TWENTIETH YEAR
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEP. 18, 1902.
NO. 904
Doited States Officials.
President Theodore Roosevelt
deorstafyof State Johu Hay
. Seoretarjrof Treasury .Leslie M.Shaw
Secretary of Interior E. A. Hitchcock
Heoretary of War ....E. fl. Root
Secretary of Navy William Honry Moody
Poutinaster-General Henry C. Payne
! Attorney-General . C. Knox
Seoretaryof Agriculture James Wilson
Com. General Land Office Binger Hermann
State Federal Officials
t John H. Mitchell
Senators Joseph Simon
Thos. H. Tongue
Congressmen M At Uoody
United States Land Officers.
TBB DALLK8, OB.
Jay P. Luoas Register
Otis Patterson Receiver
LA GBANDI. OB.
E. W. Bartlett Register
J. O. Hwaokhamer Receiver
Oregon State Officials.
Oovernor ..T.T.Geer
Secretary of State F. 1. Dunbar
Treasurer C H. Moore
s-iapt. Public Instruction J. H. Aokerman
Attorney General D. R. N. Blackburn
'Printer ....W. H. Leeds
R. S. Bean,
F. A. Moore,
C. E. Wolverton
Sixth Judicial District.
Circuit Judge W. R. Ellis
Prosecuting Attorney T. G. Hailey
Morrow County Officials.
Joint Senator J, W. Morrow
Representative A. B. Thomson
County Judge A. G. Bartholomew
" Commissioners J . L. Howard
Ed. C. Ashbaugh.
" Clerk 'Vawter Crawford
" Sheriff J. W. Matlock
" Treasurer M. Liohteuthal
" Assessor W. L. Haling
" Surveyor J. J. McGee
" School Sup't Jay W. Shipley
" Coroner Dr. Kistner
Stock Inspector Henry ScherzitiRer
Deputies J. P. Rhea, Ine
Ike Vinson, Galloway
HBPPNEB TOWN OFFICKR8.
May oi Frank Gilliam
Oounoilmen E Ftirnsworth
J. J. Roberts, E. W Rhea, Phil Conn, Thos
Quaid.
Recorder J- P. Williams
Treasurer L. W. Brings
Marshal George Thornton
HBBPNBR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Directors Frank Gillirm, E. M. Shutt, J. M.
Hager; Clerk J. J. Roberts.
Precinct Officer.
Jastioeof the Peace J. P. Williams
Constable G. B. Hatt
6. W. Phelps
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
'Office In Odd Fellows Bldg Heppner, Oregon
C E. Redfield
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office on west end of May Street.
Heppner, Oregon.
A. Mallory,
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
Is authorized to take all kinds of LAND
PROOFS and LAND FILINUo.
Collections made on reasonable terms.
Office at residence on Chase street.
Government land script for sale.
GEO. F. WELCH,
ATTORNEY -AT- LA W.
mcs: West side Upper Main Street.
Meppner, - - - Op.euo
A. K. HIGGS,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON.
Office new I. O. O. F. building. Rooms
3 and 4. Residence at J. W. Morrow's
Oregon.
DR. METZLER,
DENTIST
Located in Odd Fellows building.
Rooms 5 and 6.
AtcSwords & Kistner,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
Office hours when not professionally
absent.
Office: Opposite First National Lank.
D. A. Beardsley,
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
EYES TESTED FREE
Am prepared to fit glasses
for all ages and conditions
Office with Dr. A. K. Biggs, M. D., room No. :i
Odd Fellows Building.
The editorial page of the Wnkly Ore
fonlaa gives a broad treuiiaxct to a iJe
rang of subject.
School
BOOKS
School Supplies
of all kinds, in
cluding . , . . .
TABLETS, PEN
CILS, SLATES
and everything
that is needed
to begin school.
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FINEST WINES,
LIQUORS & CIGARS .
One hundred empty barrels for
sale. Five hundred barrels of ex
tra fine cider vinegar on tap. . . .
