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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1912)
uiiniujniinimujiun.imii " nmnmj aiiiimjmiuaj.mia imm CITY OF BURNS tttW& COUNTY OF HARNEY Tho Biggest County In The Stato The Bisftcst City In Tho Biggest )j CoilntV 111 Tho Stnfn Of Oroo-nn !! Of Oregon, Best In The West III immamm VOL. XXV BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, .SEPTEMBER 14, 1012 NO 44. She ifeMiX VT WELL DRILLERS STRIKE WATER Supply For Settlers Assured. Success At Hampton Booms Free Land Territory and Opens Desert Act Opportunities County Pays For Experiment, Which Is Successful GIVE THE BOY A CHANCE i Any Boy Will Do Belter In Every Way If Give A Chance To Follow His Own Desise In Selecting a Profession Says Agricultural President The most important singlo to do with hnvlng tho well drilled, achievement in the history of the it, however being tho direct out- southeast homestead country was accomplished last week when a permanent water supply was ob tained by well diggers at Hamp ton, says the Bend Bulletin. Tho new well is 1G7 feet deep, and has from 20 to 40 feet of water, with every indication of an inexhausti ble supply. As a result of the "strike", which proves that water is ob tainable with little dilHctilly throughout the freeland territory a renewed interest in getting these last untaken acres from the government is manifested, and what promises to be a considera ble land rush is under way. There is, of course, jubilation among the homesteaders already on claims, and it is underbtood that the well drilling company is swamped with orders fromjsot tlers who want wells sunk on their property. Hampton, where the new well is, is about 70 miles southeast of Bend. The well is on tho Bend Burns road. It has been dug at the expense of the county, the County Court recently having agreed to devote $1,000 if nec essary, to secure a well there, not only for its benefits to the settlers and to ascertain the cost of obtaining permanent supply, but also to serve as a watering point for the heavy freight traffic between Bend and Burns. J. E. Sawhill, of the Central Oregon Development League, the Bend Commercial Club, and many local merchants and others had much come of tho progrcssiveness of the Hampton country settlers and the wise action of the county court. A. T. Shaver is at the head of the well drilling outfit. Water was struck at 1G7 feet, and now stnnds21 feet deep. The total expense of the experiment has been but $332.50. The well dril ling cost $250, wood and water $50.50 and board $2G. The well remains the property of the county. Just how it will be managed is as yet undecided, but probably some one will be in charge, and water will be sold to settlers and freighters for just enough to cover actual operating expenses. A gasoline or other engine probably will be employed for the pumping. Buy a Farm and make it pay for itself. The choice farm ing lands of Harney County. For sale on small payment and ten years time at 4 per cent in terest. The lands of the Harney Valley Improvement Company are on the market on these terms without reservation. First ap plicant gets his choice. 37 MOTIIERSIIEAD & DONEOAN. Your wife should not be com pelled to stand over a hot cook stove this kind of weather. Get her one of those fireless cookers at Clevenger's. Go and see them. THE BURNS HOTEL DELL DIBBLE, Prop. Centrally Located, Good Clean Meals, Comfortable Rooms, Clean and Sanitary Beds First Class Bar In Connection. Give Me A Call BEND in BURNS ' OPKHATHV POUW I'ACKAIW THIICK8 BEST SERVICE LOWEST RATES 4 Round Trips Each Week 4 Central Oregon Trucking Co. W. S. LOCKWOOD Micr. - - II. nOIIU. Act. Burns wmmsmmnmmmmmammmmm Hj gyyaiy Everybody Uses It! WHAT? RexalS Remedies WHY! Theyre The Best "V SEE Our Display Window, Nolo tho Coinploto Lino We Carry. Nothing Hotter On Tho Murkot. Wo Want Yon To Coino In Anil Lot 1h Show Yon Tho Best and Biggest Line in Burns, Try It. Rexal Drug Store hwm REED BROS. Props. " 'Just two kinds of hoys at tend collego thoso who como and thoso who arc sent' So spoke tho president of an nKri- cultural college. 'With tho for mer tho faculty have no trouhle. Such hoys mean husincss and as a rule, they mnko their mark in tho world.' "This thoURht should ho of great assistance to tho farmer confronted with the questien: Shall I send my hoy to college? College may ho tho making or marring of a career-so may staying upon the farm. Every normal fat her desires the welfare of his children. How decide? Watch tho hoy! Give him a chance in the direction his taste naturally lies. Many a hoy cut out to he a merchant fails because his parents won't give him a chance. Many a hoy fails as a farmer because ho should have been a blacksmith or a lawyer. His heart is not in tho farm, therefore ho cannot succeed. Every normal boy is by naturo better equipped for some one thing than for anything else. If the son ms a mania for mak ing things, cultivate and educate that mania. "The hoy will largely train him self up to a certain point. Then if he wants a college education enough to work his way more or less he may safely he trusted to make a start If he is half hearted about being sent, it is not safe to send him. The saf est college for such a boy is the agricultural college, because he will there associate largely with farmers' sons, and be in contact with farm subjects. Should he return to tho farm he will not have departed so far from the farmers' line of work as he would had he been &ent to a ditrerent kind of college."