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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER MORROW CQUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1809,
NO. 738 ,
PEOFESSIOITAL C-A-RaOa.
BOH. W. R. KLLIS.
DEATH BY A TRAP GUN.
MR. BOIRDMAN PROTESTS.
A UORBK ROUNDUP.
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C E Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Otlico 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.
C At Charlton
ATTORNEY AT LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Collections promptly attended to.
Heppner, . . . Oregon.
S; A. D. Gurley,
A T'fORiVE Y-A T-LA W.
Practicioner in all 8 uto and
Federal Courts.
ARLINGTON
OREGON
A. Hal lory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds o LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINGS
Collection? made on reasonable terms.
Olllee at residence on Chase street.
Govi r.unont land script for sale.
D. E- Giltnan
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. OHice 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-
Shop, Matlock Corner, Heppner, Oregon.
A, Abrahamsick
Merchant Tailor
Pioneer Tailor of Heppner.
His work first-class
and satisfactory.
Give him a nail May Street.
Gordon's
Feed and Sale Stable
HasluBt been opened to the
public and Mr. Oordon, the
proprietor, kindly invites his
frimids to call and try his
first-class acenmmnriatinna.
nwaa.ty.of Hay Q-raiaa. fox Sail
Stable located on west side of Main
street between. Wm. Scrivner's and
A. M. Quun's blacksmith shops.
For the ladies A fine horse and lady's saldle.
tlBBHTY MARKET
THE OLD SHOP!
Is the place to go to get your fine pork
and lamb chops, steak and roasts.
Fih Every Friday.
Fine sugar-cured hams and bacon. Pure leaf
lard, kettle-rendered, old style. Highest cash
price paid for at stock.
Bock & Mathews.
m CITY
Stage Line
B. F. MILLER, Prop.
Cheapest and most direct route to John Day
valley, Canyon City mining district, Burns ana
other interior points.
Stages leave Heppner Daily, Sunday ex
cepted, at 6:30 a. in. Arrive at Canyon City
In ii hours.
I.ave Canyon City at 4 p. m., arrive at Hepp
ner in 24 hours connecting with trains.
ilKITNER TO
MILES FARE
20 llflfl
.V) 4.00
85 476
75 6.50
n 6 on
102 8 00
104 B 00
Hardman
Monument
Hamilton
inng Creek
Fox Valley
John Day
Canyon City
Stages connect with trains at Heppner.
Not. Having stocked np this line with new
covered coaches and good teams I am prepared
give first-class service to the public.
ARLIN6T0N-F0SSIL
STA6ELINE
OFoSlLVIEjPPriet0r'
FARE FROM ARLINGTON TO
Fossil (60 miles). ..1500 Round trip 19 00
Mayville (53 miles). 4 00 Round trip 700
Condon (39 miles).. S 00 Round trip (00
Clem (28 miles).... 200 Round trip 850
Olf x (19 miles) 1 50 Round trip 8 50
Stage leaves Arlington every morning
(Sunday exopted) at 6 o'clock; is doe
el Oondon at 3 p. m. and arrives at Fos
sil at 7 p. m.
Comfortable covered coach,? gpg C5f9
The Kind You Have Always
in use lor over so years,
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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 CASTOR I AIRWAYS
' Bears the
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THt OIHTU 8MHIH, TT MURV TmiT. HtW YORK 8ITV. -
plBST ATIONAL JANK
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA Pretiident I i. W. OONSER...'. Cashier
T. A. RHEA Vio President E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Oasbiei
Transact a General Banking, Business J, I
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THB WORLD BOUGHT AND BOLD '
Collections made on all points on reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits 835,000.
GOLD GOLI) GOLD
You can save it by trading with
1 4 n
Who carry a
billiam
COMPLETE II1VE
Of Heavy aDd Shelf Hardwaro, Graniteware, Tinware Agricultural
implements, wagons, hrcks, lite., Jfaints and Una (the best in
the world). Crockery and Glassware. ' ' ! 1
Give us the cash and you can get as good and as mauy Hoods Irom us as you -can
get lu'd down in Heppner from anywhere. This we guarantee.
