The Madras Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912
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STARTS ON SEASON'S RUN
dthe Outlook Is Bright
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M.rket Conditions Have Improved
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DflllyCapaclty Is Seventy
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sharply at seven ociock xuea-
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best Crook County wheat
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throughout the year,
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be in evidence this year.
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the interior, as shipping facil-
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In Trouble over Mortgage
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lavorof A. C. Sanford, Hipe
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MULE IS DEATH TO
RATTLE SNAKE
Kllla Rattler "All by Her Lonsaomo"
Taka Haron YburTrlp In Place of
' "Snake Bite Medicine"
james Rico 0f Hnycrook, re-
nd Tuesday evening; he
- men who are looking
Ceding stock.
Douglas Hood and 0. Hedland
returned Tuesday afternoon from
a trip to Warm Springs, bringing
in some fine Indian pictures and
the champion snake story of the
season. The snake story runneth
thusly:
Coming up the hill at Mecca,
admiring the scenery and think
ing about almost any old thing
but danger, Hood drove the team
almost on top of a rattle Bnake
before seeing it. At the last
minute he gave a wild heave on
the lines and one mule went into
the clear in a hurry, but the
other had not stopped in time
and had stepped squarely on
the "varmint's" head. The
snake writhed and twisted and
sounded his war rattle, but the
mule seemed to know that she
was right there with the stran
gle hold, and refused to get
scared or to lift her foot until the
last wiggle was over. When she
finally consented to move her
foot Mr. Rattler was deader than
a campaign lie after the polls
close, and. her- reputation as. a.
snake killer was fully estab
lished. Some bright person has sug
gested that this mule would be a
valuable animal for camping and
hunting parties to take along, as
they would not then have to re
sort to the necessity of carrying
such great quantities of "snake
bite" medicine.3 This idea may
have some elements of sound
ness, but the old familiar plank
declaring for "no snake bite
medicine, no hunt," will contin
ue to receive the support of most
of the old line voters. Think of
it. Go out in the wilds with noth
ing between you and a horrible
death except a doggone mule?
Not on your tintype!
The Board of Directors of the
Mud Springs School District,
No. 18, desire to announce that
school will open in that district
Monday next 23d., with Mrs.
Joyce Tellefson as instructor.
Boy Lost in Portland
To place her 7-year-old son in
one of the Portland grammar
schools and then to forget to
which school she had tken him
was the experience of Mrs. C. G
Hurt, of Madras, Or., yesterday.
Mrs. Hurt came to Portland
Monday with her son and reg
istered at one of the leading
hotels. Yesterday morning she
took the chlid to one of the
schools on the East Side, promis
ing to call for him at noon.
When noon came she forgot at
what school she had left him,
had forgotten what car to take to
reach him and did not know what
way to turn.
Bewildered and worried, she
told her troubles to Patrolman
Crompton, who took a descrip
tion of the boy and promised to
aid her. The boy did not know
where his mother was staying
and evidently wandered away
after school was dismissed, as
he had not been located last
night. Ho wore a blue serge
suit and a gray cap. Oregonian.
ATTENDANCE QOOD AT
OPENING OF SCHOOL
Showa Increase Over Opening Week
Laat Year and Many Puplla Are
Not Yet Enrolled
School started Monday, and the
kids with their books are again
familiar sights on the street
morning, noon and night, and
the daily games of scrub, hide-and-seek,
black-man, etc, have
been revived on the grounds sur
rounding the school house.
In the matter of attendance
there is a gratifying increase
shown over the opening week
last year, and when all the stud
ents are enrolled the gain will
be a very substantial one. The
delayed threshing k'ept very
many from being on hand the
opening days, as many of the
residents of the district who ex
pect to send their children to
town to school are not yet thru
with their work. The work on
the new room at the school house
has progressed nicely, and com
fortable quarters, with plenty
of room, have been provided for
both the grades and the high
school. Prof. Kilgore and the
other teachers are very much
pleased with the outlook for a
highly successful school year. :
Stanley Gray, has recently se
cured a lease on the Sanford
Hall for the winter and expects
to hold several entertainments',
and dances during the coming
winter. The first dancing will
be Friday evening the 27th.
GOES AFTER FAMILY:
BRINGS HOME DEER
W. Q. Louoka Rune Into Bunch of Big
' Bucka Near Foley Springe
and Baga Three
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The -luck of some people is
enough to make a fellow want' to
gel married arid send his wife
up in the mountains to spend a
few months and then go up to
Dnncr ner nome aioncr in ine
huhting season. This is why.
Along in the summer W. G.
Loucks and family went up to
Foley Springs, Mr. Loucks com
ing home to look after harvesting
and then going back about three
weeks ago to bring down the
family. He hunted around
little for a few days without sue
cess, until on the morning of the
day before he was to start home.
Then his luck all came in
bunch. He had gone to a good
run in the neighborhood of the
Ira Isham place, prepared to call
the season ended and go home
empty handed, when -here came
the deer. When the smoke of
battle had, rolled away, two five
point bucks and one spike had
bitten the dust, and Loucks pro
ceeded to hold a war dance all
by his lonesome. He brought in
one of the big bucks when he
came home late last week, and it
was much admired.
