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BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY , OREGON, NOVEMBER 8, 1903.
VOL. XVI
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I followed them THE TIME TO BLY CAULE Charkb F. Martin,, .“the directors SMALLER HERDS NECESSAR)
received unsolicited subscriptions
end got there about 9 o’clock that
JOHN D DAI.Y, Virus
N. U. CARPENTE K. C abhieh ,
FRANK 1!. t i i-’l N, Vics P iik *
to stock amounting' to more than
\ < ’ W El < t »XI i «
n
night I stayed there all night.
iBERT TELLS OF HIS CAI1 f
AND About 3 o’clock the next day Sax BELIEVE MARKET HAS REACHED ITS •'flOO.WO- The Hrst thing to be SHEEP MEN REALIZE THIS AND Mil l
done is to finance the institution
CUT THEM DOWN.
ton and Jack West rode up with a
LOW-WATER MARK.
THE MURDERS.
As the most expedient method of
Winchester and shotguns. Fields,
BURNS, ORECON.
accomplishing that end the direc
my wife and myself were in the
Kansas
City
Commission
Man
Gives
Reasons
torate
decided
to
refer
stock
sub
-if ¡its of Corporations, Firms and Individuals Solicited.
Admits Shooting Saatoi. a.. ..-: and house. The officers went to the
For Believing This a Good Time
’'«•It b« Bef ? red--Impossible (o
scriptions to the representattives
front of the house. I went out the
Talks-oHii» Escape and mderings
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS.
To Stock a Ranch.
TIR Sufficient Range.
--McCoy Did not Gei I!. i.
of the various states on the board.
back door and went around,the cor
—
.............
John D. Daly, Frank B. Coffin, N. U. C .i i ent. i. R. J.
The matter of raising funds’will be1
ner of the house. I made three or
Writing to the Portland Journal
A press dispatch from Pendleton
Wlllia : . .1 W. Geary, C. Cummins, H . M Hortoo, C A. Haines, li'm .
[1!,Harry Egbert, the n.
left to the discretion of each direc
four quick steps in the open to the
Jones, Timins* Davis.
from Kansas City Mo., George B.
says.Tf Charles ¡Cunningham is in
e following story of
right of the house. I told them to
tor in his respective state,”
Longan
save:
It
looks
at
last
as
the
midst
of
his
sheep'campaign
"
—e editor of the Elko I
tTro/ff nmn' County Warranh iouyAt at tAo marketyr.co.
drop their guns, that I did not want
Prices for good to choice dressed
“Constable MoCoy v- -
1 to hurt them, that I was facing the if better days are coming for the beef steers advanced 10 to 20 cents tor this season The breeding time
I
his
I
u. is Insured and will be reimbursed for any loss by burglary
rus
cattlemen. There is a sound in the
is now here ami already Mr. Cun
y trail. I left An.,
or hold up day or night.
penitentiary
and
wanted
to
get
Medium;
to
fair
'
offerings
nre'10
Arrie-,,
air that livestock men are begin- j
ningham has ¡sold over 2.D00 la nd
inday morning and I
away. They then started to run and
cents higher. Choice grades have
rio at 5(l at uight. T pulled
uing to hear. It is the approach of;
of his' thoroughbred bucks to the
I called them to stop. Jack ¡West
been extremely sc:.:^ and the top
broogjj [, r Rockland and got
about raised his gun as if to shoot. I then better prices and the'eml of the price paid was $5.50, except for a . growers of the country. 1,(MKI of
panicky condition of the market
which has’giine to l’nintillayounty
hi was
- from i :30 or 1 o’clock. Th
load of show cattle, which sold at i
Just
what is causing this ptimi.-iic
(Continued
on
page
two.)
sheep men.
•d the !
owded with men.
• x«v
no
/BOO<-»e«i <»e«T
.-»eoe
the close at $585, the higliert price
feeling is hard to explain, p.u.-ibli
The sales have extended from
théee
loonkeeper in front
paid this year. Western grass-fed i
II'IIN
I
PAIA
.
I>¡I
mount .
M.
ALEXANDER,
V
h I i . i hum .
