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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1933)
PACE I » SRBllHAM cotsn JOÜICÍAL, MORO. UR1MWN. «UBAI, JUNS 1». 1»»- ! deep, head to head, cropping the dry course, if they are, you may water feed to the grass root« and trampling your sheep—after you’ve proved your the roots wl{b their sharp small . (County Journal statement. However, your argumrht hoofs. SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER, Established Nov. i, 1888 !‘ls footless. You dot not wish to I m * It was true that the lands whereon 1 Heve me and I wouldn’t believe j|m un GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. Established Oct. 14. 1887 the Antrim sheep grazed were not der oath. So suppose we have the the property of Don Jaime Miguel CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1981 ; county surveyor out here to resurvey Hlguenes. They were state lands (for WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, EsUbitebed 1891 To The Editor: all the lands I hold In foe simple. Texas never surrendered her public CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1932. If he prov«w the old surveys to be lands to the federal government) and. 7 I have been hearing so many state । ertoneous, 1’11 pay his bill. If he undoubtedly, Antrim had as legal a ments made as to my ideas and be 1 proves them correct, you pay his b II, right to graze his sheep there as D<»n Published Every Friday at Moro, Oregon. By liefs regarding the noo-high school ¡.move out with your sheep mid never Jaime had to graze his cattle. Never Managing Editor district that I would like to take this come back.” GILES L. FRENCH | theleos. by custom and usage. It had opportunity, through your readers *I’iu not taking orders from any । come to bo known as the Hlguene*« column, to correct them. d—n greaser." range, Don Jaime’s grandfather had Don Jaime’s white teeth flashed In purchased with cheap land scrip the I have never in my life made a a smile of vast amusement.. "No In acreage alor^ the watercourses and statement m favor of the “County telligent num takes a civet cat in his i around the springs, and by this con- hands, Antrim. I have warned you, i trol of the water the Hlguenes dy Entered ». wcond^l». m.ller .1 Iba 'oetolüc.. »I Moro. Ore«oo. under Act ot I Unit System.” I am not in favor of closing any in the presence of Captain Hobart, nasty had for generations exercised Congress of March 3, 1879. high school in Sherman county- not to trespass on pie lands 1 hold in nominal control over the public lands I do not believe in children being fee simple." I adjacent thereto.- And, since this wnJ SUBSCRIPTION BATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. and followed the ranger to where Don Without a word Antrim turned and h common practice, regarded as an forced to attend any high school only Hobart , dismounted and tied his ........81 W I the one nearest to them. Jaime Hlguenes waited. walked back fo bls camp. adroit business ipove but never as a One Year ....................................................................................... 1 qq horse to fhe breeze. “Nothing niuch. "Well, Higucnes,” Antrim saluted ■ wanton usurpation of the public do- I 1 do not represent or am 1 con- A little smuggling, a little gun-run Six Months .. ................................................................................................... gruffy. Higuenes. I main, cattlemen and most sheepmen I trolled by any rroup individual or ning a cattle raid to vary the monot him "I’ve come to warn you not to at a trille "The man must I had respected the Hlguenes control. clique in the county. - ony, a killing Things are pretty quiet tempt to water your sheep at any of F<r the grass on this controlled FRIDAY, JUNE 16,1983. I have'nt any pet scheme«, wild along the Border.” my water hdles, Antrim n«l . rm^e the Hlguenes family paid null» “What brings you up this way? An "And if I dor ideas to try out, or prudge to settle in trim was «u piclous ns n predatory I Ing. To the state’s feeble charge of "You’ll fight to the death for the ; trespass by the Hlguenes cattle, the school work animal. IT’S A GREAT LIFE IF - mn y privilege. ” j reigning Hlguenes had always replied I believe any town in the county is "I figured on giving you some sound his with a polite offer to bear half of the "Well, I can do that, too. How do A wheat farmer is certainly no liver of a drab Hi«»«. Hol advice, Mr. Antrim. You’re trespass I know you own those water-holes*” juat M r°°d •* other’ *nd and । expense of fencing the lands It held In n num. o>o has no complaint against the sameness of U«e, ho protest mat tta I people in on® section of the county ing on th® Hlguenes lands and Don mal , fee contiguous to the state lands and again. * Jaime Hlguenes doesn't cheer for ! <r® just as good -people and entitled I thus prevent trespass. The state difl th • A -I . world is uninteresting and unchanging. Hi* cottditions, inane a . that. It looks like a private war to i covered that the expense of many to the same consideration as any me; and as a ranger I prefer to stop climatic’and social, change rapidly enough to suit Ihe most insati- other section I miles of fence would not be war