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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1913)
tji WNEY The State f CITY OF BURNS WXm-i COUNTY The Biggest City In The Biggest The Biggest County County In The State Of Oregon I Of Oregon, Best In The West I K)L. XXVI BURNS, HARNKY COUNTY, OREGON. AUGUST 28. I! 13 NO. 41 gfte mmm y ILD AGRICULTURAL FAIR HERE THIS FALL Board of Directors of The Harney County Fair Association Organize And Active Work Begins. Date is Set September 30, Same Date as School Fair Already Provided for ien who were elected as of the Harney Countv ciation got together at es-Herald office Tuesday id organized, electing the Ig emcers: J. M. uaiton, it; J. C. Welcome Jr., lident; J. E. Loggan, C. B. McConnell, as- cretary, J. L. dault. kr. latter of holding a purely kral fair had been dis- khe evening before and it general opinion of all rould be a mistake to al- year to pass without a specially since we have the best agricultural the history of the county, was such a persistent from the railroads and people 01 rornanu ior at the Eastern land "he gentlemen who have ken the fair for this fall or less nanaicappea is rather late to begin tiering oi exnioits. yet per support trom tne interests of Burns and jeers of the county they id will be able to get up iitable display of pro- rill be placed in the field to select and assist the uid exhibitors in secur preparing displays. Mr. Ul has signified his vvill- Ito devote all his spare le work and B. F. John- enting the Oregon & Colonization Co., has en at work on gather- Ibits for his company. continue and allow the to be placed in the at the fair, each in- display being kept to itself in order that the grower may compete for premiums. Supt. Breithaupt of the Experi ment Farm has also promised to fix up a good exhibit of the pro ducts of the Farm. With these men all active and the individuals who have always taken an in terest in the past we may expect a fine exhibit. Supt. Hamilton had already be gun the plans for an industrial fair by the public school children of the county to begin at the same date as that selected for the county fair and therefore the two will be held jointly and thus , to the advantage of both. The Fair Board has taken recogniz ance of this school fair and have decided that every school child of Harney county showing sati factory evidence from his or her teacher that they are attending some public school in the county will have free admission to the fair grounds during the fair. The business men of Burns are going to be asked to subscribe a small amount each to provide amusements and entertainment for the fair period. It is quite likely the sportB will be divided in such a manner as will give the school children some good prizes for sports and athletice for the week. It is rather late to get up much in horse races but it is quite likely there will be saddle horse races, Indian pony races some wild west "stunts" such as bronco busting, steer tying, bull dogging, etc. The amusement urogram will depend upon the liberality of the business men to provide for it, however. It will not require as much as was sub scribed for the 4th of July cele bration to provide an ample amount for this purpose. The gate receipts will help to some extent, but this must be depend ed upon the care for the expense of gatherihg and preparing ex hiibts for the county fair and the outside shows. Since the amount available for premiums is limited and not as much as in the past it was de cided by the board to have only an agricultural fair and dispense with the stock show for this fall, as there is not sufficient to pay premiums on both. It will there fore be restricted entirely to the products of the soil. The prem ium list will be issued just as soon as. possible, out those who have been in the habit of making exhibits will find practically the same rules governing and may proceed as the have in the past in their preparations to participate. The farmers should not wait for those active in the work to come to them for products, but get to work themselves. The farmer is the one to take the lead in this matter and it is to his advantage to have a good dis play at the fair. Every product of the soil should be represented. No doubt the usual premiums for needle work, art and domestic science will be given us in the past and this added to the ex hibits of the school children with the usual display of (lowers will make quite a representative ex hibit of the resources of the country, with the exception of live stock. By the late law governing