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The Madras Pioneer MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 6, 1911. NO. 42 ax Wilson rowned rchers Find 1 rail Showing that He Took Warmsorincr Road North i w i o HPOLE FOUND IN j&k b IPpai Alii HflPiA A RUSH BtLUW WltlUA ip sham, Stanley uray ana Uick JJove I T,1r- I vul or-1 X ill h nHfloimv to Overtake Him. be following telegram was received this mii at about oy u. t. Koush from 6, Pilletfe, who went today with the tos in the effort to recover the body of Wilson, who was supposed to have been i il n L..i-- .:.L!i r:L! IP III NIK Uffib'IIUItfS IIVBI, Wllllrj iisiinig mm m m m a mm a m i Mecca on the atternoon ot the i-ourth of Max has taken the Warmspring road. Arch Stanley Gray and Dick Dove will take the and go through to the other side. M. 6. PILLETTE." r Mnv I f . I it t l muA 1 1 until i . lit iiii'iii ' wiiv til IJVVJII VJ vuiui m mi'ccji, on me mil- il ill II II'IHIS III tflO rlau in .,... .1. 1 taken the road across the north, is evidenced by was sent to town thi oon thot xi.i.?.. .. i viiub ins iismncr nn in two miles 1 n a mi. . . Buva ;iniii not Mirwtr rn w V II VV PrtUn ..1 r" u,llvr uie arownmtr ent mto the water and InP nvn ... . - au WaS .supposed to drowned in m jl V'l IUI u IU uiesrvnntv. en . . . ( . I I ll.J IUII1 ITU' III. WOW where the fiRhnnl, it inn inn niu jvir. . uwuy irnm no vwifn roii,i . .-"a, una af.v,..,i ,,,m,i,a any trace of him 0e fOUnd. This urn a n. ""s ago. wlio,, .,,:i.. 8 near (JiMvwiir a other fact has develoj)ed that tends to show that Mr. Wilson had some "idea of going away be fore he left Madras. This was that ho took with him on the fishing trip, it is said,. every dol lar in money that he possessed. At .Mecca he attempted to give all of the money to his wife, say ing he did not wish to carry it. Mrs. Wilson refused to take the money and the matter was final ly compromised by dividing the amount into equal shares, half of which Mr. Wilson took with him. In company with his wife and baby, his brother-in-law, S. E. Gray and family, M. G. Pillette and wife, and other friends, Mr. Wilson left Madras on the Ore gon Trunk train that forenoon to spend the day on the river. Ar riving at Mecca, the party crossed the Deschutes on the ferry and later served their din ner under the trees there. ' Mr. Wilson then decided to go fish ing, and it seems that lie then had some idea of attempting to cross the river, for he had, earlier in the day, spoken of re turning home on the O.-W. H. & N. train. But as a matter of fact he had to cross the river to board either train. He told his wife and friends not to wait for him, in case he was not there at train time. When it came time to return listww. Ht- ur.i.. 1 1 wuinu mi: vvnson nan not reJ turned and the other members of the party supposed he had gone too far to return in time to take the cars. When no word was received from him later in the evening, his wife and friends became alarmed, and M. G. Pillette and Glen Loucks left Madras for the river to begin a search for him. They were unable to find any trace, and later, the following day a delegation of Odd Fellows, of which lodge he is a member, took an anto for Mecca, while others boarded the trains and went to the river. These search ers found his tracks along the river where he had been fishing and followed them for about ten miles until they came to the place where the track went into the water, and after that no fur ther tracks were found. It was the belief of many of fhe search ers that he lost his life in at tempting to cross the river at this point. The search was continued to day. Mt. Jefferson lodge" No:-j 19G offered a reward of $50 for the recovery of the body, and notice was sent all along the lower river to keep a lookout. HOMESTEADER MUST GIVE UP BUILDING LAWSON BEHOLDS MARVELOUS COUNTRY Noted Easterner Predicts Wonderful Future ROYAL WELCOME WINNER Soya'Wlth Square Deal To People and Capital It Will Be Impossible To Keep Them Out of Oregon Attorney General Renders Opinion in Round Butte Controversy Not Good After Julv 17 fx. ms "Us Ballot Will Count For 25 Votes Address . ient J votes wlinn niin,f nnf mui m.iit in Mm Contest Denurt- uy font I iVfi ttt iikiiv " - - in.!.'. 