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H erald BURNS, HARNEY THURSDA OCTOBER 31, 1889. $2.80 a Year. I In winter the weather is cold but afterward, and died years ago at LAKEVIEW ADVERTISEMENT. pleasant, the usual effects of alti Steen mountain. The Malheur THURSDAY tude being checked by the gentle chief Egan was also in command of LEAVENING POWER I ------------- " chinook, or west wind. The snow the turbulent r<^s. The defunct Of the various Baking Powders illus ITS DESCRIPTION, HISTORY, AND HOUSE A.CE, fall is sufficient to preserve wheat town south of Bums was named in FUTURE PROSPECTS. trated from actual tests. honor of his memory. and supply moisture that is not iPRIETORS. M. D. HOPKINS, P roprietor . furnished by rains. In summer The grave of a soldier known as ROYAL fJF If the reader is a friend to there is a pleasant breeze constant “Reddy,” is in front of the remains GRANTS- (Alum) .. WS the early settlement of the Harney ly blowing, which tends to keep of Camp Wright, who was shot by RUNrpSD’S- (.rath).. |o give notice by EVERYTHING NEW AND FIRST-CLASS. | not answer the 1 country, let him send a copy of agreeable weather, no matter how Indians, while in campon the Blit a>t take his paper ORD’S (when fresh) Mur its not being this issue of T he H erald to rela hot the sun’s rays, and the nights zen, as he mounted guard one dark Makes the post- RM * (Alum Towder). .1 Bher for payment tives, f iends and acquaintances in cool enough to 'make covering de night in February. 1866. This Hotel is new (House, Rooms, and Furniture) and offers courteous service U» every Geest. sirable—in fact o’ne can sleep un The winter of 67-68 the Indians :S paper diseon- VIS’ * and 0. K.* (Atam>_______ _____________ _ •• Jfcea, or the Pub- the East. der cover comfortably the year surrendered to Gen. Crook on the CLEVELAND’S................................. ■■■MMMMOB II until payment is Mnouut w hether il round. site of the old Malheur agency. Ot. There can be PIONEER (San Francisco)..............■■■■■■■■■■ payment is made. Harney Valley is a beautifully sit There is no timber except along • ;■ « --- ;•»---- CZAR....................................................... | a paper from the uated valley in Harney county in water courses, where there is a light The attention of small stock-rais »his name or an- ■scribed or not. is East Oregon, between 118 and 120 growth of birch ami unusally large, ers was turned to this section about DR. PRICE’S. ..................................... WHBi degrees Wes tLongitude from Green heavy growth of willows. But the this time, and Camp Harney was SNOW FLAKE (Groff's)....................... .■■MMHBHi stopped 1 taper between 43 and 44 adjacent mountains are timbered established as a military post, a CONGRESS.................................................. !■«■■■ ler continues wich, and General Blacksmith Waeo-maker. d to pay for it if L This proceeds degrees North Latitude; is between with fir, pine, juniper, mountain-j man named Walker .carrying the HECKER’S........................ ■■■■■■■■ tpay for what he 3,500 to 3,800 feet above the level of mahogany, etc. H. R. SCHLÄGEL ------ L akevixw , O bkwon . Saw-mills are lo mail on' horseback between the GILLET'S.......................................................... that refusing t< the sea; embraces an area of 2,400 cated in the pineries, and the lum Post and Canyon City. The fol JJs from the post square miles, or 1,536,000 square ber of the best quality, sells much -----------O........ HANFORD’S (None Such), when not fresh. .■■■■■■ lowing is a short sketch of the ear- ' lied for. withou .facia evidence ol acres, bounded on every side by cheaper than in the East PEARL (Andrews & Co.) ............... ................. KMMB1 Prepared to do all Kinds of Work in the Blacksmith liuc. Horse Shoeing at ft.M per head. ly- settlement of Harney valley, as mountain ranges and lofty eleva Garden vegetables are large, fine we have been able to learn it: RUMFORD’S* (Phosphate), when not fresh...■■■ tions, and is an almost entirely level ly flavored, abundant and easily RATES: 1872— Stille Riddle, John Boone, B U G G I E S, WAGONS, ET C.,-> Reports of Government Chemists. plain, plentifully watered by the raised. We will on application give i the Smyth family, and John Chap MADB TO O1DKR WITH NKATNC», AND OF GOOD QUALITY. “ The Royai Baking Powder is composed of Silvies and Blitzen rivers and" their the addresses of several gardeners man, came in with stock. ALL WORK WARRANTED. I pure and wholesome ingredients. It docs not tributaries. here, who will answer in detail all 1873— J. S. Miller, J. Cooksey, T. contain cither alum or phosphates, or other in The Harney country which em ■ inquiries on that subject; the white, Prather and the Venators brought jurious substances.