VOL. XVIII.
ÜET
NO. 39.
BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY,OREGON, AUGUST 19, 1905.
in touch with buyers Grants 1 ass alone there are a dozen
THE MOST CATCHY DISPLAY nental railway line, and the O. R
tine dividend-paying mining pro­
N. I t ARPENTER. C ashifk ,
A N. and Southern Pacific, with
JOHN l> DAI.V. Puss
perties owned by Seattle, Spokane.
AC. WELCOME, A»« t . < vhiiif . r .
C. Cl MMINS. V ick Pirns
their slow, crawling feeders, will
cattle men should cast ABOUT Denver and California mining men.
HARNEY COUNTYS EXHIBIT Al THE lose this valuable country ami its SUMPTER VALLEY EXTENDING TO
IMMEDIATELY.
Portlaud capital is a little too busy
trade will be diverted to the erst.
WARD BIRNS.
WORLD'S FAIR.
with 5 and 6 per cent mortgages
In Harney county’s display we
OF BURNS, ORECON.
ever to pay any attention to this
find curios of that prehistoric race
Thousands of Head of Prime Beef Awallinf
great miniug industry which is Hon. ibnrles W. Parrish Writes lateriagly that occupied the Pacific north Superintendent Ju.eph liartun Uoen Io Tbc
Shipment--Must Not Larry Them
of This Big County and of rhe Birds
From 10 Select New Townsite--A
making so many outsiders rich,
west and engraved its history on
Over to Next Season.
Lack of Water Reported.
And \uimals Exhibited.
but it occasionally finds a dump­
the rocks long 'ere the red Indian
Warrants bought at tA» marM prtet.
ing
ground
in
wild-cat
schemes
in
drew his bow or shot his feathered
The prosperity of Harney county
The following, written by Hon. C.
There is a good deal of talk about
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS.
shaft; and also fossils of the prehis­
would be materially increased if the faraway lands, f<5m which no divi­
rail road building in Eastern. Ore.
\V.
l
’
arrish
of
this
city,
appeared
in
dirfators
toric horse and ox, together with
cattle market would open up some­ dends have yet returned.
gon but Sumpter valley i- pushing
N I'. <'.iri'i nter,
Yes. W’hv does not Portland recent issue of the Portland Journ­ the cimel, mastodon, rhinoceros
C. ('illumina.
,1 Im I» Paly.
what.
its road right along without any
H M Horton,
.1. W. Geary.
C.
I.
Haines.
build
a
railroa-i
into
Central
Ore
­
al.
A
handsome
picture
of
our
ex
­
and
sloth,
and
of
the
trigonia,
am
­
The horsemen have had good sales
Thomas Pavia.
monite and other mollusks, and talk and the extension of that lint
this season and have disposed of gon and get the vast traffic and hibit preceded the article:
from
Tipton
the
present
terminus
as many horses as they could gath­ i trade of this section? A railroad
The most catchy display of all the fissil leaves of many semi- which is 54 miles from Baker Citi
er with assurance of more buyers to ¡from deep water at Portland the counties of Oregon in Agricul­ tropical plants and trees that exist­ ami 25 miles beyond Sumpter, which
■lo-oao
cx->«»*oeo-oeo
ed in their life forms on the geolo­
arrive later in the season to practic. through Central Oregon would be
tural Hall at the Lewis and Clark gic island of “Shoshone,” awav was for many years the terminus
M A lkxxndkk . I’ hksidknt
<’ Ç; K snyos , I iu*lii* -r
one
of
the
safest
investments
that
ally clean up the horses of this sec.
ü W m . J oses , V ick P hksioknt .
t . \t. 1 i . att . Asst, t ashler
! could be made. Rut it will likely exposition comes from Haruev back in lime not later than the until the present extension planH
5
tion.
were begun is being made rapidly
county, the great but comparatively cretaceous and jurassic periods
c
Sheepmeu have the brightest of be the old “Parable of the talents”
?
ami will certainly reach Ausin Sta­
unknown ami undeveloped portion
Coining down to the beginning of
P -peets with wool at the top notch repeated: Seattle and California of the state. Although nearly 350
3
tion, ten miles bevorni Tipton, this Ç
• nd men ready to contract the 1906 capitalists are useing their talents miles from the Pacific ocean this the nineteenth century I tuvself fall, and may lie extenbed further, c
OREGON.
