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ative Journal of the County.
EIGHTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 1900,
NO. 804
The Heppner Gazette
Is published every Thursday by
J . W. RE DING-TON.
Entered at the Postofflce at Heppner, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
OFFICIAL SXX&ECVOSa-Z-.
Sixth Judicial District.
(Hronit Jnde Stephen A. Lowell
PcotiiRur.ing Attorney H. J. Bean
Morrow County Offloiala.
J int. Henator J, W. Morrow
R loresenlative. E. L. Froeland
C -nitty Judge A. (J. Bartholomew
" Commissioners J . L. Howard
J. W. Beckett.
" t!lert Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff A.Andrews
" Treasurer ill. liichtenthal
Assessor J. Willie
' Surveyor Julius Keithly
" -ohool 8up't Jay W. Shipley
" Coroner Dr. E. H. Hunlouk
Stock Inspector.. ..Henry Scheriinger
, HKPPNIB TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor Frank Gilliam
Council meu 8. P- Qamguce,
J. K. Simons. J. J. Roberta, K. W Bhea, Geo.
NoMe and Thoe. Quaid. .
Recorder J. P. Williams
Ireaeurer ; I W. Brings
Marshal George Thornton
HIKFNBB SCHOOL DISTRICT,
Directors Frank GilH-m O. E. Farnsworth,
J. M. Uager; Clerk J. J. Roberts.
Precinct Officers.
l ustioe of the Peaoe W. A. Richardson
onxtjiblo G. B. Gray
United 8tats Land Oflicers.
TBI DAIXI8, OB.
.Isy P Luoas Register
Otis Patterson Receiver
LA QBAMDI, OB.
K. W. Bartlett Register
I. O. Hwackhamer Receiver
It is a fact that farms can be bought
in Morrow county at such low prices
that their first coining crop will pay for
the land.
PS0FB38I01TAI OA.B9,
C E- Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Offlco in First National Bank building.
Heppner, Oregon.
G. W. Phelps
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office In Natter's Building. Heppner, Oregon.
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
' U. 8. COMMISSIONER:
Offlco in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND KIUNiiS.
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at residence on Chase street.
Government laud script or sale.
D. E- Gil man
GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old books and notes In his
liRiids and get your money out of them
flakes 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.
Gentry & Sharp
Tonsorial Artists
Your patronage solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed..
Hot and Cold Baths
Main Street, near Palace Hotel. Heppner.
J. R. Simons & Son
General Blacksmiths
. Horseshoeing a Specialty
Wagon Making
and Repairing.
All work done with neatness
and dispatch. ...
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Upper Main Street,
Heppner, Ore.
H. W. Fall,
PROPRIETOR
Of the Old Reliable
Gault House,
CHICAGO. ILL..
n.lf block west of the Union Depot of C. B.
8 a a m st p , c. a , p. rt. w a.
, and tbe C 8t L. 4 P. Kallroada.
RA-TIStss sBH.oo PER rA"S"
Cor. W. Madison and Clinton Bts.,
The Kind You Have Always
in -use for over 30 years,
' ' " - and has been made under his per
' sona supervision since its infancy.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is.CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, .regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving . healthy and natural Bleep
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
WW
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
TMC OINTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET, Hew YORK Omf.
k Palace
A Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
Every Modern
Drummers' Resort. Stockmen's Headquarters.
' One of tho finest equipped Bars and Clubrooms
in the state in connection....
First-Class J?tirxirl3 Rooms.
For Business Heppner Is one of the Leading
Towns of the West.
For Spring and Summer Wear
Al. LICHTENTHAL.
0 Xhe Pioneer Boot and Shoe Dealer of Heppner, baa
The Latest Styles of Footwear for
Men, Women and Children.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Old Stand, Main Street.
HOME INDUSTRY.
FLOUR
Heppner Flouring Mill Co.
Has Becured the services of a Bret class miller,
' ; and keep on hand a full supply of
FLOUR, : GRAHAM, : GERM : MEAL,
WHOLE WHEAT; BRAN and SHORTS
Of the very best quality and guaranteed to give satisfaction.
The mill exchanges with
their patronage.
W L.
' Come to Morrow
lands. -Values are sure to double up. Nev
er, again will land sell so low as it does now.
Bought, and which has been
has borne the signature of
Signature of
Hotel,
J. W. MORROW. Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Convenience.
' Repairing Soeoialty.
FLOUB
the farmers, and solicits
HOUSTON, Manager.
County for low-priced
SHEEP AND WOOL.
J. R. Dodge has prepared for
the U. S. Agricultural department
a pamphlet on the sheep and wool
industry of the "United States, past
and present. An elaborate , table
embrooed in the report shows that
on January 1 last there were 41,
883,000 sLeep scattered over the
various states of the Union. The
total value of these sheep ia esti
mated at $122,665,913, or an aver
age price per sheep of 62.93.
