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The Heppner Gazette ' j
Thursday Jan. 31, 1901
J TKAVEIiEUS' GUIDE.
OIBTANCI8:
Iieppner to Miles
1'orilnnd 197
l'end leton by wagon road 60
Lexington 9
lone 15
Arlington 55
1 1 he Dalles K19
Canyon City 104
Heppner Junction on Columbia River 45
', Cabin Canyon 16; with mud 18
i Train leaves daily excent Bnnriav for ail
I points at 8:15 a. m. ; train arrives daily except
OUIlunj rai.u.o bllQ WUriU Hi O'.IO p. III.
Heppner Raises Wool to Warm the World.
Last year it shipped away 3,245,750 pounds, and
Morrow County raised 950,000 bushels of wheat
in 1900.
Morrow County's climate is most excel
lent, and you can buy farms and ranches
here cheaper than anywhere else on earth or in
all Oregon, Population 5000.
There are vacant government lands, timber,
foothill and prairie, and land may be bought
at l 25 to (10 an acre.
Morrow County has 263,535 sheep, and the
Heppner Warehouses now contain 2,500,000
pounds of 1900 wool.
Here and Ttyere
Morrow county's jail is in its usual
condition empty.
A Morrow County Push Club is among
the near possibilities.
Geo. W. Wells and wife are again at
home after a vacation in Portland.
MEN OF THE MOMENT.
WA9
First Horse in Heppner.
PIONEER PATHFINDERS.
The first white men began locating
around in the Hrppner Hills 38 years
ago, and a noiu th- earliest and thofe
who came in th mxt 12 years weie:
'Arry 'Igbt went up Saturday to his
ranch beyond Dutch Billie krick. Well,
who cares?
Ed Long, formerly the efficient editor
of Jim Jones' milk wagon, is now in
Idaho, and prospering.
Frank Roberts and wife have com
menced housekeep'ng in their new
home on the hill.
The pine trees in the Morrow county
mountains contain chewing gum enough
to supply all the girls' seminaries on
earth.
Speaking of Christmas bushes, Mor
row county has enough in its mountains
to bring joy to every household in the
U. 8.
D. W. Chapman, one of the pioneer
sheepmen of upper Butter creek, was
over Saturday. Stock is all thriving in
his neighborhood.
The new Heppner literary society
will debate and have exercises at the
Christian church tomorrow evening. J.
W. Shipley is president.
Burglaries are scarce articles in
Heppner, but Tom Howard's store and
the candy factory will be burglarized
tonight and about $10 stolen.
Devil Morse and A. W. Bennink came
in yesterday from the ranch of Old
See About it, in the high mountains,
where they had been spearing eels.
By all means mane it a point to in
vest 5 cents in a copy of the Saturday
Evening Post, now on sale at news
standi). It is a most xcellent periodical.
Complete copies of this week's Ga
zette in wrappers ready for mailing may
be bought for 15 cents at the stores of
Slocum Drue Co., Patterson & Son and
Matlock & Hart.
When yon are in Portland and want
to see something real nice in the fur
niture or carpet line, call at the big
store of the Breedin Furniture Co., 2d
and Morrison.
The Glen Ellen Wine Vaults at Pen
dleton have the very choicest California
wines and grape brandies, and invite
the people of Eastern Oregon to write
for prices.
For the past two months the trees of
Iieppner town have been standing
around with their hands in their pock
ets, and haven't raised enough browse
to lunch a goat.
W. T. Hatten, the inventor of the
patent clutch wrench, severely burned
his face and hand while working at the
forge. But he does not allow such
things to throw him down.
Fo an all-around good magazine, get
the new Lippincott. It has splendid
stories and is modern in every respect.
Buy a copy at the news stands and after
that you will not do without it.
Morrow county people do not have
their ears jarred with hand-organs; but
there is one grinder who comes occa
sionally, and he is said to own a fine
farm in Western Oregon.
J. W. Cwins received a telegram
Tuesday that his brother had died at
Weiser, Idaho, and accompanied by his
wife and daughter, Mrs. Lee Cantwell,
went over to attend the funeral.
Ma y men of Morrow county are
jiiHiitied in patting themselves on the
back and feeling that they have done
good in the world, for they have made
6 mutton-chops grow where 1 grew b4.
