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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1897)
M Oe ïimcs-ïieraid WSIINKHUAY JANI ARY.'-7 IS 7 Au Arid I-md Measure. and other extravagances. We were t<>)d before the previous legislature that reform measures would lie | passed, but instead, more burdens were placed on the taxpayers to carry If the house finally organ izes it will probably add to the( burdens of the people of the state, i rather than relieve them. And | right here it is in order to state that' the “commissions, salaries ami damnable laws” that should be re pealed are the handiwork of the ¡«I ii rpu which wore paf.t three laxrial legislatures were - composed nearly unanimously of] republicans. Is it likely that re fOyin measures can be expected frotn tpat party or Senators who have on an average from two to three clerks each?—Eugene Guard. • N. BROWN & SONS,-—The Leading Merchants 1897, Washington, Jan. 21. —Repre st-ntative Hermann of Oregon, chairman of the committee of arid lands, has introduced a hill em bodvirig the recoinmendatio is made by the I national irrigation congrei- recently v held m at f Phponix Pheonix, Ariz. The hill provides for a public ] land commission to be competed of the commissioner of the general land office, the director of the geo logical survey and three other per sons to be appointed by the presi dent, whose duty it shall be tocause 'Weston’s School Tax. to be made n survey and contour topography map of the areas em Saturday evening, at Weston, a r».^atir>ir was UJufl held, iinrl bracing the public land“, on which school meeting and M a t;iX tax shall be outlined the larger natural voted of 10 mills for the support of hydrographic basins and lands the district during the current year classified within each basin ac There were three classes in the cording as they are most valuable meeting, one favoring a tax of 10 for growing trees, for pasture and mills, one a tax of 8 mills, and some no tax at all, with few voting News says that Senator Wolcott, of for agriculture. The water supply of each basin for a tax smaller than 8 mills The Colorado, had an interview yester shall be ascertained at important 10 mill tax people won on a vote of day with Sir William Houldsworth points, the amount utilized for ir 27 for the 10 mills, 24 for 8 mills, conservative member of parliament rigation and water puwer and the and others scattering The conten for the northwest division of Man amount (lowing to waste. The tion of the “no tax” contingent was chester, and the British delegate to underground supply nliall be ns« that the public schools should not the Brussels monetary conference Certiiined and that which can tie be united with the normal school in 1892. The interview was pri H W WELCOME, Proprietor. vate and informal. cut without injuring the water sup ag a training department, ami they The bimetalists in parliment, the DRUGS, PAINTS, GLASS, TOILET ARTI Pl*- J argued that, if the training school I lie areas which can be devoted j(jea prevails, the public school not , j Daily News says, are not disposed CLES OF ALL KINDS, ETC • ’ any active A’- _____ U..4 t<> public grazing without dumage |)0 taxed |,v a regular district1 to take measures, but I | jfWPrescriptions carefully compounded by a Registered Pharmacist to the trees or waters shall lie t‘8', school tax in addition to the taxa- they believe that the time is on i certaim-d. 1 he commission shall tion impose to obtain money for the their side, and they are warmly interested in SirSamuel Montague’s with the approval of the secretary normal school, of the inferior make suitable regu-There was some feeling worked proposal that to secure the adoption lations (or the occupation and utili- Upt aH ¡g usual whenever school of the dual standard it would be zation of the public lands within matterg get into shape for much necessary for the United States to begin, and to offer a ten 'per cent, the powers granted the secretary difference of opinion. ¡tariff rebate to all nations following Persons shall be appointed whose duties it shall be to enforce the Senator McBride's Nephew in 1 their example. regulations of the commission CULP BROS, Burns, Oregon. Tronble. i Two P airs oi- T wins .