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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1914)
MAY 1914 M T ' W T 1 F j 8 1 6 8 111213141516 181920212223 125262728296IJ 'heTimes-JIerald The l.argr.1 Circulation Of Any Naw.paper In Harnay County. SATURDAY. MAY It. 114 Local News. fonawama tonitfht. arl Horstman was in the city inesday. Jurns Oarage car for Juntura unlays, Wednesdays. Fridays. lust received a nice line of winged collars they are the est. Wimams-Zojrlmann l lo in k Co. frlE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF IRNS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 1,000. "THE BANK THAT MAKES IUR $ $ f $ SAFE." ACCOUNTS MTED. M. Covey, Portland rep- Bentative of the Cadillac auto- bile, spent several days in the ly this ween. lie nisposeti 01 le ar and possibly others. L. C. Welcome and wife have eided to build on the residence adjoining the H. B. Mace le on the hill and now have ?n at work or. the foundation. J. McKinnon & Son have Wished a daily stage between . wsey and Juntura. Connee- mis made wun me trains in hntnro tin1 IUICnniri"rn ITIVI'll liiuiu h" f..... ..n. r.. aery comfort. Fare to Burns ! x I a n r.aiiuv -irwt c. M stvn ,a J. .. VV,.V.J ....- nere irom umuuna counijr ,t i.:n ...'tur muri:i : i' 1 n Hi ;uiiii"'- .!,;., ,.., th,. ,n..nrrv Mr Koley has been manipulating a n6 "- ...x- m-.w. terpillar plow in his home sec- a and may engage in the samt :upation in this county. . F. Mahon was in the city ly this week on business. He ,r ports a very successful lambing son, saving a big percent of increase as me weamer naa Len fine for lambing. He in- rms us he hasdisposed of some 00 head of yearlings at $;Un rhead to be delivered after Mrs. II. W. MCIlose uiMierweiu earm a delicate operation Wednesday Married Tuesday. May 12, atat the hanj8 0f Dr. Standard, ie Dalles, W. M. Sutton and I Itis reporte(j successful and the bel Wheat. This mar riage j natjent jg recovering nicely at ill prove quite a surprise to any of thefremdsof Mr. Sut- in this city. He is the prin- al of our public school and e of the very successful educa- rs of the state. His bride is t known to the writer but is kid to be a very estimable lady. of. Shirk, principal of the gh school, was best man. The mqu.UuhiM ovtonflc hf.ut wish- to Mr. Sutton and his bride I id assures them a most hearty elcome upon their arrival in GET MY PRICES before buying elsewhere and SAVE MONEY I carry a complete line of IMS and GENTS WEAR also GROCERIES at the lowest possible cash prices I. SCHWARTZ - General Merchandise - Hasonic Building, TRIED AND PROVEN For utmost twelve years our institution has stood the exacting test of public ap proval. During this time it has always protected the interests of its patrons, re gardless of local or general financial con ditions. The volume of business trans acted through our institution, and the number of our patrons, continues to grow conclusive evidence that our ef ficient service is appreciated and that our conservative policy is approved by the banking public. LET US SERVE YOU THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Burns CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000 United States Depositary ACCOUNTS INVITED Thermos bottles at the Wei-1 come Pharmacy. :; ImIi l confined to his , , ()f s)otu,,i f,.v,,r. . ... ThonnsonA Daasan are hav- 'ng a garage ihiiii on me hhs .,- . i posite the Summit hotel. Dr. Ceo. (.. I arl is prepa ,,.,! . .11 J!. - , eases ot eye, ear anil nose, r.yesi . tested and glass fitted. BOtf. There's not only remarkable value, but gnat satisfaction in buying hats at Clingan's Millin- ery Parlors everything in millm- - v l'"' "''sl- Ed Fgli md his mother return- (1(, from iorland Thursday even- ;nvr jn his new car. They were ,i - iimi S(.mi. ,iavs in Portland . f i at to bring them a ,,)TrM. Malles. . a . nosnitai i)r. Standard also removr.(l . ,.M,, i . fron William MeHose the' same day. Tne Registered Clyde Stallion, (ieorge Chamberlain, is makingi the stand this season at the Star , barn in Murns. lie is a wen known horse, having been on the livens ranch for several years. He is a native son, weighs 1900, and a good breeder Terms HIM for season; $15 return privilege. w W insure. us WIISOU. " I in r us, Oregon -less All.erson and wife were in the city Monday I,rv cleaning and pressing at the Burns Steam Laundrv. 