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Madras Pioneer NO. 23 MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1912 I JtlJCi WHOLDS 01 MEASURE ...iir.tlon to An- (0fCgon System 13 AFFECTED L pond' Were Upheld by Ljft.prenCourl-"",B"' Cwd Cities Affected . iv,k19. The Su mp1 VIj United oiatub Utoday to annul as uncon rr . . L::0f ivn nnd ref ill ine -- i methods oflegisiauon Led that it had no juris- L-.,,,, Inform 01 goveni- Rith states, that being a " j question for uongress Urith. tjjstice White announced Uonof the court: Uissues (in the Pacific UVnhone & Telegrapn Lvnted in their very es- id he, "are and have I see by this court been Sydetermined to be polit I mvernmental and em- i irithhi the scope of the (conferred on Congress, therefore within the ju- jjwer, it follows that the nested is not within our Win and the writ of error i . . . I therefore, be, and it is, ! for want of jurisdic- ( recent decision of the Stte3 Supreme Court up- tm validity of the initi- m referendum was one of Kiniportant and far reach- (wions the court has been to to render in a number and the refusal of the fcunul as unconstitutional thod of legislation, estab- k measure as one of the e governmental fix- m country. Denver attorneys, in mis- tthe validity of the recent Of the citv for the nnr- V establishing the water l MM up their decision pthne, waiting for the L Court to decide this P They finally declared IJI valid, in the belief I. SiiDremfi f!nn4 ml l wvv v VTUUIU Pfte initiative measure. im Portland PtOf dollars in " WI1UO UI1UC1 p measures, which would I "0 invalidated by a deci- r"n? the measure un u-"". naraiy a city in f jut would have been ef adverse ruling, and P or ten other states in Jjf which have already same measures would 7ffected similarly. Rl CLUB SHOW h PREPARATION Num. . i rrtlBnt "Social ,,L(nlyvll8" Noxt f Month feof. 3 "flight nights IS different LNu, nave tnem QH RJ same time when K,l "Social Club of I wilting without technical knowledge, it is our opinion that it will appeal to those who are fortunate to get in the hall and sec it, as a comedy satire, in which the women are the only ones who get into the trouble. And where is there a lonely unproposed-to bachelor in this town, who would not willing ly contribute to witness any sit uation whrein the women must take all of the blame? Boys that is what you will see at the "So cial Club of Lonely villc." The ridicule and fun of the re cent Old Maids Convention, are as aught compared to the deli cious ecstacy you will experience when the awful horrors and in tricacies of the "Social Club of Lonelyville" unfold themselves to you. So juBt make up your minds to be there when the bells ring. It will be presented by the Dramatic Club about the middle of March, and it possibly will be the last performance staged by the local Thespians this winter. The cast of characters has been determined upon, but. is witheld in order that the press agent might have some new features to talk 'about in the next issue. At least we believe that is the reason, though there might be some other that they failed to tell us. However, watch The Pioneer, and we will assure you that you will learn the exact date, the price and all other necessary advance information. CONTRACTOR RUSHING WORK ON NEW BANK Rhoada Hopaa to Turn New Building Ovar to Bank Officials In Month Contractor Rhoads is pushing the work on the new Madras State Bank building as much as possible, and hopes to turn it over to the banking officials in three weeks or a month. All of the brick work has been finished, but owing to the accident Mon day, when the roof of the vault fell in, bricklayers will be need ed again for a day. All of the wiring for electricity and gas has been done, and the water connections and piping are in, a portion of the lathes are on, and the petitions have been placed. The big plate glass windows have arrived and will be put in place this week. With these in, it leaves practically nothing but inside work to be done, and this can be pushed forward regard less of weather conditions. The furnace which will be used in heating the building is here, and if necessary can be used to en able the workmen to keep busy, in case another cold snap should catch us. CULVER NOTES The following personals are taken from the Deschutes Valley Tribune: The numninff plant for Frank Lyons' well arrived in Culver last Friday, and the Central Ore gon Well Co. is now installing the Bame. Fred Wallace of Laidlaw, was here last Thursday and Friday takinor eauinment and supplies, to the road camp at Crooked river. A large camp is now es tablished on this side of the river. G. Springer and Lloyd Hunher left last week for a trip to South ern Oregon. Cap Healoy was a business to Culver Monday. NEW GRADE UP TO HARRIMAN DEPOT O.-W. R. & N. and County Court to Construct Now Road At Early Date As soon as men, now busy building a grade out on the Hay creek road, can finish their work there, they will be brought to the city, and work commenced on the new grade from the foot of the hill to the 0-W.R.