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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1902)
m 'AM mi it if ,4 I'! 1 EM IVf:. 8A.TUHDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1902. PUTTING PIPES IN ORDER Is Important at nil seasons of the year. Better to have defects In the steam and water fittings repaired before a serious break occurs. Let us show you how well we can attend to your work. We can put everything In order In a short tlmo and the siuallness of our bill will be a revelation. B. F. BECK, The Plumber Court Bt. Opposite Golden Rule Hotel Cash Grocery ' We invite you to come and see- -us when you need 5 groceries or baking. We ihavejpurchased the Rei ' maniGrocery and Bakery at 636 Main street where I we will conduct a strictly cash grocery. Our plan ( will be to give you more for your money than you can get elsewhere because we will give the cash pat rons the benefit oi our saving on bad debts. Miller Grocery Co. CASH GROCERY AND BAKERY Gome To Us For your lumber and building material of all descriptions and you will save money and get first-class stock. We can sup--plyiyou'with Doors, Windows, Screen doors and windows, building paper, lime, cement, brick and sand. We make a specialty of wood gutters for barns and dwellings. Oregon Lumber Yard Alta St., opp. Court Hoaae. FOR SALE One "of the most comfort able homes in Pendleton, Electric lights, nice lawn and shade trees, stable for two horses A .half section of fine wheat land, all in summer-fallow, north of Pendleton. Good improvements. Almost a section of land in one body, a short dis tance north of town. FRANK. B. CLOPTON 800 MAIN STREET OLD NBWBPAI'EIIB TO ,POT UNDEH a t m nn hiTM. walla, or for wrtD- En Ing1 purpoaea. Old newapapera In Uy ondlM of 100 eaeti t 28 tenU bond! t the HABT OHBUUmAW ci"c, i-cMuiB-too, 'Oregon. , GHQOK COUNTY Zt PRlNEVILLE the center OF A LITTLE EMPIRE, ackrabblts Destri.t ..ve on Ranches. Stories of Early Days Told by Pi oneers. (By a Stafl ..rlter.) Leaving Prlnovlllo and riding to ward juniper-clad hllla one passes over a sago brush dotted expanse of 10 or 12 miles which should be called "Jaokrabbit Flat." Sometimes there would be four or five In sight at once. Over 50 were seen In half an hour's drive, with their gray bodies, black tall, lang white ears tipped with black they lend the necessary touch of ani mation to the desert-lllic sago brush flat. Though they hop along leisurely they can stretch out at an astonish ing speed If the need for speed arises. At the Circle ranch, they have 12 acres of orchard which has borne this year a very heavy crop of ex cellent fruit. As yet no pests have affected tho Crook county fruit. In addition to apples, pears, cherries and other fruit they raise considerable quantities of tho smaller fruits as, raspberries gooseberries, currants and blackber rles. They find ready sale for all tho fruit they can raise. In Prinevllle. Jackrabblt Nuisance. C. W. Circle, Sr., .n conversation, said: "Our greatest trouble arises from tho jacltrabbits. They arc very prolific. They have raised two fami lies this year and some years raise three. They usually make a nest and have their young under a clump of sagebrush, though sometimes they make their nest in a "I burned my stubble field recently and counted 170 iackrabbtts that ran before the fire through the stock yard. They are very destructive to our al falfa fields and gardens. Petitions aro being numerously signed to have a bounty of Ave cents placed on their scalps. One could readily kill from 75 to 150 a day In this vicinity for some time. The coyotes aro being trapped and the rabbits are on the increase. A coyote will eat rabbit when it can't get mutton. Usually they hunt in couples to get rabbits. A coyote alone must bo pretty hungry to cntch a Jackrabblt." A Country of Great Extent. Crook is a county of great .extent and varied resources. Its physical features are remarkable. In the des ert the hoof pats of your horse sound as though you were riding over a cavi ty beneath you. It has a hollow re sounding sound. It is a county of level stretches of sage brush dotted plain of juniper