The Heppner Gazette
Thubsday,.. . July 19 1900
Republican Ticket.
For President,
WM. McKINLEY,
Of Ohio.
For Vice-President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Of New York.
For Presidential Electors,
0. F. PAXTON, of Multnomah County.
TILMON FORD, of Marion County,
J. C. FULLERTON, of Douglas
County, W. J. FURNISH, of Uma
tilla County.
Industrial prosperity continues.
Acoording to the American Wool
and Cotton Eeporter, three hun
dred and seven woolen and cotton
mills were begun in this country
during the 'first half of the present
year, says the Oregonian. Of the
whole number, the cotton mills
formed the greater part, and more
than three-quarters of these are in
the Southern states. Thanks to
the gold standard, the calamity
cry that was the main feature of
the campaign of four years ago is
absent now though there is an
endeavor to substitute the imper
ialistic fake for it.
PROTECTION PROTECTS.
Mr. A. D. McPherson, of the
Chicago Financial Review, who has
just returned from an extended
business trip through the South,
said while in Washington: "While
I do not mix politics in business,
still I could not help asking ques
tions, and I gathered from talks I
had with men of all shades of
opinions and politics that there is
a big surprise in store for some
body this fall. The South is wak
ing up. Protection and expansion
find no warmer advocate than in
the sunny land that we have long
been taught was hopelessly given
over to democracy. In my humble
opinion McKinley and Roosevelt
will carry at least three Southern
states."
TUB CENSUS.
Director Merriam, of the Census
Bureau, has given the press a
statement, intended as an answer
to thousands of letters asking for
figures ehown by the census in
various localities. By showing the
routine through which the returns
from eaoh enumerator's district
must go, the impossibility of giv
ing the information at this time
was apparent. As fast as the offi
cial count is completed the totals
will be bulletined at the census
bureau, oities being taken first.
Notioe has also been given that
there will be no more examinations
for appointment to olerical posi
tions in the bureau, the eligible
list already containing many more
than will ever receive appoint
ments. COMING CAMPAIGN.
Ia national politix the Republican
committee will begin work August I,
and will be more vigorous and aggres
sive, if possible, than four years ago.
Headquarters will be opened In Chicago,
aB the heavy work of the campaign will
be directed from there, although East
ern headquarters will be opened in New
York City, and the Washington branch
headquarters from which preliminary
work is now being directed, will be
maintained. Although nothing but
good news of the enthusiasm evoked by
the ticket and platform bas been re
ceived, the committee will work just
as hard as though the result were in
doubt. Its members figure that the
best way to Insure a continuance of the
country's great prosperity is to give
McKinley and Roosevelt such an over
whelming majority that will convince
the most skeptical doubters that no
change will be made for years to come
in any of the republican policies which
have made that prosperity.
MINING PATENTS.
The government has recently taken
action requiring the cancellation of all
applications for mining 'patents made
prior to Jan. 1, 18'JO. Its purpose is to
nullify the ownership of such claims
nd clear the records of much dead
matter. The effect of this will be to
cause many thousands, of mining claims
to revert back to the government and
be subject to relocation. This will
work a beneficial change to every min
ing camp to the country and remove a
great obstacle to progress. The new
locator can now develop his claim with
little fear of being forced into litigation
by notice of prior rights in the form of
pending application for patent.
TRUSTS AND PEOPLE.
By Rev Sam P Jonea.
From tbe Manufacturer!' Record, Baltimore.
The large trusts and combinations al
ready formed and being formed by
aggregations of capital are considered
hurtful to the masses and tbe common
people. This is a theory. Theoretically,
a thing may be so, and practically it
may be very untrue. When we speak
of trusts and combines we think of the
Standard Oil Trust, the Sugar Trust,
the Tobacco Trust, etc. When the
Standard Oil Trust was formed I was
paying forty cents a gallon for kerosene
oil ; I am getting it now for ten cents a
gallon. I was paying twelve and one
half cents for sugar several years ago,
but when the combinations set in we
got it at five and one-quarter. When
the Whiskey Trnst was organized I was
in hopes it would put up whiskey where
the poor devils couldn't get it, but they
have seemed to cheapen that down to
where they can pay the government
$1.15 a gallon revenue on it and yet
sell it for $1.272, which demonstrates
that they are making it and letting the
public have it at about 12 cents a
gallon.
