laving prepared an eight-page completed. older containing a general des- r : . r . u.ipuve w rue-up 01 uus section JIm Read was in lmvn from CuIver ast ot Central Oregon, five thousand Tuesday of which they will have printed; -Oregoniau. BRISTOL STILL KOLDS William C. Bristol received his commission its United Slates Attorney for Oregon for the re cess teim beginning with the adjournment of the last and until the adjournment FARMING SCIENTIFIC Points aboul conserving moisture h thr. , ti i "... , 1 , it i' 'r'V t . . lhc host essential point in successful crop raising in iSr-,t rainfall is tight, Hetc Ono of tlie niHin poiniM iitouKlii. out reckon. U Mr.p 1 - "CCl Tl. . "- ...rai ri)r In lllO VllH'lUH HIOIllU'IH nt iliu Funning C't;ruHH In Ditnver, whh tin Hi,. not Hand Soloctlon of (!.., y inui u.omo nio ioilowlnK nr,,,a (t , m-iin Kiiuiiiii .v. ivt'ill UCrtl ,,., ,Mn., 1... ..I., .11 I Whmi . 1 lasting Tins m anothei Mrs. Abbie Woodard is in town today from Culver. G. 1. Patterson, a Haystack rancher was in town last , Saturday. T. C, Tucker and wile arc in town to day from their home on the river. The new pension act recently passed by Congress provides that persons who served ninety tlays or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the Civil War, or sixty days in the war with Mexico, shall receive pensions at the rate of $12 per month for those. over G2 years of age, $1(5 per month tor those over 70 years of age, and $20 per mouth for those over 7fi years of age. The act also provides that ''such pensions shall commence from the date of the filing of the application in the bureau of pensions after the passage and approval .of this act." Pen sioners who are 02 years of age, I Ml' oIllHl'- wllfl !1V IIAtv r.jnni vi Twi- vear 01 ...... .-.v....! a icua uiiiuiiiiL iijiin uns aci pro vides for should apply to tho pension bureau for a pension under this act. This should be done as soon as possible in or der to get the benefit of the date of filing.Exohunge. or distribution. The descrip live matter win reier chietJy to the territory tributary to this - olace, and will set forth particu 1 . 1 . anj' tlie many opportunities offered by this section to the home-seeker. Since the colonist movement began on the first of this month thousands of home seekers are arriving in this state" weekly, and much literature oh nils Kind IS Illding US way into P Healy and Misses Clara Ilcaly their hands, where it becomes a aml Grace Merrill of Lamonta are in town I DOtent furifor in rlatm'mimrirr 11 n. ,0"ay' on a location. Jack Clingan left today for Hend with a load of Madras flour for Hend merchants According to experiments and investigations conducted by the government at 'the Utah experi ment station, it requires fifty tons of water to mature one bushel of wheat. This appears to be an enormous amount, but when it is known that one acre inch of rain-fall is equiva lent to 113 tons of water, it doesn't seem so large after all. At this rate 12 inches of rainfall would produce about 27 bushels of wheat to the acre. These figures are taken from reports of the experimental station, and will give some idea of tho amount of moisture required to produce a successful crop. Mayor Goodwills of Hend pasietl 1 .1. 1. ... . 