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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1899,
NO. 750
PSOPESSIOITAL CULBS9.
WASHINGTON'S LAST YEARS.
PKISONFRS RELEASED.
M
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. 8. COMMISSIONER.
Oflice in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
V. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINU8.
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Oflice at residence on Chase street.
Uovt r lment land script for sale.
D E Gilman
GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old books and notes in bis
bands and get your money out of them
them. Makes a specialty of hard collec
tions. Oflice 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 call May Street.
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 bis
first-class accommodations.
Flxity of Hsty mxi.iL 3-raAra fox Sails
Stable located on west side of Main
street between Wm. Bcrivner's and
A. M. Gunn's blacksmith shops.
For the ladies A fine horse and lady's saldle.
L,IHEHTY MARKET
THE OLD SHOP!
, Is the place to go to get your fine pork
and lamb chops, steaks and roasts.
Fiah Every Friday.
Fine sugar-cured bams and bacon. Pure leaf
lard, kettle-rendered, old style. Highest cash
price paid for at stock.
Bock 4. Mathews.
1IEPPNEK-CANY0N CITY
Stage Line
B. F. MILLER, Prop.
Cheapest and most direct route to John Day
valley. Canyon City mining district, Burns and
other Interior point.
Stages leave Heppner Daily, Sunday ex
cepted, at 6:30 a. in. Arrive at Canyon City
in 24 hours.
Leave Canyon City at 4 p. m., arrive at Hepp
ner in 24 hours connecting with trains.
HEFFNCa TO MILES FABI
Hardman 20 II. SO
Monument.... - SS 400
Hamilton US 4.75
Long Creek 76 5 50
Fox Valley M 00
John Day 102 8 00
Canyon City 104 j.OO
Stage connect with trains at Heppner.
Note. Baring stocked up this line with new
covered coaches and good teams I am prepared
give first-class service to the public.
ftRLINGTON-FOSSIL
Stage Line
J: gf OOILVIB iW-
FARE FROM ARLINGTON TO
Fossil (fiO miles) . . . $-i 1i Round trip 00
May ville (,"J miUw). J Round trip 7uu
Condon (39 miles) .. 00 Round trip ( 00
Clem 28 miles)... 2 00 Sound trip J 50
Ole (W miles) Bound trip S 30
stage leaves Arlington awry motniagl Staple and Fancy Groceries
(Stiod.r mpW) at 6 o'oiock; ifine Teas and Coffees. mm
at Condon At g p. m. "d arrive at Foa. "
kill at 7 p. m, t .
Comfortable covered oMfcfs. 803 tt
XVcgctablePreparationfor As
similating tbeToodandRegula
Hng theStomachs andBoweb of
f.lM,k.IL (fci.U.lii I
PotesTHgcstion.Cheerful
tiess andRest.Gontains neither
Opwm.MorptiinfJ nor Mineral.
Wot Narcotic.
HmvtradnrSttmummB
Jlx.Sennm
jSttn Kanf'
Jlpmmmnt -K&vAmwJWb'
fkrw.Sc, J -
. fkmfud Safer
A rjetfecf Remedy for Constitu
tion, Sour Stomach.DiarrhoeaJ
Worms ,Convulsions,Fever jsh
ncss amdLoss OF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
NEW "YORK.
EXACT COPY OF-WRAPREHi
fmsT Rational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A RHEA......
T. A. RHEA
President
Vio President
Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
Collections made on all points on reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits 35,000.
A Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
Every Modern Convenience.
Drummers' Resort. Stockmen's Headquarters.
One of the finest equipped Bars and Clubrooms
in the state in connection. .. .
Thirst-Glass Sample Rooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West. v.
THE ART OF BREWING.
HEOIP
And now the entire world
Knows this verfect vroduct
As the Star Brewery beer.....
STAR BREWERY CO.
203 Washington St., Portland, Or.
Good Goods....
Fair Prices.-! l
T. R. HOWARD'S.
rm-i, ontir A
win
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
of
(V iAv ifie
(if Kind
Vr You Have
Always Bought.
THE CENTAUft COMPANY, HEWVOMK CITV.
