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♦’ll* i’titifs-Heralò «The «Treat Karnetj e'cuitlrtj The Official Paper of Harney County, II ■ Log. »t cireulatiun and i, one uf ■ Using mediums in Essie*n Cover, an area < f fi.ISS.SOi' acres of land, 4,731,000 acres yet vacant subject to entry under tin- ] -alme Imai laws el the United States. VOL. XVIll. HARNEY’S COMMERCIAL CLUB BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER p 1005. THE MAIL cum waits to he LEi. »uRIPTION OI- COUNTY to disappear from their old sites to THE Á Those Terminatiua at Burn» That Are TO CO-OPERATE WITH DEVELOPMENT Now Advertised For Bids. ESSAI LE AC LE 0*- BIRKS. THAT WON SECOND PRIZE AT THE COUNTY FAIR. Th* follow ing mail routes run ning into Burns are open for bids trie Hoste th katilcaaakc Laayoa to cover the next four years: Anil Harney to Buras lor Sumpter Valla,--Other Notes. ■ •IUDs, From Canyon City by Seneca and Silvies, to Hurns, 71 Emery Hill has moved to town utiles and back three times a week and now oecj,i«s the Hill resi Bond 15000. I ‘resent pay $1400 dent. ■ 3399 From Riley to Egli, 33 .Marl AHwrson waa a welcome miles, once a week. Bond 4SOO <. >me visitor on uur streets this Present pay $344 83400 Krom Burns, by Narrows, week and is riding in this vicinity looking up cattle for the P I. S to Diamond, 58 miles, three times a Week. Bond ♦3500. Present pay Co ♦ 1200 Sui.day mortnng witnessed a 73451 Front Andrews, I,y Muh «crin of coiisideruldw aciivity m the ami Smith to Iliamond. 78 niibs. pr-paratory movements of utarting twice a week. Bond $3tSA< Pre. f 1 tintarlo of thre- frmghiing out sent pay 11557 47 litu undur tlie diri-clion of T J ■ 3402 Front Andrews to De>, Vicktrs, W II) K iirmí 'II nnd Peí« r 315 uiilrs, twice it week Bo E;»ch I jh <I iw l »a<Íb <4 ♦ 1500 Present pay ♦902 34. ¡uiikbrr fruí» th«* Rich.iid*<>ii -aw 73403 From Burns by L twett to mili t » ih íivrr I I* n>l|b ulid wiil ub Venator, 62 miles three times a mili firiglil oí) (be rHurn ln¡> Present pay week Bond *3500 M inlay afternoon con»iderat>)e ♦ 1169 32 curiosity and interest was evidenc- : 73404 From Drewsey to Van. ed in thp examination of the Reo 23 mill s, three limes a week. Bond Mountaineer, nutomotiile of Lans ♦ 1500 Present pay ♦40908. 73405 From Beulah, by Juulutu ing Mich wiiicli started from New York Aug 19th with Messrs D F to Riverside, .'MI miles three times Bond ♦1800.. Present Fassetl anil Percy F. MegargtH in a week. eharg" making a trip to San Fran pay 9859.93. cisco and return having been out 72 73407 From Ontario, by Vai-, days to this place Their ensign Westfall, Beulah, Drewsey, an I was "N'.-w York to San Francisco Hartley to Burns, LID miles, seven ami return" unlike that of the gold- times a week. 36 hours in summer Bond hunters of '49 us '•Pike’s Peak or and 42 hours in winter. ♦2000 Present pay |S544. bual.” om M Mis, Hlancbc Terrill Who Just Entered the High School This Year, Write, of Marne, County s Resource,. 1'1 following essay was awarded -......... prize l>y tbe Harney County Fair Association for the most con- cise and original description of Har ney county: lla-ney County is situated in the TIME TO BUY SHEEP be reconstructed upon new sites, making many happy homes through out the valley. DENVEV REkURD-STOCKMAlM GIN tS About a mile or mgp- below old SOME HISTORY. Camp Harney, Harney City is now located, having sprung into exist ence in 1885, and when Harney Sberiafe all O»cr the World With Wulton Consuinpiion Steadily Increasing - County was created by act of legis Esca doing to Sloughlcr. lature, 1889, Hartley was declared to i>e the temporary county seat There are many wotrld-be sheep In April 1889 the first county officials took their oath of office raisers who are watching tbe mar- and commenced their duties The kels and trying to make up tbeir first county officers to serve in Har minds whether or not breeding ney county, and who were appoint sheep are too high to purchase at ed by Governor Sylvester Pennoyer the present time The high prices were: Thomas J. Shields as Judge: are undoubtedly keeping many out Benton James and