Ü
it is because the cattlemen believi
liarn j
9ii to put my horse i
GRAND JURY FINAL REPORT
steers..suitable for killers, sold more | here to Montana 1 ml the season
that
the market can’t g > :i i> ■ low, r.
ay and I
was in Rockland all 1
readily at the close of the week nt [ has not as vet more than begun s
/clock
e next night and ui
To the lion. M. I). Clifford, Cir Prices took a jump up in .ill the ti:m prices, while extreme common Mr. Cunningham has altogether
tele- cuit Judge:—We, the grand jury markets last’week and the ind ca st. ers in une eases were' 10 to 151 over .3,500 head of Rambouilette Ç
e next morning. 5
c
OF ONTARIO OREGON
mned from Bonanza
: f. r the regular October, 1903, term I tions are for’stil) better gains
cents lower during the week. Choice bucks which ho has son the mar 9
Whatever
is
causing
the
feeling
ket
L
9. They arrested 1
Ç \ecminis ol <’ovpoi-atioiiH, Firms imd lmliv idrials
the Circuit Court of the State of |
. heifers, cows and ♦ butcher steers
that the prices of beef have re e l
The sheep men of the country t
Solicited.
arge of horse steal
Oregon, County of Harney, most
. advanced 10 to lajeents. Medium
the barn with my lie:
: : in respectfully submit this, our final the low water mark, it is a fact that grades of Western cows are 5 to ten are having a hard time to get water ç
- i t it' K HOLDERS:—John D. Daly, William Jones, Frank R.
cattleuien who have their ears to
"*“•■*“•» and went back to g
■' ' repoit, and herein show that we
cents higher.
Common cauners for their tloeks. Water is scarcer ç 1'iiHin, Aimer Robbins, B. F. Olden, M Alexander, N (’. Carpen
the ground are buying cattle now, |
at this time than it lias ever been
ter. \\ illinni Miller, E. H. Test, Thon. Turnbull.
oats for him. Friei
> (i‘<’ i have been in session eight days,
were unchanged. - Veal calves were)
while they are cheap, George E !
and
the
wells
and
stre
'ins
are
low
’“■‘icksuiith, went over
” during which time we have exam-
steady and in good demand.
■ H. TENT, < ashler.
er; Yvhat is the mutter is not. known
IVRl];. out a block and a h
1 ined into all crimes of which we Cole, president of the Cole it Ott
Livestock
Commission
company
j
but
it
is
laid
to
the
fact
that
it
h.i-
" —as talking to the clerk
hav- had knowledge, and have been
SNAKl RIV ER SALMON DISEASED
beeu so long since there has been
t of the barn and k.
;; brought to our attention, as well as 1 here, one of the ’most .-onservative
livestock
men
in
tin
Kans.i<
City
I any rain in any quanvit v.
made for all other things of public welfare.
tween him and me
A corn pondent to the Ontario \ The pasture on the other hand
Be. 1 was in the ' 1 ‘""»íliV \nd have returned into court eight exchange, in speaking fo: tfie >m-
Argus
s i-
Has Oreg.>1/a food is good, but badly in need of lain
rilay
and told true bills of indictment, ami three I mission men h re, said y
•angers saw me goii
commissi n**r? If{ so, why is not to make it last as the ground is be
“
Now
is
the
time
to
start
;.i
the
•< 'WA L i ‘tUHtt PnamuaNT
m. Between ten ami b en men not true bills of indictment.
• ■ 9. WHITf, Vo r 1 '
cattle business. Prines
p his attention called to the poison coming dryer the growth is checked
h pistols
|.;d
rk after me armed
We have examined into the con
.h for ous artieb of food that is being dis amEunless there is; 11 good rain in
I ran be- dition of the county roads and find and a man can stock ! i
d Winchester rill
one-half
wlr.t
it
would
b.
>
st tributed all over this country in ; a short limo the sheep will get
■ and hid them in exoellent condition for this
1
een four and five n
the »1.up- ”f diseased salmon ? ! ahead of tho pasture. But while
him
two
are
three
year.-
■
There
: up lime of year. We have also exam
the sagebrush. T
Fliere is not a salmon caught in ¡ the pasture is good it is not enough I
th Winchesters and 1
rendered ined into the condition of the coun is little money now in eat ' They
Snake
liver, this far from th.- for the number of sheep in the
own and ty poor and find these poor unfortu are two cheap, but tl.- e i one
, ley took me back
oe*
that i- til for food—no gain county. The county is Overstocked
thing
certain
They
ce
.
