Local and General. Charley McPheelers and Chas. Henimar l«ft Sunday morning for Drewsey whnre they have a con­ Muy III—Know. tract for painting th« Odd Fellows Bargains at Jorgenson's. u«w building. Oregonian and I tenia. 42.00 A. It. Yantis and W. A. Brother­ MoMu lien the photographer op- ton have contracted to out logs for (x.xlte the bank. Sayers and Horton this summer. They left for the mill Wednesday K IL Hili, of l.awen, waa up oil to cmnmenoe work. busluess Wednesday. Senator John H. Mitchell, who J. I*. Dlekenson, of l.awen, is a hasjust returned to Portland from viaitor in the city today. Washington, states that Roosevelt Mrs. Henry Richardson ia visit- and Cleveland will be the pmsi- mg friends in Canyon City. donlial candidates in MKM. Jorgenson liaa a complete line of (K prescriptions in no etiild'n play. W. D. Martin and family,of Har­ It require« oolisciniitta«« ear« and stationary; school supplies, Looks, ney, were visiting in Burns Tues­ aaeuratu knowledge u ( drug» end eta. day. Mr. Marlin stated that they their relatiou« to earli other. We Frank Mrtachan and family of expected to leave Thursday for a taka an kiiMMit pnde iu the purity Kilviea Valley are visiting in Can­ viail with relatives at Walla Walla. of our drugs, a<4 tlu< »kill aud ao- yon City. cutasy with whieii we e<>m|»>utid 11 M. Horton ia now aaaociated Receiver Cliaa. Newell informs hem ou your physician's order. with John Sayers in th« sawmill us that business in the local land business. office has been unusually lively the Commissioner It. J. Williams past few weeks. Twenty eight name iu from Silver Creek Monday tilings have lieen made the |>a«t H W. WKIAMIMK < ('<»., month. on bushiest. Prop« trtor*. R«-|>orta from various sections of Wm C’.sndensn was over from the county slate the crop condi­ tiro. Marshall's ranch on Coffee tions to be very favorable, but a Cot Monday. rum ia badly needed. Range grass Haines A' Miller have com­ is backward but has made good menced the erection of a large grow th the past week. NAWMIUV. MAV in lieu atone warehouse. City Marshal Jameson informs Robt George is doing day duty us that he will grant property The R« his home several days this week of the stat« will be there to greet him. lie will spend one day in cured from Narrows, Harney coun­ with an attack ot la grippe. ty. Tills la a magriltlceut s|M-ciiurn the Oregon metrofxilia. John Culp returned thia week of a rare apentcr*a Iwiich. but she was never known to n-a. h over a picket 1 Glenn Lire Steck Co , was in from dren’s street hats, and Children's fence and anaten a dude out of a the I* ranch a few days daring the trimmed hats. Don't overlook one week on business. liamtnock." of the greatest bargains ever offered C S. Johnson, of Upper Calam­ in Burns. Call at the home of K E. Lytle. Benton Killin and J Thorburn lloas of Portland, have ity, came over Monday with a load Mrs. G. W. Cummins. tiled articles of incorporation of of oats which ho disposed of to The shingle mill on Canvon th« Ont ml Oregon Irrigation Com­ Burna merchants. Creek, near the Stansell place was pany; capital stock, (UNI,last Ixiu Hits, a prominent citizen of consumed by fire Wednesday noon Th« eoui|>anv intends to acquire Harney County, passed through while all the work men were absent. bv purchase, location and appro­ town Thursdavon his way to Hunt­ The fire is supposed to havccaught priation, water rights in the cotin- ington.—Vale Gazette. from the engine. There was no Aiea of t'rook, Klamath and Wasco; Kegtiwter Wm. Farre is having an insurance to cover the loss. to enter into contracts with the addition built to the porch in The building back of the meat Stale of Oreg.m and I'nitcd States front of bis residence and making market formerly used as an engine for the purpose of reclaiming lands, some other alterations in the house is being torn down and the aud to aiquire contracts from other building, lumber will be used in fencing the |H*rsoti«or corporations, to reclaim city property on the corner north. Harry Thom peon acted the part arid lauds, aud construct a system The firebell is also being removed of gallant yesterday and raised of irrigation works, eta. enough funds to pay the expenses and placed on top of the citv build­ Mr I). I*. Daugherty, well known of the girls basket ball team to ing. throughout Meteor and Summer Canyon City. A number of freighters left this counties, W \ a . moat likely