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BURN’S, HARNEY COUNTY. OREGON, JUNE 29, 1901. RECLAMATION OE ARID LAND Virginia and thence to England by REPORT MAA L1XES i.<ST Sir John Hawkins in 1565. A cen tury later we find the Royal Geo ICIltPTION RATES: PARTIAL TEXT OF BILL DRAFTED BY graphical Society laboring for its JOHNSTOWN FLOOD RE ENACTED IN »•.’.to WEST VIRGINIA. ENGINEERS AND CONGRESSMEN. introduction into Ireland on the l.to » . .75 ThrMMMlla supposition that it would afford a OYF ICIAL DIRECTORY a certain means of forestalling fam I STATE—OREGON : Bulk of Money From Sale of Public Lands to ine, and a few years later it came Report Indicates Loss of Four Ton ns With Mta.................... I J. H Mitchell, Probably Five Hundred People-- Be Applied to Construction of Irri i Joseph Simon from Ireland into the settlements Ureal Loss of Propertv. gation Works--Plan Outlined. (Thog. Tongue. I of New England—a fact which ( M . A. Moody . D. R. N. Blackburn Atloraey General lOUj^“ «juvsrnor ...................T. T. Geer Bluefield. W. X’. June 23 - This A dispatch of last week from gave rise to the encyclopedic error .................. FI Dunbar *** i secrctary OI Stale which we have noted. And this section has just been visited by a .0 8 Moore Treasurer ; Cheyenne, says: ...........J H Ackerman Hupt. Public InKtructuon ................ W H Laeda atste Prlatei Ata joint meeting of congress circuitous route from Virginia to tlood, the extent of which, in all i R. 8. Bean. shows how little probability’ will equal or exceed ___ > C. Wolverton men and state engineers who c me New England > F. A. Moore there was in common between the that of Johnstown in 1889 so far as j here to discuss the best methods of NINKTtl JUDICIAL DISTRICT. “rakehellies” of Virginia and their i the loss of property is concerned. M• D CMrrosi. I reclaiming arid lands, a bill was 'fo, Dlrtrlet J«a»v Diatrict Attorney W m Miller Puritan neighbors on the north. Early yesterday moenii.g, shortly Joint-Rei>reav utative .................... IS Geer drafted which, with perhaps some Joint-Senator .................. J Morrow The potato ia probably dispersed after midnight, a ;>■ a.y downpour minor changes, will be presented to “.8*^ HABsr.T : I Via" The more widely among the people of of rain began, accompanied by a James A Sparrow congress at its next session. Coonty Judg. . . .H. Richardson proposed measure in part is as fol- the earth than any other American severe electric storm which increas Clerk. ..................... Il A Miller I Treasurer .. product with the single exception ed in volume, continuing for sever J KJohnson Surveyor ... Geo Shelley ! lows: Sheriff........... of tobacco. Indian corn, now grown al hour.,. The storm continued J W Buchanan Assessor.... “That all money received from J c Bartlett I School Supcri ’'tendent to be our greatest agricultural sta ' throughout the entire day and night KJ Noble blocs Inspect A. Venator the sale or disposal of public lands I ple and one of the best life.sustain- 'and at 10 a m, while the storm had R J Williams 5'^ ’ CoiaiuiMioueib i in Arizona, California, Colorado, omet: HARNEY U. 8. LAND ers known, is little used by the abated, the lowering clouds threat Geo. W Ha'es Idaho, Utah. Montana, Wyoming. Register . world at large. But tobacco, with ened another terrific downpour at ......... Chas Newell Receiver Kansas, Nebraska. Nevada, New no life sustaining qualities what any moment. IS«.. ' Mexico, North Dakota. Oregon, SOC ever, is known in every land and Many miles of the Norfolk & kiM South Dakota and Washington, be- 8YLVA REBEKAH Degree No.<3 1*1. clime. Its widespread and enor Western railroad tracks, bridges Meets every ist and ltd Wednesday. P Ul: 1 ginning with the fiscal year ending 1 Tillie Jordan N. G. mous consumption is one of the and telegraph lines are destroyed Frank e Brenton Kec Sec’v. «.n, \ June 30, 1902, excepting money set i«;«, - wonders of the world, for no drug, and communication is entirely cut A. O. U. W. Burns Lodge, No. 47. i aside by law for educational pur ■r|> -/ j food or other substance ever came ofT west of Elkhorn so that it is im M^l».