ONTARIO,
clip at an advance over that paid by making investments in this state county among her beautiful display safely have preserved the hatchet although tiiat is now doubtiul, owing o
Ç
which
are
securing
the
trade,
while
of
John
Day,
one
of
the
hunters
in
thisyear. Sheep buyers are num.
Interest Paid on Time I h-por- tts.
lo the searacty of water,
shows u< the white pelican, the
c
♦
erous and those who desired to sell | Portland capitalists art griping cormorant, the grebe, the tern and .the overland branch of the Astor
Suprentendant
Joseph
Barton,
their talent tight, ami all the while
à
expedition of 1811, and of later
We
Solicit
Your
Banking
Business
e
are offered good prices.
says the Democrat, will l*-iive for the
i pleading for some one else to build the seagull, together with the arctic
There are thousands of head of their railroads for them—Madras or snow veese, and the eggs of date, the ox yokes, axlt-s and other front Thursday and while there will c
STOCKHOLDERS:—M. Alexander. Wm. Jones, E II L st. â •
parts
of
the
wagons
of
the
gre;
t
C.
E.
Kenyon, II. Alexander, Estate of Aimer Robbins. William à
bi-ef cattle ready for market in Pioneer.
many of them, all gathered within immigration of 1945, who ventured locate the new townsite arrange Ç
Miller,
Frank R. Coffin, Thus. Turnbull.
Haruev county with aio buyers in
her broad borders since February j I to explore a new route into the ninny other important details of c
»<_•
-oeo
♦ usl v
<*•<-• <-*•«-- *-■
sight. The prices offered so far
Peculiar Disappearance.
construction and improvement of
15.
Willamette valley, now known as
this season have not been satisfac­
It is a pleasure to the senses the "Me"k-cut-off,” or “Bluebucket the line as outlined amt agreed up
J D. Runyan, of Butler, 0,. laid
tory
\ few beef could have been
• '
•*
when wandering through the expo­ trail.” They tell us that at old on bj the company during the pre.
turned off early in the spring, but the peculiar disappearance of his sition and becoming satiated with
sent
visit
of
President
David
Eccles
Camp Harney where, in the ’60s
HOWARD SEBREE. PRESIDENT
W.R SEBREE. Vice.PRESIDENT
the stockmen preferred holding for painful symptoi s, of indigestion and the beautiful display of Oregon’s
General George Crook first learned Mr Barto'i will arrange for the erec­
biliousness,
to
Dr
King
’
s
New
Life
R. A COWDEN, C ashier
better offers.
luscious apples, her pears, her ! to fight the Indians, there now tion of regular section houses for V
Buyers who may come next Pills. He says: "They are a perfect plums ami prunes, her golden
grow fields of waving wheat and the use of the section men instead V
month will find an almost unlimit­ remedy, for dizziness, sour stomach grains and waving grasses, to stray
of the old ears they have been list ­ V
other grains.
ed quantity of prime beef stuff headache, constipateon, etc.” Guar­ into the southwe-t corner of Agri­
ing in the past The entire lino V
We
are
as*ured
by
the
represen
­
awaiting them and our stockmen anteed at the city drug store, price cultural Hall and spend an hour tatives of the Harney exhibit that will also be ballasted with gravel as V
only want a square deal, The}’ ask 25c.
among Hurney county’s wealth of the true sportsman will ever be fast as possible, the work to begin
CALDWELL, IDAHO
no more for their cattle than they
wild game birds and to look into welcomed by the people of Harney this season, In fact the Sumpter
The Woes of The Editor.
are worth.
her jars and see mountain trout 33 while visiting their delightful Valley railroad is to be made an
A General Banking Business Transacted
The Times-Herald would suggest
inches in length ana weighing over county, but that the "game hog.” up-to-date road to every respect ami
It may be a w -rsc fate canot
CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
that the cattlemen make an effort
nine pounds.
plume hunter and namadic egg when the improvements contem­
befall a poor mortal than to be a
Harney has long been heard of fiend, who gathers for sale and bar­ plated are completed it will com­
to get in touch with outside buyers, I
acquaint themselves with the con country editor, but the average ae a livestock county, from which ter, will be met with the glacial pare with any of the trans-conti-
dition of the market and be posted country scribe ivculd be willing to came wools and fat steers enough eye am) the stern unrelenting hand 1 nental lines
The shortage of water all through
to crowd the stockyards of the na­ of the law, for the people of Harney
in order to make a profitable sale j take a whack at the worst.
