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ative Journal of the County.
EIGHTEENTH YEAR
iieppne:h, morrow county, Oregon, Thursday, may 24, 1900,
NO. 783
The Heppner Gazette
Is published every Thursday by
J. W. RE DING-TON.
Entered at the Postofflce at Heppner, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
OFJFXGXJLXd DIBSCTOBT.
Sixth Judlelul District.
(remit Judge Stephen A. Lowell
Prosecuting Attorney U. J. Ueao
- Morrow County Officials.
Joint Senator J, W. Morrow
Rspreeent&tiTe. E. L. Freeland
O nntjjadgs A. (J. Bartholomew
" Commissioners .L. Howard
T TJJ Qu.lra..
" Clerk Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff.... A. Andrews
" Treasurer II. Liohteathal
" Assessor J. b. Willie
" Sarreyor .Julias Keithly
" School Sap't Jay W. Shipley
r . Tk- Cl D H 1 i.
Stock Inspector Henry Scherzinger
HBPPMSB TOWN OMIOKBS.
Miiyoi Frank Gilliam
Counrilraen.... . 8. P. Garriguee,
' J. R. Simons. J. J. Roberts, E. W Rhea, Geo.
Nole and Thos. Quaid. .
ItcMiorder J. P, Williama
Treasurer L. W, Briggs
Marshal George Thorutou
HIRPMBB SCHOOL DISTRICT, , '
Directors Frank Olllirm. 0. E. Farnaworth,
J M. Hager; Clerk J. J. Roberta.
Precinct Offloerc.
ustioeof tho Peaoe .....W. A. Richardson
unstable G. S. Gray
United States Land Officer. !
THE DALLIS, OB. - v
Jay P. Luoas Register
Otis Patterson Receiver
LA OBAKDI, OB.
E. W. Bartlett Register
J. O. Swackhainer Receiver
It is a fact that farms can be bought
in Morrow county at such low prices
that their first coming crop will pay for
the land. ,
C E- Redfleld
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 authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FI LINUS.
Collections made ou reasonable terma.
Office at residence on Chase itreet.
Government land acript for sale.
D- E Gilman
GENERAL COLLECTOR. ,
Put your old books and notes in his
hands and get your money out of them
Makea a specialty of hard collections.
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.
J. E. Sharp
Successor to Harry Mills.
Tonsorial Artist
Your patronage solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed..
Hot and Cold Baths
Main Street, , Heppner,
J. Rt-Simons. ft 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.
.(in AtMtlwl In 1 &f9
elegantly furnished and heated
by hot water.
Corner Main and Webb streets,
1J blocks from depot.
AVeeetablcPreparationfor As
similating toeToodandB.egu.la
ting the Stomachs andBowels of
aomotesT5ifestion,ClrfuI
flcssandBest.Containsnjdther OpmirXMorphine nor Mineral.
Not Narcotic.
RutfOldlk-SXMBEUmMB.
) Alx.Smv
SJti -
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Clmlitd Sugar
laiayrWwwi
Aoerfecf Remedv forfionstiwi-
tiofi. Sour S tomach.piarrhoea.
Worms .Convulsions .feverish.'
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
"Facsimile Signature of
tTEVr "YORK.
kill! AJLxJil- 3E
EXACT COPYTMWEAPPEB.?
JmsT Jational Jank
OF HEPPNER.
O. A. RHEA President I
T. A. RHEA Vio Proeident I
Transact a General Banking Business.
., EXCHANGE ON ALL PAKT8 OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD I .
-' Collections madetm all points en reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits 3js0O0,
A Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
Every" Modern
' 1
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. wvt.
FLOUR
The Heppner Flouring Mill Company
Have perfeoted arrangements to run the mill permanently.
They have secured tbe eervloes of a first-class miller, end
wheat sufficient lo make sod keep on band a permanent
supply of ' , ' ' -
Flour, Graham, Germ Meal, Whole Wheat,
feran and Shorts
' " Of tbe very beet quality sod guaranteed to give satiefaction.
We are bere to buy wheat sod
their patronage.
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AT
T. R. HOWARD'S STORE,
Main street,
All well adapted to
Staple and Fancu Groceries
T. R. HOWARD,
acsc
ft PI fit
Rl
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
: Always Bought
Bears the
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
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THE CCNTSUR OOMeANV, NIW YORK OITT.
