The Madras
Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1908.
NO. 20
NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
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a ichas been Ihorougmy rcnovaica, no ocucr tauie in cn-
Oregon for the money, iour warns win dq courteously
First-class Livery in Connection
J. W, LIVINGSTON, Proprietor
MADRAS,
OREGON
A. M. WILLIAMS & GO. RAILROADS FORESEE
NEW TRAFFIC ERA
DKAl.KltS IN
Dry Goods, Clothing,
f-O-i
HOOTS AND 8JI0K8
HATS AND CAI'S
THE DALLES
Madras Harness Sho
E. m. DAVIS, Pvop.
LOCATED IN POSTOFFICE BUILDING
Just received a full line of Horse
Blankets, Collars, Buggy Whips,
Collar Pads, Whip Stocks and Lash
es, Spurs and bits.
Horse Furnishing Goods
Always Kept In Stock
Prices Are Lowest
LISf
your properly
WITH -3VE jB
I liuvo m ro buyers tlmn I
have land for Hiilo
Ora Van Tassel
JlRJiD AGEJSlT
MADRAS, OREFON
nisi may be expected to follow before
many years. This Hno may parallel
tlio Harriman lines through tho Wil
lamctto Valley, but It 5s more apt to bo
built through Central Oregon,
Mr. Hill differs from Mr Harriman
in one radical feature of policy. Ho is
above nil things a developer of new
country by the construction of now
lines. Mr, Harriman takes an old,
broken-down line, snch as tho Union
Pacific was when he secured control,
and builds it up by extensive improve
mcnts, so that it can carry a maximum
traffic at d minimum cost per ton. But
he builds new lines reluctantly and
INVADED BY J, ij. HILL slowly, apparently hoping that a com
1 i t .if fit. t.l- ; t Ml l-
uijjuumi wiin Jim rival win iiiukc me
new Jino unnecessary.
In accordance with his policy it is to
be presumed that in reaching out to San
Francisco Mr. Ilill will be- apt to build
up the Deschutes to tap the irrigated
country of Crook and Klamath counties.
Here be. would find a considerable de-
Vflntiprl frrtfttp. nlrorulv nwnifinc tiirn
The purchase by the Hill lines of the trflfr,n rmv ri.tlt(llv na
r..t i 9- r- l -rti. i t. i
uo.oruuo ouuuiern iiaiiroau, recenuy rDJul advaneed southward.
MADRAS SHOULD HAVE
UNION HIGH SCHOOl
Town Is Contralfy Lpcntod And Con-t
vonlent To Largo Terrltory-r
Work For It,
tor In Change
orecoh HARRIMAN TERRITORY
Hill Will Roach For California Traffic
Through Doschuton Canyon
Ho Also Predicts Lively
Railroad War.
iring Neatly Done
Give Me
A Trial
A. E. CROSBY
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"twt i ; . l.inoof DriiEii, clirlncn, Ulicmlculu, HntiiolioW Jtomcillo,
jipeiu m -, 'iiiiiui ntmvrou i.'ajtiroi'UM. moc i-nvui hiiiijhi w mi khiu.
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h.hi 'i n-l rimto fiiipjTll Country Jlnll Oritur I give uiy ieronnl
t( in cJufjge,' BTe ilullvury Bintfnntbd. Your prwcrli'tton
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OREGON
MADRAS
MEAT fill
RKET
JAMES W. HURT, PROPRIETOR
FRESH AND CURED MEATS
Fish, Vegetables and Country Produce
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OREGON
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T. B. TUCKER
f Invnnndnnlnfy nnrf
IlUlbrjbllUrJIII (1IIU
General Blacksmifhing
WAGON AND j
PLOW WORK
First-Class Work Gnaranteed i
!
Located In the ohl UronhH shop
MADRAS, 0KEC10N
Blankets & Robes
3ST E "77" STOCK
Fine stock of Harness, Collars,'
Bridles, Haltors, Whips and
other articles kept in a first
class Harness Shop
DURABLE LINE OF SHOES
Wheat Taken In Tiade
B. S. LARKIN
MADRAS, ORE.
! SUPPLIES
LOUOKS BROS
I MADRAS, OREGON jj
announced in press dispatches, indicates
preparation for the revolution in traffic
conditions which will be wrought when
tho Panama Canal is completed.
When the canal is finished,- there will.
be an immense diversion of traffic irom
rail to water. Uulky, low-claes freight
originating near the Atlantic and des
tined for the Pacillc Coast, will be
hauled to the Atlantic seaboard and
thence go by steamer down the coast,
across tho Cnnlhcan Sea, through the
cannl and up the Pacific Coast to the
various ports, where it will be trans
ferred to cars to bo.haulcd to its destin
ation a few hundred miles in the inte
rior.
Similar freight from tho Middle West
will be hauled South to the Gulf ports,
there to bo transferred to steamers for
transit through the canal. In short, the
time of transit between the two coasts
will be so shortened that vast quantifies
of commodities winch are now carried
by rail, merely to Bave the time of tran
sit mound the Horn, will be carried by
eca.
