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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1904)
The Heppner Gazette. Issued Every Thursday Morning OIJIC CI.1T1IIIINU LIST. Heppner Gazette and Toledo Week ly BMe, one year $1 25 Heppner Gazette and Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean, one year 1 40 Heppner Gazette acd Weekly Ore- gonian, one year 2 00 ITr-ppner Gazette and Weekly Ex aminer, one year, including ticket to Examiner's great drawing 2 10 Heppner Gazette and Y o a n g People's Weekly one year.... 1 60 Heppner Gazette and Twice - a- Week 8tLouis Globe Democrat 1.60 Henpner Gazette and Rural Spirit, one year 2 00 Address all orders to Gazette, Hepp ner, Oregon. 105 YEARS OLD. Interesting; Story Of One off East ern Oregon's Pioneers. A keen-eyed, quick-witted, nervous IUiIhi man, hair white as the driven enow, v?ith the brown skin of the Frer.ch-Canadian, browner with a century's bronzing on the frontier the eldest man in Eastern Oregon may be teen on the streets of the little town of Union, Urion county, on any Saturday afternoon, says the Blu-i Mountain It is Moses Lore, of Catherine creek, and lie was born where Montreal now stand, seven days befoe George Washington, first president of the United States, died in December, 1799. His 105 years are carried lightly. His step is yet quick anjl his voice clear, although belays "ze fog comes to ze eve verie oftin," and he can no longer see bis rifle sights. For forty-twf years he has lived four miles from Union on his little ranch in the shadow of the frowning Blue moun tain clilik Three generations of his fanii'y have made his boose their home and the oour.ty of Union, and the state of Oregon have been practically hewn from the wilderness during the last half of his eventlul and thrilling life. flis story reads like a romance and yet it is but one of thousands that m'ght be unearthed among the pioneers of Eastern Oregon. Born of Frenoh-Canadiah parents where the beautiful city of Montreal now s and?, in December, 1799, ho im- bi'ied with hi mother's milk thn spirit of adventure. When but a boy he came to Detroit, Hmmi headquarters for all the powerful Indian tribes of the central West. At 24 lie curie to St. Lonis, then the outfitting point for that wonderous crusade of voyagers, Indian fighters, trappers, hunters and restless spirited frontiersmen, which pushed civil. zi'i n in'o the Northwest. He j dned a private party of hunters, con'ibting of thirty men, bound foi the virgin beaver fields of the Kootenai, in British Columbia, and after innumer able hardships and adventures they reached their goal. For ten years he lived among the In dians around Fend d'Oreille and Couer d'A'ene lakes, only seeing the face of a white man on the occasional visits of Hudson bay parties to their Indian camp. Tiring of the nomadic Indian life, and hungering for a eight of white men's homes, he left the Indians and came to Clearwater, where he worked for Spuuldintt, the associate of Dr. Whit man, for a year. He recalls Hpaulding'e kindly teach ings and remarkable humane treatment of the Indians and once warned the mis sionary of a secret plot among the In dians to murder all the whites at the mission. He can e down on the Snake and the Columbia and stopped at the Whitman settlement and then thirsting fr the green fields of the beautiful Willamette he fo!ioed the rfsistl-ss tide of settle ment on down, westward, locating at French Prairie, Mai ion county, the Canadian settlement, where he took lart in the formation of Oregon terri tory and stood by the government of the Ui ited Sta'e3 against the Hudson IUy company. He located a claim in French Prairie in 1839, married a h if-bi eed Htiaw, from who n he whs s parated thirty yrars ago, and who lives today with a great granddaughter, six miles from Meacham, in the Blue mountains. He fohowed tne ignus fatus dream of go'd to the California mines, sickened with scurvy, went broke and came back to his farm at French Prairie, content to raise cattle and listen to his bronzed wife croon to her babes in the shadows of the Cascades. When settlement and civi'ization crowded thickly about his wilderness hi the Willamette, he turned his eyes to Eastern Oregon, and was the first Frenchman to settle on Catherine creek, a settlement of French people which later became famous throughout Eastern Oregon. That was in 1862 and he lives today on the oil homestead. A-bout his checkered and variegated life the whole history of the rise and establishment of an empire clusters. He sat in the "wolf meetings" at French Prairie, where the virgin empire of Oregon tumbled in the balance. He hauled his wheat to Dr. John McLaughlin's grist mil! at Oregon City. Was an as sociate of F. X. Matthieu, the only sur vivor of the 102 who voted on the es tablishment of a provision.il govern ment for Orego and has seen the s'ate grow from the "Oid Oregon" to the new. When he speaks of the thrilling scenes through which he has passed, since that memorable year of 1824. in which he turned his face westward from St. Louis now eighty years ago more than the length of two full genera tions of men, he taps hn forehead rest lessly and says : "Wait, wait; let me tink, dat es many years ago; za head some ti ue forget, you know." He will ctlabrate his 