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EIGHTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900.
NO. 811
WEEKLY GAZETTE
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The Heppner Gazette
Ib published every Thursday by
J. W. REDINGTON.
Entered at the Postoffloe at Heppner, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
C E. Redfield
' ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office In Firat National Bank building.
Heppner, . Oregon.
G. W. Phelps
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Natter'a Building. Heppner, Oregon,
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
U. 8. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Mallory,
U.S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
la authorized to take all kinds of LAUD
PROOFS and LAND K1LINU8.
Collection! made on reasonable termi.
Otlice at residence on Chaae street,
government land script for sale.
D- E. Gilman
GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old books and notes In his
hands and get your money out of them
Makes 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.
Nothing so
Good
as a pure malt beverage to refresh one
after a hard day'a work baa ever been
discovered. And tbere la one malt
beverage that la better than others
thatli
J. B. Natter's beer
It goea right to the spot, and ia aerved up at
Matter's Brewery, on upper Main 8t., Heppner,
wnere an ice-cold cellar in the solid rock keeps
t always cool.
Gordon's
Feed and Sale Stable
i
Has Just been opened to the
public and Mr. Gordon, the
proprietor, kindly invites hie
friends to call and try hie
first-class accommodations.
'Flmxi.ty of Hay sua.4 Oraln fox Sail
Stable located on west side of Main
street between Wm. Bcrivner'a and
A, M. Ounn'i blacksmith ahops.
For the ladles A fine horse and lady's aaddle
A. Abrah'amsick
Merchant Tailor
Pioneer' Tailor of Heppner.
His work first-class
and satisfactory.
Give him a call May Street.
New Lodging House.
I have re-papered and re-.
famished the well-known
MouQtair) House
And it is now ready for
the accommxiation of
lodgers by the day, week or
month.
Good rooms and clean, com
fortable beds.
Lodging 25 cents.
I. N. BA8EY.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
NOTICE J8 HEREBY GIVES TO ALL
pemons having claims against the estate
of H v. Merritt. deceased, to present the same
with the proper vouchers thereof to C. E. Red
field administrator wiih the will annexed, of
the estate of said II. P. Merritt, deceased, at his
SI are 0( doing business in the city of Heppner,
orrow county. Htate of Oregon, within six
months from me oawj ni oi uuvrc.
Dated November 7, lSWO.
C. E. RanviiLD.
Adminietretor with the Will annexed of the
estate o H. P. Merritt, deceased. 7-11
WASTED-ACTIVE MAI OF GOOD CHAR-
established manufacturing wholesale boose.
sonniTftar sure pay. Honesty more than ex
SSeVc? "TX'onr reference, jany bsnk in
Juy Enclose self-tddressed stamped envelope
Manufacturer, Third Floor, DearbornM..
Chicago.
The Kind You Have Always
in use for over 30 years,
and
1&fflifts. sonal supervision since its infancy. .
, cccAAz Allow no one to deceive you in this.
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
iCastoria 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 sleep
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTO R I A ALWAYS
Bears the
Hie Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years. -
THC CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MUM
rjt. Palace ...
A Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
Every Modern Convenience.
Drummers'. Resort. Stockmen's Headquarters.
One of the finest equipped Bars and Clubrooms
in the state in connection ....
First-Class Sample Iooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West.
For Fall and Winter Wear
M. LICHTENTHAL,
-The
The Latest , Styles
Men, Women and
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Old Stand. Main Street. Repairing a Specialty.
HOME INDUSTRY.
. ,.-v. .. s .
FLOUR
Heppner Flouring Mill Co.
Has secured the services of a first class miller,
and keep od hand a full supply of
FLOUR, : GRAHAM, : GERM : MEAL,
WHOLE WHEAT, BRAN and SHORTS
Of the very best quality and
The mill exchanges with
their patronage.
W. L.
Come to Morrow County for low-priced
lands. Values are sure to double up. Nev
er again will land sell
Bought, and which hag been,
has borne the signature of
has been made under his per-
Signature of
KIT. NEW YORK CITY
J. W. MORROW, Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Pioneer Boot and Shoe Doaler of Heppner, baa
'' '.-.: If
of Footwear for
Children. '
FLOUR
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
the farmers, and solicits
HOUSTON, Manager.
so low as it does now.
THE CAMP-BOBBER.
By Dick Bkamam.
Across the river, 'way over on Hinton creek,
Where the hills are high and the canyons steep,
Where rimrox abound and bears are quite
tame, . - ', .". .v
I met a man, Bill Duncan hla name.
We aat up on a rocky hill, one sunny day.
While the sheep fed around and had their way.
"My sheep wont lay in caray," said Bill,
"They'll break their necks to get up the hill."