Lytle Howard of tbe business who would other as Commissioners; W E Grace as wise purchase breeding stock mid Clerk; A A Cowing us Sheriff: W begin growing sheep, says the Den E. Alberson a- Assessor, appointed ver Reeord-Stocktuan. It seems to by the court, Wm Harvey, appoint be a popular thing just now toad ed t>y the Governor, but refusing to vise such people to go blow and qualify; Miller as Treasurer; C. B keep out until prices go lower. But Biker, County School Superinten they want to know bow long they dent; and W. R. (¡radon as Survey will have to wait. To steak truth or. fully, there is every indication that In June 1890, the first genera! sheep prices will lie a long time go election was held in Harney County, ing down. There is a shortage all at which Burns, receiving a small over tbe world and with lite mutton majority, was after a long and ex consumption steadily increasing it pensive contest, duly declared lite will take time to get the supply county Beat of Harney county. back to normal, if indeed it ever re What is now Harney County turns. 1 While some of the western wao once school district number breeders are showing a disposition one, with a little, one-roomed, one to hold on to fheir breeding stock story school building, situated just and to save their ewe lambs, the outside of the present limits of the . percentage of ewes that are going of the city of Burns on the road to the slaughter shows little de leading to the Stancliff bridge. crease. The present high prices Since then and the settlement of are a temptation and many are sel this section, consequent upon the ling their ewes as weil as well as throwing open of the reservation, their wether lambs. Under these numerous school districts have been - conditions it is doubtful when low created and there are now, at this er prices may be expected, Cor- time, many districts and many tainly not this year or next Wool Bcliool houses, wherein hundreds of buyer, are contracting next year's children are being educated to bet wool crop at prices fully as strong ter citizenship and a higher life. as were puid this year and are N. V. I ARPENTER, Castttu, A C WEI COME. A sst . Casnraa. First National Bank TRAP IO CAPTURE WILD HOUSES. Walter Glenn, an extensive horse dealer of \ ale, Malheur county, who makes a speciality of shipping horses to eastern mark ets, lias invented a trap for the 1 capture of wild horses on the Mailieui range anil has applied OF BURNS, ORECON. A General Banking Business Transacted. ■ 2/^arrants bought at tAa marAfft prie». WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. DI It IK ‘TOILS Juhu II Italy, C. A. Haines. for a patent on the .-ante. This unique device will enable the vaquero to put his rope on 1 the w ildest anil ileetest horse j with little difficulty and will be of • r»oo«<xMr> M. A lkxashkk , I' hksidknt . great value in capturing choice W m . J onks , Y ick -1* kï » iuknt . horses from the large bands of unowned, unbranded and unclaim ed wild horses which inhabit the N U. Carpenter, 11 M. Horton, 0. Cummin«, J. W. Geary, Thomas Pavia. -mu I p -rn purt of Oregon, being ♦<%•«■ r»«r? r»»«-xoo.® hounded <>n tin* north by Grant (' I K ix von , Cashier 3 ( • int . mi the east tty Malheur »'• W. Pi att . Asst. Casluer 9 I ty; Oil llf south l<y Nevada and mi th1' west t>y Lake and < >ok ittu’ie- It comprises a remote fastnesses of Malheur pa t of ,1 g "at sage brush plain, OKEGON ONTARIO county. Blue Mt Eagle. lvi-u mi nth« Ricky mountains lntoiv-t Paid 011 Tiiiie 1 >opo.-rits. unit tIn Range Of til tiie counties of Oregon, A Disastrous Calamity. We Solicit Y oup Banking Business. II irte ". is the largest in size, its STOCKHOLDERS:— M Alexaiiibi, Wm. Jones, E. IL Test, Il is a disastrous calamity, when a i la.ng 10. GIH) square miles C. E. Kenyon. 11 Alexander, Estate of Aimer Robbins, William you lose your health, because indi I he surface of the county is Miller, Frank R. Coilin, Thon. Turnbull gestion and constipation have sap im ily low foothills and sage brush omc -j»wa- ♦ oec.