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BURNS. OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1903
WATER IS WASTED
• I.AO |*«r ¥•»•».
Mix Mu»lh» 75 < ruta.
OREGON NEWS
NO.41
SPONGES ARE RISING.
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The tebaa War Draw tbs >'la»«r»aaa late
tbe Nary aad CartalU4 t»e Hayply.
carue into Oregon about 15 years
ago, coming up from Utah and J
One effect of th«- war in Cuba has tieen
to ditniniah t he export of Culian «pongee
Flow of Artealnn Well» Hlioiilil Neyadn, at first for a short excur Items of Iti te rest Gathered From by fully one-half. The Cuban spong-
sion, but in later years making a
He Itegli In ted.
Different Furto of the Mate.
fixhrrmen get a license to fi»h in Cuban
1 more thorough examination of the
viater» only upon condition that they
• hall aerve in the navy if required; and
country. Three or four seasons he
•o many have Imrn called upon for this
worked in the State of Washington.
i service that the harvest of sponge» has
Bend, Aug. 27.—"People if Ore He was among the flr*t to make a
President Roosevelt has appoint been materially reduced.
Cuba furnialiea leas 'han a third of ths
gon should learn buw to make and scientific inspection of the dreadful ed E. W. Davis, of Union, register
sponges use«! abroad, out the curtail
use arleaiaii well»," says Professor work of the volcanoes Pelec and of the Land Oilice at La Grande. ment of that «apply helps to put up
Hardware of Evory Dttcriphon.
Israel C. ItuNkell, of the United Soufriere, in the Lesser Antilles The entire Oregon delegation had prices that have been advancing for
years. The supply of sponge» comet
States Geological Survey, who is laet year, doing this under the»us- i recommended J. W. Knowles for from Florida. Cuba. Nassau. Mexico and
BIHVH.
OftEGOM.
uow making an examination of pices of the American Geological the (KNiition.
the Mcditerrnean. Ordinarily about
’ 1 value,
John Caviness, of llsker City, t«o-mird. of tb<- «i.ppiy, in
Central Oregon with special refer-; Society.
* nr.nu«-
A vnM■»•#•« n water«.
rone« frmsvi
from American
ence to artesion conditions.
Last Surr.rner Professor made a was assaulted and probably fatally
The demand for sponges has in-
“They «bould be taught that it is geological reconnaissance of South- 1 injured by William Moore last creased n.-vturally. while the world**
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practically useless to »ink artesian eastern Oregon and Southwestern week Caviness is married to Moore’s * I mm
within recent year« actually aUn;n-
wells without casing the shaft, and Idaho and his examination waa de divorced wife, meeting on the street i«he<l. owing to c-arelciia methods of
that, having the well once properly voted chiefly to ascertaining fseta an altercation arose, «nd Moore fishing an«! to overfishing to supply the
increa«<xl demand.
eased, Il is a rank waste of a valua relating to underground water sup- assaulted Caviness with an iren bar.
The sponge is of slow growth; it takes
ble natural resource to leave it to pliea. A preliminary report recent
Gene Pollock, of Vale, was taken two or three rear» for it to attain a
commercial size. In all conntries in
spout away its wealth without limit ly appeartd aa Water Supply and I to Portland last Thursday evening whose waters s|»ngea grow there are
or control.
The Slate of Oregon Irrigation Paper No. 78.
| by Detective Snow, at which place laws against the putting of little
• reached a
Starling June 28 from Boice, he is wai nted for the alleged forging
ought to provide by law against the
um « o
certain growth. J Just
na there are laws
wanton waste of artesian water. where last year's reconnaissance i of a check on the Merchants and against the taking of lobster« an«l ot
Why should not that be regulated ended, Professor Russell has work : Mechanics bank.
Mr. Pollock ' L*”*
un<,<‘r •P«'1««’ «¡»«--N. Y.
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by law aa well as the use of surface ed westward to the Cascade Moun states that
he will have r.o trouble
An Armed *pook.
Crossing the Snake River in straightening up the matter.
stream»? The necessity is quite as tains.
Buy a |H«stnl card anti send to The New York
A woman in the outKkirta of Nrw
into Oregon at Ontario Professor
great.
Tribune Farmer. New York Citv, fur a free
The Klainnth Indiana ha reelect-
but the disembodied »pint poked a rc-
"The few artesian wells of East Russell passed up the Malheur
apeciiuen copy.
cd delegates to go to W ashington volvcr in her fare, and compelled her
ern Oregon are not cased, therefore River and over into Silvies Valley
The Tribune Farmer is n National Illustra
empowered to represent the tribe to relinquish her hold.
the llow passes off through seams without much delay, having el
ted Agricultural Weekly for farmer» and
in the pending measures before
and fissures in the rock strata ftiuined that region last year, Be
PICKED UP IN LONDON.
their families, and stands ut the lieaxi of the
Congress, which, if passed, will give
low
the
town
of
Burns
is
a
quite
through
which
the
wellshaft
passes.
agricultural press.
