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The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1912-08-31

Horse collars at ]. {. WcIc6Hie
g. Sons SO. 25 each.
Fresh home made lard tic. at
Hansen's Meat Market.
Horse collars at J. G. Welcome
Il Sons SO. 25 each.
Try a 35c chicken dinner from
$50 to 700 p. m. every SUNDAY
at the Cottage Inn.
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! Chas. Owen was down from
lSilvies Valley yesterday.
Best flour (guarantee) $3.50
lbbl. Hartman Mercantile Co.
/ Any new harness bought from
me will be kept in repair for a
year free Of charge w. b. Shell
Iley.
Save your money by buying
your shoes at James Smiths Shoe
Sale. Closing them out at cost.
39tf.
| &c. Welcome & Son always
have made their work good. ASK
their satisfied customers who are
legion.
| Allie billiard and Kemp Har'
disty were in the city the first
of this week looking after their
water rights.
Pure bred Berkhire pigs foi
breeding, seed rye for early SOW
ing. also some fine young biro
dogs for sale. DIR. Hibbard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Terrill ano
! Mr.. Carlton and family went ovel
to Crane Creek the first OF th'
week in the latter's car, TO visi
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Carey fol
a short time.
We are selling agents for thu
Harney Valley improvement
Company lands, the choice lands
of a 100000 acre tract Thes'
lands are on the market on a tel
wear payment plan. II you wan
a good farm, investigate thes,
lands and terms. 8
MoTHERsHEAD Il DoNEGAN
The many friends of the ole
pioneer J. II. Garrett are glad U
see him able to be on the streets
after an illness of many weeks
His sister and brother, who wer
here visiting him from the eas
\ have returned home.
A vast amount of i'll health /
4 due TO impaired digestion: Whel
a the stomach fails to perform 1t
i functions properly the whole sys
tenn becomes deranged. A te,
doses of doses of Chamberlain
Tablets is all you need. The
E will strengthen your digestion
invigorate your liver, and req
late your bowels. entirely dom
away with that miserable feelin
due to faulty digestion. Try !
MANY others have been permal
emily cured-why not you? re
sale by all Dealers.
$11:95 Round Trip, BEND
SALEM, via Oregon Trunk Ry
for the Oregon State Fai
September End to 7th, l9l
Tickets will be sold Augu
29th to September 7th inclusiv
with return limit of Septemb
11th. Through daily train fl
Portland leaves Bend at $3.50
M, arrives Portland $50 p.
in same station with Oreg'
Electric Ry., for Salem. Detai
will be furnished on request.
Nh. Corbett, Agent, Bend, Ore.
41-42
iii Col. C. f. S. Wood is he
from Portland to represent /
clients in the water adjudicatio
Col. Wood has not been out he
for some time and naturally sc
changes. One thing he noted
particular is that less stock a
on the ranges and that the ran
grass is coming back. He stat
that President Farrell of t
Hartman lines in this state tC
him they would not stop t
railroad work across the sta
until it is completed. Col. Wo
further said that the election
Wilson to the presidency of I
~ United States is conceded by {
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Shelley.
M. Fenwick is back from
Springfield to look after his wat
err rights before the Water Sup
erintendent.
James Smith wants to see you
at his place Of business where he
is selling out his shoe stock at
cost. Big bargains for all. S9tf'
WHEN IN BURNS STOP AT
SWEEK'S 25c FEED BARN.
HAY AND STABLE ROOM.
FREE CAMPING GROUNDS,
Mrs. Arthur Elliott, wife OF
the architect on the school build
ing, arrived here recently to JOIN
her husband.
Your wife should not be COM
PEELED to stand over a hot COOK
stove this kind Of weather. Get
her one of those fireless cookers
at Clevenger's. Go and see
them.
Supt. Cochran of the State
Water Board has left a set of
engineers maps at the county
clerks office where they may be
inspected by those who are IN
terested.
