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O regon H erald . BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY,’ JUNE 20. 1889. $2.30 a Yea r er course through the valley, while fclaine and Harrison have come BURNS ADVERTISEMENTS. others were jammed in a- mighty nearer to an open rupture this week BY NELLIE R. GRACE. heap against an immense viaduct than ever before, and Harrison has Pale mould of earth, crude image of TIP IISDA\ The spirit that has fled; of the Pennsylvania Railroad at shown his weakness and cowardice Why must you from it separate, Johnstown. Later on this heap, to an extent that is simply dis Remaining here instead? i which was nothing but a mass of graceful. The facts in the case are RIETOH Ik St think another spirit will Enliven thee again— timbers piled forty feet high, burst about as follows: It having been Alaa, thou caiist not apeak, nor move. into flames, and hundreds who were ascertained that France had, or was And we but ask in vain. ! imprisoned therein perished by the about to conclude a treaty with one E’en though we grieve and weep aloud, BURNS, OREGON. E’en tbouub we beg, beseech, fire. The water up to four o’clock of the wavering sides in Hayti, it GEO. McGOWAN. Thine ear is but the aeiubiauce of in the afternoon spread as far as was determined to send an Ameri Ageut for Slaver A Walker, wholeaale dealers in The one we may not reach! Johnstown to the depth of seven can Commission consisting of .two We may not mourn thy sure decay— We would we loved thee leas, feet, was supplemented by another envoys extraordinary to IlayU to uuktM the p. Si ’Twere easier then to say farewell torrent, which completed th« de see that the Monrae doctrine was ler for pay meut WAGONS, BUGGIES & CARRIAGES, To that a aoul hath bleat. I paper diaeoii- not in any manner infringed, struction. The last rush sv^ept g« a, or the Pub- With “dust to dust” the aval is put iniil pa., mem i» Upon thee evermore; i everything before it, and those ,<ho j Blaju; presented the names of Gen Agent for Fireman’s Fjjnd .Insurance Company. Lu nt tv het her it In thia fair guise thou’il’t ne’er again k There rail Le were imprisoned in their uses eral .A'W Wallace of Indiana, and Aneui is mude. Dwell with us aa Lefore. I pa|>er from the were carried on to <laafb-Tgi^e Beverly^Tucker of Virginia, one a. lia umne or an T great rush reached Bolivar a^twven democrat and the other a republi- * •- ■ Iribeu or not. is That Terrible Disaster. o’clock, and the Conemaugh River can, and Harrison appointed them, i paper »topped toner continues to pay fur it if in a few moments rose from six to In two hours after the appointments NEAR BURNS, OREGON. This proceed» THOUSANDS OF b ó VES LOST BY pay fur what lie forty feet. Houses were borne on were annonneed Harrison was HUE. FLOOD ANi ward with the flood, from which listening to a demand for their hat refualug to j Absolutely Pure. S from the jh st- i SAYER & DORE A City Destroyed anti Towns Swept I men, women and children cried out with-drawal made by a gang of ex-1 id for, vvitttuut lela evidence of This powder never varies. A marvel of puri out oP Existence. ■ piteously to be delivered, but it soldiers, headed by Gan. H. V. | ty. s:rength, and wholesomenees. More eco nomical than the ordinary kiiu », and tan not | was impossible for the on-lookers Boynton, the fiery Washington! be sold in competition with the multitude of I low test, short weight, alum or phosphate pow Relief for the Homeless find Bereaved to render aid, and but few were correspondent of the Cincinnati' Nobly AusHCicd frrin all over the 1ST- ders. sold only in cans. R oyal B aking P o . v - United States. $575 DEK Co., 106 Wall st., New York. ir .. i rescued. Darkness soon covered Commercial Gazette, on the absurd 1 4.75 I one year. 3.76 Harper’s Weekly gives the fol the scene, and through the night ground that Tucker was connect-; “ 8.75 3.75 lowing succinct account of the could be heard the cries of the un ed with the conspiracy that result BURNS ADVERTISEMENTS. 