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BURNS ADVERTISEMENTS. bing the Canyon City stage but ac pointment, if heeded would not rep’re'sentaiive, Gilham. Gilham quitted for want of evidence. only have filled the ten offices but as promised the people of Burns thro letter which bore his own signa "Sheep Herder Joe,” the murder many more, hence, the “Independ a ture, that the county-seat should er of Abbott, is said to be, also, a TUVIUiDAV. PEHKi AttvM, IWO. ent-Republican Weekly” cast the be fix'd by the Governor and by hard case and between the two it was simply a matter of who could odium of its special bad word “De petition. I» 1 j GRACE.............................. get there first. 4. The people of Burns have vine ” on all the Democrat ap Ml.l.G ««!<%• - Literary Frfltor. T he location of permanent coun done more toward the settling of War was declared in John Day pointees, except L. B. Baker, and ty-seat is a plain business proposi Harney valley, and have been the later part of last week. Bill pUR COUNTY-« AT OF HARNEY COUNTY bragged he and the Republi TKT. Erown, tion to be determined by appeal to friends to the settlers. Whit, a half-breed, it seems had 5. The stores and hotels supply been saving something which he voters’ reason, not to partisan pre cans would not serve the people in BURNS. Leading Merchant of Harney Co the offices given them; which was the want» of the people, and if any I ought to have left unsaid and Joe judices. ------- DEALER IN------- true as far as the latter was con traveler goes to Burns to buy he Combs went gunning for him with Hurns Free i&llUon. I DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS generally gets what he wants. blood in his eye. A number of men A mammoth boom edition of the i Tint H erald is necessarily whol cerned, as the three Republicans 6. The people of Burns treat gathered Joe’ while Bill put some BOOTS, SHOES, GROCERIES, HARDWARE sent in their resignations. everyone with kindness and respect. distance lietween them, and then leading newspaper of the Harney ly local these times, because all STOVES, TINWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWti Having asserted the Democrats 7. Burns is as much the center afterwards slid out and is probably PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, THE CELEBRi country, T he E ast O regon H er - Eastern or Coast mail stopped at (not the Republicans) were men 0^’Harney county as any other going yet. SULTANA RAZORS, AND “I X L” CUTLERY, W| ai i>, will be issued May 1, 1890. date of January 11. CIGARS—AND A THOUSAND OTHER ARTlc appointed by “Devine,” the people town. Judge Fee cannot be present at 1. It will be the largest in size 8. The best agricultural land TOO TEDIOUS TO MENTION. ■must have some evidence of the the coming term of our circuit mid number ever printed in the I lavs around Burns. T he editor of the Harney Valley truth of its words, so, on the 8th I 9. Burns District pays more I court, and an adjourned term will » ountv. be held some time in May to try Cheapest House in EastemJOregon for Ca¿ i 2. It will contain more reading Items is to-day and has been ever day of last month the editor of that taxes than any other. the cases for which Mr. Clifford was sheet trumped up a set of charges 10. The Land Office is perma matter than any paper ever printed since the spring of 1887, A. W. counsel before his appointment to nently located in Burns, and if the Waters We give the llarney against the County Judge as a be county-seat should go there, it ! the judicial bench. here. ginning, in the form of a communi 3. It will contain a boom article I’ress the information to keep it would make one good town in Har We have just received a letter lor every town ami place of impor from coming to Burns for any more cation, but accepted as editorial by ney valley, and if n settler has from W. F. Moffett of the Malheur URNS position in the columns of the paper, business before the Land Office , country dated Jan. 15: snow was 2] “n. w. e ” sorts. tance in the eounty. AND * feet deep and still snowing hard. making the following assertions: and county court he could do this 4. It will be issued to advertise I All classes of stock that had no feed BOOK EXCHANGE 1. It is a fact that Judge Shields in one town and one day, and were dying. Mr. Moffett says the Burns