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IIS &
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Have just opened pew
saloon at the oomerof
Eain and May streets.
Finest Liquors and
Cigars
Pendleton Beer on
Draught
Hot and Cold Lunches
Heppner, Or.
norm
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
Offered by Whiteis & Patterson 4
Real Estate Dealers.
MANY RARE OFFERS MADE
IVatcli This Space Each Week, aa
Many Ranches Will bo
Listed Here.
1120 acres, part good farm land, rest
fine grazing land. One fine seven room
house, three houses for tenants, good
barn and out buildings, fine orchard,
700 acres government land fenced, nine
miles fr oid Hamilton. About 40 acres
of good timber on land. $7.00 per acre.
Easy payment.
640 acres, good houses and barns,
finely watered, 200 acres meadow land,
timber on the land will more than half
pay for it, adjacent to outside range,
fine ranch for some ons at a reasonable
price. Five miles from Lone Rock.
200 acres l)a miles from Lexington.
A snap for a short time.
1120 acres 3 mies from Lexington,
fine wheat ranch, nearlv all under
cultivation, some improvements. Will
be sold on reasonable terms.
640 acres 2 miles from Heppner, fine
wheat' ranch, plenty of good spring
water, all under good 3 wire fence and
cross fenoes. Will re sold at a bargain.
1210 acres, 800 acres plow land, 3
dwelling houses, large barn just com
pleted, all of 300 acres can be irrigated,
all under good 3 wire fence, adjacent to
g)vernment range, fine tock ranch.
Snap.
320 acres, wheat land. 260 nereu nnrW
cultivation, all under good two wire
tence. l'nco fAK)0. This is a oargain.
V e have a number of good houses and
lots in Heppner for sale very cheap.
JUST STARTED . . .
rennan.
Practical
Horseshoer
Entire Attention deyoted to Horse
shoeing. No other work.
SPECIAL SESSION OVER BUG.
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ows' Livery Barn.
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Through Salt Lake City, Lead
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of Denver.
3 Asy TKAlVs IH II. V...
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all classes of modern equipment.
Perfect Dining Car Service and
Personally Conducted Tourist
Excursions to all Points.
Stop Overt Allowed
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142 Third St. PORTLAND ORE
LffUlatar of Loalta.ma Call4 to
the Doll Wowrll.
A little bug, almost too small for Indi
vidual notice, is taking up the time of
several great states, and has even caused
the Indiana legislature to be called Into
special session. This Kttle boll weevil,
says the Baltimore Sun, seenia a very
small matter to the people of the coun
try at larpe, but to cotton growers Its
coming is fraught with prodigious evil.
For years it has been the boast of Tex
as that she could raise cotton enough
to supply t'.-.e world, end s?' '.::d rvpear
to Lv: satlsPM with rr:-.i"c abruf a third
of all the American staple. But this lit
tle weevil crawled across the border
from Mexico and has swept the cotton
fields like a pestilence. Each year the
domain of the weevil is spreading, and
Us kind is multiplying by billions. No
i-ffectivp means ha yet been found to
chock the spread of the pest, and the en
tire cotton belt is alarmed.
The Louisiana special commission has
recommended to the legislature that a
non-cotton growing belt be created
between that state and Texas, by which
it is expected to starve out the weevil
and stay its further progress northward.
Already the loss by this insect is prob
ably $25,000,000, and experts of the na
tional and state government are doing
everything in their power to devise some
means to check this Texas terror.
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS.
All tbe Progrfu of Selanee Um Mot
Drouifht 17 Any Knowi-
tie of it.
Upon the question whethr life-bearing
planets can exist in other solar sys
tems than our own the answer of science
is clear and distinct, says Prof. Maun
der, in Knowledge. It is precisely the
same with Prof. Newcomb recently
gave concerning the possible inhab
itants of Mars: "The reader knows just
as much of the subject as I do, and that
is nothing at aa. ' Within our solar
system we can indeed fcrm come crude
estimate of probabilities; beyond it;
nothing. All the amazing progress of
modern science, all the revelations made
by the spectroscope or by photography,
all the advance in biology have not
brought us one step nearer an answer
to the question, "la this the only in
habited world?" We stand essentially
where Whewell and Brewster did half
a century ago, or we might indeed say
where Galileo and Capoano were 300
years ago. We can indeed spin out the
discussion at greater length than our
predecessors, and can introduce a fax
larger number of more or less irrelevant
facts, but of serious argument, either for
or against, we are entirely destitute.
Temperature and Llf.
The range of temperature suited to
terrestrial life is comparatively narrow.
All vital actions are suspended tempo
rarily, some permanently, if subjected
to a temperature near the freezing point;
while the highest that most organisms
can bear somewhere between 95 de
grees and 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Only
the spores of certain bacteria can sur
vive boiling. It is, therefore, probable
that if the general temperature of the
earth's surface rose or fell 40 degrees is
small, amount relatively), the whole
course of life would be changed, even
perchance to extinction.
DISTRIBUTE DISEASE
Street Cars as Disseminata of In
fectious Maladies. i
Vitiated Air and HxpeotiKratLoaa Ucn
dr Theae (Vrovfranp Fruit
ful Source of Ctlop
!vm1 of MtrliiM-t KoJea.
