OFFICIAL aV TAPER. ADVERTISE YOU WANT In TheGazette. Price 10 Cents Per Copy. The Gazette, Price 10 Cents Per Copy. NINTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1892. NO. 463. V. 1 THE GAZETTE. FOBLIBHED Every Thursday Afternoon BY THE PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY. ALVAH W. PATTEKSON Ban. Manager. OTIS PATTERSON Editor' At $2.00 per year, $1.25 for en monthB, $0.75 for tliree mourns; in advance. If paid for at the end of six inonthB, 2.50 a year will be charged. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. The " B -A-O-IjE, " of Long Creek, Grant County, Oregon, In published by the same com pany every Friday morning. BubBcription ri'C, f'per year. Foradvertisinpratefl, addreHB lailT 3j. F-A-TTEKSOST, Editor and Manager, Long Creek, Oregon, or "Gazette," Heppner, Oregon. THIB PAPER is kept on file at E. 0. Dake s 1 Advertising Agency, 4 and 65 Merchants Kxchangs, Ban 1'ranciBCo, California, where u tracUi for advertising can be made for it. T? C. PENTLAND, SECRETARY OF THE Xj. Oregon Preas Association, 26 ABh Street, between First and Second, Portland, Oregon, is our only agent located in that place. Advertis ers should consult him for rates and space in the Gazette. THE GAZETTE'S AGiNTS. Wagner B- A- Hunsaker Arlington','.'.'.'. Henry Heppner Long Creek, ,h?5S'S Bob bhaw Camas Prairie .?,atIarK,DVa!',1 Matteson AllenM ejorrfn H,e Or H- c- WnKht Hardman,'Or ...J-A. Woolery Hamilton, Grant Co., Or Mattie A. Radio jone 1. J- carl Prairie City,' Or R- RVM.L;"l2 Canyon City, Or., . Parrwh Pilot Kock, ! G-TRltl,n Diivvllle Or j.Ji. bnow Jo u Day, Or. : : . " F. I. McCallum Athena Or John Edington Pendleton, Or Wm. G. McCroskey Mount Vernon, Grant Co., Or.,. . .... . Postmaster Shelby, Or Miss Stella Hett Fox, Grant Co., Or .J. 1 Allen Eight Mile, Or Mrs. Andrew Ajhbaugh Upper Khea Creek B- F. Hevland Douglas, Or -B,- White Lone Rock, Or R,M;,J?h"8,on Goofleberry - ,wvp1-IH"?'ler Condon, Oregon Herbert Halstead AN AGENT WANTED IN EVERY l'KECINCT. Union Pacific Railway-Local card. No, 10, mixed leaves Heppner 8 a. m. 10. ' ar. at Arlington 11-00 a.m. " 9, " leaves " 8:5 P. m. 9, " ar. at Heppner 11:50 p. m, daily except Sunday. EaBt bound, main lino ar. at Arlington 8:50 p. m. West leaves ' :a p. m. Night trains are running on same time ae before. CANYON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS. Stage leaves for Monument daily, except Sunday, at 6:30 A. M. Arrives daily, except Monday, at 5:00 P.M. Direct connection oan be made at Monument with the Long Creek stoge. nu;iv afniTA hpr.wpan Tinner Greek and Canyon City, conneotmg at the latter place witn tne stage ior cumo uu Uu- vies valley. S. Ponnoyer. of State"".'.". w- McBride. Treasurer hil Metechan. Supt!lnBtruet,on.. MoElroy. V...1; Hovant.h Distr ot W.L. Bradliaw District Attorney W. H. Wilson MORROW OOUNTY. Z:: 'TlmnSon: "mntyJndge.;.".;.".'.'. Julius Ke.thly. (joinmiBBioneru . a- 11 U Vaughn. cierk'...: jy-Mo,rr?w' . qi.a.:it . Geo. Noble. " Treasurer J-W. Matlock. Assessor J. McGee. Surveyor ? B. Crane. School Sup't W.L. Baling. Coroner James Daugnerty, HEPPNER TOWN OFFICERS. ,(,, T. J. Matlock I'ounciimen O. K. FarnBWorth, C. M.MaUory, W. J. McAtee. S. P. UarnguBS, inos. Kecorder A A. Roberts. p . W.J. Leezer. Uarshal... J- w- Rasmus. SEOUXST SOCIETIES. their Castle Hall, National Bank build ing. Sojourning brothers cordially ln n attain. Kmtt. Vnstiz. C. C ' T. C. Aubrey, K. of R. 4 8. ti RAWLINS POST, NO. 81. 8. A. R. Meets at Lexington, Or., the last Saturday of each month. All veterans are lnvitea to join r C! Hnnn. GEO. W. SMITH Adjutant. tf Commander. FKOFSSGIOITAIj. A. A. ROBERTS, Heal Estate, Insurance and Collection Office in CODNCIL CHAMBERS, Heppner, tf Oregon J. N. BROWN, JA8. D. HAMILTON, Attorney at Law, Brown & Hamilton. Practice in all courts of tho state. Insurance, ul aatata nnl nnti in anil loan fU76atS. Promiit attention given to all business entrust ed totm'm. rr Opposite Gazette Office, Heppner. ti ST. PENDLETON, OREGON. This Institution offers to young ladies every advantage for home and social comfort. The necessary to the aeuniiitlon of a solid and refined education. The Languages, Linear Drawing, Vocal Music lu class, and all kinds of needlework form no extra charge. Terms vodftrate. ror lunuer imuiuiBiwu buu.w Sister Superior, PEXDI.ETON - 39-tf - OREGON Plrt-Cla GAZETTE S II Or M NEIGHBORS Are haviDg their land business straight ened out and shaped up. How about yours? It not in satisfactory