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VOL. XVII BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY.OREGON, DECEMBER !9, 1903. NTO. 4. 4 ’47 <iOT I BUILDING RAILROADS projects when h. gets ready and CONGRESS TO BE PETITIONED tract, of which Miller Lux own THE WORK SOON TO BEGIN the four corners, and occasionally a that independent lines would have Jl,lls '' *‘.M.' x i CAKl .N’TER, C amiwu , “nirSR ---------- few forties down one side or the to encounter his influence in the A. 1 WEI.t OMK, A m . U mm . money centers of the East, when LIVESTOCK INTERESTS PREPARE BILL other. They fenced in the whole ONE HUNDRED MILES OF TRACK TO -PORTLAND CAPITAL IS ENGAGED IN tract, however, and apart from their they should seek friends and would ASKING FOR CENSUS. BE LAID TO BEND. BUSINESS. legitimate holdings they included have to await his pleasure when between 55,000 and 60,000 acres of they sought to make collections | Is Annouaeed Tbat tonstruuion Will Start with the O. R. <fc N. and Southern Measure of Vital Interest to Stockmen will Uncle Sam’s land. Accounts of Loi-| uraih l it (s and Individuals Solicited. ’^2^.arrimas Systes Coatrola The State sod Haie the Weight of Indorsement Soon After The Contrait for The That fence which the government Pacific. tpon It Rests The Development of National Convention. Bond Issue Is Signed. WE W ANT YOUR BUSINESS. | will undoubtedly order taken down The delegation from Burns did of Interior Oregon. 1 is estimated to be about thirty not lay their pr posals before either ' r«'<-km 1 .i-Hi- hull Ibuy, Frank It Coltiu, N U. Carpenter, R. J. One of the most important issues The statement of President E. H. Williams J. W.A ( mm H M Hortoa.C.A. Haines. Win. Burts “Portland citizen* are not in the the Chamber of Commerce or the to come before the convention of miles in length. In similar cases, Jones, Thnmas Dai i? ni- business of building railroads" Board of trade aud only interview the National Livestock Association heretofore, the United States mar Harriman that the Columbia Or-Zff anti C.'Hnty Warrants AouyAt at tAa marjtttprtca. shal has been ordi red to not only Southern Railroad is to be built in '»tario, uch is the word from men of eapi- ed individuals in a private way. and National Woolgrowers’ Associ to Central Oregon means that 100 remove the fence but destroy it. Itiis bank ■ In. uri .lac. will he reimbursed for any loss by burglary y ,£. d in this city says, the Oregonian ation, which convene in Portland in miles of trackage is to lie built next Should that be th< order in the or hold up day or night. DID NOT ASK FOR MONEY. oute iThey do not menu, thereby, that January, will be that of securing year from Shaniko to Bend, Crook ley will build no more indepen- One would infer from reading the the passage by Congress of a bill present case Marshal Emrnitt will County. Further extention will >nt railroads, but tbat they have above article that the Oregonian or i providing for a census of agricul have on his bauds the job of his depend upon later developments. ' ' the capital available for mak- Portland business men were under tural statistics, including a classifi life. Taking tip Ynirty miles of It was the original intention of the I it4! g successful and several “good” the impression tbat Harney county ed census of livestock in the United fence posts is no before-breakfast I company to build its line through undertaking; still when up they llJnL ilroad enterprise's that are pro- expected them to build a railroad States. The gathering of this in to Burns, Harney county, and if LlA)|. >sed in the northwest. into Burns. This is a misunder formation every ten years by the will burn, but to destroy from nine the present proposed extention “Citizens of other towns,” said standing. Government is looked upon a.« u ty to one hundred and twenty proves a paying investment the re i , e of the most prominent bankers The delegation of Burns citizens matter of vital interert to the liye- miles of barbed wire is a still more mainder of the line will be con Portland yesterday, “oftentimes which recently visited Portland ac -toeb industrie:, of the country, and serious problem. It will require structed. As a safe guard against t the notion that millions of dol- complished every thing desired and it is expected that a unanimous quite a force of men some time to ! a losing proposition, it has been de- - N 1 A RIO, OREGON. accomplish such an order. . rg are lying idle in the .banks of expected. Our representatives petition for the passage of such a eided to build 100-uiile sections at i is city. Thqy imagine that ■ never asked Portland to put up the I bill will be indorsed by the asso- \<-count?, oi < ’ orpoi' > 1 n- I 'it tns ivnd Individuaste | a time. BOLO CATTLE STEALING. Holieitoil. ——Oney bags bulging with gold are money to build a railroad into , ciations, in convention assembled- President E. E. Lytle, of the Col in the vaults, sufficient to Harney county. They desired to The bill providing for the ngrieul-. >:ii.v. William Jones, Frank Ik umbia Southern, and President I . ,■ M Alexander, N. U. Carpotv -».’