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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1908)
1 " City Hull HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 1G. 1908 VOL. 24. NO. 1ISKI BIG RAIN STORM WATER RAN DOWN DONALDSON CANYON TWO NEW BOATS ON UPPER RIVER Open River Transportation Co. Gets Money. Greatest Damaee was Washing out of Small Bridges. The first storm of the Benson Btid the biggest one for some tirna occurred in Morrow county Mon day afternoon. The storm was general over a big territory, the rain starting in at Arlington and extending back to the Blue mountains. Coming from the northwest, the heavy rain was accompanied by a stiff breez9 and struck Beppuer at a little after 3 o'clock in the after noon. For several days prior to the storm tkere was ideal preparatory weather for an electrical storm. The weather was hot and sultry and storm clouds apppared fre quently. A peculirr feature of this storm was the fact that it rained for about four hours so hard and covered such a large territory. IVillow creek was never out ofl its hanks. The water doing slight damage came down Donaldson canyon, filling the channel of the small stream with a good sized overflow which came down Chase street to a depth of about two feet. The electric light plant aod city well owned by the Heppner Light & Water company, which is lo cated at the mouth of Donaldson canyon, was not injured. The floor of the building in which the plant i3 located was. covered to a depth of about one foot bat the water was not high enough to injure the machinery. The pumping plad was kept at work as usual but ow ing to wet belbs the light plant was not started Monday evening and the city wpj in darkness. Water eoveied the lawns of Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Bartholomew, Her bert Fant ana Mrs. Kelly. The fence surrounding Mrs. Bartholo mew's residence was considerably damaged. J The greatest loss was the carry ing away of several small bridges. The train was unable to go out on Tuesday morning owing to drift on the track at Valentine, a small station near Lexington. The drift was soon cleared away and the train came in on time Tuesday eveuing. No damage is reported from the wheat districts. Out in Sand Hollow Uynd Bros, suffered some loss by water Hood ing and covering with mud the second crop of alfalfa. OREGON SHEEP Portland Correspondence. ALL INSPECTED,1 Reports on Work Com pleted July 1. A cottage (irove man retired for the night, leaving his trousers at tho head of bed close-to tha window and while in peaceful slumber, someone raised the screen of the window and reached in and secured his pocketbook, abstracted the money and replaced the pocket book and garment. The loganberry industry has come to stajT, and will always be a profitable one. Farmers claim they can realize SO cents per pound net, by drying the berries, says the .Salem Statesman. A Wallowa man sold about 500 gallons of strawberries last year, and nearly as much this year, off of one-fifth of an acre of land. By long distance telephone from headquarters of the com pany at Portland, A. L. Wylie, agent of the Open Kiver Trans portation company, at thia place, today received the iofprmation that all money necessary to the building of two new steamers to ply on the upper river bad been subscribed and that Chief Engin eer Kellogg, of the 0. li. & X. company, had been sent to Pitts burg, Pa., for the purpose of over seeing tne construction or ma chinery to be used in the boat?. says The Dalles Chronicle. ''About SI 1 o.OOO cash haa al ready been secured," said Mr. Wylie "and the remainder of the SloO.000 has been subscribed, which means that it will be paid as soon as it is needed. Mr. Kel logg will spend some time in Pitts burg attending to the outlining of the plans for making the ma chinery. Material and men will be transported immediately from Portland to the Big Eddy and the woodwork on the steamers will be beguu right away. The boats will be ready for service within eight weeks, so that the company will be able to attend to transporting of the grain of the inland empire thia fall." Cootinuing, Mr. Wylie said that the new boats will be somewhat after the model of the Teal, now in u?e by the company between The Dalles and Portland, save that the engines would be much more powerful the better to combat the swift waters of the upper river. The new boats will ply between Celilo and Pasco and later will probably be extended to Priest Rapids, Wash. Mr. Wylie expects that with the placing in commis sion of the new facilities for trans portation on the upper river, the portage road will of necessity be enlarged as to equipment and that probably an extra engine and many new cars will be use-d to carry the produce from the great country of the interior around the rapids at Celilo. . "'ool Roads" seernH to have become in recent montliB the subject of almost everv conversation when a group of j citizens get together. During the last two weeks