— John Ben- made for the protection of forests,, wood lands, grazing lands and F M. McBride, assistant post- Hon and family of the Dakotas, ar Work Guaranteed to be first class w liters. master, and J. W. Cunnington, I riv*d lftst night and are now quar L of Salt Lake postoffice, | tered at the Minnesota hotel. There stamp ....... clerk We mix our own Paints, and Tlnve-1 hnxSystem \ixainst are in in the custody of the United is nothing unusual about this fami < 'oyotes. i States marshal on the charge of 1* «xdept that it contains two pai rs embezzlement. The former is said of twi"8- The eIdMt Pair is 15 A man up in Umatilla county to short in hia acc counts $4000 »nd »ninths old and the youngest pair. hasn’t lost a sheep from coyotes the latter to the amount of $360. ¡8 one month if age. All four are ] since adopting the three-dog sys Complaint was made by Captain | K*^8 8l,d are healthy, good looking tem of watchfulness, savs the Moro Nicholas, the inspector of the dis- »nd have splendid lungs. Besides Observei ll«- keeps just three trict McBride has always been the twins there are three small boys good hounds, which can make a considered one of the most efficient i» the family, all older than the good run after the coyote, and are postoilice officials in the west. He eldest ¡»air of twins. If cold and m>t afraid to tackle them single- is the son of Judge McBride, of bleak Dakota is so productive,what handed. For two of die ho'imla, Spokane, Wash , and a nephew of will be the result here in the warm Io mokes a comfortable ami waim Senator Geo. \V McBride, of Ore congenial climate of Oregon — b< d under a shed, and lets them go gon. and has been in the postal ser Guard.* loose at night I’he third hound vice there for 17 years An offer has been made on be- he ties to a post on the title of the E half of the bondsmen of » • side of the corral farthest from the of llowe, defaulting treasure* siietls. The hound has to keep Klamath county who is in the state awake on account of the cold, ami Washington, Jan 23 —The attor is on the alert for any coyotes ney general has entered into an penitentiary, to settle the suit now THOS. LAHEY, Burns, O which mav come prowling around agreement with the reorganization before the supreme court to collect First door north of Brick Store. «luring the night \\ hen the hound committee of the I nion Pacific and from the bondsmen, bv paving the knows a coyote has approached, he Kansas Pacific railways by which county 11 .000. The matter of ac rounds the note of warning, anti (lit* the government is to join the com cepting or rejecting the proposition two loose hounds rush out from the mittee tn foreclosure proceedings. lias not let been decided. • heils and make for the coyote. The committee is to guarantee The next night lie puts out another the government that at the foreelos of the hounds, ami aPows the one tire salo it shall retrive bids at least which was out the night Ix-forv to to the original amout of the bonds go under the slud. Since adopting Ires lite payment« made by the this plan nt one sheep has I sen company to the government, with CVRE AMD ITS ki’l»d by coy orca interest at the rate of 3 1-3 j>er an ___ To Twt Ennons —I have an num. The agreement has been remedy for ('onsumprion. By its tirru.y use ixis of hoertrss < is« have been already On the Corner South of the French Hotel, Main Street. Republican i>a|»«-re throughout signed and actual steps will lie tak C ttv _^ently cured. So proof-positive am I |oi ds power ttut I consider it my duty to ths state are claiming that the en it. a few days McCLAIN* WILLIAMS - - - - Propreitors unJ rwo K'ttUi frtt to th we of vour reader? ‘'bold up” of ths lower bouse of who have C««sumption. Throat, Bronchul or the lower house of tbs legislature Ths proprietors is well known not only here but in all the adjacent Lung Trouble, if they will write me the»- Kn^ltsh Bimvtalists. eapress a .xl p'stotfwe address. Sincerely. Countie« and Towns Their business qualifications and natural affec Will give Orr< n tw<> years more of T A. SllXTM. M. C, IM Pwl St . Mew Tort. tion for horses especially fits them for the avoction Th» JLhUv^wl ••«! Mtnacwene-H 4 useless commissions, high salaries London, 21—The Daih Spring Call And Get The Latest We Are Sure to Please You Oregon BURNS DRUG STORE Our Work Speaks fov it e f, CARPENTER, BUILDER, CABINET MAKER Parties Desiring Cabinet Work that excels any clone in this place heretoore, call and examine my work. RED FRONT LIVERY STABLE