1 uiruujjii lown last ,1 ueway, enroute to Portland. Uist bunday was St. Patrick's Day, and was observed by "the weming of the Rreen" in honor of Ireland's patron saint. Van I ael & Davis are the hustling real estate agents at Madras. Liit your property with iliem. They will find you a buyer. , 2, tf The Prineville cuses this paper .Review ac of trying to work up sectional feeling against 'Piineville. In answer, this paper will states that it has not found it necessary to at tempt anything ot the kind. The actions of a corrupt county- seat ring and the misrepresen tations of a, toadying newspa per like the Review have been sufficient to arouse the just in dignation of the citizens of Western,. Croplt, without any e'special effort on dur part. J, L. Kobmson and wife returned this morning from Antelope, where they have been visiting Mrs. Kobinson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. Hrognn. Henry Ilevel of Fremont, Michigan, was in Madras this morning. He has re cently bought the improvements on the John Whitcman ranch near Round Hutle The Grizzly Lake Lumber Company announces that its mill is now in operation and that they will soon be able to fi II all orders for.rougli and dressed lumber and other building materials. Orders should be left at their Madras yard. Their ad appears in another column. Don Hea. who has been spending the Winter in Portland, expects to return to Madras some time next month for a short visit. DunriK his stav in Mad r.lS. (num. site property which had been withdrawn from sale will be placed on the market again for a limited period. This will give those desiring to buy town lots at this place an opportunity to do so, in oetHity or Hintmiiii; tnuury uiriiicrH, iiiuni Iiuivoni .1.1 1 ",r " Till Iouh not ini'uii filtii'iuliiK tlit'in In timr N n0 ,lsailf ' r tepl lltfiiitiiri', sulonuefl nrtho nriw, but In I bunny lmrVi.i " 1,11 dry fiinnliiK. liouiil im 1 "'e li Im kiwi rif Mill itumf Iihii'i.Mi..1 I ........ . . " """'lll'll IimI . ... ..... . ........ , , . ,, in,, ,.,,. . - pnlntH 1 tint could liiivo tu'iui illHOUHnt'tf, that luih i,,,n PWnm-o anil nii'iucu una 11 wiih tun Minjuitt nr Hon, if ('0 (.j()(10,H """'ut rio'iinuitriucM lht tli niuii who nro (!NH()iitlul ,ii, ,K?tt'', l41"1' IntoreHtod In tbu roK'Miuratlou of tliti Hhniild in, ,tu.. . e .1 1 .1... .....i .lA.. .1. -V..IUJ eiBH,e, 1 6. hoiiiI iirld dlHtrlutrt of tint Wu.it Aru inoi", iln'iiniorH or bnoiUnrH. 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When tliu (Iroutli uoiiu-h the outn, ho uech this for sed. fariuur who pulh out htiuei-Hnfully will Hero and thern you will HoJ In- tlio 0110 who baoHliiillud tlio hvhU'iii IIoiih to tlila uveruve. Pomo U of noil nullum and who known it from I tro Ktvlnu utteutloii to lliejeled A .. v 'IM... r.. ...1... 1 1 I i...i. ur.,..i .....1 1 , 4k 11 J Ml! llll 1IU Willi NUN llltl.II 1 b Mill ni.i:il 1,1111 11 1 13 HI-FI II IT 11 IIILrt I...1.I1 ..I .. I ... I . .III.. II.. i I I. ...1.1. I'- ", ..i...f,, nr. inn lit ii. I ... . ii iiiiu Kinill o I I lii'Mfi iri hfiriillliiiitii riwuii Tt iii nl 1-lriiHL Imiirnviiniiiiil nnn Iii m knowledge tlnil til Ih will bo truo ihrtl huuiI Krnlu without i'Xiendin? hIiouIiI spur ovury tidvoonto of huIuii-I libor. To blurt with, one kboulil title mill otilturo to rciiewi-il eiideiivorfi to ediioiite tho funtiera tluwo now In tliu rt-nloiiM nml thoHu th ut eomi. ft Ih thlH kuowledgu that uinUuM It Ini-pi-rutlvt thai tlio govcriiineiit didtrll)- uio literiitnre bearing on tliu Hiibjeot and bt-Ht llll i'l hernia of jilunip tunl thitt tlio federal ami utitto govern- " well developed plants tint I il.lt . . . Ii. .. .! I I. . . ..I 'lint will aid In Hie ttlucitllon of tlio quurtor of an uere. t'il ive ei r.innurH. Huli'oi inn ulot. lift, tl.e ffen i i'i..r 1.. 1...11 1. 1. ... ..ii i.. .. f ii.. i .... ii... ui.i.j.tiinii i.iy.f iii.. iii.vi ri wi.iiiivil llllliri-ll IH WIIU 111 IIIU I HIW rrivviiwii ...v ...... d - ftronguHt udvociitt'H of iIiIh eiliiuatloii. nbould ugulu nuleet from HIO'lui Ho nmll.t-H perliupH inoro tlian any of bem need for another cel c Ion liu llii. I ...l.i. ...I I,... I.. I .I.... I til ill., kimiwl nr. ilil U'llli'll If! ... null in ncwi'nniil J . 