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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1910)
,.l The Madras Pioneer hi vi MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 21, 1910. NO. 49 -M Mill- u mi J ua i b- Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON S TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money transmitted to all parts ol United State and Lanada i m, Conklin, Pre!dcnt nd Gen. MangM C. E. Rowh, Vice-Pieiident pIlticc'TOKS; C. K, HouhIi, M. Put, J. 0. ItUbllUOll, Kobt. Ilea, J. M. Couklln MMid c 9 a 4 he GaliTornia wine to. SHANIKO, OREGON Announces tho opening In Shnnlko of a mall order linusc which handles nothing but bonded liquors and high grade C'ftlifnriiin wines at tho Hamo prices charged by city wholesalers. The linn maintains no bar and does no retail IiuhIiiohh further than to give Its mall order customers a guaranteed service of quality and promptness. Give us a trial and bo convinced. A FEW SPECIALS BARGAIN No. 1 Dno quart bottle Cullfornla Ilrandy, or B ycnr old whisky r .... I.Mllfl I'irt Wllllt ione quart bottle Sherry Wine UllCqiliiri DOllie niuiwnmi u m All For $2.50 BARGAIN No. 2 Sherry Wine, SI .50 a gallon, .Utiseate-I Wine, S2 a gallon, A 6-year-old lloiirbon Whis ky, S3 a gallon . All For $6.00 Iw MADRAS ell Dr illingCo. I (INQUIRE AT PIONEER OFFICE imnme noennu e iiwiwii w win nmmm ARTESIAN AND SURFACE WELLS DEPTH GUARANTEED E8TIMATES FURNISHED IA FINE OLD PORT WINE, $1.50 A GAL iil orders given prompt and close attention. jods sealed and packed in good condition. hen you are in Shaniko, . look for the barrel in front. Red Cross DRUG STORE MADRAS, ORE. Expert Experienced Registered Pharmacists to fill your Prescriptions. SYLVAN Toilet Soap The soap with a sentiment Odors of Violet, Carnation, Heliotrope, Rose, Clematis, Lilac Sandalwood 10c per Cake 25c per Box Watch our specials. They will save you money. REE! HAND DECORATED 10 Dinner Sets GIVEN 'AWAY Absolutely FREE to uur Customers! A LARGE CLOCK which is on exhibition at this stofe, will be wound up the face of this clock is covered and it will be allowed to run down and stop every two weeks. With Every Cash Purchase of $1.00 wc will give a card this card will be stamped with a special tun. , i'he card also states a certain time when you are to present it at this store. On the time specified all persons holding cards for this date will present their cards at the time indicated, the face of the clock will be then uncovered, and the person holding a card which time is nearest to that of the lime when the clock stops, gets this beautiful present absolutely free. We Will Give Away a great many of these presents, so if your card docs not win at the first uncovering of the clock, do not throw it awayf save it. You may win on it the next time or the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, or some future time. Save your cards. Our Prices will remain as heretofore, the lowest our quality as always, will be the best. The purpose of this distribution will be to please our old trade and weliope will enable us to have some of you who never dealt with us to give us a trial. It is simply a profit sharing idea that's all. Will you call at our store and see the presents and get further particulars. Central Oregon Mercantile n an UP ! G 0 II ipany : R. T. OLSON, Manager MADRAS, - - OREGON FILED FALSE STATEMENT Say Crook Favors New County MADRAS CLUB PROTEST Feeling That "Deschutes" County Will Surely Be Defeated When Voters Learn Truth. voters of tho State to vote against tho creation of such new county. Adopted at u regular meeting of the Madras Commercial Club held Monday evening, July 18, 1910. A. C. Sa.vfokd, Pres., C. A. Kiddle, Secy. When peoplo residing outside of Crook county see these resolutions und protests against the creation of Des chutes county (which in reality- noth ing more than a townsitc boosting scheme for Kedmond) it is hoped that they will stop and give tho subject a little serious thought. Tho voters of the entire siate have a voice in this matter. There comes the rub. If it were left to a vote of Crook county there would be no question ubout the defeat of the bill. And ttit Crook county people have enough confidence in the right-mindedness of the voters of the state to believe that they will defeat the bill, too, as soon as they get the truth before them. Kcsidents ouUide of the affected territory owe it to us to investigate the merits of this scheme before they vote for It. EXHIBITS WANTED NOW The Redmond idea of misrepresenta tion to the uninitiated in regard to the promotion of their Deschutes County bill continues to predominate and has even gone onto the official records of the state with their affirmative argument, which jumps right off the reel withjthe first reason for the creation of the new county being that Crook, the parent county, is favorable to the creation of it. It's a lie! This is one of those