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EIGHTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1900,
NO. 786
The Heppner Gazette
la published every Thursday by
J. W. REDINGTON.
Entered at the PoBtoffiee at Heppner, Oregon,
as Becond-class matter.
orricuoi direotort.
Sixth Judicial District. '
Cirouit Judge Stephen K. Lowell
Prosecuting Attorney H. J. Bean
Morrow County Officials.
Joint Senator J, W. Morrow
R iproeentatire. . L. Freeland
V onty Judge A. G. Bartholomew
" Inmmis&ionem J . L. Howard
J. W. Beokett.
" Olerk Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff A. AndrewB
" Treasarer M. Liohteothal
" Aateeeor J. t. Willie
" Surveyor Jnlius Keithly
" 'tohool Sap't Jay W. Shipley
" C roner Dr. E. B. Hunlo-k
Stock Inipector Henry Scherzinger
BBPPNKR TOWN 07FI01EKB.
Mayor Frank GillUm
Omncilmen 8. P. Garriguta,
T. B. Simons. J. J. Roberta, E. W Bhea, Geo.
No1 le and Thos. Quaid.
Uecorder J. P. Williams
Treasurer : L. W. Bngga
Marshal George Thornton
HBRPNBB SCHOOL BISTRICT,
Dlrectori Frank Gilli-m 0. E. Farmworth,
J M. Hager; Clerk J. J. Roberta
Precinct Officer.
Justice of the Peaoe W, A. Richardson
onatable G. H. Gray
United States Land Officers.
TH DALLES, OB.
Jay P. Luoaa Register
Otis Patterson Receiver
LA OBANDS, OB.
E. W. Bartlett, Register
J. O. Swaokhamer 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.
PEOFESSIOITAI. CALX'S.
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. Maliory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is
authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFH and LAND FILINU8.
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 ol tbem
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. SiMoSs & Son
General Blacksmiths
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Wagon Making II
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
Dlan. erected in 18G9,
elegantly furnished and heated
by hot water.
Corner Main and Webb streets,
lJblock3from depot.
AcgetablePrcparationfor As
similating ttiefood andRegula
lirtg the S tomachs andBowels of
PromotesDicstion,Checrful
ness and ResLCon tains neither
Opium,Morphine nor Mineral.
Not Nahcotic.
KtaK of Old OSAMlTZnrCBES
Pumpkin Smi'
Alx.Smna
. Hk,lU SJti -Anitt
Sid-
Jh CortanokSafa
Him Sad-
(lanfud Saatr .
x.
Anerfecf Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca,
Worms convulsions .Fevensn
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
facsimile Signature of
NEW YORK.
EXACT COPY OF WHAPPEB.
Mlilll;
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TIE
WIS
jL. Palace
lfe Hotel.
PTS' St ' tl
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.
For Spring and Summer Wear
M. LICHTENTHAL,
The Latest Styles of Footwear for
Men, Women and Children.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Old Stand, Main Street.
T. R.
Main street,
All well adapted to either City or Country Trade.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Fine Teas and Coff ees. mn
Good Goods....
Fair Prim.
Ti R. HOWARD, Heppner,
ii
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
Bears
Signati
The
Kind
You Have
Always Bought.
UflUR
THK OCNTAUR OOMMNV, NtWVOHK CITY.
The Running Stallion
SOHlsriTZ
Will make the season of 1900 at Blnns' Stable,
Heppner, on Saturdays and Sundays; at the
ranch in McDonald canyon the balance of the
week. Good pasture free to mares.
Schhltz Is a chestnut sorrel, 1060 pounds,
foaled 1892. He conies of a family of race-winners,
S.'ro Paniquo, dam Ilia,
' Mile run record 1 4(H.
Terms-fa for season, payable 'A at time of
service, balance at end of season.
Dee Matlock.
MORROW, Proprietor.
First-Class
The Pioneer Boot and Shoe Dealer of Heppner, has
Repairing Specialty
-AT--
HOWARD'S STORE,
you can find
Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,
Tinware and Furnishing Goods,
. . . DO HOGS PAY?
If they do not pay, there is no
object in Morrow comity farmers
bothering about them or tolerating
their impertinence and eccentric
ity. ; ;
It is said that they pay fairly
well in the Wallowa country, but
here in the Heppner Hilis, where
Mr. Sheep is Kins, opinions on
hogs are wide apart.
Fred Bock and his partner Mr.