In this list Oregon stands as the
sixth sbeepraisirjg state in the
Union, Idaho being fifth : and
Washington 'way down iu the list
At that date there were 2,446,695
sbeep in Oregon, valued at $6,532,
676, or au average of $2 67 each.
Iu Idaho there were at the same
time 2,658,662 sheep, ' valued at
82.80 each, or a total of $7,344,254.
The Washington flocks only aggro
gatd .790,217 sheep,' which, were
held at a higher figure, however,
making the total, number worth
82,470,218. ' i
This report shows that the aver,
age price of sheep in the United
States as a whole has fluctuated
quite extensively, the figure last
January being the highest but one
of any year recorded. In 1873 the
average value was 82.96, but in
that year the total value was but
897,922,350. Improvement by
breeding and by better care has
more thau doubled the weight of
the fleece. ' 1 , i
The census of wool is perhaps
not so accurate as that of sheep,
but a comparison of 'the different
enumerations shows a steady and
rapid increase in weight, in divid
ing the reported quantity of wool
by the number of sheep. In 1840
the average weight of wool per
sheep was 1.9 pounds. It increased
to 2.4 pounds in 1850, 2.7 in 2860,
3.5 in 1870, 4.4 in 1880 and 4.8 in
1&90.
A great change has occurred in
the distribution of sheep in 30
years. In 1870 the mountain-range
country was just emerging from
the control ol the Indians, and,
with the Pacific states and Texas,
contributed only 22 per cent of the
sheep of the entire United States.
Now the western section contrib
utes 65 per cent of all the sheep,
or more than 27,000,000. This iu
dicates a gradual decline of the
sheep industry in farming sections.
The free pasturage of the range
country handicapped the industry
on farm lands.
Speaking of tlie outlook, the re
port says:
"The question has been repeat
edly asked, Can we pro lucr) all tho
wools required for domestic manu
facture? There is no doubt of the
capacity of the country to produce
more wool than is now consumed
in any form. There are economic
reasons that will doubtless prevent
the production of .very low-grade
wools.
''For the past 10 years the wool
supply of this country, domestic
and foreigo, has been about 430,
000,000 pounds annually, which is
about the same as that of Germany
now, and nearly as large as that of
Great Britain, exclusive ox the
stocks of shoddy and wastes of all
kinds. I he annual wool supply
for the Inst 10 years has averaged
444,514,274 pounda .The annual
imports of manufactures of wool
are valued at $32,013,407, against
an average of $43,345,981 for the
10 years ending with 1890. And
these figures include, besides wool
and manufactures of wool, a large
portion of shoddy and shoddy
goods. " "
"A total of 60,000,000 sheep,
producing 360,000,000 pounds , of
fleece and 60,000,000 pounds of
butchers' wool, would have fur
nished very close to the supply for
manufacture daring tbe past 10
years, without considering shoddy
or substitutes. Should we reach a
total of 80,000,000 sheep in a de
cade or two, a volume of 550,000r
000 pounds of wool would be pro
ducedmore real wool than soy
nation in the world, except possibly
France, has ever manufactured in
a single year. When we reach
100,000,000, if we Bhould, with 700,-
000,000 pounds of wool, fleece and
pulled, with the substitutes that
must be counted in manufacture,
there would be a liberal and ample
supply for a population of 100,000,-
UOO. This does not make allow.
ance for a considerable quantity of
earpet wools that are quite certain
to be imported, and any other lm
potts that manufacturers might
fancy in their quest for novelties
or preferences in wools, which
mast always reduce domestic re
quirements."
NOW FOR TREES.
I am now prepared to take order for
fruit, shade ami ornamental trees, grape
vines and small fruits, rose ana nruD
bery, wbioh bave been grown without
irrigation by The Dalles Nurseries. I
will canvass Morrow, an.l Grant counties
for both spring and fall delivery, and in
all cases guaranty satisfaction.
My address is Hardnian, and I will
ea tbat all stock ia promptly delivered.
Uasby Cimmixg.
LOOTING OF PEKIN.
Pekin, Oct. 14. The general
consensus of opinion of the Ameri
can and British Ministers and gen
erals is that seldom if ever in the
history of the world has any city
been more completely looted thau
Pekin, and it is mainly due to the
influence of Gen. Ohafl'ee and the
British General Gaselee that the
sacred city itself has not suffered
the same fate; in fact, most of the
members of the Embassies, their
families and even the missionaries
think that a great mistake has been
made in uot looting it and burning
it to tbe ground. They argue that
if all the property of the mer
chants, bankers, pawnbrokers and
even the houses of the very poor
have been looted and burned, why
should the property of those main,
ly responsible be saved and held
sacred for their future use? It is
an every-day sight to see soldiers,
camp followers and members of the
riff-raff that is following the army
selling all sorts of things, particu
larly the silver shoeB, which were
used as caBb, valued at $7, $13, $30
and $50 according to weight
Hundi ed-dollar watches were sell
ing for $5, but now prices have
gone up, and silver shoes are sell
ing for two-thirds of their value,
and other things accordingly.
1 The proprietor of a Pekin hotel
has bought, it is stated, silver
worth over a quarter of a million
dollars at a cost of less than 850,000.
The Sikh soldiers have done a
lot of trading in silver, buying it
from the Russians cheap and sell
ing at a profit An ex-street arab
from New York has made a clear
$2000 from a capital of nothing
except" unlimited cheek and no
scrnples whatever on the subject
of hiB right to loot.
American soldiers have not been
officially allowed to loot, bat only
to forage, which means that parties
have gone out daily over the
American quarter and collected
the things most needed by the
troops, such as bedding, furniture
for camp use, etc. Most of the
soldiers en the march to Pekin
threw away their blankets and
other impediments which rendered
the" march under a burning sun
unbearable. At night now they
would suffer from cold if they had
not been allowed to commandeer
the necessary covering. It is only
human nature that the soldier
boys io that duty should pick robes
of ermine and grey fox skins and
ther warm skins rather than those
of a coarser and uglier appearance.
borne of the most persistent loot
ers have been the missionaries.
Recently meeting one with five
cartloads of furs and antique fur
niture, Major Waller asked the
missionary by what right he had
taken the things, and to his as
tonishment whs told by permission
of Major Waller. He informed the
missionary ho was mistaken, as he
himself was Major Waller and
should confiscate every bit of it.
WHEAT.
Morrow county's golden grain con
tinues to pile up along the Heppner
railroad, and travelers who cannot see
the grain-fields from the car windows
are wondering where it all comes from.
At lone the piles of wheat stacked
along tbe railroad track are half a mile
long and as wide as Heppner 's wide
Main street. Ellia Minor and Hugh
Fields saw this wheat as they came up
this week, and say they never saw
anything like It, ana tbey are pioneers
who have seen a great deal.
Newcomers who come to Morrow
county to buy land and make new
homes can now see what is raised here,
and can buy land at such surprisingly
low prices tbat In many cases one crop
will pay for it.
Wheat is rapidly rolling into Hepp'
ner, and long strings of teams come in
on the trot. At present there Is stored
here 60,000 bushels, and present prices
are 42 to 45 cents.
, How We Use Up Our Forests.
It ia estimated that it takes twenty-two
acres of spruce land to furnish enough
wood pulp paper to mo a large metro
politan daily ust two days. Tbe writer
who makes tbis statement deplores the
time when, at tbi rate, our forests will
entirely disappear, and paper be very
aoaroe and expensive. Meantime, the
art of printing onnlinnea, beoanse there
are many troth the world ebonld know ;
among others, tbat Hoatetter'sRtomaob
Bitters is a cure for disease of tbe stora
aoh, snob a dyspepsia, ipdigeetioo
constipation, biliousness, insomnia and
nervousness. Tbis fsmons midioine has
been the standard remedv of tbe Ameri
csn people for SO years. Do not accept a
snbetitote. Tbe genuine baa a Private
Revenue Htamp over the neck of bottle
Married At Hardman, by Judge J
II. Jenkins, Miss Georgie Junkins and
B. B. DeFord.
It Saved Hia Lag
P. A. Danfortb, of LaG range, Ga., snf
fered intensely for six months with
frightful sore on bis leg, but writes that
Bucklen's Arnica Halve wholly cured i
io ten days. For olnnre, wounds, burns
boils, pain or pile it' tbe best snlve in
the world. (Jure guaranteed. Only 26c,
Bold by uooier Warren Drag Co.
It is the, high
quality of Royal
Baking Powder
that has estab
lished its great
and world-wide
reputation.
Every house
wife knows she
can rely upon
it; that it makes
the bread and
biscuit more delicious and whole
somealways the finest that can
be baked.
It is economy and every way
better to use the Royal, whose
work is always certain, never
experimental.
There are many imitation baking
powders, made from alum. They
may cost less per pound, but
their use is at the cost of health.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW VORK
YELLOW AND WHITE.
In canvassing the great Chinese
question Geo. T. Angell says: The
question today with European gov
ernments is, What are the white
men going to do with four hundred
millions of yellow men?
To our mind another -question
likely to be vastly more important
one of these days is, What are the
tour hundred millions of yellow
men going to do with the white
men?
Napoleon said, "Better let China
alone. The Chinese are harmless
now. W e might conquer some of
their provinces, but we should
teach them the art of war, and they
might, in time, get great armies,
build or buy great navies and con
quer France."
If European governments should
kill a million Chinamen and teach
them the art of war, how about the
three hundred and ninety-nine
millions who have learned it? And
f in learning the art of war they
should also learn the arts of peaoe,
and with three hundred and
ninety-nine millions of cheap
aborers enter the worlds markets,
in competition with European and
Amerioan labor, what then?
The question is now, what are
the white men going to do with
the yellow men, but may it not be
tbe great question of the future,
what are the yellow men going to
do with the whites?
BRITON AND BOER.
Cape Town, Oct. 14. The Boers
are very active in tbe Kroonstadt
district General Dewet has pro
claimed that burghers who refused
to fight will be made prisoners of
war.
British mounted infantry scout
ing irom liindiey lost Captain
Willshire, who was killed through
mistaking a party of 40 Boers in
khaki uniform for friends.
Boer commands continuously
barrassed the British column while
marching from Lindley to Kroon
stadt The Boers captured a de
tachment of the Chesire Itegiment
which was escorting an empty
wagon near Drankfort They re
leased the driver but kept the
wagon.
London, Oct. 14. The waroluce
has received the following from
Lord Roberts, dated Pretoria, Sat
urday, Oct. 13:
"A satisfactory little auair oc
curred near Frankfort Thursday.
Col. Grove, with the West Kents,
surprised a Boer laager at dawn,
killed 7, wounded 9, and captured
18."
' 1
Prevented a Tragedy.
Timely information given Mr. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, prevent-
a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives.
A frightfol cough had long kept her
awake every night. 81ie had tried many
remedies and dootors, but steadily grew
worse nntil nrged to try Dr. King's New
LMsoovery. Uoe hnttls wholly on red her
and she write tbis marvelons medicine
aleo cored Mr. Long of severe attank of
poenroonla. Hooh cores are positive
proof of the matchless merit of this grunt
remedy for curio? all throat, ol)st uti
long troubles. Only M)o nod 1. Every
bottle guaranteed' Trial boltW free at
Comer k Warren Drug Co.
Never '
experiment
with so
important
an article
as the
human
food
WAR IS AWFUL.
F. R. Wardle, writing to The
Oregonian from Tien Tsin Bays:
Tien Tsin is the entre port and
gateway of Pekin, situated about
30 miles up the Pel Uo river, and
80 miles below the capital, and it
has au important commerce. The
European section is substantially
and handsomely built of brick and
stone, with broad, macadamized
roads, a park, library, large Astor
House hotel, Gordon Hall (used
during the bombardment as a
hospital. It was the target for
many shells, and was then called
"Gordon Hell"); there are hand
some foreign consulates and storesj
and the place has much the appear
ance of a well-to-do European
town. Beyond this lies the native
city, ,a far-stretching vista of
strange, fantastical Chinese struc
tures, and of one-storied mud-brick
dwellings, formerly sheltering half
a million or more of the native
population. Today I have been
wandering through the desolation
of this once thriving and busy
center ofhuman life now utterly
in ruins, a solitary waste of burned
and dismantled dwellings, amid
which famished Chinese wonks
(half-wild dogs) were until recent
ly hungrily tearing the bodies of
the Chinese killed during the bom
bardment, the great fire, and the
still greater slaughter following
the capture, when such scenes of
terror and of destruction were en
acted as might have characterized
the incursions of Attila and his
Huns. It is impossible to give
stay-at-home people in Oregon any
adequate impression of this trage
dy; one must personally see the
far-reaching vista of blackened
ruins, a solitary waste miles in
circumference where once was busy
lite, the walls shattered by shells,
the dwellings ravaged by troops of
all nations, the fine temples turned
into barracks, tbe handsome houses
of wealthy Chinese now used for
stables, and tbe echoing solitude
of streets once full of busy people,
in order to comprehend the terri
ble desolation of war.
DID THEY GROW?
Through the courtesy of Senator Geo.
W. McBride the Heppner Gazette was
last spring furnirihed two bushel of
garden seeds from the government agri
cultural department.
Thewe seed were distributed among
tbe people of Morrow county, and now
the government would like to hoar how
they got on.
Those who tried the seeds will pleas
send a few lines to the tia.ftte oflice
giving results, so that a general report
may be made up and sent to Washing
ton, showing what seeds do best in
Morrow county.
The Gazette will have a big lot of
mhhIh to freely ditttribnte next spring,
and wiehes to avoid 0. doling those that
do not thrive here.
When you cannot sleep for oougblbg,
His hardly necessary that any ooe should
tell you that yon need a few doses of
j (Chamberlnia's Cough It medy to ollny
the irritation of tbe throat, and make
sleep possible. It is good. Try it. For
sale by Conner A Warren.