MijiiimJiM,'"'iu.wwini)iiH'iaMiiwinum,i' ' umiU'IW ' i m n in Mimn4mMNS(MnnMH4'wviMi'MM .' (ffP va . pme 9Tfc tEima3rlernl& Tlio Olllcliil l'npor of Hnnu'j County hm. tho.larKost circulation mid Isomtoj tho'.brtt luUcrtlilng inodlunm In Knriurn Oregon. h.c (Urcnt 34nriicj Qtouiiiro, Com All nrcA of fl, 1UUhOO hcip of' Inmli 4,ffi!I,Q&I ni.rod jut vntitnl Biiblccl to entry timlur tliu imblio land inwu ol tlio United B)uji8. v iiy to S:Si VOL. XXIII BURNS, HAHNEY COUNTY, OUKGON, JANUARY 20,1910 NO. 11 6:1. 1 iw I JitlfSlJp 6 4 i 4:4 4:f 4:Si 4tM 4:1 4 3 is 3:CJ J 2:1 Itlckfl erln noM4 pt. l Howl tJ4 BILL HANLEY SHOCKED Staitfs o7' Reporters Until He Packs Trunk for Return Home H;J REMEDY FOR OVERPOPULATION Will Haiiley Visits New York mid is Impressed Willi Wicked ness of Bis City Thinks Overpopulation the Cmise and Suggests That Few Thousand Come to Harney County. The following is taken from the Now York Sun and Rives us some idea of how Bill Hnnlcy be haves out in cempany: Out in Oregon if you admit that you don't know William Hanley of Harney county it means that you arc not very well known yourself. Here in New York Air. Hanley has not mute as largo an acquaintance as he has out in his home State, but he had just been making a visit East to look us over the first time he has ever been in New York -and he said hist nignt just before he left the Waldorf for Burns. Ore., that he had en- joyed his visit very much and might come again soon. It took a reporter twelve days , to induce Mr. Hanley to consent tins kind is neglected and un to be interviewed. The latter I populated. Our people are go- reached the Waldorf on New Year's eve, and the next day he was accosted in the lobby of the Waldorf. Mr. Hanley looked a bit suspicious. "I'm nothing but a plain farmer from the backwoods," he said, and edged . , . . away, iater advances wcrcmciiu pumic mini uuiuru uiuuuvuni with a twinkle of the eyes, but ment should give him a free reticence. It was not until hoUitlc worked out all right in had got his trunk packed and practice, but to-day conditions was ready to leave that Mr. are different. The cost of living Hanley after some persuasion has mounted so that the day is consented to make a few com- j past when a settler can suppoi t parisons between Uuyna. Oreu his family on a piece of now and New York. I land, and it requires an income At first glance Mr. Hanley from another source to keep him look, almost like a replica of going for several years, or until Wnliam J. Bryan. His features) the land is cleared and begins to are clean cut and ho wears no produce in quantity sufficient to beard and he has a smile about support the settler and his fam tho eves that the Perpetual Can- ily. This has been one obstacle didate used to have in happy to colonization to any great ex moments. When Mr. Hanley .tent out there, and another hail removed his wide brimmed hat been the isolated conditions for the likeness is even more strik-j raising children in tho way of injr, for his forehead is very high schools, and the hair at the back of his( "I suppose an Easterner head is long. It was not the high buildings ci the people in the streets, nor yet the busy hum of traffic, nor even our subways that most im pressed Mr. Hanley during his isit. What was it? Sh! It was our wickedness. "Yes, it was the wickedness of life here that made the est impression upon me," said Mr. Hanley. "Handed here on New Year's night and I moved around among the surging mass of common people on the streets. Then I went into the different resturents and the places where the higher classes of the dissi pated wicked people wore gather ed. My inside impression is that such dissipation is caused by over population, and is a mark of unnatural ideas of life enjoyment. "You must remember," Mr. oral up in his raids what was Hanley went on, "that I come ' probably the biggest dtovc of from what is the real frontier of I broken horses that were ever to this country. Burns, Ore., is inlgothor in the West. He had Le the Harney Valley in southeast-1 tween .'