oondition it would be a Rood plan to see about it at onoe. I am giving careful and ene- eetio attention to entries, final proofs, railroad land " and all business relating to lands in Morrow oounty. FRANK H. SNOW, U. S. Commissioner, Lexington, Or. From Terminal or Interior Points the RAI LBOAD1 Is the line to take It is the DINING CAB ROUTE. It ran Through VESTIBULED TRAINS EVERT DAT IN THE TEAR TO (No Change of Oars) Cooped of DINING CARS unsurpassed, PULLMAN DRAWING ROOM SLEEPERS Of Latest Equipment Tourist SleepingCars Best that ean be oonstracted and in which aoootumodations are both FREE and tarnished for holders of First or Second-Class Tickets, and Elegant Day Coachs. A Continuous Line connecting with all Lines, affording Direct and Uninter rupted Service. Pullman Sleeper Retervationt can be any agent of the road. THROUGH TICKETS To and from all points in America, Eng land and Europe can be purchased at any Ticket Office of this Company. Full information concerning rates, time of trains, routes and other details furnished on application to any agent, or A. D. CHARLTOS, Assistant General Passeneer Agent. No. 121 Firtt lit.. Cor. Wathinaton, mum mm tf. PORTLAND OREGON Coast Defences on the Sound are Very Slim. NO 0.F0S1TI0N TO TUE CLILIANS' GUNS. John L. Sullivan as an Actor- Real Estate Not Very Lively Politics Looming Dp. Ed. Gazette: The present indications are that the Chilian affair has ended after the man ner of tlie Bemi-annual .European war and has been carried on upon the same principles, tbe fighting being mostly done by telegraph. It created quite a oomment here at the time the war talk was loudest and is at times still discuss ed on the streets. The steamboat men reviewed the list of boats available for transports. Tha militia oompauies prac ticed their men on the "right front into line" and as militia are usually instruct ed on "right about face" and "marob" they were prepared for military evolu tions. The question of the Sound oities being praotioally defenseless in case of war was thoroughly ventilated, and it was not a very encouraging outlook, with a roadstead without a single modern rifled gun of any size for protection, to oontemplate the possibility of a call from a Chilian war-ship. The Sound oities would be practically at the meroy of a modern battle-ship. Tbe fort at Port Townsend and the new naval station are the only points the United States has made any military or naval improvements on the whole line of the Straits of Fuca or Puget Sound. The fort does not com mand tbe entrance of Admiralty Inlet and would not interfere with the passage of a ship of war in the least, and the naval station as yet is principally dis- tinguished bv a name and a flag-pole. The U. S. ship Nipsio has been ordered sent there to serve at the station and to cruise on the inland waters as oooasion may demand but she is not fit for any active service sinoe the hurricane at Samoa damaged ber so badly. John L. Sullivan visited Seattle last week in his new calling of an actor, Whether be was an artist on the stage is an open question, but that he was a financial suocess is an indisputable fact. More attended tbe play to see Sullivan than attended the lectures of Joseph Cook or George Kennan; and "Honest Hearts and Willing Hands" with Sulli van than "Richard Third" at the hands of Keane. His conduot while in the city was exemplary. Beyond a rumor of his having to be put under a pump to sober him sufficiently for tbe second night's performance nothing was whispered to decrease his reputation. From letters from Heppner I hear com plaints of hard times. In this you are not alone. The amount of business holds fairly well exoept in real estate. In lands the sales are small compared with a year or eighteen mouths ago. Money seems plenty enough in some ways. There is no lack for loans on good security at a moderate interest. On some of the best business property there are loans at 6 per cent, and the oounty scrip whioh was only barely saleable at par a year ago is now sought after very eagerly. - Beal estate has been more active at Port Orchard and Edmunds of late than any other points on tbe Sound. Ed munds is in Snohomish county and tbe unusual interest is due to the establish ment of the works for constructing tbe wbaleback vessels at that place. The Wetmore has been discharging her oargo there and is expected at Seattle soon. She will exoite considerable curiosity, being an entirely new style of vessel to the coast. Tbe