’ ■■■ VOL. V I. BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON. (hT./i.t, Thi ’I- a ’L THE INITIATIVE AND RE-, bitionists eight hundn d vot.-n each FERENDUM, AND PROPOR­ ■ the democrats would eh cl nil fiv* PUBLISHED EVERY| WEDNESDAY HighcyUof all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report BY TIONAL REPRESENTA­ ¡representativesand shut out the W. C. BYRD a SON. TION. other three parties, having twenty 1 four hundred votes, frem any rep P ublishers and P roprietors . » To the C itizens of O regon :— • reservation or hearing. To prevent The Oregon Farmers ’ Alliance, this wrong, _. let each voter ’set th* ( SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Owe Year ................................................... |3.0u Oregon State Grange, Oregon figure 1 opposite his first choice, (ii Months. i„M) Three Months.................................................. 75 Knights of Labor, and Federated 2 opposite his second choico, <3 tor Ore Year (in advance) .2.50 Trades Assembly of Portland, earn­ third choice, and so on. Then if HERALD CLUB LIST: Herald and Harper’s Magazine............ 5.00 estly repuesi that you will help to each democrat marks A. as his first j erald and Harper’s Weekly .............. 5.20 make the Initiative and Referen­ choice. B. as his second choice and erald and Harper’s Bazar.............. . 5.20 3.75 dum the system of making law in (J. as his third choice, when eight erald and Hai per’s Young People . . ■ «raid and Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia, .2.90 Oregon. Under this system every hundred ballots are counted for A •ach additional volume after Vol. 1 55 cent«: 10 cent« extra oer volume, postage. ’S bill must receive the majority vote he is elected as the representative £^-Copie«of all theabove work« can be ex of the citizens at the ballot box be- of one fifth of the voter«; the other ■wined at leliure in the Reading Room eight hundred ballots are then Publishers of periodicals are solicited fore it can become a law, W. D. H are , of Oregon State “Not bad looking, you mean to to sand clubbing rates, a copy of their work for The Initiative means that any »counted for B , their second choice, ,«r Free Reading Room—We file and bind the latter at close of every half-volume, end r-v VI citizen may right a proposed law. [and he is elected; no votes are left Grange, Chairman, Hillsboro. Or. - say?” •epies bv advertisement. “Come, sir, I won’t allow you to and if three per cent, of the citizens for C. F very democrat has voted ; i gon A 1 M ason .of Portland Fed­ 1 sign a petition in it favor, the Sec- they have elected their share of erated Trades. 545 Fourth St., speak so slightingly of a person ADVERTISING RATES: 1 wk 12 Wk j 1 mo j 3 mo j 6 mo | i yr retary of State must submit it to a representatives and cannot get any Portland. Oregon. W. 8. Vander- whom you don't know.” SPACE “1 know her a great deal better 1 inch »1.50 >2.50 85 00 00 811.00 115.00! vote of the citizens at the next more Each of the other parties, burg. of Oregon Knights of Labor, 3 e heard in the council or leg Milwaukie, Oregon. posed by some of the people, filed islature in proportion to the num mittee on Direct Legislation. Tonic Builder I JOB WORK with the Secretary of State and I by _ ‘ her of votes it casts. All the peo Small Talk. • f every description executed with neatness him sent direct to the people at! pie will be represented, and instead and despatch, at reasonable rates. I of party government by party ma- •irculars, Posters, the ballot box Pamphlets Envelope«, Dill Heads, Letter Heads, Young gent(at a party, to his Statement«, Note Heads, Cards, TicKets, The Referendum means that the •chinery, we will have a country Memoranda, Iuvitations. Dodgers, Etc. neighbor) —What a charming ap­ legislature has the power to propost governed by all the people. Under Rend fbr T he H erald is kept regularly on file for re­ parition, that lady yonder with * descriptive ference, in the Geo. P. Rowell Newspaper Ad­ bills, but any act must be accepted this system each party will nomi pain I hlet. vertising Bureau. 10 Spruce st.. New York. by a majority of the voters at the.'«ate only as many candidates as it the golden hairl Dr. WILLIAMS’ “Yes, that hair cost a good 3000 ballot box before it can become a (probably has votes to elect. SOr. MEDILIhE CO., OFFICIAL DIRECTORY p« r box« Schenectady, N.Y. Your committee requests that francs.” . law. “And those teeth—a yentable I ü lor SX5Ü anj BroclLVille, On- whereyer there is no Alliance. national - This is the Swiss method, where casket of pearls.” President ................... Grover Cleveland I in some states it haft been in suc- Grange dr Union, our people will K M lKF.8IH”g1veslntit«r.t “Patent enamel. Guaranteed to | Vice-President. Adlai Stevenson . . , . • “|S rffBrclk î and in an in ■ ‘ •- organize non-partisan Direct Legis Secretary of state waiter q . Gresham cessful operation for SIX : hundred Hi 11 uL> Cure for ¡’UM. ¡ . ->ÿL t » last three years.” Îscretary of Treasury .. John G. Carlisle ' r. . , ■ it?"