BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY,OREGON, JANUARY, 4 1902. WHICH ROAD WILL BUILD Portland i. te..<l of Tacoma and WILL ACT ON LEASE BILL present the idea before the leading 0. R. & N. CO. LITERATURE tion to go West. The new home 'commercial bodies of Eastern Seattle. I must le determine! upon and Washington and I laho, asking their It is after tlie north fork is passed 1 property disposed of. j opinion and inv ting the ,, t name PASSENGER DEPARTMENT TO FUR- The coming year promises to SUBSCRIPTION RATES: NEW LINE INTO THE INTERIOR NEXT that the real shipping would begin. PORTLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE i a man from each state, who with Here are immense belts of timber, WILL ENTER PROTEST, NISH IT FREE. bring to successful fruition some of >ue Year ......................... ’i oo YEAR IS PROBABLE. -it Month« ....................... I the representative from Portland, an instance being a solid section of | the good work and advertising ex Fare« Month* j should constitute a committee to pine 120 square miles in extent.: pended throughout the Eastern OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 1 push the open river project. The Scheme to Settle vp The Interior and Upbuild states in the past few years. Ore STATE—OKEGOH : Both the 0, R. 4 N. and Northern Pacific Here, also, are what are probably Mee,|ni w«s Called to T*ke Action on River I J. H. Mitchell. intention was to have this com-1 senator« the richest mining prospects tn the I ing of Tewns--Specinl Low Rates Improvements and Land Lease Bill gon and the Pacific Northwest is ) Joseph siinuE Are Figuring on Projest Says the On Roads From East. Discussed Informally. i mittee composed of prominent and «Tho«. Tongue. states, though undeveloped. Hun Portland Telegram. the Mecca towards which manv f M A. Moodjr M.ureeeraeu - • • | active business men. U. K. N. Kiackburn dreds of thousands of tons of good I Eastern faces are now turning, and Attorney General ........... . ,,T. T. Geer ,u/ernur FI Dunbar A letter from J. B. Huntington grade ore lie on various dumps be- ■ At the îegular meeting of the The following letter has been re the present prospects for a large •• stary oi State Susanville, Dec. 28 — (Special to C & Moore reasurer J II Ackerman cause it is impossible to ship out j lrugtee8 of tfce Portland Chamber was read, asking the Chamber of ceived by the Pendleton East Ore movement in that direction was - i,> . Public iuBtruction. W H Laedi (he Evening Telegram.)—A rail Printer » R a. Beall, under existing conditions. Freight- of con)tnerce yesterday morning 'Congress to enact a law permitting gonian from A. L. Craig, passenger never bright?r at the opening of road will be built into the great in u. Wolvertuu vuprvtne Judge« any new year than now. ) F. A. Moore ’ ing 60 miles to Sumpter, freight furthei action was taken to press leasing of the public grazing lands agent O. R. A N. Co.: terior of Grant county next year, It is now pretty generally appre Anticipating a large business and 1 Action on this was posponed until rates on the Sumpter Valley ant l beforeCongres8lhematterofopen- ninkth judicial district . XlNKTH judicial DI®T*:i;^’irr0Br. Next to the question of better wag next meeting The Chamber went ciated by railroads entering Oregon with a desire to make the move u'Lnet AuXey " on CGads the matter of who will ratee on the long road from Baker ¡nK the Upper Coluhibia to free on record two years ago as opposed and other Northwestern States, ment as large as possible, special City to San I 1 ranciseo are what the navigation for the annual meeting {ituc ■ J w-'lort'*“l build the pending railroad into I to public land leasing, but it was ' that the first requisite to the up low rates for settlors have been an mineowners of the int rior have to o f the stockholders of tbe Chamber Central Oregon is what agitates the COUNTY — HABNEY I deemed permissible to reiterate the building of the cities and towns nounced for March and April, 1902. Janie« A riparrov contend with now. lhey say they of Commerce was set on foot, 47 Jauuty Judge H. Kicbardaoi inhabitants of Grant county towns, jerk resolution than passed, which will and for a steady and sustained in This will enable the int 'i ding I ......... : new members were received, and a ¿‘ J jthuiui| Eccles, president of the wilt not stand it longer. araaadret J R OÜ 11 «UI I Davi<l >*i<f«*ur probably be done at the next regu crease in earnings, is the develop- settler to reach