winter so far has been very mild. The usual amount of rain and consider able wind but as yet barely enough snow to oover the ground, and very slight freezing, For a few days past it has been fine weather with exoeption of foggy nights that would bear favorable com parison with the famous London article. Politios is moving here on account of the city election which comes in March and the party lines are drawing closely and the dubs of the different precincts and wards are effecting permanent or ganizations to continue till after the presidential campaign. The city election amounts to a preliminary skirmish on tbe national and state oampaign and will be closely contested to show the strength of the party vote. Tours &o., C. L. Andrews. Seattle, Wash. Jan. 23, '92. ALL RIGHTI ST, Nature Take Its Course. From The Dalles Chronicle. Some folks are poking fun at the Chronicle reporter for saying that the grounds around the Jolea mansion were now beautified by the presence of "a pair of peacooks a male and a female " Now really all the Chroniole did was to follow a very common usage of the word, as any one may see by consulting Webster, and pplv it to the species instead or the sex. However the blunder is not halt bj bad as that made by a oountryman of the writer who was at one time, and may be yet an alderman for one of the wards of New Tork City. At a meeting of the oouncil a question oanie up for beautify ing Central Park when a Mr. Murphy arose and said: "Misther President I am jist afther payin' a visit to Yurrip and whin there I spint some time in the city of Venice, where I was mightily taken with the beautiful gondolias that they have on the bay and I move yon sur that we send over for a dozen of them and put them in the Ciutral Park lakes." Before the motion was put our friend arose and said, "I would loiko to ax me friend Murphy how much these gondilias would be like to cost," Mr. Murphy re plied that he thought they could be laid down in New York for about $200 a pieoe. "In that oase," replied the Irishman, "I objiot to spindin' so much money on thim and I move os an amindment that we send tor a oouple of them, a male and a female, and let nature take its coorse." Our Position. From the John Day Sentinel. The Seutinel has reoeived a communi cation from J. O. Luoe in reference to an artiole whioh recently appeared in the columns of the Eagle. The substauoe of the letter is to deny that he made any attaok npon the Sentinel during his ad dress at Long Creek. We must deoline to publish the same for the reason that we do not wish to stir up any unneces sary strife. Although having our own views upon the Alliance question, we do not promulgate them through the col umns of the Sentinel, and therefore can not with consistency give its spaoe to others wishing to do so. Notices of meetings however will be gladly received and published as news; but suob'botices must be tbe facts only and not a discus sion of the merits and prinoiplts of the question. We like to see a mal, ijvhold his honest coAviotions aad if l."a de-es, use legitimate argument to iufluenoe others. But at the same time, we deoline to be drawn into a controversy over other people's opinions on questions which do not interest us one way or the other, and whioh as editors of tbe Sen tinel we cannot discuss. A Very Common Want. "Out of sorts," "distrait," "the blues," these are familiar appellatives for un comfortable, undefinable sensations, ac companied with lussitude, nervousness, indigestion. Poverty of the blood, to remedy which an effective stomaohic persistently used is the paramount need, is conclusive evidence that the system is insufficiently nourished because and for no other cause where organio disease does not existthe food is not assim ilated. Reinforce tbe flagging energies of the stomach, reform on irregular con dition of the bowels, keep up a healthful secretion of the bile, with Hostetter's Stomach bitters. For oyer thirty years this popular medicine has supplied the common want of the nervous invalid, the dyspeptio and the persons deficient in vitality, an efficient tonic To its power of imparting strength is attributable its efficacy as a preventive of malaria and la grippe. Thoroughly effective is it too for rheumatism, kidney complaint and neuralgia. Did Not fan Out. This week some of the Crook oounty sheep raisers who shipped their wool to Boston last season got the returns from their sales. After paying the expenses of freight, insuranos and storuge