& N. depot and Agency Plains. A new sur vey has been made by the rail road and the County Court work ing together, and a modern road with the best grade to be obtain ed, will be put in. At present the road gang is camped at the Lindsey place on the Haycreek road, where they are making a new grade. As soon as they can finish there, they will begin work on the new road to the depot, and rush it to completion as fast as possible. The railroad company readily recognized the disadvantage they were working under because of the distance from their depot to the city, which was made worse by the bad grade and poor condi tion of the road. This incon venience, at least as far as the question of the grade and con dition of the road, will be a mat ter of but a short time now, for nothing will be left undone, which would increase the patron age of their road. Heretofore many passengers have travelled over the 0. T. road simply be cause of the incovenience of the other road, and many farmers have had their freight handled by the Hill road for the same reason. Hence the determina tion of the Harriman people to do their part toward the new road. MERINO WOOL WILL BE HIGH THIS YEAR Jamoa Rico Thinks Wool Salo Date Will Bo Named For Madraa Again James Rice, of Haycreek, re turned Tuesday night from Port land. While at the metropolis Mr. Rice was offered one and half cent more per pound for his 1912 wool clip than he received for his 1911 clip, but because of conditions on the market, re fused to close a deal. He claims that the supply of wool is get- tinglscarcer every year, until it now barely meets the demand Inasmuch as the wool must'be had, he says he will store his" clip this year unless he can get his price for it. Mr. Rice is of the opinion that the Oregon Wool Growers Asso ciation will set a date for a wool sale at Madras, in spite of their previous schedule which failed to include Madras as a sales place. He will bring his wool to Madras for shipment, and under no cir- cumstaces will he haul to Metol ius. Other of the large wool growers are across the canyon, and woilld have equally hard pulls to go to Metolius, thus en hancing the local chance to have wool sale dates named. Enlarged Homesteads During the month of January more than 30,000 acres of land in Montana and Oregon were recom mended by the United States Ge ological Survey for designation as enterable under the Enlarged (320-acre) Homestead Act, and 23,097 acres previously designat ed under this act were reported to the Secretary of the Interior A LEAP JTEAR OFFER Madras Pioneer For One Dollar a Year On February 29 PAY SUBSCRIPTION AND SAVE MONEY Bargain Day Offer Good Only On February 29th and Only to Those Who Pay Subscription Arrears Up to Last of Month. Read Following Notice Carefully The Madras Pioneer for one year for ONE DOLLAR! Can you beat it? This is the price we are going to make on all future subscriptions which are paid on the TWENTY-NINTH day of February. The only condition necessary for you to profit by this offer is that your subscription be paid up to the last day of Febru ary, at the old rate. If you are six months in arrears, or a year, or two years, you can pay up the back subscription at the old price of $1.50 a year, and then under this offer, pay for one, two, three or four years in advance, all at the rate of ONE DOLLAR a year. On the next TENTY-NINTH of February we will repeat this offer, if we still have charge of the paper, thus enabling our subscribers to get the Pioneer continuously for ONE DOLLAR a year. For this reason we will not accept subscriptions for more than four years in advance. A large percentage of our subscribers are ranchers, and we would like for them to profit by the offer, and to save them the long trip into town that day, we will accept mail orders at this same rate, ONE DOLLAR a year, under the following conditions: The mail order must be received in this office on the TWENTY- NINTH day of February, or the envelope must show by the regular government postmark, that it was mailed on the TWENTY-NINTH day of this month. There is absolutely nothing in this offer but good faith toward our patrons. Under the offer you can pay for the paper until the TWENTY-NINTH of February, 1916, four years, for FOUR DOL LARS. If paid on the TWENTY-NINTH day of the month this is the price, but if paid on any other day the paper for the same four years will cost you SIX DOLLARS. Be sure to see that all sub scriptions in arrears are paid, and then get in on this proposition. Remember tho offer applies for the ONE DAY ONLY. i as not enterable and canceled as such, detailed examination hav ing shown the lands to be sus ceptible of irrigation. The total area on January 31, 1912, which had been classified by the Survey as enterable under the Enlarged Homestead Act was 190,476,953 acres. No Mail Tuesday No mail was received in Mad ras Tuesday night, and no papers either Tuesday or Wednesday nights, owing to a cavein at tun nel No. 7 on the North Bank road Monday night. Passenger ser vice was not delayed however, all North Bank trains between Portland and Pasco being carried over the -O.