clad foohllls, of ab rupt canons, of rimrock crowned hills. Signs of its volcanic origin are everywhere to be seen. In tho vicin ity of Hay creek the rock is of a yel lowish or reddish brown tint, very porous. It is, full of bubbles and air holes. Not far from Hay creek is a butte upon which opajs are frequently found. Agates, flint, petrified and agatized wood are found abundantly. Seeing some pretty flakes of agatized wood I traced the flake to Its source and came to a stump of a Juniper, agatized beautifully. I have seen trunks 20 inches through, petrified, and petrified tree trunks four or five feet long looking like cordwood, but so heavy one could scarcely raise one end. Volcanic Origin. In one canyon the volcanic rock has weathered and exposed numerous volcanic "biscuits." They run in size form the size of a marble to the size of a water biscuit. They are hollow and when broken show beautiful crys tallzation. Nature was in a tempestu ous mood when the Trout creek and Antelope creek district was made. Huge rock masses, deeply Assured canyons, and other endeavors show the throes through which nature pass ed before, with Are and flame she gave birth to this region. Interesting Pioneers. There are many Interesting pioneers In Crook county. It has been my good fortune to meet many of them. "Uncle" Dave Templeton, of Prine vllle, said: "When I camo from Linn county in 1870, our nearest postofllco was at The Dalles, 120 miles distant. There was no Prinevllle then. Bar ney Prino kept a little blacksmith shop where Prinevllle now stands. He sold whisky, nails, tobacco ana a row other necessities. Prinevllle is named from Barney. He had a little Chero kee blood in him I think. Ho was liv ing up near Milton tho last I heard of him. "I settled on McKay creek. Tho Helena, Mont., Oct. i, 1M2. Dr. C A renin, Helena, .Mont I wlh to thank you lor my re lief I wa suffering agonlea Irom pllea and wan taking mor f nlne 10 relievo me, wlien, on hit adviea of a friend, I procured aixittleof your 1'errln lllo Spe cific and took a tableipoonlul at uUDl and an other in tbe morn lug. At liall pait 12, noon, my wile gave me anotoer tablespoon lul, when my pain all Hopped. In two dayi 1 wai able to attend my regular builLeaa entirely re. llored. It was limply wonderful, Truly joura, Jullui Meyboefer, Furrier, Helena. year after I came tho first store was started here. William Helsler put In a little stofjk of goods. At first I was on McKay creek, hut later I took up a rango on Crooked river. We never fed In those days. Wo rounded up our cattllc twice a year for hording and to pick out the beef steers and novor saw them the rest of the year, wuu oats and bunch grass would hush your hot brim In ots of places, 'ine cattle would get In it and bo out of sight. In Horse Heaven. "The best range I ever saw was on Horso Heaven Creek. Tlio horses would not leave that range. You could leave them there and they would stay and not work back to 'tho hnmn rnmrp as in Other places. Wo drove our cattle to Tho Dalles. Steers could bo bought hero then for $10 n head. I have been offered bands of cattle at ?7 a head. It was no ox penso to raise them. I never saw bet tor range, tho pea vine and rye grass furnished them all tho leeti mey rnlllrl uso. "I remember in tho 70's I was in tho Horsn Heaven country making roundup. Soveral parties came by riding day and night to got to the Loopholo country. An assaycr had given a certificate showing that tho oro from them ran $9100 to tho ton. Two Portland parties wore racing to get there first. One came by way of The Dalles ,thc otner uy way 01 Al bany on the Cascades. Well, I got tho fever and saddled up and rushed In. I took a claim. A man who came a fow hours later offered me a big mule for a half interest In my claim, but I would not have sold for $10,000. t tlimmlit I hail a fortune. A little later I was ready to sell for ten cents, It was a Joke. I am still in uie cat tin business." Pen Blovlns is one of the best known of tho old-timers. Ho camo in isf.i He gave me many Interesting facts relative to the country s cany bcuic ment. Still Alive. "Uncle" Jim Elliott, who lives afew