$,000 and 4,000 of them. 1 ern Oregon. It has only o popu- He was going north, but the lation of 1,200, but it is tho big-1 soldiers under Gen. O. O. How- gest town in that section. The nearest places equal of size are Lake view, 175 miles to the south, and Prineville, a similar distance t j the west. Tho nearest rail road station to us is Ontario, on the Oregon Short Line, which is a trifie of 150 miles distant. In that country we cannot raise anything to ship except what can walk away. Wo have stage lines, of course, but tho people who travel to the railroad station generally uso their own teams. We have to drive our sheep and cattle to the railroad station, which takes a little matter of fifteen days. The stores in Burns require from twenty to twenty-five days to haul a load of freight from tho station, bringing it as they do in old fashioned prairie schooners. When I go homo from tho rail way station I usually mako tho 150 miles in threo days, though this time I expect to cover it in a day and a half. Quick lime for driving? Not at all out our way. Why in that prairie country, nine miles an hour is an easy gait. Of course I shall use re lays. "That part of Oregon is the biggest part of undeveloped country in the United States and with as much good land in it as in any other region.of the same size. The Burns district has 12,- 000,000 acres of undivided Gov- eminent land in it. It strikes mo forcibly that it would make fine homesteads for double deck- eu, over populated wow ioric. We are badly in need of more liberal land laws, as is indicated by the fact that a big area of ing to Canada and other places where tho land laws are more reasonable. The principal ob jection to our law is the require ment of residence. In the old days the theory that a settler should live six years on a piece ir ..i.i: 1 i !. i !. would have a hard time imngin- ing a county 150 miles long by 90 miles wide. Harney county is as big as two New England States, but the voting population of the county is only about 900. We have big rivers out there, the Shvies and the Blitzcn and the Malheur, which have a great great-'capacity for development in the way of irrigation of the valleys, and the Harney Valley contains a million acres. "I went into the country the year after the Piute war that was some tlurty-one years ago and in that time tho changes in the country liave been compara tively slight. I was from an other part of Oregon. I remem ber that the Piutes were led by Egan. He was a great general and j and had about 1,500 Indians, in I eluding families, and had gath- ard nover stopped him until ho reached the Columbia River, when Egan, for whoso death a big rewtird had been, offered, was shot from nmbuiiz and liis followers disbanded. "Burns is a very modern town. It has half a dozen good dry goods stores and you can gSt anything you want there in tho way of merchandiw. Wo have tho Burns Commercial Club, which is a centre of social acti vity, women being: admitted to it. Many of tho fanners whoso ranches aro at some distance from tho place have their town residences, to which they move in winter to give their children tho benefit of tho Bchools. A daily newspaper is only threo or four days old when it reaches us, and in Burns there aro two weekly papers, Tho Times-Herald and Harney County News. Tho school lfiws of Oregon aro liberal, and any community that has half a dozen children in it can get a school teacher. Of course wo havo orchards and wo raiso all tho ordinary truck and farm products, but wo havo no market for such except locally. "Tho indications aro now that there will bo a railroad building within that district within tho next year or two so as to lot tho civilized and cultivated class of pcoplo in. The country so far lias been settled mostly by natives of Oregon. We aro the old stylo of pioneers and most of us have boon thcro for many years. "Why, people from Now York, if they were only willing to sacri fice present comforts for tho hot torment of futuro conditions, could go out there and take for tunes from tho soil. That would bo a true remedy for the higher cost of living. Tho high prices of farm products have como to stay until conditions havo been more equalized by more pcoplo going back to the soil. Tho men who aro products of the farm havo been pouring into tho city every since the cirly days of tho country and tho soil is bare of masters. Men w!v aro pegging away at .mall salaries in New York could go ,u U where land is cheap imd tin same energy and ability that they expend on little jobs here vvouid make them per sons of ample irjoans and greatly widened influence. "But people nowadays would rather stand for the high price of living and enjoy themselves com plaining about it than to go out and proceed to meet conditions by producing something to eat and wear. Yet the land out there is crying for them. "The skyscrapers of New York did not strike me particularly," said Mr. Hanley in answer to a question. "I had seen pictures of them and read all about them. Then I had a fair idea of what the crowds in tho streets would be. Next to what I paid about tho wickedness of life hero my greatest impression was from a business standpoint actually meeting and talking with tho de veloped class of business men, and feeling thankful, after real izing what power thev have throughout the country, that they have let us havo as much in the West as we have got. The fact that witli tho awful