Campbell now steps out of the
local champipnship in favor of
Loucks, but the party of sharp
shooters who left here Friday
haye sworn to beat thia record
or Btay:ou all winter,
FIVE THOUSAND BUSHELS OF
CROOK COUNTY WHEAT
SUFFRAGETTES TO
HOLD BIG RODEO
Handsome Silver Cup
GIVEN by U W. HILL at REDMOND POTATO SHOW
LOUIS W. HILL, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Great Northern Railway, whose advocacy of the local County
Fair as one of the greatest agencies for rapid development that a
community can use is well founded, has signalized his interest in
the Second Annual Redmond Potato Show and Fair, October 11
and 12, by offering a silver cup as a special prize "to be carried off
by the farmer showing the 36 best and largest potatoes. Every
farmer is urged to support the show by attending and entering his
best products in the various competitions, "It's worth while."
The Wild Bunch at Pendleton To Be
Branded With "Vote a for
Women"
Ever since the Spaniards
landed.the first bunch of dogies
on the Mexican coast away back
in fourteen or fifteen hundred
and some odd, the cowboy and
the Indian have been up against
a hard game. First the cowmen
put the skids under the Indian
and trundled him off the range
and back into the hills, and then
along came sheepmen, barb
wire, nesters, irrigators and dry
farmers and proceeded to stack
the cards and back the cowboy
of the deck. Only a small hand
full of the hardiest ones sur
vived. And now comes news from
Pendleton that will strike terror
into the heart of the boldest,
baddest buckaroo in the country
and cause him to go stampeding
over the fiat for the tall timber
like a bunch-grasser that has
just piled a pilgrim the Oregon
suffragettes are going to invade
Pendleton during the Round-ur
with the avowed intention oi
pinning a "Votes for Women'
I ribbon upon each and every one
of the wild bunch.
This is going to be like taking
candy from the baby for the suf
fragettes, but on the level it
doesn't look like a square deal
for the cowboy. You take a gen
uine old alkali who, when with
his own gang or out on his own
hook, can hold his own with any
thing from a locoed cayuse or a
grizzly bear to a mixture of
three different kinds of squirrel
whiskey and valley tan without
ever batting an eye, and'let one
school-ma'am get himicornered
down at the postoffice and what
does he do? Gets red as a Col
orado sunset, chokes, spits.
sputters, swallows his chew of
Star, gets his feet tangled up so
that he can't make a getaway,
and the first thing he knows that
schoolma'am has him roped and
tied and don't let him get away
until he has promised to saddle
up "Old Bailey" next Sunday
and come over and take her
over to see the other school
ma'am on Cottonwood Creek.
And everybody knows that a
schoolma'am isn't one-two-three
to a suffragette. Just let a fully
determined bunch of the latter
get down to Pendleton all dolled
up in tailor made skirts, nice,
clean white shirtwaists, fluffy
ties, low shoes with high heels,
crushed felt hats with feathers in
'em, and those gladsome smiles-
there just naturally wont be
enough ribbons to go around.
It will take anyway two to
make a hatband, and most of
the gang will want to get
enough to make a neck scarf or a
Sunday shirt, just to show that
they really mean it.
Right now, this equal suffrage
card looks like a mighty good
one to chance a stack on, open,
so far us the cow country vote
is concerned.
Are Conning to the Local
Warehouses
Daily
TRADE CONDITION STRONG
In All Lines of Business Throughout the
Entire Country Wheat Crop
Estimated at 700,000
000 Bushels
If there is anyone who doesn't
believe that Central Oregon,
and especially Northern Crook
County, has raised the bumper
wheat crop of her history, let
him stand around and count the
wagons that are making the
down hill pull to Madras or let
him go up in one of the local
warehouses and juggle sacked
gram all day long. If exercise is
I what he is hankering for he can
I sure get accommodated, and
then some. The receipts Wed
nesday at the warehouses totalled
clo3eto the 5000 bushel mark.,
and this record will be crowd
ed or beaten daily for several days
to come.
And the grain is Tight there
with the quality. The damage
ha3 proven practically nothing,
and the weather for the last two
veeks -has been ideal, so that
he local crop is by now fairly
well harvested, although some of
"the-fiiirgrowers will Be busy in
the field for several days, and
there is a great deal of wheat yet
to thresh.
Prices at Pacific coast ter
minals have ruled pretty much
as last week, and while the Chi
cago market, as usual, has been
subject to a few fits and starts,
trading oh Tuesday of this week
closed a"bit stronger than at the
corresponding time a week ago.
Dun's Review takes the following
optimistic viev? of the general
situation : (
"Record-breaking crops and
record - breaking production of
iron, steel, copper and other pro
ducts have created a conviction
that the advance toward com-
Iplete restoration of industrial
and mercantile prosperity is sure
and permanent The principal
obstacles to the advance are not
disputes over economic theories,
but shortages in money, in labor,
and in transportation facilities.
The monthly Government crop
report issued this week confirmed
preliminary estimates of enor
mous crops of corn, spring
wheat, oats, hay, fruit and other
products. Spring wheat instead
of showing the usual deteriora
tion, gained, slightly in condition
and the indicated harvest reaches
the unprecedented total of 300.
000,000 bushels against only 190,
682,000 bushels as the final out
come last year. This large in
crease is partially offset by a
loss of about 40,000,000 bushels
in winter wheat ,yet the combin
ed production is placed at 690,
000,000 bushels and in not a few
quarters there is a belief that
the aggregate will exceed 700,
000,000, bushels.
Chester E. iRoush left Sunday
for The Dalles, and Portland,
where he expects to purchase a
stock of winter merchandise for
The Madras Trading Company,
The announcement is made
public this week that the trans
fer of J. E. Bedingfield's house
and lot, has been sold to Mrs.
John W. Jones. The sale was
for the consideration of $800.00.
Mrs. Jones expects to reside in
town so to be near school facil
ities for their children.