B' 1 I BURNS. IIARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, Al (it SI 3. i joi . VOL. XIV. OPPOSES A LEASE SYSTEM. a sheep wmlJ starve to death on ono «totion, wo will allow two sec­ My experience in traveling thro’ 11 c. 1 : \ xs. \ n 1: fi;r«mi:xT. tions for each sheep. We have air county is that very nearly • uiitlrtul an.! M and cüJZí 8UB90BKPTION RATES: ON DISPOSITION OP 01R 325,000, and if the government COMMUNICATION FROM F. C. LUSK every place wh<*re nil actual settler VIEWS ¿•»ie bp|0 * charges $1 annually per head, we On. Y¿er .. V could make a homestead entry mi l PUBLIC LANDS. IN ITS FAVOR. »lion. Th ,‘Jl Six Mouth. have $350,000, not enough to pay Wwonl^ Three Mouth. where the lan.l is such that he IN< 'Oli I'< Hi AT VI >. »'I'. BnrnxJ;; the officials to collect the rent. could by any possibility make a OFFICIAI. 1>!R' ' 'NV BURNS, OREGON. I have made this calculation to ) I iTK— the public lands to private owner­ ... .J H Ackernmn Kept. Public Instruct.»-- Chico, July 25, 1901. law that may ie passed, and by .................. w H Leede diete Printer the question of leasing tly r< main ship by the slipping stone of land urn’si Hinilencc 1 nv iteti. j K. X. Bean. T he T imes -II ebai . d . — When 1 Hunig, . .J the use of the rents in the manner J C. Wolverton Supreme Judges ing public lands is discussed by leasing. The true development of rllhe. 6^ > F. A. Moore ' was last in Burns you invited me proposed, the lands which the set­ ‘t. »»all.,, f** Mr. Lusk and others, and. believ­ our state is not t > hate gr> at sheep NISETlt JUDICIAL DI.-IKICT. to w rite for your paper a commu tler can so occupy will be constant­ M. D. C liffobd ing as I do, that our present dele­ ranches, as described by Carpenter, lintrlet Judge . Win Miller nication upon land leasing. I am ly increased, mid as rapidly as *«p™ r -^irtct ::' u Attorney ............ IB Oeer «. earmarks gation in congress will have to de­ .that exist in Australia, and they jolui-Ke|.rv»eotnklr ............ J \V Morrow pleased to do so, and, especially, their character becomes suitable ach ear, -fBBBE Joint-Senator cide to a great ext- nt the future I are no doubt the legitimate result ,fi. Tories. (fonvJB after it has been called to my at­ the settler will have the right to iil'iet. COONTV-UAKSEYI destiny of Oreg, is-' to the disposi­ , of a land leasing system, but in tention by your giving several eol- take them, recirdless of any lease H. Richardson tion of its public lands. I am glad ; having as many heme» ns possible, R A Miller umns of your space to the copying Traaaurer in which they may be included. . J KJohnson “no, FRANK SMITH Propt., ONTARIO. OR. that the discussion lias comm- need and to ascertain this we must give Geo Shelley n far. sheriff .. Rut in ILirney county, as in every so long before the assembling of J \V Buchanan i of an article from the Oregonian by ■n '-s. lu.ri., Aueun . the people access to our public do ­ . ...J< Bartlett rattle. t„i. Schoo»Sapcrlntsndenl Mr. J. B. Huntington; and I no one of the arid counties, there is a .............. E J Noble congress, for I believe that ere two main for years. Th-' time his not A. Ven si or tice in your editorial column that » The Largest Hotel in Malheur County. great deal of land which is suited ■ » R J Williams sessions are closed some fotin of yet come to abolish th«» homestead 'rea. cattle.j-, OFFICE : HAKMKT V. S. LAND . you fall into the same error as does only for grazing and never will Best equipped, best managed and most popular hos­ er hip: eatuie ? leasing lands will be ad pti d, thus j law. If anything is done nihl an . .Geo. W Ila* es fork lu I,fl,, «..liter ....Chas Newell Mr. Huntington, that the pr p >.*ed come under any irrigation or home­ ‘nileil einley,. Receiver .................. practicaily repealing the home­ other ICO acres to the Lome**.< mi­ telry in Eastern Oregon. bill will interfere with agricultural stead sy.