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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1915)
3flL m 5JT &r it9 1tf,viflih r COUNTY OF HARNEY CITY OF BURNS The Biggest County In The State The Biggest City In The Biggest County In The State Of Oregon I r Of Oregon, Best In The West I BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. JANUARY 16, 1915 NO. 10 VOL. XXVIII t f , r- l j i !t1 fef ll fe .Vf f v,v VJy VtH . i i -" , , , i. . . 1. 1 . . PARTING WORDS AND FIRST Summaries of Farewell Message of Gov. West and First of New Governor Withycombe to Oregon Legislature. Former Reviews and Recommends, Latter Suggests Few Good Laws Retiring Governor West sent his message to the legislature in j pampniei lumi upwu iw wuiw JA' Ing the first of this week. The following summary of what it centained: Changes in the state's consti tution in the last four years. Many good laws passed in the same period. Increase in cost of govern ment Increase of insane and feeble minded. Reform at the state peniten tiary. Securities of educational fund should be in the custody of the state land board. Reforms recommended in the treasury department. State now owns its own print plant State printer put on alary. Sufficient appropriation for ex tension of work of state library recommended. Abolishment of fish and game commission urged. Fish warden and game warden to be appoint ed by the srovernor. Cruise of all the standing tim ber in the state recommended. State constabulary is suggest ed. Harmony in naval militia. Workmen's compensation act needs some amending. Work of the state architect. Change name of railroad com mission to "public utilities com mission." Need of a boom law. Blue sky law proves affective. To prevent inflation of public aevice corporations' securities. Changes in bank laws. Revis ion of loan law. No report from Panama-I'acific fair commission. Oregon state fair board com mended. Abolishment of state sanitary livestock board, stallion registra tion board, state horticultural society and pilot commission is recommended. FRIEND OF THE PRODUCER Burns Meat Market and Packing Plant BACON, HAMS and LARD Fresh Meals, Poultry Home Products for Home Consumers SPCIAL INDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO SHEEP MEN AND BIG ORDERS We Wish You a Happy and Prosperous New Year The Rexall Drug Store REED RROS. Props. The Burns MRS. ETTA CUMMINS, Prop. Best Surgical Room and Equipment In the State Outside of Portland. lice Rooms. Good ktt-t for rr a clua ted Nurse in Charge SUGGESTIONS Merger Of pure seeds commis sion, sealer of weights and mea sures, bureau of mines and neo logy, with other relative depart ments is recommended. Report of highway deparment. Abolishment of desert land board is urged. State engineer scored. Committee to investigate in surance business is recommend ed. Emergen? board should be abolished. Money wasted on state census. Changes in taxation law nec essary. Oregon land taken by railroad. Watch out for the land pirates Timber resources of the state Aid for 'settlers in digging community wells. Need of pure water supply for Willamette valley cities. Recommendations for law en forcement. State employment bureau re commended. Need of retrenchment in state expenses. Governor Withycombe was in augurated last Tuesday afternoon and read his message in person. Following is a summary of his suggestiens: Recommends that the legisla ture set a record for brevity, es pecially in the number of laws passed. Urges a short sane ses sion, with a few good laws. Would have several elective offices made appointive, recom mends the consolidation of vari ous commissions and bureaus ami suggest that a committee be ap pointed to make a survey of the bent way to centralize the state government and report in 1917. Would abolish continuing ap propriations, except for state educational institutions, and WOUld place all state receipts in the general fund in charge of the State Treasurer. Recommends that efforts to ec onomize should not stop with tin b ate, but stend to the counties. Hospital Care and Com- Patients-Reasonable Terms Of every $100 taxes. $12.50 goes to the Htate and $37.50 to the the county, therefore the county ad ministration costs the taxpayers three times as much as the state. The Legislature should save at least $20,000 in its own expense of operation this session. Recommends anti-liquor regu lations that can bo enforced; wants the Governor to have the power to remove officers who do not enforce the prohibition laws. Favors a substantial appropria tion