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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1891)
r^an PUT YOUR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE HERALD. VOL. IV. NEWS IN BRIEF, PUBLISHED VEERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. THE NEWS OF THE WOULD AS CÜLED FROM EXCHANGES. BY W. C. BYRD a SON. r and P roprietors . i ------------------------- A Curious Mining Coincidr nee. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: The figure 9 is curiously and in timately connected with all the great gold-mining excitements of ■ HERALD CLUB LIST j the Nineteenth Century. The great Jerald and Harper’s Magazine.. ... 5.00 ■erald and Harper’s Weekly ... 6.20 Algerian gold bubble formed and . . 5.20 broke in 1809. Herald and Harper’s Bazar Next came the 3.75 Jerald and Harper’s Young People lerald mil Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia, l, 2.90 Mantanza Mountain craze in 1839, Eai h additional volume after Vo). 1, 55 cents: < 10 cents extra ner volume, postage. when solid bowlders of gold as large opiesof all the above works can be ex as flour barrels were reported. The mined at leisure ill the Reading Room. California gold fever broke out in Publishers of periodicals are solicited to send clubbing rates, a copy of their work for 1849, and raged until counteracted •Hr Free Reading Room—Wefile, and bind the hitter at close of every half-volume, i'n<l v-v 11 bj’ the Pike’s Peak boom in 1859 aopies by advertisement. Ten years later, in 1869. "Old Vir- giny,” the celebrated miner, struck ADVERTISING RATES: the lucky lead which made Virginia ACK j 1 wk 2 Wk 1 mo 3 mo 6 mo I 1 yr City and Nevada famous in the !■ ■neh »1 50 | 2 50 |5 00 »s 'XI »ii oo 115.00 18.00 6.50 12 u3 23.(0 mining annals of the world. 4 00 3 00 1879 « 40 00 5 00 8 00 15.00 24.00 3.50 4 50 6 00 10 00 20 00 32 00 50.00 came in on time with the Leadville 48 00 54.00 9 00 15.00 28.00 6.00 col. 44 80.00 120 00 frenzy and the famous "carbonates” 12.90 16 00 28 00 48 00 20 00 30 00 40.00 60 00 no oo 140 00 of Lake county, Colorado. 1889 broke the charm, but 1899 may JOB WORK make up for lost time, there being ’ every description executed with neatness id despatch, at reasonable rates. two 9s in that date. ■One Year Six Months. three Months One Year (in advance) rculars, lyelopes, atements, einoranda. BECAUSE IT GOES BEFORE THE PUB LIC TWICE A WEEK BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 15, 1891 Semi-Weekly Herald, I P ublishers WiHYT Posters, Bill Heads. Note Heads, Invitations. 33.00 .. .1.80 75 .2.50 Pamphlets Letter Heads, Cards, TicKets, Dodgers, Etc. T he H erald is kept regularly on file for re irence, in tbe Geo. P. Rowell Newspaper Ad •fining Bureau. 10 Spruce st.. New York. Kent ucky’w Eleotion. On Monday, the 3d, Kentucky elected a state ticket, adopted a constitution, and chose a legislature. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. The state officers elected are: Gov ernor, John Young Brown, of Hen national : Benjamin Har rlso resident ............... Levi P. Morton derson; lieutenant governor, M. C. ice President, JamesG. Blaine »cretary of State Charles Foster. Alford, of Lexington; attorney, W. Scretary of Treasury John W. Noble J. Hendricks, of Flemingsburg: frelary of Interior Redfield Proctor ¡cretary of War Benjamin F. Tracey auditor, treasurer, suDerintendeiit seretarv of Navy Jeremiah M. Rusk sereiary of Agriculture Win. H. Miller of public instruction, register of the .ttorney General . John Wauamaker ostmaster General land office, and clerk of the court STATE—OREGON : „ ( J. N. Dolph of appeals. All are democrats, and . S. Senators B i J. H Mitehan K. Binger Hermenn go in by majorities ranging from ongressman D.Syl IIILDivl vester v. ii a • overnor «*» a Pennoyer »<T»t-l Geo. W. McBride 30,000 to 40,000. Bcretary of State The new consti Phil. Metsehnn. R Yeasurer J. B. McElroy tution has carried, and the majority upt. Public