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VOL. XIV.
BURNS,
NO. 35.
HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 27, 1901.
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BVB8C11LPTI0N RATES:
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
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STATS—OBBUOX :
J.
H Mitchell.
Joseph Simon
,Tho». Tongue.
<M A. Moody
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D R. N. Blackburn
a" .ttornsy Usosra.
................... T. T. Geer
11C: .«vsruer .
...FI Dunbar
eerelary »1 *«'
................. CS Moore
et'i rnaaurar .
J H Ackerman
re,
upt. rubile jBXlructloD
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ir: . ut» Frlntsr
j R. 8. Btan.
Erf : -JB
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«prema J«d(e.
) F. A. Moore
BROMUS
HIGHLY
INERMl'S
GRASS
RECOMMENDED FOR
GRASSING RANOE.
RE
Experimeatx Bv 0. R. & N. on Barren Solis
Along It, Roate Prove
Satisfactory.
Most
Kruger's Wife
Dead.
A dispatch frem Brussels says
former President Kruger has been
notified by cable that his wife is
dead at Pretoria.
Buried City Found.
IS IN FAVOR OF LEASING.
JOHN
OILCREST THINKS IT
SAVE THE RANOE.
WILL
Talk, About a Jaat Law to All CoaceraeS.
Yet Coacedea Ibe Difficulty la
A prehistoric city of immense
Framiag Sack a Law.
proportions is said to have just
been unearthed on the Novajo,
Colonel Judson, industrial agent Indian reservation between Duran
John Gilcrest, of Burns, the sup
I for the O. R. & N. Company’s ex go, Colo., and Farmington, N. M., erintendent of the Pacific Live
perimental farm, at Blalock, has the particulars of the find having Stock Co., was in Vale thiB week,
worked out a plan whereby the been reported to the land depart says the Democrat. In discussing
MINETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
M. D. C lifford vast areas of almost
barren lands ment of the Santa Fe system.
Hktrlct Juris.
Win Millei
live stock interests, and especially i
. H.trlct Alluniti
................. IS Geer in Baker and Union
olnt-Rspr«ent*tlve
counties can
A mercantile company, which range leasing, Mr. Gilcrest was
.. J W Morrow
.UCBsaour
be restored to first class pasture .has been exploring the territory in I most emphatic in f 's opinions
COUNTY—HARSH *.
Dtb’f
lands,
by comparatively little effort, iquestion for some time, a short He thought that if congress fur-'
James A Sparrow
Loo iBwtyJwd««
H. Richardson
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says
The
Evening Telegram. The j time ago found a palace of prehis- ttished no relief the stock industry I
K
A
Miller
etru iraaaurar ...
J R Johnson
lnrv«F«r ...\.
has been progressing i toric age, containing, it is said, of the West would soon be a thing ,
.
. Geo Shelley experiment
«isigfiL
.J W Buchanan
for
three
ye
rs,
and the result is 1000 separate apartments, some of j of the past. Our only hope is in a
. J <’ Bartlett
* 1 ichool Saperi r tendent
E J Noble
'cu ¡lock iMMCtor
now
such
as
fully
and beyond them in an excellent state of pre wise lease law. protecting alike the
A.
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Jomml88ion«r>
R J Williams
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doubt
to
have
solved
the problem, servation. Another stone castle sheepmen, as well as the small and
OFFICI*.
■ ABMEY U. 8. LAND
XexfM.r 71.................................... ..Geo, W lia1 os It Is estimated that by
following , containing 100 separate apartments, large cattle holder. Such a law
..Chas Newell
Xseslvsr
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the method devised by Industrial . In some of the rooms inspected would prevent the overstocking of
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I Agent Judson, something like i were found the finest of woods and the ranges and its consequent de
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SOCIETIES.
| 500,000 acros of pasture lands may j other relics of a valuable character, struction. It would put an end to
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»TLVA REBEKAH DegresNo.tS
Maataavery 1st and 8d Wednesday.