Tlie'railroads will be mainly used to
carry freight to the steamer lines- The
days of transcontinental freight trafllc
wi'l end, except for except for express
trains carrying high-class fremht.
Forseeing this revolution, the railroad
chiefs havo been preparing to adapt
their lines to the new conditions. The
.Morgan syndicate secured the Southern
Railway, with terminals at Mobile and
New Orleans: Mr. Harriman wrested
from Styvesant Fish the Illinois Cen
tral, with terminals at New Orleans;
the Koek Inland-Frisco lines have been
extended to Galveston, and now the
Llill lines reach the same port by means
of I ho Colorado & Fcnithern.
The purchase of the Colorado & Sou't,',!-
1 If .1 I vxiia
cm is au(iiuonai evuience ot iwr. 11111 s
determination to reach southward from
his present main lines, just as he has.
reached northward across the boundary
by the construction " ol the Victoria,
Vancouver & Eat-tern in British Colum
bia. His unnouncetl decision to run a
iue of steamers from Portland to San
I'rancisco is only the first step in this
direction. The construction of a line
southward through Oreou and Califor-
The purchase of the Colorado & South
ern is a typical sequence of the purchase
of the Burlington. The latter extended
Mr. Hill's territory to Cheyenne, Den
vcr arid umaha. anu gave him the
through haul on lumber from the North
west to the Prairie States. It also gave
him. the traffic which the latter states
send to the Northwest. But he wanted
more in the same line. lie had covet
ous eye? on the great shipments of cot
ton from the South to the Pacific CoaBt
for trans-shipment to China and Japan
Ho will get that traffic, all on his own
rails, for the Colorado & Southern runs
from Orin Junction, Wyo., on the north,
to Galveston, Texas, on the south, and
thus traverses the cotton belt. Only
two short links are needed to connect
with the Burlington. His new acquisi
tion will also pive him a longer season
of the grain movement to Chicago and
other Lake port?, and of the stock move
ment from the Texas range to the
northern ranges in Wyoming and Mon
tana and to the Chicago packing-houses,
1I0 will, in fact, do as the migratory
harvest hands do, follow the harvest
north as the crop3 ripen. By the time
the grain movement from his southern
lines slackens up, a crop will be ready
for them to movo rom the Northwest
He will also extend the market for the
Northwestern. lumber mills southward
info Texas. Already lumbermen of this
section are pieparing to invade that ter
ritory as soon as the missing links of the
through line arc filled in.
Mr. Hill has always had the advan
tage of capitalization nearer the cost of.
his road and equipment than any of his
rivals, Ho has fought
subsidized with land or
toads liberally
bonds, or both.
completed the
Pacific in 1893,
0.
G. COLLVEl?
The Pioneer gjves you tho homo and
county liowH and keeps you In touoh
with vour surroundings. Subscribe
for It. Prlco SI. BO per year.
NOTARY PUBLIC
and beaten them. He
Great Northern to the
just when the -panic came,' ami within a
year, he drove the land-grant-gorged
Northern Pacific into bankruptcy an'd
ultimately bought it in. He has fought
Mr. Harriman and his land:grant. bond-
aided Union Pacific, ami is still fighting.
Mr, Harriman has leeh able to force a
cry of distress- ffom tho Goulds, but no
cries have been heard coming from Mr.
Hill's direction. When tho next era of
railroad construction which Mr. Hill
has predicted begins, there will be inter
esting times all tho way from Oregon to
Texas.
Justice oftho Fence
CULVKIt PItEOINCT
CULVER
OREGON
T
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II. HNOOK
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Oftlco In Drue Store.
MAPHAB
OHEOON
BARGAINS BARGAINS
UAL DL
BARGAINS
AL
Preparatory To Taking Stock
for the next 15 days, commencing Thursday, Decern-,
ber3l, wewill offer at exceptional bargains a lot of
staple merchandise to clean up at 10 to 25 per cent
Rff. This includes Dry Goods, Shoes, Dishes. Hats,
Caps, Notions, Etc., Etc, Etc.
All Misses' Coats At Prices That Will Sell Them
Jg H. HANER
ABSTRACTER OF TITLES
NOTAKY l'UBLIC
l'lroriimuranre, I.I fu Inmirnmu. Surety Iioneli.
Item hatato. Conveyancing
I'HtNEVlLliE,
OHKaON
J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON
GENERAL MERCHANTS
tyAX LUEDDEMANN
NOTARY PUBLIC
I'lonoor UulUUng
MADRAS OREGON
J NO. 3051 1
The First National Bank
OF PRINKVILLE, OREGON
I, V. Ai.len, Presldont,
T. M. JutpwiN, Cathlei.
Wux Wubwbii.rh Vlco Pr.
H, Hahiitin, At..CAdlitor.
THE PERIODICAL DUST STORM
Christmas day was just like old times
in Madras, though it cannot be said that
from a weather point of view tho day
was enjoyed by anybody. There was a
dust storm, the likes of which Madras
has every two or three months, so that
it m-cds no description. It continued
only a portioirof the day, and by even-
1.... 11... . it.' 1 1 .1
nig me wviiwiLT nau resumed ttie even
tenor of its wav.