[tryout any of the railroad pro- enlist the good will and interest of tural and livestock census was in-! One of the boldest cuttle stealing Harriman had a consultation with ! Coffin. Miner . ter. William Miller, 1 II I'ent, Tli. i, Turnbull. 03t r ts needed in this state. Such that city, believing it of mutual traduced at the last session of Con adventures and apparently success regard to the building of the pro- j f j|)e ¡as are far short of the truth, | benefit. They also wanted to show gress, but was not acted upon. The i ful one thiu has been reported from I- II. TEST, Orwhter. posed line, and all that now re p mal-ie 8o-called capitalists of I’ort- the business men of Portland that livestock men and woolgrowers pro that section for a long time took mains to be done is the signing of V Ml. JBC- CJCC- . » Uli f ?» JB» «UÛ place last week within three miles penn. id, instead of being investor- and we had something to back up our pose to take this matter up at the the contracts by Mr Harriman to of Long Creek ofthii >ney lenders, are, for the most demands for recognition in the way coining convention and make every The cattle are about a dozen in take the bonds of the road. It is '[ ! rt, nJbney borrowers. That is to of transportation. Heretofore the endeavor to have the bill passed number and were in C. C. Black by this menus that the Columbia jM ' Kr, they keep all theii own re- possibilities of this section in that during tlie present session, that the well ’ s pasture, three miles east of Southern will lie enabled to raise sej]( irces busy and more besides. respect had not been considered first census may be taken in 1905 the funds necessary to build from 1 HOWARD SEÜHEt P B. if. WHITE, Vict.pHMioawT >le 25. ‘The large commercial houses and, Portland seemed ignorant of A bulletin was issued yesterday town. They disappeared one night Shaniko to Bend. It is estimated | and have not been heard of since W. R I Mie«, C j,stat -: *e do a big business, it is true our resources from local headquarters of the con The cattle were nil fat and in a that the section of road will cost child ey employ immense amounts of Now since they have been made vention committee, cnlling the at not less than $1,500,000, Bonds 4FG. Sbital. But they are using tlieir to see our situation and prospects, tention of every stockman to the good condition for beef They be ai to be issued, und Mr Harriman i 'ouniiKHtal to its utmost and in many all tblit is necessary is for Portland importance of this proposed act, long to S. F Branon. Dan Slaven, has agreed to accept the bonds. It J. D, Wilmoth, W. B. Mynatt and es are borrowing. to keep her weather eye in this and urging that he be in atten is expected that he will sign the , ‘Few persons have a balance of direction for a while and she will dance upon the convention, pre Fraud McGirr. Steve Hares saw CALDWELL, IDAHO contract before he leaves Portland. * two men driving a small bunch of ‘••'"’^OOO in bank, in fact if the* see a railroad rutting into Burns. pared to take action urging its If this is done, work on the road cattle toward Pass creek one even- ^WTall number of them were known, passage. will commence early in next year, j supposed ing after dark, which i« state at large would be very A Generili B .akiiuj !> sin » Ircintiacted MAIL SACK LOST. to have been these cattle No fur- it is announced. °h surprised.” FASTER MAIL SERVICE. Contrary to expectations, tho corre ; i * ond ;: nci invited ther trace has vet been found. ‘uch is one reason assigned for The Times-Herald regrets that road will not touch Prineville. jE£Ualld ’ b inability to supply mon- the condition of our mail service The establishment of a mail Ber Since the company was first organ nie Lone Star State. for this or that railroad venture, j between here and Ontario is so vice on the Klamath Lake railroad, ized, it has been tho general im xplaius why this city cannot see , bad. It lias recently com • to light the new line just completed between Down in T< xaa al Yoakum, is a pression that Prineville would bo TWIT' way clear to build a railroad ¡A- I that serious mistakes have oc- Laird’s Station, Cal., and I’okegama