There is no doubt about the aggrega
tion of wealth, with brains controlling
it, that they can manufacture any article
cheaper than it is or has been manu
factured on a small scale. Tbe great
railroad combinations, many think, will
eat us up blood rare. Occasionally I
get on a little jerk-water road that is
not in the combination, and I want to
double my accident policies and be
satisfied with a 15-mile-an-bour gait
and console myself with the idea that I
can ride all day for a dollar, but when
I get on the Pennsylvania or Vanderbilt
system of roads, with their schedules
forty miles an hour, vestibule trains,
with parlor cars, sleeping cars, dining
cars, I have a hotel on wheels carrying
me toward my destination, and all this
for about two cents a mile. Qive me
the road that is in the combine to carry
me where I am going.
Public sentiment is the safeguard
which is thrown around all aggregations
of wealth and all combinations of in
terest. The Standard Oil, the railroad
combinations, tbe Sugar Trust are as
sensitive to public sentiment as tbe
snow-bank to the rays of the sun.
Trusts and combines will not hurt the
public, but stocknolders and bondhold
ers may suffer later on, when these
great bulky institutions become un
wieldy and fall with their own weight.
Fifty thousand men in tbe United
States, perhaps not more, are interested
in the great trusts of tbe country.
Those 50,000 men know that there are
70,000,000 of other people in America,
and their wisdom teaches them where
boundary lines are, over which they
cannot go without peril to themselves
and disaster to their business. No com
bination now says "damn the public,"
but they have their weathercocks out
on every prominent cupola watching
how the wind blows.
Tbe successful man or combination
means the downfall of other men and
other combinations. One preacher is
preaching to 5,000, twenty preachers
around him consider 75 a full house,
and 100 a perfect jam ; one physician
making $10,000 a year, and 40 little
doctors in tbe neighborhood not making
their grub. A Wanamaker selling .$5,
000,000 a year means many little mer
chants applying for clerkships in his
store. It is the survival of the fittest,
it may be. When God made this world
He made mountains towering into the
clouds and valleys below the level of
the sea; He' made lakes and oceans;
He spread out the prairies of the west
and piled up the mountains around the
little valleys along the ranges of the
Rockies and the Alleghenies. In the
ocean's waters we find whales and some
very small fishes, and when the whales
come along the little fish have to hide
out.
I am an expansionist, and I believe
that one of the causes of the stringency
and shrinkage of values in this country
ia because we have not gone out over
the seas with our products as we should
have done. While there is a demand
for our products of the farm and manu
factory of this country there will always
be plenty of money; but when wheat
and corn and cotton and all kinds of
manufactures are a drug on the market,
and no demand for thera, then we have
stringency and hard times. But when
the highways over the seaa shall be
laden with our products into foreign
countries, and tbe gold is brought back
in the ships, then we shall flourish
perenially. A negro and an old mule
can make corn and cotton ; a fellow with
a $200 saw mill can make lumber; but
only aggregations of wealth can build
ships and open markets in foreign lands.
BUYING HORSES.
Jas. G. Kidwell and J. G. Stine, of
Walla Walla, have been in Grant county
for the past week buying saddle horses
for use in the United States cavalry
service. The class of animals purchased
were in size from SKW to 1150 pounds in
weight and as far as they could ascer
tain to be free from any blemish or
defect.
The prices paid for these animals
ranged from $25 to $40, being in nearly
every instance $10 or $15 more than
such animals have commanded in the
general market in the past. They will
leave Grant county with over a hundred
head, having received something over
thirty head in Long Creek Monday.
