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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1900,
NO. 701
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the Heppner Gazette
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OFFICIAIi DIEECTOST. .
Sixth Judicial District.
(Ilrooit Judge ..'.Stephen A. Lowell
Proseeuting Attorney H. J. Bean
Borrow County Officials.
J int Senator J, W. Morrow
R ipreaentative E. L. Freeland
C ntyjadge A. (i. Bartholomew
" doimuissioners J.L.Howard
J. W. Beckett.
" I'lark Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff A. Andrews
" ' r-tasnrer M. Liohtenthal
" Assessor J. 1 . Willis
" mrveyor Julius Keithly
" School Bup't Jay W. Bhipley
" C ironer Dr. E. K. Hunlojk
HEPFNBB TOWN OFFIOJHB.
NUyoi Frank GillUra
C'liiiicllim n .. . .. 8- P- tiarrigu s,
.1. It. Himons. J. J. Roberts, K. W Hhea, Geo.
No le and Thus. Quaid.
K .uoruer J. P. Williams
I'.HKSurer h. W. Brigga
Marshal.. George Thornton
Precinct Ofttiierf.
' ustioeof the Peace W. A Richardson
lii.nstable. G. 8. Uraj
United States Land Officers.
THE DALI.KB, OB.
Jay P Lnoas Register
Otis Patterson , Receiver
LA GRANDE, OB.
E. W. Bartlott Register
I. O. Hwackhamer Receiver
X'laoE'ESSIOIT.A.Xj CASUS,
C E Redficld
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.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorised to take all kinds ol LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINGS
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at residence on Chase 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 bard collec
tions. Office In J. N. Brown's building, Heppner, Or
Dr. Al. B. Aletzler
DENTIST
Teeth Extracted and Filled.
Bridging a specialty
Painless Extraction
Heppner
Oregon.
The Heppner
Steam Laundry
All kinds of lauudry woi k done
first class.
Special ratPB on family washing.
White Shirts a Specialty
White shirts 10
Collars 24
Cuffs, per pair 5
Woolen underclothes, per piece 10
All cotton shirts and underclothes, per piece 8
All necessary mending done and
buttons secured.
Strictly cash on delivery.
J. R. Simons & Son
General Blacksmiths
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Wagon Making II
and Repairing.!)
All work done with neatness
and dispatch.. . .
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Upper A'.ain Street,
Heppner, Ore,
Vvi HAWK E. R S
trSl HAIR BALSAM
rsx. tt- to !
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 jears, has borne the signature of
and lias been made under his per
(jtjCv7' sonal supervision since its infancy.
"4rjr. '-ccccsciWi Allow no one to deceive you in this.
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 CASTOR. A
Castoria Is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TMC CtHTAUW COMMHV, TT
flRST ational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A RHEA President I
T. A. HHEA Vio President!
Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PART8 OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND BOLD
Collections made on all points on reasonable terms . Surplus and undivided profits f 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. . . .
First-Ciass Sample Rooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West. v.
j flour FLOUR 1
) The Heppner Flouring Mill Company )
Hive perfected arrangements to ran the mill permanently.
. . The; have seoured tbe iervioes of first class miller, and C
J wheat enfficieot lo make and keep oo baDd a permanent S
supply of
Flour, Graham, ' Cerm Meal, Whole Wheat,
S Bran and Shorts )
Of tbe very beet qoelity aid gnsrsnteed to jive satisfaction.
C We are bere to bay wheat and fxobange with tbe farmers, and sohoil Q
t their patronage.
Good Goods....
Fair Prices.i
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r. R. HOWARD'S.
Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
Tinware and Turnisltihg Goods.
Staple and Fancy GroceHes
Fine Tens and Coffers. rtau.
T. li.. HOWARD,
Signature of
MURRAY ITRCCT, HCWVORK CITY
SSI
G. W. CONSER Cashier
E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Cashier
Palace
Hotel.
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
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Hoppneri
WASHINGTON LETTEtt.
Washinston Feb. 9 The delegation
from Oregon in tbe 56th congress is oer
taiuly a hard working one and valuable
results for tbe people of that state are
being aoooinpltehed. It ia too tnuoh to
expect within the epaoe of one brief let
ter even to outline what bas already
been aoooailithed attbis session by tbe
entire delegation and it will be neoes
sary to devote at least one letter or more
to eaoh senator and member. Tbe
senior senator from Oregon, MoBride,
with Lis four years of experience, and
tbe important committee positions which
have eome to him in tbe reorganization,
and tbe work which he has accomplished,
is easily entitled to first consideration.