MB B
I G. W. CONSER Caghiei
I E. L. FREELAND. . Assistant Cashier
AKf
Palace
Hotel.
T. B. WHITNEY, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Was Perfected by the
Production of....
GOLD
On draught at
all popular saloons
AT- -
Groceries. Provisions, Glassware,
Tinware and Furnishing Goods.
Heppnen
Ideally Happy Were the Great Statesman
and His Wife at Mount Vernon.
At the time of bis retirement to Mount
Vernon, after the expiration of bia term
as president, "the tall figure of Washing
ton was only slightly bent, sod be was
stilt supposed to weigh upwards of two
hundred pounds," writes William Ferrine
of "The Laet Years of Washington's
Life," in the Ootober . Ladies' Home
Journal. "Excepting his gray hair and
false teeth, and some trouble in hearing,
there was little of the usual appearance
of age in his muscular person, bis gait
and bis strong, pock-marked faoe. He
was affable and merry with bis best
friends, but while be bad the true hospi
tality of a Southern gentleman in invit
ing ever; visitor from a distanoe to his
table or to a bed over night, his polite
nesa was generally formal. Yet it be
particularly enjoyed the conversation of
a guest be would pay him the compli
ment of listening 1 1 bim nntil after 9
o'oiock, or even of lighting him with a
oaodle to a bedroom for the night. Mrs.
Washington at this time was a healthy,
pleasant and unostentatious little wo
man, still showing traoes of good lookB
and with seldom any other thought than
of playing respectably her role of mis
tress of the bouse of a country gentle
man, of careiug for the negroes, or of
amusing herself with her knitting. She
bad great pride in her reoeipt for mak
ing 'o berry bounce,' and on a midsum
mer day she cut out thirty-two pairs of
breeches for the men working on the
farm. She had said that she and the
general telt like children just released
from school when they left the presi
deney,and she told of ber satisfaction in
settling down agaio to the 'duties of an
old fashioned Virginia housekeeper,
steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and
cheerful as a cricket.' " -
BOL1TAK1E DIAMOND.
How a Millionaire Klondike King Amused
Himself in a Hospital.
Evening Telegram.
Sbattlk, Sept 29. Pete McDonald, a
brother of Alex McDonald, the million
aire king of the Klondike, left the Seattle
hospital a few weeks ago, after being de
tained there nine weeks with a broken
leg. The break refused to heal and the
member was amputated.
" Fete MoDonald, though not so well
known as bis brother, is rich neverthe
less, and whan be visited Portland last
winter be spread bis money freely as be
fits a generous Klondiker.
MoDonald is a curious character at
close range. His suddenly acquired
wealth in the gold lands developed
strange traits wbiob caused some amuse
ment in the ward where the writer was
also confined at the time of McDonald's
aocident.
Beside Pete's bed, on a stand, was
some $300 io 820 gold pieces. With these
be amused bimself, stacking tbem up and
building little heaps to while bwbv the
lime. For bou.s be would lie there
lovingly fiogeriog the gold pieoes.
But the funniest feature of it all was
the fsot tbat Pete insisted on wearing a
8600 diamond io the bosom of bis night
shirt. The diamond was as big as the
end of one's thumb and its glittering
raya seemed to oomfort Pete as be toyed
with it in bis hours of pain, Every night
tbe millionaire would fasten the diamond
in tbe bosom of bis nightshirt before
going to sleep.
Tbe stack of gold and tbe big diamond
were nnosnat sights in a hospital ward.
As Pats paid the best price of any patient
in the hospital and commanded the best
attention, bis wbims were humored.
The aocident to McDonald wbiob re
sulted in tbe loss of bis limb occurred
last April. When be was starting for the
Nortn be fell off the train as it was leav
ing the depot at Seattle. Oos leg was
broken. The surgeon tried to save tbe
member but it could not be done. Mc
Donald impatiently took to bis bed and
tbe limb was amputated. lie had scarce
ly recovered enough strength to travel
and bis amputated limb was in bad
shape, when be insisted on getting up
and starting for the North to attend to
business. He journeyed to Dawson aod
suffered tortures tbat would have killed
ordinary men without his power of en
durance. When be returned be bad to
go back to tbe hospital, where be was
treated (or over two months before be
was in fit oondition to walk.
