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ative Journal ol the County.
SIXTEENTH YEAR
I1EPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1899,
NO. 713
THE HEPPHER GAZETTE
. Published Every Thursday.
BY
OORLIES MEliRITT,
Editor ani .kCa.xa.a.g'ar.
. SUBSCRIPTION
One) Year - -
Six Months
Throe Month
RATES
SI .SO
73
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Advertising Rates Made Known on
Application.
Entered at the Postofflce at Heppner, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
ornoiAii isxuEcrosTr.
Fnited States Officials.
President William McKinley
Vice President Garret A. Hobart
Secretary of Htate. W. It. Day
NnornUu'y of Treasury Lyman J. Gage
Socretary of Interior Cornelius N. Bliss
Senrxtary of War Kuanell A. Alger
:ioi!retry of Navy. John D. Long
I'orttinaster-General.. Charles Emery Smith
Attorney-General John W. Grifrge
dcratary of Agriculture ....James Wilson
State of Oregon.
ijpveraor W. P. Lord
rk-oretary of State II. It. Kincaid
1'reanorer Phil. Metsuhan
Supt. Public instruction G. M. Irwin
Attorney General C. M. Idleman
Senator, jG.W.MoBride
pressmen jl,6
Printer W. H. Leeds
iU. B. Bean,
F. A. Moore,
C. K. Wolverton
Sixth Judicial District.
tUrjnit Judge Stephen A. Lowell
P.osonat.ing Attorney H. J. Bean
Morrow County Officials.
J 'int Senator . J, W.Morrow
K orasnntutiro L. Freeland
0 'My Judge A. (i. Bartholomew
' Commissioners J . li. Howard
J. W. Beckett.
" Clerk Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff E. L. Matlock
" Treasurer M. Liohteuthal
" Aeseesor A 0. Pettey
" Surveyor Julius Keithly
" School Hup't Jay W. Bhipley
" C jroncr Dr. E. K. Hunlojk
HBPPNEB TOWN OFFIOKHS.
&loi Thos. Morgan
(lo'.DcUmen K. J. Slocum, M.
Linhtenthat, J. R. Kiinons, J. J. Koberts, J. W.
Hasmus and E. (I. Spovry.
K coriior ... W. A. Richardson
TreHR irer L. W. BriggB
Marshal George Thornton
Preciuct Officers.
1 nstice of the Peaoe W. K. Kicharrlson
0 nstable G, 8. Graj
United States Land Officers.
THE DALLES, OR.
Jay P Luoas Jtegister
Otis l'attsrsou Beoeiver
LA OBANDK, OB.
K. W. Bartlett Register
i. O. Hwackhuaie.' Receiver
PBOFESSIOUAIi CABSS,
D J McFaul, M- D.
HEPPNER, .OREGON.
Office hours, 8 to 10 a. m.. and 12 to 2
p. in., at resilience, and 10 to 12 a.m.,
and 2 to 5 p m , at office in the rear of
Borg's jewelry store.
C E Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in First National Bank building.
Heppner, Oregon.
Ellis & Phelps
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
All business attended to in a prompt
and satisfactory manner. Notaries Pub
lic and Collectors.
Office in Natter's Building. Heppner, Oregon.
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
U. S. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
S. A. D. Gurley,
A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W.
Practlcloner in all Brate and
Federal Courts.
ARLINGTON
OREGON
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINiiS
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at resilience on Chase street.
Government laud script for pale.
D E. Gilman
GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old books and notes In bis
hands and get your money out of them
them. Makes a specialty of bard collec
tion!. Office in J. N. Brown's building, Heppner, Or
Dr. M. B. Metzler
DENTIST
Teeth Extracted and Filled
Bridging a specialty
Painless Extraction
Heppner - - Oregon.
G. B. Hatt
TON SO RIAL ARTIST. '
Shaving, - 15 Cants
Hair Cutting, 25 "
Shop, Matlock Corner, Heppner, Oregon.
HEPPNER TRANSFER CO.'S
Belled express is coming. Does deliver
work on short order, 10 cents and np-
wards This wseon is So. 4, and lesve
your order with it. or at ' Central" tele
phone ortice.
Wc Move Anything!
The Kind You Have Always
In use for over 30 years,
- and has
Hnnn.1
Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CCNTAUN OOMPANY, TT MURNAV TPttTCT, NEW YORK OITV.