Misses Beatrice Hotchkiss and
Enid Cawlfeld will join former
school mates at the State Normal
at Monmouth this year. They
will leave here about the 10th
of next month.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Campbell
are down from their dairy ranch
on Emigrant Creek this week
looking after their water rights,
They will not move down foi
school until about the first OF
October.
People are warned against
dumping garbage on the lands OF
the Oregon & Western Colonial
ton Co., lands in this vicinity
The city has a place to dump al
such, and people should ask il
they do not know where to dis
card garbage.
Jersey Heifers For Sale ! have
40 head of choice Jersey heifer'
which have just purchased
ranging in age foom l to 3 years
some coming fresh at once. WI
sell at reasonable prices at n.
place 9 miles east of Burns-Johl
: Back.
Ernest Kidd, the boy who wa
: reported dangerously hurt las
week from kick on the head b,
a mule, is doing quite well &C
cording to DR.. Griffith. He sus
, tanned depressed fracture o
!. the skull and while it is seriou
, the patient is doing very well.
t VIM. Hanley arrived home o
r Thursday night from outsld
points where he had been sine
the Development League meet
. ing at Lakeview. He was aC
: companied in by Col. Wood. Nh
: Hanley states quite a number Q
: our neighboring counties woul
I send visitors to our county faii
e Mrs. Prince Glaze, daughter
in-law of the late Till Glaze,
here representing the interest
of the heirs in the adjudicatio
D of water rights. Mrs. Glaze
; an old time friend of Mrs. Brus
l. Byrd and is a guest at the
e home while here. She was form
u ealy deputy county clerk of Croo
county.
$ F. S. Miller and wife and tn
9 Cartons left for Ashland Thur
= day afternoon after a delightfl
" visit with relatives and frient
S in this Valley. They have tV
y cars and are enjoying the vac
!. ton trip immensely, makir
q stops to suit their fancy. Frar
g states they will likely spend Il
t. winter in Ashland.
Or Mrs. E. E. Purington al
daughter Helen and Miss Bess
10 Swain expect tp leave next wee
the formergoing to Eugene whe
In Miss Helen will attend the VI
2. versity for the coming yea
at Miss Bessie will resume her stu
o les at the State Normal at Mo
or mouth. The party will rema
or in Portland for a few days |
a fore proceeding on their journ
a. oohool towns As soon
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but also its barber shop and shoe
has now been moved to larger and
better quarters. The late autumn is
papering and painting time at the
capitol just us ii is in many n private
residence. Quite q number of tho
committee rooms-the rooms where
the real work of congress is done
have been freseoed and repainted for
the coming season.
Several years ago the powers that
be planned Il transformation in the
electric lighting system of the United
States capitot-neW illuminating facil~
tive and more artistic, and which in
many instances will afford what is
known as indirect illumination rather
than the glare that is objectionable to
SO many people, The new scheme was
pushed forward during the recess, the
new lighting fixtures of the crystal
type being installed in nine special
rooms.
The heating and ventilatng appa-
ratus throughout the capitol We're
carefully overhauled this autumn, but
there was no opportunity during the
recess to install the new refrigerating
system as there would have been had
ton all last summer This refrigerat-
ing system, 1T may be explained, is
planned to cool the fresh air as it is
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toresting itself i'll connecting links for
the two buildings. and to that end
there has been installed remarkable
pneumatic tube system, about TOO feet
in length, for the transfer Of mails.
books, etc, between the capitol and
the house office btilding Strictly
speaking, maybe, this shouldn't be
called a pneumatic tube because UNI
like the pneumatic tubes operated at
the postoffices in New York and other
large cities it is operated by suction
instead of compressed air. Anyway
this new rapid transit line at the
capitol is especially Interesting be-
cause tho tube is Is inches in diameter
or nearly twice the size of the similar
tubes at New York and elsewhere, Ii
Is entirely automatic In its action, and
it sends scooting its full length a
heavily loaded man sack Just as cas-
lily, apparently as the pneumatic car
rier ia the average department store
brings the customers change from the
cashiers desk.