On his recent trip to Pendleton T. W.
Ayers says he found it a good, live
town, and had the pleasure of listening
to some elocution bv Miss Bertha Mat
lock He pronounces her rendering the
finest be ever heard.
The most perfect picture of patience
is the pioneer Heppner Chinaman Sul
livan running his buck-saw away into
the night. He is an old man now, but
nverv alternate ten minutes strikes a
surprising gait.
It was quite a joke on Julius Keithley
when he had his first, pair of Belgian
bares shipped in and waited for the ex-
nected increase. Ihe reason it amn 1
come was that they were both gentle'
man bunnies.
The most thrilling reading which the
onvnrnment is now sending to the da1
znt.tA ahnn is the stirring story of the
census, which is truly hair-raising, and
ira hRiiiitifiil acreaae of figures often
prevaricates on the population.
Frank Roberts' setter dog Bill is the
most energetic hunter in the Heppner
Hills, but will sometimes bark through
hia hr. His 9 offsDrines are coming on
nipplv hnt be bothers about none of
their care-taking.
n S. Rnhnrtson and wife, Oscar
Minnr and W. R. Irwin started Tues
day for Spray, where Mr. Robertson
will take charge of the big Minor &
Gilliam Co. store. Jas. Mitchell drove
them over.
John Busick was in Tuesday. He
has been doing his own herding for
nast 6 weeks, and his sheep have al
ready dropped 50 lambs, the first of the
season. ' They are sooners, but are
thiiving.
To people at a distance who might
wanttoknow.it might be said: yes
Morrow county has a poor-house, but
it is not well patronized, and there is
no suffering from abject poverty here
as in some ep'ts of the crowded east.
The waters of Willow creek were sing
ing a song of spring last Sunday, but
since then a dab of snow fell, and the
singing was postponed. But spring often
comes early in the Heppner Hills, and
the little lambs skip about and the wild
flowers bloom, and the trees and fence
posts bud out in a single dav.
Chas. Cussnot writes from Haystack
and savs he is thinking of enlisting in
the army, and wants advice on the
subject. ' Well, Charles, if you do, be
nm to enliat a" a commissioned officer
-never as a private. For reasons why,
Ik with some man who has been there.
1 a private you might belie your name
k ten yon saw some things.
1 lese two lines, which look so solemn,
e slung in here to fill the column,
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C A Rhea
Henry Heppner
Abe Wells
J J Adkios
Felix Johnson
M Quaid
Tom "
Pat
Wm Penland
J P Rhea
J L Morrow
Jas Stewart
A W Herren
DA "
W H "
Jim Straight
Geo Stansbeny
Sperry Bros
Marlatt Bros
Wm Wigle
Ed K. Bishop
Walkeen Mil'er
Harvev Smith
Crockett Kirk
Jas Neville
Jas Fergnon
Wm Gi liain
Frank Gilliam
C Tupper
Chsse Broi
M D Hayman
G W Harrington
J Pettvj 'ln
T J Mat lock
Ed Matlock
John Jordan
P C Looney
J A Adkins
A J Breeding
Dr. A J Shone
John Hinton
Chas '
San ford Bros
Win Ru h
T A Rhea
E Minor
Wm Cecil
Chas Cochran
T W Ayers
Geo Ilerien
Nele Jones
A Mai lory & Sons
Ben iM linkers
J L Cason
Markis Bros
Jasper Puidy
Frank Maddock
Chas Wallace
Win Walbtidge
O H Hallouk
E G Sloan
Oscar Clarke
Matt son Bros
K Goble
D Lealh rmun
J Car n
Grnv B os
O Welch
John Brown
Jas Ferguson
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1! .Jft
Harry Murphy, the new Oe-
gonian cartoonist, who is convuls
ing the Northwest.
N. J. Levinson. who boils down
the local uewn of The Oregonian.
and gets 20 columns of it into 7.
tie also licked into shape that
beautiful little story, When Nite
liood was in Fiour.
taken down.
A tall young man in
a sad state of dilapi
dation struck Hepp
ner yesterday and
was fixed up at a
drug store. He was
badly bruised up and
looked like 30 cents
worth of dog-meat
that had been mistak
en -for saddle-strings
and chewed up by the
calves.