-EDWARD G. L ove , Ph.D.” «.1ST braces the valley of that name and or Irish potato is grown with little in cattle and horses. Jas. Sheppard, •ar “The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly DREWSEY ADVERTISEMENT. the contiguous vallies of Happy, Dia ' cultivation, and is superior to that and the Currys brought in stock. the purest and most reliable baking powdci I, one year mond, Silvies, Silver creek, Catlow, ; grown in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri,' offered to the public. ■ " 4c., was named in honor of U. S. Tennesse, or Kansas, we personally ! 1874— P. F. Stenger, and Thos. “ H enry A. M ott , M. D., Th. D." “The Royal Baking Powder is purest in qual General Harney, of Missouri, in know as regards size, “mealiness,’’ i Whiting brought stock in from Douglas county, Oregon. P. F. ity and highest in strength of any baking pow 1853, who while escorting emigrants 1 and flavor. Stenger establishing his camp at der of which I have knowledge. through this valley had a brush Small fruits, such as strawberries, what is known “ W m . M c M urtrie , Ph. D.” as the Sod House on with the Indians, and the valley ; currants, blackberries, gooseberries, * All Alum baking powders, no matter how was named in his honor—by whom grapes, etc., will from what evidence the Blitzen, afterward removing to high their strength, are to be avoided as dan present Peter Clemens ranch, gerous. Phosphate powders liberate their gas ^DICKSON * SULLIVAN we have not yet learned. P roprietor ». we have been able to gather the the where Riddle 4 Boone had camped too freely, or under climatic changes suffer de The Silvies river has its source past two years, be a success, as na I two years before, and Whiting at terioration. Lou. J. Bosenberg, Mixologist. in the sours of the Blue mountains, tive plants are hardy and good ■ Rocky Point the present site of bearers. Fruit trees and ornament- south of the John Day river, flows i Burns. Mail route from Canyon Everything in our line of the Best. Liquors—Whiskies, Brandies, a general southerly course, passing 1 al shrubs were planted freely by City via Camp Harney to Fort Mc- T. V. B. EMBREE, M. D. I Wines, Fancy Drinks, etc., Cigars, etc., always on hand when down the center of the valley, and fanners in the spring; the fall set Dermit, Nevada, was established. Office at his r< «k’er< t the east side ot Si vies Rix er. ter. iri a below Burns. empties into Lakes Harney and tings survived the severest winter you call on “Uncle Dick,” at Drewsey, Harney county, Or. works can be ex , 1879—The Smyths, father and Malheur. It is a rapidly flowing (1888) that East Oregon has ever Ing Room. stream, about 80 miles long, and known. Large orders have been son, killed by the Indians, at the S B. McPHEETERS, M. D. contains every kind of fish, includ made on the Bloomington Nursery close of the trouble with the I’iutes > PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON. pa’s are solicited ing the salmon trout, and other va- | for fall planting in 1889; the result and Bannocs. The Bannoc warfare ' Office at W. E. Grace's Drug Store. 1-ly of their work for ceased. The first merchandise PATENTS. It derives its . is in the future. IF, and bind the i rieties of game fish. Hoitime. end v»v ci name C. A. SNOW 4 CO. - - - WASHINGTON, D. C. from a Candian trapper As an agricultural region it will store and saloon put up by a man Parents obtained, and all patent business attended to promptly and for moderate fees. PRACTICAL SURVEYOR. named Silvies, who was killed in I be readily seen that its inducements named Josephson, and kept where Our Office is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office, and we can obtain in less time than tboee the Burns hotel now stands. an early day. i are rarely excelled. remote from Washington. Send Model or Drawing. We advise as to patentability free t . a . M c K innon , RATES: The Dunder-and-Blitzen river, or of charge; and we make no charge unless patent is secured. 1878—Wm. Curry bought and Any and all kinds of surveying done on shor As to stock raising it cannot be • mo 6 mo notice and reasonable terms, gtP“ Settler We refer here to the Postmaster, the Superintendent of Money Order Division, and to “Blitzen,” as it is shortened by com I surpassed, since its water, grass, and moved the Josephson stock to where wishing to be located, can have plats furnishe 111 00 officials of the U. 8. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms, and references to 'aetaal mon usage, is about 50 miles in I salubrious climate take horses, cat the Levens Bros, ranch is located. free of charge. 13.VJ la. oo clients in your own State or eouuty, write to above address. 1A-0O 24.00 length, flows in a northerly direc tle, sheep and hogs throughout the Daniel Wheeler, the first Justice of 32 00 ‘28.00 4X.00 tion and empties into the lakes, and year (from January 1 to December j I the Peace, «.00 30.00 ! obtained its unique name in mem- 31) without grain, or any other than j 1879-80—The military Post at SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP. oO.uo no oo i ory of an exclamation of a Dutch wild grass feeding, and when the' i Camp Harney abandoned. Large J. C. WELCOME - P roprietor . ¡RTISEKS. BURNS. OREGON. | soldier, in Gen. Crook’s command, winterismilderthan common, stock stockmen began buying out the our pat rouage )Btea as to the while standing guard.over the pack looks better in early spring than in ! smaller dealers. eal with, cor I I mules during a vivid thunderstorm, Eastern localities where they are, pferriug to the i our circula- in 1865-68. ‘ ‘ graih-fed during the winter; and i 1881— P. M. Curry, now of Lake- FEED AND LIVERY STABLE. | view. Or, came here, for whom II. CALDWELL, - - - - P bopbiitor . D. 8. HOPKINS, A rchitect . These rivers an<i their numerous the texture and flavor of the meats ; ' Curry precinct is named. kyearly advci- tributaries have their water sheds compare favorably with the best in j (Publisher. Grand Rapids, Mich. A CASH BUSINESS AT BED rdlng to space; within the county, and the lakes the m.-rket. There is no room for .• 1882— Will furnish Designs of Houses, Cottages, and Mansions costing from |300 on up to aujr , Geo. . T MbG > j owan, >> i . the > Mar-1 figure wanted. If you mean lo build,send |1 to my address, and I will mail you a portfo ROCK PRICES. having no outlet, serve to furnish large stock-raisers, as the territory t’nsfa"d A’ °’ Bedel loca ed. Egan lio of 33 designs of dwellings, like the one on file in E amt O regon H erald office, with ¡no price. is fully taken up by three or four Bostofhce was estabhshed. full plan of each, full size details, complete specifications, and bill of materials, all very I 10 cents per subterranean irrigation to the whole Is our motto. Good Buggy Teams, and Nice full and complete so any ordinary carpenter or builder will have notrouble in going ints, transient, valley. , firiiis that hold all available ranges, 1832 McGowan Martin opened saddle Horst s Furnished at Reasonable Charges ahead and completing the work. And if you do not find just what yon want, write mo Particular Attention paid to the Boarding what changes you desire made, and I will accommodate you. Or leave Orders with T he but the stock such as is commonly P’ncral merchandizing store in and and Groomin of Transient Stock. Hay &, Grain charge per in- H erald . Y ou will it as cheap to erect a handsome house as to waste material on an un Lakes Harney and Malheur, cov . — on hands. .1 i... c -------- _:n j ---- ,i| and the next year • ’ W ■uding reader Egan P. F. Sten sightly building. Wilj aid you in re-constructing your preseut bciidiug. 41-4f i raised by farmers, will do well k is run in with er an area of more than 150 square j y ' ger bought out Marti in ’ s interest POPULATION. ■ milts, and are connected by a chan idvert ¡sementa and moved the store to the site of lions, each, nel about 20 yards wide and 200 As mentioned in another para the present town of Burns. BURNS ADVERTISEMENTS. nns, 10c a line, j yards long. They receive the wa-j graph, the earliest period known ith aunouncc- ters of both Silvies and Blitzen 1883—Geo. McGowan named the regarding this country, is 1853, 1 us news. Ilgh.Ufi, social. rivers, but have no outlet and never when Gen. Harney was guarding the new postoffice to be in the McGow rp The Odell W. W. Cardwell, i overflow. Being situated on a level passage of emigrants to the Coast. an 4 Stenger store “Burns,” in hon WRIT or of Robert Burns, Scotland’s fa ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. plain, and having low shores, these Some time in the sixties we learn mous bard. | --------------------- lakes have not such picturesque