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If VOL. 27. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 9. 1910 f Special Friday and Saturday Choice of any of our $5.00 men's Oxfords in tan, oxblood and Green $4.15 Women's tan and black ox fords worth to $3.50, special two days $2.50 Misses $1.75 tan vici ankle strap pump, special $1.50 The Cash Shoe Store PERCIVILLE DEN- INISON SUICIDES in rresence 01 Dozen or More People Shoots Himself. for the Portland Rose Festival June 6th to 11th Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. of One Fare and one - third From all Points in Oregon. Washington and Idaho -w j-ji 7 ' Sal Dates: From Pendldton and all Stations west thereof, in Oregon, including branches, June 6, 8, 10 From all other Stations. June 6th and 8th. Final re turn limit June 15. For farther particular an to rates etc, apply to any O R & N Agent or WM. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon The Bay Percheron GIL BLAS Belonging to the Fanners' llroedinjr Association will make the following stand. this season: At h. McMurray's, Mondays. At C. C. Fhea's, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. At A. B. G rover's, Thurs days. At lone livery stable, Fri davs, Saturdays and Sun thus. J Terms Insurance $1 .1.00. E. L. Pakhkikj, Pres. wonn mil,. Leave vour orders for wool and coal at Slocum Drug Go's drug store. E. E. Beamax, Jleppner Wood and Coal Yard. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (Isolated Tract.) Public Land Sale. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office at I.aGrande, Oregon, May 4,1910. Notice is hereby given that, as di rected bv the Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office, under the provisions of Act of Congress, approved June 27, J901), (34 Stats , 517). we will offer at public sole, to the highest bidder, at 10 o'clock a. m., on the 7th day of July 1910, at tins office, the following de scribed land : The V. SW' section 17, and E'a NW.,' section 20. T. 3 S., R. 29 E. W. M. Seiial Xo. 0(i(!94. Any persona chimin adversely the above described land are advised to tile their claims, or objections, on or before the time designated for sale. F. C. BRA M WELL, Kegister, COLON K. ET-ERIIARP, Receiver. May 12 June lti Foley's Osinoiamitye Tor Stomach Toubli and Ccnstipatioi Brand your sheep with that harmless marking ink, guaranteed to be the best on the market Get it at Gilliam & Bisbee's. Perciville H. Dennison, rancher and stockman, who resided near Spray, in Wheeler county, com mitted suicide last Thursday even ing at about 9:30 o'clock, in the barroom of the Palace hotel, by shooting himself through the.heart with a revolver. Dennison came to town Tues day land spent the day around town chatting with friends and nothing unusual was noticed about his demeanor. Wednesday morning he disap peared and could not be found un til Thursday, not going to his room and evidently missing his meals Un lnursday atternoon tie ap peared gloomy and despondent, In the evening he went to Cook' restaurant and ordered a mea After waitiog a few minutes he left without eating and remarked that he wou'.d end it all, however. his remarks were not taken 66 rioualy by those who heard him When he came to town he put up his team at McRoberts & Evans stable where he left his revolver, After leaving the restaurant iit ap pears that he went directly to the stable and asked for his gun, stat ing that be was going out. After getting the weapon he stopped at several places and asked to shake hands with several friends stating that this was the last time they would ever shake hands with him and bidding them good bye. While his action seemed strange do one seemed to realize the unfor tunate man's condition and intent. Just before going into the hotel, he called James Elder to his side and said that he wanted to bid a good friend good bye. From the appearance and Jaction of the man Mr. Elder became alarmed and started to look ffor Dennison's brother to see if they could pacify the demented man. Dennison went into the Palace and going through the office Bpoke toEii Maddock. Just before go ing through the door that enters the bar room, Dennison again spoke to Maddock and motioned for Maddock to follow which he did. Dennison walked straight to the bar, nobody being behind the bar at the time. Leaning his elbow on the bar and sliding his arm for a short distance he whipped out 2d revolver from the inside of bis coat and turned the weapon on himself. At the report of the gun he fell lo the floor, the revolver ailing by his side. A dozen or more Jpeople wit nessed the shooting and a crowd soon rushed to the prostrate form. The ball penetrated the left breast, piercing the Jheart. Death was almost instantaneous. Dr. Kistner was immediately sent for but life was extinct before the physician arrived. In the absence of Coroner Win- nard, Justice Williamswas sent for. The body was removed to Yeager's undertaking rooms. Justice Williams conducted the inquest at the court house, Friday afternoon. The verdict of the jury was that Dennison came to his death from a gun shot wound inflicted by his own hand. The remains were taken to Long Creek for burial. Dennison leaves a wife and five small children. lie carried life insurance poli cies amounting to about 115,000. 1 Vote for Income Tax. Washington. Jane 3. Six states thus far through their Legislatures have ratified the income tax amend merit to the Constitution, five have rejected it and two have postponed action. Most of the states will act daring the coming Winter ' or the Winter following, and the ate of the amend ment will be defhntelv known in two or three years at the very latest. If 12 states vote adversely on the amend ment it will be defeated, but it re mains to be seen whether 12 states will venture into the opposition col umn. Friends of the income tax express the fullest confidence that the amend ment ultimately will be adopted, and believe that one or two of the states now on record against it will reverse their attitude when new Legislatures are chosen. The six states that have voted to ratify tha amendment are Alabama. South Carolina. Illinois, Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi. The states voting adversely are New York, Rhode Island, Uassachussets, Virginia and Louisiana, while Georgia and New Jersev have postponed a vote until the next session of their Legis latures. Senator Norris Brown, of Nebraska, who has keDt close tab on the income tax fight, and who was one of the foremost advocates of the income ta while the tariff bill was before Con cress last session, predicts that the income tax amendment will be a part of the Constitution within three years, He believes that more than three fourths of the states will snoport it ana says it will De indorsed in every state where the income tax is made nolitical issue in the legislative cam paigon. He concedes that Pennsylvania New Jersey, Delaware and most of the New England state) will be among thecppositlon., but all this was expected when the fight opened. New York, however, he believes will in the end fall In line and vote to ratify the amendment. According to Senator Brown, all the states of the West, without ex ception, will ratify the income tax amendment, most of them daring the coming Wmtecr. He predicts also that the Southern states will ratify it within two years. Virginia failed to ratify because the Speaker of the Virginia House was able to bring about an adverse vote. This vote. Brown believes, may be reversed, particularly f the income tax is made an issue in Virginia. The same thing may be done in Massachusetts. though the chances there are not particularly favorable, he opines. The recent New York Legislature failed by one vote to ratify the amend ment This narrow margin, it is thought, can be overcome, for it is figured that the income tax will of necessity be an issue in the next New York legislative campaign, and the supporters of the measure are confi dent they will gain in strength in the next Legislature. In speaking of the outlook. Senator Brown explained that since the income tax amendment has been sub mitted by Congress to the states for their ratification, it remains before the country continuously until it is ratified. It maxes no difference how the states may vote in the first instance; more than one-fourth of them may vote against the amend ment, but that would not kill it; it would s till be pending, and in case enough subsequent Legislatures vote for it to maxe three-fourths of all the states, the amendment will then go nto effect. While advocates of the income tax not believe that 12 states will, in HINTON FOUND GUILTY Rig I, a net Trial on. do the first instance, vote against the ratification of the amendment, thev till maintain that should such a thing happen, the amendmeut would ot be dead, but that opportunity would later be given the adverse staUs to reverse themselves through future Legislatures. Eo'ey Kidney Tills are antiseptic, ton ic and restorative and a prompt cor rective of all utinary irregularities. Re fuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. Murder in Second Degree for Complicity lin Snyder Killing. Twenty-four witnesses were ex amined for the state in the trial of Ben Hinton for the murder of Ollie Snvder. The state rested its case Wednesday afternoon. The defense is examining its witnesses today. The case will probably go to the jury this afternoon or evening. A recess of three weeks will be taken before another trial is began. The testimony of the state's wit nesses was all circumstantial evidence. Much of it was of the strongest character. It tended to establish the facts that a conspiracy had been entered into to kill Ollie Snyder; that a plan had been made to haDg him to tree west of Hamilton: that Case- day was a leader in the plot and that Snyder was shot by the men now held in the countv iail uuon the harge of murder. Several persons testified that others were asked to join the mob but refused. The testimony went to show that Snyder was taken out of the hack, rope placed around his neck with the intention of hanging him, but the rope was too short and shooting was agreed uDon. Doo Hinton. brother of Ben Hinton on trial and Earl Barnard, a brother-in-law. were called for witnesses by the state. These testimonies was an important part of the evidence. The story of the murder as brought out bv the witnesses corroborates the newspaper accounts to a considerable extent Long Creek Banger. The jury was out only a short time when a verdict of murder in the second degree was returned. This means a life sentence. M. E. Churcn South. Sunday school at 10 and preach ing att 11 a m. Epworth League services at 7 and preaching at 8 p, m. E. P. Warren, pastor. Envious. Howell I'm engaged to Miss ItoWeil. Congratulate me, old man. Powell I would If I did not know that In ber case a nomination is not equivalent to an election. Smart Set. Another of Woman' Rights. "How are Brown and his suffragette wife getting along?" "Not at all. She Insists on reading the sporting page before he does." Detroit Free Press. Time ripens all things. born wise. Cervantes. No man ta Notice ! Dlaaalatlen. The conditional partnership hereto fore existing between E. G. Noble and Frank Noble under the film name of Noble Bros , has been dissolved, Frank Noble 'retl-ing. E G.Noble will pay all bi'ls against the firm and collect all accounts due said 6m. E. G NOBLE. FRANK NOBLE. Heppner, Oregon, June 2. 