4.00 Hew»paper 5.75 Johnstown horror; this week’s edi fortunate as they swept on to their ed in the assassination of President’ HithlyL 4.75 3.7$ [azine . Lincoln. Absurd as the charge 8 75 T. V. B. EMBREE. M. D. tion will contain full particulars, doom. 3 U0 Office at his residence on tbe east side of Sil profusely illustrated. When daylight broke on Satur was Harrison weakened and the 6 00 vie» River, tcu mile» below Buri.». 3.00 On Friday, May 31st a dam day morning the picture was a ter appointments were with drawn. 6.00 3 00 World which held a lake in check in the rible one. Railroad bridges and The charges are utterly false as 8 00 S. B. McPheeters, M. D. mountains of Cambria County ( passenger trains and their occu have been fully proven years ago Lne 5.00 5.20 PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Pennsylvania, gave way, and be pants had gone down before the and Tucker was employed on two Ó.2ÍI Office at W. E. Grace’s Drug Store. 1-ly , 3.75 And all kindsof surface lumber thoroughly 6eaaoned for ouilding purposes sad at fore the inhabitants of the valley flood. The waters bore the bodies of occasions during the administra Cyclopedia, .2.90 REDUCED PRICE. f Vol. 1, 55 cent«; were fully aware of their danger the ------------- Q------------- the victims down the current or cast tion of Hayes to perform impor Mge. Practical Surveyor waters were upon them, and the them on the shore. Rescuing par tant and confidential services for Forks can be ex ig Room. towns and the people were engulfed. ties were formed, and from their ! the United States Government, and T. A. McKINNON, Any and all kinds of surveying done on shot The latest estimate places the loss stations on the river-banks man Garfield appointed him visitor to notice and reasonable terni». Settler Cals are solicited wishing to be located, < au have plat» furnishe of life at six thousand, and the aged so bring some living persons the Naval Academy at Annaoplis. of their work for frkk of charge. damage to property at many mil- i to the land, but few had survived Gen. Wallace who was a member of , le, and hind the uine, and pay for i lions of dollars. the day and night of horror. It was the Military court that tried and Saddle and Harness Shon- Johnstown was a flourishing i impossible in many places to com convicted Wilkes Booth’s alleged J. C. WELCOME - P roprietor . place, at the eastern terminus of the municate with other towns, as the ¿TES: accomplices, says there was no BURNS. OREGON. 1 yr. I 6 mo western division of the Pennsylva i wires were down and wildest ru- ground whatever for any such "^*1 •' ■ F3.oâ|$a.oi> $11 üü us uo : nia Canal. It is the county seat of ! mors filled the air. At length news charges against Tucker. Blaine ÎK.OÜ 00 »X» i£öu 40.00 i 24. OU Cambria County, and is situated in ■ came from Johnstown, and the was mad, as he had a right to be, W-A-T-C-H-M-A-K-E-R 50.00 32.00 54.00 I 46.00 a valley of the Alleghany Mount worst fears of all were realized. and there is likely to be the biggest CHAS. E. BOSWELL ------- VALE, OREGON -AND- J. C. PARKER, BURNS, AGENT. z m ' u O I 4g Oc »0.00 K 0 00 10.001 UL W ll'J.UO 14J.0O 1 ains, at the junction of Conemaugh i There was scarcely a frame house kind of a row if Harrison persists Jeweler. I CIIAS. SAMPSON - - B urns . O r . Creek and Stony Creek, which form I left standing there and but a single in keeping back the appointments, j Leaves VALE on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 4:30, a. m. kill yearly adver- i to Publisher, the Conemaugh River, seventy ! one remained in Cambria City., Blaine knows the animus behind Arrives at BURNS on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 6 p. m. hording to apace; eight miles from Pittsburgh. A i ' Conemaugh and other places had : the foolish charges. It is not Tuck-1 Leaves BURNS on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at 4:30a. m. ' OREGON WOOL EXCHANGE. number of small villages along the al no price. Arrives at VALE on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 6 p. m been totally wiped out. Thousands | er these ex-soldiers are after but j MUMPlon it) cent» per St 20 cents, transient, creek and river are incorporated in of people are homeless. Through-1 Jim Blaine, for whom they never! gMT^Close connection at VALE with stage for ONTARIO. OREGON PORTLAND 1-ly Johnstown borough. The inhabi I charge per I li out Pennsylvania and other states had much love. Harrison’s cow- j si ending reader tants of the borough number above ick is run in with calls have been sent out for aid and ardice in the matter is generally LAKEVIEW ADVERTISEMENTS ! GEO. POPE & CO. 20,000. The Cambria Iron Com relief societies organized. Army condemned, but he is one of those r advertisements taiione, $1 ea< h. pany has its works there, and em and militia tents have been sent to I republicans that fear the power of kinins, lue a line, ploys several thousand persons in lea th announce' the sufferers, and on Sunday many the ex-s< ldier more than they do THE TOWN OF LAKEVIEW led ns nevs. WOOL GRADERS, the manufacture of iron and steel religious, social, of the churches throughout the ’ their God, so that no more need be Lake Co., Oregon. WOOL PACKERS, rails for railroads. The town also land took up collections for the | expected. From what I can learn I AS IT IS VOICED BY ITS LOCAL NEWSPAPER & THE HERALD. AND contains o number of tanneries, K EHTISERS. purpose of alleviuting the distress. believe that Blaine will insist on j>uur pat rouage -COMMISSION MERCHANTS- flour, planing, and woolen mills, BUSINESS MEN abroad sec that LAKEVIEW, Lake co.. Or., contains: 1 newspaper; 2 hotels; poS.tiu as u the , The members of the Red cross So these appointments standing, even 1 grocer: ocal .. ilh, cur 2 saloons; 1 brewery; 1 undertaker; 2 laundries; 2 furniture store; 1 shoe shop: 1 mea CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED— several banks, sixteen churchs, and lefcrring to the to the extent of resigning if Harri ciety were on the scene as early as market; 8 lawyers: 3 physicians: 1 surveyor; 1 land agent; 1 dentist; 1 drugstore; 1 jeweler; »u uur elrrula —ADVANCES MADE ON WOOL, schools. Two and a half miles I blacksmiths; 2 harness shops; 1 livery stable: 1 bakery; 8 general merchandise stores; 1 bath lus: practicable. It is impossible to son refuses. house: 1 milliner shop; 1 real estate agent; 1 saw-mill. Also, 2 Masonic lodges; 1 Good Tem east of Johnstown is the site of the picture the misery. Home, family, | The anti-Mahone republicans of piar lodge; 3 Odd Fellows* lodges; 1 United Working Men’s lodge. agents : ... , Geo. McGowan. - - - Burns, reservoir, which was one of the and personal possessions have been Virginia engaged in a miserable withne.tn«. r j Minlcr------------- Harney: feeders of the Pennsylvania Canal. completely lost to many. Each re fiasco here last Wednesday. They' mphlets tier Heads, I Boston Agency with DENNY, RICE & CO. It is now owned by a corporation, port add new terrors to what is al saw that all the men so far ap I 132 Federal st Esiablishcd 1835. under the title of the South Park ready known of the calamity, and pointed to office in Virginia are THE HOPKINS HOUSE Fishing and Hunting Club. This the loss of property is something Mahone men, hence they concluded iy on C’e for re- water, formerly known as Cone ter Ad enormous. All along the course of that