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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1896)
Wood Yard! Wood Yard! WANT ED—I desire to cor but the silver dollar remained the respond with Oregon parties unit of value and continued soun-j who may be able n> supply til 1873. Both gold arid silver were me wi b choice Indian relies W E P N KSD A Y A UOUST. IS 1H: 6 legal tender for all debts, both pub-1 sucii as spear leeads, arrow hea< a. stone Proprietor. FRANK GOODMAN lie aud private, and the mints were pipes, eel. rite me telling m • what , , , „ I „„„have Address: H. P H amilton , 4 Mother's Adi ice To Uer Boy. open to the free coinage of all sil-j u Tw(, RjTers> \\ .eonsin. Good cord wood delivered on short uotice aud at Reasonable Rates. yer that came. I FKOVf HUNTINGTON HERALD. Thus, up to 1873. this nation was I Leave orders aX Worthington’s Drug Store. STOCK INSPECTOR. yh M innville , Ore., Aug. 2, 1896 upon what is known as a bimetal for iiarney county . lie basis, but in fact it was a free y|y Dear Boy: As vou "ill probably cast vour fiot vote for president this fall you ion metal, enjoying all the privileges I must be right. Every vote will of silver except that silver fixed the count. The people, the voters, do unit and regulated the value of not understand the situation, gold. This was the free and un C A- SWEEK, They know something is the mat- limited coinage of silver, or bimet allism. Silver is the money o* the ter with the country, but they do AND ATTORNEY AT LAW, not know just what it is, and a people—gold, the money of the Oregon. : Buras, man in your position hears every rieh. Silver was, and still is. the thing talked that is thought of and most favored by the people because eoivequently gets a little mixed. it is not so easily cornered hv men Wm. Ml Hai-, having a design to speculate in New, my dear boy, I am going to explain the situation as I under moi ev by making it scarce, as STTORNEY-AT-LAW stand it, and shall endeavor to gold is at present Prior to ' 1860 ormo ; show you that the free and unlimit there was. according to the report ONTARIO IS THE of the secretary of the treasury. ed coinage of silver is the only thine that will relieve our present $105,000.000 of foreign silver in | PLACE TO GET BARGAINS IN HOSIERY, UNDERWARE, this country. $8.000,000 was coin financial distress GLOVES, MITTONS, TOWELS, FLANNELS, ETC. In 1792, after the revolutionary ed into silver dollars and $97,000- war and after England had with 000 into halves, quarters, dimes Located first block East of Church. and five-cent pieces, which could REAL ESTATI- AGENT. nrawn lit r troops, the United States • W. H. C anaday , Manager. had less than three million inbabi not be cornered by ¡Shylock for! NOTARY PUBLIC tants; but this handful of men wer“ speculation. jlir üinirs-^rratd LOOK! LISTEN!! J ohnson's Cash Store 'BITBITS OREGON lovers of liberty. Thev drafted a CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. I constitution and in it made pro 1 ¡^"Practices before U S. Land Office. | visions for coining money and reg ulatiug the value thereof As soon -------------------------------------------------1 as the red coats left our shores con gross convened, and as the United. RACES! RACES!! States had no money except the} DEALER IN— British nmnev. and having declared | AND PHYSICIAN SURGEON her independence, the first step to pursue was to establish a unit Office at Residence O p value , as everything must be ! t TINWÄRE- X calculated from the unit, and com GUNS BURNS OREGON AMMUNITION- The Burns Jockey Club will give posed of a sum or a multiple of » units. Congress, therefore, fixed five days racing, September 1, 2, 3, MACHINE SHOP IN CONNECTION. Bicycles, Mowing Machines, Gun. ,f[4 and 5, 1896. the monetary unit to consist u « • • • ets. repaired promptly and satisfactory. • • • • FIRST DAY, SEPT. 1. 