the wool netted them from 8Jo to l'i'o a pound Tbe same wool would have sold here last summer from 14c to 16a a pound. Some seasons wool growera buve made money by shipping their wool east, hut as a rule they have found it most prontable to sell their wool hers or at the Dalles. Ocho oo Review. Better Still. A suggestion has been made that to every passenger train be attached a cheap rear car holding freight for ballast, bo that if another train runs into it, the loss will not be great. To be effeotive there would need to be two such "calamity' cars, one at either end, and even then passengers would be in danger of rough Hhaking up. ihe better way would be to employ more careful men, and bold oareless ones to stricter account John Royse and son, Clyde, called Monday while in town. George Patterson fell from a second-story window, striking a fence. I found him using ' ST. JACOBS Oil' He used it freely all over his bruises. I saw him next morning at work. All the blue spots rapidly disappeared, leaving neither pain, scar nor swelling. C. K. NEUMANN, M. JD. JACOBS OIL DID IT." Diphtheria Re-appeared and One Fatality Reported. THE POLITICAL POT BEGINNING TO BOIL Our Correspondent GiveB a Resume of the Happenings in That Wide-awake City. Pendleton's new library, consisting of about 300 volumes is now open to stock holders. It is a modest beginning, to be sure, yet a very desirable one, and will no doubt grow with the town to respect able proportions. The"Pow-wow" club, determined to prove that it oan do some thing besides talk, will start a library and reading room, it is said. It it does, Pendleton will be pretty well supplied with reading facilities, one sort of a good thing of which an individual or commu nity ean never get too muoh. It is rumored that the Union Pacific is negotiating for the planing mill proper ty, near tbe central part of the city, as a site for the ereotion of maahiue shops; and that tbe planing mill will go across the river, some place near the foundry. How muob of truth there is in the report I, of course, cannot say. Some time ago Pendleton's number of grocery stores was reduced by two, one moving to Athena and the other going out of business. Now we are to have a new grooery, to be opened on Main street, next week. The more the merri er, for the consumer. A sanguine l'endletc.nian remarked in my hearing the other day that Pendle ton's population was going to increase wonderfully in the next year or two. I hope so, though I have my doubts about the "wonderful." Pendleton is a slow growing town, not the least bit inclined to "boom," notwithstanding the gigan tic efforts of ber newspapers and real es tate speculators. Still it is a sure town, and one that is bound to win in tbe long run. "Go-fast" is a good borse, but "Get-there" is a bettor, and applies to towns as well as individuals. G. W. Hunt, erstwhile railway mag mite, was in town last week, accompan ied by some of the high oQioials of the O. & W. T. railway. The object of their visit was not made public. However, from a bit of conversation overheard, it is supposed to have been in relation to the property lying south of Webb street, and extending from Garden street tu the P. treck, to be used for side-traoke, switches and depot grounds. Diphtheria has again re-appeared in our oity, one death oocurring last week The disease has been kept in check, how ever, and an euidemic is improbable. It iB beginning to look as if Pendleton would be tbe victim of an ioe famine Noue bas yet been obtained by local dealers, and if the present weather con tinues there will be none to get. Politios is beginning to be the subject of conversation, and oandidates are be coming as thick as hops. The allianoe el ement is classed as an uncertain quan tity of whioh may moke the results of June election rather doubtful, that is, unless it fizzles out as did the working men's tioket in the late city election. It is said to be pretty strong in the oounty now, but when it comes to the pinch men do not always voleas they pray. If they only would, what a social and po litical revolution would be served up hot for the busy old world about onoe every twelve-month. Perhaps, after all, it is just as well that they don't. Gbobob Wahhincjton, jb Pendleton, Jan. 21, 1892. FRANK LKHIJE'rJ WEEKLY. Frank Leslie's Weekly for this week is the strongest issue ever published. It has a striking page-picture of the ships of the new navy, another by Davidson entitled ''Signaling the Fleet to Get under