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Leaves Heppner 7 a. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday., reaching Lone Kock at ; p. m. Leaves Lone kock 7 a. m. Monday., W ednes days and Fridays, reaching lieppner at u p. ui. MakcB connection with the Lone Kock-rossil "';?Mlym.nm.Johii.ton Drug Co., Heppner, United States Officials. Piesideat Orojer Cleveland V ice-President Ad al B eveiiaon bewary of State Walter Q fare. ham becr-lary ot Treasury John O. I .arllale Secretary of Interior .... Hoke bumh becreiary of War Daniel S. Lemon t Secretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert l-oitwastor-Oeneral Wilaon Allor.iey-Oeuerai Kiclmrd S. Olney Secretary of Agriculture J. bterling Morion State of Oregon. Governor 8. Pennoyer KSrf -::z:::::pi,n!S: Supt. Public ln Uo. V Senator. J. N.Oulph l Binger Hermann Congre.smen ( W. h,. KUis "tsksxz Supreme Judge. j"1 Seventh Jndlclal District. Ctrcuit Judge al l'nanouting Attorney li. 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R BH-HOP, President. Cashier. TRANSACTS 1 GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS COLLECTIONS Made on Favorable Term. XECHAN'GE BOUGHT & SOLD HEFPJiEK. tf OREGON mm Cbd be procured at tbe drug store of !. If. Ayers, Jr. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE TURNED TO STONE. A Strange Story from Claiborne County. Tennessee. s isig; uren Ctoud Passes Over the Lick Skillet Country and Petrifies Hog a Wall as a Fl.ld of Corn Tha Tarn of tha Season. The people in he eastern portion of Claiborne County, Tonn., are excited over a romarkablo occurrence which took place there not long ago., It is one of the most marvelous occurrences ever heard of, and it will prove to be a prob lem over which scientific minds may wrestle for some time to come. Edgat Ramsey is a farmer who lives five miles from Lick Skillet. He ar rived in Middlesboro recently. The story he told would not find believers at first, but since then it has been proven that be has told nothing but the truth. ; His statement is thus reported by a corre spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo-:rat: "Last Sunday aftornoon I notioed what appeared to be a large greon-look-ing cloud coming from a westerly direc tion , toward my house. It was a long distance off, and the rain was falling heavily. Shortly aftorward it became very cold, in fact so cold that I went in doors, lit a bii? fire and put on a big heavy coat. When I came out again tho big green cloud was almost over tho house, and the air was as Cold as on a wintor day. Tbe wind howled and the hail fell in stones as big 3 eggs. AH this lasted twenty minutes, and then tho sky cleared up and I felt more like my self again. "An hour after 1 was sitting with my wife near the firo when I heard a horse galloping at full speed, and when I went out to Bee who it was there stood Jnko Warren, a neighbor farmer who lives about a mile and a quarter from me. He was as pale as a ghost and was trembling til over. It took him over ten minutes to commence to tell me what he had to say, and as he was talking I thought he was crazy. ' "He stated that a big green oi?ud had come over his place, and that sortiithinp which looked like balls of fire had fallen all around his house. , Uo had five acres of corn growing in a field next to the house. After tho storm had cleared away he wont to see what damage had boen done. He saw that some corn had been blown down, and, entering the field, bo found every stalk turned to stone. There were two flnO hogs in tho Held, and they, too, were petrified and standing there as if cut out of solid rock. Mysolf and wife thought tho man was raving mad, but induced him to remain over till morning, when we promised to visit his place with him. That wo did, and what wo flaw will bo remem lierod so long as both live. There was the corn blown down, but every stalk of it was petrified. H was not as hard as granite, but it appeared to be more like soft stone.' I took my knife and cut it.and it became powder. The ears were vory hard, and they could not be broken with the hand. Tho leaves wore brittle, and and if you ptruck them they