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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1891)
Semi-Weekly Herald. 8ATUUKDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1891. Holding up Bunk. rebellion, and also some of the bat tles in Mexco; and they would un doubtedly do bo if requested. My articles, published in 1857 to 1829, made reference to rainfall attend ing battles in Europe during Na- polian’s campaigns; and as the question only involves battles where cannonading occurs, history is not so remote as to make difficult the collection of facts. There is also another source of gleaning statistics on this subject, that of Four'h of July celebratirns, which have been notable of rainfall succeeding the midnight cannonad ing simultaneously al different towns in the older settled and close ly populated states, One thing is certain, whatever theories mav be followed in experiment, and what ever methods employed, the estab lishment of any practical system of artificial rainfall must depend upon the collection, classification, and verification of phenomena bearing upon the subject. J ohn W. E varts . Thurston, Ok. Ter. Oct. 29, 1891. W. C-BYRD i W. Y. KING. N E’V TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Burns Orogon. We have at this time for sale several productive farms, well im- proved and well watered. About 1 o’clock Nov. 5, Dr. Pat- ton, a resident of Salem, went into Williams A England’s bank and demanded the loan of $500. The Parties wishing to purchase call cashier told him that he would on us we will show them the land have to wait until the proprietor we have for Bale, and parties desir came in. Patton replied: “I will ing to dispose of real estate cannot not wait; I am hard up and I have do better than to put their lands in BURNS OREGON. got to have that money at once or our hands for sale, because we ad I will kill you.” The cashier start vertise freely by sending circulars ed to get his revolver from under and cards in all directions solicit the counter when Patton shouted, “Stop, I’ve got the drop on you, « ing purchasers and describing the > drowing hie revolver at the same land. Proprietor. JOHN SAYER, time. “See here,” he said, “this must remain a secret between us. We will also buy lands for per Situated on Silvies river 1 mile East of Burns, near the bridge I’ve got to have the money and sons wishing to purchase in our you’ve got to get it for me, or vou’re county and living at a distance, Customers will receive GOOD FLOUR from a dead man.” At this juncture, giving careful and accurate dis passers-by were attracted by the good Wheat. noise and procured the police who cription of the same, also the title. arrested him and took him to jail, Correspondence Solicited. Office where he was bound over in the 4* at E ast O regon H erald . sum of $500 bail and sent to the Better Men W anted county jail. Dr Patton lives north B. H. FINE Prop’t., VV. H. GASS. Manager. of Salem and has a family. He is An old woman I once knew in the badly involved in debt and has been Tennessee mountains expressed a Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Cigarttes, addicted to the use of whisky and “ AMERICAN EAGLE JOB OFFtCE great economic truth in these words, opium. Good Billiard tables, Pleasant Card Rooms, etc., etc. “Poor folks has poor ways.” Too often it is the poorness of their own This Saloon is first class in every particular. Experienced bartenders. Sound and Rainfall. ways, not the aggression of wealthy CHAS W. BYR1>, Proprietor Mixed drinks to please the most fastidious. neighbors, which has plunged these Editor Scientific American; In an folks into poverty. Burn», Harney County, Oregon. article by Prof. Newcomb, published If a man spend a day in the harv in the Scientific Amorican of Oct. est time in efforts to send a fool to 17, it is stated that “the popular the legislature, or a knave to con PAMPHLETS, notion that sound may product gress, should he complain if the laws rain is founded principally upon the fools and knaves make add to LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, Win. WOODS, Proprietor. the supposed fact that great bat bis own taxes? Whe but he is to tles have been followed by heavy blame, if the laws ostensibly made ENVELOPES, STATEMENTS, Bill Woods is “in it,” ’and don’t you forget it.” rains. This notion. I believe, is not in his interest simply shift the bur \\ hat he don’t know about the care of horses is not worth knowing. confirmed by statistics.” Asa par den from one of his sholdiers to the BILL HEADS, POSTERS, tieipant in many battles of the late other? Nice 1 urn-outs, Passengers taken to any part of the country desired. CARDS war, please allow me to state a few If he stand all day in the public LEGAL BLANKS, facts, which may possibly seave to square .spellbound by a tramp with correct or amplify statistics in this an accordion or still worse, if he Of every description, matter, as what I state can he con lounge about on the sawdust