«rS «<t.r.i»b<i AI)|)1Bril M w poses, and excepting also the sala K II Hoyt. Rec. into such general use in so short a possible to learn the full extent of ! ries of the registers and receivers of space of time.—Kansas City Jour the loss of life and property, but q?,',? HARNXY LODGE. NO. 77, I. O O F. ¡the United Slates ¡and offices, lo al Odd Fellow. Hall, every Saturday nal. otlicials of the coal companies locat t 7 »0o m J M Dalton N. G. i.wpui. WYKlng.Secv. cated within said states and tyrri-1 ed in the district have sent out mes ---------------------------------- i tories, shall be and are hereby re-' or . ■ ___________________ , t »_■._____________________ PRESIDENT WILL COME IN 1002. sengers to Elkhorn, the terminus ot ' served for the benefit of the state or PROFESSIONAL CARDS. both telegraphic and railroad com territory in which said lands are Washington, June 22 —President munication and have received a re ;u,;l ' SWEEK sold to be kept as a special fund McKinley this morning told ex Sen port that a conservative estimate as ar»’ ATTORNEY AT-LAW, to be known as the ‘arid laud recla mation fund,’ and shall be. under ator Carter, of Montana, that he to the loss of life will easily reach Bara* • the direction uf the secretary of the would visit the Northwest and 200. GEO. s. SIZEMORE, A great number of coal and coke lnlruf''' ■ ' interior for tiie examination, sur North Pacific Coast next year. The ru. M ATTORNEY, ^’recident’s intention is to complete plants throughout the Pocahontas vey and construction ot reservoirs o«"1' B urns , i........................................... O regon . the itir.ery which was abandoned district are reported practically de St1*! Colleciion*, Land buxiiiess. and Reul , and other irrigation works. n a ’ Estate matte: promt tlv attended to. “Any of the states or territories because of the illness of Mrs. Mc stroyed and are in some instances Kinley in San Francisco. Among entirely washed away. Owing to j w BIGG.-. HALTON BIGGS i desiring to avail themselves of the the states which were to have been the very high water which has I provisions of the act shall enact Biggs & Biggs I laws accepting the conditions of visited by the president on his re. Hooded the region and prevented ii ria ATTORNEY’S - AT - LAW, I. »Si " . this act and organize and maintain cent trip were Washington, Oregon. communication, anything like a *:i 1 —— ■1 - OREGON. ! a state engineer’s office with author- Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, correct estimate of the loss of prop B ell Practice in all the courts of Ore. , ity to plan and make estimates for Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and erty is impossible, but from the / Collections promptly made. i reservoirs to be paid for out of the Iowa. Except for passing through best information obtained nt 2 p. in h ™ 11 1----- ---------------- The officials on the return trip to Washington - Sunday the loss uf property will G. a . Kaasor i' c. W. P as » hh I reelamaliou funu. shall also arrange for the establish- none of these states were visited. easily reach 12,000,(W. PÄRRISH & REMBOLD, I tnent of rights to water from same As near ns possible all the points ■ .Yttorneye-at-Law, A Southern Nan for President. "It shall be the duly of the sec will be included in the new tour. Berne («nil Canyon City.) Oregon. The chief point of interest missed Will practice in the courts of Harney and retary of die interior to examine Orant Cvuutii ® and in the bupreme ccurt oi the A speeeial to the New Y’ork Tri plans and surveys submitted by the mi the last trip was the Yellowstone state, and alao iu U.S. land office. a. bune from Washington, says: National Park. This is one of the state engineers for proposed reser Congressman John W. Gaines, of Chas. II. I Leonard, voir and irrigation works and ap very few place« in the United States Tennessee, in an interview, favors that the president himself has not A ttorney - at - law , prove or reject the