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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1904)
Umgon Historical SociQiy Cii Hall TWENTIETH YEAR HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY JUNE, 16, 1904. NO. 99." PEOPESSIOITAL C.33:DS . DR. METZLER, DENTIST Located in Odd Fellows building. Rooms 5 and 6. G. W. Phelps ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Odd Fellows Bldg Heppner, Oregon G. W. REA ATTORNEY-AT-LAW U. S. COMMISSIONER Homestead Filings and Proofs made. Office one door east of P. O. Borg's Jewelry Store I Heppner, - - - Oregon A. K. HIGGS, PHYSICIAN cfc SURGEON. Office new I. 0. O. F. building. Rooms 3 and 4. Residence at Palace Hotel. I Iks ur, Okegon. Rcdfield & VanVactor, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on west end of May Street. Heppner, Oregon. Frank B. Kistner, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Patterson & Son's drugstore C. E. W00DSEN, ATTORNE Y-A T-LAW Office In Palace Hotel Heppner, Oregon DR. Al. A. LEACH DKXTIST Permanently located in Hpppner. Will open ofiiae in the new Fair building about July loth. Red Front Livery k Feed Stables Stewart. Kirk, Props First-class: LIVERY RI6S Kept constantly on hand and can be furnishes on short notice to parties wishing to drive into the interior. First class : : Hacks and Buouies CALL AROUND AND SKE US. WE GATE II TO THE : : : : : COMMERClAL TRAVELERS AND CAN FURNISH RIGS AND DRIVER ON SHORT NOTICE : : : Heppner. Oregon From $5.00 to $7.00 LOUIS & PLEISS, TAILORS HEPPNER, This is what one of the prominent men of Heppner has to say of Slocum's Scal pine: "I was troubled with dan druff' and an itching scalp and was entirely cured by using one bottle of Slocum's Scalpine. Thos. Morgan." WE GUARANTEE overy bottle and will refund money i n every case where it does not give satis- faction. I SlOGlllll DrilO GO Belvedere FINEST WINKS, LIQUORS & CIGARS. One hundred empty barrels for sale. Five hundred barrels of ex tra line cider vinegar on tap. . . . HEPPNER, ORE. J t i t t d t d i m c 9 ft C c (? Pastimc Is tbe proper place to get that nice cool drink you have been looking for. We serve the celebrated Hazelwood Ice Cream in any quantity. Private rooms for ladies. En trance through postoflice Gilbert's Chocolates cannot be equaled. This is the kind we carry. Cigars and Tobacco All the leading brands carried in stock at all times. Ashbaugh & Aycrs Proprietors 1 REDUCTION ON -. - UfcL JUL l&SIS OREGON Jl ii First Anniversary of the Ter rible Heppner Flood. DAY OBSERVED IN MOURNING Sad Recollections Itecal led in Dec orating the Graves of Hie IVIauy Victims. Memorial services were held here last Tuesday, the Hth of June, in honor and remembrance of the victims of the terri ble Heppner flood. It was a sad day in Heppner. With flags at half mast and every business house closed, everything was dropped and all assisted to help observe in a fit ting manner this sad and memorable day, when almost 20Q of our citizens, friends, loved ones and relatives were carried away by that cruel torrent of water amid scenes that can only be real ized by those who were aual eye wit nesses. Mayor Frank Gilliam and Banker Geo. Coneer, who had charge of the arrange ments, and who will be long remembered with Sheriff Shutt, who constituted the relief committee, who all performed their duties and shouldered the great responsibility of this trying ordeal in those terrible times, so well as to com mand the respect and admiration of the people, were again active in attending to every detail ot the end duty which logicallv fell upon thorO- Anu for the care of the flowers for the decoration of the almost 200 mounds in the silent city, they were ably assisted bv Mrs. D. O. Justus and Mrs. M. P. Metzler. For several days people had been at work in th? cemetery in beautifying the graves of loved ones. A number of peo pie who had left Hpppner to try and for get the awful scones were back to help with the exercises, while many others feeling not able to have recalled the I4th of June one year ago left town for the rlav. While the people from the outside were so generous in assistance one year ago, they were again generous in sym pathy and in the sending of flowers. Monday evening's train brought from sympathizing friends more flowers than were ever before seen in Heppner. From all over ths state great boxes were sent. To bring them from the depot a big dray was loaded to its fullest capacity while two large express wagons also had all they could carry. Early in the day ppople from all over Morrow county commenced to arrive and thev kept coming until nooD. As previously arranged the procession formed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The procession formed on Main street headed by the I.O. O. F., followed by the Rebekalis, Iv. of I., Elks and citi zens on foot and in carriages, and the procession mere than one half mile in ength marched slowly t" the cemetery. At the cemetery everything was 'well arranged. The services were short and appropriate. The exercises were opened with a song from a select choir, followed by prayer hv Rev. H. L. Bightol. After another hvmn by the choir Rev. J. W. Mount offered the benediction. The great amount of beautitul cut flowers which were in readiness were then distributed. In some cases only one was left to decorate the graves of the entire family, while in others the graves of whole families were decorated by sympathizing friend. With tender hands, heavy heaits and tear stained faces, tho woik was quickly j done. It is one year since the Heppner flood. Memorial services will be held on the 4th day of June everv year hereafter. Mrs. Mary K. Brittan, of The Dalles, who will be so kindly remembered by Heppner people for her untiring work while here in the relief of the .flood sufferers, was a prominent figure here during the memorial services. OUTLOOK IS