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Madras 3 MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGONTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1909, NO. 7 The Pioneer LIVERY, FEED &SALE MADRAS, OREGON HWHHBJB STABLE I HOOD & STANTON (JIVE Your Orders Prompt Attention PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 0, G. COLLYER NOTARY PUBLIC JuhUoo of the Foaoo CVhVRll WECINCT CULVER OREGON HOWARD W. TURNER U. S. COMMISSIONER Transient Stock Given Best Of Feed And Care f (BsEl TMIS SPACE RESERVED FOR Madras State Bank NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE MADRAR ORKOON It. BNOOK PHYSICIAN & SURGEON qnicp n V:ag 8toro. "APR48 QRCOON J( H, IIAIIER "abstracter of titles NOTARY 1'UULIO Fire Jnnurnnoe, 1,1 fo Insurance, Surely Rondii Real Kilftto, Conveyancing I'RINKVIM.B, OREGON IBM mift 11 AS MARK J. ll. CHfllPBELU, Prop., JWADRHS BEEF, PORK, VEAL Wc hnvc the best line of Fresh Meats In the country ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON ET ' ' .. . . i . - NO. 3851 . The First National Bank OF PRINEVILLE, OREGON B.F. Aluck, rrcnldcnt, T. M. Baldwin, Culiicr. Will Wumweukr Vice Viet. If. Bammin, A it. Cashier. ESTABLISHED 1 Q88 Capital, Surplu and Uniitvldbd l'rodtn $1 00,000.00 A, M. WILLIAMS & GO. A. E. CROSBY EVERYTHING IN DRUGS & KODAKS THE DALLES, OREGON Exclusive Agent EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY For Rochester, N, Y. A full line of Pho to supplies always on hand. Printing and developing done. Mail orders will receive our prompt attention. Wrile for our new 1909 CATALOG Try a bottle of Alur- flne'H Edhiol Devel oper. Will develop any Plnte or Paper A. E. CROSBY I i ! 1 lWirJiliWWATOMIi DEAliKltB IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods HOOTS AND 8HOB8 HATS AND CArS THE DALLES ORECON iRIacksmilhing Plow Repairing, Wagon Work. A Specialty Of HORSESHOEING W. B.CHILDERS (Formerly The McELROY SHOP) , MADRAS, OREGON run i a i n mm mm wm mm m tm urn mm TOWN OTS, AND PERSONAL PROPERTY HANDLED BY D. W. BARNETT MADRAS, OREGON Offioo at Residenoo, South Main St, IilST OilTH CQE AT ROBINSON'S BIG STORE rice For WHEAT And BARLEY On Accounts And In Trade Paid A Big Liinc Of GENT'S FURNISHINGS, READY-MADE SUITS Special Discount On AH Summer Goods Oregon Trunk Officials Are Inspecting Work MAKE TRIP A-FOOT UP DESCHUTES TO FERR Gonoral Manegor Vlalts Madras Th Party Visits Construction Work On Crooked Rlvor Jackson Bmitli, vice-president nnd general rnonager pf the Oregon Trunk Line, Chief Engineer G. A. Kyle and Lqcating Engineer Jf. C. Baxter, also of flcials pf that line, were in Madras last Sunday, accompanied by Mr. Buck chjef pf construction for Porter Broth ere. Tho last three gentlemen "hoofed it" from Sherars Bridge up the Dee chutes canyon to Warmspring ferry. where they were met by General Mana ger Smith, whp had made tho trjp to' this section in art autompbjlp, and brought them to this city. They stayed over night In Madras and next morning continued on their trip to Bend, going via the construction camps on Crooked River, where they inspected the rail road work being done at the crossing over that stream, and also visited the engineering camps between Redmond and Bend. The Oregon Trunk officials returned to Madras Monday afternoon and in the evening departed, going North. Chief Engineer Kyle, who has only recently come to the work on the Hill road building into Central Oregon, is proving himself to be almost a past- master in the matter of pedestrianship as his trip a foot from the lower Des chutes to Warmspring ferry is only a duplicate of a hike hp took a few days ago from the ferry up the Deschutes to the Covo on Crooked River. A miscal culation of the distance on this trip combined with tho difficult walking caused Mr. Kyle and his companion to spend a night out in the open with short rations and no bedding, and only a camp fire to temper the night air. ' These trips a-foot aie presumed to be for the purpose of securing n personal knowledge of the surveys and the char acter of tho work which will be encoun tcred in the construction ot the Oregon Trunk, bo that when work is started at any given joint, it will proceed in a sya tcmatic minncr and with little delay. The construction of the Oregon Trunk Lino is largely composed of heavy, ex pensive work, much of which is in rock, and a specific knowledge of all the de tails is essential to an economic hand ling of the work. Tho recent trips ot the chief engineer and other officials of tho Oregon Trunk, between Madras and Trout Creek, prob ably mean that construction crews will shortly be placed between those points and that ere long grades of tho Hill road will he completed to Madras. JUDGE GEORGE H. WIL LIAMS IS IMPROVING Oldest Living Cabinet Officer Was A Pallbearer At