for investigation by special agents. Recommends a one-half mill state tax for road purposes and the use of the automobile license fund for the same purpose. Would evolve a rational state mortgage credit system and memorialize Congress to take ac tion on the rural credit banking laws. Recommends that a non-salaried committee of seven business men see what can be done to es tablish new industries. Unrea sonable restrictions on commer cial activities should be frowned on. Would encourage the normal schools. Recommends that from the sale of lands in the Tumalo pro ject set the money aside for fu ture irrigation aid under state supervision. With one exception, the state institutions are in good shape. The exception is the penitentiary. There is not enough work to keep the men in physical trim, they should work on roads or manufacture something not made by free labor. Because youth and hardened criminals are not segregated, the state is conduct ing a school of crime, as the novices imbibe the spirit of the veteran crooks. The exaggerated leniency to prisoners in the past will not be repeated. A more sparing use of the pardoning ixiwer will have a salutary effect. Only in excep tional circumstances will senten ces be set aside or modified. The Abuse of Farm Machinery Few people realize the vast amount of money that is expend ed each year, by the American people, for machinery. It has been estimated by parties who have made a study of this subject, that over $100,000,000 are expended each year, for farm machinery. What is the reason for this ' The! great expenditure, you ask. answer is simple: More machin ery rusts out each year than waB ever worn out by actual use in the field. One only has to travel but a few miles through the country to see most all kinds of machinery exposed to the weath er. It is sale 10 say mai u an oi i the machinery on the farms was properly housed that the life of i each machine would be practical-, ly double what it is today. The capital represented by the machinery on a modern farm, will range from $600 to $1,000 or , even more on the large farms, and to make this capital return a good dividend, the farmer must ! see to it that the machinery is! kept in good condition and that it gives a maximum amount of j acrvjci. . a . .1 . 1- I I f If by expending about $200 in the construction of a serviceable tool shed he is able to double the attacking and following a dog to life of his machinery, it should at j the very door of a rancher's least be a money saving proposi-j house. This in broad daylight, tion. It is a well known fact This coyote also showed the pre that machinery, even with the sence of rabies, best of care, depreciates rapidly Ten miles to the south-east of in value. i Burns a coyote attacked a dog of The second reason that the J a rancher, was killed by the lat tool shed is a good investment is ter and was shown to be suffer that it aids in the distribution of jng from rabies, labor. The farmer can make a i Within two or three miles of note of all extras or repairs that .this place; a rancher noticed a that are needed on the different 1 coyote trotting through the sage machines and these repaira can 'brush, he set his dogs upon it be made when it is impossible to with every expectation of driving work outside. the coyote off, but the latter met lie also has the satisfaction of the dogs more than half way and knowing that all of his machinery a battle royal followed. Three is ready for service in the spring of the dogs were badly bitten and and this is a very important fac- all of them were killed the follow er, especially where large tracts ing day upon the discovery thut are handled according to dry! the coyote's brain showed the farming methods, where the de- lay of a few days might mean the difference between success and failure of his crops. -Obil Shattuck, Asst. County Agent. , City Restaurant pays cash for eggs. fP QA RMAN K KPI )K S . - VXAT RABIES INVESTIGATION Director State Bacteriological Labora tory Makes Personal Investigation of Disease Among The Wild and Domestic Animals of This County and Reports to State Health Board The following is a copy of the preliminary report of an investi- gation of rabies existing among the wild and domestic animals in this county by Dr. Saurman and forwarded to the State Hoard of Health under date of January ls: Upon my arrival at Hums Jan uary 4th. I found the conditions prevailing even worse than those described to us by Dr. Griffith upon his visit to us in Portland. It is not an unusual, in fnct it is a frequent