1 1,1 ,11 1, l I i.i ..." .......... n. " without a thorough tindcrrtaiulliii' of Ulioiild bo iihi-.I to pljtut aboul ...v. i-jnuiii llll-lU IIIU IJ1IUIIII ill UU HWIU lllllilii.riii.il. iinnij iniiuivn nun win uu runeiioiiarv i uu m ki- i"n : " c nml I Ik funil-iiiiil reulon will bo net oror. Hut In or hr that a irrower buck years lu development, but that get the bout n-Milm fr m tucli a iho morn education that lu drilled thono moil in tin utale wlio ' Into tho farmer, tho Iohm will bo tho unted In HteI Ht'lt-c-'loii shouMoti; wiiu luaiuin wnuii mo ury year conieH. inio u fern k'""1'" Wo do not wlh to iioho aw aliirinlHtM. oiU'ii a ncdlgrie rtconl w. Wo hlmply with to utato fuclH ami to Heed Iiiih been n-hi'te'l f t H"w : . ..i i.. warn tliu fnrinoiH tint t hnv iiiiihL III. h hotili Ho fllginiu mr n uiiilDrHlaiid (ho hyHteniH of hoII cultliro book mid should iu reconitu n in tho Miil-i.iid illMirlow no that thoy in.iy guard tlifiiiHid vh agaliifit a lu- uiro failure Jtuyiiioiiil A. Kuton, in Scientific Kariuor. 1. 1 . i .. i . . Il IF . .1.1.1 IIIU IIIJ ltll 01 l i.nil lil-i iii inn vuiirir urei onot 1. 1.. i . i ii. m .i nil, iuii'ii ..iiiiii 1 1 iiiiih. ii iirii in I., l. i... .1. ..I. I. ... .1. H I h rim, mi niimiiii I'll linn mi, up . helecl from it hy liiinu the m Ground Crusted In tho Spring The following iiieHllou nddresHcd to tliu WaHhliigton Htato Coll ego him been niiHwontd by J'fof, J-J. K. KUlou: Quliiuy, Waul), ,My wheat ground sown in full wheat Ih uniHteil ovor every riprlng ho thul iho wheul will not grow w oil. Would Ii bo ailvlHiihlu to dink It In iho Spring to form a mulch? Ciiah. S. MoKhnzih. If your ground Im ulinply uriHted on tho Hiirfaeo with mellow hoII under- neuili, you could beHt prepare u mulch by lirnt rolling to pulveri.o iho hard iiUHl and then hurrowlng with u hjiIIco toothed hurrow. If, however, your BollHeeniM lo run touother for three or four IiicIich deep, uB f under- taud It toinotliiiuH (Iouh In your huu- (Ion, this would not do, Wheat Ih very eublly chopped our, hut It inuy bo pOHhlblo lo break up llii crunt with iliodlbklf the iIIhIih arc net Htruight mid run about, two or threo inelieH deep, Mucli qaro would huvo to bo xeielbed, however, tut tho whout rooiH aro near the fiuifuue and if tho (IIhU Ih turned u little too muoh It would pull up the phintM. If tho dink Ih umxl tho harrow nhould bo um'd after It to form m ii loll, r- Importance of Good Sood Ono of tlio.moHt Imporluut. faotora with which tho dry farmer hub to . . . . I.I Il.lr.l 1'i.ir" HII'I! I'll Mr III II I"'' "" 1 progeny wlniuld bi,,iiHiidfe!ei"t Inf ilm fotirili vur, 'ir in grown lu the imprnveineiin" bo relHtrod nt Miitir-veuv 1 1. 1 vi I ,.iin r .'I niii.i j ..... . . . i Jiii-jh miok "r 'I't'u c "in" I I.. a UH HUt'll grill II :u-"Hip:"'"'' " " gre.j certlllc ui' and h l"sfef r' It would tliim hi' giwwuiw . i i..i.. l..,iipr lli.1l grade nml woiiin "i"'K " market price .. ,.,.,, That iiiich a ph work bun been dfiiriy Iy tho Cmiidliili heeil ('fn''r" .... n...iu;l HB' ll ..I..II..H u i Iii i i.iih iinni,!""-- r,.r ,. mimburfif yi'iirii nfi'l m IImIii.iI ii L'lellt ill-ill ' i " i ... Hi grudoofuccdKi"""'1 "He" , growing ri'glmiH "C t ai""1' Cow For Sale A gentle milcli cow for 3al J,J blood ersey! "lkfr! , ,. in about six weeks. ir Loucks, Madras, Orefion. A jolly crowd 01 f very pleasant day nt the 1, . ..... ii-ii, in i he .Muu Pr- . ionium iw .,i4 i i... Altrr a UOl i .Tiiiiuur' ,l. ,f .11.1 IllSllCfil''" ' 111 Wllll.ll k,... I"" " . . . .....I Insi Sundav. Alter a to which evei dcr of the eveii.-H oup K""'--. - i .ii m nitii. taken, and will ever i pieasant day for all wl "