a private war before it starts rather । ranted on the hypothesis that any able seeker after thrills. ‘ « >1 It is my belief that every boy and than after It’s started. You're In the :ini"e my revenue would subsequently accrue urn! or wrong,.Mr. Antrim, and I advise you • rt. 1 by reason of the sale of grazing per A few hot days in June, a few hours soaking rain. » hot win girl in America should be given an to pull o«t of here and not come equal opportunity for an education. As a 1 I mils’on the fenced lands of the state. in Kamsas or the Argentine, the failure of a bank or two, a nation- ‘ With due consideration for the tax back." • ! since. with the Hlguenes family con- ♦•You come to arrest me for tres ‘ , trolling all the waterways and water- al electioo, a new farm bill in congrers or any ene of Ijy y payer. and proper management, it is passing.” Antrim asked. it in h ’ holes no man would be foolish enough my opinion Uiat every boy and girl m "No, of course not. You're grazing alter his position entirely. From a holderlof b^nth and a rw » to su<k n grazing permit! Pending | Sherman county can be given a high yoOr sheep on state lands. I can t ar- Hie adjustment of this ancient dispute tributor of currency he may become'a holder of debts and a distr school education even in these times rest you until you drive them on the therefore, the matter slumbered offl-- tutor bad news. He may go to the field in the Imorrnng dad *, The schools of Sherman county lands owned by Don Jaime In fee sim Who will clally, and Don Jaime Miguel Hlgue- ple—and those lands surroum) the nes neglected to fence his fee lands sheepakinand woolen and come home at noon pantmg with^ should be maintained in accordance water-holes whereby Don Jaime con- smile. contiguous to the water; also he Jaime smiled his with our ability to pay for them. I • fond neglected to supply herders to con beat. It is an exciting way.of life for no man knoweth what pec believe, even in time« like thi^, by trols this range. Even then I’ll not ar rest you, because Don Jaiine refuses fine his cattle to his fee lands, where of the tangi r. cutting down to the real bread and to ask it or swear out ■ a * warrant. uliar thing* the morrow may bring fore they wandered over the state oi in your ar/ummit.'’’ he admitted. -Any and everything may interest a wheatgrower. kUmy « • I butter of secondary education, we can Says he likes to kill his own rats.” lands flt will! Hobart went on •■^«110.1 me mp a rat, rat. did he?' he?’’ Antrims I »till maintain our schools without "Called “I’ermlt me to return to the haelew ’ Of this situation wily old Tom An ernmental policies have revolved around bis problem* ■ TO i, Don Jaime. trim had decided to take advantage. I taking the shirt off of the taxpayer’s cold, pale-blue eyes were very bleak. “Not at ail- That was Just my way His own range had been grazed over; of foreign exchange, the abandonment otfthe gold standard,Jndum back. of expressing the situation. I It had been a dry year in his part of (Jones mid hie my tell Last but not |e*»t I do not thipk spedklng in the vernacular. Don it tin* coun,ty, he had the sheep on his tton t<» «he governo uprisings that threaten the „stains, I will v*ni>h from the JUime isn’t very far from here. Mr. It requests Immediate aci’P'danee-bv hands, they were not ready for mar- AptrlHL lled like .to hayfi_jipe final ■WTFJC^WTrtt for thr^nswrf:- M-^uwbil*^ ker, nor was he ready to accept the "«You ’ ll Fiyht to the Death for~tnr but I do believe I cgn furnish the peo talk with you. H^lsu t armed. Sup make your arrangements to provide market price for unmarketable sheep. Privileg«.” bail for twelve of your men. What He had tn maintain them, and In his ple of Sherman county with a little pose you drop that gun you’re wear eresting aod changing life for the wheatgrower. dtlemma ho turned quite naturally to «You have my assurance that I do. men <Jo you advise for this expeilt common sense in helping toward the ing and walk out with mo to discuss It may be the present style to look with compassion on| h. this situation with Don Jal mo.”, If you doubt that, look up the records one of the earliest laws of human tlon? ” education of our boys and girls. „, - "Reckon I can trust a ranger,” An •t the county seat.” nature, to wit, that a desperate man Don .Jaime named then» promptly. nliuht of the raiser of wheat but the important thing is that the Tom Fraser, trim replied, as Hobart exposed his "Now, then, ” Hobart continued, Is Justltl<*<1 In taking desperate “ Your surveys are wrong. ” Zone 3 shield. He hung his gun and belt on “I am "not aware of that. Of -we’re going to lick the Antrim crowd, measures. farmers do not follow the same course. They’are userI to changing the projecting snag of a cottonwood and some bf them and perhaps some He was familiar with the law of conditions, changed situation, and they know that if they are down tresiiass. If the owner of fee lands of us are going to get killed. More Miss* Maude Homewood left Mon Clark home this week from her home of them, I think. The survivors will did not fence them he could not prose today it may merely mean they will be up agam tomorro . prefer a charge pf murder against any cute successfully the owner of loose day