and Harney county in par T he location of permanent coun- IN THE HERALD BUILDING. would not have to ramble over the is stupid. I loss will be heavy in the Malheur ticular. county. MRS. (¡RACE, ------ L ibrarian . ■ ty-seat is not a political issue, and 2. It is a fact that Judge Shields 5. A copy will be given to the j any man that will try to entangle it The following I would suggest as lost to the tax payers of Harney good Democratic timber: Sam Mil- '■ country. Thos. McEwan, one of the pro- Object of opening thia business in connection with the Free Reading Room* j. »J head of every family, and every with the Democratic, Republican, county $9,000. i ler of Drewsey, Jasper Davis, of prietorsof the Baker-Canyon stage Funds for purchasing books for a Public Library for Hurns—The lot for thebulkW single man and woman in the or “No Party” politics, is no friend 3. It is a fact, as I am told, that Harney, I’. F. Stenger, of Burns,1 line, informs us that the contract TERMS: Membership Fee $12 a year. Reading Fee 10c. Deposit of 25c, or R- county; the only return asked in to Harney county, is an enemy of Judge Maxey said he would place Wm. Miller, of Harney, A. A. Cow-j for carrying the mail has been odical or Hook, made with the Librarian, in every instance. Send for Catalogue 1 Librarian is agent for and will take Sul s< riptiors at the Lowest Kit ( payment is for each recipient to | Burns, and a demagogue of the the figures of Harney county’s in ing. of Harney, Wm. Alberaon. of awarded to an eastern man “whose idical, and order any Hook, published in the L'uited Staks or Canada. Alio g Pictures. Works of Art, House-Building Designs, Etc. debtedness to Grant county at mail the pajier to the address ofj LEGAI basest instincts—such a man is cap $20,000, and if necessary, br'nj . Harney, Wm Coatsworth, of Har- name he had forgotten” his bid being ney. I $3,680. Eastern men have no idea some desirable citizen back East. r=== able of treason to people who con them down to $10,000. .... , , 7_,. , , ,, I of the roads and other impediments 6. The descriptions of town and 4. That Shields was “Devine’s” [\\ edo not think our triend should an(j (ijsajvantageg with which mail fide in him. eounty will be truthful, ami con Greer's Hardware Store|M,ao Judge. confine favors so exclusively to contractors have to contend in this tain mine of the dis-gusting real- j, else they Bt 5. That Shields was “Devine’s” Harney, as there are other precincts mountainous country estate-agent exaggerations that T he political campaign is open , servant. would not he so eager to underbid CAL. GEER---------------------- ----------------- - - I> in the county.—En. H erald .] those who are cognizant of the evils make laughing-stocks of even the in Harney coUuty. T he H erald I 6. That “Devine” induced the i to make n that «aid The italics Daily Times- attending a failure to deliver Uncle best of localities. is a political newspaper when par-1 ! Governor to appoint Shields to the Items from Mountaineer. I.. , .. . ! Sam s mail on time. 1 his eastern tv lines are drawn. The line be office of Judge. -The great trouble appears to be I lnan’8 bid is lower than the last one, As a large part of the money for ; tween the Democratic and Repub ’ I d . s. No. 7 That “Shields is an incompe in ice forming on the track and by which contract Griffin & McEw- 7. Tp A» this edition is not only subscribed, 1 lican party is as distinct as a black tent. throwing engines and carriages off. an are carrying the mail, and unless Crockery, Queensware. Glassware. Shelf Goodsof Every but paid in, nnw.£4F“We respect mark dividing a white surface into 8. “Devine” inflicted Shields as [the jails. he has an immense bank account This Establishment carries a full ami carefully selected Stock equal to dt I | iie county judge on the county of Har -The west-bound train, we under- Mr. Eastern Man at the end of his Ilardv. are line—Cases of new goods are now being opened. Bird cages and fully request the business men in two parts. The Republican organ, ney. ;i(M0 stand, was wrecked this morning' four-year-contract will not have offered. A reasonable price, only, is placed on the goons. each town, school district, postal the Harney Valley Items, opened ^W “ We are Agent for the I). M. Osborne Company ’ s ' ---------- But, as he frequently does, “he j near Viento, and