VOL. XVI.
BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY , OREGON, JULY 4.
iq <
;
notifv tl
avoided roads and never approach
at once ai l ,!■
ed a dangerous section until I was
l>e taki'ir tu c
sure 1 was safe. On approaching a
¡500,000 ;;cr
a
where
I
sr-ction
infested
bv
Indians
SAVED HIS COMRADES EROM BEING
will h" thi
entr
front
I
Could
get
a
long
view
in
KILLED BY INDIANS.
this acti n i i t
would dismount and take a large
Cet C.!
Mal heu., I.-r
sagebruih and hold it'in front of
JHHIiliiilTlI Illi II
Lake an 1 C
Ì
me and crawling on hands and
Mis Ea^fteaces la Carrying the Mails and
stati
d in aie.ii.
knees would riconnoitere the coun
tafertasi Messages During The
bave feneed
entire
try. I often found Indians in this
Indian Wars.
and are u.-eing
t
manner without them seeing me,
vale ranges
an 1 took another course. They
(PMdDtLaney in Oregon Dally Journal)
Jimmie Gentry of Burns is the would often repoit that I was com
The Fo.-na.’i ,
moat noted rider of olden tinn - in ing on horseback and then when I
would
m
ike
one
of
these
devours
Non:
hin.
the Pacific Northwest. His
I
health —I f< — : ;
la wall known by all of the old- asound them they were amazed,
p ‘psi.i Cure i •
fienere «"3 is told today thr-ugn- that is probably the reason they
called
me the "Disappearing
cine thill en ., 1
■
out that vast section of country.
digestiv - org i., : >
Now more than 70 years of age, Coyote.’
"But it was on Powder River
late nud (rm -f >
he mopes around the town of Burns
in
the Yakima country that I con
the kind oi i■
from day to day, lives oil the 1-, ,.i
nerves and f. I
that ia going, drinks the best liqu rs sider that I lid my best ride.” said
T have often done
dol 1 iy- tLt i
and ia a welcome guest every «1,, - ,-. the old m in
Natur -I. s i
though it costs him not a cent. He long rides and good ones, but 1
Dyspepsia. :i nd
ia very feeble, hie fortune has 1. ng never saved so many human lives
stomach and
ve
aince disappeared, but the good ns when I made the ride, or rather
cured by the u ■
people of Burns and Harnev coun escape on Powder River. I was a
by Burns l ie,
irnoJ
ty will never eee "old Jimmie” men. er of Col. Shaw’s volunteers
Can '
and a detachment of 50 men was
auffer.
mi lef’dZB
T bil.;
Jimmie Gentry was born in Mis- ient ollt 0,1 a scouting expedition,
leriL, ®
¡urne. h.-a.
adii '.'•»u/ h n ices.
aouri in 1832 and came to this We had only gone 12 miles from
n rivh-TW
He camp when we reached a sort of
country
while
a
mere
boy.
rfir -ir,1-;, !g|
Services at
n Science
•1 on np| &
never weighed over 130 pounds basin .-.irrounded by rimrocks. We
* «ninni¿9
Hall ev . y suini
' I in moi
•'I. Bua.®
and weigha leae than that auiouut had bandy entered the place when
miier hrÀS
8 p ni. S ri
...it oven-
now. He is slightly paralvzed in ’*>' war-whoops of 400 Indiana an-
'Ulder. 1
•
~~ -——- .
inga at 8, Sul, ,
t ■ r Sunday,
tbe
lower
limbs,
but
gets
about
aiiounc
diliat
we
were
surrounded,
uark. iljé <
iVIl, jiigiu,^.
The type-setting machine which The Times-Herald hopes soon July 5 ‘ ti ,I
town in his regular rounds of vis- "' ■- I1' -P a desultory fire, but
d. Burnì. JH
Hing and always wears a smile and l,,e
" I1S in complete ambush to have in operation. Th-s is not the latest improved machine like
Rev A .1 I rw , ,
' Bhort l'tr^H
. i
the Mergenthaler or Linotype, but a Thome type-setting and dis- Harney th ? '
has a pleasant word for thus»* he ond we culd not do execution.
e. B-S
"There was no possible wav to tributidg machine. With two operators it will do the work of ten
vaìluw f h IM
month at 1 1 a.
meats.
