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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1910)
P pme, 7ie hnes-3Hirnia The Official Papor of Ilnrnojr County hta the lartfoat olrculntloti nml it ono of hs bait mlvcrUaliiK mediums In'Knatorn Oregon. &jUX SEllcifircM aHnrucjj Coutilry Covers nn i.ron of ((,'1-8,00 iivioft of Innri, 4,0.1 l,HM iicrrH yot varnnt subject to entry junior llio public land Irwb of tlio United F mien. )L. XXIV BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 10, 1910 NOl. SPte S-9fl.iiP jt 9? sy ty -f- . i TLE FROM THE WEST lying This Region of Stock to he Fed in East for Market SUM TRANSFERRED WEST stances Have Forced the West to Clenn up and iditions Exactly the Reverse Have Enabled the sissippi Valley to Meet the Emergency nt Once. in live stock annals compared to the current ad ovino exodus from the for several months past -Missouri region has gorging while the farm ing to the east has been what promises to be a migration. Fortuitous knees have forced the Cpart of the continent to nd conditions exatly the Save enabled the Mississ- ey to meet the emcr- : Otherwise the results Eve been calamitous. As fWest has been hit hard Nothing but superb conditions east of the lade possible a market of the stuff thus liqui ds it is the westerner mplaint to register. At bs he has always found for both cattle and 1 the thinner they were sr thoy sold. Ureat of thin range sheep le into the hands of farmers and while net ave been small to the ; was real money and he pr that with assurance of from loss. In the ag- vast sum has been ed from the East to. the Iconsequence of this li- relieving financial ; and clearing the decks propitious times. ittle raisers, as with it has been a drastic Well bred'young range the thousand have been prematurely, cows, id calves have been When the big range an cleaning up a decade I concern was lelt, De- assurance that small ; would perpetuate the This season the man lord of limited size has thow severely tho char- be stuff he is market- Ites. rom a crop of thin sheep has secured nothing result of western ca- Btock cattle have never much money before, jhave brought phenom- and steers have sold condition is considered. climate had not pre- i far West from making beef and fat lambs this year the season would have betfn a prosperous one. Inability to put weight on cattle and a short lamb crop have been responsible for inestimable loss. As a result the largest supply of store cattle and sheep that ever went into feeding territory east of the Missouri river is in finisher's haluls. That this re gion was able to care for the stuff is providential. The packer is assured a supply of raw ma terial and the public beef and mutton that would not have been made had corn been even a par tial failuro or the midsummer drouth lasted a few weeks long er. Breeders' Gazette. ARE COYOTES A BENEFIT? The fact that Crook county is paving a bounty for coyote scalps seems to many experienced far mers hereabouts as a bad thing. Of course the coyotes kill a few chickens and perhaps a sheep or two and do a little damage gen erally. However, there is an other important side to the ques tion. The coyotes keep down the rabbits, squirls and field mice. Rabbits can do far more harm to the farmers than many coyotes. Many countries are practically overrun with them, and crops damaged very heavily. Crook county is making a mistake. Its bad policy. Coyotes do more good than harm. The above is the complaint of a farmer writing to the Bend Bulletin. He states a fact re garding the increase of rabbits and it is a matter for considera tion. Wo do not agree with his statement that the coyotes do more good than harm under pre sent conditions. All of interior Eastern Oregon must depend upon the raising of livestock as its only export until railroads come, therefore the coyote must be kept down. As the country settles up and more farming is done both the rabbits and coyotes will be grad ually exterminated but at pre sent we must look after our stock interests as well as the farm. BANK CASHIER INDICTED. Indictments were returned in the United States court on Friday of last week against Elwood L. fG THE NORTHWEST TO THE PEOPLE cct pcoplo Into tlio North- tako tlio Northwest to tho Ha Is tho firm belief of h. W, fnt of tho Great Northern t ho has tho courago of hia 100,000 copies of