would break like glass. . The. hogs were tliore, too, looking natural enough, but they wore as hard as stone." George E. Henry, of this city, John Rogers, Captain John B. Hull, ex-deputy marshal, and several others rode over the- mountains into Tennessee lo see for thomsolves if tho things were really there as represented. Captain ! Hull, ex-United States deputy marshal, makes the following statement: 'We went over this morning. I doubted the story " on starting, but thought I'd try it, anyhow. We found ' Warren's farm about seven miles from ' the Cap, and there, sure enough, was 1 the corn-field completely petrified. Tho stalks were somewhat blown down, but they seemed completely turned to stone. 1 Tho two hogs were there also, and they looked like they were carved out of rock. It was the strangest sight I over saw and I can't begin to describe tho thing. Tboro were a number of men guarding . the field with Winchester rifles and they wouldn't let us go into it. They only let us go to the fence. We could touch some of tho corn stalks and could see the hogs, but the men re fused positively to let us go any further than the fence. The women wouldn't say why they would not let people go into the field, but I presume they were ' afraid people would break tho corn stalks to pieces. There was quite a crowd there looking at the thing, and everyone was thoroughly duinfouuded with what they saw." This statement is vouched for by a number of others, and naturally there ia considerable excitement. Good Looks, tiood looks are msre than kin deep depending upon a bealthy condition of (.1 1 tbe vital organs. If tbe liver be in active, yon have a bilioni look, if yonr stomach be disordered, yon have a dyn peptio look and if yonr kidneys be affect ed you bare a pincbed look. Hecure food health end yon will bave good look. Electrio bitters lathe great alter ative and tonic and sot" direotlyon thee vital organs. - Cnrpa pimples, blotnhpp, boils, and gives a good complexion. Hold at Klocam-Jobnson Drng Co GOo per bottle. THE WErlTERN PKDAGOGI K. We are in receipt of the May nnmbr of oar state school paper. It exeeeds eny of the former numbers it value. The paoer this month contains many aew tad valuable features. Tbe illae- trated series on tbe sobools of tbe state is introduced by a paper on the Friends Polytechnic Institute at Salem, Oregon. These papers cannot fail to be of great value both td the schools and to tbe public There are also several Que articles by our best writers and the departments, "Current Events,""SatnrdHy Thoughts," "Educational News" "The Oracle Aueneis, Correspondents," etc, eaoli ooritnin much valuable reading tor teachers or parents. The magazine bus abont 60 pages of matter, well printed and arranged. We pronounoe tbe Western Pedagogue the best educa tional motitbly on the const. Everyone of oar renders should have the paper if tbey are at all iuterested in edueation. No toucher tcbool direc tor or student can gt nbiDg well with out it. We will receive subscriptions at this office. Price only 81.00 a year. Wuf o desired we will seud tbe Western Pedngogne mid Gazette one year to one address for $3.00. Call and examine auiple copies. Teaobers, direolnrs and parents, now is tbe time to subscribe, tf 'TWAS A COINCIDENCE A Hay-Fork Agent'a Remarkable Dream and What Came of It. "I used to travel around the country with a patent hay-fork," said the man with a srreen patch on his left eye to a New York Hun man, as il came his turn to tell a story. "I am not going to say any thing about that patent more than that no fnrmer ever got any benefit from it. What I wwo to bring out is what might be called a curious coin oidence, and one that I lave kicked myself over a hundred times. "It was in this way," he continued, as he got settled back on his seat. "Farmers have their weak spots the same as other folks. You can hit some of them by prais ing their buildings, others by admiring their horses, others, again, through their hogs or calves. 