He was known by the Indians! escape and some of the men actually compositors. In bringing the machine in from the railroad it was Sabbath -I: 1 .
hnns,
i«ht ear.
throughout Oregon, Idaho. Utah, cried. They knew that we would be more or less damaged, having some very delicate parts easily brok I p. m.
Bumg.
Washington and California as the; killed within a day or two The en. As soon as these extras can be secured and put in place the
P iHubu'tM
i!
Sunday sell
Biirng.
-’Disappearing Coyote.” As re Indians were continually picking machine will be started.
■i unddàS
first Sund ,y f
Ì H1 1
cently expressed bv an old chief of. 0,,r
n li 811,1 t,lere bei,1K 400 to
1 off righi. S
o'clock a m. O 1
umg.
thoee days: "You see him and
--d no chance nt them, the
. cropufM
and fourlh Sin •
Burng, yJal
theu yon fron t see him. He came ref,ult " e8' V
emulate. Then board will be able to put out con- 12000 each to await further atten-
iainoml
nt 3 o'd < k p if
1 ’,
r. wanii. B^ffl
gallopinghis horse across the plain.-.
' *ri'e at the camp and siderable money in this way The lion by the Grand Jury, which
vice'Very
nd
my.
Miss.
Ware
was
have
1
meets
in
October.
district
whose
offers
of
bonds
we
atari
for
him,
then
we
find
him
'
Lould
"
”
l
ex
l
,e
d
*">
’
hfcl
P
frun
‘
e. <¡9 on
li full
At th- Pre -
uo more. He sinks into the ground. "
They would not come been accepted are District No 1, in prepared for the emergency and
horaw.
unless they knew of our peril and Clatsop county, which will issue Dan W. Tarpley, a Eugene notary Burns, Rev. A. t
niart:-
M
1
am
not,
and
never
was
a
bron
■ar.
«ni«.
cho buster,” said the old man to a they h id no means of knowing this bonds to the amount of $35,00(1, and public, and Al. Walker, a saloon Devine servii-i
i r..|no'.Qai
since they could not hear our guns. District No. 2, in Wasco county, keeper of the same town, who is al Sunday suf,, i
tsi - f gsiL' aljtegtl
Journal representative. ‘My rt -
"Th;' night I caught my horse, 1 which will issue bonds to the so Miss Ware’s co'isin, were on hand and *< :3D p m.
cord was as a long distance rider
e in rifih
and pri pared to leave for the camp. amount of $3,500. The loans will to furnish the necessary bond, 10 a in. i-v ry
and successful rider, in carrying
rns. ho’s. alj
The bnj’s urge ] me not to gof be made at 5 per cent interest. The while Mr. McKinley, less thought
on k-i': ki»
Preaching
the mails of early days and in
iplit in
>i'ie oi lit* 9
I There was but one outlet and they usual rate for mortgage loans is 6 fill, will be given until tomorrow to i-hiircii ver. 1
carrying important messages fr n,
V ìi il. hflTjJ
knew the Indians bad this thorough per cent, but the board does not supply ways and means for a teni- iiiorning an i
-ii hip: ufl
place toplace in the shortest time.
ht CiU-, T 9
ly guarded
i bey said it would be j find borrowers for the entire fund. porary release.
school eV i ■
Then he told of his experiences
'fóri
:, rtain di-aili for me. I told them
The act of the last legislature
After the noon recess yesterday prayer m-i-i-
. f atile, ¿'9
in carrying the mails from Califor-
that I , .lit as well die attempting provided that whenever any school the arguments of the opposing evening
. iifht ear. :: ' d
ma to Halt Lake, of carrying th
't.