But. doubtless, our lawmakers will
need ali t@ea@ VOW aids for handling
the affairs of the nation, for 1t looks
as though this would he Il very busy
| session. lhcfc are many things on the
! program for SO short a session The
senate has a momentous impeachment
trial as the opening number on its
| program and the house is expected to
! take up the revision of our patent laws
and possibly authorization of II new
| patent office. In the closing days of
I the last session $4,000 was appro-
| nriated tn enaho the presidents eff
cheney and economy commission to in
! Nestigate the needs of the patent Of
ticc and n report With recommends
TONS must he ready this week,
This closing session of the present
congress will find 1t simply inpefa-
4 tive, too, to make some provisions for
/ the bigger congress that viii succeed
| il. This is the last year that we will
I have less than 400 representatives..
| Next year, thanks to tho showing of
/ census and tile subsequent reappor-
/ tionment, Uncle sam will have aa3
| representatives on his hands. Some
arrangement will have to be- made for
seating the larger hody-perAaps by
/ removing the present desks and arm
chairs from the hall of representa-
! tiNes and compelling each member TO
fe content merely with a chair and
with u shelf or broad arm chair on
/ which ta write.
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managers, and the only way in which
it is possible to attract capable ca
terers to the positions is to provide
all possible conNeniences-hence these
latest improvements.
The present improvements include
room at the senate restaurant, where
as the house of representatives res
taurant has been completely remodeled
with an increase of space and accom-
modations. A newly installed steam
table at the house restaurant will
keep piping hot the favorite dishes. of
our epicurean congressman, and on
the senate side there are some new
fixings, put in especially for the bene-
fit of Mrs. Murphy, the senate's ia
nous official pie Baker" who turns
out each day not less than so pies Of
the kind that mother used to make
Newly installed in the congressional
machines of four tons capacity each.
Another nook which will not be
recognized by the congressman when
they reassemble is the house barber
shop. oh, yes, indeed, gentle reader,
there is a barber shop in the sacred
precincts of the United States capitol.
You see, the big building is small
city in itself and so it must have not
only its restaurants and postoffice and
telegraph office and stationery store
and bank (or what passes for q bank /,
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proved. Congress did not finally close
UP shop until along in the dog days."
and this long drawn talkfest seriously
interferred with the plans which had
been made for "sprucing up the
capitol building during the recess.
About all that there was opportunity
for were minor improvements and or
dinary repairs. However, when the
reader is told that in little more
than three months there have been
completed exactly 9s1 tasks he will
conclude that there have been lively
doings of late in and about the largest
building of its kind in the world.
{ 1t is essential to include, as was
done in the foregoing sentence, the
capitol grounds as well as the build
ing, for not little of the recent work
has been done in the beautiful park
that surrounds our national law fac
tory-a park, which congress is spend
ing millions Of dollars to enlarge and
improve. The last severe winter left
it's scars on the United States capi-
tol grounds as it did elsewhere in the
country, and the most unwelcome out
come was the loss of a number of the
stately trees that have won the ad-
miration of visitors to Washington in
years gone by.
To repair the havoc the capitol of
ficials have been planting a large
number of young trees, and in order
that these newcomers may in after
years possess added interest for the
people of the nation there has been
followed the custom of having as
many of the new trees as possible
personally planted by prominent men.
Thus the late Vice President Sherman
planted a tree; SO did Speaker Champ
Clark, Senator Lodge and Senator
Wetmore and a number of the leading
men of the two branches of the ma
tional legislature. Meanwhile the of
ficialsf have bestirred themselves as
never before to save such forest mon-
archs as the capitol grounds now
boasts. The trees have been care
fully sprayed at frequent intervals to
discourage the insect pests, and tree
doctors" have been engaged at consid-
erable expense to practice their arts
in an effort to arrest decay,
OF course, the capitol building has
had it's annual "bath' on the eve of
| the return of its distinguished tenants.
