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O'ga VOL. 24. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1905, NO. 1162 Redfield & VanVactor, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on west end of May Street Heppner, Oregon. C. E. WOODSON, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW Office In Palace Hotel Heppner, Oregon Phelps & Notson ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office In Odd Fellows Bids Hpppper, Oregon. W. P. MYERS, LAND ATTORNEY, Have made a specialty of land con tests and contest defenoes before U. S. Land Offiod and Department of the In terior for ten years. Tone, W. L. SMITH, ABSTRACTER. Oulj' oomplcto set of iibstrnct books in Morrow county. H either, Oregon- HIGGS & WINNARD PHYSICIANS A- SURGEONS. Special attention given to diseases of tbe eye, eBr, nose and throat. Office: Tbe Fair Building. Heppner, - Oregon. Frank B. Kistner, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offipp in Patterson A Son's drugstore Residnuce in Morrow building over Patterson & Son's Drugstore. E. R. llunlock PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office with Heppner Drug Co. Resi dence M-iu street, next door to Times office. DR. METZLER. n:vTieT Locaied in Odd Fellows building. Koms 5 and ti. DR. ,Y.. A. LEACH Pprmsnertly located in Heppner. Office in the Lew Fair building. Gas ad ministered. 1 2 The t c Pastime High Grade Cigars j and Tobaccos. Wholesale and Retail 5 C i 6 SOLE AGENCY Hazelwood Ice Cream TRY OrB 5 Fresh I CHOCOLATES Sj Fine Candies, Nuts C and Fruits. 3 ! E. C. AshbaughProp. The Mt pr niT Gazrtte the news of Mor- I rvw County; The Weekly Ortgonian the J nw and thought of the world. Both at' a social price. Inquire or adJres. The ette. Heppner. Or. i RAILROADS TO BATTLE. Warring Lines Still Bid for Ceii tral Oregon Business. Portland, June 22. Though tbe rest less dove of armed peace seems to have settled over the railroad situation as re gards Hill and Harrlman in tbe North west, the bristling eagle of war is cir cling above Central Oregon, where the agentH of Harriiuan and Gould are al ready subtly contesting for advantages Departurethis evening if the Harri man officials who are to take the initial steps towards the building of an addi tional 100 miles of road to the 70 mileB extending from Biggs to Shaniko and known as the Columbia Southern, marks an epoph in tbe history of Cen tral Oregon, and means that the first of the two roads to tap that territory, the Harriman and Gou'd lines, is about to be started, and the second cannot be long delayed. That Harriman's sudden awakening and determination to push the Columbia Southern farther into the interior is the result of Gould's activity in Oiegon und the fear that the Western Pacific was being mapped out to croBS the sections which Harriman will now divide. Gould lias had men in the field so long that Harriman fears the results to bebomf.om that repoit. Railroaders see 10 the new movements an opening for a fierce transcontinental and con struction war which will be centered principally iu Oreg n. The sending of Harriman iepre?entatives into the Cen tral Oregon region is to be regarded in but one light, and that is for business, while the same spirit has actuated the operations of Gould, and if all reports and indications are to be given credence it will be but a short time until the lat ter shows his hand. Harriiuan's inability to float a $5,- 000,000 gilt-edge deal recently, as com pared with the ease in which Gould sold $50,000,000 worth of bonds for the Western Pacific, gives an insight into the standing of the two in the financial world. Gould's ability to battle with Harriman is undented and in fact he is said aire rid v to possess the supremacy. Authentic reports from the East aie to the eil'ect Harriman's credit is not so great as formerly, and while he has a private fortune of large proportions, it is not his intention to risk it in moe roads. In building the Columbia Southern he merely accepts b.inds for the exten sion of the snme. as he now holds which were issued for the original 70 miles. As a retsult of the settlement w.t'i Hill it is claimed Hariiman'a leadership is waning. For that Hill got what he wanted, while Harriman did not, is claimed in railroad circles. Yet it ap pears Central Oregon is to profit. C'lipnp Fares Bring Settler,. Ten thousand special form tickets were sold two years ago to pet sons in all parts of the United States who avail ed themFelvea of the low rates to Seat tle when the Tran -Mississippi Com mercial congress was held in August. Of these, only about 6.600 returned to their former homes; the others te mained in the Pacific northwest perma nently. This is the report that has been made to Secretary Arthur Francis of the con gress, who is in Port laud preparing for the sessions to be held here August 10 ! to 10. savH the Journal. .. Tnee special form tickets, "said Mr. ir..,. , ,, raUC,S' are rrfly Segregated by the railroad companies, and thev ire I able to tell exactly how many purchas era take advantage of the return privi lege. I have been officially informed tbat at least one third of the buyers of the special form tickets for the Seattle meeting of the congress never asked for the return privilege, and that this is conclusive eyidence that thev remained in the northwest. I know that we brought from Cripple Creek, Colo-ado, my home, a delegation of 95, and of these only 45 went back ; the others re mained somewhere in the three north western states permanently. 