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Beppner Raises Wool to Warm the. World.
Last year It shipped away 3,245,750 pounds, and
Morrow County rafced 950,000 bushels ofwaea
In 1900. ........
Morrow Connty'i climate la most exoel
lent, and you can buy larma and ranches
bere cheaper than any w here else on earth or in
all Oregon. Population 5000.
There are vacant government lands, timber,
foothill and prairie, and land may be bouabfe
at 1 26 to 110 an acre.
Morrow County has 263,535 sheep, and the
Beppner Warehouse! now . Contain 2,500,000
pound! of 1900 wool.
Dads in westtoe....
Dads In Circulation.
Dads in News
Is til Official and Recognized Represent
j . ative Journal of the County. .
IjTGHTEENTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1901,
NO. 821
TAe Heppnen Gazette
Is published every Thursday by
W. RE DING-TON.
Sntered at the only TJ. 8. Poitofflce fn Heppner
as second-XV matter . .
C ETRedfleld
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office la Fint National Bank building.
Beppner, Oregon.
G. W. Phelps
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on May itreet, Heppner, Oregon.
J. W. Morrow
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and
, U.S. COMMISSIONER.
Office in Palace hotel building, Heppner, Or.
A. Alallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
la authorized to take all kind! of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINUS.
Collections made on reasonable terms,
Orttoe at residence on Chase itreet. .
Government land script lot sale.
- D E Gilman
- GENERAL COLLECTOR.
Put your old book endnotes In his
hands and get your money out of them
Make! a specialty of hard collection!.
Offlee in J. N. Brown'i building, Beppner, Or
Dr. At. B. Metzler
. -DENTIST-
teeth Extracted and Filled.
1 la
bridging a specially.
Pninlosa "EYtrafltinn. 1
Heppner
Oregon.
Gentry & Sharp -
Tonsorial Artists
, Your patronage solicited.
Satisfaction guaranteed..
Hot and Cold Baths.
Main Street, near Palace Hotel,
Heppner.
Nothing so
Good
ai a pure malt beverage to refresh one
after a hard day'a work has ever been
discovered. And there Is one malt
beverage that is better than others
that is
J. B. Natter's beer
It goes right to the spot, and is served n at
Setter'! Brewery, on upper Main St., Heppner.
wnere an ice-cold cellar in the solid rock keeps
talwari cooi.
BARGAIN.
For sale at $1100, 100 scree n the
edge of Heppner. Town lote may be
eold from it at once. Owner will give
1100 for the hay now growing on it.
Apply Gaiet office.
I, ... ' , ' 1
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ell"
(liiiiiiiiiMiMifmWliiiiiiiuiim'iM'iiuiii'ntii niiimmnit ni,imim
Afegetable Preparationfor As
similating Hie Food andKegula
ting the Stomachs andBowels of
Promotes DigestionheerPur
ness andBestContains neither
Opium.Morphine norliieraL
not Narcotic.
Aperfecl Remedy forConstipa
tlon. Sour Stotnach,Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
ness and Loss of Sleep."
Facsimile Signature of ,
NEW YORK.
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SXisfboFt or WRAPPER.
Palace '
?ifflSLl.f : Hotel.
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-Ciass ) Samil3 Rooms.
For Business Heppner is one of the Leading
Towns of the West.- evw-t
For Fall and Winter Wear
Al. LICHTENTHAL,
. - M
1 ; 1 ! t
The
The Latest Styles of Footwear for .
' Men,8-Women and Children.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Old Stand, Main Street., " Repairing a Specialty.
HOME INDUSTRY.
FLOUR
Heppner Flouring Mill Co.
J Has secured the services of a Brut class miller,
' ; and keep on hand a full supply of
FLOUR, PGRAHAM, : GERM : MEAL,
VVHOLE WHEAT, BRAN and SHORTS
' Of the very best quality aud guarauteed to give satisfaction.
, ,Tbe mill exchabges with the farmers, and Bolicits
their patronage.; , :
r W L. HOUSTON, Manager.
Come to Morrow County for low-priced
lands. Values are sure to double up. Nev
er again will land sell so low as it does now.
For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
.Bears
Signatura:
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
in
THC CINTAUn COMPANY NCW VOHK CITY.
J. W. MORROW. Proprietor.
Strictly First-Class
Pioneer Boot and Shoe Dealer of Heppner, has
FLOUR
cur
THE COW WITH THE CALF.