Matthews say that they have found
from experience ithat there is no
profit in raising hogs, and they pre
fer to buy them ready to kill for
their extensive mavket business.
Jim Montague thinks they pay
pretty well prouided you do not
overstock the ranch with them, and
to prevent their getting too fat the
first year,' a man should have. a
large family of small boys to keep
them exercised as follows:
Tom Davidson,; of Democrat
gulch, says that he could never
make anything out of hogs, but
Bud Willingbam . thinks that the
nog onsiness is oeiter than it is
cracked up to be. - He has bought,
fed and sold hundreds of hogs dur
ing the past few years, and says he
has not gone broke at the business.
Last week he sold 78 large hogs at
51 oents, and . has contracted for
300 small hogs which in early fall
he will bring dOO miles by rail to
Heppner, and here he will laise
fatten and bacon them.
There are hogs and hogs, and
men differ as to which breed make
the most meat. But on- all sides
you hear good words for the
Polled hog, like that above. Over
in the Ochoco country the hog
are thus elevated to the juniper
berries, which impart to them a
delightful odor of turpenline, and
this keeps the flies off of them in
warm weather and they just grunt
with supreme satisfaction and
soundly steep the happy hours
away, while the flies bite like yel
lowjackets on the rest of us hogs
who have no turpentine evaporat
ing from our pores.
WHEAT, WOOL AND STOCK,
Portland, June 13. There was con
siderable strength in the wheat market
again yesterday, the Chicago market at
one time advancing to 74e on the July
option, ar d cloning with a slight gam
over the strong cloning of the day pre
vious. Liverpool markets were also in
belter sbare, but there is still a ten
dency on the pari of the foreigners to
hold oil a while longe-, in i lie nope or
Hecuring wheat at the old prices. In
the Portland market there is the same
difficulty lhat is always met on a ri-ing
market, holders refusing to 'ell, so long
as there is any strength in the Eastern
markets A few sales were reported
yesterday at about 54c for Walla Walla,
and heavy stock might have command
ed from to lc mre. Valley is nom
inally 53(&54c. Freights are very firm,
42s ltd being paid yesterday for one of
the largest ships chartered this season
Wool Valley, 12Cl3c for ooarse,
1516c for best; Eastern Oregon,
10ai5c; mohair, 2c per pound.
BheepBkine Shearlings, 15(20c; short
wool, 25(t35c; medium-wool, 3050c;
Ions wool. (i0('i$l each.
Kan Francisco. June 12. Wool
Spring Nevada, 14(81fic per pound;
Eastern Orptfon, 0fA15 ; Valley, Oregon,
18ffj 20c. Fall Northern, mountain, 10
(H12c; mountain, 8W10e; plains, 8Hc;
Humboltand Mendocino, I4(tl.rc.
ChicsKO. June 12. Cattle Receipts
3500. Market generally steady ; best on
sale today, three carloads at $5; natives,
sood to prime "leers 5.25 mo. 85; poor
to medium, f4ft5 1o; selected feeders,
$4.35(25; mixed Blockers, 3.50(a4.10;
cows, 3f'4 6.r; heifers, $3.205.25;
canners, $2 403; bulls, $3(4 50;
calves, Texans Receipts, 700
head; Texas fed steers, $4 70a5 35;
grara steers, $4 W5 50; hulls, 3.253
a 7.v
Sheep, receipts, !HKKI. Kheep and
lambs, bent stronaer, others slow to
weak; good to choice wethers, $4 7545
5.25: fair to thoiee mixed, $3 854 90
Western sheep, t4 50(5 25: yearlintrs
15.4005.75; native lambs, 5(w "0
Weatern lambs, $06.80; spring Iambi
67.50.
LOAN WANTED.
A man who owna 900 acres of good
land and much other property wants to
borrow $3000 on 2 years' tune at 8 per
cent. Anybody who wants to mak
such a loan, send word to the Gazette
GOLDEN CHINO.
Heppner's Chinese colony is not very
large, but what there is of it is agitated
this seek over the passing through of
a mysterious old Chinaman who instead
of lodging with hie countrymen camped
overnight ui the kriek in Jim Jones'
fulfil field. Heppner Chinamen gay he
is a miner on ins way home to (Jlnna
with two big bugs of gold dust. They
tried to coax him into a fan-tan game,
but he Wouldn't tan.