Funeral Of President Lincoln J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON GENERAL MERCHANTS A1ADRAS, OREGtfN Rallying from a surgical operation periormed last Thursday morning at tho Good Samaritan hospital in Port land, Judge George II. Williams or that city, Oregon's most noted statesman and jurist, was reported in a condition lato that evening that forecasts a rapid and entire recovery from his present illness, which haB for the past week con siderably alarmed his relatives and friends. The attending surgeons inado an examination of the distinguished pa tient at 10 o'clock last Thursday night and announced his condition as encour- ging and favorablo. Tho cystotomio operation undcrennn by Judge Williams was successful be yond expectations Baid Uio physicians. Wore it not that Judge WilliamB, al though hged, has tho flro of youth in his veins and a well-preserved, strong con stitution, there would bo cause for alarm, It 1b very difficult, howovor, iu such a case, to determine whether or not his condition Is what It seems. There might come n change for tho worse any moment. In fact, such a chango in ordinary casea would bo ex pected, Tho prcsoht Illness grow out of a mal ady )u mild form of long standing. Al ter, participating in a me'otlng of tho Taft arrangement committee, of which ho was a member, Judge Williams wont Land Office Doesn't Grant- t.. m .1 l. till -!.,,J W ' - t ' J.' OT 1U UJIJ'M 111 CUUlifHUU JUIillWIjVlt MU" raal, when it was doclded an operation was necessary. Ho was removed tp Good Samaritan hospital Wednesday evening of last week. ghoujd, Judge Williams do at this tjrqp ft wopld record the passing of tho last of the men who acted as pallbearers at tho funeral of the martyred President Lincoln and the oldest living cabinet officer, having been Attorney General of the United States under President Grant. Bight Of Way OBSTRUCTIVE TACTICS HQT P0UNTNPE9 EQUIP1HG SURVEYING PARTIES EXCITES BURNS I Southern Extensions, Subsidiary To, arflman Interests, Hog fjo flights In Cgnyon Much speculation baa been caused at Bums, in Harney Cpunty, by an order whjch was placed recently with a hard ware firm of that place for camp stoves and outfits for 2Q men and requests for similar equipments for five mpre camps. The order was placed by County Sur veyor Faulkner pf JIarney County, who refuses to disclose the forces behind the movement. Ifo came in from Ontario last week with Colonel Wood of Tort land and WUiatp Hanley, who assisted some days ago in organizing a branch company of the Coos Bay & Boise pro ject, and many are associating the coun ty surveyor's order with these men, but Wood and Hanley are out of town and cannot be reached. It is also thought possible the parties may represent John F. Stevens, as they were in conference with him last week. Harry Hunter ol Lakcvlew, perma nently connected with a land grant com pany, and accredited with intimacy with Mr. Stevens, insists that it all means the beginning of the end of liar ney County's railroad isolation. COLUMBIA SOUTHERN TQ RESUME BUSINESS T. W. Clark of Oregon City, acting president of the Columbia Soutern Irri gation Company, successor to the Three Sisters Irrigation Company, which sue cessfully defended before Federal Judge Bean the suit of the State to cancel its contract for putting water on 27,000 acres in Crook County under the Carey Act, has issued a call for a meeting of the stockholders of the company to be held today. A receiver for the company's proper ties was uppointed two years ago, and since that time the stockholders have had no connection with them, and they will now meet to consider their vindica tion in the courts and ways and means to complete their project. Although the Department of the Interior lias sesrre gated 27,000 acres from the domain at the request of the company, only 12,000 has been patented to the state, because the showing of adequate water was only made on that amont. The contract with the aovernment waa made in 1903. and as tho law gives tho company ten years to put water on the land, it is un derstood that the company will ptoceed .1 - 1 I . - - - 10 ueveiop me project. MADRAS STATE BANK ELECTS FIRST OFFICERS A meeting of the poreons desiring to take stock in the now banking institu Hon which will bo located at Madras and which will bo known as the Mad ras State Rank, was held yesterday af ternoon, and a general routine of busi ness was transacted. Tho capitulation of tho concern was fixed at $15,000. which it is understood will be increased in the near future. A board of directors was elected con sisting of J. M. Conklin, Max Putz. J. 0, Robinson and Robert Rea. J. M. Conklin was elected president and gen eral manager and 0. E. Roush. vien president. Arrangements were mado for taking up tho capital stock as tho final