Oregon as cheaply . Geo Shellf. Both Northern Pacific and 0. R. . recommendation to district the suertn. j A HucbaüÄi Sumpter Valley Road, from Baker j ment of the country. If tbe farm aB if he were bound for some other AdaCMUr lar meeting. J c Bartlet A N. officials have driven through coun try for the purpose of inter City to Whitney, is quoted as say- • auM oupcrinteuaeni 7 E •> >•' I land is taken up and put under point much nearer to his present ■y.uck Inspector A . Veliate ! file interior careiully and examined Htute commerce regulation was ad- . i u a.jiiwatuuer« R J William it g his company will make an ex Icultivatoin the towns will take home. The O. R. A N . company, The Price of Cattle. opportunities. The railroad if opted, says the Saturday ’ s Oregoni- tention into Grant county in the tlAUHEY U. *• LAND i urrici: care of themselves and must grow in connection with its parent com Geo. W Ha o built from Heppner, Pend.eton or ail. i«¿1»ter .................. with an eye on .....Cha«. Newe. spring, evidently Receiver It has been a noticeable fact that ! in proportion to the demands of the pany, the Union Pacific, is doing its Indorsements of the resolutions the capiial of Harney county and Baker will creat a rush to central a great number of cattle buyers contiguous country for larger and full share towards assisting in this Oregon like the old time stampedes f or Upper Columbia improvements SOCIETIES. possibly after that on to Winnemuc- »yi.VA KEBEKAll Degree So.«3 great work; and it is our full ex recently adopted by the Portland ¡ have confined most of their buying better markets. I ca. This assures a road of some into Baker City or Grant’s Pass. ,,,en i.iandkd Wedueedaj. * - 1 i.lle jo.'Ian N. o. The Sumpter Valley extended is Chamber of Commercewere received ¡ during the past year to Harney : To the end that the agricultural, pectation that we will bring into description, but mineowners and Frankie ure.uou Rec Sec^v. county. Whether a better grade i horticultural, grazing and mining this state during 1902 thousands of freighters are distrauht between the figured out by authorities to mean j from the Chambers of Commerce of A. u. L. W.Bunu Lodge. Ko. W of stock was secured, or whether ' lands may be developed to their new and desirable settlers who will ultimately a road to Burns and i Spokane and Colfax, from the com ■ impending possibilities. «•*«”«> Friday night. M w the general prices paid were lower ! fullest capacity the railroads in I find new and happy homes in the thence to Winnemucca is easy to mercial clubs of Lewiston, Dayton Into few untapped sections is E H Hoyt. Ke*. there than in grant county, w«9 not ! particular are spending large sums great state of Oregon. there access from so many sources build, over 250 miled of mainly le and La Grande, and from the Com mo . n, i. o of known until recently when a buyer J annually for printed matter de. vel sagebrush country where rights Much assistance can be given mercial Association of Pendleton. odd tuliue. H.n.u.VryJ.mrdr with such varied interests involved informed the Blue Mountain Eagle ' scribing the various districts and the railroads, in inducing immigra of way are almost free and road *u p ui, w y KiuK.bec'« as into the rich interior. All of these expressed hearty ac These that stock of all kinds were from] employing men especially to inter tion by those now residing in our are the alternatives: Sumpt« r Val beds made with ready facility. At cord with the sentiment of tiie Pcr- Winnemucca connection is made land body and a willingness to as $2 to $6 per head cheaper there est and secure for the section in state, if each person will appoint ley from Whitney; 0. R. A N. from 1*1.0FhiSSIONAL CAROS. with the Southern Pacific. sist in any possible way. After the than in this county, and that the which they are interested, any de ; himself an immigration agent to the Heppner country; O. R. & N. I A»- re the t ’ real danger lies for | readjng of the indorsements Sena-j grade of stock was very much the sirable families now located in old the extent of writing and sending from some point on the Columbia W. J, COLEMAN, same. The price of cattle in Grant er settled portions of our country. printed matter to their old friends Southern; O. R. A N. from Pei dle- Portland, the vast trade, present j ap,r Simon, who was present by ¡Stenographer and Notary Publi. ton; 0. R. it N from Baker City; and future, of the immense Central I special invitation, was asked for his county