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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18; 1900,
NO. 765
FROS'ESSXOIfcT.A.Xj CARDS,
C E. Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office In First National Bank building.
Beppner, 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. Beppner, Oregon.
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and ,
U. 8. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Hoppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds, of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FIUNUS.
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at residence on Cbase street.
Government 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.
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 his
first-class accommodations.
Flexity of Hay aixxd. Q-rain for Sal
Stable located on west side of Main
street between Wm. Scrlvner's and
A. M. Ounu's blacksmith shops.
For the ladies A fine horse and lady's saldle.
HEPPNEK-CANYON 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, 8unday 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 21 hours connecting with trains.
Hepfneb to
MILES FABE
20 l. 60
55 4.00
65 4.75
15 5.50
83 6.00
102 8. 00
104 g.00
Hard man
Monument
Hamilton
Long Creek
Fox Valley
John Day
Canyon City
Stages 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.
ARLINGTON-FOSSIL
Stage Line
H. REED A I p.ODrietorg
A. O. OQILVIE f Proprietors.
FARE FROM ARLINGTON TO
Fossil (60 miles). ..1500 Round trip 1900
Mayville(53milo). 400 Round trip 700
Condon (39 miles) . . 00 Round trip 00
Clem (28 miles) .... 2 OO Round trip S 50
Olex (19 miles) 1 50 Round trip 50
Stage leaves Arlington every morning
(Snnday excepted) Bt 6 o'olock; ii doe
I Condon at 3 p. m. and arrives at Fos
sil at 7 p. m.
Comfortable covered coaohea and eare
T1, experienced driver.
SPOKANE FALLS 4 NORTHERN
NELSON i FORT SHEPPARD
RED MOUNTAIN RAILWAYS
The Only All-Bail Route Without
Change of Car Between Spokane,
Rosalaod and Nelson. Also between
Nelson and Eoesland, daily except
Sunday:
- Una
, 8O0 A. M
11110 A. M
n.in AM
:::::.NS:::::::::i p. S: ,
Close eoDnetns at Nelwin with steamer for
KMloVand all Kooni UU tDt-
,kouonJt at Karoo wit sUse dad.
JJVcgetablcPreparationfor As
similating theToodandRegula
ling lhaStamachs andBowels of
PromotesTSlcstioCheerfuI
ness andRest.Contains neither
Opium.Morptiine nor Mineral.
Not Narcotic.
XtapeafOldllrSAMVZlEnZnW
Pumpkin Sai'
MxJama
Seed
Jhtpermmt
l CustonaHJoio,
fHmSeeJ -ftanfid
Sugar .
Vthtoynxn tlanr.
A perfect Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca,
Worms .Convulsions Jeverish
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
NEW YOHK.
ZXACT COPY OF WRAPEEH.
I T;WITO!!fn'Sf1l " III 1
I all
piRST ational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA President I G. W. CONSER Cashier
T. A. RHEA Vio-President E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Cashier
Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PART8 OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD
Collections made on all pointson reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits ?:S5,0C0.
' 'rTV """Palace '
.Mite Hotel
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. ...
First-Class Sample Kooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West.
FLOUR
The Heppner Flouring Mill Company
H'.ve peifeoted arrangements to run the mill permanently.
They have eeoured tbe services of a first olass miller, and
wheat sufficient to make and keep on haod a permanent
supply of
Flour, Graham, Cerm Meal, Whole Wheat,
Bran and Shorts
Of tbe very best qualify end guaranteed to give satisfaction.
We ire bere to bay wheat and exchange with the farmers, and solicit
their patronage.
Good Goods....
Fair Prices: '-
-AT
T. R. HOWARD'S.
. Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
Tinware and Furnishing Goods.
Staple and Fancy Groceries-
Fine Teas and Coffees.
T. R. HOWARD,
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
of
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY.
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
FLOUR
Heppner.
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MORUOW COUNTY.
A Diversified Regit n Tbat lias Room fur
More People. '
Tbe following interesting writenp of
Morrow oonnty appeared io tbe New
Tears edition of tbe Oregonian over the
signature of J. W. Redington so well
and favorably known bere as tbe former
editor of the Gazette.
Tbe county that makes 16 mutton
chops grow where only one grew before,
and .repeats the performance with roast
beet and loaves of bread, is doing its
work for tbe world, and no one oao set
it down as a drone in tbe human hive.