county fairs in this state it will be a matter for each county to make provision in the future. The cut ting of the usual state appropria tion this year has given Harney county but little finances to pro vide for an exhibition. This will be taken care of in the future, however, as the present board will see that it is recognized by the county court. The Times-Herald hopes that every farmer will take an active interest in the fair and attend with his products. Don't get the notion that you and your products are not needed as the more who take part in the exhibition the greater the benefits. FORESEES SURPASSING FUTURE FOR INTERIOR Publicist of New York Writes of Trip This Territory and Tells of Bigness Of the Harney Country. Railroad Now Building Will Develop Great Area of Surpassing Resources LATEST DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE NOTES r A PlPin V i rr- r-.j rirn LAVE aiuu COMPANY TO FIGHT p. New Market Report. THE BURNS HOTEL DELL DIBBLb, Prop. nt rally Located, Good Clean Leals, Comfortable Kooms, Clean and Sanitary Beds it Class Bar In Connection. Olve Me A Call urns Meat Market H. J. HANSEN, Proprietor ef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sasuage, Bolonga, ideheese and Weinerworst, Etc holesale and Retail mpt and Satisfactory Service ir Patronjre Solicited and Given Quick Attention lers To The lexall Drug Store r Ansco Camera's Films and any thing wanted In the KODAK LINE Reed Bros. Props. Receipts for the lust week at the Portland Stock yards have been; Cattle 2171; Calves 18; Hogs 2020; Sheep 0503: Horses 27. Fairly heavy run of cattle for the week, both native and South ern stuff. Few extra choice steers in the run, prices remain ing steady for top grades, but going lower on medium class, es pecially cows and heifers. Fancy native steers sold from $8.25 to 8. 35. Lower grades 7. 50 to 8. 00. Choice cows and heifers selling around 6.25 to 6.50, with lower grades 5.75 to 6.00. A wide range of prices between choice and ordinary stuff. A big decline in the hog mar ket, with tups going from $8.25 to $8.60, with a general weak undertone. Light liquidation at week's close. The sheep market strengthen ed a little for the six day period. Heavy receipts the first of the week and holding up fairly well to Thursday. Some lambs com ing forward with slow outlet at steady prices. Prime yearling wethers selling R00 to 4.35 choice ewes $3.50 to $3.85. Best lambs 5.00 to 5.50. Join to Aid Farmer. The United Statut Department of Agricultural through the di vision of farm management, will cooperate with the Oregon Agri cultural CollegS as soon as the i i . , :., i.i- ,. Jt!UcIUI Uf VI hum in in miir u' mi.1,,. hJ n, ,,,,i,NimKn!H. every aide by mountains, This imuortarit step was te finite A. O'Farrelt, publicist, of York recently spent a week in touring central Oregon. His companions were President Farrell, Vice President O'Brien and other officials of the O.-W. R. & N The party proceeded from Portland, up the Deschutes, across to Bums, through the Harney and Malheur valleys and into Vale. Mr. O'Farrel saw with the eyes of an impartial observer. His wide travel and experience give additional weight to his opinion of the country he passed through, which is set forth in the accompanying article: O'Farrell describes or .-ather writes of this trip in the Sunday Journal and while he doesn't speak particularly of crop con ditions, he gives some valuable information of the country. He says of this particular section after writing of primitive times and what Lewis and Clark feund: The first half of the nineteenth century the Oregon country was sacred to savages, fur traders, and trappers. Some Jesuit mis sionaries and a few American missionaries knew better, but even they had no conception of its wealth of soil and mine and clime and forest Then steam and railroads and the great gold discoveries of California and Australia changed the face of the world, and in a little while Montana and Oregon and Idaho and Washington and British Columbia were carved out of the Oregon country, and the glorious Oregon river was called the Columbia. The diplomats who divided Oregon between Britain and the United States marked the 49th parallel of latitude as the bound ary. It is said they flipped a coin or shook dice as to which most territory should go. Neither had the remotest wish to burden their respe. tive governments with such worthless territory, and so the boundary lines was settled by the rattle of a dice box or some other such device. Such was the wisdom and know ledge of statesmen in