■ I
I ' - .. ;■ a - to die hemmed in, and district des'red to raise money l-.y council were begun, the defendants
II. Narrr-1- ■
mails at many other points ill. ■ i., h
: «atth -9
UNDER N'I'.V.
lie e > u:i an ling ollicer finally issuing bonds, it should be -he duty making no effort to offset with tes
mark, UH' 'fl
countries infested dy warlike In
tu ma, h-«"9
agreed ' ¡1,1' I should go.
of
the
district
to
offer
the
bonds
to
timony
the
convincing
showing
. IH liii'o 9
dian tribes, of carrying im -sa ■
9
..,*•••••
“I shall ii.-v, r forget that night, the state land board at not less v.hieh the Government had made
n tiKii!
i
¡¡¡et, WojH
for commanders in the Indian cam-
I dared n t tte.npt to saddle or than 5 per cent interest. The agnist them.—Oregonian.
i
- : iw 1 ìj 9
a .loi! .
campaigns of this country, and a
«
ili, Bnr».«J
brid! inv horse. I hud a hair rope board has the option on the bonds
.. iiJmir^fl
hundred and one other remarkable
MRS. A JORDAN
iilcrbifthisieH
on him I had seen the Indians at that rate, and if the bonds are
FENCES MUST COME DOWN.
i rii», Oliz’al
episodes on horseback.
h rsi - grazing near the entrance to found to be legally issued, to ay
i bit in n ij
Ihirn
He was in all of the Oregon In
the p1; • and took this point for purchase them. If the state latici
ti . Siir''i*9
dian wars and is as familiar a itl
Edward Dixon, a special agent,
tir ihrons9
my
Cue.
I
started
out
from
the
board declines to purchase the
k, nn-kTiW
the episodes of these early time.- as
of the interior department, is now
h-iilc an-itJj
campon all-fours, leading the horse bonds the district mav then sell
IDiWB. h-!W9
in Eastern Oregon warning cattle • ish< <1 in -
the
average
school
boy
is
with
his
loft luì-9
I- hind
I would crawl the full them in the market at the best
. .Iewl»pa9
A. B. C.’s. He was a teamster at
men and others who have fenced in • n< < t
. l-tirw- !;*9
length of the rope and then pull the I terms that can be hud.
the battle of the lava beds and
government lands to tear down the
•
horse up to me gradually, letting
,,!'r'lRv
helped to haul away the dead after
obstructions. Those who far! to
I’liis hotel is central I
• • Xt-
\
t,
in
uraz
as
he
came.
By
working
Must Appear before Federal Grand lun.
li'-rae.' '
the famous Canby massacre. II-
obey Dixon's orders will be prose J
xpcrienceil l.ii ,1 ord.
-■•t.k. ui - k 9
t. dimisly in this manner for several
• .ffa,^<9
waa practically an eye witne-s to
cuted, both civil and criminal pre- • • • • • <0
nd is well furnished
b-s.
hsB' 9
h-inr- I I idle 1 the ground occupi
The troubles of Horace G. Me- c edi, gs being institute I
that terrible tragedy. He wa.- with
uni», li“1*19
The in-
'dating waiters
ed by Ike Indians. I saw them
Kinley and and Marie I, W are, for-, r st » s ructions
HI noun Kl
given
V VII 1/1
Dixon
ADII II
are
I
explicit
i:
A pi I t I L
the first party that ever struck p • i;
iiiwierjìr-8
-t n.d.i._ . .1 sitting diligently on '
merly United States Commissioner He in instructed to remain on the
in the Canyon Citt mines and
irst
la
guard
In fact, I came within a at Eugene, have apparently just be {ground
r r. 111 t 11 tirili
r. n ■« 1 I <’ aiis>irii.t<.i..4
and rm
personally
sup'rintend
familiar with the developin' t '
(II« i
few f ' , : them. The horses were
gun. for at the conslusion of liit-ir 1 the work ofcattlemen in destroying
PATI « I I
every reeou,ce of the country. H-
g' ,z ng a
i' everywhere and they
I wo days’preliminary examination : th>- fences built upon the domain,
ie also reliable in ineinort ,n l
n, -;>.ok my horse fur one of their
yesterday afternoon they found In the event anyone refuses to obey
statemon*. and what "Old J,mmi-
own.
themselves tied up to bonds of I hia instructions, lie 1» instructed to
tells io regar n d as (iospei truth
JOHN li DAI.Y
“When ! got beyond them yr u
I RANK It.COFFIN. \
His long rides are a part of th
ought 11 h ive seen me ride, ■
history of the early Indian war-
-imp
t the ground afire, I
In 1879 he rode from Silver R im
reached
carón of th" main band
in ths Harney conntry to a t
'
, I at ,| tv lire ill we nr-
OF t
on the south fork of th'- J . I
ved a» I
••• th ■ Indians a sur
Biver. a distance r.f 121 mi
Accounts oí Corpo- 1 -
Jim Dump»' physician once
li. 1st h i ve never f
I’
- jm L,
f«ii in.
