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“The average value of arable U. 5T AND IRRIGATION STRIKE scale of wages for all the mills op DROUTH J. W. B iggs ? P resident and acting cashier . erated, owned and controled by lands under ditch, but not vet pre ',|S , 11? C. l.EVFXS, V ice -P keriden ’ t . that company, but it is also true pared for irrigation, is $7.93 per ïi.j 8UBSCBIITI05 BATES: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR that the request was withdrawn EFFORTS TO MAKE IRRIGATION A PO acre, while that of good irrigated «ÎJ? O»» Tsar . .............. .............. LITICAL QUESTION. WILL CO-OPERATE. and one substituted so that the lands is $43 50. The difference, I M.li Tkre» Month* ... ■’» $35 67, is average value per acre union scale should apply to those •««J- ~ (INCOR POU ATED.) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY added by irrigation. There has j mills only in which the members •TATE—OH EGON : Federation Will Aid Morally and Flaaodally Result of Drouth io Middle Wen has Beeu a of the Amalmsgated association been a large profit over the cost of J. H Mitchell. w La-s..»»» ES............. I j --Assoclatioa’s Deleal Woald Mean Revival of Diacusaiou of Motional Joseph Simon areemployed; in other words which ditch construction—$24 p“r irriga Death Blow to Inioniied Labor. Aid to Irrigation. tiwu/i' triMâfl ,Thos. Tongue. CAPITAL STOCK $25,000.00 O... hfl............... $M A. Moody are well known to the union mills ted acre. This profit would have ¡el...................... D. R. X. Blackburn A General Banking Business Transacted. , T T. Geer Pittsbure, Aug 10—Although This, the United States Steel cor One result of the terrible drouth been much larger and the cost BBT” FI Dunbar Olili, Directors: W. Y King, I. S. Geer Geo. Fry, . . C 8 Moure poration refused to concede, insist per irrigated acre materially less if in the West has been a sharp revi President Shaffer’s strike oiler does Mtructluu. J H Ackerman W. F. Trisch, J 0. Welcome. i.................................... W H Leeda ing that the scale should apply the ditches had been constructed val of the discussion of national aid not go into effect until tonight, i R. 8. Bean. to those mills which were to irrigation, says a Washington only after due consideration of the KftL ...................... > C. Wolverton alre-dy hundreds of men are laying only (Jorrospondence Invited. ‘ ) F. A. Moore union last year, and refusing to al Bpecial. The advantages enjoyed factors involved. down their tools and the strike HINBTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. TJ, low two mills to be included, which in the limited territory where the “The development of the Territo . M.D. C lifford leaders are greatly encouraged. l'h'e »teilte« Jada» Win Miller AUomy . n« .................... 18 Geer Over 300 men at the Riverside by a species of hectoring and svs- land is artificially watered have ry by reclaiming it»arid but fertile ............. J W Morrow plant of the National Tube works Aematic opposition of the company been emphasized in «uch a marked lands presents problems of water t eerarrr— « a « sh : at Benwood, W. Va., quit this has become non-union during the degree that the whole subject of ir storage of great importance. bj MatYJwdca ............................... J amen A Sparrow ’|..k 11. Richardson morning “While no reservoirs ofimpor- when their turn was year rigation has beer, brought to public R A Miller ]e- JHgrrT raaaurer................................ • ........................ J K Johniun finished and announced they would “It eppears that the company attention. For several Congresses has vet been constructed in the heriff ......... ................ Geo Shelley FRANK SMITH Propt., ONTARIO, OR. ........ JW Buchauan not return to work. They are the took the position it did with an earnest efforts have been made by Teriitory, the future reclamation of ■a ehXTsapcri »ten dent ■” ......... JC Bartlett not allow the Western members to secure recog large areas of fertile lands depends ............... EJ Noble first men in the country to obey the avowal that it would rti teck Iniaector A. Venator oamiMioutra R J Williame strike order. The mill will be op extension of the union to non-union nition of irrigation as a national upon the storage of Hood waters on lc, 4(.’ . ,•> BAMJEY _ O. •- LAKD ' OFFICE" The Largest Hotel building in Malheur County. in. , ists. Such a position and avowal improvement. Some little progress the sites which nature has provided. erated as a non-union plant. ..Geo. W Hrei •tkvVe<l<Ur .................. Best equipped, best managed and most popular hos ... Chas Newell K .eceiter ........................................ No accurate idea, however, of are tantamount to declaring that, has been made in the way of appro When perfected these reservoirs si. _______________________ ___________ notwithstanding the growth of the i; ... ■' ---------- ---------------- telry in Eastern Oregon. priations for surveys and reports, should be sufficiently extensive to the number of men who will obey ■n»pL.. «GC1ETIE8. craft, the organization has reached but the friends of irrigation are provide water that will last through the order can be obtained until to SYLVA REBEKAH DegreeNo .J Matta rvery 1st and 8d Wednesday. HEADQUARTERS TOR HARNEY COUNTY PEOPLE. morrow night, but there are points a status beyond which it could not now preparing to make a stronger temporary drouths.” g IM.» nilie Jordan N. (♦. Frankie Brenton Rec Eec’y. where sentiment is divided and an extend. appeal, baring their claims upon c. ' ; • ■ ft Tic’ --------------------------------------------------- First-CJlasa Bar in. Connection. Electric Line to Cove. i A. O. V. W. Burn« Lodge, No. 47 accurate count can only be had the tremendous damage done to “WE SOLEMNLY PROTEST” «~U^Frtd.y»i«bL w the corn crop and the animal indus when the men take their stand to U _______________ K 11 K»»1- Rcc La Grande, Ore., Aug 8 —A com “Organized labor advances or re try by the recent drouth. morrow night. MT HARNBY LODGE. NO. 77, I. O O F. Telegrams from McKeesport an cedes; never stands still. It there It is claimed that the project of pany will be incorporated here this i Ilc: ’ Meet« at Odd Fellow« Hall, every Saturday ebf ... -«ox* m J M Dalton N. G. today began fore follows that if the trust, by its watering the arid lands of the '.Vest week by about a dozen of the pro .wpm. w y Kingt secy. nounce that 150 men dismantling the big Deweas-Wood great wealth, can prevent the ex by diverting the water of rivers and inent men of this county for the s' plant. Several cars backed into the tendon and growth of the Amalga- other streams into irrigation ditches purpose of building an electric road |«° professional cards . yard, a number of rolls were taken ted association, it encompassed its will afford an outlet to much of the connecting La Grande with the C- A' SWEEK down and loaded on them. The disintegration and destruction. surplus capital of the country, if town of Cove, 16 miles away on the it attorney at - law , strikers claim only the old machin The only powers then standing be congress will give the subject the eastern side of the Grande Round £7;. B»n^ I > ■ ery will be removed and that the tween the trusts and workers as a same consideration that is paid to valley. All the impediments to iuap . ¡n Hay and (¡rain Fine Turnout« GEO. s. SIZEMORE, corporation is not serious. As a protector are the tender mercies of river and harbor improvements. success of tho road have been d(Yii. -fl Always Kept Courteous /•-ATTORNEY, counter move an independent plant, its directors. Against such a cal One feature of the present census thoroughly canvassed and there Oil Hands Treatment « Juwis........... ................... O regon . backed by local business men, is amity the sense of justice and hu is the statistics gathered on the seems to be no sufficient reason iia' C’oUeciiot»*, Land bubiness, and Rea) proposed. The Enterprise lodge of manity revolt, and against it we subject of irrigation. In a bulletin why it should not succeed from the ZataU mattar proim ’lv attended U>. on ‘ just issued at bureau and prepared first. The cost of grading will be McCULLE Y& DOWNING, PROPS the Amalgamated is said to have solemnly protest. dalton biggs dieo .J jt w biggs , “We shall stand by the Athalma- by L. G. Powers, Chief Statistician very small, since the country be pltdged $80,000 lorset: ■ i Biggs & Bigg» iueon-td The Uewess Wood officials an gated aaaciation in the present con of Agriculture, some interesting tween here and the Cove is almost »••■I“. Inigf«. ‘•rj ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, nounce today the men would be diet to the full extent of our power, figures are submitted with regard as level as the floor, and the power gh.