He was not xplain-
ing anything, but merely said it served
him right, and he had sentenced him
self to 10 days at Yewmatilla, and was
going there. He went.
He struck a gait like that of a wheel
barrow that had lost one of its wheels.
News has since b'own in from Wind
Canvon that the young man was
whipped out there by Bud Barry, who
hi. ed him to work two weeks ago, on
his arrival from th valley. He was
altogether too fresh, and undertook
to run the ranch, bullyraguin every
body. He got up before daylight,
shooed the chickens off the roost, and
made all the noise he cnu'd to wake
others and show he was an early rustler.
His employer stood a whole lot ftom
him, hoping his swelled head would
shrink, but when he kicked a faithful
old dog who bad stuck to the ranch
through thick and thin, then something
popped.
BLOOMING BULBS.
Heppner's small Chinese colony con
sists of only two wash-houses and a
bucksaw, but it is all agog over the
rapid approach of the Chinese New
Year that seems to come every year.
The colony bosses, Ah Fat and Old
Sullivan, say that things are now peace
ful, and that their ion t note, payable
00 days after death, has been signed,
and looks like this :
WW
Uevry E. Rend, who collects all
the complicated statistical slush
in the Annual Oregonian and puts
it n to such readable shape.
Scene in the 2Gth Ward -Sind-bank
above town with a romantic
rivu'et running liyht through V
(dry).
LOCAL NOTES.
No. 1 Smith, editor of the sawmill on
upper Kutabaea, returned last night
from a month's tour of So. California,
where ho says he found many men
waiting on the corners to xtract 4 bits
from him on all sorts of pretences.
Geo. French re-visited Heppner this
week, and enioved it. His store in
Olympia does a good business, and that
is a nice city, hut there is too much
rain there, and Mr. trench thinks that
the Heppner climate is much the best.
There is one bad feature about the
big Rtax of census bulletins that come
to the Gazet Rhop, and t hat is that they
are printed on such heavy book paper
that thev do not burn fieely in starting
the morning fire. Future directors
will please remedy this evil.
If vou are a worker and a home
builder and want to come to Morrow
county, tell your nearest 'icket, agent
and he will do the rest. But don't let
him ticket you clear through to Port
land or Seattle, for then you will have
to come back 200 miles or more.
Heppner people are going to stop
their subscriptions to the Congressional
Record because it contains no adver
tisements. They think that if its fore
man was compelled to rustle some ads.
it would prevent his stringing tbe other
stuff out so everlastingly long, and
would lend diversity to the landscape.
The Third House is having a high old
time at Salem, and has instructed its
sergeant at-armi to furnish each mem
ber with 5000 cigars. Mart Chamberlin
was appointed a committee on e ections
and electric lights; legislation was
rushed, and the table was cleared of all
bills xcept Speaker Jvldy's wash-bi'l,
which was laid over under the table.
At the Lard Vallev Ranch people are
now living on the fat of the land, with
hot cakes every morning for breakfast.
The svrup is raised right at home in
box elder trees, which are cousins to
the maples. The reason why they
hadn't been having hot cakes a'l the
time was that the hired girl had hidden
away the soapstone griddle and was
using it as a loot-warmer in her little
bed. When this was discovered, also
that she had been dropping moth balls
into the soup, she had to go.
Yes, this is the picture edition.
Heppner school district has lavied a 10-mlll
tax for this year.
Heppner's wide, gently-sloping main street
is one of the finest in the State.
That all eggs are not fruitful is shown by the
fact that a big dish of tbem sitting on a Hepp
ner store counter the past six weeks show no
symptoms of hatching out. They look like
porcelain.
People who come here need not brine their
farming implements with them, for Gilliam &
Bisbee keep everything in that line. It is a
pleasure to print a good word for such an en
terprising Arm, for in its magnificent stock is
everything, from a spade to a steam thresher.)
Country printshops should better appreciate
the big black buckram-bound books of mes
sages and documents sent out by the govern
ment. The buckram, torn off, Is No 1 stuff for
binding receipt books, and is not to be sneezed
at when binders' cloth costs 2 bits a yard laid
down.
Bishop's store always has oranges,
bananas and lemons.
