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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1904)
The I leppner Gazette. Tunned Every Tl,nrr'l,jy Morninjr our c 'M 'i2iir list. IIe;:Uier (ii.leiitu! Toledo Week ly l)!a:Ve, one year $1 2 lTe;n "er (iazetfp find t '.;.., weekly Inter-Ocean, one year 1 40 II''.; Gazette and Weekly Ore- V.o;ian, one year 2 CO Tleyr.nor Gazette and Weekly Ex ''ininer, one year, including ticket to Examiner's great drawing 2 10 Hej-nner (lazette and Young People's Weekly one year.... 1 00 Tleppner Gazette and Twice - a- Week StLouis Globe Democrat 1 60 Herpner Gazette and Rural Spirit, one year 2 CO Address all orders to Gazette, Hepp ner, Oregon. Jllggesit Horse Herd. States. tit lulled Stretching for 200 miles on the north side of the Columbia river from a point opposite The Dalles, Ore , to tha Big Bend, in Wash ington, lies the largest individual horne range in the United States. In this great expanse of varie gated hills, prairies, sand duuts, upland plateau and river bluffs, range the holding of the Switzlers, John arid "Jade," amounting to day to 11,000 head of horses. For the past 80 years this same expanse cf country Las been the ran,e of the Switzlers, formerly William, John and Jade. In 18S3 William died and the two other brokers continued in partnership for several years, when they di vided and each now conducts bis own interests. Jade Switzlar lives at Expan. eioo, KbVnfot county, Wash., 12 miles belov; the town of Umatilla, on the north side of the Columbia. John S itvJer lives cc Switzler's island iu th Columbia river, near the town of Umatilla. Jade Switzler owns 4000 head of individual horses, and John ouin 7000 head, the range for both of these, immense herd being in the territory mentioned at the beginning, from The Dal led to the l!ig Bend. At the highest tide cf the Switzler holdings, before" Williom Switzler died, I bo brothers o:vned at one time 15,000 head of horses. This is sfiid to be the largest herd of horses ever owned by one company in tin entire United States. Tin Switz'er brand, "S' on the hip, was known from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, as they shipped and drove horses to every known market in the United States. In the early history of the Switzler horse industry, the hold ings were cayuses small, hardy, incorrigible pinto and buckskin mustangs the hardiest brand of equines that ever trailed behind the cattle herds from the Pacific coast to Cheyenne in the trail over the precipitious mountains of the Inland Empire. But the cayuses are now en tirely weeded out. The Switzlers sold 7000 early days, or that fol lowed an Indian head of these wild mustangs to the Linnton cannery, at a contract price of $3 per head, delivered. Since that clean-up, the class of horses raised on this immense range has been greatly improved. Large draught stallions have been cross ed with the wiry, nervy, Western mares, and the result is a grade of horses weighing from 1000 to 1200 pounds, that is fit for any ordinary service and bring the highest trie in every market. About COO stallions are kept. On this 200 miles of range, this 11,003 hralof wild horses reign monarcha of all they survey. The Columbia and Yakima rivers are their watering places, they run over parts of three large counties hik! tlif.re nre col ts on the ranges 2 and 3 jenrs o'd, vill:orr brands, and that were jtcrliHpM iicvbi Heen by one of tliu iSwitzhr I.erJ.:-rs. Jioaud up coiTils aro built nbout 10 miles apart ovt r this great range, and the 50 men era. ! llyed in the ronnd-vtps, gather and brand tb.o colts in the full. The jound-up is now in propjrops. The two broihera own nbout 200 head of traiued saddle horses, a large drove of horse3 in itself. The stallions are turned loose on the ranges, and the entire num. bT of wild mares produce 80 per cent of colt i each year. None of this great herd is ever fed a parti cle of feed duriDg the winter sea son, the sand hills and rolling prairies affording sufficient nutri tious feed the year around. Sett lers are crowding this vast horse range. Watering places are beiDg fenced up, and slowly the great expanse is narrowing down, but there yet remains an empire in extent. Horse stealing is more or less prevalent, in the Switzler range, the very magnitude of the busi ness making it impossible to guard pgainst renegades from the outside, who slip in and appropri ate what they can safely take away. The demand for the Switz'er horses is constantly growing. This season Minnesota