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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1892)
Th* Herali dune with this great body of land it>< ¡alter will to 2riven into the that ia now alm « in x worthless eorxiitson. *r»d further-more Coo- grvas is or will be petitioned to pro- VtMMiT MKilTÍ W1 vide that «ste individual can ow!r Buy 330 a-res on the conditions set Sailer forth in th* petition or narr-d by art of C<-r<gF«M Now we ask bc-w many ran*hers Tse more on to petition Cat g»*.* that • ■ * And lands of Or can take 320 acre« and p'operly ir eg<x> be listed *o the state ard rigate and improv* th* «ame* We cAaced ■*• toe market with a prrmao mean actual settlers who are not that such xands to reclaimed by able to par the prices asked for im We answer not one imgateori aterjsd to tPoeiv watched proved farms of them have the means whereby aod the oj-et thoroughly rifted V> irrigate and mtke homes of the aud investigated before signing such This fact is ge-ution if »to state t «-comes own lard in question ck-arlv understood by the monied er «X the aaxi land* without anr re atnctMM as to the manner of dis men who desire to possess this land, p «¡r>g of it except the proviso that and another fact is also seen by tto lard »bail be reclaimed by pio them, that ie if Congress provides qer irrigation, we will find ail of that one man shall onlv buy or en <naa and i*/«d in a very short time ter 320 acre« he itbe capitalist)will after tot ng put on tto aaa’fcel. in buy or enter a 320 acre tract, then th* sane- predicament of the ReJ-H be wili furnish th* money to poor aid ewamp lands of thia state. We men. wh, would like to have a home take it far granted that the move •<ut i. not financ ally able to do all is io th* interest of syndicates and tins work i .*<•*« sarv on such a tract ■CorperaUooa, who ar* d*s;rou« of •f lard, eonsequeri'ly in th*-nd the Not getting poasesa.on ard th«-n or ti»* capitalist owns the claim |onlv one extra claim but many of same pro<»*dure for which they an ’ them noted k**p frack th* settlement and Now we would ask th* friends <<f d*»eloje-merit of tfie country just s> •ong aapwsibls ard the actual s*t this move in what way would th* <l«r—th* hard-working backl-xie" .'•■er men wanting a home 1« ben*- of th* government—le coui|e-lled fitr-d if the petition prayed for was to step to one side, ss usual, and in ¿ranted’ Now we reiterate that the stead of leinif the independent land only wav any material benefit can «.wner, as t»e should be. he will have accrue tn the settler wanting a te take the position of hireling or Dome aid is too pror tn buy one al “underling ’ to a syndicate wlx*e *eadv improved, ie that Cong re*» onlv brain« is money and is favorer) [ make an appropriation redeem this by congress and the state lecause tnd land and the government open it up for the actual settlers of it* money. If Uncle Kam would i*e more lav ish in making appropriations to re deem h«a arid and swamp lands, after which open up such land» for actual settlers, instead of needle«» ■ rd foolish appropriations ao often hiade l»v which only a certain class ia >»n. filed and th« people at large «ho have this tax to pay are actu ally injured. We argue and maintain that th« only just and equitable disposition of the Question of reclaiming this arid land is. that the govrrninent do it bv appropriating sufficient money for that purpt am ami then allow actual settlers either to bu» nr homealt-ad the lands In the king run the government will receive tenfold profit on th« money invested, then the people ol thia government as a whole will Is fwnrflted. because an actual divi dend reaped by the government is a benefit to the people But by al lowing this land to fall into th« hands of a corporation, the corpora tion of course receives the profits the government is the loser, the people loss just the amount made l»y the corporation, the actual set tler is deprived of the right to set tle or enter such land, the govern ment ir stabbing itself and the tax payer, and th* poor settler is |< ft out in the cold to become the slave of the few individuals who reap a big harvest through c I sm legislation Congress is and has I wen ioy 2'» 'rars. the t<H»| used l.y deaigning men to accomplish the n.f lw rv of the homvt hardworking people who love and reverence our republican institutions and anr at all times ready to risk life in defense of a government whn h every dav allow syndicate« and c«»rpurativne to rub them without mere, ' Yes,’’ t»ne will say. "I.ul the ob- jecl of the petition is tv g«t the lands in shape that the matter can I* takci. bold on and something AT IT AGAIN! A Bloody War is Now Feared. >.ean aeroea which trey first ^ame * r^ru-» Across the rver fr< tr. the <>age reservation ths Ps«nc** barlnC a dance, aid a few days *g < a ¡arg* pxny of Oaag-» '■aptured some Waggling Pawn**» tied them up to a tree and be.d * mock sea.p •lanes about them ail dav The Pawnees are verv much incensed o?»r this and threatened to retali ate Should any num1«* <*f thr+e two trines come in contact while tber sre excited from dancing an ¡wn and bloody war wi . «urelv follow. B. [. GEER PRACTICAL TINNER & GUNSMITH, Second Street. BURN«» 5 OREGON. y«w>r ewa aaaaQy| Palm««»* t*>a.e utdamry »cd LuiW up he reM.