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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1910)
The Madras Pioneer Ik ti II MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1910. NO.l Cross G STORE liDRAS, ORE. iwrlenrc'd BcBlBterwl fcto to Itll your Prescript becials e Peroxide, - 40c - 20c i per pound - 10c ;le Strychnine - 20c p, 3 cakes in a )cr box - - 25c lour specials. Tliy feiive yon money. THE CARS ARE COMING Seventy Miles of Track Soon MADRAS DrillingCo. UN AND SURFACE WELLS EPTH GUARANTEED flMATES FURNISHED EAT PIONEER OFFICE MADRAS, OREGON TRAINS RUN UP CANYON Hnrrimnn Road Lends In Laying of Steel Oregon Trunk About Ready to Commence. Judge Robert S. Lovett, head of the Harriman Railway system inspected the 25 miles of the Deschutes Railroad that has been completed and was well pleased with the line. At the junction of the new Central Oregon road at Deschutes the train was switched back to the new tracks' and backed up the canyon, that an unobstructed view might be obtained from the observation windows. Apparently the Deschutes railroad will be ready for operation of passen ger trains almost an Boon as the rnils arc laid into Madras. The ballasting of the track is keeping paco with the laying of rails und all but about the last mile of track, as now laid, is Arm and smooth. In the canyon, the special train made an average speed of 20 miles an hour and at times attained a maximum of 30 miles. After the return, Engineer Boschke declared that most of the completed road would now carry trains with comfort at a speed of 50 miles an hour. Tracklaylng is now held back tempor arily pending the completion of a high viaduct across the mouth of Mack's canyon, a gulch that runs into the Deschutes canyon from the east. This viaduct will be completed this week and it is then expected that tracklay ipg will proceed, with the interruption of possibly only a few days at a tunnel near Sherar's bridge, almost to tho point where the road is to be occupied jointly by the Deschutes Railway and the Oregon Trunk. This will make a totul of 70 miles of track. On the joint track a lino change has recently been made which calls for' the boring of a tunnel and it is probable that tracklaylng on the Harrimnn road will bo delayed at that point. It is understood that the contract between the two roads calls for the Oregon Trunk to lay the tracks on the 12 miles of joint line in the canyon. The latter is not yet laying rails anywhere on the grade but is preparing to begin that work this month. The Oregon Trunk is now constructing a temporary track leading to a long trestle already built which extends far out into the Colum bia River near the mouth of the Deschutes, and rails and tics will soon be transported across the river by ferry from the North Bank road. Deschutes station is still utilized as the main material yards of the new Harrimun road. Bridge steel for the larger viaducts is beginning to accum ulate and a new locomotive crane is on the sidetracks waiting to assist in swinging the steel for the viaduct that will stretch across Trout Creek. This viaduct will be nearly one-third of a mile long and in places 250 feet high. F hi 1 WM REE Jkl MmM HAND DECORATED $10 Dinner Sets GIVEN AWAY Absolutely FREE to uur Customers! The clock will be uncovered at 3:00 p. m. on the dates named, when the Dinner Set will be given to the winner. First prize will be given on Wednes day, August 3, and then every two weeks thereafter. Holders of chances must either be present in person or send their cards . in by proxy on that day. Central Oregon Mercantile " 7i : Company : Ui v4 ' R. T. OLSON, Manager MADRAS, - - OREGON J. R. MAGNESS SUICIDES Shoots Himself While in Bed TROUBLES PREY ON MIND No One Heard Shot, Body Still Warm When Discovered Monday Morning James R. Magness, a well known local carpenter, commit ted suicide in his bed last Mon day morning, by shooting him self with a revolver. Magness was sleeping alone in a tent back of M. W. Bennett's residence in Madras. No one heard the shot and it is not known at what time the deed was done, although the body was still warm at 6:30, when Ralph Bennett went to the tent to call him for breakfast. Domestic troubles extending over the past two years, and lately, financial difficulties, are thought to be responsible for the act. Magness was employed by Mr. Bennett at the time of his death and intended to leave for Shan iko with a freight team Monday morning. The Bennett boy went to call him for the morning meal but got no response and noticed blood on the man's mouth. The boy told his mother and then summoned W. 'R. Cook, who lives near.' Mr. Cook went to the tent and found that the man was dead. Other persons were called aiyi the cause was investi gated, when it was apparent that Magness had shot himself. His hands holding a nickeled .38 caliber revolver were across his abdomen. The thumb of the right hand was through the trigger guard, while the fingers of the left hand were holding the barrel. The muzzle of the gun had been placed just below the ribs and the shot ranged upward passing very near the heart. Thex-e was nothing to indicate that the man had made a movement after the shot was fired. Monday forenoon Justice J. H. Jackson was instructed by the county officials to act as coroner and hold an inquest. This was done and the jury returned the verdict that he came to his death by his own hand. James R. Magness was about 43 years old. He has made Madras his home for the past seven or eight years. He is sur vived by his wife from whom he was separated but not divorced, and a little daughter about three years old, who has been in the care of her father's friends at this place. Mrs. Magness has been -living at The Dalles. The trouble with his wife has been heavy on the man's mind for months. Lately financial worries have