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SEVENTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH. 1 , 1900.
NO. 771
The Heppner Gazette
la published every Thursday by
J. W. RE DING-TON.
SUBSCRIPTION
On Year -Six
Months
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Entered at the PoBtofflce at Heppner, Oregon,
ai second-class matter.
OFnCU.Ii DISEOTOET.
Sixth Judicial District.
Circuit Judge Stephen A. Lowell
Proseouting Attorney V....H. J. Bean
Morrow County Officials.
J int Senator J. W. Morrow
R tpreaentative. E. L. Freeland
C nntyJadge A. G. Bartholomew
' Commissioners J . L. Howard
J. W. Beckett.
" Clerk .Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff A.Andrews
" Treasurer fit. Lichteothal
" Assessor J. F. Willis
" Surveyor... Julius Keithly
" Hohool Sup't Jay W. Shipley
" C irouer Dr. . B. Hunlosk
HKPPNKB TOWM OFFICERS. '
Mayor Frank Gilliam
Onuncilraen 8. P. GnrriKUs,
J. R. Simons. J. J. Roberts, E. W Rhea, Geo.
NoMe and Thos. Quaid.
Kjuorder .J. P, Williams
l'rejwurer L. W. Brings
Uarshal George Thornton
Precinct Offleerr.
.1 uetice of the Peace..... W. A. Richardson
Constable G. B. Gray
Onlted States Land Officers.
THK DALLIS, OB.
Jay P. Lncas Register
Otis Patterson Receiver
LA OBANDI, OB.
K. W. Bartlett Register
J. O. Swaokhamer Receiver
PEOPESSIOITAL CA.KXJS.
C E Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OfAce 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.
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FlLINliS. -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 hard collec
tions. Office in J, N. Brown's building, Heppnor, Or
Dr. M. B. Metzler
DENTIST
Teeth Extracted and Filled.
Bridging a specialty
Painless Extraction. . . .
Heppner - - Oregon.
J. R. SiMNS Si Son
General Blacksmiths
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Wagon Making
and Repairing.
All work done with neatness
and dispatch. ...
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Upper Main Street,
Heppner, Ore,
HEPPNEH-CANYON CITY
Stage Line
B. F. MILLER, Prop.
Cheapest and most direct route to John Day
valley, Canyon City mining district. Burns and
other interior points.
Stages leave Heppner Dally, Sunday ex
cepted, at 8:30 a. m. Arrive at Canyon City
In 21 hours.
Leave Canyon City at 4 p m., arrive at Hepp
ner in 24 hours connecting who wains,
HXPPHKB TO
MILES FA BC
20 II SO
55 4 00
65 4.75
75 5 50
3 6 00
102 8 00
104 800
Hardman
Monument
Hamilton
Long Creek
Fox Valley
UIUJUU - -
Stage connect wltn trains ai neppner.
Note. Having stocked np this line with new
covered coaches and good teams I am prepared
give amt-class service to the public.
Bosses Are Here.
Home seekers with means, sod iovest-
.i,nU irme here. On account of
the law prices at which its lands are
offered. Morrow eonnfy expect to doable
its population tnis yw. v
bought Ure at fiw 10
iiiiiiiiiiiiffi
AVegelablePrcparationfor As
similating IheTood and Regula
ting thtStomadis andBoweis of
RTjmotesTXfestion,Checiful-
ness and uest.contains neither
Opium.Morphine nor Mineral.
Not Narcotic.
XwfeofOl&lkrSMCllRrCBKa
Pianp&in Sm2
JhcSennm
WmSttd
fianfud Suattr .
A perfect Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stotnach.Diarrhoea,
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
TJessandLossOF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
NEW "YORK.
IIITHo iMti 9 01 ad
EXACT COPY OF WBABPEB,
rrM
piRST Rational ank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA President O. W. OONSER.... ; ....Cashier
T. A. RHEA.. Vio President E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Oasbier
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 135,000. i
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 Rooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West. vw..
FLOUR
The Heppner Flouring Mill Company
Hove pet footed arrangements to ran the mill permanently.
Tbey have aeon red tbe services of a first-class miller, and
wheat sufficient to make and keep on band a permanent
supply of
Flour, Graham, Cerm Meal, Whole Wheat,
Bran and Shorts
Of the very beet qnulity and guaranteed to give satisfaction.