I went up there again some other day.
For my sheep always wanted to go that way.
I looked down and thore waa Bill
Coming right straight up that rocky bill, .
"Good morning, Dick, I killed the bear
With thia little gun he got hla share.
Down by the rim, by that black stump
I downed him. - - -
: t
You may think I can't run
By jingo, I just nearly spun. '
Bight over the ground I made for a tree, ' ,
For that big bear waa after me."
I went down there that very same day,
And aure enough, there he lay.
A great big brnte, J00 pounda or more t
Be bad killed many a sheep, of that I'm sure.
I went down to the river to pitch my tent '
Where Dearborn comos down and the river
makes a bend ;
Some scalawag stole my blankets there.
He was a human, not a bear.
So if you want to go over there this coming
year,
Be well prepared to fight the bear '
And some low-down, oruery scamp
Who will come around to rob your camp.'
MUST ' HAVE BEEN. , "
Edith (to Ethel, who has just re
turned from a sea trip to San Fran)
O, Ethel, were you seasick?"
Ethel Seasick! Why, Edith, I
went into the stateroom and sat
down on my best hat and I didn't
care. - ..!.
SHEEP.
Bud Willingham has returned from
a trip to Portland, where he took a car
load of fat.old. ewes for mutton. ,They
did not appear to be very rapid sellers,
but at the Union Stock ' Yards he dis
posed of them at $3.10 per 100 lbs; they
averaged 96. pounds. He alno took
along some fat hogs and cold them at
$5.50 per 100 lbs. ,
One of John McCarthy's recent buys
was 600 yearling past wether mutton
sheep at $3.15 per head.
J. I. Carson was to leave Portland
yesterday for Montana, where he was
onto a snap with no pullets. He had
been posted on 5000 yearling past weth
ers that he could buy at $1.50 a head
on account, of grass and feed being
short in Montana. He was going to
buy them and 'ship at'a rate of 20 cents
a head to Baker City, where he would
buy some big haystacks and winter,
and drive east in the spring.
Major Ormsby, of Casper, Wyoming,
has sold to the Standard Cattle Com
pany, of Ames, Neb., 3000 wether lamos
at $2.40 per head. .
According to a decision given Nov. 14
at Fresno, by TJ. S. District Judge Well
born in the case of Lee Biasingame, it
was held that the act of June 30, 1898,
authorizing the Secretary of the Inter
ior to make regulations for the protec
tion of forest reserves, is constitutional,
because, in effect, it delegates legisla
tive power to an administrative officer.
The decision, it is claimed, practically
throws open to the sheep men all the
reservations, though they are still liable
in .civil suits for damages for trespass.
United States Attorney Flint will ap
peal. ' I.
Babies and children need
proper food, rarely ever medi
cine. If they do not thrive
on their food something is
wrong.; They need a j little
help; to get their digestive
machinery working properly.
COD LIVER OIL
WITH NYPOPHOSPHITES Of LIME 4 SODA
will generally correct this
difficulty. ; . 1 ;
If you will put from one
fourth to half a teaspoonful
in baby's bottle three or four
times a day you will soon see
a marked improvement. For
larger chifdren, from half to
a teaspoonful, according to
age, dissolved in their milk,
if you so desire, will very
soon show its great nourish'
ing power. If the mother's j
milk does not nourish the 1
baby, she needs the emul
sion. It will show an effect
at once both upon mother
and child.
50c slid $i.oo. ill drought,
SCOTT 4 BOWNE, Owroirti, New Yofk.
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.
Boston, Nov. 27. The wool mar
ket has been cleared by two large
sales, and there was a firmer feel
ing, although no one is looking
for a marked advance. The terri
tory wools led in sales, fine medium
and fine calling for 49c. Fleece
wools are quiet, but prices are firm.
Quotations are: Territory, scoured
basis, Montana and Wyoming, fine
medium and fine, l721c; scoured,
2839c; staple, 5051c. Utah
tine medium and fine, 1617c;
scoured, 4749c; staple, 50c; Idaho
fioe medium and . fine, 1516o;
Bcoured, 4647c; staple, 50c. Aus
tralian, scoured basis, spot prices,
combing ruperfine, 7475c; good,
65 70c; average, 62 67c. ',.
Nov. 28. The American Wool
& Cotton Reporter will say of the
wool trade tomorrow:
"The wool market has been
rather more active in the past
week. There has been consider
able quiet looking around for all
classes of wool, and the demand
has been strictly for consumption.
Reasonable prioes have been of
fered and have been accepted. A
larger business would probably
have been transacted had it not
been for the extremely unfavorable
weather, which has militated
against an active demand for
goods. Advices from the "West
continue to indicate a very bullish
feeling. Owners of wool oontmue
to hold it at high prices. Prices
are naturally in favor of the buy
ers, although there is no pressure
to sell wool, and quotations are
unchanged.