. W. CONSER Cashier
E. L. FREEL AND. .Assistant llashier
SignaturejpJ'
h Ah
fill
I
Palace
Hotel
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Convenience.
FLOUR
eiobaoge with tbe farmers, and solioit
,
you can find
Groceries, Provisions, Glassware.
Tinware and Furnishing Goods,
either City or Country Trade.
-
Good Goods....
Fair Prices. i
UNCLE SAM'S MOVE.
Oration 'fey Orvllle A. Jours, Graduate of
Beppner Hlh School.
Duninrg the next few years one of the
most important issues before the Amer
ican people will be the building of the
Mtoeraguan Canal.
0Kir development as a nation and a
Wevld power demands that such a canal
h built and owned by The United States.
The vast amouot of shipping done
from coast to coast of our broad domain
demands the cheapest method of trans
portation that can be procured.
, We are looking out on the Pacific with
eager eyes.
Bordering her waters are over 100,000,
000 of human beings, who must be fed,
clothed, and be , provided with all
the necessities of life.
On the Pacific there is already an an
nual foreign trade of over two billion
dollars, of which The United States has
now only $200,000,000, or barely 1-10;
while she should and will have with the
aid of a canal buiit and owued by her, a
share, within fifty yeare, that should
reach tbe magnificent total of One bil
lion dollars.
America's new and vast interests in
the Paciflu are sufficient warrant alone
for the cost of the canal even though it
reaches tbe sum of $150,000,000. Every
year's delay means a far greater loss in
annnal trade than the expenditure for
Its construction.
If the present rate of increase in trade
with China, Japan, Siberia, the Philip
pines, Hawaii and other countries bord
ering on. the Pacific keeps up for tbe
next six years, that advance alone will
pay the entire cost.
Then when the canal is opened the
immense immediate -gain under such
improved conditions will in less than
threo years exceed the whole expendi
ture of construction.
At the present time tbe main water
traffic is through the Suez Canal, but if
the Nicaraguan Canal were built the
civilized world Would take advantage of
this new commercial route, which would
so revolutionize all ' water commerce
that it would not only give The United
States absolute control of the Pacific,
bat make her forever the leading com
mercial power of the world.
. In protecting The , United. States
against any possible enemies, its impor
tance will be next to Ui&t of; a . powerful
navy and well fortified borts. v
Were we to engage in war with Great
Britian, Russia, Germany, France or Ja
pan we would depend chiefly on our navy
and its rapid transit from coast to coast.
We could not invade their home ter
ritory.
They could not invade ours. It would
be a question of the control of the seat,
and attacking and defending our Atlan
tic and Pacific coasts. Unless every
facility is provided for the movement of
our ships and squadrons from coast to
coast exigencies' and emergencies de
mand one or the other of these sections
will be at the mercv of the enemy;
probably our Pacific shores and our new
possessions.
. But if we build a canal, through which
our Atlantic and Pacitlo squadrons can
pass, such attacks will be immediately
checkmated, and bur coasts free from
any danger.
As to fortifying the terminals, this
would be a barren right. Defence of
the canal in war would depend absolute
ly on sea power; it would be useless
however impregnable if it could be block
aded and cut from this country. This
is do reason however why we should
not establish strong naval bases at far
from the terminals as Alexandria and
Aden in the Mediterranean and Red
Seas or from Port Said and Suez, from
which we could operate in fleets for its
defence.
As to the canal Itself it would run from
the Pacific coast' southeast across the
mall Republic of Nicaragua. The en
tire length of the canal would be 180
miles, or 16,' miles less than the dis
tance from here to Portland, of which
distance only 61 miles have to be dug;
the rest running diagonally across .Lake
Nicaragua:, and then passing down the
Sam Juan riyer into the Carribean Sea.
