WIES E*ttt*>ll*heï isi Í CONSOLIDATED JULY 22, 1896. Grand Clearance Sale BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. under this system for three different localities in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia will be push­ ed to completion. FEBRUARY 3 1897, VOL. X. NO 10. Oregon Forwarding Company It is reported—this time with OREGON. ONTARIO, evidence of good faith—that the I Oregon Central & Eastern will be extended in the spring. If so, it For Sixty Days, Until After April 1st, 1897. will be built to the Deschutes river before the year is out. It ie a well- No such Bargains ever offered before in HARNEY COUNTY! known fact that Mr. Hammond’s Call and be Convinced ggT* Prices Talk and CASH road will never pay until the line Buys at prices never before equaled! fW*\Ve have the LARGEST STOCK and LOWEST PRICES runs somewhere that somebody wants to go. Its financial condition We carry a complete line of SPECIAL BARGAINS IN FOLLOWING; cannot be materially improved until the eastern terminus is built to a more prosperous section of the Outing Flannel? 15 yards for Quilts from $ 1 AMT upwards country. At present the terminus Fifteen per cent discount on Ladies lis at some unkown place in the Furnishing goods. eastern part of Linn county. To Ladies Underwear and Corsets make it a paying property Messrs. JS . JL- Bonner it Hammond will have to expend a fortune to get the road Ladies Shoes through the Cascade mountains. Gents Furnishing good Hats and Caps. Clothing. The body of old man Willy, who Lined Gloves. WRITE US FOR PRICES was buried near Vale seven year* ago, was taken up and moved to ti e Vale cemetery Monday. The coffin was in a fair state of preser vation and was quiteeasilv handled, 1 but the most peculiar phase of the MASON & LONDON’S lit will pay you to come to Ontario and buy fall and winter goods Dry Goods, Notions, Gents Furrishing Goods, Clothing, Boots & Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Etc. We must make room for our Spring and Summer Stock. Oregon Forwarding Co ‘affair was that the body was turn ■ ed over in the collin and was lying | upon the left side, resting upon the I left arm which was doubled under- ORECON NEWS. | neath it. This could not have been , J occasioned bv the moving, which I Manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of The following, from theOregonian t*VBL.ISHB:D EVERY WEDNESDAY was done so carefully that the BY will no doubt be of interest io the shroud, which had become a mere people of this county: powder that could be blown away, “Articles of incorporation have P ublishers and P roprietors . was not disturbed by the handling. bten filed for the organization of The beard on his cheeks had grown —. , - - - _. .. —. th* Oregon Equipment Company, toabo« three ¡„«he. ... l.„gtb,; risW11S Tac^-s Aid Sporting Goods, ¡SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year .............. ’.no with a capital stock of $100,000 though when he was buried it was Mx Month« ......................... 7- Recei.tlj a meeting of the stock J-Í*“ Tinware and Firearm* promptly Repaired. Three Months ____ not more than a quarter of an inch | holders was held at room 512 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY i Burns, Oregon. Chamber of Commerce building, lonR- fW*M lIL ORDERS given special attention. Or iinics-Micrald. BYRD ’'ROS. I. S. GEER & CO Hardware and Tinware. national : Presilent ... .. ........... Grover Cleveland Vice-President. ....... Adlai Stevensor 3e-relary uf State Kieliar : S, Olt.ej 3a-re;aryof rreaanry ........... John i, Carlisle 3>-retary of Interior Hoke smith 3 Jrretary of War Daniel S. I.arnont 31-retary of Navy . Hilary A. Herbert 3e retary of Aicricultnre. J. Sterling Mortoi A torney General JlTdein Harmon P latmaster General Wm. L Wilaoi for the election of directors and the, adoption of bylaws. The following Fred Senn was over from Ritter directors were elected for the en­ Sunday, calling at this office. Mr. suing year: David M. Dunne, Geo. Senn has discovered an old river W. Bates, T. J. Geisler, Sidney channel along the course of the Smyth, E. W. Paget, Louis IL Middle Fork, and informs the Eagle STATE—OBEOON : * J w McBride. |ien»tor« J J. H.Mitchell. Campbell, and C. N. Scott, and that it prospects rich in gold. The i Binger Hermann later the following officers were channel is from 300 to 400 feel I W. R. Fili* I» rd -1 . cbesen; Sidney Smyth, president; above the present channel of the W III I ,e uv. ; >,f-i,or fi R Kincaid I Ae-retary of State . Phil. ......... Metechan ... * > L. C. Campbell, vice president and river, and for a distance of about STEPHENS & RICHARDSON, Proprietor r, ,a*ar«r GM Irwin i Í H>t. Public.Instruction W II l.oeda I general manager; T. J. Geisler, at­ two miles the present channel has B Atate Printer > R S. Bean. torney; Charles N. Scott, secretary, crossed the ancient channel several I .[ C. Wolverton «nprewie .Indire* ........... > F. A. Moore times Mr. Senn intends to expend and George \V Bates, treasurer > N NINETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. ‘•The objects of the new company 1 the remainder of the winter in pros- M. D CLirroM' D " " Otatrict Julire c. W. Pnrrleh. Nl« itine . . (R; H. Kelley ferent route*, principally to act a* ground from the streams putting Stork R) J C. Welcome rreyg'irer .. n TA. McKinnon feeders for steamer and railway into the Middle Fork.—Eagle. 3l-ve >r (D> A. J. McKinnon [^“Courteous treatment guaranteed. Your patronage sohe Uier’ff . .. , R w. S. Watc* ■ lines now in operation, connecting A»» -*>r ,m W.C.B ’ M I ’ch ><>1 - mor oten lient Geo TreB»*kf* 1 remote a ctions with the trunk 4t,-»k ' Mtwtnr (D ) A .B. Mark* It is stated authoriti vely that a ¡om-nlieionar» A »peed of six miles an .p i Geo. H»«ey lines. hour is expected to be attained resolution will probably be intro- LAND OVVICIt: a. H \RNET Ü. Thom»» Jone* with a train of six loaded cars, d”ced in the legislature, asking A. A. Cowing &•«•»« ver having a capacity of 15 tons each that congress or the president to - societies . and drawn by a 30 ton locomotive set aside Crater lake and its near SYLVA REBEKAH DesreeXo tS. built on the plans proposed by the surroundings as a national parktl Meet»«very IX »nd SB Wed*e»d»r Campbell system. Sharp curve* giving it similar standidg with the M!»»Jenrl» M < Pba«t*r* N.O. Eurns.Canyon Stage Line M *» Leona Z elater. Rec Sec’y ano beavv grades are noimpedient Yellowstone park and the Yosemite A. O. Ü. W.Hnrnt Lodre. No 47 1» this systun of transportation, and letters to prominent Mazamas J. A. H ama day , contractor. Mo'tioverv 2d and 4th „ w which will be operated over road­ are being sent out asking them to Carrying U. S. Mails and Eastern Oregon Express Co’s Fijevs j w Saver. Rec’d lend their services in enlisting tire ways al>uut 16 feet wide, requiring co operation of the members of the HARNEY LODGI. NO. 77. I. O O F. ,-ave Burns Tm-adav.Thursdny,Saturday,for Canyon City neither tie* nor rail*. Plans for t • • «t >11 Fellow* Hul’.ererv a»’nrd»y legislature in the movement. and intermedi-.t» mala Far« $5. T:J?pm, Vf Irvb M. Q. the construction of such equipment J. P. Zeiffrr. Secy I I xhe Bums Bar