with neatness B urns , O r . scenery as Crater Lake to recoin-1 that Abner Robbins, now cf Drew-1 1885—The first newspaper, a 6- KT WILL BUY THE ODELL TYPE WRITER WARRANTED TO DO AB A4E as any One Hundred Dollar Machine. aphids 1 mend them to tourists, but their | ! sey, used to ride on pack-horses column, patent-outside, was estab Practices in all the courts of the State, 910 1er Heads, j among the Indians before any white Also, before the U. 8. Land Office. It combines simplicity with durability — speed , ease of operation lished by Horace Dillard. tìs, TicKCiß, i value to farmers is inestimable. men resided here. Igei s. Etc. L and M atters a S pecialty . j wears longer without cost of repairs than any other machine, has Right here, however, permit us 1887 — T he E ast O regon H er Next is in August, 1865, when no ink ribbon to bother the operation. It neat, substantial, nick- on 2?e for re- to mention a natural attraction Point Wright was named in honor ald , a 7-column, patent-inside, iMSpHper Ad- el-plated—perfect and adapted to all kinds of typewritin g possessed by lands adjacent to these Gen. plant was established by Wright, who went down in the newspaper CHAS. SAMPSON - - B urns , O r . lakes that will draw hundreds of I 1 “Brother D. L. Grace. Jonathan” the preceding Like a Printing Press it produces sharp, clean, legible manuscript. Two to ten copies excursionist from the East in the spring, and 1888— In May T he H erald was W-A-T-C-H-M-A-K-E-R can be made at one writings. Editors, lawyers, ministers, bankers, merchant«, establishment of Camp near futurre: Standing in the door Wright in September of that year enlarged to an “all-at-home print,” manufacturers, business men, etc., cannot make a better investment for $15. -AND- Au intelligent person in a week can become a Good operator, or a rapidone in 2 months. way of farm houses about sunrise byCapt. L. I.. Williams of Co. “H,” making it the first and only news Jeweler. distant objects, towns, farms, moun $1,000 offered any operator who can do better work with a Type- Din Harrison 1st Oregon Infantry, in command paper ever printed complete in the tvi P. Morton tain peaks, and bands of cattle and Harney pountry. Only r2.50a year. Writer than that produced by the Odell. RJF Reliable Agent» of part» of three companies sta K8(i Blaine lam Windom horses grazing on the ranges, are tioned on the ground near the pres N. Brown began the erection of the and Salesmen wanted. Special inducements to Dealers. ¡DhnW. Noble pictured on the atmosphere and BLACKSMITH. first Grist and Merchantile Mill in For Pamphlets, giving endorsements, Ac., address the Afield Proctor ent site of J. S. Devine ’ s residence. lin F. Tracey rise up from the ground like magic; j the valley. ADOLI’H TUPKER-----P rop ’ r 45 ODELL TYPE WRITER CO., T iie R ookery , C hicago , III. liah M. Rusk In Sept. 1865, there was a fight IL H. Miller and these white repreAitations are 1889— The creation of Harney —GENERAL REPAIRING— Wanamaker so truly drawn, that a member of a between the Indians (Harney Val i ley I’iutes), and a part of the force ■ County was obtained with follow- family living several miles away AND J. N. Dolph Williams, between . ing officials: Judge, T. J. Shields; É. 1Í. Mitchell from home, can distinguish the per under Capt. liter Hermann sons of the family as they walk Camp Wright and Harney lake, Clerk, W. E. Grace; Treasurer, T. Miter 1’cnnoyer lb. W. McBride about the yard: brother from fa wounding a soldier named Smith 1 H. Roberts; Commissioners, Lytle f.G. W. Webb Stage in the foot, and another named Howard; T. B. James; Surveyor, Promptly executed. The building has been en J. B. McElroy ther, or mother from sister. iarg< -i «nd Improved and le »repared to turn W. R. Gradon; Sheriff, A. A. Cow out IFrank Haket Griffin. who in after years died all kinds of blacksmithing on short notice : R >. Strahan The Lake of Harney was proba 1-ly from the effects of the injury. That ing; Assessor, \V. E. Alberson; and in the best style. Terms: Cash. LWm. I*. Lord . W. Thayer bly so called because it was in the School Superintendent, L. B. Ba same evening the Indians set fire CT: Harney country, and Malheur after to the tall grass [a man named ker. HARNEY ADVERTISEMENTS. . L B I son J.. L. R and one of the tribes of Indians that, Keiger describes the grass of the I’. F. Stenger obtained the first ________________ FROM PRINEVILLE TO BURNS. hunted annually in its vicinity. daily mail, and erected the first valley “ high