papers aro accented bv tlm state bank examiner, the bank will Open itfl doors for ImsinosR it was decided that nn nnnn nq nrnMi. ueiurat urecon. l.i i i ...mi 7T". V.I.UIU oiujiu uuuuing wouia be erected m wnicu to nouso tho banking business. Harriman plans in the J)esohules can: ' . ii L ... yon received anotner unjomung diow . Friday by tho decision of the Commls sinner of the General Land Office, at Washington, D. C, refusing a right p( way franchise to the Southern Exten sions Railway, saya last Satprday's Tel? egram. This wag the company whicl W. W. Cottpn, gpncral counsel for Hr- riman interests here, admitted in, court had been purchased by his peqple ag a guarantee of some route in tho Dear chutes canyon, Hill interests freely charged the Harriman people with hav ing organized thp company in the first instance, and with Using it to. obstruct; all rivals in the canyon. The articles of incorporation for tho Southern Exten sions provided no sane traffic terminal. It was clearly intended U secure only a section of the Deschutes canyon, oa it neither reached the Columbia oil the North nor any good traffic center of Central Oregon on the South. Whoever organized the company, it is asserted, could have bad no other purpose than holding up one or tho other of the two, big riyat popcerna that Mfeje tjien. sur veying up the canyon As the Southern Extensions surveys fitted into those of the Deschutes Rail; road Cqmpany, and were in conflict with those qf the Oregon Trunk Line, .tho inference was immediately drawn tba$ the fragmentary rqad backed by Harriman interests. Certain alleged, connections of the incorporators with Harriman concerns strengthened, tho conclusion, until the attorneys fo; ihp , Oregon Trunk openly charged the Soqthr em Extensions with being a tfarrimdn, enterprise, and with having po moro" legitimate cause for existence than blocking any rival line that dared tq opr pose the Deschutes Railway, lip, Oo . ton stated in court that hia company had bought the Southern Extenslona with the purpose of taking advantago of whatever aids might be found in their work. The (aeneral Land Office decision susi tains the Hill contention, that tho Southern Extensions baa np legitimate existence. When its application wa. filed for right of way across government lands, the office waa disposed to accept it in good faith. After Mr. Cotton adi mitted in court that the new concern was owned by his people, thp Commis sioner took another view of the South ern Extensions, which ia expressed in the refusal of the General Land Office to grant right of way over government lands to the Southern Extensions RalL way. Tho Southern Extensions will bo allowed 30 days in which to show causo why its application Bhould not here jected by ronsoo of the conflict between its said line and the right of way grant ed to the Oregon Trunk Line. While the Southern Extensions com. pany had outlined a right of way of sev- oral miles in length, to give its exist ence some semblance of leuitiraacv. in fact, surveys had been mado for only a a few miles of track in tho Horseshoe Bend district of the Deschutes canvon. and tho conflict with the Oregon Trunk surveys is said to have been for only about five miles. The decision of tho Commissioner removes another ol tho blocks that have been interposed, and brings tho Deschutes situation one step noaror the day when there will be it clear field for one or all of the compa nies that desire to construct a lino into NOTED RAILROAD CONTRACTOR DIES Spokano, Wash., Sept. 10. Dennis D. Twohy, a raihoad contractor, died this aftomoon at hia homo after an Illness of seven montliB. Ho was 74 years old. Until five years ago ho had lpng been a resident of Anaconda. Ills railroad contracting firm has con structed railroadB and parts of railroads all ovor the West, inchullncr h mountain sections of tho Great North- urn and Northern Pacific, as well im a portion of the Snoknno. Inrt1 mill t' Kn. attlo Lino. Dennis TwOhv was a hmtii fir nf Hm Twphy Brothers, who now havo the contract for buildlnc the Delina Railroad, the Harriman lino constructed into Centrul Oregon, WORK PROGRESSING ON POWER DAM Rend, Or., Sept. 20. Tho first Des chutes water power to bo made use of is being harnessed ot Bend. For several months a dam has been in courso of construction across tho river dlrecilv by tho town, which, when completed, will harness tho first thousand 9! tho million horsepower with which the Des chutes is credited. Tho danf is being built by A. M. Drake of Portland, who hau oxtenBivo real estate and gonoral interests in and around Bond, and when completed will be used for tho generation of electricity for city lighting and variouB power pur poses. LaHt week u crew of Italians' wero imported from Portland, local la bor being difficult to obtain,