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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—<JKK..."S
The Homestead I aw Will Not Be Infringed living of!’of it. has b-en taken and A Writer In the Oregonian Says It Wii! Prac
*'uni". cattle t?
i
J. II Mitchell.
U.S. Settatori
\\
show
your
n
aders
that
these
men
tically Repeal ttc Homestead Law.
'<■"1. vii left
Ipoo,
But
More
Homes
furnished.
I
Jofeeph Simon
the title passed from the govern
CAPITAL
STOCK
$25,000.00
It left ear, ua;,.,
4
And Abolish Free Homes.
who thus describe Oregon are either
,Thoe. Tonxne.
Other Great Advantage/.
ment; but such as there may be,
iM A. Moody-
\ < ¡ein'i'iil 1 ».inkitilg 1 ïiis-¡liess Tf:ins*acteHl.
ConrrMiniea
ignorant
of
our
lands,
or
else
be
p.
K.
X.
Bi»<
kl.nrn
Attorney General
will undoubtedly be open to the
..................... T. T. Geer
Governor
Dini tors: IV. Y King,
I. S Geer
Geo. Fry, J
.................... FI l.uiil.ar
long to those who desire to pass
becretary ol State
homestead
settler under any lease
s
M.xire
Trewurer
IV.
K
Triselt,
J
C.
Welcome
In
recent
issues
of
the
Oregonian
.ustü.hr.';Nk»:>
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;
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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,
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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. <a’t!e.
«.A.KxMOOLe
t.W.P.*l.ms
pra< tically repealing the hotne-
fl Fplit ia taeiK
settler, or, else, the laud will be erty a»i-e'gable in tli it county, and
Well, jou will need one of those
lb . ranks S' •. ’J
1 the gam', fur the .enactment cf stead law. M'tiile 1 believe tliore
PARRISH iREILOLD.
i^crldl kz
first ei.ssified by the Interior De they should have all of it. Under j t hese laws.
rlahc
’
Outing
Hammocks tlm'. take up
■ire many who advocate tho lease
A llorn« J s-a t- La w,
>, 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<ny sento» it on
o
BCRSS,
OREGON.
agining that it would retard settle would happen about driving stock. find this language, in «[leaking oí action grew out of tho proposed re
•ow>. 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/<t by fAit uiinity uieatAer
is m ire important in localities Ilk« the ‘Nation’s farm.’ It contains tle probability that any more re
H. KLEBS, M. D.
•title.»*
nntt bug a
WtnetmiH J rom ut.
In confirmation of this, in the Harney county. When you see
crop if*
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON «ame issue of your paper you that the result of the Uwr will lie practically all that is left of the wrves will I« created until Con
Cali ani! eaamene gooiti. jet prete!
irwit. dt'a
public domain, and is the chief hop<- gress acts. This means that not
anet termi.
Ve ran enee gou
Office in V egtlv Building.
)WS.
speak of a scheme of a private com that your taxpayers can carry- of a free home for those wiio dream only will this “outhwest Oregon
ttte ci^
Soor tSe Cu m mini
• money.
B
vk 'S.
O
regox .
«*
pany to irrigate some desert ¡and more stock and have more projier- of landed independence, but who o serve b< hel 1 up indefinitely, lull
under
J
«*•*•••
Telephone No 171
nM. b< W
in Harney county. If there are ty to assess; that your feed i» to be have little beside« industry ami the suggested reserves in the Blue
• •
«
that the small self denial with which to secure it mountains and many others in
Ibbard waters in the place spoken of that eaten at home;
HitKanl At Brownton. can be stored and bring arid lands stockman is to be fully protected; Aa it is now. this land has but lit western states as well. The Secre
under cultivatiun by private par¿ mid that the homestead settler is to tle, value. In many places a town tary indorsed tie- action of the
-
ENTIST^-
h««*'
ties, there are, certainly, other have none of bis rights taken away, chip would not support a settler
Olfle* Br»t door etat of Tfc*
: 8 BaT ‘
.11’: ■*'* T
1 • r. . 1 tying
.. ' r S(r. i ■ à t i or. » . | •
ili« x-w
? Burn*. Or- _ -n
place* that water can be so stored and, on the contrary, is to l»e en and Lis family, and a section of w«rj ] . Im? for tin ■ r- 'ion of r> ■ •
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
’ ■ <ante.
JOHN McM I I.T.î N
been read by most of your readers
F. C. L usk .
•
a kt <
greater magnitude than the world in Ln Grande <-n an Important land
and verv hkelv may have been
■Vaw
has ever ee^n. What would L ■ th- contest ease. The case, as stated,
«•À ■** •
copied in your paper, as I have no
ewnwiercial value in rent for land is that of J >lin <». Saxton, plotesl-
Call at the furnitort skr* »nd where a sheep would •larve to
doubt, with your usual fairness,
Buras.
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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'
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«
n|i-»rtant to that cm -i’y
th- ent. F M. Kixt.f» and Will R
This sam
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