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■ ■ * « i i I I *. Published in the Greatest Valley of Eastern Oregon. F ho Oldoüt and Most Roliable. The Best Advertising Medium. Items. f VOL. lb. U li. «l.'lnlyr«. I’fOftfGl «• <.<»<.•>,«M«, Kiilior ••><! Mau.tul. BURNS. OREGON, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1903 r— NO. I I T f ÄLL THE FENCES TJIECATTLE COUNTRY REPORTS PROBABLY FORWARDED MUST GO Interesting Phases of the Struggle for New Territory. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble prey« upon the mind, dis In Western Burney mid Cri.ok I'oiintieM. .’UMMM» to 40.1)00 Acren Will Be Opened. Jzurr-d by Ntorlrn of Madeira fliehe». Men Have Floeked In from Ail Parta of the World—Odd Incidents. Geer& Cummins A dispatch from l’rineyille in the Oregonian of the 2nd, save: The order for the removal of BUICNH. ............................................... OREGON. fences from Government land is imusing considerable indignation in the Eastern part of the county. The majority of the stockmen blame W. W. Brown for it. A b near as can be learned Brown could have saved himself and many stockmen a large amount of I other money as well us pasturage by complying with the first order from the Interior Department, but he was not satisfied to let well enough M. I ITZGEit 11.1». F. N KIEDEIt. BIGGS A BIGGS l*r<'Mi<l<'iil, >«•<•*>■ midTreu«. Attorccja. alone, and so informed the Govern ment agent that he had a lot more laud fenced, nnd in consequence he was ordered to take it ail down. This order raised Brown’s ire, and I I ni'orporii'i-it.) he begun complaining on his neigh bors. and the result will be the Abstracts Furniahed and Title Guaranteed to alì Lauda in Harney opening of perhaps 30,(XX) to 40,- County. (XX) acres of Government land that has been fenced up. The greatest' REAL ESTATE loss will fall on Mr. Brown, who will be required to remove 100 to Knight and Sold on Comtniiaion. Office in Bank Building. 200 miles of fence. As a great deal of this fencing i has been done by cattlemen, it will ' be seen that they will be the losers, l.odgr IHrrrtury. and it will leave a lot of ra"ge P RO F ESS IO N AI. C A R I)S. f open to the public that will be I Bl HMH I.OIKIK N'<>. 70, K of P. fought for bv the sheep that come N. every 1'liursil.iy night. in from outside points every Sum- J H M. Ml't.I.EN. F M. Jordan. C. C. rner. Should this be the cute, MilliPrslieuil , K of R. S, there is a strong probability that PllOTOGRAl HER. Ul’RNB CHAPTER. NO. 4», O. E S. a large number of Brown’s sheep Meet« second ¡out fourth Monday of will go the wav of others that have Kuril«, Oregon. each month in Masonic h ill, Voegtlv come in the way of the cattle men building. Mr« M icci *' Leven«, W. M. lJF“Main St.—op|x»site Bank. Mrs. Eunice Thoiup-on, Mee. of that section and, as Brown has large bands of sheep that will be BERNS LODGE, NO 97, A F. A A. M. |y| AK3DIX .4 UEAIIY ranged in close proximity to a Mneta Saturday on or before full moon. great deal of the land that has been (J'lalitied brulltnrs fraternally invited, W L. Marxien, j„hn W Ovary, thrown open, and is looked upon < E Kenyuii, W. M. F. S. Rieder, Secy. PLynician» <(■ Surgei nt. by the cattle owners as the cause Burns, Oregon. of the opening of thefencie.be BURNS LODGE, NO. 93, A. o I W. will naturally be the object of their Meets at Brown hall «vary Friday «ve £dF“0lliee at resilience. ’Phono 20. li ig. Visiting brothers Irstermilly in vengeance. i'md. TI km . Sagura, W. M. Chaa. N. Much of the land that has been (oc-brune, Recorder. gl'O.S ,4 IIIUUS. under fence ¡3 but poor pasturage HARNEY LODGE, NO. 77, I. O (>. F. at best, but. it being easier fenced J. w. Blgga. Dalton Blasa. Meets every S.itiirdav evening, Brown's than left outside, many of the stock- h ill. Visiting brothers fraternally in A ttorneyn-a f-1.a tr, vited. Franko Jackson, N.G. men have enclosed it with their <’. G. Smith, Secretary. III ItMO. OltKGOX. own premises. One reason that so £W“< Ittico in Bank building. much of the land in this county has been enclosed is that a large area of “road land’’ has been leased OUIM.IAMS ,4 FITZliKRAI.O by the stockmen, and, it -being in Thornton William», M. Fltsgcrald, alternate sections, there has been Chui-cli A it non ne em ent». Attorney -at La*. Xolary Public, a tendency to