(Kairio.
AT TEAL SPRINGS.
Dr. McFaul has received a letter from
Lee Cantwell, saying that the summer
season is now well on at Tout springs.
There are already 200 people there, and
10 to 20 are coming every day.
Dr. McFaul will go there tomorrow,
and 70 to HO will go this season from in
and near Heppuer. The highest num
ber there any season was 890, and this
season the number will run up to 2000.
AT PARIS XPO.
Denny tbe Frenchman, who still con
siders himself an American because be
used to ride wild horses over the tops
of the Heppner Hills, writing from
Paris says:
There are many exhibitors in the U.
S. sections who have no right to be
there. They are not Americans and
have do houses in America. As seen
In tbe Exposition there is not much to
flatter our national pride. False teeth,
dental instruments, corn-cob pipes and
eye glasses are not representatives of
tbe manufacturing skill and energy of
tbe United States.
Our tobacco exhibit is by far tbe
finest at the fair. But we are Outdone
in diplomacy or what may be called ex
hibition politics. Let me instance tbe
following, all of which may be traced
I think, to the negligence of our com
missioner: In harvesters and binders and eome
other classes of agricultural implements
we are 10 years in advance of all other
countries. Our machines are lighter
but withal stronger though in mechan
ism substantially tbe same as theirs for
they have copied from us. The dis
plays we are making here will doubt
less result tn the extension of our trade
in a few classes.
It was a great mistake to send over
here on high salaries a lot of incompe
tent men, ignorant of any except the
English language and as helpless aB
babes to compete in this field with men
of thorough education and fine address,
speaking fluently three or four lan
guages and au fait in all the habits,
graces and amenities of cosmopolitan
life. The threadbare idea that Yankee
wit is able to compete anywhere with
anything was never true and to adhere
to is stupid and very expensive.
NORTH FORK MINES.
That tbe country tributary to the
North Fork of the John Day river is
destined to be one of the greatest and
best mineral belts in the whole North
west is tbe opinion of every mining man
that visits that section, says the Lawton
Standard. Indeed, it is the ideal of the
quartz miner, and the results obtained
from work already accomplished show
remarkably good returns in values.
All of tbe North Fork properties show
encouraging values, which will unques
tionably greatly increase with depth,
and therein lies the chief merit of the
country whose towering hills stand at an
angle of 34 degrees, thus enabling tbe
mineworker to attain great depth at a
comparatively small outlay of labor
and cash.
There is an abundance of timber on
all these hills, and the John Day river
affords ample power if developed to run
the stamp mills of the world.
WOOL. 1
There seems to be nothing doing in
the Heppner market. The warehouses
are jammed full of wool, which growers
are holding at 14 to 15 cents, but buyers
place values at 11 to 12.
Squire Mallory, who was one of tbe
pioneer woolgrowers of the Heppner
Hills, has placed 'his entire clip in the
hands of Cashier Geo. Consur, who will
handle it to the best .possible advantage.
It comprises one pet fleece of 22 pounds,
raised in the judge's yard, and he con
siders it worth 20 cents, for it is of extra
fine quality. Waldron Rbea says that
its texture shows exactly the difference
between wool that is well cared for in
growing, and that which is not well
cared for.
Advices from Boston up to tbe 18th
say :
The market here bas been slow, and
there has not been enough business
doing to establish a price. The trade
bas fixed about 00c for scoured and fine
medium and fine territory wools, with
52 53c for staple. Fleece wools offer
no attractions whatever, and prices are
normal. Quotations :
Territory ; scoured basis Montana
and Wyoming, fine medium and fine, 17
(fl8c; scoured, 50c; staple 5253c.
Utah, fine medium and fine, 16 17c;
scoured, 50c ; Btaple, 52 53c.
Australian, scoured basis, spot prices
combing, superfine, nominal, 82$7c;
good, 8082c.
THIS IS HISTORY.