the hey day of such as Pell and Mel bourne and Disraeli and Palmers-' ton and Gladstone and of Bucha nan and Douglas and Lincoln. French Canadians had hunted the Snake to its source and had fiver and past Malheur lake and on to Eugene and Coos Bay. This will give the Union Pacific another seaport, and the line will connect with the Deschutes branch to Portland and with the Southern Pacific to San Francisco. This new line from the Snake river valley to Coos Bay across the rich plateau of Central Ore gon will develop an immense country with agricultural and timber resources surpassing those of New York and New England combined. Harney county is larger than Rhode Island and Massachusetts, yet Burns, the county seat, is 150 miles from the rails. It is a thriving, bustling, booming town with good stores, hotels, banks, churches and two newspapers. At the southern end of the Harney valley is Bill Hanky's great ranch of 150,000 acres. Bill Hanley is one of Oregon's most poDular institutions. He lords it over the finest stock rais ing valley in America, for his are the cattle on a hundred hills, and flocks and herds galore that fatten on the richest pastures. One has not lived in vain in this day and generation who is privileged to meet the Hanley's in their own home in the lovely valley of Harney county, Oregon. I New Cars to Move Crops. One thousand new freight cars ordered by the O-W. R. & N. Co., in anticipation of a heavy demand for cars to move the large crops this fall, are now be ing turned out by the car build ers and are arriving at the vari ous reserve stations of that Com pany in Oregon and Washington at the rate of 50 cars a day. The delivery began on August 1 and the entire 1000 cars will probably be ready for use before the har vest. "With this order of 1000 new cars," says Mr. F. W. Robinson, Assistant Traffic Manager, "and an additional 2000 just delivered to the Union Pacific, we are con fident that we will have plenty of rolling stock for all emergen cies this year. ' 'The greatest need for cars in crop-moving time is about the middle of October. As delivery of all the new rolling stock will ll'rom O.I I'nrilfiiiil ('orrmimiulrnt) The state authorities have re cently launched a movement de signed to assist in the extermina tion of jackrabbits which have been on the increuse in Central and Eastern Oregon for years past. So serious has the rabbit pest become that Governor West some time ago appointed a com mittee to take charge of the mat ter and if possible devise meuns for the relief of farmers in the afflicted counties. The meeting was attended by State Game Warden Finley, State Veternar ian W. H. Lytle, L. A. Lewis and Prof H. W. Henshaw, of Washington D. C, chief of the biological survey of the depart ment of agriculture. Mr. Henshaw has made a life study of animals and has given particular attention to the rabbit pest in Australia. He gave it as his opinion that the theory of! inoculation has little, if any, practical value. Game Warden ! Finley stated that the value of ' the rabbit drive has been demon- strated in Eastern Oregon, be tween 16,000 and 18,000 having! been killed in three drives. Iti is said that the great increase in the number of rabbits is due to the killing off of the coyotes. As the coyote force diminishes that of the rabbit increases and at the present lime they are causing immense damage to crops and gardens. For Buyers' Week, promoted by the Portland Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce, an organization has been perfect ed among Portland manufactur ers and jobbers for the purpose of making things enjoyable for the visitors during the week of September 1-6. More thun 100 firms are included in the mem bership, and within a few days 25,000 invitations will be sent out to prospective buyers in this state, Washington. Iduho. Mont ana and Northern California. President Nathan Strauss, of the association, states there will be no lack of entertainment during the week. Brings Suit Against Water Commission er Cochran For Repayment of Fees Exacted For Filing Water Claims In Adjudication of Rights on Silvies River Pending Before State Board A news dispatch from La in some feature of the farm's Grande to the Telegram of last activity. Encourage the boy Friday says: George T. Coch-, early to study papers, have him ran, superintendent of water send for bulletins which are fur division No. 2, composed of East- nished free by the agricultual em Oregon has been made de- colleges and the United States fendant in an action in the Union Department of agriculture. Give