First ational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
A RHEA.. , President
A. RHEA. . Vio President
Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
Collections made ou all points on reasonable terms. Surplus and undivldad profits 3ico'
A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY
Is that of plain and decorated
Chinaware & Queensware At
Gi
m
And by the way fiey have anything you can call for in the line of
Hardware, Stoves and Tinware.
60 WHERE YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT.
Gordon's
Feed and Sale Stable
Has just been opened to the
public and Mr. Gordon, the
proprietor, kindly invites his
friends to call and try his
first-class accommodations.
Fl.0aa.t3r of Hajr a.xa.d. S-xaAa. fox Sals
Ptable located on west side of Main
street between Wm. Hcrivner's and
A. M. Ounn's blacksmith shops.
HBBHTY MAHKKT
THE OLD SHOP!
Is the place to go to get your fine pork
and lamb chops, steaks and roasts.
Flah Every Friday. 11
Flue sugar-cured hams and bacon. Pure leaf
lard, kettle-rendered, old style. Highest cash
price paid for at stock.
Benj. Mathews.
HEPPNEK-CANYON CIfY
Stage Line
B. F. MILLER, Prop.
Cheapest and most direct route to John Day
valley. Canyon City mining district, Burns auu
other interior points.
Stages leave Heppner Dallv, Sunday ex
cepted, at 6:30 a. in. Arrive at Canyon Oily
in 24 hours.
Leave Canyon City at 4 p m arrive at Hepp
ner in 24 hours connecting with trains.
Heppnkr to milks fa a j!
Hard man 20 11.50
Monument M 4'0
H.milton 65 4.75
Long Creek 75 6.50
Fox Valley M 6 00
John Day 2 8. 00
Canyon City 104 g 00
Stages connect with trains at Heppner.
Note. Having stocked tip this line with new
covered coaches and good teams I am prepared
g4vo nnt-ci8s service to me pumic.
ARLINGTON-FOSSIL
STAGE LINE
REED k
O. OOILVIE
I'ropric'ors.
FARE FROM ARLINGTON TO
Fossil (60 miles) . . . I'. 00. Round trip 00
Mayville(Mmiie). 40 Bonnd trip 7 00
Condon (. milia).. 800 Koundtrip 600
Clem (28 miles).... 2 00 Koundtrip S 50
Olex (1 miles) 190. .....Koundtrip SM
fltaee 1mv-! Arlington -very morning
( Sunday ni'f fit, rl) lit b nVWk; i rlnf
at (Vnd n 3 p. m. vid ;rriv" af Fo
i! at 7 P. m.
Com' rHnl pnrpd coaoliesaod eare
fttl, etperffljei drivers.
Bought, and which has been
has borne the signature of
been made under his per-
RiinArvisinn lnrA it a liifn.ncv.
x- j .
no one to deceive you in this.
Signature of
i
7
G. W. CONSER CaRhiei
E. L. FREELAND. . Assistant Cashier
I.
A, Abrahamsick
Merchant Tailor
Pioneer Tailor of Heppner.
His work first-class
and satisfactory.
Give him a call May Street.
Columbia HtiU Closed.
No one appears to know when boats
will begin t run on the Columbia again,
says the Evening Telegram. Tbe river
above Tbe Dalles was still frozen over
Saturday. Tbe ice was thiok enough for
ebeep to be driven nomas it. The Colum
bia valley is practically free from snow,
bat in tbe bills and outlying country
snow continues to fall. Weather iudioi
Hons for Eastern Oregon are for colder
weather by tomorrow. If this comes
true tbe ioe will remain in tbe river for
several days yet.
West of the mountains and all up tbe
Willamette valley ideal Oregon weather
prevails warm rain and Chinook winds,
and tbe average Oregonian is profuse in
his praise of tbe weather.
Mr. Pague says tbn rains may cense by
tomorrow. What he is going to call it
after that time he has not yf-t stated.
Bismarck's Iron Nerve
Was the result of his splendid health.
Indomitable will aod tremendons energy
are not found where stomach, liver, kid
neys and bowels are out of order. If
you waot these qualit'es And tbe success
they brin, nse Dr. King's New Life
Pills. They develop every power of
brain and body. Only 25 cents at Hlo
enra Diug Co'.