The storm was general in tho Western
part of tho state and also on the raciflc
Coast. Telegraph nt.d telephone wires
wore badly damaged, and havoc gener
ally was wrought by tho terrille, winds.
On the ocean many vessels were at tin
mercy of tho seas and nlmost every mo
ment scorned m danirer of beinir en
gulfed by the mountain waves, and that
tlio vessels with their passengers es
caped-a watery gravo seems almost a
myraclo.
In February. 1000, tlio voters in tlio
Bend district organized a district high
school at that place, establishing a full
four years' courso in accbrdanco yfilh
tho laws for high schools in Oregon,
thereby complying fully with tlio school
laws for one year previous to tho time
that tlis 'county high school at Pririe
ville was raised to the same standard.
In September of this year the Bend dis
trict applied to the county boundary
board for recognition as to the efficiency
of tho Bend high school and for the es
emption of its proportion of tho county
high sdhool tax. The first of this month
after a careful personal examination of
the Bend school by tho full board, tho
application was unanimously granted
and the board declared, unofficially,
that in efficiency the Bend high school
really excelled tho county high school.
The Bend district will soon take step3
to organize a union district for the sup
port of its high ecliool-by taking in that
territory which wa-included in the pro
posed County of Deschutes, which died
a natural death at the legislature. two"
years ago. Tins would give tnem a
greater part of the territory lying South
of Crooked river and West of Powell
buttes, and would -also take off a por
tion of Klamath and "Lake counties.
The district .will then have about 4,
000,000 of taxable property, and tho
people interested figure that a levy of
14 mills for tho first year and 1 mill or
less thereafter would successfully main
tain the school. This low levy, as can
readily understood, is a great incent
ive for the support in that district of
everyone concerned, not taking into
consideration the convenience of having
the high school in a central place and -the
saving to the patrons in traveling
and living expenses. " .
It is high time that the residents and
voters of the districts Jying Ivorth of
Crooked river, those comprising the ter
ritory included in the defunct County of
Jefferson, take steps toward the estab
lishment of a union district high school
at Madras. When it was proposed to
organize Jefferson county it was found
that there was about $2,000,000 of taxa
ble property, and with a levy of 2 or .24
mills, which the withdrawal of the Bend
distr'cts will necessitate for tho conduct
of the county high school at Prineville, '
a very efficient and successful high school
could be conducted at Madras.
Of course there nro school districts
lying near Prineville, which are natur
ally closer to that city, which would iiot
care to come into either of the proposed
nw districts These will continue to
pay their annual tax to the county high '
school, but those' districts which are
contiguous and tributary to Madras, to
w)iich Madras is more convenient and ,
central in many ways, should.easily per--
ceivo the advantage of establishing a.
union high school at that. point, and no
time should be lost in ascertaining tho
views of the neighboring districts and
in taking the preliminary stens toward
the establishment of a union high school
here, so that, in tho course of n couple
of years, an examination and compari
son can be called for, and the exemption
of this territory from its, proportion of
the county high school tax be secured,
A rabbit hunt was organized Decem
ber IB by tho ranchers living at O'Neil
and LQuy PjiH,,the tq limit expiring
uecomuer 20. Sides were clioson by
iwo captains ami the men went, forth at
ter tho jacks. Meeting at an appointed
place at tho expiration of the hunt the
pairs of ears were counted, one tifura
Having 174 pairs of oars and tho other
ITEMS FROM OUR EXCHANGES
. County Officials Have Autos
County Commissioner James Rice has
purchased an Internal ion automobilofar
the purpose of gettin: around ovbr tho
county more readily while attonding to
uie duties of his office. The machine id
u two-seated, 25 horsepower, high
wheel, solid tire rig, just tho sort of a
machine for Crook county roads. Coun
ty Judge-EHis lias alto ordered one of
these machines, add when it arrivcis liu
and Commissioner Rico will be able to
load in the entire countv board nn.l
then qme, and travel to any part pf the
county. Commissioner Rico is proving
an Al officer, and is attendintr to fho
'dutiea of his office with ability lWm.l
Bulletin.
Business men generally who will have
uso for tho ' commodity next Bummer"
have been puttftig up leu during tlio
week. About 100 tons have been se
cured. The few days' cold
. ..ESTABLISHED 1 80B
M'ttplUI, Biirplm Mid UnaivldvO front
100,000.00
178 pairs, The highest individual scoto fmled froze ice about five, Jnnhea thik,
was uiauo ny u. a, Foster who killed P "no quality, and Users are takhiu n
40 rabbits. Lunoro, one of tlio. captains, chances of a later I feeze, preferring tc
Riiieu o coyotes during tho hunt. Ua S01 eupi'iy wnilo U is in ahrht. T.nt
hoj-s team was the winner, and Lenoro's "cason the only freezo canjo. in tho mid
I lll,ltl ttil.lnl. IV... 1 . I.I . HIM n I."., I ... ... . i k
mmu iubi, puiu ior an oyster pu 4 -ruuruurv. ii waa a last cluuiqo"
supper, Total rabbits killed, C52J coy. Pl thoro was somu tall hustling fof
I uivs o.rrimivuio Journal, ree uaye.' i'nnevllle Koview,