added to his bur dens and it is supposed that in a fit of despair he determined to end it. Deceased was a member of the local lodge of Modern Wood men, and carried a policy in the order for $2000 in favor of his child. His early home was near Salem in this state; and none of his immediate relatives other than mentioned are living. Mrs, Magness was notified of her husband's death and arrived here Wednesday forenoon, but was too ill to attend the funeral which occurred that afternoon at 2:30 under the auspices of the Modern Woodmen. Interment was made in Madras Cemetery. HOWARD CAMPBELL DIES FROM DIPHTHERIA Dread diphtheria has claimed its victim. Howard Campbell died last Monday morning at 3:30, after an illness of over two weeks. Reports from the Camp bell home from time to time were that the children were get ting along well, but on Saturday the boy became worse and Dr. Long was summoned. The doc tor found the patient in a bad condition, with the fatal mem branous growth so firmly estab lished that he was powerless to relieve the sufferer. The funeral took place last Tuesday afternoon, interment being made in the Gard Ceme tery on Agency Plains. Howard Campbell was between 14 and 15 years of age and was the son of Mr. ana Mrs J. E. Campbell, who re side on their ranch on the Warmspring road, 10 miles northwest of Madras. Nita Campbell was also ill with the disease but recovered. Now one of the little Campbell girls is afflicted. Sev eral other cases were also reported but these all seem to have had only light attacks. A great deal of complaint is heard from the residents of Agency Plains about the lack of care that is being taken to prevent the spread of the contagion. No quarantine has been established at the Campbell home and the members of the family are said to come and go almost as freely as though no dangerous contagious disease were present. Hand r some rnze ror Dry Farm Exhibits Portland, Ore., Aug. 17. The accompanying cup will be award ed for the best Oregon exhibit at the International Dry Farm ing Exposition at Spokane next November. The cup is offered by the Portland Commercial Club and its value is about $50. The conditions attending its award are that the products exhibited must be grown in Oregon on arid or semi-arid lands without irriga tion. On one side of the cup is an inscription giving the donor and tho requirements to be met and on the opposite sido is a blank space where the name of the winner will be engraved. It is a handsome piece of silver, standing nearly a foot high on a solid ebony base. CITY WATER AND LIGHTS Portland Firm May Get Franchise THEIR ENGINEER FAVORS IT Stealst March on City Officials and Makes Investigations on The Quiet. Again there is a prospect of Madras getting a public water system and electric lighting plant. The Newport Engineer ing Company of Portland is now taking an interest in the matter and according to a letter re ceived from Portland a day or two ago their representatives will be here next Monday to look after securing a franchise from the City of Madras to in stall the plant and maintain the service. Considerable correspondence has already passed between the Portland engineering firm and the city officials and town site people in regard to this matter. The owners of the orig-. inal townsite reserved the water rights in their dedication. But they have given the assurance that these rights will be sur rendered gratis to any responsi ble company that makes a suffi cient showing of its intention to supply Madras with a water sys tem. The Newport compay wrote that their engineer would come to Madras and look into the situ ation and the people here were awaiting his arrival, but it seems that the engineer came to Mad ras and made his investigations without disclosing his identity to anyone, and returned to Port land with so favorable a report that the company will lose no time in getting arrangements under way for putting in the water and light service. The following letter written by a man who was instrumental in bringing the attention of the Newport Engineering Company to the opportunity offered at Madras, gives some interesting information: Portland, Oregon, Aug. 13, '10 "Dear Sir: I have had a hard seige with the water, but light is ahead. Their engineer left here for that coun try a week ago last Monday and did not return until last Thursday. He was in the Madras vicinity over a week and his report was very flattering, bet ter than I put it up to them. He does not, however, recommend anything of a temporary nature, but says that they must install a permanent plant and sug gests steam as the motive power, with crude oil for fuel just as soon as the railroad is in so that the oil will be procurable. "They have a great many other things in the shape of contracts and such that they cannot drop at a mo ment's notice and so could not get over there the first of this week, but we will be there a week from Monday, August 22. "They may not be able and I do not think it possible for them to get mate rial f n the ground to start work in 15 days from the date of the franchise. However, that is a mere detail that we can arrange when we come over. "These are good people and their be ing financially interested in Madras will be more of a benefit for Madras than for the city to put in its own plant, because the more Madras pros pers the more they will benefit, so they will use their influence to the ut most to see that she does prosper." ,! aa iuiua a mi -aa no nil U m i a Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON j TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS J Money transmitted to all parts of United States and Canada t i J. M. Conklin, President and Gen, Mn'gr; C. E. Roush, Vice-Preiident MUKCTOK8: C. K. llouah, M. I'uU, J. O. nobliiRon, Uobt. Itca, J. M. Coukllu fa it 1 i's' 1 'J a.i 4 1