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admitted to the capitol SO that our
lawmakers viii not suffer so severely
when they remain in Washington dur
ing the summer as they felt obliged
to do this year. The capitol is already
provided with an elaborate system for
forcing fresh air into the big building
by means Of powerful fans, and there
are even facilities for washing" this
air So that it will be free from iinpuri
ties by means of cooling the precious
ozone, which has heretofore been
lacking, 70 supply this defect con-
gress has appropriated the sum OF
$4,000 1t seems likely that a perfect
refrigerating system will cost even
more than that, but the lawmakers
are not going to ballS at expense, and
rave Instructed the superintendent OF
the big building to go ahead and Sc
cure for them the boon of iced air IL
1t can be had at amy reasonable price
Decidedly the most important of the
chanses-When ii comes to real nov
eltY--ts Il freak underground railway
which has boon provided for convey ing
United States senators and their
friends back and forth between the
capitol aud the senate office building,
located some two blocks away. Ever
since the senate and house office
buildings were completed several years
ago they have been connected With
the capitol by electric lighted tunnels,
The congressman have walked back
and forth through their tube but
tho venorable senators have been con-
vcNed in unique electric automobiles
especially built for this subterranean
speedway
Unfortunately these motor cars have
not proven entirely satisfactory, They
broke down sometimes at moments in~
opportuno tor the dignity OF the
senator's and they have been eSpen-
siVe to maintnin. Now there is being
substituted for those motors what Is
known AS II monorail line~a very
picturesque transportation scheme
whereby n ear capable of holding II
of our Weightest senators Is sus-
pended from rails@hung like saddle
bags ON a horse and Whisked along
Il a lively gait, making the round trip
between the senate building and the
capitol in a very few minutes THESE
monorail lines have heen used To some
extent In Germany, but they are a
Now thing here, and the one which is
now building at the capitol is unlike
| anything else in the world
The lower house is, nevertheless, in
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The cleansing of the vast white mar
Bile pile by means of clear water hurled
against it with great force is a for
midable task. Two Or three fire en-
gines and considerable force of fire
men to direct the streams are engaged
for days at time on this odd chore.
OF the actual improvements made
during the past quarter of a year at
the capitol some of the most import
ant-important at least from the
standpoint of the congressman them
selves-have had to do with the
senate and house restaurants and the
attractive kitchens. 1T is not to be ex-
pected that men drawing $500
year from Uncle Sam, and with an un-
limited Expense account as regards
their working quarters, will be parsi-
monious when it comes to looking
after the wants of the Inner man."
However, there is another factor in
this particular situation, although it
Is one that would probably never be
suspected by any person not "on the
inside at the capitol. Whisper the
secret, though, the capitol restaurants
never pay, as a business proposition.
The presiding officers of the senate
and house, respectively, duly dele
gate each year some person to operate
the capitol restaurants, but such have
been the misfortune of one caterer
after another that there is, no longer
any scramble for position which is
all honor and very little profit. You
see, mine host of a capitol cafe has
a very limited period of activity each
day. The congressman are never
there for breakfast, nor for that mat
ter is the general public that is also
permitted to patronize these restau-
rants, but in rooms apart from those
reserved for the distinguished patrons.
Similarly there is no trade for the
evening meal except on rare occasions.
All the trade of these unique eating
places comes in the form of a rush
at the noon hour. Well, the upshot of
the matter is that for all that con-
gress makes all sorts of concessions,
such as free rent, free light and free
| heat, these capitol restaurants are
anything but gold mine for the
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they maintain these dykes lest the
znyder Zee, when on a rampage, over
step even Its present bounds.
II Will be appreciated from this peep i
at the beginnings of the Zuyder Zee
that the Dutch III projecting the great
est lhndmalttng enterprise the world
over SAW afn but planning 10 Wfest
from The sea what rishtfuily belongs to
thein@a precious possession that was
taken by stealth, as 1t were. Through
out all Holland there is Waged a CON
tinnal struggle with tho sea-a combat
that has developed the most daring
and the nnst ingenious hydraulic en-
! gineers dn the professionalism added to
! tho zest nf this perpetual contest there
Is in the present project an incidental
element of rnNenge-nn evening of old
] scores with the mighty deepz-thst has
auiekened the public enthusiasm.
