The Madras Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912
NO. 52
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local ware house. Inves-
of cars, but from the fact
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cars will continue in effect
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arrange for emenrencv
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warning of a possible car
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fled by railway and indus
publications, and in case of
a contingency, local storinc
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amount of grain that the
recent r.hl'f:ifrn fliantifnt, Una
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the world over has arrived
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toyers in this country ap-
easy, and the Euronean
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w"l have to enmnotn ?n
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m show plainly enough
that this country has raised a
large surplus.
"Primary arrivals have been
at least 12,000,000 bushels larger
than a year ago, despite the
fact that last year's were un
naturally stimulated by the fear
that the reciprocity treaty would
be put into effect.
"Even allowing that this coun
try haB raised a large wheat crop;
that other competing exporting
conutries have large supplies to
sell, and that the importing
countries may not call for as
much wheat as now expected,
there is still nothing unreasona
ble in current prices of wheat.
The American farmer was never
in better position than now to
carry a full crop over to some
possible short crop, and. in the
present status of domestic and
foreign transportation, it -appears
not improbable that he
may have to do the carrying".
preparInTSbits
for competition
Helpful Advice About Solaotlng nd
Preparing Proper Entry la
Important Faotor
One of the first things to do
when considering the selection of
specimens for exhibition purpos
es is to secure a premium list
and determine in what classes
you wish to exhibit If you
already have your selection of
material, study your premium
list very carefully and determine
in. what class your -exhibits will
stand the best opportunity of win
ning a place. Entry of speci
mens in the wrong class often
prevents the winning of a pre
mium which other wise might; be
secured if properly entered.
No matter what your exhibit
consists of, put it up in as neat
a manner as possible. Try and
make your display attractive.
If you have grains or grasses,
put them into neat bundles, cut
all loose leaves that tend to make
it look ragged, cut off the stems
so as to make a neat square butt
Try and have only one variety
in a bundle and ordinarily but
one bundle of a variety. Take
representative specimens of a
variety.
With notatoes take smooth clean
specimens, handle carefully, and
if exhibiting in crates, make
them as attractive as possible.
Putuaa business peck. With
annles trv and secure perfect
specimens, always try and keep
from pulling out the stems, it,
however, thev are missing, don't
try and put in artificial ones. The
more highly colored, tho better.
In short one may say, handle an
your exhibits as carefully'as tho
they were eggs. Have tnem
clean and free from blemishes
and bruises. Put them up as at
tractively as possible; name
them correctly and try and have
them entered at the fair on time.
P. H. Spillman,
Assistant Supt Demonstration
Farms.
.T V. Rfinincrfield and wife, of
Paisley, came in from their home
of lioioiAv. in Lake County, Sat
urday morning and spent several
days visiting friends in maurua
and vicinity. Joe says that bus
iness is good at his new store
where he is now located.
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Tho meeting of the Crook
County Board of Equalization
been sot for Monday,
91. when vou may attend
present any kicks that you
have over your assessment.
't all speak at once.
has
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and
may
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JOHN STOUT RECEIVES FATAL
INJURIES IN RUNAWAY SPILL
TEAM GOES OVER EMBANKMENT
Near Top of Agency Plains Grade Fracture at Base
of Brain Causes Death, Injured Man Never
Regaining Consciousness Buried
at Former Home
The Agency Plains grade north
west of this city was the scene of
a fatal accident Saturday after
noon, in which John Stout, a well
known and popular young stock
man, received injuries which re
sulted in his death.
Stout and his brother-in-law,
William Nartz, had been in town
from Trout Creek looking after
business matters, starting home
about the middle of the after
noon, driving a pair of mules to
a hack. The mules are not afraid
of autos or the usual bugaboos,
but have the peculiarity of dis
liking the approach of persons
on foot. When near the top of
the long hill, the men with the
team met a lad on foot coming
down, and the mules immediately
proceeded to get scared. The
boy hugged the bank, throwing
the team to the outer edge of
the grade, and in a second they
had become unmanageable and
had gone over the hill, turning
the hack over and throwing the
occupants out on the rocky bill
side. Nartz was unhurt and was
up and about in a momnet but
Stout lay unconscious.