Yfllowstone Park Map,
The No'tberu Paoifk rniiwiy ha-jntt
issued nv map of th? Yeil-iwafoce
Park, th it should n in d I. It is a
relief map In colors, is srieutifloall)
mad, an 1 is eomple'e in topography and
nnnvnoU'iire. Thn nnp is ab ia 22x23
inches in tize aud is prir-tfd on h".v)
psper this making it suitable for fram
ing. Tbe map is specially adapted for
school an! o;ss rooms and wi!l be
mxiled in t'lbn to B'j d.1r by Ci)s.
8. " g"nrl paa-ei.gr snt of the
N-Ttbern PaciSr), St. Paul, Kiui , open
fFtwipl Of tt eTf.
bi a s
bisoee s
PENDLKTON STATION BURNED.
Records and Drawings Destroyed Cause of
Fire Unknown.
Morning Oregonlan.
PkndiiBton, Dec. 12 Early tbia morn
iog the Oregon Rtilroad & Navigation
Company's passenger station Bod bag
gage room, and tho general ofiioeg main
tained hers by the corporation, were
destroyed by fire. At the present time
no trains run through the city al night,
and at 1 o'clook this morning there were
none moving about the yards. H. H.
Hallock, the night operator, was at work
in the eat.1 end of the depot, where the
telegraph office was located, making oat
bis night report, when he beard some
one ponading vigorously on the window
and saying that the depot wag on fire in
the baggatie-room He at onoe tele
phoned to the hotels, and, while his in
formant went to tarn in a fl-e alarm, he
harried to the baggage-room, which he
found in flames. By the time be reaohed
that end of the platform the flimea were
bursting through the walls, and, in a
few moments, the entire west eud was
burning fiercely. The building was about
100 feet long and of only ona s'ory, ex
cepting in the east end, which was two
stories high.
Although the fire department respond
ed promptly and bad eeveral streams of
water soon play iog on the burning struct
ure, tbe fire continued to ran along the
whole length, until tbe entire building
was wrapped In flames.
On the ground floor was tbe office of
General Roadmaeter W.Bollius.in which
was a large quantity of valuable record
material, drawings, etc , all of wbiob
were consumed. In tbe second story
General Superintendent of Bridges and
Buildings Cameron bad bis offices, and
bere also was much material in tbe shape
of plans and drawings. Some ot these
were saved, though only a comparatively
small amount. In both offioee were such
records as referred to the detail workings
of tbe departments controlled by these
superintendents, and tbeir loss will seri
ously embarrass the officials. .. In the
baggage-room were 15 pieces of baggage,
five being sample cases belonging to L
Samuels, of Cincinnati, who lost four.
Only two trunks were saved from tbe
baggage-room. ,
Mo one seems to know bow tbe fire
originated. The loss o i the builling
was about $5,000, and tbe loss on the
fijtnresill joonside.rab'y ioreaa this
amount.
NO NlfiVV FINDS IN GltANT.
Ri port of Gold Discovery a Mistake.
-Ilea
Nearly Frozen to Keath.
Morning Orcgonian.
Long Cheek, Jan. 14 Tbe county
oourt of Grant county has ordered a tax
levy of 20 mills on tbe real uud personal
property, for county purposes, and 5 wills
for school purposes. Warrants aggre
gating 5,118 were ordered drawn on tbe
treasurer to meet expenditures for the
two preoeding months.
Mail contractors on the various stage
lines to and from Long Creek are having
great difficulty in getting through tbe
mountains on acoouot of tbe drifting
snow. Until last nigbt no mail was re
oeiyed from Heppner or Canyon City
since Monday. On tbe Dkiab route last
night Charles Taylor lost bi; way and
wandered around in the bills tcr hours,
and when nearly frozen accidentally ar.
rived at a sheep oamp and was directed
to this city.
The statement wblob has been made
by portions of tbe press of the state to
tb9 i ffeot that a rich gold field bad re
oently been found near Canyon Oity is a
mistake. No new oity has sprung up,
nor have any claims recently been lo
cated.
J. Garst, V. Offiaer, 8. Offloer aud E.
Officer, residents of tbe Dunville section
of this oonnty, passed through Long
Creek today, en route to tbe Atlin lake
gold fields.
