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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1904)
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Ilynd, who is en route to his old home in Scotland, is fnrnishirig the Ga zette with a series of letters containing his observations en route. The follow ing is his first, dealing mainly with our own country, but giving us his ear lier experiences on a big Cunarder: R. M. S. Campania, Mid Atlantic, July 20, 1904. Editor Gazette : Sitting under the awning on the upper deck .of the Campania, surrounded by a mixed company of all ages and nation alities some quietly reading in the comfortable deck chairs, others playing "deck pool," while the majority sit around in groups discussing all manner of subjects I begin the letter I prom ised you, giving a short sketch of our trip across continent and ocean. Hav ing kept no notes as we sped along, only the principal incidents will be recorded We crossed the Snake river at Hunt ington about midnight, and before we were called for breakfast had passed the Weiser and Tayette valleys, the only farming section of any note along the Short Line in Idaho. Aside from a set tlement at Shoshone and an occaeiona' glimpse one gets of the Snake river bot tom as the train passes along, nothing can be Been west of Focatello except a vast stretch of rocky, comparatively level country covered with sagebrush, with the higher range of mountains to the north and east. At Focatello snrely the hottest place out of Texas we spent fifteen minutes, while the Salt Lake and Dutte baggage was being transferred, and at 1 o'clock again started eastward. During the late afternoon we passed the Diamondvillo coal fields, operated by the Union Pacific system, and a few miles south on a phort spur lies the Cumberland mine, from which Hepp ner has been shipping her coal supply for some time. Why the O. II. and N continues to haul its coal from this point when so much coal is said to lie, undisturbed in the Willow ("reek basin is a difficult problem to 6oIve. Some day we may see the light! At S:45 we reached Grern River, where we were joined by the 'Fiisco train. All chair cars were cut out and Die "Over land Imited," composed of five Pull man sleepers, haggfge, express and mail cars, started on its run of forty miles an hour for the Missouri river. During the right we crossed the back bone of the continent and in the morn ing were speeding along over the prai lieaof eastern Wyoming. For several hours we passed over a splendid graz ing country, supporting at this season of the year thousands of cattle, !0 percent, of which appeared to be "white faces." Scattering windmills over the prairie turnishea water for the cattle, and as no crops are raised in this section, all stock is driven east to the farming section as winter approaches. At Sidney, Neb., the farming country begii a and for over fonr hu dred miles we passed through as fine a farming sec tion as one could wish to see. The greater part of the way we followed the lazy Platte river, and as far as the eye could reach in nil directions stretched the vast cornfields Immense crops of hay and some erly bar'ey were being harvested, but even where corn wa king. In some cases it stood nearly aw high as a horse's back, and the beauti fui dark grefn color of the leaves wit the so l in splendid condition, gave promise of the largest crop that has been grown for years. The numerous small tqiwns along the railrrad, the com fortable, and in many cases, handsome farmhouses, the beautiful groves of trees and well kep' roads indicate a very pro- pe ons penple, and I feel it would be difficult to anchor settlers from this sec tion on our Morrow county hiils O the other hand, tl ey hve their zero weather and blizzards in winter, their thunderstorms and hot nights in sum mer, with cinch bugs, potato bugs and mosquitoes, and hu occasional cyclone to break the monotony. The lightning rod agent has done a profitable business i this section, for many of the houst-s ar provided with three, and in some cases four. Perhaps the' are needed. We reached Omaha at 8 p. m., and lieie were transferred to the Milwaukee road, most of our fednw travelers, among them E Y. Jodd, of Pendleton, going by the Northwestern to Chicago. We crossed the bridge over the Missouri ahead of the Northwestern train, and as we pulled into Chicago the following morning at 9 o'clock we found the same Northwestern train held up by a gate keeper where the two tracks cropsed, waiting for us to pass. Our train had been signalled first and got the right of wav a close race over 500 miles of track. At the depot we were met by my sis ter and her husband and accompanied them to their home in the suburbs, seven miles out. On the way we passed through a Polish settlement, one of the largest in the city, where every name on the business houses eoded with "isky," and where hundreds of dirty urchins in the street reminded one of the slums of Europe. Had President Roosevelt vis ited a few such settlements before wiiting his "race suicide" article he would have