4tf. ., , , Juntum or anv 'other place. Phone Burns Gar- liir.i -- Miss Helen Sayer took her de- parture last Saturday for Port land where she will take a rnllr ;.. .tamAVMnhv -.,..., T. Donovan is at the Cummins hospital with a case of spotted fever, but iH reported as getting along as well as could be expected. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BURNS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000. "THE BANK THAT MAKES YOUR $ $ $ $ SAFE." ACCOUNTS INVITED. Chauncv Cummins has been in the citv for a few davs. beinir witness in the water suit now being heard between the Smyth nro, hers and Dean Horton. Little Katherine Welker had her arm broken iust above the elbow Tuesdny by falling off the sidewalk. Dr. Criffith reduced the fracture and the little ladv a getting along Ana. . f u i) I. ,S. deer and son Waldo took their departure the first of the k f.. ,neir home : Wu8nUKal fhey took several head of horses with them that they bona to dispose of in that section. Mrs. I'earl Fisk left the fore part of this week for Boise where she will remain for some three weeks taking dictation, in pre paration for stenography work as she expects to take up that work in the near future. Burns is becoming quite metro politan, in a way, as a man at the Burns hotel yesterday morn ing claimed his room had been entered during the night and he had been robbed of $93. Another claimed to have lost $1.60 and a third of .05. The three men were strangers and it seems a man who had been traveling in company with one of them is suspected of the robbery and he had left for Bend. The gentle man who lost the $93 followed in Frank Dibble's car with the hope of catching the suspect at Bend. Married Tuesday morning at the Catholic Church in this city, Mr. J. M. Wilson arid Miss Mary Fry, itev. Father Pius Niermann performing the ceremony in the presence of rerativea of the bride and a few near friends. Both have been connected with the Union Telephone and Telegraph Co. in this city, Mr. Wilson as manager and bookkeeper and the bride as day operator. Mr. Wil son came here several weeks ago from Baker and assumed his po sition with the company of which i in- bride's father is president and a stockholder. The bride is the oldest daughter of Geo. Fry and has spent her entire life in Burns except while in school at Baker wheie she met Mr. Wil son. She is a very charming young lady and very popular among hur wide acquaintance. The young people went to house keeping at once in one of the Fred Racine residences in Fust Burns. We wish them a pros- Butterick patterns at Luna burg, Dalton & Co. r'2tf. Features and comedy pictures at Tonawama tomorrow night. Few choice Bed Polled milk cows for sale Chas. Wilson. 2f Ira Bend was in from llarri man during the week on land business. Be sure and see those new ties Williams-Zoglmann Clothing Co, are showing. M. V. Dodge was in from his Silver Creek land holdings dur ing the week. Rolled barley, wheat and oats for sale at market prices. W. A. Goodman's feed yard. Clifford Reed took his depart ure Monday for a vacation trip to outside points. Pickard China and Libby cut glass make beautiful and useful wedding presents Mrs. I'earl Vulgamore has some fat hens for sale. Call the ranch by phone. Nyals Baby Cough Remedy for baby's caugh at The Welcome Pharmacy. Dr. (iriflith removed adenoids and tonsils from little Fiances McCee at the Cummins hospital Tuesday. Cleaning, pressing and repair ing a Specialty. Ladies' clothes as well as mens. Williams-Zoglmann Clothing Co. Berl and Charley Dunten came over from the Drewsy section Tuesday in their car, returning the next day. No Tresspassing Parties are hereby notified to forbear tress passing on my Myrtle Creek ranch. All tresspassers will l prosecuted. Mrs. A. A. Cowing. The J. L Lowe sawmill, for merly the Kunyard mill, above Harney, has a complete stock of rough and dressed lumber, shingles moulding, etc. Good road. Call by phone for rush orders. ,1. L. Iwe. LTtf Mrs. L K. Hreithaupt left Monday morning, going nut in company with Miss Cowg li one of the high school teachers Mrs. Hreithaupt will spend some time visiting with relatives and friends in the