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.