- «_• -»» cm -•*. ped it away. Prompt relief can be 'oowes vail'-ys, the principal mountains had in Dr King's New Life Pills. I' ng th« Steins Mountain in the They build up your digestive or- southeastern part of the county , , , , , gang, and cure headache, dizziness, There an several productive valleys HOWARD SEBREE, PRESIDENT W. R SEBREE. VlCi P-rilMNT colic, constipation, etc. Guaran but tt.e one which attracts the R. A. COWDEN, CASHIER 4 mo t attention, it being the largest teed at the city drug store; 25c. ami most productive, is Harney vallev The water sources are of WANTED— Agents, Hustlers sm.til imporlaice. Silvies River, Salesmen, Clerks and everybody Silver t’r.'ik, ami the Middle and who wants to enjoy a good hearty S ,nfl I' irks of the Malheur River laugh to send 50c for "Tips to watt r the north anil northeastern Agents.” Worth $50 to any per pa ' A little northeast of the cen A General Banking Bucine -s Transacted son who sells goods for a living. Proposals mt above notes for the ter 1 f 1 h« coltntj lie Malheur Lake Wm Crafurd departe! Sunday If not satisfactory your money YW CORRESPONDET-JCE INVITED j morning for Ontario to be gone four years from July 1 1906 to June ami Harney Lake. These are of back. Circular for stump. The iimmercial value hut af about ten days on lnisitie»s Ills 30, 1910, will be teceived up to ,ii" «t-.. Dr. White electric Comb Co., Deca Bids must ford a bleasant 1 ekort for hunters hinted that he will stop at Yule to 4.30 p nt Dec 5. l'-Mi.Y tur, III. secure the necee- try authority to l>e in the office of several Assistant (■in, al' umls all over the county. md other water fowls are bring Mrs Crawford home with him Postmaster General at that time Dm I. looking for no decrease in the price, Alfalfa at Geer & Cumuline and should leave Burns not later ■ .: th' lakes and there is a pro- Peter Clemens Irnu-icted httsi than Noy 29, if sent direct to the N Brown <v Sons sell Golden Stock Situation. of wool. f n I 'ii er in the mountains It is certainly not a good tint» to Gate Coffee. uess in town last Thitrsdat. I Department. All bidders are urged in parts of the county there Ant.RICAN PLAN go in heavy in sheep but almost Chns. Becker, our well known I . Ralph and Jesse 1: tin have cap to deal directly with the Depart 1 al.If timber, mostly pine ONTARIO, OR! GON. any man would be safe in purchas- tured dxlven coyol, - in 4he past ment and not through professional , hut over the larger Stockman, has tnis to suy of the cat ing a small Hock and getting into tle situation in an interview in the leu days Can any other boys eon tractors Where it can be !«■ . unt i there is nothing the business. Tim outlook for show a belter reso’ri •» «Im i .mulv ? proven that professional contractor nr a g nut sag« brush, on the un- Baker City Democrat: Charles lle.-ker, of Indian Creek, both wool anil mutton is such as to lire the real bidders and the local «11!t iv a' ii ground. China Ueorge, Proprietor. Rates $2.00 and $2 50 per day. Rohl living return d List week justify the risk even at present Cor. Main and I! Streets. man simply a figure head, or I 1.« - ircity of natural vegeta Malheur county, is in the city. Mr . fr<>m a trip tu John Dav ami started working under an agreement that tion is due in a great measure to Becker has for thirty-five years high prices. JVfBflbS AT flLtU HOURS Tuesday for a freighting expedition For several years the country gives him only a part of the pav th I'vm of the climate, also to been engaged in cattle raising, dur to Huntington. If the weather is This modern new hotel was only recently opened to the tho contract will not bo awarded, the late and early frosts, The win ing most of which time he has been has been eating up its sheep. If Bakery in eonneetion favorable he will devote much of public. Harney County people will be always welcome everyone is advised to keep out of -or if awarded will be cancelled. ter- ar. admirable for consump- one of tbe largest individual owners A Specially of Short Orders. his lime in this direction this win the business because prices are and courteously cared for first . I.t-- bar in connection. ti| ., being free from winds and of cattle in Malheur county. He is Table furnished with everything ter high, there will be a steady dimin still in the business on a large scale ilatnpn >s In some places the Bounty on Cougars ishing supply. We are inclined to tbe market affords Your patron Miss Via Drinkwaler appeared -n"ai'ali is quite heavy and lays on but as he terms it, “is working for age solicited. the butchers.” This observation last Sunday with a complete fall the ground quite awhile. z\n old hunter, speaking about suiting of late.