♦’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'*
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f
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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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
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Job Printing.