- I BNS, ----- ----- ----- — OREGON. 1.. I paid off today and after two weeks both morally and financially; we to irrigation in the Territory of necessary to operate the rolling Practice in all tne courts of Ore. notified their services wouid not be shall aid in every lawful way the Arizona. In this far Western ter stock can be secured at a minimum men on strike or who may come ritory irrigation antedates its occu of cost. Collections promptly made. required. Cove has a number of streams ¡. A. R bmbold C. P akbibh President Shaffer was the prin out on strike to maintain the work pation by white men. For ages cipal speaker today at an immense ers in their right to organize, and the agricultural Indians practiced flowing down the mountain side, Well,you will need one of those PARRISH & REM BOLD. strike demonstration at New Castle, the extension of their organization, irrigation of a primitive kind and the largest of which carries oven at Í Attorney s-at^J.aw, Outing Hammocks that take up so that the only power which stands ■ft tT.itl the white Bottlers have since im this time of year 12 feet of water, where he was given an enthusiastic («ml Uanyon Canyon a City,) Oregon. r*. . ■ Burns Burns (mrt nj, j y ”-» Zi.)3a_ . ........... .. . ( iturnov « for their protection and advance not less than a half foot in r v Will practice in the court« of proved on these methods with most so little room and are so servica He will also deliver the i •. iract cuuntiea and in the »nprenie evurt oi the welcome. h «ate. a*d jtlao la U. 8. land uffice. main address at McKeesport to- ment against the avarice of concen satisfactory results. The report is depth, or at least five cubic ble. And camp chairs too. trated wealthy, may be perfected in part as follows: bi; . ------- ~ feet. Tho flow is rapid, the fall uight. Chas. H. Leonai’d, When you return drop in and and perpetuated. When the over being between 400 and 500 feet “ Of the 72.268,800 acres of land The American Tin Plate compa or • b A ttorney - at - law , weening rich combine for avarice, surface of Arizona, only 1.935 327, to the mile, By utilizing about see our matting, linoleum, carpets, Jareful attention given to Collec- ny announced today its intention power and tyranny, is it not the I or 2.7 per cent, are included in two miles of the stream above the etc., also those fine couches we to dismantle and remove to Mone lions and Real Estate matters, duty of the workers to unite for farms in 1900 and only 254,521, or irrigating ditches ample power can are now displaying. You might ssen some of its mills tied up by j® ■ Notary Public the strike. The mills are not home, justice, right and humanity? 0.35 per cent are improved. Of the be seemed to operate all the rolling replace your old window shades. I lie very thing for this Weather. H abney , - O regon “If the trust should succeed in improved land; 227,890 acres are stock the road would need in any | in '^1 named. It is understood the Mon e: ii>.M M. F itx G brald W illiams If k.rj essen plant will be made one of the its purpose to crush the Amalga located outside of the Indian reser reasonable length of time. By the NOW KEEP COOL--A REFRIQEATOR YOU WANT a Ctor nap at 14». Notary Public Real Afent largest the comoany has. The an mated association the victory vations. The importance of irriga same power electric Lights will pro patftrn, in Wait 7),nynl. SiuUding SPnfltr. irk •’< tion is demonstrated by the fact bably be furnished to the towns of WILLIAMS & FITZGERALD nouncement has created a profound would be dearly bought. Crti! Li c • -A that irrigated land outside the In Cove, Nibley and Alice). i;,.