County Circuit Court by the Pa- him a piece of ground to cultivate cific Livestock Company, a Cali-' for himself, let him feel the joy fomia corporation, for the recov-' of possession and achievement ery of over $4000 paid by the I and it will turn dull tasks into corporation as fees to Cochran P'ay. before he would file its claim cov-j Let him raise certain animals ering many hundred acres of to be all his own. Many a boy land in connection with the de-' has met with first discourage terminatioi: of the rights of all 'ment when he finds that his calf parties of Silvies River to water! has become his father's cow. by the State Water Board. (The boy will enter the oxpcii- It is claimed that the payment ment and the opportunity should was made under protest and was! not be denied him bv the father trapped beaver in the Salt Lake ' be made by September 1, we ex valley and in the Yellowstone be- ,,ect to be ready for any contin forc the upostleship of Brigham ency. Young, utnerfrencn canauians hunted along what is now the Malheur river, and crossed the divide leading into that lovely mountain plateau now called the Harney valley. From the sum mit of the divide they beheld this beautiful valley sleepidg in the autumn sunlight and almost in its midst two lakes whose waters looked enchantingly lovely lit by the golden rays of the setting sun. It 'was late in the fall, and believing these lakes the source of the river whose course they had followed, they resolved to "The new boxcars are all 40 feet long and of 100,000 pounds capacity, This is the standard size adopted by the company. "The Pacific Fruit Express has also ordered 2000 additional re frigerator cars, which will bring its total number to 13,000. This will greatly facilitate the moving of the fruit crop." A most favorable omen in con nection with the important pro blem of car supply is the better understanding that now prevails among shippers in general in the matter of capacity loading and winter by tne snores oi me lanes. ; redUction to minimum of lost time Further exploration revealed jn loading and unloading. i the fact that the valley was girt und ly decided upon ot a recent con ference held at the Oregon Agri cultural College between Presi dent W. J. Kerr and R. D. Het zel, Director of Extension, re presenting the college, and C. B. Smith and Byron Hunter, acting for the federal government. The new arrangement culls for co-operative overhead supervis ion of field und farm demonstra tion work by the federal and departments. When put into operation t h plan will have the ud vantage not only or lurnismng financial aid from the federal government, but of bringing the help of the great federal organi zations and the information in its possession directly to the far mers of Oregon. Mr. H. T. French, will have immediate sup ervision of this department of the extensive work. that while reservoirs for all the streams and rivulets flowing through the valley the lakes had no outlet, and their waters were bitter as the sea. Great was their diuappoint ment, and it is for ever com memorated in the names of the To bring this about a most per sistent and far reaching propa ganda has been conducted throu ghout the year, not only by rail road traffic departments in the way of direct instructions to agents, but by traffic bureaus in all large commercial centers, and by the Bureau of Railway Econ omics at the National capital, till lake and the county and the river it is fairly safe to Bay that every called Malheur, which in the habitant dialect is the equivalent for "Cursed Luck." It is curi ous that a great new railroad is now being built along the beauti ful valley through which the French Canadians journeyed when they discovered Malheur lake in what is now Harney val ley. The Union Pacific system is running out a railroad through Central Oregon up the Malheur shipper and agent in the land is alive to its importance. It is be lieved that the indifference and thoughtlessness of past seasons will be supplanted this year and in future by hearty co-operation, and that car shortage, ex cept on extraordinary occasions, will be largely obviated. Try Nyals Family medicine at The Welome Pharmacy. 