In the magnificent holiday edi
tion ; of the Breeder's Gazette:
Erroesth Seton-Thompson, the fa
mous student of wild animals, tells
thestory of the range cow in a
most interesting way, and among
other things says:
One day as my wife and I were
riding by a small bunch of stock
on a western cattle range I said:
"Now see how ' these animals will
obey me." Then I addressed the
cowb: "All you cows whose calves
are hidden away m the grass- please1
come forward when I give thB
signal," and I begaa a long, high
pitched bleating, the note of a calf
in dire distress , -.
"Baa-a-Baa Baa-a-'V.
and as I bawled', there' was a great
oommotiou. Some of ths cows
whose calves were with them
snorted and looked about. Each
calf ran to its mother, whereupon
she became quiet; the steers tossed,
their heads, looked about sus
piciously and snorted, but settled
back to feeding. Four cows, how
ever, sniffed and looked quickly
this way and that, then with heads
and tails up and a great deal of
angry action came trotting toward
us. "There, said I, "these four
have had calves bora - within the
last few , days. The calves are
not yet able to follow their moth
ers so remain 'cached' in some
sheltered hollow."
As the angry cows came nearer,
we turned and rode off, but I kept
on bleating, and the oows contin
ued to follow. We urged our
horses to gallop. Three of the
cows gave op the pursuit but the
fourth followed for nearly half a
mile,., part of the , time at a inn..
Then I ceased bleating the dis
tress note, agd thir last cow, the
youngest of the four, hesitated,
snorted, looked back then to the
right hand, and leaving us she set
off at a trot for a distant line of
willows, where undoubtedly her
new-born, probably first-born, calf
was concealed, or as the herdsmen
say, "cached." '
The habits of the range cattle
now are do doubt much like those
of their wild ancestors. They
wander about in small herds com
posed of cows, calves, steers and a
bull which is their master, though
not necessarily their leader. When
a strange herd approaches there is
a good deal of bellowing and sniff
ing; they all line up, the bull ad
vances and very often a fight en-
Rheumatism.
Nobody knows all about it;
and nothing, now known, will
always cure it. '
Doctors try Scott's Emul
sion of Cod Liver Oil, when
they think it is caused by' im
perfect digestion of food.
You can do the same.
It may or may not be caused
by the failure of stomach and
bowels to do their work. If
it is, you will cure it; if not,
you will do no harm.
The way, to cure a disease
is to stop its cause, and help
the body get back to its habit
of health.
When Scott's Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil does that, it
cures; when it don't, it don't
cure. It never does harm.
The genuine has
this picture on it, take
no other.
If you have not
. tried it, send for free
sample, its agreeable
taste will surprise
you.
SCOTT &BOWNE,
Chemists, t
400 Pearl St., N. Y.
50c, and $i.oo ; all druggists.
sues between himself and the
leader of the other band. These
fights are seldom very serious.
Once or twice I have seen the
strange band led by a steer which
came uf with a good deal of dem
onstration toward the leader of the
first band, but when he got near
enough to see that his foe was
a bull his courage forsook him.
He ran away and his friends fol
lowed him. Sometimes the bulls
do not care to go with the other
cattle. ,They are then peacably
disposed, towards each other. In.
deed it is quite a common thing to
see-two bulls keep together like
brothers. Whenever two large
animals are seen together in. the
distanoe with, none others near, it
is taken for granted tbey are bulls.
The old males whose, season of
usefulness, is over are commonly
solitary.
The matins, season is rather ex
tended,, doubtless much, more so
than among their wild ancestors,
fot domestication baa a singularly
deranging effect on the reproduc
tive functions. But late summer
oouplings are apparently most
usual, as well as most desirable,
for the period of gestation, in the
words of an old Yorkshire man,
"three months back and three
weeks forrard,' i. e., reckoning one
year after the date of the union,
and that brings the - calf in the
middle or late springtime when
food is abundant and the weather
fine.