; be converted from a etale of use- | specimens of which have been the migratory sheep bands which :
Tillie Jordan N. O.
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Frankie Brenton Rec Sec'y.
lessnese into highly valuable eat- i gathered and sent to the Smithson- threaten to wipe out of exiateuce
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▲. O.U. W. Burnt Lodge, No. 47.
[ tie ranges.
OB r*
[ ian institution in Washington.
the local stock and sheep men.
Msstssvsry Friday night.
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Colonel Judson arrived in the
'.ire
“ A Dillard. M. W.
The find is said to be exception- Both alike suffer from this cause.
E il Hoyt. Rec.
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city yesterd y, and as usual ie l ally valuable from a scientific and With leasing, their bands would be j
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MABMBY LODGE, NO. 77, I. O O F.
very busy with bis almost number ethnological standpoint, and it is confined to a certain locality, and
MMts nt Odd Fello«« Halt, every Saturday
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J M Dalton N. G.
less
agricultural experiments. He j believed to antedate the time of the the self interest of the owner would
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WYKinx.Becy.
was accompanied by C. R. Smeed, 1 Aztec occupation of the country be sufficient to protect the range
of the experiment station, and left ages ago.
PROFESSIONAL cards .
from overstocking. I recognize
today for a trip up the valley.
the difficulties in the way of form
c A- SWEEK
Speaking of bis successful experi
ATTORNEY’ AT-LAW,
The World's Thrift.
ing a law alike just to all con
ment and new discovery, Colonel
cerned, but think it can be done.
Judson said;
Thrift han become a world-wide
Mr. Gilcrest said that bis com-1
GEO. S. SIZEMORE,
"A
few
days
ago
the
extensive
habit,
says the New Y'ork World. panv had obtained a lease of the
attorney ,
vasts of lands along the O. R. *t N. All within the last century, at the road lands of the Eastern Oregon
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Collection--, Land buòne«. and Real Co.’s lines from Union clear through j beginning whereof savings banks Land Company in the southern
Ettal« matter promt tlv attended to.
south to Huntington because de were unknown, all the nations have | part of Grant county, in Harney’
nuded of vegetation as a result of become inoculated with Benjamin I county and in northwestern part of;
J. W »WBE
DALTON BIGGS
constant grazing, and since then Franklin’s gospel of economy, and ■ Malheur county.
Biggs & Biggs
they have remained barren, except ! to-day very nearly nine billions of!
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
for small growths of filaree and dollars are written on the savings- j
Wears Out Mutes.
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wool grasses here and there. To bank books of Europe and America.
Practice in all the courts of Ore. allow such areas of fertile laud to
Examining the details of this ( About 250,000 horses and’ mules
Collections promptly made._____ go to waste was out of the qnestion vast total of world-thrift, as report have been purchased by the British
and I commenced experimenting to ed by the Swiss Journal of Statis government in the southwestern i
«.A.BSMSOL.
c. w.
find a restorative that wacrid prove tics, the fact appears that while the part of the United States for use in
PARRISH & REMBOLD,
effective.
American people lead the world in the Transvaal during the war J
Attorneya-at-Law,
"Tests of grasses were made near the total amount of their savings- against the Boers. Traders who'
nor- '
Burn, («nd Canyon Ci’y.) Oregon.
L-âi,
Will praellic in the court, of Harney «nd
Huntington, North Powder,Durkee, bank deposits—two billions and a j have dealt with the English army |
i. W t ttraat counties and in the mjireme court ol the
iit.k SSliSiX i-a U.S. land office.
Baker City, Telocaset and on other half, roundly stated —yet Germany, officers, who have been sent to this
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lands
tributary to the road between France and Great Britain all lead > tountrv for the purpose, declare
Chas. II. Leonard
Union and Huntington, and the re us in the number of their deposit that the coat to England per span I
A ttorney - at - i . aw ,
Careful attention given to Lollec- sults, which I have just learned, ors. Eight in every 100 Americane of mules delivered in south Africa
are most gratifying, and the prob have savings-bank accounts, but is more than $500. The British
lions and Real Estate matters.
nar.'
in’
lem bits been solved.