Willamette Valley. J. D. Fellows took his depart ure Wednesday morning for Me tolius to resume his music work after a short time in this section looking after his land holdings and assisting in the Reed concert and the recital given by the pupils of Mrs. Dodge. Cecil Irving was in town again the fore part of this week getting patched Up from another encoun ter with a borne. The animal fell with him in ilie rocks injur ing his knee over again th it was just getting well from a previous experience and in the last one his head was also injured but not serious. President John I). Daly of the First National Hank of this city, was over from his home at Boise the first of the week. He came in and surprised the boys at the bank as they did not know he was coming at this time. He came over from Drewsy with the Dunten boys and returned with them Wednesday. Died Tuesday night, May 12, 1914, Alanson B. Criswold, aged 86 years. Deceased had ban subject to heart trouble for the past few years and his end came without warning, his aged wife finding him in his bed after life had gone. Mr. Criswold was was born in Masouville, N. Y. Fab, 1H. 1H2K. Married Nov. i). 1K5G to Clarissa Amelia Cleveland who survives him. Hut one of three children lives to mourn him. Mrs. M. C. Hibbard, with whom the aged couple had lived since coming to Oregon in 1901, Funeral serv ices were held at tne home of II. M. Hibbard in this city yesterday forenoon, be ing Conducted by Mrs. Lewis. Interment was made in the Hums cemetery. John Cilerest, for 2H years in the employ of the P. L. S. Co., has resigned his position as gen eral manager of that big corpor ation and left here Tuesday for his home in Oakland, Cali fornia. Mr. Cilerest was one of the best known stock men in all of Eastern Oregon, Nevada and California. His many years with the Pacific Live Stock Co. in this territory brought him in touch with many of the people who had learned to respect his good judgment in his line of business. There is genuine re gret expressed among his many friends in this section that he has resigned and will devote his time to his own affairs in Calif ornia where he owns a nice Tonawama tonight That was some rain we bad yesterday. It may have inter fered with the voters at the pri mary election but it didn't hurt the feelings of the farmer any. Fred (iehrung was in town Thursday being en route to out side points where he will attend the state organization of the Orange, b mg i delagato from his neighborhood. (!. W. Clevenger and family and Rev. Creighton went ovei to the John Day wet ion this week the latter to assist in some n Jfival work being conducted b, Revs. Iewis and Mathews. Mac. Taket Different View. To the Fditer: Upon receipt ol tne NICK0I letter sei lorin in the communication of Mr. Ed ward F. Trend well in last week's issue of The Times-Herald, 1 realized that it was carefully prepared by the legal department of the company for public con sumption. It is one of those pro ductions that reads well but doesn't mean what it pretends U state. I did not suppress the letter. On the contrary 1 r ad it to yourself, several attorneys and other citizens of Burns, and have since referred to the plan therein outlined several times in the pub lic print. I quite agreed with the state ment of the letter that all water rights must be definitely deter mined before Silvies River pro ject would be a success. It is the method of obtaining these desired results upon which Mr. Tread well and I differ. In my prompt reply to that let ter I called Mr. Nickel's atten tion to the uniKjssibility of ar ranging for the complete adjust ment of water rights on a large stream by individual agreement tor i he legal reason that a con tract, like a law suit, is binding only upon the parties to it. While one might ossibly have secured individual agreements with all claimants, there would be not lung to prevent one user from objecting to and interfering with the contract of another, either above or below him on tin stream. It has been principal!) to overcome this obstacle thai state legislatures have been la boring lor years and which is re sulting in Hie adoption of com plete water codes. Residing at a great distanci and having much land and water litigation down in California to take care of, Mr. Tread well is evidently BOt fully informed on matters In Harnev county as in dicated by his statements: 1st. That 1 initiated and in stigated the state adjudication. The application on which thepro- i ding was undertaken by our Water Hoard was signed by Fred Otley and a few of his neighbors in the Lawan country, and was liled some time prior to my first visit to Harney county. The ap plication was filed with the direct representation to the State En gineer's ofbee that the P. L. S. Co, was depriving other users of their just water. 