Published in ih« (Vastest Valley of Eastern Oregon. T ho Oldest and Most Reliable. The Best Advertising Medium. li Harney Valley Items -y r BURNS, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 22 1903. VOL. 19. to be the I SHOCK VERY SEVERE purpose '"‘J' I ia of not the nnderiitood Government to re- Geer& Cummins Hardware of Ewry Detcriptian. OREGON, • ia Moaitb« 71 Crate. OREGON NEWS Mrvothal ciass of land«. The home- ateadirig era wanjust ofiening when It cm» of I nt erest Gat here»! From Rut Lauti WItlidrawnl Will Not the withdrawal order came. One effect of the withdrawal will Dlflerent Part» of the State. Htunt Growth. probably 1« to stimulate the entry men to make proofs. Hardly more than 10 per cent of the timber and The salmon pack along ths Col di»|>alch from Bend, Crook atone claims have been going to umbia promises to lie light. | County, say a: The willxlrawal of proof on first advertisement. A John Walker, a picneer of Ore [public land that ha« juat lieen large number apply for readv«-rtiee- I made in Central and Southern Ore merit on the ground that they have gon. California and Idaho, is dead gon covers a blanket area of more not the money to pay up. Many ut Baker City. than 2.800,000 acres. Only about claims have In [Hied. But hereafter Twenty cents has been offered at half of this, howeve,', remains va there is sure to lie greater vigilance, Salem for contracts for hops of cant. And if only the area of val arid parties whose interent is in that the crop of 1903. uable limber were considered, less direction may be trusted to see to it Two attempt were made last than a quarter, perhaps not more that enlrvmen do n it fail to make week to burn the town of Albany than 10 ,ier cent, is vacant. Entire proof because of lack of funds, j townships of desert, ao undesirable Lapse hereafter will mean no fur by an incendiary. that none of the land has yet been ther onportunity to get hold of the It ia estimated that Oregon has ’taken, are included in tho area land co long as the present order -100,000 head of cattle. 3u0,000 of withdrawn, aa well as other town ! is in force. There is likely, too, to which ere in Eastern Oregon. ships that have been entirely taken. be a reduction in the number of The town of Halsey, Linn Coun The fact that ao little valuable contests filed against entries in the ty, the business portion of which liuilM-r remains, and that so much area withdrawn. The tendency of was recently destroyed by fire, will I treeless desert is Included in the [ the decisions is to deny preference be rebuilt. area withdrawn, makes the purpose right to successful contestants un- > of the Government something of a der these conditions. This leaves . Three masked men entered the no motive for contesting claims Miners’ Cabin saloon at Baker Citv mystery. There ia a tendency to overesti- that may be irregularor fraudulent,! last Thursday evening, secured i mate the effect of this witndrnwal and many tracts that are rightly ♦3M‘ in cash and made their escape. » 0UMMM. * I A NO. 39 The Quarterly for the Oregon Historical Society for June, 1903, has been received. As usual every article it contains is of vital inter est to every student of Oregon History, as the following table of contents indicates: “Oregon and its Share in the Civil War,” by Itobertt T. Platt; "The Great West and the Two Easts,” bv Henry E. Reed; “Social and Eco nomic History nf Astoria,” by Alfred A. Cleveland; “A Pioneer Captain of Induitry in Oregon," by Prof. James II. Robertson. In addition a number af documents relating to Dr. Marcus Whitman, the emigration of 1842 3 and the earlier conditions of the Oregon Country. Copies of the quarterly may be secured by applying al the Society Rooms, City Hall, Portland, Oregon. A Missouri editor is said to have gotten off the following: “We live in a land of high mountains and high taxes, low valleys and low wages; big crooked rivers and crooked statements; big lakes, big Buy ii |M>«tal card and send to The New York strikes, big drunks, big pumpkins Tribune Farmer, New York City, for a freo and big men with pumpkin heads; specimen copy. silver str~;ms that gambol in the Tiiv Tribune Farmer is a National Illustra ¡on the development