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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1899,
NO. 734
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PEOFESSIOITL OAEES,
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. &. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
C M. Charlton
ATTORNEY AT LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Collections promptly attended to.
Heppner, . . . Oregon.
S. A. D. Gurley,
A TTORNEY-A T-LA W.
Practictoner In all State and
Federal Courts.
ARLINGTON
OREGON
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
"iiwrii ana l,aPiU f lklNUo.
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at residence on Chase street.
Uovir.iinent land script for sale.
D E. Gilman
GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old books and notes in his
hands and get your money out of them
them. Makes a specialty of hard collec
tions. 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
TONSORIAL ARTIST.
Shaving, - 15 Cents
Hair Cutting, 25 "
Shop, Matlock Corner, Heppner, Oregon.
A. Abrahamsick
Merchant Tailor
Pioneer Tailor of Heppner.
His work first-class
and satisfactory.
Give him a call May Street.
Gordon's
Feed and Sale Stable
Has fast been opened to the
public and Mr. Gordon, the
proprietor, kindly Invites his
friends to call and try his
first-class accommodations.
Flaxxty of Ha.y add (3-ro.ln. fox Sale
Btable located on west side of Main
street between Win. Scrlvner's and
A. M. Gunn'g blacksmith shops.
For the ladies A fine horse and lady's saldle.
LIHKRTY MARKBT
THE OLD SHOP!
Is the place to go to get your fine pork
and lamb chops, steaks and roasts.
Fish Every Friday.
Fine sugar-cured hams and bacon. Pure leaf
lard, kettle-rendered, old style. Highest cash
price paid for at stock.
Bock &, Mathaws.
IV
Stage Line
B. F. MILLER, Prop.
Cheapest and most direct route to John Day
alley. Canyon City mining district, Burns ami
other Interior points.
Stages leave Heppner Daily, Sunday ex
cepted, at 6:30 a. m. Arrive at Canyon City
in 21 hours.
Leave Canyon City at 4 p. m., arrive at Hepp
ner in 21 hours connecting with trains.
HEPrNER TO MILES FARE
Hard man 20 1.60
Monument T. 55 4 00
Hamilton (15 4. 75
Jong Creek 75 8.50
Fox Valley 83 6.00
John Day J(I2 g 00
Canyon City 104 8 00
Stages connect with trains at Heppner.
Note. Having stocked up this line with new
covered coaches and good teams I am prepared
give first-class service to the public.
ARLINGTON-FOSSIL
STAGE LINE
H. REED A p .
A. G. OQILVIE f Fropn
ietora.
FARE FROM ARLINGTON TO
Fossil (60 mile)... I j 00 Konnd trip 9 00
Mavrille (53 mile). 4 00 Round trip 700
Condon (39 miles).. 3 00 Round trip 600
Clem (28 miles) .... 2 00 Round trip 1 90
Olez (19 miles) 150 Round trip J50
Stage leaves Arlington every morning
(Sunday excepted) at 6 o'clock; ii rloe
at Oondon at 3 p. m. and arrives at Fos
il at 7 p. n.
Gomfortabla covered coaobes sod ears
ol. experienced driven.
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similating theToodandRegula
ling th&Stcunachs andBowels of
EromotesTJicstion.Cheeifiii
ttess and BesLContains neither
OpiumMorphine nor Mineral.
Not Narcotic.
PmiplaH 5mi"
j4lx.Stnna
Seed
Imerrmnt -ift
CafitmatSodt,
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Sugar .
ItiMrarvot riarcr.
Apcrfecf Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea,
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
NEW YORK.
EXACT COPY OF WBAPPEB.
piRST Rational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA.
T. A. RHEA.
rrexiueui
..Vio President
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Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OP THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD i V
Collections made on all points on reasonable terms. 8urplus and undivided pronto 35,000.
GOLD GOLD
You can save it
Who carry a
Gilliam
Of Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Graniteware, Tinware, Agricultural
xmpiemenis, wagons, Hacks, JKtc., Taints and Oils (the best in
the world). Crockery and Glassware.
Give us the cash and you can get as good and as manjuoods from us as you
can get laid down in Heppner from anywhere. This we guarantee.
That 14-Year Old
Kohn's Best,"
On Tap Down at The
TELEPHONE SALOON
IT 1(3 RARIS GOODS
New Stand, City Hotel Building,
LOW TlIvLARD, Prop.
Gopd Goods....
Fair Prices.i
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T. R. HOWARD'S.