-W. R. & N. Road while the tunnel was being cleared. Only the presence of mind of the engineer prevented the east bound, North Bank limited piling up in the debris in the wrecked tunnel Monday night. It took about 48 hours to clear the tunnel sufficiently to allow trains to pass through. Dr. John W. Ramsey, of Me tolius, was in Madras Monday and made application for a home stead, which is located across the Deschutes. The doctor thinks he has found one of the finest locations in the country. Judge Jackson has been on the sick list for the past week, but is improving. FIRE HYDRANTS BEING PLACED THIS WEEK Water Syatom Giving Satisfactory Service to Thoee Who Haye Made Connections When Superintendent Johnson, who is busy now with a gang of men, has finished putting in the twelve fire hydrants, the Madras water system will be completed. It possibly will take until noon Friday before the last of the hydrants are in place, and ready to be used as soon as the fire hose arrives. t More private connections were made last week, and those who have the water in their houses are just getting to the point now where they cant realize how they managed to get along" before without it. Most satisfactory reports of the efficiency of the service are being heard from those who are using the water, and the commission is determined that the same "class of service shall be had at all times. New Freight Rates in accordance with a recent ruling of the Interstate Com merce Commission, both the local railroads will make a cut of from twenty to twenty-five per cent in all freight rates from Portland to Central Oregon points, the new rates to go into effect on the first of March. The original or der of the commission was that the reduction should go into ef fect on January 1, but the rail roads were successful in securig an extension of time in which to make the change. COLD CHECK ARTISTS WORK IN MADRAS Phillips, McCormack and Roush Victim! MAKE CLEAN GETAWAY After Fleecing Local Merchants Op erators Make Open Boast of Their Skill At Metoikis Two forgers, working under the names of George Harte and C.W.Mason, got away with $66 of Madras money Saturday night, and have neither been seen nor heard of since. Harte cashed two checks purporting to have been drawn by A. P. Clark, on the Madras State Bank, secur ing $18 from Martin Phillips and $17 from Tom McCormack, while his pal Mason, who also works under the name of McAllister, was cashing a similarly forged check, supposed to have been drawn by the same party, at Roush's for $31. After securing the cash on the worthless checks they went to Metolius, and late that night made a boast to the effect that they had worked cold checks in Madras, but got away on the north bound train Sunday morn. ing before their statements were verified. Not until the jjhecks were pre sented at the bank Monday morning was it discovered b the local victims that they had been fleeced. The bank prompt ly refused to pay the checks, seeing that the signature was not that of Mr. Clark, No ef fort was even made to imitate Mr. Clark's writing in signing: the checks, the operators simply taking the precaution to indorse the checks in a differenfcrhand writing. A description of the two men was gotten from the Madraa Hotel, and the police in Portland, The Dalles and other likely des tinations were notified, but noth ing has been heard of the men. Ehret brothers and Morgan of Redmond, are the proprietors of general merchandise store which will be established at Cul yer as soon as new quarters can be provided. It is the intention of the promoters to put up a new building, which will be rushed to completion at the earliest possible date. The promoters hope to be ready for business by the middle of March. SUPPOSED MURDERED MAN REAPPEARS Frank Way Comas Bask to Prlnavllla After Thr Weeks' Tramp In 'Country Frank Way, who was thought to have been murdered by his companion, Douglas Tapp, ap peared in Prineville this week safe and sound. He said that he had been roaming around in the country, over toward Cresent, since his absence fromhis enhin some three weeks ago. No trace ot him could be found after his mysterious disaDDearance. nnrl his compaion wasa censed nf mm. dering him for some money he was Known to have had. Tapp was caught at Burns. back to Prineville, waived exam ining trial, and was bound over to the grand jury. The reap pearance of Way clears th it,, - iu- ation. J. H. Barclay, who was injur ed at Metolius last month, was down town Wednesday, tho first time since his accident He looks a little the worse for wears uuljh improving. His friend hope to see hira around raor regularly from w - w WlSj (