The first gold discovery in the Pacific
Northwest, if not on the Pacific coast,
by tbe whites, was made by Daniel
llerr.n, uncle of D. A. and Willard
Herren, of Heppner. He crossed the
plains in '44, and found the gold on the
headwaters of the Malheur river. No
one of tbe company he was with seemed
to know what the shining metal was,
and after being hammered out on
wagon tire it was thrown aside. When
gold was discovered in California in
1849, the circumstance was recalled to
mind, and after considerable search the
gold-bearing location was again found.
Dan Herren's discovery was the real
foundation for the famous Blue Bucket
diggings.
RANGE HORSES.
Considering that they had no value a
few years ago, range horses have sold
well this season. At Denver a large
shipment was recently sold at $36 a
head, and at Omaha yearlings have
been bringing $15.50 to $17.50 per head ;
horses and mares 850 to 1109 pounds
average, $19.50 to $42.75; mares and
colts, 900 pounds average, $19.50; pon
ies $14 to $17.50; old mares $16 50.
These prices are good for the quality of
animals sold, and so has it been at all
the markets wbere Western range
horses have been offered. Tbe present
demand, there is every good reason to
expect, will continue for years, and it
may pay the horsemen of tbe West to
give closer attention to better breeding.
WRITE TO OR CALL ON
Any Northern Pacific agent concerning
our double daily train service tn effect
April 29lh. North Coast Limited will
be the icreatest and best thing ever
seen iu Northwest in the train line.
Wiite to our agents for North Coast
Limited leaflet.
GRANT COUNTY NEWS.
Blue Mountain Xagle.
Tbe cattle and sheepmen over near
the head of Burnt river are having war.
Several bands of sheep are reported
having been shot into.
Tbe general rains in Grant county last
week were welcome visitors, and in
creased the crop prospect remarkably.
John Blackwell arrived Sunday from
Harney county, on a visit with his
parents ia this valley. He is buying
cattle with his brother Henry for W. D.
Hanley, of Burns.
G. E. Jones, who came to Grant
county some time since from Chicago,
has decided to remain in this locality
and embark in the stock business.
Ex-Sheriff Newt Livingston arrived
in Long Creek from Canyon City Sun
day, being enroute to his old home on
Willow creek, where he will give his
attention for the next two weeks to
gathering all of his horses for shipment
to eastern markets. Mr. Livingston is
also buying good range horses, paying
about $15 per head for average range
animals. At these figures he will be
tendered hundreds of horses in this part
of Grant county. Mr. Livingston has
not decided to w bat point he will ship
his horses, but it is quite likely that he
will bead for Omaha, and be present at
the big horse sales that take place there
in August and September.
John Cameron, of the firm of Barker
& Cameron, sheepmen of Condon, was
in Long Creek Saturday. He reports
fine range near tbe head of Burnt river,
where he ia ranging bis sheep at pres
ent.
Norve Hamilton, formerly a resident
of this part of Grant county, is at Burns
under medical treatment for a broken
wrist and broken nose, the result of a
fall from the second story of a building
on the 3d inst. With the injuries
mentioned, he received severs! sprains
and bruises.
Wm. Mun jar, a horseman of Dayville,
who recently drove a band of horses to
Pendleton to market, was in Long Creek
early this week on bis return home. He
found tbe market for his animals very
dull, and in preference to letting his
animals go at a very low price, he
brought many of them back with him.
Robt. Fuller and Will H. Cohoe re
turned last Saturday from Dickenson,
North Dakota, wbere they went some
time since with 325 head of cattle, the
property of Mr. Fuller. They found the
outlook in that country for tbe running
of the cattle not so flattering as in the
past, so tbe stock was sold, part of thera
being purchased by Chas. Trask, form
erly Mr. Fuller's partner.
The Beat Remedy for Stomach and Bowel
Troubles
"I have been in tbe drug business for
twenty years and have sold most all of
lbs proprietary medicines of an; note.
Among the entire list I have never found
anything to equal Chamberlain's Colio,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for all
stomsoh and bowel troubles," says O.
W. Waketleld, of Columbus, Qa. "This
remedy oured two severe oases of cholera
morbus in ray family and I bave recom
mended and eold hundreds of bottles of
it to my easterners to their entire satis
faction. It affords a qniok and sure cure
in a pleasant form." For sale by Conser
fc Warren.
WAGONS.
You can get a Fish Bros. 3 inch head
er gear at last years prices from
Minor & Co.
NOTICE OF BANKRUPTCY.
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE
10th day of July, 1900. B. F. Miller,
oi Heppner, Oregon, waa duly adjudicated
bankrupt; and that the first meeting of hia
creditora will be held at room ftW, Worcester
Building, Portland, Oregon, on the Slat day of
July, 1900, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at
whfch time the aaid creditora may attend, prove
their claims, appoint a truatee. examine the
bankrupt and transact auch other buaineaa aa
may properly come before aaid meeting.
Dated, Portland, Oregon, July 11, 1900.
ALEX. Swsik,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Take Slocum's Sarsaparilla.
Signs of Spring convey a warning that certain ail
ments, general debility, rheumatism, liver complaint, etc.,
need attention. There isn't anything equal to
SLOCUM'S SARSAPARILLA
for the above ailments.
It is honestly and carefully made of the best drugs,
like everything else we make, and we give you a bottle one
third larger thanyou usually get for the same money else
where.
Slooum IIH1S: Co., Main Street, Heppner.
Heppner Candy Factor
Wholesale and Retail lea Cream and Candy Manufacturer.
Nuts and Fruits, Lunch Goods, Stationery,
Trinkets, Toys, Tobaccos and Cigars.
Agents for the world winner Rambler Bicycle
Bicycle Suits and Sundries.
Second hand wheels bought and sokl.a.
Qeo.l Ss Co.
"Cyclone"
Threshers
Automatic Stackers, Wind Stack
rm, Hor Powers, Thrcahcrroen's
Supplies of All Kinds.
.-f-V-'PITE FOf. CATALOGUE
iGlLLIflM & BISBEE,
TROOPS FOR CHINA.
A statement prepared by Adjutant-General
Corbin shows that
there are now a grand total of
10,665 officers and men in China,
en route to China, en route to Na
gasaki or nnder orders for Nagasa
ki. This, of coarse, includes the
ill-fated Ninth Infantry, which
may not be in condition for fur
ther service. General Wood's last
reports indicate that, owing to the
tranquility prevailing in Cuba, it
will be entirely safe to decrease
the military force there quite
largely. But even with these Cuban
1 1 oops it will be necessary, if the
Cabinet plans are carried out, to
divest the home posts of garrisons,
save in the case of heavy artillery
organizations at seacoast points.
General Miles favors the prompt
dispatch of a large force to China.
A good deal of annoyance has
been caused by the complete mis
understanding that has been con
veyed to the nations as to the atti
tude of the United States govern
ment regarding the settlement of
the Chinese troubles. This gov
ernment never has thought of com
promising for money, or for any
other form of indemnity. Indeed,
the subject of money indemnity or
an apology has never been thought
of or mentioned by the government
of the United States. The govern
ment will insist on justice and
retribution, acoording to the high
est authorities.
MONMOUTH NORMAL.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the State Normal School at
Monmouth appearing in another column
of this issue. The school reports a
successful year, with encouraging pros
pects for tbe next session. Many teach
ers are taking the normal course both
for the sake of the professional training,
now pretty generally demanded, and
also as the best means of preparation
for securing the state papers.
O. E. FARNSWORTH, President.
UK MORROW C01TY LM if TRUST COMPANY
Is always in the field for Business, and extends all modern
advantages to the farmer and the stockman. Its w arehouse
is located right oh the railroad at Heppner. It hand les
WOOL AND GRAIN
and engages in
Storage and Forwarding.
Thc Wool (J
Owned and operated by the Wool Growers of Morrow County.
Highest Cash Price Paid for Hides and Pelts
Agents for Black Leaf Tobacco Pip and Little's Fluid Dip.
The only reliable prepared dips on the market.
Feed and Seed Grain always on hand. Wool Sacks at cost to patrons.
Advances made on Wool and Grain in Store.
"Russell"
Engines
Traction or Portable, Simple or Com
pound, Wood or Straw Burners.
RUSSELL & CO.
AND PRICES.
PORTLAMD, 8:i
flouts HeDDner, Ore.
HEPPNER SHIPMENTS.
That Heppner ia a very import
ant shipping - point' may be seen
from the following figures, which
show shipments made by rail from
here daring the past year:
Wool, pounds 3,245,750
Cattle, cars 220
Sheep " 175
Wheat shipped out of Mor
row county over Hepp
ner Branch, bushels 200,000
AT DAWSON.
A letter from W. M. Radio, dat
ed at Dawson City, June 21, has
been received. It says, in part:
"Arrived at Dawson City yester
day, beiDg just 17J days from
Seattle. Land my pigs and sold
four last night at 75 cents per
pound. Sold 19 more today at
the same price. My cattle are not
in yet Beef is wholesaling at 75
cents per pound and is scarce at
that, but in ten days the market
will be overrun, and there is no
telling what the price will be.
"Dawson is all right. There are
not so many people here as hei e-
tofore, but there is plenty of
money." Eagle.
If you want to buy a real cheap
ranch, call on or address Geo.
Wells, Qeppnei. He has some
places aB low as 81.25 an acre, and
will mail printed description free
on request
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.
The Home Study Department of Car
negie College, Rogers, Ohio, to intro
duce its methods of teaching by corre
spondence, will grant a free scholarship
to one person in Morrow county, Ore'
gon, giving "Free Tuition" in academic
and normal courses, and including also
book-keeping and short-hand.
Instruction is given at the student's
home. Applicants should address the
college, and mention this paper togettv
with the name of your county and state
R. F.
Warehouse
rowers
Henry Heppner's
WAREHOUSE
.HEPPNER 1 CO.
GENERAL WAREHOUSING
WOOL and GRAIN
Gash Advances made on Wool and Grain
Highest Pr.ee Pa.d f.r flJC, pgJJJ
Feed and Seed Grain always on hand
Wool Sacks and Grain Bags For Sale
Little's and Black Leaf Sheep Dips
- - . , . , sw
Simond's Cross Cut Saws I
Sewing
Boss Washers
Hose and
At Ed. R.
1
dm Jellies
preserv e and pickles, apread
a ttua coaling of refined
BMAFFINE
WAX
Will keep thi m absolutely moisture and
acid proof. Pi traffine Wax is also awful in
dozen otbni ways a boat the house. Fall
directions in each pound package.
8 old everywhere,
STANDARD OIL CO.
Nothing so
6ood
aa pia e malt beverage to refreih oue
after fc lard day'i work haa ever been
disco, red. And there la one malt
beveroi e that la better than othera
that in
!
J.B.Na.tter's beer
It groea right to the spot, and ia aerved up at
where an ice-noli 1 cellar in the solid rock keepa
It always cool. ;
Gordon 's
1
Feed a nd Sale Stable
Haa iu at been opened to the
' public and Mr. Gordon, the
proprii 3tor, kindly invites his
friendi i to call and try his
firat-cl ass accommodations,
i
3Pty of I 4 ay axL& O-xedja. for 6al
1
Stable 1' oated on west side o( Main
street bet ween Wm. Scrivner's and
A. M. Qui in'g blacksmith shops.
For the ladies- -A fine horse and lady'a saddl e
Heppnei
3 mouths. I
Gazette only 4 bits for
HYND, Secretary and Manaoer.
Machines
Sanitary Stills a
Sprinklers
Lawn Mowers
Bishop's.