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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1909)
-.J " -.'I MADRAS, OROOK COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1909. NO. 18 jrioneer 4.1UV11 Uv7 volTvi LIVERY, & SALE MADRAS, OREGON STABLE - HOOD & STANTON OIVU Your Orders Prompt Attention Transient Stock Given Best Of Feed And Care PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Qa G. GOLLVER NOTARY 'PUBLIC Grqaf War For Traffic Is Predicted Juatioo of tho Podoo OVUVIM PUKdJKCT CULVER OREGON Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money transmitted to all port of United Statci and Canada J. M. Conllin. Pretldent and Gen, Min'rri C, E. Rmiih, Vice.Pjeiidenl PIltKtTOItS. C. H. Houih, Sf. I'uU, J.'C. liuhlnioii, llojit. Ilea, J. M, ;onklln fjOWARO W, TURNER U. S. COMMISSIONER NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE ifAMJAB OIiEOON RIVAL RAILROADS ARE TfJE ANTAGONISTS j Report Say Oregon Trunk Will Make Agaropalvo MovoToSoQVrg Tho Lion's Shro w. If. BNOOK PHYJIjCIAN & SURGEON Office Id Drue Store. . MAQRA8 OEKOON MADRAS MARKET J. Ii. CflCnPBELtli, PfOp., JWflDfffJS BEEF, PORK, VEAL 1 ( We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country ... 4U, KINDS Of ttAKUEN YiiupiAbLtS IN THBIH H f J( H- HANER ABSTRACTER OF TITLES f.y NOTARY rUBWO .' . ,li Flrojiutfrftnwi, T.lfo Inurajjcfi, Surety Bond ' Ket Estate, COnvoynnoIn i' I'lUXKVIl.T.B, . ' 'OHKOON NO. 3BB1. The First National Bank OF PRINEVILLE, OREGON .0. V. Alleu, Pretldent, T. If. Baldwin, Cfliblcr. Will Wumwkii.k Vice Prc, II. Baldwin, Ait. Cashier. ESTABLISHED 1 BBS Capital,. Hurpliu and Undivided I'roflu 51 00.000.00 lie California Wine Co. SHANIKO, OREGON Ann unco the opening In Shaniko of h wholesale and mall order li 'iim, which handle nothing but bonded liquor am! high grnilo California wliii'(k at tho snnto price charged by city wholesaler, llic llrm iiinlntnliifi n Imr nnd doe no retail business further thnn t ave itH m ill older fiiiHtomori n guaranteed service of quality unit liomitiif!s. Gvu Uit n trial iimi bo convinced. SPECIAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS BARGAIN No.J , Onsqiwrt l)..tn. (lullforjIH UminJyl I'rjMciir olil whWky 0 quart liottlu I'.irt Wlno 0 eiinnrt noun? Hliurry Wlno Oaeiliurthotth) Muscatel Wlno All For $2.50 PARGAIN No. 2 KIkjio Wine, 81.60 n gallon, JWiiMiutoi Wluc, 2 n gn'lnii, A 8-jmir-)i liutti boit Whis ky, S3" gallon All For. $6.00 A FINE OLD PORT WINE, 3 GAL $6 Mail orders given prompt and close attention. Goods sealed and packed in good condition. When you are in Shaniko, look for the barrel in front. A. M, WILLIAMS & CO, DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods HOOTS AND 8II0E8 HATS AND CAM THE DALLES ORECON DROP IN AND SEE tap & Powel DEALERS IN Soft Drinks OP ALL Imported And Domestic CIGARS Loucks Building M'ADRAS, ORE. WE HAVE more buyers for farm hindu thau wo have on our Hats. 1'lcaau cull at our ofllco if you desire to sell. Vim Tussol Laud Co. Portland Telegram Although, the tracery pi steel will not bo seen, nor the throb, of engifto and rumble of -wheels heard in Oregon for fully eight months the warfare for bus iness between tho Hill and Ilarrjman roads will be inaeurated within tile next . j fi j j 30 days. The keenest of freight traffic men in the Great Northern eorvico are to be the vanguard flf fonnngo hunters that vll rrjuke thaf. inexhaustible em pire their pampjrjg gtound. Prepara tions arp oyen now under way to dis patch a force flf frpgh rustlerB njl througn that territory. That it will be a picturesque battle, no one would undertake to denv. for. the entire (30,000 square miles of fructifer ous country that has lain dormant ever since Oregon became a state has, been looked Upon by the Ilarriman interests as their exclusive domain, though they have never undertaken to develop its re sources until forced to do so by the ag gressive invasion by their rival. James J. Hill. This will mesh without any question of doubt that as soon as the Great Northern traffic department seeks to contract for freight out of tiie lnnd of "milk and honey" which the Oregon Trunk Lino will tap, the 0. Jl. & N. will move its men into tho territory trilm. tary to the tlew fleschus Baijroad. Clashes in the struggle to Jand pie pre ponderance of this business are pre sumed to be inevitable. But one great factor stands out potently in favor of the Oregon Trunk. It was tho first to lay and carry out the plans for blading the bafflincr trail into the waiting wilder- ness, and this has developed the strong est possible sentiment among the Btock mon, farmers, mining and timber inter ests in Middle Orejrou in its favor. But more important and sicnitkiant than this, if you please, was another master stroke conceived and executed by James J. Hill only a couple of months ago. It was a play that the people of Central Oregon