MINOR & COMPANY
MINOR & COMPANY
MINOR & COMPANY
SPECIAL SALE OF REMNANTS
Our Inventory discloses the fact that we have numerous short
lengths of the season's best and most popular fabrics in our
stock, also broken lots of Waists, Suits and Cloaks, Shoes and
Corsets on hand, all of which have been reduced in price from
One-Third to One-Half for this sale.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE OPPORTUNITIES THAT IS SOON GONE
SHOE SPECIALS
We still have a few odds and ends
of Ladies' and Children's Shoes to
close out at
ONE-THIRD OFF
including every Button Shoe in stock,
also odd lots of lace.
CLOAKS AND SUITS
All our Childrnn's Cloaks at : : : : :
HALF PRICE
also all our Ladies' Cloaks and tailor
made suits at
ONE-THIRD OFF
REMNANTS
In. going through the stock we
culled out all the short ends of Silks,
Dress and Waist Fabrics, Outing
Flannels, Calicos, Ginghams", new
lines Ribbons, Embroideries, etc.
All marked Special for this Sale.
MINOR &C0MPANY MINOR&COMPANY MINOR &C0MPAN'
The Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday Morning.
Waraock & Micliell.
Entered at the Postoffice at Heppner Oregon, as
second-class matter.
Thursday January 21, 1904
No body will kick about a little
brush of winter now. It is time
for it.
For our war f three months
with Spain, G0,000 pension claims
have already been filed. It is a
good thing that the war was short.
Conditions among the cattlemen
in central California are now Baid
to be very bad. In Tulare county
cattle are so poor that losses will
be great. Whole herds have
been offered at 84 per head. Ore
gon cattlemen are in clover com
pared with conditions in Cal
ifornia. Score another for municipal
ownership. The little town of
Wasco has voted bonds to build
an electric light plant for the
people. Wasco will have cheap
lights and good service and if
there is any profit left it will go
into the city treasury to help pay
other expenses. Ex. Yes, but
will there be any profit, there's
the rub.
and with the aid of a daily paper
that he will edit during the con
vention in St. Louis and with the
Hearst forces, there will be some
thing doing.
ARID
LAND SURVEY IN
OREGON.
Indications are favorable for a
very warm time at the next Demo
cratic national convention. At a
formal welcome to W. J. Bryan
on his return fiom Europe, at
Lincoln, Nebraska, in a speech
Mr. Bryan said that "the Kansas
City platform ia sound in every
plank, and the first act of the next
convention should be to reaffirm
it in its entirety. " Bryan is still
a power in the Democratic party
The report of John T. Whistler,
engineer in charge of irrigation
surveys and examinations in Ore
gon, contains much that is of in
terest, not only to the residents of
the eemi-arid districts of the state,
but to all I'-ynl Oregonians. A
one-sided development of the state
is not to be desired. The agri
cultural resources of Eastern and
Southeastern Oregon are relatively
untouched though returns from
endeavor in some sections have
wiled largely to the aggregate
wealth of the state in recent years.
The object of what is known as
the arid land survey is well known.
As a proposition which seeks to
store and distribute the waters of
certain sections so that instead of
running to waste they will insure
bountiful crops to the farmer over
wide areas that are now unpro
ductive, irrigation is attracting
the careful attention of broad
minded men. It has, moreover,
enlisted the attention of the gov
ernment as a scientific proposition,
aDd one that can be worked out
satisfactorily only by engineering
skill and systematic methods.
The government does nothing in
a haphazard way. It follows care
ful investigation and its experi
ments look to definite ends. It
makes haste slowly, but its meth
ods lead te permanent results.
Lands undulating in character, ac
cessible to market and still largely
belonging to the public domain lie
within what is called the "Uma
tilla project," of which reservoir
sites and irrigating canals were
surveyed in 1903. The possibili
ties of agricultural wealth that are
opened up by this survey and
which the completed project will
turn to realities are vast indeed.
Thev include homes for thou
sands of settlers, schools, churches,
social opportunities, community
interests and a material source of
wealth that is at present beyond
computation. The same may be
said, in some degree, of other
projects detailed in Mr. Whistler's
report, though the relative "near
ness to market" makes the Uma
tilla project more speedily pro
ductive. The entire scheme com
mends itself to all progressive citi
zens, hs it does to their represent
atives in Congress, for its breadth,
utility and great promise of
velopment. Oregouian.
de-
LEXINGTON NEWS.
Lexington, Jan. 20, 1904.
J. M. White is making some
improvements on his property.
Marshal Zink is making con
siderable improvement in the
streets.
Mr. Jackson, of Heppner, has
opened a barber shop in D. I
Doherty's building.
We are informed that all those
who have been sick with the fever
have recovered and are now able
to be around.
The Congregational church has
been repainted and repaired. Last
Sunday the Sunday school re
sumed work, having had a vaca
tion since the flood.
Our new light plant was in
stalled last Saturday night. It
is not very extensive, but it is
quite a convenience to the people
who are on the streets after dark.
John Boothby and his sons left
for Centralia, Wash., last Thurs
day. They expect to locate in
that part of Washington. We
are sorry to Ioe them from our
community.
The Cattle Outlook.
The cattle outlook for the com
ing season is better than a few
months ago, and from present
indications there will be a great
demand for stock of all kinds, but
it is pospible the prevailing prices
will not equal those that have
been paid growers during a few
years previous to 1903. This is
certainly encouraging to growers
since it is far better to have a
large demand for cattle at fair
prices than to experience mauy
years like the past year when
there was no opportunity to dis
pose of anything unless it was in
prime condition for beef.
Those who have handled cattle
during past seasons are already in
receipt of inquiries from eastern
buyers regarding the cattle out
look, which is interpreted by some
to iudicate a greater demand and
better prices for all kinds during
the coming year. Ex.
A juror in the Stockton, Cal.
police court, was robbed of a $200
diamond pin. The police force,
many of whom were in the room
at the time, are greatly humiliated.
A fund is being raised to pro
vide temporarily for chorus girls
stranded in Chicago by the closing
of the theaters. Many of them
will return to their homes in va
rious parts of the country.
One hundred tons of human hair
valued at $30,000 per ton, were
imported, mostly from Europe, in
to the United States during 1903.
The Pennsylvania coke industry
is reviving. Four thousand nine
hundred and sixty-three new ovens
have been opened lately.
Robert F. Hall, of Portland, has
fallen heir to a $50,000 estate
through the death of an aunt in
Connecticut
The white people of Normal
City, Ind., have ordered the 35
negro families of that city to leave
at once. The latter declare they
will not and are arming. Serious
trouble is expected.
The internal revenue depart
ment has seized a large number of
sets of valuable furs, recently ar
rived in New York City from
Canada, upon which duty had
been evaded.
The three-story car-barn and 50
cars of the Brooklyn Street Bail
way Company, were burned the
night of January 14.
The managers of the Marquam
theater, Portland, have decided to
provide an additional exit to that
building.
The Spokane Opera Company is
the latest theatrical organization
in the Northwest.
Red Front Livery &
Feed Stables
Stewart & 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
SKK US. WE CATER
TO THE : : : : :
COMMERClAL
TRAVELERS
AND CAN FURNISH
RIGS AND DRIVER ON
SHORT NOTICE : : :
HeDDner. Oregon