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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1903)
The Heppner Gazette. Issued Every Thursday Morning out in nitixii 1. 1 isr. Heppner Gazette and Toledo Week ly Blade, one year ifl CO Heppner Gazette and Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean, one year 1 70 Heppner Gazette aDd Weekly Ore- gonian, one year 2 00 Heppner Gazette and Weekly Ex aminer, one year, including ticket to Examiner's great drawing 2 00 Heppner Gazette and Young Pedple's Weekly one year.... 1 00 Heppner Gazette and Twice - a- Week StLouis Globe Democrat 1 85 Heppner Gazette and Oregon Daily Journal, one year (regular price of the Journal $4) both for $4.00 Six months 2.15 With Semi-Weekly Journal one vear 2.25 With Weefcly Journal, one year. . .!. 2.00 Heppner Gazette and Rural Spirit, one year 2 25 Address all orders to Gazette, Hepp ner, Oregon. Lee Mattock has gone to the hot springs near Union. He is suffering with rheumatism. Ed Day and Thoa. Morgan left Mon day afternoon for John Day. Mr. Day went to see about disposing of some of Ins fine bucks. Laurence Monterestelli, of Tendleton, is in the city. Mr. Monterestelli is here to look after his marble business. He has many orders for toombstone work to look after. Rev. II. S. Shangle is here and will preach Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Business meeting of quarterly con ference Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Preaching Sunday morning and evening by Rey. Shangle. F. C. Adkins, pastor. The Blue Mountain Eagle learns that Wm. Stewart, a sheepman of Paulina, Crook county, Oregon, had a band of 5000 head of sheep shot into on the range between Bear Valley and Izee last Friday night and lost 200. It is learned that Mr. Stewart has been in that locality with his large band of sheep for almost a month, and while he claimed to be taking his sheep to Ontario, lie remained too long in the locality where he was freely giyen the privilege ot trailing his sheep. The shooting took place within a few hun dred yards of the Canyon City-Izee road and within a faw hundred yards of the ranch owned by E. E. Luce. I iinrral of J. J. Ilarrh. The Wrightsville, York County, Pa., Star, gives the following account of the funeral of J. J. Harris. Mr. Harris was an exemplary young man and loved and respected in Heppner. The paper says : The funeral of John J. Harris took place on Tuesday at this place. His bxly arrived on Monday evening and the funeral took place on Tuesday after noon last. The body was well preeerved and the lace recognizable. He was a membr of the I. O- O. F. and a charter member of an Elk Lodge in Heppner Hnd a member of LaGrande camp No. 100 W. O. W. The funeral was largely attended and the lloral display was elaborate and beautiful. One beautiful bouquet of roses and palms was contributed by a York Lodge of Elks. The pall bearers were four of his nephews and two mem bers of the Chihuahua Lodge of this place. Rev. Price-of the M. E. church officiated assisted by Rev. Herman. The body of Ida rage, aged 18, who committed suicide Wednes day, at Roseburg, by taking poison, waslfound Thursday morning in the Umpqua river. The Willamette Valley prune growers have decided to ship the entire product of the vally to foreign markets, the price and de mand being much better than the local markets. SELLING HIS HORSES. Thos. J. iriatlock Will Unit Home JUusineas. Thos. J. Matlock, of Heppner, one of Morrow county's pioneer horse breeders will retire from the business and is sell ing off his horses as fast as possible. Mr. Matlock has sold to R. E. Starko, of Medicine Hat, Canada, 45 head of horses, ' principally blooded mares of running and trotting stock. The animals were driven to Echo, from where they were shipped. Mr. Starko has a big stock ranch in Canada and he is buying up a lot of such horses as the kind bred by Mr. Matlock. Mr. Matlock now only has about 100 head of horses left which he will dis pose of. He is also a large sheep grow er and owns several ranches, but intends to retire from the 6tock business en tirely. In the palmy horse days of Eastern Oregon, Thos. J. Matlock associated with his brothers, were well known horsemen and owned great herds ot horses which were ranged on the bunch grass in Morrow and Umatilla counties. Th6s. Matlock was always a lover of running amd harness horses and be has owned a large string of good ones that have pulled down purses on the beet race courses throughout the big circuits of the