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About Lexington weekly budget. (Lexington, Morrow County, Or.) 188?-1??? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1890)
WEEKLY BUDGET THURSDAY..' .JANUARY 30, 1890 Tr( notice marked with a blue pencil lw di eaten that your subscription haa expired, and if lio a wtih the paper continued you nhoulil remit the prire of mbxeription tit once. THE WEATHER. Cluuily weather 1ms prevailed during the jiust week. Light shower Frlduy. A lienvy wind from the south, hitrdly a real Chinook, died away last Tuesday evening, after having gradually melted the snow, .Rain began fall ing at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening and con tinued through the night. The sun shone through the clouds for a short time yesterday morning, hut at 11 o'clock rain began falling and continued at intervals during the day. Temperatures for the week: 7 A. M. Ill M. 8 p. M. Thursday W 27 'J7 Friday Ml 4 m Hatnrday :I7 40 Sunday 45 4ii 3x Monday 4:1 47 40 Tuesday 40 52 41) Wednesday 4!l 54 41 BRIEF NOTES. 1). V. Kirk, fortnorly of this county, is now in business at C'hulmlis, Wash. Tako your five-gallon oil cans to the City dri'iB store and have tliem filled with coal oil for $1.05 each. ,-he Lexington flour mill started up with the flint thaw of Willow creek and in now (rrindinx away in good shape. II. Uussell, who last week was thought to be recovering from his attack of lung fever, has hecome worse and is now dan gerously ill. Set going by the rain find the last of the melting snow, Illuck Ilorso canyon got on the rampage yesterday afternoon und sent down quite a stream. Willow creek has been "freed from its icy bonds," etc.; in short it lias thawed out and is now running down hill like any other well regulated stieam. At the meeting of I) Company last Saturday night li. II. Whilson was elected first and .1. I,. Gibson second lieutenants, in place of K. T. Carr and G. W. Harris, resigned. Siokes Kirk writes to ,lefV from River side, Montana, under date of January 18th, that hut eight inches of snow had fallen at that time, and the mercury was lingering at 35 degrees below zero. Attorney J. N. llrown, of Ileppner, visited Lexington last I'riduy. Messrs. Hiown & Hamilton are becoming well and favorably known throughout the county and are working up a good prac tice. K. 15. Hope announces that on account of sickness he is at present unable to run the planing and chop mills, but ex pects soon to be on hand. Notice will be given as soon as he is able to return to duty. The farmers are looking pretty bright. The snow melted so slowly that the re sulting moisture was almost all absorbed by the soil before it could run oil, and the subsequent rain is soaking down for future use. W. (i. Scott was down Inst week from his Willow Creek sawmill. Hesays log ging has been very good this winter, iiiul consequently bus accumulated a largo supply of logs already for the com ing season's run. The lirnoirr doesn't want to shout too soon, but the prospects just now are certainly first-class for the farmers, and if the season continues as favorable as it lias commenced, there'll be a smash ing big crop this year. A masquerade ball is announced to take place at lone on Friday evening of next week. From the preparations being made for the ball and supper it is ex pected that there will be a lurgo attend ance anil a jolly good time. Those w ho have failed to receive Cali fornia mail for some time will he glad to know that the revenue cutter Richard Uush left San Francisco last Tuesday with 2o pouches of letters and 275 sacks of papers. The snow blockade on the railroad still continues. Another man hung his "stocking by the chimney with care" and was tickled utmost to death to find that his good wife had anticipated his near at hand wants and filled the stocking with stand ard seeds, grown and put up by I). M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich., who, on ap plication, will mail yon free a copy of their seed annual for 18IR). Under the influence of a heavy south wind, which was hardly a full-blooded clnnook, but just warm enough to melt the snow gradually, the white covering has disappeared from this vicinity ex cept on a