That 14-Year Old
Kohn's Best,"
.... On Tap Down at The r.
TELEPHONE SALOON
see IT i RARE GO on J '
New 8taad, City Hotel Bnildioff,
LOWmivAfiD,Prop,
WHOSE BUSINESS
If a man's in love that's bis busiDeesj
If a girl's in love that's ber busioees;
If Ibey set married it's our business
to farnisb their heme from kitcbeo to perloras we oarry a most oomplete stook (.
Furniture, Carpeti, Mattings, Wall Paper, Stoves, Ranges," Graniteware,' Thkm, ti
And it.syonr bneiDPSs to drop in, examine goods and get prioea. J
WELLS & CO., Heppner, Or.
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A New and
Sofas
Parlor Tables -Dining
Room Tables
Iron Bedsteads
Bedroom Sets
Mattrasses, all grades. Pillows.
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XJnclejrtalcejr,.
New Place of Business
next dcor to Gilliam &,Bisbee's
Main Street, Heppner, Oregon.
Bought, and which has been
has borne the signature of
' - ana has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Signature of
"As
Stuff,
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ISJI?:
Complete StocK
Upholstering
Picture Framig
Sewing Machines
Wheeler & Wilso
Latest Improvements
L. Yeager,
Disb'ee
Orates at the Sherman County Celebration
on the Fourth .
Sherman County Observer.
It would reqiire mora time thun we
oommaad today to enter into detail of
the oelebration ia Sherman county this
week at Moro. Oar city barns were
filled with county b.irss. Around our
hotels and private, tables were feasted
many hundred neighbors farmers, their
wives and families; who oam3 to join
with ns in celebrating the great National
holiday.-. All wbo were here, especially
all who heard the oration of Hon. W. B.
Ellis, must agree that this Republic
never retreats. He said :
"Why should it retreat. . The republio
is Ibe highest form of civilization and
oivilizatioo mast advance. The re
public's young men are the most virile
and nnwasted of the world and they
pant for enterprise worthy of their power.
The repablio's preparation has been tbe
self-Jieoipline of a oentary, and that
preparedness has found its task. The
repablio's opportunity is as noble as its
strength, and that opportunity is here.
The republic's duty is saored as Ub
opportunity ig, real, and Americans
never desert their duty. The demon
strations in tbe United States last Tues
day, here and elsewhere, teach that
there Is not, anywhere on earth, a nation
with which we would change plaoes.
In tbe epirit of Lioooln's words, "With
malice toward none; with charity for
all," the United State is spreading the
blessings of oiviliz ition and enlighten
meat among the rso?s of tbe earth, aad
never was its mission of peaoe preserver
and civilizer io widely and so gratefully
recognized as it is today." The applause
aocorde i to Mr. Ellis in Moro plainly
show that tbe sentiment of 8herman
county people barmonizas with tbe sonti
ment that God did not make the Ameri
can people tbe mightiest human force of
all time simply t feed and die. He did
not give out race tbe broin of organize
tion a d heart bf domiaion to no par
pose and no eud; has - given as a past
equal to onr talents. He has appointed
tor as a destiny eijTal to .oar endow
ments; has m Bile ns tbe lords of civil
ization that we may adinibistar civiliza
tion. ON IS DttlNK TO EACH MAN..
And This Barkeeper Allows no gmokins-
Queer Inn in London Attracts Castoin.
Just off busy Bisbopgate. London, in
a email and somewhat "slumy" street,
there stands a public house remarkable
for the fact that in it one is allowed to
have only one drink and no smoke.
The proprietor of this quaint hostelry,
obviously a worthy citizeo, seeing that
he himself invented, so to speak, this
original system of doing basinets, has
been in tbe oooapation of tbe house
some twenty odd years.