The people do not realize the tion, but never before has she come love their birds and animals
Eastern Oregon occasioned by the
when the opportunity presents it­
, light enow fall last winter and th*
self. If has been the fault of the position cf the editor. He does to the front ami shown the native
I lack of storage facilities is working
local stockmen that they have fail­ not make his money in big chunks wealth of this great, undeveloped
A Touching Story.
a special hardship in the matter of
ed to make good sales in former but it comes in little packages, and portion of our noble state.
years by not getting in touch with that is why it comes so slowly.
It this exhibit are also shown is tlie saving from death, of the baby the building of the extension of th*’
the buyers. They should begin One fellow says ”1 owe that editor I the fruits ami grains of that section girl of Geo. A. Eyler, Cumberland, Sumpter Valley, blit tie work will
early this season and not be caught $2, but he won’t miss that small | in limited quantity but of finest Mil. lie writes' "At the age of 11 be continued ns long is possible
I quality. The quauity is not limit­ months our little girl was in declin­ and Superintendent Burton is quit*'
napping.
amount.” That’s right, that $2
ed by reason of ibis not being a ing health, with serious Throat Tro­ certain that the line will go into
T he Harney County Stock Asso-
would buy a shirt and socks, but county adapted to fruit or grain
eiation is not active at this time
uble, and two physicians gave her Austin and be in operation that far
ami can therefore i.ot be depended newspaper men are not to enjoy I raising, but because it is a locality up. We almost in despair, when we this fall even if 110 other work on
upon to look out for the interests of such luxuries. Five fellows say1 long dominated by the cattle and resolved to try Dr. King.s New Dis­ the ro id is done this t ear
the cowmen,
Each individual, the same thing as the first one- ’ sheep kings ami has been Jiligent- covery for Consumption, Goughs,
must rustle single handed and the The $io does not amount to much. i ly proclaimed by them as simply ami Colds. The first bottle gave re­
An amusing story
told nt the
- inner he rustles the better for hie It would buy a pair of shoes and a I fit for grazing, and because the lief; after taking four bottles she expense of Marion I! Biggs, one *T
pocket book and the less cattle be pair of pants, and perhaps a neck­ Southern Pacific and the O. R A was cured, and is now in perfect the defemlents in the land fraud
w ill have to feed this winter
tie might be secured in the bargain. I 1 N have had their iron grip on it heal til,’ never fails to relieve unii trial which ended today Soon
Better consider this matter now Ten fellows say the same thing as and have not seon fit to extend cure a cough At the City Drug after he was placed on the trial the
while there is a chance of getting the first one. Well, $20 is not proper lines of transportation to it Store ; 50c ami fl 00 guaranteed. ! first time, a month ago, lie was <h -
hating one evening with a Iriemi as
slock to the road in first class con­ much money. But just think of The people of that section, who can Trial bottle free.
produce not only the meats, but
dition .
to the probable result The friend
all the good things it would buy, also the grains to feed an empire,
I >ON A AHI.ns BoV I> n
Having sold the furniture busi­ suggested that Biggs should consult
Hat, coat, vest, not pants but trou­ are still obliged to drag all their
Bold Horse Rustlers.
ness, C. A Byrd will now turn his a certain palmist, who would I >
sers. shoes, and maybe a cigar and supplies 150 miles to some little,
attention to painting ami paper able to foretell with certainty th-
measley railway st ition by means hanging and solicits a share of] decision of the jury.
The News has been informed that a stein on the side.
Though
Only ten of our delinquent sub­ of the “prairie schooner” and the your patronage. He will also con­ somewhat skeptical Biggs consented
th " officers of Crook county have
slice*'* led in capturing one of the scribers would buy all of this, and freight wagon, ami thus they are duct a cabinet and repair shop.
ami visited the palmist Unfortu­
horse rustlers who have been sweep­ then think of what one hundred, com[>elled to raise and produce as
nately, not even a palmist can pen­
ing the range of cattlemen,« cow yes, two hundred, or three hun- their merchantable ••(•ininodities
etrate the secrets of a jary room
p mies, and other stock, during the I dred, might do for us. It is too cattle horses ami sheep, in fact,only The Lone Star
ami the information given was very
such commodities as can "walk
summer. The fellow who captured
vague. The story reached thenars
RESTAURANT
i much for the editor to think about.
out” and find the markets of the
is - aid to be the least innoffensive of
of Biggs’ fellow-*!* fend* ills, Con
('liina George, Proprietor.
