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« E ast O regon H erald ♦ I.—No. 4B. IE HERALD BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1889. $2.30 a HAKNEY VALLEY Year, dead man? Was he killed or did leading from Canyon City through LAKEVIEW ADVERTISEMENT. he die from a natural cause?—were the town of Burns. Wheehedied MBD BVRRY THURSDAY Harney Valley is a beautiful val the questions that rapidly followed in Salt Lake City, he wa a very ley in Eastern Oregon in Harney each other while gazing upon the wealthy man, whom lio.poor man I .L.&N. GRACE, remains of a part of the envied, since he had always been I county, between 118 anti 120 de evident known as the poor man’s friend. grees West Longitude from Green past history of Harney valley. -41 SHERS AMD PROPRI El ‘ >H“. THE HOPKINS HOUSE Point Wright towering high — wich and between 43 and 44 de 1865—John.T'raven, a native of grees North Latitude, about 3,500 above the surrounding country like Ray county, Missouri, etune to Or JB8CRIPTION BATES: M. D. 1101’KINS, P roprietor . .r ................... ....t. F-oo feet above the level of the sea, with the sphinx that grimly guards the egon in 1864, enlisted in’Eugene ba. 1 the secrets of the Nile, stood an area of about 2500 square miles, City, jn 1864-65, in the 1st Oregon >ntha ................. ........ f (in advsaes)................. 2.M EVERYTHING NEW AND FIRST-CLASS. containing 1,600,000 acres of land. mute and untouched by anv appeals Volunteer Infantry, Co. “H,” Capt. •.tip---------------- im ------ This valley is nestled in a broken made by inquirers of 1889. Some L L Williams in command; and chain of mountains on the i rth- one remembered that one of the in August, 1865. came with his Thia Hotel la new (Houle, Rooma. end Furniture) and offerì eourteoui aervlca to leery Geeet. enst. south and west with the high soldiers of Camp Wright had come Company, to Camp Wright, at the est peaks of the blue mountains on into the country a couple of months age of seventeen years. Mr. C. is the north and the Steen mountains since. not only the only Camp Wright sol Upon returning to Burns, we dier in Harney edmiy, but the old- on the south, towering up into the IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOUSE. realms of perpetual snow. This interviewed the old soldier and ent resident of the Haraey country. gleaned a reply to nearly every valley has 1867—A man named Walker car question, to which we have added ried the first niail, on horseback, AN ABUNDANCE information hitherto obtained from of water supplied by the Silvies from Canyon City to Cilnip Harney, « and Blitzen rivers and their tribu Mrs. Stenger, Mr. McGowan, Mrs. taking lots of chancehis life General Blacksmith & Waeon-maker. taries, and other smaller streams, Whiting, Mr. Fitzgerald and sever j 1872—Stille Riddle, John Boone, i all of which have their outlets i >n al others: H. R. SCHLAGE! L akeview , O regon . General Harney in 1853 while and the Smyth family, now of Hap the Malheur and Harney lakes. Absolutely Pure. The Malheur and Harney lakes escorting emigrants through this py valley, and John Chapman, came Th’« powder never varies. A marvel of puri have no outlets. These two lakes valley had a brush with the In in with stock. strength, and wholeBomei efiB. More eco 1873— J.8. Miller, J. Cooksey, T. ty. dians, and the valley was named nomical than the ordinary kits and cannot are connected by an artificial chan Prepared to do all Kinde of Work in the Blacksmith line. Horae Shoeing at Oll.Mper heed ? be sold in competition with the multitude of Prather and the Venators brought in his honor — by whom we have nel and are on a level with each low tc«i, short weight, alum or phosphate pow i cattle and horses into the valley. ders. Sold onlv in cans. R oyal B aking P ow other, to the contrary notwithstand- not yet learned. z—B U G G I E S, WAGONS, ET C.,-> der Co., 106 Wall st., New York. ■________________________ In the spring of 1865 Gen. Wright Frank McLeod (a former subscriber , ing. as yon will observe by the maps MADKTO ORDER WITH NEATNESS, AND OF QOOD QUALITY. 