cases where the child is not wanted. Crook county haa no desire to give birth to -jn response to direct l sucn a ciaDoucai conception, mere Farmers Requested To Furnish Specimens to Be Shown in Hill's Oregon Car isn't any parr of the county that is favorable to Deschutes county except Redmond. Every precinct in the county almost is raising funds to fight the bill. The balance of the reasons are just about as heavy as number one. Number two for instance: "Redmond will be on the main line of both railroads." Yes, and so will Hillman, why not make Hill- man the county scat? The affirmative argument fails utter ly to give any reason for the creation of the new county or to show any need of it. The document filed with the Secretary of State follows in full Following is the affirmative argument filed with the secretary of state by Jacob Kanzier of Redmond Commercial Ciub, in connection with the initiative pettion for the proposed new county of Deschutes, naming Redmond as the county seat: We, the undersigned, officers of the Redmond Commercial Club, in behalf of the residents of proposed County of Deschutes, submit the following reasons for the creation of the County of De schutes: First. Crook, the parent county of the proposed County of Deschutes, is favorable to the creation of the new county. Sccondr The county seat of the pro posed County of Deschutes will be located on the main line of both the Hill and Harriman railroads, now building into Central Oregon. Third. Tho proposed County of Dcs chutes has an area of 2300 square miles and contains about 1,500,000 acres making it about six times the size of Multnomah county. The assessed val uation of the new county in 1909 was $1,C7G,91G. The estimated valuation for 1910 is $2,500,000. The estimated pop ulation of the new county is 4500. The only legal requirements for a new county arc a population of 1200 and an area of 400 square miles. Fourth. The laws of Oregon make it impossible to create a new county other than by initiative petition, and there fore the residents of the proposed new county ask your support. At a meeting held Monday nlpht the Madras Commercial Club paseod a resolution protesting against the filing of tho false statement that "the parent county U favorable to rho creation of tho new county" in connection withlhe official argument, and asking the peo plo of the state to help defeat tho bill Folio A ing Is tho RESOLUTION WiiKiiKAS, The Redmond Comraer oIh! Club, lu the eourso of promoting its schema for tho creation of a uew county to be known as Deschutes has tlin.t with tho Secretary of Mate a statement that tho parent county o rimnlf ''U favorablHto tho creation of tho new county;" thoreforo be it Resolved, That the Madras Com merclal Club, a icpreecntatlve buslnoxs organization of a populous community within the boundaiy of tha proposeu new countv of Desohutes and within tho naront county of Crook, hereby nrotestsacalnet the statement filed by . - . , . ... ... thn Redmond commercial uiuo ub belim fulso and misleading. Resolved, That the Madras uom merclai Club is unanimously opposed GREEK KILLS FOREMAN Angry Because He Was Fired MAN HUNT FOLLOWS Angry Laborers Threaten to Mob Prisoner But Sheriff Hurries Him Away In Automobile requests from the Great Northern Railway company the Madras Commercial Club haa un dertaken the collection of specimens of grains and other products from this section, which the company desires to use in their Oregon Show Car, and in tlio Oregon Exhibit iiooms which are to he established in several of the large Eastorn cities. Ora YanTassel and D. W. Barnett were appointed as a committee from the Commercial Club to tike charge of these specimens and to attend to their forwarding to Portland, where they will go into the bauds of the company's experts, and later East, where they will tell to prospective homcseekers the glorious opportunities that await them In undeveloped Oregon. Every farmer who lias coou stuff on his ranch is asked to aneiat in till work. What is especially uesireu right now Is specimen grains In sttilk. The finest heads of ripe grain should be selected. the'stems cut about 16 to 20 inches long, and about 300 heads should be tied into each bucdle. Tho grower should attach a cant bearing the name of the variety of the grain, and also his own name and address. Every kind oi grain is desired, and as many as ten sets of the same suecluien will be very acceptable, as fully that many different exhibits will be placed by tho railroad company. The card bearing the grower's name and address is always to remain on the specimon, no matter in what collective exhibit it is placed. The grains will be received at Van Tassel's real estate office, aud it s hoped to besjin receiving thesf pa. ,-lcs at ouce. Choice fruit specimens ore also desired at this time, and these will be fot warded immeiiately by express. All shipping expenses are to be paid by the Great Northern. The only