discovered that if the Amer ican people are neglecting their duty along the line of reproduction the for eigners are supplying the deficiency. Many similar foreign settlements exist in Chicago, generally Poles and Italians, where every line of business is repre sented anil where the nationalities live I and trade exclusively amorg them selves. The weather was hot and sultry, and when out riding in the afternoon, during a thunder storm and downpour of rain, one car was struck by lightning, burn ing out al' electrical fittings and causing such a shower of sparks and volume of smoke that the passengers stampeded. Luckily it was an open car and all got off safely, no one bnng struck by the current. It was over in a minute and the passengers were clad to climb aboard to escape the drenching rain. Soon another car came along and pushed us to our destination. Next morning the weather was cool and pleasant, with a breeze blowing from the lake, and thus continued during our stay ot three days in Chicago. We visi ted many place? of interest, amorg them the Hoard of Trade, where the bulls and bears were howling in the vaiious pits; the Masonic Temple, where from the twenty-second story you look down upon men in the street no larger than iliesjand Lincoln Park, with its wild animals and miles of frontage on the lake. What a relief it must be for the little street Arabs to visit such a park, watch the monkeys and the seals, roll ou the grass and bathe in the lake dur- MALE A i i:j . e i . x spiciium lumc ror me nair, makes the hair grow long and heavy ?tmnF? co orray hair aI1 the dark.rich color of youth. orojsjjming n air, also, bold for fifty years. "RTiiTr'iTVH' 'ng the hot days of a Chicago summer, without Costing them a cent. We in tended to visit the stockyards and pack ing houses, but on the morning after our arrival the butchers went out on strike and business came to a standstill. It is to be hoped, for the sake of tire Western o ttlemen that the differences will soon be adjusted and work resumed. At 3 p ra. Thursday we boarded the Grand Trunk express for New York.anrt a'ter a night's tide through the southern point of Canada, reached Niagara Falls -it 7 o'clock. Here we spent three hours visiting every' point, of interest at this wor ld famed resort. Truly it is a grand -ight, a desciiption of which you will tind in your school books. Descriptions are written and read, but to realize its immensity one must see it. At 10:30 we took the Black Diamond Express over the Lehigh Valley road, passing through Taughannock Falls, Ahere our former fellow-townsman, W. M. Douglas, now reidag. The country around Ithica Lake is one of the pret tiest and most picturesque we have passed through and our friend Lindsay has already chosen it for a home when he makes his stake in Oregon. How quickly a cold Eastern winter would drive him back to Rhea Creek! Crops are very light in this section of the state, due, it is said, to a cold, backward spring. In fact we have seen nothing on our journey that would compare with the fine fields of wheat on the reserva t on near Pendleton. Oregon against the world ! We reached New York at 10 15 p. m., and aa we had to report at the Cunard wharf at S o'clock the next morning, we saw nothing of the city. On our return we will likely spend a few days there. What a busy scene presented itself at the steamer dock next morning as we alighted from the street car. The Cam pania, one of the swiftest of the Atlantic greyhounds, lay quietly at the wharf, while people on foot and in every kind of vehicle on earth, filed into the large warehouse. All the baggage the trans fer companies had delivered during the early hours of the morning, stood in rows waiting for the owners to appear with their checks. As soon as identified three labels were placed on each pack age, one stating destination Liverpool or Queenstown one stating whether wanted on voyage, and the other the large initial letter of owner's name (This last label is to facilitate the hand ling at Liverpool, aa the baggage is taken out and arranged on the wharf during the night, the steamer arriving about midnight. In the morning one knows in what section to find his bag gage when the customs inspector comes around ) When labeled the baggage is hurried aboard, for in one hour the twelve hundred passengers and their baggage n ust be aboard. D. zens of express wagons coma al ng at this late hour with their loads of trunks and one wou'd hardly think it possible that out of the apparent disorder everything could be got aboard in so short a time. Excited women rush along looking for a trunk that hasn't yet been delivered by the traffic company, men swear be cause the ar tist with brush and label can't attend to everyone at thy same time, while the sailois rush their trucks over the toes of anyone standing in their wav. Gradually the pile grows h ss end by the time the gong sounds all are on board and the visitors rush ashore. The last gangplank drops the wharf ju -t nine minutes after the scheduled time tor leaving a feat oiu' would have con sidered impossible half an