-I Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
"J Tinware and Furnishing Goods.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Fine Teas and Coffees. -
OT. R. HOWARD,
WHOSE BUSINESS
If a man'i in love that's bis businese;
If a girl's in love that's her business;
if tbey get married it's onr bnainpaa
to furnish their home from kitchen to parlor ns weoarry a roost complete Block o
Furniture, Carpets, Mailings, Wall Paper, Stoves, Ranges, Graniteware, Tinware, Elf.
And it.syoor bnsioees to drop in, examine goods and get prices.
WELLS & CO., Heppner, Or.
Spring is bere
Purify your Blood and enjoy it.
Slociim's Sarsaparilla
With iodide of potassium will do it to perfection.
Largest bottle of Sarsaparilla on the market.
Price Sl.OO.
Slocum Drug Co. Opposite POSt OHlGG.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
of
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
TMC CENTAUR COMPANY, NfWVOM CITY.
ivi. vv. iJUWaniK Cashier
E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Cashier
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by trading with
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W0SHINBTOK LETTEB.
GREAT FOREST RESERVES OF
AMERICA.
Th Caacada Range Reserve of Ore
gon tha Largtat--Commiaaion-ar
Hormann'a Knowledge
of these Reaervea.
Washington, D. 0., Judo 8th.
The forest reserves of the great
American republic occupy as much
territory as the entire state of
Washington. The largest of all
these is the great Cascade reserve
in the state of Oregon. The re
serves of the Cascades of Oregon
and the Sierra Nevadas of Califor
nia are the most considerable of
all. While the facts as to the
forest reserves in the United
States will interest people gener
ally , the people of Oregon will be
glad to learn of the reserves lying
in our own state, lour readers
will therefore appreciate that I
have gotten the details bo as to be
able to state the important par
ticulars. Under an act passed March 3,
1898, 36 forest reserves had been
established by presidential procla-
mation, exclusive of the great
Alfognao forest and fish culture
reserve in Alaska. As three of the
39 reserves lie in two states, these
are twice enumerated, so that there
are actually but 86 such reserves
in all. The three alluded to are:
The Bitter Root reserve, lying in
both Montana and Idaho; the
Black Hills reserve, in Dakota and
Wyoming, and the Priest river re
serve, in Washington and Idaho.
The Cascade range reserve of
Oregon is the' largest, as it con
tains an area of 4,492,300 acre?.
The Bitter Root reserve is next
in size, containing 4,147,200 acres,
located in Idaho and Montana.
Next in size is the Sierra reserve
in Northern California, with about
4,096,000 acres. The four reserves
in Washington, including part of
the Priest river reserve, are esti
mated at 8,000,000 acres. The re
serves in Oregon are about 4,653,-
440 acres.
While the law referred to was
passed in 1891, nothing practically
was done in the way of adminis
tering and organizing these forest
reserves until the summer os 1898,
when the first important appro
priation for that purpose became
available. The magnitude of the
work of systemizing this adminis
tration was so great and the time
so short, after the appropriation
to June 30th beoame available.
the season being so advanced, and
there necessarily was delay in per
fecting such system as was neces
sary. Commissioner Hermann, how
ever, was greately interested in
the question as especially pertain
ing to his state Oregon and had
personal knowledge as to the im
portance of the matter for all
forest regions of tb public do
main. Under his able manage
ment the general land office has
earned much from the experience
of last seasoD, and has adopted a
system of reports in detail on
various subjects, bo have estab-
ished a uniform system of respon
sibility, to the end that it may
have at all times a perfect knowl
edge of the conditions existing in
each reserve. These have been
divided into nine superintenden
ces, a forest superintendent being
appointed for each district. In
Oregon, Mr. S. 15. Ormsby, of
Salem, is superintendent of re
serve in that state. Id Washing
ton, D. B. Shelter is superintend
ent, including; prt of the Priest
river reserve. James Glendinning,
of Grangeville, Idaho, superin
tends that portion of the Bitter
Root and Priest river reserves that
lie in Idaho. Each forest super
intendent is responsible to the
United States general laud office
for bis care of the reserves under
his care. Under these superin
tendants are supervisors, usually
one for each reserve, and for the
larg reserves sometimes three are
required. In several cases a sup
ervisor has more tha oce re
serve. There are in all 35 super
visors.
The Cascade forest reserve in
Oregon is divided into three su
pervisor districts, and the Bitter
Root in Idaho into two such dis
tricts. Each reserve is also divid
ed into rangars subdivisions, or
patrol districts, under the super
visors, who constantly patrol the
distriots assigned them. There
will be 250 rangers for duty from
June 1st to October 15, 1899, mak
ing the maximum number of
rangers 350.