owes week for the Stein Mountain J xgensen will dis|msc of his en­ liia life to the kindness of a neigh­ country to load with wool. Nearly bor. He was almost ho|H*l"«aly af­ tire stock of watches, clocks, jewel­ all this season's clip will be hauled flict««! with diarrhoea ; waa attend­ ry, Ixioks and stationery al to Ontario, which will be ths ed bv two physicians who gavenim cost. Ho means business. Call freighting point for a large portion little, if any, twiief, when a ueigh* I and see him for bargi.ins. of th« freight coming into this coun­ lair learning of his serious condi­ C. J. Meilis, livestock agent of ty thia Summer and Fall. tion. brought him a uoltleofCham­ tlieO. It.it, N. Co, estimates that George Thompson, a former resi­ berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar­ there arc 4,000,000sheep in Oregon; dent of the Lawen section, was in rhoea Remedy, winch cured him in 3,100,000 of them being in Easterr. Burns this week on business. Mr. less lliau twentv-famr hours, For and'.>00,000 in Western Oregon. Thompson left this county about sale by II. M. Horton, Burna; Ered Il will only be a few days liioro 7 years ago and settled on the lfninea, Harney, until definite arrangements will be Owyhee where he took up some concluded whereby we believe the government land, which he recent­ S tatic er, A. D. lSHfi. on a visit with relatives ami friends day from Cord, Malheur County, i j A. W. Gleason. at Canyon City and John Day. where he is stopping with his sister J mca TS Notary Public. Mis Seaweard. He reiiorts stock WAGONS! WAGONS t We will sell you a Mitchell, doing well in that section. Shear­ Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in­ ternally. and acta directly on the Rushford or Webber Farm Bed ing he says is in full blast, the wool crop being of the first quality. blood and mucous surfaces of ths Wagon; When he left, Byron Hamilton’s Steel Skein $85.00 eystem. Send for testimonials, free. crew of shearers had just started 8* „ « »000 F. J. Cheney A- Co., Toledo, 0. on Elsie Brown's band, having 3| „ „ 10500 Bold by all Druggist, 75c. come there from Mabou’s. Send your orders to us, 0. C. Co H ill’s Family PHD are the best. Proper Compounding Burns Drug Store HARNEY VALLEY ITEMS. Frank Cummins is in from Dia­ mond Valley. He arrived yester­ day with s load of household effects and will return after another load next week. He recently returned from Surprise Valley where he delivered the last of their cattle and having turned the ranch properly over to the French-Glenn Company is now coming to Burns to reside with ins parents. Ileatli of J, K McCulley. His Life Hav«d by Cbaoiberlata’e Colle, Cholera end Diarrhoea The Couoeilflda.) Advance ha» itsBedy. this to say of the death of J. E. ’ B. L. Bver, a well knowrveooper McCulley, who is well known In' of this town, nays be believes Cham- this section and who at one time Iberia'n’t Colic, Cholera and Diar­ was a prominent business man of rhoea Remedy saved his life last Burns: summer. He had been sick Cur a “J. E. McCulley, proprietor of a month with what the doctors call saloon and hotel at the mouth if bilious dysentery, and could get Grouse Creek, 12 miles south of nothing to do him any grxxl until Warren arrived the other day and tie tried thie remedy. It gave him Assessor John E. I»>ggan return­ registered at the Overland. He immediate relief,” says B.T. Little, ed Wednesday from an assessing had been ailing several months, merchant, Hancock. Md. For sale trip through Sil vics Valiey and | ■ nd his condition becoming rapidly by H. M. Horton, Burns; Fred down the Calamity and Malheur to worse, he came to Council for treat­ Haines, Harney. Drewsey. This was John's first ment. Friday it waa seen that trip through the Calamity section bit condition had not improved ESTRAY. andhesavs be was greatly sur­ but no one dreamed the er.d was I-ost one two-year old cow with prised at the number of splendid only a few hours off. Saturday bis calf. Brand, on ribs OO, and 7 on ranches in that s«*ct:on. Range condition seemed (setter, but it was one hip and 72 on the other. I will grass is doing better there than only the beginning of the final pay reward for her recovery. any plac« he visited and crop pros­ change that occured Sunday even­ Fred Mosier. pects are the brightest. Arriving ing, April 20, when h* passed away. Izee, Oregon. at Drewsey he dropped down the M. W. Addington look charge of river to Juntura on a visit to his the personal effects he had with St«x-k luspectors. old friend Frank Bunyard, who him, I12S SO in cash and checks Notice is hereby given that I he states has a beautiful place and and a valuable gold watch, with is prospering John say he will the photos of two handsome girls have duly appointed the following leave in a few days to asseM the on the inside esse, but no clue as deputy stock inspector fur Harner southern portion of the county. to who they were or where they County. Oregon : A. B. Colenbaugb................ Bums A negro bv the name of Hmith, might be found, or anything to John Jenkins.................... Smith who had been acting rather queer- indicate the whereabouts of friends Dick Smith .......................... Andrews Iv around town for several days, or relatives. The body was laid to N ewt H oover . was declared insane Tuesday and rest iu the Keseler cemetery on Stoek Inspector. was scot tn the asylum. He was April 27.” (The deceased was formerly part taken below by County Judge Me- Oregonisn and Items, 42.00. Haley and Deputy Sheriff Donald­ owner in the Red Front livery barn at this place, and possessed son of Prairie City—Canyon City This paper and The Chicago Eagla. Smith was employed in a . ef other projierty interests in the Weekly Inter Ocean 41.50 for one city. He bss many friends in this couple of saloons in this city dur­ year. “ Special deal” ing the winter as pianoist. He county who will be sorry to learn ofbis untimely demise ) was subject to fits and in one of For a bilious attack take Cham­ his spells caught hold of Henry II. Y. Blackwell, the well known berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tab­ Caldwell and tried to force him out of the saloon, and it was with con­ cattle buyer, has been an Ontario lets and a quick cure is oertaiu siderable effort that be was compell­ visitor for several days. Henry For sale by H. M. Horton, Burns; ed to iel go his grip, when he col­ has 60U bead of choice cattle await­ Fred Heines, Harney. lapsed and it waa some lime before ing shipment at Huntington.— It’s a real pleasure to wear the lie was brought to himself. Smith Argus. fine fitting clotbee made by Strauss is a negro of more than ordinary ' Jorgensen is still to the front Bros., America’s Leading Tailors, intelligence and was considered a with low prices. Call and see his Chicago. They're so reasonable in fair musician. line of watches, clocks, jewelry, prices too. Robinson * Walton, will take your order. HEADED TOWAICLM BCKNS. stationery, etc. Surveyor» of Electric Rond Mart Out From Baker City. Baker City. May 7.—A surveying party of 12 people under Chief Engineer George W. Howe, started from this city this afternoon to sur­ vey a route for an electric road from here to the John Day Valley and Prairie Cilv. Major J. W. Bonta is having the survey made in the interest ot the Oregon Won-' der mine. The promoters say that the road will eventually penetrate Harney County as far as Burns. G-codjs! Our Spring line of goods will soon be on display. Call and see us and get our price«. Quality of ¿aoda the higbaat, prices tbe lowest end seeing is believing. At briet« Off Fur John Day. The Burns track tram, baseball team and young ladies’ basket ball team got off in bunches during the week for John Day where they are to meet the Grant County team next week in a friendly contest for atheletic honors. Part of the boy» left early in the week so as to arrive in time to wit­ ness the contest this week l>etween the Grant County teams. Others started Wednesday and the last of the procession this morning. As a result of the local contest last Sunday, the following will be the participants in tbe various events: Running, 100 yards — Chester Smith. ’ Hurdle, 120-yards—Claude Hib­ bard. Running broad, and high jumps Claude Hibbard. Pole vault—Grover Jameson. Hammer throwing and putting' shot—William McKinney. The baseball team will consist of Joe Caldwell, catcher ¡Nolie Reed or Tommy Sagers, pitcher; A. C. Welcome or Wm. McKinney, first base; Chester Smith, 2nd base;1 Ho ner Reed, 3rd base; Grover Jameson, short stop, and Claude Hibbard (captain), Fred Esmond and Jack Robinson in the field. We did not learn the make-up of the young ladies' basket ball team. Mrs. C. A. Sweek will ac­ company them as chapcron and Father Doyle as coach. CA« luntki iifutara tt Lunaben* & Dalton