Such a oonnty is Morrow, whioh has
earned for itself a place on every map.
Its feet ere cooled by the ever-restless
waters of tbe Columbia, and it holds its
head proudly aloft along the western spur
of the beautiful Blue mountains, where
tbe tall tamaracks bend in tbe breezes
and in the frosty tali make a wonderful
transformation from bright green to old
gold. Tbey also make good fuel tor tbe
family fire place.
There is a general diversity about
Morrow oounty. At its touth end it
contains a dozen township! of welt tim
bered mountain region, with a very good
supply of red and white fir aud their
kindred type of trees. Able-bodied trees
they are, fit for fuel or 'lumber, and
among them are patohes of pretty prairie,
in summer time kuea deep in tall timo
thy and redtop, mingled with wonderful
wild flowers a carpel not made by
bands, ehowlng tbe suiting contrast
between the Indiao pink and tbe modest,
most beautiful blue ot the' oumus blos
som. '
The tiortuero slope of the western spur
inohnea toward Willow creek and the
Columbia, and the southern slope trends
toward tbe the watershed of tbe north
fork of tbe John Day. The timber ie
open and park like, and there are bold
breaks aud rooky reaobes etod castellated
table rooks (rowoiug at their mates
across the John Day basin. It is a re
gion of summer pasture, wild aud
romantic, and the elk eud deer still
roam there, tbe grouse are plentiful and
tbe ory ot tbe cougar is heard round the
oampfire by night. i
Tbe timber ot this region will last for
ages, and there is a new growth oomiug
on. There are symptoms here showing
that the Anierioan sheep is slandered
when oharged with eating op tbe forests.
At D. . JElerren's camp ou Ditou oreek,
where sheep tiave been oorraled for
years, a fine growth of young pioe is
rapidly coming ou, un J a soou be tU
for flatting poles and then for masts.
Sheepmen use turpentine mixed with
lampblack for branding sheep, but they
never pour it ou little baby trees to keep
tbe sheep from eating them np. The
tree furnishes its own turpentine, and
always will, and it is thus that nuture
tells the sheep not to eat the tree. And
be does not. He eats the grass tbat
would otherwise dry up and burn up
and set fire to the forest.
No ajstemutic search for mineral has
ever been made in this mountain part
uf Morrow oounty. Some prospeoting
has been done on a mineral Jedgj at the
head of Willow oreek basin, and D. B.
Stulter has just started winter's work on
a gold and silver ledge at the head of
Ooppie oreek. Many people begin to
believe that tbe mineral wave that
formed the rich Sumpter district washed
wavelets so as to lap over into tbe
southern end ot Morrow oounty.
Coil has been found well up on Malte
son mountain, and theMatteeon brothers
put io years of bard work trying to de
velop it. Perhaps future soieutifio dia-mond-diilliog
may reveal its presence
there io paying quantities. Only the
crudest methods have as yet been tried
there.
There is a saw mill on Dutch tiillie
oreek, iind room for several more along
tbe mountains.
Midway between the timber line and
tbe Columbia roll tbe foot bills and tbe
plateau country, the most populous part
of Morrow oounty. Here are many
streams of water oomiog down, and here
is much fertility. The Xndian name for
tbe Heppner bills region was nome jaw
aotimg word, meaning land of good
grass. It was well bestowed.
If tLe fat cuttle and sbeep that have
been raised in these bills were strung
out in procession. Tbea would reach to
tbe Transvaal, round the world aud
back again. It has proven itself to be
one of tbe best stockralsiug regioui on
eartb. Its wool will warm the world,
and its beef has been ever fern us sinoe
Tom Quaid end Price Florenoe began
raising it in pioneer days.
There are more than 169,000 sbeep in
Morrow county, and not one ot them
kicks over tbe traces aud refuses. to
yield up a orop. Tbe many million
pounds tbey turn otr is of excellent
quality. Tout raised arouud Heppner
goes 9 to 11 pounds Io the tideoa. That
raised in tbe sandy district, near tbe
Colombia, goes 12 to 11 pounds to the
fleece, but brings a tower price per pound ,
as (tod is not valuable tor olothiog, and
most bs washed away.