When the cow feels that her
time has come, she leaves the herd
and hides in some sheltered place'l
till the calf is born.' He arrives in1
the world nose first and looks much
like a tightly bound little bundle,
impossibly small one might think
ever to grow into a huge bull, but
bis mother gets up presently and
proceeds to lick him all over, gen
erally uttering a sort of hankering
grunt, an expression of motherly
love. Under the gentle message
of her tongue, the little calf
visibly expands. His hair fluffs
out, hiB blood circulates more satis
factorily. After he has been mas
saged thoroughly from head to
foot and this may take an hour
or two he tries to get on his feet,
hind legs "first, but his mother's
massage becomes so vigorous just
then, that be is commonly licked
off his feet more than once. But
he gets stronger and visibly bigger
every hour and Boon succeeds in
standing up, with his legs very
widely spread.
After the calf has been ut a few
minutes, he seems possessed of his
first idea, his miserable little tail
is jerked and at the same time up
goes his head under his mother's
ohin, for she is still brushing him
down. The calf feels that he has
not got what he wanted and he
does not even know what it was.
He makes another butt upwards
with his nose, again duplicating
the action with bis tail , But again
he aohioves nothing. A little later
he tries further along and perhaps
gets his head under his mother's
shoulder where be takes sv mouth
f ul of hair,, but lets it go., Instinct
ively be works back till be gets to
her udder and after a few utterly
unreasoning jabs with his nose be
mouths a teat, begins sucking and
so enters on the second stage of life.
' At first of course the calf is un
able to follow his mother. He is
left in the hidiDg place where he
lies still and , fiat, while she goes
off to graze, rarely very far away,
and always ready to return at the
slightest appearance of danger.
Usually her choice of the hiding
place is so good that the calf es
capes all enemies and gains
strength enough to follow his
mother about. But sometimes it
happens that a watchful coyote
marked the cow down in the thick
et and knew by his Dose or by
former experience that a little one
was to be there brought into the
world. He dare not go near the
cow, but he does not go away for
be is in the chronic hungry state
of the coyote and bere is a delicious
feast in sight, and in easy reach,
too, if only the mother makes the
mistake of giving bim a chance.
He has a wholesome dread of her.
He can only hang about, lick his
chops and hope. Hours pass by
and the coyote iagettiDg dreadfully
hungry. - But be hangs around,
keeping out of sight, believing his
time will come. It was mere ac
cident that first betrayed to him
the calf a hiding place and there is
one other cuanoe Deeded to bnog
the calf within his power, that is
the absence of the mother. There
is only one thing that can bring
this about, and that is the remote
ness of the water supply. Kre
many hours pass the mother most
go to seek ber daily drink. Usually
the water is near, but this time it
happens to be over a mile away,
After glancing about keenly for
foes, a glance which the coyote es
capes by crouching, the mother,
not without some misgivings, sets
out across the plain to the water.
ing place, ine seen' yellow eyes
of the coyote kindle as he sees this
Wild Reports De-
ned
The Health Committee of the Heppner
City Council hereby emphatically denies the
report printed in the Pendleton East Orego
nian to the effect that smallpox is epidemic
here. Like . many other places all over the
country, Heppner has been having its share of
the so-called Filipino itch, and has had about
a dozen cases, and has some now; but all are
very light cases and are being strictly quar
antined. There have been no deaths and no
serious sickness, and most of the patients have
been able to cook for themselves.
We respectfully ask the outside world not to
believe the wild reports about, smallpox being
epidemic in Heppner.
FRANK GILLIAM, Mayor.
S. P. GARRIGUES, ;
J. J. ROBERTS,
J. R. SIMONS, :
H ealth. Committee. !
SCHOOL MONEY.
I give below a statement of the County and State school funds paid to the
several districts of "Morrow county.
funds apportioned Jan. 7, 1901. Columns No. 2 and No. 3 are statement of the
entire amounts of state and county funds paid to the several districts for school
year 1900-1901, column No. 2 including
totals of state and county funds. .
,. . County
Diet. No. Fund
1 923 44
2 f..., ....ioi.,.,.... 128 44
3 107 24
4 94 52
5 92 40
0 00 (14
11 . ......... 109 30
12 , i 340 80
14 00 60
15 73 32
10 83 02
17 115 72
19 119 80
21 83 92
22 71 20
24 92 40
25 58 48
26 119 90
27 60 00
? 73 32
29 Ill 48
30 83 92
31 109 30
32 06 00
33..... 9 93
35 346 80
36 149 64
37 122 08
38.
40.
41 .
96 64
181 44
79 08
92 40
86 04
68 46
77 56
189 92
47 20
81 80
98 76
90 28
122 08
lOt) 36
42.
46.
49.
50.
51 .
62 .