Way," a page of sketches of life and charaoter in Washington by Cline- dinst, some striking pictures of tbe new terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, together with a handsome picture of Cyrus W. Field from life. There are other fine illustra tions. This number contains the InHt of the articles by Professor Totten on "The Coming Crisis," with special articles on tbe beet-sugar industry, New York state politics, etc. Harry Phillips, assisted by Johnny Willmorth, is rapidly getting away with the rock point on brewery bluff. Royal Baking Powder is the U. S. Government, after official tests, highest of all in leavening power. It is the best and most economical ; a pure cream of tartar Baking Powden WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Japan has appropriated $630,705 for its representation at the exposition. A splendid Jnpanese exhibit is assured. The Blue Grnss league of Iowa, em bracing tbe southwestern counties of the state, has decided to oonstruot a "Blue Grass palace'' at the exposition. The Thomson-Huston eleotrio compan ies are planning to make a united exhib it at an expense of $500,000. They want to occupy 20,000 square feet of space. Hon. W. O. P. Breckinridge, of Ken tucky, aocording to present planB, will deliver the oration dedioatory of the ex position buildings, on October 12, 1892. On the three evenings during tbe ex ercises dedicatory of the exposition buildings, October 11, 12 and 13. fire works to the value of $25,000 will be dis played. The oontraot has already been let. The fine geological collection made by the late Prof. Worthen, state geologist of Illinois, will form part of the Illinois ex bibit at the exposition. The state world's fair board has purchased it for $8,000. The United States Potters' association has applied fr 32,000 square feet in tbe manufacturers' building, and announces its intention of making an exhibit that will not be surpassed by any showing made by the famed potteries of Europe. A projeot baa been inaugurated to have an international rifle shoot at Chi cago at some time while tbe exposition is in progress, it is proposed tout pioKed teams from the U. S. army and national guard compete with teams from other nations. hew Yu Ling, representing commer cial parties in China, haB arranged to oonduot a tea pavilion on Midway Plai- sun oc, and has applied for 1,000 square feet of spaoe in the manufactures build ing in which to exhibit Chinese silks, em broideries, eto. The colossul statute of the republic, which will stand on a pedestal rising from the basin in front of the adminis tration building, is being modeled in PariB by Dauiel 0. French, the New York eoulptor. It will be a female fig ure seventy-five feet high. The Chemioal National Bank of Chi cago has been granted the privilege of establishing and operating a bank on the exposition grounds. It wMl afford to ex hibitors and visitors all the convemsnoes and safeguards of a metropolitan bank, including safety deposit vaults. The lord mayor of London, it is an- nounoed, will form a oominittee to raise the sum neoessary to send to the expo sition a selected number of representa tive workingmen from London, with a view of their moking reports on the in dustrial exhibits there. Similar aotion was taken in oase of the last two PariB expositions. Indiana's building at the exposition will be French gothio in Btyle, and con structed entirely of Indiana material. It will measure 100x170 feet, and in real ity will be a $100,000 structure, though, on acoount of the donation of a large part of the material entoring into its construction, its oash cost will be only about $:50,000. The world's fair boord for Kansas is prompting a plan whereby it is expooted that the expense of erecting the exposi tion building for that state will be borne by school pubils. The proposition is to have all of the schools in the state ob serve a "world's fuir day," by holding on entertainment with musio, recita tions, tableaux, etc., to whioh a small en trance fee will be charged. The pro ceeds are expected to be sufficient to poy for tbe Btate building. Over the main entrance of the struoture it is proposed to have the words: "Erected by the School Childron of Kansas." OFF THEIR I1AHE. Judge W. It. Ellis, of Iloppner is out among tbe people looking after bis chances for nomination for congress. Mr. Ellis is not regardod by democrats as a strong man or a hard one to bent, for tbe reason that be is a man of very ordinary ability, and