have been advanced bv rea While the primary object of such in the East. The O. R. A N. has a son that but few growers are de expenditures is of course a »elfish j large amount of such literature, B urns , - O regon . Washington & Columbia River, vir Oregon countrv going in this event ’ views as to the best mode of proce- otfii-e in CliUeaa Bank Building. sirous of selling, and if they sell at one, the result is of great benefit to I and it will be a pleasure to mail tually Northern Pacific, from Pen to San Francisco Interior ore dure in Older to get favorable Con- all, an advanced price must be paid. the whole community. wotild have a quick easy' road to I gressional action. copies to any Eastern addresses dleton. GEU. 8. SIZEMORE, One stock dealer recently stated F oilowing periods of severe busi- sent to the passenger department of ’ Frisco Freight rates on products | Se „ ntor sim((n gaiJ jt wpnt wjth Aside from the Sumpter Valiev attorney , of all kinds would be made to meet [ha( he w#g hf>arfy that he sold a band of cattle which ness depression, such as 1893, to , the O. R. A N. Portland, Or. . n . prospects an O. R & N. road from B urns , ........................ O re . accord Wltfj thegentill,entg express. he had purchased in Harney coun 1897, through which we have just; Cullec.wii-, baud busin*«*, «nd 1 •ul Pendleton or the Heppner country those of the north towns, while job tùlale U.«Iler proiu, Hv «Hended Co. bing prices would probably be un by the Chamber of Commerce I ty to a local stock grower for a less passed, there is always considera seemed most probable. That road All persons are hereby notified DAi-luM«- an(j ¡n tbe regolutiopg rfcad from the I figure than the same stock could ble of a movement westward. It not to remove any building rock already has three surveys into dercut. J. W Hi . bo purchased for here, and at the howeyer, takes time for easterners Finally, sav posted men, an out- ; various commercial bodies of the same ! Grant's interior, all «farting from j from my land. Biggs &. Biggs time made a handsome profit. let ,o Pendleton means vast trade interior Columbia valley. He re However, Grant county cattle grow to get affairs in shape which will Burns, Oregon, Nov. 30. 1901. ; some pont South of Heppner. The ATTORNEYS-AT I AW. L fon M. B r < w . l fork of divided between Spokane, . ortlai <1 girded the opening of the Columbia ers have the advantage cf being permit them to follow the inclina- ((N. I first run.- down the north B HNS, ---- ----- and the sound ; near a market, and their surplus an cutlet t° " ■ ” . ¡»s a matter of greater ¡mp irtance Practice in in all — the court* of Olf. the John Day, tapping a stock.some nemucca means nearly everything j (|le [/ewj8 and Clark celebra stock will continue to command the timber and a little mining country, Collections promptly made. to Sanfrancisco; an outlet to Hep- noj beleive there was I present prevailing prices for some ; t It is considered unfeasible, and los time to come—Canyon Eagle. Ila < ’ W. P t kSS G. A KKMBoLD es itself in the mountains without pner or Prineville means everything a niemher of the Congressional de- J. W. B iggs , P resident and acting vashtek . to Portland ; an outlet to Baker City - - going any where in particular. The J - ' legations of the three states iinme- i H C. L even *, V ice -P hesiiif . nt . PARRISH & REMBOLD Before That Time. AUorneyB—at-Law, second, running down the middle via O. R. & N. or Sumpter Valh i diately interested who would not Burns (and Uniivon < By.) Oreg , 1 fork of the John Dav, skirts Susan- means conditions pretty well un join heartily in support of the pro Booker T. Washington tells an Will practice in tbe ryurta ul Bar ! Iille, its terminal being unsettled changed. • iM .1 cuUnilt» Anti iu the «upieruc 1‘vU ject. amusing story of an old colored J alate, au . a.to n u.a. land »ilk-e. (I X COH I ’O R AT ED.) I The third, which runs down the "This matter of impreving the preacher who was endeavoring to Rostiera After Cavuses. I Upper Columbia,” said Senator explain to his congregation how it south fork, taps Canyon City and Chas. H. lx’onard was that the children of Isreal A ttorney - at - i . aw , is presumable aimed ultimately at Simon, “ lias been before Congress1 | passed over the Red Sea safely, A CAPITAL STOCK $25,000.00 ■ many years. I have not been there ' | while the Egyptians, who came Careful attention given to < ' BuriiF. last week says: Since the advance U jus and Real Estate matt A General 