Most important has been bis work in
securing the passage of tbe bill repaying
to settlers on forfeited land grants tbe
exoeas of $1 25 per acre whioh they were
obliged to pay into the United States
treasury for their homesteads. While
tbe other public lands eold at $1 25 per
acre, all that included within tbe rail
road land grants wug plaoed at $2 50 per
acre, the theory being that tbu baildiug
of the railroad would double at least the
value of such lands. Bat the railroads
were never built end finally congress
performed an act of equity and deolared
the grants forfeited wherever tbe rail
road companies bad not constructed
lines as agreed npon. Ever since that
time an effort bas been made to get con
gress to autboriza tbe repayment to
settlers of the $1.25 an aore taken from
them really by false pretenses, Tbe
price rf $2 50 per aore was charged only
for tbe reason that it was believed by
tbe government and settler alike that
land was worth twice that which was
outside of the limits of the railroad grant.
No railroad beiug built tbe settler within
tbe railroad limits was no better off than
tbe settler miles farther away. While
it would seem that this is so plain as to
need uo urging, the proposition to repay
this money met with bitter opposition
from the very first.
At a social dinner the other evening a
bigb offiiinl of the treasury department
making a post prandial epeeob jokingly
remarked that it was a rule of the treas
ury department to take in all money that
was offered and pay nothing out if it
could be poeslbly avoided. This may
have been a j ke, bat some of tbe settlers
out hi Oregi n on landsjivithhtbe limits
of land grants that have been forfeited,
can hardly be blamed for believing it to
b literally true.
This strong opposition to what should
h'tve been done promptly as an act of
justioe Senator McBride found left to
him as a legacy by bis predecessor.
Especially in the senate committee on
public lands, through which this meas
ure had to ii at 8 was fi'und this oppoei
tion, the growth of yeais of discussion,
in tbe 53d congress tbe bill introduced
by Senator Dolpb went back lo the sen-
ate with a strong unfavorable report
from tbe minority of tbe committee
When Senator MoBride took tbe matter
up four years ago be succeeded in get
ting a majority of tbe se ators oo ibe
oommittee to sign a favorable report bat
ibere still remained minority opposition.
Persistently and patiently be oontinaed
to work to remove this opposition until
the last session of tbe 55th congress the
bill took its place upon the calendar
without any opposition from the oom
mittee reporting it but wag not voted
upon in tbe senate.
Tbe senator began work npon the
measure early ia tbe preseut congress
and while there were some new men
upon the committee to whom the merits
of tbe measure had to explain, st'll the
opposition wm mnoh less than it bid
beo before bud tbe bill was again re
ported 'avorably and finally passed the
senate without a dissenting vote. Tbe
senator declares he won tbe support for
hie measure entirely upon its merits,
but it n inht have had all tbe merit in
the world and without his constant and
persistent tfforts to explain away all
objection offered by senators who did
out aoderataud the situatiau, it would
never have passed. While it is merit
ous measure, Uuole Sam has the settler's
eaeh in bis pockets, and it is oo end of a
bard job geting it out.
Three private pension bills introduced
by the senator have already been favor
ably reported and are now on tbe calen
dar. It ia most important to secure fav
orable reports from oommittees and in
O'der to do this no end of bard work it
involved. The merits of tbe bill must
be explained often to the individual mem
bers who do not always attend committee
hearings. It is a laborious method bnt
thoroughly snccesHful. It keeps a man,
tj.iwev-r, working day and night, and
there is oo member of the I'tiUxd States
Heual more constant in his attendance
iipon the ees ioiiH of that body or more
Oonacieijti'iiiH in hi performance of corn-
mittt-p work. I w undoubtedly tbe
knowledge of Ibis fact (bit caused Mr,
Vic Bride to rf reive onsonght snob inn-
portaut o immittee assignments as have
bt-en riven to him in this Oongress.
An Awful Crime.
At Walla Walla Tborsrlav Frank
Uoa got drtiuk and went to bia home
12 oiiie uortn-at from trior, and in a
tirftit with a uiao named Woodi, shot
and lull': hif Kiaudfatbnr, H. F. Royoe.
He tiro t,t Cr t the bousai dbi'nefl
the boly. He ah t a's urither man
d. wn 'b rtr.d a d flr i h' riot
tbiKLgu uo bouse if Uru IVonti. He
WH "-"''lr ft o long oh--, izZ U
0 tin j'i', ri4i,y,i til iwnx of
bin horrible deeds.
