burns
The Herald.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 13.1'«.
OUR NEIGHBORS-
Clippings from our Neighboring Et
change*.
A curious C ase .
\ Mun tu I omul Wandering Around
Near ITnaiilla Hei-omefrom Port
land. hut Don't know How
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A prisoner who has had a pecul
iar history for the past few days
was conveyed in a carriage to the
court house from Monday evening »
west-bound train.
His name is George D. A. Maire,
and he was found Monday wonder
ing aimlessly around in the sand
near I matilia, with noclothing save
a shirt and pantaloons, and his
bare feet scratched and bleeding,
lie was immediately taken in
charge and sent to Pendleton forex
amination.
lie was supposed to be insane,
but Ins trouble was found to have
resulted front acute alcoholism,
and having partially recovered he
was <|iiit< rational when he told his
story to the county physician.
It was gathered that he had been
on a prolonged spree, the result of
marital troubles, and that he came
from Portland. ‘ The last I remem
ber.” he said, “is that mv wife,
brother and sister start«*«! out to at
tend a ball at the Turner’s hall in
lortland
I wanted to go but
cocldn t put mv shoes on. and went
barefooted. \\ hen I arrived mv
brother told mt* to wait in the hall
way awhile ami he would come and
take me horn«*. I afterward went
to sleep and when I awoke found
myself io the custody of an officer.
I do not know w hether 1 was in jail
or not.
A blank followed, and when I
recovered again I was lying i., the
saint 1 diti not know where! was
I thought my family were there,ami
trawled around on mv hands and
and knei*H to find them. 1 had no
shoes <>n and my feet were hurting
me.”
Maire does not have the slightest
id< a how h«* reached Umatilla, his
.......... from tin* night of the ball
being a pvrtvct b'ank
It is a curi
ous ease, and evidences the power
of liquor over a man’s being. The
patient will be kept in custody un
til lie fully recovers.
Maire is a young man perhaps
twenty sev« n «ti twenty eight years
old, and good lixtking. Hehaalwen
seen la-fore in Pori land l>v out* of
th«- otfioars li«-r«-.— East Oregonian
advertisements
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T he elimination of the Silver
The postmaster was a little discom
Question from Congress aud from
fited for a while, but now enjovs
«
GERAT REDUCTION IN PRICES!
—
Ex.
politics, for the present, clarifies
the joke as well as anv one.
the atmosphere very materially. It
need not be assumed by the distant
A full and Complete Stock of Groceries and Supply
One af the most brutal murders
reader that there is not a positive
Ranchers wishing to purchase their supplies will do well to call
evar committed in Oregon, so Bays
majority in both Houses of Congress
the Malheur Gazette, was the cow
in favor of the free coinage of silver, what we can do for them before going elsewhere.
ardly assassination of Wm. Hum-
for such a majority certainly exists,
Everything at BED ROCK PRICES.
l>er* within sight of his wife and
but that there are potent reasons
children near West Fall Tuesday
H. E T hompson ,
Yours Respectfully
for postponing further action at this
evening, the 5th inst. He was go
Manager.
A. ROBB q J
time even many of the warmest
F°
ing home from the store and when
silver advocates are willing to ad
near his home, three men were seen
mit. It is a question which divides
to follow him across the hill. His
on sectional lines, to a great extent,
F°
little g’rl ran to where he fell and
and for the democrats in Congress
found him dead. Wm. and John
MRS. LOUIS RACINE, Prop’t.
to wrangle over it and inject their
Bailey were arrested for the crime
poi
differences into the approaching
and confined in the county jail.
This
Hotel
has
recently
been
enlarged
and
entirely
renovated
in
first
ch,
The Gazette ends its comments on national campaign, when no result
The table is Supplied with the Best the Market Afford» po
the dastardly murder in the follow could be obtained at best beyond a
Presidential
veto,
would
never
have
ing language:
Traveling Men will find this Hotel a nice and Desirable J
There appears to be a class of been wise statesmanship or good stop.
people in Oregon who are cowardly politics. Next session a contest
by instinct and will seek a time, over this question will not be attend
even without cause as this case; ed by such immediate dangerous
F‘?>
to take advantage and cowaidlv party results, and at that time there
may
be
better
prospects
of
favora
assassinate the unprotected person;
H. M. HORTON,..................................................Proprietor
or else entice an unsuspecting per ble action in tne White House.
The
coming
campaign
ought
to
be
F°
son in some obscure place and with
and
will
be
fought
on
issues
upon
greater physical power brutally as
, .^.DEALERS
,
sault their easy prey. It is of too which the democratic party is unit
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDIC F‘
common occurenee in Oregon and ed, and there is work enough for
STATIONERY. DIAMOND DYES, CHOICE PERFlJ
this
session
of
Congress
in
line
with
not a little in this county, The
next grand jury will have a few those issues.