hour before. ( To he Continued.) Dr. Leach will attend to all your den tal work and guarantees satisfaction. Every modern uppli.in-e known to the art for successfully hashing all kinds of woik. A recognized autnority Tb WeeJclj Oresoulan. VEGETABLE SICILIAN Hair Renewpr . m.ww v arjL COM,o WILL, BE A IMIIIinin POlftT. -Neighboring County on the H'et I Jubilant Over ProspectH for That Section. Th O R. and N. conipa-iy has Ho cided to build a ndlro d f om Arlington 'o Condon, in Gilliam county, a toad which will enable the farmers to market their grain with a gie r dea less trouble and give them rn"ie time in which to improv their lar.d and gei manv moe acres under cu'tivation. General Man aser E E. Calvin, of the O. R. and N., announces thnt work on t e line will b gin at once Within a fe.v days engi neers wi l be put in tie field and as soon as righ -of-way matters can be adjusted 'he work will begin and the line ill be rushed to completion The new line will ho between 45 and 50 miles lomt. The exact roue has not be- di-cided upon in some places where there is difli culty in getting a riy ht-of-wav, hut Ar lington and Condon will be the termini of the new line. Found 50000 Old Pennies. An old nail keg was recently unearth ed in one of our Western cities by work men engaged in tearing down an old building. Upon opening it thev became very much elated, as it was full of pen nies, but their joy was soon turned to disappointment, for on closer examina tion they were found to be commercial pennies, used during the war, and of no value whatever now. The above has also been the experience of sickly men nd women who were deceived into try ing various remedies to restore them to health, but because they contained no merit w ere sadly dieappointsd. Not so, however, with those who selected Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters to cure them of belching, heartburn, indigestion, dys pepsia or malaria, fever and ague, for today they enjoy perfect health. A trial will convince you too. Suicide Prevented. The startling announcement that a preventive of suicide had been discov ered will interest many. A run down system or despondency invariably pre cede suicide, and something has been found that will prevent that condition which makes suicide likely. 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In a penonil summing up of thr numerous mechanical in vent imp which coril ribute largely to thf r;iyeiy of nations, (he telephone t uppers, dues not fall hllM, I thf lit ..'lit i i'i ev I Wt , ' 1 I : I' I : -. sa vs ;.c Indianapolis; j'.'sl occurred ti : ;. ," aid a won . club 'oil. havin;.; a Koeial el Lad adjrni 1 , i he teic;,: - p'aise a r!: One hca rs a p'Ko' .en, alteu! (he e iic i i do lie 'Ilje n t Dir. a'td l dsoiie, the wonderful m lie convenient tele;' eallv 1 have neve;1 he:' Lilt OM al if i ht cheerful IVr-l ;! i fi, however, one ! a s!ile:r!;i n dwd'ep what an enferfa iniuj : 'title companion (lie fe' In trite phrase, words tell what a valuable alT ephone is in the count. r to V 'a " ::rfe 'He )K ini'dh the tei In thi dull winter ('ays, when mv hup. band was in town and the ebihlrer: at school, my spirit-; wou'd somt times llajr. Instead of f'viier u . quinine pill or a dose of eel-rate tonic, I would simply f!y fo 'he telephone, eall up some one of im treasured relatives or intimate friends, either in town or in tie country, et a little pleasanT sparkle of talk or harmless k& sip over the wire, and go back it my sowing or work refreshed ant braced in mind and body. " 'Unlfoknownst,' too, as gooc old Sairey (lamp would say, I' often administered the telephon cure to my husband and children If Henry yawned a good deal ii. the evening and didn't seem t care to read, or to talk, I w?ulc1 say, carelessly: " 'ITenry, call up George Blarikc and ask how thev all .are, over there; we haven't heard Iron them for several days; or, ITenry. call up your mother and ask how all the folks are; tell her we warn to know.' These little telephone symposiums would brighten dean old Henry up amazingly. Wher. the children were at home fron school with colds, too, the tele phone was our great corn fort. Indeed, I think the world at larg is ungenerously silent concerning the countless glorious messages of golden cheer which, day by day in every direction, flit along th telephone wires." Antarctic Cold. Though the temperature f-l more than CO degrees below zer several times at the plav when observations were made", thesr records cannot be regarded a" representing the extreme .eld ir, t ho ant a ret i- rev. ions. (I:er. mm J'errv saw nothing worse f - i-.' el' Pi.") degrees be!"W zei'o. ! "'. 1 ( 'a pt . Scot 1 . t hey were do -' ' n 1 !( sea except dilfiliiT the fe";Te 1 months. The imukI pfvpri' cnl.I record is that ohs-'wod 'i nn . cni Sileria. well inland. ;:'. New York Tribune. A i-" fare of 'Kt 1 ojov- ' re.'.ow . -i :. f."v years a-.ro at Wer'ijehaie-' For well known ;tst rono:.; ; ii r : s o ; i s I hernj t 1 ,. V be winter no .ere I .re If mi!- i'liiH t- :l ! II!''' 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