there lias been more din cussion of good roads among members of the Portland Commercial Club than there has about the political campaign thai is before us. When dairymen get together they discus good roads; it is the same with fruit growers, while auto. j mobile owners have become veritable ! cranks on the subject. I An insistent demand, coming from everv section of the .State, has been i j made upon the Portland Commercial ' Club to call some character of represen tative meeting to d'pctiFs a practical plan wheieby all Oregon may have better highways. P.esident W. K I Newell, of the State Board of Horticul ture, has written to the Club asking that action be taken without delay; A similar request comes from Hon. J. W. Bailey, State Dairy and Food Com missioner, on behalf of the daiiy inter ests, and the bankers of Portland and other cities and towns of the State are oi one mina on uu- suDjeet. Many of the cities throguhout Oiegon are build otlilitg But Hark to Eat. In northern China people were eating bark otfthe treeBwheu Osborne Middle ton was there on a tour from Shanghai. That was about a month ago according to a letter received by his son O. Mio dleton, Jr., who is manager of the Ore gon Pine Export Lumber company, eays the Portland Journal. The country had been swept by fear ful dust storms, so that neailv every where the growing crops lay buried un der four or five inches of dust. Sup plies bad run low and the people weie without money. Thousands managed to keep body and sonl together by peel ing bark ell' the tiees and eultsisting thereon. Some were so badly starved t hat they looked more like skeletons than living beings, The writer says thonsndfl will un doubtedly perish pefore anything can be done to relieve toem. Many were on the verge of death when Mr. Middleton left Tien Tsin spout four weeks ago. Tbey did not seem to know w here to look for help. Mr. Middleton l.as been in China more than 40 years and is thoroughly acquainted with conditions there and the peoble. He baa visited Portland several times during his stay in the Orient and expects to spend a few weeks here this fall. and J aly 1. Reports received from his men by Mr. McClure show that out of the 2,245,055 sheep in the state only 2 53-100 per cent were found to be 6cabby. These sheep were all dipped twice under the supervision of a federal inspector and all exposed sheep were dipped once. On September 1 another inspec tion of all the sheep in the state will be started and it will require three months to complete the work. At that time all scabby sheep, if any, will be dipped. The inspection ju9t closed ehowB that the following counties were absolutely free from scab: Baker, Wallowa, Grant Wheeler, Crook, Sherman, Wasco, Gilliam, Morrow and If aruay. This year Umatilla county had 1900 scabby 6heep, whereas a year ago it bad 42,000. The 1900 scabby sheep found this year were dipped in May and when inspected fr f J HgHin .June zv were iouna iree from disease. There is now no 6cib in Umatilla county. Xearly all of the scab now exist ing is found in Lake and Malheur counties. Most of the 6cab is a mong bands in southern Malheur and owned by Spaninrds. These men were slow to dip last year. The ,scab in Lake county was scattered by a band of bucks. In the Willamette valley there is now no scab excepting among a few small bands in Douglas county. July 1, the federal stock in spectors; working in Oregon un der the direction of Dr. 8, W. Mc Clure, completed the inspection of the sheep of this state and the re turns that have been received at the Pendleton bureau of animal industry office show some very in teresting things, says the East Oregonian. The efficiency of the present state sheep law and the benefit that the state receives from the work done by the government are two things that are very evi dent. A year ago when the sheep of Oregon were inspected by the fed eral men it was disclosed that 16 4 5 per cent of the sheep of the 6tnte were affected with scabies. Under the provisions of the sheep i law every sheep in the state was dipped, the work being done be-! tween April and September. j This vear the federal insDectorsi . :.na1i;nn UflU-nornl '11! S1' t''4e9 'Iar(l sirface pavwnents, t oil tua t,Q nt Ka Bfo0 and everywhere vou go you find men .1.. .i x talking "Good Roads." were inspected between that time! s As a result of all this it has been de termined to bold an "Oregon Good Roads Conference" in the Convention Hall (6th floor) of the Toitland Com mercial Club, Tuesday, August 11th, with '.aornme, afternoon and evening sessions. No interest in the state seems to be more anxious to have a part in developing the good roads sentiment into a realization than the railroads, and as a result a rate of a fare and a third has been made made jr this meetiDg ; tickets will be good the day before and the day after the meeting, so that it may be extended oyer the eecond day if necessary. An interesting program will be pre pared, but there will be no long-winded theoretical speeches practical men will be secured and practical questions dis cussed. The Good Roads Associations of Oregon and Washington will be asked to co-operrte in making the meeting a success. The basis of representation will be announced within a few days, Out all commercial and industrial bodies, county judges, county commissionero, editors and mayors will be authorized to appoint delegates and urged to have a good representation present. Hun. James It. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, and Hod. F. II. Newell Chief of the United States Reclamation Service, spent Thursday in Portland. Oregon communities as represented through their commercial bodies and other agencies for advertising, should commence at once to take advantage of the one-way colonist rates which will be in effect from Sept. 1st to Oct. ! st. No state in the Union has received greater J benefit through these colonist rales thr.n Oregon and at no time in the history of ! the State were more people expressing j a determination to come here to make! 1 their j ermanent home. j i II.jn. John Sharpe Williams, recently1 tlected United States Senator f-oin I . Mississippi, and prominent nationally as a leader of the Peinoeraoy, while'. , ! here to till an engagement with I lie To tl.r I an,er, of Morrow County Chautauqua Association, was tendered . , ., , , .... ,.,nc : a reception at the Portland Commeicial i lone, Oregon, July ljth, It'OS. ! j n . .i i l v.- i i w. . : Clu b Friday night. Owing to the last edition of the State i ' course of st ud v being exhausted ; hence j it is impossible for many applicants for j the forthcoming August examination to j secure courses of study from which to make preparation for each examination. Therefore, no questions in any subject are to be taken from the State course of study for the August 1008 examination. Respectfully youre, 8. 1. Straiton, School Superintendent. HORSES KILLED BY LIGHTNING Struck a Barn in Which Animals Were Sheltered. Two horses belonging to B. F. Clark, who resides about 15 miles north of Hepnner. were killed Monday afternoon by lightning. Mr. Clark had j"st driven the horses into the barn to shelter them from a heavy rainstorm when lightning struck the barn anj the horses were killed. A Kansas man who with one or two relatives has been out to Lane county several times on visits has concluded to come to stay, says The Register. Last week a terrific hailstorm came and cut every ves tige of a crop he had close to the ground and now he is packing up and will come at once. The first time in history accord ing to a Coos bay paper, two tor pedo boats and two destroyers went up Coos bay last week, and took aboard a supply of coal for a trial on their trip down the coast. This coal can be had at $4 a ton, I while 6uch as they have been nsing cost jiv. John Satterfield of Oo'd Hill was SO years old rn July 4, and has gone on a deer hunting trip. The Brownsville Woolen mil! i fully in operation again. A Eugene man nicked pounda of cherries in one day. Forest Grove is to have a g?or factory and a cigar factory. A bear ate no a calf on a farm only three miles from Juni4x City. Yamhill county claim3 to hsnn the largest fruit evaporator or ih Pacific coast, and the largest r.nn in the world is said to be in Br- , ton county. One thousand gallons o' '"near beer" were sold by an enterpriy Albanv individual during the re cent celebration in that city, and nobody got drunk. Washington county is the richest rr.aa recently t ought a piece; . T. . . . ... T ' . mah, says IMiry ComnrnsBoJKT of land near I-reewatr-r for Sfl.OCO I Rt) been made so by and has Fold it for ",000. j ihe growth of the dairy indostrj. lion- I I rasa on-, nr fee ALCOHOL 3 PER ppvt Aeg(abUPrcparartonfcrAs sum! ing tfteFoodaMRcgula ting the Stomachs andUawisof Fdr Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears' Signature Promotes DtgeslionChfctfiil-' ncss and Rest.Contains neither Opium .Morphine norMiacnLl IV OT .NARCOTIC. Umpkin Sadm " jUxJmna MxhtittSatts- fifpmmf liitartonakStit MrmSrfd Oanfirti Sugar hutmrem fimK ADerfect Remedy for Consfica- tion . Sour Storaach.Dlarrtra Worms .ComTilstens.mwisIi ness and Loss of Sleep. facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. the X t JJ AiT Use For Over Thirty Years m. ! ,) 1 u'lraTmiiy 1 fin mi ni Iblrlo Mm Exact Copy oi Wrapper. TMC CCWTHUR COMPANY, NCW TONIC CITY. Entirely Under Local Control and Management Bank of Heppner Capital $50,000 Fully Paid Officers T. O. MINOR. President J. H. Mi HAI.K V, Vii-e-l'resi.lent YV. S. WHARTON'. Cashier vavti:i: CKAWTOKP, Asst. Cashier Directors W. O. MINOR T. K. Wi)Ol-uN v. sroTT J n. v, : i a l . i : v W. S. WHARTON Loans Made at Eight Per Cent. FOUR FER CENT IHTEREST PAID OH TIHIE SEPOSiTS WE ARE GROWING Gain in Deposits, month of .Tanuarv Sl'ilM VJ ' " " February .'."..'.'.'.'. r!Ji; " " M March I0rt i.;" Apriland May 51,.. Total pain for first five months, J?r,7;'."0 NOT BAD FOR THE DULL SEASON.