Dad's Old Britches.
A small boy who is a close observer
and somewhat of a poet, givea tbe his
tory of bis father's pants as follows:
"When dad baa wore his britebes out,
tbey pass to brother John, then ma she
trims them ronn 1 about, aod William
pots tbem on. When William's legs too
long have grown, and the trousers fail
to bide 'em, then Walter claims tbem
for his own, and bides himself inside 'em;
next Ham's fat legs they close invest,
and when tbey won't stretob tighter,
tin v're tamed and shortened up for ma
the writer. Ma works them Into caps
and rugs, when T have burst the stitobea.
At doomsday we, petbaps, may see the
las t of dad s old tTitOhes."
Red Hot from the Gun
Was tbe ball tbat bit O. D. Htesdmso
of Newark. Miob.. io tbe Civil War. It
OMused horrible uloers tbst do treatment
helped (or 20 years. Then Buoklen a Aro
iea Halve eared bim. Cares eats, bruiaes,
hams, boils, felons, eoros.ekio eruptions.
Best pile cure on earth. 3o a bog. Car
gWBOtee. Boll fcf $cnm Drag Co,
STAGE HORBERS CAUGHT.
Two Striplings Start Out to Hake a Jesse
James tiepntation.
Two young lads, 21 and 24 years old,
were arrested in Pendleton Monday by
Sheriff Blakley on the obarge of robbing
the etage near Outario. Their names
are J, Batolsy and Forrest Ferrous.
Sheriff Blakley had been te.egrapbed
that tbey were on Monday's train and
was waiting for tbem.
The young men bad robbed tbe stage
near Ontario and bad planned tbe ditch
ing the O R A N. passenger train near
tbat place, but were scared away by the
detectivi s who were looking for another
gang. From the stage tbey bad taken
81000, which was deposited . with tbe
mother of one of the boya. They also
secured drafts to tbe amount of 835,000,
wbiob tbey burned. The bold up took
place between Ontario and Burns, 52
miles from Ontario. Sheriff Huntington
deaided npon who did tbe work and
went to tbe house of tbe mother. He
told her that be bad all tbe faots in the
esse and is ehe would give up tbe 81000
she would escape punishment. The ruse
was successful sod the woman brought
out $680, all she had left.
The boys were held for examination
before John Hailey, jr., Ootober 25.
The evidence appears, to be very much
againet tbem. Peodleton Tribune,
A STRINGENT fOOD LAW.
Prohibits the Use of Amnio or Alum in AH
Articles i.f Diet.
The law enacted by tbe Missouri leg
islature, a copy of which was recently
published in our columns, and n bicb
prohibits tbe mauufaoture or sale of any
artiole intended for fond or to be used in
tbe preparation of food, wbioh contains
alum, arsenic, ammonia, etc, plaoes
tbat state in tbe lead in the matter of
sanitary legislation.
Laws restricting the use of alum in
bread have been in force in England,
Germany and Franoe for many years.
In this oonntry, in Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Miohigao, Ohio, Kentucky and
several other states, direct legislation in
in referenoe to the sale of alum baking
powders has also been effected. Id sev
eral of these states their sale 1b prohib
ited unless tbey are branded to show
that tbey contain alum, and In the Dis
trict of Columbia, under, tbe laws of
Congress, tbe sale of bread containing
alnm has been made illegal.
Following are tbe names of some of
tbe brands of baking powder sold in
this vicinity wbioh are shown by recent
analysis to oontaia alum. Housekeep
ers and grooers should out tbis list out
and keep it for refereooe:
BAKING POWDERS CONTAINING ALUM.
K. O Contains Alum
Manf. by Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago
O ALU ME I Contains Alum
Manf. by Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.
HOME Contains Alum
Manf. by Home Baking Powder Co.,
Han Frauulsco
WASHINGTON... Contains Alum
Manf. by Pacific Chemical Works, Tucoma.
CKE8CENT Contains Alum
Hanf. by Crescent Mfg. Co., Soattlo.
WHITE LILY .Contains Alum
Manf. by D. Ferrea & Co.. Tacoma.