the locomotive and even a pair of gum boots left to re point, and neighborhood to meet at the newspaper controversy now on Implements H __________________ RDER FO1 member his experience as a mail reckoned without his host,” when baggage ear are ditched their respective school houses,March -These days of blockaded trains contractor in Eastern Oregon. hands by trying to prevent the an he forgot that the people of Silver he County 24th, and appoint a committee to Long Creek Eagle: Some time nouncement of Democrats as candi Creek precinct were interested in the newspaperman is in much dif he matter! draft an article they believe equal ficulty. before Tom Williams became owner dates for office by false accusations, the good name of its representative -The Blue Mountain division is to the advantages possessed by in order to “get'control of the coun citizen, and an investigation into in a tcrible condition. Report says of Jordan, Joe Combs challenged ! J. N. Hamilton to run a race with their part of the county, and such ty offices” by ballot, where it failed the grounds for the accusation was it is completely blockaded, and it Nappa for a purse of $ 1000. We are inetsof bi as they would like laid before to get control by appointment. We instituted at once. Judge Maxcv, I will be considerable time before it informed that Tom Williams will Eastern readers, of the best indus carry out the challenge if it is ac let the attack on the County Judge whose name was thus openly used will be open for traffic. -George C. Wiegand, a promi trial classes. Then send itto “T he go, because wc had to await Judge to substantiate the malicious politi-' nent stockman of Gilliam county, cepted, so we may expect a race I W m . M c F all , TrewNHeJm". F. E. B each . President, H erald , Burns, Oregon.” worth seeing some time in the ear Maxey's movements. | W. F. B rownton , sCof'thei E. H ughes , Vice-President, cal slander on the Democracy of| is supfrosed to have left North Yak ly spring. ) make a | ima for Arlington about Christmas To friends of Burns who fear the Harney county, was written to. > consider Bob Gilmore, a resident of the horseback, and has not been heard > appoint i T he H ebai . i > asserted when told political controversy nowon bauds Judge Maxey did not stop at of since. He cashed a draft on a Cottonwood section, we have been •‘ A syndicate” composed of twenty will hurt the county-seat question, writing a personal letter in reply, Yakima bank and announced his informed, has turned out between of the best Republicans in the coun we say this: we have as much at but published the following article : intention of crossing the Simcoe 3000 and 4000 head of sheep to rus ffBF*I.ist of Directors and Stockholders at the office oltHapprlwe ty, had purchased the “Independ stake as any of you, our One dol over his own signature in the Re mountains on horseback. All tle for themselv eshis feed running i appoint out. J. D. Shatv;r?.’”Mc' ent Weekly Journal” published in lar is as big in our eyes, (because publican weekly in Grant county, I efforts to discover his whereabouts 2-30tf BURNS. 0FX"b™nA Burns, in order to run it a straight- ■ it is our all), as your Ten dollars denouncing the whole accusation as i have proved fruitless. When he From LongCreeK Eagle, Feb. 14: was supposed to have started across out Republican paper, “that the are in your eyes. The county-seat Owing to the many land slides a falsehood from beginning to end: the mountains there was no snow, and wrecks on the O. R. it N. last same spirit .that guided its politics question is not a political question, C anyon C ity , Feb. 2, ’90. and it is feared he has met with ! week, the mail to this section was heretofore, would continue it in the 1 as the Tadpole demagogues would foul play. | greatly reduced, but is now arriv Editor News: Will you allow me future.” Read the followingextracts have you believe; Burns has incon -All trains which come in now j ing regularly again. BREWERY. a short space in your paper to an are hauled by three engines. ieriffs stud see if our judgment in the trovertible, natural and acquired, swer a communication appearing in The Harney county section has SOW Al -The first mail train for two days matter is not good: advantages the whole’people, Dem the Harney Items, of Jan. 8, 1890, from Portland arrived in the city ; suffered severely from delayed it " to a ¿ C PA^l’L LOCHER - - ----- PROPM M>f OW» in which the word “ Devine ” is May 2, 1888, behind the name of ocrats and Republicans, Christains, mails this winter, thus working 41 red on tl soon after 3o’clock this morning. where! n B U R N S, O R E G O N hardship on the editors of that sec •I. M. Vaughn, said to be Republi Jews, and Gentiles, infidels, anarch used in such a manner that at Wm. II -We understand the loss of sheep 1 eej n BtiBrnt he inT Quality, and may be had by the Gia Bottled,orat can editor and proprietor, “that ists, and demagogues will recognize long range one would think it was is quite heavy in Antelope. Mr. A. tion. Most cnrtainlv they will have "er c?nt] a devine revelation, but at short cause to smile when spring, in real lrst-nan same spirit” writes the following as I as “business propositions” too plain range it has the appearance of be Finlavson, so we are informed, has ■ ity, arrives. a specjmen of Independent-Repub ly for their individual advancement ing conceived in a muddled brain, lost 1500 head, and many others Notwithstanding the vigilance of i are in no better condition. and born in the sanctum sanctor -All stages leave the city on a number of parties at the polls,! lican doctrii e: NEAR HIRNS. OREG' ; on . to ignore. um of the Harney Items when the sleighs. Tuesday, numerous illegal votes! Burns will be the location of the “The old party issues are dead, editor was out. The writer of the SAYER A DORE Pin -One week ago yesterday was the were polled. ' nothing remains but the empty permanent county-seat for Harney scurrilous article presumes that the last eastern mail received in this Mr. Beck, of Monument, says the ' names, yet the majority of the voters Cotin ty. tax-payers of Harney county doont city. Keeps constantly on hand a largo atoe nf losses of stock in that locality this cling to the name as tenaciously as We will receive advices in time know that they have lost $9,000 in though the issues were alive.” —Canyon City News: Judge Clif winter are not nearly so large as the settlement with Grant county, to give the people of the county our ford will remain home until after has been reported. August 15, 1888, under shelter reasen for such assertion, by T he and he has been told that it was a the March term of court. Newt Jones has returned from a fact that Judge Maxey, of Grant, of Ben Franklin’s name as Demo II erai . d ' b issue of April 3, 18IX). -We learn that Beck brothers, trip over to Nelse Jones’ sheep camp told his friends that he would place cratic editor and proprietor, he In the meantime, friends, don’t the figures at $20,000, and if neces of Monument wintered their sheep and reported the outlook very bad They have lost about 700 head and enunciates the following as good allow the fellow “up to snuff” to sary would come to $10,000. To without much loss. their sheep are still dying. The I -We await with much anxiety the J ndependent Democratic doctrine: hoodwink you into believing "get this I will say that every word is i all k inds efaurfacelumber thoroughly Reasoned for building “confession” of Ed. Abbott’s, prom snow is two feet deep with no signs REDUCED PR II E. <n false from the beginning to the end. “A revolution in politics is taking ting the county-seat for Burns” lies A full statement of the settlement ised by the Baker Democrat. That of a break. ----- — • u We hear that “ pinkeye ” is among place, all the old issues between in the hollow of a renegade Repub between Grant and Harney coun confession, if it is genuine, will per the parties are dead, nothing but lican’s hand, because he is the quill- ty is on file in the county clerk’s haps throw some light upon the the horses in this section. N. B. A Good mad all the wav. the name remains." driver of the only Republican news office in Harney county, and any question as to the author of two or Long Creek Eagle: On last Mon three stage roboeries. tax-payer in Harney county can Jan. 1, 1890, behind the “new paper in the county. Latest From Harney. -Hank Levens who was in town day evening, Feb. 10, at 9:15, the ! examine themselves and will management” ns he calls the llar- The majority of the people i f set1 at once for last week said that he had a large Angel of Death visited the family — The beautiful is rapidly depart- that an honorable