HKTTUIl. J. Millis Hopes to sec HriskMock Movement. C. J . Millis, livestock agent for the O. R. & N., who is in the city attending the wool sales, is hopeful of better prices for both cattle and sheep later in the season, and confidently expects a good movement of stock after they are placed in better condition tor market, on the summer ranges, says the East Oregon- ian. "Beginning at the Missouri river," said Mr. Millis, "all the great stock pro ducing states of the west are more or less overcrowded with stock. Those in the svest being more seriously affected in this way, than the eastern and central states, because of their isolation from the great market centers. "It happens that the surplus for the past few years has been held on the ranges, which causes only a temporary congestion. "The country is gradually adjusting itself to the condition, and there must be a movement of stock to supply the increasing do'i and. "This sluggishness of the market is not a permanent thing. History repeats itself in the sheep and cattle markets ns in the political and financial history of the country. "People decline to ship out their sur plus last year and the result is that the ranges are overcrowded and the country filled up with sheep that cannot be hand led at a profit by the buyers. The fact that all the country between this coast and the Missouri river has a surplus of sheep just now, does not presage a per maneut sluggishness of the market. "As the eastern surplus, nearest the great markets is gradually turned of!', tbe movement will gradually extend to the far west and the surplus, it is hoped, will be marketed later at better prices than are now offered. "Even then the prices may not be what are considered good prices, but everything points to better pi ices. "If the O. R. & N. can assist the stock men of Oregon iu finding ranges where sheir sheep can be held until marketed or until time to return to winter ranges, it will be glad to do so. "It will offer every inducement in the way of moderate rates, to help relieve the situation here. If the sheepmen know of a summer range available any where in the Northwest, where the sur plus stock can be held this season, the O. R. & N. company will take pleasure in assisting in carrying over the stock untij such time as the market suits the owners. Mr. Millis icjuices that wool prices are better than they have been for 11 years in Oregon. The active wool pricta and the good prices at which the clip is being sold, takes away much of the un- , easy feeling that would otherwise pre-! vail in the stock situation in Oregon, J and in fact, in the entire west. Speaker Cannon, of the house. declares that under no possible combination of conditions will .e.Mi se,i-u accept a vice-presidential uomina- j yMra fltr- Ue was tho only Na tion, j gene boy taking the examination. I. AST OF CLIPS. Nearly 200,000 Founds of Sold at Pendleton. Wool Practically all the wool clips in Uma tilla county h ive now been disposed of, the last batch having been sold Friday. The sales day was the second and last given under the auspices of the state woolgrowers' association and in the mat ter of better prices it was more success ful than the first day. The highest bid was made by 0. Frankenstein, represent ing a large Boston house, being 15? cents a pound. Isaac Knotts was the sheepman who sold his clip at that fig ure. The average prices were about 14J cents a pound. The wool sold yesterday amounted to 197,8(57 pounds and generally was of a better quality than that sold at the first sales day. The wool will be shipped as soon as possible to the East in its pres ent condition, although some of the heaviest will be scoured before it is baled and prepared for shipment. The woolgrowers are well satisfied with the prices realized for their product and all agree that the sealed bid system used by the association is better, both for the grower and the buyer. Those who disposed of their clips individually failed to receive as good prices as thoso who waited for the sales days and ac cordingly they realize tho large loss re sulting from the old methods. Pendle ton Tribune. 'la'iy IiUHsians Want Pence. Paris, June 11. in the highest Russo phile circles here, a most despondent feeling has been caused by the recent news from the seat of war in the Far East. A Russian of very high position, who is in constant touch with both ad ministrative and court circles at St. Petersburg, remarked this evening : "In spite of the statements to the con trary," he said, "there is a very strong party among Russians of high rank and in the Czar's immediate entourage who are in favor of peace being arranged as soon as Port Arthnr falls. This is not as yet the court policy, nor is the idea shared by the Czar, but it prevails among the very influential set which in anxious for the return to power of M. Pe Witte, who, it will be remembered, was always opposed to the Russian oc cupation of Manchuria. Tour of Labor Commissioner Salem. Or., June 10. State Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff will start next MoDday on a visit to those counties in Oregon which he has not yet visited for the purpose of collecting statistics. He will go to Wasco, Sherman, Wheeler, Morrow, Umatilla, Dn:on, Baker, (Jrant, Harney, Lake, Klamath, Josephine, Jackson, Coos, Curry and Tillamook Counties on tliis trip and expects to be gone about six weeks. He will make, a personal visit this year because he can in that way get a better understanding of the industries of tbe different counties and formulate a more satisfactory system for gathering statistics. Hereafter it will be necessary only to secure reports from local men who will furnish information asked for. Harvey I). Densmore, of the class of ': of tho State University of Oregou, has won the Rhodes schol arship at Oxford. He is '22 years of age and entered the pieparatory i r :