CAfE NOME MINES.
Gold Bolt Has aa Area of 8,000 or 10,000
Square Miles.
Several members of tbe United States
geological sorvey mads a brief reoonnois
sauce of tbe Cape Noma country in the
latter part of September and early in
Ootober, 1899. They were on their way
baok to the United States from tbe
Yukon region, and while waiting for a
steamer, oollected snob a geologio and
topographio data as time, oiroumstanoes
and olimate would permit. The topo
graphy was in oharge of T. G. Gerdine,
D. C. Witberspoon, and the geology and
typography were done by Misses Brooks
and Sohrader. Tbe latter, with sleep
ing basts and provisions, made a several
days' trip into the mountains and
gnlohs to examine tbe formations and
diggings. Ou acooont of the snow, oold
weather and fret ztog np of tbe creeks,
most of tbe gold claims had been olosed
do wo early in Ootober, and the operat
ors had departed. F 0. Shrader writes
of the work of the party in the National
Geographic Magazine tor January. He
says, among other things:
Tbe Oape Nome district is situated on
tbe northwest coast of Alaska, on tbe
northeast ar.u of Bearing sea, at tbe
entrauoe of Norton sound. It is tbe
southern promontory of a large penin
buIb, exteoding westward towad Siberia
between Kotzebuc and Norton sounds,
and largely separates Babring sea from
tbe Arctic ooenn. Westward this panin
solar terminates at tbe 198 :h meridian
in Oape Prince of Wales, the most west
ward extension of the American conti
nent, whioh is here separat d from Asia
by Behring strait, about 60 miles in
width.
Tbe promontory on whioh the Oape
Nome distriot is situated has long been
known on nearly all Alaska maps by the
name of Oape Nome. Tbe district lies
about 100 miles northward of St. Miobael,
and just outside of tbe fort St. Michael
military reservation. Bj ooeao steamer
route tt is nearly 27t0 miles northwest of
Seattle, and about 750 miles from Dutoii
barbor, Unalaska. Tbe .Cape Nome
region, as known at present, extends
from Cape N mie, the apx of tbe prom
ontory. some 30 miles or more northwest
ward along tbe coast, and about 20 miles
iuland to tbe north, to tbe middle ol
bis shore line, at the mouth of the
Snake river, the thriving city of Nome
is sitnati d.
From Cape Nome for 30 miles or more
westward to Sbyrook, tbe shore line is
comparatively straight and smoi th, bat
lying back of tbe shore line, between It
and tbe bise of the mountains, oootirs
the well known tondra. This o insists
of a strip of treeless, moss covered ma
rine, forming a oostal shelf, wbinb, along
the beaob, is about 30 feet above sea
level. From here it slopes geutly up
ward until at tbe base of tbe mountains,
some four or five miles from tbe beaob,
it atttins an elevation of 15 j or 200 feet.
During the summer it is usually wet,
oft and boggy, and is dotted bere and
there by a few ponds, and is traversed
bv the Snake, Nome and Cripple rivers
and other smaller streams, whioh oarry
out tbe drainage from the m mataius.
HIGH SCHOOL, NOTES.
By Orville A. Jones.
The literary and musical program rendered
by company A, of the high school, was a de
cided success, considering the time they had
In which to prepare it. There were 27 vlsl'or.
preseut Including company A's mascot, Prof.
Slbray, junior.
The program rendered was as follows:
Opening address Prof. W. W. Bibray
Opening song, "Alpine Horn" School
Recitations Fannie Woodward, Elza Sutton
Select reading ...Millie Rood
8ong, "Star 8pangled Banner" School
Biography, William Pitt Ona Gilliam
Quota tions Ida Howard, Sadie McCarty,
Kufo Blake and I'crcle Hughes.
Quartette Ellse Bartholomew, Willie Dutton,
Edna Van Duyn and Grace Hager.
a'elect Reading Bessie Sutton
Comic Story George Hamilton
Kecitation Gussle Mallory
Composition Elsie Driskell
Song, "Forever and Forever" School
Biography , Napoleon Mathew H ughes
Recitation, "I.lllle Cochran"... Frank Hamilton
Solo, "My Hannah Lady".. .Ellse Bartholomew
Song, "Mill May"... . .. School
Address Superintendent Shipley
''losing address Judge Bartholomew
I'rof. Slbray Inaugurated the "Thinking
Club," which lasted until time to dismiss.
The medals for the best speaking were
awarded to Louis Blsbee and Arch Mathews.
