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WEDNBSDAY. FKB. 3, 1909.
Kill It tnstantcr.
One of the most pernicious bills
introduced at the present session of
the legislature is the one that would
make unlawful the taking of certain
pledges by a candidate seeking elec
tion to an office. The bill is aimed
directly at Statement No. 1 and if
it should become a law, the result
would be that it would thereafter
be unlawful for any candidate to
subscribe to" the Statement. The
bill is the child of the discredited,
disgruntled machine politicians of
Oregon and should be killed in
stantcr. If these same corrupt political
tricksters can succeed in getting the
bill adopted no candidate could
come before the people with a
pledge to vote for the popular
choice for United States senator.
Hence, the bill would aid
the political trickster and corrupt
polstican the tool of the interests
to an election, inasmuch as no
candidate would be pledged and it
would be much more difficult for
the decorate to know the machine
candidate from the one who would
observe the people'scommands. The
burs eptire purpose is in the inter
est of corrupt politics.
Why shouldn't a candidate pledge
himself to the people to work
and vote for certain desired meas
ures? Can anyone advance a
rational reason why be should not?
A legislator, senator, or any other
officer is supposed to work in be
half of the people. He is their ac
credited representative to do as
they wish and to procure the en
actment of those measures that they
desire. He is thctr paid servant.
If a candidate aspires to election,
what is more reasonable or just
than that he should pledge himself
to the people to work in behalf of
their interests? Such is entirely in
line with clean politics and good
and just government.
Within one day Oregon's Jegis
latureielected a United States scna
tor, and now is devoting the balance
of the session to considering needed
legislation. The legislators are
quietly attending to the business
for which they are elected instead
of spending weeks in deadlocks, cor
rupting and bribing public officials,
bitter wrangling and strife a dis
grace to the state and thi nation.
That has been history in Oregon
prior to the adoption of Statement
No. 1. That is what is happening
now in certain states where the old-
time machine politician has full
sway in the election of a United
States senator. Boodle, graft, a
"sack," bribing, corruption, and
the election of a senator whose
whole duty would be to protect and
further the interests of the trusts
and resource grabbers.
And yet some men in Oregon
have the unmitigated gall to at
tempt to force the people back to
that state of affairs. Yes, and even
after they have voted overwhelm
ingly against it. This bill is a per
nicious measure. Kill it instanter.
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Profit in Feeding Sheep on Irrigated Land.
Continued from last wteV.
construction of good roads and yet
would Dlnce the payment for them
partly on the coming gcucration,
which is just inasmuch as those
who come later would be equally
the beneficiaries of a system of good
roads. The amendment should be
adopted and the bonding provision
made law.
The Oregonian rightly says it
would be an insult to the electorate
of Oregon for the legislature to en
act a law increasing the number of
supreme court judges an insult be
cause at the June election the elec
torate voted against such action.
At the Tunc election the electorate
voted overwhelmingly in favor of
making Statement No. 1 compul
sory, and yet there is a measure
now before the legislature whose
purpose is to kill Statement No. 1.
Would not the adoption of that
measure likewise be a rank insult
to the electorate?
February comes in so warm.
balmy and springlike in the Bend
country that it causes one to think
of garden-making and to begin to
look up the spades, hoes, rakes and
shovels. There is health, recre
ation and lots of fun in turning
over the warm, moist earth, in
planting the seeds, and in watching
them sprout and grow to maturity;
yes, lots of Tun for the man who
enjoys and can appreciate such
work.
Central Oregon is vitally inter
ested in the irrigation bill that has
been introduced in the legislature.
It is a good measure and should be
adopted, with one or two amend
ments. The Bulletin hoDes nnd
believes that Senator Merryman
and Representatives Belknap and
Brattain will work without ceasing
for its enactment. By so dointr.
they will be furthering, in the bot
sense, the interests of their constitu
ents and of the entire state.
Governor Chamberlain will do a
good thing by vetoing a lot of those
salary-grabbing measures now be
fore the legislature. There is al
together too much of that at the
present session.
County Judge Ellis is sadly be-
hind the times. He should be at
Salenv lobbying for an increase in
ins salary.
We want your subscription.
There are two or three measures
before the present legislature in be
half of "good roads" legislation.
One of the most commendable of
these is a proposed constitutional
amendment empowering a county
to issue bonds to an amount not
exceeding one per cent of the as
sessed valuation of its property, to
raise money for the construction of
permanent county roads. This
would provide funds at once for the J
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gives lustre to the hair and stop
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Mow Business Is Uullt Up.
Going further iuto details, Mr.
