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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1912)
The Madras Pioneer MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912 NO. 43 LOCAL HUNTERS ARE "GET BUSY!" ADDITIONAL TAXES WILL BE SLIGHT MUCH ACTIVITY IN THE HARVEST FIELDS 10 BE EXHIBITED OFF FOR MOUNTAINS RESOURCES products Show in ... -ii tiA irh ,.a Attract iviuwii 13-23 INCLUSIVE . ... 4. . Ii !onri" .Special Provisions for f Demonstrations mid Lecturers prOIIllSCi) " , - it I . : i n iint in tne History ui 1 Crook County uogins It, and until well alow? .i Utatnat BPfMIPS lfl La HIV " - itv will be in the r.ar- i mi where there are ciose acres of grain to be The harvest season jerer eniereu nuu mmw favorable circumstances, lie eariy indications oi Dip Til I1M I ril 1 1 f.tZll i MV. fieat to be brought in was ...3 4 V. a Tm nw! a Yrt Company Wednesday hv A. P. Clark, of the Plains, who brougth in i t n i i 1 il . in nis nrst loau, ine sting No. 1. Mr. Clark presented with the four Vhip promised by P. W. manager, for the first a sacks or more. t 1 1 if r oesty ea renorteu so iar field of "forty-fold" by Hiram Links, on Tit 1 ma rains, wiucn made 28 V) lUU uLIt . V. 1. l,IJirK ippr nrwi a '-if rnra threshed 18 bushels of rain and wind, which -.1 ii ud cause'd the loss of i ... IS III finilMei in t l in the eastern narfc of to, especially in and the Pendleton and Baker i MiiLi I J v ii ii ii in nil iu nun Tf 141114 (W Tift l n v ci : A L ttw uuiiiiii'i' ill i n iu Dw w j I though it came as nls i Commercial la . . " Wi vuniuy ine wneat MVS. IS llOl lino- nnxir in -"l-l H LU 1 n Pacific coast. There Kill i uie demand from any 'u " look as if the settled downto.'i'umit. ro t..-ii (l "a uiu reports gfain fields ami ih "HI U0 in hn ,,. P h.1i v C4V 111 JUly. anr f. , kail a reI)orw o 0 llllSd r A 111 1 --mv in . 1 mtnn n 1 thls is kept up we f . v,"i' wjnLer i nenciir if ...mi. aerew ' lunu,,1"; the gesown is 1,731,000 " "7 "w waiting L'io irrownr Souvonlrs of Trip Will be Glvon to I Frlonda and Worthy Charitable Institutes John Campbell, Merle Strite, 0. A. Pearce, Porter Ashley, L. G. Savage and P. T. Atkins will leave Friday for the Cascade Mountains, where they will spend a part of the summer hunt ing and fishing. Campbell and Strite will stay a month or six weeks, the'other members of the party returning in two weeks. Great preparations are being made for the trip, which the boys will make on horseback, crossing tne uescnutes at van ora, lollowing up tne Metolius River, and cossing the divide just south of Mt Jefferson, and then swinging southwest to their destination west of Three-fin ger Jack. A detailed telegraph report of the performances of the mem bers of the party would be pre pared and sent in daily to be posted by The Pioneer in the forms of bulletins, but unfortun ately the Western Union did not know of the proposed trip in time to install special wires for the occasion. An accurate diary will be kept, detailing the num ber of big bears Pearce kills, the rattlesnakes Porter Ashley makes friends with and the games of solo Johnny Campbell loses, Loren Gilbert Savage, the poet of "Three-in-One" fame will be Johnny-on-the-spot, and will be ever ready to coax his noodle to grind out a ilttle memorandum in verse, and after the return trot Art Shucert to set it to music. Savacre. however ha? re cently made proof on is home stead, since which time his memory has suddenly conveni ently become b.ank, and it may be that he will not be equal to the task of immortalnng the events of this trip. A trusty camera will be taken along, but all pictures telling bad tales on members of the party will be destroyed, and not made public. All of the hun ers are trying ' -De Mar in Philadelphia Record. SAMPLES SHOULD BE SAVED FOR EXHIBITS Commercial Club UrQosjRonchore to to Bring In Products for Advertis ing Purposes tan... -ure nf intr mndfi on old wheat, but the receipts dailv arriving are tak- and $1 a year for members ing care of this demand and terminal warehouses have plenty At a meeting of the Madras Commercial Club held at the City Hdll Monday night, a special effort was made to secure the co-operation of the ranchers in collecting samples of the many products of this section to dis play at the Products Show at Portland in November, at the St Paul Land Show, at the Com mercial Club exhibits room in Portland and on the railroad ex hibition trains. All samples should be left at the City Hall, where they will be prepared and forwarded to their destination. Tillman Reuter is busy at present preparing an exhibit of dry-land products from Central Oregon for display in Portland. The special committee, consist ing oi k. T. uison, .Lewis a. Irving and D. W. Barnett, re ported, advising that quarterly membership dues of $2 be charg ed business houses, $1 quarterly dues -for individual members, who reside outside the city. The recommendations were adopted. NEW'SETTLERS TO BE . BROUGHT TO OREGON Colonization