The price is 1100 per
Srkliitz must not l>e made too strong
them about *80U.0lA) for lands of in England. A druggist baa just been
Sometime« they llow for a time and extensive artesian basin embracing
year, but if you like it you < an »retire <1 with
which, it is alleged, they have been lined for overdosing the people of
then have to lie pumped, as the perhaps 2000 square miles. The
your own favorite local ncw«|>a|>er. The
deprived
by alleged erroneous sur Brentford.
leakage along the shaft takes more White Horse Valley, in the South-
ITEMS, at a bargain.
Both ;ia|M*ra II 50.
Sam Cliff». the Last survivor of the
veys.
once . fanhiooalde running footmen.
of the water. People who do not eastern part of Harney county, has
Send money and order to The ITEMS.
Judge Sear», of Portland, has
rereotly in L ou A ni at the age of
understand the matter declare these ft small artesian area, and the Otis
93. Fifty-four of hi« «lescendaatr «aw
I
wells a blank fraud, in tlieir ex- Valiev, in the northeastern part of rendered a decision dissolving the him buried.
London liad 4.845 fire alarms last rear.
i pressive way, when the trouble the county, a still smaller one. injunction brought by the city of
L««lgr l»lr«»eturjr.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
comes from their own ignorance of But all three were discovered last I Union, Union County, against the There was an increase of more than
1,000 Are* over the srerage of the last,
¡election by the jieople of the county ten yean, and of 223 over any previous
itcuxs U iihik No. 70. K o( I'
year.
artesian conditions.
Meet» »very Thursday night.
| »eat. Union is the present county I year.
“It is not to be expected, how
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F. M. Jonlsn, O. C.
Lunsbcrg <t Dalton will give seat and I41 Grande is striving toi
During 1885 the London mint struck
ever,
under
the
most
careful
treat
H Mothershesd, K of R. N,
awry a handsome writing desk to obtain it. The date of the election • off 72.245JM coins, about 10.000.00u
ment, that artesian water will serve
more than in 1894. The value of the
PHOTOGRAPHER.
to irrigate extensive tracts of arid c*gh purcbaaers on September 19. was set fir November 5, and will gold coins was £ 3.592.625; of the sil
BURNS CHAPTER. KO. tn. O. E. 8
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ver coins, £ 1.196,168. and of the bronze,
h cannot be provided io | A ticket will be given with every now come ofl'at that time.
| land
Meet» second and fourth Monday of
Burna, Oregwn
£ 40,995.
sufficient quantity. You will take e“h Purch»gl'
>he a“>ou”t of
«•«eli month in Masonic lull, Vorgtlv
Main St.—opposite Bank.
The heavy rains of last week will OF INTEREST TO THE SOLDIERS.
building. Mr». M «ggi» Lrrena, W. M.
il.KX)
cubic
indir»
a
second
out
of
one
dollar
’
wh,ch
wlH
entitle
the
Mrs. Eunice Tliouipson, Sec.
be of incalculable benefit to the!
Part of Dahomey is to lie colonized
the Deschutes to pour upon a few holtler ,o a chaDW on ,hl8 verv UBe‘
farmersand stockmen of Eastern with Alsatians and Lomiiners who
township,
of
desert;
think
of
the
ful
P
,ece
,
of
h™'*
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furniture.
BURNS MIDGE, NO. 97. A. F. « A. M. |Ÿ| 4KSDEN A OF.AIIY
The country was dryer hare served in the French army.
The desk is now on exhibition at Oregon.
.Meels Saturday on or Is’lors lull moon.
The key of Libby prison and the flag
; number of artesian wells four to
and more parched than it had been which floated over the prison are per
Qualified lirolher» fraternally inviteli,
their
store.
Drop
in
and
see
it.
W. L Marxian.
John W. Geary.
six inches in diameter it would re-
for years, and the rains will renew | se rved iu the Soldiers' Memorial halt
• . K. Kenyon, W. M. F. 8. Rieder,
I
Pbyrician» <{' Surgeon».
Hecy.
quire to supply such a quantity of
the
range ar.d freshen up the fields at Rutland. Vt.
The Red Front Livery barn is
Cabul, in Afghanistan, has an arms
Burna. Oregon. j water.
Stockmen
will now be able to bold ' factory a third of a mile long and 200
BURN8 LODGE, NO. KJ, A. O. V. W
catering to its patronage and has
£I^FOI!ice
st
n-sidenre.