’
t
,
a
it
■ r we_got nates well kept and cared for, and
out thirty minut<-
lower, because if th’ y do th l >ck- saying thi fact If any parties and the sheep men will have to
le in and no complaints.
ere Constable Met
men will have to give them
I
away- doubt th truthfulness of this state- feed earlier than they usually do
?o • was
-ok me in charge
We have examined into the books
i Generdl Bonking Business Ironst) te<l
in*-•
■ in' .'*■ - ich to tlie Ontario owing to the fact that the range
There
should
be
mo
"
v
•
in
buying
d me I ami affairs of the sc-v< ral offices of
,,,,,,.„put fifteen miles I
hatchery,
where
the
fish
and
die-
CORRESPONDEN« INVITED
area is too small for tIn* number of
_,d hired cut to a
ornan at the county, and would respectfull} young cattle. Sprii g calves are
ia-' am both in evedence, Thei sheep.
m got me recommend that the assessor’s of now selling at from $6 to $7.50 a
j/¿¿leklaml. He woul
salm ni is. instinctively, impelled
One of the things that the sheep
-,/nftelf within two L
f be had fice be furnished with pigeon holes head. Two'years ago they sold
up mountain streams, not for the I men of the county should b arn,and
If
a
person
has
t
range
for
$15.
;?,lli<t win d these jieople
In bland and b* xes for the filing of the pa
and the roughness he can’t heip purpose of being used as an article that at his earliest opportunity 1-
coining pers of his office.
■5 scCoy treated me
making money lie can I: Id tin nt of ''end, I, it for the propogation of that the days of tho big (locks are
Lii.A-.ck. Could not hr.
n Letter
\\ e found that the accounts of the
three
years and prices are certain the species. Come and see those past and that the sheep raiser of
PLUM MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE ■ OMPUNY.
I had not been a pi
treasurer’s office were correct so far
to go up in that time, He will fish, and if you don’t join with my the future will have to raise hie it
as we were able to ascertain in the
• Story of His C.
Of PHUADEtPlim
make money then because he old friend C Hi- Draper in anno-; Hliindardfcaml jeut^ the number of
INCORPOI
• I) I G|7.
When Egbert had tiahed the limited time and examination made bought .so cheap The ntan who uncing them ‘ hard..lookers” then his holdings.
We found that everything in the
I
al i t in# <>/ houih I life iuauranra at the lowest rm«
|< i
I
’
ll
give
up
()ne
hundred
ami
■ove statement the :
rte >r asked
started in the cattle business three
There is not room in the county
/ ii .ti.i
titer tin»»« payinentH are niHile
sheriff
’
s
and
clerk
’
s
offices
were
I. \ui-.itiiUic extended insurance for the Liev of the < hi 1
nvthing
m if he wanted to
years ago ami invested 15,000 has tity people visited ill*' hatchery last for the sheep that are now in it and
II A paid up policy.
it led to neatly and properly kept.
his trouble in Oree
today lost by a falling market al- Sunday. “No more salmon for me,” certainly the conditions will nut al
ill. I "an or < ash surrender value.
At the ernest solicitation of a
lid, and
was
the
unanimous
expression
rest. He replied t:
I nrxt ellvd aa u dividend payer
most $2,500. On a rising m n ket
low of the vast increiiei bound to
majority of the taxpayers of the
/ VI/;>r/G 1/E Hhl FORE run / vs //;/
ade the following st-
-*nt:
he would have gained that much among them all.
come
in
the
natural
cours*-
of
breed
Saxton county, we recommend that the of on an advance in price. Buy cat
-—•‘'Special Deputy >
Things aie moving along nicely ing. So the only practical remedy
Sherman Harmon,
It. II B< i
General Agent».
hiatiivt Miui.rger.
ranch in fice of county road master be abol tle when the market is down That at the hatchery. Up to the pre
reeted me at the Ma
that
will
work
to
the
benefit
of
the
Bld
II. A. I >illar<l. A. . I
> ■ Satur- ished as unnecessary; and this, means making money.”
sent time we have 7,000.< hhi eggs
arney county, Oreg
Portland, <)r,
B unin
raisers that they keep ti. • b
grade
without
casting
any
reflections
.. 1
d?r«y morning about
Asked regarding th»- re i-.m- for 11 deposit in the hatching troughs of sheep on the market ami run
whatever upon the present incum
more than double the amount that
k to my
,1- slit into the house*!’
the falling market,Mr. Cole said:
just what they can Ink - good cure
he back bent. And, as a further recom
fe and went thro .