PULLMAN TOWN TO BE BOLD.
Illinois rJaprtme Court Declares Against the
Palace Car Company Ownership
Special to the Globe-Democrat.
Chicago, III.. January 7. The Pall
mun Palace Car Company is going oat
of tbe business of conducting a model
town. The model city that was George
M. Pallman's pride will nu longer figure
an an asset of tbe company, and this is
the result of tbe proceedings instituted
by Attorney General Molo ey, in 1894. to
compel the oompany to do only the
busiuess authorizd by its charter the
manufacturing of railroad cars The
suit was one of tbe incidents of tbe big
strike of 1894.
Pullman was tbe realiz ition of tbe late
George M. Pallmao's dream of a model
community. It is situated ou Lake
Cftlumet. aud extends from tbe lake to
Pullman boulevard, aud from 1031 street
to 110! h street. The Und originally be
U bgcd to tb Pullman Lntid Association
and tbe Pii'lman Palaoe Car Company,
ti May, 1880, the wo'k of building the
tone whs begun. M"r than oOO men
wre employed in the preliminary work,
and this force was increased la 2000,
and the oity completed wi bio two
jeers.
Under the decision of the Hnpretne
court, the Pullman company is con
strained to dispose of the plaots of tbe
Pullman froo and Steel Company, tbe
Pullman Brick Company, and Ibe Pull
man Gas Company, and the Arcaile
hiiildinir. Ibe Hotel Florence, the market
hnildiDgs, two churches, the pnMie
school botiiw. the wxter mains, 20IX)
rlwel'it'gs, severd hundred acres of land
t.d 300 town lots. The population pf
PnllrflHJ i 12,000.
WORK ON COLUMBIA SOUTHERN
Suspended for the Season Country Tapped
by the Line.
Work has been suspended on the con
struction of tbe Columbia & Southern
railroad for the season, says the Worning
Oregonian, after tbe track bad been laid
from Wasoo, the 1897 terminus, a dis
tance ot 10 miles to Moro. Over 200
men were employed on the grade during
tbe season of 1897, and tbe total length
of tbe line thus far constructed is 29
miles south ot Biggs, tbe juootion with
theO. R.&N. Tbe oostot tbe construc
tion of this section is estimated at $60,-
000.
The priuoipal promoters ot tbe new
line, P. T. Lytle, of Tbe Dalles, and D.
C. O'Reilly, ot Portland, expect to ex
tend tbe line in 1899 as far south ss
Priueville, a distance by rail ot J 75 miles
from Biggs. Tbe grade follows tbe
meaudeiings of the most convenient
streams in going toward Prineville, and
will thus be somewhat longer than tue
direot distance between tbe two points.
This new road has tlready opened op
a large area of farming oountry in south
ern rjberman oonn y, and its oontmued
oonstruotion will tend to develop a large
buncbgrass area in Eastern Wasoo and
Northern Crook and it will bring tbe
whole ot Central and Southeastern Ore
gon much nearer to Portland, as It will
save a great deal of expensive wagon-road
freighting ot wool, and.'ivert all tbe Mal
heur aud Harney ooucty trade from
Winnemucua, Nev., to the proper and
lees expensive obannel toward Portland.
Farmers in the grain growing districts
adjaoeot to Wasco aud Moro are already
receiving several oents more in aocord
auce with Portland markets per buebel
on tbe grain stored in their looal ware
houses Iban tbey were two years ago.
when a long wagon road haul was nec
essary in getting tbe wheat to Jrant or
Biggs stations, ou tbe Columbia river,
and there is considerable more demand
for farm lands in tbe fertile Grass Valley
region, on the part of oasb purchasers.
Tbe extension of Ibe liue, according to
survey, will be by Rutledge, Kent and
Bakeoven postoffioes, and into Antelope,
thriving town in eastern Wasco, which
now contains a prosperous population of
600, and aspires to be county eeat ot tbe
proposed oonnty of Stockman. From
this point to Prineville, tbe line passes
through a rolling banobgrae region,
well wtMNdr but tnkb.Br rough lor tann
ing on a large euale. When the road
reuclies 1'rineville it will bring tbe traffic
ot all of southern Crook and tbe entire
oouutiea of Klamath and Lake to Port
land. Most of tbe business ot these two
latter oouuties finds its way to Sun Fran
cisco, either by Winnemuco ou the east
or by Alger on the west, in either case
involving loug, dangerous and difficult
trips to the respective stations, and long
hauls by rail to the bay of San Franoisco
afterward.