-Northwest Farmstead. At the Oregon Agricultural College last year there were 253 students who earned every cent of their expenses, 100 more who worked for half tho money they spent, and 2-13 others who earn ed some part of the money for their college course. For tho boy who wishes to go into tho business world, there are both two and four year courses in the school of commerce; for the boy who would like to become a blacksmith or a carpenter there are special courses in forgo work and carpentry in the school of engineering; for the boy who has an aptitude for electricity, sur veying, mining, or road building there are also special engineer ing courses. Farmers' sons and those from the fruit and cattle lands, how ever, are offered a wide choico of agricultural branches of train ing, in which they can prepare themselves either for special work in some one line, or for general farming, either under conditions of the moist western part of the state or those of the dry-farming region in tho cast Should Not Export Grain. That Oregon is making a great mistake in exporting its grain instead of feeding it to livestock, is tho belief of Dr. James Withy- combe, director of the experi ment station at the Oregon Agri cultural Cdllego; expressed strongly in a recent address be fore the Portland advertising Club. He pointed out the fact that there are ten million acres of dairy land in Oregon, nnd that two acres can support a cow. Thus fivo million cows, each worth a $100 profit annually, or five hundred million dollars to gether in profit each year to tho state, could bo fed on this land. By feeding tho grain instead of exporting it, Dr. Withycomho estimates that tho farmer would get fifty cents more a bushel, or, on a crop of fifteen million bush cla for the state, $7,500,000. Tho export of $101,000,000 worth of dairy produce, bacon and eggs from Denmark, which supports a population of 2,600.000, under trying climatic conditions, proves conclusively what can bo dono under right management. Ore gon, with its fine climate and rlnh vnrint.v of Rnilfl flhnnld tin Marshal Stroud Shot And Killed At Harney Falls Dead Before Fatal Fusilade Of Bullets Fired By Men He Attempted To Arrest Four Men Alleged To Be Implicated In .The Shooting Are Taken Into Custody By Sheriff Richardson And Under Arrest INSPECTION TOUR REVEALS PROSPERITY One man is dead and another wounded as a result of a very nasty shooting scrape in Harney Wednesday afternoon. The dead man is Z. II. Stroud, tho city marshal, who was acting in an official capacity it seems when he met his death. The shooting took place in front of the post oflico and Mr. Stroud fell inside where he expired immediately. Tho wounded man is Burbank Clay, who has a flesh wound which is not considered serious. finally placed tho latter under ar rest and learned that Lowell was mixed up in tho affair but had left town. It seems Matheny volunteered to go after him and was deputised for that purpose and another man sent with him. Later Sheriff Richardson was in formed that ho had sont an ac complice out after his man. Ho brought Buckland to Burns and hurried back to tho scene He found out moro about the shooting and early next morning started and Stroud entered tho post office together. Burbank Clay was out in the street with a pistol in his hand. After Davis and Stroud had entered the post office two shots were fired. They both camo out and Stroud told tho boys (James Buckland nnd Clay to "cut it out. " Mr. Davis also asked them to put up their guns and obey the law; Clay con tinued his abuse and Stroud came back out again and told Clay and Recent Auto Trip Thru Surrounding Country Displays Wonderful Ad vancement Along The Agricultural Line And The Productive Fertility Of Harney County's Splendid Soil In company with N. U. Car-'pcrties and will be valuable when pontcr, Dr. H. M. Horton and we get the railroads as no doubt Judge Miller The Times-Herald man made a hurried visit to Har riman Tuesday and was astonish ed to see the amount of improve ments throughout the territory between this city and that point Tho party went out by the way of Lawen and returned by tho warm springs, through Valley View district to Wclcomeville and then straight west on the Crow Camp road to Burns. Dr. Horton is installing a pump ing plant out at his place just east of the Experiment Station Buckland, tho latter also having He 1ms a well 1000 feet deep and Four men are under nrrcst as out after his man. Ho found a pistol out, to consider them- nn8 nttached a centrifugal pump being implicated in tho affair, Lowell at tho Pralro home on selves under nrrest and to