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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1903)
The Heppner Gazette Issued Thursday Morning. Warnock fo Micliell. Entered at the PostoHice at Heppner Oregon, as second-class matter. Thursday April 30, 1903 A rnmmfircial association lias been formed at Ecbo for the ad vancement of the interests of the town. Heppner will get her eyes rmpn soon, but then delay is ex- i , pensive. Tt, is now ud to the rjeoDle of Heppner whether we celebrate on the Fourth of July or not. Several of the business men have spoken to the Gazette in favor of holding a big celebration. A celebration at Heppner could be made a great success. The grewsome sight of the skulls of Mr. Rnd Mrs. Chas. Fair, who were killed in an automobile ac cident, beins used in court as evidence as to who died first when it was . only a matter of a few seconds at the most, is enough to pause a feeline of horror. If the Fairs before their tragic death could have known that their bodies and graves were to be disturbed over the scramble and fight for the fortune that they left, they probably would have made good disposition of it. It is hard to realize what human greed will resort to to gain selfish ends. The Canadian government is offering big inducements lor im migration, and many people from this country are going in there. "While the laud inducements look big and are better than can be offered in the United States, there are many difficulties and conditions that are not thought of by many who will be glad to get back after expensive experience. Conditions liere cannot be compared with what are to be met with in Canada. It is true that there is a vast territory of fine looking country that is al most uninhabited. But why has this territory not been settled be fore. It was just as nice fifty years ago as it is now. There is some thing wrong. The winters are miserable from the severity of the climate and agricultural and stock raising pursuits are uncertain on account of the climate. There are too many chances to take. The great west offers safer and better inducements. mipsioner Eichards realizes the fact that the sheepmen haverighls and such a great industry should be shown consideration, and he has decided upon a plan to thoroughly inspect the different reserves and eliminate lands that have no timber and are not essential to the preservation of the forests or the conservation of water supply. This will increase the grazing privileges. While sheep grazing in forest reserves, under restriction, has always been allowed in Oregon, in many states it is en tirely prohibited. The fact that the claims of the sheepmen are be ing considered is gratifying. The plan will be first tried in the Yellowstone reservation, and if it works successfullf will be extend ed to all reserves. With the pro posed Blue Mountain reserve, no definite place has been outlined, but it is believed that grazing will be allowed under similar conditions that have prevailed in the Cascade forest reserve. It is evident that the Blue Mountain reserve will be carefully considered before the withdrawal of this large body of land. Minor and Co. Minor Co. NEW TAX LAWS. The international convention for the promotion of better roads will result in some good, for this is a great problem thkt is continually before the people. To improye the roads of the western country it will take years of systematic engineering and energetic work for the reason that there are a great amount of roads with only a few people to improve them. The legislature of Pennsylvania has passed a bill appropriating SC,500, 000 for road improvement. This vast sum can easily be used in Pennsylvania with a territory much smaller than Oregon. An appropriation of one tenth of this amount would be burdensome in this state, and it is not strange that our roads are not very good. Road conventions are necassary and proper and the matter should be taken up by each county. Much can be accomplished by the right kind of work. In another column of the Gazette is published a synopsis of house bill No. 292, with com ment, which was taken from the Oregonian, in which this paper credits the authorship of the bill o Hon. G. W. Phelps, of Heppner. The article shows that all exemp- ions under the old law have been cut out, and all personal property comes under the head of taxable property and subject to the pro visions applicable to taxable prop erty under the former law. This bill was introduced by udge Hale, of Josephine, and Mr. Phelps had nothing whatever to do with the measure, nor was it ever referred to the committee on assess ment and taxation. The fact that Mr. Phelps was chairman of the committee on assessment and taxa tion, is probably the reason that his name has been associated with Hale's bill. House bill 107, introduced by Mr. Phelps, to provide for a more efficient method for assessment and collection ot taxes, is a meritorious law, the effect of which will be realized by every taxpayer in the state. This law eliminates that most objectionable feature in the old law in which taxes became de linquent in the spring, and changes the time of payment to fall. No where in Mr. Phelps' law is there any i e ence to exemptions. 