man nev Valley Printing ami Publishing Harney county are honest, intelli- and faithful officer has been slan quantity of hay in Harney county, and took from our midst J. T. ing. IT. , A t'ompany. Republican editors and g'nt, and industrious people, of dered through the stupidity of a and very much desiring that it Mael, aged 47 years, 2 months and! 4 days. | —Wlnds latter part of this proprietors,’he gets oil' the following different political and religious crank The settlement was made should not be burned he had a man Mr. Mael, who was the son of wee^' hired with a gun to guard the stacks ns a sample of his conception of views, as well as business pursuits, on the statement of Wm. Miller of The hay burners over there will get Martha and B. h. Mael. was born I —An old house Intelv purchased indebtedness of Grant county Straightout-Republican ioctrine: for, if they had not been such, a 1 the upon which Grant eounty obtained l caught in their nefarious work one in Henry co., Iowa, Dee. 6, 1842.: bv Wol.lenburg and moved up near ‘ The great political p.,rties are newsp:i]MT devoted to the disturb j a judgment against Lake county of these, nights and reach the end of came to Oregon in 1852, where he J the L-F. building, was blown down spent his younger days in securing i jn a gale of wind, Thursday night, constantly changing, and hence in ances of the harmonious relation- I in the Supreme Court of this State, their rope, as it were. an _ able education; enlisted as as a a -Wc ,.police the genial counte — ....... ........ ; enlisted n term of years all there is left is .'hip of citizen» one to the other in and is undoubtedly as correct a __ ....................... Oregon’s regiments, i ' —The St. Valentine’s dance Fri- nance of Mr. Isaac . Bear again in bugler in oncof statement of the indebtedness of the name." a county, would liavu aerkiusly iiml mustered i_. _____ ___ in the Willamette sec-, <la . -v n'ght pronounced a de- our midst. Grant county as could be made. tion. and went out upon the battle- ; Hghtful affair, J. c. Garrett, of Same old coon, no matter which dangerously arrayed themselves I make this statement injustice E<! \bbott. a Hani rtalnl I' roni Grant field, where he faithfully performed : Silver ’ - creek, ------ was - in attendance. tree Lc is shaken out of, yet he against each other. to Judge Shields, knowing the County, Vies Willi Hi« Hoot« On. his duty for three consecutive charges against him to be false and From canyon City News, Feb. 13: t oasts of being the Pet Child of the —A literary society was formed i years. Notary P> unjust and should have done so Tuesday evening. I Administration. STOf YOVIl NI.ANDfr.lt OK STANI» Was afterward married to Miss I). L. GP.AC ^h Persons arriving by west-bound F HOM I NHfr.K. sooner, but circumstances over —Mrs. Gilham. Mrs. Brown, and ' BURMA. 0* t Hou which I had no control prevented train yesterday inform us a fatal Susie Jackson, to whom were born W atch the man that talks coun Mrs. Engel, who have been suffer-: Land Filnga, Contest Blank»-' War* shooting affray took place last Tues eight children. me from doing so. Publication Notice«, «»rreetfr S t J day at Falk’s store on the Payette, After settling in Grant county. Mr. ing from la grippe, are convales attended ty-seat, politics and “no party” to March 12. 1889, the Democratic to. Deeds. Note». N R M axcy . i | legibly drawn np. Charge»•’ gether, and ask “a hat is his object Governor of the State of Oregon ap Co. Judge Grant County. in which Ed. Abbott, a prominent Mael wrought valuable service for cent. hard character formerly of Grant its citizens as a school teacher, and —A little daughter of M. M — for mixing business and politics?" pointed seven Democrats. Shields. J NAT. HI ^"*1 county, and “Sheep Herder Joe," of then as county superintendent. Brierly is very sick. Why Burn« for Comity Seat? Grace, Cowing, James. Morrison. the Payette section, were the prin Afterwards waselected county clerk, ATTORN KY-LÍ E d . E ast O rkoon H erald ; As cipals. the former receiving a mor in which capacity he became favor —C. F. McKinney was quite sick G overnor I' ennoyeh is compli M<Theeters, and Baker, and three Office: BURSTS' this week, but is about again. the political pot in Harney county tal wound and dying a few hours ably known throughout the county, mented by Republican as well as Republicans, Miller. Harvey and M», has commenced to boil and good after. The trouble grew out of thus resulting in him being unani —Boat Ford and Enterprise ~ "IP Democratic newspapers for his ac Gradon, from the citizens of Har many applicants have come out for some discussion at the dinner table mously the choice for re-election, Attorney-at-^**j districts were divided, last tion in behalf of the people's inter ney county to perform the duties office, 1 would like to make a few at the hotel, both men drew their receiving the largest majority ever school Friday, M est, in calling together the as.