Thither go all sorts and conditions of
men, from Ibe silk-hatted city man to tbe
railway porter, warehouseman or mere
mesaenger. . All have : just their one
drink and go out. Nor is it possible to
trick tbe proprietor by ordering, say a
bottle, and oslling it "one drink."
Mo; this one drink means a oertain
measure of beer, wine or spirits, sod
that a moderate one. On the walls of
tbe one bar, wbereio all and sundry are
treated alike, bang tbe printed rales of
tbe establishment in a frame, :,
They set forth bow that the proprietor,
deeming Ibat be may conduct bis busi
ness as be thinks best, and having at
bear! the cause of temperance, begs to
oall attention, etc. Then follow in
numbered order the sevoral rnles. Be
fore a customer oan have a seonfl dnuk
be must go away and atop away for at
least thirty or forty minutes.
One result of the slriotly enforced
rule against smoking is that the atmo
sphere is wonderfully clear, atd fresh.
Of ooursa do person is served should he
appear to be ever so sligbtl under the
influence of aloohol. Tbe result is per
feet order and a snbdaed quite.
The hours of closing, too, differ from
those of other bouses , ia tbe trude.
Eleven o'clock sharp sees tin bouse shut
on five nigbts iu the week. Oo Satur
days the boir is 12, and on Sundays, 10
To Ibis house the obif rabbi grants
bis special permit every Footecost to
sell "Kosher" rum to those of the Jew
ish community of tbe neighborhood.
Of ooorse, over and above the regular
customers anoy people are attracted to
this ioo out of pare oarioeity, The
tight-seeing and novxlty-bnnting Ameri
can finds it out ia bis rambles. Should
the ourofity monger, however, try to
ooai the men servers behind tbe bar into
a breaob of tbeir stern laws be is court
eoosly refused. Tbey are never osngbt
capping, try them ever so often.
Tbe list of carefully complied rnles
oonclodes with sn intimation that such
customers as do not oare to conform
thereto are "respeet'nlly rfoneatH to
transfer their custom to some other
establishment."
Working Night and Day
Tbe bnsiest and mightiest little thing
that evr wss made is Dr. King's New
Life Pills. Every pill ie a sugar-coated
globule rf bealtb. that ebangrs wpaknrss
into strength, listlessoase into energy,
brain-fag into mental power. They're
wonderful io building np the health.
Only 35o p Y1, So'3 fcj 8!"CJm
Di-ok Co,
An Unknown Bicyclist Bitot and Killed at
Bozeman, Mont.
Bniru. Mint, July 4-Aspaoial to the
Miner from Biz -man says:
,: A bioyolist was shot and killed last
night bat venn 6 and 7 o'olook in the
evening, about two miles northeast of
Chestnut. Ha was attempting to enter
the cabin of William Adanii, which is
olose to the Northern Pacific railway
and had just pried open tbe shutter to
tbe window when a trap gun was dis
charged and be reoeived the full foroe of
its ooctents in bis left side, from whiob
h9 died io about half an hour. .
Thie oabin has been robbed several
times and Adams bad taken this means
to protpo his property from tramps with
the above fatal results. The unfortu
nate was a large man of about 40yeara of
age, light oomplezion and mustaobe,
well dressed and riding a Rambler bioy
ole. His body was brought to Bozeman
this afternoon by the ooroner tor identi
fication. The deo eased was probably
some tourist riding through the oountry
and was too tired to ride to tbe nest
town and so tried to enter tbe cabiu for
tbe night. Tne authorities are reticent.
is It Malaria or Alum?
Popular Science Monthly.' '
' Languor, loss of appetite, indigestion
and often feverishuesa are the common
symptoms of a physiological condition
termed "mslaria." All these symptoms
may be and frequently are theeffe'otof
alum bakiug powders in food making
There is no qneetiou about the poisonous
effect of alum upon tbe system.- It ob-
struots digeatioo, prostrates the nerves,
coagulates and davitaliZ3S the-blood.