Even the thoughts of so much world.
the lot. and was only a tool of the
greseinan Williams**** ami Dr. Gi­
Cor. Main and B Street«.
But the western terminus of a
brighter minds. The band had money makes him feel like a man
ner, ami they have h id a good <1* al
MEADS AT A la la HOURS
Isen scattered by the officers, and among men, dressed in broadcloth power is located within the citv of
of amusement at hi“ expense —
all escaped, temporarily, at least and puffing a pure Havana. — But Portland that will soon force the Bakery in connection
Portland Journal
1 it the *>ne alluded to, whose name these princely feelings last only a Southern Pacific ami th- <). R A
A Specialty oi Short Orders.
moment, like the soap bubble in N companies to ext-ml their lines
was not learned.
I iendHli Sufi -Ting
Table
furnished with everything
The same band of rustlers is said the air. A glance at the greasy into th« distant portions of our
to have taken om* band of horses in­ pants, the last summer’s hat, the state, or tls»- can • the ci y of the market afTurds Your patron­ in ofmn cause»! hy «ore*, ulceri» and
eancers. that ent hwhv yoiir -km
to Pendleton and disposed of them three-year-old cob pipe, and the Portland to l**«e *h* trsde of th- age solicited.
TRISt'H .V DONEGAN, Proprietors
Win Bedell. of Fiali R ■-< k. Mici»,
returning for a new supply On the country editor is ag.ii-i at work, great centra! ami » 'll’ .-i«terti part
naya: "I bave iinrd Hu< klvn'« Arn­
first expedition they confined their cussing secretly, hi» delinquent of the commonweal-.,
ie» Salve, for l’h «r“. S ,r.-« hii *| ('su-
We are often a»ked if Harney
is to the ranges, during the latest subscribers, and I losing them up
*-.*** fi i* th*- l*—i li" ilinz 'Iree-iog
county i- a rough section to mak*
XCcxlx© Tlxlo 2EZead.q.M£ixtcxs-
I ' rations thev entered pastures in the paper.^—Ex.
1 «ver folltlil.” S. .-Ilo- ami beni«
a railroad tbroiigl* We can «ay to
■ I ove the slock away from the very,
cut*, burri» atei -■ ibi- ? ■ *f « Uy Wines. Liquors and Cigars.
allthat Harney h
we. of owners. A number of well
drug s'or* guar i* ' ■!
ral
railway
■
in
s *wn cattlemen are mentioned as
Billiard and Pool Tables
tying lost alm >et their entire band A MATTER OF HEALTH point with pride
late autotmi
Club Rooms in Connection
of cow isinies, saddle horses etc
iner.t ‘Old
But in view of the exposure made
a**d the vigorous pursuit of officer»,
width >*
it is likely that the stock was not
through
fhe Finest of All
taken from th* country, ami will be
f *umi later.
h • tir
The center of operations ss*'nu to
l-au.d on
• in the Beaver creek country, but
ÏMh.
SIS »ANCISC9.
th" field is said to extend well into
Grant county.— Grant County News.
FORTUM. OIEOOX
for Salt Oily if
First National Bank
A General Banking Business Transacted.
z
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
first national Bank
Napton & Boyd*
Mines and Mining.
Real Estate.
THE CAPITAL SALOON,
Buras,
BASE MOSEÏ DRDIRS
SILT LAIL ITAI,
CMICkbO. ILL.CALIHHII.IÎAIM»
Payable at Par.
Portland. Take Notke
Oregonian:
A company h»e fieen
■'I rated in Seattle with •. cap:-
’ >1 of $ 100,00) to develop some
' .tluable mining property ti> Soirth-
ern Ur-gon.
Within a few miles of
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
HAS MO SUBSTITUTE
e wild
weird with
We can safe I
county will sooi
h«t
i
Harney
transeunti-
N. BROWS
I
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Oregon.
MARYLAND CLUB WHISKY
Hotel Burns Bar
fl Tents, Burns, Ore
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