I Notary Public
26 in every 100 Germans, 25 in 100 are still in the market for good an- '
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“Formerly this land was a vast Frenchmen and 22 in . every 1O0 imals.
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open country thick with bunch Britishers have them.
When it is considered that they
pob I
Tassino» Wiuuw
M. F itx G skald
grass, and excellent for cattle
Quite significant is the fact that 1 have purchased a quarter of a mil- j
ffisf*
ranges. Al present it is virtually little Switzerland leads all Etiro]>e lion of mules in this part of the ■
WILLIAMS A FITZGERALD denuded of grasses, so barren in in the general thrift of her simple, world alone, the question is asked,
Olllra iwwM M«,onle Bulldin r .
fact that it would be hard to find a industrious, republican people, | "What has become of them?”
The average life of a horse in
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2O-acre tract that would support nearly 42 in every 100 of whom
one steer through the year. By re have money in the savings-banks, South Africa is about ninety days.
8. W. MILLER,
grassing the range at a conservative and the average amount due them Soon after the outbreak of hostili
cost, two acres will keep a steer, is * 148 each, which is much higher ties against the crown a good,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
hence the desire of the management than the average due the British, sturdy animal would live for only
Burns. - - - Oregon.
I a few weeks’service as the bearer
of the O. R. & N. to make these German or French depositor.
JOHN W.WEARY lands pay tribute, and eventually
Is it not a fact full of moral sug of an English cavalryman. His
make them the breeding ground gestion that the little Swiss Repub life is now shortened, because the
MÄRSDEN & GEARY,
for the raising of fine stock of the lic, without standing army, navy, fields are bare of grass, and when
physicians and Surgeons.
ports or colonies, shows not only a the cavalryman gets a new mount
Pacific Slope.
¿ BfRNS,
OREGON.
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How
well
they
have
progressed
larger per capita industrial produc he rides it until it is weakened by
Ogke at rriiiirnrr.
PAonr .Va fö
can be inferred from a letter just tion and foreign trade than any of starvation and then a bullet ends
received from Telocaset. accompan the great European "empires,” but ' its life.
DR H, VGLP,
The Texas horses and mules
ied by samples of bromus euermus ' a larger per capita of savings,
which means a higher general level have given better service than any
PfcyMfian and Surgeon,
and tall meadow oat grass. These of comfort and happiness?
OFFICE AT RESIDIN'* E
secured by the British officers.
samples were sent by R. Frazer,
the O. R. N. Co.’s agent at Telo-
A young man of Glencoe, O. T ,
H. KLEBS, M. D.
caset.
Aguinaldo Not Docile.
is offering 3,000 tickets on himself
Three years ago the company
PHY8ICTAN AND SURGEON.
a» husband, whi'-h he is selling at
Aguinaldo it considerably irrita-
fenced three acres of this range
Office in V.rgtly Building.
$5 each, and it is said they are go
taled
at bis continued surveillance
land,
which
was
plowed
harrowed
B vkns .
O regon .
ing like hot-cakes. This is how he
by the American authorities. When
and seeded in the spring. In the
Telephone No 1 1 1
explains hie scheme: “By selling
ever he signn his name he must
fall a band of horses were turned
3,000 chances for $5 each, it will
H. 8- Btewr •
L E. H ihbard
add the word “Prisoner.” He has
in, and the grass cropped close to
bring me *15,000, which is a suffi
HifcÄx.r l & Brownton.
refused the request of his friends to
the ground, in fact, as close as could
cient sum of money to attract any
IDENTISTS«.
write the insurgent general, Malver.
