The Heppner Gazette
Thursday, August 2, 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. FDLLERTON, of Douglas
County, W. J. FURNISH, of Uroa'
tilla County.
PRESENT PRICES.
In comparison with four years
ago, this is an era of high prices
for the necessaries of life. There
no denying that. There is no need
of denying it, although it is the
plain purpose of the Democratic
politicians once more, as in 1890,
to make these high prices and the
high cost of living a loud issue of
the political campaign.
The question is one that frill
bear debating. Republicans, sound
money men, protectionists need
not shrink from the test. The
Democrats will claim that this high
cost of the necebsaries of life is due
to the protective tariff and to trust
extortion. But, with three or four
months to discuBs this question,
nothing is easier than to convince
honest and open minded people
that this assertion of the free sil
verites and the free-traders is un
true.
Already the business men of the
country, who are this year, even
more than in 1896, the real back
bone of the Republican strength
throughout the nation, are furnish'
ing facts and figures that complete,
ly overwhelm the Democratic ar.
gument. .
Cotton cloth that a year ago was
selling for about two cents a yard
has latoly been quoted at 3$ cents,
but raw cotton raised by the South.
em farmers hs gone up from 7J
cents to about cents a pound,
thus accounting for almost all the
higher price of "cotton cloth. It
might have been added that there
has been an iucreese, also, in the
wages of the operatives of the New
England mills, and that this has
to be counted in the increased cost
of production.
Coffee has advanced in price, and
you hear much about the manipu
lation of monopoly. But this can.
not bn charged up to the tariff in
auy event, for coll'ee is on the free
list, where it has been for a quar
ter of a century, and where it was
placed by Jiepubhcan law makers,
who desired, so far as they could,
to give the working people of the
country a "free breakfast table."
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
In connection with the general
advance in prices, take the great
staple, wool. This had advanced
in price, but it requires consider,
able hardihood to charge it up to
monopoly or combination. There
is no farmers' trust; there is no
wool growers' trust. Wool is dow
protected by the tariff, and if the
Democratic party demands that
this protection bo stripped away,
there are several hundred thous
and farmers in debatable states
each side of the Mississippi river
who would like very much to
know the reason why. Wool is
high now, but it is high only in
comparison with the ruinous Gor
mau. Wilson rates of a few years
ago, when American farmers could
not make anything from their wool
sheep, and wore slaughtering sev
eral millions a year for mutton.
In IM'.H) wool of the "washed
Ohio lleeco" variety was selling for
113 cents a pound. In 1894, after
the Democratic free wool victory,
it had f.illen to 2.'1 cents. In 1895,
under the withering effect of the
free wool clause of the Gorman
Wilson tariff, it fell away again to
17 J cents, aud it looked as if the
final disappearance of wool sheep
from American plains and hillsides
were uear at hand. But in 18'J8,
with the Diugley tariff enacted
and protection restored, American
wool sprang up again to an average
of 29 cents a pound. Io April of
this year it stood at 32J cents,
which gives some return to the
American, farmer for his labor and
his capital, and is, after all, only a
fair recovery of lost ground.
CA
FUTURE OF WOOL.
Owners of wool and sheep
throughout the United States have
every reason to feel encouraged by
the political and commercial out
look. The immense stocks of for
eign wools which were rushed into
this country free of all duty under
the free-trade provisions of the
Wilson tariff have well nigh been
absorbed in manufacturing and the
period of loss and poverty brought
on in consequence of "the ciime of
1894" has given place to prosperity.
The recent action of the Nation
al Republican Convention in Phil
adelphia, in indorsing the present
administration, and, by the renom
ination of the President, insuring
a continuance of protection to
American industries, removes any
probability of tariff changes and
should in itself give great encour
agement to owners of wool.
Owners of sheep in the United
States can look forward with
equanimity to the continuation of
these favorable conditions. But
there should not be too much of
equanimity. What is needed and
expected of sheep raisers and wool
growers is seme earnest, hard work
among neighbors and friends not
engaged in the sheep and wool in
dustry. In this way alone can the
threatened return to free-trade in
wool be averted. Free-trade in
wool is distinctly involved in the
election of Mr. Bryan as president
of the United States, and the
sheep raisers and wool growers
throughout the country should
govern themselves accordingly.