inclose all the land within the boundaries of the road Sunday School at Harney the Laic, Notarial and Real Entate land so as to form a square or first Sunday of each month nt 10 React ire. other solid body of land, tnus tak o'clock, A. M. On the second, Burna, Oregon. ing a much less amount of fencing thin) and fourth Sundays of each fffiTOffice in Masonic building than would otherwise be requited. month at 3 o’clock P. M. Preach- While those who have done so are ing services every second Sunday fully aware that they were inclos at 8 P. M. R. D. Burrow, M- D ing Government laud to which they At the Presbyterian church hud no right they have never in Physician and Surgeon. Burns, Rev. A. J. Irwin pastor. any way oppost d any one in set-i Divine services the third and fourth <W**<Hfii’e at Burns Hotel, Rooms, tling within their inclosures who Sunday* of each month at 11 a. m. 1 and 2. ('alls answered any hour desired to take a homestead or and 7:30 p. m. Sablinth school at day or night. I other claim. In this they have 10 a. m. every Sabbath morning. Burna. Oregon differed widely from the cattle Preaching services nt the Baptist barons of Northern California and «htirch every ¡stand 2nd Sundays, Nevada, where it was as much as a morning and evening. Sunday p M JOKUAX, man’s life was worth to attempt to Bchool every Sunday at ID a. m. take a homestead inside of one of Practical Land Surveyor. prayer meeting every Thursday the great inclosures without first liuriiNt Oregon, evening. promising to sell to the cattle in oi Services at Christian Science who had the land undei f nee. Hall, corner east of the Bank, every y W. MII-I.KR, Sunday at 11 a. m. and S p. m. It’s a real pleasure to wear the Service Wednesday evenings at 8. Notary Public and Conreyancer, fine fitting clothes made by Strauss Everylmdy is invited to attend Mort en kps , ¡»eetls, Etc., correctly iniulo. Bro.«., America’s Leading Tailors. these services. Office nt Store. Hit rim, Oregon, Chicago. They’re so reasonable in prices too. Robinson it Walton, will take your order, TO < t Its: A COLI, IN ONE DAV Hardware of Every Description. E. 0. T. G. CO. I State Assodaih n Will Wait lii- courage-; and lessens ambitien; t-n.ty, vigor ar.d cheer(ulne-3 soca til February 75, disappear when the kid neys are out of order cr diseased. Kidney trouble ha« become so prevalent that it is not uncomnon for a chil i to be Cora afflicted with weak kid neys. It the child urin ates loo often. If the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able t» control the passage, it Is yet afflicted vzith bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of the diificul y u kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment ci these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a dlceaced condition cf the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit os most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- cent and one dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet teK- non» rf ti«*on>nort. ing all about it. including many ot the thousands cf te3tinioni.il letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer 6z Co.. Binghamton. N. Y., be sure aad mention this paper. For ten year«, more or 1 cm , say from Oregonian. Jan. 30: “Yes. I no 1874 to 1884, and later than this in the northern range, there wax universal tice that the Department of the In prosperity ami plenty of money; to be terior expect« us to^present appli a cowman meant being a email, but cations for irrigation works, if we powerful king with a princely, king- Join, the boundaries of which were vet want them,” said President A. H. by precedent and by the honor of cus Devers, of the Oregon Irrigation tom as far as a man on horseback could see, and by water as firmly as if Association, yesterday. “I can see corner-marked aiul title-deeded.There the force of his suggestion that we was no reii., and virtually no taxes to take action if we want Government pay. A man might own a hundred We have had this in mind thousand cattle, and not an acre of aid. lam).though Reclaimed "range rights" for some time, and have been shap to 50,000 acre», and enforced those ing our movements with a view to rights with blood ami iron, writes Ray getting Oregon applications before Stannard Baker, in Century. Apparently this was a new sort of the department. We have some on free life in which man had risen above the old slow rules of thrift, it was a band now, and have decided tj wait simple business; turn the cattle to only two weeks longer for the pre glass, and when money was needed, sentation uf local schemes. Then round them up and sell them. But the lucky dog sometimes had we will forward what we have. di'dicully in enjoying hi» bone in peace. “We had to stir up the various Lured by the stories of sudden riches county organizations in order to in tie cattle country, other men, as The only Don’t make anv mistake, fait rwnem- bold ami linrdy a» the first, flocked in get these applications. from all parts of the world, ami began I c>unty to act in tcej.dtn.e with her literame, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer'« raising big and little herds. The build the resolution of the irrigation con Swamp-Root, ami Die addreM, Bingiiam- ing of the railroads across the conti ton, N. Y., on every bottle. nent stimulated immigration; the vention was Klamath. Now th it great Texas boom followed the com we are after the others, more are now are wild Lay, aud where water pletion of the Texas Pacific railroad coming in. Our executive com-! can be obtained, oat?, barley, wheat in 186.3. At first the early comer« wel comed the new rangers, sold lirma.f' mittee will do its share to have and rye. The principal oceupalioo tie at exorbitant prices, chuckled nt Oregon adequately represi n ed in now is stock raising.*’ their innocence, allowed them to come iu on the ranges, nnd grew richerand applications for the Government richer. There were times when Texas irrigation work.” Substitute« for Panama Hat«. steers, big and little, brought $25 each Reports concerning lands requir ranninn straw hats are highly on the range. But the tide swelled, and tile cattle continued to increase ing irrigation through Government fashionable in Japan, though on ac • ti mioti«ly Presently the first real aid are arriving al tlieutlice of Sec count nf the price, which la much higher than (lint of the orTThiary »ettiers, the "nesters" of Texas, who retary James M. Moore, of the Ore straw hats, they are bought «inly by wished to fence the land for farm«, Irrigation Assoc.ation, the rich or the fashionable. This appeared in numbers, an I the early gon I may be removed if. ns re comers, the original cowboy«, began but so far have come only obstacle ported in an Osaka paper, the sub to chafe. "Who’s elbowing me?” they from Klamath, Crook and Harney stitutes for the Panama straw found inquired, nnd there was prompt nnd effective shooting, and the wholesale Counties. It is especially request in middle Formosa are really adapt ed for the purpose. The substitutes cutting of the new fences. ed that reports from representatives are said to be the fibers of the Many good men lay down in the hot sand, never to rise again. But that, of Umatilla. Baker, Wasco, Grant leaves of a certain tropical tree of bad as it was. did not tell the whole and Malheur Counties be sent to very rapid growth. Six fibers can story" of destruction. If cattle lied Secretary Moore not later than be obtained from each leaf, which Is about four inches wide and four feet been killed instead of men. the trouble might have been averted, but the herds February 5, as they have to le long, and it is said that the cost of went on multiplying until they covered carefully considered at a mee ing of 10.000 fibers is about six yen. A cer tain foreign firm of Yokohama is all the range, giving it no rest winter the executive committee of the Ore said to have already given a large or summer. Each cowman scrambled for all he could get; he argued that if gon Irrigation Association I e!o-e order for the fibers, and the Panama he did not take the grass his neighbor transmission to Washington D. C . hats made with this new material may therefore appear on the mar would. And who cared a rap for the so that Government officials can ket this summer. If the new fibers future? Life was short and money At first there had been arrive at an estimate of lhe appro-, are really suited for headgear For tangible, mosa may lie said to have bit upon a enough grass to support one steer to priation required to irrigate O.e new resource.