VVby is it that although the Nicara
guan Canal Bill has been before Con
gress so many times, (and was defeated
in the Senate not a month ago ;) it has
rever been successfully passed? ,
I can tell you the reason ! It is sim
ply beceuse some few wealthy stock
holders and owners of our great railway
systems have slipped up behind our
honorable congressmen unawares and
placed the Almighty Dollar in their
hands without them ever suspecting itl
Ii is to the interest of the great rail
road magnates to see that such a bill is
never passed, or such a canal is never
dug ; but it is to the interest of every vo
ter In this great land of ours to make
tbe next nominees to congress solemly
pledge themselves to use their utmost
endeavors in ree that tlte Nicaraguan
Canal is built. We cannot remain a
world power until Ibis inter-oceanic
highway is immediately opened.
When this is done we shall be first in
tbe race of nations.
hi my humble opinion the time is
clearly at hand when Uncle Sam should
make this master-move on the Inter
national Chess Board snd take his place
at the bend of the nations of the world,
thus successfully check-meting any
move on the part of any European pow-.
er that would in any way be detrimental
to the people of the Western Hemisphere.
Tbe People for America and America
tor the People !
BUNCE'S BYE-BYE.
The Only Bnnce, A. M. Bunce, of
Heppner and Wyoming, Btarted Mon
day for the latter state with his big out
fit of sheep, horses, dogs and men.
Bunce has been a live man here dur
ing the past two months, and a big
crowd of his friends went to the depot
to help him load and see him off. The
affair was turntd into a general jollifi
cation, and geneious showers of Yellow
stone sarsapsrilla pievailed. Sufficient
thistle-dew went away on tbe train to
keep the trail damp and dustless.
Bunce took away one of the biggest
trains that ever rolled out of Heppner.
It consisted of 40 double necked cars,
one of which contained horses and all
tbe rest sheep, 330 head to the car.
As the train pulled out Buuce stood
on the rear end of the last car and sane
"Just as the Sun Went Down," and
was followed by a' volley of cheers from
the friends who will be glad to welcome
him back to Heppner next year.
BURTON VALLEY.
, We have recently had several good
rains here, and agricultural Drosoects
and conditions could not be better. It
would do you good to see the grass in
our pastures. It is a fact that we have
more grass on one acre than there is on
six down by the Columbia. . .
Mrs. Alice Bayless is teaching a most
successful school in our district. There
are 28 scholars enrolled, with several to
begin soon. We have over 70 in the
district, I believe we have the largest
country school In. the county, and say,
nearly everyone here is going to vote
the Republican ticket. People in string
ent circumstances are inclined to ex
periment, but under such prosperous
conditions they know it is' best to let
good enough alone.
Harry Cumminos.
COMING CONVENTION.
On Tuesday, June 19, about 20,000
loyal and enthusiastic Republicans will
gather In Philadelphia. They will pro
ceed, in the deliberate manner of all
large bodies, to nominate candidates for
president and vice president.
Only about 900 of those present will
be authorized delegates. As many
more will be alternates. A hundred or
o will serve as officers of the conven
tion. The other 18,000 will stand around,
talk a great deal, stout whenever there
is opportunity and add to the general
picturesqueness and importance of the
affair.
This will tie the twelfth national con
vention held by the Republican party,
The first one was held in Philadelphia,
as this one will be. That was in 1856,
when John C. Fremont was nominated.
Philadelphia has not had a Republican
national convention since 1872, when
Gtaot was unanimously re-nominated.
Like the convention of 1872. it is ex
pected that the coming one will be sim
ply a grand ratification meeting at which
the McKinley administration will be in
dorsed and the present chief executive
named as a candidate to succeed him
self.
Philadelphia wants this convention so
much that she paid $100,000 in cash and
is to spend nearly as mucb more in en
tertainment.
, National conventions are always cost
ly.; It has been estimated that the peo
ple of the United States spend more
than $10,000,000 once In every four years
merely on the business of nominating
presidential candidates.
WHEAT, WOOL AND STOCK.
' Portland, May 23. The wheat market
is dull. There is not enough of the
cereal selling to enable an accurate quo
tation to be made. The ruling quota
tion given out by exporters is 510520
lor both Walla Walla and Valler, and
the agieregate sales for the past week
are of insignificant proportions.
Wool Valley, 12(13c for coarse,
1516c for best; Eastern Oregon,
1015c; mohair, 2G(i27c per pound.
Sheepskins Shearlings, 1520c; short
wool, 25(35c; medium-wool, 30(50c;
long wool, U0$1 each.
