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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 21, 1910.
NO. 49
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.