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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1910)
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INFORMATION MAY BE SUPPLIED Hcyburn's Resolution Calling for of the Interior Alay Supply Statement of the Situation A valuable mass of information magnitude of the work embraced will be supplied, when the aecre- i the Swift plans, there has tary of the interior shall have been n delay in tho original pro- ,.,,., , . . , c ject of nearly a year in Retting replied to the resolution of Sena- rondy for ncldn but tho lant tor Hcyburn, asking for com- j3 now practically complete. Tho plete statement of the situation opening of the plant means that of the reclamation service. Hoy- 500 people will bo employed at burn's resolution calls for a state- the start with tho probability ment of the estimated amount of that the number will bo doubled money which will bo required to within tho coming year. It will complete all of the irrigation pro- furnish a big livestock market jects begun by the federal gov- for the farmers and stock raisers eminent, as well as of those j0f tho Pacific Northwest and which have been approved for; other packing plants and factor extensions, or projects which i j0s for utilizing side products of have been approved but not yet the packing houses will be ostab- begun; the amount of money which has been expended to date, and tho nature of the work which has been done; the income which may reasonably be expected from the sale of public lands (which income supplies the funds which built the irrigation projects) for the coming 10 years; the amount which will be applicable to tho reclamation fund; the acreage of land under each project; and the probable income to be derived from the sale of reclaimed lands under each project and the num ber of acres which will be sold under each project Apropos, the status of the re clamation service, under the di rection of Frederick K. Newell, hikt been called in question. I lis opponents have intimated that other intermediate points. Mean his administration has been in-1 while work is steadily going on efficient, and that this is proved by the necessity of appealing to congress for $30, 000, 000 in bonds' or certificates of indebtedness, to , complete projects which Mr. Newell has begun or approved I for the beginning of work. Neweirs opponents assert tnati he should have known the amount tho basis of representation ex of money which he was to have pected to be fixed by the new at his disposal, and "cut his gar- census, one congressman will be ment according to his cloth" that allowed for every 22-1,000 of pop- is, should have begun only so many projects as he could com plete with the funds he knew he would have. It is answered in his behalf, that several years ago, when Mr. Newell laid his plans, he assum ed that prevaling prices of labor and supplies would remain ap pioximately the same as they were at that time; that there would be only such changes as market fluctuations" " ordinarily would cause. However, after most of the plans for construction had been formed, a substantial increase took place in the cost of all things which enter into the de velopment of irrigation plants, and the original estimates and assignments of reclamation funds to the several projects proved to be inapplicable to the new condi tion, hence issuance of bonds or certificates become necessary. A specific instance is supplied by the Klamath project, in south ern Oregon. The reclamation service advertised for certain , work to be done, and received bids, the lowest of which was approximately $30,000. In the call for bids was a reservation of tho right to refuse any or all bids. The service discovered later that it was essential to postpone this work, and did so. Still later, the same work was advertised, and the lowest bid was well towards tho $100,000 mark. Numerous other illustrations could be cited, all showing how tho change in the market for la bor and materials throw askew the estimates of the irrigation service. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. (Portland Correspondence.), Tho new packing plant of tho Swift interests on tho Peninsula is expected to start operations on March 14. Because of tho Information From Department Interesting News A Complete of the Reclamation Service. fished Work on what will bo tho tall est building in this state, if not in the Pacific Northwest, will bo begun March 10, when construc tion of the new Yeon building will start. The structure will bo built at the corner of Fifth and Alder streets and will be 15 stor ies in height Like the now sky scrapers now going up in Port land, the structure would be a credit to any city of the country. Passenger service on 25 miles of completed road at the west end of the Southern Pacific's Tillamook extension will be be gun, it is expected, on April 1. Trains will be run from Tilla mook to Vosberg, giving service to Bay City, Hobsonville ""and across the Coast Mountains and by next Fall it is expected trains wjh be run through from Portland to Tillamook Bay. Oregon will be given another congressman, and possibly two, it is believed after the coming census is taken. According to ulation. Tho basis at present is one representative for every '192, 182 of population. It is ex pected the coming census will show a population for the state of close to 800,000. This would give three congressmen and if tho hopes of some are realized and the state is found to have 1,000,000, then four congressmen will be allowed. Washington's birthday was celebrated in Portland by the planting of rose bushes in the parks and public squares of tho city with appropriate exercises. Thousands of bushes were set out throughout the city and tho new plants will be blooming in time for the annual Rose Festival in June. City and state officials, together with representatives of foreign nations that contrib uted their native roses for-tho allair, participated in tho rose planting exercises. This has bo come an annual event in Portland and the custom Is growing in fa vor each year. The planting of roses at a time when many other sections of tho country are still wrapped in snow and ice is also a splendid advertisement of Ore gon's climate. Advertisements are being placed by the Portland Commer cial Club in tho leading Swedish and Norwegian-Danish papers of the country, calling attention to opportunities here for industrious people who seek homes in the country districts. A largo in quiry is coming to tho Portland ofilce from Scandinavians all over tho country and letters are answered by a special correspon dent who understands tho lan guage. This is but one phase of the Commercial Club's work but it is bringing inquiries. Tho peoplo nro thrifty and industrious and settlers of this kind will help develop the vacant lands of tho state. Job printing Tho Times-Herald NOTES PROM SUNSET. (Intondcd for last week) The first masqucrado dance over given in Sunset occured last Mondny night, and was well attended by people from Warm Springs, Weaver Springs, Burns, Lawen and Sunset Somo of tho prettiest costumes were worn by Mrs. Ringer of Weaver Springs nnd Mrs. Ruth Barron of Sunset Tho comic characters wero well represented, such as tho "Clown," "Baby," "Hoi land Dutch," "Chinese," "Ne gro" nnd "Japaneso" caused much amusement Tho Wild and Wooly WcoUwnB'-oxcollontly represented by two girls who wero dressed as "cow girls" and a man as a "cow puncher." Mr. Passenger of Burns was a pleasuro visitor in Sunset last Monday. Mr. Collin Dawson left last week for tho Agency Ranch where ho will remain for somo time. A. Spicer is very busy working on his homestead. Roy Orcn wns over from per Sunset, to tho dance. up- Bert Conrad has returned to his homestead to remain an in definite time. Walter Hoddcr spent several days in Sunset before beginning tho deep wells on Mr. Davy's place. Tho Sunset school was closed last week while Miss Hodder went to Burns for the teacher's examination. "William Gould was over to the Sunset dance nnd stated that there would bo a dance at the "Over the Hill" school ' house February 18th. Mrs. Chas. Reed will leave soon for a pleasure trip to Port land. J. B. Hoddcr made several business trips to Burns this week. Fred Barron was a business visitor to Burns this week. Messrs Black and Nash loft last week for Catlow Valley where thoy will drill several deep wells. Mrs. Fred Myers has been quite ill but is reported convales cent this week. Miss Neva Hodder hns filed on a homestead in Sunset. By the looks of wire, posts and lumber she means to do somo improve ment this spring. Messrs Caterson, George, Crowley, Otley, Carpenter and Leake were over from Lawcn. Miss Amy Leak was a pleasuro visitor to Sunset. Walter Bringlo wns up to tho dance from Narrows. As Lincoln's birthday camo on Saturday this year it was not celebrated by tho Sunset school until Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stahl made a business trip to Burns last week. A Giant Radlnh From