Company Headed by Louis W. HHI Botini Active Campaign of old wheat on hand. California i'ne nrst rriuay nignt in eacn buyers have dropped out of the month was decided upon as the market and the domestic ship ments are falling off. The condi tions abroad are not altogether bearish for their crops are not showing the general favorable outlook: exports from the coun tries shipping to the importing market of Great Britain and the continent are reduced. "The season of 1912 therefore betrihs with a smaller interior reserve than has existed" for many years, the market is de prived of any inflation, liquida tion has boon drastic, and the new' cron will move slowly and the visible supply, instead of in regular Club. meeting night for the Gus Schroeder, a prominent stockman of the Silver Lake country, was in Madras Tuesday looking after some horses. to decide how to dispose of the trophies of the trip. Pearce has promised the tusks from the elephants he kills to the Smith sonian Institute, following the example . set by his personal friend, Theodore Roosevelt. Sav age wants an alligator, from the "IJfJoingintheway 0r future delivn nJ fa.. Bl in fu "anxiniu What same fix. S tO irivn nnf n,ew flour not Prices win u.. "w obtain lrsomo new wheat. creasing 18,000,000 bushels, as it hide of which he will make a did during the month of July pair or bed-room s lppers, in lanf vnniv will nr nhnhlv bo small- which he will enjoy his next eron the 1st of August than it is homestead in North Dakota, and and generally speaking, "Slats" want to try a lew stunts on a - . n l i nnri iipnifhior than thov have at rhinoceros, ine other manners swsvew v I tlin. Inst two vears. of the party prefer to do their Mill UlillW V w aMFV u I As to values, old wheat Club, is talking after they get home. 04. m.mntnm QTtn Tint- Local friends need not be I w I.I IM frimiii I . . I . . . . rt Hr U - - v Ul II W I'.l I V 11 I T . L11.-nf(inn't-Mtn-ry-r wi fnUrt i , now. unu Kunumuy ouuuiuiit,, wmw ...v v w i I'M iv i: iiivirnt tri . i i i nn.i t . n wi vfii it i u,j,uil n i v s -f rmniF vnriin tr lShAil. wnt?at, SO far , i ,,i . u 1.T l 4-L.U:Mrtrtxn MMin rtflint n vli inrv . imri nntiirniMr if ii 1 1 i.i it: v ntivu uu iniuuuwi uwi -'-' wv mu iininf n. , Mttu Awwtssw - i i i e ii. wheat yet has been issued, These smoke in the cast, for the boys ! 1 I. n II.. 4.! C sroull sales hn.lnu u tvatto" their lives. . VUVWIllt . v. w. v. ...... 0 Branch offices of the Oregon & Western Colonization Company, whose principle office is in Port land, will be opened in Spokane and Seattle in the immediate future, in order that the work of putting settlers on the 800,000 acres in Central Oregon owned by the company, may be ac complished with as little delay as possible. J. L. D. Morrison, of St. Paul, sales manager of the comnanv. arrived in Portland last week, and has organized an effective selling force in Eastern and Western Washington and in Ore gon. W. P. Davidson, president of the company, who with L. W. Hill, owns the controlling in terest in the project, will prob ably come to Portland about Sep tember 1, to remain permanent ly. He will devote his entire time to the development of the Central Oregon property. "We are taking people into our tract every day, " said Morrison last week. "They are coming from almost every part of the country, but most of them are recruited from the states of the Middle West. The excellent crops that Central Oregon will produce this year, will go far toward populating the entire sec tion. All our reports show that the farmers will harvest big yields this season. The dry farming areas are doing excep tionally well. Plenty oi good agricu'tural land is available in Central Oregon at low prices. With improved transportation facilities we should have no diffi culty in settling almost every acre of tillable land. Louis W. Hill, now since he is relieved from active duties as president of the Great Northern, is devot ing much of his time to the Cen tral Oregon development. It is probable that he will come to Oregon soon, to make a personal inspection trip of the Oretron & Western Colonization Companys property. Unfounded Reports Concerning Union High School Election are In Circulation Threshing Will be Going in Full Swing by Latter Part of Week INDICATIONS PROMISING No Damage Done by Recent Hall and Rain in This Section drain Market Quiet All Over Country J. C. Robinson and A. W. Bontrager left the latter the week for Burns nnri ntlm. V v wv4. Harney County points, where they expect to close somo con tracts for automobiles. Several unfounded and incor rect reports have been circulated in some of the several districts which will vote on the Union High School proposition on Au gust 3, and to the end of en deavoring' to state the facts clearly, The Pioneer will go over the question carefully again. As stated the districts, No 13, 1G, 22, 47, 48, 60, 67, 68, 69 and 70 will vote on the question of establishing a High School with in these 'districts, all