buyers have sent out three large ship ments of wild horses at 20 per head delivered at the yards at Kennewick, and the class of the younger horses is being constantly improved. Over 1000 head of horses have been sold from the ranges this season. I-IHDER PIEEIHC'l'S LOSU W A II Japan Will ISejOut a Itlllioii Dol lars in Two Years. Tokio, Oct. G In addressing tl e members of 'the United Clearing Houpes of Tokio today, Count Ofcuma, the. leader of the progressiva paity, warned the people, to prepare for a lon w,:r, the date of the termination of which it was now impossible to foretell He pi m! cted that the cost to Japan for a tw.t years' war, inel tiding the loans wnich had been already placed ami the expenses consequent upon ti e war at its termination, would total .fi, 000,000, 000, which would mike the per capita share amount to $20. Count Okumti said corruption ap peared to pervade the military, politic d and financial departments of the ttut- fian GoveMioaent, and that this co: ruption had almost resulted in a climax which threatened a revolution. It was even reported that Lieutenant-Gerjeral Stoessel, now defending Port Arthur, and upon whose shoulders rested the responsibility for the loss of a large share of Russian prestige in East Africa, was guilty of dissipation during the siege. The speaker declared the weak nnsbes of the Russians gave the Jap anese many victories. He pointed out that, despite her defeats, Russia con tinued to hold a prominent and com manding position in Europe, and said that even Emperor William was "court ing the favor of the Russian autocrat." Despite her weaknesses. Count Oknma said, Russia possessed immense resources and had tremendous ad vantages in the size of her population and the greatness of her weal.h, and it would be necessary for the Japanese to make heavy sacrifices in order to attain success. He predicted that the war would cost Russia from SI. 500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000, aud said it would be im possible to raise loans or to increase the taxfs in Russia, because the limit had been reached. The Count predicted it would be neces ary f r the Japanese government to borrow 1250.000,000 next year, and added that if $75,000,000 were recured abroad the country must face a depreci ation in the value of its securities. Count Okuma urged the Nation to carefully husband its strength and re-soiT-cfM, and expressed the fullest, con fi 1 - nee in the id i t.ate v'e'ory of Jap anese aims. iv Itecortls. Lexington, Oct. 6. The T ansylvania for the 2:12 class of troters value 8500 arid the gieatest event in turf history was won by Kn-eet Marie in three final heats, the tirt two heats yo inj; to Tiverton. Four world's record were made in the Transylvania by the lowering of the event record and making the fastest mile of the year on any track. When Tiverton won the first heat in 2:043-4 he lowered the event record and made the fastest trotting record of any horse this year. When he won the second heat in 2:04-1-2, he again lowered thet-e records and made a world's record for the fastest, second heat in the race. Sweet Marie won tbe third beat in 2:05. This es tablished the world's record for the three fastest heats ever trotted in the race and her mark is a world's record for the fastest third heat ever trotted in a race. Sweet Mrie won the fourth heat in 2:031-2 and the fifth in 2:09. thus establishing a world's record for the five fastest heats ever trotted in a race. The average time for .each heat was 2:0(3. The first three heats averaged 2:051-4. Sweet Marie, the winner, is owned by William Garland, of Los Angeles. In the betting Sweet Marie was the favorite. IS MAN OF CAPITAL. Watson So Explaiues tlic Nomina tion of Parker. Chicago, Oct. 10. Thomas E. Wat son, nominee of the People's party for President, epoke here tonight to an audience which fi lad the Princess rink to overflowing. The policies . of both Republican and Democratic parlies were ecored bitterly by Mr. Watson and his declarations were received with en thusiasm. Mr. Watson epoke iu pa t as follows : "The most striking feature of the present campaign is that there ia nioie energy displayed in cblaining nomina tions than there has been dh l iyed in securing elections. In Judge Parker's campaign, particularly, theie was ten times more industry, earnestness ar d 8stenia'ic effort put forth in the effort to have him named as head of the Dern o :ratic ticket than is now being used to have him elected President. This is certainly a very