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BURNS, OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 21. 1903.
SI .50 »r Y«*ar.
Hix Moutha 75 < ent«.
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NO. 17
I
day of December, a rebate of 2 |«*rj
Over-Work Weakens
cent will be allowed. Under the;
Your Kidneys.
present law the rebate is 3 percent, i
On the first Monday in February !
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
the Sheriii must begin theeoilcction First Irrigation Work to Be
All the blood In your body passes through
of delinquent taxes by levying up-
Done by Government.
your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys are your
j on personal property, and on the
tCiVl kiood purifiers, lhey fii-
first Monday in April close the de-
ter out the «zxste or
y impurities in the blood.
! linquent roll and return it to the
It they are sick cr out
Taxpayers in Oregon will pay County Court.
A Washington dispatch to
of order, they fail to d»
their work.
taxes twice in 1904. They will pay
County Triasurcrs are required Oregonian of the 14th says:
Pain.-., achec and rheu
the taxes levied upon the tax roil fo pay one-half the state taxes by
matism eonc from ex
Secretary Hitchcock, of the In
cess of uric acid in the
of 1903 and also tl.e taxes levied January 15, and the other half by terior Department, lias granted
Hard wart of Every Description.
blood, due to neglected
upon the roll of 1904. This is due July 15, but the provisions of this authority for the acquisiton of kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble canoes quick or unsteady
Bl'KMM.
OH EG ON.
to a change in the law by which act do not apply to any taxes here necessary property, rights of way. heart
beats, and makes eno feel as though
had heart trouble, because the heart is
taxes are to be paid in the Fall of tofore levied.
etc., prior to the construction of they
working in pumping thick, kidney-
Delinquent sales are to take irrigation words in five localities. over
the same year the assessment is
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
to be considered that only urinary
made. I n order to effect this change place by October 1.
These project are: Wyoming, Sweet It used were
to be traced to the kidneys,
The new law shortens the entire water dam ; Montana. Milk River: troubles
it was necessary to make the taxes
but now modern science proves that nearly
payable three months earlier or time for making an assessment and Colorado, Gunnison tunnel ¡Nevada, all constitutional diseases have their begin
In kidney trouble.
nine months later. 'J he collection collecting the taxes one month Truckee; Arizona, Salt Riyer reser ning
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
of taxes is already three months Under the old law the assessments voir.
and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's
later than it should bi, so the Leg began March 1 und the taxes be These projects are those that Swamp-Root, (lie great kidney remedy is
islature decided to mi ke the taxes came delinquent on the first Mon have been under investigation by soon realized. It stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
payable in the preceding Fall day in April of the succeeding year, the Geological Survey anywhere and is sol J on its merits
rather than in the succeeding Fall. a period of 13 months. Under the from three to 12 years, and are the by all druggists in iiity-
M. FITZGKKALI».
F. S KIEHER,
BIGGS A ItlGGS
and one-dollar siz
Under the new arrangement the new law the assessments will be- ones on which the most detailed; cent
es. You may have a
President,
Aee’y and Treat*.
Atloriteja,
I counties will have funds earlier and1 igin on .January 1 and taxes will be examinations have beer, made sample bottle by mail nom et snunp-Bo-«.
also pamphlet telling you how to find
will save some interest on warrants j delinquent on the last day of the But in no case have the examina free,
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Taxpayers will feel that they arc year, a period of 12 mouths. The; tions been completed nor are the Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer
Izearing a double burden the first J times for beginning and ending the) plans ready for advertisement.' tz Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
” I Don’t make any mistake, but remem-
year, but after that there will be work of making the assessment has I he above will in no wise affect ber the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’«
I iicor|><>ra*c<t.)
no difference in the amount to be ¡been placed two months earlier, so the project to lie carried out oo | Swamp-Root, and the address, Bingham-
that the length of that period has; Butter Creek, Oregon. Today’s an- ton, N. Y., on every bottle,
paid in anv one year.