oceurance, to have coyotes come directly into a rancher's yard without provoca tion from the dogs, and engage in fights with them, chasing and even following them to the step of the house, showing no tear whatever. Many of them standi0' ral,w' ' had un PPrlun,ty and show no tear even when fired "r watching this dog very closely, upon several times. This taleln(1 v,s,u'd h,m often u,lt,lhlH comes to DM frequently; not ,1"a,h- w,ud occurred three once, but several times each day of my stay here. Hand to Hand to hand encounters by men of this county with coyotes is of late a frequent occurrence. Ranchers have described to me coyotes seen dragging hind limbs and showing symptoms character istic of the last stages of rabies. Coyotes have also been found dead in the sagebrush with their mouths filled with foreign matter. such as bits of brush and hay. One of these coyotes found dead in the field and examined by me, showed distinctly numei ous negri bodies. The most conclusive evidence of the existence of this diseaiv among animals here, is shown by the following report of ten ani mals examined. Of these the first was a dog which gave a history of being bitten some two weeks previous by a fighting coyote. This dog then, at the end of about the usual incubation period of rabies, showed all signs of disease him- self, finally running amuck and biting twelve head of hogs. This animal was killed about 48 hours after it had been noticed to act peculiarly. Microscopic examina tion of smears of the brain show iuite plainly the evidence of negri bodies. The second animal to be exam ined was a coyote found dead in 4 1. . . ....... .1 ..... 1, . ... tli.. I.i. I I I .i I- j .(' ww wtwnwi " ' '"j December. This, also, showed positive evidence by microscopic examination, of rabies, Following this I received two coyotes heads from Narrows. One of these was negative, while the other showed the presence of negri bodies; thus demonstrating that it had rabies. Both these coyotes gave histories of having attacked a number of dogs and biting them severely. These dogs were afterwards killed, Following these a coyote head was sent in from Lawsn; this animal having been killed after negri bodies A bull belonging to a cattle man at I.awen. some 25 miles south of Burns, gave clinically every evidence of having rabies, and finally became so violent that no pen was found strong enough to hold him, and the animal was - .t " -warn a 'killed. An examination of the brain showed him to have been suffering with rabies. On January 7th I was called to a ranch some two miles east of this city to look at a calf which the rancher stated was acting very peculiarly. Upon this visit and several subsequent visits which I made, I saw all clinical evidences of rabies in this ani mal. An examination of the head, the animal having died lesB than three days from the onset of his illness, showed unmistakable signs of rabies. A pet dog found acting pecul iarly by his master, was placed in the pound here and showed , "H,Hl iVP'caiiy me uumu iorm . . ,!,- .1. i l B ""y.8 ,uu'r- r-xaminauon w me "ram proveu mis animal suiier- jing I ii un rallies. In my opinion, rabies cannot i lw, . t ....,.,... I .ill ..' tkiu .....i.ili- IH .lillilj" M .H.l .', 11,10 ,VU1IVJ except by extermination of the coyote, and this cannot be done without the co-operation of adja cent counties, and in fact I do not think this accomplishment possibls without the combined sfforts of all the North-west states in which the animal is found. The danger of the transmission of the disease to human beings , may be a great deal lessened by I the efforts of the people them selves, through muzzling ordi nance, the keeping of unmuzzled dogs off the highways, the kill ing off of unnecessary dogs, and the immediate confinement and close observation of all dogs be having suspiciously. As slated before, the problem of disposing of what seems to be the real focus of the disease, is the extermination of the coyote. Had as this condition now seems, the next month will pro bably present a still more serious one, as that will be the time of breeding for the coyotes, when they will run in bands and many of them are likely to be bitten. At the present time a lad is being administered the Pasteur treatment by the county physi cian, i tus case gives the history of being bitten some three weekB previous to this time, by a dog which gave the signs of being rabid the day after the biting. Upon tracing back here, it was also discovered that this dog had been bitten some two weeks pre vious by