the only prominent reason that can be offored by his friends for his oandiducy is that he wonts it. LaGrande Chronicle. When our democratic friends think that Mr. Ellis is an easy man to beat, they are reckoning without their host. He is not pushing himself for nomination. but will be chosen by his party as the material to contest tho election of oon gressmnn of the seoond district and don't overlook it. THE FIX CASE. From the Arlington Record. Chas. Fix was arrested on his return from Arlington to Condon Monday on a complaint of Ray Henson, charging him with killing a five-year-old bovine, the property of Henson. It Beems that Mr. Mulolare had sold to defendant a num ber of cattle two years ago and subse quently sold the brand to Henson. Later news on this subject shows the facts to be that James Mulolare sold to Fix some oattle two years ago, Mulclare and Hen son olaiming that this sale inoluded only a definite number, and that M. subse quently sold to Henson the remnant, in cluding tbe brand. At his examination Fix introduces a bill of sale, the last clause of whioh purports to oonvey to him the entire brand, including those being on tbe range. Henson and Mul olare claim this latter clause to be a for gery. Defendant Fix was held by Justioe Ta tum to answer before the next grand jury. Mr. Fix now proposes to fix Henson for the too promiscuous nse of his iron, and thereupon had him arrested and held to answer on a similar oharge. Eaob psrty is under a $300 bond for their appearance. BIG JACK RABBIT. Andy Schilling went up the Rattle snake the other day, says the Missoula Gazette, to examine bis bear traps, and on returning, saw struggling through the snow some distanoe from him what be supposed to be a deer. As the open season for deer had expired, and not wishing to break, he at first deoided to let tbe animal flounder its way through the drift. On second thought he deoid ed to oapture, it he oould, the thing alive. Tightening his belt, grasping his pole with a firmer grip and directing his hounds to circle, he sped over the snow on his suowshoes; bis dogs closed in and the struggling creature was captured. It wasn't a deer, but a jack rabbit, the largest ever oaptured in Montana. Its ears arc as long as those of a young bur ro, and Its skin will be sufficiently large to wrap a Missoula baby in, and Missou la babies, as all know, are the largest and finest in the state. The quarry was placed on a wood sled, hauled to town and placed on exhibition at tbe Capitol on Front street, where it attraots much at tention from its enormous size. It will weigh 42 pounds dressed if tbe shot with which it is stuffed are not removed. IiONtt CREISK. From the Euglo. Arrangements are being made to make the Pythian bull on the 19th of Feb. a grund success. Knights from neighbor ing lodges are expeoted to be present, N. C. Haskell, we learn, isBtill drifting on his Elk oreek placer property. He has one hnncj in his employ and we un derstand is realizing well from bis labor. They are at present working ground that it was impossible to handle with their hydruulio. Chas. Ivy, a young man of this valley, had a hearing in Recorder Goff's oourt Thursday of last week, having been ar rested on a warrant sworn out by Wm. Carter for the laroeoy of a colt. The oose was beard Thursday evening, wlien Ivy wos released, the evidence submitted not being sullioient to warrant bis being plaaed tinder bonds. Hannah Ilinton Iuman, tbe aged mother of Jack, Walker and Daniel Uiu ton, each residents of Northern Grant oounty, was found dead in ber bed last Katurduy morning at Juok Uinton's, near Hamilton. She bod been in ill health for years, and hod been almost helpless for the past year, and gradually declin ing in health and ber deatb was not un expected. How's Thin ? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hull's Catarrh Cure, F. J. Chkenby & Co., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to oarry out any obligations made by their firm. West & TntiAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waloino, Kinnan & Maiivin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall'sCutarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and muc ous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold oy all druggists. Jos. Royse was in Friday last. He is suffering from a light touoh of the grip, but is recovering rapidly. He says that the farmers of his section are plowing ready for spring sowing. reported by nevvner. : : tf : Oregon