sharpness and wisdom of the city dealer, and the high position ho has held in the country since tho start, havo enabled this great center of i accumulated wealth to hold on to1 the rest of tho country without taking advantage of it havo im-j pressed me and havo reversed i some opinions I had when I came j here, and I believe thnt business' men hero realize tho great prin-j ciple that a man's mission is not! as selfish a3 a lot of people seem to think it is. I "Yes, I stopped in Chicago on my way here. It doesn't como up to Now York. Chicago is tho first division going West. Thnt is its relation to the country." NOTES I'ROM SUNSET. Ed Eggleston returned to Burns Monday. - Mr. and Mrs. Fred Myers have returned after a brief absence. The people of Sunset extend their sympathy to Mr. Myers in his lato bereavement Collin Dawson has been visit ing witli his parents in Sunset for tho last fow weeks. Walter Hoddcr and A. Spicer spent Saturday and Sunday up on their homesteads. Mr. and Mrs. Kay Batron, Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Chits. Heed, Porter Nash, J. B, Hoddcr, Fred Barron, Col lin Dawson and Win. Dawson were plcn.su ro visitors to Norrows last Friday. Robert Combine, of Pendleton, has been spending soveral weeks at his homestead and visiting old acquaintances. Porter Nash, Charles Reed and wife wcro business visitors to Burns last week. It is being whispered about that Iko Swift is soon to havo a "cook", which is pleasant news to tho pcoplo of Harney county. Strango to say tho lady has lived for tho last forty years in Salem. Mr. Harmor and two Bons uro hauling wood from Sngo Hon to Burns. HILL ON TO CALIFORNIA Persistent Rumor That Railroad Not Stop Short of 'Frisco Bay NEGOTIATING FOR WATER FRONT Sail Francisco Insists That Hill is Going on to California In Spite of Dcnials-fActlvity Around Hay and Purchasing of Connecting Roads Point to Such Culmination, says Dispatch. A dispatch from San Francisco says: Announcement of tho purchase of the Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad, togethor with the building of tho Pittsburg & Gilmour road through tho White Salmon River country in Wash- mglon by railroad interests sup - posed to bo friendly to James J. Hill and the consequent activity of surveyors around tho cast side of San Francisco bay in laying out a right of way from Alameda, is believed by railroad men to be the extension of the traffic sys- iuiii Lumruiii'ii uy urn iu vmuui' ma. That the Hanley nnd Woods railroad, which forms the con necting link between the Oregon Trunk line nnd tho Deschutes Uivcr country nnd a right of way t lts1W1i i r Avlinnmi TIftttllir holdings in southern Oregon, has been purchased by the Hill in terests is no longer denied, and the way seems clear for the Hill extension to tap San Francisco bay on the eastern side. From the Washington line to San Francisco bay tho Hill ox tension would havo a choice of routes, but it is believed that the Northern Pacific magnate will, 27, when dates for the various build his own road direct and firs and racing meets in the not enter into any traffic agree-j Pacific Northwest for tho coming ment with any existing Califor-1 season will bo determined. The nia road. I meeting will be a joint ono under Tlio Southern Pacific officials, j the auspices of tho North Pacific it would seem, are well aware of Fair Association and tho Oregon Hill's plans, and have been try- Pure Breed Livestock Associa ing to forestall him by securing tion. The meeting will conclude overy available foot of water-1 with a banquet at night front land on tho cast side of tho I bay. Even Bay Form island, which has hitherto been known only as an immense vegetable garden, has assumed a commercial value undreamed of in its early days, and it is said to bo tho strategic point for which both the South- ern Pacific and Hill interests nre struggling. Unless Hill forms a traffic agreement with the Western Pacific and uses that system, ho is shut out from tho cast bay waterfront except at one point, at Bay Farm island. Tho Mecartnoy property, 700 acres, which controls tho dec) water privileges on tho island, will evidently bo tho center of the railroad typhoon, nnd it is believed that tho Hill interests havo already, secured an option on the trnct, for although Mrs. Mecartnoy will not admit that sho has accepted nn option, she acknowledged two weeks past that she had been offered $125,000 r l ill! li i 1 . loriior luiuiUKH unu te.iu u.vcjr uiimitiuu it wiu a liiiiiuiiii uuiu- pnny that has made her tho offer. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. (Portland Correspondence.). The long continued cold weath er has not yet had a bad effect on crops, ns might have been ex pected, hut has been rather ben eficial to them, accoading to re ports from different parts of tho stale. Fruit prospects through out tho Northwest aro now tho brightest in years, it is said, tho cold weather holding back tho buds so long that thcro is littlo fear of damage by lato frosts. This is Bhown particularly in tho apple and pear orchards, where tho crop during tho past year was mo manliest in several sea- botweon hero and Skull Springs, Bons. lho snow fall of bolonKlnjr to Mr. Turnbull. Ho winter is said to havo been gen- is (nk,nR them lo furnbull's orally umplo to protect fall sown ranch on tho Owyhco for winter grain except in somo portions of inK Mr rjowell Btatetl Mr. tho Willamette Valloy. Tho Turni)Un8 8ilC01, wcro jn good snow, too, has added moisturo to condjllon and that they hadplon tho ground in tho drier sections. ( ty of lmy lo lust them for two Low one-way colonist rates weeks yet but that Tom was from all parts of tho East to Paci- rushing all tho corn and grain ho fie Const tcrminnls aro offered by' could securo in for feeding in tho railroads from March 1 to caso tho weather continued bad April 15. Tho opportunity to much longer. Tho corn is cost- - - bring thousands of now settlors to Oregon is a valuablo ono and commercial organizations of tho statu will tako advantage of it to the fullest extent Tho attractive literature Bent out during the past year and the wide publicity given all parts of ,,. ,.: fMlUflli r , , . ab this bUiUj ' .., ., . ,,, was nover so general as at tlio present time. Becauso of this widespread interest in Oregon, it may bo expected that tho state twill t4ifiittri n lfitMr immiirwi t trr hirJnfr Umj com,nf w. Oregon people should do nil they can to ndd to this move ment to the Pacific Northwest by arousing interest among their friends in other parts of the country who are looking for new homes and information should be ?u!lic(1 l'lcm lho Wrtuni ties here for newcomers and par ticularly those who desire to en gage in agriculture, horticulture, stock raising or dairying. These lines of endeavor aro rewarding those who are engaged in them. Livestock men of the North west will meet at the Commer cial Club rooms here on January WHAT FARMERS WANT. At a recent meeting or rather convention of tho Farmer's Edu cational and Co-operative Union of Orcoron. Washington and Idaho lcId at Walla Walla thero were 8ome 1000 delegates present At t,0 ciogjnK 0f the session , u,e convention adopted some frn,, rosnlntinnH mi RiihinnlA of state and national importance. Among these were resolutions demanding the establishment of parcels post system, favoring a graduated incomo tax, election of United States senators by di rect vote of the people, demand ing lowering of tariff duties on necessities of life, condemning gambling in farm products, op posing ship subsidies, favoring conservation of resources, pro tecting against any nction of the navy department to prevent coal vessels returning with grain car goes, petitioning congress to authorize wholesale publication ""i' ,Qf flf cQmUy 1f(J sioii, lavormg adoption ot town ship organization commending good roads movement, favoring county unit for locnl option, fav oring direct legislation and recall system, anil favoring investiga tion of frntcrnnl insurance, In addition to tho adoption of these resolutions, tho convention wont on record ns favoring tho construction of warehouses thro ughout tho grnin producing sec tions of tho state by companies formed for that purpose, STOCK CONDITIONS. Charles E. Dowell of Skull Springs arrived in Vnlo Wedncs ilnv with about R0 head of horses ho Batl,omi up lUonK tho route "T- ing high, as ho pays 1& "con Is per nound for it in the car and it costs; 3 cents per pound to get it delivered to his ranch 'making it cost almost 5 cents per, pound delivered. Charley slated there will bo much loss on tho desert this year if tho weather does not break up soon, and thcro has been considerable loss nlready rojiortcd. Ho stated Phono Venator was trailing his sheep to Jordan Val ley and Bhould hnye them in tho valley by Thursday night. They wcro going slow as the sheep wero weak and much enro was being taken with them. Phono has purchased a good supply of hay in Jordan Valley to sco them through tho wimcr ami it is iv ported ho has already lost some. Lum Goodwin hns been in Jordan Valley some time, about 10 days with his, and he understands, states Mr. Dowcll, that Lum will get through with most of his sheep. Charley also stated ho passed J. C. Jordan enroute and that he arrived at Tliebaud's from Horn's ranch above the Harper Wednesday, and will feed his stock there. Vale Oriano. EXTENSION OP SHORT LINE. As was published exclusively in the Argus the work of build ing eighty miles of the extension of the Ontario cross state