for Pendleton to attend the state in Portland. Roy Barnett trucked a' load <>f of the men they have recognized dur live stock that wandered thereon 1 ----------- O—------- grange convention as a delegate of ami the bail will be And Don Jaime Hlguenes could nbt sheep to Portland this week Ing the tight che Adel grange- afford to fence the small acreage the thousand GAINS AND LOSSES August) Wassemiiter left Tuesday about twenty W C. SchilUn« drove Portend cash or fifty thousand in around springs and water-holes and each In Base ball Dance Saturday night, for the John Day country to look over bonds. We will assume that tour of The Morgan hearing has apparently brought the country to Tuesday night with a truck load of the narrow forty-acre strips along | some of the mining ventures in that our men will be recognized. That a unanimity of-opinion about the gain* WJ spring lambs for the connolssuers of the IT.th watercourses, some of which went dry means you must provide one hundretl In the summer. If he did his own live Dell French and family spent Sun- part f the state- come.tax law and it is freely 7^“^^ year by lotoMthJ fine mutton in that city. thousand In cash or two hundred stock could not get in for water! day evening, here with - L. R- French J. W. Shepard and wifu were._in thousand in bomb?* - ----- Aidritn reasoned he ran but one Mrs. Clara Peters is leaving this teaching in Cor- Portland Wednesday and Thursday on ' make it impossible for anyone to offset guns.om ywr W risk, nnd that was a battle to keep . “Pm good for that In bonds." week for a visit to her folks in Iowa- and family. He is vallis. a business trip. his sheep, not from trespassing on un- next when making out an income tax 3taten^nt, fm,|1er I i, She will be accompanied by her sister -Well, then, make your arrange fonced lands, but from drinking Don Financiers have taken advantage of the clause a* have jailer to Portland and will remain several daughter. Mabel, ments In advance with the district at Ted von Borstel, W ‘ H Holmes and S- B Holmes and Jaime's water. However, there were torney. You ’ ll be in Los Algodones seen her parents left with relatives last week for a John Buether drove to The Dalles income tax payers, some of whom, no doubt, are cursing “org I weeks as kha many water-holes and many water i, all night and tomor- afternoon this trip to fMubh Columbia returning Sunday to take children to St. Mary’s for som« years- for hi* attitude The fact that a taxpayer is permitted^to row forenoon. Tomorraw afternoon courses to guard, and perhap® Don school for a two weeks course. back, with the sheriff, Jaime would not guard them all; per- Fred Krusow has made his annual early this week. you will one year's gains by losses sustained in another year has aided Star- I trip to the hot springs. ho ou bls way out to your Imps if Antrim appeared with a strong Earl King and wife were here for who will Bill Bardenhagen spent a week in arrest your men. You will armed guard of herders Don Jaime ranch tu Portland looking at the Rose show, j a few days from California to see man county farmers .materially in reducing their income A couple of Indian ball teams will would not force the Issue. pin»; a peri eel nuoi, These things Don Jaftne Miguel cross bats here Sunday. June 25, and Lavonne Powell, daughter of Mrs. Sherman county again after an al>- fight will have been pulled off in your absence, so you will be <iuile free to Hlguenes considered as he gazed over I the Grass Valley boys will play the John Schassen, visited at the L. E. scnce of eleven years. look after the comforts at your de the country that, by hook and crook, second Uam of Toppemsh lads. had been sacred to four generations fenders." of his people. He had but one real Don Jaime pondered. He much pre Gus Engstrom with his wife and ferred, when bis men were in danger advantage, one legal right. His fee I daughter and son in law, Edgar Al- defending the master’s interests, to lands were unfenced and hence a ®u't I ley will leave soon for a trip to Miss share that danger with them. On the for trespass could not Ue, but he did ouri where Mra Engstrom s folks other baud he realized that the issue have the right to drive trespassing I live. While Gus denies it he may was not tn be fought entirely at the live stock off hie fee lands beforett^F Did you note the rapid rise in th® Prrce I have a look at the Chicago fair when water-holes; that in the courts he should have an opportunity to drink. F»™‘ng 1S ® provision is of aid to those who?make their would be needed much more than in If held off long enough they W(WU<1 11 he gaU back in wcMop. of Paints and Kalsomine, and ail other any other arena of battle. He knew perish of thirst, and if while driving TncoLe6 that way. The repeal of that clause will cause a howl from Ken Hobart was talking sense, and them off he and his men were at Mrs. Helene Leml®y U in a hospital lines of building material. We are ma that the sensible thing to do would tacked by the owners of the tres •t The Dalles recovering from an others beside Morgan be to heed his advice. 