themselves readily admit will contribute a creat deal toward bringing the greatest tonnage to the Hill lino when It is ready to accept business. This was tho offer of $1000 in prizes mode personally by Mr. Hill for th region tributary to his roads that could make tho best showing vi products rais ed in dry-farming belts nt tho annual Dry-Farming Congress recently held at Billings, Mont. When this set of competitive awards was announced, Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern, notified the Great Northern traffic men in Portland to spare no cxpenso in collecting the best line of exhibils that possibly could bo gathered out of tho Deschutes Val ley, Several freight agents hastened to Central Oregon In automobiles, and they annvassed tho entfro region which gains its sustenance through dry-farming, and when tho results of their labor were placed in tho exposition hall at Billings, they swept everything before thorn, winning tho day against other sections which have been well populated apd ex tcnsiyoly developed for inany yckre, pot oniv through cultivation but t irotiK i railroad huildincr. No achievement which this itato has e von won 1ms meant maro for tho futtirp upbuilding of en empiro than did thja one fact, demonstrating, as t did, that only the provision of transportation fa' duties which would open up the mar kets of tho world, was needed to convert a now desolate desert into qnp of the richest producing sections n JJ).o pnitod Btates. Immediately after tho decision at Hillings, which tneapt so much far tho interjor of Oregon, tho jreat Nqrr',crn entered into negotiations with practi cally all Of tho dry-farmipg exhibjtors from tho Deschutes Valley witii a view of having them particjpajp in the 100 congress on a much larger scale than was dono last October. t all means that Central Oregon, which is to be opened up for eager mar kets of the world by two practically par allel and rival railroads by the first of next August, js to be the greatest traffic battle ground upon which Hill and his ancient enemy have ever locked horns. Although II. A. Jnckson, assistant general piesenger agent of the Great Northern, njeets thp issue evasively, it is ajnpef. an established fact that he was brpjg))t in Portland to take charge of the Hill forces in the forthcoming strug gle. Jackson engineered the collection of the prige-winning exhibit; ho is a close personal friend of both President Louis Hill, of the Great Northern, and of President John F. Stevens, of the Oregon Trunk Line, the Great Northern line up the Deschntes Canyon. Dig Hay m Ranch Will Be Sold RANGE RESTRICTIONS ' ' RUINS BIO BUSINESS, Conearya.torj policy Of Government ttfpko Shep Ranch Unproflt ajlpWll pjsconjjnop BLASTING WRECKS RANCHER'S HOUSE News has reached here ot the wreck ing Of thp J)qnse of 3Ir. and 3Jrs. Wil liam William8, pear Hunt's Ferry last week, in a peculiar manner, says the Shaniko Star. The workmen of Porter Brothers at Copenhagen camp had prepared a "coy ote hole" blast and notified the Wil liams lamily, who lived 000 feet away on tho opposite side of the Deschutes River, to seek a place of greater safety from possible falling debris. Mrs. Wil liams told the men in charge that her husband was sick and could not be moved that day and said, she would not allow the charge to be exploded at that time. When she saw the men continu ing their preparations regardless of her protests, she seized her husband's ride and declared she would shoot the first man who attempted to fire the blast. The contractors waited until the next morning, when the sick man had been removed, and ' then fired the charge. The hole had been loaded with several thousands of powder, but it Jailed to rend the rocky bluff- Instead, it "back ed out" tho main tunnel and hurled a largo bouldor with terrific force straight across tho river and into the Williams home, smashing the bed recehtly vacat ed by tho sick man. No one was in jured. Porter Bros, immediately set a force of men to work and repaired the damage to the house and contents. MAY AN ENTRYMAN FILE UPON 480 ACRES? fi ROBINSON'S BIC STORE fiifis - Your Attention IS CALLED TO THIS SPACE. December 23 Horseshoeing and I General Blacksmithing WAGON AND PLOW WORK First-Class W Gnaranteefl Located in tho utd Jirnoha shon MADRAS, OREGON J. c ROBINSON MADRAS, 0REQ0N GENERAL . MERCHANTS -an Warren Smith PROPRIETOR Tonsorial Parlor BATHS 4i"'M-irtliai.INMlanwMn.Mwti4 Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 24. A ruling by the Secretary, of the Interior in a local case, appearing completely to nuli fy an important rule heretofore enforced as to tho area of tho desert land the en tryman ultimately is entitled to, has been received by tho register of the Los Angeles land office. It is held that "one who holds land under an unperfected desert land entry is not the proprietor thereof within the meaning of the stat ute holding disqualified to mako home stead entry one who is the proprietor of more than 100 acres of land." This apparently indicates that, though an entryman has made an entry of 100 acres of land, ho still may tako a full 320 acres of desert land instead of the 100 acres heretofore permitted. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH FOR THE DALLES The Dalles will have a wireless tele. graph station in tho near futuro. Tho ofllco will be stationed in thetnain lobby ot uio umattlla uouso on Front Street, and a 200-foot transmitting tower will bo erected, below that hostolrv on the beach, Tho United Wireless chmmnv fn n,A I .- t niw firm which is constructing tho annum. tus and will bo in charco of the atntinn. The workmen are now busy preparing tho polo, which will bo bvar 200 feet in height, being in three gectiohti Ti.n I Dalles Ohronlcle. The famous Haycreek sheep ranch, located jn Cenlral Oregon and one of the. largest and best-known sheep rancne in the United States, has been force out of business on account of tho For estry Bureau's policy of conserving tho, forest reserves. J. G Edwapds, ownec of the famous ranch of ifr.OOQ acres, said yesterday tnat he had been forced to tho. wall by the Government's policy, and he had decided to cut up tho big ranch and sell it, says Sunday's Oregonun, Several ypars ago Mr. Edwards came( to Orpgon from Wyoming, whero he ha4 a range jrith ljOO.QOO sheep, the largest in thp ponntry. Jfe eejecfed flay Crpek as jdeaj for a sheep connfry, epf4 his,' Wyoming interests and started jthp big. establishment in Central Oregon -In,' 1900 lie had 40,000 head of sheep, which he wintered on Ids 27000-acre ranch anil winch he kept on the range in the Govr ernment forest reserve in the Summer months. That year the Forestry Bqreaa, in it policy of conservation, cut Edward's al lowance of range to a territory sufficient for only 24,000 sheep. Mr. Edward's' sold a Jprge number qf obeep ahd con tinued. In 1003 carne another order fop a 40 per cent cut, but th3 was foqght hard by Mr. Edwards, who had it modi fied to 25 per cent, and he was permit? ted to continue with I7.SOO Imnrl of sheep on the range. A few days ago he. received notice of further reductionvof 30 per cent in his range allotment, arii now that he can give range to only 12.260 head of sheep he has decided Iq retire from business, asserting that unc less the sheep business is carried Pn & gigantic scale it cannot be a success. "It is the Government's policy HgH through which has forced ttm out of tfiQ game," said Mr. Edwards, at the port land Hotel. "I cannot continue in bus iness with this small bunch of shqep on, the big ranch, and now all I can do is to sell out." Mr. Edwards believes that the For estry Bureau policy is bad, not only fop him but for the-state and country afc large. It could have no other effect, ha said yesterday, thau to drive great inr dustries, such as ho has built up In Cert-, tral Oregon, out of existence. He had, created a ranch which had become fam- ous the country over, was a model it; every detail and one of tho great pro ducers of tho state. There was no ex pense to which he would not go to build up his line Of sheep, he said, and ho im ported rams costining thousands of dol. lars and by systematic breeding pro duced a sheep which had wool from its nose to its hoofs, the only sheep of its kind in its existence. Recently, in anticipation of tho death of his business in Central Oregon, Mr. Edwards has been investing heavily in Portland real estate and in ihe last few months has made three purchases ag gregating $145,000. One of these pur chases he made last wek, when iio bought a quarter block on the corner of Grand Avenue and Belmont Street fop S3500. v SURVEYING CREWS HAVE FINISHED WORK Burns, Or., Dec. 7. The four survey, ing crews that huve been working thd past three months in tho Malheur can yon in tho Eastern part of Harney and Western part of Malheur Counties have been called in and the men paid off, Theso are the crews employed by Colo nel C. E. S. Wood and William Hanley; out it is supposed they represent the Oregon Trunk in tho preliminary work for a branch road across tho Btato and tho cessation of Work at this time is be cause the strategic points through the Malheur canyon have been secured and there is no longer reason for hurry. Tho Woods-IIanloy people and their ehgl neer in charge have surrounded their . movements with mysterv. It is known that valuable tracts of land havo been bought from private owners, ami other large tracts havo been entered with Northern Pacific Railroad scrip along tho Malheur River, and rights of way havo been obtained, -eo that now. wlm nvnr nnmnanti i t.i. 1-. .i lift tVtnriHn. 11 1 m 4 -"iHM w,v mvu um, ii, is uuro oi a cooa out the higher mont,jt is sure of a good out the ic-wi Malheur Volley. td ir leveli o! Harney County'