Assignment of Robinsons to Sabin Overseen by Portland Official
J W and M A Robinson and Company assigned all property to R L Sabin of Portland for creditors. Assets exceed liabilities and the move is described as temporary with plans to resume business in about sixty days. Wil liam Macbeth acts for Sabin while Sabin heads the Merchants Protective Association of Portland. Local customers react with hope for rapid settlement and return to normal operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.W. &M. A. Robinson & Company
St. L. Sabin
Portland
Turner
William Macbeth
Sabin
Merchante’ Protective’ Association of
Wortland
Mesers, Robinson & Company
Petition seeks new county road from Madras to Lamonta
Tilman Reuter leads a petition to the county court for a southeast extension from Willow Creek to Lamonta and Willow Creek areas. The route would intersect Rim Rock Spring road, shorten travel from Madras to Lamonta, aid Willow Creek and Grizzly sawmills, and require only small county funds.
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Willow Creek
Lamonta
Rim Rock Spring
Madrous
Lamouta
Grigzly
Tilman Reuter
Large 56 inch irrigation pipe completed across old river bed
The 1620 foot pipe built by Deschutes Irrigation & Power Co across the old river bed to irrigate 12,000 acres. It required two carloads of lumber and one car of hoop iron with freight from Shaniko totaling 1900. The completed pipe cost 10,000 dollars and is expected to last twenty years.
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Powell Buttes
Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company
Shaniko
Moro Fire Devastates Elrod Building in Sherman County
A two story brick Elrod building in Moro suffered a major blaze last Friday morning. Fire spread risk to nearby structures but ice formed on adjacent roofs helped halt further damage. Estimated total loss about 47000 with 30000 insured. Cause is thought defective wiring. Several tenants burned out with large losses including W F Schuller 25000 loss 15000 insured ME E Miller 1600 loss 740 insured Dr James loss unknown insured 800. building valued around 16000 with 7000 insured.
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Moro
Sherman County
W. F. Schuller
ME. E. Miller
Dr. James
Well Drilling Progress Near Opal Prairie
I V Limbaugh of Opal Prairie reports drilling to about 165 feet on his land with hard rock layers encountered. No water yet but indicators are favorable and crews may extend to four or five hundred feet. Several local ranchers await the Limbaugh well before pursuing their own water searches.
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I. V. Limbaugh
Opal Prairie
Trans Missouri Dry Farming Congress Closes in Salt Lake City
The Trans Missouri Dry Farming Congress ends its second convention in Salt Lake City with about 600 attendees from 252 delegations. It inaugurates a salaried secretaryship annual dues and life memberships and forms a bureau of information to teach arid land science. It seeks limited legislation including larger homestead acreage and more experimental wells.
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Salt Lake City
Trans Missouri Dey Paradaug Congress
Cheyenne
Bureau of Information
Congress
Death of A. H. Breyman in Portland
A. H. Breyman died in Portland last week after over six months of illness and facial neuralgia. He was known in Crook County for stockraising and organized the Baldwin Sheep & Land Company at Haycreek in 1885. He moved to Portland in 1900 and started in wholesale leather as Breyman Leather Company.
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A. H. Breyman
Portland
Breyman
Crook County
Baldwin Sheep & Land Company
Haycreek
Breyman Leather Company
Crook County Journal
Dollar a dozen for Oregon apples
A Kansas farmer in Topeka sought Oregon apples at J Weiss & Co on Kunsae avenue. He asked the price, pocketed the sum, then went to the bank to withdraw money. Upon return he bought a dozen apples, remarking they looked splendid.
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RE. J. Whitaker
J. Weiss & Co
Kunsae Avenue
Topeka
Kansas
Capital
Leave Claim in Winter Relaxed Residency Rule
A congressional bill seeks to permit homestead entrants to leave their claims during December through March without losing entry status. Interior Department approval noted as it advances to the House for passage, altering the residence requirement while allowing year round compliance if summers remain on the land.
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Congress
Committee On Public Lands
House of Representatives
House
Interior Department
Senate
Sears
Congress Passes Mondell Bill on Second Homestead Entries
Both chambers approve a Mondell measure allowing a second homestead entry after forfeiture or honest error while denying title to the first parcel. The bill aims to correct past failures by giving honest entrymen another 160 acres and a new trial if the first attempt fails.
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Congress
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
House Committee
Hin
Medford Mayor Seeks Salem Initiative on Local Licenses
F Reddy of Medford filed an initiative petition at Salem to amend the constitution granting cities exclusive authority over licenses for saloons pool rooms theatres and similar venues. If adopted the measure would allow city authorities to operate without restraint while stripping sheriffs and district attorneys of state law enforcement power. The proposal preserves constitutional and criminal law limits on city charters but omits key provisions.
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F. Reddy
Medford
Salem
Redd
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Oregon
J. W. Livingston
Madras
A. E. Crosby
Cartes A Chipote Line Ag Irugs
Medtetion
Browk
Fue
Dalles
Grizzly Post Office
VicMeekin & Eastwood
D. A. Howell, Shaniko, Or
Frank Osborn
U. S
Culver
Huilding
Madilas
Notary Public
Jorken
Place Culver
Wadras
Haner
Sirely
Neal Fatate
Prineviste
Max Lueddemann
J. W. & M. A. Robinson & Company
R. L. Sabin
Utah
Ariigal
H.¥. Abie
WY. M. Banowes
Cashier
Wyrswagrin View Pres
Hadwre
Agvet
Caahifor
The
First National Bank
Prineville, Oregon
California
B. S. Larkin
J. W. & M. A. Robinson & CO
Congress OF Dry Farmers
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