BEE-HIVE Contains Alum
Manf. by Washington Mfg. Co., Ban Francisco.
HON BON Contains Alum
Manf. by Grant Chemical Co., Chicago.
DEFIANCE Contains Alum
Manf. by Poitland Coll'ee & Spice Co., Portland
PORTLAND Contains Alum
Manf. by Beno & Ballis, Portland.
Tbe housekeeper should bear in mind
that slum makes a cheap baking powder.
Itoosts but two oents a poond while
oream of tarter costs, thirty. Tbe qual
ity of tbe powder is therefore usually
indioated by the price.
A MOTH KB 8 DEED.
Drowned Herself and Two Children in the
Deschutes River.
Mr. aod Mrs. W. F. Guy ton, while on
their way to The Dalles, from their
home near Kent, Sbermao county, on
Monday quarreled, aod tbe wife, soon
afterwards, took ber two children, a boy
aged 4 years and a baby 20 months old,
to tbe bridge acr ss tbe Deeobutes river,
which was near the scene of the quarrel.
The bodies of tbe woman aod babies
were found in the river witbin an boar
or two. Sbe bad thrown herself, with
ber children in her arms, into the rfver,
Tbe water was not over three feet deep
where the drowning oo oar red sod was
almost still. Mr. and Mrs. Ooytoo were
married about five years' ago. He was
about 60 years old while abe was only
25 at that time. Her maiden name was
Alice Coats. They lived bappily to
gether. There bad never been aoy
trouble prior to the quarrel on Monday,
The coroner of Sherman oonnty took
charge of the bodies and impanneled a
jory. Mrs. Clayton's parents are resi
dents of tbe Willamette valley.
HIJOV FOUND.
Prove That Llenteaaat An dree Has Passed
tbe North Pole.
Stockholm, Sweeden, Oct. 2-Karly
tbis morning a booy was foand off the
coast of King Charles Island, and when
it was examined it proved to he a so
called North Pole Daoy wbiob Lieotea-
sot Andree agreed to drop from his ship
io tbe eveot he should paaa tbe North
Pole. After tbe buoy bad been picked
np it was opened Io this eity in the pres
ence cf company of distinguished
scientists anJ government officials who
pronoooos it a genuine artiole, as the
oooteot eooH Dot have been invented
a tbe dtoamDts wer vffi'Hs by
su irji
Filipinos Turned Them Over to Americans
Have Been Well Treated.
Manila, Sept! 30 Fourteen American
prisoners and enlisted soldiers have been
delivered up by tbe Filipinos.
Tbe American prisoners are Corporal
Otto Shea, and Privates Albert Kueb
beok, Otto SVagoer aod Peter Rollins,
all of the Third infantry, oaptured near
Balinag, July 28. h; Joseph Maoldrath,
James Boyle, William Miller, John Grin
shew, rjboiuas Daly and Eli Drew, of
the Sixteenth in'antry, oaptured at
Caloooan in August ; Paul 8pillano and
Louie Ford, of the Fou'tb infantry, and
Charles Wilmider, a discharged Third
artillery man, captured by bandits while
boating near Malabon, and George Gar
bum (colored) orderly of tbe Sixteenth
infantry, who was put off a train near
Malolos and Immediately captured by
insurgents.
Tbey looked tbe pioture of health, and
were dressed in new Filipino uniforms
of blue gingham, and were oarrying
monkeys and other presents from their
Filipino friends. All unite in saying
tbat tbe Filipinos gave them the best
they bad of everj thing.
General MoArtbur's first inquiry was
for Lieutenant Gilmore's party, and
General Alejundrius replied vaguely
tbat they "were in the north." General
MaoArthur asked it tbey would be re
leased, and General Alejundrius said:
"I must consult, tomorrow, my govern
ment, before answering."
THE VANDEUBILT FORTUNE.
How the Sum or One Dollar Grew Into
$45,000,000.
The wonderful way in wbiob money
begets mouey was never more vividly
shown than by the history of the Van
derbilt family.
Commodore Vanderbilt began bis busi
ness career with 81. Tbis was only sixty
years ago. Of the 890,000,000 which be
accumulated be left 885.000,000 to his
eldest son, William Henry, in 1877.