of Central Ore subject to contest may be driven Frank Curtis, of Multnomah mountains, and pious politicians ted Agricultural Weekly for farmers and gon. The business of the land lo- through to patent because tbe Gov County, has been appointed war that gamble in the night; roaring their fumiliee, and stands at the head of the ’ cator in that region is, of course, ernment has not sufficient inform den at the Oregon State Peniten catapults and roaring orators; fast agricultural press. The price ia f LOO per I gone, but his industry was fast wan- tian to warrunt cancellation with tiary to succeed E. A. McPherson, young men and girl« faster, fastest; year, but if vou like it you can secure it with sharp lawyers and sharp financiers; j ing, anyway. The rush of timber out private help through contest' who resigned the position. Vour own favorite local new«|>a|>er, The noisy ch’.idren and fertile plain« : proceedings. Denial of the prefer- seekers ended months ago. though ITEMS, at a bargain. Both |M|>er» fl 50. City Marshal R. E. Armstrong, I that lie like sheets of water, and i there hns continued a more or less . ence right swallows the cancella of Condon, was shot in the knee Send money and order to The ITEMS. steady movement in this direction. tions. and the withdrawn area is last week by Frank Palmer, a thousands of newspapers that lie like thunder.” . Now all entries are cut off in an ! swelled just so much. E saloonkeeper. The trouble arose area beginning within two miles of A year ago such a withdrawal as over the use of water to irrigate PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Look out for bogus $5 t iecec. Bend ami reaching through to Cal has just been made would have lawns. ’ A secret service man ran across 98 Hr ama leoiMiK No. 70, K «>< H. ifornia. It surrounds the Klamath ^se'ved an important purpose in The appeal to the supreme court )of lhetu •*«•* Sv*Uie, and believe« M«H«tR vverv rhurwlajr night. Ind'an Reservation, and connects stopping a raid on timber lands J It MeMt'LUM. I M ' .t int C ‘ of the Pleasant Armstrong case a K*"K of counterfeiters are operat- with a withdrawal made some that has been attended with num H. Mothrrahead , K of K. H. has been completed aad the ease *n® *n that city, circulating the weeks ago on the banks of Goose erous irregularities and brought re PHOTOGRAPHER. is now readv for trial. He was cou- bad mon«v between Puget Sound Lake, in Oregon and California. proach upon the state. At this BI'KNH t'HAlTER. NO. 49, O. E. 8. vicled of the murder of Minnie a,_’d lbe Columbia River. A bogus .Meet» »'•eon it and fourth Monday of This might have the effect of bot time it is locking the barn after tbe Harun, Oregon, Emminger at Baker City last ,,Mt*onal batik note is also in •■act» month in Maaon c hill, Voegtlv tling up the country and holding I horse is gone. building Mr« Maggie Levan», W. M. «F*Mnin St.—opposite Bank. circulation, It bears the impriut December. ’circulation. I it in an undeveloped condition in It dues not appear that the irri •Mr». Eunice Thompeon. Sec. of the Fourth National Bank of definitely, but for the fact that gation enterprises of the Upper Aeck k»" A’ ^ries of nearly all the desirable land has Deschutes Valley will be affected 22 miles from La Grande, was shot; Bl'RNH U»|MiF. NO. «7. A F. « A M. M XK«t>KS a UK a RV Tilman register; Morgan, Meets Baturdsy on or tiefare lull moon. passed under private control and adversely by the new land order. twice Monday last, by Wm. Topp, treasurer. MualiHrd brothers fraternally invited, W. L. Mar.4.n, John W. Oeaty, the Government has withdrawn I as a result of a feud over fences ------ < . E. Kinyon, W. M F. H. Rieder, Plnjtinant <{• Surgeon*. from entry only the land that is of . S tate of O hio ,C ity of T oledo .; Hwy. and cattle. Topp used a 22-rifle. you know wu . it you ark taking L cscas C ounty . i Kurus. Oregon. comparatively little value, the land Bennett is said to be recovering When you take Grove’s Tastebsa BURNS LODGE. NO. 03. A. O. W. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ^^^Orttcr at rvMilerwe. 