same, Having the nomination of a Southern man reful attention given to Collec approved the plana, the secretary visited. for president in 1904. He says: The president feels that there was tions and Real Estate matters. shall cause to be set aside a suffi “My proposition for the nomina keen disappointment in the cities , Notary Public cient sum of money from the recla and towns which were scheduled tion of a Southern man for presi H arney , - O regon mation fund,” dent in 1904 is taking like wildfire Provision is also made in the bill to be visited in the West, and he M. F itx G krald T ro » nto N W illiams Since I made it a week ago I have thinks it is nothing tin re than fair Notary Public ; for the segregation from entry of all Attorney «t I jlw . received stacks of letters from ail Real Estate A «eut real- that the people should finally I lands upon which storage reservoirs parte of the country commending ize their ex|iectations. WILLIAMS A- FITZGERALD I or others irrigation works are to be me. For more than .50 years this Otile, la «M Masonic Building. built as soon as the application ia country was ruled by the South, Buii>- - O regon Bert Way to Sell Wool. I filed with the secretary of the inter and I am satisfied they can again ior. One of the vital provisions of control if we go about it in the right j 8. W. MILLER, The wool sale at Shaniko last the proposed bill is that any state way. The first step in this direc accepting the provision of the ac’ week marks a new era in the Ore tion should be the nomination of a HOTARY P'JBLIC. may seil the completed works to the gon wool market. That was the straight, old fashioned Southern Burns, - - - Oregon actual consumers of the water only, first time for any considerable democrat for president in 1904. The the proceeds of such sale to be cred quantity of wool to be put up at man who savs that the South does JOUS W.UKAKY L. HAMDEN. ited to the arid land reclamation auction in the Northwest. A round not now possess an abundance of M ä RSDEN &.GEÄRY. fund of the state or territory con million pounds was disposed of at presidential timber is a fool. I can Physicians and Surgeons. 12j cents per pound, that being the structing such works. name a dozen men or more, any highest figure yet reported this sea I BURNS, OREGON. one of whom would make us a win son AH this wool belonged to the ning candidate.” Give the Potato its Due. Ojlte*«< artWriiee. .V-. !<> Baldwin Sheep <V Land Company Then Mr Gaines mentioned these and part of it was of last year's clip names: Senator Morgan, of Ala A writer in one of the current H. KLEBS, M. D. Due notice of the sale had been bama; Senator Cockrell, of Mis monthlies undertake* to enumerate PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON the good things which America ha* given and a doyen buyers submitted souri; Senator Carmack and Ex Office in X’iegtly Building. given to the world. He lists maple sealed bids, based on samples of Senator Turley, of Tennessee; Sen- • ugar. the turkey, the tomato. In wool taken from the sack* on the tors Culberson arid Hailey, of Texas: BL • P trx «. O regon . dian corn, tobacco and a host of ground. The highest bid took the Senator Racon and Clark Howell, Telephone No 171 other things, but totally neglects wool, and f 125.000 whs paid on the Georgia; Associate Justice White, the potato, which in in more gener spot and the transaction closed. of Louisiana. M. «.Mmrr- L E Hibberd This is one of the largest «ale* of “And," *ai<i Mr. Gaines, “you ■“V Hibbard & Brownton. al use than any other vegetable And this remind* us that one of wool ever made in the Northwest; might arid to this list the name of DENTISTS. it is even said to tie the largest ever J ,hn Marshall Ila:lati.ot Kentucky, at f" ortw a bundle» formerly occupied by S m the lesser encyclopedia* gravely de v, <T Copaban dares that the potato i* a native of made by a producer. There have who, though apfiohited to the Unit ** * JB, Burn« Oregon. been sale* of larger quantities by ----------------------------------- Great Britain and that it was