miles east of Prlnovllle Is one of the very early settlers. Ho took up ranch and turned the sage brush land into alfalfa fleld. Ho sold it to T. H La Follette for $5000 recently. "My wife," he said, "left Linn county weighing 105 pounds in tho early 70's. Tho doctors told me she could not live When we had been hero six months, sho weighed 140. That was 29 years ago that she couldn't live and she is still here. Eastern Oregon Is a healthy country and a good coun try to make money in. It is not a very good place to raise a family of hoys in, the influences are better in the Willamette valley for a family." Interesting Pioneers. Grandma Maupln, whose husband a noted Indian fighter, killed the cele brated Chief Panlina, is an interest ing pioneer. Old "Alkali Frank" as Frank Hewitt is called is one of the few men who camo into thij country li. the early sixties. He and his part ner. a Dutch sea captain, named .Meyers, settled near .Mitchell in '03 Decided to Get Married. it got, lonesome tor us and wo got pretty tired of our own cooking," sola Alkill Frand, "so we decided that one of us would get married and briny a wife to the, cabin to do our uotmnifj. we pioyea a game ot seven up to see which of us should go away and find a wife. My partner was tlio one, so next morning at day break ho saddled up and struck out. He went to San Francisco and married a Ger man woman. Things went along pretty smooth after that. It kind of put mo in a notion so I went and got married, too. I livj near Tho Dalles now. In the early days I lost 74 Horses from the Indians. May be, some day the government will pass the Indian depredation act, and I will get my money for them. It was my pacic tram. 1 used to bo a packer." County Formed In 1882. In 1882 IJ. F. Nichols after a hard fight succeeded in having the bill passed which he had introduced, to have Crook county cut off from Wasco county, in 1S85 a portion of Grant county was added to Crook. From east to west the county is 110 miles long wiuio -Its dimensions north and south aro 04 miles. It contains slight ly move than 10,000 square miles. The census of 1900 gives it a population of .1890., At the present time it is estimated that it hns nearer 5000 pop ulation than ?S0. It will be seen from tho above figures that the coun try is very sparsely populated and can support, when the vast stretches of desert are irrigated many times its population. There aro stretches in the county where one may travel half a day and see no ranch. Wido readies of excellent land are only populated by jackrabbits which could be turned into productive ranches if Irrigated. Tho last census there were leported 530,000 acres of deeded non tillable land; 30,000 acres of deeded tillable land with 6,000,000 acres yet open to settlement. There are cer tain districts within tho county suit able only for stock raising, us they are too steep and rooky for agricul tural purposes, but on tho other hands there aro scores of miles, such as aro found around Powells Uutte, Agency I'lains, Hay Stack and similar local ities, where stock raising can yield to farming and produce excellent re sults. Tho day of oreanna and tho maverick aro over. The vigllanco committee is but a memory. Crook county is forging steadily ahead and the next 20 years will see greater advancement and development than the past scoro of years has witnessed, FRED LOCKLEY, Jr. .kdHU TT!V mm oar- Hli.tA. t aeM 1 1 1 Health and beauty tiro tho clories who suitor constantly with weakness tain their lHiauty. I'reRorvivtion ot a rtur.v women own to thmnsnlves. When women are troubled with mcnstruntion, weakness, loucorrhoun, displacement or ulceration 01 the womb, that bearinir down feolincr. inflammation of the ovaries, badk- ache, bloating; (or lTatulunce), general prostration, or arc besot with such lassitude, oxcitability, irritability, choir, "nil srono" and " want - to - bo - lessnoss, they should remombor there is one tried and true remedy. Lydhi E. lMnkliam'g vegetable Case of this Prominent Chicago Confidence in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " llKAit Mns. 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