"The sales this week in Boston
amounted to 4,175,000 pounds do
mestic and 550,000 pounds foreign,
making a total of 4,725,000, against
a total of 3,452,000 for the previ
ous week, and a total of 13,915,000
for the corresponding week last
year.
"The sales Bince January 1 were
132,951,000 pounds, against 327,
982,576 pounds for the correspond
ing time last year.
SFLENDID STEAMER.
The Elder is one of the most beauti
ful boats afloat in northern waters, and
makes regular trips between Fortland
and Sao Francisco. She is a palace on
keels.- When you make a trip down
the coast see Agent Kernan, at the
Heppner depot, and he will ticket you
through.
Cold Steel or Death -
. "Tbere is bat one small obsnoe to save
yoar life and that is tbrongb an opera
tion," was the awful prospect set before
Mrs. I. B. Hunt, of Lime Ridge, Wis.,
by ber doctor after vainly trying lo oure
her of a frightful esse of stomach trouble
end yellow jaundioe. He didn't oount
on the marvellous power of Electric
Bitters to oure stomach and liver troubles,
bat she beard of it, took seven bottles,
was wholly oured. avoided surgeon's
knife, now weighs more sod feels better
than ever. It's positively guaranteed to
oure etomaoh, liver and kidney troubles
and never disappoints. Price 50o at
Oonser & Warren Drug Co.
t ( I IVfQOh SORTING. '
SAnswering in inquiry the Wool Re
porter; says: 51
Today about 45b per hundred Is paid
for the general sorting of territory and
fleece wool. Sometimes a lot of wool Is
found which is more or less covered
with paint or tar, and in such a case
12)sC is allowed extra. ' A boss wool
sorter can he hired from $2 to $2.50 per
day. ' Since the better grading of wool
htis-come in vogue, many mills have
dispensed with the sorting proper al
together, simply hiring some one to cut
strings, open the fleeces and throw out
the coarse tags and dung locks. Such a
man can be hired for $1.50 per day, and
handle from 600 to 1000 pounds of
grease wool jer 10 hours.
KBUGER SNUBBED. -Berlin,
Dec. 2. Mr. Kruger has
abandoned his proposed visit to
Berlin, owing to the receipt of an
official intimation that Emperor
William regrets that, in conse
quence of previous arrangements,
he will be unable to receive him.
The Boer statesman will, therefore,
proceed direct from Cologne for
Holland. lie telegraphed to this
effect this afternoon. , j
The Cologne Gazete, in an in
spired communication, Bays:
"Mr. Kruger's visit is not agree
able to Germany, his aim being to
obtain intervention in South Af
rica. It would be a grave political
mistake it would be even a great
crime to allow him to entertain
even a spark of hope that Germany
will render him any practical sup
port," This declaration is accom
panied with reproaches, Mr. Krog
er being charged with "having
encouraged a useless guerilla war.
fare and haviDg disregarded Ger
many's advice when he might have
still followed it."
FOOTBALL.
The Thanksgiving day game on the
Heppner depot grounds was witnessed
by a large crowd, but the LaGrande
team put np a very poor game. The
Heppner boys had It all tbeir own way,
aD'l the snore stood 64 to 0.
The present understanding Is that
The Dalies team will come here and
play Ueppner ea Pee. 14,
-Absolute y Purer-
For the third of a century the
standard for strength and purity. It
makes the hot bread, hot; biscuit,
cake and other pastry light, sweet
and excellent in every quality.
No other baking powder is
"just as good as Royal," either in
strength, purity or wholesomeness.
Many low priced, imitation bakltiR' powders are
upon the market. These are made with alum,
and care should be taken to avoid them , as alum
is a poison, never to be taken in the food.
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
IDEAS ABOUT WOOL.
The great staple, wool, is today
affected by a greater variety of
circumstances than can be cited in
the case of most commodities, says
the American Wool and Cotton
Reporter. It is of course affected
by the general business condition
of the country. But apart from
this, it is very powerfully afifocted
by the state of the weather. There
has seldom been a more unseason
able period than the one we have
been passing through this fall.
If the winter months should con
form to the fall months in this
particular, the sales of wool would,
we should suppose, continue com
paratively small. But the weather
is ol course a very uncertain factor,
and there is fully as good reason
to suppose that we shall experi
ence a bitter winter as that we
shall the opposite. The ' fact that
the weather has so far been against
the wool market does not of itself
preclude the hope of an active
trade later in the season.
The market is no doubt affected
by still another factor; via., the
over-speculation of recent years.