of which are located in the northern part of Crook County. The necessary petitions have been circulated, and the appropriate action taken by the County Boundary Board, calling for a special election to be held on Saturday, August 3, notices of such election having been sent to the clerk of the dis tricts by the secretary of the Boundary Board. The question as stated on the official ballot, will be as follows; "For an election to be held in Districts No. 13, 16, 22, 47, 48, 60, 67, 68, 69 and 70 on August 3, 1912, on the question of unit ing said districts for High School purposes only, said High School to be located in the present High School building at Madras, Crook County, Oregon." The report has been circulated in some oi the districts that a new building would have to be erected at a considerable expense to the taxpayers. This is not the case, as the present school build ing at Madras was made two stories, and the upi er story has never been finished. The direc tors, with the consent of a ma jority of the voters in the dis trict, have agreed to allow the High School to be located in the second story, and have promised to have at least one room finished in time for the opening of the High School this fall. There will be little extra ex pense this year by the opening of the High School, amounting to not over two mills on the dol lar, and after the establishment of the school and the same has been found to be up to the stan dard of work required in such schools, the County High School j 1 1 i ii i i i . tax mat an tne districts are paying, will be diverted to this school, and the expense will not be any greater for the maintenance of a school here than is paid now for the main tenance of the one at the county seat, and it will enable many more pupils to take advantage of high school work. As to the supervision of the High School, during the first year, the cnairman of the boards of the several district included will comprise the High School board, and each district will lave an equal vote in the taxa- ion and management of affairs. After the first year a regular board will be elected at the an nual school meeting, consisting of ten members. The amount of taxable prperty in the ten districts is approxi mately $650,000, exclusive of several days this .week at the about 35 miles of railroad, which I nome of J. H. Barclay, The Pacific Northwest Land Products Show to be held in Portland, under the auspices of the Oregon State Horticultural Society, November 18 to 23 in clusive, is the expanding of the scope and purposes of rhe Ore gon Apple Show, after careful consideration by the Board of Directors and the officers of the Oregon State State Horticultur al Society. The expansion was determined upon after the con clusion that the interests of those engaged in the many branches of agriculture should be recognized, as well as the in terests of the orchardists. Every district in the Pacific 'Northwest will be invited to arrange for competitive exhibition, collective displays of all orchard and soil products grown in, and best adapted, to their respective lo calities. To the orchardists, districts, commercial clubs and other ex hibitors will be off ered attractive cash prizes and other premiums of value, as an inducement to ex hibit the best of their commerci al fruits and products in all the competitive classes. No entry fee will be charged. The Pacific Northwest Land Products Show wH be education al in character and all its pur poses, and by collecting: in one grand display all that the orchard and soil produces, will enable districts and individuals to com pare their fruit and other crops with all other sections; to con sider the effect of soils and cli matic conditions, and thus learn what varieties are best suited to their own locality. Spraying, pruning and other educational demonstrations and lectures will be given daily. Another interest that will be benefited in an educational way is the man looking forward to the time when he can get back to the land. In the past the in formation given him has been confined mostly to the apple and other fruits and it is now pro posed to give him the tangible, indisputable evidence he wants what each and every district in the Pacific Northwest will produce. This will interest the land seekers and tend to brine settles to all localities. As the Pacific International Dairy Show Association will hold their annual exhibition on the same dates in Portland, it will be an additional attraction, not only to exhibitors, but to a visitors interested in these parti cular lines. Dr. H. B. Haile is spendirtr will bring the total up to about $900,000, making the taxes lower than was at first expected. From a careful census of the number of scholars that will be able to attend a High School in Northern Crook County this fall Crooked River. on and winter, it has been learned that there are between thirty and forty, and with this number to start, good work will be done from the beginning V