105th birthday next December, and is as cheerful and sprightly as most men of 50. Depth of Ocean Cables There seems to be no logical reason vhy cables oannot be laid across any -eotiou of tbe ocean regardless of the lpth. Some portions (if the Atlantic Lies now i'j ush ute over three miles lo'v thfl surface. There is also no i giofil reRBOp why yon should oontinue ) snflvr from loss of appetite, belching, tl iluleuoy, soar stomach, headHche, in digestion, dyspepsia or miliaria, fevr and nria when Hostettei's Stomach 1)iHti will positively cure yon. It has ured thousands of other cast a, probably more p-; i-Ma than yours dur tig its half o -ntciry (xporu uoe, Rod this, tojieihr wiu ihJ f id that prominent pbysioinns ut-vjr hesitate in recommending it, should ba sufficient rennon for urging on to try it. Tbe genuine hns our pri vate sUmy over neok of tbe bottle. Another threshing machine burned in Umatil a county last Saturday, the third one to bu n this season in the same field. Confessions of a Priest. Rev. John S. Oox, of Wake, Ark,, writes: "For twelve year9 I suffered from yellow jaundice. I coneulUd a number of physicians and tried all sorts of medicines, bat got no relief, Then I began tbe use ef Electric Bitters and feel that I am now cared of a disease tbtt bad me in its grasp for twelve years." If you want a reliable medi cine for kidney and liver trouble, stom ach disorder or general debility, get E'eotrio Bitters. It's guaranteed by the Slooum Drag Co. Only 50a. There is no vacant dwelling house in Pilot Rock and several new ones are be ing built. Part of next year's wheat crop is up and growing already in portions of east ern Oregon. Broke Into His House. H. LeQuina, of CeveDdieb, Vt., was robbed of bis customary health by inva sion of chronic contdip&tioD. When Dr. King' New Life Pills broke into his bonst bis trouble whs arrested and now ne'e cmirelj- cured. Tbei 're guarBDteed Jo una. 2"3 it Slocuai Drug Co. A hep buytr says Josephine coucty produces the finest hop3 he ever saw. The sews of both bemlspberee in The Weekly Oregonlaa. Oregon Cow Champion. Today the dairymen of the world have taken off their hats to an Oregon milch cow. Imperial Loretta I)., of the Ladd Crystal Sprirjg firm, in southeast Port land, has been crowned queen of the Jerseys at the world's fair. After a contest lasting 120 dajs, in which she was mitched against the highest speci mens of milch cows of all nations, this magnificent animal has won the greatest triiimph in the world's history of dairy ing, and she brings home to Oregon the highest honors ever conferred upon a dairying state. For the entire 120 days, the duration of the St. Louie test, she gave 5,752.4 pounds of milk, a daily average of 47 93 pounds, and producing 280.16 pounds of butter fat, a daily average of 2 33 pounds, which to the farmer's wife means an average of two and three quarter pounds of churned butter daily for the 120 days. For 92 days Loretta produced over 2.5 pounds of butter fat every 24 hours, her largest production being on August 133 13 pounds equivalent to 3 71 pounds of butter. On 16 days, she made over three pounds of butter a day. Her best seven days' yield was for the week ending September 10 20.01 pounds of butter exceeding the won derful record of the great Brown Dessie at Chicago. Comparing Loretta D.'a wonderful performance at St. Lonis with the rec ord of (he world's . championship con testai's st the Chicago exposition, it is found that Oregon's cow has distanced the great winners at the Columbian ex position. In the Chicago contest Ida Marigold, tbe champion cheese cow, gave in the first 15 davs of the test 673.6 pounds of milk, a daily average of 44.9 pounds, her largest da.ly yield be ing 46 7 pounds. Loretta at St. Louis in the same number of days and at the beginning of the test, gave 749.8 pounds, a daily average of 49 93 pounds, her largest daily yield be'ng 55 6 pounds, and on all but two days she surpassed Ida's largest yield. - In the final 9day test at Chica.ro, by the three champions in all breeds con testing, tela Marigold, the champion cheese cow, gave 3,448.3 pounds of milk, a dai'y average of 38.81 f ounds; and 161.28 pounds of butter fat. a daily average of 1.825. Meny Maiden, the sweepstakes champion, gave 3,011.2 pounds of mil a daily average of 33. 79; and 164.81 pounds r f butter fat, a daily average of 1.831. Brown Bessie, the champion butter cow, gave 3,634 ounds of milk, a daily average of 40.37 pounds ; and ITS 12 pr unds of bu'ter fat, a daily average of 1.98. For the same time at the St. Louis contest Oregon's greU champkn has made ihe fol'owing record : Four thousand, four hundred and sixty-two p-unds of milk, a dai'y aver age of 49 67 pounds. Two hundred and seven and thirty one hundredths pounds of butter fat, a daily average of 2 33 pounds. In a nutshell, the great Loretta D. has performed the marvel of producing in 90 dajB, 207 31 pounds ot butter fat, us against 178 12 pounds produced in the same period by the previous world's champion cow. It has been a hard-fought contest a contest between feeders and the cows of the breeds. It was a splendid finish, every cow in the Jeieey herd in perfect condition, although the pace has been very fast. $100 Reward, $100 IhereRilers of this paper will be pleased fo learn that