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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1912)
0 The Madras Pioneer FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR SCHOOL EXHIBITS 1912 SHOWS MANY JONES AND McCLAY PORTLAND- AUTOISTS 75 GENTS RECEIVED .aLI1 H hnifffll IIMI1HL II"" W"" H IHE LIMELIGHT - a m a aaai PECOLIAR TRAITS RESIGN POSITIONS PAY SHORT VISIT FOR McCALL WHEAT i 11 " 111 1 I I I I .nil ! i ..i, i I I mm i 1 " ""' ' MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 22nd. 1912 NO47; i m ai iii nnnri inn s i nil i u ilu v uli'li ubii Thatcher Good In Madras n nrJATPR I AKE II I k III llllf 1 ...nutter Highway" " Mae Yeara Promoting .1 A -I gjltail Trn$coniincn. Highway i--. pdleton and Central with Madras enruutu mMt nractical route Mtional highway irom xbi- y-t i : ii n f inn n I . ..h i. nrmr. ittitiuiii" e nuu rtor National r arte, .it Poiid nnrl San Franscis- ui roua the opinion of Charles w. j "The Uood uoaus " was in Madras a few Thursday morning. Col- .ut- a hn m known DV ICIIUIGI, 7" . fUrrtiitrhnnr. the ners whuuis . . . i t.. nlnfl VPflrS Hfl- j i...iin n nnnnno Meh he would designate Yellowstone National I. reaching from New City to San Franscisco. that period of time he . . . twice crossed the contm- bis wagon, which bears evidence ofjits share in choosing the most ad- .... 1 A ! V.! roadway, and advanc- ( i I T M.t k it nas' ueen dobsiuib ior do. I .i .1 r i .1 If tJ nnmi v v n n u n ri r- 1 n n iyi transcontinental road va nann nnnnrAi nnn rnn actually built. He works 1 a .a iirm in tin in iiiiii til iiimn. sakes his wav lceturincr J " tit and so practical have is suggestions, that many wio OUUJJIUU 1MB IUUUUUUB, i vrnmrnn t ii ai m im if n He has only recently locationH from Yellow- National Park to Glacier n M..MWII vvi 1VUU UltUUlU ftOn HQ VJnrMUxnini- Tl i " alio, UttUUJJUIIILf 1UU" h thiB ciiy, and thence to San Franscisco. mode of travel ia rather In & Wlinrrm Vintvltir the nawin !4- i. j --umiiig it uuura, urawn ..no opuiuan muies, ac- two dogs, he simDlv o Ui V.UI1UI everywhere, and when he . v c inana out ma choice BiiumaKestheBamo Attn am v... umcoo un to wnt1. : ii . , hi me locality in i goca roads in gen , . -vvjiui HU1U innr n -vjr iiu wnniM return EM1n .f it . vv,u" tne state later season, when harveatino- --4WHJU, ana endeavor mo iannora n Kffn.. ovucra, road rnrifi;i.jA0 o -"UKoe: ma work ,a uieiarmnra nvw1 . ... riff- '' in no " M " . h are not nrae or culd be improved Oration Trunk will Curry Children's Display to Stato Pair Without Charge The Oregon Trunk and other Hill roads in Oregon have agreed to transport, free of charge, to the Stato Fair, at Salem, and return, all exhibits made by the school children of the state. Other railroads have made praci cally the same concessions, thus assuring a splendid exhibit of school work at the annual fair. The railroads require, however, that all such exhibits be concen trated and shipped together from each school or school district un der the direction of the superin tendent, principal or other pro per authority, and if returned to original shipping point, must be handled under the Bame condi tions. The exhibits will not be accepted under this agreement unless tendered in accordance with the conditions set forth. And furthermore, the railroads require that he superintendent, principal or other proper author ity, in order to got the benefit of this agreement, must place on the bill of lading or sliipping re ceipt, the following notation, over their signature and official title: "Shipment contains exhibits of regularly enrolled pupils of shcool or school district for exhibition (and not for sale) at the Oregon State Fair." This rrangcmjBt'is effective from August 1 to September 80. Frank Eikins, of Prineville, was a visior in Madras Thursday afternoon. RAILROAD OFFICIALS ON INSPECTION TRIP Prosldonto Young "and Elliott with Aaalatanta Mako Hurrlod Tour Annual Rainfall, Silver Thaw, Thun der Storma ato Mako Year Remarkable President J. H. Young, of the Hill lines, J. Russell and J. P. Rogers, superintendents of the Oregon Trunk and the S. P. & S. roads and President Howard Elliott, of the Northern Pacific passed through Madras Sunday enroute to Bend, on an inspection trip, returning on the north hnnnri trin about midnignt. They were pleased with gen eral conditions in this section, and were eDsecially interesed in the demonstration farms at Metolius and Redmond. Soldiers at Wanmprlngs Under the command of Major E. F. McLachlin Jr, about sou artillery men will arrive at Mill Creek, on the Warmspring reser vnfinn Frid&v for the annual armv manouvres and target vMfli nf inn The detachment is jk awfiwvi fVin Vnnpnnver BarracKPa and will probably remain on the ronorvntinn for BDOUC buvoii avwv w-- weeks. t MpTcfrfrarr. who has been traveling in the southern part of the State, spent a few days at homo the latter part of the week. Monday he left for dif ferent points in the nortnweai em part of the state. CoiincM Aceeato nealanotlone After Qoverner Plafuaeo to Inves tigate Further August this year has broken aU records for rainfall for that month with the exception of