At the northern end of Morrow oounty
are several towuships of seemiog sand
aod sagebrush, which are uninviting to
tbe eye. Bat when this soil is irrigated,
it is surprising tbat wonderful crops it
will prodao9. The Columbia river
carries past it an abundance of welos.ne
water, aod if its life-giving qualities
ciuld bu troosferrel to tbe Ian 1, great
results would follow. II is ao enter
prise for capitalists to consider. With
transcontinental daily trains running
past, it is a region deserving develop
ment. Even in its present dry oondition
its supports large herds of stiok, and its
fruitralsiug possibilities are immense.
At Wlllard H. Herren's boms ranch, the
old Sinnott placa, on Eight Mile, the
ohoioest of grapes, berries and all their
oousin fruits are produced in profusion.
The olimate and soil are there, aod irri
gation does the rest.
In the broad expanse ot Morrow
oounty, embraoiog a diversified territory
ot 12 to 70 miles, there are many open
ings for farmers. Ot oourse tbe beat of
the government land has bees taken up,
but many desirsable tracts may yet be
found in soattered spots. The oounty
is as yet praotioally undiscovered, and
the new comers who want to find farms
will find them here at surprisingly low
figures.
To tne northeast ot Heppner the
Umatilla Indians are leasiug their lands
at from $2 50 to $10 per aore for the rais
ing of one orop of grain. Lind in tbe
Heppuer oauotry whioh will produce
very fair orops pf grain may now be
bought at $5 an aore, with perfect title.
Much of it would pay for itself with one
orop.
The man who doubts the fertility of
tbe Heppner bills need only look at tbe
harvested product ot tbe Robert Dexter
ranoh on tbe ridge, six miles south ot
Heppner. Tbereall doubts are removed.
Ton can look at the grain fields on tbe
mountain sides between Weston and
Walla Walla, and then oome and see tbe
same identical slopes among the Hepp
ner hills waiting for some one to come
and oultivate them.
Prices of livestock have gone away up,
and wool is going up, bat the prioe of
land in Morrow county does not seem to
be effected by the general appreciation
This condition oannol last long, and
land values are sure to inorease. J. M
Hager, ot Heppner! who has watched
the development ot Eastern Oregon from
its beginning, confidently predicts that
the poorest grazing land in Morrow
oouDty will some day be bringing $10
an acre and making mouey for its own
ers at that prioe.
Tbe large number of new people com
ing into tbe Northwest have been falling
short of end passing by Morrow oounty
and ber Heppner bills, but suoh condi
tions cannot last. Those who oome here
will find tbat tbe oonotry's natural re
sources will stand investigation. Her
finances ditto. She is almost out of
debt, and ber local rate of taxation is
low in proportion to ber sisters'.
The people of tbe Heppner country
must be prosperous, for tbe bank bere
has deposits today of more than $430,000.
Tbe population of tbe town is not over
1200, and mauy people made a start bere
witb a oash capital of six bits. Most of
them are now glad they oame.
Here is a grand climate, and on every
side you see speoimeos ot vigor. It is
Christmas day, but there is tbe milkman
from tbe Transvaal rushing around in his
shirtsleeves, bringing joy to households,
aud if there isn't Ellis Minor ooming np
tbe oreek with a string of nSb. He looks
exactly as he did 21 years ago, and
wears tbe same ooal with tbe piece of
sleeves shot away during tbe Indian war
of '78.