Tn the larger cities of this country
the street cur is as potent a factor in
the dissemination of communicable
diseases as many of those usually cata
logued in the standard works of hy
giene. In these large reenters of popu
lation the condition is one of an ex
cessive number of passengers crowded
into a limited number of cars. In some
cities this continue throughout the
entire day. and in all of them during"
the morning and evening hours. Dur
ing the period of congested traffic, the
ear are crowded to the limit, every
seat being occupied, and the aisles and
rear platforms literally packed with
all classes of our variegated popula
tion, says the Interstate MediealJour
nal. The ventilation of thee ears is in
ferior, both on account of inattention
to this important matter on the part
of the builders of this class of rolling
Mock, and also because the pasenger
differ so widely as to the proper tem
perature ami circulation nece&sary
to their comfort.
Tuberculosis is undoubtedly propa
gated through the medium of these
ears, which become infected by the
promiscuous expectoration indulged
in by nTsnnintives, mt w ithf tanding
notices of w:rninr. H.mnmn, of Cleve
land, recently examined 2. specimens
of sputum found in street cars (15
from the interiors and ten from the
rear plat form ) : the t uherele bacillus
m nrr "a ;'-- in-fTcre. Other
?!
and the bacillus influenzae.
These conditions, the person-to-per
son contract, and the breathing of
vitiated nir frequently laden with
contagious exhalations and with dust
from dried sputum, nre most favora
ble to the distribution of contagions
diseases. Of course, it is only prob
lematical as to the number of small
pox cpses vv.hich were infected
through these conditions during the
reeenf epidemic, but it is certain that
hut few better ormor! unit ies of in
fection are offered than through the
street-car contact of all classes
Other transmissible diseases can
very easily be, and no doubt are, com-(
nmnicatcd in the same way.
The solution of this problem is not
easy. Street railway companies nre
not, inclined to relieve the present
situation without compulsion. Health
oflicers, however, have authority over
the sanitation of these public con
veyances. This authority in most
municipalities gives sufficient power
to prevent undue overcrowding of
ears when such prevention wolild be
for the protection of public health.
When necessary, as in times of a
general epidemic, such authority
should be exercised. ITnder all cir
cumstances regular disinfection of
street cars should be practiced in an
efficient manner. In this way the
cars can be made biologically clean,
and the health of the community bet
ter protected. There is just-as much
occasion for this procedure as there
is for the disinfection of Pullman
cars, now energetically practiced at
different points. Investigation has
developed the fact that there is but
one city in the country, PhiladeN
phi a, where any pretense is made of
disinfection of street cars. The
Union Traction company of that city
disinfects its cars with carbolic acid.
This possibly answers for the killing
of bacterial life on the floors and
walls of the cars, but does no good
for the contaminated places w.here
dust has settled, and which nothing"
but a gaseous agent would reach.
11 r n In WorkliiK In Delirium.
Medical records in the various hos
pitals show that though quite forget
ful of recent happenings, aged persona
recall long-past events in correct or
der, and even live again amid scenes
passed utterly out of recollection be
fore the disease of senility appeared..
A woman of 70. delirious from pleuro
pneumonia, repeated poetry in Hin
dustani. It developed later on that
up to the age of four she knew only
that language, but afterward had for
gotten even that she ever spoke it.
Another peculiar case on record ia
that of an illiterate maid servant who,
while in the delirium of fever, recited
Greek and Hebrew for hours, although
when in health she knew no word of
either language, her ravings being due
to the brain impressions left by the
readings heard many years before ol
a learned rabbi whose servant she had"
been.
Driven to Despetation.
Living at Bn out of the way place, re
mote from civilization, a family is often
driven to desperation in esse of accident
resulting in Burns, Cuts, Wounds, UI
oere; etc. Lay in a supply of Backlen's
Arnica Halve. It's the best on earth. 25c
at Slocum's Drug Store.
local ih.icki:ts.
Heppner Quotation on Slupleir
llouglit and Sold Here.
RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.
COFFEE Mocha and Java, best 40c
per pound ; next grade, 35c per pound ;
package coffee, Lion andArbuckle, tV
packages for $1.
RICE Best head rice 10c per pound ;
next grade 8 cents per pound.
SUGAR Cane granulated, best $6 W
per sack ; do 13 pounds $1 .
SALT Coarse 75cper 100; 40c fttl
pounds.
FLOUR $4 25$5 00 per barrel.
BACON 150 ISc per pound.
HAMS 1017c per pound.
COAL OIL $1 o5(?$l 75 for 5 gal
lons ; $3 50 per case.
vkqetari.es.
POTATOES 34c p r pound.
CABBAGE 1 c per pound.
ONIONS 2c per pound.
FRirrs.
BANANAS 40c per dozen.
LEMONS 30c per dozen.
ORANGES 40c Q? 50c per dozen.
LIVESTOCK AND POfLTRY.
Trices paid by dealer to the producer.
CHICKENS $3 50 per dozen.
BUTTER ranch, 40 and 50c per roll.
BEEF CATTLE, ETC.
COWS $2 50(af J per hundred.
S1SEKS $3&3 50 per hundrel.
HOGS Live, 5c;dressed, 6lc pounds
VEAL Dressed, tic per pound.
SHEEP $1 5U$2 50.
HAY AND FEED.
CHOPPED BAHLEY J27 5!) per ton