few north slopes. On the higher hills near timber considerable snow still remains, and in the moun tains there is not yet much of a thaw. The young men who remained at the armorv after tho dance on Wednesday evening of last week and worked off their superfluous enthusiasm by smash ing proneity belonging to the O. N. tx. have since learned a lesson that will do them good. They were promptly ar rested, but paid the damages and costs rather than face the rather serious con sequences in prospect. It was a pretty expensive "break," and the boys have learned that it pavs best to enthuse within reasonable hounds, hut thev took their medicine good-naturedly and all is now serene. SURPRISE PARTY. A correspondent at lone sends the following: The surprise party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gienger last Friday evening w as a success. At an early hour friends and neighbors commenced to arrive, and soon the house was filled to overflowing. Dancing was kept up until five o'clock the next morning, with an intermission at twelve o'clock to discuss the pie, cake, etc., supplied by our hostess. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. V H. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, Miss Cora Allen, Miss Kena (Jienger, Miss Nannie Teeters, Miss Carrie Wilson, Miss Flo'a Male, Misses Dona and Alice Kitebie, Misses Ullie and Millie Petty, .1. U. Allen, Robert Male, Dennis Allen, It. Lohdell, ,loe Lictiallen, Jesse I.ieu alien, Wm. Padberg, Samuel Ritchie, Henry Filkins, Albert Allen, Lewis Mule, John Ritchie, John Loney, Roy Glass cock, Wm. ISrown, Frank Loney, Mr. Johnson, Wm. Owens, Oscar Cochran and Wm. Rice. Music was furnished by Galen Faulkner und Levi Hill. FORFEITURE AND REBATE. Two Bills Introduced by Binger Hermann. Hon. R. R. LANDS TO BE PURCHASABLE. A Rebate of $200 for All Who Have Paid $400 for Their Claims. lion. Ringer Hermann, Oregon's rep resentative in the national legislature, has been himself a settler upon govern ment lands, lifts worn moccasins and hickoiy shirts, and has undergone the hardships lot the pioneer. In addition to his eurnesVwish to do his whole duty to the people of Oregon, which he has amply proven by his acts, this experi ence bus given him an insight into the life of a'settler and caused him to have a fellow feeling for those who take up the public lands and try to make homes for themselves where previous to their arrival the sod was broken only by the claws of tho badger and ground squir rel. In former sessions of congress Mr. Hermann has worked hard for forfeiture of tit unearned Northern Pacific land grant, but owing to circumstances w hich were beyond his control the measure has been defeated. lie has strong hopes that the grant will bo forfeited during tho present session, however. If the long disputed grant should be restored to the public domain, the settlers may mark it down in black letters that to Ringer Hermann, more than to any othor one man in congress, w ill be due the credit for the immensely Improved state of affairs which will result. The following bill has been introduced by Mr. Hermann in tho house of repre sentatives, read twice, referred to the committee on public lands and ordered printed: A bill restoring to the United States certain of the lands granted to the Northern Pacific railroad company to aid in the construction of a railroad from Lake Superior to Puget sound, and to restore the same to settlement, from Wallula to Portland, and to pro tect rights of Bettlers. lie it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United Suites of America in congress assembled. That all the hinds heretofore granted to the Northern Pacific railroad company by an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad anil telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget sound, on the Pacific coast, by the northern route," approved July 2, 18(i4,' and subsequent acts and resolu tions of congress which are adjacent or appertain to and are conterminous with that part of its main line which extends from Wallula junction, in Washington territory, to the city of Portland, in the state of Oregon, except such lands in the stute of Washington as are conterm inous with the branch line across the Cascado mountains, and which apper tain to said branch line, be, and the same are, hereby resumed by the United States and restored to the public do main, and made subject to disposition and settlement under the general laws relating to the public lauds, and at a price not exceeding per acre. Ski-. 