29. > KRALD CLUB LIST to T iie H erald , in Livingstone, went down before Crescent City, giving the geography of this region. I J » F>.75 Th. Ceatury, one year A L L W O R K W A R R A N T E D. Montana) Jas. Sheppard, and the with the ill-fated Brother 4.75 These two lakes cover an area of Cal., St. Nicholas, •• Demurest MasaxtM, one rear :>.75 Currvs brought in stock; and Mau Jonathan, and in the fall of 1865, about 150 square miles and arc ' Fetereon Mssaslne 3.75 Capt. L. L. Williams of Co. “H” rice Fitzgerald, one of the U. 8. sol 3.75 Godoy's Lady's Book NEAR THE CENTER , West Shore 4.00 valley. Their shores ar- 1st Oregon Infantry, in command diers stationed at Camp Harney; J11 he.Leslie's Illustrated Xewtpupi 5.75 of the DREWSEY ADVERTISEMENT. ,uUslLeolle’e Popular MdUthh 4.75 of parts of three companies sta still a citizen of the valley. 3.75 low, but they have never been S B. McPHEETERS, M. D. . 3 75 known to overflow. 1874— P. F. Stenger and Thos. “ The low shores tioned on the grounds since August 3 00 brought stock in from 6.00 of these lakes accounts for the shal- of that year, near the present site Whiting PHYSICIAN A SURGEON. 3 00 Weesly Examiner of J. S. Devine’s residence, named Douglas county, Oregon. P. F. Office at W. E. Grace’s Drugstore. 1-ly 6.00 lowness of the wells in this valley, Daily Examiner 8 00 which are from eight to twenty feet the camp in honor of the deceased Stenger establishing his camp at -------- Weexly New York Wori.l ... 8.00 Detroit Free Press soldier, also, the point or head-land what is known as the Sod house on Irrigation is . .. 5.(10 deep. I Hurper’h Magasinc PRACTICAL SURVEYOR. 5.20 I Hairier's Weekly he ealled, “Point Wright ” the Blitzen, afterward moving to NOT NECESSARY 5.20 ly T IIur|>er’s Basar... t . a . M c K innon , The In September, 1865, there was a the present Peter Clemens ranch, DICKSON & SULLIVAN □LXl Harper's Young l’eoi'le 3.75 to raise crops and gardens. P roprietor ». Any and all kinds of surveying done on shot 2.90 soil here contains all the properties fight between the Indians, Harney where Riddle it Boone had camped Alden’s Manifold Cyeloi l>e<lia, / notice and reasonable terms. Settler lib - , tlonal volume ..... ,,, , after Vol ___ 1, 55 ce nt « ; necessary to make a successful Valley Piutes, and a part of the two years before, and Whiting at wishing to he located, can have plats furnishe I ; tra t>er volume, postage. Lou. J. Bosenberg, Mixologist. grain growing country. Small fruit force under Capt. Williams, be Rock Point the present site of free of charge. riimm the above works can be ex rilb uiure in the Reading Room Burns. and shrubbery, and berries of near tween Camp Wright and Ilarney Everything in our line of the Best. Liquors—Whiskies, Brandies, Mail route from Canyon City via SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP. ly all kinds can be successfully lake, wounding a soldier named \\ ines, Fancy Drinks, etc., Cigars, etc., always on hand when I raised here. Smith in the foot, and another Camp Harney to Fort .McDermit, i I you call on “Uncle Dick,” at Drewsey, Harney county, Or. bliahera of periodicals are k .> 1 i<• i t1 Nevada., was established and the VACANT LAND i named Grillin, who in after years , r, , bin« rates, • copy of then a . h U r. r I (| Kiiug Room—We file, and i-in'l ihe as level as your floor in bodies of years died from the effects of the mail carried by Doe. Anderson, an Pqr e of every half-volume, m.i i-w <_, thousands of acres, is here to be ta injury. That same evening the In old Kentuckian, still with us. “ivertiaement. • gM ______________________ ______________ ken and is just as good as any that dians set fire to the tall grass [a 1878— The Smyths, father and FEED AND LIVERY STABLE. i luak ■ is occupied. Home 6eekers in Ore- man named Keiger describes the son, were killed by Indians, at the KOI)!