A’ FANCY TOILET ARTICLES, TOBACCO, CIGARS E.i
clear cases of this kind to in vest i-
p
gate
W hen Mr. Blaine announced that
Fine
Wines
&
Liquors
fcr
Medical
Pud.*
he could not be a candidate it was
generally said that Harrison’s nom ¿^“Prescriptions accurately compounded.
The prohibitionists have met ill ination would follow as a matter of
Portland and nominated a full state course, but it does net now appear
ticket. Winfield Taylor Rigdon, of so certain. There are evidences
Salem, is the nominee for congress beneath the surface of a movement,
man for the first district, and C. J. engineered by skilled and powerful
Bright, of Wasco, the nominee for men, which may after all encom
the second, Benjamin P. Welch, of pass his defeat in the Convention.
TOILET ARTICLES. GLASS, P U T T Y, it
Cc
Portland, is the nominee for su It the «dement opposed to him could
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preme judge. R. B. Hood, of The unit«* there would hardly be a d >ubt
Span
Dalles, an alternate presidential of that result. ^Neither Cullom, Al-
elector, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Uer, Allison n'n any of the other \V
BURNS. 01
E GRACE P roprietor .
Butler alternate delegates to the < a ldidates generally mentioned are
national convention.
believed to have the necessary
strength There is now some talk
On the 2Sth ult. Geo. Lend, a that John Sherman is to be the
A Large Assortment of
German was found dead in his ci ali man finally fixed upon because
’Otiti
of
in on the sheep ranch of the li S his strength in New York and with
Eto-gn
A' L Co. Hav Creek Crook county,
the Germans of the West. Sher
bis d
lie was herding sheep for the com-
man announces that he is not a can
■ d«
lias just been Received.
p.inv. A coroners jury found a
didate, though nobody doubts that
httui
verdict of death from natural causes he would grab the nomination as a
PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMP**»"«
street gamin grihs a piece of mince
,
. h*-»'
Our town election last Mondav pie when he can get it. Mr. Blaine ■ fF' Everything guaranteed pure and of the very be?.
was a hotly contested affair. One himself would have been less likely
PATENT MEDICINES SOLD AT MARKED PRM ice f
fellow, rather than forego the ina to withdraw had lie
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not felt that
lienable right vouchsafed to everv the signs all pointed
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free man, relinquished his * cinch'’ success. He could
not afford to
on a piece of government land In take the chances of a
o t
second defeat.
Bear valley, where his residence
should Im to allow him the privil-
A good ranch belonging to II. G.
_ _ Mdi^r
elege of making proof on the land.
MESDAMES MORRELL A ALLEN. -
Campbell),
containing
Kit)
acres
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But he wanted to vote worse than
he wanted a homestead.—Canyon miles south east of Burns. This
ranch has about HK) acres of good
City News
meadow land. Price 4-SOO or will
ATTENTIVE AND GOOD TABLE St^i-ny
Although Senator Blackman is trade for sheep.
rmi»
B y an A- K imi
still bring urged to allow his name
AND TABLES WELL SU PPLlECsi«y.
to come I efor«* the state democratic
convention for congress, he holds to
A man went into the postotliceof his former decision and is in no
a neighboring town recently and sense a candidate.—Gazette.
told the |H>stmasler that he desired
thirteen Iwocent stamps f. r a cent
J II Hinkle of Crook County,
and a quarter I h«- ¡»-st master re Camp Cre« k was arrested, bv the
fused to give them to him, stating deputy sht riff of that comity. a few
that the lost would lx- twenty-six davs since He is charged with in
cents
The man | h rsiste I in get cest
I he Prinev lie News gives it
ting his order, claiming that he as its opinion that he is innocent of
could g« t them it any office for that the charge
amount, and « ven threatened the
government official, if he continued
L m Al. El EcTifix.—Republican
to refuse him Finally the post victories were scored in most of the
master oidered him out. but the local municipal elections just hell
man nothing daunted, took a cent in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois. Wiscon
and .« twenty five cent piece from sin; while the democrats have met
his pocket, and laving them down with success in most of the towns in
on the counter, he received Ins New York. Missouri. Kansas, and
stamps for a cent ami a quarter Nebraska
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FRENCH HOTEL
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City Drug; Store
FINE CUTLERY. NOTIONS.
GUM ELASTIC
ROOFING
FELT costs only $2.00 per 100
square feet Makes a good roof for
vears. and anyone can put it on
send stamp tor s imple and full par
ticulars.
Gi
m
Burns-Canyon Stage Line.
I. J ewitt , P roprietor .
1 esves Bum, on Mondat». Wednesday«. and Fridays, «' 6 *■ ”
/^•Connect, with the Ontario, Prineville, and Lakeview stafis at iwirt'»-
tiou, for passengers.
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Everything in our line of the Best.
Liquors—Wh-sk«®- FI
W in s, bancy Drinks. Cigars, etc., always on hand
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