it would be wrell to patch up a BLACKSMITH. maugh Lake, is from 200 to 300 the flood great damage has l>een truce with Mahone if they hope to M. D. HOPKINS, P roprietor . i E. D GRAY - - - Burns, Or feet above Johnstown. It is one sustained by towns far removed get any “pap.” They prepared an and three-quarter miles in length EVERYTHING NEW AND FIRST-CLASS. —GENERAL REPAIRING— and a mile to a mile and a quarter from the scene of the disaster, and address making certain proposals peaceful sluggish streams have over- and sent it to Mahone, who was also njantiti Harrison AND in breadth, and in some places 100 I . Lev i 1’. Morion flowed their banks and wrought in this city, He ignored it entire- ; James G. Blaine feet in depth. The dam which Miiiain Windotn ly. They went to the White House . Thia notel la new (House, Room«. end Furniture) and offen courteoua aervlea to every Gueet. ruin on all sides. John W. Noble held the water in check is 10001 Ren field Proctor In the midst of these reports re to read it to Harrinon and got, I jam in F. Tratey I feet wide, 90 feet in thickness at plete with misery and sorrow come snubbed again. Harrison refusing ireiniah M. Rusk Win. II. H. Mllier Promptly executed. The building has been en the base, and rises to a height of shn Wannmaker larged and improved and Is vrepared to turn accounts of brave deeds and heroic to bear the address read, making out all kinds of bla< ksrniihing «>n short notice about 100 feet. It is over 20 feet self-sacrifices Men declined the the excuse that he was in a hurry and in the besi siyie. Terms: (ash. 1-ly N. Dolph, broad at the top. The reservoir rescuing hand in order that their to catch the New York train. if. MiK heil, Hermann, held more water than any other of wives and children might be saved, There was about one hundred in P vii noy cr, . W. McBride, its kind in the United States. Along and sons died that fathers might the crowd, and the negro was con Red Front Liverv & Feed O. W. Webb, General Blacksmith & Wa<on-maker. J. B. McElroy, the Conemaugh Creek, which A owb Frank Label live. spicuous bv his absence. Ex-Sena- I. S. blrahan, H. R. SCHLÄGEL ------ L akeview , O regon . from the reservoir or lake, arc situ-, Stable Fm. P. Lord. 1 tor Riddlebergcr says Malione F. W. Thayer, ---------- o — ated a number of small villages, FROM WASHINGTON, ». C II. CALDWELL, PxorBtKTOB. offered him the “The Mission to M1BTKIUT: Prepared to do all Kinds of Work In the Blacksmith Hus. norse Shoeing at $2.50 par h sad. the first of which is known as South ... L. B I son W ashington , D. C., i Hong Kong” but lie refused it. L. R and , Jun- Id, DM). I A CASH BUSINESS AT BED Fork, of about 1400 inhabitants. i Gen. Schofield is acting Secreta Mineral Point, with a population of Harrison has to use an expres ry of War during the absence of ROCK PRICES. -B U G G I E S, WAGONS, ET C.,-> D ii. W. O ilman several hundreds, is below, and the sion of the street ‘‘done up Ohio in J. T. S hields •I MA DK TO OBDKR W1TH NBATNKRA, AND OF OOOD QÜALITY. la our motto. Good Dujrgv Teams. and Nice Secretary I’roctor. The general in W E. G rack Saddle Honea Furnished at Renaonnlne Chargea other small towns, with the excep » great shape” by appointing 0. W. command of the Army always act I) . V. J. M iller and Particular Attention paid to the Hoarding A LL W O RK WARRANT E D. . L ttlk H o a a rd and <>r.H»ming of Traitaient Stock. Hay <k Grain tion of Cambria City, are incor Chapman, of New York, to lie So 1. B. Jainvs on hand. ed as Secretary of War during the porated in Johnstown borough. licitor General. This is the posi W. R. (iRADON absence of the Secretary until Sec-1 A. A. CO » ING Eighteen miles below, in the valley, tion that was promised to ex-Con- W. E. ALRKR« o N CANYON CITY ADVERTISEMENTS, retary Lincoln and