People never seem to grow old in this
olimale, and here you see ten to one
more healthy men to tbe aore than else
where. See them oome up Main street,
perfeot piotures of health. Ex-Mayor
Morgan tbe same Tom Morgan who de
fled hostile Indians on tbe overland
stage road 40 years Bgo. Witb bis
hearty laugh you would guess bis age at
30 today. Here is Felix Johnson, who
wag through the Mexioao war; Martin
Auderson, who mined in '19 and whose
spirit of adventure took him to India to
tight through tbe Sepoy rebellion; Peter
Borg, who swapped for the first mules
raised in Missour, and has had tbe re
sponsibility of handling most ot tbe
precious stones ever brought to Hepp
ner; Henry Heppner, the pioneer
whose name the town bears, and
who has been pioneering tbe Pacific
ooaat from its earliest, iofanoy;
Judge Dutton, wbo has never tired him
self or others witb long deoisions; Jim
Jones, Lum Rhea, Arthur Daly, Tom
Ayers, Tom Quaid and Bill Hughes, wbo
were tbe very forerunners of tbe great
stock industry in this region; Tom Mat-
look, George Noble, Ed Bishop, Pap
Simons, A. M. Ounn, Oovernor He a,
Park Qarrignes, Frank Gilliam, Arthur
Smith, Mat Licbteotbal, J. W. Morrow
and other pioneer business men tbey
look not a week older than they did 20
years ago. Tbey are walking advertise
ments tor this good climate. Some few
may have an odd gray bair, but tbat
oolor does just as good work io the
oapaoity of fly fender. And tbe only
uotioable difference in Phil Cohen aod
Mayor Conner is tbat a 32 ii.ob waist
band will no longer encircle their portly
forms. But with Will Walbridge and
Joe Rector and George Oray aod Orrin
Farnsworth and Dave Herreo tbe bay
window has refused Io arrive, and Dick
Nevil, tbe campaign poet, still stands
charged witb being tbe author ot "Beau
tiful Snow."
Do ok Sbobe, whose natural tendenoy to
appoplexy brought on several strokes ot
paralysis, is still able to get around and
enjoy tbe climate whioh has braced him
up for more than 20 year. He was alco
a pioneer ot Fioohe, a forty-niner at
Bucramento, and nearly one of tbe first
proprietors of tbe overlsod railroad.
The joviul doctor aod the romping, rosy-
(8 SWUBdGff (7
Baking Powder is considerable.
Royal is economical, because it
possesses more leavening power
and goes further.
Royal saves also because it
always makes fine, light, sweet
food; never wastes good flour;
butter and eggs.
More im
portant still is
the saving in
health. Royal
Baking Pow
der adds anti
dyspeptic qualities to the
food.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
cheeked babies show what the amber'
air of this Western interior will do to I
human health. Ex Senator Henry
BlaokmBn, made ill by the wild exoite
ment of the Spokane stock exchange, is
here to reoover bis health. Two days
in bed aod be is out and up town again.
J. L. Morrow, tbe father of the county,
would probably be bere were it not for
the hard experiences be endured during
the Indian wars of 10 years ago.
Young men star yoaug in-Heppner,
and old ones refuse to get older. II is a
cosmopolitan plaoe, and vanity, thy
name is scarcity. There is no ordinance
against wearing your trouser legs inside
your bootlegs if you feel so disposed,
and no one finds fault because Road
Supervisor Put Quaid will not follow
fashion and quit wearing the only high
heeled boots in the oountry. No one
oares if Jim Feville wholes his dogs for
suoking eggs without a license, and not
a young man in Heppner wears his ouff
for a collar.
Tbe saddle-horse here is still In uce,
and neither the scoroher nor the bare
headed lootbull enthusiast enornsted in
mud and life-preservers trots along the
sidewalks On some of them they would
fall through, where wagons have evi
dently been before,
Whole sou led per pie are these resi
dents of Heppner, and plainly American,
plainly Western. No one's bead is
swelled, and hearty holiday greetings
are exohsL-ged today. Prosperity and
liberty make brothers ot them all, and
there is a fraternal free masonery be
tween tbe man witb a big bank acoount
and tbs man wbo is juBt making a start.
For, here, as in pioneer mining camps,
men wbo havo beoome fathers and
grandfathers are still oalled by tbe old
familiar, bome-like Jim, Jack or Tommy.
Tbis is Ibe oustom here in town, just
tbe same as in sbeep or cow oampa over
on Rutabaga or Rawdog ridge.
Heppner has a main street to be proud
of. It is 100 feet wide, is slighty sloping
and extends the toll length of the town.
When Heppner and J. L. Morrow put
op the first store building here, the
present street was a 'ryegrass flat, where
cattle conld bide. That was nearly 30
years ago, aod tbe ryegrass is now well
tramped out. Tbe wooden business
buildings are being gradually replaced
by bricks, eight ot which now loom np.
Tbe most loom up of all is tbe three
story brick Palace hotel, on tbe Morrow
corner. It is owned by Slate Senator J.
W.Morrow, who is now giving it bis
personal attention. The man wbo did
not realize before tbat tbis is a land of
plenty is free to acknowledge it when he
sees tbe spread on this hotel table.