-1. Jtlie» 1» «M M»«»nlc Bonding, impression. COMPARISON WITH B0ER8. The business status of the enter dian reservations has an acreage of cur B urns , — O regon gompebs ' decision . I U II ■ ‘'The fight of the brave Boers 185,396, or 81 4 per cent of the cor prise is practically this: A com bom? 2s Piltrburg, Pa., Aug 9—President may end in their undoing, but the responding improved land. The pany in Utah with unlimited capi 8. W. MILLER, ar > ’ . Gomper3 of the American Federa spirit of justice, the love of freedom progress of agriculture during the tal back of it has offered assurances NOTARY PUBLIC. tion of Labor, after a two davs’ and right suddenly looms up in an decade ending with 1900 is attri of assistance if the local company Wur U -1.- Burna, - - - Oregon. conference with President Shaffer other part of the world. These butable to the successful applica will do its part. It expects the lo- ■r »« :f flfl . S lit., and his associates, issued a formal principles find lodgement in the tion of irrigation to the growing of • cal company to complete a survey JOHN W UK a RT lure* V. L ■»»•»»», statement tonight specifically hearts of other m< n who will carry hay and forage, cereals, vegetables, and to purchase the right of way bn: .' r * lit' MÄRSDEN & GEÄRY. pledging the federation to the mor on the battle until they are en fruit and other crops. and the land at each end of the I b «'TH Physicians sod Surgeons. al and financial support of the throned in the conscience and eve “Within the ten years from 1890 line for buildings. When this is ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• OREGON. ■B«NS, Amalmagated association. His ryday lift of all people»; an with to 1900, 545 miles of canal« and done the outside com pan y will buikl 7/out that tAe ¡priny itaton /> on Phone .Vo Í0 Jjlet al VrtWeacr. written review of the train of events the Amalgamated association, an ditches were constructed, at a cost and operate the road. ut tuo natura//^ turn toward Zook- ir -A.- - — leading up to the industrial quarrel organization may be defeated in a of ♦ 1,508,469. Out of thia total It has been estimated that the ‘ iny after our mac/nntry and too a. I »fl * tvAat it needed for tAe tea ton't DR. H. VOLP, > ' t L content, but it will not be conqureil. sustains the course of the Amalga road can lie built and equiped at a ♦512.000 was expended in ditches bran' jM work. 9ffe tuitA to an nounco at re*.'*’• .jj Physician and Surgeon, mated association and declares that “The Amalgamated association into which no water had been turn cost of $6000 per mile. As it will tAit time tAat tuo Aauo ?¿Jayona, nothing remains for labor but to will not be crushed; she will not be not run direct to Cove, but will ex- j Omet AT RKBIDKNCE ed before June 1, 1900. Aside fftuyyiet, 77/otuert, jffay ^faAet, battle for the cause of unionism. conquered, she must not even be from Ibis amount ♦2.>i,(XX) is re- tend over a distance of about 20 T j taino, fffindort, etc., and aro tofo ayontt for 7)ain ÿiucAt. Sfou President Gomper* was at strike defeated.” / presented in canals which w'-re miles, tbe total cost will be in the ' «. I, U* »* H. KLEBS, M. D. tAoutdprofit Ay tAit tuindy tuoatAor headquarters again thia afternoon neighborhood of $120,000. The completed within the last few years, It'S • PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. and buy a Tfftndmitt from ut. with Secretary Morrison and was A recent dispat from Baker City and what uitilize only a small quan roundabout course is necessary to OStee in Vcegtly Building. Catt and examino yoodt. yetpricet closeted with the advisory board of to the Oregonian says; General R. tity of th« water appropriated for include on the route the towns of and formt. Wo can oauo you Btaxs, O regon . I Amalgamated association for more Cosgrove, of Le Seuer, Minn , pass them. The acreage under these Island City and Nibley and the Sur di Cunnum b-*"' K 1 Telephone No 171 1».? ____________ __________________ Ihttn three hours. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ed through the city yesterday on ditches, which in the near future I rich fruit and beet land lying north , *u«»w L t Hlbbard gomper *' statement . his way to visit Senator Chandler's will be brought under cultivation,- of the Grande Ronde river. - Hibbard A Brownton, Thia evening be gave out the ranch near Durkey, in this state. will undoubtedly be much larger Tbe road will undoubtedly cause following statement: D entists . Mr. Cosgrove is a prominent man in than the area now irrigated by all the division of the large land hold- «*•' OnU« tm *—>,»«« ,1 Th, Cltliee, Bank “Since the arrival of Secretary Minneseta, where he is known an a the ditches constructed since 1889 ir.gs into small tract* and encour Bern- Oregon Morrison of the American Federa breeder of famous Hereford stock In 1890 the acres irrigated, outside age country residences on the part tion of Labor, and myself, we have He has just concluded an arrange of the rerervatior.s, numbered 65,- of manv who now Jive in town. E. StaJt.il.1-. M.U.. Tbe land along the line is excep Iteen in almoet continual conference ment with the O. R 4 N. Co. to 821; it 19tX) they numbered 185,396, * ‘ PHYSICIAN .IN D SURGEON with the advisory board of the use a portion of the experimental By the opening of new ditches and tionally fertile and is valued at , (AUeeDasetwered promptly ; Amalgamated aaaociatioo. We farm at Walla Walla an an experi canals between 1890 and 1900 26,- from 140 to ♦ liX) per acre. It is capable of a high degree of cultiva DRKVSBY, OREGON made a thorough investigation of mental breeding station for Here- 297 acre were added to the irriga tion and any agency that causes t« ’ ■ W w 1 -- - t - ........ U— the present strike, the cause which fords He will send out some tion area. By the enlargement of it» division in‘x> small holding» i:ir ' K------------------------------------- --- -------------------------------- lead to the strike; the present situ choice young animals to be kept on the canal* previously constructed, will Ire for the benefit of tbe coun BT> f --------- at large. S-} johnji - mullen ation of the country aud we un the farm this winter. It is the in and aa the result of more ioteligent ty Cove, which is rather a thickly hesitatingly declare our judgment -a* tention of Mr. Cosgrove, if the ex methods of water distribution, 93,- populated farming community than » ,ft *»■ that the [vosition of the Amalgama periment provee a success, to estab 278 acres were added kt the pro a town, is perhaps tbe richest sec w « ted association is absolutely justifi lish a large breeding farm in East ductive area of the Territory. The tion in Eastern Oregon. Lying up B»r»a. *- — Oregno BL'KN'S. — — — OREGON. ed and essential to its continuance ern Oregon. total increase in irrigated land in on a gentle slope in a semi-circle of hill*, it is especially adapted to and effect!veneee as a union of the Ciou4y day« preferred for Oravi plan, la.ko estimate«, sta. IIuilding« pat up witLia the amount .. f ten year* was 119,575 acres. Most fruit and produce* more of that workers in the trade, as well as the making «It Photo« fin- of this land was public domain in ' crop than ail other sections of the tgure* girsi, io »«limate». HF“8»li»f»elion guaranteed. An Eastern writer make* a long protection of rights and interest« of 1890. i»bed jngart and platinum county combined. It is tbe desire argument to prove that a married its member*. efT«cta. “At a low estimate its present on the part of La Grande to secure couple cannot live on $25 per avers»* value i« 43O per a«r* or the trade of this rich section, coup- “ It is true that the Amalgama Inalante» p«oce*» used ted sseoeislioA, in th* 6r»t confer- week. If he is correct, th • xtent'velv t . r- fci. 4 five,» »-c r«it,4 *•»»'««. N? a great number of liv a ’ 'i »F -The Times-Jierald. STEEL WORKERS’ The Citizens Bank BURNS, OREGON. ....HOTEL ONTARIO Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Going to the Mountains? Burns Harry C. Smith Plwtcmrhsr. lei* b3¿ Contractor and Builder arc <