big dry goods firm of which Mr. J. the terminus. The present route .Iarney County from the terrni- cured and considerable inconven Or., January 1, 1904, will bring M Haller is the head, Mr. Haller will take the main line west of waliy, of the Sumpter Valley Rail- ience aud loss has followed as a re Klamath and Lake counties into on one of his trips East to buy Prineville, and if the town is to be ■' d, for example. sult. of pinuwr.Lpiiin communication with the outside goods said to a friend who was given railroad facilities it will havo I^^ everal weeks ago a delegation The stage that left here the morn world 24 hours earlier than at pre with him in the palace car, “Here, to he done by a spur line at some INCORPORATED IH47. itizens from Burns came to liii- ing of Nov 25, according to relia sent. Mails for Klamath Falls are take one of these i t tie Early Rin- I •'* h * h al I f ini i in . ¡ii tlm lowe.-t rates. Our policies later date, it is said. i guarantee titer Unci' nayinentH are made • to enlist the co-operation ot ble information, lost a sack of mail taken from Ashland by star route era upon retiring and you will be With relation to the final exten I. Vutomntic oxt«’h<|i n .ir.im« im the f ive of thn contract. —-tland toward building the road in which there were eleven register to I’okegama nowadays, but after up early in the morning feeling ’F A paid up policy. sion of the road from Bend to | III. Loan <»r cash mirrondrr v due. • Harney county. They wero ed packages and letters. Up to the first of the year the mails will good.” For the ‘ dark brown" Burns, the ollicials havo little to I ih xeelh-d a 1 dividiuid payor, 8C,!1 s several days, interviewing men this time neither the sack nor its be transferred to the new line at taste, headache and that logy feel- say as yet. That matter is in the /.vi / st / g U7 /;/ roll /. vh / /;/•:. UPTcapital and influence, liny contents have beeu found. Among Laird's and taken by rail to I'oke- ing DeWitt’s Littli Early Risers air fur tho time being. However, Sherman II.- rnmn R. ||. Ben (diet, wed by »n exhibit of statistics these were between Î4000 and $5000 gama. are the beBt pills to use. Sold by it is announced that the ultimate ‘"•iiTil Diatrict Manager. Marquam I* I - , 11. A. Dillard, Agent. t Harney needed a railroad bad- exchango and diafts sont out by From I’okegoma to Klamath Burns druggists. intention is to push through to I " ’1 “id, ■ »r, Burna, Or. ind could probably make a rai 1- the First National Bank of this Falls it is 38 miles, and eventually Harney County’. 75; /• ... e.- SSJi-n 1 pay. They desired that Port- place and $88 in drafts ami school the Klamath Falls line will be ex Superintendent Ackerman has is Of all the proposed railroad con • ‘i'liiin* 1 should induce Mr. Harriman warrants scut out by County Trea tended to the latter plnce and on sued information to the several struction schemes in Oregon, tho owe body else to take up the surer Miller. I into the interior of Southern Ore County Superintendents in the extention of the Columbia Southern ''..Lrect, or better tbat The matter is being investigated gon. The road is in private hands state concerning the eight-grade has probably bo watched with mom • liHiwtiand should do so th and sh >uld be sifted down until the and is but 25 miles in length. final examination for the year 1904. interest than any other. A vast ho visitors received as-uram • blame has been fixed. Such care Tapping one of the outposts of the The dates set for the examinations ...AND... empire ;n the central and southern law . ynipathy aud good will on every lessness should not be allowed. rich lake region of Oregon, it is are: January 27, 2H and 29; April part of the state lies idle and spar ___ _ They were made to kn .-v. We are handicapped in the way thought the road will prove a rich 1::, II and 15. M 1 19 and 20, sely settled simply because of the this city was not blind to the of mail service enough at best and feeder of the Southern Pacific. and June 15, If» and 17. The pro lack of railroad facilities. That All i I- the i I i ' Or- . hi nil Ilm opportunity of n programme to be carried out will eveloped resources of interior our people certainly are justified in lirnt «It 1 . i home institution norer ing bo; Wednesday!