1910. oTit'i: roic r i ii 1. 1 c v t i o . Foley's Kidney Pills contain in con centrated form ingrediet ts of establish ed therapeutic valae for the relief and cure of all kidney and bladder ailments. Department of the Interior, " United States Lnd Office, LaGrande, Ore gon, Slay 31 at, 1910. Notice i hereby given, that the San ta Fe Pacific Rail-oaJ Company, hy Joseph W. Rector, its nttornev i.i fact, whose Fost Office ad lrss is Heppner, Oregon, has tiled in this office his ap plication to se'ect under the provisions ot the Act of Congress of Junel, IS '7, (30 Stat., St;), the S NWV Sc. 30, T. S., II 27 E. W. M., in Morrow Countv, Oregon, containing 73 OS aces. Serial No. 07!r(i, Any and all persons claiming ad- erseiy the landj above described, or desiring to object bscause of theminer al character of the land or for ony other reason to the dispose! to applicant, should file their ailidavi s of protest in this office on or before the 20th day cf July. 1910. F. C. BR AM WELL, Register. JuceO-JulyU With ownership of an area of Oregon land caDable of supplying homes t more than 19, 000 families attacked bv the Government, the United State Courtroom was yesterdav a point of interest to dozens of citizens esger t ascertain what step would follow the filing of an 829-page brief in support of the contention that the land granted by Congress shoull be given a beneficial use. Begun in 1908, the effort of the Government to revert title to the lands or comol compliance with the acts of Congress bv which the Oregon & California Railroad Company . secured a subsidy of 3,800,000 acres, is standing upon a demurrer to the complaint. Represented by W. D. Fenton. the Oregon & California Railroad Com pany, the Southern Pacific Company and other defendants were yesterday granted 00 davs in which to prepare and file a reply brief. f Actual settlers on the subsidy land which have been withheld from sale by the railroad companies are already on record with a brief filed in Sep tember, 1909. by their attorney, A. W. LaiTertv. Other in fervenors recognized bv the court will not be able to secure time after this date for preparing briefs. The original ruling made bv Judge C. E. Wolverton gave their representa tives the same time that should be utilized bv the Government in prepar ing a brief. Under that ruling the issues will be closed when the rail road brief shall be placed in the hands of the court. Actual settlers on the railroad grant, extending in a strip 60 mile wide from the Columbia River to the northwest boundary of California, who have attempted to become permanent residents of the Willamette and other rich vallevs, are not at this time largely concerned in the outcome of the suit, say their attorneys. Of the 60 squatters who joined in the original salt to compel the sale of the lands, only 12 have withstood the delays incidont to the hearing. and are etill in possession of their claims. The remainder have either abandoned their claims in favor of other localities in the state, or have joined the "Pinchot exodus" te Canada and other more favorable places of residence. B. D. Townsend, special prosecutor for the United States in the pending . action, is on bis way to Oregon. He will join John McCourt, Unite 1 State Attorney for this district, at Minne apolis, early next week, and after a consultation on the salient features of the litigation will reach Portland during the latter part of the week. The brief filed by Attorney Town- send charges that the Southern Pacific Company, as suocessor to the land granted the Oregon & California, ban created a monopoly of production in Oregon, as well as in matters pertain ing to transportation. The normal commercial and indus trial development of the territory in which the unsold land are situated has been seriously retarded if not completely checked," said the Assist ant Attorney-General. After recounting the manner in which Congress granted 3,800.000 acres to the railroad company, the Government brief avers that 506 sale were made by the benefioiaries of the grants, 3376 of the sales being for quantities of laud in excess of i6J acres to each person, and for more than $3.50 an acre as limited by the terms of the grants. "The exact quantity of land sold is S9.92" acres," argues the attorney, "'and the total price received for that land was Sl,!)70.273.r.!i. Iu addi tion to this, from the leasing of land, sale of timber, and forfeitures of partially performed contiacts of sale, a pecuniary bonefit of several hundred thousand dollars has been reaiiied. bv the company, the exact nnicunt of which is unknown. "This method cf selling the lanH was cotit:'nued ostil about on year ! after the Southern Pacific lcu:::e i j part of the Harriran lires. Ob J.muarv 1 . 1903, there remained on tsoid 2.373.0- acres of V.:a ct;rtd Isnds and the large ncreare to v. men the Southern Pacific Company hac not yet received a patent from ti Govjrnuient. On that dnte all if thse unsold lands were withdrawn from sale, and the railroad company has since refused or othemins, al though thousands of apt, lications haT heen made by parties desiring to ths lan, 1st for purposes of arts if settlement.