William Henry Vanderbilt, dying io
1885, bequeathed 810,000,000 eaob to tour
eons and tour daugbtere, BDd left besides
45,000,000 apieoe to his eldest sons, Cor
nelius and William K.
Cornelius Vanderbilt inherited $45,-
000,000 plus $10,000,000 plus 81,000,000
wbioh bad descended -to- him from tbe
commodore making 856,000,000 in all.
But be had bad tbe use of a pari of this
money for some years before his father's
death, sod it was estimated at the time
by one who was close to him and familiar
with the fanily affiirs tbat be wss in
reality possessed of about $72,000,000 at
tbe time his father's will went into effect.
The present estimate of a olose friend
of tbe family is tbat Cornelius has left
about 8125,000.000.
William K, Vanderbilt inherited $43,-
000,000 plus 810,000,000, or 853,000,000,
and it is estimated tbat be is now worth
approximately $100,01)0,000 to $115,000,00.
William K. Vanderbilt doubled bis
riches, aud Ooruelius Vanderbilt doubled
bia riches. Allowing tbe same rate of
ioorease for the six other ouildren of
William H. Vanderbilt, aod taking ao
oouot of tbe iuoreaae of the residue of
the estate of Commodore Vanderbilt, the
present valuation of tbe fortune of tbe
Vaoderbilt family is very close to 8125,-
000,000.
The Vanderbilt fortune, thus com
paoted, will amount to a billion dollars
before all of the children of William H.
Vanderbilt are dead.
Thus does one dollar grow into ooe
billion dollars in three generations.
And it is plain to be seen tbat a sys
tem of money tbat enables tbe dollar to
be self-accumulative threatens govern
ment by tbe people.
Judge Piper In Dead.
bKATTLB, Sept. 20. Judge W.
O,
Pipor, late of Mohoow, Idaho, died at
Providence hospital at 5 o'oiock this
afternoon. Judge Piper has been in
failing health since bis retirement from
tbe benob last January, He had been
in tbe hospital for two weeks, but bis
condition was hopeful a n till yesterday
morning, when he suddenly took a turn
tor the worse.
Judge Piper was well known through
out tbe northwest. He was boro in
Washington county, Penn., August, 1831.
lie was a school teacher in his early
days. Removing to Ohio, he was ad
mitted to the bar and practiced many
years and held various prominent otfioee
in that stats and Indiana, In 1K76 oame
with bis family to Oregon, locating at
Albaoy. Io 1880 be was elected distriot
attorney for the third judicial distriot of
tbat slate. In 1887 be moved to Idaho
and was io lH'M) eleoted superior judge
for tbe Mosoow-Lewiston district. He
was re-eleoted in 1894, beiog oos of the
few republicans chosen for ofiioe io tbat
state io that year. He declined a re-
nomination last fall and retired from
active worked when bia term expired.
Judge Piper leaves four sons, Charles
A., Edgar B., George U. sod Fred W.,
ail of Seattle, and two daughters, Mrs.
E. W. Langdon and Mrs. E. D. Ousick,
both of Albaoy, Ore. Us also leaves a
widow.- Tbe funeral will take place lu
Seattle Friday and will be uoder tbe
snspioes of the Hoottisb Kite Mssooe.
Judge Piper was for more than 40 years
a member of that order.
Tt? Gazette only tl.50 year
BECOMING A LIVE ISSUK.
The Range Land Question is Forging to the
Front.
East Oregon ian
Throughout the entire weetern region,
tbe question of the disposition of tbe
publio grazing lands bas become a very
live issue. From every quarter come
various comments, and, while advooates
of tbe plan proposed io the national
oapital have been frequently beard
from, there are others who enter
tain different views. A ranchman at
Drewsey, Harney county, writes on tbe
enhjeot, speaking for tbe settlers ot
small means, and arguing tbat tbe leas
ing of the grazing lande under tbe plan
now beiog considered would be in tbe
interest of the rioher etookmen, be con
tinues: Now, to tbe first we say that it looks
like this. Tbe big sheep and oattle
companies have the first fight between
themselves, and when tbey get through,
nothing is left for little settlers and
middle men neither grass nor water, as
their days are numbered. The move is
in tbe big companies' and associations
favor, and tenoing it would give tbem
the title, it seems.