We are here to boy wheat and
tbeir patronage.
Good Goods....
Fair Prices.-L.
-
W T TT
. ? s I Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
, Tinware and Furnishing Goods.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Fine Teas and Coffees.
X. R. HOWARD, Heppner.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
of
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
TMaT CCNTAUR COMPANY, NEW VOAK CITY.
AW
Palace
Hotel.
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
FLOUR
exchange with the farmers, and tolioit
AT - -
A XT7 A TA
CAPE NOME.
Finding First Gold Where Will Soon Tend
the Bush.
The first diaooveries of gold at Oape
Nome were made by tbe Laplanders,
rent to the tundra where moss was
plenty north of Bebring sea by tbe gov
ernment, with Dr. Jackson's drove of
reindeers. Tbe first known of tbe ex
istence of gold there was some time a
year ago in September. Word came
down to tbe Yukon and spread among
tbe orowds of disappointed and al
most discouraged argonauts who bad
reaobed that country too late or too illy
supplied to participate in its socoeasee,
inspiring new hope in tbeir breasts,
making tbe weary strong and tbe sick
well. Hundreds of tbem left lbs Yukon
basin in the dead nf winter and took tbe
dread jonrney of 2000 miles over a track
less wild in the darkness of an artio
night, breathing, eating and sleeping in
a temperature 40 to 60 degrees below
zero. That the human frame can stand
snob hardship seems incredible, but
they got through all right, and were on
the ground at the opening of spring
Word comes now from ' Dawson that
thousands are preparing to follow tbeir
trail from tbe Ynkon to the north
shores of Bebring sea this winter.
Spring opened, tbe long day of summer
arrived, navigation was resumed and
tbe Yukon, the shores of Alaska, the
states of Oregon, Washington and Oal
ifornia furnisbed each a quota of pros
pectors, to wbicb may be added a few
hundred from all the states of tbe Union.
It was soon demonstrated that for
three hundred miles tbe sands of tbe
coast were rich rich beyond all pre
vious conception iu gold. Mining dis
tricts were organized, a eoore of towns
and cities sprang np as by magic, one of
which was Anvil City, as it was orig
inally called, Nome City, as it is now
named. It had 2000 inhabitants in July.
where the January before there was
naught but tbe solitude of the drifting
snows of the inner arotio oirole; gleaming
so clear in their oold whiteness that tbe
light of tbe polar stars retieots trom tbe
wind-blown particles as if each star bad
fallen to earth and broken into a million
shining fragments.
Strange as it may seem in the light of
tbe history of tbe crimes and murders of
former rushes of mankind in like placet
before, this oamp and all camps along
tbe north shore of Bebring sea, during
gammer of 1899 heve been as free from
oriminal disturbances as a New England
village.
Tbe 166th meridian passes through
tbe Paoifio ocean 1800 miles west of
Portland. Approaohing winter came on
to their reoolleotioas of tbe hardships
unteHable of the previous winter; they
OBohed or buried tbeir tools and took
ship for tbe eouth. As one expressed it:
"I have enough to pay all my debts,
keep me through tbe winter and my
family till next fall and outfit me for
another season's work. My claim has
millions of dollars in it at tbe rate I
have taken it out. Why should I stand
another winter in that olimate?"
The first of these returning miners to
arrive were reoeived doubtfully and
tbeir stories listened to with derision;
bnt, as time went on and more ships
oame down with more men telling tbe
tales larger than tbe first, sod every
man proved tbe possession of money,
the oity stood wonder struck at what
was demonstrated to be tbe truth.
So it la in all tbe towns and cities in
tbe whole world, that has bad its re
turn of adventures. Tbe rnsb to the
northern shore of Bebring sea next
spring will tax the transportation facil
ities of tbe country more than the trans
portation of troops and saplies in the
Ooban war did.
Let no man go there thinking it it
going to be a holiday excursion. True
there are no Chiloat passes to olimb and
in summer no ioe and snow to eoouuuter.