Abstracts Furnished and Title Guaranteed to all Lands in Harney
not been chanced. The time of! nouncement means that the de-;----------------------- —---------------
Under
the
present
law
the
assess-1
County.
inent is mude after the first Mon ¡making the tax levy has been set partment will immediately turn its
The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean
day in March, the assessment roll back four months and the time for attention towards acquiring full jB the only weekly newspaper pub
REAL ESTATE
being filed in September, the levy paying taxes three months.
title to the reservoir sites and lished in Chicago in connection
Bought and Sold on Commission.
Ofliee in Bank Building.
While it is generally said that rights of way of canals by purchase with the great daily papers. It
thereon made the following Janu
ary and the taxes collected by the the taxes will now be paid in the or condemnation, wherever private contains a judiciously selected
first Monday in April. Thus the Fall, the last date is nearly in the ownership conflicts with the pro summary of the news of the nation
taxes on the assessment of 1902 middle of the Winter, so that near posed work, and if in any instance and world, the best stories, home,
ly all farmers will have sold their the title cannot be obtained the farm, womftu’o, and other special
are not paid until 19ll3.
Dirvrtorj.
PRO FESSION A L C A R DS.
The new law provides that the products by that time. Those who project will be abandoned. The departments, aud fair, patriotic.
i Assessor shall on the first Monday prefer to pay-in the Spring can se-; Geological Survey, as a result of table editorials, written from a Re
Bi HNH I xhmik N o . 70, K of I*.
Meet, every Thuraday night.
of January procure blank assess- cure time on the last half of their former study of these several local- publican viewpoint. It is by far
F. M. Jordan, (’. <
i nient rolls and proceed forthwith taxes by paying the first half by ¡ties, now has rough plans for reser-1 the best general newspaper of the
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r-»--
8. Motlierslu-ffil , K of It. S.
to make his assessment, and re-' ! December 31.
voirs and canals, and final plans I Western States. The regular price
PHOTOGRAl HER.
turn the roll by the first Monday j Tax pavers will pay their 1903 will be hastened and contracts let. ■ for the Weekly Inter Ocean is $1,00
BUKN8 CIIAI'TEK, NO. 49, O. E H.
of
July, showing all the property tax?B in March, 1904, and their
As heretofore stated, the Geologi and for the Harney Valley Items
M<"eta aeeond unii fourtli Moixluy of
owned in his county on the first 1901 taxes in Deccmbes, 1904.
eacti monili ir. Maaonic Itali, Voegtlv
cal Survey has two experts now $1.50, but subscriptions will be re
building. Mrs. Maggia Levens, W. M.
Monday in January. Section 360
making surveys and examinations ceived at this office for the twe
Mrs. E unico Tinnii pson, Sue.
of the code has been amended so
The largest gold nugget eyer on Butter Creek, and a third will papers in combination for one year
as to provide that the County found in California was known as soon join them. These examina for only $1.50.
BURNH LODGE, NO. 97, A. F. à A. M. |ÿ| AKSDF.N A GEARY
Board of Equalization shall sit on the Oliver Martin nugget. It was tions will be final, and, when their
Meets Saturday on or before full iniMin.
Everything new for Spring will
Ifiialitlcd brothers fraternally invited,
the first Monday of July, instead unearthed by a dissipated young report is made and a project is
W L. Marxien.
John W. Geary,
C. E. Kenyon, W. M. F. 8. Rieder,
be
in during this month. Bad
of on the last Monday of August, man, little better than a tramp, roughly outlined, provided ro un
Physician» <(• Surgeon».
Secy.
roads
or not our stock of new goods
as heretofore. Section 3082 was while digging a grave in which to foreseen obstacles arise to show the
Burtts, Oregon.
will
he
here and the newest and
BURNS LODGE, NO. 93, A. O. U. W.
amended so as to limit the time for bury his comrade, who had been project impracticable, this work
Meets at Brown hall every Friday eve f ^"Otliee at residence. 'Phone 20.
best
goods
in the market will be
correcting the assessment tolls by drowned while lying drunk in the will be added to the approved list
ning. Visiting brother* fraternally in
shown
by
us
this season. We so
vited. TI km . Sagers, W. M. Citati. N.
the Board of Equalization of the bottom of a narrow canyon. Mar and steps be taken looking to con
Cochrane, Recorder.
licit
the
patronage
of the li.dies
County Court to 20 days.
glGGS A HIGGS.
tin had been caught in the same struction.