-t. in To the best inter- ter. Bnroi h,» stead law. on rigln lers'right, until every font of pub ­ E SOCIETIES. settlement and development. I am I ests of your county that ought to ;ut car, crop i^. No representative from tb.is state HEADQUARTERS FOR HARNEY COUNTY PEOPLE. SYLVA REBEKAH Degree No. *3 pleased to be able to remove that be protected. As it is there ie am­ ever h id greater responf ibilities in lic land is taken tb it will make a Qurng, hone, r M«t..Wytol*ndW ■ s.),> h>me and then extend it to a sen­ D on left ei,jt objection. L’ntil I read it in Mr. ple feed in Harney county foreverv <-h car. s . Frankie no ' regard to the lands yet open to tet- tion. and after that it will be ti me -!ej, horBCf, f’, Huntington's article it had not be bead of stock, cattle, sheep and A. O. U. W. Burns Lodge, No. 47. llenfent than those no.v serving 1 to talk of a land lense system. !»‘>n Jefthip;^ a. f (roppiffijj. fore been called to my attention < horses that is owned and pave The area of pulic lands granted to M..t..«ry Friday ulght. * w -e branded .\< < Already we bear statesmen supposed that any- taxes in that county, and were it railroad corp.»rations during the •nutr halt cm . E Ji iloj t. K‘-c. that any one XhT*““ '• I dieting a conflict between capital proposed lease law would be passed not fir the outside nod migratory past year was ■ bout 3U(>,"■ )>) square HARNEY LODGE, NO. 77, I. O O 1 . and labor Make the ultimate ob­ OWF, horses, T : which prohibited homestead en­ stock which pours in there under miles, a territory larger th in Tex­ M^uaiodd FSllow. » foiuidheb.; ject of til! legislation to make on ea( h ear i « l 7.su p in, v Ring. -v< ■ tries I am certain that r.o such the free range system from other as, cr nearly 200,(XX),(WO acres homes f >r millions and eliminate N|irr.>ws, horn law is desired by any one, and that states and territories an I counties, •armark, ut.ct-a Now, thr proposition is at once to tile tenement house from the cities, professional carls . 1 each ear ;•«, ; no such law will be passe I. the holdings of eteck by the citi- pass for a merely nominal runt to. and you can h ivo billionaires liv C- Ä SWEEX The government now provides xens of Harney county could be L horse», qnarr; practically the control of a few, ing in security among such people. efr ab.iiilder, t attorney at - law , no way for selling its aril range verv materially l!y increased, and with more than twice that area, In the ip: carinare, . Oregon. When the lioi r tend liw Was] »i'ie <>t left: ti,» J . Rama, liny mid Grain lands. The pre emption law has I'lne Turnout'. roll proportionately en- days of land grants, the hones! it the tax \ hrriK's. Ya i passed and protection of labor was I Ctnil tenus Always Kept ighi shou’deru GEO. S. SIZEMORE, been repealed, and there remains larged, I don't believe that as in- man, who believed that great good 'the policy of tl.e United States, V f. rockiiigdir S (In Hauti* i rot-pct! dnw:. / i N Í ATTORNEY, the actual homestead enti^ upon citizens Treatment / "> ’ < tclliger.t people us are the n Upper aitlt it could be accomplished for the with our flee sell» ol.', we as a peo- N&ÉLi J&S. ■- m • Ù i'-u .muís dehurir; i B uknb , .......................... O regon . so-called agricultural land, and 1 of Harney county want their feed country by th se grants, worked Kurils, c»:t>. t I pie made such rapid advancement Colleeaow'. ' Und >•» i ,■. «'•« >■' which must bo land capable of ur.1 their property eaten up and along with n swirm of adventurers er Fl.ipeii);t:,< ;; that I hoped that policv would M< CULLE DOWNING, PROPS *r ..J KaUte niauer promt 'tv attfiu.e I to. agricultural development to enable destroyed by migratory stock from of ail grades, from the benevolent 10 i a, r5on lt.‘r- „ never be aoandom J. l.AI.TOS 1I1GGS .right tar < j. W BI«iGB, i the settler to comply with the 1 m i other statts and territories. Ufeiiand’u' looking company president, whose A leas.; system would necessitate ,irn«. hcrwt,:- land make his final proof. That The feed of Ilarmy coun'y gold rimgicd sp ot’.»! a Biggs & Biggs w old fencing of public 1 mils or a herd t'e, a»H!nc«>-. • t ovuraifij.“ .. (the homestead settler will net b« -Imili 1 be for the nheepmen ami -Lrivel in the b at of bis imlign - ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, law, either of which '.vili make it Ivic g. h irw.." Liuterfered with by such a law will tho cattlemen wh i own their tiondi lany one call him an ad ■j onru’his..: B UNS, — — — imp isible for any man to start 11 )w fork L ./i Practice in ail the co.’