—Japan Meekly Times. every two acres of land; in lin” a dozen years a steer did well to make his liv gon’s arid lands. TheGOdays time Chanre« for n Divorce. ing on five acre*. After that the ratio allowed for the preparation of these ( He—I understand voting Simkins steadily widened. So great was the nnd his wife are not living happily reports expirtd January 20. struggle for new territory that whole toget her. The report from Harney County herds of cattle sometimes went 20 She—What seems to be the triralile? miles or more to water and then luick says: "Incompatibility of temper."* again, galloping every step, nnd work “Which is at fault?" “Silvies Valley lies in the midst ing hard between times to get enough “Both, lie furnishes the incompafl- from the failing ranges to keep life of a mountainous region which in bility and she supplies the temper.-"— within their lean carcasses. And to Winter is deeply covered with snow, Chicago Daily News. day there are many parts of the range that will not support ten cattle to the largely forming the source of the The Way of fhe F'rontier. square mile, one steer toevery 04 acres, water supply of this valley. This The way of civilization in a new and it is a good range indeed that will immense watershed covers an area land passes comprehension. Its mot feed a steer to every 20 acres. There are whole ranges in Texas, New Mex of 6(X) square miles. It is known by to seems to be: ruin first*, there is ico and Arizona, once rich beyond be nil acquainted with tliiscountrythat time afterward to save. Civili ation is a good deal like a wild. fuil-bl*>o<l- lief. that are completely deserted a nd the annual snowfall averages five ed boy; it must first sow wild oats, given over to the desert. feet. It is estimated that the water waste its patrimony, disi-race its an tecedents; then it is ready to begin is ample to fill a reservoir made by the ser’ >us work of life. That lias placing a da n at the lower end of been the history of the range coun Chloroform nnd Gaslight. Tn general the profession in this I Silvies Valiev GO feet high. Vari-1 try; swift ruin for 30 or 40 years, country is united in the belief that ous streams will furnish ample with a resulting wreck that it will require a century of hard work, per ether is a much more satisfactory anaesthetic than chloroform. A not water to overflow Harney Valley severance and .self-control to save.— inconsiderable number, however, pre during the Spring season, so that Century. fer chloroform, particularly under es the waters of the reservoir need not pecial circumstances, and some opera tors who have no well-equipped clin be used until af e - the first iriiga- ics at their command tend to use chlo tion- Si.rvevs show that a restr roform when working by artificial voir could be made of Silvies \ al light, nnd particularly in ill-equipped houses. It is. however, known by ley by placing a dam at the lower most pharmacologists and by many end. Silvies River shows that the others that chloroform has dangers when used by artificial l*g! t. but this fall from the reservoir to the lands fact is by no means generally recog irrigated, would be sufficient io in nized. Persons have been killed by the sure the feasibility of conducting decomposition of chloroform by gas light. It has been attempted to over the water over the lands iu Harney come the danger of fhe production of \ alley. Irrgable lands in Harney this form of poisoning by placing soda Vallsy amount to 274,240 acres. or borax sol lit ion or milk of lime in 1 he Of this land about 60,000 acres are operating-room, but these methods have been shown to be wholly insuffi now under irrigation. The soil of cient.—Philadelphia Medical Journal. 9 CASTOR IA For Infauts and Children. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine The Kind You Tablets. All druggists refund the Reduction prices make business. money if it fails to cure. E. \V. Bears the N. Brown A- Sons will continue Signature of (■rove a signature is on each box. low prices for some time yet. 25c. Have Always Bought Harney Valley is a rich black loam capable of producing hay, grain and all other agricultual as well as garden products. This vast extent of land, which can be easily and in expensively lr-igated, now support^ a population of less than 4000. Once irrigated and reclaimed it would support a population of 50,- i 000. Tho principal products’