Japan. The February issuo of The Fruit-Grower, published at St. Joseph, Missouri, is an Annual Gardening number, and compris es eighty pages and cover. It contains a number of interesting articles on tho subject of spray ing, marketing and packing of fruits, in nddition to a mass of interesting data on tho subject of gnrdening. One.of tho main features is tho story telling how readers of The Fruit-Grower raised tho Giant Radish from Japan, Sakurajima, to an enormous Bize, somo of tho radishes weighing as much as twenty-three pounds. Tho article in question is pro fusely illustrated and gives re ports from a number of readers who have grown real giants of this giant radish. Sample copies of Tho Fruit-Grower will bo sent free to our readers, who will write to tho publishers and ask for them. Cottrill & Clomens have put in a first class saw mill 1J miles west of Cold Springs is near tho valloy with good road. In first class timber picked trees from tho government. Proparedtodo custom work. Seo them about your government permit at onco. GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT Judge Webster Resigns to Devote His Time to the Work in State. EVERY COUNTYISTATETO HELP Purpose of the Oregon flood Roads Association is Secure the Construction of Roads on n ' Systematic Basis Advocate Issue of Bonds for Construction of Permanent Highways. Lionel R. Webster hn9 resigned as judge of tho Multinomnh county court and Thomas J. Cleeton will bo appointed as his successor, says tho Journal. Judge Webster's long expected letter of rcsignition reached Govenor Benson at Salem this morning and shortly thereafter camo tho announcement.thatMr. Cleeton will bo appointed. Judge Webster will retire from office on March 1. Judge Webster quits the judge snip to mKo up tno worK oi gen- oral mnnnger of tho Good Roads Association of Oregon. For a long time he has taken pnrticu- lar interest in tho subject of i i i i . , good roads, he has given practi- 80t apart ought to bo well stock cal illustration of what can bo ed with game birds and the own- uono by his administration of a Cr will then have a valuable prc little over three years as county servo for renting or leasing pur judge, nnd he became the logical' ,,0ses and at tho same timo tho choico of tho good raids man' sum total of tho camo birds in when they looked nbout for a leader in a statewide movement "Tho Oregon Good Roads Association," said Judge Web ster, "was organized through tho enterprise of a number of Portlnnd business men who have subscribed in the nggrogato of about $700 a month with which to support the organization and to prosecute its labors. Tho ojKjrations of this organization, with which I hnvo decided to give considerable of my time, will be state-wide. Its purpose is to se cure tho construction of roads on a systematic basis. It is proba ble that I shall visit every county in the state in order to energize and cnthusn the people and or ganize tho present agitation for better roads into a concentrated effort which will insure results. "It will bo my plan to make every county a unit of the stale organization. In this way I be lieve the best results will bo well attained. By it local antagonisms : will bo largly eliminate and every county organization will operate as a part of the state organiza tion and in tho furtherance of the purpose of its organization tho building of better roads all over the state. "Legislation will also bo need ed if tho purposes of tho organi zation nro to be carried out suc cessfully. Wo will propose a constitutional amendment au thorizing counties to issuo bonds for tho construction of perma nent highways. Wo will also ask for the enactment by the State Legislature of a bill model ed after the Johnson mensuro which proposes as an aid to road building that tho theso improvements oxpenso of I bo devided ' cqunlly among tho state, the county nnd the nbutting property. i ino association will also seoic to have enncted another bill which' will permit tho employment of convict labor in tho construction of public higl'wnys. It is our purpose to have this measure so framed that county and munici pal authorities will bo enabled to work all prisoners in county and city jails on public roads. "Tho importance to tho state of tho work to bo undertaken by this association is great. There is urgent need for somo system atic plan of road construction in Oregon. Wo hopo by enlisting public sentiment nnd through the ennctment of necessary legisla tion to convince even tho most skeptical that tho