Han Francisco, May 22. Wool
Spring Nevada, 14(fi!l0f! per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 1216; Valley, Oregon,
2i)ii 22c. Fall Northern, mountain, 10
f12c; mountain, 8(3 10c; plains, 8(tfl0c;
Humbolt and Mendocino, 1415c.
Chicago, May 22. Cattle Receipts
2000. Market generally steady ; good to
prime steers, $5rg6 70; poor to medium,
$4254 80; selected feeders. $4.25(3
5.10; mixed stockers, $3.25(tf4.25 ;
cows, $3.20(34.60; heifers, $3.255.15;
canners, $2.403.45; bulls, steadv,
$3(34 25; calves, strong, $4.506 85;
Texas fed steers, steady, $4(5.20; bulls
$3.25(83 75.
Sheep, receipts, 11,000. Sheep and
lambs active snd strong; good to choice
wethers, $5.10(5.40; fair to choice
mixed, $4.60((C5.15; Western sheep,
$5. 15(35.60: yearlings, $5.255.80
native lambs, $5.758.
Beware of a Coagi).
A cough is not a disease but a tymp
ton. Consumption and bronohitii, which
are tbe most daDgerons sod fatal dis
eases, bave for their first iDd'oatioo
persistent oongb, and if properly treated
as soon as Ibis congh appears are easily
cured. Chamberlain's Con Kb Remedy
bss proven wonderfully incoessfnl. aud
gained its wide reputation and extensive
sals by Its suooess In coring tbe diseases
which cause ooagblug. If it is not beo
rucisl it will not eost you oe ut. For
sale by Couser fc Warren.
first to srrtvt with tns telsgrsphlo
news xns weekly Oregonian.
Score cards on which vou can keen
I tally on all kinds of games are now kept
oo taie at toe tieppner uazette oiiice
Absolutely
Pure
No inferior or impure ingredients are
used in Royal for the purpose of cheapen
ing its cost; only the most highly refined
and healthful.
Royal Baking Powder imparts that
peculiar sweetness, flavor and delicacy
noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls,
etc., which expert pastry cooks declare is
unobtainable by the use of any other
leavening agent.
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO.,
POSSIBILITIES OF A SCHOOLGIRL.
Oration by Hiss Ida Howard, Graduate of
Heppner Hlgb Hchool.
"Begun , not finished." Our happy
school days. Whether we will ever be
able to complete our education In col
lege or Bchools of higher learning we do
not know ; but we do know that often
tbe lessons learned by coming in con
tact with tbe needs of school-life during
pur ear'y jpya and sorrows, have proven
to be tbe turning points in the lives of
many successful men and women.
It is said we never feel the worth of
any blessing given us until we are called
upon to part with it and we recognize
this truth :
We to-night review the possibilities
of a Bchool-girl. She may to-day by
careful study and preparation enter
upon any career, Bide by Bide with her
brother. The avenues of life that were
closed to her less than a century ago
now stand open before her. She may
choose any profession or trade.
We will now draw from the lives of
some of the school girls of the past.
Lu.retia Mott when twelve years of
age was sent to a public school, her
father thinking that mingling with the
poor as well as the rich would be better
for ber. It was here her sympathy for
the needy was first drawn out. The
difference between her own experience
and that of many of the pupils was a
revelation to her. There was started
in her mind a train of thought for 1m
proving the condition of the poor and
down-trodden that influenced ber
through life, In later life Mrs. Mott
did not only confine her labors to anti
slavery, but the temperance cause and
the settlement of trouble among nations
by arbitration instead of war, received
her hearty and enthuastic support.
She was greatly beloved and respect
ed in age for her fortitude, philanthropy
and pious devotion to every good cause
One of our favorites Louisa M. Alcott
was a most industrious and helpful
daughter. While quite young she be
gan to earn money. When not teaching
she lured herself to care tor an invalid
child or to ast as governess, or took in
sewing, and added to her slender earn
ings by writing late at night after the
days work was done.
The bard-working school-teacher and
authoress wall thirty years of age when
the great Civil War broke out in IBH1.
Her heart was moved at the accounts of
the suffering that came from the battle
fields and hospitals where
"There was lack of woman's nursing,
There was dearth of woman's tears."