2. That in all cases where per sons have settled upon any of the lands' affected by said grant and hereby re sumed by and restored to tho United States, or have made improvements thereon with a bona tide intention of pur chasing the same of the said Northern Pacific railroad company, such person, upon proving tho same to the satisfac tion of the commissioner of the general land ollice within twelve months from the passage of this act, shall be entitled to enter not more than o-'O acres of said lands, including such person's settle ment or improvement, at the rate of (1.25 per acre: Provided, That in all cases where parties, persons, or corpor ations, with the permission of said Northern Pacific railroad company, are in the possession of and have made im provements upon any of the lands hereby resumed and restored, and are not entitled to enter the same under the provisions of this act, such parties, per sons, or corporations shall have six months in which to remove any growing crop, and within which time they also shall be entitled to remove all buildings and other movablo improvements from said lands. Skc. 3. That the price of even-numbered sections within the limits of said grant, conterminous with the portion of the road forfeited, is hereby reduced to (1.25 per acre, and the said lands are hereby restored to the public domain and made subject to settlement under the general laws relating to the public lands. Skc. 4. That so much of all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the lore going are hereby repealed. A fit companion to the above is the following, also introduced by Mr. Her mann, read twice, referred to the com mittee on public lands and ordered printed. By its provisions many a set tler who paid (400 for his claim will re ceive, if the bill passes, a rebate of (200, which sum will be very acceptable and will fill a "long-felt want:" A bill to reimburse settlers and pur chasers on even-numbered sections of public lands within the limits of con gressional grants in cases of forfeiture of odd-nuuihered sections. lie it enacted hi the senate and house of representatives of the United Stoles of America m congress assembled, That in all cases where any person or persons have purchased any part or portion of any even-nuinliereu section of public lands of the United States within the limits of any congressional grant made in aid of any railroad, wagon-road, or other public enterprise, under any of the land laws of the United States, and have paid to the United States at the rate of (2.50 per acre for such lands so iHimiafleu, nv reason nuieiy uuraue l 1 L -- . . ,,!.!. L sue!, even-nuinbered section or part of nec-tioiin are within the limits of mirli congressional grant, anil since the date of such purchase and payment the 01M numliereil Bectionn within nucii enn iiressionul ((rant, adjacent to and con tcimiiioua with mit-li eve ti-iiiiiiihercd section or parts of sections so purchased, have been or shall by the United States at any time hereafter be declared re sumed or restored to the United States by reason of any failure upon the part of the grantee company to construct its road adjacent to and conterminous with such lands within the time specified in such grant, then, in each of such cases, upon application of tho person or per sons so purchasing parts or portions of such even-numbered sections as afore said, to the commissioner of the general land ollice, and making proof to the sat isfaction of such commissioner of such payment, and of the facts herein stated, lie or they' Bhall be entitled to be re imbursed from the United States the sum of (1.25 per acre, in cash, for each and every acre so purchased by him or them, and for which the sum of (2.50 had been paid ; and it shall be the duty in each of said casesof the commissioner of the general land ollice, if he finds such claimant entitled to reimburse ment under the provisions of this act, to issue his certificate to such claimant certifying such fact to tho second comp troller of the treasury department, and stating therein the .mount to which such claimant is entitled ; and upon ap proval of such certificate by the second comptroller, and of the amount found to be due such claimant by the commis sioner of the general land ollice, such amount shall, upon proper warrant and draft to be then issued in favor of such claimant, be paid by the treasurer of tihe United States upon presentation of proper draft therefor; and the amount necessary to meet all such claims for re imbursement under tho provisions of this act is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not other wise appropriated. EICHT MILE CENTER. Neighborhood Items from our Correspoudent. Regular Mrs. Juke Young, of Gooseberry, is on the sick list. Wm. Saling closed his school at Eight Mile Center on the 15th instant. Jacob Johnson, of Gooseberry, is the proud father of a bouncing big boy. Tho Light Mile Center literary society has adjoin ned for an indefinite time. There are quite a number of cases of the grip in this section of Light Mile. Miss Edna Fraser, of Lost Valley, is visiting relatives of Eight Mile Center. Thos. Davidson, of Demoeratguleh, is also the proud father of a fine big bright- eyed girl. Farmers are beginning to look to the condition of their plows, expecting to use tliem soon. AVm. Ingram is the happv father of a bright-eyed girl, who arrived on the 11th instant. The date of the lyceum at the Hooker school house has been changed from Thursday to Wednesday night. The supper at the Recket school house last Friday night, given by the losing party in a rabbit hunt, was a very pleas ant affair. Miss Belle Hooker, who has been stopping in Ileppner the past winter, returned home last Tuesday to spend a few days with relatives. J. C. Hayes took a flying trip to Ilepp ner a few days ago in his new sleiirh. but we feur he was somewhat late to find it pleasant sleighing, as the enow was mostly gone. Mrs. A. M, Sloenm will close her school at the Hooker school house on tho 25th instant with a good attendance, notwithstanding the sickness and bad weather prevalent. dies. Haines, w ho returned from Col orado recently, has been expecting his brother from Denver for the past eight or ten days, and fears he has met with another accident, similar to the one some time ago, which may result in leaving him an invalid for life. X. Y. 55. Eihiit Milk Centf.k, January 24, ln'io. STRANCE FISH. A Correspondent Tells What He Found In the Well Spring. For the lIcniiKT. I have just returned from a fishing trip in the Well spring, and thought the readers of the Bi dokt would like to know of my luck. I never was much of a fisherman, but this time I had the game in a small pond and had good luck in capturing it. I was hauling water from the spring on the Saturday before Christinas, and thought the water smelled a littlo fishy; but being a new-comer to this garden spot of God's green earth I said, "Mineral wator, wife, pure mineral water." All went well until a few days ago, when I had to haul more water, but oh, gracious, more min neral, liiyu mineral! To-day I armed myself with a salmon hook and went to prospect. To my great surprise 1 drew from the bottom of the spring a grain sack, in which I found two largo stones, a beef hide and the ears nicely packed. The mark was swallow-fork ami under hit in right ear and slit in left, and on the right hip there was a piece cut out. Now this looks very strange to me, but I am not acquainted with the ways of Morrow county. Yet I do not suppose that anyone would kick if a man should kill a beef belonging to his neighbor, but in my country if a man should put the hide in a well from which people used water it would be called a mean, low-down, cowardly trick. But not wish ing to talk about a anyone behind his back, I will quit till I get better ac quainted. 