THANaPUHTINa INSANE.
Governor User's Plan Not Looked on With
Favor.
Governor Geer's purpose appears to
be to curtail slate expenses wherever be
oau, without impairing tbe servioe of
any ot its publio departments. Among
the reforms be has in view is one to
have insane persons oonveyed from vari
ous parts of tbe state to tbe asylum by
attendants of that institution, instead of
by deputy sheriffs, as is now tbe prac
tice. He also deprecates the praotioe as be
ing very indelicate ot having women
taken to tbe asylum by men.
At the sheriff's office today it was eai
that the governor s proposition would
not save tbe state a dollar in most
instances. All the sheriff now receives
for oonducting an insane prisoner to
to Salem is the bare aotual expenses
oonnecfed therewith. Besides that, tbe
state pays into tbe oonnty treasury $6
to reimburse tbe sheriff for two days'
servioe of one of his deputies.
"Tbe law requires insane persons to be
taken to tbe asylum at onoe after their
oommitmeot," said Deputy Meyer.
"This oould not be done aoder the
proposed reform," continued be. "Take
Union oonnty, or, tor that matter, any
of tbe oountles far remote from the
asylum; it would first require two or
three days to advise tbe asylum author
ities tbat a patient was awaiting tbem
there. Tbeo it would take several days
before an attendant could oall for him
or her. Tbe cost of maintaining such
person would in the meanwhile run into
quite a considerable sum.
Tbe consensus of opinion among disio
tereeted people is tbat tbe governor's
plan iu ibis respect Is not piactickble.
His Life Was Saved.
Mr, J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of
Hannibal, Mo., lately bad a wonderful
deliveranoe from a frightful death. In
telling of it be says: "I was taken with
typhoid fever, tbat rao into pneumonia.
My lungs became hardened I was so
weak I couldn't sit op in bed. Nothing
helped me. I expected to soon die of
consumption, wbeo I beard of Dr. King's
New Discovery, One bottle gave great
relief. I continued to use it, and now
am well and strong. I can't say too
mncb in its prates." This marvelous
medicine is tbe surest aod quickest core
in the world for all throat and lung
. trouble Regular sixes 50 oeuts aod (1.
Trial bottles free at Hlooqrq prug Cj
, E07 bottle guaranteed,
BTATE LAND DKPABTA1ENT.
Governor Lord's Discussion of the State Land
Question.
Oregon has been tbe beoefioiary ot
large land grants for various objects,
and muoh legislation has been devised
and enacted in regard to tbem, but oar
state has not realized tbe benefits and
advantages which it should bave re
ceived from tbem. All tbat oan now be
done is to take oare of and dispose ot
what remains, so as best to promote tbe
objects aod distribute tbe benefits ot
these grants. It is greatly to be regretted
tbat tbe law did not make better pro
vision for tbe segregation and mapping of
state lauds, tor indexing all sales of
them and disclosing tbeir looation, and
further providing that tbe officers in
obarge of tbe land oflioe, when requested
by a purchaser, or other interested per
son, should give tbe information asked,
as appeared on the reoord. It would
bave eaved purchasers muob unneces
sary expense, and greatly aided in con
ferring tbe benefits desigued to be given
by the grants. But, without legal pro
vision, tbe land department oflioe ought
to have adopted rales and regulations
that would bave served this purpose.
The reoords of tbe office ought to bave
been kept in snob a way tbat a person
desirous of purchasing a oertain piece of
state land oould easily ascertain its looa
tioo, whether it was taken or was tor
sale, without incurring the unnecessary
expense ot hiring a tbird party. By
neglecting to do so, it was only possible
tor Its officers, or those who badaoquired
speoial knowledge of the looatiooot state
lands, to consult tbe records as kept and
ascertain tbe desired facts. So oh a
mode of doing public business offers too
muob temptation for wrongdoing and
scandalous practices to justify its fur
ther oontinuanoe. Some of ourstatutes,
however, seem to bave been expressly
designed to enoonrage spoilation ot state
land purchasers. Tbe aim ot tbe present
land board has been to make tbe land
oflioe serviceable aod Inexpensive to
those having business with it, and, under
the direction and management of its effl
cient olerk and bis subordinates, tbe
reoords bave been classified aod ar
ranged, indexes and notations on the
maps have been made, and rnles and reg
ulations have been adopted, designed to
simplify and expedite tbe public busi
ness, and make inexpensive tbe doing of
business id tbe ls)nd department.