“ IA lirwggWsorninll. Sanipli» ecretary of Interior Interior ....................... Hoke Smith years. Zurich state, population ation Clubs, necessary funds to be Secretary d r H P ■>f¡x»e.Ai»ln«**ANAKLSÍS, a “In short, she’s an angel.” •s'ratary of War Daniel 8. Lamont d h Rv MSFBux Uhi, New Volk Ci er. three hundred and forty thousand raised by voluntary contribution, • •eretary of Navy ........ Hilarv A. Herbert Secretary of Agriculture....... J. Sterling Morton the only condition of membership attorney General Richard 8, Olney and Zurich city, population ninety Poitmaeter General............... Wilson 8 Bissell two thousand, for forty years have being a wish to aid the introduction STATE—OREGON : of the Initiative and Referendum | ■ e tor« ! J N Dolph permitted no law, tax levy or ap­ ........................ I J. H.Mitchell. in Or< g >n. Also, that your organi _ (Binger Hermann propriation of public money to be zations will in every case put the, Congressmen ................. ssible. District Attorney .............D C has . F. H yde court or other power. Joint-Representative (R)........ A. W. Cowan supreme j delegates to such convention to be Joint-Senator..................(D). H enry B lackman COUNTY—HARNEY t Criminal, corrupt and worse than elected by ihi system of Prop >r • ounty judge ................. (D)......... W m . M iller 'erk ............................. (D) P. L. Shidelcr worthless legislatures, like our last tional Representation, and also (hut tea« irer ........... (R) .......... I. 8. Geer trvevor ............... (R) J. H. Neal in Oregon, spending twenty-seven IS THE BEST PAPER IN THE WEST. the new constitution framed t»y ■Joenff ............................(R) A.Gittings Assessor . .......... .... (D).............8. W. Miller ' thousand dollars for clerk hire, such convention shall be submits d School Superintendent 1...1R)....... C has .N ewell •toek Inspector David Cary besides other steals too numerous to tl e people at the ballot box tor Q nnn SPECIAL premiums W m . A ltnow to mention, are an impossibility. VALUE, $135,000 Commission«™ .......... acceptance or rejection?” And. U j UUU GIVEN AWAY t ; . its Under this method making law further, that you will ensure the ----------------- , HARNEY Ü. 8. LAND OFFICK: ! is merely a business proposition of endorsement of this great reform by It 1« brimful of new» from «11 part» of the world, and it» Literary Department la «applied by tha Register ............................... J. B, H untington Receiver .................. ...H arrison K ellky public welfare Demagogues, wire- all the conventions of your differe t forenwst writers of the day. In addition to it» great new» and liteiary feature«, i pulkrs, ward heelers and pot house political parties by electing only IT GIVES TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER HIS CHOICE FROM TWO MAGNIFICENT WORKS OF ART, politicians lose their power. Any delegates pledged in its favor. SOCIETIES. man advocating a worthy law can SYLVA REBEKAH Degree No. 43. This educational agitation is ah The Examiner’s Art Album, Meet, every 1st and 3d Wednesday. Censtatlngof eight beautiful reproduction« from masterpieces of the world*« gr ■•> bring it to a vote within a year, solutely non partisan in character, Eunice Thompson, N. G. •at artists, the whole collection bound in a handsome bamboo leatherette o «1 E May Worthington. Rec. Sec’y. | while bad laws are as easily re­ and we trust that the proposal to Or a beautiful reproduction tn all of its original colors, of th» famous histot «1 pealed. By constant study of law- introduce the reform in Oregon will painting. 12x28 inches, A. O. (J. W. Burns Ledge, No 47 making the people are ready for be preventea from becoming in any Meets every 2d and 4th Thursdsvs Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. W. Y. King, M. W wise action at all times. sense partisan politics, or causing I J W Sayer, Ree’d. Proportional Representation gives any political advantage to any And besides all this, THE EXAMINER will thi« year distribute «mong IU subscriber» ».000 Fr»> mituaa, aggTCfatiug in vslue tire stupendous sum of S135.000 This is the fourth aunttsl distrib» every party representation in pro­ party. Let it be accepted or re­ tlon, and the list of premiums is larjcraud more valuable than ever before ofered. Remember that BIJRNO n IA HONOR Lodge. N o . 8 premiums entail no additional espen>■. M, R.Bigg« N.G. I representatives; veBngatethis s hject,we recommend I ' ■ ———» entitled to five ft» regafes snbwrlptloa price Get the full particulars of thia grand offer from the XXAMTNER f theft any candidate recieving eight j W. Sullivan’s book, “Direct »>stre».Psge HARNMY POST NO. 4», G. A. R. Premium Mat, Whkh we can supp.y to yon. or you can procure oae from your P