11 hours He was «-arrving .
Wi
" gyHnwEm Said hr
'• I’ll hi re no
wrvftirtti. or • i
sage from Gen. Bern ir > to G ■
—' ‘
dr»'jght oe pill."
T .ri I. a.- st I I d wn the old
A
iMIl
Said Jim: "no, ho.yon’re
Pf NN MH.,
Howard
He made the trip ■ ;>
X
«C
on the shelf,
in ,!>’■ ■I.,— » n- he lontmur-d:
N«. Ilk S. I . ,e:
Canyon Citv to Camp Harney fr.
7 I
You who car» others,
I i. i
, orad» were the most
I I
curs yourself."
queollv iu those early day- n, a
I J
Then Inn sent up soma
grateful I t of boys you ever saw
c S'A t / v rtot/Z f’ez'
day. The distance was 75 mi:
l\
" Force " to him,
They tiMik me from my horse.
II
■ That s what he need»,"
I hi. bank Is Insureds;
He rode 700 miles, fre rn Vi g
—A I
qeoth " Sunny Jim."
Hue it w.,.. ail over, and c»rr >-d
KODOL
City. Nev to Salt Like City
11
me i 'i- th- crop until 1 wae
daya. On this trip he had rive
li- d .
e I Oreg >o Vulun
KODOL
horses and all of them fell <1. I
- -•- r
• i- o.D >f the kind of
from and'- him, except the last,
KODOL
which Was as good as dead wh-
Tie luadyaczteers. OTC»
he reach« 1 Salt Lake Citv
KODOL trie giar.ds and gives t&na to the
"The se. sret of my aucc-oa,” sa I
dig-ist /e orgar.s.
for doctor
the old nan. "was not * much :
MO'i
'
•'?
SCHOOL
DISTRICT!.
KODOL
and patient.
say extra -dinary endursne*
mi mi
Of A.
the heart a f
••» ¡»gon g about the luiitt-r
action. no.risrz>« 1 . r
Two .clb-">i di.tr
have maile
telligenti
I always aavt d uiy
feeds the brain.
(>w
money
from
bores lor emergencies
when epplicatia n to I’Orr
re -sdy that I» t
KODOL
’
n
fund, i
easergei
s arose I put my horse I he irretìhicJ'ie st nte
- ■ - - mar '
"» y z people vsll
11 lo their 6
and vaak peop e s
4 t,
to the full lie t
I li 11 t ■ p-iss under th»* act of th e last .eg,»! atare,
tWt *41 O3f> I
bodies all of the r .jriskr-'
lamed In the food the /eat.
through Indian cou trie, a I 1 WBA ami th -e ipf liesti, i» Lave been
e
». B. F
fyspe’
¿
A mud ■ r i<( other die
never eamrbt in u
«<
Bernes »hr ff .CO S»< *
I
tfM
vMeb
sabs
fst
t. wlU ,
•“■I Vau.-i not take
> i.
f «if* • rscie *r» 'uaiiHi|( pr* parat’.cMia to
»»»«>« »iv Er t- C- »«» itt 4 Ct CillC AM ç
me. Bbey offered me an ex*
iut«í*
fmit: ' he Mme source '
: ut
t re
W-«
and
rt
se.*
the
«tate
land
Burn« Brur
I
r*fo»r
it.
When
I
frtv
m* that
eled 1
<_r-«
ht.. Ce»
GENTRY’S BEST RIDE
C ; T ?
• J'S SAS'
SERS
on
SHEEP
Sheep Dip
ck Leaf
c on Hand.
e positiv ly ; ; r mtee that
we can and
supply gro-
¿ny one
curies cheapo
else.
Oregon Fe
Ontar
ding Co.
regon,
2E3U.Z z
Special Accommcd '
H
ir
i iREGON
. ■
•vod.cit5.on.
¿velini? Men,
' I ; . inei.l of »11
uglily renovated
i • of polite, accolli
ti,e host.
C
< l ION.
< .«»ti 11 a.
( 'AHIIIKII
muled.
I
• q<-
I ’
. * fhc market fjrtC9.
ll! burglary
bree”
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Carpen-
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