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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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butterfat
I Dr. J. A. BUTLER
in
H. Zeigler’s «
Grass Valley
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