It might on a first glance seem as
if the effect of this should be about
overcome by this time, but a care
ful scrutiny of the facts in the case
perhaps warrants the opposite con
clusion. We have always main
tained that the real nature of the
wool problem could not be ascer
tained merely by the study of con
ditions as they existed in one or
two years. The market is very
apt to be influenced by factors
which have been working unob
served for a long series of years,
and it is possible that this was
never more true than at the pres
ent time.
We do not profess to say what
has become of all the wool that
has figured in the Boston wool
sales in the past four years. Uow
much of it is still in dealers' hands,
how much in manufacturers' store
houses, how much of it is in the
form of unsold finished goods, are
questions which no one can answer.
One thing, however, seems pretty
clear, viz., that nowhere near all
the wool sold since the beginning
of 1897 has yet appeared on the
backs of the public.
WHY DO DOGS BARK?
Why should a dog like to guard
his master's house? When dogs
run wild, four of the pack are told
off aa sentinels, one at each point
of the compass. While the rest of
the pack sleep theBe guards keep
awake, ever on the watch for ene
mies. So soon as danger is scpnted
the sentinel burks, and the rest of
the pack wake each other in like
manner. That is why, when one
watchdog barks, his neighbor docH
likewise.
A New Vear'a Guide.
Tbere ii one book ever one ihonld
make an effort to get, (or the new yeir.
It ooutftina dimple and valuable bints
conoerniog health, many amufiing aneo
dntee, and much general Information.
We refer to Hontetter'a Almanao, pub
lished by The Hoatetter Co., TittBburg,
Pa. It will prove valuable to any house
hold. Sixty employes are kept at work
on thif valuable book. The fauna for
1901 will be over eight millinnn, printed
In the English, German, Freucb, Wulna,
Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemian-
and Spanish language. It con
tains proof of the efficienty of nostetter'e
Htomsoh Bitters, the greet remedy pre
pared by the publishers, and is worthy
of oareful preservation. TLi) almanaa
may be obtained f'ee of or., at aoy
druggist or gener! dealer Id tbeoouotry,
SCALP LAW.
J. N. Williamson, of Crook coun
ty, writing to the Oregonian, says:
Without going into details as to
the enormous destruction of prop
erty by predatory animals in Ore
gon Eastern Oregon in particular
or undertaking to give a detailed
history of the many local attempts
at so-called "self-help" all over the
state to rid ovrselves of these de
structive pests, I will make the
statement that none of the bounty
law's promoters have ever claimed
that its direct benefits are equally
distributed between the different
counties. Neither can I call to
mind a single law in this state
wherein money is appropriated
that such money is distributed
equally between the counties..
Hhould strict adherence to such
principles be insisted upon, and
followed out, the doors of every
state institution in Oregon would
be closed, the state penitentiary
and insane asylum included, on
the 1st day of J anuary next. Such
a proposition is preposterous and
needs no argument to contravert it.
Marion county is said to inter
pose a serious objection to the
state scalp bounty law. I am the
last man to go back on Marion
cwunty. And, while it is not con
sidered in good taBte for a legislator
to be announcing in advance what
measures he will support and what
not, I wish it understood here and
now, that if $900,000 or thereabout
of state money is not enough to be
spent in one Oregon county, I am
willing for old Marion to stick her
spoon in some more, for I waa
reared in that county.
Multnomah county bases her
grievance upon the ground that
she does not get as much direct
benefit from that law as Eastern
Oregon. Now, that is bad really,
too bad.
Bid it ever occur to the man
who would advance such an idea
that a very large part of the city
of Fortland would not be on the
map today were it not for Eastern
Oregon? Did such a man ever
take a position anywhere along the
Columbia gorge and note the pass
ing steamboats and count the miles
and miles of freight cars that pass
each way every 24 hours, loaded
with merchandise from and pro
duce to the city of Portland; and
all, or nearly so, from Eastern Ore
gon? Does he realize that while
Portland claims third place in the
United States as a wheat-exporting
point, that there are single coun
ties in Eastern Oregon which fur
nished more of that wheat the past
summer than the whole Willamette
valley put ogether? Did he ever
consider thiil all we have, and are,
begins in Portland and ends at the
name place? And that Portland,
which ia Multnomah county, owes
it to herself as well as to us, to
allow us to do business on busi
ness principles?
No, there can be no question
whatever about the merit of that
or a much similar law. It might
be a good idea to amend it in soma
particular, but so long as Oregon
is Oregon, so long as this state is
compoHcd of such widely diversi
fied industries, and covers such a
vast and varied territory, some
such measure should be found
among our statutes; not only should
tio found upon our statute books,
but shoald be enforced for there's
the rub.