* bo rcaohed in one cf two ways: ei­ rin ehes mid have their homes and j venturer, down to tho profeariotinl horn- , who has not money enough •'. cattle. XImi ther all leased lan 1 will be subj ct pay their taxes in tint county lobby 1 t. whom he used as a Lutite­ Collections promptly made. tur. wai:ki)üMffi| to at once fence that land, thus Goin¿’ to the Mountains? to homestead entry by the actual They could use all of it with prop man uses l)is h itind lo run down R. , rattle fjUti’SF [■artmerit,-as it now is in Texas, *m:h a lease law as is proposed, it otherwise system just ns honest in their be­ ' so little room ami are so set \ ¡ca­ Can we expect 4» i ft'left tn, Unrns (Hint C n ' ■ '1 " '' ’ they would have a | rt fen nee right Here r.re millions at slake, and the and ami any Lind capableof agficultur riiF, li ncf. 5 Will piavl’ca Pi il •• ' • lief that it is good public policy as fun bar uu in Gmnteiantie. »'¡J i ■'J ' * ble. And camp chairs too. al settlement, if leased at all, will to lease the land, and the small lobbyist will bo there to cajole, to at Je nú er th ■i»i*. »uil alao lu V. B. lar.d -nee. 1 ntn in opposing it, yet I cannot Ilur: », hoia be leased subject to bonifstead en ­ slockmtn would ! o protect.d in When you return drop in and S'-duce, to ensnare. All tin. a its of help but believe that no disposi­ tin ieh hip I Lame fiad Cha.-. H- Leonard, try. In either case it amounts to their full share, and it is a mistake temptation will ooze from their tion of the public lands in Oregon see our matting, linoleum, carpels, e*. LE on rt A ttorney - at - i . aw , tiie same thing. All the land suit­ to suppose that it would necissitale tongues in drops of honey, and fill could do more to retard its settle­ irk, crup.u:; etc., also those fine couches we Careful attention given to C> : able for homestead entry will be i any txtiensive system of fencing, frmu their bands in stream* of gold ment than lease sistcm. . raUlc, q lions and Real Estate matters. ire now displai ing. \ u might !• a -d i.ii i. open under such a law, just tin rhose stoekmeii who live in the Need we wonder, then, if some bill aaine bra*«» J. E. D avid . I lie va i , tiling for this Weather. Notary Public replace your old window shades. ¿x • , hr if (•». fl same as they are now, to the actu county mid whose stock, naturally, becomes a law that will forever Croy, Oregon. Il's. Ut i. H arney , - O regon al settler. ixhr range iq a certain locaiity. would prevent tho settle no nt of the lands, NOW KEEP CODE X REE!JCiEATOR YOU WANT , or:. f . HI In addition to that the bill will 'combine and lense that range and 'now called arid? A quotation •rt tt.dr; nii T ho . stoh W illiams Lieu Land Law Is Dad. jCaiost jjalierns tn 7i*a/t r^ftst^nt, ¿¡tfutirting 5\tffcr, n half io«»f propose that the rent« derived put their stick there, without the from 1803 manual, i s.u d by th* au«..,-U- ■' Lt ad. 11 .IFCS. SJ from such leases be used in build ­ necessity of even fencing it. -ecretary of the interior, will ebow In a letter to the Secretary of }•; n:atk,1 WILLIAMS à FITZGERALD , uudcruil» ing irrigation and storage work« Lease luws were not passed in what they think of the major por­ 1 he Interior tho Commissioner of i , cattle." OÌlice in old Marci:?- ’ for the express purpose of making either Australia i r Texas until the tion of Oicgon, and you complain, the General Land Otlice says he nt rkhiw B urns - O regon ?. J K r.'B land that is now arid and not sub- same _____ condition that exists with us 1 in a recent issue, of geographers in will recommend the creation of no Mf. If-” ject to homestead entry, agricultur- I1)a de it a necessity.— until the regard to our stale Then is this more fore.t rer< rvations untill tlm s. W. MILLER, row*, ho'*’ a I lc. bar k * al land, and which wouhl be op-t. range was actually Ling de troyed ignorance that sends such a report law governing lieu-land selections 1 UII er toll •< ROTARY PUBLIC. to the actual settler, f he work- H1.j Was a constant scene of war- of th-se laudato congress to lo- has been materially amended so a 09 h.»t*»*..MI nef M'W «• ings of such a bill would l>e to con f,-re The lease system works well seattered about broadcast over the to provide that lands taken in lieu B •• Burn., - - - Oregon. • Vn rm o stantly to increase the land open t in both of those countries; every- k. w «tue United States, or a link in a chain tracts within reserves so sth cl­ V. X. MABSZ>S> . JOMK » .