Eye-witnesses hurried to the
scene, and the injured man was
brought back to this city and
given attention by Dr. Long,
but all efforts to relieve him were
useless. Dr. Pemberton of Met
olius also made an examination,
but was unable to suggest any
measures short of an operation,
and Dr. Haile, who was camping
at Warm Springs, was sent for,
arriving in the night. It was
the opinion of all that only an
operation could afford relief, and
Suriday morning Mr. Stout, was
takfen to the hospital at the The
Dallas by Dr. Haile, accompanied
by the sufferer's wife and bro
ther who had been summoned
frohi Trout Creek, and his em
ployer, H. L. Priday.
Sunday afternoon an operation
was performed by Doctors Haile
and Coburth, but proved unavail
ing, and the patient passed away
about half past eleven o'clock
SUhday night without having
at' any time regained conscious
ness. Death came as the result
of) a fracture at the base of the
brin.
John Stout was a man of thir
ty, of exceptional physique and
energy. He had long been a res
ident of Crook County, having
bgen in thjejsmploy of H. L. Pri
BayfoK a matter of seven or
eight years as foreman of the
ranch on Trout Creek, and had
formed a wide circle of warm
friends. He was a member of
the I. O. O. F. and was mar
ried before coming to Oregon to
Miss Vena Wilson, of Tennessee,
who survives him. He was a
native .of Mountain City, Tennes
see, and it was to that place that
his body was taken for interment,
leaving The Dalles Tuesday after
noon, accompanied by Mrs. Stout
and a brother who had also made
his home in Crook County.
LET 'ER BUCK AND
ROLL YOUR STEEL!
The Round-up la On and Wild Bunch
la Corralled In Pendleton
for Three Daya
This is the week for the big
dAinora nt. Ppnrlleton. and a lanre
vawaaew w.
number of Crook County folks
have made the pilgrimage to the
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Umatilla metrorons to taice part
in thfi frnvfitfea of the occasion.
The Round-up in the short time
since its inauguration has gained
great favor, throughout the
country at large, and through the
west especially, where the
Dhases of life that it portrays
are fast passing away.
The publicity bureau of the
T?Aiinr1-un has heen busy this
vv w t
year, and the event has been her
alded far and wide as the one
big celebration of the west.
RuMmroos from all over the cow
country are in attendance, in
cluding those famous for freshly
won honors at Cheyenne and at
the Stampede, at Calgary, and
those who are so fortunate as to
bo there are being furnished
with thrills galore..
Born to the wife of James P.
Read of Culver, Oregon, Thurs
day September 26 th a boy.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
GROWS STEADILY
High School and Grades Receive Ad
dltlona Dally Aaalatant May
Become Necessary
As was anticipated, the attend
ance at the local schools has in
creased steadily during this
week, and new names are appear
ing on the rolls daily. The delay
in getting started to school is
unfortunate for the child, but
seems unavoidable under the cir
cumstances, and it will be some
time before the children of the
district are all able to be on hand
for the daily lessons.
The attendance in the high
school has somewhat exceeded
expectations and the original
plans, but such a contingency
was considered when the district
was formed, and will be prompt
ly cared for if occasion arises.
The time of Prof, Kilgore is fully
occupied with the classes as they
are at present, and with the com-'
ing of more pupils for advanced
grades, the hiring of an as
sistant instructor for the high
school looms as a near necessity.
Mrs. Max Wilson and daughter
Maxine, are visiting at the home
of S. E. Gray this week.
Oct Bootlegger on Reservation
Last Friday evening United
States Deputy Marshal Frank
Beatty of Portland arrived in the
city with a warrant for Frank
Winnishut, an Indian, on the
charge of illegally introducing
whiskey wiihin the limits of the
Warmsprings Reservation and
on Saturday made the trip to
the agency in Jim Robinson's
auto. With little difficulty, his
man was located within a few
miles of headquarters, and the
return was made in the afternoon
with the prisoner. Winnishut
evidently realized that he had
been caught with the goods, as
he made no resistance bul waiv
ed examination and was taken to
Portland to await the action of
the Federal Court.
A CALL AND A RAISE
If You Must Have Really, Truly Snake
Story, Sink Your Eye on Thla
FARMER'S INSTITUTE,
MADRAS, OCT. 14
Demonstration Farm and
Experiment Station
Officials
TO TOUR CROOK COUNTY
On Educational Mission Results of
Work at State Farms To Be
Told Fully and Local Con
ditions Discussed
Not satisfied with the absolutely
true tale of the snake-killing
mule as set forth in last week's
Pioneer, now comes the Crcok
County Journal with the state
ment that Ralph Gibson and his
little brother got into a rattlers'
den up on Crooked river last
week and killed 21 of the crit
ters. The writer always did have
hard luck whenever he started
anything but now that he is in
it he is there tp stay.