results of labors will fully justify tho deavor." ADV0DATES STATE 0AME PRESERVES A system of stato game pro- serves, voluntarily provided by the owners of tho land through- out Oregon, will bo advocated be fore tho next Legislature by E. A. Parsons of this city. Mr, -r- s Parsons is probnbly the most en thusiastic sportsman in Portlnnd, if not in nil Oregon, when the returns for his expenditures are considered and the plan of state game preserves has been hatched out by him only after long thought on tho subject It is his idea to have the Legis lature pass a bill by which tho owner of any trnct of land mav file it with the state game war den as a game preserve. That filing will be placed on tho pub lic record nnd for tho terms of years designated in it, not oven tl0 owner himself will be allowed to hunt tho specified game on it At the expiration of one, three. nVo or ten veara. nnv trnct so game the state will bo greatly increas ed. There is always a great deal of difficulty in getting game legis lation that will appeal to the land owner nnd the hunter alike, but the above plan probably will. Tho farmer will find in it a re fuge from the horde of hunters who assault him every Autumn, for tho proposed bill will carry a 'provision for the gnmo warden to thoroughly post every tract set aside and a heavy penalty for infringement Tho lnnd owner will also have a valid reason for refusing friends with whoso re quests ho is overwhelmed now. The tracts would be a great haven for tho birds. Hunters all know how soon the birds discov cover the out-of-way places and hock to tncm. i hoy -would soon know the preserves as well as if they could read the filings. Tel cgram. HOW THE SYSTEM DEBAUCHES. Tho caBo before mo continued. There continued nlso a general exodus from Denver that became ono of tho jokes of tho news papers. "Bill" Evans, president of tho tramway company, had gono East. FreuaufT, tho mana ger of the gas company, has tak en an early train. Bill Davoren, chairman of tho Democratic City and County Central Committee, had flown, and a friend of his came to my chambers to ask that I grant him immunity on the pro miso that tho organization would back mo as a candidate for tho governorship. Scores of young clerks mado off, their traveling exnonses nnid fas somo of them havo since confessed to mo) by the gas company. Tho mothers 0f others-or their wives-came in mv HmmWawith itif.il inl of poverty nnd lack of employ- - ,.....-. ment, and told mo that their sons or their husbands hud been com pelled to cast fraudulant votes or loso tho work on which thoy de pended for their daily bread. (Tho victims of tho Beastl) One of tho guilty clerks wns tho son of n Donver bishop, nnd I was besought for tho sake of his father, for tho sako of tho con gregation, for tho sako of reli gion nnd public decency, not to put him on tho witness stand. (Ho finnlly escaped tho process server and got out of town.) A young man camo to confess to oul'iinolhat ho had committed por- On-.iiipvin .Tnilcrn .Tnlinann'n mtirt behoving that tho corporations would "square it"; "for," ho Baid, "it's boon common talk that tho corporations control tho Supremo Court nnd wouldn't lot us got into trouble." All day in my chambers, ovcry evening in my homo, theso trembling slavos of corporation government bo-j sioged mo with their petitions for clemency; and tho pitiful moral degradation of it all made life a nightmare. These peoplo wero not tho "lower classes" of the slums whom you are accustomed to think are born to shnmo and suffering. They are not the work ingmen who are "cattle" to such as freeman, and in his opinion "not fit to govern themselves." Thoy wore those whom you, "gentlo reader," are accustomed to consider as good as yourself, and yet they were drngged through the mire of fraud and perjury just as you and your children nnd your wives nnd your mothers will bo dragged, if the Beast in your community ever find tho "tfCc'd to ' drag you. Never doubt ill Judge Lindsey in Everybody's. 2000 Wild Morses nrc being Rounded. Two thousand wild horses, scattered over an area of 100 miles in length and 40 miles in width in the hills and valleys in Grant County, Wash., nro being rounded up for Thomas Bergen nnd William Thorpe of Ephrata, to bo sold in Dakota, Montana and other western points. John ny Smith, chief bucknroo of the riders, says the work will occupy from 30 to 45 days. The best horses in the bunch will bo sent to the ranges in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota to be broken