“This summer has sc n a deni was Aired during the same period of on their range
mendation,
it.
would
seem
that
if
; i. at day
ndow. I stayed ci.
oralized market for several rca-ms of time last year. This is certainly
But few men in th. county '.an
i walked the several justices of the peace and For two or three years th*' pric* - a gigantic enterprise, which fact afford to hold many thousands of
id the next night,a
re
orders
within
the
different
mu
ut sixty-
to Andrews, Oreg
have been falling on all gr i les of cannot be fully appreciated with acres changing tho grades as fast
...AND...
about 4 nicipalities of this county could set stuff. Then when the mark*-! a is out a personal observation Twen ns they can g' t rid of the old range
re miles. I got I
tle
ail
the
petit
offense»
committed
the next
.. ...clock in the afti-rn'
already bad came the flood of the ty men are employed at present, stock that has overrun the ranges
Lil J—I stayed umh-r i
.: J night within their respective municipal Middle West. It laid out all the and more are expected next week.
in the past.
\V»-> 1 *- ities without burdening the county Kansas City packing
id then went up to
■. : I • I)..-
j ,le ■.( E.<-1 uii.l I 'entiul Oregon nil I be <>|.| - o I u . , ut a
I lants for
Each progressive man is putting
^un awl atid its taxpayers with the annoy* month., and brought the dcniaml
1 r! bin. He gave tn*
el
ne .lem Biinirie-n College. It in n home im-linitiuu v.ieiing
Stage Line to New Minea
m
w
blood
into
his
flocks
and
in
a
.... ■y
. ii.xolve.l in Buninen. College work Ils rat. r .ne II
mie
<k shot, nice ¡and expense of hearing and here to a standstill. Cattle that
shells loaded wi
short time Umatilla county will not
..... Imi»’ :• a liare mol the niellmiln are the Min». Hhi lent - n,l•!>111.>1
and see di termining the same, they should hail been coming to Kansn- City,
e said: ‘Now go *
Because of the excitement attend only l>i> one of the great sheep cen
al... .ni tu. I in It net ion at th« < ullage or by niiiil llnrin.il
i mar
kill any- *1 ■ so; inasmuch as ths municipal- the greatest feeding and stockcr ing the Mount R ur U mi phonolyte
>ur little wife and •
it ..ntl. - the < 11 le ye w ill I'unduel »
ters of the Northwest but it will L<
it’.i > derive all the lienefit, they
1'hiire‘ie unless you have I
market in the world, began going Helds and the rush of the newly the home of the thoroughbred th*-
ilo vou blow it thto
in mJ 1 should bear the burdens of their sa to other markets, Omaha and Chi- d¡ hco verci 1 mining district, ( M. stock that is in demand
mmi
ormal
iiooi
„ XG--
loons and other places.
juu - enl down to the
Icago, principally. Th - ■ market- Kellogg, the veteran *tage man. hat*
We further recommend that a re
K-»»
I-
I •! r m I iu ■ leni re « reviewing or prep.» • i
i-•
. .. rr.- 1 left the »h<
A Good Name.
were over-loaded and the r. .suit wa arranged to put on a line of stagew
I ■ j .ulti c- h work, ami full information on II«. - , m- < •' I* • • » » I » -
ward of one thousand dollars be of-
achei'incheater, bid her
the prices shot down The small from Baker City, commencing F rom personal expt ricin •*• I testify
jecu.. ..hire*.
:' red for the apprehension of the
.es... arted out. I walk*'
markets are k*-pt regulated by the Monday morning
that DeWitt’s Lilt)*: Early Riser-
murderer of Salvadore Olivera; and
drt:l Denio, a little tow ’
Z\zT. 3Z. TSigrloy, ^rirx.,
Mr Kellogg’« stage will have are unequalled ns a liver pill The-,
large ones. The tight money mar
also the reward for Pat Moore be
ids 1 ine. I stay« d
ket in the East in ** it- effect the -McCord cigar «tore nt 6 o'clock are rightly nnmed iH-cnu» they
ZEB-LxrrxS, Oxog-crx.
n I raised to one thousand dollars.