-ere«« *3 Ttie largreet stools, i tile oity of Stoves. Ammunition. Fishing tackle and all kinds of Tinware, ufaetarers ?ri- re. My (w»da ar* warranted to givemtinraatid mort*v refunded. Straight g x'-d« and square dealing is the wav and Gunstnithiog a **■' introducing mv g.-sis. Tinware i r-paired _ at I tie very l<« *»l ¡»rices nix Dxsvxa. Jan 30—Devil’s Head, a little mountain village of Colora do. far from any railroad has a my MRS LOUIS RACINE. Prop't stery. Since Thanksgiving the place has paseed through a scourg- TbU Hotel bs« re«**,>dy teew rx>lary«4 »nd entirety renovated rr. arw rl»w of pniaoaiog and fire, but its great The table is Supplied with the Rest the Market Affords distance from other inhabited por tions of the state has prevented the Traveling Men will find this Hotel a nie« and Desirable pj Ola facts from becoming known until Stop now. On Thanksgiving night Dan Ecker s Barn "i‘ set on fire. and the horse» and catlie burned alive A fiew days later a wok I-chopper hr the name of Park's used a sack « ^¡.PFALXM » of flour in cooking his breakfast DRUGS MEDICINES. CHEMICALS. PATENT MEDICIN Several hours after was taken death STATIONERY. DIAMOND DYES CHOICE perfumfi ly i 1 and died An examination A FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. TOBACCO. CIGARS ETCj proved that the flour contain* d ar- cenic The mountain village was now Fine Wines A Liquor* fcr Medical Purp throughly aroused, and in the midst Prescription« accurately compounded. >f the excitement the bouse and Barn of Fred Albans were destroy -d bv *n unaccountable fire FOR YOUR FLOUR. GO TO THE^y The charred remain« of the cat II tie and horse« of Albans were found ing 1 in the ruins, but no trace of their I iati,. ,1. •wner has ever leen discovered. 4 »Will IMril’s Head sleeps in huge em he i ark merits of snow the most of the Prairie Citv. C)i i g ifef' PORTER BRO'S. Propri-tor». . year. About a hundred mountain- era make their home there Gt tunic . O. T. Jan. 19 — \ . In Pike countv, Mo., on the bank courier coming in from the Cherokee •f the mighiy Mississippi, there i» strip to-night reports that »h*re wili ’•e -erious trouble on th* Osag- at d t dreary and desolate spot, where is No Pawnee rcservationa in the easier ’»uried an unknown person. part <»f the atrip The Osage In «tone marks the last resting place dians have t*-en very insolent for a • •f th* departed. No human Lab year past, and when a few month* dation is near. Nothing breaks th* ago, their agent, to further bis pri intense quiet of the place but the vale interests, advised them not t«-| lapping of the water at the foot of FRENCH HOTEL, I LEB dei orr. nytl W E GRACE P hopiuptor , A Large Assortment of FINE CUTLERY. NOTIONS. Etc Has just k-eti K*-ceiv««i. treat with the government commies the high, steep bank, the occasional i mera for the sale of their land — hoot of an owl or bark of a squir PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY < OMPtd that they owned it and should keep rel XfiF“ Everything guaranteed pure and of the very twat qu»l All ia still. it all—they at once becam« imbued PATENT MEDICINES SOLD AT MARKED PRICK | The current is very swift at this with the idea of running things to suit themselves point and has turned in against the White people trading through Lank, slowly but surelv eating it the reservation have been surround away until it has reached and pass ed by Indiana, who detain them for *d the end of the coffin, nearly' hours, dancing around them ami three feet of which sticks out and going through all the forma of tak hangs immediately over the deep MESDAMES MORRELL A ALLEN. - M mix ing acal|< Many woman and water which seems to wait with children were prostrated with fright. i open anna to recieve it. It ia only These ladies -pare no pairs to pl.>N»e their gu«--ta <>tl»er travlers hav* l>een robbed a matter of time when it will drop and beaten, and it is now as-erted and all traces of the unknown will ATTENTIVE AND GOOD TABLE SERV that some davs ago th* Indians l»e obliterated forever ■ lancvd around two little girl* and Through a crack in the coffin AND TABLES WELL SUPPLIED Iwcame an excited that they cut a can >w seen the bones of the d«‘part- piece of «call* frvin one’» head and «nl. white aid glistening with ghoat- and cut off the other one’s hair ' lv distinctness The parents of the children had t«ern tied to their wagon ami had Burns-Canyon Stage Line. I wen compelled to l<>«k <>n. I J fwitt , P k OFRIET v H. M itbin the last week the blan The latest new« we gather from Ir«vr» Horr»ur Wvdtwwiax». Bnd rn.1B)B at « «. ket Indians of this tribe have l>een 1.««l -•«et. ,.Br. „ our exchanges regarding our con- holding a glmet dance which grow« trove«? with Chili, is strongly fla large’ and more vigorous each dav vored with war, The participants have now become w< rked up to «m b a pitch that it is unsafe for a white man to venture ; near I bey claim that the niesaiah ha« pruin'sed to come and lead them in a grr t <'Mi>paign against tlw whit«' Q.t-r' » h**n ererv on* ««f WRIGHT Bros . Everything in our line of the IteM. me«. Fancy Drinks. Cigir«. Liquom-Wl. skies. R on hsnd wb*. you call 4»n »hen. at Drewsev Harm y county. Or I