FRANK ROBERTS. Prop
Red Front Livery &
Feed Stables
Stewart 4V Kirk, Props
FIRST-CLASS-
LIVERY RIGS
Kept constantly on hand
and can be furnishes on
short notice to parties
wishing to drive into the
interior. First class : :
Hacks and Bugyies
CALL AROUND AND
SEE US. WE CATER
TO THE : : : : :
COMMERClAL
TRAVELERS
AND CAN FURNISH
RIGS AND DRIVER ON
SHORT NOTICE : : :
.LIBERTY MARKET.
J. H. BLAKE, PROP.
Beef, Pork, Mutton,Veal
and Sausage
POULTRY and FISH
MAIN STREET,
Heppner,
- Oregon
GREAT FIRES TIBER
Destruction to Life and Property
is Appalling.
IN ORtGON AND WASHINGTON
Great Many Are Dead and Missing
Hundreds Are Destitute
and In Distress.
PORTLAND, Sept. 13. Great forest
fires are raging in Western Oregon and
Washington. Thousands of acres have
been burned over, and hundreds of per
sons have been rendered homeless.
The people have been compelled to
flee for their lives, and many escaped
only by galloping through the fires that
enveloped the roads. No fatalities have
yet been reported in Multnomah or
Clackamas counties, but it is feared
that men working in the canyons of the
foothills will be surrounded by fire be
fore the learn of their danger and will
be burned to death in the fiery trap.
Farmers in the vicinity of Gresham,
Rock wood, Powel'B valley, Pleasant
Hume Damascus, Springwater, Viola,
Highland and Dodge have lost their
houses, barns, fences and much of their
livestock, and must have assistance
from the outside in order to avoid suf
fering. By courageous fire hunting
many dwellings were saved, but barns
full of hay, orchards and crops standing
in the field are a total loss. All build
ings, fields, dead ;res, fences and logs
are so dry that a flying spark asily ig
nites them, and the fire, one started.
soon gets beyond control.
In brief, the situation summed up is
as follows:
Bridges attacked and residences
threatened in South Portland.
Damage in Eastern Multnomah
amountB to $42,500, and every lamily
has been fighting the fire since Monday.
To protect the town of Gresham, men
stand guard night and day. Fully 100
men are at work to save property in the
dangerous heat.
P. II. Iioork has a narrow escape from
death at Pleasant Home, A sawmill
was destroyed and four others were in
danger.
Fire companies were called out to
Irvington. The residents of that part
of Portland were on duty from 2 o'clock
yesterday morning.
Non arrival of grain and coasting
ships due to dense Bmoke at the mouth
of the Columbia-
Damage near Lents amounts to over
$25,000.
Tillamook City has been saved from
impending doom by timely change of
the wind.
Forebts in Douglas and Jackson coun
ties are on fire, but damage yet is
small.
Superintendent Ormsby of Cascade
Forest Reserve, says no fire has yet en
tered the reserve.
Sixty people in the town of Spring
water, Clackamas county, forced to flee
for their hes and rendered homeless,
and a fine timber belt destroyed.
Sawmill of the Bridal Veil Lumber
ing company and the whole town of
Palmer, situated two miles east of
Bridal Veil, in Multnomah county, de
stroyed. Valuable timber destroyed near Co
burg, Wilhoit Springs, Wendling and
other points. Men at Wendling are
swamping the timber in order to save it.
Losses will amount to thousands of!
dollars.
Woman burned to death near Van
couver, Wash, and a woman and her
child are missing.
Mills, lumber and timber to value of
$1,000,000 destroyed in Chehalisoounty,
Wash.
Fir Havoc on Lewli River.
Kalama, Wash., S-pt. 14 Forest fires
on Lewis River have wrought sad havoc
D. L. Wallace, wife and two children
burned to death. They were camping
in the woods when caught by the fire
TLeir wagon was found burned up and
the charred bodies were lying near. A
twelve-year old boy of Mr. Hanley's
is also dead. Mrs. John Polly, and Mr.
Newhouse and Mrs. Graves are dead.
Fifteen others were found withoutcloih
ing except fcunnv-eacks.
Five logging camp are burned put
complete.
The worst of the fire was on Lew in
River, About 12 miles above Woodland.
The country is well settled and there
are doubtless other casualties not yet
reported. The fire has spread from
Lewis river north to the Kalama River,
and 50 sections of the finest timber on
the Coast are destroyed. It is impossi
ble to give any estimate of the amount
of damage to property. Oak Point,
about 20 miles below here, on the Co
lumbia river, is tota.lv destroyed.