- »VERTI8INO RATES: gon cannot do better elsewhere. grass of the valley “high enough for close of the trouble with the Piutes II. CALDWELL, - - - - P roprietor . heVi|’- 2 ’ wk ----------------------------- Imo 3 mo 6 mo C. A. SNOW A CO. _ _ _ WASHINGTON, D. C. 1 yr. 'I’his Eden will not long remain me to reach up and tie over my and Bannocs. The Bannoc warfare A CASH BUSINESS AT BED- Patents obtained, and all patent business attended to promptly and for moderate fee«. wn 5 9 ti.50 »SOO I3UU 111 OU 115.00 in an unsettled state, but in a few head as I ride through it on horse ceased. The first merchandise Our Office is . ppoRite the U. 8. Patent Office, and we can obtain in les« time than thoee 4.00 6.50 12 00 1« (X) 2« 00 ROCK PRICES. remote from Washington. Send Model or Drawing. We advise as to patentability froo 5.00 8 00 15.00 '■ 24 00 40 00 short years this land will be all ta back] and Capt. Williams and his store and saloon put by a man 6.00 10.00 ■ 32.00 50.00 -J) 00 IV ini “ of charge; and we make no charge unless patent is secured. Is our motto. Good Buggy Teams, and Nice ¿1- "S 9 00 15.00 ■a oo 48.00 51 00 ken, the golden opportunities now men had to take refuge on a grease named Josephson, and kept where We refer here to the Postmaster, the Superintendent of Money Order Division, and te saddle Horses Furnished at Reasonable Charge« 16 00 26.00 48.00 «0.00 1.0 (XJ offered will be improved. wood knoll — somewhere about the the Burns hotel now stands. and Particular Attention paid to the Boarding official« of the U. 8. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms, and references to actual ,uii:| 80 00 40.00 60.00 110.00 140.00 and Groom in of Transient Stock. Hay <fc Grain The climate is salubrious and Buecaroo house of the Devine ranch 1879— Wm. Curry bought and on clients in your own State or county, write to above address. hands. En passant, two olden moved Josephson stock to where ■ ■al reduction to all yearly artver- will compare favorably with any of to-day. JR Office, or write to Publlaher. other part of the “Inland Empire.” time shot guns were found in the the Levens Bros, ranch is located. BURNS A I) V E RT IS E M E N T S. or charted extra, according to apai e; :! Burns and Harney are the princi- willows in that vicinity, a couple of Daniel Wheeler was the first Jus tai baae admitted. ; pal towns and in fact are the only yearn since. At' no price. tice of tbe Peace. iaemenrs at lew than io « ••¡.■h per ■ towns in the Harney valley. These 1779-80—The military Post at I At about the same time Lieut. Ap ✓ A y®a,,Iy» or 20 c®nl8< transient, ': towns are about fifteen miles apart piegate of Co. “FI”, in command of Camp Harney was abandoned. W. W, Cardwell, position t2 extra charge per in in the northern portion of the val Large stockmen began buying a part of Capt. Williams’ force, eadof position a standing reader D. S. HOPKINS, A rchitect . Both towns have an lion to ad. each week is run in wi;h ley. A T T 0 R N E Y - A T - L \ W. was returning from Camp Curry, out the smaller dealers. alter free. IMMENSE TERRITORY 1881 — P. M. Curry, now of Lake- ; (where W. C. Cecil’s place now is), Grand Rapids, Mich. it »stereotype all our advertisement« B urns , O r . Will furn’iih Design« of Houses, Cottages, and Mansion« coating from |300 on up to any 1 Cl, fter let four publication«, ea< h. 1 adjacent, adapted to both farming to Camp Wright, were that evening view, Or. came here. figure wanted. If you meau lo build, semi |l to my address, and 1 will mail you a portfo rtislng in local columns, 10c a line. and stock-raising. The town of) attacked by the Indians at some Egan Postoilice was