Bnt tbe best of tbe weather, except for
a few exceptional days in Jnly and
August is trying in the extreme. It
raint, blows ana storms almost continu
ously. Tbe sun tbines only at Intervals
while tbe north wind has "let go" to
give the south wind a obanoe to vice
versa, and neither is very long In "get
ting bold" again. There is but four or
five months in tbs year during whiob
any work can be done. Tbe days are
long with 18 to 24 hours of dsylfght and
a man oan work as many boors as be
can stand np to it. Tbe country is a
barren waste so far ai vegetable life I
oonoerned. A species of most grows on
tbe tundra or level places into wbiob
tbe foot sinks (ram an inch or two to a
foot or eighteen inohes according to the
amount of moisture present. A kind of
grass grows on the lower slopes of the
moaotaios and above that all it desola
tion. No trees grow in that latitude of
even tbe most stunted character noth
ing tbat wonld erjllioe to build a fire.
All fuel has to tie carried there save
such as bas drifted into tbe abores
from warmer latitude, from the sea.
The supply of this, tbongh sufficient for
last summer, will be totally exhausted
by tbe return of spring.
Aa Hmeot Medicine for La Grippe.
Oeorge W. Waitt, of Hontb Gardiner,
Me., rave: "I have had the worst ooogb,
oold, chills and grip and have taken lots
of traah of no aocouot bnt profit to tbe
vendor. Chamberlain Cough Kerned?
it tbs only tLmg that has done any good
whatever. I have need one bottle of It
and the chills, cold end grip Lave all
left me. I congratulate the coancfao
turers of an honest medicine," For salt
tj Cocscr i Warren
Cllmatio Contrasts.
To fully realize what a fine climate
Morrow oounty possesses, it is neoessary
to listen to the experiences of men in
other parts of tbe country.
David Herrold, who has been living
for several years near the mouth cf the
Columbia, and will "Boon obange his
residenoe to the more pleasant olimate
of tbe Heppner hills, came here Satur
day to investigate.
In a general talk at tbe Palace hotel
be gave bis experience in Iowa aa fol
lows :
"Twenty-seven years ego I went to
Sak county and bongbt a tract of prairie
land at $4 an aore. There "vers no
other settlers In sight, and I thought I
was going to have free range forever.
But in a few yean every foot of land
around me had been bought np and
settled upon.
"One fall winter oame on in October
with a fall of 4 feet of snow. My corn
was still standing in the fields. I had
125 head of cattle and hauled bay to
them every day. The snow drifted
aronnd tbe stacks so tbat I bad to sbevsl
it away to get at tbeir tops, Bud the
meroury dropped to 40 below zero. After
I had used op all the hay I turned the
cattle into the corn field, where tbe snow
was as high as the stalks, and they had
to dig for tbe ears. In spite of all I
oould do, 25 head died.
"While snob winters were bad enough,
in tbe summer we did not know what
minute a oyolone twister would oome
along and sweep away bouses, lives and
everything we bad, and tbe thunder
and lightning were terrific I sold ont
at a b eon floe, letting my place go at $10
an aore.
"I visited baok there a few years ago,
and found tbat notwithstanding all the
olimatio drawbacks, land was selling at
$60 an sore."
When Jonbert Was Here.
You don't remember when Gen. Piel
Jonbert, the great Boer, visited Heppner
with Deuny tbe Freoohman, do you?
Not many other people do. Bnt be was
here. He was born at 1105 Arch street,
Philadelphia. His father was a French
man, who fell in love with and married
a girl in the south of Holland. He and
bis family went tj South Africa a num
ber of years ago. Tbe general visited
here in 1879, as agent for a large finan
cial ootpany, and again in 1893 when
he was offloial representative of the
Transvall Republic at the World's Fair
at Chicago. He shot a wagon-load of
prairie obiokens in Unole Charlie Wal
laoe's grain field up Balm Fork one
Suuday, He was a good wing saot.
Winter at Nome.
Letters dated Deoember 15 have been
received from Cape Nome. Tbey oame
out over tbe ice, and cue of them written
by J. B. Ziudars says:
"Provisions, outside of bacon and
beant, are pretty high. Firewood ia $9
a cord in Nome. Coal wor'd sell at any
price. Saloons and gambling-houses
are making fortunes. A sluioe-rooker
works fonr or five boors with 15 buckets
of water. It picks up tbe tame water
and works it over. Maoy plaoes it will
beat the oentrifugal. Tbe aluioe rooker
embraoes a large wheel, tbat pioks np
the water and keeps it flowing from onps.
It takes mnoh money to get olaims and
looate tbem. Dogs for the trip to Cape
York oosl 8250.
"In town there has not been as muob
sickness as last fall. It has been pretty
cold tbe last two weeks. The thermom
eter has run to 40 degrees below zero.
"About November 6 it thawed, and
Price aud 1 finished onr rooker, and got
in five days' work before it froze again,
taking ont in tbat lime $312.
"Tbe Alaska Commercial Company
took out with a gold separator or sluice
rooker $3800 in five days."
A Uood CouKh Medicine for Children.
"I have no beaitanoy in recommending
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," sayt F.
P. Moran, a well known aud popular
bafcer, of Petersburg, Va. "We have
given it to our children wben troubled
witb bad coughs, also whooping oougb,
and it bas always given perfeot satisfac
tion. It was recommended to me by a
druggist as the best oough medecine for
children at it contained no opium or
other harmful drug." Hold by Conser
k Warren.
Over tbe Orade.
Henry Oay drove in lbs Loue ltock
stags lost night from bis place on Rhea
oreek. He left VA Corcpton, tbe driver,
at bis bonse, pretty badly used up. As
the stage was onming doo the grade
tbe horte discovered a nioe, large, fat
sow snoring away in the road. Not
knowing but that tbe was loaded, the
horse gave a snort aud a spring, and
took stage, driver and all over the em
bankment and piled them up at tbe
bottom, wbere a barbed wire fence added
to the misery. Mr.Compton was helped
down to Mr. Oay's house, and made as
comfortable aa possible. His chest and
side seemed injured so tbat it was al
most impossible for him to lie down.
Death of James Hayes.
On Feb. !, James Hayes died of
dropsy at the borne of bit son in-law,
James H, Hayes, on Kbea creek. De
oeased was aged 64 years, and was a
pionaer of Lane oounty, ooming to Mor
row county last July,
The remains were taken below today
for buritl at bis old borne la the YtUey.
Quality
It is the high
quality of Royal
Baking Powder
that has estab
lished its great
and world-wide
reputation.
Every house
wife knows she
can rely upon
it; that it makes
the bread and
biscuit more delicious and whole
some always the finest that can
be baked.
It is economy and every way
better to use the Royal, whose
work is always certain, never
experimental.
There are many imitation baking
powders, made from alum. They
may cost less per pound, but
their use is at the cost of health.
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK
10NE BHKV1T1K8.
From the Post,
E. Q. 8 perry, Ione'a mayor and father
of our city, and one of tbe most exten
sive mole breeders in tbe state of Ore
gon, oontemplutes shipping a oarload of
mules to Kansas Oity in the near future.
Fred FilkiDs, one of Morrow oounty'a
native sons, was in town Monday and
while here filed on a quarter seotion of
Kood land looated four miles from the
railroad. Fred oan see that a farm in
Morrow oounty will prove a profitable
investment.
Nearly every day homesteads are be
ing taken in the vioinity of lone and yet
there ia room for many more homes on
vaoant lands in Morrow oounty and we
predict tbat before six months expires
every available traol of agricultural
land will be turned into permanent
homes.
Osuar Jayne, formerly of Morrow
county, but cow a prominent stookraiser
neat Condon, it over this week visiting
relatives and friends here. He reports
farming and stock interests in oar
neighboring oounty as being very en
couraging. Newcomers are settling op
that country at a rapid rate,
lone ia fast taking on a metropolitan
air. New side and oroes walks, graded
streets, and now we are assured that
ithin ten days an agent will be in
stalled in the new depot to attend to
tbe multitodenous duties wbioh will de
volve npon the man so domioiled. An
agent at lone is muob needed and our
oitizens realize tbat bis coming is an
acquisition to tbe town wbicb will add
to its importance before the oommeroial
world, and recognition is what we are
after.
Quite a large amount of wheat yet re
mains stored in the two warehouses
here, the present prioe being too low to
move tbe same. The owners of this
staple commodity being in good ciroum
etances are holding their wbe.it witb an
expeotation of an advance before the
next crop oomet into market.