Iu oouuecti.n with the state lauds, it
needs to be meutioued tbat loans of the
school funds, in many instanoes, owing
to the bard times and over-valuation of
the land, bave proven bad investments
aud entailed losses upon 'the sobool fund.
In many of these loans the borrowers
bave defaulted in payment ot interest,
and the state baa been oumpelled to take
tbe security and to pay the oust ot tore
closure proceedings. These judgments
represent, in addition to tbe principal
loaned aud tbe oosts of suit, a large ac
cumulation of interest, wbioh lessens to
tbat amount the sobool fund iuterest to
be annually distributed for the educa
tion ot ohildren in our common eohoola,
Another source of loss and annoyance is
tbe sale of lands for taxes two or three
years overdue, without notice to tbe
board, thus entailing further fipense iu
redeeming tbem. Tbis loss ought to be
obviated by such legislation as would
make it unlawful to sell tor taxes any
seourity held by tbe state, without
proper notice to tbe land board in all
ioatances, where the taxes are io default,
and in snob oases making it tbe duty of
tbe board, upon such notice, to oause tbe
taxes lo be paid aod obarge tbe same to
tbe interest aocouot.and at onoe proceed
to procure a decree with the taxes iu
oluded. In making oolluotious, it has
been tbe policy, of the board to deal as
leniently as ciroomstanoes would permit
with debtors to tbe school fuoj during
tbe financial and industrial depression
wbioh so seriously affeoted the values of
property and oontracted tbe means ot
earning maney. To loan tbe sobool fund
and avoid losses is difficult. Tbe persons
oomposiog tbe board, though tbey be
oapable io other walks ot life, may not
possess tbat business sense aod judg
ment that is especially required in mak
ing loans. Tbeir sources ot information,
respecting tbe value aud sufficiency of
tbe seourity offered for tbe loans, are
through agents in tbe different oouutie
upon wh' se judgment tbey mostdepeod,
aud who are liable at times to reoom
meod loans tbat are oot desirable
through entreaty of friends and a yield
iog disposition.
Tbe speoial agent appointed to seleot
lauds, under tbe act ot 181)5, has prose,
cuted his work energetically aod efil
oiently, adding many thousand acres of
valuable land lo tbe publio domain
His report is full of valuable suggestions
relating to tbe disposition ot our public
lands, not least among wbioh is bi
reoommendatioo that the sot, oreatiog
his ( Aloe aud its duties, having aocom
plisbed tbe object for which it was en
acted, be abolished. There being, there
fore, no further need for the oontinuanoe
of tbe sot, I oonour in bis suggestion
aod recommend its repeal.
Voloanlo Eruptions
Are graod. but tkin eroptions rob life
of joy. Bncklen's Arnica Balve cures
them; itlso old, runutDg and fever sores,
ulcers, felons, boils, corns, warts, oats,
braises, burns, scalds, obapped baods,
chilblains. Besl pile cure on earth.
Drives out pains and aohes. Only 25
oeot a box. Cure gquraqtced. boJ by
Blooum Drq;f Co,
BAKER COUNTY'S DEBT.
Too Much Government and Too Little Taxa
ble Property.
East Oregonian.
Baker oounty owes a debt of 82f0,0OO.
Government in Baker oounty hns always
oust more than oould be raised by taxing
ordinary property. In abort, Baker
county bag bad too much government
ar d too little taxable property to support
it. But Baker oounty ia running over
with natural wealth. Baker county con
tains a number of mines that have net
yields ot 100,000 lo 1(300,000 annually. . ,
A few days ago from 20 tons of ore,
taken from one ot these mines, $63,000
;n gold was secured. Tbis partioulsr
mine is said to yield fully $300,000 a year.
This wealth is not tbe product of labor.