'Phone 20. that nobody cares much for. from his wounds. | Chill Tonic because the formula is Milet» «t Bro» ii hall every Friday eve This land that is in private con he is senior partner of the firm of ning Vlaitmr brothers internally in- A dispatch to tbe Oregonian un- plainly printed 041 every bottle v’tud. Tlion. Sager», W. M. Cha». N. trol does not lie in isolated tracts, F. J. Cheney & Co, .loing business der date of Aug. 14 says a serious showii g that it is simply Iron ana Ciwhraiin, Recontar. gluon A moos. necessitating the crossing of Gov in the Citv of Toledo. County and forest fire is raging near Sparta,' Quinine in a tastelees form. Ne ernment land to reach it. Il lies i State aforesaid, and that said firm Baker County. Several million : Cure, No HARNEY LODGE. NO. 77. I. O <» F. ’ ** ** J. W. Bigg«. Dalton Hi««. Pay. 50c, M cv I m every Saturday evening, Brown’« in large bodies, and a railroad may will pay the sum of One Hundred feet of lumber has been destroyed ------ hill. Vinilmic broiher* fraternally in* Attorney» '•»•Law, ¡traverse the productive country Dollars for each and every case of vite<l. Frank (>. Jarkaon,’ N. G. and several large mills and ranch During his courtship a uiaa Hl'BNR. OKKtlON. (i. Kmiiii, Kecretarjf. with asmucn freedom as it nolands Catarrh that cannot be cured by houses are threatened. thinks tl’e a dream; after marriage aWT'Ortl,■« in Bank building. 'had been withdrawn from entry. the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Captain Roswell Hawkes Lam- he > 8 f ” rrv that he woke UP- Tt’l E I IIU'I.E. NO. ISA. WOMEN OF Frank J. Cheney. Even if tho contemplated reserve Woodcraft. Meet» 2nd and 4th Tues- I Sworn to before me and subscrib son, a distinguished retired officer’ d«\ at IWown’s hall. Mr«. Tillie Iordan. | be actually created (if the matter ^yil.I.IAMHA FIIZUCKALD The church is said to be divided Mrs. lone Whiting. Guardian. ed in mv presence, this 6th day of of the United States Navy, died ever reaches that stage),there can Clerk. into three classes—workers, jerker« December, A. 1). 1886. last Friday at his home in Port ’ Thornton William», M. Fiti|«rald, be no material interference on the shirkers. A. W. Gleason. land. He was the first naval cadet Atlorno>-al law. notary Public, part of the Government, for the Cliiirwli Aniioiiiicciucnts. Notary Public. appointed from Oregon and won Law, Notarial and Real Nutate [Government lands will be of a Over-Work Weakens Sunday School at Harney the distinction during the Civil War. character and lie in a position that Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in Practice. first Sunday of each mouth at 10 Your Kidneys. will offer comparatively small in ternally. and acts directly on the Great excitement, not without o'clock, A. M. On the second, Hums, Oregon. ducements to private agencies of hlood and mucous surfaces of the cause, prevails in the southern part Uabealthjr Kidneys Make impure Blood. third and fourth Sundays of each P^’Oflice in Masonic building development, and there will be no system. Send for testimonials, free. ofClackamrs County becauseor re All the blood ia your body passes through month at 3 o'clock P. M. Preach-1 your kidneys once every three minutes. | necessity for coming in contact’ F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O. cent discoveries made there by The kidneys are your ing services every second Sunday with them. blood purifiers, they fil local mining prospectors. Gold in Sold bv all Druggist. 75c. at 8 P. M. p M. JORDAN, ter out .lie waste or Two townships escaped the eagle Hall's Family Pills are the best immensely paying quantities has Impurities in the blood. At the Presbyterian ch urcli eye of the Commissioner, but they ' If they are sick or out i been repeatedly worked and pros Practical I aiiu I Surveyor. pastor. of order, they fail to d» Hurns. Rev. A. J. Irwin will probably not remain long open His Life Savid by Chaaberlain.s pected for the last ten years, but their work Il urna, Oregon, Divine services the third and fourth to entry. Evidently some clerk Colic, Clmlera anil Diarrhoea i the hidden wealth was never die- Pains, aches andrheu- matisni come from ex Sundays of each month at 11a. tu. followed an old map in making out! Remedy. ’ closed before. cess of uric acid in the and 7:30 p. tn. Sabbath school