The Heppner Gazette
Thursday, Nov. 15, 1900
SCALP BOUNTY.
The matter of repealing the
bounty on coyote scalps is now be
ing discussed.
The stockmen of this great graz
ing region of the Heppner Hills
do not want it repealed. They
think it is a good thing, and would
like to see every inducement of
fered for the extinction of the
coyote.
A robber and a sneak-thief is
the coyote, and the bounty law
undoubtedly reduced his number
and power for evil. But this fall
it seems as though he was becom
ing more numerous and audacious
in the Heppner Hills, and new
efforts are needed to be put forth
in suppressing him. He is again
at his old tricks of invadicg door
yards, robbing henroosts and steal
ing stoves and laughing at people
who drive him off as he disappears
over the nearest raise of ground.
At the ranches of Pres. Criswell,
N. S. Whetstone and Wm. Hughes
coyotes have recently become very
troublesome. At the latter place
they have pulled to pieces a stack
of wheat hay in their search for
mice.
The argument is now used that
the thinning out of the coyote
means the multiplication of the
ground-squirrel which is so de
structive to crops. The gentlemen
above mentioned say that this is a
mistake. That during the recent
wholesale killing-off of the coyote,
ground-squirrels became soarcer
than ever before.
The coyote seems to get too
much credit for killing off ground
squirrels. The best man in that
line is the badger. He goes into
the squirrels' holes and digs out
and eats them. He should be en
couraged, but instructed not to
put so many pitfalls in the way of
saddle-horses.
Instead of repealing the bounty
on ooyote scalps, it should be kept
on, and the coyotes should be
hunted down and most of the
ranches should add to their equip
ment hounds that will run and kill
coyotes.
HOME FOR TEACHERS.
The Swiss eduoators are taking
active measures looking toward
the foundation of a lehrerheim, or
home for school teachers during
their holidays, upon the order of
the admirable elsenbahner-heim,
or home for railway workers, on
'the Grubisbalm, upon the slopes
of the Rifii. The economical ques
tion is exhaustively treated in a
little pamphlet circulated among
the teachers in the Swiss common
schools.
In America Jater on it may be
come necessary to found a home
for parents who have become finan
cially broken up by buying books
for their children and keeping up
with the apparently unnecessary
changes made which necessitate
the buying of other books. It often
looks as though the changes were
made solely for the benefit of some
big book company which makes all
the profits and allows nothing for
the retailer.
One of the most ridiculously un
necessary things in the northwest
is where a child leaves the public
schools of one state and crosses
the line into a sister state, its par
ents must be put to the expense of
buying an entirely new outfit of
books.
If a uniform national bankrupt
cy law was a good thing, a uni
form national system of school
' books would be a good thing for
the parents who have to buy them.
THAT DISTANT DEPOT.
Heppner has outgrown ita village
clothes and has outgrown the primitive
plan of baying Ita railway depot of
a mile from Hh buRincaa center.
It is an inconvenience that ought to
be abolished.
When Enginoer Stevens Bet the
grade stakes for the Heppner railroad
along In November of '87, he ended the
line a little south from the county conrt
house. The survey line was run close
to the flouring mill with the Idea that
some day it would become an export
institution. . The way that Morrow
county is now producing wheat, the
mill will undoubtedly later on reach out
for foreign trade.
For years the Heppner depot baa
been of a mile from the business part
of town. It ia time it were moved up
nearer.
It is a subject worthy of the discus
aion of the people.
Look it up, talk it up and move It up
if it ia for the nest interests of the town
and the majority of the people.
THANX, OH, THANX!
Every Republican in Morrow county
and the rest of the world ought to be
truly thankful to the modest Times for
its timely instructions as to how to treat
their fellow-votora who happen to be in
the minority.
All that "Hi needed to smooth over
the friction of the campaign was the def
inito instructions of the Hopping Times
whtiae somersault after the battle was
won was only equaled by the absurdity
of its assumption that the Republican
voters were a lot of greenhorns who
needed instructions from it.
But people of all parties know bow to
measure up flopping papers who Hop at
the last moment.
County court will meet tomorrow and
Saturday to specially consider roud
business, and Distrtct Attorner T. G
llailey will be prassut.
Washington State re-elected ita old
rainbow-chaser Rogers as governor be
cause it could not stomach Seattle's
machine methods of politix. when
first elected Rogers was a Kansas
sufferer who paid no taxes.
NEEDED ROAD.
Men who haul big loads ot wood from
the mountains at the head of the east
fork of Willow creek and come to
Heppner have to make a long, slow,
hard pull up the Caldwell grade and
away around by Hinton creek.
This long pull and four miles of dis
tance might be saved if there was a
road . opened along the east fork of
Willow creek.
There is now a road along the east
fork from Tom McCullough's ranch to
the mouth of John Reeler canyon, and
if this road were extended a few miles
it would give direct connection with
several roads running into the timber,
and also with roads running to the head
of Butter creek and toward the John
Day.
Such a road would give a natural
water-grade all the way to and from
Heppner, and would be a great con
venience to a great many people.
Its cost would be very slight, as the
east fork is open and unfenced, and its
benches and bottoms are well adapted
to road-making.
CHRISTMAS COMES.
The season for sending Christmas
presents will soon be here, and it will
be, as it always is, a season of activity
for express companies and post offices.
People at a distance from Heppner
will be Bending presents to friends in
Heppner, and will prepay express
charges 'on their packages, and will
labor under the delusion that their gifts
are put right into the bands of their
Heppner friends free of all expense, as
all gifts should be.
This is a mistake.
The friends in Heppner will have to
pay delivery charges on all gifts tbey
receive by express, or else walk of a
mile from the business part of town to
the distant express office.
These delivery charges should be
paid by the express company. Tbey
cost Heppner people ifaU to f.iU a
month, and much more in the holiday
season.
In towns where toe express company
does not deliver packages it keeps its
office located close to the business
center, convenient for the people.
It should do this in Heppner or pay
for the delivery.
People who send gifts to Heppner
friends would feel much annoyed to
think that those friends had to pay
charges on the gifts.
So the thing to do is to Bend packages
to Heppner by registered mail.
In that way they are safe, the sender
prepays all charges, and they are de
livered in the center of town, where
Uncle Sam, with true business sagacity,
has located his office. And the express
and telegraph companies would do well
to follow hii example. )
REWARDS FOR WORKERS.
Anyone can make money getting up
Clubs of Subscribers for the Heppner
Gazette.
Until further notice the Gazette will
pay $3.75 in cash to anyone sending in a
club of 5 new cash 1-year subscribers.
Will pay 17-50 for 10 new cash 1-year
subscribers.
Will pay f 11.25 for 15 new cash 1-
year subscribers.
Will pay $15 for 20 new cash 1-year
subscribers.
Anyone sending in a club of 25 new
cash 1-year subscribers will be given a
fine gold watch.
PRAIRIE CHICKENS.
Time was, not many years ago, when
the Heppner Hills were famous for big
bands of prairie chickens.
It used to be that Denny the French
man and Willard Herren and a few
friends wou'd go up Balm fork on a
Sunday afternoon and from the Tom
Quaid ranch to the old McLaren place
would shoot a hack-load.
Then tbey would squat around in the
shade of the hawthorne trees and sip
bottled Milwaukee after , it bad stood
awhile in a cooling Bpring.
That was in the days before John
Natter's brewery bad been started, and
all keg beer that reached Heppner had
to be jolted in the hot sun across coun
try by stage from Pendleton, 60 miles
away.
Now things are different about, both
beer and prairie chickens.
The sheep have tramped out. their
eggs, and poisoned wheat, put out for
ground-squirrels has killed off, many
prairie chickens.
So that of late years tbey have been
pretty scarce.
But this fall a bunch of about 100
blew in from somewhere. They were
at the Sperry place up on the fiat, then
at Bill Penland's timber-culture, then
at the Stalter grain-stax.
Now they are gone again.
HOW IT CLIMBED.
The population of the United States
in decades for more than a century past
has been as follows : In 1700, 3,029,214 ;
1800, 6,308,483; 1810, 7.238,881; 1820,
9,(103,822; 1830, 12,800,020; 1840, 17,069,-
432; 1850,23,101,870; 1800,32,443,321;
1870,38,558,371; 1880, 50,155,783; 1890,
03,000,750; and 1900, 70,295,220.
WHEAT.
Chas. Johnson, the well-known wheat
buyer, was in Heppner this week, and
gave interesting facts and figures
concerning grain-growing in Morrow
county.
Mr. Johnson thinks that Morrow
county's production this year will now
total up to 900,000 bushels, of which
750,000 bushels will be shipped away.
He divides up the receipts at the
different stations on the Heppner rail
road as follows:
Heppner 100,000 bushels ; Lexington
120,000; Jordan 70,000; lone 300,000;
Douglas 250,000.
Mr. Johnson eays that wheat is now
moving out fairly fast over the Heppner
railroad. The company ia furnishing
about 15 cars a day, w hich is about all
the warehouse people can attend to.
At lone there is still stacked on the
ground about 10,000 bushels, but at all
other points it is off the ground.
Mr. Johnson reports no recent sales,
and Says that the wheat raised near
Douglas averages 1 to 4 pounds per
bushel lighter than that raised further
south toward Heppner.
lie says that if favorable weather
continues, the grain acreage of Morrow
county will next season be about the
game aa this.
WOOL.
The Ueppnor market has not yet bad
ita expected opening, but there are
symptoms of the important event soon
transpiring.
Frank Johnson is on a hurry-up trip
to Boise, but will return to Heppner
very shortly.
Boston, Nov. 13. With the exception
of last week, the sales in the wool mar
ket here this week were the largest in
many months. Dealers are firm in their
demands for the inaiket prices, and
some are holding for an advance. Ter
ritory wool was the leading feature of
the sales. Fine medium and fine scoured
staple is quoted at 47(i4Sc, while for
strictly staple article . 50o is asked
Fleece wools are movinu slowly, with
prices firm.
Territory ; scoured basis Montana
and Wyoming, tine medium and tine, 17
(rflXc; scoureii 47140, s'apieouc.
Utah, tine medium and tine, 1 Oof 17c;
scoured, 47(MHc; staple, 60o. Idaho
tine medium and tine, 15(jsl0c; scoured,
4748c; staple, 50c.
Australian, scoured basis, spot prices
combing, supurtine, nominal, 73qS75cj
good, O5i(70c.
A reooirolMd authority The Weekly
Oragonlan.
HORSES FOR THE ARMY.
At Billie Gordon's big corral tbere are
now lively doings. The horses that Al
Roberts is buying for the army are now
gathering there, 1 and Ot. Summers is
putting them through their paces.
Some of them are fresh from the range,
and feel their oats and act quite gay,
but all are hardy and active and quick
to come under discipline.
The government inspector will be
here next Wednesday, and all who have
saddle horses for sale should have tbem
in Heppner by Tuesday. Mr. Roberts
expects to have 100 bead here by that
time.
BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Miss Sybil Ha?er celebrated her 11th
birthday at the home of her parents in
Heppner on Tuesday evening. ' The
occasion was a most enjoyable one, and
the bouse was filled with the merry
children who had been invited. A very
nice luncheon of chicken, cake, turkey
and other good things was partaken of.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Con
tain Mercury
As meronry will snrely destroy the sense
ot smell and oomplstely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the muooos surfaces. Snob articles
should never be used exoept ou prescrip
tions from reputable physicians, as the
damage tbey will do is ten fold to the
good yon can possibly derive from tbem.
Hall's Catarrh Onre, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney k Oo.,Toledo , O. .oontains no
meronry, and is taken internally, noting
directly upon the blood and mooous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall's
Catarrh Care be sore you get the genu
ine. It ia taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials .free. Sold by druggists,
prioe 75o per bottle.
Hall's Family Fills are tbe best.
THE LATEST
Iq Style apd Finish
In Quality apd Make
Our New Stock has Arrived.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Notable among the pleasures afforded
by the Shasta route is the winter trip
to Southern California and Arizona.
Renewed acquaintance with this section
will ever develop fresh points of interest
and add lources of enjoyment, under its
sunny skies, in the variety of its in
dustries, in its prolific vegetation and
among its numberless resorts of moun
tain, shore, valley and plain.
The two dai'v Shasta trains from Port
land to Calitornia have bten recently
equipped with the most approved pat
tern of standard and tourist sleeping
cars, but the low rates of fare will still
continue in enect.
Illustrated guides to the winter re
sorts of California and Arizona mav be
had on application to
C. II. Mabkham, G. P. A.,
Portland, Ore.
AMERICAN PLAN ONLY.
The Palace Hotel, of Heppner, is one
of the home institutions that Eastern
Oregon may well be proud of. It fills
the field as a first-class house, and it
employs only competent white help
It is conducted strictly on the American
plan, and its commodious well-fiirnished
rooms and bountiful tables give satis
faction to all its patrons.
If yoj want to buy some very low
priced ranches, see George Wells, at
ioiiBer arren'sdrug store.
"I have niMii fMiamtwi-liili.'ii fv,ii
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and find'
uioDe a rem medioine, save Air. E
8. Phipps, ot Potesn, Ark. "It oared
me ot bloody finx. I csnoot speak loo
highly ot it." This rsmsdy always wioa
tbe flood opinion, if not nrataa nf thn.a
who ubs it. The quiok cares which it
eupois evon in tue mosl severs oases
mako it a favorite everywhere. For sals
I r in -
y voubit eg warren.
m-tor to deliver mid collcot In Oregon lor old
putHblliihod mamKactiirtug whnlcwale houae.
t'.Mayiftr,itirery. Uoiu-iIt more than ex
lrlnp reiilM. Our reference, any bunk lu
nv cuy. r.m-iiMe wu-aoiirxmed itamppd eu
velopo. Vnmifaoturera, Tulr4 floor, tH Dear
bom t.iCliWao1
Winter
Clothing
.Our New Lines of
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
Are Complete.
We now have a , New, Line of the Famous
Jackrabbit brand of Waterproof Duck Overalls.
and Overcoats;
FULL DRESS SUITS, - -OUTAwAY
SUITS - - -DOUBLE-BREASTED
SUITS,
The Latest
Very Nobby
Square -Out
11 ft U
Fur Overcoats and Rubber Goods
Heppner Oregoii.
3 .Jf M
The largest and best selected
stock in Morrow county.
Paints, Oils t Jewelry
and Glass
A full stock.
Kodaks
Supplies of all kinds.
A fine stock to
select from.
Stationery
The very latest.
CONSER. & WARDEN.
New Photograph Gallery.
: Dr. M. T. Miller, artist-photographer,
takes pleasure in announcing to the
people- of Morrow and adjoining
counties that he has opened up a new
and first-class
Photograph Gallery
on Main Street, Heppner,
2 doors north of opera house.
From' now on, with every dozen Cabinets, I will
give at an extra charge of only $1.60, an en
larged picture of same negative, 16x20, in a
handsome frame, with glass and complete finish
This large picture may be had with
in 24 hours after negative is taken...
.Enlarolnfl Done to Order.
Big Blanket
Bargains!
It may have been overbuying or shrewd
buying, that places us with - an overstock
of these goods on hand; at any rate we
are in a position to give you prices on
Blankets that could not be duplicated if
we had to buy this. fall. You receive all
the benefit.
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An Alameda sanitary blanket, 11-4-all--
wool filling, in colors light grey and
. light brown, weighs 5i lbs - I
An all Oregon wool blanket, dark grey,
size 06x76, weighs 5 J lbs -
A medium dark grey blanket, all-wool,
size 72x84, weighs 6 lbs
A Pendleton silver grey, all Eastern Ore
gon straight fleece wool, 60x80, lbs
A Pendleton blanket, Umatilla blue, guar
anteed straight Eastern Oregon fleece
wool blanket, size 72x84, weighs 5 lbs
A Salem blanket, strictly all-wool, mottled
grey color, size same as above, weighs
6 1-2 lbs -
A superior quality Eastern Oregon wool
fleece blanket, made by Pendleton
Woolen Mills, white, size 72x84,
, weighs 5 lbs ...
Comforts
5 00
5 00
8 00
Covered with calico, cottolene, solko
line or satine at prices $1.25, $1.50,
$1.75 and $ 1 00
The Downaline Comfort, for which we have the exclusive
aaency, is considered the very finest manufactured. The filling is a
solid piece of fleecy downaline, covered with extra quality satin or
ailkoline, rotted through and through. Regular prices 3 and 3 50
Agents for Butterick Patterns.
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