Instruction R Frank Bakei R tate Printer > R. 8. Bean, for it is placed at anything from R z Wm. P. Lord R preme Judges thousand ) W. W. Thayer fifty to one hundred R Rheubin S. Strahm The heavy majority for it was a SIXTH JUDICIAL district : to its opponents, M. D. C lifford great surprise D listriet Judge C has . F. H yde ■ D listriet Attorney among them were included some of D. 8. DUSTIN Dint-Representative (D). (D) H enry B lackman Dint-Senator the best known and ablest public COUNTY—HARNEY : men in the state, including Senator W m . M illef . (D) . lounty ujdge ,W. E. G rach Carlisle and Governor Buckner. Jerk (D) T. H. R oberts TvHsurer (D) (D) T. A. M c K innon The peoples’ party has polled about Irveyur A. A. C owin « He riff • (D) W. E. A1.BERSON 20,000 votes. BKessor . , .(D). These have come .C has .N ewell :h,H>l Superintendent tR) T hos . G D odkon mostly from the republican party. lock Inspector ................... W m . A ltnow While the alliance was supposed to Dinniisaiunrrs ({Ji Lytle Howard. lie back of the peoiile’ party, it ha« HARNEY U. 8. LAND OFFICE: done very little for it on account of egister ............................. J. B. H untington : eceiver ..H arrison K elley dissensions which arose" last Janu ary, and which caused the retire CHURCH DIRECTORY. ment from the alliance of President URNS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH j S. B. Erwin, the peoples’party can M.D. WILSON Pastor. didate. The alliance has devoted There will he preaching by the pastor in each ninth as follows,until further notice- itself to the legislature, and proba 1st fh ibath—Burns—at 11 a m, and 4:30 pm 2d Sai.bath—Island School House— Rt 11 a m bly has practical control of that —Harney—at 7:30pm. 3d Sabbath—Burn*— it 11 a m. and 4:30 p m body, and so will control revision 4th Sabbath—Harney—at llim. and 7:30 p m of the laws under the new constitu SOCIETIES. tion. HARNEY LODGE, NO. 77, I. O O F. Meet« at Odd Fellows Hall, every Saturday 30 pm, H, M. H orton , N. G. *n Brown, Tress HARNET POS T NO. 43. G. A. R. Meets every let and'ad Wedneedav of each touth. at odd Fellow»' Hall. All Comrades » govdstanding invited. „ M. M. BRIERI.Y, P. C. C has . K rwell . Ad’j't. Meh 13-1« U. S. MAILS. BURNS— vale : I vet and depart* daily, bundaya excepted. BURN*—CANTON CITY*. JwMondaj* Wednesday», Friday*. 6pm. a Taeaoaja Tburadajs a Saturdays 10 <&»“• The Heoaomy of Pain. GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES I I QUOTE YOU Mr. Howells says "we are all ■ — blinded, we are all weakened, by a ” false ideal of self-sacrifice.” Even 1___ Drv Granulated Sugar, $ 9.75 per 1001b I have just received a full and 2.10 complete Stock of Dry Goods, a cursory glance at ourselves and yaifs 7.80 h keg. Groceries, Hardware, Tinware those about out confirms the truth Flour, 6.00 barrel Notions, etc , which I will sell of this statement. In some way we Omaha Bacon............ 18 80 ** 100 lb at BEDROCK PRICES FOR 3.00 u can CASH ONLY have so misinterpreted the Rible as L’oal Oil (Pearl)......... Yours Respectfully, to believe that pure religion and un- * HOM^8',N> A. ROBBINS defiled consists in ignoring common-1 sense. We do not dare trust our own judgement in the cries of sor WHOLESALE ! RETAIL I I row and disaster, and imagine that the most painful course, bv reason HUNTINGTON, ............................................. OREGON. of its very pain, is the one we ought to follow. Many of our funeral customs, through a false idea of what is due the dead, become bar We are now located in the New Brick Block, with plenty of room, barous inflictions upon the living. occupying three floors, and each floor loaded With gOODS. We are wanting in feeling for those whom God has taken, we believe, wiii maintain our former rules: if we do not torture ourselves bv every sight and sound calculated to We buy Flour, Meats. Stock Salt, Barb Wire, Liverpool Salt, increase our suffering. Tt is a Canned Goods, and