-t mode with hat to Until recently very little effort was made by Mr Becker in discuss a bounty on congers, said 1 to the I.a b< 1 made to develop the agri- ing the cattle. The facts were match in brown which made the girls envious and i he boys said she Boise Statesman recently: l ullural resources of this county, brought out Hint under the present of my According to the best th principal products being hay ruling prices the producer was mak looked sweet knowledge and belief, and 1 have and livestock, hut of late some effort ing little profit while the butcher IJ odstom Narros-. ¡T hs Cantos Bom Knowing ones say. apropos of bail a great deal of {experience in has been made to raise grain and and packing houses were reaping a th» railroad advent into Harney baryest. The only remedy Mi this line, a cougar kills al least 20 fruit with decided success. Valley thw most direct route and Becker sees is tn government own-1 As nearly as can be estimated enieat gradient for the Sumpter deer in one year. Estimating the at the present time the population ership of railways. At present \ alley Im» from Prairie City to life of a cougar at only two years, of Harney county is 4,000. The freight rates are fixed in tbe inter Burns would be down Rattlesnake it will be seen that the death of county being rapidly settled up by est of the packing houses and there <111011 via Harney To enhance one of these animals means the intelligent, progressive |>eop)e. ft is no relief for the producer. He the feasibility ot the project will life of al least forty deer. Ims been the surprise of many who must take what he can get. If engage the earnest attention of the Over in the slate of Washing have visited the beautiful Harney this coudition of affairs continues, Commercial Club al an early day ton there is a bounty on cougar vallev, to see it so sparcely settled Mr Becker thiuks.every cattle raiser and no doubt by united effort with scalps of $5 each. The Ever I P àvctte , I daho . O ntario , O uboox . a 1.J what, is now vacant arable land will be forced out of business. the Development League of Burns green slate, therefore, pays l2'-_. Ontario office: New Wi son Brick. unoeeupinl and untilled. While such a pressure can be brought to cents each for the preservation of this is true, there is an under cur Ho there!—If you want to sell bear upon the promotor» of the en its deer. This is too low- No rent of «pinion that what now ap- your property why don’t you list terprise as to induce them to speed man can afford to hunt cougar at |.«ar« to lie a barren waste is soon it with Smith it Lewis? They will ily lake advantage of the < arly de $5 per head. Hunters will not to undergo a great change and be- see ten buyers to your one. They velopment o( tlie latent resources of kill on an average more than one come ths greatest furming section will find you a buyer for your ranch this great agrilcultural area. In or city property, your horses, cat deer in a year so that one cougar of the state. union there is » rength and by per- The reason tor this unsettled tle or sheep Call and get ac TRISCH <V 1XINEGAN, Proprietors. eisteut effort can be accomplished causes as much destruction as »tale 1» quite apparent, in its lack quainted with them—the latch twenty men. If th{ cougar boun that which at first may have »etui- of transportation facilities. There string always hangs out. Main St <d insurmountable. We are deter ty were placed high enough so is not a railroad line within its bor Burns, Oregon. mined to have a railroad for liar .that a hunter could afforil to ders. its exports and im|orts being