1'dankinix Businesn Transacted. Routes in from tbe Columbia many years, but while I have been after them were drowned. The old Notary Public I Southern, beginning somewhere be of prices fur the range horses of there I have found it one of the man eaid; “My brethren it was Direttore: IV. Y. King, I. 8. Geer. Geo. Fry, B urns , O regon . tween Prineville and Biggs Station. Oregon, which suddenly sprang in most fruitful sources of work. The this way: When the Israelites IV. E Trlscb, J C. Welcome. to prominence as desirable animals passed over, it was early in the Office in Times-Herald buiking and from Baker City, though both boat railway scheme was first ad morning, while it was cold, and the 4 Correspondence Invited, for South Africa service, horse rust . __________________ feasible, are in the air. The first opted aud an appropriation made | ice was strong enough so that they J-/ ling has become qnite a business, 1 ho «» tus W illi »«» m . Fin' kjli . ruMd in has a world of possibilities to cover preliminary work in that! went over alright; but when the Attoroey «1 l*w. , Notary It will be a race between the professional cattle lifters of the direction. But now the conclusion Egvptians came along it was in the Reat h«<ate A^nt ahead. interior devoting a part of their at WILLIAMS A FlTZGEEALl tbe O. R A N. and its rival in the has been reached that plan is not | I middle of the day, and the sun had thawed the ice so that it gave wav tention now to this other branch. Columbia River country, according seasible and a complete change of | under them and they were drown- j Oflice in old Ma««nic Euilding. These animals are numerous on the UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT to well informed men who have base is necessary. The only feasi ed.” At this a young mar, in the ! Bi hns , - O regon i studied the peculiar situation care ranges of Baker, Harney, Grant and ble improvement to get past the congregation, who had been away other counties, are sometimes not 8. W. MILLER, fully, If the O. R. A N. is the road j Dalles is the canal and locksnow to school, and had come home.rose even branded, and are cotnpara is well for Portland. If not proposed. Toe boat railway has and said: “I don’t see how that NOTARY PUBLIC. | it Portland |explanation can be right, parson. tively easy to lift. Rustlers do not will fare badly, losing been practically, though not formal The geography that I've been study- | Burn», - - - Oregon. F. L. ANDREWS, Proprietor. even take the precautions they do BURNS, OREGON. much trade already in hand as ly, abandoned. I tried last year to irg telle us that ice never forms un- , with the cattle by running them a F. UM4MDEB. JOHN* WARY | well as the possibility of getting get tbe endorsement of the commit der the equator, and the Red Sea Strictly ZFlxst-Olass long distance away, but take them ' tee for the new plan of improve- is nearly under the equator." more. MARSDEN & GEARY. almost to the nearest point to ship, Esst 2Lccoro.mod.atlon( ' uient, but thia involved the ap 1 ' There, now.” said the old preacher Railroad men *ay that because Physicians and Surgeons. to a seiline station, Occasionly 1 “that’s alright. IVe been ’«pectin' [ propnation of 44,000,1)00, and the 1 the Northern Pacific would build BURN'S, OREGON. This hotel is centrally located and under the management of an some of you smart Alecks would he the rustlers grow bolder and take I/K ■' «1 rttldrn.-t. 1’1 V from Pendleton tbe O. R A N. is out a thoroughbred from some | enterprise was too gigantic and too askin'jest some f.wd question. The) experienced landlord, The building has been thoroughly renovated r ___ • likely to chose that point ove.- the rancher’u stock.—Vale Democrat new ta receive the approval of the- ■ time J was talkin’ alajut was be-' and is well furnished, The dining room i* in charge of polite, accom- committee then. Congtessional fore they had any jogafries or inodating waiters. The tables are furnished with the best. Heppner district. It is thought DR H. VOLP, The Blue Mountain Eagle is in quatore either.” approval of the improvement must that line may make one of its coup Physician and Surgeon, ignorance of such a state of affairs de mains similar to that so success existing in Grant county, and come largely as the result of a Bear killed Cattle. urriCK AT REKIPEN' K fully carried out in Columbia coun- doubts very much if such is the course of agitation and education. I ain sure I can promise the un it. M, Hrevnton 1 L K a ».rd lv Washington, a few »tars ago. Now comes the story from upper case One thing is certain a slock llibbard »V Biwntcii. This fact coupled with the con thief gets no syrupatby from the qualified support of every member McKay creek, or what is known as D entists . sideration that the men of the in people of Grant county when caught of the Oregcn delegation, and 1 the Rail Springs country.that dur I Offi«'« fl‘«t doer »Mt of The < Ulsena tank terior want an outlet to Pendleton in the act of purloining stock. He know that most of the men from ing the late fall months a cinna mon bear killed six head of year- Hur dm Oregon and want it badly, if only by wag is a sure candidate for a term in Washington and Idaho are also , ling cattle belonging to different in favor of opening the stockmen of that section. Mr <«i, and that Pendleton bueineas the penitentiary, and that ends his heartily " river. Nothing can be done about i Bruin, which was seen several men ar* wealthy and iiiHucntl*«! career in this county. it in Congress until work is begun times by different ones, and killed 1 enough to bring the termai there if Cattle and horses may be fre OF ONTARIO, OREGON on the regular rivers and harbors a couple of weeks ago by Pete Bed neceMary, makes it reasonable cer quently driven frmu the range of Î Hawk, an Indian, would apparent s tain that that town Acconnts ofZC*orporations. Finns and Individuals will get the this count», but if such a state of bill ” ly l «y in wait for his intended vic ^Solicited. President Hahn asked the Sena tim and when the anima! passed plum. In this case Portland « job affair* exist here a* mentioned by bing trade in Eastern Oregon will the Vale paper it ia not generally tor if he could suggest any way in he would jump upon it and cot it* STOCKHOLDERS: —John D. Daly, William Jone*, Frank R. I :ss: which more effective work for an throat. After the animal wm dead Coffin. Abner Robbine. B F. Olden. M Alexander, N. U. Carpen go up bv leaps and bound* while known—Canyon E»gle. ter. William Miller. E. H Test, Tho* Turnbull. open river could lie done Senator the bear would then catch hold of the interior will prosper equally « • •••••••••••••••••••«•••• E H. TEST, Caahier. | tbe head.just back of the rar and ; « responded that he thought Simon Esteb Jk Ardails. sheepmen who From Pendleton to Pilot Rock, rip the hide off one side a* skill « -JOHN McNU’I LF.N Id miles, a fine wheat country tri- were working south with a large the Chamber of Commerce had al fully as any practiced butcher .•«a <-»•<- --a**.- < jw «> * ow<> -^*«- j«o -«uwo outary to McKay creek i* tapped band of fat wetbera from the San ready entered upon the right course could do it with hi* knife. The From Pilot Ro« k to Camas Prairie Joaquin country, recently arrived in agitating the matter before the hide removed. Mr Bruin would take a hearty meal out of the fat year- at He re nd a and rented a piece of B arw and through Alba and Ukiah loth* barley Hubble, save the lladera commercial interest* of the interior. ’ingand leave it untiil hung'r drove He suggested that much might he ,,orth fork of the John Day, 44 Mercury There were many bead» him hack to fill himself again from ¡ Ciond» davs prefn-wd f,r ofbirley which had fallen to the 'ion»" if • cvmpetant man were to be it* carca** After eating two or miles more, passes through a purely ! making sittings Pli-m fin- graiing «wintry with some timher ground and the sheep bad a feast sent back to M ashington to ex- three meal* out of on* be would * i «bed in carbon and pamutu kill another and serve it tbe pussibilitie* The stock is driven with die«trou* result* to them. plain and urge the importanc« of then effects. TRI8CH A DON»0AN, Proprietors. same way. Tbe Indian who killed They soon began dying off. and in this project upon member* of the to Pendleton anyway and loaded one it was estimate ! that hetween hi# hear«hip ha« hern given a vote 1 Instantáneo«'* process ueed for tbe mo* part on the \V . A C. sis and eight hundred died. The two houses. This suggestion found of thanks hr th* stockmen who » extenaiTely. Fir«t-claaiwork of the ORAN owners expecteti about 4U0 more to immediate favor with the trustees s'iffrn-d fru«a hi* depredations — R CcnMraction I------- I and *ati*factiou guaranty The secretary wa* instructed to East Oregonian in would bring a certain amount to die. I •••••••••••••••«.• .... The Citizens Bank BURNS, OREGON. « Special Accommodations for Traveling Men. r I FIRST NATIONAL BANK * I I I Í