2nd That ' 'The Pacific Live Siock Company, at the time that proceeding was brought was at peace with practically every one on Silvies River, and there was practically no dispute between the paitiesas to the use of the water of the stream:" (Jen. Heiirta can claim he is at peace with all Mexico with far better grace. It is true that a few of the water users were partially subdued at times by the attempt ed enforcement of a court decree based upon stipulations forced upon the claimants by the same methods the settler was success fully ejected from the "Red S" held in 'hi); namely, by the threat to drag them and their witnesses to Portland and break them in expensive litigation, .lust as the company endeavored to remove the present proceeding to the Portland courts. When there is peace good citizens are not jerked up for contempt of court and do not organize and go out in the night and tear out dams and de stroy ditches. The peace and serenity in Harney Valley is not i p hi nt to a recent arrival. 3rd. That the process of ad justing water rights under the ( iregon law is a tremendously ex pensive one, involving long drawn out and disasterous litigation. On the contrary the method of adjustment provided by our wa ter code has proven to be one the speediest and most economical methods yet devised. The law went into effect in the summer of l!Mi!, and the rights in several water-sheds involving more wa ter and a greater number of claimants than involved in the Silvies River, have already been fully adjusted, passed upon by the courts, and projects con structed or in the process of con struction. It has proven so ef fective that other states have adopted similar laws. Washing ton will undoubtedly adopt a water code at the next session of the legislature and California, recognized as having the most inoftaotivo water laws and the most inadequate administration thereof of any state, is now con templating a similar step. Law suits commenced by the P. L. S. Co. against claimants on the Sil vies River in March 1903. are s ill undetermined, and have pro bably costasufticientsum to have fully provided for the state's com plete adjudication. 4th. In Mr. Tread well's judg ment there was no occasion for the state adjudication In March 1908 the P. L. S. Co. brought s lit in tne u. S. Cir the Harney Vulhy Improvement Co. and the old Silvies Iti v r Ir rigation Co. I'm this litigation I was in no wise responsible, The case dragged it! slow, ex pensive u.n through the courts and final landed in the I '. S. Circuit c.ini of Anneals In San r raneiseo. I here were reams ii d reams of testimony on such u. era M "Orphan" thousand ilm i, i built in the night time; now many loads of manure were dumped at the Best end of the Molne Fhagerald heedgateon the "School Main" ditch on tie I3ih daV of Feb., 190.1. Last N Vi ui Dei in render ink bis d i i on, in pile of (la true condi mis be.ng purposely buried und t so much juiih, Judge H ' conceived the idea, probably inrough legal in tuition knowing with wnom he had to deal, that there must be some surplus water in the Harney Valley. For, he argued, there appear! to be swamp and over flowed lands within the p. L. S. Co. 