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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1897)
* EAST OREGON HERALD AND BURNS TIMES THB TIMES-HERALD. Consolidated July 22, 1896. BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. JAM ARY 20 18P7 appropriation two yi art ago was 1 nearly $84,000, or $42,000 a year. Every session the d( tnand is for “more.” The appropriation, how ever liber >1, is always used up, an I . a large “deficiency” shown. The OK ECON. ONT A RIO, legislative investigating eommittte I always “stands in,” or is t >o laz» or T ¿XI XjO’W incompetent to make the needed re- I t port and demand the necessary re | SPirioes form The state printer should be | I given a salary of about $2400 a Have on Hand a New and Complete stock of year, and the law should show the doors of the penitentiary yawning jjSF*\Ve have the LARGEST STOCK and LOWEST PRICES for him if he dared, directly or in We carry a complete line of directly, to take or make out of the 1 taxpayers a dollar more. If ahv incidental profits are made, it ; be- | i longs in the state treasury. One | (ex state printer, in cilice eight • . vcars, ia said to have made about ¡■'200,000 out of it. Tin» is an out- ’ rage upon every tax paver II is he business of the legislature t» correct this gross and growing evil. All that is needed for a state print er is a first class foreman and an Prices as low as any R R. mi '. with addition of freight. honest man. In these times $200 , ippci.jl attention ■ MA IL ORDERS—Corresponded solicited or $260 a month is enough for such A klreas Mason & London, Burns, Oregon. •a man. Will the legislature stop this big leak? It will not do one of its plainest and simplest duties if it Oregon News. does not .—Welcome. Oregon Forwarding Company BEST GOODS, CHEAPEST PRICES. MASON & LONDON will pay you to come to Ontario and buy fall and winter goods Dry oods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods. Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Notions, -&c. " Dry Goods, Notions, Gents Furbishing Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Groceries. Hardware, Etc. WRITE US FOR PRICES Oregon Forwarding Co alte iunrs-Mirtald • • • To Attnek a Charter. r ! A meeting, composed of a large BY | number of the heaviest taxpayers] Recently, some voting boys were |. BYRD 7R0S. <• , in the section around Marshfield, arrested in Heppner for disturbing I „ '. , r .i i * P ublishers and P roprietors . the peace, r rienda of the bovs< Coo9 Count v, met at that place last 9 ., matter .. in . . hand, . ami i there . week for the purpose of formulating took , the . . a* » . I Wk Z» •-» t I ♦ . 1 - 1 ZV Cl 4 k V .1 4 . X zIlBVI.VZk SUBSCBII’TION RATES: was talk for a time of making an i plan and taking steps to divide Manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of one Year ......... ........................... Aix Monih» ............................................................1 Jr ■ attack on the city charter of the county on the proposed plan as Three Months................................................................ *" Heppner. Just what points would set forth in the petition to the leg islature. The gathering was or | i»e attacked is not known, but a ganized bv the election of O. E. OFFICIAL DI RECTORY well known Heppner lawyer was of the opinion that the charter could And Sporting Good». national : ... .(¡rover Cleveland be overturned and the boys’ release ?r3»l tent of harmony among the assembled I Aillai Stevenaoii I .. . Preaitiettl...................... rie Kii'lian; S, Olney J-t,*“ tinware ami Eirearms promptly Repaired. jeer 'tary of stale . .. secured. 4 I taxpayers, and the stamp of deter- | . John G Carlisle e.ary of rreaaiir.v ... 