1 he main alterations made by the amendments in the Phelps bill are as follows: Changes the time of making the assessment to January. Chances time of making first payment and delinquency to De cember 31. Reduces rebate for paving all taxes at same time from 3 to 2 per cent. Changes delinquency penalty from 10 to 5 per cent. Personal property shall be leyied upon wherever found. Roll is to be closed March 31. The question of grazing on forest reserves is a problem that is being taken up by Land Commissioner Richards and Secretary Hitchcock. The sheep is really the bone of contention with all the opposition to grazing in forest reserves. Com- Shamrock III. All true lovers of eporl in this country will look forward with mnoh interest to the arrival of the new cap challenger, Shamrock III, which the English people expect will lilt the cap this year. While America has held the supremacy in yacht building for years she also holds the su premacy io medicine. Take Ilostetter'a Stomach Bitters as an example. No other country io the world baa been able to produoe a medicine so good to restore the appetite, build up the run down system in the spring or cure nausea, in digestion, flatulency, dyspepsia, consti pated bowels, billiousness or malaria, fever and ague. It is therefore deserving a trial. Be sure to get the genuine with our Private Stame over the neck of the neok ot the bottle. II will cure you. Every day brings something new. Recent arrivals are CHILDREN'S STRAW HATS AND FANCY TAMS. More LADIES' JACKET SUITS in exclusive styles. Several "PALMER" DRESS SKIRTS. A few MONTE CARLO COFFEE JACKETS Entire line of BOERNER FRY & CO.'S PER FUMES and TOILET ARTICLES. The latest creations in EM BROIDERED SHIRT WAISTS. They are Very Fashionable. The "EMPIRE" is conceded to be THE BEST LINE EVER SHOWN HERE. Call here when you want DRY GOODS. YOU WILL FIND A STOCK THAT'S UP-TO-DATE and PRICES VERY REASONABLE. I Minor & Co. Minor & Co. LEXINGTON NEWS. Lexington, April 29, 1903. R. A. Nichols' little girl was sick last week. Miss Nellie Eskelson has been on the sick list several days. There is good prospects for a drug store here in the near fnture. Several parties are hauling wool to the warehouse this week. E. D. Palmer took his cattle to his mountain ranch last week. Geo. W. Turner has sold his ranch to his brother, who has been visiting him. Miss Trannie Barnett has been vety sick for several days, but is improving at present. "W. J. and Clark Davis and K. L. Beach are building a bridge near lone this week. There has been some meddling with the school house lately, and HOTEL HEPPNER, OREGON Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel MODERN CONVENIENCES ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . . Under New Management. Thoroughly Renovated and Remitted. Best Menla in the City. PHIL METSGOiN, Jr., Prop. STEEL PENS IOU DiyiLS Broad Points. - Sold by All Stationers. ESTERBfiOGK STEEL PEN CO. 26 John s... e York. THE STANDARD PENS EVERYWHERE Works, Camden, W. J. the school board have posted notices warning all persons to keep oS the school grounds during vaca tion. Miss Claudia Windsor returned from The Dalles, Monday. She has been attending school there. Mr. Oldfather, a cousin of Mrs. T. L. Dorman, arrived here from Miss Ida. M. Snyder, Ti-eiwiirer of the Brooklyn Emit End Art Clnb. " If women would pay more attention to their health we would have more happy wives, mothers and daughters, and If they would observe results they would find that the doctors' prescriptions do not perform the many cures they arc given credit for. " In consulting with my druggist he ad vised McElree's Wine of Cardui and Thcd ford's Black-Draught, and so I took it and have every reason to thank him for a new life opened up to me with restored health, and it only took three months to cure me." Wine of Cardui is a regulator of the menstrual functions and is a most as tonishing tonic for women. It cures Missouri last Tuesday, teacher by profession. He is scanty, surpressed. toofreauent. irreff- i . war ana painrul menstruation, tailing of the womb, -whites and flooding. It is neipjui wben approaching en annrnariiiTiir woman hood, during pregnancy, after child birth and in change of life. It fre- ouently brings a dear baby to homes that have been barren for Years. All ardui. druggists LY9 1.00 bottlee of Wine 17INE"CARDUI The United States signal service will install a wireless system in Alaska by August 1. Serious trouble is brewing in labor crcles in Sumpter over the boycotting of places hiring Chinese and Japanese. A rate war has been declared by the shippers engaged in the coast trade between San Francisco and Gray's Harbor. Dr. J. H. Rosenburg, who has been fighting the smallpox scourage at PrinevilJe, has been stricken with the dread disease. The Jews at Kishineff, capital of Bessarabia, during the anti-Semite riots there April 20, suffered even more severely than admitted of ficially. Scores of Jews were shot or beaten to death and several hundred were wounded. Their houses ere wrecked and their shops were sacked. Thousands of Jews in the district were homeless and destitute. Pack Outfits The largest line ever shown in Morrow county. Just received a big line of new harness made of the best stock for hard service in freighting and farming. NOBLE SADDLES Need no introduction. All sizes,plain and fancy, for hard service. PACK OUTFITS RIDING AND DRIV ING OUTFITS TO SUIT ALL. We make a specialty of mail orders. NOBLE & CAMPBELL First to rme wlttt the telefc-rap&io ew The Weekly Orefonuui.