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Under tlio Act of Coriress of March 51, 1879.
THURSDAY
JUNE i8, 1908
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IMPROVING OUR SCHOOL
That the voters in the Madras
school district appreciated the
importance, of adding the i)th
and 10th grades to our school
was evidenced ty the unani
mous vole for the additional
grades at the election held last
Monday. There was no oppo
sition and there should have
teen none to this much-needed
ininrnvpnifMir in llip si'hnnl fjio.il-
ities of one of the largest dis
tricts in the county. The Mad
ias school ia ontrn'lv locntVr'
"and will afford improved school
facilities to the surrounding
'districts, each one of which will
have several pupils ."who have
advanced beyond the eight
gr.ades taught in their own
schools:
The addition of the two grades
in the Madras school will ne
cessitate an increase in the
number of teachers employed,
and the additional expense will
require the levy of a liberal
school tax iu the- district, bur
the taxpayers will stand the in
crease in their taxes cheerfully
.because of the benefits to be
.arrived. Not only will the eiii
ciency of the Madras school be
increased, but the town of Mad
ias, from which most of the t:ix
will be derived; will also come
in for its share of the benefits."
" It will be an edifying speca
Jcle, to see a number of dyed-iu-ihe-wbol
Republicans line up
and cast heir votes for a Dem
ocrat for United States Senator,
when the legislature meets next
Winter, and it will be well
worth a trip to Saleiii to witness
it. But that is what all those
Republicans who signed State
ment No. 1 will have to do, re
gardless of the fact that they
were elected from Republican
'districts, by. Republican voters
who believed in a continuation
of Republican policies, and who
voted the Republican ticket as
an expression of their political
principles. But there's the rub
What .-have principles to do
with U'Ren politics? And what
business have the voters witn
notions and opinions'about gov
ernmeutal policies? They have
U'Ren to give them laws, and
Statement No. 1 to give thim
United States Senators, and
opinions and principles would
be so much dead weight.
When California was in the
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lands of the old political ring,
a certain politician who had t
be "taken care of" was ap
pointed Official Clock Winder
at a salary of $8 per day. His
duties were to'wind the clock in
the senate chamber when the
fjpiiMifi was in session, the clock
beintr one of the eight-day kind
Since Crook county is to have a
lnrrra 1 5 IIIR-lVl fiCe On ltS 11 W
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court house building, it is dis
couraging to reilect . that ring
polities is no longer toleratea in
the county. What a fine job
there might have been for some
of our discarded politicians!
Spokane will offer a prize o
$1000 for the best single apple,
at the meeting of the Natioua
Apple Show Association to be
held in that city next Decem
ber. This will be the biggest
iSrir. ever offered for a single
Specimen of fruit.
HARRIDAN'S OP.PQf UNIT?
With the exception of the in
fornitttlou that the Harriman
linea haVe authorized the issue
of U hundred million dollars
of railroad bonds, and that the
Gould interests have gone them
some belter and authorized one
hundred and lit ty million dol
lars worth of bonds, there does
n't appear to be as much rail
road news, touching Central
Oregon's transportation prob
lem, as usuafi Possibly it ' is
the lull before the ttorm. At
any rate the residents of Cen
tral Oregon will continue to
hope that from this feast of,mil
lions a few crumbs will fall this
way.
In Bpite of tlje lack of definite
announcement of railroad plans
for Central Oregon, there is
much in the reporls of these big
bond issues to stimulate hope
and keep the heart alivBi
The Harriman interests must
within a short time btuld into
Central, Oregon in order to hold
that territory, and .the big bond
issue of l he Union Puciilo, ll.lj
millions of which is to be. used
in the completion of lines pro
cted, may mean .that the Cen
tral Oregon line is to be started
at once. This opinion is
strengthened by the report that
a crew of 2o surveyors crossed
the mountains last 'W.euk, and
resumed work on the location of
the Natron-Ontario Hue
The press dispatches are un
usually barren. of railroad news
r t . I "v. 1 1 . .1...-.,.
ior ueimai uregou uiese uup,
but tha't should not be discour-
The newspapers have
been building roads into Central
Oreeon for 20 years, and none
of them have materialized. The
present inactivity may be flar
iman's opportunity.
