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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1910)
i The Mad Pioneer VIM MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1910 NO. 16 It A C ras Will Have w Exchange L LINE COMING Company Will Build A jjugh Line From Prlne- vllle To Madras new rural telephone is to be incorporated to .1 i-inr !n tVin in tnis sutiun w. kture, is the statement ; by the secretary ot the Telephone Co., which oerating lines in the ter- out eighteen miles south-ladras. ting of the members of foteation was held bat- riit of last week and it i to incorporate and sell' stock so as to build a through line to Madras from Prineville, they having already made ar rangements with the independ ent lines operating around that place for connections at their ex change. After incorporating it is proposed to secure new sub scribers in the vicinity of Mad ras at a cost of about $60.00, which entitles the subscriber to own his instrument, and the only cost after this' being for new batteries. The cost of subscrib ers to talk with Prineville will be only a switching charge of fivd cents, switch boards of the other companies will be in cluded in this agreement. It is the intention of this company to install several rural lines out of Madras in different directions and to connect with the Govern ment line at the Warm Springs ferry, which will give them con nection with Columbia River 'points. i 1 s Cause I CI ndli Slides FOR SALE StUly sulky plow, 16 in. in g""l (!n Ilt'on. Price, $23. M- Brmm, Minima. laaras oiaie EanK MADRAS. OREGON WSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS r Money transmitted to all parts of United States and Canada j. M. Conklin. President and Gen. Man'gr; C. E. Rouih, Vice President RECTORS C K. lioimli, M. l'utz, J. C. Koblnnon, Ilobt. Ilea, J. M. Conklin MUCH DAMAGE DONE Estimated That 20,000 Cubic Feet Of Railway Cut Is Filled By ' Debris The recent rains in this section have caused slides over the grades of the Oregon Trunk near here that are very inconvenient, and are likely to prove very ex pensive. The slides of greatest magnitude occurred near camp 4, about five miles down Willow Creek canyon, in which it is es timated that at least 20,000 cubic yards of the cuts have been filled by the earth and rock which slid over the grade and into the can yon, it is said tnat with the present means of moving the de bris it would take two months to repair the grade, but it is thought that this slide will not be touched until a steam shovel can be brought in by a locomo tive, when it will be repaired in short order. It is reported that other slides have taken place on ((I IANTA CLAD! 33 S HERE jovial old fellow came to our store today loaded down to hristmas presents, and will be hire until Xmas evening when h Madras. Our disnlav of ys, Dolls And Fancy Goods f This season eclipses any event ever held in Madras. We have priced every article at the lowest margin possible. Have qualities and quantities to suit everyone, whether old or young, rich or poor. his knees with all kinds of he will visit every home ife-size Doll Free over, from now until Xmas oeautitui dressed LIFE-SIZE DOLL, which will away free oai Christmas eve. Trv to be the winner. with every cash purchase amount ing to $1.00 or entitles -you to one chance on this be given le the following items and prices: Dolls, dressed and undressed, from $.15 to $10.oo Boys and Girls games, " .o5 to . 1 .50 Ladies Toilet Sets - " 2.oo to l O.oo Manicure Sets (complete) " , 2.oo to 5.oo Shaving " (2 or 3 pieces) 1.75. to 4.oo Smokers' Companions "$ 1.50 to 5.oo Collar and Cuff Sets " ' 1.25 to 3.oo Jewel Boxes, gold .and silver, 2.'oo to 3.50 Toy Pop Guns - - ' i-f .25 to 1.50 Toy Trains and Engines " .50 to 1.50 Go-Carts - . ' ' .50 , to, 1.50 Wooden Sleds - - " l.oo tb; '2.50 hundreds of other n, and look them over. ods articles too numerous i to mention. - - Come ! bring the Purchased may 'be left here until Xmas eve, if desired III M rn I) 1 R. T. OLSON, Manager madras, - - oregon the Oregon Trunk but that none of them would prove as exnen sive as the one at camp 4. The big slide at camp 4 started near the camp itself. If the earth had loosened a few rods further up, a portion of the camp would have been taken into the canyon. J I a a mure uamage irom tne slides is yet imminent as in some places there are large masses of rock and earth just awaiting sufficient dampness to again start them down over the grades into the canyon. It is probable that the consussion from the blasting has considerable to do with starting the slides since the heavy rains as in some places there are im mense cliffs above and often very near perpendicular to the grades apparently just ready to tumble down. Precipitation Is 3.23 Inches Central Oregon is being visited with a period of falling weather which is somewhat unusual. Between 5:00 p. m. Sunday even ing and 8:00 a. m. Monday morn ing .75 of an inch of rain fell. The heaviest fall for the mbnth was .85 on the eighth, On the 22nd, .13 fell, .37 on the 22nd, and other small showers have brought the total precipitation or the month up to 3.23 inches. This is quite a lot of dampness ior this section and a continua ation of such weather would tend to cause the eliminatinn of Cen tral Oregon from the "dry farm ing column. Conditions are certairilystart- ing very favorably for the grain crop, but much depends upon there being a plentiful supply of snow upon the Ground when the freezing weather comes, otherwise the growing all grain might be killed. A heavy fall of snow is quite the rule in this section during the winter so that there is littlex:ause for alarm on that account. 