at the list of townships to be with-’ ”B. L. Bver, a well known cooper blood, due to neglected g W. Mll.l.KIl, 10 a. in. every Sabbath morning. Bruce Hawkins, a young ranch' kidney trouble. ¡drawn, a map that showed town- of this town, says he believesCham- Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady lierla’n’s Colic, Cholera and Diar er living about five miles from heart l>eats, and makes one feel as though Preaching services at the Baptist Notary Publie and Conveyancer, I ships 22 and 23, range 9, to be in ; they heart trouble, because the heart is the Cascade range forest reserve. rhoea Remedy saved his life last Baker City,was seriously and proba over had church every Island 2nd Sundays, Mortgage«, Devda, Ktc, correctly made, working in pumping thick, kidney- bly fatally injured last Saturday The fact was overlooked that those summer. lie had been sick for a poisoned blood thiough veins aud arteries. morning and evening. Sunday office at «tore. Hurns, Orego It used to be considered that only urinary townships had been set out of that month with what the doctors call evening. lie was going out to his troubles school every Sunday at 10 a. tn. were to be traced to the kidneys, ranch from town with a piano in bilious dysentery, and could get but now modern science proves that nearly prayer meeting every Thursday . MANAGER WANTED—Trust ’ reserve early this year, presumably constitutional diseases have tlieir begin because they were not sufficiently nothing to do him any good until the wagon. His wife was driving all evening. ning in kidney trouble. worthy lady or gentleman to man he tried this remedy. It gave him and Mr. Hawkins was holding the. If you are sick you can make no mistake forested to warrant holding them. Services at Christian Science age business in this Countv and I immediate relief," says B.T. Little, piano. In crossing a culvert the j by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and lire extraordinary effect cf Dr. Kilmer s Hall, corner east of the Batik, every adjoining territory for well and But thev do contain good timber, merchant, Hancock, Md. For sale wagon jolted and the piano toppled Swamp-Roof, tire great kidney remedy is Sunday at 11a. nt. and 8 p. tn. favorably known House of solid most of which has been filed on, by 11. M. Horton, Burns; Fred over, falling on the ground, catch soon realized, ft stands the highest for its wotuferf ulcures of the most distressing cases Service Wednesday evenings al 8. financial standing. 120.00 straight and it is safe to predict that every ing Mr. Hawkins' head beneath the and is sold on Its merits _ Everybody ia invited to attend cash salary and expenses, paid each ecre will be taken if they are not Haines, Harnett kevtioard. The skull was crushed by all druggi-.ts in fifty- these services. : Monday by check direct from head- withdrawn before the applications| McMullen the photographer op-l over the left eve and at the base cerit and one-dollar siz es. You may have a posite the bank. quarters. Expense money ad can get to the land office. ’ of tbe brain. The injury is so seri sample bottle by mail n.» «r Of course there are many valua free, also pamphlet reUtng you trow to find vanced; position permanent. Ad-, ous that the outcome is doubtful. ! out if you have kidney or blaAler trouble. O ble tracts in the withdrawn terri dress, Thomas Cooper, Manager, Hawkins was married July 22ud Mention this paper w ! i « i writing Dr. Kilmer tory, but they comprise a pitifully Bmn tho & Co, Binghamton. N. Y. 1030, Caxton Bldg., Chicago. Big nature For Infante aad Children. to Miss Peggy Correll of Baker City 1 small fraction of the whole area. Don’t make anv oiistake, but remem of and they were preparing to go to ber the name, Nwamp-Koot, Dr. Kilmer’s 0 The Kind You Have Always Bought This paper and The Chicago The valuable timber is gone. Con Bears tho st IN Kll’d ',w Ma* A!w,TS /? _______ »nie paper housekeeping on their farm when Swamp-Root, ami the address, Bingham- siderable meadow land, desirable Bearn tho I r Ocean ♦1.50 for one T" teu, N. Y., un every botUe. the accident occured. for homesteading, is still vacant, Uiguaturu of year. ‘‘Special deal" IFYOUARE A FARMER CASTOR IA