literature wore distrib uted describing tho various districts. Tho Great Northern will start thrco exhibition cars on a circuit of KaBtcrn States within tho next two wcks. IiOHton Exhibit; 10,000 Pcoplo a Day Look at It demonstrated by tho at!' Ineseckers campaign," tho of which wcro (I red at durlntf tho Western f Exposition. Northern secured spaco In mng ami lnmuiicu nn ex- , grulns ana grasses from on and Washington. Nearly In addition to ilieso cars, permanent exhibits aro maintained at fit. Paul. Chi cago, St. TjouI. Iloston and l'hlladctphla. For tho first thrco days of tho Iloston Kxhlblt tho attendance ranged from 10, 000 to 12,600. It will require about two million pieces of advertising matter to meet tho demand for literature created by these exhibitions. Clark, ox-cashier of tho United States National bank of Vale, charging him with making falso entries in tho books of tho bank in order to nccommodnto custo mers, to decrcaso tho overdrafts account, and to mislead tho Con troller of tho Currency. Clark will bo released on bonds. Clark is held on six counts, nono of which charge that ho ap propriated bank funds to his own use. Ono of tho charges con cerns the reporting of ownership of an old bank building in Vnlo as tho property of tho bank, after tlio building had been stld to others. Vale Enterprise. VOTE ON PROPOSED LAWS. The official count of tho vote in Harney county on tho 32 initia tive and referendum measures gives tho following tetals: Woman's suffrage, yes, 351; No 414. Eastern Oregon Insano asylum, yes, 481; no 279. Constitutional convention, yes 213; no 452. For separate district for state senators and representatives, yes 173; no 317. Taxation amendment, yes 212; no 270. Permitting state construction of railroads, yes 213; no 2GG. Changing mothods of taxation, yes 183; no 345. Raising salary of circuit judgo of Baker county, yes 91; no G37. Nesmith county.yes, 154; no 55G Monmouth normal school, yes 458; no 308. Otis county, yes 304; no 532. Annexing portion of Clackamas county to Multnomah yes 103; no 605. Williams county.yes 142;no552. Allowing each county to regu late taxation, yes 403;. no 342. Home Rule, yes 411; no 427. Protect persons in hazardous employment and extending em ployers' liability, yes 478; no 301. Orchard county, yes 180; no 51G Clark county, yes 172; no 517. Weston Normal school, yes 442; No 322. Annex portion of Washington county to Multnomah, yes 99; no 491. Ashland Normal school, yes 374; no 37G. Prohibition, yes 3G0; no 491. Enforce prohibition, yes 3G7; no 502. Create board of commissioners to prepare employes' indemnity yes 287: no 432, Prohibit fishing in Rogue River except angling, yes 435; no 283. Deschutes county yes 1G8; no 532. Creating of now towns.counties and municipal districts, yes 351; no 353. Good roads amendment, yes 39G; no 312. " Extend direct primary, yes 3G2; no 346. Create board of people's inspec tors of government, etc. 304; no 403. Increasing initiative, referen dum and recall powers, etc., 276; no 401. Changing jury and judicial system, yes 377; no 336. SUNSET NEWS NOTES. Messrs. Graw and Tomlin N. Henney and Hen leader are among the farmers planting a good acreage of winter grain this fall. Mr. E. F. Samuel, special agent for tho Oregon Life, of Portland, has been visiting in Sunset tho guest of E. C. Egg' leston. Nothwistanding tho fact that Sunset homesteaders have stuck closer to their claims than any other section of Oregon, thoy must bo continually hampered by speoial agents of tho U. S. Land office. Ed Moon is busy fencing his homestead. uuriow uiua, uuu unimur Myers nro hauling sawdust and building an ico house upon tho holdings of W. G. Howell, mak ing preparation for tho ico har vest. Estkay A sorrell bald face horse with three whito feet, weight about 1,000 lbs. Brand heart with bar over on loftstiflle. Came to my ranch near Emigrant creek. Owner prove property and pay charges. J. T. GAHltETT, Burns, Ore. TOO MUCH FEATHERS Real Things in Poultry Midustry are Overlooked Says Writer OREGON'S GREAT CROP SHOWING Short Paragraphs of Resources and Prosperous Con dition of Our State Farmer and His Wile The Best Poultry Keepers in Country Says Prof. Dryden. v ' That utility measured by the generations oirtr and meat production is tho , WPS n year, real standard for tho determina tion of tho vnluo of a hen an'l not tho shape