established. lio of 33 design« of dwelling», like the one on file in E ast O regon H erald office, with Practice« in all the courts o' the State, ER' age, birth, and death announce- full plan of each, full size detail«, complete specifications, and bill of material«, all very Burns has two newspapers. The fortifications thrown up on what is 1882— Geo. McGowan, the Mar Also, before the U. S. ¡.and Office. such items solicited a« news. full and complete so any ordinary carpenter or builder will Lave no trouble in going ahead ami completing the work. And if you do not find just what yon want, write me L and M atters a S pecialty . 3 al rates offered to religious, social, principal stock men of this valley I now the Widow McGee’s ranch and tins and A. O. Bedell located. what changes you desire made, and I will accommodate you. Or leave Order« with Twa bodies. are Mess. Peter French, J. 8. Devine ealled for fun after one of the com-■ 1882— McGowan & Martin open H erald . Y ou will it as « heap to erect a hnndsome house rb to wa-te material on an un sightly building. Wilj aid you in re-consli ucting your present betiding. 41-tf and the L. F. Co. These parties , puny, Fort Drellenger. And again, ed a general merchandizing store TO FOREIGN ADVERTISERS. artfully soliciting your pat r.iuage i are all said to be millionaires and ) the next morning, about eight miles in Egan and the noxt year P. F. CHAS. SAMPSON - - B urns , O r . • o keep our readentpoB.eu r.s to t in- d reliable firms to deal uih, (or their wealth is variously estimated r-uth of the present town of Burns, Stenger bought out Martin’s inter-) W-A-T-C-II-M -A-K-E-R will be saved by referring to ihe from one to fifty millions. the Indians shooting from the point | est aiid moved the store to the site , -ANO— tements based upou our circula- T The Odell n 'of the present town of Burns. ul adjoining counties: | The L. F. Company have lately of the rimrock west of the cove. ------------------------------- --- Jeweler. 1883— Geo. McGowan named the ' ) consolidated their stock and land The Piutes of Ilarney valley 1Y P E W R I ELI prii JOB WORK ■ interests here with Mr. Jno. Devine, were under command or a chief new Dostoflice to be in the MeGow-, (64C WILL BUY THE ODELL TYI’F. WRITER. WARRANTED TO DO AS gfrd • «cripUonj^^^Wd_with neatu.( Iptiun executed L.............. .... is j and are partners as “Lux. Miller, BLACKSMITH. wl a« any One Hundred Dollar Machine. M f I whose name is pronounced much an dr Stenger store “Burns,” in honor ' fessunable reue . *o----------- j Mason & Devine” and are known on like Wahweveh, the brother of old of the famous poet of his native ADOLPH TUPKER-----P koi -’ r It combines simplicity with durability — speed , ease of operation Pam ph id « • , J Poatere, Letter Hei. «, I this coast as the Pacific Live Stock chief Paulina whom Howard Mau land, Robert Burns, Scotland’s fa . . Not* Hracs, ICaro«, TirKc:«. wears longer without cost of repairs than any other machine, has t a m invitations, Dodge I s, Etc. i Association, which is perhaps the pin an old Mexican soldier killed vorite bard. no ink ribbon to bother the operation. It neat, substantial, nick- I ■ ----------------------- 1885—The first newspaper, a 6-j i strongest on this coast if not the on Crooked river in 1867; he burned el-plated—perfect and adapted to all kinds of typewritin.g d i« kept regularly <>;: : column, patent-outside, was estab- ■ Their do I Camp Wright some time afterward, . ’ t Geo. P. Rewell New «¡paper Au strongest in the world. 