This supposed to be the same China
man who has been placer-mining all
the sprting on tbe Middle Fork, south
Heppner. He has hiked it across coun
try from there, and treked over kopjaks
and bootjaks and flapjaks. As he hiked
out of Heppner by the dawn'B early
light Ben Patterson took a snap-shot at
him as follows:
This go'd-dust Chinaman is not wast
ing wealth on railroads, and was seen
yesterday streaking it past Willard Her
ren's ranch on Lower 8mile.
WOOL.
Frank Bowman, of Fox Valley, on
Saturday sold his entire 1900 clip of
choice lamb wool to R. F. Hynd at 15
cents. This Is the top price paid here
thus far this season.
Tbe Columbia River Indians have
brought in this month several small
pack train loads of wool that they pulled
from dead sheep throughout the great
John Day country. The sheep having
died before the wool had gotten its
growth, of course the quality is not
very good. The Indians bring it over
distances of 75 to 150 miles to Heppner
which both the red and the white man
recognizes as the chief wool market of
Eastern Oregon. They sell this short
wool here to Mr. Hvnd in Phil Cohn at
0 to 10 cents a pound, bringing it in in
wheat sacks, which make convenient
sized bundles for their pack-ponies.
In Boston the market remains un
changed, the demand being only for
Block for immediate use. It is difficult
to get a le'iable quotation, for each sale
made depends on how badly the buyer
desires the wool. Dealers are inclined
to hold their stock and wait for an im
proved market. Territory wools are
selling at about 623)53o for fine mediuro-1
nd fine. Scoured fleece wools are slow,
with no quotable price on which to base
the market. Quotations:
Territory ; scoured basis Montana
and Dakota, fine medium and fine, 18(3
19c j scoured, 5355c; staple, 5fl57c;
medium and fine, 1819c. Utah and
Wyoming, fine medium and fine, 17
18c ; scoured, 52(53c ; staple, 5ftc.
Australian, scoured basis, spot prices
combing, superfine, nominal, 8287c;
good, 8082c.
PRISONERS PASSED.
ine stage Huuuay evening
brought to Heppner the sheriff of
(irant county with three prisoners
sentenced to . the peuitentiary
Two of them were Turner and
Keeton, who go for life for the
killing of Thomas Eagleton at
Granite. Tbe party remained in
Heppner over night and took tbe
train Monday morning for Salem.
INDIAN KILLED.
Last Monday evening a party of In
dians went into camp on Hock creek,
near the home of George Perry, and
seemed to be well supplied with whisky.
They were soon mixed np in a row
among themselves, and one of them
clubbed another over the head with the
butt of a gun, killing him instantly.
The Indian who did the killing then
smashed his gun over a rock, mounted
his horse and rode away. The Indian
women put in the rest of the night
waiting over the dead,
The Heppner delegates to the Baptist
convention at Condon stopped over at
Mr. Perry's that night, but did not get
much sleep.
ACCIDENT.
Heppner I' lack man baa been taking
the census in the Eight Mile country
since the first of June, and was doing
good work and getting on very well
be met with Ins Grst bad luck last
Monday.
He was bringing a Do? horse in from
the pasture, and intended to nse him in
his business. Hep. was riding him in
bareback, "itb only a halter-rope
around his note, when the animal got
gay and threw his rider right over his
head. Hep. came down violently on
his nose, breaking it, and biting his
tongue very seriously. The unfortunate
accident will lay the young man tp for
some time.
Everybody wants to
Grgonlan has to lay.
know wh Th
No other aid so great to the housewife,
no other agent so useful and certain in
making delicious, pure and wholesome
foods, has ever been devised.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
FOX FARMS.
Uncle Sam has a considerable
reputation as a landlord, but few
persons know that part of his rent
roll income is deprived from leas
ing islands for the culture of foxes.
This is the case, however, on the
coast of Alaska, where such an
island commands an annual rental
of $100. For this the government
gives the tenant a written contract
securing him in the exclusive
occupation of his island for this
particular purpose.
On the finest fox farms in Alaska
every pair ot breeditg anunais
used at the start cost $150 to $200.
The work has been in progreas for
fifteen years or more, yet practi
cally the first dollar of profit has
yet to show itself. Good money
has been poured after bad, running
well up into the thousands, and
this expenditure is still going on,
for the shareholders believe they
have a money-making idea if they
can only wait long enough.
The method of caring lor the
oxes is subntantially the same
everywhere. Each island has a
keeper and one or two native as
sistants. They pot up the food for
tbe animals during the summer,
consisting of unmarketable fish,
blubber and oil and oornmeal.