and color of feathers tho proposition upon which i has a record of 150 OREQON'S GREAT SIIOWINU. is The fruit crop of tho Hood Rivnr district for 1910 is valued Professor James Dryden of tho nt approximately $1,000,000. Oregon Agricultural College, in Quo monster log, tho biggest a bulletin which has just gono to CVCr sawed in tho Coquille Valley, press, takes issue with tho editors Coos County, was 9 feet in diam- of the 'American Standard of ctcr nntj make 11,000 feet of lum- Pcrfcction and breeders of fancy UCr. chickens. i "To encourage tho poultry in dustry," says Professor Dryden, " hundreds of poultry shows are held each year and thousands of dollars are paid on premiums and all the premium aro awarded on Eight acres near Euguno-pro-duced 103 bales of hops, which is over 2,500 pounds an acre. Tho Mount Hood Railway & Power company has started a saw mill near Bull Run with a capa city of 30.000 feet daily. It will tho basis of the American ' saw ties almost exclusively. Standard of Perfection. "We think we aro encouraging the poultry industry by paying premiums for feathers and other fancy points and for shape of body, and farmers go to tho shows to purchase their breeding stock. They never suspect that tho pre miums indicate nothing ot tnc ogfiT laying qualities of the fowl. "Tho best poultry keeper in tho country is tho farmer and the farmer's wife. I have been a shamed of myself many times in mv chicken career that wo who were 'educating tho farmers' were raising sickly, constitution ally weak chickens, nnd then go on to a iarm ana seo running nround tho barnyard, without at tention or care, thrifty, robust. lively chickens! Wo are slaves of tho dogma of tho feather and the Standard and the farmer produces the eggs. I believe that the farm' stock, the cross breed stock, or shall I say, tho mongrel stock, have better vitality, aro more fertile, are less preyed upon by diseases and produce more eggs than tho average flock of pure breds. The way to develop tho poul try industry is to stop advocating pure bred or standard bred fowls for tho farmer. Ho should de cide on tho type of fowl to breed and forget tho names of tho breed. Let him decide whether ho wants an egg type, a meat type or a general purpose typo and then purchaso puro bred males and grade up his flock. Ho should start with cross bred fowls and puro bred male to bring up use tho grade. Tho country wants eggs and poultry and wo can not get these by building on the foundation of feathers or fancy points. "To discover tho egg typo wo have to use tho trap nest or some other means of keeping a record of eggs laid by individual honp. Tho trap nest is about tho best thing wo have discovered in tho poultry business. Wo will mako slow improvement in breeding without an egg record for each hen in tho flock. Tho objection to the trap nest'is that it requires to much labor for tho farmer. I believo that tho state or experi ment station should como to tho rcscuo here by establishing a breeding station whore farmers pould secure at nominal prices cockerels of good laying pedigreo to mate with their flocks. It would not tako very long to fur nish every farmer with a malo bird whose ancestry during two Much interest is manifested in walnut culture in Oregon, and tho fact that trees of bearing ago are loaded with nuts of fine quality gives great encourage ment to growers. Crook County contains one of the Jlnrgcst bodies of irrigable land in the West, having 350,000 acres. Oregon's applo crop is gaining on the original estimates nnd the State, Board of Horticulture places tho 1910 yield at.1,250,000 boxes. Postal receipts for Portland for October Bhow an increase of 22.65 per cent over the corres ponding month of - last year. Moreover tho latest figures are tho biggest in the history of the city. Two great conventions of Na tional interest aro already sched uled for Portland next year. They arc tho gathering of the woolgrowers of tho country next January nnd the session of the Christian church next July. Portland has completed about 50 miles of new hard surface street paving this season. In smaller cities throughout Oregon it is estimaaed 250,000 yards of paving have been laid during the same period. Lake County lnnds, a fow years ago considered worthless, are now producing splendid alfal fa seed selling at 15 cents per pound. Exports from Portland during October totaled 11,511,476 feet of lumber and 1,173,240 bushels of wheat. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. (Portland Correspondence.) Oregon will havo a special day at tho Chicago Land Show, it having been fixed on November 30. Oregon people will be held in tho lecturo room of tho Colis eum in honor of tho occasion. Under tho direction of tho Harriman lines in this territory, a splendid exhibit of Oregon pro ducts has been gathered that will bo shown at Chicago, excellent spaco having been secured for it. Tho products of tho stato on viow there will bo explained by com petent lecturers in charge and tho stato generally will profit very largely from tho showing to bo made. Prominent Oregon citizens will participate in tho exercises nt tho land show on Oregon day. Among them are William Mc- Murray, Goncral Passenger Agent for the Hnrriman Lines in this territory; John M. Scott, assist ant general passenger agent; B. W. Johnson, Corvallis; E. D. Waterman, Mcdford; J. C. Skin ner, Hood River; E. B. Bolton, Grants Pass; W. E. Benton, W. D. Skinner and A. A. Morse, Portland. Tho biggest mining deal in tho history of tho stato took place during tho past week when tho Rainbow Mine, in, tho Mormon Basin, near Baker was bonded to tho United States Smelting, Re fining and Mining Co. for $1,050, 000. Tho purchasers havo four months in which to look over tho property and make a cash pay ment of $350,000.' At tlio end of six months tho balance of the purchaso price is to be paid. This is ono of tho best known properties in the state, and has a gold production of about$200,000 to its credit That the Hill interests are pre pared to spend from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000, on extentions to tho Oregon Electric and United Railways in Western Oregon dur ing the comingyear or 18 months, is tho statement of John F. Stevens, head of the Hill system in this state. This will mean the construction of from 200 to 250 miles of new intcrurbnn roads in tho Willamette Valley, South ern Oregon and tho Coast country. Tho Oregon branch of "the Na tional League of Postmasters of tho United States will hold its annual meeting in tho rooms of the Portland Commercial Club, Sixth and Oak streets, Saturday, December 3. Tho meeting will be called at 10 a. m, and the ses sion will last one day. A night session will be arranged if nec essary. The coming convention of postmasters is Baid to bo the most important ever held by the Oregon Association and it is de sired that a full representation of the members be in attendance. Realty dealers of the slate are to bo asked to atten 1 the Annual Convention of tho Oregon Devel opment League at Salem during the last three days of November. It is felt that these two organiz ations can accomplish a great deal by coming together and working for tho advancement of tho whole state. It is expected tho realty men will hold their first annual gathering at the same time rfs tho Pevelopment League convention. Ashland claims it will have the most beautiful street in Oregon when its new boulevard is com pleted. This thorughfare will bo 100 feet in width, with paving on both sides of a park row in tho center that will bo beautified with trees and shrubbery. The paying will be completed next spring. Portland Y. M. C. A. is teach ing applo culture to those inter ested in the science. Classes will bo delivered by experts. This work is intensely practical and will bo productive of good results, V- The Scientific American- of last week reports nine deaths as a re sult of the air ship experiments. Ono man fell from a height of 500 feet. Joseph Brucker, tho German American journalist, will seek to omulato Wollman next yenr. Brucker will attempt to cross the Atlantic by traveling from tho Canary Islands to tho West In dies. His airship, which is now nearing completion, is 200 feot long; has 8,500 cubic meter gas capacity and is driven by two 200 horse-power motors. A motor boat 35 feet long and 10 feet wido serves as a car. Seasonable Merchandise Insuring Quality and Style A new and well selected stock of winter goods equalled only by the higher class city stores bought direct fn-'m exclusive furhouses New and Snappy Coats for Ladies A fashu nable line of New IhinoH in pretty wool garments "or the babies.... 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