another dog which died after having been ill about three days, dying some 30 hours after having bitten this animal, and showing paralysis of his hind quarters some few hours before death. The probabilities that this lad has been inoculated with the virus, are not very great as he had been bitten through sev eral thicknesses of clothing and no serious break of the skin found. However, as there was a possibility of his contracting rabies, treatment was instigated. So far, to all appearances, the lad is perfectly normal. in conclusion I wish to call at tention to the very kind and prompt oc-operation of the county health ofllcer, Dr. J. W. Geary, and of the county physician, Dr. Curl ('. Griffith, in this invertiga tion. Respectfully, J. Shelley Saurman, Director State Bacteriological Laboratory. Christian Scientists will hold there services ut the Presbyter ian Church, Sundays at 3 o'clock Wednesdays at 7:30 p. m. Sun day School at 1 :30 p. m. Read ing Room ut Miss McKenzie's house. 1st door north of Summit Hotel, Wednesdays and Satur days U to 4 p. m. Everybody welcome. If You Have Any News Get it to The Editor "It is not enough for a live ! community that advcijtising should be correctly used to stim ulate busineos and to promote general prosperity. The home newspaper is a social and inlel lectual thing as well as a medium of business. One cannot serve the community belter than by seeing that interesting items get to the editor. The editor is no mind reader: call him up and tell him. To do so is the neighborly thing, the kindly thing- a cour tesy not to the publisher alone but to everyone in the district who might be interested in your little item." Whenever Eric W. Allen, head of the department of journalism at the University of Oregon, speaks in a town, he urges the citizens to get behind their home paper in both a business and a news way on the ground that the newspaper can be made a wor derful agency for building up a community. By a "successful community" Mr. Allen means not merely the community whose business men are prospering, and whose laborers are all at work, but the community that is a rmkt social and intellectual center. He looks to the home paper as the most powerful means within reach of bringing about this kind of "success." "If you can once get all your people into the way of voluntari ly pouring these interesting scraps of news into the weekly paper, you will aid immensly to the general friendliness of the community," says Mr. Allen. "You will be helping to make your town the kind of place where people want to stay and to which former residents will want to come back. "So try to get ideas into the paper. Write a little for it once in a while. Don't let the editor do all the thinking for the town. If you publish ideas, you start others to thinking, and you raise by just so much the general level of intelligence. "Encourage the home paper to be a business, social and intellec tual center of the community. It will richly repay." Market Report. Receipts for lust week at the Portland Union Stock Yards have been cattle, 1845; calves, II; Hogs. 2809; sheep, 1273. With the exception of Monday's run the receipts have been slack. Prices continue on a par with Monday's market. Best steers brought 8.00; cows t.85; heifers 6.50. Outlook is steady. Hog receipts were particularly heavy this week, over 10,000 head coming forward, prices accor dingly dropped slightly. Tops being ut 7.15 toduy. All offerings in the sheep sec tion are quickly taken, every thing available going at good prices. Ijimbs bring 7.50 while yearling wethers sell readily at 6.50. Lung Worms Trouble Calves Serious lung worm trouble of calves has arisen in some parts of the state where the calves are pastured on low lands during wet weather. These troubles are treated by J. L. Smith, county agricultural agent of Coos county, by hypodermic injections of tur pentine into the tracheae of the affected animal, or by causing the animal to inhale sulfur fumes r i.i. Milt. r ifu iw.u.l inl,. ,1 unnl and holding it over a sulfur smudge. He also recommends that farmers remove calves suff ering lung worms to higher ground and give them more pro tection from the rough weather. Danger of Cold. Do you know that of all the minor ailments colds are by far the most dangerous? It is not the colds themselves that you need to fear, but the serious dis eases that they so often lead to. For that reason every cold should be gotten rid of with the least possible delay. To accomplish this you will find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy of great help to you. It loosens a cold, relieves the lungs, uids expectoration and enables the system to throw off the cold. For sale by all dealers. OREGON SCHOOL CHIL DREN TO RAISE HOGS Arrangements Made at a Conference at Portland Stock Yards Whereby 1,000 Brood Sows May be Sent to Boys and Girls of State. Accept Notes in Payment for Animals (I'rum Our Portland Corrctporulmt) A conference of farreaching importance to the livestock in dustry of the Pacific Northwest was held at the Portland Union Stockyards a few days ago. As a result of this conference, ar rangements have been made whereby it will be possible to send out 1,000 or more brood sows to the boys and girls ot Oregon, these animals being treated for. and guaranteed against cohlera. The sows are not to be given away, but are to be sold at prices ranging from 18 to $25 each, and in tayment the Stockyards Dnle will accept a note running from 8 to 10 months at 6 percent interest, the note to be indorsed by the father or guardian of the boy or girl and approved by the county school superintendent. The family of infant porkers will appear in four or five weeks after shipment of the sow, and j the boy or girl will have plenty of time before their note matures (0 bring the pigs to a marketable SgS and dispose of them to the best advantage, paying off the note with the proceeds of the sale, j In the work done by the hog clubs of the Northwest last year, an eleven year old girl at Was hougal, Washington made a clear profit of $79 on one brood sow. I In this instant two litters, 24 pigs, in all were produced. Local ed ucators have expressed the opin- ton that this is the most important step ever taken in this line of work and, as far as known, the first movement of the kind ever started in the United States. According to plans and esti mations just completed by the federal authorities, the proposed development in the Upper Des chutes basin will involve an ex penditure of approximately $11, 58:1.000.' involving an area of more than 200,000 acres. If the work is finally carried out as now planned, all the surplus water Breakfast 5:30 to 9 City Restaurant W. R. McCuistion, Prop. BURNS, OREGON Supper 5 to 8 The Burns Flour Milling Co. Manufacturers of home products HIGH GRADE FLOUR "CREMO" THE FAMOUS BREAKFAST FOOD The Cream of the Wheat, FreBh and Palatable Bran and Other Rolled Mill Feeds You Patronize Home when you deal here THE WELCOME PHARMACY Is The Place to Trade -WHY- First: Promptness, accuracy and fair-dealing." Secend: We carry a well assorted stock of Drugs,' Chen.i- cals and Druggist Sundries. Third: We guarantee every article we sell to be just as represented or your money refunded. If you are a customer of ours you know this. If not, be come one and be convinced. J. C. Welcome, Jr. I of the Deschutes River above j Bend will be used for irrigation. Potato growers of Oregon are asking that a strict quarantine De esiaousnea against an potatoc; shipped from California owing to danger of the tuber moth gaining a foothold in this state. So far as known, Oregon potatoes ai c now entirely free from this pest and the state board of horticulture has been asked to take such ac tion as will assure future safety. Prineville is making great preparations for the entertain ment of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' Association which will hold a convention there beginning February 9. It is expected that not less than 400 delegates from all parts of the Northwest will be present. The Southern Pacific has an nounced the rates which will apply to tourists travel between Portland and San Francisco during the period of the great exposition, tickets to be on sale daily between February 15 and November 30. On 90 day limit tickets the rate will be $35; on 30 day tickets. $30; on special occasions, such as important conventions, &c. a round trip rate will be made of $25.75 with a 15 day limit and stop-over privilege on the return trip. To exposition at San Diego, the road will make a round-trip rate of $52.25 with a limit of 40 days and stop-over privileges both ways. Billioutnett nd Constipation Cured. If you are ever troubled with biliousness or constipation you will be interested in the state ment of R. F. Erwin, Peru, Ind. "A year ago last winter I had an attack of indigestion followed by biliousness and constipation. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets so highly reccommended, 1 bought a bottle of them." For sale by all Dealers. Dinner 11:30 to 2 Short order at all hours J i jr- -. .1 . - .