floor firmed by numerous living witness of a saloon, talking t he vile stuff we E. B-. REED, Proprietor. es. The battle of Pittsburg Land ! agree to call “polities. ’ never read The proprietor has renovated the building from the ground to ing was followed immediately by a ing a book,never thinking a thought PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL heavy rain, succeeded by a clear above the level of the sawdust floor, he roof and put in several stone flues. ORDERS. day; the ravines of that field ran need he be surprised if his opinions! -------------W------------- Mr. Reed is an old Hotel man and in recommending his house to red with blood, while the fields were Jo not meet with respect? I PRICES: CHEAP. the public, we believe we only do him justice to say his house will washed clean. The cannonade The farmer needs men whose I was heavy. At Iuka, Miss, the time is money, and whose labor is ■ give entire satisfaction. guns were light, and a fine shower worth the lurbor of other men— Tl;a Celebrated French Cure, followed the second dav: the siege men who know how to do the best i " to!1 -APHRODITINE” of Corinth was attended with rain.1 things in the best wav, ami can x It S olo ox a M POSITIVE and the battles of Corinth and thereby do their part in alleviating I gj C’JARANTCE Hatehie River, Oct 5 to t> 1892, industrial depression. — President ' i) to cure any form of nervous alaeaae were followed, Oct. 8, by a night of D. S. Jordan in Forum or auv disorder of the generative or very heavy cold general rain. The gans of eitbersex. vhethcr arising forty seven days’ siege of Vicks fromthoexeessiie Repairing a Specialty. Plumbing and Pipe-fitting. BEFORE usoot Stimulants, AFTER A H<»rriMe Ku |»rrM litoti. burg was attended with heavy can Tobacco orOplum, or through youthful indiscre tion, over I ndulgeuce, Ac .nuchas Loss of Drain AI.8O DEALER IN nonade evenings, followed each F-vver, Wiikefulneas, Bearing down Palnslnth« bark, SemInal Weakness, Hvsterla. Nervous Pros FISHING TACKLE & SPORTING GOODS. night with very brisk showers of The British authorities of Madras tration. N ■< turnal Emissions, l.e.ieorrbiva. Dli- Weak Memory, Loss of Power and Impo- rain before morning. About the ha?e instituted an investigation re tiness. teney, wbii hli neglected often lead to premature Burns Oregon. < >1 a .-c an I ln«anltv. Price |1.00 a box. 6 boxes same was characteristic of the siege lative to a horrible case of barbarity i for pm sent by walon receipt of price- A WRITTEN OfJAKANTEB is given for of Port Hudson, La My memory and superstition reported from e- erv f kUOorder received, to refund the money If d Permanent euro ts not effected. We havo serves me that the newspaper ae Madura. Rain has been very much thousands of testimonials from old and young, > t both sexes, who have been permanently enrol counts of the battles of Bull Run, I needed in that vicinity, and the by the use of Aphnxlltine. circular free. Addn •* THE APHRO MEDICINE CO. Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellors- drouth was attributed by the natives Western Branch, Box 27. Ih>KTLxriD, ua. ville, Atlanta, etc., were attended to the malignity of an evil-minded For Sale at W. E. Grace’s Drug MRS. LOUIS RACINE, Prop’t. by heavy rainfall. : female deity. To propitiate this Store As I have been somewhat identi- dietv they resolved on reviving an H tel has recently been enlarged and entirely renovated in first class style tied with the question of artificial old practice of torture known as The table is Supplied with the Best the Market Affords rain, having written on the subject' “hook swiniing.” ^en find this Hotel a nice and Desirable place to over thirty years ago for a New A victim was around who con- Rlleve Suppr.*.»0c j sti>pr U I'* Mrustruatiuu. Used York paper, when it was thought sented to uudergo the ordeal The «KxvMhilljr by »'ion. an.ia of pmmiuc.it la very unpopular and impious to (MHiits of iron hooks were pushed dle« aKV-'Vy Thor- ; oiighly re.table ai>d ’ make the reft fence, 1 ask your in into his back, a rope was fastened Mie. W< th tweutv timea their weight tn dulgence of the suggestion that into the hooks and the poor wretch gold y»e female ireeg- •lariltre. Never kuoau ste|» be taken to secure accurate was hoisted into the air. His to fail. Sent by mall «ealel statistics on the subject, with a view shrieks of agony were regarded as for Addreaa HENRk CALDWELL, Proprietor. of verification of facts concerning evidence that the gods were l*eing Th« Aphro ledklne cannonade and rainfall. There made to here,and would answer COMPANY, fW“ Will serve Customers with the best that are plenty of living witnesses to with the long lookedfor rain. Af WetWm Branch, can be porduced from ONE to FIVE-HUN Portland, Orc<<»a. give all the facts concerning rain ter the man had hung for an hour the Grace Drug Store DRED lbs. fall c mtiected with (tattles of the he was taken down. B urns F lour & saw M ill . FRENCH HOTEL. Faber’s Holden Female Pills