Fires are the great destroyers of
the forests. The officers and
rangers are directed to bend every
effort to guard against fire and ex
tinguish it when discovered. The
question of fires is one that every
Oregonian oan appreciate, for they
are familiar with the destructive
rage of fires that have laid bare
so great an area of the mountains
of Oregon. Each ranger wears a
badge of office as evidence of his
authority. Fire notices are placed
in all conspicuous places.
In his report for the year end
ing June 30, 1898, Commissioner
Hermann gave many faots as to
the existing reserves and their
management, but so many changes
have taken place since then that
the system may be said to have
been remodeled.
The entire reserve system of the
United States is over 46,000,000
acres, equal to the area of the state
of Washington. Alaska has the
great Afognao reserve, space not
ascertained; Arizona has the Qrand
Canyon reserve, 1,851,520 acres;
also the Prescott reserve, 10,000
acres; California has the San
Gabriel timber land reserve, 555,
520 acres; the Sierra forest reserve,
4,096,000 acres; San Bernadino
reserye, 737,280 acres; the Trabuco
canyon reserve, 39,920 acres; the
Stanislaus reserve, 691,200 acres;
Pine mountain and Zaca reserves,
1,644,594 acies. Idaho and Mon
tana together have the Bitter Root
reeerva, 4,147,200 acres. Idaho
and Washington have the Priest
river reserve, 1,382,400 acres. Ore
gon has Bull Run reserve, 142,080
acres; the cascade reserve, 4,190,-
800 acres; Ashland reserve, 18,500
acres. Washington has the Wash
ington reserve, 3,594,240 acres;
the Olympia reserve, 2,188,800
acres; the Mt. Ranier and Pacifio
reserves, 967,680 acres.
Each superintendent is required
to pass on the efficiency of all the
rangers under him, and his recom
mendations are regarded by the
commissioner. No excuse will be
accepted for idleness or neglect of
duty on the part of the ranger.
Constant patrol is required of them
foi the area allotted to each one.
A ranger who is unfaithful at
his post of duty, or indifferent,
will be dismissed. No pull
can save him. Forest fires are
too formidable to be overcome,
therefore, Commissioner Hermann
counts most on a system of pre
vention, and realizes that this will
require constant vigilance, activity
and thorough patrol of the forests.
Another good service to be ex
pected is that the ranger is to be
ex-oflicio, also a game warden.
Poachers will hereafter contend
with the government's paid offi
cials, as the government will not
only protect the timber in the
forests, but the game as .well.
S. A. Clahke.
A Progi-MHre Ballro&d.
lbs Rio Orande Western railway,
otberwiaa known aa "Tbe Ureal Halt
Lake Route," ia and baa beeo, ainoe tbe
opeoiug of the "Ogdeo gateway," the
popular trana oootioental ronte between
tbe Feoiflo northwest and the East. To
add to iti popularity, arrangement
have been made to make ita train aervioe
and eij'iipment auperior to any of ita
oompstitora. Already, the running time
ot ita leveral expreai traina baa been ont
don ao that paasengera from Portland
reaob Chicago in last than (onr dayi,
and New York io lea than five daya.
EfTeotive May lit, a perfaot dining oar
aervioe will be established. This will
make the trip via Halt Lake City tbe
ideal one. 10 ruriuer add to the Com
fort o( iU patrons, baodsome exoorsion
tourist ear are being built for tbe run
between Portland sod Chicago. With
the dioiog oar aervioe established and
tbe new tourist cars running, there will be
little to be added to make a perfect train.
for information as to ratea, etc., apply
t the nearest ticket office of either 0. Ii.
k N., or Southern Paoifio. or addresa
i. u. Mnnneid, general agent, Hi 31
'street, rortlud,Qr,
JEFFBIES CHAMPION
Fitzsimmont Gives Jeffries Credit With Win
ing the Championship Fairly sod Squarely
Evening Telegram
New Yobk, June 10 Big Jim Jeffries
last evening beoame the obampion heavy
weight pneliat of the world, defeating
Robert Fitziimmona in the 11th round
of a contest before the Coney Island
Athletio CI nb of New York. Qeorga
Siler, who referred tbe fight, said in an
interview today:
"It was a Dice, olean fight with no at
tempt on either aida to foul. Bath men
seemed to do their beat to avoid any vio
lations of tbe rules. Of oourse, when
big men like these get tired there i
more or less olinobiog. Io my opinion
Jeffries had a shade the bast of it for tbe
last aeven rounds. Jeffries is unques
tionably a young man of remarkable
strength. It was a good fight from start
to finish and the best man woo."