1 had a way of hitting hem all, and it worked to my great profit avery time. When 1 got up in the morning, after staying all night with a farmer, I got off something as follows : " 'I had a very curious dream last night, t dreamed that I was digging out behind i-our barn, just on a line with a big knot' hole in the sixth board from the west end, and I unearthed a tin box containing two thousand dollars in greenbacks. Thedream was so vivid that I almost, feel the box in my hands. There's nothing in dreams, of course, but I never had one which seemed so real.' "Mind you, I had taken notice of the knothole the evening before. Sometimes I fixed the pU e behind a barn, and some, times near a stump, or so many paces from a certain tree or straw Black ; but it was all settled on beforehand. It wasn't one time in twenty that a farmer would charge me for my lodgings after giving him this dream. It hit 'em plumb center, and they were onlv too anxious to get me out of the way, so they could begin digging." "Uo on," said several voices, as be made a long pause. "Well, one morning, after lodging with a farmer all night and getting his note for fifty dollars for a hay fork, 1 related the jsual dream in the usual way. This time it was buried treasure beneath a stump near his barn. 1 saw that be was hard hit at once, and be left me eating breakfast and went down to dig. 1 was chuckling over his greenness when he came walking in with a tin box under his arm." "You don't say I" "But I do, and it was a box be had dug out a foot or so below the surface. It was broken open right then and there, and may I be drowned for a yolier dog if the contents didn't pan out 14,025 in just as good green backs as you ever saw." "But but" "There were no buts about it He found the money and kept it, as was his right, and no one ever came to claim it. This t'i bill was a part ot it. He gavo it to me as a re ward for my dream, and I'm keeping it as a relio to show what a fool a man can make of himself. That's all, gentlemen all ex oept that I want some of you kick me as soon as convenient" Racklen's Arnica Halve. The best salve in the world for enti bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhenni, fivei sores, tetter, chapped hand, oliilblain corns and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no psy required. Il is guaranteed to give perfect saiipfuottou or money refunded. Price 2" cents per box. For sale by Sloonm-Johnsou Drug Company. A Blind Ulrl'a Remarkable Work. There lives in Oak Hill, Tex., a blind girl who has from a few ueres of land, cultivated by herself, cleared about 8200 each season for several years by the growing and sale of vegetables. She began with no capital and the un fenced piece of uncultivated land. There is now a neat fence about her domain, a well and pump in the center, and Bhe has, in addition to purchasing these, paid for a piano and a hack to take her vegetables to the market, which is twenty miles from her home. Every evening during the dry season she waters a certain number of plants, until she has gone over the entire place, when she begins agnin and goes over it in the same way. Inwt life she de tect from her acute Rense of hearing, and grass and weeds are eauily distin guished from pbinU by the aensitive fingers of the blind gardener. American Cars. There are nearly a round million of freight ears in use on American rail roads, which have twenty-seven thou and passenger ears in serviee. One Snuift lllle Dean everv night for a week arouse Torpid Llvera. X6o. per bOUle. To aid Digestion take one Small iille Beat) after eatlug. X6v. per bwltie. STANLEY'S BENEFACTOR History of tha Great Explorer'a Fostor-Father. Starting tn New Orleans at an Early Age He Hecnme Widely Known and Itewpocted Deaertea by HI. Adopted Children. Many New Orleans citizens remember Henry Hope Stanley, who adopted Stanley, the explorer, nnd gave hire his first upward start in life. Very few, however, bave any recollection of Stan ley, the famous traveler in Africa, Henry Hope Stanley, says tbe New Or. leans Post-Dispatch, was bora in Eng land in 1815. He came of good family and was highly educated. He had a brother who was killed by a. fall frdrc a carriage dunnjr the war. After nil father's death, which occurred early in Stanley's life, bis mother married at Episcopal