There are no reports of lives lost, but
loss of property is estimated at about
$300,000.
A great Are is also raging on the
Coweman, in the northern part of
the county. Everything combustible
is consumed in its path. Noth
ing like it was ever seen here by
white men. In Clark county the fires
have caused great destruction. Many
families are homeless, having lost
everything.
One hundred families are homeless at
Elma, Wash., and quite a number of
peeple are missing.
Collections are being taken op in dif
ferent plaees to aid the sufferers.
.Dead List Grows.
Portland, Sept. 15. Driven from their
ho'i es in the darkness of the night by a
raging forest fire, which swept every
thing before it from Ariel, Cowlits
county, Wash., to the foot of Mount 8t.
Helens, a distance of 25 miles, over 200
people have been left homeless, and
many have not even clothes enough te
cover tbem. A. J. Towner, W. E. New
house, John Polly, his brother and
child, are known to have lest their lives
in the fire. Four men who were work
ing on a claim belonging to James Haw
thorne have not been found, and it is
thought that they are killed. Some W
or 60 people wars camped at the lake at
the foot of Mount St. Helens, and they
have not bsen heard from since the fire.
It is not known whether they escaped
or not.
The suffering is great, and the de
vastation is appalling. For a stretch of
25 miles, there are but two houses
standing. The fine timber from which
the people expected te realize fortunes
has all been rained.
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CURB
Will Make it Known With Force
on Western TriD.
WILL TOUCH ON THE TRUSTS
Hermann Again at Washington
Says West was Never Jlore
Prosperous.
Washington, Sept. 15. Great interest
is manifested in the coming Western
trip ef the President, as it is believed
his speeches will have more politics in
them than those made on his Eastern
and Southern tours. It is believed that
when be gets into the heart of the coun
try which furnished the bulk of oppo
sition to his Cuban reciprocity plan be
will speak straight out in favor of doing
justice to Cuba, although quite a num
ber of men who opposed his policy era
how candidates for re-election. There
is also an intimation that the President
will touch upon the tariff question. He
is going to be accompanied by Secretary
Shaw, who will make several speeches.
It is not probable that the President and
the Secretary will have any pronounced
differences pn the tariff question, and
Secretary Shaw is supposed to repre
sent the tariff ideas embodied in the
Iowa platform. It is not believed the
President, when he passes through
states where declarations have been
made in Republican platforms for tariff
revision, will take a position antagonis
tic to those views, buc, on the contrary,
it is more than probable that be will
give tbem his approval. The President
will also reiterate his position on the
trust question, which will no doubt be a
popular feature of his speeches in the
Western States.
srsmana Again at Capital.
Washington, Sept. 15. Land Com
missioner Hermann returned ta Wash
ington today from Oregon. He says
the country which he traversed was
never more prosperous, as evidenced by
the overcrowding of railroads from the
Pacific to the Atlantic Coast. He found
more products to be transported than
ears to take them away, and even then
all the lines are pressing into service
cars that have heretofore been cast
aside. The same activity he found in
other towns, and at all central points
vain efforts are being made to secure la
borers for farms and factories at hereto
fore unequaled prices.
Death of Petowya.
Pendleton, Seat. 12. The death of
Petyowya, a Umatilla Indian woman re
siding on the reservation, at the ex
treme age of 113 years is announced.
When Lewis and Clark were on their
return in the spring of 1800, from Fort
Clatsop, they made a short stay near
where the Umatilla River empties into
the Columbia. During their visit Tora-
atoppo, a celebrated chief, showed the
explorers much kindness, making tlieiu
handsome presents. He was euilering
from a lingering illness, and knuwiu?
that Captain Clark had pei formed cer
tain cares for ether Indiana, he asked
him for medieal treatment, which
Captain Clark gave him, greatly to his
benefit. Petowya, who was a daughter
of the sick chief, and who was at that
time about 17 years old, was present
whsn Captain Clark acte 1 as a doctor
for Tomatoppo, and retained a vivid
recollection of the explore: t. She
used to greatly enj r 'eihn; l o; v.?ilo:
about the gieat u..iio nio.J.i-..;e l.cl.
as she called Leia CUik.