appear w,tl Rasoline engine with which Burbank Clay, James Buckland, Cow Creek eating breakfast; before the justice tho next morn-, to Iact! a portion of the tract G. H. Matheny and Otto Lowell, placing irons on him he secured ing. From that time until after llntIur irrigation. Several new These men with the exception of a horse and started out to find tho volley of shots there is con- homestead cabins were passed on Clay, are in the county jail awaiting developments nnd their preliminary will be held as soon as possible. When tho information was first telephoned here it was impossible to got any definite details re specting the shooting or princi pals, tho only information being that Marshal Stroud had been shot down in n fusilade of bul lets. Sheriff Richardson went up immediately and tried to get at tho bottom of the affair. Ho found Burbank Clay in bed with a bullet wound in his side nnd nnd Lowell accountable for mur James Buckland with him. He dor. Jasper Davis testified ho Matheny and had gone but a siderablo confusion as to what u,c roaa Bomg down and it was short distance whon ho met him happened. Several saw tho ,lolcu that .many were enlarging coming down tho road. It seems 'shooting from various places near tn0'r clearings and preparing to Matheny had gone to the cabin and it is thought ns many as 25 cultivate a larger area than he occupied by himself and Lowell . or more shots were fited. 'Win. fre- hut the latter had not como to Russell, Mr. Thompson nnd Fred Geo. Parker has purchased the tho house during the night, ovi- Haines all saw more or less of it store at Harriman from Dr. dently spending tho timo out in nnd tho latter states that a tall Denmanand we found Miss Mary the open. man was standing behind the Croxton in charge of the store Coroner Geary held an inquest screen in a saloon door adjoining and postoffice. School had been Thursday forenoon nnd took the tho post office shooting with a in session at Harriman since rifle, Clay was out in the street September 2 and the attendance where he had been flourishing is large. The party found some his gun nnd telling Stroud to como out. Jnmes Buckland stood near the saloon with a (Continued on Second Page) testimony of a number of wit nesses. The coroner's jury after hearing tho evidence brought in n verdict holding Clay, Buckland Citizens Of Harney Valley! Harney County grown citron at the store and The Times-Herald man bought one thinking he was getting a water melon this shows his knowledge of farming and what can he raised in this section. Coming back the party visited the big warm springs just north of the Harriman townsite. This ' is owned by Dr. Denman and it is said to contain mineral pro- there will be a large sanitarium erected there and a resort of magnitude. The water has been dammed up and is not so hot as has been represented to tho writer who had not visited it be fore. The road brings one near the homestead of Prof. Jokisch, prin cipal of the high school. Here was found a fine stone residence built of native stone with a com fortable fire place and everything quite handy and cosy. Prof. Jokisch, like his neighbors, has quite a clearing and his farm looks like he intends to make a home. The trip through Valley View district disclosed much de velopment work in the way of clearing, fencing and general im provement Several nice com fortable homes were passed and also some good gardens. The auto encountered some quite deep sand in this vicinity which caused slow progress hut the soil was most productive as shown on each side. Four antelope were seen in a field near the road near the f Wclcomeville territory and it was certainly a pretty and unu sual sight, as these beautiful creatures that used to be so plen tiful are now rare in the Valley. Among the farms passed that have fine crops of grain were C. E. McPheeters, Dan Varian, G. W. Clevenger, Brown & Sons, F. O. Jackson, Fred Denstedt C. A. Korten. All of these places have yielded big crops this sea son and show the advancement of farming methods in this section. Mr, Carpenter was particularly (Continued on Second Page) At a recent meeting the Central Oregon OH &'Gas Company, requested You the people of Harney County, be given an opportunity to subscribe for and become associated with us in this Company. Every dollar needed can and will be secured to push this great work begun, a work that is destined to make the Harney Valley the Greatest Wealth Producing Section in the Northwest. You have every geological in dication required to make it the Greatest OH & Gas Field of the United States. We have the men who know how and the best machinery to do the work. Your co-operation is respectfully invited. Those responding will find Mr. H. H. Godfrey at the Company's office in Burns, who will be pleased to accept their subscriptions for stock on behalf of the Company. Remember YOU Are Invited! Also REMEMBER The Great Work Begun SHALL BE Completed, even though you do not see fit to aid in its behalf. THE FEENCH HOTEL JOHN R. WALKUP, Prop. 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