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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1907.
NO. 46
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Dep'. .rjO.OOO
DALLES.
f you want -a
Mew Spring Goods
Our grocory lino is complete, Remember
wr can handle all your stock that is ready
for market, at th? hat price, Come in
and talk to us
LENA'M. LAMB,
Madras, Oregon
I'il French, Pres. H. A. Moore, Vlco-Proe. F.T. Hurlburt, Conhlor
EASTERN OREGON BANKING COMPANY
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SHANIKO, OREGON
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ABSTRACTER OF TITLES
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of riru:UN tiftiltiii,'. Chronic cosc a
)HWlft. Coimtiltntlon frt.
Iti'ii'tmircs j;ivufi to iiroinfiiuiit purties of
TIliU or, Oickoh.
OIlico til Adnins HallilliiK
MADRAS, OREGON
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NO. 3051 .
The First National Bank
OF PR I NEVILLE.' OREGON
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OREGON .CftjilUl, Hurplui n(! I'ndivldoU I'roflU
$100,000.00
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Government Investigating tho
- Nature of tho Allmen
BIOLOGIST PIPER DISCOVERS MICROBE
:
Jockrnbblts Becoming Scarce Hero
Whero They Hnvo Herotoforo
Been A Nuionncc-
Stanley E. Piper of the J3i
logical Survuy of the iDepart
ment of Arieulnire wap
visitor in Madras for a few
hours; last Friday, and yrhMr
wru made a trip out across
A'ii(;y Plains- for the purpose
of noting conditions, in (jonneo
tiou with his ejfjjeriinents in
thu extermination of sage ratn
by inoculation. Mr. Pipni wan
returning fiom HaycreoU
wliwre he had spent a week
investigating a djsease anionp
ihe rabbits of this section, and
could not stay'longer as he was
due at Pullman Sunday morn
tug on other business. He took
back wilh him a small box o
nage rats from the Plains, upon
which he expects to continue
his experiments. Owing to tin
lateness of the season, Mr.
Piper stated that he would not
ue anie to inuue iieia tests in
this localitj' this season, bu
that early next Spring he would
come here and conduct a num
ber of lield tests throughout t Inj
ection. The sage rats of thi
variety begin to hibernati
about August 1, and it is tot
late now to make much of a
beginning, so the expHriment.-
are necessarily deferred until
next season, when an , earh
start will be made.
Mr. Piper speaks interest-
inglj' of his Investigations a
Ha'creek, where he spent
the week investigating the
rabbit disease. The disease,
he saj's. is a new one to him.
and he took to Pullman with
him several carcasses of thr
liseased rabbits, with which to
pursue his investigations The
disease was first discovered a
voar ago by a Mr. Welsh, an
Australian who was visiting the
headquarters of the B.ildwm
Sheep & Lmid Go. Having in
mind the. rabbit plague in Aus
tra'ia, Mr. Velsh jsecured seT
eial carcasses of tho diseased
rabbits, which h was taking to
Australia to turn over to the
biological department of the
government there, for investi
gation. On boardNtho steamer
the case of rabbits was thrown
overboard by mistake. Dr.
David Starr Jordan of'Stanfoid
University was aboard the same,
vessel and beinp; told by -Mi.
Welsh of the disease anions
the rabbits, reported it to the
Biological Survey of the He
parlment of Agriculture, and
upon this information Mr.
Piper was senj to Hay creek
to investigate. The disease
is general among the raHbits
of this, entire Veotion, Mr.
Piper killed twelve rabbits Nut
Hayereek, seven of them aduit
rabbits, and each of the' grown
rabbits was allVfCted with th
disease. Kanchers of this
locality have noted the dimiuf
ishing numbers of, tho juekrab
bits, vhioh have decrease'd
greatly in tho past year. It
was at first thought that the
severe wiijtor had destroyed
them, but investigation shows
that the decreaSH is due to the
ravages of the diS'UHo, If the
uovernmeJit can turn the (lis
covery to use in exterminating
the rabbits elsewhere, it wit
prove of great value to olhei
sections of this country, and to
suoh ountrieS as Australia
where the rabbit plague has
been occupying the attention of
i ho government for years.
Regarding the investigations
which Mr. Piper has been ' con
Ulucting with the sage rats, hi
nromised to furnish us data
soon for publication. Last year
in Whitman county, Washing
ton, Mr. Piper gathered data
regarding the amount of rantiej
spent for poisons for combat
ting the sago rat. and tin
amount reached the enormout-
(otal of $37,000 in that county
alone. lie- also made a care fit
estimate of the damage done by
the rats, including cost oi poi-
aou and labor of combatting tlu
rats, together with the actual
damage to the crops, and in
Whitman County alone he
pl.'$ces the damage at S300.000
which he saj's is a very con
'i:yative estimate. Some idea
of the scope of his work, and
r ie benelits which he hopes t
secure lor the fanner, may
gathered from this estimate.