All this baj been mide cle.ir, thanks to
physioims, bu.irds of health aid tool
commissioners. . 8) "highly injurious to
the health of the oommunity," doss the
eminent head of tbe University of Penn
sylvania, Dr Barker, consider the alum
baking powders, that he snys "their sale
should be prohibited by law."
Under these ciraamitanots it is wortn
the while of every housewife to employ
the very little care neodsstry to keep so
dangerous an element from tbe food of
her family. , . .-. t...
A pure cream of tartar baking powder,
whiob is tbe only kind tint should b
used, ought to oost about 45 to 50 oants
a pound. Therefore, it you are panu.j
muoh less, something is wrong; if you
are paying 25 oents or leis par pound,
tbe powder is certainly mide from alum.
Always bear these aimple fno's iu win I
when purchasing baking powder.
8M A LLPuX AND VACCINATION.
Uoanlmons Verdict ia favor of Vaccination
Disease Cora is From Porto Rico or Cnba.
No part of tbe oountry is free from
smallpox. Nearly every state reports a
larger or smaller number of oases. Ac
cording to tbe latest report of tbe United
States marine hospital servioe, there
have been in this oountry 7418 oases of
smallpox sinoe December last, and 355
deaths from tbe disease, Tbs govern
ment urges tbe vaooination of all offloers
and orews of merchant vessels arriving
in tbe Atlantic and Qnlf ports, and oalls
tbe attention of health boards, both state
and muoioipal, to tbe need of general
vaccination among tbe people. Cases of
smallpox have recently been reported in
New Haven, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Louisville, Pittsbnrg and Niagara Falls.
Tbe disease appears to be especially
prevalent among soldiers, the oases in
Baltimore being at Fort MoHenry, and
those at Niagara Falls mostly In Fort
Niagara. Tbe inference is that tbe dis
ease was brought to this oountry from
Cuba and Porto Itico, and is spreading
from oeutert so formed.
It is impossible often to diagnose a
cass of smallpox until it has gone so far
as to become contagions, and the best
quarantine is tbe teaohing by boards of
bealtb of the absolute necessity of vaooi
nation as tbe most effective preventative
Tbere has been much debate whether
vaccination was really a prophylactic, 6r
not, and the debate still runs high ia
England. Bat tbe weight of authority
there, as elswbere, is greatly oo tbe side
of vaooination. Opponents of vaooina
tion assert tbat the real oause of lbs de
cline of smallpox is not vaccination, but
better limitation in general. Butter
sanitation has, indeed, buen a great
helper; but tbere have bwn too many
tests of the ellicienoy of vaccination to
permit aoy theory against it to prevail.
Io some oases, no doubt, there have been
bad results through introduction of
sypbililio or other poison , bnt the Medi
cal Iteoord says tbat Ibe oases in which
evil results have followed are few and
tar between, aad by tbe ude of animal
virus instead of tbe humanized, and by
tbe proper antiseptic care ia vaooination,
which is really a minor sargloal opera
tion, all of these ill effects can be avoid
ed. Oregonian,
Brave Men Fall
Victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as well as women, and all feel
the result in loss of appetite, poisons in
the blood, backache, Dervousuus, head
ache and tired, listless, run-down feel
ing. But there's no need to feel like
that, fiislun to J. W. Gardner. Idaville,
Iod. lie says: Electric Hitters are inst
tbe thing for anoan when be is all run
nuwu, auu uuu i care wneiner ne lives or
dies. It did more to irive me new alremth
and good appetite than anything I could
take. I can Dow eat aoythiug and have
e new lease on life." Only 60o at Hlo-
caa Drag Co'j, Every botile fjqrftq(ed.