AH kinds of building material prompt
ly delivered by Heppner Lumber Co.
Queen olives in bulk at Matlock &
Hart's.
Mrs. L J. Estes has greatly reduced
her Japanese goods in order to dispose
of them in the next two weeks. They
consist of cups and saucers, Hiigar howl
and creamer, teapots, vases, lose jars,
shells, tra)8. paper knives, etc., etc.
Dr. Johnson, specialist for diseases
of the rectum, will be at the 1'alace
Hotel for a short time only. Dr. John
son cure9 piles without knife, ligature
or caustic and guarantees a cure in
everv case. Call and talk with him if
you are troubled.
Hon. Phil Metschan, in connection
with Mr. C. W. Knowles, has taken
charge of the Imperial Hotel, of l'oit
land. The reputation of these gentle
men insures the success of the enter
prise. The diningroom is excellently
managed and is unsurpassed.
Morrow county has a dozen
townships of mountain timber
lands that will some day yield im
mense iLComes to lumbermen snd
fuel dealers.
Matlock & Hart's store is being fi'led
to its utmost capacity. Drop in and ask
for what you want. They have it.
It means that Gen. Chaffee has made
missionaries and others return the loot
they swiped in Peek-in, and Viceroy
1 1 bling Slang has signified his approval.
the Heppner houses occupied by
Chinese will decorate for the feast only
with blooming bulbs that stand around
in oyster cans and look as though
onions were being allowed to waste
where they are worth 3 cents a pound.
When these bulbs bloom it is hoped
they will improve the ouor, which, it
must be fairly said, stays in its own
houses unless brought around town on
the clothing of some men who have al
lowed themselves to get so low down
as to hit opium pipes in Chinese ear
dine boxes.
Joe Carle, an Oregon boy, now
artist on the Chicago JNews.
Col. Bob Mitchell, editor of the
Caecade Mountain Wagon Road.
At the special meeting of the county
court the county tax, ircluding scalp
and special school, was hxed at 23 mills
TREE PLANTERS.
The man who takes the trouble to
plant trees and make them grow in a
naturally bald headed region is gener
ally a good man who is making better
the world. Am ng the men who have
done this in the Heppner bills are E.
Nordke, T. W. Ayers, C. E. Fell, J.
j. Morrow, Abe Wells. T. J. and Ed
Matlock, J. B. Nat er, W. J. Leezer,
Sam Dona'dson, Martin Anderson.
Frank Maddock, Hanv Jones, E. Minor,
Albert Wright, T. II. Bisbee, Wm.
Hughes.
DO YOU TAKE IT?
This is the all-firedest world to march
on and have things to happen in it of
any you ever got into. Are you keep
ing posted on men and things by read
ing the Oregonian? If not, order the
daily at Patterson & Sou's Up-to-Snufl
drug store, and it will be delivered al
your home every evening. If you want
the Weekly, call the Gazette office.
Mr. Scherzinger'g record show that
there are at present owned and located
in Morrow county 203,535 head of sheep,
classified s follows :
Breeding ewes 132,675
Mixed lambs 118,000
Yearling wethers 11,900
Ed Wright, who composes the
commercial page of The Oregon
ian, and keeps producers posted
on the price of staples.
TYPEWRITER.
A new typewriter will cost yon $100.
The Gazette ollii-e has one to se'l at $30
that will do just as good work as a $100
machine.
Working Night and Day.
Tbe busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is Dr. KiLg's New
Life Pills. Everv pill is a sugar coated
globule of health that obft'ces wenk
oess into strength, listlessness into oner
gj brain-fug into rreutal powtr. Thej'n
wonderful in building up the health
Only 25o per box. Soli b Oonser &
Warren Drng Co.
E,
Pot-usual
Col. Pat Donan,
word-painter.
the woiderful
THE FAIR THE FAIR
The Way to Make a
Reduction is to Reduce
Which all who have investigated have found
we are doing there has been many pleasant
surprises in our store the past week when
those who came to get
Ladies' flannelette Wrappers, regular price $1.38 at reduction price 93c
A pair of those men's heavy shoes " " 1.00 " " $1.27
" " " " ladies' " " " " 1.15 " " .91
One of those ladies' mackintoshes " " 3.44 " " 2.69
Ladies' knit hood " " .55 " " .39
Boys' cotton worsted knee pants " " .24 " " .16
Children's outing flannel night
gowns, ages 4 to 14 years " " .45 " " .32
and so on through the list.