371{ grains of pure silver as the i unit of values. That much silver I 1st, | mile dash, free for all, b , DR. D. B. CflTE was to constitute a dollar, and each purse - - OREGON. $150 I BURNS dollar was a unit. Of course the Every kind of first-class Dentistry 21, 600 vard dash, for Har alloy to be mixed with it was to done or short notice and in a work ney county saddle horses that manlike manner. giv eit hardness and durability never run for public money, I Congress then provided for all 50 j purse ■/ money to be count'd from, or, SECOND DAY, SEPT. 2. measured bv. this unit or dollar. ’ a f mile dash, Harnev Co. Gold was made money, but its 100 | Carpenter .. valve was counted fr )m these sll-, horses, purse and Builder ver units or dollars. The ratio be THIRD DAY, SEPT. 3. Undertaking . Work tween silver and gold was at that a specialty f mile .dash,free for all,purse 150 time fixed at 15 to 1, so that ir. Fine Work,......................... Low Pi ices. WHOLESALE DEALER IN FOURTH DAY, SEPT. 4. making gold coins their relative value or weight was regu j mile dash,free for all,purse 150' BURNS OREGON. this ratio. FIFTH DAY, SEPT. 5 I bis continued to be tl | mile and repeat. 2 in 3, free to 1873 During all this for all, purse 2001 unit of values was never changed, and always contained 3714 grains Ten per cent entrance fee required I BONG GEE, Proprietor. of pure silver, During all this I in all races. Entries to be mad« time it was utterly impossible for with the secretary on or before 8 BURNS, First door south of Post Office. OREGON. B urns , O regon . anyone to say that the silver in a o’clock the evening before each silver dollar was worth only 50 or race. In all races 5 horses to enter t-11 cents, or any other number of and 3 to start. First hone 75 per cents less than 100, because it was cent, second horse 25 per cent the unit that measured all other j The races to be governed by the E. Nlt^N Kl r j , l?eot-iver. values. 3714 grains of pure silver Blood Horse Association Rules. TO THE worth $1.29 per ounce. How W. W. J ohnson , President. ever, this act did not regulate the H. R ichardson , Secretary. Givea the clmice of two trariscontinent.« prio f,f silver bullion; that was ROUTES. n-guiated by the law of supply and demand—if there was a limited Six weeks ago 1 snffered with a GREAT UNION ‘11 v u,|d unlimited demand very severe cold; was almost unable ■ NORTHERN RY. PACIFIC RY. VIA. VIA ^ullmn could rise above or below to speak. My friends all advised Representing the following well known companies:- SPOKANE. DENVER. 1 Hut never below $1. me to consult apysician. Noticing Ml NNWA Pf »LIS, K ansas city In 1F34 congress changed the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. and OMAHA. Chamherlian’s Cough Remedy ad and st . P aul Asee ta. $932.532,577.00. ' <»io fro,,, 15 |o i to )6 |o j That Low raten to all Eastern eitiea. I ational Life Association of Hartford, Conn., vertised in the St. Paul Volks • < 7.000,000.00. “r. in- silver dollar was the unit and Zeitung I procured a bottle, and OCEAN r- _________ 7 Standard Accident Insurance Company of Detroit, STEAMERS <« the aatne six?—371| grains after taking it a short while was leave Portland every 5 days for 900,000.00. referred Accident Insurance Company of N Y << •' -Le gold dollar was made ¡entyrely well- I now moat heartily 456,311.00. F‘remsn’8 Fund Fire In(<urance r p * <4 . “**r- that is, it was changed recommend this remedy to anyone 2,431,717.00. For full details call on O A N Norwich-Vnion Fire Insurance Society of Liverpoll. En g „ ■ ‘‘F* grains of pure gold to ■suffering with a cold. W m . K fil , Agent, Baker City. or addresn 3,300,000-00. N> grains, thus giving more 678 Selby Ave., St. Paul, Minn’ W. II. H urlburt , B urns , H arnry C ounty . to be coined into dollars, etc., For gale by I oiw . pass agt . Portland, Oer. O rfgom . C. H. VOEGTLY, Dr. W.L. Marsden, $800 In Purses. Dentistry;:: : Everything Cheap for Cash. I , John Sweitzer, 1 Fine Kentucky Whiskies LAUNDRY And Cigars t I I. & I. CD., ES A.ST. General Fire & Life Insurance Agent. San Francisco.
