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The Heppner Gazette
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1900
All Americans naturally regret
to see two republics wiped off the
map in South Africa or anywhere
else, and if President Kruger would
stay with his people and die in the
last ditch his conduct would be
worthy of admiration. But as a
skedadlerwho left his people in
the lurch, it is not to be wondered
at that the Kaiser snubbed him.
HEPPNER CREDIT GOOD.
The financial reputation and
general credit of Heppner town is
good everywhere. The town is
well manasred. and the news of
Buch management has gone abroad.
This fact has been well proven
this week. One of Heppner's water
bonds for $4000 and drawing 8 per
cent, was due.
The council is able to pay this
bond by borrowing its face and
getting a premiun of $52 foi doing
so, and a rate of interest at 5 per
cent.
GOOD ROADS.
The great state road connecting
the railroad terminus at Heppner
with the extensive mining, wool
growing and stock-raising regions
stretching away for hundreds of
miles to the south has been sub
jected to a very heavy traffic, and
its capacity is taxed to the utmost.
It was a wise move to build such
a road, for it was in the direct in
terest of the people.
Heppner's business men, ever
alive to the interests of the people
and the importance of the road,
back up their ideas with hard cash.
When Mayor Frank Gillian and
Mac Clark, of Minor & Co., circu
lated the subscription list this
week they obtained instant results,
and as will be seen by the list in
this paper, Heppner men sub
scribed $1100 to pay for keepiDg
the road in good condition.
SUGAR BOUNTY.
Oregon welcomes all industries
to within her hospitable borders,
and does the best she can to foster
and encourage them in a general
way.
But it would be manifestly un
fair to discriminate among her in
dustries and make fish of one and
fowl of another.
When sugar raised and made in
Oregon is offered for sale alongside
the foreign article, the home pro
duct should be bought every time.
It is understood that the legis
lature soon to sit will again be
asked to ofler a bounty on sugar
beets raised in Oregon. No suoh
bounty should be paid, for it would
bo an injuHtice to the man who
raises wheat, wool and other crops.
It is said that if the bounty is
not paid on beets the sugar factory
at Lagrande will move to Utah.
Well, let it move. But the move
is probably a bluff, as Utah has
enough factories for its beets.
President McKinley will weep
tears of joy when he finds that
that modest little wood-violet,
the flippity-flopity Times, has
taken him for its model.
AN ABLE PAPER.
The Oregonian was 50 years old Tues
day, though you wouldn't think it, for
there isn't a bald hair in its head. Its
semi-centennial issue was appropriately
illustrated, and contained a reproduc
tion of its first issue, which was true to
nature, even having the blurs made by
the big drops ot perspiration that drop
ped from the brow of Benry Hill, as he
rolled the forms on the sweatpower
press.
The history of the paper is interesting.
It has kept ahead of the country and
has caused cash to circulate more freely
than any concern of its size. Manager
Pittook was always fair and square with
his men, and many a Saturday would
pay his 15 compositors $450 for their
week's work, and within 48 hours tbey
would bave $500 of it in circulation all
over town.
Benrv Hill threw up his job just b4
the high water of '62 and went with the
volunteers fighting hostiles all over
Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Mr. Scott
was a chunk of a boy-sergeant under
Lieut. J. L. Morrow during the Indian
war on Puget Sound in '55-6.
The Oreaonian is an able paper, and
has on its stalF men who can write poet
ry, checks, obituaries or anything that
is timelv. Jim Montague, its poet, can
line right up with Jas. Currycomb Riley,
and Miss Metcalf's criticisms of Herr
Gunshott's recitals are more interesting
than the originals.
Mr. Pittock deserves great credit for
his able management. When the paper
was having a stormy time he wisely seot
for Lou 8hee-meen, the pioneer press'
man, who at once poured 2 barrels of dog
fish oil into the barrel of ink, and then
things ran smoothly until Dad Easter
brook and Raashe 'Umfrey went fisb
ing, when there was a drag.
LODGE OF SORROW.
In common with their brethren all
aver the country the Heppner Elks held
Memorial services Sunday. The only
member it has lost by death, Sheriff E
L. Matlock, was fittingly eulogized, and
his memory will ever remain green with
those who knew him, for he was always
fair and square, and never went back on
a friend. The memorial exercises were
interesting, and the house was full. The
musfc was appropriately rendered by
Mrs. D. E. Oilman, Miss Julia Hart and
Messrs. Mac Clarke, Haling, Akers and
Lundell James Hart read Thanatopsis
and Rev. C. D. Nickelsen delivered the
eulogy.
Nat Webb Jr. 1b taking hold of the
practical management of his father's
sheep, and finds the Greek and Latin he
learned at Whitman College of great
use to him in every-day business.
TO HIS OLD HOME.
George Conser, cashier of the First
National Bank, is planning to take t
well-earned vacation of a few weeks,
beginning about 'the 20th. He will
visit his old home at Jefferson, in
Marion county, where hit father, the
late Jacob Conser, was one of the
sturdy, industrious and honored pioneers.
George will find that many changes
have occurred on his old range along
the Santiam. John Harrison, Hugh
Glenn, Bill Cosper and bis old partner
of the forks, Joab Powell, have all
crossed the dark river where arc lights
neither gleam or glisten. But the
Looney boys will all be at home, and
the Stiewers on their fine farms among
the picturesque oak openings, and they
will give the long-absent George a warm
welcome, and he can tell them of what
a much better climate he lives in now
than b4.
RECENT ARRIVALS At PALACE HOTEL
L L Woolery, lone
J A Woolery "
WHDobyns "
J W Waterman, Antone
Nels Anderson, Smile
N Swanson "
A Carlson, wf and d, 8mile
Thos Schoolcraft, Willows
J E Peterson, Gooseberry
J E Johnson, Lone Rock
John Madden "
W O Hill, Lexington
Albert Longren, Gooseberry
J A Adams, Hardman
C F DeFord "
D D Hinton, Hamilton
L Swick & wf, "
E Hemli, lone
A J Cook, Lena
W O Hill, Lexington
Howard H Grove, Lexington
H A Beaucharnp "
A S Haines, Smile
R W Fleming, Gooseberry
Albert Lovgren "
A Heirl, Pendleton
Fred Hunt, Wagner
J H Hobbs, Lexington
M 8 Maxwell, lone
R D Bnrtle, Spray
W M Nevins, Douglas
Margaret Gray, Ella
O 8 Smith, Moro
H O Proebstel, Rufus
A J Wright & fam, Smile
Hy Podberg, lone
Mrs E W Burnham, Castle Rk
S B Penrose, Walla W
S 1 Stratton, Gooseberry
Tom Gilffillan, Butter Crk
. IRRIGATION.
There are millions of acres of
land in the wide west that needs
only water to make it produce
bountifully.
Morrow county has a large dab
of it, with acres of Columbia river
water running past its feet and
gliding on to the Bea where it is
not needed.
Muoh of it might well be moist
ening crops as it passes by.
It looks as though the time
ought to be now ripe for the west
to take a firm stand on the ques
tion of national irrigation and
something great may be accom
plished at once. Why not? It is
as right that Congress should ap
propriate money for storage reser
voirs as for river and harbor im
provements. The building of
Btorage reservoirs would obviate
the necessity for much river ex
penditure and would help naviga.
lion, and the home building area
of the United StatoB would be vast
ly increased. And now if the west
makes this demand the east will
back it up, for the benefit would
not be local.
What would be the result of an
appropriation of eight or ten mil
lion dollars spent annually in the
west for irrigation construction?
The immediate stimulation would
be enormous and the future benefit
greater. This policy should be in.
augurated. It is a national matter;
it can be productive only of great
good; the east is responsive; let
the west be aggressive; it is time
to work.
The government is spending
large sums in aiding in the de
velopment of foreinn trade and
the opening of foreign markets for
American manufacturers. It is
believed that we Bhould p ibIi our
goods into every market of the
world and Bell them. The belief
in also gaining ground that the
government should also develop
its home market for American
products and manufacturers. This
it could do by reclaiming the 75.
()00,0X) acres of western arid land
and Bottling them with thousands
of industrious home builders.
The Toatihprs' Institute for Morrow
county is in session this week, with a
full attendance. Interesting evening
(tntortainniontri aue given, the main feat
ure laHt night being a lecture by Prem
dent 8. B. L. Penrose, of Walla Walla
Prof. P. is a ileusant gentleman and an
able-bodied man, He has to bo to pack
around such o big load of initials.
Drop in at Bishop's and get a pound
of their apple butter.
CLOTHING TO ORDER.
The man who wants good, well-wear
ing and well-fitting Clothing can have it
made by me at prices that will beat
those of anv otoer tailor in this section
My styles are the latest and my work is
the best. Shop on Main street, same
building as Dr. Metzler's othce.
J. H. Bode
Good
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 of 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.
Big Blanket
Bargans!
It may have been overbuying or shrewd
buying, that places us with an overstock
of these eoods on hand; at any rate we
are in a position to give you prices on
Vpfs that could not be duplicated if
wr had to buv this fall. You receive all
the benefit.
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Our Overcoats
and
Winter Clothing
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Can't be beat for Style, Fit, Good . . ' ,
Quality and Reasonable Prices.
A light grey Dress Overcoat cut in box style, brown velvet
collar, maae oi piaiu uibujs. uvwwoui6i
sleeves 50 ana $lo UU
The dress coat of the season is the "Roglan" in- dark grey
Oxford, plaid back, very stynsn w
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. Trices range trom so to. u
. YOU WANT AN OVERCOAT
Alnmpda sanitary blanket, 11-4-all
wool filling, in . colors light grey and
lierht brown, weighs o IDs -
An all Oregon wool blanket, dark grey,
size 66x76, weighs 5 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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Comforts
Is it worth while Saving
a Few Dollars on it re
covered with calico, cretonne, silko
line or satine at prices $1.00. $1.25,
$1.50, $1.75 and $2 00
The DownaKne Comfort, for which we have the exclusive
agency, is considered the very finest manufactured. The filling is a
inIM nldiA Af Haasi rlnmnatiriA nvara1 with Avtra nualifv aat.in rti
silkoline, lotted through and through. Begular prices $3 and $3.50
Agents for Butterick Patterns.
MINOR & CO.
ALL ARE INVITED.
Wc extend a cordial invitation to the people
ot Morrow and adjoining counties to call
at our store and inspect our large and well
selected stock of
Jry
Goods
. Clothing,
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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Simond's Cross Cut Saws j
Sewing Machines
Sanitary Stills a
WCS ' '
Boss Washers
Hose and Sprinklers
Lawn Mowers
At
Ed. R. Bishop's.
The largest and best selected
stock in Morrow county.
Paints. Oils . Jewelry
and Glass
A full stock.
Kodaks
Supplies of all kinds.
A fine stock to
select from.'
Stationery
The very latest.
CONSER. & WARREN..
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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 $1.50, 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...
.Enlaroiiifl Done to Order.
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