Mullen explained fully how the
farm flocks arc built up, and what
results are obtained. Ou this phase
of the business he wrote:
Iu the discussion at the Nampa
institute on "Sheep on the Farm,"
Prof. French told his experience.
Three years ago he bought about a
hundred grade Shropshire ewes.
Last fall he sold his ranch and was
obliged to sell the sheep too. His
sheep bad sheared an average of 10
pounds yearly and when he sold
the ewes brought $4 50 nnd the
lambs $4 00. They made him
nearly $3,000 in three years, or
over $6 each per year. He said be
intended to buy more as soon as he
got another ranch. He also men
tioned Mr. Laughlin. who made a
sheep talk at the Caldwell institute,
who pastured 14 to the acre. An-
other man I have heard of since.
Mr. Aiken, pastures 13 per acre,
the same as my figures; also the
same amount of hay in the winter,
but his lambs sold for $4 each and
fleeces averaged nine pounds, and
sold at 2t cents, making just about
$0 for each ewe. All these figures
make my little 5 1 each look small
and conservative indeed.
Counting eight sheep per acre
makes their income $48 per acre to
my $31. Another man three miles
north of me has pure blood Lin
coins. These bring him S30 each.
Figure it out for yourself; as for me
I am coinc 'awav back and sit
down.
You can see that these prices can
be cut in half and still be a
thing.
Now, let us compare Idaho and
Ohio. I was born in northern
Ohio, right on Lake Erie, and ol
though I never lived on a farm, I
could not help but know in a gen
eral way about their sheep. We
also have home papers every week,
and I follow the sheep news pretty
closely. In fact, if I see the word
sheep I stop right there and see
what it says, wanting to soak in all
the information I can.' I have
learned in this way that Ohio farm
ers consider sheep very profitable,
and there seems only one draw
back, which often drives a farmer
out of the business, and that is
sheep-killing dogs. The county
there pays for killed and injured
sheep, and every quarterly session
of county commissioners shows
quite a list of claims of this kind.
The farmers have kept sheep
there for more than 50 years, so
they have surely tested the profit in
ttiat time. Lands sell at sioo to
$150 per acre, as fine farming lauds
as anywhere East, and still the av
erage hay production of that coun
try was only a little over a ton for
clover and a little less for timothy,
per acre. That buy is worth $10
to $15 per ton and is fed to sheep.
Everyone who has lived East knows
their pastures are burned up about
half the summer, when it is neces
sary to cut and feed other crops for
forage to keep them. And the win-
tersl Well, I c-n remember those
breezes off Lake Erie that would
give a man a clean shave, just
walking down town. When it
wasn't a drouth, it was rain, rain,
all the time, and that is worse on a
sheep than cold. And still those
people make money on sheep, and
keep more and more all the time.
Wc can raise four times the hay
they can, and our pastures are
green for seven or eight months:
dry, comfortable climate, small win
ter feed bills. As stated iu my last
letter, Ohio wool sold last year for
30 cents a pound. One reason for
that high price is the shrinkage.
Their wool only shrinks 50 per
ceut iu scouring, while range wool Bead Drug Co,
shrinks 60 to 70 per cent. This
alone makes 15 to 30 per cent dif
ference. Farm wool is dirty on the
outside, while range wool has alt
the dirt on the wool next to the
skin. Open the wool of each and
note the difference. One of my
near nclghbots, Albert Young, has
just invested in a bunch to keep on
his urm. They are a nice lot. but
like, all range sheep, the sagebrush
has worn off about one-third of
their wool. Great patches on the
lower side of their bodies arc as
bare as my hand, and only on the
upper part is the wool full length.
Not so with mine; tbey are the
same all over.
When a man goes to a lumber
yard to buy some boards, if the
dealer offered him same two or
three feet long, he would not want
them unless they were very cheap.
This short wool is just about as de
sirable as the short lumber, and
that is another point in favor of
farm wool. Thcte is one thing farm
ers must be careful about, and that
is to keep hay and straw out of the
wool, as It hurts the sale badly.
All will agree that of late years
me sneep industry has been very
profitable, but what of the future?
In common with all farm products,
wool and mutton have dropped in
pricc4 but every doy sees mutton
bring more and best lambs today
arc selling close to $7 per hundred.
Wool prices, too, promise to be
close to the high figure of last
year. From every point of view.
the future is bright for sheepmen.
The tremendous losses in Australia.
good with many years of drought, have
created a shortage of wool all over
the world. The London wool sales
continually report market firm and
prices good. In our own country
where 30 years ago we imported 18
per cent of our wool, wc now im
port 48 per cent. In numbers.
comparing the years 1884 and 1906
we gained 33,000,000 beef cattle,
8,000,000 hogs, and only 5,000
sheep. Between these years we
have had millions more sheep, but
we have just naturally eaten them
up, and can practically say today
we cat a sheep for every lamb born.