road will bo commenced soon as weather conditions will permit. Agents for tho Short Lino are busy signing us contracts for the Valley and the contracts stipulate the work is to be started within ninety days. Engineer Ashton has returned and is getting everything in Bhape to rush work. .Most of the right of way has been se cured nnd there will be no trouble in securing the rest of it. Ontario Argus. East Interested In Irrigated Lands. "Thero is much interest dis played throughout the east in irrigated lands, tho bond market in Chicago being good, nnd C. II. Emmett disposing of bonds for Medbury project at a good price," said G. M. Weeks, rep resenting a Chicago syndicate reported at $10,000,000, who re turned last evening from lho Windy city, where he has been for the past several weeks look ing nftcr business matters, says the Capital News. "With much snow on the ground and severe cold weather thero is littlo doing in the cast, this being the longest continued cold spell that Chicago has seen for somo time," snid Mr. Weeks. "Thero is from two to three feet of snow over Iowa and Illinois, while in Nebraska there is only a ittlo snow on tho ground and not a great deal in eastern Wy oming." In discussing irrigation nnd the outlook for tho same in the northwest, Mr. Weeks expressed the opinion that thero will bo much activity along this line throughout the northwest during tlio coming spring and summer, several irrigation projects being planned for Central Oregon, while much railroad construction is also contemplated in connec tion with development of South ern and Central Oregon. Assur anco was given that tho Nyssa Buid extension of the Short Lino through Southern Idaho would bo built during tlio coming sum mer, indications pointing to ac tive construction work on tho proposed extension work as soon ns Bpring opens. In connection with this mnttcr it is reported that Chief Consulting Engineer Gray of Now York made a trip recently through Southern Idaho, carefully inspecting tho route, and then announcing that the road would bo built at an early date. Proposed irrigation pro jects in Central Oregon include extensions of railroads in that section, probably to Drain, Ore. Thero is no quinine, nothing whatever harsh or sickoning in Proventics. Theso littlo Candy Cold Cure Tablets act as by magic. A fow hours and your threatening cold is broken. Candy-likoin tasto. Proventics pleaso tho children, and thoy break tho fovorishness, always. And least of all is tho economy. A largo box-48 Proventica-25 conts. Ask your druggist Ho knows. Sold by Reed Bros. Sprjiiig White Goods "' for 1910 r New White Waists Beautiful line Embroideries Ladies Muslin Undergarments New Spring tamonas New goods arriving and we will be able to show the new lines of waists, gloves and summer dress goods within a short time. N. BROWN & SONS m n i r i h me mmmm mu Burns, 8 K$ 6 M. L. LEWIS- aaar fijnmcej ... Represents the.... Home Insurance Co., of New York, Liverpool, London & Globe, I7Icb Assurance Co., Philadelphia. OPFICU WITH HIOOS & IllOdS. Bums, Oregon. Co ncr .south ( Lunabm g & Dalton's. Kresx!;ft-' List Your Property With The : Inland Empire Realty Company W. T. LESTER, Malinger, Burns, Ore. j "WV Probabably tho greatest coffee substitute yet produced is that now known to grocers every where as Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee. It actually goes a third farther than all others, and be sides it is "made in a minute." No 20 to 30 minutes tedious boil ing is at all necessary. Pure toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc. have been so cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully satisfying, true genuine coffee flavor and taste. And not a grain of real coffee is used. 100 cups, 25c. Sold by Reed Bros. Tho biggest reduction sale on clothing and gent's furnishing that ever was at Schcnk Bros. See ad. i The Harriman GENERAL MERCHANDISE ;EST GOODS AT Complete line of Groceries and Dry Goods Gents Furnishings FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF HAMILTON BROWW SHOES HASrlOWAE FARM IMPLEMENTS, WINONA WAGONS, BARBED WIRE We guarantee quality and prices Let us prove to you that we have the goods at right prices Call and see us Oregon. 2 NOTICE. All parties owing Lewis & Gar rett, or Simon Lewis are hereby notified that all these accounts aro in tho hands of our attorney C. II. Leonard for collection and settlement Persons indebted to us will please settle the same with Mr. Leonard at once. Simon Lewis J. T. Garrett. Williams Bros, saw mill at Cold Spring on the Canyon road is prepared to do custom work for those desiring to take ad vantage of their government per mit Also lumber for sale at $12 per thousand. See them about custom prices. Mercantile Co. :U