Prominent Stockman from Montana Beceives
Pecalar Treatment. -J
M. Boardman, of Deer Lodge,
Moatana, has a strong protest to make
against the manner ia whiob the laws
of Oregoo are enforced, that is, the law
relating to the preservation of the moun
tain roads. He has no objection to a
reasonable interpretation of the law, but
claims tbat a road supervisor is not all
powerful, aad that suh bo offioar should
not be given the privilege of holding up
people as tbey pus ' aloog tbe puhlio
highway, .v. -i -.. i
This is tbe rather vigorous view ex
pressed by Mr- Boardman to tbe East
Oregonian, in speaking of so experienon
he and bis foreman, W. M. Butler, had
while taking to Peudleton the big band
of cattle which Mr. Boardmaa has just
shipped. . His story is as follows:
, ' I and my foreman and a number of
oattle men were bringing in the oattle,
apd were in tbe oountry between the
north and middle forks of tbe John Day
river. , We were 'avoiding tba- grades in
every place possible, and whenever it
was absolutely necessary to go along tbs
road, we Strang ttn oattle out and kept
them in the middle of the rond. We
were eareful to observe the law in every
particular, and did as we believe, no
damage to the road, or at least, vary
Hte. ...i......
, "The supervisor of tbat district io
Grant county, Mr. Bringbam, came to
me, aud Bpoke of tbe matter la a man
ner by no means indicating an intention
to proceed to mxke any arrests, and said
he would go and look ul tUe road and
if there had been done any damage.
Tbat was the last I saw of Mr. Briugbam,
until we reuobed Ukiab, when be put in
an appearance armed with a warrant
eaoh tor tbe arrest of me aud my fore
man, Mr. Butler. He read the warrant
to me, and then said that I could have
the option of submitting to arrest, or
paying 820 dollars damages to the
road, with $15 added as costs for going
to Loog Greek and coming baolt to Dale
and coming on to Ukiab. He had gone
to Long Creek to swear out a warrant
for my arrest.
"1 was, of oourse, compelled either to
pay tbe $35, or remain and fight the oase,
and, having between 1300 and 1400
oattle oo tba trail, I oonld do nothing
but pay the money.
"We have brought cattle over tbe
same roads before, and have been held
up on former occasions. Tbe road su
pervisor appeals to assess tbe damages
to the road as be sees fit, and there la no
help but to submit to bis diotation.
... "I desire to say that cattle buyers
need not necessarily come to Pendleton,
bat o n drive to Huntington or Ontario
just e well and will do so, if there is
going to be any snob holding up of
people passing along tbe highways."
, W. M, Butler, the foreman, said:
' Two years ago, I brought for Mr.
BotrJman twice as many cattle over tbe
same road, and hiied a man to put the
road buck into shape again, a man wbo
lived out in tbat part of tbe oountry.
He went over tbe road and looked at it'
imd offered to do the work tor $7.50.
whiob I paid him. . Tbere were, as I
saiJ, twice as many oattle, and it is
probable tbs damages, was at least as
as great as it was this yeer." :
Mr. Boardman has bought a very
large amount of oattle in this section,
during the past few years. He baa paid
to the oattle raisers in two or three
counties hereabouts a total of from $250,
000 to $300,000, and rather prefers Pend
leton as a shipping point, on aooounl of
tbe superior facilities afforded here.
But be does not propose to submit to
arbitary arrest, and states tbat in
this instance the supervisor gave no
intimation that be intended to take any
snob ooorse. He oould bave bad tbe
tbe matter adjusted without the resort
to arrest, and would bave paid any
reasonable amount of money. He loti
on ates tbat be will in tbe future take his
oattle around tbe other way, and give
PeDdluton the cold shoulder, but aug
ments that it would be profitable for
people here to take up Ibe matter, and
see that bis experiences are not made
the experiences of other oattle men wbo
are ooming to Pendleton to ship their
bands. ,
A l'ronrflve Railroad.