4. ............. Hoke Smith ., ,re of I uteriur As nearly as can be learned, the ruination on every countenance. 4 Daniel S. Lamont iry <>f War 4 Burns, Oregon. Hilary A. Herbert r 'tc ’ v of .Suvy ■ ■ ■ claim made was that under the or Little time was spent in agitation 4 J. sterling Morton ■ kK-i 'uitnre. ... 4 Ju.i’t n Harmon K ttir icy Geuerftl subject, as the meeting was Wm. L Wilson ganic law of the city, a city prison- (lf ■> nt iiaater General STATE—OREGON ’■ er cannot be confined in the county a unit in favor of division It was G. W. McBride. Inasmuch as the boys in decided to use all fair and honora-1 i or« ,1. H.Mitchell. jail. (Binger Hermann question had been placed in the |,]e means to secure the division of t W. R. Ellis ♦••»n 'resRineii....................... <•. M.hlleinan Vt »ruey General .... to be. the county. Committees were ap , Wm P Lord 1 county jail, there seemed 4 ivecnor .......................... :■ R Kincaid 4e t • ary of State ■ • pointed to actively push the work i ground for the claim Phil. Metseban {►•'»•Hirer H ............... (i M Irwin 4 r>' p i i tc Tnatruction To get around it, the Heppner R.................... W II Laid» Rate Printer . R. S. Bean city council made a contract with . . > ('.Wolverton < . w on vi um < U pre *ie Ju lies - • ) F. A. Moore the Morrow county court for the NINETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. use of a portion of the county jail, STEPHENS & RICHARDSON, Proprietor ) rrirt Ju-’xe.................... D M: i sTi< t vtorney • • C. AV Piarri^h paying therefor the sum of $1 per h> iMUp’-eaentatlve . (R) O. L. t attera*.n ir se.iator . --«(K) A *.<>owai year rental. It ia, therefore,claim ed by the city authorities that the COUNTY—HA RNIY : i > c. p. Rutherford bounty j i l?e ............... city piisoners can lawfully be kept 'Rj. II. Kelley ’erk ............. • R) J. C. Welcome tFpjiR’irer.......................... TA. McKinnon in the county jail. 4irvev.»r ............. p 'O' A. J. McKinnon 4h-Gff The reason for tnis action by tbe Fine Wixx©3. Liquors And Cigars .,!> ■. W . S. Wate » issesRor .■ D' W.c. B» ,<1 < • i »<»1 4 mer:ntendent council was that the citv lockup Geo Treuaekis it >ck ( HRpector A .B. Marks (D) > was not in fit sanitary condition to ìomutaatonera Í Geo. Haitey receive prisoners, and they thought '^“Courteous treatment guaranteed. Your patronage sol>c HARNEY F. S. 1ANP OFFtCKt use the Thoma» Jone» it Letter and cheaper to Rerinter ............. . ..A. A. CowlhF county j*il than to maintain a sep tteeiver arate one. It is possible now that the charter will not he questioned. tniBbl H ID EVERY WEDNESDAY I. S. GEER &, CO Hardware and Tinware. I xhe Burns Bar SOCIETIES. SVf.V A REBEKAH Degree No. W. The State Printer. Me,-,HVcrv «nd 7d Wc<l«»o*1av. ■ M.-nJcr, I. M.rie.-cr«> .<♦. M M l.eora Zeigler. Rec. sec y VO. r. W.^nrna T.ndce. No 4' H . t * raverx 2d and 4th ThurF«4*'s H \f n<»T*nn V " J.W Sa>er. Re< <» itlFKFV tnpGF Kh. ~. T. O O F f •• »toil Fallow» HVi.wrt*«’"**’'» TJip.T» a ’ I » *"'».'*• J P Zeirler. Secy. i Of all the state in d other officials 1 William Dobbs, of Union, Or, who plunder the taxpayers of large has just received the Maul prize for Burns-Canyon Stage Line sums in consequence of loose laws raising the largest table beet for and «inking legislators, none, in 1896. The content was open to all \ J. A. H alladay , contractor. growers in the United States and proportion to his services, “rakes Cirrving U. S. Mails and Eastern Oregon Express Co’s Fxpeea down” so big a “pile” of “boodle” Canada The prize consisted of a ,*ave Burn« Titesdav.Thursday,Saturday,for Canyon City —to use th’ slang of tvxeating $50 draft. The beet weighed 17 and intermedi-.t > «ointa, Fare 15. pounds. tim.s—as the state printer. Tbe