Speaking of snakes:
Once the writer . was running
a cow outfit down on the Red
river in Texas, and the cook had
a pet bull snake that traveled.
with the chuck wagon all the
time. Say, he was a whopper.
Authorities all agreed that he
was the grandaddy of all the bu 1
snakes, and the way he loved
that cook was a caution. And he
was dead stuck on the near
wheeler of the wagon team, too
sometimes when he'd get tired
of riding with the cook, he'd
crawl but on the wheeler's back
and ride a while. Seemed like
it was hard to tell which one he
thought the most of, the cook or
that mule. One day the outfit
was fording the river in a boggy
place and Claude Algernon Mul
doon, which same was the snake,
was riding on the mule. When
they hit the water he started to
crawl back onto the wagon, just
as the lynchpin busted. There
was the team going ahead and
the wagon bogging down in the
quicksand and the snake was
being separated from his friends,
or one of 'em. It was hard
luck for Claude Algernon. He
hated to think of quitting either
one of them for a minute. He
was right there with the quick
thinks, though, and stayed with
the kite. Throwing a couple of
half hitches around the tongue
with his tail, he took a turn
around the double trees with his
neck, and held the wagon and
team together until they were
clear across the river. That
snake sure did believe in keep
ing his friends together. ' The
hard part of it was, that the
strain had stretched him out so
blamed long that there wasn't
room enough on the seat for him
to coil up any more, and the only
way he could ride the mule was
by wrapping himself around the
critter's bodv. There wasn't;
any way to keep him along with '
the outfit any more, so the cook
finally took and sold him to Bar
num's show as the only boa con
strictor captured on North Amer
ican soil, and got a job exhibit
ing him.
It's a bum breeze that don't
bring somebody a snap.
Visitors to the Crook Countv
Demonstration Farms since their
founding have been very numer
ous, and all who have had the
opportunity to make a trip to
them have done so. and been
greatly benefitted thereby. That
there are many farmers who
would like to make the trip but
who have been unable to do so
is well known, and in order that
these may not be deprived of the
benefits to be gained, from a full
knowledge of the ways and means
of farming on. the model tracts,
the officers of the same, accom
panied by one or two members
of the state experiment station,
will hold a series of Farmers'
Intitutes throughout Crook
County during the month of Oc
tober, the dates and places hav
ing been arranged with the idea
of meeting the convenience . of
almost every farmer in the dis
trict, including meetings during
he potato show at Redmond" and
the fair at Prineville.
The results of the work at the
demonstration farms will be ful
ly set forth, with the lessons to
be gained therefrom, and local
conditions will be thoroughly dis
cussed in each locality. The
importance of these meetings to
the farmer cannot be overesti
mated, and every man who is
depending upon the products of
the soil for his prosperityand
this means every man in Crook
County should make a special
effort to attend at least one of
the meetings.
The institute at Madras will
be held on Monday, October 14,
and the experts of the state
farms will meet with the cooper
ation of the local commercial
club, and progressive farmers,
in an effort to make the affair
an unqualified success. Full
particulars concerning theevent
will be published at a trifle later
date. The complete schedule
for the series of institutes is as
follows:
Madras, October 14, 2.30 P. M.
Metolius, October 14, 8 P. M.
Culver, October 15, 2.30. P M.
Terrebonne, October 15, 8 P.
M.
Redmond, October 12, 8 P. M.
Bend, October 19, 8 P. M.
Sisters, October 18, 2.30 P. M.
Lapine, October 19, 2.30 P. M.
Prineville, October 17, 8 P. M.
Haycreek Ranch Sells Sheep
James Rice and Jack Church,
passed through Madras yesterday
morning on their way to the
summer sheep range, where they
expect to be for several days,
classifying a bunch of sheep that
we oaiawin sneep Company sold
a iew aays since.
The sale was made hv Mv t?w
of 9500 head of lambs, wethers
and ewes, the price being $2.50,"
$3. 00 and $4. 00 per head, and were
purchased by Frank Ketchum of
The Dalles, who will ship a
greater part of them for feeding
purposes, the rest being sent to
the Portland market.
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