Under the new law the County Hood which brought death to his
Hydrographer Newell roughly aud will try. and please you. N
HARNEY LODGE, Nt». 77, I. O. <> F.
J. W. IUgg».
Dalton Bisga.
Courts
must
make
the
annual
tax
Meda every Saturday evening. Brown’s
companion, but escaped. Later, estimates that it will cost $7,000, Brown cfc Sons.
hall. Visiting brothers fraternally in
Attomeys-at-La r,
levy
in September following the securing a pick and shovel he se 000 to construct the five projects
vited.
Frank <». Jackson, N.G.
It’s a real pleasure to wear the
assessment. In order that the lected a sandy spot at the base of a designated by the Secretary, while
Kl’RNH. OKEGON.
C. G. Stniili, Secretary.
fine fitting clothes made by Strauw
County Courts may have informa cliff and started to dig a grave, the reclamation fund at this time
£«^Otlice in Bank building.
Rros., America's Leading Tailors,
TULE CIRCLE. NO. 16’», WOMEN OF
tion as to the amount required, it lie bail not dug down two feet when aggregates about $10,000,000, thus
Chicago. They're so reasonable in
Woodcraft. Meet* 2nd and 4th Tues
is provided that the Stati Board of he came upon the nugget. Marlin leaving $3,000,000 available for prices too. Robinson it Walton,
day at Brown's ball. Mrs. Tillii Jordan,
Mrs. Ione Whiting.
Guardian.
Y^nilAMSA FITZGERALD
Apportionment shall make its esti considered that his find and the other project's that may be approv
will take your order.
Clerk.
mate
of state expenses in July, in peculiar circumstances attending ed later. Furthermore, the fund
Thornton William«,
M. Fitzgerald,
stead of in January, ns at piesent. it. was an act of Providence and he is constantly growing, so there will
For a bilious attack take Cham
Church Aiiii<»iiiiceiiteutN.
Attorney-at Law,
Notary Public,
Cities and school districts must never touched liquor afterward, be no lack of funds with which to berlain's Stomach and Liver Tal>-
Late, Notarial and Real Estate
Sunday School ut H«mey the
notify the County Clerks of their Later he went io Yucatan where j commence work on Butter Creek, lets and a quick cure is certain
first Sunday of each month at KI
Practice.
annual tax levies by the first day he made more than $500,000 in when the plans are finally formu For sale by H. M. Horten. Burns •
o'clock, A. M. On the second,
Hurns, Oregon.
of September, instead of by the first quartz mining. The nugget itself lated. Part of the funds to be Fred Haines, Hartley.
third and fourth Sundays of each
day of February, asunder the old sold for $22,700 after it had earned used in other states are those de
month at 8 o'clock P. M. P reach- /HfOfliee in Masonic building
This paper and The Cfaic&g«
law. This gives the County Courts $10,000 from its exhibition in vari rived from sales of Oregon lands,
ing services every second Sit ndtiy
Weekly
Inter Ocean $1.50 for one
full information for the levying of ous parts of the country.
but a major portion of the Oregon
at 8 I». M.
“
Special
deal”
year.
R. D. Burrow, M- D. taxes at the September term of
fund for the past 2} years remains
At the Presbyterian church
Wheat, barley, oats. N. Brown to its credit and is mo e thanI Oregonian and Items. $2.00.
court.
Physician and Surgeon.
Burns, Rev. A. J. Irwin pastor.
All takes arc payable bv the 31st it Sons.
enough to build the favored irriga
Divine services the third and fourth £W“')tliee at Burns Hotel, Rooms, day of December of the same year,
tion system in that state.
A Remarkable Record.