l>e eaten by horses. The fence was
young woman desirous of marry
Otnee Sr*
x»r •••■ of The ( itisene Bank.
still
at large in southern Luzon,
left
open
so
that
the
horses
could
Born». Oregon.
ing. I may not get the prettiest
advising him to surrender. II«
go in and out at will. Next spring
girl in the country, but I will get
consented to sign a copy of his oath
the openinz was closed and the
€J. E Standlee. M. L>..
one, I am sure, who is anxious to
rari IC IA N A N D 3 U RG EON, crop was something immense, marry me. I sell numbers at 15 of allegiance, with the understand
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standing 41 feet, and as nice a
(All call, anjwered grcwptly )
and agree to marry the bolder of
with the purpose of influencing bi,
bunch of grass as one would desire
the numler drawn at the raffle.
PRKW’EY.
OREGON
to see in any country. Last year I will have the raffling conducted surrender, but under his signature
the same treatment, on fair and square means by par to this oath he wrote “Prisoner in
•••••••••••••••••••••••••• it and was this given
year it will be cut for seed. ties entirely disinterested. The Malacanan prison."
General Davis has been ordered
The grass today is in full bloom, money will be invested ao as to
john M c M ullen
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and a month will probably pass support us handsomely, and I to the command of the American
•ball take the bride an extended troops on the Island Mindanao and
before the crop can be harvested.
wedding trip.
“It has been demonstrated l*e-
in the Jolo archipelago. General
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yond douM that the broaaus will
A Portland woman prayed long Kobbe. formerly conmander of this
Clo lv days preferred fur
j*os and thrive tb»rs. and the and earnestly for her husband, and district, will return to the United :
iriL
•ampies sent me are in full bloom.
M*kl g Sitting« I’hotos fin
State«.
In about a month the crop will be finally asked her pastor what »be
ished in carbon and platinum
coaid do to induce him to slay
ready for harvesting "
More wall pap»r received thia
"TbeM lands are th» property of home at nights lie advised add
la*' ■ taneov« process used
e
the government, arid it is therefore ing to his home com forte something week at the Burns Furniture Co’».
d >ut*lful if anything can l*e don» in that be enjoy'd away from bon.' New designa and up-trxlate pat- :
eater.. ts I v First e’.B»« work
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ibe way of regrae« ng until it has The n',t day the wife was inquir* tern»—Use very latest styles.
and
;a*.:ifactiou
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Photographer.
...THE...
OREGON FORWARDING
COMPANY,
O xiteuric,
Has something of interest to say to all Harney county people.
largest and most complete stock of
We have on hand the
General GÆerolncamd.ise
carried by any store in Eastern Oregon.
Our stoi c and warehouses are full to overflowing
direct from the markets, East and West. We are ready to serve you with war
ranted goods at guaranteed prices, against any and all competition.
A COMPLETE LINE OF FRESH GROCERIES,
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes; Gents and Ladies
Furnishings, correct styles, new and up to date;
the Nobbiest Line of Mens Hats ever shown in
Eastern Oregon, direct from New York.
STUDABAKER TONS AND BUGGIES
M’CORMICK MOWERS AND RAKES
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OLIVER CHILLED AND STEEL PLOWS
CULTIVATORS, FARMING TOOLS OF ALL KINDS
In endless profusion and
CAR LOADS OF BARB WIRE & STOCK SALT
orx n.and..
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 shelf and
heavy hardware in stock. Cutlery, Lisk Ware
guaranteed rust proof, Stransky Ware guaranteed
for five years, Debt Ware, Granite, 1 in Ware in
endless varieties. Bridge Beach stoves and ranges
in size and price to fit your house and your pocket
book -large or small. In fact we have everything
you need, from a cambric needle to a freight wag
on. Write us tor prices on large bills—we guar
antee them to be right. 1 ry us with a mail order
—we will fill it promptly and cheerfully.
WOOL STORED FREE OF CHARGE.
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