« asora of the offices made vacant by di nominations, and would say that "guns ’ but “Sheep Herder Joe" got polled t>e any nominee in the county. opens his revival >ffi<e: Harney ' ' ’,rn" of the State to prepare for a fair-deal vision of the Harney country from nobody but that is a Democrat there first and won the fight. < hving to failing health he tendered | — Elder Taylor i».._ - __ . « * meeting in Burns, next Saturday. should be elected, for this reason, fhe murdered man is well known his resignation, after which he grad '(.rant coun'y, viz: County Judge. ing assessment. W W CarcF* Downs, it is said, is going over . Clerk. Sheriff, two Commissioners, that the county is Democratic, and throughout Grant county where he ually declined in strength until the there is as good men in the Demo lived several years, and it can be pangs of death seized upon him. to lecture on “ Christian Science, ” W hatever maybe the mental Coroner, School Superinten lent. cratic ranks as there is in the Re- said no good was ever known of him. ___ 1______ , *pi The funeral services were to have or “faith cure.” ATTORN E Y-A<fci calibre of the readers of the Har Treasurer, Assessor, and Surveyor, publican. Mv first selection will He bore the reputation of being a taken place at the church at Long — J. C. Garrett came over, Tues B urns , O b HB ney Items and Harney Press, we until the next general election in be “bad man" and the wonder is that Creek on Wed. eve. Feb. 12, at 2 with County Clerk Grace, and Prarti ’ca in all the conf it BERN'S FOR COI STY-SEAT. h’.s light had not gone out long ago. o’clock, p. tn., but owing to the in day. say thia of the readers of the E ist *be State. In June of 1890. spent the week. a I- g . I m ? fore tl-.e U. N. Reason» why: It is said Abbot’ made a full con clemency of the weather, it was The action vf the Governor was O regon H erald : We have only to L vsd M atteis \ ‘mi 1. Burns is the oldest town in fession of hi» Grant county exploits postponed until some future date — M**- Tudor moved her fam «■orrectly place before them a prop- baaed upon tl»c political com pie x- the valley. 4 f I efort he died and the Democrat and the procession proceeded to the ily to her ranch on the Island, GEO W HARNEA. oaition, and. leave it to their own ion of the new county, wherein the 2. The people of Burns have done is promised by the officer at Payette cemetery east of town where the in Thursday; she reports considerable Prineville, Or. good judgti ent for decision, be- democratic strength stood as 7 more for eounty division than any a copy of the document which will terment took place. j loss in her band of stock last BABM> A low cause T he H erald has ever ap Democrat» to 3 Republicans, but people in all the ether town» com be published as soon as received. The sympathy of every resilient month. bined. Authorities of Baker county will of the connty is sincerely tendered pea led to their reason and not tot'*** a R,r* Blow to Republican man- Attorneys at{g —Born, to Mr. and Mr. Miles 3. Great wrong has been done rvmeiuher __ ________ Abbot, ns the man arrest- the bereaved family in this sad Riley. Feb 7. 1890, a son. their prejudice» whore applications for ap- to the people of Burn» by the last td Will pro th e in •’! of the about’ two year* ago for rob-; hour of their affliction. Au butin ms pa<e«l in rare More Anon W. W. promptly atiende*! to. THE HERALD I n whose individual interest is the "No Party” racket, made by the ; pseudo "Republican Weekly Journ al? O1RCULATING AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. TINWARE, THE PACIFIC FIRE INSURANCE [S TAL S 3OO,(feg; setfe rife rel ictblffiS?« Tlie S£L VA jvrtiiœ Flooring, Moldings, Flnstic, IXTe'W JMactiinertf a