there is at leait one drca1el disease that science has been able to cure in all its sta ges, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medi cal fiaternity. Oitarrh, being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, tctiiiR directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and pivlng the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting natii'e in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it lails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Soi l by all drngciPts, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. , FACTORY PAYS PIANO LESSONS Six Months' Best Instruction Absolutely Free. You Select the Teacher, We Pay the Bill. Unique Meth ods of Introducing a Splen did Piano. Prices and Particulars. Not necessa ry to Pay All Cash. For two years the makers of the mag nificent Story & Clark pianos have tried to pervail upon us to bandla their pianos in this Western territory. They saw in this Western territory a splendid market for a high-grade instru ment and understood the advantage of placing their product with an enterpris ing, up-to-date concern such as the Eilers Piano House is soid to be. Dur ing that time, although we understood the great merit of th3 Story & Clark pianos, we deemed it impracticable to add to our immense list of Qne pianos, which comprised then, as it does now, 30 ot tbe ne.bt American makes, all of wel!-i'fc.tabli8heu reputation. Bat when, early in the Spring, it be came known that we had discontinued the agency for a well-known piano, ow ing to its failure (o maintain ils original standard, Mr. E. II. Story, president of the Story & CI -irk Company, renewed his overtures, with the result that today there are three carloads of Story & Clark pianos, the very cream of this justly celebrated factory, 'now in Port land. The Story & Claik Company proposes to make up for lost time. They iulend that the Story & Clark piano shall be a household word in the Northwest; th t it shall have the prestige it deserves and that by the time the three carloads are disposed of the praises of Story & Clark pianos shall be sung by as many lips as if it had been selling here regulaily for many years. Here's How They'll Do It! To acoomplish this they haye author ized us to make the mot-t liberal offer i hat piano buyers, East or We!, have tver had : We are to sell every one of the in st uments in these three carloads at dealers' wholesale price. Just think! A masrnifieent Story &. Clarn piano, tho superb H50 style for $2'JG, ftiJUS and 5312, respectively, and all other styles ut conesponding reductions. Wis I'sty For Lessons. Every purchaser of the Story & Clark pianos in these first three cirloads may se ect whichever teacher or music school prtfernd arid the bill for 6ix months' mition of cr.e of the family will be paid by us lor account of the Story & Clark Piano Company. Wha ever tex books are needed in the course i f the tuition will be furnish ed gratis by the Filers Piano Houpe for t: e Story & Chrk Company. And last, but not hast, Mr. Story has promised to send each buyer cf one (f these Siory k Claik piauos a line music cabinet as a present next Chi istmas. Only Three Curioadu, .o .71 ore. Bear in mind that if you ish to pai ticipate in this offer , you will hve to attend to it promptly. It applies only to the first three carloads. We want the people of the country and in the towns throughout this terri tory to share in the exceptional benefits of this special offer of the Story & Cla-k Company. For thiu reason we have employed extra office help to handle the immense correspondence which this Bale is making and to fill orders eo that buyers from a distance ran be assured of prompt attention. We would prefer to have you come into the store and see the instrumeuts. but if you cannot, we will send you catalogues that will give you a very clear idea of jut what they are. Ail the other privileges are extended to the purchasers of these pianos, no matter how far away they may be. Everyone of them is fully guaranteed and purchase may be made on our easy pavment system if preferred. Filers Piano House, 311 Washington streer, corner Par R. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. 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Trial bottle Mil Is responsible for most of the diseases and ailments of the human system. It se riously affects every organ and function, causes catarrh, dyspepsia, rheumatism, weak, tired, languid fealiiigs and worse troubles. 1 ckc Hood's Sarsap&rilia which purifies and enriches the blood as nothing else can For testimonials of remarkable cures Send for Book on the Blood, No. 3. C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. Buy Your Meats at the Heppner Meat Market We kill our own stock. They are not driv en or starved. re do not feed swill or offal. Our Prices Are the Lowest: MuHon IV r quarter Slioi-d 7c Vert Chuck 8tmk to .Iw hi nil sh ;ik n.-; Por t (- rbousc IJ(! J'iliu lier-f, per qr.... c Primp li'H Pbone 1'iT. G.W. FRENCH. Pi-op. EYES TESTED Glasses Accurately Fitted by Graduate Optician P. 0. Borg Jeweler and Optician". HEPPNER, ORE. S.C. Paired Rocks S.C. Huff Leghorns Choice roosters for pale. I'nVea J from SI 00 up. Fine Scotch Collies For pale. Pnps 10, bred for ) herding. ji; Heppner Poultry Yards