request made of the farmers is that they bring their best specimens in the shape- indicated above, to Mr. VauTafsel's office, and they will thus bo responding to Louis W. HUl's re quest for co operation in his great colonization campaign for interior Oregou, which he told us about while on his visit here last Spring. The railroad people have found these show cars aud exhibit rooms to be the best mraus known to attract home seekers, and if the people here desiro to "boont" this country, this certainly wakes a golden opportunity to do so in a manner that will bring moro result than could ever be accomplished by any effort local po&ple could make, working independently of the Great Northern's spleudidly organized system of turning tho hoineseekers whore there is opportunity tr them to make now homes. REV. SIAS RETIRES TO FARM Dallas, Or., July 18 Rev. Charles A, Sias, pastor of the First Christian Church in this city, prcacheu ins tare. well sermon Sunday evening, aud will leavo at onco for Madras, Or,, where he will reside on a farm. The change was made necessary by tho ill-health of Mrs. Sins. Tiie congregation presented them with many beautiful gifts. FOR BALW-Oomplote threshing outfit Andrew Melrich, an Italian, and" night foreman at one of Porter & Connally's railroad camps on the Deschutes near Warmspring ferry, was murdered Sat urday night by being shot through the head by Dan Prerich, who had been discharged that morning by Melrich. The killing occured at about 11 o'clock at night. Melrich was preparing to fire a blast at the top of a big cut, when Prerich is supposed to have stealthily crept up and fired at close range, with a large caliber gun. Other workmen heard the shot and saw Melrich fall and hurried to his assistance. He was taken from the work to the camp where he died about an hour after the shooting, without regaining consciousness. The heavy bullet strnck him in the left tem ple and ranged downward and back, lodging near the right ear. Prerich had fled in the meantime, and word was immediately sent to Mad ras for physician and the officers. Dr. Coon the Oregon Trunk surgeon, Dep uty Sheriff J. C. Robinson'and Austin Culp left at once for the scene in Rob inson's auto, but Melrich had expired before they reached the camp. On their way out the officers and physician passed the murderer coming m to town, but had no reason to supect that he was the man. When they readied the camp they learned that Prerich wore one shoe with hob-nails in the sole and one without, and so on coming back over the road they discov ered the tell tale tracks in the dust and ' were able to track the murderer into Madras. Prerich had come to town and breakfasted here that morning, and then struck out south following the railroad right ofway. Evoru nru irvi-icd in the man hunt, and posses scoured the country south of town until about sundown, when it was narrowed down to a point where it was certain that the man sought was some where in Pete Marnach's wheat field. G. V. Stanton and Rex Jarrettwere in a buggy and went into the field deter mined to roust out the fugitive. They tracked him through the wheat and finally discovered him lying on a pile of rocks, apparently dozing, and ho made. no resistance when they took him into charge. He was armed with a hcayy revolver of large caliber. Prerich was brought to town and lodg ed in the city jail, and in the mean time Sheriff Elkins was coming to take charge of the man. Early in the even ing a large crowd of railroad laborers gathered in town town and surrounded the jail dcclaring'that they were going to take Prerich out and hang him up and cut him to pieces bit by bit. The crowd dispersed finally and the announ cement was made that they had gone to get more men and to organize the mob, but Prerich was hurried away to Prineville in the Sheriff's auto, so that Madras was probably relieved from an experience of mob law. The only motive for the killing that has been brought out appears to be that Prerich was angry because Melrich, as forman had discharged him on Saturday morning, It is said that Prerich work ed with the dump car taking debris out of the cut and that he allowed the car to go over the dump quite often. Mel rich had been promoted to foreman only a short time, and received orders from a superior to fire Prerich, which ho did. Prorich during the day is said to have told oher workmen the he would "fix" Melrich before night, and Melrich had been wumed to look out for him. Justice J. II. Jackson was appointed to hold an inquest over the dead man. He went to camp Sunday and took churgo of the remains bringing them to Madras, where tho inquest was held Monday. A jury was empaneled and as much evidence as was possible, was gleaned from the Italiun und Greek laborers through an interpreter. ' I to the creation of the proposed new at the Kit ivutcher ranch, fall at the nmintv of Deschutes and usks tho ranch, ul ContluueU on lmt page.