- Ob, poor little homesteader; perhaps
no water, neither grass on your allot
ment; for whomsoever knows this coun
try is aware of the fact that wherever it
is settled (be publio highway runs along,
aud thousands of oattle, and, I might
say, hundreds of thousands ot ebeep,
during tbe season, are driven over said
roads to the railroads. Now, there is no
grass miles from tbe road. Where is the
poor settler's show?
Now, where are Mr. Wilson's experi
ment stations? One in the Walla Walla
valley, I presume, where tbe grass gels
cultivated like grain on tbe farm. Let
bim bring bia seed here among the
rooky hills or mountains and have it
sown and put in. Then aek bim what
be tbinks of it. A failure
Now comes Professor Soribner's re
port, flat-tooted in tbe rich men's favor.
That's wbeo the land be sold, tbe renter
should have tbe privilege as lessee sbove
any other parties to purchase ssid land.
Still another reformer, tbat is, Honor
able John Minto, even suggests that the
lessee be allowed to make improvements
on said lands, and said improvements
be obarged to tbe government and it an
other party should gel a bolt of said
traot ot land (sbove tbe first one off),
then it shall be appraised, and of oouree
tbat be obarged up to the government,
and said first parties would receive tbat
amount for their labor. This would be
a good plan to iotroduoe a European
beirland aristooraoy.
Now, I give my views in regard to
those ranges, in two parts, or two sides
of tbe question. Wm. Altnow.
SHEEl' ON THK ItEBEllVJSH,
Whether sheep shall be permitted to
greze on tbe government reserves is an
other phase ot the question reoeiving
some attention, and wbioh oame np at
tbe wool growers' convention at North
Yakima Saturday; as it oame up at the
wool convention bete during Maroh.
Tbe dispatches say ; Tbe leading sheep-
raisers of Central Washington, repre
senting Hooks numbering 250,000, met
here tbis afternoon to oondsider tbe
matter ot securing the summer ranges
of tbe Ilaioer reserve next year. Con
gressman Jones and Cusbman were
presant, as were representatives of the
Northern Pacific and Burlington rail
roads, and many leadtDg oitizens ot
Yakiiha and farmers ot the valley. All
were impressed with tbe gravity of tbe
situation, wbiob threatens tbe destruc
tion of a great and profitable industry.
Communications were read wbioh show
ed that the polioy ot exoluding sheep
from tbe reserves has recently originated
with secretary Hitoboock, aod was pro
posed by Secretary Wilson, as bus been
reported in Washington dispatches.
It was deoided to prepare a statement
wbiob will ebow that the seoretary
is wrong In tbe assumption that tbe
timber of tbe reserve is more important
than tbe sheep industry. That the
sheep do not destroy timber or injure
tbe watershed, aod that danger of tire is
dimioiehed by giving ebeep owners tbe
use of tbe ranges. George MoCredy, ot
Klickitat county; D. Goodman and Ed
ward Wbitsen, of Yakima; J, II. Smith-
son, of Elleosburg, and II. P, Vermllye,
ot Tacoma, were appointed a oommittee
to prepare a statement and argument.
Kepresentstivea Jones and Onsbmsn
promised to do all iu their power when
oongres meets to secure the relief de
sired by tbe sheepmen.
110,000 Worth of Cattle.
J. McDermotl, ot Sao Fraooieoo, will
get all told about 000 bead ot beef cattle
from stockmen and farmers in tbe im
mediate vicinity of Ashland, and the
number received by Mitchell from the
Dead Indian stockmen last week reached
approximately 600 bead, making a total
ot about 1200 bead ot beet oattle seoured
in the vicinity of Ashland this fall, by
outside buyers.
The prices paid have been the highest
known in recent years , 3c, 8 '40 aod 3o
per pound on toot. Tbe oattle probably
average 1000 pounds each, thus bringing
about $34 per bead.
In round numbers, over 810,000 will
have been paid out for beet cattle ship
ment, to growers io and near Ashland in
cold onsb, by Out. 10th. And not much
is said about this being; s storfe CQUti'ry,
either flaiodelef.