(¿BAS* •• agricultural settlement and le-:en thing is peaceful ai. l quiet, ami f.£circumstanc«-» that will repeal od shall be of the same aria and rm. I mm M •• h righ:«« MÄKSDEN & GERRY. Chat which might be leased; a,,(* there are none of the ditlicuities the homestead law. h in iish? approximately of tho sime value c # ••••«•a e•«*••••••••••»•••« utile. £ * Physicians and Surgeons. you are entirely mistaken in im- which Mr. Huntington thinks i raih On page 697, annual of 1899, we as the relinquish« d tracts. This 7/aiu tAat tAr l/>r. h«1*4 *» ut tuo natura!/^ turn totunrti !oo>r- £0 . Oflee at retid- v. f.O~ ■ « UXλ 4- ment in Harney county; to the The government in leasing would iny attor our macAtnory antt tee 9 the Columbia river. serve for Southwestern Oregon, in < tTIilio nd hip contrary, it would accelarnte it, ar always see to it that sufficient o uiAat il ntftisit for M» ime» s ‘ The Pacific Northwest, includ ­ which case the Commissioner de ­ •'’.orsù». N DR H, VOLP, luorA. Tl/e ioti A to announoo at there are no doubt many places in driveways were lift to properly ing Montana, all of Idaho, and ma­ clined to m ikeany recommendation i> or »i* p. n tAis timo tAat mo Aaoo Isagono. that county where the government handle and move stock. Physic Ian and Surgeon, jor portitm of Or>-goti and Washing-1 whatever. The Secretary enter­ U hO!*’’ Sìuggi'os. W/otuort. Jfay JtaAos. ■ < n left « could build irrigatiou works and The press should present a full ton, and this section in connection tains similar views on this general pe is liffc orr.ee at residen « e ’Sunne. Sìintier*, eie., anit are tote store the Hood waters, and thus in­ discussion of this question, as none with other arid lands, is said to lx priqioaitiori '1 here is therefore lit­ agenti Sor Vaie SlucAl. !Vou o Æ os ‘.pcrbiU crease the agricultuaral land. «• lAoutitpro/ ■ • r*"w* and land brought under cultiva­ couraged by preparing more land lar i 'I - o o Id enough to keep -erves aggregating -Pl' is).Out) j,, rm,«4* v C. E. Standlee, NI I tion by the government. for him; then, there is certainly no a light-footed and laborous shc«p August, which, under th- present |r PHYSICIAN AXDStRGF.t'N ton* •' While io Portland recently I was reason why you should oppose from Marvi' : to death.” 1 law he would not undertake. a. cw •* (Alleali* answered [r n>|t’y ) interviewed upon this subject by ouch a law. for the opposition can This writer is an advocate of rati!» an Oregonian repewter, and gave only be in the interest of the own land leasing and wants no h ru<- DRfCWSLÏ OB« UN I ji I Oalcst Case. views up.;n some of the proposed ' ere of the migratory bands of sh««p steud law. Rent tliese worthless S««t r» Lurt. r features of the Uli and the necessi­ wh:ch Mr. Huntington admits that lands st d thus create a fund to le«IW* ». A number of prominent Baker Í ty fur it which, doubtless, have are justly coaiplam of. build an irrigation system of a Citv [»-opic. says the Herald, aro ’ ■ lin <». Saxton, plotesl- Call at the furnitort skr* »nd where a sheep would •larve to doubt, with your usual fairness, Buras. — - O;-’g « teeth* new UpiMry and loung* death unless we give biro more ant, against C. M Pierce, applicant living lio'.h *i 1-« of «ques ­ you are givlr„ ‘ for patent on Klondike Ixwle claim Cloudv day* j r • ' - i tion that is of great inters* to Har­ core ri ng Now “ the time t • or­ than 640 rea for kit pastur« Trie contest is for the p- rpos*- of making anting.* Photo* fin­ ney county, and whieh it ía verv der a new L*d leungt or conch. Seid? defeating tlie spp! ■ ation f>r pat­ ished isesrben and ¡a' —■ # « n|i-»rtant to that cm -i’y th- ent. F M. Kixt.f» and Will R This sam effects. ¿i n grating hr King ara attorneys for tl»e protest- 1 In*t«ntar- pr lazterir?. »hi* wool* •al« A. J >« ■ E. I M mre w *rk * • at«« a’velv. F mt . having a e< jc> ■ Hanky hnoM. al thr yard ¡ i 1 Wall*r IL- • f«w C to. fierre. B- ck «I d MtÑCáct ■■ I ..a- ■ tre «i*• ‘►rri ' - <• *-* A LAND LEASING QL'ESTL'N. so in connection with this letter. The Citizens Bank 7, Feed and Sale Stahl Burns Furniture Co., Harry C. Smith,