There ia a large amount of vaoant
land in tbe immediate vioinity of lone,
much of wbiob will be taken up during
tbe ooming spring and summer. Immi
gration to Eastern Oregon bas already
begun in earnest, and tbe present out
look for abnndant crops in Morrow
county will wield a great influence witb
bomeseekers.
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the public
to know of one oouoern in tbe land who
are not afraid to be generous to tbe
needy and suffering. The proprietors of
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, Cougbt and Colds, bave given
away over ten million trial bottlet of
thit great mediums, and have tbe satis
faction of knowing it bas absolutely
cored thousands of hopeless oases.
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all
diseaaes of tbe Throat, Chest and
Langs are surely cured by it. Call on
Cunser A Warren Drug Co., and get a
free trial bottle. Iiegular size 60o. and
II. Every bottle guaranteed, or prioe
refunded.
B't shoe Rale.
The Fair Invites you all to oome and
lntpeoi its big stook of sloes. The
prioee and styl s are set forth in at at
tractive advertisement, to which atten
tion is invited. The goods are all guar
anteed, sad are lure to giro satisfaction.
Never
experiment
with so
important
an article
as the
human
food
UP THE KlllCK.
Notes Blown Down From the Tall Tamaracks
of the Reservation.
We are trying to fight the South Afri
can war ourselves np here, but it is one
sided. We are all Boers exoept Billy
Stewart. He is in favor of England,
and has started out to raise recruits for
the English army. But the only ones
who wonld enlist ate Bill Penland'a
mottled faoed sheep.
We are having aores of whooping
oough amoDg our kidg up bere. Most
of tbem bave it light, but Free Qreen
lost one of bis fine twin girls, 3 months
old. The little one was buried Thurs
day in the pioneer oemetery on Kbea
oreek.
Ed Siroinger bas welcomed a little
girl baby to bis bcaseiinld.
Our sobool district has 42 obildren
enumerated, and oar improvements are
substantial. Wbere we thought there
was no water we find plenty of it in tbe
oanyons by digging four to seven feet.
Our most prominent landmark is the
new S. L. MoBride residenoe. It is
well finished and home-like. Bob Ler
ter's comes next, then John Depuy's.
Bob has 54 aores in fall wheat, which
will go 60 bushels to tbe acre, and has
90 tons of bay on band.
The bouses of Hyle Oorbin and Free
Qreen, in Dipping Vat canyon, are not
to be sneezed at for a new oountry.
Tbe roads from tbe timber are now
good, and the boys oan baul to town
loads of 1 cords. Jack MoKenzie, who
lives at tbe mouth of Dutch Billie kriok,
is going to rig np a mule outfit, witb
wide-tire wheels and go into tbe wood
business. He believes in keeping op
good roadt.
Qeorge Oopelaod is taking a month's
vacalio j. Gun. Jewshabf, Boer.
Red Hot Trom The Gun
Wat tbe ball that bit Q. B. Steadman
of Newark, Mioh , in tbe Civil War. It
caused horrible Ulcsrs tbat no treat
ment helped for 20 years. Then BaoK
len's Arnloa Salve cured bim. Cares
Cats, Braises, Burnt, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Skin Eraptioot. Bett Pile oare
on eartb. 25 ots. a box. Cure guaran
tee!. Hold by Conser & Warren Drag
Co.
NOTHJB TO VOTEU8.
All Mast UfulMter on or Itefore May 15,
11100.
From tbe 2d day of January, 1900, at
8 a. m., until tbe 15th day of May, 1900,
at 5. p. tn., the records for tbe registra
tion of voters will be open at tbe office
of the County Clerk of Morrow oonnty.
Naturalized citizen! appearing to
register will be requested to produce
proofs of citizenship, either deolaration
of intention, or certifloate of citizenship,
exoept wbere tbe same appears on tbe
reoordt of Morrow county, and also
tbeir street and number, if living ia
town, or if lvmg in oountry, section,
township and range.
Tbe law rsquirea that it tbe elector is
unable to conveniently appear before
tbe oounty olerk for registration, be may
be registered by a notary publio or jus
tice of the peaoe in the preoinct in wbioh '
be resides.
Dated at Heppner, Morrow county,
Oregon, this Slat day of January, 1900.
Vawteb Ckawkord,
County Olerk, Morrow County, Oregon,