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
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,.a Attract iviuwii
13-23 INCLUSIVE
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.Special Provisions for
f Demonstrations mid
Lecturers
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Crook County uogins
It, and until well alow?
.i Utatnat BPfMIPS lfl
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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
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ippr nrwi a '-if rnra
threshed 18 bushels of
rain and wind, which
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ud cause'd the loss of
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IS III finilMei in t l
in the eastern narfc of
to, especially in and
the Pendleton and Baker
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IS llOl lino- nnxir in
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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
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aerew ' lunu,,1"; the
gesown is 1,731,000
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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
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nnri iipnifhior than thov have at rhinoceros, ine other manners
swsvew v I
tlin. Inst two vears. of the party prefer to do their
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As to values, old wheat Club, is talking after they get home.
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mu iininf n. , Mttu Awwtssw - i
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wheat yet has been issued, These smoke in the cast, for the boys
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sroull sales hn.lnu u tvatto" their lives.
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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.
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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
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