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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1910)
Madras T II VOL VI MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY t. ,91 NO. 22 Pioneer rie nifrnv LI w tn T y 44 FEED' &SALE MADRAS, OREGON STABLE I HOOD & STANTON aiVE Your Orders Prompt Attention - " I ' III i 1 1 1 II 1 1 i u i in ii Transioni Stock Given Best Of m And Qare .uiji J ij 1. 1 i ii i n 1111 M i in i in ii ii n rnnnrnrfTni ( t n 1 1 1 1 n ttt1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 0, C. COLLYEfl NOTARY PUBLIC Justico of tbo Fonoo CULVER OREGON Howard w. turner U. S. COMMISSIONER NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE caJ! tn tti ! J- iml wt I.HJ Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money transmitted to nil parts of United States and Canada J. M. Conklin, President and Gen, MnV ; C E. Rouih, Vice-Pieident lililKi'TOIIB: C. K. Kouih, M. I'uU, J. C. ltolilwwn, Itoht. Hon, J. M. Conklln .mill Hill MB BW BII Ml ! PM i ' Win M MADItAB OIIKUON w. II. HNOOK PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Ollco In D:uu Store. MADRAS OREGON Dr. c. s. newsom PHYSICIAN & SURQEON AT ItKIt CHOPS DIIUCIHTOItr. All Oalls Answered Proraply, Day or Night MADRAS, OREGON t MADRAS MEAT MARKET Campbell, Stroud & Co., Props. Wholesale and Retail Dealers PEESH jAJ&nD CURED MEATS We linve the best line of Fresh Aleats In the country J( H. HANER ABSTRACTER OF TITLES notary runuc Klro Insurance, Life Insurance, Surety Bonds Real Estate, Conveyancing PRINEVILLE, OlfEQON ALL RINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON he alifornia Wine Co SHANIKO, OREGON Anw'ti'icfH the opening In Sluuitko of n wholesale anil mail order li'iimo, which handle nothing but li.milcil liquors ami high grmlo Ciilifunilii wlmw nt the name prlco charged by city wholesaler. Tin- llrui innintnlim no bar and does no retail business further than t give Its until order customer a iiuniutecl service of quality and lioihtiiu-s. Give us u trial and be convinced. SPECIAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS BARGAIN No. 1 , One quart buttle California lirandy, or D-jmiMild whisky 0 e quart bottle I rt Wine Or e quart untile Hherry V(iui Oiiii quart bottle Muscatel Wlno All Ftir $2.50 BARGAIN No. 2 Sherry Wine, SJ.W) a gallon, M usoittol Wine, 82 a gallon, A fi-yoar-old HiiiiiIioii Wills ky, $a a gallon All For $6.00 A FINE OLD PORT WINE, $1.50 A GAL. ail orders eriven Dromnt and c ose attention. oods sealed and packed in good condition. hen you are in bhaniko, look for the barrel in front. Warren Smith PROPRIETOR Elite Tonsorial Parors NO LONG WAITS BATHS MADRAS, ORE. -nj. NO. 3851 . The First National Bank OF PRINEVlLLE, OREGON 0. F. ALLEK, President. T. M. BAI.PWIK, Cashier. Will WunzivElLEH Vice Prei, II. IUldivin, Aust. Coibier. ESTABLISHED 1888 Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $1 00,000.00 A. M. WILLIAMS & GO. DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods HOOTS AND 81I0EB HAT8 AND CAPS THE DALLES ORECON ESTRAY NOTICE-Came to my place Oot 10, two oowa branded i L on both 2 C on left side Perry Read, Cul ver, Oregon. (123 SUCCESSOR TO J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON Store will be open for busioess on or before WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19 WATCH THIS SPACE FOR NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT MADRAS, ORE. Central Oregon Country Has Lengthy Winter UNPRECEDENTED FALL OF MOISTURE REOORQED Precipitation ApproxlmntolySlxlncho -fRqcord Crops Next Harvest AqiDRt Aesurod Jfaurna and the Willow Creek Basin has bepn cp.criencjng one of the most eevere winters for many years. Some of the old residents say that it beats all records, lor length, in about twenty years past. It is now going into the seventh wecik since tle flrat heavy snow fall, which was about ! inches at that time, and during this time the Local Weather Obeerver reports that the in atruments have recorded 25. degrees be low zero as the coldest, and several other nights it has been 10 and 12 de grces below, lne total deptli ot enow which has fallen since December 2, 1009, to the present timo aggregates 33 inches While the Win .cr this season is ex tremely long and apparently has not yet ended, the severity of the cold is not nearly so great as list Winter, when the thermometers registered 30 qr more de grees below zero. During the last fall of the year 1009, Northern Crook County has received an abundant amount of rainfall daring the months of October, November and De cember, which has amounted in all to about 0 inches. This hat insured plenty of moihturo for the winter sowing of urain, but owing to the early freeze-up, many of the farmers had not all finished their seeding. However, many antici pate an early spring which will enable them to get their crops in the ground in duo teason. And, heretofore, in seasons of exceptional moisture like the present, Spring sown grain has made excellent crops, although