minister. She is Said to-be still living and her son by the seebfti marriage Inherited Stanley's fortune.' The young Englishman was of inoV pendent mind, and determined to carve his own way to success. Accordingly he came to America about 1837, first landing in Charleston, S. C. There the young man heard of the great west'and made his way to Texas. He found 1 1 wife in the Lone Star state, but little in the way of fortune, and the couple determined to remove to the southern metropolis. j Although Stanley was twice married, neither wife bore hira children. Their kind hearts hunirered for the touch Of baby fingers, and at vunou:) times the household adopted little orphans and bestowed as much love and care upon them as if of their own blood. ' Strange to say, none of these fatherless ones rfe mained to com fort 'the closing years of their benefactor's life. : Joanna, the first adopted child, died after hor marriage to a local druggist who has also passed away. Henry "Stanley Africanus" went into thf world against his foster-father's wil! and was never forgiven, whilo Annie, who shared the home with the explotet-, is said to have eloped with the coach man. About this time Stanley made the ae quaintance of an individual known U "Cedar" Smith on account of his bust ncss, which consisted in exportinp Louisiana cedar. About !S43'they took a trip up Ked river on a cedar purcha othor day 8aUl tu0 tram a9 uo naehei ing expedition, intending to ship the Detroit Freo Press editorial floor large cargo to Lngland. They W6 ",n article about tho vertigo tramp. I gone some time. 1 ac.litles for mat kw,nt an explanation. How did this communication were neither rapid not tramrilook?" piemuui in viHisc iiuyo. cwuucy iican. little of affairs at home. He returnee to New Orleans to find' his "wife hoc taken sick and died during his absence from home. Soon afterward he ma Tied Miss Miller, un Englishwoman. He then changed his business, beconv ing cotton weigher for the firm ol Payne, Dameron & Co., the predeces- sors of Payne, Kennedy ACo.i later he obtained employment with Wright, Williams & Co., in the same capacity. I He made a good deal of money in the days when there were fortunes in the cotton-press business. When tho wai broke out he took no part in the con- flict, but with his wife went over t England to revisit the scenes of hit youth. He left his dwelling, facing Annunciation square, in charge of Mrs. Stanley's sister, Mrs. Walter Nicholl, who occupied it with herhusband dur-, ing the absence of the Stanleys. When Gen. Benjamin lintler made his head- quarters in New Orleans he ordered the seizure of the house and the Commer-. clal press, putting his soldiers' in the latter. Mr. Stanley's friends took advantage' of his Hritish birth and foreign rcsi- dence to appeal to the English consul. 1 The latter promptly sent word to But- lcr to release the property within twen- ty-fonr hours. The orders were obeyed and the soldiers marched out and camped in Terrell's press across the street As soon as the war ended Stanley and his wife retuthed. Stan-, ley resumed the cotton-press business,1 but was n,t as successful as in the ante- bellum days. In 1870 he sold the Com-; mercial press to Lehnan & Abraham and bought the Liverpool press, which he conducted until his death, although1 he left the management principally' tc1 James Randolph and George Johnson In 1878 he went np to a plantation t: look after the crops, in which he was interested, suddenly became ill and in twenty-four hours was dead. ' His sec- ond wife preceded him to the land oi rest. Mr. Stanley wns a member ol Mount Moriah lodge, a prominent ma sonic body,: and was buried in its tomt St Metairie ridge. B. A. It. NOTICE. We take this Opportunity of informing our subscribers that the new commis sioner of pensions has been appointed. He is an old soldier, and we believe bat soldiers and their beirs will re ceive justice at bis bands. We do not mticipate that there will be any radios! obanges in the administration of pension iffaire under tbe Dew regime. We would advise, however, that TJ. S. soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take ateps to