Tbe Itio Grande Western railway,
otherwise known as ''The Ureal Halt
Lake Route," is and bas been, siooe the
opening of tbe "Ogden gateway," the
popular trans continental route betweeu
tbe Pacific northwest aud tbe East. To
add to its popularity, arrangements
bave been made Io make its train servioe
awl equipment superior to any of its
i competitors. Already tbe running time
or its several express trains bas been out
down so that passengers from Portland
reach Chicago in less lhao four days,
and New York in less tbso five days.
Effeotive May let, a perfsol dining oar
service will he eslabliehed. This will
make the trp via Sail Lake City the
ideal one. To further add to the cum
fort of its patrons, handsome exoursion
lourisl oars are beiog built for tbe run
between Portland and Chicago. With
the dining oar eervice established and
tbe new tourist cars rnoniog, tbere will be
little to be added to muke a perfect train
For information as t rates, etc., apply
to tbe nearest ticket office of either O. Ii.
Ik N., or Southern Psoifio, or address
J. D. Mansfield, general agent 1(3 3d
iml, Portland, Or,
Visit to tbe Hors Ranges of Montana in the
. Year 1899.
"Did yon ever see a horse roundup?" queried
the stockman of a Philadelphia reporter. "No?
Well, you've missed the sight of your life. A
oattle roundup ain't in It with a horse roundup,
and I ought to know, for I've been in some of
the biggest of both kinds. A cattle roundup ia
exciting enough, perhaps, with the saddling,
up, the drive, the night herd, the stampede and
all that, but if you want real action you want
to see a horse roundup. , I guess it would be
pretty hard to find a horse roundup nowadays.
If horses are valuable they don't let 'em loose
like that and real wild range horses are hardly
worth rounding up any more. When I was up
in Montana in '82 there was a horse roundup on
nearly every range. . The Swedes and Norwe-. .
gians were coming into Dakota and taking up
the wheat lands. They had to have horses, but '
they couldn't pay over $75 or (100 a team, so
they bought almost anything in the shape of a
horse that was broke enough to to put a har
ness on.
"Range horses were pretty cheap up in Mon
tana then, though they were worth more then '
than they are now.- Borne buyers used to put
out a standing offer of $25 a head for any likely,
looking wild animal over 8 years old. They'd '
collect hundreds of these, take a bunch of horse .
wranglers and riders with them and drive over
land to Dakota.; The men would be breaking
horses to ride and drive all the way down.,
They'd go to some Dakota town and rent a
corral. Here they'd have headquarters. They'd '
break horses day and night, and it would't cost
much for feed, because they'd herd the bunch
out on the prairie. It nsed to be a great sight,
this breaking, but that isn't what I started to ,
tell you about.
For ten years before this the ranchers had
been raising horses in northern Montana just ,
like they raised cattle. That Is, they'd let them ,
run loose all the year round. In the summer
they'd have a colt roundup, only they'd pull it
olf toward fall, just before the beef gather.
The horsemen would hold a meeting and agree
upon the boundaries of a big cirole, say 2U0 ,
miles across. Each one would furnish so many :
men and saddle horses and they'd start on a
certain day on the outside of this circle anil .
drive all the horses they found toward the cen
ter, whore there was a big corral. This corral
had big wings built, one from It leading to the
gate, because driving horses was a different
thing from driving even the worst kind of cattle.
"Tbe men as they rode from the outside of the
circle would start the bands of wild horses to
ward this corral. They'd start them as gently
as they could, but the horses were as wild a
deer and they'd run like the wind. Each day
the horse wranglers would get nearer and
nearer the corral. The circle would get smaller
and smaller and it would begin to look as
though all the horses in the world were grazing
and running In those hills and valleys. After
two or three days the wild stock would get
more aooustomed to seeing the horsemen, and
they were easier to drive. .