If the roads are bad and you cannot come to town,
Send us your Mail Orders
and they will be filled as carefully as though you were here.
REMEMBER
Tliis Sale Lasts Only mat 11 Uet. 1 st.
The Place to
Save Money.
The Fair
The Fair
WONDRRFUL WIND.
In most other regions people have to
depend on the sun to melt their big
snowfalls.
Not so in Eastern Oregon. Vtry
shortly af er a snowfall here a warm
wind called the Chinook springs up and
blows and melts the snow very rapidly.
It beats the sun all hollow, and spurns
its assistance. It will eat up a foot of
snow in a few days. Although gener
ally pretty reliable, it sometimes post
pones its coming for a week or two. At
those times a factory on some high
butte to manufacture warm wind and
blow it over the surrounding region
would do a good business. But it would
be liab'e at any moment to find its
occupation gone.
Stockmen used to rely on Chinook
winds to uncover the grass, but they
don't do so any more. They now put
up plenty of hay to carry their stock
hrough any kind of winter.
Io the Convalescent Ward,
mian Club, 8. F.
Bohe-
Flrst to arrive witn the telegraphic
news The Weekly Oregonian.
Hfcl'PNr-K CHURCH ICS.
Episcopal church Lev. W.
wine.
Services on Sunday, Dec 30, al
hours.
M. E. church C. D. Nickehen, pas
tor. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:.J0 p. m.
M. E. church, South. Services at 11
a. m. and 7 :(! p. rn. uev. v. M. uan-
field, pastor.
Christian church Sunday School at
10 a. in.
RaDtist church Sunday School at
10 a. rn. Regular services at 11 a. rn.
and 7 :80 p. m. J. W. Stockton, pastor.
The ' Junior" meets halurday alter
noon at ho'ciock. numiay bciiooi ai
10 a m. Preaching at 11 a. m. Bnd 7:15
p. m. Young reopie s union ait:io.
Catholic unnrch ifev. ratney rveuy.
Sei vices 3d Sunday in each month at
10 :30 a. m. Heginning Nov. 18.
Red Hot From Tha Gun
Was the ball that hit O. B. Rteadman
of NewHrk, Mien . in the Civil War. It
caused horrible Ulcers that no treat
merit helped for '20 years. Then Bnck
leu's Arnica Salve cured bim. Cores
Cuts. Bruises. Burns, Bnils, Felons,
Corns. Skin Eruptioos. Beat Pile oore
on earth. 25 ot. box. Cnra guaran
teed. Sold by Corjser a Warren Drng
Co.
CLEARANCE SALE.
tfrs. L. .T. Estes has reduced the
prices on all winter uoous inoruerio
make room for her spring stock. A few
choice jack'ts at ost ; also fur capes
and boas. She has a full line of woolen
hose, corsets, skiits, etc.
CHANGED CONDITIONS.
Some years ago stockmen here de
pended almost entirely on the native
bunchgrass to carry their stock through
the winter. Then it sometimes hap
pened that much stock perished. Now
conditions have changed so that every
stockman has plenty of hay, and feeds
hi" stock just as soou as a snowfall
covers the grass.
TOST OEFICES.
There are at present in Morrow
county the followirg post ollics:
Douglas, Hardman,
Eightmile, Heppner,
hlla, lone,
ialloway, l'ettys,
Gooseberry, Lexington.
IS GOING WEST.
As it is nearly time lor my annual
attack of spring fever, and therefore
being about to fo'low Horace's advice
and go west, 1 offer for sale a good
ranch of 324 acres o miles from Hepp
ner; another same distance of 1000
acres ; another 3 miles out, of 1200 acres ;
either or all at $r an acre, and all have
running water, and no fleas, flies or
bags or wells to fall into, Address J.
W. Redington, Heppner.
A HOME ON TIME.
A good ranch ot KS0 acres, 140 of it
good plow land, located on county road,
5 miles southwest of Heppner, is now
ollereu at 4 an acre. Any man who
will work it may have it on 3 years'
time, pay in easy installments. Apply
at Iieppner Gazette office.