0. R. & N. Lines Are Merged NEW CONSTRUCTION New Name Is Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company a The Pioneer Telephone company has just completed a phone line Irom Rosland o Crecsent by way of the new town ot LaPine. This line is 22 miles in length and will accommodate a rapidly gt owing community. 1 his line will be extended to Silver Lake, a distance of 55 miles, in he spring. Prineville Journal. Ownership of the North Coast Railroad was formerly acknowl edged and provisions for consol idation of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, 10 of its subsidiary companies and the North Coast was made, in arti cles pi incorporation filed rester- day by Harriman officials of great new holding company to be known as the Oregon-Washing ton Railroad & Navigation Com pany. The incorporators are R. B Miller, traffic manager of the Harriman lines in the Northwest; M. J. Buckley, vice president of the O. R. & N. in charge of, ope ration and R. Koehler. The cap ital stock is placed at $50.- 000,000. The consolidation takes in all the feeders of the O. R. & N. in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, in addition to the North Coast mileage, and O. R. & N. proper. It does not include the Southern Pacific. It is authoritatively stated that the organization of the new holding company means a new bond issue, which will Jbe de voted to improvement of existing ines and in the prosecution of further construction work. While Harriman officials in Portland were not prepared to make a definite statement con cerning construction work con templated for next yearby the reorganized railway system, it is believed the formation of the new company is a preliminary step toward extensive building in Central Oregon from Red mond southward and of the east and West lines across the in terior. "The Deschutes Railroad Com pany, which is included in the merger, owns a line nearly com pleted running from the Colum bia River along the Deschutes River to Redmond. "The North Coast Railroad Company owns a line nearly com pleted from Atalia, near Wal lula. Washington, to North Yak ima, Washington, and has ac quired terminals in Spokane and partially constructed some of the other lines mentioned in the ar ticles as owned by it. "The Oregon Eastern Railway Company is a company organized some years ago for the purpose of constructing lines in Central Oregon. This company has made surveys and acquired rights-of-way from Vale to Odell, Odell to Natron on the Southern Pacific, and from Bend to the California-Oregon state line. "The company about to be or ganized, as shown by the articles proposes to take over that part of the line of the Eastenn Ore gon covering the territory from Vale to Odell and from Bend to the California-Oregon state line. The Oregon Eastern will for the present continue to construct the line across the Cascade Mount ains from Natron to Klamath. Sisters Man Is "Rolled" n A The Colorado cup and Portland Commercial Club cup both of which were awarded Tilman Reuter at the International Dry Farming Congress held at Spokane, where he won five sweepstakes premiums, besides receiving many other prizes on his Dry Farming Exhibit. Jack Kennedy, who has been held in quarantine several days past owing to Mrs. Kennedy haying an attack of diphtheria, was this morning taken to Red mond, where, it is said he is wanted in connection with a hold-up affair, which took place Sunday, the 20th. The man relieved of his be longings was from the Sisters country, by the name of John Scott, and was expecting to pur chase some property the next day. As he was standing in one of the soft drink parlors, he ac cidentally showed a considerable amount of money, about $250.00 as near as he could remember, when a scuffle was started and during the mix-up was relieved of his pocket book by some one in the place. It is reported that Kennedy made a confession to some of his friends and implicated two other men, who have been apprehended and their hearings have been held, in consequence of which they have been bound over to the next grand jury. It was known that Kennedy was in Madras by the authorities at Redmond and Prineville, who telephoned to Mar shal Loveland Sunday evening to take him out of quarantine and send him to Redmond for a hearing, but this re quest was refused as4ie had not taken the proper steps to be let out, and the Madras officials did not care to take this responsibility. However under in structions from the County Health Board and Sheriff Elkins, Deputy Sher iff Robinson was instructed to take him to Redmond as soon as possible after having anti-toxin was administered and proper fumigation. Train Ditched At DeMoss A south bound freight train on the Columbia Southern was wrecked at Bridge 34 near DeMoss Springs last J Friday causing the delay of the mail for the interior points several hours. The mail for Madras did not arrive un til the early part of this woek. The almost impassible condition of the roads between here and Shaniko has nearly paralyzed traffic, those trav eling over Shaniko flat say that it is something terrible, even with a light rig, while freighting is almost impos sible. A common expression ia that the railroad can't get into Madras too soon to Buit them, "V:' fe?T !