3<> he heeded passing live stock they would be position to save you real money if you operation. it. And in heeding it ho experienced clearly within their legal rights if -------- o—----- no qualms of conscience, no feeling they defended themselves. Ode Hammond, second son of buy now. We always carry a complete Don Jaime smiled. “Thrice doubly that ho was playing safe while others We hope the people will be able to see through the b® «tatenents made by both sides in the sales tax fight, but if they do| Noah Hammond and wife who former fought his battles. | I armed is he whose cause is ly lived har®, Y^ited for a few hours soliloquized. “Well, Senor Antrim “ Very well, Ken," he agreed. “ En line. rico Caraveo, my riding boss, knows has the surprise of his life coming to it wil Ube a herculean job for most of the statements are either m. last week while on his way from hW home in San Diago to Walla Walla every foot of tbl® range; once he lo him this evening. He's staked every erect or are merely suppositions. General sales taxes do not tax to visit his parent® He works in a Kalsomine - .30 to .45 for 5 lb. cates the sheep he’ll know what water thing oh a lone ace—and Tin going they Will try for this evening. The to take the trick with a trump ability to pay and they are a barto t= i chain store- Taint $ 1 60 Sal. & up rest I leave to you. Perhaps you had deuce." He decided to bear off to the r^nt tions The Oregon bill was passed because the legislators better loan uio your rifle, In case I Ted Peterson returned home this Lay in your supply of winter fuel HQW* should run Into some of Antrim’s and give the sheep and their herders „rooerty should be releided Voters must decide whether or not week for a visit with his mother. He a wide berth, for he had no intention herders after leaving you here." the Md justifies the means. All this stuff about it being a perma I has ukaq onto himself a wife during He helped himself to tho rangers of coming to grips with the ®neny rifle and scabbard and fastened It anywhere except on his own lands I his absence. „ent tax or about it preventing tax foreclosures » mostly bunk. along his saddle. It was a Mauser and in defense of his InaUenabl® 1 Oscar and Charles Lemley and the carbine, and the ammunition was car rights. So he turned down a long ------- o-------- Grau Valley I eldest son of Aaron Noyse have re- ried in Clips of Ove In pockets on a draw to the valley below. At the It is reported that the president does not read his mail. He I turned from a trip to Burns and other buckskin vest. * Don Jaime donned mouth of the draw he paused and the vest and, with a nod to the ranger, dismounted, for the long trip downhni central Oregon points. headed his horse across country In had revealed the fact that his saddle must owe the grocer- Mr«- George Wilcox and Mre. K H. ■ I cinch was loose; it had slipped out the dl root Ion of Iz»s Algodones. --------o-------- Johnson entertained the six year olds It was some mouths since he had over the horse's back withers. Tut Tut the small boys are too young to be swimming naked. of the community Wednesday with r io be continued. ridden a horse. For many years his trips around his ranch, between his party at DeMoas park- It was a joint Wait until they gro v up a bit and, if the present tendency contm- ranch and the county seat had been birthday party for Dean and Robert Highest Prices P*>d L°r made by automobile. He paused now. ues they may gratify their ambition and still.be tu perfect style- - thinking of the twenty-mile ride back p A complete stock of all staple grocer - Miss Georgia Blalock returned to to the ranch’ deciding he would sparo himself that hardship be shouted to Newberg Creamery Inc. Towns without/ banks are dickering for br.nches from Port The Dalles early this week to resume ies always on hand. Vancouver, Washington Hobart : her work as student nurse at the land inrtitutions We hope thxy are as well pleased with, the “Ken, send one of the boys Into hospital. She has been visiting with Los Algodones with the motor and * Clothing for all the family* Every her parents during her vacation- * ■ to bring rangement in a few years as they hope to be. the horse trailer attached, thing staple and guaranteed satisfactory, my horse and me home." Henry Tets and family egm® home "Seguro,” Hobart shouted back. Tuesday evening from Ridgefield. Wn- one is X i - T™. dentist where they have been visiting Henry* Reliability is our watchword C hapter parents. home office , wasco i“« n“.« The he^s .< th« Don Jaime rode bls horse along i Loren Beardsley ha« been in Con side of the valley, gradually climbing don for several days this week. have done a better job for themselves had they written It. to the summit of the hilly range on Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Adams, spent Its southern boundary. Here "e --------- o--------- In Moro th« First V paused and looked off to the rolling Sunday and Monday h®re as guests In Each Month lands below. They were dotted with Don’t forgot the school meeting next Monday. . of the Shepards- Mr- Adams la sec •heep. standing in long rows a dozen (nniunuxn retary of the grain-.growers at Spokane. _____ _ Now then all together, “A little r.in, please". cciinnn STOP- LOOK-LISTEN Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company groceries ----- -= butterfat I Dr. J. A. BUTLER in H. Zeigler’s « Grass Valley : : Oregon