make application at Once, if ibey have not already done so. in order to secure the benefit of tbe early filing of tbeir claimi in cam there should be The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used ia Millions Homes 40 Years tlie Standard. any future pension legislation. Such legislation is seldom retroactive. There fore it is of a rest importance that ap plications be filed in tbe department at the earliest possible date. If the U. b soldiers, sailors, or their widows, ohildreD or parents desire in formation in regard to pension matters tbeyeLooiu,iie to the P.e.g Claimi' Company, at Waebtngton, D. 0 and they will prepare and send the oece'siarv application, if they find them entitled uudei the numerous laws enacted for tbeir benefit. Address PBES8 CLAIMS COMPANY--John W eddebbubm, Jlaneging Attor ney, Washington, D. C, P. O. Itx ESS tf. DECOHAliiA l.a AI LEXINGTON. : Memorial day, which brings together be patriotic citizens of cur land to pay nbute to their heroie dead, will ba ..roperly observed at Lexington ou next iutsday, May 80. A special invitation h is been extended to tbe different seoret iders and members of Ibe public school jf Heppner, to meet with us in body. A general invitation is also extended o everyone to biing well-filled basket! ud meet with us on that day. Members of ue G. A. R W. K. 0. and 8. O. V. are iso requested to be present as far as possible. A very interesting ' program uas been arranged for the occasion. iJume out and assist us in making a euo- :ss of tbe occasion. By Order of CoaiMiTTBB, 129 30 tXtUBMON TO IHTIYSVILLE. Tbe Union Pacific will sell tickets from Heppner to Peityeville, and re'u n on the occasion of the Annual Sunday aohool Convention, Thursday, June 8ib, 18U3, as follows: Adults, 60 oenta; Chil dren., 80 cents, all excursionists to go and come on tbe regular train. For tickets aud further information, aiply to J. C. Har' vm' at Heppuer 'W. H. HtJKLLUBT. tf Asst. tjtn. fuss. Agt. They Increase appetite, purify the whole aystam and net on the liver, Uile Beaua AnelL ,'ne. VERBOSE TRAMP. One of the Fraternity Wants to Know Just What the Term Meune. "T Raff an ar4.lp.1n In vaiii nnw, t.hr. , ..It WM Kma reporter who wrote the article." "Well, does verbose mean that he was a hustler?" "Hardlv "Was he languid?" "Not that, either." "Docb vorboso mean that he had lost his nntintltn?' "jfo," i "Run down in flesh?" ..No. Verbose is verbose. It's a sort 3f domoan0r and look bard to describe." j verboso?" "No " t thi agttist the pur- fenhun?" "No." ..Won.t discourage tho women from pissinr out oola victuals and old olothos?" "'Notabit." "Then I'm satisfied. I didn't know but it was some new thing-something ,to work affln USi and j wftnU,d to know, Couldn't mariy of the boys bo verbose if thcy wantcd to, could they?" "N0," ..Then it won't snroad?" "Oh, no." ..A1i riBht-thafs all. I'vo dodged most every thing for twenty-two years pMti and am gIad i navl;n.t got to worry ever this. No verbosity hero, thank vou. May bo nil right,' but unctionhas carried me safoly through thus far." HE WA? DISAPPOINTED, How a Colored Man Was Itunroed br an ineumnco eomp.uiy. Shortly after a flro In a town "down South," says tho New York Lodirer, a (jolored man called on an insurance agent and Bald: "Wants my money, Cap'n." "I don't owo you any money." "Ain't yosso'f do 'sho'enen afront?" "Yos, I am an insurance arront." "Den yor owes mo money, fur my sto burned up durin' do late fire, sah," "You wore not insured in my com pany." "Golly, you say I wa'n' "Como, got out of here. "Hold on, bona, an' lemme 'splain. Wuz Mr. Jones 'shored in yer comp'ny?" "Yes." "Wuz Mr. Jackson "Yes." "Wall an' good. Now my sto' was tis' bertwlxt Mr. Jot i an' Mr. Jackson. Do Wall o' dar sto's made do wulls o' my ito'. If yor'd a took d;ir sto's erway, my ito' wouldor been jono. Do inshorln' o' lar own sto's inslio'ed mine, doan yer sec?" "No, I don't "Den I ain't goin' tor get nulfln, is I?" "No." "I'll recolleck dls, sah, an' see whut lo cou't'ous'U had t'-rsay;" and, turning tway, be muttered:" l'f 1'der knovved do :omp'n wuz so tricky I wouldn'ter set do Ohtioe sto' atlro." Baking Powder: