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EIGHTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 26, 1900,
NO. 779
1
The Heppner Gazette
Is published every Thursday by
J. W. RE DING-TON.
Entered at the Fostoffice at Heppner, Oregon,
ai second-class matter.
PROPESSIOlTAIi CJLXlXMa.
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. S. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
U, S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
rnuuro ana hnu filinos.
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
Makes a specialty of hard collections.
Office in . N. Brown's building, Heppner, Or
Dr. M. B. Metzler
DENTIST
Teeth Extracted and Filled.
Bridging a specialty
Painless Extraction. ...
Heppner - - Oregon.
J. R. Simons 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.
All Heppner people who have
stopped there speak well of the
HOTEL ST. GEORGE
Pendleton, Oregon.
GEORGE DARVEAU. Proprietor.
European plan, erected in 1869,
elegantly furnished and heated
by hot water.
Corner Main and Webb streets,
1 blocks from depot.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, LAND
Office at The Dalles, Ore., March 19 1900.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to commute and make final proof in support of
his claim and that said proof will be made be
fore J. W. Morrow, United States Commissioner,
at Heppnei, Oregon, on Friday, April 27, 1900,
vii:
DANIEL C. GRIFFIN, of Heppner, Ore,,
Homestead entry No. 6752 for the northeast H
section '21, township 1 south, range 28 east W M.
He names the following witnesses to prove
bis continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: Frank E. Bell, Even G wor
sen, Ben. F. Swaggart and Elmer Scott, all of
Heppner, Oregon.
74-9 Jat P. Ldcas, Register.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
DEPARTMENT OF TBI INTERIOR, LAND
Office at The Dalles, Or., March 19. 1900.
Notice is herebv given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
to make final proof in support of bis claim,
and that said proof will be made before A.
Mallory, United States Commissioner, at Hepp
ner, Oregon, on Friday. April 27, 1900., vis:
JAMES W. BEYMER, of Hardman, Ore.,
Homestead entry No. 7249 for the southwest H
northeast , west southeast and northeast
'. southeast section 15, township 4 south,
ranxe X east W M.
He names the following witnesses to prove
bis continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz: W. F. Cowdrey, J. C. Owen,
Onmer Shaner and A. E. Wright, all of Hard
man, Oregon.
74 9 Jay P. Lucas, Register.
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every year and never suffer
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OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA , . . . ; President I
T. A. RHEA VioPresident
Transact a General Banking Business.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD..
Collections made'on all polntsbn reasonable terms! Surplus and undivided profits 135,000. "
Palace '
JwSft ' Hotel.
mwmm
A Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
Every Modern
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.
FLOUR
The Heppner Flouring Mill Company
Have peifeoted arrangements to run the mill permanently.
They have secured tbe services of a first-olass miller, and
wheat snfficieot lo make and keep on band a permanent
' supply of
Flour, Graham, Germ Meal, Whole Wheat,
Bran and Shorts
Of tbe tery best quality and guaranteed to give satisfaction.
We are here to bay wheat and exobange with tbe farmers, and aolioit
their patronage.
AT
T. R. HOWARD'S STORE,
Main street, you can find
Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
,1 Tinware and Furnishing Goods,
All well adapted to either City or Country Trade.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Fine Teas and Coffees.
X. R. HOWARD, Heppner.
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For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears
Signat
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEWVOHK fllTV.
ti. W. CON8ER Cashier
E. L. FREELAND. .Assistant Oashier
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Convenience.
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Fair Prices.L
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LATEST WAR NEWS.
Battle Pending-.
London, April 23. It is quite prob
able that by this time Gen. Handle has
fought a decisive battle with the Boers.
He entrenched himself Saturday to
await the arrival of Gen. Campbell with
the Sixteenth brigade. That commander
arrived Saturday evening,, and news
may therefore be expected 'at any mo
ment. During the last few days there
has been a renewal of Boer .activity in
all parts of tbe theatre of war. The
tenacity of the enemy around Colonel
Dalgety proves that considerable forces
are still there.
Koar of Artillery.''
Maseru v Basutoland, April 21. Four
Boer guns have been hard .at work all
day on Col. Dalgety's position. The
British guns have replied at intervals.
The Boers are divided into three divis
ions, two being in position to repel the
relief columns, the distant roar of whose
artillery is audible. General Brabant's
relief force is reported to be today in
tbe neighborhood of Bushman's Kop,
20 miles from Wepener.
A dispatch from Jamraersburg says:
The Boers are desplaying renewed ac
tivity. Five guns were used freely to
day from four different positions against
ours. A rifle firing south and west was
heavy and continuous. Officers and
men are on duty day and night in the
trenches, and the heavy rains of late
have made their task a great feat of
endurance and pluck.
Dutch Kcrtes. ,
Information shows that at one time
the two republics had 105,000 men in
the field, including the Colonials. Tliev
can still muster 80,000, of which 50,000
areintne free State, 10,000 are to the
Biagarsberg district and 15,000 in the
district of the Fourteen Stresms. It is
now believed that before the war the
burgher lists were deliberate falsified
in order to deceive the British intelli
gence department.
Fighting all Day. -Maseru,
April 23. Fighting began
early this morning at Bushman's Kop.
The Colonial division advanced cau
tiously. It was found that the Hoers
had evacuated their positions on Bush
man's Kop during the night. A run
ning fight has been proceeding through
out the day, the British gradually ad
vancing and the lioers losing ground.
General Brabant is moving in a north
easterly direction, keeping Basutoland
close on his right flank. Thousands of
Basutos are watching the operations,
Our casualties so far are 25 wounded.
The , Bri ish Are bivouacking tonight
eight miles from Wepener, and the
Boers, who are besieging Col. Dalnety,
appear to be preparing to retire.
A stubborn fight is belif-ved to have
occurred in the direction of le Wet's
Dorp, where the Boers are in strong
force with a lot of guns and where also
there is a relief column, apparently
General Uundle's. Wepener, however,
is already practically relieved by the
withdrawal of a large portion of the
besiegers.
PHILIPPINE WAR.
Manila, April 22. Last week was one
of the bloodiest of the war. Official re
ports show a total of 378 Filipinos killed,
12 officers and 244 men captured, and
many more wounded. The number
wounded is hardly guesnable. Consi
dering that the Filipinos entirely lack
hospital facilities, a great majority of the
wounded will die. Probablv the week'i
work finished 1000 insurgents. The
American lows was nine killed and 10
wounded. Two Sergeants and oie pri
vate were killed in ambushes, while es
corting provision trains.
The insurgents have been aggressive
in almost every province of Luzon,
General 1'ilar's band, numbering' 300,
which whs out of sight for three months,
the leader being reported killed, has re
appeared in its old field about San Mi
quel. Pilar is supposed to he again in
command. He gave the American gar
rison at Han Miquel, consisting of three
companies of the Thirty fifth Infantry,
with a Oatling, three hours' fighting,
during a night attack.
HARD ON HORSES.
The Chilcoot Pmbs was hard on
horses, and no',v the Boer war is
bard on horses, and the coble ani
mals pet killed and used up alarm,
ingly fast. The horse had become
too numerous for BDy earthly use,
but under the present administra
tion he has had a great increase in
value, and shows symptoms of be
coming more so. The British gov
ernment lias agents in America
with 30,000 horses for shipment to
tbe front in Africa, arjd as most of
tbe horses fitted for such service
have to be secured in the Pacific
Northwest, it will probably in
crease values here very materially.
Wireleiw Telegraphy.
It is said that aoocesafol pxperimeoti
have tt last been aocomplmhed in wire
lets telegraphy, and Ibis would undoubt
edly be a good tbing, and revolutionize
many ways of doing bntiness. One
writer has gone so fur as to my Ibat
wireless telegraphy Is the greatest dis
covery of the aire. We beg to differ.
Don't overlook Hostetter'i Ktnmaoh Bit
ters when yon talk about tbe area!
things nf the world. This peerless mad
ioine bus done more to promote health
and settle stomach tronhlt-s tkno any
other medicine in nxixtHiine. It oorei
dyspepsia, indigestion, msUris and oon
tipation. It neer fail. Try t, and
be sure nd jf thu genuine, with Pri
vate Iievnn fttsrop over tlm nek nf
bottle. Don't let tbe druggist pnlm off
'nbetitnle "
Twl City Kxi-e
East bound, on the Northern Pacific,
passes through the red-colored Had
Lands and the North Dakota wheat
fields in the dav time. This train lfavfa
Portland at 11 MO o'clock at night, I'll
(Hit Hound points early the following
morning, and arrives at HKkaneat lO .40
p. m., and at ht. Paul at 7:45 a. m., con
oectiog with all out-going trains.
EASTERN OREGON GROWTH.
Li. 11. Wells, of Portland and, a
native son ol La lirande, recently
wrote some very interesting rem
iniscences in The Oregonian, from
which tbe following are extracts:
A ' long period extends back
through the vista of vears to the
first schoolhouse at La Grande
aud to the time the new building
was finished, during which almost
the entire Inland Empiro has
passed through a wonderful trans
formation. The old town, as it
stood when Professor Morgan
taught school in the little shack
near the foothills has nearly disap
peared. The railroad baa taken
the place of the lumbering stage
coach, as the new brick schoolhouse
has taken the place of the other
buildings. Many of the men who
attended the meeting which was
held at La Grande in the early '60s
to take steps toward the erection
of the schoolhouse have passed
away.
La Grande was then a mining
supply town, and the valley was
little occupied. The school was
taught in any old room that hap
pened to be handy. The new build
ing was a fine structure for those
days. From the windows a full
view of the old immigrant road,
winding its way through the val
ley and up the mountain side in
the heart of the Blue Bange was
had. There were the long trains
ot ox wagons, packed with families,
who had trekked across the plains
and were still trekking on to the
"Wallamut" Valley the promised
land and goal of the almost endless
procession; pack trains of mule
and horse, great prairie schooners
dragged by the slow moving oxen,
or the long eight-mule teams, mov
ing in constant succession to tbe
mines of the "Upper Country"
from Umatilla, by the schoolhouse
on the hill. That was before rail
ways and before the Meacham
road had been riven out of the iron
mountains along the rushing Grand
Rend River.
The sons of Jack Morrow, the
pioneer merchant of the old town,
who afterwards moved to and
founded Morrow County, attended
achool here. The Bona and daugh
ters of Senator Slater got their ed
ucation in the old building. Car
rie and Ella Rhodes, the latter
Ella Higginson, were pupils in
this old building. Some of the old
pupils have attained considerable
prominence, especially Ella Hig-
ginson.
SAM HOUSTON'S SECRET.
"A mystery in which the Ameri
can people were once deeply con
cerned was that which shadowed
the life of one of tbe most remark
able characters of the country,"
writes William fernne of "Mys
teries of the Century," in the April
Ladies' Home Journal. "In 1829
Samuel Houston, or, aB he called
and Bigned himself, 'Sam' Houston,
was Governor of Tennessee. It
was in the midst of a campaign for
re-election to the Gubernatorial
chair that Tennessee was startled
by a report that be bad resigned
bis office. He had been married
to the daughter of an influential
family; three months afterward
sheieturned to her father's house,
aud her husband resolved to pass
the rest of bis life in tbe wilder-
DSHH.
"Houston betook himself to the
tribe of Cherokees in the Indian
Territory; he adopted their costume,
appearing in all the trappings of
an Indian brave, letting his hair
giow down bis back, and visiting
Washington with a buckskin bunting-shirt,
yellow leggins, a huge
blanket, and turkey feathers around
his bead. No one could induce
bim to reveal the secret of his
metamorphosis and his abandon
ment of tbe ways and habits of
civilization. He married again
after he emerged from bis Indian
life, aud he lived to be an old man,
dying in the midst of tbe Civil
War, but no one was ever able to
persuade him to unlock (he mys
tery of his life. Nor would bis
first wife, who also married again,
throw any light on tbo mystery."
A T SOLDIERS' HOME.
m
J, G. Hart, of Heppner, the vet
eran soldier who is now at the Sol
diers' Home at Roseburg, wrote to
Gov. G. W. Rea April 18, as fol
lows: Comrade Rea This home ia all
right, and is kept in good shaoe.
The commander is a vr-ry fine fel
low, and is very kind to the old
soldiers. He does not take any of
their pension money from them.
He puts it in the bank, and when
they want it he gives them a check.
Everything is neat and clean,
and the food is good enough for
anyone. The home has 40 acres
of eround, a cood orchard and
strawberry patch, and a nice grove
of hr trees and seats.
There are three D-rades of n
I diers here veterans of the Mex-
lean, Indian and Civil wars.
BO
amng
Powder
Economy
The manufacturers of Royal
Baking Powder have always declined
to produce a cheap baking powder
at the sacrifice of quality.
The Royal is made from the
most highly refined and wholesome
ingredients, and is the embodiment
of all the excellence possible to be
attained in the highest class baking
powder.
Royal Baking Powder costs only
a fair price, and is cheaper at its
price than any similar article.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
TOO BAD! TOO BAD1
The Dewey cat is out of the bag
and in full sight of everybody.