'h fields and the swamps and marshes surrounding Malheur Lake appear to be affected by the spring run-oil's. The Judge admitted that he was unable, from anything before him, to de termined the amount of surplus or who was entitled to its use. He ordered the litigants to return to Oregon and take advantage of the very excellent method provi ded by the state for determining water rights, and proceeded to quote, in hisfindings.about three- tourlhs of the provisions of our water code. 1 he alternative be ing to make each claimant in the water-shed a defendant and bring him into his court. If the state adjudication had not been commenced prior to that time, would it not have been in cumbent usn Mr. Treadwell to have initiated same in compli ance with said decree'.' In the absence of some such proceeding it would even have been impossi ble to correctly list all the claim ants. Why this strong aversion to state adjudication? Has not the State of Oregon always been a "Rig Brother" to the P. L. S. Co? Has it not been most liberal wun its land? When it cancell ed the "Hen" Owen swamp cer tificates for fraud did it not re turn the 20c per acre theretofore paid together with compound in terest, until in some instances the interest equalled or exceeded the principal, and notwithstand ing that the company had the use of the lands? What other state, not barring old Arkansaw, would permit a corporation to en close within one field 27 sections ol land in the center of one of its dent valleys, although its leg islature had specitically reserved a strip tin ft. wide along each section for public road purposes? Now, as I understand it this is the situation : Water Supt. ( och ran will be here in August to take testimony on the claims and pro tests filed with the Hoard. With three or four months of good steody work the Hoard should be able to complete its findings and issue its certificates. 1 believe the individual user, generally speaking, is anxious for a speedy determination; Mr. Hanley is out stumping the state for the imme diate development of its natural resources; Mr. Treadwell has now gone on record as being in hearty sympathy with the other irrigators and as favoring an ir rigation system; 1 assure the people of the valley that I will cause no delay or unnecessary expenses. Let us get all the facts before the Board, and the first thing you know the flood waters will be taken care of and the misquito bogs will become fine fields of grain and alfalfa; the Harney Valley will have a railroad, and become one of the most desirable sections of the Northwest. Respectfully. C. B. McConnkll. BURNS FLOUR MILLING CO. Pi i a at Mill for preducts: Flour $5.50 in 5-bbl. Iota or more. Bran $1.25 per hundred. Rolling barley 92.00 per Ion in Ion lots or more. Customers in all cases to furnish sacks. PACKING DEPARTMENT Until further notice the following Cash Prices will prevail in selling meats: Hogs, whole or half, lie. per lb. Choice pork steaks, 15c. per lb. " loin, 20.. Whole pork shoulder 12 1-2. Leg of pork, 15c. Front quarter mutton, 10c. Hind quarter mutton, 12 l-2c. Choice mutton for stew, 8c. Mutton chops, 16c. Hind quarter beef, 13c. Front quarter beef, lie. Beef all cuts at reasonable pricas. The intention of the Company is at all times to pay the best prices and sell on closest margin consistent with good busi ness management. u.m::.xH..n:..m.m....n...mii!.nm.::.i THE STAR Feed Barn 11. Kl.l.lori. Prop. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month CAKEFUL ATTENDANTS ood Feed and Reasonable prices llui t' -.ii r Ili-ad in liarn llultxi lluy and (irain fur Halt Comfortable Camp House With Cook Stove patronage eoucnvo Anurat Hay and Shirk Sjaajaj Price fur unfiling 20c. Hiiulli Main HI., Hum SMALL DEPOSITORS The size of this bank is due to the patronage of many small depositors rather than that of a few large ones. We real ize that fact and want the smallest depos itor to feel as welcome as the largest. U. S. Gov't. State of Oregon County of Harney City of Burns DEPOSIT WITH US HARNEY COUNTY NATIONAL BANK of BURNS THE WHITE FRONT LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE Baled Hay and Grain for Sale at Market Prices. Good Hay in Stack The Burns-Yale Stage Line Close Connections Made With Trains East, at both Juntura and Vale. Careful Atten tion and Prompt Delivery of Express and Freight Entrusted to Our Care. R. J. McKinnon & Son BURNS, - OREGON RABBIT WIRE We have a big supply of wire any heighth desired and at BED-ROCK PRICES Farm Machinery Implements of all kinds in steck: Seeders, Plows, Disc and Drag Harrows. Machine Extras Builders Hardware Paints and Oils GARDEN SEEDS Fancy Virginia Braniteware Something New A KITCHEN RANGE GIVEN AWAY in connection with the sale of this handsome graniteware Inquire BURNS HARDWARE CO. NEIL SMITH. Manager