The foxes come at a regular hour
every day to be fed, like ordinary
domestic animals, and soon learn
to know their caretakers, but con.
tinue suspicious and wild in the
presence of strangers.
Une enthusiast has already
evolved tbe notion that an island
set apart for raising bears would
be a good thing, lie lias launched
his experiment and has already a
dozen or more bears, but the mar
ket seems still too well stocked to
make much of a demand for his
special product.
Printing Without Ink.
A company bai been formed to oontrol
the prooess of printing witbont ink, by
using eleotricity and chemically prepared
paper. In a ibort time, it le exptoted
this innovation will be completely iutro
duoed, and old methods revolutiouized
There is one thine, however, that hue n-
sisted all innovations; that is Hostetter I
Stomach Bitters, wbiob bas many inn
tetors. but no equals as a oure for
etomaon. liver and bowel troubles. This
peerless remedy has been tbe standard
medioine of tbe Amerioan people for the
Dast fifty years. It is a wonderful medi
oloe for dyspepsia, indigestion, bilious
ness. insomnia, constipation and nerv
onsness. It also prevents malaria
fever and ague. It keepe the itnmsoli
in good condition, and tbe bowets rego
lar. Try It. and yon will not be dis
appointed.
UKlTNKKCHl'KCHKS.
M. Vj. church tj, l). isickelseti, pas
tor. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. tn
M. E. church, South F. F. St. Clair
pastor. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30
d. m.
The Rev. Galloway, one of Morrow
county's old pioneers, will preach at
the M. E. church, South, next Sunday
at 11 a. ni. Tbe paslor preaches at
night on "What is the Kingdom of
Heaven." I.eairue at 7 : p. in., led by
George St. Clair, A special progmui
Christian church Sunday School at
10 a. m.
Baptist church Sunday School at
, U I. IB.
There are imitation baking powders, sold cheap, by
many grocers. They are made from alum, a poison
ous drug, which renders the food injurious to health.
100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
BIRD NOTES.
These beautiful summer mommas the
birds of Heppner begin business bright
and early. At exactly 10 minutes past 3
there is a fluttering in the foliage, then
a few more flutters, then a general
flutter with an occasional chirp, and
pretty soon a few; whistles, then a pre
liminary note or two, and then a lark
bursts forth with a wealth of melody,
even before he can see to read his mu
sic book or find the rigght page,
and a general tuning-up takes place,
and the amber air is full of soulful song.
And then daylight comes along, and
by the time the sluggard sun slides
down the length of llinton creek and
peeps over tbe knoll in Senator Mor
row's paBture, and warms the wire fence
p to another round of toil, the birds
have done a fair day's work, and most
people have sfept through it all and
failed to realize its sweetness. For the
larks and thoir cousins sing with clearer
notes in Eastern Oregon than anywhere
else on earth.
This is the verdict of people who have
been most everywhere.
Some public benafactor should bang
a lot of phonographs among the branch
es and secure the songs of Heppner
birds and thus make it possible to re
peat such notes in the sick-room and in
the home next winter, when and where
such music cornet!) not.
OPEN river:
The Portland Chamber of Commerce
in its last circular says:
We urge upon every citizen of the
Columbia River Basin to interest him
self in the ofTort for an open river by
using all his influence to bear on the
commercial bodies in bis section, on the
state Senators and Representative!
from tbe various districts in the country
whose future prosperity is involved,
and, at all times and everywhere, to
earnestly assist In tbe effort to cause the
making of a new survey for a Canal and
Locks, and the immediate construction
of a portage railway, necessary in trans
porting materials and labor for the
canal construction; which, though built
for that purpose, shall be open and free
to the public for transportation purposes
until a canal and locks shall be com
pleted and duly thrown open for tbe
public service.
Welcome clouds came into Heppner
skies Wednesday morning, and are still
here and dropping an occasional drop of
rain. For a few days previously the sun
shone very warmly, and all sorts of talk
was beard about coining crops. Some
said that they were burning badly, oth
ers that the burning was only on some
some shallow spota or where wheat was
poorly put in. While some talked of
getting only half a crop, others said it
was well to have the loaves burn off the
wheat, that that would insure better
grain. There was wind Tuesday that
was a little tbo warm for the welfare of
any crop, but there was some rain to
ward Condon and the southwest. It
looks this Thursday forenoon aa though
Heppner was not going to get any rain
thirt ti iu.
Latest Early this Thursday after
noon a luwvy shower fell iu Heppnor,