The shrinkage in the importa
tion of foreign wool manufactures
to about one-third of the amount
of the last Gorman-Wilson year,
1897, shows the effect of adequate
protection and demonstrates that
the tariff is doing the work ap
pointed for it.
HEPPNER SHEEP.
Amona the cooling depths of the
beautiful Blue mountains, where feed
keeps green, Heppner sheep are now
keeping fat while their winter range in
the bald-headed bills is seeding itself
and preparing for coining campaigns.
But while the sheep are absent, their
ownership is being dickered in, and
title to 20,000 head has recently changed
bands. These are mostly lambs, and
have been sold right here at home at
$2 a head. Their new owners will re
ceive them in October, winter arid shear
them and sell them as yearlings next
spring. Among Die heaviest buyers
have been C. A. Rhea, Tom McCullough
and Philip Blalnn. The lamb crop that
George Conner raised this year and has
just sold numbered 21100.
Yearling wethers coining 2 next
spring are fniuly hold at $2..r0, and
George Gray, who does considerable
buying for eastern dealers, has been
called off on account of the ruling rates
here. Still, he has orders to buy, but
not at present prices.
HKUKNT ARRIVALS AT PALACK HOTEL
T R Newton, The Dalles
L Hunt, WaRner
J E Davis, Indiana
A M Jenkins "
J P McManns, Pendleton
W C Howard, Ditch Creek
O F Thompson, Echo
J C McKinnon, Great Northern
W II Mitchell, Portland
J N Fordyce "
J Jacobson, The Dalles.
8 Wilkinson
K L (ras, Spray
W Anderson, Umatilla
Carl Crow, Loxlniiton
WOOL.
In Heppner the market is quiet, and
warehouse-men repoit no transactions.
The latest dispatch from Boston says:
Some improvement is noted in the
wool market here. Manufacturers are
not exactly ready to buy freely, but
direct bidding on many lines of wool,
and in some instances fair purchases
are made. Arrivals of wool from the
West, which have been light for some
time, are now more fiequunt. ('notations:
Territory ; scoured basis Vontana
and Wyoming, tine medium and line, 17
(tl8e; scorned, filV; staple r2(53c,
Utah, line medium' and tine, ljtl7c;
scoured, 50c; stap'e, 62(iiT:5e. Idaho
tine medium and line, lt(ii7c; scoured,
50c; staple medium ami li-e, H!(fl7o.
Australian, scoured basis, spot prices
vombing, supeiliiie, nominal, 8287e;
good, 8l)(ti Se.
How's This?
We oflcr one hundred dollars reward
for any case ol Catarrh that canuut be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chknky ei Co., Pi ops, Toledo, O.
We, the umlorsitMied, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 yours, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in a
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
West A Tai'A, Wholesale Druggists,
ToUldo, (). W.U.lUNli, KlNNAN A MaB'
VIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is tukrn internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the svstem. Price
75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Testimocials fiee,
Hall' Family pills am the beat.
When in pain, call on Dr. Met.ler,
the dentist. Don't wait for the pain,
but get him to tlx vour teeth before the
pain begins.
FEED THEIR DEAD.
Twice a year, in the first week
of April and October, the Chinese
feed their dead. They think that
once their friends and relatives
leave this mortal coil they ought
to stay away from this world, and
to prevent their return they faith
fully transmit to them all the ne
cessaries of life. It has been dis
covered by Oriental wisdon that
the way to transmit servants, songs,
plays, books and money is to man
ufacture them in paper and burn
tbem. But actual . eatables must
be carried to the grave. The Chi
nese are not stingy, and wagon
loads .of roasted chicken, pigs,
ducks, various sweetmeats and
fruits are taken to the cemeteries.
The food is piled before each grave,
amid burning red, carrot-shaped
candies and joss sticks. Then the
living prostrate themselves before
the dead and beg them to rise up
and enjoy themselves. Chinese
wines are then sprinkled liberally
over the graves, while some graves
receive boxes of cigars and pack,
ages of cigarettes.
But you must not suppose that
the eatables are left on the graves.
Oh, no. That woald be throwing
too much temptation in the way of
heathen tramps. In about two
hours it is believed that the ghosts
got the essence of the eatables
conveyed to them, and then the
devotees gather up the offerings
and carry tbem home again to feed
their own material bodies. But
the cigars ann cigarettes are burned
on the graves.
Forty Yearn Among Cannibals.
The French adventurer who was a
oaptiva nmonf cannibals in Central Af
rioa tor forty yeara, has decided to write
a book, wbich will do doubt prove in
teresting. We can sympathize with bis
release from bis terrible captivity, which
mnst have been as joyous as that of
man who finds himself suddenly released
from the captivity of a refratoory stom
ach, bv t li.it peerless remedy, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, whiob has done more
lo promote health than any other id
existence. This is the medioine to lake
if y mi are a sufferer from dyspepsia,
constipation, indigestion, biliousness,
nervousness or insomnia: Don't fail to
give it a trial. Ask for Hostetter's, and
do not Hooept a substitute. The Genuine
baa Private Revenue Btarnp over the
neok of bottle.
FOR AGENTS.
Every locomotive that is built
in the west nowadays has the new
anti-bandit attachment. On all the
new engines of one railroad are
iron pipes extending along the roo:
of the cab and connecting with the
boiler. Through these pipes, with
out making a preceptible motion
either the engineer or fireman can
send, under 200 pounds pressure, a
jet of steam and boiling water that
would effectually cook anything
living that happened to be on the
tender or the front end of the bag
gngo car. The diameter of the pipe
is one and a half inches, and a sin
gin second would drop any man
who attempted to stand before it
m action.
THRESHER BURNED.
Saturday night the new thresher ot
Win. Morgan was burned at bis farm
near lone. The loss, including 150
bushels of wheat, will foot up $700. The
cause of the fire is supposed to be
matches accidently dropped among the
machinery. The thresher had only
been in UBe three days, and Mr. Morgan
was unfortunate in . losing a similar
machine by fire last year.
WELCOME WATER.
Now is tlio dry season when little
drops of water are of golden value to all
communitiea, and now the water in the
mill race has given out and its owner
sold the Hire t sprinkler wagon to Pete
Brenner, But the city council has ac
cepted the oiler of the water company
to furnish watar to sprinkle Main street
at actual cost of pumping, and the good
work is being done daily by Marshal
Thornton.
rtn nir:nri'c
FAVORITE
PRESCRIPTION
m weak women;
HEPPNER SHIPMENTS.
That Heppner is a very import
ant shipping point may be seen
rom the following hgures, which
show shipments made by rail from
here daring the past year:
Wool, pounds. 3,5M5,YoU
Cattle, cars. 220
Sheep " 175
Wheat shipped out of Mor
row county over Hepp
ner Branch, bushels 200,000
if you take this paper and The Weekly
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news.
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ANOTHEK KAST TRAIN
The Rio Grande Western Railway.
"The Great Halt Like Route," has re
sumed its fast traid service to the fast,
making the ran from Portland to Chicago
in three days and a half. No layover is
neoeesary, and only one change of oars
is made. Those who desire it have the
privilege, however, of a daylight stop
over either at Sail Lake Oity or Denver.
Three daily express traioa are rnn, leav
ing Ogden, Utah, at 7:15 a. m. and 1:15
and 7 p. m. The morning train oarries
a through standard sleeper to Chicago,
vis. the Burlington Route and the Digbt
train one via the Chicago Rook Island &
Paciflo Railway. The tourist sleepers
and chair oars run daily as formerly
through from Portland to Denver.
Twioe a week tourist rnn through from
Portland lo Boston. All trains carry
dining oars, making the trip across the
continent, via "The Oreat Salt Lake
Route," most desirable. The Rio
Qrande Western Railway Is the only
road running through Salt Lake City,
and with its oonneotiors the Denver &
Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland
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CHEAP CORNER.
Tim larjje corner property east of J.
M. Hager's store and opposite the resi
dence of C. A. Rhea, is now offered at
the low price of $850. Apply at Gazet
ofllce.
Art of Poisoning;.
All that eminent chemists know about
poisons has lately been told to the
crowd of Interviewing journalists who
have waited upon them, and the papers
have published columns upon columns
of toxicology, says a Paris correspond
ent of the London Truth. Everybody
now knows that there are animal alka
loids arising from decomposition which
are deadly poisons, but whose traces in
a corpse are no proof of suicide or mur
der, becuuse a body itself produces ex
actly the same ulkaloids soon after
death. M. Xatjtiet, who, after being
fascinated by toxicology, turned natur
ally to politics, tells us that this subtle
poison can be manufactured with the i
greatest ease by those who understand 1
how to do it. Inquiring people who
have a taste for murder combined with
chemistry will doubtless master the
process as the anarchists have already
mastered that of manufacturing explw
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The hardest varieties of wood, such
as mahogany, ebony and lignum-vitae,
grow in tropical climates, but their
wood does not season as well as that of
trees in the temperate zones
The "Era of Julius Ceasar" began
with the reformation of the calendar in
46 B. C. It prevailed in England for
civii purposes until 1752, then being
superseded by the Gregorian.
Several substances, whose, odor is
to western 'nostrils exceedingly re
pugnant, are highly esteemed in the
east us perfumes. In Persia and
Afghanistan, usnfoetida is considered a
delicate perfume, and many luxurious
persons carry a quantity of it in their
pockets or in a bag suspended from the
neck.
Thedoor nail in earlier times, says an
antiquarian, was the plate of the door
upon which the old-fashioned knocker
struck to arouse the inmates of the
house. As the plate or nail was struck
many more times than any other nail
it was assumed to be more dead than
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If you are going down where cooling
breezes blow by the briny deep, call on
E. W. Crichton, at Telephone dock,
Portland, and in his usual whole-souled
way he will ticket you through to the
beach by the famous White Collar line
of floating palaces. He is a joyial man
to talk to.
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GENERAL WAREHOUSING
WOOL and GRAIN
Gash Advances made on Wool and Grain
Highest Pr.cPaU.l.r HIDESDd PELTS
Feed and Seed Grain always on hand
Wool Sacks and Grain Bags For Sale
Little's and Black Leaf Sheep Dips
Simond's Cross Cut Saws I
Sewing
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Hose and
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Some Reasons
Why You Should Insist on Having
EUREKA HARNESS OIL
U nequaled by any other.
Renders hard leather soft.
Especially prepared.
Keeps out water.,
A heavy bodied oil.
Harness
An, excellent preservative.
Reduces cost of your harness.
Never burns the leather ; its
Efficiency is increased.
Secures best service.
Stitches kept from breaking.
OIL
s sold in all
Localities Maniifartureri by
Standard OH Company.
Nothing so
6ood
aa a pure malt beverage to refresh one
after a hard day's work has ever been
discovered. And there is one malt
beverage that is better than others
that is
J. B. Natter's beer
it goes right to the spot, and is served up at
Natter's Brewery, on upper Main ht., Heppner,
where an ice-eold cellar in tlfe solid rock keeps
it always cool.
Gordon's
Feed and Sale Stable
Has just been opened to the
public and Mr. Gordon, the
proprietor, kindly invites his
friends to call and try his
ti rut-class accommodations.
nanty o Hay and. Q-raiaa. for Sal
Stable located on west side of Main
street between Wm. Scrivner's and
A. M. Gunn's blacksmith shops.
For the ladies A fine horse and lady's saddle
Heppner Gazette only 4 bits for
3 mouths.
Machines
Sanitary Stills I
Sprinklers
Lawn Mowers ?
Bishop's.
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