11 g tu, lu spruce St..MS Y < ; k Liken Printing Press it produces sharp, clean, legible manuscript. Two to ten copies minions extend from Grant county, and died years ago at Steen moun- ' by Horace D.llard. cun lie made at one writings. Editors, lawyers, ministers, bunkers, merchants, eneral Or., to the southern confines of Cal tain. The Malheur chief Egan was | 1887— :T iie E ast O regon H er munufact’irers, business men, etc., cannot make a better investment for *15. ald , a 7-column, patent-inside, ‘ Promptly executed. The building hns been on Au intelligent person in a week can beeonte a Good operator, or a rapidone in 2 months. ifornia. They can travel hundreds I also in command of the turbulent ICI AL DIRECTORY larged and improved and is prepared to turn of miles from here in a southerly ¡reds. The d< fund town south of, newspaper plant was established by I out all kinds of blacksmithing on short notice •F1 ,(>00 offered any operator who can do better work with a Type- the and in the beet style. Terms: ( ash. 1-ly national : direction and camp every night on Burns was named in honor of his! D. L. Grace. Writer than that produced by the Odell, Reliable Agents ..Behiamin Harrison I 1888— In May T he H erald was their free-holds. Peter French Esq. memory. and Salesmen wanted. Special inducements to Dealers. ................ I............Levi P. Morion . .. James G Blaine is administrator to the Dr. Glenn For Pamphlets, giving endorsements, Ac., address the IIA RN E Y A I) V ERTI SEM ENTS. Regarding the lone grave now in enlarged to an “all-at-home-print,” - ... William W indoin ............ John W . Subic estate of California, Mr. French’s front of the remains of old Camp making it the first and only news ; d U titeriur . 45 ODELL TYPE WRITER CO., T he R ookery , C hicago , III. 11 ¿Jar ............ ]......Wdfield Proctor wife being heiress of that estate. Wright the man’s name is forgot paper ever printed complete in the ——<avy............ . Benjamin F. Tracey J. NAT. HUDSON Jeremiah M. Busk gricultare Two established surveys ten, but he was known among the Harney country. It spends the Hurney, Or. ....... W m . H. H. Miller FOR RAILROADS ..John Wanamaker i soldiers as “Reddy” (on account of money it makes, in keeping up have been made through Ilarney his hair), was from the state of with and ahead of the advance of HUDSON. WILSHIRE Harney county. Only $2.50 a year. -J. N. Dolph valley by the Oregon Pacific IL IL New York, and was noted among . II. Mitchell N. Brown began the erection of S tage his comrades as a great singer. Attorneys-at-Law, Inger Hermann Co. and the N. P. IL R. Co. Ji the first Grist and Merchantile Mill s T ........... D.Sylvea ■ 1 One dark night in February, 1866, With the advent of railroad fa LAKEVIEW AND HAKNEY, OK. ..............M..GOO. W Mrl.r.'lv •re ' ................... D.............. I. w « ’ • cilities this year to Harney valley while in campon the Blitzen “Red in the valley. This firm practice« in the court« of the State , : ■•trnctloii. B......... J. I- 'in 1889— The creation of Harney and before the U. s. I.and Office. Any land and with the advent of the electric dy” was called up for his turn to .p........... Fia'. office or other buein<*«s entrusted to them will County was obtained with follow D \ U > I- -»ba. ith<V ’ guard the pack mules in charge of telegraph to our midst, we will ask receive prompt attention. . .... .............. KJ Wm. r I uni s J w « : i ll " for no more, forthese are the requi Pack-Master Mace McCoy, and had ing officials: Judge, T. J. Shields; rW^LAND EASES SOLICITED. FROM PRINEVILLE TO BURNS. zcmciAi. butmct : sites for modern civilization and not mounted guard five minutes Clerk, W. E. Grace; Treasurer, T. ------ o------ ............ It ........ 1. B H om II. Roberts; Commissioners, Lytle wh- w ................ R........ J i k . m , the “evolution theory” of develop when he received an arrow in the Howard; T. B. Janies; Surveyor, I. hu*l — ELITE SALOON. arm, and a second in the heart. C. B BAKER, Sub-Contractor. ment will naturally follow. I have -OVMTT-.A.MXT: W. R. Gradon; Sheriff, A. A. Cow I Mace McCoy, said to be the finest received letters of inquiry regarding Arrive« at Burns Wednesdays at 6 p as. leave« Prineville Monday« at 6 a tn. . .G. W. G ilkam ing, Assessor, W. E. Alberson; HARNEY,------------- OREGON Arrive« at Prineville Satardsys at • p m. Leave« Burna Thursdays at 6 a nt. Œ.J. T. S hields this region and having lately trav mountaineer in the country, and COATSWORTH <fc TREGASKIS, School Superintendent L. B. Ba ] !:'■ .................... •” K..W, E. <.RA< K the first settler in Diamond valley, ..T. H. R obert « elled over a good portion of it, I send PROPRIETORS. L» W. K. G RADON you the above as the best means of with John Mulkey bore the dead ker. ili'' ....... ,(D)........ A. A. < o" ino Pm.enger rntee from Prineville to Burns |7.50; Round trip JU—with t» day« delay. P. F. Stenger obtained the first ri.ii'l ________ -.(DÌ...W. K. A LB ER SON imparting the information desired soldier three days on pack mules to t ten dent .(D)......... I . I u ( k kc . daily mail, and erected the first ■e e ■■■ V 1 .............................................. M eeker through the columns of your valu with John Mulkey bore the dead soldier three days on pack mules to cosely and elegant family residence More Anon, <R’ I ¡L ytle H oward able paiier. PUD II Al LI it UllUL] 'D> { K t B. J AM ER bury him at Camp Wright, where he the county. II. B. IL The United States in Land Office •ney _ M rr . M. KIBBLER, has lain undisturbed the past 23 C. S. LAND orrt< F years, his loss of life and his grave fur Harney District was established HARNEY, OR. B R E W E R Y . H untington THE HISTOKYOF CAMP WIIIGHT unknown to friends and relations in Burns with J. B. Huntington, Twenty Years experience. Reasonable 1805 K elly register, and Harrison Kelly, re charges. 2- 2 “back East.” PROPRIETOR. PAUL LOCHER ceived. ADDITIONAL NOTES. Several weeks since while visit 18?? — Abner Robbins now of CANYON CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. ing the Devine ranch at Wright’s The winter of 67-68 the Indians Drewsey, used to ride on pack » BURN 8, OREGON Point we were shown the remains surrendered to Gen. Crook on the H . j horses among the Indians, long be of old Camp Wright, the grave of a site of the ol<l Malheur agency. M LODGE. NO. Bj lO.o. r C. A. RWEEK. ------------- o--------------- Mace McCoy, a cousin to Win. fore any white men lived here. totif rTîn®»1' soldier before it jiointed out, and ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. The Burn« Beer I a Fine Quality, and may be had by the Glaee, Bottled, or in Quantity. the tall grease-wood grown all over ______ M. Page late of this county, went »14 S*rfy. CANYON CITY. OREGON —To keep posted the grounds told us many years from here to Arizona with Gen. läli 1 had passed since the soldiers threw Crook and came back in 1873. He u. ■. MAILS. —Read T he H erald . up the embankments and the now resides in Waitsburg, Wash. Attorney-at-Law. American colors floated above the —Costs only 12.50 a year. 1863 to 1873—C. M. Ixxikwood THZ HERALD READING ROOM. surrounding swamps. from Michigan, located in Jackson M. DUSTIN. —For local news read T he H er Who commanded nt Camp county, Or., a government con ald . IN HERALD OFFICE, - - - BURNS, OREGON. Office: Canyon City and Blimp. Wright? Who named it? How tractor for military posts on the Open every day except Sunday, from 9 a m to 5 p ni. many companies garrisoned it? frontier, and said to be a tine-looking —For county new? read T he H er How long ago since soldiers were libera), t.oble-hearted man, is the ald . e there? Why were they there? To first man that did more than mere Every Lady and Gentlemen a welcome Visitor to this Free Read PETERSON’S MAGAZINE —For Land Office news read T he fight Indians? What Indians? ly pass through the country. He ing Room. I I A] Is $2 WJiv fieht them’ Who was the it was that built the present road H erald POWDER the drewsey saloon . Isa rub. Uttlnma wwimta.r.. T JOB WORK. Slfc “
