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'EIGHTEENTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. MAYilTi "
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Is published every Thursday by " .! twa t " 111 j, LIBERTY.
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Entered at the Postofflce at Reppner, Oregon,
oBvuuu-uituiB matter.
Sixth Judicial District.
Otromt Judge Stephen A.. Lowell
riiiBTOuung axiorney H. j. Bean
Borrow County Officials.
Jint Senator J, W.Morrow
K tpresBntatiTO. E. L. Freeland
CjnrjtyJudge A. G. Bartholomew
ommiesionere j , Li Howard
- J. W. Beckett.
Sietlix Vawter Crawford
Sheriff A.Andrews
Treasurer M. Uohtonthal
" Assessor J. F. Willie
Surveyor Jnlins Keithly
' Hohool Sap't Jay W. Shipley
01 , F "oner Dr. E. R. Hnnlook
Stock Inspector Henry Scherzinger
HEPPNKB TOWN OmOKRS.
Mayor.. ; F-ank GillUm
Counrilraen 8. P. Garrigms,
J. R. Simons. J. J. Roberts, E. W Rhea, Geo.
No'-le and Thoe. Quaid.
Knoorder J. p, Williams
rrSRHiirer L. W. Briggs
Marshal George Thornton
HBRPNKR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Directors Frank Gllli.-m, O. E. Farnsworth,
J M. Uager; Clerk J. J. Roberts.
Preemot Officers.
.Iceticeof the Peace..... W. A. Richardson
unstable G, 8. Gray
United States Land Officers.
TBS DALLES, OB,
Jay P Lnoas Register
Otia Patterson Receiver
LA GRANDE, OB.
K. W. Bartlett Register
J. O. Bwaokhamer 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
me iana.
PSOPESSIOKTAi CA-HXIS.
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 mauner. Notaries Pub
lic and Collectors.
Office In Natter's Building. Heppner, Oregon.
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
U. S. COMMISSIONER.
. OtHco in ralace hotel building, Heppner, Or.'
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of 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
Makes 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. R. 5M0ins & 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 18C9,
elegantly furnished and heated
by hot water.
Corner Main and Webb streets.
H blocks from depot.
fTTmiiiiiiimimiiifiiiiiiiiimmiitiiimiiiimMimiiimiiimim
fid
Vegetable Preparationfor As
similating theToodandReguIa
ling the Stomachs andBowels of
ProtnotesT)iestion,Gieeiful
ness and Rest.Contalns neither
Snim,Morptiin0 nor Mineral.
ot Narcotic.
Rtape afOldHrSAMUHEHCHEIl
Alx.Senna
JioJulU SJli -'
Anise Seed
Uppermint -Jh
QntonateSeit,
Him Seed -Clarified
Sugar .
hrivyreaitlmr.
Aperfecf Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Storaach.Diarrhoea,
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
NEW YORK.
in
EXACT COPV OF WHAPPEB, p B
T"' CINTU eOMMHY, NCWVOIIK CITY.
(ft.
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. -awW
FLOUR
The Heppner Flouring Mill Company
Have peifeoted arrangements to ran the mill permanently.
They have secured the services of a first ol ass miller, and
wheat BnfDcient to make am keep on hand a permanent
supply of
Flour, Graham, Germ Meal, Whole Wheat,
Bran and Shorts
Of the very best quality and gnaranteed to give satiBfaction,
We are bere to buy wheat and exohange with the farmers, sod solicit
their patronage.
AT
T.
R. HOWARD'S STORE,
Main street, you can find
iQ Groceries, Provisions, Glassware.
1 Tinware and Furnishing Goods,
All well adapted to either City or Country Trade.
Staple and Fancy Groceries-
rme lean and Vojjees.
T R. HOWARD, Heppner.
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Ik
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
The Running Stallion
SOHISTITZ
Will make the season of 1900 at Binns' Btable,
Heppner, on Saturdays and Sundays; at the
ranch in McDonald canyon the balance of the
ween. Good pasture free to mares.
Schnltz is a cnestnut sorrel, 1000 nounda.
loaica i He comes of a family of race-win
ncrs. sir Pmniqua, dam Ilia.
Mil run record 1 40i.
Terms -?25 for season, payable V, at time of
service, Daiauce at end of season.
Dee Matlock.
Bears the
Palace
Hotel
J. W. MORROW. Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
FLOUR
Gopd Goods....
Fair Prices.i
Oration by Matlliew T. Hushes, Gradnate of
the Heppner High School.
We, the people of the United States,
iu order to form a more perfect union,
establish jnstiee, insure domestic tran
quility j provide for th common defense,
promote the general welfate. and sneure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity, do ordain and establish
this constitution for the United States
of America. '
ilns the preamble to that ereatest
written guarantee of personal rights and
liberties, is the legitimate growth of
those principles born in ancient Greece,
nurtured in early Rome, strengthened
and exemplified in mediaeval Enmn.
and which reached Kb highest Btate of
development in modern England and
America. . , '
Personal liberty and a liberty lovinn
people were not rare in ancient times,
but it remained for England and Amer
ica to place before the civilized world
examples of constitutional libertv.
The ancient Britons were followed bv
the baxons, a people from northern
Germany. They had no written laws,
but obeyed time honored customs which
had all the force of 'statutes. Matters
concerning the public were discussed
by each tribe at meetings held in the
open air and where every free man had
an equal voice in the decision. In this
we can see the beginning of English
constitutional liberty. Its growth has
been the slow work of centuries, but the
principles underlying it have never
been changed. At every turn pi their
progress the English people and their
descendants throughout the world have
claimed the right of self government
and when that has been denied them,
they havft risen in arms and foncrht to
regain it. When William tiie Conaueror
subjugated England, he brought -with
him the methods of self government to
which he had been accustomed in his
native country. . .
It is claimed bv those who arewnl!
informed ontfie subject that England
owes her liberty to her havina been
conquered by the Normans. The son of
Win the Conqueror granted to the
people, the h'rM charter of liberties.
This being, the earliest written guar
antee of a good government to the peo
ple by the king, marks an important
era in the struggle for freedon by
the people. It established a pre
cedent for those which were to follow
and which finally led to the great char
ter wrested from King John a century
later.
In 1213 a council composed of dele
gates from all parts of the kingdom was
held to consider what claims should be
made againt the king in the interest of
the people. It was the first assembly
of the kind on record. A conv of the
charter granted by Henry I. was ob
tained and used as a model for di awing
up a new one of similar character, but
n every way fuller and stronger in its
provisions. Two years later this docu
ment was presented to King John. who.
after vainly protesting, was forced to
sign it on the field of Kunnymed. One
of the most important of its articles was
that no man shall be deprived of life or
property ; injured in body or estate save
by the laws of the laud.
In the latter part of the centurv the
king was overthrown. Simon de Mont
tort, a leader of the people, called a
parlnnent which differed from all its
predecessors in that rei)reHentativH of
the people were summoned In l.nmh.n
to unite with the nohl PR ami r.'A.rif in
their deliberations.
Later, persona who hail neitlmr Imwl
nor title, but paid taxes, obtained rep
resentation. This was the beginning of
what Abraham I.iiwnln kit .untnrioa
later called "a govern uiei.t of the peo
ple, Dy the people, for the people."
Another uri-at aten tr.
tional liberty was the beginning of trial
ny jury, in ancient limes disputes
were settled bv trial of battle in which
those concerned fought and the oiih
who was defeated was adjudged in the
wrong. Darin the reiin nf warn
III. this method was greatly changed
and instead it became the custom to
summon witnesses who gave their testi
mony neiore a petit inry. This was the
beginning of our modern method by
which a iurv hrinirs in a vorrl
deduced from what thev person&llv
know, but from evidence sworn to bv
witnesses.
An event of greater imuorlannn than
any question of crown or party was
now at hand. Thin tlm ir,,,!,,,..
tion ot the printing press into England.
rnor to tins a nook oi any kind was a
luxury laboriously "written bv a fw
for a few." Hut from this time
ture was destined to play an important
part in the march of modern civilization.
The people read and studied for them
selves, thought for themse'ves, gained
knowledge and "knowledge is power."
In the latter part of the 18th century
new word was discovered, (mm
this on our attention will nt Via r.nn.
fined to England alone, but include that
western continent where English enter
prise and love of liberty were destined
to find a new and broader field nf
activity. The people of England who
were being oppressed now had an on-
Irortunity to emigrate to a country
which promised all the liberty they
wished. Jamextown. the fnt enlnnv
founded by the Englinh in America.
was for a time under the control of the
mother country, but in les than 12
years it had secured the privilege of
making its own laws, thus becoming a
elf governing cmrnnnity. A few years
iater another hand of emigrants landed
on Plymouth kock and formed a colony
on the basis of Portal lawa fur tha nn.
eral good.
In England a MriK'il between nurli.
ment and the king bezan. (.'has I. now
king, levied illegal taxes and extorted
loans. Parliuieut assembled and pre
sented to him s petition of rights which
stipulated that no taxes should be lev
led without the consent of parliment
and that no man should be unlawfully
imprisoned. The struggle continued
until a civil war was precipitated. The
commons under the leadership of Oliver
Cromwell arose in arms and in the
battle ot Naseby gained a decisive vic
tory over the king, who was taken
prisoner and was soon after executed
us a tyrant, traitor and a public enemy.
Cromwell's purpose was to establish a
government representing the will of the
people more completely than it had ever
ueeu oeiore. ins administration was
characterized by wisdom and success
almost without precedent in the history
of England. But at his death, there
being no one Cfcrfiible of going forward
with the great work of tefo mation, the
country again became a monarchy.
The "Habeas Corpus Act" which
stipulated that no man should be im
prisoned except by due process of law,
was passed in the latter rrt nt hn 17h
century. Ttiis put an end to arbitrary
confinement of men for months and even
years without any form of trial. Ten
years later the crowning step in con
stitutional liberty was taken when the
peop e forced the king to sign the "Bill
of Rights", which guaranteed the right
of petition and freedom of speech.
When UeorgelU amended the throne
his ambition was to secure absolute con
trol. He secured it, and with it a de
nunciation from the House of Commons.
The chief consequence of bis absolute
control was, however, the great revolu
tion in which her American colonies
gained their independence. Today the
motto of England and America should
be "Liberty is Responsibility", for the
PeOnlp. nf hnth 1-nnnt.ia. n pa V.n...wl u..
their nation's history and declared prin
ciples to use their opportunities to gov
ern well and build nn tha t'nr.:lnm (
justice and good will upon earth..
nir xnomas Moore, on the subject of
liberty, says: "I saw the expectant
nations Stand, tn euti'll tha Kn.nmn
flame in turn : T huw rmm i har.,1
to hand, the clear, through struggling,
giories num. irons Albion first, whose
ancient ahrinA woo t n.n;.r.n.i n.uu .
- , : luiuinnou r iwj n
fire already, Columbia caught the boon
divine, and lit a flame, like Albion,
steady. Take, freedom, take thv
ant round: when dimmArl. rnvivu
When lost, retlim. till nnl a ahrlnu nr.
earth be found on which thy glories
Bhall not burn."
THE PINING CARS
Of the Northern Pacific for the improved
and new train service tuliino oH'c.r i,.rii
29, are thoroughly modern, electric
list ted. and will ha
ianS. ItieV Will AITOmmmUti. tl.irtv
. " ' ..... wuivu j oint.ii ii.
six peiflons at one time.
! , HUKKP HALK.cl.
Business in buying and shiimirg was
rather brisk this week. Mike Kinnev.
of Sand Hollow, sold 2500 Awefl and
Iambs to II. 8. Scott, of Wvominir. at
$2 a head all around, count noses.
Mike Marshall, of Black Horse., sold
2500 ewes and lambs to the same buver
at same price.
Tom Gilfillan sold 2400 ewes and
lambs to A. M. Jenkins, of Indiana, at
$2 a head all around.
Pat McDaid sold 2400 ewes and lambs
to the same buyer at same figures
These two lots of sheep will be ranged
in the Blue mountains this summer b
Thomas Gilfillan, and by fall Mr. Jenk
ins will have bought a place Bomewhere
in the Heppner Hills, and will locate
with his family, which he will bring
here from Indiana. He will engage in
sheep-raising.
On Tuesday John Meeks shipped 3700
ewes and lambs to Dakota. They loft
Heppner in 15 double-decked cars, and
were bought here a few weeks ogo.
On Wednesday R. 8. Scott shipped
from Heppner to Wyoming 5000 ewes
and lambs.
George Gray yesterday turned over
the 5000 yearling wethers he had bought
at 2.30 from Win. Penland and O. E.
Farnsworth, to C. A. Shurte, agent for
Mallory & Zimmerman, of Chicago, and
they were shipped from Heppner.
OLD MAIDS INVALUABLE.
The May issue of the Ladies' Home
Journal is a gem of beauty and good
reading, and in it Margaret E. Sangster
writes.
"I like the term 'o'd maid ' A spins
ter means any unmarried woman: a
girl may be a spinster. An old maid is,
well just that. She may have her
little ways, and thankful she Dill ha
that no one is privileged to Interfere
wuh them. If she keeps house.
many an old maid does in these days of
independence, it is very dantily done,
with an exquisite finish and neatness
surpassed by none of her sisters. Prob
ably the lady has plenty of people to
stay with her nieces to chaperon.
nephews to champion, invalid relatives
to coddle all sorts of people to counsel
and comfort. In society she is siriDlv
invaluable. As an unattached person
who at any emergency may be called
upon in the family by any one in need.
brother or sister, father or mother, to
take the helm, she Is simply worth her
weight in gold."
Beware of a Congh.
A oongh is not a disease bnt a symp
tom. Consumption and bronobitis, which
are the m-st daogeroni and fatal dm
eases, have for their first indication .
persistent oooch. and if rirrmarU i .....
m toon as this oongh appears are easily
nnred. Chamberlain' Congo Remedy
baa proven wonderfully aiinn.a.f,,i
gained its wide reputation and extensive
sale by its snooest in earing the difmeses
which cause coughing. If , t hn
efioial it will not oost yon a ceut. For
ale by Cunser t Warren.
LOAN WANTED.
A man who owns WO acres of u,uu
land and much other property wants to
borrow 3000 on 2 years' time at 8 per
cent. Anvbodv who
such a loan, send word to the Gazette
office.
The absolutely pure
BAKING POWDER
ROYAL the
of all the baking
world celebrated
for its great leavening
strength and purity.
It makes your cakes,
biscuit, bread, etc.,
healthful; it assures
you against alum and
all forms of adultera
tion that go with the
cheap brands.
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., 100
LATEST WAR NEWS.
t j n. no ,,
1 h? T dW,hr Lra' Rber,f:
wrote b,s first dispa.ou.oa Trao.vaai
territory yesterday, be was 77 miles from 1
Pretoria. His immensely superior j
or es had passed the V river, tbeir
loir T,D n bflH01:- '"r'
no s The Boer, retreated almos
without a show of defense. General
Frenoh and General Hotnilton
sppar-
ently did not fire a shot.
Some 500 or 000 Boers are oneratinir
esst of Viybarg, rallying the dissfTeoted
ana watching an opening to out tbe
railway and to harass General Hunter's
advaDfling division.
The Boer rear guard is at Moverton
10 milps south of Vareeniging. Their
maiu body is moving toward tb.9 Klip
river hills that cover the south side of
Johannesburg. Lord Robert's 30.000
nfantry, 20,000 horss and 150 gans ere
moving on Johannesburg and Pretoria,
through a parched nd doserted oountry.
At I'rctiirla,
The situation bat become very critioul.
President Kroger yesterday admitted
for the first time that matters are very
grave. The Boer determination is to
trust every thing to a lust etund on the
Gatsrand mountain), to tbe north of
Potsohefostroom, where 3000 Kaffirs are
dlgglDg trenches. To that point every
available man and gun has b en sent.
I be whole of tbe western border of
tbe Transvaal from end to end ia de
fenseless, and General Baden-Powell
can maroh in when be likes. Lord Rob
erts, oo the other baud, will encounter
the greatest resistance. Tbe Boer en
deavor is to lure the British into an.
pearing to threaten Johannesburg with
an attack, an eioiue thus being
given them for tbe destruction of prop
erty. Tbe Transvaal government will
not dare destroy tbe mines and property
without an excuse. Much dynamite has
been saut down the line, and 100.000
oases lie ready at Zuurfontein, near Jo
hannesburg. General Botha and General Meier
have pleaded for the preservation of
property. Both are large landed propri
etors and fear confiscation, bnt I bey
have not received atigfaotory renliei
from President Kroger.
loferoal Invention.
Meoy French and German adventurers
have oome forward with schemes for
for blowing up the British troop, tome
of these having rroeived a taoit permit
tion to experiment. One German inven
lion tt tor tbe use oo a railway, where
it lies perfectly dnoealed until the
weight of a passenger train nolodes (La
charge.
General Meir save surrender would ha
at onoa proposed by the Boert, but that
everybody fear tbe ignominy of being
the one to make tbe nrnnnalliin. ti
ded ares that he is assured that his meo
ill not lland. President Hivn and M
Reitz. the Transvaal tiatt tecretar. ara
strongly opposed to peaoe, bat Mr.
Kroger H not so muoh against it.
Krngcr's I'rm'.lauiatlna.
President Krnirer't nrnnlamat inn In
the burgbers asking their vote for or
against ooDtinninff tha ar ia nmln,.
stood to tay they can quit now with the
protpcci or retaining irieir rar.na or
nnntinna In lha hit tor uml Dnmnn i
oorrei t in LorJ Hubert's army that the
Boert intend to snrreuiler.
(Several correspondents wire the Lon
don DBIiers that there ara 1IMI 000 fnruion.
en in the Boer rank: hut this in hardly
credible.
London, May 30. I,ord Roberts i
bivouacking in tbe inbiirhs of Johan
' netburg, and iuteuds to make a victor-'
most celebrated
powders in the
rap
Alum baking powders are low priced, as alum costs but
two cents a pound ; but alum Is a corrosive poison and
it renders the baking powder dangerous to use in food.
WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
ious entry at noon today. Judging from
his dispatch, he must have private infor-
mtt,ion re"diD Pi of tha
,Hrij8cm ln tbe forti b(j doeg
10 expeot ofipo,itlOD.
Lord UobertV oayalry has fl.wed on
bey,)Dll JobBDDe8bur A portion a
understood to he at ZuurfJein, seven
miles north of Johannesburg and wi.hin
on ,.i . n..
The Boers, who were expected to flht
along tbe lioe of hills known as Klip
Riversburg, abandoned the eastern range
near R. rd Robert's advance line, but
they moved their ground on the extreme
right, near Van Wyok's Roost, when
they met General French's turning
movement. Tuo fight oontiuued all day,
and tbe result is as yet more oonjeoture.
Whether Pretoria will ha dofeuded is
nnoertain, although a Pretoria message,
duted Sunday, piotures tbe work of de
fending the capital as going on "with
feverish activity.', Pretoria is situated
in a wilderness of kopjes aod ranges,
and is provided with defenses that re
quir al least 20,000 men to man them
properly. There amy still be one bard
nut for the British t o orack.
A Kleh Mini's Project.
A riob man's statement that he intend
to devote almost bis entire fortune
to
charitable works has amused much dis
enssion. This is beoause it will accom
plish muoh good. It is a praiseworthy
eudeavor, but there ere many other
agenoiet which accomplish just as muoh
good. '1'nke Uoatetter's t-toinaob Bitters
lor instance tbe great American rem-
edy. For fifty years it has oored oon
stipation, dyspepsia and all tbe
ills
wtnon arise from weak digestion
This
medicine will keen the Rtnmiinli in antA
thape and the bowels regular. II is a
wonderful restorative Ionic and health
builder. It is also a preventative for
malaria, fever and sgue. Ask for it, and
insist upon having it. See that tbe Pri
vate Reveuue Stamp oovers tbe neck of
the bottle.
UKI'l'NKIt CHniC II EH.
M. h. church ('. I). Nicll..i
tor. (Services at 11 a. m. and 7:.'io'p.
pas-
ivev. ii. i. uowan, ot 1'nneville,
will
preach at toe M. E. church Sunday.
The third quarterly conference will be
held Monday at 2 p. m.
The Dulles Ministerial Association
and the Dist. Epworth League Conven
tion will meet in Heppner next week.
upening sermon Tuesday at 8
p. in.
Arrange to attend these meetings.
M. E. church, South F. F. St. Clair,
pastor. Services at 11 a, m. and 7:30
p. m.
"Alllictions and their Uses," at 11
a. m., and a Children's Day program at
H p. in. Speeches, songs, quartettes,
etc., participated in by a number of
bright little (men l!..rH,i 1 1,,
( ... ..ugitun,
Carrie ht. Clair, Hena Meadows, Ella
AyerN. K ma Mrliridn Dui.u u.t
and Mable Howard all will have some
thing to say. Kev. Gibbs, the presid
ing elder, will address the little ones for
15 minutes. Everybody welcome.
Christian church Sunday School
at
io a. m.
Baptist church Snndu s;,.i,..i
at
in a. in.
Services will be held in the Catholic
church on Sunday June 3d, at 10
o'clx:k, a. in.
NO TRKSPASSING.
All persons are horehv
cuUini down anv trmn nr nil
trespassing upon my premises.
do-
scribed as follows:
the south of the southwest
' and
the southwest, i of the
southeast
Section 25. und the nnntl,uf M
nf
4
the
southeast 1 . of tim'tlrti "i; t,,a-.,ui.;.. a
south, range 27 east W. AI., in Morrow
county, M miles southeast of Heppner,
near the now Slocuui sawmill.
i. W. Re a.