Coal Oil in CAR LOADS. Our Prices are LOW. remnant, perhaps, of the savage idea SEND FOR QUOTATIONS ■ ! that a grave must be heaped with CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. sacrifices. There is such a thing ns a luxury Prprietors Huntington Warehouse. Yours Respecfullv, of woe amounting to dissipation. J. H. AITKIN, Manager. Tt is quite as selfish as ar.v avoid ance of pain and more injurious to others. Children are dressed in mourning garments, the significance Portland Boot 6c Shoe Store. of which they cannot understand, LUNABURG A FRY, P roprietors , B urns , O regon . and depressed by darkened windows and hysterical outbursts of grief. $>¿3,000 stock Boots and Shoe«, of the very beat duality. Just received Sometimes they grow to hate the Cheapest Place in Town for Cash, very name of the dead, whom in Also. Custom work and Repairing neatly done. their ignorance they hold accounta ble for the dreariness of their lives.—Harpers Bazar. o. o. CO. G eneral M erchandise , Best Ouality. Square Dealing. One Price» The Only Blur Gum Nrgro in Texas Lufkin has a curiosity in the per Proprietors. son of Gideon Crane, the only "blue gum” negro now in Texas. This negro, from documentary evidence j now in his possession, is a living descendant of a crowned monarch of Stanley’s dark continent, and he freely admits to those to whom he gives his confidence that his bite is The Proprietors of the Red Front and White Front Livery Sta bles assures the public that they are prepared to accommodate more deadly than the adder of the in every way in their line of business. East or the rattlesneak of the West. fW“llav and grain constantly on hands, and careful hands. Strange as it may seem, the race so Passengers taken to all parts of the country. Job Wagon ir. connection. graphically described in the British Encyclopaedia is now nearly extinct. j and stranger still that Lufkin) should be the home of one who coins himself one among the last of the We wish to inform the pub- dreaded tribe who carry with them the patronage. Shop instant death to a hated enemy. lie that we have again open- "Gid,” as he is familiarly called, is upplied with good meat* a quiet and inoffencive negro, until ‘at ^,e stand and thoroughly aroused, when the venom of his passion is seen in the putrid green of his eye, and woe be The Incorporated tide the victim upon whom he con centrates bis anger or fastens his fangs. He is now the humble keep er of a hostelry in our town, and TRANSPORTATION Company. serves meals at all hours to the C. C. McCoy, General Manager, hungry wayfarer, and when he once -------O-:-o------- says “ You must take coffee without Stages leave Burns, Oregon, daily for Harney, Drewsey, Beulah, sugar,” they simply take coffee Westfall and Vale, where without sugar.—San Antonio Ex- Close Connection is Made press. with the railroad. Good fresh horses, careful drivers, new vehicles. There is living near Higbee, in Randolph County. Missouri, an old negromanand his wife named Hitt who are aged respectively 122 and 113. The story seems incredulous hut the colored people have proof. Alligators have made theii ap Hitt and his wife have had fifteen One children, the youngest of which died pearanctin the Missouri River. the i of considerable size was seen at the age of 70 years. Unquestion other day following the steamer ably this is the oldest pair in the country, and Hitt is perhaps the Benton while passing Rocheport, oldest man in the United States. i Boone County. . NORTHWESTERN MAIL RATES or FAKE FROM BURNS TO ONTARIO AND INTERVENING POINTS Burn«. t<> Ontario |IO 0* I Burns to Vala 5» •• •• Grove« Itjr . R 10 I •• West Fall 7 50 M Bealah ...... ........... 6 00 I “ Drewsey . 4 00 •• •Fine Creek 2 fiO | • •• Harney ... 100 Baggage, 30lbs to each Passenger. Frieght and Passengers must Passenger fare paid in advance. be way-billed. ~ N eki A xles , J.M V achon . H akky F loyd , D vision Agent. Gon. Sup’t. Burn Agen