-, arithmetic, the resources of the country are ivtatp^en in any part, much les- in making complaint. every com ■ i,- i hi, ,p. a -i!; II h ratiM are tho hmdi * Circuit Judge Eakin haB fixed spelling, physiology: Thursdays, almost boundless is well known, ney county. But as to I’ort hh clint j tin«* Hin I hii I h ndinittt<I the date of the execution of Plea mental arithmetic, reading, writing, But the use and development of i’s building the railroad iut. atan, i of l i ' h . ul During the KUinmer Remember These at Christmas sant Armstrong for the killing of civil government; Fridays, langu these resources have been held moßtha ihr * .’I < oiidtli ,ney, that was out of tie- ¡u- - age, history, and g- graphy. Minnie Ensmiriger last Christmas back because of the lack of trans- : mica«’. portation facilities. We should avoid giving anyliody eve. He will lie executed in the Good for Children. .„a a .die visitors were visibly dis- ip the mumps or the chickenpox if jail yard al Baker City January 22, indD^l ted, tliough grateful for • . >r- we can help it. One Hundred Dollars a Box The pleasant to take and harm reception they had received Don't you think one of those fine less One Minute Cough cure gives is the valuo II. A Tisdale, Sum Do not give a friend the cold oerv^ v were made to under-’ M a termali fountain pens or a hand immediate relief in all cases of merton, S. C„ places on DeWitt’s shoulder without baked beans and tne c land capitalist* are primarily some ladies gold pen and holder Cough, Croup and LaGrippe lie Witch Hazel salve. He says: “I “' esmen who employ their mon- hot coffee. would make your friend or sweet- had the piles for 20 years. 1 tried 1 their businew, and n .'. rail- A man should nut give a lady a heart an appropriate Christmas cause it does not pilas immediately many doctors and medicines, but into the stomach, but takes effect builder«. They perceived kies unless he things she would en present. (Horton keeps'em. ) all failed except DeWitt's Witch right in the eeat of the trouble. It itro.’i :. much as Portia-d ' q ! t, joy it, except in the case of his wife draws out the inflamation, heals Hazel with antiseptics and emol lit"»"11 ** willing to vantur ’ ii.u and his mother-in-law. MIST TEAR DOWN FENCE. and sooths and cures permanently lients, relieves arid permanently ii(indent railroad venture- r. f-a.-- Do not give red suspenders to a by enabling the lunge to contribute cures blind, bleeding, itching and do so, since Oree u. United States Marshal Eramitt total stranger; he might prefer pure life-giving aud life sustaining protruding piles, sores,cuts, bruises, I MC'sd entirely by the H those of a pale blue shade instead. has served notice upon the Nevada oxygen to the blood and tissues. eczema, salt rheum and all skin without Who-- *anc’.; m agent of Miller <k Lux that there Do not present a bucking broncho Dr Armstrong of Delia, Tex , pre diseases. Sold by Burna Druggists aid do nothing and might loee will be something doing in the to a tall, pale man if sedentary scribes it daily n d says there is no !i^ever it dared to in v Prompt atti nt! ! kinds of Draying United States court one of these better cough ren.’-dy made Hold Up-to-date job printing at reason that Portland ha- • ir al habits, as he would not likely live days, says the Carson News. and Tran; r ; usinées. able prices. long enough to enjoy t. by Burns druggists. £'t;.;Jems already which The big cattle firm has been us For» rus! order : m»in 324 When you give castor < solve, conspicu - to. :. ing 50,000 acres of public land fur the Tillamook pr _■ \- howling infant giv* it for its .K S' me years and did not go through pd'-ijbiZi Im sin worth, and not merely that Portland ws? . Ji- The Finest of All •< the formality of purchasing it. It, evidence of your r-jard. — 1 odent railroad et ■ - - - I, »ever, kept others from getting example of the Colue , N >r, .- cott’s Magazine L<L VERYMAN. ■ any benefits from it, t.y fencing it c_r’, o Goldendala, Wash '■ a- io. A few months ago the govern «a*^e citizens from Be er than ever lie- ment took, up the matter with the V>*.; , «*J>ey were made to n. We bought result tbat it issued warning load far Sale Oaly at Mr. Harriman i- right. The very who had fenced in public domain, n<< telr.i ng the supr- Un Cor to tear down or remove their fences Jl“ m in Oregon and I - ins peet. Immediately. citizens are alread TRI« I ropnet Miller 4 Lux were served with ^^wlhehim to do ear* >r*< Chit: or the official notice two or three which wee-to Ir times, but paid no attention to it. A-jents, Burns, Ore. _^^zibi* Sowtheni r The land is in Humboldt county Mr. Harriman will -’ar w and lies in a large rectangular 4 Bf' « Distributer* Portland, (Wegop r CJ? Fir? i' National Bank O ; T T OREGON. FIRST NATIONAL BANK I1 I Í. ri aident armikm s I first Pallonai Bank PENN MUT1 flMCE OMPflNY. I CITIZENS Bl IÏSS COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL CERB K' DELIVERY and Trucking A. L. HUNTER, Hotel Burns Bar Bum:.