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VOL. XXIII
BURNS, HAHNEY COUNTY, OUKGON, JANUARY 20,1910
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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
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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
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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
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,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
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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.
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