as a rule in this seption Spring sown grain neither yields so well nor is of as good quality as grain sown in the Fall. PriceB for all kinds of grain, hayj feed and country produce are good, in conse quence of the two railroads now build ing into this section, and tho present outlook for bountiful crops insures the farmers a rich harvest from their pro duce during the year 1010. And, the assurance that any surplus they may have this year will bo taken to outside markets by rail transportation, is a great incentive for tho farmers to get all the land possible under crop, by which their revenue will aleo be materially increased. OREGON TRUNK GIVEN CLEAR RIGHT-OF-WAY Washington, D. C, Jan. C The Gen eral Land Office has denied the motion for reviow of the decision rejecting the Deschutes Railroad Company's map covering about 13 miles of road extend ing from section 8, tp 7 s, r 14 e, to sec tion 32, tp 8 s, r 14 o. mis, it is understood, is tue last con flict between tho maps of the Oregon Trunk and Deschutes Ilailroad and al lows the Oregon Trunk, over this section, to build exclusively on its right of way as approved last Summer. In viow of the fact that both com panies admitted the road could be built -llil U uf TUCKER & GULP Horseshoeing and General Blacksmithing j WAGON AND PLOW WORK First-Class Wort Guaranteed Located J?i the old liroolss shop MADRAS, OREGON j.M -um mi iin n nil im mi m iiiiaiiiuu , UIVL.UUI1 A. E. PETERSON I Watchmaker Tim and Jeweler! Jewelry of all kind$ made to or- der and repaired. Settingi for J Precious Stones made, FIRST-CLASS WORK GUARANTEED Incorporation n m m. i t I GITY OFFICERS ! ALSO ELECTED Election JANUARY 31, 19I0 PA cither bank of the Deschutes a, his point, tho Land OfTlco held that he Ijarnman road,, being the last to apply fpf right qf way, should be required to b,ulld p,n the ppposite tank of tha,t pn wntcn tne Oregon xrunk already lio,s a right pf way. , 4onn F. Stevens, president of the Qre gon Trupk Hqe, who is in Washington looking after the affairs of his road, is urging the early passage of the Ellis bill giving his company the right to bridge the Columbia River and Celllo Canal, near the mouth of the Deschutes River. He says plans for a $1,500,000 bridge have been prepared, and the approval of the plans and the authority to build is all tht is necessary bofore the contracts are let. As it requires about two years o build the bridge he is anxious to start. Rep resentative Ellis will ask the inter-state commerce committee to promptly report the bill, and at the first opportunity, he will call it up for passage through the House. There scems'no question but what the bill will pass, as it is in the usual form, and the necessity for the bridge is ap parent, in that the Oregon Trunk is to connect with the North Bank road' The bill requires the construction of a bridge that will not impede navigation on the river or the canal. Stevens said today his road had now won out on everything they hail pending before the Interior Department and are absolutely clear so far as a right of way over Government land is concerned. DOUBLE-TRACKING OF 0. R. & N. LINE BEGUN Oregonian What is understood to be the first step in the double tracking of the 0. R. & N. line between Portland and Huntington was taken yesterday, when authority was given for double tracking the road between The Dalles and Deschutes, a distance of 17 miles. Recently the O. R. it N. let the con tract for straightening the line between the two points, and it is presumed that tho decision having been reached to double track to Huntington, both the line change and the additional tracklay ing could be accomplished at saving of expense over construction of tho two improvements seperately. The line change and double tracking will cost considerably more than J1;000,OOQ. It is also hinted that mail contracts are at stake in a contest now waging be tween the ureat Isorthcrn and the Har- riman iNortnwest system. Tne trreat Northern is eaid to be asking the Gov ernment for the Portland mail, intend ing to divert it from its fast mail train now in operation at Spokane and via the North Bank to Portland. Tho Great Northern, according to re ports, has declared that the Puuei Sound mail tonnage alone is not sufficient to warrant the continuation of tho fast mail train. The Harriman line is also operating a fast mail train, but it is rec ognized that improvements are neces saiv to keeD pace with tho strenuous competition that Hill is now giving on mail-carrying and other sorvice. The (louule-tracklnK ot tho U. It. & N., it is also understood, will be carried on in conjunction with other line changes, which will eliminate many curves and grades and shorten the line J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON DISPOSE OF BUSINESS The firm of J. C. & M. A. Robinson of this city has this week comploted tho sale of its storo and mercantile business to thgjCentral Oregon Mercantile Com pany, which is composed of R. T. Olson of