It is natural wealth, wealth created by
nature. It was never intended as the
property of a few individuals. There
fore, a goodly share of it should be
laken lo meet tbe expenses ot govern
ment. Wealth of tbis kind, obtained in
enob abundance, is tbe proper fund to
draw upon in order that government
may be curried on. Enterprise and in
dustry should oot be made to oarry all
tbe burden ot government. Fortunate
"finds" ot tbis kind should be shared
with the onmmunity or government.
The Est Oregonian is confident that
not a mine in Baker county is taxed as
much as $100,000, while some ot them
are valued at high as $1 000,000. While
other property in Baker oounty is taxed
on 60 lo 75 per cent ot its true or selling
value, produotive mines are probably
not taxed at all. They should be taxed
tbe same as other property, aooording
to tbeir value, based upon tbeir net
annual output, whioh can be ascertained
by the assessor with little exertion.
Probably if this were done the publio
wou d not read so much io the news
papers about tbe fabulous riohes of oer-
ain mines and other biles in tbe
ground. If Baker county will intelli
gently proceed to take her own a share
of tbe returns ot her very produotive
mines through taxation, witbio a
years sbe will not bave suob a debt,
which, at all times, stands as a denial ot
her riobes, as well as a barrier to honest
industry and legitimate enterprise.
Wipe tbe debt put, and at tbe same
time either prove that the riobes of tbe
mines, we bear so muob about, really
exists, or destroy tbeir inflated values'
through the olab ot taxation. Inflation
s the consort of Speculation aod second
oonslo to Theft.
WARM AND WELCOMED
Balmy Chinook Made Green the Grass of the
Heppner Hills.
Morning Oregonian.
People who are unfamiliar with the
great stnok raising industry eist of the
Cascade mountains can hardly appre
ciate the value of a warm wind there.
Tbe obinook winds wbiob come to that
section are the salvation of tbe oountry.
They suddenly start np in response to
general request when tbe whole country
is oovered with snow, and in a few days'
blow, without the aid of sunshine, they
will wear out and melt tbe snow and
agaio brings green grass to the surface.
And II is ireeu grass that tbe stock
oountry waots.
Henry Blaokmao, of Heppner, ex state
senator of Morrow and adjoining oouu
ties, is io Portland, and gives an inter
esting aocount of conditions np there.
Tbe welcome obinook wind oame Mon
day and oontinued over Tuesday, and
by Wednesday the eigbt inobes of snow
was melted off tbe south slopes of Ibe
Heppoer bills, between tbe town and tbe
western spur of tbe Blue mountains. A
few miles north ot Heppner, near Judge
Dutton's ranch, the warm wind spent
itself and tbe suow still stood. Where
it had melted, it soaked. into the ground,
nourishing the grassroots and oaosing
no floods, and Willow creek at Heppoer
did not raise. On Wednesday tnorniug
there was a fresh fall ot soow at Hepp
oer, but a obinook wind melted it all off
tbe same day.
Tbere bsve been no losses of sbeep ia
tbe Heppner bills, and there is plenty ot
bay In feed through storms. Tbe wool
situation at Heppner remains about tbe
same. Growers are still holding for
from 13 to 15 cents, and oo receot sales
bave been made. Three carloads of wool
have reoeutly been shipped from Hepp
oer on consignment, representing the
clip from 11,000 sheep.
Heppner town Is in good shape, its
merchants are doing a good business,
and its 1200 people are prosperous.
Everybody tbere is pleased with tbe
new time schedule, wbicb makes it pos
sible and pleasant to make day trips be
tween Heppoer and Portland. Passen
ger trains now leave Heppner at 10 a. m.
and arrive at Portland at o:lu p. m.
Leave Portland at 2:20 p. m, reaoh
Heppner ut 10:15 p. m. Tbn railroad
oompany bas the thanks ot the Heppoer
people for snob, a satisfactory schedule,
for formerly it was an all-Digbt journey.
Dp tbere everybody is saying a good
word tor the O li. A N. Cj., praising i's
polioy and taklug pride Iu Ibe faot tbat
it is an Oregon institution, and its liber,
ality lo the Iowa is highly appreciated.
The Heppner branch has always been a
splendid feeder for the O R. . N. sys
tem, end furnishes vast quantities of
wool, wheat and livrstook, aud the
supplies for an Immense surrounding
region are distributed from Heppner, the
railroad lerminqs;,