The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1909-02-20
W. W. BROWN GETS NOroRlHry.
Figures In "Rabbitville" Items And VIII
Now be Besieged by "Widders"

"Old Man" Bennett of Rabbit
vile fame has been on a tour in
to Harvey county and under the
Rabbitville heading in The Dalles
Optimist gives w. w. Brown eX'
tended mention. We present
the article in full to our readers:
Well | bin over into Harvey
county and Grant and have seen
things | never seen before but
hope to see EN- again, for it is a
CRATE big country, a fine large
country and noboddy never dyes
over there ontil his time Gums,
which as a rule is when he is
about a hundred and 4 years old.
have had a fine visit, have
met up with lots of peepul, some
of EN- being folks well known all
over Oregon. For instance there
is the two Bills, Bill Hanley and
Bill Brown. The second Bill,
Bill Brown, was discovered here
on a sheep range about 80, forty
or sixty years ago. Some peepul
say he has seen all the butes in
the country grow up from little
bits of mounds no bigger than
wash bilerS.
Ennyhow Bill Brown is a old
timer Of the old timers, and he
now has hoss ranches in lots of
places in Harvey county, in Crook
county and in Lake county. |
asked him how menny horses he
had and he sed mebby eight or
10 thousand, and he has a good
menny hurds of sheep and sum
cows, and owns land enough to
make a big county.
The foxes here call Bill The
Desert Anjel," because he is one
of the best bosses and best citi-
zens they have. All of his men
what work for him live on the
Phat of the land He byes more
canned goods than emmy Of the
stores, and the best he can get.
And he byes bigg. At one ship
ment he sent out 20 sacks of
shugar.
Bill is a Presbyterian and he
is also a anjel to that church and
the skools under it, and when he
takes a day off he sends a check
to some churcn or skool, one of
EN- for ten thousand dollars GO
ing 10 the Pendleton academy.
Over in Prineville there is a
church that Bill has helped out
a lot, and helped the minister a
lot more, and on the back of one
of the pughs is Browns naim in
big letters as a sort of a monu-
ment to Bill.
Sum foxes call Bill crazy, and
some foxes call him wusser names
and sum call him lucky and some
call him this and some call him
that. But foxes who have had
deels with Bill and have wusted
him wake up a year or 50 later
and wonder how it is that Bill,
being so crazy, got the big end
Of that bargain.
A phew years ago when hosses
was selling for 2 to five S a boss,
Bill put all the loose muny he
Good scrap into hosses. Now he
sells all the hosses he can gather
each year. five or 600 he'd, at 70S
per boss. So bill was not crazy
on hosses, Then when sheep
got cheap he bought sheep, and
now when he thinks sheep is at
the top notch he is selling them
ontil from over twenty thousand
he mebbe only has 10 thousand.
And the yother sheep owners
says Bill is crazy to sell sheep
for they will go higher and high
er. But Bill just winks the
yother eye.
Bill is a old bachelor feller but
it is rhumored that he is looking
for a wife, 50 it might be well
for widders and others to open
up a correspondence with him.
He is a fine looking old chap,
dresses like a Methodist preech-