'Phon«
20,
|
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And
then
the
source
of
supply
.Meets at Brown liait ev»rv Friday eve
’ improved its livery service.
Feed their cattle and sheep on the range I yards wide, that turns out 20.000 cart
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ning Visiting brothers irnternally 111-
must be considered, The river
ridges and 15 rifles daily, and four
: until the regular feeding season.
.
,
by
the
day
or
month
at
reasonable
v‘t«id. Thus. Sagers, W. M. Chas. N.
quick-firing field guns every week.
drains
an
extensive
i
watershed,
Cuahrane, Recorder.
rates.
Lawrence & Hannon, of Baker, A massive Quincy granite monument
gi'.u* a mous.
reaching up above the snow line.
City, have taken charge of a por has been erected over the grave of the *
An
artesian
basin
is
a
comparative
S
tate
op
O
hio
,C
ity
of
T
oledo
.!
IIABNKY LODGE. NO 77. I. O O F.
late lien. Abner Doubleday, at Arling
J. W Diggt.
Dalton Blgga.
tion of the Stadleman farm, wesi of ton, by his former comrades of the
Meets «•very Naliinlav «veiling, Brown'»
L cscas C ounty .
ly small area. In the one case the
hall. Visiting brother« fraternally in- ,
A ttorneyi-at-La »■,
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that The Dalles, with a view ot manu First Corps .Association. Army of tlie
surplus water is caught and tlows
vitmf
Frank O. Jwkson,'N. G.
Potomac. The column is similar ta
■ I’KNS. OIMOIt.
C. G. Sini'li, Heivetary.
he
is senior partner of the firm of facturing brandy from the peaches that which marks the grave of C,en.
¡off at the surface. In the other it
^Office in Bank building.
1 percolates through porous strata F. J. Cheney A Co., doing business and prunes in the neighborhood. Philip Sheriilaa.
TIll E CIRCLE. NO. 185. WOMEN Ob
and becomes imprisoned between in the City of Toledo. County and The distillery will commence work
Aa Vanat
Wo.sl.raft. Meet« 2nd »nd 4tli Tile«- ,
At school one always stood the first.
impervious rock layers that dip and State aforesaid, and that said firm at an early date, as soon as the
dai at Brown’s hull. Mrs. Tillis .Iordan,
Tho
other
boy
had naught to aar*.
^nu»xn4 rnzoKBAi.n
Mrs. lone Wliiling.
Guardian.
form a basin. That waler near the will P*y ‘he Sum of One Hundred necessary apparatus can be put in
Yet he Is worth a million cooi.
Clerk.
running gear and the neighboring)
The smart boy clerks for twss day
bottom of the basin is subjected to Dollars for each and every case of
Thornton Will lama,
m . FlUgarald.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
i
crops
harvested.
The
yield
of
botn
j
ÀCtornejr-at I aw .
Mutar y Publie, great pressure and when the well- * atarrh that cannot be cured by .
Church Announcements.
' peach and prune crops in this vi-!
drill taps a vein or reservoir the
use of Hall s ( atarrh ( ure.
/xite, Notarial and Rral Eitate
Sunday School at Harney the
Women as Well as Men
' cinity is large.
water rushes up to seek the level of
I' rank J, Cheney.
Practice,
drat Sunday of each month nt 10
| its head, which may be miles away
Sworn to before me and subscrib- [
Are Made Miserable by
Superintendent of construction
o'clock, A. M.
On the second,
Kurus, Oregon. I jn ghc hills.
e<^ *n my presence, this 6th day of Larsen was in from the front yes
Kidney Trouble.
third nisi fourth Sundays of each
£W< Iflice in Masonic building
“But that water supply is not in-1 December, A. D. 1886.
terday Icking for more workmen,
Preach-
month at 3 o’clock I’. M.
A. W. Gleason,
exaustible. The water from a given
says the Baker City Democrat. He
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
ing service» every second Sunday
Notary Public.
courages and lessens ambition: beauty, vigor
area
is
not
greater
liecause
it
is
con-
says
it
is
very
difficult
to
get
men
at 8 I’. M.
and cheerfulneoa xoo»
M JOHl'VS,
I
ccaled beneath the surface of the;
for any kind of work, but the Sum * 3
disappear when the kid
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
church
At the Presbyterian
neys are out of order
j earth. Artesian wells that are left
pter Valley Railway extension will
Practical
¡¿and
Nurreyor.
or diseased.
ternally. and acts directly on the
Burna, Rev. A. J. Irwin pnstor.
| to waste day and night are a great
be built and put in operation be
Kidney trouble has
Hums. Oreg«»»,
blood and tnueous surfaces of the
Divine services the third and fourth
become so prevalcr»
drain upon a vital resource, and it
fore winter just the same.