peculiar situation. It 'equires explanation. How are we to explain it? Is it that the corporation influences which control the Republican party desire to perpetuate that system? To do this they must, if possible, se cure control of the Democratic organiza tion. The corporation influences to which Parker owes his nomination were hell-bent on having him nominated, but it ib a matter of indifference whether he be electtd. "The reason why Parker cannot take any bold step io any possible direction, nor declare himself openly to be op posed to any principle of the Republi can P-irty, is that he dare not offend the star chamber influences that purchased the editors and the delegates and se cured the nomination for him. "This campaign, to a greater extent than any we have ever known, is a campaign of humbug so far as Parker is concerned. We have a campaign against trusts, financed by the Standard Oil Company; a campaign against ex travagance, led by men who, when in trusted with power in 1S02 on a plat form pledging them to rigorous econo niy, increased the public debt $202,000,- C00 in time of rea'-e without having bought Panama or the Phil ppinea or anything else except the paper parch ment upon which thev printed the bonds; a campaign against militarism, inaugurated by the men w ho lent the Unied States Armv to the Pul'man Palace Car Companv to quell a strike at the point of the baoynet; a campaign for t;i :1' cf,n in, I d by men who op-pn.-'-d tli.. Put rue tax and who, when they In. i ri.e power io 1802 to reform 1 1 1 i i 'i i i' .Icputized a Democratic Cab ine nn'iiioer to . i i ethe sugar schedu'e jus! an ll.tvemejer directd; a prohibi tum e.,!.ip!iign, led by the whisxy trii-i; ,i l.bor movement, led by Cell and Fuck and Pea body. A crusade ag.nnst gambling led bv Richard Can li 'I, (,f ', Yo k, and Tom Taggait, of 1 di , would nut b.- moie of a belf evi it-hi i, ,:l brazen a tempt to deceive than tin- Parker camoi-m. which nn- ----- f temi io he against class legislation and at i he sa;.ie time is led a:;d cashed by sucn be eficuries of class legislation as Auuii.-t lielmont, the Standard Oil Com p n v and kindred corp iration of the Wail-nti eet sort. ' I am accused of drawing more votes from Paikerthan Roosevelt Believing as I do that both of them s'and for the same system, which I combat, the source from which I draw my votes is a matter of indifference to me, so that they are genuine Jeffeisonian Demo cratic votes. If Bryan had bolted the St. Louis platform and called upon the Democrats everywhere to rally to his support agftinst Wall street, Parker's campaign would have died in its birth. The Belmonts and Gormans and Olneys and ( lev. lands would have been driven into the Republican camp where they belong. Bryan would have made him self the uncrowned king of American Demon acy, and in all probability would have defeated Roosevelt in liHM most assuredly in 1908. As t;. Parker, he has not a ghost of a chance to be elected and the only practical effect of his con tinued candidacy is to stand in the way of .real opposition to the present system. "The purpose of my campaign is to revive and reorganize the real Demo cratic sentiment which exists through out the country." Largest Apple Sale. What is thought to be the largest single sale of fancy apples ever made in the Northwest has jut been made in Hood River. A II od River fiuit company bus just sold to Portland wholesalers 30 carloads of fancy Spitzenbergs and Newton Pippins, the total sale ainountirijr; to .132,000. The 20 cars ot SpPzenbergB sold for $2.10 per bushel and the 10 cars of Newton Pippin?, for 81.75 per bushel. Ti;e apples aie for the fancy trai'e of the large Eastern cities and will Ire shipped over the Harriman line1 to Chicago, New York and other leadir.g cities. This enthe shipment as se lected stock, pnd is said to be the finest lot of O egon apphs ever sold in one lot. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased fo learn that there Is at leant one dreaded disease that science has been able to enre In all its sta ges, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medi cal fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature In doing its work. 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EYES TESTED Glasses Accurately Fitted by Graduate Optician P. 0. Borg Jeweler and Optician. HEPPNER, ORE. Heppner Poultry Yards S.C. Barred Hocks S.C. Buff Leghorns Choice rooters for ea'e. Prices from SI. 00 up. Fine Scotch Collies For sale. Taps $10, bred f.r herding.