Sundays of each month at Ila. in. 1 and 2. Calls answered any hour section 3106 of the code having
The report of the Oregon irriga
and 7:30 p. in. Sabbath school at1 day
,
been amended so as to make that | Chainbet Inin’s Cough Remedy tion committee recently forwarded
or night.
10 a. in. every Sabbath morning. Burna.
All taxes not paid bv Inis a remarkable record. It has to theSccretary of Agriculture final I
Oregon provision.
the
31st
day
of December becomes been in use for over thirty years, ly found its way to Mr. Newell, and
Preaching services at the Baptist
“ For 25 years I have never
delinquent
on
that day; provided, during which time many million has been by him referred to the
missed taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
•hurch every 1st and 2nd Sundays,
every spring.
It cleanses my
M. JORDAN,
however, that if one-half of the battles haye been sold and used. It field otiicers in Oregon. He was
morning and evening. Sunday
blood, makes me feel strong, and
taxes due on any parcel of land are has long been the standard and somewhat surprised that the com
does me good in every way.” —
school every Sunday at 10 a. m.j
Practical Land Surveyor.
John P. Hodnette, Brooklyn, N.Y.
paid
by
the
31st
day
of
December-
main
reliance
in
the
treatment
pf
mittee
made
no
recommendation,
prayer meeting every Thursday
B11 run, (>rf gon, the property-owner may have until croup in thousands of homes, vet and has therefore asked the field
evening.
Pure and rich blood
I the following first Monday in April, during all this time no case has otiicers to examine all the projects
Services at Christian Science
carries
new life to every
and if the remainder be not then ever been reported to the manufact named, as they can conveniently
Hall, corner east of the Bank, every g W MILLRR,
I paid, it becomes delinquent, and,
part of the body. You
urers in which it failed to effect a reach them. The field force will
Sunday at 11a. lit. and 8 p. tn.
besides the penalty, interest at the cure. When given ns soon as the be augmented by new men from
are invigorated, refreshed.
Service Wednesday evenings at 8. Notary Public and Conrcyanccr,
rate
of
12
per
cent
will
be
charged
child
becomes
hoarse
or
even
as
time to time, and examinations
You feel anxious to be
Everybody is invited to attend
Mortgages, Deed«, Etc., correctly made,
| on such remainder from the 31st soon as the croupy cough appears, and surveys will be continued
these services.
active. You bccomestrong,
Iluraa, Oregon. day of December.
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■ j office nt Store.
On all delin it will prevent the attack. It is throughout the Summer, although
steady,courageous. That’s
quent taxes interest is to be charged pleasant to take, many children the first w ork will be the comple
Jorgensen is siill to the front
what Ayer's Sarsaparilla
at the rate of 12 per cent per an- like it. It contains no opium or tion of investigations on Butter
with low prices. Call and see his
TO CURB A COLI» IN ONE OA1*
will do for you.
line of watches, clocks, jewelry, Take Laxative Bromo Quinine i num from the date of the delin other harmful sultstance and may Creek.
IIJtaboKie. All
stationery, etc.
Tablets. All druggists refund the quency, and if the taxes remain be given as confidently to a baby
Ask
your
doctor what I ky toinks of Ayer’s
A pair of full stock BA H, Royal
O.A.WOXIX.A..
Rarimparilla. He knows all a »♦out fhlw flrrand
money if it fails to cure. E. W. delinquent 30 days, a penalty of 5 as to an adult. For sale by H. M.
old
fHnoly
medicine.
Follow bU s4vkw wi
Bean th.
Iha Kmd You Haw Always BougM
ft-
I Grove’s signature is on each box. I per cent will be added. On all I Horton, Burns; Fred Haines, Har Cow Boy Boots reduced to $5.25. I w e will be «itthfl'
,1. ( . A yeh CO.. Lowell. N um .
N. Brown & Sons.
taxes paid on or before the 31st ney.
25c.
PAY TWICE IN 1904
FIVE PLANS CHOSEN
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E. 0. T. G. CO.
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