Gen. Sheridan L. B. B ai CKR is the town of Bolivar, Westmore gressman Hart of Ohio, a promise had their big row during the Ar WM. M EK KER d offk ' k : j land county. The mountains on that caused Senator Quay to call thur administration. Since that A F. SNELLING C. A. HWEF.K. either side from South Fork to Bol Senator Sherman a liar and other time the practice was abandoned W. M. T oanmend ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ivar form a jierfect roadway, which pet names. Hart has been under until now. For 1M9, and secure a full volume of nnmiere It Is the CANYON CITY, OREGON. Ex-Senator McDonald passed admits of no outlet, and through a heavy expense for nearly two through Washington this week on CHEAPEST ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. which the water flows. About months waiting for his appointment his way home from New York Attornee-at-Law. I. O. O. F. noon on Friday, May 31st, a low and now it goes to a New \ ork where he has been to superintend » every Saturday at Twelve At Supplements, rumbling noise was heard, which man. The Ohio republicans now the getting off of the first ship-load rKINNoN, N. G. M. DUSTIN. of material to be used in building increased to a roar, and before the in Washington are the maddest Office Canyon City and Burns. Nicaraugua ship canal in which The maw of informadon ft contains covers the entire Pacific Northwest completely j»eople could realize the disaster a crowd of men I ever saw. They the he is deeply interested.. and doats with all snhjerla of interest to th«.ee seeslng Inhftmatlon of this region For the volume of water swept down the say the State will go democratic cer c urraut year THE WRUT SHORE will auri»ass In excellence the volume Jwat cl« sed, aad will Mouthing Myrap. l>e a complete exponent of the res»»urces of, and a careful chronicler of all new enterprises narrow valley and carried every tain, and they don’t care a conti indsys excepted. Mas W inslow ’ s S oothing Svavr fur chil iiaoprranre In, the entire region embraced within the limits of Oregon. Washington. Mon nental if it dues. John Sherman is dre’i teething, is the pre-crii»fion of one of of thing before it. The dam had tana blah.», British Columbia, and Alaska, together with a multitude of supurb engrevinss C1TT: the be;*l feiiniie niir:«es and pnjreiriaiia in the of erewerv, th a. Indue* rlee, etc of the r« mu tries deeeribed. B, Fridays,liant. buret and the lake was emtying its in Europe, but unless Harrison can Untied State-«, and ha* been li*ed for forty ; All elegant el engravings. arur>.A_.a 10 «. p m. In colors or lints, will be issued, «.ne with each number. These sup year* with never‘falling aurrew» by millions waters into the vailey belcw. The fix this and some other matters to of plement* are 17«28 inches In else, aud represent some object of general Interest or some fea mother* for their < hihlrr«« During the of the Magnificent Mcenery of the West, and will alone be woflll the magatine’ s price. houses were caught by the fliaxl, his satisfaction on bls return, John i»r«M r ' of teething it* value i* inralriiiable. ture You cann«d do without TI1E WENT MIORK for lw* Only $2.50: 50 etc extra for p« stage. t relieve« tbe rhihi from y«ain, cures dywn- ■ and torn from their foundations. is certain to join the already strong tery and diarrhoea, gri. ing tn she hovel» t Sen» bev..nd tbe Jimi'S of the Untied Mt alee, Mexh o, or Canntta: single copies 25c Address wind-colic. By giving healib iq he Some were carried away by the rag coterie of republican anti-adminis and L. SAMUEL, PuBuauw, RURTLAND, OREGON. jhihl it rests the lbothcr. cents ■ ■ a bottle. f-17 ing tuiivul, which loie ulung the riv- tration Seuators. AK, rvetuae er. LD EASTCUN ADVEUHSE.MENT. rt'NEIlAL HYMN. JF’etrm IkÆetoliixxerv. I ■O JOB WORK.