. itil the naxi ni
'Cattlemen grew panicky and un All pasaengertt and freight will l>e give strength and energy tnd do
!r':J'
„ ■ t
We
wish
to
thank
our
District
!ru e- -wit upto Sen- UlHMi
loaded unlis« they caul 1 aff r 1 to booked from there.
their work with ease —W T Eas
Attorney, Wm Miller, for hie »d-
5 ^dked iii and aske<:
Lh- -I PillMhment of a «tage line on, Boerne, Tex T li eis tud- of
wait. The demand is now great
vic**
an
]
assistance
to
us
at
all
ho were looking f .
enough av*l the sup| i . . n it
t ■ from link» r City to the new mining people ar*- using the-,- tinv pills in
time»; and we desire further to
^7 «« He told rue t
district will oe of great convenience preference to all others, htcuu-*-
the normal.”
thank our efficient bailiff, Austin
• ick to' Andrews.
to the public and no man can give they are so pl.-a-ant and effectual
The
.
Independent
I’
.u
»
.
rig
COI0-
It** i."
9
Goixlmati, for his care of us.
,' i. «»¡in the aaloon .
pany has elected all officer « except abetter - rv.’e than Mr K«*Uogg They cure biliousnes-, torpid liver,
And so», having finished our la
While
:,£ a lunch of caunfc*
a president. At the Demrt?r meet* —DenM’crat
jaundice, sick headache, constipa
bors,
we beg leave to submit this
1»»»' ting the lunch I
: :ng last week it w 13 de’¡<jled that
tion. etc They do not purge and Promp attention to all kinds of ’
our final report, and l*eg leave to
ning
hfil’Yew, rode up I
no president should be el- •cUd un-
weaken,hut cleanse an*] strengthen
be
discharged.
and
Transfer
Ruatiness.
■ ' rnt out to epeak I
til th“ National Livestock a-finia-
Sold by Burns druggist
came back tv p
dars urie 'phono main
For r>¿
tion meets thia winter in 1 ’ortland,
It is tne easiest thing in the
I>ry, the I.
Or W E Saball of
IM* J- ?
j ■ :■</.■ bouses chat display tb^ 6
> ¡1^
>rhi to live to be a hundred Murphy ut M itana. and Colon*-1
in In inv face an
The Finest of Al!
.,rs old, if you will heed the ad- W E. Hughes of D iv. r ar can-
nitM o( town. I w-
ia until I got ¡an
e of the old fellows who have ■li tate» fur th • b m -, L. i Wil-
i. L.
DELIVERYMAN.
J ben bid tn the r.
. .mplished the feat. A 1’enn- ■on of Tex a» is
r 1,
■ Lark I walked, t
vanian, 92 years old, attributes president, F. W F .ni
i^ght I walked
1 Lie to the fact that he never tre isurer. ami Chas. F
r'r.'jaeoi reeiug mi
hr Sak Oaly at
-ted iiquor at al.
A Kentuck- Denver, re* retary.
for sending
The director* ratified d aigitad
1 w ho recently died at the age
aint on the rail
fi; •t agr»**-
103 said he drank whiskey •»hat 1» kn >wu a» the
'
talking wit •
meni,
’
by
which
51
per
ee nt of tba
I Rist It * DONKGAN, Proprietor
¡never he felt like it. It is
ime night Th*
stock is bei-l by etock i.en iaUreat-
sy
to
pursue
one
or
the
other
of
-* *ield took her to L
ed in this concern. Thil• action
«e two methods—and both preclude» or laiders from gaining
w him until I
R ^ents, Burns, Ore.
ve been tried and found suc- control of the enterprise.
wwiey to come t
1 C- 1ZG Tixls IToo.cLq.vioxt *rc
•w«*lbnr by the »id»
and
“While we are in eeesi >n.” ««id
FULL ACCOUNT OI
L saw them going.
First
OF National Bank
FIRST NATIONAL BANK I
h
CALDWELL, IDA?
I
CilZENS BUSINESS COLLEGE
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
St
i< N
S<
CE ... RAL DELI'G RY
and Trucking
HUNTER,
Hotel Burns Bar
1HE CAPITAL SALOON.
B’drns.
Oregon.