She had waited on invalids. It was a
part of her profession and she deter
mined to go to the front to care for the
wounded.
Her first book was "The Fairy Tales."
Being naturally fond of young people,
she turned her attention from the time
of her second book to the writing for
the young people. By the reading oi
Emerson's works, she saw that one
could shape life best by trying to build
up a strong and noble character, through
good books and by taking an interest
in all reiorms that help the world.
The mother of the "Father of our
Country" was once a school-girl. George
Washington Curtis wrote of her
The mother held iu reserve an
authority which never departed from
her, not even when her son had become
the most illustrious of men.
It seemed to say 'I am your mother,
the being who gave you life, the guide
1 who directed your steps when they
needed the guidance of age and wisdom,
Alum is used in making cheap baking powders. If
you want to know the effect oi alum upon the
tender linings of the stomach, touch a piece to
your tongue. Vou can raise biscuit with alum
baking powder, but at what a cost to health I
100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
the parental authority which command
ed your obedience, the parental affec
tion which claimed your love; whatever
may be your success, whatever your re
nown, next to your God, you owe the
most to me.' Nor did the Chief dissent
from these truthg ; but to the last mom
ents of the life of his venerable parent,
be yielded to ber will the most dutiful
and implicit obedience, and felt for ber
person and character the most holy rev
erance and attachment. .;
Historians and poets, statesmen and
orators, have ever accorded to tbe mo
ther of .Washington. ,s)gnaUofluBnce
in determining his character and career.
So universal is this sentiment, that the
American people consider that the no
blest tribute to her memory is the in
scription upon her monument
"Mary, the Mother of Washington."
Another inspiration to the school-girl
is the life of Mary Lyon, who was in
love with learning from her first day at
school and the older she grew tbe more
she valued it. She was very poor and
it was only through her own efforts that
she attained to the position which she
held. She was the founder of Mt. Hoi-
yoke Female Seminary, where more
than six tnousond pupils have been in
structed, three-fourths of whom bave
become teachers in this and other coun
tries. Two hundred of them mission
aries In the home and foreign field, and
others have hi led many influential and
prominent positions. In this way the
influence of the institution has belted
the globe to the honor of the founder
who had done so much to make it a sue-
cess. ''
Ab we dwell upon the useful snd no
ble lives of those who were once school
girls we are led to exclaim :
"What has been done can be done."
Our opportunities are so numerous
that we do not appreciate them and of
ten do not avail ourselves of many which
lie within our reach, looking and hop
ing for tbe better ones beyond. But,
"Our opportunities are according to our
ability," and, if we embrace the present
ones we shall be fitted for those of the
future which await us. Let not our
chief aim be to make our names immor
tal by deeds which the world shall ap
plaud. As surely as we do, our lives
will not be successful, for though the
laurel wreath be won, with it fades
the victor's hme. But, we shall not
have lived in vain if, while treading our
many paths we
"So live that when our summons
comes to join
That innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each
shall
Take his chamber in the silent halls of
death
We go not like the quarry slave at night
Scourged to bis dungeon, or sustained
and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach our
grave
Like those who wrap the draperies of
their couch about them,
And lie down to pleasant dreams."
A Kick Han' Project.
A riob man's statement that he intends
to devote almost bis entire fortune to
charitable works bss aroused mucb dis
cussion. This is beeause it will tocom
plisb moon good. It is a praiseworthy
endeavor, but tbsre are many other
agencies whioh accomplish just as moob
good. Take Hostetter's Htomson Bitters
lor instance the great Ameriosn rem
edy. For fifty years it has eared oon
stipstloo, dyspepsia and all tbe ills
which arise from wesk digestion. This
medicine will keep tbe etomaob in good
shape and tbe bowels regular. II is a
wonderful restorative tonio and health
builder. It is also a preventative tor
malaria, fever and ague. Ask for it, and
insist upon having it. See that tbe Pri
vate Revenue Stamp oovers tbs Deck of
tbe bottle.
CARD FROM MR. M'GEE.
The voters of Morrow county are
hereby notified that I have been placed
upon the Democratic county ticket for
surveyor, In place of Julius Keithley,
who acct'ptod the prohibition nomina
tion for county judge. If elected, I will
fully perform all the duties of the office.
J. J. McGek.