11 or othorwlHn Imfnrj iiynlrntlnn tito. No fouilot Will MfcA Ul prics of C(lnl vidua will bo Riven to enuh of the c con The controversy in regard to the removal of the Round Butte schoolhouse from the land filed upon as a homestead by Ray Gardner, subsequent to the erec tion of the schoolhouse, how bids fair to be settled. Attorney General Crawford received a re quest from the litigants for an opinion in the matter, and he holds that the directors of the district having a schoolhouse lo cated on the claim can not only remove the building by process of law, but can condemn the property upon which the building stands and use the same for school grounds and for a building site. The Attorney General holds that the building is not a fixture of the soil belonging to the homesteader, and is subject to removal at the will of the school officers at any time. The school building in question land which was at IO first unsurved government land, but later was .taken as a home- homestead by Mr. Gardner, who vpfiiaod to nermit the school au thorities to remove the building, 'Hip homesteader contended that inasmuch as he had taken up a homestead and secured a patent, he had a legal right to claim pvervthing located on the land and that the school building was n tinrmanent fixture. The trouble arose when the directors proposed to move the school building to another point ! 4ii ,iiuiw.t It is said that IU kllU U.UV..- , ill the location on the land now held The following from Thomas W. lLawson. he of "Frenzied Finance" fame, who attended the organization of the Central Oregon Development League at; Prineville, appeared in the Ore gonian: What are my first imoressions of Central Oregon? The same as my already published impres sions of Portland and Hood River except -except well, take what I have said about Portland and Hood River, and then blow off the sides and let the good things "vast themselves" and you will have an idea of the idea which has seepod into my very system during my ..48 short,. oh, so short, hours spent in this stupendous country among its wonderful people. You know it is getting monot onousit must be getting mo notonous to your people, my repeated telling how marvel ously good everything looks to me, out tnere is nothing eise i can say. My experience since the day I first set foot in Oregon has been one continuous revela tion of "good things." In Port land it was the quiet, conserva tive beauty of the homes in com bination with the wonderful things nature has done and is doing for the city and suburbs and all in compination with the remarkably well foundationed business hustle that struck me. In Hood River Valley it was the marvels of nature, the exquisite efinement of the homes and the people in combination with the business, the apple-orchard busi ness, which impressed me. Here in Eastern Ordgon it is the wonderful beauties -sky, mountain and fiat land combina tion beauties, the superb climate welcome and and all in combination with a look-you-straight-in-the-eye, car- ry-your-heart-upon - your - sleeve manliness and womanliness of the people, apparently an ine people, and this in combination with a money making possibility that is almost beyond compre hension to us of the East, strikes me so forcibly that I am actually compelled to answer your ques tion, what 1 think of Central Oregon, by repeating what 1 have already said before. Since i int ilin Oreironian three or four weeks ago that 1 would stake my existence on the sound ness of my opinion that Oregon is to have a marvelous future, and tlmt. future within the next 10 years, I have been watching out sharply for defects that would punch a hole in my first impression or at least shade out some of the enthusiasm, but I have been unable to find any. Every place I have visited, and I have really covered quite a bit of ground, and all of the people I have touched elbows with, has but tended to confirm, yes, and expand, my first enthu siasm. Truly, your country is a marvelous one. There is but one thing that your good people of Oregon will be called upon to furnish in the cinching of your great future, and that is a square deal to the hordes of peo ple and the vast capital which will surely pour in upon you from now on. A short time back, while you then had the marvelous advantages supplied by nature, you needed people and capital, and both, owing to a peculiar combiation of condi tions, were at the time hard to secure people, because the East had not been overrun and be cause the Middle West was the first stopping-place of the emi grant, and capital because, first it was not in such quantities as now, and second, because it could find ample vent