10 tf The Oregon pears are meeting with an enthusiastic welcome in Eastern markets is indicated by the sale of 15 curs of Rogue River Bartlctts at the best price received since iy09-$2 per box F. O. B. Medford. Probably the highest price ever received for pears in quantity was that paid to a Medford grower in 1910. when a carload of Anjoy pears brought a total of $2,228.20 to the grower, being 5 cents each for all the pears in the car. An experiment in the long dis tance shipment of perishable fruit about to be tried within a few days. An entire carload of peaches is to be dispatched to Europe from the Yakima coun try, and in this shipment only the finest selected ElberUis will be used. While the regulation boxes will be used, the layers of fruit will be separated by a cush ion of wood fibre as a protection against rough handling and pos sible damage. If this trial ship ment proves a success, it is pro bable that an extensive business in peaches will be developed by Pacific Northwest fruit exchanges It is likely that the opening of the Panama Canal will result in increased movement of the softer varieties of fruit, as thev can then be shipped direct with a consequent saving in time. The R. J. McKinnon & Son Stage Co. , has made a pussenger rate of $10.00 between here and Vale and will also haul freight for 24 cents on all consignments of 50 lbB., or over. 25tf. made only in order to protect the company's rights. The corpora tion claims that the collection of the fee, which is the regular fee established by the State Water Board, was illegal and extortion ate, depriving itof the equal pro tection of the laws and of its property without due process of law, und deprived it of a right to have its rights adjudicated with out paying an exorbitant sum. The charging of a fee is attacked as illegal, in addition to the claim that the amount charged was not a proper fee or any fee. Action is brought to collect the fee against Cochran personally. Suerinlendent Cochran is in Central Oregon on official busi ness, but attaches of the office of the Water Board here state that the fee is regulated by the num ber of acres in a claim just as charges are made for recording instruments by the number of words. The State Water Board is expected to make vigorous defense. who "knows that the experiment won't work." It will be worth all it costs in the education of the boy. Let the girl have flowers, a garden plot, an interest in the poultry and a berry patch so that she may earn money for her per sonal use. It will make her happy, enthusiastic, more con tented and far less liable to leave home to seek her future in a city office or store. She will be sweet er and better as a girl, a lovelier type of woman for a wife and for motherhood. Don't wait until you are dead before giving your children an interest in what you have. -Rural Spirit. Partnership With Children. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BEGINS forty-fifth school yci eptem.ie . . DEGREE COURSES I" "'"y uhasesof AunicuLTuiu jNOiNimiNO. Mom ECONOMICS, MININO. FOHISTRY. COM MENCE. PHARMACY Two-year Courses aobicul. TUNC. HOMI ECONOMICS. MECHANIC auto. ronisTnv. commerce, pharmacy TEACHER'S COURSES in manual training, gr i. uHuk-. iloiueMlir scienrt and ait. MUSIC, including pitas, string, baml Instruments and voice culture. A BEAUTIFUL BOOKLET cutltlc.l "The Bmkkhmunt ur Rueai. Lipk" and a Catai.oc.uk will bs mailed fur on application Addic.i II. M Tennant, Registrar, iiaMiionti Corvallia. Orsjron. No plan has been discovered to interest the boys and girls in the farm which equals that of taking them into a limited partnership Costly Treatment. "I was troubled with constipa tion and indigestion and spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and treatment," writes C. H. Hines, of Whitlow, Ark. "I went to a St Louis hospital, also to a hospital in New Orleans, bu no curewas effected. On return ing home I began taking Cham berlains Tablets, and worked right along. I used them for some time and am now all right. ' ' Forsale by all dealers. We do job printing. THE FRENCH HOTEL DAVID NEWMAN, Prop. Strictly First Class. Splendid Service, Fine Accomodations, Commercial Headquarters .Sample Room in Connection, Reasonable Rates BLUE MT. STAGE CO. Daily Line, Burns and Prairie City 8CHEDULE: I I l liurim Canyon City Prairie City Canyon City Fare, Hums-Prairie Round Trip, Express Rates 2 1 '2 Cents, Prairie to Hums PLEASANT, SCENIC ROUTE ALL THE WA Y L. WOLDENBERGs Prop. ARKIVK 6am Canyon City S:3(I p m . 7 a in Prairie City 10 a in 2:30 p m ..7pm Burns 12 noon irie City, - $6.00 11.00 THE WELCOME PHARMACY Offers You The Very Best Of Facilities For filling prescription. We have a large and well assorted stock of prescription drugs and competent Pharmacist to compound them. We'have the agency for the well known' line of,'Nyal Family Medicines, Eastman Kodaks and Supplies. Come and visit us at any time. J. C. Welcome, Jr. Prop. M