“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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR that the request was withdrawn EFFORTS TO MAKE IRRIGATION A PO acre, while that of good irrigated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; .
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~
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«
’
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w
1
--
-
t
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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
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