Company B will come on with their first
program Friday afternoon, February 23. It
will appear fu next week's Gazette,
A Great Government.
Uoole Sana's system in oooneotion
with tbe army often leads to amosing
mishaps. Soldiers may have lo g oold,
"t and bongry and have to grin and
bar it. Contracts requiring millions
may be consummated and tbe money
paid out as Ibongh tbe wood were fall
of it. Bat often some little technicality
causes lots of trouble. At Fort Soft
Bread reoently tbe quartermaster ad
vertised for 6,005 brick to build a bakery.
While tbe government males were haul
ing thero, a soldier driver who was mad
at being thus detailed, threw one of tbe
bricks at a yellow dog, so that after
ward, when tbe briok were fiffioially
omnted, there were only 6,001. Tbe
government bas been roaring aroaod
abont Ibis one brick ever ainoe. A
court mariiul bat been held and suspen
sions arc looked (or, and it may be im
possible to avert civil war. Tbe govern
ment say H ia going to have that brick
if it kills it. And while it. bat been
fooling arouud about it half a dozen
eo'itraitor on panlio workt have awioed
125,000 apieo, and tolJh re b tve bad to
eat tout of mouldy bard-tack But it ia
pretty bard to get ahead of tbe govern-mDt-when
it come to on red b"iok.
All dclin lUent in guhsciilion to the
Gazutte are it'i'JtHUd to couiu in and
kutiiQ,
a hot
Roya! Bafiing
Powder biscuit
whets the
appetite. The
taste of such
a biscuit
sweet, creamy,
delicate asid
crispy is a joy
to the most
fastidious.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK,
EVIL OF THE LEA8B.
Eaatern Oregon Range Lands Must Not he
Fenced-Country Would (Jet a Bet-back.
Morning Orogoulan,
Mr. Hahn, wbo is stirring Portland
opposition to tbe'leasinff scheme, form
erly lived at Priueville, Crook county,
in tbe distriot wbicb it is proposed to
surround with barbed-wire feuoes. He
knows tbe - people and tbe evil that
woold come to them if tbe leasing pro
ject goes through. Speuking about tbe
sabjeot yesterday, he said:
Haviug lived in Central Oregon,
am ng the people nffdcted by the pro
posed iegisletion, I appreciate tbe pres
ent situation. If the ranges are leased
it will praotioally a noiint to bnildinn a
barbed-wire fence around Extern Ore
gon and stopping all development for
years to come. Lands, except those
bearing mineral, would be withdrawn
from settlement, and tbe time would
oome when one or two men would own
entire counties. Small stiokowuers
would be crowded out by tbe large ones
and a monopoly created whioh it would
b dlflloolt to get rid of. Harney valley
and tbe Malheur couatry are already in
tbe bands of large stockowners. Tbe
remainder of Eastern Oregon is free
from this condition, but if leasing legis
lation is enaoted th whole country will
tall into tbe bauds of tbe stookm-n.
Commercially, we o m not affird t
permit E is tern Oregon to be fenoad in
and closed to settlement. All tbe in
dustnal growth would then be thrown
west of the OasOAdes, and the promising
Eastern aeotion, now making its first
great forward Btrides, would be resolved
in a vast pasture. This would be an nude
sirable oonditlon of afftira from whatever
poiut it may be viewed. It wool I re
tard the development of (be eutire state,
and terioasly elfuot Portland's trade, It
would be Blamming the door in the faoe
of tbe settlers seeking homes in Eistern
Oregon.
Lease of the raue lauds would tie
up vast areas that are sneoeptible to
cultivation. It is a serious mistake to
assume that because little is raised in a
large section of Eaatern Oregon, nothing
can be raised. A great deal of tbe land
it similar to that in tbe vioiuity of Orass
v illey, Sherman county, where cultiva
tion bat made rapid strides in tbe past
few years, Grasa valley it probably 25
miles long and 10 or 15 miles wide. I
well remember when it was a range, and
was considered of uo use for any other
purpose. No throe quarters of it is
being farmed, and tbe people are as con
tented and well to do as can b) f iund in
Hiiy part of Oregon. Between Bike
Oven and Sberar't bridge, on the D
scbutes river, is a plateau 20 miles lone,
about 10 or 15 miles wide, and having
ao elevation of about 21) ) feet. It it
part of what people are pleased to call
thu 'great Amerioao dexert,' which ex
tends from Lake county northward, and
until recently was oonHidered valueless.
