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About East Oregon herald. (Burns, Grant County, Or.) 1887-1896 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1893)
The Herald. WEDNESDAY JUNE M. 1*3 N ews I n G enerai Burns -Canyon Stage Line, I. J ewitt , P roprietok . 0. c. Arrives and Departs daily, except Sunday. Connect! with the Ontario, Prineville, end I akevtew atagra at Burna. Good t ion a for paaaergera . I %rCOt. (Mtl FROM OUR EXCHANGE». I HUNTINGTON OREGON. Again solicit trade from all Harney and Malheur Counties. Wild Cats and Bandits. Among the arrivals at the Palace Jlo'el some time since, was a sun tanned young man who wrote the name J. A R Milne on the register. ‘“Give me one of the beet rooms in the horse,” said the new comer, ‘“and see that there are plenty of good sheets and soft pillows on the bed.” Mr. Milne subsequently explain ed to an Examiner reporter whv he was so p trticular to have thing- nice ‘“It is simply to get all the good out of comfortable living fot the little time I hive t3 enjoy it I don’t mean that I am going to summit suicide or that I am on my last l< gs in any way whatever, but I have been living for five years half wav down the Lower California peninsula in Mexico and have pot slept between sheets in all that time.” This young Scotchman went down into the district of which th* old mission San Borjas used to 1» the center, representing a Scotch syndicate in an agricultural ven turn which did not turn out to l>» a success. Since then he has fuel placer mining and prospecting. "I give you my word,” said Mr Milne, “that from the time I left civilized regions, nearly five years ago, until 1 came totake the steam er to come up here I never saw a man. woman or child who could speak English. I knew no Spaniel when I went there, but I am a fin guist now. XX Ranchers Cattlemen- Hcrsemer. Sheermen &Ccw Boysl the man. and it wn lucky for me that I had the knife nt hand, or mv «kin might have been dried then in the wilderness instead of mv hav- ing the cat’s skin to bring as a pres ent to a Hend.” view to hi« own personal ad vance- ment. and the party nt largo is a secondary consideration with him. The plain troth is that the g. o n. has run entirely out of such grea* men a« once directed its course and won its victories.— Detroit Free i Last year *ve sold 1.», I Carload« This year we are going to make BORN Tl> BE A BANPIT. Press. , it 200 ( ar loads, and will do i« if prie«*« are an object to buvers Re- Mr Milne says such incidenis as ■ member our motto: “ONE PRICE TO ALL ” Call or semi for prices. these do not. however, make out Mprcl'an'S —Me can do von pn,*d. Get our prices. Ship tour door life unbaerable He professes a The Boy And The Toy Pistol | I ioods in care of th« sincere pity for men who live where Freder : ckton. N. B , June 21. _ they have to buy all their pleasure. He intends, to return to Mexico as A hov placing with a tov pistol ir «oon as he makes a short visit to Gobson. opposite the city, star’ed p Scotland. He relates another hit fi’-e last evening that bm-nod NP , dwelpngc. t«-n churches, the Cana of experience whi h tends to the belief that what is born in a Mexi dian pacific station, six stores nod two publip halls The fire practic can bandit’s bone must conie out in Having purchased the entire «toi-k formerly belonging to Cal nllv burned itself nut. One hll' • >ne way or another. -dred and twenty-five families nr* Geer, comprising all lines of “I picked up in a canoe in the i homeless Gulf of Crliform.i one d iv.” said Thirty families were ret.d»r<'<’ HARDWARE, CRCKERY, GLASSWARE. TINWARE, Mr. Milne, ‘ an old Mexican indiaii homeless and were sheltered it who was sick ami half starved. 1 the hotel« snd private houses < f uok him to Camp and nursed him HARDWARE, ElM’ERIES. A CARPENTERS TOOLS til* son aid this city. The I»«« is. STO\ md made him strong again. That •Id fellow stuck by me for three heavy amt tails chiefly on median- | I offer the same for sale at greatly reduced prices for CASH. vears. We passed through mani ics and laborers. The destrnctioi > hardships log« ther and he proved of property will amount to 2,000, | > C. H. VOEGTLEY limseif to be my friend in more ¡000. Very small insurance. vavs than one. Ycu wouht hav« Poth parties are responsible f. r thought he would never dream <>t harming me, yet I know it to he a the present state of things, ami th« «act that w hen I started to leave better elements in both organiza he country he followed along with tions must c imiiiingle for the purg •he intention of killing and to >hing ( ing of tlie pension roll, me. | A general movement in favor <4 JOHN SAYER Proprietor. "I sai«i good by to him at ’he pensionbeform shotihl «late from this Mission San Borjos, tint In* seemed Decoration dav. No time could !