a warehouse man or other collector ed States supreme court as a repub "brought to the American settle- lican. has enunciated fine old dem C. E. Standlee. M. D., metits from Ireland"—a half truth of quantities of wool, but r.o pri ocratic doctrine from the bench M * PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON’. which is quite as reprehensible as a mary sale that exceeded this in more than once. (AH «eli» in.vered pn aptly ) amount of wool ur money involved full falsehood. "The war is over, and the South >«•» The new plan worked so •uceeaafu'« is an integral part of the Union, arid DREW ?EY. ORE JON \Vh»n the Spaniards penetrated Mexico they found the native eat lv in this instance that it ia libelv not an insular possession or a Porto . t*‘ t>e largely followed hereafter. It Rico; and liesidea have not tinnier •••••••••••••••••••••••••• ing. as one of th* chroniclers of that to il «• is found that the producer who has ous ex-Confederates served on the day quaintly said, “certain roots or JOI I N McMIT.I.EN rtH a considerable quantity of wool- b rich of the »upretne court and in bulbs which grew at the ends of other positions of the federal judi all this wool was the finest grade clary by appointment of both dem stem* in the ground and which are called "batata.” The standard er<- merino—can get the l**t price and ocratic and republican presidents? Oiegon cyclopedias note that the potato is make the cleanest sale by putting Also, have not several ex-Confeder ates served in th« cabinets of both a native of South America. Mexico it tip at auction. Ch lv days preferred for republican and democratic presi and other tropical American coun dents? Congress ha* lieen full of Kak ng sittings. Photo« fin- I tries and that it made its Brat ap When you g« t a Jones Mower ex-Confederates for 30 years. Sure isbr in carbon and platinum pearance in Europe wb»r. carried you get one that combines all the ly. if ex-Confederates can be trust s there from Peru by Spanish ex good points in every other kind ed to make and interpret laws, they l«l«t,ntaneo'-. pr.ice«. nu l ran I* trusted to execute them The cutter Therefore, my voice from this time plorers at the beginning of the 16th made, and mor* too M I Mtr «iveîv. First-rises work century. It also was found in Flor bar can I* lined «» with t* * *ickie on shall lefirt Southern man for eel -ati.faetio«i guaranteed. _ . • ida at.d from there w.s carried to and it has both pull and push bar* president. ’ •••••••••••••••••••••••••» The 'Sirrxs-yisrald. THE OREGON FORWARDING COMPANY, O zxtsuxio, I Lis something of interest to say to all llarnev county people, largest and most complete stock of carried by any store in ¡ .astern Oregon. Our store and warehouses are full to overllowing t direct from the markets, East and West. We are read}’ to serve you with war ranted goods at guaranteed prices, against any and all competition. IM A COMPLETE LIME OF F3ESH GROCERIES, Fry Goods, Boots and Shoes; Gents and Ladies i Furnishings, correct styles, new and up to date; I the Nobbiest Line of Mens Hats ever shown in Eastern Oregon, direct from New York. STUDABAKER WAGONS AND BUGGIES OLIVER CHILLED AND STEEL PLOWS t CULTIVATORS, FARMING TOOLS OF ALL KINOS In endless profusion and : t : H CAR LOADS OF BARB WIRE fi STOCK SALT on h.ond. 9 I i i We carry a larger and more complete line of hardware than any general merchandise store in the State. In fact our hardware' department is a complete store within itself, All kinds of shell and heavy hardware in stock, Cutlery, Lisk Ware guaranteed rust prool, Stransky Ware guaranteed tor five years, Delit Ware, Granite, d in Ware in endless varieties. Bridge beach stovesand ranges in size and price to lit your house and your pocket book—large or small. In fact we have everything you need, from acamcric needle toa freight wag on. Write us for prices on large bills—we guar antee them to be right. 1 ry us with a mail order —we wili fill it promptly and cheerfully. Sv 'll I WOOL STORED FREE OF CHARGE. Yours for Business, E. A. RIEGER, Manager. i : ! t t I :