When:
'/
V
that
it is not unoxinoi
I system. Send for testimonials, free.
Sundays of each month al Ila. in.
questioned by a Democrat man Mr. |
/i
I for a chHd to be eorz
is only a question of numbers and'
F.
J.
Cheney
<fc
Co.,
Toledo,
0.
and 7:30 p. in. Sabbath school at
•Sa '•LpSH-' afflicted with weak kid-
time when the wells in such a dis*
Larsen said that they had already .
k \SAL~- * neys. If the child urin-
MIIJ.EK,
Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
10 a. ui. every Sabbath morning.
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ates too often, if the
! trict will fail. One careless man .
two miles of rcadbed graded ar.d i
Hall’s Family Pills are the best
urine scalds the flesh or if, when the chilS
Preaching service» at the Baptist
would finish the grading before, reaches an age when it should be able 1«
A’ofiiry Public and Conveyancer, I by letting his well run wild, mav
ahurch every Island 2nd Sunday»,
destroy the usefulness of many Hil, Iiife Sav,,| by chamberlain.« commencing to lav track. They control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
Morunges, Due4>. Mo., oorrMlly made.
bed-wetting, depend upon it the cause ol
morning mid evening.
Sunday
wells of hi« neighbors. Hence the
Colic, Cholera anil Diarrhoea
are putting up a fine roadway and the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the flrM
Office si Stura
N«r««. Oregun.
school every Sunday al 10 a. in.
Remedy.
need of a statute to regulate the:
when completed this addition to step should be towards the treatment of
“B. L. Byer, a well known cooper '.he Sumpter Valley will prove to these impoitant organs. This unpieacatU
prayer meeting every Thursday
use of artesian flow as well ns of
trouble is due to a diseased condition cf the
MANAGER WANTED—Trust
of this town, says he believesChain- be very important. It is not stated kidneys and bladder and not to a habit ar
evening.
surface water.”
worthy lady or gentleman to man
most
people suppose.
he'berla'n’t. Colic, Cholera and Diar- authentically, but it is believed to
Professor Russell occupies • —
Services nt Christian Science age business in this County and
Women as well as men are made mis
chair of geology in the University rhoea Remedy saved his life last be a fact that next year the Sump erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
Hall, corner cast of the Bank, every adjoining territory for well and
summer.
He had been sick for a ter Valley will extend its line on and both need the same great remedy.
Sunday at 11a. in. and 8 p. tn. fuvoiably known House of solid of Michigan, the chair Professor
The mild and the immediate effect cf
But for month with wlmt the doctors call | down from Summit through Austin Swamp-Root Is soon realized. It is soW
Service Wednesday evenings at 8. , financial standing. *20.00 straight Winchell made famous.
by druggists, in fifty-
Everylsnly is invited to attend
the past 25 years be has also labor i bilious dysentery, and could get Prairie City. Canyon City to Burns: cent and one dollar
cash salary and exitensca, paid each
nothing
to
do
him
anv
good
until
these services.
ed in connection with the United
I President David Eccles is one of' sizes. You may have a
Monday by check direct from head-
sample bottle by mall
States Geological Survey, and the he tried this remedy. It gave him the leading financiers and business free, also pamphlet led- ttam •»
I quarter».
Ex|ten»e money ad-
immediate
relief,
”
saysB.T.
Little,
men of the Pacific and ha« made Ing al! about it. including many of the
I vanced; |>oeilion permanent. Ad records of that bureau bear abun
thousands of testimonial letters receives
dant evidences of his industry and merchant, Hancock, Mil. For sale all his fortune by his own efforts from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Klfrnee
dress, Thomas Coojter, Manager,
learning.
He has given special' bv II. M. Horton, Burns; Fred and conservative business methods.: fit Co.. Binghamton. N. Y.. be surs and
For Infants and Children.
1030, Caxton Bldg., Chicago.
mention thia paper.
attention to the arid West. He Haines, Harnev.
That he will develop Southeastern
Don’t make anv mistake, hut remem-
CABTOTIXA,
pointed out the commercial possi
Oregon is a certainty and Baker
Thia paper and The Chicago
i ber the rsine, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's
a,
11»
KiM
Ira
Han
limn
tagll
Baars th»
bilities of the salt and borax de
i City need not worry about its rail Swamp-Root, and the address, Bingluu»-
’eekly Inter Ocean 11.50 for one
• Bigaatu«
Signatur« of
posits of Great Salt Lake and the
road connection with that territory. tsn, N. Y on every hottie.
of
year. “Special deal’’
Geer& Cummins
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