" RECARDINC MAIL COHTRACT
be
Editor Maduas PiomniRi
, We note
in your issue of
June 18 an article in
reference
ro why the mail route, was not
erftablibhed over our stage lin
in which j'ou quote Colonel
tT ! iiri.ii
vanie as auiuoriiy. wane
hat he says is practically cor
rect so lar as he goes, he doe's
not go far enough and leave
an eironeous impression which
we request you to correct by
publishing thu full facts.
V Wlieu the matter was under
consideration it was suggested
that as the Governujent was
ilready under cuitmct with the
Comett Company for carrying
i he mails to Bend, it did not
feel disposed to iucur- addition
al expense in opening up
another through route, but if
our compan' would carry the
local mails we might secure the
allowance of the miior routes,
which could be dispensed with
if we served the towns alonj:
our route. We advised Colo-
t
nol Yaille that our Hue was
designed primarily for a more
convenient passenger service
and that we would be"williiig to
accept tlje smaller amount, if
the purely local service could
be accommodated by our con
templated schedule, which
pioposed a lie-over at Bolter's
and arriving at Bend at G the
following evening. This in
volved the handling of local
upiil only and nothing for points'
beyond Bend or to other points
oil' our line. This contemplated
no allowance for service be
tween Shaniko and Heisler, nor
between Redmond and Laidlaw,
but we were going to do this
the public. We aho' propused
to gjve a direct through, jiight
service from hauiko at the
same rate per mile allowed Cor
net t. to Pri nevil to.
When the department adver
tised for bids they callod-J'or
arrival at Bend within 24 bonis
after ariival of the train at
Shaniko. No allowance was
made for contiugencfes nor for
the fact that an hour and a
quarter would Ify consumed, at
stops at post offices, sThe
terms of bids authorized the
CROOK COUNTY COAL.
Applications Made for Purchas
of 13Q0 Acres of Coal Lapd
OWNERS WILL HAVE VALUABLE PROPERTY
Applications Made Bofore CoplLnndtj'
' Were Withdrawn From Entry
By Tho Government
The Pioneer is publishing five
notices of coal land applicationst
the first notices,of the kind ever ,
published in this county. The
ands applied for are situated
past of Hayereek a few miles,
and cover the coal discovery
made in that section a year or
more ago by W. II. Huston and
others. After the discovery
was made, sufficient prospect;
work was done to demonstrate
the value of the coal measures
and then application wa.s mada
tor the purchase of the lam3-...
The notices published at thig
lime cover about 1300 acres o$.
the coal lauds.
An order was recently rtmdEf .
by the General Land Office,
.withdrawing all coal landa
from entry, but these applica
tions had been made prior to,
the issuance of that order.
When patent iH secured la '
the lands, it is probable that :
octensive development wor3 '
will be taken up in the Croolv
County coal fields. The owners ;
unquestionably have a valuable
property, and one, the develop
ment at which, will mean a
u'reatdeal for this section of the
state.
Government to alter the sched
ule at will and we would b& .
obliged to carry all mail teri,
dered to us. This we were i
willing to do at regular rates N
but we were not willing to do it
it what amounted to Jess than
four cents per milq or about -naif
of the allowance ordinarily
paid by the Government, while
at the same time Cornell wquld
be getting full pay for service
he was not. tendering. AgainY'
to have loaded down our stages
with all ot the mails he should
have carried, destined for other
points not on our road, would, ,
have relieved his stages from
not only extra weight but
would have permitted him to -
run a direct stage via Lamo'nta
and beat our passenger sohfld-'
ule to Bend, to the detriment of
our line.
His lines have been jrreatlv
relievd by diversion of consid
erable passonger trade to our
route and in consequence am
now able to make much hotter
time than formerly, the neces.
sity of competing in time also
stimulating quicker serviee.
Hence our company , would not
care to bind themselves for a
period of yeara to carry mail
under penalties for delay where
there is nothing in it, the allow
ance proposed by Colonel
Vailte beiucr less ner imund
than the freighters get for haul
itig freight to Bend, and there is .
no telling how: much larger the
volume of mail will be during
ium nexi two or three years, for
which there would be no addi
tional compensation.
Wo consequently feel that it.
is but proper for the public to
understand that we lid not "de
cline to carry out the promisua
we made, but that the troubla
lay in the Government speeify- ' '
inginits advertisement condi
tions different from those dis
cussed, and too unreasonable '
to admit of our acceptance.
Very truly,
BlCND-MADfiAS-SlIANIKO
Staok Company,
Bend, OrM Juno 2-i, 1007.