East and West. One of Mr. Matlock's old favorites is old Alta, still abl.e to put up a brisk gait, and can yet give many of the roadsters dust. This famous mare is now 24 years old. She has a mark of 2:22 and has a long list of firsts to her credit. Repetta, a racing mare, made a great record in her day and will be remember ed by all the old time horsemen. In her day she was one of the best in the Mat lock stables. Mr. Matlock is still a lover of good horseflesh, but will retire and take things easy. HAY IS lUtiU. I iitisuul .Conditions Confront 311. Vernon Farmer. Mt. Vernon, Aug. 8. Both the hay and the cattle market of this district were never in such an unsettled condi tion as at present. There will' not be the amount of hay in the country this fall that there was laec winter, and the prices of beef cattle are so low that farmers are refusing to sell. There is more stock in the country than there was'last season. Under these conditions the farmer, rancher and stockraiser are worried. Hay is on the advance and indications are prices will go higher. What action will be taken by the cattle raisers can not be foretold. As matters are in such an unsettled condition, absolutely nothing is being done in the market. Some of the farmers will have to dis pose of their stock, and as the export buyers persistently refuse to pay a high price for cattle, there is every reason to believe that much of the stock will be sold, under necessity, at a loss to the cattle raiser. Cattle buyers have been in this dis trict, but no sales have been made. As it was ipipossible for them to procure cattle at the prices they were offering, they have gone into other parts. J. I). Combs, one of the heaviest cattle buyers of the interior, who was here but a few days ago, was quoting the following prices: For Seattle, cows $2.50 per hundredweight and steers $3.25 per hundred, and for Portland, 2.70 for cows and S3. 05 for steers. These pr ces are away below the usual average. Mr. Combs, finding that but few were ready to accept his offer, has gone to the ranges of Harney county. The priceB of hay are $10 per ton in the field and $12 when hauled a few miles. The farmers are not in a hurry to sell at those prices. These prices are $4 per ton higher than they were last fall. The hay crops around here, both tim othy and alfalfa, are excellent. There will be an average yield in the district "Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic that he teels as if his joints were being dis located ? He knows that his sufferings are very much like the tortures of the rack. What he wants to know is what will per manently cure his disease. That, according to thousands of grateful testimonials, is Hood's Sarsaparilla It promptly neutralizes the acid in the blood on which the disease depends, com pletely eliminates it, and strengthens the system against its return. Try Hood's. around Marysville. Some of the tim othy is fully six feet high. The cold, dry epring gave the crop the appearance of a failure, but the favorable weather for some weeks past has placed the crop in fine condition. Cattlemen Will Take a Chance. Canyon City, Aug. 7. If the coming Winter is severe and of lorg duration, there will probably be a heavy loss of cattle throughout Eastern Oregon. In this locality and in this region generally there will be as large a hay crop as is usual, but there is but little old hay on hand, as it was' used up during last sea son, which was a hard one. When there is a large reserve of hay on hand the stockmen feel prepared for any emergency, but it ia probable many will reduce their herds, if they can get a suitable price for them. Cattle-buyers have been trying to profit by the condition of ranchers to purchase cattle at a reduced price, but are not meeting with success as a rule. Stockmen say there is really no necessity for their disposing of cattle at less than value, for the loss by a hard Winter is only a chance, and if it occurs it may not be much in excess of that occasion ed by a sale at reduced figures. Some cattle were recently bought here by a Seattle firm at a low price, but a later buyer was unable to obtain for less than regular market rates. (Gambling a Felony. Olympia, Wash., Aug. 7. The case brought to test the constitutionality o the law passed by the lust Legislature making the maintaining of gambling resorts or games a felony has resulted in the upholding of the law by the Su preme Court. As a direct result of the decision a large number of gamblers who since June 12 have