enough for me to tie ------- a Severe drouth during 1889, these J. NAT. HUDSON A. WILSHIRE, over my head as i ride through it costly and elegant family residence W. Lakeview, W. G ilham these l ikes are lower than ever be Harney, Or. . Or. ■ . T. SHIELDS C. B. BAKER, Sub-Contractor. on horse-back’’] and Capt. Wil j in the county. ?.W. E. G rack fore known by white settlers. III. R oberts . liams and his men had to take ref WILSHIRE 4 HUDSON. I rave» Prineville Monday» at 6 a ni. Arrive» at Burna Wadnoaday. at f > B. V. R < n«oüS Soil and cliinate are an exact uge on a grease wood knoll—some The United States Land Office LeavM Burn» Thur»dav» at 6 a m. Arrivea at Prinevilla Satardaya at • , a». A. A. C omino for Harney District was established B. Al. PERSON counterpart of that of Umatilla co . where about the Buccaroo house of Attorneys-at-Law, in Burns with .J. B. Huntington, L.L. B. B aker M m . M eeker Ore., the best wheat-raising county the Divine ranch of to-day—en register, and Harrison Kelley, rc- LAKKVIEW AND HARNEY, OK. Passenger rate» from Prineville to Hurns 17.50; Round trip >14—with 00 day» delay. in the State. Very little has been passant, two olden time shot guns h»E H oward ' ceiver. This firm practices in the courts of the State ¡T. B. J ames done towards wheat-raising here, were found in the willows in that and before the ü. N. Land Office. Any land but those have been sucegsful that vicinity, a couple of years since. Office or other business entrusted to them will receive prompt attention. ■*£: have tried it. Umatilla on account CALI FOBS I %. huNTINGTON At about the same time Lieut. “Know vc the land where the cypres« and myr UPLAND CASES SOLICITED. of the drouth of 1889, averaged BREWERY. I son K elly tle from 10 to 20 bushels per acre Applegate of Co. “H”, in command Are emblems of deeds that are done in their on many grain ranches. The same of a part of Capt. Williams’ force clime?” PROPRIETOR. PAUL LOCHER - ELITE SALOON. Who does not want to know all about the can be said of this sectien. T he was returning from Camp Curry, Golden State, is matchless climate its marvel- E ast O regom H eiald has in it» to Camp Wright, was that evening ous growth, and its boundless treasures; the HARNEY, ------------- OREGON land where colossal fortunes are made in a day B U R N S, O R E G O N office fine specimens ofgrain from attacked by the Indians at fortifi nr O. O. F. 1« st it) a night? Th» Man Francisco Evening COAT8WORTH A TKEGAHKI8, Ma? unlay at all over the countv, for the years cations thrown up on what is now Bulletin, which was established in lxñú, stands PROPRIETOR*. in the forefront of California journalism, and ON, X. G. ------------- 0------------- the McGee ranch and called for its mammoth weekly edition forms a complete 1888 and 1889. epitome of the social, material, and political The Burn» B««r 1» • H im Quality. *n<I m»y ‘«1 bT '*• 01* »r 1» Qu»»tl»y. f. in after one of the company, Fort Wheat finds a ready home mar CANYON CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. history of the State. Nedd us |3 for T he H er ket at 5 cents a pound"—43 per bu Drellenger. And again, the next ald and Weekly Bulletin for one year. shel Oats and barley grow equal morning, about eight miles south C. A. feWBBK, ly well, and bring 3 and 4| cent» of the present town of Burns, the excepted. THZ READING ROOM. I f you want something fine as a per pound. Alfalfa and red clover Indians shooting from the point of ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. literary treat, send to Harper 4 CANYON CITY, OBMON. grow luxuriantly; timothy and red- the rimrock west of the cove. IN HERALD OFFICE, - - - BURNS, OREGON top thrive finely. Pasturage is ex The Piute» were under command Brothers, New York, for last year’s cellent: natural grass grows abun of a Chief Wahweveb, brother of “Christmas number, 1888,” of Har Open every day except Sunday, from 9 a m to 5 p no. dant. and is cut for hay that sells old Chief Paulina, whom Howard pers Franklin Square Library,only Attorney-at-Law. -o- at $12 and $15 per ton in the Maupin, an old Mexican soldier, 25c. We acknowledge receipt of a Every and Lady Gentlemen a welcome V isitor to thi» Fro Read handsome Extra, this week, full of winter time. All cereal crops killed on Crooked river in 1867; M. DUSTIN. ing Room. thrive without irrigation. Office: Canyon City »nd Bum». he burned Camp Wright sometime Yule-tide stories and pictures, LD THE HOPKINS T he D rewsey S aloon . 1YPHE JOB WORK. HERALD I