The first engineer who sought a
solution Of the problem OF ousting
The Nnyder zee, long time trespasser,
/ proposed Ia reclaim every acre of the
! area by the simple eSpedient of con-
strneting II grcat dyke or sea- wall
across the span whence the zuyder Zee
opens To the. North sea- and then
pumping out tho water II WAS Il
appeared most attractive OH pa
per, We say, but it was found To be
lacking III some respects When tested
by hard, practical standards. For one
thing this early plan made previ-
sion for taking eafe of the waters OF
the YSsei river, which Will. of course,
continue 10 reach this locality, no mat
ter whether The environment he mar
itime or pastoral. But all the over
sights in the original plans have been
rcmedied In the modern, np-to= date
scheme which has been evolved by
IL governmental commission.
The first step in this the most pie-
turesaue engineering undertaking Of
the age win be the construction Of a
great sea-dyke nearly % miles long.
which will shut out The North SEAL but
with this embankment provided to keep
out the common enemy the procedure
will be quite different from that con-
templated by the dreamers of half u
century ago. Instead OF attempting to
recover every bit of territory now
submerged the shrewd present day ep-
gineers are going to be content with
about two thirds of the whole. That
a portion that promises most for farm
ing purposes will be reclaimed, where
< as, making virtue out of a necessity,
!. the fraction OF the area which, accord
ing to the soundings that have been
: made is not especially suited for ag-
y ricultural production. This one third
r will continue. as at present, under wa
II ter, but instead of being: an arm of
n Continued on Page Esive1
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The manner in which the Dutch peO-
pie have Wrested the loWlands from
the sea and have ba;ttled against the
besieging ocean has rendered proverb-
ial their Industry and persistence and
determination. 1t has been respon-
sible, moreover, for the adage, God
made the world but the Dutch made
Holland" It is particularly interesting
and significant, therefore, that this
busy little nation Is just now deeply
engrossed with another project more
momentous than anything undertaken
In the past. Indeed, this present
scheme is as full of promise for the
densely- populated little country at the
mouth of the Rhine as is the Panama
canal for the United States.
This latest dream of Queen Will
helminas subjects Is nothing less than
a plan to drain the Zyder Zee, the
great inland sea of the Netherlands,
and to convert Its vast area into fer
tile farm lands, thereby adding a
twelfth province to the Netherlands,
The whole project will probably I'M
volve an expenditure of about $780,
100000, which is vastly more, propor-
tionately for Holland than is the total
Panama canal, but this during recla-
nation feat would change the entire
map of The Netherlands and would add
about one eighth to the productive area
of the country Years would be re-
quired to complete the work but ben
efits would begin to accrue almost
from the beginning of actual work.
It should perhaps be explained at
he Y{cru I, hi I'm +< n il,
the Zuyder Zee is not new sugges-
ton. AS matter of fact the conserv-
ative but resourceful Dutch have been
dreaming OF this very miracle for a
longer interval than we Americans
have been looking forward to the link
ing of the Atlantic and the Pacific at
: Panama, and more than half a century
ago an eminent Dutch engineer pre-
pared detailed plans for the work in
question. It has been the cost rather
than any engineering difficulties which
has deferred the Hollanders, but lat
terly public confidence has been boil
stored up by the success which has at
tended a similar but much smaller
project-that which involved the drain
ing of the body of water known as the
HARLEM lake.
But quite aside from his Influence
and the spirit of progress there is
another factor which has letely been
increasingly insistent for the draining
of the Zuyder Zee. This new argu-
ment Is found In the increasing pop
ulation of The Netherlands. Where tc
find fouthold for the people has be-
come a most perplexing puzzle. The
number OF very small farms in Hol-
land -those of two acres or less-has
increased by thousands every year dur: