The Heppner Gazette
Thursday,.. Nov. 22, 1900
THE SHIP CANAL.
A ship canal across the isthmus
of Panama would doubtless mean
much lor Heppner and the rest of
the Pacific coast.
That such a canal will bs built
is orily a matter of .time. The
commission which is investigating
the matter will have its prelimi
nary report ready to submit to
congress on the first day of the
session.
The report will dismiss all but
the Nicaragua and Panama routes
from further consideration, and it
is understood will recommend the
former route.
THE GREAT INTERIOR.
Mayor Frank Gilliam and Oscar
Minor returned yesterday from
the new town of Spray, on the
main John Day, where they
bought out the Spray Mercantile
Co. They will push the business
and put Chaa. Royee in charge for
the present.
There is a good country around
Spray, and it ought to have better
mail facilities than at present.
People there are the pioneer de
velopers of the great interior, and
and deserve all modern conven
iences that can be furnished by the
postal department. Theis inter
ests should be better looked after.
FOR FUEL
At the head of Willow creek, 18
miles by water-level grade from
Heppner, are large tracts of pine
and fir timber well suited for fur
nishing fuel for Heppner and all
of Morrow county.
The matter of cutting this fuel
and bringing it into market is well
worthy the attention of capitalists.
It looks as though it might be
a good investment for a motor
line or freight railroad, and such
an enterprise would famish work
for many men.
Coal has been found at the head
of Willow creek, and it is hot stuff.
D. A. Herren brought out some
samples of it and tried it, and it
not ouly burned, but burned up
his stove.
If this coal can be found in large
quantities, it and the timber ought
to furnish several years' business
for a small freight railroad.
MORROW COUNTY 0. K.
As will be Been by Treasurer Mat
Lichtenthal's call for warrants pub
lished in this issue, Morrow county is
ready to pay off another lot of its in
debtedness. This is a rery good show
ing, and leares the county only eight
months and 13 days behind.
Beware of Ointment for Catarrh tbat Con
tain Mercury
As meronry will surely destroy tbe tense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mnoons surface. Snob Brtioles
sbqnld never be used exoeptou prescrip
tiobB from reputable pbysioiaos, as tbe
damage tbey will do is ten fold to tbe
good yon oan possibly derive from tbem.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
F. J. Cheney &Oo.,Toledo,0.,oontains no
mercury, and is taken internally, noting
directly upon tbe blood and mnoons sur
faces of tbe system. In buying Hall's
Catarrh Cure be eure you get the genu
ine. It is taken internally, and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cbensy & Co.
Testimonials free. Sold by druggists,
prioe 75o per bottle.
Hell's Family Pills are tbe best.
ARE YOU GOING
To Spokane or Lewiston from Hepp
ner or any point in Eastern Oregon?
Take the Northern Pacific at Pendle
ton, Walla Walla, or any point along
its line. :
If you prefer Portland as a starting
point,
Take the Northern Pacific.
If you are going to Omaha, Kansas
City or St. Louis,
Take tbe Northern Pacific-Burlington
route. ,
11 :30 p. m. daily.
ToDuluth or Winnipeg?
Take the Northern Pacific.
1 :45 p. m. daily.
To Minneapolis or St. Paul?
Take the Northern Pacific.
1 :45 p. m. daily.
To Chicago or East?
Take the Northern Pacific.
1 :45 p. tn. daily.
For any information desired
Call on the Northern Pacific.
A D Charlton, Asst. Gen'i Pass. Agt,
255 Morrison street, Portland, Or.
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-furnished
rooms and bountiful tables give satis
faction to all its patrons.
WHEAT, WOOL AND 8TOCK.
Portland Nov. 21.
In wheat yesterday there was a little
more activity, and a farther weakness
in freights caused prices to tule fairly
steady in the local market. Walla
Walla was selling at 53S54c. and
bluestem about 5657c. Tbe exact
status of the market was determined
yesterday by the charter of a near-by
ship at 42s 6d, a material reduction
from previous rates paid.
Wool Valley, 1213c for coarse,
1516c for best; Eastern Oregon,
1013c; mohair, 25c per pound.
Sheepskins Shearlings, 1520c; short
wool, 2535c; medium-wool, 3050c;
long wool, 60$1 each.
San Francisco, Nov. 21. Wool
Spring Nevada, ll13c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 1014; Valley, Oregon,
16 18c. Fall Northern, mountain, 9
10c; mountain, 810c; plains, 810c;
Humboltand Mendocino, 1012c.
Chicago, Nov. 20. Cattle Receipts
7000; market generally steady; prime
steers $6 30 5.8O ; poor to medium, $4 30
5.25; stockers and feeders, s ow,
$3.75(34.30; cows, $2 65(34.26 ; heifers,
$2.753 75; canners, $1.752.65; bulls,
$2.75(34 40; calves, active $45.75;
Texan fed steers, 4 00(34.90; Texas
grass steers, $3.304.15
Sheep, receipts, 14,000. Sheep and
lambs slow to 10c lower.
Choice wethers, $3.90(14.20; fair to
choice mixed, $3.603 95; Western
sheep, $2.904 90: Texas sheep, $2.50
3.50: native lambs, $4.405.25; West
ern lambs, $4. 755. 10.
FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
The O. R. & N. Co. tries to do a good
work for farmers by arranging for
farmers' institutes along its lines. The
company's industrial agent, Col. R. C.
Judson, is ever alive to the best inter
ests of tbe road and its tributary terri
tory, and extends the glad hand to the
people and fosters every industry that
springs up or can be encouraged to
spring up.
Col. Judson has arranged to hold
farmers' institutes as follows - -
Milton, Nov. 20 and 21 ; Tekoa Nov.
23-24; Colfax Nov. 26-27; Pullman Nov.
30 and Dec. 1.
Farmers will have full opportunity to
compare notes and discuss matters, and
addresses will be made bp Hon. W. J.
Spillman, professor of agriculture at the
Washington College, Hon. C. L. Smith,
of Minnesota, and other prominent
speakers.
CHEAP PASTURE.
Anyone wanting pasturage for a bunch
of cattle, horses or sheep, call on J. W.
Redington, at Gazet office, Heppner.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
There is no question about
Heppner having outgrown the
original plan of having itB depot
f of a mile from its business cen
ter, and it would be a publio con
venience to have it re-located up
town.
It can be done now much cheap
er than in after years, when prop
erty values will double up, and it
ought to be done now in the inter
est of tbe general good.
THE TROOPER'S TRAIL.
Benton Neal Thornton, promi
nent in Atlanta social circles, and
one of the best known young busi
ness men of Atlanta, ua., has en
listed as a private in the U. 8.
cavalry.
Thornton assigns as a reason for
entering the army that he is broken
down in health and seeks this
meanB of recuperating his lost
strength. He declined all offers
from influential friends to secure
for him a commission and several
days ago went to Maoon and ap
plied for enlistment Ue was en
listed immediately.
It is to be hoped that he may
get through his three years' service
without suffering any such starva
tion spells as were inflicted on the
Oregon volunteers during their
voyage to Manila.
And if he goes over the same
watery trail, and the good people
of Honolulu contribute fruit for
his comfort, it is to be hoped that
he will not have to buy the same
from the quartermaster, as did the
hungering Oregon volunteers.
HOLIDAY PACKAGES.
During the next month the num
ber of small packages coming to
Heppner will be unusually large,
and the express company should
injustice to the people have its
Heppner office somewhere in the
business part of town or else do its
own delivering.
Until it does accord this justice
to the people, the people should ar
range to have their packages come
by registered mail, and thus be
able to get them in the business
center.
VETERAN SOLDIER.
Capt. It. P. Wainright, U. S. A., who
was in Heppner this week buying
horses to ship to Manila, is a veteran
who helped make the northwest, and
was one of its pioneer pathfinders.
After graduation from the military
academy he joined the gallant old First
Cavalry in 1875, and was with it in all
its campaigns against the hostile In'
diana in Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
With large and small squads of troopers
Capt. Wainright has scouted tbe moun
tains, plains and deserts of tbe north
west, hunting hostiles and bumping up
against all sorts of experiences.
He is still in the old First Cavalry,
but is such an expert on horses that
the war department specially detailed
him to buy iU horses for the Thilip
pines, and he has bought thousands in
the northwest.
"I have need Chamberlain's Oolio,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and find
it to be a great medioine," says Mr. E.
8 Fbtpps, of Potean, Ark. "It oared
me of bloody flux. I oannot speak too
highly of it." This remedy always wins
tbe good opinion, if not praise, of those
who use it. . The quick cares which it
effeots even in the most severe oases
make it a favorite everywhere. For sale
by Conser ft Warren.
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Wages
Made!
Every man and woman
has the commercial idea more
or less, and likes to know
that he or she is getting a fair
return for their time.
When you put in time
coming to the big store of
Minor & Co. it is time well
invested. The goods you buy
there are o.f such good qual
ity, and the prices are so rea
sonable, that you are well re
paid for the time employed,
and you are- thus making
good wages.
Our Overcoats
and
Winter Clothing
Can't be beat for Style, Fit, Good
Quality and Reasonable Prices.
A light grey Dress Overcoat cut in box style, brown velvet
collar, made of plaid black overcoating, satin lined
eleeves $12 50 and $16 00
The dress coat of thi season is the "Roglan" in dark grey
Oxford, plaid back, very stylish 16 00
A very superior dress overcoat, dark grey Oxford, plaid
back, very heavy, very serviceable and very Btylish.. ."; 20 00
In heavy overcoats, ulsters you can save from $1 to (5 on
each. Prices range from $6 to. 20 00
YOU WANT-AN OVERCOAT .
i ' 1 .:. ; r - -
Is it worth while Saving
a Few Dollars on it?
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.
An
Alameda sanitarv blanket, 11-4-all
wool filling, in colors light grey and
light brown, weighs o lbs -
An all Oregon wool blanket, dark grey,
size 66x76, weighs b 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, 5 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
$ 5 00
5 00
5 50
6 00
6 50
6 50
8 00
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Covered with calico, cretonne, silko
line or satine at prices $1.00, $1.25,
$1.50, $1.75 and $2 00
The Downaline Comfort, for which we have the exclusive
agency, is considered the very finest manufactured. The filling is a
solid piece of fleecy downaline, covered with extra quality satin or
silkoline, totted through and through. Regular prices $3 and $3 50
Agents for-Butterick Patterns.
MINOR
& CO.
Every Coat Guaranteed,
ALL ARE INVITED.
We extend a cordial invitation to the people
ol Morrow and adjoining counsies to call
at our store and inspect our large and well
selected stock of
Dry
Ms, GlotliK.
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Inlets. Dress Goods,
LADIES and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
Groceries, - Etc.
GOOD GOODS AT FAIR PRICES.
Fur Overcoats and Rubber Ooods
Heppner, Oregon.
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imona s iross uui saws 3
Sewing Machines
Sanitary Stills
Boss Washers
Hose and Sprinklers
Lawn Mowers I
At Ed. R. Bishop's.
''" The largest and best selected
stock in Morrow county.
Paints, Oils . Jewelry
and Glass i :. ' , A fine stock to
A full stock. select from.
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Kodaks Stationery
Supplies of all kinds. The very latest.
CONSER & WARREN.
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New Photograph) Gallery.
Dr. M. T Mill
takes pleasure in announcing to the 5
people of Morrow and adjoining $
counties that he has opened up a new h
and first-class T
Photograph Gallery j
c
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 $1.50, 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...
-Enlargino Done to order.
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