■< Situated on Silvies river I mile East of Burns, near the bridge determined not to let me get out of! more ti'ting. Those whose graver X . his sight. • I a xr 1 ..... . fought tor the Union we decorate You ............ see. i... he bad been ...... POUNCED UPON BY A WILDCAT. norn a bandit, and he f< It it hi« Their surviving comrades must “Adventures? Oh. I don’t know,” luty to pr« vent me from h aving fight to save the memories of t In Customers will receive GOOD FLOUR from said this dweller in wild districts •«he country with what, little treas dead from sacrilegious associa io ‘ Perhaps von would call it advert ure I had collected. Another Mex with coffee coolers and «log robbers Good Wheat turous to lie awake all night with a ican told me thi-. and I finally got on the nation’s roll of honor—But gun in vonr hand afraid to go tv i fellow to travel with me as a . fain Express, rep. sleepiest a desert lion should tak< guard. But mv old bandit friend a notion to call on you; but th« rode within sight of us for a hun Bullet In His Brain. only real adventure I have had was dred miles. His rifle was always connected with the skin of a wild >n the pommel <>f Ins saddle, and I S onoma . June 16 — A lfrt d Iliibois ca‘, I have up in my room now had to keep mine handv a« well., who on February 14 last had Id» The skin was on the back of a real for if he had caught mv companion brain penetrated by a bullet. still live cat at the time, and the way I md mvself both off guard there is at the Cotintv Hospital For two came by it is this: >io telling what might have happen I week« he ha« had symptom« of Io “I ha i km eked over a deer one enlized inflammation of the brain . ed. HENRY CALDWELI Propt. d iv, and had strung yp a pi»ce of "When we got. near the town membran« s Some pieces of ham it between two trees on mv lariat where the steamer stopped the old have li.eii removed. These pieces I curled upin my blankets just a Indian gave tip ihe «'base. I sup are splinters of the inner table of tfie skull, canned l>v the passage <f few feet away and prepared for a pose when I go back ’here he will the bul'et At the present writing good night’s rest. You see we al tie my best friend again, but 1 shall , the patient’s condition is favorable wavs sleep down there with a car trv not to kt him find out when I —8. F. Call. bine handy ami with a kn ft stuck intend leaving the cornitiy next in ’he sand close by the right hand. — A farm on Ir »utcreek contain time.”—S. F. Examiner. The Proprietor is well prepared to accommodate his customer*. ‘“It was lucky for me that 1 had ing Hkl acres. This ranch has 1 about. 100 acres of meadow and is Charges very reasonab’e. Job Wagon in connection. mv knife handy on this occasion, Looking For A Leader. admirably situated for a first cmhs for along in the night I felt a , sheep, cattle or horse ranch, being | weight fall on me. then a sharp th«* surrounded hvthe very liest range The republican organs of daw stuck in my shoulder, a gieat 7 good 1 For terms call at this hairy creature was almost smother country are looking about anxious- I Title ofiice ....... or - write Bvrd Ar King. Real ii g me. and growls and snarls came lv for a leader who can do some- j Estate Agents. Burns Oregon. with the hot breath of a wild cat. thing toward reuniting the factions f««r fo H G ‘ I managed t< get a left hand ami rallying the scattered hosts t he reins I A goo«l ranch belonging to H G. clutch on the throat of the cat, and a united effort to recap ure Campbelll. containing 160 acres 12 MRS LOUIS RACINE, Prop’t. them miles south east of Burns. This the knife in my right hand soon of government. Several of ... Settled the case. But I was scratch think that Senator Sherman if the ranch has about KM) acr«s of gissi ed and torn pretty badly, and was man liest qualified for this tremen meadow land. Price fHOO or will 'lotel ha« recently b**n enlarge and entirely renovated In flrat elaaw atyia. badly scared in the bargain. I dous undertaking, but most of them trade for sheep. suppose the beast had l»een sitting agree that he lacks the backbone B yrd K ino . Table ifl Supplied with the Rest the Market Afford«. up on my haunch of ver.ison, tak and the moral stamina. It is mg a midnight luncheon, when his strange to hear a Sherman spoken _____________________________ “AWAIESIS’’mvrelnatant attention wa« attracted to me I of as a coward, but this is just what relie, and la an inf"'' Traveling men will fit d this Hotel a l ite «r d dtiirablo pl|<* the republican papers are r Oj presume I mint have moved under some of the republics Car« for Pile«. . rioefll. r pruniataor mall. SnmpH- saying of the venerable senatorfroni |r|| f I fW. Lun'.1' A S * K i>K" the blankets. At any rate the ■top. Ohio. He trims his sails with a | HL h B w F* Uux MU, Now York Ulf. wildcat jumped from the venison to Our Stock is Complete in every Department. B uhns E lüuiu saw M ill RED FRONT LIVERY STABLE FRENCH HOTEL r