for polo and will then be shipped to New York, Boston, Chicago and other-points, where they command high prices. Two hundred of the horses have been sold to Montana parties for de livery in April. Tho cost of good horses is higher today than at any timo in tho history of the state of Washington, though it is only 10 years ago sinco Tony Richardson sold 3,000 head of animals at Ephrata at $2.50. The district, which was formerly part of Douglns county, has been noted sinco territorial days for its horses, there being good graz ing most of the year, tho animals requiring littlo or no care until tho roundup. RAILROAD MEETIN0 AT PRAIRIE. Dr. Belnap has issued a call for a mass meeting to be held at Prairie City noxt Saturday, when the officials of the Sumpter Val ley railroad' will be present to discuss the right-of-way and ter minal facilities for the extension of tho road into tho vnlley this spring. It seems that tho people of the upper John Dny valley in order to assist tho railroad in the ex tension of the lino and to show some substantial interest in its building, subscribed to a bonus pledging $10,000, a right-of-way into or near tho town and termi nal facilities as consideration for the completion of the extension by next Juno. Tho railroad offi cials at this time hnvo built tho road and laid the rails to a point three miles south of the summit at Dixie and aro now making pre parations for tho resumption of work in tho early spring, nnd before nnything further is. dono it is necessnry for them to bo ad vised as to the Prairie City end of tho agreement Bluo Mt Eaglo. Waive Examination, Emmott and Earl Shields, Bert Green nnd Ben Hinton. who aro charged with the ki'ling of Ollio Snyder last Christmas near Ham ilton, nnd who nro now confined in tho county jail at Canyon City, waived their preliminary examination before Justice of tho Peace M. Dustin Inst Monday and wero bound over to appear before tho grand jury noxt May when tho circuit court will convene. BluoMt Eagle. Two Oregon Agricultural Col lego Students, Joseph Hnllock and John Cook have rigged up a wireless telegraph station and aro receiving messages daily, Thoy catch messages from all stations south as far as San Francisco nnd north ns far as tho middle of British Columbia. Theso young men mado practical ly all of their instruments nnd constructed their station un assisted. Foil Sale-200 cords of pino wood at $1.75 per cord. Slab wood $1.25 a load at tho Ilnrnov Saw Mill. L. R. Bunyard. Spring White Goods s ' for 1910 New White Waists Beautiful line Embroideries Ladies Muslin IFndergarments New prihgiKiiTftonas 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 The Satigfaotsry Store Burns, Oregon. : s s($$&?w&&i M. L. LBWIS-w FmEJNSUNCEJ ....Represents the.... Home Insurance Co., of New York, Live pool, London & Globe, Pire Assurance Co., Philadelphia. OPFICIJ WITH UHK1S & UiaO. Bu ns, Oregon. Corner JSoulli of I.unabut g & Ualton's. ffi 'SW&M $( t List Y our Properly With Inland Empire X W. T. LESTER, Alannger, Burns, Ore. &O.AJwsiS ' You economize greatly when using Dr. Snoop's new coffee sub stitute known to first class groc ers everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Health CofTeo. A 25c. li pound package gives 100 cups of a won derfully satisfying table drink. Pure toasted grains, malt, nuts etc give to health Coffee a whole some, and satisfying tasto and flavor. And there is not a grain of real coffee in it. Besides, Health Coffee in "made in a minute." No. 20 to 30 minutes tedious boiling.' Sold by Reed Bros. Better get a pair of thorough bred pigs. Pork is worth raising now. Dr. Hibbard has somo pure bred Berkshires for sale. aP! The Harriman GENERAL MERCHANDISE BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES Complete line of Groceries and Dry Goods Gents Furnishings FULL AND COMPLETE UME OF HASVm-TOW BROW& SHOES FARM IMPLEMENTS, WINONA WAGONS. BARBED WIRE & 6 Wo guarantee quality and prices Let us prove to you that we'lmve tho goods at right prices Call nnd seo us Tht !Tw Town m. Ctn CtJ a.y mmmm 3$334&t& g33$w 6$&$3tf& i 1 Realty Company NOTICE. All parties owing Lewis & Gar rett, or Simon Lewis are hereby notified that all these accounts aro in the 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. Gaiuiett. Williams Bros, saw mill at Cold Spring on the Canyon road is prepared to do custom work for thoso desiring to take ad vantage of their government per mit Also lumber for sale at $12 per thousand. Seo them about custom prices. rm Mercantile Co.