POLITICAL LIBEL
If the passage of the Huntley
bill or corrupt practices act, by
the people of Oregon has the
ffect of hushing up the mouths
of political liars, that will be
sufficient justification or the in-1
itiative and referendum amend
ment. Under the corrupt practices
act just passed, it will hereafter
be a crime for one politician or
lis friends to lie on rival candi
dates or their friends. Politi
cal slander will hereafter be a
serious crime and everybody is
glad of it. '
The disgraceful lies which
-i
gam circulation uuiing cum
pain times, are really degrading
to citizenship. Apparently re
spectable men will hatch .up
aud.circulate political lies which
should put them to shame. The
same men would not think of
cheating or lying in business
uflairs, but they feel that politi
cal lies are justifiable.
If the Huntley bill stops this
shameful practice and places
the political campaign on a
hirrli. rmre. clean, houuraWe
level, that will . repay the peo-
n i t '
nle for all the mistakes made
under the initiative and reier
endum amendment.
It will keep politicians busy
to dodue all the political crimes.
East Oregonian.
The people of Crook county
have expressed .themselves in
favor of prohibition by a vote
of 1140 -to 55p a majority of
784, or more than two to one.
That is the decision of theiuia
joiity and hence, under Ameri
can government, it becomes law.
Id now becomes the duty of ev
ey law-abiding citizen to abide
by this decree of the majority
and to see that the law iu en
forced. The man who pereiuts
in the sale of- intoxicating H
iiuors after July 1 is a criminal
and should receive the crimi
nal portion. There may be
an honest diiieieiice ot opinion
LH to tily efficacy of prohibition,
'but tUew flUould be but one
opinion as to obedience to law.
We have a sheriff who has
promised to enforce prohibition
if the people voted to. adopt it.
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Bend Bulletin.
Antelope, Which voted "dry"
in the election June 1 by it ma
jority of only S votes, stands a
good chance to Hop oVer Into
the wet column, as the election
has been contested by two an-
oon-keepeis of that place on
grounds that may bo suflioiqnt
to set the result of the eleotipn
aside. . The notice of thereon-
test of the election was to bo
served the first of the week, and
the law provides for a hearing
within 10 days. It is claimed
that 27 voters who did not li?e
in Antelope precinct voted there
on . election day, voting on the
prohibition question .as well as
on the state and district ticket.
The fact that they voted on tlje
prohibition question will prob
ably be -sufficient cause to set
aside the election,' even though
each ohb of them may' have
voted "wet" anyway.
Residents oi' this section re
turning through Sherman coun
ty over the- Columbia Southern
railroad, say that the wheat
crops in Sherman county were
not looking as goqd the first
of the week as they lire in
this section, as rain is needed
badly. Last week when the
heavy soaking rain fell in this
district Sherman count' got no
rain, and the crops are begin
ning to show the effects of the
hot, dry weather. This is not
true of all the grain, for many
fields do not show that they are
yet suffering, and the reports
from all sections of Sherman
county indicate that the farm
ers are expecting a good aver
age crop. In this county last
week's rain was worth thou
sands of dollars to the farmers,
and crop prospects are greatly
improved.
Not much has been heard of
the operations of Hatlield, the
"rainmaker," in Sherman coun
ty this season, although it is
iaid that he claims credit for
the unusual precipitation in the
month of May. He began his
operations in Sherman .county,
May 9, and between that date
and the 25th the precipitation
was 1 23 inches, whereas during
the previous 20 years the pre
cipitation in May had never ex
ceeded X) of an inch. If Hat
lield could produce a good rain
in Sherman county now tliey
would doubiless call h'itn .thrice-
blessed.
If the Madras Oil Company
d.nniii ofrilrp nil on the West
slope of old Grizzly, t,there will
be a number of budding Kocke-
futlMrs livincr here in Madras.
With the first "prospect hole
liust becun, prices of claims
range between fifty tliousauus
imrl 1RH. UCROrdillC tO tllC
amount of optimism in the loca
tor's make up.
FMTURI
UNDERTAKING
SUPPLIES
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1 MADRAS, OREGON 5
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Lost, Strayed Or Stolen
From the Hny creek rimch, nbout elx
weeks ngo, a lemon-colored sliephord
,iw wh.li whltn rini around neck, An-
L ti.r. tinmn of "Iliehball." A
reward of $10 will bo given lor his re
turn to mo.nt Hay creek.
JOHN FOLEY.
ANTELOPE,
fiFNFRAL MERCHANT
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We have plenty of lumber for sale a
mill, located about 3 miles east of G
post office on county road. Prices
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EASTERN OREGON BANKING GOfJPI
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