'Tt'CKV Bil.t,. w ki.i. Hi-RiKo, Jan. lfi, iwo, OUT OF HIS BEAT. While passing near J. B. Carinii hael's place yesterday afternorn G. W. Sperry jumped up a strange animal which he at first thought was a coyote. His two dogs bounced it, and one of them was quickly sent howling, but the other got a throat hold and laid out his antagonist. The animal proved to be a lynx, forty inches long. Usually a lynx can stand i v..., i,..u .i i . t j " " " "U,'K" """y and this dug after his extraordinary feat will liave nerve enough to tackle a cou gar. Why the lynx wan out amotiK the biincli(frai hills, far from the mountains or tiniher, is a niyhti;ry. UMATILLA COUNTY. From the Pendleton Daily East Oregonlan. Another brass band is being organized in Pendleton. Considerable freight for Pendleton merchants is now beginning to arrive. The snow blockade is raised and trains will soon be running on schedule time. Snow was reported five feet deep, on a level, in the Weston mountains before the thaw. Property on Main street in Pendleton is for sale at figures ranging from (100 to (150 a front foot. Whitefisli are plentiful in the Uma tilla river, and numbers are captured by the Pendleton small boy. The neighboring hills are now nearly bare of snow. The chinook has been slow but thorough in its work. Jack-rabbits are becoming a terrible pest in the country north of Pendleton, and are raising havoc with the haystacks of tlie farmers. Hundreds are slaugh tered, but others "bob up Berenely" to take the place of their dead comrades. A correspondent writing from Echo on the 25th, says : A great many cattle are dying in this vicinity. If the cold stormy weather had continued three weeks longer, two-thirds of the cattle would have died. I have been informed that Cass Rogers has already lost ot'er 100 head, Jesse Moore about the same num ber, and Sitton brothers a good many. Stock is very poor, and even w hen the snow is gone there will be no grass for them. Weston Leader. One of the most pressing needs of Weston is a bank. The Weston normal school is meeting with substantial encouragement. The lowest registered by the thermom eter during the late cold spell was 10 below zero. S. Doble is making preparations for the early removal of his sawmill from Wild Horse mountain to Pine creek, be low town. Charles McBrido brought the mail np from Pendleton on the night of the 20th. This is the first mail received at Weston since January 11th. During the afternoon of January 19th, on Vild Horse mountain, A. L. Barry was shot and killed by .1. K. Davidson. A coroner's jury entirely exonerated Davidson. NOT A SUCCESS. Tho result described below by Mr. Crane is not very favorable for flax growing. Still, one experiment can hardly be said to determine whether it would be a profitable crop here, and we would be glad to hear from any others wdio have had experience .with flax either in this county or elsewhere ; Editors Budget : Some one has asked through your paper for information about growing flax. Last venr. late in February, 1 think, I sowed UK) acres of summer fallow to wheat, oats and bar ley. Beside the wheat I planted one' eighth of an acre of flax, putting it in in me same manner ana giving it in every respect an equal bIiow with tho other grains. The bariey made 21 bushels per acre, the oats 1(1, the wheat tliree-nuar ters of a ton of hay per acre, w hile the flux, although making a good start, did not grow as much seed as was planted All our ground this year will be sown; to rye 200 acres, wheat 250, and barley 50. We never sow in the spring except on summor tallow. very truly, C. B. Crank Ki.la, Or., January 2", ISiW. DELAYED FREIGHT. To one who is easily affected by petty annoyances a position on tho Willow Creek branch road at present must be one of constant irritation. It certainly cannot Vie very pleasant to be asked forty or fifty times a day, "Why doesn't my freight come up?" "When will it come?" All the same, there is said to bo three or four carloads of freight at Arlington for this line, which cannot bo moved by the rolling stock now on the road. It does not help matters to jaw the employes on the Willow Creek branch, w hp are not responsible for the delay, but a good strong kick sent to headquarters might bring a heavier en gine that could haul up the freight now sleeping at Arlington. Last evening, after tho above was in tvpe, the up truin came in with two en gines at tho front and bringing the de layed freight. Smiles prevail among the business men, who are now busy