Suob Jeraar cream is a rarity outside ot
the borne oircle. To eat pineapples in per
fection, you have to go to tbe spot where
they are ripened on their own stalks,
not picked green aod sour and ripened
ou a long journey. On the same princi
ple, meats right off the rich bunobgrass
are served up at Heppner, and people
revel in good things to eat.
Heppner has three things It may well
be proud of: A good hotel, where the
stranger's first impressions are good
ones. A magnifioent school bouse on
the bill, where the children ealon tbe
rising rays aod setting slants of the sun,
and could see New York were it not for
intervening hills, A good grist mill is
bere, wito modern waterpower, and its
Hour is mostly made Into bread, a sub
stance used for food, but some ot it
Strays off into angle oaks and Uapjacki,
by the use
of Roval
There is no
baking
powder so
economical
in practical
use, no
matter how
little others
may cost,
as the Royal
Imitation baking powders almost invariably con
tain alum. Alum makes the food unwholesome.
CO., NEW YORK.
Te Heppner mill has always been ot
' til fame only, bat some day it will
branch out into an export mill and do
its share toward feeding foreign nations,
whose people now live on air, rioe and
sorub bananas.
The inorease in the prod action ot
wheat here will surely oontinue, as has
tbe Bale of agricultural implements. On
Jobn Curran's lots here during the In
dian raids of 1878 a fort was built and
During the past few years plows, bar
rows and snob weapons of peace have
been laken from the same spot in large
quantities and put to work in tbe sur
rounding oountry, Tbe results of tbis
work will inorease.
Tbe first farmers who farmed along
the oreek bottoms farmed on the shares.
Two-thirds of tbe grain went to tbe
grower and one third to tbe prairie
ohiokens. Now these birds have been
abolished.
The future of tbe Heppner country
never Iqoked brighter. Grass is green
and luxuriant everywhere, bay la plenti
ful and coming grain crops never looked
belter. Sbeep, oattle and collie dogs
have been bred np to a pitch ot perfec
tion never before attained, and the
oleanest crop ot wool ever harvested la
oomiug on, with good ohancee of com
manding 20 oents a pound. Dozens of
new bouses show np in tbe south end of
town, aod the immense tributary terri
tory Is highly prosperous. Heppner
town is sure to push ahead and new
people and new enterprises will come in.
Heppner is a railroad terminus, and
one train a day eaob way takes yon to
Heppner Jonotion, 45 miles, where tbe
main O. R, & N. trains take yoa east or
west. To The Dalles it is 109 miles, to
Portland 108, Leaving Heppner at 10 a.
ui. yoa reaoh Portland at 6:45 p. m.
There is a daily stage from Heppner
to Canyoo City, 100 miles, A tri-weekly
stage to Lone Rook, 10 miloe; also to
Echo, same distance.
J. W. Rbdikoton.
ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY.
Senator Brownell Says He Would Like to
Hnccred Tongue.
Milwaukib, Or., Jan. 9. Last evening
tbe Milwankie Republioan Club, and a
large number of oitizens were addressed
by Hon. Qeorge B. Brownell, on ourrent
topios. Incidentally, the speaker an
nounced tbat be entertained an ambi
tion to reaoh Washington in tbe official
oapaoity ot representalive from Oregon,
and that be was ont for the seat now oo
oupied by Hon. T. U. Tongue. Explan
atory of tbis early statement he said be
believed such mailers should bs open atd
above board and thoroughly dieonssed
by the pet pie. The speaker also thought
Claokamas oounty oould receive at least
tbis recognition at the bands ot tbe party
for faithful republican work of tbe past.
Mr. Brownell devoted most ot his time
to expansion. '
Tbe Milwauki4 olub will be repre
sented at the coming lesgue convention
by delegates for 110 members, that being
its present strength. Plaindealer.
Volcanlo Eruptions
Are grand, but skin eruptions rob life
of joy, Bucklen's Arnica Halve cures
them; also old, running and fever sores,
ulcers, felons, boils, corns, warts, cuts,
bruiHKB, burns, scalds, chapped bands,
chilblains. Best pile onre ou eartb.
Drives out pains sod aobes. Only 25
cent a box. Cure guaranteed. Bold by
blooum Drag Co,