August 1899 and bids fair to shatter that record also. Up lo date in this month 2.12 inches of rain have fallen. In 1899 the total precipitaion in August was 2.5 inches most of which fell in the latter part of the month. August has also proved almost a record-breaking month for thunder storms. The average number of such storms a year in Oregon is three. This year there has been a total of eight, three of which occured in August. The freakiness of August weather in 1912 is, however, no more remarkable than that which has prevailed under the jurisdiction of the weather gods since the very beginning of the year. Forecaster Edward A. Beals, admitting that the weather has been a bit unusual, asserts that "weather is made up of freak conditions anyhow," and that the year 1912 has "pulled off" not a single freak that has not been very nearly duplicated at some previous time since the establishment of the weather bureau. However, it is doubtful if there are many years that have preceded 1912 in which the weather has kept up such "con? tinuous vaudeville" as it has this year. Usually, it appears from ;he data a year has been content with producing not more than it i mi . one unusual ireaK. mis year has produced a whole sideshow of freaks. January 3 is recorded as be ing sunshiny all day. A notation in the weather office for January shows that running ice in the Columbia River for a time de laved traffic between Portland and The Dalles. Two days later came the "silver thaw" which eclipsed in its duration and the amount of damage caused by the great thaw of January 28, 1907. All through the Bummer months the temperature has shown an unusal endency to hop from one extreme to another, nuttincr Winter underwear in the .... ... nff ao-in. on airin class, with Mr. Finnem of comic memory. Mav 7 was the hottest day of the year up to that date, with a temperature of 88, two days later the thermometer took a drop and the records report 'frost" Two days afterwards un bobbed the mercury again to 89 degrees for another May heat record. There was also the hot spell .. . . ! i T. I ...t.'.l. in the miaaie oi duiy. in wmwi the thermometer shaved the up ner edce of records of nearly all the nrevious years, and in this month, after an unusually hot season, down dropped the unsta- hle auicksilver again and then - .... began the rainy spell that bids fair to break the precipition re cord for the month. This year has not broken the thunder storm record, for in 1905 there were 18 thunder stdtms recorded, the annual average be onlv three. Up to the pres ent date, however, 1912 is doing well in the thunder storm bust ness, with a record of eight to its credit, some of which were unusually destructive. The elec torial storm of June 26 set fire to Mayor H. F. Jones and Mar shall McClay, of Redmond, both of whom had incurred the ill will of Governor West, handed in their resignations to the City Council Monday, and thus made unnecessary Governor West's threatened raid of the city with the state militia and the declaring of martial law. No" .successor has been selected to fill either vacancy. ihe Redmond situation de veloped when a'detective, work ing it is said at the instance of the Governor, had Mayor Jones arrested and convicted, by a jurjr in the justice court, on the charge of gambling. Governor Welt promptly demanded the Mayor's resignation, and that of the marahall, 'who had know ingly allowed gambling to run open and undisturbed during the past The Council held up the resignations, and wired the Governor inviting, further in vestigation, before forcing the officials to resign. Governor West replied that his in-vesiga-tions were satisfactory to him, and the Council accepted the resignations. Last week Governor West de manded the resignation of the Mayor and Justice of the Peace Huntington, because of their negligence or refusalto.clean up the city.It ftunderstood that he has serve'd notice on officials hroughout the state, and on some few in particular, that unless conditions changed promptly, .a number of other resignation's would be asked for. Bodies Not Found s Though men have been con stantly at work hunting for the bodies of Irving Williams and E. M. Baker, who were drowned in the Deschutes River last week, no trace of the bodies has been found. Relatives of 'the dead men have' arrived and nothing has been spared in an effort to locate the bodies. vVe note that several contract ors have been busy this week figuring on the improvements to be made at the school building to accommodate the new High School. Miss M. A. Lee and Ernest Wood, of Blizzard Ridge, were in Madras Saturday. Miss Lee is another enercretic school teach er, who desires to avail herself of the opportunity of taking some of Uncle Sam's domain. Party Enroute to Lakevlew Congress Stopa In Madraa Saturday Afternoon Two cars of Portland people, enroute to the Development Con cress which meets in Lake- view this week, passed through Madras Saturday afternoon, spending only a few minutes be fore leaving for Prineville where they spent the night. Word had been received from C. C. Chapman, of Portland, who was in charge of the excursion, that