unpacking goods. Cat in the Mail. 1'ostinaster McAlister was somewhat surprised one night this week by finding a cat in the Arlington mail sack. It was not tho genuine article, however, but an excellent imitation in rubber, and showed marks of having been the plaything of some child. No wrapper or direction accompanied it, and the in ference is that the Arlington postmaster's second assistant is now mourning its loss. IIOIIN. JONES In Ileppner, January 17th, to Mr. and .tirM. .icllerfton joiicm, ft noii JOHNSON Near Gooseberry, January 1.r,lh, to Mr. mid Mm. Jacob Jnhunoti. a noii. MlSSKI.IllNK III lllack Horiu canyon, Jhiiu ary 17tli, to Mr. ami Mm. Amos MUtiehllue, i Ron. J. N. IlitowN. Jam. D. Hamilton. BROWN & HAMILTON, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Oi'poilli' "Gazette" Ollice, Ilcppuor, Or. IHACTK K IV AM. TIIK fOTRTH OK THE .title, liiNiiraiii'i, KchI KxlKte, Collection aii'l l.,aii AKi-ntH. l'roint intention given to all buMneN eiitrtitcl to litem. WAIT A BIT. OWISO TO HH KNKHH) I AM AT I'RKKKNT inial.le to run the UiiIiik ami elto, milla, I but hoj.e ttooit to l,e on derk. Notice will Ije : Kiveu a noon aa I am altle to return to tiity. j 8. 11. Horn. U'liiitfton, January 'i, !. I,lfNll-A KIRHT-CI.AHH UK.ATION KOK J bu.lnei.il men of eneriry ait'l forcililil Uxliiglon, MorroH couiiiy, or. T0 YOU HEAD THE COSMOPOLITAN, That Bright. Sparkling, Magazine? The (Cheapest Illustrated Monthly in the VypRLpT 25 CENTS A NUMBER. $2.40 Per Year. Fnlotyvd October, JSS9, to lid l'tige. 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FIRST-CLASS FARE POPULAR PRICES. rilllK TAHI.K IS ALWAYS Hl'IM'l.lKII WITH 1 the beat In the market. Careful atleullon palrl to the waul of pufflN- $n chiiu-He em ploye). The lioiifttt la kept III the uealcul oa Aibfe manner. IWrd, 1-kr Wkkk. 4 00 IloAKI) AND I.OIKIINU 5 00 Hinoi.k Mkai.s 23 I.OM1INOH, 25 ANI1 W) t'TH, I.IIPTY-TWO KI MIIKItH OK THE I.KXINO I ton Wkkki.v III im.kt (or II. If you are not taklnit it, aithw rlhe for It; auhai rlhs now. IKRHONH WIHIIINO TO HKI.f. flKKIlKI) ranched or ini'lce'lcl claim phoulil cull at the HritoKT ollice. No clutrfe tor ailvcrlln lug uult nale Is fllcctcl. member of the household. It will make BUiqects .' I TUK- and C Streets, Lexington. WM. PENLAND. PADBERG, 0LYMPIA S. MURRAY, M. D. Female Specialist. HAH PRACTK'KI) OS THK PACIFIC COAHT fur Mm jmhl tweutv-.ivp yviirn. A 1 i f i tlmc dovotnl fi thft Htuuy of female trouble, tlH'ir I'tiusi'M hihI i urrn. J htivt. HioiihiiikIn of tt'Ntlinoiiitils of .-rmitiiftit riircn from thl bout people on Uiin coant. A positive KUflriuitep to periNHiM'tiUy run) uny (-hup of feinin weak ih'hh, no mutter how lonjr Mitii'liiiK or whirl tlio Kttte iiihv lie. rimnu'H reniiiii)le und within the renrh of nil. For the hem-lit of the very poor of my Hex who lire MiltVrftiK from any of the Kri'Ht multitude of ttilinetitti that follow til the train of that terrlhle HeiirUf known hh female wcalcncMM, and who nr not aliii; to pay for treatment, I will treat free of clitifKU. 'oii..iilta.ioii by Mall Frefu All r-orrfxpoui.encft strictly fonfldentUf. MedletiieN paeked, boxed and dent by cxpreMM. with charff-n pre-puhl for "home'' treat mmit, with Mpeeille direction for line. If you artj ftufleriiitf from any female trouble, periost eal ly or coimlatitly, ddrea OLYMPIAS. MURRAY, M. D., KAHT I'OHTI.ANI), ORK'iON. NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS N'OTIf K IH IIKRKMY OIVKN TO THK TAX paycM of Morrow (.'omity, Orcimn, that I or my deputy will he at the imual vutliiK itlacea lor tlie purpoMe ol eolli clliiK ttixea, aa lullotta: MitttcKon I'reiluit .. Morula?, February 3, I WO Oalry ' ... TucMlity. " 4, Klultt Mile " . . Wfilui-Mlajr, " ft, " hry Fork " Thuru'lay, " fi, " lone " . Krliliiy. " 7, " Veil " . Kiitur'lay, " , " 'untie Hock " . .MoiHluy, " lu, " Well HprlllgH " . . Tiicieltiy, " II, " Alpine ' ... Weilncielay, li, " I'lne (;lly " . . , ThurielBy, " W, " I.ciih " Krl'luy. " H, " l.cxlnirton " ... aiurlay, " l-r, " Ileppner " Mouility, " 17, " '1 he liolim at meetlllK will lie from 10 A. M. If 3 P M. T. It. HOWARD, (Hi-IK) Hhcrlffof Morrow County, Or. q i nn IH NOT "'n. "it it wn.i.oivr $ I iVV you lite lil'ln.KT for one year.