ney valley and that front Prairie make a business of hunting them haul* I out and in by the primitive Having sold the furniture busi City seems to 1» the most accessi it would give the deer more pro iiorse and mule teams and wagons ness, C. A. Byrd will now turn bis ble an I feasible so we think we will lection than all the laws which Its 111- tr- -t railroad station, Ontario, attention to painting and paper go after it ami if Burn» wishes to co (Austin the hanging and solicits a share of sportsmen have been able to de is 150 tu les distant operat. we »h. uId p ■ t ed at such vise for the protection of game present terminus of the Sumpter your patronage. He will also con rriuforceiiiriit of ur ' J letice. people who h tv • the most right Valley Railroad is only a little duct a cabinet and repair shop Alma Davis was in from hi* to kill it. 1 A b unty of $25 cn over SO i ii iles— Ed. Tlir < « -l puint. in what is now ¡g ir scalp in Idaho would ranch Tuesday after a new water every c.'Ug mty s Egan, where the Harney Xr the next trough and other suppli l>e small rnough. enough. At For Sale Only at’ t. Li fi - :. il >1 wa.' enach'l. wherein e session of the legislature 1 am g»>- J Mahon was ill »e .¿lati to furnish a luai io ime Ru.-s Fraizer, was SíiiLHTIS'13 A3 business in h K ing to make an effort to sreurt . ilieil. Tins point was the enactment ■ f a cougar I YOU manner. .it tie mile and a half UACT1CÂLLÎÆ5 n (Gw- hi« I* ’ 1 h of Burns Squire C. H. Davis litóle psesenl site of Burns a (uite actively engsg -I in uiraeur- ited, but there was no nil up grain he hu aiap^wi of Son L oj » i Io her. Sorci for Over 500 rar Rothui J Bn s.. Distributers, Portland, Oregon durin» the pint week i in 1 arrat'g- P’ t olliee. This was then called ft.'. Price ' Beautiful To anjone desiring - -- - . .. — “Axehandlc" The business of '‘Con^mpt' n ru ing hi» winter campaier Charfy ie oar Circo1 Designs. through u I I I',- . was moved to what is now a hustler ami (!«•-» n -' t il all he I'ur - in October, 1883 Although known. writes E B R i-t. oi a hot« I and l ! l.l.a ksmith »hop were The schools have b td a very «at •For the past five 1 SUCCESSOR To;w ILSO« 4 Air T N const ructi i a ibis place in 1882 i-faclorv week n t wrli-t i ding the OU the slight -l sig'1 S.. ¡its "ar J 'tin; h ’.-I still stands in The 8:1 tlf Cold. I h ive taken 1 interruptions can- i !«y the late ar rival of several who have just come Discovery f>r Cou»'in>p:to In - tin- first settlement was in for winter attendance The has saved me from »< ii- MAMUFArnviD BY u. 11 wbat in now Drewsey, Hie mother'» MONUMENTAL bronze CO patien«» eahlbited by Mr Hamilton trouble." MuxjxeoaT. cos a. v, : 1 « .is th - Preetuplor’s cabin. and Mias Dillard is having a mark a sad leas for Mr Retd, but I. . wind 'Ws and but one door Absolutely Pure ’d effect on the demeanor of the learned that lung trouble must 1- 1 i urge during all these years pupil, ami the interest thev tur.ni- be neglected, and how to cure it feat in their studies greatly enhanc Quickest relief and cure for ecughs qi < . settlement existed in Old A Cream of Tartar Powder, The building*, I free from alum or phos- ed hv tha close scrutiny and per and colds Price 50c aft-i ♦100; Camp Harney, phatlc acid guaranteed at citv drug store. which had cost the government; sonal attention of the let.c'u-rs. construct, began ( aevu tAKixo powocs co., MW voaa. immense sums to Trial l»vtlle free. ‘Cross-tie'* I c f FIRST NATIONAL BANK I ç if V ♦ « J CALDWELL, IDAHO THE CARTER HOUSE. RESTAURANT Fire-Proof, Modern, Elegant. All Outside Rooms— Near Depot LIVERY B AR IM IN OONSECTION. Boyd Napton Reserved for the Mines and Mining. Real Estate. M. M. CO E. A. F raser , Manager. Ontario, Oregon. «a THE CAPITAL SALOON, Burns, i* The Finest of All - - Oregon. Wines. Liquors and Cigars. Billiard - J Pool fables Chib Rooms in Connection? fl. I. LEWIS A MATTER OF HEALTH Hotel Burns Bar fluents, Bunns, Ore PARTICULARS and PRICES CHAS. WILSON &AKIK0 POWDER Blacksmithing and Horsshoeing HAS NO SUBSTITUTE ALLWORKCUAR ANTEED. Wagon Work. Burns, Oregon THE TIMLS-H ^ALD Job Printing.