been out of employment and have been hanging on in hopes the law would be knocked out will seek other employment or leave the state, and one of their number, Fritz Dietrick, of Spokane, will go to the penitentiary for one year. Pope is Crowned. Rome, August 9. The ceremony of the coronation of Pope Pius X took place today in the basilica of St. Peters, in the presence of the Princes and with all the solemity and sp'endor associated with this the most magnificent rite in the Roman Catholic Church. As Cardi nal Macchi. the dean of the cardinal deacons, placed the triple crown on the head of the venerable pontiff the throng of 70,000 persons gathered within the ca thedral burst into unrestrained accla mations, the choir intoned a hymn of triumph and the bells of Rome rang out a jovful peal. One of Frank A. Munsey's ven tures the New York Daily News has failed, and the property will be sold at Auction August 21. Chinese pirates are growing more bold than ever before, as a crew of these daring criminals held up a merchandise launch on the Yalu river, under the very noses of American and French gunboats and robbed it of a cargo of silk, about the first of August. COAL The Heppner Railroad & Coal Com pany is now prepared to furnish coal at he company's mines, in the Willow- creek basin, at $3 per ton. Bunkers are finished and scales are ready for weigh injj. UEO. COXSER, President. BUSINESS LOCALS and want ads 6f all descriptions will hereafter be publiehed in a column by themselves. Kates for Local Ads. Ten cents a line for first insertion and J 5 cents a line for each subnequent ineer tion. All notices set in brevier type. tiroccricM. T. R. Howard for fine groceries Howard's grocery store is a very pop ular place for the purchase of supplies for farmers and outfits for outing in the way of extra fine groceries. Almost everything imaginable kept in stock. It's hnndy where you can get ar. thing you want Strength and vigor come of good food, duly digested. "Force," a ready-to-serve wheat and barley food, adds no burden, but sustains, nourshes, in vigorates. I have some stock sheep to lease to responsible parties. W. D. Lord. 42-tf AVAJNTED. People to build houses to rent, where the Eastern Oregon State Normal School is kcated. Can make 20 per cent in terest on investment. City gives free water for ten years, which means a do nation of $150 In the rain belt where crops never fail. Vacant lots for sa'e $50 to $150. Improved farms for sale reasonable. A heavy electric power plant to be established soon, For in formation write to Weston Improvement Association, Weston, Oregon. C. E. WOODSEN, ATTORNEY AT-LAW Office In Palace Hotel Heppner, Oregon t C i t J ? 3 C c FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS 1 t fj fl J We intend to surprise the people in Rare Bargains $ by making a Slaughtering Reduction on TABLETS AND I STATIONERY ? Now is the time to lay in a good supply of station- 9 ery to use at school when you can buy it cheap. He- Jjj member school commences next month. v HEPPNER DRUG CO. j Successors to Conser & Aycrs y ii Gilliam ii) i ii i ii it LEADING HARD WARE DEALERS ii ii ii ii ii O O t ! (t l (t (t fl (t (! ? (t The most complete and c HIHAWABE Ever shown in Heppner or Morrow county Hand painted Souvenir Plates, Water Sets. Neat designs and beautiful combinations, with decorations to pleaee, in large assortment. In spection of our display will interest you. Gilliam it Bisbee Three fires, all supposed to be of incendiary origin, occurred iu Ash land, Or., on Wednesday niybt. All were found before any damage was done. The machine .shops of the Astorir & Columbia Jviver rond were de stroyed by fire Thursday morning, and one locomotive wa lost. Loss about $9,000. Red Front Livery & Feed Staoles Stewart 4. Kirk, Props FIRST-CLASS: LIVERY RIGS Kept constantlv on hand and can be J'urnipheH on short notice to parties wishing to drive into the interior. First class : : HacKs and Bugijies CALL AROUND AND SEE US. WE CATER TO THE : : : : : COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AND CAN FURNISH KKiS AND DRIVER ON SHORT NOTICE : : : Heppner. Oregon PALACE MOTEL HEPPNER, OREGON Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel MODERN CONVENIENCES ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . . Under New Management. Thoroughly Renovated and Remitted. Bebt Metxls iu the City. PHIL METSCHAX, Jr., Prop. Mr ii i ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii O O (f f.i) (! beautiful line of genuine J si Bisbee GLASSVARE