WOODEN RAILROAD.
If any capitalist ibould itray within the
sound ol this paragraph's voice, let he or the
aa the caie may be, look Into this buaineaa
proposition, putting all aentiment aside: 4-foot
pine wood now retails in Heppner at 16 a cord,
and the summer rate is $.; It has to be hauled
by wagon from tbe mountains, 18 miles; wood
for the light plant here la brought by rail 150
miles; a little wooden railroad to bring down
wood 18 miles to Heppner would be a paying
proposition; lots of fuel timber up there, and
it can be bought cut at1.50 a cord; all gentle
grade, along the creek.
SENATORIAL.
There has been no change. Corhett29; Mc
Bride 19; Hmlth 20.
Fred Wllmarth, one of the former editors of
the Gaset, is now editor of the Harney County
Newa.
WHEAT, WOOL AND STOCK.
There have been no recent sales In Heppner
wool market, and growers continue firm hold
ers for higher prices. H. U. Koot and K, H.
Clarke, representing lajge houses, are bere.
In Boston the Am. W. v C. Reporter says
there Is a more waive market and better feeling
In Portland K, O. wheat sold yesterday at
.V. cents.
Kastern livestock inarketa stand steady at
aamu ngures.
KKCKNT AKKIVAL8 AT PALACE HOTEL
K C Ashbaugh. Smile Jos Beck, Hamilton
J Modden, Lone Kk A J Cook, Lena
I N Hughes, Milton Oscar Hurt, Monument
W C Hperry, lone J M Htuhblefleld "
IUJW Taab, Hardman
COME AND SEE.
The great railroads realize that the great ;
went needs more people, and so they have
made a special spring rate of $25 from Missouri '
river points to the Pacific for people who are '
hunting homos. ,
People are ooming by thousands, and they
will have money to buy farms and stock and,
Improve rnnchos, and Morrow county ought
to get Its fair share of them.
Home-builders should come to Morrow coun
ty and see for themselves. But they must not
judge Eastern Oregon by what they see along
tho railroads, for those follow the easiest grados
and for many miles pasB over ground that is ,
too poor to raise a disturbance on. The way,
for a hoine-hunter to see the country and judge
of Us resources is to leave the railroad and
stri ke out by wagon or horseback.
The Glen Ellen Wine Vaults.
We supply families and the trade with the Choicest
California Wines, Brandies,
and Kentucky Whiskies.
v at Reasonable Prices.
No Ordor Is too small for our Caroful and Prompt Attention.
A. KLINE & CO.,
nVholesale and Retail Dealers.
Pendleton, Ore.
Pure Drugs,
Prescriptions,
Toilettte Articles,
Perfumery.
PATTERSON & SON,
Up-to-Date Druggists. Heppner.
-AT
HOLIDAY CHEER.
These are the days of Holiday Cheer,
Which old snd young in common revere.
Whether they herd the sheep or run the steer,
They know the place to get good beer
Is on Main street, at the Belvedere.
Also choice wines and Honors for
medicinal DurposHS, and hoi day hard
ware to he taken internally.
Fhank Robebth, Prop,
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
Notice is hprehy given that a meeting
of the stockholders of the Morrow
County Land and Trust Company will
he held at the ollice ol the Company in
Heppner n Mondav, March 11,'J01,
at 7 o clock p. m., lor the purpose ol
electing directors for the ensuing year.
K r. IIynii, Necretary.
Heppner, Or. Jan. 11, l'JOl.
MNHKKINH LKTTEK8.
Postmaster Vaughn wants owners
letters addre.sed as follows:
Brnwn, Kmma McEntyre, John
Brown, Bert McKntyra, Jus
Campbell, Ham Mellalier, Fat
Davis, tieo winlth Irene
Devoir, Sylvia Thornton, Chas
Jones, K K
Ask for "advertised."
for
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
g'gn&vWra Of
T. 11.
HOWARD'S STORE,
Main street, you can find
Groceries, Provisions, Glassware.
Tinware and Furnishing Goods,
All well adapted to either City or Country Trade.
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Fine Teas and Coffees. - im
Good Goods....
Fair Prices.-: :
T. R. HOWARD, Iieppner.
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