"By the time the cirole was drawn within
five or six miles of the corral things would get
exciting. There would be 6000 or 7000 head of
horses Inside the line and it puzzled the riders
to keep the lot from spreading. The bands
which had been accustomed to run together
would keep pretty well bunohed, but the gold
Ings would break away once in a while aud
hunt a fight with some strangers. It was quick
work for the riders and took lots of saddle
horses, for everyone rode at top speed all the
time.
"These horses were a pretty sight, with shag
gy coats, long manes and talis sweeping the
ground. Once In a while a range stallion would
be found herding his faintly and ottering battle
to a man on horseback. Sometimes we had to
shoot them, thoy made so much trouble. Then
came the cutting out of the mares and colts.
The colts would be branded and they and their
mothers driven back to the range. Next came
the cutting out of the three, four and five-year-old
geldings, for sale to the buyers, who would
drive them to Dakota. These were kept in the
corral until tbe corral was full, then the bunch ,
would be started out, closely herded night ai.d
day by the horse wranglers.
"It was an exciting time when 603 or BOO wild
geldings were let out of the corral. The men
would sabdle their very best horses and range
themselvos on either side of the corral. The
gate of the corral was then opened. Out would
come the horses, wild with fright and eager for
liberty. All the men could do was to ride i t
their sides and behind them, keeping the herd
headed In the desired direction. Their hoof
beats on the prairie sounds like rolling thunder
and the earth shakes when they went. At the
first bnrst they go like the wind and It takes a
good rider and a good borse to keop anywhere
near them. Their manes and tails are so long,
their eyes ar bright and keen and they are
accustomed to racing across the broken country.
They run for several hours after leaving the
corral. Then they quiet down and the horse
herders ride them around In a circle, holding
them until another bunch conies form the
corral the next day;
"Hometlmus 2000 of those wild geldings would
be getliered together before the start is made
for Dakota and the herders had their hands full
day and night. It was all excitement, for meu -
were roping and riding wild horses all the time
to take the places of those which were played
out on the drive. Behind the herd followed
the four-horsed grub wagon, with the cook and
camp outfit, but meals wore mighty Irregular
and one was lucky If he found his bed at night.
"After a few day's driving the horses would
become quiet and the work was easier. There
used to be a great deal of trouble about stealing
horses on these drives, for if the herd happened
across a little hunch of horses somewhere on
the prairie the bunch was very apt to be ab
sorbed by the drive and the rancher would
never hear of it again. Some ranchers would
go to the roundup Just to see that none of their
horses were driven away, and others would
follow the drive through their own ranges to
keep their horses from Joining the emigration
to Dakota Sometimes a few horso owners
would combine and hire a man Just to follow
these drives aud bring back stolen stock. There
used to be a killing once in a while over a 25
cay line, but not very often. They wereu't
worth enough.
"These drives are not mado nowadays, be
cause there la no market for this kind of horse
anywhere. In some parts of the northwest
they do not even brand the colt. A herd of
20,000 head of these horse were sold In Oregon
a few years ago for 20,000, or 1 1 a head. They
are disappearing, however, because the ranger
hail to improve the stock to make it pay to care
lor it, and the average range horse of today is
from if I to joo pounds heavier than the range
horse of 12 or 1.1 years ago. '
Millions Given Away.
It is oertaiuly gratifying to the public
to know of ooe concern in tbe land who
are not afraid to he generous to the needy
and suffering. The proprietors of Dr.
King's New Discovery for consumption,
congbs and oolds, have given away over
ten millions trial bottles of this great
raedioine and bave tbe satisfaction of
knowing (I has absolutely onred thous
and of hopeless oases. Asthma, bron
chitis, hoarseness and all diseases of tbe
throat, chest and longs are surely onred
by it. Call on E. J. Slooum, druggist,
and get a trial bottle free, regular size
50o and $1, Every bed lie guaranteed, ot
KIOa refunded, . . -