eleven cars would come through Madras, but a grevious error occured somewhere, only two cars showing here. Other Portland excursionists went to Bend by rail, taking cars at that place, a second party crossed the mountains and went by way of Burns, while a third contingency expected to go via Klamath Falls. Those who came through Ma dras had motored from The Dalles, and expresse'd them selves as much pleased with the country through which they had passed, being most agreeably surprised at the splendid crops seen on the Agency Plains. Included in the party in Ma dras were Right Reverend Charles Scaddincr. bishop of Ore gon; Mrs. Scadding; C. C. Chap man, secretary Oregon Develop ment League; Mrs. Chapman; S. C. Pier, manager Marshall-Wells Hardware Comnanv: F. J. Eng land, special 'correspondent"' Chi cago Tribune; W. H. Chapm. president Chapin & Herlow Mortgage and Trust Company and 0. M. Plummer secretary Portland Union Sockyads.. MANY ATTRACTIONS FOR FAIR VISITORS thaShaver schoolhouse and dam aged several other buildings. There were also the three August thunder storms, one of which knocked out a citizen named Struck, putting the Hawthorne bridge out of commission for several minutes, and did con siderable damage in other places in the vicinity of Portland. With such a long list of freak stunts to its credit and with still four and one-half months "to go on," the year 1912 ap pears to stand an excellent chance of establishing a record. at least for the number and variety of its unusual freaks of weather. Oregomari, Much:' Enthusiasm Being Manifested Throughout State Several New Featurea Added Crop of Turkey Red Grown on Plains Bring r High Price W. A. GORDON -PURCHASER Jg JgJFr" Ideal Weather Keeps all Threshers at Work Harvesting: Yields Reported In Northern Crook County Unless there is some adverse factor pending to mar success, the Oregon Stae Fair this year will surely claim the blue ribbon for being the best state assem bly ever arranged in the Pacific Northwest Repeated d i s a p- pointments have not detered the State Board of Agriculture in the least. It has expended over $54 000 this year in its effort to present to the people of Oregon and elsewhere the finest free at tractions obtainable; to draw the fastest horses on the coast to Lone Oak track and offer every encouragement 10 the stockmen, poultrymen and agri culturists .throughout the state. A list of the most original free attractions ever seen on the state fair grounds has been prepared by the board, while the Parker Shows this year are coming to the fair better and larger than ever. In addition to the numerous free attracions and special en tertainments, the Board has ar ranged for an interstate shooting tournament to take place the first and second day of the fair, while the remainder of the . week will be devoted partly to an in terstate dog show; a Eugenics exposition and the regular amuse- Seventy-f ive cents a bushel for ' an entire crop which will amount to possibly 5000 bushels of Tur key Red wheat is the essence of the contract sismed last week by Carles T. Mc Call and A. H. Parkey of Madras, and the W. "A. Gorbdon Co., of Portland. As far as investigation as dis closed, this is the highest price paid for wheat this season. The wheat covered by the contract was raised on the, McCall home stead on the Agency Plains .four . miles north of Madras, and is . being thrashed at present by Parkey. Bros, with their new combine harvester Local hand lers of the grain say that this wheat is the best that has been shown in Madras this year. With ideal weather, the trashing At T i 1 y-i crews over me jwonnern tjrooK County are busy this week, and no report has been received at this, ''office- in any. way- con tradicting prophesies of the largest yields ever recorded in this section Rev. Gilmer Leaves Rev. Carl Gilmer, who has had charge of the M. E. Church in Madras tor the past three months, left Monday morning for his former home at Oak Grove, Washington, 'where he expect to take the principalshio of the school for the coming year. Rev. Gilmer has become popular during his short stay in the city, and it is with regret that his friends see him go. Two Warm Ones Wednesday and Thursday of this week were days that will not be forgotten soon. On both davs the thermometer in front of the post office registered well over the hundred mark, and though other instruments in town did not record such a high mark. most of those who were on the , streets, were inclined to think that the post office thermometer was right The great humidity rendered the heat doubly oppressive. Dr. H. S. Hamel has rented ,the building just north of the Smith Barber shop, and as soon as his equipment arrives will open his dental parlors. ment and exhibit features. The carnival spirit will be a leading addition to the fair this year, and entertianment and amuse mept has been provided for every man, woman and child. Enthusiasm is beinir manifoat. wtllAVIVW ed by farmers, business men and the laboring classes in every section of Oregon, and the at tendance this year promises to surpass any thing enjoyed by the State Boards of Agriculture heretofore.