Seattle, as goneral managor, who is associated with other Seattle ge'ntlomen. The firm of J. W. & M. A. Robinson was established at Ashwood in 1898 and removed to Madras in 1005 where it was merged into J. W. & M, A. Robinson k Co., and was conducted under that head for about two years, until tho spring of 1907, when it was reorganized into & co partnership, being called J, 0. & M. A. Robinson. Tiie business of this com nnnv. .becun in comparatively, small quarters and limited stock, has grown to ono ot tiio representative nna ooit stocked mercantile houses in the inte rior with customers throughout Central Oregon. Tho now firm comes to Madras well recomraonded, and tho patrons of this storo are assured a continuation of tbo courtesies heretofore shown, Chief Forestgr Pincliot Is "Fired'' Dispatch tp. QregpniafT Washington, D. 0., J(an. 7- Giffor.d Pinchot, chief forester and intimate; friend of Preident Roosevelt, ws dq misgod tonight from the service of tho, United States' by President Taft for in subordination. Associate Forester Over ton Y Price and Assistant Law Officer. Aleapder C. 8haw, Pinchot's immedi ato aqsetants i$ the Forestry Bureau, follow tbpir chipf out of Goyernment employ. Thoroughly Jpdignant over tho action, of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Senator Dol liver to read a letter from him in the, Senate yesterday, President Taft today would listep to no advice that the for ester's violation of Executive orders bo, overlooked pending the inquiry soon tq be undertaken by Congress. Ho declared tho dignity of the Eresj-. dential office was being attacked and bp. ould be unfaithful tp. h;s trust f p submitted longer. Mr. Taft qndo.qbtedly realizes fully, what the dismissal of Forester Pinchofc means in a pph'tjeal way. He hag been, convinced, ffjf SORIQ tjmp. tha, the so called t'insiwgepts'' and thp qthpr crit ics of his administration had enlietec the services of Mr. Pinchot and practi cally were defying him to dismiss Pin chot from office. The lather's letter of yesterllay, few here $opbt, was written, with the direct purpose of "putting it equarely up to the President." Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, Pint chot's immediate superior, it appears, wag one of the forester's chief accusers. He told President Taft that he advised Mr. Finchqt not tq sppd he Jetter tq Senator Polliver; that Rinchpt tpd him, he had such a letter in mipd, and ''cpuld. induce Senator D,olliyer" to read it op. the day that President Taft's special message transmitting the 4ttorpey-Gen- cral's exoneratiop qf Ssepretary Balljngec was to be presented tP the Spp.gtp. It was this story of Mr. Pinchot's ap? pareqtly calculated, insubordination thrjt raised the President to thp epiegt rpi sentment- The letter directing Secretary Wilsofl to dismiss the Forester forthwith wad carefully franked in thp afternoop sjttinj of the Cabinet and was feyijed seyeral times before finally beipg rnadp pnpjjp, It is the President's own etatpipent qf the case. "Sir By direction of the President you are hereby removed from your office as Forester You will deliver possession of your office affairs belonging to the Government to Mr, Albert F. Potter, Assistant Forester, COUNTY COURT NEWS Tax lavy . 1908 o a-xo 3 11-t 1-20 15 1-: Petition for incorporation qf Madras as a city approved. Election set for Jan. 81, 1010, at which voters can vote for or against incorporat ing and also vote for Mayor, Recorder, Treasurer, Marshal and 6ix alderman. Plat of sub-diviBion of certain purta of Palmain ( Madras ) approved, Plat of Madras approved. Plat of Mayfair, being an addition to Madras, approved. Tax levy; for curront year General County 4Stato 9 mills School . a a , Ucnoral Road, (except i'rlnevlllo) 32.10 " High School, except Dis.12 1M " Library - - 1.20 " Total levy it 1-2 mills The County Road Fund, General School Fund, County High School Fund and Library Funds each have small bal ance. on hand. Tho Goneral County Fund is in good condition considering the fact that tho new County Court-house building is en tirely paid for. However, tho general running expenses of tho County and tho fall payment of the State tax ( about $8,000 1 havo necessitated registering warrants to tho ainouut of about fl'J,- 000.00; Ecalp bounty warrants to tho amount of about $900.00 havo also been registered. Tho payment for the furni ture and vault fixtures amounting to about $4,300.00 comes duo in 1010, Crook County's proportion of tho Stato tax this year is $17,454.31. The follow ing ,sumnary shows tho amount that must be raised for the General Fund : State tax - - f 17,451.31 Kugluterod warrants 13,000 ltenlaturcl warrant, tcalu bounty 900 Furnlturo ami fixtures 4,300 Total, J35.G5l.31 It is assumed that taxes will bo actu- ally collected on about $7,400,000 and at 0 mills this will amount to $0(5,000, thus leaving about $30,040.00 for sala ries, supplies, paupers, expepsea of elections, two terms of tho Circuit Court J current expenses, etc,