'Perhaps these facts will convince J doubters of the utility ot such con gresses in bringing immig-ants into the region where they are held. This year probably 3,000 delegates have been ap pointed, and most of them will come, plus thousands w ho are not delegates, but who will oome along because of the low rates." Secretary Francis declares that the meetings this year will be attended by men as distinguished as were those who made the former sessions conspicuous for their able debtes and influential utterances on questions that concern the people of the great region lying west of the Mississippi river. On l'a) in;; Itusis. The Lewis and Claik exposition is ahead of i tn schedule. It has had a larger attendance, in proportion to the population of Port land and vicinity, than any othrr expo sition ever held In America. As the end of the first month draws near the officials themselves are scarce ly able to believe the figures spread be fore them for comparison. They dem onstrate that the fair is on a paying basis right now, with its three heaviest months still to oome. Colonel Henry E. Dosch, director of exhibits, has taken the trouble to pre pare statements as to the attendance at Portland compared with that of other furs he has visited. The results are astonishing. Thu computation shows that for the first month the attendance at the Lewis and Clark show is 200 per cent greate' than was the attendance at any previous exposition, considering the population within b radius ot 5T0 miles, The daily attendance here thus far his ayeraged something like 11,000, ranging from 7,000 to nearly 40,000, passes included. Going back to Chicago, for the firet four weeks the attendance ran between 19,524 and 30,920, except on one special day, when the total was 62,000. This included passes, and at least 40 per cent ol tbe admissions were free. At Omaha's exposition the attend ance for the first six weeks never was higher than 8,U00 on any day, and once it touched the modest total of 2,500, i figure that is as yet unknown to Port laud's project. At Buffalo, the first month's daily at tendance was between 8,000 and 35,000. and Charleston shows only 1,000 to 2,500 for the same length of time. Even St. Louis had an atlendance one day during the first month of ),.'?(, and only on two days did the attend- i ance in the first month surpass 32 355. In looking over my scrap book," said Colonel Dosch, "I was astonished ; to learn how well this fair ii being pat- j ronized. Our percentage of passes is j small ;r than at anv' previous exposition j not over 30 per cent of the admissions, I while at Chicago and St. Louis there were d.ivs when iO per cent of the tot: I admissions were free. Considering tho population of Portland mi l the sur- rounding country, our attendance is 200 per cent greater than any other fair. "Buffalo is the center of a population of 40,000,000 people, within 500 miles but its record is nothing compared with ours. Omaba wasj the only fair which succeeded financially, and the reason was that the people of that locality were loyal to the project. It was almost im possible to lind a man who did not have stock in it. and everybody was willing to pay admission every day. "This eternal begging and dickering for passes wis unknown. The result was that five days after the fair was closed 75 per cent of the capital stock had been paid out of the treasury and six weeks after the close 92x4. per cent had been refunded. The other 1 per cent would have been forthcoming but for a euit which the corporation lost, at a cost of $40,000. '"It delights me to see th t the people of Portland are just as loyal to this fair as the people of Omaha were to theirs It is a pleasure to lok at the crowds which throng the grounds daily. Thev are happy, well satisfied and full of praise for the expoeition. The manage ment is adhering closely to the line of economy. Every division is cutting d wn expenses wherever possible. "The fair began with a clear balance sheet. And it is my opinion I am not unreasonably optimistic that this ex position will pay its stockholders their money back with interest. The figures show it. There has been no such record before." C ionel Dosch is not alone in hisesti mate of the financial outcome of the en terprise. President Goode has been studving tables with extreme interest and is overjoyed at the showing thus far. If ever the prediction were warranted that the fair is a success, this is the time. Shipped lOOO Horses. On last. Monday just 1000 head of horses were shipped from Huntington on a special freight train to eastern points. They were gathered t!no'-gh-out the John Day and Harney valleys by agents of Ciay fe Dunne and are said to be not only the best looking, but the largest drove of erjuines over assembled in Oregon upon a single consignment. B iker City Democrat. S. E. CARP, Tres. B. F. CULP, Vice Bank of Heppner Capital Stock S40.000 Fiillj LOANS MADE, AT EIGHT PER GENT PE.R ANNUM Organized under the laws of the state of Oregon 5?-'"i,0D0 daylight burglar insurance carried Member of the American Hankers Association Insured Hank money orders issued Accounts by mail solicited All communications answered the eanie day they ere received The Hank of Ueppner through its large connections is in a position to extend large accommodations aud the greatest safely to all its depositors FOUR PER GENT INTEREST PSID DH TIHIE DEPOSITS Over 8100,000,000 111 Gold. Seattle, Wash., June 23. At the close of business yesterday, Frederick A. Wing, assayer in charge of the United States assay office here, announced that the institution has completed its "cen tury run." the receipts of gold and sil ver baying passed the one hundred mil lion mark, amounting to $100,159,030. Tiie receipts for yesterday were 21,- 027.94 troy ounces of dust. This brought the grand total from the open ing of the office, July 15. 189S, to June 22, 1905. inclusive, up to 6,002,158.72 troy ounces. Reduced to avoirdunoia pounds, it gives 397,145 77. Itanee Protective Association The June meeting of the Range Pro tective association was held at Hamilton mi Saturday the 10th inst., with Presi ient Emil Scharff in the chair and Willard W. Austin secretary. Resolutions were adopted thanking the county court for their action regul- tting the traveling of livestock over bridge across the John Day river at Monnment. m The good the association has done for the stockmen and the people in general of the county was thoroughly discussed aid it f as conceded by all present that the association has faithfully worked for the best interests of the oounty. Tbe next meeting will be held at Hamilton on the last Saturday in July. Blue Mountain Eagle. The German baloonists Vol- ner and Floegel, have been blown jut to sea and drowned. The empty and collapsed balloon wash ed ashore. There are now almost 7,000,000 acres of forest reserve iu Colorado about double the forest reserve acreage of any other state. A Bad Scare. Some day you will get a bad Fcare, when yon feel a pain in your bowels, und fear appendicitis. Safety lies iu Dr. King's Nev Life rill, a sure cure for all bowel an! stomach diseases, such a headache, billiousness, costiveness, etc. Guirsnteed at Patterson & 8on'n drui store, only 25c. Try them. The editorial page of the Weekly Ore Konlan gives a broad treatment to a wide -ange of subject. Pres. W. S. WHARTON, Cashier Paid