Kx-Champion Robert Fitzaimmona
said to a World correspondent:
"I fully expected to win, but I did not.
Jeffries won beoauae he was the best
man. I oauld not believe that he had
improved so muoh. Hi is young,
strong, quick and olever. I have no ex
oase to make on tbe aoore of condition
and oonfldenoe. I was in perfeot trim,
better than I really was before, and I
fought the best I oould. Whereas, I
fully expeoted to win, I did not hold my
man cheap. That ia something I was
never guilty of.
"Jeffries is now tbe champion ot the
world beyond question, and is entitled
to all the praise that miy bi showered
upon bim. He won the title fairly and
squarely and he now haa a ohanoe to
make a great deal of money. Lot bim
go ahead aod get It, and I, tor one will
not molest him for the present. Of
oourse I may challenge him, but it was
all so sudden that I have not had time
to deoide just what I will do. It ia im
probably that I will ask him tor another
ohanoe."
James J. Corbet said :
"It proves just as I predicted. When
Jeffries waa my sparing partner at Oar-
son at the time I prepared for my fight
with Fitzsimmons, I knew that he bad it
in bim, though be waa then immature.
Fitzsimmons would not fight me. But
in Jeffries I got the man who I knew
oould defeat bim Jeffries was never In
danger. When I went to his room be
fore tbe battle I told him to go io and
fight aa soon as the gong rang. I told
bim if Fitziimmona would not fight in
tbe first rouo.3 to go at him. He did it.
"In the third round ha had Fitzjim-
mons going. It was a splendid battle
and Jeffries did tbe fighting. This
proves what I have always said that a
good boxer with a good left band oould
defeat Fit.iimaious. JelFrtes possesea
all the qualities of a great boxer. H is
oompateot to defend bia proud title
against any fighter on earth. Ha does
not laok ring soienoe nor generalship.
The flight showed be was quioker tbau
Fitzsimmons."
Kid McCoy said: "The flzbt went
longer than I expeoted to sea it. It la
needless to say that I was greitly sur
prised at Jeffries' wonderful improve-
meit. He proved himself mors scieu
tiflo, quicker and with better judgement
than I anticipated. Fitzjimmoas, who
is one of tbe clevereat fighters and best
generals in the ring, should have won
tbe figbt. It was a magniffoent battle,
and at the start it look el as if Fitzsim
mons would win it. I looked for a
shorter fight.
"It I were asked what made Fitzsim
mons lose I would say simply Jeffriti.
He proved .himself a great fighter, and
will defend his title. Tbe fight itself
bowed the evident tsot that a very
olever man at 157 pounds is no match
for a very clever man at 210. I had no
idea that so big a man aa Jeffries oould
be ao fast. I was not less surprised at
bis gamness. Io the seventh and eighth
rounds, when tbinga looked bad for
Jeffries, be osme baok qnlokly. Tbe
severe pnoisbmeot seemed to whet bia
appetite rather than to disoourage him.
"The first few rounds of the figbt,
hiring tbe first knookdowo, were Fitz
simmons'. Almost every man oan oome
bank after a defeat. He ia still middle
weight obampion of the world."
Champion Jeffries said: "Tba figbt
was never for a moment in donbt so far
as I waa oonoernad. I knew wbat I
should do when I entered tbe ring and
I grew mora confident every moment
from tba time the gong first sounded.
Fitzsimmons never hurt me bnt onoe
and tbat was a bard blow in tba left
eye. His body blows did not have near
tbe force tbey may bave seemed to.
In my estimation I bad the best of eyery
round.
"Fitzsimmons was a good, clean
Bghter, and be la probably tba best man
of bia weight In tbe country, If not in
tbe world. I wish bim auoess for tbe
future. I believe I am the best man in
the world, and am willing to defend tbe
title, wbioh I have wod."
After the knook ont blow had been
dealt, Chief of Police Devery jumped to
the outer edge of the ring and waited
for tbe referee to oount tba fatal 10 sec
onds. Ha stepped into tbe rinj then,
aod bia men surrounded it. Ha waa
asked ia tbe ring by a reporter whether,
io accordance with bis declaration of
few daya ago, he would arreat the prin
cipals.
"Wait a few momenta and wa will
tee," be replied, And then as he saw
tbat Fitzsimmons had recovered suffici
ently to sit up and answer tbe greeting
and hend-BbBke Jeffries offered, be
added : ' 'No, there will be no arrests.