5.
54.
65.
50.
59.
60 100 88
Total for school year 1900-1901... $10,102 13 $236U 12 112,469 25
Bespsctfully submitted,
J. W. Shipley, County Supt. .
for he knows that at last his' She is terribly distressed ; for a time
chance, his only chapce, has comeJ!Hhe run8 Bbout' bawling In a peculiar,
When she i. far in the UJ-.
quits his lurking place, keeping
well out of sight, trotting quickly
along the hollow, straight for the
hiding place of the calf.
The little fellow sees or hears
this approach of what is instinct,
ively known for an enemy. It
crouches closely, laying its head
flat on the ground, and lies like a
stone, showing how well the
aoeient lesson has been learned.
Bui concealment is hopeless, the
savage enemy knows the very spot
in the thicket where his unpro
tected victim lies, and in a moment
be bounds up from the grass and
springs on it The calf realizes
that hiding is no longer possible,
it leaps to its shaky legs and bleats
its loudest for its mother;
"Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa," it cries as
it vainly struggles to escape. In a
moment the coyote has pulled it
down. Other coyotes are likely to
be near and in a few minutes tbey
are tearing the warm bloody meat
from the tender bones. The cow
can hear a long way off the dis
tressed cry of her calf and would
at once come tearing to save it.
Indeed, a strange cow or steer would
also come at the cry and drive the
coyote away. But the foe is a cunning
one, he knows bow to bide his time and
now there was none to interfere ; the
cow comes back only to find a few
bloody bones where the left her little
pink-nosed baby,
Column No. 1 is a statement of thecauntv
column No. 1. Column No. 4 shows
County
Fund
State
Fund
$613 88
? 65 13
40 23
31 29
29 80
32 78
41 72
208 00
7 45
10 39
23 84
40 19
49 17
23 84
14 90
29 80
5 90
49 17
7 45
10 39
43 21
23 84
41 72
11 92
4 47
208 00
70 03
50 00
32 78
02 38
20 80
29 80
25 33
22 35
19 37
08 34
13 41
22 35
34 27
28 31
50 00
41 72
35 70
Total for
1900-1901
$2748 60
202 35'
226 85
187 55
181 00
104 10
233 40
067 00
82 75
122 05
154 80
253 05
260 15
154 80
115 60
181 00
76 20
260 15
82 75
122 05
239 05
154 80
233 40
102 40
23 22
067 00
817 85
272 70
194 10
456 10
141 70
180 50
161 35
134 91
135 15
482 30
86 07
148 25
200 65
174 45
272 70
233 40
207 20
$2134 72
237
186 62
150 26
, 151 20
161 32
191 68
758 40
75 30
105 60
130 90
206 80
210 98
130 00
100 60
151 20
70 24
210 08
75 30
105 60
190 74
130 96
191 (18
00 48
18 75
758 40
287 82
222 04
1H1 32
363 72
120 84
150 70
136 02
112 56
115 78
, 383 96
72 60
125 90
160 38
146 14
222 04
191 68
171 44
left undevoured, and this she stares at
and licks repeatedly, Just as she used
to do when it was alive. Then she will
turn and walk away, looking back to
see if it is not following her, and utter
ing a low moaning bellaw at intervals.
Any coyote she chances to see, she
pursues with murderous intent, but
they can laugh at her attempts to catch
them.
For some days she is in a very bad
physical state; milk fever sets ia in
some form tne mother craving far
her little one is aggravated by ber con
dition. She goes to every sasali calf
she sees until near enough to smell it.
Home cows at this time go away when
they find the calf is not their own.
Some will even give the unwefcema
stranger a thrust with the horns, but
some cows are disKsed to squander the
unclaimed love on any little one, aad
suckle it and thus find both mental and
physical comfort in mothering.
During the next few days she goes
back many times to look at and hunger
orer the remains, hut time does ita
work tiiickly with her. The first day
she was there continually, the next the
mother was at the tragic spot every
hour or so, by the end of a week the
head and bones have loet all original
semblance; then direct appeal is goae,
and their memory fading. Nature has
sent physical easo, the little one is for
gotten ; but from that time on the heart
of the mother Ih ever liable to he stirred
to fury by tlmt high-pitched HhriH"liaa,"
the bleat of a ralf in terror of its life,
and that was the bleat that I nsed that
day to soparate the mother cows from
the rest of the herd.