in the building of the railroads and their entailed industries. All this is now changed,. There are millions of people in the East who must come West or starve. There are billions of capital in the East which must come West or mildew and decay come West, Northwest, but particularly to Oregon. In my opinion it will from now on be impossible to keep back people and capital from building up Oregon until iif. a short time comparatively short time, it will be. figuratively speaking one vast unbroken city and suburb impossible, if you extend to the coming people and capital your most valuable and fascinating asset, the best there is in you that is that royal, square deal good fellowship which 1 have seen standing on the corner of every city street, popping out of every apple orchard, bounding oyer every sagebrush bush and hurtling every acre of bunch grass since I have come into your state. Just give the coming people and capital your free-from-iealousy, right-from-the- heart well, I would be OLD SUBSCRIPTIONS COUNT BIG THIS WEEK Fine Time to Visit Old Subs for Renewals GIRLS ARE GETTING BUSY Rivalry for First Place Has Already Developed In Pioneer's Voting Contest For Prizes by Gardner is not central to the general population of the district and the effort to remedy this condition brought out the con troversy, as Gardner wished the building to be left where it was. afraid to tell what I think will happen for fear I will lose my reputation and be set down among the rainbow chasers. Lnmonta Line Completed The Lamonta farmer's tele phone line has been completed to Madras and phones are being installed at several business houses in the city. The central office will be at the store of the W. F. Hammer Co. Instru irents are also being placed in Dr. Sipok's drugstore and Lar kin's harness shop. Basket Dinner At Lnmonta Services are announced at Lamonta for Sunday, July 9. An old-fashioned basket dinner will be, enjoyed at noon. Rov. Charles A. Sias -of Madras, will preach at 11 a. m. and at 3 p. m. A general invitation is. extended.' Everything is going fine. The contestants are beginning to catch the spirit of the contest, and before another week is gone the rivalry between the various candidates and their friends will be getting warm. The special offer made last-week as an in centive to the young ladies to secure new subscriptions, proved a winner, and many of the girls availed themselves of it to se cure a good beginning. How ever some few of them com plained that it was so much easier to get old subscriptions or renewals than to get new ones. For this reason we are going to make an offer for old subscrip tions this week, beginning Fri day, July 7, and ending Thursday night, July 13. During these seven days we are going to make all old sub scriptions, or renewals, pay the same number of votes as new subscriptions. This arrangement will give an opportunity to every subscriber of the Pioneer to be the most possible assistance to their favorite candidate. And to be of still more assistance to those who are working for one of the prizes, we will gladlyu'r nish a list of the present sub scribers to any girl who is duly entered in this contest, so that they will have every chance to a 1 see these parties and secure their renewals. We would suggest that no candidate put oft getting these subscriptions now. Some may be inclined to wait, and put in their best efforts toward the end of the contest. But our exper ience in conducting a number of contests has been that the girl who gets in and does her work before the field has been can vassed by the other contestants, is the one who gets the best re sults. Get a good start now, and the end will certainly take care of itself. We would again call attention to the fact that it is not too late to enter the contest. Don't de lay this matter for every day means a whole lot. If you are Continued on page 2. Lively Rnnaway O'Ncil Bros.' team, which had been left standing in front of Fred Davia' hurness shop- yesterday morning, was frightened by a passing auto and made ii run liown Main street. Miss Flor ence White was riding down the street on a horse, and the runaways bumped into her saddle horse. By quick action Miss White succeeded in getting out of the way unhurt nnd the team ran as far aa the Central Oregon Mercantile com pany's store and stopped against the sido of the buildinv, poking a hole in ynll with the end of the wagon tongue. No serious damage resulted,