Fitzsimmons ia all right now and the
law has not been violated. Ha ia as
well aa when he entered tbe ring, accord
ing to the report of Dr. Creamer, who
examined bim, so ao arrest is not neoes
eary. "I wish it to be said, and said dis
tinctly, tbat neither Mr. McLaughlin
nor any other man made me change my
opinion regarding the stand I took two
days before tbe figbt. I would bays
stopped tbe fight in a minute if I had
reen anything tbat was a violation of
ibe law."
THE ASYLUM MANAGEMENT.
How the Body ot of a Patient Was Prepared
for interment.
Miss Laura Donaldson, an inmate of
the asylum of the insane at Salem, com
mitted suioide a tew days ago, aod ber
friends at her home at The Dalles asked
tbat ber body be sent to them, "suppos
ing, of oourse," says Tba Dalles Cbroni
ole, "the remains would reoeive auoh
attention as the exigencies ot the case
demanded. When tbe remains reached
The Dalles tbe undertaker was surprised
to find tbe oofflo had no outside cover
ing, suoh as coffins are usually incased
in. However, little waa thought ot tbe
matter; but when tbe corpse was ex
amined he was shocked at tbe little at
tention whioh it had received, having
been what one might term, thrown in
tbe ooffio, whioh contained no lining
and but a very email pillow, part excel
sior and part small blocks, with no
appliances suoh are used to prevent tbe
body from shaking about. Worse than
all, the proper olothing had not been
put on the body, a night gown being the
only garment ot olotbiog, and her hair
seemingly bad not been combed tor
some time, and hung over her face.
Miss Donaldson was no pauper, but
sufficient property was left by ber father
to give her a respectable burial, which,
thanka to friends, she reoeived.
She has a large number of friends here
who are justly indignant at the manner
tn whioh her remains were treated.
A question just here suggests itself to
everyone, if tbe dead reoeive inch treat
ment, how about tbe living?
OOU GOLD BELT,
Mining Expert Says It is Unexcelled Any
where In the World.
Oregonian : Colonel Frank V. Drake,
who recently oame from the Sparta
mines, reports tbat the plaoer mines are
very active in that locality, being favored
with an unusual supply of water this
spring. Nearly all the old gulohes,
which bave been worked for 30 yeara
past, and which have yielded gold ap
proximating $6,000,000 in value, are atill
being worked for their treasure. Lim
ited water supply baa prevented exten
sive operations, and beyond a few weeks
io eaob year, practically little oan be
dona.
Exploration for the lodes tbat fed
these placers has, strangely enough, been
tentative, and extremely limited. This
branch ot the industry ot getting gold ia
now receiving some attention.
Some two yeara ago ba met Angus D.
MoQaeen, a leading and reliable expert
on mineral localities aod mines, at
Sparta, and since tbat time Colonel
Drake, who long ago predioted great
things from Oregon mines, has obaerved
Mr. MoQaeen's movements io inspecting
tbe gold belt which lies in Union, Baker
and Grant counties-
Mr. McQueen waa reoently in Port
land, and in a disonsaion with Colonel
Drake on the 16tb ioat., touobiog Ore
gon's mineral future, expressed in un
qualified terms his opinion tbat "the
mineral belt interesting those oountiea
ia tbe most extensive and valuable in
tbe world." Upon request he consented
tbat bis opinion ao expressed might ba
quoted by Colonel Drake.
Mr. McQueen stands pre-eminent in
bis profession, and upon bis judgment
millions ot dollars bave been profitably
inveated in various localities ot the
mighty West.
But an bour or two before his assassi
nation, President Lincoln, in addresaing
Schuyler Colfax, then juet starting on
his Journey overland to tba Paoifio, de
clared that ''the mountains ot the West
would prove to be tbe treasury ot tba
world."
The marvel ia that people are so slow
in learning tbe truth of tbis prophecy.
BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Eastern Oregon Association to Be In Sessloa
at Pendleton Beginning Jans V9.
On Thursday, Jans 29, Pendleton will
bave present a large number of Baptist
olerioal aod lay delegates, who will oome
to attend tbe sessions ot tba Eastern
Oregon association. Tbe association
will be here in session from Thursday,
the 29tb, over tba following Sunday.
It is expeoted that uo less than 60 will
oome from other towns, and with tha
members and frienda of the oburon who
will oome in from tba town here aod
near by to attend tbe meetings, will
make large and Interesting sessions.
Soms very prominent clergymen will
ba present, and tha Baptista will have
profit aod pleaaura ia entertaining tha
association, East Oregonian. '
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