Quite a section of tbe plateau is being
farmed wilb good results, wheat, rye
and barley bmog among tbe productions.
Farming ia sncoeasfal in Grass valley
and tbe day it not tar distant wben it
will be counted among tbe most pro la 3
live regiont of productive Oregon.
Middle Oregon it held baok by tbe
Iwk of transportation. If it had rail
roads if wonld bave thousands of farms
where it now baa only a few, aud those
scattered. Just tteoanse the oountry
lacka transportation is no reaton for
turo'ng it over to Iheatoclc monnpnli"!,
Bnd giving it a set-back from which jt
will nt w'.ver for a K"0rtton. Fort
lD'l ow.-t it to Ibe entire state lo enter a
igofui protect a,; si us t tbe leasing
lyitam,
ROYAL Baking
Powder improves
the flavor and
adds to the healthful
ness of all risen flour
foods. It renders the
biscuit, bread and cake
more digestible and
nutritious.
Royal Baking Pow
der makes hot breads
wholesome. Food
raised with Royal will
not distress persons of
delicate or enfeebled
digestion, though eaten
warm and fresh.
Imitation bilking powders almost invariably con
tain alum. Alum makes the food unwholesome.
ARLINGTON.
Record and Advocate.
Sheepmen are all expecting wool to
advance to 20 oents per pound.
John Cunningham is building a large
shed, 40x100 feet, aad improving his
large livery stable.
Thero ids are getting ia fine shape
and wheat team? hava put in tbiir ap
pearance oa our streets once more.
Tbe traveling chop mill is grinding in
tha oity and ha? rolled several hundred
aaoks of barley and wheat for the Btables.
W. II. Ha rrin, of Eight Mile, was in
town this week. He reports bis sheep
in fine condition and the ootlook for a
crop exoellent.
Gjodoo Globe: Several oar loads of
heavy horses have baen shipped from
here withia tbe last taw daya for tbe
Portland markot,
Horses are climbing up. Wben F.
Strioklaud was in yesterday from Rack
creek be was off ered 8300 for tbe team
be was driving to tbe hack.
Jacksou Bros, bave purchased the old
Kirby stable, whioh they have bad
rented for a year. They bave proven
themselves tbe best stage men that have
ever bad the line from bere lo Fossil.
An agent waa in our town a few dayt
ago working up business for tbe Colum
bia Kivar It. U. & Navigation Co. They
propose to have boats on tbe river early
in tbe spring. The transportation coin
pauy considers Arliuntou quite an im
portant shipping point aud if tbe pro--P'ctsfor
a orop of wheat materialize
tins will be a lively plaoe for tbe uqxl
year. The crop prospeots for Gilliam
are the bast in the history of tbe oouoty.
Chance for an Argument.
8. Friedman, a well-known pioneer
merchant ol Salem, writes to tbe Inde
pendent at follows:
"I believe tbe boyi should learn to
piny a good game of cards, then tbey
wouldu'l be losing. Good players seldom
gamble, and like good judges of liquor
seldom ever get drunk. I believe in men
being temperate in all things, for their
welfare aud amusement, but not tee
totaliata, for it is tbe teetotallers that
sometimes nse either oards or liquor to
exoess. Therefore learn tbe boya all, to
that tbey oan avoid the danger."
Hell oo 1 Clerk's Salaries.
State Superintendent Aokerman baa
rendered the following decision :
"The Jireotora of any school distriot
may pay their clerk snob compensation
as is, in their judgment, necessary ; pro
vided such compensation ia not paid out
of tbe common school fund.
"The law speoifloally mentions tbe
purposes to which the common school
fund may be applied, and tbe salary of
tbe sohool olerk is not mentioned there
in. Tbe only reference to the olerk't
salary is in connection wilb the collec
tion of taxes, and it is evident that tbe
iulent of tbe law was to pay tbe olerk
for bis services for the money derived
from the distriot tn and Dot from tbe
common school fund."
A Convincing Answer.
"I hobbled into Mr. Blackmon'a drag
store one eveuini," said Wesley Nelson,
of Hamilton, Oa., "uui be asked me to
try Chamberlain' Pain Balm fur rheu
matism with wLloh I hud suffered for a
long time. I told him 1 had no faith in
any medio, ue as they all failed. He said:
'Well, if Chamberlain's l'ain Halm don't
yon, you need not pay for it.' I took a
bottle of it borne and ased it according
to the diroctioi.a aud in one Wvtsk I waa
cured, and have not ainoe been troubled
with rheumatism." rJolJ by Conner &
Warren.
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