In 1884 at Chicago and Missouri
river poiuts, packers dressed nco.
oocK mutton; in 1905, 9,500,000, an
increase of over 500 per cent, while
cattle increase was only 178 per
cent. These figures show wc are
getting to be a nation oi mutton
caters, aed if wc don't cet a move
on the farms we will be importing
40 per cent of our mutton as well
as wool.
The annual report for 1907 by
the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers shows only a coin
of 300,000 sheep over 1906, less
than one per cent. It says. too.
that the range states show a loss
due to contraction of range, while
the gain is on the farms East. This
shows pretty plainly that the range
country has reached its limit and is
on the down bill. Southern Idaho
alone in the last few years has
fenced in nearly 2,000,000 acres of
sheep winter range. As far as the
human mind can see. the sheen
farmer has many years of cood
prices and unlimited demand before
him. Now, the question comes up,
How are the farmers to take ad
vantage of this good tliiuc? Manv
a rancher has land and pasture, but
it takes considerable money to stock
up even with sheep. They have
BendShaniko Livery & Stage Company
J. II. WUNANDV, Prop.
W. P. Kelloy, Anon I, Shnnlko
New Covered Stages between Bend and Shanlko
ALSO
Livery nnd Peed Stables al Shnnlko, (Madras and Hcnd.
Wo run our rigs to plensu thu public.
Stages lenvo each wny ovory day.
Rigs to all parts of Central Oregon. Careful drivers furnished
Special Attention Given to Express and Baggage.
WHEN IN BEND STOP AT
THE PILOT BUTTE INN
Tabic- alwAya supplied with tho belt tlmt the town afford.
Neat and Comfortable Roams. HitNl), OMltCON
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JVlassachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company
ANNUAL DIVIDENDS
Nearly JOO SATISFIED Policyholders In Crook County.
jo-.5 P. O. MINOR, Resident Agent
UNLESS IT'S A GOOD
STORE IT WILL NOT
PAY to ADVERTISE IT!
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rNLKSS you know a person unless that person comes
into your life Iu some way you arc not greatly con
ccrucd ubout whether he is eood or hid. ilrilml.1i.
or objectionable.
It's so with a store. The people who never visit it
care nothing about It one way or the other. It doesn't
exist for them. Hut when they arc jwrsuaded to patron
ize It when they come to turn the spot-light of their at
tention on it when it comes to have a patt in their lives,
as some stores must have in all lives then it's different;
then it DOIvS matter whether it strives to win confidence;
it does matter whether or not its price concessions arc genu
ine, dependable.
If it mecti all tests that a good store must utand when
it is advertised when it thus invites the critical attention
of people then advertising "makes" the store. If it fails
in most of the vital things-if It proves, under the light of
publicity, not to be much of n store, TILHN ADVHRTIS
INC WIIJ, NOT PAY-for it will emphasize short
comings as well as merits.
Por these same reasons It Is generally
assumed that the store which docs not
advertise Is seeking to nvold close In
spection nnd comparison, mid that tho
store which docs Is courting them.
C. R. k'lllDIT
ginia Ave,, Infill
the Jeweler, 1060 Vir-
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could hardly walk a hundred feet, four
uuiuciui roiey-stuuiiey Kemeuy cleared
my complexion, cured my backache and
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now attend to litikltir.a .Iu.. ...t
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recommend I'olcy'a Kidney Remedy to
all iiifferera, aa It cured me after the doc-
ouier retucu.es had fulled.
not the money on hand, 'and many
would uot care to mortgage to get
the cash.
Here is a chance for the sheep
man to try the new way without
expense. Take a baud of sheen
and divide it around among a num
ber of farmers who want them, and
both can make some cusy money.
The sheep-owner can keen his eve
on them, and he runs no such risk
as piling up or other mishap on the
range. It is not at alt necessary
for the farmer to fill his ranch the
first year; try a hundred or two and
grow with the business. They in.
crease fast. I find my venr old
lambs are about full grown, ntul
many have a Iamb nt tlmt it...-
and do as well n.s unv old mm. mm,;.!
counts very rapidly, nnd the aver-
age mati win soon have all he can
handle.
K. F. P. No. 3,Nampa, Ida.
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are quickly cured by I'olcy'a Honey m,d
iar. unu ittootlics inflamed membrane,
heals the lunui. mul n.i. .1... I
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C. S. BENSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
OKI'ICIt IN HANK liUIUIINO,
M!W), OKKGON
U. C. COE. M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
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