The Admiral has simply allowed
himself to be used by those demo
crats who still have hopes of keep
ing Mr. Bryan out of the demo
cratic nomination. It is the demo
cratic nomination that the Admir
al exprots to get. He baa declared
himself to be a democrat, although
he has never cast a vote, and says
the only time he ever desired to
vote was when Mr. Cleveland was
a candidate for President The
only effect of his candidacy will be
humiliation for himself. It is now
known that his announcement has
fallen as flat everywhere else as it
did in Washington, and the demo
crats in Congress, who ought to
know the sentiment of their con
stituents, say that Dewey has no
more chance of being nominated
by the Kansas City convention
than Grover Cleveland has. A mong
Admiral Dewey's real friends much
regret is expressed that he should
have listened to advice that must
end in bringing him great humil
iation. The liryanites are already
adding gall to that humiliation by
suggesting that Dewey may pos
sibly be given tbe nomination for
Vice President on tbe Bryan tick
et. Just think of it! Tbe hero of
Manila Day, the man who did
more tnan any other one man to
give the U. 8. the Philippines,
and who has been referred to aB
the father of expansion, used as
the tail of the Bryan ticket, on a
platform opposing expansion and
everything else George Dewey was
supposed to stand for. Surely
that would be enough to make
Dewey wish he had never been
born, or at least that he had al
lowed himself to fall into tbe hands
of his friends and married rela
lives.
, Wide VentlbnlM
On the North Coast Limited and Twin
City Express, the Northern Pacific's
two daily trains, east bound, after April
29. lhey will leave count cities about
twelve hours apart. Ask for a 'orth
Coast Limited leaflet.
Independent and reliable The Oregon-lun.
Samples of mixtures made in imitation of baking
powders, but containing alum, are frequently dis
tributed from door to door, or given away in
, grocery . stores. . , Such, mixtures
to use in food, and in many cities their sale is
prohibited by law. Alum is a corrosive poison, and
all physicians condemn baking powders containing it.
100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
WAUNEU MAIL.
Over in Haystack valley, 40 miles
southwest from Heppner, is a thriving
settlement' which sends its products
to Ifopimer for shipment to the mar
kets of the world. There was a direct
mail route between its town of Wauner
and Heppner, connecting at Hardman
with the daily Canyon City stage.
IkicniiHe of the starvation price paid
the sub-contractor, lie dropped the
route, and now Wagner has to get its
mail via Arlington, which means 4 days
to get a letter there from Heppner,
where it used to go in one.
This h not fair to tbe people. The
government is not too poor to pay
decent wages for such work, and it
should re-establish the daily service to
Wagner and supply the people with the
mail they are juy entitled to.
HHKGP HALEd.
Buyers and growers seem to be still
apart, the former claiming that there is
no margin for them in buying sheep at
present aHking prices. There are many
buyers in Heppner, and they all want
sheep, but say they will not buy at
present prices.
Growers sav that they are only ask
ing what their sheep are worth, and
that if they cannot get that they can
hold them over, for they have more and
better graHS than ever before, and the
number of sheep on band is less than
for years.
The only sale reported is that Isaac
Howard, of Butter creek, sold his band
of ewes and lambs, count noses after
shearing, at $2.11) a head all around.
At this rate he will receive for a ewe
with twins say 11.50 for the wool
and $ii.3) for the three bead, total $7.80.
RESOLUTIONS.
At a regular meeting of Rawlins Re
lief Corps No. 23, held April 21, l'JOO,
the following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas our friend and sister
Mrs. Belle Lalande has been called upon
to bear sore affliction in liie death of
her beloved hiiHband Stephen Lalande,
we the ladies of Rawlins Relief Corps
No. 2:1 desire to express our heartfelt
sympathy for her and her family in
their sad berevement.
Resolved, That a copy ot this expres
sion of our sympathy be given to the
bereaved family and that a copy be
sent to the Hoppner papers.
Per order of the corp.
Mary Bartholomew
May 8. Thompson
Mattik T. Smkao '
.Committee.
Editor's Awful Plight.
F. M. Iiifwini, editor Heneoa, (Ills.)
News, was alllioted for years with piles
Ibat no dootor or remedy helped until
be tried Backlen' Arnioa Salve. He writes
two boxs wholly cured bim. It's the
surest pile cure on esrtb and tbe best
jftlveiu the world. Cure ftuarsoteed.
Bold by Conner A Warren Drug Co.